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Speaker 1: And welcome everybody. We have entered our number two numarrowdos

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of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the

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New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show

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contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday,

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December twentieth, two thousand twenty five, and we have joining

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us in studio and I've been looking forward to this

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because they're from a venue that comes up a lot

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on the show. So let's see. Let me make sure

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we got the camera on here. So we've got at

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the news table as we like to call it her

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in the Newstable area. Mike Hill is here from Charlie Hill.

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Hey Mike, good morning, welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Thank you and thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: And then yes, and speaking of us, so please introduce

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these other fine people that you brought with you.

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Speaker 3: I brought Lloyd the sound engineer. How you doing, hi, Lloyd, welcome,

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brought the boss, my wife Terry okay, Hi, Terry. She said,

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I'm Boston, I can say so.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, well very good, very good. So

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we were talking off air about this the reason I'm

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excited to have you here so Charlie Hill. So, just

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for clarification, Charlie Hill is not a band. Charlie Hill

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is a venue. And I'm not blowing smoke when I

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say this. Of all the obviously, you know, when musicians

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come on the show, we talk about various places to

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play in the area. Charlie Hill comes up more than

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any other venue that we talk about on the show.

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I hear about Charlie Hill all the time. Have been

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for how long have you been opening? It's been a

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couple at least a couple of years, right.

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Speaker 2: The first show was in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen, and oh wow, longer than I realized.

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Speaker 2: It's been growing like crazy.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow wow.

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Speaker 4: It started with annual event the third weekend in August,

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a Live Love Laugh Festival, and went from a once

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a year, three day weekend event to the doors were

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open every Saturday night at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wow, So what's the live LAF I live laugh.

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I'm sorry they live Love Laugh, Live Love laugh, what

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is that?

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Speaker 4: That is a festival Charlie still is in memory of

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my daughter, Charlie, who helped me do the first festival

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in twenty fourteen, okay, And she loved music. She loved

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all the music, all the people, red and yellow, black

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and white. She is just all about a safe place

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to enjoy music for the musicians and the spectators and

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the flow artists and all of it. Yeah, so that's

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why we do what we do.

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Speaker 1: So that that's how the festival started because of her, yes, okay, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well the first the first festival was done celebrating the

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legalization of medicinal marijuana and educating the public on how

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they could become law abiding citizens. We had a doctor

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there that did consultations, issued medical cards caregivers and that's

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how it was started. And then I lost Charlie ten

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days before Christmas that year, and so this is all

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done in memory of Charlie. And I think that's one

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of the reasons we stand out from other venues is

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it's about the bands and the musicians and the people

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who love them and support them. Any event we do

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always has free camping, probably not recommended this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, unless masochist.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people ask you'd be surprised, really, Oh yeah, die

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Hard New England. But all the events we do are

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always free. Camping very few events, most most of the

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shows are always free. And we don't We're not a bar,

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we're not a restaurant. We're there for the bands and

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the spectators and and you know that when you walk

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in the door, places like a giant, oversized living room

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with a really nice stage and incredible sounds. Okay, so

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it's like home away from home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what everyone says.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fancy. We got Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We decided that making the stage sound.

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Speaker 5: Better than front of the house, it's probably better for

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the band's experience.

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's basically that's what it's about.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more about having that what you would get

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if you went to an arena, you know, yeah, and

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actually had you know, expensive production behind you. Instead of

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get in and get out, we got to close the doors.

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Speaker 2: Right right, you know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't make that much money at the door.

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Sorry kid, we already tell him sorry.

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Speaker 2: On the way in.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, by donation, buddy, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to explain our relationship with between Terry

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and Lloyd. I believe we met in nineteen eighty one

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at Noble High School? Is that right about nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that, Okay, okay, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've known each other a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And it started with the outdoor stage and I had

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stored people's stuff for free in the back of the

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big fifty by one hundred and twenty five foot barn

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and we got rained out I think it was twenty sixteen,

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and we had to push a bunch of the junk

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out of the way at one of the back doors,

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and Boyd said, you know, who's stuff is this? When's

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the last time we talked to any of these people?

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You know, we could put a stage in here and

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have a nice indoor place too, mm hmm. And so

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we had to be done. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah, yeah,

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one step at a time.

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Speaker 1: So then when did so that festival though? That so

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that's what started it, and then and then from there,

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like what was the transition because now is every Saturday?

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Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I guess Saturday?

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Speaker 1: Every Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Some a few people came to me in twenty fifteen

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and asked me if I was going to do the

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really cool event again, like I said I would every year. Well,

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I guess you have to go back to Charlie started

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going to festivals at harry Chill when she was fourteen,

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you know, fibbing to mom about where she was going

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to the leak again, and she said, I'll help you

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do the festival. Mom, it's the coolest thing ever to

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have a festival at my house in our field. But

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you're just doing it because you're mad because you got

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in trouble from that sheriff. So you have to promise

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that you'll do this every year and I'll help you

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do it, and you have to put it in writing.

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So she made me put it on the T shirts

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that year that it was our first annual event. And

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even the graphics people, the graphics coop lady that used

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to do our race cars and stuff, she's like, Terry.

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She goes, you don't put the first annual or something,

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And I said, it's a deal I had with Charlie.

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So come twenty fifteen, couple of people ask you're going

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to do the festival again, and I said, I'll never

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have another party again in my life as long as

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I live. And then I remember the promise to Charlie

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that it was in writing on the shirts, and so

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the kids put it together because I didn't have it,

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I mean to do anything, and I said, well, open

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the field. Of course there was no open doors except

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for the office, and then I let them do that

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the twenty fifteen showing memory Charlie. And then somebody said, well, Terry,

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if it's all about marijuana, you really need to have

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something in the end of October where everybody can play

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like show and tell with their home grows. So they

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put something together the third weekend in October. Typically a

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Charlie's Hill event will be on the third weekend of

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the month, and other shows that the bands put together

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is other weekends of the month. So twenty fifteen we

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added the Hallow Harvest, which is an annual event that

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we do, and then the next year it just was

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more and more and more and more, and as it

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it's the way we do things. The way we do it.

