Okay, bring it on, girl. No, hello, everybody, welcome,
Here we go Happy Monday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are
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media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is
Monday, May fifteen, twenty twenty three, and I'm not alone. Jenny
is here at the news desk. I am present, yes, yes for
today, Yes, that's right. I shall not be present tomorrow, that's
right. Yes, Well we'll talk about that. By the way. That
song that we opened with, Welcome to De Santis, that is the new
Randy Rainbow song. He love Randy Rainbow. And what I also love is
when you know, I have to um when I when he has a new
song that I don't. I don't play all of them that he releases because
sometimes, you know, the videos that go with them are really really cool,
but sometimes it's almost so much more of a visual experience that it's like
without the video. Sometimes the song doesn't quite work, but in this case
it did. But the video is great too. But but what I particularly
loved about this one was I only had to bleep a couple of things when
I make a radio edit of it so I can play it on the air.
Yeah, because I usually realized at the last minute, as we're about
to go on the air that, oh, there's a new Randy Rainbow song.
But yeah, I only had to put a couple and actually in both
instances they were they were things that I probably could have let slip through and
wouldn't have been a problem. There there were sort of in the gray zone
of of of bad words. Um, there's some that are obvious and then
there's some that are kind of in the gray zone. But uh, you
know, I I it is afternoon drive. Of course, it's not like
we're on in the evening, so it's like, yeah, better to play
it safe. But uh, but that that was a quick, easy edit.
That one was funny. You know that one was really funny. Yes,
Yes, I enjoyed that tremendously. Coming up in the second hour.
Today, we have a Frankie Boy and the Blues Express to have the name
correct, a long name. They're gonna be coming in studio, they're gonna
play, They're gonna play live for us in the second hours, So do
a live really looking forward to that. Yes, so this is a week
for you. Yes, Yes, it's very busy. We've got a lot
going on. Tomorrow we have Oberon am I saying the name correctly up,
Yes, banned from Italy skyping in. I was playing some of their music
earlier. Might play something of theirs at the break today actually because we don't
have any studio tracks from Frankie Boy because they're gonna come in and play live
for us. But I do have a studio tracks for Oberon. I really
like them. Um. And then on the second hour we have Frank Laffey.
Is that his name? Yes? Now where is he from? I
forget? Yeah, but he's okay, that's all right. But he is
a he is a candidate of sorts. He is a candidate for presidents.
He's running for president. He's a Republican right former mayor of Cranston Well,
Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Yes, that's the last office he held.
Was mayor of Cranston. He served as mayor of Cranston from two thousand and
three to two thousand and seven. So he's doing a Mayor Pete. He's
trying to go right from mayor to president. I think so, except he's
a Republican, so he probably is. Uh that's probably the only thing he
has in common with Mayor Pete. But a graduate of Harvard Business. But
he is, so he is in the in the race. So I must
remember when I mentioned some of Trump's competitors, if you will, like ron
To de Santis and Tim Scott, Nikki Haley potentially Mike Pence. H Well,
the Santis is technically still potential. I should also mention this gentleman's name,
Frank Laffey. Yes, or we will see. We will see after
our easy to be a candidate New Hampshire. We'll see after our discussion tomorrow
if he is worthy of me mentioning him in the conversation. After that,
we'll see what is going on. Oh sorry, what there was some extraneous
audio there that started that I did not anticipate. But no, I look
forward to meeting him. Uh. You know the last time I talked to
a Republican presidential candidate who was challenging Trump for the nomination was of course,
Uh tells his name, now, the kookie guy there, boot on the
head, No, no, that's Vermin Supreme. No. Um uh,
he's a senior with the secret documents, the guy with the secrecy. He
a weird guy that walked in like the live broadcasting. Yeah, he had
a history of doing that. Yeah, Stephen Comley Senior. Oh, Stephen
Comley Senior, this guy in that category, Well, who knows. I
mean we you know, I might meet him tomorrow and who knows. But
no, from what you showed me of him online, he seems more conventional,
shall we say. But yeah, Stephen Colmley Senior, Now he was
in the secret documents before we even knew that this was a thing. Uh.
And newer listeners won't know the history. But Stephen Comley Senior, you
scum on the show You've been on a number of times. Actually like the
guy personally. But but he came in with an envelope, actually two envelopes
of secret documents pertaining to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. One envelope was for
myself, which, as you know, to this day, I sleep with
under the pillow to protect the secret documents. Of course I do. And
uh, you never know, he might be listening. I don't want him
to send somebody after me if he thinks that the secret documents have been you
know, dispersed. And of course, the other the other envelope of secret
documents was for Peter White, of course, was the Morning Show with Peter
White. He put them in the circular Well. Yes, from what I
understand, he filed them promptly somewhere no one will ever go looking for them.
So perhaps he was the wiser of the two of us. And I
believe e zg is on the line. Hello, sir, Yes, hello,
I remember the story deposit in the circular file. Yes, Now do
you now what about your friend Bruce? Do you trust him with secret documents?
Because I absolutely wouldn't. I don't know. I don't know about that
one. I have a feeling that you deposited them in the circle of the
file, two of them, Matt, No, I actually did not.
That was years ago. Come on, Okay, I don't really sleep with
him under my pillow, but I do think they might be. I do
think they might be in my office somewhere. But I'm embarrassed, abmit that
I voted for dummy because I was gonna vote for a little dummy. No
he's he's in the Hawaii but I changed my my voting and you can't do
it at the polling place. He's an I said, well, who can
I vote for it? So for that guy, he's a nice man.
That was dumb. He's a nice man. He's just a little confused.
I should have vote with somebody else. I could have vote for Donald Duck.
I do have a great memory of him, though it was it really
had more to do with Peter than with him, because it was that when
we did the primary coverage, when U so that it was Peter, myself
and some other people, and when it was time for the twenty twenty New
Hampshire primary, and Stephen Conley Senior comes and sits down with us, and
Peter was was doing something. He was trying to fix something technical, uh,
for for almost the entire time that Stephen Conley was there, And so
I'm sitting there with the guy talking to him, and the entire time I'm
like watching Peter out of the corner of my eye because I'm trying to figure
out if there was if he was legitimately legitimately trying to fix something or if
he was just avoiding having to interact with mister Connley because he didn't he I
don't. I don't think Peter found him as uh as engaging as I did.
But I turned down. Yeah he was the last time. Last time
he called the show, he said, well, kind of doing my show
right now because you called me back, and it's like, yeah, I
don't think he was a big fan of that, that guy. Yeah.
Fortunately, Yeah, it turned out I don't want to think for Peter or
anything. But no, No, Well, because I asked Peter afterward,
and in fact, I think I asked him right on the air. I
said, were you were you really trying to fix that that old time?
Were you just avoiding him? And no, it turned out he actually was
legitimately trying to fix something. He wasn't. Uh he was, he was
not avoiding mister Conley. Uh. Had he intentionally avoided mister Conley, he
might have missed out on that Manila envelope of secret documents. Yeah. Yeah,
I think I'm more pressing us is um. Well, the thing about
the debt limit, that's a that's a little more important than Stephen Conway.
Oh my god, that is extraordinarily together here. You know, yes,
yes, I think they'reventually they will, but until they do, while a
little never wrecking. Um yeah, I hope. So there's only like four
working days left where both the House and Senate are in session. Um yeah,
this is pretty nuts, I think. Uh, I don't know.
I'm trying to be optimists. Four days at the end of the month,
four working days we're both the I believe we're both House and Senate are in
session unless they do something. God, now, they could do a last
so they're not going to out. They could do uh, they could do
a last minute temporary suspension of the debt ceiling. They've done that before.
Um as like a last minute thing. They could also you know, I
was telling Jenny on the way here. Sam Seeder of the Majority Report is
absolutely convinced that this is all a non issue. Not that not that it
wouldn't be catastrophic to default, it absolutely would, But he's convinced that Biden
can invoke the fourteenth Amendment. Apparently, Lawrence Stribe wrote a column talking about
that, saying that that there would be absolutely no so the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution. It addresses a number of things, but one of them is
that the United States. Well, unfortunately it doesn't say this quite clearly.
