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Barr Band Friday Night & The Badgers(Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Mar 7, 2025
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to hour number two of this Friday night edition of nightlight.
I hate weekends.
I like being here and talking.
That's what I do, folks.
It's so much fun and it's great, great, great when you guys participate.
So our question of the night is how do you like your pancakes?
It's National Flapjack Day, so fire away and let me know how you like to eat them.
Terry Barr is coming up at 735.
It is a bar band.
Friday night, she'll bring new music and sparkling conversation, as she always does, one of our Nightlight Besties, and talking to another pal of ours right now about sports.
Mike Clemens joins us, taking a break between the Combine and Free Agency.
Mike, are you at home tonight, actually?
Getting a night at home?
I am, because, you
know, because I got a game tomorrow night.
It's a buck's host and the magic.
But, you know, you're talking about pancakes.
Did you know for three years...
When I was 16, I got a job at a brand new international house of pancakes.
And I got a job as a cook.
And so that got me through the start of college.
It was a good job.
I had a great manager, a pretty good owner.
And they had a whole system, like they would train you at
16
years old.
It was a great experience for six weeks.
And so you'd be back there in the kitchen doing prep with the big Hobart mixer.
He thinks I just googled it.
It would cost you about 45 to 50,000 to buy
new one of these giant.
Yeah, because it would make like 10 or 12 gallons of this stuff to make.
Because you could go through that much.
This place was really busy.
It was really popular at the time.
On Sunday morning speed, we had people lined up outside of the parking lot to get in to one of the 110 seats that we had in this place.
making those buttermilk pancakes, but yeah you put in the mix and then the water and you know the key to make those things sweet was butter, extra butter.
You melted the butter in these huge pots and they just pour that melted butter into the mix at the very end and the pancakes would rise and you know you put them on the hot griddle at a certain temperature and then when you see them start to bubble and you flip them that one time you would
flip them over, carefully learn how to do it, get a little bit in the air.
You'd have to flip your eggs the same way too, you know, an omelette type of thing, learn how to flip it with your wrist.
I just made some eggs like that today, over easy in the frying pan.
And then when you sell them, as they say, like short order cooks, you get that line up of plates.
You flip the spatula underneath and you put it in your left palm, then you put it, you know, set it down in the air.
onto the plate that way, that way that they rise, they don't get smushed and all that.
I made thousands of pancakes for three years.
Sounds like you could put the apron on right now and get back there, Mike.
There's a coffee shop that was close by and a guy suddenly had an appendicitis and owned the place and it was like Father's Day, so I went back there and I did three hours in the kitchen after like I hadn't done it in 25 years, but you never lose it.
It's
like an altar boy when one of them gets sick and you have to come out of the bullpen and go up there and
serve.
to burn down the church when it comes to lighting the candles.
That's
right.
Did you ever hear Brian Regan's joke about the international, about the IHOPs?
No.
When an IHOP would go out of business and someone would rent that space, but everybody knows it used to be an IHOP.
Right.
Sure, it's that big blue high angle.
Yeah.
And he would do the guy sitting there trying to get insurance.
He's like, he's like, how many times did they hear jokes?
Like, uh, you know, they give the big insurance feeling.
He's like, you think I could get a rooty, tooty, fresh and
fruit.
There's one in Jamesville.
It used to be an I hop is actually one that I kind of trained in one summer while I was a kid.
And now it's some sort of cash and loan thing.
And you've got to think all the jokes that they get, right?
Every time they come in there, can I have some blueberry pancakes?
Silver dollars, please.
Yeah.
That's
so great.
Um, well, good to know.
I'd like, I like, I learned a little bit more about you every time here on the show, Mike, and I have to say it's, uh, it's liberating.
It's liberating and it's comforting.
Um, that's pretty cool.
So all right, let's, let's turn to basketball, Mike, cause this is a big weekend.
It's a big day tomorrow.
Even for, uh, you got the Badgers and Marquette, um, both playing as Marquette tomorrow or Sunday.
It's tomorrow
morning.
It's your right.
I mean, it's.
today's their tomorrow's all basketball eleven a.m.
the market golden eagles are at home and the other day shaka smart said after the loss to you know another tough game to you con on the road he said uh... you know i got you down saturday i'm like oh wow that's right you know this he's already wrapped
season so i went and looked and you did you know that alma quire played at st john
You know in their
plane tomorrow.
