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Hello, everybody, Welcome, here
we go. It is that time again,

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Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live
from the studios of double Do you

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FM, Inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire,

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also on Comcast ninety seven if you're
in Manchester, and hello to all

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of our online listeners across the nation
and around the globe. You can go

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archives, etc. Etc. Today is

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Thursday July twentieth, two thousand twenty
three, so nice to have you all

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with me. Ronda Faverro of course
all the way on the West coast,

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uh California, says howdy from hot
southern California one hundred six degrees today.

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Well, I just hope it's a
dry heat, Ronda. You know,

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I'll tell you today in Manchester,
we got a little bit of a break.

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Um. Well, it's it's kind
of hot now actually, but um

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not as humid, so a little
bit a little bit easier today. But

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um it's uh, it's hot.
It's the hottest summer on record that happens

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every year. Of course, every
year it's the hottest year, hottest summer,

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and that's uh. I fear not
to be a downer, but it's

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only gonna get worse anyway. Onward
and upward we go. Though at least

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we're in a nice air conditioned studio
here and very appreciative of it. If

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three two five oz six O seven. By the way, today's opening track

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was faded by the band Heel's Throne
or Haile's Thrown. I'm still not sure

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I'm actually saying that quite correctly,
but they are a great European band that

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we had on the show from Germany. I think I remember correctly that we

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had skyping in a few weeks ago, and I still I love that track,

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such a great song that has faded. If you're looking for them online,

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they spell it hel apostrophe s,
so it's like it looks like at

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first I thought it was Hell's Throne
when I first saw the name, but

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then I there's only one L because
it's Heel's throne, and Heel has something

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to do with Greek mythology or something. I don't really remember. I just

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love the music and I really enjoyed
interviewing them, So I was looking for

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something to play it open today's show
because we don't have a musical guest today,

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and I thought, oh, you
know what, I really love that

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song. That's a good opener,
great great track faded. I think at

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the top of the hour today we're
gonna play something from Satellite Union, my

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friend Dave Wally, who joined us
on the show last week his band out

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of Chicago. That song like a
War is very appropriate for the times we

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live, and I think I think
I'm gonna play that today at the top

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of the show. Like I said, we don't have a musical guest now

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something that we I'm gonna kind of
tease this, but I don't like to

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promise that we'll get to it.
But in lieu of a musical guest,

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we are going to do something musical
if we have time, probably save it

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for the second hour of the show
today. But there's a lot of controversy

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around this new Jason Aldean song.
And if you don't know, he's a

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country artist, he's got a song
called try That in a Small Town.

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I would like to play that on
the show and kind of analyze why it's

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got some people very upset. I
have intentionally avoided listening to it. I

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have not listened to it yet because
I wanted to play it live on the

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air on the show and just kind
of give you my in the moment spontaneous

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reaction to it and my thoughts on
it. Some people are saying it's racist,

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we'll see, we'll see, or
that it celebrates a gun violence and

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so forth. But I want to
I want to judge for myself and hopefully

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get some listener feedback on it too. So hopefully we'll get to that in

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the second hour. I say hope
fully, because if you're new to the

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show. Um, you know,
obviously it's we're live, and if there's

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some big breaking news that happens in
the realm of politics, Yeah, we

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don't always get to the things I
have planned. I always come in here

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with a plan, and uh,
you know, I might have five or

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six things ideas of subjects that are
in the news, especially politically, that

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I might like to get to,
and then sometimes we end up not getting

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to any of it because while we're
on the air, something else happened,

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there's some breaking news and so forth, and then we end up getting derailed,

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which is part of the adventure of
it all. But whereas we don't

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have any guests schedule today, we'll
we'll have time to get into some things,

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get caught up on some things also. Do want to look at them

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A couple of irs whistleblowers who testified
before Congress, and I have some thoughts

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on that, and we'll we'll get
into that a little bit today too.

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That was a couple of days ago. Fox News carried it, CNBC,

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CNN did not. Mike Doyle emailed
me about it too, But yeah,

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I did. I did intend to
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probably do that Actually, that'll we'll
do that in the first hour, I

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think so. Uh, Like I
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caught up on some things. Also, I'm hoping that our friend Dave Ridley

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calls in today. If you heard
yesterday show, you might have heard Dave

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called in. But it was during
our our segment. You know, I

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call it my Favorite Conservative that's the
official name of the segment now that we

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do Wednesdays with my friend Eric Pilcher
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And John

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Hopwood was here as well. So
it really wasn't the best time to get

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deep into the subject that Dave was
calling about, our friend Dave Ridley from

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The Ridley Report and NHXIT. But
but essentially he did give us a little

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bit. The radio talk show Free
Talk Live is apparently not going away,

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but they're they're really downscaling. And
you know, I'm a radio nerd.

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I love radio. I love talking
about radio and of course other forms of

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media cable news and so forth.
And that show sort of going away is

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a big deal in the world of
political talk radio if you're not familiar with

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Free Talk Live, because you know, political talk radio is largely dominated by

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conservatives. You have a lot of
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and then you have a few liberal
shows too, but conservatives really dominate

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that space. But you've got a
few liberal shows that are very popular host

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that are very successful, like Tom
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she's more regional, I think,
but but there are some stations on the

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West Coast at carry Arnie as well. But she's she's from New Hampshire.

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But Free Talk Live is the only
really sort of pure libertarian political talk show

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that I can think of there on
seven nights a week, seven to ten

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pm or is it eight to eleven? I think it's seven to ten Eastern

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on more than a hundred stations across
the country. So them sort of leaving

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the stage, if you will,
of radio is kind of a big deal.

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So if Dave, I did ask
Dave to call back in today,

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so if he's able to, if
he calls back in today, we'll get

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into that a little bit because I'm
very interested in what's happening there, And

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of course that relates to it sounds
like it relates to um Ian Freeman,

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who if you're not familiar with Free
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Ian Freeman. He's been in the
news and we've talked about him on the

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show because he was part of that
that bust that happened in Keen over Bitcoin.

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It's all a little bit complicated,
and I'm not sure I completely understand

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it myself, but Ian might very
well be going to prison, So that

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might also play a role in what
is happening to that show Free Talk Live,

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because that's really his baby. He
started that with Mark Edgington or Mark

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Edge as he's known, and I
don't know, I don't know if Mark

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is even still associated with the show
at all. Full disclosure, I did

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at one point have for a while
a professional relationship with them. I was

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never a part of that show,
never involved in that program at all.

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But UM, a streaming service that
my my business operates, we used to

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carry that show on there. UM
we disengaged when during the pandemic, when

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you know, we started hearing you
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stuff UM and medical misinformation and so
forth, which I get very frustrated by

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UM as someone who has taken COVID
nineteen very seriously and takes the pandemic and

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public health in general very seriously.
I didn't like, uh, I didn't

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like being associated with that, you
know, nothing personal against those guys,

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and listen, I mean Ian.
I like Ian personally and professionally. You

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know. I always found him very, very nice to deal with, very

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easy to deal with. UM.
So I'm not I'm not saying anything against

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the guy, just to be clear, but I was certainly uncomfortable, as

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was Jenny, with some of the
content that we were hearing coming out of

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out of that program. So we
distance ourselves from those guys. Unfortunately.

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Libertarians, well, I remember making
a comment on you know, and I

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have some libertarian and me I have
some libertarian views, but I remember making

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a comment on social media, and
I probably lost some friends over it.

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But I during the pandemic and the
throes of of the COVID nineteen pandemic,

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I said, uh wow, I
didn't realize how many how many people I

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know who are really just uh,
you know, these crazy conspiracy theorists.

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And I think some people took that
personally, and I probably indirectly damaged some

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of those uh friendships and perhaps working
relationships as well with that comment. But

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if you know me at all,
and of course, if you're a longtime

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listener of the show, you know
that I don't have a lot of patience

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for nonsense when it comes to the
pandemic and COVID nineteen. I don't you

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know, I don't really allow that
on the show. I mean, don't

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get me wrong. I'm always open
to having policy discussions about it, Like

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if you want to talk on the
program about whether or not you agree with

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mask mandates and shutdowns and things like
that, I'm always open to having a

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policy discussion. But you know,
if I have to hear about, you

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know, just some of the wild
theories, I don't even want to repeat

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any of the things on air that
I've been you know, because then I

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can't put the show on YouTube.
It'll violate their terms of service, which

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brings me to something else too.
I just want to mention briefly if you

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if you are someone who enjoys the
program on Facebook, you know we do,

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of course obviously after the show,
the podcast version is available online.

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We put it online at WMNH Radio
dot org, and of course you can

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get a link to it on my
website and so forth. But all the

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shows are archived there and I put
them on YouTube as well. I suggest

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going to one of those places.
If you're listening to the show after the

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fact, If you're joining us live
on Facebook, that's wonderful, and I

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will say hello everybody on the Facebook
live chat in a moment. If you're

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listening to us live on Facebook,
great, But if you're going back afterward

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and getting us on Facebook. Facebook
is really clamping down now on music being

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played. It used to be we
would occasionally get I would get a copyright

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notification from Facebook and they would say, you know, if I played like

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I used to play the radio edit
of Fight the Power by Public Enemy a

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lot, just as an example,
and then I would get I would get

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a notification from Facebook saying, hey, we've muted the audio. You have

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five minutes of copyrighted audio that we've
muted on your video because of a copyright

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violation. Now, all of a
sudden, they're getting and by the way,

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I always appeal those when I get
them, and I used to always

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win the appeal all of us udon, even even local bands from the area

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that I have on the show coming
in doing live performances. Facebook is muting

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all of that. They're basically muting
all of the music during the show.

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So if you are getting the show
on Facebook after the fact, you're only

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you're you're missing out on part of
the show. Now, maybe you don't

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care about the music part. Maybe
you just want to hear the talk radio

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part, and that's fine. But
if you want to hear the music,

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I suggest you just go to YouTube
or listen to the podcast. For the

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best audio quality, you should just
listen to the podcasts. And that goes

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up after we're live. Actually,
because Facebook has being really aggressive about basically

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they're just muting all the music now. So that's why on Friday nights when

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we do retro Spectrum Radio with Police
Friday nights from eight to eleven pm here

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at WMNH, Paul mutes Facebook entirely
only during his show. He just mutes

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it. We have the Facebook live
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love talking with the listeners on Facebook
while the show is on. But we

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tell everybody just go to the website, go to WMH Radio dot org and

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click listen live. It's better audio
quality than Facebook anyway. You're getting much

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better audio quality if you just stream
it on the site. But you know,

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because if Paul doesn't mute the show. Facebook just kicks us off like

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five minutes into the show. So
so yeah, they're they're clamping down.

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Zuckerberg is clamping down. All right, let's do this. Well, let

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me give the studio line again and
then we'll say hello everybody in the Facebook

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live chat, and then we're gonna
get into some stuff. Six zo three

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two five oz six zo seven is
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five oz six zoo seven. I
do want to say hello everybody in the

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Facebook lave chat. Looks like a
busy chat room. J Fat of course

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is in the chat from the great
state of Vermont and says good afternoon everyone.

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Rondo Faverro we mentioned in there.
Oh, speaking of musicians. By

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the way, my friend Ryan LeMay
is in the Facebook lave chat says hey,

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mister Connerton, stay cool. My
brother, thank you, thank you.

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And our friend Ron is on the
line. Hi Ron, Hi did

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um. I could either call you
after the show on your own personal line

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or just ask you a quick question
right now? Would a follow up discussion?

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Would have follow up with my sister
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if things what could work out.
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her, or have her call me. She has my number. Obviously I

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other. Oh okay, yeah,
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can do that. Thanks, look
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Thanks Ron, Bye bye? All
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our friend Ron. Just a point
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he was he was calling to uh
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which is wonderful. But that's that's
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I just I thought I should clarify
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a minute, you did us?
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with Ron's sister? What? What? What is he talking about? That's

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that's what it is about. So
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Oh. Dave Wally is in the
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you earlier at the top of the
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called Satellite Union that I'd become a
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Let's see Mike from Queen City Cabinetry
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of course, not only one of
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too. Is this yes? So? What are your rights the sport service?

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could you please be less creepy?
Whoever you are? What is going

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like that I called him creepy.
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recognize the caller ID, though,
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recognize the caller ID. I recognize
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see that person? Uh? You
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I think I think he was looking
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Oh. Miriam Banish joins us in
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is an amazing hypnotherapist. Thank you, Mariam, I appreciate that very much.

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Appreciate that very much. Uh.
DJ Steve, speaking of co hosts

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on Retrospectrum Dios in the chat and
says, good afternoon, Matt and everyone.

