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just we were just kids. We would just we would just kids. Hello,
Welcome everybody, Happy Tuesday. It is that time again. Matt Connerton
unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point
three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven.
If you're in Manchester and hello to Oliver our online listeners across the nation
and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com
for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk
show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Tuesday, August
eight, two thousand twenty three. So quick programming note regarding today's show.
So one of our guests is not here, not going to be here.
In the first hour, we did have scheduled journalist Bob Henneley. He's a
media guy from New York and he hosts the show actually on w BAI big
talk radio station in New York City. Bob was going to be here with
us today via Skype, but something has come up. He's got there's a
nurse's strike apparently that he is covering and he's in the thick of it there.
So he let Jenny know he's not going to be able to make it
on today. After all. He did apologize and we will rebook him,
of course, because I was really looking forward to speaking with him. So
kind of a bummer, but you know, there's always a million other things
we can do. There's always plenty going on in the news and so forth.
So Bob Henneley will not be able to be here with us today,
unfortunately, but he will reschedule. So really I am looking forward to speaking
with him in the future. We do have, however, in the second
hour. Our musical guest today is the band Best Not Broken. That's on
You Us Heard Kids, which is super catchy that actually all their stuff is
to be honest with you. So I'm really looking forward to meeting these guys.
They're gonna come in live in studio in the second hour of today's show,
Best Not Broken. We'll play some more of their music, we'll talk
with those guys, get to know them. Really looking forward to that.
And of course before that, to open the show, we played a little
Jerry and the Scumbags the new single Hipster Dipster. We've played that a few
times on the show. It's burning up the charts, burning up the charts.
Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat and says, this song is
great. I love Jerry. We all love Jerry absolutely well. I know
one person who doesn't, but the rest of us do. So that guy.
What a talent he is, you know. And by the way,
if he ever decides to leave music behind and get back into podcasting, I
think he could be the next Howard Stern, the next rated our comedy star.
Okay that's a little inside, but it doesn't matter. And but the
point is we love Jerry Robinson and we love Best not Broken, Best Not
broken. We'll be here in the second hour of today's program. In the
meantime, we'll see what other kinds of trouble in shenanigans. I always stumble
on that word. We can get into today. Oh, Jenny points out
regarding Jerry Robinson. I'm the T shirt girl, just saying yes, yes,
you were given that, and I of course am the uh what,
oh, what's the name of my title for Jerry's rock and roll Army?
Oh, Commander to the Supreme Leader of Jerry's rock and Roll Army, which
is very stious, prestigious. You know, I never really thought of myself
as a military man until I received that particular invitation, and I said,
that's an army i'd really like to be a part of. So far,
I haven't had to do anything, and it's great. I love being part
of Jerry Robinson's rock and roll Army. And of course, commander to the
Supreme Leader. It just sounds you know, it sounds powerful, and that's
what I like. All right. Anyway, six three two five O six
zero seven. The studio line is open and we already have a call.
We'll see who's on the line here. Hi, Well, welcome to Matt
Connorton unleashed. Is this allow Matt? So this says Jerry Robinson. Oh
my goodness, Sherry Robinson, I was just talking about you. I know,
I love I love tuning in too, of course, my favorite commander
to the Supreme Leader's radio show. It's quite fantastic. Thank you, thank
you. It's quite fantastic to be the commander to the Supreme Leader. And
I really appreciate that, Matt, so listen. I'm just I'm so elated
that Jenny took my offer to be a T shirt girl to the Supreme Leader
of rock and roll. That just made my whole week when she accepted that.
Yes, yes, it didn't take her long to decide to accept your
offer. She was very very excited. Yes, yes, it's been very
good. I just wanted to give you some updates on the music, of
course, yes please, So you know, I know we all got together,
but h and we got some files out of being sent. I still
got to do some stuff in studio Studio D of course, the largest,
greatest studio. It's got the greatest girth, of course, it's the best
studio. Yes, I'm working on a song right now. It is called
selfish, self centered, and self absorbed. And I'm also working on one
called riding the units cycle with no Seat down the bumpy Road of life.
Boy, that's a that's a wordy that's a very wordy title. Will any
of that be in parentheses? Yea, some of it will, especially one
called uh, You're just a squirrel and then in parenthesies trying to get a
not in my world. I've heard that somewhere. Yes, that sounds great.
I just you know, I think it's something that I mentioned one of
my previous videos. Of course, uh, probably you know, it's just
been great. How have you been this week? So so far? Mess
tho, Well, it's early, it's only Tuesday, so you know,
a lot can a lot can yet go wrong, but we hope for the
best, and we soldier on soldier as and of course, uh you know
Jerry's rock and roll army. But yes, so far, so good,
sir, Oh thank you that. Yeah, that's great, that's great to
hear. I hope that I see Jenny's not in studio today, but I
hope that that she is doing well, of course, And you know,
all the great members of our bands, you know, you know yourself,
you know Billy Painter Parent Pincher, but you know, I just wanted to
call give you some updates. I also really appreciate you playing our song Hipster
Dipster, by the way, which is for free on my band camp page.
If you look up Jerry and the Scumbags, it is for free on
a free download. You can download that plus our great single I'm Demand Yes
and Hipster Dipster. It's burning up the charts. I saw it. I
really appreciate that's saw a chart here somewhere anyway. Yes, yes, it's
somewhere. You know it's it's gonna go platinum somewhere, probably in like that
I don't know, like Bosnia, Algeria. We got some connections over and
dot that area of the world. But yes, I just wanted to call
off of you. Great wishes for the rest of your week and rest of
your day. All the best, Jerry nights, Jerry bye bye. Oh
wow. The Great Jerry Robinson. Always wonderful too to hear from him.
Such a such a nice man. He's uh uh, he's a great,
a great rock and roll are very very talented, and it's wonderful to have
that association with the great Jerry Robinson, and I'm telling you that that track
Hipster Dipster. Yes, it is actually uh in the UH the Bosnia,
Algeria market. It is UH very very successful. Also, I see Mike
from Queen City Cabinetry in the Facebook live chat. He was commenting the other
day he saw it on a chart in Tibet. It's a number one into
Bett, I believe if I'm not mistaken. There's a lot of inside jokes
today. Sorry anyway, but if you're new to the show, you're welcome
to join the show and the inside jokes. Six zero three two five zero
six zoh seven. The studio line is open six zero three two five zero
six zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one
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so that we can hear and enjoy your Dolcy tones is to give us a
call at six oz three two five zero six zero seven. Let's go ahead
and say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat, and then we'll get
into some stuff if you're just joining us, But you did see the social
media post earlier. Our guest for this hour, Bob Henneley, has to
reschedule. Journalist Bob Henneley from New York. He's got he's covering the nurses
strike and he's uh so he's he has to focus on that at the moment.
So, but we do have a great musical guest coming up in the
second hour, the band Best Not Broken. We'll be here with us,
and Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Hello, almost a good
morning. Well it's morning somewhere. Uh. What I wanted to say was,
in case anybody isn't telling you. I think Peter said this morning that
the instead of channel ninety seven, it is channel six. Now I didn't
know that if well, unless he was pulled on everybody's leg, I don't
know, but he said that they weren't on ninety seven anymore, they were
on channel six. Oh, okay, I could be wrong. In case
anybody's looking at ninety seven that ken and doesn't see anything, or you know,
just letting you know. Okay, all right, all right, all
right, thanks Shannon, Yeah, all right, by bye, all right.
I don't know. I mean, I know there's gonna be some changes
with that with the cable channels, but if that is the case, no
one has informed me, so I don't know. Six zero three two five
zero six zero seven is the number six zero three two five zero six zero
seven. Let's see. We will say hello everybody in the chat here.
Uh. Scott Robinson joins us and says, well, hello guys, Well
hello Scott. Also, Jenny is in the chat and says shalom, peeps.
Dylan Reynolds I mentioned, is in there. Jay Fed, of course,
from the Great State of Vermont. I was reading about the health benefits
of ice baths the other day and I thought of you, Jay Fed.
Melanie Liberty, of course, in the Great State of Vermont. Hello Melanie.
Miriam Mannish joins us and says, Shenanigans is one of my favorite words.
I used the term earlier, but I did stumble upon it, which
I felt terrible about. Oh, someone is calling who I think can shed
some light on the subject that Shannon was just calling about. Hey, Joe,
Yeah, this might be the answer. And I'm sorry you didn't hear
about it. But in fact, Jason and I this morning we're just we
looked at the calendar and we go, wow, today's the day. Oh,
I guess it should have been a bigger deal. But Channel ninety seven
is on six and Channel twenty three Public Access is now on eight. Really
that's why. Okay, yeah, they and I think the big news is
Channel nine is now on channel nine. Yeah, I remember so, Peter.
Peter did mention something to me about how that was going to be happening,
which to me I didn't realize because well, as for you know,
years they were on obviously forever they've been on twelve because of because of interference
by analog channels. But we no longer have analog channels anymore, so they
can put it wherever they they want, and now they've got their nine back.
Yeah, okay, well that's good. But what's really good is so
this is on channel six right now, is what you're saying, Channel six.
That's pretty cool. Actually, that's what that's really good. You know
what the weird thing is they're mapping it throughout the city, so it did
not happen all at once. For example, Gwen, who we all know
and love, was still watching Jerry Springer on Channel eight while the rest of
us were watching you know, TV fel Mes. So it's not it's not
quite done yet, but it will be done by the end of the day.
Oh, very cool, very cool, all right, great to know.
