Welcome everybody. Here we go. This is gonna be the official start of
the show. We're gonna pretend that first thirty three minutes of problems just never
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Infolk, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Friday, July twenty
eight, two thousand and twenty three, So today on the show. So
we're gonna have in just a few minutes. Actually, Eric Pilcher's classic film
review and this week the subject is the film Fight Club. It was originally
supposed to be True Romance. However, Eric was having some difficulty finding clips
of the film True Romance to use for some reason, so he had to
abandon that and go with Fight Club instead. Although personally I'm a huge fan
of the movie Fight Club. Not a big fan of the film True Romance,
so I'm pretty happy with that. So we're going to do that in
a few minutes. We've got a big announcement today regarding Jenny is going to
be speaking at an event for Protect Our Care happening at Veterans Park on Monday.
She has been invited to speak there, So that's a very exciting Monday
morning at eleven am. If you're in the area, I hope you'll come
down. So we're gonna do that today as well, and coming up at
the top of the hour, if I can get the technical problem resolved,
hopefully we will have Lewis Tyvee skyping in from the UK. We did share
some of his music earlier in that part of the show that never actually happened
because none of that will be in the podcast, but that's going to be
coming up as well, attentatively. If not, we'll have to reschedule Lewis
Tyvee. I'm looking forward to speaking to him either way, be it today
or another time, but so that will be coming up too, And if
that doesn't work out, we've got plenty in the news to talk about,
that's for sure. But we also have a call. Hi. Welcome to
Matt connorton. Unleash. Who's this? Oh? I thought there was somebody
on the line. All right, never mind. But yes, and today,
of course, because it is Friday here at WMNH, it's my long
day and I do love it. So Friday is my favorite day of the
week here. I get to do double duty. So I'm here for this
show of course, until six pm, and then I'm back tonight from eight
to eleven pm for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. I am one of
Paul's co hosts on that show, along with DJ Steve and uh and Mike
from Queen City Cabinetry in the historic Sunbeam Mall. And I think my dad's
on the line. Hello, Hello, Manny, Good afternoon. I'm gonna
be brief. Can you hear me? Okay, yes, I can you?
Can you reason? I'm having I don't know if it's my phone or
where I am, but I'm having a little trouble hearing you. But I
can hear you though. Um, I'll be brief. I wanted to just
say a couple of things and brag. Your analysis yesterday, which was my
analysis, is something about what's that old saying, man, the apple doesn't
fall through too far from the garden of Eden, something like that. Yeah,
but you're right on tack with the Hunter Biden. I'll call it a
problem. I'll just leave it like that. You know, I'm not a
big fan of the Bidens, and I see a lot of corruption there.
But I'm not going to cast accusations this afternoon. But I did want to
mention something about I'm going to end on a positive note quickly or but in
a minute, but I wanted to again praise you for your analysis yesterday.
I didn't agree with you. We're not gonna I'm not gonna get into a
debate with you. Don't trust me. I'm not criticizing you with the show.
But I do think that Sweetheart deal intrinsically was bizarre and corrupt from the
get go. And this judge, though she's in Delaware and she's gonna take
some heat for being a Trump formal appointee, she is a Democrat, a
liberal Democrat. That needs to be noted. But I don't know if you
saw the text I sent you about this, but I predicted with colleagues here
the Catholic War veterans, and E sw that the judge. I couldn't guarantee
it, but I thought the judge would say, wait a minute, what
about the immunity stuff that's buried down here, you know, and what about
all this evidence? You know, the gun charge alone, that would have
been something he would have been subject to jail time except for the plea.
But at any rate, he had a little meltdown apparently in the courthouse,
kind of a spoiled brad Hunter. But he's cutting away with a lot.
But when they review Matt, you were pointing this out, why wasn't the
Foreign Asian Registration Act looked into carefully? I would say part of the reason
right away is because inevitably that is going to show objectively there was an objective
truth standard that the Bidens have been receiving pay for play money from many governments,
much money, for a long time. And that gets into what I've
talked to you about, and I've checked you about before, about the principle
and the structure and the intrinsic evil of elite capture, you know, in
pirates with money. And then there are four other components in terms of mind
control issues. And I'm not talking about ultra k I'm talking about just using
persuasion and arguments to confuse people, to deceive people, and to manipulate people,
and us, the middle class and the poor American people. So I
just want to mention one of them today. There are four I'd like.
We don't have a lot of time, I realize. Yeah, and you
may disagree with some of the structures. You can't disagree with it. You
can say, Dad, I'm not sure those are being used by the left
or by the so called liberals today, or by neosocialists, or by distorders
of history. And by the way, that's why I just want I'll get
to that. But distorders of distorts of history can be people on the left,
in the middle, or on the right. And uh, that's what
that's a concern with the Florida legislature. So here's here's the thing I want
to mention. Are you familiar with sal Alinsky, the American communist philosopher at
all? Familiar with him? I haven't read his book Rules for Radicals.
I haven't read that Rules for Radicals. Yeah, I haven't read page.
He wrote two books. One was in forty six and the other came out
in forty eight or forty nine. I've read, you know, through them,
and I've critiqued them, but I can't stand reading reading the whole thing's
page to page. But one of the things that he that he gets wrong,
and he knows it's wrong, but he uses it in a powerful way
trying to support communism and socialism in the left. And he made no bones
about this. He went on television talking about it. He wrote paper on
it. I've seen and that is, you justify the ends. You come
up with a good ends, say, the eradication of social injustice, the
positivity of unions, condemning slavery, all those kinds of things. But you
can use any means you wish, including deception, manipulation, lying, threatening
people, threatening their livelihoods. You can use any means you want, as
long he says, he writes consistently, He writes this, as long as
the ends look good, you know, look like they're the common good,
look like they're transcending evil. You follow me, you see what's going on
there. Yeah, you understand what you're saying. That That proposition is just
one of his propositions. He talks about using ridicule. For example, he
talks about using ad hominem arguments all the time towards the opposition. In the
opposition is people of faith, Christians, Jews. He didn't talk too much
about Islam, but it would include that to that community also, and people
like your dad who are constitutional conservatives who wish to dialogue and use right reason
and logic to come to efficacious conclusions of ethicality and efficiency for all people in
the USA and implicitly all people everywhere in the world. Does that make sense
so far? Yeah? I understand. Yeah. So Aristotle to a Quintas,
to Ittian Jilson, to doctor Scott Han, to doctor in the Catholic
community, doctor Carl Payne in the Protestant community. Are Rabbi Abraham Heschel,
orthodox Jew, one of my heroes and a great friend of Luther King and
a great writer on philosophy and theology, by the way, and dialogue Martin
Bober. All these people, including a Zuni Jaffrey Matt. You could get
him, I'm sure to come on your program. He is an Islamic scholar
who is moderate to conservative politically, I suppose, but he's brilliant and he's
a former naval officer. You know a little bias of favoring him on that
one too, but emotionally, but Zuni Jaffrey is a great person to have
one. Unfortunately, what's happening in America today in part and you know this
and your your listeners will notice even internationally, is Orthodox Islam gets a bad
rap. Orthodox Islam is actually very peaceful, but the Wahabi radical element in
Islam is not. They're very violent and they're very anti Semitic. Have you
heard of Omar? Have you heard of AOC? You know, when you
quote those people in a in a kind of positive way, match, I
would argue that you should point out their anti semitism. And they're anti I
mean, they're anti Christian also, but their anti Semitism is toxic and destructive
and salient, very salient. They make no bones about it. Um.