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Hello to you, sir. Let's
see. Oh, freeband Prince is

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in the Facebook live chat, a
very talented hip hop artist from the Great

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State of Florida, joins us,
or I don't know if I haven't talked

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to him in a while. I
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hope you're doing well regardless. But
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of year, and there's a lot
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Hello to a new force of the
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North Carolina. Hello hashtag Matt,
we said, and good afternoon.

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Yes oh, Miriam Banish recommends listening
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indeed, we do upload the show
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is in the Facebook live chat and
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the Spark says, oh, no, sad news. We said, sad

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news is Isaac Banks, friend from
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Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.
She was a nice lady, June Rash

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from Greensboro, North Carolina. She
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I did not know this person,
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like to extend my condolences, and
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there's a number of jokes that leap
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be inappropriate in a moment like this, and a couple of which would potentially

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even get me fired. So,
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North Carolina. I from what I
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the Spark. She was a nice
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June Rash. Okay, that's the
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was a very brief, kind of
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it's radio. You can't really have
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was somebody one time who wanted to
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I have a moment of silence for
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and you know, and he wanted
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a minute of silence, And I'm
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five seconds too long. You know. We gotta move it along. You

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gotta have silence. Paul sees in
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Matt big Fan. Oh, I'm
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We are a supergroup from Manchester,
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which totally makes sense. That's right. Also, Eric Street joins us in

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the chat and says, no entertainment
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easyg Eric Gagnon he is our entertainment
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from him and he has not called
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Thursdays. I don't know why.
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but I do know that he has
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telling anyone that he's disappeared or disappearing. Although I guess if you're truly disappearing,

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you wouldn't tell anyone. And there
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he says, I am back,
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Is it really you? Or has
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to be you? Just because it
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Eric Gagnon is a very common name. I would mention I went to grade

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school with like seven or eight people
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law Liberty from the Great State of
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guys, well, if you really
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Agne and the Facebook live chat,
I hope you're all right. I hope

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nothing terrible is happening to you,
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done something horrible that keeps you from
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like to call it. You're Amanda
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a new force of the Sparks,
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Michael Martineau aka Texas Mike. Yes, I'm not sure why you're mentioning Texas

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Mike, but we love Texas Mike, so that's fine. Unless Texas Mike

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was a good friend of June Rash. If you're just joining us, June

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Rash of Greensboro, North Carolina has
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his entertainment report in the chat room. Easyg, says April Cushman on wmu

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R chronicle at seven pm tonight.
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Yes, at Arizon Channel nine here
in the Queen City. All right,

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let me give the studio line again
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You can also text me at six
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seven six. I'm on social media
at Matt Connerton, and of course you

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can email me Matt at Matt Connerton
dot com. You can interact und opine

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in the Facebook live chat, but
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studio line six zo three two five
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other day, but just a quick
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what um, media eight has.
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a picture here of Senator Ted Cruise
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Senator Ted Cruise of Texas. I'm
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some sort of comedian or something.
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what I'm talking about. If you
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if you go to media ie and
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you will see the picture. I'm
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the chatran says, I need my
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I don't know what the problem is. This is on media Senator Ted

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Cruz's bizarre war on fictional characters moves
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and part time podcaster Ted Cruz is
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but he also has a history of
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way, Ben Shapiro did that recently
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has risen to the surface in the
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Barbie. Although most people would view
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of the most beloved children's toys in
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on the theory the plastic blonde is
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propaganda. Mm let me guess the
Barbie dolls are made in China. I

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haven't pre read this, so I
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guess. Let's see. I like
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I don't know where this is going, but I must tell you I

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am intrigued, and I hope you
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Barbie dolls that he saw and he
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know. Let's learn together, says
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for the film showed a map drawn
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indicating that China owns the South China
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I'm still not convinced, but I
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interview with Fox News is Jesse Water's
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the film is trying to kiss up
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money in the region on the film. Unfortunately, this is just one of

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several wars Crews has waged back.
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crosshairs on Sesame Street and in particular
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a wicked kami. I mean,
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feathers and the beak, and I
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he had received a COVID vaccine.
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We want to force everyone to get
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I'm gonna have to edit this part
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because even though I'm being sarcastic,
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it is medical misinformation. I'm not
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I don't think I am, but
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mean, you know, I advocate
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mean health Look at my hat,
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from Big Bird at Big Bird if
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or tweeter because it's big Bird.
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Instead of that's why I'm an afternoon
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COVID nineteen vaccine today. My wing
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give my body an extra protective boost
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at Erica our Hill even said I've
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bird. I had no idea Cruise
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Big Bird a muppet? What do
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because it's the Sesame Street and the
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know. I might be wrong about
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and said, government propaganda for your
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there is a history of conservatives getting
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be healthy. I remember, and
I'm not. If you think I'm making

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this up, I promise you I'm
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You'll find it immediately. During the
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I got to see this up close
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I was a co host on a
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Grenades, hosted by my good friend
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He passed away within the last year
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great great friend. Even though we
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I was constantly surrounded by a conservatives
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a conservative, but I remember I
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When Michelle Obama rolled out her campaign
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god, conservatives were furious, saying, Michelle Obama wants to control what your

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children eat, thus proving that she's
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worst person ever except for her husband. And oh conservatives were so angry.

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There's this thing to encourage kid Steed
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John Hopwood is in the Facebook live
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a trojan horse for the transagenda.
Big Bird is a fictitious character. Officially,

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yes, yes to both. Scott
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Rock, Matt, that's also Jim
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Rock when I was a kid.
That was on HBO. That wasn't on

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regular TV. It was on HBO
so they could get a little risk and

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it was okay because it was on
a pay channel. I'm kidding, Fraggle

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Rock was never risk. That's a
joke. Let's see. In two thousand

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and two, Cruise gained word that
another Sesame Street star and literal puppet,

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Elmo, had received the vaccine as
well. It didn't take long for Cruise

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to blast the childlike fictional character for
providing zero scientific data on COVID vaccines and

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the commercial. Here's what Cruz tweeted, quote, thanks at Sesame Street for

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saying parents are allowed to have questions. You then have at Elmo aggressively advocate

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for vaccinating children under five, but
you cite zero scientific evidence for this.

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Learn more? Okay. In April
twenty twenty two, Crews joined fellow Republican

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Ron de Santis in bashing Disney for
speaking out against Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.

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00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:29,000
He don't say gay d quotes so
no one gets upset. He warned

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00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,720
parents that soon the entertainment Giant would
portray micke him out. Okay, I'm

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00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:38,119
not even gonna read that. That's
actually never mind. Okay, I don't

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00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:48,880
want to ruin anyone's childhood with what
they talked about. Yeah, it goes

420
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,720
on. Wow, Ted Cruz really
as a fixation with this stuff. I'm

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00:31:53,759 --> 00:32:00,720
skipping some of this. In recent
weeks, Cruise has expanded his outrage whe

422
00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:04,519
allows to include inanimate objects. He
took to the Senate floor earlier this month

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with the dire warning that you're air
fryar could be spying on you. Cruce

424
00:32:10,039 --> 00:32:15,519
proposed a bill that would mandate the
companies disclose if everyday household products and appliances

425
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have cameras and microphones installed. Cruce
said, quote, I don't think the

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00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,359
American people want their air fryer spine
on them, and at a minimum,

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they have a right to know if
their air fryar is spine on them.

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00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,319
Unquote. Okay, I'm gonna tell
you all something, and Jenny knows this.

429
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,920
I'm gonna share something. I'm suddenly
a little bit alarmed and this had

430
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,640
never occurred to me before. We
have an air fryar in our home.

431
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We have someone who lives with us, Jenny and I do. His name

432
00:32:43,799 --> 00:32:47,000
is DJ Reckless, also known as
Christian Lacosse, but professionally is known as

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00:32:47,079 --> 00:32:52,759
DJ Reckless. He did purchase an
air fryar, and he does use the

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00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:59,359
air fryar. So, Jenny,
if you don't mind if at some point

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before I get home home, could
you please check the air fryer that Christian

436
00:33:02,519 --> 00:33:07,559
brought and make sure there is not
a camera in it. I am deeply

437
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,720
concerned about the air fryar. Look, sometimes crazy people turn out to be

438
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:15,880
right. I'm trying to think of
of an example, and nothing leaps to

439
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:22,160
mind. But I'm sure there's an
example of somebody saying something so insane and

440
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:25,400
irrational, irrational almost at irrationale.
I think that's how you say it in

441
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:32,359
French irrationale, and then it turns
out to be true. But Jenny says,

442
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,240
I'm on it, thank you,
thank you. I don't want to

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be spied on by appliances. What
if the senator, I mean, look,

444
00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:42,799
they keep reelecting him in Texas,
so he must know something. He

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00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:51,359
must know something about appliances at least. Oh you know how they're folks of

446
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:58,519
his ilk are very upset about this. Information about gas stoves aren't necessarily good

447
00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:00,240
for you, And so of course
Lea jumped to, oh, they're coming

448
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:06,079
for our gas stoves. What if
it turns out now, wouldn't this put

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00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:10,440
them in an ideological bind? What
if it turned out that gas stoves are

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spying on us? How do they
then explain their love of gas stoves?

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00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,000
All right, so that's Ted Cruise. I have wondered, and I can't

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00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:29,400
be the only one who wonders.
Is it possible? Is it at all

453
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,760
possible that Ted Cruise that this whole
thing is just performance art, and that

454
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,039
he actually knows exactly what he's doing
and he's not really doesn't really have these

455
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:45,960
fixations on inanimate objects and fictional muppet
characters and so forth. Is it possible?

456
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,360
We all have to wonder, don't
we? Because I have to tell

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00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,599
you if one day, if the
day ever comes where Ted Cruise finally just

458
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:57,280
comes out and says, hey,
I fooled you all, and I've been

459
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,719
playing the Sack character, I would
actually really respe back to that if it

460
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,599
was if it turned out to be
some sort of Andy Kaufman thing where he's

461
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:08,440
not really this guy, Because there's
been moments that I've wondered. I don't

462
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,719
know why, I don't know what
it is, but sometimes I mean,

463
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,880
look, they're all performative to some
degree. Right, I forget who it

464
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:22,159
was. It might have been Eric's
swallow. Well, somebody said they were

465
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:27,639
sitting on a committee with Ted Cruz. A Democrat said they were sitting on

466
00:35:27,639 --> 00:35:30,440
a committee with Ted Cruise, and
they were they were new. They were

467
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,159
either new on the committee or they
had recently been elected, so they were

468
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:37,960
new there. And during a bathroom
break, you know, they had gotten

469
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:44,440
to some sort of a heated discussion
or discourse with Ted Cruz. During a

470
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,559
bathroom break, this guy goes to
the men's room and Ted Cruise walks in.

471
00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:52,760
He also had to use a press
room, obviously, and after Ted

472
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:58,320
Cruise washes well, they both washed
their hands and Ted Cruise actually reaches over

473
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,039
and gives them a fist bump,
gives this Democrat a fist bump and says,

474
00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:06,320
you're doing a great job out there, and it's like it's it's things

475
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,199
like that that make you go,
well, is this is all of this

476
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:16,239
even more performative than perhaps we even
think it is. DJ Steve says,

477
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:22,440
I'll be checking my electric stove for
cameras and Mike's let me know, because

478
00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:29,800
let me tell you something, if
it turns out that your electric stove is

479
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:36,239
spying on you, you will want
to Now, obviously, I would suggest

480
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,679
you notify our congressional delegation here in
New Hampshire. You know, perhaps reach

481
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:45,920
out to Senator Hassant, but I
would suggest actually going directly to Ted Cruz.

