From Harrison Ford to 7000apart(Hour 2)

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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Pete Schwabach.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to

Hollywood.

And now, a guy who still likes to build a fort, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back, folks, to hour number two, act two, as I like to call it, here at Night Light.

Great to have you with me, Conrad Krieger, working the board.

We will have more with our guest, Mike Schmidt, in just a moment.

If you missed the first part of the show, I will just share our question with you.

We've got some great answers.

What is your favorite Harrison Ford film?

Harrison Ford turned 83.

I love when people in the business who know him and I ran into this a lot and a lot of people go, oh, Harry Ford, because they like know him.

And I was in a meeting once and the producer said, oh, we'll get Sandy Bullock to do it.

Like it's weird hearing, like you get used to hearing regular.

They're like showbiz names.

But 7,000 Apart is coming up at 7.20.

They will be here live, John and Amelie talking about all their dates all throughout the state before they head back to Sweden like they do.

And they're gonna perform live in the studio, which will be great.

We also talked about Conrad's tattoo, the Emmys.

What else, Con?

What am I missing here?

What do we,

I know I said

something funny before.

Well, we talked about the nude cruise as well.

The nude cruise.

Conrad's going on a nude cruise.

He tried

to get on last year, but

he sent to selfie and

they said, no.

No, he's going to try again.

This

is

my year.

We could do a remote from a nude cruise.

I would do that.

Yeah.

I don't know if we should show a picture on that.

Yeah, probably not.

I don't know what we can't.

FCC stuff.

Yeah.

But lots of fun stuff happening here tonight.

Great to have you with me.

Text in, folks.

And I will read your text on the radio.

And if you're watching us, if you're watching the radio, text it on the stream.

That's always fun, too.

And we'll talk about Harrison Ford some more.

But right now, I'm going to ask our current guest, comedian and podcast host of the 40-year-old boy podcast, which you have to check out.

Mike Schmidt, what's your favorite?

Do you have a favorite Harrison Ford movie, Mike?

Well, I it's funny.

I've been revisiting Harrison Ford recently.

OK, I've never seen the the Clancy movies.

Oh, really?

Yeah,

I've never seen Clear and Present Danger, Red October.

I've never seen any of them.

So I have those around my agenda.

I will.

And I'm not doing this to be hipster, Joe, because look, we all know Star Wars.

We all know Indiana Jones.

These are amazing movies.

And those are those are the clear choices.

But I think, you know, witness, of course, is someone I'm sure everybody's brought that up.

I'm going to throw in the conversation.

That was mine.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

From early in the seventies and a Gene Hackman movie vehicle, I guess you would say Francis Ford Coppola.

And he's not in a ton, but he's, you know, he's important when you see him, you know, in the beginning.

And yeah, you should see the conversation.

It's real great.

And also just after on the conversation, he was, he was Tom Branigan in an episode of Petracelli.

So go find that online somewhere.

I'm sure that's, I'm sure you can dig that out of a grave somewhere on YouTube.

It's funny you say that about the conversation because he plays Robert DeVall, right?

Robert DeVall has more than a cameo, but he's not on screen much.

But Harrison Ford plays like his assistant secretary, and he kind of comes across as this guy that could either ring your neck.

or just be a lapdog, and you don't really know.

I think it's because he's such a good actor.

I thought he was gonna kill someone in the movie at some point, but

yeah, he did a

really good job of it.

And the clear and present danger, the Clancy ones, those are good movies, in my opinion, but like...

That was right in the cusp of when Hollywood fell in love with flawed characters.

And Harrison Ford is like Mr. Boy Scout in those.

It's kind of annoying.

Even before the flawed characters were a cool thing, I was like, this guy's like too perfect.

So I said,

doctor, he never cheats.

He doesn't drink, whatever.

But they're fun watches, you know.

Well, when I first came on, you read from a listener that the fugitive was a choice.

And I'm sure you've mentioned it a couple of times.

Yeah.

But it is phenomenal.

I remember seeing it.

in the theater and he's going, this is crazy how good it is.

And it also has, quite frankly, one of my favorite eating scenes I've ever seen in a movie.