I'm just excited that we're on channel six because a lot more people are
likely to school. Yeah, it's a little bit easier to get to I
guess, oh yeah, number yeah, that's a big swing. No,
I love it. That's great. All right, Joe, thank you so
much for sure. All right, Joe, thank you, alright, by
bye bye bye, all right, the great Joe Lar and Joe. By
the way, I mean this, this W M and H would uh likely
not exist were it not for Joe Larre. But so he deserves a lot
of a lot more credit than I think people. Well he's he's a humble
guy anyway, but but he deserves a lot of credit for what we're able
to do here. But that's cool. So Shannon, you were right.
Joe Larre confirms it. We are now on channel six in Manchester on the
cable. That is pretty cool because obviously the advantage of being on channel six
is when people are people who have cable, when they're flipping through the channels.
They're a lot more likely to see us and stumble upon us and then
say, oh my goodness, who's this lunatic? But which is a good
thing, because lunacy is ratings. That's an old saying I learned from television
executive ice to know. I totally made that saying. Up. I did
hear a different saying today. I learned a new expression today, not much
meat in the bun. But I don't know how I feel about it,
so you might never hear me use it. It kind of makes me giggle
a little bit, anyway, the point being that's very exciting. So we're
now on Channel six here in Manchester on cable television. That is amazing.
Thank you again to Joel Lar for chiming in and clearing that up. I
was very confused, but apparently this has just happened. This is a new
development. So Miriam Banish in the chat room says, thanks Joe Lar,
I love WMNH and MPT. Yes yes, Oh. Sepsis joins us in
the Facebook latch at great band of course and close friends of ours, and
Jenny and I of course will be not only there but participating. We'll have
more details when it gets closer, but Swarmy Fest coming up in November at
Jewel Nightclub. But Sepsis says, who remembers continental cable vision? I have
heard of continental cable vision now see I actually, oh, by the way,
so the whole channel nine thing to me, I guess for people who
have lived in Manchester for you know, because there's people in Manchester who grew
up here. Obviously apparently in Manchester, Channel nine used to be on channel
twelve here in Manchester, and that's not unusual in cities across the country for
on cable. You know, you have a conflict, so so you have
you know, the numbers don't always line up. But I actually grew up
and conquered, and in conquered channel nine was always on channel nine, so
I I to me, it's nothing new, channel nine meeting on channel nine.
But but apparently if you're in Manchester, that's that's uh, that's a
new thing. But that's good for them, good for them, everything's falling
into place. Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry says, in Rhode Island, we
say uh much not meet in the fifty five gallon drum. That's a very
confusing. Mike and by the way, and of course Mike from Queen's City
Cabinetry and one of our co hosts on Friday night on Retrospectrum Radio. That's
why I don't go to Rhode Island. They have all kinds of confusing expressions
there, and I don't know what they're talking about. It's like there is
talking a different language. It's crazy. Uh. Let's see. Miriam Banish
says, reminds me a little of Gilbert Godfried, and I assume she's referring
to our friend Jerry Robinson. Boy, how about those song titles. Huh
again, it's a little inside, but we we like it if you know,
you know. Oh, Melanie La Liberty said the same thing. Gilbert
Godfried. No, Gilbert Godfried though, boy he was he was very funny.
I was sad when he passed away. But no, Gilbert Godfried add
more of a little bit, more of a screech to him than than our
friend Jerry. Uh. Let's see. Oh and freeband Prince great hip hop
artist from Florida also joining us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, let
me give out the studio line again, especially for our viewers on Channel six.
This is amazing. If you're just joining us. This is Matt Connerton
unleashed here at WMH ninety five point three. Fm U six zero three two
five six zero seven is a studio line six ZHO three two five zero six
zero seven. Uh, we should talk about some things again. Also,
if you are just joining us, our guest Bob Henley has to reschedule.
But we do have the band Best Not Broken coming up in the second hour.
But in the meantime. Oh, here's something just completely random that just
caught my eye, not particularly of any great importance, but media reports Tampa
mayor catches over one million dollars of cocaine during a fishing trip in the Florida
Keys. Now, this uh, quite quite shocking to me. I didn't
know that you could go fishing for for that. Maybe maybe the mayor didn't
mean for that to happen, you know. When I was a kid,
uh, I remember watching Miami Vice and not seeing anything. You know,
they were of course Vice narcotics, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. I
don't remember what their actual names were. I never got into that show.
My dad liked that show a lot when I was a kid. I never
really got into it. But but then again, that was Miami. This
happened in Tampa. So maybe if it had been Tampa vice, Uh,
you know, they would have had a plot line where, you know,
they're fishing, maybe they're there, they're Oh, Sonny Crockett. That's the
name of the character, And now it's coming back to me. Sonny Crockett's
the name of the character that Don Johnson played, Oh Crockett. And Tubbs.
Tubbs was the other guy. I forget his first name, doesn't matter.
Media reports a family fishing trip off the Florida Keys yielded an out of
the ordinary catch, several blocks of discarded cocaine over a million dollars worth,
but the person who recognized it was none none other than the mayor of Tampa,
Jane Caster. Reporter Olivia George of the Tampa Bay Times recounted the story
of how Castor and her family came across the unexpected stash. There was something
in the water, black and bobbing. The package adrift in the Atlantic caught
the eye of a family enjoying a day of fishing off the Florida Keys on
a Sunday in late July. Hey, look at that, said Kelly Castor,
a sixty one year old boating enthusiast cocaine, replied his older sister,
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, as the package came closer, speaking with the assurance
of someone who spent three decades in the Tampa Police Department, including about eight
years in narcotics and six as police chief. Not just cocaine, but seventy
pounds of it, according to US Border Patrol, who also placed the street
value of the find at one point one million dollars. Ever, the former
cop Castor recorded the location where they fished the cocaine out of the water on
her watch before they lugged it on board the boat she and her family were
riding. Once they were on dry land, Mayor Caster, who along with
her brother was accompanied on the trip by her son and his girlfriend, called
up the Monroe County Sheriff's office to report the cocaine, which was then taken
away by federal agents. The hall made the Miami Herald as well as the
Twitter account it's x now and It's not Twitter anymore of US Border Patrol agent,
while a slasser who posted a photo of the cocaine bricks, identifying only
a recreational Boater as having found the cocaine. Castor was only identified by The
Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday as being the one to find the cache. Wow.
After turning in their initial catch, Castor and her family continued their trip
to much success, spending quote the rest of their vacation diving and fishing,
catching no more drugs, but about sixty lobsters unquote. That must seem I
mean, I know, you know, people like to go fishing for lobster
because you can eat lobster, of course, But I mean after catching all
that cocaine, I mean, where do you go from there? Really?
Everything after that just seems kind of tame, doesn't it. Wow, isn't
that that that movie A River Runs through It? Isn't that what that's about?
Catching? Catching cocaine on your fishing line? I don't know. John
Hopwood joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, a million dollars ain't
what it used to be. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says it's all in
what you use for bait. Well, apparently, and Ronda Fervero from the
Great State of California joins us in the Facebook live chat. Uh, let's
see in other news now speaking of let's look at this because I mentioned,
oh, by the way, before we go any further, I know there's
there's Trump's stuff now. He's making claims about uh Fannie Willis having an affair
with a gang member. It's just crazy stuff. I'm just I'm just not
up for it today. If you listen to yesterday's show, when I was
talking about TFS settling in Trump fatigue syndrome, I actually wasn't kidding. I
was so not kidding that when it probably sounded like I was joking when I
said I was on the verge of a panic attack just trying to keep track
of all the Trump legal stuff in my head, I actually wasn't kidding.
Like I actually was not kidding. I will confess that now I really did
feel one coming on. So I'm just not doing it today. I'm just
not doing it today. We're not doing any Trump stuff today. I know
there's new developments in the legal sagas there are every day. I just I
can't do it. I'm overwhelmed by it. And it's not like it's not
like if we don't cover any Trump stuff today, there won't be opportunities in
the future like tomorrow or the day after or the day after or the next
week or whatever, because this is all going to be going on for a
very long time. So I should tell you, especially new viewers on Channel
six, I should tell you if you're enjoying the show and you're thinking,
oh, I wonder if he's going to talk about the latest Trump news.
No, I'm not. I'm taking the day off from Trump. I just
I need a break. Trump has burned me out. Part of it is
I think I need to figure out a way again. Yesterday, I just
I wasn't. Jenny and I both and John Hopwood too. You know,
we're talking about this and we're we can't keep it all straight in our heads.
You know, the Egen Carol lawsuit and the countersuit, and there was
news about that yesterday, and oh my god, I just I can't do
it. So instead, let's look at this, because this came up Twitter,
which is now X. CNBC reports today Elon Musk's X aims to win
back advertisers with brand new safety technology deal. Some bullet points. X said
that its signed an exclusive partnership with the digital ad tech firm Integral ad Science.
I don't care, I just realized I don't care about any of this,
so we're gonna we're gonna x that out. No. I just I
am fascinated by you know, we do talk about social media on the show
and online media and so forth, and I've been just fascinated, as I
know we all have, by watching Elon Musk try to figure out what to
do with Twitter, and then all of a sudden one day I sign on.
And I don't use Twitter a lot. I use it mostly just to
promote the show. To be honest with you, my first social media platform
of choice is Facebook. I use Facebook more than anything. But it was
odd the first time after the change when I logged onto Twitter and I see
this X, and I have to tell you, by the way, not
to nitpick. And what do I know, Elon Musk is a billionaire.
I'm just me. I'm just a guy sitting here running my mouth. But
I have to say, when I open that you are l and I see
the X logo up here on the screen. It looks a little cheap to
me. And look, I am a web designer, so I know a
little something about making things look nice. And I don't know, it looks
like it just you know this X appears this Uh you know the way it
loads, it's kind of cheesy. It looks like Windows ninety five or something.
