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BARR BAND FRIDAY LIVE FROM MADISON (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Apr 4, 2025
As we kick off our number two here, coming to you live from Madison, broadcasting statewide, wherever you're joining us from, welcome to Nightlight.
Riding shotgun, as always, is Conrad holding down the fort up in Green Bay.
Are those chocolate bars still there?
Yeah, they're still there.
to
I don't know.
I don't know the lay
Like an iPod or
Yeah, you guys, do you didn't get your per diem for coming in?
We have Greg Liana and Jim Vincent in the studio, folks.
They are the original Meet the Parents filmmakers, and they're screening their film tomorrow at the Barrymore Theater.
I'm gonna host a Q&A afterwards.
It's gonna be a great time.
Come on out.
The Barrymore is a beautiful venue.
It's a hilarious film.
Very excited to see it with an audience.
We've got our question of the night is, what is the scariest movie you've ever seen?
I have to introduce a scary movie tomorrow night, and it got me thinking about, I don't really see a ton of them, but I know they're very popular.
So let us know what your favorite scary movie is.
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Going to the text line, did you give me a scary movie, Greg?
I said 1408 what you know,
It's an interesting movie.
Yeah, because it really does touch up about like religion, which is strange horror film to really get into the religious thing, but not real
What do you mean not really
how many
they've done the set of the sign the second son, you know, they'd always
do well the
exorcist the first power It's
like,
you know,
they're more they're Mormon.
How many horror films do you have Mormons?
Look, I haven't even been a
I gotta check it
out
What would happen if you did?
Would someone bleep you or just come and just go out and you could find?
He'd probably just get me in a headlock and start wailing on me.
Mike in Cottage Grove says, I think the first jaws was really scary.
Sure.
It was, yeah.
I still, to this day, I don't like deep water or water where I can't see the bottom, even if it's a lake.
Because in the back of my head, I'm like, there could be something we haven't discovered
yet.
I saw that with my family and we were two weeks away from going to a vacation in Florida.
You imagine, like I got, I went to my ankles in the water and was like, okay.
He says he went back to his hotel room one night and he was going to have a shark fest and watch all four Jaws films.
And he said by the third one, they're not even trying.
The family tries to get away from the shark.
They moved to Florida.
Shark is there right
follows them
It's waiting for him Great joke Steve from Florida says scariest movie still the shining.
That's mine Steve.
I agree with you that movie creeps me out beyond belief Bridget from the 818 says Halloween movies ruin my jobs as a babysitter in high school Scary that music too.
Yeah, that music is very iconic and Tyler in Wisconsin Rapids says
Jabberwocky.
I don't like potatoes.
Jabberwocky.
Was
OK.
Yeah.
him
Wasn't it a Monty Python thing or something?
a
Yeah.
Star Wars thing.
All right, so let's get back to Meet the Parents.
We've got a few more minutes with you guys.
Greg, you cast a lot of your friends in the film.
A lot of them were Chicago comedians.
What did you guys think about the people that cast in the movie?
Were you surprised that any of our friends or your friends
were really good actors?
Well, a lot of times that's all we could get.
We needed a crowd at the bar.
Sure, I'd love to hear that.
I mean, it's hard to get 30 people to show up.
Yeah.
And not paying them.
They made nothing?
It was not.
I think
we bought a
bottom of beer.
Yeah.
In our leads where we had like gas money or something, but
but they're doing I
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the camera we shot on during the filming was probably
If you went to buy it, it was $40,000.
Today, you can get it on eBay for about $500.
No kidding.
Nobody wants anything to do
with it.
I still like the way that looks better than the stuff.
I love film.
Yeah, I did that movie, The Road Dog on Red Cam.
Yeah.
The film looks better.
I want to talk about the book about Meet the Parents.
We've had Laura Enright on the show who wrote the book about your ordeal and the making Meet the Parents.
But first, tell us about The Road Dog.
Disclaimer, I'm in it.
I play a comedy club owner.
It was a lot of fun to do a scene with Doug Stanhope.
What's going on with that film right now?
Where can people see
that?
