A Festive Mix: Music, Movies, and Mischief(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chihuahua.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Chihuahua.

Welcome to Night Light.

Happy Tuesday, everybody.

It's a Tuesday that feels like... I don't know, probably like a Thursday?

Because tomorrow feels like a Friday?

I don't know.

But it is the eve of Christmas Eve.

A very fun night here at Nightlight.

Very excited about Christmas a couple days away.

This is our last live show of the week.

And for the next three nights, you will be graced with the outstanding voice of Lou Ragani and Christmas music.

But before we take a short break here, we are going to hopefully do this thing upright tonight.

Conrad Krieger is working the board.

Hey, buddy.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

Where did you find that?

That's Phoebe.

That's Phoebe.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

So she.

I love the effort you probably put in having trying to find that.

Actually, I just typed in Happy Christmas Eve and it came up.

Well, it is a happy night here in Wisconsin as we broadcast across the state.

The state of Christmas, even though as we reported last week, Wisconsin is not very high up on the list, which I find.

In fact, not just Wisconsin, like the Midwest, I'll say, reminds me of Christmas.

Like even if I thought Michigan, the U.P., Minnesota, very Christmasy, Vermont even.

But all those.

Warm Weather City's got higher marks than us, and I just find that ridiculous.

Anyway, we have a great show tonight, folks.

It is good that you are here, a fun question, all kinds of fun tidbits of information to discuss, and we're going to do it all over the course of the next three hours.

We've got music in the studio tonight.

The whole show is bookended by outstanding music.

Kicking things off at 535, 7,000 apart will be here.

One of our favorite live acts that dropped by the studio from time to time.

Amelie and John will be here to tell their story and sing their tunes.

And then to close the show at 720, Steve March Torme will be here.

Just an all-around incredible musician.

He started his career as more of a pop rocker and now he's more jazz He leads the band steam a 13-piece arrangement But Steve will be here in the studio and he's gonna sing his famous father's a song his famous father a Song his famous father made famous by his father Nice

There's too much alliteration in there.

Did you talk to anyone today?

Not really.

You know what, I did actually, because both the kids are home and I kind of boss them around all day.

So I told them what to do.

You don't have to do chores anymore?

No, it was like barking orders, though.

It wasn't me trying to be entertaining.

So anyway, Steve Marchetourmay will be here.

He is going to sing for us.

Acapella in the studio con.

We discussed this earlier and very excited to have Steve in the show.

He's in Appleton.

Get this.

He was born in Manhattan, raised in Beverly Hills, makes his home in Appleton, Wisconsin.

I mean, that's like, you know, the big Apple, because

it has the mini

Apple.

It has the Apple in its name, so.

He was just destined to be part of some type of Apple dwelling in an Apple related community.

So Steve will be here at 720.

And then my pal Ben Riser drops by at 635 to discuss movies.

I'm very excited because Ben has seen Train Dreams, so I'm excited to discuss that with Ben.

He's also been watching Pluribus.

Now, Ben will surprise you.

He has takes on movies, and the reason I like to have him on is because he's a bit unpredictable.

I have been vocal about not being a huge fan of Pluribus.

Even though I like the executive producer, I like the lead actor, but I just, I'm just not a fan.

So hopefully Ben will like it and we can, we can lock horns.

And then at six, what would you say, Conn?

622, we've got Ellen Burling.

Yes.

Lake Geneva Cruises, who will discuss a Santa Cruz that you can still get in on.

A beautiful cruise on Lake Geneva that takes you around to some of the mansions all lit up and there are Santa sightings.

on the Santa Cruz, which is exciting too.

It's a fun family event.

We'll discuss that early in hour number two.

And yeah, go ahead.

You're going to

take a Christmas movie quiz.

I'm going to take a Christmas movie.

And I didn't use any chat GPT for it.

OK.

Did I say it right

again?

Did you say chat GPT?

Because the first time you said it, you say it like my wife.

And she says chat GPT just because it's easier to say it that

way.

But I made it.

I made this quiz.

Yeah.

It's about, you know,

Five to thirty seconds differs from the movie, but I think I could stump Schwab on

this one.

I'm excited.

You know, I Realize over the last couple weeks.

I haven't it's not like I've seen every Christmas movie.

I mean I get lazy, too I have my go-tos now the last couple nights I have watched Sunday night my son picked the movie he wanted to take a trip down memory lane, so we watched the polar express And I have to be honest First part of the movie like when they get on the train at first.

It's kind of cool

Then the hot chocolate song is fun.

And then the ticket takes this weird journey.

And I'm like, talk about filler.

Like just get because when they get to the North Pole, it's fantastic.

You know, Santa Claus is great.

There's this great North Pole village.

