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out for Bath for you son, I've got ninety nine problems, but change
one. DJ Reckless is in the house. We are Bath. Yes,
I haven't seen uh. Let's guess they haven't seen you in a long time,
but thus obviously not true. I haven't seen you here in a long
time. No, it's been a minute. It's been I'd say it's been
a minute and a half. The young people say that, right, a
minute and a half. Yes, yes, so we have Yes. DJ
Reckless is here with us on this Friday afternoon. By the way, we
do not have coming up in the second hour our musical guest Crooked Cash.
They will not be here. They let Jenny know early this morning, first
thing, so they give us notice. But I guess one of the guys
has a family emergency. So we hope everything is okay and they will certainly
reschedule, so no worries there. We also don't have Eric Pilter his classic
film review because he's got an internet outage in his area in Cedar Rapids.
I guess some city workers accidentally, uh knocked out the internet in his neighborhood.
He uh remember when Comcast did that? Did that here? Or that
truck did that? I do remember that? Yeah, yeah yeah he Uh
what did he say here? Oh, I'm under an internet outage currently.
A fiber line was hit or struck. I'm waiting. I'm waiting now to
see when it comes back on. And he said, uh, it's still
down. They haven't been able to repair it yet. He said, uh,
yeah, they couldn't find where the fiber line was cut and had to
stop working for the night. According to Uh, that's what what he was
told. Yeah, yeah, so that's uh, that's a shame. It's
terrible. But anyway, so we'll have Eric Pilcher's a film review on Monday.
So but DJ Reckless is here so and and by the way, you
are going to be tomorrow night at the hop Knot, our amazing sponsor.
Of course, if you're watching online, you can see I've got the shirt
I wear the colors with pride, and they've got those delicious Gormet pretzels.
They have an astortment of craft beer, and tomorrow is the hop Knot's fourth
birthday, and they've got a bunch of live music music. So during the
day, excuse excuse me, Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. I'm
so excited about the hop Knot. It's like I suddenly have a pizza a
piece of pretzel caught in my throat their DJ Reckless, even though I'm not
actually consuming a pretzel. Yeah, the math doesn't add up there. I
know it's psychological. But yeah, so they've got during the day, they've
got Matt Litzinger. We'll be performing there at one pm. At three pm,
they have Jasmine Man and at four pm they have michaela Horn and then
they're gonna to close for a few hours and then they're reopening at eight pm
for a dance party with Big Gay Events and DJ Reckless will be performing that
guy sucks who does less kid? Oh that's you silly, Oh my goodness,
Oh my goodness. So this will be your first time d Jane at
the topnot correct, I think so? Yeah, not definitely. Yeah,
yeah, very cool. And you're gonna be part of the big gay events.
Yeah, so that'll be fun. Yeah, I'm excited. It's it's
it's it's been an interesting week, so yeah, yeah, we would have
wrapped things up. Yeah tomorrow. Of course, their their fourth birthday and
one of our great sponsors here at WMNH. But yeah, you had last
night, you did. You were at Murphy's Murphy's tap Room, right,
Yeah, started a new new event there weekly. Okay, so you're gonna
be there every thursday? Ye outstanding. Well, I'm gonna have different there
every Thursday. I'm not gonna be there every Thursday. But we in it.
We finally launched Reckless Unit Verity, which is huge. It's it will
be careful. You know, Trump had Trump University and that ended horribly to
totally different things. It's no fraud here. There's no one good good there
won't be a class action lawsuit against you in the future hopefully. Well,
very good either way, man, it it was it was. It was
definitely, definitely huge and very eye opening to see for me and to see
what I can do in this city. We put almost two hundred and fifty
heads up in that building, so excellent. It was massive and yo,
honestly it's it was shocking. It was shocking, especially with the turn of
events last night with the car accident on the corner of Elmin Auburn. Oh
what happened? I saw somebody post it on online that there was there was
a big to do? Was it? Was it a really bad accident?
It was really bad? Wow? Yeah, multi cars, car and car
and bike? Oh no, yeah, like a motorcycle or an actual bicycle
a motorcycle. Oh okay, that's never good. It seems like that's a
trend lately too. Yeah. And one of them at my thoughts are my
thoughts are with the biker because I know her personally. Oh kid, yeah,
so I hope she's doing pretty good. No one's heard anything or listen,
I haven't heard anything. Oh wow, that's terrible. It's super unfortunate.
And the staff at Angel City. I hope you're all are doing okay,
because that's it's really unfortunate because she was the bar manager at Angel City.
Oh okay, yeah wow, oh oh, sorry to hear that.
So you don't know if she's okay or not. No, I'm not entirely
sure. I heard all of this at like two am this morning. Yeah,
I heard. I got a text yesterday right when the event started that
there was part of the street was blocked off, and I considered for a
minute, honestly canceling the event because I didn't think anyone would come. And
I showed up at eleven, my opener was there and there was almost two
hundred people. Wow, and I was I was shocked. I was like,
holy crap. But it all comes back to like the networking I've done
in this city, and it's it's honestly, what has been for me recently
is a lot of people have counted me out over the past two years,
did me wrong, did me dirty, And now I'm finally showing that Yo,
I'm I'm I'm clearly gonna have to do this myself. I've had my
help in the city, I've had my guidance, but when it comes down
to it, it's whatever. Like last night, that was one hundred percent
my promotion me even Murphy said it. Yeah. And for me, me
as a local DJ, to be able to put that together on a week
notice, it's massive, massive, you only had a week. Yeah.
He came to me like last week and was like, hey, here,
you want to do Thursdays. I go absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I
want to do Thursdays. Yeah. I'm like, it's a chance for me
to build my rapport with other DJs and book them and for me to get
these college kids out and honestly, yo, shout it to everyone from saying
as who came out last night? That was that was that was huge And
I honestly I haven't I haven't said thank you to anybody yet on like Instagram
or anything like that, because I was waiting for this moment. Excellent,
we're gonna clip this, We're gonna put it up on the gram on DJ
reckless must be what young people are calling all right, But no, but
no, honestly, like I want to say thank you to everyone that came
out last night and truly supports me weekend and week out, you know,
sharing my flyers, you know, and just showing me support over the past
two years. And I also want to thank the haters because that's been my
fuel from day one. Day one. We all know what happened with me
and soho that really played a key in it, all right, And I'm
I'm I'm glad what happened with me there happened because it showed me my worth
and who I am, what I can do, and it's I'm grateful for
that, yeah, honestly, and everyone that's did me wrong, counting me
out, it's it's water under the bridge. But didn't forget it. I
didn't forget it. It's always been in my head for the past two years,
and now I finally have something to show for it, for all the
hard work and everything else, the tears, the blood, the sweat,
it's the frustration, the sweat, the stress. And yeah, I mean
I'm genuinely still in shock about last night. Really, yeah, yeah,
honestly, hasn't hasn't all come like come to fruition yet. I'm just like
sitting here, I'm like, Wow, were you unsure that a Thursday night
would do well? Is that what it was? Or you anything else will
do well? Right? Right? I'm not sure anything. I always expect
zero people to show up. Really yeah, I said last yesterday for the
best prepare for. I said, yesterday to the manager over there, I
said, it's going to be hit or miss this week. Yeah. I
think it was a hit. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm
laughing at the chat room. Melanie just said Melanie Liberty, of course from
the great state of Vermont. She just said, what's up, dj Rack.
I get pretty sweaty too, yeah, she Djane. She talks about
that a lot, totally. Yeah, yeah, very good. Now,
so uh and just to clarify, so, so you've got every Thursday there,
but it won't always be you. Yeah, I know I'm gonna be
there once a month other than like I think I'm doing a Halloween thing there.
I'm doing a Taylor Swift party there, and I'm doing my birthday bash
day. Oh, very good. When when's your birthday? It's November twenty
nine. But Thanksgiving Eve it's going to be the official birthday bash. Oh
Thanksgiving Eve. That's a big night. Very good, very good. Now
do you know yet? So for the nights that you're not there, you're
just gonna book out their DJs. I'm fully booked up until like November.
Now, oh, very good. Put that out the way quick. Do
you want to mention who's coming up just some week? Next week, I
have my residence DJ Shaun White there. I'm super excited for him to be
there because he's one of the guys I started this all out with. Started
dad open for him. I opened for him all the time. He's a
great doucer and he teaches me a lot, so it was only right for
me to put him on. Yeah, and then the week after I'm not
exactly sure who I have, but I know I have somebody. Yeah,
No, that's good. Yeah. When I used to promote a lot of
rock shows in the area and whatnot, I would always try to get get
in with a venue where they would give me a night, you know,
one night a week. Actually, I for if for people around here who
who remember the old Uptown tavern that we used to have up the street.
