Hello everybody, Welcome, here we go. It's that time again, Happy
Monday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of
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Today is Monday, July thirty one, two thousand to twenty three, and
I'm not alone. Jenny, Jenny is here at the newsdesk, bobbed in
my head and liking it. Yes, yes, but yes yes. Speaking
of songs. By the way, that opening track that I played today was
called tell Me by the band Wired for Sound we had on the show recently.
And the reason I opened with that they're not our musical guest today.
We do have a musical guest coming up today, but that song has just
been stuck in my head for days. That's my favorite of their song,
and it's so it's so catchy U. So yeah, I had to I
had to play that today. I had to hear it on the headphones.
So welcome everybody. Yes. Uh. In the first hour, Jenny's going
to talk about what went on today. If you follow us on social media,
you know about the event that she spoke out, So we'll get into
all of that, and then at the top of the hour, we will
have kay Daver, a hip hop artist from right here in New Hampshire who
has been on the show many times. He may, between this show and
other shows that I've done, he may hold the record for musical guests whom
I've interviewed the most. He might hold the record. He's been to our
home. Remember, for a little while I was recording interviews in our living
room and he came. He was he was one of the guests we yeah
we had there. Yeah, so um yeah, great guy. And he's
got an addition to the music. He's got some other things that he's doing
media wise. So really looking forward to talking to him. So he's either
going to be he's going to try to skype and if that doesn't work,
he's going to call, so we'll see what happens. But so he'll be
joining us. At the top of the hour, we'll play We'll play a
song of his and another one at the end of the segment and so forth.
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hello to everybody in Facebook land quickly. Here we've got Alex Whiteley, one
of our friends from the UK, who says evening folks. Texas Mike is
in the chat and says, my girlfriend and I had an awesome time this
morning. Sometime I need to bring her in for your show. Matt.
Yes, absolutely, yes, I heard some of that. Texas Mike and
his girlfriend Angela on the morning show Rondo Ferverro joins us and says greetings from
cloudy California. Jenny, I say you're in there and said shalom peeps,
I am everywhere. And Jay Fed of course joins us from the Great state
of Vermont. Let's see easyg Eric Agnan joins us and says happy freaking Monday.
Isaac Banks also in the chat from I'm pretty sure. I'm just guessing
here, I'm taking a stab. I'm pretty sure from Greensboro, North Carolina
No, and says good, good afternoon. Hashtag Matt and hashtag Jen Hue
the Gecko is in the Facebook live chat and says Wired for Sound. Yes,
they are so good. Yeah, love Wired for Sound. Absolutely,
let's see the city is teeming with talent. Absolutely, Isaac Banks says hashtag
Jen and hashtag Matt. My friend Jeff Pagari says hello to you both.
I would just like to say hello to Jeff Pegary. What would you like
to say hello to Jeff Pagari? Hello, Jeff Kvarigi It's Pie and then
yes, yes, yes, yes, And and Melanie, also from the
Great state of Vermond, joins us. Oh and by the way, Isaac
Banks mentions that Paul Rubens also known as pee Wee Herman has passed away at
the age of seventy. Did see that, Yes, I guess he had
cancer. Yeah. Um, that's that's all I saw. I don't I
don't know any more details than that. But I was a private battle with
cancer. That's that's all I know. Yeah. It's it's odd because you
know, we were talking just recently on the show about I forget who I
was. I don't think it was with you. I was talking with somebody
about this on the show about how um, sometimes some celebrities do a very
good job of keeping it very very quiet, because I didn't hear anything about
him being sick. Oh, not at all. I still remember the day
that we woke up to the news that David Bowie had passed away, and
I heard nothing about him being sick, and apparently he kept it very quiet.
Bozeman, I had no idea about Bozeman until he passed. Boman.
Oh, Chad Bozman, Chadwick Boseman. Yeah, yeah, he was young
too. Yeah, like really get an aggressive cancer. Yeah, that's terrible.
Um. Let me give the studio line one more time and then we'll
get into uh into what what we did today or what you did six zo
three two five six seven is a studio line six zo three two five six
zero seven. Oh, by the way, Zik Banks I says, that's
right. I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina. Hashtag jen and hashtag man.
How did we know? You know? It's like I'm I'm I'm geographically psychic
or something. I can. I can guess where people are. It's amazing.
Oh so, okay, well where is Kyle Heavie? Where is Kyle
Heavy? Yes? You should know. You said you can psychically know where
people are? No, no, no, no, no, where they're
where they're where they're from? Oh? Come now? Why why where is
Kyle Heavy? I feel like this is a good question. I just I
think that you vivid. Okay, I think I think Kyle Leavie is in
Manchester, New Hampshire right now. Could be? Oh, Eric Street says
Chadwick Boseman was forty three. Yeah, he was really young. Damn.
I thought he was pancreatic cancer or was it? No? I think it
was a colirectal cancer. Really, I was gonna say pancreatic would make sense
because that that's what took um. Oh help me actor, really good dancer?
Well, Patrick. Yeah, he was a pacreatic cancer. Yeah,
it's um I know that that one really can sneak up on you. And
then it's it's probably is that considered generally the most aggressive. It's one of
the most aggressive cancers to have. The survival rate isn't very high. It's
like they do what's called a whipple, which is like this massive surgery that's
it's dangerous in and of itself, but it's like a hail Mary surgery to
try and get the cancer. Yeah, before it gets a really good hold.
Yeah, some cases it's rare to survive it. Yeah, it's just
it's a very aggressive cancer. Yeah. But you know, hope is on
the horizon. They're working on new stuff all the time. The breast cancer
vaccine that I've been watching for and talking about for a number of years now
is moving forward for UM. I believe it's going into trials to test whether
or not it can help block the most common breast cancer, which is um
oh god invasive ductor carcinoma ARPR positive hurts too negative, which is a long
lingo, but it's the most common of breast cancers. Yeah. You know
what sucks though, is this is how cynical. I've become about healthcare,
and of course that relates to the speech you gave today. I have for
and actually for years now, whenever I'm reading an article about a breakthrough in
whether it be cancer treatment or for anything else. You know what, my
first thought is, what, Oh, this will be great for the wealthy.
That literally is if you think that, That literally is my first thought.
Wow, the wealthy are really going to benefit from this? Uh this
this new cancer vaccine? Say well, um, but yeah, why don't
you go ahead and uh wait wait do you want me start with the trip
and then go to today. Oh yeah, I might as well do it
chronologically. That's true. You haven't been on the show since you got back
from your trip either, Yeah, so start there. Well, actually I'll
start one week prior to that to give a piece of good news that I
haven't been able to be here to see my left eye. The hole in
my left eye has completely healed shuts from the timokspin rettinopathy. And the only
thing we can in the hole is you don't want to say healed shut.
It makes it sound like your eye is close. I have I came down
with tomokswin rettinopathy. Being on timokspin for breast cancer to prevent it from coming
back, became toxic in my body and actually did me damage. It's why
I have hearing aids in part because it exacerbated my hearing loss and it burned
literally burned holes in the backs of my retina and put crystalline material in the
macularum, really affecting my vision and it can be really messy. I mean,
we've been watching this for a number of years now. We found out
originally in twenty nineteen. That's why I went to Europe. It was my
Hill Mary trip before I went blind, and I am not going blind quite
to the contrary. My lifestyle changes have definitely paid off. The only thing
we can attribute the healing to is the fact that I live very cleanly and
changed my diet and everything else. So the hole that was in my left
eye has now closed, and there's only it's healed. It's healed well,
I say closed, because there's a normal hole anything. Yeah, you're going
to correct me. Well, because people talk about closing. I don't want
to. I just don't want to confuse anybody, and they think that that
means your eyes now permanently closed or something. Why would somebody the back of
my retina all right in a gallery? This is what I put up with
anyway. So the crystalline in my left eye is there's only two little pieces
left. So my vision in my left eye has improved back to twenty thirty.
My right eye, on the other hand, the whole's permanent. We
can't fix it. But the crystalline is gone and my vision is twenty one
hundred. So but overall, an extremely good report and not one that we
anticipated because, like I said, we found this in twenty nineteen. So
here we are twenty twenty three, and the hole that was in my left
eye is now gone. Yeah, healed, Yes, closed, and all
of the above. So I wanted to start out with that piece of good
news because I was really wanting to share that because you guys have been through
this journey with me, and I thought you'd love to hear that. So
I went back to DC. This was my third trip back. This time
I went back with an organization called b a Hero, and Be a Hero
is an amazing organization. They were started by a gentleman named Audi Bach and
he came down with als and he's very blunt and open with what he talks
about in the fact that he is dying. He is an incredible man who
has spent his journey trying to better everybody else's he's fighting for healthcare for everybody,
and he's also fighting for home healthcare, which really struck my heart because
I cut my teeth as a home healthcare aid way back in the day.
Right go to people's houses and help them there, and you just you go
to different patients that way. But yeah, having him highlight that really took
my attention. But he's trying to bring more attention on it and onto he's
asking everybody to be a hero, to contribute to help in the fight.
To talk to your elected officials and the people that want your vote on where
are they going to be on the healthcare issues? Right? So you guys
know all are my issue and the people that I work with. This is
about healthcare for everybody, no matter who you are, no matter where you
are in this country, that you get the same healthcare that some rich,
pampered you know, Bigwig gets it. You know, never knows your your
trouble, never has to imagine deciding on what food they can buy versus what
medication that's our lives. So we were done, and what we want you
to stand up with us when I went back this time, Actually, Jenny,
hold hold that thought for a second. We got we gotta call.
I think it's Billy Painter on the line. Hey Billy, Hello, Oh
okay, you must pocketed us, all righty. So this time when I
went back, I had the honor and privilege to meet with about seven years
so New York City retirees made up of fire ems, police and teachers,
all retirees that were promised in their contracts that when they retired, they would
have traditional Medicare and they would have their city supplement policy versus the medic gap.
And this is what they were going to have for the rest of their
lives. So, now that they're retired and they don't get to vote on
anything, the city, the mayor, and the heads of their own union,
believe it or not, made a deal to save money on the backs
of the retirees by forcing them off their traditional Medicare plan and forcing them onto
a private you guessed it, Medicare disadvantage plan like I have on like all
of the heck that I've gone thorough and they're trying to force these people onto
that, which would make them lose their doctors, lose their providers because they'd
have to go to in network providers and everything would change. And they don't
want this. They don't want this at all. They've been fighting the city.
