1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:35,280 As came at last, snapping on stress stands surviment a wheel, the sirn 2 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:49,520 like a welchourning up of the sea. The coasters deallyan desert slaves said we 3 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:58,520 made eating water, but not take to fly. Their actions will see their 4 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:27,719 own days. Kay, let you play, let me go, Kay call 5 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:46,200 shapen, rise in and chayy no letter wrong, you don't try to hide. 6 00:01:48,439 --> 00:01:59,840 Life has change. Nothing seems as read lost sound hay oh all that 7 00:02:00,120 --> 00:03:53,879 we cham can dram drim dram drim cha boka okay. And he said, 8 00:03:55,039 --> 00:03:59,800 not a big war? What is it? Nat? And he said that 9 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,759 the mains are gonna be the first one in and ain't gonna last. That's 10 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,520 right. So if you don't sign up soon, we're gonna miss it. 11 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:12,080 I'm already seting. I'm going in really just like, uh, I'm not 12 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:14,560 waiting. I'm going in now. Come on, Rnnie, you're crazy. 13 00:04:14,919 --> 00:04:16,519 Oh, you're crazy. Our dad's got to go to w W two. 14 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,319 This is our chance to do something, to be part of history. Guys. 15 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,319 Yeah, just like our dads. You should think about what you're doing. 16 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,600 You know, Ronnie, you be dangerous over there. You know you 17 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,920 could get yourself killed. Did you ever think about that? Or you're going 18 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:32,839 squirrel ahead? College? Well, I want to do something with my life. 19 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:36,319 Yeah, I can get a degree in business administration. And you don't 20 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:40,600 think you need to serve your country, don't get my naybody be yourself. 21 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,360 Huh better dead than red. And I got missiles point at us everywhere. 22 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,800 I seevms. They're coming in all around us, Cuban now ninety miles away, 23 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:50,240 Ronnie taking up. Look, what are we gonna stop them? Huh 24 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:54,319 nine? He ain't superman. You can't stop them away self theory. Communism 25 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:56,759 is moving in everywhere. Oh yeah, sure aware, Ronnie. I don't 26 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,680 see them. They're not right here in massive people. So I'm just gonna 27 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,759 take number one. Jimmy Stevie. Stevie, Stevie. It's okay because someone's 28 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:05,959 got to stay home with the women and children while the men go do the 29 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,639 fighting. Nuts And I'm getting out of you. All I'm saying is you 30 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:12,959 should just think about it, you know, just think about it. Running 31 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,240 Hey, Stevie, who are you taking on? Problem? Wendy Danil Wendy 32 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:24,160 dan Wendy Daniel? Were you taking Joey? These youths were many youths in 33 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,720 the early sixties that were on the cusp of adulthood. They were faced with 34 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,600 the decision to serve their country, go to college, or just simply work. 35 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:39,560 Many made the choice to enlist, and that led to them fighting in 36 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:45,199 one of the most controversial wars in American history, the Vietnam War. For 37 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:48,160 the man that is the subject of this week's film, it led him down 38 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:57,160 a path of despair, heroism, and ultimately renowned activist. Released in nineteen 39 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,680 eighty nine and based off the autobiography of the same name, Born on the 40 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:04,639 fourth of July, is the story of Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise, 41 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:10,160 a man that enlists in the Marines and serves two tours of duty in 42 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:15,879 Vietnam. It is during his second tour he is wounded and suffers a severed 43 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:21,120 spinal cord due to a gunshot. This causes him to be paralyzed and sets 44 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:27,240 him on an the eventual path of activism. Our next clip is from a 45 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:31,720 nineteen seventy seven interview with Kovic following the release of his autobiography. In this 46 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:35,839 clip, he speaks about his life growing up and why he chose to serve 47 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:42,160 and the wretched treatment he faced upon returning from Vietnam. Top it all off, 48 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:45,639 he was born on the fourth of July, so that every fourth of 49 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:49,399 July, when the country was celebrating his birthday, ron Kovac was celebrating his 50 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:55,000 birthday as well a country celebrating its birthday. Ron Kovak went to Vietnam and 51 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,839 served not one, but two tours of duty, and the second tour of 52 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,000 duty, as you may already know, he was shot twice, once in 53 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:04,240 the foot and the second time, I think through his back, shattered his 54 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:11,120 spinal cord, and he ron Kovac was paralyzed from the chest down. This 55 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:13,759 experience that he relates in his book called Born on the Fourth of July, 56 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,079 is one of the most painful and ugly experiences I've ever read about. And 57 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,319 I've wanted to have him here on midday to share some time with you for 58 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,920 a long time. So ron Kovac is with us. You may remember he 59 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,879 nominated Fritz Ephau at the Democratic National Convention here in New York last summer. 60 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:35,160 Last week he was arrested for the tenth time at Kent State protesting the controversy 61 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,000 there about a gymnasium. Ron You know how I feel about this I'm fine. 62 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,399 How are you good to see you? I want to share something Normally, 63 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:46,480 if you're one of my regular viewers, if you watch our show, 64 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:49,920 I'm essentially pretty relaxed during the interview. I am not going to say what 65 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:54,360 will happen to me doing this. I have found reading this book Born on 66 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:57,480 the fourth of July, which I finished about eight twenty this morning, to 67 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,639 be a real emotional experience for me. I could feel your pain as I 68 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:05,759 was reading this book. Let's not assume that everybody has read the book, 69 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,920 or let's not assume that everybody knows everything about you. Let's uh just find 70 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:11,560 out a little bit about your I was born on the fourth of July and 71 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:16,439 nineteen forty six, and I guess you could say I was an all American 72 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:20,720 boy. I love this country. I believe in what John Wayne said and 73 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,480 Howdy Doty, Rudy Kuzuti Sergeant York. I was a child of the fifties. 