It's a great song, but I don't know it. Hello everybody, welcome,
here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and
yes we are live. This is not the best of We are live from
the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in Gloria,
downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester.
And hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the
globe. Today is Thursday, May eleven, twenty twenty three. So yes,
it is life so so nice to have you all with me. I'll
apologize and explain a little bit about yesterday at a moment, but just um,
yeah, so we are here. We do not have it is Thursday.
We usually get a call from easyg on Thursdays to do an entertainment report,
but he is under the weather. So uh, Jay fed and the
chat room says, that was quite the best of yesterday. I yeah,
I I need to They're all dated at this point. I need to produce
a new batch, a new batch of best stus. I mean we've got
over thirty of them, but you know you burned, you burned through them.
Over, you know, because we also not only do we run one
if for some reason I'm not able to be here on a given day,
but also every Saturday morning we have well say, you know, we should
promote that more. Actually I forget to mention it. But Saturday mornings,
of course, from seven to nine am, Peter runs a classic episode of
the Morning Show with Peter White, and then from nine to eleven am we
have the best of Matt Connerton unleashed. But but they also run during the
week. If I'm if I'm not here for some reason, but so I'll
offer a quick explanation in a moment. But six zo three two five h
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five O six zo seven. Yeah. Eric Street in the chat room says,
yesterday, show us funny, do you know what date that was from?
No, Because the best of us that I do, when I produced
them, I try to take content that we call evergreen, meaning it's not
necessarily specific to a particular time period or a date. Although the ones that
I've done, because I haven't produced any new ones in a while, the
ones that I've done are starting to feel a little bit dated regardless. But
when I put those together, I'll draw clips from different shows and I try
to keep those. The best of tend to be less overtly political because I
try to again, I try to make it content that's evergreen that doesn't have
to be you know, that isn't necessarily relevant to a news story that was
happening that day or that week or in that period. So I don't even
know what which best of ran yesterday, Eric, to be honest with you,
couldn't tell you. But there you go. So yeah, just a
quick thing. So you know, I try to and I apologize for not
being here. I let Peter know relatively early in the day because you know,
some of you might know Peter is not only the host of the morning
show, but he's also the program director here, so he's the one I
alert if for any reason I'm not going to be able to make it in.
But you know, I try not to let get a lot of irons
in the fire, as they say, and I try not to let any
professional obligation directly interfere with this obligation. Professional obligation which is my favorite of
my obligations in terms of what I do. I I love coming in every
day and doing the show weekdays four to six pm. It is a great
joy of mine and I try hard never to miss it. But there are
those moments where a professional obligation will interfere and there's just no getting around it.
So so as a result of that, I was not able to be
here yesterday. Some good news, however, to share regarding all this and
what has been happening this week, and I've I've been very very busy,
So uh, there's us. It's nice that I can come in and share
something positive about all this. There will I'll just mention it here briefly.
There will be more of an official announcement on social media. But so I'm
going to be partnering up with a business in hooks It birch Wood Salon.
I'm going to be learning to be a hair No, I'm kidding. I'm
not going to be learning to be a hairdresser. I'm such a klutz.
I don't think I'm even legally allowed to handle sharp objects. Anyone who's ever
seen me eat anything that requires a knife and fork can attest that I when
I do have to handle something sharp like a knife, I do so very
slowly and deliberately. I'm not even kidding. It's not even something I say
to be funny. I really am very very careful. So I don't,
you know, slice off all my fingers or something. I truly am a
klutz. I'm not known for my manual dexterity my friends. No. No,
But so that is a wonderful place, birch Wood Salon and hooks it
and I'm going to be doing hypnotherapy sessions there. If you're a regular listener,
you might know I'm also a certified hypnotherapist. And so we met and
uh, there's one little piece of paperwork left to take care of, and
then that's it. It is official. So it's it's really a done deal
already. But it's it's been interesting because you know I started, when I
started doing hypnotherapy, well, I've I've worked out of a few different places,
but some of you, if you're local in the Manchester area, and
if you've been here a while, you might remember. There was a place
up the street for a long time called Styling Souls, and it was a
salon and they did a number of different things there in addition to cutting hair.
And I was the hypnotherapist there, so I would work there, you
know, again just part time, you know, I would do sessions there
in other places as well. But yeah, so Christy Lavalley was the owner
there and worked with her for a long time, actually worked with her and
conquered and then she moved the salon to Manchester. So eventually she ended up
moving the salon to Pittsfield, Uh, to cut costs and uh, you
know, have the salon where she was living and so forth. And uh,
I basically said, uh, Pittsfield, huh huh m hmm. Well,
I guess that's the end of our working really. Well, no,
I didn't exactly go that way. I'm sort of kidding, but but you
know it's like really on the on the middle of the woods. Uh.
Yeah, So so then you improvise and then uh, well and and then
ultimately, uh, you know, the pandemic hit and that just uh you
know, picked up the the puzzle and just uh threw all the pieces into
the air. So you know, I was already doing uh sessions. Not
not only would I do them at styling souls and other places that I worked,
but I would also do home visits to you know, if it was
somebody in the area, and if it was somebody I knew or connected to
somebody I knew, I would uh, I would sometimes go to their home
where I still do that actually, but when the pandemic hit, it was
like, oh, well, this changes everything, you know, especially as
someone like myself and Jenny. Of course, we take the pandemic very seriously,
or I guess we can say took I guess we can finally officially,
according to the government, talk about it in the past tense now that the
emergency orders have ended officially, so I guess the pandemic is officially over,
which is fantastic. It's a good feeling. Uh So uh, not that
you shouldn't still be careful or get tested if you think you have COVID,
of course, but that maybe we'll get into a little bit of that later
we that is something to celebrate that we made it through right anyway. So
you know, at that point when Styling Souls had moved to Pittsfield, if
I was seeing clients in an office setting, it was at home at a
room in our home, and that we had set up all nice and Jenny
did so that as far as the actual setting it up, because she's really
good at that and creating a very comfortable space. And but you know,
doing it there, I mean at home, it's there's there's advantages and disadvantages
to that, you know what I mean. There's advantages obviously because it's a
low overhead because you're already living there, and there's disadvantages and that people are
coming to your your place of residence and you know it's like, uh,
oh okay, nice to meet you, and uh well we'll get settled in
and we'll do our session, and uh yeah, I also live here,
so uh please don't come back and murder me later. Um. Although I
would always I would screen that the on the intake form that I have the
client fill out, one of the questions is are you a murderer? So
so I would try to screen those people out. Um, now I'm kidding
for newer listeners, I do have a dark sense of humor. No,
I wouldn't put that on the intake form, but I would include a suggestion
and I still do to this day, a hypnotic suggestion during the session under
no circumstances will you murder your hypnotherapist at a later date. So, um,
it's important, you know, just professionally to include that. No,
but anyway, I'm kidding sort of, but uh so, but again,
the pandemic shows up and it's like yeah, people coming to coming to the
home and going and sitting in that room with me for an hour. No.
So but again, you know, we adapt and we go forward,
and um something, you know, we have to find these silver linings where
we can. With the pandemic, people became very accustomed and very used to
and condition to, uh you know, uh having sessions with whether it be
someone like me who's a hypnotherapist or you know, a therapist, you know,
like like my dad, he works in the mental health field, and
so do I. Depending on who you ask, Some people don't like considering
hypnotherapists as being a part of the mental health field. It's it's very interesting.
It also depends on what state you're in. You know, in some
states, I can't call myself a hypnotherapist. I can only say hypnotist.
It's actually illegal in some places to use the word hypnotherapist. It's really interesting.
Maybe we'll get in all that sometime. It actually is kind of a
I think it's an interesting subject. Of course I would work in that field,
but but yeah, people people got used to in condition to doing uh,
you know, meeting with their therapists online, you know, via zoom
or there's a very popular app called doxy h that many of them use,
and or even for even for medical visits if it's if it's a follow up
with your your doctor and it's not something that you have to actually necessarily physically
go. Therefore, they just want to ask you some questions and make sure
you're okay, you know. So people got very used to that very quickly
to do in it that way. So you know, again, you you
adapt and you you go forward. So um, that's what I've been doing.
