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one, two thousand twenty three, so

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nice have you all with me?
Friday, of course my favorite day of

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privilege of being one of excuse me, I'm being one of Paul's co hosts

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on that show. My allergies have
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installment of original versions of popular songs
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your favorite bands. And of course
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you happen to be in the Manchester, New Hampshire area, if you're outdoors,

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I would expect to get rained on
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it looks like it might already be
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It is not supposed to be that
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so definitely some storms coming. Once
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it here at just in time.
Today to avoid the wetness coming up on

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this show. Today, at the
top of the hour, we have Eric

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Pilcher's classic film review, as we
do every Friday, and this week the

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subject is Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, which I did see for the

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first time when I was a kid. Great film, and I would also

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say it might be timely in a
sense because not that this is one of

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the things I want to get into
today in depth necessarily, but although it

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would be an appropriate day for it
because of Eric's review. But you know,

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the government, a little by little
we learn more about the possibility of

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extra terrestrial life or something something going
on in the skies that can't be fully

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explained. Mike says in the chat
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Oh, or were you referring to
Easyg's comment about there is nothing better

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than a Queen City cupcake on a
hot day. Yeah, it's nothing like

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a delicious cupcake on a hot day. But yeah, so so we're gonna

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be doing that today. At the
top of the hour, I do want

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to another thing that we are going
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to kind of pick up where we
left off. But we'll we'll circle back

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to this the discussion yesterday at the
end of the show about the new Jason

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Aldean song Try That in a Small
Town and the video I had a chance

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to after the show, I watched
the video that goes with the song,

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So I have some additional thoughts and
reflections. Plus I've I've had Oh how

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dark it is. That's what Mike
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thing. Yes, it's very dark
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a summer day. But yeah,
I have some more thoughts to share about

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that and that controversy, and I
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guest of ours set about it on
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So I do want to get to
that. But I want to open

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the show with talking a little bit
about Tony Bennett passing away at the age

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of ninety six. Although he was
just shy of ninety seven, he was

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only a couple of weeks away from
hitting ninety seven. Now. Obviously,

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people are talking today about his music, his music career, his you know

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how he was able to bridge generations
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success, not only early in his
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and all of that, and I
feel like everybody else kind of has that

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covered already. But what I wanted
to look at a little bit was his

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his work as a civil rights activist. And this is what I thought was

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particularly interesting. And Nbcnews dot Com
as a story up that kind of focuses

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on this, and this is how
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It says here in the nineteen fifties, Tony Bennett watched with dismay as black

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musicians like nat King Cole and Duke
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dining rooms, and hotels. The
injustice he witnessed infuriated the younger singer.

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By the way, that kind of
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during his career. He was very
upset. There's a famous story about how

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when he was first getting to know
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Junior to open for him or something, and Sammy never showed up, and

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it turned out it was because he
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angry. Bennett wrote this quote,
I'd never been politically inclined, but these

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things went beyond politics. He wrote
this in the Good Life, his nineteen

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ninety eight autobiography, quote, Nate
and Duke were geniuses, brilliant human beings

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who gave the world some of the
most beautiful music it's ever heard, and

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yet they were treated like second class
citizens. The whole situation enraged me unquote.

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That's why when the artist and activists
Harry Bellifonte called up Bennett and asked

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him to join the Reverend Martin Luther
King Juniors Voting Rights March from Selma to

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Montgomery in nineteen sixty five, Bennett
accepted without hesitation. He flew to Alabama

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and linked arms with his allies in
the fight for justice. By the way,

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I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know
that. I did not know that

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Tony Bennett had participated in the Selma
March. I did not realize that.

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Bennett, who died today at age
ninety six, entered the American musical pantheon

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thanks to his velvety vocals, velvety
vocals, and seemingly effortless command of the

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standard songbook. But his civil rights
activism is another essential part of his legacy,

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and he viewed his entrance into King's
political movement as a crucial chapter in

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his life. He wrote in his
biography, quote, when the march started,

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I had a strange sense of deja
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a time twenty years earlier when my
buddies and I had fought our way into

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Germany. Unquote. Serving in World
War Two, Bennett's friendship with a black

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serviceman was condemned by white army officers. Bennett wrote, quote, it felt

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the same way down in Selma.
The white state troopers were really hostile,

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and they were not shy about showing
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all along the march route from Montgomery
to Selma, some of which was broadcast

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on the nightly news, and really
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ugliness that was still going on in
the South. Un Bennett was terrified,

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he recalled, but Bellefonte kept a
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the road ahead. In a side
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April, he was also ninety six
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here Bennett did not walk all fifty
four miles. Instead, he went ahead

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to Montgomery so he could be there
on March twenty four to greet King and

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sing for the marchers alongside Ella Fitzgerald, Pete Seeger, Joan Baias, Sammy

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Davis Jr. Mahalia Jackson, and
others. The day after the Stars for

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Freedom Rally, King delivered the how
Long Not Long speech on the steps of

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the Alabama State Capitol. Bennett wrote, quote, I'm enormously proud that I

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was able to take part in such
an historic event, but I'm saddened to

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think that it was ever necessary and
that any person should suffer simply because of

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the color of his skin. Unquote. When the Selma to Montgomery march came

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to an end, Bennett was driven
to the airport by one of King's supporters,

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Biola Liuzo, a white woman from
Detroit who had three children. He

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later learned that she was killed by
white supremacists on the drive back to Selma.

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Bennet committed himself to the cause of
racial equality. In the decades that

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followed, he advocated for gifted black
artists and pushed the corporate music industry to

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release their records. He joined the
artistic boycott of apartheid South Africa and performed

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for Nelson Mandela during the South African
president's first state visit to Britain. The

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crooner's abiding spirit of inclusion was clear
to his children, including his eldest son

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Danny, who recalled the wonderful childhood. In an interview with Good Housekeeping in

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nineteen ninety five, Danny Bennett recalled
quote, waking up to hear Count Basie

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and Duke Ellington jamming in our basement
unquote. Danny was proud that his father

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joined King's March quote before it became
fashionable among celebrities to publicly crusade against racist

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discrimination. He is a good man
and a good father, NTE. In

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two thousand and seven, Tony Bennett
was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk

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of Fame, a promenade at the
Martin Luther King Junior National Historical Park in

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Atlanta. The other inductees that year
included the Hollywood Icon Sidney Portier, who

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died last year, and Representative Maxine
Waters, Democrat of California, five years

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earlier. The King Center for Non
Violent Social Change, a nonprofit organization in

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Atlanta, bestowed on Bennett its twentieth
annual Salute to Greatness Award. King's widow

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Coretta Scott King, and the singer
richly deserved. I'm sorry, I said,

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the singer richly deserved the honor,
she said. Quote Tony is not

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only one of America's premier performing artists, but he was a deeply committed friend

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and supporter of my husband and the
civil rights movement. He has continued to

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support the efforts of the King Center
to fulfill Martin's dream, along with so

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many other great causes. Bennett,
for his part, told the Atlanta Journal

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Constitution that he was over the moon. In an interview with the newspaper,

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Bennett reflected warmly on his friendship with
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latter's example. He said, quote, Harry just reaffirmed for me that we're

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all political animals. When injustice is
happening, We're all such a small speck

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in the face of the universe.
Every single person on this planet is important

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and should be respected equally. Unquote. So that's that's a story from oh

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DJ, Steve says in the Facebook
live chat, good afternoon, Matt.

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My father's cousin, the late Tory
Zito, was his pianist and musical director

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for eight years. That's right.
I think I remember you mentioning that on

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Paul Show, Steve. Yeah,
very interesting. One other thing, uh,

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regarding Tony Bennett two that I wanted
to mention, and this also relates

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to, you know, he talks
about his time fighting in World War Two

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and uh, you know, and
some of what he had to deal with

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in terms of, you know,
being friends with black soldiers and how not

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everyone approved. Um. This is
from media dot Com. Tony Bennett's gripping

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account of fighting in World War Two
during iconic Howard Stern interview, says here

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he gave us seventy years of music, and now the iconic Tony Bennett is

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gone. The Grammy winning singer who
appealed to multiple generations, died at age

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ninety six. While he was lucky
enough to spend the vast majority of his

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life doing what he loved, Bennett's
life took a detour when he was drafted

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to serve in World War Two.
He described the experience in a famous twenty

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eleven interview with Howard Stern. Admitted
he was scared and said his time in

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the military made him a pacifist and
quote eliminated all bigotry from my life unquote.

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So here's some of that exchange.
So Stern said, so, when

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you were this young boy and you
wanted to sing, this war going into

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the army interrupted your life and interrupted
this passion. Bennett, I didn't look

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at it like that. Just everybody
had to go to war. It was

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just one of those things. It
was the most horrible war. Studs Circle

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in Chicago called it the good War
because it had to happen. Stern,

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there was nobody to stop Hitler.
The Japanese were Bennett, the worst philosophe

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in the world was created there.
Bennett also talked about witnessing racism against a

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black friend of his, a best
friend, pointing out that he quote had

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my stripes slice from a bigot captain
in the army. Un So here's that

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story that exchange. So Tony Bennett
on Howard's Show said this. He was

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the greatest guy. He was a
fantastic drummer, and we used to be

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in high school together. We met
in Mannheim, Germany, in the Truman

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Hotel. It was Thanksgiving. He
took me to his Baptist church and I

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said, well, they're allowing me
one guest in the Mannheim Truman Hotel.

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Why don't you join me? Well, if Thanksgiving dinner, he said,

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great, And so we were having
fun, and the captain came over and

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he said, Benedetto, that's my
family name. Get your gear, you're

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shipping out. They sent me to
the graves registration digging up bodies. Stern.

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You had to go to the graves, I guess of Americans and dig

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their graves and exhume their bodies.
Bennett, Yes, Stern. What was

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the point of that to bring them
home? Bennett? No, just to

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bury them. Stern. That's a
how horrible thing to see, Bennett.

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It's eliminated all bigotry from my life
as a result of that. It's a

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premise in my life that I think
one of the most important, I'm sorry,

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one of the most ignorant things that
could ever happen are people that are

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bigoted about other people. And there's
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in this article, although I'm not
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any profanity in it. Tony Bennett, I'm sure it doesn't swear at all,

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but Howard occasionally will. It's on
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so I I didn't really know honestly
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obviously I knew a lot about Tony
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much about his civil rights activism and
advocacy, and I or is world War

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Two experience, And it's interesting how
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in World War Two really kind of
solidify in him his uh rejection of any

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sort of bigotry or prejudice. And
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I wanted to focus on that,
um a little bit. Of course,

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you know, everyone's talking about his
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I mean, he really was able
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his music. We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton.

