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I need you to be really cool. It's one of those days, one

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of those days where the gremlins are
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that time again. Happy for Day. It is my favorite day of the

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week here at WMNH. It's my
long day here and I do love it

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so because I get to do this
show and then I get to come back

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later for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paulic
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get to get to hang out here. I love it. But uh yeah,

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a little bit of a little bit
of a technical that's why the longer

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than usual intro there with all the
songs. So we're not streaming on Facebook

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today. Peter had the same issue
this morning and that's still not working.

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But apparently it is not something local
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not a WMH problem. And I
can confirm that because I actually tried

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just to see if I could do
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stream on the Matt Connerton unleashed Facebook
page from my phone. You know,

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listeners won't hear all the all the
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hear if someone calls in and whatnot, but they'll be able to hear me

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talking, and that didn't work either. Actually I got it, uh did

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something weird and it kept kicking me
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an issue with Facebook's streaming component.
Perhaps they've been hacked. Perhaps they've been

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hacked by our friends in Greensboro,
North Carolina. That's a little inside but

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relevant I think anyway. So you
know, I'll try at the at the

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break, when I take a break
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I'll try again. I'll see if
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there is no uh, there's no
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I did log into that too.
I don't know if that works when

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Facebook is down or not, so
we might be on Comcast channel six right

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now. But the important thing is
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are of course live on wm n
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Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, and
it is a glorious day outside, and

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of course hello to all of our
online listeners across the nation and around the

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globe. Because you can still stream
the audio. Obviously, you can go

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to wm H Radio dot org and
click listen live, or of course you

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can go to Matt Connerton dot com
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social media links, contact info,
show archives, etcetera, etcetera. So

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you do have options, but uh, and the studio line is open six

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seven. If you would like to
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at Matt Connerton. You can email
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And of course you can interact end
O Pine on Facebook if you send me

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a direct message and I see it, I'll read it. But but we

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don't have a chat room at the
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send me a direct message and hopefully
I'll see it. Actually I can monitor

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that on my phone. Oh oh, that the the video that I posted

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when I was trying to get it
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post, but then it but then
it quit because it kicked me out.

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Yeah, that Facebook is having some
sort of an issue. Remember that time,

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I think it was in the last
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completely like that, a global outage. It was pandemonium. Rondo Ferveriro.

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We'll use this for We'll use this
for our chat room today. Rondo Ferveriro

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commented on that very short video,
what's going on? Why isn't the show

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started? And Jackson Harris said,
Hey, Matt, yes, so yes,

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we are not We are not able
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Damn you Zuckerberg. It's all his
fault. You know, he should

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have he should have accepted that fight
with Elon Musk. Maybe this is Elon

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Musk trying to go to him,
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don't know if hopefully I'm sure some
of you followed some of that. There

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was supposed to be a cage match
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Hard to predict it would come out
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Elon Musk looks like a looks like
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whereas Zuckerberg looks like data from Star
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so he's got youth on his side. So I don't know. I

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don't know, but Elon Musk seems
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would probably stay within the rules.
I don't know what I based that on.

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but we'll never know. But it
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was I'm sorry, no, Musk
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try to try to see if he
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Very very weird. These billionaires,
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people. They're not like you and
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dollars, I wouldn't be like you
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but it's still something to strive for. One of these days. One of

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these days, I'll get there,
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to discuss. Oh, we have
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so it is Friday, and on
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review. We do not have that
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and just as he was not able
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with my favorite Conservative. He was
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but he is going to work on
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going to run it on Tuesday.
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programming note because it is Labor Day
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Tuesday. We also have a great
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you about her later. But we'll
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So Tuesday we'll be action packed.
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Eric Pilcher sadly. Also, let's
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on at the Hopknot this weekend.
Our amazing sponsor. He had posted something,

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Yeah, they've got Gus and Jean
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night. They are the I'm meant
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trying to figure out if there was
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music. They are an acoustic duo. They play some music Phonics Matt Phonics.

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to nine pm, and I thought
Kenny had posted something else on social media

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too. Let's see, but our
friend Shannon is online high Shannon, Hello,

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I was curious. I know this
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you spell that place for me?
Can I spell what place for you?

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Shannon? The hobkno, the hop
not? So it's the thh e hop

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hop not knot okay? So h
p yes h op okay. Because sometimes

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when the same thing happens with the
CGI commercial, first time I hear C

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at the end, beginning I hear
CGI, and at the end it sounds

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like ZGI Shannon, is it possibly
that you are suffering from adult onset dyslexia?

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Okay? Unset assault? What sometimes
you sound like you're saying? Was

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that a joke or hob? So
I'm saying I got to ask how to

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spell it? Right? It sounds
like I'm saying hoff. Well, you

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know, I do often talk about
David Hasselhoff. Don't hassle the Hoff.

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That's what I say? Yeah,
or more hove have? Yeah? Why

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would I say have? That's not
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No? I know hp h ooh
yes, hop it's hop Yeah, because

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hop as in hops and barley,
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in pretzel. Not because they have
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And I can't wait till send you
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Friday to Thursday? Thursday to Friday? Yeah? Great? A State of

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Mind with Rob as a veto is
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or nine pm? Is it nine
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access it on demand to w MNH
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you know I don't have dot org. No, I'll wait till Monday.

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They we played on Monday. That's
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and Pelopeda and policy Hight everybody.
Absolutely, yes, you're gonna have any

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uh other people there today? I
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but you never know. Well,
you'd have to check with Paul on that.

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That would have to be approve kidding, that would have to be approved

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by when he when he or did
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Oh my no, I could just
it just did my mind. I

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have a creative writer's type of mind, and just you know what if I

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came by as policies, take a
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You know. Well, if you
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you should write a creative fictional story
about the hop knot. Now that

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you know how to spell it,
I think it would be grand. It

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would be grand if it would be
all made up and they've been there.

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I would read it on the air. Unless it had any naughty parts.

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Then I couldn't. Oh, okay, well I'll try very Simon. No,

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that's it. That's all I have
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you guys have a good time tonight. All right, Shannon, thank you

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for the call. I appreciate it. I have a great uh, have

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a great weekend, Labor Day weekend
shout out, because I'll be listening.

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They just won't be able to well, nobody'll be able to type and to

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say the listening. But unless it
is fixed by then, they may be

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fixed about Facebook may have the issue
resolved by that And who knows, who

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knows they might have a resolved I'm
gonna try again at the midpoint of the

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show today. Who knows they might
have a resolved Who knows? Who knows?

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Who was that band who were playing
before Oh I played. I did

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a little bit of a longer intro
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figure a couple of things out.
I played Eons and coded a song called

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Reconnection that was right before I started. Also played Angel by Infinity Vane,

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and I opened with First of the
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it's the first of the Month by
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yep, all right, you're having
technical difficulty. It happens, it

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does, all right, have a
good night, all right, Shannon YouTube,

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have a nice weekend. You sitting
Jenny, all right, very good,

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all right, Shannon, thank you
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right, bye bye, all right. That was our friend Shannon, And

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that does open up a line for
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Whoa, that's a very loud sounding
vehicle outside. Six zo three two

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five zero six O seven is a
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zero six O seven. Let's see. So Gus and Jean will be tomorrow

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night at the hop knot uh,
let's see. Oh also tonight going on

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if you're of course, we'd love
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radio family here at WMH for retro
Spectrum Radio with Pauly Set. But if

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you decide to go out, you
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doing a huge event tonight at the
six zo three Bar and Grill right up

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the street. Actually the back to
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sticks, five dollars, Tito's,
jello shots, beer pong, a food

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cart, music by DJ Reckless and
Shawn White. Shawn White, the DJ

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not, the extreme sports guy.
Remember him, Sean White. He had

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that long red hair. I think, yeah, short hair now I've seen

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him recently on some show anyway.
But yeah, that will be tonight at

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right over at the six zho three
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plus and uh you can enter.
There's a chance to win a twisted t

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mini fridge, which I've seen.
I think I've seen the mini Fridgie's given

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away. That's kind of funny anyway. All right, So that will be

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tonight at the six zero three Bar
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always lots going on. Oh I
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you. Kenny at the Hopnot has
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it looks good. Oh he made
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like it. Oh here's the other
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see this on his Facebook post,
but it is on the website. There's

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also a gender blender drag show tomorrow. That's tomorrow night. Oh okay,

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tomorrow night at ten pm. So
that will be after Gus and Jean.

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So the gender Blender back Drag Show
twenty one plus no celebrate Hopknot's fourth birthday.

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I didn't realize that. Happy birthday
to them, says This Saturday,

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We're kicking off our fourth birthday with
another great gender blender drag show. This

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time around our co hosts Decate Worst
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and Obscure a freak show will be
performing alongside members of the House of Rains,

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Onyx Rains and Cocobean. The show
is twenty one plus with a valid

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ID and there is no cover charge. We will reach capacity for this show,

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so make sure you get here early
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Don't say we didn't warn you.
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that. Definitely, you want to
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early anyway. Gus and Jean are
going to perform. But no, those

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gender blender shows are very successful,
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I really like what Kenny did with
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and I'm a web designer, so
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things. But but nope, I
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did see this pop up on politico
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in a text message to me.
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this is growing. This is getting
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don't think ultimately it's going to matter. But Politico dot com has a story

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up in their legal section that just
went up, the sleeper fight that could

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define twenty twenty four. Is Trump
even eligible to run? Some scholars say

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Trump is disqualified under the fourteenth Amendments
insurrection clause. Here's how the courts might

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weigh in. And we talked on
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way, there was some buzz that
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is not that he's directly involved in
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behind the scenes. But our Republican
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Chris sew is very anti Trump,
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many times that he is absolutely certain
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I don't know what he's gonna say
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going to be the nominee. But
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that there was a movement here in
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and Chris Christie has been kind of
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there that's probably not entirely a coincidence, but there there is certainly an anti

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of the state Republican Party here in
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Trump will win the New Hampshire primary. The way I see this going,

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He'll win Iowa, He'll win New
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and apparently his trial in Georgia starts. Is it? Wait? Is

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it the one in Georgia. No, it's not, George. I can't

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keep it all straight. One of
these trials is starting the day before.

