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Well, come everybody, here we
go on this Wednesday afternoon. I'm sad,

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of course about the passing of Tina
Turner. If you haven't heard,

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she passed away at the age of
eighty three. Apparently she had been dealing

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with some sort of illness that I
hadn't heard anything about. So it's a

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it's a surprise, but uh,
definitely one of the greats. But we

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go forward. On this Wednesday,
it is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are

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live from the studios of wm n
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Manchester, and hello to olive our
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etcetera, etcetera. On this Wednesday
afternoon, it is May twenty four or

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two twenty three, and I am
not alone. If you haven't go problems

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out for bath for your son?
I got ninety nine problems, but tag

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one DJ Reckless is here at the
news desk. What's up? It's a

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surprise, I know, all right, yes, yes, and uh in

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a few minutes, about eleven or
twelve minutes from now, we're also going

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to be joined by Eric Pilcher for
our weekly media segment. But reckless,

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you're about to go on another another
or jount if you will another another.

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I don't even know if do we
call it a tour? I don't really

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know if we do? Well,
how many shows are you playing? Six?

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That's a tour? Why why would
that not be a tour? It's

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a tour. Sure, we'll go
with that. Call it a tour.

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It makes it sound big and excited. It's all in one city though.

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Oh, that's not a tour,
um, But that's okay, but it's

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it is. Uh, it's exciting. Yeah, down down in Nashville.

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Yeah, it's a crazy beginning of
the summer, that's for sure. And

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it's not even summer yet. Yeah. Well that's good because if you're gonna

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go to the South, as it
were, Uh, yeah, best to

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go when it's not summer. Uh. Does Amna McCarthy know that you'll be

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in the area. No, Oh, you should notify her. Uh,

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and then you can, uh,
you can report back to easyg and you

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can say, hey, guess who
I got to hang out with in Nashville.

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I should do that, you should
do that. I should very good,

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very good. But yeah, I
know Nashville. And then we're back

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now, Um, who are you
performing with a bunch of other DJs?

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Okay jays you've played with before?
No, but I've known them for a

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while last time I came down and
they trust me and they've seen what I've

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done up here too. Yeah,
especially with New Hampshire. And they're like,

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yeah, that's so this will be
your first time actually doing shows with

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these DJs. Yeah, all very
cool, that's exciting. Um, yeah,

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I'm I'm sorry, I'm like tired. Yeah, I'm kind of also

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just coming to the terms with it
all. Or I'm like, holy crap.

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Yeah, and it's like lash a
year ago, there was no way

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this is possible, right right,
Well, you've worked hard, You've worked

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very hard. Yeah, you've got
more events coming up here too, right,

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I keep seeing I'm hosting another party
June twenty third. Yeah, it's

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been since what March since I since
since since Saint Patrick's Day, actually,

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since I've done my own party.
Oh and yeah, no, we're gonna

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I'm gonna be throwing one at Soho. Yeah, there's more details to be

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like. I'm gonna not more details
Friday because I'm still finalizing a few things.

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DJ is everything like that. But
yeah, no, I'm making my

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return to Soho. It's been since
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Okay, but yeah, no,
I'm glad to be back there.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's
a cool place. It's a cool place

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I had. Obviously I follow out
with the management there once, but maybe

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we never maybe we never forget that. Sorry, so sorry to anyone that

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witnessed that side of me. Oh
I'm not. I'm actually not. Let's

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be honest here. I think God, that guy's not the owner no more.

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Oh wow. But yeah no,
I'm excited to be there. It's

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a cool place. I'm excited to
it's It's gonna be an interesting one though,

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because for the past year I built
up my college following through like Manchester

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Manchester College students, yes, and
they're not here, so it could be

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an interesting one. It's totally free
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cover at the door. Oh wow. A lot of alcohol specials that they

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run weekly there too. That's where
they make the money. Yeah, that's

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why there's no cover. Yeah,
it makes sense to but yeah, no,

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I'm I'm excited for it. Very
good, very good. And then

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June seventeenth, I thought I'm playing
the YMCA Rock the Block, and then

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I'm also that same day I'm doing
I believe I'm doing pride fests. From

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what I'm hearing, Oh is it
rainiing? It looked like it was going

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to when I was coming in,
it looked like it was gonna pour it.

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Yeah, I notice, sounds like
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it got very humid outside. I
thought they can it's very It got very

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humid, and it's a bit it
got a bit dark. It was bright

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and sunny earlier. So yes,
actually, yes, I believe it is

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RAINI and that looks like a wet
ground over there. Oh great, yeah,

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lovely. Did you do a pride
fest last year? I did?

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I did. I did Pride Fest
last year. I did the pride Fess

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after party. That was pretty cool. It was fun. That was that

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wasn't like unexpected turn out for that
after party. There was probably at about

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four hundred people an open bar.
Yes, well, you know, enjoy

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doing those while you can, because
from what I've been hearing, a part

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of run Governor Ron de Santas,
Florida. Part of his announcement tonight is

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that if he is elected president on
day one, he will sign an executive

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order outline pride nationally. Good look
with that? Yeah, yeah, actually

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he's just being gay in general will
be totally illegal. That. I mean,

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that's a rumor. I don't know
if that'll actually be part of his

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announce Come on, we can't expect
come on, come on, this man.

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This man's gonna announce and then pulled
out tomorrow. But there's no way

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he wins. No, no,
Trump's going to be the nominee. Oh

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yeah, he's wasting his money and
his time. By the way, I

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Melanie Liberty is in the Facebook live
chat. She said, ah s,

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what's up, Christian. I hope
your headphones match your drink. I didn't

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bring my headphone. You didn't bring
you didn't expect to be on here,

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but yes, this is a this
is a surprise. Yeah. I was

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like, why not, but no, I don't even have No, I

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do have my rock star I'm just
not drinking one right now. Melanie also

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said, uh, yeah, I've
also been building my college following mostly frat

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boys. Frat boys don't like me, why not because their girlfriends do.

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That's when I say this, That's
why. That's why I'm laughing in a

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knowing way. You've heard the horrors. That's a knowing laugh. You've heard

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the horror story as a kid.
I certainly have. My goodness, Mac,

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it's an earful at one am in
the morning when I come home,

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start a rock star at adrenaline.
That's right, A few drinks in my

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system. Yes, I've I've seen, I've I've lived vicariously through you,

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sir. I never when I was
your age, I was well, I

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was never really a drinker, So
I I don't know what that's you know.

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I mean I played in bands and
stuff, but I was always the

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sober one. Yeah, not me. You Yeah, you not so much.

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You know. I know I've found
out you have. You have I

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give you credit since since everything I
give you credit, I've I think last

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Friday was the first night in a
while that I've gone that overboard. It

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wasn't even like it was more Saturday, Yeah it was. It was a

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little two day, two day drinking
session, right right. Yeah, Our

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friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa is on the line. Hello,

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Eric, Good afternoon, Matt Good
afternoon. DJ Reckless Hello, Now are

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you disappointed that he's not touring out
to Cedar Rapids, Iowa? I you

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know, I think I don't think
there's any night life there actually is in

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our downtown area. Is it like
big big or is it like just like

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small little dive bars? It's big. I mean I wouldn't call them dive

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bars. But Iowa City would be
a better bat which is forty five minutes

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away. Yeah, because who plays? Isn't there a sports team out there?

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Oh? Uh? Well, Iowa
City is where the University of Iowa.

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Yeah that too. There is a
college and I was gonna say there

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is there a sports team or college
wherever there's a college. There isn't that

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life? Oh yeah, of course? Oh yeah, the pet mall and

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is um Yeah. Is Iowa City
actually larger than Cedar Rapids, No,

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it's smaller. Cedar Rapids the second, I believe, the second largest city

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in the state. What's the largest
Davenport de Moines? Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, okay. What's the capital? Is the capital de Mine? Yes?

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Is the state capital? Okay,
gotcha, gotcha? Um yeah,

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Reckless is going to Nashville for how
many six shows? You said six shows?

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Well, some of those are little
house parties too, right, right,

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so that counts, that counts.
Yeah, yes, yes, I'm

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excited. I'm gonna do a lot
of networking down there while I'm down there.

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Yeah, well of course, yeah, of course, this is what

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my This is my second time down
there, yeah, second time. Yeah.

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When does he leave for Nashville?
Tomorrow? My first gig is tomorrow.

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My first gig is tomorrow. You're
good. My first gig is tomorrow

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at twelve. Wait in the afternoon, No, at night, ten to

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twelve. I believe you're you're hitting
the early bird crowd. Oh yeah,

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no, I'm solid. I'm not
stepping footing a bar in Nashville before before

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nine pm. So, Erica,
sounds like you didn't hear our earlier conversation.

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I was telling Reckless he should while
he's down there, he should connect

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with Amanda McCarthy and then he can
brag to EASYG when he gets back that

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he got to hang out with Amanda. Well, Easy G made Amanda McCarthy.

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Yes, that is true. He
is responsible for at least probably seventy

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five to eighty percent of her success. I would say he's responsible for most

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of my success in life. I
think that's true. Now, Reckless,

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have you ever considered allowing Easy G
to promote you? Because if you did,

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you'd probably already be super famous by
now. I hear that like a

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million times a day. Yes,
yes, No, it wouldn't be beats

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by Dre you would beats by Reckless. That's right. Listen, listen when

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I start dropping some of the tracks
that I have helped produce or produced,

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like, everyone be scared. All
I'm gonna say, some of these things

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are heaters. Yeah, I'm dying
to play some of this stuff. I

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know I want to do something.
I am not disputing that at all.

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A lot of house statement as as
diminishing your abilities, because that certainly wasn't

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the case. No, no,
no, no, well we we were

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just trying to help. No.
I'm excited though, because on the topic

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of producing, like this is the
first, like the first time in a

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while, I'm playing a crowd over
probably a thousand. Yeah, other than

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like the Sammy Adams Show, but
that was just like literally walk in,

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walk out whatever. Who cares,
right, they didn't They didn't care that

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it was me that was performing.
Yeah, but this is the first time

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where I'm able to like test a
lot of my tracks that I've helped that

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I've made or helped produce or remixes. I think, and you really are

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the epitome of self made reckless Yeah, I mean you, I mean not

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to like started to interrupt, But
this isn't like something that you had massive

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amounts of assistance with. You've really, like just in the short time I've

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known you pushed yourself on social media
and Instagram and really gotten yourself out there.

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Yeah, it's a lot of networking
and promotionsired it should be inspiring for

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anyone that's an artist or a creator
to see this and be like, hey,

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I can do this too. I
just have to have the work ethic

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in the drive. Yeah, and
that's not Unfortunately, that's not something you

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see a lot in DJs or a
lot of creatives right now. And it's

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sad. They just want it handed
to them, especially these hip hop acts

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out here in New Hampshire. They
want their cake and they want to eat

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it too. But well, well, what you're part of the problem is

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as great as these shows can be. They're all so a great detriment as

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well as like TikTok and Instagram and
Facebook, because you have all these shows

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where these acts go on there,
and even the ones that try out and

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fail sometimes end up getting record deals. Yeah, you have. You have

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a lot of one hit wonders right
now that are that are doing that.

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But you also see a lot of
people who are like, oh, I'm

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better than this person. I can
do this, and then when it's fit

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and then they're just like, I'm
just going to go out and do a

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few shows, see what I can
do, and eventually someone will notice.

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And it doesn't work like that.
Life is in a fairy tale. No

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it's not. And you you have
to push and you have to grind and

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you have to hustle. I will
say this, you have to do.

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You have to get yourself out there. Yeah, I will say this about

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TikTok and Instagram and all those social
medias. Now you're seeing a lot of

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artists now go independent because of Instagram
and TikTok and all those social medias well.

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It's a fantastic distribution system for your
music, you know, I mean

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it's it is if you're willing to
work. Yeah, yeah, I think

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that's DJ Reckless's point is, if
you're just using it to try to make

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yourself famous, probably isn't gonna happen
if you're not going to put the work

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behind it. There's an algorithm there. Even if your views are low on

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your videos on TikTok, right,
look at your numbers on Spotify, Apple

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Music, SoundCloud. I guarantee those
will go up because people will hear it

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and go check it out. But
they're not just gonna follow, right,

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They're not just gonna go to your
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I don't know why I'm talking honestly, because if I get fifty views of

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one of my film reviews on YouTube, I'm happy. So it's a start.

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It's a start. I'm like,
yeah, we hit the five.

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Oh yeah, hey, it's a
start for real. But um no,

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but Reckless has worked hard, and
I dare say too, sir, You've

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had a lot of encouragement around you. And I don't just mean Jenny,

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and I mean, you know,
like from the community, and yeah,

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you know this kind of uh you
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you know, like I think of
WM ANDH is like an extended family,

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you know, and uh, everybody
here's supportive and and you've and you've

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got a lot of support locally,
you know, you've you're very good at

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networking of course, and yeah,
and online that's really what it's done.

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It for me. It is like
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trip stems from tour last year.
Yeah. If we hadn't made that stop

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in Nashville and my friends hadn't lived
in Nashville and brought me out to network

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and meet other people, Yeah,
I would not be going back down there

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a year later in doing this.
Yeah, I wouldn't. Um Melanie's asking

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if you're using only fans as well, Oh yeah, totally coming up for

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the link and Crystal's asking that doesn't
have any subscribers yet. That's where most

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of my income comes from. That's
how I pay rent. There you go,

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man, you're lucky. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know what it

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is. I guess forty year old
dad bots are out. Yeah, there's

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big things in there. I will
not form means hold no, no,

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Now that's a discussion for Matt Connerton
undersheathed. I think um Crystal is asking.