And it's so ridiculous.

The hospital?

But it's like, yes.

You know how you can put yourself in a position?

He's so hungry because he's been running and all that.

And he dies as Harry cuts his beard, he shaves, he does that, by the way, perfectly.

You know, he's literally using a bottle cap and a lighter to shave and somehow looks amazing.

And then he steals that guy's breakfast.

and wolves the eggs right off the plate, and it looks so delicious, even though it's hospital eggs, I'm like, nothing's ever looked that delicious in my life.

That is so, that's why I love having you on the show, Mike.

I love those little nuance things you pick up in movies like that, because I remember kind of thinking the same thing, but I've never verbalized or talked about it.

But I can't believe you, because you said it, you knew instantly, you know what I mean?

It's like, I don't drink at all.

I'm not an alcohol guy, but if you watch Django Unchained,

Christoph Waltz pulls two beers from a tap and I go, I've never wanted a beer more in my life than this.

And then the Camprio and Madsen, both in separate movies, the Camprio and once upon a time in Hollywood, Madsen in Kill Bill 2, make margaritas in a blender, cracking the ice cubes into it and then shaking it to make it blicks.

And I'm going, I don't drink, but they look delicious.

The drinks, both of them look incredible.

Like I just want them in my mouth.

Cinematic

margaritas.

That's awesome.

You were telling a story about meeting Michael Madsen.

So I'd love to have you finish that.

Oh, so the closer I got to the table, the closer I started to realize that maybe, you know, Michael.

had joined us in body, but maybe not fully in spirit.

He might have had a few.

He might have, you know, Christoph Fultz might have pulled a couple for him and they tippled a little bit before he showed up.

And I'd realized that Virginia was there as kind of a caretaker.

She was there making sure he was cool and okay and everything was fine.

He wasn't out of control.

He wasn't, he was going through the motions of signing and smiling.

But you kind of see he was fogged over, like he wasn't really there.

And then I got to the table and

Uh, you know, I didn't want to bother him and I didn't want to say anything But I but he looked up but he gave me the smile and I and I gave him the finger gun shoot and he looked at me He did the same thing like the back and he signed I signed my DVD of my one for my buddy Max and I told him my story about seeing the movie twice and and He could interest like just a lot of yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, all right.

Yeah But then and I got it so I have his autograph.

I still have the box with the autograph on it and then

Pardo met him in a place like not a bar nightclub or whatever and a Manson was hammered and he's like I got to get Schmitty his autograph if I see him and I don't get it I'm insane, right and and Pardo tells me this story builds it up builds it up and then he hands me a cocktail nap and he goes here you go and it looked like an EEG

Like, I mean, you wouldn't know if he had a stroke in the middle of it.

I mean, it just was a mess.

You know, it looked like the embroidery on a square dancer's shirt.

It was that awful.

Just like this endless series of loops.

And I throw it out.

And it's funny, my friend's like, you should have said it's a great story.

I go, but I couldn't prove anything.

Because nobody would believe it anyway.

It's so awful.

But yeah, but credit to Jimmy for getting it.

And he handed it to me and just saw my face and laughed.

I was like, oh, no.

He

wasn't, I'm sure, because I know Jimmy, but he could have been playing a joke on you, too.

No, really, I ran into him.

And this is his.

It could have been.

Yeah, to this day, he could be selling it on

me.

I'll share this with you just because Jimmy's been on the show a few times, too.

And I know we have listeners that really like Jimmy, too.

I think if I told you this, please stop me, but I had this horrible shirt on the last time he was on.

It was December, it was cold, and I just grabbed something.

I knew I was gonna have to stay over in Green Bay because it was a blizzard, so I grabbed the first warmest shirt I could find, and I looked like I was out of, like, Colombo or something.

I had this suede two-tone shirt on, and I said to Conrad, if part of it doesn't make fun of this shirt, I'll think he's slipping.

Well, honestly, God, Mike, he comes on the stream, and I immediately...

see Jimmy's wheels turning and he's looking at my shirt.

And as soon as I welcome him to the show, he goes, what's going on with that shirt friend?

What do you got something out of the Tim Walls collection there?

