Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,
Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of double Do you
m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire,
also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all
of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go
to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social
media lengths, contact in folk show archives, etc. Etc. Today is
Thursday July twentieth, two thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all
with me. Ronda Faverro of course all the way on the West coast,
uh California, says howdy from hot southern California one hundred six degrees today.
Well, I just hope it's a dry heat, Ronda. You know,
I'll tell you today in Manchester, we got a little bit of a break.
Um. Well, it's it's kind of hot now actually, but um
not as humid, so a little bit a little bit easier today. But
um it's uh, it's hot. It's the hottest summer on record that happens
every year. Of course, every year it's the hottest year, hottest summer,
and that's uh. I fear not to be a downer, but it's
only gonna get worse anyway. Onward and upward we go. Though at least
we're in a nice air conditioned studio here and very appreciative of it. If
you would like to join us on the program today, the studio line is
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us a call at six zo three two five zo six z seven six zo
three two five oz six O seven. By the way, today's opening track
was faded by the band Heel's Throne or Haile's Thrown. I'm still not sure
I'm actually saying that quite correctly, but they are a great European band that
we had on the show from Germany. I think I remember correctly that we
had skyping in a few weeks ago, and I still I love that track,
such a great song that has faded. If you're looking for them online,
they spell it hel apostrophe s, so it's like it looks like at
first I thought it was Hell's Throne when I first saw the name, but
then I there's only one L because it's Heel's throne, and Heel has something
to do with Greek mythology or something. I don't really remember. I just
love the music and I really enjoyed interviewing them, So I was looking for
something to play it open today's show because we don't have a musical guest today,
and I thought, oh, you know what, I really love that
song. That's a good opener, great great track faded. I think at
the top of the hour today we're gonna play something from Satellite Union, my
friend Dave Wally, who joined us on the show last week his band out
of Chicago. That song like a War is very appropriate for the times we
live, and I think I think I'm gonna play that today at the top
of the show. Like I said, we don't have a musical guest now
something that we I'm gonna kind of tease this, but I don't like to
promise that we'll get to it. But in lieu of a musical guest,
we are going to do something musical if we have time, probably save it
for the second hour of the show today. But there's a lot of controversy
around this new Jason Aldean song. And if you don't know, he's a
country artist, he's got a song called try That in a Small Town.
I would like to play that on the show and kind of analyze why it's
got some people very upset. I have intentionally avoided listening to it. I
have not listened to it yet because I wanted to play it live on the
air on the show and just kind of give you my in the moment spontaneous
reaction to it and my thoughts on it. Some people are saying it's racist,
we'll see, we'll see, or that it celebrates a gun violence and
so forth. But I want to I want to judge for myself and hopefully
get some listener feedback on it too. So hopefully we'll get to that in
the second hour. I say hope fully, because if you're new to the
show. Um, you know, obviously it's we're live, and if there's
some big breaking news that happens in the realm of politics, Yeah, we
don't always get to the things I have planned. I always come in here
with a plan, and uh, you know, I might have five or
six things ideas of subjects that are in the news, especially politically, that
I might like to get to, and then sometimes we end up not getting
to any of it because while we're on the air, something else happened,
there's some breaking news and so forth, and then we end up getting derailed,
which is part of the adventure of it all. But whereas we don't
have any guests schedule today, we'll we'll have time to get into some things,
get caught up on some things also. Do want to look at them
A couple of irs whistleblowers who testified before Congress, and I have some thoughts
on that, and we'll we'll get into that a little bit today too.
That was a couple of days ago. Fox News carried it, CNBC,
CNN did not. Mike Doyle emailed me about it too, But yeah,
I did. I did intend to get to it this week, so we'll
probably do that Actually, that'll we'll do that in the first hour, I
think so. Uh, Like I said, today, we'll try to get
caught up on some things. Also, I'm hoping that our friend Dave Ridley
calls in today. If you heard yesterday show, you might have heard Dave
called in. But it was during our our segment. You know, I
call it my Favorite Conservative that's the official name of the segment now that we
do Wednesdays with my friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And John
Hopwood was here as well. So it really wasn't the best time to get
deep into the subject that Dave was calling about, our friend Dave Ridley from
The Ridley Report and NHXIT. But but essentially he did give us a little
bit. The radio talk show Free Talk Live is apparently not going away,
but they're they're really downscaling. And you know, I'm a radio nerd.
I love radio. I love talking about radio and of course other forms of
media cable news and so forth. And that show sort of going away is
a big deal in the world of political talk radio if you're not familiar with
Free Talk Live, because you know, political talk radio is largely dominated by
conservatives. You have a lot of conservative hosts with very successful nationally syndicated shows,
and then you have a few liberal shows too, but conservatives really dominate
that space. But you've got a few liberal shows that are very popular host
that are very successful, like Tom Hartman or Stephanie Miller, Arnie Arnison,
she's more regional, I think, but but there are some stations on the
West Coast at carry Arnie as well. But she's she's from New Hampshire.
But Free Talk Live is the only really sort of pure libertarian political talk show
that I can think of there on seven nights a week, seven to ten
pm or is it eight to eleven? I think it's seven to ten Eastern
on more than a hundred stations across the country. So them sort of leaving
the stage, if you will, of radio is kind of a big deal.
So if Dave, I did ask Dave to call back in today,
so if he's able to, if he calls back in today, we'll get
into that a little bit because I'm very interested in what's happening there, And
of course that relates to it sounds like it relates to um Ian Freeman,
who if you're not familiar with Free Talk Live. You might be familiar with
Ian Freeman. He's been in the news and we've talked about him on the
show because he was part of that that bust that happened in Keen over Bitcoin.
It's all a little bit complicated, and I'm not sure I completely understand
it myself, but Ian might very well be going to prison, So that
might also play a role in what is happening to that show Free Talk Live,
because that's really his baby. He started that with Mark Edgington or Mark
Edge as he's known, and I don't know, I don't know if Mark
is even still associated with the show at all. Full disclosure, I did
at one point have for a while a professional relationship with them. I was
never a part of that show, never involved in that program at all.
But UM, a streaming service that my my business operates, we used to
carry that show on there. UM we disengaged when during the pandemic, when
you know, we started hearing you know, a lot of the conspiracy theory
stuff UM and medical misinformation and so forth, which I get very frustrated by
UM as someone who has taken COVID nineteen very seriously and takes the pandemic and
public health in general very seriously. I didn't like, uh, I didn't
like being associated with that, you know, nothing personal against those guys,
and listen, I mean Ian. I like Ian personally and professionally. You
know. I always found him very, very nice to deal with, very
easy to deal with. UM. So I'm not I'm not saying anything against
the guy, just to be clear, but I was certainly uncomfortable, as
was Jenny, with some of the content that we were hearing coming out of
out of that program. So we distance ourselves from those guys. Unfortunately.
Libertarians, well, I remember making a comment on you know, and I
have some libertarian and me I have some libertarian views, but I remember making
a comment on social media, and I probably lost some friends over it.
But I during the pandemic and the throes of of the COVID nineteen pandemic,
I said, uh wow, I didn't realize how many how many people I
know who are really just uh, you know, these crazy conspiracy theorists.
And I think some people took that personally, and I probably indirectly damaged some
of those uh friendships and perhaps working relationships as well with that comment. But
if you know me at all, and of course, if you're a longtime
listener of the show, you know that I don't have a lot of patience
for nonsense when it comes to the pandemic and COVID nineteen. I don't you
know, I don't really allow that on the show. I mean, don't
get me wrong. I'm always open to having policy discussions about it, Like
if you want to talk on the program about whether or not you agree with
mask mandates and shutdowns and things like that, I'm always open to having a
policy discussion. But you know, if I have to hear about, you
know, just some of the wild theories, I don't even want to repeat
any of the things on air that I've been you know, because then I
can't put the show on YouTube. It'll violate their terms of service, which
brings me to something else too. I just want to mention briefly if you
if you are someone who enjoys the program on Facebook, you know we do,
of course obviously after the show, the podcast version is available online.
We put it online at WMNH Radio dot org, and of course you can
get a link to it on my website and so forth. But all the
shows are archived there and I put them on YouTube as well. I suggest
going to one of those places. If you're listening to the show after the
fact, If you're joining us live on Facebook, that's wonderful, and I
will say hello everybody on the Facebook live chat in a moment. If you're
listening to us live on Facebook, great, But if you're going back afterward
and getting us on Facebook. Facebook is really clamping down now on music being
played. It used to be we would occasionally get I would get a copyright
notification from Facebook and they would say, you know, if I played like
I used to play the radio edit of Fight the Power by Public Enemy a
lot, just as an example, and then I would get I would get
a notification from Facebook saying, hey, we've muted the audio. You have
five minutes of copyrighted audio that we've muted on your video because of a copyright
violation. Now, all of a sudden, they're getting and by the way,
I always appeal those when I get them, and I used to always
win the appeal all of us udon, even even local bands from the area
that I have on the show coming in doing live performances. Facebook is muting
all of that. They're basically muting all of the music during the show.
