Barr Band Friday and Milwaukee Photography (Hour 2)

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And now, a guy who likes pina coladas, but hates getting caught in the rain, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

Two night light with Pete Schwabba.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night.

Stormy Friday night if you're here in northeast Wisconsin, but nicer and other parts of the state.

Great to have you here.

And we've got a great show tonight.

It is a bar band Friday night.

Terry Bar will be along at 735 with a new.

tunes and excellent conversation.

Our question of the night is what is a food that totally grosses you out?

We had a great discussion earlier and got a lot of activity on our social media pages and here on the show and we resolved a situation with Ali and another listener and people came to her defense.

It was a lot of warmth and a lot of virtual hugs here on Nightlight.

It was as usual.

Our listeners are the best.

Thank you for being with us tonight.

Right now, uh, my guest is Nate Vomhoff.

We have a few more minutes with Nate.

He is a Milwaukee based photographer and he is also a pharmacist and he takes really cool photos.

So I recommend you check out his website or you can follow him on instagram where he posts really cool stuff too.

We've got Nate for a few more minutes here.

Um, so Nate, what do you say to people like when you became a photographer, I assume you had to get an actual camera and learn how to use it and all this intricacies and lighting and lenses and all that kind of stuff.

Can you be a real photographer and use an iPhone?

Yeah, absolutely.

I

mean,

like I said, the shot I got yesterday was with the iPhone.

So, I mean, you can take incredible photos.

The problems come when you're looking to blow them up larger in life and print them

out.

Then the quality sometimes goes down a little bit, but the cameras nowadays and phones are pretty powerful.

So what do you take your pictures with you mentioned a drone and you mentioned that you did use an iPhone for one But do you have a specific camera you like and or do you have to change the lenses?

Do you light stuff?

How do you do that?

Yeah, so I have my drone is a Mavic 3 Pro The 4 just came out some I have to look into getting that one But then the the camera that I have I have a Sony mirrorless camera his 7r4 and I do have a couple different lenses so and I didn't

start with multiple lenses.

I started with one and kind of just, you know, reinvested from money I made from photos and just, you know, keep amping up the collection of lenses.

So

what do you like, were you taking pictures before the digital camera became all the rage?

Like, did you use an actual film camera?

Have you ever used those?

No, I never used a film camera.

So right when I started, I mirrorless were coming out.

So I had a DSLR.

And then the mirrorless started taking over the market.

So that's when I invested in the Sony camera.

And then, uh, yeah, I've stuck with that one.

I haven't changed it out since I got it.

So.

Nice.

Uh, check out Nate's work at Nate Baumhoff.com.

Um, all right.

So let's talk about some moving pictures, Nate.

What, uh, what kind of movies, what kind of movies do you like?

Movies, um, I'm kind of all over the board.

I'm always down for, uh, a good horror movie.

I tried to scare myself once in a while.

Um, besides that, I'm kind of excited for this, this Lilo and Stitch remake to come out.

Oh wow.

It's

an nostalgia of that.

I don't know.

It's, it's a fun movie Elvis Presley, you know?

Okay.

Very cool.

Do you have a typical genre you like, or do you like to go to the theater or watch them at home?

I

I'm going to be honest.

I'm not a huge movie person.

I like

to be

outside and hanging out with the dog out there and, you know, stay

out in the house.

So you're not probably, you're probably not binge watching any TV shows.

You could recommend that either.

No,

I keep hearing how great white lotus is and I have not started it yet.

So we'll see if we get there.

All right.

Very cool.

Do you have a, uh, do you have a food that you find absolutely disgusting, something that you just can't eat?

I keep coming back to, I don't like mushrooms.

Don't put mushrooms in anything.

I'm not a fan.

Some people like them.

I was told growing up that they don't have a taste.

So I figured why put them in things if they don't have a taste.

So, and then it's a texture thing.

Fair enough.

Nate, have a great night.

Thank you for your time.

Continued success behind the pharmacy counter and behind the camera.

