Movies & Barr Band Friday (Hour 2)

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This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy still not convinced computers are here to stay, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night as we bring to a close yet another week It's we inch toward summer here in the state of Wisconsin great to have you with me our question of the night is what is your favorite Mexican food is national taco day and That's the question.

We were asking tonight.

So we've gotten a lot of great answers Most people want a margarita with whatever Mexican food it is

And we played the great Jim Gavigan bit about how Mexican food is basically all the same, the same ingredients, but I think you could say that for a lot of ethnic foods too.

So our question tonight though, be part of the show.

What is your favorite Mexican food?

It is a bar ban Friday night in place of Terry Barr tonight who was on vacation.

We went to the bullpen and we got the lefty.

Conrad is rocker or lefty?

I don't know what to ask.

He is tonight.

He's a lefty.

We'll ask him.

Either way, that's a perfect analogy because my next guest made a really cool documentary called, Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Brewers.

Sean Hannes joins us now on the stream.

Sean, how are you?

I'm great, Pete.

How are you

doing?

First of all, I apologize.

I'm sure you have heard people mimicking Bob Uker saying, Just A Bit Outside, more than anyone has a right to over the last few

months.

You know, let's be honest, though, it's kind of part of the design.

It's part of the marketing.

Yeah.

OK.

Fair enough.

Hey, before we jump into what's happening with the film, I saw that you posted on Facebook a couple of months ago about the fires.

And you guys seem to be in a little bit of danger.

How is everything?

Did you guys get through that OK?

Well, really appreciate you asking, Pete.

Boy, I've never experienced a night like that, that Tuesday night.

I had most of my, let's just start it this way.

I went outside that evening and that afternoon the winds were so strong it blew a tree onto my car.

And then

that night I went outside and I know they tell you something sounds like a freight train.

The winds were so strong, it sounded like a locomotive.

It was a rough night, man.

I was up all night, I'd packed the car.

with my son and it's a really interesting experiment to be like, okay, I'm gonna lose my house.

What do I take?

And unfortunately, I actually didn't end up having to evacuate.

I live in Pasadena just south of the Rose Bowl, but everywhere from the Rose Bowl north and then all the way to the east through Altadena.

Oh man, unfortunately I have six friends that lost their homes.

One of the producers on just a bit outside.

Fortunately, his home's standing, but he's still not back in it.

No

kidding.

The streets are, it's apocalyptic what happened up there.

And also on the Palisades.

Honestly, it's hard to grasp.

Even living here is hard to grasp.

I mean, I've driven through some of the neighborhoods and wow, it's...

Uh, but you know what?

The neat thing, the one good thing that came out of it, I think is, you know, it, LA doesn't feel a lot of times like a community.

So

yeah,

big and, and diverse.

And also rent, it goes on for, you know, tens and tens of miles in every direction.

Um, that it, it actually felt like a community for once.

And, uh, you know, it brought kind of brought out the best in people.

So, you know, trying to, trying to help out where we can.

Well, that's great.

I'm glad to hear, uh, yeah, it's weird.

Sean, I mean, when I, when I lived out there, you'd always see the fires in the hills and we'd see Ash come down into the valley.

I lived in the Valley Village area

and it

just didn't seem like, well, it's never going to touch us.

And then when you saw what happened a couple of months ago, it's like, wow, this can happen at any time.

It is absolutely real.

It was horrifying.

So glad

you're okay.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

It's fortunately.

People listened to the, you know, listened to the fire and the police and they, most everybody evacuated, which, you know, thrilled about because it could have been a lot worse.

Absolutely.

Well, good for you.

Now, listen, here's the other question.

When something like that happens, Sean, I know when I move back here, people are like, oh, you're much better off here than with all those earthquakes and all

that kind of

stuff.

And I was like, you know, we went through a couple of earthquakes, but I'm more worried about slipping on ice here than I am.

Like.

But that was the first time I looked and saw what was happening and said, yeah, I don't know if I want to go back there.

The fire just scared the living daylights out of me.

Did you have any moment during that time where you thought, well, maybe the Midwest isn't so bad?

Or did it

affect you?

I love the Midwest.

I grew up in Milwaukee in Brazil.

