I need you to be really cool. It's one of those days, one
of those days where the gremlins are out. Hey, welcome everybody. It's
that time again. Happy for Day. It is my favorite day of the
week here at WMNH. It's my long day here and I do love it
so because I get to do this show and then I get to come back
later for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paulic from eight to eleven PM, so I
get to get to hang out here. I love it. But uh yeah,
a little bit of a little bit of a technical that's why the longer
than usual intro there with all the songs. So we're not streaming on Facebook
today. Peter had the same issue this morning and that's still not working.
But apparently it is not something local to us. It is a Facebook problem,
not a WMH problem. And I can confirm that because I actually tried
just to see if I could do it. I thought maybe I can just
stream on the Matt Connerton unleashed Facebook page from my phone. You know,
listeners won't hear all the all the audio, and they won't be able to
hear if someone calls in and whatnot, but they'll be able to hear me
talking, and that didn't work either. Actually I got it, uh did
something weird and it kept kicking me out. So whatever it is, it's
an issue with Facebook's streaming component. Perhaps they've been hacked. Perhaps they've been
hacked by our friends in Greensboro, North Carolina. That's a little inside but
relevant I think anyway. So you know, I'll try at the at the
break, when I take a break at five pm today, at mid midpoint,
I'll try again. I'll see if it's working. But for right now,
there is no uh, there's no video component unless we're on channel six.
I did log into that too. I don't know if that works when
Facebook is down or not, so we might be on Comcast channel six right
now. But the important thing is because it is a radio show, we
are of course live on wm n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious
Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, and it is a glorious day outside, and
of course hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the
globe. Because you can still stream the audio. Obviously, you can go
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And of course you can interact end O Pine on Facebook if you send me
a direct message and I see it, I'll read it. But but we
don't have a chat room at the moment. But post on my page or
send me a direct message and hopefully I'll see it. Actually I can monitor
that on my phone. Oh oh, that the the video that I posted
when I was trying to get it to work from my phone. Actually did
post, but then it but then it quit because it kicked me out.
Yeah, that Facebook is having some sort of an issue. Remember that time,
I think it was in the last year or so when Facebook went down
completely like that, a global outage. It was pandemonium. Rondo Ferveriro.
We'll use this for We'll use this for our chat room today. Rondo Ferveriro
commented on that very short video, what's going on? Why isn't the show
started? And Jackson Harris said, Hey, Matt, yes, so yes,
we are not We are not able to stream directly to the Facebook today.
Damn you Zuckerberg. It's all his fault. You know, he should
have he should have accepted that fight with Elon Musk. Maybe this is Elon
Musk trying to go to him, you know, at one point. I
don't know if hopefully I'm sure some of you followed some of that. There
was supposed to be a cage match or something between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Hard to predict it would come out on top of that. Actually,
Elon Musk looks like a looks like he's probably got some muscle on him,
whereas Zuckerberg looks like data from Star Trek next Generation. But Zuckerberg is younger,
so he's got youth on his side. So I don't know. I
don't know, but Elon Musk seems like he would fight dirty, whereas Zuckerberg
would probably stay within the rules. I don't know what I based that on.
It's just a feeling. It's my instinct, and I'm probably wrong,
but we'll never know. But it got really weird. At one point Zuckerberg
was I'm sorry, no, Musk was threatening to go to Zuckerberg's home and
try to try to see if he could start a fight with him or something.
Very very weird. These billionaires, let's be honest, they're very strange
people. They're not like you and me. But if I had a billion
dollars, I wouldn't be like you either. I'd also be extremely weird.
I just it's just something I know. If I had a million dollars,
I might still be kind of normal. If I had a billion dollars,
I would be out of my tree. I would be completely insane. So
but it's still something to strive for. One of these days. One of
these days, I'll get there, let's see. So we do have things
to discuss. Oh, we have a programming note. By the way,
so it is Friday, and on Friday's we usually have Eric Pilcher's classic film
review. We do not have that this Friday. Eric had other professional obligations
and just as he was not able to be here Wednesday for our usual segment
with my favorite Conservative. He was not able to submit a film review today,
but he is going to work on it over the weekend, so we're
going to run it on Tuesday. We won't be here Monday. That's another
programming note because it is Labor Day on Monday, so we'll be off.
I assume a best of we'll be running, but so we'll be back on
Tuesday. We also have a great guest coming in Tuesday, and I tell
you about her later. But we'll also have the film review on Tuesday.
So Tuesday we'll be action packed. But no film review today from our friend
Eric Pilcher sadly. Also, let's see I want to tell you what's going
on at the Hopknot this weekend. Our amazing sponsor. He had posted something,
Yeah, they've got Gus and Jean are going to be playing there tomorrow
night. They are the I'm meant to see. If I got distracted with
trying to figure out if there was some way I could do the Facebook thing,
I wanted to look up to see if they have some music, some
music. They are an acoustic duo. They play some music Phonics Matt Phonics.
But they will be there at the hopknot performing live tomorrow night from seven
to nine pm, and I thought Kenny had posted something else on social media
too. Let's see, but our friend Shannon is online high Shannon, Hello,
I was curious. I know this is an odd question, but can
you spell that place for me? Can I spell what place for you?
Shannon? The hobkno, the hop not? So it's the thh e hop
hop not knot okay? So h p yes h op okay. Because sometimes
when the same thing happens with the CGI commercial, first time I hear C
at the end, beginning I hear CGI, and at the end it sounds
like ZGI Shannon, is it possibly that you are suffering from adult onset dyslexia?
Okay? Unset assault? What sometimes you sound like you're saying? Was
that a joke or hob? So I'm saying I got to ask how to
spell it? Right? It sounds like I'm saying hoff. Well, you
know, I do often talk about David Hasselhoff. Don't hassle the Hoff.
That's what I say? Yeah, or more hove have? Yeah? Why
would I say have? That's not even a word? Is it hove?
No? I know hp h ooh yes, hop it's hop Yeah, because
hop as in hops and barley, because they serve beer, and not as
in pretzel. Not because they have delicious gourmet pretzels. Got chitch gort chits
And I can't wait till send you guys today. Uh did GSM move from
Friday to Thursday? Thursday to Friday? Yeah? Great? A State of
Mind with Rob as a veto is now Thursday nights at ten pm I think
or nine pm? Is it nine pm? Yes? And you can always
access it on demand to w MNH radio dot org. Uh, hi,
you know I don't have dot org. No, I'll wait till Monday.
They we played on Monday. That's true. So have fun with DJ Steve
and Pelopeda and policy Hight everybody. Absolutely, yes, you're gonna have any
uh other people there today? I don't, not that I'm aware of,
but you never know. Well, you'd have to check with Paul on that.
That would have to be approve kidding, that would have to be approved
by when he when he or did we say that he just spit it out?
Oh my no, I could just it just did my mind. I
have a creative writer's type of mind, and just you know what if I
came by as policies, take a sip of something, it's just a spittake.
