Violin Virtuoso & Rock Revelations (Hour 2)

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Violin Virtuoso & Rock Revelations (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Sep 26, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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Pete Schwaba

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

It is time for us to jump back in to this Friday edition of Nightlight.

I am T. Chwaba.

It is so great to have you here as we start act two, coming to you from beautiful downtown Green Bay.

It is a gourd.

You know, it's supposed to be nice Conrad Felice Denix week, too.

You know, into October.

I'm

happy about that.

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It helps so much.

Lots of fun still to come this hour.

Catherine Lake will be here in just a few minutes.

Catherine is the station manager of WMDX in Madison here on the Civic Media Network and oversees all things John and Gordy.

Those guys are so much fun.

Catherine had this idea to do a fundraiser using my film, The Godfather of Green Bay at a great venue in Madison and it's coming up.

We're going to give you details in just a few minutes if you're in the Madison area.

That might be something you want to check out.

All the proceeds will go to a good cause as yet to be determined.

And it is a bar band Friday night, 735.

Our pal Terry Barr is coming by with great tunes.

And tonight they are really great and really fun conversation.

We love our Friday nights with Terry.

So we did that.

And then what did we miss, Con?

The question of the night is, what is your favorite one hit wonder song?

And then we talked about Stinky Food.

Well, you almost vomited just watching a video.

Yeah, it turned my stomach a little upset.

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Yeah, it was pretty disturbing.

Let's just say I

was hungry and I wasn't after that.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't watch the video.

I was like, why would I do that?

It looked disgusting enough in the picture.

A guy ate Baltic herring, fermented Baltic herring, and it was spoiled.

Spoiled to say the least.

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Pete Schwaba

Don't broadcast it though, folks.

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You make yourself a target.

You don't need that.

So, did I give you the right phone number for Catherine?

I hope I thought I did.

I believe so.

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What did you get, just voicemail?

What's her message like?

It's nice.

Hi,

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this is Catherine.

Should hear mine.

I don't think I ever have

her.

Pete Schwaba

You always pick up.

You're pretty good about picking up.

Well, actually, I did delete it last year, but it was me when I was 13.

You did what?

I used to have a voicemail until I was like 22.

I

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remember

that.

It was like, it was when I was like.

13 years old and I recorded it.

That is

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hilarious.

Oh, you got it something.

You can't let go of

it Yeah, it's gone now.

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What'd you do?

Would you just at least save like a copy of it?

Oh, come on.

I was so embarrassed when I heard it back So I was like, you know, I should probably just delete this

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Come on, man.

I Would have loved to hear that our question of the night ladies and gentlemen is what is your favorite one hit wonder song?

From the 818, Bridget says, steal away by Robbie Dupree.

Yeah, I remember that song.

That's a great song.

Bridget says, love that song.

Listen to it all the time.

Bridget also says, new text, separate text.

Grandma Peg says, earth angel by the penguins.

1955.

I know that song.

That's a great song too.

Thank you, Bridget and Peg.

Monica from Mount Horrib and the 608 says, how bizarre by OMC.

That's a good one.

I didn't know.

I actually didn't know anything about that song.

Or that it was one hit wonder.

Thank you, Monica.

And then Nick from Marshall, he's in the 608 says, Hey Pete and Conrad, how are you guys doing tonight?

Got a one hit wonder song for you that I'm sure you or Conrad have heard it before.

The song is, The Bed Is Too Big Without You by Sheila Hilton?

Okay, I don't know that song.

You're correct, Nick.

But thank you for the text, much appreciated.

920 says, oh my god Pete, how can you not know these sad songs?

But by far the Christmas shoes.

What is that?

That's like one of the worst songs ever, isn't it?

Yeah, see if you could pull that Didn't we do a spin-off of that?

We did we did the bloody turtleneck.

I think we called it The Christmas turtleneck the Christmas I can't remember

Conrad, when you drop as much gold as I do on a daily basis, it's hard to remember.

It's hard to keep up.

