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The Sopranos and Barr Band Friday(Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Jun 6, 2025
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Hey, welcome back.
We are kicking off act two.
I am Pete Schwabba.
This is Nightlight.
So great to have you with me on this Friday night as we head into what should be a beautiful half weekend.
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also,
you're working pushing buttons find a comfortable chair We talked to Mike Clemens in the first hour got a little update on some sports topics boy that sounded like I don't know anything about sport
We talked
about some sports games go team.
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I really do.
I just don't talk about them very articulately.
We've got a lot of fun still coming up in the show.
My pal Mark Unger will be here in just a minute.
We're going to talk about the ending, the controversial ending to the Sopranos, which
I've been on the fence about, but I think I like.
We'll talk about that with Mark in just a few minutes.
It is a bar band Friday Night.
Terry Barr is on vacation, but her pal from Max Inc Radio Rocker will fill in like he did last week.
And that will be fun.
They always bring great music and sparkling conversation.
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Right now, it is my pleasure to welcome a guy I've known for quite a while.
We met on the stand-up comedy circuit.
And he is also a very respected actor and the creator of the show, Thespian.
And he's my pal.
And he joins us now on the phone, Mark Unger.
Hey, buddy.
Powder jelly.
Powder jelly?
Okay.
Oh, we have not heard that yet.
Now, is that an East Coast thing, Mark?
What's that?
Is that an East Coast donut?
They don't have those in the Midwest.
Well, the fact that, no, you know what they have here?
They have Kringle and these crazy coffee cakes that have like 8,000 calories per bite.
Yeah, and like a broad donut.
Oh, no, now you're talking.
It's good to talk to you, man.
How are you?
I'm good, man.
How are you
doing very well?
You're in Baltimore these days, correct?
Yes, you know, I'm from New York, but my family moved here when I was a kid and then I started my career in Chicago, New York, LA and now married and happy and making stuff in Baltimore.
All right, Charm City.
I love it.
So.
All right, so let's jump right in, Mark.
I know we're kind of, I kind of got the sense I was pulling you away from something tonight, but you still wanted to do it, so I appreciate that.
Yeah, of course.
You had a great post about the Sopranos, and this is probably, what, close to 20 years since it's been off the air.
People are still talking about it.
It's one of the most talked about endings.
Give us, give me your overall thoughts, and then I'll share mine.
Well, okay, I remember it was in 2007, which is a long time ago now.
Yeah.
you know, when, when it's first aired.
And I watched it, you know, I had that same feeling that everybody had like, whoa, whoa, what happened to
my
cable go out?
Was there something wrong?
And I wasn't like angry the way some people were, but I was definitely a little like perplexed, like,
That was weird.
That was different.
But pretty early on, you know, I came to the realization that, wow, that's freaking brilliant.
Right.
The show ended exactly it ended with a breathing alive Tony and whatever happens next.
That's all fan theory.
Right.
You can argue.
Well, did he die?
Did he not die?
Did he go on to get his own gangster podcast?
But none of that matters because the show ended with him looking up at the door.
And that was it.
And you sort of have to respect that.
But of course, you then start to think, well, is that a cop out?
Should David Chase have given the audience what some people would consider to be a more satisfying ending?
I think it was the most satisfying ending you could possibly have because you get to fill in the blanks.
And I mean, look.
Tony Soprano's a psychopath.
So Tony Soprano, if anyone should die, it should be Tony Soprano, right?
He's done horrible, horrible things in his life.
But the fact that he didn't, and you can decide for yourself whether or not he did, that becomes like a choose your own adventure kind of thing, which is brilliant.
I mean, you look at like Mad Men, which is actually my favorite.
I mean, to me, Soprano's is like a very, very close second.
But to me, Mad Men is the most brilliant television of all time.
And that ending was great, too.
And, you know, he's doing the yoga thing, and he thinks of the famous Coke commercial, and that's great, but it's not as brilliant as the Emmy to the Sopranos.
Interesting.
I love that you really own this in your post.
You called it just that, the most brilliant ending to a series of all time.
I think it's the, I think it's the Newhart show when he wakes up and he's in the other show.
That's a good one.
That
would
be in the conversation.
Yeah.
But he, I think it's strange that it's almost an ode to Tony Soprano that David Chase did not kill him off and let us see it.