Keep doing what you do.

It's great stuff.

I appreciate you.

Thanks for having me.

You got it.

That's Nate Baumhoff.

Check out his website, Nate Baumhoff.com.

You can follow him on Instagram.

He's got great photos of Milwaukee, some of Madison, and then he's got San Francisco.

He did, and I think there's merch there too.

I meant to ask Nate about that.

I think he has a calendar, a Milwaukee photography calendar.

You can check out if you're really into Milwaukee.

That could be kind of cool.

So Conrad, someone else...

Coming to the not the defense of your mom, but Tom from New Berlin also says I Guess he's being adversarial sauerkraut is a love drug helps with gut plus it has vitamin C and lactic acid which helps with libido nature's Viagra You know except Tom if your breath smells like sauerkraut girls aren't gonna get near you or guys or whatever so I don't know

My dad loves sauerkraut, I think, so I think he's told me that it has good benefits to it.

I can't get past that.

I've tried it before.

I've gave it

a

chance.

And every time I try it, I'm like, this just doesn't taste good or smell good.

Yeah, I don't mind the taste of it.

If it's on a brat, it's not ever something I seek out.

I'll put some on a brat.

I've had that.

It's not too bad.

But Tom.

Yeah.

But is your dad giving you advice?

Like,

you know,

he always

he always tries to get me to try some new stuff, I think.

And the one that he comes back to his liver, he actually likes it.

Oh,

yeah.

I'm

not putting that anywhere near my mouth or

my nose.

That's one of our popular answers tonight.

And steady Eddie says, Pete, as a kid, I would not

could not eat liver and onions couple puke emojis he says as a kid I wouldn't eat liver and onions no one could make me I still don't never will final answer steady Eddie that was from the heart that did not have steady Eddie's normal you know composition of his texts he

does not he

does not he's not he's not a fan and a lot of people I would say that's our winner tonight so far anyway we got a ways to go but

Oh, here's a good one.

Nick from Marshall.

He's in the 608.

He says, the smell of Limburger cheese grosses me out.

I have to be honest, there are some cheeses I like, but some cheese, the smell, I agree.

Some cheeses just have a disgusting smell.

Nick says, my grandfather used to eat all kinds of disgusting food, including a possum.

Oh, no.

That's horrible and he says and I also have an uncle who is a retired chef and also said possum is delicious when cooked the right way Yeah, when cooked as chicken or steak That's terrible I'm having trouble getting through isn't through Nick's text just because I cannot fathom eating a possum just from the way they walked

into the darkness.

It's so disgusting.

But Nick continues, he says, I don't know about you and Conrad, but the thought of eating pasta makes me want to.

Poor barf emojis.

Nick is not holding back.

Yeah, I'm with you, Nick.

That sounds really disgusting.

I looked up some gross foods here, and these are great ones.

Where is that?

I just had that here.

One of them was bat soup.

Here's another one, bowl penis.

Yeah, that's, I don't think I'd try that.

And here's what it says about the bullpenis.

You can read into these puns if you like bullpenis the long and short of it is Bullpenis is featured on menus in China and is purported to have aphrodisiac aphrodisiacal aphrodisiacal powers.

Um,

I believe that I guess the shape of it Yeah, if you're email bull

It gets your motor running, but it doesn't do anything for me personally.

I

don't think I would try that if I'm being honest.

I'd have to be pretty damn hungry.

Here's another one.

Jello salad.

Oh, that's I'm not a fan, but I wouldn't be high on my list.

Is that like going Jello salad?

Is that just a bunch of like cube Jellos like?

No, this

is like a jello mold like it looks like a bunt cake.

There's probably a cocktail weanies in it or something Oh, there's another one sheep eyeballs.

Yeah, no pretty gross Licorice black licorice Not a fan, but I wouldn't put it up there high on the list.

No,

but it is gross Here's one kind of ready for this mouse wine on in parts of Korea in China allegedly helps treat all kinds of medical conditions the drink is essentially

Rice, rice wine infused with, where are we going here?

