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Welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is that time again Matt Connton

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Unleashed and we are live from these
studios of w m n H ninety five

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point three FM, Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety

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seven if you're in Manchester, and
hello to all of our online listeners across

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the nation and around the globe.
You can go to my website Matt Connerton

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dot com for all of your live
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info, show archives, etc.
Etc. We have a great show for

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you today coming up in just a
couple of minutes. We're gonna be joined

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via Skype all the way from the
UK by our friend Ray Coates UH skyping

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in about his project Oversoul Raised,
but on the show two or three times

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before. But he's gonna be joining
us this week. He's got some new

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music and it is UH International Mental
Health Awareness Week. I think I have

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the order of those correct. It's
a long, long week for you know,

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long name for a week U,
but very important, very important.

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And you know, mental health is
something that so many of us struggle with,

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sou and that's something that Ray is
a bit of an activist for you

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could say, and uses his music
as a form of activism, and so

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always always enjoy speaking with him,
and I really love his music. So

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he's gonna be uh, he's gonna
be skyping in at four fifteen, and

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actually in a couple of minutes we're
gonna play one of the new tracks he

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sent me from his project Oversoul called
Not Over Saul Oversoul Phonics Matt called fish

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Tank, and then we will hear
the other single Flowers Die at the end

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of our conversation. So we're really
looking forward to speaking with Ray and then

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coming up in the second hour.
Today numerow Doos, as we do every

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Friday, we have Eric Pilcher's classic
film review and this week the subject is

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the nineteen seventy eight release Superman starring
Christopher Reeves. So so we got some

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good stuff for you today. Also, of course, Friday is my long

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day here at WMNH, and I
do love it. So Friday is my

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favorite day of the week because of
course I do this show. I'm here

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with you until six pm. And
then of course we have granted State of

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Mind hosted by the Great Rob as
a Veto and Polly Stone, and then

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I'm back tonight for eight to eleven
PM Retro Spectrum Radio with Polyc the honor

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and privilege of being one of Paul's
co hosts on that show, So we

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look forward to that. So that
will be this evening. So our fridays

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here are a lot of fun at
WMNH. Let's see just a couple other

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things for you to know about DJ
Reckless. Of course we'll be I believe,

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at the six oz three Bar and
Grill tonight and tomorrow there's a big

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event at the Hopknot right across the
street, our amazing sponsor. Let's see

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what they've got cooking tomorrow here.
I want to it's a long post,

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so I want to make sure I
now, by the way, I will

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preempt this by saying, Governor to
Santasa, Florida, if you happen to

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be in the state campaigning right now, and you happen to be listening to

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this show, please plug your ears
for a moment so this doesn't trigger you.

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But this is what Kenny from the
Hopknot posted. Y'all love our drag

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shows, and y'all love our trivia, so we're you're gonna love drag trivia.

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Next weekend. Oh, I'm sorry, this is next weekend. I

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thought this was this weekend. Well, I'll go ahead and promote it anyway.

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We'll start promoting it now. I
don't know why. For some reason

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I thought it was tomorrow, But
we will be having a drag trivia fundraiser

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next Saturday to help raise funds for
an organization called New Leaders Council, New

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Hampshire. Join hostesses Cheat Chee,
Marvel and Glam Chouda from the House of

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Marvel Entertainment Home for an afternoon of
fund We will have prizes, raffles and

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a few drag performers for you all
to enjoy. The fundraiser benefits New Leaders

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NH, a place based training organization
focused on equipping local change makers with the

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resources to be more impactful within their
community. So that will be next Saturday,

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the twenty seventh, from one to
three pm at the Hopknot in the

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Brady Sullivan at one thousand Elm Street. So that's actually next weekend. Again,

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I know it's not for everybody,
So if you're someone who you know,

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if you grew up in the eighties
and you saw the television sitcom Bosom

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Buddies and you know, you saw
the way Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari were

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dressed on the show, and it
freaked you out, and you still suffer

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some leftover childhood trauma from that.
Then you know, I understand events like

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this or not for you, But
you younguns won't have any idea what I'm

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talking about. But that's okay.
But you young uns are less likely to

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be freaked out by something like this. Anyway, I think it's a very

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positive thing. And by the way, looking at the graphic here, glam

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Chowdah I believe is played by mister
Kenny himself from the Hop Knots, So

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there you go. He talked about
that on the show. Actually the last

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time he was on. He talked
about what goes into his you know,

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getting into character and so forth.
So so that will be next Saturday at

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the Opnot. But you know what
is happening tomorrow at the Opknot. This

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is definitely happening tomorrow at the Hop
Knot this weekend, and I think that's

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why I had it conflated in my
mind. This weekend at top Not tomorrow

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night, Jasmine Man will be performing
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Saturdays. He used to be Friday
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pm. And Jasmine Man, who
has performed at the Hop Knot on many

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occasions, she will be there tomorrow
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I do want to say hello everybody
quickly on the Facebook live chat and then

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we're gonna get to one of these
tracks from Oversoul sent to us by the

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great Ray Coats. He's going to
be joining us from the UK via Skype

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in just a couple of minutes.
But I see Melanie Liberty in the Facebook

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live chat from the Great State of
Vermont. She says Happy Friday, Matt,

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Happy Friday to you, mel Also, Jenny, of course is in

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the chairman says shalom peeps. Jay
Fed joins us, says good afternoon everyone.

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Dave Wally is in the chat room, and Dave has some great new

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music that he sent me and I
think you're going to be hearing it on

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the show very soon, very soon. Um. Also Crystal from the Great

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State of Illinois in the chat room
as well. Okay, here's what we're

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gonna do. I'm gonna share this
with you. This is uh brand new

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track from Oh. Melanie says,
I thought corporal Clinger from mash looked fabulous.

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Yeah. I I never thought Clinger
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uh, but I supported him in
his endeavors. Um, all right,

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we're going to uh uh again,
you know, with apologies to our governor.

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To Santisis, if he's listening,
I'm sure this is all very upsetting

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to him to hear hear this us
being so flippant about it and everything.

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Anyway, Okay, I'm sorry,
I'm not really but whatever, all right,

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we move on. So, uh
this is brand new from Ray Coats

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and his project Oversoul. Give this
a listen, and then when we come

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back, Ray we'll be on Skype
with us. This is called fish Tank.

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Check this out, unique sound what
what Ray does with Oversoul. It's

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it's different, it's uh, it's
a little a little trippy as uh.

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I think the people say that trippy. All right, here we go.

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Check this out, fish Tank Oversoul. I cannot see what they say.

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I cannot see what they see.
One side of the glass, whos on

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the memories swimming in? I cannot
begin to see what they see. Another

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love sing in a dream, another
live the bridge, change the scene,

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looking out, Yeah, I look
in them. One side of the glass

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holes are my sanity diving in?
My girls within? Can I see what

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they see? Another world? Not
seem in a dream? Another Locke.

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Move the bridge, change the scene
looking out and look at them my cout

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Why can't I see? Listen?
Another bloating in the dremn to the bridge.

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Change the scene looking out now looking
in one side of the glass.

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Change chart one soul of the glass. Change the one soul of the glass.

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There it is that is fish tank
that is over soul? Ray Coates,

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Are you there, sir? I
am indeed now heyllo, hey,

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welcome back, and uh listen.
I want to say right up front,

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um, the music that we received
from you recently, I really feel and

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I'm not This isn't something I'm saying
to be nice or you know, this

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is sincerely, You've taken it to
another level in terms of um from when

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from when Jenny and I first met
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you've gone a lot. I mean, that's just a cool song. There's

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there's almost nothing more to say about
it. I mean, I do want

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to hear more about it, but
it's just a really you can you can

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say more of the same as your
lie it's just no, it's it's it's

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it's just so, it's just so
cool. It's a it's just really cool

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to listen to that. I listened
to it and with headphones on for the

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first time, and I was like, man, And by the way,

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I would just advise anybody listen to
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it's called to you know, it's
one thing to listen to it with your

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computer speakers or whatever, or in
your car. Listen to it with headphones

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because you want to be able to
signically absorb everything, consume everything that's going

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on. No, really great stuff. Ray for real. That's impressive.

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I think what you're saying that,
I think you're so right. That's um.

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You know, any music is far
far better listen to when you fully

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immerse yourself in it. And it's
that's not meant to be a pun with

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regard to fish Tank, but you
know, you're you're diving in. You're

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diving in. And I think all
music, any music, whatever the John

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More is, Um, it's an
opportunity to enter into different realms of consciousness,

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really, isn't it. That's as
a writer, that's what I hope

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to achieve for others, you know, for others to listen, to be

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able to lose themselves, find themselves, and do any number of other things

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at the same time. Yes,
yeah, I like what you said about,

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you know, being immersed in the
music. I think that's why we

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as humans, we like to hear
music, music that we really like or

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love, we like to hear it
loud, you know. Now, obviously

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there's a downside. There's a little
bit of irony to this, and I

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just kind of stumbled into it when
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But I was talking on the show
just recently, I think it was,

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it might have been a few weeks
ago. I was talking about how,

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over time I actually got out of
the habit of aside from when I'm doing

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this show or whether I'm producing another
show that I do from home, I

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got myself out of the habit of
listening with headphones only because and you probably

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can guess where I'm going with this, only because you know what we know

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about hearing damage. I have tonitis. Jenny does too. I'm fortunate in

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that mine has. I feel like
mine has not progressed really over the past

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fifteen years or so. I think
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a little less that I really noticed
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of a you know, a buzz
and so now I'm I'm very protective of

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my hearing and I don't have generally
ray and I think this is probably true

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of most people. I don't have
the self discipline to not turn the volume

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way up when I'm listening to something
with headphones that I really love. Yeah,

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yeah, it's it's a different experience, is not, I know,

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funny enough. Mark Walker, the
sound engineer that I work with, listens

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to the tracks as we're mixing them, as we're working on them at different

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levels of sound, and deliberately,
yeah, deliberately, so at times he'll

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turn it down because then you can
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works both ways in what you're saying
as well, that I think the headphones

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creates that it doesn't have to be
loud. It's just that it's avoidance of

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distraction. And you know, I'm
not saying every song that I write is

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you know, has to be kind
of deep in meaning. Some of them

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are very you know, joyful and
just fun writing a lot of songs at

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the moment that are just just fun. But I think it's the way I

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write, particularly lyrically, is to
evoke. Though I'm not a great fan

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of the word provoke, because I
think that tends to bring up connotations of

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negativity. But I like to evoke
emotion, and it's it's a little bit

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like, isn't it what's coming to
me now? In conversation with you?

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And I love talking to your genuinely
do because it makes me think. Is

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when somebody says, can I have
a word in your ear? Right?

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It's quite a common phrase. I
don't I don't know whether that's a particularly

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British thing or it's true, isn't
it? I suspect, So I don't

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think i've heard that in America specifically, that you know, can I you

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know, we say can I have
a word with you? But a word

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in your ear? I don't think. I don't think i've heard anyone here

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say, by the way, I
think we ray, I'm sorry, I

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think we have a call. Somebody
might have a question for you. He

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was on the line, Hi,
welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who is

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this Matt? This is the racist
calling? Oh? Hi, yeah,

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how are you doing? This?
Is not a recording. I just want

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to set the record straight. The
reason that the F bomb was thrown in

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one of the recordings was because Billy, who is it's really not your friend,

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because Billy admitted to my friend who
does do the recordings, that it

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was him, because obviously he thinks
he has a relationship with my friend who

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sends the recordings. It was Billy
who admitted to my friend that he did

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it on purpose to have me in
badko hoots with you. Not that you

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need any help from the outside world, but you know, for Billy to

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do something like that, he's really
not your friend man, to purposely sent

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a recording with the F bomb in
it, you know? Right now?

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Do you do you have any questions
or anything for our guest, Ray Coats?

