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M never remember remember what's on what
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they are meeting, says it's like
to call me lisabout lane. Why can't

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meet more like me? I like
to watch and oh do you say that

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name lay do day cloud Cloud.
It's all the same. It seems like

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yo'll find don't wayne jo Man corn
reals ain't great again, sir, dister,

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do the tow your way deal ain't
star dister. They don't know real

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walking walls and star dist but your
little sat may get small start dister,

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What send me doing that? Soul
sat? So show what cast? They

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cry at the schools in cases sitting
in my stone Deo, my cale's going

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on my old from some kids down
down wall yelling something like that. Jo

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see they ain'tways. They could be
like me. I don't keep their mass

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with my feet. The kids say
they just working on you always gunny stupid

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thoughts. I like, just be
an offense o writing out this one might

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know an sir dister got into your
way deal Sir and sir they don't know

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real working hold and star mister.
But you'll lot says, may get small

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star dister. I send me,
don't that's a sad So so what is

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the music through day? Isn't even
played by a way musicians? So aping

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you ne guitaris staying to me by
play mean So sir, d sir,

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don't into your way, sir diser. They don't know what you don't want

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to get, sir dist but your
lot sad may get small start dist say

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me do that, soul say so
shore say say let's say what they want

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want, We'll give what we got
got We turn in and they say we

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ever make it all the way,
but this dreams we havever made to stand.

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We trying to chase us doan Yeah, yeah you running with the win,

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sneaking out and my money, others
water round, shoot or I get

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some time in a bridge when the
time when stime we were just we would

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just kids can'ts We would just can'ts
can't make make make me your brother with

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blood blood through all the places we
run, run and the forever well they

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say we're spending time, but believe
in his state of mind we trying to

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chase us down. Yeah yeah you
will dancing on the bridge and we hide

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and you'll never tell what the dad
take your water mother, we're taking is

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to be because we didn't take that. We were just we were just kids.

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Kids. We were just kids.
Kids. Everybody's got time. Everybody's

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got a reason. Everybody's got a
time. Everybody's got a reason. Say

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say let him say what they want? Why this thing is so they be

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gonna gonna not Oh a good will
die you changing you jumping and rist and

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another time everybody wins at the time. Once stop. We were just we

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were just kids. Kids. We
would just kids. Can't we would just

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we were just kids. We would
just be with just kids. We would

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just we were just kids. We
would just we would just kids. Hello,

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Welcome everybody, Happy Tuesday. It
is that time again. Matt Connerton

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unleashed and we are live from the
studios of wm n H ninety five point

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three FM in glorious downtown Manchester,
New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven.

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If you're in Manchester and hello to
Oliver our online listeners across the nation

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and around the globe. You can
go to my website Matt Connerton dot com

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for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk

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show archives, et cetera, et
cetera. Today is a Tuesday, August

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eight, two thousand twenty three.
So quick programming note regarding today's show.

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So one of our guests is not
here, not going to be here.

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In the first hour, we did
have scheduled journalist Bob Henneley. He's a

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media guy from New York and he
hosts the show actually on w BAI big

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talk radio station in New York City. Bob was going to be here with

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us today via Skype, but something
has come up. He's got there's a

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nurse's strike apparently that he is covering
and he's in the thick of it there.

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So he let Jenny know he's not
going to be able to make it

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on today. After all. He
did apologize and we will rebook him,

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of course, because I was really
looking forward to speaking with him. So

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kind of a bummer, but you
know, there's always a million other things

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we can do. There's always plenty
going on in the news and so forth.

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So Bob Henneley will not be able
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unfortunately, but he will reschedule.
So really I am looking forward to speaking

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with him in the future. We
do have, however, in the second

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hour. Our musical guest today is
the band Best Not Broken. That's on

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You Us Heard Kids, which is
super catchy that actually all their stuff is

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to be honest with you. So
I'm really looking forward to meeting these guys.

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They're gonna come in live in studio
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Best Not Broken. We'll play some
more of their music, we'll talk

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with those guys, get to know
them. Really looking forward to that.

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And of course before that, to
open the show, we played a little

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Jerry and the Scumbags the new single
Hipster Dipster. We've played that a few

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times on the show. It's burning
up the charts, burning up the charts.

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Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live
chat and says, this song is

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great. I love Jerry. We
all love Jerry absolutely well. I know

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one person who doesn't, but the
rest of us do. So that guy.

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What a talent he is, you
know. And by the way,

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if he ever decides to leave music
behind and get back into podcasting, I

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think he could be the next Howard
Stern, the next rated our comedy star.

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Okay that's a little inside, but
it doesn't matter. And but the

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point is we love Jerry Robinson and
we love Best not Broken, Best Not

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broken. We'll be here in the
second hour of today's program. In the

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meantime, we'll see what other kinds
of trouble in shenanigans. I always stumble

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on that word. We can get
into today. Oh, Jenny points out

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regarding Jerry Robinson. I'm the T
shirt girl, just saying yes, yes,

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you were given that, and I
of course am the uh what,

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oh, what's the name of my
title for Jerry's rock and roll Army?

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Oh, Commander to the Supreme Leader
of Jerry's rock and Roll Army, which

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is very stious, prestigious. You
know, I never really thought of myself

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as a military man until I received
that particular invitation, and I said,

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that's an army i'd really like to
be a part of. So far,

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I haven't had to do anything,
and it's great. I love being part

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of Jerry Robinson's rock and roll Army. And of course, commander to the

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Supreme Leader. It just sounds you
know, it sounds powerful, and that's

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what I like. All right.
Anyway, six three two five O six

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zero seven. The studio line is
open and we already have a call.

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We'll see who's on the line here. Hi, Well, welcome to Matt

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Connorton unleashed. Is this allow Matt? So this says Jerry Robinson. Oh

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my goodness, Sherry Robinson, I
was just talking about you. I know,

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I love I love tuning in too, of course, my favorite commander

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to the Supreme Leader's radio show.
It's quite fantastic. Thank you, thank

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you. It's quite fantastic to be
the commander to the Supreme Leader. And

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I really appreciate that, Matt,
so listen. I'm just I'm so elated

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that Jenny took my offer to be
a T shirt girl to the Supreme Leader

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of rock and roll. That just
made my whole week when she accepted that.

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Yes, yes, it didn't take
her long to decide to accept your

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offer. She was very very excited. Yes, yes, it's been very

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good. I just wanted to give
you some updates on the music, of

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course, yes please, So you
know, I know we all got together,

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but h and we got some files
out of being sent. I still

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got to do some stuff in studio
Studio D of course, the largest,

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greatest studio. It's got the greatest
girth, of course, it's the best

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studio. Yes, I'm working on
a song right now. It is called

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selfish, self centered, and self
absorbed. And I'm also working on one

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called riding the units cycle with no
Seat down the bumpy Road of life.

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Boy, that's a that's a wordy
that's a very wordy title. Will any

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of that be in parentheses? Yea, some of it will, especially one

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called uh, You're just a squirrel
and then in parenthesies trying to get a

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not in my world. I've heard
that somewhere. Yes, that sounds great.

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I just you know, I think
it's something that I mentioned one of

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my previous videos. Of course,
uh, probably you know, it's just

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been great. How have you been
this week? So so far? Mess

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tho, Well, it's early,
it's only Tuesday, so you know,

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a lot can a lot can yet
go wrong, but we hope for the

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best, and we soldier on soldier
as and of course, uh you know

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Jerry's rock and roll army. But
yes, so far, so good,

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sir, Oh thank you that.
Yeah, that's great, that's great to

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hear. I hope that I see
Jenny's not in studio today, but I

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hope that that she is doing well, of course, And you know,

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all the great members of our bands, you know, you know yourself,

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you know Billy Painter Parent Pincher,
but you know, I just wanted to

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call give you some updates. I
also really appreciate you playing our song Hipster

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Dipster, by the way, which
is for free on my band camp page.

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If you look up Jerry and the
Scumbags, it is for free on

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a free download. You can download
that plus our great single I'm Demand Yes

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and Hipster Dipster. It's burning up
the charts. I saw it. I

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really appreciate that's saw a chart here
somewhere anyway. Yes, yes, it's

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somewhere. You know it's it's gonna
go platinum somewhere, probably in like that

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I don't know, like Bosnia,
Algeria. We got some connections over and

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dot that area of the world.
But yes, I just wanted to call

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off of you. Great wishes for
the rest of your week and rest of

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your day. All the best,
Jerry nights, Jerry bye bye. Oh

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wow. The Great Jerry Robinson.
Always wonderful too to hear from him.

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Such a such a nice man.
He's uh uh, he's a great,

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a great rock and roll are very
very talented, and it's wonderful to have

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that association with the great Jerry Robinson, and I'm telling you that that track

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Hipster Dipster. Yes, it is
actually uh in the UH the Bosnia,

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Algeria market. It is UH very
very successful. Also, I see Mike

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from Queen City Cabinetry in the Facebook
live chat. He was commenting the other

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day he saw it on a chart
in Tibet. It's a number one into

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Bett, I believe if I'm not
mistaken. There's a lot of inside jokes

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today. Sorry anyway, but if
you're new to the show, you're welcome

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to join the show and the inside
jokes. Six zero three two five zero

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six zoh seven. The studio line
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seven four four seven six. I'm
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can email me Matt at Matt Connerton
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so that we can hear and enjoy
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call at six oz three two five
zero six zero seven. Let's go ahead

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and say hello to everybody in the
Facebook live chat, and then we'll get

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into some stuff if you're just joining
us, But you did see the social

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media post earlier. Our guest for
this hour, Bob Henneley, has to

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reschedule. Journalist Bob Henneley from New
York. He's got he's covering the nurses

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strike and he's uh so he's he
has to focus on that at the moment.

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So, but we do have a
great musical guest coming up in the

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second hour, the band Best Not
Broken. We'll be here with us,

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and Shannon is on the line.
High Shannon, Hello, almost a good

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morning. Well it's morning somewhere.
Uh. What I wanted to say was,

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in case anybody isn't telling you.
I think Peter said this morning that

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the instead of channel ninety seven,
it is channel six. Now I didn't

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know that if well, unless he
was pulled on everybody's leg, I don't

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know, but he said that they
weren't on ninety seven anymore, they were

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on channel six. Oh, okay, I could be wrong. In case

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anybody's looking at ninety seven that ken
and doesn't see anything, or you know,

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just letting you know. Okay,
all right, all right, all

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right, thanks Shannon, Yeah,
all right, by bye, all right.

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I don't know. I mean,
I know there's gonna be some changes

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with that with the cable channels,
but if that is the case, no

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one has informed me, so I
don't know. Six zero three two five

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zero six zero seven is the number
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seven. Let's see. We will
say hello everybody in the chat here.

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Uh. Scott Robinson joins us and
says, well, hello guys, Well

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hello Scott. Also, Jenny is
in the chat and says shalom, peeps.

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Dylan Reynolds I mentioned, is in
there. Jay Fed, of course,

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from the Great State of Vermont.
I was reading about the health benefits

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of ice baths the other day and
I thought of you, Jay Fed.

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Melanie Liberty, of course, in
the Great State of Vermont. Hello Melanie.

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Miriam Mannish joins us and says,
Shenanigans is one of my favorite words.

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I used the term earlier, but
I did stumble upon it, which

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I felt terrible about. Oh,
someone is calling who I think can shed

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some light on the subject that Shannon
was just calling about. Hey, Joe,

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Yeah, this might be the answer. And I'm sorry you didn't hear

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about it. But in fact,
Jason and I this morning we're just we

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looked at the calendar and we go, wow, today's the day. Oh,

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I guess it should have been a
bigger deal. But Channel ninety seven

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is on six and Channel twenty three
Public Access is now on eight. Really

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that's why. Okay, yeah,
they and I think the big news is

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Channel nine is now on channel nine. Yeah, I remember so, Peter.

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Peter did mention something to me about
how that was going to be happening,

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which to me I didn't realize because
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years they were on obviously forever they've
been on twelve because of because of interference

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by analog channels. But we no
longer have analog channels anymore, so they

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can put it wherever they they want, and now they've got their nine back.

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Yeah, okay, well that's good. But what's really good is so

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this is on channel six right now, is what you're saying, Channel six.

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That's pretty cool. Actually, that's
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what the weird thing is they're mapping
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not happen all at once. For
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and love, was still watching Jerry
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us were watching you know, TV
fel Mes. So it's not it's not

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quite done yet, but it will
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Oh, very cool, very cool, all right, great to know.

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I'm just excited that we're on channel
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likely to school. Yeah, it's
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guess, oh yeah, number yeah, that's a big swing. No,

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I love it. That's great.
All right, Joe, thank you so

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much for sure. All right,
Joe, thank you, alright, by

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bye bye bye, all right,
the great Joe Lar and Joe. By

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the way, I mean this,
this W M and H would uh likely

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not exist were it not for Joe
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of a lot more credit than I
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guy anyway, but but he deserves
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to do here. But that's cool. So Shannon, you were right.

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Joe Larre confirms it. We are
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cable. That is pretty cool because
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is when people are people who have
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They're a lot more likely to see
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say, oh my goodness, who's
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thing, because lunacy is ratings.
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executive ice to know. I totally
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hear a different saying today. I
learned a new expression today, not much

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meat in the bun. But I
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so you might never hear me use
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a little bit, anyway, the
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now on Channel six here in Manchester
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Thank you again to Joel Lar for
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was very confused, but apparently this
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development. So Miriam Banish in the
chat room says, thanks Joe Lar,

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I love WMNH and MPT. Yes
yes, Oh. Sepsis joins us in

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the Facebook latch at great band of
course and close friends of ours, and

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Jenny and I of course will be
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more details when it gets closer,
but Swarmy Fest coming up in November at

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Jewel Nightclub. But Sepsis says,
who remembers continental cable vision? I have

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heard of continental cable vision now see
I actually, oh, by the way,

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so the whole channel nine thing to
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have lived in Manchester for you know, because there's people in Manchester who grew

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up here. Obviously apparently in Manchester, Channel nine used to be on channel

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twelve here in Manchester, and that's
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on cable. You know, you
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you know, the numbers don't always
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and conquered, and in conquered channel
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I I to me, it's nothing
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new thing. But that's good for
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into place. Mike from Queen's City
Cabinetry says, in Rhode Island, we

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say uh much not meet in the
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confusing. Mike and by the way, and of course Mike from Queen's City

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Cabinetry and one of our co hosts
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why I don't go to Rhode Island. They have all kinds of confusing expressions

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there, and I don't know what
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talking a different language. It's crazy. Uh. Let's see. Miriam Banish

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says, reminds me a little of
Gilbert Godfried, and I assume she's referring

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to our friend Jerry Robinson. Boy, how about those song titles. Huh

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again, it's a little inside,
but we we like it if you know,

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you know. Oh, Melanie La
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Godfried. No, Gilbert Godfried though, boy he was he was very funny.