You know. Well, if you have a creator, creative rider's mind,
you should write a creative fictional story about the hop knot. Now that
you know how to spell it, I think it would be grand. It
would be grand if it would be all made up and they've been there.
I would read it on the air. Unless it had any naughty parts.
Then I couldn't. Oh, okay, well I'll try very Simon. No,
that's it. That's all I have for you. Okay, Well,
you guys have a good time tonight. All right, Shannon, thank you
for the call. I appreciate it. I have a great uh, have
a great weekend, Labor Day weekend shout out, because I'll be listening.
They just won't be able to well, nobody'll be able to type and to
say the listening. But unless it is fixed by then, they may be
fixed about Facebook may have the issue resolved by that And who knows, who
knows they might have a resolved I'm gonna try again at the midpoint of the
show today. Who knows they might have a resolved Who knows? Who knows?
Who was that band who were playing before Oh I played. I did
a little bit of a longer intro than news Well because I was trying to
figure a couple of things out. I played Eons and coded a song called
Reconnection that was right before I started. Also played Angel by Infinity Vane,
and I opened with First of the Month the radio edit of course, because
it's the first of the Month by Bone Thugs and Harmony. Yeah, yeah,
yep, all right, you're having technical difficulty. It happens, it
does, all right, have a good night, all right, Shannon YouTube,
have a nice weekend. You sitting Jenny, all right, very good,
all right, Shannon, thank you for the call. Yeah, all
right, bye bye, all right. That was our friend Shannon, And
that does open up a line for you. Six zo three two five ozho.
Whoa, that's a very loud sounding vehicle outside. Six zo three two
five zero six O seven is a studio line. Six zo three two five
zero six O seven. Let's see. So Gus and Jean will be tomorrow
night at the hop knot uh, let's see. Oh also tonight going on
if you're of course, we'd love for you to spend the evening with your
radio family here at WMH for retro Spectrum Radio with Pauly Set. But if
you decide to go out, you do have another option. DJ Reckless is
doing a huge event tonight at the six zo three Bar and Grill right up
the street. Actually the back to School Glow Party. There's gonna be glow
sticks, five dollars, Tito's, jello shots, beer pong, a food
cart, music by DJ Reckless and Shawn White. Shawn White, the DJ
not, the extreme sports guy. Remember him, Sean White. He had
that long red hair. I think, yeah, short hair now I've seen
him recently on some show anyway. But yeah, that will be tonight at
right over at the six zho three Bar and Grill. It is twenty one
plus and uh you can enter. There's a chance to win a twisted t
mini fridge, which I've seen. I think I've seen the mini Fridgie's given
away. That's kind of funny anyway. All right, So that will be
tonight at the six zero three Bar and Grill right up the street. So
always lots going on. Oh I remember the other thing I needed to tell
you. Kenny at the Hopnot has updated the Hopknot website. Oh yeah,
it looks good. Oh he made some nice changes. This looks good.
Yeah, so uh hopnot nh dot com and uh oh yeah, oh I
like it. Oh here's the other thing. So this wasn't on I didn't
see this on his Facebook post, but it is on the website. There's
also a gender blender drag show tomorrow. That's tomorrow night. Oh okay,
tomorrow night at ten pm. So that will be after Gus and Jean.
So the gender Blender back Drag Show twenty one plus no celebrate Hopknot's fourth birthday.
I didn't realize that. Happy birthday to them, says This Saturday,
We're kicking off our fourth birthday with another great gender blender drag show. This
time around our co hosts Decate Worst and I'm sure I'm not saying that correctly
and Obscure a freak show will be performing alongside members of the House of Rains,
Onyx Rains and Cocobean. The show is twenty one plus with a valid
ID and there is no cover charge. We will reach capacity for this show,
so make sure you get here early or you might not get a seat.
Don't say we didn't warn you. Yeah, if you are going to
that. Definitely, you want to get there early. You should get there
early anyway. Gus and Jean are going to perform. But no, those
gender blender shows are very successful, and seating for that does fill up quickly.
I really like what Kenny did with the website. I'm a website nerd
and I'm a web designer, so I'm very critical when it comes to these
things. But but nope, I like it. Studio line is open six
three two five six seven six zero three two five six zero seven. I
did see this pop up on politico dot com. My dad had mentioned this
in a text message to me. Actually he seems skeptical about this, but
this is growing. This is getting a little bit of momentum, although I
don't think ultimately it's going to matter. But Politico dot com has a story
up in their legal section that just went up, the sleeper fight that could
define twenty twenty four. Is Trump even eligible to run? Some scholars say
Trump is disqualified under the fourteenth Amendments insurrection clause. Here's how the courts might
weigh in. And we talked on the show the other day. By the
way, there was some buzz that some anti Trump Republicans, one of whom
is not that he's directly involved in this, or if he is, it's
behind the scenes. But our Republican governor here in New Hampshire, of course,
Chris sew is very anti Trump, to the point that he has said
many times that he is absolutely certain that Trump will not be the nominee.
I don't know what he's gonna say when Trump is the nominee, because he's
going to be the nominee. But anyway, but there's there was a story
that there was a movement here in New Hampshire, an active movement here,
and Chris Christie has been kind of surging in the polls here too, so
there that's probably not entirely a coincidence, but there there is certainly an anti
Trump wing, a never Trumper wing, I suppose would be the correct term
of the state Republican Party here in New Hampshire. I still think I'm certain
Trump will win the New Hampshire primary. The way I see this going,
He'll win Iowa, He'll win New Hampshire, He'll go on to Super Tuesday,
and apparently his trial in Georgia starts. Is it? Wait? Is
it the one in Georgia. No, it's not, George. I can't
keep it all straight. One of these trials is starting the day before.
No, it's not the one in Georgia, is it. One of these
trials is starting the day before Super Tuesday. But I think it all helps
him, I really do. Hurts him in the general, helps him in
the primaries. But so there is this question about could he be kept off
the ballot in some states. I think this is a long shot, but
it is interesting to see this growing getting some steam here. And this just
went up on Politico right before four pm. If Donald Trump wants to be
on the ballot next year in all fifty states, he might first have to
win an unprecedented courtroom battle over the insurrection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, under
a legal theory that's gaining traction among Democrats and anti Trump Republicans. And by
the way, it might come up later in the article. I didn't get
a chance to preread this. I just saw this pop up. It may
come up later. But I was talking the other day too. It was
either earlier this week or it might have been the end of last week about
there's a couple of conservative constitutional scholars who wrote an op ed it might have
been in the might have been in the Wall Street Journal, talking about how
their belief is that Trump is in fact disqualified under the fourteenth Amendment Section three.