Love that.

But and then last night, my daughter and I watched the Santa Claus.

So you're a fan of that,

right?

Yeah, I like the Santa Claus.

And you know, with Polar Express, when I was younger, that version of Santa in that one scared me for some reason.

It's scary that Tom Hanks does all the voices.

I don't think they needed

to

do that.

It's like, we know you're talented, pal.

Well, they only had to pay one salary, and they said, all right, let's move on.

I'm sure he milked it in his negotiations.

I don't know that for a fact.

But it's fun.

I wouldn't say it's an absolute classic, but it's got its moments.

So I don't know we're gonna watch one tonight too, and it's up to me to pick it out So if you

have a

if you have a recommendation Like I said there there are Christmas movies I haven't seen so if those of you listening as you all know you can always contribute to any part of the show Phone lines are always open chat line is always open.

Yeah chat line text line is always open

So let me know what you think I should watch tonight.

I would love to get one more Christmas movie in here before Christmas Eve.

So without further ado though, I think we ought to get to the night light question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

What is your favorite pre-Christmas activity?

Like in the buildup to Christmas.

That's the funnest part.

Making cookies, decorating the tree, maybe shopping.

If you don't mind braving the stores or going to Amazon or the mom and papa websites ideally.

What is your favorite pre-Christmas activity?

Maybe it's picking somebody up at the airport.

That's fun.

People coming home for the holidays.

I can't even remember what I put I know mine is I do like putting up the tree I will say But why don't you go first cotton you grace us with your your answer?

Well, all right, so I did on social media.

I did say Getting a nice cup of Joe and watching.

Oh, I did see

that sometime, you know Christmas movie a Christmas show

or

something but I think Adding to this now because I've only done it for the you know past like I don't know four years ever since I've been able to make my own money

I've been getting, you know, getting gifts for people and it's fun getting gifts and like, oh, will they like this?

Will they not?

But,

you

know, I

usually

always like it no matter, but.

Getting gifts.

That's a good one.

Just getting some coffee or like a hot chocolate.

I used to love when I lived in more of a big city, like being in coffee shops around Christmas holidays.

They're decorated, they've got.

They typically have cooler Christmas music on like jazzy or stuff or something you haven't heard yet But my answer was getting the tree up watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music to the point where I have to say about three days before Christmas I have to stop listening to Christmas music because I'm officially sick of every single song But I like all of it really It's all fun to me

But I am getting a little tired of Christmas music.

But let us know what you think, folks.

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Always fun to get those.

Nick Wallander, our pal from Comedy City in Depeere says, sitting in my car, preparing for all those arguments.

Mike Desintel says, Thanksgiving.

Comedian Vince Morano says, setting the standards and expectations too high.

That's another big one.

Funny man from Appleton, Mr. John Egan says, siblings gifts exchange on Christmas Eve.

That's a fun one too.

Chris, I totally agree with John on that.

That's a great one when you exchange gifts.

And ideally, we've always done it.

When do you guys exchange gifts,

Con?

I mean, it's different every year, actually, for me.

Is it?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, well, your folks live pretty far away, so that's a...

Well, actually, for this year, we did it at Thanksgiving, because that's when we saw it.

Okay.

That's fun too.

But, you know, with my brother, my sister-in-law, we do it different times.

We

ended up, we used to, in my family, we used to pack everything and we'd go to four o'clock mass on Christmas Eve.

Then we come home, we eat.

You're done with that by like eight o'clock by the time you get done with so many people.

Then Santa Claus would come by the house.

So that's nine.

Then we start our gift exchange, which takes like three hours.

That's midnight.

And then you're kind of amped up.

maybe you throw in a Christmas movie.

So typically in our house, oftentimes we wouldn't get to bed on Christmas, even till like two o'clock in the morning.

And I'm talking about like as an adult.

Yeah.

When, when you were, uh, you know, when your kids were younger, you probably had to wake up pretty early to

go to- Absolutely.

It was typically at like a four or five hour sleep night on your crabby all Christmas day, which is fun.

Uh, Amanda Nimmer says, staring at a blank wall, trying not to fall into the abyss.

Wow.

Very heartwarming answer there.

WGBW's Amanda Never Love It and Comedy City's Eric Alarsson says the airing of grievances and feats of strength.

Okay, and Trig Rood from Oakwood Beach in Marinette says burning of the brush pile.

What is that?

That's like a Festivus thing or something.

Those are our social media answers to our question of the night, but fire away folks and I will read your text on the radio.

You know, I want to do news and weather and sports folks are coming up in I love that.

I was a Tony Zimmerman that posted the The like tic-tac-y type clip of Mike Clemens on Yeah, that was really cool.

