1 00:00:03,799 --> 00:00:15,560 Your listening to WUMNH. Come he guy, don't get so freely matzelf going 2 00:00:15,759 --> 00:00:53,520 you welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and 3 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,079 we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three 4 00:00:58,159 --> 00:01:02,920 FM, Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. 5 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:04,680 If you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the 6 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,959 nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot 7 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,280 com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos, 8 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,760 show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Friday, October thirteen, 9 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,079 twenty twenty three, and I am not alone. If you haven't girl 10 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,200 problems out for bath for your son. I got ninety nine problems but one 11 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,079 patrol. DJ Reckless is here. What's up? How are you? I'm 12 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:36,640 good? Cold out today? Eh? Every time I come on, Oh 13 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:41,439 here's the weather today, guys, it's cold. It's cold, It's not 14 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,159 it's beautiful. Yeah. You were saying that earlier too at home, and 15 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:49,159 Jenny and I are both like, you really think it's cold? I don't 16 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:52,079 think it's cold, man. I just nearly got blown down Elm Street. 17 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:55,760 Oh it was is windy. Yeah, Elm Street's quite the wind tunnel last 18 00:01:55,799 --> 00:02:00,159 time, which makes it cold. You can have a warm wind, you 19 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:01,200 can have a west Yes you can, Yes, you can, yes, 20 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,159 yes, sahaha, you can't because when I was in Cali last year, 21 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:10,439 it's the first time I've ever experienced like a warm wind like that. Yeah, 22 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:14,919 it was like one hundred and eight. Yeah, and I will we 23 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,080 got out, we got out of the van to go into a gas station. 24 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:20,199 I was like, even the wind is wind is hot right now? 25 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,240 Yeah, this is weird. It felt so weird. Yeah, yeah, 26 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,280 what's up? What have what have you got going on tonight? You're gonna 27 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,560 be right up the streets, same old, same old, six o three 28 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,759 bar and growth tonight Friday the thirteenth. You know, I wasn't even thinking 29 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:36,360 about that. Yeah, I was happy. Didn't even occurred about it all 30 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:38,800 day. Didn't even occur to me that it was Friday the thirteenth. Knock 31 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,439 on what nothing bad happens today? It's been pretty good so far, so 32 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,400 far, so good. Yes, yes, what time? What time you 33 00:02:45,439 --> 00:02:47,400 go on? Nine pm? And is it just you. No, it's 34 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:51,879 my goy Sean White too. Oh okay, Sean White you uh you work 35 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,639 with him a lot, don't you. Yeah, that's one of my best 36 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,919 friends. Excellent, Yeah, he's actually tonight. The reason I chose I 37 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,759 wanted to do tonight was because this is I think the third year in a 38 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,759 row i've done Friday the thirteenth with him or something like. Oh, okay, 39 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:08,759 some type of Friday the thirteen. Oh, very cool, very cool. 40 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:14,719 Yeah, no, but I'm super excited because it's my last night there 41 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:23,719 until uh Sunday thirtieth okay, no, twenty nine, yeah, twenty nine, 42 00:03:23,759 --> 00:03:27,000 because I'm doing my Halloween party there. Ah, very good. Yeah. 43 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,719 Then we're then we got a lot of renovations happening, and a bunch 44 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:31,840 of other stuff happened over there. I'm excited. I'm excited. What the 45 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:37,159 six o three is being renovated, Yeah, a little bit. And then 46 00:03:37,159 --> 00:03:38,599 we're gonna be doing a lot. We're gonna be I'm gonna be there a 47 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:44,439 lot less, but a lot more. To a point, I'm gonna be 48 00:03:44,479 --> 00:03:47,560 doing Fridays by myself. Possibly, I don't know yet though, Oh okay, 49 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,400 well, very good, very good. Though probably shouldn't have said that, 50 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:55,319 but I'll probably walk into that bar later and they'll scream at me. 51 00:03:55,639 --> 00:04:04,039 Really yeah, no, that would be arable great. Yeah, So that'll 52 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,639 be DJ Reckless tonight at the six oh three right up the street here. 53 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,960 Yeah, and coming up on the show today, We've got a great show 54 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,280 for you. That track that I opened with is called Island, and the 55 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,600 band is called My Last Mile. They will be here with us in the 56 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,360 second hour, and I'm really looking forward to meeting those guys. I love 57 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:26,000 their sound. We've got some other studio tracks too that we're gonna play when 58 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,360 they're here. But I had to open with that song. I love that 59 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,439 song. That is so catchy. I love the production, I love everything 60 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,920 about it. So My Last Mile our musical guest today in the second hour. 61 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:38,839 Later on in this hour, however, it is Friday, which means 62 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:44,439 we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, and this week the subject is nineteen 63 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,639 seventy eight's George A. Romero film Dawn of the Dead, which was I 64 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:54,000 believe a sequel to Night of the Living Dead. You ever get into those 65 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,439 movies, the zombie movies there, I hate horror movies. You can't do 66 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:01,560 it. I can't do it, which is probably why I'm single, because 67 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,160 any girl that asked me to go to a movie during the month of October, 68 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,079 let me tell you it ain't happening. It's just not no kidding, 69 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,360 Nope. Do you hate all horror movies just that entire genre? Yeah? 70 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:15,319 Interesting, I don't do good. I don't do good with stuff like that. 71 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,360 Yeah, I mean it's just so weird. No, it's not. 72 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,399 I don't think it's weird necessarily. I mean a lot of people, uh, 73 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,800 you know, everybody has different taste in film. I mean I don't 74 00:05:27,879 --> 00:05:30,639 like, uh like to me, the horror genre. I mean there's types 75 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,560 of horror movies that I like, but there's types that I don't like too, 76 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,399 Like slasher movies I don't like. Yeah, I don't like slasher movies. 77 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:41,759 I don't understand. Uh, I don't understand the appeal I never have, 78 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,759 even like Michael Myers. Yeah, I don't like that stuff. Like 79 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,800 I saw that. I saw that movie last. I saw the New Friday, 80 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,879 the New Michael Myers maybe from last year. Is he He's He's? 81 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,839 Uh? Is he Halloween Michael Myers? Because Friday the thirteenth is Jason. 82 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:59,560 Yeah, that's Jason. I almost said Friday the thirteenth, so I knew. 83 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:00,879 I knew it was wrong in my head. Yeah. Yeah, but 84 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,680 I almost said Michael Myers was on Friday the thirteenth. That would have got 85 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:10,000 canceled immediately, right, that's right. Yeah, I yeah, I don't 86 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 like that. I don't like that stuff. But yeah, I think it 87 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,000 is Halloween. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. 88 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:18,000 But oh yes, Eric, Eric Pilcher is in the chat room. He 89 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,639 says, yes, it was Donna the Dead is the sequel Tonight of the 90 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:26,839 Living Dead. Yeah, those those movies are kind of cool. I just 91 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:29,920 I don't like anything gory. That's why. That's why I don't like slasher 92 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:32,120 movies. I don't. I don't, I genuinely. I just I'm not 93 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,639 trying to put anybody down who likes that stuff, and you know, I 94 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,240 don't want to offend anyone, especially of course our friend Melanie La Liberty. 95 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,040 But I even even when I was a kid, I just did not understand 96 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,279 the appeal of that. It's I find it just horrifying to these movies. 97 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:53,399 Speaking. Since we're on the topic of slasher movies, there's this movie coming 98 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:57,560 out in November. I believe they're like Halloween or something about Thanksgiving. It's 99 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,519 called Thanksgiving. It's like a slasher movie though, and it's like it's so 100 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,279 weird. Yeah, the previews for it, like I kind of want to 101 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:10,000 go see it just because of the lineup of people they have in the movie. 102 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,399 Yeah, for acts, for actors and actresses. Yeah, but I'm 103 00:07:13,439 --> 00:07:15,000 also like, is it a is it a comedy? Is it like a 104 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,720 comedy horror movie? It looks like a straight horror movie because because when you 105 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,800 say it's Thanksgiving, I just imagine somebody like trying to kill people with uh 106 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:29,160 a turkey or something. It's imagine Halloween, the movie Halloween. Yeah, 107 00:07:29,279 --> 00:07:33,120 but instead of Halloween, switched the holiday with things. Oh okay, gotcha? 108 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:35,319 Yeah, yeah that makes sense. That's the vibe I got from that, 109 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:38,639 at least from at least from the previous because I've been seeing the previews 110 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:40,959 for months now every time I go to the movies and I'm like, yeah, 111 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,560 I don't know if I want to see that. Oh yeah. And 112 00:07:43,639 --> 00:07:47,160 also they they're coming out with like five Nights at freddy Too for Freddy's And 113 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,000 it's like that was like a game like my thirteen, like my now thirteen 114 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:55,040 year old nephew would play when he was like six. Yeah, and now 115 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:59,519 I'm like, now I'm concerning that he was playing it at six. Ah 116 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,120 yeah, I'm like, uh, I don't think we should have let them 117 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,800 watch or play that game? Yeah? Maybe not. I mean I'm not 118 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:11,600 I'm not a prude about any of that stuff. But what I do wonder, 119 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:13,399 I do wonder sometimes. Well, you know, there's a lot of 120 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,160 research that's been put into like movies that are war based, I mean, 121 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,399 not movies, I'm sorry, video games that are war based, like first 122 00:08:22,439 --> 00:08:24,720 person shooters where you're in battle, and the way it kind of glorifies war, 123 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:28,720 and that that that actually is used as a recruiting tool to get young 124 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:33,840 people interested in going off to war and trying to get them to join the 125 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,440 military. And I say that with respect for you know, I respect our 126 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:39,120 and love our veterans, and of course my dad's a veteran. I don't 127 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,919 want anyone to take anything that I'm saying wrong. But you know, people 128 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:52,519 have noticed that these video games like uh, what's what's like the really big 129 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,919 call of duty? Call of Duty? Yeah, the very big that's a 130 00:08:56,039 --> 00:09:00,679 monster franchise in video games and see I don't again and I try not to 131 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:05,639 make any judgments about it, but but it it is. I mean yeah, 132 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:07,720 kind of kind of glorifies war, doesn't it. Yeah. More recently, 133 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,639 Yeah, but like if you go to like twenty like twenty fourteen, 134 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:16,240 I believe, or whenever Black Ops the he was released, Yeah, that 135 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:24,000 was more like futuristic, like but not futuristic oh like gameplay and yeah, 136 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,000 so I don't know, it's hit and miss, and like I get what 137 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:31,679 you're saying. Yeah, like battlefield games like battlefield Like that's straight up you're 138 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,639 like you're on like a battlefield that you're in the middle of a war. 139 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,519 Yeah, and it looks like it. Even the scenery everything looks like and 140 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,519 it's just weird. Yeah, that stuff bothers me, always has. I 141 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:48,960 just uh, I just wonder. I wonder about the cultural impact of it 142 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,879 all. I see a comment in the chat actually speaking on the thing of 143 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:56,000 games, that they came up with a game called Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah. 144 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,399 I played that game a few days ago. Yeah, uh uh, 145 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,919 nope, nope. And a few years ago, when I was like thirteen, 146 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:07,240 they came out with a game call. It was like Friday the thirteenth 147 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:13,799 where you could be Jason or whoever is Jason, right, yeah, yeah, 148 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,559 Jason Vorhees Yeah, and you could run, you could be like you 149 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:22,039 could be him and chase people other like five other players around the map and 150 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:26,080 kill them. Yeah, or you could be one of the survivors, yeah, 151 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,919 per se and try to survive. And it was so weird, but 152 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 it was so good really yeuh yeah. I was like I could use this 153 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,639 game. And then they took it off the market because well they did. 154 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,840 Yeah. I think they faced a lawsuit or something on it, really, 155 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,240 or or it's still up and it's just like the servers aren't active. I'm 156 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:48,240 not sure. I'm pretty sure something happened though. Oh interesting interesting. Yeah. 157 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:50,240 And by the way, for anyone who I just want to throw throw 158 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,559 this out there, for anyone who thinks I sound like, uh oh, 159 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,080 Matt, he sounds like a prudish old man who doesn't understand why these young 160 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,200 people like these things. I've always felt this way about I've since I was 161 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,399 a kid. I felt the way that I feel about slasher movies. For 162 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,159 as long as I can remember. I've always been concerned about video games that 163 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:15,960 are based on war. None of this is new to me. It has 164 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,279 nothing to do with me getting older and I'm turning into some sort of curmudgeon 165 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,919 who just doesn't want young people to have any fun because I know that somebody 166 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:28,120 out there thinking that why is Matt? Matt just doesn't understand the youth, 167 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,840 you know, like I'm sitting here going you know, back in my day, 168 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,840 we played nice games like pac Man and Dig Doug. It's not that 169 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,399 It's not that I've always felt this way, even when I was a kid. 170 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:46,000 Matt was like fourteen playing Street Fighter? Did they have Street Fighter when 171 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,559 I was fourteen? They probably did it? Yeah, they think they did. 172 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,639 They might have or or whatever the let me see when it came out, 173 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,799 or maybe Mortal Kombat possibly, I don't know. It's hard for me 174 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:05,559 to remember. I don't know. I mean because it came out on uh 175 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,360 Sega. Yeah, I mean we had Sega when I was a kid, 176 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:13,559 nineteen eighty seven. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so yeah, that 177 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:16,879 makes sense because Capcom release did it, released it, and they're owned they 178 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,480 were owned by Sega. Do you know, though I will not I haven't 179 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,600 touched a video game controller in in probably like fifteen years and I refuse to. 180 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:30,000 I'm going to start live streaming, live streaming, and where do you 181 00:12:30,039 --> 00:12:31,519 get you on the live stream? We're gonna get you to play like Call 182 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,679 of Duty or something. Well, here's the here's the problem though, So 183 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:41,679 you know, addiction, it's not just physical, it's psychological. I actually 184 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,559 avoid video games now because and I have for a long time, because I 185 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,840 find them psychologically addictive. The last time I played a lot of video games 186 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,559 when I was a kid. But the last time I played a video game, 187 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:56,799 I was at somebody's house and it was one of those Raw versus SmackDown 188 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:01,799 WWE games, and yeah, this was quite a long time ago. And 189 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:05,240 I'm at somebody's house and I was like, oh, I've never played this 190 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,120 and I haven't played a video game in a long time. And they fell 191 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,000 asleep. I'm at this person's house. They fall asleep on their couch. 192 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,360 I started, or we started playing that game before they fell asleep, and 193 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,960 then it was just me playing it. It was probably like nine pm at 194 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,840 night, and I fell into that trap of I'm sitting there, you know, 195 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,120 Okay, the match ends, the game's over. Just one more game, 196 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:33,000 yep, just one more game I had that I specifically remember the first 197 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,080 time that ever happened to me. I was at my buddy Devin's house one 198 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,879 night and we were playing Skate three. It's a skate it's a skateboarding game. 199 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,960 And we got to the point where we wanted to land like a fifty 200 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,120 thousand point line, which is which was unheard of at the time. It's 201 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,600 super hard to do on the specific map we were on. We started at 202 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:56,279 like nine pm and it got to the point where like we were up till 203 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:03,720 four am. Yeah, like we were tripping. That's what happened. It's 204 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,120 addictive, yeah, And it was just insane. Well because when I played 205 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,480 that game, that was the last video game that I ever played, that 206 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,080 Row Versus SmackDown game. Because started it, I think it was about nine 207 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:18,639 o'clock and next thing I know, it's one in the morning. And and 208 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,759 I I said, I got to go home, and I I put down 209 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,360 that controller, and I just said, I'm never picking up another video game 210 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:31,799 controller. That that was four hours of my life that I could have been 211 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,240 doing something productive. And I got sucked into this game, and and and 212 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,399 and I had to force myself to put down the controller. I could have 213 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:41,840 just kept going. So I just said, this is too this is just 214 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:46,120 too psychologically addictive for me. I just can't. I can't handle it. 215 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:52,679 So so I never Uh, I never played another video game since then. 216 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:58,200 We were just on the topic of Raw versus SmackDown. Have you talked about 217 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:03,080 the Tuesday night wars that are going on right now AW and Raw NX No. 218 00:15:03,279 --> 00:15:07,600 I Actually I'm surprised EZG didn't bring it up when he called yesterday. 219 00:15:07,879 --> 00:15:09,679 So I don't know if you saw what I posted earlier. Oh, I 220 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,360 did see them on my Facebook. Yeah. Yeah, I think Tony Kahan 221 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:18,000 just irks me. He just irks me. Now. He's he's so pathetic. 222 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,480 He's a little immature in some ways. I think I can't I can't 223 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,080 find it here. It is so for contact stuff for anyone who doesn't know. 224 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:31,080 So. Tony Kahan is the owner of ae W All Elite Wrestling. 225 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:35,639 He posted on x or Twitter. He said this week, two active decade, 226 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:41,279 two active decades long rating streaks from two great legends were ended with all 227 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,720 due respect. Until this week's head to head AW on TBS versus WWE on 228 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:52,200 USA, neither Johnsen nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under 229 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,799 one million total followers plus under four hundred k in the demo who came? 230 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,559 Most people reading that aren't even going to exactly one, like, yeah, 231 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:07,679 it's petty, it's petty on his part. He's he he knows a w 232 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,080 is gonna fail. Oh I disagree there, I don't. I don't think 233 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:14,480 the story lines are I don't think failing. They're they're doing. They're doing 234 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,000 really good numbers and they say, did that huge show at Wembley Stadium. 235 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:19,759 Now, they're not going to fail. But I don't think I'm thinking impact. 236 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:25,080 I'm sorry, Oh impact, Impact is a perpetual failure and has been 237 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,679 for decades. They should just be a house show at this point. No, 238 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,159 but aa w No, I mean they're very successful and I think they'll 239 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,720 continue to be. In Getting Adam Copeland over there was huge. Oh yeah, 240 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,879 yeah, absolutely. I knew he wasn't gonna say retired. He just 241 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:41,399 came out of retirement. Yeah, he just came out. He's he's probably 242 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:45,000 gotta I want to say another four years. Yeah, he very well may, 243 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,519 he very well may. Yeah. It was that it was that back 244 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,000 injury that really got him, obviously or is it a back or neck injury? 245 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:56,159 Neck? Neck, that's nothing to fool with. Yeah, but yeah, 246 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:59,200 I'm glad they brought they brought back John Cena. That's huge. I 247 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,600 mean, well that that's because of the He's gonna make his money because of 248 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:04,400 the writer's strike yea. Yeah. And he even said it during the fastening 249 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:10,000 press conference that way, when when the writers come back, he's going back. 250 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,200 Yes, but it was like he he got called out too, which 251 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,799 was interesting during the press conference. I don't know if you watched it. 252 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:18,960 Oh, I saw. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw 253 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,119 what you were talking about about what he used to say about The Rock back 254 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,160 in the day, about how the Rock abandoned wrestling for Hollywood, and and 255 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,079 then they turned a storyline into it, yeah, which was obviously great pay 256 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:33,039 great play by them. And now people say the same about Sena. But 257 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:37,720 he's apologized. He apologized to The Rock for uh and they're good friends now. 258 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:44,680 Yeah, I'm still can you give me more background on the Endeavor situation 259 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:48,519 where Endeavor fully owns WWE, So like, what does that mean? So 260 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:57,160 Endeavor who owned UFC, they bought WWE and now w w E and UFC 261 00:17:57,279 --> 00:18:03,519 are together under a new umbrella called t k O or t k O something. 262 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:07,319 Yeah it's k O, I know that. Yeah, So so they're 263 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,920 all they're all under the they're all one giant company now, which is so 264 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:15,880 weird. I don't see what the point is, you know what I mean. 265 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,160 And Devor was willing to pay. You know, Vince wanted to sell 266 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,799 the company and Devor was willing to pay for it, and uh, it's 267 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,839 it's a huge, huge money. And yeah, now they just got to 268 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:29,960 get Vince to go back in his hole and go away. He won't. 269 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,160 They're trying to push him out. From what I understand, they're trying to 270 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,839 the They I don't know that they necessarily realized when they did that merger, 271 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:48,559 just how much of a a liability Vince is se mergers Barstool. Barstool just 272 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,079 got bought back because they sold the pen which for some sports book thing. 273 00:18:53,240 --> 00:19:00,559 I saw something about this, But Dave Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool. Yeah, 274 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,559 are the rest of the rest of the shares because the thing with Penn 275 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:10,200 was Penn's stock because of all the bad publicity around Barstool and all the well, 276 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,000 what is what is Penn. Penn is a sports book company. Oh 277 00:19:15,039 --> 00:19:18,319 okay, creates like bettings, websites and stuff like, oh okay, that's 278 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:23,079 a huge, huge business. Yeah. Yeah, so they created Barstool sports 279 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:27,359 book. But the thing where Barstool is they have so many controversial and like 280 00:19:30,839 --> 00:19:36,440 so many controversial figures and opinions, like their their stock was going up down 281 00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:38,200 up down, up down, and it was just like Penn's like, we 282 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,759 can't do this anymore. Really, yeah, So so they bought it. 283 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:45,519 So so they bought it, but they left. Did they leave Portnoy in 284 00:19:45,599 --> 00:19:51,200 charge of it? Yeah? Portnoy still handled like most of the things, 285 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:56,039 they just handled the sports book side of things. Okay, but well that's 286 00:19:56,079 --> 00:20:00,400 similar. That's similar then to the merger with UFCNWWE because they're still letting they're 287 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,440 still letting Vince technically be the chairman and and Triple A is still in charge 288 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:11,359 of creative. I don't think without Dave Portnoy Barstool if Dave Dave Portnoy were 289 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,839 to leave Barstool today, yeah he would, they would not be successful. 290 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:19,000 Well my impression, yeah, that my impression is, and I haven't paid 291 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,759 nearly as much attention to barstool as you have. But you know, but 292 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,640 I'm aware of it, and uh yeah. My impression is it's kind of 293 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,480 it kind of revolves around his personality a bit right, and and he's kind 294 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:37,880 of unpc he's unhinged, which is he's unhinched, he's unhinged. What what? 295 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,039 What? What? What do you say? Because he's an interesting guy. 296 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:42,039 I don't I don't know a lot about him, but what I've seen 297 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:48,440 of him, he's pretty interesting. He is your typical Boston, Boston guy. 298 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,079 Yeah, he's your typical Boston guy. He comes off that way. 299 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,319 Yeah. He he doesn't mess around. He will go to any length that 300 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,759 if you tried to to fame him, he will dig. Yeah, he 301 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:04,839 will prove you wrong. It will put out Like the Washington Post tried to 302 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,720 do an article on him, and then a business insider I think tried to 303 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,119 do an article on him that was full of lies. He debunked every single 304 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,079 lie, broke every single lie down in a video. Yeah. Then he 305 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:21,119 called the reporter and said, hey, why don't you interview me? Oh 306 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,279 they never interviewed him. Yeah, And she goes and he goes, why 307 00:21:23,279 --> 00:21:26,319 are you saying this in an article about me? She goes and the art 308 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:30,079 and the reporter that wrote it or the journalist that wrote it was like, 309 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,200 well, it wasn't meant to be like that. Man. Yeah, I 310 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,079 was like, so you're getting caught in a lie and you know now you're 311 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:45,240 backtracking is what you're doing. So why didn't they when Penn bought Barstool? 