Welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is that time again Matt Connton
Unleashed and we are live from these studios of w m n H ninety five
point three FM, Inglorious 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 of your live streaming options, social media links, contact
info, show archives, etc. Etc. We have a great show for
you today coming up in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna be joined
via Skype all the way from the UK by our friend Ray Coates UH skyping
in about his project Oversoul Raised, but on the show two or three times
before. But he's gonna be joining us this week. He's got some new
music and it is UH International Mental Health Awareness Week. I think I have
the order of those correct. It's a long, long week for you know,
long name for a week U, but very important, very important.
And you know, mental health is something that so many of us struggle with,
sou and that's something that Ray is a bit of an activist for you
could say, and uses his music as a form of activism, and so
always always enjoy speaking with him, and I really love his music. So
he's gonna be uh, he's gonna be skyping in at four fifteen, and
actually in a couple of minutes we're gonna play one of the new tracks he
sent me from his project Oversoul called Not Over Saul Oversoul Phonics Matt called fish
Tank, and then we will hear the other single Flowers Die at the end
of our conversation. So we're really looking forward to speaking with Ray and then
coming up in the second hour. Today numerow Doos, as we do every
Friday, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject is
the nineteen seventy eight release Superman starring Christopher Reeves. So so we got some
good stuff for you today. Also, of course, Friday is my long
day here at WMNH, and I do love it. So Friday is my
favorite day of the week because of course I do this show. I'm here
with you until six pm. And then of course we have granted State of
Mind hosted by the Great Rob as a Veto and Polly Stone, and then
I'm back tonight for eight to eleven PM Retro Spectrum Radio with Polyc the honor
and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, So we
look forward to that. So that will be this evening. So our fridays
here are a lot of fun at WMNH. Let's see just a couple other
things for you to know about DJ Reckless. Of course we'll be I believe,
at the six oz three Bar and Grill tonight and tomorrow there's a big
event at the Hopknot right across the street, our amazing sponsor. Let's see
what they've got cooking tomorrow here. I want to it's a long post,
so I want to make sure I now, by the way, I will
preempt this by saying, Governor to Santasa, Florida, if you happen to
be in the state campaigning right now, and you happen to be listening to
this show, please plug your ears for a moment so this doesn't trigger you.
But this is what Kenny from the Hopknot posted. Y'all love our drag
shows, and y'all love our trivia, so we're you're gonna love drag trivia.
Next weekend. Oh, I'm sorry, this is next weekend. I
thought this was this weekend. Well, I'll go ahead and promote it anyway.
We'll start promoting it now. I don't know why. For some reason
I thought it was tomorrow, But we will be having a drag trivia fundraiser
next Saturday to help raise funds for an organization called New Leaders Council, New
Hampshire. Join hostesses Cheat Chee, Marvel and Glam Chouda from the House of
Marvel Entertainment Home for an afternoon of fund We will have prizes, raffles and
a few drag performers for you all to enjoy. The fundraiser benefits New Leaders
NH, a place based training organization focused on equipping local change makers with the
resources to be more impactful within their community. So that will be next Saturday,
the twenty seventh, from one to three pm at the Hopknot in the
Brady Sullivan at one thousand Elm Street. So that's actually next weekend. Again,
I know it's not for everybody, So if you're someone who you know,
if you grew up in the eighties and you saw the television sitcom Bosom
Buddies and you know, you saw the way Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari were
dressed on the show, and it freaked you out, and you still suffer
some leftover childhood trauma from that. Then you know, I understand events like
this or not for you, But you younguns won't have any idea what I'm
talking about. But that's okay. But you young uns are less likely to
be freaked out by something like this. Anyway, I think it's a very
positive thing. And by the way, looking at the graphic here, glam
Chowdah I believe is played by mister Kenny himself from the Hop Knots, So
there you go. He talked about that on the show. Actually the last
time he was on. He talked about what goes into his you know,
getting into character and so forth. So so that will be next Saturday at
the Opnot. But you know what is happening tomorrow at the Opknot. This
is definitely happening tomorrow at the Hop Knot this weekend, and I think that's
why I had it conflated in my mind. This weekend at top Not tomorrow
night, Jasmine Man will be performing live. They do live music now on
Saturdays. He used to be Friday now at Saturday nights from seven to nine
pm. And Jasmine Man, who has performed at the Hop Knot on many
occasions, she will be there tomorrow night. Very good, very good.
I do want to say hello everybody quickly on the Facebook live chat and then
we're gonna get to one of these tracks from Oversoul sent to us by the
great Ray Coats. He's going to be joining us from the UK via Skype
in just a couple of minutes. But I see Melanie Liberty in the Facebook
live chat from the Great State of Vermont. She says Happy Friday, Matt,
Happy Friday to you, mel Also, Jenny, of course is in
the chairman says shalom peeps. Jay Fed joins us, says good afternoon everyone.
Dave Wally is in the chat room, and Dave has some great new
music that he sent me and I think you're going to be hearing it on
the show very soon, very soon. Um. Also Crystal from the Great
State of Illinois in the chat room as well. Okay, here's what we're
gonna do. I'm gonna share this with you. This is uh brand new
track from Oh. Melanie says, I thought corporal Clinger from mash looked fabulous.
Yeah. I I never thought Clinger could quite pull it off, but
uh, but I supported him in his endeavors. Um, all right,
we're going to uh uh again, you know, with apologies to our governor.
To Santisis, if he's listening, I'm sure this is all very upsetting
to him to hear hear this us being so flippant about it and everything.
Anyway, Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not really but whatever, all right,
we move on. So, uh this is brand new from Ray Coats
and his project Oversoul. Give this a listen, and then when we come
back, Ray we'll be on Skype with us. This is called fish Tank.
Check this out, unique sound what what Ray does with Oversoul. It's
it's different, it's uh, it's a little a little trippy as uh.
I think the people say that trippy. All right, here we go.
Check this out, fish Tank Oversoul. I cannot see what they say.
I cannot see what they see. One side of the glass, whos on
the memories swimming in? I cannot begin to see what they see. Another
love sing in a dream, another live the bridge, change the scene,
looking out, Yeah, I look in them. One side of the glass
holes are my sanity diving in? My girls within? Can I see what
they see? Another world? Not seem in a dream? Another Locke.
Move the bridge, change the scene looking out and look at them my cout
Why can't I see? Listen? Another bloating in the dremn to the bridge.
Change the scene looking out now looking in one side of the glass.
Change chart one soul of the glass. Change the one soul of the glass.
There it is that is fish tank that is over soul? Ray Coates,
Are you there, sir? I am indeed now heyllo, hey,
welcome back, and uh listen. I want to say right up front,
um, the music that we received from you recently, I really feel and
I'm not This isn't something I'm saying to be nice or you know, this
is sincerely, You've taken it to another level in terms of um from when
from when Jenny and I first met you. I really like the direction that
you've gone a lot. I mean, that's just a cool song. There's
there's almost nothing more to say about it. I mean, I do want
to hear more about it, but it's just a really you can you can
say more of the same as your lie it's just no, it's it's it's
it's just so, it's just so cool. It's a it's just really cool
to listen to that. I listened to it and with headphones on for the
first time, and I was like, man, And by the way,
I would just advise anybody listen to it with headphones. Um, you know
it's called to you know, it's one thing to listen to it with your
computer speakers or whatever, or in your car. Listen to it with headphones
because you want to be able to signically absorb everything, consume everything that's going
on. No, really great stuff. Ray for real. That's impressive.
I think what you're saying that, I think you're so right. That's um.
You know, any music is far far better listen to when you fully
immerse yourself in it. And it's that's not meant to be a pun with
regard to fish Tank, but you know, you're you're diving in. You're
diving in. And I think all music, any music, whatever the John
More is, Um, it's an opportunity to enter into different realms of consciousness,
really, isn't it. That's as a writer, that's what I hope
to achieve for others, you know, for others to listen, to be
able to lose themselves, find themselves, and do any number of other things
at the same time. Yes, yeah, I like what you said about,
you know, being immersed in the music. I think that's why we
as humans, we like to hear music, music that we really like or
love, we like to hear it loud, you know. Now, obviously
there's a downside. There's a little bit of irony to this, and I
just kind of stumbled into it when I mentioned listening to it with headphones.
