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Halloween Movies & Barr Band Friday Nite (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Oct 17, 2025
back, ladies and gentlemen for Act 2 of Nightlight on this glorious Friday night here in the state of Wisconsin.
Such a gorgeous night in our beautiful state.
It is a bar being Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.
Terry Barr will be here at 7.35 and she has got...
Outstanding music tonight, and she never ceases to amaze me.
So you're going to find out about some really great local stuff if you can stick around for Bar Band Friday night.
We talked about our least, well, not least favorite bands, but overrated bands.
That's our question of the night.
What is a rock band or a musician that is really overrated in your opinion?
I said holla notes.
I kind of said Bon Jovi too, but I pick on Bon Jovi a lot not that they care because they're Bon Jovi, but I said holla notes and Conrad said Taylor Swift.
Yes, I keep forgetting She broke my heart, you know, I'm trying to put that behind me.
Yeah, I know I'm sorry about my exes, you know and But a lot a couple people Chris Moreau civic media zone Chris Moreau said you too
I think they're underrated, if anything, but that's why this is such a great discussion.
So let us know who you think is overrated when it comes to rock bands or musicians, folks.
Conrad and I also talked, I talked about earlier when a guy passed me today on the right and then kind of juked around me and then passed the car in front of me on the left to make a left turn onto Main Street here in Green Bay.
It was horribly dangerous.
The guy was probably in his 70s with no shirt.
and moves, but he was in a hurry.
Conrad and I discussed where we thought that guy could be going.
The guy in his 70s with no shirt.
Where are you in a hurry?
I said the grocery store.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Maybe that should have been our question of the night.
Who knows?
Right now, it is my pleasure to bring back onto the show my guest who helped us close out the first hour.
She is the...
host of New Whisco Weekend here on Civic Media and does a great job as the news bureau chief here in Northeast Wisconsin as well.
And she's a good pal, Lisa Hale.
Welcome back.
Howdy,
it.
I think you'll do just fine.
All right.
Lisa Hale is here, folks.
She is the host of New WISCO Weekend here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
You can hear it on WGW, or if you're listening on WISS, or you can go to civicmedia.us.
all the podcasts are catalogued from past shows.
It's a great show.
She has agreed to take the Nightlight classic Halloween movie quiz compiled by the kid Conrad.
You already look depressed Conrad.
The brewers haven't even started yet.
What is going on over there?
You look, you just look like it is a hang dog expression.
That's just
Our classic Halloween movie quiz, taken by Lisa Hale, number one.
And these are multiple guests.
So, and I will say, when I looked this over, the first question was the hardest.
So don't panic.
Okay.
In Hocus Pocus from 1993, what are the names of the three witch sisters?
Is it A, Pete, Peter and Patricia?
B. Winifred, Sarah, and Mary.
C. Serena, Elvira, and Morticia, or D. Konkani, or Cortado.
Well, you're cruising, my friend.
Five for five.
All right, number six.
What Halloween movie, only 94 mortigolis.
What Halloween movie features the quote, it's just a bunch of hocus pocus.
Is it A, the nightmare before Christmas, B, hocus pocus, C, the Adams family, or D, Jumanji?
It's hocus pocus.
Six for six.
Conrad, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Number seven, in the nightmare before Christmas in 1993, what is Jack Skellington's nickname?
Is it A, gross-looking thingy, B, the skeleton king, D, the pumpkin king, or D, the ghost host?
It's the Pumpkin King.
Yeah.
You had it with King.
You were very close.
All right, three more.
Here we go.
Okay.
What classic movie features a vampire named Count Dracula?
Oh, God, seriously?
Is it A.V.
Invisible Man?
B. Dracula.
C. The Mummy.
D. The Godfather of Green Bay.
Well, yeah, I thought, I thought.
All right.
Have a great night.
Thank you, Lisa Hale.
Bye.
Bye.
Check out Newisco Weekend, folks, and check out her newscast.
She is so good at, you know, I'm always kind of fascinated by people who are good at news and they're good at something else, too, like hosting a show.
Because have you ever done news con?
You ever broke a story?
No.
See, I could never keep my cool.
I was like, oh my God, listen to this.
And that's not how we can do things.
That's a way to grab attention, though.
Yeah, who's this moron?
Let's go to some text.
We're kind of behind on our text.
Our question tonight is, what is your name a band?
What rock band or musician is really overrated?
I forgot I put really in there.
From the 920 Wait, where am I?
I'm sorry from the 608 John Murray says hanging with his Is that not for us
I did tell people to text him about that.
I missed that somehow.
All right, and John says I go man go
All right, we will finish it.
We will read more of your texts coming up next.
Almost a whole block for texts.
That's what we do here at Nightlight.
And Terry Barr coming up at 7.35 for Bar Band Friday night.