312 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,519 Why didn't they just get rid of Portnoy? If Portnoy was the problem, 313 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:52,799 or did they or did they assume that without Portnoy no one would care anymore 314 00:21:53,079 --> 00:21:56,680 about Barstool. I think it was a little bit of both. I think 315 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:02,119 because Portnoy still owned the majority, I believe I'm not entirely sure. Don't 316 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,839 quote me on any of this. Okay, but oh so Penn is a 317 00:22:04,839 --> 00:22:08,279 publicly traded company then yes, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, 318 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:14,079 okay, I'm trying to think. But Barstool, I assume was not 319 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:17,799 prior to being bought by no Barstool was not until they were bought by Penn. 320 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,200 Okay, I gotcha? Uh with me? Huey the gecko is in 321 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,720 the chat room and says, I assume he's referring to Portnoy. He's charitable 322 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:30,240 and charismatic, definitely a force. He is very charismatic and he has done 323 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,119 a lot for small businesses, especially during COVID. There's no denying that. 324 00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:40,839 There's no denying that, unfortunately, fortunately and unfortunately, Yes, yes, 325 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,160 yeah, that's one company that if I ever ever had a contract like come 326 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,519 up for me, I'm taking it. I'm taking it. Yeah, that's 327 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:52,960 a huge company. And that's like I base so much of what I do 328 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:57,720 off of Barstool too. Yeah, well, like what do you mean, 329 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:04,839 Like I watch like the trends on Barstool and stuff like that. So like 330 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,599 a lot of the videos I make on Instagram and stuff like that which end 331 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:15,119 up getting taken down thanks Instagram, like interviews and stuff like that. There's 332 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,039 multiple avenues to Barstool, which they have the they have the social media thing 333 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:26,440 where they have like social media accounts, the colleges and I have good That's 334 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,880 why I was able to do what I was able to do at Murphy's was 335 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:33,799 because of Barstool, because Saint Anselom's has a Barstool account, which I was 336 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:36,400 able to get in contact with the person running it and be like, hey, 337 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,519 man, can you promote this with me? Right? And then we 338 00:23:38,559 --> 00:23:45,440 can possibly down the line do a joint collaboration party, a Barstool Reckless University 339 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,559 party, and they posted it and then next thing you know, there's three 340 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:53,000 hundred people. Because barstool is a party brand. Barstool is a college party 341 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:59,799 brand. Essentially, it's college lifestyle. Now, I just went to I 342 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:02,960 did no, I have, I have been to the website. I didn't 343 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,039 know if it was barstool dot com or barstoolsports dot com. But if you 344 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:08,799 go to barstool dot com, it must be Barstool Sports because if you go 345 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:14,799 to just barstool dot com, it redirects to a Rumble account. And the 346 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:18,079 top video is titled Dave Portnoy is a Huge Liar, Part one. So 347 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,839 apparently somebody someone bought that domain in said yo, somebody has it in for 348 00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:27,279 for Portnoy. Oh. Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat and says, 349 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:30,039 hello, Hello, Dylan. Hold on, I'm pulling up the article 350 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:34,799 on Variety magazine. Oh while you look that up to I'm suddenly reminded speaking 351 00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:41,519 of very talented musicians. The live it finally came out. It's on YouTube, 352 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:45,400 the full live show of Jerry and the Scumbags and of course, I'm 353 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,799 the bass player has been released on YouTube. Are our incredible live concert and 354 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:53,599 so great to play with those guys. It's available right now if you go 355 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,599 to the Jerry and the Scumbags YouTube channel. Something reminded me of that, 356 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,119 but yeah, it's very very cool and and I actually talk on Mike between 357 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,519 a couple of the songs. It's great, it's great, massive, I 358 00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:11,039 know. Okay, So here's the straight story, h huh of what happened? 359 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:19,119 So Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool for a dollar after selling it to Pen 360 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:25,440 for five hundred and fifty million dollars, and he bought it back for a 361 00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:32,920 dollar. Yep, how does this happen? He said? It says Portnoy. 362 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:37,960 Portnoy paid one hundred pennies for Barstool Sports. That that's after Pen Entertainment 363 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:41,319 Casino, an online gambling operator, paid a total of about five hundred and 364 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,920 fifty million dollars to acquire one hundred percent control of Barstool. Just a few 365 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,160 months before deciding to cut Barstool loose, Penn sold one hundred percent of the 366 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:56,240 outstanding shares of Barstool to Dave Portnoy in exchange for a nominal cash consideration one 367 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:03,960 dollar and certain non compete in other restrictive covenmants, so meaning they can't continue 368 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,480 probably to do Barstool Right sports Book, which makes sense, makes sense. 369 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:18,960 Yeah, and then so Dave Portnoy made a five hundred so basically a five 370 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:22,240 hundred and fifty million dollar profit. Oh essentially basically, Yeah, that's incredible. 371 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,119 So the reason for this right here, I believe is what it's looking 372 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,200 like is the extreme fire sale of Barstool Sports back to Portnoy came as Penn 373 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:36,319 entered into a major deal with ESPN to rebrand the online sports betting business from 374 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,599 Barstool Sports Book to ESPN Bet. So that makes sense. That's not something 375 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,279 I was aware of. Under the terms of the deal with ESPN, Penn 376 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,039 will pay one point five billion dollars in cash to a ESPN over a ten 377 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,519 year term, in grant ESPN approximately five hundred million, and warrants to purchase 378 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:59,160 thirty one thirty one point eight million Penn common shares that will vest over ten 379 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:04,559 years in exchange for media, marketing, brand and other rights. So essentially 380 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:12,359 they just basically dropped fifty billion dollars. I'm but that's obviously a lot more 381 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:18,400 than I'm yeah, yeah, yeah, but like over that's that's a lot. 382 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,359 So they're taking a loss at that point, how are you making money? 383 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,759 So are they so? In other words, so did they have to 384 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:27,880 get rid of Portnoy essentially to uh make this deal with ESPN? Yep? 385 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,920 Okay, because port Nooy and ESPN are not, from what I believe is 386 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:41,400 the case, they're not like on good terms. Okay. Actually, fun 387 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,240 fact, I was in a barstool article, like when I was on tour. 388 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:48,440 You were yeah, because because of Sammy Adams. Oh yeah, it 389 00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:52,759 was sick. It was sick. We have a call, we'll grab this. 390 00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:57,720 Hi, Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Is this Hi, Matt, 391 00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:03,960 it's her Pilcher calling in. If anybody knows, that's Eric. So hey, 392 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,160 we're gonna be getting to your ass. Why I'm calling in. We're 393 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,279 gonna we're gonna be get into your film review in a couple of minutes. 394 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:15,279 But uh yeah, what's on your mind? Well? I was calling in 395 00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:21,720 regards to this, No, Dave Portnoy in ESPN do not get a lot 396 00:28:22,039 --> 00:28:25,000 in any way, shape or form. That's what I thought on the line 397 00:28:25,079 --> 00:28:32,319 ten Sports did take a massive monumental loss in this deal, not to mention 398 00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:36,839 what they paid for Barstool Sports, and then sold it back to Dave Portnoy 399 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,119 for a dollar. Now, why is so? What's the issue between ESPN 400 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:52,839 and Portnoy. I don't know much about that. I had to guess it's 401 00:28:52,680 --> 00:29:00,119 Dave Portnoy probably said some things about ESPN that they did not like. Okay, 402 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:07,799 SPN is in good with the NFL big time. UH so that has 403 00:29:07,839 --> 00:29:12,519 to be taken into account. Dave Portnoy has said some pretty unsavory things about 404 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:19,119 Roger Goodell. He did a T shirt with Goodell on it that made him 405 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:26,640 look like a clown. Michael remember Michael Rappaport is a frequent guest on ESPN 406 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:36,480 programming, the former barstool employee. He had a hilarious attempt at suing Dave 407 00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:42,839 Portnoy for defam defamation. Uh that blew up in his face monumentally when Portnoy 408 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:49,640 had his deposition. And so there's a lot of things that go into it. 409 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,079 Most of it is media politics. I actually do remember the the Portnoy 410 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:02,480 versus uh Michael Rappaport thing just because and again, you know, not being 411 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,440 a sports fan, I've never paid that much attention to Dave Portnoy, but 412 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,559 I have paid a lot of attention to Michael Rappaport. Not only do I 413 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:11,279 think he's a great actor, but I always enjoy his appearances on The Howard 414 00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:15,359 Stern Show. And uh so when that, when that all happened, I 415 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,880 was paying a lot of attention to that because I'm definitely a fan of Michael 416 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:25,400 Rapaport. But uh yeah, so wow, So Portanoy really came out. 417 00:30:25,599 --> 00:30:29,400 Like I said, he made about more than a half a billion dollars on 418 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,720 this whole uh debacle, So good for him. Also, need to understand 419 00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:37,200 Dave is going to take a loss this year as well. Oh he is, 420 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,160 because he's cutting about twenty percent of the Barstool work force he has. 421 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:48,680 Yeah really well, I mean because Penn over because Penn really hired too many 422 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:55,160 people, so he has to go in and cut the work force, I 423 00:30:55,200 --> 00:31:04,480 mean, which that leads to severance packages, possibly unemployment hearings if he chooses 424 00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:10,039 to contest. There's a lot of things that go into that back end of 425 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:18,319 it because Barstool was hemorrhaging money under Penn Sports Oh okay, okay, so 426 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:23,839 he's going to take a lost, a major loss this year. Yeah, 427 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,880 how many people work there? Because I'm looking at the Barstool Sports dot com 428 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,319 and there's a lot of content. They have a lot of bloggers. Yeah, 429 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:37,359 well that's by work a pen. They wanted more content, more content, 430 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,960 more content. But what made barstool great is you had like twenty to 431 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,680 thirty people that contributed yep, and it felt like it was natural, Like 432 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:55,880 you got like you could really talk with these people. Yeah, you're literally 433 00:31:56,359 --> 00:32:00,000 it didn't seem it was organic. It wasn't stake or force. And when 434 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:07,920 Penn took it over, it became like any other sports website. It just 435 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:15,359 got muddled up with Bleacher Report, the idiots at dead Spin, the uh, 436 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:22,839 the Barstool Sports website itself is a little bit I mean they're they're obviously 437 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,119 hugely successful, so it doesn't matter, but the site itself is a little 438 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:30,119 bit dated. It looks a little bit, it looks a little more twenty 439 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,759 thirteen than twenty twenty three. So I can tell you why, Oh, 440 00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:37,960 okay, what point? Because a lot of their a lot of it comes 441 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:44,359 a lot of their traffic comes from uh, Instagram videos exactly. Oh, 442 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:49,799 okay, snap trap, chat videos, TikTok now, facebook videos, YouTube 443 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,559 videos. They don't need Barstool Sports to be a like top of the line 444 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:59,000 website. Interestingactly, No, that makes sense. That does make sense. 445 00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:04,880 Yeah, I mean because when you view that content elsewhere, you're just going 446 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,279 there to like maybe buy the shirt set of Roger Cadell looking like a cloud. 447 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:14,039 You're just going there to read news and get their cake on the news. 448 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,599 Yeah. In sports, you're not there to digest. It doesn't have 449 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,680 to be like ESPN. Yeah, no, makes sense because you're not going 450 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,680 there for that. Yeah, they're going there for a quick fix, right 451 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:31,960 right. I think if you would look at the analytics a Barstool and maybe 452 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:40,319 ESPN, the average viewer probably spends sixty percent less time on Barstool than they 453 00:33:40,319 --> 00:33:45,319 do ESPN. There's also a lot of barsol accounts. There's probably at least, 454 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,920 yeah, five thousand barsoo accounts, because there's one for almost every college. 455 00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:54,799 Every major college has a Barstool Twitter feed exactly. That's why I was 456 00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:59,119 so successful with what I do out here, is because I reach out to 457 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,559 those accounts. Because on each of those are those accounts, there is a 458 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,720 kid on campus that runs those accounts and it is passed down. Yeah, 459 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:14,559 yep, I follow barstool Irish. We have to Eric, we gotta. 460 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,000 We should probably move on because we do have your your film review, and 461 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,960 then we've got a musical guest coming up later. Oh but one more thing 462 00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:23,559 though, Oh no, no, don't apologize. No, I always love 463 00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:27,320 hearing from you. But I do want to say though, before you go 464 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,840 too, congratulations of course to all of us associated with Jerry and the Scumbags. 465 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,360 Of course, the live album is out. It is available on YouTube, 466 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,599 and I dare say I think we all sound quite great, you know 467 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:49,679 what I mean did obviously, you know, being in this major competition that 468 00:34:49,760 --> 00:35:00,679 we're in, this remedial version of the East Coast first West Coast feud going 469 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:06,360 back to the nineteen nineties, mainly because we're up against the notorious moron uh 470 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:13,639 you know, or brain boy Smalls as he should be called. Uh huh 471 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:20,199 yeah. No, it's I love the fact that I'm able to contribute to 472 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,599 Jerry and the Scumbag Yes, yes, absolutely good good stuff. Uh so. 473 00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:28,480 And in addition to your the one other thing we should mention to, 474 00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:30,599 in addition to your film review, that we're going to do in a minute. 475 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,000 You've got this weekend will be uh the Exorcist Stop podcast. Correct. 