Yeah,

thank

you shout out to Tony.

I love that So we got a lot going on here.

We've got like I said news sports and weather coming up in just a few minutes I found a really cool thing

I want to read from Bill Murray also when we come back.

It's just kind of an outlook on life type thing.

But I'm going to share this first.

This was kind of weird.

I was in a hurry getting out of the house tonight.

And in fact, I was in such a hurry.

If I didn't have in studio guests, I probably would not have brushed my teeth.

That's how close I was cutting.

I got

here like 20 to

six.

So, but I grabbed my toothbrush.

In honor of 7,000 Apart, John and Amal, your hair, I don't want them to smell bad breath, Scott.

Steve March Torme, he doesn't know me.

I don't want it.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

So I grab my toothbrush and there's a couple hairs on it.

Kind of BS is that.

So I pull a long hair off and then there's a shorter hair and I'm trying to pull that and I couldn't and I said screw it and I brush my teeth with a hair on my toothbrush.

You could have taken.

It's because I love my guests so much.

And I respect them.

I want them to smell minty fresh breath.

And here's how I rationalized it.

It's probably my hair.

That's my drawer.

It's like some guys coming over.

It's like finding a hair in an omelet, you know what I mean?

There's

someone you know that doesn't like you snuck into your house.

Well, they could do a lot worse things than pulling a hair out and putting it in my toiletry drawer,

right?

But where did the hair come from?

It was long enough that I was in a safe zone, I think.

It was not below the equator.

But I surprised myself, because typically I would massage that hair out of the bristles.

But I didn't tonight, and I hope my guest thanked me for it.

Also, this is a weird way to start the day.

The guy in front of me hits a squirrel.

You ever see a squirrel in its last throes of life flipping around in the...

Are

you gonna vomit?

This is sad.

Alright, Conrad's gonna vomit.

We're gonna get some of that dust they used to spray over it in grade school, and we'll be right back with more Night Light with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, and it is great to have you here tonight, folks.

Our last live show of the week.

We've got news, sports, and weather coming up at the bottom of the hour, so hang in there for that.

Civic Media's news team will not let you down.

I saw this.

I'm gonna read this.

Rarely do I just read something, but I saw this from a Facebook account called Historic Imprints.

So bear with me.

This is a great story about Bill Murray.

You know, he has that reputation of kind of appearing places and goofing off and just kind of messing with people.

Yeah.

So that's what this is in reference to.

The night Bill Murray showed up at a stranger's house.

House Party did the dishes and disappeared into legend.

It's become the most Bill Murray thing ever.

Dozens of verified stories of him crashing bachelor parties, tending bar at random events, stealing french fries off strangers' plates, and whispering, no one will ever believe you before vanishing into the night.

But one story captures his essence perfectly.

love this.

A group of college students in Scotland was throwing a house party when Bill Murray, who was in town for a film festival, simply walked in off the street.

No security, no entourage, just Bill.

He didn't announce himself.

He just grabbed a bottle of vodka, started mixing drinks, chatted with confused students who couldn't believe their eyes, and then here's the part that makes it so perfectly Bill Murray.

He walked into the kitchen and started doing their dishes.

Not as a joke, not for a photo op, he just saw dirty dishes and decided someone should handle them.

When students asked what he was doing there, he shrugged.

I was walking by, heard music, thought I'd join you.

Then he took a group photo, offered some life advice about not worrying so much and left as mysteriously as he'd arrived.

The photo went viral, the story became legend, and it joined dozens of other verified Bill Murray sightings that have turned him into something between a movie star and an urban myth.

There's the time he crashed a karaoke party and sang Elvis, the time he photobombed an engagement shoot, the time he gave relationship advice to a heartbroken man at a bar, the time he joined a random kickball game in Brooklyn.

Each story follows the same pattern.

Murray appears, does something wonderfully ordinary in an extraordinary way, refuses to let it become a big deal, and leaves people with a memory they'll tell for the rest of their lives.

The more relaxed you are, this is the part of this I love the most.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

He once said, the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Bill Murray doesn't crash parties because he's famous.

He crashes them because life is a party.

And the best moments happen when you stop taking yourself so seriously and just show up.

Somewhere tonight in closing, Bill Murray is probably doing someone's dishes and they have no idea.

How lucky they are.

That quote is great.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

The better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Worrying really does nothing.

I think that's the message, but it's just great stuff.

Love that story.

And I love the Bill Murray sightings.

There was a great one too where Tom Hanks, I probably have said this one on the show, I just love this.

not taking himself too seriously shows up at like a burger joint at two in the morning after bar time and there's some dude asleep on the table and his phone is there and I guess this is before you could lock your phone or whatever Tom Hanks picks up the guy's phone puts his face next to the guy's face and takes a selfie puts the phone down so when the guy sees the selfie a day or two later with Tom Hanks in the picture he'll realize he could have met Tom Hanks if he wasn't passed out on his own face in a booth

at 3 a.m.