I think, for section five is all ready disqualified from running. From
their perspective, they make that argument, but I might mention it in here
so that seldom used clause again, this is from Politico, that seldom used
clause arguably disqualifies Trump from ever holding office again due to his attempts to undermine
the twenty twenty election and his role in stoking the attack on the Capitol on
jan six, twenty twenty one. There are two ways the theory might be
tested. One strategy is for politicians, advocacy groups, or even ordinary voters
to file lawsuits seeking judicial declarations that Trump is ineligible to run. This strategy
is already in its infant stages, with two obscure plaintiffs filing lawsuits in New
Hampshire and Florida in recent days. And by the way, there's a rumor
that the individual who filed the lawsuit in Florida is Governor Rond Santa's Okay,
I'm kidding about that. I made that up. We kid, We kid
on Fridays, we joke around a bit, We have some fun. No,
no, there's no truth to that. That was a joke, that
last part. Okay, No, I think it was Suarez, the Miami
mayor who just dropped out. I think it was him who filed the lawsuit
in Florida. I'm kidding about that. We haven't talked about that yet.
This week we have our first casualty of the twenty twenty four Republican nominating process.
Suarez has already dropped out. You could make a joke out of that,
Right, how many Floridians does it take to run for president two?
Because one just dropped out. That wouldn't be at all funny, But you
could make a joke out of it. I wonder if if maybe a someone,
if maybe maybe there's a stand up comedian out there who could take my
concept and use that to expand on expand on that with an actual joke of
some sort. Anyway, But yes, Warrez dropped out mayor of Miami.
Okay, so the other So the first strategy is filing lawsuits to keep him
off the ballot. Okay, so it says here the other more politically perilous
option would be for one or more states to embrace the theory outright and simply
refuse to list Trump on their ballots. That might force Trump to file his
own lawsuits asking courts, which Trump isn't shy about doing, never has been,
asking courts to order his candidacy restored in those states. So far,
no state has moved to borrow Trump from the ballot. Those secretaries of state
around the nation are discussing the issue among themselves. By the way, udos
to Politico for getting that right. Secretaries of state, which is the plural
of secretary of state? I could not tell you how many times now on
cable news I've heard people refer to the plural of secretary of state as secretary
of states. Drives me insane. No, it's secretaries of state is the
plural, not secretary of states. It's the same thing like when people say,
like if someone say someone as a spouse, who as brothers and they
say, oh, my brother in laws. No, it's brothers in law.
When you say brother in laws, you sound illiterate. Anyway, I
have these pet peeves. If you're new to the show, I have a
lot of pet peeves about specifically about language, because I obviously am speaking the
Queens English at all times. I'm kidding. I know that's not true.
I've a lot. I have a lot of things I say wrong, you
know. I say gunna instead of going to, and juanna instead of want
to, and cousin instead of Because I try not to, I've tried to
kick those out as I continue to hopefully develop and evolve as a broadcaster.
I've tried to get those things out, but I know when I get worked
up and excited, I fall back on them. I try not to,
but you'll never hear me say secretary of states. That drives me nuts.
It's secretaries of state. Oh you know the other one I hear when people
say the plural of attorney general. When people say attorney generals, and again
it's often people who should know better. It's not attorney generals. It's attorneys
general. Why they are attorneys They're not generals, so why would it be
attorney generals. No, it's attorneys general, is the plural. I hope
you've all learned something today. No, you probably didn't. Because I assume
I have an intelligent audience. Who are he knew these things? But I'm
happy to remind you or clarify anything if you didn't know. These things just
drive me in Oh. You know the other thing too, when it comes
to attorneys general. When an attorney general is being interviewed or maybe it's testifying
somewhere, and the person asking the question calls them general, they're not generals.
They're not in the military. Attorney general as in it's really just another
way of saying a general attorney as in a general attorney for the entire state
would be an attorney general of the state, a state attorney general. They're
not. That drives me insane. The first time I've ever noticed that was
when Bill Barr was Trump's attorney general and he was testifying before Congress about something
and somebody I don't remember who it was, but somebody was questioning him and
they kept calling him general General Barr. It's like, why are you calling
him that. He's not in the military. He's not a general, he's
an attorney general. Call him Attorney General Barr or AG Barr or mister Barr,
or call him Bill. They'll call him general Barr. That doesn't make
any sense. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't people who should know
better doing that? Ah, it makes me crazy, crazy. These are
the things I think about when I have well, nothing else to think about.
I guess I think about these things. I should play that song at
the break for j fed that think about what you'd think about song by mc
MCJB Greatest Rapper Alive. All Right, So getting back to this, So,
either of these scenarios could thrust the courts, and likely the Supreme Court
into an unsettled debate over the meaning of the Insurrection Clause, along winded one
hundred ten word provision that was ratified in eighteen sixty eight and has rarely been
interpreted or even invoked since then. Here's what you need to know about the
Fourteenth Amendment theory. Okay, first, what is the Insurrection Clause? In
short, the clause says, anyone who quote engaged in insurrection or rebellion unquote
after taking an oath of office to defend the Constitution is forbidden from holding any
public office. When the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted after the Civil War, the
clause was aimed at preventing Southern states from electing former Confederate officers to Congress by
the way, before we go any further, too, I will acknowledge,
as I like to do, that not all of us agree that the term
insurrection is appropriate for what happened on January sixth. I use the term,
and I stand by it. The Webster's definition of insurrection is a violent uprising
against a government or authority, and that's what we had. So some people
prefer the term riot. I would say these terms are not mutually exclusive.
Something can be both a riot and an insurrection. And by the way,
we do know there was some organizing and planning involved by certain groups, like
the Proud Boys. A couple of them just got sentenced this week to prison
for well, for insurrection. Because there was planning involved. You had the
Proud Boys, you had the what are they, the three Percenters, you
had who else? Oh, the oath Keepers of course, you know,
so there was planning involved. This was not entirely spontaneous anyway. So I'm
just saying I believe the term is appropriate and it applies here. Okay.
Having said that, Okay, so the text and question is from Section three
of the fourteenth Amendment, and it says the following quote, no person shall
be a senator or a representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice President,
or hold any office civil or military under the United States or under any
State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress,
or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any
state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to
support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged an insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid or comfort to enemies thereof. But Congress
may by vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability unquote.
So that's the text we're talking about Section three of the fourteenth Amendment. And
by the way, we've talked about the aid and comfort part. When the
president came out, he made that video telling everybody, you know, after
two and a half hours, came out, made the video telling everybody it's
time to go home. Now we have to have peace. But he also
said, you know, I love you. I understand why you're angry.
You should be upset. You know, I'm with you. I understand.