But I was talking on the show just recently, I think it was,
it might have been a few weeks ago. I was talking about how,
over time I actually got out of the habit of aside from when I'm doing
this show or whether I'm producing another show that I do from home, I
got myself out of the habit of listening with headphones only because and you probably
can guess where I'm going with this, only because you know what we know
about hearing damage. I have tonitis. Jenny does too. I'm fortunate in
that mine has. I feel like mine has not progressed really over the past
fifteen years or so. I think it was about probably fifteen years, maybe
a little less that I really noticed it, but I have a little bit
of a you know, a buzz and so now I'm I'm very protective of
my hearing and I don't have generally ray and I think this is probably true
of most people. I don't have the self discipline to not turn the volume
way up when I'm listening to something with headphones that I really love. Yeah,
yeah, it's it's a different experience, is not, I know,
funny enough. Mark Walker, the sound engineer that I work with, listens
to the tracks as we're mixing them, as we're working on them at different
levels of sound, and deliberately, yeah, deliberately, so at times he'll
turn it down because then you can hear things differently. So it kind of
works both ways in what you're saying as well, that I think the headphones
creates that it doesn't have to be loud. It's just that it's avoidance of
distraction. And you know, I'm not saying every song that I write is
you know, has to be kind of deep in meaning. Some of them
are very you know, joyful and just fun writing a lot of songs at
the moment that are just just fun. But I think it's the way I
write, particularly lyrically, is to evoke. Though I'm not a great fan
of the word provoke, because I think that tends to bring up connotations of
negativity. But I like to evoke emotion, and it's it's a little bit
like, isn't it what's coming to me now? In conversation with you?
And I love talking to your genuinely do because it makes me think. Is
when somebody says, can I have a word in your ear? Right?
It's quite a common phrase. I don't I don't know whether that's a particularly
British thing or it's true, isn't it? I suspect, So I don't
think i've heard that in America specifically, that you know, can I you
know, we say can I have a word with you? But a word
in your ear? I don't think. I don't think i've heard anyone here
say, by the way, I think we ray, I'm sorry, I
think we have a call. Somebody might have a question for you. He
was on the line, Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who is
this Matt? This is the racist calling? Oh? Hi, yeah,
how are you doing? This? Is not a recording. I just want
to set the record straight. The reason that the F bomb was thrown in
one of the recordings was because Billy, who is it's really not your friend,
because Billy admitted to my friend who does do the recordings, that it
was him, because obviously he thinks he has a relationship with my friend who
sends the recordings. It was Billy who admitted to my friend that he did
it on purpose to have me in badko hoots with you. Not that you
need any help from the outside world, but you know, for Billy to
do something like that, he's really not your friend man, to purposely sent
a recording with the F bomb in it, you know? Right now?
Do you do you have any questions or anything for our guest, Ray Coats?
Well, I like the way he talks. I respect Britain. I
wish that Britain would have won the war instead of America because maybe we would
have had a more civilized society the British rule. Oh well, that's very
nice. What do you what do you think, Ray, Ray, do
you ever find yourself wistful? For you know, you wish that, uh,
that Britain had won the war? I tell you what, my view
is very very simple. Humanity wins over everything in its truest form. Yes,
there are, you know, tragically, all of the time, there
are wars going on, whether it's you know, on a large scale,
or whether it's between people in friendships relationships. And I think the truth of
it really is, whilst we have differences, whilst we have diversity, essentially
we've got the same experience in life, and without being negative, we're heading
towards the same end result all of us. So therefore, I think my
only message on that is history can be very very interesting. We can learn
a lot from it. I'm not particularly a great fan of geographical boundaries.
And what I mean by that is the imposition of so called rulers and in
the UK ourselves. I mean, my goodness to me, it's well documented.
And believe you me, if the UK appears to be being politically led
well at the moment, then the media are doing their job ever so well,
because it isn't. It's an absolute farce. And you know that's it
really, The divide between the elite, those that have ridiculous and ordinate amounts
of money and the corruption that comes with that is nothing to do with everyday
people. That's where I come to and a lot of my creativity. I'm
working on a community project at the moment which is bringing people into an anthem
and some will have different views, and I don't you know, I wouldn't
ban people from singing the national anthem in this country of the UK, but
it doesn't have any meaning for the people. It'd be a little weird,
you know. I often say, you know, the phrase, God's as
it is now, God save our gracious King. You know. My simple
message on that is, you know, well, what about God's got other
plans, and one of those plans is not necessarily to save this one single
human beings. So that might be controversial, but that's you know, there
are people in places of power who bear no relation to those that they are
supposed to be serving. Yeah, that's all. So I know that was
a little bit of a sideways answer to our friend's question, but I think
come together. John Lennon, John Lennon, great respect for John Lennon.
That was a simple message he had. You know, it's about the people.
The people have the power, the people are the power. So that's
my message. I'm not really you know, interested in globalism or particular political
powers or even countries to that matter. I think, you know, focus
on what we share in common rather than the differences, and mindful immediately become
a lot better. Right right, Does that answer your question? Joe?
Absolutely, the mainest, brilliant and a matter of fact, it reminds me
of John Lennon every time I even thought I think John Lennon. Oh well,
that's very nice, that's very nice. Thank you. Well all right,
Joel, all right, thank you, Matt, have a good weekend.
Okay, you're welcome. All right, bye bye bye. That was
Hey, Ray, you just talked to a real New Yorker right there.
Oh well, I guess and I love and I left every second of it.
Well, it was it's it's it's uh yeah, it was a surprise,
Um, a surprise call anyway. Um no, but uh so let
me ask you about you mentioned. Of course, this is a national or
i'm sorry international rather. I want to make sure I get this right because
it's it's a long name, um International Week of Mental Health Awareness twenty twenty
three, um, which we I'm embarrassed to say, we haven't really talked
about on the show this week. And uh, and I wish we had
gotten to it more, but we can talk about it with you a little
bit now, because you know, mental health is something that's so important.
So many people around the globe have mental health issues. Depression in particular is
extraordinarily uh common, something I as, you know, something I struggle with.
Um, this time of year, it's a little easier when there's more
sunshine, a little easier than say the winter months. But um, but
how does that how does that correlate with what you're doing with your your music,
ray and why is it? Why is it so important to you to
make music that it sort of commemorates and promotes this week and mental health awareness?
Well, I think it is. It's an opportunity because it exists,
so like with you know, the fact it's an international week. Therefore people
will be aware of that because that gets a lot of promotion, a lot
of advertising. And I think for me, awareness is the step towards action,
you know. So it's all well and good talking about becoming aware of
things. There seems to be a lot of talk about awareness and being aware,
but really the truth of it is action. But of course awareness leads
to action. So I took a decision I can't remember how long ago.
Several months ago, I was aware this week was coming up to release one
song on the Monday, which was a song fish Tank, which you play
thank you so much for that? Yes, So that was released under over
soo on the Architects of Passion. And today Friday is the conclusion of I'm
getting it mixed up myself International Mental Health Awareness Week, and I've released a
second song under a different name, which is the Architects, and that's called
Flowers Die in Michael liders Scope Mind. And in reference to the conversation with
Joe, it's very very John Lennon inspired Flowers Die in Michael Lidoscope Mind.