Beautiful.

Um, I have, I'm going to do this.

I'm sorry.

I know we're pressed.

No, it's not my story to tell, but I'm going to tell it anyway.

Jimmy's on a pay phone and our friend, our mutual friend Russ McGarry walks up to him on the phone and he's, and Jimmy's talking, doesn't even look at him.

Russ walks up and our friend Russ is a distance runner thin man.

He looks like a color forms.

Yeah, so and he walks right at the Jimmy just kind of looks at him because they're working together and Jimmy doesn't even just didn't blink He's on the payphone.

He goes.

I'm gonna have to answer to hold on for a second because Russ McGarry has arrived that I apparently he has AIDS and And like and then he he pauses for the guy on the phone to talk and then he looks at Russ he goes Russ Do you have AIDS?

He asks him after saying apparently he has AIDS

I'm sorry.

You made me do it.

I don't listen.

You're dying to dance for one more.

One more story because it's my favorite story.

He and our mutual friend, Pat, you know, a group, they went to a concert in the park.

I think it might have been the neck.

OK.

And it was like a free concert in the park in Woodland Hills.

And they're all just you know, you just vibing on a summer.

Everybody's having fun and everybody's watching the show and having a good time.

And.

there's a beach ball everybody's bouncing a beach ball around it's just you know one of those kind of things it's a summer crowd and uh jimmy's watching the show everybody's watching and then the beach ball gets bounced over and it comes over and it lands by jimmy he picks it up pulls out a marker and signs it

and knocks it back into the crowd

as

if they were bouncing it the whole time to get it to him for the autograph.

Didn't tell anybody watch this, just picked it up, signed it, did that Jimmy wave, you know, and throws it back into the crowd.

Oh, how funny is that?

It might be the funniest thing I've ever heard.

That's funny, but I can continue that story.

And I probably that night because this will be the last inside story I tell folks, I swear.

That night, I think they went to Paul Gilmartin's afterwards and I was there and they were telling a story about trying to get the knack to sign their album.

And Jimmy said, you know, he's telling the story.

He goes, Pat and I are waiting there patiently.

And then, you know, a couple of dorks come up and want them to sign something.

And everybody kind of looked around the room like, oh, really?

It's gorgeous stuff.

All right.

So we've got about three minutes left, Mike.

I don't know if that's time for one, but I would love for you to tell a condensed version of either the time you met

Brandon Frazier

or

Tash because you are an intimidating guy.

You're what do you six three, you know, big dude.

And yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, I had three 30 these days or three 20, but I had a biscuit for lunch.

I don't know.

So and they're very short stories because they're true.

That's what happened.

Well, I was at the Virgin Megastore once and I was walking around and Brendan Frazier in the old days, folks, they used to have displays of video game consoles and you could play the game in the store.

It was under lock and key and plexiglass, but the controller was out to you.

It was welded to it, but you could kind of play.

So I walked up.

Yeah.

And I'm, I'm kind of, I'm on his, I'm to his left behind it and I'm watching and he's playing and he's kind of nervous.

He kind of glances over at me and he glances over at me again.

And Brendan Fraser, big guy, taller than me.

And but he's playing he's just playing the game and I start because I'm dumb I'm like, oh, oh get him.

Oh dude, dude Like I started play by playing it a little bit and to the and these little kids start laughing because they're there and we're having fun ha ha and Brendan Fraser is playing and Brendan Fraser looks again at me twice more and I go Oh, dude.

No, you got it And the one kid goes go in the cave or whatever says it and Brendan Fraser just looks at me and he goes

I mean, I've never seen a man move this fast.

He just goes it's all you and he runs He walks away as fast as he can he let's go to the controller mid game It's all you and he just end like kind of a quick brisk and out the store out of the store.

I Sent him home.

I sent him packing.

I sent the mummy on his way.

He's like, I'll just buy this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why am I playing a game and if people know who I am now?

I forgot

Same location.

Virgin Megastar.

I'm with my buddy Dennis Eggenberg.

And at the time we're going to go down to the parking garage.

We're splitting.

And the elevator opens.

And John Tesh is inside the elevator.

