Anarchy in the WAUK

June 15th, 2020. 24. If it's 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, it's time for this week in

Milwaukee Shaw. I'm your host downtown Danny Brown coming to you live in local from the office of former alderman

Don Paul Brown here in the W. A. U. K. Studios here in the old NAMI building right around the corner from

Theodore a Yalman's Park where we are proud to honor our suffragette heritage here in the Shaw. And I am

joined, um, rejoined by my awesome producer, the mighty Max Martins and Max, how are you? I am doing great today.

And Max is all about the love. I love your, uh, your net. That's awesome. Very cool. Got one of these that say that and one of these would say be kind.

So sounds great. So hey, we're going to get to Max in a minute because he had a very special broadcast opportunity out in

Baraboo for the circus parade. But we'll get back put a pin in that. Uh, this morning's guests are some young students from

Milwaukee Shaw South. One member is a recent graduate and the rest are juniors. It's a four piece. Get this a punk rock band. So

here this morning, it'll be anarchy in the W. A. U. K. with my new friends. Well, one of them was my old friend, uh, the

nun shucks. And they're front man. If it's okay to call them that leads singer lead get to our rhythm guitarist. Is that right? Yeah. Okay.

Evan Bendixon from Banting Park. And, um, Jesse, what's your last name, Jesse? If that's okay, Jesse, what?

Jesse Kelner of the famous Kelner family drummer, right? Cruz, what's your last name?

Cruz Perez, talking to Mike, please.

It's a Cruz Perez. Uh, he is our, uh, the, the elder statesman of the band, just having just graduated from South, uh, just a week ago,

walking across the stage alongside with my son and many other, um, wonderful kids, wonderful young men and woman, I should say.

And then the bass player, Anthony, give us your full name.

Desinsky Anthony. Oh, you're in the neighborhood. Uh, you're right behind me. You're on Atlantic Drive. I thought I recognize you.

The great football player, by the way, too. And Anthony's your bass player. So real smooth. I shouldn't know when you went to Banting. I'm like, so you can tell I'm getting old. And it is my birthday today.

So, you know, we're, we're taking your, your calls and birthday wishes in the civic media app. So not necessary. But many thanks to so many, um, friends, family members have reached out from, um, not just around the country, brown, the world with, with birthday wishes. So all the way to India, actually.

So very, very cool. Oh, yeah. So very grateful. Many of my friends in the responsible seafood community out there. And, um, and in my, uh, my, my familial homeland, where I have dual citizenship in Ireland.

Friends and cousins have reached out. So it's, uh, and it's a beautiful sunny Saturday day. We have the farmers market and, uh, Rich Lakasio from WRJN will be calling in at the top of the second hour. And then at the halfway point to give us an update and, uh, you know, give you some sneak peeks for those you haven't been there yet. So we always look forward to that.

And then, um, the nunchucks are going to be with me the whole morning. I'm really going to grill them and, uh, you know, I think it's fascinating that these, uh, these youngsters are getting into even though punk has always had this association of being young and edgy.

You could say it is an older genre of music compared to, uh, I mean, it came about when I was a wee lad, when I was younger than these guys in the 70s. So it's cool that they've caught up.

They've caught up on that and, and really taken to it. So, but I, um, speaking of punks, no, just kidding. I hope he's not listening.

Frankie DeFelco, he put me in a mean headlock last time he was here. So I want to be respectful, but wrestling legend, Frankie DeFelco will be in.

He's only got a few minutes, but he's going to promote his big event tonight at the Elk Slodge.

So, um, looking forward to catching up with Frankie. And, uh, maybe we can put Max in a headlock. If that's, uh, if that's your thing.

Max, Max, no, sorry. Thank you for offering, but no, so maybe, um, maybe you'll mix it up here with some of the nunchucks. You know, I mean, when I saw these guys play at the, um, for shoffest, I think there was the inaugural shoffest, a walk shot south.

They were the headliners, right? And there were three other bands. And, uh, the proceeds from that event went to the Jackson Sparks foundation, which was wonderful.

Um, but there was a mash pit going on in the walk shot south high school auditorium. And I'm like, wow, that's pretty cool.

So I remember that the next morning, I had, um, some, some members of the Roger behavioral health team, including, um, Dr. Kelly Piazik, who's a board member. And, uh, she was rather impressed with that too in a good way. So I thought that was, uh,

um, good to see. So, but, um, in any event, yeah, we've got a lot of, uh, unload here. We got some walk shot history, including some, um,

police and fire, um, history that we'll remember on this day. And also, um,

we're going to talk a little bit about, um, one local walk shot high school. It's not south, but they're not far away.

We'll be competing in a state championship tonight for, um, for girls soccer. So more on that. So much more to impact. But hey, first, we want to get back to the mighty max, uh, who was in, uh,

bearaboo, his, his hometown, where his, um, his dad, um, civic media's Corey Hartman has a TV station. That's, what is it? 43, uh, TV 43 and bearaboo and capable of 10 people called the boo or is that just me?

I think that's just me. But hey, that's a kind of a cool name. But, uh, and bearaboo. So what? And, uh, you're covering the circus parade, the annual circus parade.

Yeah, they've done it in bearaboo for I think this was, I think this was the eighth or the ninth one, I believe, um, and it was very, very rainy.

Or literally the entire day, we were, we started setting up at about 6 a.m. was raining from six until basically until we got everything back to the station. And then it was sunny for the rest of the day.

Wow. So yeah, you're, you're expecting beautiful weather. And it sounds like it was more like our last, um, Christmas parade here last November. It was very rainy. Yeah, we actually December now.

We had lost, we lost power in our generator for different times. Um, we lost internet one time. So the stream on YouTube is actually in two parts.

Um, we ended up connecting to one of my dad's storm chasers. Uh, we ended, he has a starlink connected to his car. Yeah.

Um, so he can chase and, you know, we're on the braska and still be able to have internet wherever he's at. That's pretty cool.

So that's what we ended up using for internet because we lost, we lost our connection. Um, one point in the parade, we had to literally go outside in the rain with paper towels and wipe down our cords.

Because there was water getting into all of our electrical cords. And it was automatically turning off the power current. Wow.

Um, and on top of all of that, our microphones for our talent sounded like they were underwater.

All of them were talking like this during the broadcast. So that was fun. Yeah.

That's too bad. You know, it could have had, uh, could have the nunchucks playing out there earlier, add some spice to it. And maybe salvage the day, but we did have two marching bands.

They were still a little play out there in the rain. We had echoes of camp randall and forward during our pre show. Okay.

Well, good. Good deal. All right. Well, thanks for sharing. And then, um, hey, later on, we're going to catch up with Max about something else that happened in bearable that Max can assure you is not a reflection on what the community bear was all about.

I think most, you know, we're talking about here. But back to the nunchucks. Could they be walkershaws next less Paul in terms of, uh, their impact on music. I know that's a big.

It's a huge standard. I raised for years. They're all laughing at me.

But, uh, like, would you have to drink this morning? It's done to see nothing of my coffee. In fact, I could use another cup. But, um, how did all because we before the show start, I asked you, like, how did the, you know, young teenagers that, you know, kind of grew up around.

What rap, rap hip hop, uh, whatever some of the more modern genres are. I see. There's a lot of young people that like country. What's with that? Any, no, I'm sorry.

I don't know what event to be people. But how did you guys first get interested in punk?

It was all climbing me. There's Anthony. All right. Anthony from the hood from my neighborhood from Manning Park. I'm a good side of Manning Park, right? Anthony. Yeah, the good side. Yeah. So, but yeah, tell us Anthony, the bass player. Yeah, it was my dad. Um, so he was always listening to like the misfits and stuff. So he got me into that. Dad was into the misfit. Okay. Yes.

And that guy was saying you guys are working out one day and the misfits are playing, right? Yeah. And he said, what's this?

No, because we used to be an indie band and like, it was already getting kind of boring. We like finished songs. We just like look at each other. Wouldn't be fun at all. It'd just be slow and like,

like, punk's like nice and upbeat. It's fun. And we were listening to this in the weight room. And, um,

it just sounded so much better. And like, so much more fun to play. And like, yeah.

Very cool. So what you start out as indie, but could you still be punk and indie? Because indie to me, and maybe I got it wrong. It's just

kind of guys that are going their own way. And they're ignoring the studio label, you know, all the kind of the junk they throw on. Yeah.

And you're doing your own kind of creative vision. Um, I know there's a folksy nature to indie and definitely a rack.