So if you are getting the show on Facebook after the fact, you're only
you're you're missing out on part of the show. Now, maybe you don't
care about the music part. Maybe you just want to hear the talk radio
part, and that's fine. But if you want to hear the music,
I suggest you just go to YouTube or listen to the podcast. For the
best audio quality, you should just listen to the podcasts. And that goes
up after we're live. Actually, because Facebook has being really aggressive about basically
they're just muting all the music now. So that's why on Friday nights when
we do retro Spectrum Radio with Police Friday nights from eight to eleven pm here
at WMNH, Paul mutes Facebook entirely only during his show. He just mutes
it. We have the Facebook live chat open during his show, and we
love talking with the listeners on Facebook while the show is on. But we
tell everybody just go to the website, go to WMH Radio dot org and
click listen live. It's better audio quality than Facebook anyway. You're getting much
better audio quality if you just stream it on the site. But you know,
because if Paul doesn't mute the show. Facebook just kicks us off like
five minutes into the show. So so yeah, they're they're clamping down.
Zuckerberg is clamping down. All right, let's do this. Well, let
me give the studio line again and then we'll say hello everybody in the Facebook
live chat, and then we're gonna get into some stuff. Six zo three
two five oz six zo seven is the studio line. Six zo three two
five oz six zoo seven. I do want to say hello everybody in the
Facebook lave chat. Looks like a busy chat room. J Fat of course
is in the chat from the great state of Vermont and says good afternoon everyone.
Rondo Faverro we mentioned in there. Oh, speaking of musicians. By
the way, my friend Ryan LeMay is in the Facebook lave chat says hey,
mister Connerton, stay cool. My brother, thank you, thank you.
And our friend Ron is on the line. Hi Ron, Hi did
um. I could either call you after the show on your own personal line
or just ask you a quick question right now? Would a follow up discussion?
Would have follow up with my sister in law be of any beneficial you
know, beneficial. I think she would like to try another session to see
if things what could work out. Oh sure, yeah, uh yeah,
I mean, okay, you can call me after the show if you want
her, or have her call me. She has my number. Obviously I
will do that. I will have her call you because there was success.
But I think since there was success, I'd like to go one step for
other. Oh okay, yeah, absolutely, yeah, we can. We
can do that. Thanks, look at forward to the show. All fuddy,
Thanks Ron, Bye bye? All right, very good. That was
our friend Ron. Just a point of clarification if people are completely baffled.
I am a hypnotherapist and I recently did a session with ron sister, so
he was he was calling to uh as she left a very nice review online,
which is wonderful. But that's that's what That's what Ron was referring to.
I just I thought I should clarify for people who are like, wait
a minute, you did us? What kind of a session did you do
with Ron's sister? What? What? What is he talking about? That's
that's what it is about. So but we'll we'll figure that out later.
Oh. Dave Wally is in the Facebook live chat. Dave, I mentioned
you earlier at the top of the show today. At the five o'clock hour.
I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play like a War from a little band
called Satellite Union that I'd become a very big fan of such a great song.
Let's see Mike from Queen City Cabinetry in the Facebook live chat. Mike,
of course, not only one of our great sponsors here at WMH,
but one of our oh hosts Friday nights on retro Spectrum Radio with paulc.
And we have a call. Oh Hi, welcome to Matt Connors and Unleashed
too. Is this yes? So? What are your rights the sport service?
No, sir, I'm afraid you have the raw number. And uh,
could you please be less creepy? Whoever you are? What is going
on? What? Hello? Oh? Okay? Hung up? Probably didn't
like that I called him creepy. That was very creepy. Um. I
recognize the caller ID, though, so I might have to uh that I
recognize the caller ID. I recognize the number on the caller ID. Bonics
Mattuh sorry, you'll have to forgive me. It's my first day, so
I might have to uh, you know, hear do you next time I
see that person? Uh? You were looking for an escort service. H
Uh, let's see. Dave Wally says, wait, what's he offering?
I think I think he was looking for something for me, actually, Dave.
Oh. Miriam Banish joins us in the Facebook chatt and says, Matt
is an amazing hypnotherapist. Thank you, Mariam, I appreciate that very much.
Appreciate that very much. Uh. DJ Steve, speaking of co hosts
on Retrospectrum Dios in the chat and says, good afternoon, Matt and everyone.
Hello to you, sir. Let's see. Oh, freeband Prince is
in the Facebook live chat, a very talented hip hop artist from the Great
State of Florida, joins us, or I don't know if I haven't talked
to him in a while. I don't know if you're still in Florida.
But if you are, I hope you're doing well. I mean, I
hope you're doing well regardless. But Florida is particularly hot and humid this time
of year, and there's a lot of other things wrong with Florida as well.
Hello to a new force of the spark, of course, from Greensboro,
North Carolina. Hello hashtag Matt, we said, and good afternoon.
Yes oh, Miriam Banish recommends listening to the show on Podbean. Yes,
indeed, we do upload the show to Podbean. Jenny, of course,
is in the Facebook live chat and says shalom. Peeps, New Force of
the Spark says, oh, no, sad news. We said, sad
news is Isaac Banks, friend from the Inner Rhythm Choir at Lindley Park Baptist
Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a nice lady, June Rash
from Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a nice old lady and she passed
away on Tuesday morning. We said, well, if I may, now,
I did not know this person, June Rash, but I would just
like to extend my condolences, and I will just make an observation. I
think if my last name were Rash, I might change it. But because
you know, even just hearing the name of someone with the last name Rash,
there's a number of jokes that leap to mind, all of which would
be inappropriate in a moment like this, and a couple of which would potentially
even get me fired. So, but condolences to June Rash from Greensboro,
North Carolina. I from what I hear, according to new for us of
the Spark. She was a nice old lady. So moment of silence for
June Rash. Okay, that's the end of the moment of silence. It
was a very brief, kind of a nano second really, but that's because
it's radio. You can't really have dead air. Who was it? There
was somebody one time who wanted to uh, who wanted to have a suggested
I have a moment of silence for something. It might have been easyg and
and you know, and he wanted to be like a legitimate like sixty seconds
a minute of silence, And I'm like, dude, it's radio. We
can't just sit here in silence, even for sixty seconds. That's about fifty
five seconds too long. You know. We gotta move it along. You
gotta have silence. Paul sees in the Facebook live chat and says, greetings,
Matt big Fan. Oh, I'm sorry, greeting Matt big Fan.
We are a supergroup from Manchester, but we only do care ery OKI,
which totally makes sense. That's right. Also, Eric Street joins us in
the chat and says, no entertainment report this week. No now our friend
easyg Eric Gagnon he is our entertainment reporter. However, I have not heard
from him and he has not called as he has done in the past on
Thursdays. I don't know why. I don't know what's going on with him,
but I do know that he has a long history of disappearing and not
telling anyone that he's disappeared or disappearing. Although I guess if you're truly disappearing,
you wouldn't tell anyone. And there is in the Facebook live chat,
he says, I am back, ah, but is it really you?
Is it really you? Or has someone done something with EASYG and is pretending
to be you? Just because it says Eric Gagnon doesn't mean it's EASYG.
Eric Gagnon is a very common name. I would mention I went to grade
school with like seven or eight people named Eric Gagnon. They're everywhere. Melanie
law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us and says, hey,
guys, well, if you really are EASYG. By the way the Eric
Agne and the Facebook live chat, I hope you're all right. I hope
nothing terrible is happening to you, and most importantly, I hope Bruce hasn't
done something horrible that keeps you from doing your entertainment report, or as I
like to call it. You're Amanda McCarthy, April Cushing, Katie Dobbins report,
a new force of the Sparks, says we say our manager producer hashtag
Michael Martineau aka Texas Mike. Yes, I'm not sure why you're mentioning Texas
Mike, but we love Texas Mike, so that's fine. Unless Texas Mike
was a good friend of June Rash. If you're just joining us, June
Rash of Greensboro, North Carolina has tragically passed away. Oh, he's doing
his entertainment report in the chat room. Easyg, says April Cushman on wmu
R chronicle at seven pm tonight. Oh very good, very good chronicle.
Yes, at Arizon Channel nine here in the Queen City. All right,
let me give the studio line again and then we'll get into some stuff.
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You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four
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in the Facebook live chat, but the best thing to do is call the
studio line six zo three two five six zoo seven. UM, I want
to look at the U. I do want to look at the hearing the
other day, but just a quick thing because it popped up and I said,
what um, media eight has. Uh. By the way, there's
a picture here of Senator Ted Cruise where he looks absolutely delightful. Uh,
Senator Ted Cruise of Texas. I'm not saying he's a delightful person body stretch,
but this picture of him here is absolutely delightful. He looks like like
some sort of comedian or something. If you've seen the picture, you know
what I'm talking about. If you haven't, you have no idea. But
if you go to media ie and you look up this story mediae dot com,
you will see the picture. I'm afraid to oh, Scott Robinson and
the chatran says, I need my entertainment report. Let's go, Eric Gagnon,
I don't know what the problem is. This is on media Senator Ted
Cruz's bizarre war on fictional characters moves to Barbie. It says here Texas Senator
and part time podcaster Ted Cruz is no stranger to starting beef with other people,
but he also has a history of going after fictional characters. By the
way, Ben Shapiro did that recently as well. A perfect example of this
has risen to the surface in the last few weeks with the highly anticipated film
Barbie. Although most people would view the movie as a harmless representation of one
of the most beloved children's toys in America, the Texas Republican is hell bent
on the theory the plastic blonde is a trojan horse for a Chinese Communist Party
propaganda. Mm let me guess the Barbie dolls are made in China. I
haven't pre read this, so I don't know the answer. That's just a
guess. Let's see. I like I said, I did not preread this.
