Welcome everybody. Here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton
Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H five point
three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven
if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the
nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot
com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info,
show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Tuesday, July twenty five,
twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with me. Coming up
today in the second hour, at the top of the hour, we're gonna
be joined by Grandma Mousie. Great band from Austin, Texas, and that
song that I played, Barrel of a Wave, that's that's one of my
favorites from them, really good. I like how it kind of goes from
this sort of dreamy, almost jam band vibe to just a metal sounding chorus
and quite the mix of influences in this band's music. So really looking forward
to Uh. I know Josh Garcia from the band is going to be joining
us, and I'm not sure if he's gonna have other band members with him,
but that will be happening today in the five o'clock hour five pm Eastern
of course for those of you online and I actually they're in Austin, Texas.
I think they're an hour behind us, so four o'clock their time,
but really looking forward to that talking with them. So that will be coming
up today. And the most important part, almost forgot the most important part.
It's the world radio premiere of their brand new single. It's called Deep
Diver. This has not been played anywhere, it's not been heard anywhere.
You'll be hearing it for the first time on this program. The world radio
premiere of the new singer, the new single, same singer, the new
single from Grandma Mouseie. It is called Deep Diver. So that is coming
up today. Very very excited about that. Let's see if you'd like to
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in the chat room. He says, good afternoon, everybody. Very interesting
opening song. I really liked it. Yeah, I like it to Grandma
Mousey. Look him up online. By the way, I will definitely be
asking where the name comes from if anyone's curious. Also, I see Melanie
Liberty and Jay fed both in the Facebook live chat, of course from the
great state of Vermont. Also Alex Whiteley all the way from the UK,
joins us in the chat room. Hello Alex, He says, Hi,
guys, A couple other just quick notes. I want to say thank you
again, of course, to Steve Gamblin for joining us yesterday on the show.
When you know Jenny does all the booking and quick update on Jenny in
a moment too, but she's uh, she does all the booking. And
when she originally they talked to Steve, it was like, you know,
he was going to come on from four to four to thirty, and I
remember thinking, and I ran into him outside too, on the way and
I'd never met him in person until yesterday. But I parked in the parking
garage while I usually park, and then I'm coming up the street and I
see him putting money into get the not a parking ticket, that's what you
get when you don't pay for it parking whatever the thing you put in your
windshield so they know you paid. Um and uh so he's doing that,
and I saw the shirt he was wearing. It said got vision on it.
So I recognized the shirt immediately, so I said, oh, hey,
I know you, and uh so we started talking and I'm thinking,
yeah, we're gonna need more than thirty minutes with him, And what ended
up happening was s thank goodness, he had his afternoon free. He had
kept his afternoon open for the show because you know, I kept asking him,
you know, can you stay longer? Can you stay long? And
he was very accommodating, and finally it had to be well after five pm.
I hadn't hit our our five o'clock break yet nobody, you know,
it really says anything if I don't, you know, do it exactly on
time, So it's not a problem. But you know, it is important
to show love to our amazing sponsors. So you know, it got to
be like five fifteen and I'm like, I really should take a quick commercial
break. You want to just stay for the rest of the show, and
he said yes. So he was very generous with his time and I appreciated
it tremendously and I think we had a great discussion. So if you missed
yesterday's show, please check it out. Steve Gamblin he a motivational speaker,
also a former stand up comedian and a radio guy. And you know,
I love talking to people about radio. I think I got a lot out
of it to just other elements of our conversation, but I love hearing old
radio wars stories, great stuff. So that was a lot of fun.
So I appreciate him coming on yesterday and actually hanging out for the full two
hours. Jenny, by the way, now let me just look at our
Facebook page to the last thing I saw that she had posted. Jenny is
in Washington, d C. M I brought her to the airport yesterday right
before the show. Of course her plane kept getting delayed, but uh and
she she flies back tonight. I have to pick her up tonight. But
the latest thing she posted, this one up an hour ago. Our meeting
with a Senator Shaheen went very well. They are now on my case.
UM. So she's um. She's been in meetings there and speaking to people
about about healthcaren. I got to have a meeting with Senator Jean Sheheen of
New Hampshire in uh down in Washington, d C. So she's doing great
work. So proud of her. But I'll get to hear all about it
tonight when she makes her triumphant return. So so that's where Jenny has been.
If you're if you're curious, she might even be listening, but probably
not because she's probably in the middle of a meeting. So she's been.
She's been very busy but um, you know, she really thrives on it.
I mean, obviously it's it's physically exhausting for her, but she's it's
important to her, you know, and it's it's important to a lot of
people what she's doing and advocating for healthcare for people who get denied by insurance
companies for the treatments that they need. And of course it's it's something that
we speak about quite a bit on the show because it's something that affects and
touches so many people. And even if even if you've never had to deal
with health issues or had had to deal with the struggle of an insurance company
that finds any excuse or reason they can to deny you coverage. Um,
you know, even if you've never experienced that, you certainly know someone who
has. It touches everybody. This commodified, for profit healthcare system that we
have in this country, and so it's important to hold healthcare companies accountable health
insurance companies, I should say more precisely. And again we won't get into
a whole discussion about it. Now, she's gonna if she's up for it,
she's she might come in with me on Thursday, So she can tell
us all about her trip. But but she is doing great work. So
um oh. Alex Whiteley says in the chat room, made two new friends
after last night's show. Good stuff, excellent excellencer. Also, Crystell,
our friend from the great state of Illinois joins us in the chat and says
hello everyone. Hello Crystal, and I see Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts is in there as well. Hello Chris. Uh six three two five
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seven. I do hope that Dave Ridley calls us. I'd like to speak
with him in the first hour if he can. He called yesterday, but
uh, you know when when we have a guest here, it's you know,
I didn't want to get I didn't want to get sidetracked. So but
I do hope he calls back because I have some things I want to ask
him about. Um. I want to um look at this now today.
UM well this is uh oh you know what. There's audio of the actual
segment here. Let me see if I can, I'll play this audio of
h of this now. This is from President Biden signing the proclamation for the
U for Emmett Till in uh in in the the monument. But um,
this is actually a clip from Fox News, and Harris Faulkner on Fox News,
UM had some words to say about this, uh positively. And you
know, because it's Fox, you would almost expect, oh, well,
it's Fox. You know, they probably slam Biden for being woke or whatever.
But no, um, this is uh, this is a clip from
the Fox News show out Numbered, And I want to play what Harris Faulkner
said about this. I thought it was interesting. Let me see if there
we go. The Proclamation of Signing establishes two noble national money the President of
the United States. They're assigning a proclamation designating three sites across Illinois and Mississippi
in an effort to protect places that tell Emmett Till's story as well as reflect
on the activism of his mother, Mamie tell Mobli, both of them instrumental
in keeping the story of Till's murder alive. His mom and now the President
of the United States. So we watched this going on and I would just
say this, and the President did acknowledge it somewhat, but but often Democrats
don't. We have come through the fire in this nation, We've come through
prosperity, wars and more, and we've done it together. We share this
history together. So whenever somebody says that we can't get to the next place,
remember days like this, what's possible in this country. We're the greatest
nation on the planet. We can do amazing things, and we can do
them together. God Less America. Now, I wanted to just kind of
comment on what she said there, and again I thought, you know,
she kind of took a swipe at Democrats there. Again, it's Fox News,
so she has to get that in. But um, but I like
that, you know, she didn't like I said. It's it's Fox and
it's that show out Numbered. So I'm you know, I'm sure Greg Gotfeld
or somebody had something to say about woke Democrats, and actually he said something.
Apparently he's taking some fire for something he said regarding the Holocaust. I
haven't I haven't had a chance to actually look at that yet. God only
knows what that was. I'm sure it's something horrible, but I don't know.
I'll try to keep an open mind. But Greg Gottfeld, I've always
said this, Uh, he's a to me, he's a poor man's Adam
Carolla. From the moment I first became aware of Greg Gotfeld, like twenty
years ago, I just remember thinking, this is a guy who wants to
be Adam Carolla, Bud. He can't because Adam Carolla is actually you know,
they're both conservatives. But Adam Carolla is actually funny. And Greg Gotfeld
tries really really hard to be funny. But he tries specifically to be funny
in the exact same way that Adam Carolla is funny. But he'll never be
able to m not that it matters. He's obviously enormously successful not being Adam
Carolla. Um but um so. In terms of what she said, I
well, actually we'll come back to that because we do have a call.
Hi, welcome to him, Matt Connordon unleash. Who is this? Sorry?
I stuttered? Hello? Hello, Hello, Hey, what's up?
Hello? Welcome you on here? With a full spiel? I did you
did I think I'm having bad reception? Yes, it would appear so.