74 00:08:28,519 --> 00:08:31,560 I can remember remember John F. Kennedy. Of course, that's not 75 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,399 what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your 76 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:35,799 country. I believe that Bill and I believed in America, and I believe 77 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:39,279 that what we were doing in Vietnam was right, and I went, like 78 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,960 millions of other young when did you first go on? What year did you? 79 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,919 In? The nineteen sixty four September? I joined, uh, the 80 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:48,360 United States Marine Corps because the add down at the post office said the Marine 81 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,720 Corps builds meant body minded spirit, And I wanted to be a man. 82 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:54,000 And I cause you're a pretty tough guy. I mean you were a very 83 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:56,679 so, you were an athlete, you were a star arrestler, you were 84 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,519 best at pole altered a mass peap of high school. I was. I 85 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:01,919 was a real good wrestler too. Yeah, I know that. So you 86 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:07,879 joined the Marines? And how did you feel about killing? I mean, 87 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,480 you had played with guns and toys when you were a kid, just like 88 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,200 I had, just like a lot of people. Well, the first person 89 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,600 that I killed built was an American and I didn't feel good about that at 90 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:18,600 all. And the second group of people that I killed were Vietnamese children, 91 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,399 and that made me feel worse. But I mean, going into it, 92 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,559 ron, I mean, you know the whole mentality, you know, I 93 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,440 believe that I believe that all of us grew up with John Wayne with whole 94 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,960 movie cinema image, the toy guns. The Madame tell submachine guns that we 95 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,679 got every Christmas. The whole generation was prepped and hyped and conditioned by our 96 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,840 culture, which is so violent and which is which so romanticized as war. 97 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:43,679 We were ready to go, We were ready to fight. We thought that 98 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:46,279 the war was going to be like the John Wayne movies, but it wasn't. 99 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,559 It was different. And when we came home and tried to tell the 100 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,039 American public about the reality of the Vietnam War, that it wasn't a war 101 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,080 to help people, but it was a crime against humanity and against the Vietnamese 102 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,639 people. And they didn't listen to us. They threw us in jail. 103 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:03,279 They called a trader. They spin my face. In the film, following 104 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,720 his injury, Covid is forced to stay at a veteran's hospital in the Bronx, 105 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:15,159 where the nursing staff abuses drugs. The conditions are horrible, with rats 106 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,960 crawling around, impatients, sleeping in their own feces in most cases, and 107 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:26,159 struggling to get even the littlest things such as a shower. This begins his 108 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,919 disillusionment with America and its government. The next clip we hear is that this 109 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:37,159 does run much deeper. Covic, while sitting with his childhood friend, reflects 110 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,480 on his injury. In this we can hear the despair in his voice and 111 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,720 the issues he has coming to terms with his permanent injury. When you when 112 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:54,159 you get hit me? Uh January twentieth, Yes, someplace of Jess I 113 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:56,919 don't even remember, and you're some river up in a DMC walked into hook 114 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,360 the battalion in the foot and I just got up, running around like I 115 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:05,720 was back in the woods again, you know, like I was jumping away 116 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:11,639 in something emptying the bag, screaming, come on, jolly slap crack above 117 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,120 my right ear. I just felt my body drop out from unt of me. 118 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,799 Classed. I thought I was dead for sure. It was the Yeah, 119 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:26,120 I was a hospital sucked, really, no, man, tell you 120 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:33,000 something runny. Sometimes at night I get these headaches, you know, feel 121 00:11:33,039 --> 00:11:37,559 bad, and they just they just kind of come over me, you know, 122 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,440 and they just they just come, you know, like I'm going crazy 123 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:46,480 or something. And I don't feel I don't feel like me anymore, you 124 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,799 know. I I feel like when they come, I feel like somebody else. 125 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,600 You know, what can you do? What are you doing? Nothing? 126 00:11:54,919 --> 00:12:00,399 The goddamn thing else. Well, mostly I do a lot of drugs. 127 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:05,279 The only thing you can you know, money, You get through it 128 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:09,080 anyway. You know how when I was in the hospital, I thought, 129 00:12:09,159 --> 00:12:16,120 yeah, yeah, this makes sense. What makes sense? Does it failed 130 00:12:16,159 --> 00:12:26,879 to me? What are you talking about? Because I because I killed someone 131 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:33,840 some people? It's terrible mistakes, Ronnie, Christ's sakes. We all made 132 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:35,840 mistakes. I mean, you had no choice. That's something I got. 133 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:39,639 Damn Pansy demonstrats. I never gonna understand. Ronnie. You don't even gott 134 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:41,399 to talk about it. I mean, we was insane over there was It 135 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,559 was crazy. Sometimes I wish, I wish I first time I got hit, 136 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,240 I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I 137 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:56,080 mean, paralyzed, castrated that day. Why so stupid, I think, 138 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:01,320 Tommy, I give everything, I believe in everything, I got, all 139 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:03,440 my values, just ad my wady back again, just to be home again. 