Yeah, I can't remember.

What the hell was that called?

It was like the Christmas.

We'll pull it back

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up.

I

still got the skit.

So, you know, that's going to be used around Christmas time again.

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That was our life mark Christmas movie campaign.

So, see if you could pull the Christmas shoes, because somebody said that last night as well.

Everett from Sun Prairie.

Uh is well as area codes 262.

I don't think that's on prairie, but it doesn't matter Everett says while space hog is considered a one hit wonder with their track in the meantime in the us They have had many more tracks chart in the uk I saw them live three times in the 90s, and they were always amazing My favorite sad song is from the same album shipwrecked both great songs awesome stuff.

Thank you ever from sun prairie 9 2 0 says I love when we get like just tangential

920 text and just said Connie your news chick.

I don't know what to do with that.

I don't know what that means Connie is new here at WGVW does a great job Connie's awesome Whistler from the 608 says great favorite was constant original.

I think the 30-point buck.

Yes.

I know I've heard that one Thank You Whistler That could be a whole separate category local one-hit wonders like you got the Upers

Some great Wisconsin tunes.

Paul from Bayview in the 414 says, driver's seat by sniff and the tears.

Don't know that one either.

Thank you, Paul.

Awesome.

John in Madison in the 608 says, oh baby, you, you got what I need, but you say you're just a friend.

John continues.

John does texts like in chapters.

I love it.

He'll do like, they're like little mini series texts.

So he says, no idea who the young man is, but it is rough and fun.

Correction, you say he's just a friend.

Yeah, what is that song?

I know those lyrics.

Everett from Sun Prairie, again, killed by death.

The Hard Quartet is another fantastic, sad-ish song.

Okay, thank you, Everett.

Again, John from Madison says, either way, rough song and fun.

I'll have to, if you already gave us the title, John, if you haven't yet, just give us the title, because that's not ringing a bell.

Tyler from the 608 says always look on the bright side of life by Eric Idle of the hilltop trio.

Oh nice one Tyler Awesome stuff Nick from Marshall says that's supposed to say never heard the song before oh Typo I don't remember what it said now, and I can't scroll back because of the keyword text Tom from New Berlin says Pete the Apple I Can't say no, it's not the word yeah

Love it.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

Tom, explain.

Tom says, love it?

Okay.

That is our song.

You guys can still get in.

What is your favorite one hit wonder?

Mark from Prairie to Sack says, the drink is a brenevin, a clear Icelandic.

Talking about the shark.

Aquativite.

I don't know what that word is either.

Mark talks over me sometimes.

Yeah.

I can't keep up.

I need a Google.

I need a dictionary.

Yeah, that Greenland shark thing sounds horrible.

Jim from Appleton in the 920 says, I'm not sure if it's my favorite, but it has stuck with me.

Once, I was DJ for a wedding and the groom kept requesting Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

That's definitely one hit wonder.

And that's the one that Ben Chan got last night in our contest.

He says, I kind of wonder how long that marriage lasted.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Thank you, Jim.

Whizzler for much.

Oh, there we go.

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Now, I know I'm never going to see a song text because all the keywords.

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Actually, Rachel from the 608 says, hello, Pete.

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Thank you.

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Well, you will be texted.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pete Schwaba

There you go.

Yes.

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And you'll get a confirmation text, Rachel.

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Great stuff, folks.

If you want to keep texting, you can favorite one hit wonder.

That is tonight's question.

We are having trouble getting a... You can't get Catherine?

No.

Okay.

But, you know, I assume that Godfather of Green Bay is going to be screened, right?

And that's pretty cool for you.

Pete Schwaba

It's gonna be very cool.

I was I was all excited.

It was Catherine's idea.

I was excited to have her come on the show You know, but it was her idea and it's for a good cause it's either gonna be for like animals or underprivileged kids, but they booked Some people at Civic Media Jenna booked the Atwood Music Hall, which is a state

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of the art brand

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new facility in Atwood.

