9-3-2026 BUTCHER BABIES in the ROCK 108 Studio

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Last resort, Rock 108 morning show, Brian Marshall and joined in studio today on this throwback Thursday, getting a little bit of new material out of Heidi and the butcher babies.

Welcome aboard.

Thanks for having us.

What'd you say?

Last night was Lincoln, Nebraska.

Yeah.

What is going on in Nebraska?

I know the whole thing between Iowa and Nebraska as we knock heads and just fighting over

corn.

Oh, okay.

Well, then they were just terrible.

And today we just run

to all the positive.

Now, you know what?

This tour has been fantastic.

It's been awesome.

We're on the road with Chad Gray.

He's playing Mudbane and Hell Yes songs.

We're just in Des Moines the other night.

So it's been great making our way through the Midwest.

And after we're done here, heading up to Minneapolis.

So

we're hitting a

bunch of states today.

Varsity Theater is the show tonight, is what you guys were saying?

Yeah, yeah.

And that's with Chad, right?

Yep.

So he's another Midwest guy, a guy out of Peoria.

So what is it about the Midwest, fellas?

Because Heidi, I think you've said before you're really into Slipknot.

So you got Iowa, you got Illinois, what else?

You going to move to Midwest or what?

I like visiting.

My

mom is from Milwaukee, so I think it's in my blood.

Okay, I got you.

Yeah.

One of the new tracks, we featured this a couple of weeks back.

It's called Blame It On The Wind.

And I can only explain so much from my end.

Can you tell us about the track, please?

Yeah, this song is really special for us.

It's off of our brand new album, which comes out a month from yesterday, October 2nd.

And this song was written about

One of those one of those nights in LA It was just a cool hot summer night.

I guess you could say and you know meeting someone for the first time and Enjoying the evening together and that you know one night stand follows you for the rest of your life Something you can't really forget about and that's really what this song is about just someone who you cannot get

out of your head and it haunts you forever.

I love that.

This is Blame It on the Wind Acoustic.

Oh yes, let's do it.

With the Rock 108 Morning Show and the Butcher Babies.

You said my name Like it was yours I didn't love the open door Somewhere between Truth and the wind

It's just a taste That's what you said And when the lights come on We'll forget what we did But you

know that's

Put your babies on the rock 108 morning show.

Thank you.

Wow.

That's

like the first time we've even spoken today.

That's incredible.

It's so early in the morning and you're able to nail it like that.

That's incredible.

That was so fun.

Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

We'll have more with Heidi, Henry, Sean, and Devin.

They are the Butcher Babies.

Blame it on the win the new track and more with you coming up.

That's a new one from moon fever called bury me on rock 108.

If you missed it, we did acoustic blame it on the wind, but your babies are guests here in the rock 108 studio with Heidi and Henry.

And here's the thing.

It's not just me as the radio guy in here.

Uh, Heidi, you said you had done some radio back in the day.

Yes.

Yes.

I, uh, I would get up at three 30.

Well, I'd be to the studio at three 30.

going live at five, so I was doing good.

She

doesn't get up that early.

It's not anymore.

Heck no, I'm going to bed around that time now, but yeah, that was my life for a really long time, and I loved it.

Your day's done by the time most people are rolling out of bed, getting their day started, so I loved it.

I'm envious of your gig.

Did you, did you discover bands?

What was it that you did more of?

I mean, it wasn't just, what was your role there at that particular station?

Well, we were a rock station.

And so I did mornings.

I did mornings.

I was, you know, there were two dudes and me.

And so, you know, the comedic relief, of course, no.

And, and then I also hosted a all girl power hour.

Yeah, so that was really fun and it was a weekend.

I did a weekend show for All Girl Power Hour and it was fun because back then I didn't realize that, you know, this would be what I would be doing later on in my life is also championing the females in this industry.

You bring up a very good point is that right now, are you seeing that there are more female fronted acts that are now getting showcased in the rock business?

Oh, completely, completely.

I mean,

from

radio to festivals.

anywhere you go, it's awesome to see so many incredibly talented females getting their shot at doing this.

When we first started, man, 17 years ago, it was really, there weren't very many of us.

And now,

It's just like we've created this little club.

I look on your wall over here of all the bands who have signed this wall.

You see Plus, you see Eva Under Fire, whom we toured with earlier this year.

They're out with Death Punch.

And it's just, it's incredible.