Cause you're right.
He was a despicable person.
I could have been okay either way, but how do you, that's almost not as satisfying if you see him die.
I felt like they kind of set up that they might kill him off violently after what he did to Christopher, his own nephew.
But it is kind of an ending where the bad guy, in a way, gets away with it, even though, like you say in your post, you really don't think he does.
Most likely he died immediately after, in front of his family.
Well, you know what?
To say most likely, that's something that I came to kind of, you know, I've watched the show a million times.
And I happen to be, you know, it's to me if I comfort food, which is crazy that a show about psychotic mafia guys would be my comfort show, but
you got some issues.
Yeah, that's all right.
I do.
I have got tons of issues.
Um, but, you know, I was watching it and I happened to watch it, uh, that morning and I noticed for the first time the opening shot.
It's Tony, you know, he's on the cot.
They've gone to the mattresses or whatever and he's on his cot.
and his eyes are closed, and it's a tight shot, pretty tight close up, and he's on a pillow that very much resembles the pillow that you would have in a casket, and then his eyes open and the episode begins.
But that opening shot could easily be Tony Soprano in a casket.
And
when I talk
about, and then I watch the episode, and then I watch the ending, as filmmakers,
As storytellers, the idea of book ending an episode visually is really important.
And if you add that extra shot that we don't get to see, it opens with Tony Soprano looking like he might be in a casket and could conceivably end with him actually being in a casket.
So I came to the conclusion that that is
How can I say this?
That is the ending that might have been,
know?
I mean, the ending is very definitive.
People say, well, I don't know what the ending was.
No, the ending is definitive.
The ending is a guy with his family eating onion rings and looking up at a door when the bell's ringing.
That's the ending of the show.
Everything else after that is speculation,
like, you know, play that game.
I think the idea that David Chase started with that opening shot is, again, part of his brilliant.
That's interesting.
Mark Unger is my guest.
He is an actor and a comedian.
Mark, so I hear what you're saying.
I almost think, though, going to black is just, and I'm not breaking ground here.
This was the theory that he just got killed right there, and that's why it went to black.
My issue with it is don't stop believing.
Love the song under the right circumstances.
I thought that was a strange choice, though.
Oh, I think that when David Chase decided that was going to be and he said this in interviews that, you know, people on the crew are like, what are you crazy?
But, but, you know, the lyrics are perfect.
The movie never ends.
It goes on and on and on and on.
And what that does is it gives fans of the show this
perfect, absolutely perfect ending because you get to decide what happens next.
When does that ever happen?
I mean, you're breaking bad.
He dies.
We all call that coming.
He died.
Of course he died.
But Sopranos, you have no idea what happens.
Does Meadow walk through that door and they sit down and they eat their dinner and, you know, eventually
Tony Soprano either, you know, dies that day or another day and Meadow takes over the family or who knows?
Or does she catch a stray bullet?
I mean, you don't... Right.
I can see both sides of the argument.
Is it cop-out?
Kind of, but not really.
It's also kind of brilliant.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's one of those great arguments.
I don't see the cop-out argument, honestly, at all, because of all the...
All the pieces that were put into place, you know, you mentioned, you know, black.
Well, Bobby Ocala, he talks about that, like, you don't hear it coming or something.
And then there's that scene with Meadow and Tony and Anthony Jr., where they're talking about the Robert Frost poem, and black versus white.
So there's all these, like, hints that all that does is it just makes it literature.
It allows us to do things you don't get to do at the end of other shows.
Which, you know, have a radio show and talk about this stuff and talk about it what?
We're almost 20 years
later.
20 years later, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's fun.
And sometimes you can, like, I cherry pick this stuff off social media when someone has an interesting take.
Like, I'm going to say something, too.
I know you're going to disagree with.
And I'm anxious to hear what you say.
And there's no, again, I rewatched this.
I was like,
two years ago for the second time.
I didn't think it held up as well.
Why?
I don't know.
It just seemed dated.
I don't know if it was the mafia stuff.
I mean, I've seen, I've read a ton of mob books.
I've seen a ton of mob movies.
And maybe it's just that I thought like the, I like, I like the mob stuff.
But when Tony's mother or sister are on screen, I want to pull my hair out.