I remember they gave me Thursday nights there for a while, you know,
and it was it was, it was pretty successful. It's you know,
never it was never as good as a as busy as a weekend, but
you know, Thursday nights if you promote it, right, you can get
people out and like you said too, you know, whereas you're really promoting
to a college crowd, that certainly helps because I get the impression that a
lot of the college kids around here they go out on Thursday nights because a
lot of them go home on the weekend on Friday. So Thursday night's kind
of the night. Is that is not enough? Sarially, sorry, I'm
dealing with something for later, but saying as they have a campus like they
you, they have dorms like residence halls. So they all found me out
there. Yeah, they all party on in center, are on campus and
then don't go out Friday Saturdays, but come out Thursdays. So and I've
always had a good I've always had a good what's call good reputation, would
saying us because I did all their like bar events that say Murphy's for almost
a year and I'm coming up on a year. Yeah, so I built
I built that up, and I did a few few on campus events for
them. Yeah, And it was weird because like last year during the Kentucky
Derby, I went on went on their campus for a party and it felt
weird. I felt genuinely weird because everybody knew me. I didn't know a
single person. Everyone's graving pictures with me, and it's like, I'm not
used to that. So it's the social awkwardness came out, and like,
I gotta figure out a way through that, because like yesterday, I must
have taken at least three hundred photos with people. Oh wow, yep,
yeah, and that's what it is. Like, Yeah, i'd take my
photo, I'd take photos of people. I put my hat forward, show
my logo, and because it's subconscious, yes, they see my logo,
they're like, oh, that looks familiar, and then they'll see it somewhere
else, like at Murphy's or something. When you mentioned doing that with your
hat, I remember the have you ever you you told Jenny and I about
this, but I don't know if you ever told the story on the air
when when Channel nine approached you get into this one. Yeah, yeah,
yes, and I don't think I've been on since that. I'm gonna find
the audio while you're talking about it. Yeah, go ahead, okay,
tell that story. I was going to get lunch or something like that at
the corner of Elmon Mechanics Street and WMR was out there interviewing for something when
Trump he had just got indicted or something, and I was like, you
know what, Sure, I'll say something. But I was in my work
shirt. So I ran over changed, put on my put on my reckless
hat, put on my reckless hoodie, I think in my jacket, and
I made sure I made sure my logo was front and center this time,
because the last time I tried this, that bonfire when we did the radio
thon or whatever. Yeah, a few years ago, they cut my logo
off on my sweatshirt. I was like, son of a gun, like
I can't win. But it helped. It was. It was a funny
thing, great, great marketing. Yeah, I posted up on the socials.
We at great engagement. The hate messages from all the Trump He's was
hilarious. It was it was it was it was. It was a riot,
the death threats, everything else. I was like, okay, cool,
I found the audio here. Mean about him has always been negative.
Some vooters, like Christian Lacosts, have had their minds made up about whether
or not they vote for Donald Trump for a while now, from January sixth
and now this like when does it stop? You know what I'm when do
people actually realize that he's not a good person and he's not good for the
country. Yeah, it's cool that. Uh were there other people they were
talking to too, because they had to wait for you to go do that.
Uh, I don't think there was anybody else that I was talking Yeah,
but yeah, I know. It was. It was funny. It
was it was a riot. And granted, everything I said in that interview
is obviously true. That's how I feel about him. Yeah, but like
I didn't do it for that, No, but that that is great,
that is great publicity exactly. But but you got a lot of uh,
you got a lot of you got a lot of hate for that, Yeah,
from a bunch of eighty year olds like okay, okay, cool,
Well just leave your inheritance to me. Yeah, I don't care about your
opinion. Just I care about your inheritance or your your will priorities. Honestly,
That's right. But no, no, no, it was. It
was funny. It was cool. Yeah. Yeah, well very good.
Now what's uh what's on tonight tonight? I'm at snow. I'm on campus
tonight for not interesting. When I got a sorority's booking me out there,
so we're gonna go out there. We're gonna have some fun. I'm gonna
make my connects have some some I'm probably hit up an afterparty two. That's
at some dorm I don't usually I don't usually do stuff like that. So
okay, what time does that start? That's at eight I think eight to
eleven, eight eleven, and then tomorrow I'm gonna go to Santa's tailgate and
film some TikTok contents, some pranks and stuff like that. Oh you still
do pranks, yeah, every now and then. I just haven't uploaded anything
because it gets I don't know. I'm trying to correlate it to what I
do. That's why I started the Instagram page for Reckless University, because I
don't want that to be a direct reflection of me. I don't want that
to target college kids. Oh I see, like my my page is just
for DJs and I hate that. I hate it. I hate it.
I hate it so much. Why Because DJs are the most toxic people I've
ever met my life. Really m M. Not the ones you work with
that you're booking at. No No, No No. For example, though,
like there was a there was a group chat of Boston. DJ's right.
Yeah, And I've never realized how egotistical short people can be. And
like there was this one kid like who would talk so much trash about me.
Yeah, he kicked me out of the group chat over something, and
then like people would tell me what was being said in that group chat for
almost months after I told you this story. Oh yeah, and it's just
like, yeah, that's all fuel to fuel to me. That's all fuel
to me. I'm playing down in Boston almost every month now, Like okay,
cool, Like all right, you live down in Boston, Okay,
it's cool, but like, don't trash from me. I'm in a totally
different market that's totally different than Boston. It's much easier. It's much easier
out there to pack a club than it is out here. I'll confidently say
that, well you got more college kids there, yea here I mean,
And it's like it's like confidently like people people try me for like not being
able to pack soho when I was when I was there, I was bottle
service. I do standing room only. That's ten times hardy. Yeah,
always will be bottle service. You've got groups of people coming in making the
place look busy. Right standing room only totally different, totally different. Now,
Melanie in the chat room, she was kind of bonding with you there
over what you were saying. She said, yeah, Dji, she said,
yeah, DJ's are lame, and then she said what I am short
and I never talked trash? Is that true? And then she says bottle
service lame. Yeah, she's with you, she's feeling you, she's picking
up what you're laying down. The young people say that right, No,
okay, sorry, I try hard, too hard. Ah. Now,
how long are you playing tomorrow night at hopknot nine to twelve? Oh?
Excellent, excellent, Yeah, excellent, excellent, Well, very good,
very good. Well. DJ Reckless is here with us. If you're just
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six zero three two five zero six o seven. We should mention two coming
up tonight. So yeah, so Reckless will be he'll be at the hop,
not tomorrow night, very exciting tonight. I'm not sure what they're doing
at the hop, not this evening, but I can tell you here on
w M and H we have retro Spectrum Radio with PAULI C. And I'll
tell you what Paul posted on social medi about it. Friday Night on Retrospectrum
Radio will feature our third and final segment of famous songs ripped off by your
favorite artists and sitting in for DJ Steve this week will be none other than
Dan Randall from Dan Randall and the Randletts. Do join us and we do
recommend for that show. If you'd like to hang out with us on the
Facebook live chat, we'd love to see you in there. Just go to
the Retrospectrum Radio Facebook page, but open a second browser tab and go to
WMH radio dot org and click listen live. Because Paul mutes the Facebook feed
because of all the copyrighted music. Facebook has been especially ticky about that recently,
so so just open a second tab to stream the audio while you hang
out and chat with us in the Facebook live chat. We love to uh,
we love to see people in there. Do you ever you ever try
to stream any of your set to Facebook? And if so, do they
do they knock it down? Or what about it? I've seen you do
it on Instagram, but but I've done on Instagram in a wild They'll kick
me off every yeah, every like five minutes. And the issue is like
they'll lench shadow band me or something. Oh they will. My engagement will
tank and it's just like I'd rather not. Oh okay, Yeah, I
learned the hard way that Instagram is very very uh, very strict, much
more so than Facebook. Shannon is on the line, Hi, Shannon,
Hello, Hello him, DJ Reckless, Hi, about the retrospect from there?
There are too many songs now they start out and you think it's this
one, and it's another one now with the with the keys in the core
progression or whatever is it? Okay? I thought you could not pat in
a sound. You cannot, but you can get it cleared pat sound,
so you if you get it cleared through the label, I believe that the
artist made the song. You can get it cleared through the artist. You
can use it if it's a sample. Yeah, yeah, example, is
that what you mean, sham No. I thought you just couldn't claim ownership
to a like a beat or or I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Uh, well, I think it was referencing. It's a story.
I heard it one time ago, and I think it was referencing on motorcycles.
You know, the sound of opposed to other bikes. They have distinct
sounds, and you couldn't patent that sound. I thought, I don't know.
Oh right before uh Peter show started this afternoon, and if he's listening,
thank you for playing press Monkey and high DJA Steve. Uh there was
a song on. It was a country song, but it clearly sounded like
stand by Me. You know that, you know the songs? Yeah,
it sounded like that that beat? Okay? Does I say beat is my
version of a beat as a sample? When you say beat, like,
do you mean the drum track the flow? I think she means like instrumental
or like I don't know the technical name. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, Shannon. It's just just I
don't know. Never mind, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna figure it out
if I just a flow do you mean? It sounds like the saying I
don't know? Do you mean like the vibe like, uh yeah, hippie
trip. I'm not gonna go vibe and go real hippie here. But yeah,
the if I think of a word, I'll let you know. Okay,
a lot of a lot of snow, Shannon, But if probably see
went went through all the different genres of music, country and hip, he'd
probably kind a lot more. That's right, probably carry you through till Christmas.