But could there also, could you also describe yourselves as indie punk or punk indie? I mean, I guess you could, but like,

now indie is more like, slow, clean guitar. Like we played with a, with a band in killer, high life. Uh,

punk band. They were like an indie punk band. Okay. Oh wow. Yeah. Like it's switch up here and there. Like at distortion, clean tone, it changed up.

Nice. Okay. So you could, but that's not your, you're more into the, the distortion part of it or the, yeah, the real, the noise. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool.

That's kind of like, I remember there was a genre that might still be around three minutes. Okay. Great. Thanks Max. Um, a genre called industry and the industry and punk kind of intertwined. Right.

So cool. And then this was what a year ago that the band got together. Uh, or sooner than that. How long have we been playing?

Talking to Mike Jesse, but just like you're playing live. It's been like two years since we had our first practice. Okay. In my basement, it was me and Evan.

Couple. Oh, okay. Started with two. Yeah. So it was just me and Evan. And then we slowly started practicing more and more started from the bottom. Now you're here.

Got the whole team here. Yeah. And then we just started writing music about eight months ago.

Talking to Mike, man. Like last summer. Okay. Like last summer. Okay. So you've got a couple years under your belt, then.

And you're making you're writing some of your, your composing, some of your own music too, which I think is also pretty impressive.

Right. Okay. Hey, real quick. Uh, got a message here. Um, Tyler Puddliner. Frankie DeFalco in being around 815 820.

So, and he says we still don't have live audio feed. I don't know if that maybe that's on stream. He's called he's messaging from Facebook. So, uh, thank you for that. Uh, Puddy.

So Puddy was my guest. Uh, what's that? A week ago or two weeks ago. Uh, like that is longer than that. Oh, yeah. He came on, uh, was the last show on May. But, um, any who, um, how are we doing on time, Max?

Okay. Hey, so we're going to learn more about these young men from the nun shucks.

And again, this, this, uh, how these young kids got interested in what really is an older genre in the, in the general rock, you know, called punk, um, plus more local news, some, some walkishah history.

And, um, and again, a big, big announcement about a local high school sports team that I think is captured many hearts here and not just from their high school. So a lot to unpack here. And, um, this week in walkishah.

And, um, we're also getting ready for our first, um, farmer's market report. And don't forget my guest next week for the first time is for district alderman, uh, Joe Piper, as well as congressional candidate, um, Mr. Samuel Denhoff here on this week in walkishah, WK 540 AM 101.1 FM the Shah.

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Yes. And this week in walkishah in the song from my, my guest and unchecked. Can you guess who this is? The artist? Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Yeah. Sounds like SpongeBob.

You know, kind of does, but it's actually, uh, watch us favorite son, Les Paul with Mary Ford. It's called the world is waiting for the sun rise.

And it's, I always have this as my second song here on this week in walkishah. And it never fails me. Well, some days it does. Or just the sun comes out later. But the sun is always out. And, uh, that's a special thanks to, uh, Les Paul, who passed away this, I believe was this week in history.

I think it's June 9th was the day he passed away after a long, um, very, very fruitful life. And, um, so much to benefit from that. And, uh, good time to talk about some more walks of history on the last show.

I lost my notes on this, but it was on, um, so as a week before in June 6th, 1904, 120 years ago this month, Peter Wilde joined the walkishah fire department. He was working as a blacksmith at a blacksmith shop when the fire chief recognized his potential and recruited him.

It's a blacksmith shop volunteer fire department. Peter Wilde went out to become the city's first paid fire chief in 1910 serving an impressive 41 years with 35 of those as chief before retiring in 1945.

The department is still seeking individuals with honesty, integrity and a commitment to service. Do you know someone who could be the next Peter Wilde and, um, Evan from the nunchucks is pointing at Anthony, I believe, is that right or is he pointing a cruise?

Anthony. All right. So, uh, an exciting future waits at walk shuff fire. And I believe it's a big, you'll be sure to check them out online or in the city of walk shuff website.

Great group of guys. Guys, excuse me. I also on my podcast page. We were finally able to post the show we did without going fire chief Steve Howard and assistant fire chief. I believe now acting fire chief, um, Joe Hoffman. It was a really great show. So we're glad to have that on the podcast page. So be sure to check that out if you missed it on April 20th.

We also have the show on my podcast page from April 27th, which was Sarah the author and Alaska fresh two exhibitors at the farmers market. And that was also great. So Sarah gave me a book called

Blood and Roses. And she got the book from one of her favorite I think was the Guns and Roses songs or albums and but it's a great story about

a woman up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, solving mysteries with her ex-husband who's the county deputy county sheriff. And I was pretty good read. I really enjoyed reading and wanted to thank Sarah for that. So next time when I do get to the farmers market, which unfortunately won't be today. I want to make sure she knows it's a great book. And I encourage everyone else to check her out. Sarah J Bradley.

You'll find her though farmers market. She got her books on sales called Sarah the author some good summer reading good reading anytime. So we check Sarah out. And if you love fresh seafood, check out Alaska fresh to they got some really great artisanal

fresh caught salmon from our chisinal fisheries generations of the same families catching these fish and getting it to you direct to consumer through Alaska fresh out of an amany falls. So so we have a wonderful farmers market so much to check out there and I'm really looking forward to when Rich Lacasio calls in. Do you guys make it over to the farmers market or you kind of late stereotypical late night, you know, rock stars. All the debauchery and

writing in the creative, you know, comes out at late at night for many. I go over here. Can't hear you answer me talking the mic. I go over here. There you go or cruise. That's a cruise talking the mic, man. Yeah, I go. I go pretty often with. Sorry, my phone. I go pretty often with my mom, my family. Yeah, we go. We go quite a lot. Fantastic. What are some of your favorites? Finds. I would say probably like I know like it was.

Before like they started selling them everywhere, but like freeze dried like roots. Oh, yeah, they would have there sometimes. Some places would like have boba as well. Nice. So yeah, which is like not very common around here. So like it was pretty cool to go over there and just get some some like food some boba. Fantastic. So he just got a birthday wish from Chris Lacongo from that world championship of Orchard Park.

This ball team, the 82 royals, we played together. Good friend. And yeah, comes from a great baseball family. And younger brother, Lenny played in the state champions that year. So thank you, Chris, if you're listening, you can catch us from anywhere on the civic media app. All you have to do is download the app.

Of course, you know, if you like the radio, that's great to 101.1 FM is best when you're in the city. But if you're traveling around 540 AM has huge reception. Like you can, and we're John Stillman caught a basketball broadcast of mine when he was driving to the airport to go visit one of his daughter at Purdue University. And he could hear the broadcast all the way down to her airport in Chicago. So, but again, the civic media app, you can take anywhere and check out this broadcast and all the other great shows we have on W.A.

UK. You can also call. There's a little phone icon. That's how we take your calls here in this week and walk us off. So if you need to call in, if you have questions, that's how you do it. So, and hey, thanks to Tyler Pudliner. He's got the audio now. So really glad you're listening. And be sure to check out his, his philanthropy, Bible heads, bring us together. He exhibits at the Friday night live. And he's, he's got a good, very impressive list of former brewers and other local sports celebrities that sign up.

And the Bible heads. So very cool stuff. And he thinks the nunchucks will ever do Friday night live. Think they, uh, think that they'll ever, uh, the downtown business association will ever get out there and get edgy and, uh, the nunchucks, we were, we were going to do it outside the civic theater, but they ghosted us, you know, we're going to play with the key stones, key stones that they couldn't do it. So now, uh, OK, can't do. All right. I think, you know, I, I don't know if Mia's has, they're having some issues with permits. They're, they are usually a live music meal. I'll get in touch with both of me as maybe you can see.

What, uh, what do you get for you? So, but, uh, yeah, no, thanks for sharing that. And, um, speaking of, uh, W a K in civic media, it is pride month and, um, national pride month, a month of June. And so the, all the great, all the, uh, the different stations and, um, on the civic media. And here in W a K, a lot of great weekly programming has some really, um, very meaningful pride month tributes. So I encourage you to, um, check those out. And, um,

two minutes. Thanks, Max. Um, guys, we, what, what's, what are your plans for the summer? Um, right now what, what we're doing is writing some stuff, you know, uh, since we've been playing the same song since January, we're getting kind of sick of them, want to throw in a new rotation. And, um, in August, we're going to start recording for our, like, first album, which we don't know what to name. I don't know.

I don't even know where you'd start with trying to name an album.

If you need some inspiration, check out the movie spinal tap. This is spinal.

Me and Anthony love that movie.

What's the name of the, uh, lick the glove? Yeah.

