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Andor & Rökker Band Friday (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri May 30, 2025
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Hey, this is Nightlight with Peach Waba, folks.
Welcome back.
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Great to have you with me on this Friday night as we ease into the weekend.
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Good luck everybody right now Well, it is a bar ban Friday night, too.
I got a remind everybody rocker
will
be here at 7 35 instead of Terry Baratieri is taking a well-deserved vacation So her pal and co-host at max inc radio excellent show
every Saturday here at Civic Media from 6 to midnight.
Rocker will be here and we'll talk music with Rocker.
So bar band Friday night lives on even without the bar part of it.
And right now I'm excited because we haven't had this guy on in a while and he is the Civic Media Sports Director.
He is incredibly knowledgeable about sports.
He speaks articulately about a lot of subjects though, including Star Wars.
And we're going to cover a few things tonight with Jimmy.
Jimmy Cusco, ladies and gentlemen, joins us here now on Nightlight.
Hey, pal.
Hey, how's it going man?
It really has been like a long time Well
you were filling in for Mike and you know you were kind of you know obviously you were in the rotation We love talking to you, but then I just you know I read people Jim and I can tell when I'm pestering them or they don't have time That's one of my I'm like George Costanza can always tell when someone's not having fun at a party I know when I'm pushing too hard so but either way it's great to have you back buddy
Well, I'm glad to be back and you know, it's fun because I you know for all the things that people talk about Hey, you're sports guy, whatever.
I'm multi-dimensional I mean the other things such as sports and that's one of the reasons why I really enjoy your show is that you know, we have a whole day of talk and Politics and all the other fun things happening in the world, but we could relax at night and just talk about the things that make us laugh and smile So that's one of the reasons why I appreciate you Pete.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, Jim and your 20 bucks is on the way.
Thanks for the thanks for the plug and you missed
Who doesn't need 20 bucks?
Our first hour, Jim, we probably spent five minutes talking about Lube.
Where else can you find that on the Civic Media Radio Network?
You'll just have to go back and listen.
All right.
So, all right, it's great to have you here.
Let's jump right in.
You sent a great text, and I read this, and I was like, oh, we have to talk about this on the air.
You said that regarding the Star Wars franchise, you just binge watched Andorra season one and two.
and Rogue One, and you said it was the best of Star Wars.
Please elaborate on that.
Yeah, so let me just take it a step back.
It's the best of Star Wars if you're looking for an adult version of Star Wars.
A lot of the movies and a lot of the marketing is geared towards younger people, right?
It's meant to be kind of, you know, the original trilogy is a kind of a coming of age, chosen one hero saves the day kind of thing, right?
That's, you know, pretty common in movies and things like that.
Andalore is a series, along with Rogue One, the movie that was released a few years back.
I think it's really more tailored towards adults.
You really have to pay attention to details in a lot of ways.
It's a lot like the spy thriller type shows that people like to watch on whatever other platform.
It's a different take on the Star Wars universe.
And I think that that's the appeal of it, especially if you're somebody who enjoys having multiple plotlines to follow, enjoying character development, depth in characters.
And that's a reason why I put it.
high, not just in Star Wars shows, but of any show.
I put
it
pretty high up there because it gives you a lot to think about.
And you can get invested in just about any of the several main characters throughout the series.
That's a great answer.
And I, you know, I'm one of those guys, I like Star Wars.
I don't eat, sleep and breathe it.
You know, I, if I have Star Wars questions, I go to my son, he's more into it.
And he, like, even before this interview, I'm like, Joe, what was Rogue One about again?
Because I, as much as I like Star Wars and they're, they're.
Just outstanding entertainment.
I do tend to forget what happened where there's so many movies There's so many TV shows.
I've watched a few of them with my son and I even on those I know there's Captain Rex and this is part of this show and this guy But rogue one once we got talking about it.
You're right Jim It is a great movie and it just has an energy that the other Star Wars don't have and the ending is pretty bleak Which you don't really see a lot either, right?
Right and you know for the people who originally watched Rogue one when it came out several years ago After watching and or when you watch Rogue one again after you've seen the two seasons of and or a Lot of things stand out much differently about the movie Just based on what you had watched the shows like even the main character Cassie and and or played by Diego Luna you view him
a lot differently in the context of the movie after seeing the series because the series obviously develops this character, gives him quite the backstory and everything like that, but the motivations in the movie itself and why he does the things he does and all the emotional payoffs and hooks that are in the movie, there's a whole bunch of context to it all now.
brilliantly really explains everything throughout the series.