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We didn't all get together one day and say, hey,

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this is what we're gonna do and this is how

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we're gonna do it. We pay attention to what the

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needs are of the people and what's gonna make everybody

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happy and work, you know. I mean, you can't make

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everybody happy all the time, no matter how hard you try,

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but we definitely try hard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it sounds like it.

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Speaker 4: So now here we are, and I guess one of

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the things that happened several years ago was we do

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a lot of shows in the summer, and then we

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don't do a lot of shows in the winter, so

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the local guys would come and jam pretty much all

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winter except for the random shows that we would have,

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and then come summertime we would have six, six or

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seven weeks of shows in a row, and then the

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local jam guys we, oh, you don't love us anymore

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in the summer. So I was like okay. So then

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now that's where the open Jam night, the first Saturday

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every month came into play. So no matter what time

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of year it is, everyone knows the first Saturday of

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the month is always open jam. So if anybody wants

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the opportunity to come play on the Charlie Hill stage

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and enjoy the you know, because Lloyd's a wizard, he's

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a madman. Yeah, he's a wizard, so.

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Speaker 2: Work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So once he perfected the front of house, then

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he's like, now I gotta get the stage monitors as good,

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if not better than the front of house, because if

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anybody deserves to have quality sound, it's the bands, right.

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So we kind of have a joke at Charlie till

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when a new band comes and they get set up

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on the stage and then they see the experience on

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the stage for them, they poop their pants. So we

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actually have a pair of emergency underwear on the stage,

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like it was a joke along side and then wouldn't

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you know, you come across you know, two dollars that's

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on flea market, this pair of emergency understands. So just

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kind of fell in with a joke.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're probably one of the only venues right now

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that are I have a set of Servo drive Yeah,

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Servo Tech seven. Yeah, they're a subs run by a

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Servo motor. Oh really no, yeah, they all way down

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to twenty Oh wow, I cut them off at forty

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drum production microphones.

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Speaker 2: That picked that up.

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Speaker 5: No getting the stage presence and drums forty and below

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is right under your feet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's like a kick in the foot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice.

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Speaker 2: It's more of a feeling than it sounds.

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Speaker 1: You know when you started that sentence that I thought

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you were going to say, you're you're the only venue

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that has emergency underwear for.

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Speaker 2: The Yeah, probably that you probably are, probably not.

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Speaker 1: As a journalist, I have to ask you going back

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to something that Charlie had said to you. What the

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thing about getting in trouble with the sheriff? I have

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to I have to circle back to that.

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Speaker 4: Stories about carry the rebels.

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Speaker 2: He's the reader.

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Speaker 4: I do not have a criminal record at all, whatsoever. Okay,

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no speeding tickets, clean driver's license. Yeah. So in twenty fourteen,

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when I decided to do this crazy thing because I

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knew it was a lot of people don't break the law.

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And the only thing we did to break the law

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was we smoked a little weed. So I got pulled

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over by the sheriff, York County sheriff in Waterborough. And

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I hope he hears this because he wasn't not nice.

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Speaker 1: And where where is water Water?

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Speaker 4: Water Borough?

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Speaker 1: Is that in New.

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Speaker 4: Hampshire, York County?

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Speaker 2: Means gotcha?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Okay.

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Speaker 4: A friend of a friend of a friend was actually

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a caregiver and had the opportunity to take a ride

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all the way up to like you know, almost Augustaye

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and go to a caregivers and get that quality bud

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that everybody looked for. But I didn't have my medical card,

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so like on a down law like it was like

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a half.

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Speaker 1: Hour just for clarification. You didn't have it on you here.

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You didn't have it at all.

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Speaker 4: You know, I have a medical marijuana card, gotcha? Okay,

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I was a lawbreaker?

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Speaker 1: You criminal?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: He pulls me over. You know, you'd be past each

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other in the opposite direction and then all of a sudden,

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the blues come on. He whips it around. I'm like, well,

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he's obviously not pulling me over, so I'm not breaking

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the law. Yeah, and oh yeah, slides in right behind me.

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I'm like okay. So he comes up, put the window down.

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This is in February. I have a great big tahoe.

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I have wood equipment, like the haul firewood out of

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the forest. Yeah, and then I have all my janitor

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buckets in the back seat, so got a lot of

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work equipment in there. And uh, and there's snow off

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in the woods and he comes up and he goes, uh,

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I pulled you or for going thirty nine and into

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thirty five, and I'm looking at the thirty five mile

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an hour sign. I'm not even in the thirty five

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mile and hours long, so I just knew he was

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not Most police officers are righteous dudes, okay and women,

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but I knew this was not one of them right off,

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because I'm not even in thirty five. So he pulled

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me over for going thirty nine to thirty five. I

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knew I was going anyway.

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Speaker 1: Even if you were in a thirty five and it couldn't.

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Speaker 4: Get a warning, a verbal warning for thirty nine and

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thirty five. But I distinctly smell your room of marijuana

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emanating from your vehicle, and I'm like the other day

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and I yeah, right, So I'm usually pretty respectful that

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you know, my dad's thirty five years retired Air Force

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ye sergeant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm.

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Speaker 4: Pretty respectful to authority. But I'm like, really, I just

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looked right at the copp Like, really, I'm forty six

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years old. I'm thinking I don't have a speeding ticket

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or nothing, and he's gonna bust my chops because my

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vehicle smells like marijuana. So oz Bratt, I go, oh, well,

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I love my twenty two year old daughter borrow it sometimes,

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you know, And he's like, I'm gonna have to do

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a seven twenty nine search of your vehicle. So I

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knew he was gonna toss my truck through everything, over

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the snow banking in the woods. So I just reached

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in the console because he was right. I smoked the

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first time when I was twelve. It was the stinkiest

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grass that I ever had in my life. Yeah, it was

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emanating from my vehicle, the aroma. So I just hand

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him the bag weed and then he goes, oh, what

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am I supposed to do with us? Now, I'm gonna

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have to fill up paperwork and do a report and everything.

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And I said, well, I guess you should have thought

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of that or you busted my jaws. So I was embarrassed,

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right bottom line, I always thought it should be legalized. Yes,

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Indians smoked it in their peace pipes before we started

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making alcohol. So I'm in a state where you could

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have a medical card not get in trouble for it.