It's a little murky, but it seems to imply. This is why it
would be a constitutional crisis. It seems to imply that the that the United
States government cannot default. So if that's true, then, uh, then
the deat ceiling is unconstitutional and therefore it can be ignored. If Biden chooses
to go that route. The only problem is it would likely be challenged in
court. But but Sam Seater says, it's uh that that's nonsense. But
I hope we don't have to find out. Oh I know, I'll be
good. Obviously that would be very very bad. Obviously, uh, probably
be the end of the American economy as we know it. And I don't
I wish, I know, yeah, I need eventually can figure out what
couldn't they pass on kind of law that they don't have to do this anymore,
always play this game, they will deparm maybe we won't saying, you
know, even happen anymore. Even Mitch McConnell has in the past suggested that
just get rid of the yes it would, They would be very wise.
It's it's worried about other problems, so we don't have to have this artificially
created crisis every couple of year years. Yes, that would be the wise,
right, you said. When Donald Trump was prisent, he tried to
fix it. Right. Then, he tried to fix that method with the
debt limit. It's not that he tried to fix it. When Trump was
president, the debt limit was raised three times and Trump was to his credit
at the time, Trump was very clear and consistent on this that we do
not use the debt limit as a negotiating wedge. Ever, it's reckless and
stupid and much too dangerous, and we don't do it. Unfortunately. Uh.
During his town hall on CNN, he announced his new position, which
is, yeah, default probably won't happen because the Democrats will cave. But
if it does, that's fine. Probably better to just go ahead and default
it. It'll be bad for a day or a week, and then who
knows, it's probably fine. It's all psychological anyway. Um, that's his
new position, which is that's very bad. I don't that that might be
a bigger disqualifier than January sixth in terms of his being elected president, of
his fitness for the presidency. In my view, it's like it's like a
new nuclear war, you know, the process sense one here, we send
one dare and it's like that's not good either, because that's pretty much the
end of the end of time. Yes, well we're we're uh, we're
on the verge of an economic army gaddon of sorts. Yes, very exciting.
Can't wait? Oh yeah, certainly not good. If that was to
happen, and what under Bride his watch, he wouldn't uh, he'd be
a lot of trouble. Well, let's look at it this way. You
know, we had a good round, a good couple hundred years of America.
You know, we'll just uh yeah, Rome has to fall at some
point. We'll just go ahead and uh uh drive the car off the cliff
like Russia there with the war. Now they've destroyed their economy, that's for
sure. There's a lot of mixed reporting on that. Oh really, all
right, Well this de fall wouldn't help anybody anywhere, correct, correct,
Yes, I don't think it's gonna happen, by the way, but the
making it very uh making everybody, are you nervous? For nothing. Really.
Oh, Melanie Liberty in the chat room is asking if they tried throwing
a virgin into a volcano to fix the budget, just saying it's worth a
try. Uh, that would be I will say this, that would be
very patriotic for said virgin to make such a sacrifice as that to save the
economy of the country. I would applaud that. Yeah, so let's let's
hope for the best. And uh, do we have a vol around together?
Only four days left and working the rest of the month out together,
because, like I said, that would be worse. Is there a volcano?
Definitely? And it would have to be an active volcano? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, all right, well, I think eventually every goal,
but they probably wait till last minute, like they're doing all this crazy,
crazy world of politics. Jesus got them. Yeah, I think it would
have to be an American volcano. Oh all right, you asked my two
cents. We'll talk to you guys later. We'll throw Bruce in, all
right, thanks, easyg. I guess something to say about the I think
the debt. Bruce is a virgin. I'm sorry. Yes, you are
horrible, Bruce. You're just an evil dude. Bruce is an insell.
No one wants to say it, but there it is. I'm sorry,
yes, go ahead, Oh my god, an in cell. I must
be heading out with Stephen Crowder and I wanted to see. What I wanted
to say about the debt limit is that. What I wanted to say about
the debt limit is that I'm really sick and tired of listening to Republicans.
I'd like them to actually walk the walk that they're talking about, because you
know, they love to constantly say, we're not going to vote in favor
of the debt limit until we see some spending cuts. Well, why in
the heck did they never come from them? Right? Why am I not
hearing Congress go, gee, we need to make sure that nobody's so security
checks don't get out, and I'm military don't get out, So we'll cut
our salary. Or how about cutting their Cadillac health insurance? Right? How
about cutting matt They never offer up themselves to make a cut. You're all
about cutting the budget, buddies, Well let's cut the budget. Let's start
with you. Well, there's a lot of blame to go around too,
because um, you know, I was I was thinking about I don't remember
if I said this specifically on the show, but I think I think I
got into it a little bit. But um, on the as far as
the Democrats go, you know, they they passed all this new spending,
and um, some of it I think is important. You know, it's
hard to argue against infrastructure and things like that, and some of it maybe
not so much because you know, this this pork in there there always is.
But um, for them to pass all all this news spending that they've
passed under under bid and like the Inflation Reduction Act and so forth, to
do all this there's there and not even try when they had control to do
something about the debt limit. I don't even mean get rid of it.
They could have raised it then ahead of time. Um, you know I
understand, Uh, you know they don't. I guess Democrats can't see around
corners very well. I have no idea what their issue is because you know,
I mean, jeeus with the Dabb's decision, like we knew way in
advance because of that draft document that leaked out of the Supreme Court, but
did But you know, they can't be bothered to actually do anything until reality
shows up on their doorsteps. So with this, it's like they pass all
this spending and I guess it doesn't occur to anybody. Maybe we should raise
the debt limit now, because if the Republicans are in control, all this
new spending we passed is either going to have to get pulled in order for
them to pay the debt, for them to raise a debt limit, or
we're gonna have a problem. There's there's no excuse for the Democrats not to
have seen all of this coming, and they should have addressed it. And
I understand, you know, they're probably going, oh, well, then
we have to convince h Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion and that's really hard.
But there's this is just as much their fault. They should not have allowed
any of this to come to pass. But we do have a call.
Hi, welcome to Matt Connor and unleash. Who's this? Hello? Is
this match? Pizza? I know? Uh for it to be mad like
one large pepperoni pizza, extra pepperoni and extra cheese. Please. Well that
does sound good. I'd like that too. I kind of like I could
get a pizza for us tonight, pizza for dinner. Yeah? Good?
How much. How much it depends. You get a cheap one and this
doctor it up. I think they're like two dollars at little Little Caesar's.
That's really cheap. How we get Hawaiian too, one large Hawaiian extra the
pineapple, the uh, we'll throw it in the volcano with the virgin No
I love and the pepperoni. But we we're talking about okay, well,
very nice, and now we have Now I want pizza. No, I'm
all hungry. Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. No, no, no, disgusting.
How dare you? How dare you? I'll have to get some pineapple
when you got a gusty start to go out to pizza. What I always
say is this, if you're going to have a pizza, you should only
have delicious toppings. You should not put any disgusting toppings on it. If
you put disgusting toppings on the pizza, it makes the pizza disgusting. If
you want the pizza to me delicious, you have to stick with delicious toppings.
That's I mean, what do I know? I mean, I'm not
I don't cook, as you know, but I think I heard Jeff Gordon
Ramsey say that once the pizza should only have delicious toppings. Never put anything
disgusting on your pizza, which is why pepperoni belongs there now right, it
does belong there? Yes, yeah, on pizza, yes, yes,
So back to what we were talking about though, in seriousness, in all
seriousness, yeah, are congressional critters. There are budgets up the wazoo for
these people. They got staff up the wazoo. Cut your staff. We've
got little health club pool things, whatever the heck they got cut that.
Cut things like that that don't actually save a life, or don't put food
on the table, you know, let's cut that. Why do they never
offer up anything like that? The minute they talk about cuts, What do
they want to cut Social Security? What do they want to cut veterans affairs?
You know, because that's the money that gets hung up. That's the
money that gets cut. If they want to cut wick, which which helps
pregnant women who they claim to support, actually have healthy food. It only
covers specific foods they want to cut that, right, And that's like eggs,
milk, butter, not butter, it's but it's all healthy food.
You can have carrots, things like that, and then after the baby's born,
you can keep eating healthy if you're breastfeeding, or if you're gonna go
to formula, it switches over and stets covering formula. So this is a
basic food item for the baby that they want. Brought every baby into this
world, no matter what, even if it's a cell dividing, they want
it into this world. But they don't want to feed it. They don't
want to feed it. They don't want to give them medical care because we
get to cut that too. I mean, I can remember seeing arguments up
and conquered on how the state was cutting the local hospitals. Yeah, on
the money that they get to help pay for the uninsured. You know,
the cuts never come from places that don't hurt the average American. It never
comes from them. Well, there are there are things, uh, And
I don't want to spend too much time on this because I want to talk
about what you're doing tomorrow before before we run out of time, because we
do have a guest coming in second hour by um. But it's important.