That's right. Yes, we could do an eleven part series. Yeah,
all right, we'll have a good one and television policy and uh Dan
and DJA. All right, Shannon, thank you for the call. All
right, having tweekend too it DJ bye bye. Well very nice. That
opens up the line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zero
seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. Yeah, we were
on Paul's show. We've been we've been doing this, you know, the
Paul will play like a song and then the original one that guess it yeah,
and then but a lot of them I voted not guilty. I should
have a gavel because you know, as you know, because you're not only
a DJ, but you also play guitar and you sing, and actually you
in fact, a few years ago you performed live on the show. So
as you know, there are a lot of chord progressions in rock mu that
are very common. And and sometimes, you know, when these chord progressions,
you know, they pop up in these different songs and then somebody says,
oh, well that that sounds like that, that sounds like it ripped
off this other song, and it's like, okay, well, if you're
gonna say this song ripped off that song, there's also a hundred other songs
that ripped off that song, you know. So so to me, it's
like you have to kind of accept that there are just certain chord progressions and
melodies and bits of melodies that are just very common in music, and uh,
and they just they come up a lot, and it doesn't mean necessarily
that it's someone trying to rip somebody else off, or even if it does
happen, it's probably not something they're doing consciously. Oh, Shannon is calling
back. I wonder if she thought of the word Hi, Shannon. No,
I didn't think of the word. Okay, when you know, when
they say dropped the beat, it's they don't say dropped the sample if they
dropped the beat. Oh, yes, reckless, you're a DJ. Can
you explain that? No, drop the beat? You know? Don't you
don't you drop the beat when you're a DJ? Yeah? Oh? Or
that old school speak. No, I get what you're saying. I do
get what you're saying about ticking up what I'm putting down. Yeah, it's
it's it's it's I want to say you're going for, Like the beat and
sample can be the same thing. That's two. It's a it's two two
different terms for the same thing. Right, So like hold on jay Z's
song dirt dirt off your shoulders or whatever? Okay, dirt off my shoulder?
Yeah, yep, you take that, and you take bounce back by
Big Sean or whatever. I believe, Okay, same instrumental, Oh,
same sample. I've never heard bounce back to different lyrics. It's just different
lyrics. Yeah. Now, did they have to get permission? And I'd
assume. So, I mean, yeah, the closest I can relate to
that is my my friend actually is a producer under the label Itaway a Mafia.
He produced the song for Anelli Chappo, which is a which is a
rap artist. He used the sample from, or instrumental from Nelly's It's getting
Hot in Here, Hot in Here. I've heard that a few tracks.
Actually yeah, yeah, but he but he used that did he gets?
No? Nelly came out. Nelly came out on the on the MTV Awards
and performed the song with him. Don't okay, I didn't see it.
No, no, you The only time you will get in trouble is if
you don't ask for permission, right, if you don't get a contract with
permission, right, That's why you see like ed Shearon ed, Charon recently
just had a lawsuit for it. Yeah that he one, thankfully? Yes?
Who else? Who else? Am? I think that Sharon's been sued
a couple of times now. Led Zeppelin are the worst offenders in history.
But I mean there's eighty eight keys on a piano, correct, Yes,
yes there are, and there are eight notes musically speaking, right, Okay,
I mean there's only so much you can do. So something's going to
sound like something And I don't know that's right. I don't have songs being
played out there, but i'd be flattered if somebody. I don't know.
I guess I'm just different because to me, it's music. Music is to
be shared. It is not a competition, you know, right, I
don't know or how much can I get because they written me off? Right,
don't be greedy about your music sharing, right, it's not a competition.
I made up a little risk, but you do have to make a
living. You made you made up a yeah. Uh. Back when I
was eighteen, my my ex he was playing the acoustics. I said we'll
try this, and you know he did it. Now, I swear I
had never heard it before. Whether he did or not, I don't know.
Some time later, Patience comes on the radio. But guns and Roses,
Yeah, are this the part of it up? Muse? Okay,
so that was kind of neat, but yeah, true story? Wow?
So okay, all right, I just don't know, uh lingo or I
don't know. I think have you considered legal action against guns and Roses?
Yeah? But you know it's it's true. It's true story. I mean,
I if I knew how to get ahold of him, I'd say,
you don't tell him. I'm not lying. He played, he played,
It made the sound, you know, and how do it? No?
Is that is that the progression? Is that the core pro meaning? No,
no, no, no, I'm so lost. No no no,
no no no no no, no no no no. Is that the progression?
Or is that just a beat a riff? All right? I don't
think that doesn't sound like patience by guns and Roses. That sounds more like
get ready by no no no, no, no, no, no no
no, so get ready. No, you're not doing no no no.
I wish I could sing falsetto it. I can, oh, I guess
I can do it if I try. Get Ready played bass. This is
why I played bass, because this is what happens when a sick Okay,
Christen, does you gotta go to radio voice? Thank you? All right?
For the rest of the rest of the rest of the show. He's
just gonna sing. No, I can't do that, you know what.
I'm actually a pretty good harmony singer. If I'm singing with other people,
I can find the octave and kind of lock in and whatnot. But on
my own. I do get lost. I have over the years had several
vocal coaches, all of all, three of whom at different times in my
life. We're very encouraging, but yeah, I just could never quite I
actually did years ago right here in Manchester. I participated in a recital because
my vocal teacher at the time was having a recital at the library and it
was like a bunch of her thirteen year old students and me singing. Actually
there was one other adult there part of those, but yeah, it was
kind of weird. I sang Let It Be by the Beatles, Let it
Be. She wanted me to sing Daughters by John Mayer, but that would
have been alinging for me because I would have been vomiting in my mouth while
singing it. But I loved singing Let it Be. Let's see who we
have on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's
this, Hey, Maddie, it's me. It's polyc Yes. So tonight
we're going to be doing a little bit of a twist to the last segment
of the plagiarism. So like we did play tonight, some of them were
they're mostly samples songs. Okay, so you have to guess. You and
Dan Randall and our listeners at home, we'll have to guess whether or not
there was actually a lawsuit. Oh, that'll be fun. Oh, I
like this, This will be cool. Just play like any of Edge Shearing
songs. There is there was a lawsuit, that's that's true. But he
always wins always, yeah, which was crazy to me. Yeah, but
yeah, that'll be fun. I'm looking forward to that, Paul. I've
enjoyed this whole plagiarism thing. It's been a lot of fun. But this
this sounds like it'll be particularly stim and it'll be wonderful to see Dan Randall
of Dan Randall and the Randletts. Absolutely, he'll tell us all about the
recent tour he's been on as a as an audience member. Do you think
he'll do you think he'll sign us with a sharpie? I'm sorry you cut
out? What was that, Matt? Do you think he'll sign us if
we give him a sharpie? Will he sign our body parts? I hope
so. I mean I already have like a whole rainbow variety of sharpie's in
my backpack, so I'm hoping he like colors. Me a little bit.
Actually, wow, that'll be great. You know something that Dan himself would
want. I want his autograph in every single color of sharpie that I have.
Yeah, outstanding, that'll be fun. Yeah, because Dan would do
that. Dan would go. I mean, Dan's going to see I just
spoke to him on I think Wednesday night, yea, and to make plans
for him to come in. And he told me that he's going to see
Corey Saltman at the end of the month. And I was pissed off him
because he didn't tell me that he was going to that. I would have
went with him. He's going to see Corey Corey Feldman a storian. Oh
my god. Yeah, it's like a lecture. It's a lecture. Really.
Yeah. We'll get the details on it tonight. But what Dan told
me, I'm like, Dan, why didn't you tell me? Man?
He goes, well, the tickets are hundred and twenty five bucks. I
didn't think he wanted to sit through two hours of Corey Felban. I mean,
do you want to go? And I said, hell, no,
I just wanted you to ask me and think of me. Oh my god,
yeah, no, I couldn't sit through two hours and then he's gonna
meet him to meet and greet. Oh boy, wow, hey, listen,
don't ask he's gonna He's gonna ask Corey if he could at least do
a couple of station bumpers for us, and uh, maybe call in at
the show. So maybe Corey Selman will call in. Well probably not outside
the rebel fossibility. That's that's good, Okay, all right, cool.
I'd like to I would like to hear him saying What's Up with the Youth?
I think that would be a lot of fun. That's what I told
Dan, I said, I'd love to have him come into the studio and
do an unplugged version of What's Up with the Youth? Yes, we can
all sing it with him. It'd be great. I'd love that only on
the chorus. Would let him have the verses. You know, I don't
want to ruin. I hope he still dresses like Michael Jackson because you know,
you remember. You might not remember this, but we played oh my
God. It was a Corey Feldman's cover song of of Something That Shouldn't.
He turned it into a sexy love song, but it was. It was
imagined by John Lennon. Do you remember we played that with Corey Feldman up
front. You know, I actually I think I do sort of recall it.