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I were getting in trouble for it, So I was embarrassed.

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They didn't have my medical card. Now, if I knew

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then at the time, and this is for anybody who

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doesn't live in Maine or whatever. If you have a

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medical marijuana card, you're protected by the hippolaws. So if

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a law enforcement officer asks you do you have your

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medical marijuana card and you say yes, that's the end

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of the conversation. Do you not have to show or

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produce that medical marijuana card because it's against hippolize and

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violates your hippowrite if they demand to see it. So,

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but you should never lie, to lie to a law

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enforcement officer. So but anyway, so that's I decided to

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have the festival because there's so many other people like

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me who don't break the law except they smoke weed

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or eat it or drink it or whatever. Right, because

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it's used medically, you know, in a lot of ways too.

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And so that's why we did that first festival.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, or about.

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Speaker 4: A lot of things. So it's also home of Cannabis

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Charlie Silo is also home of Cannabis Church of New England.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what that's come up on the show before too,

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but refresh my memory. What is that Cannabis Church of

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New England.

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Speaker 4: The church doors are open every Saturday seven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: No matter what, we celebrate and you can weed, you

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can celebrate music. It's all about the musicians. The state

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is built. We built the venue for the musicians mostly. Yeah,

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we have we have so much power on the floor

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and the kick on drum riser. Yeah, we can plug

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amps and foot pedals and everything. We don't have to

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worry about running chords. Stage is on its own one

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hundred amp service so that it's isolated. Nothing on a

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stage is unshielded or ungrounded. Yea. All our amps have

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a sister ramp under them, so if we have a

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problem during the show, Lloyd's slides under, switches to the

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new amp.

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Speaker 2: We're good to go.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: It's all designed for the musicians to get the best

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experience they can get.

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Speaker 2: On a stage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love seeing the new kids come. Yeah, first timers

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when they come off of that stage, they're just high

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on on the feeling of it, right. And we get

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a lot of bands while that's say, well, we've never

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played this song out before, so we're going to try

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it here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I hear a lot of first first It's

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very cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's probably one of my favorite. Really, you know,

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we're gonna try it.

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Speaker 2: Hell it you guys want to know the song? Sure? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: They never asked the sound guy if they got time

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for one more because I'm like all night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we don't.

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Speaker 5: Walk to the band coming up after you. They might

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want to go home tonight, right.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to shut down at one o'clock. We're

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not beholding Tenny loss. We don't serve food, we don't.

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Speaker 2: Our Saturday night. Yeah yeah, okay, we're all yeah, I

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don't want to go out.

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Speaker 1: We have a.

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Speaker 4: Few neighbors who don't appreciate out of state license plates

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parked on the one side of the road safely.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, such things.

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Speaker 4: And so it came up in a meeting, I believe

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it was last summer. Every once in a while, group

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of you know, four or five of them will get

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together and go to the Selectmens meeting and really and

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raise their complaints. And I try to be concerned, and

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you know, I mean I do because they might actually

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have a legitimate thing, you know what I mean. So yeah,

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so I try to blow them off, you know, the

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first couple of times, and then when they get all

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really hot and bothered that I'll go to the selectmans

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meeting and we'll discuss it.

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Speaker 1: And but what are they what are they complaining? You said,

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out of state? We should clarify to where where where

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is Charlie So exactly Lebanon, Maine, Lebanon, Maine.

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Speaker 4: More Center Road, Lebanon, Maine, not Lebanon, New Hampshire right there.

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Speaker 1: Holy crap, so so so in Lebanon, Maine. So you've

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got neighbors effectively who they don't like out of state plates.

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They get what they.

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Speaker 3: They counted one hundred and sixty cars parked along the

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side of the road. Yeah, for the New England death

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metal bonanza.

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Speaker 2: Yeahs. And they were all.

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Speaker 4: Island and Texas and Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I refused to disclose the exact number of people that

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may have came to visit us that weekend.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's okay that the voters approved to have a

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ridiculous amount of uh recreational marijuana retail businesses up down

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the road, you know. But we're not going to discuss

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the ridiculousness of the known as the lawless town of Lebanon,

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because approximately twenty years ago. You can't make this up onney, Okay,

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I'm just saying they accidentally voted out their local police departments.

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Speaker 2: Wording is everything, especially Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: They still twenty years zalor they still can't get like

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if they put up a new ordinance or something for

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the for them to vote for the town to vote on. Yeah,

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they still can't get the wording right. Real like they

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actually legalized oh gosh, this a whole other thing. But

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they put the fourth to the voters whether or not.

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Because if you get approve to get approved by the

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state of meane to have a recknot medical, we're talking

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the recreational thing now, So you have to have town approval,

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and if you don't have town approval, the state won't

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give you state approval. So in the town of Lebanon,

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which is one of the reasons I bought the property

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in Lebanon twenty plus years ago, is there's no zoning.

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So you can use your acreage which residentially, agriculturally, commercially,

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or a combination of the three. We have no comprehensive plan.

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We have no zoning because we have no comprehensive plan,

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we don't have a town charter. Okay, so it's ridiculous.

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So they want to make up new rules about no

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campingness and no freaking parking on the side of the

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road and no loud music ever anytime, and you know whatever.

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But but they have no zoning, so they can't even

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make up these rooks like oh, well, do you vote

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to let the recreational pot stores be on only two

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o two and not you know, off of two oh two,

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And it's like, you can't do that because we have

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no zoning. They did it anyway, like they voted on it, yes,

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we'll let it happen, and then they didn't write it

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correctly so they couldn't enforce it, so they had to

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vote on it again. And then the people voted no

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because it was just a three ring circus, you know,

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it was ridiculousness. They figured that out. So they vote no.

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So then they have the third vote, they vote no again,

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and then this particular select man okay, who love me?

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You know you love me, Chuck okay, and you hate

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to love me and you love to hate me. Okay,

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So anyway with this.

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Speaker 1: Passion one way or another.

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Speaker 2: So he's like, oh, well, going to authorize.

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Speaker 4: It anyway, and he's like, okay, so we authorises all

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the recreational stores on the side of two O two,

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so they're there, you know, and of course anybody in

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the town of Elebanon can have it because we have

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no zoning. Yeah, and it's just ridiculous. Yeah, it's insane.

