1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:41,479 Get command, God, don't get so greenly down Matzille coming. Welcome everybody, 2 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,840 here, we go Happy Friday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we 3 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,560 are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM 4 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,439 in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. If 5 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,079 you're in Manchester and hello twelve our online listeners across the nation and around the 6 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:02,399 globe. You can go to my upsite Matt Connerton dot com for all of 7 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:04,920 your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, 8 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,079 etcetera, etcetera. And I am not alone. If you haven't go problems 9 00:01:11,079 --> 00:01:14,480 out for Bath for you son, I've got ninety nine problems, but change 10 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:19,680 one. DJ Reckless is in the house. We are Bath. Yes, 11 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,040 I haven't seen uh. Let's guess they haven't seen you in a long time, 12 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:25,239 but thus obviously not true. I haven't seen you here in a long 13 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,760 time. No, it's been a minute. It's been I'd say it's been 14 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:30,599 a minute and a half. The young people say that, right, a 15 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,400 minute and a half. Yes, yes, so we have Yes. DJ 16 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:40,079 Reckless is here with us on this Friday afternoon. By the way, we 17 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:45,200 do not have coming up in the second hour our musical guest Crooked Cash. 18 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,319 They will not be here. They let Jenny know early this morning, first 19 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:52,879 thing, so they give us notice. But I guess one of the guys 20 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:55,920 has a family emergency. So we hope everything is okay and they will certainly 21 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,560 reschedule, so no worries there. We also don't have Eric Pilter his classic 22 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,040 film review because he's got an internet outage in his area in Cedar Rapids. 23 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:10,360 I guess some city workers accidentally, uh knocked out the internet in his neighborhood. 24 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:15,800 He uh remember when Comcast did that? Did that here? Or that 25 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:22,080 truck did that? I do remember that? Yeah, yeah yeah he Uh 26 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,159 what did he say here? Oh, I'm under an internet outage currently. 27 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,080 A fiber line was hit or struck. I'm waiting. I'm waiting now to 28 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:36,759 see when it comes back on. And he said, uh, it's still 29 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:43,319 down. They haven't been able to repair it yet. He said, uh, 30 00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:46,080 yeah, they couldn't find where the fiber line was cut and had to 31 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,159 stop working for the night. According to Uh, that's what what he was 32 00:02:51,199 --> 00:03:00,159 told. Yeah, yeah, so that's uh, that's a shame. It's 33 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,879 terrible. But anyway, so we'll have Eric Pilcher's a film review on Monday. 34 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,800 So but DJ Reckless is here so and and by the way, you 35 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,840 are going to be tomorrow night at the hop Knot, our amazing sponsor. 36 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:17,039 Of course, if you're watching online, you can see I've got the shirt 37 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,280 I wear the colors with pride, and they've got those delicious Gormet pretzels. 38 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,319 They have an astortment of craft beer, and tomorrow is the hop Knot's fourth 39 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:30,479 birthday, and they've got a bunch of live music music. So during the 40 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,919 day, excuse excuse me, Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. I'm 41 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:38,719 so excited about the hop Knot. It's like I suddenly have a pizza a 42 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,240 piece of pretzel caught in my throat their DJ Reckless, even though I'm not 43 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,360 actually consuming a pretzel. Yeah, the math doesn't add up there. I 44 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:51,680 know it's psychological. But yeah, so they've got during the day, they've 45 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,719 got Matt Litzinger. We'll be performing there at one pm. At three pm, 46 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:59,560 they have Jasmine Man and at four pm they have michaela Horn and then 47 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:01,919 they're gonna to close for a few hours and then they're reopening at eight pm 48 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:09,560 for a dance party with Big Gay Events and DJ Reckless will be performing that 49 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:15,759 guy sucks who does less kid? Oh that's you silly, Oh my goodness, 50 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:19,399 Oh my goodness. So this will be your first time d Jane at 51 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,279 the topnot correct, I think so? Yeah, not definitely. Yeah, 52 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:26,360 yeah, very cool. And you're gonna be part of the big gay events. 53 00:04:26,959 --> 00:04:30,800 Yeah, so that'll be fun. Yeah, I'm excited. It's it's 54 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,800 it's it's been an interesting week, so yeah, yeah, we would have 55 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:38,240 wrapped things up. Yeah tomorrow. Of course, their their fourth birthday and 56 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,519 one of our great sponsors here at WMNH. But yeah, you had last 57 00:04:43,639 --> 00:04:46,639 night, you did. You were at Murphy's Murphy's tap Room, right, 58 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,160 Yeah, started a new new event there weekly. Okay, so you're gonna 59 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,439 be there every thursday? Ye outstanding. Well, I'm gonna have different there 60 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:57,639 every Thursday. I'm not gonna be there every Thursday. But we in it. 61 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,519 We finally launched Reckless Unit Verity, which is huge. It's it will 62 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,720 be careful. You know, Trump had Trump University and that ended horribly to 63 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,279 totally different things. It's no fraud here. There's no one good good there 64 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:15,879 won't be a class action lawsuit against you in the future hopefully. Well, 65 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,279 very good either way, man, it it was it was. It was 66 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:24,560 definitely, definitely huge and very eye opening to see for me and to see 67 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,079 what I can do in this city. We put almost two hundred and fifty 68 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:30,639 heads up in that building, so excellent. It was massive and yo, 69 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,879 honestly it's it was shocking. It was shocking, especially with the turn of 70 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,120 events last night with the car accident on the corner of Elmin Auburn. Oh 71 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,079 what happened? I saw somebody post it on online that there was there was 72 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:45,639 a big to do? Was it? Was it a really bad accident? 73 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,360 It was really bad? Wow? Yeah, multi cars, car and car 74 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,720 and bike? Oh no, yeah, like a motorcycle or an actual bicycle 75 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:59,079 a motorcycle. Oh okay, that's never good. It seems like that's a 76 00:05:59,079 --> 00:06:01,920 trend lately too. Yeah. And one of them at my thoughts are my 77 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,319 thoughts are with the biker because I know her personally. Oh kid, yeah, 78 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:10,720 so I hope she's doing pretty good. No one's heard anything or listen, 79 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,680 I haven't heard anything. Oh wow, that's terrible. It's super unfortunate. 80 00:06:14,959 --> 00:06:16,360 And the staff at Angel City. I hope you're all are doing okay, 81 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:20,040 because that's it's really unfortunate because she was the bar manager at Angel City. 82 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:24,800 Oh okay, yeah wow, oh oh, sorry to hear that. 83 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,160 So you don't know if she's okay or not. No, I'm not entirely 84 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,079 sure. I heard all of this at like two am this morning. Yeah, 85 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,399 I heard. I got a text yesterday right when the event started that 86 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:41,600 there was part of the street was blocked off, and I considered for a 87 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:45,600 minute, honestly canceling the event because I didn't think anyone would come. And 88 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:48,639 I showed up at eleven, my opener was there and there was almost two 89 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,240 hundred people. Wow, and I was I was shocked. I was like, 90 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:57,160 holy crap. But it all comes back to like the networking I've done 91 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,279 in this city, and it's it's honestly, what has been for me recently 92 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,720 is a lot of people have counted me out over the past two years, 93 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:12,360 did me wrong, did me dirty, And now I'm finally showing that Yo, 94 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:15,720 I'm I'm I'm clearly gonna have to do this myself. I've had my 95 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:18,319 help in the city, I've had my guidance, but when it comes down 96 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:24,959 to it, it's whatever. Like last night, that was one hundred percent 97 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:30,319 my promotion me even Murphy said it. Yeah. And for me, me 98 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:33,439 as a local DJ, to be able to put that together on a week 99 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:39,800 notice, it's massive, massive, you only had a week. Yeah. 100 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,360 He came to me like last week and was like, hey, here, 101 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:45,839 you want to do Thursdays. I go absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I 102 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:47,279 want to do Thursdays. Yeah. I'm like, it's a chance for me 103 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,560 to build my rapport with other DJs and book them and for me to get 104 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,759 these college kids out and honestly, yo, shout it to everyone from saying 105 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,680 as who came out last night? That was that was that was huge And 106 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,519 I honestly I haven't I haven't said thank you to anybody yet on like Instagram 107 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,040 or anything like that, because I was waiting for this moment. Excellent, 108 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,000 we're gonna clip this, We're gonna put it up on the gram on DJ 109 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,920 reckless must be what young people are calling all right, But no, but 110 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:18,160 no, honestly, like I want to say thank you to everyone that came 111 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:20,680 out last night and truly supports me weekend and week out, you know, 112 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,959 sharing my flyers, you know, and just showing me support over the past 113 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,120 two years. And I also want to thank the haters because that's been my 114 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,960 fuel from day one. Day one. We all know what happened with me 115 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,159 and soho that really played a key in it, all right, And I'm 116 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:46,120 I'm I'm glad what happened with me there happened because it showed me my worth 117 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:52,120 and who I am, what I can do, and it's I'm grateful for 118 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,159 that, yeah, honestly, and everyone that's did me wrong, counting me 119 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:01,840 out, it's it's water under the bridge. But didn't forget it. I 120 00:09:01,879 --> 00:09:05,360 didn't forget it. It's always been in my head for the past two years, 121 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,200 and now I finally have something to show for it, for all the 122 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,799 hard work and everything else, the tears, the blood, the sweat, 123 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:18,200 it's the frustration, the sweat, the stress. And yeah, I mean 124 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,679 I'm genuinely still in shock about last night. Really, yeah, yeah, 125 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:26,840 honestly, hasn't hasn't all come like come to fruition yet. I'm just like 126 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,919 sitting here, I'm like, Wow, were you unsure that a Thursday night 127 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:35,039 would do well? Is that what it was? Or you anything else will 128 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,480 do well? Right? Right? I'm not sure anything. I always expect 129 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:43,559 zero people to show up. Really yeah, I said last yesterday for the 130 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,000 best prepare for. I said, yesterday to the manager over there, I 131 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:50,159 said, it's going to be hit or miss this week. Yeah. I 132 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,519 think it was a hit. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm 133 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,320 laughing at the chat room. Melanie just said Melanie Liberty, of course from 134 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,840 the great state of Vermont. She just said, what's up, dj Rack. 135 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:05,159 I get pretty sweaty too, yeah, she Djane. She talks about 136 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:09,480 that a lot, totally. Yeah, yeah, very good. Now, 137 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,279 so uh and just to clarify, so, so you've got every Thursday there, 138 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,360 but it won't always be you. Yeah, I know I'm gonna be 139 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,120 there once a month other than like I think I'm doing a Halloween thing there. 140 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:22,720 I'm doing a Taylor Swift party there, and I'm doing my birthday bash 141 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:26,279 day. Oh, very good. When when's your birthday? It's November twenty 142 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,840 nine. But Thanksgiving Eve it's going to be the official birthday bash. Oh 143 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,879 Thanksgiving Eve. That's a big night. Very good, very good. Now 144 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,120 do you know yet? So for the nights that you're not there, you're 145 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:41,879 just gonna book out their DJs. I'm fully booked up until like November. 146 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,639 Now, oh, very good. Put that out the way quick. Do 147 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:48,559 you want to mention who's coming up just some week? Next week, I 148 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,759 have my residence DJ Shaun White there. I'm super excited for him to be 149 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:56,320 there because he's one of the guys I started this all out with. Started 150 00:10:56,399 --> 00:10:58,600 dad open for him. I opened for him all the time. He's a 151 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,600 great doucer and he teaches me a lot, so it was only right for 152 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:07,399 me to put him on. Yeah, and then the week after I'm not 153 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:11,120 exactly sure who I have, but I know I have somebody. Yeah, 154 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:13,600 No, that's good. Yeah. When I used to promote a lot of 155 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:18,320 rock shows in the area and whatnot, I would always try to get get 156 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,600 in with a venue where they would give me a night, you know, 157 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,200 one night a week. Actually, I for if for people around here who 158 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:28,200 who remember the old Uptown tavern that we used to have up the street. 