Matzo Tommy down, very very large blame, he said, Donald, Hello,
they don't know what to do. Never happened. Welcome everybody, here
we go. It is that time again. Happy Wednesday. Matt Connerton unleashed
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thousand twenty three, and I am not alone. If you're gonna play in
Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Then league guitar is
hot but not far Louisiana Man sould rolls enough that both baby in love and
then sold nads. If you're going play in Texas, we gotta have a
fiddle in the band. Yeehaw, my favorite Texans is here, Texas.
Mike at the news desk, Ye, how are you Texas Mike, I'm
doing good a washmanute. Change of plans is not bad. Yes, yes,
well you have more fun here anyway, right, we won't we won't
tell John. Yes, there you go, Texas. Mike is of us.
He was on his way to do John Hopwood's television show this afternoon,
but plans changed, so so we have him, which is wonderful. And
it is Wednesday, and on Wednesdays we also have my favorite conservative Eric Pilcher.
However, Eric with a little bit of a scheduling challenge of his own.
He's going to be joining us in the second hour today for that segment
instead of the first hour because he has another commitment, so he'll be skyping
in later. So we look forward to that. But in the meantime,
you are welcome to join us. The studio line is open six z three
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I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at
Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the
Facebook live chat. And uh we have our first call of the day I
think this might be our friend, EASYG, EASYG. Is that you listen?
Is I'm the feeling the best play that let's play out of accidentally Late
out of Action has some I had some issues with my teeth. Uh huh,
well that's why I haven't been to come around the horn. But I
do have a big dates point ounce. He's coming around for a couple of
days. Uh end of the month and during Cobra and Man and mccazy is
coming to down. Well very good? Is she coming to see you?
Like I'm making it happens. He's gonna playing all plays a Hudson on cover
First. Anybody's interested out there in the world of attainment Cover First at the
bar and huntson five to eight. So if you want to pick up at
night dinner and here's a great music. I was called the best thing in
the world. So I hope he's gonna drop by and picked me up.
It's in the planning stage. So it's in the planning Stagees. These things
have to be indicated. Now. You know, it's not good to jump
on the the old she's married now there and or walk to the shows.
Oh right, that is what you mean. Yes, that is complicated.
Yeah, it's won't complicated, and I's that a little bit here, but
it doesn't mean it doesn't mean it can't happen. Like like my buddy said,
anything is possible. The text of Night Coming got out won the championship.
I think he was asking you a question, Texas, Mike. I
didn't quite understand it either. Yeah, so don't don't feel badly that one
the championship. Who won the championship and we've gone out in the Celtics two
thousand and eighty yelled out about a million times when I didn't won the title.
Anything it's possible, right to the likes all the times who yelled at
anyway? Sexistar playing at the barman Husbands five day, a couple of first
you've got a couple of the dates. But I formed the public on Monday.
On Monday, you're going to inform the public. Yes, we look
forward to that. Something else happens is make crazy world. I trying to
keep informed that. You know, all right, Well, we appreciate that
easyg Without you, we'd be wondering the wilderness of entertainment. It won't give
me a hard time. You went. We don't want to hear about the
Philadelphia day. So you know, man got the border or Texas or I
was ready to place it. Well, I think Texas Mike would like to
hear about Amana McCarthy and Texas, wouldn't you Texas Mike, Yes I would.
Yeah, see, okay, maybe you can bring this lovely lady?
Was that on that day? I know, Texas make it's really busy?
All right, welcome talks everybody on Monday. All right, bye bye,
all right, Well that was our friend, easyg and that does open up
the line for you. Six zero three two five zero six zero seven six
zero three two five zero six o seven. Yes, by the way,
how are things with you and your lady there? Texas Mike, doing very
doing very good. We went down to Boston on Friday night and saw SmackDown.
Ah, yes, how was it a very good show? Excellent?
Excellent? Yes? Was that sold out? They usually sell out there?
Right? Yeah? I think it was a sow out, but I couldn't
really tell from my seat, so right right, Oh do you have good
seats? Yeah? Were in the club sheets? Oh very nice? Yeah,
look at you? Well you are Texas Mike. After all. We'll
go ahead and say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. Let's see,
looks like a busy chat room already. J Fett is in there and
says, good afternoon everyone, of course from the great state of Vermont.
Good afternoon. EASYG is in the Facebook live chat and says, yeah,
a big fan high Texas, Mike yeeha. Oh, and I have to
refresh my browser because I can't see everything on my browser. I can see
some comments on the other computer. Michael Albert is in the chatwoman says it's
the Amanda McCarthy Entertainment Report and quote, anything is possible, even when you
ever a straining order unquote credited to EASYG. Whoops and my computers making noise
here, oh a little bit of I don't know if the mic picked that
up, but yeah, the Facebook has been it was walking for Pete to
this morning. Sure, yeah, Facebook is Facebook being Facebook, you know,
yep, that's always yep, very very glitchy. But what do you
want for free? Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live
cheat and says, Hi, everyone, Queen City Cabinetry one of our great
sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three FM, and I have the pleasure
of hanging out with Mike on Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C.
I have the honor and privilege of being one of false co hosts on
that show along with Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry and DJ Steve. We have
a great time. If you didn't hear last Friday's show, by the way,
I suggest you go to the archive at WMH radio dot org and check
it out. We had a lot of fun. That was probably one of
the most fun Retrospectrum radios, at least for me from my perspective, that
was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed that one. Jenny is in the
chat room, of course and says shalom, peeps. Tom Blanchard joins us
and says hello everyone. Oh, Paul see is in the chatroom, says
hello, big fan. I see you have Mikey with you. He's a
real ladies man. He knows what I mean, hm, does he.
I'm committed to one one way deal, that's right. That hasn't always been
the case with you though correct it has not in the past. But I'm
settled down, and you're settling down. You've you've you're no longer selling your
wild oats as they say, Nope, nope, nope, settling down down
with my wonderful woman n angie. Wow, very nice. Congratulations app ob
one one year on a second try. I have to Thanksgiving and really yeah
in November. Oh wow, oh, congratulations, And we have a call.
Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this, Matt, It's
Polly. Oh it's a poly c from Retrospectrum Radio with poly C. Yeah.
So I just want to clarify something. You can be a ladies man
and be in a relationship with somebody, Boddy. A ladies man doesn't necessarily
mean you're out and about gallivanting. His gallivanting days are over. Apparently he
is settling down from what I hear. M Well, very good. Mikey's
Mikey, Mikey's. I was just go ahead. I was just had to
pull over here. Ah, yes, Mike's Mike. He's been very quiet.
I think I think now that he's settling down, he's getting a little
bashful. No, Mike, listen, Mike comes in and he sings the
karaoke to the woman of his dreams. Yes, and he you know,
he even changes the words up. I don't know if you noticed that when
he did that a couple of weeks ago, and he you know, he
takes her out dining and everything. He's a ladies man. M See.
I always took ladies man to mean something a little different, though. When
when I hear the term ladies man, I don't think of monogamy. I
think of someone who's out gallivantin as you put it. Yeah, no,
that's not the way I've ever interpreted it, interpreted, interpreted that interpretated.
Well, how do you so, what does it mean to you? Just
heterosexual? You're a ladies man. A ladies man is a man who can
win the heart and the love of a woman. He's a lady he's a
ladies man. There are some men out there that women can't stand to be
around, and there are men like like Mike Martino. It's the ladies man.
This woman loves him, all right. I am going to google the
phrase ladies man and see what I can find here, because we have a
different, uh, we have a different idea of what that phrase means.
I mean, I don't know, Mikey, keep up the good work.
It says like you're romancing the hell out of her. She loves you.
Thank you polish here I will continue doing that. There's a there's a movie
from two thousand called The Ladies Man, which I don't care about. A
movie. I don't care about a movie. Check the definition of ladies all
right, I'm going a Mirriam Webster. But the film it starts Tim Meadows.
