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Welcome everybody. Here we go Happy
Friday. It is that time again,

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Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live
from the studios of wm n H ninety

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five point three FM in glorious downtown
Manchester, New Hampshire, got a little

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bit humid actually, but still glorious. Also now on Comcast Channel six if

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you're in man Chester, and hello
to all of our online listeners across the

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nation and around the globe. Today
It's Friday, August eighteen, twenty twenty

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three, and I am not alone. If you're gonna play in Texas,

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you gotta have a fiddle in the
band. That league guitar is hot,

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but not far Lousiana man both in
love and that's sold names. If you're

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go and play in Texas, you
gotta have a fiddle in the band.

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Yeeha, Texas. Mike is in
the house. Yeh do you say in

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the house in Texas? Or do
you say uh? In the uh?

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In the farm on the farm?
Where? What? What do you what

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do you say down there in Texas? There? Texas, Mike in the

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house was just fine. Oh in
the house. I don't know if maybe

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it was in the hacienda. I
don't know. I don't know how these

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things work. But it's nice to
see you. It's been a long time

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since you've been on the show.
Yes, has been. It's been like

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a four years or something. A
couple of months maybe, Oh yeah,

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you know. I so I have
a neurological condition, Mikey that I a

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couple of months seems like four years
to me. That's uh. Other than

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that, I'm fine, but welcome. Yes, it's nice to see you

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and you look nice. Yeah,
thank yes, Yes, and you'll be

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you're doing double duty today as well, aren't you. Yes, I am.

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You'll be back with us tonight for
Retrospection Radio with Paul c. Yes,

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I will be. Will you be
performing on that program? Yes?

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I always see for me, I
get the thing. Two songs karaoke style?

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Are you gonna sing? Uh?
Are you gonna sing? If you're

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gonna play in Texas by Alabama?
Maybe? Oh? Maybe? How perfect

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would that be? I know it's
my theme, but I have always tructed

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one, and so thinking about second
one? Oh okay, well what's the

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so what's the first one that you
picked? Or is it supposed to be

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a surprise? This is a surprise, all right? Very good, while

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we look forward to that. Yes, and I'm here for double duty as

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well. Of course, Friday my
favorite day of the week here at wm

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ANDH. I do love it.
So I do this program of course from

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four to six pm, and then
I'm back tonight from eight to eleven pm.

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I've the honor and privilege of being
one of Policy's co hosts on retro

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Spectrum Radio with Policy along with DJ
Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry,

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who also one of our great sponsors
here at WMH Queen City Cabinetry, And

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get to hang out with Mike for
retro Spectrum Radio as well. And of

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course tonight Texas Mike will be with
us as well, So you'll be representing

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Texas obviously yea. And Mike from
Queen City Cabinetry. I believe he'll be

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representing Rhode Island at least I think
that's where he's from originally. But and

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I guess Policy will be representing Manchester
as well. I although I'm not from

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here originally, do you know where
I Do you know where I lived before

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Manchester? Right? Oh? You
know you're Matt honorton Trivia. Very good,

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very good? Yes, that is
that is true? Where did I

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spend my summer's growing up? Do
you know that? Chicago and Buffalo?

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Oh you should have stopped at the
first one. You had it right Chicago?

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Yes, yes, very remember the
train stories you were telling me.

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Yes, yeah, the trains stories. Yeah, the old AM track.

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I actual only did that once,
only took the AM track once, but

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but it was fun, enjoyed it, enjoyed it. So we do have

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an exciting show for you today and
then we'll give out the studio line and

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everything. But coming up today at
five pm, we have the world radio

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premiere of the brand new track from
house Lights. I actually opened with the

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house Lights song. I opened with
their first single, Love and Understanding,

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partly because you know, I wanted
to promote what we're gonna be doing later,

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but also because I just love that
song. But they're brand new single.

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Now. It's already available on iTunes
and I'm sure the other streaming services,

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but this afternoon at five pm Eastern, it will be played for the

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first time on FM radio right here
on WMNH. So that is no longer

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myself. The brand new single from
house Lights coming up today at five pm.

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And by the way, they're going
to be here on Monday, joining

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us in the second hour for an
acoustic performance. So they will be here

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with us live in studio on Monday. So our friend Sam Beechard and company.

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Sam's a great guy, He's been
on the show before and like him

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very much. He's also he's got
Always Forward. He's the name of his

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promotions company. He does a lot
in the music scene here, so get

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to know him, you should.
And so they'll be here on Monday.

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But coming up at five pm will
have the world radio premiere of the new

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single No Longer Myself. And then
immediately after that we also have Eric Pilcher's

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a classic film review and this week
the subject is the French Connection, and

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Eric chose that that was not what
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but he decided to go with that
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weeks ago now, director William Friedkin
passed away. He also he's probably best

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known for directing The Exorcist. But
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famous film, and Eric said,
probably The French Connection, And so he

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decided to review that for this week, and in honor of the passing of

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William Friedkin, so that will be
coming up as well. So we've got

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a lot, a lot going on
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will say all out everybody in the
Facebook live chat two in a moment.

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But Mike, you have to ask
you two any update on because recently,

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it was during Retrospectrum Radio you were
in the Facebook live chat and I remember

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you publicly resigned as the manager of
the singing group New New New Force of

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the Spark. Is that what they're
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Yeah, yeah, I am no
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any of the groups that come into
while we chat wound because I fear is

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it? I the distance was the
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forte to be honest. Let me
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have an opportunity to actually hear any
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But but it's almost as though they
don't have any Yeah, like like any

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of those group that comes into the
chat woman, it's like hit it hit

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and miss, and it's like try
and find stuff on them is very hard.

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They always have these shows coming up
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seeven have any actual music. It's
very strange emotionally karaoke groups or or perhaps

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it's just have you ever considered uh, I mean, I don't know how

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they what their recording process might be. Perhaps it's only in very high frequencies

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that can be heard by dogs but
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be a good niche, Yes,
that could be a good niche think about

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that. Yes, it could be. Nah. See, so you're no

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longer managing or producing them? Correct? Okay, Now what happens if tonight

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suppose they show up in the Facebook
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could show up here too, but
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more interested in Paul's show. What
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you an incredible offer, like like
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Isaac Banks is in the Facebook live
chat and he says, I'd like to

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offer you a million dollars Texas Mike
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I say to you, hashtag Texas
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you an offer like that? I
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not want to be affiliate with them
due to some activity I found offline activity

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you found offline, and I found
activity on a certain Facebook group that con

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stone me. And that's why I
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group. Okay, what if they
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don't know? Oh wow? I
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would say, I'd say, show
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was in my account, I'd be
I'd be managing them, I'd be producing

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them, I'd be doing uh,
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for dogs at that point, you
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capitalist, Texas. Mike, I
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I had to ask. I was
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be some uh, some discord shall
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last week over that that subject.
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go ahead and say hello to everybody
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we'll get into some some news items. Melanie Liberty from the Great State of

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Vermont says, hey, guys,
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the Facebook live chat, Hello j
F. Jay Fed was apparently kicked uh

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in the in the nether regions,
shall we say, so hard by his

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dog that he thought he was going
to vomit. That's why I've always said,

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Now, Jenny and I have cats, but I've always said, if

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we ever get a dog, I
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times, just for that very reason. A dog or a horse. Horses

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are known for doing that too.
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you when you might uh, when
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from a wild animal. I mean
it can happen. Yes, let's see,

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Oh Texas, like I see here
in the Facebook live chat. What

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is it? Sorry to hear that. I'm still getting over the death of

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Rosie from yesterday. What's that about
one of my families dogs got killed yesterday.

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Oh I didn't realize. Oh that's
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Was it hit by a car or
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My my dad was vacuum backing a
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caught at kinda on Second Street.
Yeah, and what was he went along

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for the wide and basically he tried
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was vacuum in. Yeah, so
he got out once, came back and

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then second time died away way into
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Yeah, oh, Mikey, I'm
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Oh that's that's terrible. Well,
yeah, these things can happen.

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I had years ago, I had
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had this a beautiful black lab,
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and one day it was just this
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out on a road where there's hardly
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let the dog run free whatever.
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behaved dog. You know, he
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yard and uh, you know,
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or anything like that, like super
well behaved. But one day I wasn't

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there when it happened, but I
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my friend was very upset. The
dog just happened to see a hawk in

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the distance on the other side of
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and the dog decided to chase the
hawk. And at the precise moment that

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the dog darted into the road,
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you know, slammed on the brakes, couldn't stop in time, hit the

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dog, and the dog died instantly. And I don't think the other driver

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was eating or anything. It was
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that road, but it just happened

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at that precise moment the dog went
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uh and that was it. So
accidents will happen. But that's that's very

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sad. I'm sorry to hear that, Mikey. Thank you. Always hard

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losing a pet, that's for sure. Yes, you know, they become

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they become our family, parts of
our family. Yes, we have a

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call Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton
Unleashed. Is this hello, Matt,

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it's me, it's you. It's
poly C. Yes, Mikey very sorry

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about the lost man. I know
it's hard to lose a pet. Yes,

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that sucks. But I also wanted
to point out what you guys are

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you know, talking about? You
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huge fan of the Brady Bunch and
Tiger. They're dog Tiger, which all

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of a sudden after two seasons,
stopped showing up on the show. The

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reason being in this is not a
joke. The reason being is because during

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the second season, about halfway through, during a day that they were filming,

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the dog's owner, slash trainer,
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outside the studio of Paramount and the
dog got struck and killed by a car.

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Tiger. Wow, I'm surprised they
didn't. I'm surprised they didn't replace

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the dog on the show. So
they just they just the dog just disappeared

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from the show with no explanation in
story. But yeah, again exactly,

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there was no explanation about it.
It's just the dogs all of a sudden

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gone, Which is funny because in
the movie the Brady Bunch when they You

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know, did you see the Brady
Bunch movie? I did. I do

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remember seeing it. I didn't think
it was I didn't think it was great,

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but I did see it. Yeah, with Gary Cole and uh and

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Shelley Shelley Long. Yeah, yeah, I did see it. Yeah,

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yeah, Shelley Long as Missus Brady
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was brought up in conversation and jus
Tiger, what the hell ever happened to

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that dog? So there's a reference
to it in the movie. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
probably the funniest line in the whole movie.

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Actually, Unfortunately, what about Fluffy
the Cat? I also remember Fluffy

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the cat? But Fluffy also disappeared, right, yeah, Fluffy was only

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in the opening the pilot, the
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you mentioned it. Yes, I
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just stuck with me. So Fluffy, So we can assume Fluffy also died.

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Fluffy was Melanie might be interested annoying
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the Brady Girls moved in with the
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They kept Tiger, but they decided
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right, and then Fluffy went to
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is right exactly? Yep, Chuck
from Happy Days. You know that there

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were three Chucks. I know are
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and that character just died away after
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want to be Chuck on Happy Days, just like you don't want to be

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a Lieutenant red Shirt on Star Trek
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Brady Bunch, right exactly. The
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bunch of other people too that that
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shows anyway. All right, so
we will see you guys tonight. We're

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doing seventies chill music, and Mikey's
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second hour, and then twenty five
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excellent, And I understand it's a
surprise what Mikey's going to be singing.

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Is that correct? It's a surprise. Yeah, it's such a surprise,

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Matt that I don't even know.
I told him to tell me when he

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pins and needles. I'm looking forward
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I love my fridays here. Very
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will call back on Monday and tell
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passed away. Okay, well we
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you can even share it tonight if
the if the mood overtakes you, all

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right, Paul, very good,
all right, have a good one.

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All right, we'll see in a
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of course, along with j Stephen
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dulcet tones. So we look forward
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me on the Facebook live chat two. I want to mention this. It's

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a great cause, the cornhole tournament. Something about saying that always makes me

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giggle. But but it is a
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it in the Olympics Texas, Mike, I heard. I'm not even kidding.