But but there are I mean, you know, as far as climbing back
some unspent COVID money and things like that, I think that's perfectly reasonable.
Um. I'm just worried that. UM the budget, the initial budget,
and I understand it's part of a negotiating. It's it's it's part of negotiating.
You know, you ask for more than you're than you know you're going
to get. UM. The initial budget that the Republicans passed in the House.
Moody's Analytics, hardly a liberal operation by any stretch, said that that
budget would would cost UH just an enormous I can't even remember the numbers,
but I'm not going to remember in specific numbers, but what it would do
significant damage to the economy. UM. You know, austerity in and of
itself is not the answer necessarily. So UM, I wonder how many people
were like me and or don't exactly get it because I didn't exactly. Polling
data shows there's a lot of people who don't get it. We talk,
well, we're talking about this, We're talking about funding the paychecks of our
military soldiers, We're talking about Social Security checks. This is the funding we're
talking about to raise the debt limit. The debt is the debt ode to
the American people that were contracted to the American people. You pay in these
taxes and then you get this back well, part of the part of the
reason, and I know I mentioned I'd said this on the on the show
recently too, is part of the reason why polling data shows most Americans don't
get it, they have no idea. But part of that I believe,
I firmly believe this is because Americans have become desensitized. They because you know,
unless unless you're really paying attention to the issue and learn about it,
people think that, you know, they hear about this stuff, and they
if they're only half paying attention, they think it's just you know, we're
gonna have another government shutdown, and government shutdowns actually take a terrible toll on
the economy too. But when there's a government shutdown because they can't agree on
a budget, you know, it's temporary. Everyone knows it's temporary. It
might be a day, it might be a week, it might be a
month, but you know it will end eventually, and the you know,
the parks will open back the state parks will open back up again, and
you know this and that. So um so I think that the average American
who's only half paid attention, they're hearing all this and they're like, oh,
there's going to be another government shutdown now whatever, it doesn't really affect
me. They have no idea that this is something different because they've become desensitized
to this because we've been through so many government shutdowns. They don't know that
the debt limit is actually a separate issue and it's far far more serious.
They think that we're borrowing money in order to fund specific programs. Or you
want to build a new playground, they think we're borrowing money to do that,
or borrowing They don't realize that when we talk about it, we're actually
talking about basically paychecks of Americans, well, but paying for money that's already
been spent too, And when you say that, it means for bills that
have already been right. We know how many people are on Social Security.
We estimate how much it's going to be next year. We know that the
number of people on Social Security disability have increased because people are living longer.
People don't die at forty anymore. People are living to be a centurion isn't
unheard of at all anymore. I remember when it was weird to hear somebody
living to be one hundred. Now it's normal. Now it's weird if you
hear somebody that's one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and sixteen. I think
eventually we'll probably elect a hundred year old president. It might be Biden at
this rate. Well, no, he's not that old. I don't want
him to run. Must we amend the concert. I don't want either one
of them nor run. I want new people, fresh blood, new ideas.
No, No, that's that ship has sailed. We're just going to
keep electing older and older people. It's gonna be great. I just want
to cry in this moment. That's all I'm gonna say. Someday we're going
to have a president who they're gonna be given the State of the Union address
while wearing a bib. Stop it. It's gonna be great. Stop it.
That's where we're at it. That's what's It's gonna be wonderful. You
know, after we've defaulted on it, after we've defaulted on our debt and
uh, nobody gets a check next month. America mamma doesn't have any food.
America's in ruins, and people on disability or we'll have a getting kicked
out of their apartment. We'll have a one hundred year old president presiding over
everything. It'll be great. Yeah, we'll I'll be homeless anyway. Well,
yes, let's talk about let's talking about something positive. Let's tell us,
tell us again about what you're doing tomorrow. I'm going to DC,
Yes, yes, by invitation. Actually, as a lot of our listeners
know and maybe some people out there who don't know, we have been waging
a war, a campaign against United Healthcare my health insurance, to try and
get them to cover life in life saving life important things that I have to
have, medications, treatments, things that they just never ever seemed to pay.
And you can talk to him, Hugh Blue in the face, but
you don't always get anyway. So I have People's Action, which is a
national organization encompasses about forty or so organizations themselves, and New Hampshire Rights and
Democracy took up my case and have been fighting for me, and we have
had some wins. But in doing all of this, there's been some attention
brought on to what we're doing, and I've been invited to come out to
DC and go to Senator m Bernie Sanders town hall on Medicare for All,
which is something that I have one percent, wholeheartedly believe in now, but
it took me a bit to learn more, to get more information. But
what I'd know for a fact, and I think most Americans would probably agree,
as the American healthcare system is in dire straits and needs some serious changing,
serious changing. I'm personally sick and tired of insurance companies getting in the
way of people getting appropriate care. I'm tired of seeing people with CRPS commits
suicide because they can't get access to life saving treatments. I'm done with us.
When I was younger, I used to think that we could fix our
system, you know, maybe we could fix the insurances, have a compact,
maybe you could buy healthcareans across the state line or something. Can't do
that anymore. Medicare for All is really the only way that we're going to
have true medical freedom. And the reason I say that is because right now
between you and your doctor is your health insurance company, your private insurance company,
Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United Healthcare, signa, Etna, whatever,
this tons of them out there, and their sole job is to make
profit for themselves, profit for their stockholders. My company, United Healthcare celebrated
eight point one billion dollars in first quarter profits this year. That means three
months. First quarter profits means three months January February March. They made eight
point one billion with a B dollars. Meanwhile, people like me have their
their treatments turned down, not covered. I mean, it's disgusting. Medical
freedom means that my doctors, my providers, and myself and my family are
making the choices for me. What needs to be done gets done, no
questions asked. You need this medication, you get that medication. You got
a kid that's good type one diabetes, he's got land sets, he's got
a test kid, he's got all the insulin, and no rationing, because
even at thirty five dollars it's not enough. People are still rationing, still
rationing. This is it's disgusting. We live in the country that has arguably
some of the best healthcare in the world. People come from everywhere to come
here because we have the best medical care you can buy. But as an
American sitting, if you can afford it, if you can afford it right,
pick any hospital you want, cmc Elliott whatever, I guarantee you.
There are people living in the houses next door to those buildings that are suffering,
that are bedbound, that are dying and the medications or the treatments that
could save their lives give them quality a life are right in that building,
locked behind a key that you can't open unless you've got enough money to do
it. And that's disgusting. In this we should be able to do the
same thing they do in other countries they have it. I saw it first
in in the Netherlands and it played a big part of showing me a lot
of what can happen with a national healthcare system that means nobody gets turned away.
I don't care who you are, you show up, you need care,
you get the care. You get the best care that American medicine can
provide. And we invest our dollars in education, so we have more doctors,
more nurses because we're heading into a shortage. Yeah, that's something that's
not getting a lot of attention. That should, especially with nurses. From
what I was reading recently. You know, my entire career, I have
heard of the nursing shortage and every year he gets worse. Every year there's
not enough nurses. I've watched it happen. I mean, we don't have
enough nursing schools for one thing. Biggs of gotten better since the pandemic.
There are some more schools. You know, it used to be every hospital
pretty much had a nursing program. All of those things shut down. Then
there were only certain colleges that have it. So there's only so many places.
I mean, I remember when I tried to go to nursing school.
I was one of a thousand applicants and only a people made it in and
I didn't make the cut. I only scored an I think it was an
eighty seven on my entrance exam. Nobody that got in that has less than
a ninety four percent unless they fell into a special category. Yeah, you
know, we have that looming over our heads. What makes a difference between
a hospital's level of trauma care is a number of the kind of doctors they
have available. You're trauma center if you have the right doctors available. But
what we lack neurosurgeons. That's a big one that keeps hospitals from being able
to be trauma level is neurosurgeons. We don't have the education system set up
to fill us with the right providers. But we also have a system that's
made for profit. It's made for the profit of these private insurance companies.