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Unleash. Who's this? It's John
Hopwood, John Hopwood. How are you

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sir? Fine? How are you
you found fine? Except for being frightened

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by the coming storm? I am
I'm frightened by the coming storm. I'm

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gonna hide under the desk. I'm
not really the microphone won't reach. Yeah,

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I'm older than you. So I
did know that Tony Bennett was part

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of the civil rights movement. Yes, the woman was named violently ozzo.

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I believe, and she was murdered
by the ku Klux plan that after driving

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Tony to the you know, the
place of the concert that came out in

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the nineteen mid nineteen seventies because they
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FBI informants with the Klan as a
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all people, I know, you
won't know who Don Meredith him because he

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was not only a football player,
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with Howard Cosell, you know,
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during the hearings about into the abuses
of FBI and CIA that he was an

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agent provocateur and that you know,
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it was And yeah, but Tony
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The army was segregated during World War
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who was long gone, Max,
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was African American. He was in
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him. Yeah, yeah. So, but Tony Bennett being Apalion probably was

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probably the subject of racism himself because
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captain was from the South. The
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was also against the Roman Catholic Church. And uh, but and the other

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thing that uh, this is just
a When The Good War, which is

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in our oral history about World War
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the Good War because people like Studds
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people of that generation, you know, the great writers like Norman Naylor and

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and Joseph Holler who wrote Catch twenty
two is the best novel ever written about

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the military, and they were a
cynical about World War two, as the

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World War One generation was a cynical
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quote. In other words, it
wasn't such a great war, right,

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But they actually took the quote.
The publisher, after being a big took

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the clothes out and and the Studds
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pretty much a lefty and against war. Yeah, I remember on of course,

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on all in the family, Archie
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W two, the big one.
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few women went to war, and
the population was much smaller than because you

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know, people got drafted, and
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eighteen to forty four. Oh really, I went as high as forty four.

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were not enlisting. Yeah, no, enlisting in the numbers. They needed

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to fight two wars, one in
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the way, when when did the
army when did the military desegregate? Would

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that would that have been in line
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was that? Nineteen eighty eight by
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of the reason strong Ferments and Southern
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because in the nineteen Democratic platform there
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Civil Rights up and pulled I would
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it was the Republican Party. The
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of the historic black colleges in the
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legacy. But you know that kite
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things shifted to the whole to control, like a whole week store at

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the junk about that. But by
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because the EAS alert just went off
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I'll just say my father was a
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anti Semites. Everybody was. Everybody
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which we call white people now or
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the university in the seventies, and
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he was there at Salmo. Yes, yes, yeah, no, it's

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been here all right, John,
thank you for the call. I appreciate

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it, all right. That was
the great John Hopwood. That does open

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the podcast for what you missed.
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but but if you are in the
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probably for all of in the surrounding
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terrible storm on the way, if
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want to move on, and I
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song, but I also want to
say hello everybody quickly in the Facebook live

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chat. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry
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mentioned earlier, Mike, of course
not only one of our great sponsors here

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three, but he's one of our
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I look forward to seeing him on
Friday nights. Jay Fed joins us in

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the chat from the great state of
Vermont, says a good afternoon and everyone.

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Jenny is in the chat room,
of course, and says shaloha and

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peeps. E ZG joins us in
the chat and says, happy freaking Friday

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to all peeps. My goodness,
Jay Fed says we are getting some much

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needed rain. I think he's being
he's making a joke. Of course,

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if Vermont it does not currently need
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Eric Pilcher is in the Facebook live
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Friday, which means in a little
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as we do every Friday, and
this week the subject is Close Encounters

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of the Third Kind. And this
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there, one of the computers just
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I've never seen before. Must have
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of course he also joins us on
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favorite Conservative in the first hour on
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us, and John expressed his deep
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the Republican nomination. But it is
actually pretty funny. Should go back and

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listen to a John's reaction was funny. Melanie Liberty, also from the Great

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state of Vermont, says, happy
blanking Friday. I can't say that naughty

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word on the air, of course, but the chat room is uncensored.

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Tom Blanchard joins us in the chat
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gas for the lawnmower. Yeah,
that's true. The rain does make everything

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grow, all this rain we've had. Melanie says, h, I just

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notice Easy G and I have the
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I think he blushes at naughty words. Let's see. E says welcome back

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to me, Yes, welcome back. John Hopwood is in the chat room

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and says, h, I thought
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career as an actor, playing Himie
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six. I'm not familiar with that. I didn't know that. Let's see

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DJ cve I mentioned is In the
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sit in with Tony Bennett one night? That's kind of a running joke around

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here. Rondo Favro joins us in
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I saw Tony in concert, voice
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by the way. Oh, And
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says, good afternoon. Quite a
storm out there. Yeah, I'm glad

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I'm safe and sounded here. I
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I'm not driving in it or caught
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of those people. I don't like
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don't like the way wet clothes feel
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about it. I'm like a cat. I don't like to get wet,

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except when I bathe obviously, one
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we will move on because I do
want to talk more about the Jason Aldean

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controversy about that song, but just
interesting to me. So what was it?

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done something with Lady Gaga. They
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DVD and you can stream it.
They did a duets concert together, or

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maybe they put out an album,
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a video of it too, and
Lady Gaga. I think this was also

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in a Howard Stern interview. She
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Bennett had been diagnosed, I think
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apparently at the point where he and
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was he was really struggling at that
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to him or someone said to him, Tony, it's time for whatever the

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song was that they were about to
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sing the song flawlessly like he wouldn't
he like, like just like when he

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was younger, Just no problem.
He could. And it is interesting too

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how people with whether it's Alzheimer's or
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know, they'll they'll forget things,
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but or even just you know,
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slip a little bit. But people
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they can. And there's been studies
the show, even people with advanced Alzheimer's

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they can remember songs. It's like
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mind. It's just really interesting.
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stays with you. John Hopwood says
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brain, doesn't it. I don't
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just I thought that was interesting.
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to if you missed yesterday's show.
We spent some time on this yesterday in

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the second hour. But the new
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Town is getting some controversy, and
I shared my thoughts yesterday. Now,

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people who are very critical of the
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the show, and this controversy had
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it live on the air and give
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spot reactions to it, and get
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and you know, without any I
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time to think about it or sit
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to just give you my instant reaction. And my verdict upon listening to the

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song was not guilty. I do
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itself is racist. Now, what
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the video in a moment, because
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was actually initially I was going to
play the video and not that you would

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see it because it's a radio show, but I was going to play it

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here on this computer and listen to
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so I could see the video at
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song. But then DJ Stephen the
chat room gave me the heads up and

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said, Matt, I think there's
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was right, there is. So
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the song. When I was a
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swore in songs. But you know
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video. I just played the radio
edit of the song that has the bad

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word removed. Miriam says in the
chat room, I did not like the

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video at all, and I'm not
sure if listening gives the same message.

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I have some thoughts on that, But

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my verdict on the song itself,
I said, not guilty. But what

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I did say was I can see
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like the song, really like the
lyrics, because some of the imagery in

407
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,599
it about good old boys and don't
mess with us and whatnot. Some of

408
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:48,240
that I can see how that might
evoke for some people as it did for

409
00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,480
me, I guess, because I
can empathize with someone having a certain kind

410
00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,599
of reaction to those lyrics. But
I did not feel that the lyrics in

411
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:01,559
and of themselves were racist. And
you know art, music is art,

412
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:07,559
and art is subjective and you can
project onto or take from whatever it is.

413
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,319
When it's art. It doesn't matter
if it's music or if it's a

414
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,759
painting that you look at. You
know, two people can look at a

415
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:20,440
painting and see completely different things,
or it might affect them in different ways.

416
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,559
People read books and have different interpretations
about what they've read. And you

417
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:30,480
know, anything any any kind of
art that's created. Now, some things

418
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:37,599
are blatant, some things are subtle, including you know what the message is

419
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,319
that maybe the person who created the
art is trying to put across. But

420
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,079
listen, I mean it is not
unusual. We had a discussion, in

421
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:49,799
fact, it was with John Hopwood. Yeah I see your comment, John,

422
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:52,400
and yes we will. I did
talk about that yesterday, by the

423
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,480
way, but we'll get to that
with the video. That is a very

424
00:32:55,519 --> 00:33:00,920
good point. But speaking of John, so we discussion here one day on

425
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:07,119
the show about Sweet Home Alabama by
Leonard skinnerd and some of the lyrics and

426
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:15,000
that some people interpret I say interpret
because again even music critics have different ideas

427
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:21,599
about what the song is really saying
in terms of you know it mentions it

428
00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,400
mentions George Wallace and the song not
by name, but he's mentioned in there,

429
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:28,920
you know, segregationist of course,
as he was a governor of Alabama.

430
00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:34,319
But people have different interpretations of that. Some people think Sweet Home Alabama

431
00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:37,279
by Leonard skinnerd is racist, some
people don't. Some people say, I

432
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:45,759
don't know. I think that again, talking only about the song, not

433
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:51,759
the video yet, but speaking only
about the song itself, I don't think

434
00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:55,039
the song is racist. But again, I understand how someone coming from a

435
00:33:55,079 --> 00:34:00,720
particular point of view might project something
onto it that may or may not be

436
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:05,519
intended. Maybe is intended. You
know, there are such things as dog

437
00:34:05,559 --> 00:34:13,559
whistles and you know, subtly implied
messages. But I think that I tried

438
00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:16,119
to think of it this way.
If you were to play that song for

439
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,400
me, if you were to say, Matt, listen to this song and

440
00:34:19,559 --> 00:34:22,960
I had no idea about any of
the controversy, and you just played me

441
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:27,320
that song and said, Matt,
pay attention to the lyrics and then tell

442
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,039
me what you think. Do you
think does anything about this bother you?

443
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:35,800
And I just listened to it,
I would say no. It sounds like

444
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:42,199
a standard modern country song about life. In a small town and we're tough

445
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,639
and don't mess with us. And
you know, I probably wouldn't think of

446
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:53,039
it much more beyond that, to
be honest. So I do not think

447
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:57,840
the song itself is racist. Now
the video. Let's get to the video.

448
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:05,559
I did watch the video after the
show. My ultimate conclusion, my

449
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:14,000
verdict actually does not change. I
come to the same conclusion. I don't

450
00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:21,559
think that I did not perceive the
video as racist, but I did not

451
00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:30,199
perceive the video as sort of innocuous
as the song either. The video definitely

452
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:42,760
very politically charged, with the imagery
of riots. And although there is one

453
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,960
thing I well, never mind,
I don't want to get I don't want

454
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,719
to muddle things with mentioning that.
But most of the imagery was, you

455
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,519
know, a lot of people rioting
and things like that, people burning the

456
00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:05,599
American flag and whatnot. Again,
the video in and of itself definitely politically

457
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:12,039
charged and definitely coming from a certain
political point of view, shall we say,

458
00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:15,679
ideologically, no question, no question
about that. The song itself I

459
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:22,960
don't think is politically charged. The
video is absolutely is. But the video

460
00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:24,920
in and of itself, that's probably
as much as I would say about it.