It is for free on Tubi.
Oh, nice.
But it's also available on Amazon Prime and all these other platforms.
Okay.
Tubi, for some reason, it's not for free.
Are you
The fact that anybody likes that film is amazing to me that was so much trouble that it was such a problem filming it.
But
Doug Stanhope is a great actor.
Yeah.
And he really pulls it
prepared.
I saw him on Louis and he did a part he should have wanted me for.
Played a suicidal comedian who's he was great.
That's why that's why we cast him Oh, but he's a great actor and he doesn't really want to be an actor doesn't have any interest in trying to get gigs.
I hate people like that
He does his stand-up.
That's where his heart is, I guess.
did you take
back?
Probably more of a step back.
It's there.
Greg goes to a gathering they do, I think, every week, Greg, or every month.
I don't know.
Indie filmmakers in Chicago
together.
But still, you know, always tough because it's...
It's Chicago.
I mean, you're not in LA, you're not in New York.
But
there's a problem with indie films in general now is they don't get the release, they go on to streaming, and you don't make a lot of money in streaming.
A producer told me 5% of indie films actually make their money back.
No kidding.
But
they're
still so important.
The three of us are sitting here because of independent film.
And I'm glad the festival...
Is here and doing what they do because I just saw independent the documentary and I talked to the filmmaker and you know, these you know, it's kind of like You know, you want to see a piece of real filmmaking, right?
You know
on the Oscars this year.
Yeah, that's like they were swept by indie films.
It was like what's the competition, you know
Captain America 4.
No, it's not and you know, you know, yes indie film was very popular as we were all going through the process of meet the parents and But you know, it's it's I just think it's very important that the indie filmmakers that are out there that are gonna make the next Bigger indie films they have to keep trying you can't give up.
You know the
problem though is DVDs went away
And that has ruined them film business streaming.
Yeah, because they used to rely in the DVD sales so they would take risks and make risky movies or more human stories.
But once that went away and you don't make the same money streaming, now all they don't want to take chances.
So the parents four is coming out and you know, Spider-Man eight.
Well, most of the small smaller divisions of the big studios had indie divisions.
now they don't have they're going yeah they they don't even want to mess with them really i mean so i don't know i mean i think still overseas uh out of england and london they're still doing indie films and very good indie films but i i don't know i i would think it's so hard today to get the money um it's hard to any day to get the money to make a movie but um again i i think what madison is doing here and what the other fast greg wanna
indie film fest thing in California, an award, but you know, this is, you know, you can't stop, you know, and yes, it's hard.
And yes, it takes time, but look at the reward.
How can we get rid of streaming and have to go back to
DVDs?
I think
your
every way you can
it.
A parking garage isn't going to be fun to watch.
But what I'm
Greg Leanna
food No, yes, I think we are yeah as long as there's free food, but if there wasn't free food not to think about it
What is your favorite memory?
Cuz I know overall it was positive There was a book that came out that Laura and Wright wrote.
She's been on the show about some of the struggles you had
And you got screwed over to a degree.
But it was also a pretty favorable experience, you say, making the film, getting it on the screen, to put some money in your pocket, probably got you some... I know when we would go into meetings, you and I, people, I'd say something really funny, and I'd be like this, and they're just looking at you because they see dollar signs.
But what was your best memory of that, like, of the whole process?
Caching the checks.
Oh, that's a tough question.
Um, because it was also horrible.
Well, you got about 20 seconds left.
Yeah.
Uh, when National Impoon was going to come out, that was probably the best period.
Jim, favorite moment?
Um, favorite moment, I think, was, uh, finally, um, getting to see a preview of the
of the new film.
Awesome.
Sorry, we gotta wrap up,
be right
Thank you to Jim Vincent and Greg Leannock.
We'll see you meet the parents tomorrow with the Barrymore.
Show them the book.
Show them the book.
Thanks, Pete.
This is Pete Schwabba.
Yeah, I'll see you guys later.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause.
We don't have a studio audience, but Jim Vincent and Greg Lanna.
There's Greg waving.