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By the way, that's not a
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proceeds benefit Special Olympics, New Hampshire. It's gonna be at the Bonfire on

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Sunday. So that's this weekend at
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pm on Sunday. It's twenty dollars
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can sign up now, you can. Oh, there's contact info here.

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baseball and maybe and maybe maybe the
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later into in the show. Is
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there. Hello, Jay Fed says, that's terrible regarding Rosie. That's terrible,

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and I'm sorry about that. I've
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the loss of a pet and it
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Paulie. See. Also in the
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afternoon, big fan. There's one
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probably shouldn't read on the air,
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it, but out of context it
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so some breaking news we've been talking
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been a lot of speculation about this
first debate coming up, and I have

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something on that which, by the
way, I have something handy, which

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tells us who's qualified for the debate
next week? Jeez, it's what is

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it? Eight days away? Now? No? Less than that, No,

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it's like six days away. It's
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first Republican debate for president for twenty
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now know Trump will definitely absolutely not
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but I do think it's smart for
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I were advising him in some capacity, if an alternate universe I worked for

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his campaign, I would say no, no, no, don't, don't

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go to any of these. I
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So he instead is going to do
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X Fox host Tucker Carlson, and
I don't know if this will be on

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Twitter. By the way, guys, I've decided I've made an editorial decision

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about that. I'm not calling it
X. I'm just gonna call a Twitter.

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I don't like this whole I don't
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like, so if somebody tweets,
do we still call it a tweet.

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Do we call it an x do
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Do we call it an ex post? I don't know. I don't know

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what's going on with that. I'm
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by the way, I would implore
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What do you say, Mikey,
Let's start a movement. We are

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going to resist. This is the
resistance. We will not bend to you,

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Elon Musk. We will call it
twitter. You can call it x

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you can call it whatever you want
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it Twitter until we get tired of
that and just decide to give in and

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call it whatever you want. But
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Twitter. I say we rise up, rise up, and call it twitter,

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yell it you know what. In
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you kind of like in the movie
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you know, go to your window, put your window up, and yell

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out the window. I'm not gonna
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you right now. I'm gonna I'm
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off so I can hear it.
I want everybody oh no, it's raining.

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Yeah, oh man, what who
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want everyone go to your windows,
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going to contin you to call it
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like that. Doesn't have to be
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But all right, I'm gonna let's
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Let me know if you hear anything. Mikey, Yeah, I got one

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side of my Oh oh wow,
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did you see that? So somebody
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one thousand Elm Street, somebody actually
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I could just faintly hear it.
Though it didn't sound though like they

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said the thing that I said.
It sounded like they said it sounded like

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they said you suck, and they
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anyway, keep it in mind.
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gonna be doing during the debate.
He's not going to participate in debate.

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He's going to see I'm all worked
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sit down interview with Tucker Carlson.
Oh, Joe Friday did it? Friday

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says, just did it in the
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Yes, And now what I'd like
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yell out all at once. Thank
you, Joe Friday. Let Joe Friday

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hear you? Whom I kidding?
They didn't do the first thing anyway?

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Well, I appreciate it, Joe
Friday. Yes, it says here.

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Now this is from media I.
Donald Trump plans to skip the first Republican

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debate hosted by Fox News on Wednesday
and Milwaukee for an interview with x Fox

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host Tucker Carlson. According to The
New York Times, Trump has reportedly told

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people close to him that he will
skip the debate, despite urgings from top

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executives at Fox for him to attend. The Republican frontrunner has posted multiple messages

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via truth social in recent weeks speculating
whether to attend the debate because of his

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large lead in the primary. During
campaign rallies and private meetings with aids,

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Trump has repeatedly asked whether he should
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Trumps indicated he may give a last
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contenders in person. Actually, that
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I'm not saying I would advocate for
this, and it might be a

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little violent for Fox News viewers,
But what if you know, Mikey,

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of course you Texas Mike, you
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and a former tag team champion with
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What if Trump shows up? Because
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character and is in the WWE Hall
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if what if they get almost to
the end of the debate and Chris Chrissy's

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in the middle of saying something bad
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Trump comes, I don't want to
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out, but he's holding a steel
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back with the steel chair. I
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for great television, Yes, it
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debates is they will be great television
no matter what. I always look forward

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to these debates. But I love
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debates, regardless of who's having them, whether it's the Republicans, whether it's

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Democrats. Obviously this cycle, a
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be any debates on the Democratic side. But I just I love all the

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debates. But oh, by the
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I heard Peter White mentioned this too. Thank you for to Disneys Cafe for

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the generous donation to Sunday's tournament.
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it says here earlier this month.
Again this is from media. I Trump

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met with Fox News as president Jay
Wallace and the networks CEO Suzanne Scott for

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dinner at his club in Bendminster.
Oh, Suzanne Scott, that's who Tucker

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Carlson said very unkind things about things
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said very unkind things about her.
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Trump not to skip the debate,
and the former president into he was open

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to the idea. However, that
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former president plans to do a sit
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and affront to not only the RNC
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Carlson in late April and has been
publicly sparring with him since he remains under

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a non compete agreement, which he
appears to be violating. It says here

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now this is from the New York
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the interview with mister Carlson remains unclear, but if it goes ahead as currently

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planned, the debate night counterprogramming would
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The chairwoman of the RNC, Rona
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to as Rona McDaniel Romney, has
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even traveling to his private club in
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make her pitch in person, and
Fox News has been drawn into a public

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battle not only with mister Trump,
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on contract and being paid by Fox
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Fox sent mister Carlson a season assist
letter after he aired a series of

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videos on Twitter. It says,
X but I'm being defiant. The Trump

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campaigns conversations with mister Carlson and the
possibility of counterprogramming have previously been reported by

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multiple news organizations, so then back
to media, it says. Recently,

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Trump has gone after the Conservative News
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such as rond To Sandison Chris Christy, but also broadcasting the views of his

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critics, including former Attorney General Bill
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Fox for giving Bar an interview,
claiming on truth social quote, unless Fox

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News starts putting the right people on
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of course ratings is capitalize because Trump
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say it that way because I've known
other people who do this as well,

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who capitalize random words for no apparent
reason. A little bit of a pet

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peeve, that's okay, That's the
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This debate, though this will still
be fascinating to see without Trump in the

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mix, This is not really this
is not legitimately a debate of prospective candidates

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for the twenty twenty four presidential election. However, it's anything but you could

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say for some folks who will be
there, it's a debate, it's it's

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really a vice presidential twenty twenty four
campaign debate, because you'll have some folks

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there who are vying to be Trump's
vice president. Or you could say it's

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a debate for the twenty twenty eight
presidential election, because I think some of

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the people there are actually what they're
really doing is running for the president in

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twenty twenty eight, and this is
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know, for some it might just
be a glorified book tour. There are

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many reasons to run for president,
but aside from actually wanting to be president,

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all of the people there, no, they're not going to be president.

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That's just a fact. So it
will be fascinating to see. Interestingly

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enough, we already know we already
know Ron de Santis's strategy because apparently that

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was posted online and that was done
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the show. But the superPAC that
wants to communicate their thoughts and ideas to

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the governor, they can't do that
privately because of campaign finance rules and so

409
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forth, so they had to do
it publicly. But that is so that

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is the plan for debate night on
Wednesday. Mister Trump will definitely not be

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there, are you surprised by any
of this, Mikey, No, I'm

412
00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:11,119
not. Why is that? Keep
talking for a second. Yeah, Trump

413
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:18,400
being fun and what he has with
his legal challenges coming up, but he's

414
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:25,720
pretty want to and it makes no
sense for him to debate and put out

415
00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:30,720
more dirty wandry, right. I
think that, and thank you for that.

416
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,039
I had to, I had to
grab something. I think that he

417
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,559
is so far ahead. I mean, this is all gonna get wrapped up

418
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:45,400
pretty quickly, you know, if
if you take if you take Trump out

419
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of the equation. I think that. See I was thinking about this earlier

420
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:55,400
and it kind of relates partly to
a conversation that I was having with Eric

421
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Pilcher, my favorite conservative, on
Wednesday, about evangelicals and how much they

422
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support Trump, and there's a lot
of them in Iowa. I think as

423
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far as the Iowa caucus, which
is the first contest in this cycle,

424
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I think that, you know,
were it not for Trump, if you

425
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,440
took him out of the equation,
I actually think Mike Pence would be the

426
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,680
front runner, at least in Iowa, not in New Hampshire, but in

427
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:29,759
Iowa. But you know, they'll
evangelicals will choose Trump over anybody. But

428
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:31,480
otherwise, you know, if Trump
weren't there, I think Pence would be

429
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,240
a very attractive candidate. But when
I say take Trump out of the equation,

430
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:38,119
I mean even Trump's, even the
twenty twenty election, all of it,

431
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,000
because many Republicans will never forgive Pence
for not, you know, doing

432
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:51,359
some sort of you know, voodoo
thing and flipping the election. But no,

433
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,960
but I think, you know,
Trump will easily win Iowa, He'll

434
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:57,880
easily win New Hampshire, then he'll
go on to easily win South Carolina.

435
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,839
He has nothing to gain by debating, and I think it is actually a

436
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:07,519
smart strategy to just kind of remain
above it all. And I do remember

437
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:13,839
Chris Christie said multiple times he thought
that Trump would definitely be there, and

438
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:16,559
he said that in multiple interviews.
He said that Trump's ego would not allow

439
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:23,680
him to not show up. But
Trump has skipped debates before in the twenty

440
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:28,519
sixteen cycle. I remember there was
one. I don't remember what the reason

441
00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:31,000
is, and I don't remember where
it was, but there was a debate

442
00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:37,440
during the twenty sixteen cycle, a
primary debate that Trump did skip. I

443
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,039
think that he just might have already
had scheduled a rally that day or something

444
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,359
that was some reason. And then
during the general election, he also declined

445
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:50,319
to participate in one of the debates
usually we get every four years. We

446
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,119
usually get three presidential debates and one
vice presidential debate. That's how it always

447
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:59,200
works. But in twenty twenty,
we only got two presidential debates. Trump

448
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,000
did not want to do the second
one, so he did the first and

449
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:04,640
the third that were scheduled, and
he declined to do the second one,

450
00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:09,679
and I think he just I think
he just went and had a rally that

451
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:20,639
night instead. There is reaction from
Ron DeSantis. Now DeSantis again that very

452
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,119
long memo. Just to expand on
that a little bit because we talked about

453
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:25,199
it yesterday, but it was like
right at the end of the show.

454
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,000
So there's this memo that initially was
presented as being a leaked memo from his

455
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:37,039
superpack. They were giving him advice, even very specific lines, certain things

456
00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:44,760
he should say during the debate on
Wednesday in Milwaukee, and it was like,

457
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,159
Wow, somebody was really sloppy to
leak this memo out. It turns

458
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:53,360
out the superPAC did that intentionally because
of campaign finance laws and it's complicated.

459
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,440
I don't know all the ins and
outs, but apparently the superPAC cannot directly

460
00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:02,199
coordinate with the campaign itself. They're
not allowed to do that. So in

461
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:08,199
order to communicate this information to De
Santis, they had to release it publicly,

462
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:15,039
and I guess just kind of take
the chance that somebody else wouldn't see

463
00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:19,920
it. I don't know. Pretty
bizarre, Pretty bizarre. But my dad's

464
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,960
on the phone. Hello, Hello, man, how are you good?

465
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:29,440
Afternoon? Good afternoon. I know
that you have a busy show, So

466
00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:34,559
I want to be brief and just
just hit a couple of things, sure,

467
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,360
and end on a very positive note. Okay, Now there is a

468
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:44,519
there is a always going to be
a dynamic here. As you continue to

469
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:52,719
grow and develop your broadcasting career,
there's going to be a dynamic, and

470
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:57,039
neither one of us are in denial
about that are minimized and I don't believe.