461
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,679
But again, as we discussed yesterday
on the show, and John brings

462
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,159
it up in the chat room,
the video was filmed at a courthouse where

463
00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:40,079
a black man was lynched. That
is problematic. That bothers me quite a

464
00:36:40,159 --> 00:36:44,719
bit. Now, Apparently that location
a lot of things are filmed there.

465
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:53,239
That's a popular filming location. It
is quite possible. You might think this

466
00:36:53,480 --> 00:37:01,079
naive of me, but I do
think that sometimes people, when people are

467
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:08,079
culturally insensitive or racially insensitive, however
you want to think about it, sometimes

468
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:14,239
it's because you know, they do
have some prejudice, be it over or

469
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:22,880
or sort of beneath the surface.
And sometimes people are just oblivious because they

470
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:30,360
don't think about those things. I
can imagine that it is. I'm willing

471
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:34,400
to let me put it this way. I'm willing to give the benefit of

472
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:39,880
the doubt that either they didn't know
or it didn't occur to them that that

473
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:50,480
might be a problem. It's entirely
possible just nobody realized it. Now,

474
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:57,360
I can tell you that when I
first read that, you know, that

475
00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,320
bothered me. I said, well, that's that's not good. But again,

476
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:07,960
I'm willing to offer some benefit of
the doubt on that we have a

477
00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:12,199
call. Hi, welcome to Matt
Connorton Unleashed. Who's this, Hey,

478
00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:15,360
Matt, it's Eric Pilch calling in. Well, Hello, Eric Pilcher.

479
00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:22,360
Hey, I just wanted to chime
in on this Jason Albean situation here real

480
00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:25,719
quick. I have a few minutes
left of my lunch break. Oh cool.

481
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:34,599
Yeah, let's let's not act like
here that Jason Alban has never been

482
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:43,800
in the headlines for any reason for
his political views. His views are at

483
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:52,639
best borderline alt right. His wife
has said some pretty inflammatory things. So

484
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:59,960
while I understand and appreciate your point
about how you don't think there was any

485
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:06,239
malicious intent there, I'm gonna flip
it and say I think the evidence against

486
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,800
him dictates otherwise. Interesting. Help
me out with something here, Eric,

487
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,840
because I don't know. I don't
know anything about his wife. His wife

488
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:23,360
has said some pretty inflammatory things.
I mean, I don't have the information

489
00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:27,519
in front of me because I'm at
my work desk. Yeah, I don't

490
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:31,239
dare look it up on my work
computer. Yeah. But yeah, his

491
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:38,719
wife, Brittany I believe as her
name, has said some pretty shocking things,

492
00:39:39,199 --> 00:39:45,679
and he has as well. I
mean, they've been borderline like typical

493
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:52,679
conservative views on certain aspects of society. Sure, but then you coupled those

494
00:39:52,880 --> 00:40:00,519
statements with the music video in the
song, and it's like, Okay,

495
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:09,880
the evidence doesn't give you a free
pass, right, And that's my point.

496
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:19,039
It's the evidence the past actions he
has committed doesn't give him this free

497
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:24,599
pass. I asked this, if
Kid Rock had done this song, would

498
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:30,320
Kid Rock be given a free pass? No? No, With Ted nug

499
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:36,840
absolutely not. Would. Hank Williams
Junior, who called us sitting president,

500
00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:44,639
compared him to Hitler. Ted Nugent
also comes to mind. Yeah. Um,

501
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:45,920
by the way, when when I
look up, when I look up

502
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:51,000
Brittany Aldine, um, I don't
find anything racist, but I do find

503
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:54,760
I guess she she caused quite a
bit of a stir over some transphobic comments.

504
00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,719
Oh yeah, I'm just saying in
general, so pretty plorable views from

505
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:08,400
that family. So this isn't like
ye to me. When I heard who

506
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,840
the artist was that did it,
I'm like, oh, okay, not

507
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:21,079
entirely shocking. Okay, it's interesting. It's interesting the same boat as Kid

508
00:41:21,199 --> 00:41:30,519
Rock in Ted mug In, Hank
Williams Junior just a conservative And I'm not

509
00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:32,480
even going to call him a conservative. To me, they are all right,

510
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:37,679
all right, individual that has a
very large platform with a very ignorant

511
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:45,239
fan base that buys into this crap. Interesting, I M see, I

512
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,320
didn't know much. I've never I'm
not a big country guy. I've never

513
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:52,320
paid much attention. Obviously. I've
always been aware of Jason Aldeen, especially

514
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,679
you know, working in the music
business, but I never knew much about

515
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,880
him. I kind of just assume
that most of these arests are pretty right

516
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:05,639
wing anyway, although sometimes people get
it wrong. For example, Toby Keith

517
00:42:06,199 --> 00:42:08,239
when when he put out that song
after nine to eleven, after we went

518
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,239
to war invading Iraq and Afghanistan,
he put out that song courtesy of the

519
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,800
Red, White, and Blue,
everyone assumed that he was a right wing

520
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,159
conservative and he was actually a registered
Democrat at the time. So you never

521
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,800
know. But um, but yeah, I didn't. I didn't know much

522
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,000
about Jason Aldeen until this, to
be honest with you. Yeah, yeah,

523
00:42:27,159 --> 00:42:37,000
it's I guess wish that again.
I want to say this carefully.

524
00:42:37,159 --> 00:42:43,320
I just wish if you have that
platform you would use it for good,

525
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,199
right and use it in a way
that could bring people together. You can't

526
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,119
sit there. And he didn't even
write the song. Someone posted in the

527
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:59,199
group right about all and everything they
posted is one hundred percent factual. It

528
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:04,960
came out May. They did use
Paola to get the MT to ban it.

529
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:10,480
They it wasn't even written by him. Yeah, apparently he doesn't write.

530
00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:13,800
From what I understand, that is
something I did learn about him.

531
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,320
I guess most of his hits are
written by other people. He performs,

532
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,559
but he doesn't actually write. Not
that there's anything wrong, not that there's

533
00:43:19,559 --> 00:43:22,760
anything wrong with that. That's not
a knock on him. I'm just saying,

534
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,880
though, it's interesting that he doesn't, you know, because most of

535
00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:30,960
you know, most country artists,
they do write their own music, right,

536
00:43:30,639 --> 00:43:36,440
And probably should have chosen a better
word there than right, but whatever.

537
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:44,440
Yeah, it's just utterly insane to
me that, like, there are

538
00:43:44,519 --> 00:43:51,719
people defending this, especially I get
it's a popular place to film scenes.

539
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:59,039
Yeah, but then you look again
the totality of the evidence, right,

540
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:06,639
right, How do you not know
this? And I mean I haven't watched

541
00:44:06,679 --> 00:44:09,559
the music video. I honestly have
no desire to watch the music video.

542
00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:15,679
I listened to the song and I
was just like, this is up there

543
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:27,239
with the forty five band singing the
national anthem. This is just it's it's

544
00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:32,559
just a way to generate fake controversy
for him to puff his chest out and

545
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:37,000
be patriotic. Well, it does, I mean to make it worse?

546
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,599
I was governor, posted on Facebook
today a great day to listen to Jason

547
00:44:42,679 --> 00:44:45,159
Aldan. Yeah, a lot of
people are posting on social media. You

548
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,840
know, I stand with Jason Alden
and all this. But but let me

549
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,239
let me ask you this though,
Eric, if you had heard that song,

550
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,519
just understand what you're saying about,
you know, the totality of the

551
00:44:55,559 --> 00:44:59,440
evidence and the context and everything.
But if you had just heard that song

552
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:00,960
without no who it was, do
you think he would have had the same

553
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:07,320
reaction. I probably would have been
like, oh, it's a modern country

554
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:14,639
song. Yeah, most of them
are black John Yokels, So probably a

555
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:21,760
touch of racism there, okay,
But again I would have aired on the

556
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:29,199
side of how do I would have
aired on this side of that to begin

557
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,679
with, um, without of hearing
this song, So I'm probably the wrong

558
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:37,079
guy to ask, Well, no, I'm just I'm curious. It's it's

559
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:42,079
very because one of the things that's
interesting to me about a moment like this

560
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:45,280
where something like this is happening.
It isn't even so much the controversy itself

561
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:51,159
that I'm fascinated by. I'm fascinated
by how how different people process this,

562
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,679
you know, especially someone like you
who thinks about these things a little bit

563
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,360
deeper, instead of just saying,
Okay, I'm going to check a box.

564
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,559
I'm either outraged or I'm not outraged. You actually you actually think about

565
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:06,960
these things. Um. So it's
it's that's why it's interesting to discuss something

566
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:12,159
like this with you and get your
perspective. Yeah, well I appreciate that.

567
00:46:12,559 --> 00:46:16,199
Um yeah. I just to me, I just looked at I heard

568
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:21,199
that. I read the name,
and I'm like, oh, oh no,

569
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,199
oh why But if you why But
if you didn't know who it was

570
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,360
and you heard the song, you
wouldn't. I just want to know if

571
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,760
I have this right, you would
I would have. I'm kind of in

572
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:38,639
the boat with you on it.
Yeah, I wouldn't have inferred much from

573
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,559
it than what I've heard from people
that have watched the video. Okay,

574
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:51,119
okay, um, so yeah,
I mean I don't watch this show anymore,

575
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,559
but I have a funny feeling South
Park is going to take a hit

576
00:46:54,639 --> 00:47:00,079
on this one. Oh I'm sure. Wow, south Park that's still on.

577
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,599
That's amazing, isn't it. That's
been that's over thirty years, right,

578
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,960
that that's been on nineteen ninety seven. Oh my god, I'm not

579
00:47:09,079 --> 00:47:13,199
as long as the Simpsons, but
still that's a long time. Wow.

580
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,440
Yes, But my lunch break is
over. I just wanted to chime in.

581
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:20,400
I'm glad you did. Thank you
for the call, Eric, I

582
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,079
appreciate it, my friend, Thanks
for having me anytime. All right,

583
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:27,519
bye bye, all right. That
was our friend Eric Pilcher. And I'm

584
00:47:27,559 --> 00:47:30,920
going to hold off just a couple
more minutes though on Eric's review, because

585
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:35,440
I see Billy Panter from Outlaw Radio
is in the chat room and he says,

586
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,800
I have to call in once Eric
has done. So Billy, go

587
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,079
ahead. The line is open,
sir if you want to get in and

588
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:44,000
then we can we can hold for
a few minutes on Eric's review, and

589
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,679
uh, yep, here he is. Billy Painter is on the line.