Yeah, I'll see you guys.
I'll see you later.
I'll text you, Greg.
Leaving the Civic Media Studios as we speak.
It is a bar band Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.
Terry Barr will be along shortly.
And it's just a fun night here.
It's always fun to do the show from Madison.
Chris Casper is here, cast of thousands.
Conrad, I think Chris is mad at me.
What?
Can you intervene?
I don't know.
What'd you do?
I don't know.
I gave him credit, you know, Chris's favorite saying, when I would be here, I'd say, I gotta get in there.
He goes, you got 30 seconds.
That's an eternity in radio.
So, you know, he's very, he's a lot more experienced than I am.
I've only been doing radio a short time, but, you know, I gave him credit for that.
And Corey Hartman actually said, another civic media buddy said, that's actually my line, Chris Gold.
So I think the drama, I think the drama is actually between Corey and Chris.
But I think I don't know maybe I said something and now Chris is mad at me Chris please your thoughts
Well, I kind of missed what you were saying there.
I said I think you might be mad at me Pete I don't get mad I get even bud
Never in a million years, Pete.
I remember night of the living dead that my older brother, who was six years older, made me watch and I had nightmares.
especially if you're a kid.
Absolutely.
was like the remake, not the original Black and White, but then, you know, it all ended in nuclear war and everything was fine after that.
Have you seen The Gorge on Netflix?
I have not, but aren't we normally just talking about white lotus in the specific scene with you and Conrad?
to ruin this for you, Conrad, but I'm not a fan.
Like, it kind of lost me after about six episodes.
And not a fan of severance.
Boy, dude, I am trying to get there.
I've been...
I've been trying to like, it's like this legendary show that people flip out over.
And I'm like going, and maybe I didn't need to hear that when I started watching it, because I'm trying to get into it.
And I'm like five episodes in.
So I'm going to stick with it just because of the hype, but I'm kind of with you
so far.
I think they're like, I would like to see the edit.
where they edit out all of the staring for like seven minutes out of the show.
I might be about that, but like
into the production staring into nothing forever.
kind
I'm with you.
We got a steady Eddie text here.
Let's get to this count because the other night we ran out of time and I felt kind of bad.
So let's read steady Eddie.
Steady Eddie is chiming in.
He says, oh man, this is a great one.
No scary movie is going to scare old steady Eddie.
Not no way, not no how.
I ain't afraid of no ghost.
But when I see a tiny mouse in my house, I'm not going to yell, but he just has all these crazy emojis and says, ah, save me, sweet Jesus.
The original, the blob, starring Steve McQueen, did scare me when I was eight.
And so for that reason, the blob is my milk dud's movie.
That milk dud thing is like, it's like the saying is the turd in the punch bowl.
Nobody gets excited about it.
Eddie, I know what you're trying to do.
The Milk Duds pick of the week.
Here's the worst movie ever.
He says, it's the Milk Duds movie pick of the week.
I gave it a four.
Chocolatey, chewy, scary, Milk Duds.
And then he put, I think those are Milk Duds.
Steadfast Edward.
He's Steadfast Edward tonight.
He says, movies don't scare me much, but like Up North Ollie, the real world sure does.
Well done, Eddie.
Good to have you back, buddy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what to...
Hey, can we bring would this be crazy if we just brought in Terry Bar because she's here I'm down.
It's a bar band Friday night.
I mean, what are we doing here?
Right?
That's what we're doing I've put in many a bar band You have hey, did you ever we had Katie's gone on the show a couple times back?
Did you reach out to her?
I have yeah, I think I think we're probably gonna get something going.
Oh, that's fantastic She's she's so talented and another person that Terry Bar introduced me to which is is always fun.
She's
She's got all the sweet musical hookups.
All right, we've established Chris Casper is not mad at me.
We've had some great scary movies.
I'll ask Terry Barr what her favorite scary movie is.
We've talked movies here at the film festival in Madison.
Chris, do you know that have you ever seen people at their house?
They have those like silhouettes of sheriffs where they're kind of leaning against the wall and they have a cowboy hat on?