They've sued six times, they've won six times. They have numerous restraining
orders against the city preventing them from moving forward. But they're still fighting for
their lives with this. And I had the honor of meeting all of these
people in a church basement for lunch, and they wanted to hear about my
story and other stories to kind of give them some fuel and some understanding about
what they're fighting to stay away from. They know what they don't want,
but they need the ammunition to go with it. You know. They wanted
to have something more to draw, more to draw from than just I don't
want this. I don't want this because I've seen this woman's father die,
because I've managed I don't even want to call it that. It's disgusting excuse
for medical care with Medicare disadvantage. You know, they claim that they're going
to cover everything on Medicare, and they don't. So this is why we're
all up there. So after leaving there, we actually all marched together,
which is insane to march through DC, can I tell you? Very invigorating,
very powerful, And I have the most amazing team around me. I
want for nothing. They had water around me. They rent a wheelchair to
push me in. Like I don't worry about my health. They definitely look
out for me. So we all marched and we were marching over to the
others to this on the Capitol, right up on Capitol Hill. But there's
a place called the Triangle, which is like a permit, a place where
there's a permanent podium for press conferences. And that's where you know, the
media knows to go there. Everybody knows to go there for a press conference
on Capitol Hill. So that's where we were marching too. But on the
way we took a stop by the steps and this was like something out of
a movie. I swear. We're marching through like with signs. We get
the bullhorn and uh, and we come up to the actual steps of the
Capitol and here is um uh congressman. Forgive me, I'm trying to remember
his last name. Oh Cassar, Greg Cassar, Cassar, Sorry, Cassar
c A S A R. I get stuck in his name for some reason.
I think I try to make it Casper like I'm not even sure,
but so Greg castAR. Cassar is a representative newly elected. He's the first
timer, right, so he's young, he's got the he's got the vigor,
and he looked like something out of a movie. He's sitting on the
Capitol steps. He's got the shirt rolled up and a few buttons on his
neck uncovered, and he's standing there sweating, and he's doing a hunger strike
and a thirst strike because he's trying to stand up for the fact that his
governor back in Texas took away the protections for heat breaks, which Texas,
you know how hot it's there, right, It's been like triple digits forever
lately. They have laws on the box to make sure that employers are giving
their workers water breaks so you don't like, you know, dehydrate and pass
out at work or die or die. Yeah, that one too. So
Governor Abbott apparently took those those protections away, so he staged a hunger strike
and a thirst strike, which was insane to me because it was like one
of the hottest days. I was melting. So we stopped and he talked
to us too, and he heard about our issues and it's one hundred percent
in support. And then we marched on over to the Triangle and I forgot
about the office visits, but we'll go back to that. We had a
really great press conference. Let me tell you. The press conference was only
supposed to be thirty minutes. It's the bo Hero organization, the New York
City Retiree is and we were expecting a couple of reps, maybe in a
senator to come out. That's not what happened. Get out there and there's
all these people, and there's multiple senators, multiple representatives. Everybody wants to
join. Everybody wants to prove to the rest of the world in this country
that they support healthcare for all. And they all came out, and it
was amazing to see how many came out. Myself and another young lady named
Megan Bent told her story and it's a heartbreaking story. And the sick part
about it is it's United Healthcare Medicare disadvantage that her family had drabble with too,
same as me, and her dad died and in my opinion, he
died because he was denied the care that could have extended his life, that
could have made it better. I mean, the man suffered and he shouldn't
have, and the family suffered beyond beyond. Megan's mom has actually testified before
Senator Bloomenthal and on a Congressional subcommittee about the denials that happened and what they
believe how that exacerbated her dad's death. So she spoke, and then I
spoke, and we got both of us got extremely welcomed and a lot of
thank yous. Senator Warre and then got up and spoke from Massachusetts and there
was a head of one of the largest nursing organizations in the country was there.
There were so many I lost count and I can't possibly rattle off all
of the Senators and the representatives that came out. I know, I ran
into Representative Jaia Paul when we were we went to the Senate Heart Building,
which is where all the Senate a lot of the Senate offices are in that
building, and we kind of did like a Happy Birthday Medicare thing because it
was the fifty eighth birthday of Medicare. Were wanting to highlight that because everybody
says to say, what does everybody say, can't wait to have Medicare?
My mom same thing, can't wait to have Medicare because it because it's so
much better. So we're trying to, you know, put the highlight on
there, and a lot of us feel that it's absolutely wrong for these private,
for profit health insurance companies to be able to use the Medicare name right
when it's very misleading. Extraordinarily yes, and they're they're using aggressive tactics these
days too. You know. I have a personal friend whose autistic child was
was co called and signed up for a Medicare advantage plan because they didn't know
what it was really going on, and the person you know, talked them
into it. Now, thankfully they were able to undo it. But these
kind of things are happening across the country. They're happening with the eld that
happening at at farmers markets. They're striking people near their homes where they know
there's a large elderly population, and they're trying to suck them into this because
once they're in, they can't get out like I can't. So we also,
I had the privilege of sitting with Senator Shaheen's staff member, Vic,
who's in charge of like Healthcare's a legislative assistant about and I had gotten to
meet him before when I went last time, and we were talking about getting
the prior authorizations we got for me, And what you guys don't know is
that all got blown out of the water and when it came right down to
them actually paying for things, I've got all kinds of excuses coming out now,
Like one of the prior authorizations is in network, one of them is
out of network. They both look the same. Nowhere are they identified differently.
They even have the same office code for the second procedures. And there's
no way the answer I get as well, you can see it on my
screen. Well that's nice, that's nice. I can't see it. So
I did get to sit down with Vic, and he listened to the New
York retirees about what they were going through as well, because Senator He's going
to need to know about these issues when she's voting, and we're also trying
to ask our senators and to hold hearings as well. We want them to
get the truth and really do investigations into these denials and priorizations that delay care
and caused people to die. Senator Shaheen's office was so receptive as to what's
going on and what I was looking at with these two prior authorizations, and
we can cross the no surprise thing in the moment. But they assigned me
a caseworker. So I have a caseworker with Senator Shaheen's office helping me talk
to these United Healthcare now. And I also have representative from Senator Hassen's office,
Elsie, out in Portsmouth. If you near the Portsmouth office. She's
an amazing young lady, does a lot of great work. They immediately jumped
on it when I wrote to them asking them. I basically asked the senators
both of them in like one email because I was just so upset. I
didn't know who to talk to. So I just reached out to everybody and
asked them if they would write a letter on my behalf to help me trying
to keep you know, because you know what, literally I'm trying to stay
alive here. Like it gets really upsetting and frustrating when you're dealing with these
these these these what do you call them the service agents or and and they're
like, well, things just don't move that fast. I don't have your
time. Yeah, I don't have your time. They screwed up my prior
authorization, so they tell me to do this. They tell me to appeal
it within thirty days in writing, and they get thirty to sixty days to
make a decision on it. Right, So I got three months awaiting.
That's part of how the how it's gamed against you, right right. I
did get to stop and to send a Hassan's office and thank her. When
I was in DC, I was disappointed. I have to stay with the
meeting with the Finance Committee. Yeah, we're really trying to get them to
hold these hearings, and they seem to give me the feeling like they think
they did enough to make some some fixes. Is there are some fixes coming
on the horizon come January first. One of them I think is supposed to
affect some of the no surprises. But the no surprises we've talked about on
this show before, and that's when you get a bill. So you go
to our care and you get the bill and they're charging you in network for
the urgent care, but out of network for the doctor, and you have
no way of knowing that you are urgent care. That's called no surprises,
and that's what's supposed to be law. Now. So I got my latest
EOB and I wait for my cancer check like I do every year, and
I have this. I'll share it with anybody who wants to see it.
They don't believe me. I'm looking at my explanation of benefits. That's what
an EOB is that you get from your insurance company. You should get from
your insurance company every month explaining what they paid and what you're responsible for.
And they have Dana Farber Hospital on there because I went from my mammogram and
you have one line with the name of the provider and apparently part of the
mammogram charges marked as in network, and it says I owe nothing because on
the Medicare laws, the mamography is covered one hundred percent. Then you look
underneath that and you see Dana Farber Hospital out of network with a additional momography
charges. Let me tell you, as a breast cancer patient, you might
as well stab me through the hot yourself. I have one breast, I
lost one to the cancer. You're splitting up my momography charges on one side
and billing me in and out. Of network, and I have no idea
of knowing in or out. I've gone to Dana Farber every year since the
cancer. That's what the surgery was takeing was done, and that's what I'm
looking at now. These are the kind of things that destroy families, that
make people go bankrupt, People end up medically poor because you get no money
left to spend on food. You're spending it all on meds and everything.
Well, that's the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is medical
bankruptcy. And then the rest of the world is looking at us like we're
gross, like really, and we're the only country in the world at least
developed as as far as I know, that attaches healthcare to your job.
As long as you can work, you get health insurance. The minute you
get sick and you need it. Ah, you lost your job and with
that the health insurance. By the way, Peter White, of course of
the Morning Show with Peter White, he's in the chat room. He says,
I just got here. Could you have Jenny start over? No,
And by the way, we'll be archived and put up. By the way,
Billy Billy Panter tried to call back in Billy I'm gonna ask you,
I know why you're calling. I'm gonna ask you to call in during the
last hour after our interview with Kadaver if you don't mind, just because I
want to stay on topic with us because there's a lot to cover before our
musical guest. So what we what I need you guys to do as to
not be quiet t take a few minutes out send an email to your elected
official speak up. I mean we're in New Hampshire here right, We of
all people know how to handle our politicians who come in and want our votes.
You need to point blank get in the faces of these guys and ask
them about healthcare because you know what they've got, Cadillac insurance. They don't
want for nothing. When it's them and your mom who's a nurse, or
your dad who's attack who works in healthcare and delivers this service and puts in
thirteen hour chifts, or like a firefighters and EFTs doing twenty four hour shifts,
they get sick. Who's providing the care to them? Nobody because they
can't afford to get through the door. They can't get through the door.