Hello, sir John Hopwood's on the line. Is there somebody there talking to
you only you? Are there any voices in the studio or is there actually
a human being? It's just me, John. Well, I'm I'm my
hospital and I'm getting ready to have an MRI. Oh okay, well we're
bad. Oh that's no fun. I was reading stuff that you're not supposed
to drink caffeine or alcohol before an MRI. But the people where I'm going
that didn't send me any instructions at all. Oh really no. And I
went on their site and they don't mention caffeine or alcohol. But you know
how many people have the b as the VA finished off and it's and its
existence of slightly over one hundred years, I would put it in quite a
considerable amount. I didn't know that. Yeah, I'd never heard that before,
that you can't have caffeine or alcohol before an MRI. It supposed to
constrict your blood vessels or then it's supposed to dilate your blood vessels. And
I always thought dilate meant constrict, but I guess dilates the opposite of constrict.
Oh okay, I'm actually in my car waiting to go in with trepidation.
So I heard you mentioned somebody named Adam Carolla. I thought that guy
was a serial killer back in California in the nineteen seventies, if I'm not
mistaken. Podcaster and comedian Adam Carolla, as far as I'm aware, has
never actually murdered anyone. That's ununfortunate that he has a name that he evokes
a serial killer. But then again, you know my age is showing.
I remember serial killers from the sixties, if not the seventies, with some
first hand knowledge. Well that is that is unfortunate that he shares that name.
Do you ever the opinion on the use of serial killers as Fox News
host? I would say that if someone is a serial killer, I don't
think they should have a cable news show on Fox or anywhere. To be
honest with you, would that roll out Henry Kissinger even if he is a
hundred years old, or is he just merely a war criminal? I don't
know. Well, I don't think Henry Kissinger is in any condition to be
hosting a show. I will say, though, if it sweeps weak and
they really want to get ratings, that would be a way to murder the
competition. Dude, I did there. That's a good one. That's why
I'm in afternoon drive. Jeezu. I don't know. I think this is
an exciting idea. They use ex military teeple all the time, if not
to host shows, to get on the get on their programs and to thump
the tub for the Pentagon and more spending. But in actual serial killers,
I mean the world survived Erldo Rivera, I guess, and Jerry Springer Horaldo
is still with us. So when you say the world survived Erldo, there's
still time. I thought he retired, Oh Haraldo, what will he left
Fox News? So Haraldo will never retire. You can tell he's one of
those dudes who's gonna work till he's dead. You can just you can see
it. Did he finally get the Fox News at some time in his U
I was gonna say speckled career, but that's not quite the word. I
guess. I'm a little nervous about the MRI. I understand backled crackled.
He well, he was with Fox for a long time. But no,
he's he's out, and uh, I think he's going to do a podcast
or something. He'll still do something Herldo as long as his mustache is still
as as just as spectacular as it is. As long as he has that
spectacular mustache, he will he will continue working him. I'm sure now if
he wakes up one day and the mustache is missing, then that's probably it
for HERLDO, he won't have long left at that point. Well, there
seems to be a natural h what would you call it? I'm forgetting because
of my nervousness. I'm forgetting all the great words that I learned in the
eighties and nineties, always still employed in every three years they'd launched some you
know, management initiative like co Uenergy or the Virtuous Circle. Speaking of synergy,
wouldn't all a show featuring the mustaches of Horaldo River and Steve Bolton seemed
like a natural for if not, fuck knows, I guess says Haraldo's on
the outs, And of course they went on Steve Bolton on because he fell
up with God a ka Jesus Christ aka Donald John Trump. So perhaps,
Oh, I guess you know CNN is trying to rebrand itself. Oh you
mean John Bolton. I didn't know who you meant at first when you said
Steve Bolton, and then I started thinking about mustaches, and then I said,
oh, John Bolton. Yes, I guess you and I are the
only couple of people who really know that Steve is John Bolton's mustache, right
right, Yes, that's true. Yeah, well yeah, for the people
might not know the backstory to this because it's been a long time since we
talked about this. But John Bolton's mustache is actually a sentient being of its
own name, Steve, that attached itself to John Bolton's face. And any
evil that John Bolton has done in the past, it wasn't actually John Bolton.
It was his mustache who controls the words and the deeds of John Bolton.
There's some rather exciting testimony that will be coming up and the House hearings
on non human intelligence that reportedly has to do with Steve and these attempts to
get the members of the Trump administration to evoke the twenty fifth Amendments. Oh
my, well, Steve might be the one, the agent provocateur, entirely
behind all this. January six, Malarkey that the House, the Speaker,
the House, the McCarthy is considering having the impeachment at least one of the
impeachment, if not both. You know, what do they what do they
call it? Expose? Sure? Is an impune impune to expungere right?
Yes, yes, it will be very exciting thought. You know, the
hearing's getting Steve Bolton up on the stand, well seeing him without I mean,
will John Bolton be with him? Because I don't think. I don't
think one goes anywhere without the other. I think they're quite attached, if
you will. Oh, the interesting part is does Steve, as a non
human intelligence, actually have recourse to both the First Amendments and the Fifth Amendment.
The Fifth Amendment, of course, would be the controlling body of law
for testimony before a congressional body. But Hollywood ten, under the advice of
the Communist Party USA attorneys, decided to use the First Amendment, which is
always a very exciting way to attack the issue, you know, when you
really don't want to give up the testimony about who and what you are and
what you've been up to. Well, I think ultimately, and I suppose
this would have to be adjudicated by the Supreme Court perhaps, but the question
to me, it would be, does the mustache itself in this case Steve
have the same constitutional protections of a fully formed human And I'm not sure that
he does. That's exactly true, and that's what makes it so exciting.
These upcoming hearings. Will John Bolton attach himself to Steve so that they both
can take the Fifth Amendment and cover up the nefarious planning that caused the illustrious
former leader of the First World And many of us believe who's still the actual
President United States, Donald John Trump ka Jesus, whether their perfidious plot perfidious?
Who will remain obfuscated behind the legal lease of the US Constitution. You
know, I don't like that sounds kind of sinister and to put down of
the Constitution. But you know there have been many gangsters that have hid behind
the ages or the shield as you will with the Fifth Amendment. Yes,
well, you know the former president did one say that if you take the
fifth, it's because you have something to hide, you know, before taking
the fifth many times and many there astounding things about a president, how pression
he is, yes, the alpha and Omega, how he knows the past
doing such things as people like Jefferson Davis was a great patriot who actually benefited
the enslaved, the so called enslaved people on his plantations and miss Shippy to
the future itself. I think that is proof of his not only I'd like
to use the word godhood. But that sounds so clandy. H will we
say his den oh that he actually anticipated I'm both hiding behind the memory.
Well, you know you shouldn't look I mean as far as uh, whatever,
whatever one's thoughts about Steve might be, you shouldn't trust a man whose
face you cannot see so well vera Well, yes, because you don't know.
Because obviously, if the true villain is the mustache, how did the
mustache choose that face to affix itself too? And I would assume that if
the mustache is the true villain, the mustache would only affix itself to the
face of someone that it could trust to engage in such villain when he with
the mustache, And therefore I would trust neither the mustache nor the man behind
the stash. It is true there is something somewhat sinister about men with mustaches,
either ones that are very, very pencil fin, which you don't really
see anymore since Clark Gable died like sixty some odd years ago, or the
big walrus mustaches the Wilfred Brimley that God knows what happened to him. I
think that he kicked the bucket himself. Diabetes is Wilfred Brimley indeed dead.
I think he's actually still alive, but I think his mustache has thinned out
a bit. On h his mustache lives on, well, the mustache from
what I understand, if if if you have an unusually large mustache, uh,
it never quite decomposes. Like so, even if Wilford Brimley is dead,
if you were to exhume him, he would be nothing but skeleton,
but the mustache would still be there. It's like the Napoleon's genitals, right,
I don't know, but we won't get into that. But oh,
policy is in the Facebook life at and says Wilford Brimley died in twenty twenty.
I did not realize that. But his mustache lives on. And even
if his mustache doesn't live on literally in the physical world, it certainly lives
on in our hearts. I don't really like to uh go down certain avenues
because although I do believe it. Why variety conspiracies. Yes, the term
conspiracy theorist quote unquote is often used to power great patriots like myself. Is
an ironic that Wilford Brimley, well, I'm sure supported our president that is
Donald J. Trump, Jesus died in twenty twenty. Is that just a
coincidence? Man, there are no coincidences. I think that there's something to
that. I think that there's something to that. I do I do?
You know? Okay, Matt, I've got this pamphlet I just picked up
here at the day camp K E K and about Donald Trump being a amphibian,
not a reptilian alien, but an amphibian alien. And since I still
have a lot of little boy in me, or I do, I've always
enjoyed amphibians. Yes, well, the fact that he might be an amphibian
alien or non human intelligence. I found that kind of satisfying in a way,
like the return that childhood that Wrong's Reagan All took us into in the
eighties was satisfying. So I'm gonna let you go pondering these imponderables. Yes,
Steve actually a non human intelligence? And if so, what does that
have to do with our true president who might himself be an alien intelligence non
human intelligence who I might use the word alien on your show, right,
And they could actually be two types of non human intelligence that have brought their
battle from the starts right down there to Earth. Oh God, the very
the very thought of it is giving me chills. And the this, this
desire to write a new a screenplay. You know, Well, you'll have
a lot to think about during your MRI, much to distract you as you
ponder the imponderable. That's that's true. I will have want to think about.