I have designs to maybe spend some more time there as I, you know,

I guess get older.

You know, I love it.

I mean, there's nothing the summers are great.

The falls are the best in the world.

So definitely.

So yeah, no, I'm, you know, I will say the you know, it has an effect, you know, the biggest thing right now is the heat, the heat in the summer has gotten even over the 30 years I've lived here, it's gotten worse.

And so it's really a difficult

Believe it or not, it's really hard to live here in June, July, or really July, August, September.

So anyway, that's my little, my little.

Yeah,

makes you want to

jump in a freshwater lake, I'm sure.

Well, it

does.

So all right, so it's great to have you here, Sean.

I saw that you have a couple of Wisconsin screenings coming up.

For those who might not know who are listening, tell us, give us a little bit of background about the documentary first, and then we'll get to your screenings.

Well, happy to.

I mean,

I mean the real back story is that I was 14 years old in 1982 and had the great good fortune of my parents having season tickets.

So and they always had to the Brewers I believe since almost year one.

And so I mean I grew up obviously you know just died in the wool brewery fan and as with all Wisconsin sports teams too as we all are.

But I was able to watch this magical season from you know

From county stadium from the same seats, you know, whenever I give the tickets for my dad, right?

so we had a It was so memorable to everybody who lived through it, you know, no matter your age at that time And the characters were so memorable.

We felt like we knew them.

You could see them in the parking lot

Yeah, you

know, like you could approach them and then you know to be okay So then that's the real backstory and and also remembering how

dramatic the season was, you know, the ups and the downs, the expectations, and then those crazy series at the end, you know, losing three out of four to Baltimore, winning the last game to make the playoffs, losing two in Anaheim, coming back and being the first team in pro history to win three in a row at home in a five game series.

You know, and then the crazy World Series we had the ups and downs were in the advantage and there in the advantage and then

we're winning going to the bottom of the sixth.

So it was, you know, an incredible ride.

Now cut to about four and a half years ago, Kelly Call, who was 15 years old at the time, who's my producing partner on this, he was 15 from Burlington, and he caught all the games on Channel 18 back in the day, and on radio, with of course, you know, the great Bob Uker calling them.

And

He went on that same ride and so he had he's kind of a big deal.

He was president of the CBS for six

and a half

years So when he would go to the he went to a couple golf tournaments and he got paired up with his childhood hero Gorman Thomas and They golfed together and Gorman asked Kelly all about his favorite shows on CBS and Kelly asked Gorman all about the stories of 1982 and Yeah, Kelly came back and I said, you know, I think

I think there's something here.

Gorman's telling me some really stories I've never heard before, and that's when we embarked on this project.

So great.

My guest is Sean Hannish, who made the film Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

It played through Wisconsin.

I know it was in Marcus Theaters, Sean.

I assume you guys have done other film festivals.

You were on right before the film came out, and I love talking to filmmakers after they've been through the process of the release.

Were your expectations met?

Exceeded, do you still have a ways to go?

How do you feel about how everything played out after the release?

Well, I would say it wildly exceeded my expectations.

Fantastic.

When you, you know, I'll say this, you know, as a filmmaker, you know, 20 years ago or even 12 years ago when my first film came out, you're kind of the expectation is to hopefully be in theaters.

This day and age, the expectation is, oh, I hope to be on streaming.

But as filmmaker, you're like, no, there's nothing like everybody sitting together in the dark in the theater and watching a story as a community.

And so to be able to be in Marcus Theaters, we thought we were gonna be there for two weeks in like a half dozen theaters.

And we ended up being in theaters for two months.

Wow.

and that's not because Marcus was just being nice to us.

They

were great

partners.

I don't know how to assure amazing partners, but it's because of the word of mouth and the people really enjoyed some of these screenings turned into like tailgates.

Oh, that is great.

People coming in in their jerseys like, you know, people in their in their, you know, yellowish jerseys, people in their, you know, Robin Yacht jerseys.

Yeah.

They have a couple beers at the, or sodas at the, at the bar, bring them into the theater and cheer like they're in a game.

And they, you know, it's something really, really special.

I will never forget it.

