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Dolly Parton Showdown and Barr Band Friday(Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Sep 19, 2025
It is so great to have you here on this beautiful, amazing Friday night here in the state of Wisconsin.
We are barreling through a show here about to kick off Act II Stuart J. Waddles is my guest at the moment.
We'll be back to Stuart in just a minute.
He's gonna take a Dolly Parton quiz that Conrad and I teamed up to make.
It's all multiple choice, so he has a fighter's chance, and it doesn't sound like he needs one, because he's a big Dolly Parton fan.
We're talking about Dolly Parton with Stuart, and then it is a Bar Band Friday night.
Terry Barr will be here at 7.35 with new music and a winning personality.
Do you know anyone more pleasant than Terry Barr?
I don't think so.
Even your mom?
Paula?
She used to pack your lunch for God's sakes.
Pick the right answer.
I'm not staying that late.
Edward in the 414 says, Vegemite, Branson's Pickle and a Plowman sandwich.
Then again, I'm Scottish.
Thank you, Edward from the 414.
I would heard the term Vegemite sandwich since the minute work song down under.
And I still, I've heard it's not an appealing looking sandwich, I've never tried one.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids, he's in the 608 says, I got a rock.
A little Charlie Brown action there, thank you Tyler.
We'll get back to some more of your texts too, we got some.
We just got some new ones.
In fact, Melissa had a great one.
Let's read that, but make a note of that one.
She had a good idea.
All right, we're going to get back to our guest, Stuart J. Waddles.
He covers news for Southeast Wisconsin here at Civic Media.
He doesn't just cover news.
You're the news director.
You can boss the news around Stuart.
That's what I get out of that.
What?
He is Pete Schwabba.
I'm not wrestling.
All right.
So Stuart, we have a Dolly Parton.
You're obviously a big fan.
You know more than Dolly Parton than anybody I've ever met, certainly.
But let's do this quiz.
This is going to be a fun quiz.
It's multiple choice.
Again, not that you need it.
You seem very well versed in the career of Dolly Parton.
But we're going to do this quiz.
Conrad, you got the sound effects ready?
It's just OK.
What about what if he doesn't get it right, though?
You just gonna do that?
Okay.
You talk like a pirate.
That's what we'll do.
Stu, if you don't get one,
We're gonna give that to Stuart Waddles right now.
Here we go.
Question.
Okay.
Number nine?
What the hell is that?
All right, hold on.
Question number one.
We start at one.
Here we go.
In which movie did Dolly Parton sing, I Will Always Love You to Bert Reynolds while he was in the bathtub?
Was it A, 9 to 5, B, Rhinestone, C, the best little whorehouse in Texas, or D, Steel Magnolias.
Steel
Okay, there.
I think we have the right hand.
Carl Dean, yeah.
He was her CD.
Okay, here we go number four.
What is the and he got that right?
He's three for three Stuart J. Wattles is crushing our Dolly Parton quiz It gets harder as we go on here.
We go.
Okay.
What is the name of Dolly Parton's theme?
Is it a Dolly would it be Smokey Mountain would be saying these all wrong
A was Dolly Land.
I thought Smoky Mountain Wood would have sounded better than World.
Cause you know, it's like a, you know, all right.
C, Dollywood or D, Parton Park.
OK.
Yeah.
I was just, I read that because I'm very sophomoric.
And I wrote a script later where the guy's last name was Longwood.
So I had to work.
We've got a stream comment from Sydney Politics says, Jesus, I thought you were doing this because Dolly passed away.
LOL.
She's still good.
I don't
Correct.
He kind of opened with a showstopper, which is probably not very smart, but hey, what are you gonna do?
You don't know that at the time.
All right, back to our Dolly Parton quiz.
Number, it's two out of sevens for seven, by the way, and this quiz shows no sign of let up in sight for me or Conrad.
Number eight, in Rhinestone, what is Dolly's character trying to teach Sylvester Stallone's character to do?
A, ride a horse, B, cook southern food, B, or C?
be a country singer or D open a bar.
Network.
It
Great to have you with me on this Friday.
Conrad Krieger working the board.
We are in the throes of Act 2 here.
That was fun talking to Stuart Waddle.
He is always great to have on the show.
Let's get through some of these texts.
Our question of the night, folks.
It's a good one.
It's National Love Your Lunch Day.
So the question is, what's in your sack lunch?
You can go back to childhood.
You can tell us what you bring to work now.
There are no right
or wrong answers.
