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ell of it too. And then we also played something from Eons Encoded called
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seeing them again, So that'll be coming up in the second hour. On
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Representatives there if you haven't seen the news. They're trying to select a speaker.
But Jim Jordan, he actually cannot seem to get well. Actually he
got fewer votes than expected on that first round of voting. There will probably
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I can see so far in the Facebook live chat, which is unusual.
But again Facebook is being very facebookish. So that's fine. But let's get
an update on what is happening here. Actually, let me refresh this page.
The Hill dot com they have live updates. So today the House voted
on Jim Jordan, representative from the Great State of Ohio, to be a
Speaker of the House and didn't pan out. Not I don't know that he
was expecting it to or anyone was expecting it to on the first vote,
But it appears this is going to be a tougher climb than expected. I
don't know if it's going to go fifteen rounds like it did for Kevin McCarthy.
I suspect that it won't take that many, because there's going to be
here's my prediction. And by the way, I will fully and unreservedly acknowledge
that I've been wrong in many of my predictions when it comes to this.
I thought Steve Scalise was going to be the speaker. I really did.
But then again, back in January, when Kevin McCartney was trying to become
speaker and they did go the fifteen rounds, you know, I thought,
I thought he was going to have to give up and Scalise would be next
one up. And then McCarthy. Did I say McCarthy or McCartney. I
think I said McCartney, McCarthy. I'm thinking about Paul McCartney. I've got
the Beatles on I heard a Beatles song a little while ago. I've got
that on my mind. You say you want a revolution. Nobody really wants
a revolution. People talk about it, you know, you'll often hear like
the militant types who like to hang out in the woods with their guns,
they'll talk about how there's going to be a revolution. There's no revolution coming.
I'm sorry, it's been canceled. It will not be televised because it's
literally not going to happen. It won't even be available for streaming. But
that's another issue. So I I think that what might begin to happen is
some of these House Republicans who have very strong reservations about Jim Jordan. You
know, the fatigue is going to set in and the reality that look,
either we either get him in there or what's you know, what's plan what's
our plan B? Here? All I guess, well McCartney was plan A,
so I guess Jim Jordan has planned B. So they might be saying,
what's our plan c uh and uh, we don't have one, do
we. So I think that some of these moderate Republicans, and again there
were more than I was expecting that voted against Jim Jordan, I think I
think there might be enough of them who will out of probably a combination of
pragmatism and just desperation will give in and UH and vote for Jim Jordan and
and he will become speaker. Jay fed says, I'm voting for Trump with
Jim Jordan as VP. Well there you go. Well, Jim Jordan is
Trump's pick for UH for the speaker. That's who Trump endorsed. I was
as as this is all unfolding today, and again, we'll keep an eye
on this because they might I don't know when they're going to do the second
vote. If you remember back in January when it was Kevin McCartney, they
you know, they would vote and he would lose, and then they would
have some more meetings, you know, behind closed doors, and then they
would vote again and he would lose again, you know, and this went
on and on until he finally became speaker. It was Scott I think it
was Scott Robinson who made a comment in the chat room. I was see
yesterday or last week. It all runs together, but he had made a
comment in the chat room about how I think it was at the end of
last week, about how, you know, he wishes that these moderate Republicans
in the House, you know, many of them Republicans who are in districts
that were carried by Joe Biden in twenty twenty. So they they don't want
to, you know, they're reluctant to get on the Jim Jordan bandwagon because
Jim Jordan is a House Freedom Caucus guy, very conservative. But Scott had
made a comment, it's too bad some of these moderate Republicans don't stand up
to the conservative House Freedom Caccus people, uh, the same way that the
conservative House Freedom Coccus people like Matt Gates. You know, they're they're willing
to uh throw their weight around and and and get their way. Why don't
the moderates stand up to them more? Because there's more moderates and there are
these House Freedom Caccus people, And I was reflecting on that. I thought
it was an interesting observation, and I think in the moment my first reaction
to what Scott's comment was was I said, well, they're just not used
to doing that. They just don't generally speaking, Uh, just from what
I've observed as an outsider, because I've never been a member of the Republican
Party, I don't think moderate Republicans particularly want to uh stand up to uh,
you know, the House Freedom Caucus people or the you know, the
more conservative Republicans. I think they just they they don't like to do that.
And I I was reflecting on it today and I was thinking about,
you know, part of the problem. For see, it's different in the
Senate for a few reasons, but one of them is and of course,
you know senators, Republican senators are just in a broad sense more likely to
be more moderate. But in the Senate, you've got a six year term.
So if you are, say you're two years into a six year term
as a Senate Republican, well, you can take some risks and you can
push back on some people who you think are behaving in a reckless and irresponsible
way and probably not pay any long term price for it. But if you're
in the House, you're up for reelection every two years, So that means
I mean, think of the pressure of that. Not that I'm making any
excuses for them, I'm just saying, think of the pressure of that.
Think of how vulnerable that makes you in terms of your political career, in
terms of holding office. So if you are a moderate House Republican and you
start really standing up to criticizing, pushing back on some of these House Freedom
Caucus people, you put yourself in jeopardy pretty quickly politically, because what will
happen is you'll have people like people in conservative media, like, for example,
Sean Hannity, who apparently both on camera and from what I've been reading
behind the scenes, is really pushing for Jim Jordan to be Speaker of the
House. But you'll have that conservative media machine, You'll have Fox News and
Newsmax and conservative political talk radio. They will all then do whatever they can
to destroy you if you're a moderate House Republican going up against the conservative wing
of the party, which is to whom the conservative media caters too largely right,
so they're all they'll just they'll wreck you. So what the problem for
these moderate House Republicans? And again we're talking really about Republicans who again,
they're going to be on the ballot in twenty four no matter what they're they're
running every two years. I mean, not all of them at once,
but necessarily But well, well, actually, I think so, right,
are do any of them have odd numbers odd numbered years? How does that
work in the House. I don't think so. I think it's all so.
I think it would all be twenty four. I think I think there's
just some governorships across the country that have odd numbered elections for whatever reason.
But so you're always you're effectively from the moment you're elected, your reelection campaign
has started in effect, right, So if you cross the wrong people,
that media machine will crush you and you will get primaried. It was during
the during the Tea Party, the rise of the Tea Party movement. And
this is the movement that eventually evolved into or devolved into, depending on your
point of view, I would tend to say devolved personally, but that that
became the House Freedom Caucus. They started as the Tea Partiers during the Obama
administration, and that was it was during that era. It was the first
time I can remember the word primary being used as a verb. Uh,
you know, they're going to try to primary this Republican because they're not they're
not conservative enough. They're voting for spending bills that we don't like. We
want to we want to have government shutdowns, we want to default on our
debt. I mean a lot of these very uh you know, conservative tea
partiers. That was that was where that started. Really, that was never
a thing before the idea that it would actually be awesome and cool for the
United States for the first time in our nation's history to default on our debt
instead of raising the debt limit on schedule. At least, that's the first
time I can ever remember hearing about that, where you know, there were
some who thought, yeah, that's a great idea, let's just do it,
you know, which of course would be catastrophic. But uh, that
was where I first started hearing the word primary be used as a verb.
We're going to primary you. That's what they did to Eric Canter, for
example. And it was also during during that era where John Bahner, remember
him, Republican Speaker of the House. He he said, you know,
he got tired of having the sort of damocles over his head all the time,
similar to what Kevin McCartney just went through. Bayner didn't want to even
he didn't like being threatened, He didn't like feeling that way. He decided,
you know what, at a certain point, I'm gonna move on.
Same with Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan a little bit of a different scenario,
but the idea being that that was where we first started seeing those people exert
a lot of control, and it became a threat because prior to that,
and still generally speaking, incumbency is a tremendous advantage. If you are an
incumbent, having somebody come along in primary you is highly unlikely, but it's
not as highly unlikely as it once was. And we saw examples of that
during the Tea Party days that era. I don't mean the Tea I don't
mean going back to going back a couple of centuries. I mean the Tea
Party Republicans during the Obama administration who rose up and started to take control.
But so you've got these You've got these moderate Republicans who are in swing districts,
who know if they forcefully come out against McCarthy, I'm sorry, come
out against Jim Jordan, you know, they could very quickly have the weight
of the conservative media machine on them and crushing them and making sure that they
don't even get Not only will they not win reelection, they won't even get
to the primary. They won't get through the primary. They'll be replaced.
But then they've got to walk They know they have to walk that line because
they don't want to be primaried. But when you get to the general election,
Again, if you're in a swing district, if you're in a district
that was carried by Biden in twenty twenty, you know, you don't want
to You don't want your opponent to be able to point to you, the
Democrat, to be able to point to you and say, you know,
look at this. They supported Jim Jordan. Really, they ousted Kevin McCartney
for Jim Jordan. This is this is is this who you want? No,
and they're gonna lose. I mean, I think that. I think
the Republicans, this, this whole thing is such a mess to begin with.