Great stuff.

I saw this too, Conrad.

Today is Festivus.

Were you aware of this?

Yeah.

Okay.

So Savannah Tomei Olson, our WMDX, I believe, news director.

She and Shaly worked down there, but Savannah did this great piece for a TV outfit that she also takes part in about Festivus.

Do we have time to play that?

I don't know.

I have to find a clue.

Oh, okay.

Well, pull that.

We'll play it later in the show.

I sent that to you earlier, and she, it's just a great piece, because today, Festivus was, I don't think it's, it may or may not have started on Seinfeld, but George's dad, played by Jerry Stiller, celebrated Festivus, a non-commercial way to celebrate the holidays, and it was, he just had an aluminum pole.

That was the,

the paraphernalia involved in Festivus.

So there's a company in Wisconsin that makes these polls.

And if we don't have time to play it now, that's fine.

ConPullet will play it maybe in the third hour or something when we get time.

I'll read some texts here.

Our question of the night, again, is, what is your favorite pre-Christmas or holiday activity?

Regardless of what you celebrate, Hanukkah, Christmas, Festivus, Kwanzaa, whatever,

What do you do?

What's your favorite part of the build-up?

That's our question tonight Mark from Sun Prairie says I watched a version of a Christmas Carol with mr. Magoo as Scrooge remembered watching it as a child I Think he's given me a movie recommendation for later I don't know if I'm gonna go Christmas Carol, you know, I haven't seen it in years.

Maybe that would be I mean,

there's so many different versions.

You could just try to pick your poison with that.

That's true

Thank you, Mark.

Jim from Appleton says, putting up the lights and decorations, including the tree, a very fun, filled family time.

I agree, Jim.

That's when we put our tree up.

We typically put it up the weekend of Thanksgiving, like on that Saturday when people are home, so we can get some help with that and make it more of a family event.

Good times.

Brett from Brown Deer says, I did my favorite pre-Christmas activity today.

Drove down to the dispensary and bought the good stuff.

Well done, Brett.

It says Brett is from Brown Deer, but his area code is 920, so I'm guessing he drove up the Menominee?

Maybe?

There's no dispensary in Wisconsin, right?

There can't be.

Uh, I don't think they're under dispensary.

Maybe he's got a guy.

Not gonna judge Brett.

Monica from Mount Horrib says, I like making, uh, help me with this word again, Con.

Peff-pefferness cookies?

I don't know either.

Let's just...

She likes making cookies with German spice cookie.

Monica says every year and looking at Christmas lights.

Saturday night, I drove through the holiday fantasy lights in Olin Park in Madison, but just driving around neighborhoods is nice too.

That is a great one, Monica.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

855-752-4842.

And we'll read them.

What's your favorite activity in the buildup to Christmas or the holidays or Hanukkah or Festivus?

Let us know.

News, sports and weather is next, and then we've got 7,000 apart in the studio, ladies and gentlemen.

We're getting there.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Nightlight, folks.

It is the Tuesday before Christmas.

There is no better Tuesday you will find, because it feels kind of like a... This kind of feels like a holiday.

It's our last live show of the week, and then you will have Christmas music, and Lou Ragani's voice for two and a half days, which will be an absolute blast, and we will be back live next Monday night.

It is my pleasure, though, to welcome now.

We can't waste any time, because I don't have you guys, but you got a pizza waiting for you.

We do, we ordered some pizza, yes.

And if I were you, I'd be really upset if I just drank this.

It's so angry.

I'm incredibly angry right now.

You're angry, probably.

Those are the voices of 7,000 apart.

John and Amelie join me here in the studio as they do from time to time a great music duo that met here in Green Bay.

Let's just, if there are people that don't know your story, give us a quick thumbnail.

Let's do it, let's do it.

It's such a great story.

So hello, my name is Amelie.

I'm originally from Stockholm, Sweden.

I came here as an exchange student and that I

at Preble High School, where I met John.

Yeah, so we met in music theory class, my senior year of high school, became friends or music mostly, and then we became more than friends, dated that school year, and then we decided to keep dating when we were in a long distance relationship.

How far apart were you guys?

We were, you can guess.

7,000 kilometers apart, which

is like 4,000 something, something, something miles.

Yup, yeah.

It was a serious long distance

relationship, yeah.

Yeah, so we did that for three years, got married in Sweden, moved here, lived here for six years in Green Bay, became full-time with music, and then we just moved to Sweden three years ago, and that's the very short version.