It's a little fuzzy, but yeah, it sounds familiar. Yeah,
well, he tries to he does the little sounds that Michael Jackson may he
sings. He tries to be Michael Jackson's pathetic. Yeah. It's pretty pretty
bizarre. But yeah, I mean, since the other Corey is dead,
there's no reason to see one Corey, right, reckless? What right?
Reckless? Yeah right? The other Corey Corey Hayman's dad. So you know
looking up who oh yeah, back in the day, brother, there were
two actors, teen actors, and they were in every bad teen movie you
could think of, except for The Lost Boys that was a good one.
But these two guys were both called Corey, Corey Hayman, Corey Seldman,
and there were just two. I don't know. They were so bad,
they were lovable, you know what I mean. And you know Corey Seldman
the one Dan's going to Sason. Okay, I see, he's been in
commercials since he was a little boy. We we uh have in the archives
at WMH video footage of Corey Haymes doing a Heinz ketchup commercial when he was
like six years old. He in some like pretty big movies too. Oh
yeah, yeah, Same by Me, The Gooney East. Oh yeah yeah,
stand by Me is really good. Man by Me was probably his biggest
movie. He was also in Friday the Thirteenth, A New Beginning. Oh
okay, And they had a reality show. It was Corey Feldman and his
wife and Corey Ham comes to live with them. It was I think it
was on VH one, right, yeah, I remember that. I think
it might have that lasted what fifteen twenty minutes? Yeah, I didn't last
long, it was, Yeah, I didn't last long. I think it
was called The Two Corries, I think, if I'm not mistaken, but
uh yeah, and then uh and and I think shortly after that, Corey
Corey Ham left us. Yes, Corey Hayme left us. And also Corey
Feldman was also on several episodes of A Love Bote. I didn't know that,
but I'm not surprised, right, Yeah, he was. He played
a problem child and one of the episodes he was still in Mirror's Kid in
an episode. Oh all right, it's pathetic, I know, Mad,
I'm sorry. I'm into the next I'm sorry, Well, I know that's
kind of the point of your show exactly. All right, I will speaking
of that, I'll see you guys in a few hours. Man, all
right, sounds good, Paul, I'll see you then. Than you have
a good night, Reckless you two? All right? Here it up?
Brother, of course? All right, bye bye, it has to be
done. Always nice to hear from poll C and I get to see police
every Friday night from eight to eleven PM for Retro Spectrum Radio with Policy along
with j Stevens. Tonight, we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan
Randall and the Randlettes. Yeah. Ever hear this song reckless? What's up
with the youth? That sounds like a remix? Actually it's quite bad.
Shannon is back on the line. Hi, Shannon. I was all excited.
I thought it was going to educate me a little one, but whatever,
okay, question what's up with the youth? Shannon? By the way,
what's up with the youth? Oh? Well, they butchered the English
language, so I mean, what else you want? Hey? We just
made it easier, thank you. Yeah. No, Hey, it's smarter,
not harder. Okay, you all we use literally always rasis like way
too much. Well, you can. You can blame Generation X for that,
My generation is responsible for for that, and then it's just it's perpetuating
Generation X too. But I don't say like all the time. You probably
say it more than you realize, because we all we all say we all
say it more than we realize. Shannon, trust me, we all say
we all say it more than we realize. No, the real question is
what's up with the youth? Sorry? I thought was that the chorus?
What was it gonna? Corey Feldman? He was in stand by Me?
Now? Was he one of the kids, the younger kids of the older
one? What's up with the youth? Corey Feldman? Was did you say?
Was was he one of the four boys that went to look for the
body? I believe so. I haven't seen that movie in decades, but
I believe so because River Phoenix is gone. He was crazy. He played
Chris Gordo. I don't know his real name. Burne is Jerry O'Donnell.
And then the other one was Teddy, and I think Teddy is Cory,
So I don't know. By the way, Paul is confirmed this is the
correct version, not the remix. I was wrong. What's that, Shane?
Well, when you're talking about sampling and course progression and everything else that
bridges, where's the hook come in? Oh? The oka is coming up?
I think the hook is coming up, Shannon. That's the part where
he says, what's up with the youth? Okay, the lago? All
right? The youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with the
youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with you with youth?
What's up with the youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with
youth? Shannon? Well, what's uh? I can almost hear the song.
That's an original composition by Corey Feldman. Shannon, how dare you but
the beat the reckless? Uh? Do you know where the beat is from?
On? What's up? You? Thankin's bad? What's up? Who's
bad? Michael Jackson? Oh, Michael Jackson bad by Michael Jackson. Right,
Well, that would make sense that Corey Feldman idolized Michael Jackson. Okay,
So I don't know this stuff. I don't I don't have cable,
I don't read the paper, right, listen to the radio stuff? Huh,
don't know? That's where I get my rapa hear that Corey Feldman,
he was spitting some rhymes in that part. Did you know that he could
rap? No? No, no mean either from listening to that, he
clearly cannot. No. I can do a better job than that. Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, spit some bars you what's up with you?
Spit some bars about what's up with the youth? Shannon? You can
do it? What's up with the youth? Could you gotta learn the freestyle?
Shannon? You mean like your mimics, your impressions, my impressions,
that's a completely different subject. Police is doing impression of somebody. My impressions
are masterful, they are thank you. Uh huh, I know point the
young people say that right, reckless on point. He's dozing off on the
loved state. What Hey, that was years ago. Hey, we don't
bring that out. That was years ago. There's a different time of my
life. Shannon. Well, now you've done it. Now I'm going home.
I'm going to the next gig. Yes, all right, Shannon,
by bye bye. She never did tell us beef. Now you get all
you're beefing with chipping Now now she's off the phone, y'all got beef.
Y'all is beefing, beefing. I like to say it with a deep voice,
beefing. Police in the chat room says, this is like the waiting
room in purgatory. Oh, purgatory. That's where don Imus is. As
we as we learned recently, Isaac Banks says Shannon in the eighties. Eighties
movie of stand By Me was Will Wheaton aka Gordon. I don't remember if
Will Wheaton is one of the names that Shannon mentioned. I was too busy
jamming out to What's Up with the Youth by the great Corey Feldman. So
yeah, so do you have to It's almost the top of the hour.
Do you have to go? It's time to wrap it up. We want
to make me at least yeah. We want to make sure before you go
that we plug everything. So where are you gonna be tonight? Tonight?
I am at SNHU. Tomorrow, I'm at the hop not hope to see
you there, everybody. It's gonna be fun. Yes, yes, I
don't exactly think you've seen me. DJ sounds like twenty twenty one and I
had a Windows laptop. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's right, that's right, You're right. Yeah, yeah, guys.
And then every Thursday Murphy's Tap Room. Yep, it's a wild one.
Yep, yep. Five dollar green tea shots, two dollar bud Lights,
five dollars Cheetos, five dollars Cheetos, Chitos, Oh, Titos. I
thought I said Cheetos. Yeah, unfortunately, else ts. That'd be fun
if you could get like, well, no, actually five dollars for a
bag of Cheetos would be expensive, but Titos. That's good. It's great
for me, very good. And where should people go online to follow you?
Instagram at dj R E k L s s dj reckless very good,
and you have, but you have a separate one for reckless university. Correct
say it's it's literally reckless university type practis university in the sound into the bar
and there it is. All right, very good, very good, Well,
thank you, thank you for coming in. I'm gonna get to a
break and we'll let you scoot. I think I'm gonna play What's Up with
the Youth? Uninterrupted by Corey Feldman because look, it's uh, the guy's
got a show coming up in the area, so it might as well.
Big show, masks. It's gonna sell out all right, DJ Reckless,
thank you so much. Give give this a listen, and then we'll show
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info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, September twenty
second, twenty twenty three. My favorite day of the week here, it's
my long day at WMNH and I do love it so not only am I
on this show but of course tonight I'll be on Retro Spectrum Radio with Paulyc
as we do every Friday night right here from WMH ninety five point three FM,
and tonight we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the
Randletts, making a return to the show for this evening, so looking forward
to that as well. That'll be really cool. Thank you again to DJ
Reckless for joining us during the first hour, and I do want to remind
you that tomorrow night, DJ Reckless will be Djane at the Hopknot from nine
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mention that too. They've got some great musicians. Tomorrow one pm they have
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and then at four pm they have michaela Horn. So they've got a few
live performers tomorrow, and then they're going to close from five to eight for
a few hours to get ready for the evening, and then they'll be reopening
at eight pm for a dance party with big gay events and a set from
DJ Reckless from nine pm to midnight. That is all happening tomorrow night at
the hop Knot. So Jenny and I will be there at some point and
we'd love to love to meet you if you want to come on down enjoy
some delicious gourmet pretzels and some craft beer, and wish the hop Knot a
happy birthday. Also, if you're just joining us, just a couple of
notes about today's show for anyone who's puzzled, if you're at all confused.
We did have a musical guest stop plan for today, the duo Crooked Cash.