And then and then it goes to the Twitter and then everything else is
the same except for the logo. But it's just it looks cheap. I
don't I don't get it. I don't get it. Melanie asks a question
about is there one particular instance where I might speak about Trump? And I'm
not comfortable reading that question on the air, but that is funny and the
answer is yes, Melanie, if that did happen and I would talk about
it, However, I would have to speak about it in code. I
wouldn't. I wouldn't want to be a graphic. It is afternoon drive after
all. Uh. Let's see now, I wanted to. Let's look at
this. If you've been following Ron De Santis, who, of course the
governor of Florida and anti woke enthusiasts, he's been in New Hampshire a few
times now. I think he's had a big campaign shake up. This has
just happened. Uh. In fact, Politico as an updated story to Santis
replace his campaign manager as he struggles to catch up to Trump. Uh see,
we can't. We can't avoid Trump entirely today, but we're talking about
de Santis. The focus is De Santis with this, Yeah, Trump will
figure in. Trump has to figure in. By the way, I still
think Trump is not going to be at that debate in Milwaukee, that I
am sure about. But yes, there has been a campaign shake up at
Ron De Santis campaign. By the way, I think people are making perhaps
a little bit too much of it, only in the sense that it's interesting
because it's political news. This is a presidential primary campaign cycle, so it's
all interesting to talk about, which is why I'm bringing it up. But
I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me that campaign shakeups are
not unusual in a presidential campaign, especially one that's struggling that was expected to
do better. Apparently, the De Santis campaign has been burning through cash very
quickly and is not getting any real traction. You know, he's supposed to
be the challenger to you know, the biggest quote unquote threat to Trump.
I'm not going to be able to avoid Trump completely. It's impossible. He's
ubiquitous, but again, I will We're not making him the focus of this
conversation. This is about Rhonda Santis or tiny D, one of Trump's nick
names for him, iron to sanctimonious. Oh my god, it really is
impossible to avoid Trump. Oh policies in the Facebook live chat and says hey
guys, hello Paul of course from Retrospectrum Media with policy and also astronaut Viacom
is in the Facebook live chat and astronaut Viacom says, what's with Trump?
We said, no, Astronaut Viacom, I'm trying to avoid Trump today.
I'm trying to avoid and I'm already failing. So these campaign shakeups are not
unusual. But the problem with Ron de Santasis campaign is so he was supposed
to be he was expected to be the biggest threat to Trump, but of
course Trump is a head by like forty points. So now he's getting desperate
and to try to figure out a way to reboot and course correct. But
I don't think this campaign shakeup is going to help unless he's willing to do
a couple of things that he probably is reluctant to do. But we have
a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's us? It's
your old pal John c. Hotwood. The sea stands for super stilious yes,
which starts with an S. We've talked about that, Hi, John,
Well, the Russians sage, and Oh, I support Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Which means I'm a putin. Duke McCarthy, I plan. Oh my
goodness, speaking of Bobby speaking Aboubby Kennedy Jr. I have a question.
Have you ever seen the film Thirteen Days? Yeah, no, but I've
read about it. I don't like to watch like historical hysterical films. Thirteen
Days, Eric historical films. Thirteen Days is so good. That's about Kenny
O'Donnell. Yeah, well, it's about the Cuban missile crisis. But Kenny
O'Donnell is played by Kevin Costner and is the main character in the film.
Uh. Bruce Greenwood plays JFK. And it's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, very
fine Canadian actor. Yeah, Stephen Culp plays Bobby Kennedy and Jenny had never
seen it. I've seen it a number of times. It's one of my
top five favorite films of all time. I love that movie. I love
I love anything involving the Cuban missus. It's really good. John because it
is really good. I recommended. The problem I have with Kevin The only
problem I have with Kevin Costner is that my friend Jocelyn used to live him
over his garage and uh, there's some bad blood there. So you know,
well I have to hear that story. What do you mean, why
is there bad blood? You'll hear that one. Oh is that kind of
story? Okay, I'm awfully curious. Yeah, it's just it's just one
of those things. You know, her boyfriend at the time, Rose sub
dances with wolves and won the Oscar and uh, there's too much to talk
about it. It's it's it's it's all right to name drop in New York
City or la uh in Manchester. It's very vulgar. Although I am going
his name dropped because we're going to talk about campaign shakeups. M Yes,
the name I have to drop as my late friend Bill Cashion, who was
very close. So yes, he was consider They called him the Kingmaker and
he used to be the head of the whole operation there. But he was
one of those New Hampshire politicians that every presidential candidate has to go see every
New Hampshires. The New Hampshire primary there are certain people that you have to
go see. The Democrats Lu Dallasandro, every Senator Lu Dallasandra from Manchester,
everybody has to go see him. Yeah, you know, you have to
course them. And Bill cashions with then the chairman of the board of the
Manchester Board of Mayor and all the and like a twenty foot portrait there in
the chamber is one of those people they had to see. I met.
That's I spent an hour with Joe Biden at Bill Tugs one day with our
mayor, former Governor Lynch. What year was that the way campaigns go,
what year year? They would have been twenty nineteen, okay, because you
know the Hampshire primaries early he was not the Vice president Biden and I've talked
about meeting Biden before. Ye, So he talks, he comes off the
better. He's one of those people like Hillary Clinton comes up better in private,
although there's not much difference, as I don't know if Biden's like nah,
it's like meeting Bill Clinton. Now. Bill Cashion, one of the
reasons to call the Kingmaker was central to Bill Clinton's campaign in nineteen ninety two,
and he actually came on. He told Bill Clinton that after the Jennifer
Flowers scandal that you've got to claim, you know, on election night,
if you come in second, that you actually want, which he did.
Bill didn't come up with the term to come back kid, though, I
have no idea who that is. Oh I have a theory. I have
a theory about that. I think Bill Clinton probably used that back when because
if you remember when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, he served a term
and then he got voted out, and then the next term he ran again
and got voted back in. So he had already been the comeback kid back
in Arkansas. Now you know I was. Bill was not a person that
talked a lot lot. You know, we did talk a lot because the
twenty sixteen primary, Hillary started running and I can't tell you a lot about
that. Botsaul Danny O'Neill, who used to be the chairman of the board
who built Bill Cash that was kind of like his success or, told Tony
stories about because he was brought into the Clinton campaign it was the beginning of
his career. And he said, and Bill Cash was about five foot five,
you know my size, and Bill Clinton was six foot three. I
met him many times, and Danny O'Neill, who was a big, big
guy. I remember Danny O'Neill was trying to hug me once and I thought
I was gonna he did try to hug me about Oh my god, I
thought I was gonna get to six feet because he's a big guy. And
he said, John, you should have seen it was just something, you
know, it was some victory. I think that the time we defeated a
certain mayor. We're gonna get into that. But Danny was saying, John,
you should have seen it. After the Jennifer Flowers, uh, you
know, blew up and everybody was all torn out in the seat over what
was going to happen. There's Bill, you know, a foot a foot
shore of the Bill Clinton, and he's pointing his finger into Bill's chest and
saying, you were only going to campaign in the corridor on ninety three Nashua
Manchester concert, remember that Nashua Manchester conquered. Don't listen to these people,
you know his campaign advices. Don't give a damn about Portsmouth. Portsman's gonna
vote you know, gonna vote Democrat anyways. You don't care about the North,
you don't care about the West. You care about these three cities are
you are you talking about in the are you talking about in the primary or
the general election? Yeah, in the New Hampshire primary, that's what I
thought, because that's what I thought. But then you said the thing about
Portsmouth and they're going to vote Democrat anyway, and that threw me, right,
you don't You don't, well, yeah, exactly, because that's true.
They're probably gonna what he meant was probably gonna vote liberal, right,
and Bill was a conservative moderate. Yeah, I don't know who the liberal
was, and that maybe Songes. Well, Paul Songis, I mean,
he was ever everybody knew. I mean, the way I remember it,
The reason Bill Clinton could claim victory was because everyone knew Paul Songis was going
to win anyway, because even though he's from a border state, he had
favorite son status effectively liberal from Massachusetts. My candidate. I voted for him.
Oh my friends, Uh, some of my friends who you know,
wouldn't vote for him because they thought Paul song Which was lying about his cancer,
which turns out he actually still had the cancer. Really, you know,
you know, people who thought he was actually thought he was lying about
that. Wow. Well yeah, because you don't you know, we won't
get into cancer. Cancer has a tendency to come back. He did with
my father. Yeah, and uh, you know, you go into remission.
But it's important to know. In nineteen ninet two, Bill Clinton listened
to a local candidate, I mean a local politician who knew every This guy's
Bill Cashi knew more about politics. I remember saying that I only thought to
Buden, this guy knows more about politics than anybody I've ever met. And
well, I didn't mention the name Howard jim through Joe Biden sea Might before
he became Looke. It might have, you know, seam Might accounts ears
here about that old Brandy but that somebody you associated with Bernie Sanders, right,
But okay, so that is nineteen ninety two. The thing was,
you want you ran a campaign to win in New Hampshire, you get close
to the people. I remember John Hudson saying, people tell me because when
John Huntsman I covered him. I actually crossed the line and the party line
and voted for him in the primary because it was so impressed by him,
even though he didn't have my politics. But Obama was not a policy.
I'm mad of Obama for assassinating US citizens without the court, the order or
anything. I like. I like John Huntsman as well. He's talked about
him the kind of labels with a mansion. But getting back to the campaign,
he Bill Clinton listened to the local people who knew what was going on.