Jim from Appleton, he's in the 920.
He says, I was a Packers fan all through the 70s and 80s.
We had such memorable quarterbacks like Jerry, Randy Wright, John Nales, Scott Carpenter, the best one.
And still my favorite was Lynn Dickey.
Where did this come from?
Is that when we were talking about the Packers?
Yeah, you know, because... It was so long.
Am I that far behind on text?
I
It is.
It's not as bad.
It's not as good as John Longwood.
Thank you, Jim.
Monica from Mount Horrib says, took to the office Monday, cantaloupe, tomatoes, and green peppers all from my garden.
Oh, man, that sounds good.
And cheese and crackers, nor not from my garden.
You don't grow cheese and crackers in your garden, Monica?
I like that.
One slice of cheese and miracle whip and apple and a can of RC Cola.
That is old school, baby.
I can't stand big bologna anymore.
Big bologna anymore.
I still like apples and RC Cola though.
That's awesome, Jim.
Thank you.
John from Madison says, good evening, Peter and Conrad.
Love you guys.
Thanks for the great shows every night.
Oh, thank you, John.
How standing to hear that?
I got the chills, Conrad.
I just got a chill.
I felt it too.
Grabbed my shawl out of the car.
John also says Mannix and Beretta are both great, are both a great revisit.
I don't think I could do Beretta just because he turned out, Robert Blake turned out to be such a creep.
And I'd live three blocks from the restaurant where he shot his wife in the car.
That was so weird.
But I do remember watching Beretta and I did like it.
Mannix on the other hand, all over that buddy.
John says, how I met is a must watch for humans.
I agree.
He limits it to humans though.
I don't know what to make of that.
Mark from Prairie to Sack says, nine to five.
Yeah.
Little Dolly talk there.
Love it, Mark.
Thank you.
Melissa from Willy Street in Madison says, hi guys.
Just a suggestion here.
I love this con.
You should do a push notification for the question of the night on the app.
Can we do that?
I'll get my tools.
Do you have push capabilities?
You've been working out.
I think there's a slide rule over there.
Whatever, just let's do that.
That's a great suggestion.
Thank you, Melissa.
John, Melissa's other half, I won't say better half.
Maybe is, maybe is, I don't know.
Best pack lunch.
Mom's PB&J and Scooby thermos of chicken noodle soup.
Wow.
John's mom loved them.
Two chocolate milks and a cup of fruit cocktail, obviously.
I don't know if that's obvious, John, but yeah, all right.
All right, before we bring our pal Terry Barron, because it is a Barman Friday night, folks, we are going to play a clip that I think is really funny.
This comedian, Gary Goldman, he's the guy, and we'll play this one night on this show.
He does the state abbreviation.
Bit which is maybe the funniest bit.
I've ever heard but it's like five minutes long But tonight here's a little taste of Gary Gaulman
Millennials they're just much more accepting of each other they feel safe around each other accepting their accepting of non conforming gender roles and identities and I grew up at a time the definition of manhood was so narrow you were either Clint Eastwood or you were Richard Simmons there was a
Nothing in between.
There were no Paul Rudds.
No kind-eyed Mark Ruffalo's.
You had to be so hard.
Yeah.
That's the Boston thing.
He's right, though.
I remember that thinking, you know, I liked when there was a little bit less testosterone in the world.
It lasted a little while, now it's back to craziness.
But like...
Where I grew up my neighborhood where we grew up if you got hot or overheated in the summer you did not wear shorts That meant you were soft You wore blue jeans and if you got hot you took your shirt off your t-shirt and you tucked it in your back pocket So we look like numbskulls walking around with no shirt and pants and When I moved to Wisconsin kind of I'm not kidding Everybody like people were they were kind of ahead of the time people wore shorts.
I was like this is not too bad
Network.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for Bar Band Friday night.
And that means every Friday, just about every Friday, our pal Terry Barr joins us with new music, fun conversation, and it's just an all around swell time, even though I can't, can't read the screen is out again.
Oh, no.
You need the tools.
I cannot see Terry.
Yeah.
But when my grandmother would stay with us, if my parents were away, she would let us take a sack lunch because we thought that was really cool.
So what did we have?
I think it was often my grandmother's peanut butter and jelly, but she was a big baker.
So we'd always have like these really great cookies or bars or something that we could take with us.
And that's when the other kids were jealous of what we were having.
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, when I was a kid, my best friend in the neighborhood was this Italian kid, big Italian family.