159 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,080 I remember they gave me Thursday nights there for a while, you know, 160 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,000 and it was it was, it was pretty successful. It's you know, 161 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:37,480 never it was never as good as a as busy as a weekend, but 162 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:39,960 you know, Thursday nights if you promote it, right, you can get 163 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:45,720 people out and like you said too, you know, whereas you're really promoting 164 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:50,159 to a college crowd, that certainly helps because I get the impression that a 165 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:52,759 lot of the college kids around here they go out on Thursday nights because a 166 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:56,200 lot of them go home on the weekend on Friday. So Thursday night's kind 167 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,360 of the night. Is that is not enough? Sarially, sorry, I'm 168 00:12:01,639 --> 00:12:07,559 dealing with something for later, but saying as they have a campus like they 169 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,279 you, they have dorms like residence halls. So they all found me out 170 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:16,240 there. Yeah, they all party on in center, are on campus and 171 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:22,279 then don't go out Friday Saturdays, but come out Thursdays. So and I've 172 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,960 always had a good I've always had a good what's call good reputation, would 173 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,240 saying us because I did all their like bar events that say Murphy's for almost 174 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,120 a year and I'm coming up on a year. Yeah, so I built 175 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:43,559 I built that up, and I did a few few on campus events for 176 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,559 them. Yeah, And it was weird because like last year during the Kentucky 177 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,919 Derby, I went on went on their campus for a party and it felt 178 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:56,240 weird. I felt genuinely weird because everybody knew me. I didn't know a 179 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:01,360 single person. Everyone's graving pictures with me, and it's like, I'm not 180 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,799 used to that. So it's the social awkwardness came out, and like, 181 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,399 I gotta figure out a way through that, because like yesterday, I must 182 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,159 have taken at least three hundred photos with people. Oh wow, yep, 183 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:13,879 yeah, and that's what it is. Like, Yeah, i'd take my 184 00:13:13,879 --> 00:13:16,159 photo, I'd take photos of people. I put my hat forward, show 185 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,080 my logo, and because it's subconscious, yes, they see my logo, 186 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,039 they're like, oh, that looks familiar, and then they'll see it somewhere 187 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:28,159 else, like at Murphy's or something. When you mentioned doing that with your 188 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,679 hat, I remember the have you ever you you told Jenny and I about 189 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,759 this, but I don't know if you ever told the story on the air 190 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:41,559 when when Channel nine approached you get into this one. Yeah, yeah, 191 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,879 yes, and I don't think I've been on since that. I'm gonna find 192 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:46,320 the audio while you're talking about it. Yeah, go ahead, okay, 193 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,519 tell that story. I was going to get lunch or something like that at 194 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:54,159 the corner of Elmon Mechanics Street and WMR was out there interviewing for something when 195 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,360 Trump he had just got indicted or something, and I was like, you 196 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,840 know what, Sure, I'll say something. But I was in my work 197 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,200 shirt. So I ran over changed, put on my put on my reckless 198 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,200 hat, put on my reckless hoodie, I think in my jacket, and 199 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:16,679 I made sure I made sure my logo was front and center this time, 200 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,399 because the last time I tried this, that bonfire when we did the radio 201 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,360 thon or whatever. Yeah, a few years ago, they cut my logo 202 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:30,720 off on my sweatshirt. I was like, son of a gun, like 203 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,000 I can't win. But it helped. It was. It was a funny 204 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,159 thing, great, great marketing. Yeah, I posted up on the socials. 205 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:41,039 We at great engagement. The hate messages from all the Trump He's was 206 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,799 hilarious. It was it was it was it was. It was a riot, 207 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,840 the death threats, everything else. I was like, okay, cool, 208 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,639 I found the audio here. Mean about him has always been negative. 209 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,120 Some vooters, like Christian Lacosts, have had their minds made up about whether 210 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,840 or not they vote for Donald Trump for a while now, from January sixth 211 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,519 and now this like when does it stop? You know what I'm when do 212 00:15:00,639 --> 00:15:03,399 people actually realize that he's not a good person and he's not good for the 213 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:09,600 country. Yeah, it's cool that. Uh were there other people they were 214 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,000 talking to too, because they had to wait for you to go do that. 215 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:16,039 Uh, I don't think there was anybody else that I was talking Yeah, 216 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:18,679 but yeah, I know. It was. It was funny. It 217 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,879 was it was a riot. And granted, everything I said in that interview 218 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,320 is obviously true. That's how I feel about him. Yeah, but like 219 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:28,960 I didn't do it for that, No, but that that is great, 220 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,159 that is great publicity exactly. But but you got a lot of uh, 221 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,120 you got a lot of you got a lot of hate for that, Yeah, 222 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,639 from a bunch of eighty year olds like okay, okay, cool, 223 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:46,320 Well just leave your inheritance to me. Yeah, I don't care about your 224 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:52,879 opinion. Just I care about your inheritance or your your will priorities. Honestly, 225 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,720 That's right. But no, no, no, it was. It 226 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:58,960 was funny. It was cool. Yeah. Yeah, well very good. 227 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,039 Now what's uh what's on tonight tonight? I'm at snow. I'm on campus 228 00:16:03,039 --> 00:16:06,919 tonight for not interesting. When I got a sorority's booking me out there, 229 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:10,039 so we're gonna go out there. We're gonna have some fun. I'm gonna 230 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,919 make my connects have some some I'm probably hit up an afterparty two. That's 231 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,919 at some dorm I don't usually I don't usually do stuff like that. So 232 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,200 okay, what time does that start? That's at eight I think eight to 233 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:25,720 eleven, eight eleven, and then tomorrow I'm gonna go to Santa's tailgate and 234 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:30,240 film some TikTok contents, some pranks and stuff like that. Oh you still 235 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:33,559 do pranks, yeah, every now and then. I just haven't uploaded anything 236 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,000 because it gets I don't know. I'm trying to correlate it to what I 237 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:41,639 do. That's why I started the Instagram page for Reckless University, because I 238 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:45,559 don't want that to be a direct reflection of me. I don't want that 239 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:48,240 to target college kids. Oh I see, like my my page is just 240 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:52,279 for DJs and I hate that. I hate it. I hate it. 241 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,879 I hate it so much. Why Because DJs are the most toxic people I've 242 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:03,600 ever met my life. Really m M. Not the ones you work with 243 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:07,079 that you're booking at. No No, No No. For example, though, 244 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,480 like there was a there was a group chat of Boston. DJ's right. 245 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,279 Yeah, And I've never realized how egotistical short people can be. And 246 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,960 like there was this one kid like who would talk so much trash about me. 247 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:23,119 Yeah, he kicked me out of the group chat over something, and 248 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:27,880 then like people would tell me what was being said in that group chat for 249 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,240 almost months after I told you this story. Oh yeah, and it's just 250 00:17:32,279 --> 00:17:34,039 like, yeah, that's all fuel to fuel to me. That's all fuel 251 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,519 to me. I'm playing down in Boston almost every month now, Like okay, 252 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:41,880 cool, Like all right, you live down in Boston, Okay, 253 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:47,000 it's cool, but like, don't trash from me. I'm in a totally 254 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 different market that's totally different than Boston. It's much easier. It's much easier 255 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 out there to pack a club than it is out here. I'll confidently say 256 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:56,160 that, well you got more college kids there, yea here I mean, 257 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,920 And it's like it's like confidently like people people try me for like not being 258 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,079 able to pack soho when I was when I was there, I was bottle 259 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:08,640 service. I do standing room only. That's ten times hardy. Yeah, 260 00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:12,680 always will be bottle service. You've got groups of people coming in making the 261 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:18,640 place look busy. Right standing room only totally different, totally different. Now, 262 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,640 Melanie in the chat room, she was kind of bonding with you there 263 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,440 over what you were saying. She said, yeah, Dji, she said, 264 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:30,319 yeah, DJ's are lame, and then she said what I am short 265 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,599 and I never talked trash? Is that true? And then she says bottle 266 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:40,200 service lame. Yeah, she's with you, she's feeling you, she's picking 267 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,720 up what you're laying down. The young people say that right, No, 268 00:18:44,039 --> 00:18:51,359 okay, sorry, I try hard, too hard. Ah. Now, 269 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,839 how long are you playing tomorrow night at hopknot nine to twelve? Oh? 270 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:59,319 Excellent, excellent, Yeah, excellent, excellent, Well, very good, 271 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,039 very good. Well. DJ Reckless is here with us. If you're just 272 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:03,839 joining us. This is first time on the show in a while actually, 273 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,359 But if you've would like to call in, if you've got anything for Reckless, 274 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,200 well he's here, or anything else you want to talk about. Six 275 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:15,000 zero three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six 276 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:18,039 zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven 277 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:22,519 four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can 278 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:26,599 email me Matt at matt Connerton dot com and of course you can interact endo 279 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:29,839 Pine in the Facebook live chat, but the best thing to do so that 280 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,759 we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at 281 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:41,279 six zero three two five zero six o seven. We should mention two coming 282 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,599 up tonight. So yeah, so Reckless will be he'll be at the hop, 283 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,000 not tomorrow night, very exciting tonight. I'm not sure what they're doing 284 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,440 at the hop, not this evening, but I can tell you here on 285 00:19:52,599 --> 00:19:57,359 w M and H we have retro Spectrum Radio with PAULI C. And I'll 286 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,880 tell you what Paul posted on social medi about it. Friday Night on Retrospectrum 287 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,160 Radio will feature our third and final segment of famous songs ripped off by your 288 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,359 favorite artists and sitting in for DJ Steve this week will be none other than 289 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,400 Dan Randall from Dan Randall and the Randletts. Do join us and we do 290 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,720 recommend for that show. If you'd like to hang out with us on the 291 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:19,319 Facebook live chat, we'd love to see you in there. Just go to 292 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:23,319 the Retrospectrum Radio Facebook page, but open a second browser tab and go to 293 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:30,480 WMH radio dot org and click listen live. Because Paul mutes the Facebook feed 294 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,839 because of all the copyrighted music. Facebook has been especially ticky about that recently, 295 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,720 so so just open a second tab to stream the audio while you hang 296 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,160 out and chat with us in the Facebook live chat. We love to uh, 297 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,400 we love to see people in there. Do you ever you ever try 298 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,640 to stream any of your set to Facebook? And if so, do they 299 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,720 do they knock it down? Or what about it? I've seen you do 300 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,960 it on Instagram, but but I've done on Instagram in a wild They'll kick 301 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,359 me off every yeah, every like five minutes. And the issue is like 302 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,720 they'll lench shadow band me or something. Oh they will. My engagement will 303 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:04,880 tank and it's just like I'd rather not. Oh okay, Yeah, I 304 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,599 learned the hard way that Instagram is very very uh, very strict, much 305 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,079 more so than Facebook. Shannon is on the line, Hi, Shannon, 306 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:23,759 Hello, Hello him, DJ Reckless, Hi, about the retrospect from there? 307 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,359 There are too many songs now they start out and you think it's this 308 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:37,000 one, and it's another one now with the with the keys in the core 309 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:44,640 progression or whatever is it? Okay? I thought you could not pat in 310 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:49,359 a sound. You cannot, but you can get it cleared pat sound, 311 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:56,240 so you if you get it cleared through the label, I believe that the 312 00:21:56,319 --> 00:21:57,440 artist made the song. You can get it cleared through the artist. You 313 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:02,440 can use it if it's a sample. Yeah, yeah, example, is 314 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,000 that what you mean, sham No. I thought you just couldn't claim ownership 315 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:11,039 to a like a beat or or I don't know what I'm trying to say. 316 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,880 Uh, well, I think it was referencing. It's a story. 317 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,920 I heard it one time ago, and I think it was referencing on motorcycles. 318 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,799 You know, the sound of opposed to other bikes. They have distinct 319 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:33,960 sounds, and you couldn't patent that sound. I thought, I don't know. 320 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:41,680 Oh right before uh Peter show started this afternoon, and if he's listening, 321 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:47,880 thank you for playing press Monkey and high DJA Steve. Uh there was 322 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,200 a song on. It was a country song, but it clearly sounded like 323 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,440 stand by Me. You know that, you know the songs? Yeah, 324 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:03,400 it sounded like that that beat? Okay? Does I say beat is my 325 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,160 version of a beat as a sample? When you say beat, like, 326 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:12,400 do you mean the drum track the flow? I think she means like instrumental 327 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:19,519 or like I don't know the technical name. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly. 328 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,720 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, Shannon. It's just just I 329 00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:32,559 don't know. Never mind, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna figure it out 330 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:37,000 if I just a flow do you mean? It sounds like the saying I 331 00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:41,160 don't know? Do you mean like the vibe like, uh yeah, hippie 332 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,359 trip. I'm not gonna go vibe and go real hippie here. But yeah, 333 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:49,799 the if I think of a word, I'll let you know. Okay, 334 00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:53,359 a lot of a lot of snow, Shannon, But if probably see 335 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:59,680 went went through all the different genres of music, country and hip, he'd 336 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,079 probably kind a lot more. That's right, probably carry you through till Christmas. 337 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:07,640 That's right. Yes, we could do an eleven part series. Yeah, 338 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,799 all right, we'll have a good one and television policy and uh Dan 339 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,799 and DJA. All right, Shannon, thank you for the call. All 340 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,839 right, having tweekend too it DJ bye bye. Well very nice. That 341 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,599 opens up the line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zero 342 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:30,519 seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. Yeah, we were 343 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:33,839 on Paul's show. We've been we've been doing this, you know, the 344 00:24:34,279 --> 00:24:40,359 Paul will play like a song and then the original one that guess it yeah, 345 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,400 and then but a lot of them I voted not guilty. I should 346 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,359 have a gavel because you know, as you know, because you're not only 347 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,200 a DJ, but you also play guitar and you sing, and actually you 348 00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:56,319 in fact, a few years ago you performed live on the show. So 349 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,319 as you know, there are a lot of chord progressions in rock mu that 350 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,480 are very common. And and sometimes, you know, when these chord progressions, 351 00:25:06,759 --> 00:25:08,920 you know, they pop up in these different songs and then somebody says, 352 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,079 oh, well that that sounds like that, that sounds like it ripped 353 00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:15,799 off this other song, and it's like, okay, well, if you're 354 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:18,240 gonna say this song ripped off that song, there's also a hundred other songs 355 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,400 that ripped off that song, you know. So so to me, it's 356 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,880 like you have to kind of accept that there are just certain chord progressions and 357 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:33,759 melodies and bits of melodies that are just very common in music, and uh, 358 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,319 and they just they come up a lot, and it doesn't mean necessarily 359 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,279 that it's someone trying to rip somebody else off, or even if it does 360 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:47,119 happen, it's probably not something they're doing consciously. Oh, Shannon is calling 361 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,839 back. I wonder if she thought of the word Hi, Shannon. No, 362 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:55,160 I didn't think of the word. Okay, when you know, when 363 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,400 they say dropped the beat, it's they don't say dropped the sample if they 364 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,440 dropped the beat. Oh, yes, reckless, you're a DJ. Can 365 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:10,880 you explain that? No, drop the beat? You know? Don't you 366 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,799 don't you drop the beat when you're a DJ? Yeah? Oh? Or 367 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,359 that old school speak. No, I get what you're saying. I do 368 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,359 get what you're saying about ticking up what I'm putting down. Yeah, it's 369 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:26,160 it's it's it's I want to say you're going for, Like the beat and 370 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,920 sample can be the same thing. That's two. It's a it's two two 371 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:37,359 different terms for the same thing. Right, So like hold on jay Z's 372 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,200 song dirt dirt off your shoulders or whatever? Okay, dirt off my shoulder? 373 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:48,960 Yeah, yep, you take that, and you take bounce back by 374 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:53,720 Big Sean or whatever. I believe, Okay, same instrumental, Oh, 375 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,480 same sample. I've never heard bounce back to different lyrics. It's just different 376 00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:03,119 lyrics. Yeah. Now, did they have to get permission? And I'd 377 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,480 assume. So, I mean, yeah, the closest I can relate to 378 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:15,400 that is my my friend actually is a producer under the label Itaway a Mafia. 379 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:22,759 He produced the song for Anelli Chappo, which is a which is a 380 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:30,000 rap artist. He used the sample from, or instrumental from Nelly's It's getting 381 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,599 Hot in Here, Hot in Here. I've heard that a few tracks. 382 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,119 Actually yeah, yeah, but he but he used that did he gets? 383 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:41,880 No? Nelly came out. Nelly came out on the on the MTV Awards 384 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,759 and performed the song with him. Don't okay, I didn't see it. 385 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,519 No, no, you The only time you will get in trouble is if 386 00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:52,799 you don't ask for permission, right, if you don't get a contract with 387 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,119 permission, right, That's why you see like ed Shearon ed, Charon recently 388 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,519 just had a lawsuit for it. Yeah that he one, thankfully? Yes? 389 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,000 Who else? Who else? Am? I think that Sharon's been sued 390 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,839 a couple of times now. Led Zeppelin are the worst offenders in history. 391 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,200 But I mean there's eighty eight keys on a piano, correct, Yes, 392 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:19,920 yes there are, and there are eight notes musically speaking, right, Okay, 393 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,240 I mean there's only so much you can do. So something's going to 394 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,839 sound like something And I don't know that's right. I don't have songs being 395 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:32,880 played out there, but i'd be flattered if somebody. I don't know. 396 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,480 I guess I'm just different because to me, it's music. Music is to 397 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:45,000 be shared. It is not a competition, you know, right, I 398 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,960 don't know or how much can I get because they written me off? Right, 399 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:53,440 don't be greedy about your music sharing, right, it's not a competition. 400 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,079 I made up a little risk, but you do have to make a 401 00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:03,119 living. You made you made up a yeah. Uh. Back when I 402 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,960 was eighteen, my my ex he was playing the acoustics. I said we'll 403 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:15,200 try this, and you know he did it. Now, I swear I 404 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,279 had never heard it before. Whether he did or not, I don't know. 405 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:22,880 Some time later, Patience comes on the radio. But guns and Roses, 406 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:29,400 Yeah, are this the part of it up? Muse? Okay, 407 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,119 so that was kind of neat, but yeah, true story? Wow? 408 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:41,480 So okay, all right, I just don't know, uh lingo or I 409 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:44,880 don't know. I think have you considered legal action against guns and Roses? 410 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,359 Yeah? But you know it's it's true. It's true story. I mean, 411 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:53,240 I if I knew how to get ahold of him, I'd say, 412 00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:56,039 you don't tell him. I'm not lying. He played, he played, 413 00:29:56,039 --> 00:30:00,519 It made the sound, you know, and how do it? No? 414 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:07,200 Is that is that the progression? Is that the core pro meaning? No, 415 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,079 no, no, no, I'm so lost. No no no, 416 00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:14,400 no no no no no, no no no no. Is that the progression? 417 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,680 Or is that just a beat a riff? All right? I don't 418 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,160 think that doesn't sound like patience by guns and Roses. That sounds more like 419 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,720 get ready by no no no, no, no, no, no no 420 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:33,920 no, so get ready. No, you're not doing no no no. 421 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:40,920 I wish I could sing falsetto it. I can, oh, I guess 422 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,440 I can do it if I try. Get Ready played bass. This is 423 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:55,480 why I played bass, because this is what happens when a sick Okay, 424 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:02,720 Christen, does you gotta go to radio voice? Thank you? All right? 425 00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:06,799 For the rest of the rest of the rest of the show. He's 426 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:10,640 just gonna sing. No, I can't do that, you know what. 427 00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:14,039 I'm actually a pretty good harmony singer. If I'm singing with other people, 428 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:15,559 I can find the octave and kind of lock in and whatnot. But on 429 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:19,720 my own. I do get lost. I have over the years had several 430 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,920 vocal coaches, all of all, three of whom at different times in my 431 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,559 life. We're very encouraging, but yeah, I just could never quite I 432 00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:34,000 actually did years ago right here in Manchester. I participated in a recital because 433 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:40,759 my vocal teacher at the time was having a recital at the library and it 434 00:31:40,839 --> 00:31:45,759 was like a bunch of her thirteen year old students and me singing. Actually 435 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:49,680 there was one other adult there part of those, but yeah, it was 436 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,920 kind of weird. I sang Let It Be by the Beatles, Let it 437 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:59,599 Be. She wanted me to sing Daughters by John Mayer, but that would 438 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,880 have been alinging for me because I would have been vomiting in my mouth while 439 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,680 singing it. But I loved singing Let it Be. Let's see who we 440 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,079 have on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's 441 00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:17,599 this, Hey, Maddie, it's me. It's polyc Yes. So tonight 442 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,759 we're going to be doing a little bit of a twist to the last segment 443 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:27,440 of the plagiarism. So like we did play tonight, some of them were 444 00:32:27,559 --> 00:32:30,880 they're mostly samples songs. Okay, so you have to guess. You and 445 00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:35,200 Dan Randall and our listeners at home, we'll have to guess whether or not 446 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240 there was actually a lawsuit. Oh, that'll be fun. Oh, I 447 00:32:38,319 --> 00:32:42,480 like this, This will be cool. Just play like any of Edge Shearing 448 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:46,920 songs. There is there was a lawsuit, that's that's true. But he 449 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:52,279 always wins always, yeah, which was crazy to me. Yeah, but 450 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,480 yeah, that'll be fun. I'm looking forward to that, Paul. I've 451 00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:57,400 enjoyed this whole plagiarism thing. It's been a lot of fun. But this 452 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,240 this sounds like it'll be particularly stim and it'll be wonderful to see Dan Randall 453 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,400 of Dan Randall and the Randletts. Absolutely, he'll tell us all about the 454 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,759 recent tour he's been on as a as an audience member. Do you think 455 00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:15,759 he'll do you think he'll sign us with a sharpie? I'm sorry you cut 456 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:16,759 out? What was that, Matt? Do you think he'll sign us if 457 00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:21,400 we give him a sharpie? Will he sign our body parts? I hope 458 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:27,559 so. I mean I already have like a whole rainbow variety of sharpie's in 459 00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:31,680 my backpack, so I'm hoping he like colors. Me a little bit. 460 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:37,480 Actually, wow, that'll be great. You know something that Dan himself would 461 00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:42,279 want. I want his autograph in every single color of sharpie that I have. 462 00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:47,119 Yeah, outstanding, that'll be fun. Yeah, because Dan would do 463 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,119 that. Dan would go. I mean, Dan's going to see I just 464 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:53,839 spoke to him on I think Wednesday night, yea, and to make plans 465 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:57,000 for him to come in. And he told me that he's going to see 466 00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:00,200 Corey Saltman at the end of the month. And I was pissed off him 467 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,039 because he didn't tell me that he was going to that. I would have 468 00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:07,119 went with him. He's going to see Corey Corey Feldman a storian. Oh 469 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,239 my god. Yeah, it's like a lecture. It's a lecture. Really. 470 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,760 Yeah. We'll get the details on it tonight. But what Dan told 471 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,159 me, I'm like, Dan, why didn't you tell me? Man? 472 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,800 He goes, well, the tickets are hundred and twenty five bucks. I 473 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,400 didn't think he wanted to sit through two hours of Corey Felban. I mean, 474 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,239 do you want to go? And I said, hell, no, 475 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,559 I just wanted you to ask me and think of me. Oh my god, 476 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,199 yeah, no, I couldn't sit through two hours and then he's gonna 477 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:37,480 meet him to meet and greet. Oh boy, wow, hey, listen, 478 00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:42,880 don't ask he's gonna He's gonna ask Corey if he could at least do 479 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,079 a couple of station bumpers for us, and uh, maybe call in at 480 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:52,039 the show. So maybe Corey Selman will call in. Well probably not outside 481 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:55,800 the rebel fossibility. That's that's good, Okay, all right, cool. 482 00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,920 I'd like to I would like to hear him saying What's Up with the Youth? 483 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:01,840 I think that would be a lot of fun. That's what I told 484 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,840 Dan, I said, I'd love to have him come into the studio and 485 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,360 do an unplugged version of What's Up with the Youth? Yes, we can 486 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,639 all sing it with him. It'd be great. I'd love that only on 487 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:14,639 the chorus. Would let him have the verses. You know, I don't 488 00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:19,039 want to ruin. I hope he still dresses like Michael Jackson because you know, 489 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,400 you remember. You might not remember this, but we played oh my 490 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:29,599 God. It was a Corey Feldman's cover song of of Something That Shouldn't. 491 00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:31,239 He turned it into a sexy love song, but it was. It was 492 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,480 imagined by John Lennon. Do you remember we played that with Corey Feldman up 493 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,559 front. You know, I actually I think I do sort of recall it. 494 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:44,639 It's a little fuzzy, but yeah, it sounds familiar. Yeah, 495 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:49,960 well, he tries to he does the little sounds that Michael Jackson may he 496 00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:53,719 sings. He tries to be Michael Jackson's pathetic. Yeah. It's pretty pretty 497 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,679 bizarre. But yeah, I mean, since the other Corey is dead, 498 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:05,599 there's no reason to see one Corey, right, reckless? What right? 