Rockin’ Romance and Local Legends (Hour 2)

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And now, a guy who doesn't have 20-20 vision, even in hindsight, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Act 2 of tonight's program.

It's a Monday night edition.

Hope you're having a great day.

We're every year listening from in our beautiful state, our overcast, windy state, at least here in northeast Wisconsin.

We're getting some serious fall weather.

Hope you're having a great day.

And a wonderful evening.

We have a great hour still left to go here in Act 2.

And I'm so glad you're here.

Conrad, how are you?

You know, I just quickly ran outside to let one of our guests in.

Yeah.

It's like, this sucks.

It's cold.

It's dark.

It's beautiful.

I do appreciate how you stretch out between acts, like you're over there staying limber for the second part of the show.

I think that's fantastic.

Yeah, you gotta stretch, you gotta stretch out, you know?

Absolutely, especially working those levers over there.

I let Eric in.

Eric from Ask Your Mother, Eric Rathsec is here.

He is the tallest individual I've ever run across in my life.

Yeah.

He could probably dunk a basketball without leaving his feet.

Yes.

You think so?

I think so.

But Adam's here too.

Ask your mother.

They're coming up at 720.

Eric Rathsec and Adam Krause.

So much fun talking to those guys.

They're going to perform live in the studio as they often do.

And we will have a blast with our guests at 720.

If you missed the first part of the show, what did people miss, Con?

We talked about...

Well, we talked about breadsticks.

Yeah.

How the Olive Garden manages to do the unlimited breadsticks, soup and salad, but still do delivery.

They're really going

the

extra mile there.

That's a lot of racking up the miles.

I think that they don't You know once you get your first breadsticks order you're not gonna get another one.

Well, if you're complaining to about something like that, you're insane I expect you to come back here with more breadsticks.

I talked about how I saw the man the movie Roof Man really enjoyed it talked about how I finished the show task my pal Jamie McShane who was on the show last week He plays the main bad guy Perry on task

It was just so good.

Mark Ruffalo is just such a good actor.

And the writing on the show is so thoughtful.

I love the way they wrapped up that show.

It was very tense at times, but it kind of took its time a little bit and took a deep breath.

And there was just some great moments in last night's finale.

Cannot recommend task enough, so check that out.

We didn't talk about the Badgers, but man, what

is going on.

I don't think we need to.

Probably not.

It's just I this is what I thought was funny at the end of the game Like last week and you know weeks before The there was no one in the stands really obviously, but the people who were stayed there so they could boo Luke fickle Wow, I do believe it's come to this.

No, it's funny is when he was leaving and he heard all the booze He kind of gave a little let me hear

it.

Oh

Which is honestly kind of funny that he did that

which is like, let me hear it.

I know I'm not leaving because of how much money.

He gets

25 million if they fire him.

I heard my Clemens during the news.

That's just insanity.

25 mil to let him go.

Yeah.

So I think he's going to stay there and we're going to have a terrible record.

Probably be the worst in the big 10, which is something I'd never thought would have happened, but it's probably going to

happen.

And to go from what they were.

always a very respectable,

great

team that couldn't get past Ohio State typically.

But

who can?

I mean, to go to this, it's terrible.

Our question of the night, folks, join the fun.

What's your favorite romantic song?

I can't wait to ask the Ask Your Mother guys this too.

Maybe

they'll play about

it.

So what is your favorite romantic song?

Let's get to some, let's get to some texts here.

John from Madison, he's in the 608 says, Streisand, someone left the cake out in the rain.

All passion.

That is MacArthur Park.

Yes.

Great tune, John.

Boy, I never really thought of that as a romantic song, but it probably is.

That's great stuff.

Thank you, John.

Steve in Florida, Conrad's dad checks in and says, Lionel Richie back in the 80s nailed a lot of the love songs.

One of my favorites is from the year 1981.

The year I graduated is Endless Love.

Yeah, that's a great one, Steve.

And he did that with Diana Ross, I believe.

That was a duet.

Two great voices.

Love that song.

Steve from Bellevue in the 920 says, Brian Adams, everything I do, I do it for you.

Great one, Steve.

Thank you.

Terry from Cross Plains.