It looks great. Okay, uh okay, no, no ladies Man
with a Tim Tim Meadows from remember from Saturday Night Live. It's it's like
his one movie. Okay, now the Merriam the Miriam Webster's definition, Paul,
I will say, lines up with what you were saying. So you
were right. According to Miriam Webster, they define ladies man as a man
who shows a marked fondness for the company of women or is especially attentive to
women. So yeah, I mean that's uh, that's kind of what you
were saying. There's nothing there about not being monogamous. So okay, well
there you go, not being You're so suspicious mat with with even phrases.
Can I be honest with you? I mean, look, Paul, just
between you and me, you gotta admit Mikey's history is a little bit you
know. I mean he's uh, oh, I know it's been around.
I've heard it, I've seen it. I've been there, you've been there.
Huh, I've been jealous. Yeah yeah, but he's uh. But
it's good to see. It's good to see Mikey that you're you're you've evolved.
Yes, yes, and you're uncomfortable. I can tell. But I
pat him a little uncomfortable. But that's okay. It's okay that you used
to be not so monogamous because it just shows your your growth, your evolutionism.
So he was so in his wild oats. The guy is still in
his twenties. You know, he's gotta he's gotta date around a little bit
before he finally puts his feet firmly on the ground towards the affection of one
particular woman. So that's true. It sounds like he's doing just fine with
that. Sometimes I forget how young he is because while for one thing,
the beard and also, uh, you know, he is a he is
in the w w E Hall of Fame. He was a tag team champion
with black Jack Mulligan, So I forget that he's still in his twenties.
But yes, he is a young man, that is true, right,
So that's all. I just wanted to clarify that because you're misleading the child
with the phrase ladies. Man, you're saying he's a child. I mean,
you're you're gonna talk him out of this all you keep talking like that,
he's gonna go back to so in his wild oats and gallivanting. He's
in his twenties, he's a child. I get it. Policy, I
get it. I'm saying I'm young, but I'm kind of like instigating stuff.
Who me, You're you're suggestively instigating. I'm suggestively instigating. I would
never how dare you? How dare you? Sir? That's the thing,
Mikey before Matt Ruthy interrupted you. Yes, I'm so young, I'm so
on and that, and you always wanted and you never know any everything in
the world. So I'm still I'm safe, keep loving ear and everything.
But you know, hold off on marriage, okay, just hold off for
a little while on that. Yep. Seventy seventy five Is that a good
age? I think people are waiting longer to get married. That's a fact
statistically. So you you think you think early to mid seventies is a good
time to put a right on her finger. Yeah, I would recommend that
to any actually, in all honesty, probably in their sixties, because now
you get to that age, youre now slowing down, you're a few years
away from retiring. You you know, probably have ceased dating if you're the
average guy. I guess, I don't know. I mean, Joel Elber's
uh, you know, still active out there, if I'm not mistaken.
I haven't spoken to him in a while, though, But yeah, yeah,
I mean I think in the sixties is a good good time to get
married. Yeah, yeah, what do you think, Mikey? Uh,
probably early sixty start thinking about making an official I don't know if she's dude,
it's all about the wedding day, big and special, and I want
to get married and blah blah blah, and then the next day the wedding
days over and now you guys are married for the rest of your lives.
Yeah, do that when you're sixty. Yeah, nothing with each other until
then? Yeah, No, Then get married when you're sixty. Nothing wrong
with a long engagement, right, sure, Yeah, there you go.
That'll that'll fly with her, won't't Mikey. I don't know if she's Weston,
So I don't want saving you don't want to speak for her. I
understand. No, if the girl wants to get married, married her,
I'm just giving you a hard time. Okay, I'm not I'm not getting
married till I'm sixty. Yeah, that's a good, good plan, or
I should say married again until I'm saying, oh, that's right. I
always forget that that you've already been married. Yeah, let's forget that I
was supposed to last forever. Yeah. You know, rates of marriage are
at their lowest ever in the United States. I believe more and more people
are just not kidding, and people who are getting married are waiting longer,
and people are waiting longer to have children too. You know, if you
put your ear to the ground, you can still hear my ex wife running,
no kidding. Yeah, I wondered what that sound was. I I
hear when I put my ear to the ground. So that's her here,
I'll put the I'll put the phone to the ground right now. That Yeah,
that's sir. I'll be damned. Oh, I wondered. It just
sounds like tapping or something. But she must be really far away at this
point. Wow. Sure, just don't go doing the wrong things premature like
that you think are the right things. That hurts a lot of people.
In the end. That's all there you go. I'm sure you solid mmmm.
Let your mind, Let your brain do the thinking, and no other
parts of your body. Thank you police for the vice. I'll take a
consideration. Oh in that big fan bye, all right, bye bye,
all right, always nice here from Paul C. Of course I get to
see Polly Friday Night for retro Spectrum Radio with Policy Friday nights from eight to
eleven pm right here at w m H ninety five point three FM. And
Mike, you've been on a few times with us on that show. Yes
I have, yes, Yes, let's see. Well that does open up
the line for you six o three two five oh six o seven six zero
three two five zero six zero seven if you would like to join us on
the program, and we'll see who else we have on the Facebook live chat
before we get into some stuff. Uh, let's see, I did see
somebody else pop in there. Oh, actually we have another call, but
I do see Scott Robinson is in the Facebook live chat and our friend Shannon
is on the line. Hi Shannon, Hello, I just How are you
good? How are you? That's the stupidest question to ask a host.
I'm sorry, what we gonna say? Uh? You know, if PAULI
wants to go out for lunch or just hang out or something. You know,
I'm not uh because because what was I gonna say? You will?
You would call him Texas Mike? What Casanova? I didn't. I didn't
call him Casanova. Ladies man said that? Ladies man? What is the
kid? What? What is that phrase? What does that phrase mean to
you? She had a ladies man? What do you hear? Ladies man?
What do you think a ladies man A guy A lot of ladies want
to be with? Oh okay comes to mind, all right in my head?
But mine, you know, I can dive right now. I got
it real quick. But sure, sure, but I mean I already I
already promised uh Rob Asia from GSM a drink sometime. Uh huh uh huh.
Yeah he's married, you know that, right, yes, but that
would be different because policy isn't married. And I'm glad he said a gangs
that was going to call and that is it must sound it sounds too much
like to second marriage, So Shannon, it sounds So it sounds to me
like you're making a play here. And is the idea that you're hoping that
when Paul gets to be sixty, uh, you can lock him down,
So you're trying to you're trying to get in there now and then when when
Paul is sixty, he'll ask you to marry him. Is that kind of
the long term plan? Are you? Like you know, because you know,
you know in China, the Chinese government they have these uh ten year,
twenty year, hundred year plans. So are you are you along?
Are you a long term planner? You're planning, You're planning to try to
get all to marry you in the future, is what it sounds like.
And I wouldn't have a wedding either city halled JP and just whatever. Haven't.
No, I'm not that would be my idea. But I thought I
have in mind is not. There's not it's not applicable because Jenny's a JP.
She can she can marry you, she can marry you and Paul.
Yeah, but but but the other person, and I'm not talking about Polly.
I'm just I'm just trying to say, you know, we go out
for lunch and shoot the breeze without jumping each other's bones. You know,
I don't, I don't. You'd be cool to hang out with you and
Jenny would be cool to hang out, right, But but Paul, Paul
is Paul is someone you're you know, you're single, you're looking to mingle,
and you're interested in policy. Guys are my dating app? I understand
who's single and who so right, so you're trying to you're trying to,
Uh, you want to go out on a date with Policy, is what
you're saying. You're asking him out. You're just good old fashioned female.