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Well, I like the way he
talks. I respect Britain. I

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wish that Britain would have won the
war instead of America because maybe we would

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have had a more civilized society the
British rule. Oh well, that's very

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nice. What do you what do
you think, Ray, Ray, do

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you ever find yourself wistful? For
you know, you wish that, uh,

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that Britain had won the war?
I tell you what, my view

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is very very simple. Humanity wins
over everything in its truest form. Yes,

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there are, you know, tragically, all of the time, there

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are wars going on, whether it's
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or whether it's between people in friendships
relationships. And I think the truth of

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it really is, whilst we have
differences, whilst we have diversity, essentially

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we've got the same experience in life, and without being negative, we're heading

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towards the same end result all of
us. So therefore, I think my

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only message on that is history can
be very very interesting. We can learn

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a lot from it. I'm not
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the imposition of so called rulers and in

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the UK ourselves. I mean,
my goodness to me, it's well documented.

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And believe you me, if the
UK appears to be being politically led

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well at the moment, then the
media are doing their job ever so well,

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because it isn't. It's an absolute
farce. And you know that's it

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really, The divide between the elite, those that have ridiculous and ordinate amounts

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of money and the corruption that comes
with that is nothing to do with everyday

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people. That's where I come to
and a lot of my creativity. I'm

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working on a community project at the
moment which is bringing people into an anthem

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and some will have different views,
and I don't you know, I wouldn't

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ban people from singing the national anthem
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it doesn't have any meaning for the
people. It'd be a little weird,

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you know. I often say,
you know, the phrase, God's as

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it is now, God save our
gracious King. You know. My simple

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message on that is, you know, well, what about God's got other

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plans, and one of those plans
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human beings. So that might be
controversial, but that's you know, there

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are people in places of power who
bear no relation to those that they are

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supposed to be serving. Yeah,
that's all. So I know that was

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a little bit of a sideways answer
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come together. John Lennon, John
Lennon, great respect for John Lennon.

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That was a simple message he had. You know, it's about the people.

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The people have the power, the
people are the power. So that's

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my message. I'm not really you
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powers or even countries to that matter. I think, you know, focus

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on what we share in common rather
than the differences, and mindful immediately become

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a lot better. Right right,
Does that answer your question? Joe?

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Absolutely, the mainest, brilliant and
a matter of fact, it reminds me

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of John Lennon every time I even
thought I think John Lennon. Oh well,

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that's very nice, that's very nice. Thank you. Well all right,

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Joel, all right, thank you, Matt, have a good weekend.

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Okay, you're welcome. All right, bye bye bye. That was

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Hey, Ray, you just talked
to a real New Yorker right there.

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Oh well, I guess and I
love and I left every second of it.

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Well, it was it's it's it's
uh yeah, it was a surprise,

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Um, a surprise call anyway.
Um no, but uh so let

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me ask you about you mentioned.
Of course, this is a national or

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i'm sorry international rather. I want
to make sure I get this right because

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it's it's a long name, um
International Week of Mental Health Awareness twenty twenty

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three, um, which we I'm
embarrassed to say, we haven't really talked

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about on the show this week.
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gotten to it more, but we
can talk about it with you a little

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bit now, because you know,
mental health is something that's so important.

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So many people around the globe have
mental health issues. Depression in particular is

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extraordinarily uh common, something I as, you know, something I struggle with.

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Um, this time of year,
it's a little easier when there's more

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sunshine, a little easier than say
the winter months. But um, but

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how does that how does that correlate
with what you're doing with your your music,

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ray and why is it? Why
is it so important to you to

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make music that it sort of commemorates
and promotes this week and mental health awareness?

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It's an opportunity because it exists,

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so like with you know, the
fact it's an international week. Therefore people

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will be aware of that because that
gets a lot of promotion, a lot

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of advertising. And I think for
me, awareness is the step towards action,

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you know. So it's all well
and good talking about becoming aware of

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things. There seems to be a
lot of talk about awareness and being aware,

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but really the truth of it is
action. But of course awareness leads

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to action. So I took a
decision I can't remember how long ago.

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Several months ago, I was aware
this week was coming up to release one

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song on the Monday, which was
a song fish Tank, which you play

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thank you so much for that?
Yes, So that was released under over

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soo on the Architects of Passion.
And today Friday is the conclusion of I'm

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getting it mixed up myself International Mental
Health Awareness Week, and I've released a

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second song under a different name,
which is the Architects, and that's called

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Flowers Die in Michael liders Scope Mind. And in reference to the conversation with

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Joe, it's very very John Lennon
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So I looked at almost like yes, you could say, a mental health

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awareness sandwich and bringing attention to my
own experience. So fish Stank was written

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as it came to me one day
and I thought, you know, we

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look at fish tanks. We look
at fish and we think, oh,

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they're beautiful, aren't that. It's
lovely that those fish swimming around in that

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environment with the bridges and everything that's
in there. But what's it actually like

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for the fish looking out? What's
their perception like? And I think when

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we look at each other. Of
course we see at times even and this

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is not lying, this is not
being deceitful. We're all projecting all the

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time, but internally what we're experienced
is essentially what's going on inside the fish

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tank. So that was it,
really, and then I started I'm very

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drawn to programs that touch on subjects
of you know, losing a sense of

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reality because reality is challenged all the
time, you know, my sense of

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reality. I find at times I
can't, like I've already said, I

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can't believe what's going on in the
country of the UK. It feels very

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surreal, as people might say,
and I just think, you know phrases,

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depression is a real thing. I've
experienced it myself, my battle at

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times with maybe not depression now,
but mood swings at times and staying grounded.

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So for me, I wanted to
share song that had written previously that

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touch on subjects like paranoia, touch
on subjects like the negative by us of

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our minds. You know, when
we compliment each other sometimes it's a challenge.

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It's a challenge for people to accept
compliments. Yes, because we live

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in a societal condition world that it's
constant negativity and people want to tear people

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down, and you just think,
you know, we're all we're all warriors

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and we're victors because every day we're
endeavoring to show up in our own lives

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and do whatever it is we're doing
in spite of everything that's going on around

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And then just a final thought I
want to share is and again this has

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come to me personally, so having
experienced depression. There's a lot of talk

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about depression. There's not a lot
of talk about oppression, suppression, repression.

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So really we have to look carefully
and seriously about what belongs to us,

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what do we own, what do
we have responsibility for, and what

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is the responsibility and accountability of others? And I include within that structures in

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organized society because there's a heck of
a lot of frustration that's pumped into the

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world, you know, the news, political parties, as I've just touched

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on. So I'm looking through music
to create self empowerment for others, messages

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of self sovereignty, realizing even when
you feel weak, kind of going a

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little bit scriptural now, but even
when you're weak, that's when you're you're

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most powerful. So the key is
try and go through those waves as much

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as you can, and remember the
feelings at times as well. That's something

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I've experience. So when I'm swinging, swimming against the tide, so to

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speak, remember that I've done that
before. I've experienced that before, right,

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and I got through that feeling to
the other side of that. M

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Ray, we have a call Shannon. Shannon is on the line. Hi

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Shannon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon, afternoon, Ray, Hi Shannon.

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How are you. I'm doing okay, how are you sling? Yes,

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I'm fine, Thank you. I
believe I talked to you once before.

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Yes, Yes, I remember,
Shannon, Yes, I remember talking to

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you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I was going to say, both

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your guys' minds at ease. It's
Mental Health Awareness month month, is it?

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Oh? Thank you? So longer
than a week? All right?

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Thank you good it's one of those
whole monthings. Okay, excellent. Oh,

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I appreciate that. Thank you.
Have you Have you got anything you

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wanted to talk about? Shannon?
That's so um have you have you have

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you heard the song? I know
that's a bit of a loaded question.

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If you haven't, don't worry,
I'll put I'll put the links in.

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No, I did hear it the
fish tank. Yes, yeah, isn't

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that great? Yeah? I heard
it. I couldn't understand other words,

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but oh you don't have to.
It's to me that song is more about

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the vibe. You just trippy dippy. I call it hippy dippy. You

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just kind of get lost in it. Yeah, yeah, you just kind

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of get lost in it. Absolutely
energetic. Fits with the lyrics. I

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was just gonna say, I suffer
from PTSD terribly, and yeah, depression

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as well, and yeah, I
just you know, and and how do

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you manage that as much as you
can? What do I do? Um?

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Yes to thought about a cat or
dog's garden, or I can just

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hear a word in a book and
it'll trigger something. Um. Yeah,

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right, I try to either put
it out of my mind or um acknowledge

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it for a minute then let it
go. Do you do you write at

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all? Shalmon? I, what
do you write? So? Do you

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you? You know? Do you
do? Um? Have you ever written

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poetry or anything like that? You
create? Write? Yes? Yeah,

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I write poetry. Oh that's a
good thing today, isn't it. Yes?

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And and other little things that don't
really um, I don't know what

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they'd be called I do high coups
too. That's a form of poetry,

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right, hi coup. Yeah,
but I don't know, like what a

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sonnet is, I don't you know, and those type of things. I'm

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the same. I think it's just
be being creative. It doesn't have to

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have an official attachment if you if
you get me, it doesn't have to

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be colder thing or you know,
in the artistic world, there are people

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who are a little bit purist.
Um, you know, so you have

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to do things in a particular way. And for me as a as a

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writer, I'm a musician in the
in the sense that I can play instruments,

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but I can't read music or the
same. So yeah, so I

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tend to find it's just it's being
in flow and creativity for all of us

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in different ways. Um, it's
such a wonderful thing. Is a wonderful

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outlet, wonderful outlets. It's lovely
to hear that you're right channel. Yeah,

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maybe not enough, but you know, I just but it's a way,

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it's a way of creating. And
and I and I always say,

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and ray you you I may have
said this the last time you and I

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talked on the show. I always
say that if you can take negative things,

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you know, whether it be a
depression or dealing with PTSD or just

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a problem that you're going through,
whatever it is, anything negative that is

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affecting you, if you can take
that and create something positive with that,

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then you're you're taking this negative thing
and doing something positive with it. So

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you're you're making use of it in
a sense. So that here, here's

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a suggestion. UM, I was
just reading a Stephen king Um one of

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his um novellas or whatever they're called, with the short stories in them.

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Yeah, and he always starts the
story with wouldn't it be funny? If

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so, maybe that could be a
thing, you know, when when you're

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starting to get down and the thing
is getting down about, well, wouldn't

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wouldn't it be funny? If I
like that? I like that, Shannon,

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
I'm always looking for in perth um

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for ideas of inspiration. So I
think you've you've provided that for me.

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Just there. Thank you, very
nice, very nice. I'm great good.

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I have one thing I say real
quick, hopefully I won't screw it

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up. I don't remember. A
long time ago, Um, I would

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take a ride on a steel horse
fly alone, could ride a real horse

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through a field of flowers and wild
grasses. Well, the birds thrilled their

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night song in a distant wood as
the sun kisses mountainside a peach good night,

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and the clouds hang their tapestry in
the sky. Wow, Shannon,

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you've been holding out on us.
That's that's right to go. Oh,

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that's that's that's really nice. I
didn't know. I didn't know you could

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ride like that. Yeah, that's
I had that one in my head for

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many years. I mainly wrote it
down. Oh wow, I'll be damned.

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Yeah. Oh wow. Well it's
amazing, Shannon. Yeah, I

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like it. Thank you. It
kind of you know, if you listen

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to it and your picture, you
know, you can almost see you can

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see the forest, and you hear
the birds, and you know it evokes

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it evokes all that imagery. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Oh, very

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thank you for sharing that, Shannon. Yeah, thank you, Shannon.

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Very nice. All right, you
guys, sir, be good and I

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have a nice weekend. And Matt
said, how did DJ Stephen policy?

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I will I will all right,
Shannon, all right, thank you for

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the call. See you, Shannon, bye bye, Thank you. All

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right By bye. All right,
very nice, nice here from Shannon.

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That does open up a line for
Oh, actually we have another call.

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Ray. You're bringing in a lot
of calls today. This is wonderful,

407
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:55,279
Hill, wonderful. All right,
welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this?

