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Hey, welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.
As we kick off act two here.
Missed you during intermission.
Thanks for sticking with us.
It is Friday and we are barreling towards the weekend in cold gloomy.
Summer at Wisconsin, but it's great to have you with me.
Anyway, let's warm our hearts tonight with some laughter and some some more talk.
It is a Barbie and Friday night Rocker will be here in just a few minutes filling in for Terry Barr with new music and great conversation right now I'm very excited to welcome my next guest I have tons of comedians on the show, and I think I might have found the hardest working one in all of show business After doing a deep dive on this guy's career Steve Hofstetter joins me now over the phone Steve.
How are you?
I'm good, although I don't work as hard anymore.
I'm getting old now.
Well, you're younger than me.
And I will say, I looked at your website
I cannot believe everything you've done in your career.
Just even tangentially from comedy.
You're a very busy guy.
You've got charity and TV gigs and all kinds of stuff.
So it's great to meet you.
And let's cover as much as we can in the short time we have together.
How are you doing tonight?
I'm doing all right, all things considered.
It's nice to be reminded why I moved south, just because the idea that this is June is silly.
Gosh.
I will say this is rare.
And this is coming from a guy who lived in warm weather for a long time.
It is tough to take at times, but we welcome you anyway.
And where are you based out of, Steve?
So I'm based out of Charlotte, North Carolina now, but I grew up in, I grew up in New York.
So, you know, I'm used to winters that become summer for two weeks.
And there is that, you know, brief little period between like, oh, hey, this is terrible and we want it to be warmer.
And like, oh my God, why won't it get colder?
Yeah.
So how long have you been in this racket?
How long have you been doing stand up and where did you get your start?
I've been doing stand-up 23 years, so my career is almost old enough to rent a car.
I started in New York.
I went to college in Manhattan, and I went to a bar one day that had a comedy night, and I was watching it being like, oh, I could do this.
And a lot of people have that thought, and a lot of people are wrong.
It took me a while before I could actually do this and that's just how it works with everybody.
Yeah, eventually you find your stride and if someone's been doing it for 23 years you know that they did at some point.
So you're playing, you're in town, you're in northeast Wisconsin this area.
Tell us about that this weekend.
Yeah, I'm at the Skyline in Appleton.
I think we're like two.
when you took it from sold out right now which is great because it's a weekday night you know i i love a weekday night show because it's full of people who don't care about a weekday morning which is just a much better crowd uh... yeah it's uh... i've been a skyline plenty before it's great uh... and you know i'm looking forward to it i i just had shows in uh... milwaukee and uh... sold out one in madison uh... right after appleton so it's gonna be uh... can be fun thanks wisconsin for coming out
Yeah, well, we like to laugh.
And there are great comedy clubs here.
So it's good that you're here.
And I'm excited to hear how the shows go.
I have to ask you something.
So when I was a comedian, I started in 1990.
And I only did it for about seven or eight years.
One of the guys who was very good to me.
starting out was Dan Whitney, also known as Larry the Cable Guy.
So he got me in at a club in Milwaukee, which ended up being one of my favorite clubs, got me into some clubs in Florida.
When I was looking at your Wikipedia page, you did something.
I would just love it if you could tell the story because it sounded hilarious.
And I don't know if there was actual bad blood there, if it just read that way, but it's a very funny story.
Well, there wasn't bad blood at first, or, well, okay, so here's what happened.
I, so Dan Whitney, Larry the Cable Guy, is a comic who used to have a bunch of different characters.
He had Larry the Cable Guy, but he also had like an old Jewish woman, he also had a gay guy, and like he would do a lot of radio with these characters.
Larry the Cable Guy is the one that took off, and Dan kind of became him.
You know, humans are infinitely adaptable,
And suddenly he was getting all these, all this praise and he went from a private school kid from Nebraska to telling everyone he was a pig farmer from Florida, which he's not.