So that's one area m I wanted to go quickly to your reference yesterday about
Greg Gutfield. You know that I'm not a big fan of doctor Dre Oh
doctor Drew. Rather that was Afredian slip back, get it, Freudian slip
A good song. I like Doctor Dre. He swears too much, I
get it, But take me to comptent baby a lot of Talivisi. Not
now, it's too hot, mad, it's too out there. But my
point is that I just want to make this point for you and you're listening
audience before I do, I don't. I don't know on Facebook how long
my post last, because if I say anything critical about the left or Biden
or the DJ or the FBI, whom my regards is completely corrupt right now,
they'll they'll put the post up and then it's gone in like ten minutes.
And the reason I mentioned I put up a post praising you and Jenny
for all your work about social justice around the medical field. Did you see
any of that on Facebook? I don't remember seeing that specifically. I mean,
I see your comments on things, but I don't remember seeing a separate
post, if that's what you mean. Yeah, yeah, that's what I
mean. They did post it. It was up, but you know,
and I don't know what the nuances are met with the technology. I used
to be able to post it right up and it would come up. And
if it was like you commented on one more, I just talked about meditation
in a generic sense and had a beautiful pig show waterfalls I think from Upstate
New York and so they left that one up and I always try to be
very kind. I am very kind with my posts. But anyway, yeah,
I posted it up. I posted the issue and praised Jenny for going
to wash and what she was doing with her work. So just just so
you know that I have no control over what they show or they don't show,
or how they do that with the technology. I'm just I don't have
time to figure that one out, but I wanted you to know that.
So here's the thing I want to mention and what we'll end with a positive
thing here, But always remember Freydian slips can lead to insight. Sure,
I'm kidding about that because of the great song yesterday, but there's some truth
to that. So I was in a hospital once, you know, and
this groups of medical people surrounding me, and they said, you know,
Marty, we don't know it's agent orange or heredity, but we're gonna have
to do something here and this is what we're planning, and do have any
questions? So my question to them was was Freud wrong about everything? They
loved that? Matt, I'm telling you day by life. So here's the
thing. The comment that Greg Gutfeld made and I don't know about your theory
about who he's trying to model. I mean, I've never I've never been
a fan of Fox News. I've never been a fan of the Five,
and I'm going to stay with all honesty, I've never never been a fan
of Tarloft. She's off, she's off the wall. But what happened when
I saw that? You know, and I don't know, if you're going
to play that, I would recommend you play that. Gutfeld completely missed the
point and misrepresented Victor Frankel. Victor Frankel is one of the greatest psychiatrists and
therapists and teachers and heroes of all time. Matt his book Man Search for
Meeting. He wrote others, but Man Search for Meeting is a classic where
he goes into detail. I'm not going to go into detail. Delineates three
fundamental values. He talks about creative values. That's that which we're getting an
education, you know, doing your broadcasting, hypnotherapy. Creative values and can
be productive with other people obviously marriage, children, family, etc. Etc.
And then it can be just having fun with people safely. And then
he talks that's number one. Then he talks about experiential values. Those are
the values that teach us accurately about rebounding from life's troubles and asking for help
and finding meaning in suffering. And finally there's attitudinal values which later Carl Mellinger
in his book Whatever Happened to Sin he calls some spiritual values and references Victor
Franco the great One. But what Frank was talking about there is well two
things. His rediscovery in the concentration camp suffering he went through of God and
his faith in the Jewish community, and but in the secular context, in
the psychological context, and universal spirituality and building up the spirit He's talking about
there the ability to become aware of pre mentorship and training and good education,
accurate education, coping skills, values, principles, the Constitution, etc.
So when gutfil yeah, I saw this, I picked it up on the
phone. When he mentions in entire lastom I don't agree with usually, but
she's making a good point there. Evil is evil. You cannot try to
mitigate evil by saying there was something good coming out of that. That is
malarkee completely And rather than gutfill the with her and saying why that was important.
He quotes, uh, he doesn't quote. He references Victor Frankel and
his great book which has changed my life and my profession professional work. Uh
man's search for meaning. And he completely misrepresented that. And that was a
shame. Man. That that I'm really angry about. Do you see what
I'm saying there? Can you understand that? Yeah? Well it makes sense
that he missed you. I mean, what he was saying didn't even make
sense anyway. It was not right. It was such a bizarre false equivalence.
It didn't even track. That's right. But I agree with you and
uh so, so I think you know, he needs to apologize. He
needs to restate what he was trying to say. If if he couldn't come
up with something that's valid, that was horrible. I couldn't believe that he
said that. And and to a colleague too. I disagree with Tarloff and
almost everything. But if I'm on that show, I'm going to respect her
as a colleague. And no, she's on the left. I get it.
We're gonna agree to disagree, but let's still have respectful, mutually respectful
dialogue. Right, And and he just can I think he had something to
do with I never liked Rivera myself, but I think Gutfield had something to
do with they're showing him the door at Fox. But I detest that completely.
No. Finally, so so again to the worldwide audience, I want
to point something out again and just underscore it. Matt, please with compassion
and empathy and hope. Victor Frankel suffered through the concentration camp. He was
almost murdered there several times, and he lost his entire family in the concentration
camp. That's something people need to know. And he rebounded from that,
not praising ever oppression, never violence, never racism, never anti semitism,
never anti Christian work, and he became one of the greatest teachers. And
you can get him online. You know he's fast now, but people can
find him, can google him and listen to his dialogue with scholars if they
wish to do that. So then you can see why I'm not upset with
you. I'm upset with Gutfelds. Yeah, and the legislatures in Florida they
have to be much more careful in what they're stating and how they're using language
around history, particularly when it comes to slavery, which is in Catholic Church,
definitive. That's a mortal sin. Man, that's a mortal sin.
All right. Finally in a positive note, because I know you've got The
Eric's True Romance coming up. It's a film that's tough, but I like
it. I give it a favor. Sums up. But I was wondering
if you would play at some point next week Katie Dobbins new song. I
know I sound like Eric Agnon now, but you know, she's so talented
and beautiful and from a great family in the Lakes Country. And she has
a song called because I Can, but it sounds like a song that someone
else did before. But I think this one is her original composition. Katie
Dobbins, something to think about. What do you think about it, Maddie,
Yeah, yeah, no, I'll play it. I'll play it.
