Happy Birthday, Pete (Hour 1)

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Happy Birthday, Pete (Hour 1)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Mar 28, 2025

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And

now a guy whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Schwabba.

Pete Schwaba

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's do it.

It's Friday night.

Friday night edition of Light Night.

Light.

Light Night, I'm off to a good start.

Night Light!

I am so drunk, I have to be honest.

You celebrated in the wiggle room today?

Pete Schwaba

I did.

I threw a few back.

No, I didn't.

I have a... You know what?

That's kind of sad.

I can't even be drunk on the air if I wanted to be because I have an hour-long commute.

There's always a hotel room.

How's that for perspective?

Great to have you with me.

It is Friday night and this is Night Light with Peach Waba.

I am Peach Waba.

And we are broadcasting live statewide.

And wherever you are joining us from, it is a pleasure to have you here, folks.

We've got a lot of fun plans tonight.

We're all about music tonight.

We're going to read some texts.

We have a great question.

Writing shotgun, as always, is the lovable producer, Conrad.

Hello.

I just want to say happy birthday.

And I wanted it to be extra special for you this year.

Really?

So earlier in the week, you know how new stations, they can put your name.

in their broadcast for, you know, for birthdays.

Pete Schwaba

Okay.

Well, I did that.

But the only thing is, for have it to be $0, it had to be a 2 AM.

So I set the DVR

Pete Schwaba

for $0.

I mean, you don't want to pay.

Yeah.

Nothing says love like a freebie.

Okay.

So, well, I did get the audio from it.

Really?

So we can play that now.

Yeah, let's hear it.

I'm curious.

WBLO, false news at 2.

We bring you the scoop.

Oh, is this thing out?

Good morning, I am John Johnson with your WBLO false news at 2AM.

Today we open up with a story from the entertainment world.

Adrian Brody called local radio host about his long Oscar speech.

Adrian was not happy.

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?

Yeah, no one understands.

Maybe you should've kept it under five minutes,

Brody.

Now let's look at birthdays with Benson Bensonson.

Thanks, John Johnson.

Let's look at the birthdays today.

Happy 12th birthday to Veronica from mom, dad, gram, gram, and gram, gram.

We love you.

Get ready for cake.

And happy 33rd birthday to Peach Cobbler.

I can't be right happy 33rd birthday Pete Schwabba from your producer Conrad You thought you'd get away from the dogs barking happy birthday, but you were wrong here.

They are now Wow

How about a talented bunch of barking dogs?

Let's throw it to Paul Paulson with a traffic

update.

Thank you, Benson Benson.

Well, there's not much traffic because it's 2 a.m.

Wait a minute.

Here's a car.

Hello, sir.

Back to you, John Johnson.

Thank

Amanda Nimmer

you,

Paul.

Now let's throw it to Georgia Georgeison for the weather.

Amanda Nimmer

Thanks, John.

Today it's going to rain.

Wait, did he?

Did they say it's Peach Cobbler's birthday?

I love Peach Cobbler.

Georgia, I believe it's Peach Shwaba, not Peach Cobbler.

Oh yeah, um, pack an umbrella.

Back to you, John.

Thank you, Georgia!

Georgia's in!

Now let's throw it to Ken Kensin for sports.

Thanks, John.

Our team's going more than the hour.

Thank you, Ken Kensin!

For WBLO, false news at 2 AM, I'm John Johnson.

I'll see you again.

WBLO, false news at 2.

We bring you the scoop.

Pete Schwaba

WBLO.

Okay, a couple things.

You had me, I almost teared up until I heard the dogs barking.

And then, boy, if you don't go far in sports with that voice, Conrad, I don't know what happened.

That's beautiful.

Thank you, buddy.

That was very sweet.

Thank you.

How funny is it that I pitched yesterday, I told you my new idea, what we're gonna do is the INN network, the Inappropriate News Network, and you're probably in the back of your head like, oh, that's interesting.

Something that's interesting on those lines.

Oh, I mean that the DVR was set.

I had to tune into them They're my favorite.

They're my favorite local news

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station crazy that all those names ended up like that.

Yeah, you know, Georgia, Georgia sin George George's Benson

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none of them sound contrived either That's what was so great about it.

But no seriously.

Thank you.

That was really nice That's a great way to kick off a birthday episode.

When is your birthday again?

I know we do June 10th June 10th.

All right, so now I got a top that okay

Maybe I'll incorporate you maybe I'll get you to I'll play a joke on you and get you to do something and you won't even know it's for your birthday I'm producing your We do have a great show tonight folks.

It is a birthday show.

