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And today is Wednesday, August nine, two thousand twenty three. I
wonder how many times I'm going to get that wrong. It's like at the
It's like at the beginning of the year, you know, when you get
the you keep thinking it's you know, you write out a check or you
write something down and you think it's still the previous year when it's a new
year. Anyway, Hopefully that's the last time. Hopefully when I do this
again at the top of the hour, I get it right, I say,
Channel six. Very exciting. Actually, I think it's I think it's
going to really boost what we're doing, because yet you're more likely to get
people that way who just kind of stumble upon, stumble upon the show by
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you can watch that on Channel six as well. So very exciting. Let's
see. But yes, today is it is August nine, twenty twenty three,
and we've got an exciting show for you. It is Wednesday, which
means in just a few minutes I will be joined by via Skype or phone,
whichever medium is more convenient for him. Of course, my favorite conservative
as I like to call him, Eric Pilcher, he'll be joining us for
our weekly Wednesday segment, or almost weekly. He wasn't able to be here
with us last week, but he will be here this week. And then
at the top of the hour, we have Choli. I'm not sure if
it's pronounced Cholie or Choli it's c O L L Y. We will ask
her though when she joins us skyping in from across the pond all the way
in the UK. The track that I opened with on the show today is
called Circles and that is from Charlie. I'm gonna go into a soom for
now that it's Charlie. That's from her album Anomaly, which came out recently.
So really looking forward to speaking with her. So that will be coming
up today at five pm in the Eastern time zone, of course. And
I really like her music. It's very cool. I like I've always been
fascinated by electronic music, and she has somewhat of a unique approach to it
too. So we will speak with her coming up today at five pm at
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live chat. I see Melanie, a liberty from the Great State of Vermont
joins us in there and says, hey, guys, Ze joins us and
says, keep my sister in your thoughts. There are lots of forest fires
in Maui. She is safe for now. Thanks. Yeah, what's going
on in Hawaii? I've never seen it's being described as apocalyptic there. It's
it's really bad, and it's you know, they have these terrible forest fires
going on. There's people jumping into the ocean just to get away from the
fire and the smoke. It's it's it's horrible. I think I think the
last I had heard, twelve people had died at last count. It's it's
strange too, because it's we keep hearing about this hurricane and you would think,
you know, when you first hear that, oh a hurricane, that's
a good thing that'll dump a lot of rain and put out the fires.
But actually what's happening is the winds from the hurricane are fanning the flames of
the of the forest fires. It's it's really really bad, really bad.
Uh. Jenny, of course is in the chat and says shalom peeps.
Also, j Fed from the Great State of Vermont joins us, and Crystal
from the Great State of Illinois joins us and says hello everyone. Also a
new name in the Facebook live chat, las en las N. I'm not
sure how to pronounce at la h c e n and it's twice so welcome
las en Lassen. I'm gonna go with that, just like I don't know
yet if I'm pronouncing Charlie correctly. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly
either. Maybe it's a la seine I don't know. Maybe the h is
completely silent, maybe it's lackin, I don't know, but regardless, welcome
to the show. I am so happy to have you here with us on
this beautiful It is really nice. The weather is really nice here, beautiful
Wednesday afternoon here in downtown Manchester. I hope it's nice where you are.
Oh and hello to DJ Steve who joins us in the Facebook live chat.
He says cool opening tune. Yes, that is called Circles from Charlie from
the UK. She's gonna be skyping in at five pm. DJ Steve,
of course one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C every
Friday night from eight to eleven pm. I love hanging out with of course
Police and DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry also on the program.
So we look forward to that. And let's see, I'm going to ask,
well, I think that when Eric does join us, when Eric Pilcher
does join us, we should probably talk about the death of William Friedkin saying
his name correctly, the director of the Exorcist. And Eric's going to be
doing a big, big event for his film review, a special that's going
to be streaming online when he does this film review for this October when Halloween
comes around for The Exorcist, which is going to be rereleased in theaters.
I think though, Oh, and we'll ask him about the Stephen Crowder stuff
too. Boy, that guy just keeps on the gift, that keeps on
giving some thing. Uh, ohe j Fed says, I wouldn't miss a
weekly review. I'm just saying, yes, yes, it's something we should.
We can just do a couple of quick things before Eric Pilcher joins us.
But some news I kind of yesterday on the show, I kind of
avoided the Trump news. I have TFS Trump fatigue syndrome because oh actually saved
by the Skype Eric Welcome, Hello, Matt. How are you doing well?
Sir? Doing well? I was just about to uh get into some
news about Skype, I mean some news about Trump rather, but I've been
kind of avoiding talking about all the Trump legal stuff because I have TFS Trump
fatigue syndrome and so, but I was about to talk about this special Council
obtained search warrant for Donald Trump's twitter out, and then I heard Plating talking
about whoa, it's like time traveling. And then I heard the Skype chime,
and I said, up, saved by Skype. Eric is here so
we can talk about other things. Actually just getting caught up in the chat
here. Yes, I am seeing some pretty uh derogatory things being insinuated towards
me here are there? I have missed that? What do you mean what's
what's going on? It wouldn't miss a weekly review. I'm just saying,
oh, that's right. That's why j Fed said that, yes, yes,
and that's why you have a shirt. And Melanie La Liberty said that
those two might be in cahoots. Uh huh. I think they are in
cahoots. I will say this though, if we're grading on a curve,
Eric, you're ahead of the game. And I'll tell you why, because
we also do a weekly segment with another Eric, Eric Gagne, of course,
who's our entertainment reporter, and he misses like a months at a time
of doing his entertainment report. So you actually next to him, you look
pretty good. I mean, I am sorry that I worked fifty five hours
last week. I uh huh nah, Yes you did, Yes, you
did? It was it was. Yeah, it was not a fun week
and if I wouldn't have done a review, it would not have been good.
No, that's understandable. By the way, what is the review or
will you be able to do a review this week? I should ask you
that first. I'm right, I actually started the script today. We're just
moving Donnie Brasco to this week, and then next week we will be doing
John Carpenter's They Live. Ah, yes, ah, that's you know.
I personally, I don't think the movie itself is that great They Live.
This is just my opinion. But I love Roddy Piper's performance in it,
you know, I think it's John Carpenter, and I love John Carpenter.
And I'm very excited about the collectible I got that I shared with everyone in
our group chat on Messenger. I John Carpenter as a director was just so
ahead of his time. I mean, if you look at the films he
did, Escape from New York ahead of its time, They Live, way
ahead of its time. Yes, but I mean he did a made for
cable TV horror anthology called Body Bags, which I don't know about that.
Yeah, I mean really that the success of that film is what started That
is what started the development of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Oh Okay,
I did not know that. I had no idea. Yeah, I
mean, just again, ahead of his time. So many movies he did,
like Starman, and he really is one of the true independent pioneers.
I mean, even when he did a big studio movie, he did it
his way. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I'm Elanie and the
chiman says, I worked fifty five hours just today. Cry baby. Ah,
well, you're a better man than I am. Now she's got you
beat. She's got you beat. Now, did you did you want to
say anything about William Friedkin? Am I saying his last name correctly? Is
it Friedkin? I was actually just on Kyle Clayton's QC Chronicles before I called
in here, yes, and spoke about him. And you know William Friedkin.
And I'm not gonna go too much into the woods with him because our
big review of October is The Exorcist, and that's the film he's most well
known for. Yes, but what he what I said on that program,
and I have no problem saying it again. What made him truly great is
his ability to make no matter what the subject matter was, he made the
film suspenseful. He brought you in. I mean, he could do an
episode of Sesame Street and you would think it's Law and Order Special Victims Unit.
M. I mean it's just his just ability that in to get you
emotionally vested in each in every main character of his films. What other so
Exorcist, As you said, that's the film he's most well known for what
would be Action French Connection? Would that be number two? The second I
was well known? Okay, Action is the film that received the most accolades.