The original plan, they had a really, uh, what should we say perverse, uh, graphic that they wanted for the cover, but, uh, the label just made it all black.

The cover.

So that's, uh, that's great. And that's another, uh, another points for you guys that you're, you're checking out some of the great, uh, great movies. That was Rob Reiner's first movie. Have you ever seen that in, uh, Max?

Oh, you, you owe it to yourself to watch this is spinal tap classic stuff. So, hey, the conversation continues with the nun shocks. And then finally, I'm chopping the bit to talk about tonight's a big state championship game for a local high school and, um, so much more going on here in the show.

And this week and walk a shot 540 a.m. 101.1 FM the shot and don't forget to download the civic media app and we're taking your calls from the civic media app. Max, take it away.

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is calling in my heart is calling you.

Do you recognize this one right, guys?

Yes, this week and walk a shot and as it tribute to this morning's guest, punk rock band, the nun shucks.

It's, uh, sex pistols with anarchy in the UK, one of their great hits, their lead singer Johnny rotten fellow Irishman, um, really in a sex, that's why when they said anarchy in the W.A. UK, that's it was a pun on that great.

Yeah, but that's why you so you never heard any sex pistols, even though you're into, oh, no, I haven't got it, I'm more like agent orange misfits.

Okay. What else?

T so L, um, minor threat, minor threat, big time, minor threat, wow.

And I have to confess other than the misfits. I don't recognize any other bands, but that's, that's, that's on me. I need to reeducate on my punk rock.

So, but, um, Johnny rotten after sex pistols died and, uh, we see a fire truck going by with the sirens. Hope everything's okay. It's not the big, uh, the big fire truck is more than the ambulance squad or the in between, uh, what we are should call the patty wagon, if it was a police vehicle, but, um,

how should I say it?

What, um, so none shucks your genre, your music is more akin to like those bands you mentioned the misfits and yeah, like fast paced. Okay.

So you never saw the movie sitting Nancy then, have you? Oh, oh, yeah, I got to check that one out.

That's a classic, uh, it's a story of Sid Vicious, who was I think he was a bass player in the song sex pistols.

And, uh, very dysfunctional relationship he had with like an American slumming in London.

I think she was posing as a reporter or something. I don't know what it was, but, uh, it's great. It's Gary Oldman's first movie is like one of the great British actors Shakespeare and trained.

So, um, what other music do you guys enjoy or like just when you're listening or, or do you ever like kind of play with what what are the kind of music do you enjoy?

Um, I listen to like a lot of stuff. I listen to on the way here. K's elephant. Yes.

A G elephant. Okay. I want to see them later this year. Us three. Nice. Where are you going to see them at? Um, where we someplace in Madison.

So field or something. Okay. That's not normally a venue. It's one thing I remember it. I've known your mom and dad for a few years now and remember your dad would tell me about taking you guys to see different bands.

And I always thought that was pretty cool. Yeah. First concert was the food fighters. Me and Anthony. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's terrific.

And so that you mentioned Anthony too. So Anthony plays football. You play baseball. Do you still play football or no? No. Okay. But you play baseball.

Um, your brother's put your brother's play football. Yeah. Yeah. But Preston does Ethan doesn't. Okay. So young. So, but like, um, for Jesse and Cruz, like what other activities are you into or do you enjoy?

Um, right now I'm playing soccer. I used to play baseball, but I quit just to pursue soccer a little more. Okay.

Yeah. That's the only sport I play. Do you play for South or just kind of on a cup? Yeah. I play for the high school and I also play for a club team. Fantastic.

Nice. Very nice. How about you, Cruz? Um, I guess I never really did like any sports throughout high school besides like rock climbing. Okay. Um, which was like more of like a club thing. Yeah.

Uh, but yeah, I did that for my sophomore juniors senior year and then kind of like gave up on it like my end of my senior year, but I'm getting back into it now.

So very cool. Now I think that's a good hobby to have for sure. So yeah. So we have some well-rounded young men. You do pretty well in the classroom. I presume.

So they all nod. Yes. So that's good. So. And then your punk rockers. Yeah. Hands are raised. How often do you guys practice?

Oh, we tried. We aim for every weekend, but it's been hard lately with a lot of. We've had a lot of shows lately. Like every weekend. We're looking at. Wow. So the only time we really practice is like right before show. Yeah.

So obviously we're going to practice more with this like break between our shows, but okay. Do you guys have a podcast in your mind? Do you guys have your own website or like a page? No, we're waiting to like we like have more stuff to post on it to actually make one. Okay.

Sounds good. Well, I thought it was clever that you guys. Oh, and before I forget.

Jesse's involvement in soccer gave me a good segue to talk about the big news of a night and talk about his.

More congratulations. Go out to the Catholic Memorial High School girls varsity soccer team. They had a huge win against McFarland and one and nothing win.

And really exciting game. And now they play the championship game.

Against today. And I believe it's five, thirty or six, thirty at Uline field against number one top seeded Plymouth. So I want to wish Catholic Memorial and their team a lot of success for tonight.

They've won the NCAA tournament 11, excuse me, the W I A tournament. Sorry, I jumped them up a few, but they won the W I A tournament 11 times that have made the final 14 times.

So today's match will be their 15th. Their third seeded. And they defeated second seeded McFarland in the division three semi final at the same place Uline soccer park.

And so again, they're playing Plymouth tonight, excuse me, no, it says here 130 PM, but it might have been bumped. I thought I saw a 5 30, but 130 works better for works well for me.

And Plymouth had reached the final by defeating number four seed rice lake for nothing. And there's semi finals on Thursday. So I'm.

That's an exciting time. If you're a CMH student or alumnus or just fan and I'm a fan of all things walk a shot. Maybe not so much West.

But see, I could be more excited for this team and really wishing them well. And yeah, my official report says 130 today. So I really, which gives time for a big celebration later on if they win. So best of luck to them.

So I'm trying to think, what do you guys have got? Do you have any gigs going on this weekend? No, we don't. Our next one is July 20th, I think.

Okay. And it's at some frat venue and you don't be walking. Yeah, you mentioned. Okay. Sounds terrific.

Oh, we just played a big one two days ago, a cactus club, which was really cool. Where's the cactus club again? It's a Milwaukee.

Okay. So that's also, you know, when I was talking to your dad, he reminded me that playing some of these gigs, you and your dad have come across people in the industry that have shown a great interest.

Yeah. People from honest, you tell us a little bit more about that.

Oh, well, basically the whole thing is just about like communication. Like you want to talk to as many people as you can. And like, it's just like ricochets from there. Like, we have some promoters in green Bay.

That we're talking to us when we have to we played our first show in Appleton. And then we also have more promoted. Like, since we just play cactus club, then they're looking at us too.

And we've been talking with X-ray arcade a little bit and just a lot of different bands. Once you get in contact with them, then you get out more gigs.

It's just tons of communication. That's neat. So.

Well, hey, speaking of communication and music, the where is it? Oh, the Riverside rhythm started up this Wednesday. And every Wednesday from 1130 to 1, you can catch some good lunchtime music there down by the river.

And our Johnny watermelon will be there in attendance. And he may even be providing some some broadcasting or some updates while that goes on. So that's a nice little another good walk.

Music tradition that continues. And I don't know if the nunchucks would fit in that genre, but you can certainly try and crash. See if they would.

Or another idea. And some half of you are banding park or both are most. Where do you guys just see and cruise? Where do you guys live again?

I love red over by south. Okay, closer to south. You're not far away. Yeah, I mean, you took it like closer by like Manuka area.

So you guys could do a couple you could do like if there's a famous YouTube video where they play this. They go into Watts in LA and they play at the top of a building like a store.

And they play where the streets have no name in all these people show up. The video ends with like the police, you know, kicking them out.

You guys could do something like that at Banting Park, right? Or yeah, of course, right?

Always down a plan of roof. Right as a people. Well, maybe I have a roof, but like it's like right there in the field, while the folks are playing pickleball.

Or maybe crash something like that. That'd be kind of fun. It'd be fun to figure out something. Maybe the rooftop, the rooftop of people's park.

You know, get a table for four for dinner and then or six or 10 because you need your crew to set up. Do you guys have a crew? Do you have

roadies? You had a group? Actually, we just got talking with our friend, Manny. Manny. That's a good roadie name. Yep, following us around a little bit. Just carrying stuff. Yeah, handy, Manny.

Handy, Manny. I love that. Very good. So well, at least you're having fun too while you're doing this, which is great. Yeah.

So, hey, speaking of having fun too.

Um, what's going on here? Oh, we had the first movie night in the park featuring teenage mutant ninja turtles.