So I will let you go as I get ready to go into my
death chamber. No, jeez, don't call it that, all right,
John, good luck? Okay, all right, bye bye, all right.
That was our friend John Hopwood. I guess John was reaching out because
he you know, he has told me, and it makes sense. I
am a hypnotherapist, after all. He finds sometimes my presence or in this
case being on the phone hearing my voice helps to calm him down. I've
never had an MRI, but it doesn't sound fun. I know that,
particularly if you're claustrophobic in any way. And I know that some people I've
talked to didn't think they were claustrophobic until they had to have an MRI.
I done. I know there's a variation of it where it's open. So
if you are a claustrophobic, you can you can have a different there's another
way that they do it or some other kind of machine where you're not closed
in. But it does sound unpleasant. So I hope that I hope that
John's all right. UM, and I've never heard that that you couldn't have
h I mean, I wouldn't think you'd want alcohol anyway before anything like that.
I would think, but uh, caffeine, you can't have caffeine before
an MRI. I had never heard that before. Well, that doesn't open
up the studio line. And by the way, we will circle back to
the subject I was just getting into. But um, you know, when
when John said he was about to have something medical done, I did want
to keep him on the phone for a while because I know that, uh,
he's probably probably is uh you know, I certainly don't think he was
uh putting us on about being nervous. So, but the studio line is
open six zo three two five six seven six zo three two five O six
z seven. UM. What I wanted to say though about what uh oh,
and I will look at the Garth Brooks thing in a moment too,
because somebody just shared something interesting related to what John and I were talking about.
Um, But what I wanted to say about what Harris Faulkner said,
and U, I don't know why I struggled with that named Faulkner from Fox
News. Well, if you don't know, actually, so we should back
up a little bit, because if you don't know about what happened today,
President Biden, let me find a news story that explains it a little bit.
What would be the best because there was a proclamation, you know,
we'll go with the we'll go with a good old NPR one. Biden designates
a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother. So this was today,
on what would have been Emmett Hill's eighty second birthday, President Biden signed a
proclamation designating a national monument to honor the child who was abducted, tortured,
and murdered in nineteen fifty five after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
The national monument, which will include sites in Illinois and Mississippi, will
honor Till's mother, Maymie Till Mobley, who was instrumental in keeping the story
of tills murder alive and whose fierce advocacy was a catalyst for the civil rights
movement. Biden said it was hard to hold back his emotions. When he
was preparing for preparing his remarks for the White House ceremony attended by members of
the Till family, congressional lawmakers, and civil rights leaders, Biden said,
quote, I found myself trying to temper my anger. I can't fathom what
it must have been like. Unquote. Biden added, noting that he was
twelve years old at the time of Till's murder. Quote, I know,
no matter how much time has passed, how many birthdays, how many events,
how many anniversaries, it's hard to relive this unquote. And that is
something I think President Biden is pretty effective ad I think even those who don't
like him or despise him even would have to acknowledge that. You know,
he's good at projecting empathy in these situations. Some people are better at that
than others, and I do think that's part of his strength, one of
his I mean, I have criticisms of him too, And in fact,
as much as I might be saying something pleasant about President Biden right now,
don't worry. I'm going to stick the knife in on a completely different subject
later in the show. So if you're sitting there seething about oh, he's
saying good things about President Biden, and I just hate him so much.
Don't worry, I'll be mean about him later on something else. You know,
some people just get so mad. How dare you say good things about
this president? Anyway? The new monument, Biden's fourth since taking office,
will be managed by the National Park Service. It will include more than five
acres spread across three distinct sites, and is aimed at protecting spaces that tell
the story of tills, life and death. I'm going to kind of skip
down a little bit. Biden, who signed the Until Anti Lynching Act in
twenty twenty, making lynching a federal hate crime, emphasized the importance of telling
the quote truth and full history of our nation unquote, nodding to a larger
national conversation about how to teach history. And that's relevant because of what's been
going on in Florida, and maybe we'll circle back to that as well.
He said, quote, we can't just choose to learn what we want to
know. We have to learn what we should know. At a time when
there are those who seek to ban books, barry history, We're making it
clear, crystal crystal clear unquote. It goes on to talk about how this
article goes on to talk about how tills murder galvanized the civil rights movement.
Again, I'm gonna skip down because I don't want to run out of time.
The monument will preserve areas of critical areas critical to telling the story of
Till's life and death. Actually, let's hit the spart though this is important.
One of the sites preserved by the new monument is called Grable Landing in
Mississippi. The location where Till's body weighed down by a cotton gin fan attached
a cotton gin fan attached to his neck, was discovered in the Tallahatchee River
in two thousand and eighth. The community installed the memorial sign at the site,
but over the years the sign was routinely stolen, vandalized, or shot.
A bulletproof add addition was erected in twenty nineteen. The second monument site
is Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till's funeral service
was held. Mamie Till Mobley, after viewing her son's body, said at
the time, quote, let the people see what they did to my boy.
Unquote. She insisted on holding an open casket funeral for her son defined
Mississippi authorities who wanted Till to be buried quickly in Mississippi. The church was
filled to capacity, with thousand standing outside listening to the service over loudspeakers.
More than one hundred thousand mourners attended the visitation and funeral. The third monument
location is the Tallahatchee County Second District Courthouse, also in Mississippi, where Tills
killers were tried and wrongly acquitted by an all white jury. In October two
thousand seven, Tills family visited the courthouse to receive an apology from the town's
leaders. That kind of gives you. So that's that's some of the history.
Obviously, there's a lot more we could we could get into there,
Eric Street, says Faulkner. If you said it the wrong way, you'd
have to hit the dump button. Yes, that's why, Eric. I
do make sure to pronounce the L even sometimes I'll even pronounce the L in
words that other people don't like. Um, what was it? Was it
awful County that was in the news, and I people people pronounce it a
slightly different way, but I insist on putting the L in there, just
so I don't slip and get myself into trouble. I mean, I'm not
crazy about it like some people. Some people put l's in words that don't
even have them. I've noticed this a lot in broadcasting. A lot of
people um put an L in the word both and pronounce it both, and
that I don't understand. Okay, I want to read, though, again
what Harris Faulkner has to say, and I have a comment about it.
So here's what she said. And again I was pleasantly surprised. I expected
her to just um find a way to dump on Biden because it is Fox
News. But here's here's what she said. Let me just read the comment.
You know, we heard her speaking, but let me read it.
The President of the United States there signing a proclamation designating three sites across Illinois
and Mississippi and an effort to protect places that tell Emmett Till's story as well
as reflect on the activism of his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, both of
them instrumental in keeping this story of Till's murder alive. His mom and now
the President of the United States. So she's saying this, as you know
in the video, she says that, because you know his mother is there,
of course, and then Biden appears and he spoke, and again I
think he's very good in those moments. And Kamala Harrisa spoke as well,
of course. So here's what else Harrisa said. So we watched this going
on, and I would say this, and the President did acknowledge it somewhat,
But often Democrats don't. We have come through the fire in this nation.
We've come through prosperity, wars and more, and we've done it together.
We share this history together. So whenever somebody says we can't get to
the next place, remember days like this. What's possible in this country.
We are the greatest nation on this planet. We can do amazing things and
we can do them together. God bless America. But we have a call.
We grab this. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Is this
it's Ridley? You'd ask me to call into I did, yes, yes,
Dave, Okay, So to the listeners, we will circle back to
this later, I promise, But Dave, I did ask you to call
back. We don't have a ton of time because we have a musical guest
coming up. But I want to ask you, and I also do want
to hear about what you were calling about yesterday, but we never got to
it. But let me ask you this first. Let me get this part
out of the way. So we were talking recently. You had called about
Free Talk Live and the changes there, and that's for those who don't know.
Free Talk Live is a big deal. It's a nationally syndicated show.
It's on more than a hundred stations, and they're they're they're not ending completely
right, but they're doing a massive scale down. Yes, it's just a
weekend show now. Plus you know spontaneous shows, which I mean when talk
radio you need a schedule, right, can't. I don't know how how
much it counts when you have a spontaneous show, but I do believe that
their spontaneous shows are airing on you know, on the eighty radio stations or
I guess it's like one hundred and one hundred and fifty maybe closer to one
hundred and fifty radio stations that they're still on. And then when they're not
airing, they have they're running substitute content, so they're running a repeat of
the morning's broadcasts from Ernie Hancock who does a thing called The Clarier Independent,
But that's just a national show that has no focus on the Hampshire and really
actually no focus on easy solutions like again the free Talk Live thing. But
what made them special is that they had a simple solution they've been focusing on
for twenty years and that was simply, if you like, freedom moved in
the Hampshire, right, And that's been a spectacular success. But you know,
they have a two twundred thousand listeners per night roughly, or at least
they used to it probably down to one hundred and fifty now fifty tho uh.