We're going to be making the return of the show today, but one
of the guys reached out to Jenny first thing this morning to let her know
that he had a family emergency. So hopefully everything's okay. Completely understandable,
of course, so we will rebook them. I'm sure Jenny will rebook those
guys for another day, but I hope everything is okay. They're very talented
musicians but also a couple of really good guys too. I really enjoyed meeting
them the last time that they were here, so but so we will have
them on in the future, I promise. Also, we don't have Eric
Pilter's classic film review. We're going to have that on Monday instead. Eric
has been suffering through an internet outage. Apparently in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Some city workers accidentally cut a line that they shouldn't have or something that it
knocked out the internet in Eric's neighborhood. So he's been kind of dead in
the water as far as getting the film review together. So he's gonna work
on it this weekend and we will have that on Monday. But in the
meantime, we have lots to discuss. Let's see and actually let me refresh
the Facebook here will. I do want to say helload everybody in the Facebook
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Let's see, we'll say, I'll let everybody in the Facebook lave chat.
We'll see who we have in here. Oh, hello to Carrol Zowarrowitz who
joins us. Also Isaac Banks, whom you might recall. He's from Greensboro,
North Carolina. He says, ri ip Corey Hame while he died a
number of years ago. And the oh, there were two seasons of the
Two Corries. Oh so I had the name right. The reality show that
Corey Haman Corey Feldman did it was the Two Corries. Isaac Banks also said
hashtag Matt Connerton, Corey Feldman, and Corey Hame were in Michael Damien's video
of rock on Oh Yes, Yes, And I believe we've played that on
retro Spectrum Radio with policy. I believe Paul played that song one week.
I don't remember what the subject was, but I believe that song was played
policy of course in the is in the Facebook lave chat and encouraging me to
crank up the What's Up with the Youth by Corey Feldman. Melanie implored me
to stop answering the phone. No, no, no, Isaac Banks says,
hashtag DJ Reckless. You can check out is Heidi Lenhart Facebook live page?
Well a suggestion there for DJ Reckless, the Heidi Lenhart Facebook like page.
I'm not sure who Heidi Lenhurt is. Let's see. Jay fed joins
us in the Facebook live chat, also from the Great State of Vermont.
Hello, Isaac Banks, says Shannon in the eighties move Oh I read that
already. Sorry, never mind, all right, Paulice says, referring to
the song. Well, we were playing earlier while Shannon was on the line.
This is what happens when you're waiting in line for the waiting room.
When you're in there, it's just it's just Corey. It's Corey Feldman,
little boy. Let's see ye. And we talked about two briefly. Paul
mentioned when he called in that Corey Feldman is going to be doing a speaking
engagement that our friend Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts will be attending,
and Paul said regarding that, wtf could he possibly talk about for three
hours that wouldn't make people run for their lives? Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I've seen I've seen over the years some interviews with Corey
Feldman, and based on the interviews that I've seen of him and also his
you know, he's made appearances on The Howard Stern Show over the years and
whatnot, based on that, I could not imagine paying money to actually hear
him talk and give some sort of presentation. I honestly cannot imagine it.
Miriam Banish in the chat room says, is this the song that never ends?
L ol? Referring of course, to What's Up with the Youth by
Corey Feldman, which I did play earlier. Actually, Miriam, it's funny.
The song I think is only about three minutes long, maybe three and
a half at the most, but it does feel like it goes on and
on and on and on and on. Yeah, So I understand everything's relative,
but I understand what you're saying. Oh, Isaac Banks says, good
afternoon, Tammy Cochrane, how are you doing my love? Oh? Isaac
and Tammy Cochrane. Wow, that is scandalous. Isaac Banks also says hashtag
Matt Connerton. Heidi Lenhart is a actress and singer from the TV show.
She did a band of California Dreams on NBC after Saved by the Bell on
NBC. Okay, I thought the name was vaguely familiar, but I really
couldn't be sure. Six zo three two five six seven is a studio line
if you would like to join us today six three two five six seven.
We do have some political news to get to, but this is just one
other thing. Regarding yesterday's show, I want to correct something that I said
that I later realized was kind of ridiculous, but not anything political. It
has to do with a comment I made regarding music. So we had a
great guest yesterday, Rick Perry from the great State of Texas. In fact,
I would say that Rick Perry from the band Iron Jaw, probably the
second most famous Rick Perry from the State of Texas. He joined us first
via Skype, and then Skype became an issue, so then via phone.
But I love that band Iron Jaw, what a great band. Well,
you'll you'll be hearing more of them on the show in the future. But
you know, they've got kind of a they've got a sound where you know
you can hear their influences. Definitely Judas Priest, Iron Maiden bands like that,
and I think it was so, you know, we talked a little
bit about that. Of course, we talked about influences. And then Shannon,
this was because of a Shannon called Shannon happened to call afterward, and
I don't remember how the subject came up, but I assume it had to
do with my conversation with Rick Perry. Shannon said something about Bruce Dickinson and
how in the nineties Bruce Dickinson had left Iron Maiden and did some solo material
and the comment that I made that I realized later was so absurd, and
I just want to correct myself. I said something about, Yeah, I
was talking about Bruce Dickinson's solo material. I think he did maybe three albums
and then went back to Iron Maiden. Three solo albums, maybe only two,
No, I think there were three, and then and then he went
back to Iron Maiden. But the comment that I made was I said,
yeah, Bruce Dickinson's solo stuff sounds a lot like Iron Maiden, so if
you like Iron Maiden, you'd probably like his solo stuff. But a specific
song came up in the conversation. It was a song Tattooed Millionaire. Shannon
mentioned it and then just for the hell of it, last night, late
last night, I was like, you know, I haven't heard that song
in so long, and I always really loved that song. So I played
it and as I'm listening to it, I realized, this song doesn't sound
anything like Iron Maiden. And that's what I realized. I'd made a completely
ridiculous comment. Now, granted I didn't say that all of Bruce Dickens solo
material sounds like Iron Maiden, but to imply that that's basically what Bruce Dickinson's
solo material is, that's not accurate. Some of his solo material certainly sounded
like Iron Maiden, but the song Tattooed Millionaire sounds nothing like Iron Maiden.
And when I realized that I hadn't listened to it in so long, I
just I felt ridiculous. I mean, this does not sound, if anything,
this song. I'm just gonna play a little bit of it. I'm
not gonna play the little thing, but if anything, at least the verses
Bruce Dickinson, the way he sings, he actually sounds like Brian Johnson from
ac DC and on this particular song, which is very un Bruce Dickinson like,
but nothing about this sounds like Iron Maiden. And I'm listening to the
song because I always loved this song and I hadn't heard it in so long,
And then I'm like, I can't believe I made that comment about how
his solo stuff sounded like Iron Maiden. There's nothing here. Let's listen to
this already that sounds nothing like Iron Maiden right now. If you didn't know
who that was and you'd never heard that song before, and I said,
who do you think this is, what would you say? You would say
Brian Johnson era ac DC, Right, that's what that sounds like. Doesn't
sound anything like Iron Maiden. I do love the song. Maybe I'll play
the whole thing at the end of the show today. Maybe that'll be our
closer anyway, So I was listening to that last night and I'm going,
I can't believe I made that comment that his solo material sounds like Iron Maiden.
That's clearly not that doesn't sound like Iron Maiden. Like I said,
if I played that for you and you didn't know, you would think it
was a CDC. Right, If you'd never heard that song before in your
life, you wouldn't be sitting there going, yeah, oh that sounds like
Iron Maiden? Is that is that Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden? You would
never think that. So anyway, I wanted to correct that, So maya
culpa, and Bruce Dickinson, if you happen to be listening, I apologize
if I if you in any way felt that I was dismissive of your solo
material saying that it was just, you know, a bargain a bargain version
of Iron Maiden. That's not what I meant to imply. Or maybe I
did mean to imply it in the moment, but then I realized later how
stupid that was. All right, we'll get into some more serious matters in
a moment, but let me give the studio line again. Six zero three
two five zero six zero seven six three two five zero six O seven.
My friends, Bob Menendez a name that you might have been hearing today.
If you have been paying attention to the news Senator Bob Menendez of the Great
State of New Jersey when I heard his name today, because he's in a
bit of trouble. You know, when I heard his name today, you
know what I was reminded of, the first thing that I was reminded of.
I was reminded of the year twenty seventeen when this show, well not
this show, but this version of the show that airs here on WMH ninety
five point three FM, was in its relative infancy, and I was talking
about Bob Menendez. See, I have a really good memory for details about
some things. And as soon as this story broke today about Bob Menendez and
the ethics trouble that he's in, and he looks like he's really in it
this time, the first thing I thought of was I remembered in twenty seventeen
talking about the ethics trouble that he was in then. And I remembered it
was twenty seventeen, because I remembered exactly where I was when I was talking
about it on the show, because it wasn't in this room. Because when
I first came to wm ANDH, we were still doing we were still doing
the live radio shows in a different studio, in a smaller studio that's on
a different floor in this building. And I remember being in that room talking
about Bob Menendez. And I even remember I remember being in that room talking
about Bob Menendez and wondering out loud to the audience, when is this guy
gonna end up in jail? Because that's this is not the first time he's
been in ethics trouble, and it seems pretty serious. And of course he
did not end up in jail. He was tried. He was not acquitted.