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By the way, reckless if you
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Memphis while you're in Tennessee. I
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might make a trip down there,
day trip. I don't know, apending

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how far it is. I don't
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a reckless I would find I would
go to the shelf, I honestly would.

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I would have to drink a zoa
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for me. Yeah, you'd have
to like what what a zoa? With?

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What you'd have to drink? It's
an energy drink? Oh? Is

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that a brand? Yep? Z
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Oh? I didn't realize that.
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z o a all right, I
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is it? Like? Uh?
Is it is supposed to be all natural

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or something? It's probably one.
This is what my cardiologists said last year

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when I had my heart issue.
Um, because he's like, you need

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to stop the energy drinks, and
I'm like, bruh, I get up

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at I have to work at six
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nah, I need something. And
he goes coffee and I'm like, it's

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disgusting. I'm with you, and
he goes, well, he goes,

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uh, if you absolutely have to, he goes here some that he didn't

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say they were good for you,
he said, but we're okay ish Yeah,

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and Zoah was on there, so
I'm like, okay. So I

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tried it and it is to me
the best tasting energy drink I've had.

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Really, I wonder if those are
available around her fruit punch taste just like

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Hawaiian Hawaiian punch. Okay, yeah, I don't know if i'd like that.

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I don't know. I might try
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here. So the Rock created these, yep, now the one there is

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two different kinds. There's Zoah and
Zoah Plot. Okay, uh, do

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not drink the plots, so you're
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out. Zoah plus makes it sound
like it comes with some sort of a

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subscription service. U it is.
You definitely uh get an added bonus really

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uh yeah. I drank one one
morning because I did. I was in

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a rush and just grabbed it from
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and I was drinking it and I
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shaky. Oh that sounds like what
im that's what I hate is and my

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body was like tinkling. I'm coming
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these, I start getting really really
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something. Because my doctor said that
if it has that, I could be

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like I could have an allergic reaction
to a certain BCAA that's in certain energy

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drink because Bang does the same thing
to me. Um, So you get,

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you get shaky. I don't drink
Bang. I can't drink I get

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shaky in my body like tinkles all
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good thing. No it is not. I had Bang once and got like

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short of breath. Oh yeah,
that sounds well, that sounds very Yeah,

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short of breath. That's very bad. So Christen you get Yeah,

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I'm my god, nah, but
I'm out. You get, Christen,

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you get shaky and uh. And
what I get not drowsy, but like

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nauseous in a way. And I
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haven't. So when I don't eat
anything for like two hours, Okay,

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drink one, it's weird. So
if you drink one on an empty stomach.

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In other words, yep, unless
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and that's the case, I don't
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I feel it later. H Now, I I did try the rock

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star that has hemp seed in it. What totally counter doctive? Yeah,

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when I don't drink there's a rock
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I got it like a Saturday before
college football and I drank it and I

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literally sat there and just stared at
the TV for like an hour. So

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it made you it made you zone
out, Yes, it did very much.

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So wow. But it's supposed to
be an energy drink. Yeah,

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yeah, that sounds I don't know
if I'm like if it's just a reaction

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my body had, it's normal because
it's I felt like I was in one

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of those situations where you feel like
you're an idiot, so you tell somebody

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what happened to you. Yeah,
it sounds like, oh yeah. I

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kind of kept that quiet and almost
like maybe you got a bad batch where

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there was too much hemp seed and
not enough toureine or whatever whatever else they

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put it, you know what I
mean. Maybe I don't know. I

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was just like, well, that
was an experience, Yes, well that's

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uh, yeah, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't drink that again if I were

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you, Well, unless you want, yeah, unless you want to relax,

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I guess. But but again,
what what what's the point in that

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case? Um? Well, by
the way, so uh, Reckless and

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I had touched on I think when
you when you called, we might have

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just mentioned it. And it's one
of the things I wanted to get your

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thoughts on. Uh. Florida Governor
Ron DeSantis is apparently making his big announcement

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tonight, officially getting into the ring, uh, into the race, and

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he's doing it via Twitter spaces and
uh, which I've never used. I

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mean, I'm on Twitter, but
I've never used spaces. Reckless, if

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you ever used that on Twitter spaces, it's basically house Yeah, I don't

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know if you know a clubhouse was
Yeah, but it's just audio, right,

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it's not even video, right,
just audio. Yeah. Yeah,

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pretty pretty weird. What do you
think, Eric, I I read that.

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I mean, it's obvious he was
going to throw his hat into the

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ring. Oh yeah, Um,
I mean I hope it works out for

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him doing it on Twitter spaces.
I've I've seen it on my Twitter feed

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and I'm just like, yeah,
I don't care. I don't even use

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Twitter abs that I'm I just look
at and I'm like, this doesn't protain

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to me. Yeah, well,
a lot of people, like reckless just

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said, he doesn't even use Twitter, a lot of people don't even use

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Twitter. Like it. It seems
really counterintuitive, uh, from my point

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of view, that he would choose
to do it in a way unless there's

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an ulterior motive and I have a
theory but I'll get to that, but

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that he would choose to do this
in a way instead of doing it the

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traditional way, that he would choose
to do it in a way where a

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lot of people are gonna be like, like, there's younger people who have

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already come and gone from Twitter.
There's older people who aren't even on social

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media to begin with, who want
nothing to do with Twitter. Like it

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seems like there's this a very large
audience that just isn't even going to have

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any idea how to find this announcement. That it won't be on television,

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it's not a big event. He's
doing this via Twitter spaces. But I

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wondered something, Eric and I haven't
heard anyone else make this observation, but

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I wondered, you know, it
seems like at one time Elon Musk was

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kind of cozy with Trump, and
of course before Trump got kicked off of

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Twitter and when started truth social you
know Trump would do. Trump was was

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very much very active on Twitter.
Is the Santa's just doing this, just

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using Twitter and doing this with Elon
Musk as a way of just kind of

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giving a big, big middle finger
to Trump? Is that what part of

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this is? Do you think because
he's been very passive, very well could

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be Yeah, Um, look if
we thought the twenty twenty UH presidential debates

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and everything, we're petty. We
have seen nothing yet. Yeah, between

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Ronda Santis and Donald Trump, it's
coming and I would yeah, that level

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of pettiness would not shock me in
the slightest. Sanctimonious Scantis he calls him

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to sanctimonious round, sanctimonious, It
wouldn't shock me. But interestingly enough,

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Ronda Santist pretty much got a very
powerful UH endorsement. Late last week or

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early this week, Ben Shapiro posted
a video saying he doesn't want Trump to

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even run. Yeah, I saw
that, and he does bring in is

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much of an insufferable toeworm as Ben
Shapiro is, he actually made some very

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good points. He does sometimes Yeah, yeah, unlike many uh political pundits

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that have a way they leave,
he does make good points, and I

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do find him to be somewhat tolerable. Does his voice works in small doses?

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I think I think he's very Uh, I think I think at times

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he's very dishonest, but I but
I do think he is. But sometimes

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he'll construct an argument that I think
is in soon I'll say that for him.

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Yes, yeah, And his argument
on why Trump shouldn't run, I

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thought was very was pretty accurate.
Um. So I think that you're we've

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kind of touched on this a few
different times. How some of these guys

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that in twenty sixteen were so pro
Trump are kind of pull him back now.

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Yeah, And like is I don't
know, And I have a feeling

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that's the right guys pull back.
That it's good that the Republican ticket's going

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to be a little bit closer than
people think. Um. Crystal made a

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good point in the chat room,
she says our friend from Illinois. She

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says the media will report on it
and write articles, though regardless of the

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platform seeing them do that on Parlor
and truth social and lots of people don't

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use those platforms. Yeah, that's
true. I mean, obviously the media

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will cover it, even though it'll
be on Twitter spaces. And I guess

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Elon Musk is actually doing the interview, so he's all in with De Santists.

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Something that I just thought of is
that I think a lot of people

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already assumed Rond Saintists had already announced. Yeah, there probably are people who

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are only half paying attention who do
think that. Yeah, it's I think

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seeing this, they're like, so
is he announcing again? They're all king

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at it is the anti climactic in
a way. Yeah, well yo,

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okay, Well, good on you. That's a good that's a good observation,

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Eric, because the media has been
talking about him for actually at least

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a couple of months now, as
though he was already in the race,

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even though he had an announced yet. But everybody was so sure that he

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was getting in. And of course
he is getting in. Um, But

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yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't think he has any shot.

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I think it's uh, I think
it's gonna be I certainly think it's

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going to be Trump and I think
a lot of you know, this whole

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war with Disney is so bizarre to
me that I think, uh, I

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mean, I keep I keep asking
the question somewhat rhetorically on the show.

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I keep saying because RHND de Santis
think that only Democrats like Disney, because

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he's he's got this this war,
and it seems like Disney keeps out maneuvering

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him, and to take on such
a beloved institution, he's gonna out maneuver

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him. He's one person in Disney
is well Disney. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah. But I my theory,
my theory is if de Santis had it

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to do over again, if he
could go back in time, I don't

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think he ever would have picked that
fight. No, because he every time

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it gets brought up, he just
looks worse than worse. Yeah, it's

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it would be like if j if
jfk redid the Bay of Pigs using the

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same exact strategy. Right, Okay, well it didn't work this, It

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didn't work the first time, but
we're gonna go ahead and try this again.

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Crystal points out in the chat.
Trump has run attack ads against the

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Santists for months now, at least
here anyhow. Oh, Yeah, there,

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there has been plenty of that.
Yeah, Trump has been Yeah,

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he's been attacking to Santis all along. Well, Donald Trump has been the

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best mouthpiece for Ronda Santists. Yeah, Ronda Sciantists hasn't had to pay for

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any advertising whatsoever. That's true.
Now, do you have is there a

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nickname that you know because Trump has
several different nicknames for Desantists? I can't

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remember if I've asked you this before. Personally, I'm a big fan of

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tiny D, But do you have
a do you have a preferred nickname for

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Desantists? Because the problem I see
with D sanctimonious is not only will people

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be making signs at Trump rallies and
embarrassing themselves by horribly misspelling it when they

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try to put that on any sort
of sign or banner, but also it

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really doesn't make sense if he's trying
to call him sanctimonious, to call him

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D sanctimonious, that sounds like it
would be the opposite of sanctimonious. I

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mean, granted, technically the opposite
of sanctimonious would be unsanctimonious, but D

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sanctimonious also makes it sound like the
opposite, So it's like he's in a

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00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,079
way saying that DeSantis isn't sanctimonious at
all. So I don't think that one

406
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:39,519
really works. I how about how
about Disney de Santis, Disney de santism

407
00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:45,240
or Disney ron. I don't know. He's trying to put me on the

408
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:49,880
spot here. Yeah, well,
let me refresh your memory. So there's

409
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:53,319
yeah, so there's round sanctimonious,
there's round sanctus. I don't even know

410
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:59,119
what that one's supposed to mean.
There's tiny D, which it kind of

411
00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:00,400
makes him sound like a hip pop
artist. Hey do you get the new

412
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:06,960
tiny D album? Um? I
don't think I would buy an album by

413
00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:09,039
an artist named tiny D. I
don't think I would either, because I'd

414
00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:13,480
be worried about what I was getting
into with that. Certainly, there's also

415
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,240
Yeah, there's also meat ball roun
um, and I'm not sure how that's

416
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,480
even an insult personally, Like I
love a good meatball. So we're getting

417
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,720
closer and closer to Matt Connerton unsheathed. That is true. Yes, that

418
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,119
is true. I guess the meatball
run. I heard somebody say it's because

419
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,480
DeSantis is Italian, which I didn't
think he was. I assumed I s

420
00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:42,880
I thought was Greek, but apparently
DeSantis is of of close to a name

421
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,880
Donald Trump would have heard on the
Sopranos. Yeah yeah, yeah, So

422
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,680
I don't know. I'm trying to
think if there were any others, but

423
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,440
but it seems like he's going with
the sanctimonious. I want I'm gonna roll

424
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,200
with the sanctimonious just because of what
you said. I want to hear the

425
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:07,039
Trump but Trump supporters say it in
a rally. Will they be able to

426
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:10,280
chant that? Do you think?
I don't know if they will, or

427
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,679
they'll try. I'm sure there will
be signs made. We'll see some glorious

428
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:24,159
misspellings. Hilarious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially further down the Bible

429
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:29,079
belt we go for these rallies.
Tom Lanchard in the chat room, Uh

430
00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,559
oh, here's what I'd forgotten,
run to sales tax because there was the

431
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:37,599
Trump campaign put out and add something
about run to sales tax. Yeah.

432
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,800
Yeah, it has something to do
with sales tax in Florida that I don't

433
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,519
really know what that's all about mine, but I guess they blame it on

434
00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:46,039
Ron de Santis, which seems strange. This is where we're at now,

435
00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:55,599
yes, yes, So that's the
great thing about American politics is when you

436
00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:00,199
sit here and you say the common
denominator, it didn't get any lower.

437
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:12,039
You're you're You're never let down because
it always can get lower. Oh sure,

438
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:19,599
oh absolutely. Um. I just
saw this. Now Tucker Carlson also

439
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,559
and and you know, and there's
a bridge here, of course between the

440
00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:25,559
two because Tucker Carlson had announced at
one point that he was going to be

441
00:35:25,599 --> 00:35:30,480
doing his show on Twitter, but
I haven't seen anything more about that recently.