They knew the pull. Nobody knew more about politics than Bill Cash and
nobody knew more about Manchester or you know, the Democratic Party even rended body
and they and he'd be sitting with him and the call come, oh hello,
governor, and he had Bill Clinton on his the cell phone actually called
each other Billie's. Because that's twenty sixteen. In twenty sixteen, you had
Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton had a bunch of kids running her campaign from you
know, from the elite universities. That this is what this is a big
trend too, where campaigns are run by these technocrats. Because Jimmy Carter was
the first person actually that we remember using somebody like that in Pat Cadell is
that it was his name, the oh yeah, statistics guy, the polling
guy. Yeah. The thing is she was not using any vocal people.
She's using kids that were driven by statistics, by online you know, you
wouldn't even take the computer base that's online. And you know, Bill say,
it's following the campaign because Obama is coming out of nowhere, you know,
and uh and is topping the poles. And he says, this is
crazy to use these kids. She's not making any connection with vocal and uh,
I'll tell you what. The day before the primary, over on the
west side on Kelly Street, there's a French Canadian giant Shvashaw and it's famous.
You go in there and there's pictures of every presidential candidate you know,
back to like nankteen seventy two, and they're famous for their do you call
putin pittine whatever, it's French Canadian French fries with gravy. Vica came when
she was visiting me. I took her there and she said it faced like
vomit. But you know it's a local specialty and a lot of people like
it. Bill Clinton loved it. So we're having a meeting over at Shiva
Shan it's before Hillary that dip little the day it's the last day the primary,
and she is going to go campaign. But they're waiting and they're waiting
for Bill Cashion to come. I had to go I can't go into becausement
start. But finally Bill shows up and Bill, I'm sitting with Danny O'Neill,
Bob Backus, who you well now, who's Harvard educated lawyer but probably
the only true liberal the entire city of Manchester before, you know, the
new generation of people. And I'm sitting with Bill, Bill, Bill,
Bill Barry too. We're all sitting and Cashion is sitting with the ghosts and
sits on with Hillary and Bill Clinton at just these you know, in the
small restaurant at just the regular table. And then Danny, being the chairman
of the board, like you know, the particular head of the Democratic Party
matches, goes and sits with them. And I'm looking at them. And
at the time, they took a picture of everybody and they cropped me out
of it national They had Bill Berry backets, but since I was on the
side of Danny was sitting and he left, I guess there was nobody sitting
behind next to me, so they cropped me out and that went the New
York Times national photo. But I'm looking at Bill Cashing and he has remember
those eyes when you met him, those eyes that you know used to make
I guess all theaman have bowel movements from the Britches if he gave him that
a look. You know, he's looking at Hillary and he's pointing and he's
talking, you know, and her and Bill are looking at him intently.
And what he told me later, he says, you can't rely on these
kids. You've got to you screw it up. You have to do both.
You have to listen to the vocal people. You have to use the
vocal people. That's why you're failing. And you know, this was a
guy that helped Bill. You know, people need to know. In the
New Hampshire primary, a lot of people came in second and who considered victors.
Eugene McCarthy came in a close second and LBJ the who was sitting president.
No, you know, that was the end of it for him.
George mcgobern came in seconds to the senator muskie from Maine, who was considered
the front runner because he's been the vice presidential nominee with Humphrey in sixty eight.
He wins the nomination. You know, coming in a close second can
be a victory. But here's a guy that helped Bill Clinton. When the
primary become president and uh, you know what happened after the New Hampshire primary.
Bernie Finders won an overwhelming victory in twenty sixteen, and they shook up
the They immediately shook up the campaign staff and they went but you know,
Hillary being Hillary, she went more to the DNC huh right, professionals,
but not not kids that she can control. She took on like equals because
you remember at the time they were saying that she wanted to distance herself from
her husband's campaign. Yeah, former you know, campaign apparatus and people to
be your own person. That worked out great for Algor Yeah well John,
Yeah, we gotta go, We gotta go. And it happens, you
know, people shake up their campaign. Yes, they have some more tales
to tell. I'm taking up too much of your time. Yeah, we're
coming up on the top of the hour. We've got some musical guests coming
in. I think I think I see musicians in the hallway, So we
will we will have to move along. But I appreciate the call. Yeah,
I'll see soon. Take care, all right, John, thank you
bye. But all right, that was the great John Hopwood And yeah,
de Santis, you know, we'll see again. We'll see if he changes
direction. I mean, if I were, if I were run to Santas's
new campaign manager, that the two bits of advice I would give him,
neither of which I think he would take. One is I would tell him
he's gonna have to start going at Trump, like really going at him,
because if if you know, he and some of the other candidates, some
of the other candidates on the Republican side here, it seems like they're sort
of on this dual track where they're all where they're they're opponents of Trump because
they're running against him for the nomination, but simultaneously they're also surrogates for Trump
because they're also kind of talking about how great he is because they don't dare
upset the megabase. Obviously there are exceptions like Chris Christie and so forth.
But uh, you know, I would say to de Santis, look,
you're number two in this race. You're the guy who is supposed to be
able to beat Trump. Maybe you should start campaigning like that's what you're actually
trying to do. And DeSantis, you know, he'll be somewhat critical,
but he doesn't like to say Trump's name and tries to avoid that if he
can't. And the other thing I would the other bit of advice that I
would have for Desantist again, if I were as campaign manager, I would
say, and there's already been a slight change with this anyway, but I
would say, no more with the you know, anti woke stuff. Your
answer to every single question and every media interview should not be well, we
have to do something about wokesm Don't get me wrong. Obviously, there is
a large segment of the Republican Party of Republican voters to whom that appeals.
They love the culture war stuff, they eat it up. But I think
there's also a large and there's polling data the shows this, there's also a
large contingent of the Republican Party there really has no use for it, and
is tends to be more practical and pragmatic about things, and isn't so much
into the culture war stuff. You know, there's plenty of suburban educated Republicans,
moderate Republicans who you know, probably sitting at the table, sitting at
their desk at home, looking at their electric bill which is fifty percent higher
than it was a year ago. Going well, I know, I'm supposed
to be really angry at trans people, but I'm not sure how that's going
to help me pay this electric bill. You know. I know I'm supposed
to be really angry about critical race theory, but is that really going to
help me buy groceries? I'm not sure that it is. You know.
So there's I think there's a very large segment of the Republican Party that just
you know, they listen to somebody like de Santis and ever the answered everything
is, well, it's wokeism. We have to defeat wokeism. And they're
just kind of rolling their eyes and they're going, this is the guy who's
supposed to be the alternative to Trump. So so I would I would definitely
make some changes. I mean, and as far as going to Trump harder
than he is, what does he have to lose? You know, he
can continue to try to walk that line between political opponent and supplicant, much
like Mike Pence does so masterfully. Mike Pence, though clearly he knows he's
not going to be the nominee, he's just trying to trying to sell some
books. Then to Saantis probably knows he's not going to be the nominee as
well, and he's probably gonna make another run in twenty twenty eight, and
he's just kind of, you know, trying to get the hang of it
now so he knows what to do and what not to do in twenty twenty
eight. But but we'll see. It'll be interesting to see if anything changes
with this campaign shake up. All right, we are approaching the top of
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Matt and Carlo on the couch right on the couch. How did you
get the couch? By the way, Well, there's a story there,
but I'm not sure we should go into that right now. All right,
all right? And and who are we missing? And feel free to make
up a ridiculous story about I suppose we could. Probably that would be better
than the truth. I think it's more it's more fun if if you come
up with a story, not to put you on the spot. Well,
we're missing Mark. Mark is our bass player. Yes, and I'm trying
to remember whether he stubbed his toe or if he hurt his wrist combination.
I think he uh stubbed his toe while hurting his wrist. That's that's probably
what I would get a visual of that, right, which has happened a
couple of times with Mark and oh my well, he's a very dynamic individual
and he moves around and jumps around a lot. Yeah. Yeah, you
know a lot of times lands on his toe. Well, that's that's understandable.
Well, actually there's truth of that. I think he hurt his toe
last week, right, it was, so that's not all. Well,
thoughts and prayers for Mark, thank you, well, Well, welcome guys.
By the way, uh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our
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some some love in the appreciate that. Now, what do you got?
So Mark is the bass player, So what do you guys each doing the
band? So I sing and play the guitar, Carlo is in drums.
Yeah, all percussion. So you got like a it's like a power trio
basically exactly. But is there a fourth? Is there a fourth individual who
does. Yeah, there is another guitar player that sits in with us,
uh most of the time, on and and Uh. Yeah, we have
mystery men that do all kinds of interesting things through the band, but on
and is the most regular. On And is our other guitar player. Gotcha,
gotcha? So is on and Is Uh there are only occasionally for live
shows or consistently or most of the time, So it kind of depends on
the on the on the event, you know. I mean, sometimes we're
an acoustic format and it calls for a smaller a smaller thing, and sometimes
it's a bigger thing, and so he does the bigger things, I guess
is the way we most simply describe it. Gotcha, Yeah, gotcha?
And how long has the band been around, because it looks like you've got
a fair amount of music online from what I saw, looks like you've been
at it for a while. We have, yes, a long time.
Well not, I mean in this room, I'm the young member, but
it's been for more than ten years. Oh yeah, for sure, to
the point that we don't like our the music that we first wrote right right,
for sure, we're trying to move on from that. But no,
I think. I think our first recordings were done in twenty twelve, and
the band, you know, it started before that and sort of evolved.