And it just all, all this, you know, all this stuff that was, you know, he went from satire to validation.
So I released an album called cure for the cable guy.
Cause I was tired of, you know, people yelling, get her done at shows and stuff like that.
And, you know, in the premise was,
That you know, I wasn't the cure for the cable guy We all are like the this easy homophobia and racism and stuff that he was doing his act is not what we should do Now he thought it was fun satire at first and then the second week it was out It sold more copies than his album did and then he did not find it funny anymore.
I Actually hadn't thought about it for many many years in 2006 that it came out I hadn't thought about it in a very long time and then I wrote a book about my
Six years of the stand-up and so as I was writing the chapter about that album I was like, you know, I should look up what he's up to So I found him on Twitter.
Of course, I was blocked Even though I've never you know, never really interacted with him So I you know logged out this is you know while I was still on that hellscape of a social media site I'm not anymore But I lot I logged out because that's all it takes to see someone who blocked you and I found his whole account
was an old man version of what he, of the satire character.
It was all kinds of stuff about like pandemic denial and anti BLM and just all kinds of stuff that the young Dan Whitney would not have agreed with.
And it just, it kind of broke my
heart.
Oh man, so where are you guys at now?
At least when I, and I didn't mean to bring up something that would take you back to a bad memory, but it looked like, or at least what I read was you guys kind of ended okay.
He just said, get her done.
No, no, no, no,
no.
We've never ended.
The only time we've actually interacted was there was a radio show that had us both on, which was an ambush for both of us.
We did not know that that was gonna happen, but there was a radio show that had us both on.
And so, you know, I talked to him briefly and I asked him, I said,
How do you feel about your character going from satire to becoming validation for people?
And literally he said, get her done.
And I was like, well, we don't need to go into this now.
Cause I was hoping to have an intellectual conversation with someone and you decided to be a cartoon character.
I did not mean to bring that up.
If that was, I truly read that like, oh, they seem to have worked everything out.
And they're like, I apologize for that then.
You mentioned Twitter.
I'm on it so reluctantly.
I found Blue Sky.
I love Blue Sky.
I'm on Facebook, whatever.
Where can people follow you and learn more about your career and where you'll be performing?
So pretty much everywhere except for Twitter.
I have a very large Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, spreads.
Blue Sky, I'm on Substack now, which I thought was just this thing where people would post columns, but it turns out it's a wonderful way to interact with people, super supportive community.
And a lot of creators are doing collabs on there, which is really cool.
Because like all of a sudden, you'll see two different people you follow and be like, oh, they're just hanging out on a live stream now.
just a really cool thing about the way entertainment is right now.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Yeah, just, I mean, look, you just Google Steve Hofstadter.
If you spell it wrong, Google will correct you.
That's fine.
Yeah, that's how I... Okay, so I just did that.
I did a voice Google thing.
If you start with comedian or maybe you don't even have to, your name comes up because of your social media presence.
You've got like two billion views or something like that, which is pretty incredible.
You are a New York kid, as you said.
A Jewish comedian from Queens.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
Who are your influences and is he one of them?
Yeah, exactly.
I was like, you asking me about myself?
Yeah, I've only interacted with him once, but he did speak at my sister's college graduation.
Well, she went to Queens College also, but...
Uh, my influence has grown up, uh, you know, when I was really young, my dad used to play me albums or, you know, George Carlin and Dick Gregory.
He also played me Cosby and I never really liked him and I feel so vindicated now.
Oh, do I feel vindicated?
Um, and so yeah, I think, I think Carlin and Gregory were probably my biggest early influences.
I got to tour with Dick Gregory, uh, for a week and that was just the coolest and I brought my dad.
with me, which was incredible, because my dad said that Gregory, when my dad was 19 years old.
And so to be able to like actually introduce them was just the coolest.
And then, you know, as I get older, I got real into Bill Hicks and Mitch Hedberg.