Almost all of my clients I've seen online via zoom or actually via doxie,
which I think but I think it's built using zoom anyway, but you
know, been thinking for a little while it might be time to get back
into a setting where, you know, if a client doesn't want to do
it online and they you know, they don't necessarily want me to come to
their home, which I don't mind doing. The most important thing is that
the client is in a setting where they're very comfortable and able to relax.
But you know, if they'd like to U go go somewhere to an office.
Uh, you know, now I have once again, I have a
place to do that. So so that's um, that is what has transpired
business wise this week, and it's pretty exciting. Uh. And and Jenny,
I should mention, she's the one who really pushed me to do that,
to initiate that that discussion with Chris from Birchwood Salon. So there you
go. So uh, pretty much effective immediately. So so anyway, so
it's it's been a challenging week, but but it's turning out. It's turning
out well. So that was my long winded, my very long winded explanation.
Oh by the way, if you happen to be watching online, you
might notice I also have less hair than I did because I went in person
to Birch's Wood salon, and UH got some a little. I feel a
little lighter now, m boy. I really my hair grows fast anyway,
but I sometimes I just uh, you know, it was one thing when
I was twenty years old to be running around with all that hair. But
I don't know if it I don't know if at this point it really looks
that great. So it was probably the right move to go and get it
cut. But anyway, that's my long winded explanation. Why was why I
was briefly absent, But and again I apologize for that. But Shannon,
hello, Hello, there's nothing wrong with Portfield. You know it seems I
well, I have at many points in my life when I did let my
hair get long. Yes, I would tie it back in a ponytail.
Yeah, but at this point I think I'm I think my ponytail phase has
passed. Shannon. Uh, it's it's a new season. It's a new
season. Can I be your first client? How much do you charge?
You'll have to get my number and let me know where something. Yeah,
I'll give you a call. Your number shows up on the caller ID.
I don't want to get into that on the air during the show. I
don't think that wouldn't be be appropriate. Uh, I don't, I don't.
I don't think management wants me booking sessions live on the air. That
would be a uh. I was happy being facetious, but I'm serious.
Okay, Well, I'll give you a call. I'll give you a call.
I will. I'll take down your number. Like I said, you
do show up on the caller ID, which you know. That's how I
know it's you, unless you thought that I was psychic pretending to be somebody
else. Right. I start with an accent, but then I finished with
my regular voice. Yeah, that's the thing. If you're gonna you know,
if you're gonna do the bit, you gotta really commit to it.
I know you gotta commit to the bit. I tried talking Scots. Oh
yeah, it doesn't say I gotta be honest with you. It doesn't sound
great. I can see why you don't commit to it. No offense,
thank you. Just yeah, it's it's construct constructive criticism. That's a difficult.
Uh. That's a difficult accent to do, though. Well, then
again, I can't do any accents. I mean, I I you know,
I always say if I try to sound British. I end up sounding
like an Australian with severe head trauma. I can't do any even Australian.
I can't do any uh I. Once in a great while I'll embarrass myself
by attempting one, and then I immediately regret it. It depends on And
the funny thing is when when I'm listening to a book, it if it
takes place in England and the narrator is doing a job and using using the
English accent throughout the book, I'll adapt to it and start talking like,
you know, with an English accent and Teddy Hoe yes, cheerio and things
like that too. I think they say that, and a lot of talk
of tea and crumpets. I don't know. I don't know what goes on
over there. I just know I see I see these video, these video,
this video and these images of the coronation of King Charles, and uh
I have to tell you, Shannon, you know, I've never been much
of an anglophial to begin with, but I look at I look at that
stuff and I'm creeped out by it. It's creepy to me. It's actually
it really does. It gives me the chills when I when I see him
and his new crown and they're doing the whole thing, there's something weird about
it that I find unsettling. Like I'm not even I don't even mean it,
like is it to be function of the things or I don't know exactly
what it is, but I genuinely it's it's genuinely creepy to me. It's
it's it doesn't belong anymore. Yeah, I wouldn't even say that because no,
I know what you mean. No, I know what you mean,
because there's a discussion about that in the UK, about you, you know,
there's an ongoing discussion and they're probably always has been about, you know,
has the monarchy outlived it's usefulness, which I don't know what it's usefulness
ever was. But um no, there's something about like I just I I
see I see pictures from the coronation and I'm just I get I get a
chill up my spine. It's like, I don't I can't quite explain it,
but there's something creepy and weird about the whole thing. And I don't
look different. It might not be so creepy maybe if he didn't look so
creepy. You mean he does. He does look creepy. He's like if
he approached me, h at a party or not that I go to parties,
but if he approached me at a party, I'd probably uh find a
way to very stealthily get away from him. I just he looks like someone
I would be very nervous around, you know. And it's not you know,
And I hope our new friend, uh Conrad war from the bandbes Deluxe,
who came here from from there. I hope he's not offended by this
if he happens to be listening. And and Conrad's lovely, so you know,
it's certainly nothing against British people, but there's something about, Yeah,
there's something about Charles there. And he's got the crown and the whole thing.
There's something weird. There's like I'm picking up on something just not okay
about the whole deal. It's it's just it, uh it I have nightmares
about it, Annon, I mean I haven't yet had a nightmare. But
before you go to bed, H don't want I don't have any tea before
you go, I don't even I don't even like tea. I won't have
any crumpets either and uh and I will not good. I didn't want to
call Peter show this morning because it was Barbio's day back. But oh yes,
I want to ask Peter if and I don't know if you've heard of
this show keeping up appearances. It used to be on PBS. Yea,
and I used to stay at my grandmother's. She'd had that on it.
It was Hyacinth Bouquet. Yeah, people would pronounce a bucket. Yeah.
It's one of those old British sitcoms. It's set in an inn, right,
and no, it's not setting an inn. What's setting? It's a
neighborhood and you get Hyacinthe and Richard and her son shared. I didn't what
am I thinking of? Oh anyway, I don't I know. I've seen
the show. Is it an older cast? Is it based on older characters?
No? Okay, middle middle aged I'm thinking about I'm thinking about a
different show then, okay, Because because there was Hyacinth, her sister Rose,
there was a sister. Really, I think maybe I was thinking an
end because I'm thinking of faulty towers. Oh, I don't know. That's
a great show. I mean, I've only seen it a handful of times.
But yeah, yeah, but uh no, But I mean I feel
like I have seen keeping up appearances, but probably a long long time ago,
long long time ago, m m m. But the thing is it
was a I don't there was a show right after that, um, you
know them? Have you Have you ever listened at all on Sundays once in
a while to the Great Guild to Sleep? Oh? I love the Old
Time radio on Sundays for listeners who don't know on Sundays here, I think
it runs from noon to midnight. It's uh, it's old time radio shows
all day and there's some great stuff. I love, Uh CBS and I've
told Peter this too, you know, because he does all the programming.
I love CBS Radio Mystery Theater, that's my favorite thing. There's a show
called X minus one that has a little more of a sci fi vibe,
which is really cool. And uh and a couple other shows. Um.
The comedy stuff I don't like as much, just because you know, obviously
it's of its time and so it's not well, you know, when when
best comes on. Oh no, yeah, yeah, I mean, I
you know, I respect all that stuff, but I wouldn't I can't listen
to it, but I like I like later in the day when the real
like CBS Radio Mystery Theater is just fantastic. I love those. Well,
I've got two good jello pie recipes from costening to the I love Lucy commercials
because you do jello. Oh yeah, yeah, it's fun to hear the
old commercials. Yeah. I like the ones about Chesterfield cigarettes. Apparently those
were the ones that doctors recommended because they were those are those are the healthy
cigarettes? Yeah, there was a commercial I want to say during one of
them, the Philip Milo. Yeah, shows where doctors were pulled and more
dosers. I wish I had gotten that recording. Oh, Tony, Tony
Patrello's in the chat room. He also loves CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Yeah,
those are Yeah, those are fantastic. There's also a show what is
it, uh, Space Patrol with a patrol Yes, Corey Happy, Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, there's and those are It's funny because you think
you hear the name space Patrol and you think it's probably silly and goofy,
but the stories are are are actually very sophisticated and complex and really really good
stuff. Yeah. I listened to those. Yeah, I don't like X
minus one so much. And I don't know, but it like I could
not get into reading the book Clockwork Orange or it's a Harry Potter. I
think it's the names to get me the weird name. I don't know.