499 00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,440 Reckless? Yeah right? The other Corey Corey Hayman's dad. So you know 500 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,599 looking up who oh yeah, back in the day, brother, there were 501 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:20,760 two actors, teen actors, and they were in every bad teen movie you 502 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,920 could think of, except for The Lost Boys that was a good one. 503 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,840 But these two guys were both called Corey, Corey Hayman, Corey Seldman, 504 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,360 and there were just two. I don't know. They were so bad, 505 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,119 they were lovable, you know what I mean. And you know Corey Seldman 506 00:36:37,159 --> 00:36:42,159 the one Dan's going to Sason. Okay, I see, he's been in 507 00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:46,320 commercials since he was a little boy. We we uh have in the archives 508 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:52,199 at WMH video footage of Corey Haymes doing a Heinz ketchup commercial when he was 509 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:58,079 like six years old. He in some like pretty big movies too. Oh 510 00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:00,480 yeah, yeah, Same by Me, The Gooney East. Oh yeah yeah, 511 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,880 stand by Me is really good. Man by Me was probably his biggest 512 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,599 movie. He was also in Friday the Thirteenth, A New Beginning. Oh 513 00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:15,840 okay, And they had a reality show. It was Corey Feldman and his 514 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,360 wife and Corey Ham comes to live with them. It was I think it 515 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,000 was on VH one, right, yeah, I remember that. I think 516 00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:29,559 it might have that lasted what fifteen twenty minutes? Yeah, I didn't last 517 00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:35,280 long, it was, Yeah, I didn't last long. I think it 518 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,719 was called The Two Corries, I think, if I'm not mistaken, but 519 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:43,400 uh yeah, and then uh and and I think shortly after that, Corey 520 00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:47,599 Corey Ham left us. Yes, Corey Hayme left us. And also Corey 521 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:53,199 Feldman was also on several episodes of A Love Bote. I didn't know that, 522 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:58,960 but I'm not surprised, right, Yeah, he was. He played 523 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,800 a problem child and one of the episodes he was still in Mirror's Kid in 524 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:09,159 an episode. Oh all right, it's pathetic, I know, Mad, 525 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:14,400 I'm sorry. I'm into the next I'm sorry, Well, I know that's 526 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,360 kind of the point of your show exactly. All right, I will speaking 527 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,400 of that, I'll see you guys in a few hours. Man, all 528 00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:24,079 right, sounds good, Paul, I'll see you then. Than you have 529 00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:28,519 a good night, Reckless you two? All right? Here it up? 530 00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:30,360 Brother, of course? All right, bye bye, it has to be 531 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:35,280 done. Always nice to hear from poll C and I get to see police 532 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,000 every Friday night from eight to eleven PM for Retro Spectrum Radio with Policy along 533 00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:43,679 with j Stevens. Tonight, we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan 534 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,840 Randall and the Randlettes. Yeah. Ever hear this song reckless? What's up 535 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:54,400 with the youth? That sounds like a remix? Actually it's quite bad. 536 00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:00,119 Shannon is back on the line. Hi, Shannon. I was all excited. 537 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:05,280 I thought it was going to educate me a little one, but whatever, 538 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:13,400 okay, question what's up with the youth? Shannon? By the way, 539 00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:16,559 what's up with the youth? Oh? Well, they butchered the English 540 00:39:16,639 --> 00:39:21,000 language, so I mean, what else you want? Hey? We just 541 00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:23,760 made it easier, thank you. Yeah. No, Hey, it's smarter, 542 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,840 not harder. Okay, you all we use literally always rasis like way 543 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:34,039 too much. Well, you can. You can blame Generation X for that, 544 00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:37,679 My generation is responsible for for that, and then it's just it's perpetuating 545 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,840 Generation X too. But I don't say like all the time. You probably 546 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,760 say it more than you realize, because we all we all say we all 547 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,000 say it more than we realize. Shannon, trust me, we all say 548 00:39:50,079 --> 00:39:52,599 we all say it more than we realize. No, the real question is 549 00:39:52,639 --> 00:40:02,679 what's up with the youth? Sorry? I thought was that the chorus? 550 00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,519 What was it gonna? Corey Feldman? He was in stand by Me? 551 00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:10,159 Now? Was he one of the kids, the younger kids of the older 552 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:17,079 one? What's up with the youth? Corey Feldman? Was did you say? 553 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,599 Was was he one of the four boys that went to look for the 554 00:40:21,639 --> 00:40:24,360 body? I believe so. I haven't seen that movie in decades, but 555 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:29,519 I believe so because River Phoenix is gone. He was crazy. He played 556 00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:34,440 Chris Gordo. I don't know his real name. Burne is Jerry O'Donnell. 557 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,760 And then the other one was Teddy, and I think Teddy is Cory, 558 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,480 So I don't know. By the way, Paul is confirmed this is the 559 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:50,800 correct version, not the remix. I was wrong. What's that, Shane? 560 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,880 Well, when you're talking about sampling and course progression and everything else that 561 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,679 bridges, where's the hook come in? Oh? The oka is coming up? 562 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,840 I think the hook is coming up, Shannon. That's the part where 563 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:09,360 he says, what's up with the youth? Okay, the lago? All 564 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:15,199 right? The youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with the 565 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:23,480 youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with you with youth? 566 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:29,960 What's up with the youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with 567 00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:35,000 youth? Shannon? Well, what's uh? I can almost hear the song. 568 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,719 That's an original composition by Corey Feldman. Shannon, how dare you but 569 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:46,920 the beat the reckless? Uh? Do you know where the beat is from? 570 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:54,480 On? What's up? You? Thankin's bad? What's up? Who's 571 00:41:54,519 --> 00:42:00,519 bad? Michael Jackson? Oh, Michael Jackson bad by Michael Jackson. Right, 572 00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:04,480 Well, that would make sense that Corey Feldman idolized Michael Jackson. Okay, 573 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,199 So I don't know this stuff. I don't I don't have cable, 574 00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:09,519 I don't read the paper, right, listen to the radio stuff? Huh, 575 00:42:09,679 --> 00:42:19,079 don't know? That's where I get my rapa hear that Corey Feldman, 576 00:42:19,159 --> 00:42:22,800 he was spitting some rhymes in that part. Did you know that he could 577 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,880 rap? No? No, no mean either from listening to that, he 578 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,239 clearly cannot. No. I can do a better job than that. Yeah, 579 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:42,079 go ahead, go ahead, spit some bars you what's up with you? 580 00:42:43,639 --> 00:42:46,239 Spit some bars about what's up with the youth? Shannon? You can 581 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:53,519 do it? What's up with the youth? Could you gotta learn the freestyle? 582 00:42:53,559 --> 00:42:59,679 Shannon? You mean like your mimics, your impressions, my impressions, 583 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:04,320 that's a completely different subject. Police is doing impression of somebody. My impressions 584 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:09,360 are masterful, they are thank you. Uh huh, I know point the 585 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:15,760 young people say that right, reckless on point. He's dozing off on the 586 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,920 loved state. What Hey, that was years ago. Hey, we don't 587 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,360 bring that out. That was years ago. There's a different time of my 588 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:28,199 life. Shannon. Well, now you've done it. Now I'm going home. 589 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,280 I'm going to the next gig. Yes, all right, Shannon, 590 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:37,239 by bye bye. She never did tell us beef. Now you get all 591 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,440 you're beefing with chipping Now now she's off the phone, y'all got beef. 592 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,960 Y'all is beefing, beefing. I like to say it with a deep voice, 593 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,320 beefing. Police in the chat room says, this is like the waiting 594 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:52,519 room in purgatory. Oh, purgatory. That's where don Imus is. As 595 00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:58,159 we as we learned recently, Isaac Banks says Shannon in the eighties. Eighties 596 00:43:58,199 --> 00:44:02,039 movie of stand By Me was Will Wheaton aka Gordon. I don't remember if 597 00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:06,719 Will Wheaton is one of the names that Shannon mentioned. I was too busy 598 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,719 jamming out to What's Up with the Youth by the great Corey Feldman. So 599 00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:14,039 yeah, so do you have to It's almost the top of the hour. 600 00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:15,119 Do you have to go? It's time to wrap it up. We want 601 00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:21,199 to make me at least yeah. We want to make sure before you go 602 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,599 that we plug everything. So where are you gonna be tonight? Tonight? 603 00:44:23,639 --> 00:44:30,440 I am at SNHU. Tomorrow, I'm at the hop not hope to see 604 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,840 you there, everybody. It's gonna be fun. Yes, yes, I 605 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:38,440 don't exactly think you've seen me. DJ sounds like twenty twenty one and I 606 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,599 had a Windows laptop. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 607 00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:45,440 that's right, that's right, You're right. Yeah, yeah, guys. 608 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:51,280 And then every Thursday Murphy's Tap Room. Yep, it's a wild one. 609 00:44:51,679 --> 00:44:54,320 Yep, yep. Five dollar green tea shots, two dollar bud Lights, 610 00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,599 five dollars Cheetos, five dollars Cheetos, Chitos, Oh, Titos. I 611 00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:04,760 thought I said Cheetos. Yeah, unfortunately, else ts. That'd be fun 612 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,880 if you could get like, well, no, actually five dollars for a 613 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:12,559 bag of Cheetos would be expensive, but Titos. That's good. It's great 614 00:45:12,679 --> 00:45:15,639 for me, very good. And where should people go online to follow you? 615 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:22,400 Instagram at dj R E k L s s dj reckless very good, 616 00:45:22,679 --> 00:45:25,639 and you have, but you have a separate one for reckless university. Correct 617 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,039 say it's it's literally reckless university type practis university in the sound into the bar 618 00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:34,440 and there it is. All right, very good, very good, Well, 619 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,000 thank you, thank you for coming in. I'm gonna get to a 620 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,519 break and we'll let you scoot. I think I'm gonna play What's Up with 621 00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:44,599 the Youth? Uninterrupted by Corey Feldman because look, it's uh, the guy's 622 00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:45,880 got a show coming up in the area, so it might as well. 623 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,599 Big show, masks. It's gonna sell out all right, DJ Reckless, 624 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,320 thank you so much. Give give this a listen, and then we'll show 625 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:58,239 some love to our sponsors and then we'll be back with more Matt Connerton Unleashed, 626 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,599 WM H Rip the Dove Alsa you are listening to to WM and H 627 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:10,920 thirty four point three, Get command, guy, don't get so preenly, 628 00:46:12,159 --> 00:46:49,960 don Matzille Gilly. Welcome back everybody, as we are into our number two 629 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,880 numerow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w 630 00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,400 m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. 631 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,159 And it is a glorious day outside in Manchester, also on Comcast Channel 632 00:47:05,199 --> 00:47:07,639 six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across 633 00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:10,679 the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton 634 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,000 dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact 635 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:21,039 info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, September twenty 636 00:47:21,039 --> 00:47:23,599 second, twenty twenty three. My favorite day of the week here, it's 637 00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:28,199 my long day at WMNH and I do love it so not only am I 638 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,840 on this show but of course tonight I'll be on Retro Spectrum Radio with Paulyc 639 00:47:31,039 --> 00:47:36,599 as we do every Friday night right here from WMH ninety five point three FM, 640 00:47:36,639 --> 00:47:38,960 and tonight we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the 641 00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:43,440 Randletts, making a return to the show for this evening, so looking forward 642 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,800 to that as well. That'll be really cool. Thank you again to DJ 643 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:50,039 Reckless for joining us during the first hour, and I do want to remind 644 00:47:50,039 --> 00:47:53,920 you that tomorrow night, DJ Reckless will be Djane at the Hopknot from nine 645 00:47:53,960 --> 00:48:00,239 pm to midnight as the Hopnot our amazing sponsors they celebrate their their four the 646 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:04,119 birthday, and so proud of them and so proud to have them as a 647 00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:07,840 sponsor and to have that association. It's a wonderful thing. They've got those 648 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,480 delicious gourmet pretzels, they have an assortment of craft beer. They've also got 649 00:48:10,519 --> 00:48:14,559 stuff going on during the day tomorrow. I would be remiss if I didn't 650 00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:20,000 mention that too. They've got some great musicians. Tomorrow one pm they have 651 00:48:20,039 --> 00:48:23,639 Matt Litzinger will be performing live. At three pm they have Jasmine Man, 652 00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:28,159 and then at four pm they have michaela Horn. So they've got a few 653 00:48:28,159 --> 00:48:30,000 live performers tomorrow, and then they're going to close from five to eight for 654 00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:34,199 a few hours to get ready for the evening, and then they'll be reopening 655 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:38,000 at eight pm for a dance party with big gay events and a set from 656 00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:43,920 DJ Reckless from nine pm to midnight. That is all happening tomorrow night at 657 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,679 the hop Knot. So Jenny and I will be there at some point and 658 00:48:49,119 --> 00:48:52,599 we'd love to love to meet you if you want to come on down enjoy 659 00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:57,519 some delicious gourmet pretzels and some craft beer, and wish the hop Knot a 660 00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,159 happy birthday. Also, if you're just joining us, just a couple of 661 00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:06,960 notes about today's show for anyone who's puzzled, if you're at all confused. 