That's what what I'm fighting. I'm fighting for everybody to have access to equal
access to healthcare. It shouldn't be for the rich. You can have whatever
you want. Oh you need cancer care, here you go. But your
grandma who is a school teacher for the last forty years and she needs breast
cancer care. Now too late, too bad, Sorry, chickie, you
lost your job. Whatever I mean it, I'm done with our society living
like this. The people, the blood, sweat and tears of this population,
the working people who do everything to make this country work, are the
ones that pay the most when it comes to getting their own healthcare, and
a lot of times go without completely or rash in their own care. I
mean, I've had to ration Mike care. It shouldn't be like this in
the United States of America. You know, we get the best healthcare in
the world. Grandma shouldn't be dying two doors down from the hospital because she
can't have the hot medicine inside the hospital because she hasn't have the money to
buy her way in. I'm done with that. That's what I'm doing.
Well. It's like I always say, you know, my first principle when
it comes to this is I say, we live in the wealthiest, most
innovative, most successful country in the history of the world, and based on
that, you are never going to convince me that, in the wealthiest,
most successful, most innovative country in the history of the world, that we
just somehow can't figure out this is just one problem we can't solve. We
just can't figure out a way to make sure that every single American has access
to adequate or preferably better than adequate healthcare. I I will not accept that.
I just don't. I hear the excuses, I hear the rationalizations and
the justifications why we have to have this frankly sociopathic system. I just don't.
I just Peter's making me laugh. He says, we need to punch
healthcare in the face. No, no, no, what we've been doing
well. We don't want to. No, no, we don't want to
punch healthcare in the face. We want to. We want to punch the
healthcare uh, the health insurance companies in the face, not healthcare. Healthcare
itself is good, more previous than that. I want to. We want
to. We want to caress and and hug healthcare. We love healthcare.
I want private health insurance to heck out of Medicare. Right, that's where
we want to punch. I want them out of healthcare. We have to
punch very Melanie also said something in the chat room too that's very funny,
but I don't want to read that on the air because oh, I know
when it comes right. Be a Hero fun dot com. Be a Hero
fun dot com. That's Audibas organization, and I mean, this is his
life. But he's doing everything that he can with this before he dies.
He knows he's dying, and he's fighting for all of us and for his
own two young kids. And the other organization that we got involved with is
Protect Our Care and Protect our Care dot org is where we were today.
They started their nationwide UM bus tour. They're calling the Large Bus Care Force
one and they're crossing sixteen states and eight thousand miles. Manchester, New Hampshire
was the starting point for today and that's what we met up with. They're
talking a lot about UM lower costs for healthcare, better care, and wanting
to keep changing the laws in that way. They are They are very happy
with the Inflation Reduction Act and how it is UM passing some good laws to
help get better healthcare out there for us, like I think the insulin is
cemented in that bill, if I remember correctly, the cap on insulin.
I'm not sure. I get very exactly. I get very confused about that.
Yeah, and you know we should uh so, just in the interests
of full disclosure, So we should acknowledge that that is a partisan you know,
it's it's a it's a partisan to protective organization and yeah, yeah,
you know, and uh but um, you know, you kind of have
to go with when you're when you're advocating, uh and being an activist on
a particular issue which is obviously very personal to you and and of course to
me as well and to many people, well to millions of people. Actually,
you know, you kind of when it comes to that issue, you
kind of have to go where the people are who are actually doing something about
it. So that's um, you know, So it doesn't necessarily mean that
we agree with everything about the about that law, or that we disagree with
any elements of it. I just want to clarify for people, you know,
we're not because I can art I already know, I can already think
of the specific people in some instances who are going to be very upset that
we're talking about the saying anything positive about the Inflation Reduction Act we're talking about
as pertains to this specific issue, and I would just talking about and right
and I and I would just also you know, and by the way,
if if there are some people on the other side of the aisle who are
doing something positive on healthcare right now at this moment, I would love to
hear about that as well. Absolutely, this is not any kind of a
partisan thing, because I already know some people are going to take it that
way. This is not. But again, we go where the work is
being done, let me put it that way, and this is where the
work is being done on this. So part of the Inflation Reduction Act includes
measures to stop junk healthcare plans from discriminating and then junk stop junk healthcare pans
from being promoted to people. These are the kind of plans that basically have
like the kind of catastrophic so called coverage, but they don't really have good
coverage of anything else at all. Yeah, and they're really just a money
grab because when it comes to down to you actually using it, you end
up with a way a lot of bigger bill and you you're looking at it
like what kind of insurance is this? It really isn't anything. It's feel
good until you need it. That was that was kind of an unfortunate side
effect of the Affordable Care Act. I think is that we problems we started
Well, yeah, no, but that's what I'm saying. That's where I
feel that, that's where it started, where a lot of these junk healthcare
plans really emerged in the market. I mean it's it's, you know,
if you can get something cheap, that's that's nice until you need to actually
use it, and then you realize you have a five thousand dollars deductible or
something absurd. My mom having a pay or deductible one hundred percent up front,
so she had a Bayer MRI a hundredercent up front. Yeah. But
like the other part of it is there's measures in there about drug pricing,
like keeping the insolent down. But also, and this is something Big Farmer
doesn't want allow Medicare to negotiate for drug prices. But I want to say
one thing about participating, as far as participating with protect our care, here's
what I see. They're trying to promote traditional healthcare, traditional medicare. I
should say, I'm looking for any avenue that wants to say put it out
there to warn people not to get on a Medicare advantaged plan. That is
right. One of my biggest absolute goals personally for me, not one of
the organizations, just me personally is to not have anybody else end up like
I am, on a Medicare advantaged plan that doesn't give them the care that
they need, that denies coverage, that delays care and could cost you or
your loved one a life, and that you can't get out of, which
that should be illegal. And so here's the thing, I can switch back
to traditional Medicare. So that's what they're going to tell you. But here's
where where you get hung up getting a metagap policy, which I don't think
we should need. Let me say that I think you should Medicare should cover
it, but we have to have gap policies now. And in gap policies,
this is one place they can still look at pre existing conditions. And
if you have a pre existing condition, they don't have to cover you for
at least six months, and your premiums are going to be through the roof
all because you have a pre existing condition, which drives me crazy. That
is still allowed there. But that's where these private, for profit insurance companies
have gotten Congress to go along with their crap, is allowing that, and
it shouldn't be allowed. We say no pre existing conditions, when, by
gosh, that's the way it should be. You remember when you talk about
pre existing conditions, if you have a baby who's born with something, or
a kiddo, oh boy, I gotta put this new kid on insurance.
But they get a heart problem that could count. It's pre existing that could
count, and they're not going to cover them. Maybe they don't cover anything.
I mean, we got to get rid of these insurance companies that are
taking our premiums and pocketing them for their profit. Remember, folks, when
we did the video release on my case, that was the exact same day
that United Healthcare was bragging bragging about their eight billion dollars first quarter profits in
this year. That's three months. In three months, they made eight billion
dollars in profit. But they won't pay six hundred dollars for an infusion,
or they won't pay for somebody's insulin, or they won't pay for somebody to
have recpite care or to go to physical therapy. They they throw away the
bills, they tell the Oh my god, Megan's father they said they wouldn't
agree to him going to rehab for physical therapy after he got sick because they
didn't think he could survive, that he could substantially he could. Uh sorry,
they didn't think he could handle the rigors of the physical therapy. That's
why they denied him going there. Yeah, they didn't think doctors don't matter,
right, right, they didn't think. Yeah, And look, and
we should clarify again too, for anyone who takes it wrong. You know,
we have no problem with a company making lots and lots of money.
I mean, we're capitalists, but uh, you know, but good point.
But this is uh, you know, I think capitalists this is morality
and ethics and humanity stealing talking about here and kinder. Well, I'm just
saying though, you know, making money and profits is great, but you
know this isn't you know. I think healthcare is a human right, and
I know some people think that's cliche. I believe it, and again there's
no excuse for it not to be. There are countries with much smaller GDPs
than the United States. In other words, which is really just a way
of saying countries that are not nearly as wealthy as we are who have socialized
medicine and they wow, imagine this. They also have longer life expectancies and
generally healthier populations and so forth. So there's no excuse for us not to
be able to have something like that here. And we can. But but
you know, the healthcare the health insurance company lobby, I mean, they're
very powerful in Washington, which is really the real reason that we don't.
I don't know if my buddy in the Netherlands would still be alive today if
he was under the American healthcare system and not the Netherlands, where whatever care
he needs he gets, whatever medicines the doctor's order he gets, and there's
there's no must, no faucet's just it is what it is. The doctor
says you need X, you get X. Right. They they they've gone
to extraordinary measures to not only prolong his life but fight his stage four cancer,
and he's done remarkable. I mean, they even put a drain in
his lung and Pete's staff comes to the house to take care of it.
The doctor came to the house. The doctor they're not wasting their time with
paperwork and forms and filling out appeals and begging somebody spending two hours on the
phone trying to get a patient into a into a rehab or something. They
actually get to take care of their patients, and they document on their patients,
not to insurance company craziness. It's such a it's such a it had.
It made a very strong impression on me. I'll tell you that,
especially after I got to access it. Scott Robinson in the chat said,
the whole thing is really discussing these insurance companies. It's out of control.
Alex Whiteley says, are there no concessions for disability in the US? No,
Well I am. I am a disabled American actually, Alex, good
question. Unfortunately, my cancer didn't allow me to go back to work,
so I pay into an I paid in my whole life since I was like
thirteen. Was my first job to have what they call so security insurance,
so in disability insurance. So I am utilizing my disability insurance. But as
far as my healthcare is concerned, I did not get on traditional Medicare,
which would have been the nationwide policy. I ended up on a Medicare advantage
plan, which is run by a private for profit insurance company called United Healthcare.