Well, I don't like Harry Potter because it reminds me of King Charles.
It's too British for me. Yeah, I'm telling you he's evil. He's
an evil man. Don't trust him because Lawrence Welk would be on. I'd
watched that and I was just reading a book, The Black Lights. Yeah,
black Lights by um Tom Howser. I think it is. It's about
boxing. Oh okay, yeah, I'm not familiar. What was it going
to say about it? Oh? Tone, I know I've watched some of
them. I remember watching some of those fights when I was oh no kidding.
Oh wow, Um, I probably saw him, I don't know.
Yeah, I probably saw Maham at least fight. Oh that's cool. Yeah,
yeah, Tony says in the chat room. YouTube has a ton of
the CBS Radio mystery theater shows and it's it's funny that you mentioned that,
Tony, because I I've had occasions where I've been in the car and I'm
listening to an episode of that in the car on a Sunday, and I
get to my destination and I have to leave the car, but I want
to hear I'm so wrapped up in the show. I want to hear the
rest of it, but I don't have time to sit there and listen to
it. So I'll actually, I'll just pull out my phone and I'll just
if I don't know the name of the episode, I'll just google, like
some of the names of the characters or some details of the episode, and
I'll find it right away, and I'll find it on YouTube, so then
I can listen to it later on YouTube if I want to hear how it
ends. Realized. This is a stupid question for everybody that uses computers,
But couldn't you just put your phone on ninety three boys by Its? Yeah,
But if I'm like, if I'm going to a store or something,
I don't want to be walking around in the store listening to the radio shown
a driveway moment you sit and listen to the breast right. Yeah, But
that's that's one thing to do. If it's a song or a really great
radio segment. But if it's like if it's a half hour CBS radio mystery
theater and I'm halfway through it, I don't necessarily want to sit in the
car for another fifteen minutes just sitting there listening. You know, people might
walk by, they might think I'm weird, like I'm some creep or something.
I'm very self conscious about that kind of thing, although less so now
that I have my new haircut. When I have when when I when I
let my hair be long, you know, I'll have people walking up to
me going, hey, man, you got a cigarette. They don't do
that when my hair is short. For real, I'm completely serious about that.
When when my hair is long, everyone assumes I'm a smoker, which
is ironic given that I'm a hypnotherapist and I help people quit smoking. Okay,
so that's what that is. That's what what is the hypnotherapy stuff?
Well you can do many things with it, but that's the number one thing
that I see clients for. Okay, yep, all right, all right,
Joel, I will let go and uh, today's Thursday, so yes,
you have a great day. Tomorrow is your fun day. Yes,
favorite Friday is my favorite day. Of the week. It's my long day
here at WMNH and I love it. I have this show and then I
come back for Retrospectrum Radio with policy. Yes. And when when you said
are you going to play the Cagny and Lacy song for Shannon? That I
was. I was hoping i'd hear it. But who said that? Paul
said that? You said that last Friday. I didn't say that. I
don't. I don't know. I remember you bringing it up, but I
never said I would. I don't. I don't decide. Oh yeah,
but I don't think he said. But he never said he would play it.
Oh no, No, No, No, he didn't. No,
that's up to him, right right. And then I think he said no,
And I think he said that he will never play it as long as
he lives. Ever, probably I know right, Well, keep so we'll
keep working on him, Shannon. Someday, someday we'll crack him. I
love la I love all your shows. I just there's a little time to
get past him Bush, past the what jahing? It's it's it just took
me a little time. This matter, okay, But no, you and
Jenny have a nice weekend. Thank you. You don't like you. You're
not a hiker camper type me. No, I don't go into the woods.
Uh. Yeah, there's deer ticks in the woods, which I'm very
afraid of. I don't want. I don't want to end up with lime
disease. Uh, you've got the blair witch is in the woods. That's
very frightening to me. I don't want to be in a tent and all
of a sudden something is shaking the tent and I don't know what to do.
Stay in the tent, go outside, end up in a weird basement
in the corner. I don't want any of that. So that scares me.
And also too, there's wild animals. Tiger might eat me or something.
No, I don't go into the woods. Let let let if he's
listening, even though he's done feeling well, I hope he feels better.
But I had written him a little letter. Oh and I sent that out
April third or fourth. Yeah, so I don't know if he got it.
I don't either somebody in the mail room because because I don't know what
floor he's on or anything. So I just put a tension. But well,
if he calls, I will ask him or he can take a day
and you know he'll have something to do, go in search of I think
Bruce stole it. He might have. Bruce is a big mail thief.
Let's start that rumor. Yeah, he might sit. I'll give it tool
mm hmm yeah. Never trust your mail with Bruce. All right, Well
you guys have a nice weekend, all right, thank you, shann tonight.
Okay, excellent, We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, bye
bye, all right. Always nice here from our friend Shannon. And that
does open up a line for you. Six zero three two five six seven
six zo three two five six seven is the studio line. Jenny said in
the chat. There's a strange man on my screen. L old, it's
just me, Melanie said, nice blair Witch reference. I do love the
blair Witch Project. People made fun of it. Some people made fun of
it when it came out. I think the blair Witch Project and I'm not
saying this to be funny. I absolutely sincerely mean this. I think it's
absolutely brilliant. I think it is brilliant, but at all but some of
the reactions to it did at the time when it came out. Because I
was working at Strawberries on loudon Road and Conquered and of course Strawberries. We
sold DVDs and CDs, and eventually it got bought bought by trans World,
who also owns Fye and so forth. But I remember working there at the
time when that movie came out and when it came out on DVD there,
well, actually when it was still in the theaters and it was really popular.
Some of the conversations I had with people were very strange, because the
whole point of it is to make it look like it's real, but nobody's
supposed to be actually fooled. Like I'd have conversations with people who'd come in
the store. They'd be like, Wow, I can't believe they found that
video and then made a movie out of it. That almost seems wrong.
It's like they're they're exploiting the people in the movie who died, and it's
like, um. So I remember having a conversation with one specific person where
they said something like that to me, and I'm like, Hey, did
you happen to see did you happen to see the other night the Tonight Show
where the guests on the show were the people in the Blair Witch Project.
The three main cast members they were on the show. Yeah, yeah,
I saw that. Okay, but you just told me you think it's wrong
that they took that video and made a movie out of it and exploited the
deaths of these people. So when you see the actors on your television,
what happens in your brain? Anything? I mean, really, it was.
It was bizarre, like it's I guess it's cool that in a way
that people bought into it and suspended their disbelief. But you're really you're really
only required to suspend your disbelief while you're actually watching the film. It doesn't
need to carry over afterward while you're walking around going wow, I can't believe
they made a movie out of that. But no, I think Blair Wins
project is brilliant. We have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton
unleashed. Who's this. I didn't know you are a hypnotherapist. Yes,
I am Dave Ridley, but I'm not. I'm not. You're not a
hypnotherapist. That's what I called to tell you, all right. I never
I never suspected that you were to tell you the truth. I mean,
when would you have time to hypnotize anybody you're you're busy trying to uh seceed
from the Union. Yeah, it takes up a lot of hours. That's
actually the federal government's job. The federal government will do the stuff that needs
to be done that makes New Hampshire rights want to leave. I want to
leave New Hampshire or leave the Union. Maybe both. Oh, well,
that's a boy. That's disheartening although young people. Yeah, but you know,
if we have if we have an independent nation here, then I think
that it would draw people here. It would be special. Now, I
know you don't like my idea about having a nuclear weapon. If we become
our own country, what about just a small If we can't have a nuke,
how about just a couple of bunker busters. So if you really want
to talk seriously about like a national defense or what's the best policy for a
small, independent, maybe neutral nation to have, the simple answer is probably
just two words. It's probably just Costa Rica. You want to invade Costa
Rica? No, No, it's just if you just look at Costa Rica,
you learn what happens when you get rid of your military and you go
neutral. Even if you're in a bad neighborhood, your life gets better.
So Costa Rica got rid of its military in the nineteen forties, and of
course obviously since then there have been problems in Central America. They're right next
to Nicaragua and Honduras everything. But actually they've never had a war, they've
never had They've been a great place to live in a bad neighborhood really for
a long time now because they got rid of their military, didn't spend money
on a military in the first place, and didn't form any alliance. Does
it make sense, yeah, yeah, so they remained neutral unaligned. I
think the term we use. Yes, it's likely that actually having a military
just puts you more at risk. Your military becomes a risk to your people,
or it goes making trouble with neighbors and stuff like that, and so
that that's one way to do it. Of course, there are ways to
have a military and be independent and be neutral. That now, like Switzerland,
that's nothing, but there their military costs them a lot of money.