140 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:09,080 I'm that whole. I never will be in us. Wait it is, 141 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:16,919 isn't it? For Christ's sake? Ronnie your birthday, You're alive. 142 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:31,399 You made it. Smile. What makes this film truly powerful is seeing the 143 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:39,360 evolution of COVID after the aforementioned deplorable conditions, his depression, drinking infrequent fits 144 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:45,159 a rage, causing a strainment from his family. He becomes an activist and 145 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,759 speaks against the war he strongly supported for so long, even a short time 146 00:13:50,799 --> 00:13:56,200 after his injury. Our final two clips show this difference. First, at 147 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,679 a Fourth of July parade in his hometown, Ron speaks after turning home. 148 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,000 However, after a baby crying causes a flashback, he stops dead in his 149 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:11,120 tracks. Then, at the nineteen seventy two Democratic National Convention, Ron is 150 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,840 protesting and speaks out against his government and the war. Again. I want 151 00:14:16,919 --> 00:14:22,480 you all to hear the difference in words, in tone in Kovak with these 152 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:28,679 two scenes. What God saw word decrees, it's five pro bac Lady, 153 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:31,559 if the gentlemen was born on what July nineteen forty six, Let's give a 154 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:43,960 big hand on his great buck. I just want to say for all the 155 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:52,399 guys in Vietnam and we're doing our best. It's not easy situation, but 156 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,399 the boys morale over there is real high, and you can feel confident that 157 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:07,440 we are we are going to win that war. I serve my country and 158 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:11,879 I don't want you to feel sorry for me. Do not shed a tear. 159 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:16,360 I have my hands, my eyes, my ears, I have my 160 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:30,159 heart, and I have what I feel. I have. What I feel 161 00:15:30,320 --> 00:16:15,799 is an unquie unquenchable. And now Ron's protest. What money? It's not 162 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,080 COVID. I'm a Vietnam bitching money so public, I'm a Vietan bitch. 163 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,519 I'm here tonight to say that disc war is wrong. How to society lied 164 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:27,080 to me, lied to my brothers, say the chief. The people in 165 00:16:27,159 --> 00:16:33,000 this country has it's tricked them into going thirteen thousand miles to fight a war 166 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:38,399 art against the poor peasant people who have a proud history of resistance, who 167 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,759 have been struggling for their own for their own independence for one thousand years, 168 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,679 the Vietnamese people. You know, I can't. I can't find the words 169 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:52,200 to express now. The leadership of this government sickens me. Right, people 170 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,799 say, people say, if you don't love America, then get the hell 171 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:00,840 out. I love America. We love the people of America very much. 172 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,640 But when it comes to the government, it stops right there. The government 173 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:07,880 is a bunch of corrupt thieves. They are racists and robbers, and we 174 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,200 are here to say you know we don't have to take it anymore. We 175 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:15,400 are here saying here, here you tell the truth. We are killing our 176 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,079 brothers and Peter like man pere to hear the truth tonight. We are here. 177 00:17:19,279 --> 00:17:30,000 You don't know steal so they don't is this here and get serve this 178 00:17:30,079 --> 00:17:33,920 when he gets sad, skid in the face. We're never right unless to 179 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,480 be We're not as right. Forget. You don't want to what you want 180 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:41,480 to hear it because it's here and you're not gonna super because you like the 181 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,160 way it's like some television side. This wheelchair, our wheelchairs, this steal, 182 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,119 our steel is your memorial game and reels. We are your young to 183 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,279 do to day to come home by you love to do the day's come home 184 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,200 some sort of snuffle or commotions working out on the floor of the convention. 185 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,039 Disabled veterans protesting the war and Vietnam. We're gonna try to get a microphone 186 00:18:18,039 --> 00:19:15,519 down there. Busy inn when there is so much of a tendency they're run 187 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,160 domine those who have served an ad in the past, who served the day. 188 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:25,319 Let's give those who have served them the honor and the respect that they 189 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:32,079 deserve in that they heard a film this powerful and memorable defies awards nominated for 190 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:37,880 and won, it supersedes box office straw. But as is tradition with this 191 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,000 show, we shall quickly go over those details. The film was the tenth 192 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:47,920 highest grossing film of nineteen eighty nine. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, 193 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,279 including Best Picture, Best Director for Oliver Stone, and Best Actor for 194 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,200 Tom Cruise, and this is the film that truly showed his range as a 195 00:19:56,279 --> 00:20:02,279 performer. It won for Best Director, which was Stone's second award, and 196 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:07,240 Best Sound Editing. However, the greatest award was the one Covoc gave Cruise 197 00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:14,480 as a birthday present and for his performance. Kovac gave Cruise his Bronze Star 198 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:22,640 because he said Cruz showed great bravery in his performance. Finally, some might 199 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,039 be asking why I chose this film for Memorial Day. I chose this film 200 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,039 because there are times that I feel we all have a skewed view of the 201 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:36,279 military. These young men and women choose to serve this country. They don't 202 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,119 choose where they are sent. They serve knowing that wherever they are sent that 203 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,880 could end up being the place where they take their final breaths. To me, 204 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:48,480 the Vietnam veterans are forgotten to a degree. They deserve the same respect 205 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:55,079 and honor any other veterans have, surviving or otherwise. The only choice they 206 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:00,519 made was to defend us our honor and freedoms. They didn't choose where they 207 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:06,559 did this, the conditions they were under, and that is something that we 208 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:11,400 all need to remember, not just on Memorial Day, not just on Veterans 209 00:21:11,519 --> 00:21:15,880 Day, but every day of every year. 