408
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,160
Hi mad? It's scary? Hey
Gary? How you? And?

409
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:05,519
Um? Yeah? I was.
I felt like I was at my therapist.

410
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:08,840
Yeah, is that a good thing? I loved. I love that

411
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,880
song. I had my small I
had my usually listened to my big radio,

412
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,639
but I have my little small radio
and I had to have the headphones.

413
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,440
The musician in me, I had
to listen to the song. Yeah,

414
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,639
thank you for a little song kind
of fit. You close your eyes

415
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:30,719
and you can feel that, well, I feel music. I'm weird like

416
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,400
that, but I can feel the
music in me, being in the musician.

417
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,880
And uh, it was really good. It was really good. Yeah.

418
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,360
That's what I do. I write. I write my poetry. It's

419
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,320
been been three years since I tried
to try to take my life, so

420
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:57,079
but things are great. Issue has
been really good, good good. And

421
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,119
I wrote a grateful poem. Um
a while ago, I had to write

422
00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:08,880
some stuff I have I do um
um, oh, I write my journal.

423
00:35:09,039 --> 00:35:13,079
I have a journal that I write
good days and bad days I have

424
00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:16,119
to do, and I've already filled
up one volume of it, but also

425
00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:22,119
with little poems. And I wrote
this little one if I could read it,

426
00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:29,559
if I may, Yeah, please, okay, um, It's it's

427
00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:34,679
just something I threw together one day
I was sitting outside. So it's called

428
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:39,559
the Grateful Poem for life. It
has taken me some time to come out

429
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:45,920
of the darkness and see the light, to have happiness come back in my

430
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:51,360
life. I choose not to be
like a mushroom, but to be a

431
00:35:51,400 --> 00:36:00,639
tall pine that can breathe the fresh
air and see the warm sunshine. Wow.

432
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:08,320
Well, I want to respond to
to you, Gary and Matt.

433
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:15,360
I've got something very strong coming to
me. I'm working on a community anthem

434
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:21,199
project in my own local area at
the current time, and I've even got

435
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,719
a symbol of that, which is
a cap, so hence the acronym community

436
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,199
Anthem Project. And I've had a
vision for a long time of people coming

437
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:35,760
together to create. So I'm not
asking anybody to say yes at the moment,

438
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,599
but through the conduit of Matt,
because I know myself and Matt I've

439
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:46,599
spoken in the past about joining together
in creativity, and we can hold hands

440
00:36:46,599 --> 00:36:52,280
across the pond, across the water, and we do have a connection,

441
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:57,800
if nothing else in language. Even
though there are some differences in everyday language,

442
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,360
we share the language that we are
understand And I want to say this

443
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,199
here and now, and I hadn't
prepared for this. We've had two pieces

444
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,320
of poetry read, and I'm not
taking over. I'm not taking control,

445
00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:16,400
but I'd like to introduce the Conceptual
Thought or a USA version of the Community

446
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:23,239
Anthem Project. So essentially, the
idea is as many people as possible bringing

447
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:30,119
together words that create a song that
is of the people, by the people,

448
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,679
for the people. So it's not
a song that's written for us that

449
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,480
represents us. It does represent us
because we've written it. So that's just

450
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,519
just something I just want to put
in there, because your your words are

451
00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:47,480
amazing, Gary and Shannon's poetry,
and I'm sure there's many others as well.

452
00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:54,360
So I'm not I couldn't believe it. I felt good. It felt

453
00:37:54,360 --> 00:38:00,800
like I was riding a bike mourrisingle, you know, because had the iron

454
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:06,480
horse right wonderful and that got me. I'm not putting Matt on the spot

455
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,400
and saying, you know, Matt
has to say yes now, but I

456
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:19,239
think it would be very very interesting
to write a um a USA community anthem

457
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,719
um. And I'm happy to work
with Matt and you know if that's something

458
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,920
that might be a possibility. No, I love it. I love it.

459
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:32,239
Yeah, absolutely, it's a great
idea. Yeah, absolutely, all

460
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,599
right, wonderful. Well, yeah, Gary, thank you so much for

461
00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:38,239
the call, my friend, and
for sharing that poem. And all right,

462
00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:43,119
we're very glad. We're very good. I'll unblock the phone. I

463
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:46,440
know I talked to No, it's
all good, it's all good. But

464
00:38:46,639 --> 00:38:51,119
uh no, we appreciate the call. Thank you so much. Gary,

465
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,719
I just wanted to express that.
No, no, we're glad, we're

466
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,639
glad you didn't. Thank you.
Lovely to hear you go. Yeah,

467
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:02,079
and I'll be listening listening to the
rest of the show, and you know,

468
00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:06,000
like I love you guys, and
I love you and then Jenny,

469
00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:09,239
but I said, I had to
say that, you know, because I

470
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,840
heard it so well. Helps.
Yeah, all right, thank you very

471
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,199
much for allowing me to read it, and you guys have a great day,

472
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:21,440
all right, Thanks Garry, Bye
bye. All right, very nice

473
00:39:21,519 --> 00:39:24,679
here from Gary. That doesn't open
up the studio line six three two five

474
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,320
six seven six zo three two five
six seven. We're talking with Ray Coates.

475
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,840
He is skyping in from the UK
and uh we played uh oh,

476
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
actually we already have another call.
Wow, you're you're really bringing him in

477
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:42,519
today, Ray, This is this
is excellent. Our friend, Our friend

478
00:39:42,599 --> 00:39:45,840
Ron is on the line. High
Ron, Hi, guys, I really

479
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:52,840
wanted to listen because I'm very very
much enjoying the topic. It's it's so

480
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:58,039
forth. But the reason I'm calling
is earlier today, I was listening to

481
00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:02,119
a country song that I've never and
I don't know the artist, but it's

482
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:07,920
it's kind of amazing what words could
be put into a song. And this

483
00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:15,280
particular person that was singing he was
losing his daughter, she was getting married,

484
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,880
and he said in the words of
the song, he talked about how

485
00:40:20,039 --> 00:40:23,440
I loved her first, I held
her first, and things like that,

486
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:29,800
and I was like, wow,
that's really cool. The powerful aren't my

487
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:36,599
room? You know, I can't
repeat it and make it as powerful as

488
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,320
the actual words, but when I
heard it, I only had to hear

489
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,239
her once to open my eyes and
say wow. I mean, I hear

490
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,519
the guy's story. You know,
that's his little baby getting take it off

491
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:50,559
to get married. I think I
think I know the song. I think

492
00:40:50,559 --> 00:40:52,400
it's called I Loved Her First.
I forget the artist, but I think

493
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,800
I know the song that was it, because what else could it be?

494
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,840
That was it? I think?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Country artists

495
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,039
tend to go for the obvious song
title. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've

496
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:07,239
heard the song. Oh, very
good, Maybe it's you said later on,

497
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:09,719
I'll try to YouTube it, you
know, try to catch it again,

498
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,719
because I guess I just really stuck
with me just I said, wow,

499
00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:20,119
you know those are how could you? How could a writer put together

500
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:23,679
such powerful words that are easy to
understand? So that was my thing,

501
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:29,480
you know, Yeah, yeah,
no, very good. It's one last

502
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,360
final thing and then and then I
will go. Um, I bought you

503
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:38,159
a magazine that yesterday I was over
in Hanaffits and it was fifty years of

504
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:44,000
kiss from the beginning to who they
were before they were kissed, in their

505
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:46,280
names and all that. Yes,
it was pretty cool. I started reading

506
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,320
it today and I was going to
drop it off today, but I didn't

507
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,519
want to just do a drop in
because I didn't know what your situation was

508
00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:55,360
over there. Yeah, but I
think you'll like it. And you know,

509
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,639
after you read it, if you
get done with it, you don't

510
00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:00,639
pass it on the Quali. Sure
well, I appreciate that. Ron.

511
00:42:00,679 --> 00:42:05,719
Thank you. All right, all
right, Ron, thank you for the

512
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,920
call. Appreciate it. I have
a good weekend. Bye bye. By

513
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:12,239
the way, Ray If if you're
curious, Kiss happens to be my favorite

514
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,960
band. That's why. That's why
Ron was wonderful excited to talk about that.

515
00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:22,320
Um Hey, speaking of which,
I know we've talked about it before,

516
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,599
but can you tell us a little
bit about you know, you mentioned

517
00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:27,880
John Lennon earlier. Can you tell
us a little bit about influences. I'm

518
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,360
particularly curious to hear you talk about
that again because, like I said,

519
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:36,039
I feel like the music that you're
making with the I mean, it really

520
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:38,199
comes across me. With the two
new tracks here and at the end of

521
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:43,760
our conversation we'll play the other song, Flowers Die. But I feel like

522
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,440
you've you've evolved a lot, and
I'm curious can you kind of remind us

523
00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:50,079
or tell us, you know,
for the first time for newer listeners,

524
00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:53,880
UM about some of your musical influences
and maybe a little bit about your process

525
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,719
of writing. It sounded like a
Ron in particular was interested in you know,

526
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:04,760
how does a songwriter uh come up
with lyrics? And obviously you know

527
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,760
these lyrics. Are you talked about
what FishTank is about? For example?

528
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:10,719
But yeah, can you tell us
a little bit about influences and a little

529
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:16,679
bit about your process? Well,
it's messages for me, so listen.

530
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:22,599
You know, it's listening to individuals
who share things every day, you know,

531
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:29,880
within conversation, within reading, within
even you know, watching something in

532
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:36,840
the television, or just being out
and about with your own thoughts constantly.

533
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:44,880
I know Lennon that he essentially looked
for messages and absolutely everything. I think

534
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:54,519
towards the conclusion tragic assassination end of
his life, he would I would suggest

535
00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:59,880
that the word that's coming to me
had a calling, a calling of not

536
00:44:00,199 --> 00:44:02,880
just being a writer, not just
being a composer, not just being you

537
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,360
know, one of the beatles.
I think labels are easy to give,

538
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:13,639
but I'm just I'm just drawn because
of the simplicity of the message he was

539
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:17,559
sharing. You know, I've watched
videos of him multiple times and when he

540
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:21,679
says, you know, I'm not
saying we've got all of the answers.

541
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,920
All we're saying is give piece of
chance. Yeah, So I think music

542
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,840
for me, you can you can
have music that is pink and fluffy and

543
00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:36,480
poppy, and you know, popcorn
music essentially. That's okay. I'm not

544
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:43,000
I'm not against pop genre. Sure, at times I use it as a

545
00:44:43,079 --> 00:44:49,400
vehicle for messages because you know,
if you've got a really really killer hook,

546
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,880
you know, a very very catchy
chorus and earworm as it's referred to

547
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:59,280
often, you know you've got something
then that plants itself in people's consciousness.

548
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:05,000
That ultimate then can contribute towards an
adjustment of thought. So whenever I write,

549
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:07,880
I'm not saying everything as kind of
like deep dark, meaning there's a

550
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:15,199
very light material that I've written.
I'm not against at times using expletives in

551
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,119
certain songs when it calls for it, but I won't necessarily do that in

552
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:23,760
every song. So I think the
answer to the question really is that inspiration

553
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:31,280
exists everywhere, and I'm grateful for
the opportunity to be a conduit to open

554
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:37,199
myself to receive and then to transmit, and above all, else. It's

555
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:42,880
with the point of view of bringing
it down to the common denominator of all

556
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:47,800
of us, our humanity. How
can we make life better together? I

557
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:53,880
do shout out at times against propaganda
within the world, against governments, against

558
00:45:54,320 --> 00:46:00,239
corruption within religion, human trafficking,
child traffic. Not an easy subject,

559
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:06,239
but something that I've written about because
these things need to be talked about.

