Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,
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Today is Wednesday, June twenty one, two thousand twenty three, so nice
to have you all with me. We have an exciting show for you today.
Well in the first hour, so we were supposed to be joined by
our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa for our weekly Wednesday segment with
as I like to call him, my favorite conservative Eric Pilcher, But he
is at the eye doctor and it doesn't sound like he's going to be able
to call in. So where's this guy's priorities? I mean, his eyes?
Really that's more important than the show is vision? My goodness, I
kid no, h'll I think he needs glasses. That's what he told me
in messenger. I hope it's okay to reveal that. I hope I didn't
just violate his hippo rites. But uh no, but he did tell me,
so he probably won't be calling in unfortunately. So but we do have
in the second hour, and we have plenty of other things we can do,
so, but we do have in the second hour. Our friend Shane
Ballen returns. He is our musical guests today and he said on social media
he's bringing two guitars this time, so he's going to come in and play
for us. We had him on the show a few months ago. He
came in and played for us, absolutely amazing. I love his voice,
great songwriter, really cool guy. And then he called in. It was
either last week or the week before. We did a quick phoner with him
because he's got some new songs for his album. So we played a couple
of studio tracks and we talked for a little bit, just kind of get
an update on what's going on with him. But today he's going to be
with us live in studio during the second hour, so really looking forward to
that. So we've got Shane Ballen. Today Tomorrow our musical guest is Ricky
Mapleton. He'll be here in the second hour tomorrow. Ricky Mapleton, you
might remember he was on the show. Jeez, that was a while ago.
Yeah, it was definitely last year. It was definitely in twenty twenty
two. But very talented guy, very fun so we enjoy him a lot.
He'll be with us tomorrow. And also, if you missed yesterday's show,
Ali Boudry was our musical guest. She was here in the second hour
in studio with us and just phenomenal. She played not only keyboard but also
her ukulele. It's just really really good. So if you miss that,
check that out. So lots going on, but today, yes, we
have Shane Ballen with us today coming up in the five o'clock hour here on
Matt Connerton Unleashed, so also too. I just wanted to mention briefly and
we're not going to explore the subject here, but I want to just kind
of refer you and some of you listening might have heard it. If you
if you are able to check out the Morning show this morning on the Morning
Show with Peter White, which of course airs weekdays, from seven to nine
AM, with a replay from two to four pm. Right before this show,
they did a segment about the new Who's regarding the newest updates regarding the
Harmony Montgomery case, And again we're not going to get into it here.
Um, it's so it's so tragic, and it's it's just very very sad
obviously, and um, it's just terrible. Uh. But also I don't
feel like I have anything to necessarily add um. On the Morning Show today,
if you didn't get a chance to hear it, they did a really
good segment. Uh, you know, obviously very serious subject and uh,
but they kind of did a deep dive on it. Peter had Um of
course, Kyle Clayton and Maddie Juno were here, but he also had a
Jeff Ny in studio and Carol Robido on via Skype as usual, and they
they did a long segment about it and really kind of explored not only you
know, the case itself, but you know, just talking about a lot
of the emotions that that people are feeling over it and whatnot. So,
uh, if you didn't get a chance to hear that live, it is
in the archive of course at WMNH Radio dot org and uh, I do
recommended I suggest you you check it out. They did. They did a
really nice job this morning. So but we have a call. Hi,
welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash. Who's this? Hello, Mattso ratso fat
so did this Jerry Robinson? Oh my goodness, Jerry Robinson, sir,
I've I've been Uh. I don't know if you know this, but I'm
a big fan. I actually played a little bit of audio yesterday from one
of your videos where you mentioned me. I feel that you are the next
rated ar radio star. You are the next Howard Stern and uh, I
am very impressed with you, Jerry Robinson. Great work that you do.
I'm a fan Matt So. I just I just have to say that that
means a whole lot to me because I'm really trying my best to be doctor
greatest part of the show of show. Um, I've heard. I listened
to that audio, by the way, and it sounded really good. And
I just I really appreciate you putting me on your channel and it's giving me
an opportunity while I can just have my voicehood. Yes, yes, absolutely,
Um, you know, uh we should uh we should do some work
together mister Robinson, Uh, Jerry, if I may. Uh, you
know, I would love to. Uh. I would love to do more
with you and help to promote you. But you know, I can't promise
anything here on the air. But I'm just so impressed with what you're doing.
It's next level. I really approach. I would love I would love
nothing moreton than to work side by side with WMN Nature's very own Matts Ratso
Covington. That would just be the greatest thing happened the history of radio.
I think it would be too. I agree. I've I don't think I've
ever been so excited to work with another human being. I just have I
just I just have one real quick question. Yeah that makes me crazy or
anything? For sure? Yeah. No, listen, there's there I know
that there's people that you've had previous like history with, you know, scumbags.
Oh well, um but quite frankly, I'm challenging crazy show. Oh
we don't alec well, we don't have well the people the masses of course,
yes, yes, and determine who will be the next shock jock and
radio the show of shows. Yeas any of my emails? Yeah, um
so I just want to know if I have your support of being crowned the
next we'll just say supremely the I'm like the Kim jonguon of Rock and Wow.
Yes, yes we don't. We don't talk about that guy anymore here,
but but yes, Jerry Robinson, you are the man. Absolutely you
are you well, I will okay, honestly, Jerry, I don't usually
endorse candidates as a matter of policy, but I'm going to go ahead and
endorse you. You, sir, you have my vote for not only the
what was it, the Savior of real rock and roll, but really for
anything that you're running for. Sir. I'm that impressed with you. I
listen, Matt, I really apprec I have to get back to work.
I don't get the apartment all day and make stupid videos. But uh,
we'll get together in the future. We'll make we'll come up with a great
campaign. Yeah, and I'm gonna make you minister a propaganda of my radio
show. Matt, have a great day. I will talk to you soon.
Check your email. I'm gonna be sending you some emails. And if
you haven't heard me before, our listeners, you can find me on YouTube
at at the crazy Jerry show. Not to be confused with other people,
right or not, Joe. Jerry Robinson's a video chronicle. Yes, yes,
absolutely wonderful, wonderful, sir. Yes, and I've already subscribed,
and I encourage everyone to do so. Excellent, excellent, Thank you very
much. Matt. You have a fantastic rest of your day. Jenny,
you have a great day too, thank you. Oh it's our pleasure,
all right, thanks Jerry, bye bye. Oh that was wonderful. Jerry
Robinson. Yes, he's a he's a YouTuber. And by the way,
that's legit if you go on YouTube. H it's uh, yeah, I
subscribed. It's Jerry Robinson's video chronicles. M great stuff, great stuff.
I mean a lot of it obviously. You know, I couldn't feature it
here because there's some there's some language. It's not safe for work, as
they say. But no, I'm a big fan of Jerry Robinson. Uh.
He vaguely reminds me of somebody else. But but he's he has clearly
much more talent. Uh And and I would I would love to work with
him. I don't care if he's even uh you know, he sounds like
he might be an older guy. I don't care if he's even technologically challenged,
I would be willing to let me put it this way. Let me
just put it this way. And this is a little inside but if you
know, you know, if Jerry Robinson, this is how enthusiastic I am
about him. If Jerry Robinson was trying to email me a file and he
just couldn't quite figure out how to do it, I would drop everything I
was doing. I would I would drop everything I was doing at a moment's
notice to help Jerry Robinson figure out how to get that file to me,
because that's how impressed I am with him. Just just great. But yes,
check him out on YouTube. You'll be very glad that you did.
Jerry Robinson's video chronicles excellent, Wow, wonderful to speak with him. Six
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seven. What did I forget to mention? I forgot to mention something there
when I was giving the contact info. I'm distracted now. I'm so excited
to be working with the great Jerry Robinson, truly an up and coming talent.
If you will that I forgot. What did I say? I said
the phone number, right, I said, you can text me. I
gave the text number. Email me Matt at Matt Coonnerton dot com. You
can interact in opine in the Facebook live chat. I'm on social media at
Maconnorton. Okay, I think I got it all. I think I got
it all. But the best thing to do, of course, just give
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seven. And by the way, if you're just joining us, our friend
Eric Pilcher is not here with us on the phone for our usual Wednesday segment.
