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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera,
etcetera. Today is Monday, September eleven, twenty twenty three, and
I'm not alone. They are darlings. I am present. Yes, Jenny
is here at the news desk. Yes, very drainy. That's the second
time I stumbled on that dreary and rainy. It's like I couldn't my brain
couldn't decide between dreary and rainy, so it came out dreny. Yes,
a lot of people are feeling it today, so the weather, I think,
is feeling it a little too. Yes, Yes, well we do
have so coming up later in the show in the second hour, we do
have a great musical guest today, Nolan Coda from Eons and Coded, which
sounds like a band, but it's actually just him. He does all the
he does everything himself. He also is in a band called Pointless Culture who
is currently They've got an album coming out soon. But but I had said
to you recently, I said something like, you know this guy from Ian's
and Coded. I've been playing his music for like two years now on the
show because I love that song Reconnection. I play that all the time and
it always gets a great response to people in Travo will comment on it.
I said, uh, you know the guy he's on band camp says he's
from Concord. We've been playing his music for like two years. He probably
has no idea, you know, unless he's familiar with the show or somebody
mentioned it to him, he probably has no clue that he's got a he's
got a hit song on the show. And that is one of my go
to is because you know, obviously we uh, we play a lot of
music on the show, independent unsigned artists, both locally and from other places
too. But there's a short list of songs that just get stuck in my
head that just randomly pop into my head even when I'm not thinking about the
show. And Reconnection by Ian's and Coded as one of them that riff,
just that I can I can tell you what they are. Actually, there's
that one. There's a beautiful Nightmare by Chasing the Devil that just randomly pops
into my brain. Sometimes there's Revenge by Edgewise, probably a couple of others.
Oh yeah, well we are. We are very blessed to have a
lot of great musicians. Yes, yeah, a lot of great musicians.
Boy, when I started doing this, I didn't realize just what is out
there, and there's a lot, especially here in New Hampshire. We have
a lot of really great talent. Just I mean, seriously, folks,
I'm not even kidding about this, Like, go out see some of these
live bands if you're not sure, even if you if you see somebody here,
drop me a note and I'd be happy to hook you up with their
page or their website so you can go see him in person. Yes,
indeed, Isaac Banks and the chat room says, who's the guest on your
show? Matt, It's as I just mentioned, it's Nolan Coda from Ian's
and Code it, He'll be here in the second hour. We did open
Our opening song today was The Rising by Bruce Springsteen from the album of the
same name, and that's kind of an unofficial tradition on the show, usually
on September eleven, you know, if it falls on a weekday, of
course, the We're here I like to open with that. It's obviously not
only is it about nine to eleven, but it also happens to be my
favorite Springsteen song. I like Springsteen. I'm not a I'm not a big
fan, but I'm a casual fan. But you know, but I like
a lot of his stuff. I don't like Born to Run. Oh it
makes me nauseous when I hear it. Good. I didn't even like that
when I was a kid. I was like, it's so long. It
feels like it's probably like a seven I do well. Yeah, in fact,
Reconnection by Ian's and Code it is like seven and a half minut that's
true. But but I don't know Bording to Run it feels like it's,
uh, it feels like it's seventeen eighteen minutes long, and I know it's
not. It's probably like five or six minutes at the most. But it
feels like it just goes on forever anyway. But The Rising by Springsteen such
a great song and I really like that that full album, and of course
the Rising is it's specifically about firefighters, uh, first responders on nine to
eleven. I don't know if I don't know if you know this, but
Springsteen's Sun is a firefighter. I did not know that. Yep, yeah,
I did not know that. I think I think just in the last
few years he became a firefighter, if I'm not mistaken. So I've always
I've always really loved that song. And yeah, it was when a number
of months ago he was on Howard Stern and you know Howard does. He's
like two two and a half hour interviews with these musicians, and uh yeah
he actually Springsteen actually played some of it on as a guitar. It was
pretty cool because they had a long discussion about that song specifically, and Springsteen
talked about talked about, you know, the process of writing it, how
it came to him, and that that whole album, The Rising is about
nine to eleven from what I I haven't listened to it in a long time,
but I think the whole thing kind of centers around that and the aftermath
of it and how Americans were feeling, and well how Springsteen was feeling,
you know, how how he saw things from his perspective. But and I
remember too reading an interview with him where he said he wanted to do something
that was because some of the some of the music that was coming out at
that time, it was almost, for lack of a better way of putting
it, sort of revenge oriented, like Toby Keith with that song courtesy of
the Red, White and Blue, you know, stuff like that. But
uh, Springsteen wanted to do something a little, a little deeper, you
know what I mean. Well, it was the one I'm Proud to be
an American. Well that that song got played a lot, but that that
but that wasn't that was that long predated nine to eleven Lee Greenway. It
took the front row. I sure my son's elementary school after nine to eleven
they sang that song every morning before school. Yeah, that's what they would
do, is that song. They couldn't have picked something better than that.
They had all the kids singing it to day. I don't believe. I
do believe that many of them are not very fond of that song anymore because
it was literally played every single day. They had to sing it. Yeah,
yes, every day. So yeah, I think it kind of hurt
them on that, but I mean nothing against it, but there's just better
songs than that. What was what the perminal picked and they didn't get a
choice? You know what it is? It's it's just so cliche. It's
like, oh that song really time? It wasn't. No at the time,
everything any anytime that song is coming to vogue, it's been cliche.
Stop it. No, it was at the time it was very I get
it. I get it. I get it, and I want to say
something else to you, but I will. They should have sung The Rising
by spring Steen. That would have been much better, right, but oh
god, seriousness Greenwood, Yes, yes, serious note. If we're going
to talk about nine to eleven and we're going to talk about the firefighters and
the EMT, we need to talk about the fact that they are still fighting
today. I mean the New York City I don't want to get the name
of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees is made up of teachers,
but also of firefighters, EMTs and police members who were there on nine
to eleven, and now we're suffering from nine to eleven diseases. Some of
these diseases that are people are getting sick with, they're not getting the benefit
because it hasn't been recognized as an official nine to eleven. But we still
we they added, this is what John Stewart's always fighting for, big time,
big time, as I do believe today there were over forty new names
added to the memorial for the firefighters and EMTs who are still dying from nine
to eleven cancers and lung diseases. That you know, they were told the
air was safe. If they had been told if there was a chance that
it wasn't, they should have had respirators. But at the time, what
we you know, everybody is haul hands on deck. Let's save as many
lives as we can. But we have to not forget that we're twenty two
years out and there are families that are suffering. There are people that are
suffering that they shouldn't be. We promised, we promised to the nine one
one responders that we were going to be there to take care of them no
matter what. We were going to be there to take care of them like
they took care of us on that horrific day, and we're not we're not.
We're not necessarily holding up our end of the bargain, folks, because
they're having to fight. And I want to say this right now, they've
been fighting in New York Cities. The retirees have been fighting to keep their
Medicare, their traditional Medicare, and they have a supplemental policy through the city
and that's what they were promised as part of their benefit package. Now that
they're retired, there be the governor of New York City or the mayor,
excuse me, the mayor of New York City, and the leadership of their
union. Surprisingly, the leadership of the union has rolled the boss over retirees
and have tried to force them onto a private Medicare advantage policy. Many of
them, if forced onto a policy, could lose their hospitals, their providers
that they've had for decades because those providers and hospitals may not be within the
network of the Medicare advantage plan that would be chosen for them to end up
having by force. Basically, they've been fighting and winning in court. They've
won at least six times in court, and they're going to continue to fight
to protect their members and make sure that we hold our promise to them and
give them the care that they were promised. You know, a lot of
these guys take pay cuts wherever in the in the promise that when they're retired,
you're going to have Fital Medicare and you're going to have this supplement that
we worked with you before. They're trying to do this to save money on
the backs of nine on one responders, and that really makes me sick.
If you want to read about it for yourself, and I'll drop the link
into the chat room as well, you can go to NYC Retirees dot org
and that's retirees plural NYC retirees dot org. You can read about the battles
that they have been waging and maybe you can help. You You could always
be a part of it by speaking up and saying, hey, I'm standing
with these guys and I'm not going to let you force them into this.
We got to keep them in the public eye because it's when they get doors
get closed and cameras go away that people stop being quite so nice, you
know what I mean. So they need all the help and support that they
can get. I was honored to get to meet them on the last trip
that I was at in DC with be a Hero, And there are an
amazing group of people. There was about seventy of them that made the trip
all the way down to DC that day, many of them on a twelve
our train. And they shouldn't be having to do that. They retigh it.