I don't know where this is going, but I must tell you I
am intrigued, and I hope you are as well. Why does Ted Cruz
think that Barbies Chinese Communist Party propaganda? Maybe there's a TikTok video with some
Barbie dolls that he saw and he had some sort of objection. I don't
know. Let's learn together, says here. Cruise became perturbed when a preview
for the film showed a map drawn in crayon which included the nine dash line,
indicating that China owns the South China Sea. This line has largely been
disputed by the other countries that also claim to own the area, including Vietnam.
I'm still not convinced, but I continue to be intrigued. In an
interview with Fox News is Jesse Water's prime time Wednesday Night, Crews warned that
the film is trying to kiss up to the CCP in order to make more
money in the region on the film. Unfortunately, this is just one of
several wars Crews has waged back. In twenty twenty one, crew said his
crosshairs on Sesame Street and in particular Big Bird. Well, to be fair,
Big Bird, I do think is, as we say in the Northeast,
a wicked kami. I mean, you know, he's got all the
feathers and the beak, and I have no idea where I'm going with that.
In November twenty twenty one, Big Bird took to Twitter to share that
he had received a COVID vaccine. Oh right, that's why. Yes,
Because Big Bird is pro vaccine, and you know, all of us who
are pro vaccine, as I myself am, we're all really just communists.
We want to force everyone to get vaccinated and programmed to be a communists.
I'm gonna have to edit this part out for the YouTube version of the show
because even though I'm being sarcastic, YouTube will flag it as medical misinformation because
it is medical misinformation. I'm not saying I'm not a communist. I mean,
I don't think I am, but others would think I am. I
mean, you know, I advocate for national healthcare. My goodness, I
mean health Look at my hat, people's action. What's more communists than that?
But no, I'm kidding, but this is what This is the tweet
from Big Bird at Big Bird if you want to follow Big Bird on Twitter
or tweeter because it's big Bird. Ey see what I did there tweeter.
Instead of that's why I'm an afternoon drive, Big Bird tweeted I got the
COVID nineteen vaccine today. My wing is feeling a little sore, but I'll
give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy. Miss
at Erica our Hill even said I've been getting vaccines since I was a little
bird. I had no idea Cruise immediately criticize the animal for promoting government propaganda.
Well, big Bird's not actually an animal, he's a Would you call
Big Bird a muppet? What do you? Big Bird is not part of
the Muppets. But it's the same, It's it's still Jim Henson right,
because it's the Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. It's all. I don't
know. I might be wrong about that. Ted Cruz retweeted Big Bird's tweet
and said, government propaganda for your five year old Yes, yes, Actually,
there is a history of conservatives getting angry when the government encourages people to
be healthy. I remember, and I'm not. If you think I'm making
this up, I promise you I'm not. Look it up. Google it.
You'll find it immediately. During the Obama administration, and part of why
I got to see this up close was, you know, for five years,
I was a co host on a conservative talk show called Rock Paper hand
Grenades, hosted by my good friend Gary s Hopper. God rest his soul.
He passed away within the last year of cancer and Gary love Gary,
great great friend. Even though we were very different politically obviously, but sitting
on that show and trying to be sort of the fly in the ointment because
I was constantly surrounded by a conservatives on that show, and I'm obviously not
a conservative, but I remember I was on that show during the Obama administration.
When Michelle Obama rolled out her campaign for encouraging healthy eating. Oh my
god, conservatives were furious, saying, Michelle Obama wants to control what your
children eat, thus proving that she's a communist and a terrorist and just the
worst person ever except for her husband. And oh conservatives were so angry.
There's this thing to encourage kid Steed healthy. That's all it was. But
John Hopwood is in the Facebook live chat and says, I thought Barbie was
a trojan horse for the transagenda. Big Bird is a fictitious character. Officially,
yes, yes to both. Scott Robinson says, don't forget about Fraggle
Rock, Matt, that's also Jim Henson. Oh yeah, I like Fragile
Rock when I was a kid. That was on HBO. That wasn't on
regular TV. It was on HBO so they could get a little risk and
it was okay because it was on a pay channel. I'm kidding, Fraggle
Rock was never risk. That's a joke. Let's see. In two thousand
and two, Cruise gained word that another Sesame Street star and literal puppet,
Elmo, had received the vaccine as well. It didn't take long for Cruise
to blast the childlike fictional character for providing zero scientific data on COVID vaccines and
the commercial. Here's what Cruz tweeted, quote, thanks at Sesame Street for
saying parents are allowed to have questions. You then have at Elmo aggressively advocate
for vaccinating children under five, but you cite zero scientific evidence for this.
Learn more? Okay. In April twenty twenty two, Crews joined fellow Republican
Ron de Santis in bashing Disney for speaking out against Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.
He don't say gay d quotes so no one gets upset. He warned
parents that soon the entertainment Giant would portray micke him out. Okay, I'm
not even gonna read that. That's actually never mind. Okay, I don't
want to ruin anyone's childhood with what they talked about. Yeah, it goes
on. Wow, Ted Cruz really as a fixation with this stuff. I'm
skipping some of this. In recent weeks, Cruise has expanded his outrage whe
allows to include inanimate objects. He took to the Senate floor earlier this month
with the dire warning that you're air fryar could be spying on you. Cruce
proposed a bill that would mandate the companies disclose if everyday household products and appliances
have cameras and microphones installed. Cruce said, quote, I don't think the
American people want their air fryer spine on them, and at a minimum,
they have a right to know if their air fryar is spine on them.
Unquote. Okay, I'm gonna tell you all something, and Jenny knows this.
I'm gonna share something. I'm suddenly a little bit alarmed and this had
never occurred to me before. We have an air fryar in our home.
We have someone who lives with us, Jenny and I do. His name
is DJ Reckless, also known as Christian Lacosse, but professionally is known as
DJ Reckless. He did purchase an air fryar, and he does use the
air fryar. So, Jenny, if you don't mind if at some point
before I get home home, could you please check the air fryer that Christian
brought and make sure there is not a camera in it. I am deeply
concerned about the air fryar. Look, sometimes crazy people turn out to be
right. I'm trying to think of of an example, and nothing leaps to
mind. But I'm sure there's an example of somebody saying something so insane and
irrational, irrational almost at irrationale. I think that's how you say it in
French irrationale, and then it turns out to be true. But Jenny says,
I'm on it, thank you, thank you. I don't want to
be spied on by appliances. What if the senator, I mean, look,
they keep reelecting him in Texas, so he must know something. He
must know something about appliances at least. Oh you know how they're folks of
his ilk are very upset about this. Information about gas stoves aren't necessarily good
for you, And so of course Lea jumped to, oh, they're coming
for our gas stoves. What if it turns out now, wouldn't this put
them in an ideological bind? What if it turned out that gas stoves are
spying on us? How do they then explain their love of gas stoves?
All right, so that's Ted Cruise. I have wondered, and I can't
be the only one who wonders. Is it possible? Is it at all
possible that Ted Cruise that this whole thing is just performance art, and that
he actually knows exactly what he's doing and he's not really doesn't really have these
fixations on inanimate objects and fictional muppet characters and so forth. Is it possible?
We all have to wonder, don't we? Because I have to tell
you if one day, if the day ever comes where Ted Cruise finally just
comes out and says, hey, I fooled you all, and I've been
playing the Sack character, I would actually really respe back to that if it
was if it turned out to be some sort of Andy Kaufman thing where he's
not really this guy, Because there's been moments that I've wondered. I don't
know why, I don't know what it is, but sometimes I mean,
look, they're all performative to some degree. Right, I forget who it
was. It might have been Eric's swallow. Well, somebody said they were
sitting on a committee with Ted Cruz. A Democrat said they were sitting on
a committee with Ted Cruise, and they were they were new. They were
either new on the committee or they had recently been elected, so they were
new there. And during a bathroom break, you know, they had gotten
to some sort of a heated discussion or discourse with Ted Cruz. During a
bathroom break, this guy goes to the men's room and Ted Cruise walks in.
He also had to use a press room, obviously, and after Ted
Cruise washes well, they both washed their hands and Ted Cruise actually reaches over
and gives them a fist bump, gives this Democrat a fist bump and says,
you're doing a great job out there, and it's like it's it's things
like that that make you go, well, is this is all of this
even more performative than perhaps we even think it is. DJ Steve says,
I'll be checking my electric stove for cameras and Mike's let me know, because
let me tell you something, if it turns out that your electric stove is
spying on you, you will want to Now, obviously, I would suggest
you notify our congressional delegation here in New Hampshire. You know, perhaps reach
out to Senator Hassant, but I would suggest actually going directly to Ted Cruz.