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No, it's not the one in
Georgia, is it. One of these

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trials is starting the day before Super
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him, I really do. Hurts
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the primaries. But so there is
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the ballot in some states. I
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it is interesting to see this growing
getting some steam here. And this just

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went up on Politico right before four
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on the ballot next year in all
fifty states, he might first have to

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win an unprecedented courtroom battle over the
insurrection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, under

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a legal theory that's gaining traction among
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the way, it might come up
later in the article. I didn't get

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a chance to preread this. I
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come up later. But I was
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either earlier this week or it might
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there's a couple of conservative constitutional scholars
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been in the might have been in
the Wall Street Journal, talking about how

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their belief is that Trump is in
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I think, for section five is
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their perspective, they make that argument, but I might mention it in here

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so that seldom used clause again,
this is from Politico, that seldom used

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clause arguably disqualifies Trump from ever holding
office again due to his attempts to undermine

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the twenty twenty election and his role
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jan six, twenty twenty one.
There are two ways the theory might be

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tested. One strategy is for politicians, advocacy groups, or even ordinary voters

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to file lawsuits seeking judicial declarations that
Trump is ineligible to run. This strategy

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is already in its infant stages,
with two obscure plaintiffs filing lawsuits in New

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Hampshire and Florida in recent days.
And by the way, there's a rumor

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that the individual who filed the lawsuit
in Florida is Governor Rond Santa's Okay,

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I'm kidding about that. I made
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on Fridays, we joke around a
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no, there's no truth to that. That was a joke, that

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last part. Okay, No,
I think it was Suarez, the Miami

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mayor who just dropped out. I
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in Florida. I'm kidding about that. We haven't talked about that yet.

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This week we have our first casualty
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Suarez has already dropped out. You
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Right, how many Floridians does it
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Because one just dropped out. That
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could make a joke out of it. I wonder if if maybe a someone,

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if maybe maybe there's a stand up
comedian out there who could take my

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concept and use that to expand on
expand on that with an actual joke of

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some sort. Anyway, But yes, Warrez dropped out mayor of Miami.

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Okay, so the other So the
first strategy is filing lawsuits to keep him

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off the ballot. Okay, so
it says here the other more politically perilous

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option would be for one or more
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refuse to list Trump on their ballots. That might force Trump to file his

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own lawsuits asking courts, which Trump
isn't shy about doing, never has been,

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asking courts to order his candidacy restored
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no state has moved to borrow Trump
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around the nation are discussing the issue
among themselves. By the way, udos

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to Politico for getting that right.
Secretaries of state, which is the plural

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of secretary of state? I could
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cable news I've heard people refer to
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of states. Drives me insane.
No, it's secretaries of state is the

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plural, not secretary of states.
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like if someone say someone as a
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say, oh, my brother in
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When you say brother in laws,
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have these pet peeves. If you're
new to the show, I have a

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lot of pet peeves about specifically about
language, because I obviously am speaking the

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Queens English at all times. I'm
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I've a lot. I have a
lot of things I say wrong, you

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know. I say gunna instead of
going to, and juanna instead of want

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to, and cousin instead of Because
I try not to, I've tried to

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kick those out as I continue to
hopefully develop and evolve as a broadcaster.

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I've tried to get those things out, but I know when I get worked

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up and excited, I fall back
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but you'll never hear me say secretary
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It's secretaries of state. Oh you
know the other one I hear when people

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say the plural of attorney general.
When people say attorney generals, and again

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it's often people who should know better. It's not attorney generals. It's attorneys

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general. Why they are attorneys They're
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attorney generals. No, it's attorneys
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you've all learned something today. No, you probably didn't. Because I assume

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I have an intelligent audience. Who
are he knew these things? But I'm

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happy to remind you or clarify anything
if you didn't know. These things just

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drive me in Oh. You know
the other thing too, when it comes

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to attorneys general. When an attorney
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somewhere, and the person asking the
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They're not in the military. Attorney
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way of saying a general attorney as
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would be an attorney general of the
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not. That drives me insane.
The first time I've ever noticed that was

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when Bill Barr was Trump's attorney general
and he was testifying before Congress about something

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and somebody I don't remember who it
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they kept calling him general General Barr. It's like, why are you calling

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him that. He's not in the
military. He's not a general, he's

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an attorney general. Call him Attorney
General Barr or AG Barr or mister Barr,

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or call him Bill. They'll call
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any sense. It wouldn't be so
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better doing that? Ah, it
makes me crazy, crazy. These are

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the things I think about when I
have well, nothing else to think about.

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I guess I think about these things. I should play that song at

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the break for j fed that think
about what you'd think about song by mc

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MCJB Greatest Rapper Alive. All Right, So getting back to this, So,

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either of these scenarios could thrust the
courts, and likely the Supreme Court

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into an unsettled debate over the meaning
of the Insurrection Clause, along winded one

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hundred ten word provision that was ratified
in eighteen sixty eight and has rarely been

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interpreted or even invoked since then.
Here's what you need to know about the

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Fourteenth Amendment theory. Okay, first, what is the Insurrection Clause? In

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short, the clause says, anyone
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after taking an oath of office to
defend the Constitution is forbidden from holding any

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public office. When the Fourteenth Amendment
was drafted after the Civil War, the

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clause was aimed at preventing Southern states
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the way, before we go any
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as I like to do, that
not all of us agree that the term

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insurrection is appropriate for what happened on
January sixth. I use the term,

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and I stand by it. The
Webster's definition of insurrection is a violent uprising

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against a government or authority, and
that's what we had. So some people

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prefer the term riot. I would
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Something can be both a riot and
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we do know there was some organizing
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the Proud Boys. A couple of
them just got sentenced this week to prison

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for well, for insurrection. Because
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Proud Boys, you had the what
are they, the three Percenters, you

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had who else? Oh, the
oath Keepers of course, you know,

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so there was planning involved. This
was not entirely spontaneous anyway. So I'm

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just saying I believe the term is
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Having said that, Okay, so
the text and question is from Section three

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of the fourteenth Amendment, and it
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be a senator or a representative in
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or hold any office civil or military
under the United States or under any

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State, who, having previously taken
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or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any

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state legislature, or as an executive
or judicial officer of any State, to

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support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged an insurrection or rebellion

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against the same, or given aid
or comfort to enemies thereof. But Congress

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may by vote of two thirds of
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So that's the text we're talking about
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by the way, we've talked about
the aid and comfort part. When the

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president came out, he made that
video telling everybody, you know, after

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two and a half hours, came
out, made the video telling everybody it's

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time to go home. Now we
have to have peace. But he also

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said, you know, I love
you. I understand why you're angry.

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Would that be considered comfort to the
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instance, Yes, that's my view
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agree on it, okay, so
who has endorsed the theory. Several prominent

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constitutional scholars have said in recent weeks
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ineligible to take office as president again. William bod and Michael Stokes Paulson,

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two conservative law professors, wrote an
article that is set to be published in

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the University of Pennsylvania Law Review next
year. They argue that the provision is

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intended to quote embrace a broad range
of willful participatory conduct unquote as qualifying for

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having vote engaged in unquote insurrection or
rebellion, and they say Trump's actions,

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particularly his efforts to pressure then Vice
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electoral votes and Trump's quote incendiary unquote
speech encouraging supporters to march to the Capitol

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on January six, clearly meets that
standard. Jay Michael Ludig or is it

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Ludig or Ludig a conservative? Oh
yeah, he testified before the jan six

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committee, Right, I think that's
the same. Gentleman Luttig, a conservative

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former federal judge, and Lawrence Tribe, a liberal constitutional law professor, agree

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They wrote in the Atlantic last month. Quote, the former president's efforts to

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overturn the twenty twenty presidential election and
the resulting attack on the US Capitol place

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him squarely within the ambit of the
disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible

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to serve as president ever again unquote. All right, now, what is

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the counter argument says here? Not
all legal scholars agree with these interpretations of

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Section three of the fourteenth Amendment.
Skeptics say the recent interpretations embrace overly broad

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definitions of the Amendment's language, and
they argue that the criminal justice system is

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the appropriate enforcement mechanism for preventing someone
who participated in an insurrection from holding office.

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Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, for
example, cautioned against two loose an

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interpretation of the provision, suggesting the
terms insurrection or rebellion should apply to quote

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only the most serious uprisings against the
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So it sounds like so in his
view, so he doesn't see January

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sixth as qualifying as an insurrection,
and therefore he would he would argue against

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using it. Here. We have
a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt

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Connerton unleashed. Is this Matt.
That's a familiar that's a familiar voice.

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It is I Eric Tilture. Oh
hey. At first it was like a

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weird echo almost kind of thing,
and it through me and I thought perhaps

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you were someone menacing and you were
about to tell me that I was about

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to meet my doom. Am I
disturbing anything right now? Not at all.