590
00:47:47,679 --> 00:47:52,880
Hey, Billy or bad Billy as
you like to say, Hey, how

591
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,000
you doing? Actually for the new
podcast? I do I actually go by

592
00:47:57,679 --> 00:48:00,960
Billy Painter for that one. I
think. I think that's good. I've

593
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:05,159
always thought Billy Painter is just a
cool sounding name to begin with. So

594
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,559
I if I've influenced you in any
way, I'm glad. But if I

595
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:10,000
haven't, that's fine too. But
I think that's great. You should.

596
00:48:10,039 --> 00:48:15,440
You should use that name. That's
good. You're fading out a little bit.

597
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:20,000
I don't know what's wrong with the
lines, but no outlaw radios where

598
00:48:20,039 --> 00:48:23,400
I take off the gloves. Where
this new one I keep it more clean

599
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:30,519
and professional. Gotcha, gotcha?
But um, I didn't call so much

600
00:48:30,639 --> 00:48:37,360
to talk about Jason Alden and try
that in a small town. I will

601
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,679
just make a quick comment on that
is me being from a small town myself.

602
00:48:45,079 --> 00:48:46,440
Eric Filcher, I'll love you to
death, brother, but I have

603
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:52,360
to disagree with you that because I
listened to the lyrics very closely, and

604
00:48:53,039 --> 00:48:58,719
whereas the video is very controversial,
I don't think there's anything racist about that

605
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,079
song. I from a small town, I understand it a lot more than

606
00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:07,000
others, I think so, And
to me, it's about a community that

607
00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:13,079
stands together. Um when the poop
hits the fan. So yeah, I

608
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,639
think, um, well, I
think that's basically what Eric was saying,

609
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:21,599
but he but he's looking at it
as he's looking at Jason Aldeen in a

610
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:29,480
larger contextum instead of instead of necessarily
the song itself. But I wanted that's

611
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:32,559
all I'm going to say on that, because Jason Aldean is not the only

612
00:49:34,159 --> 00:49:37,480
country artist who's in the line of
fire right now. I don't know if

613
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:44,800
I can't remember if he commented on
Luke Combs and his cover of Tracy Chapman's

614
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,639
Fast Car, I did. I
think I did catch something about that.

615
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,519
Yeah, some people are mad about
about Luke Combs covering her song. I

616
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:58,239
think that that controversy started to bubble
up. But then I think, at

617
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,280
least on my radar, the Jason
Aldeen thing kind of flew in and crowded

618
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,079
out the Luke Combs Tracy Chapman thing, and I lost track of it.

619
00:50:06,639 --> 00:50:07,679
But I think I know where you're
going with this, and I think I'm

620
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:12,000
going to end up a green with
you. But go ahead, Well,

621
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:15,400
I think this is I mean,
you know, I can understand why there's

622
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:21,400
a controversy over Jason Aldein and what
he did, but this is just utterly,

623
00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:28,679
very very stupid, and you know, The reason why Luke Combs covered

624
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:35,440
the song is because he fell in
love with it as a child and connected

625
00:50:35,519 --> 00:50:37,559
to the song and just felt the
need to cover it. Not only that,

626
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,719
he didn't change any lyrics. He
even, you know, just Tracy

627
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,159
Chapman wrote in the song, I
work in the market as a checkout girl,

628
00:50:46,199 --> 00:50:50,719
and he didn't change that. He
said checkout girl, even though we

629
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:57,280
know he's a guy. And when
that song was nominated for Grammys, she

630
00:50:58,159 --> 00:51:01,760
grossed millions off of it. But
some idiot over at the Washington Post,

631
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:07,239
I'm gonna I'm gonna quote what was
said here. As Luke combs hit cover

632
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:12,679
of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car dominates the
country charts, it's bringing up some complicated

633
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,760
emotions and fans and singers who know
that Chapman, as a queer black woman,

634
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:23,480
would would have almost no chance of
that kind of that achievement herself.

635
00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:29,519
I mean, you know, she's
nominated for Grammy. She gross millions off

636
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:34,119
of that off of her first album. And then Tracy Chapman herself came out

637
00:51:34,159 --> 00:51:37,159
and praised the song and that Luke
Combs did a good job and said she

638
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,639
never expected to be on the country
charts, but she's honored to be there,

639
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,840
right, And so for somebody who
just came out and said that is

640
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:51,599
just complete ignorance that on their part
without doing any research on the song.

641
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:59,679
Because not only is you know,
obviously Luke Combs is making money off of

642
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,360
this himself, but so is Tracy
Chapman. Every time it plays, they're

643
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,360
both getting paid. Yeah, and
actually, because she's the one who wrote

644
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,280
it, she's getting more of that
money than he is. And uh,

645
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:15,400
you're right. It says it says
here there's a quote from Tracy Chapman.

646
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,559
She says, the success of my
cover is unreal and I think it's so

647
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:22,280
cool. Oh no, I'm sorry, that's Luke. That's Luke Combs quote.

648
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:23,599
He said, the success of my
cover is unreal, and I think

649
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:28,239
it's so cool that Tracy is getting
recognized and has reached new milestones. But

650
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,599
it does say in this article too
that Tracy Chapman has been very supportive and

651
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:37,800
approves of his cover of her song, so she's on board. So yeah,

652
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:45,039
so there's really yeah, there's always
going to be somebody who finds something

653
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:50,559
wrong in a situation like this,
but oh yeah, here's I found the

654
00:52:50,599 --> 00:52:52,639
quote from Chapman, She said,
I never expected to find myself on the

655
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:55,559
country charts, but I'm honored to
be there. I'm happy for Luke and

656
00:52:55,639 --> 00:53:00,960
his success and grateful that new fans
have found and embraced Fast Car. Yep.

657
00:53:01,119 --> 00:53:07,000
So there you go. You know, there's a reason why Tracy Chapman

658
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:10,559
doesn't have a smartphone, doesn't have
a Facebook or a Twitter, or stays

659
00:53:10,599 --> 00:53:15,599
off all that. She very rarely
talks to the press. There's there's got

660
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:20,360
to be a reason too that,
you know. I mean, obviously she

661
00:53:20,519 --> 00:53:22,800
hasn't said anything about the stupidity,
and I don't think she wants to be

662
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:29,920
tied up in it. Yeah,
yeah, better to remain above above the

663
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,800
fray if you can, you know. And I'm sure she's you know,

664
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,199
she she's had a lot of success. I'm sure she has enough money she

665
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,119
can kind of stay out of it
not have to, uh get into the

666
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,280
muck and the mire of it all. A Fast Car is probably her biggest

667
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,079
hit, but she's she had a
couple other really big hits. Uh.

668
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,000
Give me one reason, I think
is the title that's a that's also a

669
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:52,000
big song. That might even be
a bigger hit now that I'm thinking about

670
00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:55,039
it, but yeah, she's had
a lot of success herself. Yeah,

671
00:53:55,599 --> 00:53:59,880
give me one reason that that came
out. I think of what ninety six

672
00:54:00,199 --> 00:54:04,760
and I remember it didn't get stopped
playing for the longest time. Oh yeah,

673
00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:07,360
yeah. So she's done, and
she had a couple of others suits.

674
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:13,480
She's done very well. Yeah.
So I mean to put her race

675
00:54:13,599 --> 00:54:19,400
and her sexual preference into it and
say she can't make that kind of achievement

676
00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:22,119
is just pure ignorance, right right. Absolutely, I agree with you,

677
00:54:22,199 --> 00:54:24,480
Billy. I thought I might.
I figured I knew where you were going

678
00:54:24,559 --> 00:54:30,039
with that, and uh no,
I'm in complete agreement. Absolutely. Anyway,

679
00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:32,920
I don't know what's wrong with the
connection, but you're fading in and

680
00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:37,360
out, so I'm gonna go ahead
and end it here. There's some very

681
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,360
bad weather going on here, so
that probably has something to do with it.

682
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:44,480
But Billy Painter, wonderful to hear
from you, my friend. You

683
00:54:44,639 --> 00:54:46,119
bet you have a you have a
wonderful day, all right, man,

684
00:54:46,199 --> 00:54:50,639
you two take care, Bye bye
bye bye. All right. That was

685
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:54,039
Billy Painter from Outlaw Radio and he
also has his newer show that he does

686
00:54:54,079 --> 00:54:59,000
with John Grosvenor. Out of Nashua. Billy is in uh In, Idaho,

687
00:54:59,119 --> 00:55:01,679
but John Grover or is local here
in Nashua, New Hampshire, just

688
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,480
up the road there, and they
do a show together called Patriot Confederation.

689
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,159
We are yeah, let's do this. We are a little bit past stop

690
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:15,519
the r so we're gonna go ahead
and get to Eric's film review. Let's

691
00:55:15,559 --> 00:55:20,760
see, and this week the subject
is Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

692
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,440
Great film. I haven't watched that
in a long time, but we got

693
00:55:24,519 --> 00:55:28,920
into a little bit of a discussion
about it too recently with John Hopwood when

694
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,079
he was here. But we're gonna
do this. Actually, I'm sorry,

695
00:55:31,519 --> 00:55:36,000
I'm I've got things in the wrong
order here. We're gonna take a break

696
00:55:36,039 --> 00:55:38,679
and show some love to our amazing
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697
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,440
pay the bills, so we'll do
that, and then we're going to go

698
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:47,760
from there directly into Eric's film review, and then after that we will come

699
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:52,159
back with the balance of our program. So there is plenty more to come

700
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:57,960
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h rips the no more more Humber
flight more Knights, don't tell me something?

723
00:58:07,679 --> 00:58:10,840
What the hell it's happening here?
It's flight number nine jan nineteen.

724
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:15,920
Watch it's that training region from the
name of the last station at Fort Waterdale.

725
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:20,519
They were doing talking grunts on at
all off both flights. Great flight

726
00:58:20,679 --> 00:58:24,480
these anymore no one. These planes
were reported missing in nineteen forty five.

727
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:42,599
When it looks brand new, where's
the miling? I don't understand the row.