So I looked at almost like yes, you could say, a mental health
awareness sandwich and bringing attention to my own experience. So fish Stank was written
as it came to me one day and I thought, you know, we
look at fish tanks. We look at fish and we think, oh,
they're beautiful, aren't that. It's lovely that those fish swimming around in that
environment with the bridges and everything that's in there. But what's it actually like
for the fish looking out? What's their perception like? And I think when
we look at each other. Of course we see at times even and this
is not lying, this is not being deceitful. We're all projecting all the
time, but internally what we're experienced is essentially what's going on inside the fish
tank. So that was it, really, and then I started I'm very
drawn to programs that touch on subjects of you know, losing a sense of
reality because reality is challenged all the time, you know, my sense of
reality. I find at times I can't, like I've already said, I
can't believe what's going on in the country of the UK. It feels very
surreal, as people might say, and I just think, you know phrases,
depression is a real thing. I've experienced it myself, my battle at
times with maybe not depression now, but mood swings at times and staying grounded.
So for me, I wanted to share song that had written previously that
touch on subjects like paranoia, touch on subjects like the negative by us of
our minds. You know, when we compliment each other sometimes it's a challenge.
It's a challenge for people to accept compliments. Yes, because we live
in a societal condition world that it's constant negativity and people want to tear people
down, and you just think, you know, we're all we're all warriors
and we're victors because every day we're endeavoring to show up in our own lives
and do whatever it is we're doing in spite of everything that's going on around
And then just a final thought I want to share is and again this has
come to me personally, so having experienced depression. There's a lot of talk
about depression. There's not a lot of talk about oppression, suppression, repression.
So really we have to look carefully and seriously about what belongs to us,
what do we own, what do we have responsibility for, and what
is the responsibility and accountability of others? And I include within that structures in
organized society because there's a heck of a lot of frustration that's pumped into the
world, you know, the news, political parties, as I've just touched
on. So I'm looking through music to create self empowerment for others, messages
of self sovereignty, realizing even when you feel weak, kind of going a
little bit scriptural now, but even when you're weak, that's when you're you're
most powerful. So the key is try and go through those waves as much
as you can, and remember the feelings at times as well. That's something
I've experience. So when I'm swinging, swimming against the tide, so to
speak, remember that I've done that before. I've experienced that before, right,
and I got through that feeling to the other side of that. M
Ray, we have a call Shannon. Shannon is on the line. Hi
Shannon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon, afternoon, Ray, Hi Shannon.
How are you. I'm doing okay, how are you sling? Yes,
I'm fine, Thank you. I believe I talked to you once before.
Yes, Yes, I remember, Shannon, Yes, I remember talking to
you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I was going to say, both
your guys' minds at ease. It's Mental Health Awareness month month, is it?
Oh? Thank you? So longer than a week? All right?
Thank you good it's one of those whole monthings. Okay, excellent. Oh,
I appreciate that. Thank you. Have you Have you got anything you
wanted to talk about? Shannon? That's so um have you have you have
you heard the song? I know that's a bit of a loaded question.
If you haven't, don't worry, I'll put I'll put the links in.
No, I did hear it the fish tank. Yes, yeah, isn't
that great? Yeah? I heard it. I couldn't understand other words,
but oh you don't have to. It's to me that song is more about
the vibe. You just trippy dippy. I call it hippy dippy. You
just kind of get lost in it. Yeah, yeah, you just kind
of get lost in it. Absolutely energetic. Fits with the lyrics. I
was just gonna say, I suffer from PTSD terribly, and yeah, depression
as well, and yeah, I just you know, and and how do
you manage that as much as you can? What do I do? Um?
Yes to thought about a cat or dog's garden, or I can just
hear a word in a book and it'll trigger something. Um. Yeah,
right, I try to either put it out of my mind or um acknowledge
it for a minute then let it go. Do you do you write at
all? Shalmon? I, what do you write? So? Do you
you? You know? Do you do? Um? Have you ever written
poetry or anything like that? You create? Write? Yes? Yeah,
I write poetry. Oh that's a good thing today, isn't it. Yes?
And and other little things that don't really um, I don't know what
they'd be called I do high coups too. That's a form of poetry,
right, hi coup. Yeah, but I don't know, like what a
sonnet is, I don't you know, and those type of things. I'm
the same. I think it's just be being creative. It doesn't have to
have an official attachment if you if you get me, it doesn't have to
be colder thing or you know, in the artistic world, there are people
who are a little bit purist. Um, you know, so you have
to do things in a particular way. And for me as a as a
writer, I'm a musician in the in the sense that I can play instruments,
but I can't read music or the same. So yeah, so I
tend to find it's just it's being in flow and creativity for all of us
in different ways. Um, it's such a wonderful thing. Is a wonderful
outlet, wonderful outlets. It's lovely to hear that you're right channel. Yeah,
maybe not enough, but you know, I just but it's a way,
it's a way of creating. And and I and I always say,
and ray you you I may have said this the last time you and I
talked on the show. I always say that if you can take negative things,
you know, whether it be a depression or dealing with PTSD or just
a problem that you're going through, whatever it is, anything negative that is
affecting you, if you can take that and create something positive with that,
then you're you're taking this negative thing and doing something positive with it. So
you're you're making use of it in a sense. So that here, here's
a suggestion. UM, I was just reading a Stephen king Um one of
his um novellas or whatever they're called, with the short stories in them.
Yeah, and he always starts the story with wouldn't it be funny? If
so, maybe that could be a thing, you know, when when you're
starting to get down and the thing is getting down about, well, wouldn't
wouldn't it be funny? If I like that? I like that, Shannon,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm always looking for in perth um
for ideas of inspiration. So I think you've you've provided that for me.
Just there. Thank you, very nice, very nice. I'm great good.
I have one thing I say real quick, hopefully I won't screw it
up. I don't remember. A long time ago, Um, I would
take a ride on a steel horse fly alone, could ride a real horse
through a field of flowers and wild grasses. Well, the birds thrilled their
night song in a distant wood as the sun kisses mountainside a peach good night,
and the clouds hang their tapestry in the sky. Wow, Shannon,
you've been holding out on us. That's that's right to go. Oh,
that's that's that's really nice. I didn't know. I didn't know you could
ride like that. Yeah, that's I had that one in my head for
many years. I mainly wrote it down. Oh wow, I'll be damned.
Yeah. Oh wow. Well it's amazing, Shannon. Yeah, I
like it. Thank you. It kind of you know, if you listen
to it and your picture, you know, you can almost see you can
see the forest, and you hear the birds, and you know it evokes
it evokes all that imagery. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Oh, very
thank you for sharing that, Shannon. Yeah, thank you, Shannon.
Very nice. All right, you guys, sir, be good and I
have a nice weekend. And Matt said, how did DJ Stephen policy?
I will I will all right, Shannon, all right, thank you for
the call. See you, Shannon, bye bye, Thank you. All
right By bye. All right, very nice, nice here from Shannon.
That does open up a line for Oh, actually we have another call.
Ray. You're bringing in a lot of calls today. This is wonderful,
Hill, wonderful. All right, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this?
Hi mad? It's scary? Hey Gary? How you? And?
Um? Yeah? I was. I felt like I was at my therapist.
Yeah, is that a good thing? I loved. I love that
song. I had my small I had my usually listened to my big radio,
but I have my little small radio and I had to have the headphones.
The musician in me, I had to listen to the song. Yeah,
thank you for a little song kind of fit. You close your eyes
and you can feel that, well, I feel music. I'm weird like
that, but I can feel the music in me, being in the musician.
And uh, it was really good. It was really good. Yeah.
That's what I do. I write. I write my poetry. It's
been been three years since I tried to try to take my life, so
but things are great. Issue has been really good, good good. And
I wrote a grateful poem. Um a while ago, I had to write
some stuff I have I do um um, oh, I write my journal.
I have a journal that I write good days and bad days I have
to do, and I've already filled up one volume of it, but also
with little poems. And I wrote this little one if I could read it,
if I may, Yeah, please, okay, um, It's it's
just something I threw together one day I was sitting outside. So it's called
the Grateful Poem for life. It has taken me some time to come out
of the darkness and see the light, to have happiness come back in my
life. I choose not to be like a mushroom, but to be a
tall pine that can breathe the fresh air and see the warm sunshine. Wow.