They should be home, retigh it. They shouldn't have to be fighting
to have healthcare so they don't die sooner than later. Well, you know,
I have to say this, and by the way, I have a
short article here from Axios about first responder deaths post nine to eleven that are
linked to nine to eleven. But I have to say, you know,
I do love my country. But one of the things that frustrates me,
infuriates me frankly to no end about America is that we are horrible at taking
care of the people who put their lives on the line for our country,
whether it is veterans who serve, who fight in wars for us on our
behalf, who then get often terrible treatment from the VA. You know,
everyone's situation is different, that's not across the board. Some people have positive
experiences, far too many veterans have negative experiences. They are homeless veterans,
ors, all, all kinds of ways that we fail are veterans. So,
whether it's veterans that we send off to fight our wars, or whether
it's people who are trying to defend the country right here at home. For
example, when the worst terrorist attack on American soil in American history happened and
our first responders had to go and respond to that. Again, the neglect
of these people doesn't surprise me. It infuriates me. Does it surprise me
that we actually make these people fight for every scrap, every crumb of help
that they can possibly get from our government that they were promised that they shouldn't
They shouldn't have even had to have been a promise. It should be obvious
they're owed that they owed all the help that they could possibly need. But
of course we fail them. Of course we do. It's no surprise.
Look at how we treat veterans, Look at how we treat these first responders.
It's the same thing. There's always a lot of happy talk about,
you know, American heroes, American patriots, and we have to we have
to take care of them. They took care of us. Now it's our
our obligation, our duty to take care of them. And then yeah,
we just forget about it, and we forget about them and we discard them
like their trash. And that's what has happened to these first responders. And
this is a part of the problem is unfortunately, it's one of those issues
that unless you're really paying attention. And thank god, you know John Stewart
with his celebrity status, he's been able to draw a lot of attention to
this issue helping these people. Not enough, It's never enough, apparently,
because nothing ever actually changes. But it's just incredible, But it's never It's
never gonna be on anybody's top five list of issues. You know, you're
never gonna hear a political debate where one of the questions is, you know,
hey, what are we going to do about these nine to eleven first
responders who are all dying of cancer or whatever other terrible illnesses they have that
we're pretty sure we're caused by them being exposed to everything that they had to
inhale while they were cleaning up New York City after nine to eleven, What
are we going to do for them? That's never gonna be a debate question.
It's never gonna be on anybody's top five list of issues. It's probably
never gonna be on anybody's list top ten list of issues. It just isn't.
And it's so I mean again, I love my country, but it's
it's actually embarrassing that this is how we treat people, whether it's veterans,
whether it's first responders, anybody who serves their country, who serves their community
in any way, risking their lives, and we promise them everything when the
cameras are on, and like you said, when the cameras are off,
ah, they're not gonna Yeah, we don't need them whatever, Let them
die, right. The count on the fact that the public tends to have
a two week memory, and we do because there's so much news going on
every day. Something catches your eye. I'm guilty of it too. Something
sure's your eye, and you forget about some of the other things you were
thinking about. But our media forgets them and leaves them there, and they
only take them back out on nine to eleven. That's when we talk about
it again. We don't. We don't talk about it otherwise except for when
John Stewart has been able to bring it up front. Absolutely, but we
get on this time. You know, I've been talking to these people for
months now that I found out that they existed. I didn't know this group
existed. I didn't know that they were being put through this, but once
I did, I yeah, we gotta get we got to help them.
We got to talk about this and not stop talking about it. We have
a call. Ron is on the line. Hi, Ron. Yeah,
I'm Matt Jenny. I'm gonna be so brief because you guys are so spot
on, and uh, I thank you for what you guys are talking about
it and your facts they're facts, not opinions. I the thing, just
so much to say, but with so little time. I remember when Americans
drove around with flags and there was peace and there was no road rage,
and that all disappeared over time. How quick we forget. I wish that
at least every September eleventh, all Americans at least could drive around with their
headlights on to say, you know, we remember, m Yeah, I
remember when that that's it, I guess. I. Yeah, you've comple
want to say that. I really want to hear, so I don't want
to take up any more time. All right, Ron, Well, we
appreciate the call, my friend, Thank you very much. Thank you guys,
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You had started to say something I had okay, never mind, I thought
you did. I don't think I did. Okay, Well, I did
want to look at this quickly. This is a short article from Axios regarding
what we were talking about, and then we'll look at the chat room.
But post nine to eleven first responder deaths now nearly equal to attack casualties.
So it says here the number of nine to eleven first responders who have died
from Ground Zero related health complications is now nearly equal to the number of first
responders who died during the attacks. The New York City Fire Department announced last
week the addition of forty three names of first responders who died from nine to
eleven related ailments to its memorial at the World Trade Center. The names added
include those of firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs. Fire Commissioner Laura Cavanaugh said
an a press release, quote, these brave men and women showed up that
day and in the days and months following the attacks to participate in the rescue
and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site. We will never forget them
unquote. In the twenty two years since nine to eleven, three hundred forty
one quote FDNY members have died from rare cancers and diseases caused by the toxic
dust at Ground Zero unquote. The Uniform Firefighters Association wrote in a Facebook post
on Monday, the count is nearly equal to three hundred forty three New York
City firefighters who died on September eleven, two thousand and one. According to
the New York City Police Department. Twenty three NYPD officers died on nine to
eleven. In the years since three hundred, twenty three members of the force
have died from nine to eleven related illnesses. Health ailments related to nine to
eleven has also impacted members of the FBI and the Department of Defense. FBI
Director Christopher Ray said last year the twenty one FBI employees had died from related
illnesses in the years since the attacks. Increased funding for the nine to eleven
Victims Compensation Fund has long been has long been the subject of an ongoing effort
in Congress. I don't know if efforts the right word. In twenty nineteen,
the Senate voted to secure funding for the fund through twenty ninety two,
and the legislation was signed into law by former President Trump. A New York
I'm sorry. A new New York law called the nine to eleven Notice Act
will require large employers to inform current and former workers who were present in the
exposure zones of the attack about their eligibility to register for federal programs providing compensation
and healthcare for attack victims. New York Governor Kathy Hokel signed the bill into
law. On Monday, hocal said, I'm never sure if it's Hocal or
Hochel said in a statement, quote, on this solemn day of remembrance,
let us not only honor the lives lost on nine to eleven, but also
extend our support to the survivors. They're loved ones and our first responders unquote.
While those are some pretty words, yeah, but we make them fight
for it, don't we, Just like we make veterans fight for all the
care they need. And one of the other things that's happening with them is
if their specific diagnosis hasn't been entered as an official nine one one disease,
even if they were, you know, in there trying to find people the
day that it happened, they can't get any help. Yeah, it's got
to be fought for. And and it's ridiculous. I mean, it's these
cancers that are coming down in large quantities and lung ailments, especially so these
firefighters and police and e mts. And you know, they didn't come by
it on their own. They came by at trying to save lives, right
right. Absolutely, Let's not forget they dug through the rebbel for how long
trying I mean, oh yeah. People don't realize, but it was like
over that day. For weeks after there were still there were still fires burning.
Oh yeah, yeah, and there were and just trying to move everything
around, clean it out, all that dust that was in there. It's
concrete, it's chemical, it's the fuel, jet fuel, it's smitherines of
just metal fragments. All of this stuff was getting inhaled. They weren't wearing
respirators there, and you can go back and watch the footage. Yeah,
and there probably didn't have enough to go around. No, I doubt it.
I mean, well maybe I don't know. Jesus, I don't even
know. I know that there was our nine eleven My and nine to eleven
experience was I worked at in Jordan Hospital in Plymouth at the time, Plymouth,
Mass And you wouldn't think that we would be getting phone calls, but
we did. Shortly after I got home from work, I went right to
sleep because I got out at seven in the morning, and one of the
nurses I worked with the night before called and woke me up to tell me
to get the TV on and that she had just gotten a phone call from
work. And I got a phone call and they had put all of us
on call, and the plan was they were going to move stable patients out
of the Boston area, bring them down towards the Cape all the way down,
fill up our beds with their stables, and then Boston was going to
take New York's stable patients, opening up more space in their hospitals to take
care of what we all assume we're going to be large quantities of wounded,
not what he got called in, Yeah, because it was large quantities of
death. Yeah, that was the quietest night of work I've ever worked in
my life. I was on a cardiac unit and we all just kind of
like it was almost like being zombie. We didn't know what to think.