Would that be considered comfort to the enemy, I would say so in that
instance, Yes, that's my view of it. I understand we don't all
agree on it, okay, so who has endorsed the theory. Several prominent
constitutional scholars have said in recent weeks that they believe the fourteenth Amendment renders Trump
ineligible to take office as president again. William bod and Michael Stokes Paulson,
two conservative law professors, wrote an article that is set to be published in
the University of Pennsylvania Law Review next year. They argue that the provision is
intended to quote embrace a broad range of willful participatory conduct unquote as qualifying for
having vote engaged in unquote insurrection or rebellion, and they say Trump's actions,
particularly his efforts to pressure then Vice President Mike Pence to prevent the counting of
electoral votes and Trump's quote incendiary unquote speech encouraging supporters to march to the Capitol
on January six, clearly meets that standard. Jay Michael Ludig or is it
Ludig or Ludig a conservative? Oh yeah, he testified before the jan six
committee, Right, I think that's the same. Gentleman Luttig, a conservative
former federal judge, and Lawrence Tribe, a liberal constitutional law professor, agree
They wrote in the Atlantic last month. Quote, the former president's efforts to
overturn the twenty twenty presidential election and the resulting attack on the US Capitol place
him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible
to serve as president ever again unquote. All right, now, what is
the counter argument says here? Not all legal scholars agree with these interpretations of
Section three of the fourteenth Amendment. Skeptics say the recent interpretations embrace overly broad
definitions of the Amendment's language, and they argue that the criminal justice system is
the appropriate enforcement mechanism for preventing someone who participated in an insurrection from holding office.
Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, for example, cautioned against two loose an
interpretation of the provision, suggesting the terms insurrection or rebellion should apply to quote
only the most serious uprisings against the government unquote, such as the Civil War.
So it sounds like so in his view, so he doesn't see January
sixth as qualifying as an insurrection, and therefore he would he would argue against
using it. Here. We have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt
Connerton unleashed. Is this Matt. That's a familiar that's a familiar voice.
It is I Eric Tilture. Oh hey. At first it was like a
weird echo almost kind of thing, and it through me and I thought perhaps
you were someone menacing and you were about to tell me that I was about
to meet my doom. Am I disturbing anything right now? Not at all.
I mean the way you the way you sounded though at first in the
phone call that was disturbing. There was a strange effect. I feel like
you're taunting me. And the way you said, Matt Connerton, whoever's on
the other end here, I didn't think it was you at first. Whoever's
on the other end is uh, they're going to uh shove me into a
wood chipper or something. This is very frightening. I'm sorry for being graphic,
but it is Friday. Yes, I feel like you're taunting me.
Man. Why is that? Well? I mean I saw your video of
you trying to get the Facebook live up and running, and you're wearing your
shirt that is very familiar. Oh yes, my hop not shirt. Yes,
your hop Not shirt looks an awful lot like my hop Not shirt that
I had to purchase. So I saw that, and I'm like, is
this man haunting me? Oh my goodness with the hop not shirt? Oh
my, that's what you thought. Wow, Well, I'm honored. I
mean it would have been kind of mean, given the awful week I have
had? Have you had an awful week? I am already yet fifty three
hours? Oh? And are you working? Are you working all day today?
I'm working until eight o'clock tonight and then you work tomorrow. Yes,
I do. But that's a new pay week. So oh okay. Well,
so well you'll have a good check, right, that's a good thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I wanted to apologize formally for not
having my film review ready for today. That's okay, you don't need to
apologize for that. It's not a problem. Well, I wanted to apologize
to the audience and the like one to three people that like it. No,
everyone likes your film review. Everyone I did. We've done some expensive
demographic research. It turns out everyone likes your film review. I mean,
there is one individual that is not a fan. Oh, that's true.
There is one. Yeah, that's true. There there is one that is
very demonstratively against that. That's true. Yes, there is. There is.
There's always somebody, you know, that that fly in the ointment,
that that naysayer. What does he know? Yeah, well that the conversation
would be longer about what he doesn't know than what he does know. But
I digress. That's true. So no, I'm on my lunch break and
saw that video, and I'm like, I this opportunity to call it give
him some goth Yeah. Yeah, and yeah. I actually didn't realize at
first at the video even posted the reason because I know the stream isn't happening
because normally I like, if we're if we have low call volume, I'll
bring it up on my tablet, yes, and have it running by all
week. We've just been back to back calls. Yeah, Peter wasn't able
to stream on Facebook either, But it turns out apparently it's not a problem
here. It is a problem with Facebook because I also the reason that video
is online is because I also tried from my phone. I thought, I
wonder if I can just you know, I mean, listeners won't be able
to hear callers or music, but they'll be able to hear me talk,
So maybe I can at least stream on my phone that way, I have
an active chat room, but when I kept trying to do it, the
video kept stopping, and then I got some sort of a weird message from
Facebook saying something about there's a problem with the stream or something. So whatever
the issue is apparently is with Facebook itself, not with our software or anything.
So well that's good. Yeah, yeah, Mark Zuckerberg strikes back.
Well, I do feel that. I mean, I know somebody who actually
takes it very personally when he has issues with Facebook, and maybe he's right,
maybe Zuckerberg is out to get me, and you know, maybe maybe
we should get that person on me. They I mean, you know that
person. You know, certain people have problems getting MP three to attached to
emails. Yes, but they could solve the tech issues of They could solve
those tech issues that Facebook is happy. I honestly believe that right or at
the very least, they are the brains that we don't have in the operation,
or at the very least offer some very colorful advice in terms of how
they could improve their service. It'd be something, yes, I don't know,
I don't know necessarily what, but yeah, it'd be something yes,
yes, well well so so yeah, no, I just wanted to call
in and say hi while I was on lunch, and uh yeah, and
we'll we'll have a review for Tuesday, correct, we yes, next week
we will have two reviews. Actually, we will have The Crazies on Tuesday,
which is a very dark in just very depressing film. Honestly, with
I watching it now, there are so many parallels you can connect to how
some people acted during the pandemic and everything like that, and it really strikes
a nerve now more than when you watched it before the pandemic. Oh okay,
So I was gonna say, you know, I don't know anything about
that movie. I've I've not only have I never seen. It was very
minimally released. Yea, I say, I don't know anything about it.
Well, what it is is it's about a small town that a biochemical weapon
Ning Tricksy has designed by the federal government has polluted their water supply and it
causes these people to become like anger monsters essentially, where they lose all self
control and reasonable thought. Yea. And so the government just declares martial law
on them, no matter if you're infected or not. They go into the
houses wearing biosuits and masks with guns, and it's just a very visually dark
film because you see images that are just very very hard to get out of
your head. It does sound intrigue, It is really well done, and
it is a film on public domain. Huh no, kidding? Year did
that actually go to YouTube and watch it for free without as that is the
case with many a George A. Romero's films. Okay, what what year
did that come out? Nineteen seventy four? In two thousand and nine there
was a remake that was quite good as well, that has a tie to
See the Rapids, Iowa, kidding, yes, at the end of it,
they actually used the news station I used to work for KCRG and our
top anchor to broadcast with the three with like fair call letters and logos and
everything. Oh why why why does that happen? By the way, why
does a how does a film end up in public domain like that? And
you said that happens with a lot of George A. Romero films? Why
does that happen? Well, it's because George A. Romero used a lot
of lesser noilm studios Okay, I mean in distribution companies, in production companies,
and they went, they would go belly up, and essentially these films
were just lost to public domain the copyrights. The copyrights expired. That's why
it was so hard for such a long time to get a great addition of
Night of the Living Dead because it was in public domain, so everybody could.