It is my birthday today, so that Well, let's do let's do guests and then we'll come to the question our guests tonight.

We have a really good lineup and it's all about the music tonight our friends Amelie and John from 7,000 Apart are here and the way it's interesting.

They don't know this but

When I talk about them, I tell everybody I discovered them.

So I don't know how they feel about that.

And if they're listening, maybe they hear that, but I just take credit for them.

And I'm OK doing that.

But they'll be here at 635.

Great musical duo.

They like to perform here in studio as well as on other shows here at Civic Media.

They've worked down the block at Hagermeister Park.

They play live in Sweden all the time.

They're they met.

I love the story.

They met at Preble High School when she was an exchange student.

And they did the long distance thing and that's where the name 7,000 apart comes from.

It's 7,000 kilometers and now they're married and they travel all over the place and they've got

They're going places.

They're doing some really great stuff.

So they'll be here to perform tonight.

They've got a new album out, all kinds of fun stuff.

That's at 635.

And then, ladies and gentlemen, it is a bar band Friday night.

Terry Barr, our friend from Maxink Radio, will be here at 735, as she so often is.

And she will share new music with us and some great conversation.

Now, I want to roll from Terry Barr into what our question of the night is because, yeah, go ahead.

Well, I just got to say, I just got a voicemail.

Oh, really?

It's the weirdest thing this thing doesn't take voicemails, but we got one.

Is it from Bob Boberson?

Pete Schwaba

Should I display it?

I'm curious.

Yeah, let's see what's going on.

Hey, is he on the line now?

Yeah, all right.

Hey peach cobbler.

It's Jimmy Stewart from heaven.

I've got a little poem for you.

Yeah, you know, I like to write poems and everything.

Well, let me tell you something peach cobbler at your birthday today and gee whiz that's just swell

Up here in heaven, we're all tipping our halos and ringing them bells with a jubilant yell.

The peach, you're warm like a Sunday sunset and as sweet as the stars in a clear midnight sky.

If birthdays were movies, well, this one's a classic and a feel-good showstopper and no need to ask why.

So, so peach, you blow out them candles, you make one hell of a wish.

And don't you dare skimp on the vanilla ice cream, because life's just a wonderful, wonderful thing.

And you, dear Peach, you're the star of the scene.

I want to wish you a happy birthday, Peach Cobbler.

I hope you have a great birthday.

Have a good one.

Bye now.

Who the hell names their kid, Peach Cobbler?

I don't get it.

Pete Schwaba

He wasn't hung up yet.

I don't think you realized.

You know, it's such a great touch.

Uh, the vanilla ice cream.

Thank you, Jimmy, from Beyond the Grave.

Not many people get birthday wishes from Beyond the Grave,

so that

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was very nice.

All of you guys, it was just great.

Thank you.

It's been a fun day.

I've heard from so many civic media people today.

I didn't even think they'd like me.

because I never bring donuts when I go and do the show from Madison.

But no, it's outstanding and it's been a really great day.

So thank you so much.

We'll keep this train rolling with our question of the night.

Let's talk about

the

Pete Schwaba

question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Amanda Nimmer

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Amanda Nimmer

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Amanda Nimmer

Question.

Questions.

Pete Schwaba

What is...

Our question of the night.

I went off the page.

There we go.

What celebrity do you share a birthday with?

Very simple.

And here's what we're going to do, folks.

Share what celebrity you share a birthday with.

Text it in on the stream, on the app, old school, on the phone at 8557-524-842-8557-5 Civic.

Text us who you share a birthday with.

And we are going to write down these names.

And at the end of the night, we are going to vote someone.

as the coolest birthday celebrity sharer.

We'll find out who shares a birthday with the coolest celebrity, and we're gonna bring in the talents of our friend Terri Barr.

We'll read them when she's here.

Conrad, Terri, and I will decide who has the coolest celebrity birthday.

That sounds fun.

That's great.

Pete Schwaba

For

yours.

I can't pick myself, right?

No, and you kind of poo

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pooed your own.

The mine is June 10th, so I share a birthday with Kate Upton.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

Uh, Judy Garland.

Okay.

And Bill Burr.

Okay.

That's good.

Pete Schwaba

So those are three right there.

You kind of sounded like you were a little down on the people you shared birthday with, but those are

good,

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I think.

It's all right.

Kate Upton's the best one.

For what reasons?

She's a great actress.

Pete Schwaba

She played a nun in the three, the Fairly Brothers edition of the Three Stooges.

Uh, my birthday celebrities are Vince Vaughn.