Well, I want to respond to to you, Gary and Matt.
I've got something very strong coming to me. I'm working on a community anthem
project in my own local area at the current time, and I've even got
a symbol of that, which is a cap, so hence the acronym community
Anthem Project. And I've had a vision for a long time of people coming
together to create. So I'm not asking anybody to say yes at the moment,
but through the conduit of Matt, because I know myself and Matt I've
spoken in the past about joining together in creativity, and we can hold hands
across the pond, across the water, and we do have a connection,
if nothing else in language. Even though there are some differences in everyday language,
we share the language that we are understand And I want to say this
here and now, and I hadn't prepared for this. We've had two pieces
of poetry read, and I'm not taking over. I'm not taking control,
but I'd like to introduce the Conceptual Thought or a USA version of the Community
Anthem Project. So essentially, the idea is as many people as possible bringing
together words that create a song that is of the people, by the people,
for the people. So it's not a song that's written for us that
represents us. It does represent us because we've written it. So that's just
just something I just want to put in there, because your your words are
amazing, Gary and Shannon's poetry, and I'm sure there's many others as well.
So I'm not I couldn't believe it. I felt good. It felt
like I was riding a bike mourrisingle, you know, because had the iron
horse right wonderful and that got me. I'm not putting Matt on the spot
and saying, you know, Matt has to say yes now, but I
think it would be very very interesting to write a um a USA community anthem
um. And I'm happy to work with Matt and you know if that's something
that might be a possibility. No, I love it. I love it.
Yeah, absolutely, it's a great idea. Yeah, absolutely, all
right, wonderful. Well, yeah, Gary, thank you so much for
the call, my friend, and for sharing that poem. And all right,
we're very glad. We're very good. I'll unblock the phone. I
know I talked to No, it's all good, it's all good. But
uh no, we appreciate the call. Thank you so much. Gary,
I just wanted to express that. No, no, we're glad, we're
glad you didn't. Thank you. Lovely to hear you go. Yeah,
and I'll be listening listening to the rest of the show, and you know,
like I love you guys, and I love you and then Jenny,
but I said, I had to say that, you know, because I
heard it so well. Helps. Yeah, all right, thank you very
much for allowing me to read it, and you guys have a great day,
all right, Thanks Garry, Bye bye. All right, very nice
here from Gary. That doesn't open up the studio line six three two five
six seven six zo three two five six seven. We're talking with Ray Coates.
He is skyping in from the UK and uh we played uh oh,
actually we already have another call. Wow, you're you're really bringing him in
today, Ray, This is this is excellent. Our friend, Our friend
Ron is on the line. High Ron, Hi, guys, I really
wanted to listen because I'm very very much enjoying the topic. It's it's so
forth. But the reason I'm calling is earlier today, I was listening to
a country song that I've never and I don't know the artist, but it's
it's kind of amazing what words could be put into a song. And this
particular person that was singing he was losing his daughter, she was getting married,
and he said in the words of the song, he talked about how
I loved her first, I held her first, and things like that,
and I was like, wow, that's really cool. The powerful aren't my
room? You know, I can't repeat it and make it as powerful as
the actual words, but when I heard it, I only had to hear
her once to open my eyes and say wow. I mean, I hear
the guy's story. You know, that's his little baby getting take it off
to get married. I think I think I know the song. I think
it's called I Loved Her First. I forget the artist, but I think
I know the song that was it, because what else could it be?
That was it? I think? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Country artists
tend to go for the obvious song title. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've
heard the song. Oh, very good, Maybe it's you said later on,
I'll try to YouTube it, you know, try to catch it again,
because I guess I just really stuck with me just I said, wow,
you know those are how could you? How could a writer put together
such powerful words that are easy to understand? So that was my thing,
you know, Yeah, yeah, no, very good. It's one last
final thing and then and then I will go. Um, I bought you
a magazine that yesterday I was over in Hanaffits and it was fifty years of
kiss from the beginning to who they were before they were kissed, in their
names and all that. Yes, it was pretty cool. I started reading
it today and I was going to drop it off today, but I didn't
want to just do a drop in because I didn't know what your situation was
over there. Yeah, but I think you'll like it. And you know,
after you read it, if you get done with it, you don't
pass it on the Quali. Sure well, I appreciate that. Ron.
Thank you. All right, all right, Ron, thank you for the
call. Appreciate it. I have a good weekend. Bye bye. By
the way, Ray If if you're curious, Kiss happens to be my favorite
band. That's why. That's why Ron was wonderful excited to talk about that.
Um Hey, speaking of which, I know we've talked about it before,
but can you tell us a little bit about you know, you mentioned
John Lennon earlier. Can you tell us a little bit about influences. I'm
particularly curious to hear you talk about that again because, like I said,
I feel like the music that you're making with the I mean, it really
comes across me. With the two new tracks here and at the end of
our conversation we'll play the other song, Flowers Die. But I feel like
you've you've evolved a lot, and I'm curious can you kind of remind us
or tell us, you know, for the first time for newer listeners,
UM about some of your musical influences and maybe a little bit about your process
of writing. It sounded like a Ron in particular was interested in you know,
how does a songwriter uh come up with lyrics? And obviously you know
these lyrics. Are you talked about what FishTank is about? For example?
But yeah, can you tell us a little bit about influences and a little
bit about your process? Well, it's messages for me, so listen.
You know, it's listening to individuals who share things every day, you know,
within conversation, within reading, within even you know, watching something in
the television, or just being out and about with your own thoughts constantly.
I know Lennon that he essentially looked for messages and absolutely everything. I think
towards the conclusion tragic assassination end of his life, he would I would suggest
that the word that's coming to me had a calling, a calling of not
just being a writer, not just being a composer, not just being you
know, one of the beatles. I think labels are easy to give,
but I'm just I'm just drawn because of the simplicity of the message he was
sharing. You know, I've watched videos of him multiple times and when he
says, you know, I'm not saying we've got all of the answers.
All we're saying is give piece of chance. Yeah, So I think music
for me, you can you can have music that is pink and fluffy and
poppy, and you know, popcorn music essentially. That's okay. I'm not
I'm not against pop genre. Sure, at times I use it as a
vehicle for messages because you know, if you've got a really really killer hook,
you know, a very very catchy chorus and earworm as it's referred to
often, you know you've got something then that plants itself in people's consciousness.
That ultimate then can contribute towards an adjustment of thought. So whenever I write,
I'm not saying everything as kind of like deep dark, meaning there's a
very light material that I've written. I'm not against at times using expletives in
certain songs when it calls for it, but I won't necessarily do that in
every song. So I think the answer to the question really is that inspiration
exists everywhere, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a conduit to open
myself to receive and then to transmit, and above all, else. It's
with the point of view of bringing it down to the common denominator of all
of us, our humanity. How can we make life better together? I
do shout out at times against propaganda within the world, against governments, against
corruption within religion, human trafficking, child traffic. Not an easy subject,
but something that I've written about because these things need to be talked about.
And for me it's that, you know, I use the means of music
as a vehicle for conveying a wide variety of messages, and John Lennon has
to be one of the biggest influences. I don't think I've shared this with
you before, but I had a very profound dream in I think probably early
twenties, in my early twenties, and it was more than a dream,
and I imagined myself writing Imagine with John Lennon, really and I closed the
door on the thought. I genuinely did because of the belief system I had
at the time. I saw that as being a threat of an invasion of
some negative force, if you like, a demon type thing. I now
look at the reality of it that it doesn't surprise me that so many people
key into the song Imagine, you know, it doesn't matter what music genre
you have. You know, if you like heavy heavy rock, everyone has
a respect with a song because the message is so beautifully simple and it's something
that I don't think there are many people would disagree with the sentiments that John
Lennon wrote. So that's where I come from with writing. I'm looking for
messages of unity above anything else. Bowie Bowie, I've been influenced by him,
so the multiple genres and the multiple identities. So currently I'm releasing music
under the name Ray Coats, I'm releasing music under the name Oversold In the
Architects of Passion, I'm releasing music under the name Minstrel and Bart. I'm
working with a guitarist from Scotland, and I'm releasing music now under the name
The architect As You're going to play in a moment, And the reason for
that is it's like a lot of different aspects and elements of my view and
not just mine, but the view of others on life. And we live
in a very trapped world at times that tries to make us think we just
have to be one thing, when the truth is we're so many different things.