I suspect to Costa Rica approach is better. Well in Switzerland is Oh I'm
sorry, I almost said something really foolish. Yeah, Switzerland is neutral.
I was thinking of I was in my mind for a moment there I conflated
Switzerland with Sweden because Sweden is joining NATO or has joined NATO. Switzerland,
yes, they are neutral, but they do have a military. Switzerland has
a big military. I mean for its size, I think everybody does,
right except I mean, who who other than Costa Rica. So when you
say Costa Rica has as no military, you mean literally no military at all,
no defense whatsoever. Well, you know, yeah, police, they
have like I think maybe a coast guard or something like that. I'm not
you know, I don't remember all a detail. Yeah, but they had
a civil they had a civil war in the forties, and I think that
was what convinced them that the military was more of a problem than a solution,
and just their unique situation in the way they came out of the war
made them choose to do that when other countries did not. Then I'm not
sure that i'd ever even been tried before there was there was a nation in
the ancient times, the Indus Valley civilization. I'm not sure if they had
a military or not, but they never had a war. Okay, that
was in modern day Pakistan, very advanced. I don't remember what the timeline
was here. Um, but yeah, now that's special. The fact that
they proved that could be done in the ancient and very very violent world.
Uh, is just it's like that should be the ninth wonder of the world,
right or one of the seventh wonder of the ancient world? Right?
Yes. Now, so our friend Jay Fed has a question, and I
think he's I think he's sort of kidding, but but it does raise a
serious point. So maybe he's not kidding. Here's here's the question, and
I'll and then I'll tell you what I take from it, and then we'll
get your answer to Dave. So, j Fed says, could do Hampshire
become their own nation? He's he's actually in Vermont, but he says,
could New Ampsher become their own nation? Then the USA could go in and
kick New Hampshire's ass and take it back. That would be like the only
war the US is one now. But that does raise a serious question.
So if we become as New Hampshire seceeds, we become our own nation,
and we don't have any kind of defense, what is to stop the United
States from invading us and and just taking us back. Well, you could,
again, there's a lot of different options you could take the Costa Rica
approach, where we're just the good guys, We're a harmless why are you
invading us? Or you could take the Swiss approach, where we're armed to
the teeth and every every home has a mandated assault rifle it and everyone's required
to join the military. But you don't. But but you're but you're neutral
and peaceful. You could do that. Or another option would be, uh,
to do the Gandhi mode where Gandhi had a plan for fighting the Japanese
if they invaded India, which they almost did do in World War Two,
and his plan was basically, don't don't try to kill any of them,
but just do due to them what we did is a British you know,
and just just mask civil discobedience, constantly disobeying everything they wanted to do.
Drive the nut. Actually, the Japanese liked Gandhi, so I don't think
it would have really even come to that the Japanese government in the World War
two era. But uh, that's another option. The fourth option would be
what I could then this has never been tried. Well this, I don't
think this has really been tried before. The closest thing would be Yugoslavia under
Tito his he had a plan to fight the Soviet Union by going straight into
guerrilla war. They weren't going to bother defending any borders, they weren't going
to have any dog fights in the air. They were going to go push
straight straight into the mountains of Bosnia and just fight from there. And that
that would be another option. And then I guess the fifth option tifth option
roughly would be something more along the lines of a completely decentralized individual base guerrilla
resistance, where you don't really you don't have any command and control, you
just had the governor just says, here's the parameters. We're asking all of
the people of New Hampshire to resist along these lines. Here's what you can't
do, here's what you can do, and I'm going to go into hiding
now and then just let them fight it out. So again, the Hampshire
could go straight into guerrilla war if it were invaded. But I favor,
I guess I favor probably something along the lines of the Costa Rica or Gandhi
model. Definitely don't like the idea of shooting at US forces, even if
we were even if we were already independent and this was twenty years after independence
and they invaded. I'm not sure I want to even then, I'm not
sure I want to see them shot. Certainly in this case, like the
way it is right now, the US government has enough of an aura of
legitimacy left that any kind of violent resistance against them reduces your chance of success.
Um. The science is this, lady, They call it the Scientists
of Civil Disobedience. Your name is Erica Chanowi, and she ran some studies
that show if you push it, if you go violent in your succession drive,
your chances of succeeding go down by a factor of three. Interesting.
Why does does she explain why? Um? I think it's because it makes
the invader or the crackdown government or the dictator or whatever. It makes their
forces feel more comfortable being against you. If you're cheating at them, that
makes sense. But if you're if you're resisting peaceably, then it just starts
to become they're fighting their brother, they're fighting their liquor store owner, they're
just the number of people that can resist becomes so big if you're talking about
non violent resistance, and the number of methods that can be used becomes so
wide with non violent resistance that it just massively increases your potential for a large
movement. Does it make sense? It does. Yeah, And actually a
couple of the options too that you mentioned, at least a couple maybe three,
uh, in terms of what you know, if if if New Hampshire
had succeeded and then UH invaded by the United States. UM. We do
live in a state that is armed to the teeth. So I suppose with
all the people who do have guns, UH, there would be at least
a couple of the options that you mentioned would would work or would at least
be tried as far as defending the state against the US, the Swiss model
or the UM, the guerrilla war model, the Tito model. UM would
be more useful if we if we were invaded by China long after declaring independence
or something like that, something that's so foreign an alien. In cases like
that, violent resistance apparently is more considered more appropriate and more effective because you're
fighting against something that has no or of legitimacy to lose. Yeah, trying
to I believe will never invade the ampsition no matter what happens. That's not
their way of doing things. They would try to influence the government. They're
already trying to do that with Nunu. Um, they would do their China
thing, and it's it's very different from the way the United States goes in
with kinetics. Um. You know, they just you know, China doesn't
go to war nearly as often as the United States. Says you saw something
interesting there, Dave. But what you China already trying to influence Governor Sanunu.
What do you mean, Well, the EXPERI did I know about it
is just two things. First of all, Um, they have a rating
system where they they rate all of America's governors on how friendly they are toward
Beijing. Really, and so they've given governors into a rating. I don't
know what his rating is, the pier low in their esteem. Um.
And the other thing is UH. Beijing has UH sort of a sort of
an unofficial consulate in New Hampshire. You might say it's called a Confucius centor
oh you've you've you've talked about those before and and and um, not to
derail you, Dave, but my dad has talked. My dad was the
first one to bring to my attention, and it's popped up in the news
a little bit. These um these uh police stations effectively that the China has
in the United States. And I don't know if that's if that is in
any relation of the Confucius Centers. I remember you talking about about the Confucius
Centers. I don't know if there's a direct h connection there between that and
the these sort of weird police stations that they have. But uh, I
didn't mean to interrupt you. I just said I thought of that when you
mentioned the Confucius Centers. The Confucius Centers are not police stations. They're they're
totally soft power. It's just it's like an educational thing. So it's funded
by the Chinese government, and their thing is to appear basic usually at at
US university's for instance. In this case it's the unh at Durham in eastern
New Hampshire. Yeah, you went to you went to visit them, right,
I went. Yes, I went to the Confucius Center and I was
going to do the riddly report stuff and ask them questions with my camera and
everything, but they were always gone when I would go there. Um.
I did do a little demonstration in front of there in the office. Yeah,
but I just had a free I had a free Hong Kong sign.
But you know, they're they're not as nefarious as they could be. The
idea as to teach help kids learn Mandarin, to help the college kids learn
Mandarin, and they te delt teach a class on Chinese history and stuff like
that. Yeah, it's not all evil, but it's definitely funded by the
Chinese government and they obviously are going to have their expectations that it will improve
Chinese power in somewhere. They wouldn't be funding it. It beats it beats
Iraq war. Right, it's better than uh US invasion of Afghanistan. Right.