She's amazing. I think you'll like it. I think enjoy again. I
mean Sepsis what a great band they are, Yea, you know the title
of the band freaks me out a little bit, you know what I mean,
But I can transcend that they're so talented. So I'm happy that you
and Jenny are going to the next outing at the theater with him. So
I'll stop on that note. Great analysis. I think what you're going to
see is the DOJ, which I regard is totally corrupt and favoring Biden,
suppressing evidence. Well, they attack Trump Chris on every front. A Chris
Trump is his own worst enemy too. I agree with you there, But
I think what you're going to see is they're going to try one more time
to come up with some kind of the agreement that ignores the Foreign Relations Agency
Registration Act. But I don't think they're going to get away with it,
Matt, I could be wrong. All right, peach out, stay out
of the heat. Thank you for all you're doing. I appreciate it.
All right, Dad, love you, Thank you for the call. You're
very welcome my pleasure. I love you too. Bye bye, bye bye.
All right, that was Martin Connerton, my dad. All Right,
here's what we're gonna do. We are close to the top of the hour.
I'm gonna go to Eric Pilcher's classic film review. And my dad probably
didn't hear earlier. That might have been before I officially restarted the show.
But Eric's film review is not true romance. After all, he had to
make a change, and instead he has reviewed Fight Club for this week because
he was having some difficulty finding clips with good audio online for True Romance,
so he went with Fight Club, which happens to be one of my favorite
films one of my favorite books as well. So we're gonna go with that.
We're gonna go to that now, and then after that we'll come back.
We'll show some love to our amazing sponsors. And while the review is
going, I'm going to see if I can reinstall Skype on the computer and
see if there's a chance before we run out of time to save our planned
interview with Lewis Tivey, who is in the UK. And something, like
I said earlier, whenever it's a transcontinental Skype call, something always goes wrong,
but either on their end or I think in this case it's on our
end, though I think it just every once in a while we have to
reinstall it updated on the computer, and I think today is one of those
days, unfortunately, So but I can try to do that. I've had
to do it before. I can try to do that while the film review
is on and maybe if it's not too late any so, last time we
can still get Lewis Tivey for today, So without further ado, here it
is. This is Eric Pilcher's review of fight Club. Every week, Tyler
gave the rules that he and I decided. Gentlemen, Welcome to fight Club.
The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about Fike Club.
Second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.
Third rule of fight club. Someone else stopped, goes limb taps out,
the fight is over. Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight.
Fit rule one fight at a time fellas. Sixth rule, no shirts,
no shoes, seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have
to. And the eighth and find rule. If this is your first night
of fight club, you have to fight this kid from work. Ricky couldn't
remember whether you ordered pens with blue ink or black, but Ricky was a
god for ten minutes when he trounced the major d of a local food court.
Sometimes all you can hear where the flat hard packing sounds over the yelling
glad for the wet choke when someone caught their breath and sprayed. You weren't
alive anywhere like you were there. But fight club only exists in the hours
between when fight club starts and one fight Club ends. Even if I could
tell someone they had a good fight, I wouldn't be talking to the same
man. Who you were in fight club is not who you were in the
rest of the world. The guy came to fight Club for the first time,
his ass was a wat of cookie dough. After a few weeks,
he was carved out of I have stated many times on this program that I
feel nineteen ninety nine is the greatest year in the history of cinema. All
genres of film were represented strongly. These films were great from top to bottom,
with top notch direction, brilliant writing, amazing performances in even mesmerizing soundtracks.
There is one film that defies genres explanation into this day has people still
trying to decipher what it all meant. That ambiguity is what leads to its
greatness. Directed by David Fincher, based off the nineteen ninety six novel by
Chuck Plank, Fight Club introduces us to a nameless man simply known as the
narrator, Edward Norton in his breakout role, a man that is extremely disenchanted
with his life. That is until he meets a man named Tyler Durden played
by Brad Pitt, a man that by bringing the Narrator into his dark world,
brightens his life and empowers him. The film also stars Helena Bottom Carter
and the late Meet Loaf a Day in a memorable role. Our first clip
was Dirten stating the famous rules of Fight Club. Our next two clips set
the stage for the changes that come to the narrator. First, he goes
over his life that is wrought with insomnia and mindless home shopping. What makes
this seem so great is we hear the hopelessness and despair in Norton's voice,
and then, on a business flight for his menial job, his life changes
when he meets Tyler Dirting. For six months, I couldn't sleep. I
couldn't sleep, I couldn't sleep with insomnia. Nothing's real, everything's far away.
Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy. When deep space exploration
ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere,
the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. I need you have a down a
little more this week, we guys have red flares to cover. It must
have been Tuesday. He was wearing his corn flower blue tie you want me
to deprioritize my current reports until you, guys of status upgrade, make these
your primary reaction items. He's your white coupons. Call me from the road
if there's any snacks. He was full of pet must have had his Grande
latte enema. Like so many others. I had become a slave to the
ikea nesting instant. Yes, I'd like to order the Eric car dust ruffles.
If I saw something clever, like a little coffee table in the shape
of a guinion, I had to have it. The Clip's personal office unit,
the hove a track home exer bike, or the Johannaeschev sofa with the
string green stripe pattern. Even the Rhizlampa wire lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper.
I'd flip through catalogs and wonder what kind of dining set defines me as
a person. I had it all, even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles
and imperfections, proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hardworking
indigenous peoples of wherever I was holding. We used to read pornography. Now
it was the horse Chowl collection and introducing Tyler Dirty. Every time the plane
banked too sharply on takeoff or landing, a preyed for a crash or a
midair collision. Anything. Life insurance pays off triple if you die in a
business trip. If you were seated in an emergency exit row, Yeah,
and feel you would be unable or unwilling to perform the duties listed on the
safety card, Please ask a flight attendant to reset you. It's a lot
of responsibility. One switch seats, No, I'm not sure I'm the man
for that particular job. An extra door procedure thirty thousand feet, the illusion
of safety, Yeah, I guess. So you know where they put oxygen
mask on planes so you can breathe. Oxygen gets you high, and a
castrophe for emergency. You're taking giant panic breadths. Suddenly you become your fork.
Awesome, you accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water
landing six hundred miles an hour, blank faces, a calm its Hindu cows.
That's that's an interesting theory. What do you do? What do you
mean we do for a living? Why she intend like you're interested? Okay,
you have a kind of sick desperation in your life. We have the
exact same briefcase. So sorry, I make and I sow soap the yardsticks
of civilization, And this is how I'm at Tyler Dirton. Did you know
if you mixed equal parts of gasoline and frozen no introduced concentrate, you can
make napalm? No? I did not know that? Is that true?
That's right? One can make all kinds of explosives using simple household items.