However he was. It was a hung jury, and that's it.
That's how we got away with it. Well, it's now twenty twenty three
and it's all caught up to him in a big way. But that was
the first thing I thought of us. I said, wow, I remember,
I remember talking about Bob Menendez in twenty seventeen in the old studio I
was, I remember vividly. It's weird how I can remember certain details about
certain things that would seem insignificant, and yet for some reason, they're just
seared in my mind. But I think I did the whole, the entire
show that day, the whole two hours about Bob Menendez, but he's really
in trouble now. Politico has the story up Egypt, guns and money and
oh, I'm sorry, Yeah, Egypt, guns, money and power at
the center of Menendez indictment publicity. I'm sorry publicly a critic of Cairo.
Privately, prosecutors allege the senator used his influence to benefit Egypt. Here's what's
going on if you've missed it. The indictment of Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat
of New Jersey today accuses one of the most powerful senators shaping American foreign affairs
of using his perch to enrich himself and exploit the complication relationship between the United
States and Egypt. It is a story about guns, money, and power
that strikes at the fraud sector of American diplomacy. Menendez denies any wrongdoing,
saying prosecutors quote misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office unquote and attacked him
and his wife. But if the allegations are proven, they will represent a
damning account of how American foreign policy an automatic toward an autocratic ally was compromised
for several years, for years for venal reasons. By the way, it
is interesting is his allegation against the prosecutors that they and again quoting, misrepresented
the normal work of a congressional office. What's particularly interesting about that is that
one would not necessarily expect that the quote unquote normal work of a congressional office
would involve gold bar literal bars of gold and cash, cold cash, cold
heart cash. Again literally you know the kind of cash you put in your
freezer so no one thinks to I guess that's what people do. They put
cash in their freezer when they're trying to hide it from the authorities, because
obviously, you know, if law enforcement, if the FBI shows up for
a raid, they would never think to look in your freezer. It seems
cliche, but apparently that's what they did. They were putting money in the
freezer tucket behind the ice cubes. I guess, you know, tens of
thousands of dollars. And I'm not sure that. I mean, do most
Americans assume that that is the normal work of a congressional office, as Menendez
claims. I mean, not that anyone should be surprised necessarily. I mean,
I do think Americans generally assume that our politicians, at least at that
level are somewhat corrupt, and I think everyone new Menendez was corrupt. But
oh, don't get me wrong. Of course, you know, he used
to be afforded the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But this time it
really does look like it's going to stick. I remember in twenty seventeen again,
I think I spent an entire two hours on it one day on the
show, really digging into it, and it seemed like, definitely he and
his wife had done something dirty, and we're taking bribes. But the whole
scheme seemed a little bit convoluted in a way that one could understand why a
jury might find it difficult to find their way to a conclusion that he and
his wife. I don't remember if she was actually on trial he was,
I don't remember if she was as well, but she's been entangled in all
of this with him right along. It would seem I could see at the
time how it might be difficult for a jury to get to the conclusion beyond
a reasonable doubt that he had done something illegal. Clearly he had done something
unethical, but not everything that's unethical is necessarily illegal. Certainly, especially in
politics, there are a lot of things that are unethical that maybe should be
illegal, but they aren't necessarily so so I could see at the time,
how you know, it was easy to understand why it was a hung jury.
But this is this is he's not going to get away with it this
time. Let me put it that way, all right, So continuing on
again, this is the article from Politico which explains it pretty well. Egypt
receives about one point three billion per year in foreign military financing, but by
law, tranches of the AID are conditioned upon Egypt's progress on human rights concerns,
as determined by the State Department. Whether Foggy Bottom clears, the aid
is often subject to a regular tug of war between lawmakers, the advocacy community,
and the executive branch. Traditionally, the State Department is honored request to
delay grants and weapons sales from the chair or the ranking member of the Senate
Committee. Menendez, who has served as the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations
Committee since twenty eighteen, has often been a public critic of the Egyptian government,
rapping the Trump administration for inviting Egyptian president elcc abdel Fatah LCC If I'm
saying that correctly, for a state visit in twenty nineteen and pressing then Secretary
of State Mike Pompeio to raise human rights concerns with the leader, But federal
prosecutors claim Menendez was playing a different role behind the scenes. This is where
it gets. This is where it gets a little, uh, crimey.
Is that a word? Crimey? Not grimy? Crimey? I suppose he
could say grimy. In an indictment published Friday today, this just happened today.
This is breaking news almost. I mean it's a few hours old.
But prosecutors claim that Menendez accepted money, a luxury car, and gifts including
gold, from three New Jersey businessmen in return for helping them and Egypt's repressive
regime. Prosecutors also claimed the New Jersey Democrat gave sensitive information about US diplomats
and Cairo quote that secretly aided the government of Egypt, and improperly advised and
pressured unquote a US agricultural official to safeguard a contract for one of the businessmen
to be the exclusive purveyor of halal meat to Egypt. According to the indictment,
let me just say this, anytime you've got meat involved, there's something
not right. Here. That's a long standing I learned that from watching NYPD
Blue or something. I don't know. It's an old Younger listeners are like,
what, what are you even talking about? Law and order? That
would be a more contemporary reference. Even though that show has been on for
decades, it still exists, I think, right, I don't really watch
much TV. Allegedly, Menendez, starting in mid twenty eighteen, privately maintained
close relations with Egyptian officials and businesspeople and readily shared sensitive information with his associates
about US policy toward Cairo. In May twenty eighteen, Menendez allegedly disclosed to
Hannah, that's one of the businessmen at a private dinner that a US government
ban on sales of small arms and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted, which
Hannah passed on to the Egyptian official. Later that month, Menendez allegedly ghost
wrote Cairo's lobbying pitch to other US senators seeking support for the release of three
hundred million dollars in USA to Egypt. In July, after meeting with Egyptian
military officials, Menendez allegedly had his wife Nadine, tell Hannah that he was
signing off on the sale of forty six thousand target practice rounds and ten thousand
rounds of tank ammunition worth ninety nine million dollars. By the way this goes
on, we're going to continue it. But I'm just I'm wondering a rhetorical
question. You don't have to answer you the audience, But is anybody other
than myself wondering at this point? How did he ever believe he would get
away with all of this? Did he assume that everyone is so dirty that
everyone does it? And why would he be any different? Is it arrogance?
Is it delusions of grandeur or some form of mental illness that makes someone
believe that they can do all of this and no one's going to catch on,
and no one's going to investigate after he already in twenty seventeen narrowly avoided
being convicted and sent to prison. So Menendez allegedly said in a text to
Nadine, which she forwarded Dahnah quote, note these tank rounds are for tanks
they have had for many years. They are using these in the Sinai for
the counter terrorism campaign unquote. The State Department two months later announced it had
approved the sale of the package of General Dynamics made high explosive and armor piercing
rounds to help Cairo fight Islamic State militants and the target rounds to train M
one Abrams tank crews. Adrian Watson, the White House National Security Council spokesperson,
said no comment when contacted for this story. Spokespersons for the State Department
did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Egypt's ambassador in Washington also said
no comment. Menendez is also accused of intervening in Egyptian diplomatic entanglements and pushing
for the US to put its finger on the scales for Cairo after taking a
meeting with an Egyptian official dubbed the General. Prosecutors alleged Menendez waded into a
long standing diplomatic dispute between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over access to the
Nile River and a large Ethiopian dam project near the river's source waters. Oh,
by the way, side note, Jfed just said in the chat,
I hate to tell you, Matt, but I looked it up and there
is no internet outage in Eric Pilcher's town. But wait a second. JFED
wanted to be the new film reviewer. So he has a motive for saying
something like that, I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't know
who to trust. I mean, I know who not to trust, Bob
Menendez. The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has long been a top
foreign priority for Egypt, as Cairo depends on unfettered water flows from the Nile
to sustain its population, which is almost entirely concentrated along the rivers Delta and
Banks. Writing in April, Jaft says, I blame Bruce. I do
as well. Writing in April twenty twenty two, then Secretary Stephen Manuchin in
Pompeo to express concerns over quote stalled negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and the
Sudan over the dam. Menendez called on the administration to quote significantly increased the
State departments engagement on negotiations around the dam. According to the indictment, Menendez
in February twenty eighteen reclaimed his post as the Top panel's top democrat, just
days after the Justice Department dropped different corruption charges against him. Okay, so
those were the twenty seventeen charges. February of twenty eighteen, the charges were
finally dropped after the hungjury and all of that. At that time, Menendez
was accused of intervening in a Dominican post contract dispute to benefit a Florida ophthalmologist
and a businessperson who had given Menendez a large campaign donations. Oh, that
part I remembered wrong. And by the way, I'm not saying this would
be funny. This literally is true. It's not a joke. I thought
it was. I thought it was a dentist Menendez was. There was a
part of this whole scam Menendez was running in twenty seventeen. It was actually
an optimologist, an eye doctor. Menendez voluntarily stepped back from the job in
twenty fifteen after he was charged, with an understanding from then Senate Minority Leader
Harry Reid that he would be reinstated if cleared of charges. It's unclear if
Menendez will step back from his role this time around, or if he did,
who would temporarily replace him as chair. By the way, I believe
he already stepped down as chair, so that must have happened after this was
published. So again, this might not be quite up to the minute,
but it's a really good explainer, although it doesn't get into the gold bars
part in this article. Now, something related to this so that I happened
to see and I didn't get a chance to preread this, but this popped
up on media. How will MSNBC handle its Menendez family conflict of interest?