471
00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:04,039
But between my philosophical thinking and yours. Sure, you know, I'm

472
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,639
a constitutional conservative and a practicing Christian
man, I don't lay that on I.

473
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:13,400
You know, I've practiced sense of
linked administration and clinical social work and

474
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:20,880
drug and alcoholic counseling and family therapies, and I have never once used my

475
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:27,920
faith in a proselytizing manner or context. You follow me, Yes, I

476
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:34,199
have used it privately and in the
interior of my mind, heart, soul

477
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:40,360
and spirit. Does that make sense
because that would guide my compassion and empathy

478
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:45,719
and skills that I learned in social
work at school. So just a couple

479
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:52,400
of things about I wanted to you
know what I'm always staying away from.

480
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,679
And you can bring anything up you
want it. It's your show. You

481
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,800
have an international audience now, which
I'm impressed by, thank you, But

482
00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:08,360
I am not going to There are
fundamental issues, some of which we're clearly

483
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:15,679
in prominence. I will say this
much. In your dialogue with Eric on

484
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:21,519
Wednesday, I texted you about some
of that, and I mean that as

485
00:37:21,559 --> 00:37:28,440
a rolling dialogue, and I have
some concerns, but I will never confront

486
00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:37,280
you or Eric, or Jenny or
Chris Christie. Well maybe Chris christ as

487
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,000
a little inside joke there. Do
you know what, Matt, just a

488
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:43,400
question, and I don't say this
to put you on the spot. You

489
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,960
probably know this, sure. What
was the approval rate of the sociopath?

490
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:52,440
I'm going to say it, Matt, you know Chris Christie when he left

491
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:55,440
office. Oh, I don't know
what his approval rating was exactly, but

492
00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:01,480
I'm sure it was quite low.
He it was very strange. After Bridgegate,

493
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,920
things really changed, and that's why
I'll never trust. I know Eric's

494
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,079
endorsed him. I don't endorse candidates. To me, those things I do

495
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:12,760
like about Chris Christie, there's also
things I don't like and things that I

496
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,760
don't trust. And I never trusted
him after Bridgegate because I believe he knew.

497
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,559
That's my opinion. I think he
knew. But I also remember it

498
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,039
got really weird because he You know, I talk on the show a lot

499
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:30,239
about who are the most popular politicians
in America. Blue state Republican governors tend

500
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:34,599
to have very high approval ratings as
Chris and Chris Christie was no exception,

501
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,239
at least during his first term,
which is why he was able to so

502
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:43,400
easily win reelection in a very blue
state. But it got very weird after

503
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,599
Bridgegate, especially toward the end.
It was almost like like he wanted to

504
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:52,639
just burn down his own governorship on
his way out the door. It was

505
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:58,159
very and I remembered find at the
time just being kind of baffled by it

506
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:04,880
all. I didn't understand and what
he was doing. Yeah, I can

507
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:07,440
hear you on that. I think
that's a good phenomenological approach, a good

508
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:14,599
description description. I remember that picture, that provocative picture two after Bridgegate.

509
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,000
I agree with you he knew.
There's no way he didn't know about that.

510
00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:22,559
There's no way he didn't support it
and orchestrated in part. But that's

511
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:28,239
all stuff, you know. But
but it's telling about his so called leadership

512
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,400
skills, which I think are poor. He's not a conservative. This is

513
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:36,840
where you know, I know Eric
is your favorite conservative. I could see

514
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,880
a number of things about that,
but I won't. But Chris Christie,

515
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:45,159
as you pointed out, he's not
a conservative, and you could argue that

516
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:47,679
he is a liberal, Republican or
a rhino. I'm not going to argue

517
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:53,079
that with you. But my point
is that after after that scandal, which

518
00:39:53,239 --> 00:40:01,800
was tremendous and very troubling and appreciably
hurtful to so many people. Oh absolutely,

519
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,880
guests from New York spoke about that, you know, yeah, Art

520
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,159
so many people, But then he
bans people from going to the beach.

521
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,119
Remember this. Now, this pales
in comparison. I remember, I remember

522
00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:17,519
the pictures, but I remember the
picture in fact, Yeah, the aerial

523
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:22,119
photo of him and his family looking
up at the camera. That's what I

524
00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:24,679
mean, that's that's that's the mental
image I have when I think about him

525
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,920
burning down his governorship on his way
out the door. It didn't It was

526
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,960
so strange. It was like he
was willfully flipping the bird to his own

527
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,480
state. It was odd. I
don't know what the purpose was. I

528
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,400
don't know why he acted that way. Maybe you're right, maybe he is

529
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:45,119
a sociopath. I don't know.
I think he is. I think he's

530
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:51,360
more than I mean. You you
have accused and appropriately you have defined or

531
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,920
described, analyzed, if you will, diagnosed Biden, for example, as

532
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:00,880
extremely selfish. You know, yes, I have a couple of the things

533
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,599
I would say about that. But
but I think you're right. This guy

534
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:09,880
is, and I'm the one who's
saying this. He would lie about anything,

535
00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:15,599
and he distorts things. I mean, he loves to be on ms

536
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:22,199
DNC and you know, hanging out
with the Rachel Madcal folks. He's probably

537
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:28,480
going to get a job with one
of those corrupt corporate stations whom you may

538
00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:30,719
respect Matt, but I don't respect
them at all. You know, who's

539
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,960
a couple of organizations that are pretty
good that I would recommend to your international

540
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:43,760
audience and your domestic audience. Also
is just The News with John Solomon,

541
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:51,840
a great objective, brilliant investigative journalist
and reporter and writer. And the other

542
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,440
one is so there's just the News, and there's I can't think of the

543
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,280
other one, the one with Chris
Christy, whom I don't like. No,

544
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:05,280
not Chris Christie, Chris and nun
No, no, not Chris No,

545
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,480
Chris Komo. Do you know the
one? I know, News Nations

546
00:42:10,559 --> 00:42:15,920
Nation. Yeah, they knew pretty
good. You know, I can't stand

547
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:22,199
Fox News. I like some of
the journalists. They're still people like Will

548
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:27,000
Kine, for example, I like, but on the whole Dana Perino and

549
00:42:27,079 --> 00:42:30,119
those people, Oh my god.
Yeah, they're just not good journalists.

550
00:42:30,159 --> 00:42:37,119
They're not objectives. They're all over
the map, and it's very confusing and

551
00:42:37,199 --> 00:42:43,840
misleading and ultimately deceptive. So I
just wanted to recommend a couple of books

552
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,400
masks what is by for your audience? For you, of course, but

553
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:52,679
that I've read recently, and one
is by a former teacher and mentor of

554
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:58,119
mine at the University Connecticut School of
Social Work in the great town of West

555
00:42:58,119 --> 00:43:00,320
Hartford, Connecticut. I love the
never to make mistake. But you know

556
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:08,039
why we couldn't live there? Now? Why taxes? That's tax are a

557
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:13,800
pound for pound. I think the
taxes are. They come in second with

558
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,079
California. California's got the Gavin Newsom
and the boys and the girls got the

559
00:43:17,119 --> 00:43:21,159
best one on that one. So
but I love Connecticut, you know,

560
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:24,320
And I have fond memories there.
Someone I know I can't Maybe you could

561
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,800
help me with this, Matt.
I'm going to be brief and wrap up

562
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:35,639
here. But somebody I know was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, Texas.

563
00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:37,800
I don't know who that is my
memory? You know, Texas. I

564
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:43,159
let me take a couple of tabs
of Dinko Bolobo with my black espresso.

565
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,880
Okay, Texas, Michael, I
don't do you know, MIKEL Texas.

566
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:51,719
Mike might know who was born in
Hartford? Oh yeah, Texas, Mike

567
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,719
is with you, isn't he?
YEA, yes, I am who was

568
00:43:53,719 --> 00:44:00,639
born in Hartford. I don't remember. Oh oh oh you uh yeah,

569
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:06,519
Okay. It was kind of a
call that we're talking earlier anyway about Yeah,

570
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:07,679
all right, yeah, yeah,
I saw it. By the way,

571
00:44:08,159 --> 00:44:15,159
I was walking on the sea coast
at Hampton Beach and I saw Texas

572
00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:21,679
Mike's former partner, black Jack Mulligan, and he said, if I did

573
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,280
call to say hello to you guys, black Jack still is in great shape.

574
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,960
You know. I was a pretty
good wrestler in high school, but

575
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,519
at the good Old with a kind
of high with a great coach, George

576
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:37,119
Bossy. I think he's fast man. But a shout out to George Bossy

577
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:43,320
and his family. He became famous
at Springfield College ultimately. Anyway, So

578
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,480
it's Seymour here we go. Yeah, Texas Mike, if you could take

579
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:52,079
this down, it's Seymour Claven,
one of my old teachers and mentors and

580
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:57,119
advisors. And he has a new
book out which I have read. It's

581
00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:02,679
called How to Save the West.
You know, it's it's all about Annie

582
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,280
Oakley and I don't want Earth.
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding,

583
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,800
I'm kidding. It's in West Western
civilization. Then there's a book by Scott

584
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,880
Powell. I've read twice now and
I love it and it's so well written.

585
00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:22,960
It's called Rediscovering America. And finally
this new book, which i've just

586
00:45:23,519 --> 00:45:28,840
I'm about a quarterway through, but
I'm excited about it. I would recommend

587
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:34,840
it categorically. It is entitled live
not by Lives. That's from a famous

588
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,199
poem by Alexander soul Jianitsen of Russia, who came, of course, ultimately

589
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:46,960
to the United States and unfortunately but
maybe inexorably settled in Vermont, because we

590
00:45:47,039 --> 00:45:53,239
know vermonts a communist state anyway.
So this is called live not by Lies

591
00:45:54,000 --> 00:46:01,159
by the great historian Rod Dryer.
Rod dry and I wanted, Matt if

592
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:06,440
so just two quick things. I
wondered if you could ask sometime when Isaac

593
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,599
Banks of the crew was calling from
Greensboro, North Carolina, I wonder if

594
00:46:10,599 --> 00:46:14,880
you could ask them if they know
much about the city of Charlotte, how

595
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,719
far that is from them. I
took a race car driving class in Charlotte

596
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,119
many years ago. We'll go into
that. But I love Charlotte. It's

597
00:46:22,159 --> 00:46:27,840
a great city, integrated, wonderful, unlike Norfolk, which which is a

598
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,559
great city I love, but it
wasn't so integrated. I'll just say that.