442
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Um, because apparently he's got I
think he's got a no compete clause

443
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:43,440
in his contract with Fox. But
I just saw this, right, But

444
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,480
so a lot of times they'll they'll
have what's called a no compete clause where

445
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:51,440
if they release you from your contract, you can't just go jump to another

446
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:57,320
network right away and directly compete with
your former employer. Um. Yeah,

447
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,960
But then that raises the question of, well, if he goes on social

448
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:05,000
media and does a show, is
that actual competition or I'd be curious to

449
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,679
see the contract. But I saw
this pop up on The Guardian. Tucker

450
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:15,400
carlson home studio reportedly dismantled by Fox
News workers, The Daily Mail report says

451
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:22,760
construction workers took the set, all
the equipment, everything from his studio network

452
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,920
in Maine that was built for him. They must have built that for him

453
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,719
during the pandemic so he could do
his show from home or something. Isn't

454
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:40,719
that where his vacation home is?
Probably? Yes, probably he probably vacations

455
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,280
there. Yeah, he's very rich. Yeah, I think it's in Maine.

456
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:52,880
So because I know, like I
saw an article when I was doing

457
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:58,039
research on him for something about like
a column from Maine about how they thought

458
00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:02,800
that this was going to her tourism
him no longer being on Fox News.

459
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:09,440
Oh okay, Yeah, according to
this article, I guess the fact that

460
00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:16,800
he has a vacation home in Maine. Where in Maine is it though,

461
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,840
like a big boom for tourism.
Yeah, this article do you know where

462
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,760
in Maine? This article doesn't say, Probably near the beach. I would

463
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:34,039
imagine probably near the coast wherever it
is. But he's he's so rich he

464
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,039
can he can vacation anywhere he wants
to. But yeah, according to this

465
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:40,320
I guess the plan was, uh, he was just gonna go ahead and

466
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,880
do his new show from his home
studio there in Maine, and uh,

467
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:52,039
these employees of Fox just came up
and started, uh confiscating everything. Then

468
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:53,599
he must not have been expecting that. He must have thought he got to

469
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:59,320
keep it. That's kind of funny. I mean whatever, the guy's got

470
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,960
so much money, he can just
hire someone to build them a new studio.

471
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,039
It doesn't even matter. But I
thought that was kind of interesting.

472
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:13,519
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
trying to find the article. Well anyway,

473
00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:15,840
boys, oh do you have to
go? I have to jet all

474
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,159
right. DJ Reckless has to leave
us. It's good luck, DJ Reckless

475
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,480
and I know you'll do well.
Thank you. Do you want to before

476
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,639
you go? Do you want to
plug what you're what you're gonna be doing

477
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:30,519
for in case we have anybody online
listening from Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee Thursday

478
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:37,599
to Sunday. Thursday, I'll be
at Alden's. Friday, I'm at Luke's,

479
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:45,280
Saturday, I'm at Nudi's and Sunday
I am at Dirty Little Secret for

480
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,760
their Memorial Day party. And where
can people go on social media to keep

481
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,519
up with what you're doing? So
that antient? No, I did not

482
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:57,920
on Instagram at dj R E k
LSS DJ Reckless very good. By the

483
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,679
way, Isaac Banks is in the
chat and says DJ reckles keep up the

484
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,480
good work. Thanks all right,
Reckless, thank you so much. All

485
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:08,840
right, all right, DJ Reckless
leaves us. Um, Crystal just made

486
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:14,639
a comment in the chat room about
Rick Levinthal spilled the t on Tucker.

487
00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:21,079
So I'm trying to look that up. Um oh okay, yeah that was

488
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:28,119
that was a little while ago,
apparently. Um. Yeah, did we

489
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:34,880
ever talk We talked about that text
message? Right by the way, what

490
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,440
was that? Did we talk about
that text message? Eric, that text

491
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:42,800
message about the white men don't fight
like this and all that. Did we

492
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,920
ever go over there? We did? We did? Okay, I remember

493
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,920
talking about it on the show.
I couldn't remember if you and I had

494
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:54,440
talked about it. Um, what
were you looking up? Oh? I

495
00:39:54,519 --> 00:39:59,840
was trying to see if I could
find the article about the vacation home.

496
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:08,960
I cannot. Oh, okay,
Um, I just uh oh, here

497
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,400
we go. I don't know if
you saw this. This just went up

498
00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:15,480
yesterday Insider dot com. You know, because one of the things we've been

499
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,960
trying to figure out is why exactly
was he fired? And Insider has a

500
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,079
new story up. Tucker Carlson.
Actually I'm sorry this one up. Two

501
00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:29,119
days ago, Tucker Carlson was fired
before he could give a conspiracy theory fueled

502
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:35,880
monologue alleging January sixth protester was actually
an FBI informant. The biographer says,

503
00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:44,800
yeah, I did see that.
Yes, yes, yes, that's going

504
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:50,840
to get that's ray. I'm going
to guess and I'm going to go on

505
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:55,519
a very short limb here. Yeah. That They probably gave him the option

506
00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:04,239
like, hey, you cannot say
that we just lost all this money.

507
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:13,440
Yeah, yeah, he was he
was gonna go for say this, and

508
00:41:13,559 --> 00:41:15,320
he was like, oh, I'm
gonna say it. They're like, no,

509
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:22,159
you're not, because yeah, you're
fired. Is there already I forget

510
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:27,639
now? Is there already a lawsuit? Is app's already suing? Um?

511
00:41:27,679 --> 00:41:32,519
I thought I think they're well they
lost the one. Um. And it

512
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:37,559
then it sounds like with that article, that and that news is that he

513
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:44,320
was going to double down essentially yeah, yeah, and say something even more

514
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:51,639
ridiculous and insidneary than what they had
just gotten sued for. Yeah, this

515
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,360
is um. This is what it
says here. It says again, this

516
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:59,400
is from insider Fox News fire Tucker
Carlson ahead of a planned monologue promoting a

517
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:04,880
conspiracy theory that a pro Trump protester
was actually an FBI informant who sparked the

518
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,159
riot at the US Capital on January
six, twenty twenty one. A conservative

519
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:14,679
columnist writing a biography for the X
host said the columnist, Yeah, go

520
00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:17,280
ahead, Eric, No, no, go ahead? Okay, Sorry,

521
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,079
Oh that's okay, says the columnist. Chadwick Moore said in a video posted

522
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:28,719
Monday on Twitter that he saw the
monologue Carlson planned deliver the day Fox News

523
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,880
took his show off the air.
More said, quote, the monologue dealt

524
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:38,800
with, among other things, investigations
around January six, and particularly Ray Epps,

525
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:45,159
the only person captured on video inciting
people to violence that day and allegedly

526
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:52,599
an FBI informant who has still not
been arrested and charged unquote. And of

527
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:58,480
course ray Epps says it's all bs, and you know he's he was threatening

528
00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:05,119
to sue for defamation, I believe. Wait, so saying he was an

529
00:43:05,119 --> 00:43:10,960
FBI informant is defamation? Well,
the problem is if you're if you if

530
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:16,199
you associate, well, I mean, if you're going to jail. People

531
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:21,719
don't want to know you as an
informant, certainly. Yeah. Well,

532
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:28,239
also the people he associates with,
certainly, uh won't take kindly to uh,

533
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,440
you know, to him being an
informant, if you know, if

534
00:43:30,519 --> 00:43:34,880
he's tagged as such. Uh he
I mean, he denies. I think

535
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,199
he's a Is he a member of
the Proud Boys or something or one of

536
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:42,960
these militia groups, But um,
yeah, I would think so. Yeah,

537
00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,639
it says here. Carlson retweeted the
video to a seven point six million

538
00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:51,079
Twitter followers. Epps is at the
center of a conspiracy theory that alleges he

539
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:55,800
was an anti Trump FBI plant who
encouraged Trump supporters to storm the capital.

540
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,920
But Epps was a Trump supporter who
said he took shoot with the twenty twenty

541
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:05,400
election and attended Trump's stopped the Seal
rally in Washington, d C. Though

542
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,519
he headed toward the Capitol, he
stopped after seeing riders attack police officers,

543
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:16,719
police body camera footage shows, and
did not enter the capitol. The FBI

544
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:22,519
has denied that Epps ever worked for
the bureau or was an informant. Epps

545
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:28,119
told CBS News that the conspiracy theory
has made him the subject of death threats

546
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:31,960
from fellow Trump supporters, which have
forced him to sell his home and live

547
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:38,159
in an RV in an undisclosed location. So, in other words, in

548
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:43,840
other words, the witness protection programs
went down him. Well, the thing

549
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,800
is, I mean, yeah,
I don't I don't think he's even been

550
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,440
I mean, if he never entered
entered the capitol, I don't think he's

551
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:53,039
in any legal jeopardy. But but
he's got a lot of other people mad

552
00:44:53,079 --> 00:44:57,920
at him. I mean that's basically
this guy's life has been ruined. And

553
00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:00,440
that's that's what happened. When happens
when these when these guys do this,

554
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:06,519
it's like, uh, like when
Trump talked about in Georgia, Ruby Freeman.

555
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:12,519
You know that story, Ruby Freeman
and her mother election workers in Georgia,

556
00:45:12,679 --> 00:45:17,400
and Trump, in that call that
that was released, publicly called Ruby

557
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:23,039
Freeman something like a notorious vote hustler
or something, and uh just completely made

558
00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:27,920
that up. There's no evidence to
support that whatsoever. But it ruined that

559
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,280
woman and her mother. It ruined
their lives. You know, they had

560
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:36,159
to watch their backs every second now
in that community because uh, you know,

561
00:45:36,199 --> 00:45:40,159
because Trump said that about them,
just recklessly just you know, making

562
00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:45,719
this claim, this wild claim with
no evidence. And you know, I

563
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,559
mean it's one thing to say,
you know, the election was stolen and

564
00:45:49,639 --> 00:45:52,920
all that, but but to go
for him to go and mention specific people

565
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,679
like that, you know, there's
consequences when you do that to somebody.

566
00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,400
And it's the same thing with Tucker
and ray Epps. You know, Tucker

567
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,960
Carlson. Again, there's no evidence
to support this, but he says this,

568
00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:07,719
and then he puts Rayapps's life in
danger, you know, and now

569
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:14,639
the guy's got to live in an
RV, trying to brings new meaning to

570
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:19,400
the Chris Farley sketch living in the
bay and down by the river. Yeah,

571
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,519
except the character in the Chris Farley
sketch doesn't have any what was his

572
00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:29,840
name, Matt something. I'm trying
to Matt Foley. Yes, at least

573
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:34,960
Matt Foley didn't have a bunch of
militia dudes hunting him because they think he

574
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,559
was an FBI in format. So
there's that, Yeah, it says here.

575
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:45,719
Carlson has nonetheless repeatedly promoted the conspiracy
theory, as have Republican lawmakers,

576
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:52,039
including Oh and the usual suspects Senators
Ted Cruz. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives

577
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:58,480
Matt Gates, Thomas Massey, and
Marjorie Taylor Green. The US House Representatives

578
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,840
committee that investigated the January attack interviewed
Epps and found no links between him and

579
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,960
the FBI. An attorney representing Epps
did knocking, did not immediately respond for

580
00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:14,920
comment. Um, well, might
not be getting a lot of good cell

581
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:22,599
phone reception at the RV park.
Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the

582
00:47:22,639 --> 00:47:27,199
most ridiculous endings to an article I've
heard in a long time. Why would

583
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:34,920
answer any phone calls about that?
He's hiding out in an RV park?

584
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:44,480
Oh? Poor guy, I mean, oh, his life just ruined.

585
00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:52,280
Yeah, when these things happen,
I always just like I brought my head

586
00:47:52,400 --> 00:48:05,039
because I'm sitting there and I'm just
like why why? Well? Where is

587
00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:10,199
research? Where is where is looking
into things? Where is fattiving? Do

588
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:19,280
you not have any care or compassion
towards someone's life after you say something stupid

589
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,760
like this? Well, the problem
is when you so, when you deal

590
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:30,559
in conspiracy theories and I think you
know, claiming somebody was an FBI informant,

591
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,199
you know it falls under that category. When you deal in conspiracy theories,

592
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,119
you know, you get to That's
why I don't like you know,

593
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:44,239
I've had conspiracy theorists reach out to
me like like even you know, flat

594
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,719
earthers and people like that. Don't
get me wrong, flat earthers I think

595
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:51,559
are completely harmless actually, but you
know, if a conspiracy theory wants to

596
00:48:51,559 --> 00:48:54,400
come on the show, I always
say no because there's no point because they

597
00:48:54,480 --> 00:49:00,079
always have an advantage because they get
to just make up whatever they want to.

598
00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:02,079
They're you know, if you're dealing
if if you're trying to deal in

599
00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:06,519
objective reality and facts and you're talking
to a conspiracy theorists, they can just

600
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:10,440
make up whatever and they get away
with it because they know other conspiracy theorists

601
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,400
will back them up, will believe
whatever they want to say. Well,

602
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,760
then help them spread whatever nonsense it
is they're spreading. It's this, it's

603
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:28,400
and unfortunately Tucker Carlson really got into
that. It would seem in but that's

604
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:34,960
also what drives ratings. Oh absolutely, that is it is. It's I

605
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:37,840
love I love making this analogy and
I'm pretty sure I've made it on your

606
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:45,760
show before. It's Howard's Stern syndrome
in the movie private parts, when the

607
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:52,440
executives are just shocked and amazed at
the numbers he's doing. Yes, they're

608
00:49:52,480 --> 00:50:00,840
like, the average stern san sterna
supporter listens for forty five minutes to an

609
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:06,760
hour, and they're like and they're
like, why do they listen for that

610
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,519
long? To see what he'll say
next? Right? And then they're like,

611
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:16,280
what about the average stern hater.
I'm paraphrasing a little bit here,

612
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:22,280
and he goes, that's a shocking
part. The average stern hater listened for

613
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:29,920
two and a half hours, right, And they're like why in he says,

614
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,920
well, to see what he'll say
next, right, right, Yeah,

615
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:45,000
And that's where these guys like uh
Tucker Carlson and uh uh Chris Matthews

616
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:52,880
and uh Stephen Crowder, that's where
they get their power from. There is

617
00:50:53,280 --> 00:51:00,840
no incentive for them to tell the
truth, right and be in saint for

618
00:51:00,039 --> 00:51:09,199
Rachel Maddou, there's no incentive for
the truth or no incentive for actual journalism.