Now, you want to tell me I'm intimidating.

Both these guys are bigger than the head.

Yeah.

Tesh is like 6'6".

Isn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's a Fred Gwynne wannabe.

He's a monster dude.

So, and also in just a giant, you know, horse head.

I mean, it looks like a Venetian urn.

So we get in and, uh, and he didn't have a button pushed on the thing when the door opened.

So I, and my brain, I'm like, is this, was that his floor?

Like, I don't even know.

So we get in and I, I punch our floor and I go, what floor, Mr. Tesh?

and he reaches out as fast as anybody, and he just goes, bing, bing, bing, and he hits open door, open door, open door, and then he runs out of his car, runs out of the elevator to his car.

I mean, runs from us.

Because the second I recognized him, I guess he would, because he wouldn't let the doors close.

He's just like, I just go, hey, what floor, Mr. Tash?

Bing, bing, bing, run.

Anything.

I looked at Dennis, I'm like, what did we do, man?

And you hear his car peel out.

Dude, you are the best.

Thank

you so much,

Mike.

Always fun.

Let's do

it again.

Love you, Peter.

Love

you,

man.

Talk

to

you

soon.

Thanks, Mike.

That's Mike Schmidt.

Check out the 40-year-old boy podcast.

And as always, so much fun talking to Mike.

We have a great in-studio guest coming up next, folks.

7,000 apart.

You will not want to miss this.

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Network.

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Tuesday folks and we are on the radio talking about all the stuff we love to talk about movies and music and comedy and TV and lots of cool stuff happening in Wisconsin and we are about to kill two birds with one stone because my next guest

is providing a lot of entertainment in the community and doing great stuff when it comes to music.

7000 Apart, John Anomaly,

how are you guys?

We're so good.

Thank you for having us here.

So great.

I think the last time you were here, it was my birthday, right?

And

you sang Happy Birthday, which is very cool.

That was so

fun.

And I just want you guys to know.

that I, whenever your name comes up with other people, I take full credit for having discovered

you.

Oh yeah, that's totally fine.

You're okay with that?

100% credit.

It's probably a

big line of people that

do that.

But

anyway, it's great to see you guys.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thanks for having

us.

It's really fun to be back.

How are things going?

Really good.

We're very busy.

Yeah.

Summer is like the most intense time, but it's also the most fun time.

And so we're having a blast and we're exhausted.

in a good way, right?

You said you

guys were lower energy tonight, and

that's okay.

We'll ramp up, don't you worry.

You've earned the other.

You have a jam-pack schedule.

Let's talk about this first, because I just printed this up.

If you're watching on the stream, maybe we don't have a... Conn, are we on the stream?

Oh, okay.

Gotta turn the TV on there, but your schedule is insane.

You've got all these Wisconsin dates.

First of all, do you go outside of Wisconsin

typically?

Not typically we used to before COVID a little bit more and then it's just like it's so expensive touring outside like when you can't when you have to like start doing like hotel rooms and stuff

Yeah,

because now we can just drive home and so that saves a lot and but we did do one show in in Chicago at one of the biggest festivals down there So that was really really fun.

Yeah

pre-COVID we were sleeping on the law floors.

Yeah

You reach a point where you're just like done with that

a little bit and it's more like Since we have shows here and people aren't sick of us yet.

We might as well keep going, right?

Yeah, I think you guys put out enough new material that you don't have to worry about that But

you've

got July 18th at the rock winery in Baraboo.

It's your

head in South.

Then you've got on the 19th in a Schwabbanon Jesse McCartney, is that the name?

Yeah, we're opening.

It's our biggest show of the year

on Saturday, so it was very exciting.

Yeah,

for sure.

It's like one of the three biggest ones

this

summer, for sure.

It's for the Tytletown district.

They bring in national touring bands, and they're bringing Jesse McCartney this year.

And last year, we opened up for the X Ambassadors there, and it was like 2,000 people or something, and a really good time.

Yeah, right by Lambeau.

I'm just gonna play dumb

here because in Baraboo, it says The Rock Winery.

And then here it says Jesse McCartney.

I thought that was the name of a bar.