So therefore I'm drawn to Bowie, because Bowie could put on these alter
egos and be different people and have different energies. And I think that's actually
true of all of us, you know, because we're not just one thing,
you know, we have a number of different elements to all of us.
So I'm interested in people, I'm interested in others, and I'm interested
in absorbing as much energy from as many different places as I can to then
transmit that into a collective, connective, one consciousness sound. And I don't
think in my lifetime I'll ever achieved that. The feeling of It's like writing
a love song, isn't it. You know, nobody's ever written a perfect
love song. That's why people still keep writing. So for me, it's
the pursuit. It's the desire to connect with others and abroader view of creativity
that we can share together. Well, it's a great man one sang.
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. What's wrong with
that? I'd like to know. By the way, a nice compliment here,
Dave Wally, who's a very talented musician in his own right. I
said in the chat room, listening to this makes me feel like I need
to dig deeper than my pop Americana bs. Wow, we have a we
have a we have a call to Ray. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton
unleashed. Who's this hello? Oh it's the phantom. Okay, never mind,
there was somebody there, but it might have been might have pocket dialed
us. Um, Ray, we are we are approaching the top of the
hour. It goes so fast. You've been a very gener us with your
time as as always, and we appreciate it. I love talking to you,
love talking to you. I love what you're doing. Great stuff.
Um, before we begin to wrap up with you, And like I said,
once we conclude our conversation, we'll play the the other new song that
you sent. Um. But uh, please let everyone know who's listening,
where they can go to find you online, keep up with everything that you're
doing, projects, music, all of it. What should people know?
And uh and you know, and of course remind us to how you spell
your last name because I've seen Coats spelled a number of different ways over the
years. So we want to make sure people can find you. Well.
I'll definitely drop some links in the comments. Oh please yeah, great?
So R A Y C A T E S. So there's an E in
it, so c A T. Yes, that's probably the best place to
find me. So even on my personal page. In social media, I
share music. I've got a couple of websites. I think one of them
is might changed from but if you look for Raycoat's voice, so Raycoat's voice,
and there's a story buying that share and I've shared in the past oversold
truth music dot Com is one of the websites I'm using. But I'm across
social media everywhere very approachable. I'm looking to connect with people. I'm not
just looking to put music out and be some remote figure. I want to
be, you know, as much as I can with everybody. Thank you,
Jen, thank you for that. And yeah, that's it. Thank
you. I really appreciate your time, Matt, Thank you, Jen,
and thank you to everybody who's listened and called in as well. It's been
amazing as always, wonderful. Ray Thank you so much, my friend.
We're going to play this this Sign of Flowers. Dad, by the way,
just quickly, is there anything you wanted us to know specifically about this
track? It came to me in I think it's more sort of about negative
bias, you know, why, why is it? Why is it?
I imagine at times that every flower dies simply, you know, and it's
it's not actually a negative song. It's very positive. My mind moves now,
all our minds move. They don't stay in one place. They're like
a kaleidoscope. So they're they're moving all the time. These two songs are
out now, so you can find fish Tank over so on. The architects
of Passion and Flowers Die and Michaelidoscope mind the architects, they're everywhere. And
yeah, I'm so grateful for your time, for everybody's time, and the
years, but here the years that here, I'm very grateful for outstanding.
All right, Ray, we'll let you go so we can play the track.
Ray Coats, thank you again so much, my friend. It's wonderful
to speak with you. And let's do this again soon. Absolutely cheers.
Thank you so much, Matt, thank you. Bye. All right,
very nice. I always wonder to speak with Ray Coats. And let's play.
Here's what I'm actually gonna do. I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and
then for listeners just joining us as we begin to cross over into the second
hour, I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and then I'm gonna play fish Tank
again. So if you didn't hear it at the top of the show or
near the top of the show, you'll hear it now, just because I
want to hear it again. So we're gonna play Flowers Die, and we're
gonna play the other single that Ray sent us, that's brand new fish Tank
and uh. And then well we'll take our top of the hour break a
little late, but you know, I have that flexibility, so that's fine.
We'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're gonna go
from that right into this week's classic film review. This week Eric Pilcher our
friend from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He reviews the nineteen seventy eight release starring
Christopher Reeve, Superman and a film from my childhood that I enjoyed quite a
bit. So so that is all coming up. So here it is.
We're gonna play the new track that Ray was talking about, and then we'll
play fish Tank as well. I mean they're both new and uh. And
so there's plenty more to come in the as we cross into the second hour,
new Merrow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed. Here it is this is flowers
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Chell be reasonable. Once there was a civilization much like ours, but with
a greater intelligence, greater powers, and a greater capacity for good The one
tragic moment that world was destroyed, but there was one survivor could not be
all get up because the wisdom and compassion of jo l Because he knew the
human race had the capacity for goodness. He set us his only son.
His name is. He will call himself Clark Kent, but the world will
knew him. This year supermand brings you the gift of flight. The movie
superheroes have been a popular culture phenomenon since the early thirties, from radio shows,
weekly serials at local movie houses to today, whereupon release the latest film
from the Marvel Cinematic universe dominates the box office. Comic books have translated from
page to celluloid very well, but there was a time when this was not
the case. That was until the original Superhero made his big screen debut,
and it showed that comic book films can be blockbusters. It also made us
believe a man could fly. Directed by Richard Donner and released in nineteen seventy
eight, Superman the Movie stars Christopher Reeve in his career defining role as Clark
Kent slash Superman, who, shortly after arriving in Metropolis, is set to
battle the villainous Lex Luthor screen legend Gene Hackman, who is set to cause
nuclear armageddon for financial gain. Rounding out the ensemble cast is the late Margot
Kidder, who plays, in my opinion, the quintessential Lois Lane, Ned
Beatty, and a powerful cameo by screen icon Marlon Brando who plays Superman's father,
jorl. What is a great superhero movie without a love interest and a
villain? This film delivers both, and our next two clips are examples of
this. First, shortly after meeting, Lois and Clark encounter a mugger on
the streets of Metropolis. The role reversal is quite striking. Here Clark,
who shouldn't be timid, is and Lois, who should be timid, stands
up to the criminal and ends up chasing him away. And then is the
first scene where we encounter Lex Luthor. What is great about Lex Luthor in
this film and Hackman's performance is he encapsulates everything we associate with evil and villainy
into this role. He is loud, boisterous, ego, maniacal, callous,
and even has bumbling sidekicks and not he's a really nice guy. Jimmy
alfis Man, Hey, come come on, come on, come on,
come on, Clark. I think we better get out of here. I
think we better do what he says. Come on, come on getting here
quick. Don't don't do anything. We're coming, We're helping. Come on,
these are more to be sorry, sorry, okay, okay, hold
today, just a minute, vistor, just a minute. No. I
realized, of course that times are tough for some of these days. But
this isn't the answer. You can't solve the society's problems with a gun?
You know somebody? You're right, I'm gonna turn over a new leam.
Good for you, sir. That's the spirit. So he doesn't really want
to hurt anybody. Huh, right after ripple up this lady's burds, of
course, Now come on, lady, hand it over. I don't know,
I just think maybe better. What are you doing? Car? So
are you all right? Cark? I guess it must have shaanded? I'm
sorry? Well, oh really lost? Supposing that man has shot you?
Is it worth risking your life? Were ten dollars to credit cards? I
hardressional lipstick? How did you know that? Go? What? You just
described the exact contents to my first yeh um? Wild guess docs And now
introducing lex Luthor sick. Thank you're really sick? Sickness? That's my sick.