I think we were all just like the whole nation was just feeling horrified at
what had just happened. Yeah, and not getting called in was devastating to
a lot of people. Well, my experience that morning was I've told the
story on the show before, but just briefly, I was I didn't know
what was going on until I got a phone call at work. Because so
I was working at Strawberries on loudon Rode and Conquered and I was where I
lived. Was really close to where I worked, so if it was a
nice day out, if the weather was nice, and that day it happened
to be it was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect. Sometimes I
would just walk to work in the morning. You know, take me maybe
seven or eight minutes to just walk to work. So I just walked to
work that day. So I didn't hear the news, and I didn't listen
to the news in the car because I didn't drive in that day. I
just walked, So I was completely oblivious. The store opened at ten o'clock,
so i'd usually get there around nine. So I'm there. I have
no idea what what was going on. And then I get a call from
my mother's husband, Terry, and he says to me, Hey, can
you call your mother. I think she just would would feel better if she
heard from you, because she's freaking out. She thinks it's he was calling
me from his work. So you know, I hear his voice and he
says he's calling from his job, and I'm like, oh, my first
thought was something happens, something happened to my mom. So he says,
can you he said, I'm at work, can you get call your mother
at home? She's she's freaking out. She thinks it's the end of the
world. So I think she'd feel better hearing from you. And when he
said that to me, again, I'm oblivious. I have no idea what's
going on. I was like, she thinks it's the end of the world.
So my first thought is, oh, my god, we're in a
nuclear standoff with somebody. Maybe it is the end of the world, you
know, either the Russians or or something. That was my first thought when
I can understand where he would go there when he said that, and I
was like, well, well is it And then he explained to me what
was going on, and I was like, oh, okay, you know,
and then I said, all right, I'll call her. So I
called her, and you know, and then I grabbed We actually still sold
radios then, so I grabbed a radio and I plugged it in and listen
to the news, and you know, there was nobody coming into the store
that morning, but that's how I found out. But yeah, it was
like I got up and I went to work that day just completely oblivious to
what was going on. If you'd like to get in with a call,
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Radio with Paul ec. He says, Hello everyone. Isaac Banks, who
I'm pretty sure, if memory serves, is from Greensboro, North Carolina.
I think so. He says, Hello, Matt and Jen, Good afternoon.
Oh Jenny, I see you're in there. He said. Shalom,
peeps. Isaac Banks says, Matt and Jen JP and ME says to you,
we both love you from us. J JP is Jeff Pegary and me
ib Isaac Banks, well, thank you very much, glad. He clarified
that Melanie law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us in the chat.
Hello, Isaac says, yesterday it was rain and thunder outside last night
in Greensboro, North Carolina. No, uh, let's see. Isaac asked
earlier who the guest was, and I told him and he said, okay,
awesome, Matt, and he is talent. Yes, if you're just
joining us, uh Nola coda will be our So do you say his name?
Nola? Wait, no, Nolan, Nolan coda will be Uh.
I must be thinking of New Orleans. You're stuck on a map, rocking
down in New Orleans. Remember that song from Jerry and the Scumbags. That
one went away for some reason anyway? Uh? Yes, Nolan coda from
Ian's Encoded and Pointless Culture. We'll be here with us later. Isaac Bank
says, I listened to Bruce springsteen song Tunnel of Love. Speaking of Springsteen,
oh yeah, yeah, I couldn't get away from that song. I
liked that song, but couldn't get away from it. That was a huge
hit. Scott Robinson says, the wife and I went and saw Springsteen at
Foxborough a couple of weeks back. Wasn't a bad show. I don't know
a lot of the songs, but I had fun. Yeah, he's canceled
the rest of us tour. Springsteen has something some sort of a health issue.
Miriam Banish says, good afternoon, Good afternoon, Miriam, good afternoon.
Darling. Melanie has issued a mal is going to be a jerk warning
here she comes. Melanie said, I struggle with all the never forget posts
when no one seems to be concerned about the religious extremists in our government who
are trying to insert their religion into our laws. It's the same mentality that
flew those planes and took down the towers. Oh I'm not touching that,
I don't, said Melanie. Oh I get I get what you're saying,
Melanie, and I take your point. I don't. I don't quite agree.
I understand what you're saying, but I I that's a whole other conversation
and there's a lot of nuance that we would have to uh So I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna sign on to that. But I totally believe in the
never forgot posts. I mean amt I like those. I like seeing them
because I think it is important to remember the people and remember their names,
and even for that moment you think of that person's name, in that moment,
that person is remembered. You know, there's around and as far as
the extremes of in government, I am fighting left and right, woman,
I'm certainly paying attention and fighting and there's a lot of people out there that
are and there are a lot of great ways to get involved. Isaac Bank
says, Bruce Springsteen had hits, good hits. Yeah, Isaac is also
a music critic. I don't know if you knew that. I did not.
Jay Fed joins us in the chat room and says, good afternoon everyone,
and Jay Fed also says as the Fonds, hey, Oh yes,
he says Isaacs, I see what he did there, Celian Isaacs thunder Melanie
also said, I'm sorry, but that like visiting your mom's grave only.
Oh, it's like visiting your mom's grave only on our birthday. We have
to not suck on the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year.
Yes, yes, of course. John Hopwood joins us in the Facebook
live chat called Springsteen an old fart. Hey, that's the boss. Wow,
that's the boss. Where is Hoppy? I don't know. I haven't
seen him in a week. Where are you? We miss you? Isaac
Banks, apparently responding to j Fed, said as Potsy, hey, hashtag
Jason Feederson, how are you doing, sir? Good impression of the Fonds?
Excellent, Jason as Potsy, Jason Feederson, you're the man. I
don't remember Potsy ever saying you're the man on happy Days and then Isaac Banks
says in parentheses normal voice hashtag, Matt Jason Feederson is good doing impression of
the Funds. He should watch episodes of Happy Days. Well he probably has,
Isaac. That's probably how he knows how to do those impressions. We
watched them when they were new. And uh, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry
says Isaac. I don't know if you knew, but Matt does amazing impressions.
I do. I do those only on retrospectrum radio with policy, but
I did watch AWE if you watching, I tell you if you missed it.
On Friday Night's show, Oh, I did my impression of Sir Lawrence
Olivier at the DMV and it was stunning. And I'll tell you. I'll
tell you what the secret is. It's it's one thing like anyone can pretend
to be uh, Sir Lawrence Olivier at the DMV, but I actually,
in that brief moment, I actually become Sir Lawrence Olivier at the DMV.
I actually become him. And that's the secret to do in a great impression.
It wasn't he on TV and like the thirties or something, or he
was a very famous actor the thirties, right forties later than that wasn't I'm
stuck in the wrong century. Let's see. Oh my goodness, Melanie is
saying she will attempt to keep it rained in. That's gonna go. No,
you don't have to. You don't have to keep anything rained in in
the chat room. We like unleashed. We we we I don't sensor of
the chat room, Mike says, A stunning isn't a strong enough word.
That's right. Wow, that's a heck of a compliment, is there.
I can, I can. I can do those impressions pretty well. We
have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this?
Hello? Hello, Hello, Hello, I've got a new protective case or
my iPhone? It seems to be did you cause in me trouble? Oh?
Did you cover the speaker with it? Yeah? You're supposed to leave
that part uncovered. I thought it was supposed to be uncovered, right,
that's my point. Damn, what am I gonna do? And we have
to like cut part of it out? I guess I don't know. I
don't know what's going on over there. It's it's here, It's just not
behaving, well, this is anarchy pandemonium. Really, I've got an iPhone
se three. You know it's very small. Oh and iPhone you didn't cost
much rainying. Hey, that's board Olivier to you. Yeah, oh it's
Oh, it's not sir Lawrence Olivier. It's Laurida Laurence Olivier was elevated the
House of Lords in nineteen seventy. Oh, I didn't realize that. I
never knew that. Me neither. Well, that totally blows my impression.
I'm gonna have to retool it. Yeah, like, because he's got a
title, Jenny, you don't even know who he is here. He's the
dude that played like I don't know, I have a vision in my head
of like he was in the Arabian movie right. He was nominated for an
Oscar ten times, won the Oscar playing Hamlet in nineteen forty eight. Hamlet
won the Best Pitcher Oscar in nineteen forty eight, nominated It's the best Director.
And he also had do you hear that Honorary Oscars? I see what
your name is? English stage actor? Uh, but he was so well
he walked away from movie start him. He was in the he starred in
a two movies in thirty nine and forty and Wuthering Heights, and then he
was in Rebecca, which was Alfred Hitchcock picture that won Best Picture. But
he went back to England and volunteered to become a Navy air called pilot,
but he smashed two planes and so Churchill asked him to make a movie.