I think I did know that I remember I
didn't because I got home last night from you know covering a practice and and I turn on NBC and Jimmy Fallon opens up the Tonight Show last night With the number six ranked St.
John's basketball team in all the players all the young guys Singing a fight storm a fight a fight song for the Red Storm Huh, you know just one of his bits of like what it was cold hard opens to the show
And I realized, oh, you see, you know, St.
John's is ranked sixth in the nation, like Jimmy and New York City and all of
They're probably really excited about this team, right?
So that's the team that the Golden Eagles have to face tomorrow on their senior day.
And it's their last game for guys like Stevie Mitchell and David Copeland, who's probably going to go down with the most games played in a career at Marquette and Cam Jones.
and uh... i've come to office lost the other night to you con where they've got all that weather out in new england and off you heard this that there was a twenty two-minute game delay at the start of the game that the authorities came over to shock a smart head coach of marquette said coach we've got the pavilion here's leaking water and we got this water down here at the baseline and so he went to dan hurley the head coach of you kind of said
dan listen and uh... what will play in your practice court across the street we're not going home without play the game
talking about canceling the game so it took him twenty two minutes to mop it up and figure out fix the leaking and they got the game in the other night but market they've they've lost like three of their last seven games mostly on the road like to create in the little bit you can obviously that is not the ranking so big game for them tomorrow and they're honoring you know they'll be on the amigua record heap amigua played
first the saint john's red storm in from nineteen forty to fifty one before he moved to milwaukee and then took the the market warriors then to the nineteen seventy seven championship learn that this week
Yeah, that was a great win.
And I think that's why I know a little bit about Al McGuire is just because he was the last coach, or, you know, to win that championship in 77.
That was such a great year.
So, all right, you got Marquette at 11 a.m.
Then you got the Badgers at noon.
It's decision time.
I guess you could switch back and forth.
But the 12th ranked Badgers take on, is it, they got a 10-state.
10-state, yeah.
10-state, you know, great football
team.
Not so
good.
It's good ball.
Not so good.
uh... badgers they've only had two losses in the last like the last four weeks you know the last seven yeah they lost a lot of home to organ and then last saturday on the road to number eight ranked uh... michigan state but they beat minnesota in minneapolis the other night seventy four sixty seven and uh... if you see this jeff jenna key kid you know they put him out there to guard he come up out like in the you know the second half
and he's he's in your face you know he's a great idea and really hustles around and all of a sudden he trips over some guys you know face plan face first into the court and he comes up and he's walking around he's feeling around uh... you know the announcers even said like madlipa said like i i think he's picking up a tooth off the court and after the game great guard said yeah yeah he kinda looks like a hockey player now chip to do he's got a big chip tooth
You know, he looks like Jim Carrey and Duff.
Duff and Duffer.
It's got
bangs.
Well, that's nice, coach.
You know, Mrs. Janaki, his mom is probably listening to this on the radio like, you know, you're calling my son a hockey player now.
You know, shame on you.
anyway, he's going to be OK.
He had a little press conference and a trip to the dentist will have to fix that.
Mike, before we let you go, we're right now, as it stands, where do you see, you know,
Big 10 tournament, notwithstanding or Big East tournament, the rankings or the seedings, I should say, like, you think Badgers are three or four, Marquette, eight or nine?
Yeah, you
know, I don't have that good of a feel of it.
And that's because there's kind of a log jam at the top of that.
And, but I think, you know, I mean, it doesn't always seem like sometimes they've moved these teams around to in terms of interest and, you know, what they're going to be.
I don't know if they're going to play in that tournament they're going to have in Milwaukee.
or be moved to one of the other regions.
But, you know, the Badgers, they've been consistently good now the last two months.
They have beat an awful lot of good teams, and they're consistently good with the three-point shots.
So I would think that they're going to get a higher seed than anybody would have ever predicted out of this group at the start of this season.
Yeah, especially if they slumped a little bit, too.
It seems like Mike.
As always, my friend, thank you so much.
We'll be checking in with you, hopefully, during a free agency.
That's going to be an exciting time, as will the draft.
But glad you're home, enjoy your family, and let's talk soon.
I love the show, Pete.
Appreciate it.
Thank you for having me on the pocket
next
time.
Okay, buddy.
That's Mike Clemens, Civic Media Sports Guru.