482
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,800
I don't mean literally travel to Texas, but I would contact Ted Cruz

483
00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:57,000
and let him know. And next
thing you know, you might be testifying

484
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:05,119
in front of the Senator on a
committee about electric stoves and microphones and you'll

485
00:37:05,159 --> 00:37:10,159
be famous. It'll be great.
John Hopwood posted this from Wikipedia the Hard

486
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to Believe Department. Crews then attended
Harvard Law School, where he was a

487
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:20,039
John m Olin Fellow in Law and
Economics. He was a primary editor of

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00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:22,880
the Harvard Law Review. And it
goes on and on. It's very very

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00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:28,000
impressive. See it's things like that
that make me wonder is he really I

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00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:32,440
mean, this absurdism that he projects, is it genuine or is he playing

491
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:37,800
some sort of a character or is
it a mix of both. I mean,

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00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,320
I do think there are people who
get into politics and probably other forms

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00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:50,480
of quote unquote entertainment who maybe they
sort of they start out as themselves,

494
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:54,800
but then they start to play up
certain aspects of their personalities and then eventually

495
00:37:54,840 --> 00:38:00,239
they become the person who they've been
pretending to be, and you know it's

496
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,119
who knows, who knows? All
right, we will move on from that

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00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:06,000
because I do want to get to
I have something here. Um. This

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00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:09,719
is regarding the hearing the other day
with these IRS whistleblowers. I do want

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00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,159
to get to this. This is
from the Hill dot com. Five takeaways

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from Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower hearing.
Before we do that, let me give

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00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:20,599
the studio line again six zo three
two five six seven six zo three two

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00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:22,480
five six z seven. You might
have thoughts on this. You might have

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00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:28,280
thoughts on microphones in appliances, or
you might have thoughts on big bird,

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00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:34,880
whatever you would like to interject with. But so this is from this is

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00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,199
from the other day. We haven't
had a chance to get to it yet

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00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:43,360
this week, but Republicans and Democrats
sparred over the significance of the tax crimes

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00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:50,079
investigation into Hunter Biden at a House
Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday that featured two IRS

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00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:58,320
whistleblowers, with the GOP arguing the
president's son was spared from true justice,

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00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,639
while Democrats argued he was thorough investigated
by a team formed under the former president

510
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:07,400
and led by a Trump appointed attorney
and that that's an important detail. There's

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00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,519
there's a lot of things to remember
here, that this was a this prosecutor

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00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:20,599
was appointed under Trump. And let
me just say too, before we get

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00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,000
deeper into this. You know,
I'm I'm all for I mean, you

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00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:30,920
might think that I would say that. Some of you might expect me to

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00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,320
say that, you know, I
don't think hearings like this should go on

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00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,280
and whatnot. No, I would
never say that. I'm actually a big

517
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:43,639
fan of oversight and a big fan
of transparency and investigating, getting things out

518
00:39:43,639 --> 00:39:47,639
in the open and so forth.
Now, unfortunately, these types of things

519
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:54,639
very often wind up not being particularly
productive because what these really are and both

520
00:39:55,079 --> 00:40:02,440
both Democrats and Republicans do this,
what these hearings really are about, if

521
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:07,719
we're being honest about it, And
again this applies to both the left and

522
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:14,679
the right. These public hearings usually
not much actual information has learned from them,

523
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:20,480
not much comes out, but it
is an opportunity for everyone participating in

524
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:25,280
the hearing, even the witnesses really, but especially those senators or those congressmen

525
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:30,960
depending on which House of Congresses conducting
the hearing, for them to raise their

526
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,519
profiles, for them to get some
national TV time on the news channels,

527
00:40:35,519 --> 00:40:39,400
to be talked about in media.
It's an opportunity for them to boost their

528
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:45,760
public images because they all get to
and some of them really And again that's

529
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,760
why it's probably good that I talked
about Ted Cruz and my speculation about how

530
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,079
performative what he does and says is, because it kind of leads in it's

531
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:59,719
a good segue into this subject because
very often that's what these hearings are.

532
00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:05,880
The hearings aren't about getting to the
truth necessarily necessarily. Now that doesn't mean

533
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,239
that we don't get that some of
that from these hearings. So I'm not

534
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:13,480
saying the hearings are useless and are
only performative. But what I am saying

535
00:41:13,559 --> 00:41:17,679
is there's a high degree of performance
are to these hearings, to these kinds

536
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:23,320
of hearings, whether it's this,
whether it's you know, the Democrats impeaching

537
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,360
Trump. Not that I don't have
my own issues with Trump, as you

538
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,480
know, if you're a regular listener, I don't like Trump at all.

539
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:36,800
But when you see those you know, or the January sixth Committee, which

540
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,239
I supported. By the way I
supported the January sixth Committee, I thought

541
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:45,280
that was a worthwhile thing to do. But let's be honest, everyone's sitting

542
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:51,000
well, with the exception of maybe
Liz Shaney and Adam Kinsinger. But but

543
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,480
I think they did themselves more harm
than good in a sense. But you

544
00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:59,360
know, when you've got it's a
chance to get TV time, right,

545
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,079
it's a chance to raise your public
profile, which will help you in your

546
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:06,239
political career down the road. Or
if nothing else, you know, a

547
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,760
clip of you ranting about something might
work well in a campaign ad when you're

548
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:16,400
running for reelection. So but anyway, So I just I kind of view

549
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:25,079
this from a little bit of a
cynical mind. But that doesn't mean it's

550
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:29,480
without value. Again, no matter
who it is, no matter what party.

551
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,360
I'm a big fan of oversight.
I'm a big fan of getting things

552
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:36,559
out in the open. And if
you think you have something on somebody that

553
00:42:36,599 --> 00:42:38,840
the public needs to know about,
let's hear it. Let's let's get it

554
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,679
out there and listen. People can
make their own judgments. Now, Unfortunately,

555
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,199
people will tend to make their own
judgments most people through a strictly partisan

556
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,599
lens, you know, So if
you're a Republican, you're probably going to

557
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:54,679
look at these hearings and say,
wow, look they really they proved that

558
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:00,719
Hunter Biden is Satan and should be
putting price and for the rest of his

559
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:06,800
life. And if you're again I'm
being hyperbolic, I know, but if

560
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,599
you're a Democrat, you're likely to
look at this and say, this was

561
00:43:08,639 --> 00:43:15,079
a colossal waste of time and these
whistle blowers are full of it, and

562
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:21,840
and that's it, and this is
all a pointless and useless Again, that

563
00:43:22,119 --> 00:43:24,440
just tends to be. You know, people pick their sides and they go

564
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:30,000
into looking at something like this through
a purely partisan lens. But again,

565
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:32,679
I would like to look at this, you know, take a step back

566
00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:37,239
and look at it from a broader
view. I am a fan of oversight,

567
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,800
congressional oversight, but I also do
look at it through a bit of

568
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,039
a jaundice, with a bit of
a jaundiced eye, shall we say,

569
00:43:45,079 --> 00:43:52,760
although I've never actually had jaundice.
Oh. Also from media, I John

570
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:57,280
posted this in the chat room.
Cruise was I'm sorry, not from media,

571
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,400
I from Wikipedia. Rather, Cruz
was introduced to smoking cannabis after joining

572
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:08,079
the Senate by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham. Those criminals, okay, new force

573
00:44:08,119 --> 00:44:10,960
of the Sparks says, we say
good speech hashtag Matt, thank you.

574
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,800
I'm not actually making a speech.
If it comes across that way, I

575
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:20,280
don't mean it to, but I
do rant and pontificate. Okay, says

576
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:29,199
here Irs Special Agent Joseph Ziegler and
his supervisor Gary Shapleigh or Shapley probably Shapley,

577
00:44:29,559 --> 00:44:35,519
who investigated Biden, expressed frustration Hunter
Biden. I think right is what

578
00:44:35,519 --> 00:44:39,519
they were investigating specifically. Let me
back up here. Okay, yeah,

579
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:47,000
Hunter Biden expressed frustration over how US
Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, and

580
00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:53,679
other prosecutors handled the investigation, alleging
authorities slow walked the case and showed preferredial

581
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:59,960
treatment to the President's son. That
House Ways and Means Committee had previously interviewed

582
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:04,960
the two whistleblowers privately, and we
released transcripts just days after prosecutors reached an

583
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,719
agreement for Biden to plead guilty to
two charges of willful failure to pay taxes.

584
00:45:10,039 --> 00:45:15,159
The nearly six hour hearing relayed little
information not already covered in the nearly

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00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:20,559
four hundred pages of testimony from the
two men, with the whistleblowers saying they

586
00:45:20,559 --> 00:45:24,440
could not answer questions outside the scope
of that testimony, but the hearing was

587
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:30,239
revelatory about how both sides of the
aisle could use that testimony. Here are

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00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:37,079
five takeaways from the hearing. Okay, and we'll try to We might hit

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00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:38,480
that break a few minutes late.
I do want to get through this,

590
00:45:38,679 --> 00:45:43,800
but okay, first one again,
this is from the Hill dot Com.

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00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:52,719
Democrats say testimony shows common disagreements.
Democrats largely sought to cast the whistleblowers complaints

592
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:58,519
as common disagreements between investigative staff and
prosecutors, who often have reservations about scoring

593
00:45:58,559 --> 00:46:02,960
convictions on evidence discovered by staff.
Ranking member Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland,

594
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:08,920
said the testimony showed a quote traditional
tug of war unquote between investigators and

595
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:14,079
prosecutors, using as an example the
recent indictment of former President Trump on charges

596
00:46:14,119 --> 00:46:19,760
of misshandling classified documents, where prosecutors
focused on a small number of alleged crimes,

597
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,199
even though investigators said they found more
violations. Shapley, though, pushed

598
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:29,719
back on that assertion, saying that
assistant US attorneys and attorneys in the Department

599
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,760
of Justice Tax Division had agreed with
a number of recommended charges, but not

600
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,440
all were ultimately pursued. So it
sounds like Raskin in other words, what

601
00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:42,440
Raskin is saying. The way I
understand that is, you know, there

602
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,760
are disagreements within law enforcement about do
we investigate this, is this worth going

603
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:53,199
after, should we pursue this charge
or not, should we emphasize this or

604
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,920
be more focused on that in terms
of this investigation and so forth. So

605
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,599
he's arguing that this is just a
natural manifestation of that. But then Shapley

606
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:07,000
pushed back on that and said,
no, that's not what it is.

607
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Representative Dan Goldman, a Democrat of
New York, similarly argued that investigators and

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attorneys often view a case differently.
Goldman said, referencing his work as a

609
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prosecutor, quote, I never met
an agent who didn't want to charge every

610
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possible case. But what I noticed
in five hours of testimony today is that

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neither of you has ever mentioned a
portion of the case. It may not

612
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be so strong, or maybe suspect
or may have a defense, And that's

613
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because that's what the prosecutor has to
think about before charging a case. Unte

614
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,079
Ziegler testified that Weiss offered a rationale
for not pursuing charges for some tax years

615
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where the testimony about Biden's personal life
at that time could sour the changes.

616
00:47:47,079 --> 00:47:51,679
I think that's a typo. It's
supposed to be chances of conviction. Democrats

617
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,800
also argued that, contrary to the
whistleblower's assertion, it sounded like Biden's tax

618
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history was subject to a rigorous review
by investigators and prosecutors. Quote. It

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sounds like Hunter biden saxes were subject
to a great deal of scrutiny and rigorous

620
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review by a large team of expert
investigators who had experience work in complex cases.

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The time, personnel, and all
the resources devoted to this investigation make

622
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it abundantly clear that this investigation was
taken seriously by both the IRS and DJ

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unquote, said Eleanor Holmes Norton,
a Democrat of DC. She also said,

624
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quote, while our witnesses here today
may disagree with US attorney's decisions,

625
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it is undeniable that Hunter Biden was
subject to a thorough and rigorous investigation.

626
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Unquote. Okay, takeaway number two
Jordan accuses wife of changing his story.

627
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Now, by the way, Jim
Jordan is he's an example of someone who

628
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really uses these opportunities to perform,
and if seeing his work over the years,

629
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he never misses an opportunity. He's
very consistent in that. Okay,

630
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it says here. Republican's recent interests
in impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland centers on

631
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a key detail from Shapley's testimony.
Weiss, he said, sought and was

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denied special counsel status as he attempted
to bring charges outside Delaware, with US

633
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attorneys and other jurisdictions allegedly being a
post and bringing charges on their turf.

634
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Weiss has said he never asked for
special counsel status and says he was assured

635
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he would be granted special attorney status
through another statute if he wished to file

636
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charges outside his district. Weiss has
outlined in both a June seventh letter and

637
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a July ten letter that he has
quote never been denied the authority to bring

638
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:58,119
charges in any jurisdiction unquote, but
asked. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Republican

639
00:49:58,159 --> 00:50:01,000
of Ohio, who also sits on
the Oversight Committee, mischaracterized the letters,

640
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:07,440
arguing that Weiss changed his story.
Jordan said, of the letters, quote,

641
00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:10,639
what happened in between those two events, your testimony went public. He

642
00:50:10,679 --> 00:50:15,280
goes, Oh my goodness, I
got to change my story because now the

643
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:22,519
truth is coming out. Unte Weiss's
second letter includes more detail about his zealings

644
00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:25,840
with DJ leaders, saying he was
assured he would be granted special attorney status

645
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:30,400
if needed well in advance of the
meeting, where Shapley asserts he said otherwise,

646
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Raskin said, quote, when you
look at the letters he actually sent,

647
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he didn't change as soon at all. He said the exact same thing

648
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,840
every time, and he even expanded
the answer to be perfectly clear. Unquote.