They're actually, yeah. That's that's going to be the first one. It's actually this Monday, June 17th, the summer movie schedule starts. It's a cutler park at 715 PM.

You want to come early for a backyard ninja course starting at 6 PM. So the summer movie schedule, as I mentioned, teenage mutant ninja turtles, mutant mayhem on June 17th, July 15th. It's a polar express. So Christmas at summertime and then July 29th, Wanka.

So, hey, don't forget the trail challenges. If you're ready for the summer challenge, I believe it kicks off today June 15th.

And I think you might be able to register on site, adults, teens that are registered will receive a hat, families can receive an explorer kit.

So, and in every Tuesday beginning June 18th, you can play along with questions on the city's Facebook page to win prizes. So, check out the city website, I believe it's Parks, Rec and Forestry to learn about the walk shot trail challenge.

I think that's a great way for people to get and shape the summer and as well as enjoy our wonderful park system and all the great nature we have here in the show. So, there's also the local government academy. They're accepting applications for the fall session.

It's a hands-on program that allows you to learn more about your city government and civic engagement opportunities in this program. You'll learn more about your city government operations and services.

Why didn't your network of relationships with city staff departments boards and decision makers discover opportunities for more involved civically.

And it has seven sessions from September through November and the deadline to apply is July 5th. So, check that out. I encourage everyone because I've lived in a lot of cities around the US and you can stay around the world.

And I've always been really skeptical about local government that there is sometimes a there's a corruption element or a waste element or just a real sometimes they they may look out for their own little crew.

But walk a shot is very. The city got in and you're talking about an alderman that was chair that I say Jerry manager. Yeah, maybe chair. Well, I lost my seat because of redistricting and have kind of some sort of feelings about that.

But I will say the way that the city runs in every department is top shelf. And a lot of that comes from engagement with the community and with the neighbors. And so I encourage anyone that's interested in learning more about government, whether it's pursuing a career in government or not to check out the local academy because there's certainly a lot you can take back to benefit your own neighborhood.

And wouldn't be the worst idea for these these young Renaissance guys and the nunchucks that that are that have rediscovered of reinvigorated punk rock here.

So the two minutes we have before the next.

Before we reintroduce ourselves again.

Um, what other do you guys play other instruments or do other or you're pretty much committed to your what you're.

Yeah, I've been playing piano for about nine years. So I started pretty young. It's just basically just been like a hobby for me. I do some competitions, but like very cool. That's a great hobby. I play the saxophone. Anthony plays the sax. I love it bass and sax. So cruise. What about you?

No, I just do guitar. I try getting into piano, but yeah, it just wasn't for me. I wasn't like good at it. Sure. All right. How about you? Haven't been Dixon. Oh, I'm only a guitar guy. Yeah, and vocals. I like to play the harmonica sometimes when I play the guitar.

Got around my neck like Bob Dylan. Yeah. So I have no naven since he was younger in the blazer's baseball program, but now

he has long hair and he I told him he looks like a young Michael Hutchins, the frontman for in excess. And he's never heard of in excess. So at the

Give me a little bit of that. That's one of the great live performances that I've checked out.

Um, was in excess summer after my freshman year. So, but we're going to continue this conversation here with the nunchucks plus some more local news.

And as we get ready for the second hour in our first report from the farmers market, Rich Locacio is there. And also some more great music, listening opportunities in civic media. I'm going to cover that as well. So, um, the fun continues on this week and watch on WK 540 AM 101.1 FM. And don't forget to download the civic media app or call us from the civic media app.

I've got to let you know you're my kind.

I'm excited, but I'm going to tell you about the young idea. Hey, let's say this week in Waukeshaw with your host down Brown and, uh, that is the jam within the city. And, uh, my guests this morning are the nunchucks.

Local punk rockers and one of the you could say offshoots from punk was new wave and, um,

I know we really captured the new wave in my opinion, the jam, who then evolved into the style council. And, um, I encourage you guys to check out some of the jam. They got some great.

Great stuff. They also made a movie or like kind of a documentary called about the young idea, which is a nice little portrait or inside look at the band and really cool stuff.

So in, um, along with the nunchucks, I have an opportunity to triple our pleasure this morning with triple G Greg wants night around the line. Greg, you say what?

Hey, Don, how are you? I'm great, sir. How are you, friend?

Oh, I'm good. Sorry. My voice is a little worse because I was talking with my good friend. I call her walkershaw sweetheart. Actually, I just named her that I thought I was walkershaw sweetheart.

A Kelsey Wendelberger. Kelsey Wendelberger. Yeah, Dad, you may know that name. Um, she, uh, she's done a lot for our community. And now is working in the US foreign service.

Oh, wow. Over in the Middle East. So, um, it's really cool. Safe travels, Kelsey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, um, two, a couple of things. First of all, um,

if you guys are looking to get gigs, I do help local musicians get gigs. I hope we need to say that Greg for for free. So, um, doesn't get better than that. That would be nice.

Free or, um, almost free. Sometimes, you know, sometimes I'm like, uh, can you just, you know, give me five bucks or something for your trips for, you know, sure.

Anyway, anyway, what I wanted to say with that is if you guys are looking for, including, I know the people at civics. So, um, civic theater. Okay. Still get you in the summer. So, um, but, uh, it would be nice.

Um, and just one quick thing and then one quick question. Um, congratulations to your musician that you had on a few weeks ago. Jessica says, Mosky down.

That's right. She was selected to perform at Carnegie Hall. Wow. In a choir. So congrats to Jessica. Thanks for sharing that graph.

Jessica, but I wanted you guys to talk about because a lot of the things I work with, I tried to do a songwriting seminar one time with a lot of my young musicians that I work with.

The songwriting is hard. And, um, so I'm wondering if you guys could talk about a little bit the, and I'll listen off air.

Um, but if you could talk about the songwriting process a little bit, and I wonder if you guys have seen me around. I'm the only blind guy. Well, not the only blind guy, but, uh, you know, if you guys.

Here's a blind guy with great vision. Yeah, that's near my man vision. So, yeah, but anyway, so, um, talk about the songwriting process a little bit. And, uh, how you guys actually do that. So, and I'll listen off air, but that's great.

Good show. I'll be at the farmer's market later. So that's good.

Please do. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Greg wants tonight or triple G. Thanks for that question. I really do mean that he is a visionary and proud to call my friend.

And, um, so yeah, what about that songwriting process guys? So songwriting in the beginning. I remember me and Anthony were really stuck on it. I remember sitting outside watching a YouTube video on how to do this.

Like, we had zero idea on how to songwriting. We tried to do it for like a solid month and nothing worked. And suddenly, like, you could just sit down and just, like, all the thoughts just come to you, you know, and like.

And like the other night, um, I just had like a lot of ideas on my head. And I stayed up till 3 a.m. writing them all down. I ended up forming forming a song with it. And basically what you have to do is just capture an idea and like.

It's easier to do it when you have like the guitar in front of you. And you can like sing along and like try to figure out what works and what doesn't. But, um, yeah, you just have to try to line up a line with the chord. And that's how usually where I go from and then switch it up from there once I have like an outline done.

So nice. I like that. Anything to add to that Anthony or the rest of the guys.

Well, I usually just write the bass signs like whenever I was sitting in my room and just write bass signs. And then if they sound cool, just back.

Bass is so much a part of it. People don't realize to me anyway. So, but, um, put a pin on that base. I want to talk about base real quick. But I.

You know, um, I was a huge Beatles fan as a kid. And people thought I was crazy because those the late 70s and Beatles have not even broken up for 10 years. And they like I just wasn't into a lot of a local back then when.

Am radio is the jam. It was all like pop music and disco. And I just it was the Beatles that resonated with me. But I mentioned them because arguably landed in the cart near like the greatest songwriting team in terms of.

Because of the prolific styles of music or songs that they wrote, you know, the band just kept evolving.

I wonder if that's would that be a good model for a young band like yours to if you because there's tons of books out there interviews they did.

Especially with Paul McCartney. I mean, still, but even when John Lennon was alive, you could learn a lot about songwriting processes.

That's something that you read about other artists or what they do for their process or what they did for the process that made it successful.

Sometimes a lot of it involves drugs, but. Yeah. Yeah. And when I'm not that we encourage that here, but.

But yeah, because I said, Lenna McCartney met when they are like about your guys age, maybe a couple years older. And those guys spent a lot of time together writing music.

Same I imagine they had the same writers block that you guys had or mental blocks at me, you know, as a right that I have as a writer.

And yeah, for me, and I don't think it's a good process, but it's it's it's has worked for me a lot is that I'm a I can be huge procrastinator. I put so much pressure on myself.