Always fun to talk to.
Terry Barr will be here at 735.
It's a bar band Friday night.
She will bring new music and it's really good.
I love this Sam Ness.
This is who we're going to talk about.
He's a good singer-songwriter.
That's coming up at 735.
I did do some research here because I saw Anna from Madison's text about buckwheats and
I knew they were kind of good for you, like better than regular flour, but this is what I, I just Google this after I saw Anna's text and it said, yes, buckwheat is generally considered a healthy food with several potential benefits.
Health benefits include they're gluten free and a lot of doctors, I've talked to a lot of doctors, two or three over the last 10 years have said.
Yes, give up gluten.
You'll feel healthier.
Even if you don't have celiac disease.
I've never really fully done that, but a lot of people say giving up gluten will make you feel better.
So buckwheat pancakes are gluten-free.
And buckwheat is a good source of fiber and protein, magnesium, iron, and antioxidants.
I do remember that buckwheats have a lot of fiber.
Let's put it this way.
You have to eat them on the way to the bathroom.
That's how much.
Oh, no.
No, they're very good for you though.
And I like the texture.
Are you saying we have a call?
Do we have time to take a call?
We have about one minute.
All right.
Yeah, let's get him on.
Who is it?
It's Ollie from the Northwoods.
Ollie from the... Oh, man, a call from the Northwoods.
I'm in heaven.
How's it going, Ollie?
Oh, it's going great.
I just called to give my two cents where if I bought the pancake.
Yeah,
please.
My mom was a farm girl from Norwegian.
Um, ancestry, and on the farm, we always had, uh...
Hey, Ollie.
Ollie, can you hold on for one minute?
I know this is gonna be a good story, but we have to do a break.
Can you just hold on so we can get the full story?
Oh, sure, no problem.
Okay, all right, we're gonna do a very quick break, then we're gonna come back in here about Ollie's pancakes.
Oh, if that doesn't already exist as a pancake house, it should.
Let's all go down to Ollie's pancakes.
All right, we're coming right back on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
There's a problem with Heather, Zion, bargain buildings, waitin' for police.
It's
Heather's hair.
Monica from Mount Horrib says, the only way I like pancakes is on someone else's plate.
I don't like pancakes, yet I'm meeting some gal pals at Pancake Cafe tomorrow.
It's not my choice, but I'll be having a gigantic mound of hash browns and cheese instead.
Yeah, cheese and pancakes don't go.
No, it's not.
I could do cheese and hash browns, or hash browns and pancakes, but that triumvirate there is not very good.
Thank you, Madika.
All right, we have a phone call from Ali in the Northwoods, and she's telling us about her grandma's farm pancakes, and this sounded too delicious to rush before the break.
So Ali, if you would, please continue.
Well, the pancakes are a lighter batter, so the pancakes are a little bit thinner.
But then you serve them with either lingonberry sauce or sometimes we use choked cherry sauce.
And then you pour heavy cream over it.
The top cream off the cow's milk.
Wow.
And they're delicious.
You put that in the
batter or on the actual pancake?
No, you put that on the actual pancake.
After the pancake is cooked, you put your lingonberry sauce or your cranberry sauce down on it, and then cover the whole thing with heavy cream, and it's heaven.
We lovingly call those amp-mini pancakes.
You have to open up a restaurant.
You've just thrown my whole world into upheaval.
I've never heard
of anything like that before.
They're delicious, and actually...
The Norski Nook restaurants serve a form of that high Norwegian pancake.
That sounds fantastic.
Thank you so much for the call.
It was definitely worth, it was definitely worth the wait through the commercial.
Thanks for listening
and thanks
for sharing.
I will, don't be a stranger.
Thanks, Ollie.
Wow, that sounded, I don't even like cream that much, but with the pancakes and the fruit.
That sounds really good.
Get out of here.
That sounds fantastic.
Steady Eddie is checking in.
He's from the 608, and he's one of our most, what would you say, prolific textures?
got a lot of thought into it.
He says, Pete, I eat my homemade pancakes only occasionally, but when I do, I don't skimp on real Wisconsin butter or genuine Wisconsin maple syrup.
I like where this is going.
Pancakes on a Saturday or Sunday morning with a good cup of coffee.
It's a beautiful thing.
Steady, I'll take that full stack of flapjacks Eddie Yeah, you're not steadfast Edward when you're mowing pancakes.