It's the film that won and Best Director and Best Picture, although I
veheminently disagree with it winning Best Picture the year at won. I give him
Best Director begrudgingly, but I think seventy one the best picture was A clockwork
Orange. Okay, because I feel a film and I'm sorry, I'm getting
way off track here, film in order to win both Best Director and Best
Picture just has to be mind blowingly good. You. It has to be
a timeless film, and I think the Academy sometimes just gets lazy, old
white men getting lazy. Who knew they just they think, oh, well,
this film got so many accolades yea, and so many people loved it.
It deserves Best Picture and Best Director. Not necessarily, I mean you
can have. I'll use a sports analogy. The best team doesn't always win
a championship. Oh, I don't know anything about sports, and even I
understand that analogy. You it's who's playing right at the right time more than
anything. So like I look at it that year and I think a clockwork
orange deserved Best Picture more than the French Connection. I think William Friedkin.
It's close, but I think he did a better directorial job than Kubrick did
with a clockwork Orange. So what would be Okay, so what would be
number three on the list as far as William Friedkin? What's what's the film
he's third most known for? Would you say? Probably his bombed remake of
the Wages of Fear. Okay, so now we're yeah, so now we're
getting into territory. But the film he made about murders in gay bars in
Greenwich Village called Cruising with al Pacino. Oh that that film I've heard of?
Okay, yeah, it almost ruined al Pacino. Wait, wait a
minute, Okay, So Cruising is the one Friedkin did, and it's a
remake of Wages of Fear. No, wait, the remake. Sorry,
I threw two movies together there. The remake of Wages of Fear is called
Guardian, Okay, and it bombed. And then he did Cruising, which
now is just such a heralded movie in regards to LGBD QI rights in everything
of that nature. But then it just horribly bombed and it almost it ruined
Freakin's career for some time and almost killed Peccinos. So was that so that
film, it sounds like two was ahead of its time then, from what
you're saying, very very because when it was made, homosexuality was I don't
want to say it was taboo in Hollywood. It was broached upon. But
to bring it to the gritty realism that Friedkin did with Cruising, unheard of?
What year for that movie? Let me check that. I would think
it would be very high on the Google search right now. I should see
it because Paccino absolutely in my top five as far as favorite actress. But
I've never seen that movie and I feel like eighty that was nineteen eighty.
Wow. That the cast I've never seen Cruising. The cast is amazing.
Uh. You have Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, James Reemar, Jo Spinelli.
Wow, yeah you have, and of course Pacino. That's an amazing
cast. Yeah. But a bombed huh oh? I mean yeah. The
Advocate actually posted an article which I will drag up into my bookmark so I
can read it later, about director William Friedkin's controversial gay film Legacy. Hmm.
See, it's funny when it surprised me when you said nineteen eighty,
because thinking about it in terms of it being controversial when it was released,
I thought you were going to say back more in the seventies, early to
mid seventies, So nineteen eighty that, I don't know. I guess I'm
a little bit surprised that that would have been an issue by that point.
But well, at that point, I mean, it's Hollywood always. Hollywood
has a way of being, and we don't realize it a being behind mainstream
society like we'd like to think Hollywood sets these trends, and they don't.
They make they make him I think they make them accepted, but the trends
are already there. We kind of broached that when I did the Blacksploitation films
back in February. Well, it makes sense what you're saying, and I've
never really thought about it that way before, But I understand what you're saying
because Hollywood obviously creates content for the masses, and so that content does have
to reflect in order for it to be successful, does have to reflect what's
going on in society, and therefore what the audience will be will want to
see films that the audience will want to see. So that does make sense,
right, and it's happening now to a degree. I don't there are
instances where I agree with this saying. In instances where I don't the go
woke, go broke statement. I there are sometimes I agree, like with
bud Light. Yeah, bud Light. They totally missed the mark with that
one. They totally didn't pay attention to their prime audience. So in Heiser
Busch, you guys are idiots. I think I have a little I have
a little bit of a different thought. Just just just quickly, Eric,
I don't want to I don't want to derail you, but just for the
record, I just want to say I don't I don't quite agree. I
think I think they got caught up in uh. I think that whole thing
was was actually pretty low key, but then they got they got caught in
the I think they got caught in the culture war trap in a way that
they couldn't they couldn't have foreseen. I think luck. I think bad luck
played a lot to do with that. That. The great thing about these
conversations is there's no wrong answer. Yeah, yeah, they're just I mean,
you don't know and we'll never know. I could be right, you
could be right, or we both could be horribly wrong. Yeah, yeah,
I I just wanted to say that I think I think they got caught
up in h I think it was bad luck. I think I think the
way the culture war is waged, I and I understand you and I come
at this from different perspectives. I just think that there's a certain randomness to
it. You just never know, like for example, a lot of conservatives
are freaking out about the Barbie movie. You just never know what's going to
get caught up in the culture war. And I think Anne Heiser Busch just
probably they didn't think. They didn't think it was a big deal to give
what a Dylan mulvany is that is that their name. Uh didn't think it
was a big deal to give them their own uh Canna bud light, you
know, just and they'll make it, you know, they're an influencer and
whatnot. Didn't think it was gonna be a big deal, and then it
just exploded in their face. I think that I think there's a certain randomness
to how that happens. That's just my theory. And again, you know,
that's a great way to look at it. I've never looked at it
that way, so yeah, it makes sense to me. But my point
on Hollywood is, if if it we really were as all the far right
talking heads want to say, going, go woke, go broke, if
that were really the case, the Barbie movie wouldn't be just completely slaying at
the box office right now. Yeah, there's no way. Well, well,
did you see Ben Shapiro. He uh, he was predicting that the
Barbie Movie was going to be a terrible flop, and then it wasn't.
And then he was predicting that, Okay, so it opened really hot,
but then it was gonna just you know, fall off a cliff and it
didn't, and and and to his credit, he admits he was wrong.
But but then you get into the whole question of, well, is it
is it? I haven't seen the movie, but what exactly is it?
Is it woke or are people just putting that on it? And then of
course you get into the questions of what does woke even mean? And you
know what I mean? I said this, I've been called I've been called
a homophobe for saying this, and I don't understand why. I've asked,
can you explain to me why I'm a homophobe. I have no desire to
see it. I didn't play with Barbies when I was a kid growing up.
Well, I don't have any desire to see it either. But you've
been called the homophobe for not wanting to see the Barbie movie book by a
couple of people. Really if people have called you homophoone for not wanting to
see the Barbie movie apparently because yeah, I'm like, I don't understand it.
Like, look, I'm not bashing the movie right now, seeing it's
a horrible film. I'm just saying I look at it and I have no
earthly desire to see it. Yeah, I'm the same. No one's uh,
well, listen, you know I'm in support of you, Eric,
I will I will join you in this. I will also publicly say I
have no desire to see the Barbie movie like I want to see I want
to see Oppenheimer more than I want to see Barbie. But my issue with
that is too is there is that Christopher Nolan specifically made it in a style
that is best viewed in an IMAX theater. I'm not gonna drive two hours
to my nearest Imax theater to see a movie. By the way, Crystal
in the chat room says, I have no idea. I have no desire
to see the Barbie movie either. Ah you hoohobeo. No, I'm puzzling,
So I have to ask Eric, when someone says that to you,
do they explain why not wanting to see the Barbie movie makes you a homophobe.
I'm genuinely puzzled by this. Here's how it is with I don't know,
just in my experience with liberals here in Iowa, Yes, and I
don't. I've said that my belief and I've said this on your show many
of times. And if this offends anyone, I am sorry, and you
can message me and we can have a private discussion about it. I believe
there's a difference between democrats and liberals. I can't I believe I can have
a productive, meaningful, non argumentative discussion with a far left leaning demo Cray.