He is at the eye doctor. His eyes have been dilated, so
he probably can't even see his phone. I know that when I go to
the eye doctor, I cannot I can't you know, when they put the
drops in, can't see anything too well for a little while, and then
of course there's that stage of it where you know, the vision starts to
clear up, but then it's difficult to look at anything because of the bright
light. I think I have to make an appointment. Actually, I think
I'm due for a checkup. I go every six months to the eye doctor
because because of my pigmentary glaucoma. Don't worry, I'm on drops for it.
I'm not going to go blind or anything. But but yeah, so
I know all about going to the eye doctor and all the great joys of
it. Yes, yes, let's say hello to everybody in the Facebook live
chat and then we will get into some stuff. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry
joins us in the Facebook live chat. Of course. Uh Mike not only
one of our great sponsors here at WMNH from Queen City Cabinetry, but also
one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio Friday nights from eight to eleven
pm retro Spectrum Radio right here on WMH. I've the honor and privilege of
being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with TJ, Steve and
of course Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. This Friday on the show, we're
doing part two of original Demos, original demo recordings of popular songs. And
we had a great time Friday night, learned a lot too, and I'm
looking forward to part to this Friday night on Retro Spectrum Radio. That's gonna
be a lot of fun. Let's see. Easyg is in the Facebook live
chat and says Happy Prince Spaghetti Day. Yes, yes, Jenny of course
is in the chat and says shalom, peeps. Oh, Dylan Reynolds is
in the chat, and Dylan says, I hope Jerry Robinson calls yes Dylan,
hopefully hopefully you are listening when he did, and um, I'll tell
you what, very very excited to work with that man. By the way,
Dylan Reynolds check him out on social media. Very talented musician. Uh
and uh you should you should support what he does. Very talented. Um,
she's actually maybe Jenny, Jenny does all the booking for the guests.
Maybe maybe Jenny can schedule Dylan for an interview on the show. Dylan did
call in once before, but about another matter. But I would love to
talk to him about his music. Uh, let's see who else have we
got in here, Yardbird Blue Sky. Who I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go
out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure he is from Greensboro,
North Carolina. Uh, he says, or she or they? Good afternoon.
Hashtag Matt, We say to you from us hashtagh I'm sorry high hashtag
gen coffee. We say good mornin and it's morning with no G but instead
an apostrophe. That's how they talk in Greensboro, North Carolina. Yardbird Blue
Sky knows the dialect, of course in that part of the country, being
from the south. Yardbird Blue Sky also says, we will be performing soon
as we can. Hashtag Matt Connerton. We are covering some of good pop
songs. We say, who is your guest on your show? Hashtag Matt
Connerton. Well we have Shane Ballen not coming in in the second hour.
Yardbird Blue Sky says, Ricky Mapleton. We say, is that right?
Hashtag Matt Connerton. No, Ricky Mapleton is tomorrow today we have Shane Ballen.
Let's see, Jenny really enjoyed hearing from Jerry Robinson and Yardbird Blue Sky
says, wow, that is so true. We say yes, and Yardbird
blue Sky says wow. Demos Volume two on Friday of retro Spectrum Radio with
Paul C. We are from Greensboro, North Carolina, and we are good
friends with Isaac Banks. I get the impression that everybody in Greensboro, North
Carolina knows Isaac Banks. Jay Fed, of course, joins us in the
chatwoman says, good afternoon everyone, Good afternoon at Jay Fed, welcome to
the program. Let's see. Oh. I wanted to mention two, what
is going on at the Hop Knot. They've got they've got a big event
Friday, but I want to pull this up on social media. I want
to make sure I get it right. And also, Ali Boudry sent me
the list we discussed yesterday. One of the things that she does is she
books all the guests at the Hopknot. Are amazing sponsor in the Rady Sullivan
right across the street at one thousand Elm Street. They've got those delicious gourmet
pretzels. They have an ever burgeoning series of craft beers. Okay, she
sent me starting in July, She's going to be there July first, at
the Hop Knot. But this Friday night they have and you know, and
I hope, I do hope that Governor Ron de Santisa, Florida is not
in the state campaigning while this is going on, because I don't think he
would approve. But here's what the hop Knot put on social media this Friday
with glam Chowda and uh, I think I know who plays jam glam Chowdah
join us at nine pm for big gay Bingo. Yes. Now, by
the way, Kenny did explain to me recently what big gay bingo is,
and I don't recall exactly what he told me the full explanation of it,
but it is bingo, but I think it's just bigger and uh and gayer.
So well, it is Pride month, so very exciting. Some big
gay bingo at the Hopknot Friday night beginning at nine pm. And we have
a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash. Who's us all?
Right? Think do pork Fest do the Hot Knot? That's right?
What's up, Dave Ridley? Well, pork Fast actually has its own big
gay dance party. I've heard about that, Yes, yes, although actually
that's I think I think that means it may not have happened for the last
few years. The lady that did it hasn't been two pork Fast very very
much recently, so I think it may. I don't know if it's still
happening or not. In fact, I didn't see I didn't see one in
twenty twenty one when I was there. Oh okay, well maybe somebody else
will will pick up the pick that up and run with it at some point.
I don't know. Well, one thing that pork Fest has that doesn't
that the Hot Knot does not have, and which I wanted to call that
is drama. They have drama at Porkfest is a US. Yes, there
is drama. There is a controversy. I don't well this week, Well,
Dave, you've called the right show. I don't know if you know
this about me. This could be a coincidence, but I actually rather enjoy
drama and controversy. So please, sir, please unferral the flag of drama
and controversy if you will. So what happened was I guess there was.
They've been reaching out to kind of broadening in terms of the speakers that they
bring. In A week or two ago about them bringing Uh, Robert F.
Kennedy Junior. Uh to speak. Yes, that's controversial because he is
instcuting a gun free zone in the area where he's speaking. Yes, relatively,
you know, just like the auditorium, no guns in the auditorium,
which again, which again, which again, as you yourself pointed out,
with his last name being Kennedy and all, you can kind of understand.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I can't. I can't. And he's
not he's not violating anyone's right parsee in this particular instance. But it is
considered very controversial in literaltarian circles. Yes, but there's a new, a
new controversy unrelated, and that is that. I guess they also brought in
they were bringing in some sort of conservative speaker. I can't remember his name.
He's apparently a big name, but he's kind of he's kind of a
melo, almost a melo youanopolist type, you know, bomb thrower type in
terms of incentiary rhetoric. Yeah, what he said was h he said something
to the effect that, like he said, if anyone tried to do a
drag queen story hour, I'll come, You'll come beat them up, or
something like that. Oh my God, and he didn't quite put it that
way. It wasn't quite as it wasn't quite as dramatic as that. I
wish I should have the exact quote, but I don't know exactly what he
said. He was just considered. It was considered, and it was more
like an implied assault if if anyone tried to do that, and when no
one was actually planning to. But as soon as she said that, well
someone decided, oh, well, since he's threatening, you're not allowed to
do that. Oh. Dave Dave, a trans, a trans activist,
a libertarian trans person, said well, I'm just going to go ahead and
do a story hour. So Ari a Domezzo from Keane is going to do
a trans story hour and everyone's invited, including children, and uh, she's
doing that the protest to threats against drag Queen story hours. Dave, I
think I know who it is. Is it vevak Ramaswami, because I did.
I did a quick google pork Fest twenty twenty three, conservative speaker,
and that's what came up. Well, that name. I heard the name
mentioned in connection with this pork fest, but not not in connection with this
controversy tax one with the one name type of thing. Oh really, you
just I don't remember, but I don't think it was I don't think it
was that guy. Oh it wasn't him. Oh, okay, that because
that's the only thing that comes up when I google that. But I think
there's um oh, I think there's a list here too, a featured speakers,
because I'm very curious who it is. Oh, there's uh, there's
several conservatives who are going to be there. Okay, Um, Larry Elder
sound familiar. Yeah, Oh it's Larry Elder. But that's but no,
he's not the one that he's not the one. Okay, Um, I'm
scrolling through here the speaker's list, but the only real so far. Well,
there's a lot of people speaking, but but this but this is somebody
nationally known. I'm really curious who it is. Yeah, yeah, naturally
known, but not to me. Oh okay, yeah, I don't way.