You know, let me share this with you. I have on a medication
that I have to use good Arts in order to afford. I have five
different pharmacies I've used to get my medications as inexpensively as I can so I
can afford them all. You know, this one medication I get using good
RX at a pharmacy in a grocery store is forty eight dollars. If I
want to use my health insurance, it's eighty five dollars. I asked my
insurance company more than once. I asked for a prior off. I asked
them if they would please change the tier of my medication down one, just
one, from A three to two, and that would make the medication through
the insurance company forty seven dollars and my money will count towards my deductible.
Now, this same insurance company admonished me for using good Rx. Well,
your money doesn't acount for your deductible. But when I asked them to make
this adjustment so I can do this, they said no, They'll only let
me use it at the eighty five dollars marker, and then it'll count towards
my deductible. This is about their profits. You know, we get big
pharma out there. There's a medication that is making amazing differences for people with
rare neurological diseases, people with MS seeing amazing effects LDN Lotosneltrocson. It's amazing
what it's doing for these diseases. But they will not cover it, and
they say it's because it's on exclusionary list, or they'll tell you it's not
approved for your disease. In my case, there's not a single treatment approved
for my disease. My insurance company uses as an excuse this treatment hasn't been
approved by the FDA for the treatment of CRPS or small fiber neuropathy. Well,
nothing has been approved for the treatment of CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome,
nothing. Nothing. I'm going to get to go to I know I'm
rattling on and I shouldn't. I'm going to get to go to DC and
I'm going to get to sit on a panel with Senator Standards, with Representative
J. Paul, and with doctors, and we're going to talk about Medicare
for All, a system that would actually be real medical freedom. There wouldn't
be anybody making decisions for you. One of the prior ops we put in.
I'm on the phone with the girl from the insurance make doing it,
and she's like, we're filling out this form together. She goes okay,
and then she's going, right, so now I'll send it over and then
you'll get a response. She no, sooner hit enter. I was still
on the phone with her. Did I not immediately get a denial notice?
Yeah, because they pulled up the computer, saw the name of the medication
and denied it. No human being made that decision, right, No,
nobody saw that. We spent an hour or so working on this thing,
and in two seconds the computer kicked it out and said, now I'm tired
of computers and bureaucrats who know nothing about I have had more conversations that have
been frustrating with these people because they don't even know what they're talking about.
I'm asking about lymphidima treatment, I'm asking about compression garments, and there's offering
me stuff that is sold, you know, at a regular store. It's
not even medical grade. It's not even the right thing. It's like,
I don't want that, I don't need that. I need what my doctor
wants to have. Well, this is what we have, Well, this
is what we have doesn't treat me, and this is what people are going
through. I watched recently there was a story on the news yesterday the day
before a man got emergently ill. Turned out he had a brain aneurysm that
had not ruptured. They were taking him in for surgery, and the insurance
company refused to approve it because they said the neurosurgeon was out of network,
and the cancer and the surgery got canceled. Dud's walking around with a tick
and time bomb in his head. It had. It took a public outcry
to get them to reverse the decision in the week. I saw later they
finally did the surgery and the guy's okay, but they didn't know if he
was gonna be okay, and the hospital wasn't doing the surgery without payment.
Right, we shouldn't have that happen. Somebody emergently enters, they need surgery,
It should get done. It shouldn't be a how much is in your
wallet? Now? Is this going to be on c SPAN or it's going
to be broadcast. I know it's going to be on Senator Sanders Facebook page.
I'm sure it'll go up on his YouTube page. I know it's going
to be broadcast by People's Action as well. Yeah. I called my mom
for Mother's Day and she was asking how to watch it. I told her
I'd have to let her know send her a link afterward. But yeah,
yeah, the Senator Sanders official at Bernie Sanders Official Facebook page would be the
best place to go. The event's going to start about seven thirty tomorrow night,
and then I am staying because I will be going up to the Capitol
on Wednesday. The Medicare for All bill is going to be introduced and there
will be a press conference after it as well. You know, and I
this shouldn't be a Democrat or a Republican issue at all. This is a
human issue. You know, think of yourselves, they give your loved ones.
If they need emergent surgery, they should be able to have it without
question. You know, people shouldn't be going medically bankrupt. How many of
us are living in poverty because of medication of senses. The number one reason
for bankruptcies in the United States is medical bankruptcy. It's the number one reason.
We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connor to unleash who's
this why would you want the government to pay for Medicare. It's not the
government paying. It's not the government paying in that regard. What well,
let me let me rephrase this. Let me let me put it to you
this way right now. The way things work is your doctor says you need
X, your insurance has to approve it, and then the hospital would do
it. If they don't approve it, you don't get it under a national
healthcare system, under a Medicare for all system. If we use Medicare as
a as our starting point, and we develop this USA Medicare or USA medical
Care, and everybody has a card that guarantees them care, you and I
get to make our choices by who provides the care that we like the most
or as better service for us instead of shopping for the cheapest. And yes,
the money's coming through the Medicare system, it's coming through our taxes.
It's absolutely coming from our taxes. But in the line socialist, it's medalist
system. Then I don't think it's socialist. I really don't. But if
you want to call it that, go right ahead. I want every American
to be able to have guaranteed medical care. I don't want Anybody going without
medication because of the car is not England. America, is not Canada America
country. It's not about social What you have right now is private health insurance
companies running healthcare. And how great of a bang up job are they doing
for you? How many people do you know who have suffering with other stuff?
Now? It doesn't want to handle the healthcare. I want to get
the bureaucracy out of healthcare. I want the healthcare be decided by the doctors.
It's not about paying. It's not about approval anymore. There's no more
approval, there's no more middleman. Your doctor says you need this, you
get it, and it's paid for and a discussion. But that's coming out
of somebody else's pocket instead of you paying two hundred, three hundred dollars eight
and my mom's paying eight hundred dollars a month at a premium, instead of
you having five six seven thousand dollars. Why should I pay for your care?
Why that's that's ridiculous. You don't think you're doing that? Now?
Do you pay a premium? Who do you think you're paying? Who do
you think you're paying? You? You're paying for anybody's care. You pay
that premium, but you're paying a premium. You're paying for a premium.
No, you pay for everybody else's. You're paying a premium, you're paying
a deductible, you're paying a co pay. You add all of that up
and you are paying a fortune then, and you would pay a fraction of
the cost. He's going to take it some challenge and shift it over to
the government, and you get rid of the insurance companies altogether. You allow
medical providers to what. I don't think you really understand what you're talking about,
and I think it's too socialists for America. I'm sorry you feel that
way, but you know you can hang up all you like. The truth
is this, medical decisions should be made by our providers, ourselves, and
our families. Nobody else should have their nose involved in your medical care.
If we're all paying, like my buddy lives in the Netherlands, they all
pay one payment for their insurance. But it's everything. It's their health insurance,
it's their third party insurance, it's their dental insurance, it's their mental
health insurance. He's paying one hundred and fifty dollars a month. He's had
to have drains put into his long stage four breast cancer metastatic to the long,
huge tumor. He didn't get ignored, he didn't get told he couldn't
have the medication. The medication was delivered to his door. The doctor ordered
it. It came to his door. The doctor came to his door.
He gets He's never been turned down for a dang thing. He gets all
the care he needs. And that's how it should be in this country.
You should get all the care you need, decided by medical professionals, not
bureaucrats. You get rid of insurance companies and watch the price of medicine go
down. Yeah, I mean, you gotta get haters, but I'm done
with private insurance companies saying whether or not you can get chemo. Well,
a big something that really really shifted my thinking was, Um, you know,
I I it was a few years ago now on the show, and
I got I got pretty animated about it. People people talked about it for
a while after after this happened. But it was, Um, it was
a Monday, and I had just remember because it was over the weekend.
I'd read something online about how um I'd read this article really in depth about
people who started go fund me accounts, you know, go fund me campaigns
and UH to pay for UM to pay for medical treatment people who had been
diagnosed with cancer and they were and they were trying to raise money online to
pay for medical treatment. And UM what I was which shouldn't again, shouldn't
happen in America, shouldn't happen anywhere, shouldn't have to be that way.