And then I realized who you were talking about.

No, he was like a big star in the 2000s, like a big teen, teen idol, yeah.

What's it like, when you guys open for someone like that, are the crowds better because they paid more money to see a headliner and they're like really zoned in on the show or does it matter?

So we haven't done a ton of them and these are actually free.

Okay, so the title and puts on these free show so I mean they're just happy to be there and it's cool because like

I mean, they're not there for us, but at the same time, like, they are there to be entertained, and if we can provide that, then they're happy.

And so we do, like, a little mix of originals and covers.

OK.

They

go in with no expectations,

or they assume you're going to be bad, you know?

Yeah, they don't expect a little band.

So,

like, bars low.

Yeah.

So if we can be, like, even a little bit above that, they're

very

good.

So you guys go in there and rock them, and then there's, like, you got your, that's so cool.

All right, then you've got Sturgeon Bay.

Mm-hmm.

Have you guys ever played Marinette?

It's

an hour north

right up along the water right before

you get to the U.P.

Didn't we play there?

There's what's called the county fair

We

did do that last year.

Because I'm

looking at this list going, wait a minute.

Sturgeon Bay is smaller than Marinette, and they've got 7,000 apart.

How do we

get you

guys in Marinette?

Well, you just got to book us.

All

right.

Make

a few phone

calls.

Then you got Sister Bay.

You got two different venues in Sister Bay this summer.

How does that work?

Do people get competitive, or are they say, like, you can't play that venue if you play

here?

So Wisconsin is really chill.

We've only had it.

happened once where they had like a radius cost as it's called, where they were like, yeah, we don't want you to play within this many miles for like two weeks before and two weeks after or something.

That's only happened once.

Otherwise, like people really chill.

People

come, I mean,

like

we just had a fan that has been to 50 shows.

Oh my God.

We got him a cake.

We got him a cake

for 50th, 50th show.

We were like, I don't know what to sing you, but we'll sing you something, you know?

That's fantastic.

There's not 50th shows.

So show a song or whatever.

Yeah.

That's great.

Do you have are you at a point right now where I would imagine you have favorite venues or towns to play like when it comes to like crowds or maybe mob mentality, whatever you want to call it, do crowds take on lives of their own when they're watching you guys?

I mean, sometimes I would say like.

I don't think we have a favorite because like every crowd is different and we love that.

We love when people are like quiet listening.

We love when there's like a lot of stuff going on.

We love when people come up and dance.

We love when there's kids around.

We love when there's a more mature audience.

Like I think what we really love is that there is such a wide variety and we're starting and we always like we adjust.

are setless based on the people that we see in the audience and the vibe.

Like if John and I are doing a duo show at a winery, we'll keep it a lot more low-key and we'll do a lot more stories.

Different than like

Summerfest.

Yeah, then like Summerfest where you just go song, song, song or like playing at a wedding where people just want to dance.

Like it's not the time to tell a story.

So I think playing so many shows, we've learned how to kind of cater to each audience.

And it's so cool when you see that working.

You're all pros

now.

It's useful for the opening slots as well because you can kind of judge the audience and be like, okay, they're going to not like this next song that we had chosen.

So

let's replace that one, you know.

And we do it on the fly.

That's

so cool.

John and Amelie are here in the studio, 7000 Apart, the rock duo that splits time between here in Northeast Wisconsin and Sweden.

They're going to perform after the news.

And I'm going to ask you guys.

What was I going to ask you?

I want to ask you about, I don't know, I'll think of something good.

I want to ask you how it went at Summerfest, so

we'll do

that too

after the news.

7000 Apart is in the studio, folks.

Do not leave or you will miss their kick-ass performance that is coming up next.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

I can always tell when Conrad has

a new favorite bumper song because he plays it a lot.

That's a great tune though.

Our question of the night was, what is your favorite Harrison Ford movie?

Tony, the trucker says, Pete, Harrison Ford movie is Cowboys and Aliens.

Was

he in

that?

I don't remember that.

I don't think I saw

it.

I don't know that other.

I didn't know he was in it and I didn't see it.

So I'll take your word for it.

Tony the trucker.