It's the Chinese way of expanding. And there's all kinds of evils that
come along with it, but it's not you know, it's not always as
bad as what the US does. Interesting. Okay, do you know about
the the other thing, the police stations. I've never heard about that,
Okay, Yeah, it's it's interesting though. Um there was one in uh,
I think in Chinatown in New York City, um, where they have
these uh yeah, these these sort of I guess makeshift police stations set up
and they they they harass uh some of the residents there who are who?
Uh immigrated from China to the United States, And uh, it's interesting.
It's a weird thing. When I when I first heard about it, I
thought it was I thought it was some made up conspiracy theory thing. But
this has actually been getting a little bit of coverage and in mainstream media outlets.
Uh but uh, yeah, it's it's it's interesting. I don't know
how many of them there are or anything like that, but but but I
did have no no, the Chinese government was implicated in For example, there
was a student in Australia who was just organizing like a very ramshackle protest against
the I don't know, you know, be an invasion off the bad or
Hong Kong or whatever. Wasn't you know the particular of Hong Kong Um.
I think he was late to his own protest, who was going to have
like ten people, but a bunch of thugs showed up and started beating on
his protesters, really beat on him. And then the university blamed him you
shouldn't have had a demonstration against Chinese government, and they tried to expel him
from school in the Beijing. The Beijing UM Embassy in Australia got involved in
supporting the uh, the Ruffians, you know, the the the guys who
were assaulting everybody, um and uh. But so you weren't allowed to hold
a sign on your own campus. You know in Australia. This is about
you know, three years ago and this happened, so that that is eventually
coming. That's eventually coming here. You know. It's China really does have
you know, they are the world's up and coming superpower and it's not gonna
get it's not gonna get smaller, and their power is not going to go
away. So what do you have to learn? What the what the appropriate
response to this? You know, how do you handle it? Uh?
And there's a lot of different opens but like I said, I just mentioned
five for an independent New Hampshire, right, They're easy to you know,
pick and choose from. Some are easier than others. Some have lost any
money at all. There's all kinds of methods we can use to hold China
at bay, even as a very small country. And I actually the Chinese
understand this and respect that to some extent, and they're not they're not usually
one too. For instance, the Chinese government is not trying to make all
the governments in the world communists, right, like like the Americans trying to
make everything a democracy. True. Jenny says in the chat that she saw
a news report that says they have set up those Chinese police stations in Canada.
Wow. Well, well, actually I shouldn't be surprised because they when
they sent that spy balloon over, it went over not only the United States,
but over Canada as well. Yeah, the fights coming here, you
know. Um, like there was some guys that set up or some artists
that made a lampy lampoon Chijian thing like with a uh, sculpture or something
like that, and she jing things. People keep coming in and trying to
burn this sculpture down, and they guess they've already burned They've burned it down
on the first try actually call correctly. Uh. And it was just gonna
this is about in the middle of nowhere in the United States somewhere. Really
yep, interesting, very interesting. Um all right, well, I feel
like we went in a couple of different directions. Is that why you called
Dave or was there some other reason I was gonna call about something else that
I've taken up so much of your time. I may just call back in
about it later. It's not time since to do okay, Yeah, New
Hampshire News. Yeah, we are approaching the top of the hour, so
that's fine, but no interesting discussion, Dave. I appreciate the call,
my friend. Yep, all right, Dave. Oh, I do want
to plug anything at Ridley Report or an H exit or oh yeah, n
hit dot us. Uh. Speaking of which NH exit, I guess they
guess they've hired an aircraft. Maybe it was gonna rove New Hampshire. Uh
with a anective banner. Oh, no kidding. Oh that's fun. Yeah,
all right, very good. I'll let you know if I see it.
All right, all right, Dave, thank you, have a good
day. All right, bye bye bye. All right, that was our
friend Dave Ridley. Ironically enough, some breaking news just came over the wire.
China has just invaded Costa Rica. So Dave, if you're still listening,
I bet you feel pretty foolish now about them not having their own military.
Uh uh. Melanie said in the chat room, you guys would be
so much happier as Vermonters. We have reproductive rights, legalized marijuana. We
generally kick ass over here and Jenny pointed out that Vermont has a state income
tax staying in New Hampshire. Yes, but yeah, by the way,
we're two of the safest states I just saw. You know, there's always
every year there's these polls that show data from uh oh wow. Okay,
I'll tell you in the second what I was oh wowing about. Um there's
uh, you know, data about crime statistics across the country, and as
usual, New Hampshire and Vermont, I believe both ranked in the top five
of safest states that you can live in in the United States. I think
Maine was in the top five as well. I was saying, oh wow,
Jenny just messaged me that our guest, Chris Connor, had to cancel
tomorrow. We will reschedule him. Of course, a podcaster and he interviews
a lot of MMA fighters and I was looking forward to speaking with him.
But sounds like he's got a bit of a challenge that he's dealing with at
the moment, So we hope he's okay. But we're all ready we're already
approaching the top of the hour. Let's go ahead and take our break now.
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I think Vermont is going to absorb New Hampshire into Vermont. Oh,
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in the Queen City, Manchester, New Hampshire. Trump was here yesterday at
Saint Anselm College for the down Hall on CNN. UM. But before we
do that, and you know, I wanted to talk about this yesterday with
our friend Eric Pilcher, and then I ended up not coming in yesterday.
UM. And I explained it earlier in the show if you missed it,
But why I wasn't here, And again I do apologize to everybody for not
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joining us in the first hour every Wednesday that I'm here to talk about media.
But there is uh more and more. Tucker Carlson News Michael Albert says
in the chat, amazing difference from the last time Trump visited. You could
barely notice. Um. Well, well, we'll get to that. But
h Tucker Carlson uh making moves. Allegedly he's going to have a show on
Twitter, although Elon Musk initially denied it. I'm confused about that. But
he's also apparently Tucker is planning some sort of war against Fox. Maybe he's
going to team up with Trump. But this is from Axios. It says
scoop Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud and contract breach. Says here Tucker Carlson,
two weeks after being ousted by Fox. It's only been two weeks,
it seems longer. Accused the network Tuesday of fraud and breach of contract and
made a host of document demands that could proceed legal action. The aggressive letter
from his lawyers to Fox positions Carlson to argue that the non compete provision in
his contract is no longer valid, freeing him to launch his own competitive show
or media enterprise, or competing show or media enterprise. I should say,
now that's interesting because I remember reading earlier that he would not be able to
just go and suddenly start his own show. When news began to circulate that
he was going to have a show on Twitter, which I didn't know Twitter
was offering programming now, but apparently there's something there I guess, or maybe
that's something new that they're building in. But I mean, they used to
have the periscope app, which you could used to do shows on Twitter.
I know, I know somebody who used to do a fake radio show from
New York City on Twitter using Periscope. But but we don't talk about that.
But there had been news that there was a non compete clause, which
is a standard thing in media, you know, so because obviously if Fox
was getting rid of him, they didn't want him to just be able to
go and just start a new show. And there's usually no compete clauses built
into the or non compete I should say, to be precise, non compete
clauses built into these contracts, so if something happens, you don't just get
to go and start your own show and directly compete with the people who just
fired you. You know, they want to avoid that, so that's usually
included. So I was very surprised when it was being announced. When he
announced, I should say, Tucker Carlson himself announced that he would be bringing
his show to Twitter. I was like, already, how does that happen,
so apparently, as lawyers are arguing that the non complete clause is no
longer valid now, he said in the video. Tucker Carlson said in the
video that he posted quote starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version of
the show we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter.
We bring some other things too, which will tell you about, but
for now, we're just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main
right thing you have. I'm sorry. Free speech is the main right that
you have. Without it, you have no others. Unquote. The Twitter
move would seem to technically violate Carlson's contract with Fox, but as lawyer's letter
effectively holds that Fox breached the contract first. By the way, something that
I would immediately wonder about is how is that non compete written? And and
I guess if his lawyers are arguing that the noncomplete is noncomplete nonphonics, Matt,
that the non compete is invalid because Fox breached the contract first, does
that automatically invalidate the whole contract for one thing? That would be a question.