I Think it's perfect.

So it'll be there and here you go folks December 4th If you are in the Madison area

September 4th, come on out.

More details will come, but these are the basics.

There will be a screening of The Godfather of Green Bay.

It's a film I made with Tony Goldman, Lauren Holly, Thomas Lennon, Lance Barber, Eric Price, Rob Martin, Mark Borechart.

We had great luck finding talent in Milwaukee.

And it'll be December 4th at the Atwood Music Hall.

I'm also in it, and I'm in the cast, but I also wrote and directed it.

And we got great reviews when it came out, in it, cool news, loved us.

And we had great fans at Tom Hanks Company, and it's a little independent film that got kind of a cult following.

So we're going to play that at the Atwood Music Hall on December 4th.

More details to come.

I was really hoping Catherine could break this news to you, but she might be she might be partying.

Yeah, let's be honest You know, I'm still a little sad you didn't cast me in the film.

Pete Schwaba

You were still in utero No, you were what were you like three?

Oh, what was the one was oh four?

Yeah, I was I was five or five.

Oh, we could have Joe's in it You could have put me in the background

Pete Schwaba

I could have because there's a scene where we shot at a at a restaurant in Toluca Lake called patties and

My wife and Joe, she's pulling Joe's hand.

He was probably three.

He's like a year or two younger than you.

She's pulling him and he's kind of skipping and they were just extras.

She had two hands.

She could have pulled you both.

It would have been fun.

Did I ever tell you I auditioned once?

Pete Schwaba

For what?

For a commercial?

No.

I don't remember what AJ was, but my cousin and I...

I was too scared they were looking at me and I was like um pop tarts They're good

Pete Schwaba

That could have made you some college money, dude Yeah, all right.

We're coming right back.

We'll try to get a hold of Catherine again If not, I have a great clip about good fellas from Ray Liotta You're not gonna want to miss it tonight's keyword game at GAME have fun folks.

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Pete Schwaba

It's Friday at nightlight, folks.

You are almost at the weekend.

You probably already are.

I'm about 38 minutes away, but it feels like the weekend anyway when I am here doing nightlight.

So much fun.

Conrad Krieger working the board.

Monday night on Nightlight, my friend and comedian, Mike Lucas, will be here.

I don't know.

Those of you who used to watch a lot of cable, like in the 90s, might remember a show called The Straight Dope.

It was based on a book by Cecil, something or other, called The Straight Dope.

And it was a column, I think, in the Chicago Reader or something like that.

Mike hosted the TV version of that show, and I was the man on the street and about to take a much bigger role until they canceled season two, which often happens in show business.

But I got to work with Mike and get to know him a little bit.

He was a great host.

He will be here Monday night.

I don't know where Mike is living these days, but he's just a terrific stand-up comedian.

And he was a great host on that show.

So we'll get caught up.

I think he teaches comedy as well.

So if you want to learn the ropes, folks, you won't want to miss Mike's interview on Monday night.

And then our pal Frank Anderson, director, producer of all things commercial, film, animation.

And he's the founder, more importantly, of Wisconsinology.com, a great website that you should check out.

It has everything that's interesting about Wisconsin.

Great history, weird facts, fun historical stories.

Really good stuff That'll be Monday night a nightlight and then you know who we have Tuesday con is Sean Hannish Yes, he is truly becoming like the sidekick of nightlight.

I think so but he's not you know He made this film just a bit outside about the Brewers, which is great.

He's got a new film.

He's gonna tell us all about but he's distributing it.

He's not Involved creatively,

you know, it's the playoffs will be coming up there when he's on next

Pete Schwaba

The baseball playoffs.

Yep.

Yeah

And the Brewers have clinched the division, obviously.

Yeah, right now it's looking like they're either going to face your Cubs or the Padres, whoever wants that series.

Pete Schwaba

All right, as a Brewer fan, who are you hoping they have?

The Cubs won the season series.

This is all I'm saying is I think the Padres have definitely played worse on the road this year, which is cool.