All you would have to do is just burn the film to a DVD
and sell it for two or three bucks. Yeah. Yeah, oh interesting,
So yeah, it's an unfortunate situation for him and his family. Now,
once that happens, Once a film is in public domain, is there
any way to get it out of public domain? Or once there there is,
there is a way you can get it out of public domain, but
it is it is very difficult and very expensive. Okay, you have to
you have to go to the courts, and the courts have to basically say
nothing, This isn't the case. But what George a Romero said is you
can have it in public domain. I want people to see my films,
but I will release directors approved editions of them and make money that way.
Okay, that makes sense. So yeah, George a Romero was really stand
a fam friendly guy. M No, it sounds like it. Yeah,
it's interesting. And really just more about Hey, let's what these people view
these movies? Yeah, m all right, No that's interesting. No,
no, so what so that's so that's Susanne. What did you have for
Friday? Friday, we will have just an awesome film creep show. I
think I've seen that, George Romero and Stephen King working together. Stephen King
wrote it, George Romero directed it, and Stephen King even plays the lead
character in one of the stories. Oh that's unusual, huh, because he
usually makes a cameo, but he actually he's actually a lead character in one.
It's in the anthology film. So there are four or five different stories,
star studded cast for the time. Adrian Barbou is in it. KD
Dancing, Leslie Nielsen, Stephen King. Oh, yes, yes, yes,
I've I have seen that. I've definitely seen it. I was thinking
I might have seen it, and then when you started mentioning who's in it?
Yep, I definitely remember seeing that when I was a kid. I
remember watching it. Yeah, yes, uh. E G. Marshall hal
Holbrook in Features of course, The Master of Horror. Uh, special effects,
Tom Savine Okay, doing some of his best work outside of Dawn of
the Day. Okay, cool, So that'll be Friday. That's that's good.
Yeah, yeah, I'll look forward to that. Yeah. I mean
it's gonna be different for me because I've never done in the anthology hill right,
and that it's gonna be hard because what what do you do? What
do you work with? Right? Yeah? No, that's that's cool.
Wow, that'll be a good challenge then, well very good. Yeah yeah,
so yes, uh so yeah. I will be working on both of
them kind of simultaneously. Really, I do have the script for The Crazies
written. It's just what I ran into is because it's in public domain.
None of the film sites that I go to for clips have just designated clips,
they just have the film. So it's going through in picking the clips
based OFFU timestamps. Okay, So it was just like man, and then
all this overtime hit because of the hurricanes in Georgia, and I'm like,
man, this week has just been a total poo poo storm, right right,
ah, like I said, yeah, don't have a good check.
Yeah. Well, the issues are twofold for us because one of our call
centers is in Georgia and they're without power and we also service Georgia. So
on top of that, we have an influx of customers calling in with property
damage. They've lost their homes, their equipment is ruined, and they're calling
to get prices for insurance. And it's like, well, we're not really
going to give you prices because we're not going to charge you for the equipment.
And then it's like, but we are going to suspend your service,
and you know, and it's a whole special process on top of our normal
calls of people just calling in yelling at us for no good over cable TV
service or internet. Right right, Uh sounds like oh yeah, fun times,
All right, Eric, Well we'll let you get back to it.
There is one last thing before I go, if you'll allow me. The
Exorcist remake or reboot. Believer has been pushed up a week. Oh yes,
yes, because of Taylor's swift is my understanding? Yeah, I guess
she's going to have one of her concerts as an event in theaters, and
it was scheduled for Friday the thirteenth. Universal didn't want their big Fall release
to compete against it, so instead of pushing it forward, which really would
have been beneficial to me, which I'm sure they didn't even consider selfish people.
They pushed it up a week to the sixth. Oh okay, so
yes, that will wire me too, you know, get things in order
a lot quicker. Yes, yes, well that's that's cool. What what
what did you say the new day was? Again? It's October sixth.
It was Friday, October thirteenth, which would have been awesome, but now
it's October six Okay, okay, October six all right, very good.
Yeah, and we'll talk more about that as that gets closer. But all
right, well he said, now that's that's cool, though I don't have
to wait as long for it. That'll be a big that'll be a big
deal, so very good. Yes. I mean, if if you're a
fan of Horn, you have not seen the trailer, please please go see
it. It's called The Exorcist Believer. It set chills up my spine watching
the trailer. Yeah, and the Original Exorcist is coming back to theaters October
for in October fourth. You can go to fabom Events and check if it's
available in your area. All right, very good? Well all right,
Eric, so yes, you all, you and Jenny and all of my
wm NHP. You guys, have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.
All right you two, Eric, thank you for the call. Appreciate it.
Nope, problem, sir, thanks for thanks for having you anytime.
All right, man, bye bye bye, all right, very good.
That's our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And of course see
he's a big part of the show. Wednesdays we do our segment, my
favorite conservative I call it, and then Fridays we have the film reviews.
No film review this week, but as Eric explained, he's obviously been very
busy, so that will be on Tuesday. Let's do this, Let's take
a break. I think I'm gonna play some Stone Road Band. This is
the band that Kevin Horn used to be in the song Brutus. I love
this song, and I think he I think this is one of the ones
he says he still plays live in his solo shows. But yeah, we'll
take a little break. We'll play a little music show, some love to
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and we'll continue with what we were talking about before Eric's call, because I
think it's a pretty interesting subject, and we'll get into some other stuff too,
and stick around more to come, don't go away. W m n
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I'm thinking about glow sticks. Just go there and uh WMH radio dot
org that is, and click listen live. Sorry, I was having a
memory of I was in a band many years ago called My Life Crisis.
In fact, the subject came up a few months ago on the show and
one of the guys who was in the band with me had passed away recently,
Ben Brackett York, So we kind of did a little did a little
tribute to him on the show. But that band, we had a drummer
at one point whose name was Andrew. And Andrew liked to put glow sticks
all over his drum set. And Andrew was younger than the rest of us.
I think he might have even still been in high school when he joined
the band, and we were not for the kind of music that we were
doing. Nothing wrong with glow sticks, but there was a time and a
place, as they're not for the kind of music we were doing the glow
sticks. We weren't feeling the glows sticks. I remember there was one show
we were playing at. People in the area from the music scene around here
might remember the Bomb Shelter on Eddie Road. It wasn't a literal bomb shelter.
It was a music venue and we would play there. Usually heavy bands,
loud heavy bands, metal bands would play there. And we played there
one time. And while we played there many times in my life crisis.