He's in the 608.

He says, also, oh, we must have missed an earlier one from Terry.

He says, if I fall behind by Bruce, fellow Bruce fan, love it, Terry.

Barb from Waukesha says, unchained melody by the righteous brothers.

I knew we were going to hear that song tonight.

Didn't we already read one?

Somebody else said unchained melody too, I

think.

Social media?

Maybe social media.

Yeah.

Susan from McFarland in the 608 says, I'd have to say the last date with Floyd Kramer.

He is a pianist and it's one of my husband and my songs.

The last date.

Okay, I'm

not

familiar with that one.

Thank you, Susan.

I'm glad that you're so happily married.

That's wonderful.

Mark from Prayer to Sack in the 608 says, didn't just my imagination play in the background in Just Like Heaven with Mark Ruffalo?

and Reese Witherspoon.

I don't know the answer to that question, Mark.

I don't think I ever saw that movie.

I'm a fan of both of them, too.

Thank you for the text.

Nick from Marshall in the 608 says, is this love by Bob Marley?

That's an awesome one, Nick.

Good stuff.

Another, and because Bob Marley is so tied to Rege in that, I don't even think of him, but that's a great tune.

Melissa from Willy Street says, Lay Lady Lay by Dylan and Cash.

Great tune, Melissa.

Very well done.

Then she says, wild horses from the stones.

Yeah, great one.

I think she's a rainbow.

As far as upbeat tunes, we have that.

How could we even play that for a bumper in a while?

Might need to break that one out.

She's a rainbow.

I have to find it, yeah.

Okay.

Thank you, Melissa.

Outstanding.

Lori from, oh, we read Lori's text, she thinks my M on my keyboard.

My keyboard M is not working.

I'd literally have to wail on it to get an M on to the screen.

And Lori thinks it's because I eat too much gelato.

And it's-

And you should just stop eating it over your keyboard.

What am I supposed to use as a placement?

That the keyboard is perfect.

Or do you have gelato of your fingers and you're not washing them?

And I'm just typing, I

don't care.

It's an old Mac.

Mark from Prairie to Sex says, three times a lady Lionel Richie and the Commodores.

Another great one.

Love Easy Like Sunday Morning too, another great Commodore's tune.

Mark says, makes me think of my college girlfriend, Brenda.

I feel like we're about to do a long distance request here.

Pete, can you please play Three Times the Lady by Lionel Richie, from Mark to Brenda.

I don't want to get Mark in trouble if he's married though.

That's in the history.

Here's Terry's other text.

He says, maybe I'm amazed by Sir Paul.

And you totally know the Peña Colada song by Rupert Holmes.

I do.

That's a great one too.

Love it.

These are great texts.

Monica from Mount Horrib in the 608 says, from my heart to yours by Laura Isabor.

I don't know that song.

Thank you, Monica.

From Edward in the 414, he says, Stacy's mom.

That's a huge, that's Stacy's, I mean, that's like saying someone's mom is hot.

We'll fight and equate that with romance, but you know, I don't know what's going on in Edward's head.

And he's a wonderful texture.

Thank you, buddy.

Dave in DeForest says, wonderful tonight.

Yeah, great tune by Eric Clapton.

Used to love that song.

Kind of forgot about that tune.

Good one though.

Thanks Dave.

Anna from Madison in the 608 says, hi Pete and Conrad.

My favorite romantic song is something by George Harrison.

Yeah, that's a great one.

I will say this too, I think George Harrison made me my favorite solo Beatle artist and somebody just said that recently that they thought that too, one of the listeners, but I totally agree with that.

I mean, I love Imagine by John Lennon, but pound for pound.

Give me Harrison.

David from Merchland Center in the 608 says Unchained Melody, another one for Unchained Melody.

I think that's three con.

That's three yeah more

over there get the electronic scoreboard turned on Nick from Marshall said oh we already read next all right That's great great text and we've got Ross from Crawford County in the 608 says none Yikes, maybe that's part of the reason why I've been divorced three times Yeah, it's never too late to pick out a favorite love song Ross or write one To your next if you have you know another crack at marriage don't give up buddy three times

Like I love his

marriage.

He's part of Ross's club.