Julia Styles I do have kind of a connection to Julia Styles because I co-wrote a film called a guy thing with Greg Lana and That came out in 2004.

I think from MGM and Julia is in the movie.

So I share a birthday with her and Lady Gaga So those are three.

I think Julie is an A-lister but Vince Vaughn and Lady Gaga those are pretty good.

I'll take that I'd say Vince Vaughn's my favorite.

You think so?

Vince Vaughn's one of my favorite

actors.

So

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yeah, I It's weird.

I like Vince Vaughn

In the movies I like them in, I love them.

Swingers, phenomenal.

Old school, phenomenal.

Wedding crashers, good.

I didn't like that movie as much as I like the others, but I love old school, love swingers, and yeah, Vince Vaughn is hilarious.

So there was another thing actually today.

When I was rolling into work, I just tuned into a random radio station, and it played this, and I think it was connected to you actually.

Really?

Americans up 40.

Now we're up to our long-distance dedication.

This is a special message for someone even sweeter than their name, and it reads like this.

Dear Casey, there's someone out there who makes life just a little bit warmer, a little bit sweeter, and a whole lot more special.

His name is Peach Cobbler, and today is his birthday.

From the moment I heard him on the radio, I knew he was something special.

comforting, unforgettable, and always the best part of my day.

He lights up every room like a freshly baked dessert coming out of the oven, and the world is a better place because he's in it.

Casey, could you please wish Peach Cobbler a happy birthday and Peach wherever you are?

Just know I'm out here thinking about you, celebrating you, and maybe even saving a scoop of ice cream just for you.

Signed, Gary.

Gary, here's your long distance dedication.

Happy birthday to Peach Cobbler from all of us at American Top 40.

Pete Schwaba

Wow.

Todd Michaels at a busy week.

On my

behalf.

That's so funny.

Pete Schwaba

Wherever Diane McWilliams is these days, I doubt she's listening.

But thank you for the Peach Cobb.

She's the one who thought my name was Peach Cobb.

You guys are getting

a lot of

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mileage out of that.

I'm going to tell you all about a break into spring contest, folks, when we come back.

And we'll read your text.

Who's your birthday?

Who do you share a birthday with?

What celebrity?

Let us know.

Here at Nightlight, we'll read it on the air.

And you might win our contest with no prizes later.

It's Peach Wabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time.

Once again, it's our break into spring civic media contest.

It's a text to win statewide contest, your daily chance to win a Chula Vista getaway Milwaukee Brewers club level seats.

or 100 bucks in cash.

Plus, every entry puts you into our grand prize drawing of a brand new Queen mattress set from Verlo that includes a mattress, sheet set, mattress protector, and pillows.

The times for text to win are 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 4 p.m.

So all you have to do is get the daily word and text in at those times and you will be entered.

You do have to download the app.

If you don't already have it, it's very easy to do and it's very easy to use.

You just click the little text icon next to the station you're listening to and fire away.

Shoot us the daily word and you are entered into the daily prize and the grand prize.

So good luck everybody.

These are great prizes.

I love these.

I still think I'd take Chula.

I'm going bros.

Yeah, those are good seats.

Chula, you get an overnight stay though.

Yeah.

County Stadium.

They don't let you stay.

I still call it County Stadium.

They don't let

you stay overnight.

It's

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vacancy.

I do, I do, would like a, would like a Chula Vista stay too.

Pete Schwaba

How about a, how about club level seats?

Then you book

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up to the Dells and crash a Chula Vista.

There you go.

Pete Schwaba

That could be fun.

So we've got some texts here, which is, oh, look at these texts.

This is great.

I never know how to say it's whizzler.

I always want to call

him

Pete Schwaba

a whizzer, but that's not really, I don't think that was meant for us though.

Just let you know happy thought my grandson's are wrestling.

Oh, was it whizzer whizzer is Texting the show.

He says just let you know happy thought my grandsons are wrestling in Madison now oldest is 12 1 the state championship Yeah, wow, that's pretty cool.

Congratulations whizzer to you and your grandson.

I'm sure you're very proud.

I uh That's impressive.

Yeah, I

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wrestle you got kind of a you get your

I wrestle

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stocky and strong.

I think until like

Can

Pete Schwaba

I

guard?

I don't know.

You just

Pete Schwaba

decided.

Roll around with another dude.

I went to baseball and the other sports.

Okay.

Pete Schwaba

Wrestling's a good, if you don't mind the ears, you do get those cauliflower ears

sometimes.

I mean, wrestling is just a great workout.

It is great work.

And you have to train.

Pete Schwaba

No question.

Whistler, congrats to you and your grandson.