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I mean the way you the way
you sounded though at first in the

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phone call that was disturbing. There
was a strange effect. I feel like

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you're taunting me. And the way
you said, Matt Connerton, whoever's on

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the other end here, I didn't
think it was you at first. Whoever's

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on the other end is uh,
they're going to uh shove me into a

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wood chipper or something. This is
very frightening. I'm sorry for being graphic,

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but it is Friday. Yes,
I feel like you're taunting me.

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Man. Why is that? Well? I mean I saw your video of

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you trying to get the Facebook live
up and running, and you're wearing your

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shirt that is very familiar. Oh
yes, my hop not shirt. Yes,

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your hop Not shirt looks an awful
lot like my hop Not shirt that

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I had to purchase. So I
saw that, and I'm like, is

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this man haunting me? Oh my
goodness with the hop not shirt? Oh

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00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:59,880
my, that's what you thought.
Wow, Well, I'm honored. I

408
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:02,759
mean it would have been kind of
mean, given the awful week I have

409
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:09,519
had? Have you had an awful
week? I am already yet fifty three

410
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:15,079
hours? Oh? And are you
working? Are you working all day today?

411
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:22,320
I'm working until eight o'clock tonight and
then you work tomorrow. Yes,

412
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,440
I do. But that's a new
pay week. So oh okay. Well,

413
00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:28,719
so well you'll have a good check, right, that's a good thing.

414
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:35,960
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But
I wanted to apologize formally for not

415
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,960
having my film review ready for today. That's okay, you don't need to

416
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000
apologize for that. It's not a
problem. Well, I wanted to apologize

417
00:34:44,039 --> 00:34:49,000
to the audience and the like one
to three people that like it. No,

418
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:54,000
everyone likes your film review. Everyone
I did. We've done some expensive

419
00:34:54,039 --> 00:35:00,440
demographic research. It turns out everyone
likes your film review. I mean,

420
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:04,039
there is one individual that is not
a fan. Oh, that's true.

421
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,800
There is one. Yeah, that's
true. There there is one that is

422
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,760
very demonstratively against that. That's true. Yes, there is. There is.

423
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,960
There's always somebody, you know,
that that fly in the ointment,

424
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:24,840
that that naysayer. What does he
know? Yeah, well that the conversation

425
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,840
would be longer about what he doesn't
know than what he does know. But

426
00:35:30,159 --> 00:35:32,800
I digress. That's true. So
no, I'm on my lunch break and

427
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,679
saw that video, and I'm like, I this opportunity to call it give

428
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:45,639
him some goth Yeah. Yeah,
and yeah. I actually didn't realize at

429
00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:51,760
first at the video even posted the
reason because I know the stream isn't happening

430
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,440
because normally I like, if we're
if we have low call volume, I'll

431
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,159
bring it up on my tablet,
yes, and have it running by all

432
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,880
week. We've just been back to
back calls. Yeah, Peter wasn't able

433
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:13,400
to stream on Facebook either, But
it turns out apparently it's not a problem

434
00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:16,599
here. It is a problem with
Facebook because I also the reason that video

435
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,519
is online is because I also tried
from my phone. I thought, I

436
00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:22,320
wonder if I can just you know, I mean, listeners won't be able

437
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,000
to hear callers or music, but
they'll be able to hear me talk,

438
00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:28,639
So maybe I can at least stream
on my phone that way, I have

439
00:36:28,679 --> 00:36:30,519
an active chat room, but when
I kept trying to do it, the

440
00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:36,360
video kept stopping, and then I
got some sort of a weird message from

441
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,559
Facebook saying something about there's a problem
with the stream or something. So whatever

442
00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:46,000
the issue is apparently is with Facebook
itself, not with our software or anything.

443
00:36:46,119 --> 00:36:52,159
So well that's good. Yeah,
yeah, Mark Zuckerberg strikes back.

444
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:57,599
Well, I do feel that.
I mean, I know somebody who actually

445
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,400
takes it very personally when he has
issues with Facebook, and maybe he's right,

446
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:08,239
maybe Zuckerberg is out to get me, and you know, maybe maybe

447
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:14,320
we should get that person on me. They I mean, you know that

448
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:20,159
person. You know, certain people
have problems getting MP three to attached to

449
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:29,000
emails. Yes, but they could
solve the tech issues of They could solve

450
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:34,960
those tech issues that Facebook is happy. I honestly believe that right or at

451
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,480
the very least, they are the
brains that we don't have in the operation,

452
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:43,920
or at the very least offer some
very colorful advice in terms of how

453
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:52,280
they could improve their service. It'd
be something, yes, I don't know,

454
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:55,960
I don't know necessarily what, but
yeah, it'd be something yes,

455
00:37:57,559 --> 00:38:02,559
yes, well well so so yeah, no, I just wanted to call

456
00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:07,719
in and say hi while I was
on lunch, and uh yeah, and

457
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:14,360
we'll we'll have a review for Tuesday, correct, we yes, next week

458
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,880
we will have two reviews. Actually, we will have The Crazies on Tuesday,

459
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:30,079
which is a very dark in just
very depressing film. Honestly, with

460
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:39,519
I watching it now, there are
so many parallels you can connect to how

461
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:46,639
some people acted during the pandemic and
everything like that, and it really strikes

462
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:53,880
a nerve now more than when you
watched it before the pandemic. Oh okay,

463
00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:57,400
So I was gonna say, you
know, I don't know anything about

464
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,920
that movie. I've I've not only
have I never seen. It was very

465
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:07,000
minimally released. Yea, I say, I don't know anything about it.

466
00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:15,960
Well, what it is is it's
about a small town that a biochemical weapon

467
00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:23,159
Ning Tricksy has designed by the federal
government has polluted their water supply and it

468
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:30,920
causes these people to become like anger
monsters essentially, where they lose all self

469
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,079
control and reasonable thought. Yea.
And so the government just declares martial law

470
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:44,360
on them, no matter if you're
infected or not. They go into the

471
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:53,199
houses wearing biosuits and masks with guns, and it's just a very visually dark

472
00:39:53,360 --> 00:40:00,400
film because you see images that are
just very very hard to get out of

473
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:07,679
your head. It does sound intrigue, It is really well done, and

474
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:13,480
it is a film on public domain. Huh no, kidding? Year did

475
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:17,519
that actually go to YouTube and watch
it for free without as that is the

476
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:22,440
case with many a George A.
Romero's films. Okay, what what year

477
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:29,239
did that come out? Nineteen seventy
four? In two thousand and nine there

478
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:36,239
was a remake that was quite good
as well, that has a tie to

479
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,079
See the Rapids, Iowa, kidding, yes, at the end of it,

480
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:46,679
they actually used the news station I
used to work for KCRG and our

481
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:57,039
top anchor to broadcast with the three
with like fair call letters and logos and

482
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:01,000
everything. Oh why why why does
that happen? By the way, why

483
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:05,079
does a how does a film end
up in public domain like that? And

484
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:08,199
you said that happens with a lot
of George A. Romero films? Why

485
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:13,320
does that happen? Well, it's
because George A. Romero used a lot

486
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:22,000
of lesser noilm studios Okay, I
mean in distribution companies, in production companies,

487
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:29,000
and they went, they would go
belly up, and essentially these films

488
00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:37,239
were just lost to public domain the
copyrights. The copyrights expired. That's why

489
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,199
it was so hard for such a
long time to get a great addition of

490
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:47,719
Night of the Living Dead because it
was in public domain, so everybody could.

491
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,559
All you would have to do is
just burn the film to a DVD

492
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,119
and sell it for two or three
bucks. Yeah. Yeah, oh interesting,

493
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,559
So yeah, it's an unfortunate situation
for him and his family. Now,

494
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:05,840
once that happens, Once a film
is in public domain, is there

495
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,119
any way to get it out of
public domain? Or once there there is,

496
00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:15,320
there is a way you can get
it out of public domain, but

497
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:23,800
it is it is very difficult and
very expensive. Okay, you have to

498
00:42:24,519 --> 00:42:30,920
you have to go to the courts, and the courts have to basically say

499
00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:35,280
nothing, This isn't the case.
But what George a Romero said is you

500
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,079
can have it in public domain.
I want people to see my films,

501
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:46,000
but I will release directors approved editions
of them and make money that way.

502
00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:53,039
Okay, that makes sense. So
yeah, George a Romero was really stand

503
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:59,599
a fam friendly guy. M No, it sounds like it. Yeah,

504
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:07,079
it's interesting. And really just more
about Hey, let's what these people view

505
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:14,320
these movies? Yeah, m all
right, No that's interesting. No,

506
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,719
no, so what so that's so
that's Susanne. What did you have for

507
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:28,480
Friday? Friday, we will have
just an awesome film creep show. I

508
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:34,960
think I've seen that, George Romero
and Stephen King working together. Stephen King

509
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:40,159
wrote it, George Romero directed it, and Stephen King even plays the lead

510
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:45,639
character in one of the stories.
Oh that's unusual, huh, because he

511
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,880
usually makes a cameo, but he
actually he's actually a lead character in one.

512
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:53,800
It's in the anthology film. So
there are four or five different stories,

513
00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:00,320
star studded cast for the time.
Adrian Barbou is in it. KD

514
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,440
Dancing, Leslie Nielsen, Stephen King. Oh, yes, yes, yes,

515
00:44:05,559 --> 00:44:07,760
I've I have seen that. I've
definitely seen it. I was thinking

516
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,920
I might have seen it, and
then when you started mentioning who's in it?