The three-timers.

Yep.

Ross on friends.

I almost said the friends.

Ross on the friends.

John Murray says, is there one by Ario Speedwagon?

Or are they all terrifying cheating scandals?

Keep on loving you.

That's a love song, John.

I don't think that involves cheating in any way.

Great text, keep those texts coming folks.

What is your favorite romantic song?

That is our question of the night.

We've got a ton of texts and now we're all caught up and that is a wonderful feeling.

Ask your mother, two of our favorites from the band, Eric Rathsec and Adam Krause will be in here in just moments and they're gonna perform live and we'll have a great talk with these guys who are a local phenom and one of the best cover bands working.

They're really outstanding and two really, really great guys.

So tell us about your your dork County experience Conrad.

What happened?

Well, yeah, I saw I was you know, just having a fun Saturday by myself and then my brother texted me what are you doing?

Let's let's go to dork County.

So I went to fall fest up there and I mean it was it was cool.

But first we went all the way to the top of

dork County.

Oh, Ellison or is it Ellison Bay or Gills Rock?

Gills Rock.

Yeah, we went up there to get pie.

Because my sister-in-law really loves this pie called Bee's Pie.

And it's all the way in Gills Rock.

So we went up there to get two slices or two things of pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.

Oh,

nice.

And then yeah, we went down to Sister Bay is where the Fall Fest happens.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

And I mean, yeah, it was it was it was a gorgeous day.

Like

It was warm, which I was like, I didn't expect it.

So I kind of wore, you know.

Leggings,

long

underwear.

But yeah, I was sweating.

But did I have a couple beers down there?

And was that Saturday?

Yeah, that was Saturday.

Yep.

And then I guess it starts early in the day because when we got there, there were some people that you could tell had some drinks.

Yeah.

I was waiting in line for the bathroom.

One guy almost fell on me.

He fell out like he's

almost

hammered.

Yeah, dude.

I heard him talking to his friend on in the line.

He's like, I'm gonna switch to Pedialyte I think that's the time when you just go home that is a

haul when you go to Gills Rock like where I live in Marinette We're like directly across from Fish Creek.

I think directly across the Bay Yeah, and Fish Creek is about 210 but egg harbor is like almost under two hours or about two hours But you can go like another 45 miles to get to the tip

or get the ferry out to Washington Island.

I haven't been

up that far in a long time.

I've never been that far up there actually.

So it was kind of cool to see it for like five minutes.

That is cool.

And for you, every weekend or after, like I would say on a Monday, when you come in here, you're like, I watch football a weekend.

That's

a big

departure going to Dora County for pie with your brother and

his wife.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I ended up going back to his house and we played some card games.

Oh, that's awesome.

Did your brother listen to this show yet?

Yeah, he's texted me a couple times.

He doesn't text in, but he texts me.

That was like a

year ago.

My brother has not listened to this show.

Actually, that was this summer, because my parents were back, so they put it on.

Okay, they forced him

to listen.

Pretty much.

It

was a forced listen.

Speaking of your parents, Conrad's mom Paula says, any song by John Denver.

Great song, Paula.

Yeah, I forgot the John Denver tunes.

He's got some great ones.

Jim Crowe, he's got some great ones.

Lori from Hayward says, here's an oldie that was very romantic for a time.

Remember dancing to it at Town Hall dances.

Hey, Paula by Paul and Paula in the early 1960s.

Hey, hey, Paula.

I remember that.

That was in Animal House, I think, Laurie.

Thank you, Laurie, from Hayward.

Awesome stuff.

And John Murray says, yes, thanks.

Still love REO.

Outstanding.

All right.

When we come back, guys, a very short break, and then Eric and Adam are going to rock the studio here.

Two great guys from a really cool band.

Ask your mother.

Coming up next on Nightlight with Peach Wamba.

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Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

You don't want my headphones, because I got some kind of ear fungus.

They haven't been identified yet, so.

OK.

You need your ears.

I mean, I guess.

That is the voice of Eric Ratzek, one fourth of Ask Your Mother, fifth.

Fifth.

OK.

20% of the band.

You're so much taller.

Yeah, I think you're about 32%.

And that is

Adam Krause.