662 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:12,480 We did have a musical guest stop plan for today, the duo Crooked Cash. 663 00:49:12,559 --> 00:49:15,800 We're going to be making the return of the show today, but one 664 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,039 of the guys reached out to Jenny first thing this morning to let her know 665 00:49:19,119 --> 00:49:22,719 that he had a family emergency. So hopefully everything's okay. Completely understandable, 666 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,880 of course, so we will rebook them. I'm sure Jenny will rebook those 667 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,199 guys for another day, but I hope everything is okay. They're very talented 668 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:35,760 musicians but also a couple of really good guys too. I really enjoyed meeting 669 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,480 them the last time that they were here, so but so we will have 670 00:49:38,599 --> 00:49:42,800 them on in the future, I promise. Also, we don't have Eric 671 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,119 Pilter's classic film review. We're going to have that on Monday instead. Eric 672 00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:51,559 has been suffering through an internet outage. Apparently in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 673 00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:55,920 Some city workers accidentally cut a line that they shouldn't have or something that it 674 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,880 knocked out the internet in Eric's neighborhood. So he's been kind of dead in 675 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,800 the water as far as getting the film review together. So he's gonna work 676 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,519 on it this weekend and we will have that on Monday. But in the 677 00:50:08,559 --> 00:50:15,559 meantime, we have lots to discuss. Let's see and actually let me refresh 678 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:21,119 the Facebook here will. I do want to say helload everybody in the Facebook 679 00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:22,880 live chat. And speaking of chat, by the way, too, I 680 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:30,320 did mention on the show yesterday and I did take Paul C's suggestion, so 681 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:36,119 you can join the Connor Tones if you go to Matt Connerton dot com slash 682 00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:39,559 tones. It's not anything you have to pay for. It's totally free. 683 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,920 But it's sort of an unofficial club that you can become a member of. 684 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:50,159 Just you'll have to put in your email address and assign yourself a password to 685 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,679 enter. But kind of like a Facebook group. But you can go in 686 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:57,079 there and post stuff, but maybe you want to keep it away from social 687 00:50:57,079 --> 00:51:00,360 media, something a little bit more exclusive. I mean, in theory anyone 688 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,800 can join, but it'll be you know, it's it's behind uh uh, 689 00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:07,320 the the wall there on the Matt Connerton unleashed Facebook page in a sense, 690 00:51:08,119 --> 00:51:14,119 so you know, we won't allow anything in there that is either pornographic or 691 00:51:14,199 --> 00:51:16,480 hate speech. Other than that, though, you can go in there and 692 00:51:16,519 --> 00:51:21,800 pretty much you know, no restrictions on language or anything like that. And 693 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,960 uh, if you want to go in there and maybe you have some dialogue 694 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:30,480 or anything that maybe is not you don't feel quite as comfortable doing on social 695 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:31,519 media, you can do that. You can post whatever you want in there, 696 00:51:31,519 --> 00:51:37,199 if you have ideas for the show, suggestions, subjects, you want 697 00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:39,360 to fact check something, whatever it is. You know, you can go 698 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,599 in there and post whatever you want. Really, but uh, and and 699 00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:49,480 there will be some additional content in there that is exclusive to that page in 700 00:51:49,519 --> 00:51:52,079 the future, but right now it's just basically a basic forum that is set 701 00:51:52,159 --> 00:51:57,199 up. But but yeah, just go to Matt Connerton dot com slash tones 702 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,199 and you can join. You can be one of the Connor Tones. And 703 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:05,199 thank you again to police for making that suggestion. I do love it. 704 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,079 Let's see, we'll say, I'll let everybody in the Facebook lave chat. 705 00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:10,280 We'll see who we have in here. Oh, hello to Carrol Zowarrowitz who 706 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:15,679 joins us. Also Isaac Banks, whom you might recall. He's from Greensboro, 707 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:21,280 North Carolina. He says, ri ip Corey Hame while he died a 708 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,719 number of years ago. And the oh, there were two seasons of the 709 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,960 Two Corries. Oh so I had the name right. The reality show that 710 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,400 Corey Haman Corey Feldman did it was the Two Corries. Isaac Banks also said 711 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,639 hashtag Matt Connerton, Corey Feldman, and Corey Hame were in Michael Damien's video 712 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:44,239 of rock on Oh Yes, Yes, And I believe we've played that on 713 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,280 retro Spectrum Radio with policy. I believe Paul played that song one week. 714 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,480 I don't remember what the subject was, but I believe that song was played 715 00:52:53,679 --> 00:52:59,239 policy of course in the is in the Facebook lave chat and encouraging me to 716 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:06,159 crank up the What's Up with the Youth by Corey Feldman. Melanie implored me 717 00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:08,719 to stop answering the phone. No, no, no, Isaac Banks says, 718 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:15,440 hashtag DJ Reckless. You can check out is Heidi Lenhart Facebook live page? 719 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,639 Well a suggestion there for DJ Reckless, the Heidi Lenhart Facebook like page. 720 00:53:20,679 --> 00:53:27,679 I'm not sure who Heidi Lenhurt is. Let's see. Jay fed joins 721 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,960 us in the Facebook live chat, also from the Great State of Vermont. 722 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,079 Hello, Isaac Banks, says Shannon in the eighties move Oh I read that 723 00:53:34,119 --> 00:53:38,880 already. Sorry, never mind, all right, Paulice says, referring to 724 00:53:39,039 --> 00:53:45,000 the song. Well, we were playing earlier while Shannon was on the line. 725 00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:47,360 This is what happens when you're waiting in line for the waiting room. 726 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:52,159 When you're in there, it's just it's just Corey. It's Corey Feldman, 727 00:53:53,159 --> 00:54:01,199 little boy. Let's see ye. And we talked about two briefly. Paul 728 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:06,559 mentioned when he called in that Corey Feldman is going to be doing a speaking 729 00:54:06,639 --> 00:54:10,039 engagement that our friend Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts will be attending, 730 00:54:10,119 --> 00:54:15,320 and Paul said regarding that, wtf could he possibly talk about for three 731 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,079 hours that wouldn't make people run for their lives? Yeah, I don't know. 732 00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:22,840 I mean, I've seen I've seen over the years some interviews with Corey 733 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:29,960 Feldman, and based on the interviews that I've seen of him and also his 734 00:54:30,119 --> 00:54:31,480 you know, he's made appearances on The Howard Stern Show over the years and 735 00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:37,920 whatnot, based on that, I could not imagine paying money to actually hear 736 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:43,000 him talk and give some sort of presentation. I honestly cannot imagine it. 737 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,280 Miriam Banish in the chat room says, is this the song that never ends? 738 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,880 L ol? Referring of course, to What's Up with the Youth by 739 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,320 Corey Feldman, which I did play earlier. Actually, Miriam, it's funny. 740 00:54:52,679 --> 00:54:55,719 The song I think is only about three minutes long, maybe three and 741 00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,719 a half at the most, but it does feel like it goes on and 742 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,920 on and on and on and on. Yeah, So I understand everything's relative, 743 00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:08,880 but I understand what you're saying. Oh, Isaac Banks says, good 744 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:15,159 afternoon, Tammy Cochrane, how are you doing my love? Oh? Isaac 745 00:55:15,519 --> 00:55:20,320 and Tammy Cochrane. Wow, that is scandalous. Isaac Banks also says hashtag 746 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:25,119 Matt Connerton. Heidi Lenhart is a actress and singer from the TV show. 747 00:55:25,559 --> 00:55:31,639 She did a band of California Dreams on NBC after Saved by the Bell on 748 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:37,480 NBC. Okay, I thought the name was vaguely familiar, but I really 749 00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:40,400 couldn't be sure. Six zo three two five six seven is a studio line 750 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,840 if you would like to join us today six three two five six seven. 751 00:55:45,039 --> 00:55:49,920 We do have some political news to get to, but this is just one 752 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:55,679 other thing. Regarding yesterday's show, I want to correct something that I said 753 00:55:55,719 --> 00:56:00,800 that I later realized was kind of ridiculous, but not anything political. It 754 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:06,559 has to do with a comment I made regarding music. So we had a 755 00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:10,239 great guest yesterday, Rick Perry from the great State of Texas. In fact, 756 00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,920 I would say that Rick Perry from the band Iron Jaw, probably the 757 00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:22,000 second most famous Rick Perry from the State of Texas. He joined us first 758 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,119 via Skype, and then Skype became an issue, so then via phone. 759 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:28,000 But I love that band Iron Jaw, what a great band. Well, 760 00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:30,079 you'll you'll be hearing more of them on the show in the future. But 761 00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,920 you know, they've got kind of a they've got a sound where you know 762 00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:37,400 you can hear their influences. Definitely Judas Priest, Iron Maiden bands like that, 763 00:56:37,079 --> 00:56:40,119 and I think it was so, you know, we talked a little 764 00:56:40,119 --> 00:56:44,599 bit about that. Of course, we talked about influences. And then Shannon, 765 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,599 this was because of a Shannon called Shannon happened to call afterward, and 766 00:56:46,639 --> 00:56:51,119 I don't remember how the subject came up, but I assume it had to 767 00:56:51,119 --> 00:56:55,079 do with my conversation with Rick Perry. Shannon said something about Bruce Dickinson and 768 00:56:55,280 --> 00:57:00,719 how in the nineties Bruce Dickinson had left Iron Maiden and did some solo material 769 00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:05,519 and the comment that I made that I realized later was so absurd, and 770 00:57:05,559 --> 00:57:08,320 I just want to correct myself. I said something about, Yeah, I 771 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:14,000 was talking about Bruce Dickinson's solo material. I think he did maybe three albums 772 00:57:14,039 --> 00:57:16,559 and then went back to Iron Maiden. Three solo albums, maybe only two, 773 00:57:16,599 --> 00:57:21,360 No, I think there were three, and then and then he went 774 00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:22,480 back to Iron Maiden. But the comment that I made was I said, 775 00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:27,719 yeah, Bruce Dickinson's solo stuff sounds a lot like Iron Maiden, so if 776 00:57:27,719 --> 00:57:30,719 you like Iron Maiden, you'd probably like his solo stuff. But a specific 777 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:35,960 song came up in the conversation. It was a song Tattooed Millionaire. Shannon 778 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,840 mentioned it and then just for the hell of it, last night, late 779 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,079 last night, I was like, you know, I haven't heard that song 780 00:57:43,119 --> 00:57:45,679 in so long, and I always really loved that song. So I played 781 00:57:45,679 --> 00:57:52,039 it and as I'm listening to it, I realized, this song doesn't sound 782 00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:55,559 anything like Iron Maiden. And that's what I realized. I'd made a completely 783 00:57:55,639 --> 00:58:00,639 ridiculous comment. Now, granted I didn't say that all of Bruce Dickens solo 784 00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:07,679 material sounds like Iron Maiden, but to imply that that's basically what Bruce Dickinson's 785 00:58:07,679 --> 00:58:13,480 solo material is, that's not accurate. Some of his solo material certainly sounded 786 00:58:13,519 --> 00:58:17,199 like Iron Maiden, but the song Tattooed Millionaire sounds nothing like Iron Maiden. 787 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,119 And when I realized that I hadn't listened to it in so long, I 788 00:58:21,159 --> 00:58:23,559 just I felt ridiculous. I mean, this does not sound, if anything, 789 00:58:23,599 --> 00:58:25,239 this song. I'm just gonna play a little bit of it. I'm 790 00:58:25,239 --> 00:58:29,199 not gonna play the little thing, but if anything, at least the verses 791 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:34,519 Bruce Dickinson, the way he sings, he actually sounds like Brian Johnson from 792 00:58:34,519 --> 00:58:38,480 ac DC and on this particular song, which is very un Bruce Dickinson like, 793 00:58:39,159 --> 00:58:43,360 but nothing about this sounds like Iron Maiden. And I'm listening to the 794 00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,679 song because I always loved this song and I hadn't heard it in so long, 795 00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:49,280 And then I'm like, I can't believe I made that comment about how 796 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,159 his solo stuff sounded like Iron Maiden. There's nothing here. Let's listen to 797 00:58:52,239 --> 00:59:16,840 this already that sounds nothing like Iron Maiden right now. If you didn't know 798 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:20,880 who that was and you'd never heard that song before, and I said, 799 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,519 who do you think this is, what would you say? You would say 800 00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:27,519 Brian Johnson era ac DC, Right, that's what that sounds like. Doesn't 801 00:59:27,559 --> 00:59:42,199 sound anything like Iron Maiden. I do love the song. Maybe I'll play 802 00:59:42,199 --> 00:59:44,199 the whole thing at the end of the show today. Maybe that'll be our 803 00:59:44,239 --> 00:59:46,559 closer anyway, So I was listening to that last night and I'm going, 804 00:59:46,679 --> 00:59:50,760 I can't believe I made that comment that his solo material sounds like Iron Maiden. 805 00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,480 That's clearly not that doesn't sound like Iron Maiden. Like I said, 806 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,559 if I played that for you and you didn't know, you would think it 807 00:59:55,599 --> 00:59:59,280 was a CDC. Right, If you'd never heard that song before in your 808 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:00,639 life, you wouldn't be sitting there going, yeah, oh that sounds like 809 01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:04,440 Iron Maiden? Is that is that Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden? You would 810 01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,159 never think that. So anyway, I wanted to correct that, So maya 811 01:00:07,239 --> 01:00:10,559 culpa, and Bruce Dickinson, if you happen to be listening, I apologize 812 01:00:10,599 --> 01:00:15,320 if I if you in any way felt that I was dismissive of your solo 813 01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:20,480 material saying that it was just, you know, a bargain a bargain version 814 01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:24,000 of Iron Maiden. That's not what I meant to imply. Or maybe I 815 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,679 did mean to imply it in the moment, but then I realized later how 816 01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:34,360 stupid that was. All right, we'll get into some more serious matters in 817 01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,840 a moment, but let me give the studio line again. Six zero three 818 01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,599 two five zero six zero seven six three two five zero six O seven. 819 01:00:42,519 --> 01:00:46,679 My friends, Bob Menendez a name that you might have been hearing today. 