And then that was a useful tool for me. I thought it as
a useful tool to get the word out about any any sort of government abuse
from the Amshur. And I'm sure it had a deterrent effect on the government
and we're gradually we're gradually losing that. But we should we should clarify too
for people who aren't familiar with the show, um that I mean they didn't
just do that. I mean they they talk to people from all over the
country that you know, nationally syndicated of course, and they talked to people
from all over the country about all kinds of issues, and of course from
a free Free Talk Live does that from a libertarian perspective, and I always
say, um, it's it's interesting. And it really does change the landscape
of political talk radio because in political talk as you know, um, it's
very heavily dominated on terrestrial radio, especially on AM by conservatives. And then
you've got a handful of liberal political talk radio. But I can't think of
another really sort of purely libertarian utical talk show that's anywhere near as big as
Free Talk Live. So that really leaves a hole in that market, I
think. Yeah. And the other thing is they would let anyone call in.
So there was a communist that called five nights a week, right,
and she talked about how when you need more regulations on things, and she
I think she said she was a communist, and they never I don't think
they ever failed to take her calls. I mean unless they were just backed
up with a bunch of other callsers on the set. And she was she
was not only you know, completely different from them ideologically, she was super
boring and super useless in terms of ian She just never had any interesting information
to share, right, And they would not they but they held true to
their promise that they will let you on the air no matter what you think,
no matter what you want to talk about. It was just it was
very democratic in that sense, or very bottom up well, you know,
I have to tell you, Dave, I mean I think that, um,
they have influenced to some extent, you know, and I think of
people who've influenced me in my approach to radio, They've had an influence on
me, because that is kind of how I approach this. As far as
taking calls, you know, I take calls from all kinds of people with
all kinds of viewpoints, and I try to keep it very open as well.
And I don't I mean, I don't have their audience, so I
take a lot fewer calls obviously, but I m but I try to.
I try to apply that same sort of mindset and talk to people from all
kinds of perspectives and different ideologies and really have an open ended discussion and try
to be open minded and and engage, you know, with some limits.
Obviously, there are some things I won't tolerate either because they would get me
in trouble, you know, because you know, I'm on a terrestrial radio
station. And there's rules or just things that are so offensive to me that
I don't want to entertain them. Like if a holocaust denier were to call
or something, I would immediately hang up, just as a random example.
Um. But but no, I've always respected that about Free Talk Live,
that sort of open ended, open minded approach. And as far as them
doing sort of spontaneous shows, I don't see how that works with the shows
that with the stations that they're syndicated to. But there are a lot of
very successful streamers online who have such large followings that there they are able to
do that to just kind of go live whenever they want to on YouTube or
on Twitch, and uh, people get that notification and they join in,
and um that that may be a very successful That may turn out to be
a very successful especially given their following model for them to go with, so
might not be a bad move. Yeah, but I think I think ultimately
the attack on the Free Talk Live studios where they sent the drone through the
window two years ago and put a bear you know, they had three bearcats
and a swat team rate and all that stuff. Um that ultimately, you
know, it's led to a prosecution and everything and that ultimately has just exhausted
uh Ian Freeman, who have founded the show, and it is it is
taxed to other people who are supporting the show as well, and it's I
think, you know, he admitted that that was part of what got to
him and resulted in this draw down. Um. And so the blame lies
with the federal government largely. They've they've shut down or at least reduced,
yet another independent outlet, just like just like CIA director William Colby once said,
there is no one in the media in the United States of any importance
who is not controlled by the CIA. M Um. And again that's what
the CIA director said. So I'm not this is not a conspiracy theory.
Well, um, I don't. I don't want to get I don't want
to get into all that right now. I would like to have that conversation
at some point in the future though, because I do think it would be
fascinating, but we are somewhat pressed for time, so I don't want to
I don't want to take that side street right now. But um oh so,
but they are going to continue to be on weekends, yes for now.
Interesting Okay for those who don't know Free Talk Live and actually they're the
only show I can think of offhand like this. Oh, maybe they're not
the only one. But they're on seven nights a week, seven to seven
to ten correct Eastern Correct. Yeah, so I guess it makes sense.
You know, they just probably told all of their stations that they syndicate to
that they're they're going to be strictly weekends. Oh I remember the other question.
Is Mark Edge still around or is he long gone? Yes, but
he's he's his usual flighty self. You know, he's always like, we
need to move to New Hampshire, need to move people to the I amshure,
here I am in the Hampshire. I'm building a house. Got tired
of that, having to get rid of that house. And we actually all
need to move to the Mariannas Islands. Here I am in the Mariannas Islands
and we all wait a minute, I changed my mind. Actually we need
to all move to Hondura. Say here, we are in Honduras. So
we're building a road. And it just at least he's doing something, but
you never know what he's going to come up with next. Okay, gotcha.
But but if he's still involved in the show, Yes, and he's
still involved in New Hampshire. He does visit. I think he's a Mary
honest resident now and but he sort of lives in Honduras and sometimes he's Florida.
He's impossible to keep it's all impossible to keep up with or follow around
because he's just bouncing off the wall constantly. Gotcha, gotcha, um,
Dave, if you can in just a few minutes keep it relatively terse.
But what was the other thing that you were calling about? You said you
had some New Hampshire news. It was related and that is that another victim
of that that raid the March March rate March twenty twenty one, raid uh
started her sentence. I guess, well, it's because it was a month
ago. But it's taken me a long time to get on the air and
talk about it. Yeah. Um, I think she started sending some months
to go. She's in New Hampshire resident and is serving it in Massachusetts.
Um. So the fans were pretty good about not sending her far away,
and um they gave her an eighteen month sentence as part of a plea agreement.
Her name is Aria de Metzo. You can follow her and send her
mail by going to Aria Demetzo dot com. It's spelled d I am e
z z oh d I m e z z o Aria de Mezzo. Okay,
I yeah, I know a little bit about her. Um, So
she's so eighteen months and and is she is she the first one to be
sentenced from that, she's the first one to start serving a term. Oh
okay, gotcha? These were these were obviously she has a talk show host.
But they came after them for cryptocurrency related charges. They were selling a
lot of cryptocurrency. Their lawyers said they were complying with the law. But
of course the government doesn't. They won't answer the question. If you ask
the government in my compliant they'll say, we're not allowed to answer that question.
Can they answer it by sending a squat team eventually if they don't like
you? M interesting? Um, do you know? Uh? Was anyone
else? Has anyone else been sentenced who hasn't started serving yet? I think
Rich Paul has been sentenced, but I don't know. I think you might
have been time served plus spell any charges that he would agree to have hanging
over and he might be in probation now or something. Okay, recollection,
that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Interesting, which Paul.
Yeah, I've met him, but um okay, yeah, just curious.
All right, Dave, Well we are we are up against the clock.
We have a musical guest who's gonna be skyping in shortly. But I do
appreciate your calling. And do you want to give anything a plug before you
go n HXIT or a Ridley Report or anything at all. Yes, the
solution to these federal raids is to leave the union dot US and HX dot
US. Okay, Dave Ridley, thank you so much. I appreciate the
call. You're welcome. Okay, bye bye. All right. That was
Dave Ridley of the Ridley Report. And yes, I did ask him to
call back today and he did so that's good. Just very quickly about Harris
Faulkner's comments, two things can be true at once. And I think when
we talk about this stuff, you know the swipe that she took at the
Democrats, so the Democrats don't talk about this. In other words, what
she's saying is about how far we've come in this country. She's saying she's
coming at it from the perspective, which would be sort of the conservative Fox
news perspective. I suppose that, you know, Democrats just talk about how,
oh, we're so racist, we're so racist, and they don't acknowledge
the progress that we've made. And of course Democrats would look at someone like
what who's saying something like what she's saying, and then from the opposite direction,
they would say, no, no, no, they don't. They
just want to act like there is no raceism anymore, like it's problem solved.
We came, in other words, to use Harris Faulkner's own words,
we came through the fire, and so now everything's good and there is no
racism and we're just this, uh, you know, we've we've dealt with
everything and it's all said, and the reality is again, two things can
be true at once. I think, you know, we live in this
hyperpolarized world where you have to be all the way on one side or all
the way on the other of every single issue. I think both perspectives have
a lot of truth in them. I think that the perspective that we have
come a long way is absolutely correct. But I also think the perspective that
we have a lot of work yet to do is also correct. And I
don't know but it's it's almost like if you acknowledge either of those points of
view as having some validity, you'll have somebody telling you that. You know,
if you say, if you acknowledge that we've come a long way,
then you'll have somebody telling you what what do you mean We've come a long
way? Everything's still so racist. And if you say, well, if
you acknowledge that, well, yes, there is still racism in this country
and we still have a lot that we have to deal with, you'll you'll
have somebody say to you, what what do you mean? So you don't
think we've made any progress at all? No, I'm not saying that at
all. Both things are true. We have made tremendous progress in this country.