I'm pretty sure they're gonna lose the House in twenty twenty four. I
cannot imagine how they hold on at their majority. Roni Favero from the Great
State of California joins us in the Chatterman says Cali here, as well as
Hans Smith from the band Sepsis. Hans says, the one thing that we're
spending way too much money on is military. No wonder our debt ceilings so
high. Yeah, I mean, that's that's a difficult subject because there there
are those who would say we spend way too much. I mean, we
do spend a tremendous amount, and I'm sure a lot of that does get
wasted. On the other hand, I do agree with certainly. You know,
we do need to maintain we don't want to put our guard down ever,
and also I do support helping Israel and helping Ukraine. I think,
by the way, although I think the aid to Ukraine is effectively over,
I think we are about to abandon Ukraine. I don't see. You know,
McCartney was all over the place on that when he was speaker. Remember
all these, all the fiscal bills, they start in the House. That's
who controls the money. So that's why this is so important, and that's
why our government is effectively paralyzed to a large extent as long as there's no
House Speaker. And I don't know when there's going to be a House Speaker,
because I don't know when Jim Jordan will actually be able to get to
two seventeen, which is what he needs to become speaker. And then when
Jim Jordan is speaker, assuming that he does become speaker, this is a
guy who always votes against continuing resolutions when it comes to the to the budget,
and I think will absolutely take us into default. And what are we
seventeen days away? No, it's November seventeenth, that's the date. That's
where I'm getting seventeen, I think, right, So we're still yeah,
because it was the last cr was for forty five days. Okay, so
yeah we're still So we're a little under. Yeah, we're a month actually
exactly a month away. I'm terrible at math, forgive me. I I
you know, Jim Jordan, I think will have no problem doing a government
shutdown. I don't think Jim Jordan when the when it comes time to deal
with the debt ceiling again, I don't think Jim Jordan will have any problem
with risking default for the first time in our country's history. I think Jim
Jordan is dangerous. I used to say that about the Tea Party guys,
and I say that about the House Freedom Caucus people too. If you think,
if you actually think and will try to and will endeavor to make happen
a full default, for the United States to default on our full faith and
credit for the first time in our country's history, are you are far too
dangerous to be trusted with any degree of power. I mean, if you
actually think default is a good idea. You know, I wouldn't trust you
to be a shift manager at a fast food restaurant, let alone be voting
on things in the House of Representatives. That's my feeling. It's a I
mean back when what was it twenty eleven, which is when I really started
to learn about exactly how the debt limit works, or the debt ceiling,
or the fiscal cliff, whatever term those various terms people use. I was
kind of shocked when I began to realize how many of these people don't seem
to even understand. When I say these I mean people voting on this people
in the United States Congress, how many of them, as evidenced from the
conversations I would see them having as they would make the rounds on the Sunday
morning talk shows, some of them, as far as I could tell,
literally did not understand the difference between the debt limit and the actual budget itself.
I mean, it was shocking, and it's like, Wow, these
people could really take us all into global economic armageddon because they're literally just not
smart enough not to. It's really scary when you think about it that way.
Scott Robinson says, yeah, but Matt, what about the Democrats.
What about them, I'll tell you about the Democrats, Scott, I am.
I continue to be even more so now when I look at what we're
getting into with either we have a speaker, well, let me put it
this way. Either we don't have a speaker indefinitely, or we do have
a speaker and it's Jim Jordan and he figures out how to wreck the economy
in short order through a government shutdown and then eventually a default down the line.
I do continue to blame the Democrats for not coming to the rescue of
Kevin McCartney. They should have. Again, as I have been saying on
the show, I understand on the merits. If you look at the individual
arguments for why they didn't, why they felt no obligation to, why they
just didn't want to, why they don't like him, why they don't trust
him, all of it, it's hard to argue against the merits of their
reasons for not doing it. I understand that, just like I would understand.
Look, if you saw someone drowning, I would hope you would go
and help them. But if you saw someone drowning, I would forgive you
if if you hesitated for maybe just a half second, you should still go
save You should save them no matter what. Of course, if you see
someone drowning. But if you see someone drowning and as their drown as their
head is about to go underwater, they're flipping you off and yelling at you
about how much they hate you, I can see why you might just take
a half second or a millisecond and say, should I really save them?
Okay, yeah, I probably should. Still That's how I feel about this,
because here's the problem. So the Democrats, you know, their arguments
again, it's hard to argue on the merits. They didn't trust Kevin McCarthy
not trustworthy, which a lot of Republicans will also say about him, you
know, doesn't keep his word, and uh, you know it gave far
too much away to the House freedom, coccus people, et cetera. Also,
right before his removal, he's on he's making the rounds on the Sunday
morning talk shows. Not not talking about maybe there's a way to work together
bipartisan lee to keep him in a speakership or anything like that. Instead,
he's just going on the Sunday morning talk shows blaming the Democrats for everything,
trashing the Democrats, blaming the Democrats for us almost, you know, having
a government shut down, this and that. So I get it. He's
drowning. You could go rescue him. But as he's as his head is
going underwater, he's flipping you off and telling you that he hates you and
that he wishes you were the one drowning instead of him. Doesn't doesn't exactly
motivate you to throw him a life jacket, does it. So I get
that, I get it. You know, it's like I heard someone say
why. I heard a Democrat say why Why is it our responsibility to save
the Republican House speaker? Why? Why would it ever be our responsibility?
You know, this is a problem in the Republican conference. Why is it
our responsibility to help them sort it out? This is their problem, they
should fix it there, dysfunctional and so on. Agreed, I agree on
all counts. The only problem is now we're all really pretty screwed. As
far as I can tell, it's the devil you know versus the devil you
know. Also in this case, because as much as you know, I
don't have a lot of nice things to say about Kevin McCartney, although he
did win some grudging respect from me. Also, because you know when he
used to talk about how he didn't give up, he never gives up.
Well, yeah, I mean he went through fifteen rounds of votes to get
the speakership. When I and a lot of other people thought he'd never be
able to get it done, he got it done. Okay. He promised
we would not default on our debt. I really thought we were on the
edge of it. I thought Biden was going to have to try to invoke
the fourteenth Amendment and hope for the best. Nope, they came to a
deal much too close, much, much too close to the edge, but
they got it done. He said we would not default. It was unacceptable.
Oh I'm sorry. Onto the next thing in my mind, but I
forgot to change the words. He said, we would not shut down,
not have a government shut down not acceptable. A government shutdown isn't as anywhere
near as catastrophic is an actual default, of course, but it still cost
the economy trillions of dollars. It's still horrendous. He said, we're not
gonna let that happen. Kept his word, didn't let it happen. Okay,
So he did win some a little bit of respect from me in some
ways. But at the same time, you know, I have a lot
of criticisms of him as well, but let's put those aside for a second.
If the Democrats had saved him, and I'm not saying they shouldn't have
done it for free, but I would have liked to have seen something,
some sort of an olive branch. Again, it's hard to extend an olive
branch to someone who doesn't want it right. It's hard to extend an olive
branch to someone who's telling you they hate you. So, you know,
so McCartney did himself no favors. He was probably just exhausted by the whole
thing. Uh, But I do wish that something had been done to keep
McCartney because if I got to pick between McCartney and Jim Jordan, I'm going
with Kevin McCartney. If I got to pick between Kevin McCartney and Steve Scalise,
I'm going with Kevin McCartney. If I got to pick between Steve Scalise
and Jim Jordan, I'm going with Steve Scalise. But now we have the
worst possible option of the options that seem to be available. You know,
either he becomes speaker, or again I don't know what plans c is.
We just don't have a speaker and our government is just paralyzed, I guess.
So it's one of these two options right now, as far as I
can tell, Either we have a horrendous choice for speaker, become speaker,
or our government remains paralyzed. Either way is really I don't know that people
realize how bad this is. This is really really bad for the country.
So I will criticize the Democrats on that front. Again. I understand why
they didn't save McCartney, but damn it, they should have. For the
good of the country, they should have. And by the way they could
have, they probably felt that there was some sort of, you know,
a political risk to doing so why would you because then you know they have
to explain to constituents, you know, individual House members on the Democratic side,
why why would you vote for a Republican for House speaker? Why wouldn't
you vote for Hakeem Jeffreys And Democrats generally are horrible at messaging, They're not
good at explaining things. So it would be even though it's a very difficult
concept to understand. See, here's how I would explain it. If I
were in that position, here's what I would say. I would say I
voted for Kevin McCartney because whomever he would have been replaced with would have been
much worse. And as much as I don't approve of the job that Kevin
McCartney has done, I thought he was the best option under the circumstances.
We are in the minority. So we're never going to get Hakeem Jefferies as
long as we're in the minority. So that's why I voted for Kevin McCartney
for the sake of stability and so the House can do its business and so
forth. Pretty good, right, I think I would be able to deliver
that message pretty clearly if I were in that position, and I in that
scenario that I made up. But you know, but the average House Democrat,
they wouldn't be able to say it that way. They just wouldn't.