I lost my place.

Rice wine, rice wine doesn't sound good.

Oh, it's already, I had to click on the link and it goes all the way down.

There's another one called bull member.

I think I have a picture of it.

Oh, this is awful.

All right.

So that's our question of the night, folks.

You still have time to get in on the fun.

What is your, what is a food that totally grosses you out?

Let us know 855-752-4842-855-755 Civic.

Cliff Wall, he's watching on Facebook.

Our pal Cliff Wall says, Pete, cooked red cabbage, one notch worse than sauerkraut.

Cliff has his bad foods.

He has a notch system.

Thank you, Cliff.

Dave, listening on the stream, says, any mud bug?

I don't even know what that term is.

Any mud bug?

Lobster, shrimp, crawfish, scallops, clams.

Wow, Dave!

I can eat all those.

Crawfish I'm not crazy about.

But all the other stuff.

Clams, oysters, lobster, shrimp, scallops.

I can do all that.

But a lot of people don't like to shellfish.

I get that, you know?

I

absolutely love it,

but... I do, too.

But it's polarizing.

Nick also from Nick same Nick from before from Marshall from the 608 he says I would imagine Rocky Mountain oysters would taste disgusting too.

Those are Steve from Florida Conrad's dad says the one food I have always not been a fan of is head cheese.

That's so gross.

I don't even fully know what head cheese is but I've had a lot close to my life.

Look that up right now, if you would, because we got to, I would love to know what that is.

I've never bothered to look into it.

I just knew it was never getting anywhere near my piehole.

Steve says, hang on a second, Steve says, even on a cracker, it still sucks.

Even on a cracker.

On another note, sorry Conrad, on the canned tuna, you know it was your cat's Toby and Erascus favorite.

Oh, maybe that's why Conrad.

You know, it was the smell when I'd come home from school and I could smell tuna.

I'd instantly go downstairs to go outside.

I just couldn't do it.

Ronnie from Oregon confirms that escargot is a snail.

Yes.

I did know that I just forgot.

All right.

So what is head cheese?

What are we looking at

here?

The picture looks disgusting.

So it says a meat jelly made from the head

of

pig or calf, sometimes sheep or cow.

There's

no

dairy product and contains no cheese.

No kidding.

Oh, that's so bad.

It looks gross.

I've seen pictures of it.

Yeah, I would never go anywhere near it.

Tom from New Berlin says my food was fried liver.

My parents loved it, but my mom made liver dumplings that serve them in a beef broth.

Boy, I could probably read all these texts later and vomit.

I was

terrible.

Just terrible.

Tom also says the broth made it acceptable.

Okay.

So Tom muscled it down.

That's good gizmo.

He's listing from the nine to zero.

I think that's our pal gizmo.

Yeah.

He says head cheese is it's not cheese so much as it is made of pig face parts and gelatin.

It's so gross and people ate it all the time back in like the fifties.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says can't stand toe jam and ham and again.

That's so awful.

All right, I'm going to go vomit.

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Terry Barr will be here at the bottom of the hour after the news.

When we come back, I've got a great clip about how they found George Costanza.

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Conrad is rioting shotgun.

Our question of the night is, what is a food that really grosses you out?

And wait, do we read this one from Monica?

Oh, those are new.

Okay, I gotta go back because I almost missed a text from...

I think it was Monica from Mount Horrib.

So let's leave that.

Let's read that one before we move on to the Eclipse.

I was Lori from Hayward.

She's in the 715.

She says, don't think I can handle blood sausage.

That sounds awful.

You asked about the ham salad or ham spread that basically is ham ground up with fine chopped pickles, onions, and mayo.

My sister and her family both love it.

But she does not because another puke emoji.

I've seen a lot of puke emojis tonight, folks.

And Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids, right before the break, referred to Ham and a Ken as Toe Jam?

He can't stand Toe Jam and Ham and a Ken.