Really fun, was so inclined? Tell you are by far the most interesting,
single serving friend I've ever met, Everything on a planet, single serving
given the black get it. It's very clever. Thank you. How's it
working out for you? What? Being clever? Grain? Keep it up
down. Norton is phenomenal in this film, as is Bonham Carter, But
the performance that has people still talking even twenty plus years after the film's release
is the performance of Pitt. He is the calm and the storm, but
yet the violent fire that rages. The psychology he conveys in this performance drives
this film. Our next two clips are examples of this. First, Dirten
convinces the narrator to hit him. Of note here is how Tyler remains calm
in convincing the narrator on what to do, and the narrator just follows.
Then, in one of the most memorable scenes, he gives the narrator a
chemical burn and forces him to go through the pain. These are prime examples
of the sociopathic nature of Dirting that becomes fully exposed as the film goes on.
What do you want me to do? You just want me to hit
you? Why? Why? I don't know why. I don't know.
Never been a fight, you know, But that's a good thing. No,
it is not. How much can you know about yourself? You've never
been a fight. I don't want to die without any scars. Come on,
hit me before I lose my nerve. God, this is crazy,
crazy, Let a rip. I don't know about this, I don't need
Who gives watching? What do you care? What is this crazy? You
want me to hit you? That's right, like in the face, surprised
me? This is so m mother hit me in the ear well, jesus,
I'm sorry like the ear man. Oh that was perfect? That really
hurts? Right again? Now you're with me? Come we should do this
again sometimes. Now Tyler inflicts pain on the narrator. What is this?
This is a chemical worker? We'll hurt mort You've ever been burned, and
you will have a scar. God who meditation works for cancer can work for
this. Stay with the pain, don't shut this sent God can get your
hand. Persons made from the assid of buros like the person monkey shot into
space. Without pain, without sacrifice, it would have nothing. I tried
not to think of the word serious slash. This is your pain, this
is your burning hand. It's right here. Who's going to my kid glom
my getting the find my power? No, don't do what the Twego's dead
people do. Come on the plain. What you're feeling is premature in life.
Listen, play this moment of your life. Man, and you're off
somewhere of missus. I am shot our bottles where models for God? If
our father's bailed, what does that tell you about God? Listen? Consider
the possibility that God does not like you, never made or you can use
vinegar to neutralize the burn first, to give up. First, you have
to know not fear. No, and someday you're going to die. You
don't know how this feels. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free
to do anything. Okay, congratulations one still closer to the body many times
and in many genres there needs to be a love story or a love interest.
To me, fight Club is the exception to those rules, but nonetheless
it has one. The woman is Marla Singer played by the aforementioned Bottom Carter,
a woman the narrator meets while attending support groups for deadly diseases because it
helps him feel better and allows him to break the chains of insomnia. The
two strike up an awkward friendship while negotiating what groups these two individuals faking will
attend. Our final clip shows the toxic, confusing relationship. Marla and the
narrator share. Yeah, no, I mean it's okay. H Do you
still go into groups? Yeah? Chloe's dead? Chloe? When did that
happen? You can't. I don't know. I haven't thought about it in
a while. Yeah, well it was a smart move on her part.
Can you listen? Um, what are you getting out of all this?
What? I mean all this? Why do you keep Is this making you
happy? Yeah? Well? Sometimes I don't know. I don't understand why.
Why does a weaker person need to laptopo a strong person? What?
What? What is that? What do you get out of it? No,
that's that's not the same thing at all. I'm that's totally different with
us us. What do you mean by us? Do you hear this?
What you're not hearing? On that noise? Just a hold on a second.
No, wait, what were you saying? Don't dan to someday?
I want to talk about this. You're not talking about me? On you?
No? What that day? Came over to my place the doctor?
What was going on there? What are you talking about? Nothing? Nothing?
I don't think sothing. Come on, what do you want? Look
at me? No, look at me? What is that? It's nothing?
Don't worry about it? Like God, who did this? A person?
Guy? Girl? What do you care? If it's a guy or
a girl? Do you care? If I ask? It's none of your
business. Leave me. I am not afraid to say, let me go
talk to me, but go now. You know well this conversation, this
conversation is over. Is over. I just can't leng with you, can
I. At the beginning of this review, I mentioned how this film is
talked about to this day. It simply is not because it's a great film
or the amazing performances. It is because that even now people struggle to interpret
what the film means. The ending of this film features one of the greatest
plot twists in the history of cinema. Some say they see it coming,
many more never saw it coming. I dare someone to watch this film for
the first time, even the second, third, fourth, and so on,
and not have the same questions they had the first time they watched it.
Those questions are what makes this film stand the test of time and puts
it in a class by itself while being labeled one of the greatest films ever
made. I hope you joined me next week when we will look at the
mesmerizing Mafia character study the compelling true story Donnie Brasco starring Johnny Debb and Al
Vaccino for wm NH in Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has been a classic film
review with a great job as always our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. He does a classic film review for us every Friday, and I
really enjoyed that a lot. Fight Club, as I mentioned earlier, one
of my favorite films. And now what we're going to do, my friends.
I have reinstalled Skype on the computer here and our friend Lewis Tivey,
who is in the Facebook live chat and it's also a big film of the
fan. A big fan of the film Film of the Fan. I'm getting
dyslexic. I think I'm developing an adult on set dyslexia. A big fan
of the film Fight Club, but more importantly, a very talented musician.
I'm now going to attempt Lewis. Are you there, Hi, Matt,
how's it going? Hi? Everyone? Success? Hey man, I really
appreciate your patience. Apparently the problem was on our end about it happens about
maybe once a year, maybe once every eight or nine months. I don't
know. I lose track of time. But every every once in a great
while we have to reinstall Skype. I have to uninstall it and just reinstall
it to get it to UM. It's like it doesn't update automatically on our
computer here in the studio for some reason. H and oh sorry, just
saying, just like the first rule of Fight Club, don't mention it,
that's right. But then once once I get it reinstalled. So this actually
worked out well because we don't usually have long prerecorded segments on the show.
The one prerecorded segment that we run every week is Eric Pilcher's classic film review,
So that actually worked out well that I had a prerecorded segment to run
gave me a chance to actually do the uninstall and the reinstall and here we
are. So I'm glad. I'm glad this worked out. Really really dig
your music. Thank you very much. Absolutely. And by the way,
grim Rock is in the Facebook live chat now. We interviewed grim Rock on
the show not too long ago, actually, I think it was a couple
of weeks ago, and he was in that he's working on you and here
working on a collaboration together. Yes, so we've got quite a few plans
together. We've got a boody called trench Gun as well. Yeah, I've
basically got another song. Originally was releasing them as singles originally, but now
that I've released four, I'm not. I just don't want to be the
kind of guy that releases loads of singles and then puts it as a complimation
album, if you have me, So, yeah, the first four like
a teaser and the rest the rest'm keeping hidden until the final release. But
yeah, we've I've got this song called Faithless Martyr that he's going to be
having quite a big input on. Very cool. Yeah, I can kind
of see where you and he there's um uh, there's a similarity in terms
of your your it sounds like an approach to your production. And then it's
kind of um, there's kind of a garage rock, kind of heavy but
sort of um, you know it's it's um. The production is well,
I hear a mix of influences and what you're doing. But um, but
the way the way you guys approach it sounds similar to me. My favorite
track of yours, which I did play. I played a bunch of your
playing a bunch of your songs, uh in the first hour when we were
trying to when I was trying to get the technical issue I figured out.