They're I'm constantly amazed at how you know, and I hate to say it.
You know, I'm a left leaning guy, but I'm constantly amazed at
how poor Democrats aren't messaging just basic stuff like that. They wouldn't be able
to pull it off, you know, they'd be tripping all over themselves and
trying to figure out how to explain it. So they didn't go there.
They you know, they just they'll continue to vote for Achiem Jeffries. But
they should have saved McCartney for the good of the country. They should have
saved McCartney because what's happening now is very very bad. It doesn't help anybody,
and it's happening at a time where and I don't know, I have
no idea if I mean, I'm just speculating wildly. So let me preface
this with that. But did Hamas do this when they did this massive terrorist
attack on Israel? Did they make that move when they did, because obviously
they must have been planning it for a very long time, a very long
time to have Did they make that move because they they're looking at America right
now and saying, well, Israel depends on America, and America is in
disarray at least look at their government, Look at the House of Representatives in
America. What are they going to do. What's America going to do to
help? Are they going to give Israel a bunch of financial aid to pay
for you know, are they gonna spend a bunch of money to reload the
Iron Dome, the defense system that we gave Israel to. I think it
came from US, right an American military manufacturer that we gave them to.
They need to they need to reload it. They need more ammunition. Is
America going to be able to do that? I mean, it wouldn't take
a lot of research for someone in Hamas to figure out how our system of
government works in terms of the money, in terms of appropriations, in terms
of when you have to spend money on things like military equipment like anti aircraft,
you know, or not anti aircraft, but what would be the correct
term, I don't know. Whatever the Iron Dome uses to shoe down these
incoming missiles. The Iron Dome is very impressive by the way, it works
really well. But you know, was somebody in Hamas watching and saying America
is on the ropes right now in terms of their government. Their government is
not functioning, which means they're going to be in a weak position to help
Israel, which means let's go. I mean, I don't know, I
don't know if anyone in Jumas figured that out. I don't know if that
was part of their plan who knows, probably never know, but I do
know this. We do look weak right now. What's going on in the
House is really really bad, especially when you can't see the light at the
end of the tunnel. Like I said, I see this plane out one
of two ways, and both of them, to me, from my point
of view, are awful. One is we just indefinitely don't have a speaker,
which means our government is indefinitely paralyzed. Or two, we have Jim
Jordan, a guy who, like I said, he has voted against every
continuing resolution when it's come up. He never votes in favor of it.
He I mean, he really wants to just decimate our federal budget, so
he votes against the continuing resolutions. And I have no doubt that he would
take us into default if he could. I have no doubt, no doubt
in my mind. He's one of these rip the band aid off guys.
You know you hear them, right, these House Freedom Caucus people. They
say, you know, we actually should default, Let's just get it done,
let's just get it over with, just rip the band aid off.
It's like, no, no, no, what would happen if we ever
defaulted? I mean, ask an economist. Don't take my word for it.
Ask any economists what would happen if we were to actually default. If
you want to use that analogy, rip the band aid off, it would
not be ripping a band aid off. It would be amputating the entire limb.
It's it's the most reckless and stupid thing imaginable. If you'd like to
get him with a call six three two five six seven, the studio line
is open six O three two five six oh seven. Jay fed in the
chat says, this is regarding my drowning analogy with Kevin McCartney. Uh,
he said Phil Collins wouldn't lend a hand. That's true. We know that
from that song in the air tonight someone told him they were drowning and he
would not lend a hand. Anyway, let me refresh this. I just
want to see if there's any kind of an update. Like I said,
they had one vote, Jim Jordan failed. I mean, what is he
going to This is part part of the what's really interesting about this smeth What
is he going to give away? See, we know when McCartney was having
to negotiate to win the speakership back in January, he had to keep me
with the House Freedom Caucus members and just kept giving stuff away and giving stuff
away right to try to bargain for, you know. And that's how it
ended up at a point where it only took one House member to bring about
a resolution to have him ousted. I mean, they had to vote on
it. But what does how does this dynamic work now that it's with McCartney.
You had a I mean basically a conservative, but a moderate moderate slash
conservative Republican who had to keep giving away things to the House Freedom Caucus,
the very conservative House Freedom Caucus people like Jim Jordan had to keep giving away
things to them to get them to either support him or vote present, you
know, to let the math work out. Because Matt Gates never actually voted
for McCartney. He voted present. He didn't vote for McCartney. He just
finally stopped voting against him. Right, what does Jim Jordan give away to
the moderate Republicans who aren'tupport What can he give to them? Is he going
to tell them, hey, I'll try not to uh, I'll try not
to keep voting against these crs. So that what is he going to give
to them? I don't know so that's that's interesting. So I did refresh
this the latest update from The Hill dot com. We'll look at this quickly.
In the first round of votes today, the House failed to elect a
new speaker. The vote was two hundred for Jordan, two hundred twelve for
House Speaker. I'm sorry, House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, who got the
backing of the full Democratic caucus. Yeah, the Democrats are fully united,
just as they were in January. So two hundred for Jordan to twelve for
Hakim Jeffries. And by the way, for anyone who's wondering, why doesn't
well that Hakiem Jeffries got the most why doesn't he become House Speaker. It
doesn't work that way. You have to get a certain number of the whoever
is the majority already holding the uh, the House. Uh, so you
have to get to two seventeen. Jordan gained some momentum today, I'm sorry,
yesterday, rather picking up endorsements from key players who had initially said they
would not vote for him. But during the vote over and this was a
surprise, during the vote, over a dozen Republicans voted for other options,
including former Speaker Kevin McCarthy by the way, keV Uh, I keep saying
McCartney, don't I McCarthy. Uh, he voted for Jim Jordan when it
was his time to vote, he did not vote for himself. And Steve
Scalise uh voted for Jim Jordan as well. Yeah, so they so h
McCarthy and Scalise both got votes. The House has now gone into recess,
so I'm assuming, I'm assuming that when they're that they're they're having their meetings
while the House is in recess. Now here's who if you're curious, just
quickly, here are the Here are the twenty Republicans who voted against Jim Jordan
for Speaker Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez Diremmer of Oregon, Anthony D.
Esposito of New York by the way, Esposito of New York. That
is in a that I know for a fact is in a district. Actually
these probably these probably all are, but I know that one is definitely that's
a blue district. That's but if you remember in New York in uh in
twenty twenty well no, I'm sorry, in twenty twenty two Democrats lost.
This is how What's his name, Uh, the lying guy, George Santos.
This is that's how he got in. The line guy. Well,
that is how he'll go down in history. I guess right. The con
man, the lion guy. He got in because the Democrats tried to do
some Jerry manderin in New York, but they screwed it up, and they
actually screwed themselves anyway. Mario Diaz Bolart of Florida, Jake Elsey of Texas,
Andrew Garbarino of New York, Carlos jim Andez of Florida, Tony Gonzalez
of Texas, Kay Granger of Texas. So that's three from Texas so far.
Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania. Oh, I'm trying to see this the rest
of this list, and it loaded something else. I can't get to the
rest of the list. We're running out of time anyway. And a bunch
of others, a whole bunch of them, all right, Um now the
other thing just quickly on this subject rise. Remember I was talking about how
you know you've got house appropriations as who decides where the money goes media,
it has this up rise of the house appropriators. GOP strategists notes it isn't
terribly sexy, but serious legislators tanked Jim Jordan. Let's look at this quickly
and then we got we gotta get to our break and then we'll get our
guests son. Former GOP strategist Dan Hay explained on CNN Today why Representative Jim
Jordan fell far short of becoming House Speaker during the first floor vote with him
as the nominee. He said, quote, one of the really interesting things
what we're seeing is that a lot of these no votes on whether they're voting
for Scolice or McCarthy, is really the rise of the House appropriators. And
why have we had government shutdowns and a lot of the chaos over these past
few years. It's been the failure to have a working, appropriate creation's process,
which isn't terribly sexy. But this is what Jordan has said he's going
to try and do, and obviously that's been on hold for a while.
But if I could say one thing, a lot of this conversation has been
Jim Jordan and Donald Trump. Donald Trump caused Jim Jordan. This all predates
Donald Trump by years. This is the Tea Party election. This is the
pick of Sarah Palin, Eric Canter, my old boss. Canter's primary loss
the twenty thirteen government shutdown, staffing decisions that Steve Scalise made against Jim Jordan.
There's a whole lot going on here, and we're talking about a coal
mine that is filled with canaries. Donald Trump just came in with the great
disrupt and was the great disruptor on what already existed unquote. So there you
go. Isaac Banks joins us in the chatroom and says, hello, Matt
connorton, how are you doing. Jim Jordan? He is a new president.
Come on, Matt connorton, what's the conclusion of Jim Jordan? Isaac
Banks? Of course, our friend from Greensboro, North Carolina. It is
actually my pleasure to inform you, to get you caught up that no,
Jim Jordan is not our new president, nor do I suspect he will at
any point in the future be a nominee. But he is nominated for House
Speakers, So lucky, lucky, Yes, Okay, we are approaching the
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Oh excuse me, and we've got a great band with us in studio.