That's pretty exciting.

And he put a little emoji there.

That's kind of cool.

Dennis from Milwaukee says, John Lennon.

Conrad, that's a good one.

That's a pretty cool one.

Pete Schwaba

So Dennis from Milwaukee, he's in the 414.

He shares a birthday with John Lennon.

And what we're asking you guys to do is text in who you share a birthday with.

And at the end of the show, Conrad, Terry Barr, and me, we will all decide who has the coolest celebrity birthday.

So Dennis is on board from Milwaukee with John Lennon.

That'll be tough to beat.

Angie from Monroe says, Jesus, okay.

He might have just topped John Lennon.

She says, Andy says the 24th.

Isn't Jesus' birthday the 25th?

Unless she's talking about a guy named Jesus who I don't know.

I assume she's talking about Jesus, last name Christ.

But we'll put that one down too.

Angie has Jesus, Dennis from Milwaukee.

Oh, he texted twice.

He's apparently trying to get a leg up on Jesus.

Luann from Green Bay says October 2nd, Gordon Sumner.

Kelly Rippa and Charlie Brown love it Luan Who is Gordon Sumner again?

Is he the guy in the police?

No, that's Andy Summers You gotta find out who Gordon Sumner is.

Yeah, no, he's That's really weird sting came up.

Maybe isn't the police That's great.

Thank you Luan from the 608 George W. Bush and the Dalai Lama

A couple of world stage heavy hitters there.

Thank you, 608.

Tammy from Eau Claire says, Dr. Seuss, her birthday is March 2nd.

Dr. Seuss, that's a good one.

You keeping up with this Conrad?

He's

gonna

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have writer's block by the time we're done with this.

From the 608.

Oh, she's giving, I think that's Malaya is her name.

So write that down with...

Oh,

okay.

Pete Schwaba

Malaya is George W. Bush and Dalai Lama.

She just put in one name like Malaya.

I'm like, oh, maybe that's a new pop star I haven't heard of.

And maybe you are.

If you are Malaya, good for you.

Tom from Minona says, happy birthday.

Pete, Joe Cocker is my birthday buddy.

Nice.

That's a great one too.

Thank you very much, Tom, for the birthday wishes.

608 says July 6th.

And I think that is Malaya again.

Yep.

Okay.

Very well done.

Luanne from Green Bay says, happy birthday, Peach Cobbler.

Thank you very much, Luanne.

I bet you wish you had a name that sounded like a fresh, tasty dessert.

Yeah, I wish.

I could be like apple tort or something like that.

All I

Pete Schwaba

have to do is say my name and it makes me hungry.

I want something sweet.

Sherry from Horakon says, happy birthday, Pete.

Hi, Conrad.

Hi, Sherry.

Great to have you with us tonight.

Rob from Green Bay says, I share a birthday with Johnny Cash.

I have a feeling, because we're letting Terri in on the fun tonight.

I don't know if she knows this yet, but she's probably gonna go linen or cash, just because she's a music person.

Terri Ryan, she's in the 414, says, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

All right, these are great, outstanding.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

Who do you share?

What celebrity do you share a birthday with?

It could be just any person of note, a Hollywood celebrity, a sports figure, politician, world do-gooder.

We would love to hear from you.

Rich on the stream, Rich, oh, our buddy, Rich Lucasio says, I share a birthday with Jonah Hill.

Oh, that's pretty

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cool.

That's a good one.

And he says, happy birthday, Schwabenator.

Didn't we change my wrestling name?

You

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didn't like it though.

But what was, yeah, it was a little bit of a stretch, but what was it?

It was, I forgot.

I forgot

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now.

Yeah, me too.

Rich, if you remember, let us know.

And Todd Alba also on the stream.

There's no bigger fan of Todd Alba than Pete Schwabba.

And Todd says, happy birthday, Pete.

Cheers.

Thank you, buddy.

And a tip of my hat to Aaron Zomers on that thing you put together.

He's

Paul Paulson, actually.

He's Paul Paulson.

Yeet Schwabba's name.

Pete Schwaba

I didn't want to ruin it because I know,

you

Pete Schwaba

know, but whatever station that was, Aaron worked for them before he worked for us.

That was good.

So good stuff.

All right.

7,000 Apart is here right when we come back from the news.

Can't wait to talk to these guys.

They're back from Sweden.

They're back in Green Bay.

They got a whole bunch of shows lined up, and we're going to talk to them about everything when we come back after the news, and we will read some more of your texts.

Let us know what celebrity you share a birthday with, and we'll see if it's the coolest celebrity of the night.