But I believe when you talk to a liberal, you are you're automatically
at a disadvantage because you can try to keep it civil, you can try
to keep it on point, you can try to state your case, but
you are automatically a racist. Bigoted, homophobic moron. If you don't see
it their way, well that, yeah, well that happens. I was
just gonna say, Eric, that that happens across the spectrum, though I
think, see, I don't think it has anything to do with whether someone's
a liberal or not. I think, unfortunately, I think that actually happens
across the political spectrum. I think that just so many people, and unfortunately,
I think more people are wired this way then are not. I think
I think most people, because our politics has become so polarized, most people
are just kind of that's how they think. They think that you either you
see it their way or you're bad. Like a liberal will look at a
conservative and say, well, you don't see this issue. You know,
you've got a problem with drag shows or whatever. So you're you're you're the
worst person ever just but but by the same token, of course. You
know, I sit here and and talk about just as a random example,
I talk about my support for Medicare for all. I'm sure that there's some
Republican listening who hears me say that, who thinks I'm a I'm a communist
and a Stalinist or something. You know what, I mean it's it's it's
all over the I don't think In other words, I don't think it has
I don't think it's about liberals. I think it's everybody, with the people
at least done the left. Yeah, I find it's more prevalent with those
that are proud to say they're a liberal. But it's almost as if the
moment they say I'm proud to be a liberal, they might as well say
I'm never wrong. And if you dare tell me I'm wrong, you're a
pooh pooh head, and I will call it to you till I'm blue in
the face. But you're gonna run into that. But you see, you're
gonna obviously because you as a conservative, you're gonna run into that. With
liberals. Oh yeah, I love it. I love it when I'm a
conservative, a Christian conservative, yea. And they're like, oh, you
believe in the Bible. Oh, you don't wear clothing with mixed cloth,
do you? And it's like, oh man, it's like, one tell
me you've never read the Bible without saying you've never read the Bible, because
that's levitical law. Levitical law was outlawed with the New Covenant. When Christ
droves from the grave. Come on, like, if you're gonna insult my
religion, at least have a basic knowledge and understanding. Like that's all I
right, right, salt Christianity all you want. Yes, she does have
a basic understanding. Whenever I hear that argument, I go back to Southerners
that are like, look at the look at the Moslem over there, I
like eating pork. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, really I know or
or or their their draw the prophet Mohammed just like, come aw, no,
I get it, Crystal, Crystal, and the chat says, uh,
she agrees with you on democrats versus liberals. And then she said,
I also think there's a difference between most conservative versus the far right Republicans there
is. Oh yeah, and that line in Crystal as a conservative, I
can tell you you're going to see that line become much thicker and more embedded
in the ground with this cycle coming up. Oh absolutely, absolute right.
The far right Republicans are gonna be Trump or die. Oh yeah, the
Conservatives. It's already started, Matt, I sent you the website on Facebook.
Oh yes, yes. The first super pat commercials have started to air
here in Iowa, and the first ones are anti Trump. Yes, and
you you also mentioned too that someone left a Mike Pence doorhanger on your doorknob.
Save that for this very purpose, although I think it fell behind my
couch, which is unfortunate. But yeah, it conveyed his personality very well.
Yes, yes, I was not drawn in at all. It was
not a William Friedkin film. You know what's funny though about Pence now is
the way the media reacts like he'll he'll, he's starting to he's very very
incrementally wading into the water where he very gently increases his harshness in terms of
how he criticizes Trump. And every time, every time he makes another step
into that ocean, the media goes, oh, look at Mike Pence.
He's he's starting to really get fired up. General George Patton of the GLP.
No, it's like exactly, I was actually gonna say. It's like
they're making him out to be like old iron scrotum here. He's just going
all in. He's General Ripper from Doctor Strange Love. Yes, Yes,
it's like no, this man is is This man is as bland as vanilla
yogurt. Yeah, he's just an an empty husk of of a human like
I get more character in Pizzazz out of a container of playing Yo play than
I do aut of watching Mike Pence talk. Yeah, I like, look,
I I want my politicians to They don't have to be over the top
and everything like that, but I do want them to have some semblance of
a character. I don't want to look at them and think I'm watching a
drone from May Live, right, And that's what I get with Mike Pence.
I actually said at Barnes and Noble and read the first twenty pages of
his book. Oh man, oh really, why? Why what's it like?
I haven't read his book obviously it is excruciatingly painful. Why is it
just really dull? Reading the description of paint drying? Yeah, it's like,
how is this a New York Times bestseller? Yeah? Well, well
that's uh, that's unfortunate. Well, you know, I mean this whole
campaign is designed to sell books, so that might have something to do with
it that he knows he's not going to be the Nominee's fair. To be
fair, I don't read books by the talking heads. I don't read books
by Ronda Santists because Ronda Santists gives me the hed GDS. I like Disney
plus too much to really side with. Ron Da santists. Oh, that
reminds me, though, your your candidate of choice, whom you've endorsed,
is apparently not really uh campaigning in Iowa? Is he Governor Chris Christie?
Is he he has taken the approach of waiting sea in Iowa. Yeah,
it almost as if he's conceded Iowa, which is a dumb move this early
in the game, because I have seen so many, so many candidates pull
it out of their backside and win Iowa. Roback Obama in two thousand and
two thousand and eight, he pulled it out of his backside to win John
carry in two thousand and four, when it looked like, oh, his
name escapes me now, the yelling guy, Oh, I know who you're
talking about, Howard Dean. Howard Dean, thank you. Yeah, it
looked like Howard Dean was on his way to winning and becoming the nominee.
And then kind of the the bottom started to fall out a couple of days
before the caucus, and then John Kerry, out of nowhere, just ended
up winning, and then of course he went on to win New Hampshire and
everywhere else pretty much. But yeah, so, I mean Iowa is notorious
for that. And it is because and if there are any fellow Iowans watching,
don't at me, don't message me with this, because I will meet
you and I will tell you to your face. We are some of the
most wishy washy voters in the nation. How we got first in the nation
is beyond me, because I have seen caucus chairs change their mind of who
they're supporting in the middle of a caucus. Yeah, it is like,
you are a caucus chair, you should at least be iron clad in where
you stand right now. Well, if it's the chair, you can sit.
That was not a good joke, man, Oh, I'm sorry,
No, I was. Well, you know, I don't. We have
a primary here, so I don't. I don't know much about how this
works. I don't even know how a caucus works because everyone I've taken a
part of has been so unorganized. Yeah, I have seen, I've seen
there are probably I can't say because that might be for Matt Connerton unsheathed,
but I'm sure there are adult entertainment shows in Tijuana that are better organized than
the Iowa caucuses. That's that's very specific. Yeah, you've told me about
your participation and a couple of caucuses in the past, and what a nightmare
it was. Yeah, like in the middle of a in the middle of
account, someone leaves to go to the bathroom and it's like, oh,
I actually heard someone say this, Go follow them and find out who they
want. Wait, no, that is not how this works. Is there
ever any I may have asked you this before, but is there ever any
talk there about switching to a primary, because I know, I know a
couple of states over the you know, decades of have switched. There are
not as many caucuses as there used to be. We we have, and
for whatever reason, like it just doesn't go very far. And I think
it's because we are so stuck in our ways. Yeah, I mean we
really are. It's oh, well, this is what the people know,
so this is what's going to work. Well, obviously the people don't know
because it's disorganized. Yeah, well maybe where you were at. No,
if you go on to any form of social media, you can look on
the night of the Iowa caucuses and see many many areas talking about how disorganized
it was. Yeah, no doubt. I mean It's just it's like,
really, how can we be this stupid, in this naive to think we
have it all right because we don't. Hey, it's already well before we
run out of time. I want to ask you about this. This is
a bit of a turn. But have you been so have you been following
the newest Stephen Crowder? News Media has this story I sent you. I'm
sorry, I did not sign that NDA. You said, yes, Media
it has the story for Stephen Crowder's staffer's exit show after interrogations and insane NDAs,
which is of course a non disclosure agreement. He's the gift that just
keeps on giving. There's always something with Stephen Crowder ahead. He is like
a herpie of media. You think it's gone away, and then there's a
flare up. Well apparently two there there might be some pam because so he's
abandoned YouTube for a Rumble. I guess he signed that exclusive deal with Rumble
and now his numbers are tanking on Rumble. Have you seen this? I
if we recall and I you've known me long enough, Matt. I'm never
a guy that likes to say I told you so. Yeah, I'm never
a guy that likes to say, oh, I was right, look at
me. Unless it's about sports, then I will put anything else. Now,
I did say he would not do well on Rumble. Yeah, And
I the thing with him is is I love I love this analogy I use
because it just fits. It's Howard Stern syndrome with Stephen Crowder. The average
Crowder hater probably listens longer than the average Crowder listener because they want to hear
what he's going to say next that can make them mad. Yeah, if
on Rumble, you're not going to get the viewers We're going to get on
YouTube or on the Blaze or on anywhere else. I mean he used I
think he used to contribute to Fox News a little bit. Even Fox News
was like, uh no, you no, we can't, we can't do
this. They had Pucker Carlson and they told you you're too much right.