That song you just heard actually Human Emotion, which is brand new from
these guys. So let me bring those mics up. So at the news
desk we have Eric who is back with us from Best Not Broken. Welcome
back, Thank you Matt. Good to see you today, Yes, good
to see you. And on the couch we have Mark who Now you were
not here last time. Correct, that's correct, we had our drummer.
But I'm also bald and I play in the rhythm session, so I guess
it's fine, perfect, perfect, well, welcome and I love that.
I love that song. We have some other songs we're going to be planned
too, but this is so these are really like brand new, right,
fresh little fresh off of the mastering press. Yeah, oh, fantastic.
Yeah. I think I think last time we were here, you had two
singles, two tunes that were on this EP that we candidly we thought was
going to be released by now we're a little late. That never happens in
the music business. It's now the EP will be coming out on November three.
Okay, So last time we shared two songs, I Don't Belong and
low Lights that are the first and closing track on that EP, and the
song you just heard, Human Emotion is one of the other three, and
I think you have a couple of the others. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well we're gonna we're gonna play some more today. Yeah, absolutely,
so November third, is it? Is it an EP? Or a
full album. It's an EP EP how many songs? Five songs? Five
songs? Okay, And we probably talked about this before, but what goes
into that decision to you know, because you have a lot of options.
You can do an EP, you can do an album, you could just
release a bunch of singles. Just so many different ways you can you can
approach it these days, what went into the decision to make an epoo?
Well, yeah, it's a really good question. You know, like the
music industry is changing by the week, and so like we've gone through all
kinds of you know, various thought processes. You know, we've always wanted
to do candidly a full length album just because you tend to get more attention
from the press, a little bit more to talk about. And it's one
of those things that, hey, we did an album. But the reality
is, you know, the world today largely at least music listeners largely have
add and they only want to listen to your best song and and if they
don't like track number two, they're not gonna play it anyway. So,
you know, we we wanted to go in and do a batch of songs
that felt like, okay, here's a group of stuff that kind of shows
where the band is right now. Yeah, we've done a bunch of singles
in the past and those are all you know, they're fine, but we
wanted to put something out that had a little bit more of a little bit
more of a statement to it. Yeah, but we decided it didn't make
sense to do the full length. It's a lot of time, very expensive
and candidly, as I said, you know, sometimes you don't get to
listen. So we thought this was the best way to go for us today,
right, right? And how long has the band always been the three
of you or well for the recent history anyway, I mean this is kind
of the this is are the Carlo and Mark and I. I guess it's
probably been six or seven years. How many years as seven seven? Yeah,
Yeah, Mark knows best. He's been timing every day, I know
what you mean. Yeah, right, but yeah, we've sort of been
I would say this version of the band has kind of been the you know,
the version of best not broken that's ultimately produced what we think we're most
about. Yeah, you know that we've been We've all been kicking around for
a long time and we've the band has taken many forms, but this is
the this is the version that we we've all had a good time with for
the last seven years or so. Yeah, excellent, excellent. Uh.
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oh oh seven. We do have a question in the chat room. Isaac
Banks from Greensboro, North Carolina. I don't remember if the Greensboro contingent were
contingent were in the chat room last time you were here, they might have
been Okay. Yeah, if you if you start hearing some very odd questions
like the one I'm about to ask you, you'll know it's You'll you'll remember
from Greensboro you'll remember question. Yes, yeah, Mark is in charge of
all odd questions. That's what we guess. All right, well this one
is for you then, Mark best not broken? How are you doing?
Fellas? And I love the song? And what's your favorite Fastball song?
Okay, that is truly I'll let you go ahead, you go, let
me add question. I can only I can only think of one. Listen,
have they had a couple? Right? Had the Way and the fire
Escape? And another one? Why we're talking about this recently? Yeah,
we actually used to. So we do some cover tunes and we actually used
to cover the song The Way by Fastball. Yeah. So I actually I
appreciate the question because that's a They're a pretty cool band, and uh,
you know, they have some similarities, but with what we do, I
would say harmonies, yeah, guitar, guitar, pop sort of stuff.
Yeah. I don't have extensive knowledge of their back catalog, so I'm gonna
be really basic and I'll say the Way. But I think I learned that
when they started out, they had more of a punky edge to them on
their earlier stuff. And I remember listening back the one time and it was
really really fun, really different. Yeah, it was really fun. Yeah,
The Way is the only song I can remember there is. I don't
know if they I mean, did they have any other actual hits. I
think they had one other hit and I can't remember the name Escape. Yeah,
okay, I don't remember that one, but if I heard it,
I'd probably recognize it. Yeah. Jay Fad from the Great State of Raman
says, I just want to know about beards, growing them or increasing the
length. Now, Mark, you've got some You've got some beard there.
I know this is pretty short for me too, is it. Yeah?
I always keep mind very short. I can't. I'm not like I don't.
I can't grow it out. One. Well, it starts to itch
and oh it's terrible. You got to get past that point. You got
you gotta brave it and then you got to comb it and it gets rid
of the itch and it makes it nice and soft. Yeah, you know,
attention to detail for sure. You don't want to drying out or anything,
you know. Yeah, in a mission that makes sense. Yeah,
now, Eric, you have you ever had a beard? I've never.
In fact, that was one of when we were recruiting Mark. That was
one of their criteria because Carlow and I at the time said we're never going
to grow a beard. I had never been able to get past that uncomfortable
stage. Yeah, and uh so Mark was sort of our designated beard guy,
and he's I think he's been representing pretty well. Yeah, and various
lengths of course, for sure, Carlo. At best he grows a creepy
mustache once in a while. Yeah, Carlo, if you're listening, it's
very very in the soul patch. We got to talk about that later.
Oh wow, Yeah, what like seventies porn type creepy? Is it's pencil
thin John waters Asque, No, not quite that, but yeah, it's
a vibe for sure. Isaac Banks says in the chat room, best not
Broken. My favorite song from Fastball is fire Escape, and the CD was
All the Money you Can Buy. That's right, I remember that familiar I
remember that. Yes, Yes, And hello to our friend Melanie Liberty,
who was in the Facebook live chat. I'm Melanie, and let's see you
got anybody else? Oh and after the Winter a great band who was on
the show recently there and there, Hello, guys, Yes, after the
Winter, see after the you know, because we were talking about how I
don't was that audio or off air we're talking about this. I think it
was off. That was off air? Was off? Yeah, I was.
I was saying to I was saying to these guys, I don't like
fall that much because aside from the leaves, I don't like what fall leads
to. I'm a spring and summer guy. When I when After the Winter
was on the show show, I said, where does the name come from?
And the singer whose name escapes me unfortunately, but great band, great
guys. But he said after the winter it's the best time, and I
said, yes, it is, isn't it. I agree, After the
winter it's a relief. It's like you got through winter and now you've got
spring and then you got summer. Absolutely. I like that. Yeah,
Like, yeah, have you guys been playing a lot of shows or have
you been more focused on the EP? Well, we've been actually a little
bit of a mix. We've had some some fun shows, busy summer.
It's been a busy summer. We've been really kind of cram and you know,
as I mentioned that we're late on the EP, we had hoped to
have it out kind of late summer. We had a strange string of complications
with like our last tune, trying to get it ready, and then some
deliberations as to what should actually land on the EP. But yeah, so
we spent a lot of time working on that, trying to get it done
and try to get it done right, and so that has taken some time,
but we've had some good shows. I think the last time we were
here, we were just getting ready for our gig with the Smashing Pumpkins,
which we were thinking was going to be a really weird show for us.
Oh yeah, because an inter Pol was there and and who's the something Suns
right? Uh, I'm gonna say the wrong name, but we should I'm
not going to. But nonetheless we thought it was gonna be a weird show.
It actually turned out to be a lot of fun. It was again,
we had a great response, and it was a really good time.
You know, because our music has mellowed since you know, we we all
listened to Smashing Pumpkins, but our music has mellowed and so now it's not
really in line with what they do. So we figured all these guys,
you know, listen to a song or two of ours and walk on by.
But actually it was cool. They hung around, we got to meet
a guy, I guess, the bass player from the Pumpkins and the band
player for They came down hang out a little bit and that was fun.
They're going for a little bike ride and came down said Hi, yeah,
yeah, good good group. So that was a good show. But we've
got this this Friday. We're down at Salisbury Beach at Blue Ocean Music Hall
with the Bacon Brothers and that's Kevin Bacon and his brother. A lot of
people don't know that Kevin plays in a band and is actually a great musician,
and as this is brother, Yeah yeah, so and I our thinking
is that's going to be a better you know, configuration because they're sort of
doing and there, and we've been asked to play acoustic, which we do
occasionally, and they're kind of in an acoustic configuration. So I don't know.