What I'm your days of Mexican in the crime tree? No no,
no, no, no, step away from that place. How do you
choose to congratulate the greatest criminal mind of our time? Huh? You tell
me that I'm brilliant? Oh no, no, no, that would be
too obvious. I grant you charismatic, fiendishly gifted try twisted, Oh get
away? Tell me something right? Why does so many people have to die
for the crime of the century. Why you ask? Why why does the
phone always ring when you're in the bathroom? Why it's the most brilliantly diabolical
leader of our time surrounding himself a total income. I wicked, mister Luthor.
Yes, I was just talking about you. We're followed again. It's
those cat like reflexes, mister Luthor. Mister Luthor, I'm sorry, Oh,
this is that the newspaper I ask you to give me? Yeah,
why am I not reading it? Because I hadn't given it to you yet?
Right last, it's official. Thanks for the generous help of the United
States government. We were about to be involved in the greatest real estate swindle
of all time. Let's what is this obsession with real estate? A lane
land land mists Baker. When I was six years old, my father said
to me get out before that. He said, some it's not to may
rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn
good, but they will always need land, and they'll pay through the nose
to get it. Where this film excels, is it Brandon's the Superman Comics
to life in a way the Batman film from nineteen sixty eight did, but
it does not do it in the or the top camp be way that the
Adam West led film did. It has a quote unquote dad joke esque one
liners and quips that we expect out of the Man of Steel. Our next
clip is an example of this. We will hear Superman with his witty comebacks,
capture criminals, and much like the early comics, at the end,
we will hear from the dumbfounded police at what they have seen from the Man
of Steel. Either nothing wrong with the elevator going down? Nah, officer
good evening, officer mooney. Well, they say, confession is good for
the soul. I'd listen to this man. Take them away, let the
rass come on, Come on, okay, let's go. Let's go ross
here with us. You show you be cool. You got bad vibrations,
Studge, you don't believe me. I swear plan with a big red tape
and bright red boots as well, because the week he was gone, whoop
in the here again he gives like a big blue bird, Like a big
blue bird, don't believe with bright red boots. Tell you want us to
take the night over back in a few minutes, and I'll meet you there,
my son. At the beginning of this review, I alluded to Marlon
Brando and his performance. Although his appearance is short, it would be near
criminal to not include him. His performance as Jorrell, even the short time
he is on screen is simply mesmerizing. Our final two clips are examples of
this. First, we hear Jorrell tell his son goodbye and send him hurling
through space towards Earth as the doomed planet Crypton is destroyed. Then he speaks
to his son on his eighteenth birthday after Clark uncovers the heralded Fortress of Solitude
and sets Clark on the path that will become his life's mission. You will
caple Fow, my little glow. We will never leave you, even in
the face of our death. The richness of our lives sill be yours.
All that I have, all that I've blearned, everything I feel old isn't
more. I I bequeath you, my son. He will carry me inside
you all the day to old life. You will make my strength your own,
seen my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through
mine. The son comes to father, and the father the son. This
is all I all I can send you. Comel, and now the fortress
of solitude. By my son, you do not remember me. I am
Joel. I'm your father. By now you will have reached your eighteenth year,
as it is measured on Earth. By that reckoning, I will have
been dead for many thousands of your years. The knowledge that I have matters
physical history. I've given you fully on your voice, You'll move home.
These are important heads, to be sure, but still manners of mere fact.
There are questions to be asked, and it is time for you to
do so. Hearing us this fortress of solitude, we shall try to find
the answers together. So my son, speak Omar. My name is Cole.
You are the only survivor of the planet Crypton. Even though you've been
raised as a human being, you are not one of them. You have
great powers, only some of which you have as yet discover. Come with
me now, my son, as we break through the bottles of your earth
confinement, traveling from time and space, the sixth mons of your parts will
far exceed those of Multumn. It is forbidden for you to interfere with human
history, rather let your leadership stir others. Two. In this next year,
we shall examine the human heart. It is more fragile than the last
year. As we passed through the flaming term moral, which is the edge
of your own galaxy. We will enter the realm of the red cryptom Sun,
source of your strength and nourishment and cause of our eventual destruction, the
planet Crypto asan your heart as it was. This year, we shall examine
the various concepts of immortality and their basis and actual fact. The total accumulation
of all knowledge spanning the twenty eight non galaxies. Such is embedded in the
crystals which I have sent along with you. Study them well, my son.
Month we have reasoned that pological judgments every time we return gunfines of your
galaxy, twelve of your years will have passed. For this reason, among
others, I have chosen Beth for you. It is now time for you
to rejoin your new world and the service collective emity. Live as one of
them, color to discover why your strengthen your power leader, always holding your
heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people collel
they wish to be. They only left the light to show their way.
For this reason, about all their capacity for good, I have sent the
mute I only. This film laid the blueprint for comic book films as we
know them. Start with a powerful origin story, have a compelling villain,
add intense and explosive action with the possible love story. It seems simple enough.
However, until this film, superheroes were mainly relegated to the small screen.
This film showed that superhero movies could not just make money, but make
it by the boatloads. It grows three hundred point five million dollars worldwide,
spawned three sequels, and without a doubt, laid the groundwork for television series
that followed, such as Smallville in Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman.
Even the performances in this film are seen in the modern day characters of
Clark Kent, Lois Lane in Lex Luthor. It caused a renewed interest in
the comic books, and to this day remains one of the truest and greatest
comic book adaptations to hit the big screen. It is a visual tree for
anyone to see. I hope you joined me next week when in honor of
Memorial Day, we will look at the heart wrenching Steven Spielberg film saving Private
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It's Matt Connerton unleashed as we cruise into our final segment today here on
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is Friday, May nineteen, two thousand twenty three. I want to remind
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So there you go. Six zho three two five six seven is a studio
line. If you would like to join us today six three two five six
Z seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven
four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton and looks like
our friend Ron is on the line. Hello Ron. Yeah, just one
more flash and final thing. Now, I haven't seen really Superman since nineteen
seventy eight and haven't listened to that, and haven't listened to vilin Brando.
Not only if he played a pot probably better than most people could. I
kind of hand it to the writers. How a month with such perfect um
know, a story, story plot. So that's all I wanted to say
on that. I was like, wow, that that really brought back memories.
What my other point was, Um, I don't know what the rest
of your day should be, or even the next couple of days, but
I wonder if you could touch upon the FBI whistleblowers. They've lost their job
because I've been following up on it a little bit on YouTube, and um,
you know, and it's horrific actually what's going on. But after all
this said and done, I really don't know what they did. So I'm
about weaponizing. And I know they got fired because you know, they thought
they were just short of disgracing the country or you know, or treason.
But I really don't know what they did. But the FBI, um no,
they scripped them of their credentials but took away their lives. Um,
these are people that served our country, and you know, they were outstanding
people and we really the FBI really squished them all like a cigarette. So
if you could, I'll lining up to get the answer off the year.
But I'd like to know if I could just what they did home. All
right, Ron, all right, very good, Well, thank you for
the call, appreciate it. Thank you all right, bye bye. Um.
So, actually, well, to answer Ron's question, I have a
bit of a non answer at the moment. We're not going to get into
that right now. We'll get into it next week. I need to look
at that a little more closely, and you know, there's a lot there.
I want to make sure I'm getting it right. And that, of
course is one of those stories, as is anything with the FBI these days.
It's it's so politicized, and both the left and the right kind of
put their own spins on it. Of course, so I want to Um,
that's not something Ron, with apologies, that's not something I want to
get into today, partly because I think it's it's probably going to take longer
than the time that we have left today on the program, but also I
want to take a closer look at it, so I will make you this
promise. However, I did not make a note of it and well into
a deeper on the show on Monday. So or if not, well,
I shouldn't even make that promise. We'll dive deeper into the show. We'll
dive deeper into the subject sometime on the show this week. We've got a
lot of great guests coming up and so forth, So I shouldn't just say,
oh, we'll do it Monday and then look at Monday's schedule and it's
like, oh, actually we got a lot going on Monday. But sometime
next week we will look into it further. Run because it is important,
so so very good, and I do appreciate the call. And that opens
up the phone line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zoo
seven six zo three two five zero six z seven. I do want to
say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. Oh. Joe Friday in
the chat room says, uh, my house was searched by the FBI.