And then it when when it's due, I when I have no other choice, you know, suddenly like the creative juices open up or thought, you know, like I'm working on one thing and like five other ideas pop in my head.

And I'm able to put something together that's very meaningful. And now.

And I for me, it's it's I need to do that on day one and act like it's due the next day.

And so that's kind of my struggle, but what do you guys like to what are some of your themes in your songwriting, like what is it you want to capture, you know, love angst before.

It was hard to like not write us on other than wait, let me just restart.

Let's take a quick break here because we're about to start our second hour, but we're going to learn more about the songwriting process for the nunchucks.

And as promised, I'm going to talk about some great music listening opportunities that civic media offers.

And then we're going to catch up with Max Moore and some bearable news. And then the farmer's market reports and Frankie DeFalco's coming here on this weekend.

I'm coming face to face with my conscience coming to stand on myself clear out all the old cobwebs.

2024. That's right. June 15th, 2024. If it's eight o'clock on Saturday morning, it's still time for this week and walk a shot.

I'm your host downtown Danny Brown coming to you.

I've and local from the office of former alderman down Paul Brown here in the W. A. K. studios in the old NAMI building right around the corner from the

Adora Yalman's park where we are proud to honor our suffragette heritage here in the shot.

And I am joined by my guest from the first hour who are with me throughout really impressive group of young men known as the nunchucks.

And they have brought punk rock back to the scene. And again, I mentioned this because historically, we can now think of punk rock as like an older genre, kind of like those oldies rock and roll from like the 50s.

Or, you know, disco in the 70s or, but even though, like I said, people, the perception of punk is still young. It's edgy.

It's, which we say challenging authority. And it's very contrarian. And, and like I said, these guys, they discovered it thanks to Anthony's dad.

Anthony Duzinski from Banting Park, proud to be my neighborhood. And his dad got him into the misfits and the rest of the guys, including frontman Evan Bendix and followed suit.

And Jesse Kellner, who's laughing at me now. And my man, Cruz, what's your last name again?

Cruz Perez. No relation to one of my baseball heroes Tony Perez. I imagine very common name, but I had to mention that that's a big fan of the big red machine.

So, yeah, Evan as a baseball player, you could, you could do like punk rock songs about baseball or Anthony punk rock songs about football.

They could become anthems for certain teams. Yeah.

So, so we, we mentioned in the first segment. Oh, and also thanks for the call from Greg Triple G once and he invited the band to meet them at a coffee cafe here in downtown. And they agreed to do it.

So, they're going to check out see if Triple G can help them with some booking some gigs at some pretty high profile venues too. I might say so thank you again for that.

And we're going to any minute now. Rich LaCasio is going to be calling in from the civic media app or at least we hope so.

Is he already here? Okay, before we put Rich on though, I want to say I'm regretting that I'm missing the farmer's market because I'm going to be in Kenosha for my daughter softball tournament this morning.

They had a couple big wins. Yes, they including a come from behind 73 victory. They had seven runs all innings. Fantastic, but Rich, are you there?

Come on, I've done my man, right? What is going on my friend? How are you doing? Very well. Thanks for making the trek up from from racing WJRN, which is we put a lot of your focus.

And absolutely. So what's going on over there at our favorite farmers market?

Well, I tell you what you couldn't have picked a better day for this time. It is picture perfect out here. The sun is shining. You got a few clouds in the sky. It's not overly hot.

I tell you what you're going to enjoy yourself down here. So we're going to be here until noon this afternoon. So get down here. There's a whole bunch of different vendors out here.

We're here at WAUK. So it's a great time. We got a bunch of people out here already. So, and also I could tell you that we're given away some tickets today for the Wisconsin State Fair and also fantastic.

The diversity wrestling show tonight.

And that's another reason you're in town, right? Will you be doing the MC in at the event?

I wish that was the case. My my mentor Scott was Newsky, the regular ring announcer for Bruce city wrestling will be doing the show tonight, but I will be sitting front row with the rest of the rabbit fans of Bruce city wrestling.

So it's a great show tonight. It starts at 730 doors open at 645.

Fantastic. I think that's a lot to look for. You have a full day. Then don't you rich?

I always keep myself busy. Have you had a chance to do the walk around the farmers market?

Do you see any good?

Yeah, but just from what I see from my vantage point here, it is, it's gorgeous out here. Again, there's a ton of vendors out here right across from us here at WAUK.

There's a bread place and I tell you.

Well, yeah, aficionados.

Yeah, looks kind of tempting right now.

Check it out. Yeah. So yeah, please do because I know you'll be calling in and about the 835 marks.

We want we want to get some updates on what people can look for when they come today.

And this is your first time at our walk shop farmers market, right?

That is correct.

So that's great. We love to have an outside perspective and see some things that could be interesting to you that a lot of times you either take for granted or

or many of us that haven't been in the farmers market.

A while just didn't know existed. So terrific.

Well, I'm really glad for the checking. I'm glad you're in town. I'm sorry we won't be able to connect today, but you and I definitely need to connect soon.

And well, we will for sure in the at the beginning of the second half hour here and looking forward to some great updates.

And welcome back to the Shaw Rich Lakasio.

I appreciate it, Tom. Thank you so much.

You bet. So you know, the station that Rich works out of and devotes a lot of his time at W RJN in race scene.

Went back to their old format where it's strictly news and music, the traditional radio station.

Of the good old days and they've got a great, great lineup of music.

It's fantastic. You tune in at any time from the civic media app.

So you know, a lot of times I do it when I'm bored or if I'm in the car and my kids unfortunately my wife are enjoying country music.

I put the old ear buds on and I tune into W RJN.

And hey, if you do like country music, you know, I'm my idea of country music's Johnny Cash.

I don't want to dissolve country music.

I do respect what Taylor Swift is doing and did like Shania Twain.

She's kind of from my neck of the woods there from she's from Ontario.

I grew up a little south of there.

But another one of our stations out of I believe is the bulls, bull falls, bulls falls.

And you know this max is all one of the stations we have is all country.

I'm going to check my notes here, but you really owe it to yourself to check out.

Download the app and check out all the difference.

Oh yes, it's a 98 Q country park falls.

105.5.

W IRI Wisconsin Rapids and W R C O Richland Center or 95 seven St. Croix country.

They're all in the free civic media app.

So if country is your jam, you got a lot of great selections and these guys do a great job giving you just not just the top, you know,

40 hit.

It's a lot of the real obscure stuff that's really enjoyable.

They really do their homework on this and I am a fan of bluegrass.

And so it's neat when they throw in country can be a very wide enough genre.

You can include some of that bluegrass stuff that I like and check it out.

So it's all good and really really proud to have that in our civic media portfolio.

Again, we're here with the chucks, the nunchucks, excuse me.

So but I like giving nicknames like, you know, Max is from the boo, who bear a boo.

But nunchucks, how do you come up with the name?

All right.

So basically we've had like a million different names.

We kept, we couldn't decide on anything.

And like we're thinking like something chucks, but then we're at launch one day.

Just go with the nunchucks.

That's it.

There's no cool story behind it sadly.

I love it.

Well, hey, I shout out to my good friend, Terry Thimi, who just texted in.

Happy good morning to you, Don.

Great show as always.

Thanks so much, Terry.

My predecessor in the city council who is in his second term as a walk shot county supervisor

and doing a great job and just really one of the great members of our community.

30 years as a walk shot policeman.

And well over a decade now of public service with our city council.

And now in his second term with the county board of supervisors.

So all the best of Terry.

And I wonder if Terry is a punk rock fan.

I didn't picture him as that.

But but I will say we talked about the name nunchucks in my little story was in high school.

We did have kind of a classic both sides of the track between two different kind of social groups in our town.

And our motor heads or greasers, whatever you call them for any fans of the outsiders.

And we may be the only community in America.

They were called gaunches.

Don't ask me where that name came from or whatever.

That's just that's it.

And we are our town is founded by Quakers.

That was our school nickname.

And there's still a Quaker meeting house in town.

That's well over 200 years old.

And so that the the socials, if you will, were the Quakers.

And well, there was a high school dance.

And because faults, you know, my first term, my and buddy, mine made nunchucks for people.

And I I showed up hiding my nunchucks nunchucks.

And I was in the bathroom showing off one of my friends and Mr.

Mr. Rivers, one of the math teachers who was a monetary shaperoning the event came in.

And he's like, Don can have the nunchucks and took away.

Luckily, I didn't get suspended or getting any trouble for that.

Because I mean, those are their weapons are serious weapons.