517
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:14,599
Yep, I definitely remember seeing that
when I was a kid. I

518
00:44:14,639 --> 00:44:21,280
remember watching it. Yeah, yes, uh. E G. Marshall hal

519
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:29,639
Holbrook in Features of course, The
Master of Horror. Uh, special effects,

520
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:36,519
Tom Savine Okay, doing some of
his best work outside of Dawn of

521
00:44:36,599 --> 00:44:42,039
the Day. Okay, cool,
So that'll be Friday. That's that's good.

522
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,440
Yeah, yeah, I'll look forward
to that. Yeah. I mean

523
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:52,079
it's gonna be different for me because
I've never done in the anthology hill right,

524
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:57,440
and that it's gonna be hard because
what what do you do? What

525
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:01,960
do you work with? Right?
Yeah? No, that's that's cool.

526
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:07,559
Wow, that'll be a good challenge
then, well very good. Yeah yeah,

527
00:45:07,679 --> 00:45:10,760
so yes, uh so yeah.
I will be working on both of

528
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,159
them kind of simultaneously. Really,
I do have the script for The Crazies

529
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:21,840
written. It's just what I ran
into is because it's in public domain.

530
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:29,239
None of the film sites that I
go to for clips have just designated clips,

531
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:35,280
they just have the film. So
it's going through in picking the clips

532
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:44,679
based OFFU timestamps. Okay, So
it was just like man, and then

533
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,559
all this overtime hit because of the
hurricanes in Georgia, and I'm like,

534
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:54,280
man, this week has just been
a total poo poo storm, right right,

535
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,840
ah, like I said, yeah, don't have a good check.

536
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,920
Yeah. Well, the issues are
twofold for us because one of our call

537
00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:12,639
centers is in Georgia and they're without
power and we also service Georgia. So

538
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,679
on top of that, we have
an influx of customers calling in with property

539
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:22,840
damage. They've lost their homes,
their equipment is ruined, and they're calling

540
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:28,119
to get prices for insurance. And
it's like, well, we're not really

541
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:31,679
going to give you prices because we're
not going to charge you for the equipment.

542
00:46:35,199 --> 00:46:37,639
And then it's like, but we
are going to suspend your service,

543
00:46:38,119 --> 00:46:45,840
and you know, and it's a
whole special process on top of our normal

544
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,039
calls of people just calling in yelling
at us for no good over cable TV

545
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:59,280
service or internet. Right right,
Uh sounds like oh yeah, fun times,

546
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:04,440
All right, Eric, Well we'll
let you get back to it.

547
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,519
There is one last thing before I
go, if you'll allow me. The

548
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:15,960
Exorcist remake or reboot. Believer has
been pushed up a week. Oh yes,

549
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:23,960
yes, because of Taylor's swift is
my understanding? Yeah, I guess

550
00:47:24,039 --> 00:47:30,400
she's going to have one of her
concerts as an event in theaters, and

551
00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:37,239
it was scheduled for Friday the thirteenth. Universal didn't want their big Fall release

552
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:43,320
to compete against it, so instead
of pushing it forward, which really would

553
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:50,079
have been beneficial to me, which
I'm sure they didn't even consider selfish people.

554
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:57,679
They pushed it up a week to
the sixth. Oh okay, so

555
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:04,159
yes, that will wire me too, you know, get things in order

556
00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:08,639
a lot quicker. Yes, yes, well that's that's cool. What what

557
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:14,320
what did you say the new day
was? Again? It's October sixth.

558
00:48:14,519 --> 00:48:19,679
It was Friday, October thirteenth,
which would have been awesome, but now

559
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,199
it's October six Okay, okay,
October six all right, very good.

560
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,880
Yeah, and we'll talk more about
that as that gets closer. But all

561
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,840
right, well he said, now
that's that's cool, though I don't have

562
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,119
to wait as long for it.
That'll be a big that'll be a big

563
00:48:34,199 --> 00:48:38,320
deal, so very good. Yes. I mean, if if you're a

564
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:45,559
fan of Horn, you have not
seen the trailer, please please go see

565
00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:52,199
it. It's called The Exorcist Believer. It set chills up my spine watching

566
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:59,679
the trailer. Yeah, and the
Original Exorcist is coming back to theaters October

567
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:05,239
for in October fourth. You can
go to fabom Events and check if it's

568
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,639
available in your area. All right, very good? Well all right,

569
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:15,719
Eric, so yes, you all, you and Jenny and all of my

570
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,119
wm NHP. You guys, have
a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.

571
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,239
All right you two, Eric,
thank you for the call. Appreciate it.

572
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:27,639
Nope, problem, sir, thanks
for thanks for having you anytime.

573
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,800
All right, man, bye bye
bye, all right, very good.

574
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,960
That's our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. And of course see

575
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,840
he's a big part of the show. Wednesdays we do our segment, my

576
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:42,000
favorite conservative I call it, and
then Fridays we have the film reviews.

577
00:49:42,199 --> 00:49:45,039
No film review this week, but
as Eric explained, he's obviously been very

578
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:49,880
busy, so that will be on
Tuesday. Let's do this, Let's take

579
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,360
a break. I think I'm gonna
play some Stone Road Band. This is

580
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:58,239
the band that Kevin Horn used to
be in the song Brutus. I love

581
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,920
this song, and I think he
I think this is one of the ones

582
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,320
he says he still plays live in
his solo shows. But yeah, we'll

583
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,599
take a little break. We'll play
a little music show, some love to

584
00:50:06,599 --> 00:50:09,599
our amazing sponsors, and then we'll
be back with our number two new merodos

585
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:15,840
and we'll continue with what we were
talking about before Eric's call, because I

586
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:20,400
think it's a pretty interesting subject,
and we'll get into some other stuff too,

587
00:50:20,639 --> 00:50:23,599
and stick around more to come,
don't go away. W m n

588
00:50:23,760 --> 00:51:09,119
H rips the norm off. Welcome
back everybody, as we are well in

589
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:15,880
our number two numerow dose of Matt
Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from

590
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:21,599
the studios of wm n H ninety
five point three FM, Inglorious, Downtown

591
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,719
Manchester, New Hampshire. And we
are not streaming on Facebook today because of

592
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,760
a problem with Apparently the problem is
with Facebook. It's not with any of

593
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,800
our tech here. I realized that
because I tried. I even tried getting

594
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,280
on from my phone to just stream
the show just you know the part me

595
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:44,679
me talking into the microphone, and
even that wouldn't work. I kept getting

596
00:51:45,159 --> 00:51:47,599
kicked out. There's like a an
eleven second video of me attempting it.

597
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:52,800
So the problem is at Facebook,
apparently is the issue. So so we

598
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,880
are not streaming on Facebook. But
of course you can stream the show online

599
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,880
from anywhere if you go to wm
H radio dot org and click listen live,

600
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:04,400
or you can go to my website
at Matt Connerton dot com for all

601
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,280
of your live streaming options, social
media links, contact info, show archives,

602
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:13,239
etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, uh, September one, two

603
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,079
thousand twenty three, so welcome everybody, and uh now it's the first day

604
00:52:17,079 --> 00:52:21,119
of the month. I did open
the show today with some bone Thugs and

605
00:52:21,159 --> 00:52:23,679
harmony the radio edit of course of
first of the month. Although even in

606
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,440
the even in the album version that's
not the radio edit, do they actually

607
00:52:28,519 --> 00:52:30,159
swear in that? I don't know
if they If they swear, I don't

608
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:35,840
know if there's any swears in that
anyway, and they they go so fast

609
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,079
would you even be able to hear
it? If this is swearing there,

610
00:52:38,119 --> 00:52:45,239
I don't know, But yeah,
six oz three two five O six Z

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seven is a studio line six zo
three two five zero six zero seven.

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You can also text me at six
one seven nine one seven four four seven

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six. I'm on social media at
Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt

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at Matt Connerton dot com. You
cannot interact into Pine in the Facebook live

615
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chat, however, because we're not
streaming live. However, you can comment

616
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:10,440
on that little eleven second video that
I posted earlier. I saw Scott Robinson

617
00:53:12,039 --> 00:53:15,880
posted a comment, while our friend
Eric Pilcher, who called in, said

618
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that he would take a hard pass
on the Exorcist, which will be coming

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out now October sixth, the new
one up j Fed sent a message I

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can't see you, yes, yes, no Facebook today unfortunately, but that's

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all right. It is a radio
show, as we say, and of

622
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,679
course there is a lot. The
most important thing is that you can hear

623
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us on the radio, be it
locally here on ninety five point three FFM.

624
00:53:44,599 --> 00:53:47,199
More of course on the live stream, the audio stream. That's the

625
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:53,880
most important thing. But let's talk
about well, well, we'll get back

626
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:58,679
into the subject that we were discussing
in the first hour, because there's more

627
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,679
to say on that. But also, you know, we have our amazing

628
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,639
sponsor, the hopnot right across the
street at one thousand Elm Street, and

629
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they've got a couple of big things
going on tomorrow. They've got live music.

630
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Gus and Jean will be playing there
tomorrow night from seven to nine pm

631
00:54:14,119 --> 00:54:19,000
an acoustic duo apparently it's our first
time there. And then tomorrow night at

632
00:54:19,079 --> 00:54:23,679
ten pm they've got the Gender Blender
drag show. And these are very popular

633
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events. So if you want to
attend, get there earlier. You might

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not get a spot. There's no
cover and it is twenty one plus with

635
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a valid ID. But it's not
something you want to show up for at

636
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:40,280
the last minute. You definitely want
to get there early. Yeah, it

637
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:47,440
starts at starts at ten, says
here twenty one plus with a valid ID,

638
00:54:47,519 --> 00:54:52,119
and there is no cover charge.
We will reach capacity for this show,

639
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,320
so make sure you get here early
or you might not get a seat.