Yeah, I will give him. Look, I mean I will respect.
I will give him this much respect. And this is about as much respect
as Oliver give him. But I mean it was a gutsy move because it
was a gamble right to go with Rumble. And he could have been he
could have been the marquee name I guess he is the marquee name at Rumble,
right, But Rumble could have really, you know, this could have
worked, and Rumble could have really blown up and and and him with it
and been very, very successful. So it was a big, big gamble,
and it looks like it's not paying off. And I've said too from
the beginning, if you push all your chips into the center of the table
and you only have one hand, yeah, I mean you really where he
screwed up, In my opinion, it is when he took on the Daily
Wire. Oh yeah, when he did it like you, you ripped your
nose off to spite your face. No one will ever trust him again after
doing that. Well that and I guarantee you more of your audience listens to
Ben Shapiro, and it feels more of a connection with Ben Shapiro than they
do. You. Right, if you're going to be a conservative talking head,
you don't tug on Superman's cake, you don't spit in the wind,
and you don't bought heads with Ben Shapiro. Yeah that is I think you're
right. Yeah, And you know, and I said from the beginning too,
I mean I would never root for Crowder, but I have been rooting
for Rumble, which might surprise some people because I'm not a conservative, and
Rumble seems to be where all the conservatives are going who don't want to put
up with YouTube anymore. But I do like having an alternative. You know,
I've had my own issues with YouTube where I thought, you know,
I was getting dinged for content and I thought it was not fair, So
you know, I like having alternatives. No, and I think that that's
an unfair characterization of Rumble, but I totally I do agree with you.
It's what's happened because it's mainly conservatives that went after YouTube ban them, either
either rightfully or wrongfully for COVID nineteen theories. Right now, my issue is
is that you have some knuckle dragging mouth breathers, especially from the rampid area
of New Jerk Pokeepsie, that get a stay on YouTube and spout their idiotic,
moronic and stupid theories on life, and nothing ever seems to happen to
them. But right there, yeah, well, you know sometimes people like
that they have such small followings, they kind of fly under the radar,
I think is what happens there. I mean, you know, you can
you can be a star too, I guess, and you know, win
the ratings, by the way, roof, by the way. And this
is I have not heard a single other person in any of me, online
or otherwise say this. So I want to. I want to start this
rumor about Stephen Crowder. And I can do this without fear of any reprisal
or repercussions because he's obviously famous and he doesn't know I exist. So I'll
this one pins from the issues with his wife and now this he has far
greater concerns at this point. He's got it. He's got his hands full.
Yes, The rumor that I would like to spread about him is that
he lies about his age. And here's why I think this could catch on
because I'm looking at this picture of him Eric, and I don't know if
if you ever really looked at the guy. This is a thirty six year
old man. And the picture I'm looking at is not a thirty six year
old man. That's not a thirty six year old man in that picture.
He's at least ten years older than he claims. Now, do I really
think that that's the case. No, I have no evidence for that.
Some people just age poorly, but he doesn't look like a thirty six year
old man. To me, Well, you join me in this spreading this
rumor that who lies about his age because he's aged horribly. He looks really
bad. I'm four years older than he allegedly is. Yeah, you look
younger than he does. I feel, even with type two diabetes and diverticulosis,
that I look better than Stephen Crowder. Yeah. Well I'm older than
you, and I look better than Stephen Crowder. I mean, I mean
great, I have great skin, but he's got I mean I'm looking at
him and I'm not even say of this to be just to be funny.
I mean kind of to be funny, but I'm also serious when I say
this. He looks like he's aged, like in the last two years,
like he's aged a decade. It's almost it's actually a little bit unsettling.
Now granted, I mean it does happen. Look at Keith Richards. You
know, Keith Richards, when he was in his twenties, he looked like
he was forty, and then by the time he was forty, looked like
he was sixteen. You know what happens. There's a guy who used to
be on MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan always looked ten years older than his actual age.
Apparently when he was in high school he was able to buy alcohol for
him and all his friends. So it happens. I mean some you know,
everybody ages a little bit differently, and there's a difference between chronological age
and biological age. But the weird thing with Crowder is I thought he,
you know, he's like a health and fitness guy, like he's got all
the big muscles and everything, but his face it's all saggygy. He looks
like he's uh, I don't know. I don't know what's going on there.
Here's what's interesting about his quote unquote health and fitness is there. I
happen to remember that there were allegations that he was heavy into steroid us.
Oh I believe that. Look at him. And shortly shortly after that,
he had that major shoulder injury that caused him to wear that harness on air.
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes I think happened. Is he
quit doing ROYD called Turkey and he got injured himself. Oh that could be
that might explain some of his behavior too. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
like he Yeah, if I would be more shocked if he if it came
out that he never touched steroids, than I would be if it if he
was the biggest juicer on God's Green Earth. Yeah. Yeah, he is
a big muscle guy. I mean, his muscles aren't fist bad, but
he's up there with the liver king Like. You just look at him and
you're like, that is not natural. There is a supplement I know that
you can take that will help you to lose weight. And Steve Crowder,
of course somebody who doesn't like to have any fat on him, that apparently
also causes what they call the slang term for it is old face. It
it helps you lose weight and get very lean, but it also ages your
face. And it occurs to me, And this I hadn't thought of before,
But as I look at this picture of Stephen Crowder from the media article,
I think that's what happened to him. He's got he's got, he's
got a very old face on a very muscular body. I mean yeah,
And I can't get this out of my head now. It also occurs to
me. Anyone who's just tuning into the show for the first time is probably
like, what is this? But welcome this is Matt Connerston unleashed. If
you're just joining us, but this is mind blowing. Like I'm looking at
a picture of him from the early Louder with Crowder days. Yeah, he
had like a hardcore baby face. Yeah, and look at him now,
that's a thirty six year old man, and he looks like he looks so
much older. It's weird. It's weird. Well, he is Canadian.
Maybe those Canadian winters, you know, they do something to you. I
mean, obviously he doesn't anymore. Well that's true, but he might go
home to visit and like he might spend the holidays with family up in Canada
and being exposed to those Canadian winters for that brief time, it destroyed his
face. I don't know what happened there. All right, we gotta Eric,
We have to begin to wrap up. It go so quickly. Always
enjoy our Wednesdays with you, my favorite conservative, as I like to say.
But before we go, and we do have to stick to the schedule
because we have a great musical guest who's gonna be skyping in at five pm.
But do you want to give a plug for this Friday's film review?
Yeah? I sure, can this week is uh mafia film unlike any other.
It's the nineteen ninety seven movie Donnie Brasco, based on a true story.
I've actually read the book Donnie Brasco, and it is probably one of
the truest depictions of mafia life ever put on the screen. And with one
of my favorite actors, as we discussed earlier, Alpaccino. Oh, Johnny
Depp, the late Ann Hasch, Michael Madsen is in it. Just an
amazing cast. Yeah, absolutely is in this film and just such a heartbreaking
story and really the lines of morality get blurred. And that's based on a
true story, right, Yes, it is based off an FBI agent,
Joe pis Stone, that went undercover into the Banano crime family and was on
the It was almost set to get made up. Yep. Yeah, true,
they were gonna make him. And the only thing that stopped him is
what you have to do to get made yep, yep. You have to
make your bones. You have to murder someone, yea, Otherwise the FBI
would have went with it. Yep. Yeah, it's a hell of a
story. Well, we look forward to that. Eric, always love your
film reviews. It is a very popular segment here on the program. And
uh and yeah, I enjoyed doing them. And we'll here probably next week.