And don't go anywhere, folks.
We're coming back.
This is a very short break.
It's Peach Wabba at Nightlight.
started.
Yeah.
Big Pappy, right?
Yeah, Big Pappy.
I thought it was in the early 2000s, but he, but listen, all I'm going to say is if the Brewers are able to somehow come back, how, how Euker like, like, I mean, I guess, yeah, that's.
people would lose their minds and say, this is some kind of euchar intervention, right?
Absolutely.
Our question of the night, folks, is you still have time to get in on this if you want, is what rock band or musician is really overrated?
And in the 608, we've got...
Anna from Madison says, hi, Pete and Conrad.
The most overrated rock band is Kiss.
That's number two for Kiss Tonight.
The most overrated performer is Kanye West.
This afternoon, I saw No Packers, No Life, a great movie.
I'm so excited to see that.
Was Todd Alba out there today?
Yeah, he might have been.
I think he did like a remote.
But one of the songs that Terry is bringing us tonight for Bar Band Friday Night in just a few minutes is from that movie, and it's really good.
Great text, Dan.
Thank you.
John from the 608 says, ZamFear is so overrated.
Pan flute, come on.
That's a great text, John, but maybe he's underrated as pan flutes go.
I just don't know enough about the pan flute, but great text.
Angie from Monroe in the 608 says, hey now, it's more like alcohol than someone with the marijuana.
I don't like much about him.
But you know what?
I did like a couple of his tunes again.
The one he did with Cheryl Crowe, kind of an ice ballad.
I liked it.
But it's something I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
I'm not a huge fan of his music.
And maybe he's great.
Look, this is my opinion.
I don't know much about music.
Bridget from the 818 says Beyonce.
That's as controversial as Kid Rock, no?
She dresses better though.
There's a lot of people like that Britney Spears Britney Spears.
Yeah, and I think Madonna was like that too Madonna like they had tracks of her singing and they played them and released him apparently it was awful Tony the trucker in the 608 says Pete don't understand the village people's music However, I do get the diverse costumes.
Yeah, I'm with you there Tony.
They had a couple cool tunes though
How much money have they made off YMCA?
It's at every wedding.
Not that you have to pay a residual for that, but macho man in the Navy.
Come on, the hits just keep on coming, Tony.
Steady Eddie says, Pete Taylor Swift is way overrated.
Her net wealth is 1.6 billion.
Are you kidding me?
She is pretty.
A cultural phenomenon and a great businesswoman.
But to me, she is a mediocre music
Hollinote's overrated, yes, but the song Sarah Smile is beautiful.
Yeah, I like Sarah Smile.
That's a good one.
And she's gone.
He says, I picked the Beatles over the Stones.
I think they were more creative and willing to experiment and grow and knew when to call it quits.
The Stones are still doing their same old hits 60 years later.
Why?
I'll tell you why, steady Eddie.
Cha-ching.
Like, if Mick Jagger isn't up on stage dancing around, what is he going to do?
Like, I think that's a job I would never retire from.
The rush has got to be amazing.
I'm sure they get sick of the songs, but maybe they've got such a huge song catalog.
They probably, you know, mix it up sometimes.
But thank you steady Eddie as usual Monica from Mount Horrib in the 608 says hoody in the blowfish all their music sounded the same That's interesting Monica.
I when you said that I was like hoody in the blowfish, okay?
I liked a couple of their songs, but I'm with you that they all sounded the same and As a result they didn't last that long
It was, yeah.
It was Monica, right?
And it was a blowfish, though.
It wasn't Hootie.
Hootie had already broken off and gone his own.
Darius Ruckers got his own career and everything.
I just want to say this.
This drives me crazy.
I write these Hollywood beats, and I comb all the trade papers and all the gossip stuff, looking for fun stories that I can write up, make a joke about, or just be informative, because I break all the big stories, like Lisa Hill.
This drove me crazy.
The New York Post is the worst.
The fall of an icon, Diane Keaton's cause of death revealed after shocking passing at age 79.
Then you read the article and it's like, well, she died of pneumonia.
She wasn't young and she battled skin cancer.
It's such a misleading headline.
Well, it's, you know, they do it to get the clicks.
Of course they do, but sometimes they don't.
It's not like everything they post is like that.
So when this I was like, oh my God, what was she into?
Like I was expecting heroin
And it's like, oh, she's that pneumonia, like many people who are 80 years old.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to get you too excited, but in just a few minutes, our pal Terry Barr will be here.
It's a bar band Friday night and we are coming right back.
It's Pete Schwabba in
It is 7.35 on a Friday night, and that can only mean one thing, our pal and MaxSync radio co-host and our Wisconsin music expert, Terry Barr joins us now over the stream, and she has outdone herself, folks.
If you don't like the music she brought this week, I will give you your money back.