But I think it makes a cool name for a punk rock band because I kind of represent some of that teen angst or that.

I mean, they're obviously weapons.

So and learning how to use them can be fun too.

Just don't you can crack a few ribs.

If you don't or if you're not get a concussion, if you're not careful.

So and maybe I had all of those undiagnosed on my nunchuck training days.

So but we had no real story behind it.

None of you use nunchucks or ever tried them before.

Anthony's a big nunchucks guy.

I was around with them out there at the backyard on Atlantic.

I did not have any nunchucks.

Love it.

So your weapons of mass destruction though are your instruments.

That's fair to say.

So yeah, we have to figure out, you know, kind of an impromptu backyard party for you guys to jam and capture.

Maybe Max can have a hand in that.

So but no, I'm really looking forward to hearing more stuff.

And if the spirit moves you to do something kind of acapella or sing, you know, we're all for that too.

I know no pressure.

So we didn't we didn't tell them to bring any instruments.

I don't know if we have the space for it.

So but hey, also man, you know, when I was talking about nunchucks and about my town was founded by Quakers.

My hometown was actually part of the underground railroad.

So it's a really cool history behind that.

And I mentioned that because Juneteenth is Juneteenth is approaching.

And civic media has some good coverage for that.

And you know, that celebrates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery.

And it started in Texas when when people found out two years after the fact about the emancipation proclamation and with the wars and and it turned into a big celebration.

But check it out.

Check it out.

W our workshop County Technical College has a virtual event.

You should check out.

There's also.

You'll Milwaukee's home with one of the longest running Juneteenth day celebrations in the country.

We televised live on TMJ for from 9 to 11.

And there's actually a parade from 9 to 11.

I believe that say on June 19th with 100 plus participants and Black Holocaust Museum also has events going on.

So check it out.

Some great American history.

Not just African American history, but American history and so on.

More to talk about here, including our next or one of our guest visitors coming in Frankie DeFelco.

And some details on the upcoming Fourth of July Independence Day celebrations here in the Shaw.

Is this week and watch.

I continue on W a UK 540 AM 101.1 FM.

The Shaw and don't forget the civic media app.

The Shaw and don't forget.

For the small things today.

I feel thankful for the small things today.

I feel happy for day to me.

Happy for day to me.

Hey, listen to this week and walk a shot on your host downtown Danny Brown.

And that's cracker with happy birthday.

And it is my birthday.

So happy birthday to me.

And one of the best birthday presents I could ask for is from my good friend Rich Lakasio,

Manning the Farmers Market, who delivered to us here in studio.

Wrestling legend, Wrestling and Bortle.

Frankie DeFelco, Frankie lean in here so we can catch you on the stream yard in here.

Take the mic, man.

You're the host now.

Good morning. How are you?

I'm happy birthday.

Do I get to chop you?

What's that?

I'm happy for a birthday present.

Maybe.

That's at the end of the discontent.

All right.

Because I know you gave me a great headlack last time.

Yeah.

Now that we got Dr. Daytona Cribo in town, Cairo Praktor, I got to get some immediate assistance.

Absolutely.

Hey, Tyler.

Thanks for filling me in that I'm on life today.

Love it.

Yeah. Thanks.

Tyler. Yeah.

Silly Putty.

You're the one who gave me that name.

Silly Putty.

Yep.

Love it.

So Frankie, decide celebrating my birthday.

What brings you to walk a shot today?

We have a great professional wrestling show tonight at the Elk's Lodge.

The Elk's Lodge on Springdale Road.

2301 Springdale Road, bell time of 730.

We'll have seven great matches tonight.

Dores open at 645.

The food and beverages start at 6 p.m.

Come on out early tickets available at the door.

Ringside is sold out now.

But yeah, it's going to be a great show tonight.

It's a mighty max.

How's our Frank's sound?

And he sounded good.

Thumbs up.

I love it.

Of course.

Good deal here.

Lean down a little more.

So we're getting the screen here.

My bad back.

You're going to make me do this.

You're going to give me a bad back in a second here.

So yeah.

This is true.

Yeah, you're right here.

Take the chair.

Frankie to Falco.

Jump in.

This is what we call seniority.

That's that.

So Frankie.

I mean, much of a punk rock fan at all.

Not one bit.

Yeah.

I thought these kids were soccer players when I walked in.

You know, one of them is.

Yeah.

Jesse here.

Jesse.

Okay.

But they're music, though.

It gets rockest.

There's like when I saw them play at a high school auditorium.

There was a mosh pit.

Really.

Yeah.

So it'd be great music for wrestling, I think.

I don't think so.

You don't get the fans.

I prefer diarrhea.

Oh.

All right.

But if they can play good.

Yeah.

And I can hear them.

Maybe they can perform at a Bruce Lee wrestling show.

There you go.

How fun.

Yeah.

All about supporting the locals.

Yeah.

They get a reaction too.

Absolutely.

What kind of music do you like?

Anything I can dance to.

All right.

So I don't know what they do.

Oh, you can dance.

You can dance.

You can dance to it.

Get groovy.

There you go.

Yeah.

It's just kind of.

We describe as more.

Distorted form a rock and roll alternative type.

Yeah.

Alternative type.

Yeah.

Real heavy stuff.

Very nice.

Very nice.

Yeah.

You're not.

You're not.

You're not.

You're not.

You're not.

You're not.

You're not.

Yeah.

Good friend of mine.

I've been played baseball with Tyler and I think a different

capacities.

Very nice.

They're very nice.

They're both catchers too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good.

When did you graduate?

I'm still in high school next year.

There is.

Very nice.

Good luck to you guys.

Great stuff.

How long you guys been together with the band?

I mean, Anthony figured this out like two years ago and we were

just messing around in my room for a long time.

And then not not like that.

And then Jesse, we were trying to convince him to join for

a whole year and then we just tried playing as cover band for a

while and then we last year we decided to lock in and start

writing some music.

They're making some headway.

So Evan and Anthony live in my neighborhood,

we're in the middle of the city.

I'm not doing that tonight.

I know.

All about supporting the locals here in Walker Shaw.

Maybe if they sneak in their amps and their instruments they might

be able to get in there and then I know what can happen at our

new city wrestling show,

exactly.

Or maybe some of the parking lot to get people fired up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good deal.

Why?

Yeah, I can't how we do it on time there, Mighty Max.

For a minute.

So we got plenty of time.

What else?

How's the other gigs of summer we should know about for Bruce?

Summerfest June 29th and July 6th.

We're going to be all over the state of Wisconsin.

In fact, we just had a show last Saturday in Mapleville, Illinois.

So in the noise.

Yes.

The word is out there while Bruce and the rest of the world won

out for 20 plus years now.

So things are going very, very well for us.

It's going to be another great summer as well.

Nice.

We had you'll appreciate this.

I was at indoor softball tournament.

My daughter's club about February.

And I run in an old friend I really used to work with enough.

Her husband is the grandson of the crusher.

Oh.

Legendary wrestler.

Did you know him at all?

And you're doing really good.

Yeah.

I did know I was fact that was honored to be a pulver at a funeral.

Wow.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

That is awesome.

So it's quite likely or possible they could erect a statue to you

someday here in Milwaukee.

Yeah.

I don't know about that.

But you never know.

Sure, sure.

Now will you be out there or use more of the promoter?

I'm my last match was this past January.

Okay.

It was war games.

Who rings?

One can.

What a way to go out.

It's the only way to go out going out on top.

And it was it was a great match.

Great show.

Great show.

Over 700 people filled the elk sludge at night.

My send off.

So it was good.

How cool is that?

Yeah.

So so now you work merely in a I shouldn't say merely in a promotional

capacity.

I'm the man that runs the show.

Yeah.

That's got to be fun too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

730 tonight at the elk sludge.

Thor's open at 645.

Get there early.

There's some great food and drinks.

I'm early come off in it.

I know you did some gigs over at Wakashasal.

That's the first time you're on the show.

You had a gig.

Yeah.

That was for Tyler.

For Tyler.

Tyler Pudliner for his benefit show.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

It was a good time.

So it's would it be possible that if we get a dance

dryer involved the athletic director.

He would book you a brew city event back at Wakashasal.

I mean, he's got one more year over at the school.

Let's do some for the kids.

That would be combined punk rock and wrestling.

Yeah.

At the same time.

Yeah.

You guys can start every time there's an

intermission before the show.

Intermission and afterwards.

Rock the house out.

It reminds me.

And we were around the same age.

There was a MTV did it when they had music in the 80s.

They had Rowdy, Rowdy, Piper and Cindy Lauderd.