You know, we've come a long way from slavery, obviously, We've
come a long way from segregated water fountains and school segregation and all of it.
We've come a hell of a long way, and we still have a
lot of work to do because there is still racism in this country, and
there is still a lot of ignorance. And that's why it's so important,
by the way, to teach it and to confront it, because that's how
we ultimately get better is by acknowledging the mistakes that we've made, not trying
to sweep them under the rug because we don't want to make anybody feel badly.
You can actually leave this you can teach kids about some of the horrors
of our history and have some faith that they can learn about that with the
understanding that part of how we get better, part of how we improve is
by honestly confronting the past, not trying to well do like they're trying to
do in Florida whitewash it. You know, you can be honest about it,
but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that See the way I look at
it is honestly And probably this wasn't the best moment in the show to be
talking about this, because I have a lot to say about it, and
we're running short on time. I need to get to a break. But
I think that you should be able to acknowledge both because acknowledging how far we've
come should serve as evidence and proof that we can continue to work on these
issues and go forward as we continue to confront racism in this country. And
I will leave it at that for now. We gotta take a quick quick
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us via Skype all the way from Austin, Texas. I think we have
Josh Garcia on there. Hello are you there? Sir? Yeah? How's
it going? Mad? Very well? Very well? Is anyone else with
you from the band or is it just you just me today? Okay?
Okay, good, Hey, thank you so much for joining us. I
love your sound. And part of what I like about it is, you
know, you can really hear the mix of influences. I should tell you
because I don't know if you heard it, but I opened the show today
with one of your songs, Barrel of a Wave. I chose that one
to open because I it's kind of my personal favorite of your songs that I
listened to, and I love the way that one, you know, the
verses, it's kind of got one kind of vibe, is sort of this
laid back thing, and then it gets to that chorus, and the chorus
is probably the heaviest of any of your songs that I listen to. It's
kind of a you know, sort of this metal chorus and it's really but
it's not there's nothing jarring about it. It just flows perfectly, and it's
just it's just so good. But uh, definitely a lot of mix of
influences with your songs, and I really like it, Thank you very much.
Yeah, we love to pulling lunces from different places and not really limit
ourselves to just one thing. So we have a lot of fun doing it.
Now, what do you do in the band? Yeah? Obviously you
sing, Yeah, I sing, And I also played drums. Yes,
I noticed that in a video that I watched, And it's always surprising because
you just don't see a lot of singing drummers. You don't and there's probably
a few reasons for that. But yeah, I've I've kind of wound up
in that situation because it was easier to do that than to go out and
try and fight a drummer. Interesting. Yeah, drummers are hard to find.
My theory on that has always been that, you know, when when
kids are grown up and kind of learning to play instruments and getting into whatever
it is, that they're going to play one instrument that is probably the most
discouraged by parents for their kids to learn as drums, because you know,
when you've got the whole drum set and it's loud, and you know,
it's not like learning other instruments where you can really kind of control the volume.
That's always been my theory. Drummers are drummers who seem to be the
hardest to find. For sure. What you said, You've got some theories
about why there aren't many singing drummers. I'm curious what your perspective is on
that. Well, Um, I agree with you. I mean it's just
it's a loud instrument. Yeah, so if you are going to practice singing,
it'd probably be easier to do it with a guitar, piano, something
else than a drum set. So that would probably be the first reason.
Yeah. The second reason I think is just, um, just as far
as playing the drums, it's really physical. Yeah, so you're having to
move. I know at our shows, I'm like constantly gasping for breath and
sweating, and you know, you're normally working pretty hard if you're just playing
drums, so to try to like hold a note, to try to be
able to hear yourself and he kind of get some practical So I feel like
I've only seen like a handful the people over the over the years really doing
it. But um, the person who I think inspired me a lot recently
was Anderson Pack seeing his tiny desk concert. He just made it look really
cool. Oh no kidding, no kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I agree with your theory. I've always imagined that it's probably because,
as as you know, because you do it with drums, you're using all
four of your limbs, so it's it's much more physically demanding than than really
any other instrument that I can think of, actually, and uh and and
so, and it's such an important part of such an important part of singing
as being able to breathe correctly. So you're already working out, you're getting
a workout, really a full body workout playing the drums, and you've got
to breathe correctly to sing. So um, yeah, I can see where
that would be pretty challenging. Have have you? Have you been both the
singer and the drummer in previous bands prior to this band? Um, I
have, But normally I would just play drums or if I was singing,
I would like play guitar or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's so dumb. It's so at the end of every show,
why am I doing this? But you know, I think some people think
it's also kind of like it's kind of an entertaining gimmick or something. You
know, it's like, oh yeah, seeing drummer. You don't see that
too often. So right, right, that's true. So, now tell
me about your approach to these songs, because, like I said, it
is a mix of influences, is it? Because you you have a lot
of different influences that you like, is it more of a band thing where
everybody kind of brings in their own sort of influences, because, like I
said, you just in a lot of these songs, you hear a lot
of different things. You know, you hear some jazz, you hear some
jam band, even hear a little bit of metal like in Barrel of a
Wave you know it's um. You hear a little bit of almost like surf
punk. I mean, how does that happen where you have such an eclectic
sound and yet somehow it just works, it just all fits together. Yeah,
I mean that that's a great question. I think the answer to both
of those as yes that you know, I like a lot of different kinds
of music, and then everyone in the band kind of just comes from different
backgrounds with everything that you mentioned, everything from metal to jazz to flamenco and
Bossa Nova. And so I think that when we're coming up with music,
we usually pick, you know, kind of a starting point and then kind
of explore and see what happens. But I mean, for me personally,
I think we're taking a lot of nods from bands who have have taken a
similar approach. I mean, you can look all the way back to the
Beatles, Miles Davis even more current acts where they always sound like themselves,
but they're never afraid to dip into a new style and kind of jump off
a cliff and see where it takes them. Right right now, Who who
actually writes the I assume you write the lyrics? Yeah, yeah, I
write the lyrics um and then the song like the music, the instrumentation.
We've taken a lot of different approaches. M there have been some that we've
written all together. There've been somewhere I kind of come up with a blueprint
or somebody else comes in with a blueprint and then we kind of work it
out. But I mean it's definitely the voices of everybody in the band working
on it together to give it that that sound. Yeah. Yeah, and
I noticed too online there's there's pictures of the band where it looks like you're
a three piece, and then there's other pictures where it looks like there's four
of you. Did it used to be a trio and then expanded or tell
me yeah, yeah, So we've we've gone through a few different um lineup
changes. It's always been the three of us with you know, myself singing
drumming, and then we have Coy Green, who's just a wizard on guitar,
and then Alex Disbach who brings you all those wonderful bass lines. But
yeah, we've had some different synth players. We had a trumpet player at
one point, so we've kind of had a revolving cast of people who will
come in and add those extra layers of sometimes backing vocals, synth, keyboards,
other things like that. So yeah, it's it's kind of always in
a state of flux. But at the core, we always have the three
of us if nothing else, gotcha. So the songs, So I assume
does that mean that there's there's even now there's some shows where you might have
an additional person there who's not necessarily there for every show, and that kind
of changes the texture of the songs alive. Yeah, we've definitely tried that
before. It kind of just depends on the person in the situation, you
know. Yeah, I think that that's a good way to kind of see
if somebody's going to be a good fit to maybe play long term. Two
is, you can go and you can jam in somebody's house or at a
rehearsal space or something like that, but it's a whole different element to bring
it into a live show. So we always try to be open with that,
and then you know, different things can come out of the music too,
because some of these songs, we've maybe played them, like, you
know, eight hundred times and I'm like, okay, man, let's get
a little stale, let's let's try something out. Yeah, I do do
any of these songs sort of allow for for you to do longer versions live
if you feel like kind of jamming, because it seems like, I mean,
you're not a you don't seem to be you know, you're not a
jam band, although again I hear some of that influence in there. But
are there any of these songs that you do live where sometimes maybe they are
extended versions sort of spontaneously. Yeah, Yeah, sometimes that happens, and
sometimes it's intentionally where you know, we're just I think in the moment and
we're going to extend the guitar solo or maybe jam and outro out a little
bit more. And then other times I think we just kind of forget to
count. You know, I look over and somebody's staring at me, like,
are you're ready to change? I'm like, oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, it goes both ways. Yeah, but that
that does I'm sure that keeps it fun and interesting. And you're in a
great city obviously for music. Austin, Texas is just have you been there
a long time or maybe you're from there originally. I don't know. I'm
not. I'm from closer to Dallas. I'm from Arlington, but I've lived
here about five and a half years, okay, And yeah, you're right.