476 00:35:36,199 --> 00:35:39,079 Yes, I'm going to try and edit tomorrow when I get off work. 477 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,960 I am suffering with a head cold right now. Oh yeah, you do 478 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:52,679 sound stuffy. Yeah it's not fun. Yeah, but yeah, worst case 479 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,039 scenario is I'll do it Sunday when I have the day off through edit it 480 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,679 and have it ready. Yeah, we'll let everybody know and social media of 481 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,599 course. But if you want to see the the very cool artwork, you 482 00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:09,440 can go right now to Matt connorton dot com slash Exorcist and uh and that's 483 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,079 where you'll be able to find the podcast when it's ready. But the artwork 484 00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:19,000 is amazing. So well, yeah, I appreciate that it was fun to 485 00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:22,639 do, and uh, you know I My hope is that just people enjoyed 486 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:29,000 a fraction of the amount that we had and enjoying doing it. Yeah, 487 00:36:29,119 --> 00:36:31,000 very good, very good. All right, Eric, We'll let you go, 488 00:36:31,679 --> 00:36:37,559 but looking forward to the film review and hope you feel better. Yeah. 489 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:43,760 I think tonight I will take a lot. I will take some night 490 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,280 quill and just be going to bed. There you go, sounds like sounds 491 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:52,039 like a good plan. All right, Eric, I said, must be 492 00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:55,559 nice. I said, must be nice, can't relate. I'll love to 493 00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:59,679 sleep, but what's that sleep for the week? Well, I do work 494 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,840 as I work eleven thirty day Central time, so yeah, there you go. 495 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,599 I mean our DJ full time, which I'm blessed to do. Yes, 496 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,440 yes, absolutely, I would much rather do that than what I do. 497 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:15,159 And you're very good at what you do. So all right, Eric, 498 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:19,320 Well we'll talk to you soon. My friend get some rests. Thanks, 499 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,400 all right, you got it? Bye bye? All right. That 500 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:23,719 was our friend Eric Pilcher. And before we get to the field, now 501 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,800 are you saying for the band or do you have to im out? You 502 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,480 got to go go get ready? Okay, So before we do that, 503 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,880 let's remind everybody what you have going on tonight six oh three buying Growth tonight, 504 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,360 Manchester, New Hampshire. Yeah, let's it. Sorry to bore everybody 505 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,559 with the barstool talk. No I thought it was interesting. Oh, don't 506 00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:45,440 get me started on barstool Let me start it, don't. I could go 507 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:47,679 another three hours, but that's it. Oh my all right? All right, 508 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,599 So six oh three tonight, starting at nine pm. Yep, all 509 00:37:51,679 --> 00:37:52,599 right, very good. So if you're in the area, make sure you 510 00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,280 check out DJ Reckless at the six o three nine to what do you go 511 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,360 till one am? Nine to one, yep, nine to one. Very 512 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,800 good. Thank you for coming in. Always a pleasure. And we're gonna 513 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,840 get to Eric Pilcher's classic film review Down of the Dead, and then when 514 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,480 we come back in the second hour, we will have in studio with us 515 00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:15,360 our musical guest today, my Last Mile. Really great band and looking forward 516 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,599 to talking with those guys. But here it is Eric's classic film review George 517 00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:27,880 A. Romeros Don of the Dead work. In nineteen sixty eight, George 518 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,079 Romero brought us Night of the Living. Did it became the classic horror film 519 00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:44,079 of its time? Now George Rameiro brings us the most intensely shocking motion picture 520 00:38:44,159 --> 00:38:49,760 experience for all times. It gets up and kills the people it kills get 521 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,519 up and killed. This situation must be controlled before it's too late. They 522 00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:59,239 are multiplying too rapidly. Dawn of the Dead beat me on the roof at 523 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,639 nine o'clock. Think about in the chopper. We've got to survive. Somebody's 524 00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:07,239 got to survive. They kill for one reason. They kill for food, 525 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,400 they eat. They're victims. Imagine if you will, that something has gone 526 00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:22,000 terribly wrong soon now, except the fact that there's no escaping the horrible consequences. 527 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:28,880 George Romero brings back the dead. Night of the living dead has ended. 528 00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:36,639 Dawn of the Dead is here. We must not be allowed by the 529 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,639 concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not. 530 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:47,239 They will not respond to such emotions. Operated dead post of band the mind 531 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:52,679 that it's everywhere. What the hell is It looks like a shopping set up, 532 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,880 one of those big indoor malls. What are they doing? Why do 533 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,079 they come here? Some kind of instinct memory? What they used to do? 534 00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:07,440 This was an important place in their lives. We've got a war. 535 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:25,239 We have spawned our own savagery. Soon it will consume us all. It 536 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:31,199 is a horrible, puntingly accurate vision of the mindless accesses of our society gone 537 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:40,400 mad. They must be destroyed on site. When there is no more room 538 00:40:40,519 --> 00:40:45,559 in hell, the dead will walk the earth. We are down to the 539 00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:52,719 line. Boats, we are down to the line. Dawn of the Dead 540 00:40:53,199 --> 00:41:00,039 sequels are some of the most polarizing films in cinema history. They are debated 541 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:07,000 is being worthy to the previous film, or even if they should have been 542 00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:13,679 made. Ten years following his landmark Night of the Living Dead, George A. 543 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:21,800 Romero returned to the beasts he created zombies, and in turn gave a 544 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:29,599 rare instance in film more where a sequel could even be considered to supersede the 545 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:37,559 original. Released in nineteen seventy eight, Dawn of the Dead continues Romero's story 546 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:42,920 of the zombie apocalypse. When the film begins, the world is in more 547 00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,320 chaos than we left it at the end of Night of the Living Dead due 548 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:52,280 to the fact that the undead are winning on their rampage tearing through the living 549 00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:59,440 The film stars frequent Romero contributors Ken Free in his most known role, and 550 00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:05,719 special effects group guru Tom Savini. In this film, to escape the undead, 551 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,039 four individuals land a helicopter on the roof of them all to seek refuge, 552 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:17,239 and that refuge could end up being their demise. I mentioned chaos that 553 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:22,440 has overwhelmed the world, and the opening scene of this film shows that the 554 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:29,960 film begins at a local news station where two individuals are on the air arguing 555 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:35,519 about what is going on behind the scenes. Individuals are arguing over what toa 556 00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:38,119 air, what not r and even if they should be on the air. 557 00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:44,199 Why I chose this scene is the fact that we hear a common trope in 558 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:52,119 these Romero films that society can be crumbling and falling apart, and instead of 559 00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:57,920 working together, we look towards our own interests, in our own survival. 560 00:43:19,079 --> 00:43:24,400 You are right, what the hell, that's a whole different study. What 561 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,559 if we do we don't know that, we don't know that. We got 562 00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:37,280 to operate on what we do know. I'm still dreaming human beings would say 563 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,960 we tied the cut. I probably explained a few several times. The guys 564 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:45,559 in the crew are going crazy, a couple of them plowing the coop already. 565 00:43:46,320 --> 00:44:01,360 I don't know how long we're gonna standing here to going off your station. 566 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,519 You just got to report the half those stations have the knocked out. 567 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,599 Give me a list, Sure, I'll just pull it out of my ass. 568 00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:10,519 Right. You want the day to return into life? I want so. 569 00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:14,840 You believe the Dada returning to life and attacking the living. I'm not 570 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,639 so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people 571 00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:20,719 tell us, and it's hard enough to believe fat. It's fat hard enough 572 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,480 to believe without you coming in there. You're not running a talk show here, 573 00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:29,519 mister Verman. You can forget pitching an audience tomorrow. You're talking about 574 00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:40,199 a Frendie gives another list of rescue stations. Charlie's receiving any stations. Tatlers 575 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,599 are inoperative as of now. Charlie, the risky stations. We can't say 576 00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:46,599 people, they're not going to prest the station. You've had all information on 577 00:44:46,679 --> 00:45:05,480 the air for the last twelve hours. Given one stop killings, have given 578 00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:10,559 to see me, way to me. No, by the mother, Gunnar, 579 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,599 you have not listened. You have not listen to the situation for three 580 00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:22,320 weeks. The people see people are willing to accept your solutions, doctor and 581 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,719 I, but one don't blame them. Every dead body that is not exterminated 582 00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:30,920 becomes one of them. It gets up and kills the people it kills, 583 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,360 get up and kills operated rest the stations. Tay Dan, you've got it 584 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:46,559 open. I'm just trying to do to look at shot. But I think 585 00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:52,960 Foster shright. We're losing our hills going on. Who killed those Supersundy has 586 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:58,320 these orders from that Darren told you to kill those sumers. Kill them. 587 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:04,079 They're out of days. You know they are going on. Since this film's 588 00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:10,440 release, a common opinion is that this film is a criticism of consumerism. 589 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,920 The undead marched aimlessly towards the mall, and when they get in, they 590 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:22,599 stumble around without direction, so it's easy to see where one can get that 591 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:28,800 opinion. For the four individuals that seek refuge in the mall, new station 592 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:35,719 workers Stephen and Francine and officers Peter and Roger, the refuge becomes a hedonistic 593 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:42,199 paradise. Our next two clips set them all up. First, the individuals 594 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:47,480 arrive and fill out a plan to get inside and attract little attention from the 595 00:46:47,559 --> 00:46:53,840 undead, and then, when their greed takes over as they raid shops throughout 596 00:46:53,880 --> 00:47:00,119 the mall, Roger is bitten and begins to turn to a zombie. This 597 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:07,559 scene is very hard to watch, as while Roger dies, the three survivors 598 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:14,119 are watching an individual speak on television about the nature of the newly deceased, 599 00:47:14,679 --> 00:47:25,639 rising to feed. What the hell is it? Hops like a shopping center, 600 00:47:25,760 --> 00:48:07,280 one of those big indoor malls. Oh my god, no chance, 601 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,039 we got it. Let's get out here. Wait a minute. They can't 602 00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:12,920 get up here. Yeah, and we can't go down there. Let's check 603 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:38,280 it out. Most of the gates are down. I don't think they can 604 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,360 get it to the stores. I haven't seen any of them up on the 605 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,519 second floor, the big department. Those usually use both floors. If we 606 00:48:45,519 --> 00:49:02,559 can get it up top, okay, yes, the poll is not often 607 00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:07,599 that there could. What are they doing? Why did they come here? 608 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:13,400 It's a kind of instinct memory, what they used to do. This was 609 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:21,920 an important place in their lives. Thank you, look at this. They 610 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:31,719 said, you got down into the mall. Now business, how do we 611 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:51,599 get down there? Now? The death of Roger. I'll stay with it. 612 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:19,760 It's take care of me. Want you to, Peter, You take 613 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,760 care of me when I go. Just try to get some sleep back the 614 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:29,199 safest strength. I I don't wanna be walking around. I don't want you 615 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:44,639 to like fat Peter. Peter. Yeah, I'm here, man, don't 616 00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:52,440 do it. To be sure. I am coming back. I'm gonna try 617 00:50:54,519 --> 00:51:14,400 not too. I'm gonna try not to come back. They use maybe five 618 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,039 percent of the food available in the human body. The kind of thing with 619 00:51:17,079 --> 00:51:23,400 that small amount the body is usually intact enough to be mobile when it revives. 