So he also made some comments. The speaker, whoever he was,
made some comments to the effect that like, well, you know, you
can't do that in my community. But he I don't think he's ever been
to Part Beast before. So if I'm there, it's my community, you're
just making all these sort of outlandish statements and so, but this is a
sort of a teachable moment here because if you know, for people who are
asking himself, should a should a drag Queen Story hour be allowed or not,
it's really good to just plug that into the good old zero zero aggression
principle and ask yourself, Okay, if somebody commits a drag Queen story hour,
is that an act of aggression or not? If it's not an active
aggression, then there's no grievance. Does that make sense? Oh? Of
course? And uh, I mean the only act of aggression in this scenario
that you've presented is the person threatening to beat people up over it. That's
an act of aggression. Making a violent threat. Um, well, it's
not quite an act. It sort of falls into the gray area between act
and speech. Okay, so when you're in your serious question, then so,
in your opinion, does making a verbal threat and it's probably an empty
threat. I assume this person, whoever they are, is I'm going to
show up there and actually violently assault anyone. But um, but uh,
And the statement was probably made more to just discourage this from happening, because
they obviously think that they have the power to dictate what goes on or maybe
there there's maybe it's just posturing. But um, in your opinion, does
um? Does making a verbal threat then not violate the non aggression principle.
It's it pushes it right up to the line. Maybe it bends the line.
I think think I think it, Like I said, it falls into
a gray area. It's not just speech because you're talking about committing action or
possibly encouraging other people to do the thing incitement by doing so, so it's
bad. Is it an active aggression to say you're going to hurt somebody?
It's right on the line. That's where I put it. Okay, Okay,
I was just curious. So well another question too, So this individual
did they in in what context was this threat made? Did they say this
publicly or did they say this to the organizers and you got word of it?
Or how was this presented? I don't know, but I do know
that Free Talk Live, the Libertarian you know, flagship talk show, they
invited this guy whoever he is again I'm sorry, I don't remember the name.
She invited him to be on the show and make his case, and
I guess he refused to appear on the show, they said last I checked.
So he won't go on Free Talk Live, but he's going to show
up at Porkfest and speak. That is what they said on Free Talk Live
a few days ago. But I don't know what happened since then. Yeah,
interesting, I might have to go to that. Yeah, I really
want to know who this is. There must be a way to find out.
Um. Yeah, it's just like Super referred to him by just this
one syllable, but I just can't remember what the syllable is. Really,
I'm sorry for not researching this better before calling, but it's such a complicated
process to call in. I don't always have my laptop open and able to
look up the background data because I don't know if I'm going to get on
the air. I don't know if I can even call in right. So
it's all I can do just to pick up the phone, figure out what
you guys are talking about, yeah, or or to listen to the show
first or whatever, and then make the call. It's just if I add
the element I'm going back and looking at my notes. It just the call
never happened. I apologize, I understand, that's okay, Um, and
do you know, so, so what do do you know what this person
was told. I assume they were told, well, you know, we're
not we're not canceling this just because you don't like it, right, I
assume, well, I don't there was nothing, there was nothing to cancel
at first. He would just thinking if something like that, I understand,
Oh, so this isn't even something that's on the schedule. He's just he's
sort of I don't think anyone. I don't think anyone was planning a drag
Queen event in forecast until he said, you're not allowed to wow. Wow.
Well, you know, Dave, as I'm sure you've observed, there
are a lot of people who are very preoccupied with, uh with this uh
so called issue, to the point where I can see someone being so preoccupied
with it that they'll actually preemptively say, well, by the way, don't
do this, or I'm gonna be really mad, or you know. It's
it's it's kind of where we are right now culturally. It's it's fascinating and
a bit sad in my view that people are so uh uh you know,
it's it's crazy then in the year twenty twenty three, to me, in
my view that people are so uh uh concerned. I mean, and you
know, I don't know if you know the story, but um, yesterday
of another caller, a friend of ours, Fredo called in. Um.
When I say friend of ours, I don't I'm not. I don't mean
he's in the mafia. I don't mean it like that. I don't want
Sopranos fans to take that wrong. But no, just uh, just a
genuine enough friend of ours. Uh was calling in and talking about what happened
and conquered. I guess they did a drag Drag Queen's Story hour at a
teetotalers I believe is the name of the place, and conquered and uh,
and these guys showed up in masks and they were outside and they were sighiling,
and you know, they had Nazi flags and all this. And you
know, because some people, I think what it is, Dave, is
some people are not only just stuff full of hate, but they you know,
they they feel so small that they don't feel like they have any power
in this world. So they and when I say they feel small, you
know you could take that a number of ways that they feel like in order
to exert some power and feel good about themselves have to show up and intimidate
people. But that just happened over the weekend and conquered New Hampshire. You
you really wouldn't expect that. But yeah, a bunch of these guys showed
up. I shouldn't even call them guys. I mean, they're not even
uh because because I don't think I don't think real men. If you're a
real man, you don't have to show up and be threatening and menacing toward
people. Uh. That's not a very Uh that's not a true, in
my view, a true expression of what masculinity is or should be. But
individuals, A bunch of these individuals, Uh, you know, I mean
five years ago, I never would have imagined something like that happening and conquered
New Hampshire of all places, but it did over the weekend. But that's
the times we live in. Well, you know, if if the threat
issue is, you know, in a gray area, the drag Queen Story
Hour is not that is not an act of aggression. To go to a
place and open a book wearing clothes and some things you shouldn't wear, and
speaking to whatever age or people are in the room. None of that is
an act of aggression. It could lead to an active of aggression later conceivably,
or might be connected in some way to an active aggression, but it
is not an act of aggression. So right, who cares? Right,
Well, we're an agreement on that absolutely, And I would say that I
will Oh, I was just gonna add, David, I would just say
to anyone who's who doesn't think children should be I mean, I just look
at it as well. You know, if you bring your kids to that,
maybe it's because you want your kids to understand that there are people who
are different, and just because someone is different doesn't mean you should be afraid
of them. But I would also say that, you know, to anyone
who is offended by the idea or doesn't think that children should be there,
well, then don't bring your kids. Don't go, and don't bring your
kids to it. You have the freedom to not do, to not participate,
but yeah, go ahead. Day before were you going to say Portfast
is not a conservative event, he doesn't live be carrying event, which means
you'll they'll welcome you there, even a conservative or a liberal or or whatever.
Yeah, you know, as long as you don't violate the non aggression
principle. While you're there. Yeah, I did notice on that list it
looked like there's, um, there are several conservatives. Uh. Obviously you
know no one who fit the description that you presented. But um, has
anything like this ever happened before? Dave? Do you know where where there
was a somebody going to speak there who was very uh, who was controversial
in some way or um not necessarily just a conservative. I mean RFK,
who's ostensibly a Democrat. He's challenging for the Democratic nomination, although some of
his views I think are are I don't know if conservative is even the right
word. I think I think he's a little uh uh. I don't want
to say, but I'm not I'm not necessarily qualified to make that diagnos clinically.
But anyway, Um, has this ever happened before where there's been some
sort of controversy over a speaker. Well, I don't know about that,
but there was a drag queen event about maybe seven years ago that I remember
just seeing if you dragged queen walking around, I think they have an event,
but I didn't see the event itself. Uh. That's the only thing
I've seen that would be related in terms of controversial speakers. I just don't
remember. And then they have had speakers that aren't you know, libertarian.