619
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:15,920
It's all theory in hypothesis And what
can I say that's going to get

620
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:22,239
these people to watch me tomorrow night? Well, yeah, I mean that's

621
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:31,960
unfortunately that's that seems to be the
formula for successful cable news. And even

622
00:51:32,039 --> 00:51:40,960
now, um Tucker is taking the
ground the how do I want to say

623
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,960
this? Tucker is doing exactly what
I said Stephen Crowder would do in Stephen

624
00:51:46,039 --> 00:51:52,840
Crowder ended up doing, playing this
card of I'm the victim here. I'm

625
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:59,239
for truth, this company is not. So I'm going to be with an

626
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:04,480
organisation that allows me to share truth. That's why I'm going to be on

627
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:09,320
Twitter. No, You're gonna be
on Twitter because the person who owns Twitter

628
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:17,039
really believes in the same asinine ideas
that you believe in. And Twitter believes

629
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:23,199
you can should be able to say
whatever you want, and that empowers and

630
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:31,320
emboldens someone like a Tucker Carlton because
that now he has no consequences, right

631
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:38,079
right, Yeah, Elon Musk isn't
going to kick him off Twitter so he

632
00:52:38,119 --> 00:52:45,239
can push these conspiracy theories and as
long as he's careful about it. And

633
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:50,880
I guarantee you he's learned from his
Fox News firing and he has a PR

634
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,400
team behind him telling him, Hey, this is how you have to warr

635
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,800
this, This is how you have
to say this if you want to say

636
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:06,000
it. So you can't get in
rubble. Yeah, so he will be

637
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,360
better prepared. Yeah, it's it's
disgusting. So this ray, this ray

638
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:17,599
app is, I guarantee you within
three I will say, within within two

639
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:23,199
to three weeks of Tucker Carlson being
on Twitter, he will attack this individual

640
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:29,840
verbally, oh le twice. Oh
absolutely he will, yes, absolutely,

641
00:53:30,199 --> 00:53:37,079
And there will be no recourse for
it because what what's what's this guy that's

642
00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:44,639
living in an RV part gonna do
that? Tucker Carlson suin Well, okay,

643
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,639
he does have he does have legal
counsel already, and there is you

644
00:53:47,679 --> 00:53:53,159
know, if an attorney, an
attorney will take that case, because that's

645
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:59,119
you know, especially after after the
dominion lawsuits missing that as an option.

646
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:04,880
Yeah, I'm saying, who's going
to be in the fight longer Tucker Carlson's

647
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,159
lawyers or the or eps's lawyers.
True, and I'm gonna say Tucker Carlton.

648
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:17,320
Yeah, te will wear down E's
legal team to a knob where where

649
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:23,960
it's a settlement and it's just a
drop in the bucket. Yeah. People

650
00:54:24,119 --> 00:54:32,639
get continuations, they will get delays, they will get whatever. Yeah,

651
00:54:32,679 --> 00:54:36,679
Well, Tucker Carlson has the money
to you know, just you know,

652
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,519
keep keep fighting whatever. Yeah,
that's true. I mean that's why.

653
00:54:38,639 --> 00:54:40,639
Yes, so I always say on
the show, that's why the wealthy and

654
00:54:40,679 --> 00:54:45,559
powerful are so rarely held accountable for
anything that they do. It's like when

655
00:54:45,599 --> 00:54:49,760
Egan Carroll won that judgment against Trump, I said, you know, she's

656
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,440
never gonna I don't think she's ever
gonna actually see the money. Now she's

657
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:57,239
got another suit going or that's been
revived because Trump can't keep his mouth shut.

658
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:02,119
But um, but you know,
you know they'll keep appealing and it

659
00:55:02,159 --> 00:55:07,880
will go on. Um and did
did you see this? Apparently Trump is

660
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:14,320
uh, Trump is mad at Laura
Ingram now on Fox. Oh, I

661
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:23,320
mean Laura Ingram is an interesting Fox
personality because there are times you expect her

662
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:30,880
to tow the company line. Yeah
she doesn't. And then there are times

663
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:37,239
that you expect her to be outspoken. He isn't. She's a complete conundrum.

664
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:45,639
But she she never really seemed like
she was someone that was on board

665
00:55:45,639 --> 00:55:52,760
with Donald Trump. I don't know
as much as a majority of Fox wanted

666
00:55:52,440 --> 00:56:00,400
their people to be. She was
just like a any time I see heard

667
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:05,559
talk about Trump and this is just
my opinion. Yeah it was. I'm

668
00:56:05,599 --> 00:56:12,519
just here for a paycheck, just
just paying me. Yeah, I know

669
00:56:12,559 --> 00:56:15,360
what you mean. I don't mean
yes, Donald Trump's great, Okay,

670
00:56:15,519 --> 00:56:20,679
sign the check. No, I
know what you mean. Yeah, yeah,

671
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,880
media, it's reporting that I guess
Trump posted on truth Social. There

672
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:30,039
go her ratings. Trump lashes out
at Laura Ingram after she airs poles showing

673
00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:34,719
him losing to Biden. And I
did, I did watch the segment.

674
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,880
So Laura Ingram had somebody on her
show who showed a bunch of polling data

675
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:45,480
that shows de Santis beating Biden,
but Trump losing to Biden. And apparently

676
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:52,000
this is completely infuriated Trump. Well, it's so probably the same polls that

677
00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:59,679
Ben Shapiro reference. Yeah, yeah, I mean there is something to be

678
00:57:00,079 --> 00:57:07,760
said for optics in politics, right. Kicks are probably the biggest part for

679
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:13,880
a party's supporters to be fully behind
a candidate. Yes, they have to

680
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:20,519
be a candidate that they feel can
viably win. Well, yeah, then

681
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,239
for those donors to spend to spend
that money, you know, they don't

682
00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:27,920
want to put their money behind a
loser because then they're just wasting their money.

683
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:36,480
Right, And and people can say
whatever they want, but I and

684
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:42,599
this could be just blinded optimism on
my part. I do not honestly believe

685
00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:50,119
that a majority of Trump supporters think
the twenty twenty election was stolen. I

686
00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:55,320
think at one point they did,
but then when the facts presented themselves,

687
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:02,199
I think a majority were like,
boy, not wrong. Now they said

688
00:58:02,199 --> 00:58:07,719
that in the comfort of their own
home or sitting on the crapper in the

689
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:15,000
bathroom, but it was said nonetheless. Yeah, well, I know a

690
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:17,719
majority, a majority of Republicans don't
want Trump to run again. But there's

691
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:24,280
the base that is so loyal.
But the base can be loyal. But

692
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:29,159
I've always, ever since high school, and I've learned this in my high

693
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:34,119
school government camp class, and I
still believe it to this day. A

694
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:45,920
base doesn't win you elections. Independence
do right and if you cannot. And

695
00:58:45,679 --> 00:58:52,400
that's where I go back to the
viability of winning aspect of it. Independence.

696
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:58,199
Yes, they can pay attention and
everything, but they're gonna vote for

697
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:05,199
who they feel has the shot a
win. And I'm sorry, Donald Trump

698
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:12,159
does not win the independent optics to
me as a candidate, right, he

699
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:22,480
lost in twenty twenty to Biden,
and his support that he has had amongst

700
00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:28,559
women has plummeted. Yeah, so
that's one major group. And I don't

701
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:34,440
think he's going to be able to
carry Hispanic areas in Florida like he did,

702
00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:43,719
especially railing on Ronda Santists like he
has been. So all these great

703
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:50,559
things that happened for him, even
though he lost in twenty twenty, he

704
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,079
is doing a very good job of
getting rid of it because he did a

705
00:59:55,159 --> 01:00:00,480
very good job. His numbers were
really good with women in twenty tw They

706
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:06,599
were really good. Shot is shockingly
enough, and people will probably say,

707
01:00:06,679 --> 01:00:09,360
Eric, you're wrong. No,
check the numbers. He did very well

708
01:00:09,519 --> 01:00:15,920
with Hispanic Americans. He did.
That is true. Groups that you look

709
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:21,320
at and you say, there's no
way Donald Trump would do well with these

710
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:28,000
people. You would be right with
some of the things he said, but

711
01:00:28,239 --> 01:00:32,320
he did well with them. Yeah, the Hispanic vote, you know,

712
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:38,679
Biden was actually people we were shocked
at even just the very notion of it.

713
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:45,920
But Biden was was actually somewhat competitive
in Texas. But Hispanics broke big

714
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:51,320
in you know, in certain counties, broke big for Trump in Texas,

715
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,000
and and uh, that's part of
what helped Trump hang on to Texas in

716
01:00:54,239 --> 01:01:02,280
twenty twenty and minorities as well.
He did very well with minority in general,

717
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:10,320
and I don't see him being able
to do that again. And those

718
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:19,559
are some very alarming statistics there.
If for me as a Republican, if

719
01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:23,199
I'm looking at this like, okay, again, the viability to win,

720
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:31,880
he have that, and I just
I don't see a path. No,

721
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:37,360
I don't either. I don't either. I don't see a path with the

722
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:43,119
early polling numbers. And I don't
see a way the groups that he was

723
01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:47,199
able to carry in twenty twenty him
being able to carry them again. I'm

724
01:01:47,239 --> 01:01:51,880
gonna go on the record and say, if Donald Trump wins the nomination,

725
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:59,519
he loses in a blowout, I
think it's over by by the time California

726
01:01:59,639 --> 01:02:10,280
poll close. No kidding, Yeah, I don't think it's close. Yeah.

727
01:02:08,599 --> 01:02:16,800
I think it's Clinton Dole numbers.
No kidding here, wow wow,

728
01:02:17,239 --> 01:02:23,239
I think it's over by care Center
bedtime. I would I would agree with

729
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:28,079
you, except for one thing.
Uh, the the incumbent is Joe Biden.

730
01:02:30,199 --> 01:02:32,400
If the matter, if the incumbent
were not Joe Biden, I would

731
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:36,719
agree with you. I mean I
don't, well, I do partially agree

732
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,199
with you in the sense that I
do agree that Trump loses. I think

733
01:02:39,199 --> 01:02:44,079
he's I think he'll definitely be the
nominee, but I think he's turned himself

734
01:02:44,119 --> 01:02:51,039
into a horrendous general election candidate.
But I think, um uh oh,

735
01:02:51,239 --> 01:02:54,000
but actually there's one way this all
turns. But I think, um,

736
01:02:54,039 --> 01:02:58,679
but no, I do think it'll
be close because I think, um,

737
01:02:58,719 --> 01:03:01,000
I listen, I voted for Biden
in twenty twenty, and I you know,

738
01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:06,159
I'll do it again if I have
to. But I'm really disappointed with

739
01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:10,159
some things, which is the biggest
thing being what this could all turn on.

740
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,800
If if we go into default on
the debt limit um, and the

741
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:23,519
economic consequences are horrendous, which they
will be. UM, then I believe

742
01:03:23,559 --> 01:03:29,559
Trump wins because what always happens historically
is even though to me, there's plenty

743
01:03:29,599 --> 01:03:35,039
of blame to go around, Um, when the economy goes south, voters

744
01:03:35,159 --> 01:03:39,159
blame whoever is in the White House. What's up? Yep, yeah,

745
01:03:39,199 --> 01:03:45,360
so so yeah, So in that
scenario, Trump wins. In fact,

746
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:50,920
and that scenario, in that scenario, I think Trump actually wins decisively because

747
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:55,119
everyone will not everyone like you know, but but the the average American.

748
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,599
They just they think. You know, John Hopwood calls it the big Man

749
01:03:59,599 --> 01:04:03,320
theory. You know, the idea
that the president sits at the Oval Office,

750
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,719
it sits in at the resolute desk
in the Oval Office and sort of

751
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:13,000
controls the various levers of the economy. So whatever is happening in the economy,

752
01:04:13,079 --> 01:04:15,280
they either credit and or blame who's
ever at the top, even though

753
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:19,280
you and I know it's far more
complicated than that. But uh, yeah,

754
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,880
so you know, no matter who's
to blame, and like I said

755
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,639
to me, there's plenty to go
around, but no, they'll they'll blame

756
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:30,440
Biden's the president. If everything tanks, they'll blame him. And that's it.

757
01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:33,719
And that that's why I say the
Republicans are in a no lose situation

758
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:38,079
here. Uh they're gonna look great
if they get some of the cuts they

759
01:04:38,119 --> 01:04:41,800
want, you know, to their
constituents. And but but they're also,

760
01:04:42,039 --> 01:04:45,079
um, I don't know if they're
gonna look great if we go into default,

761
01:04:45,119 --> 01:04:47,760
but they're gonna look better than Biden
does. And Biden, to me,

762
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:53,519
has just been completely incompetent on this
issue. He's he's in way over

763
01:04:53,519 --> 01:04:57,039
his head. That's something you and
I politically we probably fully agree on.