But I just remember Andrew. He's got his drums, he's got his glows
sticks out, he's putting them all over his drum set, and he said
to me, do you want some glow sticks for your bass? And I
said, I looked at him and I said no, thank you. And
there were but in my mind the thought was not simply no thank you.
It was no thank you because and then the rest of the thought I chose
not to say out loud to him because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
And I won't say the rest of the thought out loud here either,
because I would not be permitted to use those words on the air. But
I had a very specific response in my mind when he asked me that question,
if I wanted to put some glow sticks on my base, but I
politely declined. But I seem to remember a conversation with another band member after
the show. He actually asked me if I wanted glow sticks for my bass,
right, because I'm gonna put glow sticks on my base while we're on
stage. And I'm you know, got my head shaken and my hair flying
everywhere because I had long hair at the time, and you know, yeah,
I'm gonna put glow sticks on my bass. That's gonna look so metal.
It was very important to look metal. I had to look as metal
as possible. No, I'm kidding about that part. I don't even have
any tattoos or piercings. I never looked metal, but I tried. But
I would have looked even less metal if I put glow sticks on my base.
That would have looked unmetal. It would have been a little embarrassing.
So I declined. The studio line is open six ZO three two five six
seven six ZO three two five six seven. I do want to get back
to before we run out of time. If you're just joining us, we
were discussing earlier, and we'll try to get through the rest of this fairly
quickly because I had a couple of other things I wanted to look at,
and uh, this is never enough time. Two hours. It goes by
so quick, and there's always so much to talk about. But if you
are just joining us, we were talking about this. Politico has this article
up today about this is gaining some traction. The article is the sleeper legal
fight that could define twenty twenty four is Trump even eligible to run? And
we're talking about these these legal scholars who are making the argument that Trump is
not eligible to run under the because of the insurrection clause in section three of
the fourteenth Amendment. And so we went through some of the argument in favor
of the insurrection clause and thus in favor of disqualifying Trump from running for office,
for any office. So we went through that, but let's look at
the counter argument. We started to look at what the counter argument to this
is, so we'll finish with that. So it says here not all legal
scholars agree with these interpretations of section three of the fourteenth Amendment. Skeptics say
the recent interpretations embrace overly broad definitions of the amendment's language, and they argue
that the criminal justice system is the appropriate enforcement mechanism for preventing someone who participated
in an insurrection from holding office. Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, for example,
cautioned against too loose an interpretation of the provision, suggesting the terms insurrection
or rebellion should apply only to quote, I'm sorry, apply to quote only
the most serious of uprisings against the government unquote, such as the Civil War.
Others have also expressed concern about the precedent of secretaries of state unilaterally disqualifying
certain politicians from the ballot, suggesting such a step might be seen as undemocratic.
So, for example, if if our secretary of State here in New
Hampshire, because this came up the other day, this was in the news,
that a rumor really nothing more than that, but a rumor or a
story circulating that our secretary of State might be considering this. And there is
you know, an anti Trump or never Trump wing of the Republican Party,
certainly here in New Hampshire, led by our Governor Chris san Unu. But
that would be I can see how that wouldn't be a popular move, even
if you agree in principle, that would be pretty difficult if secretaries of state
started to just unilaterally make that decision and interpret Section three of the fourteenth Amendment
that way, or interpret the events of January sixth in that way, because,
for example, as I mentioned earlier, not everyone agrees that the term
insurrection is even appropriate to what happened. I feel that it is, that's
my opinion, but not everyone agrees. So so I can see how that
would be pretty problematic if individual secretaries of state in different states just started saying,
no, we're not going to allow Trump to be on our ballot.
But that's a big problem. You know, even Ellie Honig on CNN today,
the legal analysts they have on was he threw cold water on this whole
thing, because he said, no one's ever tested before how this would even
work. Is the you know, it's one thing to talk about. You
know, it's funny as I'm thinking about it now, I'm realizing there's another
part of the fourteenth Amendment that's questionable in a similar way to the way that
Ellie Honig raised, and that is when we were talking about back during the
debt ceiling debacle, when we almost went over the fiscal cliff, and you
had all these people who were saying, well, Biden should just invoke the
fourteenth Amendment, which says that basically that we cannot default, that the country's
debt shall not be questioned. But the problem, as I remember discussing on
the show at length at that time, was that it had never been tested
before and all it's going to take if Biden were to use that option.
And Mary Ann Williamson when she was here, she even said, no,
Biden shouldn't have negotiated, he should have just invoked the fourteenth. But the
problem is, because it's never been tested, we don't even know what the
mechanism would be for the executive branch to invoke the fourteenth Amendment, So we're
not even sure what the process would be. And then if the process is
challenged or struck down in court, that's it game over. We're in default.
So that was a very dangerous course. And I've talked about too.
If we can get Mary Ann Williamson back on for a full two hours as
the primary gets closer, I'd like to do a deeper dive on some of
these issues where you know, we agree on a lot of things, but
we do disagree on some things too, and that was that was one of
them. But but this is a similar issue, right, What would be
if you're going to invoke section three of the section three of the fourteenth of
the Constitution to say Trump cannot be on the ballot? What is the mechanism
to do that? Because it's never been tried, it's never been tested.
So and that's what Ellie Honak said today on CNN. So he threw cold
water on it. He said, no states are going to be able to
do this because no one knows how to do it. So if you don't
know how you're going to do it, you can't do it. That was
his argument. So, next section of this, how would the fourteenth Amendment
theory be put into practice? Okay, so here we get into it the
problems, So says here, most likely it would need to be enforced as
the result of a lawsuit. A candidate running against Trump in either the Republican
primary or the general election would have the cleanest path into court because they could
argue that they are directly harmed by Trump's presence on the ballot. Okay,
So in other words, in legal terms, and I'm not a legal expert
of any kind, but i do know that if you're going to if you're
going to court, if you're suing somebody, you have to have what is
called standing or not to initiate the lawsuit necessarily. But if the judge rules
that you don't have standing, then the suit's going to get thrown out standing,
meaning that you are an aggrieved party, you are being harmed by the
action of whom where it is that you're suing, and that's why you need
to stop it. That's why you need to prevent it. So that's why
here, in this case, someone who is on the ballot against Trump would
have to argue that Trump being on that ballot that he should be disqualified,
and his not being disqualified under Section three of the fourteenth is harming the individual,
the aggrieved party in this case who's bringing the suit. So it says
here interest groups or individual voters also could try to sue to prevent him from
getting on the ballot in a particular state. In recent days, a long
shot Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro. Oh, we'll have to get him
on the show. I didn't know. I've never heard of this person before.
But if you haven't noticed, we kind of like the outlong shot candidates
around here. John Anthony Castro filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire arguing that Trump
violated the fourteenth Amendment and seeking an injunction that would force the state's secretary of
state to keep Trump's name off of the ballot. So that must be where
that rumor started. I didn't know about this guy. I didn't know about
this lawsuits specifically, but that must be where this whole thing started. Here
in New Hampshire, Okay, it says here, and in Florida, a
tax attorney sued Trump in federal court in an effort to disqualify him from running
for president, saying his participation in the events of jan six should prevent him
from holding office under the fourteenth Amendment. Alternatively, a secretary of state could
preemptively exclude him from the ballot, almost certainly leading Trump to sue over it.