Oh sure, ye, sure, yeah, but I don't I don't remember
one where everyone walked out or turned their backs or anything like that. But
I just maybe a forgetting Okay, Yeah, I was just curious. But
RFK, that is that is still happening, right, that there's been no
change on that He's still going to be there, right, Okay, Yeah,
I just wondering, all right. Yeah, and that dude, I
mean I don't know a ton about Every time I see him the news or
doing anything, the guy is batting it out of the park in terms of
taking a pro freedom position and wiping the floor than anyone who wants to debate
him. And I really do appreciate day or whatever I might not like about
him, it just seems nice to see, uh, you know a little
bit of a pro freed and voice in the NEAT party. Sure. Um,
I mean I don't. I don't like what he has to say about
vaccines, but you know, I'm very pro vax and pro science, pro
medical science, and you know, I don't I don't like that I cringe
at that stuff. But Uh, but yeah, I mean he but he
is another voice out there. I mean, I I think he's a bit
of a crank. I don't think he's I don't think he's all there now,
let me just put it that way. But um, but sure I
can appreciate him, you know, putting himself out there, certainly, you
know. Uh. And I'm all for having more voices, not less,
you know, So I'd command anyone to listen to his debate with Alan Dershowitz,
the authoritarian lawyer. Um, and I listened to that debate as a
pro vaccine person, or at least I'm skeptical of the vaccine skeptics. That's
probably the best way to put it. Yeah, yeah, you know,
at least at least when we're talking about you know, more proved, more
proven vaccines. Obviously, we still have data coming in about the COVID vaccine
and how good or bad that was. But when you're when you're talking about
older vaccines and your skeptical about those, that's pushing it. But but ourfk
making you know, his anti vax pitch was very convincing. I thought he
I thought he defeated Derschowitz in this argument. Oh, No, that's interesting.
Well I will I will check it out. You're you're actually the second
person who has recommended that to me that particular that particular debate. Um,
you know, and I'm an open minded guy. But um, all right,
anything to add Dave, that is all. But you still I think
people still have time to go to Porkfest. You don't have to have a
ticket in hand or anything like that to go to the festival itself. I
think you can just walk right up to it. Oh what was so?
What is the ticket got you? If you buy a ticket, ticket lets
you go deeper in. There are certain events I think, like certain areas
that are just you gotta have a ticket. I mean, you might have
a ticket to get on the grounds, but I don't That's not like I
don't think it's the type of ticket that sells out. I think I think
anyone can get in to Rogers Campground. You might have to pay to get
in, okay, but I think I think an endless number of people will
be let in as I understand it. It's just it's just a pavilion area.
I think that requires like an advanced purchase or whatnot. And also advanced
purchases are very helpful if you want to stay overnight. Okay, you know
that, under sure that all the lodging on ground sounds who's already sold out?
And sometimes the hotels to start running out of the rooms, you know
in other parts of talent. Yeah, yeah, may I understand it makes
sense? Makes sense? Are your are your allergies? Do you have allergies?
If you sound like you're I don't have allergies. But my voice has
been speaking of Robert F. Kennedy, my voice has been kind of uh
softer lately, or it's the lower the lower tones or something like that don't
come to as well as they used to. I've noticed you sound different.
What if all of us? What? What if not all not all of
us, but the best of us? MM I was gonna say, what
if this isn't really Dave Ridley I'm talking to right now? M At least
you've got virtual Dave Ridley isthing he happened to me. That's true, that's
true. We do have and I did. I did find him recently.
We had we had lost virtual Dave Ridley for a while, but I have,
I have located him, so who knows, perhaps he'll perhaps he'll pay
us a visit at some point during the show today. I'm glad you reminded
me. All right, Dave, well, we will let you go,
uh, go ahead and plug whatever you'd like. Porkfest dot com, porkfest
dot com and pork is we should say, is p O R C H.
Yes, yes, yes, very good. All right, Dave.
Oh and if you please call us another day, if you find out who
that individual was who made the was making the threats, I am very curious
to hear more about that, all right, if you think, Matt,
if you find that out, all right, Dave, thank you for the
call. Take care, Okay, bye, all right, bye bye.
All right. That was Dave Ridley, or at least I think that was
Dave Ridley. He did sound different, but that does open up the phone
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a while and then I found him and now I'm having trouble finding him again.
But yes, we might need him. Oh see, now I can't
find him again. That's so weird. We might need him in case anything
happens to the real Dave Ridley, assuming that was the real Dave Ridley.
If you're just joining us, by the way, in the second hour,
we do have Shane ballin coming in. In fact, I think he's already
in the building, so we'll be bringing him in soon. Really looking forward
to that. Um if. Oh and if you're looking for our friend Eric
Pilcher, who usually joins us in the first hour on Wednesdays, he is
at the eye doctor today, so we will hopefully see him soon. Is
something that we had mentioned briefly but we never got to it. So we'll
look at this quickly because I do want to get our guests in soon.
But I talked yesterday, of course, in the first hour about two big
bits of legal news yesterday. One involving Hunter Biden, which we talked about
quite a bit yesterday, got into some depth on that. The other involving
Donald Trump and Trump has been I think I guess I've been saying it wrong.
It's it's not Eileen, it's a lean canon h. The judge who
is presiding over the Trump's document case Trump Documents case, I should say she
has said a trial date. I think it was August fourteenth. Now,
people don't think that it's going to um necessarily happen, uh necessarily going to
start that date, because there can be continuances and delays and so forth.
But but that is the date that she's chosen. But the other thing,
and I wanted to um, this is a media item. So I really
wanted to talk talk to Eric about this today, but he's not available.
But we'll look at this quickly. Right now. Trump did an interview with
Brett Bear on Fox News, and Brett Bear I have to say he did
step up and committed an actual I would say, a bona fide act of
journalism in his interview, asked some some hard questions and challenged Trump on things.
But to me, the most interesting thing about it is, if you
watch it, Trump seems to well, let me preface this by saying,
actually, Chris Chrissy had a funny comment. He said that while that interview
was on Trump's lawyers, were probably looking to jump out of whatever window was
closest to where they were at the moment, because the more Trump talks,
the harder he makes their job. And it's almost as though Trump you almost
get the sense that not only is he known for not necessarily paying his attorneys,
because he likes to treat them all like they're these buy here pay her
lawyers that you see on television. You know, you only pay them if
they win your case. But he makes it really hard for them because the
more he talks in public, because you know, you're not supposed to talk
about your case. You know, any attorney will tell you that, don't
talk about your case. But Trump now, granted, Trump's in a unique
position. As much as his attorneys might like him to shut up and not
talk about his case, Trump is an active candidate for the presidency, so
he talks about the case. But Trump also, as I've observed on the
show and even some of his supporters will admit, Trump exists in a perpetual
state of self immolation. Trump makes his own problems for himself and then makes
them exponentially worse at every opportunity. So he not only talks about the case
to the media, but he talks and talks and talks and says things that
make everything worse for him. And I think the single biggest takeaway, and
this is why Chris Christie made the comment that he did, the single biggest
takeaway from Trump's interview with Brett Bear on Fox News the other day, was
that Trump seemed to admit to obstruction of justice. He pretty much, you
know, yes, he had always acknowledged that. Yes, in fact,
he did take those documents documents, and he claims they were classified and so
forth. But you know, there's an old saint it's it's not the crime,
it's the cover up. You look at lat Nixon, you look at
Watergate, for example, it's not the it's not the break in itself of
the Watergate hotel that got Nixon in the end. It's it's trying to cover
it up. So in Trump's case, I mean, I think even some
of his supporters would probably acknowledge that none of this would be happening right now
if Trump had just given back the documents to begin with. And Brett Bear
again, Brett Bear from Fox, who said, an excellent job, excellent
job. He really pressed Trump on on these things, and and Uh.
But but there's a point where, you know, Brett Bears asking him about
Okay, so they came to you, they they came to you with a
subpoena and said, look, you have to give these back. We've been
patient with you. We've been negotiating for like a year. We can't wait
anymore. So now you're being issued to subpoena. And uh, Trump said,
well, yeah, but I can't. I'm in I'm paraphrasing, but
basically he said, yeah, but I can't, just I can't just comply
with the subpoena. Well he doesn't. He doesn't. Actually he never actually
says the word subpoena, but he tries to get around it by saying,
well, I couldn't. I couldn't give these boxes back yet. I hadn't
had a chance to go through them. I was busy. I couldn't give
these boxes yet. So Bret Bear is asking him, Okay, so they
issue a subpoena and your lawyer, one of your lawyers signs and a half
of David and we already gave you back everything when you hadn't given back everything
and you still had all these boxes. And Trump's going, but I hadn't
had a chance to go through them yet. Some of them had golf shirts
and pictures, and you know, I'm a very busy guy. I don't
have time to go through all these. I wanted to go through all these.