Also from Ask Your Mother.

These two guys have been here many times before.

It's great to have you guys back.

How you doing?

Awesome.

Thanks for having us back.

How long of a drive is this for you guys when you're coming in?

Like 30 minutes.

Yeah, nothing.

Oh, you're not in Green Bay.

No, we're

in

Appleton.

I didn't know that.

But are you a Green Bay based band?

Adam is in Fox Crossing.

Oh, Fox Crossing.

Yeah, it's special.

Is that like a suburb of Nina?

How does that work?

It used to be a town of Monash.

Yeah, it used to be called town of Monash, and they just couldn't stand to be called Monash anymore, so they changed the name.

Does Monash no longer exist?

No, Monash is there.

Monash is there.

But this

area did not want to be a part.

It was a town

of Monash, and didn't want to be confused with city of Monash,

so

they became Fox Crossing.

All right, I just learned that.

When I was in high school, we played basketball against Manchester St.

Mary's, and I was like, that'd be so weird if the town was like... Who'd you play for?

Where'd you go to school?

Marinette Catholic Central.

Oh, okay.

I don't know.

I wouldn't say I played for them.

I had a great seat at all the games, though.

Front row saw everything happen.

That was my problem.

I could shoot, and I, you know, I could kind of jump.

I just couldn't dribble, which for a 5'11".

See, now I was

6'5", on my team, and I was the only guy not allowed to dribble.

It

was like,

you get the ball and you pass it to somebody else.

Sounds good.

Oh, I would throw it into you.

And I would think, yeah, it's not coming back out.

You're just going to lay it in, right?

Well,

I would, I led the conference and block shots and partially because I was really tall.

And the other part of it was I played very poor defense.

So I

would let people go

by me and

I would block their shots.

So that's the sucky part

of

basketball.

Well, I never, I never followed them because it's so skinny.

I could just tap it away.

And this is so much easier than playing good defense.

You know, that's awesome.

Adam's just laughing at you.

Did you guys know each other back then?

No, no, no.

But I stretch would be my one of my one of my first picks for the cover band All-Star basketball team.

Yes What did where did you go to

high school Adam?

I went to Nina

Nina.

Okay.

I was

Hortonville, so

oh

No, yeah terrible both public school dudes.

Yeah.

Oh,

yeah.

I started in Catholic school, and then I had to leave for reasons and None of my reasons wasn't anything I did

you were

excommunicated.

No, it wasn't me It was

we'll just say something with the clergy and then

he then he got

removed and then I that I went to public school because yeah, that's the way

it went I

Normally, I'd say I hear a song coming on, but I don't think... Did you ever write about that?

No.

No, it wasn't

anything to do with me.

It was basically... They just had to get them out of there because things had happened and accusations were made and then they just moved them to a different church.

Yeah.

Oh, that'll solve the problem.

Right, exactly.

I had 16 years of Catholic schooling, but I wanted my kids to go to public school.

And they did.

They started in LA and then they came to...

Marinette and they finished public school there and then I've gone to the same high school My wife went to neither one of them lived up to her athletic achievements.

What's your

wife still stings?

She's a high jumper.

Oh,

I did

that too

Did you really?

I wasn't great at it, Bill.

There was a guy ahead of me though, Scott Bergen.

I doubt he's listening.

We played basketball together too, but he went to state all four years of high school for high jump.

He ended up getting an athletic scholarship to University of Minnesota

for high

jumping.

He was like, he could just about get seven feet.

Yeah,

it was like six ten is what he kept getting he couldn't quite get to seven that was like his goal I wish I was better at sports crazy how good he was I can't believe we're talking about high schools

for two awesome musicians here.

What is

going

on?

What's new with ask your mother?

Um, I don't know.

What's what is new Adam?

We actually had a good weekend of shows not last week We were off a couple guys had vacations out to Vegas as far as we know they came back so far as we know they're in one piece.

Yeah,

yeah

No, the week before we had, uh, we actually played up here in Green Bay.

We were in front of the rest, uh, before the Packer game.

So

that

was a ton of fun.

What are

those crowds like?

Well, you just

never know.

Yeah.

You'll just never know who's going to walk up and it's people from all over the world.