You're steady Eddie.
That's awesome.
Thank you steady Eddie great stuff And then we got PJ check in on the stream.
He says I prefer waffles because they have pockets to hold the syrup He's a real connoisseur.
They're kind of the same thing, right?
I mean and they both have better that's
Not great for you.
So, right.
But I mean, I don't do waffles have anything pancakes don't.
It's pretty much just a pancake with the holes, right?
I think I
I'm imagining it.
I even had malt in there or something.
I don't know.
That's great text.
Oh, thank you, PJ.
Yeah, waffles are getting really hungry for breakfast.
I
Do you really?
Yes.
Yeah,
That's hilarious.
My mom makes them kind of how Ollie was saying, she makes them thin.
Or was that Anna who said that?
She makes them real thin, liquidy, and then.
The problem is like she gives them to all the grandkids and they eat, you can eat 12 pancakes before you even know what hit you because they're thin and they're a little burnt and singed and they've got, not burnt, but just darker and then they've got their fresh maple syrup and the melted butter.
It is outstanding.
Wow, great stuff.
Okay, keep those texts coming.
If you wanna get in on the fun, how do you like your pancakes?
It's International Pancake Day and I love that Mike Clemens worked at an IHOP, that's so great.
God, he must have read that manual inside and out.
He was like regurgitating all the IHOP
mission statement and
like procedure was so great.
All right, so we had, we played this already.
I think it deserves a repeat because I don't usually get called by A-list celebrities.
But like I said earlier in the show, we've been kind of poking fun at Adrian Brody for his very lengthy Oscar speech.
You know was not a great speech.
Let's be honest.
It was too long and he didn't really say much even though he said a lot and So we had fun with it.
We kept playing it over and over like he was still talking even Tuesday night But he found out about it somehow, you know, I'm a civic media.
It's a big network Word gets around things go viral and Adrian Brody called me to really let me have it earlier today And we have that recording right now
Hello, yeah
Is this Pete Schwabba?
Yeah, who's calling?
It's Adrian Brody, chief.
They're gonna talk about me about my accepted speech.
How did you get this number?
I could get to anyone.
You see how broad my shoulders are.
Yeah, but what's that got to do with it?
Yeah, I know you think you're hot with your little radio show, but people love my speech.
I'm sure they did.
I'm surprised you're not still giving it, to be honest.
Yeah, I wanted apology, and I want it right now.
Dude, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here, but most people thought your speech sucked.
It was meandering, it went on forever.
I'm sorry, but it was almost as long as the brutalists for God's sakes.
Aw, yeah, I know a lot of people didn't like my speech.
You think I don't know that?
You know how many phone calls I still have to make?
Well, yeah, no one understands me.
Uh, um...
Yeah, hey Adrienne come on man.
Relax.
It's it's cool.
Look you got two Oscars Why would you care what anyone thinks about your speech or feel the need to talk for that amount of time and not really say anything?
Come on,
man Oh, you know what here?
I am opening up to you and you take a shot at me.
You see my shoulders.
Yeah, but
Have you seen my shoulders?
Yeah, man.
I saw a lot more of you than that in The Brutalist, which was totally unnecessary, by the way.
Look, dude, I- Yeah, look, it's cool, Schwab.
You know, I'll do anything for a role, but yeah, people love my shoulders.
Hang on a second.
R.B.
Weinstein's calling from prison and make sure I'm treating his ex-wife well.
You believe that guy?
Yeah.
Hey, no hard feelings, chief
dick.
Just like such a rude guy.
And he just-
Fast you know if he insulted my my manhood I Expected more out of him because he's like an artist go with those cliche name-calling things All right, so it is a bar ban Friday night ladies and gentlemen Monday night on nightlight get this is my friend Mike used to say hey get this Dan Davies will be here in the studio.
He's an actor based in northeast Wisconsin.
He's promoting a couple movies
Dan's a great guy.
He's been on the show before.
And then Peter van Doren will be here to talk fantasy baseball.
And I need an education.
I don't know much about it.
I've done football, never done fantasy baseball.
So we'll get into that.
That's Monday night on Nightlight.
But coming up next, our pal, Terry Barr on a bar ban Friday night.
It's Nightlight with Peach Waba.
Great to have you with me on this Friday night on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Madison says, hi, Pete and Conrad.