So in saying that, he confessed to obstruction of justice. And I'm
not being hyperbolic when I say this, because in saying that, so he
acknowledges he got the subpoena and he defied the subpoena because he just wasn't ready
to give everything back because he wasn't done going through everything. It doesn't work
that way. And even some of his allies have pointed out, well,
you know, he probably should have asked for an extension on the subpoena and
had his lawyers say, well, we're not we're not ready to do this
yet. Can we delay this, which apparently you can do. I mean,
they'd already showed him an incredible out of deference. This dragged on for
over a year, them just trying to get these documents back. And listen,
when you got to when you're talking about a box of you know you
got some nuclear secrets in there. Yeah, you know, a year is
a long time to be patient, but they were. They were very patient,
and Trump Acknowledgiest, Well, you know, I didn't have time to
go through everything yet. I can't give this stuff back yet, so that
will be used against him in a court of law. You know, when
they mirandize you and they say anything you say, cannon will be used against
you in a court of law. They don't mean just you know, anything
you say to us right now in this moment, the police who are arresting
you, anything you say to us is we're dragging you off and cuffs you
know, might be used against you. Know, they're telling you anything you
say from this point forward, now that you've been arrested for this cannon will
be used against you in a court of law. And obviously that Fox News
interview you more than anything else he has said or done since this started,
that Fox News interview will be used against him in a court of law.
It's just shocking. And you know, I understand the game. He figures
he's got to do this stuff because it helps his fundraising and the people who
most desperately want to believe him, his disciples, they will believe anything he
tells them, so it helps in that regard. But he's he's that Brett
Bear. Look, I'm no legal expert, but that interview that Brett Bear
conducted with him, and again, listen, Brett Bear, I think did
an excellent job. He certainly didn't lead Trump into anything. He just asked
obvious questions, though Trump walked himself into a lot of jeopardy. I mean,
and again, there's a bunch of things in there that were problematic,
but the single biggest thing is Trump in that interview. I mean again,
you can call me a Trump hater, tell me I have trumped arrangement syndrome,
or whatever other tired insult you want to throw at me. But I'm
telling you there's no getting around it. Trump in that interview admitted he confessed
to obstruction of justice. They subpoena at him, but he just didn't feel
that he wanted to give the stuff back because he wasn't done going through it
and he's very busy. It's there, it's on tape. You can look
at it on YouTube. If you don't believe me, it is what it
is. There's just no getting around it. This isn't me being partisan,
This isn't me, you know, just going after Trump because I don't like
the guy. This is the reality. You know. If if you can
find any kind of a legal expert who can tell you that what I'm telling
you isn't true, God love you, but you're not gonna find one.
This is what happened that he just again, like I said, he exists
in a perpetual state of self immolation legally speaking. In that moment, he
poured gasoline on himself and let himself on fire. That is exhibit well,
I can't say it's exhibit A. I suppose exhibit as documents themselves. But
wow. So anyway, USA today dot Com is a story up five takeaways
from Trump's Fox interview on classified docs, China, Ukraine in more. By
the way, I will because I am fair. There is something that Trump
did in this interview. And this isn't me being sarcastic or trying to be
funny. I mean this sincerely. There is something Trump did in that interview
that I thought was very smart. I'll just throw this out there because this
has been in the news because of a comment that President Biden made that there's
a lot of people clutching their pearls. Biden calling at a fundraiser, calling
Jijingping a dictator, and people are freaking out to varying degrees over that.
So Bret Bear asked Trump about Taiwan, and here's what Trump said. So,
because if you remember Joe Biden, we talked about it on the show
at the time that had happened. Joe Biden said, yes, we will
defend Taiwan, which is okay, good in a sense, but I'm a
big fan of strategic ambiguity, so I was uncomfortable with it. I'm a
little less uncomfortable with Biden saying that at the time in hindsight, but we
won't get into all of that. But I thought it was I thought it
was smart how Trump handled this. So Bret Bear asked him. While Trump
said, if he was president in China, quote, would never be talking
about even the concept of going into Taiwan unquote. He refused to say,
however, whether he supports independence for Taiwan, claiming it would make discussions with
Chinese President Jijing Ping more difficult. Actually, that's they've kind of they've got
this a little bit wrong here USA today. What he was actually asked was
he bred Bear asked him, would you defend Taiwan if China invaded Taiwan,
like Joe Biden said, you know, his policy is yes, we would.
He was asking Trump would you and Trump said, if I tell you
an answer, it's going to hurt me in negotiations with Jijing Ping. Trump
went on to say, I have a very good relationship with President ge After
COVID came in, I sort of I didn't want the relationship, and I
sort of ended the relationship after having made one of the greatest trade deals ever
made. Oh they left out the part, okay, the part that I
thought Trump was smart about. Yeah, they left out the part I was
going to Uh, they didn't include it in this article, so I can't
tell you verbade him what he said. But the part that I thought was
smart was when Brett Bear asked him, so would you what would you do?
Trump said, well, I can't give that away here. It would
it would hurt us in my discussions with Jijing Ping. In other words,
Trump seemed seeming to want to reclaim some degree of strategic ambiguity. But but
I thought this was smart. But he said, but he knows what I
would do. Jijing Ping knows what I would do. So there was a
little bit of an undercurrent of sort of a veiled again ambiguous, but a
little bit of a veiled threat. He knows what I would do. I
thought that was smart. I thought that was a very smart answer. And
Trump Trump caught that one, right, He played that one well in my
opinion. So there you go. So for those of you you want to
be critical of me because you don't think I'm fair to Trump, will there.
I just I found something in that interview that I think he did right.
But the other thing I stand by that he literally confessed to obstruction of
justice during that interview with Brett Bear. All right. Oh, by the
way, Paul sees in the Facebook live chat mentioning, of course this Friday
night Retro Spectrum Radio with Pauli c and an all new Shower Time with DJ
Steve Friday night at eight pm. So looking forward to that. That's always
a lot of fun. All Right, Um, we're going to take a
quick break, we're gonna bring in our we're gonna bring our guests in in
a moment. But I'm going to before we get him, I'm going to
play another one of his studio tracks that he had sent us. We'll play
this song. Oh you know, what I want to play this. We'll
play this Charlie's remix, Charlie's song, the remix that he did with um
mister Goodbars. Let's let's play that because it's got a really really good response
from everybody last time. So we'll we'll give this a listen from the great
Shane Ballon. Then we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then
when we come back, we'll have Shane Ballen in studio with us live.
But here, just check this out. This is the Charlie Remix from Shane
Bowen and mister Goodbar is here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. Yeah, I miss
you over you know I can never let you go. As we travels through
the slack, I know my hand and play my ros or what I miss
you? See you in my dreams when I get some sleep. You're young
and on my heart and that makes me breathe. Arlie pictures on the wall
up for life. We've seen the pastimes, remember my oldest smiles in the
feeling what your life like? Chills on my arm as the sky sturned blue.
I have to say this true. Your love can change my move to
me. You didn't know wrong you saw my favorite side. You showed me
how to open up and brace with open arms. I cried the most.
I loved you all. I smiled the most because you're my heart. Miss
you, hope you know I could never let you go. As me travel
through this life, I know my hand and play my roles, So what
I miss you? See you in my dream when I gets some sleep.
You young and know my heart and that makes me breathe. Charlie M No,
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contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Wednesday, June
twenty one, two thousand twenty three, and we have with us returning to
the program. Mister Shane Ballen is here. Hello. Hello, it's great
to be back. Yeah, scad to be back. Thanks, Matt.
Yeah, absolutely, it's good to see you and looking forward to hearing some
tunes and yeah, me too, me too. I got a We had
a couple of guitars here, I got at Martin here. We just got
so, I got some. I got a couple of covers I want to
play. But I want to play some songs off the EP that I just
put out. Oh yeah, and my good friend and producer mister Goodbars Timothy
Thorpe Toy Box Studios in Nashwam did a great job helping me out with that
and looking forward to working with him again. Yeah, so excellent, excellent.
Yeah, um, and is the so the EP is it out now?
Yeah? It takes a few days. It takes like a week or
how many days it is, but it's all set up with on destro Kid.