I mean it's just like I'll be like, oh, I think I've
I've heard all the really cool, amazing bands in town, and then um,
I'll like, you know, go down the street and I'll be like,
who is this. Oh it's some band that's they've been here for three
or four years, and I just, you know, it's like impossible to
keep track of all the really talented people that are here in town. Oh,
no doubt, no doubt. Is it? Are you able to play
out? Like? Do you play out a lot? Do you play out
every week? Or so? Personally, I play in a few different bands,
so I do end up usually playing at least a couple of times a
week. But for us, I feel like in Grandma Mouse will usually kind
of go through these kind of ebbs and flows where we might play several times
within a month, and then we might kind of take a month off and
then go write some new music or or just take a break or something like
that. So yeah, it kind of just changes with the seasons. Yeah,
because again in Austin, Texas, I'd imagine that there's a lot of
options and opportunities to play out. But then again, it's it's probably kind
of crowded too, right because there's so much music there it is, and
right now it is hot. Yeah, yeah, let's like take this month
off. You know, people also had some live stuff going on, ye,
but yeah, I mean it's like I feel like people are moving here
all the time and prices are going up, and sometimes that has an effect
on the venues too, um, if they're able to keep their doors open,
or they might switch names if they get a new owner or change locations.
So keeping a pulse on that is like kind of its own monster too.
Oh I'd imagine how hot has it been there pretty consistently in the triple
digits? Wow? Yeah for a while now. So everybody's just like,
you know, doing all their good luck omens over their acs keeping out.
So where does the name Grandma Mousie come from? Yeah, so that is
actually kind of a funny story. My girlfriend used to teach at like a
pre k school, and some of the kids there had just come up with
this funny game that she told me about where they would get in a circle
and they'd close their eyes and there was this little toy called Grandma Mousie that
one of them had named, and so different kids would like pick up the
toy and then try to disguise their voice while the other kids had their eyes
closed and be like Grandma Mouse. And then the kids were trying to guess
who said it. And so I just thought that was really funny, And
I was also kind of tired of, like just all the really cool sounding
band names. I was like, let's just pick something wacky, because I
feel like our music is going to be kind of wacky. Yeah. So
yeah, we just kind of kind of picked that one around with it.
Yeah, yeah cool. I mean so much of it I feel, you
know, in terms of picking a band name is you always want to try
to pick something that you really don't think anybody else is going to already have,
and that can be a challenge. That can be a challenge because you
know, you so often you might pick a name and then it turns out,
you know, and you might even research it and you don't see anybody
else online who already has that name that you think is so cool, and
then uh, somebody pops up and says, no, we actually have been
using that name. So I think it's good to really good to pick something
kind of kind of wacky that you know, you're pretty sure nobody else is
going to have. So um, yeah, so that's that's good. And
uh, now today, so we're doing the world radio premiere of this track
deep Diver. H what what what can you tell us about this song?
You know, I obviously already listened to it. I think it's great,
But what what can you tell us about it? Um? So this is
a song. Um, the music was was pretty much all thought up by
Quick Green or guitarist, and then I took some lyrical inspiration from when I
was living in South Korea and they have these these women divers that are from
an island called Jju, and there's a culture there where they put on wetsuits
and are able to hold their breath for a really long time. Because they've
been it's kind of a tradition that's been passed down and they dive into the
ocean and they come up similar to like a fisherman, with like different lobsters
or just different things from the ocean that they can sell that they can get
to their families to heat. And so I kind of learned about these women.
They're called Hanyo, and I was just like, that's just so badass,
that's so cool. Yeah. So so yeah, that's kind of where
the story behind the lyrics come from. Well that's fascinating. Wow. Um
yeah, that gives it a hole, that gives it a whole new meaning
knowing the backstory. Wow. Yeah, Well we'll play that in a moment.
But so I do have to ask though a little bit of a side
street. But um, South Korea, where why were you? Why were
you living there? Was it for school or what? How that I was
actually um yeah, I was actually done with school at the time, and
I had always kind of wanted to go off and kind of travel and explore
and go different places. And I had seen from some mutual friends that you
can go over to some of these Asian countries, South Korea, China,
Vietnam, Thailand, other places. And if you're a native English speaker and
you hold any kind of bachelor degree, you can teach at the schools.
And so they give you like accommodations and they give you salary and they'll sign
you on to like a year contract or whatever it is. So yeah,
I was in I was in South Korea for a year. Wow. Um,
I mean, how was the experience overall? What was it? Was
it positive? It sounds like it was. Yeah, yeah, it was
incredible. I mean it's funny. It's it's a country that is uh,
you know, about the size of Louisiana. Um. And I was kind
of down at the southern city called guanju Um but really really nice people.
Um. Just so many positive things about the culture there, and I met
a lot of other musicians and oh wow um, yeah it was it was.
It was great, great food. It's a good time. Did you
play in a band while you were there. I actually did form a little
band for a few months while I was there, wow um. And so
yeah, we kind of we kind of had some original jams and then we
played a bunch of covers and stuff too, and uh, normally just kind
of play it like a local pub in town. Um so yeah, you
know, wherever I go, I gotta gotta keep it alive. Yeah.
Yeah, Oh that's so cool. That's so cool. Um, well,
what what should people know? And again, we are going to play the
single deep Diver in just a moment the world radio premiere. And by the
way, so when does this come out officially? Um? So, this
will hit all the streaming platforms on August fourth? Okay okay? Yeah?
Um? And is this part of an EP or a full album? Yeah,
we're going to um release a four song EP uh sometime probably in the
fall. Uh. So this is one of the singles from it. And
we have a couple more songs that will be on there too. Okay,
okay, Hey, where do you record? By the way, because everything
sounds so good and there's a nice yeah, and there's so many options.
You know, we live in an air where there's so many options for recording.
I mean, do you do it yourself or did you go to a
studio or how do you record? Yeah? We um, we go to
a studio. We go to Fifth Street studios here in Austin and U for
yeah, the last few years we've been working with this uh, incredibly talented
guy named Nick Joswick who is the tracking and the mixing and he's he's said,
the mastering on some of our songs as well too. But yeah,
the more we work with him, he's just great at coming up with ideas
and you know, whatever we throw his way, he's like, Okay,
I've got some for you. It sounds like a scenario where you have someone
who maybe they're they're an engineer, but they sort of become like a de
facto producer. Yeah. I mean he's just really open and very comfortable,
and it's it's kind of interesting, um, you know, with with people
that you work with in the studio, it's like you have some where they
have a specific style of engineering and production and you're going to hear that recording
and that's gonna sound like that person's their fingerprints are all over it. Okay,
that sounds like so and so's kind of record, you know, butch
Vig or somebody like that. And then you've got other people where it's a
little bit more kind of hands off and kind of organic and kind of like,
Okay, we're just gonna kind of let this breathe and percolate and you
know, just just let this song kind of do it that that it's thing
and Nick is that ladder kind where you know it's very open and very comfortable.
Um, so it's just it's always great working with them. Yeah,
no, it sounds great. I was listening to it in the car and
uh, you know, because that's that's to me, that's the test,
you know, how does it sound in the car? You know? Oh
yeah, yeah, same, yeah, yeah, totally totally. Um,
okay, what should before we get to that too? Just we'll we'll finish
up with you, Josh, and I appreciate you joining us today. What
should people know in terms of Grandma Mouseie. You know, you've got a
great website and um, you're on all the social media, but any anything
specific you want people to know about how to find you online so they can
keep up with everything that you're doing and get your your new music as it
comes out and all that. Yeah, definitely, I mean we're on all
the the you know, the social media of platforms. I think Instagram is
probably what we keep up with the most. But you can also go to
our website, Grandma Mausey dot com and yeah, we'll have some more music
coming out this year. We just put out a music video a few weeks
ago, and then some more shows coming up around Texas. If you're ever
down here in the heat. Yeah, absolutely, all right, Josh Garcia,
thank you so much, my friend. We're gonna let you go and
we're gonna hit this track. The world radio premiere of Deep Diver from Grandma
Mousey. But thank you so much for joining us today. And when you've
got you know, it sounds like you've got new music coming soon, so
we will have to have you back soon because I really I'm I'm a big
fan of what you're doing, so great stuff. Thanks for having me.
All right, you got a man, take care and try to try to
stay cool. I know it's not easy when it's stripple digits, but yeah,
but be careful out there, all right, man, you gotta take
care of byebye, all right. Wonderful. That was Josh Garcia from the
band Grandma mouse And here it is, without further ado. And now that
I know the backstory, I'm gonna be listening to the lyrics of this song
with a new set of ears, so to speak. We're gonna do this.
The world radio premiere of the track Deep Diver from Grandma mouse and then
we will return with the balance of our program. So we do have plenty
more to come. But check this out. This is really great stuff.
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a picture if you're if you were listening earlier, he called the show.