When I was in Door County, there was a restaurant that had granola pancakes.
Oh, I've heard of those.
They were really good with butter and syrup.
There you go.
Yeah, a little crunch in your pancake.
That never hurt anybody.
That's great stuff.
Brian from Milwaukee says, whole wheat pancakes with sugar-free applesauce, cinnamon, and walnuts.
I'm on the dash diet, need to eat healthy.
Wow.
It's funny that doesn't sound healthy.
It sounds delicious Honestly, but I guess it's all healthy.
Have you ever had buckwheat pancakes?
Buckwheat.
I think they're like wheat.
They're like a real hard like grind it up.
It's like a Remember stone wash jeans Probably not this is like a some of the listeners know what I'm talking about This is like a stone washed pancakes pancake.
It's like ground up.
It's like kind of I don't know I like buckwheats, but that sounds kind of like what you're saying here,
Well, I'm looking at a picture right now.
The idea behind a stone washed denim is you beat it up with stones.
That's kind of how the pancake like a buckwheat pancake is like inside.
It's like real.
I know it's got an interesting texture to it.
My dad gave him to us when we were younger.
We hated him, but I like him now.
But those are great texts.
There are no wrong ways to eat a pancake, folks.
So please let us know what your favorite, how you like your pancakes.
That's what we're going for here.
I saw this.
This was really strange.
I don't know what, this is what we get, I guess, for after the last election.
There have been a lot of attacks.
Remember the guy who said conception starts at erection?
Oh, yeah.
A little irrational.
But here's a guy I saw this on a friend of mine's Facebook feed.
This is from Heartland Signal.
Michigan Republican Josh Shriver proposes total porn ban.
If you're a guy proposing a total porn ban, you know what that tells me about that guy?
What's that?
He watches a lot of porn.
He's trying to get rid of it.
He can't stop.
And we're all his hostages.
That guy's getting primaried really fast.
I don't know what the big deal is.
He called it.
Shriver made the announcement on X, of course, on Wednesday, calling pornography a scourge.
Read a Bible passage before you watch it.
I don't know.
Balance your life out a little bit.
You don't have to just dive head first into whatever.
It's just, God, leave people alone, will you?
Okay, so here's what, all right.
This is a weird thing I like I said earlier before the break folks We have I've been poking a little fun at Adrian Brody all week because he gave a very long speech at the Oscars didn't really go anywhere kind of me entered he won the Oscar second time he's a best Oscar winner and he's like 49 or 50 like that's incredible.
He's a great actor, but his speech was ridiculous Get me entered it didn't go anywhere.
He kind of said a lot of different things
and he missed the record for Oscar speeches by one second.
I think they said it went on for six minutes.
And my joke was that just like the movie The Brutalist, his speech needed an intermission.
It was not a good speech.
Well, we had fun with that on the show.
Conrad played a couple clips of him still talking.
Today, he tracks me down, he finds me, he calls me on the telephone, and we had a little conversation and I...
Suspected something was up.
I saw the number coming in.
I recorded the call and we're gonna play that for you right now.
This is me and Adrienne Brody.
I Recorded my ringtone too.
Hello.
Yeah, is this Pete Schwabba?
Yeah, who's calling?
It's Adrienne Brody chief.
Or you can talk about me about my accepted speech.
How did you get this number?
I could get to anyone.
You see how broad my shoulders are.
Yeah, but what's that got to do with it?
Yeah, I know you think you're hot
with your little radio show, but people love my speech.
I'm sure they did.
I'm surprised you're not still giving it, to be honest.
Yeah, I want an apology, and I want it right now.
Dude, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here, but most people thought your speech sucked.
It was meandering.
It went on forever.
I'm sorry, but it was almost as long as the brutalists for God's sakes.
Aw, yeah, I know a lot of people didn't like my speech.
You think I don't know that?
You know, I'm need phone calls.
I thought to make... Yeah, no one understands
me.
Uh, um...
Yeah.
Hey, Adrian, come on man, relax.
It's cool.
Look, you got two Oscars.
Why would you care what anyone thinks about your speech or feel the need to talk for that amount of time and not really say anything?
Come on,
man.
Oh, you know what?
Here I am opening up to you and you take another shot at me.
Have you seen my shoulders?
Yeah, but
I mean... Have you seen?
My shoulders.
Yeah, man.