Oh, this is so

bad.

Monica from Mount Horov says, oh, wait a minute.

Nick from Marshall is giving us more advice here.

He says watermelon is actually an aphrodisiac.

All right.

Yeah, if you're Jim Carrey and me, myself, and Irene.

You have to see that movie to understand that reference.

And maybe you don't want to.

Tom from New Berlin says, thanks, Pete.

Thank you, Tom Buddy.

Great to have you listening as always.

Monica from Mount Horrib says, for Conrad, I didn't think I liked a sauerkraut either until I made some fresh.

Don't eat the nasty vinegary stuff in a can.

I bought a jar of Polish sauerkraut in white wine.

It was delicious.

Was that two for you, Con?

Anything?

You know, I'll give it one more try if it's made, if it's made fresh.

So the stuff at the ballpark isn't isn't fresh.

I'm guessing that's the stuff that's vinegary.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But again, I don't mind it.

And it but it probably does taste a lot different if you make it fresh.

Nick from Marshall.

Oh, Nick from Marshall clarifies.

I knew it was something like this.

He says Rocky Mountain oysters is another name for bull testicles.

So there are people that eat bull penis and bull testicles.

I'll skip out on her.

bunch of herbs.

Conrad's dad checks back in.

The secret to great sauerkraut is brown sugar, shredded fresh potatoes, cook all the sauce in a pan, add a great broth on a broad bun, ketchup, fresh diced onions, and you have perfection.

So your mom and dad must have some issues when your dad is craving salad.

My dad eats all the gross stuff.

Although Wisconsin foods that are popular, wasn't your dad, wasn't he like the ground beef on a cracker with an onion?

Was he one of those guys?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think

my dad

will eat about just anything besides head cheese.

Jim from Appleton looks up head cheese, second cousin, look up sauce.

S O U S E. I looked at cheese's second cousin.

What is it?

Is it horrible?

It's it's a pickled meat dish

often

made with pigs

feet.

Oh, God.

No, thank you.

Next time I do a bad food related question, slap me.

All right.

So I found this clip.

I thought this was really cool.

Um, do we have time?

How long is the Seinfeld Clipper?

He's talking to Howard Stern.

Uh, where, uh, yeah, it's about one minute and 20.

We got time.

All right.

Let's try that and let's try to see if we can squeeze in the other one too.

But let's start with Jerry Seinfeld telling Howard Stern about how he finds his material.

I thought this was fascinating.

I'm never not working on material.

So

even,

even when you're sitting with your wife, you're sitting with the kids, it's material.

Every second of my existence, I'm thinking.

Could I do something with that?

That to me sounds torturous.

Like you cannot lie.

So if I came over to your house and we were hanging out, you're kind of really looking for material.

Not kind of.

I'm looking for material.

That's

all the time.

That's being at work 24 hours a day.

It's neurotic.

Making jokes is not work.

It's a gift.

Who the hell can sit and remember all of this material?

What else have I got to do?

That's your day?

You memorize this material?

Howard, you do it over and over and over.

You say that Tiger Woods.

How do you remember which club to use?

What the hell else has this guy got to do?

So when someone says to you, oh, you have it so easy.

You're so naturally funny and blah, blah, blah.

Yes, you are naturally funny.

And you do have that ability to figure that stuff out.

But they don't realize the amount of work that goes into it.

It's like going into the gym every day.

It's hard.

You know how you walk in every day and you go, oh, geez, I got to do this again.

Yeah, it sounds like a tortured life.

And you

say it's not.

It

is.

It is.

But you know what?

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

I

can't

argue

with that.

And that's

marriage.

It's kids.

It's work.

It's work.

It's exercise.

Yes.

It's not eating the food you want to eat.

Right.

Find the torture you're comfortable

with.

Wow.

And you'll do well.

That is so great.

Find the torture you're comfortable with.

Love that line.

Do we have time for the other one?

Yeah.

I love this.