That was that's I put that in when you guys were thinking the names for
Texas mikes. Uh huh, okay, I know or I don't know,
selling his wild old said yeah, whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm little
goofy right now. Sure, okay, this is yeah, this is becoming
confusing, But it sounds like the main the main reason for your call is
you're trying to connect with policy so that when he is sixty you can get
married. But no, ass, this is the main reason, you know,
communicate with me for the frequencies policy, like you know, music called
Friday. Because I know you don't I can't hear you. You can't hear
me. I don't call so when when you said that? Uh? When
policy said that on Friday? You guys, Stephen, you and Mike.
Yes, it's not me, It isn't me, so right because I know
you know he's he's got to show to do. But i'd like him to
do a sexy heavy metal uh show? Uh huh? I bet I don't
know, like like well, like you don't like country music, right,
I'm not a I'm not a big fan. Once in a while I'll hear
something I like, and of course I always play if you're gonna play in
Texas by Alabama for when notot Texas? Mike joins us and Peter isn't a
Texas fan. I don't believe so no Juno is is he? I think
Kyle could go either way. I don't know. I don't know Kyle Garnza.
But the Paul rob Asivita likes country, Yes he does, Yes he
does. There's some sexty country songs and an old old ladies metal bullet boys.
Uh baton rouge. Uh you know? So just I don't know Kingdom
come oh, I like Kingdom to come. Uh living out of Touch is
a great song, Living out of Toucher. I know that one. That's
Kingdom Come get it on. Oh yeah, they're big head get it all.
Yeah, yeah, that's that would be the sexy one. Well all
right, Shannon, well listen, this is the way. It's afternoon drive
and you know it's I don't know this. This sounds more like a discussion
for Matt Connerton unsheathed. But but hopefully Paul. Hopefully Paul is still listening,
and uh, you know, or or a crisis. Hot. I'm
not in crisis. I just I'm I don't know. It's the weather,
it's it's I'm just not having a good time. I'm sorry. Sorry to
hear that, shann You kind of like my family and I hide the easy.
See. I still have to try to get down and see him at
some point in time. It's not in the next three weeks, though,
at least I know that. All right. But all right, everybody take
care, all right, Shannon, you too, Thank you for the call.
All right, bye bye? Oh yikes, that hang up was loud.
Yes, yes, well that was quite a call. We we learned
some things. Not the drug stot is so going, but what one one
but I guess yeah, yeah, that that was not that we got.
We have more than I expected. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed.
Who's this, Oh math, This is Jean Simmons of Kiss. Oh,
Jean Simmons of Kiss. It's been a while, my friend. It's wonderful
to hear from you. Yeah. I'm on tour right now. Mom.
I know you're on the end of the road tour. No, that one
ended last Thursday. We're on our new farewell tour called We're out of Here.
Wow, We're out of here tour? All right, Well that's that's
uh, it's the Kiss We're out of Here. So we're gonna be doing
seven five cities next week. Well that's an ambitious schedules and at your age,
but that is impressive, old, am I not Jean Simmons of Kiss.
You just celebrated your seventy fourth birthday, right, and to celebrate,
we're doing a seventy four cities next week. Wow, seventy four? It
was seventy five? What happened? Did you have to cancel one? Uh?
Not commings the one we're doing, son. I understand, yes,
I understand. Well that's exciting, but I was just cruising Holmes for it,
and I nearly vomited on my should. Not feeling too well today.
Lost, that's that's terrible, Jean Simmons of Kiss. I hope you're all
right. Yes, And I was wondering if Paul suit was available, if
you'd like to jump my bones? Oh go, yeah, I don't.
I don't. I don't think that that's I don't think either of you.
I don't think would would let me let me refrose to the cross. Yeah,
it's it's afternoon drive Gene Simmons of Kiss, Right. Yes, I
was just wondering if Shannon would be able to go out for a couple of
coffee. Oh wow, she'll be very excited. She'll be very excited to
hear that. I mean, I don't know if she's a Kiss fan,
but you're rich and famous and you're Gene Simmons of Kiss. Right. And
just for the record, the sensors who are listening, mat it's very very
parayed. I did not say anything vulgar, not as just a little paramyl.
I just well, you know it's you know, there could be there
could be little ears listening at this time of day. That's that's true.
We are in the Russia. It is it's afternoon drive. So you know,
we try to we try to keep things within certain parameters. Gean Simmons
of Kiss. But when you say coffee, uh with Shannon, I think
we know what you're what you're talking about, and uh, she's uh.
I think that would be fantastic. I hope policy isn't. I just checked
my schedule. I will be unavailable to have coffee. Oh oh no,
oh that's too bad. Well, Policy might have to do it. Well,
good luck to him. What's up? All right? All right,
mate, I'm gonna go back on tour. I'm backstage right now. I'm
getting the meticup applied. We're on night number one of seventy five shows.
I'm gonna try to catch you on one of these shows. The we're out
of here to our Gene Simmons of Free, We're out of here to our
going to Kiss online and check it out and for the next ten minutes,
if you got a Kiss online right now, we'll throw in a kiss lunch
box for eight percent off eight percent off. Wow, I'm gonna I'm gonna
try to do that. During the commercial break. There used used to be
a ten a son, but it's because of inflation, Matsueen. I will
only do there for Son. I completely understand. Right, have a good
day, Matt, and remember God gave Rock and Roll theater to everyone.
All right, thank you. Jean Simmons of Kiss. Wow. Can you
believe it? Jean Simmons of Kiss, Wow, Yeah, i'd bit you
didn't expect here from him today? No? No, I did not.
Wow. That's that's fantastic. On the we're out of here to her.
Uh. Six oz three two five six zero seven is the studio line if
you'd like to join us today six three two five zero six zero seven.
Uh, let's see we have a call. We'll see who. This is
very very busy phone line today. Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed.
Who's this? Hello, Matt, It's Paul c oh Hey, PAULA help
you there? Oh? Yes, yes, what's on your mouth? Okay?
I was just out grocery shopping and I was told that somebody asked me
out on a date. Yes, and then Gene Simmons of Kiss tried to
swoop in on you, but it turns out he can't. But yes,
uh, Shannon apparently is interested in you. Well First of all, let
me let me tell you this. First of all, I'm flattered with that.
Yes. Secondly, no, all right, yeah, I'm gonna I'm
gonna have to respectfully decline. I'm very busy, and I too am a
lady's man, and even though I don't have a girlfriend right now, I
just want to keep it that way. I'm gonna wait till I'm sixty,
like I mentioned earlier, right, so so not only for marriage, but
really for any kind of companionship. You're just you're kind of in a holding
pattern with that until you're sixty, is what you're saying. Well, not
necessarily, just in this particular situation, I'm gonna have to decline. Sure,
I'll I understand. I mean, I don't know how Shannon's going to
feel, but I understand. I'm sure she'll be fine with it. She's
a good listener of the radio station, and like she said, uh uh,
we're family and all this other stuff. So oh yeah, I'm not
offended or anything by that. But at the same time, yeah, no,
I'll set with that as she did mention family, and of course we're
here in the Northeast, so that's not really I'm sorry. I don't date
family. In the South, it'd be one thing, but no offense Texas,
Mike. But in certain other areas of the country it would be one
thing. Let me put it that with But yes, here in here in
the Northeast, we don't do that. So here in good old New England,
we try to avoid those types of things. Yes, well, I
think that's wise. I think you've made the right decision, Paul. And
uh, you know sometimes so I guess you're you're putting her in the friend
zone, is what you're saying. I think the young people say that,
Yeah, you're your friend zoning her. Yes, that's right, but in
a nice way, right, I understand. Okay, there, buddy,
go enjoy your show with Mikey and listen. If you want to go up
sometime, I'll go you. But yeah, that's it, Paul, Paul,
I'm sorry I have to put you in the friend zone. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. And I guess I'll just have to see you Friday night.