Conrad and Terry and I will all decide by the end of the show.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night.

Thanks for helping me celebrate my birthday, folks.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Alright.

Pete Schwaba

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwabba.

Riding shotgun is the lovable producer Conrad and we are reading your text.

Our question tonight is who do you share a celebrity birthday with?

We're going to read the text at the end of the night or read who shares what birthday with whom and we will decide who has the coolest celebrity birthday.

Terry Barber will hopefully help us do that.

Jim from Appleton says J.R.R.

Tolkien.

That's Lord of the Rings, right?

I think it's Lord of the Rings.

That's a good

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one.

608 says Mel Gibson, Greta Thunberg, Eli Manning.

Wow.

Some good.

Am I saying Thunberg?

She's Swedish,

right?

Pete Schwaba

You're talking so fast,

I don't even understand that.

Is that Swedish?

Oh, I love it.

Pete Schwaba

Oh, that's

great.

We played at her high school.

Pete Schwaba

You did?

We know

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her sister.

Yeah, we know her sister.

She recorded in our studio.

Yeah, we wrote with her sister.

She's an artist, yeah.

Pete Schwaba

So I don't want to sound stupid, but does everybody in Sweden know each other?

Or is it?

Kind of.

It's pretty small.

See, I

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picture you guys going back there hanging out with like ABBA.

Yeah, I wish.

We're like one step away from that.

We're one step away.

We know someone who works with one of the ABBA members a lot.

Wow.

So you know, like we're getting there.

Pete Schwaba

Who was the other artist that came out in the 90s?

She had, you've got the look.

Oh, do you mean Rookset?

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Roxette,

she's sweet too, right?

Yeah, so they're duo actually.

And she passed away a few years ago.

She did?

But they are touring now apparently, yeah.

Pete Schwaba

Really?

But with just another sweetest.

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She is some good tune.

Didn't she sing the song It Must Have Been Love from, that's a beautiful

song.

Pete Schwaba

Wow,

I didn't know she passed away.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's good song.

You can

Pete Schwaba

add that to your

setlist tonight.

We get asked to do a rock set quite often.

Do you

Pete Schwaba

really?

That doesn't surprise me.

All

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right, the voices you're hearing folks,

as you're probably

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bringing these fine people onto the show, are Amelie and John from 7000 Apart.

They are two of our favorites here at Nightlight, and they've been on the show several times.

Always fun to have you guys.

You're back from Sweden.

You're bi-continental.

Yes.

Pete Schwaba

You spend time in Green Bay.

Yeah.

And in Sweden, so

that's so cool.

So

Pete Schwaba

welcome back.

And how what do you like better?

We can't play favorites.

Yeah, like we can't play favorites.

Yeah, we like we like things about both places.

And I think the more that we are in both places, we want to like enjoy the things about the place that we're currently in.

Yeah, you know, so it's

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like there's things we like in both.

Do you, John?

All right.

And both of you, do you like it in your home country a little more, just like to to live?

because it's more convenient or does it not?

I mean, we chose to live in Stockholm for a reason.

I mean, that's why we are there as our base.

But again, it's very little about missing a place.

It's more about appreciating a place when we're in that place.

So when we come back here, we're like, oh my gosh, you have this thing and that thing.

Oh, that's so great.

And oh my gosh, this is so nice and the people.

I would say it's more about appreciating things more.

We

love the touring here,

but in Sweden we

love the recorded music industry side of things.

And we love our van here, but we also love walking in Stockholm.

You know what I mean?

Pete Schwaba

You can't take that with you.

We

cannot take our van with us.

Excellent van.

Oh my gosh, I wish.

I really wish I could do

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that.

That's fantastic.

So let's talk about...

Well, first, I want to ask you something.

You said you were in Snow White.

You did the voice of who?

Of Snow White.

Pete Schwaba

In this new

movie that just came out.

In the new movie Snow White, yeah.

In Swedish.

Pete Schwaba

So you went into the studio and like dubbed?

Yeah.

Oh, that is amazing.

Thank you.

So when you watch a Swedish version of Snow White, that's your voice.

That's gonna

be me, yeah.

Or that is me.

I guess it's out already, so yeah.

Pete Schwaba

How did you get that?

So I've been I've been voice acting since I was 10 years old.

And so I have been going in and out of the studio a little bit.

Obviously, like when we moved here to the US, I had to kind of put that on hold for a bit.

But then now that we moved back, I get to come into the studio more.

And so it was called to a voice test, which is like an audition.

And so, yeah, I got to go in in December.

Where did you

Pete Schwaba

go?

So

it's in Stockholm.