But then what I was really horrified to learn, and I didn't realize and
I was completely naive to this, is that a very large percentage of the
people who do that, it's not that they don't have health insurance, you
know, they're uninsured and they happen to get diagnosed. It's in many cases
it's they do have health insurance and they had what they at least what they
thought was full coverage. But then UM insurance companies find ways, they find
excuses to deny certain treatments, and so people end up dying unnecessarily. The
other thing I would just say to to to address the callers, UM,
it's very no offense to the caller. I appreciate the call I appreciate everyone
who calls, whether they agree, disagree, or whatever. But I find
um when people throw the words socialism around. Again, I say this respectfully,
it's probably the most intellectually lazy way to try to argue about this stuff.
I mean, you know, we can have conversations and we do about
you know, what the government should and should not be involved in and how
much the government should or should not be involved in things, and those are
important conversations to have. But unfortunately, somewhere I feel like it's it's probably
coming up on a decade now. Americans like to think of politics, and
I'm sure it's not unique to America. I'm sure it's like this everywhere.
Probably it's probably just part of the human condition. But people like to think
politics in a very hyper simplified and reductive way. So when people talk about
this kind of stuff, they get into this argument of well, we can
either have capitalism or we can have socialism, and it's really pretty again,
it's reductive, and it's it's just a lazy way of thinking about it,
because the truth is we have both, We've always had both, we always
will have both. We live in a country that has a great deal of
Look, I'm I consider myself a free market capitalist, um, but we
also have social programs. Uh, the most popular social program in the history
of the United States has it right in the name social security. So for
anyone who wants to argue, well, you know, we can't have any
socialism, well do you want to get rid of social security? Um?
And by the way, there are people who who do. There are people
who are so sociopath I can care so little about other human beings that they'd
be fine with letting people who who depend on it just starved to death and
be homeless and whatnot. And I understand that. I think it's too bad,
but I understand that that's the reality of it. I'm not saying that
about the caller. I kind of suspect that that's probably the caller's attitude just
given the callers you know, limited what what what was what was presented during
that call, I imagine that that the caller probably is fine with uh,
poor, it was interesting about that suffering and dying. But but but I
just want to make the point though when somebody says, well, that sounds
like socialism to me, Well, number one, we do have a lot
of socialism. We also have a lot of capitalism. And in the United
States, I would argue we have far more capitalism than we do socialism.
But but there is. If you're going to have any degree of government,
you know, you're going to have social programs to help people. And I
happen to think that that's a good thing. But but you know, when
people dismiss it as well, that sounds like socialism. Let me tell you
something. The government is already. If your if your argument is just to
add to that, if your argument is, well, I don't want the
government involved in healthcare, the government's already very much involved in healthcare. The
government is already very much involved in regulating in many different ways healthcare and what
medications are approved, and this and that. The government's you know, and
of course we have programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The government is and you
know the VA uh, you know, to take care of veterans. So
the government's already very much involved. But but the one underlying principle that I
have, that I've always had, is this. We live in the most
successful, most innovative, most prosperous country in the history of the world.
There is no reason why in this country anyone should have to fall through the
cracks. There is no reason and to allow people to fall through the cracks.
I know some people think, well, that's just you know, that's
just freedom, and that's liberty, and no, to allow people to fall
through the cracks is immoral and unethical. And and you know, I'm all
for freedom and liberty and small government. I'm a small government guy, believe
it or not. And many of you will not believe this. In some
ways, I'm actually a small government conservative. But you know, I take
a moral stand on this. There's no one should have to fall through the
cracks or worry about not getting the care that they need. One thing,
Um, I'm sorry, but you're one cancer diagnosis away from being me.
You pay your premium now and you have what you consider good healthcare. But
the minute you become a cancer patient and you lose your job and you lose
that health insurance, your whole world changes because now you can't access anything,
nothing for one thing for another thing. Right now, I've got too much
government in medicine because there's so much going on with the insurance companies and how
this is supposed to work and that's supposed to work, and how approval this
and approval that. Well, we get rid of that and I get government
out of my exam room, and my exam room now has my doctor,
me and my family, and we make the choices for my care. We
gave veterans a card to allow them to be able to go anywhere for care,
which is how it should be, and it's working, and they get
to choose and they don't have to go to one specific place anymore or get
moved like that's used to get moved constantly. Wouldn't it be nice to have
a national healthcare system where you have a card where you don't have five thousand
dollars co pays or you have to shop to try and find an MRI,
or you're paying damn near a thousand dollars in premium and you still got a
thirty five dollars co pay on that drug and one hundred and fifty on this
drug and you can't afford it. So you know, like our buddy,
our friend who has diabetes and only buy six vials of vincelin instead of seven
because they can't afford it, so they rash in it. We wouldn't be
rash in healthcare like we do now, because that's what we do now.
We ration it, Melanie said in the chat, so poor people deserve to
die. I think that was in response to the collar and well, there
are people who think that. I mean again, there are oh yeah,
there are people I don't want to pay for you. Like the guy said,
there are there are people who just well, in a broader sense too,
there are people who just genuinely hate poor people. I mean it's because
they never see that they can be there. When I got cancer, I
had five and a half acres of land. Yeah, I d it quite
a large house. So you know, I was working as a full time
EMT and a first respond to volunteering in my town. I worked in a
hospital full time. I had multiple jobs, and I was the person that
came to a due when you called nine one one till I got cancer,
till it took me out, till I lost my job, I lost my
house, I lost my land. I sold everything I did go fund means
to avoid treatment. Yeah, we've been there, We've done that. And
if you want to learn more about this kind of stuff, I'll tell you.
I want to make sure I get this in because I promised hither I
would This Wednesday, at May seventeenth, at six pm at the Red River
Theater and Concord. There's going to be a film showned American Hospitals, Healing
a Broken System. It's a film screening. There'll be a piano discussion.
It starts at six pm at the Red River Theater. Come talk about these
things, Come talk about healthcare. And this is free. This event is
free. There's gonna be refreshments being served. All you gonna do is register.
I'm going to drop the link into our check group. The link will
be available on our I'll put it on Matt Carton Unleashed of course. You
know if you want and you can go. You can sign up, you
can go to this. It's free. Go listen, you have an honest
discussion, ask some questions and start looking into what's going on a bit more.
I'm tired of seeing people get denied care and treatment, aren't you.
Well, let's uh what We are nearing the top of the hour and I
see that there are musicians and they're pudding heads there. There are musicians out
out there. So we've got Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. Yeah,
they're gonna be coming in and playing live in studio for us in just a
few minutes. And we'll we'll talk to them, we'll get to know them
a bit. So there's plenty more to come. And I think going into
the break, I'm gonna play the song from this band, Oberon. They
are from Italy and they are going to be joining us skyping in tomorrow,
so I'll play I'll play one of their studio tracks from them. They've got
a song called Time to Sleep that I really like. It's instrumental, it's
pretty cool, good stuff. Um oh, And speaking of musicians, really
quick too, I just want to give a shout out to Brooklyn Mike,
who was on the morning show this morning, The Morning Show with Peter White,
and he came in and he played live and it was really good.
I was loving at this morning. I was like, Oh, I don't
want to show to end. Yeah, it sounds. Oh yeah, you
gotta come in again, you gotta you gotta come see us. I really
want to see it. Come play with us, please absolutely. But here's
something from Oberon. We're gonna play this. We're gonna show some love to
our amazing sponsors, and then when we come back, we will have Frankie
Boy and the Blues Express with us live on Matt Connerton Unleashed WMNH rips the
novels. Welcome back, everybody. We are well in our number two numerowdose
of Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety
five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast
ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners
across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt
Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact
info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Monday, May fifteen,
twenty twenty three. Jenny is here as well at the news desk,
present in accounted for and we have a band here with us. Really looking
forward to these guys playing. Uh, they're gonna play and then we're gonna
talk afterward. And we've got Frank Boy and the Blues Express here. How
are you guys doing great? Quite all right, we'll do a kind of
a we had to do a mic check here on the fly. So Frankie
you're there in the corner. Yes, yes, oh good, I can
hear you. Go ahead and strum something if you wouldn't mind. Sounds good?
That sounds good. And we have Mickey on bass. How are you,
sir? Hello? Hello, doing good? Let's see here go and
play something if you wouldn't mind. Yeah, that's that sounds nice. I'm
a bass player, so I I dig it. And uh, let's see.