And the thing that they all have in common is that they did stand up about their truth, whatever that truth is.
And, you know, that's what I gravitate toward also.
That's so great.
My guest is Steve Hofstetter.
He's a stand-up comedian immensely successful.
You can see him at the Skyline Comedy Cafe this weekend in Appleton.
So we have a few more minutes with Steve.
You mentioned Bill Hicks.
So incredible, I did have the opportunity to work with him in Milwaukee in the 90s.
Hedberg too, here's a great story.
I was headlining in Grand Forks, North Dakota, probably before I was ready.
And Hedberg, Mitch Hedberg says to the club owner, come on man, you gotta headline me, you gotta headline me.
He was middling Steve and he was great.
And I'm like, how is this kid middling?
A week later, he's on Letterman and then he just takes off.
Oh,
my
God.
And that was
the,
yeah, that was the letter.
And I know that set.
Yeah.
And he was a good guy too.
That's what made me like, we hit it.
He was a really good guy.
And I love seeing people like that, that like, as you say, are beholden to the truth, talk about the truth.
And, you know, just have that kind of success.
It's very, it's very cool.
So one of my favorite Hedberg stories and a friend of mine used to open for him.
And one of my favorite Hedberg stories was they were, they were in a hotel, you know, somewhere after a show and a bunch of comedians hanging out and they're not being too disruptive, but I guess they get a noise complaint.
And so a security guard comes up from the hotel and, you know, tells them that they have to keep it down and Hedberg just goes over to him and just goes, how much money would it take for you to go away?
Oh man, that's fantastic.
Yeah, I
never got the chance to work with the guy and you know it's it's one of my big regrets in comedy that is that I did have the chance to meet him and I passed it up for a party like a dummy and then he you know he died a couple months later and I never got a chance
well here okay I'm gonna
I don't mean to turn this, I don't mean to make this a pissing contest of regret, but Bill Hicks was, when I worked with him in Milwaukee at one in the morning after we were hanging out at the club, he said, if you were a really good guy, you'd drive me to Chicago so I could get a Polish sausage at Maxwell Street.
And I'm like, I really liked him and he was already a legend.
I'm like, I don't wanna do that.
I've been drinking and everything.
Same thing about, I don't know, maybe six months later he had passed away.
And I don't think, I think his was one where people didn't really know he had that.
Cancer except for those close to him, but I regret I still regret that like three hours in the car there and back with Bill Hicks.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, I that would have been incredible.
I mean, I got a chance so I got a chance to meet to meet Mitch's widow and You know the the person who the joke that joke of I don't have a girlfriend I just know a woman who would get really upset if she heard me say that Like that's who it was about
And yeah, I got a chance to talk to her to show and she was just such a sweetheart.
And I realized like something that forever changed me in that moment that I was like, oh yeah, the rest of us lost a hero.
He lost a hero and the person she loved.
Like
is.
And so often when like a celebrity dies, you know, people who that person touched their life through their art have every right to grieve.
We often forget that, yeah, there are people in their lives who are also grieving.
And that's a completely different level.
Dude, I would love to have you back on when we have a little more time.
I know you got to get going.
I hope you have a great show tonight.
I hope Wisconsin warms up for you, if not weather wise, laughter wise, and I hope you have a great time here.
But I would love to have you back when we can really dig deep.
Yeah, absolutely.
You let me know.
All right.
Thanks so much.
That's Steve Hostetter.
22 seats left, folks, in Appleton.
Get your tickets to Skyline.
He's a great comedian.
One of the hardest working I've ever seen if his website is accurate, and I'm sure it is.
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Nightlight with Peach Waba.
Great to have you with me on this Friday night edition of our fine show about entertainment where we talk about movies and TV and music and comedy and theater and all kinds of fun stuff and anything fun happening in Wisconsin.
Our question of the night is who is your favorite movie or TV dad?
It is Father's Day on Sunday and that is what we are asking.