We actually kind of started as a cover band playing clubs here in Manchester and
around Boston in southern Hampshire, and slowly started to work our own material into
into our shows and eventually started to record that material. And so twenty twelve
is when we started to start to push the original stuff. And so that's
I think officially when we became an original band. Okay, which it actually
isn't as long as I thought, but no, in shorter or longer,
I'm not sure I know. But anyway, we've been doing it a while,
I always say, and I say it only half kidding. I feel
like the COVID pandemic kind of created this weird time distortion thing where sometimes things
happened longer ago, they seem like they either didn't happen as long ago as
they actually did, or they seem longer ago or something. It's really it's
really odd. And I run into that a lot, specifically with musicians when
we're talking about how, you know, how long ago did you record this
or whatnot? And you know, I'll have a I had a band in
here recently. It was like they had they had just recorded something and uh
like two years ago, twenty twenty one, but one of the members was
convinced it was like twenty eighteen. It was. It's just interesting how that
how that works. But COVID changed the music business so much, I mean
all live entertainment obviously because we weren't gathering and so it really changed it for
a lot of musicians. And you know, we're fortunate we have other ways
of paying the bills sometimes, but but those that were fully dependent on,
you know, playing for a living had a really hard time. Absolutely absolutely,
And it seems like there's been some lasting changes too, because you know,
when the pandemic started to wrap up and things opened up, you know,
all of a sudden, a lot of bands are playing out again because
they can. But but then it's like, now, you know, I
again. I have a lot of different musicians on the show, and different
people have different approaches. But some of the bands I talked to now they're
kind of like, yeah, we're doing you know, maybe one show a
month. We're not really you know, gas is expensive, it's uh,
you know, we can do live performances in our living room and stream it,
you know, and are really kind of pulling back, which to me
is is interesting and it's it's hard to fathom in a way because so I
don't I don't play anymore. But I used to play in a lot of
bands, and my my thing was always I just wanted to play out.
I wanted to play as many shows as possible because being on stage was my
favorite thing in the world. Sure, I just wanted to that's all I
want. I mean, I was in I was in a couple of bands
where we probably oversaturated because we played so much. But I wanted to be
out there every weekend, and I didn't care if we were playing the same
bar two weekends in a row or you know, which, you know,
not a great idea necessarily, but I didn't care. And but it's interesting
now some bands are really kind of pulling back, and then there's others,
you know, who are just you know, playing every weekend and and really
really trying to still push it. But I think the period right before COVID,
who knows what date that was, but that that summer season, we
were we were actually very busy. Yeah, we were playing a lot all
over the Northeast, touring as far down as Virginia. I mean it was
we were very, very busy, and so we were definitely gearing up for
another very busy touring season and then you know, Comproof. But and we
certainly haven't returned to that. To your point, a lot of bands musicians
have not returned to the hectic schedule of playing out as much as possible because
I think we've all discovered that there's just different ways of getting the music out
there for people to listen to. Especially as an original band, you know,
just we have to take advantage of all those methods, and those methods
were proven during COVID. We were able to get music two people. We
actually did a music video during COVID. We we filmed a video, one
of these you know, hands off, you know, mask one kind of
video things for one of our one of our most popular songs, Oh yeah,
never next week and U. But it was actually a very clever video
the way we did it, and I think it'll it'll stand the test of
time. And one could look at it and say, oh, that's how
they responded during COVID, or one could look at it and say, no,
that's just a cool music video. Yeah, you know, it's got
two different I think shapes to it, which is not exactly what we were
going for, but it's how it turned out, right, right, So
yeah, definitely changed the landscape for sure. Yeah, no doubt. Well
I always say too, you know, we have to obviously, you know,
the pandemic was awful for a number of reasons, but you know,
we have to find these silver linings where we can. And one silver lining
is the timing of it. Because if if it had happened twenty years ago
or even ten years earlier than it did, you know, we were fortunate
that it had happened at a time when we have all this technology and and
it kind of forced people to embrace technology in ways that they hadn't before.
But some of what we were seeing, like, you know, I saw
examples of actually very famous and successful bands doing these you know, these these
uh streams online where they're all they're all at home, but they're playing together,
you know, and and for performances and and you know, in lieu
of of touring and pretty remarkable stuff. And I just I feel like if
it had happened, if this had happened twenty years ago. You know,
before we had things like zoom and you know, social media every yeah yeah,
career ending probably oh yeah, yeah, it would have been it would
have been much worse than that sense. So we're lucky that it happened at
a time when we have the technology absolutely, and uh, you know,
it seems to happen about once a century, so hopefully we don't have to
go through it ever again. We're baby yeah, yeah, so you guys
aren't so you guys now you're but you're you're playing out a lot, right,
just not not as much necessarily as before the pandemic. Yeah, I
mean, you know, we have different reasons. We have families and things
that we have to be respectful of. But we you know, like you,
we love performing and I think best not broken really throughout our history has
been a live band. That's kind of what we are. And uh yeah,
unlike some other bands that uh they can put out material and never play
and be okay with that, that's kind of not how That's kind of not
how we do it. And yeah, so we're doing We're doing as much
as we can. I think, you know, we go through spells of
being really busy and spells of slowing down a little bit, but that's the
nature of the business. But we love every time we step on a stage.
Is Summer your busiest time? Sure? Usually is? Yeah. Usually
I think it starts like in May goes through September. You know, that
seems to be the season where a lot of bands are out touring, and
so we're either you know, either supporting some major acts or performing on our
own. I mean, you know, I would say the last well,
certainly this year and I guess last year too, right, we've kind of
kept it a little more regional. We've been more in New England, I
suppose than we haven't really branched out from there yet. But you know,
I'm not saying we won't. It's coming, I'm sure. Yeah, But
as you said earlier, you know, more selective maybe, you know,
yeah, yeah. Well. The other thing for us is we're you know,
we're in the process. There was Covid wasn't great for us in terms
of producing material, and we're now we're in the process of putting a new
album out and so oftentimes the performances follow the you know, follow the live
recordings because you're out promoting those recordings, and so we're We just released a
song three two a couple of week a couple weeks ago, which is the
first single on our next album, which is called if It Feels Right Ep.
Actually, it'll be probably six songs on it and the rest of it's
coming out next month, so there'll be some shows that we do in support
of that. Yeah, we've got a fun one coming up. We're gonna
be with the Smashing Pumpkins up at at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion and Guildford.
What is that two weeks from now, a couple of weeks. Excellent,
excellent, congratulations, thanks, very good. It's funny because are you
know, back in the day we all used to listen to Smashing Pumpkins,
and we still do sometimes, but our music probably back then was a lot
more like them. It's evolved in a different way and it'll be interesting to
see how it, you know, how it goes. Yeah, the folks
that are going to see Smashing Pumpkins, but we're gonna have funny the way.
It'll be good. Have you guys opened for a lot of a lot
of big acts that have come through. We've had it. We've been very
fortunate. Yeah, we've we've we've done some good ones. I'll tell you
when we did this year. Which still sticks with me is the now I
forgot the name guess the guests who? Yeah, the guests who? And
and and when that was first offered to us, I think there was some
like you know, the guess who Who's that again? Kind of thing?
And then you you queue up their collection and their music is absolutely iconic.
I mean it defined a generation. I mean that's pretty big stuff. So
we were really honored to be a part of that show that was over in
Salisbury, mass That was a good show at the Blue Ocean Music Hall.
Great great venue if you've been there, it's a wonderful venue to play and
uh and to see a you know, some music. So you know,
every year we seem to get three or four you know, good opening slots,
which gives us an opportunity to promote ourselves and gather new fans and uh,
you know, sometimes we get a few, sometimes we don't. Put
you know, it's a it's a it's a big live show, you know.
And so for us, for people to see us live, I think
they really get a sense of the fun that we're having and uh, and
and the kind of music that we're making, you know, and hopefully get
somebody to, you know, buy a few records along the way and listen
to some music. But it's been good. We've been lucky. You guys
have merch bring the shows we do. We just came out with a fabulous
T shirt. You know why it's fabulous because our pictures are on it.
We've never done a T shirt with our pictures on it. And most of
the feedback we got was what in the heck are your pictures doing on the
shirt? But no, it's a good group shot. It's a funny.
We actually did the photo shoot for it in Manchester, yeah, right,
was here in Manchester on the old railroad tracks or somewhere up the road here,
and it was a cool shot. We always liked that, you know,
it was a cool photo. Right. Yeah, it ended up being
on a shirt and I don't know, we've we've sold quite a few of
them, we have, and the one thing we forgot to do is bring
one here today. But that's okay, because we're gonna We're gonna either come
back we're make Yeah. Yeah, definitely cool. Cool, Yeah, it's
funny. I was just reading recently about how there was a time when people
thought, people in the music industry thought in terms of merchandise, that you
couldn't you couldn't put a for a men's shirt. You know, for women
it was different, but for men, you couldn't put pictures of a male
band's faces on a shirt because dudes wouldn't wear a shirt with other men's faces
on it. Interesting, this was I had read something actually, Rolling Stone
had something about this from way back. She's when I was a kid,
actually when Daryl Hall and John Oates their manager at the time, Tommy Mottola,
who went on to do other things. But that was apparently that was
a big discussion in that camp was do we put out do we do we
bother putting out men's shirts with Darryl and John's faces on them because our men
going to wear that, and and I guess even to this day people debate
about that. But then it's funny because last week I had Andy Klesnski.
I don't know if you know him. He's a singer songwriter from the Sea
Coast. He was here and just coincidentally he happened to have he was wearing
a Michael McDonald's shirt with Michael McDonald's face on it, and I didn't even
realize it but at first, and then the subject of Michael McDonald came up
and I was like, oh, he's on your shirt. And then that
made me think of you know, that whole that whole discussion of that debate
about I had no idea that ever happened. My my favorite album cover ever
was the Police the I forget the name of the album, but it was
the Police and their three pictures are on it. And actually we're sort of
going for that kind of a thing. Yeah, yeah, on this on
this T shirt. We didn't quite get it, but we made it our
own. Yeah, it's a fun it's not it's a more of a funny
shirt, you know, kind of goes with our vibe. You know,
we're having fun and you know, dressed in some sort of costume and uh
yeah, I mean it's it's just a funny kind of thing. But it
is what you mentioned, merchandise. It's the first time we've done something.