It's, it's, it's really launched a really good word of mouth.

I mean, you know, I hope this doesn't come off as like a humble brag, but it, you know, we're currently 100% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Oh my gosh.

That's

fantastic.

Again, talk about wildly exceeding expectations.

I think people, when they see the movie, even if they're not a Brewer's fan or even if they're not a baseball fan, they're pleasantly surprised to discover these really interesting characters and go on this really emotional ride.

That is incredible, Sean.

And it's not a brag.

First of all, when someone dedicates their life to making a film, the entire process, the script, pre-production, production, post,

You know, you've been through it.

It's so much work.

It's such a tedious process.

You could brag all you want, especially 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is incredible.

You have a couple screenings coming up in Wisconsin, and that's why I kind of wanted to have you.

We have to do a quick break, but let's talk about those when we come back.

Are you going to be at the Wisconsin Film Festival?

Yes.

All right.

Fantastic.

I'll be there too.

I can't wait.

Oh, fabulous.

Yeah.

So we'll talk about that after a very short break.

Sean Hannes is here, the director and the creative force behind just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

You can find out next where to see that in the theater while you still can here in Wisconsin.

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That's coming up at 7.35.

We have a few more minutes with our current guest, Sean Hannish, the director behind just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

So Sean, where, aside from the Wisconsin Film Festival, do you know when your screening is then and where else can people see it if they don't go to the

festival?

Um, at the festival, we're screening Friday, April 4th.

Um,

nice.

And you can find all that at the Wisconsin Film Festival website.

Great.

Uh, the other screens we're having actually the, the times in Wabatosa is doing a whole, uh, kind of early baseball season, uh, series.

So they've got Moneyball.

They've got Major League.

Oh,

great.

And, uh, they're, they programmed us in for next Friday and Saturday night, the 29th and 30th down in Wabatosa.

So, um,

You know, and it's funny.

Our website always kind of keeps everybody up to date as to the local screenings, because every once in a while, an independent cinema, an independent theater will jump out and say, hey, you know, we'd love to love to show your film.

And we're always, if we can, we will.

Yeah.

So all right, so that those are great.

Do you have you mentioned the website?

Where can people is it just a bit outside.com?

Where can people go for that?

Just a bit outside movie.com.

Perfect.

All right, so check that out You have a Sean I think I'm kind of fascinated by there's another Wisconsin guy I don't know if you have ever crossed paths with him in LA Steve Burroughs great guy also from Milwaukee He he's made he made a film called chump change He was in the narrative world then he went and did commercials and now he's got this award-winning HBO documentary called bleed out where he did a documentary about his mother I'm fascinated

by people like you that can have success in the narrative world and then jump out and do a documentary and have success there too.

What made you, not that you ever regret it, but that's a commitment.

Documentaries take a while.

So you're stepping away from your bread and butter to make this documentary.

Were you scared or were you ever like, is this worth it?

The worth it question is you kind of

when you're deciding, do I, there's a moment where you're, you're kind of like, am I all in on this?

And there was a moment early on, really when we talked to Gorman and, you know, and Kelly and I really got our heads together that we thought, you know, there's something here.

After we interviewed Robin Yeo, who's our first interview, then we were all in and you're like, oh, oh, we,

you could kind of feel what the movie was going to be like.

So I don't know, you know, as a filmmaker, there's no, you know, I will say your filter gets tighter, the more experience you have.

And you're like, is that really going to make a good story?

Will people really be interested in that?

And like, why would people be interested in that now?

And once you can, I was able to answer all of those questions, at least in my mind.

Um, and I knew the story had a lot of heart.

So I guess that answers your question.

Yeah,

it

can be worth it.

I mean, was it worth it to me?

I got to sit down with all of my childhood heroes.

Right.

So I mean, you know, I'm glad the movie turned out, but even just the, the experience of the process was awesome.

Um, as regards jumping from narrative to documentary, it's, I will say this, it's very different.

But at its core, it's very similar.

Like the mode of production is very different.

In narrative film, everything is based on the script.

Literally everything you're casting or financing your locations, your editing schedule, everything.

In documentary, you're writing that script in the edit base.