I think we did something similar to this a year ago, Conrad, but it was worded a little differently.
But in honor of Father's Day, who was the best movie or TV dad?
And going to the text line now, we got to catch up on some texts here from the 414, Tom in New Berlin.
Tom is talking about Charo because one of the textures from last night said they didn't understand Charo's fame.
Because that was our question yesterday.
Who is a celebrity whose fame you just don't understand?
And Tom from New Berlin.
Defense Charo and says she had high energy that you could love.
I know friends like that.
Well done, Tom Paula Conrad's mom Says Charles Ingalls from Little House in the Prairie.
That's a great dad.
Did your mom make you watch Little House in the Prairie?
did not.
Yeah, that's a good mom Thank you Paula.
I hope you have a great father's day on behalf of Conrad's dad Nancy
on the text line says, Ellen Epps played by the great Judd Hirsch in the show Numbers.
But I never watched that.
Did you ever see that show?
Never.
It's like from the early 2000s.
I was, I think it was like a critically acclaimed show.
I have not seen it though.
But thank you, Nancy.
Thank you for the text.
From the 951, Sage Weill, our fearless leader from Madison says, Atticus Finch, I saw that and that reminded me of my own father, my father, Tom Schwab, a senior.
I'm a junior.
Always reminded me of Atticus Finch, because he's a trial lawyer and he took cases where he went to bat for the underdog.
He's had cases where he went into a courtroom and there was a slew of lawyers on the other side.
And typically he had a lot of success in defending people who couldn't afford lawyers and going after insurance companies, trying to screw people over.
I love that answer, Sage.
And it reminded me of my own dad, just two days away from Father's Day.
So have you seen To Kill a Mockingbird, Conrad?
was,
good
movie.
And Robert Duvall played Boo Radley, a very young Robert Duvall.
Jody Himman on the text line says, or on social media says, Andy Griffith.
Oh, that's a great, I'm surprised
we even
heard Andy Griffith yet tonight.
Thank you, Jody.
That's a great one.
Listening on WMDX, Everett from Sun Prairie says, dude, I missed the first half, but it.
hasn't been mentioned as far as favorite TV dads.
Reginald Vel Johnson as Carl Winslow on Family Matters was amazing.
As a kid in the 90s, it was one of my favorite shows.
He brought the perfect mixture of exasperation, warmth, fatherly wisdom, humble acceptance of indignant situations and humor.
He was also perfect as his role as the hero, advocating response officer in the American Christmas classic Die Hard.
Love the show.
Thank you, Everett.
Yeah, he was.
Outstanding in Die Hard.
That actor just has a likable persona.
He's a really, in everything he's in, especially in Die Hard, he was like kind of the heart of the movie in a weird way.
Great text though.
Thank you for listening, Everett, and thanks for the nice words about the show.
Tony the Trucker says, Pete, Fred McMurray, my three sons, watch the Godfather, oh, he segues and says, watch the Godfather of Green Bay last night, very entertaining, had me in stitches.
Oh, thank you, Tony the Trucker.
I hope you didn't.
Watch it while you were actually trucking.
But he says, when holding a door, I always say good morning or afternoon.
When no response, I say loud and clear, well, I guess not.
Still usually no response.
But the looks I get are priceless.
You know what though?
It's kind of, I don't know, you could say something that comes across as passive aggressive like, you're welcome.
or do the leg sweep, I don't know.
yeah, exactly.
Pull a neck muscle because you're so outraged.
Going to the stream, we got some texts we need to catch up on here.
PJ says that potato needs to be printed on a t-shirt.
PJ, one of our favorite couch potatoes.
Thank you, PJ.
We're thinking about it.
He says, ha, ha, I got Pete to check out.
The hills have eyes.
Yeah, you did.
And there's another one, that one, and it comes at night.
Those are my two I need to see.
And I got to finish, check the hills have eyes.
So thank you for that, PJ.