We'll have a big announcement about September that you're already aware of, Matty.
Yes, yes, excellent, excellent, very good, All right,
Eric, Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Always always enjoy it,
my friend, Thank you so much, thanks as always, thanks for having
me, Matt It was a pleasure. You got it, all right,
take care, bye bye bye. All right, there we go. Always
nice to talk with Eric on Wednesday, and we're gonna take a quick breakshow
some love to our amazing response. Then when we come back, we're gonna
play a song poly morphic by Choli who or Chollie. Have to ask her
how to pronounce it at h O l l y. I think it's Sholly
because it's like Holly but with a sea at the beginning. But she'll explain
the origin of her name. That's her stage name. But she's gonna be
skyping in all the way from the UK, so we look forward to that.
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info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Wednesday,
August nine, two thousand twenty three. And Charlie, are you there?
Yep? Kenny, hey, yes, yes, I can hear you.
Great. Am I pronouncing your name correctly as it Charlie? Yeah? Yeah,
that's correct. Yeah, okay, good good. I wasn't sure if
it was showy because I read online that your name's Chloe, and I didn't
know if it was supposed to rhyme with Chloe. And all right, I'm
glad I'm saying it correctly. But then I thought, well, it looks
like Holly but with a C, so maybe it's Sholly. So my first
instinct was corrected. Yes, so very good. Yeah, yeah, definitely
very good. Well, welcome and uh and I'm so glad that we were
able to get connected so easily, because sometimes when people are skyping in from
other continents. You know, there's technical snaff who's and whatnot, but this
was pretty seamless, so it's wonderful to talk with you. Yeah, I
love that track, and I opened the show today with Circles and got a
lot of positive feedback in our Facebook live chat, people really liking it.
And your music is yeah, yeah, And you know, I've always really
loved electronic music. And I was reading a little bit online too about how
you approach what you do, and it sounds like you've got you've got a
unique process. But tell us about tell us about your music what and kind
of give us an idea about how you approach it. So I think each
song I approach differently, So it's not like a set in stone way that
I approach everything. But I tend to design my sounds from recordings I get
that are just in everyday life that I enjoy. So, for example,
what can I say, so polymorphic the one that just played that's made almost
completely out of some us and ours that I just played around with all of
the synth sounds and everything. Really yeah, and it was half made live
on stream and then half made off stream. When i'd sort of designed the
sounds that I wanted to make. Yeah, so is there is there an
element of improvisation then to what you're doing when you're putting these songs together.
It depends which song. So on my album there are a few songs that
were made partially on stream improvising. Wow. And then there are songs that
were completely off stream, completely just in the dark, planning and all that
sort of thing. But yeah, my live streams that I do, they're
completely improvised, and I just take sounds and I play with them until I
find a sound that I like and then make melodies and then I pull from
those to make other songs. Usually that's something that works quite well for me.
Our friend maryam Banish in the Facebook live chat says, I love your
sound, Charlie, oh, thank you. Yeah, and our delf I've
also really really likes what you're doing. Did you when you started making music?
Did you did you start that way where it's sort of became as your
approach to it is obviously unique. I've never heard anyone else really explain explain
it that way in terms of what they do on the live stream. And
then I mean, did you always have an experimental element to what you do.
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think it's sort of started.
Well, I played instruments from a young age, but I didn't ever
record anything really. Then when I started making music, I didn't really know
how to make the sounds I wanted to make. So I just sort of
imitated some sounds I liked, if that makes sense, and they played with
them in software until they sort of sounded how I wanted. Yeah, and
then now I saw I forget if it was a video or well, I
think I did see a video on you two a bet. But also there's
some some pictures online of when you're performing live or I don't know if it's
live or in studio what I'm seeing online. But what is what is it
that you're using? You're using a machine or a device of some sort.
Uh, but I'm not sure is it? Well, you tell us what
is it that you're using that you're because you're not, it's not it doesn't
look like you're playing a keyboard, but you're you're pushing buttons on something.
Yeah, so that that would be a trigger pad. So I've been using
an APC forty and I link it up to my software, which is Ableton,
and I put all the samples into Ableton, and and then I trigger
the things that I want to trigger, and I can automate effects and things
using the same device. Yeah, so is that what you do live?
Then? Yeah? So I don't. I don't tend to play instruments live
because I developed a repetitive strain injury. Oh that's really it's just been really
bad for six years. Oh wow, no kidding. So I had to
find a new approach. And I was singing to backing tracks for a while,
which is fine, but it didn't really feel very me to sing to
a backing track. I'm not really sort of, I'm not really a dancy
person. I'm not really a performing plus. I like to get stuck into
my computer and play with things live, so having the APC forty and a
microphone at the same time works really well for me. So when you play
live using the APC forty, do the songs? Do you perform them the
same as how they are on the album? Really not, That's what I
suspected. Yeah, yeah, I've sort of do live remixes of them.
I am trying to get some together that are like how they actually are on
the album. And stuff because I should really, but it's just so fun
to just improvise. Yeah, yeah, well I think that's cool because I
know and there's This is my perspective on this is kind of unusual because a
lot of people, at least in America, and I don't know if it's
different there, but a lot of people here they talk about how when they
go to see a band live or a solo artist or whomever, they like
to hear the songs played or at least sound close to what they hear in
the recordings. And my attitude about it has always been if I go to
see somebody live and they play a song and I, you know, it's
close enough that I can recognize what song it is, but it's a different
version of it, there's some element of surprise, you know, maybe they're
just you know, maybe it's heavier, maybe there's maybe it's stripped down because
they don't have all the instrumentation that they would have available for the recording or
whatever it is. However, it's different. I actually enjoy that, and
I'm always, to be honest with you, I'm always a little bit surprised
that there aren't more people who enjoy that. But I like it when I
go to see somebody live and it's not exactly like it is on the recording,
you know, I think it's I think it makes it more interesting.
Yeah. I think I'm sort of the same as you when it comes to
that sort of thing, even though when you go in and see a band
and they play everything pretty much the same, but then they do sort of
an extended jam right towards the end. I like that sort of thing.
It's it's nice. Oh yeah, absolutely. We have a question for you
in the chat room. Are Dell five is asking about influences. Who are
your musical influences. I always find this difficult because I listened to a lot
of artists. I've always really liked Enya, which might sound like it doesn't
match. I don't know, but I've always really liked Enya. I like
Fortet. I don't know if you've heard of Vartet or no. No,
there's Fortet, sort of electronic IDM sort of stuff. Bnobo, another IDM
artist, and an artist called Lidmore. She's from Denmark and she's she's really
cool. Yeah. I could probably go on forever about music I like,
and they're probably influences. Yeah, influences me. But yeah, yeah.
Now when you what instruments do you play or did you play? You said
it's difficult for you to play now, but did you play multiple instruments?
Yeah? Yeah, So my main instruments were violin and piano. I still
play them from time to time. The violin is the worst one for the
problem I have, so that's the one I play the least, but I
do still pick it up occasionally. Yeah. The piano I can still play,
but I have to be careful. Yeah. So I just have to
be careful not to play it too much, which is hard when you enjoyed
playing it for hours and hours. I just don't play it for hours and
hours anymore. Yeah, yeah, but I do still do sort of.
I'm doing some stripped back versions of songs on my album. I'm actually going
to make one of Polymorphic, which you just played, and that's going to
be piano and vocals. Oh cool, very cool. And what about as
far as your vocals, did you have you had training or are you self
taught? I made a lot of great singers who were self taught, and
it always surprises me, like, how do you how did you figure out
how to sing? Like that. But did you have lessons or Oh no,
I didn't have lessons. I mean I had like piano lessons and violin
lessons and part of that part of the exam for that, we did have
to like repeat musical phrases back in the exams by singing. Okay, that's
probably the closest I got to that. But I just enjoyed it. Yeah,
I enjoyed singing like Phantom of the Opera and stuff like that with my
mom. Wow, no kidding. Yeah, yeah, so there's something fun
to do you come from a musical family, Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.
So so it sounds like you partly learned how to sing from singing with
your mom. Yeah yeah, very cool. Now that's a good way to
you know, if you come from a musical family, that always helps.