Actually, I think their full name is AARP Medicare Advantage United Healthcare Wall
Greens, I think is the full name of my insurance. Oh PPO number
one, I think that's the the full name of it. Least that's the
number, the name at the letter head that they sent a Senator Housin's office
to say, yes, we got your letter. I lost my train of
thoughts. These insurance companies suck up your your premiums, everybody's premiums. Now
they're supposed to pay out those claims for you. That's the deal you got
right, plus of what happens. So you're paying your premiums, you're paying
your copays. Then they won't cover you, Like they don't cover my infusion,
so I pay one hundred percent of that, and there's medications that won't
cover. So what are you doing. You're using good RX so you can
get it cheaper. So not only is your money not counting to you deductible,
you're in now having to go to a whatever fifth pharmacy to get a
medicine at a decent price with a coupon because you can't use your insurance at
the pharmacy. I can't use the insurance at Walgreens, whose name is on
the moniker. It's too expensive. I need good RX at a Handifford's grocery
store to afford that one particular medication. And they keep us so poor.
And we're medically poor in this country. We're paying everything just to stay alive.
Literally, I personally am doing that. That's that's my life. Pay
for medical care, pay for medications, pay the rent, pay the utilities,
and he's what you got for food. That's my I am medically poor
in my country, even though I've paid in and had multiple jobs. I
mean I had two and three jobs at a time sometimes, And yeah,
that's that's life here in America. We have a call. Shannon is on
the line. Hi, Shanna, Hello, Hello, Ni, Hi,
congratulations. I mean, I don't I wish I could give you a hug.
I'm good, I'm good. But what was it gonna say when you
mentioned that the changing the manufacture? Did you say manufacturer of the prescriptions?
I said that the manufacturer of my one of my prescriptions doesn't make it.
Talking about that that they don't make it anymore? Something yeah, because what
happens is when you, in my humble opinion, sometimes I get a cheaper
manufacturer and I can tell that what medicine should be there isn't. It's to
me, it's not only cheaper. What all the components of the pill.
Oh you're comparing enetic isn't there? I don't know about that one. I
mean honestly, for myself, some of my meds are generic summer name brand
depends on what it is. I haven't had any issues with that myself.
Yeah, but I know that some people are very sensitive to like the fillers
they use. I know my Lotos, NILT track Zone that's compounded. Some
patients have to go through different components that they make the capsule with to find
one that works for them because some people have reactions to what they call the
filler. I've been lucky to not have that happen, But I think that's
what you're talking about. Well, yes and no, because I mean,
um, I've suffered from migraines for thirty one years, thirty two years now,
and I think when Mtrux came out, I was happier than it could
be because that worked. Um, the generic Now assume we're tripped in and
you get nine pills per um. They're in a blister pack. Get nine
pills per box yepensive at least two, if not more. Don't have the
same medicine as the other ones. Because I can feel it worked. That
would be something to talk to your doctor about and your pharmacist if you're I
have talked to the pharmacists. That's why I said you. Sometimes they say,
hey, what manufacturer you have there for me? Change it to something
else, please? Yeah, that's a that's an area I'm not too sure
on. Yeah, but and I'm just it's a PSA too. You know,
if something doesn't seem to be working, there are different manufacturers also,
you know what I mean. Sometimes Yeah, sometimes I'm glad. It was
nice to hear about your eye too. Yeah, and I understand that your
retina has healed. Ye closed, because your retina is behind your eye towards
the back of your head, it's closed. Would be so laughing out here
right now? Well, well, when he kept saying that, don't say
that because your eyes so and no I had right now? Or did that
hurt? Oh? No, because you hear people that get lay six.
Oh it's no problem. Yeah, because that's part it's in front of your
eye. This is in the back of your eye, right right, a
little bit more. But anyway, UM, I just wanted to say,
I don't know, I'm proud of you. Thank you. That names anything
for me to say that, it does. It absolutely does. Think we
appreciate it. Channel, I really do. All right, you take care
and keep up the fight. And you know, if there's something I can
do, let me know. I mean, I'm great on the phone,
and that's a that's a great place to start. Call call your representative,
speak to what you can speak to one of the staff members. They will
take a note. You can write them a letter, send it an email.
You can write them an old fashioned letter and send it into their office,
you know, an envelope. You know what happened to me Once I
wrote an old fashioned let ink and paper. I brought it to the courthouse.
I wanted a judge to read it. They would not accept it.
They would not give it to her. I don't know, I'm not allowed
handwritten letters. I'm talking about the critters we vote for. Well, you
see, I know, but I just thought it was interesting that a judge
can't receive it and read a letter. I don't know, but yeah,
I M. Well, you know, if you could, I don't know,
get my number from me there and well to down. Take three minutes
to let me write down some phone numbers, general places to call, people
to call. All right, they don't have email. That's you, all
right, very good, all right, all right, thank you, bye
bye. All right. That was our friend Shannon. Always nice to hear
from her. Before we run out of time, I want to address what
Ronda wrote. Rhonda shared in the chat room a little off subject. But
I pay fifteen hundred dollars a month for three of my meds. Due to
shortages of the manufactured version, I'm forced to get them compounded. And that's
something that's happening a lot lately. And you know what one of the big
culprits of that is the companies that manufacture these meds do not want to have
to spend money store them, so they try to do lean manufacturing where they're
producing what they think is needed. So when shortages happen, it's because there
isn't enough. There literally isn't enough. They're not making enough to store it.
Like we shouldn't run out of time at all in the middle of winter
when kiddos have RSV. But we did because these companies don't want to have
to pay to store the product. Right. They're cheap. They're trying to
nickel and dime you for everything that they can squeeze out of you. And
the only way that's going to change is if we make them right right,
because asking them doesn't mean anything. That's for sure. All right, we
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yeah, stay yeah. It was soup as a weapon ony days in the
trance. Every time I think I'm minded, I go back from the chance
kid, just a hitting. I can't quit it, no matter how many
times I try to go SOLDI show collection now, something like the way your
heartstruck when I hands it, playing like I'm not a dash but I'm missing.
Everything was lovey dovey until you started speaking ill worst sist y'all a week,
so I just need to chill. Nothing tells good enough, claiming number
pleasant issue. Yeah that's maybe true. We're treated you like Heaving said.
Now you're slamming meet worse than he sat his kid. Because the words are
without meaning. I don't answer them but from perfect but perfect what we with
a word, and I can try to jealous to We're going with the something
nerdal murder them with any freeze. I up to some amputees and and you're
gonna stop until your head that scarcely stops. Stop. Stop Stop. These
other lads wanted if you wanted to be honest, he's looking pretty said you
wanted chaining all the comments. I have a little self respect. Need to
put yourself in check. Just because you're hurting meat, it doesn't make you
better. Bet you'll never find the total package, like a bustude stocking up
these hells while I'm building on these double dudes. Anyway you want to go.
I took it to the heights, five star dining, social front,
long night, land them Mike, let them brocade, and you mess my
right you want it? Took my whole name, you know, my lifestyle
before we took it to the next and everything I did dis you walk it
take left thinking that I stopped. Swing while you take it then you never
would it after you really ever came so aground. Now I want to cut
the shoes every girling with a D shoe stands are we are? Stands?
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and tell me something everything will be all right? Another into bundle noo the
bush friend no. The prayer to God that I can make it to the
hinge to trick it. Mother DAEs nother time and tell me something everything will
be all right. No to buy, no the bring, No the prayer
to God that that I can make it to the to the ship be it
said track no long star. I running so bad following the steps to my
granddad, Glad that I made another day, but said that I can't let
go over the bottle more than enough, he prayed to the heavens. But
God can't help me. Trapped in the mind of a man so lost,
no cross, no master, return what I bought. So I'm for the
like O nine gas which I knew now I knew what the story is over,
No sober, no looking back to the one that imp It's called I'm
older, got a man up by head of my family, me like and
look to one naequ sometimes want to call being an Alleglet go, I cut
enough problems. Who want to take one home? Day ever passes that,
don't ever drink one? You the reason that don't work? Lead my mark
on the earth. If just one fits my word, and live my work
nother not to drink it notherdes no other time, and tell myself that everything
will be right. Another into battle, another bore no, the prayer to
God that I can make it to the nothern shrinking, nother DAEs nother time
I tell something everything will be right. Another emptible now the my friend,
the prayer to God that I can make it. Sit in hed the lordly
another day down, another day. Hope can never be found. Looked in
the bottle, I found no note. It's a none to the mind,
and I hope this won't But I fan for more than a week the flashes
light and of my fine peace. Can't find out because I hate myself more
than anybody else. Could never make out my front with a smile because I'm
wanting the attention kind for the now fun that I mention. If you get
the day blow worse than the one before, we torn me back in the
Sunday, tell me on me because those steps and think about God, man,
I haven't tried on my life, and into the word comes to tell
me you really give them an issues going on gods on the think love,
got nothing to say now freaking like a kid, no time left. Just
save your breath like that split puts some to the air. Other non drinking
Another day does another to summer silk. Everything will be a right now,
the good tobatle no, no, the pray God that I can make it
city, the treaty. Now, the day is Sunday. Everything will be
a bright nod tobattle now, the shot friend, no, the bred of
cod. I can make it city. Man, there it is. That's
another day from Kate Aver here on Matt Connerton unleashed. And I believe he
is on the phone, at least I hope this is him, Kate Aver,
Is that you? Oh? I think he might have hung up.
I don't hear it. I don't hear anything. H Well, hopefully he
tries back. He actually messaged me. I tried calling. I don't think
he realized that. When he picked up, it went on hold, oh
okay radio Yeah yeah, Oops, we'll have to callback. And I owe
this guy like a huge apology anyway, because I messed up and wrote him
down in the book twice, yeah, on two different dates, and I
don't figure out which was right. I think this is Bradley him, Kate
ever or is that you there? There's that voice? Hey, my friend,
how are you? It's been been a little while. I was saying
earlier, and I think I say this every time you're on with us,
that I believe you hold the record for most interviewed musician by me. I
don't think I've interviewed anyone else as many times as I've interviewed you over the
years. Yeah, that's because artists don't actually put in work, shade of
the world. There you go, there you go, the expect somebody else
to do the work for him. But nah, Man, in all seriousness,
I want to thank you for having me on. I don't actually have
the number, if I would guess probably we're in the double digits at this
point. So I appreciate everything over the years. Man. Oh yeah,
you got it. Man. Yeah, we're definitely in a double digits,
no doubt about that. That track another day, Is that new? No,
it's it's not new, But um I sent that over because that video
drops tomorrow. In my opinion, it's one of I think my whole catalog
has slept on, but I think it's one of my more slept on songs.