620 00:51:23,519 --> 00:51:27,039 What are you saying, I mean, you know, use science dummies, 621 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:34,960 suggesting dummies for dummies. Listen, quiet, quiet, one wonders whether 622 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,679 it's worth saving. This is worth saving? For all I know, the 623 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,880 brains are already dead. And that's the idiots that are still alive. Yeah, 624 00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,760 and I figured out how to stay alive too. And I'm trying to 625 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:53,679 help you dummies in your calm helping way to irritate my way logic, way, 626 00:51:53,880 --> 00:52:00,719 illogical, hell, illogical. Hell, I'm showing you a way that 627 00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:09,159 we can up the food supply twenty times for a whole specimen that is walking 628 00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:13,920 around there in increasing numbers. We should feed them. What else are you 629 00:52:14,039 --> 00:52:17,480 going to do with them? Give me an alternative? I thought you scientists 630 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:22,280 could come up with an actual way to solve the problem rather than feeding the 631 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:29,719 opposition doesn't make any sense in enemy with the commentary at play, it could 632 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:36,639 be argued this film is more thought provoking than the original. My opinion is 633 00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:43,719 the criticism of consumerism is so in your face that it is not the primary 634 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:49,079 piece of social commentary. But to describe what the point of the film truly 635 00:52:49,199 --> 00:52:53,400 is, why not go to the source. Our final clip of this review 636 00:52:54,039 --> 00:53:00,800 is a clip of an interview Romero did with BBC two in nineteen ninety seven 637 00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:07,679 regarding this film and what he was trying to show us about human nature through 638 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:14,920 the zombie apocalypse. Now, this interview does have film clips interjected into it, 639 00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,719 just to warn you, so you're not sitting there thinking that I did 640 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:30,199 anything to the clip itself. I don't think anyone would have gotten it except 641 00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:36,119 Dario Argento approached us to Italian director and we showed him the script and he 642 00:53:36,159 --> 00:53:37,159 said, I'll be the first money in on this one. I mean, 643 00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:46,599 basically, he caused the movie to happen. A theme that I've always used 644 00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:51,480 is just this idea that we don't talk to each other. I mean this 645 00:53:51,599 --> 00:53:54,880 complete lack of communication that we have and a willingness to adopt a position, 646 00:53:55,639 --> 00:53:59,519 willing to accept your solutions. Doctor, and I for one, don't really 647 00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:05,719 read dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up 648 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,760 and kills the people it kills get up and kill. You know, it's 649 00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,480 sort of tribalism or you know, I think it's white. I think it's 650 00:54:12,519 --> 00:54:15,960 black, And there's no attempt to try to figure out, you know, 651 00:54:16,199 --> 00:54:19,719 any sort of middle ground or build a bridge. I mean that's true in 652 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,159 everything from religious wars to the O. J. Simpson case. I'm not 653 00:54:22,199 --> 00:54:24,920 so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people 654 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,079 tell us. And it's hard enough to believe. It's back hard enough to 655 00:54:29,119 --> 00:54:31,719 believe without you coming in there. If you're not running a talk show here, 656 00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:36,119 mister Berman, you can forget pitching an audience. The moral to me, 657 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,039 that is the most appalling thing about what we do to each other. 658 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:43,119 And so it's a theme that I've tried, I've worked with, particularly in 659 00:54:43,119 --> 00:54:49,519 the zombie films. I think if your people start shooting at you, then 660 00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:58,039 sure you're all going to shoot back at the same common enemy. But in 661 00:54:58,079 --> 00:55:01,039 a situation where there's where anything is ambitigu us, I think there's going to 662 00:55:01,119 --> 00:55:07,559 be at the very least arguing and that and perhaps at the worst, you 663 00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:14,760 know, people murdering each other for their point of view. My god, 664 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:20,039 what are you doing, Sury. Isn't it until the shooting starts, there 665 00:55:20,119 --> 00:55:24,679 is no common enemy? And that I think that in trying to decide who 666 00:55:24,679 --> 00:55:30,559 the enemy is, or if even if there is an enemy. That's where 667 00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:34,840 we just need to talk and figure out what our strategy is going to be. 668 00:55:35,639 --> 00:55:45,079 We're here. I did alright this time feeling. I was trying to 669 00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:49,280 do it like a comic book kind of visual The blood it is, you 670 00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:54,840 know, very red, bright red flowering out behind somebody's head. What we 671 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,440 were going for was just this garish, kind of ecy, comic book kind 672 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,559 of a look. None of that stuff was particularly threatening. The repetition of 673 00:56:02,599 --> 00:56:07,400 the violence. I mean, zombies get shot every few minutes in the action 674 00:56:07,679 --> 00:56:10,960 parts of the film, and you sort of get immune or inured to it. 675 00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,440 Again, that was part of what we were seeing in the eighties, 676 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,039 I mean about us just getting so desensitized by the things that we were seeing 677 00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:22,519 on television and you know, show the military and the hunters and all that 678 00:56:22,639 --> 00:56:25,840 just just you know, enjoying it. And as that being an outgrowth of 679 00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:38,239 geed, you know, we got ourselves a new shooting gallery here. And 680 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:47,440 also it worked to sort of ramp you up towards the really grizzly scenes in 681 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,360 the end, when we become just pieces of meat there at that point, 682 00:56:52,039 --> 00:56:57,280 and then the people upstairs in those quarters. It's sort of what we do. 683 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,199 We live somewhere over here while all this you know, violence, and 684 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:09,599 you know, the world's exploding. If I ever do another one, if 685 00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:15,079 I ever do the you know, the the two thousand one, I think 686 00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:16,800 that's what it'll be like. I mean, you know, maybe humanity will 687 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,199 have come back. There'll be security guards, and the zombies are out in 688 00:57:21,199 --> 00:57:24,360 the street, you know, sort of like the homeless. But will we 689 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,840 care as long as we get you know, as long as we have this 690 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,280 valet to bring the car and we can get out of there. And that 691 00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:36,960 really have to deal with it. Obviously. The film's success does not need 692 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:43,239 to be stated. However, it does deserve recognition, based mainly on word 693 00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:50,320 of mouth in some commercial advertising, this film well exceeded box office expectations. 694 00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:57,000 It grows twenty four million dollars worldwide after being made on only a nine hundred 695 00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:02,239 thousand dollars budget, and it is the most proffitable of Romero's Dead series of 696 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:08,400 films. This film is just as influential as Night of the Living Dead. 697 00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:14,800 It has been remade, had tributes done to it, parodied, and even 698 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:21,480 became the primary basis of a successful video game series, Capcom's Dead Rising. 699 00:58:22,039 --> 00:58:29,400 It is harrowing, dark and brooding as great as Night was. Dawn is 700 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,679 a rising of a new era for the zombie film and is the best of 701 00:58:32,719 --> 00:58:37,400 the series in my opinion. It is rare to have a sequel be more 702 00:58:37,519 --> 00:58:43,800 highly regarded than the original, and that is the case here that makes this 703 00:58:44,119 --> 00:58:49,360 must see viewing no matter the time of the year. I hope you join 704 00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:54,440 me next week when we continue our Halloween slate of films with Sam Rainey's rollicking, 705 00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:02,639 hilarious time travel in demon filled Gorefest Army of Darkness starring the Great Bruce 706 00:59:02,719 --> 00:59:08,360 Stamp for WM and H and Matt Connorton on which fits. It's been a 707 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:22,760 classic film working with Eric Filter, Come on down to the hop Knot at 708 00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:29,199 one thousand Elm Street, Manchester's premiere Kraft Beer and Gourmet Pretzel Bar. Tell 709 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,480 us more Trudi. We make our dough fresh every day. We make a 710 00:59:31,559 --> 00:59:37,599 variety of styles of pretzels and serve Kraft beer, cocktails and a few bottles 711 00:59:37,639 --> 00:59:40,679 of wine. We do the traditional pretzel and we have multiple flavors for that. 712 00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:45,599 We also do stuffed pretzels, pretzel sandwiches, free dessert pretzels and Pretzel 713 00:59:45,679 --> 00:59:51,039 Knots the Hop Knot in the Brady Sullivan Plaza at one thousand Elm Street. 714 00:59:51,679 --> 00:59:55,559 Bring your kitchen to life with Queen City Cabinet Tree, located at eighty seven 715 00:59:55,599 --> 01:00:00,559 Elm Street in a historic Sunbeam law in Manchester. Open Monday through Friday eight 716 01:00:00,719 --> 01:00:06,239 nine am to five thirty pm, in Saturdays ten am to two pm. 717 01:00:06,679 --> 01:00:10,679 They can be reached at six oh three two two two to zero zero seven 718 01:00:12,119 --> 01:00:17,079 or on the web at Queen Citycabinetree NH dot com. Come see the possibilities 719 01:00:17,199 --> 01:00:27,000 Queen City Cabinetry. Another brown sponsor of w MNH Clemento him Into Pizzamria Family 720 01:00:27,239 --> 01:00:35,039 Friendly, Awesome For day night Clemento him Into Pezzabria Poor Delivery called six O 721 01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:42,079 three seven eight two eight four five oh Mentos Spezzo Brea the best Pizza in 722 01:00:43,599 --> 01:00:47,760 eighteen seventy five South Willow Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Best contails a 723 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:52,639 round. Come in as friends and leave us family. This hour on w 724 01:00:53,039 --> 01:01:00,400 m n H is sponsored by CGI Business Solutions, located at five Dartmouth Drive 725 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:05,639 in Auburn. They serve all your business needs including employee benefits, planning, 726 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:13,039 corporate design and business Administration, Investments and wealth management and customized business Insurance Solutions. 727 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:16,599 Their phone number is eight six six eight four to one forty six hundred 728 01:01:16,960 --> 01:02:01,559 or on the web at CGI Business Solutions dot com. Wmnh ripthonovels since three 729 01:02:01,679 --> 01:02:37,599 years and it's not says kind of when it starts Jeans this year it's a 730 01:02:37,719 --> 01:03:45,559 show when Scot scouts towns. It's going somewhere now. So the next share 731 01:04:00,480 --> 01:05:51,559 it's a show steps to speaks stee that's great stuff. The track is called 732 01:05:51,599 --> 01:05:57,000 Seaside. The band is My Last Mile and we've got a couple of the 733 01:05:57,039 --> 01:05:59,440 guys from the band here with us in studio. We're going to talk with 734 01:05:59,519 --> 01:06:01,679 them in a moment. Really looking forward to this. But this is Matt 735 01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,960 Connorton Unleashed. We have entered our number two New Marrow Dose. We are 736 01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:11,280 live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown 737 01:06:11,599 --> 01:06:15,599 Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester and 738 01:06:15,719 --> 01:06:17,760 hello to all of our online listeners Acrassination and around the globe. You can 739 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:21,559 go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, 740 01:06:21,679 --> 01:06:25,920 social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et 741 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:31,079 cetera. Today is Friday, October thirteen, two thy twenty three, and 742 01:06:31,199 --> 01:06:34,840 we have Aaron and Rich from the band My Last Mile here with us in 743 01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,960 studio. How are you guys doing well? How are you very well? 744 01:06:39,119 --> 01:06:43,519 Very well? And who are we missing? So you are actually a quartet? 745 01:06:44,239 --> 01:06:47,079 Yeah, we're missing our drummer Mike Goslin and our basis, Nick Truist. 746 01:06:47,559 --> 01:06:51,639 No rhythm section, I see. Now what do you guys each do 747 01:06:51,719 --> 01:06:57,440 in the band? Well? I play rhythm guitar okay, and I do 748 01:06:57,519 --> 01:07:00,639 a little bit of a backup vocals okay, very good. And Aaron, 749 01:07:00,679 --> 01:07:03,119 how about you? I do leave vocals and lead guitar. Excellent, excellent. 750 01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,159 Yeah, I've been looking forward to talking to you guys because I opened 751 01:07:06,199 --> 01:07:10,000 the show with that song Island, and of course, so we just hear 752 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,320 at seaside and we'll we'll play another track in a little bit. But I 753 01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:16,159 love your sound. It's you know, it's it's kind of kind of heavy 754 01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:20,360 rock, but it's super catchy, you know, very melodic, just really 755 01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:24,480 good. Jenny, Jenny really likes it too. She was she was saying 756 01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:28,039 to me, you're really gonna like this band. You know, when she 757 01:07:28,159 --> 01:07:31,480 first kind of presented presented you guys to me, you know, she does 758 01:07:31,519 --> 01:07:33,840 all the book in it, and I said, yeah, these guys are 759 01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:39,559 amazing. Have you been around a long time? My Last Mile originally started 760 01:07:39,599 --> 01:07:43,679 an upstate New York where I'm from, and I had a different lineup then, 761 01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:45,960 and this was back to like twenty sixteen, oh seventeen, and we 762 01:07:46,039 --> 01:07:49,199 did a lot of shows up in that upstate New York scene. We released 763 01:07:49,239 --> 01:07:53,760 the EP The Storm Is Out, and then time went on. I moved 764 01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:57,280 out here when COVID started, and I kind of hung it up for a 765 01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:00,440 little bit. But then Rich actually and I started jamming to get and he's 766 01:08:00,519 --> 01:08:01,880 like, you know, I really like those songs. Yeah, and I 767 01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:05,079 would really love to play those songs. So we had a couple of guys 768 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:09,199 just you know, to get a feel for him, and we finally got 769 01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:12,719 the lineup that we actually really want, and these guys all loved the love 770 01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,520 the songs, and we marry rehearse them every week, and we're also working 771 01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:19,079 on new material as well, because like I can't just say, hey, 772 01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,439 let's just rehearse you know, all the old stuff, we also have to 773 01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,560 make it kind of more. It's also kind of like a new band. 774 01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,279 It feels like sure at the same time, Sure, it's a lot of 775 01:08:28,319 --> 01:08:31,880 fun. Rich. What was it about the songs that made you want to 776 01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,199 be a part of this and to work with Aaron? Oh? The songs 777 01:08:35,239 --> 01:08:42,000 were definitely they're catchy, They're mostly upbeat. I mean it gets you bob 778 01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:45,279 in your head a little bit, you know, And uh, I just 779 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,880 really was digging the sound and I pulled them aside and I was like, 780 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:53,439 hey, I think we should, uh we should bring this back. Yeah. 781 01:08:53,439 --> 01:09:00,079 And I was definitely like like starstruck because this sound was so like so 782 01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:06,760 there, and yeah, that's that's what got me wanting to bring us back. 783 01:09:08,039 --> 01:09:11,359 Yeah. I feel like too, the sound of this band, it's 784 01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:15,159 kind of it's got a certain timelessness to it and that you know, it 785 01:09:15,239 --> 01:09:18,039 sounds contemporary, it sounds comfortable with things that are out today, but it 786 01:09:18,199 --> 01:09:20,960 also, you know, twenty years ago it would have as well, you 787 01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:24,960 know what I mean, there's a certain there's just a timelessness to it where 788 01:09:25,399 --> 01:09:29,000 in any era, I feel like these songs would succeed on that, you 789 01:09:29,039 --> 01:09:30,159 know, like you said, getting your head Bob and all whatnot. You 790 01:09:30,199 --> 01:09:33,960 know, it just really good stuff. Thanks you. I'm a big fan 791 01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:38,279 of like old school sounding stuff. I grew up on eighties rock and metal 792 01:09:38,359 --> 01:09:41,359 Azzi, Yeah, Group, Pantera, stuff like that. To me, 793 01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:45,119 all that stuff was more appealing personally than what I listened to nowadays. But 794 01:09:45,159 --> 01:09:47,680 there's a lot of good modern bands, so we try to keep bringing like 795 01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:51,000 that old school influence, but we also kind of modernize it a little bit. 796 01:09:51,239 --> 01:09:56,760 Yeah, definitely the idea. Yeah, yeah, and how are these 797 01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:00,720 songs recorded? What's the production like, because you know, like they sound 798 01:10:01,159 --> 01:10:04,640 amazing, just not only in terms of the songs themselves, but sonically they 799 01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:10,640 sound really good. It's all the amps are miked up, all the drums 800 01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:14,359 are miked up, and that's really kind of it. You know. We 801 01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:18,319 just we do it in a we do it digitally, but also try to 802 01:10:18,319 --> 01:10:23,119 stay as analog as possible when doing it. And wow, no kidding. 