560
00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:10,320
And for me it's that, you
know, I use the means of music

561
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:20,400
as a vehicle for conveying a wide
variety of messages, and John Lennon has

562
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,880
to be one of the biggest influences. I don't think I've shared this with

563
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:30,599
you before, but I had a
very profound dream in I think probably early

564
00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:34,280
twenties, in my early twenties,
and it was more than a dream,

565
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:42,280
and I imagined myself writing Imagine with
John Lennon, really and I closed the

566
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,920
door on the thought. I genuinely
did because of the belief system I had

567
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:51,320
at the time. I saw that
as being a threat of an invasion of

568
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:57,519
some negative force, if you like, a demon type thing. I now

569
00:46:57,559 --> 00:47:01,440
look at the reality of it that
it doesn't surprise me that so many people

570
00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:07,119
key into the song Imagine, you
know, it doesn't matter what music genre

571
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,360
you have. You know, if
you like heavy heavy rock, everyone has

572
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:16,719
a respect with a song because the
message is so beautifully simple and it's something

573
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,159
that I don't think there are many
people would disagree with the sentiments that John

574
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,239
Lennon wrote. So that's where I
come from with writing. I'm looking for

575
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:34,920
messages of unity above anything else.
Bowie Bowie, I've been influenced by him,

576
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:43,519
so the multiple genres and the multiple
identities. So currently I'm releasing music

577
00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:47,159
under the name Ray Coats, I'm
releasing music under the name Oversold In the

578
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:52,960
Architects of Passion, I'm releasing music
under the name Minstrel and Bart. I'm

579
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:59,400
working with a guitarist from Scotland,
and I'm releasing music now under the name

580
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,519
The architect As You're going to play
in a moment, And the reason for

581
00:48:02,559 --> 00:48:10,480
that is it's like a lot of
different aspects and elements of my view and

582
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:15,079
not just mine, but the view
of others on life. And we live

583
00:48:15,119 --> 00:48:19,719
in a very trapped world at times
that tries to make us think we just

584
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,920
have to be one thing, when
the truth is we're so many different things.

585
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:28,559
So therefore I'm drawn to Bowie,
because Bowie could put on these alter

586
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:34,000
egos and be different people and have
different energies. And I think that's actually

587
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,280
true of all of us, you
know, because we're not just one thing,

588
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:39,239
you know, we have a number
of different elements to all of us.

589
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:45,960
So I'm interested in people, I'm
interested in others, and I'm interested

590
00:48:45,039 --> 00:48:51,760
in absorbing as much energy from as
many different places as I can to then

591
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:58,360
transmit that into a collective, connective, one consciousness sound. And I don't

592
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,599
think in my lifetime I'll ever achieved
that. The feeling of It's like writing

593
00:49:02,599 --> 00:49:06,880
a love song, isn't it.
You know, nobody's ever written a perfect

594
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:12,039
love song. That's why people still
keep writing. So for me, it's

595
00:49:12,079 --> 00:49:17,360
the pursuit. It's the desire to
connect with others and abroader view of creativity

596
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,440
that we can share together. Well, it's a great man one sang.

597
00:49:21,519 --> 00:49:23,679
Some people want to fill the world
with silly love songs. What's wrong with

598
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,800
that? I'd like to know.
By the way, a nice compliment here,

599
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,679
Dave Wally, who's a very talented
musician in his own right. I

600
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,320
said in the chat room, listening
to this makes me feel like I need

601
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:39,000
to dig deeper than my pop Americana
bs. Wow, we have a we

602
00:49:39,119 --> 00:49:43,000
have a we have a call to
Ray. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton

603
00:49:43,039 --> 00:49:49,880
unleashed. Who's this hello? Oh
it's the phantom. Okay, never mind,

604
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,599
there was somebody there, but it
might have been might have pocket dialed

605
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:57,719
us. Um, Ray, we
are we are approaching the top of the

606
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,480
hour. It goes so fast.
You've been a very gener us with your

607
00:50:00,519 --> 00:50:02,280
time as as always, and we
appreciate it. I love talking to you,

608
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:06,519
love talking to you. I love
what you're doing. Great stuff.

609
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,639
Um, before we begin to wrap
up with you, And like I said,

610
00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:13,719
once we conclude our conversation, we'll
play the the other new song that

611
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,960
you sent. Um. But uh, please let everyone know who's listening,

612
00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:22,599
where they can go to find you
online, keep up with everything that you're

613
00:50:22,639 --> 00:50:25,639
doing, projects, music, all
of it. What should people know?

614
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,679
And uh and you know, and
of course remind us to how you spell

615
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,119
your last name because I've seen Coats
spelled a number of different ways over the

616
00:50:34,199 --> 00:50:37,800
years. So we want to make
sure people can find you. Well.

617
00:50:37,639 --> 00:50:43,000
I'll definitely drop some links in the
comments. Oh please yeah, great?

618
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,000
So R A Y C A T
E S. So there's an E in

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00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:51,800
it, so c A T.
Yes, that's probably the best place to

620
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,440
find me. So even on my
personal page. In social media, I

621
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:59,320
share music. I've got a couple
of websites. I think one of them

622
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:05,400
is might changed from but if you
look for Raycoat's voice, so Raycoat's voice,

623
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,440
and there's a story buying that share
and I've shared in the past oversold

624
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:15,480
truth music dot Com is one of
the websites I'm using. But I'm across

625
00:51:15,519 --> 00:51:21,760
social media everywhere very approachable. I'm
looking to connect with people. I'm not

626
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:27,159
just looking to put music out and
be some remote figure. I want to

627
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,119
be, you know, as much
as I can with everybody. Thank you,

628
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:36,079
Jen, thank you for that.
And yeah, that's it. Thank

629
00:51:36,119 --> 00:51:37,920
you. I really appreciate your time, Matt, Thank you, Jen,

630
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,920
and thank you to everybody who's listened
and called in as well. It's been

631
00:51:43,039 --> 00:51:45,679
amazing as always, wonderful. Ray
Thank you so much, my friend.

632
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,039
We're going to play this this Sign
of Flowers. Dad, by the way,

633
00:51:50,199 --> 00:51:52,039
just quickly, is there anything you
wanted us to know specifically about this

634
00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:59,039
track? It came to me in
I think it's more sort of about negative

635
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:01,199
bias, you know, why,
why is it? Why is it?

636
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:07,639
I imagine at times that every flower
dies simply, you know, and it's

637
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:15,159
it's not actually a negative song.
It's very positive. My mind moves now,

638
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,320
all our minds move. They don't
stay in one place. They're like

639
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:22,320
a kaleidoscope. So they're they're moving
all the time. These two songs are

640
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:27,239
out now, so you can find
fish Tank over so on. The architects

641
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:32,840
of Passion and Flowers Die and Michaelidoscope
mind the architects, they're everywhere. And

642
00:52:34,519 --> 00:52:39,119
yeah, I'm so grateful for your
time, for everybody's time, and the

643
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:44,880
years, but here the years that
here, I'm very grateful for outstanding.

644
00:52:45,079 --> 00:52:46,880
All right, Ray, we'll let
you go so we can play the track.

645
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,599
Ray Coats, thank you again so
much, my friend. It's wonderful

646
00:52:50,639 --> 00:52:53,679
to speak with you. And let's
do this again soon. Absolutely cheers.

647
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,800
Thank you so much, Matt,
thank you. Bye. All right,

648
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,159
very nice. I always wonder to
speak with Ray Coats. And let's play.

649
00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:07,039
Here's what I'm actually gonna do.
I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and

650
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:10,760
then for listeners just joining us as
we begin to cross over into the second

651
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,840
hour, I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and then I'm gonna play fish Tank

652
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,360
again. So if you didn't hear
it at the top of the show or

653
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,920
near the top of the show,
you'll hear it now, just because I

654
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:22,320
want to hear it again. So
we're gonna play Flowers Die, and we're

655
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,920
gonna play the other single that Ray
sent us, that's brand new fish Tank

656
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,960
and uh. And then well we'll
take our top of the hour break a

657
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,480
little late, but you know,
I have that flexibility, so that's fine.

658
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:37,480
We'll show some love to our amazing
sponsors, and then we're gonna go

659
00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:42,679
from that right into this week's classic
film review. This week Eric Pilcher our

660
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,440
friend from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He reviews the nineteen seventy eight release starring

661
00:53:46,519 --> 00:53:52,480
Christopher Reeve, Superman and a film
from my childhood that I enjoyed quite a

662
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,000
bit. So so that is all
coming up. So here it is.

663
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,880
We're gonna play the new track that
Ray was talking about, and then we'll

664
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,760
play fish Tank as well. I
mean they're both new and uh. And

665
00:54:04,039 --> 00:54:07,960
so there's plenty more to come in
the as we cross into the second hour,

666
00:54:07,199 --> 00:54:10,880
new Merrow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed. Here it is this is flowers

667
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:47,760
dyea Is it an original sin?
Sicky step stall Lopensanna in Julila Lady communions

668
00:54:49,039 --> 00:54:55,320
everything. When the search chasing your
region, Shanna Lopan is happening. Take

669
00:54:55,400 --> 00:55:02,760
a frond Rossy likes white, Lila
of Ladies time to begin. Most days

670
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:10,000
are awaken with a smile country White, with a vision of godsto Stone,

671
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:19,599
and that's a treating child. Most
days I am holding my alder scope minds

672
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:34,599
with a patience to remember every flower
that ever where? Can you tap the

673
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:42,320
sauce that you re ease to?
Can you buried there? My spiral stops

674
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:49,559
are away side? Where can you
bese your regretful worlds? Roll down thaws

675
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:53,800
hell sun steep? Can you dry
your days in the ridin things to the

676
00:55:53,920 --> 00:56:00,800
place where they never make you win? Most days I await you with the

677
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:07,760
smack country Wise, with a visure
of gas. Would Stone cannot attuty child?

678
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:17,239
Most days I have found in my
lighter scopeint with a patience to remember

679
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:39,480
of every flower that ver die in
my calif sto mind, lovest in my

680
00:56:40,159 --> 00:56:52,840
lifes mind. Most stays I awaken
with the small country Wise with a vision

681
00:56:53,239 --> 00:57:01,000
of gas would Stone and not a
chute to hide, no stasi folding my

682
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:16,960
lightest minds with a patience to remember
every flower of that eight But sake a

683
00:57:17,079 --> 00:58:14,280
fund self as wisely lie like lady
signs and the flowers minds the times flowers.

684
00:58:24,239 --> 00:58:52,519
I cannot see what I cannot see
what I'm saying. One side of

685
00:58:52,679 --> 00:59:04,760
the glass. Hos are the memories
swimming in? I cannot begin to see

686
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:14,719
what they see? Another world fluting
in a dream. Another light move,

687
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:25,360
The branch chames the scene looking out. Yeah, I look in them one

688
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:36,840
side of the glass. Ohs on
my sanity, diving in my gol swithin?

689
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:45,400
Can I see what they see?
Another world closing in a dream?

690
00:59:45,639 --> 00:59:53,519
Another light move, The branch shames
the scene looking out and look at the

691
01:00:00,039 --> 01:00:37,320
the house. How Situs raised the
word looting in the dream allowing to the

692
01:00:37,519 --> 01:00:55,039
bridge changed the scene looking now that's
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Chell be reasonable. Once there was
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717
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a greater intelligence, greater powers,
and a greater capacity for good The one

718
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:45,840
tragic moment that world was destroyed,
but there was one survivor could not be

719
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:56,239
all get up because the wisdom and
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720
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human race had the capacity for goodness. He set us his only son.