We're doing part two of of Plagiarism. Yes, I'm looking forward to
that. Last Friday Night was a lot of fun. That was probably one
of my favorite Retrospectrum radios ever. Oh awesome. Well we're going to continue
with this week, and depending on how many songs we get through, maybe
next week as well. Excellent. I look forward to that. All right,
my friend, keep it rocking, keep it rocking. Yeah, who
I've heard that somewhere. All right, Paul, thank you. Well,
there you go. Paul See from Retrospectrum Radio with Paul ec put Shannon in
the friend zone. Have you ever been putting the friend zone there? Well,
you probably haven't, Texas Mike, I have actually in the Path of
the Ladies, man, Oh you have? I have actually? Oh I'm
care we fine with it. Mmmmmm yeah. I like uh. I like
when somebody says, uh, I like you. I just don't want to
ruin our friendship. I heard that a lot in high school. Yeah,
and I understood what that actually anyway, But uh, six oh three two
five oh six o seven is a studio line if you'd like to join us.
And I see a phone number that I recognize. I think this is
our friend, Charles Richardson from the state of Florida. Charles, is that
you? Yeah? What's going on up there? I tune in, and
all of a sudden, I hear in New England bringing the diyala dy.
Where's the politics? Well, uh, yes, that will be coming up.
In fact, I'll be joined by Eric Pilcher in the second. He's
my favorite conservative, you know. But uh, you know, here's the
thing, Charles. Uh, the heart wants what the heart wants, and
uh, everyone's everybody's got a hungry heart. I think I've I've heard that
too, or that might be in a song. Yeah, so you can
go ahead, we can go ahead and relay songs that voted that lonely heart
Heart, Heart of Rock and Wall and and my my heart will go on.
I'll just I'll just say that yes, it will. Yes, And
unfortunately Sharon's heart may not even skip a beat. Or I mean there was
well one thing Shannon or Sharon, I forget Shannon, Shannon, Shannon.
Okay, Shannon, if you're listening of hey, probably a very wonderful lady
to what you've gotta understand is, Shannon, you must have more of a
uplifting voice, not something that goes well now that I want poll to come
down here and be strawberry. No, you can't do that, Shannon.
You have to go ahead and be vocal and excited that you want Polly see
to be a part of maybe Shannon's bedtime routine a little more more enthusiasm.
Well, uh, you know what I'm saying. It's like I want to
be on Polcy's arm walking through the wonderful streets of Manchester, New Hampshire,
going down to that pizza place that we all went to, and and and
sharing a slice of pizza. You have to be enthusiastic, Shannon, because
what I heard was somebody that was got ready to fall asleep with too much
sana. No, no, go ahead and give a lively boy. Well
she did. She did mention. The weather here is very dreary, and
I think it's it's dragging her down a little bit. But uh, but
but about understand what you're saying. She needs to show passion. Yes,
passion like the Rod Stewart zone. Passion. I bet you if she showed
passion, which is Polly C's middle name, the other you know that the
other one for Polly would be passionate, passionate, polic she would have landed
him outside the friend zone. But she was not passionate at all. Right,
right, say, I'd say we need to delete this record and memory
of Shannon Colin as she should try again when the weather is sunn here.
But she's already been. But she's already been friend zoned. Isn't that binding?
I don't think you can. I don't think you can reverse that,
can't you? I'm not sure? Is there are another poll that you know
about? Maybe Polly d or or Polly W. Maybe there's another Polly.
We can introduce her to Texas. Texas Mike is a catch. Come on
now, who wouldn't want Texas Mike? And you put polis C in one
side Texas Mike and the other. Oh man, I'm going to Texas Mike.
He is a stud. Well you know he is a former a WA
tag game champion with black Jack Mulligan. He's an athlete, Yes, he's
an athlete, a stud, a champion. Come on? What is Poli
c? Host the retrospect for Brady? All right? I will go with
a champion on this one. Wow? How about that? Wouldn't you?
Would you go with a champion? In this case? You gotta go with
the champion, the CHAMPI is here with the champion at the news desk.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, love you, Texas Mike, Love
you too, Charles. Nice to nice to hear your voice, for I
haven't heard your voice and for ever, so nice nice that we connect.
Yeah, no problem. I hear my voice all the time. Believe I
get sick of it sometimes, so that's why I keep it, you know,
out of the touch of other people. Hey. By the way,
Uh, were you affected at all by that last hurricane? We got some
tropical storm winds out of bands, but nothing heavy. Good good, good.
We didn't lose power, so we're good. Excellent, excellent, Yeah,
you're good good. All right. Well listen, Shannon, I wish
you the best out there in the in the the love market. Be safe,
be careful, and show passion girl, show it to me or show
it to somebody else anyway, show it all right, Charles, thank you
for the call. All right, that was Charles Richardson from the state of
Florida. And uh, yes, passion. Uh that was on poly Sees
show recently, actually on retrospect from radio. I forget what the subject was
that night, but yes, uh that was recent. Actually it was a
Passion by Rod Stewart and Shannon is back on the line. Hi, Shannon,
Well, thank you for making me laugh. So that that was funny.
Oh, if you're laughing passionately, yes, yes, well I can't
see the other way of laughing passionately is on Shannon unsheathed. So I understand
I ought to get my own number, but no, I just I just
wanted to hang out and listen to stories. I don't want any commitment.
Don't move in with me. I don't want to you know, a friend,
right, I could. I could die next year and just never know.
You guys said family, You're like the family I want if I could
pick one, right right? I understand, you know, so don't don't.
I don't. If I speak with the French accents, I sound like
little more passionate. Uh no, you just sound French. Oh yeah,
Well, which accent is passionate? Well, I don't think it's I don't
think it's about accents. It's just about passion. Like the Rod Stewart song.
I just listened to that a couple of times. You'll get it.
Oh, I listened to that. You know. Does anybody remember Venos in
Concord, Yes, I remember Venos. I used to live in an apartment
complex literally right across the street from Venos. In fact, I go up
there with the parents on the weekends. They'd always play girl, I Think
You're sexy, and I watch you. You'd always say that one and from
the jukebox and a couple other ones. Yeah that Manatar, I think whatever
Joan Dred but yeah, oh yeah, but yeah no, uh yeah,
see, I mean I no. Maybe it's because I'm so conspicuous. M
m M. I gotta tell you something that's gonna crack you up. Matt.
I went to the mall a couple of tuesdays ago, right, and
I'm having the guy I was with, and I'm his job, so it
don't I'm having to read me the stores as we go, and he says,
Len's crafters. I says, you know, I have always wanted to
fold this thing up, put it in my back pocket, just touch your
elbow with mine and go in and say, I seem to have a problem
seeing can you help me? Huh. He cracked up. He thought it
was a great idea. Wow, that would be uh, that would be
a viral on TikTok if you did that, that would be hilarious, you
know, because I'm gone, But that would be funny. It would be
all right. It would be a comedy bonanza with passion. M hmm.
Well obviously, yeah, yeah, no, uh, well right, Shannon,
Well we appreciate it. There's no moon coming. We didn't get the
storms. Who was supposed to get today? Are they coming? I have
no idea. I haven't looked at the weather. Okay, Okay, I
mean all right, I don't know. I don't know, Shannon, say
who what I said? I don't know, Shannon, I don't know,
and I'm sorry to be. I don't mean to be going on and on.
I just I don't know. Mhmm. I don't know either, Shannon.