I saw a lot more of you than that in The Brutalist, which was totally unnecessary, by the way.
Look, dude, I- Yeah, look, it's cool, Schwab.
You know, I'll do anything for a role, but yeah, people love my shoulders.
Hang on a second.
R.B.
Weinstein's calling from prison and make sure I'm treating his ex-wife well.
You believe that guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, no hard feelings, chief dick.
And then he was gone.
He was out of my life.
It was just the weirdest thing.
He just like hung up so quickly.
I'm so glad I recorded that.
Yeah, I'll have to.
I gotta come clean.
Conrad added the ring as a sound effect.
That's not my real cell phone ring.
Wait, I don't know what you're talking about.
But he was serious and apparently he's not just going after people, everybody.
He's not gonna call everybody who didn't like his speech.
He's just going after people in media that have radio shows or podcasts or talk on TV.
He's not happy about it and whatever, you know.
Look, the guy's earned some street credit.
He's got two Oscars.
Don't think you needed to call me some of the names.
He did But whatever it was cool to talk to Adrienne Brody at the end of the day, you know, I'm a filmmaker Yeah, I got a couple scripts in the in the works.
Maybe we can work something out I'll take I'll take back what I said if he agrees to be in one of my movies
Didn't know if we could actually say that word you know what I emailed
Todd, let's see if we can say that.
Let me see what he said.
I don't know if he got back to me or not.
No, he did not.
All right, so, oh, wait a minute, he did.
I think we made the right decision.
That's all I'm gonna say.
That's such a harmless word, though.
Come on.
That's not even on George Carlin's seven words you can't say on TV.
Conrad also broke a story here, folks.
Geno Smith got traded to the Raiders.
But we should ask Mike about that.
I mean, you know, we'll cover all things sports with Mike coming up after the news always funny have Mike on the show and I want to ask Mike.
I want to know where Mike is staying for the draft.
I mean he's media.
I'm sure they They must have hotel rooms booked for media But I know he's got kind of a sweetheart deal here in Green Bay.
So yeah, I mean taking care of
Yeah, so we got a shower here
Mike has like a couch one of those.
Yeah.
What do you call those floatable beds or inflatable beds?
Air mattresses.
Air mattresses.
That's it.
Thank you very much.
Mike Clemens after the news folks.
It's a bar ban Friday night.
Terry bark coming up at seven thirty five.
Great to have you with me on this Friday night edition of nightlight on the civic media radio network.
Time to check out original music with bar band Friday on nightlight now your host peach wabba and special guest Terry bar Welcome back ladies and gentlemen it is for many reasons one of our favorite times of the week as we head into the weekend we get to talk to one of our very truly good friends and someone who knows a
blank ton about music, all things music, what's happening in our state.
She does everything here at Civic Media and she joins us here for Barbie on Friday night as it's her namesake.
Terry Barr, how are you?
Happy Friday.
It's great to see you.
It's been a very busy week for all of us but you have a show tomorrow night.
Hold on, I have to ask you something.
I can't just jump right in.
I have to have small talk, Terry.
It's just the way I'm wired.
So please excuse me, okay?
I have to get this off my chest.
Do it.
How do you like your pancakes?
What?
How do you like your pancakes?
I know.
I actually like French
Oh, that's okay.
French toast is, at least it's different than the pancake.
The waffle and the pancake are almost too close to call, but French toast is different because you're dealing with bread.
And
Okay.
I, you know, bourbon and maple syrup, that actually sounds pretty amazing.
A little bit of cinnamon sugar in there maybe or something.
I'm not gonna lie.
I've been fasting all week and kind of doing this keto thing and I am literally salivating right now because of all this pancake talk and just because of my Clemens voice, but I really I'm really Jonesen for some pancakes
Well, I said it changed.
When I was a kid, I loved regular pancakes, kind of fluffy with lots of butter, lots of maple syrup, as I got older, real maple syrup, and then cinnamon sugar.
There was a place in Three Lakes called the Copper Kettle, where we used to go when we were kids, and we would get pancakes.
And then as I got older, my wife makes these protein pancakes.
There's little bits of like bacon in them, and walnuts, and blueberries, and—
I mean, they're dynamite, and you put some real maple syrup on that, some cinnamon sugar, top it off, and you're set.
You won't want to eat again the entire day.
That's the thing.
All right, now that we've covered.
Wait, it
right now.