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Enrich your auditory journey with the depth of our 266 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:18,559 license to wesiden WESPT your missives WMNH ninety five to three at gmail dot com, 267 00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:23,319 or to reverse the virtual corridors of wmnhradio dot or engage with our sonic 268 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,759 vibrations by commuting with us through the digital channel or radio becads eager to enthrall 269 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:33,559 you with its mesmerizing kitdence and develop you wes symphony of foundless auditories. One 270 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:44,640 dude, WMNH rip the novels. Welcome back everybody. It is Matt Connorton 271 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:48,759 unleashed and we are well into our number three New Marrow Trace on the Saturday 272 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:52,240 morning, May twenty five, twenty twenty four, of course, Memorial Day 273 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,200 weekend. Jenny is here at the news table, present and accounted for. 274 00:26:56,559 --> 00:27:02,319 Yes, yes, and we have joining us live in studio all the way 275 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,640 from from Texas. Nancy Manette is here. Hello. Nancy was with us 276 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,599 a number of weeks ago via Skype, and but she's on she's on tour 277 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,759 now. Let me pull that mic up there, and uh, you're doing 278 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:19,200 a bunch of tour dates up here up our way. I am, yes, 279 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:22,799 where you where are you gonna be? So you've got to show tomorrow 280 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,079 right and yes, the front room. Have you ever been up here before 281 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,960 to the I have? Yeah, yeah, okay, I've spent some time 282 00:27:30,079 --> 00:27:34,200 vacationing and many times I've come over here. We lived in Madison for a 283 00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:40,640 better part of twenty years and this region became the easy flight over from you 284 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,519 know, Madison Airport. So yeah, yeah, excellent. And you're gonna 285 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:47,920 play live for us? How many? How many songs? We are you 286 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,759 thinking about doing a couple of songs? Okay? Okay, you've got your 287 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:55,160 guitar and you've also, of course, we've got some studio tracks we can 288 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,079 play some of those two we featured last time, and we can we can 289 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,880 do that again as well. And I learned something. You have a book. 290 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,119 We should we should talk about that right at right at the top, 291 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,240 just briefly the book. Actually, if you want to the cameras on you, 292 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:11,480 if you want to hold one up. I didn't realize there's yeah, 293 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:17,039 we're on We're live on Facebook. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, 294 00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:21,359 tell us about the book. So this is a children's book that is an 295 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:27,119 adaptation of a song I wrote for my daughter called My Expansion, And the 296 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:33,559 premise is I entered into the world myself as a very rigid conservative religious up 297 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:44,599 from that type of an upbringing to raising raising a child that sorry, we're 298 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:47,319 still kind of with the mic. Yeah, that's all right, Uh, 299 00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:52,079 raising raising a child who really beat her own drum. And around five years 300 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:56,720 old, she just started asking, hey, Mom, why do you believe 301 00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:57,640 what you believe? And I was like, I really don't know why I 302 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,880 believe what I believe. Yeah, think about it. And as we had 303 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,640 conversations throughout her lifetime, and she came out as queer, and she was 304 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,039 really nervous with how the family would receive her and I grew expanded and changed 305 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,000 everything of who I am because of that little girl coming into the world. 306 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,920 So I wrote a song about it, and then we adapted it for a 307 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,440 children's book because it's really written from the view of a child changing the parent. 308 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,559 Yeah, and what's so interesting about that? Yeah, don't worry about 309 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:29,680 the mike, Nancy. What we're gonna do is we're gonna play a studio 310 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:33,680 track in a moment, and we'll switch you to that middle seat. This 311 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,720 seat is twoth. I think I think the middle seat because it looks like 312 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:42,079 that mike is staying exactly in place, so I think we'll have better luck 313 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,039 over there. So we'll play We'll play a studio track and then we'll uh 314 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,759 and then we'll come back and have you played live. No. But what's 315 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,079 interesting, because we were talking off air about the book and you were saying, 316 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:56,440 how was it the publisher was saying, someone was telling you how unusual 317 00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:02,000 it is, Yes, to have a book where where it's it's the child 318 00:30:02,079 --> 00:30:06,400 who changed the parent and helped the parent to evolve. Yes, and especially 319 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,119 on any topics that are related to children, but children who who are lgbt 320 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:17,559 q i A, it's usually the parent is already very inclusive and very and 321 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:25,519 accepting and humans are humans and the end and versus a parent who really entered 322 00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:30,119 the world with completely different view view and belief system, and that the child 323 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:37,160 coming into the world really changed the parent changed me. Okay, yeah, 324 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:40,559 yeah, interesting. Well let's play a studio track, and I want to 325 00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:42,759 make sure that we play something that you're not going to play live. So 326 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:47,319 we're not, well, why don't we Why don't we start with my expansion? 