803 01:10:23,159 --> 01:10:26,560 So it's kind of the idea you do it all yourselves. I do a 804 01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,399 lot of the tracking. Yeah. On our EP, The Storm Is Out, 805 01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:31,000 I did all the we did all the tracking. I sent it to 806 01:10:31,279 --> 01:10:33,880 a guy named John Felino. And Latham, New York, and he mixed 807 01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:38,199 it all, okay yesterday, and then we got back and then our old 808 01:10:38,239 --> 01:10:42,319 drummer, Tyler Shoemaker, who now plays in a group called The Broken View 809 01:10:42,359 --> 01:10:45,239 out of Upstate New York and they're really talented as well. Him and I 810 01:10:45,399 --> 01:10:49,960 did Island that EP together and he did all the mixing and master and he 811 01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:54,119 went to school for it and yeah, and that was a lot of lay 812 01:10:54,319 --> 01:10:58,359 guitar layers and okay, just weeks on it and making just six songs. 813 01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:00,359 Okay, yeah, because it I mean, every everything you sent me it 814 01:11:00,399 --> 01:11:02,199 sounds great. It sounds like it was, you know, done in a 815 01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:06,439 million dollar studio. So that's but we're you know, but with the technology 816 01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,600 that we have now, we're fortunate to really be able to. I mean, 817 01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,159 there's so many different ways you can approach recording and have it sound really 818 01:11:13,239 --> 01:11:18,600 good. You know. So has any of the So have you guys written 819 01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:23,840 anything? Are you in the process of writing together? Because obviously these songs 820 01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:28,159 were all already written when you came into the band. Rich is that all? 821 01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:30,319 But so many callers we actually wrote that together? Yeah, oh cool, 822 01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:34,720 Okay, that's the newest one that we've done together, is so many 823 01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:39,640 excellent? Yeah, yeah, well we'll play that in a little bit too. 824 01:11:40,039 --> 01:11:43,520 I'm looking forward to sharing that with everybody. But I assume there's more 825 01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:46,319 in the works. Absolutely, Oh yeah, definitely. We are putting our 826 01:11:46,359 --> 01:11:53,079 nose to the grindstone and uh trying to uh, you know, give give 827 01:11:53,159 --> 01:11:56,199 some good stuff. Now, what about what the other guys? Are they 828 01:11:56,279 --> 01:11:59,920 involved in the writing or is that they're gonna be I couldn't imagine them not 829 01:12:00,159 --> 01:12:02,840 wanting to be you know. Yeah, an idea kind of spurs off of 830 01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,479 one of our heads, like with a you know, a riff or something 831 01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:09,039 or a melody in the head, and then yeah, we'd present it to 832 01:12:09,119 --> 01:12:14,359 them and yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Is it weird for you? Is 833 01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,600 it? Is it weird playing some of these songs with with a whole new 834 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,840 configuration of the band or does it feel like a normal sort of evolution of 835 01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:27,399 things or one thing I've noticed with our new drummers he kind of puts a 836 01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:31,239 little twist on some of them. He plays the parts pretty much precisely, 837 01:12:31,319 --> 01:12:33,920 but like there's times he might just put a little twist on things. And 838 01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,520 also and I'm fine with that, Yeah, at first it's yeah, I 839 01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,720 can't. It was a little like this is a little different, but as 840 01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,840 time went on, you know, it didn't feel like it was really any 841 01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:45,960 different. It felt really fun. And also just to add those little twist 842 01:12:46,039 --> 01:12:48,399 on the songs, like when we go and play them live, yeah hear 843 01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,279 them, and that's that's kind of neat. I was. I was in 844 01:12:51,359 --> 01:12:56,159 a band years ago that went through a few different drummers and and I always 845 01:12:56,199 --> 01:12:58,720 found it kind of you know, every drummer would who would come in would 846 01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:00,840 kind of put their own twist on things, and I for me, it 847 01:13:01,199 --> 01:13:03,720 kind of kept it exciting, you know, because, yeah, the songs 848 01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,039 would feel a little bit different, but it was kind of like, okay, 849 01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:10,600 the song we've been playing for five years now, it feels new in 850 01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,199 a way, you know. So so I know what you mean about how 851 01:13:13,239 --> 01:13:15,319 it it. You know, you get used to it being different than it 852 01:13:15,399 --> 01:13:18,960 actually kind of sounds good, you know, with with that little bit of 853 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:24,119 a twist on it. But it must be surreal, right to some of 854 01:13:24,159 --> 01:13:28,359 these songs who have played them in the old version in a different, not 855 01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:30,800 really different part of the country, the Northeast, but still you know, 856 01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:34,039 in New York and then to and then to be doing them here. It 857 01:13:34,399 --> 01:13:39,520 so, but you haven't you haven't recorded yet with this new with the full 858 01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:43,600 band, or have you just a song so many colors? Gotcha? Gotcha? 859 01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,000 Okay? Are you guys playing out a lot to play a lot of 860 01:13:46,039 --> 01:13:49,560 shows. We played a little bit on this this year, and we started 861 01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:54,000 playing out a little bit last year. I know we're playing Swarmy Fest on 862 01:13:54,199 --> 01:13:57,159 November fourth at Jewel. Yeah. We played Jewel a couple of times and 863 01:13:57,239 --> 01:14:00,079 we always have a good time there. Yeah. And also one thing I 864 01:14:00,119 --> 01:14:03,000 remember thinking when was we have a song called Awakening that we played. I 865 01:14:03,039 --> 01:14:06,840 remember thinking to myself hearing it through their sound system, just that thunderous sound. 866 01:14:08,239 --> 01:14:11,119 See, playing live too is a little different than the recording. You 867 01:14:11,239 --> 01:14:14,239 hear more of that, more of the punch and everything. Yeah. So 868 01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,079 yeah, really excited to do that. But yeah, once that's done, 869 01:14:17,319 --> 01:14:20,039 mom, we'll probably get some more new songs written and then just keep looking 870 01:14:20,119 --> 01:14:24,000 up shows. Yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward to Swarmy Fest. Uh. 871 01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:26,439 You know, Jenny and I will be there representing the show, and 872 01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,279 uh, I can't wait, really looking forward to that. Yeah, definitely 873 01:14:29,319 --> 01:14:31,079 can't wait. I can't wait to get up there and uh, you know, 874 01:14:31,239 --> 01:14:34,439 have some fun and uh get the crowd moving, you know. Yeah, 875 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:38,520 for sure? Where where are you guys from? Where where are you? 876 01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:42,880 Webon? We're both from Lebon's. It's actually funny. He's only like 877 01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,159 five minutes down the road for me. There are two guys live in Claremont, 878 01:14:46,239 --> 01:14:49,399 New Hampshire. Okay for a rehearse every week? Oh I got youa 879 01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:54,760 yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to. I used to occasionally go 880 01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,640 up to West Lebanon when there was a Strawberries there years ago, and I 881 01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:00,239 used to I used to go to work up there occasionally to help. But 882 01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:03,880 yeah, so what's that like an hour from here or yeah, yeah, 883 01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:09,439 it's about an hour? Yeah for sure? Now are there are there up 884 01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,720 up there? Like what's the what's the situation? Like? As far as 885 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,199 venues up there? Are there places to are? There a lot of places 886 01:15:15,279 --> 01:15:18,359 to play or I find if you're in a cover band doing like classic rock 887 01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:23,720 or a country band, you know there's saw whole pub and there's uh, 888 01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,600 there's probably I don't know a couple of breweries up there. Yeah. More 889 01:15:28,039 --> 01:15:30,720 going toward Vermont, I find that it's it's better for that kind of thing. 890 01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:33,039 Yeah, we do a couple of covers, but we're not that type 891 01:15:33,039 --> 01:15:36,760 of band that plays you know, yeah, three sets and we have we 892 01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:41,239 did start off doing that, but we like playing our own stuff and incorporating 893 01:15:41,279 --> 01:15:44,199 a couple. We like playing with other bands as well on a line up. 894 01:15:44,319 --> 01:15:46,039 Yeah, yeah, that's kind of We find that that's more funs. 895 01:15:46,119 --> 01:15:48,880 You find more people and even if the venues empty, you're playing to the 896 01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:54,159 band, right Yeah, yeah, oh I know, I know all about 897 01:15:54,199 --> 01:15:57,119 how that works. That's for sure. That's for sure. Are they do 898 01:15:57,159 --> 01:16:00,239 you guys have any particular bands that you play a lot of shows? You 899 01:16:00,279 --> 01:16:02,439 know? Sometimes I mean it kind of happens organically by accident really, but 900 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:06,880 sometimes bands have certain bands that they just sort of team up with do a 901 01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:11,600 lot of shows with ding Tombstones. Oh, I love them. But those 902 01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:15,079 guys that they're one song I talked to Alex a lot on Facebook. They're 903 01:16:15,079 --> 01:16:17,000 one song caught my eyes out. That's like one of my go to, 904 01:16:17,279 --> 01:16:20,359 like daily songs I listened to and yeah, I just love it. And 905 01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:24,119 then there's a new one he's just released. But yeah, no, I 906 01:16:24,199 --> 01:16:26,760 find we I find we end up with those guys a couple of times, 907 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:31,159 and I feel like there's another one I can't I can't remember. Uh yeah, 908 01:16:31,159 --> 01:16:34,800 I can't remember their name, but I can I see them right in 909 01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:38,960 front of me. I know, I know. It's Greening Tombstones is one 910 01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,399 Jay Fed in the Facebook live chat, he's in Vermont. He says, 911 01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:46,279 you live close to Vermont. Have you ever considered growing beards? Well, 912 01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:48,960 Rich, you've got quite the beard going there. I'm gonna say, yeah, 913 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,359 not not as much as Jay Fed is one of those guys with a 914 01:16:53,399 --> 01:16:56,319 big long beard. And Aaron you've got somewhat of a beard. I had 915 01:16:56,359 --> 01:17:00,640 a full on and then now I'm working, I'm gonna grow it back Novembers 916 01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,840 around the corner. Yeah, definitely, So mine will be a little bit 917 01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:06,239 bushier, a little bit longer. Yeah. We all have facial hair in 918 01:17:06,279 --> 01:17:11,439 the band. Yeah, we're all bald except Nick. Nick has long hair. 919 01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,680 Yeah. Oh really Yeah, Yeah, I got hair. It's there, 920 01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:21,840 It's just underneath of my head. That's what I tell people to We 921 01:17:23,039 --> 01:17:26,880 have Aaron and Rich from my last mile here in studio with us. If 922 01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:30,079 you have any questions or anything for the band. The studio line is opened 923 01:17:30,119 --> 01:17:32,880 six O three two five oh six oh seven six o three two five oh 924 01:17:33,319 --> 01:17:36,680 six o seven. Where does the name come from? By the way, 925 01:17:38,239 --> 01:17:41,399 Gosh, that's that's a good question. I think our old drummer, Tyler, 926 01:17:42,199 --> 01:17:44,680 I think he came up with it. We were just sitting at a 927 01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,279 pizza shop one time and he'd said something along the lines off, I'd walk, 928 01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,520 I'd walk some mile, or I'd walk a bunch of miles to do 929 01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,640 this or something. And then he was like, oh that, and then 930 01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,840 the other guy with us he was like, oh, that'd be your last 931 01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,760 mile. Then I just mile it. I'm like, how's that for a 932 01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:01,560 band name? And they're like, that's not bad. Once we got we 933 01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:05,600 went through a couple other ones. Once we got some artwork back, Oh 934 01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:09,439 I want to they settled. But what what were the other ones? I 935 01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:12,960 love rejected band names. That's like my favorite thing. What like what what 936 01:18:13,359 --> 01:18:15,880 my last name? West Fall was one? I remember that. Okay, 937 01:18:16,039 --> 01:18:18,520 I didn't want to do that, really, I don't want to play the 938 01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:23,159 whole solo artist thing or the Yeah, I mean west Fall is not a 939 01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:25,520 bad name for a band, but but I can see where, Yeah, 940 01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:32,359 you didn't want to you wouldn't want to do that necessarily. Actually, we 941 01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:35,720 had deviation for a little bit. Yeah, what do we have that for? 942 01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:39,399 Like at least a month? Didn't we at least a year? Was 943 01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:44,319 it a year? Oh? Really? Like a month? Oh wow, 944 01:18:44,319 --> 01:18:45,920 I think that. I don't think there were a lot I can't remember. 945 01:18:46,199 --> 01:18:48,960 Yeah, yeah, my last Mile is a good name. Thanks. I 946 01:18:49,079 --> 01:18:56,880 dig it's it's got a certain gravitas. Now, how many do you guys 947 01:18:56,920 --> 01:18:59,640 have a full album or if you just put out singles at this point? 948 01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,920 Two two EPs? Two EPs comes out? I came out in twenty seventeen 949 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:08,560 and then Iland was twenty twenty. Okay, has the sound changed over time? 950 01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:11,159 I mean, obviously it's it's had to have changed a little bit because 951 01:19:11,159 --> 01:19:14,319 you're you're playing with different guys, But I mean, has a has it 952 01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:18,279 the sound and style overall changed at all? Or vocally? Probably a little 953 01:19:18,279 --> 01:19:21,920 bit because I'm not twenty two anymore. They're pretty high, but I still 954 01:19:23,359 --> 01:19:25,640 but I still like to hit high notes. I don't like to scream much. 955 01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,239 But we were trying to push, like so many callers is a lot. 956 01:19:28,399 --> 01:19:30,119 I think that push is gonna push us more into a heavier, kind 957 01:19:30,159 --> 01:19:32,680 of a darker direction, Yeah, which is kind of what we want for 958 01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:39,479 this next EP, and we have a call. We'll see who's online here. 959 01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:42,680 Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this, Hey Matt, 960 01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:47,039 it's Jackson. Oh Jackson from down south? How are you? I'm good? 961 01:19:48,159 --> 01:19:51,520 Do you have a Do you have a question for these guys? I 962 01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:55,239 do, actually, and I do have a question for you. So I 963 01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:59,880 I literally just got the cot with my guy who does who's doing my LPF 964 01:20:00,079 --> 01:20:05,159 application for my town? Yes? And I have to put my antenna up 965 01:20:05,199 --> 01:20:11,479 in a tree. Well it's got to go somewhere, Jackson, I know, 966 01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:18,199 And now I have to content f a mm hmm. Well that's uh 967 01:20:18,319 --> 01:20:20,479 yeah, yeah, I did got a question. The one thing I do 968 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:27,720 have a question for. Yes, Uh my question just dropped down on mine. 969 01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:34,399 Crap. Oh all right, well that's well, that's that's uh, 970 01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:39,279 that's unfortunate Jackson. All right, Well, uh so you don't have a 971 01:20:39,399 --> 01:20:42,520 you don't have a question for for the guys you you forgot it? I 972 01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,720 do not, yep. Okay, Well you're distracted because you have to figure 973 01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:51,199 out where to put that antenna. I understand. Yeah. Well well all 974 01:20:51,279 --> 01:20:56,119 right, Jackson, Well good luck with that I appreciate the call. All 975 01:20:56,199 --> 01:21:00,279 right, alrighty, I guess Jackson had a question for you guys, and 976 01:21:00,319 --> 01:21:01,840 then he, I don't know, he got the starstruck or something. He 977 01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,199 got nervous. I was gonna ask him where from here? Where he was 978 01:21:05,239 --> 01:21:09,199 from? Down south? Oh? Yeah, definitely, yeah, he's uh 979 01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:12,600 I know the answer to that too. I think he's in Georgia. I 980 01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:16,399 could be wrong. He calls the show once in a while. Yeah, 981 01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:19,560 where where are are you? Where are you from? Originally? Aaron? 