I don't know any hypnotists or not to quit smoking. M all right,
well, Shannon, we're gonna Well that's okay, bye bye, all
right. That was our friend, Shannon. That does open up the line
for you if you'd like to get in with a quick call. We are
rapidly approaching the top of the hour, so we're going to in a few
minutes. We're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors, play a song
uh and uh, and then we'll get we'll get our friends and Eric Pilcher,
he'll be skyping end Are you are you leaving at the end? Of
the hour, mikey or do you have to go, Yes, I have
to go and tend a employee meeting down the Snowling or to get the season
started. So oh yeah, yep, yep, yes, So we haven't
a beginning of season meeting for SABER and all the staff down there, the
so of New Hampster University, Allen or so yeah, because we got a
first event at the end of the month. So well, very good.
Yea, yeah, we gotta we got a busy account of yeah yeah,
yeah, like once we hit the so we got Bilba end of end of
September, a couple of things, and we got God's Mac and October.
I didn't even know God's Mac was storing. Wow. Yeah yeah, yeah,
have a coming here twenty seventh of our Chober and then November is packed.
It's like every every weekend something's going on. Oh wow cool. It's
glad to get more events than there and just keep keep on keep on working
as always. What do you do there again? I work for the concessance
company. Okay, yeah, so so like we got tools coming here on
Monday, we got dress World. Steph Myers is doing the chail. He's
so there. Wow, there's a lot. Yeah, tso they have to
Thanksgiving December, we got god just Boston Pops bull Riding's coming back bull riding
the PBR. Yeah. Now do you go and do you go and do
that? Being from Texas, you go jump on a bull? Nope,
Nope, I leave it. I leave it to the professionals. I just
go work, go handle the food day. You must be tempted, though,
right, I mean it's bull riding and you're from Texas, you must
be Yes, I attended. I can wide mechanical bulls so around here sometimes
so yeah, but Delta, I mean, uh yeah, will bowl beat
some mechanical bull anytime? I know? Well, of course, yes,
I mean, uh, well that's uh uh. Let's see Melanie, and
the chat room says, I don't know, this sounds made up. He's
probably going to see Shannon. No. No, I hope you are no,
no, no, you are committed to uh to one lady. Yes.
Uh. Scott Robinson is asking, are they going to teach you a
proper way to do a full body cavity search? I would assume not,
because you know you're in in concessions. No, I mean I'm I work
in concessions not in security exactly when you say you work for the concessions company,
so are they? Is that a separate company from snow or boy?
So Amena is owned by the city. The name and lights are with some
of New Hamptire University AWENA, and we're the Awena is managed by the city
by ASM Global, which used to be SMG. Okay, SMG gut.
Basically if orbed into absorbed into ASM, it's a bigger company. And then
basically the company I work for is a like a different company but still under
the FM. I'm boa Oh okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. Scott
Robinson is in the show room. I can't remember if I uh said hello
to Scott already. And Tom Lanchard says, Shannon is Well is a well
loved member of the w M and H family. I love Shannon. Oh
yes, absolutely, we all do, and if we if we by the
way, and for newer listeners who don't, who may not realize if it
sounds like we're picking on Shannon or on anybody, we only do that with
people that that we like very much. If we don't like someone, we
just ignore them. So I don't want anyone I don't want a newer listeners
to get the wrong idea. No, we we love Shannon. She's wonderful
and I appreciate our calls. All right, well tell you what. Oh
Hello to Chris in the Facebook live chat from the band Edgewise, great band.
Let's do this because we are approaching the top of the hour, so
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Mike Laughlin. I've known Mike for she's Oh you know what I always say.
I it's easy to remember exactly how long I've known Mike because one of
the first conversations I ever had with Mike Laughlin, it was it was about
nine to eleven. It was right after nine eleven happened, so it was
I met Mike in u September of two thousand and one. So wow,
I've known him a long time. Anyway, So he'll be here tomorrow,
and I think he's coming in for the full two hours, which will be
great. So we're gonna talk during the first hour and I'm sure we'll talk
some more in the second hour, but we'll have plenty to talk about we
always do. I've done a lot of shows with Mike over the years.
But he's also going to bring his acoustic guitar and he's gonna play play some
tunes in the second hour. So and looks like looks like this is Eric
on the phone. I assume Eric, is that you? It be me?
Yes, welcome to the program sir. Yes, tried calling, but
I figured you were on break. Ah. Yes, yes, we had
some music and commercial spots and uh, you know that goes. Yes,
I'm familiar with the biz now they call it the biz the young people.
Now, where are you right now? Exactly? Obviously you're not at home?
Or are you at home? No, I'm actually heading home from my
doctor's appointment. I'm sorry. Oh no, no, no, no need
to apologize. I was just curious. Uh yes, uh so. Oh
by the way, hello to Kevin Doherty, who joins us in the Facebook
live chat. Kevin says a lot of interesting things in there. Uh,
he says, a perfect song for the way I feel right now. Dare
one of your book faceless audience to call me? Uh six zero three three
nine one one two four five. Uh, he says, you are a
piece of Matt would be in time out if I would say what I wanted
to. Uh, and then he uses the B word. Oops, you
can say that, right. You have my number. Any questions you can
spell cell phone. I'm in all right. Very interesting comments from Kevin Doherty.
Is this like a new enemy of mass I've seen him in there before.
He's very aggressive. I don't think I know him personally, but his
comments are interesting, that's one way of putting it. Yes, yes,
so you you Eric, You've been very upset about this, uh, this
Keith Olberman Aaron Rodgers thing. Yeah, okay, I mean, look,
I'm a sports fan. I know you're not at sports ball. Yeah,
yes, true, I know who Aaron Rodgers is. He plays sports ball,
correct. Yeah. And I have a rule, and it's a rule
because of experiences I've had. Is I don't care how I feel about an
athlete or a player if they suffer a major injury, Laughing at it,
poking fun at it is off the table because that's their livelihood. If you
could no longer work, you wouldn't expect someone to make fun of you,
right, And to me, it's disrespectful and look and I get it,
you know, like the team. I mean, I'm not a Jets fan.
I'm a Patriots fan. And I said, I've said this to many
people, this is the most Jet thing that could ever happen, you know,
get finally get a quarterback after how many years and four plays into the
season, he ruptures his achilles? Are you a kiddie? But what Keith
Olberman did on Twitter is inexcusable. You do not poke fun at a player
for getting injured and in turn make it political based on their personal choice.
Keith Olberman made fun of Aaron Rodgers and called it and said he What he
did is he retweeted Internet sports doctor I believe it was doctor David chow okay,
saying looks like a list Frank injury more than likely achilles tendon rupture,
which if you saw the video, it is very disturbing. You see his
calf riffle. Yeah, I haven't. I haven't watched it and I can't.
I'm grossed out by that stuff. I mean, I was working when
it happened, and my cousin, Austin sent me the told me and I
looked at the video and I saw him trying to put weight on his foot,
and that's an indication of an achille, because when that tendon ruptures,
it's almost as if your foot is detached from your leg. You cannot feel
your foot. It is not painful, it is very uncomfortable. Yeah,
and I saw him trying to put weight on it, and I said,
oh my god, that's his achilling. It is gone. And so Keith
Olberman took it upon himself to say, let's Frank injury due to be unvaccinate.
Yeah, the exact and I have it. I have it here Eric
and Charles was asking in the Charan troops. So exactly what Olberman tweeted is
another hashtag sudden Liz Frank due to failure to vaccinate. That was his tweet.
I guess we still call them tweets. Yeah, I mean one.
Keith Olberman, I'm pretty sure has never played in athletic sport in his life.
He probably has, probably basketball. He probably played basketball in college or
something. I say that only because I believe he's very tall. If he
has, he probably failed miserably at it, much like he failed miserably at
hosts. He's late night ESPN shell that bombed out after four months. But
I digress. Yeah, to me, that that was disgusting. There was
no need for it. You do not do that. You do not take
a political shot like that, or a shot at someone's decision like that in
a situation where this individual their career could be over sure. Sure, and
you minimum trivialize it as a way to get what views on your Twitter account.