599
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:36,639
So, and that was a long
time ago yea. In Charlotte there

600
00:46:36,679 --> 00:46:40,559
is the Losure Institute, which I
can pull up. It's a think tank

601
00:46:40,679 --> 00:46:46,519
that's very good. And then there's
also a large organization independent mental health organization

602
00:46:46,599 --> 00:46:55,480
and counseling organization in Charlotte called Helping
Hands of Healing and Ellison Chigo. El's

603
00:46:55,519 --> 00:47:00,199
a daughter who has done great work
in Ethiopia's home now thank oh wow,

604
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:07,480
China's taken over Ethiopius. That's another
story. But she is the CEO of

605
00:47:07,519 --> 00:47:10,159
that organization. But I just wonder
if they if they know about them or

606
00:47:10,159 --> 00:47:15,280
have any contact with them, if
you wouldn't mind asking them, that would

607
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:22,280
be great. Finally, uh,
in final analysis, I'll get off the

608
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,159
phone because I know you get death
and everything coming up. The musical guests

609
00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:30,760
are terrific and I love Infinity Vane. Yes, yes, And that's that

610
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:36,800
song Angel. It's absolutely metaphysical.
You know, I always rate songs from

611
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,920
one through four, you know,
one being terrible, four been great,

612
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,199
but the number five it's it's absolutely
metaphysical. Yeah, Okay, So I

613
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:52,239
just want to end on a quick
note. Matt. I was gonna mention

614
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,800
I appreciate your dream. I have
had a similar dream where you were in

615
00:47:54,880 --> 00:48:00,639
it. And at one point I
remember a little Ryan was small, and

616
00:48:00,679 --> 00:48:06,280
he was with me in the dream, and we gave you this bottle of

617
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,519
fresh New York apple juice. Now, none of us should drink too much

618
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:14,239
fruit juice because there is a lot
of fruit toast there, but a little

619
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:15,760
bit and you can water it down. I'd drink a lot of water now,

620
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,239
so and I take my coffee black. So jeez, I hope that's

621
00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:23,519
politically correct to stay all right.
It's a little bad joke there. So

622
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:30,599
in the dream you were sitting in
this truck with this person because you were

623
00:48:30,679 --> 00:48:35,639
delivering packages, okay, and you
gave us a couple of packages. We're

624
00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:38,280
going to deliver them, and then
we were going to see you. Subsequently

625
00:48:39,039 --> 00:48:44,559
at mass at Saint Martin's one of
my parishes in Summer's Worth in Hanshore,

626
00:48:44,639 --> 00:48:49,440
we have the Catholic war vetter and
said headquarters are there, so anyway in

627
00:48:49,519 --> 00:48:52,880
the tree. So I I hand
you this bottle and you have cups there,

628
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,960
and I think you're gonna, you
know, pour some into the cup.

629
00:48:57,199 --> 00:49:00,320
And what you do is you swig
it. Matt, So I say

630
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,239
to you, oh my god,
Okay, I love you, my son.

631
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,920
But you weren't eating candy, were
you. That's funny. Our dreams

632
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,800
always said no, Dad, I
wasn't even candy. So then Ryan and

633
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,000
I leave you. We're gonna meet
up with you later because you give us

634
00:49:15,039 --> 00:49:20,360
a couple of packages to deliver to
the mayor of I think it's Dover or

635
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,960
something's worth whoever that may be in
a dream. But then I looked down

636
00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:30,480
at Ryan and guess who Ryan has
turned into in the dream? You.

637
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:37,239
I looked down and it's you,
you know, So I say, Okay,

638
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,280
come on, Mattie, We're gonna
go to Saint Martin's. Saint Paul

639
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,639
used to say, I'm a follower
of Christ. You know, I'm I'm

640
00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:52,440
with you through the grace of our
Lord. But he's always say I'm in

641
00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:55,760
Christ, and that's what all all
Christians should be doing. And that's not

642
00:49:55,840 --> 00:50:00,559
to get moralistic about it, but
say I'm for me, I'm in Christ.

643
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:06,920
I'm still a sinner, i still
make mistakes, but I'm on the

644
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,679
right track and I'm trying with the
grace and mercy of God. So I'll

645
00:50:09,679 --> 00:50:16,599
stop on that note. But whenever
you can play that song by I sometimes

646
00:50:16,599 --> 00:50:21,639
I want to say Exfinity, but
Infinity Infinity Angel. Yeah, that's that's

647
00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:23,480
a great song man. Yeah,
I will right, I'll let you go.

648
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,480
Piece of Love be well, all
right dad, love you, Thank

649
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,079
you for the call, Love you
too. Take care bye bye bye bye.

650
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,800
All right, very good. That
was That was my father, Martin

651
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,280
Connerton. I would play that song
at the break actually, but we've got

652
00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:42,360
if you're just joining us, we
have the world radio premiere of the new

653
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,199
the new track from house Lights called
No Longer Myself. That's gonna be coming

654
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,920
up in just a couple of minutes. But maybe I'll play Angel at the

655
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,320
end of the show today. That
is a great song. Yeah, Infinity

656
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,199
Vane. That's a band that well. Actually, if you happen to be

657
00:50:55,280 --> 00:51:00,480
watching the show live online or on
Channel six, you can see the where

658
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,639
am I point and you can see
the the autographed picture that they sent us.

659
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:07,000
They put WMNH on it after after
we interviewed them. I think we've

660
00:51:07,039 --> 00:51:09,800
had them on a couple of times
now and yeah, really good band from

661
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,920
Texas. But uh, let's see, Well, if you want to get

662
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:17,280
in with a very quick call before
we hit the top of the hour,

663
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:22,039
you can six zero three two five
zero six zero seven six zero three two

664
00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:24,239
five zero six zero seven. By
the way, our friend Miriam Banish in

665
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,039
the chat room, she just went. You know, my dad mentioned North

666
00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:36,159
Carolina. She just went and visited
there and just got back. Let's see,

667
00:51:36,199 --> 00:51:38,039
I'm actually backing up here. Oh, very busy chat room. Oh.

668
00:51:38,119 --> 00:51:40,559
Eric Street joins us in the Facebook
live chat. Hello, Eric,

669
00:51:40,599 --> 00:51:49,440
I ran in Erica recently at the
Hannerford in Bedford. And he's asking about

670
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,559
what's on tonight? Oh, tonight
on retro Spectrum Radio. Funny you should

671
00:51:52,559 --> 00:51:57,400
ask Texas Mike, is what's on
tonight? Yes, we're doing well with

672
00:51:58,079 --> 00:52:05,800
some seventy two music and I'll be
question food tune into my own. Yes.

673
00:52:06,079 --> 00:52:08,079
Yes, and they are a surprise. We are not to know what

674
00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:14,679
they are yet. Let's see.
Joe Friday in the chat room says,

675
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,920
what is Mike going to sing in
honor of Angela and Manchester Fire? He

676
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,400
should sing you Light Up My Life
by Debbie Boone. That would be lovely.

677
00:52:27,199 --> 00:52:31,039
I had another one in mine for
Angela. You have one in mind

678
00:52:31,039 --> 00:52:34,519
for Angela? Yes, I do, and it's not that one. And

679
00:52:34,599 --> 00:52:38,880
it's not that one. Oh,
is it something mushy? Is it gonna

680
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:43,280
make me blush when I hear it? Probably? Is it gonna make her

681
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,639
blush when she hears it? Well, she'd be listening tonight hopefully see will

682
00:52:45,679 --> 00:52:52,320
be oh, very nice, very
nice. Joe Friday also suggested Boys Club.

683
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,239
Do you ever think about singing Boys
Club? I have in the path,

684
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,840
So you have thought about it or
you've sung it. I've sung it

685
00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:01,880
for a multiple d Oh, that's
right. I forgot about that. You

686
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,800
actually did? You did that on
Paul's show. It's a great song,

687
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,480
but I don't know it. Yeah, and it was great that you stepped

688
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:10,119
up to the plate. You know, sometimes people agree to sing things and

689
00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:13,239
then they back out. But you, you would have a head and you

690
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,559
would ahead and did it. Yeah, that was that was wonderful. Jay

691
00:53:17,599 --> 00:53:25,280
Fed suggested light my fire by the
doors. Joe Friday says, I'm I

692
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:30,519
am singing in the rain naked.
I don't know if that's legal. Is

693
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:34,480
that legal to sing in the rain
and the nude? Probably not? I

694
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,480
mean what if there's what if there's
lightning or something? I don't know.

695
00:53:37,119 --> 00:53:40,239
Uh, let's see, all right, let's do this. We are approaching

696
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:45,000
the top of the hour. So
we've got the world radio premiere of the

697
00:53:45,039 --> 00:53:49,119
brand new single from Houselights. It's
called No Longer Myself. We're gonna hear

698
00:53:49,159 --> 00:53:52,039
that, and I will remind you
those guys are gonna be here on Monday

699
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,920
in studio in the second hour for
an acoustic performance. Really looking forward to

700
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,239
that. Sam Beechard has been on
the show. Great guy and just a

701
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,840
great band. So we're gonna give
this a listen, and then we're gonna

702
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,880
show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then from there we're gonna go

703
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:12,280
right into this week's film review,
Eric Pilch's classic film review of The French

704
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,679
Connection, and then after that we
will be back with the balance of our

705
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,519
show and we'll get into some more
stuff. But check this out. The

706
00:54:19,559 --> 00:54:22,920
world radio premiere. The song is
out today. It is available for streaming,

707
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,360
but this is the first time you
will hear it on FM radio here

708
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:30,360
in the United States, right here
on WMNH here. It is no Longer

709
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:45,480
Myself from Houselights, holding up this
hard to do and all these thoughts through

710
00:54:45,679 --> 00:55:00,079
your fingures on your time see through
playing some stecking to this? Can you

711
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:27,039
turn al the us listening so Chris
day like where you're crapping your time?

712
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:50,239
Are y'all love y'all where your church? You much tell? Every day is

713
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:58,519
a new days, the same day
as yesterday? Am I crazy my calling?

714
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:10,880
And say take where you are?
Row? Are y'all black, y'all

715
00:56:13,519 --> 00:56:36,440
Jersey now yall now the side side, the supply day, well side well

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00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,159
Popeyes, here, your hand on
your heads, Get off the barn,

739
00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:38,639
get on the wall. What's my
name? Popeyed Doyle? If he

740
00:59:38,719 --> 00:59:43,079
doesn't like you, he'll take you
a pot. And it's all perfectly legal

741
00:59:43,239 --> 00:59:45,400
because Doyle fights thirty. You want
take a ride here, fat man and

742
00:59:45,519 --> 00:59:50,239
plays rough. Everybody want to milk
Jay Doyle is bad news, but he's

743
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,760
a good cop. We're going there
online. How many times have I been

744
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:58,320
down hard? He hooked up and
saw him smiling like a shining nime.

745
00:59:59,039 --> 01:00:04,199
Yah. I hope that he would
stay in tail in rock, give us

746
01:00:04,199 --> 01:00:08,239
a little heavy if he had Who
is it clar Jewish? Lucky? What

747
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:12,599
about the last bit to Springers?
You think you? Who are you?

748
01:00:13,639 --> 01:00:15,320
He spritting around? What the Russians
are in Jersey? They said, we

749
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,880
stick it, don't give him my
tail. My friend's name is Boker Sounder

750
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,639
to a broker Boca from downtown,
they're pretty sure you pull off a contract

751
01:00:23,719 --> 01:00:28,199
on a guy named de Marco,
and that's not a drop old, not

752
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,440
a charge for your blooming nails.
Boca doesn't rest. And then on the

753
01:00:31,519 --> 01:00:35,119
whole, after working a whole day
and night, we tell on the book

754
01:00:35,159 --> 01:00:37,840
and we said only but practically we
who do we come up with the French

755
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:42,280
Connection? A millionaire export? It
would I record too clean to be true.

756
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:47,239
And Doyle knows it, but he's
been known to make mistakes. Your

757
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:53,480
hunches are backfired before it though,
this time you can't afford to be wrong.

758
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,280
Rust, I know the deal hasn't
gone down. I know it hasn't.

759
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,800
I can I can feel I'm dead
certain last time you're dead. Certain

760
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:28,079
we have a dead cop. I
left hand him, got him. I

761
01:01:28,199 --> 01:01:30,440
don't, my love. Put your
hands in the air. The steak out

762
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:42,800
fresh see, I'll pay you off, Chase, I'm stop, if you're

763
01:01:42,840 --> 01:02:09,679
all right. French Connection. Hollywood, and of course the films that have

764
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:16,920
been created there have went through many
landmark metamorphosis. These are often defined by

765
01:02:17,239 --> 01:02:23,960
era, style, or even political
landscape. This week's film brought forth a

766
01:02:24,199 --> 01:02:30,880
new style of filmmaking called the New
Hollywood Way. That brought forth a major

767
01:02:31,079 --> 01:02:37,440
change not just in how films were
made, but in how actors and actresses

768
01:02:37,559 --> 01:02:43,159
performed in them, how writers wrote
them, and how us the viewers,

769
01:02:43,519 --> 01:02:49,119
not just see them but remember them
in the lasting impressions they make on us.