So I will admit, while editing a narrative feature is a...

three, four, six month process, editing a documentary is, in this case, about two, two and a half years.

That's really where the stamina comes in.

And it's, I will admit, you know, being a narrative filmmaker, and this would be my first documentary, I was a little frustrated by how long it was taking us in post, but it is its own process.

And, you know, the goal was just to make the best film possible.

And I think, you know, I think we accomplished it.

That's great.

My guest is Sean Hannish.

You can see his film, Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers at the Wisconsin Film Festival April 4th or in Wabatosa on the 29th and 30th.

Go to justabitoutsidemovie.com.

The movie or movie?

I guess if you google it, they'll find

it.

It's movie.

I made you have to think there, didn't I?

No, I know.

Sorry, it's the movie.

The movie.

Okay.

Let's get outside the movie.

Got it.

All right.

Very cool.

So what's next for you?

You got another, you going back into the narrative world?

You gonna make another doc?

Well, if I can, if I can, can I let folks know where they can, where they can see the movie outside of theaters?

Absolutely.

Oh, I was gonna ask.

I even forgot to ask you that anyway.

Yeah.

Well, I was going to idea great news is we came out on DVD about four weeks ago.

And ever since we came out with the number one documentary DVD on Amazon.

Oh, fantastic.

It speaks to the fans.

It speaks to the great fans in Wisconsin, because I'm sure, you know, a lot of those are from all over there from outside the state to but really appreciate that support.

Yeah.

Really big news that we released.

less than 48 hours ago is that we're going to be streaming on the Roku channel starting April the 11th.

Okay, I thought I saw that.

Okay.

And that's free.

That's

fantastic.

Go to the Roku channel.com.

You can watch it on your phone, you can watch it on your iPad, you can watch it on your, you know, smart TV.

We're so excited.

It's exclusively on the Roku channel.

It starts April the 11th.

So now everybody can see it, and we're not just opening in the US.

It's Canada,

UK, and Mexico.

Yeah.

That's fantastic, Sean.

Hey, listen, congratulations.

A successful theatrical run, DVD, and now a stream or two.

Well done.

Very impressive.

And I hope I run India at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

It'd be great to say hello.

I'll be there Kelly now be there.

I'd love to meet in person.

Absolutely continued success my friend.

Thanks for taking the time.

Thank you so much Pete.

You guys Sean Hannes check it out folks You have many ways to see just a bit outside now when we come back You might have thought there was no Barbie on Friday night because terry bar will not be here But you would be wrong rocker joins us after civic media's award-winning news team tells you what's up and Maybe I don't maybe we'll have another update on that game.

It's getting closer.

It's 20 now.

Oh, wow

A lot of time, 10 minutes.

All right, we're coming right back at Speechwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Time to check out original music with Bar Band Friday on Nightlight.

Now your host, Pete Schwabba and special guest, Terry Barr.

Special guest, Filling In for Terry Barr, the lefty out of the bullpen as we are referring to him this evening.

He co-hosts Max, Inc.

Radio with Terry and Jimmy, the award-winning Max, Inc.

Radio, and he joins us tonight for Bar Band Friday, Filling In for Terry.

It's Rocker.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, what's happening Pete?

Thanks for having me on tonight.

Hey, thanks for doing this.

It's great to talk to you again, especially after all you've been through.

How are you doing?

I am doing really well.

Thanks for asking.

I appreciate that.

You know, for those who don't know, I, hey, I died on stage, right?

I was playing with my band down here in Madison and had a heart attack on stage and it really, it saved my life.

Wow having it on stage in front of people because I got help immediately and it took it took the paramedics and all the people that were there and stuff about 45 minutes to revive me but after hospital stay and well another hospital stay but now I'm back on the men so it's pretty great I'm feeling great and doing a lot of cardio rehab and eating well and doing all those things to kind of your reclaim health.

Good for you, but I'm very glad to hear that.

And that was such an incredible story.

So are you playing again?

Are you playing music again?

Not quite.

I'm still kind of working up strength and getting the stamina back.

But I'm fully working to play drums with the band again.

Excellent.

Well, all the more reason I appreciate you filling in tonight, buddy.

It's good

to see you and thank you for doing this.