And that's part of this, you know,
That's part of his drama and his life.
I get that.
I just didn't find it as interesting.
And I can't really put my finger on it, but those are a couple of things.
Well, the one thing that I would say is I think the last season, I don't think it lived up to previous seasons.
I think that, I mean, I did like the stuff when he's in the hospital and he's in a coma and he's dreaming.
And I thought that stuff was interesting.
But I thought that Vito, Spadafore, is that his last name?
We find out that he's gay, and he has to go on the lamb, and he's up in New Hampshire or wherever he was, and there's the Johnny Cakes and all that stuff.
I thought that was kind of dragged out and unnecessary,
mostly because I thought the actor, I mean, clearly the guy hit the jackpot, but I thought the actor wasn't strong enough.
to
carry a lead role.
Interesting.
Mark, let's pause right there.
We'll just keep you for a couple more minutes if that's okay.
We got a really short break here.
We'll be right back with more Soprano Talk and talk about Mark's show, Thespian.
That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.
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and Rockert, who will be filling in for Terry Barr tonight.
Right now we have a few more minutes with our pal Mark Unger.
He is an actor and creator of the show Thespian.
His acting credits, like you just heard before, include friends, and he is a lover of the Sopranos, as most people are.
Mark, so here's what I thought.
No, I gotta say, and this is so nostalgic for me.
I just heard Fond du Lac County, and it brought me back to so many gigs I did.
a million years ago and just hearing Wisconsin and cheese and Pete Schwabba.
This
is a privilege.
You need to come back.
We need to set up a one nighter for old time's sake.
But I'll open it and you can close that sucker.
I want no part of that.
All right, so Mark, one of the things I really liked, I liked the way the storylines between Tony and Christopher happened because that struck
me as being so realistic is how these bonds, it's all about family and America and all that, but at the end of the day, they're just trying to survive.
And I love how that relationship ended.
Well, I think that that's one of the brilliant things about the show is, yes, it's about the mob life, but it's also about on some level, and this is going to sound a little twisted,
the way East Coast families communicate with each other.
I grew up on the East Coast, so that's what I know.
But yeah, I think you're right.
It's about family.
Thematically, it's really dense.
You said something earlier about earlier that season when Tony kills Chris, and somehow that's supposed to sort of...
Give license for Tony to also be killed, but you have to remember Chris was also a psychopath.
All of these car every one of these characters were not I mean they were not just like kind of bad, right?
They were absolute Psychopath right, but yet we cared about them and we bought in to the family dynamic We cared, you know, what school Meadow was gonna get into I mean
How do you write more brilliantly than that?
Well, and that's to me, it was those moments where Christopher was so normal at times.
But then you knew what the side of him, and that part of it, they pulled off beautifully.
No question about that.
I mean, it's why I think that Sopranos is so much better than a show like Breaking Bad.
And somebody else could argue, no, you're wrong, you're stupid, you have no idea.
But in my opinion, Breaking Bad was sort of cookie cutter, meaning that you've got this guy who he's good.
And then in season two, he's not as good.
And in season three, he's even not as good.
And it was like this very sort of linear path downward.
Whereas the Sopranos was messy and complicated and you cared, but you weren't sure why you cared like from the beginning.
You didn't have to have a moment like, I'm the guy who knocks.
breaking bad.
And
you
don't need that queen.
You know, it's funny too.
Like I would have been, and I didn't, it's one of those shows where I didn't, I don't know if I liked any of the characters.
I liked watching them.
I found them interesting.
And that's all I need.
But if they would have blown Tony's head off at the end, I would have been okay with that too.
I would have been like, oh, that was interesting.
You know what I mean?
So I kind of liked that they left it open.
Mark, we have a couple of minutes.
Tell us about Thespian.
Well, Thespian is a show that my wife and I created.
You know, I live in Baltimore and the first episode of the series, you know, basically I find myself back in Baltimore living, and this is autobiographical, the first episode, living across the street from the apartment that I had left 25 years earlier in my career.
In the show, my character
moved to New York, but my truth is I left that apartment to move to Chicago, and that's when I met guys like you.
And so the first episode is, you know, this guy, he's married, he's back in Baltimore, living across the street, and, you know, rather than blow his brains out, he decides to go back to his first passion, and he's a comedian, he goes back to his first passion, which is, you know,
legitimate acting, straight acting, whatever word you want to use, a phrase you want to use.