So he made the first great Shakespearean movie, which is Henry the Fifth,
which of course is about you know, the England rallying and going to war
with France. And he was the most famous Shakespearean actor of his day.
But he also was a great contemporary actor. But he's been gone for a
long time now. Miriam is asking in the chat. Wasn't he in something
with Dustin Hoffman. Yeah, he was in Marathon Man. He was Zell
the Nazi. He got an Best Supporting Actor nomination for that. Then he
played this grotesque. He was very bad in the movie The Boys from Brazil,
playing somebody based on Simon Wisenthal. But you know it was fun because
Gregory Peck was playing a Joseph Manglay and they got to fight each other at
the end. But you thought, which one's gonna die first of a heart
attack. They're both so old. Ah. Yes, well, Larry Olivia
got ten Oscar nominations, but he made very few films to the end because
he got He was married to Vivian Lead, but they got divorced in sixteen.
He married much younger women. They had like four or five kids in
there, so eventually he had to make some money to support the kids.
You know, to being some god awful movies like Wild Geese too. But
are you you gotta bring home the bacon? Right? That's right, that's
right. But I don't even think you know who. Let's hear your Lawrence
Olivier impression. All right here, let's let's do this. So so uh
John, uh pretend uh, pretend you're an employee at the DMV and I've
and I've walked up to the counter, got your form. Yes, I'm
here to renew my driver's license. I'm Lord Lawrence Olivier. No, let's
do it. It's Lawrence Lord Olivia. You see, he was Sir Lawrence
Olivier, but he took the name Lawrence Lord Olivier of Brighton. I don't
think Brighton is a seaside resort in England, which to us really sucks.
But to the British is something like you know, like Glass Vegas. I
can't got the last Vegas is really Blackpool. I can't do any I can't
do it again, John, I can't. I can't recreate the magic of
what I just did. I mean, regardless of how I said it.
You have to admit, for a moment there, you thought I was possessed
by him or something, didn't you until you blew it with the Laurence,
you know, the Lord Lawrence Olivia, you were a phony. Well you
know, I mean, come on, I mean, it's uh. You
have to admit though it was pretty impressive. I mean, the accent and
everything. I had it down. I thought you you're very promising. But
Gonzo in there too, and Elizabeth Rock to give you some pointers. Ah,
oh, well, they do impressions of you. I don't do it.
I don't do it, John Hopwood impression. You should have been standing
and you needed to center yourself around the groin and then create an arrow of
power up to the point between your eyebrows, and then you would have nailed
it. Well, that's uh. Some of these things are visual. It's
a radio show. It's Theater of the Mind. It's right here in the
Laurence Olivia on actic. I'm just giving me some chips from the Godhead himself.
I probably should read that. Hey, what do you guys think about
this Secret Service agent? He's eighty eight years old, he's got a book
to peddle, and suddenly he remembers that he found the magic bullet that allegedly
shot went through JFK's back, then up through his throat, then down through
whatever, and then into John Conley's back, then to John Conley's lung,
then to John Connley's arm, and then through his leg. And isn't that
an amazing thing? At eighty eighty remembers this mean while he has a book
to sell that is yeah, yeah, no, I have not. I
am aware of this, and I am skeptical, and I know that another
Secret Service agent who is there is already uh coming out and saying no,
he's that's that's not correct. So he's already been debunked by another Secret Service
agent. Now you see, I was talking to somebody that you know,
but I can't reveal their name because they I swore that I wanted. I'm
not gonna give you any details. But I actually said exactly what you said
to him, and he said, that's not true. Clint Hill just said,
because Clint Hill is who you're talking about, rather than this disguise says
he's the last witness. And I thought was Clint Hill dead, But Clint
Hill's alive. Clint Hill was his partner, and Clint Hill's famous in history
as the guy that in two seconds jumped off the back of the Cadillac that
was in back of the limo, and in two seconds he was on the
back of that Lincoln helping Jackie Kennedy get back into the car as it sped
up, and he shielded the body because although they have the fiction that JFK
died at the hospital, that's genuinely accepted that he was dead before he got
there. But as a Catholic, you have to get at that time,
you let's get extreme unction. You had to still be alive, which is
something I didn't know until recently. I didn't I didn't know you had to
be alive to be forgiven all your sins. So I guess if you get
your head blown off in Dallas, you can't get forgiven right. Let's but
you know they manufactured a little lie to get JFK into Heaven or at least
Limbo, except that doesn't exist anymore, right, it doesn't. Well,
that's disappointing. You're a Catholic. You should know about limbo. Why I
believe it's called purgatory is what you're referring to, right, unless there's another
place I'm not aware of. What did they teach you in Catholic school.
I was a Protestant, but my Catholic mother told me about limbo. That's
where all the dead babies go. What all right, this is getting into
a dark dark zone. All right, what are you talking about that limbo?
Limbo is in heaven or not before heaven. That's what my mother told
me. I was four years old or something. And at the same time,
Santa Clause right, I was taught that you go to purgatory to burn
off your sins and then you go to heaven or you just go to hell.
So, uh, it's either or hell. So have sins except for
the original sin, and Jesus already died for that, So they just go
to heaven, is what you're saying. No, they go to limbo.
It is an intermediate state. This is Wikipedia. Do you remember Catholics don't
go to heaven until after everybody gets resurrected. It's an intermediate state. Yeah,
I think you've got that right, Jenny, in which the recently deceased
experienced various phenomenon before being reborn in another state, including heaven or health.
I don't think this is the official Holy Mother Church, you know. You
know, Wikipedia can give you the year. But getting back to JFK,
So you think it's a bunch of larkey too, huh, yes, I
do. I Well, I think you nailed it. You said he's got
a book to sell. Well, Clint Hill, you know, was on
top of JFK and looking into all that gore, you know, because he
writes about it himself. Clint Hill believes in the single bullets theory. But
if this was actually true, that the bullet, you know, the Christine
bullet, was found in a tuft of the leather and Lincoln Continental and back
of JFK, it was completely great history, right. But the guy at
the time he's writing his reports, he says that he went he found the
bullet and then instead of giving it to his supervisor, he actually went into
the emergent, you know, forget what they call it, but it's an
emergency room, but you know it's a rather small room where they were operating
on JFK. And then Johnny was in another one and he says he walked
in and put the bullet on the blanket of JFK rather than telling anybody about
that. Yeah. Yeah, see here's that doesn't make any sense to me.
That's that's why. That's a big reason why I'm so skeptical. It's
just bizarre. He just does that and doesn't say anything, right, go
ahead, Sorry, Oh no, no, that was my thought. I
was just saying, he just does that and doesn't say anything to anybody about
it. It doesn't make any sense to me. That's what I said too.
Well this other person. Yeah, but he said he was traumatized,
and you know the pt I guess when we can get PTSD right then and
there. But he's traumatized. It's chaotic. But see what Clint Hill says
in the New York Times. Clint Hill eighty nine a year older than this
guy. And Clint Hill managed to within two seconds bound off a car and
save Jackie Kennedy's and getting run over. You know, and he's only a
year older than this guy, because oh he was young, and while he'd
been a Secret Service agent for six years. I mean, if you're that
highly trained, these guys are trained to put themselves in front of a bullet,
which means that's got to be dedicated to training, like your father went
through as a seal or something, you know what I mean, you have
to be highly trained. I mean I would do that. Besides, I'm
so sure it wouldn't work right over your head. But Clint Hill was always
bad by the fact he didn't make it within another second and put his body
in front of the third bullet, which is impossible, you know, because
but so he allegedly did this, but in his notes, and they only
gave the notes in two weeks later. Yeah, I guess he says he
doesn't have any mention of going into the actual emergency room or the bullet,
you know. Yeah. And yet the one thing, and that the guy's
book. It's number one on Amazon dot com. His book, and it's
published by a rather minor publisher. And I know the remnor publisher because they
held a store a short story by me for a year before rejecting it.
They were going to publish it but they didn't. That's how minor this publisher
is. So the Chicago Press or whatever and Chicago Review Press. But so
this is a thing if you can't refute it, right, Yeah, because
he's saying it. And even under the law, a witness can come forward
in a murder. Years later we see in like the Central Central Park jogger
case, things like that. Yeah, but you can't refute it. But
it's the one piece of evidence that blows everything out of the water. Right
by the way, we're almost at the top of the r John, But
I do want to while we're on the subject, I do want to quickly
ask you, why why do you think that we still so much of that
hasn't been released? Trump when he was president, he did promise, I
think that they were going to release all the JFK stuff, and then he
changed his mind. Obviously somebody talked him out of it. But I think
it was supposed to I think there was even something legally that was done that
it was supposed to happen by now, but it's still all kept secret from
us. Well, you know, Vanity Fair has an article written by a
Cleveland lawyer that The New York Times identifies as the guy that helped the Secret
Service agent process his memories quote unquote processes memories. Well, I don't want
to reveal anything ahead of time, but me and Big Steve had been working
with this book was a certain let's just say they're from somewhere near Alpha Centuri.