Excellent. Yeah, so it's out there on all the platforms. Oh,
very good, very good. Yeah, I don't know how I guess
it will be a little while. Yeah yeah, yeah, well congratulations on
that. Thanks. And I just keep writing. You know, I have
a bunch of songs, so I have another another whole whole EP, I
would say right now. So excellent. It's just gotta work on it.
Yeah yeah, all right, Well, whenever you're ready, I'm dying to
hear whatever you're gonna play for us. Yeah. I wanted to play a
couple of the songs I was thinking about playing. Um, you know Charlie
and I want to play Daddy's Truck. I want to play spring Pain projection.
You know. I have a new song that called the Note that I
that I just wrote. Okay, somebody I can get that in. Yeah,
yeah, we have plenty of time. All right, great and yeah
yeah, so I like to start it off here. Let's get warmed up
with little Stapleton. All right, it sounds good. I've seen my share
broke, hanglow fold it wins that he used to fly. If I got
rather rocking halos that used to fly, ain't just calm down an on the
healthline, came to hell, bows came high way first, They teachers,
they don't leave gonta fine, No soul saved. I've seen my share broken
halok folded ways. They used to fly. He fuck where every day you
go broken hang on stay used to fly broken hangs and he used to shine.
Don't go again. For the reason, don't go asking Jesus why we're
not mental? Not all he answers. They belong to the bye and bye
Eveline to Bye Bye. I've seen my share of broken halo al in Wines
said he was by the if I Come Lago broking Halo that used to shine
broken Halos and he used to shine broken Hanros and Us Stapleton. Ah,
it's beautiful, beautiful. I love it, but I was gonna say,
by the way, Sarah, Lorraine Prince is in the Facebook live chat and
says, excited to hear you perform the song you wrote with my mom.
All right, that's right, I think I remember you. Uh oh,
and uh Iris Ivason Lamire is in the chatterman says cool Shane Balen, all
right, let's do Daddy's Truck right now. All right, this this is
the song that Sarah was talking about. Yeah, cool, cool, alright,
awesome, all right and uh yeah, here we go. This song
is uh I wrote with a friend of mine passed away, Janine McGrath,
And she wrote this song and I said, spoke about it once and it
reminded her of her dad when I started playing a certain chord progression and she
wrote a song about an old Dodge truck and it had the smells, you
know, reminiscent of her father. Um. So she would keep it around
and then she had to go to the junkyard one day, and this is
the story of Daddy's truck. I can still smell back when I climb said
my Daddy's truck dreal dream, Daddy's need. He taught me how to travel
down in the hold, different room, lucky strikes and no spice out.
Two smells that my heart now that a moment memories in his own dad struck
her birth more than the money and that you pay me. If I wasn't
so down on minds up right now, I drunk hanging on to my daddy,
unruly child and running wild. It didn't know how to take me Daddy's
girl, and I was his world and all his love Daddy gave me.
I didn't care, he right, just wanning to grow up and be free.
Memories and as old did strucking worth more than the money that you will.
If I wasn't so hold on my lud right now, hockey back tucking,
I hang on to my daddy as I take that gun rack down now
my heart breaks with a very painful turn of the screw. Let me feel
window now has a very clear and painful you. Please fix her up the
trunker, don't turn my daddy to man. Little memories in his little dad's
recovers more than money that you ever pay me. Memories that ruck with that.
Mm wow, that's that's uh yeah, you played that last time too.
It's just amazing. Um, thank you. Our friend Ronda Ferverro from
California and the chat room says, uh, having just lost my beautiful husband,
this song is so resonating with me. Thank you. Wow, you're
welcome what it helped? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that,
rondaw. Sorry. Absolutely. Sometimes music can bring out the pain and make
you, you know, reminisce, but in a in a way that heals
you in a sense. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And Sarah said,
thank you Shane. Huh, you're welcome. Yeah, yeah, thanks to
Janine and um Yardbird Blue Sky says hashtag Shane Balin, we say, awesome
song. Um, very nice, very nice. Um and uh oh and
I see another name in there too. I iris Ivason Lamier, who I
assume as that's my mom. Oh that's your mom. Excellent? Okay,
very nice, very nice. That's good. All right, Well you want
to keep going him? Yeah? Cool? Cool. I'm not gonna do
that one though, I was gonna say that sounds familiar with Oh yeah,
yeah, I would like to do another cover cover though us goes out to
my dad and uh um down in Florida. Oh yeah, so uh.
The song right here is uh by Luke Combs. It's called even though I'm
leaving? Are you doing? Dad? Love you? Hm? Daddy?
Am free? Whon't you stay in a little while? I don't keep me
safe because there's nastas right outside. Daddy, please don't go. I don't
want to be alone. There's the second that you go. They're gonna know.
And before he left, he grab my handing say, even though I'm
leaving, tell me I won't be had by your side when you need me
and you can't save me in the middle, love Dix, close your eyes
and a safe prayer. It's okay. I know you're scared when I'm not
here, but I always be right there. Even though I'm leaving, I
ain't going nowhere. Bob Ballance like Ballance tough the sky. I know there.
We're gonna be late. I'm sam. Don't like the way you got
a big old plain gonna take me far away. I don't know why I
acted. There's a churn in mygt because I just can't call you up being
things differ, and my daddy turned and he grabbed my nikin. Even though
you'll leave, you don't mean I won't be right by your side when you
need me and he can't see me in the middle. Love and night,
just close your eyes and safe prayer. It's okay boy. I know you're
scared when I'm not, but I'll always be right even though I'm leaving I
Angle nowhere that he am afraid, won't you stay a little while I never
thought I had seen. I had to say goodbye that he please don't go.
I can't do this on my o. There's no way that I can
walk. It's crude alone. And Danny turned and grabbed my m on last
time. Even though how may you don't mean I won't be right by yourself
when you know you can't see me in the middle. Love and night,
Just close your eyes, say prayer. It's okay. I know I'm right
here even I'm leaving Angle. It's beautiful. That's really beautiful. Thanks.
By the way, we just had this person to not identify themselves, but
we just had a message coming on the text line kick ass Shano. You
sound great all right? Thank you anonymous? Yeah, yeah, very good,
very good. I'm gonna grab my other the guitar here. Yeah,
absolutely absolutely. If you're just joining us, we have Shane Ballen in studio
with us. He's playing live for us. He's got a brand new EP
and we've shared some studio tracks on the show. But Shane is back live
with us in studio and sounds phenomenal. If you have if you want to
get in with a quick call, Shane's swapping guitars. If you have any
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uh got a very full chat room today. And um let's see yup.
Everybody's up. Oh you found your water? That's good, Shane was commenting
earlier he thought he'd left it in the car. Gets it gets uh,
it does get dry. And here that's for sure with the with the air
conditioning going and whatnot. But yep, so so Shane is here and um,
well he's getting ready to play for us some more too. I want
to remind people. Oh actually, you know what, let's go ahead and
grab this call. I think we've got Shannon on the line. High Shannon
Flin started this, uh we we or something? Afternoon, Yes, good
afternoon. What's going on? Shame beautiful singing? Thank you very much.
Appreciate that. All right? That that was my two cents so I can
play okay, wonderful, Thank you, Shannon. We appreciate the call.
Appreciate whoops. All right, very nice, very nice? All right.
Uh so you now just to tell us why the why the switching of the
guitars. What's different about this guitar. I have some heavier strings on the
other guitar. This guitar has some lighter strings on it. Better for finger
picking, sounds better, Oh I got you, I got you. Sometimes
easier on the fingers. But um, that one's a little bit more heavier
gauge. When you when you play out to usually bring two guitars and switch
off. Never had really, Yeah that's right, because he's just Scott one
of them. Yeah, that's right. Had an old Gibson and I was
still using it. For a while, you know that fifty nine Gibson and
I said, I'm not gonna use it anymore. Yeah, so I just
kind of put that away and then and then uh now yeah, so it'll
be great. Um yeah, I'm gonna be uh yeah, I'm gonna be
over like I said, I was at the Old Salt that a little thing
over there. Um, I'm gonna be playing in Hampton for a couple of
parties over there. Excellent Northampton, excellent. So I'm excited about that.