But my favorite of yours is Freudian Slip, and I played that on the
show yesterday too to kind of give people a preview. And um, it's
so great. But I hear in it, you know, it's it's kind
of it's kind of punk, but it's kind of grunge. But it's also
and I noticed this particular word does not appear in anything that the talks about
your music, where you talk about your music online, in your buyo or
anything. But I feel like there's a little bit of industrial in there as
well. That that's kind of how I perceive it anyway, am I?
I mean, what do you how do you describe it? See, whenever
someone asks how I describe my music, a lot of people say grunge,
which I agree with, but at the same time, to me, grunge
was an era, you know what I mean? It's yeah, you know,
I wouldn't classic as a genre, so I just call myself alternative rock
because it kind of is. Um. Yeah, I love industrial like Ramstein,
for example, is one of my favorite bands. But I've got loads
of influences, literally loads. Yeah. I've said many times, if this
grim rock's really good at doing like nineteen sixties psychedelic Beatles type stuff, told
it I wouldn't be able to do it, like come up with that type
of stuff. But I was like, Oh, come up some stuff like
that and we'll do with due out of something, you know. But yeah,
I'm pretty I'm pretty fluid when it comes to the genre and that type
of thing. Yeah. Um, and what about your approach to vocals because
this has been driving me nuts. M Lewis you remind me of somebody,
But for the life of me, I can't quite put my finger on who
it is. And I know when it finally comes to me, I'm gonna
be like, oh yeah, yeah, that guy of course. But for
some reason, there's there's a British singer who you remind me of and I
can't quite I can't quite put my finger on it. But can you talk
about your vocals a bit or is there somebody that you that has really influenced
you, because you've got a very specific vocal style that seems to run through
these tracks. Yeah. I wouldn't say I've tried to base myself if anyone
really. Yeah, I broke my nose when I was a lot younger,
and I've got quite a nasally voice, and I used to be really self
conscious of it, and recently I've just sort of started embracing it a little
bit, yeah, you know, and not holding back as much. But
I've got quite a raspy voice as well, so I just go for it
now really. Um Yeah, Yeah, I suppose during my band days I
was slightly more Johnny Rotten if you with me my approach to things now,
I'd like to think it's a bit more refined. But yeah, I mean
I've been compared to you know, Mark arm from mud Honey, yea been
compared to him before. Now, Okay, I can hear that. I
can hear that, sure, sure, Um yeah. And in terms of
um, I mean the songs they almost there's a frenetic sort of and again
I go back to Freudy and Slip as a great example. There's sort of
a frenetic, almost a chaotic sort of nature to them. Um. That
that seems to be pretty consistent in your music. Um, is that something
you planned when you started this project, when you started recording? Is that
is that what you wanted it to sound like? Or does that is that
something that comes about organically? And then you go, yeah, I really
like that because I can sort of imagine you stumbling into that. But but
I'm curious because I can't think of anybody that you sound quite like. Again,
there's a singer you remind me of whose name escapes me at the moment,
But in terms of what your music sounds like, there's not another artist
I would specifically compare you too. So I'm wondering how you arrived at that
sound. I just love that live, raw energy sound. Yeah. Some
of the best bands I've genuinely ever seen of been in pubs and bars and
stuff like that, like live bands, like especially punk bands. Yeah,
and I just love that energy, you know, when you're in the middle
of the crowd and they're all mush in away and it's brilliant, and I
just love to capture that energy like I always have. I guess I've got
a bit of built up rage in side or something, although I am a
pretty mellow guy as well. Yeah, yeah, No, I know what
you mean though about capturing that energy, because it's it's definitely there. That's
what it sounds like. It sounds like, it sounds like it's live.
It doesn't sound like it's it's a studio recording in a in a sense in
terms of the energy that's there. Now, you you do everything yourself,
right, you record everything on your own. So for the first part of
the project, yes, the first EP was one except for the drums because
I've got no sense of tempo. So I had a session drummer. Oh
recently i've been trench Gun's been doing the drumming and Grim's helping on a few
of the other ones now, which helps. It helps me out because when
you happen to write everything yourself, I guess I'm just concentrating too much on
certain things and it takes away from what I'm able to put out if you
with me, whereas if I don't have to focus as much on what I'm
writing, I can kind of let go. Yeah that makes sense, that
makes sense. Yeah, um, now you were I was reading online you
were in a band before. Correct, you're in a full full band?
Yeah, long time ago, about twelve years ago, now I think it
was. Yeah. Yeah, but you prefer being a solo artist. Yeah,
it's great. I mean, I mean, I'm currently in the British
Military. So when the day's done, I live in the in the block
at the barracks, and the room has the perfect ambience. Oh no kidding.
So it sucks that I don't get to see the family in the week,
but at the same time, you know, I've got the perfect room
for recording. I've literally converted my room into a studio. Oh wow.
Yeah, so I'm leaving shortly. I'm a civy again in about a month
and a bit. But oh no, kid worked really well for me.
How long have you been in the military. It will be five years in
November. Oh no kidding, If you don't mind me asking, I mean
what drove you to join. I've just always wanted to do it, and
I'm a bit of a wild card. I don't like to be in one
place for too long, and I just wanted some excitement in my life.
I'd always kind of wanted to do it, but I just needed to get
out there. You know. Working in a shop just wasn't cutting it for
me, and I didn't seem to be getting anywhere else in life. I
was like, why not? So Yeah, has the experience been positive overall?
Mostly positive? Yeah, I've really enjoyed it. I am starting to
get slight blues about leaving. It is time for me to go from the
military because, as I say, I want to spend a lot more time
with the family. Yeah. But I have enjoyed it, and it's it's
it's changed me quite a bit as a person. It does being in the
military. Does that in any way influence your approach to music? I mean,
I would imagine when you're in the military, it certainly instills a lot
of discipline in you, which which might which might help in terms of finding
ways to do it all yourself, to record and whatnot. But I'm curious,
I mean, have you found that that being in the military, that
experience has has affected your approach in a certain way. Yeah, because it's
like you're told what to do, you know, like the majority of the
day. But then when I finish and I'm back in my studio, I
can let loose. I can all that pent up. You can't tell me
what to do type thing, you know. Yeah, I guess it's it's
an extra boost. It's pretty good. That makes that makes sense. So
now when you once you're out, because you're out in what did you say
a month and a half? I start my new job September September eleventh,
I believe it is Oh okay, what are you going to be doing?