770
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:54,519
Directed by the recently passed on William
Friedkin, based on the nineteen sixty

771
01:02:54,639 --> 01:03:00,559
nine book of the same name.
Nineteen seventy one's French Connection introduces us to

772
01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:08,840
New York narcotics detectives Jimmy Popeye Doyle
and Buddy Cloudy Russo played by Gene Hackman

773
01:03:09,039 --> 01:03:15,559
and Roy Scheider, respectively. These
men, early in the film find themselves

774
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:21,880
in a heroin investigation that could become
the biggest drug bust in American history.

775
01:03:22,119 --> 01:03:27,199
In our first clip, we are
going to hear how this film really changed

776
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:31,280
the image of police officers in cinema. Gone were the happy, go lucky

777
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:38,639
men hunting criminals joyfully. Doyle and
Russo harken back to the hard boiled detectives

778
01:03:38,679 --> 01:03:43,880
of the forties. This first scene
is an example of this, is they

779
01:03:44,039 --> 01:03:49,519
try to shake down a low rent
drug dealer. This scene is quite interesting

780
01:03:49,679 --> 01:03:54,000
because we hear the start of a
possible good cop bad cop game between the

781
01:03:54,079 --> 01:04:00,400
two that quickly goes to the wayside. And then, in our second clip,

782
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:05,440
the duo crash a local bar and
you again here the tough intensity of

783
01:04:05,559 --> 01:04:13,039
Doyle. But in this scene one
cannot help but notice allusions to future hard

784
01:04:13,159 --> 01:04:23,119
nosed detectives in cinema. Yeah,
come on, break please, come on,

785
01:04:23,719 --> 01:04:35,239
break your ass, Come on,
come on, get out stole,

786
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:42,800
come give me, come on,
let me. I mean I want to

787
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,800
fush you. I want to push. Let me talk to it. You've

788
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,119
got a friend. You got a
friend. You're gonna tell us me your

789
01:04:50,159 --> 01:04:54,280
married? The last time you fie? Will? Who's your connection? Willy?

790
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:57,840
What's his name? Hey? John? No? No, man,

791
01:04:59,119 --> 01:05:01,320
no, Joe bar the barber right? Now's who it isn't it? I

792
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,840
don't go said it? What's joe
last name? I don't know, man,

793
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:11,360
I know there's a hundred twenty fifty
man, I want the barber shop.

794
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:15,719
What's side of the sweet north to
south? To talk about? Man?

795
01:05:15,719 --> 01:05:17,280
I don't know then I knew what's
saying? This threat? He lives

796
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,519
on? Hey, what's life like? Your pick your feet? What's he

797
01:05:20,639 --> 01:05:23,800
talking about? I've gotta man.
I for Keepsi wants to talk to you.

798
01:05:24,039 --> 01:05:27,079
You ever been a pokeeppi? H
Have you ever been pokeepsie? Hey?

799
01:05:27,159 --> 01:05:29,119
Man, come on, give me
a prey here. Let's talk about

800
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:30,679
Hey, you sick? Come on? Have you ever been Poughkeepsie? You've

801
01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:34,000
been for Keepsi? I mean I
want to hear it. Come on sick.

802
01:05:34,119 --> 01:05:36,119
Yes, I've been there, all
right. Yeah, you sat on

803
01:05:36,119 --> 01:05:39,719
the edge of the bed. Didn't
you talk your shoes? Put your finger

804
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,199
between your toes and pick your feet, can't you? I'm sad, just

805
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,119
all right. You want to see
on my partner? You know what that

806
01:05:45,239 --> 01:05:47,800
means? Good? All went wrong? I got let's do him gripe about

807
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,840
his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna
fust your ass for those three bags,

808
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:56,000
and I'm gonna nail you're from picking
your feet for keepsie. Next the bar,

809
01:05:56,239 --> 01:06:14,400
shake down, all right, put
eyes here, get your hands on

810
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:15,800
your heads, get off the bar
and get on the wall. Come on,

811
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,400
move it's not sweetheart, move time, wake out, Come on,

812
01:06:19,679 --> 01:06:23,360
takes the window. Hey, call
turn around there, tur around? Who

813
01:06:23,719 --> 01:06:26,079
come on, loop? Hands out
of your pocket, turn around, turn

814
01:06:26,119 --> 01:06:27,880
around on your heart, come on, turn around? All right, come

815
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,599
on, turn around and get on
the wall. Get on a turn around?

816
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:34,039
Hey, dropped that? Hook it
up? Hands off? Pocket up?

817
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:38,960
Come on, moved, What are
you looking at? All right?

818
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,400
Bring it hair, Get your hands
out of your pockets. What's my name?

819
01:06:43,159 --> 01:06:46,239
Doyle? What mister Doyle? Come
on here, you pick your feet,

820
01:06:47,639 --> 01:06:54,039
get over, get your hands on
your head. I told you people

821
01:06:54,079 --> 01:06:57,400
are coming back. We're gonna keep
coming back here until you clean his barrow.

822
01:06:57,679 --> 01:07:00,480
Keep your eye on your neighbor.
He dropped something in alongs to you.

823
01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:06,199
It is hostel here. Turn around. We got it here. It's

824
01:07:06,239 --> 01:07:14,320
belong to you. I stand up
there, naughty, keep your hands on

825
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,400
your head. Get in there if
you want to take a ride there fat

826
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:25,119
ma'am. Huh, hey, thank
you. We're gonna ask questions later.

827
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:43,119
Turning around. All right, shut
up to him? Shut up? Anybody

828
01:07:43,119 --> 01:07:53,199
want a milk jake? All right? Come over here, you and you,

829
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:59,559
hey, whisper, come on who
that's when I tell you you.

830
01:08:00,599 --> 01:08:08,159
What made this film such a discovery
upon its release is that, despite being

831
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:15,520
a somewhat fictional film, it views
like a documentary. This was intentionally done

832
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:23,319
by the masterful work of Freakin.
He has stated he wanted the viewer to

833
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:28,239
feel as if not even the camera
knew what was going to happen next.

834
01:08:29,319 --> 01:08:33,159
The car chase scenes the foot pursuits
in this film are evidence of this.

835
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:41,760
The best auditory example of this is
our next clip. When the heroine finally

836
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:47,119
enters the United States from France,
it is tested for purity a scene such

837
01:08:47,159 --> 01:08:54,399
as this had not been conveyed on
America cinema with such realism. So much

838
01:08:54,479 --> 01:09:01,319
so both law enforcement and those that
were involved with drug dealing have complimented on

839
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:08,720
its realism in both talking about the
purity of the drug and the business side

840
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:27,960
of it. Last Off one eight
two hundred good Housekeeping Seale of approval to

841
01:09:28,319 --> 01:09:38,479
ten US Government certified two twenty lunar
trajectory Junk of the Month club sirloin Steak

842
01:09:39,319 --> 01:09:50,439
two thirty create a poison, absolute
dynamite, eighty nine percent pure junk,

843
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:54,520
best I've ever seen. If the
rest is like this, you'll be dealing

844
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,359
on this load for two years.
So you taught me it's worth a half

845
01:09:57,399 --> 01:10:01,760
many how many kilos? Sixty si
stick quilos eight big ones at quilo Right,

846
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,479
this stuff take a seven to one
hit on the street, and by

847
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,960
the time it gets down the nickel
bags will be at least thirty two million.

848
01:10:09,359 --> 01:10:11,680
Thank you, holler, take what
stuff they with you and good night.

849
01:10:13,279 --> 01:10:19,399
Ah not that one, A little
one. I guess we gotta deal.

850
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:23,479
Uh well, we gotta hair cells
A test A deal for half a

851
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:29,399
million dollars maybe, baby, Come
on, Joel, I don't know guy's

852
01:10:29,399 --> 01:10:31,199
an houry once the break wants you
to go back to France. This guy's

853
01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:34,039
not gonna hang around and play games. OK. He's one of the shrewdest

854
01:10:34,079 --> 01:10:39,319
casts I ever come across. One
of my smoke what's the hurry? You

855
01:10:39,399 --> 01:10:42,039
can see a couple of shows.
This is at the top of the Empire

856
01:10:42,119 --> 01:10:45,159
State Building. Don't jerk me,
wine Stock. I spent a lot of

857
01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:48,000
time setting this one up. So
what do you want to badge? This

858
01:10:48,199 --> 01:10:53,479
is your first major league game?
Sell one thing I learned. Move calmly,

859
01:10:54,039 --> 01:10:57,800
move cautiously. You'll never be sorry. Look I've been damned careful up

860
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,640
to now. This is why your
phone lines are tapped in the physic call

861
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,279
on Olivia like Fleeman. Look,
I'm telling you I'll take the deal somewhere

862
01:11:04,319 --> 01:11:08,039
else. So let him take of
the sixty kilos of her with someplace else

863
01:11:08,079 --> 01:11:10,119
and find out how easy it is
to put together. I have to let

864
01:11:10,199 --> 01:11:12,840
it a catch. It wouldn't find
there any hurry to know this kind of

865
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,439
business. The stuff is here.
We can make the switching out, But

866
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,279
why start. I'm telling you he'll
split up. We don't move. This

867
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:23,239
guy's got him like that. He's
everything they say he is, What about

868
01:11:23,279 --> 01:11:28,479
you? So? Are you everything
they say you are? In my opinion,

869
01:11:29,039 --> 01:11:34,680
the realism conveyed in this film is
what sets it apart from any other

870
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:42,000
cop film. The intense and brilliant
performances by Hackman and Scheider just put this

871
01:11:42,239 --> 01:11:46,800
film on another level. Couple that
with the masterful direction of Freakin, who

872
01:11:47,079 --> 01:11:54,760
used his experience in filming documentaries to
truly make this film unique upon its release,

873
01:11:55,920 --> 01:12:00,760
and it is allowed its influence to
be felt to this day. This

874
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:08,000
film is a favorite of so many
directors, including Spike Lee and David Fincher.

875
01:12:09,279 --> 01:12:15,920
The late legendary director Akira Kirasawa called
it his favorite film. Brad Pitt

876
01:12:16,119 --> 01:12:21,479
stated he took his acclaimed role in
the film seven because of this movie.

877
01:12:23,399 --> 01:12:29,840
Upon its release, it garnered mass
critical acclaim. It was nominated for eight

878
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:35,840
Academy Awards, winning five. This
includes Best Picture, Best Director. This

879
01:12:36,119 --> 01:12:42,079
is one of the few films to
accomplish that feat and Best Actor for Hackman.

880
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:47,560
Scheider was nominated for Best Supporting Actor
but did not win the accolades.

881
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:57,319
The acclaim the influence, along with
breakthroughs previously stated, truly make this a

882
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:04,880
legendary treasure. In the history a
cinema and also is die cast ironclad proof

883
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:15,000
of the directorial genius that was William
Friedkin. I hope you joined me next

884
01:13:15,079 --> 01:13:19,319
week, when with college football season
starting, we will look at a film

885
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:28,720
often called a football movie, but
is it really will dissect that when we

886
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:36,319
look at the nineteen seventy four classic
The Longest Yard for WMNH and Matt Connerton

887
01:13:36,439 --> 01:14:45,680
Unleached. This has been a classic
film review with Eric Pilcher. Welcome back

888
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,439
everybody, as we cruising to our
final segment today of Matt Connerton Unleashed,

889
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:55,239
and we are live from the studios
of w m n H ninety five point

890
01:14:55,279 --> 01:15:00,199
three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester,
New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety Even

891
01:15:00,199 --> 01:15:02,520
if you're in Manchester and hello twel
of our online listeners across the nation and

892
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,119
around the globe. You can go
to my website Matt Connerton dot com.