One of the things the series does really well is foreshadows coming.
We know the ending.
We know Rogue One is coming, right?
We know that.
Right.
And still the show is finding ways to kind of place things along the way that lead you to the things that happen in the movie.
That's so cool.
So, all right, so talk us through this.
For the people that are listening, Jim, that have maybe seen both or one, like I haven't seen Andor, I've seen Rogue One.
Tell us the timeline there.
Rogue One or Andor leads into Rogue One, which leads into episode four with Luke Skywalker, correct?
Correct.
Yeah, the series leads into Rogue One.
So yeah, and then it goes into the original trilogy, episodes four through six.
In fact, the ending of Rogue One is it pretty much.
you know, a new hope picks up right where Rogue One leaves off.
The end of indoor season two leads into everything that happens in Rogue One.
So it gives you a lot more lead up to two episode four.
So, you know, if you're starting, obviously, you would start with season one, then go to season two and then go to Rogue One.
Okay.
So you, you binge watch both seasons.
How long did that take you?
quite a while.
I mean,
I
had seen, I watched them both when they came out right away.
And I had seen Rogue one years ago.
I just made a decision.
I'm like, you know, I'm going to watch it all just in a row.
I just want to see how many things I can pick up on and see how, how everything kind of leads in.
You know, the first time you watch through, you're watching it for the entertainment.
You're, you know, your brain is off.
You're not thinking as much, right?
Second time through, you're trying to pick up on things like, oh, that's what happened.
Or, oh, that character actually plays a part here, you know, five episodes later.
It's,
It's that deep of a show where there's things that happened episodes ago that are suddenly relevant later.
So it took me a couple of weeks to get through everything just because of life and things.
But I think, like I said earlier, the thing I appreciate is that there's a lot of depth to it.
And it's not just the main storyline of developing the main character of the show.
I feel like the show actually has several main characters.
It's not just one character.
You're learning a lot more about all of the pieces that kind of move in.
And if you're somebody who's really invested into things like politics, or if you're invested in things, you know, the spy thriller stuff, the heist movies, things like that, there's all of those elements throughout both seasons.
That's great.
Folks, that is the familiar voice of Civic Media Sports Director Jimmy Koska.
We're talking Star Wars.
He's a big fan and just binge watched season one and two of Andor.
Is that on Disney?
That's Disney, right?
Yeah, that's the philosophy up.
So let me ask you this, Jim.
Do your kids are they as big on Star Wars as you are?
Do they watch with you?
And do they agree with you in your opinion on that it's the best, at least for adults?
My kids are pretty young.
So
this
would not be a show.
You know, they're one of them just graduated kindergarten, right?
Oh, little young for this.
But I think for them, there's a couple of animated shows that they'll watch occasionally, but they're not as into it as I am.
I get it from my dad.
My dad was really big into it.
He's taken me to the theater for all this stuff.
So that's where I picked it up from.
But my kid's not so much.
But I do think that this show is most specifically targeted towards adults.
I don't know.
I don't know that kids could follow it.
There's a lot of exposition.
Yeah, so not as there's no Jedi, right?
There's no lightsabers in this.
So it's not the Star Wars that people think of.
They think of lightsabers and big explosive flashy battles.
And there are a few battles, but, you know, there's no Jedi.
There's no there's no lightsaber clashes.
None of that.
It's it's it's a much different take on the Star Wars universe, which is, you know, and not that having a lightsaber too would be bad, but it's a different take on things.
And I think I think people can appreciate that.
Do you
have you seen the born identity movies?
Yes.
Do you see any similarities?
Tony Gilroy wrote those, and I think he's the main writer of Andor or Rogue One, I can't remember.
But do you see similarities?
Yeah, there's definitely some crossover pieces.
I think there's a couple of twists that really, it makes you call back to some of his other work.
Also, just in the sense that, you know,
There's characters who you see throughout, and you kind of know where things are kind of heading with certain characters on the show, but it doesn't make any of the payoffs less satisfying knowing what's happening to everybody at the end of all this, which I think just lends you to just appreciate the fact that it's an incredibly well-written show.