So it's kind of working with steel and metal and that type thing. So
I guess you could say I'm a heavy metal work there, you go heavy
metal here? Now? Is that? Will that give you more time to
obviously you'll I assume you'll be more available to get out and play shows and
do things like that, right, hopefully. Yeah. The problem I've got
at the moment is I aside from the Midlands in the UK, and I
don't seem to be able to find anyone who plays the type of thing I
do for any band's really a COVID pretty much killed everything off. And yeah,
and I I've been asked a few times to play shows to backing tracks
and just me play like the vocals and the guitar. But yeah, I'm
like, man, I'm not doing glorified karaoke to my own tracks. Now.
That's interesting because a lot of musicians, in fact, I've I've met
musicians here in the area who who will do things like that. And the
technology really kinds of of kind of lends itself more to that than ever before.
But but so, but you're not interested in that. You don't you
don't think that would that would work for you. I'm not knocking anyone who
does it, you know, I've seen tons of artists who do it.
But I need a band to like bounce the energy off of and the crowd.
If I'm just there awkwardly on the stage, I just don't feel it
will work. You know. When when I was in a band back in
the day, I used to get really bad stage fright. Oh, And
when I was on the stage, I was absolutely fine, and then we'd
have like a break halfway through, and then it'd start to and I'd be
like, oh good, oh god, the police aft together, You've already
done forty minutes, what's wrong, and then back on the stage. I'd
be fine. It's it's weird. It's like a mental barrier. That's interesting.
But yeah, I can see how that might add to not wanting to
be out there by yourself doing that, because at least when you're when you
have say, you know, and I used to play in bands, and
I'd get nervous before going on stage. But when you're in a band,
it's like, you know, you're all in it together, so there's you
know, there's safety and numbers obviously, but if if that stage fright is
really affecting you going out there by yourself, I can see where that might
be an issue. Yeah, but you know, if you ever did decide
to do it, you know, it sounds like I mean, like I
said, the technology is available to pull it off. But um, but
yeah, I hopefully, I mean it sounds like music that should be played
live. So hopefully at some point you do have a band and can go
out and do some shows. I think that would be really cool. Um,
how much music if you recorded, You've you've got, yeah, you
sound us four tracks but there's more available online obviously. Yeah. So I've
got my first EP, which is I believe that's four tracks. I'm quite
slow because I'm doing it all well. I've got a bit of help now,
but because I have been doing it on my own, it's been taking
quite a while. However, it's literally been the past week or so.
It's sped up quite a bit. I've got roughly three or four more that
are practically done. I think there's going to be ten on the album,
which shouldn't be too much longer, and then I guess I'll see what i'd
work on next. Oh great, great, any kind of a theme to
the album, just kind of that raw energy. At the same time,
I have like a I just don't want you know, where you hear certain
bands and the song sound very similar and the same. I always try to
not. I don't want my songs to be the same. I just want
a different feel, a different approach to each one. I want to say
energy, but right, you know, on my old EP, Um to
Me, Flock and Architect, they sound very similar. A lot of people
tell me they don't, but in my head it does. You know.
I'll probably write about twenty songs and only one will make the cut. Wow.
Yeah. I wonder if if if part of that is, you know,
if other people are telling you those songs don't sound alike, but they
sound aliked you. I wonder if part of that is just hearing them or
playing them so many times they things things start to sound sound the same,
and um, that makes sense. But um, but it's also good to
stretch and you know, make that conscious effort not to make things sound similar.
So um, any kind of I mean, that's probably a ways off,
right though you probably don't have any eta on the on the full album
at this point, I would assume no. I mean last year I was
saying, oh, it will definitely be out by last October, and we're
now rapidly approaching October. I do think it will be out by October hopefully.
Yeah, with the speed I've picked up, Yeah, ninthsent Sure it
will be um, but we'll have to see in case anything comes in the
way. By the way, was it difficult when you were first starting to
do things by yourself after having been in a band recording and you record in
the barracks there, which is so cool that you're able to do that?
Was it was it difficult learning to do that on your own, or sort
of even just even just taking on the responsibility of of doing it all by
yourself, or did that come relatively easy for you, because I've I've known
people who for some people it's a it's a process, you know, trying
to learn how to do all that, and some people just kind of pick
it up pretty quick and easy. How was it for you? So I
guess I'd like the creative control of it. You know, we used to
do all right as a band. Book I always felt held back in a
way because you've got someone saying, oh, no, I don't like this
sound, I don't like the tone, I don't like where this one's going.
And you know, when you've got conflicting ideas, it's like, what's
the point in the end? You know, I've noticed it's slower. It's
a slow working process, the actual writing and recording and all that, but
as far as actually coming up with ideas and stuff like that. I'm finally
able to put the sounds that I hear in my head, you know,
into audio, which I've never been able to do before. So I guess
it's easier. If anything, it's just slower right right, Yeah, that
makes sense. That makes sense. Um. So, so you're gonna be,
you're gonna be out of the military soon, you're gonna be, you're
gonna be in the new job, and hopefully I continue to recording. I
love what you do at When we wrap up in a moment, I'm gonna
play Let It Rain. I think that's the one that I didn't play yet.
I really like that one too. Was that did you? Was that
a single that you were featuring specifically? At one point I thought I saw
something about that. You made a video for it, so let It Rain.
That's been out a while. It didn't get that well received at first,
which I can kind of see why. It's a bit of what we
have in the UK called mar might you either love it or you hate it.
I did a music video for it in the Power Week a week or
two. I guess it was I just felt like doing it. You know,
I used to spend money on big budget videos, and I've realized that
you can make them just as good if you just trial an error. You
know, you don't need to spend all that money. And I really like
the DIY sort of as you say, garage punk rock approach to it.