Wow, you're

bi-continental.

Yes.

I don't meet many people like you.

I've met some, but so you are residents of Sweden?

I guess I didn't realize that.

So I'm a

citizen of both countries, and then John is...

Obviously an American citizen and has like kind of like a green card in Sweden.

Nice.

Wow, that's fantastic.

Do you guys have something our question of the night is something you like to do in the build-up?

to Christmas or Hanukkah or the holidays, like something pre-Christmas activity.

We've been working so much.

We just came off doing eight shows in nine days.

But I think that's probably how I would want to spend it anyway.

Just

do shows, play some Christmas music.

I've been singing a Holy Night and

it's been

great.

Go crazy and then completely...

die for a few days.

You've

done your last show before New Year's, right?

No,

we've got two more

before New Year's as well.

We'll talk about those as well, but you just said eight shows in nine days.

That's fantastic though, right?

Yeah, no,

we're very

happy.

Isn't that like when you get that adrenaline rush and you got to keep going even though you could use the night off, like to be a working musician and not have any time off is not a bad thing, right?

No,

it's the dream.

Yeah.

And it's

so different, especially now that we are working in two different continents, like when we're here, we want to play shows

as

much as we can handle it.

Right.

And when we're in Sweden, we're more like studio rats, you know?

And so the difference is quite...

But that's the way we want it to.

We think of our life as living it in seasons kind

of.

So how long did it take you to get to that point in your career where you're pretty much working every night or at least as much as you want to where you're like, man, I could really use the night

off.

I mean, we started doing open mics in the area in 2016.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

So it's been, it's been a while and we, we started a like a business and tried to do it very like.

you know as properly as we could since 2017 so it's been it's been uh eight years i guess no

kidding yeah it's been

kind of crazy start yeah oh i was gonna say we started technically in 2014

yeah that's when we started the band

yeah

when we

were still in long distance

So

you're done with high school like in 2010 2012 2013 Okay, you're still kids

My birthday and I've been sick my last two birthdays.

I feel like they don't count

You

gotta live it up.

When is your birthday?

December 6th.

Okay.

Yeah.

So, all right.

Well, that's, that's exciting.

Do you think you put too much stress on yourself?

Like, it's my birthday.

Ah!

And then you get sick.

Maybe.

I

think it's also had to do with that we got to the country December 3rd.

Oh,

yeah.

And I always get sick after we travel.

Yeah.

So.

You're asking for trouble.

But what else are you gonna do?

You can't like hop a steamship and go back to Sweden.

No.

And I can't

like, you know, take a week off.

Right.

Who would do that?

That's crazy.

So what's happened with you guys?

Is there big news since the last time you've been here?

Uh, kind of.

I mean,

John has started producing a lot

and

working on our fourth album.

Wow,

nice.

Yeah, so I've been producing a lot in Sweden as well.

So I've worked with 15 artists

in the

last three months.

I'm doing that plus all of our music.

So I did like, I've produced like 40 songs or something.

So it's been really, really fun.

And like it's been helping a lot with our music too, just to work on random genres and try to just get better at music production.

And I think, yeah, we just had a cool piece of news, which was like, we got a song on, I don't know if you know music, New Music Friday.

It's a playlist on Spotify,

but yeah, I've heard of that.

But there's a Swedish, like a Sweden version of that.

And one of our songs got placed on the New Music Friday, Sweden, which was really cool because

it's like

20 songs that get placed there weekly.

And one of them was ours.

And then

the Rolling Stones were on there.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of them.

Yeah, I don't know if you've heard of a

band called the Rolling Stones, but

they're

coming into their own.

So that was really fun.

So what, that's really cool.

So how does that, how does that work?

How do they, do you have to submit it?

Yeah.

So one sits up with your distributor, Spotify says hi.

Like, we

see that you have

a new song coming and then you can pitch it to the editors.

Nice.

And we were just, yeah, lucky and we've been working hard to get to where we are, but it

feels great.

Yeah, yeah.

So when you guys, when you work with producers or artists, do you have a producer you work with typically?

Not anymore.

John is our producer

now.

Yeah.

I mean, I have a lot to say as well.

I just don't push the buttons.

I would imagine If you ever need a second set of ears, yeah, I'm here for sure.

Well, please Well, it is amazing like I know that's something I learned I don't know well into adulthood that it's not just like yeah the songs are the most important and writing them and playing them But man a producer can make something just take it to another level, right?

Yeah, it's fun.

I think it's like a

Also being the artist and the producer, like you can get your vision across way more.

And we've worked with a lot of amazing producers in the past, but it's just been one of those things where it's like, I never felt like I could get my, what I was aiming for, fully across.