So the company I just started up about two months ago, it was
called Fourth Kind Films, and we do all video work I've done. For
instance, I have a I did a meet and greet video recap with Mick
Foley that dropped I think a week ago. Oh wow. So we do
meet and greet recaps, we do birthday recaps, wedding recaps, we do
music videos. I do commercial that It is a commercial for Hooked Clothing Gear,
which is a fish fishing company that produces clothing gear. UM, not
gonna say it because it's not official, but I'm doing another pretty large commercial
that will be airing locally in the Claremont webinon this Upper Valley region is gonna
be on the commerce It's gonna be on television here as well. It's obviously
all over their socials and YouTube and stuff like that. So we um.
You know, the company we produce, we produce video content of all sorts.
So the reason I sat that song, just to backtrack a little bit,
I thought it was this episode. So it's a cinematic video. It's
obviously a rap song, so you know it's in the format of a rap
video. But we went pure cinematic on this. I shot this down at
Trill Studios. Shout out to Trills Bliss, who worked the camera for the
video. We directed it, though edited it, color graded, color grading.
I think color grading is our core competency, and I think we not
the be killing anyone because there's a lot of a lot of talented people,
but I think we definitely excel in that category. So long waited way of
saying it, but yeah, by the way, John Heissel in the Facebook
live chat says, I told Ka Daver before he started to do tours,
never leave the stage wondering what if. It's good advice. Yeah, I
said out to John Man. He's a he's a good guy. He's got
a lot of stories, he's very knowledgeable. And you know, probably like
five six years ago at disappoint I mean I forget many days from it was
probably five six I was working a job and he said something along I'm gonna
butcher it, but he said something along the lines of, you know,
you're too talented to be doing this. I got faith in you. Da
da da da. And you know, since then, you know, like
he said, never wonder what if. Between his saying of never wonder what
if and just the saying of leaves it all in the field, I think
that's basically my monster my entire career. So you know, we talked about
earlier about doing multiple so many radio interviews, but it's like he does never
know who's listening or who's watching. So, yeah, we've done let's just
say eleven. Well, let's do it. Well, let's make it who's
listening today, you know what I mean. So I never want to leave
anything on the field, and I never want to wonder what is So let's
just let's just keep working. In the words of Matt Connerton, everyone be
a rock star if it was easy, good memory, That is right?
I did. I did say that. Yeah, So U has the music
kind of gone on the back burner at this point or are you just kind
of doing everything at once? Everything at one? So I've dropped three songs,
let's see, I'm trying to think. I think memore. There's a
Memorial Days at May. Oh yes, yes, end of May. Yeah.
Yeah. So I dropped a song right before Memorial Day, and I've
dropped two since my latest one coming July fourth. So I'm still releasing music.
I'm just a little more peculiar, a little more peculiar. I'm a
little more particular with who I work with at this stage. I'm a little
more particular with when I do shows. I'm a little month, like you
know, my body. You know, I ain't no spring Chicken anymore.
So I'm not a huge fan of the grind of thirty five shows, you
know what I mean. So definitely a little more particular with how I tour,
how I perform, and you know what lights I get seen in.
You know, you asked me ten years ago, I would have taken any
offer. Oh you got one hundred and twenty bucks. Let's good. Now
I'm a little more particular. You know, not to say moneys everything,
but money is something, especially when you're if I'm gonna be crammed in a
car or let's just say nine hours of driving, it's got to be a
little worth it at the end of the road, you know what I mean.
Oh, absolutely well, attitude's about tour and have changed too, because
it's it's so much more expensive now to tour. It's really interesting to see,
how you know, there's some some pretty big, big name acts out
there who have decided to either do very short tours or just to festivals,
or not tour at all at least in the short run. And then I've
noticed too, you know, It's it's interesting how the different musicians that I
talked to on the show I've had. I've had some artists tell me,
yeah, I'm just I'm not doing a whole lot of touring, even though
everything's open back up post pandemic and whatnot. I'm being really selective about what
I do, you know. And then there's other like we had a bandon
recently, Wired for Sound, and they're just they're playing every weekend and they're
they're doing as many shows as they can. But attitudes about that have changed.
But I think a lot of it too has to do with, you
know, social media, and you're playing live shows, You're you're competing with
so much, and you're competing with more and more all the time. Now
you're not just competing with other somebody else's live shows somewhere when you go out
and play, but you're competing with somebody's Twitch stream, you're competing with somebody's
YouTube channel, you know. So it's um so I think a lot of
artists have kind of taken us interrupt you you're competing with someone's mortgage payment.
I'm not one of these hysterical people that screams inflation, screams up, but
there is a reality this scenario. I mean, I go to the store
now and spend one hundred and forty dollars on groceries, and I just wonder
what the hell I bought because it doesn't look like a one hundred and forty
dollars for the groceries, you know what I mean, you're competing with somebody's
you know, diapers for their child, and so I don't know, it
is what it is. But the reality, at least from my vantage point,
there's some big artists without even putting them on blast, but there's large
artists with much more funding than I have that are canceling tours and they're canceling
many stops of their tours or low ticket sales. So the way I see
it, twenty twenty one, things started opening again, it was like whoof,
And if you want my honest opinion, from what I see, it
dissipated fairly quickly as of maybe not a full calendar year, but pretty close.
People are like, oh well, kind of like what you said with
switch Streams in this and more between the inflation that is real in between everything
else. It's like, I know myself, I pay for Netflix. Yeah,
I already have Netflix. Why do I need to go out and do
fifty different things. I'm kind of a homebody now, so that's just me,
you know what I mean. Why do I need to go out and
drop You gotta drop eighty dollars at the bar? You do this? You
know, it's a little bit of a crazy time right now. Yeah,
it's Uh. Charles Richardson is in the chat room. He's in Florida.
He says, ninety eight Degrees had to cancel a show down here for low
sales. See, I didn't even know they were still around. Um,
all right, but you're also talking about a band that's had millions of dollars
over the last twenty plus years, you know, backing the name and even
they had the kids. So I don't know what. I don't know if
they were playing themselves out what I mean. But I don't know if they
tried twenty thousand percent venue or if they were two thousand. I don't know,
right right, I think maybe Taylor Swift just took it all and there's
just nothing. There's just nothing left over, um as far as the big
tours and everything, there's just nothing left. UM as far as now,
how many um, how many music videos have you when you do these videos
obviously, you know your own production company did this, this new video for
Another Day, you said that comes out tomorrow. Correct. How many of
those have you done? Where? Because early in your career, I assume
you didn't do all those yourself, right, or maybe you did. Maybe
that's how you got started doing videos. I don't know. Yeah, I
mean I first started doing videos just a necessity years ago because we didn't have
a budget, you know what I mean. Yeah, I think I scraped
together like four hundred dollars for cannon sixty D and a couple of lenses or
whatnot. So like America, when you've had enough, bring the pain.
I mean, I don't know. I don't list goes on. We did
all those in house. That's how I got acclimated with shooting videos, okay,
and then from there and then from there, I worked with people like
shout out to Sando Films. Scott, he's a he's a homie of mind.
Me and him. We don't talk daily, but we definitely talked multi
times a week. I consider us colleagues at this point. Don't know if
that's the right term, but you know, worked with him, work for
wax Hug, works with Traill, for instance, And yeah, so I
would always ask questions though, So I wasn't like one of those people just
show so I would like I would learn. So because I had I started
hands on, I knew what I was looking for. I wasn't asking in
the sense if I got to make sure you have an X amount of dollar
camera and I'm asking how because I'm always hands on all my videos. Yeah,
whether somebody else shot it or not, I've always been hands all the
videos. So I need to know what frame rates their camera does. I
need to know you know what I'm working with to a degree, you know
what I mean. So I've always liked film, and even though you know,
there was a few years there where I didn't work on it hands on,
I've always had vision for it. I always had what I just the
aptitude of the understanding I've always been keeping. I've been keeping up with it
so recently this year. Kind of a weird story anyway, but I was
like, I think this is the direction I want to go full forward with
my life. And I was on the fence. So even though I just
said that, yeah, I was in the jungles of Mexico and I ended
up talking to this kid, and he told me that he works for a
camera store in New Jersey. And that camera store in New Jersey is in
the town which I somewhat frequent and I was there, like, you know,
Particippani, New Jersey. I was there probably four times this year,
and he happened to be there. And I'm in the jungles of Mexico.
So I don't believe in a traditional guy per se, but I do believe
in the universe telling you something. I'm in the jungles of Mexico and this
kid's telling me you can hook me up with year. It's like, woof,
okay, well here we are. So I put the right for a
forward. I have a had a three month I have a three month plan,
a six months plan. I have a three year plan, a five
year plan. Obviously, the further you get out of the trajectory, you
might have to adjust. But the three months so far, we're getting work
pretty consistently, so much so to the point where I gotta like move some
stuff around to get everything done, you know, in a good way.
Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. But like so you know,
it's just like it's just one of those things. This isn't. This
isn't Walmart to where like you know, you're open twelve hours or I guess
what I'm trying to say is like it's not like a consistent like oh,
you know, two videos every week. Like I went two weeks ago I
had no video shot, and then last week we shot seven. So it's
like, you know, it's like you had to get a stay moving.
You shot seven in one week. That sounds like I might have actually been
more. Yeah, with seven shot in a week. Yeah, that's right.
We had eight schedules and then one one back thought, so we had
seven video shot. We had to make fully recap, make fully meet and
great shout out to him, shout out to one last lace in Claremont,
new Hamshire having us out there to do that video. Nice guy, awesome
guy. Then we did birthday recaps. I think we shot four music videos.
We had a commercial. Yes, it's been it's been busy man.
Yeah, that sounds it. Uh, this might be a little bit of
a tangent, but obviously I have to ask you're in the jungle in Mexico.