It's like a cut out.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I've seen that.
Old Westie kind of stuff.
Yeah.
I'm not sure.
Maybe I mean my grandfather gun smoke was his favorite show of all time.
Okay So maybe something some old-timey Western stuff that they're into I don't really know
The album is called 12-point buck.
Okay, so then it is Killdozer.
The band is called Killdozer.
Yeah.
Okay, and the song is Lupus.
I would love to add that to our intro on outro music, because it's such a fun... It's like this grating... In fact, I'm gonna ask Terri Bar about that when she comes out.
We've got a lot to discuss.
Yeah.
the
the
What makes you think that's like an officer of the law?
That could be one of the bad guys.
He's keeping watch.
He's the wheel man while these guys are in robbing the house.
It is a bar band.
Friday night, ladies and gentlemen, Terry Barr is on the premises.
We are making radio.
history tonight with the first bar band in person meeting between Terry and myself.
This is a fun segment we do every Friday.
She brings new music and she's so much fun to talk to.
She's coming up next.
Conrad, have we caught up on texts?
We'll do that.
Civic Media's news team is going to tell you what's up and we will bring Terry Barr in for bar band Friday night.
That is coming up next.
I'm live from Madison.
It's so much fun to be here.
Hope you're having a great night.
Great to have you with me on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba 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.
Welcome back ladies and gentlemen.
Hi Terry in person.
This
OK.
To the fabulous one and only Dennis Graham.
Dennis is the head of Rock, Unson.
This is one of the coolest competitions, and it is for basically middle school, high schoolers.
They call it, you know, Dennis, you call it a garage band competition, but schools, students, garage bands from around the state enter this thing.
Dennis, pick it up there.
What happened?
when they enter?
Well, hi, Terry and Pat.
And thanks so much.
I appreciate being on that live with WDMX-927, the Civic Media Group.
Yes, Rock Anson.
Thank you, Dennis.
R-O-C-K-O-N-S-I-N is the only statewide garage band competition.
This is our 21st season in the nation for 7th to 12th grade bands of any musical genre.
It's free.
We're in our band application period right now until April 30th.
where we want these and they're very very talented these young talented bands that want to shine in the spotlight at some of the world's biggest festival to send in one song cover or original again it can be any genre music as a matter of fact the first bands are becoming this year it's kind of both molds and sacrament one it's
our first metal band in 2022 out of Waterford high school.
We're starting to get some metal bands.
So it's real
That's pretty cool.
Uh,
It's, it's a 13 to 18 seventh grade through 12th grade only from Wisconsin because believe it or not, Harry and Pete, they try to sneak in from Iowa.
from Illinois, from Northern Michigan.
And that's why you have to have, if you are one of the top 10 bands, you don't have to do this for your original, the original video that you sent in, just fill out that application again at rockoncent.org.
It's free.
But then if you are one of the top 10 bands, you have to send a photo ID of the school you're attending.
And we've caught more than one.
Yes, I do.
From throughout the state,
Claire to Green Bay down to Platteville to Racine and to the mid part of the state, Wisconsin Rapids, you know,
you know, the Fox River Valley.
And yes, they're representative and of all musical genres.
And so yes, we're in our 21st season right here.
What are they hoping to do?
They're hoping to be one of the top 10 bands.
And after the applications period closes on April 30th,
We have three music industry judges with more than 30 years experience each.
Folks like Kathy Deppners, who ran the High Noon Saloon in Madison.
they'll be looking at and scoring them out for Vocal Blend Synergy Master of Instrument.
And we will then announce on rockonson.org and also Rockonson of all of our social platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, the top 10 bands.
that will then be performing at Summerfest on June 26th by bands, and June 27th by bands at the Aurora Pavilion playing 20-minute showcase sets.
just doesn't work.
But
man.
It's brilliant.
It's brilliant.
And our logo of the rock-on sign with the cow face.
It's brilliant.
Jared Gibson, a very talented graphic artist, came up with that graphic of the cow and the rock-on hand sign.
And a good friend of mine, Andy Wallman's sister, came up with rock-on.