Yeah.

Whatever stats, whatever it's the playoff.

So it's a total different beast.

Right.

But I think if we face the Cubs, we'll bring the energy, you know.

But both teams will.

I think it'll be a great series.

Pete Schwaba

Oh, man.

Yeah.

That'll be a phenomenal series.

Are the Padres that good?

Oh, yeah.

And they're looking, they're

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looking

good.

Who cares about the Padres?

All right.

You know.

Pete Schwaba

All right, so we've got that.

We've got Terry Barr coming up in just a few minutes, folks, after the news for Barman Friday night.

Love the two artists she is bringing.

You're going to prepare to be dazzled.

That's all I'm saying.

And we've got some stream texts here too.

It is not too late if you want to text in what your favorite one hit Wonder Song is.

Sydney Politics says, there she goes by the, oh yeah.

Is that, there she goes, there she goes.

That's a great song.

He says by the laws.

I don't know the band.

I thought I had that one.

I could play it,

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but I assume that's the right song.

Yeah, check it out.

Sidney says, but to be fair, that's because I that's because the lead singer sort of just walked away from music making.

Oh,

I feel like you just like you get that big hit and you're like, well, do we need to do it again?

That's when you cash

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in, man.

That's what I would Sidney politics.

You just call him Sidney music.

Those are some fun facts.

Thank you, Sidney.

Dave on the stream says, fat boy slim.

Praise you.

Great one, Dave.

Thank you.

Sydney says, hey, Dave.

They were talking last night on the TechStream.

I love it.

Great stuff.

All right.

Do we have time?

Can we play our Ray Liotta clip?

I love this.

All right.

This is Ray Liotta talking about the famous scene in Goodfellas where Joe Pesci says, what the F makes me so funny.

Conrad.

And I really wanted to get it.

I was the first person that Marty met, and then it took about a year to finally

land it.

At one point, you find out DeNiro, Pesci, Sorvino, they're all part of this thing.

What did you think when you heard that you're going to end up acting with these

guys?

Wow, it was just incredible.

At first, Bob wasn't signed on.

And once Bob came in, they said it was OK for me, because they needed a big star in order to give you OK with me.

Marty wanted me.

Erwin Winkler, the producer, didn't.

I just learned.

And I saw him in a restaurant and went up to him and said, I really want to do this, this part and talk to him.

And he said, yeah, but, but they needed Bob to sign on in order for it to

happen.

Then he did.

And then, and then you shoot and then obviously.

But no, I had no idea that was going to be, that was the point, that it was going to be what it is.

It was only my fourth movie.

All I knew I was having fun.

What

was it like shooting that scene with Joe Pesci?

It's

funny, you're a funny guy.

Did you at some point, when you were in the middle of that, think he is potentially being serious with

me?

Funny how?

I mean funny, like I'm a clown.

I amuse you.

I make you laugh.

I'm here to f***ing amuse you.

What do you mean funny?

Funny how?

How am I funny?

What happens, we were doing rehearsals.

We had two weeks rehearsals, which is unheard of for a movie.

That happened to Joe.

So we were just talking and Joe mentioned about this experience that he had at a restaurant in Queens.

and he said something to the guy, and that's, you know, he said, oh, you're a funny guy, and the guy turned on him, and then only to be a joke.

And Marty really liked that idea, sorry, but you guys just try to improv it.

So we, you know, for a few times, we went back and forth, and then Marty started shaping it, and then he said, all right, this is how I like it, and then we put it in stone, then it became part of the script.

How the fuck am I funny?

What the fuck is so funny about me?

Tell me, tell me what's funny.

And

then we only improved we did it a couple times and then at the end it got quiet But Marty didn't turn off the camera and then I said you know you really are a funny guy And that's when he got up and did the gun and so that was kind of made up on the

spot

That

was ad-libbed where you say, you know, you are a funny guy.

Yeah, yeah.

That's so great.

Pete Schwaba

There is nothing like a great behind-the-scenes story.