I'm not sure that's going to hold up. But I'm not a legal
expert or a legal scholar of any kind. So I don't know. I'm
in over my head. I'm just spitballing here. But the other thing that
I would wonder about is the way the non compete is written. Does it
specifically say that he can't go on a streaming platform or a social media platform
in this case like Twitter and have a show or is a contract written in
a way where it's seems to say And again, if it's all invalid,
then this question is mood. But is the contract written in a way where
it expresses that he cannot go and you know, go have a show on
some other cable network like CNN. Does it actually address anything about streaming or
about social media. It may not, it may not. You know,
streaming has changed everything, and not everyone believed. You know, hey,
way back in the day when Netflix said, for example, we're going to
we're going to begin to do away with this whole thing where we send you
a DVD and then you send it back when because that's how some people might
not remember, especially you young UN's out there, that's how Netflix actually started.
Netflix didn't start as a streaming platform. Netflix started as a service where
you go online and you order what you want to watch, and then they
ship you the DVD and then when you're done with it, you ship it
back and then you can get something out ship to you. That's how Netflix
originally started, and then it became the streaming service at it is today.
This whole writer's strike that's going on right now, WGA going on strike.
A lot of that is being driven by these writers who are saying, wait
a minute, is streaming has changed everything? You know, we used to
get hired to write on a television series, which would be twenty two episodes
a season, so we knew we were going to be writing for those twenty
two episodes. Now you've got these shows that are streaming on platforms like Netflix
and Hulu. Some of them are only ten episodes or twelve episodes, or
eight episodes or five episodes. So everything's changing and it's become you know,
they're saying, it's it's it's you've you've turned writing for television into something that's
a gig economy within that industry because things aren't long term like they used to
be. Now you might be writing for what is called a quote unquote series,
but it's really only five episodes that are streaming on Netflix, so it's
not long term, so we need to change all of this. So I
just wonder because the industry, in terms of how the contracts are structured,
has been slow to react to technology, which is what always happens, right
technology, The law in anything, whether it be contracts or government regulations or
whatever, it never keeps up with technology. Technology is always out in front,
and you know, maybe that'll never change. Maybe that's just a natural
course of things because you don't necessarily know where technology is going to go,
and sometimes we make predictions of it about it and we turn out to be
wrong. But I just wonder. I would be very curious. What does
his contract actually say in terms of the noncompete. Does it say he can't
do a show anywhere under any circumstances for x amount of time until his contract
would be up. Is that what it actually says? Does it mean,
however it's written, he can't do a He can't even do a YouTube stream
if he wanted to. Again, these are questions because of technology, and
there's so many people streaming now. I mean, there are there are people
streaming who used to work for big media companies who you know, they get
fired or their contract runs out and they don't like the numbers or whatever,
and they just say, well, screw it. I'll just start my own
YouTube channel and I'll get a gazillion subscribers because I'm already famous or or at
least have a really strong fan base, and I'll be able to monetize that
way and make tons of money. And um, you know, you've got
so many options now. So I wonder does his contract take any of that
into account in terms of the non pete so, but his lawyers are arguing
that it's all irrelevant because it's already been breached by Fox, so it says
here. Sources told Axios that Carlson's lawyers sent their letter before he took to
Twitter to announce his new show. Axios reported Sunday that Carlson, frustrated with
being held to his contract, is preparing to unleash allies to pressure the network
into letting him work for or start a right wing rival. So that's the
thing. If you clear that one hurdle or go through that one barrier,
he doesn't, Tucker Carlson does not in the position that he's in again because
of streaming and the way the technology has advanced, he doesn't have to spend
another day of his career on any cable network. He could be on the
Daily Wire or The Blaze, which both strictly stream online. You know,
there's many other places where he could go and possibly have an even larger audience.
You already had the largest audience in all of cable news, but some
of these audiences online that people are getting actually are bigger. This is something
people don't realize too. You know, cable news they don't pull the necessarily
the audience numbers that you might think that they do. Some people who have
gone from cable news to strictly online are actually pulling bigger numbers online in terms
of audience. Of course, you can actually measure it more easily online too,
by monitoring web traffic where and view counts and so forth. Whereas you
know, in television, ratings aren't always you know, there's not a system
that's necessarily going to be completely accurate, right, you have to take that
into account. And within radio it's even more. It's even sketchier as far
as ratings measuring ratings, right, or maybe that's just me wanting to think.
I don't know. It says here Carlson's contract runs until January twenty twenty
five, and Fox wants to keep paying him, which would prevent him from
starting a competing show. Oh that's a good gig. Actually, January twenty
twenty five. That's only a year and a half, and Fox is going
to keep paying him the whole time. You know, it might not.
This is the thing too, and I'm sure he's thinking about this. Is
it better to after being ousted from Fox, strike while the iron is hot,
start the new show right away somewhere else, Or is it better to
have that break, be gone for a year and a half and come back
fresh and people will be excited that you're back? You know sometimes I mean,
you know, they say absence makes the heart grow fonder, or you
know, how can we miss you if you won't go away? You know,
So if you away for a year and a half, maybe you come
back bigger than ever. Maybe maybe not. I don't know, but I'm
sure that's part of the calculation here, It says here Carlson already has gotten
eye popping offers from several right wing outlets and has talked to Elon Musk about
working together now. According to Tucker, Carlson's announcement He's already got the show
on Twitter. But Elon Musk then publicly denied that is that because Elon Musk
is worried about getting sued by Fox. So Elon Musk is maybe they have
made a deal, Maybe they've made a hand handshake deal, but haven't put
pen to paper yet because because Carlson's lawyers have to untangle this with Fox.
But Tucker was excited when aheadn't announced it. Now Elon's like, well,
I don't want to get sued by Fox for a contract tampering, So maybe
we hold off until we know you're definitely in the clear and you're out of
that deal. Maybe that would make sense. It says here the less from
Carlson lawyer Brian Friedman to Fox officials Vietnin and Irana Breganti. Irena Breganti,
Rana what am I? What's wrong with me? Irena Breganti said? Fox
employees said Fox employees, including Rupert Murdoch himself, broke promises to Carlson quote
intentionally with reckless disregard for the truth unquote. The lawyers accuse Fox executive executives,
which two sources say are Din which I'm probably not saying correctly, and
Murdoch for making representations or promises to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud.
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broken agreement with Carlson not to leak his
private communications to the media hoops, and not to use Carlson's private messages quote
to take any adverse employment action against him unquote maybe oops. We still don't
know the exact reason he was fired. Multiple outlets have reported on Carlson's redacted
communications from pre trial discovery documents, and a suggested that they led to his
Austin I'm still skeptical about that. By the way, I still think if
I were a betting man, I would put my money on the Is it
Amy Grosberg? I would put my money on that. In her pending litigation
against Fox for harassment, it says here again this is from Axios. The
letter also alleges foxbroke promises not to settle with dominion voting systems quote in a
way which would indicate wrongdoing unquote on the part of Carlson, and not to
take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson's reputation interest sting, so
if I'm understanding that correctly. So, the letter that Tucker Carlson's lawyers sent
to Fox claims that Fox broke a promise by settling with Dominion because it made
Tucker Carlson look bad because he was a part of pushing that that narrative about
the twenty twenty election. That's interesting not to settle with them quote in a
way which would indicate wrongdoing unquote on the part of Carlson. That's fascinating to
me. Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was
taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement. Two sources briefed on
a conversation told Axeos that's been another big theory, of course, not only
about Amy Grossberg, but about the settlement itself, that that had something to
do with it. I still don't think it was those text messages. I
don't think it had anything to do with that. Even calling a Fox News
executive the C word, which he did in any other job, of course,
that would get you fired. You don't get to do that in corporate
America or even in a small business. You don't get to say something like
that about an executive or the top executive. Was it was it about the
CEO of the company or somebody close to the top at least. But when
you're the number one rated host in all of cable news, that's the one
time you probably can get away with that, which is why I don't think
that's what it was. I don't think it helped them, but I don't
think that's what it was. It says here again, this is from Axios.