721
01:05:02,679 --> 01:05:11,920
His name is. He will call
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722
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knew him. This year supermand brings
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723
01:05:30,599 --> 01:05:38,679
superheroes have been a popular culture phenomenon
since the early thirties, from radio shows,

724
01:05:39,239 --> 01:05:45,719
weekly serials at local movie houses to
today, whereupon release the latest film

725
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:54,000
from the Marvel Cinematic universe dominates the
box office. Comic books have translated from

726
01:05:54,079 --> 01:05:58,760
page to celluloid very well, but
there was a time when this was not

727
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:03,679
the case. That was until the
original Superhero made his big screen debut,

728
01:06:04,239 --> 01:06:11,599
and it showed that comic book films
can be blockbusters. It also made us

729
01:06:11,679 --> 01:06:17,079
believe a man could fly. Directed
by Richard Donner and released in nineteen seventy

730
01:06:17,159 --> 01:06:23,960
eight, Superman the Movie stars Christopher
Reeve in his career defining role as Clark

731
01:06:24,079 --> 01:06:29,159
Kent slash Superman, who, shortly
after arriving in Metropolis, is set to

732
01:06:29,239 --> 01:06:34,000
battle the villainous Lex Luthor screen legend
Gene Hackman, who is set to cause

733
01:06:34,119 --> 01:06:41,280
nuclear armageddon for financial gain. Rounding
out the ensemble cast is the late Margot

734
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:45,119
Kidder, who plays, in my
opinion, the quintessential Lois Lane, Ned

735
01:06:45,199 --> 01:06:51,920
Beatty, and a powerful cameo by
screen icon Marlon Brando who plays Superman's father,

736
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:58,199
jorl. What is a great superhero
movie without a love interest and a

737
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,880
villain? This film delivers both,
and our next two clips are examples of

738
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:08,280
this. First, shortly after meeting, Lois and Clark encounter a mugger on

739
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:13,119
the streets of Metropolis. The role
reversal is quite striking. Here Clark,

740
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,639
who shouldn't be timid, is and
Lois, who should be timid, stands

741
01:07:17,719 --> 01:07:23,119
up to the criminal and ends up
chasing him away. And then is the

742
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:29,559
first scene where we encounter Lex Luthor. What is great about Lex Luthor in

743
01:07:29,679 --> 01:07:36,079
this film and Hackman's performance is he
encapsulates everything we associate with evil and villainy

744
01:07:36,199 --> 01:07:43,000
into this role. He is loud, boisterous, ego, maniacal, callous,

745
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:47,199
and even has bumbling sidekicks and not
he's a really nice guy. Jimmy

746
01:07:47,199 --> 01:07:50,280
alfis Man, Hey, come come
on, come on, come on,

747
01:07:51,559 --> 01:07:54,199
come on, Clark. I think
we better get out of here. I

748
01:07:54,239 --> 01:07:57,239
think we better do what he says. Come on, come on getting here

749
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,960
quick. Don't don't do anything.
We're coming, We're helping. Come on,

750
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:08,920
these are more to be sorry,
sorry, okay, okay, hold

751
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,239
today, just a minute, vistor, just a minute. No. I

752
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,559
realized, of course that times are
tough for some of these days. But

753
01:08:13,679 --> 01:08:16,840
this isn't the answer. You can't
solve the society's problems with a gun?

754
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,439
You know somebody? You're right,
I'm gonna turn over a new leam.

755
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:24,880
Good for you, sir. That's
the spirit. So he doesn't really want

756
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:29,079
to hurt anybody. Huh, right
after ripple up this lady's burds, of

757
01:08:29,199 --> 01:08:31,039
course, Now come on, lady, hand it over. I don't know,

758
01:08:31,159 --> 01:08:54,760
I just think maybe better. What
are you doing? Car? So

759
01:08:55,960 --> 01:09:03,880
are you all right? Cark?
I guess it must have shaanded? I'm

760
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:19,399
sorry? Well, oh really lost? Supposing that man has shot you?

761
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:21,880
Is it worth risking your life?
Were ten dollars to credit cards? I

762
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:28,840
hardressional lipstick? How did you know
that? Go? What? You just

763
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:40,840
described the exact contents to my first
yeh um? Wild guess docs And now

764
01:09:41,319 --> 01:09:57,960
introducing lex Luthor sick. Thank you're
really sick? Sickness? That's my sick.

765
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,199
What I'm your days of Mexican in
the crime tree? No no,

766
01:10:00,279 --> 01:10:04,039
no, no, no, step
away from that place. How do you

767
01:10:04,119 --> 01:10:09,039
choose to congratulate the greatest criminal mind
of our time? Huh? You tell

768
01:10:09,119 --> 01:10:11,359
me that I'm brilliant? Oh no, no, no, that would be

769
01:10:11,399 --> 01:10:24,319
too obvious. I grant you charismatic, fiendishly gifted try twisted, Oh get

770
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:30,359
away? Tell me something right?
Why does so many people have to die

771
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,760
for the crime of the century.
Why you ask? Why why does the

772
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:39,199
phone always ring when you're in the
bathroom? Why it's the most brilliantly diabolical

773
01:10:39,319 --> 01:10:44,359
leader of our time surrounding himself a
total income. I wicked, mister Luthor.

774
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:53,199
Yes, I was just talking about
you. We're followed again. It's

775
01:10:53,600 --> 01:11:00,399
those cat like reflexes, mister Luthor. Mister Luthor, I'm sorry, Oh,

776
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:05,439
this is that the newspaper I ask
you to give me? Yeah,

777
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:12,560
why am I not reading it?
Because I hadn't given it to you yet?

778
01:11:13,199 --> 01:11:21,279
Right last, it's official. Thanks
for the generous help of the United

779
01:11:21,279 --> 01:11:25,359
States government. We were about to
be involved in the greatest real estate swindle

780
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:29,880
of all time. Let's what is
this obsession with real estate? A lane

781
01:11:30,079 --> 01:11:32,600
land land mists Baker. When I
was six years old, my father said

782
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:39,079
to me get out before that.
He said, some it's not to may

783
01:11:39,159 --> 01:11:43,239
rise and fall, utilities and transportation
systems may collapse. People are no damn

784
01:11:43,319 --> 01:11:45,199
good, but they will always need
land, and they'll pay through the nose

785
01:11:45,319 --> 01:11:51,399
to get it. Where this film
excels, is it Brandon's the Superman Comics

786
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:58,279
to life in a way the Batman
film from nineteen sixty eight did, but

787
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,800
it does not do it in the
or the top camp be way that the

788
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:06,359
Adam West led film did. It
has a quote unquote dad joke esque one

789
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:12,560
liners and quips that we expect out
of the Man of Steel. Our next

790
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:17,439
clip is an example of this.
We will hear Superman with his witty comebacks,

791
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:23,840
capture criminals, and much like the
early comics, at the end,

792
01:12:24,199 --> 01:12:30,000
we will hear from the dumbfounded police
at what they have seen from the Man

793
01:12:30,119 --> 01:13:30,359
of Steel. Either nothing wrong with
the elevator going down? Nah, officer

794
01:13:34,039 --> 01:13:38,720
good evening, officer mooney. Well, they say, confession is good for

795
01:13:38,800 --> 01:14:27,800
the soul. I'd listen to this
man. Take them away, let the

796
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:31,319
rass come on, Come on,
okay, let's go. Let's go ross

797
01:14:31,359 --> 01:15:04,960
here with us. You show you
be cool. You got bad vibrations,

798
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:10,960
Studge, you don't believe me.
I swear plan with a big red tape

799
01:15:11,039 --> 01:15:14,760
and bright red boots as well,
because the week he was gone, whoop

800
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,479
in the here again he gives like
a big blue bird, Like a big

801
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,760
blue bird, don't believe with bright
red boots. Tell you want us to

802
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:25,840
take the night over back in a
few minutes, and I'll meet you there,

803
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:30,920
my son. At the beginning of
this review, I alluded to Marlon

804
01:15:30,039 --> 01:15:35,479
Brando and his performance. Although his
appearance is short, it would be near

805
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:43,119
criminal to not include him. His
performance as Jorrell, even the short time

806
01:15:43,239 --> 01:15:48,079
he is on screen is simply mesmerizing. Our final two clips are examples of

807
01:15:48,199 --> 01:15:55,239
this. First, we hear Jorrell
tell his son goodbye and send him hurling

808
01:15:55,439 --> 01:16:01,960
through space towards Earth as the doomed
planet Crypton is destroyed. Then he speaks

809
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:11,159
to his son on his eighteenth birthday
after Clark uncovers the heralded Fortress of Solitude

810
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:25,359
and sets Clark on the path that
will become his life's mission. You will

811
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:32,800
caple Fow, my little glow.
We will never leave you, even in

812
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:40,359
the face of our death. The
richness of our lives sill be yours.

813
01:16:42,239 --> 01:16:46,279
All that I have, all that
I've blearned, everything I feel old isn't

814
01:16:46,359 --> 01:16:56,359
more. I I bequeath you,
my son. He will carry me inside

815
01:16:56,439 --> 01:17:02,119
you all the day to old life. You will make my strength your own,

816
01:17:03,359 --> 01:17:08,560
seen my life through your eyes,
as your life will be seen through

817
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:19,199
mine. The son comes to father, and the father the son. This

818
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:42,279
is all I all I can send
you. Comel, and now the fortress

819
01:17:42,680 --> 01:18:33,479
of solitude. By my son,
you do not remember me. I am

820
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:42,279
Joel. I'm your father. By
now you will have reached your eighteenth year,

821
01:18:43,359 --> 01:18:47,640
as it is measured on Earth.
By that reckoning, I will have

822
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:56,680
been dead for many thousands of your
years. The knowledge that I have matters

823
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:00,720
physical history. I've given you fully
on your voice, You'll move home.

824
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:06,159
These are important heads, to be
sure, but still manners of mere fact.

825
01:19:09,279 --> 01:19:13,880
There are questions to be asked,
and it is time for you to

826
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:24,479
do so. Hearing us this fortress
of solitude, we shall try to find

827
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:34,119
the answers together. So my son, speak Omar. My name is Cole.

828
01:19:36,079 --> 01:19:41,680
You are the only survivor of the
planet Crypton. Even though you've been

829
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,760
raised as a human being, you
are not one of them. You have

830
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:53,800
great powers, only some of which
you have as yet discover. Come with

831
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:56,720
me now, my son, as
we break through the bottles of your earth

832
01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:02,039
confinement, traveling from time and space, the sixth mons of your parts will

833
01:20:02,119 --> 01:20:05,319
far exceed those of Multumn. It
is forbidden for you to interfere with human

834
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:12,920
history, rather let your leadership stir
others. Two. In this next year,

835
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:18,880
we shall examine the human heart.
It is more fragile than the last

836
01:20:19,119 --> 01:20:21,800
year. As we passed through the
flaming term moral, which is the edge

837
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:26,560
of your own galaxy. We will
enter the realm of the red cryptom Sun,

838
01:20:27,079 --> 01:20:31,920
source of your strength and nourishment and
cause of our eventual destruction, the

839
01:20:32,039 --> 01:20:41,319
planet Crypto asan your heart as it
was. This year, we shall examine

840
01:20:41,319 --> 01:20:46,600
the various concepts of immortality and their
basis and actual fact. The total accumulation

841
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:50,560
of all knowledge spanning the twenty eight
non galaxies. Such is embedded in the

842
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:55,199
crystals which I have sent along with
you. Study them well, my son.

843
01:20:56,800 --> 01:21:00,760
Month we have reasoned that pological judgments
every time we return gunfines of your

844
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:04,560
galaxy, twelve of your years will
have passed. For this reason, among

845
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:10,399
others, I have chosen Beth for
you. It is now time for you

846
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:15,680
to rejoin your new world and the
service collective emity. Live as one of

847
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:21,880
them, color to discover why your
strengthen your power leader, always holding your

848
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:28,520
heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people collel

849
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,600
they wish to be. They only
left the light to show their way.

850
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:39,479
For this reason, about all their
capacity for good, I have sent the

851
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:49,159
mute I only. This film laid
the blueprint for comic book films as we

852
01:21:49,319 --> 01:21:56,119
know them. Start with a powerful
origin story, have a compelling villain,

853
01:21:56,720 --> 01:22:02,760
add intense and explosive action with the
possible love story. It seems simple enough.

854
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:10,039
However, until this film, superheroes
were mainly relegated to the small screen.