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I was sad when he passed away. But no, Gilbert Godfried add

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more of a little bit, more
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friend Jerry. Uh. Let's see. Oh and freeband Prince great hip hop

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artist from Florida also joining us in
the Facebook live chat. Hello, let

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me give out the studio line again, especially for our viewers on Channel six.

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This is amazing. If you're just
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unleashed here at WMH ninety five point
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five six zero seven is a studio
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zero seven. Uh, we should
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if you are just joining us,
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But in the meantime. Oh,
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caught my eye, not particularly of
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mayor catches over one million dollars of
cocaine during a fishing trip in the Florida

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Keys. Now, this uh,
quite quite shocking to me. I didn't

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know that you could go fishing for
for that. Maybe maybe the mayor didn't

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mean for that to happen, you
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uh, I remember watching Miami Vice
and not seeing anything. You know,

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they were of course Vice narcotics,
Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. I

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don't remember what their actual names were. I never got into that show.

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My dad liked that show a lot
when I was a kid. I never

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really got into it. But but
then again, that was Miami. This

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happened in Tampa. So maybe if
it had been Tampa vice, Uh,

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you know, they would have had
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they're fishing, maybe they're there,
they're Oh, Sonny Crockett. That's the

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name of the character, And now
it's coming back to me. Sonny Crockett's

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the name of the character that Don
Johnson played, Oh Crockett. And Tubbs.

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Tubbs was the other guy. I
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Media reports a family fishing trip off
the Florida Keys yielded an out of

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the ordinary catch, several blocks of
discarded cocaine over a million dollars worth,

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but the person who recognized it was
none none other than the mayor of Tampa,

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Jane Caster. Reporter Olivia George of
the Tampa Bay Times recounted the story

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of how Castor and her family came
across the unexpected stash. There was something

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in the water, black and bobbing. The package adrift in the Atlantic caught

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the eye of a family enjoying a
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a Sunday in late July. Hey, look at that, said Kelly Castor,

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a sixty one year old boating enthusiast
cocaine, replied his older sister,

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Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, as the
package came closer, speaking with the assurance

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of someone who spent three decades in
the Tampa Police Department, including about eight

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years in narcotics and six as police
chief. Not just cocaine, but seventy

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pounds of it, according to US
Border Patrol, who also placed the street

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value of the find at one point
one million dollars. Ever, the former

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cop Castor recorded the location where they
fished the cocaine out of the water on

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her watch before they lugged it on
board the boat she and her family were

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riding. Once they were on dry
land, Mayor Caster, who along with

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her brother was accompanied on the trip
by her son and his girlfriend, called

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up the Monroe County Sheriff's office to
report the cocaine, which was then taken

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away by federal agents. The hall
made the Miami Herald as well as the

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Twitter account it's x now and It's
not Twitter anymore of US Border Patrol agent,

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while a slasser who posted a photo
of the cocaine bricks, identifying only

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a recreational Boater as having found the
cocaine. Castor was only identified by The

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Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday as being
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After turning in their initial catch,
Castor and her family continued their trip

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to much success, spending quote the
rest of their vacation diving and fishing,

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catching no more drugs, but about
sixty lobsters unquote. That must seem I

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mean, I know, you know, people like to go fishing for lobster

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because you can eat lobster, of
course, But I mean after catching all

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that cocaine, I mean, where
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Everything after that just seems kind of
tame, doesn't it. Wow, isn't

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that that that movie A River Runs
through It? Isn't that what that's about?

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Catching? Catching cocaine on your fishing
line? I don't know. John

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Hopwood joins us in the Facebook live
chat and says, a million dollars ain't

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what it used to be. Mike
from Queen City Cabinetry says it's all in

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what you use for bait. Well, apparently, and Ronda Fervero from the

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Great State of California joins us in
the Facebook live chat. Uh, let's

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see in other news now speaking of
let's look at this because I mentioned,

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oh, by the way, before
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there's Trump's stuff now. He's making
claims about uh Fannie Willis having an affair

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with a gang member. It's just
crazy stuff. I'm just I'm just not

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up for it today. If you
listen to yesterday's show, when I was

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talking about TFS settling in Trump fatigue
syndrome, I actually wasn't kidding. I

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was so not kidding that when it
probably sounded like I was joking when I

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said I was on the verge of
a panic attack just trying to keep track

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of all the Trump legal stuff in
my head, I actually wasn't kidding.

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Like I actually was not kidding.
I will confess that now I really did

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feel one coming on. So I'm
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not doing it today. We're not
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there's new developments in the legal sagas
there are every day. I just I

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can't do it. I'm overwhelmed by
it. And it's not like it's not

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like if we don't cover any Trump
stuff today, there won't be opportunities in

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the future like tomorrow or the day
after or the day after or the next

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week or whatever, because this is
all going to be going on for a

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very long time. So I should
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six, I should tell you if
you're enjoying the show and you're thinking,

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oh, I wonder if he's going
to talk about the latest Trump news.

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No, I'm not. I'm taking
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I need a break. Trump has
burned me out. Part of it is

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I think I need to figure out
a way again. Yesterday, I just

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I wasn't. Jenny and I both
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we're talking about this and we're we
can't keep it all straight in our heads.

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You know, the Egen Carol lawsuit
and the countersuit, and there was

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news about that yesterday, and oh
my god, I just I can't do

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it. So instead, let's look
at this, because this came up Twitter,

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which is now X. CNBC reports
today Elon Musk's X aims to win

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back advertisers with brand new safety technology
deal. Some bullet points. X said

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that its signed an exclusive partnership with
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I don't care, I just realized
I don't care about any of this,

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so we're gonna we're gonna x that
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am fascinated by you know, we
do talk about social media on the show

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and online media and so forth,
and I've been just fascinated, as I

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know we all have, by watching
Elon Musk try to figure out what to

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do with Twitter, and then all
of a sudden one day I sign on.

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And I don't use Twitter a lot. I use it mostly just to

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promote the show. To be honest
with you, my first social media platform

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of choice is Facebook. I use
Facebook more than anything. But it was

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odd the first time after the change
when I logged onto Twitter and I see

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this X, and I have to
tell you, by the way, not

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to nitpick. And what do I
know, Elon Musk is a billionaire.

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I'm just me. I'm just a
guy sitting here running my mouth. But

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I have to say, when I
open that you are l and I see

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the X logo up here on the
screen. It looks a little cheap to

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me. And look, I am
a web designer, so I know a

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little something about making things look nice. And I don't know, it looks

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like it just you know this X
appears this Uh you know the way it

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loads, it's kind of cheesy.
It looks like Windows ninety five or something.

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the Twitter and then everything else is

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the same except for the logo.
But it's just it looks cheap. I

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don't I don't get it. I
don't get it. Melanie asks a question

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about is there one particular instance where
I might speak about Trump? And I'm

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not comfortable reading that question on the
air, but that is funny and the

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answer is yes, Melanie, if
that did happen and I would talk about

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it, However, I would have
to speak about it in code. I

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wouldn't. I wouldn't want to be
a graphic. It is afternoon drive after

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all. Uh. Let's see now, I wanted to. Let's look at

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this. If you've been following Ron
De Santis, who, of course the

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governor of Florida and anti woke enthusiasts, he's been in New Hampshire a few

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times now. I think he's had
a big campaign shake up. This has

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just happened. Uh. In fact, Politico as an updated story to Santis

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replace his campaign manager as he struggles
to catch up to Trump. Uh see,

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we can't. We can't avoid Trump
entirely today, but we're talking about

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de Santis. The focus is De
Santis with this, Yeah, Trump will

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figure in. Trump has to figure
in. By the way, I still

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think Trump is not going to be
at that debate in Milwaukee, that I

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am sure about. But yes,
there has been a campaign shake up at

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Ron De Santis campaign. By the
way, I think people are making perhaps

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a little bit too much of it, only in the sense that it's interesting

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because it's political news. This is
a presidential primary campaign cycle, so it's

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all interesting to talk about, which
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I don't think it's that unusual.
It seems to me that campaign shakeups are

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not unusual in a presidential campaign,
especially one that's struggling that was expected to

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do better. Apparently, the De
Santis campaign has been burning through cash very

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quickly and is not getting any real
traction. You know, he's supposed to

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be the challenger to you know,
the biggest quote unquote threat to Trump.

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I'm not going to be able to
avoid Trump completely. It's impossible. He's

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ubiquitous, but again, I will
We're not making him the focus of this

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conversation. This is about Rhonda Santis
or tiny D, one of Trump's nick

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00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,360
names for him, iron to sanctimonious. Oh my god, it really is

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00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:07,800
impossible to avoid Trump. Oh policies
in the Facebook live chat and says hey

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guys, hello Paul of course from
Retrospectrum Media with policy and also astronaut Viacom

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is in the Facebook live chat and
astronaut Viacom says, what's with Trump?

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We said, no, Astronaut Viacom, I'm trying to avoid Trump today.

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I'm trying to avoid and I'm already
failing. So these campaign shakeups are not

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unusual. But the problem with Ron
de Santasis campaign is so he was supposed

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to be he was expected to be
the biggest threat to Trump, but of

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course Trump is a head by like
forty points. So now he's getting desperate

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and to try to figure out a
way to reboot and course correct. But

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I don't think this campaign shakeup is
going to help unless he's willing to do

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a couple of things that he probably
is reluctant to do. But we have

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a call. Hi, Welcome to
Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's us? It's

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your old pal John c. Hotwood. The sea stands for super stilious yes,

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which starts with an S. We've
talked about that, Hi, John,

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Well, the Russians sage, and
Oh, I support Bobby Kennedy Jr.

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Which means I'm a putin. Duke
McCarthy, I plan. Oh my

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00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,960
goodness, speaking of Bobby speaking Aboubby
Kennedy Jr. I have a question.

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Have you ever seen the film Thirteen
Days? Yeah, no, but I've

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read about it. I don't like
to watch like historical hysterical films. Thirteen

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Days, Eric historical films. Thirteen
Days is so good. That's about Kenny

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00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,639
O'Donnell. Yeah, well, it's
about the Cuban missile crisis. But Kenny

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O'Donnell is played by Kevin Costner and
is the main character in the film.

435
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:55,159
Uh. Bruce Greenwood plays JFK.
And it's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, very

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00:37:55,239 --> 00:38:02,480
fine Canadian actor. Yeah, Stephen
Culp plays Bobby Kennedy and Jenny had never

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seen it. I've seen it a
number of times. It's one of my

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top five favorite films of all time. I love that movie. I love

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00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,000
I love anything involving the Cuban missus. It's really good. John because it

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is really good. I recommended.
The problem I have with Kevin The only

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problem I have with Kevin Costner is
that my friend Jocelyn used to live him

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00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:28,480
over his garage and uh, there's
some bad blood there. So you know,

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00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:30,159
well I have to hear that story. What do you mean, why

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00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:35,800
is there bad blood? You'll hear
that one. Oh is that kind of

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00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,960
story? Okay, I'm awfully curious. Yeah, it's just it's just one

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00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:44,400
of those things. You know,
her boyfriend at the time, Rose sub

447
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,280
dances with wolves and won the Oscar
and uh, there's too much to talk

448
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,400
about it. It's it's it's it's
all right to name drop in New York

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00:38:55,519 --> 00:39:01,440
City or la uh in Manchester.
It's very vulgar. Although I am going

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00:39:01,519 --> 00:39:08,239
his name dropped because we're going to
talk about campaign shakeups. M Yes,

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00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:15,599
the name I have to drop as
my late friend Bill Cashion, who was

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very close. So yes, he
was consider They called him the Kingmaker and

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00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,679
he used to be the head of
the whole operation there. But he was

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one of those New Hampshire politicians that
every presidential candidate has to go see every

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New Hampshires. The New Hampshire primary
there are certain people that you have to

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go see. The Democrats Lu Dallasandro, every Senator Lu Dallasandra from Manchester,

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00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,480
everybody has to go see him.
Yeah, you know, you have to

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course them. And Bill cashions with
then the chairman of the board of the

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Manchester Board of Mayor and all the
and like a twenty foot portrait there in

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00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:07,400
the chamber is one of those people
they had to see. I met.

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00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:15,039
That's I spent an hour with Joe
Biden at Bill Tugs one day with our

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mayor, former Governor Lynch. What
year was that the way campaigns go,

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00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:27,360
what year year? They would have
been twenty nineteen, okay, because you

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know the Hampshire primaries early he was
not the Vice president Biden and I've talked

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about meeting Biden before. Ye,
So he talks, he comes off the

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better. He's one of those people
like Hillary Clinton comes up better in private,

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00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,559
although there's not much difference, as
I don't know if Biden's like nah,

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it's like meeting Bill Clinton. Now. Bill Cashion, one of the

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reasons to call the Kingmaker was central
to Bill Clinton's campaign in nineteen ninety two,

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and he actually came on. He
told Bill Clinton that after the Jennifer

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Flowers scandal that you've got to claim, you know, on election night,

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if you come in second, that
you actually want, which he did.