That's what we're about here.
It's an idea exchange.
What haven't you seen?
What are we watching?
That's what we're doing here.
PJ says, if you're disturbed by what you have watched already, I tried to warn you.
So far, I'm okay with it.
I haven't seen anything that terrible.
Maybe I'm not as far into it as PJ thinks but PJ says TV dad would be albundi hands down Yes, another along the Homer Simpson lines.
I think a Fox TV dad.
There you go Dave Kunich says Bosch.
I'm with you Dave Dave and our Bosch buddies love the show Bosch and Yeah, he's a pretty good dad to Maddie.
I think Bosch is a good dad
You still have time to get your text in, folks.
If you want to let us know who your favorite TV or movie dad is, let us know.
We are here on a bar ban Friday night.
Terry Barr, folks, is absent once again.
She is taking a well-deserved vacation and Rocker is being a real trooper.
He is filling in for the third week in a row.
And, you know, I've interacted with Rocker, I would say, over the last year and a half since I've been with Civic Media, but I've loved, really.
I love when he fills in for Terry because we get to see, it's just been good getting to know him.
So I really appreciate rocker filling in.
And I hope Terry's having a great vacation.
So Conrad, I would love to indulge you.
I know you have something you're just chomping at the bit to play here.
In honor
To me, in honor of Brian Wilson, do we have time?
The Beach Boys?
How nice of that man to give me a CD that will remind me of all the wonderful times I've shared with his daughter.
Is he
singing it?
He just ruined Brian
Wilson's beauty.
We're coming right back.
It's like with Peach Wabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back.
Hey.
It is a bar band Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.
We do this every Friday and we find new music and great conversation from whomever we have on from Max Inc Radio.
Typically it's Terry Barr and she is taking a well-deserved vacation, so we have gotten to know our pal, Rocker, her co-host at Max Inc Radio over the last three weeks and it's been a blast to have you on the show, my friend.
How are you doing tonight, Rocker?
I'm doing great.
thanks for having me once again well
you know it's been a blast and I I was I checked my email I said oh we haven't heard from rocker I said hey con can we check in with rocker he comes back and he goes he's just still preparing the show because you wanted to give us different stuff than you gave John and Gordy today I mean talk about being a workhorse really appreciate that but not necessary so much appreciated so
This is great.
So where do we start, Rocker?
Are you, uh, you
just, uh, you're dying your dance floor with a Maxink radio Saturday night, 6pm to midnight on the civic media radio network.
uh, the all local Wisconsin made music.
We have interviews with local artists, Wisconsin artists and local personalities that we find.
And then we have a live performance in our studio of a band each week.
And this week we have Atwood Music Hall's Melissa Broom.
Atwood Music Hall is the new live music venue here in Madison on the east side.
It was an old church and they redid it.
Absolutely amazing.
They've released a lot of pictures.
Atwood Music Hall, Melissa Broom, she'll be in.
We'll talk to her.
Natty Nation, they are 30 years of Natty Nation.
They're celebrating their 30 year anniversary.
They're, you know, now legends in Madison and Reggae.
We're going to talk to Joe Boogie.
And then live in the lair, our live performance is with Erin Oakley.
And she is an acoustic pop singer, songwriter, and she's from Madison.
And we're going to hear what she has to do.
Now, Nadi Nation, I was just talking about them.
1995 was when they started for three decades.
Nadi Nation has been the cornerstone of Midwest Reggae music scene.
spreading messages of unity, love, and social justice through their powerful sound and unwavering commitment to their roots.
And, you know, I've known these guys for this long.
They are just awesome friends of mine.
We'll have them in the studio tonight.
Their Madison Area Music Association Hall of Fame inductees with over 30 mama awards.
And Saturday, June 21st, they're going to be celebrating 30 years of their reggae revolution.
at the Atwood Music Hall.
And I thought we'd listen to some of their music from their first album in 1996.