It gives you, gives you a good start. And can you tell me
about the now I saw I think you have more than one music video.
I know I saw one. Looked like it was kind of dark, kind
of a dark vibe, but but it worked for the song. How many
music videos do you have? I know you have at least two, right,
Oh I don't actually, I can't think off the top of my head?
How many I have? Real I do definitely have at least two.
Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got more than two. Yeah, I
can't think the exact number. Do you work with somebody on those who helps
produce those? Or do you do those on your own? It's it's amazing
what you can do now with the technology we have, you know, just
by yourself. So my partner Connor, he helps me make them. So
we both did film and television production. Oh no, kidding as a course,
Yeah, So it's it's quite a good team really when when we both
team up. Yeah, yeah, very good, very good. Now,
how many how many albums do you have? You've got Anomaly, which obviously
is the newest that came out in what may I think of this year?
Yeah? Yeah, eight prol late April. Yeah, okay, So I
don't really have any others that I considered to be albums, just EPs go.
So there's three other EPs that I've got. They're all on streaming services.
My recent one, before a normally was The day Dream, okay,
and before that is Friday Night. Friday Night is made of a bunch of
songs that I made on Friday nights Friday Night makes sense, And for some
reason, my brain has just forgotten what my first ever EP is. I'm
not sure why that's happened, but that's okay, you'll come back to me.
It's on streaming services. It's on there. Yeah. Yeah. Has
your sound changed over time, because I would imagine with you know, because
you like to experiment as far as how you make your music. Has has
it? Has it changed? If I go back and listen to listen to
your first he doesn't sound different. Yeah. I think like there's a lot
of things that I have kept kind of the same, but I've gotten a
bit more confident. I think that the main change is confidence and also knowing
how to mix my songs, because I didn't really know how to mix anything
when I first started. I was just just sort of making stuff. Sure,
yeah, learning as I went along. But that's something else that that
kind of helps with. He's really good at mixing. He's good at actually
sitting down and learning things that he needs to learn, whereas I'm very good
at being distracted and just making more things. No, that's good though.
So it sounds like so that the two of you together kind of keep that
part in the house. Right then you're you're you're doing all the recording and
the mixing yourselves, and yeah, yeah, pretty much, which is good
because it's affordable as well, right right, Well, it gives you a
lot of control over everything, too, which I would imagine is pretty liberating,
you know. I mean, granted, you know, a lot of
artists like to go to a studio and you know, have an engineer who
very often becomes a de facto producer and so forth. But at the same
time, if you can do everything yourself, that gives you a lot of
freedom. You know. It's you know, you don't have to worry about
pleasing anybody else or somebody trying to tell you, oh, I don't like
the sound of that. You know, you can just truly be true to
your true to your art, you know, and make what it is that
you want to hear and you know, and then hopefully other people like it
too. And you know, I think it's really good. Like I said,
you know, I've always enjoyed electronic music, and I think what you're
doing, it's it's very creative and it really kind of you know, these
songs pull you in. I was listening earlier, I was listening to You've
got a song, I forget which one it's on Anomaly. It's it's like
seven minutes long, and I was just listening to it. Oh, story,
story, story, Yeah, yeah, the song at the end,
and it just doesn't you know, you get to the end of it,
it doesn't feel like it was seven minutes, you know, And I'm a
yeah, yeah, and I'm I'm a I'm a radio guy, so I
kind of it's easy for me to just kind of know how long things are.
And I was like, oh, that doesn't seem like it was seven
minutes. So yeah, So I really like And by the way, your
approach to lyrics, you know, the lyrics are interesting. They're very sort
of that's part of what I think, you know, pulls me in when
I'm listening. But do you have any specific approach to lyrics. Is there
any kind of an overarching theme to your music or is it is it kind
of just more whatever you're you're feeling and that's what you put into it,
or yeah, it's usually whatever I'm feeling at the time, or sort of
thinking of a perspect active on something like for example, polymorphic is like looking
at love from the perspective of it comes in lots of different forms, and
sometimes it doesn't come in the form that you wanted it to be. So
like someone might love you a lot as a friend, but you wanted something
else, you know, that sort of thing, and sure, vice Flissa,
Yeah, that's relatable, something everyone goes through at some point or another.
Yeah, but like there's still love there right away, you know,
and then there's like the unconditional love of like a mother and that sort of
thing. Yeah, yeah, no, very cool. Now, are you
currently working on new music or I know this album hasn't been out for very
long, so I don't know if you're still focused on this or you strike
me as someone who's probably always working on something new, right, that's accurate?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I just love playing with the
sounds and music so much, so I don't really tend to stop right right,
So are you are you working on another album or I mean, of
course, we live in an era where you have so many different options in
terms of how you release music, and a lot of artists now seem to
do especially a lot of the guests I've had recently, they have this approach
where they just release singles and then when they have enough singles, those singles
become an album. But rather than releasing an album all at once, they
release singles and then they become the album or what's kind of your trajectory in
terms of future music? That approach is like how you're supposed to do it
to please the algorithm. I think exactly feed the machine. I have not
planned ahead. I'm just playing with sounds and making things. Yeah, and
if I feel that they will fit together as a piece, then I probably
would release them as a piece, as an album or an EP. Yeah,
But I've at the moment the sort of completed things are stripped back versions
of songs from Anomaly. I've done one of Story, which is going to
be out on the seventeenth of August, putting that on streaming services. Yeah,
and that's just piano and vocals. Oh, very cool, very cool.
Yeah, I look forward to hearing that. Excellent. Oh and by
the way, too, I notice looking at band camp, so this is
Anomaly is also available on vinyl? Is that correct? Yeah? Yeah,
it is. I've never had that before. But the label where a Foxman
approached me and they they said they really wanted me to make an album for
them, and they would put out vinyl and that's what they've done. And
it's pretty cool. Yeah, that is that's awesome. Yeah, it's fascinating
how. I don't know how it has gone there, but in the United
States it's you know, vinyl never really went away here. You know,
it was supposed to have gone away, of course, you know, back
back in the day, CDs came out and that was supposed to kill vinyl,
but vinyl never really went away. And I think I was reading in
twenty twenty two, I believe was the first year that vinyl at least I
don't know if this is global or if it's just in the United States,
but vinyl actually outsold CDs for the first time since CDs were first introduced because
people really love you know, a lot of people buy vinyl and they never
even open it. You know, if they really love an artist, they
just want it to have it because they love that artist, and they want
to collect it and support the artists, and they'll also buy a CD or
just download this music stream wise. But but it's really cool and that the
label approach to you and wanted to do that. That's remarkable. And how
did you how did you come to work with that label. By the way,
how did that come about, because that's great to have a label behind
you. Well, they saw some of my improvised Twitch streams and then they
reached out to me after that because I was doing a lot of them in
Lockdown, the COVID Lockdown, so obviously there weren't really any musical events going
on and stuff, so right, more people were online. Yeah, and
they saw my streams and then they sent an email asking if i'd be up
for a chat, And then sort of blew my mind a bit when they
offered me that. I nearly said no because I didn't think I'd be able
to finish an album really, And now I look back and I think that
was a bit silly that I didn't think I could do that because I make
music all the time, right right. Yeah. Yeah, And so Anomaly
obviously that's your first release on the label. Yeah yeah, And are you
gonna be uh? I assume that partnership continues, you'll be releasing more music
with them. I don't know at the moment. I'm just seeing how it
goes with this this first album first, but like, I'm happy to work
with them in future, and and I'm playing at an event that they've put
together in Derbyshire in March, which should be fun. Excellent, excellent.