And

so now

it's like really cool to like do that

and

just be able to do it.

You know, it's crazy.

So

do you in working with artists that come in, I assume they're paying you for studio time or whatever and you ever listen to go.

No, I've been, I've been

choosing, I've been

choosing like people to work with largely, which is a benefit of like this production is not my full time thing.

So I can choose people to work with a bit and like find people that I actually am like really excited to work with.

And that's been great.

Cause then I have, I can learn, but I'm also working with someone that I'm excited for their project too.

So it's been great.

It's

been mostly like friends and

colleagues, you know, like we run

this once a week.

a songwriting circle,

where we just

like meet with other songwriters, play each other songs

that

we've written, and then give each other feedback.

And

so a lot of the people have been from that group.

Just give them the demo, come on.

They'll list, they'll be, they just said they're not gonna like, he's got a rap song he wrote.

Oh, yeah, let's do it.

I can do it.

I gave him notes, but I don't know anything.

Give me 10 hours, Max.

Yeah.

Don't get it done.

It's not very good.

I would love it if you guys would play something.

Yeah.

We're gonna play our next single, we were thinking.

It's a

fun one.

So January is usually like the poorest month, right?

Because everyone spends money during

Christmas.

So we decided to release our song, Currency.

on

in

January and we release on the 7th of every month.

So we have

a new song every single month.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, that seems to be out January 7th.

Yep.

When nobody has any currency left.

So it's perfect.

I love it.

All right, fantastic.

John and Amelie from 7000 Apart here in the studio performing their new song, Currency.

One for the money, two for the road Three for the passion, four not to go To the freak show, peak show, they're all about Misha Trade our souls for fame to get a Nia name What is the skull at the end of the rainbows?

Then the front row and the tip of my toes I don't wanna go home, you know I can't say no

All I got is time but no friend's place I'm really uninspired by the human race No money to my name but I have no shame Guess I didn't really learn how to play this game I just wanted to get paid for the songs that I made

And what can I buy with

that?

I really wanted to say something like when you looked at me like you were waiting for me and I usually don't have a problem not saying something but I didn't want to run up here.

What can I buy with that?

I don't know.

That's what I...

We

should have prepped

you.

I'm sorry, we should have rehearsed.

Yeah, we should

have rehearsed.

Yeah.

I was going to say lots of stuff, but then I would have sounded like I didn't really get the gist of the song.

You're welcome to stand up and dance around, Amelie, because I know, I love when you sit in the chair there and I, do you dance around on stage or you kind of do what you just did at the mic?

It depends if it's like, if it's a duo show, I keep pretty to myself, but if it's a band show, I'm all over that

stage.

Oh, that's so great.

You're just feeling it.

It's fantastic.

So all right.

So do you when you put out a new album, are there themes to it or do the songs, do you try to put them together somehow in a theme or are they just random?

Yeah,

we I don't know if it's fully intentionally, but we kind of write topically.

OK, just about our life.

And then it ends up being something like so this this album is called Why Do We Do What We Do?

It's a mouthful, but it's also, it's one of those things where we're like, this is what this album is about.

Yeah.

It's looking at our life and being like, you know, how did we end up here?

Yeah.

And why do we keep going?

Writing about what you know, right?

Yeah.

I mean, and so like, obviously that's going to be different errors of your life.

Right.

You

know, and our previous album, Failure Feelings, was very mental health

focused.

Oh, that was great.

Because that's

what we needed

at the time.

Great stuff.

Yeah, that was fun.

Yeah, thank you.

I don't know our debut album was just a debut album I mean obviously we wrote about what we needed to write about then but

I think

it was more like just the songs that we had written to that point I think it's more important for me that like it's cohesive musically I

would

say like the themes make they land where they need to land and

But at the end of the day, we pick the best songs.

We write a lot of songs and then we pick the best ones and put them on the album.

That's so great.

It's a great song.

Thank

you.

It's fun, right?

You know, yeah, it's a lot of fun.

It's a

very, with full band, it's very

loud.

Oh, it goes hard.

It's very loud.

It's nice to know, too, that a couple people like you guys who are loaded still have money issues from time

to

time.

Oh.

We're very loaded, yeah.

Totally loaded.

Being

musicians, working in two different countries.

Taylor Swift versus us, I don't know.

If there's any difference, you

know.

We are coming right back with 7,000 Apart.

We'll have a few more minutes with these guys who are in studio.

Merry Christmas to me.

Nightlight with Pete Schwabbe coming right

back.

What is your favorite pre-christmas activity?

That is tonight's question of the night here at Night Light.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

Great to have you with us on this Tuesday night a pre-christmas show.

I could say this show is one of my favorite pre-christmas activities because I have great guests all night including

My current guess, 7,000 apart, John and Amelie are here.