All Right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate
Eric and I'm not. Look, I mean, he's Alberman's a weird dude.
In fact, I remember a particularly disturbing story about him throwing a temper
tantrum at Tim Russert's funeral because he was unhappy with the catering that was provided.
So I'm not I'm not saying any of this to defend Keith Olberman.
But when when I when I saw this online, my first thought was he
isn't He's not. This was just my first thought. I'm not saying this
is my first impression. I'm not saying this is right or wrong or anything.
I'm just I'm just telling you how I took it. My first my
first thought was he's not really taking a shot at Aaron Rodgers. Maybe I'm
maybe I'm reading too much into it. But this is just how I took
it. I took it as he's using this as a way to make fun
of all the people who like, you know, when DeMar Hamlin, when
DeMar Hamlin went down, and when DeMar Hamlin went down, if I mean
interject, yes, yes, to be fair, you're a witness to this
as well. I went after another sports journalist who tried to trivialize the DeMar
Hamlin situation. Oh sure, sure yeah, but when okay, but when
when DeMar Hamlin went down. What immediately happened is every every uh COVID denier,
anti vaxer, conspiracy theorists that I, for whatever reason have the misfortune
of having to look at when I go on social media, whether I'm connected
to them somehow or they just show up on my feed. But all of
a sudden, as soon as DeMar Hamlin went down, every anti vaxer on
social media was was immediately posting things like see, we told you this proves
it the vaccines are bad. He would take unacceptable as well, right right,
But what I'm what I'm saying, though, is that's how I took
Olberman's tweet, is that he was saying is that he was satirizing what the
anti vaxers do whenever, whenever an athlete or anyone else so much as even
sneezes, all the anti vaxers on social media go, oh see, we've
been vindicated. This proves the vaccines are dangerous. And that's that's how it
would be. That's how I took it, That's how I took Oliver fair
Matt, Yes, Aaron Rodgers as an individual wasn't outspoken against the vaccine.
It would be fair if Aaron Rodgers hadn't rightfully gotten in trouble with the NFL
for saying I've been immunized right when a reporter asked, have you been vaccinated?
Right? And I'm not excusing Aaron Rodgers and him doing that, he
endangered his teammates, yeah, members of the media, and the staff of
the Green Bay Packers with his imanism Asian thing. Oh yeah yeah. But
and if Keith Olberman hadn't had a history of this, he would get the
bod benefit of the doubt. But sadly Keith Olberman does. And when you
have that history, it goes back to Jason Aldean and Jason Alban's wife.
When you have that history, over time, you lose that benefit of the
doubt. Sure. Sure in public opinion, Well, I am not an
Aaron Rodgers fan. Personally, I think the guy is a scumbag for what
he did. Yeah, I agree. I agree. At the end of
the day, I won't. I cannot make light of or or laugh at
an injury. Yeah, A major one. Like if it's a cramp and
a guy leaves, it's like, okay, come on, kind of mean
up a little bit. But this is a major injury. This has ended
careers. Yeah, and Aaron Rodgers is thirty nine years old. His career
could be effectively over because of this. And so to even think it's oh
for Keith Olberman to even think at this point in time, right after this
injury happens, being a former sportscaster, Yeah, that it would be that
it's okay acceptable to take this shot. Whether it was satire or not,
it was in horrible taste at the very least, right, I mean,
so, yeah, that's my issue with it. Yeah, No, I
understand, and I don't. I don't necessarily disagree, I just but like
I said, my first thought when I saw it was, oh, he's
not In other words, I guess in my mind, I'm thinking the target
of the joke isn't Aaron Rodgers. The target of the joke is the anti
vaxers. But it is distasteful. But I do agree with you though it
is distasteful to use somebody's injury to take that shot. I do agree with
you. Yeah, And again benefit of the doubt comes into play here.
Keith Olberman has lost that in many people's eyes. Yeah, his attitude,
such as the Tim Russer situation, such as the way he when he left
the ESPN, how he thinks he said about people. See that. A
lot of a lot of this I don't know about Eric, So I'd be
I'd be curious to hear you expand on some of it, because a lot
of it I don't see. My my uh perception of Olberman. Obviously,
I knew he started out as a sportscaster and then he took another shot at
it, and but my be because I'm not a sports guy. Uh.
Most of the Olberman content that I've consumed over the years was when he did
his show Countdown on MSNBC, which actually started out The original reason it was
called Countdown was because it was the Countdown to the lead up to the Iraq
War, and then they kept the name and they kind of kept the format
and it lasted a long time. But so I'm I don't really know much
about what he has said. Got tired of stick, Yeah, he got
He got forced out because he got caught. He violated their policy. This
was what broke the straw that broke the camel's back. From what I remember,
he violated their policy by donating money to a campaign, which is actually
against the policy of the NBC News division. You're not allowed to do that,
and he got caught doing that. It's against journalists some ethics. Yeah,
you're you're not. So if you are a political reporter, political commentator,
and it's an unwritten rule of journalism, you are not to show support
publicly, right obviously you know there are exceptions like if you're a columnist or
something like that, fine, but if you are a political reporter, you
are not to show favoritism towards one candidate or another. And the reason why
that used on Olberman is quite simply because his show has all candidates sought it
and if it's found out, oh he gave money this candidate, Am I
going to get a fair shake when I go on his show, I'm not
going I disagree a little bit because I think they were. I think they
were using that as an excuse me I rid of him, because they were.
They were, as you said, sick of him. I don't.
I there were many other things that occurred before that. Yeah, because I
don't. I don't think it was a matter of anyone questioning whether they'd get
a fair shake, because his show was very much opinion driven, you know
what I mean. That was not it was not a straight news show.
It was clearly he's liberal. Instructors said that, and it's something things that
I have taken to heart in journalism. Reason why you're fired isn't the reason
why you're fired. The reason why you are fired occurred five instances prior.
It just wasn't a good enough reason. Then. Interesting. Interesting, Yeah,
there's always the hope. Oh he'll they'll write the ship, they'll write
the ship. We'll live out this contract. We don't have to go through
U Core impossible buy out in whatever out. So yeah, there, it's
always the situation of the reason why you are fired isn't the real reason.
There's other things. That's why it's so interesting. When these cases do go
to court, you really hear the examples come out, right, you really
hear the examples like like you, they break out ratings and as as a
total blemish on the posterior, society likes to falsely bring up all the time,
they actually have actual numbers, unlike that individual who who cannot count to
five if he spotted him two, three and four. So but I digress.
Yeah, yeah, they actually have actual ratings numbers in the lawsuit deeps
like, oh, well, we could have fired him for this, right,
I don't think. I don't think there was any litigation though with Olberman
when he left MSNBC, right, I think I think he just left.
I think they paid out. What's that Piern gobbled him up and that's what
led to him getting his own late night talk show on ESPN. Now see
that again. Because I'm not a sports guy, so I know he went
back to ESPN. I remember he had been there before too, and I
remember I do remember him saying in in uh, he probably not. He
probably never said it on his MSNBC show because I don't know why I would
have come up did But while I remem remember, you know what I'm what
I'm gonna what. I'm referring to his complaints about ESPN from the first time.
He said they didn't pay him enough, and he was always complaining about
the money him enough, and that they used him as a second fiddle.
I mean, when you've gotta look at who he was the host on the
show with, yeah, to fully understand why he was second fiddle. Co
host was Craig Kilborn. Oh, yeah, that's right, because I remember
Craig Oh, you know what, I remember when Craig Kilborn, who young
people probably don't even realize. Craig Kilborn was the original host of The Daily
Show, and I remember him to do that, yes, and I remember
him making jokes. He did he would work it into the into the opening
segment. Occasionally on on the Daily Show, he would take a shot at
at ESPN, just kind of it never came off as mean spirited or anything,
but he he would take a shot at them about the money, about
about the lack. Because Ehman stayed on and they paired him with Dan Patrick.