Normally, it's like some graphic right like something. Maybe it's the maybe it's
the the EP cover or something. But this time, yeah, we went
a little we went a little outside and I'm gonna have to think about that
now, how many guys. We should do a survey to see how many
guys actually bought the shirt, right, I mean, I hope they do.
Some have already so we know it's working. A yeah they have.
Yeah. Yeah, I think hip hop kind of changed that that stigma two
of of of guys wearing a shirts with other guys faces, you know,
because once hip hop started to get really big, you know, it wasn't
unusual to see somebody wearing a you know, a Snoop Dogg shirt with Snoop
Dogg's actual face on it. But if only we were as cool as Snoop
Dogg's, right, that guy, Yeah, that guy. It's incredible that
he never stops. He's he's He's one of those few people who can be
you know, he can still be edgy with his music and whatnot and just
swearing and everything, but also have that side to him that's very family friendly.
I I'm not sure I can think of another example of somebody quite like
that who occupies that space the way that he does. It's a good point.
I'm not sure I can't either. Yeah. No, part of why
I was asking about merch too, is it seems like, you know,
because we were talking about playing shows and how expensive, you know, it's
more expensive than it used to be to travel and so forth. And it
seems like there's a push within the music industry now too for everybody to really
sell more merch because it's the one thing, you know, as far as
selling your music, you know, Spotify gives you, uh, you know,
big money, big money. Yeah. Yeah, the streaming services don't
give you much, and and uh, you know, and touring, you
know, a lot of your a lot of that money ends up going into
your gas tank and and paying for whatever else. And so it seems like
merch is because he can't download a T shirt, at least not yet.
I thought when three D printers came out that was going to kill the merch
thing, and then it just didn't happen. I'm not sure why, but
I guess it's a good thing it didn't happen, because then that'd be another
revenue stream download down down the toilet, Melanie and the chat room says,
uh, you know, Jay was just saying that he wished he had a
shirt with Matt's face on it. We actually now see my shirts. See
I've got these uh, Matt Connerton unleashed shirts. But that's not really Oh
yeah, that's cool, but that's like a representation of my it's not my
actual face. It's it's like me as an anime character, you know.
Oh beautiful, yeah from here. Yeah. Brendan McCormick. Uh, he
very very talented graphic artist who works here. Actually, he he designed the
logo and then we put it on the back of these shirts and uh,
it's Remember when he showed it to me and he was like, he was
a little bit cheapish about it. He didn't know if I was gonna like
it because it's a little outside the box and I was never in anime,
but I knew enough about it too. I recognize that there's an anime called
Devil May Cry, and I only knew knew this because I used to work
in a store that's old DVDs, okay, so we had an anime section.
So when I saw it, I was like, oh my god,
I love it. And it's been around I have to see oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, I don't know if the shirt, the shirt might be
a little faded, but he's coming over for a firsthand look. Yeah,
that's very cool. Yeah, yeah, and then Jenny had shirts made up
and yeah, and that that became the we might have to steal that concept
the official logo. Yeah, yeah, it's it's very cool. Yes,
have had it? Oh. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says, my son
has worn that T shirt at It's his absolute favorite. Yes. Uh.
And Mike was also asking about the songs I played. So I played,
Uh, I played Brain earlier and uh I also played I opened the show
today without song kids, which is so catchy awesome. Who right, do
you guys all write together? Or who writes the song? Yeah? I
write everything and then I submit it to Eric for approval. He throws it
in the trash and rewrites everything in a more perfect sense. The truth is,
Carlo writes all of our bridges. No one is allowed to write a
bridge unless Carlo has approved it. But yeah, so we we you know,
it's every song is a little bit different. I mean, you know,
I'm a songwriter and Mark our bass player as a songwriter, and so
we both bring in a lot of ideas and some of them are more fully
formed by the time they get to the band, and some of them aren't,
and some of them sort of come together when we're together. But you
know, it's amazing. A lot of people say, I mean, we're
joking around, a lot of people say drummers don't write, but it's amazing
what you know, when when Carlo lays down on a pattern or rhythm,
what that can do to kind of change the dynamic of a song and move
it in a certain direction. So, I you know, it's it's a
very collaborative process. Even though you know, we're the guys playing the guitars
and singing the lyrics and writing some of the stuff. It doesn't work unless
we do it together a lot of ways. Yeah, yeah, And the
drums sound incredible. By the way, where do you guys record because the
drums really because not everyone gets that right when recording producing drums, you know,
but you can hear every you can hear everything, every tom, every
I mean, it's just sounds so good. Yeah, it's true. We
we've been lucky to work with a couple of really good studios that really understand
your point of making the drums sound good. You know, I mean obviously
pretty biased towards the sound, but you know, when you're when you're building
a piece of music, it starts with the drums, right and it starts
with the drums and goes to the bass right away, because that's the that's
the foundation of it, you know. And so we've we've been lucky to
have a couple of real good producers work with us and recording engineers that understand
that and get a just actually they get a very good sound. It's like
the foundation of a house. I mean, truly, you can't have a
you can't have a good song the way we try to write songs unless the
drums sound good. We've we've made that mistake and we never want to make
it again. But uh, and I think today, you know, with
hip hop becoming such a big deal, you know, the last twenty years,
and so many contemporary songs relying very heavily on the rhythm and the groove,
it's like that you're hearing that and you're hearing the lyrics and the rest
of the stuff in some cases just sort of washed out in the middle.
Sure, sure, you got it. So people are looking for the rhythm,
yeah, looking for the groove, and you gotta get it right.
But we typically well will record with Dave Minihan down at Wooly Mammoth Studios and
Waltham. Dave David. Oh, that's a name I've definitely heard. Yeah,
Dave is a you know, he's a Boston legend. Really, we've
been very fortunate that he's he's been willing to take us on and but you
know, he when Brad Whitford was not healthy, he was playing with Aerosmith
and he's played with the replacements. He's a guitar player too, okay with
the replacements, and but he's an amazing producer in his own right. He's
a great musician. Or fortunate now that he's kind of playing with us because
she's actually on most of the most of the songs out now. Yeah.
In fact, he did a lot of the background vocals for one of these
tunes that's coming out next month, which is which I'm excited to put out
called That's the Way She likes It, And it's kind of a song that
draws on influences from some of the eighties and nineties stuff, but real heavy
background vocals, which are very cool. Yeah, looking forward to that one.
But it starts with the drums, it does, Yeah, it does.
How did you get to working with Minahan? What's his first name Mike
Uh. He moved to Waltham from the Boston area many many years ago,
and I think it happened because I was reading a story about his move to
this new studio and it was just about the time I was getting ready to
record my first batch of songs and I was looking for some help, and
I sent him my stuff and I said, what do you think, thinking
that he would say either nothing, I don't think much. But fortunately he
said, hey, actually that's pretty cool. Why don't you come down and
we'll talk a little bit. And I did, and that was the beginning.
He We did an EP that was again back in twenty and twelve.
It took us a while to record that. Carlin knows we taked a longer
record, especially when it by myself, but but it came out really well.
The funny thing is I went in with a completely different vision of what
we ended up with, and at the end of the day, I don't
know whether it's good or bad. You know. I was at the time
actually going in more of a synthesizer, you know, type of direction,
and Dave sort of brought it back to more of an acoustic guitar based a
little bit more of a classic sound which worked really well for those songs,
and he was probably right. Yeah, but we've you know, we've managed
over the years to weave in some of the new stuff and keep some of
the you know, the more traditional organic sounds acoustic guitars and electric tars and
that kind of stuff. But there's a couple of songs on that first album
though, that continually get requested. It shows true. So, I mean,
it's funny we've played them. It's an older piece, but it seems
like they're the ones, you know, people want to hear. Yeah,
those that have been around for a while, they remember some of those tuns
pretty good days. The one that that stands out to me that was on
the first album that people tend to like. But we like the new stuff
too. Yeah. Yeah, Now, are are you guys from Boston or
are you we are from the stuff? We're from the general area. We've
sort of bounced back and forth between Boston and southern New Hampshire. The band
collectively, we've are members of sort of zigzagged around the area. So we
kind of consider ourselves a greater Boston band, but right now we've got some
roots in southern New Hampshire, and but the area has been very good to
us. We've you know, we've kind of started in Manchester and sort of
grew from there. You know, we have regular stuff we do now up
in Burlington and and we've you know, as Carlos said, we get down
as far as Virginia, New York has been a more regular thing. We
haven't been down there in a while because Philly, we haven't had stuff to
promote. I think probably that's coming up in the not too just in future.
Cool, cool, very good. Well, actually, why don't we
Uh, we'll take a break and play another track here. Uh, let's
see you sent me. Oh it didn't one of the things. You didn't
send me this one. But you said there's a new single that came out
recently. I did. It's called I Don't Belong, and I thought I
sent it to you. Oh you did send me that. Okay, No,
you did. I'm sorry. I don't know why I was for some
reason, I thought you had said something else. But my brain is mush
swept times. I probably have a our often is too. We do some
of our best work. Our brain is mush. Here we go, here
we go. I got it, Okay, here it is. Yeah,
I like actually, yeah, I like this one a lot too. This
is really good. So let's do this. We'll we'll give this a listen.