And more to that point, when I say there's multiple main characters, the main character on the show obviously is Andor, Gasian Andor, main character, right?
But there's a lot of characters kind of in the universe around him that you learn a lot about.
And I would say that of all the cast, there are multiple women who are part of the show.
who all you could argue could be the leading actress in this show.
There's five or six of them.
And
they all do a brilliant job in this.
And a couple of them are even relatively new into acting.
I think one of the main characters is actually brand new to acting.
So there's a lot of depth to the characters.
And I think you're right.
The Bourne trilogy or the Bourne series, there's definitely some similarities.
I think especially in how, you know, character arcs kind of turn out and the way the
show is structured as several mini arcs throughout, three episode arcs throughout it too.
That's great.
We'll have a few more minutes with one of our pals, Civic Media Sports Director Jimmy Koska.
When we come back after this very short break, don't leave folks, it's Peach Waba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
So you
can see, oh, what's going on?
Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.
You've got the Civic Media Radio Network, and it is a bar band Friday night.
Rocker will be here at 7.35 after the news, filling in for his pal Terry Barr tonight.
He'll tell us what's coming up on Max Inc Radio tomorrow night, and we'll talk a little music, too, as we do every night here, or every Friday, I should say.
Right now, we've got a few more minutes with our buddy Jimmy Koska, Civic Media Sports Director.
Jim, I've got a couple sports questions for you, but I'd like to...
put a button on the Star Wars talk.
Do you have a, like after Rogue One and Andorra, where do you go?
What's your favorite?
So I'm partial to the original trilogy because that's what got me into it.
I think that there's just a lot of magic and how
simple things were, you know, relative to all the CGI and things that we have now, you know, you can suspend disbelief a little bit and just enjoy those movies for what they are.
I don't tend to poke holes in a lot of the older movies that I watch.
I just try to enjoy it and, you know, just kind of revel in some of the performance too of some of the better actors and things like that.
I just, I really enjoy
just kind of the introduction to it.
And, you know, I guess I just kind of take it at that.
So I guess it's kind of a boring answer.
I know there's there's also a cartoon that there's there's a cartoon and animated shows that also do really well, you know, with rebels with bad batch, bad batch is one of my personal favorites.
It's great.
You know, Clone Wars, like there's there's there's a really big expanded universe of Star Wars things.
But I always come back to the original trilogy because that's what got me into it.
Little little nostalgia there.
Great answer.
And I'm right there with you.
That's fantastic.
Are you going to see a mission impossible?
Um, you know, it's funny is all the movies I see in the theaters now It's it's they're all kids movies.
So,
you
know, I've seen the Minecraft movie in the theater about seven times now I just got to see the reload stitch.
It's all kids movies.
My kids are going in the fourth and first grade So
I don't know why I got I thought I knew you had young kids.
I thought you had a couple old I can't keep the civic media personality kids straight, you know, I know older years are young stewards are in the middle It's hard to keep track of them, but that's what I love watching those movies with my
kids all the all the kids movies just are so much fun hey before we let you get out of here what I want to ask you something because I feel like the the bucks are in a really weird spot what would you if you were like their GM what would you do
you know it's funny is you get to simulate this if you buy a video game you can actually simulate what you do and for me it'd be
finding a way to turn off the thing that lets the computer say no to trades and just build a roster of nothing but three point shooters around Yanis and let him go to work.
You know, the bucks though in real life, they don't have that option.
They can't force trades.
They can't turn off the salary cap.
It's going to be kind of a weird year because it's, you know, it's kind of like a gap year, right?
They really just need a year to let
everything kind of cool off.
They don't have any assets to move.
There's not a whole lot of roster flexibility.
There's no draft picks, nothing in the future that can dish out.
They have an injured superstar that they have to wait to return.
Achilles injuries are notoriously terrible for professional athletes.
It doesn't seem like Yanis is trying to force his way out, but I think this is like one of those years where you kind of just take pause and maybe it's one of those years.
I liken back to when Kobe Bryant was kind of between
you know, after he'd won the championships and he had that year where he didn't have all those pieces around him and the Lakers basically said, Kobe, you can shoot 100 times.
Go score 60 points in a game.
We don't care.
Go have fun.
Maybe the Bucks do that with Yanis this year.
See if Yanis can score 40 a game.