We've got quite the story about the UFO JFK connection. But you know,
it's nine to eleven. There's a horror that happened in the United States,
and there's a horror that happened in seventy through three Chili, when the
CIA, on the direction of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, staged the coup
data against the elected government, which led to a dictatorship being established and the
President of Chili committing suicide. So it's a Psalm Biday. But someday I
will fill you into the real story. Really, okay, all right?
Oh yeah, it makes the Satanic portal of the White Husse look like child's
play. That really well, if you can make a satanic portal look like
child's play, it must be quite a story. By the way, is
it Chili or Chile? Chile? It's every once in a while, I
I mean, I like to say chili because I like to eat chili,
but I do want to respect to the country. One of the guys who
are helping process memories that can call him the guy. His name is bill
A bill A, Yeah, b I l e. But it has some
type of weird act shunting gears except the toun next hunting gear. That's a
little injury for the French, the francophone. So a lot of people probably
call him Billy, but it's bill A, right, it's a It's Chile
come home. I'm getting the idea. Maybe we can read, you know,
ten year cycle Dallas and then Santiago Chili. But I guess we'll have
to find something to happen in eighty three. All right, okay, well
fair enough, Hey care, all right, John, appreciate the call.
Bye bye, And I'm going to send you a picture of Christ and Limbo
by Hieronymous Bosh. Please please do. I would love to see it.
Please do. Yeah. I guess that's when Jesus went down there and harrowed
Limbo. Whatever harrowing means. I know Christ did it. I just don't
know what it means. Don't remember Sister Margharita talking about any of that but
okay, I'll take I'll take you at your word. John. Everything I
know about the Bible I saw in a movie. Okay, bye, all
right, by bye, I believe this. All right, Well that was
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we have with us joining us on the couch. Nolan Coda is here.
Am I saying your last name correctly as a Coda? That's it? Yep?
Yes from Eons and Coded and uh and the other band Pointless Culture Culture.
Yes, Yes, but wonderful to have you here. Thank you.
I was saying to you off air that I'd said to Jenny recently. You
know, I've been playing this guy's music for like two years on the show.
We should probably have him one. Yeah, thanks for having me and
uh yeah, I always get I always get a lot of positive feedback on
that song, Reconnection. That's so cool. It's it's it's kind of epic
and Uh. Yeah, it's just great. It's one of those songs you
get stuck in my head, especially that ending, you know, it's a
very very dramatic end with a that's quite heavy. Yeah, yeah, that
was my goal. Anyway, I like it a lot, and you're getting
some love in the chat room. Two. Uh Marissa coda, who I
think you said as your sisters? My sister. Hello, yep, she
says, yay, Nolan, very nice. Riley King says, Hi,
Nolan, Hey really. Oh let's see. I think I saw somebody else
pop in here too. Carol Zawar which joins us in the chat room.
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ozho six zero seven. Oh. Jenny shared the link tree in there for
in the chat room two for ions encoded. Yeah. Tell, well let
me ask you this first off, So where did where did you come up
with the name? What does the name mean? So it used to be
An's apart and uh, it was kind of just like some kind of wordplay.
I was just trying to go for just what sounded cool, and over
time I was like, well, I kind of want to incorporate my name,
so end coda. So I was like, all right, let's kind
of go off that end coded was born. So it was kind of like
a little subtle play there, and I think it sounded a little more not
original, but more to my liking, I guess. But yeah, it
was just kind of like me just messing around with some words and seeing where
they seeing where they landed. Yeah, but it kind of duck and people
seem to like it and behold, ayonns was born. Yeah, and uh
and that it's all you right, you play everything? Wow? Wow?
How do you I mean, it's it's unique. How do you describe it?
To people who haven't heard it, because it's not like anything. I
mean, I can hear influences, but it's especially I think the vocals are
part of what gives it it's uniqueness. Your approach with the vocals is different.
I can't think of anybody who quite doesn't like that. But how do
you describe it to people who haven't heard it yet? It can be kind
of broad. So I have a lot of influence from like Pink Floyd Rush
and then to modern bands like Tool. You know, all the progressive rock
slash metal bands have been kind of my go to for you know, how
I go about writing my stuff. Yeah, so I kind of just not
like draw ideas from them, but kind of like take inspiration from what they
from what they've done, and I just kind of make it my own,
you know, just kind of like putting my own twist on some things.
And a lot of it boils down to experimentation. So you know, if
you're into like progressive rock and you like a lot of synthesizer stuff and like
very spacey, atmospheric type soundscapes and all that, you know this this is
the type of stuff you'd be into, So you know, it's very niche
I feel, but it's fun. It's a fun genre, and you know,
I try to keep it interesting in terms of like making one song kind
of heavier, but maybe one song a little more experimental and you know,
more keyboard heavy. So just you know, not to have an identity crisis,
but like, you know, keep it interesting. Yeah, as much
as I as much as I possibly can. So yeah, So yeah,
I would say like progressive rock mixed with some spacey sounds is probably the best
way to describe it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, so you play everything
you do all the vocals, do you are those real drums? You also
play drums or program I do play drums, but being in an apartment,
that's a little tough. So I programmed them myself. So I use plugins,
which are like software drums. Yeah, and I take, you know,
not like well, they're real samples of drums, but not my own.
Yeah, but they're included in the software. So I take, you
know, what sound I want from each drum, you know, and symbol
and whatnot, and then I mapped them on like a meaty chart. And
you can also play it on a keyboard because it connects by MIDI through that
too. Yeah, but sometimes I'm not always on time, so certain sections
I'll do just keyboard and sink them, and then other times I'll map out
each individual drum, which takes a lot of time, but it can be
it can open up my creative, you know, doors a little bit more
because I can get really fast or really complex and it would sound good still,
but like you know, gotta remember not to make it too like unrealistic,
right, I would say, Yeah, drums is like probably the one
time consuming, one of the time consuming instruments that I have to do with
when it comes to my music, just because of it. It's it's programmed
kind of very incrementally. Aaron Billado, who I don't know if you know,
Aaron, very very talented musician, he says in the chatroom. I
checked it out before the show. Outstanding new fan here. Thank you very
much. Yeah, that's awesome. Do you know Aaron. I don't,
but I'm gonna check him out. Yeah, yeah, he does. It
does very sort of experimental stuff too. That's really cool. Yeah, yeah,
absolutely, thank you. With with the drum, So when you're mapping
out the drums, when you're doing all that, do you do you intentionally
try to put in something that makes it seem that makes it sound like it's
not programmed. Yeah. So the flexibility of I'll just say it, it's
easy drummer two by tune track. Okay, that's what I've been using for
the last few years mapping out drums, and they allow you to kind of
humanize each drum. Yeah, I've heard of this. Yeah. They have
like, you know, certain settings. You can set velocity, which is
kind of like how hard or how soft a drum sounds, So to make
it realistic, that's a very variable like setting that I use, and I
try to use it sparingly enough where it sounds like someone's actually drumming it.
Yeah. So that'll loan is also time consuming because I don't want it to
sound like, you know, super like processed right right, right. But
you know, I'm not gonna lie and say that they're real drums either.
Yeah, but you know, you want it to kind of sound authentic,
and that's what I'm trying to go for, as being as authentic as I
can with what tools they have at my disposal. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, it's amazing what you can do now with the technology. I
had another gentleman who He's got a band called Downhill Rollers, but it's and
it's more just a straightforward rock thing, really really good. But he but
it's all him. He does it all himself, and he programs and drums
and I remember saying to him, like those sound completely real, you know,
like like I would never have guessed. So it's really impressive what you
can do now. They've they've improved their like interface and just overall quality over
the years. They've I mean, I'm not out all that well versed in
like the progression of all that, but like you can tell that there's so
much love put into these programs. Yeah, where like you could pretty much
replace your drummer if you wanted to right and go that route. So it's
really cool seeing how much you can do these days from just you know,
a computer. Oh yeah, and some and some like d I instruments.
Yeah, you know, yeah, what what's your what's your first instrument?
Obviously you play multiple instruments. What did you start out on? Actually I
started on piano, but I uh, you know that that was kind of
like my gateway into music because you know, my grandparents had a really old
cassio keyboard from like the late eighties that I would kind of mess around on
and then that's kind of like what got me into guitar later on, is
you know, and that's like my main instrument now aside from bass. Yeah.