893
01:15:05,239 --> 01:15:10,439
I did it again, didn't I? Mikey, Yeah, I'm old habits,

894
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:14,479
old habits die hard. It's not
it's not channel ninety seven anymore,

895
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:18,840
it's Channel six. Uh. Here's
the pattern I've fallen into recently. There,

896
01:15:19,039 --> 01:15:21,920
Texas, Mike, I get it
right at the top of the show.

897
01:15:23,119 --> 01:15:25,520
Yeah, but then when when we
come back from the break, I

898
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:29,279
screw it up, old habits.
We are not on Comcast channel ninety seven.

899
01:15:29,279 --> 01:15:31,960
If you're in Manchester, we are
on channel six, which is awesome.

900
01:15:32,239 --> 01:15:35,880
That's quite an upgrade actually, so
that's very cool and I continue to

901
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:42,680
be excited about that. And of
course, hello twelve of our online listeners.

902
01:15:43,159 --> 01:15:46,039
At Matt Connerton dot com slash Unleashed. Unleashed you can go for all

903
01:15:46,079 --> 01:15:49,960
your online listening options, social media
links, contact info, show archives,

904
01:15:50,079 --> 01:15:56,039
etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, August eighteen, two thousand twenty three.

905
01:15:56,239 --> 01:15:57,960
So now if yeah, have you
all with me? And of course

906
01:15:58,039 --> 01:16:01,520
our Texas Mike is here with us
at the news desk. Yeehah. Yeah,

907
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:05,159
that was a good one there,
Texas Mike. Yes, and uh,

908
01:16:05,399 --> 01:16:09,680
Mikey and I were doing we're both
doing double duty today because not only

909
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,319
are we on this program, but
we will be back tonight for retros Spectrum

910
01:16:13,399 --> 01:16:16,720
Radio for PAULYC Friday nights from eight
to eleven PM. I have the honor

911
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,039
and privilege of being one of Paul's
co hosts on that show along with DJ

912
01:16:20,239 --> 01:16:25,319
Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, who also happens to be one of

913
01:16:25,359 --> 01:16:29,399
our sponsors here at WMNH. Queen
City Cabinetry and Mike is one of our

914
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:31,680
co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio,
and tonight, Texas, Mike will be

915
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:35,560
with us as well, and he
will be performing two songs I believe,

916
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:43,159
yes, yes, very good for
five yes, yes, well we've got

917
01:16:43,199 --> 01:16:45,960
a whole schedule excellent, excellent,
So so that will be tonight. And

918
01:16:46,079 --> 01:16:49,119
by the way, if you are
listening online to that show, what we

919
01:16:49,239 --> 01:16:54,560
encourage people to do is please go
to the retro Spectrum Radio Facebook page.

920
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,600
You can hang out with us in
the chat room on Facebook, but open

921
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,199
a second browser tab and go to
wm and Radio dot org and click listen

922
01:17:01,319 --> 01:17:05,399
live and listen through the website while
you chat with us on Facebook. The

923
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:11,199
reason for that is Paul mutes the
show on Facebook because Paul is playing a

924
01:17:11,239 --> 01:17:15,800
lot of copyrighted music and clips and
so forth, and if he doesn't mute

925
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,239
the show, then the Facebook feed
gets interrupted because Facebook gets all or you

926
01:17:19,359 --> 01:17:24,479
can't do that, and it's a
big hassle. So Paul mutes Facebook.

927
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:29,079
Open a second browser tab go to
WMH radio dot org and click listen live

928
01:17:29,319 --> 01:17:32,760
and you can hear the show in
all of its stereo glory. So that

929
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:35,840
will be tonight from eight to eleven
pm. Speaking of stereo glory, by

930
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,920
the way, at the top of
the hour today or at the well at

931
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:43,560
the end of the first hour,
top of the second hour, we gave

932
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:48,000
you the world radio premiere of the
brand new track from Houselights called No Longer

933
01:17:48,119 --> 01:17:53,359
Myself that just came out today.
It's already on the streaming services so you

934
01:17:53,399 --> 01:17:56,640
can get the single. But today
was the world radio premiere, first time

935
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:00,479
ever played on FM radio here in
the United States. And want to remind

936
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:03,159
you those guys will be here with
us on Monday in the second hour for

937
01:18:03,279 --> 01:18:09,520
an in studio interview and an acoustic
performance. So really looking forward to that.

938
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:13,399
So Monday, house Lights here live
in studio with us in the second

939
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,720
hour. We also heard, by
the way, if you missed it,

940
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,600
Eric Pilter's classic film review, and
this week the subject is William Friedkin's The

941
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:21,880
French Connection, a film that I've
not seen, but I'm very interested in

942
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,520
seeing it now after hearing Eric's review. So if you miss any of that,

943
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:30,039
of course it'll be in the archive
after the show at WMNH Radio dot

944
01:18:30,199 --> 01:18:32,920
org and on my website Matt Connerton
dot com. And of course it's you

945
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,880
know, on Facebook and all of
that, so you have you have many

946
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:40,479
options if you would like to join
us. Six Z three two five oh

947
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:43,560
six o seven is the studio line. Six zo three two five o six

948
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:46,119
oh seven. You can also text
me at six one seven nine one seven

949
01:18:46,199 --> 01:18:50,399
four four seven six. I'm on
social media at Matt Connerton. You can

950
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:55,640
email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot
com. And of course you can interact

951
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:59,079
end opine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so

952
01:18:59,239 --> 01:19:02,760
that we can hear and enjoy your
dulcet tones is give us a call at

953
01:19:03,039 --> 01:19:09,039
six zero three two five zero six
zero seven. By the way, Texas,

954
01:19:09,159 --> 01:19:13,159
Mike, are you looking at the
chat room? I did see that.

955
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:15,920
Yes, there is a It's funny, you know. I mentioned their

956
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:21,520
name and they arrive New Force of
the Spark formerly known as New Affirm of

957
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:25,000
the Spark. By the way,
who is responsible for their name change?

958
01:19:25,039 --> 01:19:28,720
Was that your idea? I can't
remember. I mean, I'm trying to

959
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:30,680
just this is myself from that goop. I mean you were their manager at

960
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,439
the time. Well, so,
New Force of the Spark says hello hashtag

961
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:39,600
Matt good evening, we say from
us a pop singing group, and then

962
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:45,319
your name is mentioned, Hello hashtag
Michael Martineau aka Texas Mike. We say

963
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:50,279
good afternoon from us, and sure
you know you will be a good manager

964
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:58,760
slash producer. You know, mikey
if you ever, have you ever been

965
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,479
in a relationship with somebody and you
break up with the girl and they refuse

966
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:04,960
to accept it. Does that ever
happened to you a stud like you.

967
01:20:05,039 --> 01:20:08,760
I'm sure, I'm sure it has, especially when you were a tag team

968
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:13,159
champion with Blackjack Mulligan. I feel
like New Force of the Spark is sort

969
01:20:13,159 --> 01:20:16,680
of behaving in a similar fashion.
You have expressed that you no longer are

970
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:21,239
interested in managing or producing a New
Force of the Spark, and yet here

971
01:20:21,319 --> 01:20:28,159
they are once again in the Facebook
live chat, just acting like everything's school,

972
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:32,119
everything's normal. There was no split, You're still their manager and producer

973
01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:38,960
and uh and and everything's good.
How do you feel about that? I

974
01:20:39,079 --> 01:20:44,760
feel disguished about it because I've clearly
stated that, and they won't back off

975
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:51,239
and because because I believe that it
is a pot page and they're just saying

976
01:20:51,319 --> 01:20:58,079
what the AI wants them to say. Now, have you considered getting an

977
01:20:58,359 --> 01:21:01,920
entertainment lawyer to send them a c
send assist? I think I would deal

978
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:05,319
with them personally. So, oh, you're gonna now that sounds threatening?

979
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:10,720
Now, of course you are a
former tag team champion Texas Mike with Blackjack

980
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:14,199
Mulligan. When you say you'll be
dealing with them personally, do you mean

981
01:21:14,279 --> 01:21:17,159
you'll be going to paying a little
visit to Greensboro, North Carolina and perhaps

982
01:21:17,359 --> 01:21:21,840
bringing your cattle prod. I won't
go that pod. I just I just

983
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:28,199
want to have a simple conversation and
and what lack of nova, I'm no

984
01:21:28,359 --> 01:21:35,119
longer manage a producer, and I
would I would like to have my name

985
01:21:35,359 --> 01:21:42,479
no longer mentioned in any of the
post of pictures or whatnot. Try this,

986
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:45,640
Texas Mike. Try this. You
should. You should say something like

987
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:48,119
new Force of the Spark. Look, I'm sorry it's not working out,

988
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:53,600
but it's not you. It's me. That's a good way to let them

989
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:57,479
down. Yes, let them down
easy? Yeah, new Forces as fuck.

990
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,680
I'm sorry, it's me, it's
not you. Guys, I have

991
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:06,279
to I have to depot the group
and and and delf have a business.

992
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:14,439
Yes, yes, wait, other
business? Oh my god, are you

993
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:18,880
working with a rival pop singing group
from from Greensboro, North Carolina? Hashtag

994
01:22:19,079 --> 01:22:27,319
I ask of you. No,
oh, I don't know. That sounded

995
01:22:27,359 --> 01:22:31,239
awfully coy when you said you had
to handle other business or however you put

996
01:22:31,319 --> 01:22:39,159
it. M and clearly your services
are in demand. I mean, everyone

997
01:22:39,319 --> 01:22:43,399
knows, Mikey. Look, you're
so modest. Everyone knows you're the one

998
01:22:44,079 --> 01:22:47,680
who engineered the brilliant move of changing
their name from New Affirm of the Spark

999
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,439
or New Affirm of the Sparks.
Policy likes to say to New Force of

1000
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:55,920
the Spark, which rolls off the
tongue so much easier simply by removing one

1001
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,760
syllable. Everyone knows you are behind
that change. I mean, I'm sure

1002
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,520
you've impressed many people the industry who
are dying for you to manage and produce

1003
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:06,720
them, probably many in Greensboro,
North Carolina. I say to you hashtag,

1004
01:23:10,079 --> 01:23:13,119
I plead my case. Okay,
you plead your case. Yes,

1005
01:23:14,199 --> 01:23:20,039
let's see. Well, oh oh, now this is nice New Force of

1006
01:23:20,119 --> 01:23:26,039
the Sparks as well. We say
that's okay. Hashtag Texas Mike, we

1007
01:23:26,239 --> 01:23:30,600
say that you can root us on. Now that's nice. That's nice,

1008
01:23:31,199 --> 01:23:35,520
very nice, a very good compromise, very nice. You can root them

1009
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:43,520
on from afar. Yes. Now
I do have to ask you, though,

1010
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:47,520
now that they've shown that level of
maturity, do you do you want

1011
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:54,239
to apologize for calling them aibots?
I still fake they are to me,

1012
01:23:54,479 --> 01:24:02,119
to be honest. That that that's
my opinion about all all these bands that

1013
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:08,000
point of I know there are bands
in Greenford, North Carolina, but the

1014
01:24:08,079 --> 01:24:16,199
ones that occupy your page retrospectrum sometimes, Peter So I think the all one

1015
01:24:16,319 --> 01:24:20,239
by the same person, and that's
my Boyef. But let me ask you

1016
01:24:20,319 --> 01:24:26,600
this, Sexas Mike. Even if
they are aibots, who's to say they

1017
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:32,159
don't have feelings? They do have, They do have, they do have

1018
01:24:32,359 --> 01:24:39,760
feelings, they says sometimes I just
get get the sick of the banter.