Let him go nuts.
That's where I would be.
But I'm not an NBA GM either.
I want Yanis to stay selfishly in Milwaukee.
But I also understand the appeal of wanting a championship and wanting to be on a team that competes for things as well.
The Bucks are good as long as Yanis is here.
There's nothing you get even close to Yanis in any trade.
So I think the Bucks are just going to ride it out and hope that he's happy with probably some kind of.
every building you're coming up.
Yeah, they're in a weird position because you wouldn't blame them for making a move, even if they had to move Giannis.
I think they would all part as friends and the fans would even understand that on some level, but as a fan, you don't want to see your hero leave, right?
I mean, it's a weird position.
No, and
also, again, you're not getting anything back close to Giannis.
You're not
getting a transcended superstar.
With any of those draft picks you might acquire, with any of those players you get back, you just aren't.
You don't get a roster makeover in a trade like that.
There's no IDA team that's going to completely gut what it has just to land.
Yanis, right?
They're not
going
to take.
three or four ready-made starter rotation guys and a bunch of draft picks to do it.
That's the thing.
A trade is only going to happen if Yanis forces it to happen.
And when that happens, the bucks are going to be trading.
They're going to be trading their dollar bill for six dimes.
And they'll have to live with it.
And they won't be as relevant without Yanis.
That's a great point.
Jim, thanks so much.
You're the best, buddy.
Great to catch up again.
Appreciate you guys.
Thank you
like back at you.
All right.
That's Jimmy Casca civic media Sports director.
It's funny because you know, we're fans of Jimmy and Mike they both are phenomenal personalities and do great work Jimmy's a sports director and I kind of call Mike the sports authority because that's more of a vague term, right?
Yeah, and then there's no pecking order because those guys are friends.
What would you call
Sports walkings, I don't know
I had a bench warmer.
How does that sound?
There you go.
The civic media bench warmer, that's what I know.
I think in high school, I was like the ninth guy, like, you know, the sixth man.
That was a term I didn't even understand when I moved to Marinette, when I was like in sixth grade, people were like, oh, I'm the sixth man.
I'm like, what is it?
I had never heard that before.
I'm like, so you don't start, but you're bragging about it.
It's just a weird.
But there's nothing wrong with being the first guy off the bench.
My whole high school career, I was like, maybe eighth on a good day, most likely ninth, tenth, or eleventh, you know?
That's what happens when you can't dribble.
Left corner.
Explain that.
All the way at the end.
You were like...
Is he on the bench for the team or is he watching the game?
You're like, it'd be great if I was the sixth man on like a football team, but never quite got there either.
All right, so our question of the night, folks, what is your go-to swear word or phrase?
608 says piece of f-ing S. Mine was just piece of S, but this 608 is putting another adjective in there.
Ed from Madison says C.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
I know I can read that, but I don't even think you can read that in the air.
Thank you, Ed.
Thank you, 608.
We're coming right back.
It is a Bar Band Friday Night Rocker.
It's coming up next, folks.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Terry Barr is a special guest, but she is not here tonight.
So the bar band part of this segment is gone.
It's just a band Friday night.
We'll call it, we'll rename it Rocker Band Friday Night because Terry Barr's co-host
at MaxIncRadio is filling in for Terry, who is taking a well-deserved vacation.
It is my pleasure to welcome back tonight, our good pal, Rocker, who is filling in for Terry.
Hey, buddy, how are you?
How you doing, man?
Thanks for having me.
Dude, I really appreciate you filling in for Terry.
I like to keep this going, and I love nothing more than to talk about music with you guys, because you and Terry both have turned me on to more music, and a lot of it homegrown.
that I just love.
It's fantastic.
So thank you.
How are you doing tonight?
I'm doing really good.
Thank you.
Great day.
A lot of fun.
Started out this morning on the John and Gordy show talking about Maxine Gradio and we finished the night on Peach
Waba.
That's great.
It looks like you have an excellent show tomorrow.
You've got a few bands coming.
You've got a great band live in the lair.
I've heard of these guys.
lower fifth but I don't know much about him.
Can you tell us about him?
The lower fifth are a band that probably started in Madison around 2012 and they're just a great instrumental folk kind of Americana type act and their singer Luke Jorgensen was just a major player in the music scene here in Madison and he passed away suddenly
hear something before the pandemic.