This is Larry David talking about when he found George Costanza, Jason Alexander, the actor.

This is a great clip, too.

Part of the cast was George.

We went through a lot of actors for George.

And then we got a tape that was made in New York.

Jason was in New York.

And he had auditioned with a casting director, so it was just him sitting on a chair with no background reading from the pilot script.

And I saw about 10 seconds of it.

Honest to God, I saw 10 seconds as I said, turn it off.

There he is, an unbelievable actor.

I can't imagine anybody else having done that role and never won an Emmy, which is a crime.

Like I thought that was really interesting how they found George and I listened to another interview recently where Jason Alexander was talking about that how he didn't think he had a chance because he was on like a VHS tape that somebody put him on But so I thought that was interesting one of those situations where they sent everybody home because they got their guy But all the also that he never won an Emmy like George is almost universally everybody's favorite Seinfeld character

I never won an Emmy.

I didn't realize that until I watched that interview at four o'clock in the morning when I sent it to you Conrad, you were probably sound asleep.

Yes, I was snoring.

All right.

It's a Bar Band Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.

Our pal Terry Barr joins us right after the news.

This is Pete Schwabba in 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 Bar.

Terry!

Hi.

Hi there, and welcome

everybody back to

Nightlight.

This is Pete Schwabba with my co-host for the segment.

It's the lovely and talented and...

Her taste in music is not surpassed by anyone, Terry Barr.

How are you, my friend?

Great to see you.

You as well.

Happy Friday.

I know we often chat on Friday and just, you know, how have you been?

How's the week?

Yeah.

I don't know.

This week has been something once again, but here we are to enjoy some great music together.

Absolutely.

And I have to ask you right out of the gate, Terry.

Do you have a food that makes you want to hurl or something you get totally grossed out at?

That's our question of the night.

I know it's terrible.

Oh, you know, I think for me, and oh, my dad would be so mad about this, liver and onions.

That's the hands down winner tonight.

Really?

Yeah, a lot of people do not like liver and onions.

Oh, I can't do it.

That in pea soup.

Oh, that's interesting.

Wow.

That's I could see that.

I I've come around on pea soup over the years, but I understand why people don't like it.

It's got a horrible color.

And it's just I get that.

Yeah.

And

I

guess I didn't like peas anyway.

So it's like, oh, yucky.

Yeah, crushing them up and heating them up only makes it worse.

We've got on the stream, Joseph Wolf says, cannot do slimy texture foods, okra, cooked spinach, et cetera.

Okay, I can see that.

And

Kurt,

Kurt Krause says, I'm a big fan of kraut.

I like it best with fried garlic and onions as I pan fry Italian sausage and olive oil.

Well, that actually sounds pretty good.

The crowd.

Yeah, the crowd absorbs the salt and all the other flavors.

It's amazing.

All right, Kurt.

Well, I think you need to have all of us over for your kraut.

Kurt Krause is kraut.

I think he got something.

But

I like your idea, Pete.

We're

coming over.

Let's do it.

Let's go get some crowded Kurt Krauss's house.

How are you tonight, Terry?

It's good to see you.

I'm good.

I am good.

I know we're a week away from Memorial Day weekend.

And, you know, everybody should take some time, obviously, to think about those that sacrificed for all of us, for what we are able to do.

There's also, if you like music, as we always talk about, there's a huge music event in Madison on Memorial Weekend, and it's free.

It's free to get

in.

It's

called

Budfest, and the music goes day and night on, I think they're up to four different stages.

Really wow that sounds fantastic I remember you talking about that last year that sounds absolutely fantastic um well let's get to it you've once again outdone yourself you have these two great artists you're going to share with us tonight who should we start with.

What do you feel they again I try to bring a little difference.

Yeah,

we've

got we've got some blues.

We've got some jazz.

What are you feeling first?

I think should we go with the the longer song is Tony's song?

So should we go with that first and maybe sure then segue into Marissa?

OK, so tell us about Tony.