I don't mean literally travel to Texas, but I would contact Ted Cruz
and let him know. And next thing you know, you might be testifying
in front of the Senator on a committee about electric stoves and microphones and you'll
be famous. It'll be great. John Hopwood posted this from Wikipedia the Hard
to Believe Department. Crews then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a
John m Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He was a primary editor of
the Harvard Law Review. And it goes on and on. It's very very
impressive. See it's things like that that make me wonder is he really I
mean, this absurdism that he projects, is it genuine or is he playing
some sort of a character or is it a mix of both. I mean,
I do think there are people who get into politics and probably other forms
of quote unquote entertainment who maybe they sort of they start out as themselves,
but then they start to play up certain aspects of their personalities and then eventually
they become the person who they've been pretending to be, and you know it's
who knows, who knows? All right, we will move on from that
because I do want to get to I have something here. Um. This
is regarding the hearing the other day with these IRS whistleblowers. I do want
to get to this. This is from the Hill dot com. Five takeaways
from Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower hearing. Before we do that, let me give
the studio line again six zo three two five six seven six zo three two
five six z seven. You might have thoughts on this. You might have
thoughts on microphones in appliances, or you might have thoughts on big bird,
whatever you would like to interject with. But so this is from this is
from the other day. We haven't had a chance to get to it yet
this week, but Republicans and Democrats sparred over the significance of the tax crimes
investigation into Hunter Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday that featured two IRS
whistleblowers, with the GOP arguing the president's son was spared from true justice,
while Democrats argued he was thorough investigated by a team formed under the former president
and led by a Trump appointed attorney and that that's an important detail. There's
there's a lot of things to remember here, that this was a this prosecutor
was appointed under Trump. And let me just say too, before we get
deeper into this. You know, I'm I'm all for I mean, you
might think that I would say that. Some of you might expect me to
say that, you know, I don't think hearings like this should go on
and whatnot. No, I would never say that. I'm actually a big
fan of oversight and a big fan of transparency and investigating, getting things out
in the open and so forth. Now, unfortunately, these types of things
very often wind up not being particularly productive because what these really are and both
both Democrats and Republicans do this, what these hearings really are about, if
we're being honest about it, And again this applies to both the left and
the right. These public hearings usually not much actual information has learned from them,
not much comes out, but it is an opportunity for everyone participating in
the hearing, even the witnesses really, but especially those senators or those congressmen
depending on which House of Congresses conducting the hearing, for them to raise their
profiles, for them to get some national TV time on the news channels,
to be talked about in media. It's an opportunity for them to boost their
public images because they all get to and some of them really And again that's
why it's probably good that I talked about Ted Cruz and my speculation about how
performative what he does and says is, because it kind of leads in it's
a good segue into this subject because very often that's what these hearings are.
The hearings aren't about getting to the truth necessarily necessarily. Now that doesn't mean
that we don't get that some of that from these hearings. So I'm not
saying the hearings are useless and are only performative. But what I am saying
is there's a high degree of performance are to these hearings, to these kinds
of hearings, whether it's this, whether it's you know, the Democrats impeaching
Trump. Not that I don't have my own issues with Trump, as you
know, if you're a regular listener, I don't like Trump at all.
But when you see those you know, or the January sixth Committee, which
I supported. By the way I supported the January sixth Committee, I thought
that was a worthwhile thing to do. But let's be honest, everyone's sitting
well, with the exception of maybe Liz Shaney and Adam Kinsinger. But but
I think they did themselves more harm than good in a sense. But you
know, when you've got it's a chance to get TV time, right,
it's a chance to raise your public profile, which will help you in your
political career down the road. Or if nothing else, you know, a
clip of you ranting about something might work well in a campaign ad when you're
running for reelection. So but anyway, So I just I kind of view
this from a little bit of a cynical mind. But that doesn't mean it's
without value. Again, no matter who it is, no matter what party.
I'm a big fan of oversight. I'm a big fan of getting things
out in the open. And if you think you have something on somebody that
the public needs to know about, let's hear it. Let's let's get it
out there and listen. People can make their own judgments. Now, Unfortunately,
people will tend to make their own judgments most people through a strictly partisan
lens, you know, So if you're a Republican, you're probably going to
look at these hearings and say, wow, look they really they proved that
Hunter Biden is Satan and should be putting price and for the rest of his
life. And if you're again I'm being hyperbolic, I know, but if
you're a Democrat, you're likely to look at this and say, this was
a colossal waste of time and these whistle blowers are full of it, and
and that's it, and this is all a pointless and useless Again, that
just tends to be. You know, people pick their sides and they go
into looking at something like this through a purely partisan lens. But again,
I would like to look at this, you know, take a step back
and look at it from a broader view. I am a fan of oversight,
congressional oversight, but I also do look at it through a bit of
a jaundice, with a bit of a jaundiced eye, shall we say,
although I've never actually had jaundice. Oh. Also from media, I John
posted this in the chat room. Cruise was I'm sorry, not from media,
I from Wikipedia. Rather, Cruz was introduced to smoking cannabis after joining
the Senate by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham. Those criminals, okay, new force
of the Sparks says, we say good speech hashtag Matt, thank you.
I'm not actually making a speech. If it comes across that way, I
don't mean it to, but I do rant and pontificate. Okay, says
here Irs Special Agent Joseph Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapleigh or Shapley probably Shapley,
who investigated Biden, expressed frustration Hunter Biden. I think right is what
they were investigating specifically. Let me back up here. Okay, yeah,
Hunter Biden expressed frustration over how US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, and
other prosecutors handled the investigation, alleging authorities slow walked the case and showed preferredial
treatment to the President's son. That House Ways and Means Committee had previously interviewed
the two whistleblowers privately, and we released transcripts just days after prosecutors reached an
agreement for Biden to plead guilty to two charges of willful failure to pay taxes.
The nearly six hour hearing relayed little information not already covered in the nearly
four hundred pages of testimony from the two men, with the whistleblowers saying they
could not answer questions outside the scope of that testimony, but the hearing was
revelatory about how both sides of the aisle could use that testimony. Here are
five takeaways from the hearing. Okay, and we'll try to We might hit
that break a few minutes late. I do want to get through this,
but okay, first one again, this is from the Hill dot Com.
Democrats say testimony shows common disagreements. Democrats largely sought to cast the whistleblowers complaints
as common disagreements between investigative staff and prosecutors, who often have reservations about scoring
convictions on evidence discovered by staff. Ranking member Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland,
said the testimony showed a quote traditional tug of war unquote between investigators and
prosecutors, using as an example the recent indictment of former President Trump on charges
of misshandling classified documents, where prosecutors focused on a small number of alleged crimes,
even though investigators said they found more violations. Shapley, though, pushed
back on that assertion, saying that assistant US attorneys and attorneys in the Department
of Justice Tax Division had agreed with a number of recommended charges, but not
all were ultimately pursued. So it sounds like Raskin in other words, what
Raskin is saying. The way I understand that is, you know, there
are disagreements within law enforcement about do we investigate this, is this worth going
after, should we pursue this charge or not, should we emphasize this or
be more focused on that in terms of this investigation and so forth. So
he's arguing that this is just a natural manifestation of that. But then Shapley
pushed back on that and said, no, that's not what it is.
Representative Dan Goldman, a Democrat of New York, similarly argued that investigators and
attorneys often view a case differently. Goldman said, referencing his work as a
prosecutor, quote, I never met an agent who didn't want to charge every
possible case. But what I noticed in five hours of testimony today is that
neither of you has ever mentioned a portion of the case. It may not
be so strong, or maybe suspect or may have a defense, And that's
because that's what the prosecutor has to think about before charging a case. Unte
Ziegler testified that Weiss offered a rationale for not pursuing charges for some tax years
where the testimony about Biden's personal life at that time could sour the changes.
I think that's a typo. It's supposed to be chances of conviction. Democrats
also argued that, contrary to the whistleblower's assertion, it sounded like Biden's tax
history was subject to a rigorous review by investigators and prosecutors. Quote. It
sounds like Hunter biden saxes were subject to a great deal of scrutiny and rigorous
review by a large team of expert investigators who had experience work in complex cases.
The time, personnel, and all the resources devoted to this investigation make
it abundantly clear that this investigation was taken seriously by both the IRS and DJ
unquote, said Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat of DC. She also said,
quote, while our witnesses here today may disagree with US attorney's decisions,
it is undeniable that Hunter Biden was subject to a thorough and rigorous investigation.
Unquote. Okay, takeaway number two Jordan accuses wife of changing his story.
Now, by the way, Jim Jordan is he's an example of someone who
really uses these opportunities to perform, and if seeing his work over the years,
he never misses an opportunity. He's very consistent in that. Okay,
it says here. Republican's recent interests in impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland centers on
a key detail from Shapley's testimony. Weiss, he said, sought and was
denied special counsel status as he attempted to bring charges outside Delaware, with US
attorneys and other jurisdictions allegedly being a post and bringing charges on their turf.
Weiss has said he never asked for special counsel status and says he was assured
he would be granted special attorney status through another statute if he wished to file
charges outside his district. Weiss has outlined in both a June seventh letter and
a July ten letter that he has quote never been denied the authority to bring
charges in any jurisdiction unquote, but asked. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Republican
of Ohio, who also sits on the Oversight Committee, mischaracterized the letters,
arguing that Weiss changed his story. Jordan said, of the letters, quote,
what happened in between those two events, your testimony went public. He
goes, Oh my goodness, I got to change my story because now the
truth is coming out. Unte Weiss's second letter includes more detail about his zealings
with DJ leaders, saying he was assured he would be granted special attorney status
if needed well in advance of the meeting, where Shapley asserts he said otherwise,
Raskin said, quote, when you look at the letters he actually sent,
he didn't change as soon at all. He said the exact same thing
every time, and he even expanded the answer to be perfectly clear. Unquote.