True story. Why would the FBI search the home of someone named Joe Friday?
I mean that that's a great U name. You know, you know
you don't anyway? Oh, And Joe Friday also says Heidi run. I
think its supposed to be Howdy run on or Hello run? When is the
party? I didn't know Ron was throwing a party. Well, we will
say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat quickly though. Melanie of course is
in there, along with Jenny, Jay Fed, Crystal, our friend from
Illinois, Dave Wally. There was some conversation in the chat while we were
talking to our friend Ray Coates from the UK, and thank you again,
Ray for joining us today. Really appreciate that. Let's see. Jay Fed
made a comment, you should do Shannon's poetry Friday. Yeah, Shannon called
the show shared some poetry that she'd written. I thought it was really beautiful.
She did that while we were talking with Ray Coates via Skype. Melanie
says in the chat room, I wrote a poem about a guy from Nantucket.
You know, I think I've actually heard that poem, Melanie, or
at least a variation of it. I'm not sure it's something that you know,
we could ever share with anyone on the air, but necessarily, let's
see. Melanie said, I love when Gary calls. Uh. Let's see.
Let's make sure we don't miss anybody in here. Miriam banish I saw
in the Facebook live chat, Hello, Miriam, Dave Wally really enjoying Ray
Coates's music. Very nice, very nice, and Jenny did drop some links
in there as well as Ray, so listeners on Facebook you can keep up
with everything he's doing. Ray says, immense gratitude tour to Matt Connerton and
Jen Coffee and all of your wonderful listeners. Thank you. Ray appreciate that
very much, and we appreciate you joining us today. Also, Crystal very
complimentary of Eric Pilcher's classic film review this week of Superman. Yes, Eric
does a great job with those, and I feel that he's gotten better and
better at them over time. I feel like the segment has really evolved.
Very popular segment on the program. Let's see. Oh. Dave Wally also
commented, Deray nice, you capture the essence of Bowie really well. Awesome.
Oh, that's a tremendous compliment. Very good, very good. All
right, we'll get into um. Oh, I have something kind of funny.
Well, I don't know if it's funny. I don't know if you'll
think it's I don't know if you'll all think it's funny. I thought it
was kind of amusing, but so I got this. I'm on the email
list for you know, our friend Dave Ridley who calls into the show from
time to time. He's a big proponent of the nh exit movement, which
is the secessionist movement. It's not just for say it's like Texas and Alaska.
For those of you who don't know, we have our own secessionist movement
here in New Hampshire, people who advocate for New Hampshire to secede from the
United States and become our own country. For the record, I do not
support that. I'm perfectly happy to talk with Dave Ridley about it, and
I'm I'm an open minded guy, but I do not support New Hampshire secession.
However, one of the things that I have said to Dave when he
when he calls into the show, I do say to Dave Ridley, you
know, uh, you could win me over on this. What if we
were to have, say, we secede from the United States and we become
our own country, would we have a nuclear weapon? Maybe just one,
just one nuke? Because I think that if we are going to do that,
we gotta do it right, we gotta go all the way with it,
and we need to make sure that we're in a position where we can
protect ourselves so the country that we seceded from the United States, uh,
doesn't decide to invade us and try to annex us back into the United States
like you know, like uh, you know, uh, Russian apologists put
an apologists will say that, well, you know, Ukraine used to be
a part of Russia. They just annexed it back. Uh. You know
what if the United States try to do that to us? So we need
to protect ourselves. And Dave Ridley seemed a little bit I don't want to
say ambivalent. Actually, he seemed entirely opposed to the idea, and I
tried to convince him. I said, look, Dave, let's have a
nuke. I'll tell you what, Just let me be in charge of it.
Dude, you can trust me. I promise you can trust me.
Ah. He seemed unconvinced. But I do think that if we are going
to be our own country, we should have some sort of military, should
we not. Well, so this email went out and I am on the
mailing list. I don't remember how I signed up on it or or how
I ended up on it. I should say, but I must have signed
up for it at some point. Perhaps I was experiencing a fugue of some
sort and decided to sign up for the mailing list for NHXIT. So I
received this email, and for a moment I was actually excited that perhaps I
had gotten through, Perhaps I had gotten my idea across for us to have
our own military. It says, actually, if we succeeded, couldn't we
just didn't occur to me until just now. Couldn't we just make the New
Hampshire National Guard, the New Hampshire Nation National Card or something. I don't
know anyway, whatever, it doesn't matter, it's never gonna happen. But
I thought perhaps when I saw this email, I was like, maybe someone's
been listening. The subject of the email is New Hampshire Secessionists to launch Air
Force Memorial Day weekend. I saw this and I said, there it is.
We're gonna have our own air force. Once we have our own air
force, you know, it's a done deal. We're going to seceed.
We're gonna have our own military. Maybe it will be great. Well,
I thought I had somehow, even though I don't even believe in the idea.
I thought I had somehow had an influence on this whole thing. I
was excited. I'm not gonna lie, you know. I got a little
bit of a big about over it. For a moment there, I was
like, oh boy, I'm pretty influential. Then I read the email and
immediately all of my hopes were dashed. It says here NHXIT, the group
that put New Hampshire independence legislation in front of the full State House last year,
will be taking to the skies the weekend of May twenty seven, but
instead of carrying a weapon suite, their one plane air wing will be towing
a pro independence banner around the state. That's it. And actually I seem
to remember Dave Ridley mentioning this on one of his calls. He called into
the show and mentioned there was going to be a plane flying around with a
banner. That'll bring him in. By the way, people are gonna see
that plane, They're gonna see that banner and they're gonna go, oh wow.
I'm thinking about this a whole new way. I'm sorry. I don't
mean to mock. I do genuinely like Dave Ridley, and I enjoy speaking
with him and I'm sure there's other people in the nhs AT movement who I
might find remotely tolerable. But uh, you know, I thought I saw,
you know, an air force. I thought, oh, maybe they'll
maybe they'll have maybe they'll be nuclear capable. You know, even if we
don't secede from the Union. I mean, we should be able to protect
ourselves. You know, you never know, Vermont, they might uh what
if? And again, I know we have listeners in the chat room from
Vermont, but with respect, you know, I don't know that. What
if you find yourselves running out of maple syrup or something, you know,
you might start looking at New Hampshire and say, hmm, I think I
think they have something we need and I think it's about time we go there
and take it, take it by force, and we must be able to
repel you. So I think the idea of having a nuclear capable New Hampshire
Air Force would be fantastic. And again, yes, put me in charge
of it. Yeah you can trust me. Listen, I'm very rational,
I'm very reasonable. I would not nuke anybody who didn't really deserve it,
and that is a fact. That is my promise and commitment to you.
You can trust me with a nuclear weapon. Somebody would have to make me
really mad, I mean really mad. I would have to be to actually
launch a nuclear attack. I would have to be and again, forgive,
forgive me if this is you know, harsh language. If you're listening with
your children, cover their ears, but you know it's a Friday afternoon,
we get a little loose. I'll just I'll just say it. I would
have to be significantly peeved before I would resort to launching a nuclear attack.
Okay, so it's not like, oh, oh, Matt says we can
trust him, but he I think he's got an itchy trigger finger. No
no, no, no no. I would be very very cautious and careful.
But apparently that's not what this email is about. It's about a It's
about a banner. Who I hope it's a big banner. You know,
a lot of times you see a plane. We've all experienced this, right,
You see a plane flying around, right, and you you're looking at
it and you realize it's got a banner on the back of it, attached
to it, and you're kind of like squinting, going, what does that
say? I can barely read it? It's so far away. Of course,
it's far away. It's up in the sky, like what what what?