If you're just joining us. We've got two of the guys, Eric
and Carlo from the band Best Not Broken, are here with us live in
studio and we've been talking and we're gonna listen to another track here. So
this is called I Don't Belong and this is the newest single just within the
last couple of weeks. Yeah, it's just out two weeks here, two
and a half weeks ago. Again, Yeah, excellent, excellent, all
right, check this out. I Don't Belong from Best Not Broken. I'm
walking in the home room, remember about I'm Bom Bom. I see my
Kicken cimmers or Warzar girl's head stern. I've got my jeans, pig mullet,
done with Hess Gray. We've been walking new way Coopa's and a fresh
ship. Want to be rock star Ribben in my new car, Hotei's in
the back, y'all, bat I got nothing so far? Can I get
up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get
up? Can I get up? Stay tr to get her real job?
Interviewed with a shot. Ask me what I want to say. I don't
want to keep my hair along for me in a high rise when you with
some rich guys stirting with a deep swap. Now I'm making a French prize.
I'm not a quick learn Maybe it's the side of birds like now if
you want to know about at least I made some heads turn? Can I
get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I
get up? I don't everybody? I don't stay as you go. I
don't so much. I don't know why. And you belong some slaps that
you just can't time. When you ask foot ten much, you just got
nine hair. Everything is fine, just that much. Can I get up?
Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up?
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zo three two five zero six zero seven. And guys, that's a very
very catchy I caught myself singing along to it, so that's uh that probably
happen. I would imagine when you play that at shows, you probably get
get people singing along. Right now, does it gets a real good response,
singing, clapping? I think, uh, I think the video actually,
I think people that see the video might be amused because we released a
video at the same time and uh, it's uh, it's one of our
We're very proud of it because we uh we look like absolute before it was
absolutely ridiculous, fully ridiculous, but we sort of captured the essence of the
song. I think yeah, and it happened fast. I was shocked we
were able to pull together. But we would encourage your listeners if they like
that tune to check out the video for I Don't Belong on YouTube. It's
there and you get a good laugh there and waiting for you. Very good,
very good. Yeah, it's funny. That's another subject that's come up
a lot on the show lately as videos, because there's some people, I
don't know if you guys run into this at all. This there's some people
who have this perception that music videos are and a dead art form because you
know, MTV hasn't played videos in decades, and it's like, it's funny,
but I run into people who don't seem to realize that actually, because
of YouTube, there's more music videos being made than ever. Oh yeah,
Like like when Beyonce puts out a new album, for example, you know
she's got the money to do it. When she puts out a new album,
every single song on the album has a video, right, It's it's
it's actually more than ever. People want to see that multi media entertainment.
You know, they want to They want to get a bigger picture of what
certainly want to see the artists. You know, they're hoping to see the
artists in the in the video. And it just provides a more multidimensional musical
experience as opposed to just you know, listening to music. I mean,
and I think you might capture the interest a little more, like people will
listen to the entire song, as opposed to when you're streaming, you know,
they're gonna get a minute or so in and like all right, moving
to the next one, moving the next one, the next one, click
click, click, click click. But a video, you're probably gonna watch
the whole thing. It's a it's an interesting phenomenon. I mean, as
a musician now, you know that if you don't put a video out with
a song, you're missing listeners or viewers. You're missing missing people that might
otherwise see it. But it's also interesting because it truly changes the dynamic of
how people experience a song. Right because in the old days, when there
was no video, or now when there's no video, you know, you
you come up with your own images, right yeah, but you're worse to
follow the images that are put out in this video, which I think sometimes
great and sometimes not. But but it's a new way of experience it for
sure. Yeah. It's funny though, it's like we're time traveling in a
way, because this is the same conversation that people had when on shows like
this when MTV first went on the air, right, and artists would talk
about, Yeah, you know now you're you know, you're assigning these images
to the video, which to the song rather which might be a good thing
or might not. And you know, and I still want to be on
MTV. Can we still do that? Yeah? I want my MTVO.
That sounds like there must be h there must still be videos on there somewhere
right there. I'm sure there must be like a like a twenty minute video
show or something. We're on MTV, But yeah, reality television just completely
took over and write and they, I guess in the nineties, right,
I think it's been that long. Yep. Yeah, wow, Yeah,
we haven't done our own reality show yet. We're gonna leave them. How
many videos have you guys? Have you guys shot? What do you think?
That's a good question, but there's enough to keep you busy. I
would say probably ten. Yeah, something like that maybe maybe a little more.
Some are more involved than others. Yeah, I know. The first
one that I participated in was for Won't Stop Loving You, which was a
very elaborate production and a very moving video. I would say that was the
most emotional video that we've made. And if you put a bunch of people
in a room, I guarantee you a bunch of them are going to be
crying by the time they get to the end of that video. It's very,
very touching and it's a great song, we think so. But our
ore it's another one. It's a fan favorite. Yeah, you know,
it's from an earlier record and they seem to love that song, so we
like playing it. But our videos ranged from serious to absolute insanity, and
maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. I hope, so,
yeah, I hope, so, I hope. So now the videos,
do you do you have someone you work with on those? Or do you
do them? You're because we do? Okay, So I was gonna say,
we live in an era where really you can you can do it all
yourself. It's pretty remarkable you can if you're if you're that talented, you
know, yeah, we're uh no, we have helpers, Yeah, helpers
are necessary for us. Do you work with the same people on each Have
you worked with the same people on each video? Or is there a production
company we have? Yeah, yeah, we've There's a company called One oh
six Studios out of Boston that we've been using recently. Travis Gray has been
the lead guy for us and that's gone very well. We've used other people
in the past, but Travis has been doing good work for us. They
excellent, excellent. And what are the live shows like? Do you guys
do you have any uh, you do any kind of elaborate stage show or
anything, or do you do you just play or any kind of theatrics or
do you save that for the videos? Well, you know, I mean,
so we have we do a range of shows, you know, I
mean, we're we are prem merely an original band, but we do shows
where we'll mix covers into into our shows. Some of them are more cover
oriented, but really the focus of what we do is is original material.
But the reason I say that is because you know, some of these shows
tend to be a little more grueling, like three hours long or four hours
long, and the dynamic is a little bit different than a short and sweet,
action packed, true best not broken original show. But we one of
the things we try to do is really have great energy when we put on
a show, and we try and go out and leave it all on the
stage. We're all athletes, and probably because we're we wish that we could
still be as competitive as we once were. We had the only place we
can do it is on the stage, and so we occasionally stub our toes
and fall out of things, but we try to do lots of jumping.
But so, yeah, it's a we hope that it's an engaging and action
packed show. It should be that. Yeah, I can tell you.
I'm reminded of a story. Maybe we should we should share of we we
we all I don't know, so I don't know whether we should share or
not. We we'll find out together. It was it was a live constant.
We didn't at the Tupelow below Music in Derry and it was outdoors during
the period where they were doing outdoor shows if you remember that, which was
very clever. Quite frankly. Anyway, we headlined a show and uh As
Zeric said, it's a it's an action packed show. I mean, the
drummer just has to sit there most of the time, but the rest of
the guys were moving around quite a bit on stage, and we had a
choreographed piece of the show, remember where we were doing some things. And
the point of this story is it was about one hundred and fifty degrees out
and the sun was hitting that stage, and you know, you're you're driven
by the music and the fan interact. It was a sold out show,
so a lot of people, and you're feeding off that energy, but at
some point it's just not enough. It was so hot out, you know,
I think we were all feeling a little faint. And there's a there's
a particular thing. You'll have to come to one of our shows. This
particular thing we do at the end where this guy runs around it just does
something absolutely crazy, and it was great. You know, we're watching the
whole things happen and people were plotting blah blah blah blah, and that's the
end of the show. Encore is over and we got to the back,
you remember, and he was he was white as a sheet. I thought
I literally thought he was going to pass out because he was so active and
it was so hot out. Yeah, you can't hydrate on stage really,
so you know, you're just giving it all. And that was quite a
quite a performance, I would say that was a Yeah. So I tried
to get a little exercise and this this is one of those times where I
almost didn't make it back to the stage. Wow, I almost. And
we've had a couple of those lately. In fact, we were down in
Salisbury a few weeks ago and I almost didn't make it back to the stage,
which would have been terrible because you guys would have had to clean up
up by yourself. Yeah, somehow I feel like that was part of the
plan. Might have, but it might have been. I was in the
big I was in the big band van Wow. Well, you know I
always say rock and roll should be sweaty, but but you don't want you
know, heat stroke or anything like that either. No, definitely try to
keep it as safe as we can. I will tell you our our fabulous
bass player who couldn't make it today with his broken toe. Uh, carries
a fan with him every show. He has a fan set up because I
think he sweats the most of all of us, Oh my god, and
he and this fan is just always running. He doesn't Well, Actually,
the truth is there we have levels of fan. I mean he has this
standard fan, yeah, but then we have a super hot show, we
upgrade to the big fan, and then we can actually double fan. If
we have the double fan, I would say that the worst. So the
one time when Mark was sweating so much and nothing a fan could possibly do.
The video that we shot for the song Kids, which I think you
play it earlier. Yeah, had Mark at the beginning in a kangaroo outfit,
and at the end he had to go because we ran out of time,
and so I briefly had to play the kangaroo. And I put on
the kangaroo outfit and I couldn't feel the outfit because it was mush. It
was actually it was mush. It was set probably the most disgusting thing I've
ever filled in my life. God, and so I no longer I no
longer even will look at kangaroos. But does it make you feel closer to
him? I try to stay further away Mark, If you're listening, I'm
I'm actually currently trying to get further away from you. Wow, that's funny.
Eric, you ever do any radio or a voiceover work or anything?
Never, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's ever asked you that.
I can't be the first one to ever ask you that it's possible you are.