649
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,400
Yeah, I mean clarifying his story
and giving more detail and so forth

650
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,800
is not the same thing. It's
changing his story. Whether Weiss had interest

651
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:55,440
in either of the two statuses is
largely of interest to Republicans as a way

652
00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,559
to forward a potential impeachment inquiry into
Garland, as he assured lawmaker that Weiss

653
00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:04,800
had quote full authority to bring cases
in other districts if he needs to do

654
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:09,599
that. Unquote. John HOPWOODA says
in the chat room, why would anyone

655
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trust the US attorney appointed by the
Trump administration. There's also John's also commenting

656
00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:25,239
on something else here that we might
get to in the second hour. Shapley

657
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:30,400
also undercut another key factor fueling the
GOP's interest in impeaching Garland, saying he

658
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:35,280
has no evidence a Garland intentionally misled
Congress about Weiss's authority. Shapley said,

659
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,599
quote, let me be clear,
although these facts contradict the Attorney general testimony

660
00:51:38,639 --> 00:51:44,239
and raise serious questions for you to
investigate. I have never claimed evidence that

661
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:50,639
Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress. This for others to investigate and determine

662
00:51:50,679 --> 00:51:54,280
whether those letters contain knowingly false statements. I don't claim to be privy to

663
00:51:54,440 --> 00:52:00,039
United States Attorney Weiss's or Attorney General
Garland's communications unquote. Democrats suggested that the

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whistleblowers may have been confused over two
statuses. Prosecutors can attain appointment as a

665
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:13,039
special counsel versus the special attorney's status. Weiss was assured he could receive if

666
00:52:13,079 --> 00:52:16,960
desired. Ziegler and his testimony asserted
he still believes a more independent status is

667
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,280
needed by those hand handling the investigation. Okay, third takeaway, Here we

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00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:30,440
go, Here we go, Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green, she never fails

669
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:34,760
to disappoint Now she is someone,
by the way, just to be clear,

670
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and I'm curious to know what you
all think, but I don't believe

671
00:52:37,199 --> 00:52:42,039
that she is in any way playing
a character. I do not have any

672
00:52:42,079 --> 00:52:46,239
theory at all similar about her,
at all, similar to the theory that

673
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:51,920
I have about possibly Ted Cruz.
I think Marjorie Taylor Green is as real

674
00:52:52,000 --> 00:53:01,559
as it gets. And that's enough
said about that specifically. But let's look

675
00:53:01,559 --> 00:53:09,519
at her part in the hearing,
because again she did not disappoint Green overshadows

676
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:15,639
hearing with parental discretion advised moment.
I might even have to self edit some

677
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:19,920
of this as I read this on
the air. Perhaps the biggest surprise in

678
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:25,639
the hearing came when Representative Marjorie Taylor
Green, Republican of Georgia, brought sexually

679
00:53:27,119 --> 00:53:34,239
explicit but censored posters of Hunter Biden
to make her point. By the way,

680
00:53:36,159 --> 00:53:39,239
if if you didn't know anything about
these hearings, an I or anyone

681
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:45,039
said to you, explain to you
what happened with this part and said and

682
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:53,159
explained it about the sexually explicit Hunter
Biden posters, someone brought these to the

683
00:53:53,159 --> 00:53:55,519
hearing. If I just told you
that I left all the names out of

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00:53:55,519 --> 00:54:00,280
it except Hunter Biden, of course. And I said, guess who was

685
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,199
responsible for this particular stunt. You
would immediately know it was MTG. You

686
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:07,719
would know, you would know,
You wouldn't have to think about it.

687
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,159
You wouldn't hesitate for a second.
You would say Marjorie Taylor Green, and

688
00:54:09,199 --> 00:54:15,320
I would say, yes, look
who won the pony? An expression I've

689
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:20,360
never used in my life until now, but I like it. I might

690
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,079
use it again. I might use
it. I might use it again tomorrow.

691
00:54:22,079 --> 00:54:24,239
At some point. I won't use
it again today, though I will.

692
00:54:24,599 --> 00:54:29,480
I have a very strict rule.
If I introduce an expression that I've

693
00:54:29,519 --> 00:54:35,119
never used before into my own vernacular, I never use it twice in the

694
00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:37,559
same day. You have to wade
into these things. A year from now,

695
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:42,760
I might be saying, at every
other sentence, we have a call,

696
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,760
and there's nobody there. We don't
have a call. Okay. So

697
00:54:49,039 --> 00:54:52,599
Green said this quote before we begin, I would like to let the committee

698
00:54:52,639 --> 00:55:01,199
and everyone watching at home that parental
discretion is advised. Unquote. Green's questioning

699
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:07,800
included her holding up small posters featuring
graphic sexual photos from the laptop hard drive

700
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:14,960
that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden sensored
with black boxes. That's good, that's

701
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,800
the tasteful way to do it.
The faces of others involved in the sex

702
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,320
acts were censored with black boxes,
but Biden's face is visible in the photos.

703
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:30,199
Her focus on the explicit and salacious
history of Biden, who has been

704
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,360
public about his struggles with addiction,
stands in contrast to Oversight Committee Chairman James

705
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,599
Comer, Republican of Kentucky. James
Comer's past indications that the focus of the

706
00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:45,679
committee's investigation of the Biden families business
dealings would not focus on his personal actions.

707
00:55:46,039 --> 00:55:50,960
By the way, side, note
where did these pictures come from?

708
00:55:51,119 --> 00:55:54,880
Is it possible that Hunter Biden at
that time had an appliance that was spying

709
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:01,800
on him and taking these scandalous pictures. Representative Aliandrea Ocasio Cortez, Democrat of

710
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:08,360
New York said Green's moved to show
quote pornographic images marked a new low for

711
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:12,559
the committee. Frankly, I don't
care who you are in this country.

712
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:19,920
No one deserves that. It is
abuse. It is abusive. Unquote.

713
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,119
Um hey, listen, I will
say this. I mean, I agree

714
00:56:25,159 --> 00:56:30,559
with aoc but she did make sure
to censor everything with those black boxes.

715
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,960
I mean, you know, at
least there was an effort there, you

716
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:43,239
know, some standard of good taste. All right, this is the fourth

717
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,480
takeaway. We'll get through these last
two and then we'll get to break.

718
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:53,480
Democrats argue GOP distracts from injustice for
black and brown individuals. Several black lawmakers

719
00:56:53,519 --> 00:56:58,960
directly challenged Republican claims that the Biden
plea deal shows a two tiered system of

720
00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:04,079
justice, saying the argument minimizes the
experiences of black and brown Americans system proportionally

721
00:57:04,079 --> 00:57:09,000
impacted by the justice system. Representative
Summer Lee, a Democrat of Pennsylvania,

722
00:57:09,079 --> 00:57:14,119
said, quote, I'd like to
address the way my Republican colleagues are attempting

723
00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:16,719
to co opt the phrase two tiered
justice system to make it sound like Trump

724
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:21,280
and his cronies are somehow the victims
here. The reality is that the term

725
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,440
two tiered system of justice is meant
to refer to the very real system that

726
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:30,679
exists in the United States and which
affects black and brown folks, not powerful

727
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:35,559
former presidents and their political allies.
Unquote. By the way, that is

728
00:57:35,559 --> 00:57:38,000
similar to something I've said, you
know, the first time I heard Mike

729
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,679
Pensil was the first one I ever
heard say, you know, Americans are

730
00:57:40,719 --> 00:57:45,039
tired of a two tiered criminal justice
system. They did co opt that phrase.

731
00:57:45,159 --> 00:57:47,599
You see that a lot in politics. One side will co opt something

732
00:57:47,639 --> 00:57:52,280
from the other. The only thing
is, when I've talked about that,

733
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:57,800
I haven't framed it the same way
that she does Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.

734
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:02,360
I've framed it as I guess more
broadly. You know, yes,

735
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:07,119
you have two tiers in that you
have one tier for the wealthy, the

736
00:58:07,119 --> 00:58:10,119
powerful, the elite, etc.
And then another tier for everyone else,

737
00:58:10,159 --> 00:58:14,039
the middle class and the poor.
You could even argue we have a three

738
00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:16,679
tiered criminal justice system, one for
the wealthy, the powerful, the elite,

739
00:58:16,679 --> 00:58:20,199
one for the middle class, and
one for the for the poor,

740
00:58:21,199 --> 00:58:25,000
because the poor do even worse in
the criminal justice system than the middle class.

741
00:58:25,559 --> 00:58:30,320
If you're wealthy, you can hire
you can afford to hire great legal

742
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:35,320
counsel, and the system tends to
protect itself anyway. The elite protect the

743
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,639
elite, et cetera. It's very
much a closed circuit if you will no

744
00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:45,119
pun intended. If you're in the
middle class, you can hopefully afford to

745
00:58:45,199 --> 00:58:50,920
hire a lawyer, but you won't
get the same level of representation that you

746
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,360
would if you were wealthy. And
if you're poor, you're going to get

747
00:58:53,400 --> 00:59:00,400
stuck with a public defender in any
sort of criminal entanglement. No offense to

748
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:06,400
public defenders, but they tend to
be overworked and underpaid. And by the

749
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,840
way, that I believe is intentional. Again, the system is designed so

750
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:19,880
that the poor will get the least
possible defense because they're simply not valued as

751
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,400
much within the system. Thus system
more broadly, not just the criminal justice

752
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:31,079
system, but speaking in broader terms, the system. So that's why you

753
00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:38,159
know when you hear well wire public
defenders so overworked and underpaid, Well,

754
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:45,280
they're overworked because they don't hire additional
public defenders to help, and they're underpaid

755
00:59:45,599 --> 00:59:50,320
so that they either aren't as into
their jobs or they don't stick around long.

756
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,400
That's all in my view. I
can't prove it. It's a theory,

757
00:59:53,519 --> 00:59:57,800
it's a good theory. I think
I'm right. That's all intentional.

758
00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:04,639
That's it may not be entirely conscious, but it is intentional in my view.

759
01:00:06,719 --> 01:00:09,440
Let's see Representative Shan Tell Brown,
Democrat of Ohio listed off a number

760
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:15,559
of statistics on disparities in the criminal
justice system, including within irs, asserting

761
01:00:15,599 --> 01:00:20,119
that black taxpayers are audited at least
three times more often than other taxpayers.

762
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:24,039
Representative Maxwell Frost, Democrat of Florida, also said Republicans were using the term

763
01:00:24,079 --> 01:00:30,519
improperly. He said before listening off
a number of recent and historical examples.

764
01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:35,360
Quote Republicans and Trump complain about a
two tier justice system, co opting the

765
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:39,400
language of the decades long civil rights
movement for blacks, for Black Lives and

766
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:45,079
Black freedom, a movement that they
actually are actively looking to eliminate. It's

767
01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:46,880
black, brown, and poor people
versus everyone else. And I won't accept

768
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:52,920
when Republican politicians look to appropriate the
language of the movement for black lives and

769
01:00:52,039 --> 01:01:00,119
civil rights to fit a political agenda
to defend Donald Trump. Unquote, I

770
01:01:00,199 --> 01:01:02,960
do all five. I thought that
was the fourth one. No, I

771
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:07,599
guess there were five. I might
have I did. I did get all

772
01:01:07,639 --> 01:01:13,039
five of them. I might have
subconsciously forgotten about the Marjorie Taylor Green one.

773
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,199
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two numerow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed

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and we are live from the studios
of w m n H ninety five point

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three FM Inglorious A downtown Manchester,
New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven.

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

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the nation and around the globe.
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Etc. Today is Thursday July twentieth,

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two thousand to twenty three, so
nice to have you all with me.

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had spots open. Yeah, this
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says still got room for a few
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seven three one. That's six ZO
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But those spots do fill up quickly. But that starts tonight at seven

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pm, hosted by the great Ebroderick
Lang. Also, this just went up.

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This is interesting. Um oh that's
actually for um actually, I'm gonna

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01:09:20,039 --> 01:09:26,920
hold off on that. This this
something else, but there something else they're

826
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,600
advertising too, but I'm gonna wait
on that. But um let's see.

827
01:09:32,039 --> 01:09:41,479
Oh, John Hopwood just uh shared
something in the Facebook live chat that will

828
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:46,680
look at here. Yeah, from
the spoon dot Tech, Gormia is putting

829
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:53,239
a camera on a connected air friar. Uh huh wait a minute. I

830
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:58,479
think this is the brand that DJ
Reckless brought home the International Home and House

831
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:02,000
where show starts this weekend. We
know we're going to see lots of announcements

832
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:05,600
around the smart kitchen. Gormia is
one of the first announcing this week.