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Bill didn't come up with the term
to come back kid, though, I

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00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,519
have no idea who that is.
Oh I have a theory. I have

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00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:37,639
a theory about that. I think
Bill Clinton probably used that back when because

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if you remember when Bill Clinton was
governor of Arkansas, he served a term

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and then he got voted out,
and then the next term he ran again

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and got voted back in. So
he had already been the comeback kid back

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in Arkansas. Now you know I
was. Bill was not a person that

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talked a lot lot. You know, we did talk a lot because the

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twenty sixteen primary, Hillary started running
and I can't tell you a lot about

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that. Botsaul Danny O'Neill, who
used to be the chairman of the board

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00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:14,800
who built Bill Cash that was kind
of like his success or, told Tony

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00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,400
stories about because he was brought into
the Clinton campaign it was the beginning of

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his career. And he said,
and Bill Cash was about five foot five,

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,400
you know my size, and Bill
Clinton was six foot three. I

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00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:34,599
met him many times, and Danny
O'Neill, who was a big, big

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00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,440
guy. I remember Danny O'Neill was
trying to hug me once and I thought

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I was gonna he did try to
hug me about Oh my god, I

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00:42:39,199 --> 00:42:43,880
thought I was gonna get to six
feet because he's a big guy. And

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00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,719
he said, John, you should
have seen it was just something, you

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know, it was some victory.
I think that the time we defeated a

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certain mayor. We're gonna get into
that. But Danny was saying, John,

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00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,760
you should have seen it. After
the Jennifer Flowers, uh, you

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know, blew up and everybody was
all torn out in the seat over what

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was going to happen. There's Bill, you know, a foot a foot

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shore of the Bill Clinton, and
he's pointing his finger into Bill's chest and

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00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:27,039
saying, you were only going to
campaign in the corridor on ninety three Nashua

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Manchester concert, remember that Nashua Manchester
conquered. Don't listen to these people,

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00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,920
you know his campaign advices. Don't
give a damn about Portsmouth. Portsman's gonna

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,039
vote you know, gonna vote Democrat
anyways. You don't care about the North,

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you don't care about the West.
You care about these three cities are

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00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,159
you are you talking about in the
are you talking about in the primary or

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00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:58,239
the general election? Yeah, in
the New Hampshire primary, that's what I

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00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,519
thought, because that's what I thought. But then you said the thing about

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Portsmouth and they're going to vote Democrat
anyway, and that threw me, right,

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00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:09,360
you don't You don't, well,
yeah, exactly, because that's true.

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00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:13,480
They're probably gonna what he meant was
probably gonna vote liberal, right,

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00:44:14,559 --> 00:44:19,440
and Bill was a conservative moderate.
Yeah, I don't know who the liberal

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was, and that maybe Songes.
Well, Paul Songis, I mean,

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00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,480
he was ever everybody knew. I
mean, the way I remember it,

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The reason Bill Clinton could claim victory
was because everyone knew Paul Songis was going

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00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:35,239
to win anyway, because even though
he's from a border state, he had

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favorite son status effectively liberal from Massachusetts. My candidate. I voted for him.

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00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,159
Oh my friends, Uh, some
of my friends who you know,

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00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:50,920
wouldn't vote for him because they thought
Paul song Which was lying about his cancer,

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00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:54,559
which turns out he actually still had
the cancer. Really, you know,

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00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,719
you know, people who thought he
was actually thought he was lying about

519
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:04,039
that. Wow. Well yeah,
because you don't you know, we won't

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00:45:04,039 --> 00:45:07,639
get into cancer. Cancer has a
tendency to come back. He did with

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00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,239
my father. Yeah, and uh, you know, you go into remission.

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But it's important to know. In
nineteen ninet two, Bill Clinton listened

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to a local candidate, I mean
a local politician who knew every This guy's

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00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,840
Bill Cashi knew more about politics.
I remember saying that I only thought to

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00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,079
Buden, this guy knows more about
politics than anybody I've ever met. And

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00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:36,760
well, I didn't mention the name
Howard jim through Joe Biden sea Might before

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00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,760
he became Looke. It might have, you know, seam Might accounts ears

528
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:45,079
here about that old Brandy but that
somebody you associated with Bernie Sanders, right,

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00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:52,119
But okay, so that is nineteen
ninety two. The thing was,

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00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:57,760
you want you ran a campaign to
win in New Hampshire, you get close

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00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,360
to the people. I remember John
Hudson saying, people tell me because when

532
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:07,840
John Huntsman I covered him. I
actually crossed the line and the party line

533
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,400
and voted for him in the primary
because it was so impressed by him,

534
00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:15,400
even though he didn't have my politics. But Obama was not a policy.

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00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,679
I'm mad of Obama for assassinating US
citizens without the court, the order or

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00:46:20,679 --> 00:46:25,840
anything. I like. I like
John Huntsman as well. He's talked about

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00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,559
him the kind of labels with a
mansion. But getting back to the campaign,

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00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:38,360
he Bill Clinton listened to the local
people who knew what was going on.

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00:46:38,679 --> 00:46:44,000
They knew the pull. Nobody knew
more about politics than Bill Cash and

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00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:50,760
nobody knew more about Manchester or you
know, the Democratic Party even rended body

541
00:46:51,639 --> 00:46:55,920
and they and he'd be sitting with
him and the call come, oh hello,

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00:46:57,119 --> 00:47:00,960
governor, and he had Bill Clinton
on his the cell phone actually called

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00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:07,239
each other Billie's. Because that's twenty
sixteen. In twenty sixteen, you had

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00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:13,119
Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton had a
bunch of kids running her campaign from you

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00:47:13,199 --> 00:47:17,239
know, from the elite universities.
That this is what this is a big

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00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:22,360
trend too, where campaigns are run
by these technocrats. Because Jimmy Carter was

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00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:28,599
the first person actually that we remember
using somebody like that in Pat Cadell is

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00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:32,159
that it was his name, the
oh yeah, statistics guy, the polling

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00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:37,760
guy. Yeah. The thing is
she was not using any vocal people.

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00:47:38,079 --> 00:47:44,440
She's using kids that were driven by
statistics, by online you know, you

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00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:49,280
wouldn't even take the computer base that's
online. And you know, Bill say,

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00:47:50,199 --> 00:47:52,519
it's following the campaign because Obama is
coming out of nowhere, you know,

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00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:59,079
and uh and is topping the poles. And he says, this is

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crazy to use these kids. She's
not making any connection with vocal and uh,

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00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:13,639
I'll tell you what. The day
before the primary, over on the

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00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:20,760
west side on Kelly Street, there's
a French Canadian giant Shvashaw and it's famous.

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00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,320
You go in there and there's pictures
of every presidential candidate you know,

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00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:29,280
back to like nankteen seventy two,
and they're famous for their do you call

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00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:37,119
putin pittine whatever, it's French Canadian
French fries with gravy. Vica came when

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00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:38,960
she was visiting me. I took
her there and she said it faced like

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00:48:39,639 --> 00:48:43,960
vomit. But you know it's a
local specialty and a lot of people like

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00:48:44,159 --> 00:48:49,519
it. Bill Clinton loved it.
So we're having a meeting over at Shiva

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00:48:49,559 --> 00:48:53,960
Shan it's before Hillary that dip little
the day it's the last day the primary,

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00:48:54,639 --> 00:49:01,880
and she is going to go campaign. But they're waiting and they're waiting

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00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:07,519
for Bill Cashion to come. I
had to go I can't go into becausement

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00:49:07,559 --> 00:49:12,719
start. But finally Bill shows up
and Bill, I'm sitting with Danny O'Neill,

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00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:21,000
Bob Backus, who you well now, who's Harvard educated lawyer but probably

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00:49:21,119 --> 00:49:23,719
the only true liberal the entire city
of Manchester before, you know, the

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new generation of people. And I'm
sitting with Bill, Bill, Bill,

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00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:37,760
Bill Barry too. We're all sitting
and Cashion is sitting with the ghosts and

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00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:45,239
sits on with Hillary and Bill Clinton
at just these you know, in the

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small restaurant at just the regular table. And then Danny, being the chairman

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of the board, like you know, the particular head of the Democratic Party

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00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,800
matches, goes and sits with them. And I'm looking at them. And

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00:50:00,159 --> 00:50:01,960
at the time, they took a
picture of everybody and they cropped me out

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00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:08,840
of it national They had Bill Berry
backets, but since I was on the

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side of Danny was sitting and he
left, I guess there was nobody sitting

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behind next to me, so they
cropped me out and that went the New

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00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:22,639
York Times national photo. But I'm
looking at Bill Cashing and he has remember

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00:50:22,679 --> 00:50:28,440
those eyes when you met him,
those eyes that you know used to make

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00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,760
I guess all theaman have bowel movements
from the Britches if he gave him that

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00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:39,480
a look. You know, he's
looking at Hillary and he's pointing and he's

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00:50:39,559 --> 00:50:45,360
talking, you know, and her
and Bill are looking at him intently.

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00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,119
And what he told me later,
he says, you can't rely on these

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00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:54,840
kids. You've got to you screw
it up. You have to do both.

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00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,920
You have to listen to the vocal
people. You have to use the

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00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:02,639
vocal people. That's why you're failing. And you know, this was a

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00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:09,239
guy that helped Bill. You know, people need to know. In the

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00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:14,119
New Hampshire primary, a lot of
people came in second and who considered victors.

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00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:20,199
Eugene McCarthy came in a close second
and LBJ the who was sitting president.

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00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:22,239
No, you know, that was
the end of it for him.

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00:51:23,639 --> 00:51:30,000
George mcgobern came in seconds to the
senator muskie from Maine, who was considered

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00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:35,679
the front runner because he's been the
vice presidential nominee with Humphrey in sixty eight.

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00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,559
He wins the nomination. You know, coming in a close second can

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00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:45,000
be a victory. But here's a
guy that helped Bill Clinton. When the

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00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:52,639
primary become president and uh, you
know what happened after the New Hampshire primary.

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00:51:52,960 --> 00:52:00,440
Bernie Finders won an overwhelming victory in
twenty sixteen, and they shook up

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00:52:00,519 --> 00:52:05,119
the They immediately shook up the campaign
staff and they went but you know,

599
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:09,360
Hillary being Hillary, she went more
to the DNC huh right, professionals,

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but not not kids that she can
control. She took on like equals because

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00:52:15,119 --> 00:52:20,519
you remember at the time they were
saying that she wanted to distance herself from

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00:52:20,559 --> 00:52:25,079
her husband's campaign. Yeah, former
you know, campaign apparatus and people to

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00:52:25,159 --> 00:52:31,440
be your own person. That worked
out great for Algor Yeah well John,

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00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:37,199
Yeah, we gotta go, We
gotta go. And it happens, you

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00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,920
know, people shake up their campaign. Yes, they have some more tales

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00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:44,360
to tell. I'm taking up too
much of your time. Yeah, we're

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00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,800
coming up on the top of the
hour. We've got some musical guests coming

608
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,960
in. I think I think I
see musicians in the hallway, So we

609
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:57,039
will we will have to move along. But I appreciate the call. Yeah,

610
00:52:57,119 --> 00:52:59,599
I'll see soon. Take care,
all right, John, thank you

611
00:52:59,679 --> 00:53:05,519
bye. But all right, that
was the great John Hopwood And yeah,

612
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,480
de Santis, you know, we'll
see again. We'll see if he changes

613
00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:15,559
direction. I mean, if I
were, if I were run to Santas's

614
00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:17,480
new campaign manager, that the two
bits of advice I would give him,

615
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:22,760
neither of which I think he would
take. One is I would tell him

616
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,840
he's gonna have to start going at
Trump, like really going at him,

617
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,840
because if if you know, he
and some of the other candidates, some

618
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:36,480
of the other candidates on the Republican
side here, it seems like they're sort

619
00:53:36,519 --> 00:53:40,840
of on this dual track where they're
all where they're they're opponents of Trump because

620
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:46,280
they're running against him for the nomination, but simultaneously they're also surrogates for Trump

621
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:51,960
because they're also kind of talking about
how great he is because they don't dare

622
00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:54,840
upset the megabase. Obviously there are
exceptions like Chris Christie and so forth.

623
00:53:57,159 --> 00:53:59,920
But uh, you know, I
would say to de Santis, look,

624
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,400
you're number two in this race.
You're the guy who is supposed to be

625
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,719
able to beat Trump. Maybe you
should start campaigning like that's what you're actually

626
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,440
trying to do. And DeSantis,
you know, he'll be somewhat critical,

627
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:13,159
but he doesn't like to say Trump's
name and tries to avoid that if he

628
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,400
can't. And the other thing I
would the other bit of advice that I

629
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,360
would have for Desantist again, if
I were as campaign manager, I would

630
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,559
say, and there's already been a
slight change with this anyway, but I

631
00:54:22,599 --> 00:54:27,519
would say, no more with the
you know, anti woke stuff. Your

632
00:54:27,599 --> 00:54:30,880
answer to every single question and every
media interview should not be well, we

633
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:36,920
have to do something about wokesm Don't
get me wrong. Obviously, there is

634
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:42,199
a large segment of the Republican Party
of Republican voters to whom that appeals.

635
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,039
They love the culture war stuff,
they eat it up. But I think

636
00:54:45,079 --> 00:54:47,360
there's also a large and there's polling
data the shows this, there's also a

637
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:52,840
large contingent of the Republican Party there
really has no use for it, and

638
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:57,599
is tends to be more practical and
pragmatic about things, and isn't so much

639
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:01,960
into the culture war stuff. You
know, there's plenty of suburban educated Republicans,

640
00:55:02,079 --> 00:55:07,000
moderate Republicans who you know, probably
sitting at the table, sitting at

641
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:10,639
their desk at home, looking at
their electric bill which is fifty percent higher

642
00:55:10,679 --> 00:55:14,559
than it was a year ago.
Going well, I know, I'm supposed

643
00:55:14,559 --> 00:55:17,159
to be really angry at trans people, but I'm not sure how that's going

644
00:55:17,199 --> 00:55:22,280
to help me pay this electric bill. You know. I know I'm supposed

645
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,199
to be really angry about critical race
theory, but is that really going to

646
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,400
help me buy groceries? I'm not
sure that it is. You know.

647
00:55:28,559 --> 00:55:31,079
So there's I think there's a very
large segment of the Republican Party that just

648
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:36,079
you know, they listen to somebody
like de Santis and ever the answered everything

649
00:55:36,199 --> 00:55:38,159
is, well, it's wokeism.
We have to defeat wokeism. And they're

650
00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:42,960
just kind of rolling their eyes and
they're going, this is the guy who's

651
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:49,480
supposed to be the alternative to Trump. So so I would I would definitely

652
00:55:49,559 --> 00:55:52,559
make some changes. I mean,
and as far as going to Trump harder

653
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:54,280
than he is, what does he
have to lose? You know, he

654
00:55:54,400 --> 00:56:00,920
can continue to try to walk that
line between political opponent and supplicant, much

655
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,519
like Mike Pence does so masterfully.
Mike Pence, though clearly he knows he's

656
00:56:04,559 --> 00:56:06,800
not going to be the nominee,
he's just trying to trying to sell some

657
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,840
books. Then to Saantis probably knows
he's not going to be the nominee as

658
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,480
well, and he's probably gonna make
another run in twenty twenty eight, and

659
00:56:13,559 --> 00:56:15,840
he's just kind of, you know, trying to get the hang of it

660
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,000
now so he knows what to do
and what not to do in twenty twenty

661
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,360
eight. But but we'll see.
It'll be interesting to see if anything changes

662
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,559
with this campaign shake up. All
right, we are approaching the top of

663
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:30,840
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the mess sweet and in a sense
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691
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what's wrong with your brain? Tell
me what's wrong with your brain? When

692
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the spell is cats and the shackles
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693
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694
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Tell me what's wrong with your brain. Tell me what's wrong with your brain.