640
00:54:55,519 --> 00:55:00,440
So there you go, and uh, and of course I suggest you

641
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go there anytime actually and enjoy some
delicious gourmet pretzels and some craft beer too.

642
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,840
Also going on tonight right up the
street here at the six ZO three

643
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:16,039
Bar and Grill. DJ Reckless U
is uh, he's throwing the Project Reckless

644
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:22,239
back to School glow party that is
twenty one plus, is going to be

645
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,440
glow sticks, five dollars, Tito's
jello shots, beer pong, a food

646
00:55:25,519 --> 00:55:31,119
cart, music by DJ Reckless as
well as Sean White and that's going to

647
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:37,760
be happening tonight at the six h
three Bar and Grill. So I think

648
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,559
I think at around nine o'clock is
when that starts. So that is an

649
00:55:40,599 --> 00:55:45,800
option if you are out and about
tonight. Of course. Uh. If

650
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,280
you are out and about, you've
got the radio on in the car or

651
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,199
if you're staying home, whatever you're
doing, you can always spend some time

652
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:55,559
with your radio family here at WMNH. Paul posted this. An all new

653
00:55:55,599 --> 00:56:00,440
episode of retro Spectrum Radio starts at
eight pm Eastern tonight and the topic is

654
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:06,400
foolish songs. Do join us,
and of course you can listen at WMH

655
00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:10,719
radio dot org. Just glow there, And I'd just say, glow there.

656
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:17,679
I'm thinking about glow sticks. Just
go there and uh WMH radio dot

657
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,920
org that is, and click listen
live. Sorry, I was having a

658
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:29,039
memory of I was in a band
many years ago called My Life Crisis.

659
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:31,480
In fact, the subject came up
a few months ago on the show and

660
00:56:32,199 --> 00:56:35,719
one of the guys who was in
the band with me had passed away recently,

661
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,599
Ben Brackett York, So we kind
of did a little did a little

662
00:56:37,639 --> 00:56:42,920
tribute to him on the show.
But that band, we had a drummer

663
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:49,679
at one point whose name was Andrew. And Andrew liked to put glow sticks

664
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,480
all over his drum set. And
Andrew was younger than the rest of us.

665
00:56:52,679 --> 00:56:55,719
I think he might have even still
been in high school when he joined

666
00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:00,360
the band, and we were not
for the kind of music that we were

667
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,519
doing. Nothing wrong with glow sticks, but there was a time and a

668
00:57:04,599 --> 00:57:07,960
place, as they're not for the
kind of music we were doing the glow

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00:57:07,039 --> 00:57:10,320
sticks. We weren't feeling the glows
sticks. I remember there was one show

670
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:15,119
we were playing at. People in
the area from the music scene around here

671
00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:19,920
might remember the Bomb Shelter on Eddie
Road. It wasn't a literal bomb shelter.

672
00:57:20,039 --> 00:57:23,320
It was a music venue and we
would play there. Usually heavy bands,

673
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:29,400
loud heavy bands, metal bands would
play there. And we played there

674
00:57:29,719 --> 00:57:31,400
one time. And while we played
there many times in my life crisis.

675
00:57:31,519 --> 00:57:36,000
But I just remember Andrew. He's
got his drums, he's got his glows

676
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:38,199
sticks out, he's putting them all
over his drum set, and he said

677
00:57:38,239 --> 00:57:44,800
to me, do you want some
glow sticks for your bass? And I

678
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,760
said, I looked at him and
I said no, thank you. And

679
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,639
there were but in my mind the
thought was not simply no thank you.

680
00:57:53,800 --> 00:58:00,519
It was no thank you because and
then the rest of the thought I chose

681
00:58:00,639 --> 00:58:04,079
not to say out loud to him
because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.

682
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,480
And I won't say the rest of
the thought out loud here either,

683
00:58:07,639 --> 00:58:09,519
because I would not be permitted to
use those words on the air. But

684
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:16,000
I had a very specific response in
my mind when he asked me that question,

685
00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:20,599
if I wanted to put some glow
sticks on my base, but I

686
00:58:20,719 --> 00:58:28,840
politely declined. But I seem to
remember a conversation with another band member after

687
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,760
the show. He actually asked me
if I wanted glow sticks for my bass,

688
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,559
right, because I'm gonna put glow
sticks on my base while we're on

689
00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:40,079
stage. And I'm you know,
got my head shaken and my hair flying

690
00:58:40,119 --> 00:58:44,280
everywhere because I had long hair at
the time, and you know, yeah,

691
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,960
I'm gonna put glow sticks on my
bass. That's gonna look so metal.

692
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:52,320
It was very important to look metal. I had to look as metal

693
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,400
as possible. No, I'm kidding
about that part. I don't even have

694
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:00,199
any tattoos or piercings. I never
looked metal, but I tried. But

695
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,719
I would have looked even less metal
if I put glow sticks on my base.

696
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:07,880
That would have looked unmetal. It
would have been a little embarrassing.

697
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:14,599
So I declined. The studio line
is open six ZO three two five six

698
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,320
seven six ZO three two five six
seven. I do want to get back

699
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:21,800
to before we run out of time. If you're just joining us, we

700
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,440
were discussing earlier, and we'll try
to get through the rest of this fairly

701
00:59:25,559 --> 00:59:29,159
quickly because I had a couple of
other things I wanted to look at,

702
00:59:29,639 --> 00:59:31,440
and uh, this is never enough
time. Two hours. It goes by

703
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,960
so quick, and there's always so
much to talk about. But if you

704
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,119
are just joining us, we were
talking about this. Politico has this article

705
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:44,679
up today about this is gaining some
traction. The article is the sleeper legal

706
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:49,480
fight that could define twenty twenty four
is Trump even eligible to run? And

707
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:52,760
we're talking about these these legal scholars
who are making the argument that Trump is

708
00:59:52,840 --> 01:00:00,840
not eligible to run under the because
of the insurrection clause in section three of

709
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:07,760
the fourteenth Amendment. And so we
went through some of the argument in favor

710
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:14,440
of the insurrection clause and thus in
favor of disqualifying Trump from running for office,

711
01:00:14,559 --> 01:00:16,679
for any office. So we went
through that, but let's look at

712
01:00:16,679 --> 01:00:20,639
the counter argument. We started to
look at what the counter argument to this

713
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,519
is, so we'll finish with that. So it says here not all legal

714
01:00:24,599 --> 01:00:30,119
scholars agree with these interpretations of section
three of the fourteenth Amendment. Skeptics say

715
01:00:30,239 --> 01:00:37,400
the recent interpretations embrace overly broad definitions
of the amendment's language, and they argue

716
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,360
that the criminal justice system is the
appropriate enforcement mechanism for preventing someone who participated

717
01:00:42,719 --> 01:00:47,519
in an insurrection from holding office.
Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, for example,

718
01:00:47,599 --> 01:00:52,800
cautioned against too loose an interpretation of
the provision, suggesting the terms insurrection

719
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:59,360
or rebellion should apply only to quote, I'm sorry, apply to quote only

720
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:04,679
the most serious of uprisings against the
government unquote, such as the Civil War.

721
01:01:06,559 --> 01:01:13,119
Others have also expressed concern about the
precedent of secretaries of state unilaterally disqualifying

722
01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:19,519
certain politicians from the ballot, suggesting
such a step might be seen as undemocratic.

723
01:01:20,639 --> 01:01:22,800
So, for example, if if
our secretary of State here in New

724
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:28,079
Hampshire, because this came up the
other day, this was in the news,

725
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:34,719
that a rumor really nothing more than
that, but a rumor or a

726
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:39,159
story circulating that our secretary of State
might be considering this. And there is

727
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,519
you know, an anti Trump or
never Trump wing of the Republican Party,

728
01:01:44,599 --> 01:01:51,199
certainly here in New Hampshire, led
by our Governor Chris san Unu. But

729
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:59,639
that would be I can see how
that wouldn't be a popular move, even

730
01:01:59,679 --> 01:02:04,840
if you agree in principle, that
would be pretty difficult if secretaries of state

731
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:13,280
started to just unilaterally make that decision
and interpret Section three of the fourteenth Amendment

732
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,639
that way, or interpret the events
of January sixth in that way, because,

733
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:20,599
for example, as I mentioned earlier, not everyone agrees that the term

734
01:02:20,679 --> 01:02:25,519
insurrection is even appropriate to what happened. I feel that it is, that's

735
01:02:25,559 --> 01:02:31,079
my opinion, but not everyone agrees. So so I can see how that

736
01:02:31,119 --> 01:02:37,000
would be pretty problematic if individual secretaries
of state in different states just started saying,

737
01:02:37,079 --> 01:02:38,800
no, we're not going to allow
Trump to be on our ballot.