It's such an outstanding music duo.

We just heard them perform and you've got a pizza waiting for you, so I'll make this as quick as possible because I don't, what did you get on the pizza I have to ask?

We got the Mediterranean pizza.

Ooh, nice.

Yeah, so some black olives, I think some feta cheese and some pesto.

That

didn't even exist, like.

I'm sure it did in the Middle East or whatever, but I love Mediterranean

food.

And a Mediterranean pizza, surprisingly.

Right, sounds good to me.

I'm excited.

Tell us

about your New Year's Eve show you have here

in Green Bay.

Oh my gosh, we get to go back to Titletown.

It's been one of our favorite places.

these last few years, just because they always put on such a great event, like there's always so much happening around it.

So, yeah, this summer we opened for Jesse McCartney, which was nuts, and now we get to play three hours of some great music from six to nine, just in the Titletown area with...

I think we got Lambo behind us, which is cool.

Nice.

Yeah.

So that's like across the street kind of on

the same

street, but across the sides.

Yeah, that's fun.

Man, that's great.

And how, how would 10 of our crowds in a situation like that?

Because, you know, here in Northeast Wisconsin, there's a fair amount of drinking that happens.

So are people mostly focused on you guys or?

Are you like fighting for the attention of a game that's on or something?

It depends on

the venue

and I think for this I would just probably assume that this is gonna be kind of like there They do have some farmers markets Okay, or like arts and crafts farmers markets during summer and I would assume that this is gonna be a little bit like that But I think the stage is a little bigger and like with heating I think we have some heat and so I think I mean we definitely know people who are gonna be there to

come see us, but I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people tubing, you know?

Maybe skating, I think they have ice skating and stuff, getting some food, so like, we're happy to be that, like, whatever you need us to be, you know?

Do you want to stand by the stage and like, sing along to every song?

We're gonna play fun songs and original

music, too, and... But if you're just there to, like, go ice skating and listen to us at the same time, that's cool, too.

That's good, too.

All right.

And talk about some of these other dates you guys have coming up.

Wassa on the 26th.

at Malarkey's Blue Harbor.

Yes.

On the

27th.

That seems

like a fun venue.

Is that like in a big room they deck out for the

holidays or something?

No, we're going to be in one of their restaurant hub things.

Yeah.

So we actually got that show because we played on Local Five Live.

They have these like our town segments.

So they did one in Cheboygan and we did their live music.

Very cool.

Just right there on the water.

It was gorgeous.

That's a beautiful area.

Then you got the West Bend Theater January 16th.

Yes, that's going to be cool.

And Malone, Wisconsin.

I've heard of Malone, Wisconsin.

Yeah, Ciglar winery.

It's a really, really sweet place.

What part of the

state is that?

It's pretty close.

We look it up the day up.

Or maybe the day before.

Yeah.

I want to say we've played in every single smaller town in Wisconsin, but then there's always more.

And it's always like, yeah, we've played in the areas.

You've got to come to Marinette.

Yeah, we really do go north.

There's a fun.

We could turn out we could put some butts in the seats Yeah, let's do it.

All right.

We'll talk about that too.

We'll

talk about LA stuff and then we'll talk about Marinette.

We'll reconvene

So

then back to Sweden and then what's that like more producing or more songwriting or what?

So we do around four to six gigs a month still in Sweden The gigs we do there are a lot more like not all them, but some of them are a lot more focused on like

more of like a music club type vibe, like very shorter, like an hour set, maybe splitting

nights with other bands, you

know, um, that world.

Uh, and then it's a lot of production and writing for us.

Um, we're, as we said, working on another album, like the third one is in like still being released.

Um, but we were like always trying to work in advance.

And since we released music on the seventh of every month, uh, so we're prepping already for April and beyond.

It's

a great gimmick.

I love that.

People come to expect it, I would imagine.

That's the plan, right?

That's so great.

That's the dream.

That's fantastic.

How's the tour been so far?

Have there been any memorable shows?

Are they all

memorable?

Do you

have any unique experiences?

We did a beautiful show at the Mulva Center in Depeer.

And their auditorium.

It was gorgeous.

So nice.

So we did like a combination of our music and some Christmas songs, holiday music.

Got a standing ovation there.

It's amazing.

From Depeer.

So

cute

sold tickets like it was so that was really special Yeah, we played some wineries all around Wisconsin also just like it's Such a chill vibe compared to summer because summer we do a lot of band shows.

It's very like high tempo.

It's big

Production like it's all the lights and all the speakers and at every gig.

Yeah, and here we've been doing a lot of duo shows and Just taking it very chill.