Okay, I know who that is. Yeah, that's when they realized
that Keith Olberman wasn't the star. Keith Olberman thought he was okay, and
they they basically said when they went to renegotiate with him, Keith wanted star
money. And they're like, hm, hm, we have these three guys
that just came in to the business that are killing it in ratings. Maybe
you've heard of him, the late Stuart Scott rich Eisen. I don't know
who that is. I know who rich Eisen is because only because he also
has a he has a separate podcast that he does away from sports that I've
actually listened to. Yeah, three pillars of Sports Center in the nineties,
Okay, in the late nineties, early two thousands, they were them and
Dan Patrick were the four pillars, and there were other guys that came into
that contributed greatly, but those were the four star and they're like, you
know, Keith, uh, people really aren't liking the late night show.
They're not really watching it, and our test audience says, you're really not
the star. They like Dan Patrick more than you. Here's basically, they
said, we're going to give a renewal on your current contract with incentives,
and you're going to have to work weekends on some pregame programs for college football
and MLB. And he said absolutely. Not only hacks do pregame shows,
which, if you looked at it now, pregame shows are some of the
most popular or sports talk shows on TV. So yeah, another strike against
Keith Moron. So how did he how did he leave there? Did they
fire him? It was it was his deal ran out, There was no
no means to negotiate. Thank you, forget you, goodbye was basically it.
He went to MSNBC. MSNBC okay, and then MSNBC got tired of
him, and ESPN wanted a late night sports talk show that really talked about
issues political issues that could tie into sports, and the two people they thought
of were stephen A. Smith and uh Keeth Olberman. So they went to
stephen A and they're like, hey, stephen h we know your early evening
talk show by out, how would you feel about going to late night?
Stephen Ay said, well, you know, I think this first take thing
it's gonna take off, so I'm gonna ride this wave. Is that the
show he's on now? Yeah, he was on it with Skip Bayliss originally,
but he's like, I think it's really gonna take off and I'm gonna
ride this out. Thanks, but no thanks Yeah, so they went to
Oberman. But the problem is they launched it during the during the MLB playoffs,
and that year specifically, you had a lot of teams on the West
coasts that we're in it. You had the Oakland A's, the Los Angeles
Dodgers, the I think the Los Angeles Angels to Anaheim made it that year.
So you had a lot of late night games. So these people were
watching these games, they weren't watching Olberman. Oh okay. And conversely,
he really just kind of turned it into countdown with a little bit of sports
really and so people were like, uh, no, what'd you do with
my sports center? I assume he didn't. But he didn't bring over like
the worst person in the World or anything like that, did he No,
he did do the worst, the Worst, the three worst people of the
day, and a lot of them were political. He called it the worst
the three worst People of the Day on that show. Yeah, and a
lot of it was political, like he would have one sports person in two
political people. I'm sorry, isn't your audience? Yeah. I used to
like that on his MSNBC show because I thought it was humorous. Because I'll
give him credit, Yeah, because because like four and outs four nights out
of the five in any given week. The worst person would would be Bill
O'Reilly or George Bush. Yeah, yeah, but it was. But when
he did it in sports, it was funny because some of the people you're
like, oh, yeah, that person is a scuzzball. Yeah, that's
funny. And but like even when he like, some of his interviews were
just cringe. He had people, he had athletes on there, and they
weren't athletes that were normally political, and he would try to talk about the
political scope and by accident, these athletes came off as just total idiot.
See. I didn't realize anything, Like I didn't I didn't know any of
this. I just assumed that when he went back to ESPN and did this
show, that he just went back to doing doing a sports show and left
the politics behind. I had no idea that he brought that with him to
that show. That's interesting. Yeah, Like he would talk about the he
had a player if if Charles, I assume you said, Charles, you
met Charles Richardson, Yeah, yeah, the still in the chat, he
might be able to help me out with this. I think the really bad
one was he had, like I want to say Willis mcgayh. He's on
the show a former University of Miami running back. And I'm not dogging Willis
mcgay he's at all And I'm not trying to be disrespectful towards him. He
he's an athlete that had a major injury that derailed his career. His career
could have been so much better than it was if he hadn't loansk me out
in the National title game. Well, like he's asking him social economic questions,
and you're like, you see Willis mcgahey's sitting there like just geer in
headlights. Yeah, like what are you doing? Like you're he he thought
he was going to be on there, I think to talk about his new
deal with the Baltimore Ravens at that point. Yeah, and he wasn't.
And he's asking him about the socio economic climate and Liberty City, my Florida.
You really think he wants to talk about that when football season's on the
horizon. He just signed a new deal and you're just basically asking him in
the widest way possible, Yo, homie, tell me about the hood you
grew up in. Right now? What about those what? What about his
commentaries that he used to do on on MSNBC. Did he bring that over
too, because those were he wouldn't eat those were political commentary too in regards
to sports, because and it was it was it was really just dry.
It wasn't entertaining. But but those would that those would be because I was
interested, But then I was I would often fall asleep watching it because it
wasn't entertaining to me. Oh, Charles, I answered your question in the
chatroom, he says, sorry, Eric, after he did Sports Center and
was let go, I could really care less about Keith Overman, of course,
but I wish I could say the same, Charles, I really really
do. But yeah, but it was just bad. It was bad.
Oh how long did that last? Just that that? I want to say
six months? Oh that's eighty Oh. I think it started in October of
twenty thirteen and lasted till maybe early December, not even six months. I
don't think it was really short because ESPN's just like, no, Baben moved
it to ESPN two after two weeks. Oh really, yeah, They're like,
oh, no, I bet he didn't take that well. I mean,
I mean, look, and a lot of a lot of his supporters
will say, well, you know, if they wouldn't have preempted him,
they didn't preempt him. He aired at the same time every night unless a
game was on that channel that preempted him, and then they would move him
the ESPN News Charles says, uh uh. He had a two year contract
between twenty thirteen and twenty fifteen where he brought on his political sports showed to
ESPN. Okay, yeah, so I don't even think he lasted the contract.
Wow, I just think it was real acrimonious falling out. So I
remember when again, somebody who thought he was better than what he actually was,
he does well, he certainly comes off that way, and then he
had that Yeah, because I remember too. The next the next time I
saw him and paid any attention to him was after Trump got elected in twenty
sixteen. He had a short lived thing that he did on YouTube which was
really just his his comment like it was similar to his commentaries from MSNBC,
just without the multiple camera angles. And but that didn't last very long either,
well, because at some point the novelty was gone. I think it
was called the Resistance, and it just yeah, and it just didn't last.
But he wasn't saying anything interesting either, Like he wasn't saying anything that
anybody else who wasn't happy about Trump wasn't already saying. So it was kind
of like, alright, Keith, we get it, but you know,
why are you even bothering at this point? Nothing new to the table,
right. The great thing, the thing he had going for him when he
was on MSNBC is he brought something too different to the mix. He left
MSNBC, they just replaced him with Rachel Maddow. Yeah, she became,
and she was she was already very much ascended. But yeah, she became
the star because if I remember correctly, her show had aired right before his
show, because I seem to remember there being a crossover from her show and
his show, and then and then he left and she became. She became
the star. That's that's the major thing to take away from this. So,
I mean, and Keith Olberman has taken shots at Aaron Rodgers and a
lot of people have, okay, and rightfully, So again I'll say this,
almost everything is on the table with me when it comes to pro athletes.
The things that are not why and if they suffer a major injury,
Yeah, those are all off the table, like leave them alone, right,
Like, if you want to tweet a player because he dropped three passes,
keep it respectful. I don't care about that. Right. They're getting
paid millions of dollars to catch a football, and fans pay some of that
salary when they buy jerseys, when they buy shirts, when they buy hats.