And we all have kind of like linked arms

and

charged our way through this.

And so it's a really beautiful movement to have seen.

Henry, the question for you is, with a female fronted band,

the thing that you have to do is you have to help to showcase, yes,

but at

the same time, there's a whole nother thing that goes with it because you can have a gimmick.

Some people have a gimmick, right?

But in the case, you guys are bringing in the great music as well.

And how do you think about that?

Well,

I mean, we don't really look at it as a gimmick.

We're just a metal band.

And you just want to bring the best product possible and make the best music and everything and really showcase the vocals and make sure that she shines no matter what.

Oh, thank

you.

Yeah.

I mean, that's really is.

We're here to support her voice because it's

the centerpiece of everything.

And so it's just like-

As it would be if it were a dude fronting it to-

Yeah, but I mean, that's the thing.

It's just, you know, it's not about the guitars or the drums or the bass solos.

I mean, we're not Rush.

So, you know what I mean?

So it's, you know, it's putting the best package together and really making the songs.

you know, sing.

Yeah, something you said there is really, it's really true.

You know, back in the day, I think a lot of people did view it as a gimmick.

They're like, ah, female in this, here's another gimmick.

And really, you know, that, the way that that has been viewed has really shifted over the years.

And I think that that's what's been really cool to see is that viewpoint kind of diminishing.

And I couldn't be happier to see, you know, sometimes you'll even get

two bands with female singers back to back at a radio station nowadays.

You didn't get that back in the day.

Her influences are my influences.

We all listen to the same stuff growing up.

And so it's just like, when you've listened to the same things growing up and you draw those same influences, it's like it doesn't become like.

Oh, this is somebody that listened to something completely different or has a different experience.

No, they're all metal kids,

you

know.

That's the part that I love.

And especially here in Iowa, the metal kids.

And you know, you talked about off the air, you said that, can you share the story about what Corey did?

Oh,

yes.

I thought that was great.

We were playing a festival in, I believe this was in, it was Copenhagen.

Okay, so that was in Copenhagen.

So this, you know, and we,

It's no surprise that us ladies like to wear our hair long and like we don't care and I believe at this time one of us had these clip-in extensions and one of them fell out

and look over to the side.

Yeah,

sorry.

I didn't want to say it.

But I look over to the side of the stage and Corey's wearing it and he's just, he's flipping his hair back and forth and, you know, rocking out to the side.

It's great for a suppression.

I was like, okay, you know what, I think we're gonna get along great.

And then, you know, we, we, we did Australia together and it's been incredible to, you know, of all these years, I think we've been doing shows and tours together for 15 years.

10 years now, yeah, maybe even longer.

So it's, you know, I've got a Slipknot tattoo.

It's incognito.

That's what you

said.

Yeah, I've got the 555 on my knuckles.

It was a friend tattoo.

I got matching tattoos.

See, and that right there, I mean, having the matching tattoos that's tied to Slipknot being here in Iowa right now, I think your cred just went up.

Yes,

that's what I was hoping for.

I

was like, if I could just,

Tell us about the album that's coming out soon.

We've got a new album October 2nd.

It's called Night Bloom.

It's 10 songs and this album is so dear and personal and so special to us.

I kind of look at this almost like a debut album even though it's our sixth.

It really feels like that.

It really does feel

like a debut album.

If you don't mind, why so?

We went from two vocalists to one for this.

A

lot of it too is just finding yourself.

When you write our previous albums, you're just kind of writing because we love metal and we just want to write metal.

We just want to write the heaviest things possible.

And when we came around to doing this, it was more like, okay, we have...

a goal in a particular sound and thing we're going for here.

And so everything had purpose.

Every song.

Our goal was to be here in this studio singing that song.

Perfect.

And so that's why we wrote these songs the way that we did.

You know, we worked with Howard Benson, who is with Judge and Jury, our label.

And these songs just came to life.

A lot of these songs are written about experiences that I have

that happened in my life even 20-something years ago.

I was married and divorced when I was in my early 20s, and there's a song about that.

We played Blame It on the Wind, which is a song about something that happened almost 20 years ago.

And these are all things that in early 2024, I thought, you know what?

I'm gonna try this therapy thing.

We've got a little bit of time off the road.

And everyone has always said, maybe therapy is really, really great for songwriters.

And I'm like, okay, I'm feeling a little stuck.