And um yeah it's so this Charlie's Hill show coming up Live Love Laugh Festival,
that's gonna be coming up um a little bit about a month or so.
And then um yeah maybe um my, like my friend Brian Munger,
I might have a little show coming up here with him too. So yeah
that's a name I've heard. Um plays a lot in main you know,
plays a lot around here too. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, very good,
very good. All right. So uh yeah, what are we gonna
play next? Um, um, you know, maybe I'll uh let's see,
I'll play I play Charlie, I guess okay, cool cool, Yeah,
So this is the uh now we should clarify too for people so on
the EP, there's two different versions of this, correct, there's yeah,
yeah, I was recording this and uh and uh, mister Goodbar's tim he
knows. He said he had an idea already, you know, as soon
as he heard it, and he put the bass behind it, and I
said, wow, that's great. You know, I didn't think of that
song like that, you know, or any of the songs that I was
playing with with the fingerpick style. It seemed very folk and slow and I
and when you put that to it, it just gives it life and you
feel like you can merge with the genres like that. Yeah, yea,
yeah, a lot with country right now. Oh yeah yeah, Like he
was saying, the beats now have switched from country and and uh you know
R and B or you know, rap kind of switched it. Yeah,
it's true hip hop, I should say, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, So this song is this song is called Charlie, and it's
dedicated to h. Terry Merrill and her daughter Charlie, And this is she
passed away. She was several years ago now. But the song I wrote
because all the different things, um that would remind me of her, of
her daughter, and kind of one night, just wrote this after waking up,
and I haven't. I really didn't know where that well too now and
I wrote this. This was the first song I ever wrote. Oh wow,
no kidder, Saturday Night Johns and loving Hands, pinks, hears and
borrow cards. The distance between us, it's closer than the next time.
You're in the field and the star is gilling. Just remember I'm waiting hearing,
just like campers in your field. The truth. I'm the flickering light,
and I am the rasing you find. I am the curl in your
grand I'm the chu song on your neck. I am Louis Soulian the wind,
and I'm the silence when you are living love and Laughters survive. That's
Dove keeps that music lying. It's a resonation that still design office. You'll
find I'm the flickering light. I'm Maris, and you'll find I'm the curl
in your grinning. Now the ship's on your neck. I'm louhistling Wheel,
and I'm silence when you rest living love and laughter survived. And I still
keeps the music live. Mike Merril, It's a resonation that still resigned.
And oh yes, you'll be fine. It's me, it's me, it's
me. Him my, amaze me, bo, it's me. Yeah,
it's me, it's me. That's the first song you ever wrote. Huh
yeah, wow, no kidding. I just recently started playing it more of
a song. It was like a spoken word. Oh okay, interesting interesting,
So um when you wrote So, when you wrote that, obviously you
knew you're already playing and everything and and you and you you're already uh,
playing covers and so forth. You just hadn't. Yeah, I was playing
covers, lots of covers, okay, but that was your first time.
And I think I was playing like, um, some sort of progression,
you know, with that, that progression in a song. Yeah, just
thousands have the same you know, it's changed slightly, but right, don't
call me a cheering but but yeah, it's um. And then I just
kind of applied that into there, and yeah, wow. Then I noticed
you get a feeling as a songwriter starting off that you want to keep using
that kind of progression. And then I got to change it. My songs
are going to have that same thing, even though you can change it up
to make it sound different. But yeah, so I'm trying to you know,
do find different ways to make different melodies here? Yeah. Yeah,
and uh that's another thing that's I'm really excited to keep working with people who
are looking for especially you know, like hip hop and be looking for for
beats, looking for you know, riffs and guitar pick you know picking,
finger picking too, like that, because you hear that in a lot different
you know, trap stuff or oh yeah, so absolutely. Oh. By
the way, the person who sent that message on the text line that was
she said, thanks Matt. It's his number two fan, Carrie. His
mom is of course number one. Hey Carrie, she's great. Thanks Carrie.
Oh very nice, very nice. All right. Oh and y'ard Yardbird
Blue Sky says a great song hashtag Shane, thank you. I was gonna
play string pain projection. Yeah. Yeah, this is the title track,
right, yeah, this is the chitle track. I wrote this song when
I was sitting in front of a wood fire and watching a bunch of bands
out there. Afterwards, it just takes like one line, you feel,
one line all of a sudden. I was watching Van Morrison was talking about
that on an old video you can find too, and he says that with
Bob Dylan, he's standing there and he says, you know about songwriting,
And one line might you know, popped in my head and I don't know
why I wrote it down, And that leads to another line, at least
to a chorus, And the next thing you know, you have a song.
You always sometimes you think of something and you I should write it down.
But you got to write it down because it might be a good song,
right otherwise you forget it. I wait to snack. You can't catch
me on rain. I'm running instep, you can't catch me on ray,
instill best on rechess. I've got my head. I'm moling in these Spanish
lines before ties of flat moving him wrong? What they thinking about that?
I rise like feelings land on my feet. The feelines, a bar of
things fight my wing. The string pain projection makes my fingers leap. The
subconscious mind is deafening a sleep. I'm feeding with them on everything, like
my cat on my chest, burning and his stream. The wind's hunging outside
like banshee screen. I've been known to make a s strange sing. I
love the songs that a snowpas sing. The creek babangs when a screen those
swings. I love the songs and stove fight sing, creeks and bings when
a screen those swings, and I love the snails out of camp fire brains.
The slow kid, hugon to my blue jays, can't catch me on
a ratime, Run myself best upon the riches. I've got my health moning
in the thing, shines for ties off of the thinking and fetch me on
the radar, moaning itself best on riches. I've done my health and self
shrines four ties off flame moving. I'm wrong within doubt that awesome? Awesome,
Uh, if you're just joining us. Shane Ballen is here. Our
friend Melanie Liberty from Vermont in the in the chat Room's asked, who's who's
the thick cut of meat on the couch? Shane? Have you ever been
objectified in quite such a manner? Strangely, don't mind it? Yeah,
yeah, I think she mentioned as a compliment. So there you go.
Thank you. Strangely, don't mind if that's the best answer. Shane Ballen
is here. Of course, he's performing some songs from his Yes the Giant
Cardboard Peter Whitehead. He is. He is also often objectified. What does
he think? He doesn't say much I don't know. He's very quiet,
but he watches over us. So so you think you can tell heaven from
hell, little skies from pain? Can you tell the green feet from the
cold? Steal a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?
Hey, they got you to train you hear us go hot, ashes
for tree, hotel, cool, breathe God, comfort for shame? Did
you shame? Walk on? Party in the water for a lee, roll
in the cave. M h m m m m m. How I wish,
how I wish you were here? Just to my soul swimming a fishbowl.
You have to hear running over the same moment what I find the same
moment this, Hugh, I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
awesome if you're just joining us. Shane Balen is here with us live in
studio. Yard Blue Sky was asking earlier about influences. We probably talked about
this last time a bit, but yeah, tell us we were into um,
you know, like a lot of a lot of nineties you know,
alternative rock, um, and uh all sorts of classic rock you know in
seventies. Yeah, um so uh yeah, he just you know, I
would say listen to that a lot of UM, I like the real like
not really blues but powerful belting like Chris Stapleton bluesy but like Chris more like
Chris Cornell. Yeah, and and stuff like that. Um but uh yeah,
I'm just all all over the place, you know, I just play
so many covers. I think I'm just learning from so many different colors covers
that is influencing me. But I listened to a lot of you know,
R and B and hip hop stuff too, yeah, you know, because
I just I can't listen one thing. You listen to it for a while
and I got to change it out the same my mood, definitely, I
gotta change it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so um yeah, And
and I would say, you know, the always you know, like my
grandfather being Clyde, him playing so much country X kind of and it was
in the back of my head here, you know, playing that old Gibson
and um but uh, you know, I don't know who else I can
think of right now, but I just know, I mean, and I
would say people like Brian Munger, people like um, Joey McDonald, you
know, people who are solo guitarists, singers, singers, songwriters. You
know. Yeah, I just thought that was so neat. I've always thought
that was great. My dad's always listened to a lot of music. He
actually managed a band, Fade to Black, back in the back in the
nineties. Oh no kidding? Oh interesting? Yeah, um from where were
they around here? Yeah? They were a Manchester Okay. They play all
over the place. Yeah I remember, yeah, Firewoman they would sing oh
no kidding? Yeah. Were they a cover band or were they originals?