697
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,719
That is Brain by the band Best
Not Broken. And we've got a

698
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,039
couple of guys from the band here
with us. We're going to introduce them

699
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:32,480
in just a moment, but welcome
everybody. This is Matt Connerton unleashed as

700
01:02:32,519 --> 01:02:37,320
we have entered our number two numero
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H ninety five point three FM and
Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire also now

702
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:47,320
on channel six in Manchester Comcast Channel
six. And of course welcome to all

703
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:51,039
of our online listeners across nation and
around the globe. You can go to

704
01:02:51,119 --> 01:02:54,000
my website Matt Connerton dot com for
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705
01:02:54,039 --> 01:02:58,760
media links, contact in Folk Show
archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is

706
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:02,960
Tuesday, August eight, two thousand
to twenty three, and we have Eric

707
01:03:04,119 --> 01:03:07,199
at the news desk. Welcome,
Hello, thank you could to see him.

708
01:03:07,199 --> 01:03:09,920
Matt and Carlo on the couch right
on the couch. How did you

709
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,960
get the couch? By the way, Well, there's a story there,

710
01:03:14,039 --> 01:03:15,000
but I'm not sure we should go
into that right now. All right,

711
01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:19,920
all right? And and who are
we missing? And feel free to make

712
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,360
up a ridiculous story about I suppose
we could. Probably that would be better

713
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,320
than the truth. I think it's
more it's more fun if if you come

714
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,079
up with a story, not to
put you on the spot. Well,

715
01:03:29,119 --> 01:03:32,320
we're missing Mark. Mark is our
bass player. Yes, and I'm trying

716
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:37,719
to remember whether he stubbed his toe
or if he hurt his wrist combination.

717
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:43,159
I think he uh stubbed his toe
while hurting his wrist. That's that's probably

718
01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:45,400
what I would get a visual of
that, right, which has happened a

719
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,760
couple of times with Mark and oh
my well, he's a very dynamic individual

720
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,000
and he moves around and jumps around
a lot. Yeah. Yeah, you

721
01:03:52,119 --> 01:03:55,639
know a lot of times lands on
his toe. Well, that's that's understandable.

722
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:59,079
Well, actually there's truth of that. I think he hurt his toe

723
01:03:59,199 --> 01:04:00,480
last week, right, it was, so that's not all. Well,

724
01:04:00,559 --> 01:04:03,800
thoughts and prayers for Mark, thank
you, well, Well, welcome guys.

725
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,800
By the way, uh Mike from
Queen City Cabinetry, one of our

726
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:10,800
sponsors here at w MNH set in
the chat room. This is a really

727
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:14,400
good song. I would definitely hit
repeat, and Jay Fed from the Great

728
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,440
State of Vermont says, I dig
that song. Cool, So you're getting

729
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,360
some some love in the appreciate that. Now, what do you got?

730
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,800
So Mark is the bass player,
So what do you guys each doing the

731
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:26,440
band? So I sing and play
the guitar, Carlo is in drums.

732
01:04:26,519 --> 01:04:30,320
Yeah, all percussion. So you
got like a it's like a power trio

733
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:32,639
basically exactly. But is there a
fourth? Is there a fourth individual who

734
01:04:32,679 --> 01:04:36,400
does. Yeah, there is another
guitar player that sits in with us,

735
01:04:36,719 --> 01:04:40,840
uh most of the time, on
and and Uh. Yeah, we have

736
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,320
mystery men that do all kinds of
interesting things through the band, but on

737
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,039
and is the most regular. On
And is our other guitar player. Gotcha,

738
01:04:47,159 --> 01:04:53,280
gotcha? So is on and Is
Uh there are only occasionally for live

739
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:57,239
shows or consistently or most of the
time, So it kind of depends on

740
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:59,320
the on the on the event,
you know. I mean, sometimes we're

741
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:03,480
an acoustic format and it calls for
a smaller a smaller thing, and sometimes

742
01:05:03,519 --> 01:05:05,760
it's a bigger thing, and so
he does the bigger things, I guess

743
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:10,119
is the way we most simply describe
it. Gotcha, Yeah, gotcha?

744
01:05:10,559 --> 01:05:13,800
And how long has the band been
around, because it looks like you've got

745
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,360
a fair amount of music online from
what I saw, looks like you've been

746
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,320
at it for a while. We
have, yes, a long time.

747
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:23,360
Well not, I mean in this
room, I'm the young member, but

748
01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:27,760
it's been for more than ten years. Oh yeah, for sure, to

749
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,840
the point that we don't like our
the music that we first wrote right right,

750
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,800
for sure, we're trying to move
on from that. But no,

751
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:38,960
I think. I think our first
recordings were done in twenty twelve, and

752
01:05:39,039 --> 01:05:41,760
the band, you know, it
started before that and sort of evolved.

753
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,400
We actually kind of started as a
cover band playing clubs here in Manchester and

754
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:49,960
around Boston in southern Hampshire, and
slowly started to work our own material into

755
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:55,639
into our shows and eventually started to
record that material. And so twenty twelve

756
01:05:55,719 --> 01:05:59,599
is when we started to start to
push the original stuff. And so that's

757
01:05:59,599 --> 01:06:01,920
I think officially when we became an
original band. Okay, which it actually

758
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,199
isn't as long as I thought,
but no, in shorter or longer,

759
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:09,599
I'm not sure I know. But
anyway, we've been doing it a while,

760
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,599
I always say, and I say
it only half kidding. I feel

761
01:06:13,679 --> 01:06:18,800
like the COVID pandemic kind of created
this weird time distortion thing where sometimes things

762
01:06:19,159 --> 01:06:24,400
happened longer ago, they seem like
they either didn't happen as long ago as

763
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,440
they actually did, or they seem
longer ago or something. It's really it's

764
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:31,159
really odd. And I run into
that a lot, specifically with musicians when

765
01:06:31,199 --> 01:06:33,679
we're talking about how, you know, how long ago did you record this

766
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,159
or whatnot? And you know,
I'll have a I had a band in

767
01:06:36,239 --> 01:06:40,360
here recently. It was like they
had they had just recorded something and uh

768
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,199
like two years ago, twenty twenty
one, but one of the members was

769
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,239
convinced it was like twenty eighteen.
It was. It's just interesting how that

770
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,119
how that works. But COVID changed
the music business so much, I mean

771
01:06:49,199 --> 01:06:54,800
all live entertainment obviously because we weren't
gathering and so it really changed it for

772
01:06:55,079 --> 01:06:58,920
a lot of musicians. And you
know, we're fortunate we have other ways

773
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:02,519
of paying the bills sometimes, but
but those that were fully dependent on,

774
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,480
you know, playing for a living
had a really hard time. Absolutely absolutely,

775
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:11,719
And it seems like there's been some
lasting changes too, because you know,

776
01:07:12,039 --> 01:07:15,199
when the pandemic started to wrap up
and things opened up, you know,

777
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,800
all of a sudden, a lot
of bands are playing out again because

778
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,800
they can. But but then it's
like, now, you know, I

779
01:07:23,239 --> 01:07:27,000
again. I have a lot of
different musicians on the show, and different

780
01:07:27,039 --> 01:07:30,760
people have different approaches. But some
of the bands I talked to now they're

781
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,000
kind of like, yeah, we're
doing you know, maybe one show a

782
01:07:33,079 --> 01:07:38,239
month. We're not really you know, gas is expensive, it's uh,

783
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:43,199
you know, we can do live
performances in our living room and stream it,

784
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:48,079
you know, and are really kind
of pulling back, which to me

785
01:07:48,239 --> 01:07:53,039
is is interesting and it's it's hard
to fathom in a way because so I

786
01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:55,960
don't I don't play anymore. But
I used to play in a lot of

787
01:07:56,039 --> 01:07:59,360
bands, and my my thing was
always I just wanted to play out.

788
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,920
I wanted to play as many shows
as possible because being on stage was my

789
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,480
favorite thing in the world. Sure, I just wanted to that's all I

790
01:08:04,519 --> 01:08:06,360
want. I mean, I was
in I was in a couple of bands

791
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:12,000
where we probably oversaturated because we played
so much. But I wanted to be

792
01:08:12,119 --> 01:08:15,039
out there every weekend, and I
didn't care if we were playing the same

793
01:08:15,119 --> 01:08:17,079
bar two weekends in a row or
you know, which, you know,

794
01:08:17,199 --> 01:08:21,640
not a great idea necessarily, but
I didn't care. And but it's interesting

795
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:25,479
now some bands are really kind of
pulling back, and then there's others,

796
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:29,119
you know, who are just you
know, playing every weekend and and really

797
01:08:29,319 --> 01:08:32,119
really trying to still push it.
But I think the period right before COVID,

798
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:35,720
who knows what date that was,
but that that summer season, we

799
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:40,039
were we were actually very busy.
Yeah, we were playing a lot all

800
01:08:40,079 --> 01:08:43,600
over the Northeast, touring as far
down as Virginia. I mean it was

801
01:08:44,039 --> 01:08:46,439
we were very, very busy,
and so we were definitely gearing up for

802
01:08:47,239 --> 01:08:53,640
another very busy touring season and then
you know, Comproof. But and we

803
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:58,600
certainly haven't returned to that. To
your point, a lot of bands musicians

804
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:03,640
have not returned to the hectic schedule
of playing out as much as possible because

805
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:08,279
I think we've all discovered that there's
just different ways of getting the music out

806
01:09:08,319 --> 01:09:11,520
there for people to listen to.
Especially as an original band, you know,

807
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:15,119
just we have to take advantage of
all those methods, and those methods

808
01:09:15,239 --> 01:09:19,319
were proven during COVID. We were
able to get music two people. We

809
01:09:19,399 --> 01:09:25,560
actually did a music video during COVID. We we filmed a video, one

810
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,640
of these you know, hands off, you know, mask one kind of

811
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:35,439
video things for one of our one
of our most popular songs, Oh yeah,

812
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:40,119
never next week and U. But
it was actually a very clever video

813
01:09:40,199 --> 01:09:42,680
the way we did it, and
I think it'll it'll stand the test of

814
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,800
time. And one could look at
it and say, oh, that's how

815
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,279
they responded during COVID, or one
could look at it and say, no,

816
01:09:48,399 --> 01:09:50,600
that's just a cool music video.
Yeah, you know, it's got

817
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:55,560
two different I think shapes to it, which is not exactly what we were

818
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:58,039
going for, but it's how it
turned out, right, right, So

819
01:09:58,279 --> 01:10:00,520
yeah, definitely changed the landscape for
sure. Yeah, no doubt. Well

820
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:03,439
I always say too, you know, we have to obviously, you know,

821
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:08,039
the pandemic was awful for a number
of reasons, but you know,

822
01:10:08,119 --> 01:10:11,520
we have to find these silver linings
where we can. And one silver lining

823
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,399
is the timing of it. Because
if if it had happened twenty years ago

824
01:10:16,039 --> 01:10:19,760
or even ten years earlier than it
did, you know, we were fortunate

825
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:24,119
that it had happened at a time
when we have all this technology and and

826
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:30,119
it kind of forced people to embrace
technology in ways that they hadn't before.

827
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,239
But some of what we were seeing, like, you know, I saw

828
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:40,960
examples of actually very famous and successful
bands doing these you know, these these

829
01:10:41,159 --> 01:10:45,520
uh streams online where they're all they're
all at home, but they're playing together,

830
01:10:45,079 --> 01:10:48,279
you know, and and for performances
and and you know, in lieu

831
01:10:48,319 --> 01:10:54,319
of of touring and pretty remarkable stuff. And I just I feel like if

832
01:10:54,359 --> 01:10:57,359
it had happened, if this had
happened twenty years ago. You know,

833
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:01,920
before we had things like zoom and
you know, social media every yeah yeah,

834
01:11:02,119 --> 01:11:05,159
career ending probably oh yeah, yeah, it would have been it would

835
01:11:05,199 --> 01:11:08,800
have been much worse than that sense. So we're lucky that it happened at

836
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,119
a time when we have the technology
absolutely, and uh, you know,

837
01:11:12,279 --> 01:11:14,760
it seems to happen about once a
century, so hopefully we don't have to

838
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:19,159
go through it ever again. We're
baby yeah, yeah, so you guys

839
01:11:19,199 --> 01:11:23,640
aren't so you guys now you're but
you're you're playing out a lot, right,

840
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:27,079
just not not as much necessarily as
before the pandemic. Yeah, I

841
01:11:27,119 --> 01:11:30,359
mean, you know, we have
different reasons. We have families and things

842
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:32,039
that we have to be respectful of. But we you know, like you,

843
01:11:32,239 --> 01:11:36,640
we love performing and I think best
not broken really throughout our history has

844
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:41,199
been a live band. That's kind
of what we are. And uh yeah,

845
01:11:41,319 --> 01:11:45,720
unlike some other bands that uh they
can put out material and never play

846
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:46,920
and be okay with that, that's
kind of not how That's kind of not

847
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,800
how we do it. And yeah, so we're doing We're doing as much

848
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:53,079
as we can. I think,
you know, we go through spells of

849
01:11:53,159 --> 01:11:55,680
being really busy and spells of slowing
down a little bit, but that's the

850
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,439
nature of the business. But we
love every time we step on a stage.

851
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,119
Is Summer your busiest time? Sure? Usually is? Yeah. Usually

852
01:12:01,199 --> 01:12:04,359
I think it starts like in May
goes through September. You know, that

853
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:06,880
seems to be the season where a
lot of bands are out touring, and

854
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:13,079
so we're either you know, either
supporting some major acts or performing on our

855
01:12:13,119 --> 01:12:15,079
own. I mean, you know, I would say the last well,

856
01:12:15,159 --> 01:12:17,640
certainly this year and I guess last
year too, right, we've kind of

857
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,720
kept it a little more regional.
We've been more in New England, I

858
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:25,720
suppose than we haven't really branched out
from there yet. But you know,

859
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,199
I'm not saying we won't. It's
coming, I'm sure. Yeah, But

860
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:31,079
as you said earlier, you know, more selective maybe, you know,

861
01:12:31,199 --> 01:12:33,119
yeah, yeah. Well. The
other thing for us is we're you know,

862
01:12:33,159 --> 01:12:38,760
we're in the process. There was
Covid wasn't great for us in terms

863
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,479
of producing material, and we're now
we're in the process of putting a new

864
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:48,319
album out and so oftentimes the performances
follow the you know, follow the live

865
01:12:48,359 --> 01:12:51,880
recordings because you're out promoting those recordings, and so we're We just released a

866
01:12:53,039 --> 01:12:56,920
song three two a couple of week
a couple weeks ago, which is the

867
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:00,279
first single on our next album,
which is called if It Feels Right Ep.