We have Harrison on the the drum set there with the brushes. I
like the brushes. Let's see. I got to figure out how to Okay,
um, what do you what do you have over there? I say
that again? Oh, here we go, brushes, all that kind of
stuff. Yeah. Sorry, I'm just playing with the mic here all right,
and I think that'll I think that'll work. Okay, all right,
cool cool. Um. So what we'll do is if you guys, uh,
we'll look forward looking forward to hearing your play. If you want to
play, play some tunes for us, and then afterward we'll we'll chit chat
a bit, get to know you guys. And but I'm really looking forward
to hearing your play. So let's do it. It's like a plan.
Well, we got to play one for our friend, our mentor miss to
get Tide Junior. This is a new song that you will find on our
upcoming album, an album that's going to be called young Man's Blue. So
we like to present to you a song we wrote called get Tide. Junior,
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you a story. I bought
a blues man from back in the day. Started in Mississippi, but's Chicago,
papers way. He said, Mommy, you Bobby and get tired.
I promise I'd take care of you. He left hold and he was sixteen
years old. He went on down to Chicago to play the blues man.
Get tied, Get tired, Junior, Get tired, Junior. We're playing
the blue for you. How, Lady German, this is a song in
memory of my good friend, mister lucor gin Tied Junior Johns. And although
his body has left his world, I promise you his experience are alive as
well. How he bought that in man, he bought it, get out
to He got with mother Waters, then he got with you. Time went
on and I will do Then a guy would feed me, he said,
Frankie, I want you to say I got to sweet one with your man.
Oh my god, you guys sound incredible. Thank you very much,
fantastic fantastic if you're just joining us. We have a Frankie and the uh
I'm sorry, Frankie, Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. Yeah, I
forgot the where does where does the name come from? Frankie Boy? Well,
I started going out to the blues jams when I was sixteen years old,
and when you're the only sixteen year old in the room, they call
you boy. Okay, okay, I got the name. Johnny B.
Savoni used to host the jam I went to at the Roma in Harold,
Massachusetts. Yeah, and he said thank you boy, and he just kept
saying it and saying it, and everybody started calling me Frankie Boy, and
it stuck. And then I added Blues at the end of it. So
my stage name is technically Frankie Boy Blues. Oh okay, So that way,
because there's a lot of Frankie Boys in the world, I gotta be
a little different, right, gotcha, gotcha? You know, But Frankie
Boy Blues and the Blues Express would be a little much, right, So,
you know, a little much. Frankie's a little much. Now,
you guys sound great? Yeah, if you want to play another one for
us, I would love it. I'd love to. Let's do one in
honor of another friend, a man by the name but David D. And
I got to go to Saint Louis when I was on tour with Eliza Niels,
and I got to meet this gentleman down at the International Blues Museum,
and he taught me how to play this little thing called going Fishing. It
happens to be original song by David D. So let's play a little tribute
to David who passed away now too long ago as well. She said,
I'm born fishing. Babe said I'm gonna fishing Bathe here said I'm gonna fishing,
babe. There she said, I'm gonna fishing, Babe. There she
said, I'm gonna fishing blab to relieve difference on my mind. You know
what I said, I've been kind of busy. He hasn't had much time.
I need something to do to occupy my mind. I've got what I
need, baby, she said, I know just what you do. Said
I had to be fishing, ainty, but I believe my books to you.
Good said I'm gonna fishing by here said I'm gonna fishing. Bear said,
I'm gonna kissing Bear said, I'm gonna fishing here, said I'm gonna
fishing, babe. Believe this ers on my mind. You know me'
real early and I can't be late. I gotta get on down there.
The fishing gonna week. I donna know where she's gonna fishing people. I
don't know what's gonna make She's gonna use. She had a pretty little red
dress, Tima and a brand new bearers you. She said, Oh,
mussy, Babe said I'm onna kissing Bare said I'm gonna fishing baby there saying
I'm on vising here said I'm gonna kissing me here. Don't believe this frien
on my mind? How? She said, I know you've been kind of
busy. You haven't had much time. I need something to do. I'm
gonna get by in my mind. I've got what I need. Baby,
she said, I do kiss what you do? She said, I can
getch me another fiss bringing same way I told you. She said, I'm
born missing baby said I'm gonna missing bar said I'm gonna missing baby, saying
I'm gonna missing be saying I'm gonna miss baby. To relieve this all my
mind? How very nice, very nice, Frankie Boy and the Blues expresses
with us here on Matt Connerton Unleashed and you guys are getting a lot of
love in the Facebook live chat. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody.
Everybody's digging it. Our friend Melanie was asking Mickey, what does your
shirt say? Oh, my shirt says Daniel and the Coal Is that a
band? I didn't know they could see us too? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Daniel on the Coal Band. Daniel the Coole is,
in my opinion one of the best artists in this country right now, are
one of my favorites. Where are they from? Saint Louis? Oh okay,
yeah, I'm not familiar with them. What need to check them out?
Yeah? What do they sound like? Blues? Original, original,
like blu Yeah there, yeah, blues, soul, kind of funky okay
yeah. If you ever heard of um Um Trampled Underfoot, Yes, it's
she's the bass player. Oh okay, yeah, oh cool, So that
was their family band. Oh this is her own original project, gotcha,
gotcha. One of the best singers I've ever heard of, absolutely wow in
bass players, very nice. Check her out. Well, you guys,
you guys want to play another one? I'm dying to hear more of course,
of course, all right, I didn't know they could see me.
Yeah, everyone right now, I got a great face for radio. But
yeah, that it's funny melody. The way she worded the question in the
chat room, she said, what does the beard man on the couch's shirt
say? Hi, I'm now beard man? There you go. Well,
the only problem is everyone has beards now, so it's like everyone's beard man
except for Harrison over there. I'm twelve. There you go. You have
plenty of hair on top though. Yeah, it's definitely it's coming there you
go. All right, Yeah, what do you guys? Uh? Yeah,
go ahead, whatever you want to play. I'm just I'm just dying
to here alright. Alright, Uh, I guess you brought up kind of
my name where I got it from? So I used to go to the
Roma and Harel, Massachusetts, and around that time, sixteen years old,
I also got to go see Buddy Guy play at Hampton Beach Casino Man and
that NIGHTTI sang a song called Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes? So sixteen year
old me went home wrote a song called young Man's Blues, which will be
the title track of our upcoming album young Man's Blues. So I like to
squeeze that one out for you real quick. All right, I'm a young
man, you know I got my sher of the blues, said, I'm
a young man. You know I got my saim the blues. I felt
it up and he hates you, him and the shir gonna give me the
blues where you don't, mister buddy, gut go. It's talking about who's
gonna feel the whole shoes here, he said, mister Bundy guy, here
going talking about who's gonna feel the old shoes is when you know, miss
a buddy guy. You know, we came down here to swap some on
with you. How play the blues, y'all? How I'm a young man,
you know, get tired you your talk man? How to play the
blues? Said, I'm a young man here. You know, Luke to
get Tai Junior Johnson taught me how to play the blues, he said,
just like Muddy Waters taught me how to do it. Son, I want
to teach out how to do it too. You got your excuse you WHI
school he's won for Junia sit. I'm a young man, you know I
paid some dudes to play the blues, say it, I'm a y'all thing,
you know, how PIDs to do to play the blues and hate yam
and it shall gonna give me the blues? How beautiful, beautiful Frankie boy
in the blues express um out you guys, thank you? Do you guys
want to play one more? And then we'll h and then we'll have a
little bit of time after to talk. Of course, that sounds good.
Cool you want to flip and flop him? Sure? Why not? Mhmm.
We're doing an awful lot of talking about Luther Gatad Junior Johnson. For
anybody out there who doesn't know who he is, you'll need to look him
up. I highly recommend you look him up. Anyway. He was in
the Blues Brothers movie, played the Muddy Waters for eight years. Who's one
of my best friends on earth. Taught me a lot in twenty four years
to Yeah, incredible musician, even more incredible human, super spiritual. So
we got some major influence by him. Without him, certainly wouldn't be doing
what we're doing here. Okay, true, Well, I'm gonna do a
little luthor guitar Junior Johnson's song, and then it turns into a little bit
of Frankie Boys song. So yeah cool version won't two, won't two three?
Luck beach out in the scene. I'm luck beach out in the scene.