He was about to go in for an MRI. He sent me a picture
of the MRI, the sign on the door, and then he sent me
this article from the Washington Post Funnel clouds seen spinning over US Capitol Building in
Washington, and he seems to think that that might be the Satanic portal that
we occasionally speak about. If you don't know what I'm referring to, you
might be new to the show. But anyway, welcome back everybody. It
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and thank you again so much to Josh Garcia for joining us today on the
show. I really enjoyed talking with him. I'm a big fan. I
became an instant fan of this band, Grandma Mousie from Austin, Texas,
and we just did the world radio premiere of the brand new single. It
won't be out on streaming platforms until August fourth, I believe he said was
the date, so we got a sneak peek and the first time I ever
heard on the radio right here on Matt Connerton unleashed here at WMNH Deep Dive
or the brand new single from Grandma Mouse And we will close the show today
with another one of their songs as well. We've been playing some of their
other music too. Really great band. I love them and really nice talking
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howdy Miriam. Isaac Banks seemed to be enjoying the Grandma Mouse. He said,
awesome song. Hashtag Matt. Let's see. Chris from the band Edgewise,
speaking of great music, joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello,
Chris, I want to uh, let's see we've got a speaking of
the chat room. Oh so, I hear a siren outside which happens once
every show. That's an unusual sounding siren that was weird, not the typical
siren I'm used to hearing. This is just h This is completely out of
left field. But it was mentioned in the Facebook live chat. And the
reason it was mentioned is because when John Hopwood called us earlier during the first
hour, he mentioned somehow the subject of Adam Carolla had come up, and
I was talking about how oh, because the subject of Gregg Gutfeld from Fox
News had come up, and I was talking about how to me, Greg
Gutfeld is a poor man's Adam Carolla. He wants to be Adam Carolla,
but knows that he never will be in terms of I mean, he probably
has a bigger bank account because he's on Fox, but you know he'll never
be. He'll never have the um oh, Melanie says a weird sounding siren.
I bet the purge has officially begun. I didn't know that was today.
That's extremely bad news anyway. Um So, John Hopwood mentioned Adam Carolla.
Isn't that also the name of a serial killer? Now? I googled
it and I could not find anything about a serial killer named Adam Carolla,
and the actual media personality Adam Corolla, as far as I'm aware, has
never committed murder. But this came up in the chat um somebody mentioned Garth
Brooks and shared a link. Um. I forget who shared this, so
forgive me, and and so it made me very curious. This is from
penlive dot com. Garth Brooks keeps getting accused of being a serial killer on
social media. Here's why. And by the way, this article just went
up today, so apparently this is recent. I didn't preread this. I
have no idea what's going on here, but it says here, just when
he thought social media couldn't get any dumber, Twitter is now x and people
won't stop claiming that Garth Brooks is a serial killer over on the dumpster Fire,
that is Elon Musk's platform. Yep, you read that right. The
country music superstar is being called a serial killer over there. It's relentless and
it's clearly not based on anything that is factual. Brooks has found himself in
the middle of a controversy lately for daring to suggest he might serve bud light
in his new Nashville bar and having the gaul to ask his fans to support
refugees in the Ukraine. But this is clearly more serious and it apparently predates
all of that. So how do we get here with Brooks's mentions being flooded
by the unfounded claims. Well, according to multiple reports, it all began
with comedian Tom Sigura and Brooks's twenty eighteen concert tour announcement. At the end
of the video, Brooks says, quote, let's get physical playing music unquote
with a smile. Sigura then reportedly joked that Brooks looked like he was like
he has killed multiple people before. Apparently the smile was creepy. Well,
Sigura is a comedian, so he's gonna make humor out of you know whatever.
But that's funny, So let me read that sentence again. Sigura then
reportedly joked that Brooks looked like he has killed multiple people before. It has
grown legs. And I don't know what that says about me, that that
sentence is so hilarious to me. Probably nothing positive, but for some reason
I can't read it without laughing. Let me try it one more time.
Let me see if I can read the sentence without laughing. Sigura then reportedly
joked that Brooks see I can't do it, that Brooks looked like he has
killed the multiple people before it is grown legs and taken off from there with
a conspiracy that is tour dates coincide with multiple missing people reports even being added
to the story that has led fans of Sigura to show up in Brooks's suppost
to ask where are the bodies garth. Many people, it seems, are
in on the joke, but there are other people who genuinely and unbelievably seem
to believe there are facts behind this, and you will easily find people on
the platform claiming Brooks is a serial killer. Again, there are no facts
zero that suggests Brooks has killed anyone. Sigura recently told comedian Theo Vaughan on
his podcast that Brooks has blocked him on Instagram. Over all of this,
it was probably overdue considering the beating the guys taking over on social media around
this one. Again, there are no facts, zero, not a that
suggests Brooks is a serial killer. By the way, after the show,
now, look, I'm I genuinely I generally don't believe in conspiracy theories,
not that I think they're all nonsense, but most of them are. Frankly,
but I am going to this is my commitment to all of you in
the audience. I'm going to keep an open mind about this one. As
soon as I get off the air, I'm going to find the video that
Tom Sigura joked about, and I will watch it and make my own assessment
and my own my own analysis of the smile that Garth Brooks displays in the
video, and so I can come to my own conclusion. I'm going to,
as a phrase of you often here in modern parlance, especially around conspiracy
theories, I'm going to do my own research and I will determine and I
will share my findings on tomorrow's program. So a little bit of a cliffhanger
for you tomorrow on the show. I'll do it. It'll be the first
thing. Actually, it'll be the first subject on tomorrow's show. I will
give you my own investigative findings and assessment and analysis. Do I think,
based on that video and the smile of Garth Brooks, do I think that
Garth Brooks is a serial killer? And we can even have a discussion about
it, you know, the phone line will be open. I'm skeptical,
but I'm open minded. I may watch that video and conclude, yes,
clearly he is guilt people and Tom Sigura just figured it out before the rest
of us. But that is the problem with conspiracy theories, right, is
that see, I have a longstanding theory that you could come up with the
craziest, most insane thing and put it out there, maybe make a video
of it and put it on YouTube, just a crasiest idea, and there
are people who will believe it. It's like the Actually you know someone who
did that for real, and it's pretty funny. You may have heard or
you might be familiar with the birds Aren't Real conspiracy. There's even a website.
I think it's just birds Aren't Real dot com. And it's the idea
that there are no birds. All these birds that you see flight around are
just mechanical devices created by the government. They replaced all the birds with mechanized
birds that are actually spying on us or doing whatever they do. And the
guy who started it, he started it as a joke, but he actually
goes on shows. In fact, he went on The Majority Report with Sam
Seedar, which is a podcast occasionally we'll tune into in character. He went
on in character and Sam doesn't break character either, and interviews the guy.
You know, everyone's in on the joke, but Sam interviews the guys though
he really believes us and it's it's pretty funny. So he goes, you
know, it's it's all a gag. But if you've if you're not familiar,
to check it out. It's pretty it's pretty funny. But he wanted
to the guy who's a young guy too, I think he's in his early
twenties. He started the whole thing because he just wanted to see would people
believe it? You know? And he and sure enough the conspiracy caught on.
There are other people who believe this, even though if you dig a
little deeper, you'll realize the guy who started the whole thing started it as
a goof. But of course there are people who believe that, yes,
the birds are not real, because some people will believe anything, and that
is the danger of conspiracy theories. But but I don't know. This Garth
Brooks thing has me wondering. I am very very curious. Also, speaking
of social media, yes, Twitter apparently now is X. I signed into
Twitter yesterday and then X appeared on my browser screen and I said, what
is this? And oh, Elon Muskot did go ahead and change it to
X. Twitter has been rebranded as X. That's going to take a little
bit of getting used to, especially for people who are super active on Twitter.
I just really use Twitter to tweet out the show. Or I guess
I don't say that anymore. I just use Twitter to x out the show.
I guess that's what you're supposed to say. Now, it's all very
confusing. One other quick thing on social media, and this surprised me.
I did not expect to see this, and I did not have a chance
to preread this. But media I says could face a year in jail.
House Republicans plan to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress. It says here.
Fox News correspondent Hillary Vaughan reported today that House Republican plan to move forward
with holding Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, in contempt of Congress.
Oh, speaking of things changing names, you know went from Facebook to Meta,
Sandra Smith, who anchor Sandra Smith, who then introduced Vaughan said quote,
Fox News is confirmed the House will move forward to cite Meta CEO Mark
Zuckerberg for contempt of Congress. House Republicans say the social media giant has not
turned over enough documents that would shine a light on the company's censorship bands,
and then Vaughan reported, quote Sandra, this is all part of the House
Judiciary Committee's investigation into whether or not media coordinated with the White House and the
Executive Branch to censor people on their platform and by extension, violating the First
Amendment rights of users on their platform. Un By the way, that's all
nonsense, and this is something we've discussed on the show many times. These
are private companies. They have every right to make decisions about what will and
won't fly on their platforms. It is not a violation of your First Amendment
rights. I've complained about it myself, right. I've had my issues with
YouTube where I get dinged buy YouTube for something in my show because I upload
the show to YouTube, and then they say that I'm promoting a conspiracy theory
or whatever, even though I actually make fun of that stuff. But the
bots that monitor the content they don't know the difference. So then I get
a violation, and then I appeal it, and I lose the appeal,
and then I can't upload anything for a couple of weeks. So I complain
about it too. Being unfairly censored based on nonsense. But what have you
never heard me say? I've never once said my First Amendment rights are being
violated. YouTube has no obligation to me. It's their platform. They can
make whatever rules they want, no matter how stupid or poorly enforced I might
think those rules are. They don't owe me anything. They don't owe me
any I mean, they don't even have to allow me on their platform.