Yeah, so I mean maybe I made that sound a little more action
adventure than I need to know. You ever, are you familiar with the
Chechinese pyramids? Not really, No, the Mayans and oh yeah, yeah,
of course. Anyway, very interesting. Uh it is literally the jungles
of Mexico. You know, it's a little touristy because it's like, but
it's way out there anyway, it's not like some you gotta go quite a
bit of travel to get there. So I'm a pretty I'm a pretty big
fan of history as well. It's just like the interesting how they made those
how they made those structures. So I'm gonna butcher this for this, Um,
I'm gonna butcher this. But where they where they played their games in
front of the government back then. If you stand in the middle and clap,
there is it's made of lime, I believe. If you stand in
the middle and clap, there are six echoes to the right and seven to
the left. And because it's six to the right, the reason it's six
to seven is because it was seven verse seven. But then the winner and
yeah, I know it sounds funny for people in America twenty twenty three,
but the winner, the captain of the winning team got beheaded or killed.
However, at the end of the game, so that's why it's a total
of thirteen not fourteen, is because they were basically honoring the person that died.
So I'm into that stuff. Yeah. Oh how long were you?
How long were you there the pyramids themselves? Was there a day? It
was in Mexico for a week. Oh you're there for a week? Yeah?
Wow? Was that your first? Was that your first trip there?
Or have you? Have? You got there multiple times? Because there's something
there is something familiar about this. I think we might have talked about this
before. I'm not sure. I mean, I travel a lot, but
as far as there, that's the first time I've been there. Oh okay,
gotcha, gotcha? Did you play any shows there or were you just
there to travel? No? I was just there to travel, man.
M I traveled so much in my twenties for music. I saw so many
things that I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and I'm grateful for that. Yeah.
So, for instance, in July, I'm trying to think last week
of June, the end of June into July, I was on the West
coast for two weeks, went to the Grand Canyon with the Tahoe you know,
in the same of time. I'll just wrap it up with saying that
I went to a lot of cool stuff, but I just like traveling for
leisure right now. Personally, Yeah, so no, that's cool. That's
cool. Um So, uh, what is your in terms of doing videos?
I mean, is there is there something you you enjoy more than anything
else? I mean, obviously you know you do you can do commercials,
and you know this and that. But are the music videos the kind of
the most rewarding thing that you do or or is there is there anything particular
that you really enjoy most about doing these videos? Color grading? So what's
that color grading? Color grading? Explain? Yeah, so when you watch
a movie, it's color graded. It doesn't come out of the camera like
that. Ye. So you know, I mean doing cool back and forth
and interesting transitions and yeah, I like telling stories, so personally, like
when I get going, you know, I can, I can do many
things, but I really love doing story videos. So for instance, I'm
I'm talking to somebody Thursday. Actually I got a meeting Thursday to talk about
shooting and directing a short film. So that interests me because I haven't done
a short film before. So if we can actually tell a story within a
music video, that definitely is rewarding. But yeah, color grading interests me
and it really has my attention right now because in my opinion, you know,
this is just me. There's a lot that goes into a video,
angles cuts actions, is the person on the camera actually conveying the emotion needed.
I mean there's a lot. So but for me, if you don't
have proper color grade, you're already at a deficit. So for me right
now, color grading is like really has my attention, and like it's kind
of like an unsung here in my opinion, because like this last so another
day, for instance, I spent eight hours just working on the color on
that thing. Straight up, I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and like
blow smoke, like, oh I got it done in two hours. I
spent eight hours coloring that video. Everything from the lights, everything from the
keying to the to the highlights, the midtone, everything, the skin,
the how we portray it. Just that's that's the way I can put it.
Color grading is one of those things unless you're talking to people who work
on film, like most people don't quite understand it. So I guess I'll
just wrap up that without going too far into the minutiae. Um, are
you surprised by the way or well, actually, let me asked the question
this way. Do you run into people who are surprised at that music videos
are still a thing? And if the question sounds odd, I'll explain.
There are some people, and I think probably a lot of people from my
generation and even some younger, who have this misconception that music videos are no
longer a thing, you know, because MTV doesn't play music videos anymore and
hasn't for probably a couple decades now. And so I find that I talk
to people who just assume that there are no music videos anymore. And sometimes
people are surprised if I tell them, well, actually, if you go
on YouTube music videos, there's really more music videos than ever. In fact,
somebody like if it's a major successful artist like Beyonce, for example.
I remember at one point she put out an album, I think it had
twelve tracks on it, and every single song had a video for it,
you know, and obviously they're on YouTube. You know, empty V probably
doesn't care or VH one, but they're on YouTube, and you know,
and they get millions of plays and whatnot. Do you ever run into run
into that where people are are you know, you're talking to somebody about doing
a music video and they're like, huh is that still a thing? Did
you ever run into that? My girlfriend actually really still make videos like and
she got me questioning because like, sometimes I got to step out of my
bubble, and I think most rappers, anybody in life needs to. I
think rappers really need to step out of their bubble because I think this rap
bubble is a real thing. These rappers rapping for rappers, trying to impress
rappers about their rapping to get support from rappers. But rappers don't support rappers,
right, It's so weird. They just need he as a freaking bubble.
But I said to say this. She got me thinking because you know,
she's um, she's a normal person. That's the best way I can
put it. She's not She's not one way tho. She's a normal person.
She sells insurance, sence third, So she got me thinking. So
I started looking it up, and I looked up Drake and he had a
video that was like two months old, and there was another artist things Postponed.
He had a video that was like two months three months old. And
I started looking up other rappers and other artists rather than yeah, really me,
those are still a thing and there's still there's there's still thrive, It's
still still a thriving piece of the pie. You know what I means?
Yeah, I think there I answer you a question. Yeah, yeah,
it happened one time, but it's only happened one time. Yeah. Does
that pretty much answer what you're asking. Yeah. I just think it's interesting
people's perceptions about that because I run into it and I think that I think
part of it might be I think there probably was a point where, you
know, maybe twenty years ago, but like before, like when MTV had
pretty much Sorry Matt, this is what I was trying to say, interrupt
you. What I was trying to say is like, obviously I see music
videos because I'm in the space right right like certain, but I was like,
I'm looking for like movers and shakers, and what I mean by that
is just what I said, Eminem Drake, Yes, Malone, I forget
the other bands I looked up as well, real movers and shakers. Yeah,
when they come into your town, don't have an event that day,
right, not talking about the people who can do an event and then three
shows are going on the same day, and everyone's competing for their little clicks.
I'm talking about real movers and shakers. Yeah. I stepped out of
my box to look at the real movers and shakers and they were still doing
them. So right, it's still still going strong. Yeah, yeah,
No, I was just gonna say, I think there was a period between,
like when MTV had pretty much stopped entirely showing videos, but before YouTube
had really come to be so dominant and prevalent. I think there was probably
a short space of time when people weren't doing a lot of videos because without
MTV and vh one playing them, or CMT Country Music Television, although apparently
they still play them. I only know that because of the recent Jason Aldean
think but because of but I think when when cable television basically stopped playing them
for the most part, and YouTube hadn't become so dominant yet. I think
in the early in the late nineties, early two thousands, there probably was
a point where there really just weren't a lot of videos being done. But
then, of course, with the emergence of YouTube. You know why not.
By the way, Chris is in the Facebook live chat from the band
Edgewise. They have a really cool video for a song called Revenge and very
very cool video. So um Alex Whiteley, our friend from the UK and
the chat room, made a comment an observation. He said, that's where
YouTube came into play. A good music video can change an artist's life.
Look at Little Dickie. His videos are years old and he's now in the
forefront of hip hop. I haven't kept up with him, but yeah,
that's interesting. So he played the game right, you know what I'm saying.
And yeah, you know, I'll always have allow have heart and music.
I always will. But my goals go beyond just music videos. I
always want to do music videos. Can I enjoy doing them? Yeah?
Um, I want to work in film. Well that's my vision. Well,
I was gonna I was gonna ask you that is that the long term
goal to to director or produce a probably direct right a feature film. Yeah?
You know what, man, I don't know if I have that specific
of a goal. I just want to work in film. Yeah, whether
that is just as a color grader, whether it's a DT director of photography,
whether it is that to direct the feature film, whether that's just to
go to director for this or that, like just in the space. I've
always been a man of many hats. So to just say I want to
direct a feature film, I think that's too specific. Like, yeah,
I'd love to direct a feature film, but yeah, like I want to
do I want to do a lot, man, Like I want to see
the reason, the reason I'm able to do this, because I wasn't just
sitting there like, okay, shoot my music video. Oh I don't new
ideas. No, I'm a man of a million ideas, but in fact
I got too many. That's why I can't sleep at night. Yeah I
understand. Yeah, Um, Now do you do you do you encounter people
who like, say, you're making a music video for somebody. Do you
encounter artists who remind you of you in that way? Do you ever encounter
anybody who asks a lot of questions and they kind of have that thing where
they want to learn because maybe they want to start doing this too, or
or do you run into really inquisitive artists like that? As far as film
that really not gonna lie, there is an artist out this way, Deebo,
why we've done a video for He's very inquisitive. As far as like
you know, that proverbial question of what to do, how to make it
um. So he's very inquisitive as far as like how to move within the
game, but as far as like people are inquisitive about mixing a song,
how to compress, when to add the right amount of reverb, how to
mix your ad libs, or how to do videos or how to book tool
you like? Not really, I don't think. And if I'm forgetting somebody
please forgive me. Yeah. Yeah, And have you have you worked primarily
with hip hop artists as far as the music videos, or have you worked
with any bands or anything? Yeah? Yeah, So I did a video
for this band Quincer songs called Mistakes. I think they're dropping it. Don't
quote me on the date, but they're dropping it later in August. So,
yeah, we've done a We've done a metal video. I got several
metal bands lining up for videos, but as far as like one that we've
shot, that's the only band so far. I actually, no, I
take that back. So it's the only music video I've shot for a band.
But you know, shout out to Clint pe Corps. I've done behind
the scenes promotional videos for him. He's an acoustic artist. Out this way.
Yeah, wait till three did a promotional video for them acoustic artists,
So you know we've done We've done a lot of work with various artists and
varying degrees. Excellent, excellent. And by the way, Jenny did share
the link in the chat room for fourth kind films. By the way,
what does the h what does the name mean? Where? Where does the
name come from? Well, I mean fourth kind is basically, uh,
basically a shape shifting shifting a fourth kind for you know, so you had
contacts from the third kind or whatever. So fourth kind is basically being that
can change shape and doesn't necessarily exist on this plane of universe y. And
I just feel like that's me. I don't want to. I got friends
that are in the film space. I got friends were in the digital creation
space, and they're always quick to take selfies with people and pictures with people
and pictures off. I don't want my ticture. I'll do it. Yeah,
someone's like, hey, can I get a figure? I'll do it,
But I don't want my face on nothing. I want to be in
the background, man, I want you know. So I'm on this.