1019
01:24:40,079 --> 01:24:42,119
Oh my god, is that the
song you're singing tonight? Is that the

1020
01:24:42,159 --> 01:24:46,800
surprise? Are you're singing feelings?
No feelings, nothing more than feelings?

1021
01:24:47,279 --> 01:24:50,439
Oh you should, Jed says,
Sexis Mike. Do you think they are

1022
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:57,760
all Isaac Banks? Oh? Yes, I do, and that's why,

1023
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:02,239
Hey, I put the on that
Isaac Banks, by the way, he

1024
01:25:02,319 --> 01:25:04,840
has a lot of you ever noticed
too, that guy. He gets into

1025
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,319
a lot of trouble. He has
a lot of drama with his brother Mike

1026
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:13,439
Banks. Like sometimes he doesn't know
where Mike Banks left the remote control and

1027
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:16,039
if he left it on his grandmother's
couch or under the seats or something.

1028
01:25:16,159 --> 01:25:21,000
It's it's crazy what goes on down
there in Greensboro, North Carolina. Wow.

1029
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:26,000
Well, I'm glad though, that
you and New Force of the Spark

1030
01:25:26,399 --> 01:25:30,720
or you know, as the diehards
call them nfots. I'm glad that you've

1031
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:36,000
come to an agreement a day tante
if you will. I think that's wonderful.

1032
01:25:38,359 --> 01:25:43,119
And they do say they will be
performing soon at karaoke held at Center

1033
01:25:43,239 --> 01:25:49,199
City Park, downtown Greensboro, North
Carolina. J Fed says, and sometimes

1034
01:25:49,279 --> 01:25:53,079
Mike Banks spends a lot of time
in the bathroom. That's true. And

1035
01:25:53,159 --> 01:25:57,800
Isaac Banks, he gets he gets
very upset. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

1036
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:00,560
joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Mike, looking forward to

1037
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:11,760
seeing you later. For retro Spectrum
Radio. Let's see New Force says hashtag

1038
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,880
Texas Mike, we hope you post. We hope you post a message hashtag

1039
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:24,000
Jason, we are good friends with
Isaac Banks. Yes, Joe Friday says,

1040
01:26:24,039 --> 01:26:27,600
I hope Easy calls in and explains
the food situation at his residence.

1041
01:26:28,159 --> 01:26:31,079
Oh, that reminds me. I
never so easyg We're supposed to do it

1042
01:26:31,239 --> 01:26:33,680
entertainment of what. Yes, he
was supposed to do it. Well,

1043
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,880
he's supposed to do it thursdays.
Then he said he couldn't do it yesterday

1044
01:26:38,039 --> 01:26:40,560
because he had a doctor's appointment,
and then he said he would do it

1045
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:43,800
today, and then he messaged me
and said he wasn't feeling well and couldn't

1046
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:47,439
do it today. So that's why
we leave him off the schedule and we

1047
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:53,960
let it be a surprise when it
happens, it happens. Y Jay fed

1048
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,680
said he had a piece of bread
for dinner. Is that what they feed

1049
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,720
him at the assistant living facility?
They just feed him bread? That's terrible.

1050
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:05,680
Yeah. The picture he posts is
like, it's like, yes,

1051
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:11,600
sometimes that I guess what that what
is? Meal is for dinner? On

1052
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,840
one for twelve a meal? What
if he's not? Now that's interesting.

1053
01:27:16,119 --> 01:27:19,880
It almost sounds like prison. Is
it possible? I mean, I don't

1054
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:24,520
know. Has he ever revealed the
name of the assisted living facility that he's

1055
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,279
in? What if it's a What
if that's just a front? What if

1056
01:27:27,279 --> 01:27:31,439
he's actually under house arrest. I
don't I don't think he would be.

1057
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:36,840
But what if EASYG is actually secretly
an international crime lord and we just don't

1058
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:43,319
know? That would be something,
wouldn't it. Oh? New Forest says

1059
01:27:43,399 --> 01:27:49,159
hmmm, we say good foods omg
hashtag Matt, Yes, yes, Well,

1060
01:27:49,159 --> 01:27:50,760
if you'd like to get in with
a call, we do have a

1061
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:54,760
little bit of show left. The
studio line is open six zo three two

1062
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:59,640
five o six zero seven six three
two five zero six zero seven. I

1063
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:02,239
did mentioned earlier. Of course,
we were talking in the first hour about

1064
01:28:02,279 --> 01:28:06,600
Twitter. I've decided, and I
hope you'll all join me in this rebellion.

1065
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:10,199
I'm going to continue to call it
Twitter. He can call it x

1066
01:28:10,399 --> 01:28:14,520
y ze whatever Elon Musk wants to
call it. Well, there's a Apparently

1067
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:19,840
there are more changes coming media I
posted this story. Here is Elon Musk's

1068
01:28:20,039 --> 01:28:26,239
latest terrible idea to make Twitter even
more of a hell escape than it already

1069
01:28:26,399 --> 01:28:31,840
is, it says here. It's
become a bit of a cliche to complain

1070
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:35,720
that Elon Musk is ruining Twitter,
but the latest idea to slither out of

1071
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:41,399
the billionaire's drug adult brain. This
is an opinion piece, does pose an

1072
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:48,960
actual risk to the platform eliminating the
block function, And then it says here

1073
01:28:49,079 --> 01:28:53,800
parenthetically, one quick note, Yes, I'll acknowledge. Musk renamed his social

1074
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:58,640
media platform x, but just like
Prince attempted to change his name into an

1075
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:01,439
unpronounceable symbol, for a few years, everyone is still referring to it as

1076
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:08,479
the platform formerly known as Twitter or
just Twitter. Okay. On Friday,

1077
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:14,760
Musk replied to a tweet by the
Tesla whoops, I scrolled up by the

1078
01:29:15,039 --> 01:29:18,960
Tesla owner's Silicon Valley account that asks, quote, is there a reason to

1079
01:29:19,079 --> 01:29:25,560
block versus mute someone by declaring that
block is going to be deleted as a

1080
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:30,399
feature except for d MS, which
is of course direct messages. In subsequent

1081
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:35,640
tweets, Musk added that blocking makes
no sense and advocated for the use of

1082
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:44,640
the mute function instead. So far, Musk is not clarified when or how

1083
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:47,279
the block function might be eliminated or
if he might instead allow it to be

1084
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:53,520
verified be only for verified users as
yet another attempt to nudge more people to

1085
01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:57,640
pay for the service. He did
get a word of support for using mute

1086
01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:01,439
instead of block from Twitter founder Jack
Dorsey, who has launched his own rival

1087
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:08,840
social media platform, blue Sky,
which does allow users to mute and block

1088
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:14,319
accounts. Possibly related. Blue Sky
was experiencing technical difficulties today, shortly after

1089
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:23,479
musks sweets started getting a reaction m
although on Thursday evening, Dorsey tweeted that

1090
01:30:23,600 --> 01:30:26,640
he had deleted his Instagram account,
despite being one of the first accounts and

1091
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:30,439
first angel investors for that platform,
in the aftermath of Mark Zuckerberg's Metal launching

1092
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:38,960
Instagram based Threads, yet another rival
text based social media platform other than Dorsey.

1093
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:43,239
Though, Musk's declaration he wanted to
end blocking met a broad range of

1094
01:30:43,279 --> 01:30:47,920
critics across the political spectrum, including
many who have previously defended his controversial tenure

1095
01:30:48,119 --> 01:30:59,279
as chief twit. Let's see,
anyone who has ever engaged with a social

1096
01:30:59,319 --> 01:31:04,199
media platform at any political topic whatsoever
has experienced some level of spam, harassment,

1097
01:31:04,319 --> 01:31:10,960
and unfortunately sometimes even doxing and threats. Besides the realms of research showing

1098
01:31:11,039 --> 01:31:15,039
how online harassment and abuse can be
detrimental to mental health, especially for young

1099
01:31:15,119 --> 01:31:18,039
people. The sad reality of users
who take it too far and respond to

1100
01:31:18,079 --> 01:31:24,560
online opinions with real world aggression means
there are potential real world consequences for allowing

1101
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:29,479
abuse to fester. And taking away
the ability to block an abusive user means

1102
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:33,159
Twitter is essentially enabling the abuse by
making it impossible for the target to get

1103
01:31:33,199 --> 01:31:39,600
away from the abuser without leaving the
social media platform entirely. Although actually if

1104
01:31:39,640 --> 01:31:42,640
you use now, I'm no expert
on Twitter. I only I use it

1105
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,239
to promote the show, to share
out links. That's about it. But

1106
01:31:45,319 --> 01:31:49,000
I believe do you use Twitter,
mikey used to not really aim? Want

1107
01:31:49,039 --> 01:31:53,520
to be honest, I believe maybe
you know, if you mute someone,

1108
01:31:54,199 --> 01:31:57,560
you don't see their stuff, so
you can't block them from seeing yours,

1109
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:00,399
but you don't see theirs, right, So just using mute instead of block

1110
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:04,800
would actually, you know, if
you want to sort of protect your mental

1111
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:10,359
health from someone who's being abusive toward
you, if muting would work, right?

1112
01:32:11,359 --> 01:32:15,680
Yeah? Yeah, because I think
mute and just means you can't see

1113
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:19,319
the stuff aim or But it's like
if you want it to, if you

1114
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:25,840
would want to search for them,
if I say, you guys came to

1115
01:32:26,079 --> 01:32:30,479
understand or whatnot, then you could
mute them like block you mean like your

1116
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:34,399
game and like like if you block
somebody on let's say Facebook, If you

1117
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:42,439
block somebody basically unless you're going to
your settings and I block them, Like

1118
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:47,199
if you try to search for somebody's
name, that profile or page won't show

1119
01:32:47,279 --> 01:32:54,720
up. Yeah, it's like they
don't exist. Yeah yeah. Oh,

1120
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,640
by the way, new for as
I says, we create our own Facebook

1121
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:01,680
like page, and that's true.
We set hashtag man, let's see it

1122
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:04,680
says here, and taking away the
ability to block an abusive user means Twitter

1123
01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:08,600
is essentially oh up, sorry,
I read that already. Let's see as

1124
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:12,479
Many of Musk's critics noted, the
core functionality of mute and block are quite

1125
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:16,000
different, and while muting an account
does mean you personally won't be annoyed by

1126
01:33:16,039 --> 01:33:20,439
reading the person's tweets, they can
still read your tweets and post replies that

1127
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:25,479
all of your followers can see.
Okay, so your followers are still going

1128
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:30,800
to see everything if you only mute
but not block. Add in Musk's changes

1129
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:34,000
to the verified accounts, where those
who pay the subscription fee to get a

1130
01:33:34,039 --> 01:33:39,079
blue check get their tweets boosted to
the top of the replies, and anyone

1131
01:33:39,159 --> 01:33:42,520
intending to spread spam, troll in, harassment, or other abusive content is

1132
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:45,920
then more likely to get away with
it if they're muted, because their target

1133
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:50,439
won't initially see the spam or abusive
reply they posted. Blocking, on the

1134
01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:54,000
other hand, means that the troll
can never reply to one of your tweets

1135
01:33:54,039 --> 01:33:57,880
again and shove their abuse into your
timeline. If your account is in private,

1136
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:00,239
they could always log out and screenshot
at and tweet something about it,

1137
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:08,520
but that's on their timeline, not
yours. By the way, New Force

1138
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:12,399
of the Spark says hashtag Texas Mike, we do forgive you, and you

1139
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:16,079
are a fan of us, we
said, now, so New Force you

1140
01:34:16,119 --> 01:34:20,079
would not need to at this point, you would not need to mute or

1141
01:34:20,199 --> 01:34:26,199
block them on Twitter because they're being
all lovey dovey now correct, You finally

1142
01:34:26,279 --> 01:34:31,560
have come to an understanding. Yes, hopefully, though hopefully they don't show

1143
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:34,680
up in the Retrospectrum chatroom tonight being
all like, yeah, so you're still

1144
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:40,199
our manager right there? Texas Mike. Hopefully they stick to this. Yes,

1145
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:47,520
yes, yes, let's see.
Removing the ability to block forces minorities

1146
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:53,640
to carry racial slurs in their timelines, right because you won't see it.