Lauderd.

There was a fight.

It was a wrestling against rock or something.

It was a really fun thing.

It was all over the tea and Rowdy.

I hate my MTV.

And that's just started with Hogan and Mr.

T against that.

That's right.

Piper Nondorf.

Yeah, yeah.

WrestleMania.

We could conceptualize something really fun here with the

non-shocks.

Yeah.

And Frankie DeFelco and Bruce Lee wrestling.

Is that the name of the group?

Yeah.

The non-shocks.

I know.

Okay.

All right.

Hey, anything else we haven't covered here in a couple of

minutes.

We have left that.

Yeah.

You have to know about.

Go to the website.

You'll see all of our upcoming shows there throughout the

year.

The places that we're going to be at.

So it's a good place to be.

Sounds great.

Family show.

No swearing.

No nothing.

Yeah.

You're going to.

Very, very happy.

Sounds great.

Frankie DeFelco, Bruce Lee wrestling.

Check him out.

Check the event tonight.

730 doors.

Or 645 doors open.

Bell ring.

730 at the Elk's Lodge.

And more.

More to come.

Richel Kasi is going to come back from the farmer's market.

And the conversation continues with the non-shocks here.

And this week in lock shot WK 540 AM 101.1 FM.

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Happy you.

Because you know he'd want to see this so badly and he'd want to talk about it.

His own words can do better than any of mine.

Here now a tribute to our friend Tim Russell.

I thought I would grow up in Buffalo.

And if I got real lucky, I'd have a chance to go to college, maybe even law school.

And then be a good lawyer here, a good teacher here.

And that would be the extent of fulfilling my dream.

From the humblest beginnings, he rose to one of the most powerful positions in journalism.

Always asking the questions, the country wanted to ask.

And getting the answers, the country deserved to know.

You know, you can be heard.

You can reach out beyond the boundaries of South Buffalo.

When I became moderator of Meet the Press.

Hey, listen to this week in Waukeshaw.

And every year I do this at the heartfelt tribute to hometown hero from the same neighborhood

where I was born and my parents were born and raised.

In fact, he grew up in the same street as my mom.

That's Tim Russell who died in 2008 and June 13th died this week.

And June 15th, my birthday back home is known as Tim Russell's days as a tribute to him.

And really one of the great champions in media and journalism.

And where he alive today, I strongly believe that a lot of the disinformation

and a lot of the craziness going on in media would not stand.

As the dude would say in the Big Lebowski, that aggression would not stand if Tim Russell were still here.

And he's finally remembered.

And I believe him to be an inspiration to the civic media concept too about delivering honest local news

and hearing all sides.

And so thank you.

Hey, I also, we've got Rich Lakassu who's been waiting patiently from the farmers market from the WAUK exhibit.

And it's as how should we say it's his maiden voyage at our beloved farmers market coming from Racine.

Rich, how are you doing, man?

Good. How are you?

Good. Thank you for that birthday present with the deliverance of wrestling legend, Frankie DeFelco.

I know the nunchucks here were rather impressed and they may be working with him to do a cross-promotional thing

at Wauksha South to get us some punk rock and wrestling.

Absolutely. No, Frankie's a good friend of mine.

I mean, he puts on a great show every month at the Wauksha Elks Lodge.

As I mentioned, we're giving away some brew city wrestling, father's day,

fandom, onium tickets for tonight's show.

So all you got to do is show up in the farmers market.

We have tickets for that.

We have tickets for Wisconsin State Fair.

So, you know, we'd love for you guys.

If you're not busy this Saturday morning, come on out.

We'll be here until noon.

We're having a great time already.

That's great. Any unique produce you've come across that people can't miss out on?

Or other?

We're going to catch up organic ketchup.

I mean, I'll tell you something.

I'm a chicken nuggets guy.

Like, you know, no.

Who is it?

I bet the nunchucks are chicken nuggets, guys.

Yeah.

So I'll tell you what, whether it be ketchup, barbecue sauce,

or even a sriracha sauce, like just to stimulate the palate.

Like, I'm looking at this organic ketchup.

It looks pretty solid.

And then I mentioned the bread.

I think there's a bunch of different vendors out here.

And it's representing the Wauksha community, the best way possible,

the farmers market.

So, and you said the maiden voyage.

You're absolutely right.

This is our first time here.

And I'll be here until noon.

And, you know, it's going to be a great time.

That sounds great.

Rich Lacassio, thanks for all that you do for civic media.

And thanks for representing us today at the farmers market.

I think you're going to make a lot of new friends.

And lots of fun tonight at the brew city wrestling at the Elk's Lodge.

Door's open at 645.

Good ticket still available.

So thanks again, Rich.

We look forward to catching up with you soon.

Thank you again, Don.

Happy birthday.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And more birthday wishes.

Continue from my good friend and resident council here in the office

of former Alderman Don Paul Brown.

James Santel.

Jim filled in for me in the last half hour of my show.

So I could make my son Evans graduation last week.

And I could watch Cruz graduate here.

Cruz Perez, member of the Nunchucks.

And Jim has graced my guest again with these delicious pastries.

E-Clairs from Gloriosos.

I'm Brady Street.

And so Jim, he's there's no great expense.

And we're so grateful for all that he does.

His show Atticus, or excuse me, amicus is the real name.

A lot of you.

But I call it Atticus as my ode to Jim Santel who embodies the spirit of Atticus Finch.

And you know, you know, Jim gives a lot of history in his show.

And so I keep you impressive.

Know that Gregory Peck's legacy continues to inspire actors and audiences alike with his

performance as being celebrated for their depth and authenticity.

Gregory Peck, of course, was the lead role.

He played Atticus Finch in the Tequila Mockingbird movie.

And he passed away this week on June 12, 2003, but his impact on the world of cinema and activism lives on.

And again, nobody, I don't know if anybody really embodies that more than Jim Santel on the activism side.

So we're really glad here.

You know, Jim's also a man of performing arts.

I think he would also appreciate the work that these young musicians are doing with their punk rock band, the Nunchucks.

So, and hey, before we get these guys on, but before I put them on the spot, Terry Thimi replied, he says he's more of an oldies rock country music listener.

But I think I think the Nunchucks could put together a couple of covers that I think that would as a nice ode to Terry, maybe one of their local performances.

So, and Terry says also, thank you for your kind words, also good luck to your daughter and softball today.

That's right. That's the ESA suffer jets down there in Kenosha.

They went to and oh yesterday with a seven five victory in the first game against the team from war in Illinois, which is right on the Wisconsin border there, but maybe an hour to east of Galena.

And then they played another team from St. Charles, Illinois, and they are down three to nothing and came back with seven runs in the pretty much the last inning to when it was really impressive display.

So I look forward to getting down there after the show and in time for game two, maybe catch the ending of game one.

But another question came in from Evans father, Justin Bendixon. He's listening to the show. Hello, Justin. And he wants to know what's the boys favorite concert that they've been to.

What variety of bands have they seen?

My favorite show I've ever been to was the Pantera show last summer. Pantera.

And that's Anthony Dizinski. Where'd you see him at?

The Ampitheater, the American Family Ampitheater or something like that.

Okay. Very cool. Yeah. All right. Crews Perez. You're up.

I don't think I've been to a single concert like ever in my life. Yeah. I don't think I've ever been to one. So I hope I can go to one soon though.

Barrow only local shows to borrow from a guy on Braveheart. That's something we'll have to remedy.

This is only a local shows kind of guy. That's all right. You know, I some of the best fun I've had a lot. I've been to local shows.

Yeah. That's what that's what I've noticed. So I'm a fan of the grateful dead and like I've had probably is more fun watching great dead cover bands.

In local buyers than ever did seeing the dead live not that those weren't amazing. And I had a lot of fun. But when you get to see a really great cover band that knows

what they're doing, it's a real treat. So you're all right there. And there's there's a lot of great opportunities here in Waukesha.

And hey, while we're on the topic, I want to give a shout out to Danny Faustman, who was a guest on my show a couple of years ago in his guitar.

Guitar was a guitar for life studios is their under some renovations, but he was out there. I think his band was doing a gig over at Salty's during Friday Live.

And he was celebrating an anniversary for his, I believe was 17 years or something. I apologize. We got that wrong, Danny. But congratulations to you.

And all that you do for Waukesha music. So how about you Jesse Kellner of the Waukesha Kellners.

Yeah. So my favorite show was last year, Harley Davidson Fest. Me and Evan went to see the food fighters.

We were standing there to secure our spot for about six hours. More than that. Yeah.