868
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:03,600
Actually, it'll be probably six songs
on it and the rest of it's

869
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,920
coming out next month, so there'll
be some shows that we do in support

870
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,840
of that. Yeah, we've got
a fun one coming up. We're gonna

871
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:16,319
be with the Smashing Pumpkins up at
at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion and Guildford.

872
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:19,319
What is that two weeks from now, a couple of weeks. Excellent,

873
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:24,359
excellent, congratulations, thanks, very
good. It's funny because are you

874
01:13:24,399 --> 01:13:26,800
know, back in the day we
all used to listen to Smashing Pumpkins,

875
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:30,640
and we still do sometimes, but
our music probably back then was a lot

876
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:33,159
more like them. It's evolved in
a different way and it'll be interesting to

877
01:13:33,199 --> 01:13:36,439
see how it, you know,
how it goes. Yeah, the folks

878
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,199
that are going to see Smashing Pumpkins, but we're gonna have funny the way.

879
01:13:40,199 --> 01:13:43,119
It'll be good. Have you guys
opened for a lot of a lot

880
01:13:43,199 --> 01:13:45,079
of big acts that have come through. We've had it. We've been very

881
01:13:45,199 --> 01:13:48,199
fortunate. Yeah, we've we've we've
done some good ones. I'll tell you

882
01:13:48,279 --> 01:13:53,640
when we did this year. Which
still sticks with me is the now I

883
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,319
forgot the name guess the guests who? Yeah, the guests who? And

884
01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:00,199
and and when that was first offered
to us, I think there was some

885
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,560
like you know, the guess who
Who's that again? Kind of thing?

886
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:09,840
And then you you queue up their
collection and their music is absolutely iconic.

887
01:14:10,119 --> 01:14:13,880
I mean it defined a generation.
I mean that's pretty big stuff. So

888
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,960
we were really honored to be a
part of that show that was over in

889
01:14:16,039 --> 01:14:19,199
Salisbury, mass That was a good
show at the Blue Ocean Music Hall.

890
01:14:19,279 --> 01:14:23,439
Great great venue if you've been there, it's a wonderful venue to play and

891
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,600
uh and to see a you know, some music. So you know,

892
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,960
every year we seem to get three
or four you know, good opening slots,

893
01:14:30,359 --> 01:14:35,399
which gives us an opportunity to promote
ourselves and gather new fans and uh,

894
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,199
you know, sometimes we get a
few, sometimes we don't. Put

895
01:14:40,159 --> 01:14:43,359
you know, it's a it's a
it's a big live show, you know.

896
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,800
And so for us, for people
to see us live, I think

897
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:50,119
they really get a sense of the
fun that we're having and uh, and

898
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:53,640
and the kind of music that we're
making, you know, and hopefully get

899
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,159
somebody to, you know, buy
a few records along the way and listen

900
01:14:56,199 --> 01:14:59,239
to some music. But it's been
good. We've been lucky. You guys

901
01:14:59,279 --> 01:15:02,920
have merch bring the shows we do. We just came out with a fabulous

902
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,960
T shirt. You know why it's
fabulous because our pictures are on it.

903
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:12,880
We've never done a T shirt with
our pictures on it. And most of

904
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,960
the feedback we got was what in
the heck are your pictures doing on the

905
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,720
shirt? But no, it's a
good group shot. It's a funny.

906
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:23,079
We actually did the photo shoot for
it in Manchester, yeah, right,

907
01:15:23,239 --> 01:15:27,319
was here in Manchester on the old
railroad tracks or somewhere up the road here,

908
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,600
and it was a cool shot.
We always liked that, you know,

909
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:32,399
it was a cool photo. Right. Yeah, it ended up being

910
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:35,560
on a shirt and I don't know, we've we've sold quite a few of

911
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:39,000
them, we have, and the
one thing we forgot to do is bring

912
01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:41,319
one here today. But that's okay, because we're gonna We're gonna either come

913
01:15:41,319 --> 01:15:45,640
back we're make Yeah. Yeah,
definitely cool. Cool, Yeah, it's

914
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:51,399
funny. I was just reading recently
about how there was a time when people

915
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:55,560
thought, people in the music industry
thought in terms of merchandise, that you

916
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,760
couldn't you couldn't put a for a
men's shirt. You know, for women

917
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:01,760
it was different, but for men, you couldn't put pictures of a male

918
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:09,159
band's faces on a shirt because dudes
wouldn't wear a shirt with other men's faces

919
01:16:09,239 --> 01:16:15,159
on it. Interesting, this was
I had read something actually, Rolling Stone

920
01:16:15,199 --> 01:16:16,800
had something about this from way back. She's when I was a kid,

921
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:20,600
actually when Daryl Hall and John Oates
their manager at the time, Tommy Mottola,

922
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:25,520
who went on to do other things. But that was apparently that was

923
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:29,560
a big discussion in that camp was
do we put out do we do we

924
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:34,239
bother putting out men's shirts with Darryl
and John's faces on them because our men

925
01:16:34,399 --> 01:16:40,520
going to wear that, and and
I guess even to this day people debate

926
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:45,399
about that. But then it's funny
because last week I had Andy Klesnski.

927
01:16:45,399 --> 01:16:46,479
I don't know if you know him. He's a singer songwriter from the Sea

928
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:51,600
Coast. He was here and just
coincidentally he happened to have he was wearing

929
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:55,960
a Michael McDonald's shirt with Michael McDonald's
face on it, and I didn't even

930
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,439
realize it but at first, and
then the subject of Michael McDonald came up

931
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:00,560
and I was like, oh,
he's on your shirt. And then that

932
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:04,800
made me think of you know,
that whole that whole discussion of that debate

933
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:09,159
about I had no idea that ever
happened. My my favorite album cover ever

934
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:12,319
was the Police the I forget the
name of the album, but it was

935
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,520
the Police and their three pictures are
on it. And actually we're sort of

936
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,560
going for that kind of a thing. Yeah, yeah, on this on

937
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:19,479
this T shirt. We didn't quite
get it, but we made it our

938
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:23,600
own. Yeah, it's a fun
it's not it's a more of a funny

939
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:25,920
shirt, you know, kind of
goes with our vibe. You know,

940
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,640
we're having fun and you know,
dressed in some sort of costume and uh

941
01:17:30,279 --> 01:17:31,800
yeah, I mean it's it's just
a funny kind of thing. But it

942
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:34,680
is what you mentioned, merchandise.
It's the first time we've done something.

943
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:40,079
Normally, it's like some graphic right
like something. Maybe it's the maybe it's

944
01:17:40,159 --> 01:17:44,960
the the EP cover or something.
But this time, yeah, we went

945
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,479
a little we went a little outside
and I'm gonna have to think about that

946
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:49,960
now, how many guys. We
should do a survey to see how many

947
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:54,600
guys actually bought the shirt, right, I mean, I hope they do.

948
01:17:55,079 --> 01:17:57,319
Some have already so we know it's
working. A yeah they have.

949
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:01,000
Yeah. Yeah, I think hip
hop kind of changed that that stigma two

950
01:18:01,119 --> 01:18:05,199
of of of guys wearing a shirts
with other guys faces, you know,

951
01:18:05,399 --> 01:18:08,760
because once hip hop started to get
really big, you know, it wasn't

952
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:12,239
unusual to see somebody wearing a you
know, a Snoop Dogg shirt with Snoop

953
01:18:12,279 --> 01:18:15,159
Dogg's actual face on it. But
if only we were as cool as Snoop

954
01:18:15,199 --> 01:18:20,239
Dogg's, right, that guy,
Yeah, that guy. It's incredible that

955
01:18:20,359 --> 01:18:25,119
he never stops. He's he's He's
one of those few people who can be

956
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,960
you know, he can still be
edgy with his music and whatnot and just

957
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,560
swearing and everything, but also have
that side to him that's very family friendly.

958
01:18:32,199 --> 01:18:35,720
I I'm not sure I can think
of another example of somebody quite like

959
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:40,199
that who occupies that space the way
that he does. It's a good point.

960
01:18:40,199 --> 01:18:42,760
I'm not sure I can't either.
Yeah. No, part of why

961
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,119
I was asking about merch too,
is it seems like, you know,

962
01:18:45,119 --> 01:18:47,119
because we were talking about playing shows
and how expensive, you know, it's

963
01:18:47,119 --> 01:18:49,640
more expensive than it used to be
to travel and so forth. And it

964
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:54,319
seems like there's a push within the
music industry now too for everybody to really

965
01:18:54,399 --> 01:18:57,920
sell more merch because it's the one
thing, you know, as far as

966
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,359
selling your music, you know,
Spotify gives you, uh, you know,

967
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:05,439
big money, big money. Yeah. Yeah, the streaming services don't

968
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:09,760
give you much, and and uh, you know, and touring, you

969
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,399
know, a lot of your a
lot of that money ends up going into

970
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:15,600
your gas tank and and paying for
whatever else. And so it seems like

971
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:20,000
merch is because he can't download a
T shirt, at least not yet.

972
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:25,479
I thought when three D printers came
out that was going to kill the merch

973
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:29,319
thing, and then it just didn't
happen. I'm not sure why, but

974
01:19:29,399 --> 01:19:31,079
I guess it's a good thing it
didn't happen, because then that'd be another

975
01:19:31,199 --> 01:19:36,880
revenue stream download down down the toilet, Melanie and the chat room says,

976
01:19:38,039 --> 01:19:40,560
uh, you know, Jay was
just saying that he wished he had a

977
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:44,680
shirt with Matt's face on it.
We actually now see my shirts. See

978
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,920
I've got these uh, Matt Connerton
unleashed shirts. But that's not really Oh

979
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,880
yeah, that's cool, but that's
like a representation of my it's not my

980
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:54,840
actual face. It's it's like me
as an anime character, you know.

981
01:19:55,239 --> 01:20:00,640
Oh beautiful, yeah from here.
Yeah. Brendan McCormick. Uh, he

982
01:20:01,319 --> 01:20:05,279
very very talented graphic artist who works
here. Actually, he he designed the

983
01:20:05,399 --> 01:20:09,520
logo and then we put it on
the back of these shirts and uh,

984
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:14,039
it's Remember when he showed it to
me and he was like, he was

985
01:20:14,039 --> 01:20:15,479
a little bit cheapish about it.
He didn't know if I was gonna like

986
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:19,600
it because it's a little outside the
box and I was never in anime,

987
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:25,159
but I knew enough about it too. I recognize that there's an anime called

988
01:20:25,199 --> 01:20:28,560
Devil May Cry, and I only
knew knew this because I used to work

989
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:30,680
in a store that's old DVDs,
okay, so we had an anime section.

990
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:32,760
So when I saw it, I
was like, oh my god,

991
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,920
I love it. And it's been
around I have to see oh yeah,

992
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:42,000
yeah, yeah, I don't know
if the shirt, the shirt might be

993
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,680
a little faded, but he's coming
over for a firsthand look. Yeah,

994
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,159
that's very cool. Yeah, yeah, and then Jenny had shirts made up

995
01:20:47,199 --> 01:20:51,199
and yeah, and that that became
the we might have to steal that concept

996
01:20:51,239 --> 01:20:55,640
the official logo. Yeah, yeah, it's it's very cool. Yes,

997
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,840
have had it? Oh. Mike
from Queen City Cabinetry says, my son

998
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,479
has worn that T shirt at It's
his absolute favorite. Yes. Uh.

999
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:05,439
And Mike was also asking about the
songs I played. So I played,

1000
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:12,000
Uh, I played Brain earlier and
uh I also played I opened the show

1001
01:21:12,039 --> 01:21:15,560
today without song kids, which is
so catchy awesome. Who right, do

1002
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:16,960
you guys all write together? Or
who writes the song? Yeah? I

1003
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:21,920
write everything and then I submit it
to Eric for approval. He throws it

1004
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:28,199
in the trash and rewrites everything in
a more perfect sense. The truth is,

1005
01:21:28,399 --> 01:21:30,600
Carlo writes all of our bridges.
No one is allowed to write a

1006
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:34,840
bridge unless Carlo has approved it.
But yeah, so we we you know,

1007
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,640
it's every song is a little bit
different. I mean, you know,

1008
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:43,079
I'm a songwriter and Mark our bass
player as a songwriter, and so

1009
01:21:43,199 --> 01:21:46,600
we both bring in a lot of
ideas and some of them are more fully

1010
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:49,119
formed by the time they get to
the band, and some of them aren't,

1011
01:21:49,119 --> 01:21:51,479
and some of them sort of come
together when we're together. But you

1012
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,279
know, it's amazing. A lot
of people say, I mean, we're

1013
01:21:54,319 --> 01:21:56,920
joking around, a lot of people
say drummers don't write, but it's amazing

1014
01:21:57,079 --> 01:22:00,760
what you know, when when Carlo
lays down on a pattern or rhythm,

1015
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,960
what that can do to kind of
change the dynamic of a song and move

1016
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,600
it in a certain direction. So, I you know, it's it's a

1017
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:11,600
very collaborative process. Even though you
know, we're the guys playing the guitars

1018
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:15,239
and singing the lyrics and writing some
of the stuff. It doesn't work unless

1019
01:22:15,279 --> 01:22:17,000
we do it together a lot of
ways. Yeah, yeah, And the

1020
01:22:17,119 --> 01:22:21,520
drums sound incredible. By the way, where do you guys record because the

1021
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:27,920
drums really because not everyone gets that
right when recording producing drums, you know,

1022
01:22:28,119 --> 01:22:30,520
but you can hear every you can
hear everything, every tom, every

1023
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:32,720
I mean, it's just sounds so
good. Yeah, it's true. We

1024
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:40,159
we've been lucky to work with a
couple of really good studios that really understand

1025
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:45,159
your point of making the drums sound
good. You know, I mean obviously

1026
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:49,359
pretty biased towards the sound, but
you know, when you're when you're building

1027
01:22:49,359 --> 01:22:53,279
a piece of music, it starts
with the drums, right and it starts

1028
01:22:53,319 --> 01:22:55,920
with the drums and goes to the
bass right away, because that's the that's

1029
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,880
the foundation of it, you know. And so we've we've been lucky to

1030
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:03,439
have a couple of real good producers
work with us and recording engineers that understand

1031
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,359
that and get a just actually they
get a very good sound. It's like

1032
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,520
the foundation of a house. I
mean, truly, you can't have a

1033
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:13,159
you can't have a good song the
way we try to write songs unless the

1034
01:23:13,239 --> 01:23:15,239
drums sound good. We've we've made
that mistake and we never want to make

1035
01:23:15,279 --> 01:23:18,479
it again. But uh, and
I think today, you know, with

1036
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,840
hip hop becoming such a big deal, you know, the last twenty years,

1037
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:27,439
and so many contemporary songs relying very
heavily on the rhythm and the groove,

1038
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:30,119
it's like that you're hearing that and
you're hearing the lyrics and the rest

1039
01:23:30,159 --> 01:23:31,399
of the stuff in some cases just
sort of washed out in the middle.