Yeah, I mean clarifying his story and giving more detail and so forth
is not the same thing. It's changing his story. Whether Weiss had interest
in either of the two statuses is largely of interest to Republicans as a way
to forward a potential impeachment inquiry into Garland, as he assured lawmaker that Weiss
had quote full authority to bring cases in other districts if he needs to do
that. Unquote. John HOPWOODA says in the chat room, why would anyone
trust the US attorney appointed by the Trump administration. There's also John's also commenting
on something else here that we might get to in the second hour. Shapley
also undercut another key factor fueling the GOP's interest in impeaching Garland, saying he
has no evidence a Garland intentionally misled Congress about Weiss's authority. Shapley said,
quote, let me be clear, although these facts contradict the Attorney general testimony
and raise serious questions for you to investigate. I have never claimed evidence that
Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress. This for others to investigate and determine
whether those letters contain knowingly false statements. I don't claim to be privy to
United States Attorney Weiss's or Attorney General Garland's communications unquote. Democrats suggested that the
whistleblowers may have been confused over two statuses. Prosecutors can attain appointment as a
special counsel versus the special attorney's status. Weiss was assured he could receive if
desired. Ziegler and his testimony asserted he still believes a more independent status is
needed by those hand handling the investigation. Okay, third takeaway, Here we
go, Here we go, Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green, she never fails
to disappoint Now she is someone, by the way, just to be clear,
and I'm curious to know what you all think, but I don't believe
that she is in any way playing a character. I do not have any
theory at all similar about her, at all, similar to the theory that
I have about possibly Ted Cruz. I think Marjorie Taylor Green is as real
as it gets. And that's enough said about that specifically. But let's look
at her part in the hearing, because again she did not disappoint Green overshadows
hearing with parental discretion advised moment. I might even have to self edit some
of this as I read this on the air. Perhaps the biggest surprise in
the hearing came when Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Republican of Georgia, brought sexually
explicit but censored posters of Hunter Biden to make her point. By the way,
if if you didn't know anything about these hearings, an I or anyone
said to you, explain to you what happened with this part and said and
explained it about the sexually explicit Hunter Biden posters, someone brought these to the
hearing. If I just told you that I left all the names out of
it except Hunter Biden, of course. And I said, guess who was
responsible for this particular stunt. You would immediately know it was MTG. You
would know, you would know, You wouldn't have to think about it.
You wouldn't hesitate for a second. You would say Marjorie Taylor Green, and
I would say, yes, look who won the pony? An expression I've
never used in my life until now, but I like it. I might
use it again. I might use it. I might use it again tomorrow.
At some point. I won't use it again today, though I will.
I have a very strict rule. If I introduce an expression that I've
never used before into my own vernacular, I never use it twice in the
same day. You have to wade into these things. A year from now,
I might be saying, at every other sentence, we have a call,
and there's nobody there. We don't have a call. Okay. So
Green said this quote before we begin, I would like to let the committee
and everyone watching at home that parental discretion is advised. Unquote. Green's questioning
included her holding up small posters featuring graphic sexual photos from the laptop hard drive
that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden sensored with black boxes. That's good, that's
the tasteful way to do it. The faces of others involved in the sex
acts were censored with black boxes, but Biden's face is visible in the photos.
Her focus on the explicit and salacious history of Biden, who has been
public about his struggles with addiction, stands in contrast to Oversight Committee Chairman James
Comer, Republican of Kentucky. James Comer's past indications that the focus of the
committee's investigation of the Biden families business dealings would not focus on his personal actions.
By the way, side, note where did these pictures come from?
Is it possible that Hunter Biden at that time had an appliance that was spying
on him and taking these scandalous pictures. Representative Aliandrea Ocasio Cortez, Democrat of
New York said Green's moved to show quote pornographic images marked a new low for
the committee. Frankly, I don't care who you are in this country.
No one deserves that. It is abuse. It is abusive. Unquote.
Um hey, listen, I will say this. I mean, I agree
with aoc but she did make sure to censor everything with those black boxes.
I mean, you know, at least there was an effort there, you
know, some standard of good taste. All right, this is the fourth
takeaway. We'll get through these last two and then we'll get to break.
Democrats argue GOP distracts from injustice for black and brown individuals. Several black lawmakers
directly challenged Republican claims that the Biden plea deal shows a two tiered system of
justice, saying the argument minimizes the experiences of black and brown Americans system proportionally
impacted by the justice system. Representative Summer Lee, a Democrat of Pennsylvania,
said, quote, I'd like to address the way my Republican colleagues are attempting
to co opt the phrase two tiered justice system to make it sound like Trump
and his cronies are somehow the victims here. The reality is that the term
two tiered system of justice is meant to refer to the very real system that
exists in the United States and which affects black and brown folks, not powerful
former presidents and their political allies. Unquote. By the way, that is
similar to something I've said, you know, the first time I heard Mike
Pensil was the first one I ever heard say, you know, Americans are
tired of a two tiered criminal justice system. They did co opt that phrase.
You see that a lot in politics. One side will co opt something
from the other. The only thing is, when I've talked about that,
I haven't framed it the same way that she does Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.
I've framed it as I guess more broadly. You know, yes,
you have two tiers in that you have one tier for the wealthy, the
powerful, the elite, etc. And then another tier for everyone else,
the middle class and the poor. You could even argue we have a three
tiered criminal justice system, one for the wealthy, the powerful, the elite,
one for the middle class, and one for the for the poor,
because the poor do even worse in the criminal justice system than the middle class.
If you're wealthy, you can hire you can afford to hire great legal
counsel, and the system tends to protect itself anyway. The elite protect the
elite, et cetera. It's very much a closed circuit if you will no
pun intended. If you're in the middle class, you can hopefully afford to
hire a lawyer, but you won't get the same level of representation that you
would if you were wealthy. And if you're poor, you're going to get
stuck with a public defender in any sort of criminal entanglement. No offense to
public defenders, but they tend to be overworked and underpaid. And by the
way, that I believe is intentional. Again, the system is designed so
that the poor will get the least possible defense because they're simply not valued as
much within the system. Thus system more broadly, not just the criminal justice
system, but speaking in broader terms, the system. So that's why you
know when you hear well wire public defenders so overworked and underpaid, Well,
they're overworked because they don't hire additional public defenders to help, and they're underpaid
so that they either aren't as into their jobs or they don't stick around long.
That's all in my view. I can't prove it. It's a theory,
it's a good theory. I think I'm right. That's all intentional.
That's it may not be entirely conscious, but it is intentional in my view.
Let's see Representative Shan Tell Brown, Democrat of Ohio listed off a number
of statistics on disparities in the criminal justice system, including within irs, asserting
that black taxpayers are audited at least three times more often than other taxpayers.
Representative Maxwell Frost, Democrat of Florida, also said Republicans were using the term
improperly. He said before listening off a number of recent and historical examples.
Quote Republicans and Trump complain about a two tier justice system, co opting the
language of the decades long civil rights movement for blacks, for Black Lives and
Black freedom, a movement that they actually are actively looking to eliminate. It's
black, brown, and poor people versus everyone else. And I won't accept
when Republican politicians look to appropriate the language of the movement for black lives and
civil rights to fit a political agenda to defend Donald Trump. Unquote, I
do all five. I thought that was the fourth one. No, I
guess there were five. I might have I did. I did get all
five of them. I might have subconsciously forgotten about the Marjorie Taylor Green one.
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advertising too, but I'm gonna wait on that. But um let's see.
Oh, John Hopwood just uh shared something in the Facebook live chat that will
look at here. Yeah, from the spoon dot Tech, Gormia is putting
a camera on a connected air friar. Uh huh wait a minute. I
think this is the brand that DJ Reckless brought home the International Home and House
where show starts this weekend. We know we're going to see lots of announcements
around the smart kitchen. Gormia is one of the first announcing this week.
They've added a camera to the brand's line of connected air fryers. Oh my
god, Ted Cruise was right. This is very distressing. I hope that
that's now. The good news is our kitchen at home is not smart.
It's not a smart kitchen. It's uh, I'm kidding, no, it's
I don't know. I guess a smart kitchen would be what what's a smart
kitchen? Like when you go into the kitchen and you just uh say stuff
and uh, you know, like you've got the replicator from Star Trek,
it just instantly makes your food. That would be a smart kitchen, I
hope. Wouldn't it be great if we get to a point where AI becomes
advanced enough where you can just tell your smart kitchen to make you lasagna or
something and then it appears. That'd be great. But one thing about that,
when your food appears, I would want there to be some sort of
sound effect like on Star Trek and the replicator would create food. There would
be a It's not like the food would just appear like magic or just get
beamed there. There would be some sort of a sound you would hear,
and I would want that too. I would be deeply disappointed. I would
actually be suspicious. If the food just appeared and there was no sound effect
with it, I would think this was probably like the impossible burger, where
it's not real meat, and I'd be very wary of consuming that. Oh
Hue the geckos in the Facebook live chat and said, would ai lasagna be
as good as Moms? I don't know. Now I have a solution for
that though. What you would do is you would say to Ai, you
would tell the chat GPT or whatever, or the cook GPT, however that
works. You would say, make lasagna like mom. But then the chat
GPT would be like, who's Mom? And then you know, I would
say my mom, and then the chat GPT, if it has a sense
of humor, might say something insulting to me about my mom, and then
and then I would lose my appetite, So it could be very self defeating.