Is it Kamen?

It is nicely

done.

Thank

you.

Tony Kamen and the Soundgarden crew.

I love that name.

new band.

They have names in this band that are incredible that I've heard from around southern Wisconsin.

And they even stole a bunch of the horn players from another really great blues band, the Jimmy's.

I don't know how they pulled that off or I don't think they're sharing them either.

I think they are now with Tony.

Yeah, who knows what's gonna happen.

I know Jimmy the Jimmy's they have their own horn section, but This is very cool Tony and everyone else in this band They've all been around played Wisconsin for years.

In fact, Tony's music career goes back to the 1970s when he did rock Got a little older.

He decided to go more to the blues or maybe as we get older we feel more of the blues I'm not sure which is

more accurate

Yeah,

maybe both.

Yeah,

exactly.

And he just really wanted to find a bunch of people that all just really wanted to enjoy playing together.

They don't play out a lot.

In fact, they actually as the Soundgarden crew took a break.

and only recently got back together as the still fairly new band.

And they're gonna be on Maxink Radio to preview some music and some discussions about, you know, why they're back together.

They've got a show coming up.

at the Red Rooster, which is a great blues bar in Madison on

May

23rd.

But otherwise, you know, from what I've been hearing and reading, they are just really excited to as a group get back on stage together.

Yeah, it's when you say new band, they've all been part of other bands, though, right?

Correct.

Yes.

And.

Tony with the most experience, I'm guessing of everybody in this band because again, he goes back to being in bands that played all around Wisconsin in the 1970s.

Wow.

Yeah.

All right.

So why don't we hear the song you picked out, Damn Your Eyes.

Am I getting, is that correct?

All right.

This is a

favorite of the band.

So how

can I nice

this one?

Okay.

This is Terry Barr.

She's got two artists for us tonight, which is fantastic.

This is the first one, Tony Kamen and the Soundgarden crew.

And this is the song, Damn Your Eyes.

I can do what I want I'm in complete control That's what I tell myself I got a mind of my own I'll be alright alone I don't need anybody else I gave myself a good talking to No more being a fool for you But I see you in all I remember

Is how you make me wanna surrender Damn your eyes For taking my breath away For making me wanna stay Damn your eyes For giving my hopes up high For making me

You say that you change Somehow you never do I believe all your lies I look in your eyes You make it all seem true I guess I see what I wanna see Or maybe my heart's just deceiving me Cause with that look I know so

hopes up high for makin' me fo-

Terry, that's awesome.

Listen, I'm sitting here in northeast Wisconsin.

It's gloomy out and there's nothing like some blues.

You know, it was just a great compliment to this Friday night.

And I want to say this, too.

I assume that that was Tony Cannon.

He does not sound like he's from Wisconsin.

Isn't that amazing?

Yeah.

I mean, in all the talent, I love how they highlighted all the instruments.

And you kind of just let the blues breathe baby.

It's great.

It's okay to, you know what I mean?

And it's like, it can't be a dance party every night.

I love that chilling that vibe for tonight.

That was fantastic.

We have a text for you, Terry.

Lori from Hayward, that's the 715 says, damn your eyes, great choice, Terry Barr.

Nice, all

right.

Thank you, Lori.

Oh my gosh.

thrilled to be able to share Tony's music with you.

You'll hear more if you listen tomorrow night to Maxink Radio.

Tomorrow night, that's fantastic.

All right, you can hear more of, yeah, are they live in the lair or are they, you just kind of just.

We're going to play a couple of their songs, but Tony will be in the studio to talk

about

it, to share some stories.

And if anybody wants to, you know, sending questions or their thoughts on the music, we always welcome that.

Very cool.

Um, let's let's try to talk a little bit about Marissa Bellistrari before the break and then we can play the song afterwards.

Tell us about Melissa Bellistrari.

You know, Pete, I love these stories and this almost seems too good to be real.

Um, so she's from Wisconsin.

Uh,

she also originally from Madison.