It's free, Terry.
It doesn't matter to me.
How are you?
We have a great question tonight.
And I kind of chose this because I knew you would be here.
And the question is, what is a really overrated band or musician?
And, you know,
But it's kind of serendipitous, like it's a good question, but also Ace really passed away.
I know you're a huge Kiss fan, so I am sorry for your loss.
I don't mean that facetiously.
I know that we get connected to musicians and people that bring so much joy to our lives.
So I am sorry about his passing.
But do you have a band that you think is overrated?
Someone who knows music?
I was
I appreciate everybody's opinions.
You know, I had to really think about this and kind of think outside the box because when you listen to pop music, current pop music, I don't know, it all sounds the same and how are they making it and the people that are really so good are not.
But I think what really gets me is all the K-pop music.
Of course, New York groove is still played all the time.
Huh.
And the very first song on that album is actually my favorite.
It's called Rip It Out.
And he's talking about some girl that took his heart and ripped it out of his chest and how that felt.
And I just love it.
It's such a jam, too.
Anyway, I knew we were gonna have some some kiss talk with you when I was happy about that Absolutely Conrad's most overrated was Taylor Swift.
Mine was Hollanoots.
Oh, so, you know, okay, slightly controversial.
I don't know
Uh, let's jump into some music here tonight.
Oh my gosh.
You, I like both of these songs.
One of them blew me away.
I love it.
And it's part of a movie.
Should we start with that one or should we start with, uh, well Dylan Chambers or Driftless Horses?
It's your show,
What are you feeling?
Let's go with, uh, Dylan Chambers first then.
Let's do an opening.
I feel like Driftless Pony Club is kind of a showstopper, so let's not let's let that headline.
But Dylan Chambers is a great tune.
I really like what you had to say about this in the connection to Wisconsin too.
Sam Lyons is the connection to Wisconsin.
Born and raised in Madison.
He only moved to L.A.
a year ago and only because he wanted to see what would happen.
He felt young enough.
He didn't have any ties.
So off he goes.
He writes his whole new album out there.
It is now up for a Grammy.
So something, yeah, something is inspiring him.
He made it through the first round.
of voting for Grammys.
So again, his name is Sam Lyons, L-Y-O-N-S.
He comes back and plays around Wisconsin every couple of months.
So he hasn't left Wisconsin totally behind.
But why we're listening to this song tonight, it reminds me of so many people that go to Nashville to write songs for other people.
He met this guy.
And the guy liked what Sam was already doing.
He said, would you write a song that I could do?
But I think they became such good friends through the process that Sam is on the song.
He's playing guitar.
He's doing background vocals.
And then he's the songwriter as well.
I just love
To find someone like you I must have done something right Cause you made my dream come true
The minute I heard the name, I said to myself, I gotta find out who these guys are.
They formed at UW Madison in 1999.
They are now based out of Chicago.
They haven't been touring because a couple of the members in particular, the lead singer who also writes a lot of the songs, his name is Craig Benzine,
He is the director of the film that just came out.
It was released publicly today called No Packers, No Life.
Craig Benzine is great.
He's been on this show a couple of times.
I interviewed him on PBS Wisconsin for the film festival episode of the TV show I host.
Yeah, he's incredibly talented.
He's Weezy Waiter.
He's got like over a million followers on YouTube.
So he's an influencer.
He made this movie.
Are you telling me he's in this band too?
Yeah.
Sean Hannish, who made the film just a bit outside with Kelly Gull, they've been on the show too.
And Sean's been on several times.
And last he was on, I got an email from a publicist saying, you got to have Sean on to talk about No Packers in the Life.
I'm like, what?
So he's distributing it on behalf, you know, for Craig.
So much talent tied to this film.
And this song is great.
Is this song in the movie?
Yeah, he's terrific.
So all right, we are going to do a very short break.
And then we'll come back and we are going to play the song Man of Action.
And this will knock your socks off, folks.
You don't want to miss this song out of the movie.
no life, a great tune.
We're coming right back.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network with Terry Barr.
civicmedia.us.
on this Friday night edition of Night Light, a beautiful, positively beautiful night here in the state of Wisconsin.
Hope you're having a great night and glad you're with me tonight.
We've had a lot of fun here and still more to come with our guest and my co-host here for Bar Band Friday Night, the lovely and talented and crazy music fan, Terry Barr.
I
Oh gosh.
Oh, very cool.
All right, check out Max Inc Radio, folks, on go to civicmedia.us if you don't live in Madison.
Otherwise, 92.7 WMDX.
Tomorrow night from 6 to 9.
Such a great show.
An award-winning show and the co-hosted by the award-winning.
Terry Barr.
Hey, good luck to your brewers and thank you so much.
As always, Terry, we will talk soon.
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