Jenny says, our kitchen is circa nineteen fifties. Yes, that is
true, so our kitchen is definitely not a smart kitchen. Mike from Queen
City Cabinetry, Oh, he should know something about this. Queen City Cabinetry
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to life. Wait a minute, Oh my god. Now this never occurred
to me before, it says in the ad. It says it right there
in the ad. This is taking on a whole new meaning as we're talking
about smart appliances. Bring your kitchen to life, Bring your kitchen to life.
That's what Peter White says in the ad for Queen City Cabinetry, Bring
your kitchen to life, Bring your kitchen to life. I'm starting to wonder,
what are you putting into these kitchens, Mike. Are you putting some
sort of artificial intelligence spy camera type things that are ultimately going to spy on
us and poison us with our food or something and then take over the planet.
I'm just asking. I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just asking.
And Mike even said in the chat room, you're starting to connect the
dots. Matt. I hope that doesn't mean you're going to have to kill
me. I always thought this was a little ominous. Bring your kitchen to
life, Bring your kitchen to life. And the way Peter says that it
sounds so nice, bring your kitchen to life, It almost sounds too nice.
Is Peter in on this with you? What's going on around here?
Are there smart things in this room? I don't know about am I being
spied on? Am I on camera right now? And don't even wait a
second, what's that? I never noticed that there before? Wow, this
is a frightening day. John Hopwood says a smart kitchen should be woke to
eliminate culinary racism. Uh. And then there's actually a link. Wait,
what is this a joke? Let's see dw dot com culinary ignorance can breed
racism. Um, well, this might explain. Now didn't run to santis?
Uh? When he went to uh college, didn't he take some culinary
courses? This might explain his uh antipathy toward racism. He's uh all right,
Wow, yeah, this gets into a whole thing. Indian food is
not even Indian. I don't my stomach. I can't handle all this.
I mean, I have my you know, I'm a left leaning guy,
but I have my Uh, I have my limits with wokeness. If it's
going to begin to affect my palette in some way, I certainly don't want
to think I'm eating racist food. That would be quite terrible. Uh.
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That is correct, The source is unverified. Hughie the Gecko says,
speaking of food for thought, did you hear the new Jason Aldean's song.
Actually, we're gonna get to that. I don't know if you were listening
earlier, but I have not heard it yet, but I have it qued
up. I'm gonna play it on the show so I can give you my
on the spot in the moment, unvarnished thoughts and get all of yours as
well. Because it is controversial. Apparently, let's see new Force of the
Sparks as we say. He that is consequences. Trump is up to something
we said, and we say we ain't gonna like it. Dave Wally says,
thanks again. Matt Cornton unleash, Yes, said a song I played
that was like a war from Satellite Union. Satellite Union. Sorry, Dave's
great band from the Great City of Chicago. A New Force of the spark
says, we are have a spaghetti for dinner. We said, check it
for check those pots and pans for cameras. Mike says. From Queen City
Cabinetry, they are coming out with countertops that repair themselves if you scratch them.
Okay, that is frightening. How could something, How could something repair
itself unless it's alive and self aware? Bring your ene Yes, you would
have to bring your kitchen to life, quite literally if in order for it
to repair itself. In my opinion, I'm very this is skynet. This
is terminator stuff. Mike says nanotechnology. Yeah, well don't. I don't
even know what that is, but it sounds a futuristic and sci fi.
I think nanotechnology, you know it. Maybe it repairs itself, but maybe
it also kills us all. I don't know what's going on here. See,
this is why I never learned to cook, because obviously, not only
would I burn myself because I'm very much a klutz and I'm exactly the type
of person who would accidentally dump a pot of boiling water on myself and scald
myself and have a third degree burns, but also nanotechnology this is above my
pay grade. I'm sorry. Oh, dj C says, hey, Matt,
I think there's an S bomb in the lyrics somewhere. Heads up,
really, but it's a country song. They're not supposed to swear. I'll
have to see if I've a radio at it. Miriam Bannish says, my
husband is a nanotech scientist. Really, Miriam, so your husband knows something
about this, does he? M? I have some questions for him.
I'm very concerned. New Force of the Sparks says, we say, thanks
Matthew Saviano for the emoji. He were the gecko, of course. M
h. Melanie says, Ted Cruz was right. Well, I for one
am happy people in Hell will be able to drink ice water. That's like
the Hell freeze is over. That's like a whole new spin on it.
I like that. I like that. New Force of the Sparks says,
we love the George Foreman grill. Ah, Yes, I remember those ads,
seeing those commercials on late night television for the George Foreman grill. Didn't
he Nay doesn't have like five kids and they're all named George, which I
think is strange. But I don't have any children. What do I know?
New Force says, we say, that is our favorite grill of the
George Foreman grill. Are you New Force? Are you a social media influencer
working for the George Foreman grill? Okay, let me look at this.
So DJ Steve said, there's an S bomb in the Jason Aldean song.
So let me see if there's a radio at it. There probably is,
you would think there would be. If not, if I can't find one,
oh, radio version, there we go. That'll work. I was
gonna say, if I can't find one, we'll have to save this for
tomorrow. But all right, so the name of the song is try that
in a small town. I have the radio version here, so there shouldn't
be any bad words. And again, this is stirred up quite a bit
of controversy, so I'm going to uh. I think what I'll do is
I'll play the whole thing all the way through. It's only three minutes.
It's a short song in radio. You know you should be under three and
a half minutes anyway for a single. So three minutes is short. And
by the way, a lot of the New Country tends to be short,
short songs. I think I'll play it once all the way through, and
then if I think it merits it, I might play it a second time,
but stop at certain points and give my thoughts. Now, again,
the song is stirring some controversy and people are saying it's racist. I have
not heard it yet. If you're just joining us. I did talk about
this a little bit in the first hour. I have intentionally avoided listening to
the song because I wanted to play it live on the air, and I
wanted to hear it for the first time while live on the air, so
then I can give my thoughts and get your thoughts and so forth. So
here we go. This is the new Jason Aldean single that's stirring up a
lot of controversy. This is called try that in a small town. I
apologize in advanced by the way, to those watching on Facebook. If Facebook
might knock us off for me playing this song, because obviously it's someone very
famous. But if they do, I will reconnect, But hopefully not.
Lately they haven't been interrupting the live feed Facebook. They just get I get
a notice later saying we muted this part of the video. All right,
here we go. Here it is you Better Money buddy, whistle one.
All right. I should clarify, I don't know why that's at the beginning.
Uh, this is not whistle one hundred. This is WMH ninety five
point three. I don't know why. I don't know why that's at the
beginning. If that's part of the song, or somebody just uploaded it that
way. That's weird, okay, whatever fu somebody on the sidewalk car jacking
the old lady at a red lad who got on the on the liquor store.
You think it's cool. Let the fool cuts out, cups, spend
in this face, snow vone the flag and light it up. I think
it's a try that is a small sound. See five and make it down
round here. We take care of own cross that land. It won't take
LOLd for you to find that I reckon when you don't try that in a
SMA town. Got a gun that my granddad diad me. Do you see
one day? That goes around all that my flying to see the good look
and try that in a small town. See it fre make it down the
room round here. We take care of you Cross. It won't take blold
for you to find that I reckon when you don't try that. His home
town goods based up right. If you try that sounds wrong town taking.
I read the und to Whistle one hundred, the new songs, the fresh
sound. I don't know why that's there again. This is not Whistle one
hundred, This is WM ninety five point three FM. UM Dave Wally says,
so basically, this is the country music version of f around and find
Out. Not a fan. I do like the guitar player, UM,
I like the production. I'm an audio production nerd, and I do like
the production. I like the way a lot of new country sounds sonically.
I'm not a big country fan. But um, the guitars. You know,
at a certain point, UM, and I've talked about this on the
show. UM, a lot of a lot of heavy rock, the guitars
started sounding smaller and smaller over time, and yet for some reason this new
country, especially in the last ten years, the guitars actually got louder and
heavier. It's it's interesting. UM okay maas Essement and UM. Knowing my
audience as I do, I might get some argument on this, which is
good. I welcome that. Actually, UM, I do not think the
song is racist. UM. However, I UM and and I will go
further and say, if if you think that song is racist, I think
you're you're really reaching Um. However, I will say this. I can
understand h I can see where people how should I say this? It's one
of those things where I don't think it's racist, But I think that people
who are racist probably really like that song. Does that make sense? In
other words, I don't think the song is racist, but you could ease
a you could easily project certain things on it based on the imagery of the
song, at least the imagery of the song that has evoked in my mind.
You could project things on it from either direction. In other words,
if you are racist, you can hear that song and probably think, yeah,
good old boys, Yeah that's right, and h and and all that
goes with that. But if you but also from the other direction, you
could be, you know, sensitive to racism, and for the same reason
you could you could you could say, well, there's racist imagery in that
song. I don't think the imagery in that song, at least what comes
to mind when I listen to those lyrics is racist. But again I can
see how someone would project that onto it. So I think it's a matter
of art is art, and it's what you project onto it. I have
a little bit more to say about that, but we do have a call.
Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who is this, Hey,
Matt, This is Dylan Reynolds. Dylan Reynolds. How are you, my
friend. I'm doing good, man. I just I was listening and I
heard where you were talking about how you know, a lot of older recording,
especially hard rock, you know, the guitars always sound bigger. And
the little bit of knowledge I have on that is the early days of mixing.
You know, when you had manual eqs, cassette tapes, vinyls,
etc. You were able to boost the bass so and the actual studio mixes
bass is very very hidden, which guitar sound big, huge beef and with
the advent of the modern digital age of chords are able to get proper eques
and unfortunately that kind of cuts it from a guitar. Yeah, that makes
sense, you know, I haven't thought of it that way, but that
does make sense obviously too. On older recordings you generally have a warmer production
and way with analog then you do digital. But yeah, I feel like,
um, I feel like a lot of modern country though for some reason,
you know, a lot of it sounds the guitarist to me, sound
like what rock used to sound like. It's it's um very interesting and a
lot of it. Actually I don't quite agree with this, but somebody on
social media said one day, and I thought it was an interesting observation.
I don't agree entirely, but somebody said that hair metal grew up and became
new country, and I do see the I do see the influence of sort
of eighties bands, eighties rock bands in the country that we have now country
music, Yeah, a lot of it. I think both kind of the
styling, you know, a lot of countries is very to be obscured,
and you can sometimes really tell, you can sometimes it's very very hidden,
but it's very blues oriented, which is exactly like what eighties hard you know,
bands like Doc and Rats, you know, all these big guitar kind
of sounding bands are all blues oriented. So especially the modern aid of country
music that you hear now, it's a lot more poppy kind of sounding,
and it takes a lot of that blues referencing. So you could easily take
virtually any etern day country song reoring a little bit and you have what would
have been considered an eighties rock kids. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly,
absolutely, Dylan. I think we have you, We have you scheduled
to be on the show soon, don't we um. I reached out to
Jenny but you know, I don't. I live in North Carolina, so
I don't know if I could get in, but I think she said mentioned
something of her skype. But I would love to. Uh. Oh yeah,
I would absolutely love to be on the show and hang out with you
guys. Yeah, yeah, no, that that that's what I meant.
I think. Uh, I think I'm looking at my calendar here. I'm
trying to figure out. I thought you guys had settled on a date already
for you to skype in. But maybe maybe I'm wrong. We we had
tried to, but those were days that I was working and I just couldn't
you know, I couldn't get around around that time. But I'm going to
reach back out to Jenius see if I can get up on that. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Well I'm working on a lot of really cool stuff,
so if you're really cool to talk about it, yeah, definitely,
definitely. I look forward to that. Absolutely. Well you should. Well
yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead, buddy. Oh, I was just
gonna say you should give a plug anything you want to plug as far as
your music website or social media. Yeah, you can find me on Apple
Music. My my name is Dylan Reynolds. V I L l O N
or E y n O LVS and I'll leave a comment that way y'all can
see how it's spelled. I do a lot of hard rock eighties stuff.
I'm in a Judice Priest tribute band called Unleased because I love singing eighty stuff
and Rob Halford is one of my biggest vocal um influences and I love doing
stuff like that. So yeah, I'm also working on a soundtrack for a
movie. A good local friend of mine who's a author, he said,
hey, man, do you want to write some music to this movie I'm
working on? And I said absolutely, So you know I'll be able to
do like a press release on that. But yeah, I'm talking about it
too much. Yeah, yeah, I understood. I understood. All right,
my friend wall I appreciate the call, Thank you so much and look
forward to talking to you again soon. Absolutely, Matt, you have n
stay buddy, all right, Dylan YouTube bye bye, all right, the
great Dylan Reynolds. Yes, very talented musician. Uh oh. Miriam Bannish
says, Hi, Dylan Reynolds, I have lots of family in North Carolina.
Well, you know, we have a lot of friends in North Carolina
in rhat room from Greensboro, North Carolina. By the way, Greensboro,
North Carolina, where the home of if you're just joining us, Uh,
someone named June Rash I just passed away and uh Greensboro, North Carolina.
Apparently she's a lovely woman. Although boy, can you imagine having Rash for
a last name? That would be a pretty awful Oh yeah, Jenny says,
please do send me some dates. Um so uh oh, actually we
have another call. Ron is calling us back. Hey, Ron, Ron,
are you there? Yeah, I'm not. Um hey sincet in on
you alatriendship on the subject of music, and I grew up on all kinds
of music, old country, new country and all of that. And one
of my one musical instruments it's outstanding to me is, for instance, like
Vince Gill, he plays a an electric katar, you know the ones that
you don't carry it or you don't wear it. It's just you know,
strapped over your legs or on a stand. I love the sound of an
electric qatar. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And one more thing before I
let you go, I was YouTube in yesterday and I happened to I've seen
Russia a couple of times and never paid too much attention to it. I
was younger, and yesterday I happened to be listening to the genius of Russia's
drummer Holy Moley Cow. And if you've ever seen his drum set, it's
three hundred and sixty degrees of drums. I mean, he must have had
twenty five rooms. So I gave I gave Rush a real second chance.
And now all of a sudden, I'm thinking to myself, Wow, I
do like Rush. All all three members of that band incredible musicians. As
a bass player, you know, I love Getty Lee. But I'll be
honest with you, it's interesting that you mentioned the drums run because when I
listened to a Rush song, and I'm not I wouldn't put them in my
top ten of favorite bands, but I certainly respect them. I think I'm
kind of sick of them growing up, because you know, you hear the
same songs over and over on classic rock radio. But when I listen to
Rush, I tend to listen to the drums because Neil Peart's drum drum lines
were just very intricate, very but but he wouldn't overplay it was tasteful but
very complex. And uh, you know, if you listen to a song
like Limelight, I get I totally focus on the drums, you know,
Getty Lee's voice, I never really like that much. Incredible bass player,
and of course Alex Lifeson as an incredible guitar player. But but Neil Pierrett
one of absolutely one of the best. Even though I wouldn't put Rush in
my top ten of favorite bands, if I made a list, I would
put Neil peartt easily and probably my top five of drummers. Just an incredible
drummer. Yeah, and we and we lost him unfortunately. He died of
cancer a number of years ago and went through a lot of tragedy too.
But what a talented guy. Absolutely, Okay, buddy, that was it
and I'm still listening. Good show, all right, Ron, thank you.
I appreciate it, my friend, Thank you, all right, bye
bye? All right. That was our friend, Ron, And that does
open up the line for you. Six zo three two five O six z
seven six three two five zero six zero seven. Um. Yes, sounds
like Melanie law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont. She agreed with me
about the Jason Aldeen song. She said, I was totally thinking that I
think racist people will hear it that way. Yeah. Yeah, Like I
said, I don't think. I don't think there's anything racist about the song
itself. Um, but I but I think that you can, um,
you can certainly, uh you know, like any art, you can project
onto it whatever you want to. And again, so I guess my my
verdict is not guilty on the racism. But uh, if you do happen
to be racist, you probably really like that song. I don't know how
else to say it. Um uh, but you know it's it's catchy enough.
Jason Aldeen he's been around for a long time. Uh, Like he's
not super old, but he's not a young guy either. It seems like
he's been around a long time. Um. And by the way, thank
you again for to DJ Steve for the heads up on the uh the bad
word. So I had to find a radio version of that clean edit,
which was easy enough to do. But boy, that I'll tell you what
those country artists getting edgy in twenty twenty three. Um, so that's what
I think. Um yeah, yeah, the line about the about good old
boys, a bunch of good old boys, Um, that might be the
closest thing in the song that I can think of in terms of sort of
mate, what might cause someone to perceive in a certain way, shall we
say? To put it that way? But I don't. I don't agree
with all the uh you know, I know, Cheryl Crowe, she tweets.
Oh. The other thing too, is um, the other thing people
are criticizing it for is saying that it celebrates violence, it promotes violence because
there's a line in there, something about taking my gun, you know,
try to take my gun. You know. I mean, I'm a pro
Second Amendment guy myself, So I mean here in New Hampshire were armed to
the teeth, but we're also very safe here. Um. You know,
again, I don't, but I don't take that as promoting violence. I
take that as uh, you know, one not wanting to give up his
gun. Again. You can project onto it what you wish. It's art,
you know, it's open to individual interpretation. But I don't. I
don't take it as I don't. I don't find it offensive at all.
And you know, I'm pretty uh, you know, I'm pretty sensitive to
those things. But I don't. I don't have any problem with it.
That's my verdict. Dylan Reynolds. He's also in the chat room, he
says, Rush drummer Neil Pierre. He is phenomenal. Yes. Oh,
John Hopwood says, did Dave Ridley Collin? No, he did not,
And I actually was hoping he would call today because I wanted to talk to
him about Free Talk Live and that story. So maybe he'll join us tomorrow.
We don't have a I don't think we have a guest tomorrow either.
Hue the Gecko says. Johnny Earthquake Band plays the flat slide seal guitar and
gives lessons on how it works to all ages. Great educational performance at Rocks
Top, New Hampshire. Musician Yeah, Johnny Earthquake Johnny Earthquake Band, Yes.
New Force of the Spark says we listened to an eighties band, the
Cars hashtag Matt good news hashtag Mat. They are reunited as a pop singing
group. Quartet is BP and T book beat and true No already, Hue
the Gecko says, love your review of that, Matt extremely non biased?