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So that's all cool, all right, But having one hundred

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and sixty cars parked safely on only one side of

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the road and not near intersections and not blocking driveways,

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and every time they call the police, you know, like

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a little boy that cried wolf, they waste the sheriff's

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time when he should be out. You know, he's got

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to drive all the way out to Lebanon, to the

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very edge of York County. It's got to cover all

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of York County to come out and say, oh yeah,

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once again, the cars are all part safely on the

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side of the road and there's no problems. Yeah, you

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know what I mean from their perspective, I've been doing

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this over ten years and we've had no problems. Yeah,

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you know what I mean, what if we heard out

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of their mouth, geez, we wish all the other venues

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and mud runs and whatever else goes on in you

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York County, you know, had it together enough because you

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guys give us no trouble. You take care of yourself

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and we have no problem except for the Cairns of

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the neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: So why does it why does the sheriff have to

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come to that? Is that because there's still no there's

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no police, no local police. That's incredible.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a lot of tiny town police department

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and the budget was X amount of dollars and the

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police department requested in considerable increase in the budget. Yeah,

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so they put it on the next year's vote. You know,

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do we approve this higher, way higher budget than the

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one last year? And they didn't say or resort to

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last year's budget. They like left that part out of it.

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True story, man, So then you voted all the people

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that like campaigned against the new budget. They don't need

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no more money, we don't need no more cruises, you know.

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And uh. And then they voted on it. It's like,

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don't we voted budget no, no, and no. And then

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they're like, what they didn't mean to vote out their

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police department. They didn't, Okay, but they did. And then

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and then once once after that, it was like so

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much of your tax money goes to the state police

477
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,039
and goes to the sheriff's apartment. So from a taxpayer's perspective,

478
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,599
I already have to pay for two policing agencies. Why

479
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,720
do I want to pay for a third one? You

480
00:23:23,759 --> 00:23:25,559
know when all they do is go around and pick

481
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,400
on the local and question you all, that's the whole

482
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,720
other thing. So it puts a bigger straight on the

483
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,480
state Police and the sheriff's department. It's not fair, and

484
00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:34,920
it's spent a three ring circus because you know, like

485
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,640
at one point in time, it was the Sheriff's department

486
00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:40,400
this month and then the State Police the next month,

487
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:47,039
so their alternated, like rival football team, community commit this

488
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,839
crime every other month. You know, it was insane. You

489
00:23:50,839 --> 00:23:53,880
get all this nonsense going on on the thirtieth and

490
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,680
the thirty first of the month, and then the next

491
00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:58,359
patience he takes over and they have no idea what

492
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,400
the other agency was dealing with two days years ago.

493
00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible.

494
00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 4: You want to know, Okay, So I'm sorry response to Arlie,

495
00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:09,400
this is very interesting.

496
00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 5: I haven't learned that people who don't want to be

497
00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,279
told what to do can't tell people what to do

498
00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:18,119
right right.

499
00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 2: See, if you if you.

500
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,799
Speaker 5: Set up a town so that nobody can tell me

501
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,039
what to do with my property and nobody can interfere

502
00:24:25,079 --> 00:24:27,519
with my stuff. Well, when you don't like what your

503
00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:30,759
neighbor's doing, guess what You've got no laws.

504
00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:33,599
Speaker 2: All you got is what the state guidelines are.

505
00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:36,319
Speaker 5: When the state says it's legal to park the cars

506
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,759
on one side of the road, well guess what, I

507
00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:41,000
don't care if they drove here from Taiwan.

508
00:24:43,039 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 4: Okay, appropriate, All right, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna quote

509
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,119
Chuck Russell, Chairman Chuck Russell of the Select Oh yeah,

510
00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:56,079
because this is what he said recently this summer. The

511
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,039
problem is she knows the rules.

512
00:25:01,079 --> 00:25:01,839
Speaker 2: That's a fact.

513
00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:04,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did use it. We did use it to

514
00:25:04,519 --> 00:25:07,960
our advantage. At the New England Death Metals Show this year,

515
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,039
we had mortician came out of retirement to play kidding

516
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,960
and we knew it would take him. The neighbors would

517
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,559
start complaining exactly at one o'clock, so we noticed and

518
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,359
take the sheriff half hour at least to get there.

519
00:25:23,039 --> 00:25:26,480
So we let mortician run and then when the sheriff

520
00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:29,440
did come, we turned down front of house and ran

521
00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:34,359
it off, just the monitors out. Yeah, everybody got a

522
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,319
good dose of death metal nice right before bed.

523
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:37,839
Speaker 2: Nice.

524
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I understand this. In twenty fourteen, before I

525
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:48,559
did this very edgy, controversial celebrating legalization of medicinal marijuana thing. Yes,

526
00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,519
I did my homework first. I don't like to do homework.

527
00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:53,480
I don't like to study, but I can if I

528
00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:53,880
want to.

529
00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

530
00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,799
Speaker 4: So I researched every statute, every law, every rule that

531
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,880
anybody could possibly apply my three day camping weekend event.

532
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:02,839
Speaker 1: Smart.

533
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 4: So when they came at me, I was like, well, actually, officer,

534
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,119
the statute says blah blah blah blah blah, and they

535
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:11,599
don't know what to say because they don't know what

536
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:17,400
it says. Yeah, so I know the rules, and and

537
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,440
that is the thing is when they try to like

538
00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:22,759
throw something at me, I'm like, well, the rule is this,

539
00:26:23,279 --> 00:26:26,119
and I will go right to the edge of the

540
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,640
rule and stay on the legal side of it. But

541
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,440
I was standing there with my tippytoes and going and

542
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,279
here I am on the edge of the rolls. And

543
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,720
because this is the United States of America, it's a

544
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,519
free country and freedom of speech. And so back to

545
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:42,880
the meeting. I was telling you about one of the

546
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,839
ladies down the road. He goes, well, I see the

547
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,119
burner in their building out there. This is there some

548
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,440
sort of kind of church, says Cannabis Church of New England.