764
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:02,800
Yeah, I mean this is I
think Biden just in general, is in

765
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:09,920
over his head. And I really
you know, I I love this.

766
01:05:10,079 --> 01:05:17,960
I love another comment I heard when
Rush Limbaugh that I'm rooting for Obama to

767
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:24,519
fail. One of my college instructors
said, if you're rooting for the president

768
01:05:24,599 --> 01:05:30,119
to fail, that's like rooting for
the driver of your That's like rooting for

769
01:05:30,199 --> 01:05:35,360
the pilot of your airplane to fly
into the mountain, right just because you're

770
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:41,280
on it, just because you don't
like the pilot exactly. Yeah, right,

771
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:47,159
And so yeah, I always love
that statement because it's true. When

772
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:53,679
I realized, and I was working
third ship that night that when the big

773
01:05:53,719 --> 01:06:02,880
Wisconsin dump happened and I started seeing
Saint looking good, I relate. I've

774
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:15,639
Then I said Donald Trump Watt,
Yeah, now Trump supporter for have you

775
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:21,360
been? That's four years when they
have said something negative about Donald Trump's family.

776
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:30,000
When Kathy Griffin held up Donald trump
severed head, remember that? How

777
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:35,679
upset were you about that? Now
is our opportunity to be better? Now

778
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:44,719
is our opportunity to take the high
ground and say and say our president.

779
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:46,880
That morning, after I got off
work, I went to bed, and

780
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:53,119
I felt really good about myself.
I felt I had taken a stand,

781
01:06:53,679 --> 01:06:58,239
and I'm like, you know what, if I reach one person, I've

782
01:06:58,239 --> 01:07:03,599
made a difference. I woke up
Facebook and I didn't reach a damn person.

783
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:10,800
I saw things Joe Biden, not
my president, of course, Yeah,

784
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:16,119
Joe Biden. Hey, Joe Biden, I'm moving to Canada, like,

785
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:24,920
oh, I know, yeah yeah. So I mean that was my

786
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:30,320
hope, is that we could be
like, Okay, what's happened is happening.

787
01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:36,119
Let's move on and move on together. Right. No one listened to

788
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:42,760
Eric pitch for peace. I know, I know, my my. My

789
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:47,400
feelings about the Biden presidency are are
complicated because on the one hand, I'm

790
01:07:47,559 --> 01:07:51,599
very discouraged at his inability in my
view, and I do believe he is

791
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:58,199
in way over his head and he's
been outmaneuvered by Kevin McCarthy spectacularly on the

792
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,000
debt ceiling. On the other and
I look at something like, um,

793
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:08,480
the way I believe he's actually handled
Ukraine very well, UM in terms of

794
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:13,320
supporting Ukraine and giving them the weapons
they need and so forth to try to

795
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,680
fend off the Russians while walking that
tight rope, and it really is a

796
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:21,199
tight rope of you know, not
getting us into a nuclear confrontation with the

797
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:26,840
Russians. I think on that,
you know, and holding the coalition together,

798
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:30,239
holding NATO together and everything, keeping
everybody unified. On that, I

799
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:32,880
actually give him an a. I
think I think he's done an excellent job

800
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:44,119
on that. Regarding strictly diplomacy,
Yes, strictly diplomacy, Yeah, Joe

801
01:08:44,119 --> 01:08:49,520
Biden has done a serviceable job.
I'm gonna say serviceable. Yeah, yeah,

802
01:08:49,560 --> 01:09:02,279
but the other things have the gross
failures. Overshadow is all miss and

803
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:13,520
to me, yeah, Joe Biden
cannot win a second term. That's my

804
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:18,159
mindset. Now, does that mean
that I'm going to go against morals and

805
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:24,600
values that I have that I feel
a right? Absolutely not right. But

806
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:31,920
I just I look at Joe Biden
and this I'm not attacking his past or

807
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:41,880
attacking him personally. Yeah, I
see a man that I seriously question if

808
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:49,000
he can cognitively do this job for
another term. Oh yeah, it's yeah.

809
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:55,560
Sometimes that's very dangerous to me.
Yeah, I mean sometimes he uh

810
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,119
and I've said this on the show
many times. You know, sometimes he

811
01:09:58,159 --> 01:10:00,800
seems like he's got it in him
like the s to the Union. You

812
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:02,680
know, he he you know,
but other times I don't know what they

813
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,560
do, if they shoot him up
with Beach twelve or something. But other

814
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:13,920
times he just seems like he needs
to to lie down or or the energy

815
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:15,680
drink. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they do.

816
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:21,119
But um but as other times it's
like, oh no, and and and

817
01:10:21,199 --> 01:10:28,239
he's been And I just I I
think he's selfish. Uh. I don't

818
01:10:28,239 --> 01:10:30,479
think he should be seeking a second
term. And again I give it.

819
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:36,199
I give him high marks um on
Ukraine, but he is in so far

820
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:43,479
over his head on the debt limit. And I'm very concerned that he and

821
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:47,039
McCarthy together are going to end up
pushing the self destruct button on the global

822
01:10:47,039 --> 01:10:53,199
economy. Um. I just I
And I don't think he. I think

823
01:10:53,199 --> 01:10:56,960
he honestly thought one hundred days ago
when he said, no, I'm not

824
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,800
going to talk to Kevin McCarthy about
this, they needed to pass a clean

825
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,279
down limit. I think he actually
was naive enough to think that that would

826
01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:06,960
work. And there's no excuse for
being so naive. When you're president of

827
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,239
the United States, you need to
be able to see what's coming down the

828
01:11:10,279 --> 01:11:13,920
pike and he apparently couldn't see it. And now we're here, and that's

829
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,720
a big problem. And McCarthy and
the Republicans have all the cards, and

830
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:26,359
Biden and the Democrats have only themselves
to blame. And it's I'm so disappointed,

831
01:11:26,399 --> 01:11:31,880
and I'm very I'm very disappointed with
him. Yeah, I mean,

832
01:11:32,119 --> 01:11:40,239
the the debt management just with this. I mean, and we've been close.

833
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:44,439
If I recalled, there was a
couple of times during the Obama administration

834
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:50,279
twenty eleven were yeah, we were
close. I recalled once with Donald Trump

835
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:58,640
we were closish. But this has
kind of been an ongoing issue for the

836
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:05,720
full four years. And we as
a country, it is not sustainable for

837
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:13,960
us to be on an economic roller
coaster. It just isn't. And I

838
01:12:14,199 --> 01:12:20,159
really I'm disappointed in both parties at
the inability to realize it that you're not

839
01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:25,960
just messing with a debt limit here, or they realize it, but they're

840
01:12:26,119 --> 01:12:30,640
using us, the American people,
our lives as political pause. Oh,

841
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:33,600
it's like we're all we're all held
hostage by this. I mean I don't

842
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:40,119
even mean that hyperbolically, I mean
are quite literally we are held hostage.

843
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:45,239
It's incredible, and it's like,
oh, well, you know, we

844
01:12:45,319 --> 01:12:51,039
need to have discussion. No,
you need to get it done. I

845
01:12:51,119 --> 01:12:58,520
mean, well, like discussions when
we go so far. Yeah, I

846
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:02,000
mean I I well, I've said
all I see to me. In principle,

847
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:08,159
In principle, Biden's position was correct. I believe the debt limit should

848
01:13:08,159 --> 01:13:12,600
be clean. You deal with you
deal with the budget itself during budget talks,

849
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,640
during appropriations. That's where he handled
the budget. You don't mess with

850
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,520
the debt limit itself. And by
the way, that was Trump's position when

851
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:23,359
he was president. Apparently now Trump
is pro default, but he but that

852
01:13:23,399 --> 01:13:25,279
was Trump's position when he was president. He said, no, no,

853
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,079
no, we don't mess with the
debt sealing. Ever, it's much too

854
01:13:28,159 --> 01:13:31,520
dangerous. I think in principle Biden
was correct. But in practice, you

855
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,239
know, politics is the art of
the possible. In practice, you got

856
01:13:35,359 --> 01:13:39,520
to deal with what's in front of
you. And what's in front of Biden

857
01:13:40,079 --> 01:13:45,239
is Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker with
the House FREEDOMCOC is calling the shots,

858
01:13:45,359 --> 01:13:49,920
and they're not gonna do what should
have been done. In principle, they

859
01:13:50,079 --> 01:13:56,720
and now we're just we're days away
from I mean, I think Biden's going

860
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:00,840
to half to at the end of
the day invoked the fourteenth Amendment because there's

861
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:04,000
there's not going to be times.
I don't know. I we'll see when

862
01:14:04,079 --> 01:14:06,760
when I go to break, I'll
see what you know, if they've concluded

863
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:11,560
their talks yet today. I know
the negotiators were meeting again today, but

864
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:15,720
I haven't actually right by my MacBook, man, oh yeah, if you

865
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,920
want to take a peek. I
have not had this level of anxiety over

866
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:25,000
this since twenty eleven. But this
is even worse. I mean, this

867
01:14:25,119 --> 01:14:30,920
is we are really down to the
wire, and it would be nice if

868
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:36,039
the fourteenth Amendment option would work,
and then we can just do that and

869
01:14:36,119 --> 01:14:46,239
then everything's fine. But in reporting, Republicans in White House see progress in

870
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:55,239
US get sealing taught. And that
was six minutes ago. Okay, well,

871
01:14:55,479 --> 01:15:00,920
progress is good, although unfortunately it's
kind of Party said negotiations had improved

872
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:04,880
and would continue. In the evening. He predicted the two sides would reach

873
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:12,600
an agreement, though several issues remain
unresolved. We've made some progress working down

874
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,760
there, so that's very positive,
McCarthy told reporters. I want to make

875
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:20,279
sure that we get the right agreement. I can see that we're working towards

876
01:15:20,359 --> 01:15:28,880
that. White House folksperson Karen ge
Pierre said talks remains fruitful. If it

877
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:31,239
keeps going in good faith, we
can get to an agreement here. She

878
01:15:31,359 --> 01:15:35,800
said in a briefing, Well,
discussions were taking place. I hope so

879
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:41,039
well that all sounds good, that
all sounds good, But the clock is

880
01:15:41,079 --> 01:15:44,800
chicking. You know, they need
they need seventy two hours for there's a

881
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,000
seventy two hour rule for you know, the House to even review this before

882
01:15:47,039 --> 01:15:50,079
they vote on it. So apparently
McCarthy said he's not gonna budge on that.

883
01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:54,199
But I mean that, you know
that sounds encouraging. Boy, I

884
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,760
sure hope. So, I sure
hope. So I'd rather not I mean,

885
01:16:00,399 --> 01:16:02,720
listen to the bill that the Republicans
originally passed in the House. I

886
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:06,960
mean, economists across the board say, uh, it's it's too those cuts

887
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:12,399
are too deep and will actually run
the risk of damaging the economy. But

888
01:16:13,039 --> 01:16:15,560
I would almost rather give in on
everything just to save the just to raise

889
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,000
a debt limit. It's like,
you know, if somebody gave me a

890
01:16:18,119 --> 01:16:23,199
choice, if somebody said Matt.
You can either drive your car directly into

891
01:16:23,239 --> 01:16:26,600
a telephone pole, or you can
drive it over a cliff. I'd rather

892
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:30,199
drive it into the telephone pole.
They're both terrible options, but you know,

893
01:16:30,239 --> 01:16:33,079
I'd like to take the one that's
less bad. You know, I'm

894
01:16:33,079 --> 01:16:38,720
willing to cut some spending even if
it does actually do more harm than good,

895
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:43,920
as long as it doesn't completely collapse
the global economy. You know what

896
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:49,600
I mean? Yes, absolutely agree. Well, Eric, listen, my

897
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:53,319
friend, We've we've kept you on
for a very long time today. You've

898
01:16:53,359 --> 01:16:56,960
been generous with your time. As
always, we appreciate it. I I

899
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:02,079
should sneak in a break, and
but what do tell us about Friday's uh

900
01:17:02,279 --> 01:17:06,119
film? Oh is at the end
of the segment music tell us about No?

901
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:13,880
I like that? No? I
actually uh my dog gets stepped on

902
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:19,359
my Xbox Series X controller and turned
it off. Okay, h no worries.

903
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:26,359
What what do you have planned for
Friday's film review? In honor of

904
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:33,680
Memorial Day, we will be looking
at the Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan.

905
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:39,079
Very good, very good? When
did that go? When did that

906
01:17:39,119 --> 01:17:45,159
come out? Ninety something? Right
ninety nine nine, late nineties okay,

907
01:17:45,279 --> 01:17:50,279
yeah, okay, Yeah, Tom
Hanks, Yeah that was a that was

908
01:17:50,319 --> 01:17:56,800
a very big movie for him,
that's for sure. Yes, it really

909
01:17:57,079 --> 01:18:02,520
was, and probably one of the
longest battlefront scenes I can recall in cinema

910
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:09,760
for the first I think near half
hour is all the beaches in Normandy.

911
01:18:11,039 --> 01:18:15,159
Oh okay, I've never seen,
believe it or not, I've never seen

912
01:18:15,199 --> 01:18:20,880
Saving Private Ryan. I saw it
in school when it was released on VHS.

913
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:30,920
Oh okay. Our history teacher showed
it over like a week. Yeah

914
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,520
it's a long film, right,
it's not. It's not two hours,

915
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:39,680
right, it's longer. It's a
it's one hundred and sixty nine minutes.