327 00:30:47,599 --> 00:30:49,279 So what we're gonna do is we're gonna play this check this out, 328 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:52,440 and then we'll we'll have we'll get you moved over. While the song is 329 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,400 on and Nancy Manette is here with us live in studio. She's gonna play 330 00:30:56,599 --> 00:31:00,559 live for us. But check this out. This is called My expansion. 331 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:22,160 The Great Nancy Manette here on Matt Connerton, unleashed in and to the world. 332 00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:38,759 Dam of the Cain. You never except status quod today blaze the trail 333 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:51,799 that was all your rown, even though being queer, it was not well 334 00:31:52,079 --> 00:32:07,599 known. When on those are way hot shirts you are at too on under 335 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:22,279 your skirt be like that stam. Okay, you'll began to proceed in your 336 00:32:23,000 --> 00:33:08,000 special way ha Harmie Hicks bad dr Harmby Hicks, by Sharp. You taught 337 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:20,519 me to think that the world was not as rigid as I show it to 338 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:34,519 be. You are in my eyes, there is so much more to consier 339 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:49,279 than all hes before. You don't believe exactly what I do. He has 340 00:33:49,519 --> 00:34:00,640 engage the world. It's the authentic youth. Your path is your path, 341 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:13,000 it's not might judge. My job is to love you love from a book, 342 00:34:13,800 --> 00:35:07,320 Harbor expert job harm I expand Jump. That is called my expansion. 343 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,280 That is the great Nancy Manete. I was saying her name wrong, uh 344 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,119 incorrectly earlier, so I apologize. Let me get we get that uh great 345 00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:19,559 track, and of course we played that because we were just talking about that. 346 00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,000 How do people get the book? By the way, my expansion, 347 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,800 it is available in a lot of bookstores, so it's Barnes and Nobles, 348 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:32,159 okay, it's available online at a large online where all of your finer books 349 00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:37,960 are. And it's also available on my website. So okay, very good, 350 00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:40,920 very good. You want to play something for us dying to hear you 351 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,920 play live? Okay, this is very cool, of course. Uh, 352 00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:47,960 if you're just tuning in, we have Nancy Manet with us alive in studio, 353 00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,079 and last time Nancy was with us it was via skype. But she's 354 00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:54,920 on tour doing some dates in the Northeast, and so it's wonderful to have 355 00:35:55,079 --> 00:35:59,119 you here. Thank you, I love I'm so excited. Yeah, be 356 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,280 here and do get to actually meet you too in person. Well, we're 357 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,880 very honored. We're very honored. Yeah, So whenever you're ready, if 358 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,079 you want to tell us, tell us about what you're going to play, 359 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:13,199 and then we'll we'll hear what you got. Okay, I'm going to play 360 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:20,239 a piano song on guitar. Okay. My joke is I'm a pianist plays 361 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:25,039 guitar. Okay, So I'm going to play Insecurities all right. And I 362 00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:34,800 actually wrote this after a woman that I did not know targeted me for some 363 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:40,559 anger and and blame and I was even confused, and I actually cried a 364 00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:45,039 little bit and it was like wait what, And I said, you know 365 00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:49,519 what, I need to process this. So I sat down and wrote insecurities 366 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:57,119 all right, Oh yeah, insecurities, they are not mine. Bit. 367 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:07,639 Then I apologize. I will not be compared, let out up poll in 368 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:15,960 this world exactly as I am. It's not my fault that you yourself aren't 369 00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:22,719 willie to expand. I have spent years working on myself be who I am 370 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:29,800 today. Our day said I just could not see. So I fell to 371 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,320 my knees and pray. If you don't like who you have, become side 372 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:43,519 and change your ways. Take some time looking inside. You might have some 373 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:53,880 to play. Poor in securities are not my affair. Then I will not 374 00:37:54,679 --> 00:38:05,559 pologize. I will not be compared hollow, stop bothering worm exactly as I 375 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:14,480 am. It's not my bam that you do yourself are doing t t tear 376 00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:22,000 down your wall and build a Gain't something else? Love yourself and who you 377 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:29,000 are. They don't excuse to see you f far, don't pay games, 378 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:36,639 who has the time? Take you're norris, You're not happy, Just walk 379 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:45,800 away, not your target. I'm not your praend. Don't alone for you 380 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:54,480 Tuesday in no Wood, you chosen to speak to me today. No, 381 00:38:54,679 --> 00:39:04,920 it's not a love for you to Tuesday, no Wood. You will chosen 382 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:15,400 to speak to me today for your in secularity. Easy art my cross apparent. 383 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:24,400 When I not pall choice, you'll not You need a pair well job 384 00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:32,840 following his phone exactly as I am. It's not my fault to yourself. 385 00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:39,400 Are willing to expand. No, it's not my fault to you yourself, 386 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:50,880 are willing to expand. No, it's not to allow for you Tuesday the 387 00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:57,960 Woods, you will chose them speak to me today. No, it's not 388 00:39:59,119 --> 00:40:12,199 to allow. Oh beautiful. That was awesome. Yeah. I love your 389 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:17,880 voice, really really good to hear you live. Now. Remind us too 390 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,519 about the the album. How long is this? How long has this been 391 00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:27,599 out? This is not yesterday, it's just oh yesterday okay, okay, 392 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,960 so right, so when we had you on before it was about to come 393 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,559 out, yes, okay, I had some singles that were coming out beforehand. 394 00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:37,039 Yeah yeah, oh congratulations, So this is wow? So this is 395 00:40:37,079 --> 00:40:40,639 brand new. That's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Are you playing and when 396 00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:44,719 you when you play live, are you playing all the songs on your on 397 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,039 your tour? Are you playing everything from the album or I am and I'm 398 00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:51,360 freaking lying in some things that are coming out later this year. Okay, 399 00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:54,480 yeah, weave the story together. Yeah, as we were talking off air 400 00:40:54,480 --> 00:41:00,599 about you've you're already working on on more stuff, right' I'm this we're going 401 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:05,199 back because in June I'm recording album three and four, okay, and album 402 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,840 two will come out in October. Okay, yeah, very good, very 403 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:15,440 good, similar themes or are you going to get into some other subjects? 