And that was on the Rich Eisen Show, of course.

I love Rich Eisen's guests and his interviews.

He's so fun.

Tom from New Berlin says, the apple does not fall far from the tree, reach the depression era in terms your son rocks.

Oh, thank you, Tom.

I appreciate that.

Talking about Joe's movie review.

Michael from Madison says, hey guys, I heard now I'm the newest potato.

You are Michael.

He says I'm way more excited than is likely appropriate for the occasion.

Well, that's probably true.

I'll do some introspection on that.

Anyway, the one hit Wonder Song got to be Kung Fu fighting by Carl Douglas.

Smooches.

Thank you, Michael.

Great to have you aboard, buddy.

We are coming right back with Terry Barr for Bar Band Friday night here on Nightlight with Peach

Waba.

Time to check out original music with Bar Band Friday on Nightlight.

Now your host, Pete Schwabba, and special guest, Terry Barr.

Pete Schwaba

Welcome back.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, you know that Baudine's tune.

It's called Dreams, and it's because Conrad and I are in a dreamlike state when this next guest shows up.

Every Friday night with outstanding music.

Terry Barr, our pal.

How are you, Terry?

Hi, Pete and Conrad, and everyone joining us from across the state.

How are you?

Pete Schwaba

We are great.

You are our Wisconsin music expert.

You also host Max Inc Radio on WMDX Saturday nights from six to nine, which is kind of the inspiration for this whole segment on the show.

It's been great getting to have new music every week, and you never disappoint.

So we're excited.

Hey, I have to ask you, though, do you have a favorite one hit wonder or one you think is the best?

Oh, a one-hit wonderer.

That's our

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question tonight.

Yeah, we've had some great responses.

Oh, I actually want to hear the responses.

There were so many in the 80s.

Weren't there?

Pete Schwaba

Oh, yeah.

Well, soft sell, tainted love, as we heard that one a couple times tonight.

I said, stuck in the middle with you by Steelers Wheel.

Conrad likes a Simpson song because he's...

Jimmy Eats World.

the

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Middle East world.

That's true.

That's a great one.

We've had so many.

Those are outstanding.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, it's been a fun question, but you can think on it.

You can ruminate a little bit and we could talk about these two great bands you brought.

Well, artists, I should say.

Who do we start with, Terry?

Let's start with Nora.

Okay.

And I'm taking this in a little different direction than we usually go.

Both of these folks that you're going to meet tonight and hear their music have Wisconsin ties, really interesting Wisconsin ties, but they are not local anymore.

in play shows pretty frequently, but they both call other states home at this point.

But everything started here, which I love.

Pete Schwaba

Nice.

Yeah, absolutely.

So she, yeah, let's start with Nora, a violin player.

She is a jazz violinist.

And what's unique about this is she, every, every song you hear her play, she never plays it the same because like jazz, everything is interpreted differently.

So she just makes up whatever she's playing every time she plays.

And she felt like that since she was a little kid.

She took lessons from her mom growing up in Manona, Wisconsin.

Um, her mom and dad were in the Madison Symphony Orchestra together.

And she's LA based now, but get some of the names she's played with.

I mean, I love sharing these stories because it reminds me to remind people if you have a dream, you can make it happen.

She is on the road right now with John Batiste.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

Yeah.

She has played with Kristen Chenoweth.

Oh,

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wow.

She has played with Postmodern Jutebox and she's played with Sam Smith in particular during the MTV Video Music Awards.

No kidding.

She's not a slouch.

Pete Schwaba

No, she's not.

And on her website it says, and this is her own, this takes moxie, Nora Jermaine is the top jazz violinist of her generation.

Self-proclaimed, so she's got to be right.

I mean no one would say that unless it was really

true.

Pete Schwaba

That's so

great.

If you wrote it about yourself, you better be good.

Pete Schwaba

Exactly.

I love it.

That's that's fantastic.

So you sent us a clip where she's playing with John Batiste, right?

Yes.