We thought that would be a good you know, a good fit,
but maybe it won't. They have this sort of eclectic style, you know,
it's like a mix of rock and Americana and jazz and folk, and
I don't know, it'll be interesting to see how it goes. We're just
gonna do our thing. That's all we can do, I guess, right,
so we can do what they do because I've always been aware of the
Bacon brothers. But do they is it just the two of them or do
they have a band? They have a band? Okay, yeah, but
but this show it's they're doing an acoustic thing. Well they're playing with the
full band, but they they play with the full band, they bring in
a lot of acoustic instruments. Okay, gotcha, cars, and there's an
acoustic orientation to it. Oh cool. I presume they'll probably do some electric
stuff as well. But yeah, yeah, but we're going to be all
acoustic for that gig. Have you guys done much of that doing acoustic shows
or is this a rarity? What do you think? Mark? We've done
a few Blue Ocean alone. I think we've done two more before this.
Yeah, well with who the guests who maybe acoustics with the guests who,
And we did one other acoustic the Tubes. I think it was Oh wow.
So yeah, so we've done we've done some acoustic stuff. You know.
Actually, I mean our music mostly is produced in an electric format,
but a lot of it is written on the acoustic guitar with acoustic instruments,
so it translates reasonably. Well. Yeah, and you know our music is
largely about the melodies and the harmonies, so that usually works in an acoustic
format. Oh, absolutely, hoping it will go well. And where where
is the EP? Is it all recorded in the same place, same studio?
Yeah? So well, actually no, not all recorded. It was
a mix of studios. So we did some of the work at Revel Resound
Studios, which is actually right here in Manchester. Okauddy Matt Blanchard, Who's
I'm sorry, Matt Planchett, thank you. Matt is Mark is also in
charge of corrections, beards and corrections. I think I've interviewed him. Yeah,
he's in a group called Paper Monsters. Yes, really good guy.
I interviewed him, but long time ago. I should reach out to it.
It's like it was like seven or eight years ago that I interviewed him,
believe it or not. Yeah, but but he was in Paper Monsters
at the time. But but interview it was on another show that I do
that Arizon another station actually but he uh yeah, but but he and he
played on the show just acoustic guitar. But but it's still on for anyone
who wants it. It's it's still online. It's uh. The show is
called Local Outbreak and it's uh. They can look that up. It's either
under paper Monsters or Matt Planchet to google it. It's there. But yeah,
very talented. Yeah, that's a great guy. And he's so he
still plays, but he also does he's an awesome producer and recording engineer.
So we did some work with him and we recorded a batch of it down
at Woolle Mammoth Studios in Waltham, math mass with our buddy Dave Minahan,
who you may know from past the Boston area stuff. But he's uh,
yeah, he plays in a band, played in a band called the Neighborhoods,
and you know he was sort of like the the sitting guitar player for
Aersmith for a while. Uh and and with the replacements, right. So
also, you know, a guy with a great musical ear, but has
spent in the last thirty years becoming an awesome producer. So we've record We
recorded most of the stuff at Willy, some of it came back to Matt
for mixing, and then we sent it up to was former league Gateway and
now I N Mastering in Portland, Maine, who does a lot of awesome
work with Grammy nominees that we're just happy to be you know, have oo.
We're not there yet, we've had nominations not for that. Well,
very cool. Well let's uh, let's hear another track from the I'll let
you guys pick. So we played, we played Human Emotion. What what
what would you like me to play next? We've got that's the way she
likes it? Uh, line awake or and yeah, what don't we do?
That's the way she likes it? Okay, and we'll we'll play all
of them before the end of the show. Yeah. Actually, so here's
an interesting question for your listeners if they're kicking around the we're trying to figure
out what what single, what should be the next single. So our first
single off of this EP was I Don't Belong, which you played last time?
Yeah, yeah, and we had we had a song in mine to
be the next single. But now that we've all heard everything right a gazillion
times, we're sort of like, wait, is that really the right one?
So so if you have an opinion as you listen to these next tunes,
if you have an opinion as to which one you think should be the
next single, let us know, but this is one of the candidates.
It's like a like a focus group. I like it. You just give
me an idea for a podcast? Actually, okay, single? Yeah,
but uh yeah, all right, let's give this a listen. So this
is that's the way she likes it. Oh, what's the name of the
EP, by the way, or if it feels right, If it feels
right, that's the name of the EP. Yeah, okay, I had
an Okay, so this is from there. This is from the upcoming EP.
If it feels right, from best not broken here it is. That's
the way she likes it. It's quartered ten and we torn off the bed.
It's Saturday morning with Friday Champagne turning alarm off talking about movies. She
wants to see Dirty Dance, and again everyone knows she's shy and goes joy
leave of my imagine s a way she said, you don't even know.
She sees me walk blushes. It's fast tomorrow, it's just the same.
It's a party somewhere down the tempt Ruth deck dancing in the wind. She
calls me amazing. Shecus me her, I'm thinking it's calming. But dreams
are musians and our mom is father knows. She's shy, likes showing a
host of fast and they shine fast away. She s she don't even know
the name, exees me flushes. It's hermrow. It's just the same,
the same for snay. But there'll be no what here singing, I say,
chess agathings. Maybe she doesn't lust is the blushing. Maybe I'm rushing
the song. She's perfectly placed in my imagination. Maybe it's where she did.
That's where shown sym solid side, perfect everywhere. That's the way she
likes it. She don't even know the name. She sees me home by
the blushes suns, but it's just the same. That's good, that is
that's the way she likes it. That is the band Best Not Broken,
And that's from their upcoming EP. If it feels right and you are hearing
these for the first time, by the way, and we've got a couple
of the guys from Best Not Broken here in studio with us. Eric and
Mark are here and great song, guys, I love it. Thanks,
Thank you, really good. First time I've heard it in big headphones.
Yeah yeah, well it sounds fantastic, by the way, I just got
an email now This didn't come directly to me. This was actually somebody emailed
the station here at w M and H. But they're listening, and then
somebody forwarded this to me. Thank you, Joe Laar from Carol Mitchell.
Carol says I'm a big fan of Best Not Broken, and they sent a
message to me that they will be live at five today. I've been listening
since I saw the message and made Pizzell's Pizzelli's while listening. I really like
this station and I've bookmarked it. Thank you. I am from Hudson,
mass So there you go. Thank you, Carol. You know you must
know what a pizzelli is. I don't what the heck is that supposed to
mean. I don't know. No, I think they're cookies of some sort.
Okay, oh it's a fancy dessert cookie, I believe. Oh okay,
thanks Carol. Well, very good. Yes, good to you.
Hear from you, Carol, Yes, thank you, Carol, very nice,
very nice. And if you have anything for the band, the studio
line is open. Six three two five six oh seven six three two five
six seven. Maria and Bannis shows us in the Facebook live chat. She
says, I'm loving their music. Ronda Favero says, love it. It
has a nineteen sixties flavor, very melodic. Yeah. I was thinking too,
there's and we may have talked about this before, but there's your music
that there's a timelessness to it in that I feel like it would fit into
any era and not sound not sound dated. It would just sound current at
any time. Does that make sense, Like it's not something you can like,
like, you know, she made the observation that song as kind of
a sixties flavor, but you wouldn't necessarily date it to any particular period.
Yeah, if that makes sense. What we're hoping most is that people like
it today exactly. But no, I appreciate that, you know, I
mean, I think, you know, we all Mark and I, being
the primary songwriters of the band, draw references from different time periods, and
you know we you know, I love the Beatles, I love the Beach
Boys, a lot of that older stuff. I love a lot of contemporary
stuff. That particular song has been kicking around in my head for probably twenty
years, right, so it definitely draws on earlier influences, and we weren't
quite sure how to produce it. But Dave Minihan down at Wooly Mammoth put
a lot of those harmonies in there and sort of sucked out that sort of
sixties like you know, Beach Boys beat a less. Yeah, actually said
a lot of the harmonies. The first time I heard a mix, I
heard all these high harmonies, I'm like, I don't think that's Eric up
there'ne yet so really good? Oh that's cool. So that's so that song
was in your head for a long time, but you didn't hear it that
way the way that it came out. Uh, And it was pretty close,
you know, you know, you always you try to get it as
close as you can to your vision, you know, from your music days,
and you never hit it on the mark right, and you hope you
come as close as you can, and you hope that whenever you get there,
that it's at least something you like. And all of all of these
songs are in that phase where like, I don't know yet if I like
them right, because they're not. We were just sort of like hearing them
fully finished. Now, that was the first time really I've heard in big
heaf moones. So wow, No, we I always like that melody.
It's a very simple song, and it took a long time to sort of
come up with a verse and a pre course that sort of matched it.
But we always liked the melody and always felt like it should have, you
know, some heavy harmonies and that kind of a treatment. So you know,
I appreciate that comment. It's that's probably probably the right comment for this
song. So that's very cool, cool cool. Melanie La Liberty from the
Gray State of Vermont. She says in the chat room, did they say
the girl in song liked to watch Dirty Dancing? Yeah, no, one
should date someone who likes to watch that movie. It's an immediate red flag.