549
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,279
And are they actually church? Do they pay taxes? And

550
00:26:55,319 --> 00:27:01,240
so that was it. So when we named it Cannabis

551
00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:03,359
Church in New England, many many, many many years ago,

552
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,240
I looked into registering the church with the state of Maine.

553
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,880
You pay five dollars to reserve the name, and then

554
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,880
you get yourself a nonprofit EI N number, right, so

555
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,559
you give meet a nonprofit. Well, my experience, what I've

556
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,559
learned about nonprofits is kind of hide a lot of

557
00:27:19,599 --> 00:27:23,400
money behind nonprofits. So I didn't want everybody going, oh,

558
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,359
it was making all kinds of money over there. That's

559
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,759
why she saw. I was like, no, mall set pay

560
00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:29,680
the five dollars, register the name. That's the end of it.

561
00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:32,400
So when I went to the meeting again at the

562
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,279
end of the summer, I thank the lady and I said,

563
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,759
thank you for reminding me about the church thing. I

564
00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:39,559
now have a federal EI, I have an ei N number,

565
00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:42,279
I'm a registered church. So now I'm not going to

566
00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:45,599
pay property taxes and we're not going to pay sales

567
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,839
tax on anything we buy for the church and thank

568
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,839
you for that, you know what I mean. And so

569
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:55,480
she's like, oh you know, and yeah, peace and law,

570
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,599
Peace and law read them or religion.

571
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: Fantastic.

572
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 4: We don't hurt anybody. We have no accidents. Speaking of which,

573
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:06,680
one of the reasons that Mike's become the face of

574
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:13,119
Charlie So is because of his greeting magic.

575
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

576
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, explain curious riway. Yeah, explain the driveway thing, please.

577
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 3: Crass parking is an issue, and I like to meet

578
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,079
everybody in the driveway. I have a system to park

579
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,480
bands and and and people for the show. But I

580
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,440
always ask him if they've ever been at the hill before?

581
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,599
Speaker 4: Okay, as soon as they pull on the driveway theyre I.

582
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 3: Always ask if they're first time is and I tell

583
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,640
them I have some simple rules. The simple rules are,

584
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,400
it's the cannabis church, eat drinks, Smoke all the weed

585
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,680
you want. I encourage it. If you drink, don't drive

586
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,000
out of here with a buzz, either the sheriff of

587
00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:56,480
the deer or going to get you. But the one

588
00:28:56,559 --> 00:28:59,440
thing I cannot and will not have is hard drugs. Yeah,

589
00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:02,400
we can't have that. Kind of stuff going on. I

590
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,599
can't have people O d and into porta parties and right,

591
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,720
that's the end of that.

592
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 2: I just and and.

593
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,799
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, A lot of people are relieved

594
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:13,359
when they hear that because they know they don't have

595
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,720
to worry now, right right. And the people who come

596
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,440
a lot, they keep an eye out as well. So yeah,

597
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:21,319
if there's not a lot that goes on that we

598
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:25,559
don't see, yeah, you know it. It's we police ourselves.

599
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,599
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I get a lot of people with a

600
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:28,799
lot of eyes that watch.

601
00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:32,559
Speaker 3: Yeah. We got regulars that come all the time.

602
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

603
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:34,519
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeah, you must have a lot

604
00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:35,119
of regulars.

605
00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:38,799
Speaker 5: Well it's a church, so yeah. Yeah, we have a

606
00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:42,759
group of locals that come all the time. Yeah, almost

607
00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:46,119
every Saturday night. Yeah, walk of tables. Yeah, they watch

608
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:46,759
out for us.

609
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,599
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah that's good.

610
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: Well that's their place to go to see music.

611
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,359
Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, so that makes sense.

612
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of our We call it the band cave,

613
00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,920
but it's basically a big giant man cave.

614
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,799
Speaker 3: Yeah that's great, Yeah, it's great. We have we have

615
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:07,799
the secret weapon. That's Lloyd on the soundboard. Yeah, he's

616
00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:08,759
our secret weapon.

617
00:30:09,079 --> 00:30:12,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, we just we

618
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:13,759
just got a new donation.

619
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 5: They called me a secret weapon. It's kind of funny.

620
00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:21,440
I really never went to school for any of this crap. Yeah,

621
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,720
I just started building stereos.

622
00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 4: When you took your first speaker apart, Lloyd, uh.

623
00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:32,359
Speaker 2: Probably seven? Wow.

624
00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:37,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been I've always been building cabinets and speakers,

625
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,720
and you know on that end of it, the engineering

626
00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:44,599
end of the building stuff, you know. And uh, I

627
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,359
had a lot of friends in bands and they can

628
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,400
never seem to get the sound right. Yeah. And you know,

629
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,920
again a lot of it's just hands on by a

630
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,599
compressor because what it does.

631
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,519
Speaker 2: You read the book, you wire it in and you

632
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:05,839
use it. You know.

633
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 5: I need to go to school to take the tips

634
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,559
from the book right right and apply them.

635
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.

636
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, at seven years old, I had a twenty band

637
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,839
equalizer and a component system.

638
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: Wow no kttle. Oh yeah.

639
00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 5: My parents weren't scared for me to be playing with

640
00:31:27,519 --> 00:31:31,799
you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean electronics. Yeah, you know yeah.

641
00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:33,880
Radio shack, Yeah.

642
00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:36,359
Speaker 2: Radio shack. That was my favorite story.

643
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:43,559
Speaker 4: It was sound. Build a barricade behind the control booth

644
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,480
and you want to talk to nobody. He don't want

645
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,000
to see nobody really, Yeah, he just wanted to do

646
00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:52,079
the sound. Yeah, it wasn't there a socialized to make

647
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:55,640
crowd guy very serious about the sound thing. So I

648
00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:59,480
have him here on your show. Yeah, yeah, come a

649
00:31:59,480 --> 00:31:59,880
long way.

650
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:00,519
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm glad.

651
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 4: I've actually found out people aren't so bad.

652
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,599
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. Well, I'm very glad. I'm very glad.

653
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:12,440
What's the what's the what's the most challenging show that

654
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,400
you've that you've done there, maybe in terms of logistics

655
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,759
or running sound or like.