833
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:11,359
They've added a camera to the brand's
line of connected air fryers. Oh my

834
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:15,399
god, Ted Cruise was right.
This is very distressing. I hope that

835
01:10:15,399 --> 01:10:18,119
that's now. The good news is
our kitchen at home is not smart.

836
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:25,159
It's not a smart kitchen. It's
uh, I'm kidding, no, it's

837
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,039
I don't know. I guess a
smart kitchen would be what what's a smart

838
01:10:29,119 --> 01:10:31,760
kitchen? Like when you go into
the kitchen and you just uh say stuff

839
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,119
and uh, you know, like
you've got the replicator from Star Trek,

840
01:10:35,159 --> 01:10:39,720
it just instantly makes your food.
That would be a smart kitchen, I

841
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,359
hope. Wouldn't it be great if
we get to a point where AI becomes

842
01:10:43,359 --> 01:10:48,479
advanced enough where you can just tell
your smart kitchen to make you lasagna or

843
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:54,640
something and then it appears. That'd
be great. But one thing about that,

844
01:10:55,279 --> 01:10:58,039
when your food appears, I would
want there to be some sort of

845
01:10:58,079 --> 01:11:00,960
sound effect like on Star Trek and
the replicator would create food. There would

846
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:04,439
be a It's not like the food
would just appear like magic or just get

847
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:08,520
beamed there. There would be some
sort of a sound you would hear,

848
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,439
and I would want that too.
I would be deeply disappointed. I would

849
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:16,079
actually be suspicious. If the food
just appeared and there was no sound effect

850
01:11:16,079 --> 01:11:20,199
with it, I would think this
was probably like the impossible burger, where

851
01:11:20,239 --> 01:11:27,840
it's not real meat, and I'd
be very wary of consuming that. Oh

852
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:31,439
Hue the geckos in the Facebook live
chat and said, would ai lasagna be

853
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:36,000
as good as Moms? I don't
know. Now I have a solution for

854
01:11:36,079 --> 01:11:40,039
that though. What you would do
is you would say to Ai, you

855
01:11:40,039 --> 01:11:44,560
would tell the chat GPT or whatever, or the cook GPT, however that

856
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:50,560
works. You would say, make
lasagna like mom. But then the chat

857
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:57,520
GPT would be like, who's Mom? And then you know, I would

858
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,640
say my mom, and then the
chat GPT, if it has a sense

859
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:03,520
of humor, might say something insulting
to me about my mom, and then

860
01:12:04,399 --> 01:12:10,359
and then I would lose my appetite, So it could be very self defeating.

861
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,239
Jenny says, our kitchen is circa
nineteen fifties. Yes, that is

862
01:12:14,239 --> 01:12:17,439
true, so our kitchen is definitely
not a smart kitchen. Mike from Queen

863
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:21,000
City Cabinetry, Oh, he should
know something about this. Queen City Cabinetry

864
01:12:21,039 --> 01:12:24,880
one of our great sponsors here at
WMH, so they can bring your kitchen

865
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:30,319
to life. Wait a minute,
Oh my god. Now this never occurred

866
01:12:30,359 --> 01:12:33,079
to me before, it says in
the ad. It says it right there

867
01:12:33,119 --> 01:12:38,560
in the ad. This is taking
on a whole new meaning as we're talking

868
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:43,439
about smart appliances. Bring your kitchen
to life, Bring your kitchen to life.

869
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,119
That's what Peter White says in the
ad for Queen City Cabinetry, Bring

870
01:12:46,119 --> 01:12:51,399
your kitchen to life, Bring your
kitchen to life. I'm starting to wonder,

871
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:56,119
what are you putting into these kitchens, Mike. Are you putting some

872
01:12:56,159 --> 01:13:01,000
sort of artificial intelligence spy camera type
things that are ultimately going to spy on

873
01:13:01,119 --> 01:13:05,119
us and poison us with our food
or something and then take over the planet.

874
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:12,359
I'm just asking. I'm not accusing
you of anything. I'm just asking.

875
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:15,199
And Mike even said in the chat
room, you're starting to connect the

876
01:13:15,199 --> 01:13:18,319
dots. Matt. I hope that
doesn't mean you're going to have to kill

877
01:13:18,319 --> 01:13:25,680
me. I always thought this was
a little ominous. Bring your kitchen to

878
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:29,479
life, Bring your kitchen to life. And the way Peter says that it

879
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:34,920
sounds so nice, bring your kitchen
to life, It almost sounds too nice.

880
01:13:38,399 --> 01:13:41,119
Is Peter in on this with you? What's going on around here?

881
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:45,000
Are there smart things in this room? I don't know about am I being

882
01:13:45,039 --> 01:13:48,159
spied on? Am I on camera
right now? And don't even wait a

883
01:13:48,199 --> 01:13:54,039
second, what's that? I never
noticed that there before? Wow, this

884
01:13:54,119 --> 01:14:00,239
is a frightening day. John Hopwood
says a smart kitchen should be woke to

885
01:14:00,319 --> 01:14:10,720
eliminate culinary racism. Uh. And
then there's actually a link. Wait,

886
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:16,640
what is this a joke? Let's
see dw dot com culinary ignorance can breed

887
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:30,880
racism. Um, well, this
might explain. Now didn't run to santis?

888
01:14:30,079 --> 01:14:33,760
Uh? When he went to uh
college, didn't he take some culinary

889
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:41,720
courses? This might explain his uh
antipathy toward racism. He's uh all right,

890
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:47,760
Wow, yeah, this gets into
a whole thing. Indian food is

891
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:54,680
not even Indian. I don't my
stomach. I can't handle all this.

892
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,159
I mean, I have my you
know, I'm a left leaning guy,

893
01:14:57,239 --> 01:15:00,399
but I have my Uh, I
have my limits with wokeness. If it's

894
01:15:00,399 --> 01:15:04,600
going to begin to affect my palette
in some way, I certainly don't want

895
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:11,079
to think I'm eating racist food.
That would be quite terrible. Uh.

896
01:15:11,319 --> 01:15:15,640
Let's see. The studio line is
open six ZO three two five o six

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01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:19,920
z seven six zo three two five
ozho six zero seven m. You can

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01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:24,199
also text me at six one seven
nine one seven four four seven six.

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01:15:24,239 --> 01:15:28,199
I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt

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01:15:28,239 --> 01:15:30,760
Connerton dot com. And of course
you can interact end opine in the Facebook

901
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:32,960
live chat. But the best thing
to do so that wegin here and enjoy

902
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:36,760
your dulcet tones is to give us
a call at six zo three two five

903
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:42,680
six seven six zo three two five
oz six zoo seven. Let's get We'll

904
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,880
get caught up with the Facebook live
chat quickly. Here. A new force

905
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:49,760
of the spark says we say we
were listening to you hashtag Matt well,

906
01:15:49,760 --> 01:16:00,680
thank you. John Hopwood says thy
are investigating whom ter Biden. He wrote

907
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,800
Hunter with three us and he said
the instead of they or thy instead of

908
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:10,640
they. It's probably been reading Shakespeare. Thy our investing. I'm not investigating

909
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:15,039
Nahoon Turbiden. But they are claiming
that Barisma paid Hunter five million dollars,

910
01:16:15,159 --> 01:16:19,720
which is legal, and Joe Biden
his father five million, which is a

911
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:26,960
bribe. But this is unverified.
The bribe comes from a human source unverified.

912
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:32,840
That is correct, The source is
unverified. Hughie the Gecko says,

913
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,920
speaking of food for thought, did
you hear the new Jason Aldean's song.

914
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:40,920
Actually, we're gonna get to that. I don't know if you were listening

915
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,520
earlier, but I have not heard
it yet, but I have it qued

916
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,399
up. I'm gonna play it on
the show so I can give you my

917
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:50,720
on the spot in the moment,
unvarnished thoughts and get all of yours as

918
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:59,000
well. Because it is controversial.
Apparently, let's see new Force of the

919
01:16:59,039 --> 01:17:02,119
Sparks as we say. He that
is consequences. Trump is up to something

920
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:09,680
we said, and we say we
ain't gonna like it. Dave Wally says,

921
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,520
thanks again. Matt Cornton unleash,
Yes, said a song I played

922
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:16,399
that was like a war from Satellite
Union. Satellite Union. Sorry, Dave's

923
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:21,800
great band from the Great City of
Chicago. A New Force of the spark

924
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:28,479
says, we are have a spaghetti
for dinner. We said, check it

925
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:33,800
for check those pots and pans for
cameras. Mike says. From Queen City

926
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:39,920
Cabinetry, they are coming out with
countertops that repair themselves if you scratch them.

927
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:45,239
Okay, that is frightening. How
could something, How could something repair

928
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:54,680
itself unless it's alive and self aware? Bring your ene Yes, you would

929
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:58,720
have to bring your kitchen to life, quite literally if in order for it

930
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,840
to repair itself. In my opinion, I'm very this is skynet. This

931
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:11,239
is terminator stuff. Mike says nanotechnology. Yeah, well don't. I don't

932
01:18:11,239 --> 01:18:15,159
even know what that is, but
it sounds a futuristic and sci fi.

933
01:18:15,399 --> 01:18:19,159
I think nanotechnology, you know it. Maybe it repairs itself, but maybe

934
01:18:19,159 --> 01:18:24,000
it also kills us all. I
don't know what's going on here. See,

935
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:28,239
this is why I never learned to
cook, because obviously, not only

936
01:18:28,319 --> 01:18:32,239
would I burn myself because I'm very
much a klutz and I'm exactly the type

937
01:18:32,239 --> 01:18:36,479
of person who would accidentally dump a
pot of boiling water on myself and scald

938
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:45,239
myself and have a third degree burns, but also nanotechnology this is above my

939
01:18:45,279 --> 01:18:51,720
pay grade. I'm sorry. Oh, dj C says, hey, Matt,

940
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,720
I think there's an S bomb in
the lyrics somewhere. Heads up,

941
01:18:56,079 --> 01:18:59,159
really, but it's a country song. They're not supposed to swear. I'll

942
01:18:59,159 --> 01:19:02,239
have to see if I've a radio
at it. Miriam Bannish says, my

943
01:19:02,319 --> 01:19:10,479
husband is a nanotech scientist. Really, Miriam, so your husband knows something

944
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:17,560
about this, does he? M? I have some questions for him.

945
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:27,000
I'm very concerned. New Force of
the Sparks says, we say, thanks

946
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,359
Matthew Saviano for the emoji. He
were the gecko, of course. M

947
01:19:33,079 --> 01:19:38,119
h. Melanie says, Ted Cruz
was right. Well, I for one

948
01:19:38,159 --> 01:19:43,640
am happy people in Hell will be
able to drink ice water. That's like

949
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:45,640
the Hell freeze is over. That's
like a whole new spin on it.

950
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:49,640
I like that. I like that. New Force of the Sparks says,

951
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:54,840
we love the George Foreman grill.
Ah, Yes, I remember those ads,

952
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:59,560
seeing those commercials on late night television
for the George Foreman grill. Didn't

953
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,920
he Nay doesn't have like five kids
and they're all named George, which I

954
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:06,439
think is strange. But I don't
have any children. What do I know?

955
01:20:11,199 --> 01:20:14,560
New Force says, we say,
that is our favorite grill of the

956
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:19,399
George Foreman grill. Are you New
Force? Are you a social media influencer

957
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:24,399
working for the George Foreman grill?
Okay, let me look at this.

958
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:32,960
So DJ Steve said, there's an
S bomb in the Jason Aldean song.

959
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:39,880
So let me see if there's a
radio at it. There probably is,

960
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:42,720
you would think there would be.
If not, if I can't find one,

961
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:48,479
oh, radio version, there we
go. That'll work. I was

962
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:50,720
gonna say, if I can't find
one, we'll have to save this for

963
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:55,000
tomorrow. But all right, so
the name of the song is try that

964
01:20:55,239 --> 01:20:58,439
in a small town. I have
the radio version here, so there shouldn't

965
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:03,359
be any bad words. And again, this is stirred up quite a bit

966
01:21:03,359 --> 01:21:13,960
of controversy, so I'm going to
uh. I think what I'll do is

967
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,920
I'll play the whole thing all the
way through. It's only three minutes.