It's at a place called IUNO.

They're a big company.

They do

they have like offices all over the world.

And yeah, so I went there and got to sing a little bit and talk a little bit.

And then it was me and I think three other girls who got to do the voice test and then they chose me.

Pete Schwaba

Oh my gosh.

I got

to choose.

Wow.

Yeah.

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I was up for that too.

I'm

happy.

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If

I didn't

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get

it,

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I'm happy

it was one of my friends.

Your range wasn't big enough for you apparently.

I didn't know Swedish either.

That was kind of a ding.

One of those things.

Before we get any further, it is.

birthday, we have to sing you happy birthday.

You have some musicians in suit.

We have to.

All right.

And so my question is here.

Do you want your birthday song in Swedish or in English or in both?

Pete Schwaba

Oh, what do you think?

I think I should go Swedish, right?

I think, yeah, I think that'd

be pretty cool.

Can you choose both?

Pete Schwaba

Oh, yeah, if you can do it twice.

I've only had a son.

They're different.

They're different.

The Swedish song is different.

So I need you to help me, though, because we need to clap.

Oh, all right.

Swedish is very specific.

OK, we'll start with the Swedish one.

And then I need four who raise.

And technically you don't have to do it because it's like, it's your birthday, so you don't have to.

But if you want to join in, you have to.

The producer, you're welcome to

do it as

well.

You're welcome to do it.

Okay, so it goes

like this.

Pete Schwaba

Wow, that's actually only the seventh time that's been sung

to

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me

in Sweden.

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No,

I should have

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known that.

That was when the

Horace came in.

For next year.

We'll be here for next year.

Yeah Happy birthday to you Happy birthday

Pete Schwaba

Could you please bring me my handkerchief?

That was beautiful.

Thank you so much, you guys.

That was fun.

Bilingual birthday wishes.

Of course, there you go.

I love it.

Maybe you'll be more memorable.

I

think it

is.

Like that one time Swedes yelled at me.

Pete Schwaba

No, let's okay.

So you're a bona fide and I just got it sung to me by a bona fide movie star Are you hoping to do more that kind of work?

I mean, I love it I adore it and so obviously like the more I get to do the happier I am but But I also I am aware of that I'm hard to book because I spend half of my time here in Wisconsin Right and so I take what I can get but I don't expect much.

Pete Schwaba

Okay So let me ask you this John.

Do you ever yeah?

I mean now that you guys kind of have a foot into the movie world so to speak

Do

you have

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any desire to write music for movies or

scores or anything?

Yeah, I mean, I mean definitely like That's something we're definitely in Interested in in like writing music and having our music in movies and TV.

We've had one song in a MTV show actually so

far

But yeah, we'd love to do it more and but I have actually gotten to record at this studio as well for other actors and I got to be a stormtrooper that died in a Star Wars TV show

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

So

that's my

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claim

to fame.

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Yeah,

the one line

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That's all

I

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think all Star Wars fans could die the

next day if they have

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fun.

He has like a Star Wars tattoo

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So is that hard like

Movie music and writing music for movies.

I'm sure it's like a whole other

It's a very competitive field in the same way like live is or anything else.

It's very specific very niche You can like if you get to a certain size as an artist you can get your music into movies and TV a lot easier But

if you're

doing it like as your main thing, it's very niched.

Yeah, but it's fun.

Yeah

Have you gotten to watch the

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movie yet with you doing the voice?

I haven't.

No, because it premiered just last week and we were here and I can't find it in Swedish in Green Bay.

Sadly, they don't, they only show

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the American version.

I haven't even done that yet, but I really want to.

So we'll probably go this week.

Pete Schwaba

Every Thursday, we do the popcorn pick of the week here, and we have someone on to talk about their movie-watching approach and snacks they like, and then they give us a movie pick, and Frank Hermans from Green Bay, do you guys know Frank?

Yeah,

of course

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you

do.

And

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he picks Snow White.

Yeah, that's

public as we just talked about it.

He loved it.

Yeah, oh, that's good.

I'm glad he did.

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So we've got a lot to get to.

You've got a date coming up.

But do you guys want to play something before the break?

We have about five minutes.

Absolutely.

Do you want something uptempo?

Do you want something pretty?

Pete Schwaba

Hey, I'm just thrilled to have you guys here.

Let's do one of each.

If you don't mind

doing two songs, you pick what you want to do.

We can also do a verse and a chorus, and then just switch to the next one.

We can do that as

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well.

I love the whole song, if

you don't mind.

So you guys

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figure out if you want to rock it first or go slow.

It's totally up to you.