And so the story is about Adam at 50 years old reinventing himself as a serious actor.
And it's really funny, it's poignant.
You know, it's what I think and the reviews that we've gotten and what people have said to me, it really resonates, particularly with people that are, I mean, if you're 20,
You might laugh at some stuff, but you're not gonna really get it,
But if you're like 35 40 plus You know things of remaining relevant as you age family Death and it's just it's a really good show and it's really funny and everybody should watch it.
It's great I could not agree more and Yeah, keep up the great work buddy.
This was fun.
Thanks so much for your time
Yeah, this was a lot of fun, man.
Thanks for having
me.
Pick another show and say something that's really cool about it.
We'll do it again.
That sounds great.
Okay.
Have a great night, Mark.
Thanks.
Take care, man.
Yeah, you too.
That's Mark Unger, ladies.
Gentlemen, check out Thespian.
Just Google Mark Unger Thespian.
Great show.
I remember watching the first season.
I'll have to see where they're at now and catch up, but it's very well done.
All right.
It is a bar ban Friday night.
After the news at the bottom of the hour, Rocker will be here to
Tell us some really cool stuff about music that you need to know.
All the new music I find is from Maxink Radio, and it's excellent.
Amanda Nimmer on the social media says Persian donuts.
It's another one for Persian donuts.
I think you have to revisit.
I mean, I like Persian donuts.
Michael,
You've never, I bet you have.
They call them different things, I think.
you gotta, you gotta.
I know Long John's though.
A lot of googling to do.
Michael from TOSA says air fryer donuts, like beignets maybe?
Okay.
Or the Krispy Kreme?
No, those aren't air fried though.
All right, we'll get into this.
We've got some more text to read.
What's your favorite donut, folks?
Style or brand?
Let us know.
That's our Nightlight Question of the Night when we come back.
Rocker from Max Inc Radio will be here with some new tunes.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Time
Welcome.
Welcome.
Welcome back to Night Light and a Bar Band Friday night.
Very well said, Mr. Michaels.
As many of you know, Terry Barr is on vacation, very well earned and deserved vacation.
She will be back, will she be back next week on red or the week after?
She was unsure too.
I just hope she comes back.
That's all I'm saying.
But in the meantime, we are in great hands because our pal and Terry's co-host at Max Inc Radio, Rocker is joining us in Terry's absence, which is always fun too.
Hey, buddy.
What's happening, Pete?
Thanks for having me.
Hey, thank you for doing this.
I'm so glad we didn't have to take a break from our bar ban Fridays while Terry was gone.
So you just stepped right in and it's fantastic.
How are you tonight?
I'm doing great, man.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing very well.
It's Friday.
We're excited about that.
Your week is just starting, though, because you have this great show called Max Inc Radio, which is a six hour dealio on Saturday night.
And that takes some serious planning, doesn't it?
It does.
We spend a lot of time each week planning the show, and six hours a radio.
At least we get to spend a lot of music, Wisconsin-made music, so that takes up some of the time where we don't have to talk the entire time.
But we are 6 p.m.
to midnight on Saturday nights on the Civic Media Radio Network, and we repeat Sunday night, 6 p.m.
to midnight, so if you miss Saturday, you can always pick up Sunday.
And find us at civicmedia.us slash maxinkradio, M-A-X-I-N-K.
radio.
Tomorrow night, Wisconsin made music interviews and live in the lair.
We have a cannabis DNP, Jesse Christensen.
He got his doctorate degree in studying cannabis and PC and now teaches at the university.
So, you know, rather than sometimes always having like dispensary and retail people talking about their products, we're going to actually have somebody who has a doctorate degree.
We're going to check this out and ask them all the hard questions, right?
Mary Rose Ekberg, she's with Make Music Madison.
That's June 21st is Make Music Madison.
And that's a city-wide festival, the city here.
And there's some, they happen around Wisconsin, but Madison is a real big one.
Probably 600 gigs they happen all over the city and music make music Madison actually pays for the permits So that anybody can have a stage anywhere from like 9 a.m.. To 9 p.m.. Wow in Madison so we get to talk to her about what's going on Yeah, it's it's a pretty crazy event That's make music Madison and that happens June 21st around the world actually it's a world Festival live in the lair we have the red
Do the Red Door Duo.