968
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:20,680
It's a short song in radio.
You know you should be under three and

969
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:26,199
a half minutes anyway for a single. So three minutes is short. And

970
01:21:26,239 --> 01:21:30,119
by the way, a lot of
the New Country tends to be short,

971
01:21:30,239 --> 01:21:32,800
short songs. I think I'll play
it once all the way through, and

972
01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:36,079
then if I think it merits it, I might play it a second time,

973
01:21:36,319 --> 01:21:41,079
but stop at certain points and give
my thoughts. Now, again,

974
01:21:42,239 --> 01:21:48,359
the song is stirring some controversy and
people are saying it's racist. I have

975
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:51,960
not heard it yet. If you're
just joining us. I did talk about

976
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:56,439
this a little bit in the first
hour. I have intentionally avoided listening to

977
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,239
the song because I wanted to play
it live on the air, and I

978
01:21:59,279 --> 01:22:00,720
wanted to hear it for the first
time while live on the air, so

979
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,760
then I can give my thoughts and
get your thoughts and so forth. So

980
01:22:05,039 --> 01:22:11,600
here we go. This is the
new Jason Aldean single that's stirring up a

981
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:15,000
lot of controversy. This is called
try that in a small town. I

982
01:22:15,039 --> 01:22:20,039
apologize in advanced by the way,
to those watching on Facebook. If Facebook

983
01:22:20,159 --> 01:22:27,760
might knock us off for me playing
this song, because obviously it's someone very

984
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:30,760
famous. But if they do,
I will reconnect, But hopefully not.

985
01:22:31,279 --> 01:22:36,359
Lately they haven't been interrupting the live
feed Facebook. They just get I get

986
01:22:36,359 --> 01:22:44,000
a notice later saying we muted this
part of the video. All right,

987
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:58,279
here we go. Here it is
you Better Money buddy, whistle one.

988
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,000
All right. I should clarify,
I don't know why that's at the beginning.

989
01:23:01,399 --> 01:23:04,960
Uh, this is not whistle one
hundred. This is WMH ninety five

990
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:08,880
point three. I don't know why. I don't know why that's at the

991
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:11,600
beginning. If that's part of the
song, or somebody just uploaded it that

992
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:28,319
way. That's weird, okay,
whatever fu somebody on the sidewalk car jacking

993
01:23:28,399 --> 01:23:32,520
the old lady at a red lad
who got on the on the liquor store.

994
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:39,239
You think it's cool. Let the
fool cuts out, cups, spend

995
01:23:39,319 --> 01:23:45,720
in this face, snow vone the
flag and light it up. I think

996
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:53,640
it's a try that is a small
sound. See five and make it down

997
01:23:54,319 --> 01:24:01,279
round here. We take care of
own cross that land. It won't take

998
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:08,640
LOLd for you to find that I
reckon when you don't try that in a

999
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:18,880
SMA town. Got a gun that
my granddad diad me. Do you see

1000
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:26,199
one day? That goes around all
that my flying to see the good look

1001
01:24:26,399 --> 01:24:31,840
and try that in a small town. See it fre make it down the

1002
01:24:32,039 --> 01:24:41,520
room round here. We take care
of you Cross. It won't take blold

1003
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:46,800
for you to find that I reckon
when you don't try that. His home

1004
01:24:46,920 --> 01:25:27,000
town goods based up right. If
you try that sounds wrong town taking.

1005
01:25:28,239 --> 01:25:59,000
I read the und to Whistle one
hundred, the new songs, the fresh

1006
01:25:59,199 --> 01:26:03,720
sound. I don't know why that's
there again. This is not Whistle one

1007
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:12,479
hundred, This is WM ninety five
point three FM. UM Dave Wally says,

1008
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,680
so basically, this is the country
music version of f around and find

1009
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:18,840
Out. Not a fan. I
do like the guitar player, UM,

1010
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:24,479
I like the production. I'm an
audio production nerd, and I do like

1011
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:28,239
the production. I like the way
a lot of new country sounds sonically.

1012
01:26:28,319 --> 01:26:32,159
I'm not a big country fan.
But um, the guitars. You know,

1013
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,640
at a certain point, UM,
and I've talked about this on the

1014
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:43,319
show. UM, a lot of
a lot of heavy rock, the guitars

1015
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:49,399
started sounding smaller and smaller over time, and yet for some reason this new

1016
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:54,600
country, especially in the last ten
years, the guitars actually got louder and

1017
01:26:54,680 --> 01:27:03,319
heavier. It's it's interesting. UM
okay maas Essement and UM. Knowing my

1018
01:27:03,359 --> 01:27:06,960
audience as I do, I might
get some argument on this, which is

1019
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:11,079
good. I welcome that. Actually, UM, I do not think the

1020
01:27:11,079 --> 01:27:18,199
song is racist. UM. However, I UM and and I will go

1021
01:27:18,279 --> 01:27:21,600
further and say, if if you
think that song is racist, I think

1022
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:30,039
you're you're really reaching Um. However, I will say this. I can

1023
01:27:30,279 --> 01:27:40,439
understand h I can see where people
how should I say this? It's one

1024
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:47,800
of those things where I don't think
it's racist, But I think that people

1025
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:55,000
who are racist probably really like that
song. Does that make sense? In

1026
01:27:55,039 --> 01:27:59,720
other words, I don't think the
song is racist, but you could ease

1027
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:04,600
a you could easily project certain things
on it based on the imagery of the

1028
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:09,560
song, at least the imagery of
the song that has evoked in my mind.

1029
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:14,279
You could project things on it from
either direction. In other words,

1030
01:28:15,239 --> 01:28:25,439
if you are racist, you can
hear that song and probably think, yeah,

1031
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:30,640
good old boys, Yeah that's right, and h and and all that

1032
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:36,800
goes with that. But if you
but also from the other direction, you

1033
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:44,439
could be, you know, sensitive
to racism, and for the same reason

1034
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:47,239
you could you could you could say, well, there's racist imagery in that

1035
01:28:47,279 --> 01:28:50,640
song. I don't think the imagery
in that song, at least what comes

1036
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:54,399
to mind when I listen to those
lyrics is racist. But again I can

1037
01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:58,680
see how someone would project that onto
it. So I think it's a matter

1038
01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:01,079
of art is art, and it's
what you project onto it. I have

1039
01:29:01,159 --> 01:29:03,159
a little bit more to say about
that, but we do have a call.

1040
01:29:03,359 --> 01:29:06,560
Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who is this, Hey,

1041
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:10,239
Matt, This is Dylan Reynolds.
Dylan Reynolds. How are you, my

1042
01:29:10,279 --> 01:29:14,800
friend. I'm doing good, man. I just I was listening and I

1043
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:18,560
heard where you were talking about how
you know, a lot of older recording,

1044
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:23,079
especially hard rock, you know,
the guitars always sound bigger. And

1045
01:29:24,119 --> 01:29:28,199
the little bit of knowledge I have
on that is the early days of mixing.

1046
01:29:28,279 --> 01:29:30,800
You know, when you had manual
eqs, cassette tapes, vinyls,

1047
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:34,600
etc. You were able to boost
the bass so and the actual studio mixes

1048
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:42,560
bass is very very hidden, which
guitar sound big, huge beef and with

1049
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,800
the advent of the modern digital age
of chords are able to get proper eques

1050
01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:51,600
and unfortunately that kind of cuts it
from a guitar. Yeah, that makes

1051
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,520
sense, you know, I haven't
thought of it that way, but that

1052
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:59,720
does make sense obviously too. On
older recordings you generally have a warmer production

1053
01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:02,640
and way with analog then you do
digital. But yeah, I feel like,

1054
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:05,800
um, I feel like a lot
of modern country though for some reason,

1055
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:10,039
you know, a lot of it
sounds the guitarist to me, sound

1056
01:30:10,079 --> 01:30:14,800
like what rock used to sound like. It's it's um very interesting and a

1057
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,880
lot of it. Actually I don't
quite agree with this, but somebody on

1058
01:30:18,159 --> 01:30:20,840
social media said one day, and
I thought it was an interesting observation.

1059
01:30:21,119 --> 01:30:26,479
I don't agree entirely, but somebody
said that hair metal grew up and became

1060
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:30,600
new country, and I do see
the I do see the influence of sort

1061
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:35,039
of eighties bands, eighties rock bands
in the country that we have now country

1062
01:30:35,119 --> 01:30:39,439
music, Yeah, a lot of
it. I think both kind of the

1063
01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:44,119
styling, you know, a lot
of countries is very to be obscured,

1064
01:30:44,159 --> 01:30:46,680
and you can sometimes really tell,
you can sometimes it's very very hidden,

1065
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:51,640
but it's very blues oriented, which
is exactly like what eighties hard you know,

1066
01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:56,920
bands like Doc and Rats, you
know, all these big guitar kind

1067
01:30:56,920 --> 01:31:01,359
of sounding bands are all blues oriented. So especially the modern aid of country

1068
01:31:01,399 --> 01:31:04,119
music that you hear now, it's
a lot more poppy kind of sounding,

1069
01:31:04,159 --> 01:31:08,920
and it takes a lot of that
blues referencing. So you could easily take

1070
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:14,560
virtually any etern day country song reoring
a little bit and you have what would

1071
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:18,640
have been considered an eighties rock kids. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly,

1072
01:31:19,159 --> 01:31:23,520
absolutely, Dylan. I think we
have you, We have you scheduled

1073
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:27,399
to be on the show soon,
don't we um. I reached out to

1074
01:31:27,439 --> 01:31:29,439
Jenny but you know, I don't. I live in North Carolina, so

1075
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:30,840
I don't know if I could get
in, but I think she said mentioned

1076
01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:33,159
something of her skype. But I
would love to. Uh. Oh yeah,

1077
01:31:33,199 --> 01:31:38,479
I would absolutely love to be on
the show and hang out with you

1078
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:41,800
guys. Yeah, yeah, no, that that that's what I meant.

1079
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,359
I think. Uh, I think
I'm looking at my calendar here. I'm

1080
01:31:45,359 --> 01:31:48,199
trying to figure out. I thought
you guys had settled on a date already

1081
01:31:48,199 --> 01:31:51,399
for you to skype in. But
maybe maybe I'm wrong. We we had

1082
01:31:51,399 --> 01:31:55,560
tried to, but those were days
that I was working and I just couldn't

1083
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:57,560
you know, I couldn't get around
around that time. But I'm going to

1084
01:31:57,600 --> 01:31:59,720
reach back out to Jenius see if
I can get up on that. Yeah.

1085
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:01,479
Yeah, yeah, Well I'm working
on a lot of really cool stuff,

1086
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,560
so if you're really cool to talk
about it, yeah, definitely,

1087
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:09,319
definitely. I look forward to that. Absolutely. Well you should. Well

1088
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:10,880
yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead, buddy. Oh, I was just

1089
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:13,720
gonna say you should give a plug
anything you want to plug as far as

1090
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:16,840
your music website or social media.
Yeah, you can find me on Apple

1091
01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:19,840
Music. My my name is Dylan
Reynolds. V I L l O N

1092
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:24,039
or E y n O LVS and
I'll leave a comment that way y'all can

1093
01:32:24,039 --> 01:32:27,560
see how it's spelled. I do
a lot of hard rock eighties stuff.

1094
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:31,119
I'm in a Judice Priest tribute band
called Unleased because I love singing eighty stuff

1095
01:32:31,119 --> 01:32:38,199
and Rob Halford is one of my
biggest vocal um influences and I love doing

1096
01:32:38,239 --> 01:32:41,960
stuff like that. So yeah,
I'm also working on a soundtrack for a

1097
01:32:42,039 --> 01:32:46,720
movie. A good local friend of
mine who's a author, he said,

1098
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:48,720
hey, man, do you want
to write some music to this movie I'm

1099
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:53,560
working on? And I said absolutely, So you know I'll be able to

1100
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:56,279
do like a press release on that. But yeah, I'm talking about it

1101
01:32:56,279 --> 01:32:59,359
too much. Yeah, yeah,
I understood. I understood. All right,

1102
01:32:59,359 --> 01:33:01,600
my friend wall I appreciate the call, Thank you so much and look

1103
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:04,640
forward to talking to you again soon. Absolutely, Matt, you have n

1104
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:09,479
stay buddy, all right, Dylan
YouTube bye bye, all right, the

1105
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:13,960
great Dylan Reynolds. Yes, very
talented musician. Uh oh. Miriam Bannish

1106
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:16,239
says, Hi, Dylan Reynolds,
I have lots of family in North Carolina.

1107
01:33:16,359 --> 01:33:19,119
Well, you know, we have
a lot of friends in North Carolina

1108
01:33:19,159 --> 01:33:24,640
in rhat room from Greensboro, North
Carolina. By the way, Greensboro,

1109
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:29,760
North Carolina, where the home of
if you're just joining us, Uh,

1110
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:33,279
someone named June Rash I just passed
away and uh Greensboro, North Carolina.