I ain't gonna do about it this whole round over me. When walking
on walking on nappy mood, when walking along, walking on nappy bold,
I can't buy my mind. I'll be walking alone. I'm flip live black
luck pinch out in the sea. I'm flipping little blah luck a pinch out
in the sea. I ain't got no man in this whole round world with
me. That's not true. I got Harrison, m m m. I'm
flipping blah black fish out in the sea. I'm flipping the blah black bitch
out in the sea. I ain't got now abounding the whole round world with
me. Come here, baby, and sit down on my knee. Sit
right here, baby, Sit down on my knee. Got something down the
bugging the head of me. I'm flipping them blah black fish out in the
sea. I'm flipping them blah black fish out in the sea. I ain't
got no about in this whole round world with me. How about you,
breaking, I got a woman and she's don't be to me. Said I
got a woman and she sold me to me. You mayn't spile the baby
because you're all to get warn me. When I was driving around town is
about fifty five year you want a us little thing out of him? Didn't
need tonight. I don't at you, my baby. Good law you're gonna
do is fire? Girl said I got a woman and she told me to
me, saying I got a woman and she sold me to me. The
truth, y'all. He ben't buy nothing because you only get one of me.
Girl, When you put me in the door, what I don't know?
I can't do the bottom molding a brand new video. You don't stitch.
You want to eat me? But she gotta no baby, who no?
When I got a woman and she's sold me to me, saying I
got a woman and she's sold me to me. Ben's buying nothing, baby,
You only get one of me. I don't. Can I add a
little note onto that? Yes, if anybody out there listening, can you
find yourself in a bad relationship? Wellhether, it's at home, it's at
work, it's amongst your friends, it's amongst whoever. As far as near
as I can tell this, life's about being happy, all right. You
find yourself in a bad relationship, fix it, fix it. It's good
advice. Good advice. Yeah, yeah, unsolicited, but I believe.
Well, um, now do you got you you have a CD? Do
you have you have one with you? I can pop in, well,
so I can. We'll play a studio track and we'll get you guys resituated,
so we can we can chat for a few minutes. Let's see here.
Do you guys play out a lot? Yeah? This is a radio
first. By the way, I've never used this CD player in the SiO
and it's never been played on a radio. It's not it's not out yet.
It's not out yet. So this is this is what we like to
call a world radio premiere. I love it. I love it. Let's
see. Okay, now this should pull out. It works nice, it
sounds good. So we'll we'll let's play for a minute. Then we'll come
back and we'll talk with these guys. Don't go away. People don't want
to tell you a little story. Boy, the blues man from back in
the day started in mississipp but Chicago paved his way. Said Mama, you
buy me a get tied, and I'll take care of you. Left home
when he was sixteen years old to sweet Home, Chicago to play the blues.
Get tied, Junior, Get tied, Junior, get tired, Junior,
We play the blues for you, ladies and gentlemen. This is a
song in memory of our good friend, mister Luther get tied Junior Johnson.
Although his body has left this world, I promise you his spirits are alive
and well. We gotta get tired of the studio right now, and to
be singing, boy, you man, We got Luc's getting tied him too.
He bought that a man, he bought that getting tied to He caught
with money waters. Then he got with you, time went on, that's
time will do. Then he got with me people, he said, Frankie,
I want you to play blue How oh that is so good guitar Junior,
Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. And we've got the guys from the
band here in studio with us. And that that is a world radio premiere
of that song, so that that's never been heard. This is brand new.
HM, very nice. Well, we are honored, we are honored.
So we've got the guys here, Frankie Boy Blues and uh, Mickey
and Harrison. And how long have you guys been together as a band,
because you you sound I assume it's been a while. Three years maybe,
yeah, I think it's been with me. I think it's been two two
years by two? Okay, all right, um, yeah, you guys
sound great if you just if you miss it, by the way, if
you're just joining us, these guys played live in studio for us and it
was just amazing, So make sure you go back and listen to the h
the podcast if you miss the live performance. And uh, we have a
call. I think I think one of your new fans might be on the
line. Hi, welcome to the show. Who's this? Yeah, it's
Ridley. Oh, Dave Ridley. Oh, I didn't recognize the number.
Dave. Are you calling? Do you have a question for the band?
No? I don't have internet access right now, so I'm sorry I'm calling.
It's the wrong time. I'll call him some other time. Okay,
all right, sounds good Dave, Bye, bye bye, guys. That
was our friend Dave Ridley anyway, but yeah, if you miss it,
these guys, these guys sound phenomenal, and the CD sounds great too.
You know, we we listen to that one song, but you've got thirteen
songs on here. Now, when when is this going to be coming out
officially? Hopefully a few weeks? A few weeks, Okay, that's the
plan. We need it done by June. And June's not many weeks away
right now? Why by June? Why? Why the deadline? We got
a lot going on. Yeah, things pick up, you know, yeah,
Yeah, you're playing out a lot. You're gonna be playing a lot
this summer. Lots. We are yeah, cool over the place? Cool
cool? Um? Have you have you always been very busy as a touring
act? Have you always played a lot of shows? Or we haven't really
toured yet the beginning. We're growing, we're spreading our wings. Cool cool,
Okay, all right, we play out once or twice a week excellent,
and then some weeks the summer, we got seven days in a row.
Sweet, like we're going to wake the lake this weekend Laconia. Oh
cool, Tower Hill Tavern on the weirs, wake the Lake. We're there
Friday night, Tower Hill Tavern upstairs and Saturday outside. Very cool, yeah,
very cool? Um? How many Um, now, how many originals
do you guys have as far as are these all originals on the album or
some of these covers? I didn't there's no, there's some covers on there.
Um, I'd say it's a mix of covers and originals. Yeah.
Um, definitely some original arrangement arrangements to songs that have been done before.
Okay you will find on that record. Okay, okay, cool. Yeah,
nothing on there sounds like in original, like the original if it's a
cover. Yeah. Yeah. Is that something in terms of approaching songs like
that where you where you take a song and you kind of, I don't
know, reverse engineer it or I heard that term recently, or make it
your own? Is that something you do kind just when you when you're approaching
it, or does it just kind of happen organically? Oh, I'd go
with the organically side of things. Um. Two of the songs on there,
in particular, one of them was a I just a riff. I
came up playing by myself in the room, played it with these guys a
few times live. By the third or fourth time we played it, they
said, when are you going to sing over that thing? And I went
to a gig following week and started singing some Luther guitar Junior Johnson lyrics over
it. Okay, you know what I mean? Yeah, another song on
there. Um, we were playing a gig with a friend of ours named
Dominic Cole, fifteen year old drum phenomenon. He's amazing and it was our
first gig we did with them, so he was getting new to the blue
stuff that we do. So Mickey looks at me and says, I'll play
starting rock and he's real good at the rock stuff. So I just kicked
into these kind of Jimmie Hendricks chords. I knew, I knew he'd sound
good. Yeah, And a few weeks later I was I was singing Engine
number nine over the same chords, you know. Yeah, yeah, So
they just they just happened, right right. Um. Yeah, It's it's
funny, uh you know it it seems like with with this genre and and
not just blues, but I think, you know, this is probably true
with jam bands and some other things too. But you know, you can
really you can really take things and kind of change them and make them your
own, um in a way that's um, you know that you can't necessarily
do with other genres of music. Um, when you play live, does
that happen where maybe? Um, are some of these songs who they sound
very different from one show to the next. Is there a lot of sort
of improvisation that goes on. Well, we've never had a band rehearsal really,
so every song that we play we learned together on stage in front of
people, every single one of them. That's why we're gonna start rehearsing sometime
soon when we're ready, but we haven't yet. It doesn't seem like you
need to, like it seems like it's working pretty well. Blues is a
language, yep. Yeah, it's a language. If you learn the language,
you can play with anybody. It's like speaking a different language. Yeah,
if you speak Spanish, you don't have to ask somebody if they speak
Spanish, you just start a conversation, right right. This is the same
thing. Yeah, yeah, same thing. Um, And I think Mickey
you had made the comment offer I think that that you guys, this is
your first time doing this acoustic. Is that is that correct? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've never done an acoustic show or an acoustic
set. Yeah. Is it much of an adjustment or in terms of your
your approach to plan or no, I mean you seem you seem comfortable with
it, so yeah, yeah, definitely definitely for me. I'm like,
I normally have probably at least two extra symbols and then two tom's, so
I got like pretty bare bones right here with just this high hat, snare
and bass drum. But yeah, I love doing that kind of stuff because
one of my favorite drummers of all time is Nate Smith and he plays for
a Fearless Flyers and a bunch of different groups. He has his own soul
ax and whatnot, but he does this exact setup for Fearless Flyers. It's
literally just bass drum, snare, drum, high hat, and it really
challenges you as a drummer to just like focus on pocket or get creative with
what you got because you've gotten literally the the beef and the bones, like
you know, the whole peanut butter sandwich right here. That's all right,
you know if you're talking about food and you know, bring food into this,
but um yeah, yeah, actually yeah, but um yeah, it's
so I like playing on this kind of this kind of setup. So hopefully
we'll get a chance to do more of stuff like this, so I definitely,
I definitely enjoy it. Yeah. Is it a challenge to um as
how did you put it? Exactly? Uh uh, to be more creative
with with lesser Yeah, exactly, because you're it's like you're being more can
You're you're confined to a smaller box. But it's it's fun to work within
a box because it's like you know it, it gives you like an area
to work within, and and it forces you to be creative with what you
got. So I end up like doing things that I've never done before on
a set like this, which is super fun because it's like that's kind of
the same thing that we do when we when we play live, Like when
we play songs, it's like we'll play certain songs and certain things will come
out at times when we're like when the hell did we start playing it like
that? And it's like, and that's what's super fun about the shows with
Frankie. It's like, it you show up to show, you could go
to a like all of our shows that bike week this year, and you
would you would get something different each night. Yeah, so and and and
that's that's what's really enjoyable about it. So I'm getting that right here in
the studio with this little kid. So yeah, I just I love the
improv. Yeah, so very cool, very cool. Um, do you
guys play really long? I mean I assume you can probably do like a
three hour set, right do the wholes no kid ain't? Yeah? Does
that ever get exhausting or probably just kind of flies by? Right? I
would imagine four yeah? Yeah, yeah. We often have been pushing two
or two and a half hours before we take a break, no kidding.