855
01:22:11,319 --> 01:22:15,199
This film showed that superhero movies could
not just make money, but make

856
01:22:15,279 --> 01:22:21,199
it by the boatloads. It grows
three hundred point five million dollars worldwide,

857
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:29,199
spawned three sequels, and without a
doubt, laid the groundwork for television series

858
01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:33,600
that followed, such as Smallville in
Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman.

859
01:22:34,159 --> 01:22:41,239
Even the performances in this film are
seen in the modern day characters of

860
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:47,199
Clark Kent, Lois Lane in Lex
Luthor. It caused a renewed interest in

861
01:22:47,319 --> 01:22:53,520
the comic books, and to this
day remains one of the truest and greatest

862
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:58,880
comic book adaptations to hit the big
screen. It is a visual tree for

863
01:22:59,239 --> 01:23:03,640
anyone to see. I hope you
joined me next week when in honor of

864
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:10,760
Memorial Day, we will look at
the heart wrenching Steven Spielberg film saving Private

865
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:15,960
Rhyme for wm n H and Matt
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Solutions dot com. WMNH rip the
novels Side. Hello everybody, Welcome back.

888
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:21,199
It's Matt Connerton unleashed as we cruise
into our final segment today here on

889
01:26:21,359 --> 01:26:26,920
the program, actually our final segment
of the week on the program here live

890
01:26:27,279 --> 01:26:32,000
from the studios of wm n H
ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown

891
01:26:32,239 --> 01:26:36,159
Manchester, New Hampshire also on Comcast
ninety seven. If you're in Manchester and

892
01:26:36,359 --> 01:26:41,079
hello to olive our online listeners across
the nation and around the globe. You

893
01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:44,720
can go to my website Matt Connerton
dot com for all your live streaming options,

894
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,920
social media links, contact infolk show
archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today

895
01:26:48,039 --> 01:26:53,760
is Friday, May nineteen, two
thousand twenty three. I want to remind

896
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:57,439
you, of course, because Friday
is my long day here at WMNH and

897
01:26:57,680 --> 01:27:00,000
I do love it, so it
is my favorite day of the week.

898
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:02,479
After this show if you're listening live, of course, at six pm is

899
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:06,119
the Granite State of Mind hosted by
Rob as a Veto and Paul Stone.

900
01:27:06,239 --> 01:27:11,359
And then I am back tonight from
eight to eleven PM, as I am

901
01:27:11,399 --> 01:27:15,960
every Friday for Retro Spectrum Radio with
Paul C. And I have the honor

902
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:18,439
and privilege of being one of Paul's
co hosts on that show along with DJ

903
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:23,000
Steve, and we look forward to
that every Friday. So Fridays are a

904
01:27:23,039 --> 01:27:27,279
lot of fun around here, so
I hope you'll I hope you'll hang out,

905
01:27:28,119 --> 01:27:32,199
hang out for the spend, spend
your evening with WMNH. We appreciate

906
01:27:32,279 --> 01:27:35,880
you and all of all of you
listeners out there, and by the way,

907
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:40,479
for Paul's show, we do love
it when you if you go to

908
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:44,199
the Retro Spectrum Radio Facebook page and
interact with us there in the chat room.

909
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:46,439
We enjoy that and we love talking
to you guys, getting to hang

910
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:48,760
out with you and there. But
what we suggest is go there, but

911
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:55,239
open a second browser tab for the
website WMH radio dot org and click listen

912
01:27:55,359 --> 01:28:00,800
live. That's because Paul mutes the
audio on Facebook during his show because obviously

913
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:04,159
there's a lot of copyrighted music played
on the program, and so just to

914
01:28:04,239 --> 01:28:08,520
keep from getting booted from Facebook,
he meets the Facebook audio. But then

915
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:11,840
you can open up a second browser
tab and stream directly on the website.

916
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:15,079
So there you go. Six zho
three two five six seven is a studio

917
01:28:15,119 --> 01:28:18,199
line. If you would like to
join us today six three two five six

918
01:28:18,319 --> 01:28:21,680
Z seven. You can also text
me at six one seven nine one seven

919
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:27,760
four four seven six. I'm on
social media at Matt Connerton and looks like

920
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:32,000
our friend Ron is on the line. Hello Ron. Yeah, just one

921
01:28:32,079 --> 01:28:39,159
more flash and final thing. Now, I haven't seen really Superman since nineteen

922
01:28:39,279 --> 01:28:45,039
seventy eight and haven't listened to that, and haven't listened to vilin Brando.

923
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:49,439
Not only if he played a pot
probably better than most people could. I

924
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:56,439
kind of hand it to the writers. How a month with such perfect um

925
01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:00,039
know, a story, story plot. So that's all I wanted to say

926
01:29:00,079 --> 01:29:02,520
on that. I was like,
wow, that that really brought back memories.

927
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:06,439
What my other point was, Um, I don't know what the rest

928
01:29:06,479 --> 01:29:11,600
of your day should be, or
even the next couple of days, but

929
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:16,960
I wonder if you could touch upon
the FBI whistleblowers. They've lost their job

930
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:23,760
because I've been following up on it
a little bit on YouTube, and um,

931
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:27,920
you know, and it's horrific actually
what's going on. But after all

932
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:30,319
this said and done, I really
don't know what they did. So I'm

933
01:29:30,319 --> 01:29:34,399
about weaponizing. And I know they
got fired because you know, they thought

934
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:40,680
they were just short of disgracing the
country or you know, or treason.

935
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:45,199
But I really don't know what they
did. But the FBI, um no,

936
01:29:45,399 --> 01:29:47,880
they scripped them of their credentials but
took away their lives. Um,

937
01:29:48,359 --> 01:29:55,359
these are people that served our country, and you know, they were outstanding

938
01:29:55,479 --> 01:30:00,800
people and we really the FBI really
squished them all like a cigarette. So

939
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:03,119
if you could, I'll lining up
to get the answer off the year.

940
01:30:03,399 --> 01:30:06,600
But I'd like to know if I
could just what they did home. All

941
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:09,439
right, Ron, all right,
very good, Well, thank you for

942
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:13,159
the call, appreciate it. Thank
you all right, bye bye. Um.

943
01:30:13,319 --> 01:30:15,119
So, actually, well, to
answer Ron's question, I have a

944
01:30:15,199 --> 01:30:18,439
bit of a non answer at the
moment. We're not going to get into

945
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,359
that right now. We'll get into
it next week. I need to look

946
01:30:20,359 --> 01:30:24,399
at that a little more closely,
and you know, there's a lot there.

947
01:30:25,319 --> 01:30:27,039
I want to make sure I'm getting
it right. And that, of

948
01:30:27,119 --> 01:30:30,239
course is one of those stories,
as is anything with the FBI these days.

949
01:30:30,319 --> 01:30:35,199
It's it's so politicized, and both
the left and the right kind of

950
01:30:35,239 --> 01:30:40,840
put their own spins on it.
Of course, so I want to Um,

951
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,159
that's not something Ron, with apologies, that's not something I want to

952
01:30:44,199 --> 01:30:48,520
get into today, partly because I
think it's it's probably going to take longer

953
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:51,680
than the time that we have left
today on the program, but also I

954
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:56,840
want to take a closer look at
it, so I will make you this

955
01:30:57,039 --> 01:31:00,279
promise. However, I did not
make a note of it and well into

956
01:31:00,319 --> 01:31:02,319
a deeper on the show on Monday. So or if not, well,

957
01:31:02,319 --> 01:31:06,119
I shouldn't even make that promise.
We'll dive deeper into the show. We'll

958
01:31:06,199 --> 01:31:10,520
dive deeper into the subject sometime on
the show this week. We've got a

959
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:13,239
lot of great guests coming up and
so forth, So I shouldn't just say,

960
01:31:13,279 --> 01:31:15,760
oh, we'll do it Monday and
then look at Monday's schedule and it's

961
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,920
like, oh, actually we got
a lot going on Monday. But sometime

962
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:23,239
next week we will look into it
further. Run because it is important,

963
01:31:23,319 --> 01:31:26,920
so so very good, and I
do appreciate the call. And that opens

964
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:29,960
up the phone line for you.
Six zo three two five zero six zoo

965
01:31:30,159 --> 01:31:33,079
seven six zo three two five zero
six z seven. I do want to

966
01:31:33,079 --> 01:31:38,239
say hello to everybody in the Facebook
live chat. Oh. Joe Friday in

967
01:31:38,279 --> 01:31:42,439
the chat room says, uh,
my house was searched by the FBI.

968
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:46,000
True story. Why would the FBI
search the home of someone named Joe Friday?

969
01:31:46,199 --> 01:31:50,560
I mean that that's a great U
name. You know, you know

970
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:58,720
you don't anyway? Oh, And
Joe Friday also says Heidi run. I

971
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:02,439
think its supposed to be Howdy run
on or Hello run? When is the

972
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:06,399
party? I didn't know Ron was
throwing a party. Well, we will

973
01:32:06,399 --> 01:32:10,920
say hello everybody in the Facebook live
chat quickly though. Melanie of course is

974
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:15,319
in there, along with Jenny,
Jay Fed, Crystal, our friend from

975
01:32:15,319 --> 01:32:19,720
Illinois, Dave Wally. There was
some conversation in the chat while we were

976
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:23,520
talking to our friend Ray Coates from
the UK, and thank you again,

977
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:34,159
Ray for joining us today. Really
appreciate that. Let's see. Jay Fed

978
01:32:34,199 --> 01:32:39,520
made a comment, you should do
Shannon's poetry Friday. Yeah, Shannon called

979
01:32:39,520 --> 01:32:42,439
the show shared some poetry that she'd
written. I thought it was really beautiful.

980
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:47,079
She did that while we were talking
with Ray Coates via Skype. Melanie

981
01:32:47,119 --> 01:32:50,560
says in the chat room, I
wrote a poem about a guy from Nantucket.

982
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:54,640
You know, I think I've actually
heard that poem, Melanie, or

983
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:57,560
at least a variation of it.
I'm not sure it's something that you know,

984
01:32:57,640 --> 01:33:04,039
we could ever share with anyone on
the air, but necessarily, let's

985
01:33:04,039 --> 01:33:10,479
see. Melanie said, I love
when Gary calls. Uh. Let's see.

986
01:33:12,399 --> 01:33:15,920
Let's make sure we don't miss anybody
in here. Miriam banish I saw

987
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:21,279
in the Facebook live chat, Hello, Miriam, Dave Wally really enjoying Ray

988
01:33:21,359 --> 01:33:26,920
Coates's music. Very nice, very
nice, and Jenny did drop some links

989
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:30,960
in there as well as Ray,
so listeners on Facebook you can keep up

990
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:38,239
with everything he's doing. Ray says, immense gratitude tour to Matt Connerton and

991
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:42,359
Jen Coffee and all of your wonderful
listeners. Thank you. Ray appreciate that

992
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:47,000
very much, and we appreciate you
joining us today. Also, Crystal very

993
01:33:47,079 --> 01:33:53,960
complimentary of Eric Pilcher's classic film review
this week of Superman. Yes, Eric

994
01:33:54,039 --> 01:33:57,439
does a great job with those,
and I feel that he's gotten better and

995
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:00,079
better at them over time. I
feel like the segment has really evolved.

996
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:11,439
Very popular segment on the program.
Let's see. Oh. Dave Wally also

997
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:15,079
commented, Deray nice, you capture
the essence of Bowie really well. Awesome.

998
01:34:15,159 --> 01:34:17,880
Oh, that's a tremendous compliment.
Very good, very good. All

999
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:21,199
right, we'll get into um.
Oh, I have something kind of funny.

1000
01:34:23,039 --> 01:34:25,439
Well, I don't know if it's
funny. I don't know if you'll

1001
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:27,800
think it's I don't know if you'll
all think it's funny. I thought it

1002
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:30,880
was kind of amusing, but so
I got this. I'm on the email

1003
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:36,039
list for you know, our friend
Dave Ridley who calls into the show from

1004
01:34:36,079 --> 01:34:41,880
time to time. He's a big
proponent of the nh exit movement, which

1005
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:45,239
is the secessionist movement. It's not
just for say it's like Texas and Alaska.