1111
01:33:33,319 --> 01:33:36,760
Apparently she's a lovely woman. Although
boy, can you imagine having Rash for

1112
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:41,079
a last name? That would be
a pretty awful Oh yeah, Jenny says,

1113
01:33:41,319 --> 01:33:45,840
please do send me some dates.
Um so uh oh, actually we

1114
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:54,319
have another call. Ron is calling
us back. Hey, Ron, Ron,

1115
01:33:54,359 --> 01:33:59,680
are you there? Yeah, I'm
not. Um hey sincet in on

1116
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:04,159
you alatriendship on the subject of music, and I grew up on all kinds

1117
01:34:04,159 --> 01:34:08,600
of music, old country, new
country and all of that. And one

1118
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:15,000
of my one musical instruments it's outstanding
to me is, for instance, like

1119
01:34:15,119 --> 01:34:18,800
Vince Gill, he plays a an
electric katar, you know the ones that

1120
01:34:19,399 --> 01:34:21,800
you don't carry it or you don't
wear it. It's just you know,

1121
01:34:23,159 --> 01:34:27,039
strapped over your legs or on a
stand. I love the sound of an

1122
01:34:27,039 --> 01:34:31,760
electric qatar. Yeah, absolutely,
absolutely. And one more thing before I

1123
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:38,439
let you go, I was YouTube
in yesterday and I happened to I've seen

1124
01:34:38,479 --> 01:34:41,399
Russia a couple of times and never
paid too much attention to it. I

1125
01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:48,159
was younger, and yesterday I happened
to be listening to the genius of Russia's

1126
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:56,159
drummer Holy Moley Cow. And if
you've ever seen his drum set, it's

1127
01:34:56,239 --> 01:34:59,920
three hundred and sixty degrees of drums. I mean, he must have had

1128
01:35:00,199 --> 01:35:04,479
twenty five rooms. So I gave
I gave Rush a real second chance.

1129
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:06,640
And now all of a sudden,
I'm thinking to myself, Wow, I

1130
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:12,399
do like Rush. All all three
members of that band incredible musicians. As

1131
01:35:12,399 --> 01:35:15,239
a bass player, you know,
I love Getty Lee. But I'll be

1132
01:35:15,279 --> 01:35:17,039
honest with you, it's interesting that
you mentioned the drums run because when I

1133
01:35:17,079 --> 01:35:19,920
listened to a Rush song, and
I'm not I wouldn't put them in my

1134
01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:25,000
top ten of favorite bands, but
I certainly respect them. I think I'm

1135
01:35:25,079 --> 01:35:27,279
kind of sick of them growing up, because you know, you hear the

1136
01:35:27,319 --> 01:35:30,760
same songs over and over on classic
rock radio. But when I listen to

1137
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:33,640
Rush, I tend to listen to
the drums because Neil Peart's drum drum lines

1138
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:39,880
were just very intricate, very but
but he wouldn't overplay it was tasteful but

1139
01:35:40,079 --> 01:35:44,159
very complex. And uh, you
know, if you listen to a song

1140
01:35:44,279 --> 01:35:47,159
like Limelight, I get I totally
focus on the drums, you know,

1141
01:35:47,359 --> 01:35:50,600
Getty Lee's voice, I never really
like that much. Incredible bass player,

1142
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:55,560
and of course Alex Lifeson as an
incredible guitar player. But but Neil Pierrett

1143
01:35:56,039 --> 01:35:59,319
one of absolutely one of the best. Even though I wouldn't put Rush in

1144
01:35:59,359 --> 01:36:01,359
my top ten of favorite bands,
if I made a list, I would

1145
01:36:01,399 --> 01:36:06,760
put Neil peartt easily and probably my
top five of drummers. Just an incredible

1146
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:11,319
drummer. Yeah, and we and
we lost him unfortunately. He died of

1147
01:36:11,399 --> 01:36:14,359
cancer a number of years ago and
went through a lot of tragedy too.

1148
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:18,960
But what a talented guy. Absolutely, Okay, buddy, that was it

1149
01:36:19,079 --> 01:36:21,880
and I'm still listening. Good show, all right, Ron, thank you.

1150
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:25,960
I appreciate it, my friend,
Thank you, all right, bye

1151
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:28,399
bye? All right. That was
our friend, Ron, And that does

1152
01:36:28,439 --> 01:36:30,159
open up the line for you.
Six zo three two five O six z

1153
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:35,039
seven six three two five zero six
zero seven. Um. Yes, sounds

1154
01:36:35,039 --> 01:36:39,399
like Melanie law Liberty from the Great
State of Vermont. She agreed with me

1155
01:36:39,439 --> 01:36:42,920
about the Jason Aldeen song. She
said, I was totally thinking that I

1156
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,039
think racist people will hear it that
way. Yeah. Yeah, Like I

1157
01:36:46,079 --> 01:36:49,199
said, I don't think. I
don't think there's anything racist about the song

1158
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:54,760
itself. Um, but I but
I think that you can, um,

1159
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:01,479
you can certainly, uh you know, like any art, you can project

1160
01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:06,079
onto it whatever you want to.
And again, so I guess my my

1161
01:37:06,239 --> 01:37:12,720
verdict is not guilty on the racism. But uh, if you do happen

1162
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:16,199
to be racist, you probably really
like that song. I don't know how

1163
01:37:16,199 --> 01:37:24,479
else to say it. Um uh, but you know it's it's catchy enough.

1164
01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:28,960
Jason Aldeen he's been around for a
long time. Uh, Like he's

1165
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:30,560
not super old, but he's not
a young guy either. It seems like

1166
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:35,159
he's been around a long time.
Um. And by the way, thank

1167
01:37:35,199 --> 01:37:40,840
you again for to DJ Steve for
the heads up on the uh the bad

1168
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:44,720
word. So I had to find
a radio version of that clean edit,

1169
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:47,239
which was easy enough to do.
But boy, that I'll tell you what

1170
01:37:47,359 --> 01:37:56,039
those country artists getting edgy in twenty
twenty three. Um, so that's what

1171
01:37:56,119 --> 01:38:01,359
I think. Um yeah, yeah, the line about the about good old

1172
01:38:01,399 --> 01:38:08,159
boys, a bunch of good old
boys, Um, that might be the

1173
01:38:08,279 --> 01:38:15,279
closest thing in the song that I
can think of in terms of sort of

1174
01:38:15,359 --> 01:38:20,199
mate, what might cause someone to
perceive in a certain way, shall we

1175
01:38:20,239 --> 01:38:26,680
say? To put it that way? But I don't. I don't agree

1176
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:30,960
with all the uh you know,
I know, Cheryl Crowe, she tweets.

1177
01:38:30,039 --> 01:38:32,760
Oh. The other thing too,
is um, the other thing people

1178
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:38,800
are criticizing it for is saying that
it celebrates violence, it promotes violence because

1179
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:43,479
there's a line in there, something
about taking my gun, you know,

1180
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:45,960
try to take my gun. You
know. I mean, I'm a pro

1181
01:38:45,039 --> 01:38:49,159
Second Amendment guy myself, So I
mean here in New Hampshire were armed to

1182
01:38:49,199 --> 01:38:54,359
the teeth, but we're also very
safe here. Um. You know,

1183
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:57,439
again, I don't, but I
don't take that as promoting violence. I

1184
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:00,239
take that as uh, you know, one not wanting to give up his

1185
01:39:00,279 --> 01:39:06,680
gun. Again. You can project
onto it what you wish. It's art,

1186
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:12,399
you know, it's open to individual
interpretation. But I don't. I

1187
01:39:12,479 --> 01:39:15,119
don't take it as I don't.
I don't find it offensive at all.

1188
01:39:15,279 --> 01:39:20,479
And you know, I'm pretty uh, you know, I'm pretty sensitive to

1189
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:24,000
those things. But I don't.
I don't have any problem with it.

1190
01:39:24,039 --> 01:39:27,640
That's my verdict. Dylan Reynolds.
He's also in the chat room, he

1191
01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:32,920
says, Rush drummer Neil Pierre.
He is phenomenal. Yes. Oh,

1192
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:36,359
John Hopwood says, did Dave Ridley
Collin? No, he did not,

1193
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:40,479
And I actually was hoping he would
call today because I wanted to talk to

1194
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:43,960
him about Free Talk Live and that
story. So maybe he'll join us tomorrow.

1195
01:39:44,039 --> 01:39:45,000
We don't have a I don't think
we have a guest tomorrow either.

1196
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:51,600
Hue the Gecko says. Johnny Earthquake
Band plays the flat slide seal guitar and

1197
01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:57,720
gives lessons on how it works to
all ages. Great educational performance at Rocks

1198
01:39:57,760 --> 01:40:01,920
Top, New Hampshire. Musician Yeah, Johnny Earthquake Johnny Earthquake Band, Yes.

1199
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:08,920
New Force of the Spark says we
listened to an eighties band, the

1200
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:14,359
Cars hashtag Matt good news hashtag Mat. They are reunited as a pop singing

1201
01:40:14,399 --> 01:40:23,640
group. Quartet is BP and T
book beat and true No already, Hue

1202
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:28,279
the Gecko says, love your review
of that, Matt extremely non biased?

1203
01:40:28,399 --> 01:40:30,159
Well, I try, I try
to give you my and that's why I

1204
01:40:30,199 --> 01:40:35,840
intentionally didn't listen to it until I
could do so live on the show.

1205
01:40:36,079 --> 01:40:42,079
Now, just quickly on the subject. Let's see. Because I am open

1206
01:40:42,159 --> 01:40:48,800
minded, I want to just look
up. I should have done this already,

1207
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,760
but I was really focused in on
those lyrics. I didn't want to

1208
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:56,880
miss anything. I'm looking up Jason
Aldeen's song controversy because I just want to

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01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:59,399
take a closer look at what some
of the people who do have a problem

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01:40:59,399 --> 01:41:04,479
with it, what they're saying.
So we'll look at this article on NPR.

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01:41:05,239 --> 01:41:09,600
This was just posted three hours ago. How Jason Alden's try that in

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01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:14,960
a Small Town became a political controversy. Says here Country Music Television says it

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01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:19,520
will no long Oh interesting, Now
the video. I need to watch the

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01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:25,079
video. I will watch the video
after the show today and we will circle

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01:41:25,119 --> 01:41:29,479
back to this conversation tomorrow, because
apparently the problem that some people have is

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01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:32,119
the video. And I would have
watched the video while we played the song,

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01:41:32,199 --> 01:41:35,920
but Steve DJ Steve gave us the
heads up that the song has a

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01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:41,560
bad word in it, and I
assume the version they use in the video.

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01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:45,800
I mean, obviously the one they
play on Country music television is censored,

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01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:46,800
but the one on YouTube may not
be. So I didn't want to

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01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:51,520
risk it, but apparently some people
have a problem with the video, so

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01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:55,119
I will have to look at that
because there might be a whole other dimension

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01:41:55,119 --> 01:41:59,399
of this. But so according to
NPR, CMT says it will no longer

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01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:02,840
air the try That in a Small
Town by Jason Aldeen after critics of the

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01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:10,079
video said it contained lyrics that glorified
gun violence and conveyed traditionally racist ideas.

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01:42:10,199 --> 01:42:13,239
Now again, I already told you
what I think of the lyrics, but

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01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:21,680
I don't know if the video has
some imagery that's more striking. Hue the

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01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:28,439
Gecko says video not pro piece violence. Definitely the issue here, not race.

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01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:31,199
Interesting. I'm gonna watch that right
after the show because I'm really curious

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01:42:31,199 --> 01:42:36,079
now. A CMT spokesperson confirmed the
move to NPR on Thursday, but offered

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01:42:36,119 --> 01:42:41,399
no comment on the reasoning. Since
the video's release on Friday, it's emerged

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01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:46,159
as a familiar kind of political litmus
test, with interpretations of its message often

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01:42:46,159 --> 01:42:51,399
falling along voting divides, which is
really what I was saying. Here's an

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01:42:51,399 --> 01:42:57,880
overview of the situation. Aldin,
a forty six year old country singer from

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01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,039
Macon, Georgia, first released a
song in May, but it wasn't until

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01:43:00,079 --> 01:43:04,479
the release of the video on July
fourteen, as promotion for his eleventh upcoming

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01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:10,600
album that the discourse ratcheted up.
In a statement released alongside the video,

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01:43:10,680 --> 01:43:15,079
Aldan said the song represents an unspoken
rule for those raised in small towns.