According to a source familiar with Carlson's position, his lawyers believe that the
misrepresentations alleged by Carlson amount to a breach of contract because they created additional terms
of Carlson's employment that were then broken by the company. These actions not only
breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the agreement, but gave
rise to claims for breach of contract and intentional and negligent misrepresentation, the letter
says. A Fox spokesperson said it is categorically false that Carlson lost his job
as part of the Networks seven hundred eighty seven and a half million dollars settlement
with Dominion Voting Systems. Stephen Shackelford, an outside attorney, for Dominion told
Axiosa's Dan Primac quote Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part
of the settlement unquote. Carlson is also claiming that Breganti, Foxes longtime communications
in pr chief, attempted to quote undermine, embarrass, and interfere unquote with
Carlson's future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment
contract. The letter said, quote, make no mistake, we intend to
subpoena Miss Breganti's cell phone records and related documents which evidence communications with her and
all me including but not limited to The New York Times unquote. Carlson's lawyers
added that because Carlson is considering litigation against a network to resolve these disputes,
Fox News must take immediate steps quote to preserve all existing documents and data unquote
relevant to Fox's relationship with Carlson, including correspondence between top executives and several media
outlets. So there you go. Um, this is uh. This story
will not be over for a long time. The saga of Tucker Carlson continuing
on after his employment ends with with Fox News. Um, this is offended.
Offended, well, maybe offended. This is affected Rumble too, by
the way, the U because a lot of people thought he'd land at Rumble,
like Stephen Crowder and Carlson going and announcing the going to Twitter with his
show means he's not going to Rumble. And apparently this has affected Rumble.
We're not going to get into it right now, but Bloomberg is reporting in
their technology section Tucker Carlson's Twitter move wipes two hundred and thirty five million dollars
from Rumble shares sank as much as twelve percent yesterday. Rumble has kind of
emerged, of course, as a right wing alternative to to YouTube. Let's
see six zo three two five six Z seven is a number if you'd like
to jump in six z three two five six seven. All right, I
do want to get to a little bit and we might continue this tomorrow.
Trump was here yesterday, not here in studio, of course, but here
in the queen city of the Granite State. And for those of you not
from here, that means Manchester, New Hampshire. U oh wow. Debt
default would increase housing payments by twenty two percent, according to Willow. Okay,
I mean Zillo all right, So I did not see the whole I
have not had a chance to see the entire thing yet, most of it,
but not all of it. Something that alarmed me about Trump's town hall,
and by the way, I mean the town hall. CNN is taking
a lot of a lot of criticism for various reasons over the town hall,
and I haven't mentioned this, and yesterday I ended up getting so busy I
haven't even posted this picture yet on social media, but there's a I have
a picture of that I took yesterday. I was at a gas station and
there was a truck. If you've ever seen them, there's these trucks that
you can you can rent or lease for your business where it's basically an electronic
billboard on the side of the trunk, side of the truck and on the
back of the truck. And there's this organization called Ultra Violet Action. And
this truck was driving around Manchester and it says it's got a picture of Trump's
face on it, and it says, WTF, CNN dump Trump, cancel
the town hall. And I took a picture of it and also had a
brief conversation with the driver of the truck, and there may or may not
be floating around right now somewhere online a picture of me posing with the truck
and a big smile on my face and two thumbs up. Now having said
that, in case you happen to come across that picture, I did not.
I do want to make this clear. I did not have any problem
with CNN doing this. Again. I did pose with the truck and take
a picture of the truck, and I did talk to the drive ever,
but I thought it was funny. But that doesn't mean I necessarily agreed with
the sentiment that CNN should not do this. Some people felt that CNN should
not do this. I disagree. I have no problem with it. Now,
if you're a long time listener, you know my feelings about the former
president. Not a fan, but I thought it was perfectly appropriate for CNN
to do a town hall with him. He's the as I like to refer
to him, the presumptive presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination for twenty twenty four.
I do believe he'll be the nominee. He's the Republican front runner.
Why wouldn't you do a town hall with him? Having said that, what
I did see, and again I saw most of it, not all of
it. I need to go back and watch. The whole thing. Had
a lot going on, but it seemed to be a sort of a version
of the speech that he gives when he's at a podium, but just but
with a journalist interrupting and asking questions. But it was it was basically all
the same stuff that he says when he gives a speech. One thing specific
that I found particularly well, two things that really jumped out at me,
well maybe three. Well, first thing, so we've been talking about it
on the show quite a bit over the years. We've talked about it a
lot, but especially recently because it's a front burner issue. You know,
that asteroid is coming. That's coming, and if you're just joining us,
don't freak out. I don't mean there's literally an asteroid coming up. It's
a metaphor. But the debt limit, you know, will be defaulting in
June most likely and thus wrecking the American economy. And so apparently Trump is
in favor of that and bummed me out, especially because while I don't have
a lot of nice things to say about him generally, one thing, one
of the things that I have always given him credit for is that when he
was president, he had the correct position on the debt ceiling, and I
appreciated that. His position was that under no circumstances, not only could the
United States never be allowed to default on our debt, but that it should
not even be used as a negotiating wedge. He's on record saying that he
said, it's reckless and stupid. It's too dangerous, and we can't do
that, and we can't risk default, and we're not even going to use
it to negotiate. That was his position. His position was absolutely correct.
Well, apparently that's no longer his position. He said during the town hall
that you know, he said he didn't necessarily think there would be a default.
He said the Democrats will cave, but he but he said he was
fine with default, and he said he actually said, we might as well
default because it's going to happen eventually anyway, so might as well get it
over with, and you know, we'll have a we might have a bad
day or a bad week economically as a result, but it probably won't be
any big deal. That was his whole spin. So he's completely done.
A one eighty in his position on the debt limit, he now seems to
be pro default. Listening to him say that, it reminded me of years
ago when I was a co host on Rock Paper hand Grenades with the honorable
garyus Hopper, God Rest his soul, and you know, and and the
debt limit would be in the news, and we'd have these crazy guests on
who would say the very things that Trump was saying. Well, yeah,
they'd come on and they say, well, yeah, of course we should
default. Why should we Why why would you want to keep spend money?
We should default. Better to do it now than do it later. So
my belief is if you support default, then you support effectively American and potentially
global economic armageddon. This thing he was saying about, well, you know,
we might have a bad day or a bad week, but it won't
be a big deal. That is insane. And if you support that,
if you agree with that, no offense, but you are insane. You
are absolutely out of your mind. So that was disappointing. Yeah, he's
he's he supports default. He thinks we should default on our debt. By
the way, as a consequence of that, if you are someone who collects
Social Security forget about worrying about Social Security reform or having your Social Security cut.
Social Security will end, social Security payments will not go out. If
you support our nation's military, our brave men and women who serve in the
United States Military, and you support default, well guess what. You don't
actually support the military because you don't support them getting paid. It's bad enough
we have people serving in the United States Military who aren't paid enough, as
it is, not even paid a living wage, and have to go on
public assistance to feed themselves and feed their families because we don't pay them enough.
Once we default, we won't be paying them anything. Just a couple
of quick examples. So default will be disastrous. It will be catastrophic.
And this is absolutely a disqualifier that he takes that position. And I was
actually either shocked the other things, I wasn't shocked. I mean, he
said a lot of things that I would take on rich with, of course,
but that genuinely shocked me. It really did. I mean I thought
he might try to. I thought his position might have changed from when he
was president, like he might say he might kind of soft pedal it by
saying, well, you know, I've always opposed default. But but I
understand why, uh, Speaker McCarthy is using this. You know, we
have to cut spending and and uh, you know, perhaps it is appropriate,
after all to use it as a negotiating wedge maybe something like that.
But no, that's not what he said. That's not what he said.
He said, might as well default. We're gonna have default eventually anyway,
might as well do it now. Just do it so so just so you
know, if you're if you're currently on Social Security, that will if we
do what Trump wants, and if we do what our elected law givers and
overlords seem to have planned for us, social Security as we know it is
about to end. Anybody, by the way, who thinks I'm being hyperbolic
about that or I'm being dramatic, I'm not. I'm not. If we
default, it's over. Social Security is over. The military's over. They
won't be getting paid anymore. And and a lot of other things about the
American economy are going to change in ways that will likely be far more severe
than even the Great Recession, the economic crisis of two thousand and eight.
It's going to be absolutely brutal. If you don't believe me, look up
what economists are saying. See, you know, we call it economic theory
because there are many different kinds of economic theories, right, you know,
like you've got Keynesie and economists who tend to be more on the left,
and you've got supply side economists who tend to be more on the right and
support those kinds of policies. Right, you know, you've got libertarians they
like Austrian economics. But generally across the board, though, you will be
hard pressed to find an economist of any stripe, of any economic philosophy or
belief system who will tell you that the United States actually defaulting on our debt
for the first time in history will be a good thing. And you will
be also hard pressed to find an economist anywhere who will tell you that it
will not be catastrophic and that it will all just be fine, and that
maybe we'll have a bad day or maybe a bad week, but no big
deal, and it's going to happen anyway. Let's just do it now,
screw it. If you can find me an economist who will say that,
I will be shocked, But uh I was. I was genuinely stunned.