1006
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,520
For those of you who don't know, we have our own secessionist movement

1007
01:34:49,159 --> 01:34:54,159
here in New Hampshire, people who
advocate for New Hampshire to secede from the

1008
01:34:54,279 --> 01:35:00,560
United States and become our own country. For the record, I do not

1009
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:02,880
support that. I'm perfectly happy to
talk with Dave Ridley about it, and

1010
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:10,439
I'm I'm an open minded guy,
but I do not support New Hampshire secession.

1011
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:14,079
However, one of the things that
I have said to Dave when he

1012
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:16,640
when he calls into the show,
I do say to Dave Ridley, you

1013
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:20,359
know, uh, you could win
me over on this. What if we

1014
01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:25,399
were to have, say, we
secede from the United States and we become

1015
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:29,479
our own country, would we have
a nuclear weapon? Maybe just one,

1016
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,520
just one nuke? Because I think
that if we are going to do that,

1017
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:34,800
we gotta do it right, we
gotta go all the way with it,

1018
01:35:35,319 --> 01:35:39,600
and we need to make sure that
we're in a position where we can

1019
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:44,760
protect ourselves so the country that we
seceded from the United States, uh,

1020
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:48,680
doesn't decide to invade us and try
to annex us back into the United States

1021
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:54,359
like you know, like uh,
you know, uh, Russian apologists put

1022
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:57,079
an apologists will say that, well, you know, Ukraine used to be

1023
01:35:57,119 --> 01:35:59,920
a part of Russia. They just
annexed it back. Uh. You know

1024
01:36:00,199 --> 01:36:01,600
what if the United States try to
do that to us? So we need

1025
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:09,039
to protect ourselves. And Dave Ridley
seemed a little bit I don't want to

1026
01:36:09,039 --> 01:36:12,399
say ambivalent. Actually, he seemed
entirely opposed to the idea, and I

1027
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:15,840
tried to convince him. I said, look, Dave, let's have a

1028
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,039
nuke. I'll tell you what,
Just let me be in charge of it.

1029
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:21,920
Dude, you can trust me.
I promise you can trust me.

1030
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:27,199
Ah. He seemed unconvinced. But
I do think that if we are going

1031
01:36:27,279 --> 01:36:29,920
to be our own country, we
should have some sort of military, should

1032
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:33,000
we not. Well, so this
email went out and I am on the

1033
01:36:33,039 --> 01:36:38,640
mailing list. I don't remember how
I signed up on it or or how

1034
01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:40,600
I ended up on it. I
should say, but I must have signed

1035
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:44,880
up for it at some point.
Perhaps I was experiencing a fugue of some

1036
01:36:45,039 --> 01:36:51,880
sort and decided to sign up for
the mailing list for NHXIT. So I

1037
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:58,039
received this email, and for a
moment I was actually excited that perhaps I

1038
01:36:58,119 --> 01:37:00,199
had gotten through, Perhaps I had
gotten my idea across for us to have

1039
01:37:00,319 --> 01:37:04,880
our own military. It says,
actually, if we succeeded, couldn't we

1040
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:09,000
just didn't occur to me until just
now. Couldn't we just make the New

1041
01:37:09,039 --> 01:37:14,920
Hampshire National Guard, the New Hampshire
Nation National Card or something. I don't

1042
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,079
know anyway, whatever, it doesn't
matter, it's never gonna happen. But

1043
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:21,279
I thought perhaps when I saw this
email, I was like, maybe someone's

1044
01:37:21,319 --> 01:37:28,640
been listening. The subject of the
email is New Hampshire Secessionists to launch Air

1045
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:33,760
Force Memorial Day weekend. I saw
this and I said, there it is.

1046
01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:39,560
We're gonna have our own air force. Once we have our own air

1047
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:44,439
force, you know, it's a
done deal. We're going to seceed.

1048
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:46,920
We're gonna have our own military.
Maybe it will be great. Well,

1049
01:37:48,279 --> 01:37:51,319
I thought I had somehow, even
though I don't even believe in the idea.

1050
01:37:51,399 --> 01:37:55,920
I thought I had somehow had an
influence on this whole thing. I

1051
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:59,399
was excited. I'm not gonna lie, you know. I got a little

1052
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:00,680
bit of a big about over it. For a moment there, I was

1053
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:04,880
like, oh boy, I'm pretty
influential. Then I read the email and

1054
01:38:05,159 --> 01:38:14,279
immediately all of my hopes were dashed. It says here NHXIT, the group

1055
01:38:14,319 --> 01:38:18,079
that put New Hampshire independence legislation in
front of the full State House last year,

1056
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:24,439
will be taking to the skies the
weekend of May twenty seven, but

1057
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:30,479
instead of carrying a weapon suite,
their one plane air wing will be towing

1058
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:40,960
a pro independence banner around the state. That's it. And actually I seem

1059
01:38:41,039 --> 01:38:44,560
to remember Dave Ridley mentioning this on
one of his calls. He called into

1060
01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:46,119
the show and mentioned there was going
to be a plane flying around with a

1061
01:38:46,199 --> 01:38:49,239
banner. That'll bring him in.
By the way, people are gonna see

1062
01:38:49,279 --> 01:38:51,640
that plane, They're gonna see that
banner and they're gonna go, oh wow.

1063
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:55,239
I'm thinking about this a whole new
way. I'm sorry. I don't

1064
01:38:55,239 --> 01:38:58,079
mean to mock. I do genuinely
like Dave Ridley, and I enjoy speaking

1065
01:38:58,119 --> 01:39:02,199
with him and I'm sure there's other
people in the nhs AT movement who I

1066
01:39:02,319 --> 01:39:09,039
might find remotely tolerable. But uh, you know, I thought I saw,

1067
01:39:09,279 --> 01:39:12,600
you know, an air force.
I thought, oh, maybe they'll

1068
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:16,439
maybe they'll have maybe they'll be nuclear
capable. You know, even if we

1069
01:39:16,520 --> 01:39:19,000
don't secede from the Union. I
mean, we should be able to protect

1070
01:39:19,039 --> 01:39:24,159
ourselves. You know, you never
know, Vermont, they might uh what

1071
01:39:24,359 --> 01:39:26,880
if? And again, I know
we have listeners in the chat room from

1072
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:30,119
Vermont, but with respect, you
know, I don't know that. What

1073
01:39:30,239 --> 01:39:33,640
if you find yourselves running out of
maple syrup or something, you know,

1074
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:39,840
you might start looking at New Hampshire
and say, hmm, I think I

1075
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:43,239
think they have something we need and
I think it's about time we go there

1076
01:39:43,279 --> 01:39:47,560
and take it, take it by
force, and we must be able to

1077
01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:53,520
repel you. So I think the
idea of having a nuclear capable New Hampshire

1078
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,119
Air Force would be fantastic. And
again, yes, put me in charge

1079
01:39:56,159 --> 01:40:00,520
of it. Yeah you can trust
me. Listen, I'm very rational,

1080
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:08,880
I'm very reasonable. I would not
nuke anybody who didn't really deserve it,

1081
01:40:09,079 --> 01:40:13,199
and that is a fact. That
is my promise and commitment to you.

1082
01:40:14,079 --> 01:40:16,800
You can trust me with a nuclear
weapon. Somebody would have to make me

1083
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:23,000
really mad, I mean really mad. I would have to be to actually

1084
01:40:23,439 --> 01:40:29,000
launch a nuclear attack. I would
have to be and again, forgive,

1085
01:40:29,359 --> 01:40:32,479
forgive me if this is you know, harsh language. If you're listening with

1086
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:35,119
your children, cover their ears,
but you know it's a Friday afternoon,

1087
01:40:35,159 --> 01:40:39,720
we get a little loose. I'll
just I'll just say it. I would

1088
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:45,960
have to be significantly peeved before I
would resort to launching a nuclear attack.

1089
01:40:46,039 --> 01:40:48,439
Okay, so it's not like,
oh, oh, Matt says we can

1090
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:51,319
trust him, but he I think
he's got an itchy trigger finger. No

1091
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:56,680
no, no, no no.
I would be very very cautious and careful.

1092
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:00,800
But apparently that's not what this email
is about. It's about a It's

1093
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:04,079
about a banner. Who I hope
it's a big banner. You know,

1094
01:41:04,159 --> 01:41:09,039
a lot of times you see a
plane. We've all experienced this, right,

1095
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,399
You see a plane flying around,
right, and you you're looking at

1096
01:41:13,479 --> 01:41:16,199
it and you realize it's got a
banner on the back of it, attached

1097
01:41:16,199 --> 01:41:21,680
to it, and you're kind of
like squinting, going, what does that

1098
01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:25,319
say? I can barely read it? It's so far away. Of course,

1099
01:41:25,359 --> 01:41:28,840
it's far away. It's up in
the sky, like what what what?

1100
01:41:29,039 --> 01:41:31,880
What does that say? Like half
the time you can't you know,

1101
01:41:32,079 --> 01:41:36,760
And I mean I can almost never
read them, and I have great vision

1102
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:42,319
I had Lasik, and I can't
even read these banners being flown around.

1103
01:41:42,399 --> 01:41:45,279
I don't know what they say.
And half the time you see that,

1104
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:49,079
you don't even care what it says, really, because it's like, okay,

1105
01:41:49,199 --> 01:41:51,359
I'm looking at it. I can't
read it from here. It's too

1106
01:41:51,399 --> 01:41:56,039
far away. But it's probably an
advertisement for some business I don't care about

1107
01:41:56,039 --> 01:41:59,199
anyway, So whatever, and you
end up not even put in any thought.

1108
01:41:59,319 --> 01:42:03,760
You end up bear even bothering to
squint. But I'm sure, I'm

1109
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:10,640
sure this will win people over.
I should not be I should not be

1110
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:16,479
snarky about it, even though I
think my snark is part of what brings

1111
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:21,760
people into the show. But let's
see. But I am concerned that my

1112
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:25,600
snark is at about a ten,
and we might need it at an eight,

1113
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:29,399
you know, because we want to
as we move towards the end of

1114
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:32,800
the show, we want to end
positively. It says here, getting back

1115
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:39,239
to this email, there's not much
to it. In part this is a

1116
01:42:39,359 --> 01:42:49,159
reaction to federal ray Oh god,
guys, I cannot. I cannot bring

1117
01:42:49,279 --> 01:42:53,279
down the snark. We're gonna have
to keep the snark at a ten for

1118
01:42:53,359 --> 01:42:59,079
this, I'm sorry. In part
this is a reaction to federal raids on

1119
01:42:59,199 --> 01:43:06,279
New Hampshire's bitcoin businesses. Besides running
torture chambers abroad, Washington is the reason

1120
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:14,479
we can't have nice things here.
Okay, the torture chambers abroad. Actually,

1121
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,960
all right, you know what,
I will turn down the snark.

1122
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:21,399
There is a process. There is
something known as extraordinary rendition, which is

1123
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:29,079
where we take American enemy combatants,
I think, is how we designate them

1124
01:43:29,960 --> 01:43:33,800
and we send them to foreign places
where they can be tortured and we just

1125
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,680
kind of pretend, well, you
know, we don't know what's going on

1126
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:40,680
there. Really well we're the ones
who sent them there. But now whatever,

1127
01:43:41,159 --> 01:43:45,359
and so the torture chambers thing that
does happen, and that is a

1128
01:43:45,479 --> 01:43:49,399
legitimate concern. All right, I'm
bringing the snark down to about a seven

1129
01:43:49,439 --> 01:44:00,520
and a half. There's a link
and or you can contact Ian Freeman via

1130
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:04,399
Shire Society dot com or free talk
laugh dot com. So there you go.