Originals? Yeah? Okay, remember them? So they're called Fade to Black?
Wow, Like do you remember, um, do you remember anything?
Or were you even around that? Yeah? I was like I was probably
like ten, I think something like that. Yeah yeah, oh but uh
yeah you know, and I always been I remember the first concert I went
to his hall and oats oh no kid, I remember my dad carrying me
out. My mom carried me out. I was sleeping. It was like
the end of the shot of the show. Yeah yeah, so oh yeah
and U but yeah, I have a I have trying to think of the
song. I have a couple of new ones, but there's one here,
yeah, called Lost and Found. I wrote about this. Uh, I
was gonna play the other one, but I wrote it about this. Um,
we got we got time, all right, great fraternity brothers of mine.
Um that from up in Plymouth State College when I went there, and
uh, over the years a few you know, thirty years, you start
having people pass away. Yeah, and uh this starting like it was racking
up. I was thinking of their several people, you know, so I
want to give our tribute to them, you know, because I love them.
So yeah, so this was lost and found all right. Yeah,
h h h stand fire, we're love. Stand like a shipped one getting
going home. We frown like an old chattered star left on the ground.
It's in the brown box with all your stuff in it now, Yeah,
it's standing five. Stand fire. I got an old hound dog picked up
at the palme. Look in your room and it's so empty. Now all
I hear is that goose of empty sounds. Will stand every week, traveling
to the next time, memories of my brothers buried in the ground, fractals
of lighting, so fatial sound calling the past. Drinking beer is feeling proud
sitting around the fire. What with your friends getting alloud thinking about our brothers
who are period in the ground. Fine and fine stand fire like a kid
with one mitt and going home to mom. With a frown like an old
hound dog left at the town. It's your one last shot to get your
life back somehow. It's a little old box with all your stuff in that.
Now your lost Stan. Fine. You can keep knocking me down,
but you can't knock me out. Yeah, I'm fine. Memories of my
brothers who I buried in the ground, lost him, sitting around the fire
with all those tools, getting loud, ringing bears, telling lies about the
past, feeling proud in remembering our brothers who are buried in the ground.
Oh that's cool. That's a new one. Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Yeah, now is that on the EP? So that's gonna be on enough
woman, Okay, very good, very good. By the way, our
grim rock is in the chat room and says right on, hello from Pittsburgh.
Cool. Yeah. Yeah. And there was another native. There was
another name I saw in there too, I hurt Soul, Jeremy Hurtzel.
I think I don't know if that's someone you know. Um already that one
already scrolled by, So im I got the name exactly right, But yeah
you got you got a lot of a lot of people in there. Excellent,
absolutely absolutely, Um, yeah you want to you wanna sneak in one
more? Yeah, definitely. Um. Yeah, this one's called the note.
Okay, it's about you know, when you leave your note for it
doesn't have to be your kids, but in this case is this is my
kids when they go to school in their lunch box and left a note in
there, you know, and yeah, you don't have phones or whatever.
And then if they if you know, if you get split fans and they
go into their other place for a week, I can talk to them for
a little bit and you leave a note. And it also reminds me of
the days before cell phones when you leave notes on the table still find them
when you go through all pictures, like hey love you, so I'll talk
to you later on tonight. We'll you know, we'll have this for dinner
or something and xx. You know it's so awesome when you see that and
then reminds you of those days. So this is uh, this one's called
the note. And this is a new one too. Yeah I just wrote
this so o my best, my very best remember it all. So this
is very new. Yeah, like a couple of days ago. Oh sweet,
okay, mm hmmmm, I'm writing this No, I'm just so you
know that's thing about you always when you go I'm using pencil, but tears
cood org too. Who knows that board buck kids crying over you, crying
over lie. Oh yeah, I could have drowned in my tears over you.
Oh the notes on paper m h m hm hm hm h m hm
m m m hm m The note was on paper my hands. They were
shaky and so it was slipping through from cooking bacon and holding note. Red
was what I just said, and I hugged them in the morning. M
I told him I love them and I always will told the mine proud of
them too, And it gives me chills hope that they say did for least
day were colored in their special way. M h m hm. Note what
you leave when you who can't call, Maybe they won't see it at all.
M h m m m angles. They was shaky from book back cam
was on paper in my mind. Answer sh such a leave when you can't
come. Maybe they will be very nice. So that's brand new. Yeah,
it's just you know, sorry for the gap. I was trying to
remember some lyrics. That's what happens, that's all right, that's when you
go live and you don't use notes. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
I love it. Very cool, very cool. Well, Shane,
We're we're almost out of time, but I want to make sure people know
now the so the new the new EP is out. Correct, Yes,
it's out. And you know if you look on right now on my Facebook,
if you look, if you look me up on there, you'll find
it. But it'll say available soon, Okay, okay, yeah, Um,
I guess it'd probably be within within the week, I would imagine,
okay, okay, excellently thirty of them out there. Yeah, so I
got all those four um and uh, mister A good Bys, I gotta
talk to him. We gotta get that one out together. So yeah,
yeah, and then you've got what do you have coming up for shows?
You got anything this week? Or um? No, it's July eighth.
I'm gonna be playing up off King's Highway area and then um and then um,
I'm gonna be playing up at Charlie Shilf. That's a month and a
half from now. Yeah, and um, there's a couple uh, you
know, open mics and stuff that I'm gonna be going to cool cool,
um, but those are the only real shows I have I guess it's kind
of consumed. Everything was coming here and doing the getting everything on the EP.
Yeah yeah, where where's Charlie Hill again? Okay? Yeah yeah man
excel oh wow mean yeah yeah yeah very cool? Um good good and um
anything else you want to make sure? What should people know about how to
find you? We should? We should make sure people know how to spell
your last name? Yes, B A L O N okay Balin. I
might change it to Bayalin, it sounds better, Shane Baylin. Uh so,
yeah, you can find me on Facebook right now. I gotta do
better job of getting a music site up there, but I have all my
music I play out there and you conf'm there or um, you know,
um, if you ever want to reach me, I'm not afraid to give
my number six h three two nine four eight one four two. If you
ever have any um weddings, shows or anything you want to have private parties,
Um, you want to play, I'd love to do it. So
yeah, excellent, excellent, Well Shane, this has been wonderful. I'm
actually gonna appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely, my friend. Absolutely, it's
great. Here you play. I'm actually gonna we'll close out with another one
of the studio tracks that you sent me this Gingerbread Houses, because we didn't
you didn't play that one today, No, yeah, so we'll we'll end
with that one as as we kind of kind of fade out for for the
next show. But thank you again, and of course, uh, if
you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little
bit at WMNH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com.
Thank you again to Jerry Robinson for calling us in the first hour. That
was very cool, and everybody in the chat room. And um, and
don't forget be back bright and early tomorrow morning and am for the morning show
with Peter White, and we will end with this. So this is called
Gingerbread Houses. This is one of the great studio tracks from Shane's new EP.
So check this out. Oh and don't forget tomorrow we have Ricky Mapleton
with us alive in studio and that's gonna do it for us for now.
I'll talk to ya a little bit later. Hi, everybody send ginger bread
un. I was a long for the show. I watched oder the Greater
Swift just my son did and want me to go and King gun drops and
frosting. Each one was sweeter than the left, and all his friends and
I stayed to the end. Why did the time go by fair? Where
did that time go by? Father? Today I received to remindy you to
your any father sis, I showed up to class, He me so fast,
showing everyone else His dad said, everyone kiss my dad. Maybe your
castie teacher that put a smile my chees. I won't get closure to Christmas
is over and half meets on past hill next week. Have me's on past
him next a peek. Today I received a remody to killing any father who
said I showed up to class and he hug me so fast, showed everyone
eyes, showed everyone e I worked as a teacher that hadn't put a smile
on my cheek. I won't get clsured to Christmas is over. Half Hey's
on cost to next week. H I don't think I'll ever get over this
weekly heartbreak that I feel