916
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:44,359
Wow, okay, two hours in
fifty minutes. Well, yeah, nearly

917
01:18:44,359 --> 01:18:47,920
three hours. Yeah that's a long
movie. Yeah, huh okay, very

918
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,640
good. Well, so we look
yes, we look forward to that.

919
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:56,760
Yes, I will be uh writing
the script tonight in recording tomorrow night.

920
01:18:57,159 --> 01:19:00,800
Outstanding, outstanding. I always look
forward to your classic film reviews, and

921
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:04,800
of course it is a very popular
segment on the program. I look forward

922
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:09,840
to doing them. So win win, very good, very good, all

923
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:12,439
right, Eric, Well, thank
you, thank you for joining me today.

924
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,600
Always a pleasure. Oh always a
pleasure. Yes, well, we'll

925
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,560
do this again next week, hopefully
by the hopefully, by the next time

926
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:25,239
we talk, we'll have a debt
limit deal in place. Yes, hopefully.

927
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:29,800
Um. And I called you Matt
today, Yes, thank you,

928
01:19:30,159 --> 01:19:33,479
thank you. Yes, my name
is Matt. Did John Hopwood make any

929
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:41,079
attempt to poach you again this week? No? I uh lest I heard

930
01:19:41,319 --> 01:19:47,560
from mister Hopwood. I sent him
a picture of my Tom Tom Hanks book

931
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:51,319
and he said, yawn, I
don't think he's a Tom Hanks fan.

932
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:58,520
I understand. All right, Well
that's uh, that's too bad for him.

933
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:04,680
He's missing he's missing out teach the
al all right, Eric, Well

934
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:10,439
we'll let you go, and thank
you so much my friend, no problem,

935
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:12,439
Thank you for having me. All
Right, you got it, take

936
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:15,640
care, bye bye bye. All
right, that was our friend Eric Pilcher

937
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:18,880
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And
uh, we yeah, we are.

938
01:20:19,079 --> 01:20:21,640
We're late for a break. I'm
gonna play. Um, Tina Turner,

939
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:26,439
if you didn't hear the news just
passed away at the age of eighty three,

940
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,359
I'm gonna play a little something.
Looks like this is actually a live

941
01:20:29,399 --> 01:20:32,680
clip. It's of her and Brian
Adams, doing a song called It's Only

942
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:35,680
Love, and I always really loved
this song. I've never heard the live

943
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:42,760
version. I don't think I'm gonna
play this to uh as we uh as

944
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,840
we observe the as we more in
the passing of Tina Turner, one of

945
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:48,399
the greats. And then we'll show
some love to our amazing sponsors, and

946
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:51,399
then we'll be back with the balance
of our program. There is more,

947
01:20:51,800 --> 01:21:00,239
Matt Connerton Unleash to come, don't
go anywhere. Who at Connerton Unleash does

948
01:21:00,279 --> 01:21:03,319
this? Hey, Matt, this
is actually you calling in. Thanks for

949
01:21:03,359 --> 01:21:09,079
taking my call. Wow, this
is wonderful. I always dreamt of the

950
01:21:09,159 --> 01:21:14,159
day where I'd get to talk to
myself. I'm curious if you remembered to

951
01:21:14,159 --> 01:21:15,720
pick up toilet paper or if you
plan to do it on the way home.

952
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:19,640
We need it to wipe our little
bottom. Oh my goodness. Wow,

953
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:24,960
I did not know that we were
out, but I'm really glad that

954
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:29,520
you told or I'm really glad that
I told me. Our little bottom can

955
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,239
get a bit messy sometimes it feels
like we use too much of that dang

956
01:21:31,279 --> 01:21:35,920
stuff toilet paper, I mean right
right, toilet paper. I've remember actually

957
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:40,119
called John Hopwood. Oh, John, I've always thought of him as a

958
01:21:40,159 --> 01:21:43,840
father figure, mostly because he always
tries to spank my little bottom. I

959
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:47,199
never let him, but he keeps
asking, this must be an AI thing.

960
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:54,039
Yes he does, he does.
How did I know that? I

961
01:21:54,119 --> 01:21:57,319
just mostly wanted to say that I
am very nice and very much a sweet

962
01:21:57,319 --> 01:22:00,279
little boy, and even though my
bottom gets a bit messy, I am

963
01:22:00,319 --> 01:22:05,239
a nice guy and someone that people
love. That's very nice. Thank you.

964
01:22:05,319 --> 01:22:08,880
Oh and one more thing. Hopwood
looks like an eighty six year old

965
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:13,880
toddler and he makes us mush up
bananas for him for lunch. Well,

966
01:22:14,039 --> 01:22:17,199
yes, yes that is uh.
Goodbye, Matt be at home in the

967
01:22:17,199 --> 01:22:20,159
mirror, thank you. Yes,
wow, very sun. I'll tell you

968
01:22:20,159 --> 01:22:24,439
what. That's a first for me. I've never gotten to speak to myself

969
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:29,640
now. Is it possible that someone
puts something into my energy drink? Uh?

970
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:33,239
And I just hallucinated all of that. I mean, I don't know.

971
01:22:33,399 --> 01:22:39,239
Somebody must have put something in my
something too? There. Yeah,

972
01:22:39,319 --> 01:22:44,239
Wow, that was that was crazy. I felt like I spoke a little

973
01:22:44,279 --> 01:22:46,760
bit faster just now than I usually
do on the phone. Well maybe not

974
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,560
anyway. Wow, All right,
Well, I'm glad you guys were here

975
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:55,479
for that. Yeah, that was
the first. Yeah, that was that

976
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:58,680
was never a dull moment up up
in here. That was fun. That

977
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:44,399
was fun. Welcome back, everybody. This is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we

978
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:48,159
are live from the studios of w
m n H ninety five point three FM

979
01:23:48,159 --> 01:23:53,640
and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven if you're

980
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,880
in Manchester, and hello to all
of our online listeners across the nation and

981
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:00,199
around the globe. You can go
to my website Matt Connerton dot com for

982
01:24:00,239 --> 01:24:02,399
all of your live streaming options,
social media links, contact info, show

983
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:09,319
archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today
is Wednesday, May twenty four, two

984
01:24:09,399 --> 01:24:14,079
thousand and twenty three, as we
cruise into our final segment today here on

985
01:24:14,159 --> 01:24:16,680
the program, and uh wow,
it was such a nice day earlier.

986
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:19,359
It's uh, I don't know how
long it's supposed to rain, but it

987
01:24:19,359 --> 01:24:25,479
looks like it's coming down pretty pretty
heavy. That's a wind. It gets

988
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:29,640
very windy down here on Elm Street, that's for sure. If you'd like

989
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,239
to get in with a call,
the studio line is open six zo three

990
01:24:32,319 --> 01:24:36,039
two five zero six zero seven.
Six zo three two five zero six Z

991
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:41,880
seven. You can also text me
at six one seven nine one seven four

992
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:45,279
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993
01:24:45,319 --> 01:24:48,680
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994
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995
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:58,079
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Dulcet tones is to give us a call

996
01:24:58,159 --> 01:25:01,920
at six three two five six seven
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997
01:25:02,199 --> 01:25:05,640
seven. By the way, speaking
of Dulca tones, Tomorrow on the program,

998
01:25:06,279 --> 01:25:10,800
Kevin Horn will be our guests.
He's coming in in the second hour.

999
01:25:11,119 --> 01:25:15,319
Now you've probably if you're a regular
listener, you've heard his name mentioned

1000
01:25:15,359 --> 01:25:21,319
on the show before, because he
does play frequently. I think every three

1001
01:25:21,399 --> 01:25:25,960
or four weeks actually, or every
five weeks or six weeks, I don't

1002
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:30,359
know time, who knows right,
But he is a regular at the Hop

1003
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:34,239
Knot. They do live music at
the Hop Knot on Saturday nights from seven

1004
01:25:34,239 --> 01:25:36,760
to nine pm, and he's got
a show coming up there. But he's

1005
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:42,359
gonna be here whether it's tomorrow,
live in studio, and we are really

1006
01:25:42,359 --> 01:25:44,760
looking forward to that. I can't
wait to hear him. He's bringing his

1007
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,520
guitar and he's gonna play live for
us in the second hour. And we

1008
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,279
have a call. Hi, welcome
to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this?

1009
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:56,399
I can provide you tones, but
they may not be dulted. Oh close

1010
01:25:56,520 --> 01:26:00,920
enough. What's up, Dave Ridley? Well, some stuff? Actually,

1011
01:26:00,199 --> 01:26:09,039
that's why I called some stuff?
Well go ahead, Oh okay, Baa,

1012
01:26:09,199 --> 01:26:14,359
please share your stuff. Oh it's
good stuff. An a check that

1013
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:18,960
is back on the move. They
have commissioned h they've got an air force.

1014
01:26:19,039 --> 01:26:26,359
Now they're commissioning an airplane to fly
around the Hampshire this weekend with an

1015
01:26:26,359 --> 01:26:29,920
an check sign. Now I have
to ask you, now, I did

1016
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:31,800
I am on the I did sign
up for the newsletter. I do receive

1017
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:35,920
these communic as regarding that, So
I did I did see that. Now

1018
01:26:36,239 --> 01:26:39,840
I have a question though, Now
is it gonna be a big sign?

1019
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:43,039
Because sometimes what happens to me,
Dave, is I'll see a plane and

1020
01:26:43,079 --> 01:26:45,800
it's got a banner attached to it, and I'm looking at it and it's

1021
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,039
like I can't quite read what that
says. I mean, is it gonna

1022
01:26:49,079 --> 01:26:53,359
be a big banner? Or a
big sign or is it gonna is it

1023
01:26:53,359 --> 01:26:56,199
gonna light up? Is it gonna
be one of those led signs? Zoo?

1024
01:26:56,279 --> 01:26:58,520
That would be cool. But what
kind of a sign is it?

1025
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:01,880
I haven't seen it and I don't
know exactly what it says. I think

1026
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:05,960
it's going to fly around the May
twenty seventh, you know, because it's

1027
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:10,680
been Moral Day weekend. They'll be
above I think conquered Nashville and Manchester,

1028
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:15,960
but I'm not sure about Keene okay, okay, And and it will be

1029
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,920
promoting NHXAD. And for listeners who
don't know, this is the UH secessionist

1030
01:27:20,079 --> 01:27:24,840
movement? Is it fair to call
it that here in New Hampshire? Yes?

1031
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:29,560
All right, all right, very
good. That's gonna be very expensive,

1032
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,159
I would think. Is that is
that an expensive prime position? Yeah?

1033
01:27:32,239 --> 01:27:34,960
Ian? I think Ian Freeman is
finding most of it. I think

1034
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:38,920
what he's trying to do is just
spend his money before the Fed send him,

1035
01:27:39,079 --> 01:27:41,560
send him away and end his life, you know, or in his

1036
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:47,880
life or whatever. Okay, um, is that what is expected to happen?

1037
01:27:48,319 --> 01:27:53,079
Not to change the subject, but
you did mention it, so I'm

1038
01:27:53,079 --> 01:27:57,000
curious, I mean, are are
you expecting even to go to prison.

1039
01:27:58,239 --> 01:28:01,960
It's actually all very connected if you
think about it. We have the strength

1040
01:28:02,039 --> 01:28:05,079
of well, I mean, it's
not a super strong independent movement, but

1041
01:28:05,119 --> 01:28:10,479
it's as strong as it is,
partly because the federal government crackdown on bitcoin

1042
01:28:10,600 --> 01:28:14,239
ors like Ian you know, two
years ago, and they rated all these

1043
01:28:14,239 --> 01:28:17,279
big bitcoin businesses around the state.
Yeah. Uh, that's part of what

1044
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:23,800
created you know, our independent legislation. We only we only think we would

1045
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:27,039
have had that if it hadn't been
for for this crackdown. I didn't really

1046
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:31,600
Dave thought. I thought NH said
predated the raid or whatever you want to

1047
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:36,399
call it, and that happened in
Keene. No, h, it does

1048
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:44,239
predate it. But the independence legislation
really was more that that was triggered by

1049
01:28:44,279 --> 01:28:47,279
the raid to the large extent.
Okay, okay, I didn't realize.

1050
01:28:47,319 --> 01:28:50,399
So independence it's like a gas tank, you know, in the federal government

1051
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:54,920
does something terrible, Well, you
turn it into a gallant gas you put

1052
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:58,000
it in your gas tank and you
run your independence engine. Does that make

1053
01:28:58,039 --> 01:29:03,279
sense? Yes? And I do
like independence engine. Um that's a good

1054
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:08,399
phrase. So so for example,
I'm sorry, go ahead, no,

1055
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:11,119
actually you go ahead, and then
well we'll circle back to what I was

1056
01:29:11,279 --> 01:29:14,720
going to ask you. You go
out a day. So the central government

1057
01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:18,359
of Canada behaves very cautiously in Quebec
because they know if they go into Quebec

1058
01:29:18,399 --> 01:29:21,920
and they do a Waco or something
like that, the Quebec's just gonna walk

1059
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:25,800
away, right, that's going to
push them right over the edge because they're

1060
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:29,800
already a kind of close to independent. True, it has a positive It

1061
01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:31,880
has a positive effect on the central
government. Does that make sense? It

1062
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:36,199
does? It does? Yeah,
that's why you do. Independence drives even

1063
01:29:36,239 --> 01:29:41,119
if you don't have any hope of
real independence. I understand. Um,

1064
01:29:41,159 --> 01:29:44,199
Okay, No, what I wanted
to circle back to though, is so

1065
01:29:44,239 --> 01:29:47,439
what I mean, what happened to
everybody else? I know we've talked about

1066
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,359
this before, Dave, but I
just haven't kept up on it. Um,

1067
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:55,720
So what happened everybody else who was
arrested? Did? Did they all?