Yes, right, right, yeah, yes, which is another song?
Right? Oh yeah, we didn't bring that today, but and Isaac
Banks says, we say best not Broken. Have you never listened to Matchbox
twenty song Long Day? I think everyone's heard that song. Yeah. You
really couldn't exist on planet Earth without having heard that song at one time.
And actually it's interesting because the one of the next songs that you're going to
play, there's a part of it that actually reminds me specifically of that song
of Long Day by Oh No Kid Mashbucks. There's just this quick melodic thing.
Yeah, that sounds kind of like Mashbucks one. Oh okay, all
right, yeah, so the so I'm sorry, not the album, the
EP comes out. What did you say to the day? Was again?
November third? November third Friday. Now, you probably have a lot of
I assume you have a lot of material that didn't end up on on the
EP. Is that is that difficult when you're trying to figure out because you
would even reference something about a song, you were trying to figure out what
was going to go on the EP and what wasn't. Is that is that
hard when you because I assume after quite a few years, you've got a
lot of material, I would imagine, so to try to narrow that down
to figure out what's going to go on the EP? I mean, obviously
there's things you can always release later on, but is that a difficult decision?
And and with with three of you in the band, is it hard
to really get everybody get everybody to agree? Yeah? I got to start
sure. Yeah. Yeah. There's another song that we actually recorded during the
sessions for this that it has a slightly different and vibe and it it's a
little bit behind in the mixing stage, so we decided to save it potentially
for a single down the line or some other kind of release. Who knows
it's a song I did, and I'm very persnickety, all types of problems.
But yeah, we also have songs that, you know, we'll practice
for a while, it will get them sounded good, and I'll be like,
ah, this doesn't really fit what we're going for, and then of
course inevitably we'll come back to it. A month. I was like,
you know what, I think there's something to that, right, And then
a couple of weeks later, I'm like, no, no, let's move
on, move on. Yeah, yeah, we have this one song.
It's actually one of the first songs that Best not Broken ever performed as an
original band, and the name of this song is Best Not Broken. Yeah,
right, And so we for for a long time we played it live
and then we're like, ah, this isn't really us anymore. Let's set
it aside. I mean, we want to if we're gonna put a song
out with our name, it's got to be the right song. And then
like it resurfaced, like you know, five six years later. We played
it for one then I went away, and lately we've been doing it again
and like it kind of has a new vibe to it, and we're like,
actually, maybe it's kind of more relevant than we thought. This has
been around for probably twenty years. Yeah, it's gotten a good reaction lately.
And I forgot we actually did record the bones of it at least.
Yeah, maybe for this, you know, this could have been like a
seven song, like like a long EP, you know. Yeah, yeah,
but again we just kind of it's about time and money and schedule.
So it's tough. You know, Mark and I are both songwriters and like
you know, trying to like even with your own material. You know,
I have a bunch of stuff I've written. Its same from Mark where it's
like, you know, if I have a hundred ideas, probably twenty of
them fit in the Best Not Broken bucket, right, there's a much of
other Like I at some point we'll release the country album and a folk album
and all the d but it's a long way off once I retire from Best
Not Broken. But and Mark the same. You know, he's got you
know, pop punk songs, and he's got like rock anthems and all kinds
of stuff, but finding songs that like can come together and sit on the
same EP and feel like, okay, this is kind of where the band
is today and it sounds right and works together. Especially with two songwriters,
it's hard to do and so yeah, it's not an easy decision. And
you know something we stress over every time. Yeah, yeah, no doubt
is now does Carlo write anything or is it? Yeah, well, Carlo
is our lead bridge writer. Actually that's true. I have a this filthy
habit of writing really linear, long, rambling bridges that just had part after
part after part before you finally get to the chorus again. And Carlos always
like, hey, cut the crap, like, just do this part,
cut out those other six parts and then we'll go right back to the chorus
and that's it, and like whatever, fine, But I think low Lights
was actually like a minute longer our new song that you played last time,
and actually we're supposed to have like a saxophone, so wasn't supposed to be
is it something that we're thinking of sacks or something like that, And then
it just got axed because it wasn't coming together and Carlo put his foot down
again. But that's the only time we let him get creative input on the
bridges. So he's like an editor and he well, he thinks he's the
lead editor. Carlo, if you're listening, you're the lead editor and best
nut broken of course you. Mark and I always talk behind the scenes and
make sure that we're comfortable with his editing. But right right, Melanie,
a lot of liberty in the chat room says how many layers of shirts is
desk guy wearing? It seems excessive? Are you on screen right now?
Yeah? I didn't realize that I was actually on camera. Well, yes,
so I actually contemplated that. So I'm I'm a guy that gets didn't
think of it. I get very very easily, and I don't like to,
you know, if I'm shivering and I'm talking, it's it's awkward.
So I figured I'm better off being warm than I am being cold. And
I got out of the cars that I'm going to throw my jacket on just
because I you know, it's sort of a he wants to look good,
you know, and I will, and I want to look good. It's
best I can, it's best I possibly can. I'm counting two shirts in
a jacket. Is there another one on under that? Two shirts and a
jacket? Okay, Yeah, that's not that accessive. It doesn't seem excessive.
But you know, I could see we're you might if you're looking from
a distance, and Isaac Banks in the chat room says, I guess this
is for you, specifically, Eric. He said hashtag Eric for I'm Best
not broken. What's your favorite song of the Beach Boys? Okay, that's
a tough question. That's a tough question. My favorite Beach Boys tune?
Now, I'm struggling to think of the It's been so long since I've listened
to, actually listened to the Beach Boys. I'm struggling to think. I
always go, wouldn't it be nice or good? Vibrations? I mean they're
not deep cuts at all. Other words, Yeah, I mean vibrations Right
now, I don't know that I could pick one off the top of my
head. Yeah, I think I listened to the Beach Boys more just for
the harmony singing right right, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. So
I'll have to get back to I'll have to get back to that one.
I apologize for not having an answer today. He also as exactly. He
also asks what's your favorite song of the Outfield? All the Love in the
World or your Love, So he gave you two choices. Well, thank
you. I appreciate the choices. So your Love would probably be it,
which I think is a great tune. And we actually we did that one
for a while too. In fact, I remember when we when we did
a few we did a couple of shows with Pat bennettar Oh no kidding.
This is a number of years ago, and that was our That was our
hit cover tune that we put right in the middle of the original set.
Yeah. I like that. It's a good two. I can picture you
guys doing that. Did Do you have an answer for that? Mark,
I'd go with the other one. With the other one, Yeah, Your
Love is. When I was a kid and I took guitar lessons, that
was the first song I ever learned. Is it really? Yeah? That
I could probably still play it today and I haven't picked up a guitar.
I'm a bass player, but I started on guitar. Yeah, and uh
yeah, it's just you know, because it's so easy. It was a
good starting point, you know that. But you know what's interesting about that
tune is that the the rhythm of the guitar is sort of syncopated in an
interesting way. Like I think he I don't know whether he thought about it
or that's just sort of how it came out. But if I were to
have written that, I probably would have kept it straight. But he had
this little bit of a syncopation to it, which it makes all the difference
in the world. Yeah, really digging that. Yeah, absolutely, Let's
play another track? You guys, sure what? Uh? What should we
what should we go with? Well? Uh, I think you have Lying
Awake, which is another track from the EP. Yeah, right, yeah,
that's all the next one to go with. We'll go with that one,
okay. Kind of a different vibe in this one. Yeah. Oh
interesting, Okay, and remember everybody, if anyone has an idea of what
they think the single the next single should be, we are focus grouping,
so here we go. Okay. So this is this is called line awake
from Best Not Broken. I see the fade Knights who can never high Rise.
I'm on the third and second floor in the middle of it. Now,
someone I don't red egg good guys, I shouldn't have done this,
but in one happen and now I truly captivated by the abuse. Whoa saying
God knows him on the bank just a little bit, Who please say to
stay fade? This life does change, set this moment, trade lot,
I can tell the rising sun shouldn't have stayed uplifered against an habit and fun
a lot of. I can tell the rising sun shouldn't have stayed up.
Shouldn't have stayed up? Oh lot a, I can tell the risin sun
shouldn't have stayed uplifed against the habit fun that a way I can tell the
risin sun shouldn't have stayed it up, should to stay it up? You
know the window we did the time boo, we could have died three times?
Girl with up you were out? Take it off? Oh we gotta
beat the falloon now? Who it was a good shown. I know.
I'll just sing around the band hitting the notes. Side can't but I got
the words all stuck in my head and I can't let it go. These
things they made. This life does change, set this moment, cray,
Yeah, I can tell the ras and the sum shouldn't stayed I'm delivered against
some habit, but not a way. You can tell the ras and the
sun shouldn't have stayed up. You shouldn't have stayed up? Oh lotta,
I can tell their hazards. Sun shouldn't have stayed I'm delivered against the habit,
but I don't you can tell their asses sum should have stayed up?