738
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:45,199
But that's a big problem. You
know, even Ellie Honig on CNN today,

739
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:51,280
the legal analysts they have on was
he threw cold water on this whole

740
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:59,000
thing, because he said, no
one's ever tested before how this would even

741
01:02:59,119 --> 01:03:02,880
work. Is the you know,
it's one thing to talk about. You

742
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,599
know, it's funny as I'm thinking
about it now, I'm realizing there's another

743
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,119
part of the fourteenth Amendment that's questionable
in a similar way to the way that

744
01:03:10,199 --> 01:03:14,719
Ellie Honig raised, and that is
when we were talking about back during the

745
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:19,599
debt ceiling debacle, when we almost
went over the fiscal cliff, and you

746
01:03:19,679 --> 01:03:22,639
had all these people who were saying, well, Biden should just invoke the

747
01:03:22,679 --> 01:03:28,920
fourteenth Amendment, which says that basically
that we cannot default, that the country's

748
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:32,599
debt shall not be questioned. But
the problem, as I remember discussing on

749
01:03:32,719 --> 01:03:37,320
the show at length at that time, was that it had never been tested

750
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:43,239
before and all it's going to take
if Biden were to use that option.

751
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:45,760
And Mary Ann Williamson when she was
here, she even said, no,

752
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:50,840
Biden shouldn't have negotiated, he should
have just invoked the fourteenth. But the

753
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,679
problem is, because it's never been
tested, we don't even know what the

754
01:03:53,760 --> 01:04:00,159
mechanism would be for the executive branch
to invoke the fourteenth Amendment, So we're

755
01:04:00,199 --> 01:04:04,360
not even sure what the process would
be. And then if the process is

756
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:08,639
challenged or struck down in court,
that's it game over. We're in default.

757
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:12,119
So that was a very dangerous course. And I've talked about too.

758
01:04:12,119 --> 01:04:15,639
If we can get Mary Ann Williamson
back on for a full two hours as

759
01:04:15,679 --> 01:04:17,519
the primary gets closer, I'd like
to do a deeper dive on some of

760
01:04:17,559 --> 01:04:21,039
these issues where you know, we
agree on a lot of things, but

761
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:24,400
we do disagree on some things too, and that was that was one of

762
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,000
them. But but this is a
similar issue, right, What would be

763
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:33,199
if you're going to invoke section three
of the section three of the fourteenth of

764
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:38,440
the Constitution to say Trump cannot be
on the ballot? What is the mechanism

765
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,840
to do that? Because it's never
been tried, it's never been tested.

766
01:04:43,039 --> 01:04:45,800
So and that's what Ellie Honak said
today on CNN. So he threw cold

767
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,320
water on it. He said,
no states are going to be able to

768
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:54,760
do this because no one knows how
to do it. So if you don't

769
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,239
know how you're going to do it, you can't do it. That was

770
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:04,320
his argument. So, next section
of this, how would the fourteenth Amendment

771
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:09,400
theory be put into practice? Okay, so here we get into it the

772
01:05:09,519 --> 01:05:13,760
problems, So says here, most
likely it would need to be enforced as

773
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:18,840
the result of a lawsuit. A
candidate running against Trump in either the Republican

774
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:26,760
primary or the general election would have
the cleanest path into court because they could

775
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,639
argue that they are directly harmed by
Trump's presence on the ballot. Okay,

776
01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:34,480
So in other words, in legal
terms, and I'm not a legal expert

777
01:05:34,519 --> 01:05:41,159
of any kind, but i do
know that if you're going to if you're

778
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:45,480
going to court, if you're suing
somebody, you have to have what is

779
01:05:45,559 --> 01:05:49,400
called standing or not to initiate the
lawsuit necessarily. But if the judge rules

780
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:53,320
that you don't have standing, then
the suit's going to get thrown out standing,

781
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:59,079
meaning that you are an aggrieved party, you are being harmed by the

782
01:05:59,199 --> 01:06:01,320
action of whom where it is that
you're suing, and that's why you need

783
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:05,400
to stop it. That's why you
need to prevent it. So that's why

784
01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:11,480
here, in this case, someone
who is on the ballot against Trump would

785
01:06:11,519 --> 01:06:16,159
have to argue that Trump being on
that ballot that he should be disqualified,

786
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:23,840
and his not being disqualified under Section
three of the fourteenth is harming the individual,

787
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:28,159
the aggrieved party in this case who's
bringing the suit. So it says

788
01:06:28,199 --> 01:06:32,239
here interest groups or individual voters also
could try to sue to prevent him from

789
01:06:32,239 --> 01:06:38,480
getting on the ballot in a particular
state. In recent days, a long

790
01:06:38,599 --> 01:06:44,800
shot Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro. Oh, we'll have to get him

791
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,039
on the show. I didn't know. I've never heard of this person before.

792
01:06:48,119 --> 01:06:51,199
But if you haven't noticed, we
kind of like the outlong shot candidates

793
01:06:51,239 --> 01:06:58,800
around here. John Anthony Castro filed
a lawsuit in New Hampshire arguing that Trump

794
01:06:59,039 --> 01:07:03,880
violated the fourteenth Amendment and seeking an
injunction that would force the state's secretary of

795
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:09,000
state to keep Trump's name off of
the ballot. So that must be where

796
01:07:09,039 --> 01:07:12,880
that rumor started. I didn't know
about this guy. I didn't know about

797
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,360
this lawsuits specifically, but that must
be where this whole thing started. Here

798
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:19,719
in New Hampshire, Okay, it
says here, and in Florida, a

799
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:25,800
tax attorney sued Trump in federal court
in an effort to disqualify him from running

800
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:30,599
for president, saying his participation in
the events of jan six should prevent him

801
01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:34,920
from holding office under the fourteenth Amendment. Alternatively, a secretary of state could

802
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:41,880
preemptively exclude him from the ballot,
almost certainly leading Trump to sue over it.

803
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:46,280
Some secretaries of state have already suggested
they will at least consider whether to

804
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:51,239
apply the provision. Michigan Secretary of
State Joscelyn Benson said she planned to speak

805
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:58,559
with her counterparts in other battleground states
about how to handle the issue. Over

806
01:07:58,679 --> 01:08:02,920
the summer, legal vocacy group Free
Speech for People sent letters to secretaries of

807
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,639
state and chief election officials in nine
states asking them to bar Trump from the

808
01:08:06,679 --> 01:08:12,840
ballot as a consequence of the Fourteenth
Amendment. Quote, Trump's involvement in the

809
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:17,960
violent attack on Congress to prevent the
certification of democratic election results disqualifies him from

810
01:08:18,039 --> 01:08:24,600
holding any future public office unquote.
Either way, the issue is likely to

811
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:28,800
result in multiple appeals from Trump and
his campaign or from a conservative group.

812
01:08:29,079 --> 01:08:32,399
Any serious effort to ban him from
the ballot likely would rock it up to

813
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:36,840
the Supreme Court. It has already
become a point of dispute. In New

814
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:45,479
Hampshire. Bryant Quirky Messner, an
attorney who ran on Trump's endorsement as Republicans

815
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:50,319
twenty twenty US Senate nominee, questioned
Trump's eligibility for the ballot and met with

816
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:55,399
Okay, this was the part we
talked about the other day, and met

817
01:08:55,479 --> 01:09:00,560
with New Hampshire's Secretary of State David
Scanlan, asking him to seek legal guidance

818
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:06,359
on the issue. Scanlon and New
Hampshire's Attorney General, John Formella, both

819
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:12,880
of whom are Republicans, then issued
a joint statement saying Formela's office quote is

820
01:09:13,079 --> 01:09:19,560
now carefully reviewing the legal issues involved. Unte the chair of the state's Republican

821
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:23,840
party, however, said the group
would quote fight to make sure that candidates

822
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:28,800
are not denied access to the ballot
unquote okay, and then the last part

823
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:33,760
of this quickly, how has the
fourteenth Amendment theory fared in the courts In

824
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:39,239
the century and a half since the
Fourteenth Amendment was ratified? Its third section

825
01:09:39,399 --> 01:09:43,800
has been infrequently tested in court,
and never against a former president. I

826
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,600
didn't realize it had been tested at
all, but apparently it has. After

827
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:54,279
Jan six Free Speech for People,
that's the organization filed legal challenges against Republican

828
01:09:54,359 --> 01:09:59,239
Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Oh I
think I do remember this now, Republican

829
01:09:59,279 --> 01:10:04,119
of Georgia, and then Representative Madison
Cawthorne, Republican of North Carolina, arguing

830
01:10:04,239 --> 01:10:11,520
that both were ineligible for office under
the insurrection clause. In Green's case,

831
01:10:12,199 --> 01:10:16,920
an administrative law judge found that she
did not participate in the jan sixth insurrection,

832
01:10:17,359 --> 01:10:20,760
making her eligible to run for reelection. I do remember that, now,

833
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:26,039
I'd forgotten about all that. In
Cawthorne's case, a federal appeals court

834
01:10:26,159 --> 01:10:29,920
ruled against him, but the ruling
came after he had already lost his primary,

835
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,000
so it didn't matter, right,
I'd forgotten about that. So there

836
01:10:32,039 --> 01:10:38,319
you go. That's the latest on
that. Again. I agree with what

837
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:43,199
Ellie Hoenig said this morning on CNN. This isn't going anywhere because it just

838
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,199
can't. No one's really sure how
it would work, how you would go

839
01:10:46,239 --> 01:10:54,800
about it. So it is probably
da Let's see, we've got a little

840
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:58,319
bit of time left. Will get
to at least one more thing, maybe

841
01:10:58,399 --> 01:11:01,960
two. The studio line is open
though, six zo three two five zero

842
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:14,439
six zero seven six two five six
seven mm. Here's some potential good news

843
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,840
for Trump. This just popped up
two on the Hill dot com. D

844
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:23,600
o J loses on appeal and trying
to block Trump deposition. It says here

845
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:29,279
the DC Appeals Court ruled today that
former President Trump can be deposed in suits

846
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:38,880
against the FBI brought by former agents
Peter Strock and Lisa Page. Oh wait,

847
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:45,399
why were they trying to okay a
little unclear on something here, but

848
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,560
we'll figure it out. I'll figure
it out. We'll figure it out together.