Yeah, you know, it adds more to the theme anyway, and it's
more popular than the other ones anyway. So from now on, I'm just
going to make them myself. But Perfess song good originally was from when I
was in the band. I wrote it myself as like my own little song,
yeah, and it had slightly different lyrics, add a bit of a
different tone to it, really add a different name everything. And I was
like, oh, it's a shame to waste it because I know they wouldn't
have kept using it, you know, so I keep it myself, just
redo it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, no, It's it's great stuff,
and it's nice, you know, in terms of making videos or recording
music or any of it. It's nice to live in a time where the
technology is advanced so much. And it's funny in talking to people about music
videos. Zero people who have this perception that nobody really makes videos anymore,
you know, because MTV hasn't played them for decades now, I guess you
know, nobody really, you know, these cable channels don't really play them,
um and and so some people assume that that means nobody bothers with videos
anymore that it's a dead art form, where when in fact, you know,
if you go on YouTube and you start looking around at some of these
artists, actually there's more music videos than ever, especially if it's somebody with
a lot of money like Beyonce. She puts out a new album and every
song has a videos. It's incredible, you know, and of course she
has the big budget to do it. But yeah, it's uh, there's
more videos than ever and uh, you know, and you can really do
some good creative stuff with uh with not a lot of money, which is
nice. Um, very good. Well, Lewis, we're gonna we're gonna
play that track Let it rain in a moment, and uh, I really
appreciate you being patient with us today on a on a technical uh from a
technical standpoint, and we gotta figured out and I'm glad we were able to
talk. Um, what do you want our listeners to know about where to
keep up with you online? Social media? Anything that they should know so
that they can keep track of what you're doing and keep an eye out and
ears out for new music and all of that. Yeah, if you just
I mean, I'm on Google. I joke that I'm Google famous. Now
by my name and it just come up bluest TV music artist. Yeah,
I'm my main main social media's Twitter. I have got a Facebook. I'm
a bit lazy on that. I haven't had as much success on Facebook as
I have Twitter, Instagram or that type of thing. If you type my
name and I'll come up yeah, yeah, on Spotify, Apple Music,
everything. So, by the way, if I've been saying your name wrong,
is it is it tiv It's Tivy. But don't worry. Literally,
I hear that many different pronunciations. Yeah, I get called TV a lot
as well as in like a television So okay, okay, well I will
whatever you want. Oh that's cool. Well, now that I know,
Now that I know, I will commit to pronouncing your name correctly. So,
Louis Tivy, thank you so much, my friend for joining us today.
Oh and when you do have new music coming out, we will absolutely
have you back on. And the Skype problem that we have, like I
said, that happens about once a year or so, we won't let that
much time go by, obviously. I'm sure we'll have you back a lot
sooner than that, and we will hopefully not have any issues. But again.
Like I said about the fight club thing, don't mention it. That's
right, that's right, all right, We're going to play this track Let
It Rain from Louis Tivy. All right. We will let you go in
the meantime, though, Thank you so much, and we will talk again
soon, I'm sure. Thanks Matt. All right, Louis, thank you,
bye bye. All right, all right, that was wonderful. I'm
glad we were able to finally make that happen, and I appreciate his patients
and all of your patients. We are going to play this track Let It
Rain. This is great stuff, and then we will come back with the
balance of our show. And if you're just joining us, we've got a
big announcement coming. Jenny is going to be speaking at an event at Veterans
Park on Monday morning. I'm gonna tell you about that. We've got a
press release. The whole deal. Great great stuff. Very proud of her.
But in the meantime, here it is. This is Let It Rain
from the great Lewis tiv Check this out and it's not letting me play.
I had this problem earlier too. Apparently the technical issues are not done.
Oh my god, Gremlins, gremlins everywhere. I can do it this way,
Here we go, here it is, let it, let it rain.
I almost said, let it play that too, Let it rain by
the Great Lewis Tivy. Here we go. He's a fun to dreams like.
I can't have to sleep the days across the I don't want a friend
by my heart. Sometime listens w last shruters say cres me a LASTLYE say,
is my only friend? I go always happy else to have heard my
st I love the intensity of it that has Let it rain from the great
Lewis Tivy from the UK who joined us and we talked for a bit,
and again, thank you to him. I really enjoyed that a lot like
his music. Quite a bit I might play at the end of the show.
Won't have time to get the whole thing in, but I might play
Freudian Slip one more time to end today's show in a little bit, because
that's my favorite. I love that track so much. I think my dad
mentioned he liked it too. But thank you again to Louis Tivy for joining
us today. And as we cruise into our final segment today on the program,
without further Ado. We've got an announcement, a media advisory if you
will, for Monday, July thirty first, So this Monday at eleven am.
And this is important because this is an event that Jenny is going to
be participating in and speaking at. And this just happened. She just was
asked to participate in this. So I'm going to review the press release.
Senate Democratic Leader Donna Susy headlines Manchester event on Monday of Protect Our Care's Lower
cost Better Care Bus Tour. Care Force one rolls into Manchester, New Hampshire
on Monday, as it travels across sixteen plus states, making over thirty stops
and covering nearly eight thousand miles. Okay, so here's the details. On
day one of our Protect Our Care's Lower Costs Better Care Bus Tour, Senate
Democratic Leader don Donna Susy will join healthcare advocates and Protect Our Care for an
event in Manchester, New Hampshire, demonstrating how recent victories by President Biden and
Democrats in Congress are already driving down healthcare costs by thousands of dollars a year,
with even more savings on the way. During the events, speakers will
discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act and other healthcare measures will improve care and lower
costs for the American people. Over four weeks, Care Force one will travel
to more than sixteen states, make more than thirty stops, and travel nearly
eight thousand miles. The Lower Costs, Better Care Tour promotes the work of
lawmakers who are fighting tirelessly to improve healthcare and hold politicians accountable for trying to
roll back this progress and hight costs and rip away protections from the American people.
While drug companies and lawmakers are doing everything in their power to roll back
this progress in order to put profits over people, Lawmakers like Senator Susy will
stop at nothing to lower costs and improve care for people across New Hampshire.
August marks the first anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act and the savings that continues
to deliver to Granted Staters. And here is who will be at the event
so far. Now, I think there's more being added from what Jenny was
saying, but here is the list. Senate Democratic Leader Donna Susy, Xandra
Rice Hawkins, founding Executive Director of Granted State Progress US, Laura Packard,
who is a cancer survivor and healthcare advocate, and Jennifer Coffee healthcare advocate,
and Jenny is a cancer survivor as well. We should mention it's it's not
mentioned here, but so this will be happening at Veterans Memorial Park at seven
twenty three Elm Street, so that's very close to hear, actually right up
the street there. This is Monday morning at eleven am. So Monday,
July thirty first, at eleven am. Jenny we'll be speaking at this event.
I'll be there too. Come on down and see us, say hello.
Here are the speeches, and and Jenny has been doing a lot obviously
in this area recently, several trips now to Washington, d C. To
speak, and the videos are online if you want to see them, of
course, if you haven't gotten to see any of that. But this one
will be right up the street, so I will be there with her,
and I'll probably be streaming it on social media while she's talking. But so
that is that is this coming Monday, eleven am. And we'll remind you
via social media of course. So there you go. Um let's see I
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Murdock had a response to something my dad was saying. My dad, Martin
Connerton, called the show earlier. He was talking about he feels at AOC
and m elan Omar from from the Squad that they're anti anti Semitic. I
don't particularly agree, but um we didn't have a lot of time to really
get into a protracted discussion about it. But you know, and he's my
dad. I give him some deference to express himself. Of course, everyone
kind of gets there their say here, But you know, I give my
dad a little extra deference. But Nick Murdock, responding to that, said,
being critical of Israel is not anti semitism. Also again funny when right
wingers complain about anti semitism. Again, that's Nick's comment, not mine.