656
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,559
Speaker 4: I don't I think that that's an unfair question, Matt.

657
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,880
I feel that you've assaulted me with a trick question

658
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:31,480
because you can't judge one person's show by anothers you

659
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:34,240
know what I'm saying, because they're all they're all great shows.

660
00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say forty three bands in three days?

661
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: Was that?

662
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: Was that? The death metal Festival?

663
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 2: It was? Yeah? One band dropped out.

664
00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:46,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they were from all around the country, around

665
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:47,000
the world.

666
00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:49,319
Speaker 4: That's that's the one. The neighbors get there, undise the

667
00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:52,680
biggest twisted about Yeah, the New England death Metal fun

668
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:53,440
Time Bonanza.

669
00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: They start rolling.

670
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,599
Speaker 1: I love I love the name, by the way, the

671
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,559
New Time Bonanza.

672
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 4: Just a young guy out of the New York City

673
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,759
area and they all went to you know, they all

674
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:11,039
went to school. He's incredible, absolutely incredible young man. A

675
00:33:11,079 --> 00:33:14,319
band by the name of Bonginator, and Bonginator showed up

676
00:33:14,319 --> 00:33:16,680
with somebody else. They did a show, then they put

677
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,079
on another show. They put on a couple of shows,

678
00:33:19,119 --> 00:33:22,640
and he did this. He didn't call it that, I

679
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,960
don't think in the beginning, but he did this annual

680
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:29,240
thing a couple of times somewhere else, and then there

681
00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:32,559
was a last minute glitch with the location and their

682
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,759
local Karen's, and he kind of hit me up and

683
00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:38,039
he's like, hey, Tyry, I got this three day weekend

684
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:40,319
thing and like we got bounced out of whatever supposed

685
00:33:40,319 --> 00:33:41,680
to do it. What do you think? And I'm like,

686
00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:45,839
all right, bring it, you know what. So, because we're

687
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,319
there for the bands, and you know, we've there's been

688
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:52,880
a couple of times that weekend events were last minute canceled,

689
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,759
and it was a shame somebody didn't hit us up

690
00:33:55,839 --> 00:33:57,720
because we weren't doing anything that weekend and we would

691
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,200
have happily shared our dirt.

692
00:33:59,480 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: You know.

693
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:00,559
Speaker 1: Yeah.

694
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 4: But yeah, so he's made it bigger and better every year.

695
00:34:04,359 --> 00:34:04,599
Speaker 2: Wow.

696
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,599
Speaker 4: And you know it's nothing we like to admit to.

697
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,800
But there was probably like three thousand people there this week,

698
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:11,559
just this year.

699
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,679
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, we can't. We think about the.

700
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:19,559
Speaker 4: Accounted accounted what was it? One hundred and one hundred

701
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:23,039
and something tents in the backside and sixty tents on

702
00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:23,920
the front side.

703
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,559
Speaker 3: Just mentioned the vendors tent. I was straight up that

704
00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:32,000
was just oh wow. And not not counting car campers yet.

705
00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 4: He had a guy from Australia to bob log. Yeah, oh,

706
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:37,840
blob blog was something else. Let me tell you it

707
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,599
was great. He said he'd come from Australia again to

708
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:42,880
play there. Wow on the outside stage.

709
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,679
Speaker 1: So that must have been the most challenging, right, I mean,

710
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,719
that's a lot to handle that.

711
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 2: That's the funny thing, you know.

712
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 5: I used to I started with Terry and I took

713
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,360
off and did a little bit of traveling.

714
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.

715
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 4: Wanted to go to the travel and they wanted.

716
00:34:59,159 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: Me because I have I run the Wall of sown.

717
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 5: So yeah, you ain't gonna find one of those anywhere anymore, right,

718
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:08,360
I got one, except oh my guys don't want to

719
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,039
move it anymore.

720
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

721
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 5: But what I'll say is, out of all the festivals

722
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,239
that I've done, the people that came to the Death

723
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:24,360
Metal Festival were the most polite, the most controlled, I believe,

724
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:31,920
and the cleanest people I've ever had. I'm serious grateful

725
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,079
dead Festival.

726
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 2: Ground.

727
00:35:35,039 --> 00:35:38,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that PENT agree with on the most respectable

728
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:40,880
group of people. When you have the biggest head count

729
00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:46,440
at an event and everybody's respectful and we actually have

730
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,199
a lost and found instead of ground scores, you know,

731
00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:52,239
it's kind of an unspoken ruler too little ground score. No,

732
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:55,360
there's no such ground score. It's called lost and found.

733
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, look that I found. Yeah, why don't you put

734
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,119
it the Yeah.

735
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 4: We lot people leave like five thousand dollars set of cymbals. Okay,

736
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,719
I'll packaged up and then they'll call me. You know,

737
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,960
they'll hit us up five six days later they're like, oh,

738
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,960
I'm jistry. Yeah, your stuff is still right here. And

739
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,199
that's one of the I think that's one of the

740
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,159
reasons Charlie still gets to love is because, yeah, if

741
00:36:19,199 --> 00:36:20,559
you leave it there, it'll still be there.

742
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,079
Speaker 1: Right, That's really cool.

743
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:26,119
Speaker 4: Yeah. Rarely do we have stuff disappear. Yeah, honestly, God,

744
00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:29,440
do you know what disappears? What super little two dollars trinkets?

745
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,599
And my dogs get fresh dog blankets and I get

746
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:35,960
them from the Salvation Army. Okay, so I'll go in

747
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,840
and they'll be these beautiful afgans that somebody hand knit

748
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,239
it or crocheted, and they're like three bucks four bucks.

749
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,639
So I buy them and I bring them out to

750
00:36:44,679 --> 00:36:47,039
the venue and throw them on the couches in the chairs,

751
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,320
you know, and the respliners. That's what disappears, man, is

752
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:56,480
my Afian. Somebody comes in and goes that look just

753
00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:59,719
like old Aunt. I'm as Daffian, doesn't it or dreeamas

754
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,159
own so? And so they take it home and that.

755
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:03,559
Speaker 1: You know, you.

756
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 4: Still be there, go figure out.