I don't know what this part's about, but you know I'm interested in all
things media, So let's look at this. It says here Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Bob Menendez was indicted on bribery charges for alleged crimes committed as part
of a scheme involving his wife, Nadine, the Egyptian government, and three
New Jersey businessmen. Prosecutors for the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of
New York charged Menendez with having quote promised to and did use his influence and
power and breach his official duty in ways that benefited the government of Egypt unquote.
Besides the Nndez clan itself, Friday's news could also be trouble for MSNBC,
the cable news network where Alisha Menendez, the forty year old daughter of
Bob Menendez, hosts a weekend show called American voices with Alisha Menendez awkward.
The most obvious question that comes to mind is, quote, will MSNBC allow
Menendez to address the scandal in any way unquote. One might be quick to
assume the answer is an easy no. But if CNN's handling of the Andrew
Cuomo sexual misconduct cases any indication that assumption can't be taken for granted. Let
me stop there for a moment, because if I remember correctly, in the
case of CNN Chris Cuomo, when he was still there, he did not
address his brother's sexual misconduct case, but others on the network did, but
Chris Cuomo did not on his show, which I thought was completely appropriate.
By the way, I thought that made sense for Chris Cuomo not to get
into it because it is his brother, So you wouldn't expect Chris Cuomo to
be able to report on it objectively in any way, and you know why
even put him in that position. From what I recall, I might not
be remembering that exactly accurately, but that's what I recall. It says here.
In March twenty twenty one, after the allegations against him first came to
light, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo opened his show by acknowledging that he was quote
aware of what's okay. This is exactly what he said. He was aware
of what's going on with my brother. Obviously I cannot cover it because he
is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They
have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. I've always cared
very deeply about these issues and profoundly, so I just wanted to tell you
that. Unquote again, I think that's perfectly I mean, I have a
lot of other there are things about Chris Cuomo that bother me, but not
that that I thought was completely appropriate at the time. But it says here
the lines got blurrier from there. That may it was discovered that Cuomo was
advising Oh see, I forgot about this part. I completely forgot this.
This is pretty important. Actually, it was discovered that Cuomo was advising his
brother on how to handle the scandal. CNN called this inappropriate given his position,
but did not take any action to discipline him. Eventually, it was
revealed by the New York Attorney General's Office that Chris Cuomo would use this position
atzy an end to gather intel and possible accusers against his brother while working hand
in hand with his staff. It kind of goes on from there. But
so now the question is how will MSNBC handle this. And my I would
I mean my suggestion and my thought would be, either you simply don't I
mean Alicia Alicia Menendez, she just says a show that Arizon weekends, you
know, once a week on the weekend. So she can only so many
things in her limited a lotment of time to begin with. So I would
say, have her either ignore that there's always a million other stories, just
don't cover obviously she's not going to cover something involving her own parents, or
have her address it similar to the way that Chris Cuomo did and then move
on from it. But that would be my thought. But yes, but
Bob Menendez in a lot of trouble. Now. The one other thing,
I do want to make sure that we get in before we run out of
time, because it's already almost twenty minutes of And this is some breaking news.
This is from the Hill dot com. Kevin McCarthy vows to strip Ukraine
money from Pentagon bill after a Marjorie Taylor Green no vote. Now we'll look
at the substance of the article in a moment. But for anyone who hasn't
been following, this been a hell of a week for Kevin McCarthy House Speaker.
Looks like we're headed for a government shut down at the end of the
month. It looks like Kevin McCarthy might get voted out by the You know
these House Freedom members who are just itching for a reason to what do they
call that. There's a specific term, procedural term for a vote to remove.
It's not a removal vote, though, there's another term. It escapes
me, it'll come to me. It might be here in the article.
So he's got all kinds of trouble while all of this is happening. Funding
to continue the effort, the war effort in Ukraine, to continue to supply
the Ukrainians with what they need that hangs in the balance because the Republicans can't
figure out how to how to get this done with the budget. And by
the way, this is all after McCarthy made certain promises. There was already
a budget deal agreed to to avert a debt default, which thank god,
we got through that. But now McCarthy is in a position where if he
gives into the House Freedom Caucus. He can't keep his word to the president
on that budget deal that they that they passed, that they agreed to to
raise the debt limit. I should say, to be more precise, it's
he's in a terrible position. Part of me feels some sympathy for him,
and part of me thinks, well, this is what you get, Kevin.
While all this is happening, you've got Voladimir Zolenski visiting the United States,
but Kevin McCarthy refused to have his picture taken with him publicly. He
did meet with Zelenski, which was also a reversal because before McCarthy wasn't even
going to meet with Zelenski. Even though Kevin McCarthy, and we all know
Kevin McCarthy, you know, there's nothing he says that actually means anything.
I mean, look at January sixth. You know, he he condemned Trump
after January sixth, and then next thing, you know, he's does a
complete reversal and he's going down tomorrow ago and posing for a picture with him.
He posed for a picture with Trump right after January sixth, right not
long after. But you know, he says he says whatever he needs to
to try to survive, to get through another day, as how speaker,
because that's what matters to him above all else. So he has said recently,
relatively recently, how important it is to continue to support Ukraine, how
that is vital, vitally important, and we do have an American interests there
and that we must stay the course with that. But now because he's at
the mercy of people like Matt Gates and Lauren Gropert Bobert, sorry, and
even Marjorie Taylor Greene whom he seems to have this alliance with, but she's
making his life more difficult suddenly as well. Now he's refusing to have his
picture taken with Zelenski, although he did meet with Zelenski and somebody managed to
get a picture on their phone. So even though McCarthy, acting very cowardly
refused used to have his picture publicly taken with Voladimir Zelenski, somebody snapped a
picture as they met privately. So good, I'm glad. But now,
oh McCarthy is hedging on support for Ukraine. Now before we get to this
article, though, I have something very important to say about this said,
I don't hear any anybody else pointing out For those of you, Look,
if you're a long time listener, you know my position. I believe in
supporting Ukraine. I believe we have to stand up to Putin, can't let
Putin get away with this, and so forth. However, I've also always
been sympathetic to some of the arguments in the other direction, concerns about tensions
with Russia, because nobody wants things to escalate in a way that could be
very bad for all of us, and some other reasons too. I've been
sympathetic to those other arguments, and but I have remained firm in my position
ultimately that we must stay the course. But I would just like to say
this to the people who hear this. McCarthy is now saying he's going to
vow he's now vowing to strip any further support for Ukraine out of the budget,
and we're going to effectively McCarthy is now saying that's it, We're going
to abandon Ukraine. I would just say to the people who think that that's
a good idea. If you're someone who you're on the other side of the
issue, look, reasonable people can disagree. I feel about the merits of
us getting directly involved in this. Again, I think we did the right
thing. I support President Biden in this, and all of the many,
many, not just Democrats, have been pretty united in this. Republicans have
not been. But I think a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate
also support standing by Ukraine. And that's great. But but some of the
concerns, again, not all of the concerns. Some of these Republicans who
have pushed back on it, some of them are just playing pro Russia.
Let's just call it what it is. Reagan would be spinning in his grave.
I have no doubt, but some of them are sympathetic to Russia,
and I think the reasons are obvious. But let's not even get into that.