1068
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,800
Are? They all out? And
they're all out? But I don't

1069
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,319
I don't know all the details on
each case. They arrested six people.

1070
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:06,680
They rated a lot more machines and
a lot more businesses than that, but

1071
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:13,079
on that day, but they arrested
six people and all that Ian took plea

1072
01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:16,159
deal because it's impossible to Actually,
the federal government system is rigged so that

1073
01:30:16,359 --> 01:30:20,079
they always win in court, right, if they're fighting against the people,

1074
01:30:20,399 --> 01:30:27,359
they officially always win. It's it's
it's actually so rare for an individual to

1075
01:30:27,399 --> 01:30:32,279
prevail in these unfair courts that Ian's
probation officer actually told him, Hey,

1076
01:30:32,319 --> 01:30:35,359
guess what, Ian, did you
hear that somebody won in federal court so

1077
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:41,680
other day That's the first time I've
ever heard of that happening. Um,

1078
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:46,840
wait, maybe I'm missing something here, Dave, So just if you can

1079
01:30:47,039 --> 01:30:50,279
clarify this for me. So,
everybody took a plea deal, but Ian

1080
01:30:50,359 --> 01:30:54,439
didn't take a plea deal because somebody
told him it was possible to win in

1081
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:58,720
court. Is that what you're saying. No, No, he knew he'd

1082
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:01,119
probably get beaten, but he just
he always preaches the idea of making them

1083
01:31:01,119 --> 01:31:05,039
fight in court. He just because
it ties down the fence. There's much

1084
01:31:05,039 --> 01:31:08,880
there's more time to spending going after
him. The more difficult it's going to

1085
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,720
be for them to go after somebody
else. They have to actually, you

1086
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,760
know, information gets put out in
court. He's practicing what he preaches yeah

1087
01:31:15,079 --> 01:31:17,800
uh and being a little bit of
a badass and that oil. Is I

1088
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:23,560
allowed to say that, yeah,
are yeah, that's fine. Um but

1089
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,199
um but I don't think he had
much hope that he would win. He

1090
01:31:27,359 --> 01:31:29,720
might, you know, he thought
he might. I don't know what he

1091
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:36,439
thought, but um uh but yeah, like Aria de Mezzo got her spinnings

1092
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:41,039
recently and that was eighteen months I
think, And that's actually a lot more

1093
01:31:41,079 --> 01:31:44,720
than I would have expected, considering
she took the plea. She was a

1094
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:51,600
secondary target. Um and um,
so if she's getting eighteen months, I

1095
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:55,960
would assume that Ian will get quite
a bit more than eighteen months. What

1096
01:31:56,119 --> 01:32:00,119
did she plead to though, I
don't remember. But again again, the

1097
01:32:00,279 --> 01:32:05,000
charges were basically the most scary founding
charge that they threw out was that they

1098
01:32:05,279 --> 01:32:09,560
threw into the mix was money laundering. It's kind of like they're trying to

1099
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:13,479
make it a money laundering case.
Yeah. Now, all these folks they

1100
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:17,720
had lawyers before the fans came after
them, and they used the lawyers to

1101
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:26,600
try and navigate the byzantine federal regulations
on telling bitcoin right uh in large amounts.

1102
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:30,319
And they they at least claimed that
they thought they were in compliance,

1103
01:32:30,319 --> 01:32:33,319
and they had lawyers who were looking
it over and telling them that they were

1104
01:32:33,319 --> 01:32:42,079
in compliance. Right, right,
So so why is Ian out right now?

1105
01:32:42,159 --> 01:32:45,840
He's just he's out on his Is
he out on his own recognizance until

1106
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:49,920
until the trial starts? Where is
he in the process? Not quite,

1107
01:32:50,319 --> 01:32:56,319
it's not quite that. It's more
like a bailuh. And he's got an

1108
01:32:56,319 --> 01:32:59,880
ankle bracelet or at least check.
Oh no, kidding, Okay, I

1109
01:33:00,079 --> 01:33:01,119
was going to say, because I'm
sure they think he's a flight risk.

1110
01:33:02,359 --> 01:33:05,159
It's one of those things where he
has to have permission to leave his house.

1111
01:33:05,199 --> 01:33:11,880
Basically he's been like that for about
two years. Um. And he's

1112
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:15,399
not allowed to use he's not allowed
to use a computer. Correct, he

1113
01:33:15,399 --> 01:33:19,479
can use a computer, but he
can't access his own bitcoin. Oh okay,

1114
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:24,600
gotcha. So this money that he's
throwing at this plane like they took,

1115
01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:29,399
they really basically destroyed him financially when
they did this trade before they ever

1116
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:34,039
charged him or convict him, um
and um. And yet you know,

1117
01:33:34,079 --> 01:33:38,560
just whatever scraps of money he has
left he's throwing at this plane and other

1118
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:43,239
other things. I think he's he
or somebody I guess NH exit. I

1119
01:33:43,319 --> 01:33:47,439
but that's him or someone someone else
in NH has permissioned a new poll as

1120
01:33:47,479 --> 01:33:53,279
well to try and get more information
about where New Hampshire's stand on independence,

1121
01:33:53,319 --> 01:33:57,640
and that this is the great This
is the five hundred gorilla, five hundred

1122
01:33:57,640 --> 01:34:00,399
pound gorilla in the room that no
one talks about, is that of your

1123
01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:08,760
hamster. It's already favor an independence
referendum based on the Servey USA poll last

1124
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:13,159
year. Well then didn't you tell
me, though I might have misunderstood,

1125
01:34:13,199 --> 01:34:15,439
didn't you tell me you were a
little bit skeptical of that pole, even

1126
01:34:15,479 --> 01:34:18,560
though even though it's obviously a favorable
poll, but you weren't sure. That's

1127
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:21,279
well, yeah, I think that's
why. That's probably why it's good to

1128
01:34:21,319 --> 01:34:24,640
have another poll. I think this
one's going to be done by you and

1129
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:29,359
AGE. So they're obviously this is
an authoritarian organization. They're pro federal,

1130
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:31,760
they're not going to be if they
come out with the same number, that's

1131
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:36,359
really going to give the number a
great deal of credibility. Yeah. But

1132
01:34:36,359 --> 01:34:41,399
but so you so, do you
have any idea what kind of a sentence

1133
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:45,159
Ian is looking at? If if
I would have guessed it, I guess

1134
01:34:45,199 --> 01:34:48,600
it would. I would guess my
projection would probably be four years. Four

1135
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:57,560
years yeah wow, okay again,
you know, they destroyed him financially.

1136
01:34:59,199 --> 01:35:01,439
It just sounds like he just sounds
like it sounds like he just was four

1137
01:35:01,520 --> 01:35:03,920
years of his life. When he
comes back, he doesn't have money,

1138
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:11,640
right, right, Yeah, he
had money like he managed his finances well,

1139
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:15,560
you know before the Feds came after
him, and he you know,

1140
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:20,199
he took the world that where the
world where the economy was not functioning,

1141
01:35:20,199 --> 01:35:24,159
and he made something work in New
Hampshire. This is one of the things

1142
01:35:24,199 --> 01:35:27,319
that was working in the world was
bitcoin. It was working very well in

1143
01:35:27,399 --> 01:35:30,720
New Hampshire, better than anywhere else, according to some folks. And the

1144
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:40,119
Feds came in and burned down Cryptomecha
as best they could. Yeah. Um

1145
01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:44,760
hm is um. They're the reason. They're the reason we can't have nice

1146
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:48,880
things. But he has a Does
he have a good lawyer? He did,

1147
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,600
He had Mark Sisty He's probably heard
of. Oh yeah, yeah,

1148
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:56,520
okay, yeah, yeah, he's
got a famous He represented Paam smart right.

1149
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,479
I don't know about that. I
thought he did Mark Sisty, Am

1150
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:02,960
I thinking of somebody else. I'm
gonna google it really quickly. I could

1151
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:09,119
have sworn Mark Sisty represented Pamela smart
I'm probably wrong, but I've definitely heard

1152
01:36:09,119 --> 01:36:12,479
the name. But maybe I've just
heard the name. Hell, maybe I've

1153
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:16,800
just heard the name because of because
of this case. But uh yeah,

1154
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:20,079
no, I was right. Yep, Mark Sisty, Yep he represented Pamela

1155
01:36:20,159 --> 01:36:25,920
smart Way. Interesting as a long
time ago. Yes, yes, so

1156
01:36:26,079 --> 01:36:29,760
he's he's been around a while.
Well, so Ian's an attorney is kind

1157
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:33,760
of famous. Um yeah, from
Conquered I probably I'd probably even met him

1158
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:39,000
at some point when I lived and
conquered. Um. Interesting. So uh

1159
01:36:39,119 --> 01:36:41,439
yeah, Well, you know,
I've always liked you and I'd hate to

1160
01:36:42,119 --> 01:36:45,880
hate to see him go to prison. But um but yeah, he's got

1161
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:49,560
a he's got a reputable attorney.
But like you said, yeah, it's

1162
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:55,520
hard to win in court against the
government of course. And now when they

1163
01:36:56,199 --> 01:36:59,680
you said, though they took all
his did they seize his assets because of

1164
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:01,720
the like, did they seize all
his bitcoin or did they do you know,

1165
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:06,319
if they did an actual civil asset
forfeiture where they just grabbed everything,

1166
01:37:09,079 --> 01:37:11,880
well, they just told him not
to access it, and claims that they

1167
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:15,640
couldn't get to it as themselves if
he can never access it again, which

1168
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:17,520
they might. They might tell him
that you can never access your own bitcoin

1169
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:23,479
again. Ever, they might say
that to him, uh and um,

1170
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:29,760
but they they did not try.
I don't think they tried to access the

1171
01:37:30,079 --> 01:37:33,159
uh you know, the bitcoin that
he has, you know, out and

1172
01:37:33,319 --> 01:37:38,119
out on the internet. They may
have decided it was too much work and

1173
01:37:38,119 --> 01:37:41,279
there's other ways that would get him
And they're always are right, like,

1174
01:37:41,359 --> 01:37:43,920
you don't have to have someone's password. If you have a hammer, you

1175
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:45,800
just hit him on the hand until
you they give you the password, right

1176
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:49,119
if you're the bad guy that's not
the fence behaved sort without the hammer.

1177
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:53,720
But did he have other assets that
they seized? Did Like, did he

1178
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:55,960
have other There was a lot of
Yeah, there was a lot of stuff

1179
01:37:56,000 --> 01:38:00,520
seized in the house, right right, He's like a hundred grand of cash

1180
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:04,439
that was in the house they sees
or over one hundred grand. I think

1181
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:11,520
they sees. They seized a few
casacious coins, which are physical bitcoins that

1182
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:14,159
had been in the house. They
were in a safe and I think I

1183
01:38:14,199 --> 01:38:16,960
think they've had you know, button
the safe open or whatever. Um.

1184
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,439
Anyway, but you know, the
place where Ian lives is just way too

1185
01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:24,760
much of it was obviously at some
point, you know, the drone strike

1186
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:28,399
was going to happen, Yes,
on the heads of whoever was in that

1187
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:30,319
place, which is whack right not
to spend a whole lot of time there.

1188
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:35,239
Um, there are other people that
lived there, they're all activists.

1189
01:38:35,239 --> 01:38:39,279
One of the others was a target
and was arrested. So it's just the

1190
01:38:39,319 --> 01:38:43,960
place was a honeypot and they shouldn't
have had so much stuff there that was

1191
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:47,840
of interest to the authorities. Um. But anyway that I don't know,

1192
01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:53,640
you know, there's other details I'm
forgetting probably, Yeah, No, I

1193
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:58,439
was just curious because, um,
I know that the government often uses civil

1194
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:00,840
asset forfeiture to put you in a
position and like what you were talking about,

1195
01:39:00,920 --> 01:39:04,439
where you know, they seize your
your assets and then you have to

1196
01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:09,199
fight them in court, but it
costs money to fight them in court,

1197
01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:13,319
and with what they've already seized your
assets, and the and what's even more

1198
01:39:13,359 --> 01:39:15,880
insidious. And I'm not telling you
you don't anything you don't already know,

1199
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:20,000
Dave, But what some in the
audience might not know is with civil asset

1200
01:39:20,039 --> 01:39:25,159
forfeit or two. What's even more
insidious with it is even if you so

1201
01:39:25,279 --> 01:39:28,560
if you go to court and you
fight and you win and you're acquitted,

1202
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:33,000
you don't automatically get everything back.
You then have to I've read so many

1203
01:39:33,039 --> 01:39:38,199
stories about this. You then have
to effectively sue the government to get your

1204
01:39:38,199 --> 01:39:43,880
stuff back that they seized before you
were even you know, when they when

1205
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:46,680
they went to arrest you effectively and
they already seized without due process, already

1206
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:49,319
took everything. Then you have to
sue them to get it back. But

1207
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:54,920
sue them with what Because you have
nothing they've taken at all, You have

1208
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:58,239
nothing to hire a lawyer with,
and then you're in a you know,

1209
01:39:58,319 --> 01:40:01,279
unless the same lawyer who who may
have been a public defender, because that's

1210
01:40:01,399 --> 01:40:06,000
because you couldn't afford an actual uh
I don't want to say a real lawyer,

1211
01:40:06,039 --> 01:40:10,119
but you know what I mean.
I mean, it's really, it

1212
01:40:10,199 --> 01:40:14,720
really is rigged against you. And
that's why a lot of people who have