So, like, but keyboard has been the best way for me to
learn everything about music that I know today, or at least have me start
out on music, and it's very versatile and it was a lot of fun
to learn on and then just kind of you know, went from there to
drums, keyboard, like synthesizers, ye boards, and you know, guitar
and all that and kind of expanded from there. I've heard a lot of
music teachers say that that everyone should at least learn some basic keyboard skills and
that will help you and everything. Not advice. I ever thought. I'm
a bass player and I can play a little bit of guitar. I never
I never learned I've never learned anything on keyboard and I probably never will.
But but but I have heard a lot of music teachers say that that's really
the best foundation you could ask for, is if you start out on keyboard,
or if you already play something else, if you go back and just
try to learn you know, just basic stuff scales and whatnot, and it'll
actually really help you exactly, especially the C major scale. That's how it's
pretty much mapped around and you just kind of experiment from there or learned.
You can kind of use that as your foundation and then kind of like learning
other scales from that SAM major scale and like learning all the other stuff from
there. So yeah, it's it's a great starting point. I remember those
old casios. Was it a was it a little one or was it because
I shrunk on me? Because yeah, starting young, right, So like
I swear it was like, you know, like a full sized keyboard.
Then the one day I went over to play it, like I don't know,
maybe four years old or something like that, I swear it shrunk,
yeah, because I don't know, or five years old or something like that.
But yeah, it's it's about like it's a it's a what is it
a forty two key or something like that keyboard. It's it's it's fairly small
keys. Yeah, something you'd probably find on like a MIDI controller, right,
you know or something like that. So like it was comfortable, yes,
you know, even when I was getting older and you know, my
hands were getting a little bit bigger and all that, it was still fun
to play. And I still have one, right, you know, not
the same condition as it was back then, but it's in my apartment right
now, sitting in the corner. So yeah, still there the OG.
I think I have one in a in a storage in it there, because
even though I never really learned to play it, I did have one,
and I think it it's it's but it's a little one if I'm remembering it
correct, and I think it I think it took like I think it took
D batteries. Yep, that's what mine took, really, yes of them
to be exactly. Yeah, yeah, that's a power sucker. Exactly.
Has your process changed over the years with with ions and coded a little bit?
You know, I try to do all the production myself, so it
was kind of like me learning how to do it all my own, which
was very tedious to say the least. But you know, if you listen
to my very first like demo track, Exordium, like that was just kind
of me throwing some tracks together see how things worked. Yeah, and then
kind of like showcasing the sound I was going for in a way. So
I kind of like keeping that synthy stuff and then getting heavier. So you
know, I think overall, like my process has kind of stayed the same
in terms of how I compose, but when it comes to the production of
it, I've gotten a lot more what it's the word critical of it because
you know my ears. You know, when you do like music on your
own, it takes a lot out of you, especially you know in your
ears. Oh yeah, the ear fatigue is I think what they call it,
and uh it's it's a lot. But you know, I try to
keep it streamlined, and the easier it gets easier the more I do it,
because like I kind of find what works and what doesn't work, and
that's the fun of the experimentation that I that I get to, you know,
go through. And uh yeah, I think I've improved just in terms
of production, but like, you know, how I go about writing and
putting it all together is kind of stayed the same. Is is a lot
of because you mentioned there's a lot of experimentation. Do do you have some
songs where you've kind of where you kind of write it all out and then
you go to record it or do you ever or is it mostly just kind
of experimenting as you go. Uh So, yeah, that's a good question.
So a few songs I have like actually written out completely. One of
them actually, the whole EP were reconnections on the Cosmic Archives. That whole
EP was actually tabbed out on a software called guitar PROH and I kind of
put all the structure together on that. I programmed the drums through that,
like but through like sheet music, so it was more tedious, Yeah,
but it helped me like kind of established the basis of what I wanted to
go for and I was able to change it there without having to like worry
about recording anything. And I didn't know about like scratch at the time,
where you can like record stuff like kind of on like a piece of paper
in your computer type of thing. And you know, just that's how I
kind of did all that because like when it comes to recording, you always
picture it kind of being like you gotta do this in one take. It's
not the case for me, like I've been able to like do it all
kind of in sections. You can do it comfortably and I can adjust things
if I need to. But the more experimental songs, like on my first
album, inspect Element, which was Oh my God, it's almost two years
old now, that's just crazy. So Theoretical and Beyond the Mirror are two
of the instrumental songs on that that I kind of just you know, messed
around with to just come up with like a way to brea into the next
songs yeah afterwards, which were also mapped out you know, in software and
written out. Yeah, just trying. It's more of those just like tiny
musical ideas that I kind of like what sounds I'm kind of like what sounds
good and will this work? Will not work? And that's super fun for
me. Yeah, and they turn out really fun, Like it's really really
fun to listen to. Do you ever do you ever have an idea that
you end up you end up throwing away that you you maybe you were excited
about, but then you go to do it, you go to record it,
and you're like, ah, this isn't working. Oh hundreds really yeah,
Yeah, I'm like the guy throwing out those little crumples of paper in
the trash. Been all the time. But you know the cool thing about
technology is that you can erase things and rework them without having to you know,
worry about throwing stuff away for real, right, so if I don't
end up liking an idea, I can just kind of readjust and like fix
it and or add stuff to it, what have you, and then it
kind of I kind of like to make things work, yeah, because you
know, I like to craft my ideas but not have them go to waste.
So there are some ideas in each of my songs that are probably actually
not probably they are borrowed from previous ideas, so hidden aways. Verse Riff
is actually a song that I wrote back in like twenty twelve that I didn't
really have any way to record, so I was like, this, first,
kind of cool, let's put that in. So but there's still a
fair share of like different ideas that just would not work for the songs I
already have out or probably would not fit my sound at all. So but
that's the life of being a composer. I guess you have those ideas that
go to waste, and you have those ideas that stick and you want to
reuse. Jay fad in the chat room and he yes everybody this question.
He says, uh, have you ever considered increasing the length of your beard?
I want to. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to. I'd try
to keep it somewhat neat, but you know it, I don't have the
best luck with my beard sometimes, so really it gets a little scraggly,
so I got a tame it sometimes, which reminds me I got to do
that fairly soon. But yes, I would like to grow it a little
more, say with my hair. That's my next project. Really. Yeah.
Now, so have you ever I'm assuming not, But have you ever
played any of this live in front of people or No? No, I
maybe one day I will, but you know, because it's all solo stuff,
a lot of it, you know, I'd have to like have a
band for hire and and have the time to assemble all that and actually practice
them again. Yeah, but no, I've I've you know, thought about
potentially doing something like that sometime in the future, if you know, it
got to that point. But you know, I think it'd be difficult to
assemble right now because there's so many moving parts and there's you probably need about
six keyboard it's probably I love the layer things. Yeah, but it's on
the table just I don't know, and it's very up in the air.
I mean, the other option would be to you know, just just play
in front of backing tracks and yeah that that's also a possibility too. That's
something I've kind of toyed with here and there. Yeah, it's just a
matter of kind of getting it all together. Yeah, I'm not opposed to
it. Yeah, it'd be fun. But yeah, either way, it
would be a lot of work, no doubt. Yeah. Uh. Frasier
Ramsey in the chat room says hey from Edinburgh, Scotland. Well, hello,
hello, very nice. Well let's do this. Let's let's play another
track I'd like to uh, well, actually I'll let you pick though,
what what what would you uh, what would you like us to play?
Uh? I don't know. If my newest one Fragmented lease back on Saint
Patty's Day? Okay, cool, Yeah, that's a fun This is the
newest one. Very good. All right, let's let's give this a listen
and then well we'll come back and chat some more. If you're just joining
us. We have Nolan Coda here and we're are we are featuring and talking
about his music from Eons and Codd. This is his solo project and check
this out. This is the newest one. This is Fragmented rather around a
kid around the fire. That's the body you burn the thread seign up.