Do you play out much? Do you do a lot of? I don't
do a huge amount. Part of that is just because I don't really go
out looking for gigs as much as a musician should, right, But I
am. I'm trying to work on that and actually going to try and get
some more more gigs because I do actually enjoy it. Now. I used
to be very anxious about it, but now I've sort of gotten a bit
more confident. I feel like I'm ready to to do a lot more excellent
excellent. Well, Charlie, before we wrap up, and we are going
to play another track at the end of the segment, I've got idmy loaded
up. We're gonna we're gonna play that in a moment. But please,
for all of our listeners, let them know where's the best place to get
your music. Anything you want them to know about social media and if you
have a website you want them to know about so they can keep up on
everything that you're doing. Yeah, so all of my music can be purchased
at band camp, So that would be Choli dot bandcamp dot com. Most
of my music is available on pretty much all streaming services. I've got so
many music videos under the name Choli Music on YouTube as well. Okay,
all of my social media handles are Cholley Music. So if you want to
check out any of my streams, a stream to Twitch, which is twitch
dot tv sash Cholley Music, you'd find me there. I put all of
my highlights on TikTok and Instagram reels under the name Cholly Music again, so
that's nice and easy. Yeah yeah. Yeah. And by the way,
so if somebody goes if somebody goes on Twitch to see one of your live
streams, so they might get to see you putting a song together live.
Yeah, yeah, they might do. It depends how I feel on the
day. Sure. Yeah, No, that's really cool. That's very cool.
Yeah, it's interesting too, how how musicians have been able to really
kind of harness Twitch to to do that kind of thing. Obviously, you
know, Twitch started as a you know, a gaming platform, but but
there are other uses for it, and people do all all kinds of stuff,
and you know, there's political talk shows and all kinds of things that
go on on Twitch now. But but that's that's really cool. Yeah,
people should keep that in mind, you know, check out your Twitch stream
and yeah, they might get to see you put a song together. So
that's that's incredible. Charlie, thank you so much. We will have to
do this again in the future because it sounds like you've got a lot more
music coming in the future, so we will. We will definitely have you
back, and UH really appreciate you joining us today. We're gonna let you
go and then I'm gonna I'm gonna play this track. I dmy but you're
getting a lot of love on our Facebook live chat and I really love what
you're doing. And thank you so much for joining us today. Well,
thank you so much for having me. All right, Charlie, you got
it all right, take care you two, all right, bye bye bye,
all right, wonderful. That was Charlie all the way from the UK.
And what we'll do is we're gonna play this track. This is also
from her recent album Anomaly, So give this a listen and then we will
be back with the balance of our show. There is more. Matt Connerton
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zero six zero seven. There's some uh yeah, we're not going to go
back to all that, but a lot of discussion on the Facebook live chat
about some other things. Our dell five says hashtag Charlie keep on rocking.
We say, yes, absolutely, just quickly. This is what we were
referring to my conversation with Eric Pilter about Stephen Crowder. Uh. This is
from Media eight for Stephen Crowder. Staffers exit the show after interrogations and insane
NDA NDA of course being a non disclosure agreement. Uh says here Stephen Crowder
sent draconian non disclosure agreements to his staff with a one hundred thousand dollars breach
of contract penalty. After media reported on allegations of workplace misconduct at the right
wing commentator's Rumbull show, five current and former staffers said last month, Media
I'd reported on allegations of bullying, inappropriate drug use, and lewed sexual workplace
misconduct at Louder with Crowder, the popular online show that recently joined Rumbull,
a YouTube alternative, and apparently his numbers are tanking. Two hours after,
Media I'd published a follow up report detailing and internal staff meeting at Louder with
Crowder held in response to the initial story in which CEO Gerald Morgan told staffers
they could no longer communicate with former employees. NDA's were sent out. Now
that's and that sounds like I know there are certain religious organizations where and this
is not not the norm, but there are certain you know, I've had
friend who are Jehovah's witnesses, for example, who have explained this to me,
or I know with scientologists who it's a big deal. Once you leave
that you are those who stay behind are no longer no longer allowed to communicate
with you or associate with you in any way. And it sounds like it's
a similar thing with Louder. With Crowder, people leave the show, people
who work on that show leave the show, and then the people who still
work there are not allowed to have any communication with the people who left.
That sounds I mean, is that even legal? I don't know. I
would question if that's even legal. If you work at a job and people
leave that company, and your boss at the company that you still work at
comes and tells you you can't have anything to do with those people who left.
You can't even speak to them, you can't associate with them socially.
Because that's apparently what's in these NDAs. It's not a matter of it's not
just, you know, don't don't talk about the business with them, don't
talk about what we're doing here, don't talk about what's going on at work
with the people who left. We'd rather you didn't do that. It's not
even that, it's you can't associate with them anymore. I mean, that's
that's nuts. I don't know if that's even legal for an employer. Because
here's the thing. You can drop a non disclosure agreement for your employees.
But that doesn't mean I mean, if there are terms in the non disclosure
agreement that aren't even legal, then that NDA is not going to hold up,
is it, or maybe it will. I don't know. I'm not
an attorney. I don't know anything about how this works. But I mean,
that seems crazy to me that you could even put that in an NDA.
Mariam Bannish says JW's dis fellow quote unquote and aren't even allowed to speak
the names of those who left or broke a rule. Yeah, it's very
very strict. Let's see. So it says here. The agreements, which
were reviewed by Mediaite, were emailed to current Louder with Crowder employees on July
twenty six and read in part and here's this is actual text from the NDA.
And by the ways, as we're going through this, just imagine you
work at a place and you get something like this from your employer. Just
try to put yourself in the place of these people who work for this show
Louder with Crowder and they get this in their email. Imagine if your company
that you work for sent you something like this. And by the way,
I haven't pre read this so I don't even know what's in this. Here's
here's this is from the email. Employee maintains its promises and covenants not to
disclose confidential information as defined in the amendment. Company will provide employee with confidential
information during the period in which employee is employed by the company. Okay,
well, that part's completely reasonable. That sounds like a standard NDA to me
so far. The agreement added that if a breach of contract should ever occur,
the employee would be quote liable to the company for liquidated damages in the
amount of one hundred thousand dollars. Is that legal? I mean, obviously
it happens all the time. People violate a non disclosure agreement and they get
sued there's some sort of penalty. But again, maybe this is maybe this
part might be completely standard. By the way, again, I come at
this from a place of ignorance. I don't know how this works. But
so maybe that part's completely standard, that there's a financial penalty, but it
just seems weird to me. I mean, I would be nervous about signing
something like that because how strict is that? What if you know, what
if violating the end? Yeah, so what if I leave that company,
and I tell somebody that, yeah, the refrigerator that was in the office
at that place of work it one day it broke down and all the employees
their food spoiled that they had left in that refrigerator because the refrigerator stopped working
in the office. And then my former employer finds out that I told somebody
about the broken refrigerator. Are they going to be able to then come at
me for one hundred thousand dollars? I don't know, I'd be I'd been
nervous about signing something like that. So the agreement also said, quote,
I hereby acknowledge that said damages are reasonable, do not constitute a penalty.
And I further agree that I will not contest the reasonableness of said liquidated damages
in any such action commenced by either party with respect of this amendment. Okay,
Now, again, I'm not a lawyer, but that seems to me.
Sounds to me like I will not contest the reasonableness. Well, if
if you're pledging to not contest the reasonableness, aren't you then signing off on
something that basically says so if at any point your employer comes to you and
says, hey, we think you violated this. You can't you can't contest
that and say no, I disagree. I think you're overreacting. I think
that what you're telling me is unenforceable, beyond the scope of the agreement,
beyond the spirit of the agreement, etc. You have no right to do
that. You just have to say, oh, well, okay, if
that's how you feel about it, I guess I owe you one hundred grand
Is that what that means? I mean that is nuts. Who would sign
that? I mean, obviously some people did. They want to keep their
jobs there. But my god, Melanie in the chat room says, I
tell all my coworkers that they will be dead to me if they leave it.
Says here, the staffers were told they had to sign the NDA by
that Friday on July twenty seven. Wait a minute, when were they given
this? July twenty sixth right, So they were given a day to decide
whether they had to sign this. On July twenty seven, Crowder held a
meeting in which he warned staff against speaking out. Stephen was livid. A
source close to the Rumble host told media I quote he and Gerald Gerald,
who runs a company and he's also a co host on the show. If
you've ever seen Louder with Crowder, I've subjected myself to it briefly in moments
where I just felt like I wanted to torture myself. I guess maybe I'm
a masochist. He and Gerald said they knew someone was talking to you,
the author of this piece, based on the article you wrote. They said,
whoever text messaged former employees about us not being able to hang out with
them would be given amnesty if we confessed by two pm. If no one
confessed, then they would see it as malice. No one confessed, so
they started interrogating a few people. Unquote, by the way, here's an
idea. If you say you run a program like this like Stephen Crowder does
Ladder with Crowder, or literally anything else, anything else, any kind of
business, any sort of enterprise that involves other human beings, here's an idea.