I'm just gonna try it.

Oh boy.

Oh boy, the floodgates opened.

It was just a river of emotion that I needed to put onto paper.

And so that is where Night Bloom

Bloomed and it's it's about some of the darkest moments in my life But and you know within those dark moments or within some of the moments that you could think would have probably knocked you down for good you survived something beautiful Grew out of those dark moments, and that's what our night bloom is.

So I can't wait for people to hear we've already released Five singles off of it.

So

yeah,

you've got a couple to catch up on

So five singles have been released.

How many songs total on the album?

10.

10, 10 total.

And then is there gonna be physical copies available through your website and everything like that?

Yeah, yeah,

we've got, I think one of the variants just sold out.

Oh boy.

Yeah, we've got a bunch of different, really cool variants.

I'm so excited that Vinyl's back.

Nothing made me more happy as a kid.

It was so

fun picking designs.

It was so cool.

I loved as a kid going through my mom's vinyl collection and listening to it.

This is where I first heard the Osmonds.

I really wanted a

cassette.

I've always wanted a cassette with the cellophane wrapping that,

you

know, you just, I don't know,

one day.

Maybe get the cassette single of Blamin' on the Wind and then you can put it right next to Blamin' on the Rain.

You know what I mean?

It's the middle of Vanilly right next to that.

We

just played with Millie Vanilly.

We didn't

play that.

We had a weird connection.

We played the Gathering and was a Vanilly,

I

guess, was like the next night.

So they got to hear, well, we didn't play Blamin' on the Wind, but Blamin' on the Wind and then Blamin' on the Rain.

Back

to back, man.

That was my, that's another goal.

See, I told

you what a weird world.

But your babies, my friends are in studio.

They're heading towards Minneapolis.

So those that are listening in Southern Minnesota, maybe you're streaming today in the twin cities.

Make sure you go see them at the varsity theater tonight.

Thank you so much for being in here.

Thank you.

Thanks for having

us.

Coming up because it's throwback Thursday and we talked a lot about Slipknot.

How about psychosocial for you next?

Who used all the Wi-Fi?

Ah, apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer.

Internet included a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and

or actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?

Who used all the Wi-Fi?

Ah, apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments, furnished in-unit washer and dryer.

Internet included a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?

So

you think you got it, Bab.

Here we are.

We're at another airport again this time in Miami.

Officers had to stop someone.

Notice he had an unexplainable bulge at his waist.

There's some people that were talking about what they thought was going on and then it's revealed to them what was going on inside this dude's pants.

That's pretty weird.

This is terrible for the birds.

Looks like drugs or a weapon.

Oh wow.

Birds.

Birds.

Yeah, ten birds.

Tucked into his underwear.

Charged with smuggling.

Question.

How do you get the birds to behave when you have not one, not two, but ten inside your underwear?

Now, I'm sure... Which is just me speculating here.

But I'm sure that you don't put them directly on top of yourself.

in this case because they're pecking at your wood.

But I have to imagine that you have, you know, some sort of coverage and then you fashion some sort of pouch that you put ten birds into.

I mean, they have to be small, right?

I mean, you're not bringing around a couple of ravens and hoping for the best.

Hey, uh, did your crotch just caught me?

Nah.

You're thinking of things.

Yeah, so you think you got it bad.

You didn't have to walk through an airport with some guy that had birds on his balls.

The Rock 108 Morning Show.

Here today our daily dumbass that comes to us from...

Florida!

This one's a gem.

Kinda.

Uh, you know, we're in the middle of election season right now.

Weird, right?

Election, uh...

You're in all sorts of different commercials for it, seeing them.

Well now, a 48-year-old city commission candidate in Florida.

His name is Derek Scott Hughes.

Everyone say hi, Derek.

Derek allegedly showed nude pictures of himself, including images described as him doing the helicopter.

Some of you may be going, what's that?

Most of you.

who didn't try to discover what that thing was as a boy going oh that does that helicopter uh he did this with his junk witnesses say that he was showing the pictures at a chamber of commerce event with around 30 people there including allegedly some kids so that right there is disgusting 48 year old he's got a little bit of a track record too it looks like so

Yeah, instead of maybe getting into the city commission here, sir Maybe you just don't it down just a little bit when you're trying to show everybody look helicopter 755 producers fan play the song living in his van or his helicopter

That does it for today's Daily Dumbass.

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