Gotta get those D's in line there.
And they're just an amazing string players and a duet that sing together.
I think it's going to be a brilliant live performance.
Red Door Duo is a singer-songwriter, international finger-style guitar champion, Helen Avakian.
And she's joining forces with Dave Irwin on acclaimed jazz, bluegrass, and Brazilian guitarist and vocalist.
So I've got a little clip that we can play and hear what Red Door Duo is like.
This song is called I'm Coming
Home.
taking me back inside.
I'm coming home.
That's where I want to be.
I'm coming home.
Coming home.
Coming home.
Dude, I love...
Acoustic guitars and strings and all that that's gonna be a great live in the layer tomorrow
And they're they're also gonna be breaking out.
I think she said banjo mandolin All kinds of crazy instruments, so we're gonna have our hands full on the mixing board.
That's for sure.
That's great Alright, that's tomorrow night on live at the live in the layer on maxi radio.
You can hear the red door do a great stuff rocker and then
I'm sure you're excited to tell us the next thing on your list, the Dane County Emergency Management.
This is pretty cool.
And this is just, this is Sunday.
So please tell us about this.
Sunday, June 8th coming up.
It's the Dane County Emergency Management Cardiac Arrest Survivor Celebration.
And I happen to be one of the survivors.
So I'm going to be going to Warner Park, Stuckpond for the Mallards game.
And I get to fulfill something on my bucket list.
I get to throw out the first pitch in the game.
Very cool.
And then I get to tell my story and talk about the importance of CPR training and portable AED units.
So it'll be pretty cool.
And I actually will get to meet the first responders who saved my life.
So it's a pretty neat event.
It all happens at the Mallards game coming up this Sunday at Warner Park.
In Madison
that is gonna be outstanding do you now all right So are you ready for the pitch rocker because a lot of people do this and they're not they haven't thrown in like years It goes all over the place.
Are you ready for the pitch?
Oh, I'm ready for it I have a dog and I was a pitcher when I was a kid so I should have no problem And you know, I've seen a couple of the other former presidents throw some pitches hand They didn't even make home plate.
So I'm not gonna worry about
it.
Okay.
I have faith in you
All right.
Well, that's a great event.
So I'm excited for you.
Are you going to have any video shot or anything you're going to play on your show next week from that?
That's a really special event.
You know, I didn't plan on it.
Hopefully they'll be taking some press-type stuff at the ballpark.
Well, have a great time.
That sounds well-deserved.
It's going to be fun.
Yeah, very
cool.
All right, cool.
So tell us about Super Tanker.
Super Taker is this great rock band from here in Madison, and it actually features, the guitarist is a writer for the Todd Alba show here on Civic Media, and they're just a great band, and this is a great song, and they'll be playing Thursday, June 12th at the High Noon Saloons for the Summer Patio series, so that starts at like 5.30 at night, right?
And it's out on the patio, it's just, when there's gorgeous weather, it's an amazing show.
Here is Super Tanker.
This song is idle.
It's called Internet Declaration of Love, and it's about going on and saying everything on Facebook.
Let's hear it.
of that, that's Madison's own super tanker, compliments of Rocker.
That is great.
And I've got my own theories about people that say way too much on social media.
So that's a great song.
Go on, get it out there.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, fantastic.
Okay, so Rocker is my guest.
He is one of the co-hosts of Max Inc Radio.
He is filling in for Terry Barr tonight and bringing us new music like we do here every Friday for Bar Band Friday night.
So, all right.
Who's next, Rocker?
You want to talk about the True North Music and Food
Festival?
Yeah, you know, they just announced this True North Music and Food Festival, and it's perfect, because it's also at the Duck Pond in Warner Park in Madison.
It's coming up Saturday, September 27th, so it's a ways out, but it's a brand new festival.
$2 from each of the tickets goes to benefit the Deus Foundation, which is for abused women.
And it's going to feature Pokey the Farge.
Mama Digdown's brass band, the People Brothers band, Spectaculus and Darren Starrud of the New Orleans tribute band.
So it's going to be pretty cool.