And his mom used to make these, I mean, these meals were incredible.
But that's all she did all day was cook.
And my mom would make, like, tuna noodle casserole.
You know, she had five kids in six years.
She just put anything out there to feed us.
And it was fine.
But I was always a little envious of the other kids.
When we when I went to.
When I moved to Wisconsin, I went to Marinette Catholic Central High School.
They had a hot lunch there, and it was in the gym.
And I remember the public school saying, oh, we have a choice.
It's like pasta or a burger or tacos, like all this stuff.
And we had to kind of eat what was served to us.
And they
Okay.
Only because.
He's one of those musicians where he's been around a really long time, but he's been, again, we've had a couple of these where we've talked about the voice kind of went quiet for a while.
He has some new music out again, and we're going to hear it right here.
The clouds start to clear and it's all that we can think about The sun's coming out and now the time to play is almost here Isolating feels like fading deep into a hole
I'm feeling energy I haven't felt in ages Because we all were trapped inside of dirty cages Now I'm coming out to play Now I'm coming out to play I wake up one day and open up my eyes I can't believe how to see I crack a smile I wake up one day and see this hate die
If you're so good to be
Energy I haven't felt in ages Cos we all were trapped inside a dirty cave
Yes, total cover band.
They do a lot of 90s and I'm wondering now that we're talking about him.
I think this project, the Fufu Dalles, even though it's covers, I think that's pulled him away more from the family band.
You know, what do you do you're getting booked as the foo foo dolls you do it, right?
Yeah, and if you're not getting booked as much with your original music Hmm, but I'm so happy that we can share it with you.
It's surprising too because his original music is really good But you're right you get you get paid.
I mean if they're throwing money at you, it's tough not to get especially 90s music right now is so huge It's like with the 70s when we're growing up or the 60s
All right, so your next artist is Adam Gruhl.
Am I saying that right?
You are.
Love this guy.
He's got many different bands, Terry.
He's part of a progressive bluegrass band called Horseshoes and Hangrenades.
Love that.
He also has a band called the Space Burritos and the High Hawks.
Tell us about Adam Gruhl.
He was on as an interview with me and he played live on both ends of our interview during the pandemic.
And then I did another interview with him about a year ago, but he is so busy with all of these bands, and he travels all over the place.
We have not been able to get him settled down, should I say, on a Saturday night to join us.
back.
Conrad is almost the weekend.
Terry Barr is here.
This is the way you kick off a weekend, folks.
I feel bad for all of you that you don't get to take Terry Barr who helps us launch into the weekend every week.
Terry Barr is here.
It's a Barbie on Friday night.
We were talking about the artist.
Adam gruel and anything else you need to tell us before we hear this song.
I love this progressive blue
I hope the muscury and the sweet northern lights shine in your bedroom.
And wake you up at night I hope the band's still playing When it's bar time And I hope that you know Not all lyrics need to rhyme I hope there's still dither beers When my nephew's 21 I hope there's still cold water In the cedar run
I hope you don't get so low But you don't give a damn About the boss falling leaves Or the loving holding hands And I wish I could take your pain
Sometimes it's hard to say How I'm gonna make it through the day Wish I could take you
I wish you all my best Keep on wishing on And know that your wishes Never really are all gone Wish I could take
That's Terry Barr, folks.
Listen to Max Inc Radio if you're in the Madison area tomorrow from six to nine, or go to the app, and you can play it there, too.
If you're out of radio range, it is such a great show.
An award-winning show.
Terry is an award-winning host on Max Inc, and she's got a slew of awards.
Always fun to have Terry on the show.
Monday night, folks, I'll be in Madison with two in-studio guests, Conrad.
Eric Jellin from the mascot theory will be there.
Terry introduced us to Eric.
He's coming in on Tuesday.
He's got two songs he's going to play for us.
And then Jim Healy from UW Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Jim and I are going to do a deep dive into all things movies.
It'll be a lot of fun in Madison on Monday night.
Are we doing it?
I can't see anything.
We do it.
How are we doing?
We got one minute?
Yeah.
OK.
I'll make the best of it.
All right, sounds good.
We'll play your clip.
Play that clip on Monday.
Sounds good.
All right.
My thanks to Stuart Waddles.
Always fun to talk to Stuart and Terry Barr.
Thank you for all your texts and calls and helping us make our Friday that much more lovely.
It's been a lot of fun here on Night Light Tonight on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
Have a great weekend.
Good night,
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