This is Natty Nation and a song called
Arise.
You are strong and your reward will be in Mount Sion.
Arise, rise up!
Rasta children, the time has come.
Arise, Rasta children, got to take a stand.
Arise, Rasta children,
I want you blue for me now, now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Very nice.
That was a Natty Nation and the song Arise brought to you.
Compliments of rocker from Maxink Radio.
So they'll be on tomorrow night, not live in the Lair, but you're going to be talking to them on Maxink.
Yeah, it'll be an interview.
We'll kind of be talking about their history.
You know what they're doing now their upcoming show and just kind of hear from them.
It's 30 years as a band, you know, most bands, I don't even think it's three.
So being around for 30 is quite a feat.
And 30 Madison Area Music Awards in 30 years.
That's pretty impressive too, Rocker.
That doesn't happen very often, I would imagine.
And yeah, right.
And the Mamas, I think, has only been around since 2003.
So they won.
That's outstanding.
Interesting math, right?
Right.
Um, well, very cool.
Okay.
So you got, uh, Natty Nation will be on tomorrow night and then you've brought some other, uh, some other
stuff you can hear too.
I love this.
We can keep, we can keep rolling through it.
Well, Jenny Lupien and Jamie Polster, we talked about her last week, actually we previewed this show.
She's, she was a Nebraska native, a physical therapist and gymnast coach, but she needed an outlet for music.
So she became a singer and songwriter.
She's paired up with.
rapscaling in their faces for radio guitarist Jamie Poster.
Saturday, June 14th, tomorrow night at the beer rock in North Sherman Plaza
in Madison.
But she plays all over Wisconsin, so we'll keep an eye out for her.
But I thought I'd bring in a different song this week.
This is called Street Dance from her in 2022 EP.
Love
it.
Across the crowded street, then yes Sidewalk talking with the guys Oh, so easy on the eyes Look on over to your right People all around us But you're the only one I see
This crowd keeps pushing us together Moving closer now than ever Boy, you're standing next to me Now you've
got me dreaming Take me by your hand and lead me Dancing in the evening Chestnut eyes are all I see
That's great.
There was Street Dance from Jenny Lupin accompanied by Jamie Poster.
So they're playing at where they, oh, North Sherman Plaza, Biroch.
The
Biroch.
Yep, the Biroch is a little kind of like a restaurant bar and they serve Birochs.
I guess the closest thing I could think of, and you probably relate to it, is they're like pasties.
kind of like German pasties.
Yeah.
Very
really good.
So yeah, they serve that in beer and you know have occasional live music there and tomorrow night will be Jenny Lupin, a little place we've come to Madison.
It
says she's a Nebraska native.
Is she Madison based now, Rocker?
She's Madison based now and she actually goes between here in Nashville and kind of down Southwest as well.
A traveling person based here.
Very cool.
My guest is rocker.
It's a bar band Friday night rocker is one of the co-hosts of max inc radio along with his pal Terry bar and co-host Terry's on vacation.
We'll be back next week rocker We've been having a blast as he's filled in the last couple weeks So all right, I know this name rocker the next one you have
I recognize
this name Son of a Midwest legend tell us about Miles Nielsen and the rusted
hearts
miles nielson and the russet hearts they are a really good band of course from rockford rockford madison in milwaukee is kind of a try area where bands really travel between which cheap trick of course uh... his father rick nielson is the guitar player of
so we'd love to see miles nielson and russet hearts come through here he's going to be playing at the market waterfront festival uh... in madison that's a yard place park
uh... right on your heart river it's a great little festival it opens up the festive season here in madison june fourteenth and fifteenth that's this weekend the market waterfront festival is the official curtain raiser to that east side glorious season of summer festivals of which atwood fest is one of them so they're celebrating their thirty-sixth year this weekend and they have all kinds of talent two stages national touring acts local acts uh... regional acts eleven thirty
on Saturday is the dandelion dash.