Do you love the things? Sign up at the time, what spirit is
shaking? I feel like the only one to get your less and less of
red wracking the code ask my confidence and starts to feel rac She think like
go we fastor in fastor then they beat up my right man to catch my
rootlgad for somewhere else. We can't ask me as you can't that deep in
the water awaiting the yard of the seear just be a Wednesday away in bed
a scared, we fully strong chiel my mile to well and you just stand
archa me end up the pieces all over and cover again. M Sometimes I
feel like a bullet the bro like chest. Get that that there makes it
harder than work the rest. I get some time trying to feel the sharks
with my reason, I stay speaking and shippens rounding her around again around the
floorest has the body you had a friend? She hid fights on the frankness
of memories like what do su skates like crystallize instantly sho somewhere else can't actually
say and burst into the water. I see just be says scared with the
star chall wells a well and you my check wi the pieces all over and
over again. I love it. That is fragmented from eons and coded,
and we have the man behind eons and coded here on the couch with us
in studio. Nolan Coda is here. That's that's so good. We've got
uh, let's see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry in the chat room says
really good. Uh. Aaron Bilido says, wow, this is a great
song too. Jay Fed says I'm digging this. Jenny says loving this and
uh, Dna Coda a relation there, mother, that's your mother. Yep,
very nice, yep, she says. Love fragmented top track choice for
me and Isaac Banks also said a great song. Yeah, that is really
good. And you know, we were kind of talking off air while I
was playing kind of a little bit of an eighties vibe there with the keyboard
riff, which is really catchy. Yeah, I wanted to like replicate kind
of a d X seven types sound like a Yamaha electric piano, Yeah,
and kind of like put some modern twist on that, add some reverb to
it and call it a day. Yeah. Yeah, give a little different
spin on that. Yeah. Melanie also has a non musical question because she's
watching online. What evil beings does Beard Man have on his shirt? Oh,
it's it's the scream. Uh, yes, yes, I got it.
A hot topic, I think. Oh yeah, I'm getting ready for
spooky season. Yes, oh so is Melanie. Well I think for Melanie
it's already here. So some people just you know, Halloween is their giant
giant. Yes, yes, aready arrived for her? Yeah? Some people
start uh Halloween really early. If you have a question or a feedback or
anything at all for Nolan Coda from Ian's Encoded and from Pointless Culture, he
is in studio with a six zero three two five zero six zero seven is
a studio line six zho three two five zero six zero seven. You can
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five oz six O seven j Fed says the skeleton is twelve feet tall.
Oh boy, that's a that's a lot of skeleton in the front yard.
There I think it's probably making the other one jealous. Yes, you know
if he used to she used to cut the little one everywhere. Now we
don't hear anything about that, right, right, what was his name?
Russell? I don't remember. I don't remember, uh, Nolan not two.
We were talking off here about your other band, Pointless Culture, and
one of the guys in the band is also in radio. You were saying,
yeah, yeah, Harrison Himan is our drummer and he's a very talented
individual. I want to give him a quick shout out. He's an awesome
dude. Helps us a lot with our booking and yeah, uh you know,
getting stuff out there, kind of managing our social media stuff as well.
He does a lot for the band, so I want to give him
a little bit of love. He's on w J y y up and Conquered
right, Yeah, I want to fight five J y y yep yep station.
I know I used to live in Conquered so I know that really well,
yeah, because he been there a long time or yeah, we actually
used to live together up until this last month. Yeah, we're very close,
very close friends. Oh cool. So it's awesome that we get to
do everything. We get to do together, you know, with the band
and all that. So yeah, super fun, excellent, excellent, and
we have a call. Our friend Mike Doyle is on the line. Hi,
Mike, Hey, Matt, Hey, Jenny, and Hey a musical
guest. I just turned you on. I thought you wearing your break because
I heard the music. Oh and then I realized you weren't, and realized
it was an in studio guest, and I just wanted to give him my
my two cents. It was fantastic. Thank you very much your metals in
that song with the just enough singing for those who I'm not really I don't
know if that's is that considered hard rock or rock or yeah yeah, or
like progressive rock yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So so somebody who's not into
like the hard rock scene but likes more of the mellow rock that that was
excellent. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's all
I wanted to say. That's from a square, sixty five year old man
that doesn't make had rock music. Thank you. You're you're hipper than you
know, sir. Yeah, I know, I know. We'll talk you
guys later, all right, Mike, thanks for the call. I appreciate
it by that would be his generation, right hip. Yes, yeah,
there you go, all right, nice see her from our friend Mike Doyle.
That does open up the line for you six zo three two five zero
six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. Now with
Pointless Culture, you guys, are you got your currently recording right? Yeah,
we're we're recording an EP and then an album hopefully fairly soon after that.
So we have like a four track we're working on right now, and
yesterday we just finished up two of those and then we gotta record one more
and then we're pretty much on part of release it probably in the next month
or two. So that's really exciting. It's it's more of like an indie
punk type mix. Okay, so it's a lot different than what I write,
but it's like in my wheelhouse still and it's so much fun. Yeah.
Our lead guy, who's also named Harrison, is a fantastic songwriter.
A lot of the songs are all of his, pretty much all of them
actually, and I want to give him some love too, and Ben and
the band fantastic musicians, very fun to work with. So yeah, we're
we're on part of release that pretty soon. It's gonna be just a little
four track and kind of like going over each of our style and you know,
kind of like what we are as a band, who we are as
a band, so forward that what do you do in that? In that
band? I'm the bass player. Okay, that's what I figured because in
the picture on Facebook, you're yep, you've got a bass Yeah, and
there's two guys named Harrison in the band. There is, yeah, very
rare occurrence. Yeah yeah, I mean Harrison is not a super unusual name,
but it's not super common either, so yeah, that's funny. It's
like in between, right, Yeah, and they both go by Harrison,
like neither of them's Harry or well uh no, actually I just number them
in my phone, so they're kind of an order on how I met them.
So H one is who I named our drummer, Harrison and who I
used to live with, and H two is our frontman and you know,
kind of the lead and savior of the band as I call them. But
it's like a huge family in that band. We got a whole like crew.
It's it's a lot of fun. We just played in Warner at the
Summer Jam this past Saturday, a lot of fun played to play a couple
of new songs that we had, you know, in the works, and
they went super well. So you know, this is this is really fun
to have like as a you know kind of like I guess my main priority
right now, just because like I haven't had like a working original band before,
and while guitar has always been like my main instrument, I have found
so much fun and enjoy playing bass. It's kind of like opened up that
passion right back up again that you know, may have like kind of dwindled
over time because music is kind of like taxing at times. Sure, but
like just playing a new instrument primarily like that is is a huge like just
breath or fresh air. Well, I was gonna say too, it must
be a relief in a way. I mean, obviously you have a lot
of passion for Jan's Encoded, but at the same time, not having to
do everything yourself must be nice. Yes, yeah, huge relief. But
you know, we all get to you know, pull our way, We
get to put on our input that we you know when it comes to like
writing our songs and like how they want to go, you know, our
our direction and you know, it's it's nice to have that brotherhood with each
other. We're like very tight knit, and you know, we we always
come to like some kind of like solution or conclusion to how we want to
go about saying like recording the song or writing this song, or what we
play live, et cetera. So it's a fun time and just couldn't ask
for a better group of people. Now, the the EP that you're recording,
now, will that be the first thing that you've released as a band?
No? Last October. I think October six we released some homebrew recordings
called the Sampler, which was three of our songs that we started, you
know, our shows with the Line's Been Drawn left off in Little House.
So those we recorded actually in our drummer, Harrison's work, and we kind
of just set everything up through a mixer and just kind of like you know,
just just got something out there and it turned out it came out pretty
good. I would say, yeah, you know, for for being kind
of done on our own and fairly quickly. Yeah, but our first recorded
like professional song like through Cedar House Sound and Sutton Jerry Potto, Yeah,
Yeah, he incredible guy to work with, very very fun guy to talk
to as well. We recorded Severed Ties in a studio back in November,
released it in December, and that was like our first, like I guess,
breakthrough song and kind of bringing us out into like the professionalism side of
things. And we're working with him again for this EP and it's just been
an overall fantastic experience. Okay, it gets better and better. Good goody
has the How long has Poiless Culture been around? Because I feel like I've
heard the name even before Jenny mentioned that she had booked you for the show,
I feel like I've heard of the band. So it's the four of
us have been a band with four members since about March, but we were
a three piece with I was with the other two Harrisons for about a year.
Oh okay, and then the other two Harrisons who went by h Squared
or Harrison Squared back then, they were like, you know, jamming out.
They've reconnected with each other, and you know, I was like,
hey, I want I want to play bass, you know, but they
asked me as well, and I was like, yeah, let's do it.
So we just kind of like formed it, you know, one by
one in a way. So as a full three and four piece band,
depending on how you look at it. I guess like we really got our
start a year ago and we kind of ben our second second guitarists back in
February March time frame. I did that. That's a cool name. Two
pointless culture. What's what's the origin of that name? So the both Harrison's
were trying to come up with a name, and I fire correct me if
I'm wrong, Guys, if you're listening, I think they were gonna go
with divorce Culture and then pointless something. But then they like kind of mended
that, mended them together. Some Pointless Culture was born. I kind of
fuzzy details, you know. They were kind of going the same row I
did, and kind of like seeing, you know what sounded pretty good.