1239
01:43:15,159 --> 01:43:17,000
Quote we all have each other's backs, and we all look out for each

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01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,479
other unquote. The singer is not
credited as a writer for the song,

1241
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:26,239
as has been the case for most
of his twenty seven hit singles. Threats

1242
01:43:26,279 --> 01:43:30,840
to outsiders and the implication those outsiders
are from cities are present throughout the song's

1243
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:35,560
lyrics, which begin with a list
of crimes that might happen in urban settings

1244
01:43:36,159 --> 01:43:40,199
sucker punch, somebody on a sidewalk, carjack, and old lady at a

1245
01:43:40,239 --> 01:43:45,479
red light, then crescendo into the
chorus quote, well try that in a

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01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:48,640
small town. See how far you
make it down the road. Around here,

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01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:50,960
we take care of our own.
You cross that line, it won't

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01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:56,399
take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't. Aldine ups

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01:43:56,439 --> 01:44:00,600
the vigilante anti by bridging the second
chorus with reference to gun right, singing

1250
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:05,159
quote, oh here's where the s
word is I've got a gun that my

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01:44:05,279 --> 01:44:12,119
granddad gave me. They say one
day they're gonna round up. While that

1252
01:44:12,279 --> 01:44:15,279
blank might fly in the city,
good luck try that in a small town.

1253
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:25,199
I have to admit, just for
while we were talking about nanotechnology,

1254
01:44:25,399 --> 01:44:30,359
just for a nano second, when
I read that line, that line about

1255
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:33,800
they say one day they're gonna round
up, that hit me a little different

1256
01:44:33,880 --> 01:44:39,199
reading it than it did listening to
it. Listening to it, I knew

1257
01:44:39,319 --> 01:44:42,479
round up the guns. For some
reason, when I read it, it

1258
01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:45,039
hit me a little different, just
for a nano second. Then I was

1259
01:44:45,039 --> 01:44:46,079
like, yeah, yeah, round
up the guns. In other words,

1260
01:44:46,079 --> 01:44:48,760
they say they're gonna come grab your
guns. By the way, nobody's coming

1261
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:51,000
to grab your guns. Just to
be clear, I don't care what the

1262
01:44:51,079 --> 01:44:57,840
NRA tells you. No one's coming
for your guns. But okay, So

1263
01:44:58,319 --> 01:45:02,800
now this part seems to get to
the videos specifically, why is the video

1264
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:09,520
so divisive? Interspersed between shots of
alding singing or clips of vandalizing riots and

1265
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:15,960
police encounters, much of which is
evocative is evocative of racial injustice protests.

1266
01:45:16,399 --> 01:45:23,520
Interesting some of the scenes bear a
Fox News chiron, but others as some

1267
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:29,000
TikTok sleuths have pointed out appear to
be stock footage in some cases of gatherings

1268
01:45:29,039 --> 01:45:31,520
from other countries, but much of
the criticism around the video has less to

1269
01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:36,239
do with these clips than its setting, the Morey County Courthouse building in Columbia,

1270
01:45:36,279 --> 01:45:42,520
Tennessee, which serves as an American
flag draped backdrop for Alldan and his

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01:45:42,720 --> 01:45:49,800
band. Oh. Okay, here
is where it gets interesting. The landmark

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01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:54,560
was the site of race riots in
nineteen forty six, as well as in

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01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:58,880
nineteen twenty seven lynching, in which
a white mob pulled an eighteen year old

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01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,680
black man, Henry, from jail
and dragged him through the city by car.

1275
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:06,279
According to several media reports, including
one detailed account from the Washington Post,

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01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:12,239
Choate had allegedly confessed to attacking a
sixteen year old white girl quote to

1277
01:46:12,279 --> 01:46:15,960
protect his life unquote, even though
the girl quote could not positively identify him

1278
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:23,439
as the assailant unquote. The Post
reported, Okay, I did not know

1279
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:27,560
this about the video and the historical
significance of the location, that's interesting.

1280
01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:34,720
That may not be intentional, but
it is certainly offering the benefit of the

1281
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:39,600
doubt, perhaps charitably, if that
is just a mistake or a coincidence.

1282
01:46:39,760 --> 01:46:45,760
That is insensitive of someone not to
realize that and to put this out because

1283
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:53,079
you have to know that people are
going to figure that out. What is

1284
01:46:53,119 --> 01:46:57,039
al Dean saying. On Tuesday,
al Dean pushed back hard against accusations he

1285
01:46:57,119 --> 01:47:00,319
was pro lynching, saying such an
interpretation ghost too far and is dangerous.

1286
01:47:00,319 --> 01:47:03,279
He wrote on Twitter, quote,
there's not a single lyric in the song

1287
01:47:03,319 --> 01:47:06,800
that references racer points to it.
Try that in a small town. For

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01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:10,680
me, refers to the feeling of
a community that I had growing up,

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01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:15,399
where we took care of our neighbors
regardless of differences of background or belief.

1290
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:19,800
No one, including me, wants
to continue to see senseless headlines or families

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01:47:19,880 --> 01:47:27,239
ripped apart. Unquote. Well again, you know, I guess we have

1292
01:47:27,279 --> 01:47:29,720
to separate the song from the video. I'm gonna have to watch the video,

1293
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:30,960
Miriam says in the chat. I
had to go watch the video.

1294
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:38,880
The production company behind the video,
tackle Box, also defended the video's location

1295
01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:45,199
as a popular filming spot, telling
Entertainment Tonight that any alternative narrative about the

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01:47:45,279 --> 01:47:49,000
reasons it was chosen were false.
Let me stop there. Now, that's

1297
01:47:49,159 --> 01:47:54,880
entirely possible. It's entirely possible that
they didn't know, and that is a

1298
01:47:54,920 --> 01:48:02,439
popular filming spot and not everyone has
the cultural sensitivity to think about we should

1299
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:06,119
see if there's any problem here,
if there's any history to this spot.

1300
01:48:06,279 --> 01:48:11,399
So that's entirely possible. I'm not
excusing it, though, because we live

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01:48:11,399 --> 01:48:15,000
in a time when people should kind
of know better, right, So assuming

1302
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:18,319
they didn't know, and assuming it
is a coincidence, that is a pretty

1303
01:48:18,399 --> 01:48:24,760
damn unfortunate coincidence. It you know, that it happens to have been there

1304
01:48:25,239 --> 01:48:30,920
with the history of that location,
So that's not good. Miriam says.

1305
01:48:31,079 --> 01:48:36,479
There's a lot of footage of protests
in the video Let's see. Aldine has

1306
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:41,159
received five Grammy nominations, including two
for Best Country Album, for his decades

1307
01:48:41,199 --> 01:48:45,000
of music depicting rural, blue collar
life, and throughout that success, he's

1308
01:48:45,119 --> 01:48:49,560
rarely shied away from sharing his right
leaning political views. His wife, Brittany

1309
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:55,880
Alden, and his sister Casey Rosa
Wis launched a conservative clothing line dedicated to

1310
01:48:55,960 --> 01:49:00,520
trolling liberals. All Deane defended dressing
his children in anti Joe Biden attire and

1311
01:49:00,600 --> 01:49:05,560
himself for wearing what and himself for
wearing black face as part of a twenty

1312
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:18,000
fifteen Halloween costume. Dude, No, twenty fifteen, that's only eight years

1313
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:24,439
ago. No, you should know
better, man. No, you don't

1314
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:27,399
do that the rest of it.
Fine, you're a conservative, you want

1315
01:49:27,399 --> 01:49:33,479
to troll liberals? Fine, but
blackface in twenty fifteen, dudeho, come

1316
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:44,520
on, man wow. He was
spotted golfing alongside Donald Trump and delivered an

1317
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:47,720
impromptu performance at the former president's Marlago
resort, But at other times, the

1318
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:54,600
singer has tried to walk more nuanced
line toward politics, perhaps most memorably after

1319
01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:59,479
surviving the twenty seventeen mass shooting at
a Las Vegas music festival. Aldine was

1320
01:49:59,520 --> 01:50:04,800
performing on stage as an ice closing
act when the shooting began. Six months

1321
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:10,279
later, he tiptoed through the refreshed
gun control debate, saying in an interview

1322
01:50:10,279 --> 01:50:14,800
that tragedies shouldn't be used as fodder
for political arguments, but ultimately agreed that

1323
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,600
it was quote too easy to get
guns unquote in the US. That is

1324
01:50:17,600 --> 01:50:21,119
a nuanced position. I mean he
is saying he agreed that it was too

1325
01:50:21,159 --> 01:50:28,720
easy to get guns that's interesting.
So he's capable of approaching these things from

1326
01:50:28,720 --> 01:50:33,720
a nuanced and and seeing these things
as complex. So that's that's good.

1327
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:42,359
Let's see. Yeah, we're out
of time. There's more to this,

1328
01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:46,960
but that's okay. We'll circle back
to this tomorrow though. Yeah, Miriam

1329
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:49,760
says in the chat, Oh my
god, crossed a line with the black

1330
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:57,439
face. Yeah, that's uh wow, I didn't expect that. Jeez.

1331
01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:04,520
All right, Well that's that's really
unfortunate. That's a that's a pretty stunning

1332
01:51:04,560 --> 01:51:10,199
lack of judgment, you know,
I mean it's and and we you know,

1333
01:51:10,319 --> 01:51:16,800
we've seen political figures get into some
pretty uh scandalous positions, shall we

1334
01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:19,199
say, when you know, they
have to answer for, you know,

1335
01:51:19,279 --> 01:51:24,319
something they did in college or something, or a picture of them in blackface

1336
01:51:24,399 --> 01:51:27,880
for Halloween and they have to apologize
and say, well it was I was

1337
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:30,720
young. I didn't realize how insensitive
that was and the history of that and

1338
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:34,920
whatnot, and I know better now
and this and that. But this guy

1339
01:51:35,319 --> 01:51:46,640
in twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen,
Uh wow, I guess you can try

1340
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:51,359
that in a small town and get
away with it, see what I did

1341
01:51:51,359 --> 01:51:57,520
there, But uh, that's really
and there isn't anything in the article about

1342
01:51:57,560 --> 01:52:03,319
him ever apologizing for it. Yikes. All right, well, we are

1343
01:52:03,359 --> 01:52:05,520
out of time. If you miss
any part of today's show it we'll be

1344
01:52:05,600 --> 01:52:10,680
up in just a little bit at
WMNH radio dot org and in my website

1345
01:52:10,720 --> 01:52:15,000
Matt Connerton dot com. Don't forget
tonight Trivia Night at the hopnot but do

1346
01:52:15,159 --> 01:52:18,119
call ahead and reserve your spot.
Those spots do fill up quickly, of

1347
01:52:18,159 --> 01:52:23,920
course, Trivia hosted by the great
Broderick Lang. And we will be back

1348
01:52:24,159 --> 01:52:32,239
tomorrow. Oh Hue, the gecko
says, always sunny in Philadelphia. Mac,

1349
01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:38,840
I'm never sure how to say that
name. Elhenny did Blackface December twenty

1350
01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:45,039
twenty one air date with the full
support of FX. Wow. Well,

1351
01:52:45,039 --> 01:52:46,640
of course, the character is on
that show are depicted as being sort of

1352
01:52:46,680 --> 01:52:51,199
horrible, so kind of like kind
of like Seinfeld in that sense. Obviously

1353
01:52:51,239 --> 01:52:56,479
that was done in character. But
I am surprised though that FX allowed that

1354
01:52:56,560 --> 01:53:02,399
December twenty twenty one. Wow,
that's our yses me. Okay, yeah,

1355
01:53:02,399 --> 01:53:10,000
don't do that. No black face
kids, y'all ought to know better.

1356
01:53:10,039 --> 01:53:11,600
And if, by the way,
if anyone wants to say, oh,

1357
01:53:11,640 --> 01:53:16,680
Matt's being woke. Yeah, fine, that's just fine. Call me,

1358
01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:20,800
call me whatever you want, Call
me a woke liberal, call me

1359
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:29,600
whatever. I don't think anyone should
be wearing black face. Okay you can,

1360
01:53:30,039 --> 01:53:35,359
you know, call me, ah, I don't know, call me

1361
01:53:35,399 --> 01:53:44,000
a call me that's I'm just wow. I'm having a hard time getting past

1362
01:53:44,039 --> 01:53:47,359
that little detail. All right.
Well we'll end with we'll end with a

1363
01:53:47,399 --> 01:53:50,479
little bit more. Well a time
to play the whole song. But this

1364
01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:56,039
track mixtape by Satellite Union. Our
friend Dave Wally is in the chat room

1365
01:53:56,079 --> 01:53:59,680
with us. There's another great song, and then uh, that's it for

1366
01:53:59,720 --> 01:54:30,439
us for I'll talk to you a
little bit later by everybody. That's that's