And the band kind of was like, you know what, we're going to keep going in his name and keep it rolling.
So they're just an amazing group, I think, of people.
And they're led by Corey Swadley, Paul Metz on drums, Audrey Pesatelli on bass and vocals, and Jeremy Henning on trombone and Michael Berger trumpet.
We're going to have a duo tomorrow night, live in the studio on Max Sync Radio.
Max Sync Radio is on the Civic Media Radio Network, 6 p.m.
to midnight.
And we feature interviews, we feature live music performance, and this week with the lower fifth.
And one really cool thing about the lower fifth is that they will also be playing at Wood Fest.
If you don't know, I'm the guy who kind of is the music programmer at Wood Fest.
So we just broke the schedule.
We have three stages over two days with 30 bands.
So tonight is going to feature many of those bands who are playing and next week as well.
Right now, the lower fifth will be playing Sunday, July 27th on the Sugar Maple stage.
And I have a little clip to play.
This is from their song called hopes.
This is the Lord fifth.
Love it.
I love that trumpet.
That sounds great.
Isn't that good?
Yeah.
You know, horns, Americana folk, great guitar player and a lot of vocals.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a lot
of fun tomorrow night.
And that's they're live in the layer at 9 p.m.
Correct?
8 p.m.
Oh 8 p.m.
Okay.
All right.
So that's lower fifth.
That was the song Hope folks.
You can you can listen to them tomorrow night.
You should tune into Max Inc.
from 6 to midnight but at live in the layer.
Uh, lower fifth will be there at eight PM for a solid hour.
How many songs will they play their rocker within that hour?
Alive in the layer features six songs with interview between the songs.
Great.
And, uh, we feature a live concert in our studio every Saturday night.
So
it to tune in.
We just have tons and tons of great artists.
And you can actually hear a lot of that stuff.
If you go to the website, civicmedia.us slash maxing radio.
Have you built a mantle at your home yet, Rocker, for all the hardware you guys are taking home from these award shows for Maxi?
That's pretty amazing.
You know, we've been fortunate to win some awards last year.
And this year already, in the WAMI Awards, I actually won online on-air personality of the year.
And so I'm up for the same award with Terry.
I'm
going
against Terry, so we're going to see where people voted.
for on-air personality for the mama awards the madison area music awards and she's an all-star there so i lost her last year
it's all good for the show though so right yeah
exactly we love it man she's awesome i love her yeah
you guys are awesome together too uh tell us about adam i don't even want to try to say that last name is it the adam a
damn test fade
A Dem Tess Faye.
Oh, I like that.
Okay.
A Dem Tess Faye.
The Dem Tess Faye man.
You know what?
You know, it's kind of funny is right when I'm done with radio tonight.
I'm going to see him live because he's playing tonight in Madison at the Burr Oak,
on Madison's east side, the Winnebago
And doors are at seven.
So I'm just going to walk in there probably when the show starts.
A Dem Tess Faye.
He was in the Black Poet Society, rock, hip hop, funk.
He's a legend here in Madison.
He moved to New York City to pursue a music career.
And then when he was back here visiting, the lockdowns happened
and
he was just like, you know what?
I'm just staying in Madison.
Things were getting crazy.
So it's pretty great because we got him back and he's just an awesome band.
It's going to be a night of soul, groove and connection.
The lights are going to be low and the band is going to be tight and the energy, pure fire and intimacy.
He's
playing at with us.
He's gonna be headlining the Luther Allison stage on Sunday, July 27th at 6 p.m.
And I have a little clip from a dem test for your band.
It is from his 2022 EP.
This song is called The Being Way.
All right.
So you say it ain't worth it But then you stand in line You gotta see what you wanna be You gotta see the way, the way, yeah So let's start And get to the heart of the answers And I can be with you
Just a small part of the process.
For what it is.
The Lawson promise.
That don't make promises.
Don't make promises.
Don't make promises.
See,
I hope
you don't lose it.
That was, uh, say it again, Roger.
Adam Tesfaye, Adam.
Adam
Tesfaye.
Adam Tesfaye.
Okay, there we go.
Adam.
Yes, love that.
So that was great.
But outward fest sounds like a test for your
band.
He'll be headlining at Woodfest.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Are you I sent you the list.
Yeah, I
just released the schedule yesterday.