1131
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:08,319
And I like Ian by the way, just for the record, no

1132
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:14,760
problem with Ian. Oh, I'll
be damned. Dave Wally is on the

1133
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:18,840
phone, Hey, Dave, Hey, I couldn't let the weekend without clearing

1134
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:26,319
the air on Chip, without clearing
the air on what Kiss? Oh?

1135
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:30,119
Oh Kiss? Yes, thank you, but I'm I'm glad. Let's let's

1136
01:44:30,199 --> 01:44:33,479
clear the air on Kiss. It's
been uh, it's been. It's been

1137
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:40,039
decades now. And you were very
dismissive, okay of my my taste in

1138
01:44:40,199 --> 01:44:45,399
music all those years ago at Conquered
High School. I know, I know,

1139
01:44:45,079 --> 01:44:48,239
but let me tell you, Yes, years go by and we grow

1140
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:54,720
right. Yes. And I saw
Kiss Live and Oh nine when they were

1141
01:44:54,880 --> 01:45:00,439
reviving the Destroyer tour. Oh no
kidding, Yeah, And uh I would

1142
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:02,800
I wouldn't say, you know,
they're definitely not at the top of my

1143
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:06,680
list. Still. Yeah, but
respect what they did, and I believe

1144
01:45:08,079 --> 01:45:11,800
firmly. Had I not grown up
in the house I grew up in where

1145
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,439
I was not allowed to own a
Kiss record without the child, yeah,

1146
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:20,319
they might have influenced me more.
I can definitely see it. And I

1147
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:26,000
definitely respect what they did for the
industry. Wow, I really just couldn't

1148
01:45:26,079 --> 01:45:31,159
let it go without, you know, issuing a decades old apology for giving

1149
01:45:31,199 --> 01:45:36,760
you a hard time about your your
love of a truly great American band.

1150
01:45:38,279 --> 01:45:41,079
Well, I appreciate that, Dave. And then no apology was needed.

1151
01:45:41,119 --> 01:45:44,319
I mean, hey, listen,
man, I mean, I I believe

1152
01:45:44,399 --> 01:45:48,600
me. I've taken a lot of
criticism from many people over over my life

1153
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:53,720
for my love of Kiss and it's
it's it's it's never never a problem.

1154
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:56,720
And it didn't bother me in high
school either. I was I was half

1155
01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:59,920
kidding, but but but it did
stick with me. So maybe maybe something

1156
01:46:00,039 --> 01:46:02,439
ously it bothered me a little bit
because I never did forget it. You

1157
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:06,079
never let it go. Apparently,
apparently it was still floating around in the

1158
01:46:06,119 --> 01:46:10,239
back of my mind. Uh no, I I appreciate it, Uh,

1159
01:46:10,840 --> 01:46:13,720
Dave, Again, no apology was
necessary. But that's cool. It's cool

1160
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:16,119
that you went and saw them live. That's awesome. Yeah, No,

1161
01:46:16,359 --> 01:46:19,920
it was, I mean it was
apparently that tour was I think it was

1162
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:28,359
thirty five years Oh. Apparently that
tour was kind of the set, the

1163
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:34,000
costumes, everything was aligned with that
original Destroyer tour that pretty much launched him

1164
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:38,680
because it wasn't that what Alive came
out of? Well? There was?

1165
01:46:39,119 --> 01:46:43,520
Well no, so it was Alive. It was the Alive thirty five tour.

1166
01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:46,800
So Destroyer was that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, Destroyer was

1167
01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:53,319
the Destroyer was the studio album that
came out after Alive. Um, okay,

1168
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:55,920
but yeah it was the Alive thirty
five tour. Yeah, yeah,

1169
01:46:55,960 --> 01:47:00,199
that was a good tour. And
here's here's a really fun fact about Dave

1170
01:47:00,279 --> 01:47:04,960
Wally. Years years later, I
was between bands here in Chicago, and

1171
01:47:05,119 --> 01:47:11,119
I auditioned for and got but didn't
stick it out. I was going to

1172
01:47:11,279 --> 01:47:16,600
be Jane in a Kiss tribute band, no kidding, yep, Oh that's

1173
01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:21,920
wild. But I had too much
swing? What do you mean? Um?

1174
01:47:24,319 --> 01:47:27,319
You know, I came in with
a Fender p bass and you know

1175
01:47:27,359 --> 01:47:30,079
I can play the songs. But
yeah, the guy, the the ace

1176
01:47:30,279 --> 01:47:35,000
in the band was just a stickler
for everything, and he was like,

1177
01:47:35,159 --> 01:47:41,680
you're just swinging too much and there
must be something with my playing where I

1178
01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:45,680
hang slightly behind the beat as a
bass player, off and out of just

1179
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,720
habit. Yeah, and we might
be able to blame Kurt Extram for that,

1180
01:47:53,159 --> 01:47:56,359
but uh no, but you know, so there were some struggles,

1181
01:47:56,399 --> 01:48:00,000
and I started thinking, Man,
do I want to invest the few thousand

1182
01:48:00,199 --> 01:48:03,039
dollars it's going to take me to
get a u Oh gosh, I think

1183
01:48:03,119 --> 01:48:06,920
the it was a Gibson Ripper base
that he was playing because they wanted to

1184
01:48:08,039 --> 01:48:13,079
do that version of kids would have
had to be a Gibson Ripper, which

1185
01:48:13,119 --> 01:48:16,439
is an expensive thing to find these
days. Yeah, and then the costumes

1186
01:48:16,479 --> 01:48:19,079
and the boots and the wigs.
I was like, I don't know about

1187
01:48:19,079 --> 01:48:24,720
it, it's a commite eventually dropped
it, but yeah, so so I

1188
01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:28,880
have much more respect for that band. Oh that's awesome years and years later.

1189
01:48:29,039 --> 01:48:30,760
So I didn't want you to think
that I uh, you know,

1190
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:36,279
I sat here in scott the heat. Still No, I appreciate it.

1191
01:48:36,359 --> 01:48:40,079
You know. What's what's interesting,
Dave two, is over the course of

1192
01:48:40,159 --> 01:48:43,880
the decades, um, there's there's
just been kind of a general like at

1193
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:45,920
some point, I mean a lot
of critics will never like them, but

1194
01:48:46,279 --> 01:48:50,079
but there seemed to be and I
noticed it started really during the grunge era,

1195
01:48:50,199 --> 01:48:54,239
and it was sort of gradual and
incremental, but a lot of people

1196
01:48:54,319 --> 01:48:59,720
who did scoff at them sort of
maybe grew to have almost a grudging respect

1197
01:48:59,800 --> 01:49:03,199
for them in some ways, and
they became sort of more just generally respected

1198
01:49:03,319 --> 01:49:08,399
within the industry, I think,
than they had been previously. It's it's

1199
01:49:08,479 --> 01:49:11,239
interesting, you know. And then
eventually they got into the Rock and Roll

1200
01:49:11,279 --> 01:49:14,960
Hall of Fame and all that.
But yeah, I think if you hear

1201
01:49:15,359 --> 01:49:20,319
more musicians who are at that time
during the grunge are young talk about their

1202
01:49:20,359 --> 01:49:26,840
influences, almost every single one of
them is talking about sitting down and you

1203
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:30,720
know, trying to learn Risks off
of Kiss record. Yeah, Dave Grohl

1204
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:34,960
talks about Kiss all the time.
Oh yeah, so you get that,

1205
01:49:35,960 --> 01:49:42,279
you get I think the people that
despised Kiss despised heavy metal when grunge was

1206
01:49:42,399 --> 01:49:46,640
taking off. I think that lightened
up over time because you had more people

1207
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:49,960
talking about you know, especially now
where there's so much information out there and

1208
01:49:50,079 --> 01:49:54,800
so many interviews and people just saying, yeah, these were the this is

1209
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:57,760
what got me got a guitar in
my hands for the first place, you

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know, in the first place,
right right, Um, yeah, exactly,

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Uh, Dave, we are we
are almost out of time, my

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01:50:04,079 --> 01:50:09,159
friend. So but I am very
glad you called. I appreciate it and

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01:50:09,640 --> 01:50:13,199
thank you for sending me that music, and uh we will be uh,

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01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:15,880
we'll be in touch. I'm gonna
have uh, I'm gonna have Jenny reach

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01:50:15,960 --> 01:50:18,760
out to you. She does all
the all the booking. I'd love to

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01:50:19,119 --> 01:50:21,920
schedule a you know, we'll do
a phone interview or whatever we can do

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01:50:23,079 --> 01:50:27,920
and uh, we'll do the whole
thing if you want, cool man,

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01:50:28,039 --> 01:50:30,159
Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, yeah, we'll make it happen.

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01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:31,800
Um. So I'm really glad you
reached out to me. And I'm really

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01:50:32,039 --> 01:50:35,159
this was a great conversation. I
appreciate it, my friend. Thank you

1221
01:50:35,279 --> 01:50:40,680
so much. You're welcome and thank
you. And I really am enjoying the

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01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:44,439
show now that I've found it.
I'm probably gonna been listening every every day

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01:50:45,119 --> 01:50:47,760
to wrap up my day. Oh
that's awesome. That's awesome. All right,

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01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:49,720
the great Dave Wally have a good
one, all right, Dave,

1225
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:54,640
thank you you too, man,
take care bye bye, all right,

1226
01:50:54,680 --> 01:50:57,000
awesome. Yes, that was Dave
Wally. Dave and I went to high

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01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,279
school together. And um, I
mean i've seen Dave since high school because

1228
01:51:00,279 --> 01:51:01,439
he was in a I mentioned this
the other day when he showed up in

1229
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:04,239
the chat room. He was in
a band called October Suns, and I

1230
01:51:04,359 --> 01:51:10,000
had booked them for at least one
event back when I was working at Strawberries,

1231
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:13,079
and I had seen actually i'd seen
that band too at other venues.

1232
01:51:13,119 --> 01:51:15,640
So I've seen Dave since high school, but but not for a long time

1233
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:19,920
actually since the October Suns days.
And obviously he's living in Chicago now.

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01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:25,479
But that's that's very very cool.
Oh the time though, time goes so

1235
01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:31,479
much faster than we realize. Time
just flies by. But wonderful here from

1236
01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:34,600
him. He's a very talented musician
and he did send me some music.

1237
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:39,600
He's you know, he's always got
something going so uh and we will will

1238
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:43,359
make something happen with that. So
but we are out of time. Thank

1239
01:51:43,399 --> 01:51:47,039
you everybody for joining me today.
Thank you again to Ray Coates for a

1240
01:51:47,119 --> 01:51:50,720
wonderful conversation and we got to feature
his new music. And thank you,

1241
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:56,920
of course as always Eric Pilcher for
the classic film review. Don't forget grand

1242
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,520
A State of Mind if you're listening
live on Friday. Grand A State of

1243
01:51:59,560 --> 01:52:02,720
Mind with Rob as a Veto and
Polly Stone is coming up next at six

1244
01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:05,760
pm. And then I will be
back tonight from A to eleven pm for

1245
01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:11,159
Retrospectrum Radio with Paul E. C
And I'm gonna leave you with a little

1246
01:52:11,199 --> 01:52:15,399
bit of This is a performance from
Rob's show, Granted State of Mind.

1247
01:52:15,640 --> 01:52:20,960
This is the great Jasmine Man performing
her song Mountain Green. And Jasmine will

1248
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:27,199
be performing tomorrow night at our amazing
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1249
01:52:27,359 --> 01:52:30,920
nine pm. So here's here's a
little bit of Jasmine. And if you

1250
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,000
miss any part of today's show,
it'll be up in just a little bit

1251
01:52:32,119 --> 01:52:36,199
at WMNH radio dot org and on
my website Matt Connerton dot com. And

1252
01:52:36,239 --> 01:52:40,279
I will talk to y'all a little
bit later. I'll see you to night

1253
01:52:40,319 --> 01:52:42,960
for Retrospectrum Radio. Hi, everybody, It's called Mountain