Some secretaries of state have already suggested they will at least consider whether to
apply the provision. Michigan Secretary of State Joscelyn Benson said she planned to speak
with her counterparts in other battleground states about how to handle the issue. Over
the summer, legal vocacy group Free Speech for People sent letters to secretaries of
state and chief election officials in nine states asking them to bar Trump from the
ballot as a consequence of the Fourteenth Amendment. Quote, Trump's involvement in the
violent attack on Congress to prevent the certification of democratic election results disqualifies him from
holding any future public office unquote. Either way, the issue is likely to
result in multiple appeals from Trump and his campaign or from a conservative group.
Any serious effort to ban him from the ballot likely would rock it up to
the Supreme Court. It has already become a point of dispute. In New
Hampshire. Bryant Quirky Messner, an attorney who ran on Trump's endorsement as Republicans
twenty twenty US Senate nominee, questioned Trump's eligibility for the ballot and met with
Okay, this was the part we talked about the other day, and met
with New Hampshire's Secretary of State David Scanlan, asking him to seek legal guidance
on the issue. Scanlon and New Hampshire's Attorney General, John Formella, both
of whom are Republicans, then issued a joint statement saying Formela's office quote is
now carefully reviewing the legal issues involved. Unte the chair of the state's Republican
party, however, said the group would quote fight to make sure that candidates
are not denied access to the ballot unquote okay, and then the last part
of this quickly, how has the fourteenth Amendment theory fared in the courts In
the century and a half since the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified? Its third section
has been infrequently tested in court, and never against a former president. I
didn't realize it had been tested at all, but apparently it has. After
Jan six Free Speech for People, that's the organization filed legal challenges against Republican
Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Oh I think I do remember this now, Republican
of Georgia, and then Representative Madison Cawthorne, Republican of North Carolina, arguing
that both were ineligible for office under the insurrection clause. In Green's case,
an administrative law judge found that she did not participate in the jan sixth insurrection,
making her eligible to run for reelection. I do remember that, now,
I'd forgotten about all that. In Cawthorne's case, a federal appeals court
ruled against him, but the ruling came after he had already lost his primary,
so it didn't matter, right, I'd forgotten about that. So there
you go. That's the latest on that. Again. I agree with what
Ellie Hoenig said this morning on CNN. This isn't going anywhere because it just
can't. No one's really sure how it would work, how you would go
about it. So it is probably da Let's see, we've got a little
bit of time left. Will get to at least one more thing, maybe
two. The studio line is open though, six zo three two five zero
six zero seven six two five six seven mm. Here's some potential good news
for Trump. This just popped up two on the Hill dot com. D
o J loses on appeal and trying to block Trump deposition. It says here
the DC Appeals Court ruled today that former President Trump can be deposed in suits
against the FBI brought by former agents Peter Strock and Lisa Page. Oh wait,
why were they trying to okay a little unclear on something here, but
we'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. We'll figure it out together.
Okay. So the Department of Justice appeal to ruling from a lower court
in July, which came to the same conclusion. Strack is suing the Bureau
for wrongful termination and Page is suing for invasion of privacy. After the pair
were embroiled in a political scandal due to work on the Bureau's investigation in a
Trump's ties to Russia in twenty eighteen, text messages became public. Yes,
Trump actually at a rally performed them almost perhaps he was inspired by hearing one
of my dramatic readings. Text messages became public in which the pair spoke about
how they personally disliked Trump, causing concern that the entire investigation was biased,
later resulting in Page resigning and Strack being fired. DOJ attorneys argued in their
appeal, quote, only the most extraordinary of circumstances would justify allowing a plaintiff
to depose a former high level official about actions he took in the course of
his official duties. This case falls far short of that standard. Unquote.
FBI Director Christopher Ray and former Trump Chief of staff John Kelly already testified in
the lawsuits, making Trump's testimony unnecessary. The DOJ argued. The appeals court
ruled that the district Judge Amy Herman Jackson properly considered the DOJ's concerns about a
former president being deposed and came to her conclusion justly quote have an employed particular
deference and restraint considering the separation of powers concerns at issue. The district Court
ultimately concluded that extraordinary circumstances warranted the deposition of the former president unquote, Oh
there's more quote under these circumstances. Petitioners have not shown that the district Court's
conclusion was a clear abuse of discretion, warranting mandamus relief mandamus mandamus. That
must be a legal term. I'm not familiar with what I have no idea
what that word means. Kelly said in his testimony that Trump quote wanted to
see mister Strock fired unquote and considered other retaliation. All right, there's a
little bit more to that, but that's that's not that really doesn't have any
direct effect on Trump. When I said that looked like good news, potential
good news for Trump. I actually I think it's kind of a wash.
Got a little bit of time left. Yeah, let's let's look at this.
I've been kind of fascinated. And if you're a long time listener,
you know this already. I've been kind of fascinated by Tucker Carlson, of
course, was fired by Fox News and then immediately began doing some form of
a show on Twitter, now known as x I'm still calling it Twitter,
I don't care. And and someday it will probably go back to being Twitter.
Who knows, maybe Elon Musk will change it back anyway. And then
there came this hole. In the aftermath of that, Fox News sent technicians
to Tucker Carlson's house to confiscate the equipment that they had for him so he
could do is because I think he was doing the show that he did on
the streaming service what is it Fox Nation. I think he was doing that
from his home studio. And they went and they confiscated that, and they
Fox attorneys sent a cease and assist saying that Tucker Carlson could not be doing
the show on Twitter because he has a non compete clause, which is common,
very typical. If you are doing a show for a network news,
whether it be a news outlet, or you're on you're a host of some
sort of entertainment show, talk show, whatever it may be, there's usually
a non compete clause in there, so if they decide to cutch a loose,
as long as they're still paying you, they can block you from going
and appearing on another network, starting a new show somewhere. But what has
been particularly fascinating in the Tucker Carlson situation is his being fired from Fox.
Does that mean according to his contract, does that no compete clause which I
think doesn't run out until is it twenty twenty five if I remember correctly from
the news reports that non compete clause? Does that mean? I mean,
obviously it means he can't just go and get a show on Newsmax or something
right, a competitor to Fox. But does that also mean he can't even
do a show on social media? What if he just wants to make videos
on What if he wants to open a YouTube channel and just stream on YouTube?
Is he is he prevented from doing that according to the no compete clause
in his contract. When that contract was written, did anyone even consider the
social media aspect of things. So I've been kind of fascinated by that,
and I still don't know. We still don't have an answer to that question.