So if you're going to be on social media to have fans pump you
up when you fail, you're gonna have to expect some backlash. I have
no problem with that, right, But when a guy gets injured, that's
when, okay, you need to back off. Now you mentioned is this
a pattern with him? Has he done this before because earlier you you mentioned,
or has he done he has taken shots at other I want to say,
right leaning athletes. He took a shot at He's taken a shot at
Penn State University over the Jerry Sandusky situation. When they fail. He said
things like the ghosts of Sandusky strikes again. And it's like, really,
these players had nothing to do with it too, These coaches had nothing to
do with it. Three of the current administration had nothing to do with it.
It was horrible. What happened. It was awesome what happened, but
dog let it go, let it go. Like, feel for the victims,
absolutely, because that is something that victims may never recover from. Okay,
And I'm not going to go into detail on any experiences anything like that.
Yeah, I'm not people anyone wants to ask me questions that can be
done on a private forum. Yeah, but in ali from I'm an open
book, I won't do it. Yeah, I will say this that.
Yeah, feel for the victims, but don't use what happened to the victims
to take a shot at an athletic program. Yeah that no one else,
no one is there that had anything to do with it. Yeah. Paterno's
dad, Sandusky's victim. Feel Sandusky still alive. Ready's just in prison.
Yeah, he's in prison, and the administration is there. Paterno has passed
away. His son isn't coaching anywhere. The Matt Matt mcquery, the coach
that saw the assault allegedly, And I say allegedly because we have to.
I'm not. That's not me saying I dispute that it happened. It's just
covering basis because it's an alleged sighting Okay, allegedly he isn't coaching anymore,
so why do that, right? And so, yes, he has had
a history of doing these things. So we circle back to that benefit of
the doubt thing. Oh you lose that over time. By the way,
Charles says in the chat that I had no idea about this. Charles says
he still does a podcast on iHeart Radio called The Countdown with keep Olberman podcast.
I had no idea. So Olberman must own the intellectual property then to
use that name the Countdown. I just assumed ms thinking you can own countdown
as an intellectual property. Well, if you think about it, how many
shows are called countdown? Yeah, that's true. You're right, that's a
good point. Yeah that that word has been used a lot in a lot
of Yeah. TWE Network had a show called countdown. That's that's true.
Now, you're right, and there's there's countdown radio shows. Yeah, that's
true. I'm sure he just tried. Yeah, it wouldn't shock me,
and he tried to take some intellectual unbridge to it, just the ego he
has. Yeah, that just doesn't sit right with me. I mean,
if I can, I'll be I'll try to be brief the reason why it
doesn't is I was never allowed to play football. I mean I was allowed
in the same lot, but I was never allowed to play organize football.
Growing up, I was always too small. I was a late bloomer.
I was. I didn't I didn't develop until junior year of high school.
Okay, I was a late bloomer. And you know, back in the
state of Iowa, you had to be a certain height in a certain way
to compete at each grade. I was always under that way, and I
was well under that high Oh. I love the game of football. Yeah,
So what happened is of summer in my freshman year. The spring before
my freshman year, the middle school I was at had one of the assistant
freshman coaches there. He's like, you love football. Have you ever thought
about being a manager? And I'm like, you mean, like a like
a water boy And he's like, well, yeah, kind of. And
I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. I'll get made fun of.
And he's like, no, you won't. You'll be a part of
the team, You'll travel with the team. I'm like, I'm not interested.
Yeah, I'm like, look, I'm just gonna write for the student
newspaper. And that'll be that. And he goes, we'll get you a
jersey. I'm like, what, yeah, you'll you'll get a game jersey.
Oh yeah, I okay, I'm in then. Yeah. But I
actually was treated as a member of the team, like the players treated me
as a member of the team. Is like it like if I you know.
Like it was so cool, And I became close with one of the
players. His name was Francis. Francis was a great running back. His
freshman year, he already had colleges in Iowa offering him scholarships. Wow,
how good he was. Like, we had low end assistant coaches from the
University of Iowa at our freshman games to see him and a couple other players.
Yeah, our sophomore the summer of our sophomore year, we had training
camp. At practice, he had what is called a non contact injury.
He plainted his knee on a cut. It twisted in his knee exploded.
Oh god, I remember I was. We had a hill that went to
the locker room from the practice field. I was walking into the locker room
and I heard him scream, oh God all the way UPO. Yeah,
I ran down and when I got there, he was laying there and you
see his knee the size bigger than a softball and touching it in it's jello.
And I will tell you he was never the same after that. He
was never the same athletically, and more importantly, he was never the same
personally. Yeah. Like he played, he played with a level of fear
after that. Yeah, that is why major injuries hit me so hard because
I know what they can do to athletes. That's yeah, that makes sense.
That makes sense because you're taking a piece of them away. That totally
makes sense. People don't a lot of people don't see that if they don't
follow sports. They're like, oh, they're just they're just making millions of
dollars to play a game. Okay, but you have fix years to make
your living and save up for your retirement. You know what a pro football
player has on average to make their money. I know it's a short make
high end money. It's a short window to eight years. Yeah, six
to eight years. And to be fair, yes, could this be some
some of their choice. Absolutely, but think about this, they are rain
to be only football, Thank heavens. It has changed so much since I
grew up, and the colleges are now trying to get them to declare majors,
come back in the summer and take exams and really gearing them up for
life after football, or they can become commentators. There's symposiums about them buying
into businesses and everything like that. Yeah, thank Heaven's that's fair. But
next time you want to say, oh, well, they're just making millions
of dollars to play a game, I really want you to think about what
I just said. Their window to make their money is a lot shorter than
it is for you, me and the listeners. That's a that's a great
point. That's that's ah, that's absolutely a great point. Eric. Absolutely,
Hey we are we're already almost out of show, and I would like
to unless you, unless you have anything else you want to say about that,
I would like you to tell us just briefly about your film review for
Friday before we run out of We're continuing with our month honoring George A.
Romero and this film is not a horror film. Sorry, Melanie law Liberty.
It's not a horror film. Okay, it's not. It's George A.
Rameiro's Night Riders. It starts ed Harris tom Savini as we're as members
of a traveling renaissance fair. Okay, so I so a movie you would
really think of George A Romero dealing totally yeah, comedy drama about a traveling
renaissance fair. Yeah, I'd never even heard of it. And the name
makes me think of David hassle Off as it should. Definitely their Nights on
Motorcycles okay, really yeah? Interesting? Yeah all right, yes, spoiler
alert it is a cult classic. Yeah yeah, okay, cool, Well,
we look forward to that, Eric, and always I always enjoy talking
with you on Wednesdays. We gotta let you go because we're just about out
of time. But wonderful. Yeah, this was great. And again,
if any of the listeners have questions, they can feel free to message me
directly. Okay, and I'm an open book. I'll answer questions. Yeah,
no problem, doing so, all right, very good, All right,
Eric, we will let you go, my favorite conservative. Thank you
so much, my friend, no problem, Thank you, Matt and everyone,
have a good day, all right, you two, byebye? All
right. Always nice to talk to our friend, Eric Pilcher. And we
are out of time, so thank you again to Texas Mike of course for
joining us in the first hour and all the calls today. We even heard
from Gene Simmons of Kiss You know I love that. If you miss any
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believe he's going to be here for the full two hours. So we're gonna
talk a lot in the first hour, and then he's gonna play for us
in the second hour. He's gonna bring his guitar and play some songs.
Very very talented musicians. So and I've known Michael longtime, so really looking
forward to tomorrow, and so that's gonna do it for us. For now,
I'm gonna get out of here. I'm gonna leave you with a little
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who does everything in this project so great stuff. So that's it for us
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