404 00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:20,920 Album three and four is completely different. I mean, it's still it's still 405 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,400 my style, right yeah, yeah, but there there's a you know, 406 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:29,320 your producer gives you challenges, you know, take this, and okay, 407 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,360 I'll try this, and hey, Nancy, you may not have to be 408 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,599 so heavy in your baseline, okay. Yeah. And uh, and so 409 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,960 I really had a lot of fun writing over the last six months, a 410 00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:43,559 whole new set of twenty okay, the first set of seventeen nine are here, 411 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,719 and the remainder will come out as a larger work, okayber So, 412 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,519 is there something appealing about kind of working on new stuff and leaving I mean, 413 00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:55,280 obviously you're not leaving this behind. The album just came out. But 414 00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,360 at the same time, is it does it feel good to all ready be 415 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,119 working on other music that is not connected to the school project? Yes, 416 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:10,320 of course, because this, this project and even this nine song debut has 417 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:15,360 been a you know, lifetime in the making, not that I started writing 418 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,920 it a lifetime ago. I really only started writing bits and pieces in twenty 419 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,079 twenty and really dove into it twenty two to twenty three and then got into 420 00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:30,800 the studio. But it's the story of trauma to hope, and it's really 421 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:36,840 the story that it's autobiographical, one hundred percent autobiographical of things I've experienced and 422 00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:40,440 as I've come through them. I put it to song and in the hopes 423 00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:47,280 that it would one identify and relate and then also encourage. Yeah, because 424 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,679 there's a lot of you know we talked the last time, there's just a 425 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:57,119 lot of destruction, a lot of abuse, a lot of pain that people 426 00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:01,280 are suffering, and we can get through it. You absolutely can't. I 427 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,599 am living proof of that. We may have touched on this before, but 428 00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:09,920 have you do you hear from anybody regarding the music itself? Like, do 429 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,719 you hear from from from any of the shall we say, the characters from 430 00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:21,079 from this real life saga that that you've been through about these about these songs. 431 00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,199 I'm going to take that as a yes. Okay, okay, so 432 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:30,679 a story, yeah, all right? At Christmas time, so I've written 433 00:43:30,679 --> 00:43:34,440 a Christmas song and I thought, you know, I would like to go 434 00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:37,400 share this song with my adoptive mother. Yeah. So you know this story. 435 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,440 I was a ward of the state of birth, yeah, and the 436 00:43:39,519 --> 00:43:45,079 foster system, and then I was adopted, and then in that family structure 437 00:43:45,079 --> 00:43:47,719 of that adoption, my dad died when I was twelve and I was left 438 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:52,440 in the hands of a borderline personality disorder. And so fast forward to this 439 00:43:52,599 --> 00:43:58,079 time of life. There are some very strong boundaries that I have in place, 440 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,159 and even strong boundaries to access and so I but you know, she's 441 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,679 much older, and I thought, you know, I wrote this beautiful Christmas 442 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,639 song. My dad died on Christmas, and so I want to share it 443 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:14,320 with her. You know, there, people can heal, people love, 444 00:44:14,599 --> 00:44:19,800 people grow, people change. And I went and visited her at her home 445 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,000 and my adoptive brother was there, meeting me in the driveway and said, 446 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,320 if you share this story, we'll sue you. I was like, wait, 447 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:34,840 I'm here to share about Christmas and generosity all year long and oh my 448 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,039 gosh. And I went in and said hello, and it was I was 449 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,079 it was like, wow, this this has not changed at all. And 450 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:46,239 I exited and I said okay, and I actually said, as I walked 451 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,079 out at the door. I said, if that's what you need to do, 452 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,320 you know, and I'm like a story, then you have to admit 453 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:58,400 that you're in That's my thought process. What I'm writing is like, then 454 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,559 you have to come forward and say you're one, right, yeah. Yeah. 455 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,639 And even even in this conversation I had with her, she's in a 456 00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,960 relationship with, she still has a friendship with. My second ex husband is 457 00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:14,119 the one that tried to kill me. And she said, well, he 458 00:45:14,599 --> 00:45:19,039 he didn't intend. Oh yeah, so so mom, you agree that he 459 00:45:19,119 --> 00:45:20,880 put a pillow over my head. He goes. She goes, well, 460 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,239 yeah, he said he did. But but he said it wasn't his intention 461 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,159 to kill you. He just wanted to get your attention. Wow, And 462 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:30,719 I resent who you tell me I can be friends with. And I'm like, 463 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:37,079 oh, merry Christmas and peace on her. Think that will towork man? 464 00:45:38,519 --> 00:45:42,239 How is that the last conversation? That is, yeah, I got 465 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,000 you? And the album's coming out and the bit more work is coming out 466 00:45:45,079 --> 00:45:50,079 and yeah, good on you for sharing it though, because it really needs 467 00:45:50,119 --> 00:45:52,960 to. There's a lot of people out there, way more people than we 468 00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:55,440 maybe want to admit in society. When they hear somebody like you, they 469 00:45:55,519 --> 00:45:59,440 know I can survive this, I can get out of this, and we 470 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:04,280 don't have to because pre this coming out, I did not know if I 471 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,719 ever was going to sing in public again. Really yes, because this is 472 00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:15,079 post Pillowman, and I was not certain because there was a long period of 473 00:46:15,159 --> 00:46:17,840 time during the pandemic shutdown. I was stalked, My children were stoked. 