Why don't we why don't we hear that and then we can break it down a little bit?

Does that sound good?

All right,

very good.

She can search this wide world But she's never ever gonna find another Shaw dressing piano player

Pete Schwaba

Wow.

That's pretty

cool.

Yeah.

I love John Batiste anyway.

And then she is playing with him.

And you can hear he plays and kind of lets her answer with the violin.

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Love it.

It's just so cool.

That is

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really cool.

And he with John Batiste, which I had kind of forgotten about was the musical director for the late show with Stephen Colbert.

So he's got great credits.

He's very well respected.

And that's nice that.

So she's from Verona.

She's from Manona.

All

those

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owners around Madison.

I know.

It's funny.

Yeah.

Nora Germain is her name.

Her YouTube channel is Stellar.

Every show, all the bands she plays with, she puts it all there.

And then she does a lot of little snippets when she's out on concerts.

She'll go into the city.

She'll walk around.

She'll play.

Oh, cool.

It's just really fun to take a look at.

Pete Schwaba

That is really cool.

When she tours, what is, you know, she was with, she had accompaniment there, but is she just playing the violin for people or does she always have a singer with her or other arrangements?

She is almost always very similar to what you heard there in that live performance with John Batiste.

Okay.

kind of the accompaniment to whoever is like the main part of the act.

So we know John plays piano and he's the main part.

But even with postmodern jukebox, she was not the main part, you know, they've

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got

all those singers.

But when she steps forward to play, everybody gets out of the way.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

Oh, that's great.

Does she

have any dates coming up in Wisconsin that we should know about?

Well, unfortunately, they just wrapped up the Jonathan T shows in Madison.

They go on to Minnesota for a couple of shows tomorrow.

But it doesn't mean she won't be back anytime soon to do a show.

And I would just encourage you, you know, she's another Wisconsin born and raised musician.

Find her and follow her.

Yeah, comes around.

I think we should all go.

and support her.

Pete Schwaba

Absolutely.

Where did they play in Madison?

They

played at the Orpheum and the first night sold out so quickly they had to add a second night.

Pete Schwaba

Wow, what a great show.

I know.

And then to be the hometown girl coming back and have that

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happen for you.

Right

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down the street from Civic Media, damn it.

All right, so let's turn our attention to Dusty Bow.

This song blew me away.

I love this song, Terry.

And you haven't even seen the video yet, have you?

Pete Schwaba

No, I have not.

Oh, I will send you the video.

I'll post the video too.

Did

Pete Schwaba

you send

a

Pete Schwaba

video though?

I didn't miss one, right?

No, no, I just sent you the audio file of this song.

Okay.

Brand new.

He's working on a new album right now, which is always exciting.

I don't know.

In fact, I was messaging with him earlier and he said,

I'm not even sure where this song came from because it's really out of his realm.

He is a country rock and roller.

And this kind of takes him in a different direction.

The lyrics are catchy.

Yeah.

Great lyrics.

Kathryn Lake

The

riffs are awesome.

I guess what he was looking for was something a little lighter and funny.

And that's what he calls it.

He calls it a life is a joke is the name of the song.

And it's a riff.

off of the show about nothing.

Pete Schwaba

Oh,

really?

Pete Schwaba

Seinfeld.

No kidding.

Yeah.

Well, all right, should we play it and then break it down after?

Sure, whatever

you want to do.

All right, let's do that.

Pete Schwaba

Folks, this is a great song.

Compliments of Terry Barr.

Life is a Joke by Dusty Bowe.

Conrad, if you please.

life is a joke you win some you lose some life as a joke I hear a just a is it rush maybe a little that or uh I don't know he's got interesting sounds it's uh on his website it says alternative country rock

yes that's

Pete Schwaba

interesting

and I think he took a little um inspiration from t-rex

okay

uh yeah wow now we're going older school yeah

yeah

but yeah he definitely when he messaged me he referred to this as musical comedy and um i don't know i can't wait to hear what the rest of this album is going to hold since yeah one of the first songs that he just released from this new album he's working on here here is the madison tie-in do i have time to tell you this

Pete Schwaba

you

got about 30 seconds

Okay, we can wait till I can

Pete Schwaba

break to whatever you want.