And since then, I've had
radio stations, other people say like, geez, man, where, where did you get that?
And I said, well, you know, I had some, I was pretty lucky with it and you can't have
Tell us about that.
Last year's winner was 2024 New Normal.
They were out in Nassida, Queen of the Holy Rosary, and Wisconsin Dells High School.
And then the runner-up was No Limit from the Minona Grove High School, Columbus Middle and High School.
And this is part of their package.
If you're a winner or the runner up, you will get a second 45 minute summer fest showcase set on July 3rd.
Again, on the Royal Pavilion stage as well.
Now all of the 10 top finalist bands automatically receive two share mics, one vocal, one instrument.
I mean, this is free.
You have to pay for gas to get to Milwaukee.
But then the winner and runner up.
will then win that additional 45 minutes sets each July 3rd.
But then the winner and runner up, the winner gets 12 hours of recording time at Madison's Blast House Studios.
The runner up gets eight hours of Blast House Studios recording time.
And that's where they came up with these songs.
And then the winning band as well.
gets a additional sure wireless vocal mic system and rock-ons and awards.
And before I go any further, I have to give a shout out to the Madison Area Music Association, which has been a partner with me for 21 years,
well as to Lynn Nicholas and the Nicholas Family Foundation.
Without their support, there would be no rock-ons tonight.
I very much appreciate their support.
But yes, no limit.
Very talented band, and they sent through some really cool original songs.
Well, I appreciate you know youth garage rockin Wisconsin, baby, and I appreciate the time to do and Terry on the Unite might show on civic media, buddy.
right.
Thanks so much.
Yeah, if Dennis is still listening, he's going to laugh because Slow Pulp is a couple of bands that did Rock Onsen from Madison from several different high schools.
And what happened, they competed against each other in Rock Onsen.
Now you kind of know the setup.
But this was like back in 2016, they met, they all became friends.
one formed one band, one formed the other, then they decided, you know what?
We had great success at Rock Onsen.
Yeah.
Let's get together and make this happen.
Oh,
Good.
After a very short break, folks.
Don't go anywhere.
Terry Barr is here.
We're making radio history.
It's a Barbie on Friday night.
She's in the studio.
We'll be right back.
It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
A bunch of airdrops playing.
Chris Casper's on airdrops.
I'm trying to keep up.
Terry's laughing at us.
Conrad's giving us the thumbs up, but it looked like a drum.
Great to have you with me.
We are about to close this thing down and head into the weekend.
Yes.
Coming to you live from Madison tonight.
You have a busy weekend.
Yeah, it'll be fun though.
It's going to be fun.
Filling festivals.
We'll be back here on Monday.
Johnny Beiner will be here.
Madison comedian, very funny.
Good.
And Victoria Davis, local journalist who is just outstanding.
So we'll have more live guests on Monday.
But right now, folks, we are making history here.
on night night late history.
It's not a long history, so it's easy to make history.
Oh, Terry Barr is here.
She's here live for Bar Band Friday night.
And this is really fun.
It is fun.
Thank you.
All right.
So we got a few minutes left.
Tell
And then they realized, well, some of the guys playing with us, they don't necessarily want to keep going.
So two of the people in one band, two of the people in the other band said, let's get together.
That's cool.
So they started writing.
And of course, now it's pandemic time 2020.
So they all wrote long distance, put their music together like everybody was trying to do back then and ended up with some incredible song.
that were heard by some industry types.
They have since, and I am not kidding when I say this, they have been on a world tour.
They have been opening for people like Death Cab for Cutie.
Terry, this is so much fun.
You came all the way down here and we made history.
We made history.
Terry Barr, ladies and gentlemen, Barbed Friday night.
Also, thank you to Greg Leigh Ann and Jim Vincent.
We got one more text here.
Tyler says, that's a great idea for a scary movie, The Silhouettes.
You better copyright that.
We'll write it together, Tyler.
All right.
Thank you also to Chris Casper.
Big shout out to Chris, as always, when I'm in Madison.
So much fun.
On behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, good night, Wisconsin.