474 00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,599 I actually moved out of state so that I would not get stalked anymore, 475 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,519 but my daughter continued to get stalked. And so it's a real thing. 476 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,920 And for me to come public also means I run those risks. And I 477 00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:37,119 thought, you know what, No, that's actually you know, I will 478 00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:40,039 not be silenced, right, I've spent my whole life, you know, 479 00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:45,480 within groups of people that have tried to silence. I'm like, it's no 480 00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:50,559 more, will not be silenced. And this isn't about you know, I'm 481 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:55,360 not an angry person. This is really about it's a road of healing and 482 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,159 and we've talked about mental health. I joke that I have a PhD in 483 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,800 being therapy because it's a lot of therapy I've had to go back. And 484 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,400 why did I make that decision, right, and how did I end up 485 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:14,000 there? And what is this? And you know, I still believe in 486 00:47:14,119 --> 00:47:17,079 love. I still believe in love is the answer. I still believe it 487 00:47:17,159 --> 00:47:22,480 can solve the world's problems if we actually think about each other and listen, 488 00:47:22,639 --> 00:47:27,199 do we all agree? You know? I mean you might like coffee with 489 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,119 cream and I like it black. You know, we don't all have the 490 00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:34,440 same taste or agree. But boy, if we really leave with love and 491 00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:37,719 the best interest of humans, right, And I think a lot of that 492 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:44,119 starts with the supporting of those who have been really wounded and hurt and marginalized 493 00:47:44,199 --> 00:47:51,159 and instead of making them the enemy. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you 494 00:47:51,199 --> 00:47:53,480 want to play an other one, Yeah, if you're just joining us on. 495 00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:58,840 Nancy Manet is here with us live in studio. She's currently on tour 496 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,840 in the Northeast, and we're very glad to have her here. Absolutely, 497 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,440 absolutely, Yeah, whenever you're ready, just go for it. If you 498 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,000 want to tell us about what you're going to play, I'm going to play 499 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:13,760 addiction and this is about the father of my kids. We were married for 500 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,599 eighteen years and we did not lose him to death, but we lost him 501 00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:23,039 to the street. The codone, you know, highly narcotic, well, 502 00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:30,360 highly addictive painkiller era. And we walked through that for about eight years with 503 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,760 him. Oh wow, and that ended that relationship. And so it was 504 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,639 the kids and I on our own. And later on in life, I 505 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:44,000 wrote this song and I realized, oh wow, if anybody has ever walked 506 00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:47,360 through loving an addict, you just all you want to do is just love 507 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,360 them. Like I said, I just really believe love can solve a lot 508 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,599 of things. We also have to do our work right right exactly. It 509 00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:15,320 kind of goes hand in hand exactly. My heart broke and I cannnot fear 510 00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:22,920 out what I always do. That makes you a long shout? Why do 511 00:49:23,039 --> 00:49:30,119 you say things that got me into the worm? It will turn to the 512 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:52,719 lands? All those be coll for My heart's desire is to love your kindness. 513 00:49:53,639 --> 00:50:06,480 Nothing to do but whe I am trying yourself me? You calm out? 514 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:17,559 And why would I be based on that special cake? Why would be? 515 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:27,800 I'm just getting in the way? What is more portent? Pomp? 516 00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:36,920 Why are you hide? How party you fall? What is more pork? 517 00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:42,679 Can thank? You beat me about? Hello? What are you hide? 518 00:50:43,920 --> 00:51:00,480 How far di di to fall? No d u hollo to my heart desire 519 00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:15,440 he is love you your kindness, not day but when nigh Ass Drager's comedy 520 00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:28,800 to come out bid and I we oh my aunt Dennis love you, but 521 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:40,239 the man you don't want me? You see nigh As it's stoping b com 522 00:51:42,199 --> 00:51:52,360 house swing and I wait you come out bid and very nice. That was 523 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:57,960 excellent, very nice. Nancy manet here with us live in studio on this 524 00:51:58,519 --> 00:52:04,159 Saturday morning and uh sounding great? Are is it unusual to be singing this 525 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,960 early? Yes? Yeah, A lot of a lot of a lot of 526 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:07,880 our musical guests they come on, they're like, oh, this is a 527 00:52:08,079 --> 00:52:13,000 no. You sound great though, but I know it's uh probably probably pretty 528 00:52:13,079 --> 00:52:17,320 unusual. We had a band on Saint Patrick's Day weekend. We had a 529 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,039 band and who was like, no, this is normal for us because there 530 00:52:21,159 --> 00:52:23,199 they play a lot of shows on Saint Patrick's Day weekend and you know a 531 00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:27,440 lot of those kinds of shows they start, uh they start very early. 