But Melanie says, uh, so he is a fan of Doctor Dre.
Yes, my dad likes Doctor Dre. My dad likes a lot of hip
hop. Actually, um, he's a big fan of that's song California.
Remember that. I mean that was came out what was at like end of
the nineties, Oh maybe even before that. She's might have been ninety five
ninety six with because yeah, because Tupac was still alive. It's Doctor Dre
and Tupac. That is a great song. But yes, my dad does
like Doctor Dre. Uh. Let's see Jay fed Is in the Facebook live
chat. J fed asks what are you looking for, Matt, because he
was watching me on the Facebook feed. I wasn't looking for anything. I
was trying to get Skype reinstalled so we could get Lewis Tivy on the on
the line, Melanie made a comment regarding Sigmund Freud. She said, again
this regards. In regard to the conversation with my dad, she says,
I think it is safe to bet a safe bet that sexist cocaine addicts are
wrong about a lot. So yeah, Freud wasn't always spot on. I
did not know that about Freud. John Hopwood is in the chat and says,
can we get don I missed back from purgatory? Or Dave Ridley?
I think I don't think you get when someone is in purgatory. And again,
my theology might be shaky, but I believe once they are in purgatory,
you can't get them back. They're already on the highway to heaven.
Which was a great show starring Michael Landon and Victor French. Oh. Nick
Murdock in the chat says, California Love came out on December third, nineteen
ninety five. Oh so ninety five, almost ninety six. Let's see.
Lewis Tivy is in the chat. He says that was some bad ass fault
finding on the skype. Well, we had a prerecorded segment, so I
had time to figure it out, which is good. Let's see. Nick
Murdock says, Ah, John Hopwood's so good to see you Isaac Banks joins
us in the chat room, of course from Greensboro, North Carolina. Isaac
says, hello hashtag Matt Connerton. By the way, new Force of the
Spark. We'll be watching the retro Spectrum Radio with police at eight pm.
They are good friends with me. Hi hashtag Rik Pilcher, what's up.
Lewis Tivy says Fight Club is an awesome film. Isaac Banks agrees, let's
see. Isaac Banks says, good afternoon. Hashtag Lewis Tivy. Who were
influences of recording artists? Awkwardly worded, but we get the question, and
Isaac Banks also says hashtag Matt Connerton have a wonderful weekend. Tell Paul Cormier
Hello for me from retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c Lewis did answer the question,
he says, Oh blimey, so many most scrunge bands, Black Sabbath,
Elvis, Richard Wagner, you name it. I even like eminem There
you go. Nick Murdock says, l ol, I reloaded the page and
I missed the entire review. I like his reviews too. Oops. Well,
you'll be able to get it in the archive, of course. At
WMH radio dot org and my website Matt Connors dot com. Nick said,
I forgot to hit play after reloading, I just ate some gummies and they
are kicking in So I guess my cognitive functioning has decreased. Let's see.
Mike from Queen City cabinetr says, good afternoon everyone, and all right,
looks like we're caught up there. Oh hello to Ronda Favero, who joins
us in the Facebook live chat from the great state of California. Oh my
goodness, we are almost out of time. Boy, is there anything really
quick we can do? Actually, there is. You know, there's been
a tremendous amount of legal news. Well this week, you know, we
talked about Hunter Biden and then the Trump stuff. We'll have to put off
to next week. But wow, that is that is something. Huh that's
just my dad referenced it, I think. But anyway, but we don't
have time to get into all of that. But here's something quick. If
you didn't hear about this, you know, Taylor Swift has been in the
news a lot, not for anything bad really, but her tour. I
mean, she's got to be the biggest story and act in the world.
Currently well, listen to this. This story is everywhere, but I found
it on the Hill dot com. Seismic activity in Seattle could have been caused
by Taylor's Swift fans. I didn't know that something like this would even be
possible. But check this out. This is not This is not satire,
This is not a joke. This is real. Taylor Swift's pair of concerts
in Seattle last weekend may have caused more than just an emotional ground shaking in
the Emerald City. I didn't know they called Seattle the Emerald City. Fans
at Swift's The Eras Tour may have been screaming, crying, and jumping so
loud during the American Singer Saturday and Sunday shows that they caused an earth shaking
equivalent to a two point three magnitude earthquake for real. A local geology professor
at Western Washington University, Jackie Captain Auerbach, said she observed the shaking or
for a ten hour period for each concert to compare their seismic activity to the
twenty eleven Beast quake. A moment of notable fan caused earth shaking after former
Seahawks player Marshawn Lynch Marshawn Lynch scored a stunning touchdown during a major game.
Captain Auerbach told cunquote, the shaking was twice as strong as beast quake.
It absolutely doubled it, unquote. Luman Field, the home of the sports
teams the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders Football Club, and Swift's recent concerts,
has a history of loudness. In twenty seventeen, Seahawks fans broke the noise
record for the loudest outdoor sports stadium on multiple occasions at what was known at
the time as Century Link Field Sports Stadium. Shaking is not completely unusual during
noteworthy game moments or big name concerts. A Garth Brooks concert and Baton Rouge
Louisiana was reportedly captured on a local side Is McGrath last year as well.
This occurred right before Garth went on a murdering spree. Okay, that last
sentence, I added that that was a call back to a segment we did
earlier in the week. Garth Brooks probably I don't want to get sued.
Garth Brooks probably not really a serial killer. No, but this is this
is remarkable. I didn't know that you could cause earthquakes at concerts with or
sporting events with people being that loud. That is incredible. We learned something,
my friends. We learned a little something about geology, and that's very
exciting. And I wouldn't have thought that geology could be exciting, but that
is exciting. All right, we are out of time, my friends.
I am going to play once again. This is my favorite track from our
musical guest today, Lewis Tivy. This is called Freudian Slip. And don't
forget. Monday morning, eleven am the big event at a veterans park right
here in downtown Manchester. Jenny and I will be there. Jenny is going
to be speaking and really looking forward to that, So come down say hello,
check that out. And Monday on the show, our musical guest will
be hip hop artist Ka Daver. I've interviewed. He's probably as far as
musicians I've interviewed multiple times. I may have interviewed Kay Daver more than any
other musical guests over the years. He's been on this show and on other
shows that I've done quite a few times. Great guy. Really looking forward
to that. So if you miss any part of today's show. It will
be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and on my
website Matt Connerton dot com. And don't forget, I will be back tonight
for Retrospectrum Radio with Paul ec and Paul's guest tonight is his friend Aaron Zadovsky,
producer, director. Really looking forward to that. That's going to be
very very cool. All right, on that note, quite literally, we're
out. This is Freudian slip Lewis Tivy, great stuff. Check this out
and I'll talk to y'all a little bit later. Five. Very body,