Sometimes

you know,

you get like, I remember one time we ran into some guys from Germany that were coming to Lambo.

Okay.

Cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those are a good time and everyone's.

ready to have a good time.

Yeah.

They're

already, they're already ready to have fun.

And I love doing the pregame because like nobody's mad yet that their team lost.

So, and then nobody's like, well, generally nobody's over imbibed yet either.

So they're not, they're not, they're not our problem.

You know,

they'll be the, but you're on stage singing on, oh, that guy will be asked to leave.

There was one guy

at our last show that I was like, ooh.

I kept telling him like, yeah, they don't land our speakers.

Like not a good thing.

We also had, we had sexy Santa Claus at the last show as well.

I don't know if you recall.

I do.

Oh

yeah.

The tic-tac famous guy.

He had a shirt that said tic-tac famous and I'm like that.

Well, okay.

According to him, he was very famous.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

He had like a pink like.

sparkly coat

on Santa Claus twerking in front of a band.

Imagine

Santa Claus that just fresh got out of prison twerking in front of the band.

That's what

the tattoos reminded me of.

So you think he really got out of

print?

I don't know.

I didn't ask.

I didn't talk to him.

I'm

glad you laughed.

I also didn't see any elves.

So I can't confirm he was the real deal or

not.

Right.

Eric and Adam are.

two-fifths of the band, Ask Your Mother.

They have a lot of great dates coming up.

We're going to tell you guys all about that.

They're going to perform.

They're here.

But I have to say, before we do the news, we'll come back with a full head of steam after that.

But would you guys have a favorite romantic song?

That's our question.

I knew

you were going to ask that because I was listening earlier.

Thank you.

So there is two, there's two classic romantic songs that I just like, I can't pick one.

I would say Unchained Melody is one.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

And then what's the Elvis one?

Why can't I think of it?

Can't help falling

in love.

Yes.

That was mine.

No.

That's a great romantic song.

Yeah.

What about you?

I got to go with my wedding song, which was nothing compares to you by Prince.

Oh, that's a great song.

We did the live version was our, our wedding song.

It's just incredible.

After mother played it.

Not with, with Prince and Rosie games.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I asked your mother didn't play it, but they did play.

We played his wedding.

Yeah.

Oh, that's awesome.

You gave him the night off.

I hope though.

Yeah, we actually had their old keyboard player fill in.

All

right, fantastic.

Ask your mother, Eric Rathsack and Adam Krauss are here.

They're going to perform when we come back.

And you can find out where you can see these guys.

They've got a lot of local dates.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back Boy that was I took a picture of my guests Eric Rathsak and Adam Kraus from my ask your mother They were doing the nightlight window fun.

I cannot believe how high you guys can jump and then you showed me pictures on the stage you're like

That's nuts.

That's how it used to be able to jump that

high.

Those

are old

picks.

Yeah.

I didn't burn my Reebok pumps either.

Those had six inches of vertical.

Got my dress shoes on today.

I tried my best.

I will say when I go to a concert, I love when the performer just starts jumping.

It's like just such a great energy.

Yeah, you gotta, you gotta sell it like that for

sure.

Make some more fun for us, too.

Well, let's, what do you guys want to play?

I'm always thrilled.

So we're gonna do

a little Creed here, higher.

Yeah, nice.

Yeah, we got a lot of requests for Creed, a lot of people yelling at us when we learned it.

I love it.

All right, this is Eric Rathsec and Adam Kraus from Ask Your Mother, performing Creed.

When dreaming, I'm guided to another world, time and time again.

I had sunrise, I fought to stay asleep, cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place.

Cause there's a hunger.

Long to escape the life we live when I'm away So let's go there Let's make our escape.

Come on.

Let's go there Let's ask can we

To a place where I'll go down streams Although I would like the world to change

It

helps me to appreciate those nights and those dreams But my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights If I could make the earth and my dreams the same

to let love replace all our hate.

So let's go there, let's make our

Let's go.

That was fun.

Is it taking out of you?

That song?

That's like, you're digging there, man.

That one's right in my wheelhouse.

Wow, that was great.

Thank you guys, Creed and Hire.