982 01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:23,880 Because you, yeah, you don't sound like you're from here necessarily. No, 983 01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,960 I'm originally from Saratoga, New York. Okay, okay? And Rich 984 01:21:28,039 --> 01:21:30,079 did you grow up here? Yep, I grew up here. I been 985 01:21:30,119 --> 01:21:35,199 in New Hampshire all my life. Okay, well, very good. Let's 986 01:21:35,319 --> 01:21:41,640 uh yeah, let's play what was the name of that song? The one, 987 01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:45,319 the one you guys were just talking about. Uh oh, I found 988 01:21:45,359 --> 01:21:50,279 it so many colors. We should uh, we should give this a listen. 989 01:21:51,039 --> 01:21:54,199 And then, so what what should we know about this track? This 990 01:21:54,319 --> 01:21:56,960 is the one you guys wrote together, is that correct? Yes? Okay? 991 01:21:57,039 --> 01:22:00,279 Cool? And so this is the first one you guys wrote together, 992 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,359 and anything else we should know about this. This this must be the newest 993 01:22:02,399 --> 01:22:06,279 one, right Yeah. Not our current drummer, Mike Goslin, but are 994 01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:10,399 We had a guy who was with us for a little bit, Paul Picard, 995 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:15,119 Yeah, who also plays in Robin V group around the area, and 996 01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:17,880 I think, I think there's another group you might play with. But he 997 01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,920 actually played drums on this song, Oh okay. And we sent it to 998 01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,880 a guy named Ian McDonald in New York and he did the mixing mastering, 999 01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,880 so we we did all the tracking together and then Paul did the drums on 1000 01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,199 it. And Paul's also in the music video for it. Oh cool. 1001 01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:32,239 And then there was another guy named Chris ray Jeski who actually came in and 1002 01:22:32,319 --> 01:22:36,319 played lead guitar on it. Oh okay. Cool. Cool. By the 1003 01:22:36,319 --> 01:22:40,199 way, with drummers, doesn't it seem like every drummer is in like multiple 1004 01:22:40,399 --> 01:22:44,800 like drummers basis five or six different bands. Oh yeah, I have a 1005 01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,800 theory about that. I think the I think the reason for that is, 1006 01:22:47,399 --> 01:22:50,560 you know, when you're growing up and you develop an interest in playing a 1007 01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:54,439 musical instrument and you have to talk to your parents about it, you know, 1008 01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,800 the last thing they want to encourage you to take up his drums. 1009 01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,880 Absolutely. So that's that's my theory. So every drummer isn't and base bass 1010 01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:02,960 players are an I demand too, but drummers like it's just it's crazy. 1011 01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,600 Every yeah, every drummer I know is in like god, twelve bands. 1012 01:23:06,199 --> 01:23:09,600 All right, let's give this a listen. This is really good. This 1013 01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:14,399 is so many colors. This is my last mile here on Matt Connorton unleashed. 1014 01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:35,560 Check this out. They call him scene. I'm a tony mother, 1015 01:23:36,319 --> 01:23:45,279 call him sante. You are the big on my dreams. Suspass you dressed 1016 01:23:45,279 --> 01:23:51,840 you talton dombey. I am an angel on your show. I'm the one 1017 01:23:53,119 --> 01:24:00,279 who can call me. I am one and you should not see and I 1018 01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:06,680 like bad batcher. You cannot be. There is nothing hugin jupers solf. 1019 01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:13,479 There's nose are running back as you got your jell. You should have not 1020 01:24:14,119 --> 01:24:21,319 the slong go. You should not before I struck by something. There's somebody 1021 01:24:23,119 --> 01:24:30,199 pace. This says at dosing like, don't sap if not something comes Yeah, 1022 01:24:30,279 --> 01:24:33,000 this accessible paste, this says it. That's it, Like that is 1023 01:24:33,079 --> 01:24:58,039 legit. Get about your best friend, silly, I stop by y'all to 1024 01:24:58,159 --> 01:25:02,840 sad with you and not again. And it's not my bo J's only son. 1025 01:25:04,319 --> 01:25:12,439 You are not forgive. There must be some way to say, so 1026 01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:19,079 say my hand you descending to help. I hate to say I told you 1027 01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:26,760 so. You're dream carry out so far us, so many columns, there's 1028 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:32,119 so many days, it says, as they days out, not to so 1029 01:25:32,359 --> 01:25:39,760 many cons you missides. It says some thousand like days, not chuning. 1030 01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:45,800 God, it's not so many con so many us, he says, a 1031 01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:53,800 doesn't like days out down in so many cones, you misusicide, he says, 1032 01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:58,479 it doesn't like days, not choting. Go and break it up. 1033 01:26:34,119 --> 01:26:56,760 Where where the stories side sign sizes this is as so many g give me, 1034 01:26:57,079 --> 01:27:38,880 Sue says, as this society my last Mile, and the track is 1035 01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,159 called so many colors. That is great, really really catchy. We've got 1036 01:27:42,159 --> 01:27:45,640 a couple of the guys from the band here live in studio with us. 1037 01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:48,720 We have Aaron and Rich from My Last Mile. We're going to talk with 1038 01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,159 these guys some more. I do want to remind you, of course, 1039 01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:55,159 today is Friday. It's my favorite day of the week here at WM and 1040 01:27:55,279 --> 01:27:58,119 H. It's my my long day here and I do love it so because 1041 01:27:58,159 --> 01:28:01,279 I will be back tonight from A to eleven for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul 1042 01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:04,039 C. I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts 1043 01:28:04,079 --> 01:28:09,279 on that show, along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, 1044 01:28:09,319 --> 01:28:12,520 who's also one of our great sponsors here. And this is what Paul has 1045 01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:15,560 planned for tonight. He just posted this a few minutes ago on social media. 1046 01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,399 Retro Spectrum Radio starts at a pm Eastern tonight. We'll be featuring rock, 1047 01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:23,840 pop and old school R and B hip hop songs from nineteen ninety to 1048 01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:28,119 nineteen ninety two, killer tunes you haven't heard since the last time you got 1049 01:28:28,239 --> 01:28:32,960 carded. Do join us listen live worldwide at wmnhradio dot org, slash listen 1050 01:28:33,039 --> 01:28:38,039 Live, and of course you can chat with us on the Retrospectrum Facebook I'm 1051 01:28:38,079 --> 01:28:41,560 sorry, the retro Spectrum Radio Facebook page. So really looking forward to that 1052 01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:45,760 and I love I love my Friday nights getting to hang out on Retrospectrum Radio. 1053 01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,640 It's a lot of fun. But we've got we've Aaron and Rich from 1054 01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:53,079 the band My Last Mile in studio with us, and if you would like 1055 01:28:53,119 --> 01:28:55,920 to join us if you have any questions or anything for the guys. Six 1056 01:28:56,239 --> 01:29:00,920 three two five six seven. The studio line is open six O three two 1057 01:29:00,079 --> 01:29:04,279 five oh six O seven. You can also text me at six one seven 1058 01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:09,920 nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connorton. 1059 01:29:10,279 --> 01:29:13,119 You can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com. And of course 1060 01:29:13,159 --> 01:29:15,760 you can interact endo o Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best 1061 01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:19,640 thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dulca tones is six 1062 01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:25,079 O three two five oh six O seven. And hey, Jackson, if 1063 01:29:25,119 --> 01:29:29,159 you remember the question you had, you can even uh you can even call 1064 01:29:29,279 --> 01:29:31,640 us back. We will we will allow that. But uh, yeah, 1065 01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:36,079 that's a great track. Guys, so many colors. And so that's now 1066 01:29:36,119 --> 01:29:41,319 the uh, the newer material that you're writing together. Is it similar? 1067 01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,359 Is it? Because that's I think that's the heaviest of the ones that you 1068 01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:47,560 sent me, is it? Are these are the new ones kind of heavy 1069 01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:53,560 like that? Or do they vary or I would say yes, they definitely 1070 01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:58,239 will get heavier as they come. Yeah, but if they're still they're in 1071 01:29:58,279 --> 01:30:02,399 the works, yeah for sure. Yeah. And Aaron, Are you writing 1072 01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:08,239 all the lyrics still, are you the Yeah? Primarily yeah. I mean 1073 01:30:08,359 --> 01:30:12,279 I get you know, subject matter, I'll get him influenced and such. 1074 01:30:12,399 --> 01:30:15,079 But usually I kind of write like I'll have a vocal melody in my head 1075 01:30:15,119 --> 01:30:17,560 and I'll just you know, add the lyrics to that kind of yeah. 1076 01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,960 Uh. Is there any kind of a theme to your lyrics, any kind 1077 01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:28,039 of an overarching theme or approach or some of it's personal? A lot of 1078 01:30:28,079 --> 01:30:31,600 it's actually personal, But I kind of just write. Again for me, 1079 01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:35,159 like songwritings more of a spur of the moment kind of thing. If it's 1080 01:30:35,199 --> 01:30:38,680 in my head, if it's something I can nod on my head to and 1081 01:30:39,159 --> 01:30:41,840 that I really like, you know, that's kind of where I think, 1082 01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:45,399 oh, this might actually be a good song. And so as far as 1083 01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:49,119 the theme goes, not so much. It's kind of just just based on 1084 01:30:49,199 --> 01:30:53,800 what I'm feeling, you know, certain things I've experienced in the past, 1085 01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:57,000 certain things I'm experiencing now. That's kind of where it all comes from. 1086 01:30:57,199 --> 01:31:00,399 Sure. Sure, we have a question for you in the face book Love 1087 01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,039 Chat. Isaac Banks, who is from I know exactly where he is in 1088 01:31:03,079 --> 01:31:08,520 the South Greensboro, North Carolina, he says, speaking of interesting questions, 1089 01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:12,600 My Last Mile, how are you fellas? What's your favorite Hoodie and the 1090 01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:17,840 Blowfish song? Let her cry? I'm doing great, it's awesome. Thank 1091 01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:23,960 you for asking that. I don't think I've actually listened to Hoody and the 1092 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:31,000 Blowfish, so you mean recently or ever ever? Fair enough? But I'm 1093 01:31:31,039 --> 01:31:33,560 doing well. Thank you for adving. I was waiting for him to say 1094 01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:38,840 wagon Wheel. Oh goodness, let her cry. That was a huge h 1095 01:31:39,239 --> 01:31:42,680 that was a huge song. My god. Yeah, they were the biggest 1096 01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:46,680 thing out there in the mid nineties. Have you guys opened for you guys 1097 01:31:46,760 --> 01:31:51,439 open for any national acts that have come through the area or not here. 1098 01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:58,199 In twenty seventeen, Mile Last Mile did do a warp tour appearance on Long 1099 01:31:58,279 --> 01:32:00,680 Island. Oh no kidding. Yeah, it was like a local you know, 1100 01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:02,199 we were the local band, sure from way up north. I got 1101 01:32:02,279 --> 01:32:05,079 picked and we went. It was like fifteen twenty minutes, but was well 1102 01:32:05,119 --> 01:32:09,239 worth it. Oh that's cool. Remember that year they had Eye Prevail. 1103 01:32:11,199 --> 01:32:19,359 Gosh, Hate Reed was somewhere nice still Maybe Chelsea Grinn might have been August 1104 01:32:19,399 --> 01:32:23,560 Burns Red. It was a much heavier year for Warp for and then the 1105 01:32:24,039 --> 01:32:26,479 following year in twenty eighteen, that was the last year they did it, 1106 01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:29,680 and then they stopped doing it. I was kind of bummed about that. 1107 01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:31,760 Yeah, twelve was so twenty eighteen was the last Warp tour. Huh, 1108 01:32:32,079 --> 01:32:34,680 I know, twenty nineteen they did select shows, but like, oh, 1109 01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:39,720 okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. Did you get to see Hate Breed 1110 01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,800 while you were there? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah. I used to be 1111 01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,039 in a band called First Shove and we used to play, we used to 1112 01:32:45,119 --> 01:32:47,239 cover. We did very few covers, but we we would do a last 1113 01:32:47,319 --> 01:32:53,960 Breath, which was honestly my favorite part of our set. It's so quick 1114 01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:56,399 though, it goes by so fast. It's such a short song. But 1115 01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,359 just the adrenaline of playing that. Yeah, but I've never seen them live. 1116 01:32:59,399 --> 01:33:01,039 That must have been. That must have been. That must have been 1117 01:33:01,079 --> 01:33:04,560 cool. Now what so? What? Uh? What brought you to New 1118 01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:09,520 Hampshire? Like, did you did you guys know each other prior to you 1119 01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:15,399 come in here? No, my fiance lord here. Yeah, I was 1120 01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,159 living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the time, and just oh we 1121 01:33:18,359 --> 01:33:25,119 met and yeah, I've been here ever since and we were still together that 1122 01:33:25,279 --> 01:33:27,960 how long were how long did you live in Myrtle Beach? A year? 1123 01:33:28,279 --> 01:33:30,800 Okay, yeah, I have family down there, and I I thought why 1124 01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:34,960 not? But then I realized I'm not a Southern especially this time of year. 1125 01:33:35,239 --> 01:33:39,680 I'm very I like the seasons a lot. I like this time of 1126 01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,000 year is like my favorite time of year. And I felt like when I 1127 01:33:42,119 --> 01:33:45,359 was down there, just you know, the leaves never changed, like at 1128 01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:47,720 Christmas time. It's cool, but at Christmas time it'll be driving through like 1129 01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:51,760 a neighborhood and you'll see like all the Christmas decorations and then just a palm 1130 01:33:51,840 --> 01:33:55,520 tree and grass. It's just not the same. I'm just seeing the snow 1131 01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:59,119 and decoration. I guess see, I'm the opposite. I would love that. 1132 01:34:00,079 --> 01:34:01,840 I love that. I love a spring and summer my times, I 1133 01:34:02,079 --> 01:34:06,600 I don't like. I don't like fall because well because of what it leads 1134 01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:13,640 to the winter, and that is true. Yeah it gets colder and then 1135 01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:16,199 yeah, I don't want to do this. Yeah, Like I think I 1136 01:34:16,399 --> 01:34:18,439 think I would do fine down south. How about you, rich? You 1137 01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:21,479 think you'd you do all right down there? No, because I'm in New 1138 01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:26,279 Hampshire too long. I'd probably like yeah, me too. That's why I 1139 01:34:26,319 --> 01:34:29,239 think. That's why I think I would do well down there. No, 1140 01:34:29,359 --> 01:34:30,800 but I do love New Hampshire too. There's a lot to there's a lot 1141 01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:35,239 to love here. Oh yeah. Definitely hunting fishing, that's that's my game 1142 01:34:35,359 --> 01:34:39,279 toward this time. Yeah. See, I don't hunter fish. I don't 1143 01:34:39,319 --> 01:34:44,720 do any outdoorsy things. I'm terrified of deer ticks and there's wild animals. 1144 01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:46,520 You know, you could be eaten by a bear or mountain lion or something. 