728
00:58:42,960 --> 00:59:10,719
Hey, I'm a heller get hair, aliens, extraterrestrials, pod people,

729
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:17,119
martians, space invaders. No matter
what they have been called. Beings

730
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:24,280
from other planets or even other galaxies, have enthralled, captivated, and even

731
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:31,880
caused fear in film audiences since the
beginning of film One film made audience feel

732
00:59:32,039 --> 00:59:37,800
all of these emotions and even added
one of the most important feelings we can

733
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:45,840
have, that is hope. Released
in nineteen seventy seven, directed by Steven

734
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:52,320
Spielberg, coming off his successful third
film Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third

735
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:58,840
Kind introduces us to Roy Neary played
by Richard Dreyfus, a line worker in

736
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:04,199
Indiana that, while on a job, encounters an alien spacecraft that changes him

737
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:10,480
from everyday working stiff to a man
obsessed with beings from other worlds. Rounding

738
01:00:10,519 --> 01:00:16,400
out the starring cast is Terry Gar, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, and

739
01:00:16,559 --> 01:00:23,960
declaimed French director Francois Truffaux. The
introductory clip sets up the arrival of the

740
01:00:24,119 --> 01:00:31,480
beings with the mysterious reappearance of planes
in the Sonoran Desert that has long been

741
01:00:31,559 --> 01:00:37,400
thought to be lost flying over the
Bermuda Triangle. Our next clip builds the

742
01:00:37,559 --> 01:00:44,840
tension when air traffic controllers have to
prevent two aircrafts from colliding in the air

743
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:51,800
with a UFO. What makes this
scene important is it beautifully builds tension that

744
01:00:52,079 --> 01:00:55,559
is noticeable throughout the film, and
notice at the end of the scene the

745
01:00:55,719 --> 01:01:04,199
unwillingness by multiple parties to a knowledge
a possible UFO that could be interpreted as

746
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:12,280
disbelief that is constantly present throughout this
film. Let's take e WA four twenty

747
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:22,800
one nine one three four point four
four four wards here Ryn Island point out.

748
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:24,880
I gave you as on one twenty
two point five. I'll be running

749
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:32,039
one and then aft. Kind of
you having traffic for every thirty one one

750
01:01:32,679 --> 01:01:37,039
very thirty one negative. The only
traffic I have is a t W a

751
01:01:37,719 --> 01:01:42,840
L ten eleven in your six o'clock
position range fifteen miles ended out a gainy

752
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,599
DC nine in your twelve o'clock position
fifty miles. It's done by one.

753
01:01:45,599 --> 01:01:52,239
I'll take a look at rossendel Erry
thirty one tic criary of pro very is

754
01:01:52,239 --> 01:01:55,599
thirty one, Roger. I have
a primary target about that position. Now,

755
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,639
I have no known high light field
traffics done by one. Check lover

756
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:05,159
Dick what you're check low altitude and
you've been a who this is thy one.

757
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,719
The topic is not lower than us
one o'clock. Now they'll about me

758
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:15,039
into ending. Every is thirty one
can use the aircraft type negative center.

759
01:02:15,599 --> 01:02:21,559
We distinct outline the two at the
time, it is rather break it.

760
01:02:22,599 --> 01:02:25,840
That's the brightest to any quisition lights. I think I've ever seen all any

761
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:31,239
white to rest colors are a little
striking center. D W. Way finds

762
01:02:31,239 --> 01:02:37,920
in the team traffic man of extra
bright landing light. I thought airing at

763
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,920
his landing light off it being satellite. Every is dirty one. Now you

764
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,559
have the primary target now, and
you're kind about position. I've never had

765
01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:58,800
anyone rugged center be a problem.
Now you can about being too lonely way

766
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:04,960
exact. Everybody one, okay,
every even Donny one the Trammick can he

767
01:03:05,039 --> 01:03:07,519
had he went from my way hill
were turning way and maybe pla a whole

768
01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:10,960
free fight year down every thirty one
to sign nineteen finalvel three one yar own

769
01:03:12,079 --> 01:03:14,320
great Knaghan and troop a corn turn
right twenty degree, you know on the

770
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:21,000
part of the forty five there and
every jet decent Napolis only test operations Restricted

771
01:03:21,039 --> 01:03:25,119
area two fives YERL eight, Ryny
one Rocker traffic here quite long with internator

772
01:03:25,159 --> 01:03:29,480
to gibling some non bolistic motion over
roger very is thirty one? Continue to

773
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,920
sign a joy this question over?
Okay? Now, Donna filas distress had

774
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:37,960
approved the trafficking approaching head on altered
right and really moving and right by it

775
01:03:37,159 --> 01:03:40,840
right now. But that was really
close very thirty one. It's out of

776
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,599
three to four year old. The
traffic past them if they want to report

777
01:03:44,639 --> 01:03:53,519
officially A five seventeen? Do you
want to report a UFO A five seventeen?

778
01:03:53,599 --> 01:04:00,920
Do you want to report a UFO
over making it food men water report

779
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:09,760
are is thirty one? Do you
wish to report a UFO those data are

780
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,039
is thirty one? Do you wish
to find a report of any kind of

781
01:04:12,119 --> 01:04:16,559
him? However, what kind of
report? Twilve n are he's thirty one?

782
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,960
Me neither. I'll try to track
traffic the destination of him. That

783
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:31,360
disbelief and unwillingness to acknowledge eventually turns
into panic in fear. Our next scene

784
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:36,920
takes place at a radio telescope center
where a group of individuals are trying to

785
01:04:38,039 --> 01:04:44,760
decipher the signal being sent from the
beings. Their inability to do so leads

786
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:50,159
to them comedically rolling a twenty five
hundred dollars giant globe down the hallway to

787
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:57,760
pin down the coordinates that the beings
are sending them. The conclusion of this

788
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:04,119
scene also the fleet introduces us to
truro Foes, famed role of Claude laying

789
01:05:04,239 --> 01:05:09,239
comb. Here are the pedals.
We just received two fifteen minute broadcasts.

790
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,880
These non randoms like one hundred and
four rapid pulses after a five second innival,

791
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,880
forty pulses, another five second break
and the thirty pulses, sixty seconds

792
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,280
of silence, and then an entirely
new set of numbers forty break five,

793
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:24,199
thirty six, break five ten,
one hundred and four rapid pulses come hard,

794
01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:28,679
wait sixty seconds, and the whole
dogs one thing repeats. Where these

795
01:05:28,719 --> 01:05:31,960
signals coming from right in the neighborhood, light travel time rockby seven seconds.

796
01:05:32,039 --> 01:05:36,360
It's well within the plane of the
eclipance missions. He's non randoms are forty

797
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:40,960
thirty sixty ten. Response to that, no, they should be. We've

798
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:44,440
been sending out this musical combination for
weeks before were getting back a number.

799
01:05:48,559 --> 01:05:53,880
This could mean the Indy of Sounds
reached the Dandy to help me the thing.

800
01:05:54,519 --> 01:06:01,000
There's so much that we don't know
about where the signals originally. Excuse

801
01:06:01,039 --> 01:06:15,920
me, excuse me. Before I
got paid to uh speak French, I

802
01:06:16,239 --> 01:06:27,920
U I used to read maps.
This first number is a longitude. Yeah,

803
01:06:28,639 --> 01:06:32,440
two sets of three numbers degrees,
minutes, and seconds. And the

804
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:38,440
first number has three digits and the
last two were below sixty. Obviously it's

805
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:42,760
not in right ascension and declination on
the sky. You have to be Earth

806
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,159
coordinates. Truly, somebody. There's
a globe in the County Supervisor's office.

807
01:06:49,480 --> 01:07:13,079
There's a release, it's a tent. What are you guys doing all the

808
01:07:13,199 --> 01:07:21,000
thing? The antenna? How um
hold? Each way? Is the antenna

809
01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:31,960
point northeast. We're going to need
a geodetic survey map of Wyoming. I

810
01:07:32,079 --> 01:07:38,440
want this down to the square.
Yeah, man, I don't know,

811
01:07:40,000 --> 01:08:06,159
I don't know. Just this any
day, inky day this year. There

812
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:15,519
are quite a few memorable performances in
this film, the aforementioned Trufaux in Balaband

813
01:08:15,239 --> 01:08:20,560
Melinda Dillon. You may know her
as the mother from the film A Christmas

814
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:26,840
Story, But there is one that
does stand out, and that is the

815
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:32,439
performance of Dryfuss as NEARI. There
were many considered for this role, as

816
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:39,960
mentioned on Wednesday's episode of Matt Connerton
Unleashed, including Gene Hackman, and one

817
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:45,960
of the biggest film debates is how
this role would have been with Gene Hackman

818
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:54,079
as Near. Despite this, Dryfus
does this role justice in encapsulating the essence

819
01:08:54,119 --> 01:09:00,600
of nearing. Our last two scenes
show this. First, we here Neary

820
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:06,159
as an everyday family man trying to
teach his son about fractions. Then,

821
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:13,439
at the peak of his obsession,
in broad daylight, Neary begins digging up

822
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:19,560
dirt trees and throwing it through the
windows of his house and even trash.

823
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:27,800
His neighbors are watching this crazed behavior, and this eventually leads to his family

824
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:36,479
leaving him. This clip also showcases
Terry gars amazing understated performance as his wife

825
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:43,399
Ronnie. I don't you do your
problems for you? That's why I graduated,

826
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,760
so I don't have to do problems. I don't understand these fractions,

827
01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:54,000
all right? What's one third of
sixty? That's a fraction I don't understanding.

828
01:09:54,159 --> 01:10:00,600
All right. Let's say that this
box car is six defeat long,

829
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:04,319
okay, and one third of it
is across this switch here, all right,

830
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:14,279
okay, and now another train is
coming now how far do you have

831
01:10:14,399 --> 01:10:16,880
to move this box car off the
track so that the other train doesn't smash

832
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,880
it? Quickly? Brad? If
there are thousands of lives at stake,

833
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:30,640
Brad, any answer and now Roy's
breakdown. That's what I was gonna say.

834
01:10:32,199 --> 01:10:42,479
All right, come on, man, do this? Can we go

835
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:54,680
good? In my window? Stop? Stop funny? If I don't do

836
01:10:54,800 --> 01:11:01,159
this, that's what I'm gonna need
a doctor. Do it? What are

837
01:11:01,159 --> 01:11:03,880
you doing? I got it?
What are you thinking? Well, I'm

838
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:08,239
figuring it out. That's all we
could. Just listen, no running.

839
01:11:08,399 --> 01:11:11,199
Look you ever look at something when
it's crazy and then you look at it

840
01:11:11,399 --> 01:11:14,760
in another way and it's not crazy? I haven't come on, Ronnie,

841
01:11:15,039 --> 01:11:16,840
just listen. I don't know if
you just close your rise with finness,

842
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,479
because close your eyes and hold your
breath. No, it'll be really pretty

843
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:25,560
right. That's scaring us. Now, don't be scared. Just don't be

844
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:28,119
scared. I feel really good.
You think he's gonna be all right?

845
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:35,760
I haven't felt this good in years. Okay, don't know what else?

846
01:11:36,359 --> 01:12:29,359
What else? Right? Thank you? Chicken wire. Whatever you're doing is

847
01:12:29,359 --> 01:12:33,319
against the law. He's putting it
fat missus life I'll take it, take

848
01:12:33,359 --> 01:12:38,239
it ill. You look on this
fence right here? You come with me?

849
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,600
Do you want me to hit you? You look doing at this show?

850
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,640
We listen to me, Listen to
me. Please come on right now,

851
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:45,880
we're we're going. Come on,
come on here here, let's go

852
01:12:45,960 --> 01:13:13,359
in the come on, he shre
we going? Where are we going?