1213
01:40:14,760 --> 01:40:19,479
their assets seized, even if they're
acquitted, they never get their stuff back

1214
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:24,880
because it's like, Okay, so
I was found not guilty. Now the

1215
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:29,079
government's supposed to give me back my
stuff except good luck, you got to

1216
01:40:29,239 --> 01:40:31,720
chase them for it, and that's
gonna cost money, money you don't have

1217
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:38,880
because they took all your stuff and
all your money. Yeah. Well again,

1218
01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:42,079
that's why we want That's why we
want the federal government. That's why

1219
01:40:42,159 --> 01:40:45,600
we want the US out of New
Hampshire. Now, our friend Scott Robinson

1220
01:40:45,680 --> 01:40:49,600
says, in the new New Hampshire, Dave, you would be able to

1221
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:55,119
say whatever you want to on the
radio if we secede. Well, there

1222
01:40:55,119 --> 01:40:59,119
wouldn't be any FCC regulations I guess, right, right, so you would

1223
01:40:59,159 --> 01:41:01,479
have no concern think about it.
I'm sorry, go ahead, I's gonna

1224
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:03,760
say so, you wouldn't have to
be concerned about whether or not you could

1225
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:06,239
say that word that you said,
which actually it was perfectly fine, but

1226
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:12,359
it wouldn't even be an issue.
Yeah. The FCC actually did go through

1227
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:18,880
Keen some years ago and rated that
some people were trying to broadcast you know,

1228
01:41:19,159 --> 01:41:25,000
I guess it was Liberty Radio Network
and it just provide some real competition

1229
01:41:25,079 --> 01:41:29,720
to the authoritarian radio station that broadcasts
locally. Yeah, And of course the

1230
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:31,680
federal government came in and went hunting
for them, and they were on the

1231
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:35,039
street. You know, trying to
tell people not to film them, and

1232
01:41:35,359 --> 01:41:42,000
that was caught on camera. And
they eventually found the community radio station that

1233
01:41:42,119 --> 01:41:45,079
wasn't licensed by them and shut it
down because you know, you got to

1234
01:41:45,119 --> 01:41:53,079
have the government's permission to criticize the
government in the airwaves. A number of

1235
01:41:53,159 --> 01:41:57,319
years ago, I it happened more
than once. Somebody, somebody here in

1236
01:41:57,359 --> 01:42:01,079
Manchester was was broadcasting some sort of
a pie radio station because I heard,

1237
01:42:01,199 --> 01:42:05,800
uh, I heard hip hop music
in my car with one of the frequencies

1238
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:10,479
where there wasn't usually a radio station. I heard hip hop music unedited.

1239
01:42:11,239 --> 01:42:15,039
Uh. It had happened more than
once, and but then it never happened.

1240
01:42:15,119 --> 01:42:17,119
You know, it happened a couple
of times within this span of a

1241
01:42:17,119 --> 01:42:19,239
week, two or three times,
and then I never heard it again.

1242
01:42:19,279 --> 01:42:26,199
But somebody was doing something here in
Manchester like that. But anyway, by

1243
01:42:26,239 --> 01:42:29,600
the way, speaking of radio,
which is still I mean, even the

1244
01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:33,720
authoritarian radio stations are better than YouTube
or CNN or something like that. At

1245
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:39,239
least you can call in and talk, right, But that's that's under threat

1246
01:42:39,279 --> 01:42:42,960
now too. You're under threat because
apparently they're starting to issue they're starting to

1247
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:46,960
put out cars that have no AM
radios. Well fortunately, yeah, we've

1248
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:50,319
talked about that on the show.
Now fortunately we're in your FM, I

1249
01:42:50,359 --> 01:42:54,800
guess, but yeah, we're we're
an FM station here, but yeah,

1250
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:59,680
and I know that. Um so
it was interesting. Uh yeah, this

1251
01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:02,760
came up on the show a couple
of months ago because Sean Hannity and what's

1252
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:09,680
the other guy, Mark Levin,
They did a segment on Hannity's show about

1253
01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:15,119
how you know, this is their
theory that liberals are the type of people

1254
01:43:15,119 --> 01:43:20,520
who buy electric vehicles, which is
why electric vehicle manufacturers are not putting AM

1255
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:26,199
in cars now because liberals want to
kill off conservative talk radio, which I

1256
01:43:26,239 --> 01:43:31,000
think is an absurd conspiracy theory,
as most of these, uh theories are.

1257
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:35,000
I think it's really just a matter
of um, you know, they

1258
01:43:35,039 --> 01:43:40,239
just don't they think they think AM
radio is a dying medium. But you

1259
01:43:40,239 --> 01:43:44,479
know what's funny, Dave, I
remember when I was a kid, people

1260
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:47,520
thought AM radio was on its way
out because FM. You know, everybody

1261
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:50,399
said, I remember being a kid
and hearing adults talking about it, how

1262
01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:55,520
FM was so much better and it
is obviously it's better quality and so forth,

1263
01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:59,119
but that AM was on its way
out but then it was the rise

1264
01:43:59,239 --> 01:44:01,800
of conservative talk radio. And there's
been books written about this, and uh,

1265
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:05,079
there's a book, a great book
called Right of the Dial. I

1266
01:44:05,079 --> 01:44:10,159
can't remember who the author is,
but it talks about this, about how

1267
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:15,439
conservative talk radio actually is what saved
AM radio that and they figured out how

1268
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:18,760
to get rid of that annoying whistling
sound and um, and then AM radio

1269
01:44:19,119 --> 01:44:23,960
went through a couple decades of really
thriving. But I guess now it's um.

1270
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:26,359
You know, with the Internet,
it's kind of slipping away again.

1271
01:44:26,399 --> 01:44:29,880
And these auto manufacturers are saying,
yeah, maybe we just won't bother with

1272
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:32,720
AM. I hope it. I
hope it sticks around, though I'd always

1273
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:39,760
rather have more choices than less.
And um, you know, if anything

1274
01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:43,600
ever happens here, which I hope
it, I hope it doesn't, But

1275
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:46,239
if anything ever happens here, I'd
like more options as far as where I

1276
01:44:46,319 --> 01:44:54,079
might land. But anyway, boost
an important radio is an important disaster resource,

1277
01:44:54,159 --> 01:44:57,720
you know, because when the grid
goes down, you still have radio

1278
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:02,479
keeps working when almost everything else failed. Right, Yeah, AM radio specifically,

1279
01:45:02,600 --> 01:45:05,479
that's one of the that's one of
the reasons. Um. And there's

1280
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:11,079
a bipartisan effort in fact, to
protect AM radio and to convince these autom

1281
01:45:11,079 --> 01:45:14,960
manufacturers to continue to put AM in
their cars for that very reason, for

1282
01:45:15,039 --> 01:45:20,000
immunity emergency communications if there's a disaster
of any kind. Um, So that's

1283
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:23,880
a that's a good point, Dave. We are, we are almost out

1284
01:45:23,880 --> 01:45:27,800
of show. But I appreciate the
call, and uh, please feel free

1285
01:45:27,840 --> 01:45:30,000
to plug again, h exit and
the plane with the banner or anything else

1286
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:34,520
you want us to know about before
you go. Oh yeah at us.

1287
01:45:35,680 --> 01:45:43,359
Very good. I love the irony
of the dot US. All right,

1288
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:45,079
Dave, all right, I appreciate
the call, my friend, have a

1289
01:45:45,079 --> 01:45:47,159
good night. All right, thanks
Matt, all right, you got it.

1290
01:45:47,159 --> 01:45:50,520
Bye bye. All right. That
was Dave Ridley and we are just

1291
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:55,840
about out of time, So thank
you everybody. Fun show today. Thank

1292
01:45:55,880 --> 01:45:59,159
you again to our friend Eric Pilcher
for joining us. I always enjoy as

1293
01:45:59,159 --> 01:46:00,880
we do every Wednesday, we talk
about media and you know, then we

1294
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:04,399
end up varying into other things as
as we do. But that's fun.

1295
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:09,640
I love talking to Eric and of
course DJ Reckless joining us, who's about

1296
01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:14,319
to tomorrow he's going to be flying
down to Nashville for a series of shows

1297
01:46:14,319 --> 01:46:16,800
there. We're very proud of him. Jenny and I are very proud of

1298
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:20,800
him, and he's doing great.
He works hard, he really does put

1299
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:25,920
a lot of tremendous effort into his
craft and it's really paying off for him,

1300
01:46:26,199 --> 01:46:29,319
and it's wonderful to see. Thank
you, of course everybody in the

1301
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:33,039
Facebook live chat. Sorry I didn't
it was a busy show. Didn't get

1302
01:46:33,079 --> 01:46:35,880
to pay too much attention to the
chat room. But we'll just look at

1303
01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:41,840
this quickly. Just I did see
our friend Mike from Queen City Cabinetry is

1304
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:45,479
in the chat. Mike says,
one of our great sponsors here at WMNH.

1305
01:46:45,520 --> 01:46:47,840
Mike says, good afternoon everyone.
I received a surprise letter in the

1306
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:53,800
mail yesterday at the show room.
Our friend Gary wrote a beautiful poem for

1307
01:46:53,920 --> 01:46:57,279
my dad. We spoke for about
an hour. He is truly a very

1308
01:46:57,359 --> 01:47:00,199
kind man. Oh yes, our
friend Gary. We love Gary. And

1309
01:47:00,479 --> 01:47:04,760
Gary did that for police also when
when Paul's father passed away. Of course,

1310
01:47:04,800 --> 01:47:10,720
policy from Retro Spectrum Radio with policy
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1311
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:15,399
pm here at WMNH Isaac Banks of
course in the chat room, Crystal,

1312
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:18,359
our friend from the Great State of
Illinois, Melanie La Liberty from the Great

1313
01:47:18,359 --> 01:47:26,279
state of Vermont. Uh, let's
see, Melanie had a lot of funny

1314
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:30,520
comments in there. Isaac Banks,
of course, from Greensboro, North Carolina.

1315
01:47:30,960 --> 01:47:33,039
Oh. Scott Robinson said, Eric, if you're still listening, Scott

1316
01:47:33,079 --> 01:47:39,479
wants to know if you've ever watched
the film Affliction with Nick Nolty. We

1317
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,640
can we can get that answer from
Erica next time we talked to him.

1318
01:47:43,479 --> 01:47:45,920
Um, I just want to make
sure we don't miss anybody in here.

1319
01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:48,479
I thought I saw somebody else pop
in here. I think I did see

1320
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:56,039
policy in the chat room earlier.
Um Crystal said, l ol Trump for

1321
01:47:56,159 --> 01:48:00,600
blaming Laura Ingram for bad polling.
Maybe he should sew his mouth shut if

1322
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:03,640
he wants better pulls. He is
the cause of his own problems. Oh,

1323
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:09,239
I've said that many times. Trump
is absolutely the cause of his own

1324
01:48:09,520 --> 01:48:19,159
problems. That is for sure.
Let's see all right, I think we

1325
01:48:19,279 --> 01:48:23,960
got oh. Tom Blanchard also in
the Facebook live chat to oh, this

1326
01:48:24,039 --> 01:48:29,279
is regarding our debt ceiling discussion.
Tom said, ticks me off to see

1327
01:48:29,279 --> 01:48:32,279
the news clip where everyone looks like
they are all laughing and seems like it's

1328
01:48:32,279 --> 01:48:36,640
a big joke. Yeah, some
of the House Freedom Caucus Republicans are having

1329
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:42,640
a little too much fun with this
whole debt limit fiasco. Yardbird Blue Sky

1330
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:46,560
joins us in the Facebook live chat. I strongly suspect that yard Blue Yardbird

1331
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:50,439
blue Sky is from Greensboro, North
Carolina. Also, I see Sepsis is

1332
01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:55,000
in the Facebook live chat. Hello
Sepsis. They will be on the show

1333
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:58,079
soon as a matter of fact,
but we'll talk about that a little bit

1334
01:48:58,079 --> 01:49:06,760
more tomorrow. They've got a big
show coming up, let's see. I

1335
01:49:06,760 --> 01:49:12,279
think we got everybody all right,
very good. If you miss any part

1336
01:49:12,319 --> 01:49:15,199
of today's show, it will be
up in just a little bit at WMH

1337
01:49:15,319 --> 01:49:19,399
radio dot org and on my website
Matt Connerton dot com. Today is Wednesday,

1338
01:49:19,399 --> 01:49:25,039
which means tonight is Industry Night at
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1339
01:49:25,079 --> 01:49:28,159
street. And don't forget tomorrow night
they have Trivia Night, as they do

1340
01:49:28,239 --> 01:49:32,159
every Thursday. If you are listening
live on WMNH. I believe a replay

1341
01:49:32,159 --> 01:49:36,039
of Granite State of Mind is coming
up next immediately following this show. And

1342
01:49:36,399 --> 01:49:43,079
don't forget to be back bright and
early tomorrow morning, seven am for the

1343
01:49:43,159 --> 01:49:48,479
Morning Show with Peter White, and
we're gonna leave you with h I see

1344
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:50,880
sepsis in the chat room. We'll
leave you with a little bit of sepsis

1345
01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:56,359
to close out today's show, my
favorite song from the band, Eyes of

1346
01:49:56,399 --> 01:49:59,800
Empathy. They've been through some changes
recently, but it looks like it's working

1347
01:49:59,840 --> 01:50:02,079
out, working out really well for
them, so happy about that. All

1348
01:50:02,159 --> 01:50:05,520
Right, we gotta go. I
will, I'll talk to y'all a little bit later