1040
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,560
Sure, sure, you got it. So people are looking for the rhythm,

1041
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:36,960
yeah, looking for the groove,
and you gotta get it right.

1042
01:23:38,039 --> 01:23:43,279
But we typically well will record with
Dave Minihan down at Wooly Mammoth Studios and

1043
01:23:43,319 --> 01:23:45,760
Waltham. Dave David. Oh,
that's a name I've definitely heard. Yeah,

1044
01:23:46,279 --> 01:23:49,159
Dave is a you know, he's
a Boston legend. Really, we've

1045
01:23:49,159 --> 01:23:54,479
been very fortunate that he's he's been
willing to take us on and but you

1046
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:58,439
know, he when Brad Whitford was
not healthy, he was playing with Aerosmith

1047
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:00,720
and he's played with the replacements.
He's a guitar player too, okay with

1048
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:06,199
the replacements, and but he's an
amazing producer in his own right. He's

1049
01:24:06,239 --> 01:24:10,319
a great musician. Or fortunate now
that he's kind of playing with us because

1050
01:24:10,399 --> 01:24:14,439
she's actually on most of the most
of the songs out now. Yeah.

1051
01:24:15,399 --> 01:24:17,359
In fact, he did a lot
of the background vocals for one of these

1052
01:24:17,399 --> 01:24:20,960
tunes that's coming out next month,
which is which I'm excited to put out

1053
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,359
called That's the Way She likes It, And it's kind of a song that

1054
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:30,199
draws on influences from some of the
eighties and nineties stuff, but real heavy

1055
01:24:30,319 --> 01:24:33,920
background vocals, which are very cool. Yeah, looking forward to that one.

1056
01:24:34,399 --> 01:24:38,239
But it starts with the drums,
it does, Yeah, it does.

1057
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:42,279
How did you get to working with
Minahan? What's his first name Mike

1058
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:47,920
Uh. He moved to Waltham from
the Boston area many many years ago,

1059
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:53,359
and I think it happened because I
was reading a story about his move to

1060
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:57,399
this new studio and it was just
about the time I was getting ready to

1061
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:00,079
record my first batch of songs and
I was looking for some help, and

1062
01:25:00,159 --> 01:25:02,119
I sent him my stuff and I
said, what do you think, thinking

1063
01:25:02,199 --> 01:25:08,439
that he would say either nothing,
I don't think much. But fortunately he

1064
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:10,279
said, hey, actually that's pretty
cool. Why don't you come down and

1065
01:25:10,319 --> 01:25:14,520
we'll talk a little bit. And
I did, and that was the beginning.

1066
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:16,840
He We did an EP that was
again back in twenty and twelve.

1067
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,039
It took us a while to record
that. Carlin knows we taked a longer

1068
01:25:19,079 --> 01:25:24,279
record, especially when it by myself, but but it came out really well.

1069
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:27,199
The funny thing is I went in
with a completely different vision of what

1070
01:25:27,279 --> 01:25:29,479
we ended up with, and at
the end of the day, I don't

1071
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:30,800
know whether it's good or bad.
You know. I was at the time

1072
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:34,560
actually going in more of a synthesizer, you know, type of direction,

1073
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:40,359
and Dave sort of brought it back
to more of an acoustic guitar based a

1074
01:25:40,399 --> 01:25:44,079
little bit more of a classic sound
which worked really well for those songs,

1075
01:25:44,119 --> 01:25:46,520
and he was probably right. Yeah, but we've you know, we've managed

1076
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,920
over the years to weave in some
of the new stuff and keep some of

1077
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:53,439
the you know, the more traditional
organic sounds acoustic guitars and electric tars and

1078
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,600
that kind of stuff. But there's
a couple of songs on that first album

1079
01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:00,079
though, that continually get requested.
It shows true. So, I mean,

1080
01:26:00,119 --> 01:26:04,520
it's funny we've played them. It's
an older piece, but it seems

1081
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:08,880
like they're the ones, you know, people want to hear. Yeah,

1082
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,399
those that have been around for a
while, they remember some of those tuns

1083
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,079
pretty good days. The one that
that stands out to me that was on

1084
01:26:14,119 --> 01:26:17,560
the first album that people tend to
like. But we like the new stuff

1085
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,880
too. Yeah. Yeah, Now, are are you guys from Boston or

1086
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:27,239
are you we are from the stuff? We're from the general area. We've

1087
01:26:27,279 --> 01:26:30,079
sort of bounced back and forth between
Boston and southern New Hampshire. The band

1088
01:26:30,119 --> 01:26:34,119
collectively, we've are members of sort
of zigzagged around the area. So we

1089
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:39,840
kind of consider ourselves a greater Boston
band, but right now we've got some

1090
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:43,760
roots in southern New Hampshire, and
but the area has been very good to

1091
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,640
us. We've you know, we've
kind of started in Manchester and sort of

1092
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:49,439
grew from there. You know,
we have regular stuff we do now up

1093
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:54,119
in Burlington and and we've you know, as Carlos said, we get down

1094
01:26:54,159 --> 01:26:56,640
as far as Virginia, New York
has been a more regular thing. We

1095
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:59,520
haven't been down there in a while
because Philly, we haven't had stuff to

1096
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:03,079
promote. I think probably that's coming
up in the not too just in future.

1097
01:27:03,319 --> 01:27:06,840
Cool, cool, very good.
Well, actually, why don't we

1098
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:12,359
Uh, we'll take a break and
play another track here. Uh, let's

1099
01:27:12,399 --> 01:27:15,279
see you sent me. Oh it
didn't one of the things. You didn't

1100
01:27:15,319 --> 01:27:18,119
send me this one. But you
said there's a new single that came out

1101
01:27:18,199 --> 01:27:23,319
recently. I did. It's called
I Don't Belong, and I thought I

1102
01:27:23,399 --> 01:27:25,239
sent it to you. Oh you
did send me that. Okay, No,

1103
01:27:25,399 --> 01:27:29,279
you did. I'm sorry. I
don't know why I was for some

1104
01:27:29,399 --> 01:27:33,279
reason, I thought you had said
something else. But my brain is mush

1105
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:38,840
swept times. I probably have a
our often is too. We do some

1106
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:42,359
of our best work. Our brain
is mush. Here we go, here

1107
01:27:42,399 --> 01:27:44,439
we go. I got it,
Okay, here it is. Yeah,

1108
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:45,800
I like actually, yeah, I
like this one a lot too. This

1109
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:49,880
is really good. So let's do
this. We'll we'll give this a listen.

1110
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:53,840
If you're just joining us. We've
got two of the guys, Eric

1111
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:57,920
and Carlo from the band Best Not
Broken, are here with us live in

1112
01:27:58,159 --> 01:28:00,760
studio and we've been talking and we're
gonna listen to another track here. So

1113
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:04,239
this is called I Don't Belong and
this is the newest single just within the

1114
01:28:04,359 --> 01:28:06,239
last couple of weeks. Yeah,
it's just out two weeks here, two

1115
01:28:06,239 --> 01:28:09,159
and a half weeks ago. Again, Yeah, excellent, excellent, all

1116
01:28:09,239 --> 01:28:15,600
right, check this out. I
Don't Belong from Best Not Broken. I'm

1117
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,800
walking in the home room, remember
about I'm Bom Bom. I see my

1118
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:24,000
Kicken cimmers or Warzar girl's head stern. I've got my jeans, pig mullet,

1119
01:28:24,079 --> 01:28:27,520
done with Hess Gray. We've been
walking new way Coopa's and a fresh

1120
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,279
ship. Want to be rock star
Ribben in my new car, Hotei's in

1121
01:28:30,359 --> 01:28:33,159
the back, y'all, bat I
got nothing so far? Can I get

1122
01:28:33,279 --> 01:28:38,359
up? Can I get up?
Can I get up? Can I get

1123
01:28:38,479 --> 01:29:02,159
up? Can I get up?
Stay tr to get her real job?

1124
01:29:02,319 --> 01:29:05,079
Interviewed with a shot. Ask me
what I want to say. I don't

1125
01:29:05,079 --> 01:29:09,279
want to keep my hair along for
me in a high rise when you with

1126
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:13,119
some rich guys stirting with a deep
swap. Now I'm making a French prize.

1127
01:29:13,319 --> 01:29:15,359
I'm not a quick learn Maybe it's
the side of birds like now if

1128
01:29:15,359 --> 01:29:18,039
you want to know about at least
I made some heads turn? Can I

1129
01:29:18,159 --> 01:29:23,279
get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I

1130
01:29:23,399 --> 01:29:36,199
get up? I don't everybody?
I don't stay as you go. I

1131
01:29:36,520 --> 01:30:04,760
don't so much. I don't know
why. And you belong some slaps that

1132
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:12,319
you just can't time. When you
ask foot ten much, you just got

1133
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:23,079
nine hair. Everything is fine,
just that much. Can I get up?

1134
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:27,319
Can I get up? Can I
get up? Can I get up?

1135
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:30,600
Can I get up? Can I
get up? Can I get up?

1136
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:58,239
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1137
01:30:59,359 --> 01:31:23,000
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the Novels. Welcome back everybody. This

1159
01:33:27,079 --> 01:33:32,039
is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are
live from the studios of WMNH ninety five

1160
01:33:32,079 --> 01:33:38,039
point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel

1161
01:33:38,199 --> 01:33:41,640
six. If you are in Manchester
and hello to all of our online listeners

1162
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:44,600
across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt

1163
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:47,319
Connerton dot com for all your live
streaming options, social media links, contact

1164
01:33:47,359 --> 01:33:51,399
info, show archives, etcetera,
etcetera. And joining us here live in

1165
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:56,840
studio. We have Eric and Carlow
from the band Best Not Broken, and

1166
01:33:57,119 --> 01:33:59,600
we just start a great song from
them, I Don't Belong. That's the

1167
01:34:00,159 --> 01:34:03,039
the newest single these guys out and
if you have any questions or feedback or

1168
01:34:03,079 --> 01:34:08,039
anything at all for these guys,
the studio line is open six zoo three

1169
01:34:08,079 --> 01:34:12,520
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1170
01:34:12,680 --> 01:34:15,880
You can also text me at six
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1171
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:19,119
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at Matt Connerton. You can email me

1172
01:34:19,199 --> 01:34:23,560
at Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo

1173
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:26,319
Pine in the Facebook live chat.
But the best thing to do so that

1174
01:34:26,399 --> 01:34:29,399
we can hear and enjoy your dulcet
tones is give us a call at six

1175
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:33,079
zo three two five zero six zero
seven. And guys, that's a very

1176
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:38,279
very catchy I caught myself singing along
to it, so that's uh that probably

1177
01:34:38,279 --> 01:34:40,840
happen. I would imagine when you
play that at shows, you probably get

1178
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,720
get people singing along. Right now, does it gets a real good response,

1179
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:48,760
singing, clapping? I think,
uh, I think the video actually,

1180
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:54,439
I think people that see the video
might be amused because we released a

1181
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:59,840
video at the same time and uh, it's uh, it's one of our

1182
01:35:00,239 --> 01:35:04,920
We're very proud of it because we
uh we look like absolute before it was

1183
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:12,000
absolutely ridiculous, fully ridiculous, but
we sort of captured the essence of the

1184
01:35:12,119 --> 01:35:15,159
song. I think yeah, and
it happened fast. I was shocked we

1185
01:35:15,199 --> 01:35:19,159
were able to pull together. But
we would encourage your listeners if they like

1186
01:35:19,359 --> 01:35:24,720
that tune to check out the video
for I Don't Belong on YouTube. It's

1187
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:27,840
there and you get a good laugh
there and waiting for you. Very good,

1188
01:35:28,079 --> 01:35:30,960
very good. Yeah, it's funny. That's another subject that's come up

1189
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:32,720
a lot on the show lately as
videos, because there's some people, I

1190
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,279
don't know if you guys run into
this at all. This there's some people

1191
01:35:35,279 --> 01:35:41,880
who have this perception that music videos
are and a dead art form because you

1192
01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:45,119
know, MTV hasn't played videos in
decades, and it's like, it's funny,

1193
01:35:45,159 --> 01:35:47,920
but I run into people who don't
seem to realize that actually, because

1194
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:51,159
of YouTube, there's more music videos
being made than ever. Oh yeah,

1195
01:35:51,279 --> 01:35:55,720
Like like when Beyonce puts out a
new album, for example, you know

1196
01:35:56,039 --> 01:35:58,159
she's got the money to do it. When she puts out a new album,

1197
01:35:58,359 --> 01:36:00,000
every single song on the album has
a video, right, It's it's

1198
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:04,079
it's actually more than ever. People
want to see that multi media entertainment.