820 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,079 If you have been paying attention to the news Senator Bob Menendez of the Great 821 01:00:53,119 --> 01:01:00,800 State of New Jersey when I heard his name today, because he's in a 822 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:02,599 bit of trouble. You know, when I heard his name today, you 823 01:01:02,639 --> 01:01:05,760 know what I was reminded of, the first thing that I was reminded of. 824 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:10,400 I was reminded of the year twenty seventeen when this show, well not 825 01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:15,280 this show, but this version of the show that airs here on WMH ninety 826 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:21,440 five point three FM, was in its relative infancy, and I was talking 827 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,360 about Bob Menendez. See, I have a really good memory for details about 828 01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:31,519 some things. And as soon as this story broke today about Bob Menendez and 829 01:01:31,559 --> 01:01:35,199 the ethics trouble that he's in, and he looks like he's really in it 830 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,920 this time, the first thing I thought of was I remembered in twenty seventeen 831 01:01:39,599 --> 01:01:45,440 talking about the ethics trouble that he was in then. And I remembered it 832 01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:51,719 was twenty seventeen, because I remembered exactly where I was when I was talking 833 01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,000 about it on the show, because it wasn't in this room. Because when 834 01:01:55,039 --> 01:02:00,000 I first came to wm ANDH, we were still doing we were still doing 835 01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:04,599 the live radio shows in a different studio, in a smaller studio that's on 836 01:02:04,639 --> 01:02:08,840 a different floor in this building. And I remember being in that room talking 837 01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:15,079 about Bob Menendez. And I even remember I remember being in that room talking 838 01:02:15,079 --> 01:02:21,719 about Bob Menendez and wondering out loud to the audience, when is this guy 839 01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,480 gonna end up in jail? Because that's this is not the first time he's 840 01:02:24,519 --> 01:02:30,039 been in ethics trouble, and it seems pretty serious. And of course he 841 01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:36,559 did not end up in jail. He was tried. He was not acquitted. 842 01:02:36,599 --> 01:02:40,639 However he was. It was a hung jury, and that's it. 843 01:02:40,679 --> 01:02:46,159 That's how we got away with it. Well, it's now twenty twenty three 844 01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:50,119 and it's all caught up to him in a big way. But that was 845 01:02:50,159 --> 01:02:52,519 the first thing I thought of us. I said, wow, I remember, 846 01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:58,280 I remember talking about Bob Menendez in twenty seventeen in the old studio I 847 01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:01,920 was, I remember vividly. It's weird how I can remember certain details about 848 01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:07,239 certain things that would seem insignificant, and yet for some reason, they're just 849 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,079 seared in my mind. But I think I did the whole, the entire 850 01:03:10,119 --> 01:03:15,639 show that day, the whole two hours about Bob Menendez, but he's really 851 01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:22,960 in trouble now. Politico has the story up Egypt, guns and money and 852 01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,920 oh, I'm sorry, Yeah, Egypt, guns, money and power at 853 01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:31,719 the center of Menendez indictment publicity. I'm sorry publicly a critic of Cairo. 854 01:03:32,199 --> 01:03:43,800 Privately, prosecutors allege the senator used his influence to benefit Egypt. Here's what's 855 01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:49,920 going on if you've missed it. The indictment of Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat 856 01:03:50,039 --> 01:03:54,960 of New Jersey today accuses one of the most powerful senators shaping American foreign affairs 857 01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:01,039 of using his perch to enrich himself and exploit the complication relationship between the United 858 01:04:01,079 --> 01:04:06,079 States and Egypt. It is a story about guns, money, and power 859 01:04:06,239 --> 01:04:15,079 that strikes at the fraud sector of American diplomacy. Menendez denies any wrongdoing, 860 01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:21,280 saying prosecutors quote misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office unquote and attacked him 861 01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:25,360 and his wife. But if the allegations are proven, they will represent a 862 01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:31,599 damning account of how American foreign policy an automatic toward an autocratic ally was compromised 863 01:04:31,599 --> 01:04:38,159 for several years, for years for venal reasons. By the way, it 864 01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:45,159 is interesting is his allegation against the prosecutors that they and again quoting, misrepresented 865 01:04:45,199 --> 01:04:50,559 the normal work of a congressional office. What's particularly interesting about that is that 866 01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:58,320 one would not necessarily expect that the quote unquote normal work of a congressional office 867 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:05,360 would involve gold bar literal bars of gold and cash, cold cash, cold 868 01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:10,280 heart cash. Again literally you know the kind of cash you put in your 869 01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,639 freezer so no one thinks to I guess that's what people do. They put 870 01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,360 cash in their freezer when they're trying to hide it from the authorities, because 871 01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,639 obviously, you know, if law enforcement, if the FBI shows up for 872 01:05:21,679 --> 01:05:25,840 a raid, they would never think to look in your freezer. It seems 873 01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,840 cliche, but apparently that's what they did. They were putting money in the 874 01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:36,159 freezer tucket behind the ice cubes. I guess, you know, tens of 875 01:05:36,239 --> 01:05:42,360 thousands of dollars. And I'm not sure that. I mean, do most 876 01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:47,000 Americans assume that that is the normal work of a congressional office, as Menendez 877 01:05:47,159 --> 01:05:53,079 claims. I mean, not that anyone should be surprised necessarily. I mean, 878 01:05:53,119 --> 01:05:57,400 I do think Americans generally assume that our politicians, at least at that 879 01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,679 level are somewhat corrupt, and I think everyone new Menendez was corrupt. But 880 01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,679 oh, don't get me wrong. Of course, you know, he used 881 01:06:04,719 --> 01:06:09,679 to be afforded the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But this time it 882 01:06:09,719 --> 01:06:15,320 really does look like it's going to stick. I remember in twenty seventeen again, 883 01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:16,719 I think I spent an entire two hours on it one day on the 884 01:06:16,719 --> 01:06:23,679 show, really digging into it, and it seemed like, definitely he and 885 01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:28,119 his wife had done something dirty, and we're taking bribes. But the whole 886 01:06:28,199 --> 01:06:32,679 scheme seemed a little bit convoluted in a way that one could understand why a 887 01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:38,800 jury might find it difficult to find their way to a conclusion that he and 888 01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:42,199 his wife. I don't remember if she was actually on trial he was, 889 01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,679 I don't remember if she was as well, but she's been entangled in all 890 01:06:45,719 --> 01:06:48,159 of this with him right along. It would seem I could see at the 891 01:06:48,199 --> 01:06:51,800 time how it might be difficult for a jury to get to the conclusion beyond 892 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:59,079 a reasonable doubt that he had done something illegal. Clearly he had done something 893 01:06:59,199 --> 01:07:05,199 unethical, but not everything that's unethical is necessarily illegal. Certainly, especially in 894 01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:09,920 politics, there are a lot of things that are unethical that maybe should be 895 01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:15,440 illegal, but they aren't necessarily so so I could see at the time, 896 01:07:15,519 --> 01:07:19,639 how you know, it was easy to understand why it was a hung jury. 897 01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:24,519 But this is this is he's not going to get away with it this 898 01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:27,639 time. Let me put it that way, all right, So continuing on 899 01:07:27,719 --> 01:07:30,760 again, this is the article from Politico which explains it pretty well. Egypt 900 01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:36,119 receives about one point three billion per year in foreign military financing, but by 901 01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:43,079 law, tranches of the AID are conditioned upon Egypt's progress on human rights concerns, 902 01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,639 as determined by the State Department. Whether Foggy Bottom clears, the aid 903 01:07:46,719 --> 01:07:51,320 is often subject to a regular tug of war between lawmakers, the advocacy community, 904 01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:56,559 and the executive branch. Traditionally, the State Department is honored request to 905 01:07:56,599 --> 01:08:00,960 delay grants and weapons sales from the chair or the ranking member of the Senate 906 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:05,960 Committee. Menendez, who has served as the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations 907 01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:11,159 Committee since twenty eighteen, has often been a public critic of the Egyptian government, 908 01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:19,119 rapping the Trump administration for inviting Egyptian president elcc abdel Fatah LCC If I'm 909 01:08:19,119 --> 01:08:25,079 saying that correctly, for a state visit in twenty nineteen and pressing then Secretary 910 01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:30,359 of State Mike Pompeio to raise human rights concerns with the leader, But federal 911 01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:35,399 prosecutors claim Menendez was playing a different role behind the scenes. This is where 912 01:08:35,399 --> 01:08:39,960 it gets. This is where it gets a little, uh, crimey. 913 01:08:40,079 --> 01:08:43,439 Is that a word? Crimey? Not grimy? Crimey? I suppose he 914 01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:48,039 could say grimy. In an indictment published Friday today, this just happened today. 915 01:08:48,159 --> 01:08:51,359 This is breaking news almost. I mean it's a few hours old. 916 01:08:51,479 --> 01:09:01,439 But prosecutors claim that Menendez accepted money, a luxury car, and gifts including 917 01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:10,399 gold, from three New Jersey businessmen in return for helping them and Egypt's repressive 918 01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:16,359 regime. Prosecutors also claimed the New Jersey Democrat gave sensitive information about US diplomats 919 01:09:16,359 --> 01:09:23,279 and Cairo quote that secretly aided the government of Egypt, and improperly advised and 920 01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:30,199 pressured unquote a US agricultural official to safeguard a contract for one of the businessmen 921 01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:35,119 to be the exclusive purveyor of halal meat to Egypt. According to the indictment, 922 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:44,520 let me just say this, anytime you've got meat involved, there's something 923 01:09:45,079 --> 01:09:53,560 not right. Here. That's a long standing I learned that from watching NYPD 924 01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:58,079 Blue or something. I don't know. It's an old Younger listeners are like, 925 01:09:58,119 --> 01:10:00,239 what, what are you even talking about? Law and order? That 926 01:10:00,239 --> 01:10:02,079 would be a more contemporary reference. Even though that show has been on for 927 01:10:02,159 --> 01:10:05,560 decades, it still exists, I think, right, I don't really watch 928 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:12,439 much TV. Allegedly, Menendez, starting in mid twenty eighteen, privately maintained 929 01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:17,600 close relations with Egyptian officials and businesspeople and readily shared sensitive information with his associates 930 01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:25,159 about US policy toward Cairo. In May twenty eighteen, Menendez allegedly disclosed to 931 01:10:25,319 --> 01:10:29,199 Hannah, that's one of the businessmen at a private dinner that a US government 932 01:10:29,199 --> 01:10:32,560 ban on sales of small arms and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted, which 933 01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:40,800 Hannah passed on to the Egyptian official. Later that month, Menendez allegedly ghost 934 01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:46,119 wrote Cairo's lobbying pitch to other US senators seeking support for the release of three 935 01:10:46,199 --> 01:10:50,479 hundred million dollars in USA to Egypt. In July, after meeting with Egyptian 936 01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:56,640 military officials, Menendez allegedly had his wife Nadine, tell Hannah that he was 937 01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:04,439 signing off on the sale of forty six thousand target practice rounds and ten thousand 938 01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:11,960 rounds of tank ammunition worth ninety nine million dollars. By the way this goes 939 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,520 on, we're going to continue it. But I'm just I'm wondering a rhetorical 940 01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:20,119 question. You don't have to answer you the audience, But is anybody other 941 01:11:20,199 --> 01:11:26,840 than myself wondering at this point? How did he ever believe he would get 942 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:33,560 away with all of this? Did he assume that everyone is so dirty that 943 01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:40,920 everyone does it? And why would he be any different? Is it arrogance? 944 01:11:41,039 --> 01:11:45,680 Is it delusions of grandeur or some form of mental illness that makes someone 945 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:50,800 believe that they can do all of this and no one's going to catch on, 946 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:58,079 and no one's going to investigate after he already in twenty seventeen narrowly avoided 947 01:11:58,279 --> 01:12:08,239 being convicted and sent to prison. So Menendez allegedly said in a text to 948 01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:15,399 Nadine, which she forwarded Dahnah quote, note these tank rounds are for tanks 949 01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:19,520 they have had for many years. They are using these in the Sinai for 950 01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:26,520 the counter terrorism campaign unquote. The State Department two months later announced it had 951 01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:32,159 approved the sale of the package of General Dynamics made high explosive and armor piercing 952 01:12:32,279 --> 01:12:36,920 rounds to help Cairo fight Islamic State militants and the target rounds to train M 953 01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:44,640 one Abrams tank crews. Adrian Watson, the White House National Security Council spokesperson, 954 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:48,840 said no comment when contacted for this story. Spokespersons for the State Department 955 01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:58,640 did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Egypt's ambassador in Washington also said 956 01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:04,000 no comment. Menendez is also accused of intervening in Egyptian diplomatic entanglements and pushing 957 01:13:04,039 --> 01:13:09,760 for the US to put its finger on the scales for Cairo after taking a 958 01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:15,520 meeting with an Egyptian official dubbed the General. Prosecutors alleged Menendez waded into a 959 01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:21,159 long standing diplomatic dispute between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over access to the 960 01:13:21,239 --> 01:13:30,479 Nile River and a large Ethiopian dam project near the river's source waters. Oh, 961 01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,359 by the way, side note, Jfed just said in the chat, 962 01:13:33,399 --> 01:13:35,800 I hate to tell you, Matt, but I looked it up and there 963 01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:45,399 is no internet outage in Eric Pilcher's town. But wait a second. JFED 964 01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,720 wanted to be the new film reviewer. So he has a motive for saying 965 01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:54,560 something like that, I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't know 966 01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,520 who to trust. I mean, I know who not to trust, Bob 967 01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:05,880 Menendez. The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has long been a top 968 01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:12,479 foreign priority for Egypt, as Cairo depends on unfettered water flows from the Nile 969 01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,520 to sustain its population, which is almost entirely concentrated along the rivers Delta and 970 01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:23,439 Banks. Writing in April, Jaft says, I blame Bruce. I do 971 01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:28,479 as well. Writing in April twenty twenty two, then Secretary Stephen Manuchin in 972 01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:32,840 Pompeo to express concerns over quote stalled negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and the 973 01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:40,319 Sudan over the dam. Menendez called on the administration to quote significantly increased the 974 01:14:40,319 --> 01:14:45,880 State departments engagement on negotiations around the dam. According to the indictment, Menendez 975 01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:51,479 in February twenty eighteen reclaimed his post as the Top panel's top democrat, just 976 01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:58,199 days after the Justice Department dropped different corruption charges against him. Okay, so 977 01:14:58,199 --> 01:15:00,800 those were the twenty seventeen charges. February of twenty eighteen, the charges were 978 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:06,520 finally dropped after the hungjury and all of that. At that time, Menendez 979 01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:14,039 was accused of intervening in a Dominican post contract dispute to benefit a Florida ophthalmologist 980 01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:18,760 and a businessperson who had given Menendez a large campaign donations. Oh, that 981 01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,560 part I remembered wrong. And by the way, I'm not saying this would 982 01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,239 be funny. This literally is true. It's not a joke. I thought 983 01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:30,880 it was. I thought it was a dentist Menendez was. There was a 984 01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:33,479 part of this whole scam Menendez was running in twenty seventeen. It was actually 985 01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:40,720 an optimologist, an eye doctor. Menendez voluntarily stepped back from the job in 986 01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:45,199 twenty fifteen after he was charged, with an understanding from then Senate Minority Leader 987 01:15:45,199 --> 01:15:49,520 Harry Reid that he would be reinstated if cleared of charges. It's unclear if 988 01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:53,520 Menendez will step back from his role this time around, or if he did, 989 01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,439 who would temporarily replace him as chair. By the way, I believe 990 01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,000 he already stepped down as chair, so that must have happened after this was 991 01:16:00,039 --> 01:16:03,199 published. So again, this might not be quite up to the minute, 992 01:16:03,199 --> 01:16:12,159 but it's a really good explainer, although it doesn't get into the gold bars 993 01:16:12,239 --> 01:16:15,560 part in this article. Now, something related to this so that I happened 994 01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,960 to see and I didn't get a chance to preread this, but this popped 995 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:25,520 up on media. How will MSNBC handle its Menendez family conflict of interest? 