You can get more information at truenorthfest.com.
So the north side of Madison, we're coming in with a new festival.
Yeah, not that Madison needs another festival, but that's outstanding.
I
love that.
That's probably why they had to put it at September 27th.
So it's a ways out.
People can get more information about that festival.
And going back to the patio at the High Noon Saloon, Friday the 13th, that evil day at Dogtown Hollow, they're going to be playing on the Summer Patio series at the High Noon Saloon.
They're Roots Rock Americana from Madison.
They're also going to be playing July 13th at Art Fair on the Square here in Madison and July 26th at Wood Fest.
They'll be playing the Sugar Maple stage.
So I bring in a little clip of Dogtown Hollow.
This song is from their new album Rivers, Roads and Bridges.
This is Roll, Roll,
Roll.
But someday you'll swim out of life down on the river, as tough as it is sweet.
People down that river are some of the best you'll ever meet.
And they're gonna roll, roll, roll, just roll right down that stream.
You gotta roll, roll, roll, live in your own dream.
You're gonna roll, roll, roll, spinning like a paddle wheel.
Boy, I bet they're
a fun live band.
Yeah, Darktown Hollow.
Yeah.
Really good songs, really good album.
Rivers, roads and bridges is their latest album.
came out, I think, February.
I love it.
Don Town Hollow.
That's
great.
Checked about online.
All right, very cool.
Oh, we're jamming through this list, dude.
Okay, so then next... Rocker's all about business.
I love this, man.
I
love
getting a little sampling like this.
This is so cool.
Red Door Duo is on the show tomorrow night.
They'll be live in the lair, and we've got... Who's next, Rocker?
Who do you want to do
next here?
You know, Jamie Lupien and Jamie Polster.
She is a Nebraska native.
She was a physical therapist and gymnast coach, but needed an outlet with her music and voice.
And she's a singer-songwriter, teamed up with guitarist Jamie Polaster.
You might know him from rock bands like Rapscallion and Faces for Radio.
And tonight, June 6th, they're at the Sip and Shop in New Glaris.
And they'll also be at the Missouri Tavern.
on Highway 12 here in Madison on June 11th at 6 p.m.
That's a great place to go.
And then June 14th at the Biroch in North Sherman Plaza, that's in Madison as well.
And we have a clip.
This is Jenny Lupien.
This is called, Angels Go to War.
Love
Okay, we'll go to break on this song and we'll come back with Rocker from Max Inc Radio on Barband Friday night.
dreams Through your eyes, what's this life supposed to bring?
Will you ever behave in your love of none?
Are you waiting for none that I feel you could?
Sunrise to sunset, angels be with you
Now
my angel goes to war.
Good night, folks.
I am Pete Schwabba.
Monday night on the show, actor Lance Barber, who is from the show Young Sheldon will join us Monday night, and we'll talk about the life of Michael J. Fox.
Our question tonight was, what is your favorite doughnut style or brand?
We've got some great responses.
I'll read the last couple texts here, and we will get back to Barba and Friday night.
Lori from Hayward.
says, Hey Pete, I hope you get this in time.
My favorite donut is not one that I actually ate, but rather one that I bought for my daughter when she was little.
It was a raised donut with a chocolate glaze topping and the donut itself was as big as a nine or 10 in dinner plate.
The look in her eyes and on her face was priceless.
It took her both hands to hold it up for the photo before she chowed down.
The donut came from the bakery at the co-op grocery store in Hayward, which unfortunately closed years ago.
Sorry about that, Lori.
I'll be in trouble if I tell you how long ago it was because my daughter would not want me to tell her age on the air, but she is now a grandmother herself.
Lori from Hayward.
Yeah, you don't eat as many donuts when you get older, do you, Lori?
Steady Eddie says, Pete, favorite morning donut?
Two or three big fat chocolate cake donuts with tons of chocolate frosting.
Oh, and Pete, I make sure my donuts have some chopped peanuts.
Oh, there you go.
There you go, Conrad, the chopped peanuts.
Still don't sprinkle.
I'll take those over sprinkles, I'm sorry.
He says, because I'm trying to eat healthy, steady, I'm sure you are.
Michael from Tosa says they are made.
He's talking about the air fryer donuts using Pillsbury biscuits, punch out a hole in the middle, and then done, based with melted butters, then dunk in a sugar cinnamon mix.