I'm reading interview right now, it's clearly who I am and he played my
music. But long scale moving forward, like, I just want to be
in the background, man, I want my work to speak for itself.
Yeah. I don't want my work to be judged on any music I've ever
done. You know, Oh interesting? Interesting? Um, why why is
it? Because that's that's an interesting shift really well actually, and you did
use that word shape shifter because obviously as a rapper, you know you're and
I've seen you live and you know you're you're out front, and you're energetic,
and you're you know, you're very much visible, you know what I
mean. So this is this is really a pretty big change for you doing
doing what you're doing. Is is there anything that you attribute that too?
Or is it just getting older and evolving and just wanting to do different things.
I don't like people coming up to me in public. Yeah that I
do know that about you. If you're a fan of mine and you've done
in the past, or if you ever see me, feel free to do
it. Yeah. When I say I don't like it, it's not a
hatred. It's not a don't talk to me because I think I'm better.
Yeah, Yeah, you know, a lot of people mistaken my social awkwardness
as ego. It's not ego. I just I feel like if you don't
have something to say, don't say it too often. We've talked about it
before, Matt, we have. We Yeah, this is talk absolutely makes
me uncomfortable. Yes, yeah, I'm exactly. Yes, we have talked
about this before. Yeah, because I'm the same way. I was talking
about this recently on the show with somebody else too, because I'm very much
I'm an introvert, you know, I'm I'm I feel safest behind a microphone
or on a stage or you know, any kind of performance situation. But
yeah, I'm very awkward in person unless there although having the radio show has
been a huge advantage in that way, because now if somebody I don't know
does strike up a conversation with me, but they know me from the radio
show, we kind of have a jumping off point to have a conversation.
But yeah, like just like a random conversation with a stranger, And like
you said, it's not you know, it's not like something anti social or
anything. It's just awkward. Like I feel awkward in those moments, you
know, like if somebody said the breakoff is awkward, so like we're talking
and then the conversation will stop and I feel like we're done. I'm like,
look, this doesn't happen on a daily basis. I'm not eminem.
So that's why why I don't want to take myself Well, first off,
I don't want to be let me, let me start with the origin the
reason I'm not out here taking selfies on all these things. I don't like
selfies to begin with. Yeah, I think it's probably the second most narcissistic
thing you can do, next to having a wedding. But so unless you
got him and to shoot, then it's so good. But I want the
work to be the work. Yeah, Like, yes, I know,
interesting tactic to promote on social media. Yeah, but I'm not going to
be out here self being all over the place Like that's not the work that
man, my body, my body is just a vehicle to get this work
done. I don't need to take a picture of my body to get the
work done and speak. The work speaks for itself. Yes, yes,
yeah, I totally I totally get that, and I was really slow to
even do um, so I've kind of gotten used to it now. Jenny
encouraged me to do this. So now when whenever we have guests in studio
or at least musicians, I always take a selfie with the guest after the
show to post it, you know, to commemorate that they were on the
show. And you know, it's it's you know, it's important for social
media and generating interest and visibility for what I'm doing here. But um,
but it was. But I'm still like very awkward with it. I'm not
a naturally photogenic person, and um yeah, it is weird. I've gotten
used to it, but it's still weird, and I kind of had to
be dragged and convinced. You know, hey, this is important, you
know, for what you're doing any kind of a radio show slash podcast,
you really need to to, you know, take some pictures and you know
it. But it's, um, but it is awkward. We'll starting to
jump in man, like I kind of like, you know, I don't
always have you know, we're basically streaming right now, we're basically streaming our
thoughts. So maybe I didn't quite articulate earlier. He said, you know,
why did you move to the you know, his music on the Backburder
No music is not on the backburder. Yeah, but I also felt out
of love with the things I had to do to make money with music.
Now there's some rappers listening to this have been stuck in open mics for nine
years. They could probably yell at me at the comments. So I don't
do it for the love, yeah whatever, But at the end of the
day, the bank, the bank doesn't accept doing it for the love as
a payment, So right, I spell it a love with Just like the
selfieing, the NonStop trying to just I found myself becoming an avatar of myself
and that drew a further deep spiral depression than I ever could have imagined.
No kidding, Like where you started to feel? Did you feel like fake?
Like you were you were trying to be someone you're not, or trying
to present think anybody on social media? Let me rephrase this before I put
my foot in my mouth. I think a lot of people on social media
aren't exactly who they are in life in general. Sure say certain things on
social media they would never say in real life. Oh yeah, you do
things on social media they would never do in real life. And I'm a
human being, So I fell into certain traps of well, look, at
the end of the day, if my algorithms up, my product doesn't get
seen. If my product doesn't get seen, I don't get booked. If
I don't get booked, I don't make money. Right, So I found
myself doing these very like foulish tmzsh modern day reality television tactics that I don't
feel comfortable with that my age to still be doing understood. Yeah, I
totally get that. Totally get that, and I think that now. I
commend you, and I think you're showing real growth and evolution with what you're
doing now and you know, still making music, but with the videos with
Fourth Kind Films, I think it's great. I really support what you're doing.
And it sounds like you're having a lot of success with it too.
I mean, my god, seven videos in one week. You're you're clearly
doing something right. So well done. Man. I've known you for I've
known you for quite a while now, and I'm proud of you. How
long you have I known you? It's been it's been what sixteen seventeen years?
I think. I mean, I know it's funny, you know,
it's so funny. Man. Every time I go on this number keeps getting
crazier. I think it's like twelve or thirteen, but I think it's been
a twelve or thirteen. I think it's been a little more. I think
it's well, you know more than me. Man. You probably have all
the archives. But I'm pretty sure. And this is why I think that
because my first album, So, I dropped an album in high school,
but as far as like a real pressed album that I toured the country where
it was deaf by design. Okay, I remember, that's when I got
really serious about promotion and really serious about raiding reviews. And I'm pretty sure
our first interview was twenty eleven. Don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure
that was it. Yeah, I'm gonna go back and look. Okay,
yeah, maybe I'm not that old man. You're making me sounds too a
little bro. Dude, dude, I'm older than you. How do you
think I feel? No, I really think though, I really think I
interviewed you before twenty eleven. It's not possible. When did you start,
When did you start putting out music? I'm not saying it's not parting.
I don't think that's the case. Okay, all right, yeah you might
be right. I mean, I'm terrible at math, so I should probably
just defer to you. Still twelve years running, man, that ain't nothing
to Scott fat Yeah, yeah, you're true. You're still in business when
you say, I mean, hey, look at it this way. If
you weren't successful at what you're doing, I couldn't be on here for the
twelfth year. Oh that's you know what I'm saying. I like that.
Thank you awesome. Well listen, uh ka daver my friend. Uh it's
It's always wonderful to speak with you. And I'm gonna in a moment,
I'm gonna play another one of your songs. I'm gonna play that track,
never been There for Me. That's a favorite of mine. That's that's really
good. That's another video coming out. Oh, just so we're on the
Monsters I I heard you played earlier. Yeah, we're gonna have a video
with that dropping in a few weeks, a specific day, but a few
weeks. Okay, I've never been there for me. That's gonna be coming
out after Monsters and another Day drops tomorrow. You can check it out on
the Fourth Kind Films YouTube. You can check it on the Fourth Can Films
Facebook page. I'll also be setting up other pages like Rumble or any other
alternative anywhere you can watch video we're gonna have up. But as of right
now we're on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. The end of the day video
will also be available on um, the Kate Daver like page and uh fourth
kind of Films so Facebook dot com forward slash Kind Films. You can see
some of the work we've done so far, as far as the event recaps,
music videos, commercials. Feel free to contact numbers up on the Facebook.
You can message us do Facebook or you can do the number four th
Kind Films at gmail dot com. So Sports Time Films at gmail dot com.
But it's the number four th Kind Films, yeah, at gmail dot
com and we're just standing moving. Feel free to contact. We're taking bookings
as we speak. Excellent, excellent, all right, my friend again,
it is wonderful to speak with you. Congratulations on everything you're doing. I
think it's fantastic and we'll let you go, but we'll do this again soon.
We need to actually do this a little more often than we have been
because you're doing a lot of stuff, so we need to have you on
back again soon. But thank you again. For joining us today. Okay,
Daver, it's been been wonderful and uh and like I said, we'll
talk to you soon, my friend. All right, Matt, thank you
so much. Hi sir, all right, you got it? YouTube?
Bye bye? All right. That was Ka Daver Fourth Kind Films and we're
gonna hit this track. This is called never been There for Me the radio
edit of course, and then we'll be back with the balance of our show.
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Wm H rips the Normals. Welcome back everybody as we cruise in our
final segment today of Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios
of wm n H ninety five point three FM Inglorious 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 of your live streaming options,
social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. It
is Monday, July thirty one, two thousand to twenty three. Jenny is
here as well at the news desk. I am present and accounted for,
Yes, and thank you again to our friend kay Daver. I still I
dispute his man. I really think. Yeah, I think I interviewed him
as far back as two thousand and eight. I really do say I know,
but but I'm telling you because I remember, because I think the first
time I interviewed him was at Styling Souls, the hair salon where I used
to do hypnosis right here in Manchester. It's it's uh, it's not there
anymore, but I think that was before twenty eleven. I really do think
I've known him longer. But I could be rock but not no, but
I and I am bad at math. Yes, yes, but I've known
him a long time. Yes, I do know, very very talented gentleman,
but wonderful to speak with him and check out Fourth Kind Films and uh,
that video for Another Day drops tomorrow. I'm excited to see that because
I really like that song. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely and oh,
by the way, well we'll see if I don't know if you saw I
messaged oar I did see the group chat. Yeah, so we might get
Billy Painter who right now. Billy Painter, of course, saw from Iowa.
Oh I'm sorry, Idaho. Eric Pilcher is in uh In, Iowa,
Idaho. Billy Painter right now is in New York, New York state.