996 01:16:26,279 --> 01:16:29,560 I don't know what this part's about, but you know I'm interested in all 997 01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,640 things media, So let's look at this. It says here Senate Foreign Relations 998 01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:36,560 Committee Chairman Bob Menendez was indicted on bribery charges for alleged crimes committed as part 999 01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:40,399 of a scheme involving his wife, Nadine, the Egyptian government, and three 1000 01:16:40,399 --> 01:16:44,720 New Jersey businessmen. Prosecutors for the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of 1001 01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:48,640 New York charged Menendez with having quote promised to and did use his influence and 1002 01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:55,319 power and breach his official duty in ways that benefited the government of Egypt unquote. 1003 01:16:59,279 --> 01:17:04,439 Besides the Nndez clan itself, Friday's news could also be trouble for MSNBC, 1004 01:17:05,039 --> 01:17:11,960 the cable news network where Alisha Menendez, the forty year old daughter of 1005 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:19,359 Bob Menendez, hosts a weekend show called American voices with Alisha Menendez awkward. 1006 01:17:23,239 --> 01:17:26,840 The most obvious question that comes to mind is, quote, will MSNBC allow 1007 01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:30,760 Menendez to address the scandal in any way unquote. One might be quick to 1008 01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,439 assume the answer is an easy no. But if CNN's handling of the Andrew 1009 01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:40,399 Cuomo sexual misconduct cases any indication that assumption can't be taken for granted. Let 1010 01:17:40,399 --> 01:17:45,680 me stop there for a moment, because if I remember correctly, in the 1011 01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:51,720 case of CNN Chris Cuomo, when he was still there, he did not 1012 01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:58,359 address his brother's sexual misconduct case, but others on the network did, but 1013 01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:01,439 Chris Cuomo did not on his show, which I thought was completely appropriate. 1014 01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:04,039 By the way, I thought that made sense for Chris Cuomo not to get 1015 01:18:04,079 --> 01:18:08,880 into it because it is his brother, So you wouldn't expect Chris Cuomo to 1016 01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:14,079 be able to report on it objectively in any way, and you know why 1017 01:18:14,159 --> 01:18:16,840 even put him in that position. From what I recall, I might not 1018 01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:21,479 be remembering that exactly accurately, but that's what I recall. It says here. 1019 01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,119 In March twenty twenty one, after the allegations against him first came to 1020 01:18:26,199 --> 01:18:30,760 light, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo opened his show by acknowledging that he was quote 1021 01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,399 aware of what's okay. This is exactly what he said. He was aware 1022 01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:38,359 of what's going on with my brother. Obviously I cannot cover it because he 1023 01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:41,640 is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They 1024 01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:45,479 have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. I've always cared 1025 01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:47,840 very deeply about these issues and profoundly, so I just wanted to tell you 1026 01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:53,119 that. Unquote again, I think that's perfectly I mean, I have a 1027 01:18:53,119 --> 01:18:56,399 lot of other there are things about Chris Cuomo that bother me, but not 1028 01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:01,079 that that I thought was completely appropriate at the time. But it says here 1029 01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:06,720 the lines got blurrier from there. That may it was discovered that Cuomo was 1030 01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:11,079 advising Oh see, I forgot about this part. I completely forgot this. 1031 01:19:11,079 --> 01:19:15,000 This is pretty important. Actually, it was discovered that Cuomo was advising his 1032 01:19:15,119 --> 01:19:20,119 brother on how to handle the scandal. CNN called this inappropriate given his position, 1033 01:19:20,399 --> 01:19:24,920 but did not take any action to discipline him. Eventually, it was 1034 01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:29,039 revealed by the New York Attorney General's Office that Chris Cuomo would use this position 1035 01:19:29,079 --> 01:19:31,800 atzy an end to gather intel and possible accusers against his brother while working hand 1036 01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:38,319 in hand with his staff. It kind of goes on from there. But 1037 01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:45,680 so now the question is how will MSNBC handle this. And my I would 1038 01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:51,800 I mean my suggestion and my thought would be, either you simply don't I 1039 01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:57,159 mean Alicia Alicia Menendez, she just says a show that Arizon weekends, you 1040 01:19:57,159 --> 01:20:00,560 know, once a week on the weekend. So she can only so many 1041 01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,279 things in her limited a lotment of time to begin with. So I would 1042 01:20:03,319 --> 01:20:06,880 say, have her either ignore that there's always a million other stories, just 1043 01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:13,119 don't cover obviously she's not going to cover something involving her own parents, or 1044 01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:15,920 have her address it similar to the way that Chris Cuomo did and then move 1045 01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,760 on from it. But that would be my thought. But yes, but 1046 01:20:20,039 --> 01:20:24,920 Bob Menendez in a lot of trouble. Now. The one other thing, 1047 01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,000 I do want to make sure that we get in before we run out of 1048 01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:30,680 time, because it's already almost twenty minutes of And this is some breaking news. 1049 01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:35,399 This is from the Hill dot com. Kevin McCarthy vows to strip Ukraine 1050 01:20:35,399 --> 01:20:45,520 money from Pentagon bill after a Marjorie Taylor Green no vote. Now we'll look 1051 01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,800 at the substance of the article in a moment. But for anyone who hasn't 1052 01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:53,439 been following, this been a hell of a week for Kevin McCarthy House Speaker. 1053 01:20:54,319 --> 01:20:56,960 Looks like we're headed for a government shut down at the end of the 1054 01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:02,720 month. It looks like Kevin McCarthy might get voted out by the You know 1055 01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:11,760 these House Freedom members who are just itching for a reason to what do they 1056 01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:17,119 call that. There's a specific term, procedural term for a vote to remove. 1057 01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,560 It's not a removal vote, though, there's another term. It escapes 1058 01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,439 me, it'll come to me. It might be here in the article. 1059 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:29,960 So he's got all kinds of trouble while all of this is happening. Funding 1060 01:21:30,199 --> 01:21:32,560 to continue the effort, the war effort in Ukraine, to continue to supply 1061 01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:41,000 the Ukrainians with what they need that hangs in the balance because the Republicans can't 1062 01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,119 figure out how to how to get this done with the budget. And by 1063 01:21:45,159 --> 01:21:48,239 the way, this is all after McCarthy made certain promises. There was already 1064 01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:53,319 a budget deal agreed to to avert a debt default, which thank god, 1065 01:21:53,359 --> 01:21:58,119 we got through that. But now McCarthy is in a position where if he 1066 01:21:58,159 --> 01:22:00,760 gives into the House Freedom Caucus. He can't keep his word to the president 1067 01:22:02,039 --> 01:22:06,119 on that budget deal that they that they passed, that they agreed to to 1068 01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:11,279 raise the debt limit. I should say, to be more precise, it's 1069 01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:15,479 he's in a terrible position. Part of me feels some sympathy for him, 1070 01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:17,600 and part of me thinks, well, this is what you get, Kevin. 1071 01:22:21,039 --> 01:22:28,840 While all this is happening, you've got Voladimir Zolenski visiting the United States, 1072 01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:34,920 but Kevin McCarthy refused to have his picture taken with him publicly. He 1073 01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:41,119 did meet with Zelenski, which was also a reversal because before McCarthy wasn't even 1074 01:22:41,119 --> 01:22:44,840 going to meet with Zelenski. Even though Kevin McCarthy, and we all know 1075 01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,279 Kevin McCarthy, you know, there's nothing he says that actually means anything. 1076 01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:53,600 I mean, look at January sixth. You know, he he condemned Trump 1077 01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:58,000 after January sixth, and then next thing, you know, he's does a 1078 01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,560 complete reversal and he's going down tomorrow ago and posing for a picture with him. 1079 01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:03,840 He posed for a picture with Trump right after January sixth, right not 1080 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:09,039 long after. But you know, he says he says whatever he needs to 1081 01:23:09,039 --> 01:23:11,840 to try to survive, to get through another day, as how speaker, 1082 01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:15,039 because that's what matters to him above all else. So he has said recently, 1083 01:23:15,159 --> 01:23:20,359 relatively recently, how important it is to continue to support Ukraine, how 1084 01:23:20,399 --> 01:23:24,800 that is vital, vitally important, and we do have an American interests there 1085 01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:29,640 and that we must stay the course with that. But now because he's at 1086 01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:35,479 the mercy of people like Matt Gates and Lauren Gropert Bobert, sorry, and 1087 01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:42,960 even Marjorie Taylor Greene whom he seems to have this alliance with, but she's 1088 01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:48,279 making his life more difficult suddenly as well. Now he's refusing to have his 1089 01:23:48,319 --> 01:23:54,479 picture taken with Zelenski, although he did meet with Zelenski and somebody managed to 1090 01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:59,520 get a picture on their phone. So even though McCarthy, acting very cowardly 1091 01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:04,920 refused used to have his picture publicly taken with Voladimir Zelenski, somebody snapped a 1092 01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:11,399 picture as they met privately. So good, I'm glad. But now, 1093 01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:16,000 oh McCarthy is hedging on support for Ukraine. Now before we get to this 1094 01:24:16,119 --> 01:24:18,159 article, though, I have something very important to say about this said, 1095 01:24:18,159 --> 01:24:23,800 I don't hear any anybody else pointing out For those of you, Look, 1096 01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:26,199 if you're a long time listener, you know my position. I believe in 1097 01:24:26,239 --> 01:24:28,920 supporting Ukraine. I believe we have to stand up to Putin, can't let 1098 01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:32,079 Putin get away with this, and so forth. However, I've also always 1099 01:24:32,079 --> 01:24:36,840 been sympathetic to some of the arguments in the other direction, concerns about tensions 1100 01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:41,920 with Russia, because nobody wants things to escalate in a way that could be 1101 01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:45,159 very bad for all of us, and some other reasons too. I've been 1102 01:24:45,199 --> 01:24:50,760 sympathetic to those other arguments, and but I have remained firm in my position 1103 01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,880 ultimately that we must stay the course. But I would just like to say 1104 01:24:54,920 --> 01:25:00,840 this to the people who hear this. McCarthy is now saying he's going to 1105 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:08,359 vow he's now vowing to strip any further support for Ukraine out of the budget, 1106 01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:13,279 and we're going to effectively McCarthy is now saying that's it, We're going 1107 01:25:13,319 --> 01:25:16,680 to abandon Ukraine. I would just say to the people who think that that's 1108 01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,920 a good idea. If you're someone who you're on the other side of the 1109 01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:27,359 issue, look, reasonable people can disagree. I feel about the merits of 1110 01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:30,680 us getting directly involved in this. Again, I think we did the right 1111 01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:34,000 thing. I support President Biden in this, and all of the many, 1112 01:25:34,039 --> 01:25:39,359 many, not just Democrats, have been pretty united in this. Republicans have 1113 01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:44,239 not been. But I think a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate 1114 01:25:45,239 --> 01:25:53,520 also support standing by Ukraine. And that's great. But but some of the 1115 01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:58,920 concerns, again, not all of the concerns. Some of these Republicans who 1116 01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,079 have pushed back on it, some of them are just playing pro Russia. 1117 01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:06,720 Let's just call it what it is. Reagan would be spinning in his grave. 1118 01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:12,479 I have no doubt, but some of them are sympathetic to Russia, 1119 01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,600 and I think the reasons are obvious. But let's not even get into that. 1120 01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,439 But I want to say to the people who think that what McCarthy is 1121 01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:24,880 doing is correct and they're happy about this, because if you're if you're someone 1122 01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:27,479 who doesn't think we should have ever gotten involved in this to begin with, 1123 01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:31,760 I'm talking to you. I want to say to you those of you who 1124 01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:36,079 feel that way, while I respect, well, I disagree with your position, 1125 01:26:36,119 --> 01:26:40,760 but I respect your position and I understand and respect your concerns. But 1126 01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:46,199 having said that, at this point, At this point, even if you 1127 01:26:46,319 --> 01:26:49,680 felt at the beginning of all this that we should have stayed out of it, 1128 01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:56,560 at this point, does it not do more harm than good for us 1129 01:26:56,600 --> 01:27:02,399 to walk away and abandon Ukraine after we've all been so invested, literally invested 1130 01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:10,760 in helping Ukraine try to fend off Russia. Because even if your initial position 1131 01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:15,359 was we shouldn't be doing this, we've already done so much, have not 1132 01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:20,439 we already gone too far to turn back. Because even if you don't think 1133 01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:24,000 we should have been a part of this to begin with, now that we 1134 01:27:24,159 --> 01:27:30,600 have been for so long and so much, won't it actually hurt America's national 1135 01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:36,840 interests more for us to pull back now and abandon Ukraine. Think about again, 1136 01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:41,119 even if you're someone who disagreed with us getting involved, think about how 1137 01:27:41,159 --> 01:27:45,239 it's going to look for us now now that we already were involved, now 1138 01:27:45,279 --> 01:27:51,159 that we've been so involved, to just walk away now, how does that 1139 01:27:51,199 --> 01:27:53,960 make us look to the rest of the world. And by the way, 1140 01:27:54,039 --> 01:27:56,880 look, if you're some sort of neo isolation as I understanding, you don't 1141 01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:59,079 care about how we look to the rest of the world. And let's be 1142 01:27:59,119 --> 01:28:00,800 honest, there are a lot of people who take that attitude too. They're 1143 01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:04,199 the same people who think that we shouldn't be a part of the UN because 1144 01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:08,479 oh, we're America and we should be on our own and not care what 1145 01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:12,840 anybody thinks about us. But we have to care what other people think about 1146 01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:15,399 us, because we're all a part of the world, and we have economic 1147 01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:18,439 interests and national security interests to require us to have somewhat of a positive relationship 1148 01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:23,760 with at least some of the rest of the world. So, but even 1149 01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:27,880 if you feel that way, does it not hurt us more at this point 1150 01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,359 to walk away? Even if look again, I'm talking to you, even 1151 01:28:31,399 --> 01:28:36,960 if you don't care at all about Ukraine, even if you could not care 1152 01:28:38,079 --> 01:28:42,640 less about Ukraine, even if you're one of those people who thinks that Ukraine 1153 01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:46,720 got what they deserved and you believe the Russian propaganda. Maybe maybe you're Tucker 1154 01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:53,680 Carlson and you actually believe in and promote the Russian propaganda. Right, even 1155 01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:59,800 if you're that person. At this stage of things, if we walk away 1156 01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:04,680 now, isn't it going to be even worse for us? Because it signals 1157 01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:11,880 to putin If we walk away and abandon them now, it signals to putin 1158 01:29:13,359 --> 01:29:16,960 Hey, just bleed us, bleed us dry. We will lose patience, 1159 01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:25,039 we will lose our solidarity with the rest of NATO. You can wade us 1160 01:29:25,079 --> 01:29:29,279 out. You can wade us out. America is weak enough that you can 1161 01:29:29,319 --> 01:29:33,239 wait us out. And here's the other thing. What does it say to 1162 01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:40,760 Ji Jing Ping of China if we walk away? Now? It says, 1163 01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:45,359 hey, you want Taiwan, go ahead. America might try to defend Taiwan 1164 01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:48,880 for a little while, but in the long run, nah, forget it. 1165 01:29:50,359 --> 01:29:55,520 That's what it says to him. I'm telling you it is very dangerous. 