1199
01:36:04,159 --> 01:36:08,199
You know, they want to They
want to get a bigger picture of what

1200
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:10,960
certainly want to see the artists.
You know, they're hoping to see the

1201
01:36:11,079 --> 01:36:17,159
artists in the in the video.
And it just provides a more multidimensional musical

1202
01:36:17,239 --> 01:36:20,279
experience as opposed to just you know, listening to music. I mean,

1203
01:36:21,359 --> 01:36:25,600
and I think you might capture the
interest a little more, like people will

1204
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:29,760
listen to the entire song, as
opposed to when you're streaming, you know,

1205
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:31,159
they're gonna get a minute or so
in and like all right, moving

1206
01:36:31,159 --> 01:36:32,800
to the next one, moving the
next one, the next one, click

1207
01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:35,199
click, click, click click.
But a video, you're probably gonna watch

1208
01:36:35,199 --> 01:36:38,880
the whole thing. It's a it's
an interesting phenomenon. I mean, as

1209
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:41,800
a musician now, you know that
if you don't put a video out with

1210
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:45,880
a song, you're missing listeners or
viewers. You're missing missing people that might

1211
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:50,239
otherwise see it. But it's also
interesting because it truly changes the dynamic of

1212
01:36:50,319 --> 01:36:54,760
how people experience a song. Right
because in the old days, when there

1213
01:36:54,840 --> 01:36:57,000
was no video, or now when
there's no video, you know, you

1214
01:36:57,159 --> 01:37:00,319
you come up with your own images, right yeah, but you're worse to

1215
01:37:00,359 --> 01:37:03,039
follow the images that are put out
in this video, which I think sometimes

1216
01:37:03,159 --> 01:37:06,800
great and sometimes not. But but
it's a new way of experience it for

1217
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:11,000
sure. Yeah. It's funny though, it's like we're time traveling in a

1218
01:37:11,039 --> 01:37:15,680
way, because this is the same
conversation that people had when on shows like

1219
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:18,600
this when MTV first went on the
air, right, and artists would talk

1220
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,199
about, Yeah, you know now
you're you know, you're assigning these images

1221
01:37:21,279 --> 01:37:24,960
to the video, which to the
song rather which might be a good thing

1222
01:37:25,079 --> 01:37:27,359
or might not. And you know, and I still want to be on

1223
01:37:27,479 --> 01:37:30,239
MTV. Can we still do that? Yeah? I want my MTVO.

1224
01:37:30,399 --> 01:37:34,760
That sounds like there must be h
there must still be videos on there somewhere

1225
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:39,119
right there. I'm sure there must
be like a like a twenty minute video

1226
01:37:39,319 --> 01:37:43,560
show or something. We're on MTV, But yeah, reality television just completely

1227
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:45,039
took over and write and they,
I guess in the nineties, right,

1228
01:37:45,079 --> 01:37:48,359
I think it's been that long.
Yep. Yeah, wow, Yeah,

1229
01:37:48,399 --> 01:37:51,359
we haven't done our own reality show
yet. We're gonna leave them. How

1230
01:37:51,399 --> 01:37:55,000
many videos have you guys? Have
you guys shot? What do you think?

1231
01:37:55,680 --> 01:38:00,039
That's a good question, but there's
enough to keep you busy. I

1232
01:38:00,079 --> 01:38:06,359
would say probably ten. Yeah,
something like that maybe maybe a little more.

1233
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:12,359
Some are more involved than others.
Yeah, I know. The first

1234
01:38:12,399 --> 01:38:16,239
one that I participated in was for
Won't Stop Loving You, which was a

1235
01:38:17,479 --> 01:38:25,880
very elaborate production and a very moving
video. I would say that was the

1236
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:30,680
most emotional video that we've made.
And if you put a bunch of people

1237
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:32,279
in a room, I guarantee you
a bunch of them are going to be

1238
01:38:32,359 --> 01:38:35,239
crying by the time they get to
the end of that video. It's very,

1239
01:38:35,359 --> 01:38:41,600
very touching and it's a great song, we think so. But our

1240
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:43,800
ore it's another one. It's a
fan favorite. Yeah, you know,

1241
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:47,199
it's from an earlier record and they
seem to love that song, so we

1242
01:38:47,359 --> 01:38:55,960
like playing it. But our videos
ranged from serious to absolute insanity, and

1243
01:38:56,399 --> 01:38:58,039
maybe that's a good thing. I
don't know. I hope, so,

1244
01:38:58,239 --> 01:39:01,880
yeah, I hope, so,
I hope. So now the videos,

1245
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:03,840
do you do you have someone you
work with on those? Or do you

1246
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:06,119
do them? You're because we do? Okay, So I was gonna say,

1247
01:39:06,119 --> 01:39:08,920
we live in an era where really
you can you can do it all

1248
01:39:08,960 --> 01:39:12,359
yourself. It's pretty remarkable you can
if you're if you're that talented, you

1249
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:18,159
know, yeah, we're uh no, we have helpers, Yeah, helpers

1250
01:39:18,199 --> 01:39:21,760
are necessary for us. Do you
work with the same people on each Have

1251
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:25,119
you worked with the same people on
each video? Or is there a production

1252
01:39:25,159 --> 01:39:29,760
company we have? Yeah, yeah, we've There's a company called One oh

1253
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:32,920
six Studios out of Boston that we've
been using recently. Travis Gray has been

1254
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:36,920
the lead guy for us and that's
gone very well. We've used other people

1255
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,600
in the past, but Travis has
been doing good work for us. They

1256
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:45,000
excellent, excellent. And what are
the live shows like? Do you guys

1257
01:39:45,319 --> 01:39:47,199
do you have any uh, you
do any kind of elaborate stage show or

1258
01:39:47,199 --> 01:39:51,720
anything, or do you do you
just play or any kind of theatrics or

1259
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:56,159
do you save that for the videos? Well, you know, I mean,

1260
01:39:56,279 --> 01:39:58,960
so we have we do a range
of shows, you know, I

1261
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:03,119
mean, we're we are prem merely
an original band, but we do shows

1262
01:40:03,159 --> 01:40:08,720
where we'll mix covers into into our
shows. Some of them are more cover

1263
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:13,600
oriented, but really the focus of
what we do is is original material.

1264
01:40:14,239 --> 01:40:15,920
But the reason I say that is
because you know, some of these shows

1265
01:40:16,039 --> 01:40:18,760
tend to be a little more grueling, like three hours long or four hours

1266
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:24,399
long, and the dynamic is a
little bit different than a short and sweet,

1267
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:29,640
action packed, true best not broken
original show. But we one of

1268
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,439
the things we try to do is
really have great energy when we put on

1269
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:34,680
a show, and we try and
go out and leave it all on the

1270
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:40,600
stage. We're all athletes, and
probably because we're we wish that we could

1271
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:43,359
still be as competitive as we once
were. We had the only place we

1272
01:40:43,439 --> 01:40:45,079
can do it is on the stage, and so we occasionally stub our toes

1273
01:40:45,119 --> 01:40:49,159
and fall out of things, but
we try to do lots of jumping.

1274
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:55,359
But so, yeah, it's a
we hope that it's an engaging and action

1275
01:40:55,399 --> 01:40:57,840
packed show. It should be that. Yeah, I can tell you.

1276
01:40:58,319 --> 01:41:02,239
I'm reminded of a story. Maybe
we should we should share of we we

1277
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:05,960
we all I don't know, so
I don't know whether we should share or

1278
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:11,279
not. We we'll find out together. It was it was a live constant.

1279
01:41:11,319 --> 01:41:16,760
We didn't at the Tupelow below Music
in Derry and it was outdoors during

1280
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:20,399
the period where they were doing outdoor
shows if you remember that, which was

1281
01:41:20,479 --> 01:41:26,560
very clever. Quite frankly. Anyway, we headlined a show and uh As

1282
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,880
Zeric said, it's a it's an
action packed show. I mean, the

1283
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:32,640
drummer just has to sit there most
of the time, but the rest of

1284
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:36,399
the guys were moving around quite a
bit on stage, and we had a

1285
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:42,000
choreographed piece of the show, remember
where we were doing some things. And

1286
01:41:42,119 --> 01:41:45,119
the point of this story is it
was about one hundred and fifty degrees out

1287
01:41:45,560 --> 01:41:50,880
and the sun was hitting that stage, and you know, you're you're driven

1288
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:54,760
by the music and the fan interact. It was a sold out show,

1289
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,119
so a lot of people, and
you're feeding off that energy, but at

1290
01:41:58,159 --> 01:42:03,079
some point it's just not enough.
It was so hot out, you know,

1291
01:42:03,159 --> 01:42:06,720
I think we were all feeling a
little faint. And there's a there's

1292
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:09,840
a particular thing. You'll have to
come to one of our shows. This

1293
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:15,800
particular thing we do at the end
where this guy runs around it just does

1294
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:17,960
something absolutely crazy, and it was
great. You know, we're watching the

1295
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:20,760
whole things happen and people were plotting
blah blah blah blah, and that's the

1296
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:24,560
end of the show. Encore is
over and we got to the back,

1297
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:27,039
you remember, and he was he
was white as a sheet. I thought

1298
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:30,520
I literally thought he was going to
pass out because he was so active and

1299
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:34,760
it was so hot out. Yeah, you can't hydrate on stage really,

1300
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:40,039
so you know, you're just giving
it all. And that was quite a

1301
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:44,319
quite a performance, I would say
that was a Yeah. So I tried

1302
01:42:44,319 --> 01:42:46,239
to get a little exercise and this
this is one of those times where I

1303
01:42:46,359 --> 01:42:49,640
almost didn't make it back to the
stage. Wow, I almost. And

1304
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:53,520
we've had a couple of those lately. In fact, we were down in

1305
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:57,680
Salisbury a few weeks ago and I
almost didn't make it back to the stage,

1306
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:00,159
which would have been terrible because you
guys would have had to clean up

1307
01:43:00,279 --> 01:43:02,439
up by yourself. Yeah, somehow
I feel like that was part of the

1308
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:05,720
plan. Might have, but it
might have been. I was in the

1309
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:13,520
big I was in the big band
van Wow. Well, you know I

1310
01:43:13,560 --> 01:43:15,960
always say rock and roll should be
sweaty, but but you don't want you

1311
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:19,000
know, heat stroke or anything like
that either. No, definitely try to

1312
01:43:19,079 --> 01:43:23,800
keep it as safe as we can. I will tell you our our fabulous

1313
01:43:24,239 --> 01:43:29,000
bass player who couldn't make it today
with his broken toe. Uh, carries

1314
01:43:29,039 --> 01:43:33,079
a fan with him every show.
He has a fan set up because I

1315
01:43:33,159 --> 01:43:35,520
think he sweats the most of all
of us, Oh my god, and

1316
01:43:36,079 --> 01:43:40,359
he and this fan is just always
running. He doesn't Well, Actually,

1317
01:43:40,359 --> 01:43:43,640
the truth is there we have levels
of fan. I mean he has this

1318
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:45,159
standard fan, yeah, but then
we have a super hot show, we

1319
01:43:45,239 --> 01:43:47,640
upgrade to the big fan, and
then we can actually double fan. If

1320
01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:53,000
we have the double fan, I
would say that the worst. So the

1321
01:43:53,079 --> 01:43:56,600
one time when Mark was sweating so
much and nothing a fan could possibly do.

1322
01:43:57,119 --> 01:43:59,680
The video that we shot for the
song Kids, which I think you

1323
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:03,119
play it earlier. Yeah, had
Mark at the beginning in a kangaroo outfit,

1324
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,119
and at the end he had to
go because we ran out of time,

1325
01:44:06,159 --> 01:44:09,920
and so I briefly had to play
the kangaroo. And I put on

1326
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:14,520
the kangaroo outfit and I couldn't feel
the outfit because it was mush. It

1327
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:17,720
was actually it was mush. It
was set probably the most disgusting thing I've

1328
01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:21,199
ever filled in my life. God, and so I no longer I no

1329
01:44:21,319 --> 01:44:26,279
longer even will look at kangaroos.
But does it make you feel closer to

1330
01:44:26,399 --> 01:44:32,239
him? I try to stay further
away Mark, If you're listening, I'm

1331
01:44:32,359 --> 01:44:36,720
I'm actually currently trying to get further
away from you. Wow, that's funny.

1332
01:44:38,319 --> 01:44:40,880
Eric, you ever do any radio
or a voiceover work or anything?

1333
01:44:41,119 --> 01:44:43,239
Never, I'm sure I'm not the
only one who's ever asked you that.

1334
01:44:43,840 --> 01:44:45,560
I can't be the first one to
ever ask you that it's possible you are.

1335
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:48,960
I'm no, I've never done it. You've got because you've got the

1336
01:44:49,039 --> 01:44:51,680
voice. Carlo doesn't any of the
you've got the voice for radio. Yes,

1337
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:56,399
you think you've got one of those
voices. I'm actually jealous of because

1338
01:44:56,399 --> 01:45:00,039
I'm very you know, I'm able
to evaluate myself pretty honestly. I I

1339
01:45:00,039 --> 01:45:01,399
think I know I have a good
radio voice. But you have a great

1340
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:05,319
radio voice. I've never you've never
done a podcast or anything. I've never

1341
01:45:05,399 --> 01:45:12,479
done a podcast. No, no
car commercial, a car commercial, that

1342
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,760
would be that would be fun for
real, definitely real. Well we need

1343
01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:19,319
a hit. Maybe we can find
a hit in the auto commercial. Yeah,

1344
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:25,079
car commercial jingle? Can you can
you auto tune in radio? Can

1345
01:45:25,119 --> 01:45:30,039
you live auto tuning? No?
I just I just imagine you're narrating it.

1346
01:45:30,479 --> 01:45:33,319
You know you could narrate the I've
never tried it. I mean,

1347
01:45:33,399 --> 01:45:36,760
I you know, I read I
read books for people. Do Yeah,

1348
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:42,399
I do. Mostly my kids makes
sense. They don't tell they don't tell

1349
01:45:42,399 --> 01:45:45,119
you they love your voice. They've
never said that. They're usually mad at

1350
01:45:45,159 --> 01:45:47,680
me. Because it's bedtime and it's
like, dad, what are you doing?

1351
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:50,159
Right? Right? It'll put us
to bed. They're used to it.

1352
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:54,279
You see your voice. Jay Fed
in the chat says, do you

1353
01:45:54,359 --> 01:46:00,119
play birthday parties? I think we
have done parties? Well? Remember how

1354
01:46:00,199 --> 01:46:03,760
I jumped out of that cake.
Oh I don't remember that. Oh we

1355
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:06,239
do. Probably, we do private
events occasionally. Most of what we do

1356
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:10,319
is in support of our music,
but we do private events occasionally. Yea.

1357
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:13,800
So he's been asking, he's been
looking for someone to play his wife's

1358
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:16,520
birthday party, Melanie's birthday party.
I believe it's in September. Now.

1359
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:20,239
The thing is, I should tell
you though, in case you do get

1360
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:23,359
you take a commission. I know, no, no, no, it's

1361
01:46:23,399 --> 01:46:27,920
not that. Uh he might try
to get you to commit to uh,

1362
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,479
if you're gonna go up there to
commit to an ice bath. Oh,

1363
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:33,399
So I thought I should mention that, just to kind of warn you that

1364
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,239
that might be part of the deal. Okay, And I don't know.