He's probably not one of his better known movies, but still very entertaining.

Okay, Tony.

Thank you, buddy.

Thank you for the text.

And then Steve from Florida says, I also like Harrison Ford's famous line toward the end of his movie, Air Force One, get off my plane.

as he pushes the bad guy off the end of the plane.

That was the movie.

I don't know if you guys watch movies a lot, but where I think Steven Segal got beheaded or something, right?

At

the

beginning of the movie, and it was like, you think he's gonna be in it?

It's like, it was a cameo.

and like a lid came through and killed him or something.

I was like, whoa, I love when movies do that.

Hey, welcome back to Nightlife.

I'm Pete Schwabba, and this is exciting because we have John and Amelie here.

They comprise 7,000 Apart.

They're in the studio.

I discovered them, and I'll take full credit for that.

But they're playing dates all over Wisconsin, folks.

So where can people find these dates that I have in my hand?

Yeah, you can just, if you type in 7000apart.com and then...

just scroll down a little bit, they're all there.

Otherwise, 7000apart.com slash tour.

We put them on Facebook, we put a little like graphic on Instagram.

Yeah, bands in town.

If you just search 7000 apart, something should come up.

Can you imagine having to do this without the interwebs?

Oh my gosh.

Like in the 80s or 90s, you had to get on a mailing list,

right?

But also like that would also be so nice not having to deal with, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Like just because also back then like the clubs,

a lot of like promotion and the promoters.

People were looking for it too.

Yeah.

Very interesting,

yeah.

They didn't have as much entertainment on, you know, they didn't have a line so they couldn't be entertained there.

So they had to go out and do something to be entertained.

You guys were like more mysterious than it was like, and now you're directly contacting.

Now we're like trying

to film everything that we do and

put it

out on

the

internet.

That would be exhausting.

Do you want to play something?

Absolutely.

I know it's your night off.

I hate to make you.

Oh, it's all good.

Which one are we doing first?

Fever?

Okay.

This is only the single.

This is called Fever.

No, this is...

7000 Apart.

Here at Nightlight, singing Fever.

Love

it.

You know

When you said fever, I thought you would play that last time, but I haven't heard that before.

That's

outstanding.

Great song.

That's new.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's new.

It's on the new album.

What's going

on in that song a little bit?

I caught most of it, but

there's so many parts to it, so it's very hard to...

Are you talking like lyrically or just like, you know?

Yeah, just like, because there was a

moment, and this is right where my kind of comedy brain went to, but where you guys looked at each other and you gave each other kind of a cute look, and for those of you listening that don't know, they are a couple, seven thousand part, they're a married couple, so you guys gave each other a nice look, and I thought, what if they weren't getting along on that day?

But like, would you still have that sort

of...

I mean, that's kind of what it is.

Like when we were in long distance, so for those who don't know, that's what the 7,000 apart.

We just got a text

that said, how did they come up with their name?

So we were in a long distance relationship for three years, where we were 7,000 kilometers apart from each other, which is like 4,382.5 miles ish.

After meeting

here in Green

Bay High School.

I'm from Sweden originally.

And so.

Yeah, our relationship wasn't always great because, like, long distance is really, really hard.

And so there were times where, yeah, it didn't feel like a good thing necessarily.

And

we

weren't, like, great for each other.

But the thing is, like, we were always great for each other when we were together.

And so that always like trumped everything, you know what I mean?

Like even though things were difficult when we were apart, that was almost a good sign.

Because I mean, we're not supposed to be apart.

We're supposed to be together.

So we started writing.

So this was one of those songs I was written about the long distance relationship because we realized we haven't written about it that much just

because,

you know, people expected that it was like, oh, it was super great.

And they had a good time and like.

Everything was beautiful and stuff.

And it was like, no, no, it was really bad.

It was super.

It was pretty rough, like during long distance.

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

Do you guys, as you get older and you're a few years removed from high school now, what do you like, late twenties or something?

Okay.

Sure.

But do you go back to that?

Like you said, you haven't written about it much, but there are other times where you do get nostalgic and you're like, hey, we're missing some great material here because we had a cool

story.