1166 01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:59,920 It is far more dangerous dangerous for us to walk away than it is 1167 01:30:00,159 --> 01:30:03,199 just stick around, in my opinion. And Mike Doyle's on the line him, 1168 01:30:03,239 --> 01:30:06,239 Mike, hey, man, how's it going. I'll be quick because 1169 01:30:06,239 --> 01:30:10,239 I know you're running out of time. Yeah. Hey, I can't remember 1170 01:30:10,279 --> 01:30:15,600 what your theory was on Afghanistan. But isn't that the same theory? You 1171 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:19,800 know, all the time we put into Afghanistan and money and years and deaths 1172 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:25,520 and et cetera, And you know, was it was it better to pull 1173 01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:29,800 out or stay there? And well, I guess the same same theory as 1174 01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:34,640 you're you're saying now, Well, very very different situations in some ways though, 1175 01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:39,560 because in Afghanistan we were directly and like we weren't supporting, We weren't 1176 01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:44,159 simply supporting. We were actually there on the ground and fighting for twenty years. 1177 01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:48,560 But my feeling with Afghanistan is, well, it's not not really a 1178 01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:53,560 binary choice of of getting out or staying. I think I think that it 1179 01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:58,479 was the right idea to get out, but I think it was done very 1180 01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:00,840 very poorly, and I don't think we should have necessarily gotten out completely. 1181 01:31:01,079 --> 01:31:04,479 I think we should have kept Bogram Air Force Base. It didn't make any 1182 01:31:04,520 --> 01:31:11,359 sense to me why we would give that up, other than Biden was worried 1183 01:31:11,399 --> 01:31:14,880 about you know, well, then it would look like we haven't really left. 1184 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:17,199 But I think we should have kept maybe twenty five hundred troops there. 1185 01:31:17,399 --> 01:31:20,640 I think we should have lessened our footprint there, but I think we should 1186 01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:25,159 have kept a minimal presence and at least held on to Bogram Air Force Base. 1187 01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:29,439 And I was very critical of Again, I thought getting out was a 1188 01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:32,800 great idea. Previous presidents had pledged to get out and then didn't do it. 1189 01:31:33,199 --> 01:31:38,600 But I thought the way that it was done was a disaster. I'm 1190 01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:41,520 trying to remember some of the words I used at the time. I think 1191 01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:45,079 I recall saying it was buffoonery the way it was handled, and uh, 1192 01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:49,840 I was pretty critical and uh and I still am. I'm still angry about 1193 01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:54,399 it the way it was done. Yeah. And the other point I wanted 1194 01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:58,960 to make is a lot of a lot of the both Republicans with Democrats that 1195 01:31:59,079 --> 01:32:02,680 want to continue to fund Ukraine. I don't want to fund Ukraine or have 1196 01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:09,520 a different strategy for funding Ukraine. They're they're they're worried because a lot of 1197 01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:13,600 a lot of the people nobody, nobody else is helping. I guess is 1198 01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:15,920 what you're saying, Like Poland just said no more, we're done. Oh 1199 01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,000 that's another given you. Yeah, that's that's another thing that has me very 1200 01:32:19,039 --> 01:32:21,680 worried. Mike. By the way, and I had given Poland a lot 1201 01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:27,199 of credit in the past, because if you remember when when this first happened, 1202 01:32:27,279 --> 01:32:31,640 Poland really opened their arms for taking in refugees from UH, both from 1203 01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:34,960 Ukraine and from Russia, people who are fleeing because they didn't want to get 1204 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:40,760 drafted. And and Poland was so helpful and now all of a sudden, 1205 01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:45,039 Poland is is basically walking away and they're they're a member of NATO, and 1206 01:32:45,079 --> 01:32:47,720 it's like, uh, this is not this is not good. I'm very 1207 01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:53,600 worried that that we're just gonna walk away all of us. Not just says 1208 01:32:54,199 --> 01:32:57,159 there's other countries. I was reading about it. I can't remember who they 1209 01:32:57,199 --> 01:32:59,439 were, but I was they just don't want to say it, you know, 1210 01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,840 because they're barras. Yeah, but Poland came out. Poland came out 1211 01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:05,079 and said it. Yeah. And the other argument, the other argument is 1212 01:33:05,119 --> 01:33:14,359 spending all of these billions of dollars approaching trillions of dollars on Ukraine's border versus 1213 01:33:14,439 --> 01:33:17,840 putting that kind of money into our border, which obviously is becoming a little 1214 01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:21,399 bit of a crisis with these cities and you know, the homeless and all 1215 01:33:21,399 --> 01:33:26,880 that stuff. And so that's those are the aguments I hear from from people 1216 01:33:27,039 --> 01:33:30,800 of why they don't want to they don't want to continue to fund Ukraine. 1217 01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:32,319 So I just wanted to throw that in. Sure. Yeah, no, 1218 01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:38,159 And like I said, I mean, I respect the concerns that people have 1219 01:33:38,359 --> 01:33:41,159 about it, but I really feel, well, what do you think, 1220 01:33:41,159 --> 01:33:45,840 Mike, I think that for us to walk away now, regardless of how 1221 01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:48,039 you felt about it when we first got in, I think for us to 1222 01:33:48,079 --> 01:33:51,159 walk away now, I think it's just too late, I think, and 1223 01:33:51,439 --> 01:33:56,640 I think it emboldens Putin, and I think it emboldens Xijing Ping if we 1224 01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,399 walk away now too, So that that bodes that bodes what many people have 1225 01:34:00,520 --> 01:34:06,399 been saying all along. Stop with the increments to Ukraine and give them everything 1226 01:34:06,439 --> 01:34:11,399 they need to win the war in the next months or two months, and 1227 01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,039 end, you know what I mean, and get their get their country back. 1228 01:34:14,399 --> 01:34:18,079 We're just we're you know, snippeting in money here and money there. 1229 01:34:18,119 --> 01:34:21,359 Whenever they run low and they're running, you know, just stop it. 1230 01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:26,079 Just end it go full for us, get in there, call NATO in, 1231 01:34:26,279 --> 01:34:29,399 say NATO, you're with us. Let's just stop this. Well, 1232 01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:32,399 but that's that's yeah, that's the other argument, I know. But we 1233 01:34:32,439 --> 01:34:36,760 do have to be. Something that I do give the Biden administration credit for 1234 01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:41,600 on this is I think it's I think it makes sense to be cautious, 1235 01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:45,039 especially in the early stages of this because one thing that we all must remember, 1236 01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:49,840 uh, is that we are dealing with when you're talking about Russia, 1237 01:34:50,039 --> 01:34:54,760 the largest nuclear power in the country. They have even more nukes than us. 1238 01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:58,079 Not of course, at a certain point it doesn't even matter because it's 1239 01:34:58,119 --> 01:35:00,199 so much nukes, it's enough to destroy the world multiple times over. But 1240 01:35:00,359 --> 01:35:03,840 so I think it. I think it makes sense to be cautious. And 1241 01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:08,920 I know that for example, with long range missiles, which I guess now 1242 01:35:09,399 --> 01:35:12,560 we are going to be sending them long range missiles, but I remember that 1243 01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:16,119 there was a concern earlier on that what if we give them these and even 1244 01:35:16,159 --> 01:35:20,640 if it happens by accidents, say, long range missiles are now being shot 1245 01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:27,920 into Russia, directly into Russia by Ukrainians, and then we're the ones who 1246 01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:31,199 supplied them those missiles. Then someone, uh, you know, whether it 1247 01:35:31,199 --> 01:35:33,600 be Putin himself or one of his advisors, might say, oh, look, 1248 01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:38,199 the Americans are giving them long range missiles that they're now using to attack 1249 01:35:38,279 --> 01:35:44,359 our cities inside Russia. Does that cause an escalation? And so I think 1250 01:35:44,399 --> 01:35:47,279 it makes sense to be very cautious and not just say here, we're just 1251 01:35:47,319 --> 01:35:51,239 going to give you everything. You can't understand the other argument, though, 1252 01:35:51,319 --> 01:35:56,239 just get it done. Oh, I understand it, I understand it. 1253 01:35:56,319 --> 01:36:00,880 But I but again, I do worry about. There's a lot that can 1254 01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:05,399 go wrong. Yeah, no, oh absolutely. But if NATO all got 1255 01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:11,239 together and said we're all in, every country's gonna send their top forces, 1256 01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:14,840 we're gonna end this once and for all. Putin. So your choice, 1257 01:36:15,039 --> 01:36:16,920 We're gonna give you a week make a decision, or we're coming in. 1258 01:36:17,079 --> 01:36:21,079 We're all coming in. We're gonna protect Ukraine and we're gonna drive you back. 1259 01:36:21,199 --> 01:36:25,520 Done deal, you know, then put the Then the onus is on 1260 01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:27,960 him to make a call. You know, is he is he that much 1261 01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:31,399 of a dead one's death or does he? Does he fear the threat that 1262 01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:35,039 it's legit? And you know what I mean? Just I don't know. 1263 01:36:35,199 --> 01:36:40,319 Just there there's all these different questions. So yeah, I mean, it's 1264 01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:43,760 it's complicated stuff. But I wouldn't. I would not. I mean, 1265 01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:48,520 if you're suggesting NATO just everybody starts sending actual ground forces in that I would 1266 01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,680 definitely oppose. I don't know, it doesn't have to be ground, could 1267 01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:56,640 be air, could be long range missiles. I mean, just everybody just 1268 01:36:56,680 --> 01:37:00,159 say, finally we're in. We're all in. This is NATO. I 1269 01:37:00,199 --> 01:37:01,640 know, it's not a country that is in NATO. But we're going to 1270 01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:09,359 protect them because you know whatever, and just we're all coming in all together, 1271 01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:14,439 Europe, Asia, anybody who's in NATO, US, Canada, they're 1272 01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:17,159 all coming Australia. I mean, just stop the drip of money, money, 1273 01:37:17,199 --> 01:37:19,640 money, and some missiles, a little few missiles here and a few 1274 01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:24,199 missiles there. You know, this thing's just lingering on. How long can 1275 01:37:24,279 --> 01:37:27,840 Russia last? I mean, they're having kids fight now. They took their 1276 01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:30,600 prisoners out of jails, they put them on the front line. Somebody said 1277 01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:33,920 they're starting up use women who want to sign up. I mean, at 1278 01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:36,880 one point, does Russia just you know, say hey, all right enough, 1279 01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:42,640 I can't go against thirty one other countries that are in NATO, and 1280 01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,560 and you know, so that's just an argument. I hear of people saying 1281 01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:48,119 that's why they don't want to send any more money, because it's just a 1282 01:37:48,199 --> 01:37:51,479 drip, drip, drip versus let's just end it one way or the other. 1283 01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:56,159 Get in or get out, finish it or get out. So that's 1284 01:37:56,159 --> 01:37:59,960 all I understand. I understand both sides, and just it's a question. 1285 01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:02,239 Yeah yeah, all right, Mike, Well yeah we are, we are 1286 01:38:02,279 --> 01:38:04,760 about out of time. But I do, but I but I do appreciate 1287 01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:08,399 the call in your thoughts. Thank you. Yeah, have a good weekend, 1288 01:38:08,399 --> 01:38:12,199 all right, Mike, you two take care bye bye. All right. 1289 01:38:12,239 --> 01:38:15,399 That was our friend Mike Doyle. And yes, we are just about 1290 01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:18,840 out of show, so we're gonna wrap up. But yeah, I don't 1291 01:38:19,039 --> 01:38:21,720 but yeah, just for the record, just briefly, I don't. I 1292 01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:25,520 understand the point that Mike's making, but I don't. I don't agree with 1293 01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:32,319 I would not, under any circumstances, support NATO directly confronting Russia over Ukraine 1294 01:38:32,359 --> 01:38:36,920 because that that could escalate into something where, well, let's just be very 1295 01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:41,920 blunt about it, where we all end up dead. I'm not willing to 1296 01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:45,319 take that risk. I'm not willing to you know, I'm willing to support 1297 01:38:45,399 --> 01:38:47,920 Ukraine. I'm not willing to die for Ukraine. Forgive me if I sound 1298 01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:51,279 selfish, but no, and you know, there might be something to it. 1299 01:38:51,319 --> 01:38:55,439 I mean, maybe Putin would back down. Mike might be right. 1300 01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:59,199 Maybe Putin would back down and say, wow, they're really serious. I 1301 01:38:59,239 --> 01:39:04,760 have no choice now, But maybe he wouldn't. And uh, that could 1302 01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:08,560 that could go bad very quickly. All right, but we do have to 1303 01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:12,560 go it is Friday, which means I will be back tonight for retro Spectrum 1304 01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:15,760 Radio with Paulice tonight from eight to eleven pm. And Dan Randall of Dan 1305 01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:18,199 Randall and the ram Let's is going to be joining us and I always look 1306 01:39:18,239 --> 01:39:21,359 forward to that. I always love my Friday nights here. So thank you 1307 01:39:21,399 --> 01:39:26,520 all. Thank you again to DJ Reckless for joining us earlier. DJ Reckless 1308 01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:30,520 will be tomorrow night at the Hopknot from nine to eleven PM helping to celebrate 1309 01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:34,319 the Hopknot's fourth birthday, our amazing sponsor here on the show and at the 1310 01:39:34,359 --> 01:39:38,800 station. And let's see if you miss any part of today's show, it'll 1311 01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:41,920 be up in just a little bit at WNH radio dot org and on my 1312 01:39:42,079 --> 01:39:45,960 website Matt Connerton dot com. And I think, well, uh yeah, 1313 01:39:46,039 --> 01:39:49,840 we'll leave you with this. I'm gonna play Bruce Dickinson's Tattooed Millionaire since I 1314 01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:54,920 was talking about it earlier to close out the show, and uh, I 1315 01:39:54,920 --> 01:39:57,159 will talk to y'all a little bit later. I'll see you to night for 1316 01:39:57,199 --> 01:39:58,800 Retrospectrum Radio by everybody