She, uh, goes to Canada where she gets her Royal Conservatory of Music

certificate From there she goes to Italy where she becomes an Italian opera singer.

Oh

my gosh She's there for years and this is her life.

This is what she does Then I think she just decides let's change it up.

I've done this opera thing in Italy long enough.

What can I do?

So she applies for a job on a cruise ship

She moves to New York City where the cruise is based, and she does this for five years, but this is where she meets her husband on the cruise ship.

Let's pick up there.

Let's do a quick break and pick up there.

This is a great story.

All right.

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It is a Bar Band Friday night here.

We are going to get through a couple texts here.

And then the last texts I read are for our guest, Terry Barr.

So let's zip through these.

And let me also say that on Monday, Dr. Kristen Lierly will be in studio, folks.

That will be fun.

Kristen is always a blast as a guest.

And then my pal artist and actor, Steve Segrin joins the show in the second hour steady.

Eddie says, Pete, did you know that Bird's Nest Soup is actually made

from nests of birds, swiftlets, a tropical bird in Asia.

The soup consists of birds solidified saliva and supposedly helps improve a person's skin and digestion.

It's rich in calcium, magnesium, and potassium.

It sounds tempting, but I think I'm going to pass on the bird's nest soup.

I'm going to go with chicken noodle, please.

Steady Eddie.

Thank you, buddy.

Bridget says, she's in the 818.

She says, warm milk, no thanks.

And then we have

For our guest Terry Bartonite a couple of texts Conrad's dad says Terry pea soup is great if you add diced potatoes onions diced ham and fresh whole milk a winning combination Does that change your mind Terry?

No

Unless he's gonna make it and I can visit and try his

recipe

I would do

that.

I would try it, but...

Well, now your guests are provoking comments too on the stream.

Dave says, cruise ships are a great place to try new foods.

There you go.

Okay.

We're learning something here tonight.

All right.

So you were telling us about your second artist, Marissa Bellistrari.

She met her husband on a cruise ship.

She's been all over the world.

She was an Italian opera singer.

What more could you possibly tell us?

It's just...

I mean, when I'm telling you the story, I actually have to pause while I'm talking about some of this because it just seems like it couldn't all be true.

But

yeah, I

want to write a book or something or I will write their unauthorized autobiography.

Do it.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So they meet after she leaves the Italian opera.

She takes a job with a cruise ship and she's based in New York City.

Yay.

And

she does that for five years, but then she meets her husband who just happens to also be a musician.

He's originally from Tennessee, but they decided if they were going to go back anywhere, they would come to Wisconsin.

So that

is where

they are now.

And together they are putting a new album of original music that they're working on together, but they've moved away from, you know, the Italian, the big voice.

Yes, now.

Yeah, she's not gone more toward jazz, which I think I have heard her mentioned.

She just enjoys so much.

Well, this is really cool.

I love I love jazz, too.

And it says she's also part of a duo, a trio, and a quartet.

I know.

Let's

hear.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And what is this song called, Terry?

I wrote it down, but I can't find it.

Boy, I should know that too.

I

can't find it.

Stay again, Conn.

It's spring.

It's spring.

Okay.

It's

beautiful.

Of course.

And you know what's so funny when I sent you this song, I thought, this is perfect for the way the weather has been.

A little stormy in spring, but this song just makes you feel like, okay, this is good.

This is good.

This will bring us some actual spring.

This is Maria Ballastriere on Barband Friday night.

Boy, this is a really chill vibe tonight.

I love it, Terry.

Are you still awake?

I'm still totally awake.

Thank you so much.

We got to get out of here.

Always fun, my friend.

Have a great show tomorrow night.

Check out Maxic

Radio, everybody.

Happy Friday.

We'll be listing, my friend.

Thank you.

And thank you to Nate Baumhoffen.

All your texts and calls about gross food tonight.

Thanks, Terry.

We'll be back on Monday.

Have a great weekend, everybody, on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.

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