What does that say? Like half the time you can't you know,
And I mean I can almost never read them, and I have great vision
I had Lasik, and I can't even read these banners being flown around.
I don't know what they say. And half the time you see that,
you don't even care what it says, really, because it's like, okay,
I'm looking at it. I can't read it from here. It's too
far away. But it's probably an advertisement for some business I don't care about
anyway, So whatever, and you end up not even put in any thought.
You end up bear even bothering to squint. But I'm sure, I'm
sure this will win people over. I should not be I should not be
snarky about it, even though I think my snark is part of what brings
people into the show. But let's see. But I am concerned that my
snark is at about a ten, and we might need it at an eight,
you know, because we want to as we move towards the end of
the show, we want to end positively. It says here, getting back
to this email, there's not much to it. In part this is a
reaction to federal ray Oh god, guys, I cannot. I cannot bring
down the snark. We're gonna have to keep the snark at a ten for
this, I'm sorry. In part this is a reaction to federal raids on
New Hampshire's bitcoin businesses. Besides running torture chambers abroad, Washington is the reason
we can't have nice things here. Okay, the torture chambers abroad. Actually,
all right, you know what, I will turn down the snark.
There is a process. There is something known as extraordinary rendition, which is
where we take American enemy combatants, I think, is how we designate them
and we send them to foreign places where they can be tortured and we just
kind of pretend, well, you know, we don't know what's going on
there. Really well we're the ones who sent them there. But now whatever,
and so the torture chambers thing that does happen, and that is a
legitimate concern. All right, I'm bringing the snark down to about a seven
and a half. There's a link and or you can contact Ian Freeman via
Shire Society dot com or free talk laugh dot com. So there you go.
And I like Ian by the way, just for the record, no
problem with Ian. Oh, I'll be damned. Dave Wally is on the
phone, Hey, Dave, Hey, I couldn't let the weekend without clearing
the air on Chip, without clearing the air on what Kiss? Oh?
Oh Kiss? Yes, thank you, but I'm I'm glad. Let's let's
clear the air on Kiss. It's been uh, it's been. It's been
decades now. And you were very dismissive, okay of my my taste in
music all those years ago at Conquered High School. I know, I know,
but let me tell you, Yes, years go by and we grow
right. Yes. And I saw Kiss Live and Oh nine when they were
reviving the Destroyer tour. Oh no kidding, Yeah, And uh I would
I wouldn't say, you know, they're definitely not at the top of my
list. Still. Yeah, but respect what they did, and I believe
firmly. Had I not grown up in the house I grew up in where
I was not allowed to own a Kiss record without the child, yeah,
they might have influenced me more. I can definitely see it. And I
definitely respect what they did for the industry. Wow, I really just couldn't
let it go without, you know, issuing a decades old apology for giving
you a hard time about your your love of a truly great American band.
Well, I appreciate that, Dave. And then no apology was needed.
I mean, hey, listen, man, I mean, I I believe
me. I've taken a lot of criticism from many people over over my life
for my love of Kiss and it's it's it's it's never never a problem.
And it didn't bother me in high school either. I was I was half
kidding, but but but it did stick with me. So maybe maybe something
ously it bothered me a little bit because I never did forget it. You
never let it go. Apparently, apparently it was still floating around in the
back of my mind. Uh no, I I appreciate it, Uh,
Dave, Again, no apology was necessary. But that's cool. It's cool
that you went and saw them live. That's awesome. Yeah, No,
it was, I mean it was apparently that tour was I think it was
thirty five years Oh. Apparently that tour was kind of the set, the
costumes, everything was aligned with that original Destroyer tour that pretty much launched him
because it wasn't that what Alive came out of? Well? There was?
Well no, so it was Alive. It was the Alive thirty five tour.
So Destroyer was that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, Destroyer was
the Destroyer was the studio album that came out after Alive. Um, okay,
but yeah it was the Alive thirty five tour. Yeah, yeah,
that was a good tour. And here's here's a really fun fact about Dave
Wally. Years years later, I was between bands here in Chicago, and
I auditioned for and got but didn't stick it out. I was going to
be Jane in a Kiss tribute band, no kidding, yep, Oh that's
wild. But I had too much swing? What do you mean? Um?
You know, I came in with a Fender p bass and you know
I can play the songs. But yeah, the guy, the the ace
in the band was just a stickler for everything, and he was like,
you're just swinging too much and there must be something with my playing where I
hang slightly behind the beat as a bass player, off and out of just
habit. Yeah, and we might be able to blame Kurt Extram for that,
but uh no, but you know, so there were some struggles,
and I started thinking, Man, do I want to invest the few thousand
dollars it's going to take me to get a u Oh gosh, I think
the it was a Gibson Ripper base that he was playing because they wanted to
do that version of kids would have had to be a Gibson Ripper, which
is an expensive thing to find these days. Yeah, and then the costumes
and the boots and the wigs. I was like, I don't know about
it, it's a commite eventually dropped it, but yeah, so so I
have much more respect for that band. Oh that's awesome years and years later.
So I didn't want you to think that I uh, you know,
I sat here in scott the heat. Still No, I appreciate it.
You know. What's what's interesting, Dave two, is over the course of
the decades, um, there's there's just been kind of a general like at
some point, I mean a lot of critics will never like them, but
but there seemed to be and I noticed it started really during the grunge era,
and it was sort of gradual and incremental, but a lot of people
who did scoff at them sort of maybe grew to have almost a grudging respect
for them in some ways, and they became sort of more just generally respected
within the industry, I think, than they had been previously. It's it's
interesting, you know. And then eventually they got into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and all that. But yeah, I think if you hear
more musicians who are at that time during the grunge are young talk about their
influences, almost every single one of them is talking about sitting down and you
know, trying to learn Risks off of Kiss record. Yeah, Dave Grohl
talks about Kiss all the time. Oh yeah, so you get that,
you get I think the people that despised Kiss despised heavy metal when grunge was
taking off. I think that lightened up over time because you had more people
talking about you know, especially now where there's so much information out there and
so many interviews and people just saying, yeah, these were the this is
what got me got a guitar in my hands for the first place, you
know, in the first place, right right, Um, yeah, exactly,
Uh, Dave, we are we are almost out of time, my
friend. So but I am very glad you called. I appreciate it and
thank you for sending me that music, and uh we will be uh,
we'll be in touch. I'm gonna have uh, I'm gonna have Jenny reach
out to you. She does all the all the booking. I'd love to
schedule a you know, we'll do a phone interview or whatever we can do
and uh, we'll do the whole thing if you want, cool man,
Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, yeah, we'll make it happen.
Um. So I'm really glad you reached out to me. And I'm really
this was a great conversation. I appreciate it, my friend. Thank you
so much. You're welcome and thank you. And I really am enjoying the
show now that I've found it. I'm probably gonna been listening every every day
to wrap up my day. Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. All right,
the great Dave Wally have a good one, all right, Dave,
thank you you too, man, take care bye bye, all right,
awesome. Yes, that was Dave Wally. Dave and I went to high
school together. And um, I mean i've seen Dave since high school because
he was in a I mentioned this the other day when he showed up in
the chat room. He was in a band called October Suns, and I
had booked them for at least one event back when I was working at Strawberries,
and I had seen actually i'd seen that band too at other venues.
So I've seen Dave since high school, but but not for a long time
actually since the October Suns days. And obviously he's living in Chicago now.
But that's that's very very cool. Oh the time though, time goes so
much faster than we realize. Time just flies by. But wonderful here from
him. He's a very talented musician and he did send me some music.
He's you know, he's always got something going so uh and we will will
make something happen with that. So but we are out of time. Thank
you everybody for joining me today. Thank you again to Ray Coates for a
wonderful conversation and we got to feature his new music. And thank you,
of course as always Eric Pilcher for the classic film review. Don't forget grand
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