1365
01:46:36,640 --> 01:46:40,600
Personally, I wouldn't do it.
I you know, hypothermia, things like

1366
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:44,880
that. Apparently there are health benefits, but I'm just worried about freezing to

1367
01:46:44,920 --> 01:46:46,439
death. So I personally wouldn't do
it, but I think I should warn

1368
01:46:46,479 --> 01:46:50,920
you guys. Yeah, yeah,
it's something he does and he he invites

1369
01:46:50,960 --> 01:46:55,800
people into the ice bath apparently,
so just something to keep in mind.

1370
01:46:57,520 --> 01:46:59,600
Yeah, I mean, you know, it could come to that, So

1371
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:01,840
just so you know, we'll have
to get our measure involved. Definitely,

1372
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:05,520
there you go, by the way, Miriam Banish and the chat room says

1373
01:47:06,039 --> 01:47:12,319
like the harmony, referring to the
song that we played there, the single

1374
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,920
Oh thank You? Yeah, Well
do you got so the vocals? Do

1375
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:18,680
you guys all sing or how does
that work? I definitely don't you know?

1376
01:47:19,039 --> 01:47:23,239
He know he's he's being modest.
He is actually saying, in fact,

1377
01:47:23,279 --> 01:47:25,960
we've had some gigs where he'll he'll
take the lead and do some crazy

1378
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:29,399
stuff. But truth be told,
the harmonies are actually a very important part

1379
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:33,359
of our sound, and Mark and
I really enjoy writing harmonies and singing harmonies,

1380
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:36,560
and that's something we focus on and
it's part of most of the songs

1381
01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:40,479
that you hear, Yeah from us, No, I notice that, But

1382
01:47:40,640 --> 01:47:44,840
Carlo, you sing live with the
guys, I assume are very seldom.

1383
01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:46,600
Oh really, okay, I've got
a lot of work to do. I'm

1384
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:48,800
very busy back then. He is
a busy guy. Yeah. Yeah,

1385
01:47:49,239 --> 01:47:53,760
well that's the thing. I had
a band on recently with a singing drummer

1386
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:57,319
where the drummer did the lead vocals. Yes, and that's something you very

1387
01:47:57,479 --> 01:48:00,760
rarely see. But it's such a
physical instrument, so to have to play

1388
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:04,359
drums and sing, even just doing
backing vocals, it must be it's got

1389
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:05,840
to be hard to do it.
I think it would be tough. I

1390
01:48:06,079 --> 01:48:08,840
don't know, honestly, I don't
know how they do it, you know,

1391
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:13,840
they they sing a lot. Yeah, and uh, I don't think

1392
01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:16,359
I could do it, really can
do it? Number one? I don't

1393
01:48:16,359 --> 01:48:20,439
think I can sing? Uh well
and uh, but it's a lot of

1394
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:23,560
work, do you know, to
keep that, keep focused on that and

1395
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:27,880
just have the the musician stuff just
kind of happened automatically so you can focus

1396
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:30,479
on the singings. Yeah, it's
quite a bit of work. It's impressive.

1397
01:48:30,640 --> 01:48:33,159
Yeah, absolutely, they're quite talented, those two. On and I

1398
01:48:33,279 --> 01:48:38,159
just sit back and play music.
We had a show actually, it was

1399
01:48:38,239 --> 01:48:42,479
actually at Blue Ocean Music Hall where
we featured Carlo and On and uh singing.

1400
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:44,239
That's right, we did. Who
is that? I think that might

1401
01:48:44,279 --> 01:48:45,880
have been when we were with the
Gym Blossoms Blossoms, I think it was.

1402
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:49,760
Yeah, And and actually that was
the last show where we ever allowed

1403
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:54,439
them to sing publicly together. Imagine
that. Really Yeah, so that should

1404
01:48:54,439 --> 01:48:58,640
tell you something there. You guys
played with the Gym Blossoms. Huh we

1405
01:48:58,760 --> 01:49:00,960
did? We did? Really?
Yeah, I can see that. I

1406
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:05,079
can see that being a good dah. But I guess too though, with

1407
01:49:05,239 --> 01:49:08,600
with your sound, I mean,
there's probably a lot of different bands you

1408
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:12,399
fit well with. I would think
you know your your sound. It's it's

1409
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:15,439
very accessible, very radio friendly,
but also this you know a mix of

1410
01:49:15,520 --> 01:49:20,640
influences in there. You know,
the Sawing Kids is, like I said,

1411
01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:24,800
I opened with that today. That's
so catchy. But but it seems

1412
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:26,720
like everything is, you know,
it's very sort of you know, you've

1413
01:49:26,720 --> 01:49:30,199
got those singalong choruses that you know, really hook people in. And uh,

1414
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:33,560
who can you tell me who's who's
a band that you've Are there any

1415
01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:39,680
bands that you've opened for that we're
kind of Maybe you went into it thinking

1416
01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:42,520
I don't know if we fit has
Has there been any kind of an odd

1417
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:47,840
match that you've had with a band
that you've opened for well, yes,

1418
01:49:48,079 --> 01:49:53,560
I would say so. So.
Uh. Actually, I think Smashing Pumpkins

1419
01:49:53,600 --> 01:49:56,199
will be interesting because the more I
listen to them, the more, yeah,

1420
01:49:56,239 --> 01:50:00,479
I realized that they're much heavier thre
yeah than really we are now.

1421
01:50:00,560 --> 01:50:02,800
You know, back in the day, we were writing more rock oriented stuff

1422
01:50:02,800 --> 01:50:05,319
and now I kind of consider our
stuff sort of indie pop, yeah,

1423
01:50:05,520 --> 01:50:09,399
and so it's veering away from that. So it'll be interesting to see how

1424
01:50:09,439 --> 01:50:11,840
that goes. But you know,
uh, you know, we used to

1425
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:15,640
occasionally play Bike Week and I was
we've never been a biker band, right,

1426
01:50:15,640 --> 01:50:17,800
and have there thinking they're gonna throw
us out of here, and actually

1427
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:20,720
there are a lot of people that
dug our stuff. So I've learned you

1428
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:25,600
can't you can't make that judgment going
into it. But probably the other one

1429
01:50:25,760 --> 01:50:30,560
that was a weird fit was Jason
Derulo. Oh no, yeah, it

1430
01:50:30,640 --> 01:50:32,560
was a long time ago. Yeah, but yeah, we were asked to

1431
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:35,479
come play with with him and it
was just as he was, like,

1432
01:50:36,079 --> 01:50:40,479
you know, at his prime,
and it was weird, but it sort

1433
01:50:40,520 --> 01:50:42,880
of was fine. It sort of
went okay, Like I can see it

1434
01:50:42,960 --> 01:50:47,840
working though, ken you Yeah,
because I'm trying to think now oh,

1435
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:50,760
I'm drawn a blank. What was
his really big big hit. I don't

1436
01:50:50,760 --> 01:50:54,479
even remember, because I don't know. He had more than one single that

1437
01:50:54,560 --> 01:50:57,399
did well, but there was one
that was huge, and I can't remember.

1438
01:50:57,520 --> 01:51:00,000
I can't remember what it was now
either that he had a short shelf

1439
01:51:00,039 --> 01:51:02,520
life. I think he was.
He had come and gone pretty quick,

1440
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:06,239
he did. But but yeah,
but I can see that working, you

1441
01:51:06,319 --> 01:51:11,560
know, because again your sound is
so accessible that you know, obviously a

1442
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:14,359
lot of different you know, different
kinds of people are gonna like it.

1443
01:51:15,319 --> 01:51:18,800
Is that something you do consciously,
like in terms of writing and recording the

1444
01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:24,119
music? Is it? Do you
consciously try to make songs that you know,

1445
01:51:24,239 --> 01:51:27,159
with with good hooks and and big, you know, sort of sing

1446
01:51:27,199 --> 01:51:31,960
along choruses. I think that,
you know, every songwriter probably gravitates to

1447
01:51:32,159 --> 01:51:35,640
something. There's something that you know, as you're noodling around on your guitar

1448
01:51:35,800 --> 01:51:39,920
or humming melodies or whatever it maybe
there's something that catches you about it.

1449
01:51:40,119 --> 01:51:43,840
Yeah, and I find for me, it's uh, you know, I

1450
01:51:43,920 --> 01:51:47,640
think I grew up listening to pop
radio and uh uh, you know,

1451
01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:51,600
from all eras. I enjoyed all
of it, and so I think those

1452
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:55,640
those melodies stick with me, and
those are the things, you know,

1453
01:51:55,880 --> 01:51:59,239
I find I won't write a song
unless I feel like there's a catchy melody

1454
01:51:59,319 --> 01:52:01,600
that's going to value in somewhere in
the song, and so right, that's

1455
01:52:01,720 --> 01:52:04,920
usually the basis of it. Then
you try to build around it. So

1456
01:52:05,039 --> 01:52:09,279
I guess in that sense it is
intentional. Yeah, yeah, well we

1457
01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:12,479
are. We are approaching the end
of the show. I do want to

1458
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:16,479
get one more one more song and
uh at the end. But guys,

1459
01:52:16,560 --> 01:52:19,079
this has been wonderful. Thank you
both so much. Thank you for having

1460
01:52:19,159 --> 01:52:23,800
us much. Absolutely appreciate absolutely.
And what do you want to make sure

1461
01:52:24,039 --> 01:52:28,399
our our listeners know about where to
find you online? Social media anything?

1462
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:32,199
Website? We are we are everywhere. Uh. We get that question sometimes

1463
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:35,720
you know, where can I find
your music? And I think my answers,

1464
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:40,199
where can't you? I mean it
should be we're literally on every streaming

1465
01:52:40,279 --> 01:52:47,560
platform. We're on YouTube with the
videos, We've got our website best not

1466
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:51,439
broken dog yet that's kind of headquarters. I'm trying to think of what else,

1467
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:55,079
all the basic stuff. I mean, you know, we're probably most

1468
01:52:55,159 --> 01:52:58,600
actives on Instagram and Facebook and that
kind of stuff, and and we keep

1469
01:52:58,640 --> 01:53:00,000
updates on hit us up on Sagram. You know, we'd love to,

1470
01:53:00,159 --> 01:53:02,880
you know, have somebody you know
make a comment. We uh, we

1471
01:53:03,039 --> 01:53:06,560
like responding and interacting with our fans, you know, it's it's great fun

1472
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:09,439
for us, you know. And
if you've seen us at a show,

1473
01:53:09,560 --> 01:53:11,640
you want to see us at a
show, you know, give us a

1474
01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:15,720
little a little shout out and we'll
let you know what's going on. Absolutely,

1475
01:53:15,039 --> 01:53:17,239
And do you do you have any
shows coming up this weekend that you

1476
01:53:17,279 --> 01:53:20,640
want to plug. We're in in
Vermont this weekend, right, yeah,

1477
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:25,880
yeah, we're playing up in Burlington, Vermont place called Red Square. It's

1478
01:53:25,880 --> 01:53:29,960
an outdoor show. Uh, get
there early because it fills up fast,

1479
01:53:30,199 --> 01:53:34,079
and especially if the weather is nice. I should says raining doomsday. Yeah,

1480
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:38,159
but it hasn't rained much this summer, so we should be okay.

1481
01:53:38,640 --> 01:53:41,439
That's why Carlo was wearing his red
shorts. He has these on all weeks,

1482
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:43,640
same pair. Yeah, he can't
take him off until the show.

1483
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:47,560
That's our deal. Oh yeah,
alrighty well, that's that's that's your business.

1484
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:54,720
Oh Matt, you have to close
of that right sure, absolutely,

1485
01:53:55,199 --> 01:53:58,399
guys, Thank you again so much, Mike. From my Queen City Cabinetry

1486
01:53:58,479 --> 01:54:01,319
says awesome guests day, Matt,
thank you, yeah, guys, thank

1487
01:54:01,359 --> 01:54:04,399
you so much. And we will
end with this track. This is called

1488
01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:11,600
low Lights. This is yeah,
this is kind of a little a little

1489
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:14,399
darker. Yeah, it's a different
it's a different tune. This is a

1490
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:17,039
mark tune. This is one of
the one of the new singles that's coming

1491
01:54:17,039 --> 01:54:19,399
out on our new EP. Very
good. Oh when is that out?

1492
01:54:19,439 --> 01:54:23,399
By the way, the EP,
well, it was supposed to be soon

1493
01:54:23,560 --> 01:54:26,159
and it's been pushed back a little
bit. I would expect it shortly after

1494
01:54:26,279 --> 01:54:29,000
Labor Day, so check out our
social media. It won't be long.

1495
01:54:29,359 --> 01:54:30,920
Excellent, excellent, all right,
So we're gonna end with this. This

1496
01:54:31,119 --> 01:54:34,600
is thanks again, guys, and
this is low Lights from the band Best

1497
01:54:34,880 --> 01:55:03,920
Not Broken. Check this out.
Won't you drink a little more? It's

1498
01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:10,439
such a little child. What a
lot of people saying that you're off the

1499
01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:15,479
teeth. I won't hurt you,
but I'm saying, let you do it

1500
01:55:15,760 --> 01:55:23,000
fine now, who knows the truth? In the night time, if it

1501
01:55:23,119 --> 01:55:29,000
gets night, let it get a
little crazy inside in the nighttime, in

1502
01:55:29,159 --> 01:55:36,119
the light, in the meantime,
in this down show, I am the

1503
01:55:36,720 --> 01:55:59,359
I thinking about chick in the light
doesn't feel right, Put another one.

1504
01:56:00,359 --> 01:56:10,640
Let's gets fun and then it empties
out you all another Now a lot of

1505
01:56:10,760 --> 01:56:15,399
people don't in the same with that
show. Then I'll let you if I

1506
01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:21,479
see my little shop here, not
what you tell you. Let's get gone

1507
01:56:23,159 --> 01:56:27,880
in the nighttime. If it Bill's
night. Let it get a little crazy

1508
01:56:28,279 --> 01:56:36,159
inside in the nighttime, in the
lower light, in the meantime, in

1509
01:56:36,279 --> 01:56:41,960
the s down shop. I am
then lot of thinking about you in the

1510
01:56:42,079 --> 01:56:49,439
lower light doesn't feel right in the
night time. If it feels right,

1511
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:56,560
let it get a little crazy inside
in the nighttime, in the lower light,

1512
01:57:00,159 --> 01:57:59,560
in the feeling this sounds tracking thing
as that t feel right, you

1513
01:57:59,560 --> 01:58:01,359
say, like Frankenstein, and I'm
the get go and I light it it.

1514
01:58:01,960 --> 01:58:09,800
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