And you know what, when the music's right, playing with these guys and
music's always right, yeah, two and a half hours goes by like twenty
minute. When it feels good, you don't you don't want to stop right
right, and then you look at your phone and you go, wow,
we've been at this two and a half hours. Let's take a break.
You know. Do you make any kind of a set list or do you
not bother? I haven't done that yet, I don't plan on doing it.
Yeah. Um, I just just feel the room. Yeah, you
know, if if the whole room staring at you, you just gotta go
and you gotta give it, catch their attention, and if you can get
it, you know, hold one. Yeah, Now there are there other
bands in the area. Is there anybody else in the area who's doing what
you're doing and approaching it this way? Because it seems like, you know,
we have a lot of musical guests on the show, but I don't
think we've had anybody quite like you guys on the show. That's good to
hear. Yeah, yeah, most from what I know, I know tons
of musicians. There's a ton of incredible musicians in New England and New Hampshire
specifically. Yeah. Most bands have rehearsals all the time and have setlists and
do whatever. Yeah. We're blues trained, Yeah, blues trained by some
really really serious mentors, really serious mentors right here in Manchester. Howard Randall,
who's been around the Strange Group game for twenty four years. Jerry the
Reverend, Podcat Can Too blues band, that's my godfather, talk about him,
Montoring wo Luther guitar Junior Johnson of course. Yeah. Like if if
anybody's ever played blues and they've gotten the look before, when you get a
look means you're doing something wrong. Fix it right now. Willie J.
Laws one of my dear mentors. When you're mentored in blues like it's it.
I had a conversation Frankie mentioned Dominic. Dominic just played a gig with
us over this weekend, and Dominic started sitting in with us at seven years
old. Incredible, incredible drummer. He just turned fifteen years old. He's
full time gigging right now in the Bob Pratt band. Wow. And what
I explained to him about blues is you can sit home and practice all day
long. You can practice to blue stuff all day long. You're not learning
the real stuff unless you're playing it out on stage with blues players, because
it's all about what it feels, not how you rehearsed it at home,
not how the record sounds. It's about how it feels right now. Yeah,
that's it. That makes sense now if any of you guys played in
other other genres or other bands that maybe did something little you have Harrison,
Yeah, yeah, I have another project right now called River Saying Wild,
which is more of an alternative indie rock band. Yeah, and we play
pretty much the same area as as Frankie does, like the New England's just
in general regional basically regional band, not a touring act yet, but working
on that kind of thing, so and um yeah, it's just yeah,
So I I like dipping into that. But I've I've liked playing all kinds
of stuff. Um. I feel like with Frankie, I'm a bit more.
I kind of cascade through more because it's like funk, soul, blues,
swing, like all kinds of stuff. So sometimes we can get like
anything from like Engine Number nine when we play a song like that that's more
on like the rock, like heavy in your face kind of side, and
then like we'll and then we'll have something that's like yeah to Bob Marley to
yeah Franks, which which challenges me because it's like I have to know like
how to set the mood in my head, like when I'm playing, like
all right, how am I gonna approach this, you know, and it's
like you're and I'm being given so many colors to work with that it's it's
really it's really fun to do that. Um So I'd say like yeah,
but it's even when we do the swing stuff or even like a reggae tune
or like or something that's like really funky. I feel like, um my
approach in general as I like to have more of that rock and roll energy
brought into it, no matter what it is, because to me, I
just like that bold in your face, like bombastic, borderline annoying and and
I think that's like any drummer really, but that's that's how I like to
kind of approach stuff. And I feel like when we when we play,
it's like it doesn't matter if we're playing a waltz or like or something that's
like Engine number nine or something in your face more rock or Jimmy Hendricks like,
um, it's always gonna be rock and roll energy brought to it.
In my head, that's how I interpret it. But it's yeah, it's
so yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. Well we are. We're
actually almost out of time, so I want to make sure before we run
out of time, and I want to get this um the song and Mickey
you had asked me to play this track something about you. You know what
if they've both mentioned engine number nine a few times, how about we give
them engine number nine. We'll do that, Okay, okay, cool?
Track eight, I think, yeah, yeah, track eight yeah, all
right, yeah, well we'll play that when we wrap up in a moment.
But um, but before we before we wrap up, I want to
make sure that that our listeners know where to find you guys online, where
they should go to keep up with everything that you're doing, and how they
can get the CD when it comes out, where they should go, any
anything they should know. Well, tonight we're going to Lisa Guyers Monday Mews
right down the street, London, Derry. Okay, so people can go
see us for real. Oh, very cool, very cool. Frankie Boy
in the Blues Express Facebook. Yeah, we're on Facebook right now. Frankie
Boy Blues is on Instagram. You can find us on YouTube. Our website
is almost done, so when the website is officially released Frankie Boy Blues dot
com excellent, you can't mess it up. Excellent and um and everything's following
that as well. Where you you're, like I said, you're seeing the
beginnings of whatever we're gonna turn this into. And we hope world touring enterpres
We want to bring it all around the world, you know, and pay
tribute to our friend Guitar Junior for teaching us how to do this. Yeah,
yeah, absolutely, Well, guys, thank you so much. This
has been wonderful. You guys, you sound amazing and it's wonderful to meet
you and have you in studios, so thank appreciate it. In a moment
stuff in a moment, we will we will end with that track engine number
nine. But Jenny, thank you of course. And tomorrow you'll be in
Washington, d C. I shall and you can check me out on Gencoffee
dot com. J E n n C O f e y dot com and
I will come back and give you all a full report. Very good.
Now, UH, as we conclude, I just have because I've never used
a CD player before today, I have to figure out how to get to
UH. I have to figure out how to get to our track number eighth.
Let's see, he's gotta figure out which button the push. I think
I owned it. I think I found it, all right, I figured
it out. I figured it out all right, very cool. I saw
a red light. I thought, I don't know. We're in trouble.
Oh, except we're in trouble. No, I got it, I got
it. We're good, all right, guys, Thank you again so much,
thank you, thank you for having us absolutely and if you miss any
part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at
WMNH Radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com and don't forget
to be back bright and early tomorrow seven am for the Morning Show with Peter
White. And if you get a chance, check out today's Morning Show with
Peter White. It is in the archive. And our friend Brooklyn Mike was
on speaking of musicians, and he did an amazing job. He performed live
on the Morning Show. So lots of music around here, which is a
wonderful, wonderful thing. But we will end with this. This is Engine
number nine from Frankie Blue and the Blues Express to close out today's Matt Connerton
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