Okay

If you want to do that, let's do that.

And we've got a text.

He does have a great Wisconsin tie-in.

Pete Schwaba

Oh, very cool.

All right.

And we got a text for Terry.

Robert on the stream says, hi, Terry, from Tigerton in Chano County.

So

there you go.

Oh,

Pete Schwaba

nice.

Your fans are turning out.

All right.

Think about that one-hit-wonder too, Terry.

We'll get that when we come back and do a very short break.

We will come back with Terry Barr on a bar ban Friday night.

Tonight's keyword, again, folks, is game.

G-A-M-E.

Text to win.

Good luck, everybody.

We're coming right back.

Kathryn Lake

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Pete Schwaba

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

You've got us on a bar band Friday night here on the Civic Media Radio Network with our pal Terry Barr.

Tune in tomorrow night at civicmedia.us or on the app and check out what's your award-winning show called again?

Oh yeah, Maxink Radio.

Terry is the co-host with Rocker and it's a great show from six to nine.

You know, that was such a great song.

I loved it.

You can hear all those different kind of genre blending elements.

It was great.

But what is Dusty Bo's connection to Wisconsin you were talking about?

OK, so Dusty is from Louisville.

He currently is in Nashville.

He was most recently managed and booked by a woman from Madison and her name is Shirley Kennedy.

He moved to Nashville and has since moved on from Shirley, but they remain really good friends.

And it's thanks to Shirley that I am now considering Dusty a friend of mine.

Kathryn Lake

He's

played festivals all over Wisconsin.

So he knows about Wisconsin.

He loves playing here.

He did Atwood Fest in Madison a couple of years ago.

Oh, nice.

Well, there isn't really a roof because it's an outside festival, but he blew the tents off.

That would take talent.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's terrific.

And I think he's hoping to get back to Wisconsin and play a couple of shows once he has this new album complete.

Pete Schwaba

I like what I hear so far that that's outstanding.

And as usual, thank you again for two great artists.

And I know just fun ties in different ways than we usually do.

But it's a great way to discover some new music, go find these folks and just enjoy what you see and hear.

Pete Schwaba

Well, definitely.

And especially since they play here a lot, you know, I mean,

yeah,

Pete Schwaba

that's

the best part.

Get yourself familiar with it.

It's great.

So do you have a one hit wonder, Terry?

Were you able to think of something?

Does my sharonah count?

Did they have any other songs?

Pete Schwaba

The fact that you have to ask that, I think makes them a one hit wonder.

So yeah, that's a great, that's a great choice.

Yeah.

And a great song.

Terry, thank you so much.

You are always such a

blast.

Oh, right back at you.

Great weekend.

Conrad and everyone, happy Friday.

Pete Schwaba

Thank you very much.

Terry Bar, ladies and gentlemen, check out Max and Gradyo at civicmedia.us or on the app tomorrow night from 6 to 9, our Wisconsin music expert.

Great tunes, huh?

That was phenomenal.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

Dusty Bell.

Love that song.

Great.

Pete Schwaba

We've got some text to finish up here before we get out of here.

Tom from Jackson just says, dreams.

Yeah, Tom, great song.

The Bodines, check them out.

That's one of my favorite songs.

They are not a one hit wonder.

The Bodines are not a one hit wonder.

Just to clarify.

Yeah, exactly.

They were the debut album of the year with Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams in 1987, I believe, Rolling Stone, and had a phenomenal run.

We've got, oh, I had some texts here.

What did I do with it?

Oh yeah, here we go.

608 says, howdy, Pete and Conrad.

My favorite one hit wonder is Judy in disguise.

Oh my God, I forgot about that one.

By John Fred and his Playboy band.

Thanks for the fun.

You're very welcome.