849
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:54,159
Okay. So the Department of Justice
appeal to ruling from a lower court

850
01:11:54,239 --> 01:11:58,680
in July, which came to the
same conclusion. Strack is suing the Bureau

851
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:01,840
for wrongful termination and Page is suing
for invasion of privacy. After the pair

852
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,520
were embroiled in a political scandal due
to work on the Bureau's investigation in a

853
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:10,560
Trump's ties to Russia in twenty eighteen, text messages became public. Yes,

854
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:15,800
Trump actually at a rally performed them
almost perhaps he was inspired by hearing one

855
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:21,279
of my dramatic readings. Text messages
became public in which the pair spoke about

856
01:12:21,319 --> 01:12:27,159
how they personally disliked Trump, causing
concern that the entire investigation was biased,

857
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:32,279
later resulting in Page resigning and Strack
being fired. DOJ attorneys argued in their

858
01:12:32,279 --> 01:12:38,439
appeal, quote, only the most
extraordinary of circumstances would justify allowing a plaintiff

859
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:42,000
to depose a former high level official
about actions he took in the course of

860
01:12:42,039 --> 01:12:45,760
his official duties. This case falls
far short of that standard. Unquote.

861
01:12:46,359 --> 01:12:50,680
FBI Director Christopher Ray and former Trump
Chief of staff John Kelly already testified in

862
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:57,760
the lawsuits, making Trump's testimony unnecessary. The DOJ argued. The appeals court

863
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:02,800
ruled that the district Judge Amy Herman
Jackson properly considered the DOJ's concerns about a

864
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:11,880
former president being deposed and came to
her conclusion justly quote have an employed particular

865
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,000
deference and restraint considering the separation of
powers concerns at issue. The district Court

866
01:13:15,039 --> 01:13:23,319
ultimately concluded that extraordinary circumstances warranted the
deposition of the former president unquote, Oh

867
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:29,520
there's more quote under these circumstances.
Petitioners have not shown that the district Court's

868
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:36,640
conclusion was a clear abuse of discretion, warranting mandamus relief mandamus mandamus. That

869
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:40,880
must be a legal term. I'm
not familiar with what I have no idea

870
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:44,680
what that word means. Kelly said
in his testimony that Trump quote wanted to

871
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:53,920
see mister Strock fired unquote and considered
other retaliation. All right, there's a

872
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:58,239
little bit more to that, but
that's that's not that really doesn't have any

873
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:00,640
direct effect on Trump. When I
said that looked like good news, potential

874
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,640
good news for Trump. I actually
I think it's kind of a wash.

875
01:14:09,359 --> 01:14:15,720
Got a little bit of time left. Yeah, let's let's look at this.

876
01:14:15,319 --> 01:14:19,319
I've been kind of fascinated. And
if you're a long time listener,

877
01:14:19,399 --> 01:14:25,640
you know this already. I've been
kind of fascinated by Tucker Carlson, of

878
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:31,840
course, was fired by Fox News
and then immediately began doing some form of

879
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:38,439
a show on Twitter, now known
as x I'm still calling it Twitter,

880
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:44,439
I don't care. And and someday
it will probably go back to being Twitter.

881
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:48,039
Who knows, maybe Elon Musk will
change it back anyway. And then

882
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:56,479
there came this hole. In the
aftermath of that, Fox News sent technicians

883
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:00,680
to Tucker Carlson's house to confiscate the
equipment that they had for him so he

884
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,239
could do is because I think he
was doing the show that he did on

885
01:15:03,319 --> 01:15:05,920
the streaming service what is it Fox
Nation. I think he was doing that

886
01:15:06,039 --> 01:15:10,840
from his home studio. And they
went and they confiscated that, and they

887
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:15,199
Fox attorneys sent a cease and assist
saying that Tucker Carlson could not be doing

888
01:15:15,239 --> 01:15:21,600
the show on Twitter because he has
a non compete clause, which is common,

889
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:30,159
very typical. If you are doing
a show for a network news,

890
01:15:30,279 --> 01:15:34,880
whether it be a news outlet,
or you're on you're a host of some

891
01:15:35,079 --> 01:15:40,199
sort of entertainment show, talk show, whatever it may be, there's usually

892
01:15:40,239 --> 01:15:43,199
a non compete clause in there,
so if they decide to cutch a loose,

893
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:46,840
as long as they're still paying you, they can block you from going

894
01:15:47,039 --> 01:15:53,079
and appearing on another network, starting
a new show somewhere. But what has

895
01:15:53,119 --> 01:15:58,640
been particularly fascinating in the Tucker Carlson
situation is his being fired from Fox.

896
01:15:59,119 --> 01:16:05,600
Does that mean according to his contract, does that no compete clause which I

897
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:12,880
think doesn't run out until is it
twenty twenty five if I remember correctly from

898
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:17,800
the news reports that non compete clause? Does that mean? I mean,

899
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:23,680
obviously it means he can't just go
and get a show on Newsmax or something

900
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:28,159
right, a competitor to Fox.
But does that also mean he can't even

901
01:16:28,239 --> 01:16:32,680
do a show on social media?
What if he just wants to make videos

902
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:39,560
on What if he wants to open
a YouTube channel and just stream on YouTube?

903
01:16:40,199 --> 01:16:45,319
Is he is he prevented from doing
that according to the no compete clause

904
01:16:45,399 --> 01:16:55,399
in his contract. When that contract
was written, did anyone even consider the

905
01:16:55,520 --> 01:17:00,520
social media aspect of things. So
I've been kind of fascinated by that,

906
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,720
and I still don't know. We
still don't have an answer to that question.

907
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:11,600
Does that contract not only prevent Tucker
Carlson from going to another network as

908
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,520
long as Fox is continuing to pay
out on the contract, or does it

909
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,640
also prevent him from doing any kind
of Is he prevented from going on somebody

910
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:23,600
else's show as a guest? Is
he what if somebody wants to have him

911
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:28,520
on his on their podcast as a
guest, or even guest hosting somebody's podcast.

912
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:30,680
Is he allowed to start a podcast? You know, I'm just I'm

913
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:35,720
very curious to what extent I mean. Is there some room for interpretation in

914
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:41,199
that clause in the contract, which
maybe what's really gone on here When Tucker

915
01:17:41,319 --> 01:17:45,399
started doing that show on Twitter,
which apparently there were only a couple of

916
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,319
episodes, and then the interview with
you know, and then they got the

917
01:17:48,399 --> 01:17:51,359
cease and assist, but he still
did the interview with Trump which they put

918
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:58,720
on Twitter. To Tucker Carlson's lawyers
interpret the contract as meaning he just can't

919
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,960
go to another news network, whereas
Fox's attorneys are saying no, we sent

920
01:18:02,039 --> 01:18:04,680
you a cease and desist because he's
not allowed to do a show anywhere.

921
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:11,680
And is that even enforceable if the
contract actually does say that or even implies

922
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:16,319
that, is that enforceable? Can
you actually prevent someone because just because something's

923
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:23,520
in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable, right if it's if it's deemed in

924
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,239
court. You know, if you
go to court over it and it's deemed

925
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:30,800
that, no, this is unfair. Kind of like Stephen Crowder. When

926
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:39,239
Stephen Crowder tried to make his employees
sign a non disclosure agreement, and basically

927
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:43,039
the way the non disclosure agreement was
written, it was basically, you know,

928
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:49,399
you have to tolerate me sexually harassing
you. And if you I'm paraphrasing,

929
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:54,800
of course, but you have to
tolerate working in an environment with rampant

930
01:18:55,119 --> 01:18:59,840
sexual harassment and you have to be
okay with it. And if you have

931
01:19:00,159 --> 01:19:02,520
decide you're not okay with it and
you start running your mouth according to this

932
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:05,520
nondisclosure agreement, you know, if
you go talking to the media about what

933
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:10,720
we do here, according to this
NDA, you can be fined one hundred

934
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:15,159
thousand dollars and which will be payable
immediately, and you have no right to

935
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:24,359
even try to question or dispute it, completely unenforceable. He tried to frighten

936
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:28,119
his employees into signing that contract,
and of course it got out into the

937
01:19:28,199 --> 01:19:31,039
media and several of him as his
employees, said no thanks, and they

938
01:19:31,199 --> 01:19:34,159
left, and hopefully at least one
of them is going to sue him,

939
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:41,399
because that's what I would do.
You put a doc. If I were

940
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:45,439
working anywhere and my employer put a
document in front of me that basically said

941
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:49,760
I get to sexually assault you anytime
I want to. You have to be

942
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:53,880
okay with it, and if you
ever decide you're not okay with it and

943
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,960
you start complaining, you owe me
one hundred thousand dollars and you have no

944
01:19:58,159 --> 01:20:02,359
right to complain about that. I
would be like, well, obviously I'm

945
01:20:02,399 --> 01:20:05,640
not signing that, dude, I
don't know why you're putting that in front

946
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:10,439
of me, And if you want
to fire me for refusing to sign that,

947
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:15,720
you go right ahead. In fact, i'd prefer it because that way

948
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:19,000
I'll have the rest of my day
free. I can go find a lawyer

949
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:27,279
who will then sue you and take
you for everything you're worth. So you

950
01:20:27,399 --> 01:20:29,920
know, I don't think you want
to be putting that piece of paper in

951
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:31,119
front of me. I mean,
that's what I would do. And I'm

952
01:20:31,159 --> 01:20:34,439
not a litigious person by nature,
but if somebody tried to make me sign

953
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:39,560
a contract that said something like that
and then told me if I didn't sign

954
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,640
it, they were going to fire
me, I'll see you in court.