1147
01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:57,920
You'll just but it'll be there.
If if you've muted them, it'll still

1148
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:01,079
be there, you just won't see
it. But other people will carry racial

1149
01:35:01,119 --> 01:35:05,640
slurs in their timelines, women to
carry rape threats and misogynistic insults, Jewish

1150
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:12,680
users to carry images photoshopped by anti
Semitic trolls, and so on. None

1151
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:16,079
of these things promotes dialogue or increases
free speech. And while it's certainly true

1152
01:35:16,119 --> 01:35:19,439
some Twitter users block people because they
just don't want to have a discussion with

1153
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:23,520
them. So what again, The
right to free speech does not include a

1154
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,720
right to force anyone to listen to
you. It certainly does not include forcing

1155
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:35,159
anyone to promote your words. Let's
see. This article goes on for a

1156
01:35:35,199 --> 01:35:39,000
bit, but oh, there's an
update here. As of three pm today,

1157
01:35:39,199 --> 01:35:43,279
several people have argued that this specific
language does not expressly say that users

1158
01:35:43,319 --> 01:35:48,560
themselves must have the ability to block
abusive users. But as podcaster or Andy

1159
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:55,399
Levy pointed out, there are documented
instances of app store rejection messages spelling out

1160
01:35:55,479 --> 01:36:01,880
that exact requirement. Yeah. Twitter. By the way, Joe Friday was

1161
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:08,279
asking if you and Angela are going
to the event on Sunday. Not not

1162
01:36:08,479 --> 01:36:11,960
sure yet, not show up plans. Yeah. Well, the event that

1163
01:36:12,039 --> 01:36:15,159
Joe Friday is talking about is,
of course the Cornhole Tournament, the third

1164
01:36:15,199 --> 01:36:19,399
annual. It's going to be happening
at the Bonfire Country Bar at nine fifty

1165
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:25,000
Elm Street right here in Manchester on
this Sunday, August twentieth. Starts at

1166
01:36:25,079 --> 01:36:29,239
one pm. You can sign up
anytime between now and the event. It's

1167
01:36:29,279 --> 01:36:34,680
twenty dollars a team, teams of
two and uh this is uh, it's

1168
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:42,640
gonna be the firefighters versus the police
for the Heroes Cup first first place,

1169
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:45,640
cash prize, thousands in raffles.
It's going to be very cool. So

1170
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:51,319
and of course this is all proceeds
benefit the Special Olympics New Hampshire. So

1171
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:55,479
very cool. So that's going to
start Sunday at one pm. And for

1172
01:36:55,520 --> 01:37:00,399
more information you can contact Nick Macris
six three three nine one four nine nine.

1173
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:03,720
He's on Instagram at Nick Macris ninety
five, or you can email him

1174
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:11,479
and Macris seventy three at gmail dot
com. And that is for an excellent

1175
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:15,039
cause. Oh hello to James Lewis
Trabuki in the Facebook live chat. Nice

1176
01:37:15,039 --> 01:37:18,640
to see you in there, sir. Let's see do we have time for

1177
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:24,920
one more quick thing? Oh,
let's look at this. I did,

1178
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:29,520
I did have this. I was
going to spend more time on this,

1179
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,640
but we don't have time. But
just this is a list. Actually I

1180
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:36,199
should refresh this in case has been
any kind of a change. But Politico

1181
01:37:36,359 --> 01:37:40,920
has a tracker of who is qualified
and who is not yet qualified for the

1182
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:46,319
debate on the twenty third in Milwaukee, which by the way, starts at

1183
01:37:46,399 --> 01:37:50,199
nine pm and it's going to be
on Fox. The moderators are Brett Bear

1184
01:37:50,319 --> 01:37:59,520
and Martha McCallum. Let's see,
so the first debate, who's in it?

1185
01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:02,239
Says? It says here, and
it actually lists the qualifications, says

1186
01:38:02,279 --> 01:38:08,199
The first abate in August will likely
have the largest invite list with low barriers

1187
01:38:08,239 --> 01:38:14,159
to entry. Candidates qualify by getting
forty thousand donors with two hundred unique donors

1188
01:38:14,199 --> 01:38:18,239
in twenty different states, and by
hitting a polling threshold that sees them clear

1189
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:23,760
one percent in a handful of polls. That's a pretty low bar. The

1190
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:28,439
upper and secondary tier of candidates one
of much trouble getting into Milwaukee, but

1191
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:33,399
dark horses can be tripped up even
by that low polling bar and the donor

1192
01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:36,239
mark. What it doesn't mention here, though, is I believe you're also

1193
01:38:36,359 --> 01:38:42,920
required, unless they've dropped the requirement
because Trump wouldn't agree to it, I

1194
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:47,640
believe they also require you to sign
something that states that a pledge that states

1195
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:51,359
that you will support the eventual nominee, regardless of who it is. But

1196
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:57,760
so here's the list of who's qualified. So Trump has qualified, but he

1197
01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:00,600
will not be there, as we
discussed earlier in the ship, nor did

1198
01:39:00,640 --> 01:39:05,039
I expect him to. Governor Ronda
Santis has qualified. Vavak Ramaswamy, Mike

1199
01:39:05,199 --> 01:39:10,600
Pence, Nicky Hayley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, Doug Bergham, and

1200
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:15,640
Perry Johnson, who I don't even
know who that is, but they have

1201
01:39:15,760 --> 01:39:18,239
all qualified. I literally don't know
who Perry Johnson is? Should I know?

1202
01:39:18,399 --> 01:39:20,600
Should I know who Perry Johnson is? Mikey, do you know who

1203
01:39:20,600 --> 01:39:25,760
Perry Johnson is? I do not. I'm gonna look it up, thank

1204
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:29,600
you, because I have no idea. Let's see here who has Here is

1205
01:39:29,640 --> 01:39:33,279
a list of those who have not
qualified yet. Francis Suarez, who is

1206
01:39:33,359 --> 01:39:41,439
the mayor of Miami, former Texas
Congressman Will Hurd. They both have qualified

1207
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:45,000
in terms of money raised money goals, but they have not qualified in terms

1208
01:39:45,039 --> 01:39:50,479
of polling. Then the rest of
the list has not quality. Okay,

1209
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:57,279
well, Asa Hutchinson who former governor
of Arkansas, who has not qualified in

1210
01:39:57,399 --> 01:40:00,199
terms of money raised, but actually
has qualified in terms of polling. So

1211
01:40:00,279 --> 01:40:02,279
he's got the poll numbers, but
he doesn't have the money, so he

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has not qualified. Ryan Binkley another
guy who I don't know who that is,

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although the name is familiar. He
is not qualified and talk show host,

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conservative talk showst I believe from California. Yeah, because he ran for

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governor of California. Larry Elder.
He is not qualified, but he is

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in the race. Also, Steve
Laughey is not even on the list,

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but he is a Republican candidate.
He has been on the show a couple

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of times, so we should mention
him. But that reminds me too,

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I should mention. We have Mary
Ann Williamson next week on the twenty second.

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We'll be here Democratic candidate for the
presidency challenging President Joe Biden. I

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mean, she has no chance,
but I'm looking forward to meeting her and

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01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:58,279
interviewing her. Now. So that's
for the first debate. And by the

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way, so we already know about
a little about the second debate. The

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second debate has already been scheduled,
and that's going to be on September twenty

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seven, twenty twenty three, and
Semi Valley, California. And uh,

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that is gonna be on the Fox
Business Channel. It looks like moderators are

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still be still to be decided.
Looks like in terms of who is qualified

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and who has not, pretty similar
list. So we'll see to find him.

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Mikey Perry Johnson. I've never heard
of this person. It's but whoever

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they are, they've actually qualified for
the debate. Let's say he has been

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01:41:45,399 --> 01:41:53,279
several books on international quality control standardson
certificate. He was a Republican canate for

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governor of Michigan in twenty two two
twenty two, but was disqualified due to

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quadrant about I think it shows hmm, okay, well he might be at

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01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:15,239
the debate. We'll see, we'll
see, all right, we are we

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are rapidly running out of time.
Well, by the way, New Forest

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says, we will not be watching
Facebook live of retro spectrum with police,

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01:42:25,119 --> 01:42:27,640
and so we say, have a
good weekend, Matt, and be kind

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01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:31,119
and be safe, we said hashtag
Texas Mike, be cool and keep up

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01:42:31,159 --> 01:42:38,000
what you do. We said,
between you and me, maybe New Forest

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01:42:38,039 --> 01:42:41,600
won't be in there tonight, but
somebody from Greensboro, North Carolina will be.

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01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,680
I'm quite sure. All right,
we do need to begin to wrap

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01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:45,920
up. If you miss any part
of today's show it we'll be up in

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01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:51,720
just a little bit at WMNH radio
dot org and on my website Matt Connerton

1244
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:57,319
dot com. Of course, we
did have Eric Pilcher's classic film review of

1245
01:42:57,319 --> 01:43:00,760
The French Connection and the world radio
premiere the new track from Houselights No Longer

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01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:05,239
Myself. Don't forget. Those guys
will be here on Monday for a an

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01:43:05,239 --> 01:43:11,720
acoustic performance live in studio, and
we're actually gonna play that track one more

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01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:14,680
time, or at least as much
of it as we have time for.

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01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:17,840
So if you miss it, but
it is available on the streaming platforms as

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01:43:17,880 --> 01:43:23,399
well, you can get it download
it at your leisure great, great song

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01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:26,720
and great band. Looking forward to
seeing these guys on Monday. And of

1252
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:30,600
course our friend Siam Beechard, the
front man for Houselights. All right,

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01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:33,760
we gotta go Texas, Mike,
thank you so much. Thank you to

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01:43:34,079 --> 01:43:39,000
my dad for calling in, and
of course Paul see and don't forget Retrospectrum

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01:43:39,039 --> 01:43:42,800
Radio tonight eight to eleven PM.
Oh and also don't forget tomorrow morning.

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01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,960
Saturday mornings, I forget to plug
this. We've got a classic episode of

1257
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:48,840
the Morning Show from seven to nine
am every Saturday morning, and a best

1258
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:53,399
of Matt Connerton Unleashed from nine to
eleven AM. All right, that's it.

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01:43:53,479 --> 01:43:55,319
We gotta get out of here.
Here it is one more time,

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no longer Myself, the brand new
single from the band Houselights, their Albums

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and Tongues coming out in on September
one. But we'll talk to these guys.

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01:44:04,279 --> 01:44:06,520
We'll learn more about that on Monday. All right, talking to'all

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a little bit later, by everybody, holding up. This hard to do

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01:44:18,520 --> 01:44:29,159
when all these thoughts fall through your
fingers. The worst thing on your sun

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01:44:30,239 --> 01:44:59,560
see through blind some staring into the
sun, can listening sun daylight, where

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01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:08,159
y'all crop bring your so chime row. Are y'all block an, y'all when

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your chisel ring, my love?
Tell every day is under day is the

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01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:40,720
same day as yesterday? Am I
crazy? My golly? Say dayl where

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01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:51,720
you are by so chime row?
Are y'all block a y'all your chisel now

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01:45:53,199 --> 01:46:16,119
right now? Tell the side the
Splasia wellside well the place says outside Sponsili

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Joe show picture. Listen my joys
that si Yeah