I saw. I wonder if he'll be in New York City's wearing one
of those attractive blue raincoats. Yes, why is he wearing that? Is
because he's at the Atagara Falls. Yes, they give you a blue raincoat
to put on sea. You don't get silken wet. I thought they gave
you a barrel. No, that's only if they don't like you. I
see. Yeah, that's very strange. If you're a Trump voter, they'll
they'll give you the barrel. Oh, well, it is New York.
I could help it. It's it's New York. It's it's a blue it's
a blue state, the first state to put criminal charges on Trump. Well,
and more to come. By the sounds of things, well, we
shall see. We see not a totally off topic thing here, but you
know what I just saw that flashed across my news thing, what leprosy is
rearing its head in Florida. Florida is having a a issue of a biblical
disease, leprosy. What have they done? State in the country sinned against
the humanity. It's definitely Florida. Oh my god. Yeah, lepersy could
be endemic in central Florida. Yep, you'll you'll see that in the news.
That's on top of the flesh eating bacteria washing up on their show,
Florida man loses limb, it falls off. Um, well, that's that's
unfortunate. Well, look where we're talking about here. John Valbee did a
song. It was something like yesterday, No, what was it? No,
it was leprosy. Everything is falling off of me. I'm not half
the man I used to be. Oh, why did I get lepersy?
Something like that Florida's New Thieves song. That's what they should have for a
state's song. Now, yeah, let's just face it. We should just
cut them off and let them float away. I don't know if there's any
salvation for a state that thinks that the Diary of Anne Frank is pornography.
By the way, Alex Whiteley in the chat room says, this is regarding
Kate Ever and I talking about you know, people coming up to us and
so forth. He said, I feel the same man, when people come
up to me in our complimentary about my show, I get all awkward about
it. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate it, though, Yeah, I'm like
that. It's very hard sometimes for people to accept positive praise. It's a
hard thing to not go oh no, wait, I mess this up.
I get. I get very if someone does that, I get. I
get very sort of aw shucks, you know, like really really like show.
Well I don't know about that, but I get I get very aw
shucks. Alex also said, just watched the video. Oh interesting, just
watched the video your guest did for debo and it slaps. I need that
Wu Tang clock in my life. I'm gonna have to watch that later.
Yeah, I want to know what that's talking about. What a slaps mean?
The young people say that it's slaps that like cool means it's good.
Yes, it's a compliments wicked. It slaps wicked, wicked cool, wicked
slaps excellent, dude. Uh um, I want to make sure we don't
miss anybody. New Force of the Spark is in the chat room of course.
Yes, hell and uh we say to you and new Force of the
Sark sparks as to Charles, good afternoon, hashtack, Charles, we said,
we say ninety eight degrees is a pop singing group of boy band.
Thank you for explaining a new Force of the Spark. I think it's Charles's
favorite band, ninety eight degrees. Yeah, oh, Charles said two.
I wanted to go back to this because it regards, you know, our
healthcare conversation earlier. Oh yeah, I thought medication. Yeah, Charles says,
my son almost didn't have adder all because they were out for a while.
It took a week to get it and it usually took the doctor to
call personally to get the med's re filled. Yep, yep, that's been
going on across the country. Yeah, this meds shortage is I personally believe
a direct result of this lean manufacturing to save money at the cost to However,
many lives die while they don't have meds, or have get sick or
end up in a hospital because they don't have meds. Yeah, it doesn't
have to be this way, but it is. The all on the almighty
dollar got to have that profit. Ronofevero said a little off subject, but
I pay fifteen hundred a month for three of my meds. Due to shortages
of the manufactured version, I'm forced to get them compounded. What does that
mean? Compounded compounded that's what I do for my Lotos Snell trucks On,
which means it's a specialty pharmacy that it is able to make the medication into
a peel form or a liquid form for you. That's what happens with the
Lotos Snell trucks On because the manufacturer who makes that med does not make it
in the low doses that are helping people like me and people with MS on
my alga. There's a lot of people who have been benefiting from LDN,
but they don't think they'll make enough profits, so they're not going to make
it in our dose. So we have to go to a compounding pharmacy to
get it made, and the insurance company is going to take a walk on
it because it's a compounded medication, So the insurance company gets to pocket your
premium. The pharmacy doesn't have to. I mean, the manufacturer just says,
you know, to heck, I'm not going to make it for you,
and you know you're just acceptable losses this might also be a little off
topic, but Isaac Banks says, hashtag Jenny Coffee and hashtag Matt Connerton.
I would like to give a shout out to Anna Paquin from True Blood.
Hi, Anna Pack, when how are you doing? Now? Wait?
Now, wait a minute. Huh No, she's an artist we had on
Uh no, you're thinking of uh no, Anna Pack? When is an
actress you're thinking of? Oh oh yeah, yeah, you're thinking of somebody
else, you know. I was thinking, yes, yes, But now
this will be great because if you get a message in your Facebook messenger from
Anna Paquin wanting to come on the show, now you'll know why A referral
from Isaac Banks. Yes, Alex, whiley says, can I call in
tomorrow? Night might be the last time I can for a while while I
settle into my new job. What. Yes, but we've got Yeah,
we've got a we've got a busy show tomorrow, We've got a busy week.
Yes, you do. Tomorrow at four thirty Starlight we'll be skyping in.
Yes. And then at five pm Jack Dolery will be skyping in from
the UK. Yes, And that's tomorrow. So my suggestion, Alex either
either hit us very early in the show or late in the show. Yeah,
just not in the middle. Perfect. So there you go, perfect
in the middle. So we have two musical guests tomorrow you do the Wednesday
you have Honky Cappuccino and then on Thursday of Mike Laughlin. And then on
Friday you have passed the ammunitions skyping in from Texas. Ah, yes,
quite the week. Well, with a name like Dassie Ammunition, you would
assume they were from Texas and they make sense that they would like to be
here in New Hampshire. What do you mean? New Hampshire is has a
positive atmosphere as far as gun rights are concerned, and we do happen to
have gun manufacturers also located in our state. Oh, and other industries that
work with that industry. So there's actually quite a bit of jobs in this
state. Oh, that's true in relation to firearms. That is true.
That is true. So yes, we should remind people to h oh Alex
whiley says, huh someone else skyping in from the UK? Yeah, dude,
right, the cheek of it I've been getting and and yes, I'm
We're very cheeky here. Yes, uh yeah, we've had actually quite a
few. Just last week we had a Lewis tivy. We've had the UK,
We've had Ireland, We've had Germany. Irelin's part of the UK.
But okay, but it's a separate entity sort of like what I know,
it's part of the UK. But I consider when I say UK, I
consider like more Britain versus Ireland. They are separated by a vast swath of
ocean. Just be careful who you say that too. Oh I'm saying if
some some some British people might not like uh, that's why I'm here.
Some Irish people might not like that. I don't know. Hear me,
He'll get mad, right, that's right? Oh my goodness. Yes,
it has been a very busy show and it's not going to get not you
know your week is all set. No, that's good, and you're booked
up a lot next week too. Lots of great artists. You have amazing
artists coming in from all across the country and right here at home we are
blessed with a plethora of some really great sound. Absolutely, we should remind
people too, because we have to wrap up in a moment but rapid.
The video is online. You spoke earlier at the event, Yes, at
the Protect Ourcare bus tour event that launched here in Manchester on its way across
the country to California. I believe they had like eighteen stops along the way.
You can see the video. It is live. It is up on
Facebook and the UA Tube and it will be up on my website in a
little while, which is Jencoffee dot com j E n n c O f
Fey dot com. You can also see when I spoke last week at the
press confidence and prior to that at the town hall that was held inside the
Senate Chambers of Capitol Hill. Yes. Oh, by the way, Alex
corrects me. Uh, Ireland is not part of the UK, but but
it is part of the British Aisles. This is all very confusing to me.
I don't understand, and I'm I'm Irish. I should I don't know
what that means, but it sounds bad. That's what I came home with
from the Netherlands. Oh, my goodness, my British buddy sot off.
But that but they say that in the Netherlands. Well, no, my
buddy's British, so he was British military. This is all. This is
so I'm so confused. I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
Yes, all right, they have territories kind of like US, Puerto
Rico, we will close. Does that make sense? Ireland is Puerto Rico?
It actually does make sense. Yeah, yeah, but it's I think
Puerto Rico should be a state. But we'll have that conversation another day.
I guess I don't know. I don't have any strong opinion. I think
it's the only way that we're going to get the rest of the country to
realize that they're in the country. Well that's true, people, Uh do
forget Uh we should Uh, I'm sorry, what were you going to say?
There was? There was There was the rental car company that wouldn't give
the guy a car unless he had a passport because he had a Puerto Rican
license and he said it was out of the country. The Guba didn't know
the Puto Rico is part of the United States. So make up a state
so we can end it, yeah yeah, or fix some American education so
people know. I'd rather make a a state and give them full voting rights
that they should have anyway, But that's just me. Yeah, all right,
all right, Well, I don't oppose that, but well, there
you go, agreement. All right, we gotta go. If you miss
any part of today's well I said, I didn't oppose it. I don't.
I don't, I don't have it. I don't continue this conversation later.
I don't. I don't know enough about the subject. Um. Oh,
Alex says in the chat room, Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
Republic of Ireland is not. This is becoming even more confusing to me.
Oh my goodness, I am so now. I'm really just there are
people that are for United Ireland. Yeah, yeah, all right, now
we definitely have to go because I'm getting a headache from all this geography is
kicking your but it is, it's not. It's not my friend. Math
and geography are not my friends. I don't blame me on the math geography.
I apparently am a little better than you. Earlier, I said Billy
Painter was from Iowa. I just have the potatoes in the cor No,
no sense of geography. All right, We're gonna play a little bit of
this track from Kdaverlocktin loaded. We won't have time for the full thing.
But if you miss any part of today's show. It we'll be up in
just a little bit at WMNH Radio dot org and in my website Matt Connerton
dot com. And I don't forget to be back bright and early tomorrow morning,
seven am for the Morning Show with Peter White. And that's gonna do
it for us. For now, we're out. I will talk with y'all
a little bit later. Bye everybody, Bye bye. Time is coming.
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