I'm no, I've never done it. You've got because you've got the
voice. Carlo doesn't any of the you've got the voice for radio. Yes,
you think you've got one of those voices. I'm actually jealous of because
I'm very you know, I'm able to evaluate myself pretty honestly. I I
think I know I have a good radio voice. But you have a great
radio voice. I've never you've never done a podcast or anything. I've never
done a podcast. No, no car commercial, a car commercial, that
would be that would be fun for real, definitely real. Well we need
a hit. Maybe we can find a hit in the auto commercial. Yeah,
car commercial jingle? Can you can you auto tune in radio? Can
you live auto tuning? No? I just I just imagine you're narrating it.
You know you could narrate the I've never tried it. I mean,
I you know, I read I read books for people. Do Yeah,
I do. Mostly my kids makes sense. They don't tell they don't tell
you they love your voice. They've never said that. They're usually mad at
me. Because it's bedtime and it's like, dad, what are you doing?
Right? Right? It'll put us to bed. They're used to it.
You see your voice. Jay Fed in the chat says, do you
play birthday parties? I think we have done parties? Well? Remember how
I jumped out of that cake. Oh I don't remember that. Oh we
do. Probably, we do private events occasionally. Most of what we do
is in support of our music, but we do private events occasionally. Yea.
So he's been asking, he's been looking for someone to play his wife's
birthday party, Melanie's birthday party. I believe it's in September. Now.
The thing is, I should tell you though, in case you do get
you take a commission. I know, no, no, no, it's
not that. Uh he might try to get you to commit to uh,
if you're gonna go up there to commit to an ice bath. Oh,
So I thought I should mention that, just to kind of warn you that
that might be part of the deal. Okay, And I don't know.
Personally, I wouldn't do it. I you know, hypothermia, things like
that. Apparently there are health benefits, but I'm just worried about freezing to
death. So I personally wouldn't do it, but I think I should warn
you guys. Yeah, yeah, it's something he does and he he invites
people into the ice bath apparently, so just something to keep in mind.
Yeah, I mean, you know, it could come to that, So
just so you know, we'll have to get our measure involved. Definitely,
there you go, by the way, Miriam Banish and the chat room says
like the harmony, referring to the song that we played there, the single
Oh thank You? Yeah, Well do you got so the vocals? Do
you guys all sing or how does that work? I definitely don't you know?
He know he's he's being modest. He is actually saying, in fact,
we've had some gigs where he'll he'll take the lead and do some crazy
stuff. But truth be told, the harmonies are actually a very important part
of our sound, and Mark and I really enjoy writing harmonies and singing harmonies,
and that's something we focus on and it's part of most of the songs
that you hear, Yeah from us, No, I notice that, But
Carlo, you sing live with the guys, I assume are very seldom.
Oh really, okay, I've got a lot of work to do. I'm
very busy back then. He is a busy guy. Yeah. Yeah,
well that's the thing. I had a band on recently with a singing drummer
where the drummer did the lead vocals. Yes, and that's something you very
rarely see. But it's such a physical instrument, so to have to play
drums and sing, even just doing backing vocals, it must be it's got
to be hard to do it. I think it would be tough. I
don't know, honestly, I don't know how they do it, you know,
they they sing a lot. Yeah, and uh, I don't think
I could do it, really can do it? Number one? I don't
think I can sing? Uh well and uh, but it's a lot of
work, do you know, to keep that, keep focused on that and
just have the the musician stuff just kind of happened automatically so you can focus
on the singings. Yeah, it's quite a bit of work. It's impressive.
Yeah, absolutely, they're quite talented, those two. On and I
just sit back and play music. We had a show actually, it was
actually at Blue Ocean Music Hall where we featured Carlo and On and uh singing.
That's right, we did. Who is that? I think that might
have been when we were with the Gym Blossoms Blossoms, I think it was.
Yeah, And and actually that was the last show where we ever allowed
them to sing publicly together. Imagine that. Really Yeah, so that should
tell you something there. You guys played with the Gym Blossoms. Huh we
did? We did? Really? Yeah, I can see that. I
can see that being a good dah. But I guess too though, with
with your sound, I mean, there's probably a lot of different bands you
fit well with. I would think you know your your sound. It's it's
very accessible, very radio friendly, but also this you know a mix of
influences in there. You know, the Sawing Kids is, like I said,
I opened with that today. That's so catchy. But but it seems
like everything is, you know, it's very sort of you know, you've
got those singalong choruses that you know, really hook people in. And uh,
who can you tell me who's who's a band that you've Are there any
bands that you've opened for that we're kind of Maybe you went into it thinking
I don't know if we fit has Has there been any kind of an odd
match that you've had with a band that you've opened for well, yes,
I would say so. So. Uh. Actually, I think Smashing Pumpkins
will be interesting because the more I listen to them, the more, yeah,
I realized that they're much heavier thre yeah than really we are now.
You know, back in the day, we were writing more rock oriented stuff
and now I kind of consider our stuff sort of indie pop, yeah,
and so it's veering away from that. So it'll be interesting to see how
that goes. But you know, uh, you know, we used to
occasionally play Bike Week and I was we've never been a biker band, right,
and have there thinking they're gonna throw us out of here, and actually
there are a lot of people that dug our stuff. So I've learned you
can't you can't make that judgment going into it. But probably the other one
that was a weird fit was Jason Derulo. Oh no, yeah, it
was a long time ago. Yeah, but yeah, we were asked to
come play with with him and it was just as he was, like,
you know, at his prime, and it was weird, but it sort
of was fine. It sort of went okay, Like I can see it
working though, ken you Yeah, because I'm trying to think now oh,
I'm drawn a blank. What was his really big big hit. I don't
even remember, because I don't know. He had more than one single that
did well, but there was one that was huge, and I can't remember.
I can't remember what it was now either that he had a short shelf
life. I think he was. He had come and gone pretty quick,
he did. But but yeah, but I can see that working, you
know, because again your sound is so accessible that you know, obviously a
lot of different you know, different kinds of people are gonna like it.
Is that something you do consciously, like in terms of writing and recording the
music? Is it? Do you consciously try to make songs that you know,
with with good hooks and and big, you know, sort of sing
along choruses. I think that, you know, every songwriter probably gravitates to
something. There's something that you know, as you're noodling around on your guitar
or humming melodies or whatever it maybe there's something that catches you about it.
Yeah, and I find for me, it's uh, you know, I
think I grew up listening to pop radio and uh uh, you know,
from all eras. I enjoyed all of it, and so I think those
those melodies stick with me, and those are the things, you know,
I find I won't write a song unless I feel like there's a catchy melody
that's going to value in somewhere in the song, and so right, that's
usually the basis of it. Then you try to build around it. So
I guess in that sense it is intentional. Yeah, yeah, well we
are. We are approaching the end of the show. I do want to
get one more one more song and uh at the end. But guys,
this has been wonderful. Thank you both so much. Thank you for having
us much. Absolutely appreciate absolutely. And what do you want to make sure
our our listeners know about where to find you online? Social media anything?
Website? We are we are everywhere. Uh. We get that question sometimes
you know, where can I find your music? And I think my answers,
where can't you? I mean it should be we're literally on every streaming
platform. We're on YouTube with the videos, We've got our website best not
broken dog yet that's kind of headquarters. I'm trying to think of what else,
all the basic stuff. I mean, you know, we're probably most
actives on Instagram and Facebook and that kind of stuff, and and we keep
updates on hit us up on Sagram. You know, we'd love to,
you know, have somebody you know make a comment. We uh, we
like responding and interacting with our fans, you know, it's it's great fun
for us, you know. And if you've seen us at a show,
you want to see us at a show, you know, give us a
little a little shout out and we'll let you know what's going on. Absolutely,
And do you do you have any shows coming up this weekend that you
want to plug. We're in in Vermont this weekend, right, yeah,
yeah, we're playing up in Burlington, Vermont place called Red Square. It's
an outdoor show. Uh, get there early because it fills up fast,
and especially if the weather is nice. I should says raining doomsday. Yeah,
but it hasn't rained much this summer, so we should be okay.
That's why Carlo was wearing his red shorts. He has these on all weeks,
same pair. Yeah, he can't take him off until the show.
That's our deal. Oh yeah, alrighty well, that's that's that's your business.
Oh Matt, you have to close of that right sure, absolutely,
guys, Thank you again so much, Mike. From my Queen City Cabinetry
says awesome guests day, Matt, thank you, yeah, guys, thank
you so much. And we will end with this track. This is called
low Lights. This is yeah, this is kind of a little a little
darker. Yeah, it's a different it's a different tune. This is a
mark tune. This is one of the one of the new singles that's coming
out on our new EP. Very good. Oh when is that out?
By the way, the EP, well, it was supposed to be soon
and it's been pushed back a little bit. I would expect it shortly after
Labor Day, so check out our social media. It won't be long.
Excellent, excellent, all right, So we're gonna end with this. This
is thanks again, guys, and this is low Lights from the band Best
Not Broken. Check this out. Won't you drink a little more? It's
such a little child. What a lot of people saying that you're off the
teeth. I won't hurt you, but I'm saying, let you do it
fine now, who knows the truth? In the night time, if it
gets night, let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in
the light, in the meantime, in this down show, I am the
I thinking about chick in the light doesn't feel right, Put another one.
Let's gets fun and then it empties out you all another Now a lot of
people don't in the same with that show. Then I'll let you if I
see my little shop here, not what you tell you. Let's get gone
in the nighttime. If it Bill's night. Let it get a little crazy
inside in the nighttime, in the lower light, in the meantime, in
the s down shop. I am then lot of thinking about you in the
lower light doesn't feel right in the night time. If it feels right,
let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the lower light,
in the feeling this sounds tracking thing as that t feel right, you
say, like Frankenstein, and I'm the get go and I light it it.
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