Yeah, thank you.

I'm kind of leaving this.

This is kind of your dime your dance floor tonight because we have our typical format, but you've got us some really cool.

We've got a lot of different clips here.

So where do you want to start, Rocker?

Well, well, I'll start with Maxink Radio every Saturday night and Sunday night here on the Civic Media Radio Network, 6 p.m.

to midnight.

And we play Wisconsin made music.

We interview Wisconsin artists.

and a lot of local personalities that are somehow related to the music industry or sometimes just cool businesses or fundraising events.

So there's just a lot of stuff.

And we also usually feature live performance every week.

And we have a performer come in and play for us.

And sometimes it's a whole band.

Sometimes it's a local performer.

So it's a lot of fun.

But we unplug from the politics.

And it's all about local music.

We are local music.

Everybody needs a break.

And it's when I first heard, I mean, when I started doing this, I thought preparing a two hour show every night was a lot of work and it is, but

preparing a

six hour show, even though it's once a week, I don't even know how you guys do that.

It's very impressive.

So let's start with my saying this right, rocker, harmonious whale.

Well, let's see.

Yeah, let's go with Harmonious Whale.

What I'd like to do is preview some shows that are coming around and I have a lot of Madison shows right now loaded up.

Harmonious Whale.

They are going to be playing Saturday, March 22nd at the North Street Cabaret.

That's at North Avenue, Eakin Park in...

in Madison.

In harmonious whale, they are purveyors of Americana-infused gypsy jazz.

Sim's Delaney Potoff.

He is a mandolin virtuoso, band leader, vocalist.

He went to school at Berkeley School of Music.

Maggie Delaney Potoff, she's a vocalist extraordinaire and his wife.

But her percussive instrument of choice is a cardboard box.

But and she plays.

Yes, she plays that with brushes.

It's great.

You know, the box still has the logo on it could come from a restaurant or, you know, Amazon.

But she gets amazing sound out of it.

It's it's pretty cool.

Scott Levenka gypsy guitar whiz and then a master bassist.

Forest Evans who dazzles lineup right base.

So they've been around for 30 years here in Madison.

And they're about to put out a new album.

And I thought I'd bring in a little song that they did beyond the pale.

This is from their latest album.

This is Harmonious Whale.

All right.

30 days out on the road.

That was Harmonious Whale and a little sampling from Beyond the Pale.

And that's you call that Americana infused gypsy jazz rocker.

Yeah.

Love that

man.

They are really good, really entertaining to great storytellers.

Really fun band to see.

You can go see them coming up the North Street Cabaret in Madison on Saturday, March 22nd.

Very cool.

And let's move on to automatic lover.

They're kind of a newer band within the last year here in Madison.

Just it's music that moves you.

Singer, producer from Sonoran, Mexico, the singer, a Grammy nominated disciple of the original funky drummer Clyde Stubblefield.

That is Joey B Banks, his understudy, keyboard, steeped in jazz and salsa, me guitars raised on 80s hardcore and Afro beat.

Oh, and a bass that slaps back at acid jazz roots.

And a whole and a whole horn section.

So they're playing Saturday, March 22nd at the Red Rooster here in Madison on Seaforth Road.

And this song is kind of interesting.

The clip I picked, we're going to start with the guitar solo because I wanted to really check out these guys, how they jam.

But they're just a great band.

This is a song called Helena.

This is Automatic Lover.

Awesome.

Red Rooster is going to be jumping March 22nd.

That's awesome.

I mean, you can't help but move your feet when they're playing.

I mean, they're just an energetic, super fun band to see.

I

love it.

That's great.

All right.

All right.

I got two more for you

tonight.

you know there's the seventh annual respect it's a celebration of women in music march 29th at the high noon saloon in madison and what they do is they have the big payback a band which has a giant horn section you know really big think it's a nine-piece band and so what they do is they back a bunch of local female singers from around the area and then each of those singers kind of cover

a woman in music that is extremely famous.

So you have people like Teresa Marie, who's the singer from People Brothers Band.

She's going to be covering Chaka Khan.

There is Raquel Eilman, and she'll be covering Madonna, Candice Griffin doing Stevie Nicks, and a whole clethora of different artists from here in Madison who are participating.