853
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:16,319
There? We going in the car? There we go. We quickly get

854
01:13:16,359 --> 01:13:29,560
Arey's going to ye lock the doors? What just lock the door? Un

855
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:35,439
right house? You need funny?
Where are you gonna? What are you

856
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:44,960
gonna taking kids to my sisters?
It's crazy? Not even dressed? What

857
01:13:45,279 --> 01:14:08,840
he said? What funny? The
holy one minute. This film was wrought

858
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:15,800
with production problems that led to the
film's release being delayed from a summer blockbuster

859
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:21,760
to a limited release in November of
nineteen seventy seven and a national release December

860
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:29,000
fourteenth of nineteen seventy seven. It
started slow, grossing over a tad over

861
01:14:29,359 --> 01:14:33,199
ten million dollars its opening weekend.
More theaters were added the week before Christmas,

862
01:14:33,279 --> 01:14:36,880
and the film made over twenty four
million by the end of the second

863
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:43,039
week. Overall, it made two
hundred and eighty eight million dollars worldwide.

864
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:49,039
It was the most successful Columbia Pictures
film at that point and saved the fledgling

865
01:14:49,279 --> 01:14:56,680
studio from ruin. Critics have heralded
the film since, and it is one

866
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:02,079
of the most highly regarded science fiction
film films. The Academy Awards took notice,

867
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:09,399
giving the film nine nominations, including
Best Director for Spielberg and Best Supporting

868
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:15,520
Actress for Melinda Dillon. It won
two for Best Cinematography and Special Achievement.

869
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:24,560
This film is breathtaking with its music, lighting, special effects, and its

870
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:30,079
gripping, compelling story was one not
seen in science fiction to that point.

871
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:36,560
When this review started, I spoke
of hope. The hope this film conveys

872
01:15:38,039 --> 01:15:43,439
is that we should not fear those
beings humans are otherwise that we do not

873
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:48,159
know. We should seek them to
find answers and make the unknown known.

874
01:15:49,359 --> 01:15:54,159
That is the message of hope that
this film conveys to me, in a

875
01:15:54,279 --> 01:15:59,359
message we should all view and carry
with us in earnest. I hope you

876
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:02,720
joined me next week when we will
look at the film that gave Quentin Tarantino

877
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:09,800
his start in Hollywood. This film
is written by Tarantino and directed by Tony

878
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:15,720
Scott. We will look at the
crime romance Caper, True Romance for WMNH

879
01:16:16,039 --> 01:16:21,600
and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has
been a classic film review with Eric Pilcher.

880
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:08,680
Welcome back everybody as we cruise into
our final segment today or of the

881
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:13,159
week, really here on Matt Connerton
Unleashed on this Friday afternoon. By the

882
01:17:13,199 --> 01:17:16,359
way, there were a couple of
eas warnings, so I did hear the

883
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:20,920
words flash flood, which we hear
quite a bit lately. So I hope

884
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:26,479
everybody is safe out there. If
you're local to this area or wherever you

885
01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:28,680
are, wherever you might be listening
from, I hope you're safe. But

886
01:17:29,199 --> 01:17:33,960
this is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we
are live from the studios of WMNH ninety

887
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:39,840
five point three FM in glorious downtown
Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast

888
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:42,840
ninety seven if you're in Manchester,
and hello to all of our online listeners

889
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:45,800
across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt

890
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:48,960
Connerton dot com for all your live
streaming options, social media lenks, contact

891
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:55,000
in folk show archives, etc.
Etc. Today is Friday, July twenty

892
01:17:55,119 --> 01:17:58,640
one, two thousand, twenty three. Nice to have you all with me.

893
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:00,520
By the way, it is Friday, which means it's my long day

894
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:04,399
here at WMH, and I do
love it so because not only do we

895
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:10,119
have this program for another about twenty
two minutes, but I will be back

896
01:18:10,199 --> 01:18:14,960
tonight from eight to eleven PM for
retro Spectrum Radio with Paul Lec as we

897
01:18:15,079 --> 01:18:16,680
do every Friday night, and I
have the honor and privilege of being one

898
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:20,279
of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with our friends DJ Steve and

899
01:18:20,399 --> 01:18:26,399
of course Mike from Queen City Cabinetry
in the historic son b Mall, who

900
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:30,520
not only one of our great sponsors
here at WMH, but also one of

901
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,640
our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio. And here's what Paul posted on social

902
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:40,840
media. For tonight's show, We'll
be featuring our third installment of original versions

903
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:45,800
of popular songs that you had no
idea were covers by your favorite bands.

904
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:47,359
By the way, this is a
kind of show I love where I get

905
01:18:47,399 --> 01:18:51,159
to learn stuff. I'm really looking
forward to tonight, and of course,

906
01:18:51,199 --> 01:18:56,079
an all new name at nine at
nine will DJ Steve hold this title?

907
01:18:56,199 --> 01:19:00,560
That's part I don't look forward to
as much because DJ Steve always rushes me

908
01:19:00,039 --> 01:19:06,119
and it is humiliating and embarrassing,
as I experienced the defeat at the hands

909
01:19:06,199 --> 01:19:13,520
of DJ Steve. But you know
I swear too like when we do that,

910
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,560
and if you don't know what I'm
talking about, so we do that.

911
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:19,079
Name that nine at nine Paul plays
nine riffs, just little snippets of

912
01:19:19,159 --> 01:19:25,000
songs, and then we have to
figure out what they are. And very

913
01:19:25,159 --> 01:19:28,600
very often Steve just beats me by
a hair. You know, one of

914
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:30,159
us has to say, got it
when we know what it is. And

915
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:34,359
as Steve will just he's just stop. He gets it a half second quicker

916
01:19:34,399 --> 01:19:39,439
than I do. But perhaps tonight
I will make my rousing come back.

917
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,880
I'm not sure I've ever beaten him. I think he wins every week.

918
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:45,439
But that's okay. It's fun.
It's a lot of fun. Join us

919
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:49,479
for the fun. Speaking of fun
at eight pm Eastern tonight, and don't

920
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:54,600
forget next Friday night on the twenty
eighth, will be joined in studio by

921
01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:59,359
the lovely and talented producer and director
Aaron Zadofski. Don't miss it. That'll

922
01:19:59,359 --> 01:20:00,840
be fun too. And by the
way, we do recommend if you're going

923
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:06,720
to join us online for retro Spectrum
Radio. Please sign into the Facebook live

924
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:12,119
chat, but also open a second
tab on your browser at WMNH radio dot

925
01:20:12,279 --> 01:20:15,479
org and click listen live. Paul
does mute the audio on the Facebook feed,

926
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,760
so we'd love to have you in
the chat room to talk with us,

927
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:23,119
but open a second tab on your
browser to listen to the show uninterrupted,

928
01:20:23,279 --> 01:20:27,960
unimpeded in stereo. If you heard
about this, it's a new thing

929
01:20:28,359 --> 01:20:31,359
stereo, stereophonic or something. It's
great. All the kids are talking about

930
01:20:31,399 --> 01:20:34,199
it. It's very exciting. But
no, but we do look forward to

931
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:38,159
to that. So that will be
tonight from a to eleven pm in the

932
01:20:38,239 --> 01:20:41,079
meantime, so we have a few
minutes left on today's show. If you'd

933
01:20:41,159 --> 01:20:44,720
like to get in with a call, six zo three two five six z

934
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:46,840
seven is the number six zo three
two five zero six zoo seven. You

935
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:50,600
can also text me at six one
seven nine one seven four four seven six.

936
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:56,000
I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at

937
01:20:56,079 --> 01:21:00,399
Matt Connerton dot com. Then of
course you can interact endo Pine in the

938
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:01,680
Facebook live chat. But the best
thing to do so that we can hear

939
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:05,439
and enjoy your dulcet tones is to
give us a call at six three two

940
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:10,880
five six Z seven six zo three
two five zero six zo seven. By

941
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:15,039
the way, thank you to our
friend Eric Pilcher for a great film review

942
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:19,119
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
It's a Eric's reviews are a very popular

943
01:21:19,199 --> 01:21:21,880
segment on the show. We look
forward to every Friday with those. I

944
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:27,279
also threw in a little bonus after
that before we came back, I played

945
01:21:27,319 --> 01:21:31,079
a Fast Car by Luke Combs,
the cover of the Tracy Chapman song that

946
01:21:32,039 --> 01:21:35,159
our friend Billy Painter was talking about
when he called in, And there was

947
01:21:35,199 --> 01:21:38,960
a little bit of controversy about that, but that seems to have blown over

948
01:21:39,039 --> 01:21:44,800
and been replaced largely by the Jason
Aldean controversy. But the Luke Combs controversy

949
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,439
is really much ado about nothing.
I really I had not listened to his

950
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,520
version of that. I'm gonna tell
you this, and this might get me

951
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,880
in a little trouble with some people, but I'm just gonna be honest with

952
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:57,279
you. I kind of like his
version better now. Part of that might

953
01:21:57,319 --> 01:22:00,199
be because I've just heard the original
one hundred thousand times, because that was

954
01:22:00,319 --> 01:22:04,439
a that was a monster hit when
I was a kid. That was a

955
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:09,399
huge hit song. Um, So
maybe part of it is just being tired

956
01:22:09,399 --> 01:22:12,880
of hearing the Tracy Chapman version.
But I really like I'm not a big

957
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,720
country guy, so I haven't heard
much of Luke Combs. I've been aware

958
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,600
of him. I think he's I
think he's young. I think he's relatively

959
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:25,359
new on the scene, so we
say. But I really like his voice,

960
01:22:25,399 --> 01:22:28,640
and I really like the way he
does that song, and I do

961
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,199
appreciate and I was listening for it
too, because Billy had pointed this out

962
01:22:31,239 --> 01:22:35,079
when he puts it in when he
when he called in rather U when uh,

963
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:42,680
when Luke Combs uh did the song, he was so respectful and so

964
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:47,159
faithful to the original in terms of
the lyrics that he doesn't even change that

965
01:22:47,319 --> 01:22:51,279
line about you know, working as
a checkout girl. He kept the line

966
01:22:51,279 --> 01:22:54,760
exactly the way it is. He
doesn't change it to working as a checkout

967
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,640
boy, or working as a checkout
guy or something, you know, he

968
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:01,159
kept he kept the lyrics exactly the
way she wrote them, which very very

969
01:23:01,199 --> 01:23:05,960
cool that he did that. So
no, I like it. I like

970
01:23:06,079 --> 01:23:11,880
it. I'm glad Billy mentioned that
when he called Eric. Nana Rone says

971
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:15,119
in the chat room, good song, and Tom Lanchard says, I'm going

972
01:23:15,159 --> 01:23:18,479
to have some birthday cake this weekend
and maybe get a little wiser. I

973
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,720
don't know about that. Lol.
Does birthday cake make you? Why?