You get to talk to

the people in

the audience

a lot more

Very

intimate.

So it's

cool.

Do you have people that come out that knew you from high school?

Do they

I mean we had like we had people that drove up from Chicago to see us at Anduzzi's

yeah, which is crazy.

So like

it's it's weird like There's people that are like, oh, I've seen you

four or five times and you're like, okay, I kind of remember you,

but

also, and then sometimes, yeah, people from high school, we met some people this summer that knew us in high school.

They were freshmen when we were seniors and like, they're like, we've been following what you're doing and you know, it's, yeah, it's super fun to meet people that know who you are and

you know who they are.

Yeah, anytime you see like faces that you know in the crowd, that is always so special.

because then like you just feel a little safer and a little happier.

Your friends are there, you know?

That's

so cool.

Do you guys, we only have about less than a minute left, but what do you, when you get in the car and you drive to Malone, Wisconsin, what are you listening to?

What music do you guys

listen to?

So here's the thing, we, because we work with music, we don't listen to music in the car.

We listen to podcasts.

Podcasts,

okay.

So we listened to Dungeons and Dragons podcast

largely.

I

don't

know

if you've

ever, if you know anything about that, but that's a whole topic.

Not

like since it started on television video games, like in the 80s.

I know it's a whole thing.

I know it's

great.

We have a very nerdy side.

We do have a very nerdy side.

It comes out in the variant.

That is very good.

But when we have the band, we usually just talk.

But when it's just John and I, we usually turn on a little podcast and then rest my voice.

Because you're cool side with the engine.

You're nerd side with Dungeons and Dragons.

John and Emily.

from 7,000 apart.

Knock them dead.

Have a great tour.

Thank you so

much.

When you come back, please come back again.

We love that.

Fantastic.

We are coming right back, folks, after news, sports, and the weather.

Ben Reiser is here for some movie talk.

Steve March tour, May coming up.

Lots to get to tonight.

It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Broadcasting

live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who's had a paper route for 25 years but never collected, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back, folks.

to act two of tonight's edition of Nightlight, a Tuesday night version.

It is a beautiful balmy day in Wisconsin, a gorgeous day here for, especially when you consider it's late December, gorgeous weather today.

And you must have been happy, Conrad.

You don't like the cold, but you still choose to live in Wisconsin.

Sorry, I remember last week when I said I woke up sweaty.

And it was because my apartment was at 85 and I I kind of thought about it.

I was like wait I don't have my heat on but I do have someone who's a little older You know and who's below me in my apartment building.

Yeah, so I'm guessing yes the heat cranked and what does he do in rises?

Oh, wow, so I had my heat off for two days, okay?

This morning was at 82 and your heat was off completely off

You could say boo boo bucks Getting

the old

coot below to turn his heat up like that.

That's

so yeah, it was a nice day And I opened up my windows a little bit.

I was like, I need you to please escape I need this heat to escape

That's fantastic.

Um, are you done with your Christmas shopping?

I Actually finished it today.

Yeah, you know, I got some gifts and I was like, well, I could maybe get a few more So I want to I went to dicks and they have some there's some nice deals going on there

Yeah.

So I went there and actually shopped in person, which is weird.

Yeah.

Who

knew?

That's pretty cool.

So I finished mine today too.

And I'm notorious for giving print ups.

Like I save everything for the last minute and I realized the shipping can't get there.

So I'll print up a picture of what I got you and say it's on the way.

I thought I've done that like twice over the years, but apparently I'm that guy.

like my kids ago.

What do you need ink in the printer,

dad, for your

gifts for us?

Well, brats.

So that's my thing.

But hey, welcome to Nightlight, folks.

If you missed the first hour, it was a lot of fun.

And you can catch it at civicmedia.us, where all the shows are catalogued as podcasts.

We had 7,000 apart in the studio.

John and Amelie, they're so much fun every time they're on the show.

Very talented music duo.

who split time between here in Green Bay where they met in high school and in Stockholm, Sweden.

You good?

Conrad's getting the bell.

Okay.

I thought he took a powder.

He just kind of disappeared there.

And then we talked about a really cool story I read about Bill Murray who I think has life figured out and it's so much fun to read Bill Murray stories.

If you just go to the Google and type in Bill Murray stories, they come up in abundance, but this in particular

was a really fun one, so it's all in the first hour.

Oh, I also talked about how I brush my teeth with a hair on my toothbrush, because

I was- Yes.

You know, you could have just taken it off.

What do

you do when you find a hair- Like, let's say you order a pizza and there's a hair in it and you're starving.

You know, I'm not going to eat that slice.

But you're going to still go back in.

I'll go around.

It's tough.

Maybe I'll eat up to the hair.

Like, if you're- I'm