One of them is Lola Marie.

And she's singing a Chapel Roan song.

And she's a Madison singer and songwriter who studied music and economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

And she also tours with a Frank Zappa tribute band called Furious Bongo's.

Oh,

nice.

And I brought in a song from her last album.

And this song is Lomarie.

Beer is a

vampire.

You saved me, oh welcome burden Releasing me from joy that I don't

And Lowe Marie will be performing and interviewing on Maxink radio tomorrow night.

So cool.

And she'll be playing a couple of songs on the radio.

And of course, you can see her with the seventh annual respect show, Celebration of Women in Music.

That's March 29th at the High Noon Saloon in Madison.

I've never been there.

I love that name.

High Noon

Saloon.

It's a great, great venue.

Is it downtown?

Or is

it out?

It's Capital East District on East Washington, just east of the capital.

Very nice.

Awesome, man.

All right, let's move on.

What do you got next, buddy?

All right, let's see.

Road trip?

Road trip, yes.

They are an Oshkosh band.

Their jamming is banned for nearly three decades.

They're mainly a cover band, but have a bunch of original music.

Um, they've won ton of whammy awards over the years and they're going to be playing all over Wisconsin.

I'll go through this list quick because it's a lot Saturday, March 22nd at the Hortonville lanes in the Appleton area Saturday, March 29th at the junkyard in Wisconsin Rapids Saturday, April 5th at the Hill Tavern in Beaver Dam Saturday, April 12th at the Boulevard right here in Madison and Friday, April 18th at the Wharf in Manitowoc

And the big thing is that April 24th, they're going to be playing at the Great North Commons during the NFL Draft.

That's just steps from Lambeau Field in Green

Bay.

This is their original song.

It's called Two Days.

This is Road Trip.

They're pretty good.

They've been around for a long time, so check them out.

Find them online to see their whole schedule.

They're playing everywhere.

I just pulled them up.

Yeah, this is great.

They have a great site, too.

Check out roadtripband.com if you like that, folks.

That's awesome.

Do we have time for one more?

Yeah, I think Conrad, can we do a quick break first, Rocker?

We sure can.

I'll tell you what.

We got about a minute.

You want to set this up, and then we'll come back and play the song.

Sure.

You know, there's this band called Last Cracked, and I actually used to manage them back in the early 2000s.

They were on Roadrunner Records back in the 90s, and when the singer had heard about what had happened to me, he was like, hey,

Let's get the band to get back together for a show and do a show called The Rocker Jamboree.

So when we come back, I'd like to tell you about The Rocker Jamboree and Last Crack and some other bands that haven't played in 20 years that are reuniting for a great cause, including myself.

That's awesome, man.

You must have been a pretty good manager, too, if they're willing to come back and do all this.

Most of those relationships, or a lot of them don't end so well.

So good for you.

Rocker is here.

It's a bar band Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.

We're going to do a very quick break and we'll be right back to wrap this thing up.

It's Pete Schwabba and Night Light on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Monday

night on Nightlight.

We have another great show planned for you guys.

The director of A Road at Night, John Roach will be here.

John is also one of the writers of the film The Straight Story, which was co-written.

by Mary Sweeney, and directed by David Lynch.

He will be here Monday night at 6.35 to talk about his film that will be in the Wisconsin Film Festival, and actor Ezekiel Drews will be here in the second hour.

That's Monday.

We have a few more minutes with our guest tonight, Rocker, who is filling in for Terry Barr, his colleague at Max Inc Radio.

And we've been introduced already to four pretty cool bands.

And now we have a fifth clip here, Rocker.

We kind of set it up, but is there anything else you want to tell us before we get back at it?

Yeah, let me let me get back to say that my co-hosts Terry Barr and Jimmy K Jimmy K really kind of pioneered this rocker jamboree

to kind of help me out.

There's been some medical expenses.

And also to benefit Mama Cares, which is a division of the Madison Area Music Association.

And Mama Cares is a fund that basically helps musicians in their time of crisis.

So, you know, more often than not, it's a medical crisis and musicians don't necessarily have health insurance as much as normal people.