So bring your kids and they can have this dandelion dash.
It's a lot of fun.
And then the next day, Sunday at 1130 is the Fool's Flotilla.
And people make their own boats and they dress in costumes and they float down the Yihara River to where the festival
place and then the festival starts.
So it's the Fool's Flotilla.
You don't want to miss that.
And then Miles Nielsen.
His band is going to be playing Sunday, June 14th.
They're the headliner on the main stage at 6.30pm.
And Rick Nielsen's kid, you gotta see him rock.
They're from Rockford.
Right now, let's listen to some Miles Nielsen and the Rustin Hearts.
This is Hands Up.
I'll take you back again.
You give me everything.
If everything's anything, I want it all.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands up.
That's
great.
That was hands up by Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts.
Miles Nielsen, of course, is the son of Rick Nielsen, one of the founders of Cheap Trick.
Boy you guys have so much access to great music rocker just in that triangle as you said, but mostly in Wisconsin it seems like it's just great
Yep, that's true.
This is a Wisconsin is a great music state I find all in all corners just amazing musicians and in Madison We're really blessed to have very high concentration of not only places to play but just great musicians down here and Milwaukee of course has an immense scene
Yeah, all right, so this is my favorite band name of the bands you brought tonight.
Tell us about electric spanking
Electric spanking, that's right They are a band that they came out of the Baghdad scuba review They're kind of a funky side project of a lot of those guys kind of jam band the current lineup consists of four members with deep roots in Madison music scene dating back to the late 90s
And June 21st, they're going to be playing at, we just mentioned it, the beer rock
seven o'clock.
That's over in North Sherman Plaza in Madison.
And then June 23rd at the up North bar at six o'clock.
So a couple of shows coming up right around the corner for them.
Let's listen to what the electric spanking sounds like.
What do you think they're going to sound like, Pete?
I'm very curious.
I don't even
want to venture a
guess.
Electric, I guess.
Electric Smaggy, it feels good.
This song is called Good
People.
I would not have guessed Funk Rocker, but that's a great sound.
I like that.
Aren't they a good
band?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're going to be really fun.
June 21st at the B-Rock, 7 p.m.
Madison, and June 23rd at the up north bar.
You know, they were there on hiatus for a while, but it seems like they're popping up with these shows.
Maybe they're just getting back together.
I sure hope so.
I'd love to hear their recording from them.
My guest is Rocker.
It's a bar band Friday night.
We'll have more with Rocker after a short break and we are jamming through a list of really great bands here tonight on Nightlight.
From the 608, the answer to our question, my favorite TV dad is Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
That's Evan from Madison.
We'll read steady Eddie's text when we come back and we'll have a few more minutes with our pal Rocker.
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I am Pete Schwabba.
Great to have you with me on this Friday night as we head into a Father's Day weekend together.
It is a bar ban Friday night on Monday.
We will have nutritionist and dietitian Sherry Stoka from Wayless MD will be here on Monday night if you want to ask healthy questions.
And then the owner of the Time Community Theater, Phil Krause will be here.
on Monday as well.
Our text line, Steady Eddie says, Pete, favorite TV dad, Wally and Theodore's dad, Ward Cleaver, played by Hugh Beaumont on the TV show, Leave It To Beaver.
He could be tough, but was always fair and loving.
Pete, if you were a TV dad, what would the show be called?
Steady Eddie.
P.S.
I think Terri Barr is now officially on sabbatical if she's not back next week.
Send out a search party, but rocker rocks too.
Damn right.
Thank you Steady Eddie.
I think if I had to, if I had my own...
If I was a TV dad, my show would be called, In Honor of Conrad, How I Met Your Schwabba,
that's his favorite.
look for it next week on CBS.
We've got a few more minutes with our pal, Rocker, who's filling in for Terry, as we mentioned.
We just heard Electric Spanking Rocker, loved it.
Yeah.