757
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,159
Speaker 3: Yeah. Lately we've been, uh, we've been getting people that

758
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:16,360
bring things in and hide them amongst the other stuff, okay,

759
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,039
just to see if it will be there the next

760
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:20,480
time they come back. Yeah, I've been noticed, and I

761
00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,880
find little little things that I didn't know we're here.

762
00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, because even though it's full of.

763
00:37:25,039 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: Stuff, you know, you're there all the time. You know

764
00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:33,400
what's what and what belongs where. Yeah, and we're reaching

765
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,400
the point where our ceilings probably won't hold very many

766
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,039
more shirts.

767
00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:40,159
Speaker 4: Oh no, gidding, selection a T shirts hanging from the

768
00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:42,199
ceiling from all the bands there.

769
00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: That's cool. That's something I've never seen too that.

770
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,039
Speaker 2: That's I meant to do it, like the Boston Garden,

771
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:47,239
you know.

772
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a great concept. I've never seen that

773
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,639
T shirts hanging in a venue like that. That's a

774
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:53,280
great idea.

775
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,679
Speaker 4: It's somebody asked, why why you get all the tapestries

776
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,880
Charlie Hill Museum and Events venue, So people like, why

777
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,800
is this a museum that's kind of weird? And as

778
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,679
soon as they walk in the door and they see

779
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,840
like all the stuff, they're like, oh, yeah, damn.

780
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. That's a really great idea. Yeah.

781
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,199
Speaker 4: But when you have a building that's fifty one and

782
00:38:18,199 --> 00:38:23,280
twenty five feet and it's all moisture, mildew, fire commercial

783
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,719
fireboard and everything, yeah, I'm sorry. Now, Lloyd don't take

784
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,199
his soult to this because he's a painter. He paints.

785
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,400
He doesn't like money taping. He's a professional, very professional

786
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:38,960
painter to okay on a ceiling that's not perfect like

787
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:42,039
it sound. He's a perfectionist. Yeah, So I'm looking at

788
00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:44,400
the ceiling, it's like yuck, you know what I mean

789
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,559
seriously because it was a garage. The other end of

790
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:51,119
the building is a garage. My automotive business was there. Oh okay,

791
00:38:51,159 --> 00:38:53,239
So I mean put all the rock up all the

792
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:57,320
way down, so it's far from perfect. Yeah yeah, So

793
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,840
how do you take care of all those? You know,

794
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,360
no matter what you do is all is going to

795
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,079
be imperfect. So that's where I started putting up the

796
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:05,760
tapestries and all the stuff on the ceiling is to

797
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,239
hide the imperfections with other imperfections. And then the t

798
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,639
shirts and it baffles you know, it kind of keeps

799
00:39:12,639 --> 00:39:13,920
the down and.

800
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, keeps my face cancelation down. Yeah, that in active crossover.

801
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: So tonight I was going to ask you, what do

802
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,159
you have? What do you have tonight?

803
00:39:24,519 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 4: We got we have Every show is great, no show

804
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:28,719
is better, worse than any show.

805
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 2: We got some local Boys.

806
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: We got the.

807
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,639
Speaker 4: Local boys at excellent. So we got Down Boys. Down

808
00:39:35,679 --> 00:39:38,679
Boys is one of the newest up and coming bands. Okay,

809
00:39:39,119 --> 00:39:40,679
very very good bunch of people.

810
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: They were here last week. Love them for the show.

811
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then and then we got uh day to attend,

812
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,880
so we got Data attend and Down Boys tonight and

813
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,280
day to attend, we had the pleasure of going to

814
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,639
the Aura in Portland. They opened for Ace Fraley remember

815
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,079
that show. Yeah, yeah, and so we got to go in,

816
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:05,360
you know, on the coat tails of Jeff and Data

817
00:40:05,559 --> 00:40:08,960
ten yeah and enjoy the Ace Freely show and check

818
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,159
out the Aura. So that was a great experience. Made

819
00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:15,280
friends with their security crew up there. Yeah, Taylor's security,

820
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,159
I believe it was.

821
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So that's so that's tonight. So day

822
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,559
to attending Down Boys, anybody else just the two or two,

823
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:24,880
just the two, excellent two.

824
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,559
Speaker 2: It's going to be a nice night. I think there's

825
00:40:26,599 --> 00:40:27,079
a surprise.

826
00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:32,639
Speaker 4: Sometimes we just have two bands. It's kind of nice, yeah,

827
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,480
because a lot of them have quite a repert for

828
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:37,960
our songs. Oh yeah, but when you do one set,

829
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,679
they never get the chance to play all the songs, right,

830
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,360
So when you only have two bands, they'll do like

831
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,360
a set and then they'll take a break and then

832
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,119
they'll go up and do all those other songs they

833
00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:50,960
never have a chance to do, right yeah, yeah, and

834
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:53,039
then break down and then the other band will go up.

835
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,079
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's very cool. That's very cool.

836
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,519
Speaker 3: We don't rush people on and off the stages, no

837
00:40:58,679 --> 00:41:02,159
need to. Yeah, we're not beholding any curfews.

838
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellente.

839
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 3: Janet Mills did send her troopers down during COVID oh no, yeah,

840
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,199
we were doing a metal show. We had around one

841
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,920
hundred and fifty people. Yeah, and she sent a letter

842
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,800
from her desk. Oh and that we were breaking COVID restrictions.

843
00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:22,280
Oh okay, we should see some desists, right, and we didn't.

844
00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just went on with it, right right.

845
00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That was one of those nights where

846
00:41:27,039 --> 00:41:29,119
we felt really bad for the state police because they

847
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,920
never never come yeah in the wintertime, you know. Yeah,

848
00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:37,079
and they're like said, Terry, were really sorry, but we

849
00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:38,840
came here first because we knew that you would be

850
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,840
the most understanding.

851
00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

852
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,519
Speaker 4: Gena Mills gave us a whole list of businesses that

853
00:41:44,599 --> 00:41:47,000
we have to go pull licenses from. We all know

854
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:50,360
that you don't care about your temporary events, campground camping

855
00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:53,760
license in February, right, But yeah, they had to go

856
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,960
pull a bunch of restaurants and bars and taverns because

857
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,960
they were still leaving their doors open when it was

858
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,719
ordered that it was sad. You know, I felt bad

859
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,559
for that whole situation. Oh yeah, yeah, but sometimes, as

860
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,920
Jeff Day with tend, you get a fight, you're right

861
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:12,920
to a party.