Do you want to do it slower?

Yeah, let's do that.

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What's this one called?

This one is called Soul and So Much Skars.

I

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think you did this last

time.

We did it?

Okay.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, I love this song.

Okay,

good.

Okay, perfect.

a childhood dreams might not ever get my break not sure that I have got what it takes I made my share of mistakes I am fine

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and soma's scars

that's a great song thank you thank you it's been really well received we we just released it about

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beautiful

two months ago and yeah we're just you got you

Pete Schwaba

don't maybe don't remember this you were here probably I don't know winter three four months ago you

had

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a friend with you oh

yeah that was yeah that must have no that was summer

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someone you're collaborating

it was summer because it was jasmine or our basis yeah

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And you

guys, I

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think you played that song when you were here.

Tell us

what

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that means again.

Oh yeah, it means so much.

I struggled a lot with my mental health, especially during COVID times.

And it got really, really bad, but I did what I could.

And you know, I went to therapy and I took the pills and I tried to take care of my body and my mind and eventually things got better.

And so this song is about when things finally start to get clear again, then you start to like...

appreciate life in a whole different way again.

And you might be changed because of what you went through, but it's not just for the worse, it's actually also for the better.

Pete Schwaba

That's great.

Well, I love when someone is affected by something in their life

and

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their life and then turns it into something so beautiful, some art.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

Those high notes must be tough

when you

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have a cold or something.

Yeah, yeah, it goes really high.

Can

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you go lower if you have to?

Oh, yeah, yeah, just tune down.

Pete Schwaba

That's great.

Amelie and John are here.

They are 7,000 apart, and their name comes, this is great.

Preble was the school you guys met at.

You

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were a foreign exchange student.

John was a student there.

You guys did the long distance thing for a while,

and you were

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7,000 kilometers

apart.

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Three

years.

Pete Schwaba

Wow, and here you are making me, and you're married, right?

Yeah, yeah, we've been married for eight and a half years, do you believe it?

Pete Schwaba

You guys are kids.

Wow.

All right.

They're here.

We're going to come back, spend some more time with them.

We've got a lot of other stuff, a lot of other cool stuff they've got going on.

We'll talk about that too.

And maybe if we're fortunate, we'll get them to play another song.

It's great to have you guys here and great to have all of you with me tonight on this Friday night.

It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back to Nightlight with Peach Bobba.

I love that Amelie is dancing in her seat

and

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it's not even one of her own songs,

so

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that's kind of cool.

Kate from Hayward says Ollie says happy birthday Pete.

I share my birthday with Lavar Burton Oh, wow, that's a that's a name.

I haven't heard in a while from roots and a lot of other stuff too But that's what put him on the map and rapper iced tea who sings the song arrest the president which you and Chad might recognize February 16th Does that sound familiar who's Chad Chad Holmes, maybe I don't know it doesn't sound familiar Did I sing a song I wasn't aware of on February 16th.

I don't know

But thank you for the text.

From the 608, May 6th, Sigmund Freud, Willie Mays, Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino.

Oh, those are some cool birthdays.

Long list, I know.

Hope I share some of their attributes.

I'm sure my wife sees some Valentino in me.

That's an optimist.

And we'll do one more here.

Gordy from Oregon, that's in the 608 says November 10th.

Tracy Morgan and Sinbad, not my fault.

I would have chose a different day.

Nobody blames you for your birthday.

Yeah,

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it's not your fault that would people brag about something like a skin color or a last name, but like you had nothing to do with it

It's

not like

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you achieved something.

So

in Sweden, we have name days.

And I share my name day is Hitler's birthday.

Oh dear.

That doesn't feel good, you know what I'm saying?

Pete Schwaba

That's not good, no.

It's up to you to turn things around there.

So that's what we're saying, Gordy.

Don't feel bad about your birthday.

And Sinbad and Tracy Morgan's hilarious, actually.

7,000 Apart is here in the studio.

They just performed for us.

Let's talk about some of the things you guys have coming up.

All right, so if you're in Sweden or anywhere internationally, check out the Swedish version of the new release of Snow White.

Amelie is Swedish Snow White.

She did the voice for that, so that's a really cool thing.

But let's talk about a show you guys have coming up locally, April 4th, right around the corner.

Yes, exactly.

We're running a Kickstarter right now to fund our third album and to kind of have like, it's kind of like a rap party in a way.

So we're, we're wrapping it up on the fifth.

So the fourth will be doing one last little concert here before we head back to Sweden.

And so we're doing that at Hamlet Creek.

Do you remember what it was used to do?

No, but it's off a finger road.