So they need a little help with Mama Cares.

So this benefit

will have Last Crack, who hasn't performed in 20 years, Magic 7, which is an offshoot of that band, and people, they're really big here in Madison and around Wisconsin.

And that will be Sunday, May the 4th, from 1 to 5 p.m.

here in Madison at the Burr Oak.

And this is from their latest album, The Uprising, in 2019.

We're putting a play song called Three Ghosts.

This is Last Crack.

Awesome.

Well, there's a sample of what you'll hear at the Rocker Jamboree on May 4th from one to five PM at the Baroque.

That's that sounds like a blast, dude.

It's going

to be a lot of fun.

Will you be you think you'll be able to play by then?

And if so, would you?

Well, I won't be playing with any of those bands and my band won't be at this event.

But I'm hoping for to get back to a show around the fall with my band, Iron Blow.

OK.

Buddy, I'm so glad you're doing well and you're you're back at it at least on maxing could such a great show you guys do a phenomenal job and I really appreciate you filling in for for Terry tonight.

This has been fun

Thanks, Pete.

I appreciate it

any time.

All right.

Have a great show tomorrow night.

Thank you You're welcome.

That's a rocker check out maxing radio every Saturday night from six to midnight here on the civic media radio network They do such a great job and Terry

By way of Max, Inc.

has introduced us to so many great bands over the last year on Barbie and Friday night, and this was kind of fun to do things a little differently, right?

Yeah, a little.

I liked hearing a little clip like that of everybody.

Yeah, that was fun.

Yeah.

All right, so I'd like to thank Rocker for being here tonight.

That was fun.

Sean Hannish was a lot of fun to talk to Sean again about his film, Just a Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

And Civic Media's own Don Brown.

That was a blast, too.

Just a lot of fun.

Thank you for your text.

We do have a text, Conrad.

I haven't read yet.

Are you aware of that?

Yeah, we have two.

And Ollie, we know you're trying to call.

Apologies.

We're having issues with our phones.

So I'm sorry we missed your call tonight, but...

Don't give up on us.

We'll get this figured out.

It gets a little better every day.

Pamela from Wisconsin Rapids, that's in the 715.

She says, thanks to Rocker for mentioning Road Trip at Junkyard Bar and Grill in Wisconsin Rapids.

Junkyard is one of our local advertising clients here, and that's from Pamela at WFHR.

Pamela, thank you as always for listening.

Guys are doing great work at WFHR.

A lot of award nominations this week, so that'll be exciting to see what happens there.

Steady, eddy!

What would this show be without a steady eddy text from the six oh eight our buddy a steadfast Edward says Pete About 50 years ago.

I worked at a Mexican restaurant Pacos on Upper East states on Upper State Street just down from the Capitol in Madison all the food was good But what I remember most is that workers at the restaurant got a free bottle of Cerveza beer after their shift was over It was excellent Mexican beer Cerveza and Mexican food served together

Es muy bueno.

You didn't know I was bilingual, did you, Conrad?

I tortured plato, mixo, or whatever it was, but I got this one.

I've heard those terms.

Steady Eddie, that's awesome.

This is all making me hungry again.

That's the problem when we do food questions, is my mouth is watering my entire drive home, and then I'm stuck with McDonald's and Arby's if I want to eat.

Doesn't quite live up to

it.

Do you want to do one last update?

Yes, let's hear it.

wreck everybody's brackets before it looks like they're gonna hang on 95 69 over Norfolk State 47 seconds left You know, let's see what happens, but it looks like that one's over

That just ruins my bracket completely.

Don't you love, I've noticed it a little bit with this, with the tournament too.

Mostly NFL guys do this too.

They don't want to lose their viewers.

So they're like, this one is not over yet, folks.

Couple on-site kicks in a Hail Mary, and Buffalo is right back in this one with two minutes

to go.

They just needed like three pointers every second, and they're good.

It's never happened before, but.

History could be written tonight.

Hey, thanks for being part of the nightlight tonight.

Everyone loved your texts and calls as always.

We will be back Monday on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad and the Instantly Tournament.

Watch a lot of hoops this week, folks.

Enjoy yourselves.

Good night,

Wisconsin.