974
01:23:23,039 --> 01:23:26,800
Oh, I get it. It's
your birthday and you'll be older and wiser.

975
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:30,680
Yes, well, happy birthday,
Tom Blanchard. Apparently it is Tom's

976
01:23:30,159 --> 01:23:34,239
birthday this weekend, So very good. I don't eat birthday cake anymore myself.

977
01:23:34,359 --> 01:23:38,000
The last time I had a piece
of birthday cake I talked about this

978
01:23:38,079 --> 01:23:40,800
on the show is a couple of
months ago. I hadn't eaten anything like

979
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:44,439
that for a really long time,
with that much sugar. I never had

980
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:45,760
much of a sweet tooth anyway.
Maybe growing up I did, but as

981
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:47,800
an adult I never have. So
it's not like I eat a lot of

982
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:51,840
that stuff. But I had gone
a really long time without eating anything like

983
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:55,119
that. And the last time I
had a piece of birthday cake, the

984
01:23:55,319 --> 01:24:00,359
stomach ache that I had after going
a long time without having that all that

985
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:04,239
sugar, all that white sugar at
once. Oh, it was so uncomfortable,

986
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:09,279
And I really think that that was
my body's way of saying, hey,

987
01:24:09,399 --> 01:24:11,800
dude, you don't eat this stuff
anymore. What are you doing?

988
01:24:12,239 --> 01:24:15,159
It was so I'm not trying to
ruin your thoughts of birthday cake. Tom,

989
01:24:15,239 --> 01:24:19,319
I'm sorry. I just it was
so uncomfortable. I almost thought there

990
01:24:19,399 --> 01:24:23,520
was something medically wrong with me.
The best way I can describe it is

991
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:26,199
this, you know, the sensation
you get when you have heartburn. It

992
01:24:26,359 --> 01:24:30,600
was like having heartburn, but in
my stomach. It wasn't a normal stomach

993
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:32,039
ache like we feel like, oh
I ate too much or something like that.

994
01:24:32,399 --> 01:24:35,600
No, it was like having heartburn. But in my stomach it was

995
01:24:36,359 --> 01:24:41,600
alarming, frankly, and I just
said, that's it no more for me.

996
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,800
Tom says, chocolate cake with chocolate
frosting. See that does sound good,

997
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:51,000
Tom, that sounds delicious. And
yet, and yet I would not

998
01:24:51,119 --> 01:24:55,279
eat it myself, only because of
what happened to me the last time.

999
01:24:55,399 --> 01:24:58,760
Granted, the last time when I
did have a piece of somebody's birthday cake,

1000
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,960
it was vanilla. It was not
chocolate. Maybe the chocolate would be

1001
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:04,880
okay, I don't know. Scott
Robinson says, what about pineapple upside down

1002
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:11,159
cake? That's delicious I have to
tell you, Scott, that sounds disgusting

1003
01:25:11,239 --> 01:25:15,560
to me. Actually, but pineapple, anything sounds disgusting to me. I

1004
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,920
think that pineapple, I dare say, is the devil's food. What do

1005
01:25:19,039 --> 01:25:23,359
they put in devil's food cake?
Is it pineapple? I have no idea,

1006
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:28,000
but it wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't
surprise me at all. By the

1007
01:25:28,039 --> 01:25:30,640
way, lots of positive feedback in
the chat room for Eric's film review.

1008
01:25:34,319 --> 01:25:39,039
Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says,
of course, Erica reviewed Close Encounters of

1009
01:25:39,159 --> 01:25:43,439
the Third Kind of Mike from Queen
City Cabinetry says absolutely my favorite movie,

1010
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:48,319
and Melanie says great movie makes me
crave mashed potatoes. Yes, that is

1011
01:25:48,359 --> 01:25:53,399
a famous scene in the film.
Jeff Nyan joins us in the Chireman says,

1012
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:58,439
Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple is the
best? Are you out of your

1013
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,760
mind? Are you literally really from
hell? That is the food of Satan?

1014
01:26:02,279 --> 01:26:08,159
You cannot eat that? That is
horrible? I can't. I frankly,

1015
01:26:08,359 --> 01:26:10,920
Jeff, I like you. I
think you're a wonderful person. But

1016
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:14,960
I must tell you, in this
particular moment, I am a gast.

1017
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:19,239
A gast, I say oh,
I'm gonna This has never happened in the

1018
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:23,840
history of the program, and I
don't think it would necessarily. I don't

1019
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:28,960
think management would like this very much. But I might actually begin vomiting uncontrollably

1020
01:26:29,119 --> 01:26:31,880
right here on the air. Miriam
Bannish says, there is no pineapple in

1021
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:36,399
Devil's food cake lll okay, Well, you know, but you can understand

1022
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:41,399
why I wondered if there might be, you know, the food of Satan

1023
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:48,279
that pineapple, anything pineapple flavored,
pineapple itself. I mean, I can't

1024
01:26:48,319 --> 01:26:54,000
think of a single pineapple flavored thing
that I would find even remotely enjoyable.

1025
01:26:54,359 --> 01:26:57,960
You know how they have the multiverse
theory, the idea that there's an infinite

1026
01:26:58,039 --> 01:27:02,319
number of multiverses and different version of
all of us in these different multiverses.

1027
01:27:02,920 --> 01:27:06,960
Even if that's true, Even if
that's true, I know this, Even

1028
01:27:08,039 --> 01:27:12,479
if there is an infinite number of
other versions of me, none of them

1029
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:19,279
like pineapple on anything. I know
this. I don't even really believe in

1030
01:27:19,279 --> 01:27:21,960
the multiverse theory, but I'm just
saying, if there is such a thing

1031
01:27:23,319 --> 01:27:31,039
or things, there is no version
of me that likes pineapple. And even

1032
01:27:31,079 --> 01:27:34,039
if there was, it's not like
we would ever know. You can't prove

1033
01:27:34,399 --> 01:27:41,000
that there's a version of me that
like spineapple, And granted I can't prove

1034
01:27:41,079 --> 01:27:44,319
that there isn't. Tom Blanchard says, yeah, Matt, why do you

1035
01:27:44,439 --> 01:27:46,720
have to get cut off? Why
do you have to cut off an inch

1036
01:27:47,199 --> 01:27:50,840
of peel to get those what?
I don't I don't even know what you're

1037
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:54,760
talking about, Tom, I don't
what. I don't eat. I don't

1038
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,399
eat that, So I don't even
know what's what you're talking about about.

1039
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,680
I don't. Yeah, I don't
need anything where you have to, you

1040
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:02,840
know, cut things off and peel
things off, and oh, that's disgusting.

1041
01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:08,640
I like food that is low maintenance. You don't have to peel things.

1042
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:12,399
You just eat it. You just
you take the food and you just

1043
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,159
eat it and enjoy it. That's
why I like pizza. You don't have

1044
01:28:15,239 --> 01:28:18,199
to you don't even need utensils.
You just pick up a piece of pizza,

1045
01:28:18,279 --> 01:28:21,239
you shove it in your mouth.
No pineapple on the pizza. If

1046
01:28:21,279 --> 01:28:25,359
this pineapple on the pizza, I
won't be eating the pizza at all.

1047
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:28,800
But if there's no pineapple, I'm
just gonna take that pizza. And no

1048
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,119
olives either I don't like olives or
onions. Onions on pizza is also discussing.

1049
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:38,439
There's a lot of really strangely discussing
things that people put on pizza.

1050
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:42,439
Sometimes people ask me, They'll say, Matt, what do you recommend?

1051
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,079
How do you keep your pizza delicious? I'll tell you how. It's very

1052
01:28:45,199 --> 01:28:49,880
very simple. When you're choosing your
toppings for your pizza, you should only

1053
01:28:50,039 --> 01:28:55,920
choose delicious toppings. If you put
delicious toppings on your pizza, your pizza

1054
01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:00,199
will be delicious. On the other
hand, if you choose disgusting toppings for

1055
01:29:00,319 --> 01:29:03,199
your pizza, guess what happens to
your pizza. Your pizza will also be

1056
01:29:03,319 --> 01:29:08,760
disgusting. Your pizza should be delicious. Pizza was meant to be delicious.

1057
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:16,720
Make pizza delicious again. You get
a hat that says that make pizza delicious

1058
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:23,079
again. Miriam Mannish says, I
think white chocolate is an abomination, but

1059
01:29:23,159 --> 01:29:28,560
we all have different taste buds.
I agree white chocolate is weird. I

1060
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:31,840
like chocolate again, I don't really
eat it anymore. I don't really eat

1061
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:34,720
any of that kind of stuff anymore. The only time I'll have chocolate at

1062
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:38,800
this point is if I have a
really bad headache and it just won't go

1063
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:43,760
away. Sometimes chocolate can help a
headache, but dark chocolate actually can be

1064
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:48,760
somewhat healthy because it has antioxidants.
And regular chocolate in moderation is fine,

1065
01:29:49,119 --> 01:29:54,560
but white chocolate is odd. I
don't know. I don't know quite what

1066
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:58,760
to make of it. It just
tastes strange. It doesn't taste like anything

1067
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:03,840
else I can think of. It's
just I'm not disgusted by it. If

1068
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:08,199
you put it on pizza, i'd
be disgusted, but I'm not disgusted by

1069
01:30:08,239 --> 01:30:12,159
white chocolate. I can eat it, but I won't necessarily enjoy it.

1070
01:30:14,039 --> 01:30:17,319
It almost tastes like soap, Like
like I've never eaten soap, but it's

1071
01:30:17,359 --> 01:30:19,560
what I kind of imagine. Well, of course i've tasted. You know,

1072
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:23,680
we've all gotten soap or shampoo,
at least in our mouths right when

1073
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:26,479
we're taking a shower. It tastes
like soap to me. That's what white

1074
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:29,399
chocolate is like. Maybe it is
supposed to be soap. Maybe is there

1075
01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:32,760
a like I'm gonna have to look
up online later. Maybe you can wash

1076
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:39,479
yourself with white chocolate. I don't
know. Miriam says, delicious is in

1077
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:43,800
the tongue of the beholder. Well, except when it comes to what I'm

1078
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:46,399
talking about with the pizza, because
also had somebody asked me once, Matt,

1079
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:50,520
who put you in charge of deciding
what should and should not be on

1080
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:56,720
pizza? And I said, no, one put me in charge. This

1081
01:30:56,960 --> 01:31:00,520
is just how it is. This
just happened. I just am the person,

1082
01:31:01,119 --> 01:31:05,840
you know. Sometimes it just happens
that way. Dj C says,

1083
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:10,279
Matt, you only like to shove
pizza in your mouth and sing that's a

1084
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:15,079
more. Yes, a classic moment
on retro Spectrum Radio. I sang,

1085
01:31:15,399 --> 01:31:17,279
that's a more. Well, well, we don't, that's in the past.