Like he didn't even say, yeah, I think maybe it is appropriate to
use this as a negotiating tactic. No, he didn't even say that.
He just said, yeah, you know, we should. Uh, you
know, he said, I don't know if it'll happen. I think the
Democrats will cave, but yeah, we should, we probably should default.
He literally said that. Anyone who didn't hear it, who's maybe you're maybe
you're a Trump supporter and and you just hear me saying this, and you
go, no, Trump, Trump couldn't possibly have said that. I'm telling
you, I'm not exaggerating. I'm not being hyperbolic. H I'm not.
I'm not you know, I don't have trumped arrangement syndrome. No, this
is his position. Now, this is his position that we should actually default
on our debt. So it's a fact. So that was shocking and disappointing.
Um. Also, he uh doubled down Perhaps at this point you could
say he tripled down on his desire to, uh, if he is elected
president again, to begin pardoning the January sixth rioters or I consider them insurrectionists
and domestic terrorists, those who overran the Capitol. But no, he wants
to part and he didn't say he would necessarily part in every single one of
them, one of them because how did he put it, there might have
been a couple who got a little out of control or something, but which
I'm sure is uh, I'm sure those words will be great comfort to uh,
you know, to everyone in the Capitol Police force who had to had
to deal with that that day. Yeah, you know, a couple of
them got out of control, yes, you know, but for the most
part, yeah, I go, just pardon him. What did they really
do wrong? Right? So that was that was disappointing. I mean that
that did not surprise me. Um. And uh you know, and of
course Egene Carol stuff, no, no grace whatsoever there. Um, he
just insulted her. And listen, I I get that's what some people like
about him. They like that he insults people. And you know that's uh
so, I mean he certainly you know all that all that stuff. Um
yeah, again it helps him as far as winning the nomination, But I
don't think it's going to help him in the general election. Um. But
uh, but it but it'll help him, it'll help him to win the
nomination. I mean I think he's I think, like I say, I
think he's already sealed it up. We haven't even had our first debate yet.
Oh, apparently he's not participating in the debate. So I believe now
there's a lot of criticism being leveled at CNN for even doing this, for
even having this event media it says. CNN's Oliver Darcy reports CEO Chris Licht
and network are facing fury of criticism within the company after Trump town hall.
So this isn't even only externally, this is coming but from within CNN,
which I find very interesting. CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy revealed yesterday evening
that CNN was quote facing a fury of criticism unquote within the company following its
controversial town hall with former President Donald Trump. Darcy wrote in CNN's Reliable Sources
newsletter, quote, it's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle
of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening unquote. While he praised the tough
and quote tough and knowledgeable unquote CNN host Caitlin Collins for her attempts at fact
ecking Trump's remarks, Darcy said Collins was given an impossible task and put in
an uncomfortable position, given that the audience was comprised of Republicans who mostly applauded
the former president and laughed at his comments. Oh yeah, like they thought
the Eegene Carol stuff, the things he said about her, they thought that
was hilarious. They ate it up, you know, when he's sitting there
insulting his accuser. But but again, of course, you know, that's
that's what some people like about him. They like his crudeness and his lack
of grace makes him a man of the people. Scott Robinson says in the
chat room, I remember when Bernie had his town hall on Fox, and
all the Fox people are all up in arms about that too. Yep,
I remember that. I remember that. Darcy wrote, noting that Trump staffers
were reportedly delighted with the event quote and CNN aired it all on and on
it went. It felt like twenty sixteen all over again. It was Trump's
unhinged social media feed brought to life on stage. Unquote. Darcy wrote that
quote, CNN and new network boss Chris Licked are facing a fury of criticism
both internally and externally over the event. How Licked and the other CNN executives
address the criticism in the coming days and weeks will be crucial. Will they
defend what transpired at Saint Annselm College or will they express some regret For now
CNN is defending itself unquote, well, it is a no win situation.
But again, I don't see how I will defend CNN on this for airing
the event. Um, what what else? I mean, what else can
you do if you have an opportunity to do something like this with the front
runner. He is the front runner for the Republican nomination. And listen,
Caitlin Collins. Of course, the way people react or it's all predictable.
Some some people who are you know, some people on the right are critical
of her, saying, oh, she was trying to debate Trump and this
and that. Caitlin Collins, I think she did the best that she could.
You know, she she was tough and but she you know, here's
the thing. You'll never hear me complain about a journalist pushing back on what
a candidate is saying, whether it's Trump or anybody else. You know,
even if it's somebody I happen to like, I always say this. You
want an aggressive media that's the media's job, or at least it should be
ideally, is to push back, to fact check, to challenge what someone
is saying. That that's part of the deal. Now, most people will
tell you that they'll agree with that, and they'll say, well, yeah,
you're right, Matt. We of course we want an aggressive media.
Unfortunately, what most people mean when they say that is we want an a
media that's we want a media that's aggressive with the people we don't like,
but we also want a media that is compliant and and docile and shows deference
to people we do like. That's what most people mean. I want to
I want to have a media that's aggressive with everybody, including Trump. And
I thought Caitlin Collins did a good job pushing back and fact checking. In
a statement yesterday, a CNN spokesperson praised Collins for her role in the town
hall, saying, quote, tonight, Caitlyn Collins exemplified what it means to
be a world class journalist. She was tough, she asked tough, sorry,
she asked tough, fair and revealing questions, and she followed up in
fact checked President Trump in real time to arm voters with critical information about his
positions as he enters the twenty twenty four election as the Republican front runner.
That a CNN's role and responsibility to get answers and hold the powerful to account
unquote. Yeah. See, that's the thing, and that's why I think
it was the right call to go ahead with this event. If you don't
do that, then you have no opportunity to directly engage with the candidate and
attempt to hold them accountable and to fact check them in real time, it
says here. However, many politicos, journalists and observers have criticized CNN for
hosting Trump live on air and accused the network of losing control over the interview.
CNN's CNN anchor Jake Tapper, following the town hall, said this quote,
it was an interesting night. Mister Trump's first lie was told just seconds
into the night with his false familiar I aim that the twenty twenty election was
quote a rigged election. Uh, and the falsehoods kept coming fast and furious
about the January sixth insurrection, about the threat to Vice President Pence, about
Pence's ability to overturn the election, about COVID, about the economy, and
much more unquote, Trump concluded his appearance in the town hall by praising Collins
and regaling the audience for over a minute. Quote, I like you guys.
We love New Hampshire unquote, he said, as the audience stood in
applause. Yeah, yeah, he did. He repeated the nonsense about the
vice president had the power to overturn the election by sending it back to the
States. He's still repeating that. Uh yeah, anyway. I mean,
it was, like I said, it was a stump speech, but in
the form of it was his usual stump speech, but in the form of
having a journalist there. But what else could you do? Like I said,
you can't. I don't think it would be the right call to ignore
him and not let him on CNN. He is the front runner for the
nomination. But oh, we are almost out of time. All right,
here's what we're gonna do. I think we'll play one more track from the
Stone Road Band because or may Actually, maybe I can find a Kevin horn,
if I can find a quick solo song of his, maybe I'll play
something from one of his solo albums. He's going to be performing live on
Friday night, I'm sorry, Saturday night, rather at the hop knot.
It is Thursday, which means tonight. Immediately following this program, we have
Through the Through the Stage Door hosted by the Great, the Great Rob die
On and then don't forget to be back tomorrow, bright and early, seven
am for the Morning Show with Peter White. I texted Peter earlier about something
that came up on his show today that I thought was that I thought was
really funny. Um, what's the song Drift? If I played this before,
one of Kevin Horren's solo songs. But if you miss any part of
today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNH Radio
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course we'll be Friday, my long day here at WMNH. Not only will
I be on this show, but of course U retro Spectrum Radio with Paul
c. All Right, so we'll leave you with this, h This is
a little acoustic number. This is Drift, performed by the Great Kevin Horren.
And that'll do it for us for now. I'll talk to y'all a
little bit later. By everybody,