If they don't want to. They can. That's their platform. They're not
the government. The government cannot censor you. But these platforms can can censor
me all they want to. They have every right to do it. So
I complain about it because it's done in a haphazard and silly way. Sometimes
sometimes right, some things probably should be repressed, you know, hate speech
and things like that, but on these platforms. But but I've never but
you've never heard me say it's a violation of my First Amendment rights. It
absolutely is not. But but this is what's uh, this is worth investigating
apparently, Okay, UM let me. I want to get to one other
other thing, because I did promise this early in the show, and we
yeah, we do have time. So I saw this It's an opinion piece
that popped up on the Hill dot com, and it kind of, um,
I kind of vibe with the sentiments here because this is how I feel
now in terms of President Biden's record. You know, I'm such a political
square peg. You're you know I'm hard to please. So suffice it to
say, there are things I like in things that I don't. There are
things I give him credit for where I think he's done a very good job
in some ways, and there are things I would be very critical of.
But putting that aside for a moment, I don't think he should run for
reelection. He is running, I've said on the show. I think he's
selfish for doing so. The number one thing that I wanted out of President
Biden was getting in there and having a clear, consistent, concise, but
consistent being probably the most important part of it, actually policy on dealing with
COVID and getting vaccines distributed and so forth. And I think in terms of
shepherding us through the pandemic in that sense, I think he did a great
job and that's what we needed it at that point, and for that,
I say thank you, mister President. Now, good night, it's time
to let somebody else get in there. That's my opinion. But I haven't
heard any I haven't heard too many people express what I was thinking, and
quite the way I was thinking it until I saw this. So this is
and I'm not familiar with this person. He's an opinion contributor that's always listed
here Onthehill dot com Eugene R. Fidel And this is the title of his
piece. Great job, mister president. Time to retire. And here's what
he wrote. I don't know if we'll get through the whole thing, but
I want to read part of this and just comment on it as we go,
time permitting, he writes. Rarely in American history has it been as
clear that the two major parties nominations for president are interactive. What one party
does is likely to have an impact on what the other party does. On
the Republican side, of course, former President Donald J. Trump has a
commanding lead, while President Joe Biden currently has no serio competition Among Democrats,
the possibility of a three way race cannot be discounted, especially given Trump's likely
unwillingness to sit idly by and watch if his legal problems topple his effort to
reclaim the presidency. So yes, it's complicated. This column is one lifelong
Democrat's effort to sort through some of the many imponderables. Wow, that's the
second time that word has come up today on the show. John Hopp would
used it earlier, imponderables. Doing so leads to a single conclusion. President
Biden can take great satisfaction in the many important positive things he has done in
domestic and foreign policy, and the best thing he can do now is to
retire after completing his term, allowing a new generation of leaders to take up
the Democratic Party's banner. Would Biden win if he continues his plan to run
again, The answer depends on him, other Democrats and the Republican Party faithful.
If he runs against Trump, there is every reason to expect that Biden
would win again, although it could be an electoral college squeaker. But let's
assume a victory. We would have a president who would be older than any
of his predecessors on inauguration day, and who would be eighty six years old
when his successor took the oath. I wish President bought in the best of
health, and he may live to be one hundred twenty. But the job
of chief executive and commander in chief is too demanding and critical to take unnecessary
chances. He is too old to be signing on for another four years.
Doing so is irresponsible. Let me stop there for a moment. I fully
agree, and you know, call me age just all you want to guilty
as charged. I'm sorry, you do age out of things, right,
I mean, you know, if you're sixty years old, you're not going
to try out for the NFL, just as a random example. Right,
if you're eighty years old, you probably shouldn't be seeking another term as president.
I mean, I'm sorry, but we need to get some younger energy
in there. That's my opinion. So a little bit more of this.
So Fidel writes, what if something were to happen to Biden between twenty twenty
four Democratic National Convention and election day, or between election day and inauguration day.
Suppose his health holds, but sometime during his second term he suffers a
disabling health decline or worse, we would have to employ the twenty fifth Amendment,
or Vice President Kamala Harris would become president in his place, either temporarily
or for good. Has she shown herself capable of leading the country worse.
Yet, if she did as send to the highest office, would she be
able to secure the required Senate and House approval of her choice of a success
or as vice president. Suppose, for example, the GOP continues to hold
on to a bare majority in the House of Representatives, would the House vote
for a Democrat as Vice president, knowing that the alternative of keeping the position
unfilled would place the Republican House Speaker as the next in line of presidential succession.
That's interesting. He's bringing up scenarios I would have never even thought about.
And what if the GOP loses the House but gains a majority in the
Senate? Am I the only one who thinks Senator Mitch McConnell, he of
the Merrick Garland Supreme Court blockade, would be perfectly willing to block Senate approval
of a Harris nominee a successor vice president, or that Senator Joe Manchin might
once again use his leverage to a bad end. What if Trump is Now
here's a scenario I have thought about. What if Trump is not the twenty
twenty four GOP nominee. I mean, he will be, but he might
of course try running as a third party candidate, but it seems likely that
doing so would only benefit Biden. But put aside the possibility of a Trump
third party run, how would Biden do against some other Republican nominee. Looking
over the current field, none of the Republican opal hopeful seemed likely to do
better against Biden than Trump did in twenty twenty when he lost by the way.
That part I disagree on, I think, I mean Trump, you
know, I've talked about it quite a bit on the show. As Trump's
legal problems mount, so does the certainty that he will be the nominee,
because it only strengthens, you know, the resolve of his base, who
believe he's being unfairly persecuted and see him as, you know, this sort
of martyr. But it so, it makes him that much more likely to
be the nominee, but it also makes him that much more of a horrendous
general election candidate. So I actually think one of the others in the field
would absolutely be a stronger candidate against Biden than Trump. So I disagree on
that part because if it's yes, if it's Biden versus Trump, Biden beat
him once, I believe he can do it again. But if it's Biden
versus Nicky Haley or Chris Christie or Tim Scott, I think Biden's in real
trouble because Biden is going to look you know, if he's on that debate
stage, for example, against somebody half his age, he's gonna look like
he's on that debate stage with somebody half his age. Understand, He's gonna
look that much older. So I think anybody else in the field is a
severe threat. Okay, just a little bit more of this. And what
if, as I hope Biden ops to retire after one term, Trump,
if nominated again, would be a wounded general election candidate, which is the
point that I was just making, and wouldn't hold much appeal for the independence
and moderate Republican voters he would need to succeed on election day. There are
several proven vote getters in the next narration of Democratic officeholders who would beat either
Trump or any of the current field of GOP hopefuls well maybe. Examples include
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and the popular governors of Wisconsin, Illinois, California,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Even relatively obscure governors can be attractive presidential candidates think
of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Nor is there a shortage of impressive Democratic
candidates of color who might make up for vice president. Harris is not getting
the brass ring, and the author gives some examples there. But we're running
out of time. I'm going to scroll down to the last paragraph because we
are up against the clock. President Biden has enjoyed an unusually long and successful
career in public life. The best thing, the wisest, and most noble
thing he can do now is to clear the way for the next generation of
leaders to compete for the office he currently holds. Unlike President Lyndon B.
Johnson's March thirty one, nineteen sixty eight announcement that he would not run for
a second full term, Biden's abandoning the quest would be an act of both
patriotism and optimism. It would also set the stage for the next Democratic president
to be able to serve two terms, thus cementing Biden's significant legacy much more
firmly in place. So that is the opinion piece written by Eugene ar Fidel,
senior research scholar at Yale Law School, and right Stuff for The Hill
dot Com. So I agree with most of that. And you know I've
said on the show many times I think President Biden is very selfish for not
stepping aside and allowing somebody else in there. That's my view of it.
All Right, We're gonna finish out with one more track. Again, thank
you so much to Grandma. I'm sorry Josh Garcia from Grandma Mousey for joining
us today on the show. We're gonna play a little bit of one of
their previous singles, Grasshopper. Probably won't get the full song, and actually
we definitely won't. It is Tuesday, which means coming up right after this
show, if you are listening live, we have Um through the Stage Door
hosted by Rob dye on, followed by at seven pm a replay of Friday's
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I'm out. I'll talk to y'all a little bit later. By everybody,
let them vote, No times, laying bund born and bibles just to see
you cry. You seen bout with your friends, let them to you,
Ron the bye.