608, thank you for the text.

Corey.

That's Corey from Madison.

You know that song, Judy in disguise.

I guarantee you've heard it.

It doesn't sound familiar.

Pete Schwaba

Well, that's because of me.

Yeah, maybe because you're just not a good singer.

Pete Schwaba

I'm telling you.

So we got that, and we got a couple of stream comments here.

I said before, Sidney Politics said, Dave on the stream says, Subsid.

Kathryn Lake

Those guys are

Pete Schwaba

hanging out.

PJ on the stream says, tone low, funky, cold Medina.

That is a definite one hit wonder.

I would say Hammer Time is too.

I mean, MC Hammer was around quite a bit, but Hammer Time is definitely one of them.

And then Robert finally said, and this was meant for Terry.

I did not get to this text, but he said, I took a sunset tonight along County G between Caroline and Leop – Leopolis.

I assume that's in Seanal County.

Great stuff.

Thank you, Robert.

Thank you for all your texts and calls tonight.

And thank you to Terry Barr.

Thank you to – I'm – I'm even – you don't want to count right?

I'm even going to thank Catherine Lake.

Yeah, cuz I think so highly ever something happened.

We'll figure it out.

We'll have around next week Catherine is fantastic and oh Tom Okay, Tom on the text line says is there a word tonight Tom?

You're just in time tonight's keyword is game GAME game GAME So there you go, good luck Tom and thank you for the texts as always so where are you?

You gotta be excited, Conrad.

You didn't have to ask for a night off to watch the Packers, because they have a nationally televised game this weekend.

They do.

Pete Schwaba

I'm

excited to watch them take down the Cowboys.

Pete Schwaba

You think

they can beat

Pete Schwaba

a team

like the Cowboys?

Well, they just got blown up by the

Pete Schwaba

Bears, so if we don't, I'm gonna be

sad.

And it's just gonna be, you know... What do you think?

Mike Parsons is not getting a video, you know... He's coming back to the Cowboy Stadium, so...

He's not getting

Pete Schwaba

a video for

him.

It's in Dallas.

I thought I

Pete Schwaba

was here for

some reason.

Yeah, so Jerry Jones said, no, I'm not giving him a video.

That's what

Pete Schwaba

I think.

He

wasn't there

Pete Schwaba

that long.

For three years, did he make a going away video?

Give me a break.

They didn't do

Pete Schwaba

anything.

And he wanted to get the hell out of there.

Yeah.

He didn't like it in Dallas, right?

Or he maybe liked

it.

I think he would have stayed if Jerry offered the money.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

Well, there you go.

He got paid pretty well to come here and deal with our winters.

Yes, he did.

Uh, so that's fine.

Uh, where are you watching the game?

From my living room.

Pete Schwaba

Are you like one of those guys that has to watch it alone?

No, no, it's different.

You know, I'll go and watch games with my friends and stuff.

But usually it's like, I like watching it in my own home.

Pete Schwaba

I'm with

you.

And I don't have to worry about like ordering stuff, you know, just do it.

Just go to the fridge quick.

Pete Schwaba

Well, you're, yeah, and you're going to get pretty hammered too.

So you don't have

to drive anymore.

Yeah, exactly.

Pete Schwaba

I was like, I wasn't joking too when I said, watch it alone.

Cause I remember when the bulls went through there, all their like eight years, including Jordan's retirement, my college roommate, Paul and I were the most avid bulls fans.

It would just be the two of us.

We couldn't cheer with other people cause they would ask questions or they would, and it was just, this way it was just the two of us.

There's a certain time where it's like the questions you're like, I don't,

Pete Schwaba

I

can't.

Yeah, exactly.

Pete Schwaba

There's a sports fan and I can't answer a question.

Folks, thank you so much for being here tonight.

This Friday, I hope we helped you ease into your weekend.

Have a great weekend and a safe weekend.

And on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, I'm Pete Chihuahua saying good night, Wisconsin.

Kathryn Lake

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