I have a suggestion. If you're so worried about people, I mean
usually with NDA's, you're worried about people stealing your intellectual property. That's a
big thing in tech, right. You know, somebody works for a tech
company and they're going to leave that company and go work for another tech company
and take all the you know, take stuff with them, even if it's
just stuff in their minds there that you know, the company that they work
for currently feels as their intellectual property. That's a very big thing with NDAs
it's usually it usually has to do with intellectual property, intellectual property, proprietary
information involving the business, etc. But if what you're worried about in this
case is you don't want people going and talking to the media, either publicly
or on background anonymously, be an anonymous source. You don't want people talking
to the media about what goes on in that business. Here's a thought.
Don't run your business in a way that would make people want to run to
the media and complain about you. Treat people correctly so they don't have anything
to talk about. I mean, it is that simple, is it.
Not treat people well and then they have nothing bad to say about you,
you know, unless they want to make something up. But that's on them.
But here's the thing. If you treat people well, by the way,
this could be a life lesson. Doesn't even have to just be about
business. It could be about anything. It could be about how you conduct
yourself in life, how you interact with other human beings. Treat people well,
be nice to people, be respectful to people, and they won't have
anything bad to say about you. And if they do have something bad to
say about you, that isn't true. If you have a good reputation because
you treat people well, no one will believe them when they talk their their
nonsense about you, So you don't have anything to worry about. It's that
simple. But when you haul people in and tell them you have to sign
a non disclosure agreement, because well, I mean, what kind of messaging
does that send to his employees? So I want you to sign this non
disclosure agreement saying that pledging that you will owe me a hundred thousand dollars if
you ever dare say anything bad about me, because I want to be able
to continue to be awful to everyone here, and then you can't say anything
about it. No, just don't do that. What Stephen Crowder should have
done. Has had a meeting and said, hey, let's come to my
attention. People are leaking things to the media that are unpleasant. You know,
on top of all the things that have already been leaked to the media
about this guy that are unpleasant. It's coming to my attention that this is
going on. This is an ongoing thing. So you know what, since
we're having this meeting, I'd like to hear from all of you are what
are some of the things that bother you? Or here's what I would do.
I would say. I would say to my staff and listen, I
used to be you know, thank god, I'm not in charge of anybody
anymore. You know, my businesses are sole proprietorships. But you know,
I used to be a manager. I used to have to be in charge
of other human beings at work. I don't wish to do that again,
but I don't like being in charge of other people. Frankly. I mean,
I can do it, but I don't like it. But you know,
I would say if I were in that position, I would probably say,
here, we're having this meeting so that you can all tell me.
Give me examples. Team, what are some of the things if you were
to go and talk to the media about me, what are some of the
things you would say? What are some of the complaints you would have?
Tell me? Just tell me right now, open forum. You know,
everybody gets to speak their mind. Tell me what you would say so that
I know what you're upset about, I know what bothers you, and we
can work as a team on changing it, because I want everybody to be
happy here. Something that has always baffled me about corporate life someone and I'm
someone who again you know, I'm self employed, I'm a sole proprietor and
all of it. But I used to work for you know, I was
for many years. I was actually Peter White and I Peter White of the
Morning Show. We worked for the same company, just at different times.
But trans World Entertainment they used to own FYE. They sold it off.
F YE has come back, but now it's a different company. But something
that in my experience in working for big corporations is that it's always amazed me
how many managers don't understand that if you treat people well, you'll get better
work out of them. They'll be more you'll get more productivity, you'll have
less turnover. And it's not that hard. Doesn't mean you have to be
a pushover. It doesn't mean you have to let your employees walk all over
you or anything like that. But treat people with respect and you'll get better
work out of them, aside from it being the correct and moral and ethical
thing to do in terms of how you treat people. But that's just again
in life. Just be a good person, you know, be a nice
person. I'm a nice person, and because I'm a nice person, people
are generally nice to me. You know. It's it's kind of nice.
There's a lot to be gained from that. But that's what Crowder should have
done if he was going to have this meeting. But instead, this guy
the only way he knows how to operate is to is to be threatening and
say you have to sign this non disclosure agreement because one of you has been
leaking information of the media about me. So so during the meeting, Crowder
downplayed his sexual misconduct allegations. Set Another source close to the soon soon to
be divorced father of two quote, if you're not okay with guys playing sack
tap, then this isn't the place for you. Unquote, the source said,
Crowder told staff, referring to the act of actually, I'm not going
to finish that sentence. That's afternoon drive. You can look up what that
phrase means. After the interrogation of current staffers for employees departed the company.
The source close to Crowder said, quote, the NDA was insane. Most
employees were scared because of it. Some talk to lawyers about it because they
were afraid, but thought that if they didn't sign it, it would incriminate
themselves. That would incriminate themselves. He was intimidating. Steven's increasing justification of
his workplace sexual behavior between men makes a lot of male employees uncomfortable. He's
always he always says it's joking, but it doesn't seem like a joke to
anyone anymore. Unquote. A former Ladder with Crowder employee said the NDA and
bullying tactics are a clear sign that the toxic workplace culture will not be cleaned
up anytime soon. They said, quote the real problems never get fixed because
the real studio problems revolve around Crowder's refusal to take responsibility. He is never
ever to blame. Gerald and Stephen intimidate and bully the staff. They try
to divide and conquer. They treat former employees like people who've left their cult
and can no longer be trusted, and current employees are commanded not to associate
with those former employees. Unquote. They compared Louder with Crowder two quote,
how scientologists aren't allowed to associate with people who've left the church? How corrupt
or clueless do you have to be to respond to reports of employee abuse by
turning around and threatening employees with a one hundred thousand dollars fine unquote. The
NBA kerfuffle has caused further turmoil among Crowder's staff, and a new hiring announcement
the same week added more fuel on the internal issues. Michael Spadone, a
former field director at Project Veritas who was accused of kissing and grow up in
a former colleague in a sense settled lawsuit has been brought on the Louder with
Crowder team. Sources close to Crowder saw it as a questionable hiring decision due
to the recent claims against Spadone. Well, it just gets better and better,
huh, an ex staffer lamented quote. The whole situation is obviously extremely
concerning for the women who work in the studio. Stephen's sexual habits and behavior
at work are troublesome enough, but to find out a man alleged of sexual
assault has been hired by Stephen the same week You've handed out a fresh nda
with a one hundred thousand dollars penalty would leave anyone scared unquote. Crowder did
not respond to request for comment. Wow, Yes, the Stephen Crowder.
He truly is the gift that keeps on giving. And isn't he? I
just what a guy, all right? I had hoped to get at least
one or two other things. But we are out of time. Stephen Crowder,
he takes up a lot of time. What a fascinating man who I
believe lies about his age. We need to spread that rumor not that he
cares. Stephen Crowder has got you know, he's got millions of millions of
dollars. What does he care? What I say? I'm sure, I'm
quite sure he doesn't know I exist. Someday he'll know. Now I'm kidding,
He'll never know exist. It doesn't matter. It's not important. What
matters is I'm a good person and he's not. But he does have millions
and millions of dollars, and I don't m M doesn't seem fair anyway.
Life isn't fair. All right, We gotta go. We are out of
time, my friends, Thank you all so much for joining us today.
Thank you to our great musical guest, Charlie really enjoyed that, and of
course our friend Eric Pilcher who joined us in the first hour. Oh,
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room earlier as well. Hello, but Mike said, great music today,
Matt. Have a great night everyone. Yes, thank you you too,
Mike, have a great night, and you all have a great night.
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whole thing, but a little more of Charlie. This is called Swindon Bathtub.
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