Well, I try, I try to give you my and that's why I
intentionally didn't listen to it until I could do so live on the show.
Now, just quickly on the subject. Let's see. Because I am open
minded, I want to just look up. I should have done this already,
but I was really focused in on those lyrics. I didn't want to
miss anything. I'm looking up Jason Aldeen's song controversy because I just want to
take a closer look at what some of the people who do have a problem
with it, what they're saying. So we'll look at this article on NPR.
This was just posted three hours ago. How Jason Alden's try that in
a Small Town became a political controversy. Says here Country Music Television says it
will no long Oh interesting, Now the video. I need to watch the
video. I will watch the video after the show today and we will circle
back to this conversation tomorrow, because apparently the problem that some people have is
the video. And I would have watched the video while we played the song,
but Steve DJ Steve gave us the heads up that the song has a
bad word in it, and I assume the version they use in the video.
I mean, obviously the one they play on Country music television is censored,
but the one on YouTube may not be. So I didn't want to
risk it, but apparently some people have a problem with the video, so
I will have to look at that because there might be a whole other dimension
of this. But so according to NPR, CMT says it will no longer
air the try That in a Small Town by Jason Aldeen after critics of the
video said it contained lyrics that glorified gun violence and conveyed traditionally racist ideas.
Now again, I already told you what I think of the lyrics, but
I don't know if the video has some imagery that's more striking. Hue the
Gecko says video not pro piece violence. Definitely the issue here, not race.
Interesting. I'm gonna watch that right after the show because I'm really curious
now. A CMT spokesperson confirmed the move to NPR on Thursday, but offered
no comment on the reasoning. Since the video's release on Friday, it's emerged
as a familiar kind of political litmus test, with interpretations of its message often
falling along voting divides, which is really what I was saying. Here's an
overview of the situation. Aldin, a forty six year old country singer from
Macon, Georgia, first released a song in May, but it wasn't until
the release of the video on July fourteen, as promotion for his eleventh upcoming
album that the discourse ratcheted up. In a statement released alongside the video,
Aldan said the song represents an unspoken rule for those raised in small towns.
Quote we all have each other's backs, and we all look out for each
other unquote. The singer is not credited as a writer for the song,
as has been the case for most of his twenty seven hit singles. Threats
to outsiders and the implication those outsiders are from cities are present throughout the song's
lyrics, which begin with a list of crimes that might happen in urban settings
sucker punch, somebody on a sidewalk, carjack, and old lady at a
red light, then crescendo into the chorus quote, well try that in a
small town. See how far you make it down the road. Around here,
we take care of our own. You cross that line, it won't
take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't. Aldine ups
the vigilante anti by bridging the second chorus with reference to gun right, singing
quote, oh here's where the s word is I've got a gun that my
granddad gave me. They say one day they're gonna round up. While that
blank might fly in the city, good luck try that in a small town.
I have to admit, just for while we were talking about nanotechnology,
just for a nano second, when I read that line, that line about
they say one day they're gonna round up, that hit me a little different
reading it than it did listening to it. Listening to it, I knew
round up the guns. For some reason, when I read it, it
hit me a little different, just for a nano second. Then I was
like, yeah, yeah, round up the guns. In other words,
they say they're gonna come grab your guns. By the way, nobody's coming
to grab your guns. Just to be clear, I don't care what the
NRA tells you. No one's coming for your guns. But okay, So
now this part seems to get to the videos specifically, why is the video
so divisive? Interspersed between shots of alding singing or clips of vandalizing riots and
police encounters, much of which is evocative is evocative of racial injustice protests.
Interesting some of the scenes bear a Fox News chiron, but others as some
TikTok sleuths have pointed out appear to be stock footage in some cases of gatherings
from other countries, but much of the criticism around the video has less to
do with these clips than its setting, the Morey County Courthouse building in Columbia,
Tennessee, which serves as an American flag draped backdrop for Alldan and his
band. Oh. Okay, here is where it gets interesting. The landmark
was the site of race riots in nineteen forty six, as well as in
nineteen twenty seven lynching, in which a white mob pulled an eighteen year old
black man, Henry, from jail and dragged him through the city by car.
According to several media reports, including one detailed account from the Washington Post,
Choate had allegedly confessed to attacking a sixteen year old white girl quote to
protect his life unquote, even though the girl quote could not positively identify him
as the assailant unquote. The Post reported, Okay, I did not know
this about the video and the historical significance of the location, that's interesting.
That may not be intentional, but it is certainly offering the benefit of the
doubt, perhaps charitably, if that is just a mistake or a coincidence.
That is insensitive of someone not to realize that and to put this out because
you have to know that people are going to figure that out. What is
al Dean saying. On Tuesday, al Dean pushed back hard against accusations he
was pro lynching, saying such an interpretation ghost too far and is dangerous.
He wrote on Twitter, quote, there's not a single lyric in the song
that references racer points to it. Try that in a small town. For
me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up,
where we took care of our neighbors regardless of differences of background or belief.
No one, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families
ripped apart. Unquote. Well again, you know, I guess we have
to separate the song from the video. I'm gonna have to watch the video,
Miriam says in the chat. I had to go watch the video.
The production company behind the video, tackle Box, also defended the video's location
as a popular filming spot, telling Entertainment Tonight that any alternative narrative about the
reasons it was chosen were false. Let me stop there. Now, that's
entirely possible. It's entirely possible that they didn't know, and that is a
popular filming spot and not everyone has the cultural sensitivity to think about we should
see if there's any problem here, if there's any history to this spot.
So that's entirely possible. I'm not excusing it, though, because we live
in a time when people should kind of know better, right, So assuming
they didn't know, and assuming it is a coincidence, that is a pretty
damn unfortunate coincidence. It you know, that it happens to have been there
with the history of that location, So that's not good. Miriam says.
There's a lot of footage of protests in the video Let's see. Aldine has
received five Grammy nominations, including two for Best Country Album, for his decades
of music depicting rural, blue collar life, and throughout that success, he's
rarely shied away from sharing his right leaning political views. His wife, Brittany
Alden, and his sister Casey Rosa Wis launched a conservative clothing line dedicated to
trolling liberals. All Deane defended dressing his children in anti Joe Biden attire and
himself for wearing what and himself for wearing black face as part of a twenty
fifteen Halloween costume. Dude, No, twenty fifteen, that's only eight years
ago. No, you should know better, man. No, you don't
do that the rest of it. Fine, you're a conservative, you want
to troll liberals? Fine, but blackface in twenty fifteen, dudeho, come
on, man wow. He was spotted golfing alongside Donald Trump and delivered an
impromptu performance at the former president's Marlago resort, But at other times, the
singer has tried to walk more nuanced line toward politics, perhaps most memorably after
surviving the twenty seventeen mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival. Aldine was
performing on stage as an ice closing act when the shooting began. Six months
later, he tiptoed through the refreshed gun control debate, saying in an interview
that tragedies shouldn't be used as fodder for political arguments, but ultimately agreed that
it was quote too easy to get guns unquote in the US. That is
a nuanced position. I mean he is saying he agreed that it was too
easy to get guns that's interesting. So he's capable of approaching these things from
a nuanced and and seeing these things as complex. So that's that's good.
Let's see. Yeah, we're out of time. There's more to this,
but that's okay. We'll circle back to this tomorrow though. Yeah, Miriam
says in the chat, Oh my god, crossed a line with the black
face. Yeah, that's uh wow, I didn't expect that. Jeez.
All right, Well that's that's really unfortunate. That's a that's a pretty stunning
lack of judgment, you know, I mean it's and and we you know,
we've seen political figures get into some pretty uh scandalous positions, shall we
say, when you know, they have to answer for, you know,
something they did in college or something, or a picture of them in blackface
for Halloween and they have to apologize and say, well it was I was
young. I didn't realize how insensitive that was and the history of that and
whatnot, and I know better now and this and that. But this guy
in twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, Uh wow, I guess you can try
that in a small town and get away with it, see what I did
there, But uh, that's really and there isn't anything in the article about
him ever apologizing for it. Yikes. All right, well, we are
out of time. If you miss any part of today's show it we'll be
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tomorrow. Oh Hue, the gecko says, always sunny in Philadelphia. Mac,
I'm never sure how to say that name. Elhenny did Blackface December twenty
twenty one air date with the full support of FX. Wow. Well,
of course, the character is on that show are depicted as being sort of
horrible, so kind of like kind of like Seinfeld in that sense. Obviously
that was done in character. But I am surprised though that FX allowed that
December twenty twenty one. Wow, that's our yses me. Okay, yeah,
don't do that. No black face kids, y'all ought to know better.
And if, by the way, if anyone wants to say, oh,
Matt's being woke. Yeah, fine, that's just fine. Call me,
call me whatever you want, Call me a woke liberal, call me
whatever. I don't think anyone should be wearing black face. Okay you can,
you know, call me, ah, I don't know, call me
a call me that's I'm just wow. I'm having a hard time getting past
that little detail. All right. Well we'll end with we'll end with a
little bit more. Well a time to play the whole song. But this
track mixtape by Satellite Union. Our friend Dave Wally is in the chat room
with us. There's another great song, and then uh, that's it for
us for I'll talk to you a little bit later by everybody. That's that's