Does that contract not only prevent Tucker Carlson from going to another network as
long as Fox is continuing to pay out on the contract, or does it
also prevent him from doing any kind of Is he prevented from going on somebody
else's show as a guest? Is he what if somebody wants to have him
on his on their podcast as a guest, or even guest hosting somebody's podcast.
Is he allowed to start a podcast? You know, I'm just I'm
very curious to what extent I mean. Is there some room for interpretation in
that clause in the contract, which maybe what's really gone on here When Tucker
started doing that show on Twitter, which apparently there were only a couple of
episodes, and then the interview with you know, and then they got the
cease and assist, but he still did the interview with Trump which they put
on Twitter. To Tucker Carlson's lawyers interpret the contract as meaning he just can't
go to another news network, whereas Fox's attorneys are saying no, we sent
you a cease and desist because he's not allowed to do a show anywhere.
And is that even enforceable if the contract actually does say that or even implies
that, is that enforceable? Can you actually prevent someone because just because something's
in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable, right if it's if it's deemed in
court. You know, if you go to court over it and it's deemed
that, no, this is unfair. Kind of like Stephen Crowder. When
Stephen Crowder tried to make his employees sign a non disclosure agreement, and basically
the way the non disclosure agreement was written, it was basically, you know,
you have to tolerate me sexually harassing you. And if you I'm paraphrasing,
of course, but you have to tolerate working in an environment with rampant
sexual harassment and you have to be okay with it. And if you have
decide you're not okay with it and you start running your mouth according to this
nondisclosure agreement, you know, if you go talking to the media about what
we do here, according to this NDA, you can be fined one hundred
thousand dollars and which will be payable immediately, and you have no right to
even try to question or dispute it, completely unenforceable. He tried to frighten
his employees into signing that contract, and of course it got out into the
media and several of him as his employees, said no thanks, and they
left, and hopefully at least one of them is going to sue him,
because that's what I would do. You put a doc. If I were
working anywhere and my employer put a document in front of me that basically said
I get to sexually assault you anytime I want to. You have to be
okay with it, and if you ever decide you're not okay with it and
you start complaining, you owe me one hundred thousand dollars and you have no
right to complain about that. I would be like, well, obviously I'm
not signing that, dude, I don't know why you're putting that in front
of me, And if you want to fire me for refusing to sign that,
you go right ahead. In fact, i'd prefer it because that way
I'll have the rest of my day free. I can go find a lawyer
who will then sue you and take you for everything you're worth. So you
know, I don't think you want to be putting that piece of paper in
front of me. I mean, that's what I would do. And I'm
not a litigious person by nature, but if somebody tried to make me sign
a contract that said something like that and then told me if I didn't sign
it, they were going to fire me, I'll see you in court.
You shine up that fancy sports car you've been driving, make it look really
nice because it's gonna be mine. That would be my approach. But anyway,
so just because something's in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable. So this
on compete clause, it's allegedly in the contract Fox. As with Tucker Carlson,
I don't think they can keep him off of Twitter, but I don't
know. I'm not a lawyer, but I just having to see this pop
up on media. Tucker Carlson says Elon Musk called his team with an hour
of Fox Firing to ask him to bring his show to Twitter. So I'm
curious what Tucker is saying about this now and if he you know, because
again there's uh questions about whether he can even do that, and I think
he only did two episodes, right, He did two episodes on Twitter and
then stopped when he got the season to assist. But then he did the
sit down interview with Trump, which they put on Twitter. But him interviewing
somebody, does that constitute a show anyway? It says here Tucker Carlson revealed
that Elon Musk was quick to try and convince him to bring his show to
Twitter. Carlson was abruptly fired back in April along side longtime executive producer Justin
Wells. In a Thursday interview with Barstools Sports founder Dave Portnoy, Carlson opened
up about leaving Fox and the surprising call Wells got an hour after they were
ousted. Carlson said, quote, thankfully they fired my executive producer, Justin
Wells, like within four minutes of firing me. He really didn't do anything
wrong. He was the best producer in all of television and everyone knew it.
And Fox has a lot of nice people, a lot of very incompetent
people obviously running it, and he was one of the only competent people in
the whole business. But they fired him too, and within I don't know
an hour of that happening. Elon called and said you should come to Twitter.
So I'll never stop being grateful for that unquote. Less than a month
after leaving Fox, Carlson announced he would be creating a show that would air
only on Twitter. He's made it very clear that the move was out of
necessity for free speech and that he does not work for Musk. Carlson said,
quote, we don't work for Elon or anything, but we're using the
site like everyone else uses it, which is a platform that's not censored,
and I'm super grateful for it. Unquote. Now it's interesting that he puts
it that way, that he explains it that way, because it sounds like
he's kind of sort of, you know, making an implicit argument, a
legal argument that I mean, he's not overtly saying it, but he's kind
of saying, look, we're just I don't work for Musk, I don't
work for Twitter. I'm just doing I'm just doing my videos there, I'm
just doing my show there. I'm just using the platform like like everyone else
does. His exact words, which is probably what his lawyers I assume if
this if they end up in court, because I don't think Fox is actually
they threaten to sue with their season assist. I don't think they've brought any
actual legal action beyond that, but that would be the argument in court,
right Tucker's attorneys would make. Look, he doesn't work for Elon Musk,
he didn't go he didn't go work for Twitter. He's doing his own thing.
He's just putting his own content on Twitter's platform, which he could do
on any platform, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, whatever. He's just creating
content and putting it out there. That's not competing with what Fox News is.
And by the way, I would tend to agree. I would have
to. I'm no fan of Tucker Carlson, but if that is the argument
that he's making, or his lawyers would be making, I would agree with
that. You can't stop somebody from making content and just putting it on social
media, can you. So to the one downside Carlson revealed of having a
show on social media is being more aware of the public's response. He said,
quote, I do think the downside of social media is you can get
involved in like people's responses to it. That's soul death. So do you
just ignore it all? Portnoy I asked. Carlson said, quote, I
really try to. I know who I am for all of my faults,
for all of my many faults, I know who I am, and I
don't need other people to tell me who I am. Unquote. M all
right, well, we'll see how it all goes. Legally, he could
be covered in legality. As Sarah once said, that was a very uh.
That was a deep cut in terms of references. That was a reference
to a hue the Gecko interview where the wet we got some calls from the
pot Awful cult and someone calling themselves, Sarah said, threatening to Sue.
Huey said, you're going to be covered in legality. I should put that
on the soundboard. Anyway, we are just about out of time, my
friends, so we're gonna get ready to wrap up. But thank you all.
It is Friday, which means I will be back retro Spectrum Radio eight
to eleven PM tonight with Police. I have the honor and privilege of being
one of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with DJ Steve and Mike
from Queen City Cabinetry. Love hanging out with those guys on a Friday night.
Friday is my favorite day, her favorite day of the week at WMNH.
So great, great fun. So I will be back tonight. If
you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little
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So we'll close with this. This is reached from the band ever Felt
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