But I want to say to the people who think that what McCarthy is
doing is correct and they're happy about this, because if you're if you're someone
who doesn't think we should have ever gotten involved in this to begin with,
I'm talking to you. I want to say to you those of you who
feel that way, while I respect, well, I disagree with your position,
but I respect your position and I understand and respect your concerns. But
having said that, at this point, At this point, even if you
felt at the beginning of all this that we should have stayed out of it,
at this point, does it not do more harm than good for us
to walk away and abandon Ukraine after we've all been so invested, literally invested
in helping Ukraine try to fend off Russia. Because even if your initial position
was we shouldn't be doing this, we've already done so much, have not
we already gone too far to turn back. Because even if you don't think
we should have been a part of this to begin with, now that we
have been for so long and so much, won't it actually hurt America's national
interests more for us to pull back now and abandon Ukraine. Think about again,
even if you're someone who disagreed with us getting involved, think about how
it's going to look for us now now that we already were involved, now
that we've been so involved, to just walk away now, how does that
make us look to the rest of the world. And by the way,
look, if you're some sort of neo isolation as I understanding, you don't
care about how we look to the rest of the world. And let's be
honest, there are a lot of people who take that attitude too. They're
the same people who think that we shouldn't be a part of the UN because
oh, we're America and we should be on our own and not care what
anybody thinks about us. But we have to care what other people think about
us, because we're all a part of the world, and we have economic
interests and national security interests to require us to have somewhat of a positive relationship
with at least some of the rest of the world. So, but even
if you feel that way, does it not hurt us more at this point
to walk away? Even if look again, I'm talking to you, even
if you don't care at all about Ukraine, even if you could not care
less about Ukraine, even if you're one of those people who thinks that Ukraine
got what they deserved and you believe the Russian propaganda. Maybe maybe you're Tucker
Carlson and you actually believe in and promote the Russian propaganda. Right, even
if you're that person. At this stage of things, if we walk away
now, isn't it going to be even worse for us? Because it signals
to putin If we walk away and abandon them now, it signals to putin
Hey, just bleed us, bleed us dry. We will lose patience,
we will lose our solidarity with the rest of NATO. You can wade us
out. You can wade us out. America is weak enough that you can
wait us out. And here's the other thing. What does it say to
Ji Jing Ping of China if we walk away? Now? It says,
hey, you want Taiwan, go ahead. America might try to defend Taiwan
for a little while, but in the long run, nah, forget it.
That's what it says to him. I'm telling you it is very dangerous.
It is far more dangerous dangerous for us to walk away than it is
just stick around, in my opinion. And Mike Doyle's on the line him,
Mike, hey, man, how's it going. I'll be quick because
I know you're running out of time. Yeah. Hey, I can't remember
what your theory was on Afghanistan. But isn't that the same theory? You
know, all the time we put into Afghanistan and money and years and deaths
and et cetera, And you know, was it was it better to pull
out or stay there? And well, I guess the same same theory as
you're you're saying now, Well, very very different situations in some ways though,
because in Afghanistan we were directly and like we weren't supporting, We weren't
simply supporting. We were actually there on the ground and fighting for twenty years.
But my feeling with Afghanistan is, well, it's not not really a
binary choice of of getting out or staying. I think I think that it
was the right idea to get out, but I think it was done very
very poorly, and I don't think we should have necessarily gotten out completely.
I think we should have kept Bogram Air Force Base. It didn't make any
sense to me why we would give that up, other than Biden was worried
about you know, well, then it would look like we haven't really left.
But I think we should have kept maybe twenty five hundred troops there.
I think we should have lessened our footprint there, but I think we should
have kept a minimal presence and at least held on to Bogram Air Force Base.
And I was very critical of Again, I thought getting out was a
great idea. Previous presidents had pledged to get out and then didn't do it.
But I thought the way that it was done was a disaster. I'm
trying to remember some of the words I used at the time. I think
I recall saying it was buffoonery the way it was handled, and uh,
I was pretty critical and uh and I still am. I'm still angry about
it the way it was done. Yeah. And the other point I wanted
to make is a lot of a lot of the both Republicans with Democrats that
want to continue to fund Ukraine. I don't want to fund Ukraine or have
a different strategy for funding Ukraine. They're they're they're worried because a lot of
a lot of the people nobody, nobody else is helping. I guess is
what you're saying, Like Poland just said no more, we're done. Oh
that's another given you. Yeah, that's that's another thing that has me very
worried. Mike. By the way, and I had given Poland a lot
of credit in the past, because if you remember when when this first happened,
Poland really opened their arms for taking in refugees from UH, both from
Ukraine and from Russia, people who are fleeing because they didn't want to get
drafted. And and Poland was so helpful and now all of a sudden,
Poland is is basically walking away and they're they're a member of NATO, and
it's like, uh, this is not this is not good. I'm very
worried that that we're just gonna walk away all of us. Not just says
there's other countries. I was reading about it. I can't remember who they
were, but I was they just don't want to say it, you know,
because they're barras. Yeah, but Poland came out. Poland came out
and said it. Yeah. And the other argument, the other argument is
spending all of these billions of dollars approaching trillions of dollars on Ukraine's border versus
putting that kind of money into our border, which obviously is becoming a little
bit of a crisis with these cities and you know, the homeless and all
that stuff. And so that's those are the aguments I hear from from people
of why they don't want to they don't want to continue to fund Ukraine.
So I just wanted to throw that in. Sure. Yeah, no,
And like I said, I mean, I respect the concerns that people have
about it, but I really feel, well, what do you think,
Mike, I think that for us to walk away now, regardless of how
you felt about it when we first got in, I think for us to
walk away now, I think it's just too late, I think, and
I think it emboldens Putin, and I think it emboldens Xijing Ping if we
walk away now too, So that that bodes that bodes what many people have
been saying all along. Stop with the increments to Ukraine and give them everything
they need to win the war in the next months or two months, and
end, you know what I mean, and get their get their country back.
We're just we're you know, snippeting in money here and money there.
Whenever they run low and they're running, you know, just stop it.
Just end it go full for us, get in there, call NATO in,
say NATO, you're with us. Let's just stop this. Well,
but that's that's yeah, that's the other argument, I know. But we
do have to be. Something that I do give the Biden administration credit for
on this is I think it's I think it makes sense to be cautious,
especially in the early stages of this because one thing that we all must remember,
uh, is that we are dealing with when you're talking about Russia,
the largest nuclear power in the country. They have even more nukes than us.
Not of course, at a certain point it doesn't even matter because it's
so much nukes, it's enough to destroy the world multiple times over. But
so I think it. I think it makes sense to be cautious. And
I know that for example, with long range missiles, which I guess now
we are going to be sending them long range missiles, but I remember that
there was a concern earlier on that what if we give them these and even
if it happens by accidents, say, long range missiles are now being shot
into Russia, directly into Russia by Ukrainians, and then we're the ones who
supplied them those missiles. Then someone, uh, you know, whether it
be Putin himself or one of his advisors, might say, oh, look,
the Americans are giving them long range missiles that they're now using to attack
our cities inside Russia. Does that cause an escalation? And so I think
it makes sense to be very cautious and not just say here, we're just
going to give you everything. You can't understand the other argument, though,
just get it done. Oh, I understand it, I understand it.
But I but again, I do worry about. There's a lot that can
go wrong. Yeah, no, oh absolutely. But if NATO all got
together and said we're all in, every country's gonna send their top forces,
we're gonna end this once and for all. Putin. So your choice,
We're gonna give you a week make a decision, or we're coming in.
We're all coming in. We're gonna protect Ukraine and we're gonna drive you back.
Done deal, you know, then put the Then the onus is on
him to make a call. You know, is he is he that much
of a dead one's death or does he? Does he fear the threat that
it's legit? And you know what I mean? Just I don't know.
Just there there's all these different questions. So yeah, I mean, it's
it's complicated stuff. But I wouldn't. I would not. I mean,
if you're suggesting NATO just everybody starts sending actual ground forces in that I would
definitely oppose. I don't know, it doesn't have to be ground, could
be air, could be long range missiles. I mean, just everybody just
say, finally we're in. We're all in. This is NATO. I
know, it's not a country that is in NATO. But we're going to
protect them because you know whatever, and just we're all coming in all together,
Europe, Asia, anybody who's in NATO, US, Canada, they're
all coming Australia. I mean, just stop the drip of money, money,
money, and some missiles, a little few missiles here and a few
missiles there. You know, this thing's just lingering on. How long can
Russia last? I mean, they're having kids fight now. They took their
prisoners out of jails, they put them on the front line. Somebody said
they're starting up use women who want to sign up. I mean, at
one point, does Russia just you know, say hey, all right enough,
I can't go against thirty one other countries that are in NATO, and
and you know, so that's just an argument. I hear of people saying
that's why they don't want to send any more money, because it's just a
drip, drip, drip versus let's just end it one way or the other.
Get in or get out, finish it or get out. So that's
all I understand. I understand both sides, and just it's a question.
Yeah yeah, all right, Mike, Well yeah we are, we are
about out of time. But I do, but I but I do appreciate
the call in your thoughts. Thank you. Yeah, have a good weekend,
all right, Mike, you two take care bye bye. All right.
That was our friend Mike Doyle. And yes, we are just about
out of show, so we're gonna wrap up. But yeah, I don't
but yeah, just for the record, just briefly, I don't. I
understand the point that Mike's making, but I don't. I don't agree with
I would not, under any circumstances, support NATO directly confronting Russia over Ukraine
because that that could escalate into something where, well, let's just be very
blunt about it, where we all end up dead. I'm not willing to
take that risk. I'm not willing to you know, I'm willing to support
Ukraine. I'm not willing to die for Ukraine. Forgive me if I sound
selfish, but no, and you know, there might be something to it.
I mean, maybe Putin would back down. Mike might be right.
Maybe Putin would back down and say, wow, they're really serious. I
have no choice now, But maybe he wouldn't. And uh, that could
that could go bad very quickly. All right, but we do have to
go it is Friday, which means I will be back tonight for retro Spectrum
Radio with Paulice tonight from eight to eleven pm. And Dan Randall of Dan
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