You know, we're generators are great when it comes to that, and you
gotta try to find something that's not taken or you know, is is open
to be used with. So I think it kind of started the same way
that my name did. But they kind of blet two words together yea from
other names, and so you know, pointless Culture was born. And I
love the name too. It's fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah, trying to
find something that's not already taken. That can be. That can be one
of the hardest things. I mean, it's a lot easier than it used
to be because now you know, you can google it, you can look
it up. But I remember a time. I've told this story on the
show before, but I had a friend I went to high school with and
I remember running into him a couple of years after high school, and he
was a musician too, and he told me about this new band he was
in, this uh rock band, and I said, what's the name?
And he said Intuition and he said that to me, and immediately I'm thinking,
oh god, there's probably so many bands that have already used that name.
And then, swear to god, I ran into him again a few
months later and the same place, and I said, how's the band And
he said, good, except we had to change our name because we heard
from another band already using that name. And I'm too polite to say anything,
but in my mind, I'm thinking, yeah, of course, of
course you had to change it. Intuition, like the most obvious, you
know what I mean, Like, of course it's probably a million different bands
that have used that name, So yeah, that can be. That can
be a big part of the challenge is just finding something where you're not going
to run into a problem later exactly. Yeah. The more words the better,
and the less common the word the better too. It's it's very competitive
out there, not just with music but with naming your music yea and all
that. But you know, I'm glad we're able to both find something both
you know, the band and myself, something that we could both use and
call our own. Yeah. That's really really fortunate to be able to say
that we can do that. Now. Did you guys play out a lot
with that project. Yeah, we played at the Bang and Answer Stage last
August this past August, and that was our probably our biggest show yet.
Cool, but we haven't played a ton. We've played maybe six or so.
We have one coming up in Acworth on the twenty third, and our
first one was at Tandy's Pub in downtown Conqueror and that was the night before.
It was like a little release party for sever ties because it was coming
out that midnight, you know, of the of the next day. Yeah,
so we were like, let's, you know, let's do a cool
little show there and we got some help from a friend of ours Kurt Felder,
who runs like, you know, kind of like music journal journaling like
YouTube videos and very talented guy. Yeah, really cool guy too, and
he helped us get that gig. Okay, So and then you know,
we had kind of like a little drought in between. We added Ben,
we were kind of learning some new songs. Then it wasn't until maybe this
past you know, summer, where we started to really get some more shows
booked. But it can be tough to get them booked now. Yeah,
I mean, summer is usually probably the busiest time, oh yeah, for
you guys as far as shows, right, I mean, I know a
lot of bands, will you know, kind of use winter to sort of
record and then you know, and then you know, spring, summer,
early fall to play out. But that seems to be the easiest one.
I mean, you know, I don't play anymore, but when I was
in bands, I was always to me, that was always the best way
to do it, because you know, in the winter it's just miserable too.
Yeah. I've played shows before when I was lugging equipment in the winter
up upstairs outside and slipping almost dropping stuff and it's miserable. Yeah, But
yeah, we're kind of going that same route. You know, we're just
kind of taking the maybe the winner, maybe a few shows here and there,
but like kind of taking that time to really focus on recording more stuff.
Yeahcu, we have so many things that we want to add to you
know, the music world out there, so you know, it's it's kind
of like the opportune time to do all that. Yeah, we're really trying
to book for next year. Yeah, excellent spring summer excellent, excellent.
Well, why don't we play another? Why don't we play another eons Encoded
song? I yeah, I definitely want to get one more in before we
run out of time. But I'll let I'll let you choose one again.
What stuck. Let's go back to the first album, inspect Element. Let's
do let's do heading Away, Hiding Away. Yeah, I think I've listened
to that one. That's the one I want to go for a def Ton
style style vocal. Oh okay, well I'm very okay, I don't I
don't think I did listen to this one. Then all right, well I'm
very curious now, all right, cool, so let's give this a listen.
This is this is Hidden Away. The artist is eons Encoded and that
is eons Encoded on the couch. That is Nolan Coda, the man behind
Eons Encoded. Let's check this out. This is called hidden Away old way
pick up, remember pick pick up, pickmember, the tree, the world
before you got those dramatic endings. I love it. That is. Uh.
That one's called hidden Away and that is eons Encoded. And Nolan Coda
from Eons Encoded is here with us. He is on the couch in studio
with Jenny and I and we've been featuring some of that music and we've been
talking a lot, and we are live on w MH ninety five point three
FM. Uh if you want to get in with a call, if you
have any questions or anything for Nolan, do it quickly because we're almost out
of show. But the studio line is open six zero three two five o
six seven six three two five oh six zero seven. And we do have
another family member. I believe Belinda Brooks Coda is in the Facebook live chat.
Hey Graham. Very nice, it's very nice. It's cool that they
that are supportive and that uh, you know, they come out to listen.
I love it. I love it. That is that is outstanding now
what obviously, so you're you're pretty busy, it sounds like with pointless culture,
But do you have more eons and coded music coming as well? Or
I have a I have a couple of songs that I'm kind of slowly chipping
away at. Uh. One of them is an older track I had back
in like twenty fourteen called Vanishing Point, and I don't know when that will
be done, but it's it's got about a minute or so so far.
Just gotta you know, just you know, get at it and when I
can. Yeah, it's so hard. Yeah, with with how much I'm
doing and how many you know, different products I'm a part of it,
you know, it's hard to find that time, uh, to really sit
down and focus on that stuff. But it's it's gonna come. It's gonna
come, and there's yeah, I'm never gonna stop doing aon's it's just I
don't know when you know, I'm gonna be able to pick it up again
comfortably, right and and stay with it and you know, burning out,
burning yourself out's just you know, not the move right right. So,
but it's gonna come. It's gonna come. My Facebook and Instagram are you
know the best way to keep in you know, contact with me or see
what I'm up to for especially eons, because I have just made an account
for that, yeah, not long ago, just to keep it separate from
my own my own stuff. But all those updates will be on there,
uh you know, when I get to it. But I got a couple
of things. Yeah, I'm working on. And for people looking for eons
encoded online too, we should just clarify for anyone who doesn't know eons is
spelled a e O N S. People might be looking for it without the
A and unable to find it. But I wanted to go with the European
spelling it look cooler. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever
seen it spelled the other way. Can't use Is it sometimes spelled without the
A? Yeah, I discover that e O NS is kind of the more
western US way of spelling, like with the added A is kind of European.
It just looked cooler to me. Oh yeah, yeah, no,
it is cool. I think it's pronounced the same you can say as it's
all it all means the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, see, I
have seen it spelled without the A, but I just assumed who people who
are spelling it without the a, we're spelling it wrong. But but but
maybe that is maybe that is acceptable. English is weird. Yeah yeah,
or sometimes things are wrong, but over time they become accepted because exactly spelled
wrong or spoken wrong so often. Yeah, I just thought it looked pretty
cool. Yeah, yeah, no, it does. It definitely does.
It definitely does. Well. I'm really glad you joined us today, and
we'll we'll actually close out the show with one more track in a moment.
But this has been wonderful, and thank you very much. Absolutely, like
well, you know, like I said, we've been playing your music for
long enough, might as well have you on. Yeah, very very humble
and you know, happy to be here. Yeah, no, thanks again,
absolutely thank you for coming in and and I look forward to to getting
pointless culture, to getting you guys in here as well. Oh my god,
yeah that would be We're we're super excited. That'll be. That'll be
cool. Jenny, did you want to before we go, you want to
plug your website or anything, or you can find me at Jencoffee dot com
j E N N C O F f EI dot com and you'll see writings
and paintings and sometimes I post updates on there as well with a fight for
healthcare. Yes, yes, absolutely, all right, and if you miss
any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit
at w m H radio dot org and in my website Matt Connerton dot com.
And uh, let's if you want to pick one more Nolan, we'll
we'll play one more to play us out. Let's stumbious. That's the one
that somehow has the most plays and it's oh anything crazy, It's just kind
of a fun little jam. Oh interesting, which which one is that on?
Is that on Coff? That's on inspect Element. It's kind of like
my closer. Yeah, it's a fun little tune. Okay, yeah,
we'll go with that a A right, very cool. All right. So
this is uh, this is Mobius from the releases Inspect Element, from Ian's
and Coded Nolan. Thank you again, my friend, thank you very much
for having me. Absolutely and here it is. This is Mobius.