Was that originally with an acoustic the way Creed played it?

Or was it electric?

I think electric electric on that.

Yeah, I love the back story.

Yeah,

it's I've always been a like I have a theory that like there's so many great 90 songs that sound better with acoustic.

Yeah, no, totally.

But that the I guess the the story behind that song was they they wrote it on stage with the crowd like they were taking crowd suggestions for like words and they just kind of organically came

together and then became

one of the biggest

hits of they've ever had.

Oh, that's fantastic.

You guys haven't been here in a while.

So tell people again, if you would, how did you get together musically, the two of you, or how did you both join the

band?

So I joined before Adam.

I actually hold the record for most consecutive gigs of Ask Your Mother.

I am the Cal Ripken of Ask

Your Mother.

You are the Cal Ripken

Junior.

I'm

not the oldest member, but since I have started Knock on Wood, I have not missed a gig that we have performed.

You are the Iron Man.

of Ask Your Mother.

Right.

So I joined them in 09.

They actually had been a band since 08.

And then the lead singer was moving away.

And then I auditioned and got the gig.

And then a few years later, Adam joined.

When did you join?

What year?

You remember?

It's been, I don't know.

You're the new guy.

You're the new guy.

And you've been there

over 10 years.

It's been a long time.

11, 12 years.

I joined the band in 1979.

Before the band was even in

the band.

You

don't left REO.

Yeah, I left REO.

Yeah, that'd have been awesome.

No, Stretch and I met, we met through a few different things musically and then we ended up both participating in the live band Karaoke.

Deja Vu.

Deja Vu, Downtown Appleton.

So much fun.

Nice.

So we got to know each other there.

They were, their keyboard player was leaving and made the offer.

I still have yet to officially accept but yeah I made him

I like I like this basically he was the only guy we auditioned I just kept saying it's Adam it's Adam said I'm no nobody else we don't need anybody else it's gonna be Adam and then they're like well we should

look I'm

no it's Adam Adam's gonna be the guy still

still

everybody else

home right you guys have I was just looking at your website here like the bands that you cover are there other cover bands that have as big of a

library or catalog is you guys?

I don't know for sure what everybody else is playing, but the one thing we hear consistently from people seeing us for the first time and people that see us time and again is that they love the variety of the stuff

we

do.

And we

do cover a lot of different genres, always trying to bring a lot of energy to whatever we're doing.

Yeah, we do hear that quite a bit.

We do think it's one of our strengths is that variety.

And if you, you know, for some reason, you don't like the song that we're playing, you're probably going to like the next

one.

Yeah.

No, you got Luke Bryan, Loverboy, the dropkick, Marafeez, Durandor, and Flo Rida.

Yeah.

I mean, this is just a great.

Well,

like we had, what was our most recent like rehearsal, like group of songs?

It was like Montel Jordan, Backstreet Boys, Savage Garden, and Toby Keith's.

Like,

how does that even happen?

Do you ever notice that, like, when you're playing a show, do people, does a certain segment of the crowd kind of, like, withdraw a little bit if you play country or hard rock, or do people, like, just feed off the energy you guys have?

You know,

I don't notice a lot of people breaking away from what we're doing, and I think it is the energy, like, you talked about, because even if we're doing a song that they may not like, we really do enjoy playing it, and we try to, you know, every song's a sing-along, every song gets everybody involved, so even if you're not a huge country fan,

You're going to have a good time.

You're going to enjoy a guitar solo.

You're going to enjoy something that we're doing in the song.

And if I don't like the song, I make it fun for me.

That's

right.

Don't mention the songs by name.

I'll say I

didn't like the song.

I like the song more when I make it fun for me.

There you go.

Like Duran Duran.

When we did Hungry Like the Wolf.

Oh yeah, great.

I would

add kicks.

That's

where the choreography comes in.

Stretch not only the Iron Man, the head choreographer of Ask Your Mother.

It just

happens organically.

We don't practice it ahead of time, and then pretty soon it's just part of the show.

Eric

Rassack and Adam Kraus from Ask Your Mother, a great local band.

You guys have some dates coming up.

Let's talk about them.

Well,

the next

one is this weekend.