I'm telling you, I'm going to, if I find an all night diner in the way home, it might be lights out.
How are you?
Doing very well.
Very.
Do you like wakers?
I'm curious
Yeah.
Are
Well, I've done that.
I've done intermittent fasting anywhere from 16 to, like, 18 or 20 hours.
You eat within a four-hour window, a six-hour window.
It's not that tough.
You get the...
Tommy rumblings a little bit, but I have done like, and I love doing these a 36 hour fast, where you eat like at five o'clock at night or six, and then you're done and the next day you don't eat.
And then at six o'clock the next morning, a day, day and a half later, you can eat.
And what I like about that, Terry, is so much of my day is spent going, what am I going to eat?
And then I got to make it happen.
It's kind of nice waking up and going, I don't have to think about food all day.
I'm just going to drink coffee and water.
And if I get hungry, I'll take a walk.
And it's not that tough.
And it's very good for like, yeah, like it brings all your levels down with like blood pressure, cholesterol.
It gives your digestive system a break.
The benefits are incredible.
And I know because I used to be a comedian.
So you should listen to me.
I'm just, I'm just regurgitating what I read.
I'm not an authority.
I don't want to get anybody in trouble.
That's all I'm
I just had this vision of Sage calling me into his office and saying, I don't know what to do here.
Did you tell people not to eat for 36?
And I don't want to be that guy, you know, cause I'm just, just a guy who reads some stuff.
But it is good.
It works for me.
I like it.
That's fun.
So.
So, all right, well, let's get down to your area of expertise, which is the state of Wisconsin and music.
And I don't even know if it's in that order, but you've brought us Sam Ness tonight.
And I love the music you sent.
Tell us about Sam Ness.
He is incredible.
He's got such an interesting backstory, too.
He was 18 years old, going to college.
You know, he had the whole thing planned.
And he was a theater guy.
So he was thinking Broadway, things like that.
Tall, lanky, good looking.
He totally could have done this.
But how about this?
for a gift when you graduate.
Somebody gives him, and he did not tell me who, but he gets the gift of a one-way ticket to Scotland.
That's where his whole story begins.
He canceled college, has still not gone to college.
And this is where his entire career took off.
He's a sock city kid and that music program, the theater program and the socks get sock city, excuse me, school district is incredible.
So he continues to represent it well, even though he went a little different direction than his original plan.
Boy, no kidding.
I can't imagine going to Scotland to get
discovered, not that he went there to get discovered, but that he got his start there and his inspiration.
That's so cool.
Yeah.
Is he 20?
How old is he right now, Terry?
young guy.
he's
Or he'd, you know, beg, I'll play songs for you if you let me sleep on your floor.
Or I'll exchange music for food.
He's done that and started doing that when he was 18.
He came back to his home in Wisconsin to then start recording albums.
And everyone loves him so much.
He is always doing a go fund me.
He always gets the albums funded.
And then boom, album comes out.
He promotes it.
He does a ton of shows in the US and Wisconsin.
And then he's like, I'm out.
I'm going to another country.
Wow.
He's got a really interesting background.
It says that he's drawn comparisons to Jim Morrison because he's got this beard.
And that's a pretty good guy to get compared to at least on some levels.
And he also played Marius.
in Les Mis, I assume that's like in a high school theater production.
And he played high school football and he got to this really interesting background.
He was
Do we know who gave him the ticket?
Is that like a secret or something?
That is really interesting.
All right, so let's hear a song from Sam.
We've got two of them.
One's called Alexander.
The other one is called She Is Love.
What do you think we should lead off with,
Let's start with Alexander only because we've been talking about his beginnings as an 18-year-old going to Scotland, living off the streets, busking around Scotland.
That's what this song is all about.
His beginnings in just trying to figure out who he was, where he was going as a musician, and if he was indeed going
to stick with it.
And then he found people there that believed in what he was doing.
So that's what this song
is about.
Unbelievable.
All right.
This is Alexander from Sam Ness by Way of Terry Barr.
Truck pulled over to the side of the road said where you trying to go?
So I throw my guitar in the back say hell I don't know Well, I got things to see and I got itchy feet I hit the road And I got
Nowhere to be and I got this hunger in me
So in your footsteps Alexander, I need to find the truth For your cause you were a martyr, so here's to you Well I got things to see and I got itchy feet, I hit the road
And I got this hunger in me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Well, I bet missing home.