Yeah, that's kind

of

what

happened, I

think, with this album a bit.

We wrote both about like who we have been who we are and also who we want to be I think so this was very much like a Coming home album in a way like and like just very encapsulating our story in a lot of different Ways.

Yeah, can you guys talk about your process like?

marrying music with lyrics.

I'm gonna make an assumption here.

I've probably asked you this before.

Since you sing, I automatically think you're the lyrics and John is music, but maybe that's not the case.

But when you come up with songs, regardless of who writes what, do you have a process where you come up with lyrics first and then you try to marry it to music or does the music come first?

It's been completely different all three albums.

The first one I wrote pretty much everything and then Omelette edited.

Everything so like we kind of I'm a very general creative person so I'll just like make a hundred ideas and then like Omni's very good at editing things and making them refined and

stuff like a lot of times John will come with like one verse and a chorus and then I will write the second second verse and the bridge for instance together and sometimes when we're in

like a songwriting session with someone else, then I usually take lead on a lot of things.

And I always change the melody no matter what.

Yeah,

yeah, probably because like I'm not as like, I'm not a singer first.

So like she makes it to fit her voice and fit

the

types of things she does melodically normally.

Okay.

Social change that up and stuff as well.

Love, she's waving you off like, you're a tremendous singer.

Oh, I thought you were saying, get out of here, you're not a singer.

7,000 Apart is here in the studio.

John and Amalie are here playing, they just played their new song, Fever.

What do you guys like to play better?

The Rockers or do you like to do ballads or what's your favorite, what is your favorite stuff to sing, Amalie, and what is your favorite stuff to play, John?

I like anything that gets an emotional reaction.

So whether that is like,

I can see when people tap their foot, I can see when people get really happy.

Like, oh, we're playing their favorite song, but I also love when people cry.

Because then I know I've reached them.

And I feel like that's what art is supposed to be.

It's supposed to create feelings.

And so anytime people have an emotional reaction, I'm really happy.

Yeah, I mean, I think first, we both do music because we like to...

entertain people and like communicate with people and that's like the main reason we do music so I would agree that like whatever communicates best with an audience like maybe you don't play the ballad in a bar but also maybe you do like we just changed one of our ballads into this song that starts out really slow and then ends up being the biggest song that we have like for energy level so like I think it's more about like communication and then it's more

also about like what's fun to play,

like for me

it's fun to sing and like great answer.

It can be either, you know.

We love playing with the band obviously.

They bring so much energy and they're just so fun to have around.

So like, yeah.

That's fantastic.

Do you guys want to try to get another song in before the break?

Yeah, sure.

We can do

that.

What are you thinking?

Let's do our next single.

It's coming out August.

7th.

We're only releasing on the 7th from now on.

I

love that.

Yeah.

It's good luck.

We like 7s for some reason.

That sounds like a song too.

All right.

John and Emily, 7,000 a part.

Another long distance one.

Sweet.

The first day you left behind, now we're 4,000 miles apart Did I leave my heart in the back because I wanted you to have it

7,000 apart.

Was it a dream?

Is that what it's called?

Was it a dream?

All

right, we'll have a few more minutes with John Anomaly coming up after this very, very short break.

Don't go away, folks.

I'm gonna tell you who's on tomorrow night too when we come back.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the 7,000 apart show here on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

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My thanks to Mike Schmidt, who was on earlier, always very funny.

Thank you for all your texts, and thank you to 7000 Apart.

We have a few more minutes with these guys, John and Amalie, who are in the studio and always rock the place.

It's so much fun when you guys are here.

And we've got a couple more texts.

We should probably bang this out too before we go back into the music.

Bridget from the 818 says, regarding Henry.

What is that, like our fifth regarding Henry?

I think that's the winner tonight.

I think it is, and I haven't even seen it.

John, you have a favorite to Harrison Ford movie.

It's so hard because I love like star.

I literally have a Star Wars tattoo as you can see here.

Can

you can you tell?

Yeah, he's

got it.

Like I'm a

huge Star Wars fan, but it's just like in Indiana Jones.

Like it's just, you know, he's the main guy

and like

it's so good.

Like, I don't know.