I got to make it down.
So
it's again, at Woodfest is July 26th and 27th.
It happens on Madison's East Side on Atwood Avenue from Tex Taco Tubs all the way to Monty's blue plate.
There are three stages, the Luther Allison stage, the Clyde-Subblefield stage, and the Sugar Maple stage.
And so there's about 30 bands over two days.
And backstage at the festival, we feed this year probably about 275 musicians over two days.
Wow.
Yeah.
That I have heard nothing but amazing stuff about Atwood Fest.
I got to check it out.
But let's get to my guest is rocker.
He's filling in for Terry Bartonite for Barbie on Friday night.
He's her cohost on the award-winning Max Inc radio, which you can check out here at Civic Media on the network every Saturday from six to midnight.
And be sure and check out live in the layer tomorrow at 8 p.m.
Or you can hear lower fifth.
And we just heard a sample for them.
I want to get to VO five.
I want to make sure we get VO five in because every year the first few years I went to the
Wisconsin Film Festival, they always played the party, the opening night party, and they are so fun.
Tell us about VO5.
Wow.
Well, you know, VO5, I've been booking Atwood Fest and Atwood Summer Fest since 2002.
So for 23 years, right?
In about 2008, me and my wife were actually going to Halloween.
I was dressed as Darth Rocker, and she was dressed as Padme.
and we walked into the frequency bar and there's this band playing disco and they're wearing angels outfits and halos and wings and my wife loves disco she loves dancing so we're you know boogie and down and she's like oh you have to hire these guys you know for Edward Fest and I was singing to myself you know a disco band for the rock stage and so we did and you know people started showing up
and they danced and the next year we hired them and moved them up to the schedule and people came and within a couple of years they had worked up to be the headliner and just thousands and thousands of people come to dance in the streets
VO5 at Atwood Fest every year.
So it's really a magical community experience and when you look around and see the people's faces in the crowd
just go to the website atwoodfest.com.
And we have a couple of pictures from last year where the people are just smiling, having a great time.
It's really one of the best festivals, I think, even though I happen to be a huge part of it.
But yeah, it's really good.
All right, so we got a song here from VO five.
We do, you know,
they'll be playing at Disco on the Lake here at the Eastside Club in Madison on Thursday, June 5th at 6 p.m.
And they'll be playing at Woodfest July 26th after Fat Function.
That'll be on the main stage of Clyde Solfield stage right now.
This is one of their originals and this song is called Soul Shiny Day from their album Dance
Originality.
And my swords are blowing, looking to a certain blue sky And I feel as high, and my feet are on fire Spirit's rising higher and higher on a brand new day Chase my troubles away
That
is awesome because I know they made their chops as a cover band, but that's a great original.
Oh, yeah.
And
they have that album is a great album.
They perform quite a few originals now.
Um, as well as the great, you know, the great hits, people
are going to
love the big disco hits.
They're going to play disco inferno, you know,
rocker.
You got a fan here.
PJ listening or watching on the stream says all that live music is what I miss about living in Madison.
Well said PJ and PJ.
PJ also answers our question tonight.
He says, used to have a favorite that would confuse people often.
Yuck foo, bun of a stitch.
Go back off in your own Jackyard.
If you rearrange the letters, you'll get it.
We get it, PJ.
We'll have a few more minutes with Rocker after a very short break here, folks.
It's a Bar Band Friday night on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio
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Great to have you with me for a few more minutes here on a Friday night.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Monday night, I will be live from Madison doing the show, Lighting Up State Street, folks.
It's going to be a great show.
Filmmaker Austin Galante, I hope I'm saying that right will be will be in the studio.
He's got a new film He's a Madison based filmmaker and then my pal Ben riser who does all the programming at UW Cinematic will be joining me in studio as well for some movie talk Our question of the night was what is your go-to swear word?
Keep it clean for the radio Terry Ryan on the she's or he is in the 401 for I think it's a she do we establish that con?
She says
If they can't take a joke, that's one of my go-tos.
I love that one, too.
People that are like too uptight and can't laugh.
Heath into forest says f-stain or fudge stain.
I'm guilty of using that one myself sometimes.
And then steady Eddie says, I'm listening to Nightlight on this BBFN.
from my giggle room, which is just down the hall from my peach wabba-inspired wiggle room.