1145 01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:50,199 It's true, the blair Witch is out in the woods. I think 1146 01:34:50,239 --> 01:34:54,560 I saw a movie about that once, and that's that's very frightening. But 1147 01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:57,119 no, in the winter, i'd like to be able to just teleport from 1148 01:34:57,119 --> 01:34:59,840 one room, one warm place, to another, you know, I think 1149 01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:02,039 that be great. But uh no, But in the summertime, it's it's 1150 01:35:02,079 --> 01:35:09,119 beautiful here certainly. Now, everything every everything that the band has is all 1151 01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:12,159 it's all up on the streaming services, right. It's on Spotify and everything, 1152 01:35:12,279 --> 01:35:18,079 Modify, YouTube, iTunes, gosh, I haven't even looked at iTunes, 1153 01:35:18,199 --> 01:35:24,000 and it's on Ideas yeah I think, yeah, we use a distro 1154 01:35:24,159 --> 01:35:28,359 kid and yeah, it's all on every streaming service. Now for those who 1155 01:35:28,399 --> 01:35:31,960 don't know, so distro kid obviously, how do you find them? Is 1156 01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:36,199 that a good service? I hear mixed reviews from people. I've never personally 1157 01:35:36,239 --> 01:35:40,319 had a problem with them. Yeah, it's just you know, you pay 1158 01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:43,439 X amount a year. Yeah, and sometimes you might pay a little bit 1159 01:35:43,439 --> 01:35:45,640 more if you want it, like you know, if you want your EPR, 1160 01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:49,319 album or single or whatever out on a certain day. Yeah. Yeah, 1161 01:35:49,319 --> 01:35:51,960 I personally have never had a problem with them. I mainly only use 1162 01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:57,479 it though, to just upload tracks and maybe check stats and little er things. 1163 01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,279 But yeah, I personally never had a problem with them. Now, 1164 01:36:00,359 --> 01:36:03,800 do you guys have any physical copies of your CDs? I get I get 1165 01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:09,960 such varied answers on this because it seems like to a lot of artists that 1166 01:36:10,279 --> 01:36:14,479 physical media is still really important, which surprises me sometimes. And then to 1167 01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:17,319 a lot of artists it's like what what physical media? Why what y're we? 1168 01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:21,119 You know, So I encounter very different attitudes about it. So I'm 1169 01:36:21,119 --> 01:36:24,479 curious how you guys feel about it, and if if you have any actual 1170 01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:30,640 physical discs, I'd say they will be coming at some point, but we 1171 01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:35,319 normally just have our stuff on Spotify and yeah, YouTube and iTunes and all 1172 01:36:35,359 --> 01:36:39,840 that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I think the storm is out back when 1173 01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:42,880 that was, when we released that, we did, we did a couple 1174 01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:45,359 of gigs in Albany and Sarahtogua, New York. We I think we made 1175 01:36:45,359 --> 01:36:48,840 a couple of copies and yeah, I think at the time, gosh, 1176 01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:56,159 you might have used CD baby maybe and they they made all the copies and 1177 01:36:56,239 --> 01:36:58,600 a little of the artwork and a sleeve and put the disc in. But 1178 01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:01,960 yeah, honestly, I'm a big fan of physical music. I'm actually really 1179 01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:06,199 a big fan of DVDs. I collect horror DVDs, like that's my collector's 1180 01:37:06,239 --> 01:37:10,840 item. I love horror films and DVDs and that's my that's my thing. 1181 01:37:10,920 --> 01:37:14,640 I love a DVD. Yeah, especially if like your Internet goes out or 1182 01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:16,039 something. You have your player, you can plug it in, you know 1183 01:37:16,079 --> 01:37:18,279 what I mean, You're not just sitting there born in the dark all day. 1184 01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:23,159 Yeah, you know. But for us though, I at the moment, 1185 01:37:23,279 --> 01:37:27,439 no, we don't have any physical anything physical. Yeah. It's interesting 1186 01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:30,520 how how different artists approach it differently. I mean a lot of some artists 1187 01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:33,319 now too well, I mean obviously all the majors you know, they put 1188 01:37:33,359 --> 01:37:36,880 everything out on vinyl. But I've I've even met the local artists from the 1189 01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:43,399 area who will do like a run of vinyl. But it's apparently, from 1190 01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:46,680 what I'm told, it's extremely expensive to do it. It's really cost prohibitive. 1191 01:37:47,199 --> 01:37:50,399 Yeah. Yeah, it's the biggest mistake I ever made. I've had 1192 01:37:50,399 --> 01:37:53,920 a whole bunch of vinyl records, probably about the size of the desk I'm 1193 01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:56,199 sitting in front of it. Yeah. I shipped them all to my friend 1194 01:37:56,279 --> 01:38:00,840 in Texas and for three hundred dollars. And I was just so all of 1195 01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:02,319 those things. They were heavy, and they pick up space. It's just 1196 01:38:02,359 --> 01:38:04,319 one of those things I wish I never got rid of. Oh really, 1197 01:38:04,479 --> 01:38:09,880 Yeah, how much did it cost a ship? About one hundred and fifty. 1198 01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,800 I think I did one hundred, so I was very expensive. Yeah, 1199 01:38:13,119 --> 01:38:16,520 I can imagine. Yeah, yeah, just right, Oh yeah, 1200 01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:20,680 yeah absolutely. I was shocked a few years ago. I was on band 1201 01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:25,359 camp and uh, when I real this was maybe five or six years ago, 1202 01:38:25,399 --> 01:38:28,640 so this trend may have already passed. But I was shocked to see 1203 01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:33,720 some artists selling cassette tapes like cassettes were back, you know, and and 1204 01:38:34,159 --> 01:38:36,479 it's like, I mean, I guess if you're a fan of tape Hiss, 1205 01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:41,199 you know that's cool. But but I was. I was just shocked. 1206 01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:43,039 And the first one I found, I was like, oh, is 1207 01:38:43,079 --> 01:38:45,800 this a joke? Is this? Like I realized, you know, a 1208 01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,439 lot of these artists are are are selling cassettes, and of course most people 1209 01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:51,159 who buy them probably never actually play them. They're just buying them because they 1210 01:38:51,279 --> 01:38:54,680 like that artist, and oh it's cool to have a cassette, you know. 1211 01:38:54,880 --> 01:39:00,439 But it's it's just it's fascinating to me to see what technology he comes 1212 01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:03,760 and goes, what what sticks around that you don't think is going to stick 1213 01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,960 around, and and what does end up going away that you think is going 1214 01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:11,479 to be here forever. You know. It's it's it's very interesting to me. 1215 01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:16,039 But uh, now, so as far as so you've got you've got 1216 01:39:16,079 --> 01:39:18,720 two EPs, and then do you have any singles that are not on that 1217 01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:21,680 are only singles that are not on one of the EPs as of right now, 1218 01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:26,479 it's uh, it's so many colors. We did a shine Down cover 1219 01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:31,920 a couple of years ago, and that I think also we released maybe as 1220 01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:35,119 a single. Yeah, oh okay, but we uh yeah, So Many 1221 01:39:35,159 --> 01:39:39,880 Colors that will probably go on to our next EP, may not if we 1222 01:39:40,319 --> 01:39:44,239 have a different if the songs are in a completely different theme than that, 1223 01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:45,960 yeah, or if they're even if we decide to go a different route with 1224 01:39:46,039 --> 01:39:49,159 mixing or whatever, then obviously we would probably just leave it as a single 1225 01:39:49,199 --> 01:39:54,319 and go on go forth with that. But as of right now, mainly 1226 01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:59,720 So Many Colors is the only one that's a single. So what what Shinedown 1227 01:39:59,760 --> 01:40:03,640 song did you cover? Okay, Oh, that's a great song. When 1228 01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:08,880 Shinedown was really big, I got I got pretty sick of them because what 1229 01:40:09,079 --> 01:40:12,359 was the really big song? Second Chance? Right? Oh? Yeah? 1230 01:40:12,680 --> 01:40:15,399 Was it that one? Or was there was there another one that was really 1231 01:40:15,439 --> 01:40:20,079 big? No? I think it was Secon Yeah it was second Chance. 1232 01:40:20,199 --> 01:40:24,199 Oh god. I grew to hate that song because I heard it so much. 1233 01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:26,760 But then I heard Sound of Madness and I was like, Okay, 1234 01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:30,279 I like them again. That's a great track. That's a good album. 1235 01:40:30,239 --> 01:40:32,720 I've never heard the whole thing. Is it good? But I can I 1236 01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:35,960 can imagine you guys doing that song because I can. I can hear it 1237 01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:40,079 in my head with your voice. Here's the hard guy to replicate is he 1238 01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:44,199 really hard? Yes? Are they still around yes, shindown. Yeah. 1239 01:40:45,680 --> 01:40:49,079 Sometimes it's hard to keep track of who's still. Like I just found out 1240 01:40:49,079 --> 01:40:53,720 the other day the godsmack is is gonna be uh playing I think at this 1241 01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:57,920 new arena And I was like, I didn't even know they were touring to 1242 01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:02,000 me too. Yeah, I know, I had no idea. Let's uh, 1243 01:41:02,119 --> 01:41:08,119 well, let's play another track because we still have Let's see, what's 1244 01:41:08,159 --> 01:41:15,079 the other one we have here? Oh? Every Night that's the other one. 1245 01:41:15,399 --> 01:41:21,600 Anything anything we should know about this twenty seventeen just a band written song. 1246 01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:30,560 No, I guess I really really Yeah, it's colorful. I like, 1247 01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:33,600 uh I wrote that about I get asked, like we were talking about 1248 01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:36,600 this rehearsal and somebody's like, oh, it's every night, I think that. 1249 01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:39,960 Isn't that a relationship song? I said, no, it's not. 1250 01:41:41,079 --> 01:41:45,199 It's not you. It's written to make you think that, but it's really 1251 01:41:45,279 --> 01:41:47,439 not why I personally wrote it. Oh okay, yeah, all right, 1252 01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:50,119 all right. Do you want to tell us why or is or do you 1253 01:41:50,159 --> 01:41:56,279 want to keep that a mystery? It goes kind of in the lines of 1254 01:41:56,399 --> 01:42:00,199 like alcoholism issues, addiction issues, and all that stuff. So that's kind 1255 01:42:00,239 --> 01:42:02,920 of it's basically like kind of being on a hamster wheel. Yeah yeah, 1256 01:42:03,520 --> 01:42:08,439 gotcha think so something a lot of us can relate to. Certainly, all 1257 01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:12,600 right, let's give this a listen. So this is called Every Night. 1258 01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:32,800 This is the band My Last Mile. Check this out. Can't believe sand 1259 01:42:34,840 --> 01:44:00,079 to recie this sweet free, Agree, Agree as change says days, So 1260 01:44:01,399 --> 01:45:19,479 playa Yes, I have seen special, breaking good times. I can't believe 1261 01:45:19,920 --> 01:45:33,279 if you said that you to the sidecoris as you would not know this. 1262 01:45:34,199 --> 01:47:11,159 I feel listening. The band is my Last Mile. The track is every 1263 01:47:11,279 --> 01:47:14,520 Night, and we have Aaron and Rich live in studio with us here on 1264 01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:18,039 Matt Connorton Unleashed here at w m n H ninety five point three FM, 1265 01:47:18,239 --> 01:47:23,119 and guys, it's been wonderful to have you here. I love the music 1266 01:47:23,840 --> 01:47:26,640 and I was Aaron, I was sending you off air too. I love 1267 01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:29,720 the solo on that. Thanks. That's that's really good. That's really good. 1268 01:47:31,279 --> 01:47:35,520 We should Obviously you're very googleable, as I like to say, if 1269 01:47:35,560 --> 01:47:40,399 you if you google my Last Mile, actually, if you google my Last 1270 01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:44,000 Mile band, I think that's probably the easiest way to find you. But 1271 01:47:44,039 --> 01:47:46,199 of course you're on all the social media right and everything, and yep, 1272 01:47:46,239 --> 01:47:50,279 we have a Facebook page. Yeah, so if you find us my Last 1273 01:47:50,319 --> 01:47:56,680 Mile on Facebook and subscribe, that'd be great. Yep, follow us YouTube, 1274 01:47:56,760 --> 01:47:59,880 and then we're in the midst of making a website. Are based. 1275 01:48:00,039 --> 01:48:03,079 This is a cyber guy. I don't know what he does. He's an 1276 01:48:03,119 --> 01:48:09,000 engineer. Oh yeah, we're going to work with him and getting that all 1277 01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:13,600 getting all situated in coming weeks. Oh, very good, very good. 1278 01:48:13,680 --> 01:48:15,880 Yeah. Yeah, And now what do you have coming up? So you're 1279 01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:19,159 gonna be a swarmy fest obviously that's coming up in November. Do you guys 1280 01:48:19,199 --> 01:48:23,359 have shows before then leading up to that or no, we're kind of getting 1281 01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:26,439 we're kind of just getting everything tight for that and we're in the midst of 1282 01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:31,239 making some new music. Yeah at the moment. And do you have Probably 1283 01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:33,720 too soon to know, but do you have any kind of an et a 1284 01:48:33,840 --> 01:48:38,439 on when we might hear some new stuff? Or December? Oh? Really 1285 01:48:39,239 --> 01:48:43,880 Christmas time? Absolutely? Oh fantastic, fantastic. Well, we'll have to 1286 01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:46,840 have you back when when that's ready, because I definitely want to definitely want 1287 01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:49,079 to play and talk to you guys. Yeah, love to come back. 1288 01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:53,880 It's great, absolutely, absolutely well, this has been great. Thank you 1289 01:48:53,960 --> 01:48:58,359 guys. We're actually gonna play I'm gonna play Island. I opened the show 1290 01:48:58,439 --> 01:49:00,840 with it today at four o'clock, but you know, obviously there's a turnover 1291 01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,359 in the listenership over the course of a two hour show, so I'm actually 1292 01:49:03,359 --> 01:49:06,680 gonna end the show with it as well. This is my personal favorite of 1293 01:49:06,720 --> 01:49:11,079 the I love this song. This is so catchy. So we're gonna We're 1294 01:49:11,079 --> 01:49:13,800 gonna play this in a moment, and I'll just remind the listeners too, 1295 01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:17,239 don't forget. I will be back tonight from a two eleven pm for Retrospectrum 1296 01:49:17,319 --> 01:49:23,159 Radio with paullyc right here at WMNH ninety five point three FM. Also thank 1297 01:49:23,199 --> 01:49:27,119 you to DJ Reckless for joining us earlier. He will be tonight from nine 1298 01:49:27,159 --> 01:49:30,840 to one am nine pm to one am at right up the street at the 1299 01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:34,000 six to oh three DJing there. And of course I don't forget our amazing 1300 01:49:34,039 --> 01:49:36,920 sponsor, the Hop not right across the street at one thousand Elm Street. 1301 01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:40,560 And if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in 1302 01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:45,239 just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot 1303 01:49:45,359 --> 01:49:50,319 com and guys, thank you again Aaron and rich from from my Last mile. 1304 01:49:50,399 --> 01:49:54,079 This has been great guys, thanks for having me. Thank you absolutely 1305 01:49:54,199 --> 01:49:57,439 you got it and we will leave you with this. This is Island from 1306 01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:32,319 the band My Last Smile, So you and die. Serial trips on the 1307 01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:42,600 side like Day always says the same. It's a song I can to and 1308 01:50:42,960 --> 01:51:13,279 try to get bout it to doctor so to be that sounds don't shot A 1309 01:51:13,479 --> 01:52:34,720 can't evans power the cast save always say did that stay okay? I can't 1310 01:52:35,560 --> 01:53:24,319 eva ka Ship start by this hour on WMNH is sponsored by CGI Business Solutions, 1311 01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:29,800 located at five Dartmouth Drive in Auburn. They serve all your business needs 1312 01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:35,000 including employee benefits, planning, corporate design and business administration, investments and wealth 1313 01:53:35,079 --> 01:53:41,840 management and customized business insurance solutions. Their phone number is eight six six eight 1314 01:53:41,960 --> 01:53:46,319 four to one forty six hundred, or on the web at CGI business Solutions 1315 01:53:46,560 --> 01:53:53,000 dot com. Bring your kitchen to life with Queen City Cabinetry, located at 1316 01:53:53,119 --> 01:53:58,560 eighty seven Elm Street in the historic Sunbeam Mall in Manchester, open Monday through 1317 01:53:58,640 --> 01:54:02,960 Friday, nine am to five thirty pm in Saturdays ten am to two pm. 1318 01:54:03,399 --> 01:54:09,239 They can be reached at six oh three two two two to zero zero 1319 01:54:09,399 --> 01:54:15,359 seven. We're on the web at Queen citycabinatree nh dot com. Come see 1320 01:54:15,399 --> 01:54:20,520 the possibilities Queen City Cabinet. Try another proud sponsor of WMNH. Come on 1321 01:54:20,680 --> 01:54:27,079 down to the Hop Knot at one thousand Elm Street, Manchester's premiere Kraft Beer 1322 01:54:27,199 --> 01:54:30,000 and war Made Pretzel Bar tell Us more Trudich. We make our dough fresh 1323 01:54:30,119 --> 01:54:34,560 every day. We make a variety of styles of pretzels and serve Kraft Beer, 1324 01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:39,760 cocktails and a few bottles of wine. We do the traditional pretzel and 1325 01:54:39,880 --> 01:54:43,960 we have multiple flavors for that. We also do stuff pretzels, pretzel sandwiches, 1326 01:54:44,239 --> 01:54:47,560 free dessert pretzels and pretzel knots. The Hop Knot in the Brady Sullivan 1327 01:54:47,640 --> 01:54:49,680 Plaza at one thousand Elm Street