Yeah.

So it's this really beautiful chapel off a finger road on the east side of Green Bay.

And yeah, we're just going to be playing some songs.

It's a free event.

We'll be playing some songs, selling some merch, just telling some stories behind the songs.

And just we're planning on a really beautiful night.

It has like this amazing acoustics.

So like everything sounds amazing in there.

Pete Schwaba

Nice.

Yeah.

So how does that work with with a Kickstarter?

Like you kind of invite people.

They know the drill before they get there.

Like you're trying to finance an album.

So they make a donation like in

person.

Yeah.

So actually like Kickstarter isn't really donation based.

It's rewards based.

So it's more like a preset.

So it's like you can get a CD or vinyl

t-shirt merchandise before basically they're getting Like merchandise from the album before the album is released very cool.

It's like kind of a pre-sale essentially Yeah, the album.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, you guys must have so many fans.

I mean like I the way I say things around here is that I discovered you But I mean you guys must have like people that

want to empty their pockets, because they know you're going places, right?

I mean, is it hard to?

We have some incredible supporters, absolutely.

But we've also set a very ambitious goal.

So we are still very nervous that we're going to hit it or not, because Kickstarter is all or nothing.

So if we don't hit our goal, we'll get zero dollars.

So we're just really like...

But we're so thankful to everyone that's

supported so far.

And we're going to do our best.

We have one week left.

So we're going to do our best to hit

the goal.

90 people have already back the Kickstarter.

Oh, wow.

And we're about halfway.

Yeah, we're going to work hard this last week.

You got your checkbook with you?

I'll have to go home to get it.

I want to check that old bed.

I got to go.

Pete Schwaba

So is that song you just played, Soul and Some of the Scars, is that on the new album?

Oh man, that's

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awesome.

OK.

So the show is April 4th.

Say where it is again.

Hamlet Creek, Wedding and Events.

It's across

from Pearly Gates.

It's

like a bar.

And there's a biker bar across

the street.

Yeah.

And right by Finger Road.

and here on the intersection right there.

Bikers have

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money, get them

all

with us.

Yeah, exactly.

Do you have a title

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for the album?

Why do we do what we do?

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Oh, I like that.

OK, very good.

Now, wait a minute, you're going back to Sweden already.

Didn't you just get here?

Yeah, we're only here for four weeks this time, but we're going to be back all of summer to play shows.

Pete Schwaba

Do you have any dates downtown Green Bay here, like out on the water or just downtown

here?

I'm trying to think for summer.

We, I think, have.

We're about half booked for summer.

But yeah, we are playing all over the place.

Some things we can't announce yet,

but

some really cool places that are going to be really cool.

I don't know.

I'm trying to think if we're playing anywhere downtown Green Bay this time.

Oh, I'm trying to break my, it's really hard to keep like 50 dates in your house.

I'm

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sure.

But you've done Hagermeister Park before.

And you weren't Summerfest last summer, right?

Yeah.

Are you going back there this year?

Can you not?

We can't confirm.

Can't confirm we're not here right now.

I

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actually said Summervest.

It's a

different music.

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Summervest.

I love Summervest.

Yeah, that's a good

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one.

Hopefully you make it over to Milwaukee too.

All right, so you got the title, Soul in Summer Scars and Legacy and Up to Date.

Are these two songs that are on your new album?

So we just released Legacy a couple of weeks ago and then on the 7th, so we're gonna start releasing one new song every 7th.

So the next song will be April 7th and then May 7th, June 7th, just, you know, 7,000 of parts.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, I love that.

What other big dates you can say that are coming this summer?

I don't know if we have any... We're hoping to release our schedule once we wrap up the Kickstarter.

We're gonna announce like partial...

Partial tour schedule, but you know, things change so quickly too, so we won't know the full schedule until probably June.

Pete Schwaba

Okay.

Oh, really?

Do you

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have some of the books that before you, or do you guys do it all?

It's a mix, so we book quite a bit, and then we work with Bananas Entertainment and some other bookings.

Northern Lights and Entertainment, like we have

like Omega, Entertainment, T.C.

There's a bunch of different ones from across the state, but then we also book ourselves as well.

That's a lot of stuff,

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yeah.

We're going to do the news.

Civic Media's news team is going to tell you what's up, because you need to know.

And we will read some texts.

Who do you share birthday with?

That's our question tonight.

At the end of the night, we'll decide who has the coolest celebrity birthday to match with yours.

And Terry Barr is here, folks.

It's a bar ban Friday night.

It's all about the music tonight.

7,000 Apart is here.

They're going to perform for us when we come back.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.