532 00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:30,960 But uh yeah, for for most of the guests we have on, it 533 00:52:30,119 --> 00:52:37,119 is it is unusual. But uh so the show now, the show and 534 00:52:37,159 --> 00:52:39,679 wister you're doing that all that's all acoustic, that's all unplugged. Yeah, 535 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:45,719 yeah again, I'm laughing. It's like I actually call the company and said, 536 00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,280 cauld I get an acoustic piano, deliver it, No kidding, I 537 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,239 did, and they're unable to deliver it. But yeah, I thought, 538 00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:54,360 okay, this is gonna be a lot of fun. I'll play my expansion 539 00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,960 on the guitar. It works, it works great. It's going to be 540 00:52:59,079 --> 00:53:04,840 at the front in worcestermorrow. Very good, very good. See and if 541 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,880 you go to Nancy Minette n A and c Y M A n e T 542 00:53:09,599 --> 00:53:15,519 dot com you can find a lot of great information upcoming dates of her concerts, 543 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,880 as well as all of our music and bio information. So check it 544 00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,480 out. Than you do you always? Is it always you solo? Or 545 00:53:22,519 --> 00:53:25,400 do you ever play with the bandy? Well, right for now it's right 546 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:30,639 now on this leg it's solo. Yeah, we are working on our band. 547 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:37,000 Oh cool, start startup after Oh excellent, excellent, Good for you, 548 00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:40,239 good for you. We need we need a strings department. Yeah as 549 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,519 well, that's that boy, hard enough to find a drummer, you need 550 00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:51,559 a strings department? Good at least? Yeah, Yeah, well there you 551 00:53:51,679 --> 00:53:54,920 go, there you go. We might have talked about this before. But 552 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,840 are you so the new material that you're working on, are you playing any 553 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,159 of that on the current tour or are you holding out until you actually you 554 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:07,440 know it's interesting, Well, the stuff that's coming out in October, Yes, 555 00:54:07,559 --> 00:54:10,239 I am sprinkling some of that in. I have another song that's coming 556 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:15,119 out in a month from now. That's part of the that's all part of 557 00:54:15,199 --> 00:54:19,960 this connecting story that starts with the debut album. But then even the stuff 558 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,480 that I've written for things that who knows what the release states will be, 559 00:54:23,599 --> 00:54:28,079 I may or may not pull it out. It depends on on the time 560 00:54:28,159 --> 00:54:34,800 frame. If I need an extra song and we've burned through the rock opera, 561 00:54:36,639 --> 00:54:39,119 and I actually I love I'm a singer songwriter, so I love the 562 00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:45,039 process and I love showing people that journey, and so even to share, 563 00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:51,519 hey, here's a song and it's really raw form, but it'll be fun 564 00:54:51,599 --> 00:54:54,400 to hear how it's finished. And even even okay, so this I just 565 00:54:54,440 --> 00:55:00,400 played addiction that that is written on guitar the way pretty much I played it. 566 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:06,000 I may played a little bit more aggressively as a solo artist, but 567 00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:08,920 for a band and in studio work, it's played you know, so it's 568 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:13,119 neat to see. Okay, here's how a solo version or a pre written 569 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,760 or pre recorded version, and then you get to hear you know what we 570 00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,559 do in the studio. Yeah, yeah, I love that. How all 571 00:55:19,639 --> 00:55:23,000 that works? Yeah yeah, fantastic, fantastic. We're gonna so we'll have 572 00:55:23,119 --> 00:55:28,199 time for one more studio track. But before we before we do that, 573 00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:30,400 where should people go? What should they know about? Where to find you 574 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:35,079 online? How to keep up with everything that you're doing? First and foremost 575 00:55:35,159 --> 00:55:39,480 Facebook, Okay, it's my age group, So please find me at Nancy 576 00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:44,039 Manet. You'll you'll see and and and send me a direct message that you 577 00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:49,519 you know you heard us on the show. And you can also find me. 578 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,880 I'm newer to Instagram, but you can find me there. I I 579 00:55:52,119 --> 00:55:59,760 personally respond to everyone, and so I really love connecting with people. Relationships 580 00:56:00,159 --> 00:56:04,480 with one another is I think what makes it work? Positive ones? Yeah, 581 00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:10,360 and so there and then also my website just mentioned Nancy Mine m A 582 00:56:10,559 --> 00:56:15,480 n E T dot com. Very good, very good? And how many 583 00:56:15,559 --> 00:56:19,599 dates you have left on this tour? We go home to thirty first? 584 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,800 Okay, oh okay, so you got you got some left yeah, so 585 00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,639 you're in Where do you go after Worcester? What's your next one? Oh? 586 00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:30,159 Me to tell you etiquette? Yeah, oh that's right. I think 587 00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:35,679 after wester you go to New London, Connecticut areer for a radio interview. 588 00:56:36,079 --> 00:56:38,400 Oh, very good at w C and I very good. I think it's 589 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:43,920 I And then we end up Virginia on the thirtieth, Atlanta, Georgia, 590 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:49,280 or in July twelfth, Oh yeah, July thirteenth, Knoxville, Tennessee. 591 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,719 Yeah, that one's a radio special. Yeah, excellent, excellent, Good 592 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,360 for you, good for you. Well we will what do you want to 593 00:56:58,639 --> 00:57:02,920 play to end the you know, let's play something that we haven't played on 594 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:09,039 the air. Uh. It's it's called Fractured okay. And it's really the 595 00:57:09,199 --> 00:57:15,360 conclusion of you know, when we're talking about Okay, you've done this project, 596 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:17,480 and then now we move on to new music and we're writing new things 597 00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:23,679 about other topics and such. But this this actually concludes that, I would 598 00:57:23,719 --> 00:57:28,840 say that era of trauma, and it kind of launches off in hope. 599 00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:31,239 Okay, Oh, well, excellent, to the next book of life. 600 00:57:31,519 --> 00:57:34,800 Well that's a that's a great way to uh, that's a great way to 601 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,440 end it very good. Nancy Manet, thank you so much, thank you 602 00:57:37,559 --> 00:57:39,960 so much for having thank you for being here with us, and Jenny, 603 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:44,119 thank you. You want to plug your website here, welcome. You can 604 00:57:44,239 --> 00:57:46,800 keep up to with my information at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N 605 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,840 C O F f e I dot com. There's some new stuff up there 606 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,760 and an upcoming webinar. Yes, yes, Jenny's got a lot going on. 607 00:57:55,320 --> 00:58:00,280 And uh, of course my website Matt Connorton dot com. And we 608 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,400 will and thank you to everyone who joined us this week on the show. 609 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:07,119 And Nancy, thank you again. And we will end with this. This 610 00:58:07,239 --> 00:58:27,199 is Nancy Manet. This is called fractured. All of us are fractured, 611 00:58:27,519 --> 00:58:40,480 as we now vulgate this line our hurts, our pain, the brokingnesses. 612 00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:54,000 Man. We so much strive as we ponder who we become. We said, 613 00:58:54,760 --> 00:59:07,960 andraw our breand we real like this rature read. It's for some thing 614 00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:22,480 grad y to shine in to Pea says it is part of U journey. 615 00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:40,280 If wheel learn it will create a lineoscope. You'll see beauty that's created from 616 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:52,400 me. She's off our soul. What the last sun stage they'll make a hol