955
01:20:45,399 --> 01:20:48,880
You shine up that fancy sports car
you've been driving, make it look really

956
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:54,880
nice because it's gonna be mine.
That would be my approach. But anyway,

957
01:20:55,119 --> 01:20:59,720
so just because something's in a contract
doesn't mean it's enforceable. So this

958
01:21:00,039 --> 01:21:03,399
on compete clause, it's allegedly in
the contract Fox. As with Tucker Carlson,

959
01:21:04,399 --> 01:21:08,920
I don't think they can keep him
off of Twitter, but I don't

960
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:14,079
know. I'm not a lawyer,
but I just having to see this pop

961
01:21:14,159 --> 01:21:18,920
up on media. Tucker Carlson says
Elon Musk called his team with an hour

962
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:24,479
of Fox Firing to ask him to
bring his show to Twitter. So I'm

963
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:29,640
curious what Tucker is saying about this
now and if he you know, because

964
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:35,000
again there's uh questions about whether he
can even do that, and I think

965
01:21:35,039 --> 01:21:38,840
he only did two episodes, right, He did two episodes on Twitter and

966
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,640
then stopped when he got the season
to assist. But then he did the

967
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:45,840
sit down interview with Trump, which
they put on Twitter. But him interviewing

968
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:51,800
somebody, does that constitute a show
anyway? It says here Tucker Carlson revealed

969
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:56,560
that Elon Musk was quick to try
and convince him to bring his show to

970
01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:01,960
Twitter. Carlson was abruptly fired back
in April along side longtime executive producer Justin

971
01:22:02,039 --> 01:22:08,680
Wells. In a Thursday interview with
Barstools Sports founder Dave Portnoy, Carlson opened

972
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:14,760
up about leaving Fox and the surprising
call Wells got an hour after they were

973
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:19,920
ousted. Carlson said, quote,
thankfully they fired my executive producer, Justin

974
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:24,760
Wells, like within four minutes of
firing me. He really didn't do anything

975
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:28,439
wrong. He was the best producer
in all of television and everyone knew it.

976
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,640
And Fox has a lot of nice
people, a lot of very incompetent

977
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:35,600
people obviously running it, and he
was one of the only competent people in

978
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:40,279
the whole business. But they fired
him too, and within I don't know

979
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:44,199
an hour of that happening. Elon
called and said you should come to Twitter.

980
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,399
So I'll never stop being grateful for
that unquote. Less than a month

981
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:50,800
after leaving Fox, Carlson announced he
would be creating a show that would air

982
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,800
only on Twitter. He's made it
very clear that the move was out of

983
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:59,960
necessity for free speech and that he
does not work for Musk. Carlson said,

984
01:23:00,159 --> 01:23:02,960
quote, we don't work for Elon
or anything, but we're using the

985
01:23:03,079 --> 01:23:08,479
site like everyone else uses it,
which is a platform that's not censored,

986
01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:14,600
and I'm super grateful for it.
Unquote. Now it's interesting that he puts

987
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:16,279
it that way, that he explains
it that way, because it sounds like

988
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:23,319
he's kind of sort of, you
know, making an implicit argument, a

989
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:27,039
legal argument that I mean, he's
not overtly saying it, but he's kind

990
01:23:27,079 --> 01:23:30,359
of saying, look, we're just
I don't work for Musk, I don't

991
01:23:30,399 --> 01:23:35,840
work for Twitter. I'm just doing
I'm just doing my videos there, I'm

992
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:40,520
just doing my show there. I'm
just using the platform like like everyone else

993
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:45,600
does. His exact words, which
is probably what his lawyers I assume if

994
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:49,880
this if they end up in court, because I don't think Fox is actually

995
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:55,199
they threaten to sue with their season
assist. I don't think they've brought any

996
01:23:55,279 --> 01:23:59,680
actual legal action beyond that, but
that would be the argument in court,

997
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,159
right Tucker's attorneys would make. Look, he doesn't work for Elon Musk,

998
01:24:03,199 --> 01:24:06,399
he didn't go he didn't go work
for Twitter. He's doing his own thing.

999
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:11,680
He's just putting his own content on
Twitter's platform, which he could do

1000
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:15,119
on any platform, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, whatever. He's just creating

1001
01:24:15,199 --> 01:24:18,600
content and putting it out there.
That's not competing with what Fox News is.

1002
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:20,840
And by the way, I would
tend to agree. I would have

1003
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:25,640
to. I'm no fan of Tucker
Carlson, but if that is the argument

1004
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,079
that he's making, or his lawyers
would be making, I would agree with

1005
01:24:28,159 --> 01:24:32,079
that. You can't stop somebody from
making content and just putting it on social

1006
01:24:32,119 --> 01:24:41,720
media, can you. So to
the one downside Carlson revealed of having a

1007
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:45,680
show on social media is being more
aware of the public's response. He said,

1008
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:48,279
quote, I do think the downside
of social media is you can get

1009
01:24:48,399 --> 01:24:55,760
involved in like people's responses to it. That's soul death. So do you

1010
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:58,439
just ignore it all? Portnoy I
asked. Carlson said, quote, I

1011
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,920
really try to. I know who
I am for all of my faults,

1012
01:25:01,239 --> 01:25:03,239
for all of my many faults,
I know who I am, and I

1013
01:25:03,279 --> 01:25:08,680
don't need other people to tell me
who I am. Unquote. M all

1014
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right, well, we'll see how
it all goes. Legally, he could

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be covered in legality. As Sarah
once said, that was a very uh.

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That was a deep cut in terms
of references. That was a reference

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01:25:27,239 --> 01:25:30,520
to a hue the Gecko interview where
the wet we got some calls from the

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01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:35,880
pot Awful cult and someone calling themselves, Sarah said, threatening to Sue.

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01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:41,159
Huey said, you're going to be
covered in legality. I should put that

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on the soundboard. Anyway, we
are just about out of time, my

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friends, so we're gonna get ready
to wrap up. But thank you all.

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It is Friday, which means I
will be back retro Spectrum Radio eight

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to eleven PM tonight with Police.
I have the honor and privilege of being

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one of Paul's co hosts on that
show, along with DJ Steve and Mike

1025
01:26:04,359 --> 01:26:09,319
from Queen City Cabinetry. Love hanging
out with those guys on a Friday night.

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Friday is my favorite day, her
favorite day of the week at WMNH.

1027
01:26:13,359 --> 01:26:16,600
So great, great fun. So
I will be back tonight. If

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01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,920
you miss any part of today's show
it we'll be up in just a little

1029
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:24,600
bit at WMH radio dot org and
on my website Matt Connerton dot com.

1030
01:26:25,279 --> 01:26:28,840
Don't forget we are not here Monday
because it is Labor Day, so everyone

1031
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,279
enjoy your holiday. We've got a
great show for you Tuesday. We have

1032
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:41,199
a great guest lined up as well
as Eric's film review. And don't forget

1033
01:26:41,239 --> 01:26:45,119
it the hop Not Tomorrow Night.
Gus and Jean, a great acoustic duo,

1034
01:26:45,159 --> 01:26:47,680
will be playing from seven to nine
pm, and then they've got the

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Gender Blender tomorrow night at ten pm. Get there early if you're going,

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01:26:55,479 --> 01:27:00,159
because that does fill up quickly.
Also happening tonight just up the street the

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six zero three Bar and Grill Project
Reckless back to School Glow Party. If

1038
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:11,640
you don't know this DJ Reckless,
he lives with Jenny and I and I

1039
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,760
can tell you he is very excited
and a little bit nervous because this is

1040
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:19,079
a big, big deal. This
is a big deal tonight. So if

1041
01:27:19,119 --> 01:27:21,119
you're out and about and you want
to check this out, I suggest you

1042
01:27:21,239 --> 01:27:27,279
do glow sticks five dollars, Tito's
cellow shots, beer pong and a food

1043
01:27:27,359 --> 01:27:31,640
cart and music by DJ Reckless and
Sean White. And that will all be

1044
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,960
happening tonight at the Hopknot And it
is twenty one plus. By the way,

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No young UN's all right? What
should we Yeah? I really like

1046
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:47,279
this track. Let's play this again. This is a reach from yesterday on

1047
01:27:47,319 --> 01:27:53,199
the show, we had Adam Steglich
from the band ever Felt joined us.

1048
01:27:54,159 --> 01:27:57,119
Really enjoyed talking with him. Great
guy, very talented. Love this band.

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01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,640
So we'll close with this. This
is reached from the band ever Felt

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01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,880
to close out Matt Connerton Unleashed.
I'll talk to y'all a little bit later,

1051
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:09,520
and in fact, I will talk
at you tonight on Retrospectrum Radio with

1052
01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:14,319
Polysee be back here eight pm Eastern
by Everybody Free dessert, pretzels and petzel

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Poor delivery cost six zho three seven, eight, two, eight, four

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01:28:32,199 --> 01:28:43,159
or five Clementostezzabria Besza into eighteen seventy
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Hampshire. Best Cottel's a brown coming
as friends and leave us family