My M on my keyboard is not working, so I have ASCASH.

How do you not have an M?

It's just not, it's like useless.

What's

the one right next to it?

That one looks like completely

wore out.

That's the one that should not work, because I spilled acid on it, apparently.

But I'm having issues with my M's, I gotta figure it out.

But you've got something coming up this weekend.

Yes,

revs and Oshkosh.

That's it.

That was just bad typing.

That's all good.

Nothing to do with the M. And then you've got November 1st and Amro,

get close

to home.

The

night before that, on Halloween, we're in Wapaka at the ICC.

Oh, that's gonna be fun.

And I've never been to that

place with my

wife.

summer home in Wapai.

That's just like a big party place.

Yeah.

Well, the

way they redid Indian crossing casino, it's like, it's really cool.

Like they got garage doors that open up over the water and everything.

And

it's really nice what they did in the back area that they redid everything.

Yeah.

That's on Halloween night.

Yes.

Halloween night,

which is a

Friday.

Yeah.

That's perfect.

Okay.

And then November 1st is the, an omrile.

We're doing the, we're doing a Halloween party for them too under a big tent outside.

So that'll be a good time.

And then you pop up to Howard to Anduzzi's

Yeah,

that's a busy weekend my god.

I'm already tired.

Well, that's that's the yeah, that's the homegrown way one.

Yes, right at right by the stadium.

Yeah, we'll be by the oh,

okay And then you've got that town that used to exist that apparently still does exist manasha

Manasha still exists.

Yes.

I

just

I just live in Asha is longer thing.

Yes.

I just chose to live someplace

a little more refined.

It's

mysterious.

Adam moved there and they're like, we got to rename this Fox Crossing

because Adam

crosses the road.

He's a fox.

I'm going to get my tires.

I'm going to get my tires slashed next time I go through.

Do you guys have local bands that have inspired you or other cover bands or other non cover bands like peers that you kind of feed off of or learn

from?

Absolutely.

I would say I model my my performance with like I try to be as entertaining as Scottie Thor watcher He is a friend of mine that plays in a band called naughty monkey and I try to bring the energy of like Mike Wendland who was in a bunch of different bands and Also, so those are two guys that I looked up to over

the

years and that's kind

of how

I They do yeah, yeah, obviously Dennis from glam band that guy's always phenomenal energy and entertaining

You know, it's funny.

Mikey was on my list, too, from an entertainment standpoint.

Guys, all of it, just nuts.

Like, you can't get pumped.

You cannot get pumped, like, not watching him.

Like, he's

just like, brings it out of you.

Yeah.

And I think even when I joined Ask Your Mother, and you guys are going to think I'm blowing smoke up his butt, but Tim Beekler was one of my, and he's a good friend of mine, and a great musician, bass player.

But when he plays, he has fun and enjoys playing the...

Music so much and you can see it on every single song absolutely and being a bass player.

That's not always, you know, not always easy to do It's not the most fun thing and he's enjoying every moment on stage And I've always tried to try to encapsulate a little bit of that when I

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And Pete Schwabba, this is night like great to have you with me.

Wrapping up a couple texts here.

Our question of the night was, what is your favorite romantic song?

John Murray put Canon in D. Beautiful music.

Well done, John.

Steady Eddie in the 608 says, Pete, over the weekend I was listening to the song Stardust, the version sung by Willie Nelson.

Love that version, Steady Eddie.

He says, it's a song about a lost love, though I dream in vain.

In my heart, there will always remain my stardust melody, the melody of love's refrain.

That was the song, not steady Eddie talking to me.

I listened to it many, many times.

I

recommend people listen to their favorite songs over and over.

It's easy on YouTube until they know the lyrics and the melody by heart and the song and emotion become ingrained into your brain.

Outstanding text.

He says, become the song.

Thank you, steady Eddie.

John from Madison also says, it's the dance you do after your first real kiss.

I think he was referring to his earlier text.

Thank you, John.

He says, this is for the guys in the studio here.

Ask your mother.

He says, don't say it out loud, but holy.

Blank, these guys are ridiculous live.

Wow.

Wow.

Thank you.

There you go.

Thank you, John, for Madison.

I totally agree.