You shouldn't have stayed up? You know. I don't think until there has
a sum, shouldn't say it. I'm believing against an I don't know you
can tell there has a sum shouldn't have stayed up? You shouldn't have stayed
up? Oh, I don't. I can tell the reason shouldn't say it.
I'm belisted against. I don't I tell the shouldn't have stayed I don't
even till the ras and the sun shouldn't say it. I'm living against a
but not way you can tell there has and some shouldn't have stayed up.
Shouldn't have stayed up? That I can tell there has, so shouldn't say
it. I'm liking against them that way, I can tell there as such
should all right? So far I vote for that one. That is line
awake. The band is Best Not Broken, and you are hearing these for
the first time anywhere my friends, and we have Eric and Mark from Best
Not Broken here with us live in studio. And if you have any thoughts
on what should be the next single. We've been playing a few songs.
We have one more to go that we will play before the end of the
show. But I love that song. That is so catchy, cool,
Thank you. We're really happy how it turned out. That was a big
journey, that whole song. Yeah, the production and everything. Yeah,
the production is is more. It sounds a little more sophisticated, and that
there's a lot to it electronically that that maybe isn't any other songs. Yeah,
it's very moody, but what so was that challenging to do that?
It sounds like a are the for example of the drums, are they is
that all electronic? Or is you know? I I know Carlo recorded drums
to that song. It sounds like maybe there's some samples in there. Yeah,
there are so the there's a there is a real life drum track in
that tune. In fact, the whole thing has a real live drum track.
But there are we this is the tune where we still let's bring in
some more contemporary samples and try and play with a little bit and and give
it more of a contemporary vibe. And so there are pieces where we've woven
in some electronic drums and some electronic percussion in different parts to kind of give
it that kind of a vibe. But it's really kind of a mix of
acoustic drums and normal acoustic drums and some electronic stuff. Okay, wow,
definitely works. Now, I think that's a hit single right there. I
really do think it's very very catchy. It sounds very contemporary. No,
really good. Glad to hear that. Thank you, great chorus. Now,
who wrote that? Did you guys write that together? Or who wrote
that? That is a That is an Eric tune? Okay, these tunes
often, you know, they start in someone's head and then they come into
the band, and then the band sort of makes them band tunes. Yeah,
but that started in my head. That's more recent one, actually,
that's that's yeah. Yeah, that was one of the last ones to kind
of come into the picture, I think, aside from the Mountain, which
is the song where referencing early, I didn't quite make it to this one,
right. Yeah, No, that's that's really good. If you're just
joining us, we've got two thirds of a best not Broken in studio with
us. We have Eric and Mark and if you have any questions at all
or any feedback for the band six three two five oh six oh seven.
Is the studio line six O three two five oh six oh seven. Uh.
The EP comes out November, did you say? November? Fourth?
November? Third, November third off by a day, that's all right,
And it's called if it Feels Right, Yes, if it feels right,
yep. It's got five tracks on it and uh, this is yeah.
We have one more that we'll play in a little bit, but uh yeah,
really good stuff. But that's anyway, that's that would be my my
pick for the single. Cool. I'm glad to hear that. But we'll
see what happens when we play the can all change? Do you have a
pick mark? By the way, have you no? No, I'm a
I'm Switzerland, you're Switzerland. Really do you have a pick? Eric in
mind? Uh? Well, it's interesting, so I can so. The
last song that you're gonna play is not one that's going to be in this
it's a per song we ever wrote from years and years old, so you
can hear you know how far we've come in a sense, but so human
emotion and that's the way she likes it. And lying Awake or the three
tunes that you played today that are on the new EP, and I always
thought that that's the way she likes it would be the single, the next
single. Yeah, But as as are these songs have evolved, and as
we've listened to them more like you, I've sort of gravitated a little bit
too Lying Awake, just because it has more of a contemporary vibe. It's
it's kind of like there's a groove that's sort of affectious, you know.
I like the melodies to that's the way she likes it. But I've been
singing in my head for so long I don't I no longer have any sense
of objectivity. So depending on either your listeners or somebody else to tell us
what should be. So far, we got one for line Awake. I'm
digging that. Yeah, Yeah, definitely Isaac Banks and the Shoffer masks.
Mark, it looks like this one is for you, he said, hashtag
Mark, what's your favorite ABC song? I can only think of what do
you remember? ABC? No? I can only think of one. Uh
that song Isaac shoot that poison arrow through My That's the only ABC song I
can remember. I got nothing for you. I'm really sorry. Yeah,
I feel like they might have had one or two other hits, but that's
the only one I can remember. Shoot that Poise. I think it's called
Shoot that Poison Arrow. Isaac is giving us some good listening homework. We'll
be going home and checking all this stuff out. That's right, that's right
now. Are you guys obviously the EP will be out soon. Are you
already thinking about the next one and planning anything for the next one or are
you just focused on getting this one out and then playing a lot of shows
or what? Yeah, well, we've been focused on this. I mean
we have there are a bunch of tunes, as Mark said earlier's a bunch
of tunes we've had kicking around for a long time, and you know,
there are things in the kitty, so you know, I mean, we're
musicians. At some point we'll go record more stuff, but right now,
the job is to get this released and go play some shows to support it
and see how it goes. Yeah. Yeah, just to get us out
will be a victory for sure. Yeah. It's funny. This has been
definitely probably been definitely probably Yeah. Well it's this EP has caused the most,
uh, it's been the most challenging to release it. I don't know
why, because it's like the tunes are the easiest tunes probably we put out,
but like for some reason it's been the most challenging. I think we
were a courage Yeah, I was. I was definitely Yeah. Came into
play. Miriam Vanish in the chat room says, I was feeling a little
bare naked ladies vibe with that last song. The one before that felt like
a song called there she goes, not sure who sings that? I love
the harmonies? Oh, the one before? Okay, so the one before,
which was that's the way she likes that, that's the way she likes
it, so she goes. Actually, that's a huge compliment. In fact,
when we called the we were talking to the PR people about these tunes
and they were asking about that song, and they said, what songs can
you compare it to? And I said, if people compare this to there
she goes by the laws, I'm going to be really thrilled because that's Oh
that was probably one of my all time favorite tunes. And I'm sure somewhere
back when I was dreaming up the melody, there was some piece of that
was in my head. So yeah, yeah, that's cool. To hear
that somebody picked that up. Oh very cool. Yeah, uh, Will
Vegas of course, so from Will's autocare is in the chat room, he
says, Oh, he says, hello everyone. Rumor has it that Best
Not Broken play a great cover of gg Allen's drink Fight and blank hashtag.
We say, oh, definitely, yeah, I can. I can imagine
you guys, only for the Late night show. It's a fifth set song,
right right, we get into some GGI antics, Clothes come off,
things get thrown, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, we appreciate
you humoring the soft rocky. I know, Matt, you're a you're a
hard rock guy right back from back in the day. I did play in
some pretty heavy bands. Yeah, so this is like, this is like
Lionel Richie g Ritchie Man. That's a that's a mashup. Oh. Isaac
Banks is reminding me of other ABC songs now because I can't think of any
The look of Love, She's got, the look, she's got, the
look familiar at all. Yeah, I've heard that song O Look of Love
and and when Smokey Sings that was their other big hit. According to Isaac
Banks, you remember that one when smokey sings. I can only barely remember
myself, but yeah, yeah, hashtag Eric you'll know who this is from?
What's your favorite? Sixpence? None? The richer song? Only one
I know is kiss Me. I think that's their only hit, isn't it.
All I can say is I struggled to come up with the Beach Boys
here right right? So yeah, I don't have an answer to that.
Yeah, And Miriam said definitely meant as a compliment about there she goes you.
Do you ever, you know when when in terms of talking about things
that you've been inspired by, and you were you were inspired by that song?
Do you ever do either of you guys ever write anything where you you've
written a song and then you kind of realize it maybe it's sounds too close
to something that you were inspired by, or does that ever happen? This
has been a topic of conversation on another show that I'm on that I'm a
co host so on Retrospectral Radio about you know when when artists, you know,
they write something and then they very often it's just subconscious. They don't
they don't mean to write something that's too close to what somebody else has already
done. But it just it happens because everybody's inspired by something or influenced by
something. Does that ever happen to you, guys? I know for sure
it has. I'm I don't know if I can come up with a specific
example, but I know there's many times where I'll play something and I'll be
like, I think that's really good, and I'll have like a demo recorded,
and then I'll be shuffling stuff on my phone and then all of a
sudden, like this song will play from like twenty years ago, like,
ah, crap, yeah, I can't do it's too close. Yeah,
it's not even like you know, one of our songs, Like people are
comparing it to these other songs and you're like, oh, yeah, no,
I guess I could see that. It's kind of like, no,
I just stole that. I didn't mean too. I can't put this song
out. Yeah. Yeah. So it's really interesting you asked that because literally,
just yesterday, so I had this tune that you know, I always
keep it on my phone. I keep a list of like the top ideas
that are candidates for the next EP, and I've got about twenty tunes kicking
around, and I had this one that I really liked a little, the
chorus to it, and and literally I think I was washing the dishes and
a song came on the radio and it was that song. Oh it was,
And it was literally so close to the song that I said, there's
no way that I didn't hear that song immediately before. It was probably like,
yeah, lying on the couch, you know, at midnight, and
I heard the song and then like five minutes later I forgot I heard it
and wrote it again, right, yeah, Yeah, So that was a
I had to cross that one off. I said, that's just too close.