Those are like the main ones.

I haven't seen all of his other catalog, but.

Uh, I just like Indiana Jones is so good.

He's just one of those guys that makes good movies.

There's a, he's got a couple clunkers, like, but guys like him and Tom Cruise, they just know how to pick a movie and he's had a great career.

So that's a good answer.

Uh, tomorrow night on the show folks, uh, Civic Media Sports Authority, Mike Clemens will be here.

We haven't talked sports in a while, so it'll be fun to have Mike on the show at 635.

And then our pal, uh, and the legendary founder of Let Me Be Frank productions here in Green Bay, Frank Hermans will be here in the studio and hello.

He always brings his guitar to us.

Do you guys know Frank?

Oh, yeah.

He's a great friend.

I actually took a singing lessons when I was here as an exchange student.

I took singing lessons from Amy, his wife.

Oh, his wife, yeah.

And so, and then I was in one of their shows when I first lived here.

No way.

Oh, that's fun.

Yeah, I played Marianne and like a thing.

Yeah, it was great.

Like a Gilligan's Island?

Yeah, Gilligan Island's thing.

Oh, sweet.

Yeah, it was

great.

He's great.

Frank

is always fun.

He's wonderful.

Just

like you guys.

You're all some of my favorite guests.

So

it's great

to have you here.

7,000 Apart is in the studio.

And so what was I going to ask you guys?

All right.

Do you have, first of all, how was Summerfest?

Because I almost

forgot to ask you that.

It's insane.

Really?

Tell me about it.

I mean, it's the biggest stage we've ever been on, I think.

Yeah.

It's supposed to be a cellular stage.

Like, you can see it from the highway.

Like, that's how big the stage is.

Like, how insane is that?

Was it scary?

I was actually not nervous.

I was

just so excited and just had fun.

It was like there were like 10 people behind stage like helping out to make it happen and it's like that doesn't happen for us.

Normally

we have to do everything.

We normally have to set up all the speakers and all the lights and we just showed up.

Just

showed up and

did our thing for an

hour and

left.

We had a backstage area.

Like we had a little green room.

There's a

bathroom.

Free water.

Come

on.

There was free water

as well.

Incredible.

So that's the biggest venue you've played.

You played for an hour.

Did

you do

all original stuff for some covers?

Basically, yeah, we did like three covers maybe, I think.

Yeah.

But it was great.

We worked with a live stage coach from Nashville and

the same way for rehearsing.

So we we felt really ready and just excited to show people the new the new stuff.

It's like one of the

biggest music festivals in the world.

Yeah,

thrill.

Where are you guys at in terms of I'm sure you'd like to be

you'd like to have those guys setting up for you and doing all that stuff and get to that stage, but you make your living at this.

And it's

a

grind, I'm sure at times, but you're still on the rise, right?

I mean,

you guys

put out new music and you're building your, you know, following and all that kind of stuff.

Are you surprised it's taking this much work?

Are you like, oh, this hasn't been that bad.

We're still, you know.

I

think every day is different.

But I think we've come to, at least I have, to a point where I'm like, wow, I get to do what I love for a living.

And yeah, it's tough.

It's not like we are swimming in money in any shape or form.

But I get to do what I love, and I could do this for the next.

20, 30, 40 years.

Do you know what I mean?

Because I

feel like Wisconsin is also so fine when it comes to age.

We have so many friends and people we look up to that have been on the grind for that many years.

And they're still doing it.

They're still killing

it.

They're still doing it.

And they're still growing.

So there's not, I think, when I was in my younger 20s.

I was more concerned about my age, especially being a woman in the music industry.

I was like, oh, we got to get our big break now, otherwise it's too late.

But now I'm more like, wow, we've come this far, we're growing every single year, and like nothing is stopping us, you know what I mean?

And people don't care about our age, they just want to have a good time.

They want to

be rocked.

Yeah, honestly.

And we normally get that.

Put

new

music out and like, I mean, that's...

That's so great.

So you're here, you've got all these dates between now and September.

We

got

lucky and got you in here on the night off.

But when do you head back to Sweden?

Early September, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, like September 3rd, I think.