1086
01:31:17,399 --> 01:31:23,560
We don't. We don't have food
on the show. Um Miriam says

1087
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:27,520
it's referring to white chocolate. It's
sugar and fat without the yum. Yeah

1088
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:30,000
it doesn't. It doesn't actually taste
good, but you're still getting the sugar.

1089
01:31:31,359 --> 01:31:36,000
Yeah, no good, no good. Wow. We're almost out of

1090
01:31:36,079 --> 01:31:41,880
time already. It's ten minutes of
six. Um Miriam says, I feel

1091
01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:45,520
like eating pineapple on pizza and protests, Now, while you can do that,

1092
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:50,439
but I don't recommend it. Culinarily
speaking, if that is a word.

1093
01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:58,079
Culinarily, I think it's a terrible
idea, Miriamu. Tom Blanchard says,

1094
01:31:58,119 --> 01:32:01,760
you demand Matt, thank you,
thank you. I appreciate being dumb

1095
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:05,640
man. All right, hey,
by the way, because we don't really

1096
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:10,560
have time to get in anything else. One other thing about the Jason Aldean

1097
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:14,520
thing that we spent a lot of
time on both yesterday and today on the

1098
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:20,840
show. Oh now I can't find
it. That figures. So Stevens Blanchard,

1099
01:32:21,199 --> 01:32:26,680
who is in the band The Conniption
Fits, and he was in a

1100
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:30,399
band years ago called Motor Plant.
And he's also a radio guy too.

1101
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:36,479
He works at he works at a
radio station in Boston. He had made

1102
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:41,279
an interesting comment that I shared out. He made a comment on social media

1103
01:32:41,359 --> 01:32:45,399
regarding the Jason Aldean controversy last night, and I did share it out to

1104
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,439
the Matt connors an unleashed Facebook page. And I'm trying to get back to

1105
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:55,239
it now, and of course now
it won't come up. The internet's being

1106
01:32:55,239 --> 01:32:58,640
a little slow, probably the weather. Here we go. I think I

1107
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:02,039
think it's loading. I think it's
let me close out these other windows maybe

1108
01:33:02,079 --> 01:33:04,960
to load a little quicker, since
we're not gonna get to anything else anyway.

1109
01:33:08,319 --> 01:33:18,720
He posted something about the controversy being
somewhat staged, saying that the label

1110
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:24,279
actually paid for actually paid. Okay, here we go, here's the full

1111
01:33:24,319 --> 01:33:27,399
comment. I want to read this
to you. This is what STEVENS.

1112
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:31,800
Blanchard put on Facebook on the whole, Jason Aldean try that in a small

1113
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:38,880
town thing. They arranged to have
it quote unquote banned from CNT, Like

1114
01:33:39,199 --> 01:33:42,600
do they even play videos anyway?
They knew, damn well, this song

1115
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:47,359
would fall flat unless it's stirred controversy. Controversy that just isn't there, by

1116
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:53,199
the way, so they paid to
promote it to being banned. Everybody just

1117
01:33:53,319 --> 01:33:56,520
eats it up. Also, he
didn't write the song, written by Neil

1118
01:33:56,600 --> 01:34:01,279
Thrasher, Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy
and Kelly Lovely, like a lot of

1119
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:04,560
country hits, as he points out. Also, the hook of the guitar

1120
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:10,079
solo was ripped right off of Michael
Jackson's beat. It directly from the fingers

1121
01:34:10,119 --> 01:34:13,840
of Eddie Van Halen. It would
be just another average country rock song if

1122
01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:18,039
it wasn't for the fake controversy well
played. Also, the song has been

1123
01:34:18,079 --> 01:34:21,439
out since May. Nobody heard of
it. Until it was quote unquote band

1124
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:30,960
I call bs. Yeah, I've
been hearing that too. They arranged to

1125
01:34:30,079 --> 01:34:34,840
have it banned because controversy does generate. By the way, that's all kind

1126
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:41,479
of a longstanding thing. That type
of thing is done, and it used

1127
01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:45,560
to be done a lot in radio. You create controversy around a song,

1128
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:51,479
and doing so creates interests in the
song. If you want to break a

1129
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:54,800
record, as they say in the
business, you know, have a hit

1130
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:58,960
single. There's a lot of old
like radio scams and schemes that are like

1131
01:34:59,079 --> 01:35:02,880
that, and of cour us now
it's carried over into this if his theory

1132
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,800
is correct, which I believe it
is, because I've read that other places

1133
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:09,840
too, that they arranged to have
a band to try to stir up more

1134
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:14,640
controversy. I'll give you an example
of just a quick classic radio scam,

1135
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:18,159
just so you know what I'm talking
about, and any other radio people listening

1136
01:35:18,199 --> 01:35:21,039
we'll probably know what I'm talking about
too. So back in the day,

1137
01:35:21,079 --> 01:35:24,800
I don't think anybody does this kind
of thing anymore. There's really no point.

1138
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:28,680
But there was a time when radio
stations and major markets. I remember

1139
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:31,760
those a station in Boston that did
it once at least once they would say,

1140
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,840
Okay, we've got a I think
I feel like it was a Pearl

1141
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:40,840
Jam song that was coming out.
A radio station will say would say back

1142
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:43,760
then, okay, we've got a
new we've got a new single. There's

1143
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:46,079
a new single coming out from this
band. We'll say Pearl Jam because I

1144
01:35:46,119 --> 01:35:48,720
think that's the example I'm thinking of, but I can't remember all the details

1145
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:53,840
new Pearl Jam singles coming out.
We're not authorized to play it yet,

1146
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:58,199
it hasn't officially been released to radio
yet. But we're such a badass radio

1147
01:35:58,239 --> 01:36:00,439
station, we're gonna go ahead and
play it even though we're not allowed to.

1148
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,920
We'll suffer the consequences. We think
you should hear it. And then

1149
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:11,680
they would play the song, and
then the record label would publicly be upset.

1150
01:36:12,319 --> 01:36:14,560
You know, this radio station broke
the rules. That's not fair.

1151
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,840
They're not supposed to do that.
It was all a scam. Of course,

1152
01:36:18,319 --> 01:36:21,439
no radio station, no corporately owned
radio station, is going to break

1153
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:27,159
any rules. It was And by
the way, I appreciate this kind of

1154
01:36:27,199 --> 01:36:30,680
thing, being a fan of Andy
Kaufman, being a fan of professional wrestling,

1155
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,079
I always think this kind of thing's
kind of fun. But they would

1156
01:36:33,119 --> 01:36:36,119
do this where you know, everyone
would play their part. So the radio

1157
01:36:36,199 --> 01:36:41,920
station plays the song quote unquote early. They get unquote unquote trouble for it

1158
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:46,479
with the record label whose quote unquote
really upset. But in reality, they're

1159
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:50,520
all working together and it's just to
create controversy around the song. So it

1160
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:56,039
generates interest, gets people talking about
it. Everybody comes out of it looking

1161
01:36:56,079 --> 01:37:00,199
good. The radio station looks great
because they look like, Ooh, they're

1162
01:37:00,199 --> 01:37:05,319
the cool radio station. They break
the rules ooh, and the the artist

1163
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:11,760
and the record company they benefit because
you know, it boosts the single.

1164
01:37:12,399 --> 01:37:16,399
So that kind of thing is not
anything new in radio or in music television

1165
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:20,119
CMT country music television. I'm sure. I'm sure they've had other instances of

1166
01:37:20,199 --> 01:37:24,720
this type of thing, and none
of it's new. None of it's new

1167
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:30,359
in the entertainment industry. You know, uh stunts where not everything as quite

1168
01:37:30,399 --> 01:37:33,479
as it seems that generate interests to
create buzz. Alice Cooper did. They

1169
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:36,720
did something like that Alice Cooper in
the early days of his career when he

1170
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:41,920
first signed with whatever record label he
was on at the time. I think

1171
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:46,239
it was for the album Constrictor they
they had They had a truck, like

1172
01:37:46,399 --> 01:37:51,560
a box truck with a picture on
the side of it of Alice Cooper nude

1173
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:55,760
with the snake, you know,
a big, a big snake, a

1174
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:59,760
big boa constrictor, you know,
covering up everything you can't show publicly,

1175
01:38:00,239 --> 01:38:04,039
but very provocative picture on the side
of this box truck. And they had

1176
01:38:04,119 --> 01:38:08,479
the truck driving around New York City, I think it was New York.

1177
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:14,319
But they intentionally stalled the truck in
the middle of a busy intersection during rush

1178
01:38:14,399 --> 01:38:18,600
hour. The driver pretended that the
truck had stalled out in the middle of

1179
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:23,960
this busy intersection. So that draws
all kinds of attention. There's news crews

1180
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:26,760
showing up, the traffic coptors looking, you know, oh look look at

1181
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:29,920
this. Look at this truck stalled
out right in the middle of this busy

1182
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:35,000
intersection at rush hour in this very
busy city, and it generates all of

1183
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:40,359
course, the truck hadn't actually stalled, but that generated all kinds of publicity

1184
01:38:40,399 --> 01:38:42,880
and buzz. I'm just saying that
kind of thing goes on all the time.

1185
01:38:43,239 --> 01:38:46,720
So if that is true, and
some of this controversy was sort of

1186
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:55,239
self generating, that's not unusual.
It's not unusual for controversy to be self

1187
01:38:55,279 --> 01:38:59,600
generating. Okay, we're gonna wrap
up. I will be back tonight for

1188
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,760
retro Spectrum Radio with Policy from eight
to eleven PM. Join us, won't

1189
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:05,520
you. It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Always is always look forward

1190
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:12,720
to my Friday nights here at WMNH. And if you miss any part of

1191
01:39:12,760 --> 01:39:15,279
today's show, it will be up
in just a little bit at WMH radio

1192
01:39:15,439 --> 01:39:20,439
dot org and on my website Matt
Connerton dot com. And don't forget,

1193
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:25,840
of course, Saturday mornings here on
WMNH. You've got classic episode of the

1194
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:29,600
Morning Show from seven to nine am, followed by the best of Matt Connerton

1195
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:32,960
Unleashed from nine to eleven AM here
on Saturday. And then I'll be back

1196
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:36,600
with this program on Monday. And
I'll be back tonight for Retrospectrum Radio.

1197
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:41,399
Oh and one other thing, the
Hopknot, as they do on Saturday night.

1198
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:44,920
Tomorrow night, they have live music. They have Ryan Gagney Hall playing

1199
01:39:45,039 --> 01:39:48,279
live from seven to nine pm at
the Hopknot tomorrow night. And don't forget

1200
01:39:48,319 --> 01:39:54,079
those delicious scoremet pretzels and that ever
burgeoning assortment of Kraft Beer. All Right,

1201
01:39:54,119 --> 01:39:56,680
we gotta go. I will talk
to y'all a little bit later