Now. Most of the time, you know, it's funny because there
were so many songs that sound like other tunes. Yes, most of the
time I get to the point where I say, you know what, all
right, it's close, but it's not, you know, it's not too
close. Yeah, but that one was too close. Yeah. I mean,
it's hard to avoid it entirely because there's so many there's so many chord
progressions that are just right, and you know, bits of melodies that are
just so common in music. And yeah, we did. We did a
few shows on Retrospectrum Radio, the Friday Night Show about plagiarism, and and
Paul the Polly See the hosts, he kept up playing. He would play,
we would do kind of a compare thing, compare and contrast. You
know, all these different examples of where someone was accused of playiasis and whatnot.
And on a lot of them, you know, my I should have
had a gavel because on many of these examples, my verdict was not guilty
because and my argument was, look, the chord progression in this song is,
yeah, it might sound like this other song, but it also sounds
like a million other songs, you know, because there's just certain things that
just show up a lot absolute music. So it's hard to avoid it entirely.
It's it's so true, it's really hard to I mean, but it's
it's incredible to me, honestly, having you know, studied and played music
for a really long time that you can have you know, there are only
like seven notes in in a scale, and there and after that you're repeating
notes again, and there are only so many courts, and like most pop
tunes really are three or four cords. So with the small set of chords
that are available, the small set of notes that are available, it's incredible
to me that people are still writing original music, because you'd think that everything
would have been written by now. Well, I try to push the envelope
sometimes, but you know this is where Carlo holds. Yeah, I try
to put five or maybe six scores in there. Convers no too many pulls.
Well, he is the editor, I know he is. I thought
he was going to be calling in. I he is. We sent him
off to drum camp. He had a couple four gigs and we said,
Carlo, you gotta go, you gotta go study. So I thought he
was going to call in from drum camp. But apparently he's not, at
least not as of yet. By the way, does he play in any
other bands? And the reason I'm curious about this is I swear every every
band I've I've had on the show for the past year, their drummer is
in like ten different bands. I I I don't know when the last was
that I interviewed a band where the drummer was only in that one band.
Is Carlo in Like, Well, it's funny, I'm I'm pleased to say
right now he's not. Oh okay, right, but he was so when
we first started, he was he was in another band from the area,
and uh, we were kind of on the same circuits. How we knew
each other. Yeah, and ultimately they they went away and we didn't.
And so he's with us, but currently no, but he he definitely has
Uh, he's had his moments, you know. Yeah, you know,
he's There's not a ton of good drummer around, so you know, they're
the good drummers are sought after and they get those calls. Well, I've
always had a theory that you know, when you're growing up and you're first
wanting to learn to play an instrument, and you talk to your parents about
it, you know, I want to I want to learn to play something.
If it's drums, your parents are going to actively discourage you, of
course from you know, drums. Now that's too much. Why I want
to take up guitar, bass or something, drums or piano or something.
But so that's that's my theory why drummers are just in short supply because nobody's
parents wants a drum set in the house. I think there's true to that.
Yeah, nobody wants to learn on an electric kit. I think it's
not quite the same. I mean, they're pretty amazing but the same right
right, yeah, exactly, Well, I want to make sure we get
We have one more song to play, and I am curious to play this
because now this so this is going back to the beginning of the band.
Look at what Look what You did? I'm sorry, yeah, they Look
what You Did is the name of the song. It's it's the first song
that we ever recorded, and I'm trying to remember. I think it was.
I think we put it out in twenty twelve. I think it's twenty
twelve, yes, and we were working on it for a little while before
that. But yeah, so this is the first tune we ever recorded.
We did this down with Dave Minahan at Willie Mammoth. Okay, and you
know, so you can hear the difference from where we started and where we
are now. And it was the lineup as it exists today, totally different.
Oh, you were not here. I joined the band I think a
twenty fifteen. Oh okay, so I guess I've been in eight years.
Yeah, Carlo was shortly before Mark, and so this was just I think
this is just before the Carlo and Mark era. Hashtag bald Rhythm. All
right, so this will be interesting, Okay, so this is the first
track ever recorded by Best not Broken. This is called look what you did?
Check this out? Walk you wait that night under the traffic. Nice
sucking of you when you wanted to game, saying I'm going somewhere, maybe
a hoe maybe in event, I guess where the lights will always shine,
perhaps slowing me, perhaps swell Macon, perhaps swell Bacon, perhaps swell bake.
I thought you was gone, trying to help me away, welcome line,
having can look what you did? Little mother be all in town.
Eighties records have second round snow plays for a gypsy your wrong girl with me
guess wats eighty nine standing on the traffic lights and all of the christs stems
small row perhap swelled, make her half swelled mekeer have swelled. Make I
thought you look gone? Try it got me al, build the whole,
happy kid, Look what you did? Well, look now again, up
and gone, go fall roun check by a mass satch hot at your l
kid, steal chips, Look what you get. But if we turn in
and retarded, if we do it again, we bet those rolls and we
can't bet if we change out of sets. I thought you were gone.
Try to move on, fill me awife, built a whole ne ve had
me a kid. Look what you did. But now I'm man up an
go bar from check my passet, holl that you left dead, still left
the chest. Look what you did going way back with that one. Look
what you did twenty twelve from Best Not Broken Guys. This has been wonderful.
Thank you so much. And Eric, you brought you brought me a
shirt. There, I brought you a shirt. Yes, so you were
telling me this is a special shirt. So if you want to just repeat
what you were telling shirt. Yeah, this is a this is kind of
a collector's item T shirt. And I think last time, if I recalled,
we forgot to bring you a shirt, right yeah, And I promise
you would bring you one this time. And this is the first one that
we're giving away of this patch. So I have a good friend whose daughter
had been battling cancer for about a decade and sadly just passed away at the
age of fifteen. And he has an organization called for Kid's Sake. You
can find it at for Kidssake dot com, which is it's an organization does
a lot of great stuff, raising money to help crush kids cancer and hopefully
minimize the you know, the parents and the kids that have to go through
that kind of an experience. But she was an amazing girl. So this
shirt has a Best Not Broken on our logo on the front and on the
back it has Malia's Legacy logo. And you're the first one to have a
Malia's Legacy shirt. And we're gonna be sharing these. We're going to be
trying to raise some money for be for Kid's Sake organization in the near future.
And actually we're going to be writing a song. One of the next
songs that we're going to be writing is Malia's song and wow, so it's
close to the heart and we're working on that. Oh excellent, And thank
you for the shirt. That's of course, that's amazing. Yeah, and
I've I've seen online. I think that Organization for Kid's Sake. I think
I've seen that so very good. Wow. I'm sorry sorry to hear fifteen
that's that's awful, yes, but wow, but no, that's that's great
that you're doing that though. And I appreciate the shirt absolutely, and I
appreciate you guys being here with us today. This has been amazing appreciate you
having us hit twice and I went, we're here. I think we're here
in August. That's right. Yeah, so that's you're very giving to let
us come back within you know, one and twenty days. Most people say,
yeah, we'll give you a break for about a year, give you
a couple of yearators very kind, no, happy to do it. You
guys are great. And and I I didn't know it was It wasn't August.
Wasn't that recent. Time might have been July. I don't know.
It was mid late summer or something like that. Okay, all right,
well no, it's it's great to see you guys. November third is coming
out. Yeah, and uh, for people who want to keep up with
what you guys are pretty easy to find online and and best not broken dot
com, Ye dot com and Facebook, Instagram, all that stuff. Great
website. Who does the website? Carlo was kind of in charge of the
website. Yeah, yeah, we have to give him credit for something.
I'm a web designer, so I look at websites and I nitpicked things.
But you guys have a great site. Okay. Good because a lot of
artists who come on the show, I look at their websites and it's like,
oh god, well we may need helped some day too. Yeah,
you guys, you guys have a great site, carlo Is, Carlo is
doing a great job. Absolutely, all right, guys, thank you so
much. Best not Broken, thank you so much. Matters absolutely, And
if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a
little bit at w m n H radio dot org and on my website Matt
Connerton dot com. And uh, that's it for us for now. We'll
leave you with a little more of the first track that we played from these
guys, Human Emotion, that we played at the top of the hour.
We'll we'll finish out with that one too. This one's great too. This
is really catchy. Although my vote for my vote for the single line away,
what a catchy. I think I'm leaning that way too, yeah,
currently, yeah, no, it's I really think that's the one. That's
That's my advice, all right, But I'll leave you with this. This
is Human Emotion from Best Not Broken.