My God, I'm getting hungry.
He says you can also air fry the middles to make the donut holes.
Very nice.
And Karla checks in, says maple frosting with bacon.
How long, John?
I'll take that.
Thank you, Aunt Carla.
Good to see you again.
PJ on the stream says, I worked at a friend's family bakery when I was 19, so I was able to consume all types and styles of donuts.
My favorites are jelly or custard filled.
Folks, the message of this show, just eat as many donuts as you possibly can.
Preferably while you're listening to nightlight.
Thank you for all the text tonight folks.
Thank you to Mark Unger and Mike Clemens We've got a few more minutes with our pal rocker here who is courageously filling in for terry bar while she's on vacation on bar ban Friday night Rocker do you have a favorite donut?
I would have to say the chocolate covered custard filled donut.
Oh, that's a big one tonight.
You joined Conrad,
you
know,
yeah, yeah, I mean they're popular
He knows music folks and he knows donuts
All right, so where do we leave off here?
You know what?
I wanted to talk about the Atwood Music Hall.
Oh, please.
Have you heard of that yet?
I just heard of it, but please tell us.
Atwood Music Hall is Madison's newest live music venue, and it's an 800-seat kind of theater-type venue.
It'll be opening on Atwood Avenue, and it's by the same owner of the Burrock here in Madison.
Their grand opening is going to be Friday, June 13th.
They're going to be doing a tribute to Clyde Stubblefield.
You know Clyde Stubblefield,
It's drummer for James Brown.
He's the most sampled drummer in all of history.
And he really deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
And there's a movie that's being made about him called Give the Drummer Some.
And they're trying to get him into the Hall of Fame.
He's got six there, but...
They want his bus there.
And DJ Trevor Banks is going to be filling in at that show to open it up.
And he's the director of the movie.
And Joey Banks is his dad.
If you don't know who Joey Banks is, he's in about every band you can think of in Madison that's like Funky.
But he's in Steely Dane, would probably be the
But he's also in the Funky JBs.
And the Funky JBs plays music from Clyde Stubblefield.
and the uh... james brown and also the songs the client used to love to play some of the covers so it's a really good show mama dig down sprat span rare element feel five tons of stuff happened in there uh... and that's coming up friday june thirteen so right around the corner there's more uh... information at w w dot at wood music hall dot com i i brought in here a little james brown how about some sex machine
Oh,
yeah, sweet.
Should you bone?
Get it together.
Right on, right on.
Get up, get up.
That's a great way to go out on a Friday rocker.
Terry was telling some of that Clyde's Double project too.
That sounds so cool.
Yeah, I can't wait to see the film and I hope he makes the fun.
There's a seed starter out there to help him fund the movie.
So please, Clyde's Double Field, he was just an awesome resident here in Madison.
We all loved him.
We've got about 45 seconds to a minute left.
Any closing info you want to get out there, buddy?
Max Inc Radio 6 p.m.
to midnight on Saturdays repeat on Sundays find us at civicmedia.us slash max inc radio I
love it awesome buddy.
Thank you.
Is Terry back next week or do we get you again?
No, I believe she's back.
I'll be back.
Maybe reluctantly, but Have
a great show tomorrow night buddy, and thank you again always fun to connect.
I think
All right,
that's a rocker.
Go check him throwing out the first pitch.
How cool is that Conrad?
You ever think he'd throw out a first pitch?
I really want to.
Maybe you should go run.
Go run and knock rocker over.
Pull it.
Pull a Tanya Harding and steal rocker's thunder.
I couldn't do that.
That would be a terrible thing to do.
Tom from New Berlin says, Pete, you're the best Conrad.
Tea time tomorrow is nine.
It cost a buck to 50.
Who's bringing the donuts though?
I'm not going to
I'd be willing to bet Tom in the 414 as a good golfer.
Thank you everybody tonight.
Thank you to Rocker.
Rocker's awesome.
Have a great show tomorrow night.
Check out Max Inc Radio tomorrow night.
Thank you to Mark Unger and my clients.
Thank you to Conrad, the lovable producer.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
Have a great weekend everybody.
We're coming back Monday night with Lance Barber.
Good night, Wisconsin.
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