I need to feel colder Yeah, I say I've been missing home I need to feel colder I'm headed north Cause I got things to see And I got itchy feet I had to hold And I got
Well I got things to see and I got
Itchy feet, I hit the road.
Great song.
Boy, does he have a great voice.
There's like so much soul or something.
He's got a really unique voice.
now that
Yeah, and it makes total sense, too, after what you just said about him before.
Like, that's probably an autobiographical song on some level, but I love his voice.
So we have to do a quick break, but...
Do you have shows, is something going on around the state?
You kind of hinted in your email that maybe there were some cool shows coming up or
Well, and part of the reason we're talking to Sam and sharing his music.
He's another one of the featured artists at the Madison Area Music Association Mama Cares show that's coming up at the end of the month.
And again, this is one of these organizations that supports musicians who are maybe having a hard time paying the rent, paying their bills, and helps so many people during COVID.
And Sam is another one.
He said, I just want to step up and pay it forward.
some day, I might need that help.
So that's why he's part of the show.
That's one of the big ones coming up.
But it's exciting because there's old venues reopening again.
Oh, wow.
Let's start with that, too.
Yeah, right after the break.
But you're right.
This guy's a really old soul.
And we'll hear more from Sam Ness, too, coming up next after a very short break.
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Bar Band, Friday night here at Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Terry Barr and Conrad.
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Okay, so we just heard Sam Nestary.
Is he live in the lair tomorrow?
Rocker still recuperating after his heart attack.
We're holding it together.
You know, he kind of is like the lead of everything we do.
But I think we've been having great shows just because we are so lucky to have so many amazing musicians from all around Wisconsin that want to be part of the show, whether that means they call in or they just send us new music or old music.
Or they join us in studio for a little bit.
We still have not gotten back to the hour long live in the
later.
OK, that makes sense.
Yeah.
No,
doctor.
Well, this is great.
I mean, Sam Ness, and it's Dave Matthews, who he kind of sounds like a little bit.
It was bothering me.
that out.
Like, when he sings Crash and his voice in this song, we just heard Alexander was great, but he was the male vocalist of the year I saw in the Madison Area Music Awards.
Very cool.
And we have another song.
So let's play that so we can get, so we can discuss that.
This song is called She Is Love.
It's another really cool song brought to you by Way of Terry Barr.
Here's Sam Ness once
again.
The neon serves its purpose I fill the space above a stool Sometimes I hear whispers In a cacophony of noise She teaches me of kindness Though I've never heard her voice
She's the memory of a story Someone told me long ago about their dream She's a place
feels familiar And I know I've never seen Sometimes I feel invisible Or the elephant in the room
She points my eyes towards the sky and says sometimes the stars feel that way too.
Sometimes I get restless and I'm driving down the road.
She calms my mind singing love at night through my van's radio.
She's the memory of a story Someone told me long ago about that dream She's a place that feels familiar And I know I've never seen She is love She is love
She is love love love love love
I hope one day I'll see you.
Great song.
Great song.
We're, you know, I was looking at his website.
His tour dates are a little outdated.
Do you know where people can see him?
The only show right now that I know he has is the Mama Cares show because he's working on a new album.
He just bought a house.
I know, so he's kind of flipping the script on all these other things we've talked about where, that all of a sudden I have a home.
I've never had a home before, unless you count when I would go off the road from wherever I am and say, hey mom, can I sleep on your couch again?
That's, wow.
And I love, he won the male vocalist of the year two and 2019.
If he's in his late twenties now, he was such a young guy.
Terry, thank you so much as always.
This
You're the best.
Thanks so much.
And I hope we'll have you back here next Friday.
OK,
too.
That's Terry Barr.
Bar ban Friday night in the books, ladies and gentlemen, always fun.
Bridget says, where was that text?
We got a couple of texts here.
I got to get to Bridget says pancakes with blueberries and walnuts with butter and maple syrup.
Yes, please.
Brian from Milwaukee says waffles and pancakes use the same.
better recipe.
All right, Conrad, that seals it for us.
But it has pockets.
But it has pockets, right.
And Brian also says, so yes, are kind of the same.
Thank you for all your texts and calls.
And thank you to Mike Clemens and Terry Barr.
And we'll be back Monday on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
I'm Peach Wabba saying good night,
Wisconsin.