I don't swear too much in public, but I curse like a drunken sailor in private, mostly at TV commercials.
I'm with ya, Eddie.
He says GD at Pete.
Fun fact, gentle, giant, Haas Cartwright, Dan Blocker on the TV show Bonanza, would cuss by saying, dad, gummit.
I swear he really did.
It's true.
No S-H-I blank, Sherlock, Pete and Conrad.
Have a good weekend, all three of you.
Steady Eddie, thank you, buddy.
And Lil' Erv on the stream finally says, uh, I don't know what that means, Conrad, do you?
Shiv?
V. A V.
kind of know what he's doing.
I don't even think I could say what he put.
No, no, I wouldn't try.
All right, we've got a few more minutes here with our pal, Rocker.
He is one of the co-hosts of Max Inc Radio that you can listen to here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Every Saturday, the award-winning Max Inc Radio from 6 to midnight, he is filling in for his co-host, Terry Barr.
Rocker, who do you want to, who do you, who should we get to next, Rocker?
And by the way, you look great, man.
I'm glad you're feeling better and you're on the mend.
You look like a million bucks.
How you feeling?
I'm doing good, man.
You know, I got to go practice with my band for the first time since I had a heart attack and my cardio rehab and all that stuff.
So I'm really happy to be playing in the band and looking forward to trying to play in some shows in the fall and kind of, you know, get back to doing things.
And is that a sign like you're really fully back when you can actually jam with the band?
I think so.
I mean, you know, I use big stakes and I don't play in a country band.
All right.
So we got we got time probably for one more.
Who do you want to go with here, Rock?
Parker Barrow, Jeremiah James Band.
Well, you know, Jeremiah Jams Band, that'd be a band that'd be great.
We can get to Parker Barrow maybe next week.
Okay.
Jeremiah Jams Band, they're going to be playing at Wood Fest on Sunday, July 27th.
4 p.m.
Luther Allison stage Jeremiah Jams man is from Appleton.
There's a 2025 Bammys band of the year.
Wow, right?
That's Bammys.
That's up in your territory.
Yeah.
Oh, we got to get the
area of music.
Right.
Love to have
their Jeremiah and his wife, Emily Jams.
They front the band.
They're incredible multi-instrumentalists.
They even added a new drummer.
So they have two drummers and they're really fun.
I thought they're, they're really great.
They're playing all over the place.
June 25th, they're up in Green Bay at Hagermeister Park.
On July 4th, they're at One Barrel Brewing Company up in Door County, which that would be a lot of fun.
Oh,
that's fantastic.
We're right.
And
August 13th at the Tarleton truck yard.
Oh, God, they're like right in there.
Hagermeister Park is like next door and the Tarleton blocks down.
So there you go.
Right.
all right so
uh well i got a song from them um this is one of their latest songs it's by jeremiah jams band this is called dancing in your
soul
James Band.
Love it.
That's great.
Jeremiah Jams.
Oh, Jams.
I'm sorry.
I can't read my own writing.
Jeremiah Jams, man.
Hey, we got another text on the stream.
PJ says, oh, I know the Jeremiah Jams.
He says, I live in Nina and my friends in Oshkosh know Jeremiah and I have hung out with them at their shows.
So there you go.
You're bringing the truth to the people.
Rocker, thank you so much, buddy.
It's great to see you and I really appreciate you filling in for Terry.
And if you're game, well, yeah, we'll do this again next week.
It'll be great to continue this.
Sounds good.
I'll put together another batch of songs and we can preview a little more.
of the bands that are coming to Atwood Fest.
Oh, and by the way, we have Austin Galante on our show tomorrow night.
I saw that.
He's
really
hitting up the, the Civic Media radio network.
He's also going to be on John and Gordy, I think Monday.
So he's making the rounds.
He's doing good.
That's great.
And I'm glad I pronounced his name right, even though it was kind of an accident.
But thank you, buddy.
Great to see you and have a great weekend.
Thank you.
You got it.
Appreciate it.
That's rocker.
He ain't in no country band, Conrad.
That was my favorite line of the night.
I love it.
All right, thank you to Rocker for filling in for Terry.
Thank you to Rex Sykes.
Thanks to Jimmy Koska.
Thank you for all your texts, folks.
And have a great weekend on behalf of the lovable producer, Conrad.
Good night,
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