Tell us about Automatic Lover.
Automatic Lover, so they are just a great band, horns,
real Latin feel.
And they just got Joey B Banks on drums.
Joey B Banks is one of the more popular drummers in Madison playing with Steely Dane and really a plethora of other bands.
Too many to list
here.
And they are playing at the Mama Awards this Sunday, June 15th at 7 p.m.
That's at the Atwood Music Hall.
You can see the theme.
It features live performances by Automatic Lover M. Shays.
Red Door Duo, who we had live in the Lair last week on MaxingGradio, Jazz Flux, and the Mason Meyer Band.
There's so much more.
It's hosted by Cooper Talbot, and guess who else?
Rocker?
Terry.
Terry Barr.
Oh, that's fantastic.
So she's got to be back pretty soon here.
I'll be doing the red carpet actually in the cocktail lounge starts at
thirty and the actual show starts at seven.
It's the Madison Area Music Association Award show this Sunday June 15th at Atwood Music Hall.
I have a song from Automatic Lover.
This is called Sick
Love.
luego tu me extraña.
Boy, the Atwood Music Hall will be rocking on Father's Day.
I think that's my favorite tonight so far, but this is all great stuff, Rocker.
Yeah,
they are a great band.
You think we could get one more in quickly?
Sure.
Let's go.
Oh, by the way, I thought I'd tell you that my favorite father on a TV show.
Yeah.
I was listening in there.
Arthur, King of Queens.
Oh, there you go.
Boy, we didn't hear Arthur tonight.
That's a great
one.
Hey, happy Father's Day to you too, buddy, as well.
Oh, thanks, Pete.
I appreciate it.
Frank Martin Bush in the names.
Have you heard him yet?
No, I have not.
He is going to be playing the sessions at McPike Park that's here in Madison, and it's at the Garver Feed Mill.
Garver event brings four-day festival to Garver Feed Mill in Madison.
coming up June 19th through June 22nd.
Headliners include Armchair Boogie, Frank Bush in the Names, Iris DeMent, and the Los Tex Maniacs.
can learn more about the sessions and view the full music schedule at sessions at McPike.org.
And of course the sessions was held in a park here in Madison, which is why they have the website, but they've recently moved it to the Garver Feed Mill, which is a
Now, a community, you know, like space, it's pretty cool.
And let's see, they also have a two-day flea market there, an electric car show, food trucks, cold drinks, and more.
Thursday 19th, the June 19th, the Johannes Wallman and the Precarious Towers, they're opening up the show.
Professor of Jazz Studies at the UW, Johannes Wallman.
Wow.
Just amazing.
And then it's Frank Martin Bush and the names at 9.30 PM.
where Heartland twang needs modern grit.
Frank is from Wheelhouse.
There's the news.
They're
vocal band that everybody loves.
Frank Martin Bush in the names.
This is I Met a
Girl.
Down on the quarter of fourth and the pearl She was in town just for the weekend From an island on the edge of the world
Very nice.
So we're running short on time rocker.
Thank you so much buddy.
This is so much fun Maxink radio check it out tomorrow night from six to midnight and be sure to check out live in the Lair With Aaron Oakley.
Thank you so much buddy.
This has been a lot of
Yeah, rocker check out Maxink radio tomorrow night folks six hours of
Amazing entertainments.
Thank you to Rocker.
And thank you to all my guests tonight, Steve Hofstetter and Stephanie Gernel.
We will be back Monday night.
I hope everybody has a happy, safe Father's Day weekend.
And that's, oh, Steve on the text line.
Conrad's dad weighed in.
Who's his dad?
Young Sheldon.
Young Sheldon.
Well, not Ash.
But George Cooper, right?
Lance Barber.
Lance Barber.
Oh, he says.
question at tonight.
All right, we'll see you Monday folks.
Can't wait.
Have a great weekend.
This is Pete Schwabin and nightlet on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
Good night,
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