862
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,559
Speaker 2: The Beastie Boys were prophets.

863
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: Well we are so before we run out of time?

864
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,719
So where should people go online to keep up with

865
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,320
everything that's happening at Charlie Sell because you got I mean,

866
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,079
do you ever is there ever a Saturday that you

867
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:28,159
don't have a show? Do you ever take a Saturday off?

868
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:28,840
Or is there a show?

869
00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 2: Rare? Is it fifty damn rare?

870
00:42:32,159 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: Really?

871
00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:37,639
Speaker 4: Doors are open every Saturday at seven o'clock, no matter what. Okay,

872
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,639
once in a while we give Lloyd to Saturday off

873
00:42:41,039 --> 00:42:45,719
and show up and it's acoustic only. Oh okay, yeah

874
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,599
he's a alkoholic. Yeah yeah, So first Saturday of the

875
00:42:48,639 --> 00:42:52,960
month is always open GM night. Okay, how do you

876
00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:55,639
get a chance to play at Charlie Cell? Show up

877
00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:59,079
at open GM? Everybody gets their own twenty minutes. So

878
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:01,360
you got three guys in a band? All right?

879
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: Oh?

880
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,679
Speaker 4: Got three guys in a band? Each person?

881
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: The Hey, that's not the sheriff Colin is it?

882
00:43:08,559 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 4: It could bes been on your show too. Oh yeah, yeah,

883
00:43:13,039 --> 00:43:15,599
Alys Valen yea, yeah, yeah, he's calling.

884
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,519
Speaker 1: Out to a bunch of times. Yeah, ignore you're talking now,

885
00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:19,559
he's probably listening.

886
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love you, buddy.

887
00:43:22,159 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

888
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 4: So three person band shows up, Each gets their twenty minutes,

889
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,679
they share their twenty minutes with each other, and they

890
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,000
just got themselves the forty five minutes set.

891
00:43:31,039 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: Okay on the stage.

892
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to play there to schedule a show there,

893
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,239
prove that your lyrics aren't, you know, vulgar and yep, inappropriate,

894
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,440
and and then that's how you can put together a show,

895
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,159
because the bands put the shows together.

896
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:46,599
Speaker 2: Yeah.

897
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:47,679
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic.

898
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 2: Charlie's killed me. The event's venue.

899
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess, I guess you want to say this.

900
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,440
We're not a business. We're not a bar, We're not

901
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,599
a restaurant. You gotta bring your own beverages. You're responsible

902
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:02,519
for your own alcohol consumption. We got couches and chairs.

903
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,039
You know, you can sleep in your car when the

904
00:44:05,159 --> 00:44:13,400
weather's appropriate. We do, we do. We do take donations cash.

905
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,519
We also take Venmo PayPal. I just did recently. This

906
00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:18,960
is the all only to stuff to me. Charlie made

907
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,079
me do the the Facebook or I wouldn't know a

908
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:21,599
thing about it.

909
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's what I was gonna ask.

910
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 4: Terry's, Terry's Church, t E R I s C H

911
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,440
U R C H Terry's Church and terryer my paypals

912
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:35,840
and all that.

913
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:42,559
Speaker 1: Stuff, and that's on that's on Facebook.

914
00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:51,639
Speaker 4: That's the best Facebook. And you can two O seven

915
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,960
four three two five one six three. That's my personal

916
00:44:55,039 --> 00:44:58,039
phone number. If you call, it will not answer the phone.

917
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,480
You have to send me a text message. Okay, okay,

918
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:04,719
thinking not on Facebook. Those are the digits, okay, but

919
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,920
Facebook is definitely the way to message to see.

920
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 5: A band, and they want to see the schedule, they

921
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,000
probably want to go to what Charlie shi page.

922
00:45:13,039 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 4: They got to go to the Charlie shillpage.

923
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,599
Speaker 1: It's all right, I answer that.

924
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:22,079
Speaker 4: On the Facebook.

925
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,559
Speaker 2: The Book of Face right right, Yes, you'll have to

926
00:45:25,679 --> 00:45:27,480
use the Facebook if you come.

927
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 4: Check out the show tonight.

928
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: Well very good. Well we're running out of time, but

929
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:32,880
I want to thank all three of you for coming.

930
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,719
Of course, Mike, Terry, you for having us, absolutely having

931
00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:38,480
thanks for having us. This has been wonderful because, like

932
00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:40,880
I said, the venue comes up on the show more

933
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,440
than the name of any other venue. So it's wonderful

934
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,800
to and to learn all about Charlie Sill, the history

935
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:46,440
of it and everything.

936
00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:49,039
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to having you and Gen down for

937
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:49,480
a show.

938
00:45:49,639 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely, count on it. Count on it.

939
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 2: You'd love to have you guys down.

940
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,519
Speaker 4: All about the music, all about the bands, peace and love,

941
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,679
and I think, uh, real quick man, everybody's giving you

942
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,360
stuff Christmas. Yeah, okay, so I brought you Eastery for Christmas.

943
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: Wow? All right, well, thank you very good. Here, I'm

944
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,519
gonna I'm gonna for people watching online. I'm gonna hold

945
00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:11,280
it up there you go. Well, thank you very much.

946
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 4: Never got for Christmas? Did you?

947
00:46:14,159 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 1: No, can't say.

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Speaker 4: I want to make sure I got you saw me

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you didn't already.

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Speaker 1: That's perfect, Thank you, I appreciate it. I appreciate it

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very much. And we're gonna close out the segment with

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a Day to Attend song. I think that's appropriate since

953
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they're playing tonight, my personal favorite not coming back. And

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for those of you listening live stick around in the

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third hour. Tombstones in Their Eyes is going to be

956
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joining us via Microsoft Teams. They're on the West Coast.

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Really looking forward to them. But again, thank you all

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three of you for coming. This has been absolutely wonderful.

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Check out Charlie Hill and here it is. This is

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not coming back by day to attend