I dig it. I dig it at the sprints of the spot.

So I, yeah, while we're talking food fighters, I got to show you guys a really cool picture from a cousin of mine, Liz Washington DC.

I think she works for the US Senate. And she was at an event recently if I can find the picture here.

Bear with me a moment, gang. I might have just passed it already. I almost included it on my post, but, you know, just wasn't very Waukesha ish, but the music for sure, very much is.

So well, you know, I'll have to show them down the breaks. I can't dig it up right now, but it's a picture of Dave Grohl with my cousin Kate at an event down in a DC area, very, very cool brush with greatness in my opinion.

So, um, I've seen a lot of different bands. I saw the grateful dead seven times saw R.E.M. twice in college. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.

A great, amazing live act. And, um, in fact, yeah, they played the Fox theater Detroit, which is very much like the past here.

And it was during the life's rich page and two or one of my favorite albums from the 80s.

And for the Ron core, they came out. It was just Michael stipend Mike Mills and they did a just a solo no instruments or anything of moon river.

So the Andy Williams classic that's featured in breakfast at Tiffany's and that was pretty cool. But I also saw you two at the Pontiac silver dome during the Joshua tree tour. That was incredible. That was an amazing show.

And, um, the one time I saw, first time I saw a grateful dead, they opened up for Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, who toured together one year. And that was really cool. Of course, Tom Petty's band really stole the show, especially the guitarist Mike Campbell or Dave Campbell, amazing lead guitarist.

So what saw in excess after my freshman year college and that was that my brother that I went with two of my brothers, my one brother who's been to a lot more concerts than me.

Whereas that was the best live show he'd ever saw. And I mentioned that because Evan Bendix and bears a stronger semblance to the Michael Hutchins, the late lead singer of in excess.

So, um, so Evan's been given his homework assignment to learn more about them. So Max, you seen any good live shows?

Um, I saw your favorite kid, the Roy last year in Madison. Um, but to add on to the REM point, they actually just had a they just reunited.

I think I think it was actually last night after 17 years. Oh, wow. The whole band. Yeah, they got inducted into the songwriter's Hall of Fame. Very cool. So it was the first time that they had played together in 17 years. Wow.

You know, I want to I'm glad you mentioned songwriter's Hall of Fame because I'm really down in the rack and roll Hall of Fame until Warren Z.

Van has inducted the Hall of Fame. Rackerel Hall of Fame is a fraud. I lobbied heavily for his induction and lost.

But I think there's some somebody on the committee. I think as a former editor of Rolling Stone just really has a has a winch about Warren Z.

And I think it's not just and I think he needs to be inducted past you mislead. You guys also need to learn your Warren Z.

Well, two guys that's another homework assignment, but I found the picture of Dave girl with my cousin Kate.

Nice. Pretty cool.

So now thanks again for that question. Justin Mindix and Evan said, your dad could also be kind of a manager for the group, huh?

As resourceful as he is. Yeah, he could know a lot of people. So it sounds something. So hey, I want to switch gears for seconds.

I mentioned the Juneteenth commemorations coming up. I don't want to give Max chance to talk about there was an event that happened.

I'm bearable. It might have been national news. And obviously we're not making any defense. We're not defending.

What that individual did on the state. The optics just looked awful, but Max had a little some insights that you want to emphasize that this is not a reflection in the community where he was born and raised.

Yeah. So we were, it was during bearable high school graduation this year, an incident involving the superintendent and a parent from one of the students who is graduating who.

The parent ran up onto the stage and pushed the superintendent out of the way who's African American preventing the superintendent is. Yes, he ran up onto the stage, preventing his daughter from shaking hands with the superintendent.

And national and international media played it as a racially motivated act against the superintendent. Now again, we're not here to, you know, we're not here to speculate.

Yeah. But during interviews with police with bearable police, it was revealed that it was not a racially motivated incident and more an incident that the parent had with the school as a personal.

It was more of a personal thing with the super and not necessarily the super intended for with the school and the board itself.

An article from WISN revealed this, but this was, this was well after the fact and not many people have read into this at this point.

And of course, the media seized on it because about four years earlier, there was a class. I got maybe a senior class for some of these.

There was a junior, junior prom class of, I don't know, whatever was when 18 or 18 or they were, they had like their, their arms out, you know, the high Hitler kind of salute or something like that. And it's just.

It got that one got misrepresented as a wave, but again, national media saw the picture and unfortunately that's what it looked like.

I don't know the people of bearaboo, you know, that they don't condone something like that or these things.

Bearaboo is one of the most tightly knit communities that you're going to find in all of the state of Wisconsin.

And there is a lot more to bearaboo than what you see on international media in the last few years.

Yep. So and I think it's just if there's a good coaching moment and I know we'll continue this conversation, but just like everyone could benefit from some good public relations training because of the optics of our actions and how it could be misperceived.

So as this week and watch, I continue with the nun shucks punk rock locals.

From me to my needs pale.

You know, this thing this week, watch on I'm your host down brown joined by the mighty max martinson on the board and.

Another another running of anarchy in the UK by the sex pistols and it's my kind of my ode to today's guest high school punk rock band the nun shucks making punk rock cool again.

I suppose it always was, but just wasn't his prominent in the mainstream and especially with all these and impresses me with all these other genres of music that these young men were exposed to today.

That they gravitated towards punk.

And they did mention they do enjoy the other genres they listen to a lot of music and they've been to a lot of concerts for the exception of crews but cruises hits some of the local live entertainment scenes so.

But you'll have to be sure to get him out to a concert it reminds me of the county fair.

I know that maxing radio will be having an exhibit.

I think it's July 18th or 19th and I mentioned that because of my good friend patent net a shine walk shot native.

One of the founders of guitar for vets has also started a new philanthropy.

And the name escapes me and I don't know if it's been officially launched but it's essentially the guitar for vets scenes that's extended to all people that have been exposed to some sort of trauma in their lives and how music.

And play a key role in addressing that and they give out you know they give free lessons to these people the victims of of trauma.

And so looking forward to pass going to be on the show hopefully soon to talk about that in those efforts and really looking forward was great catching up with him on the phone but he remembers and you guys will appreciate this nunchucks back when downtown.

I was in doing so great and a lot of boarded up buildings.

For a lot of local bands it was great studio space that was cheap or affordable I say and like the bowdeens recorded here and some other great bands and.

Spat has his hands and a lot of the cutting room floor recordings that never got published and it's some real cutting edge stuff real great stuff.

And when he does come on he's going to try to hopefully share some of that and I think max you have a lot of fun with that huh.

I think I would think that'd be something I would enjoy sounds great so hey max I want to thank you again for sharing your insights on what happened in your hometown in bearaboo and shedding some light on that I know it's not an easy thing to talk about and you again my big takeaway is that we could all benefit from some good public relations training because.

You may have one intention when you're doing something in public but the optics could.

Could have a different different outcome and one that puts you yourself in your community in a bad light and so.

You know especially after the rain and the weather got in the way of a big of your annual circus parade celebration I know that that's another kind of a tough hit to take so again I appreciate your sharing your insights on that max yeah and I mean one more thing I would like to add is I think.

The whole community has condolences to the daughter because obviously this is going to be a moment that she will remember for better or for worse we want the community wants to know that.

We are proud of her for graduating no matter what occurred.

That's good so greatly appreciated thanks for that max and you know my show my focus here is on walk a shop up.

I believe in Wisconsin there is a Wisconsin state of mind that's fairly universal we got so many great community so many walks of people spend their summers up north are people just love traveling or do recreation and.

And some my guess also travel the state to see different bands to so but guys I know we're running low we're running towards the end of the show and I wanted.

You know what haven't we talked about that you want walk a shot of no about the nunchucks and why they should take a closer look at you.

Go ahead crews take a crew come on.

I was something we haven't talk well haven't forgot to mention it earlier we do so you asked us if we had any like websites or anything.

I was thinking real websites guys yeah we have social media we have a Instagram it's the dot nunchucks okay on Instagram post all of our flyers and stuff.

Okay like any updates like good yeah this like posted I think how long ago.

Yeah usually a month in advance yeah it's really like pretty advanced.

So we can learn about your upcoming gigs yeah the post are they're normally not in order right.

I like of like most most of the time they are but like sometimes not.

Yeah but I have a little highlight with all the shows posted on them so yeah we're going to try to add more to the Facebook page.

No we've been meaning to make one.

I was looking for the nunchucks when I was posting your appearance on this show and there was a different nunchucks band that came up.

So you might have to slug it out with them over ownership out imagine who's who's cooler.

So but yeah we see one of our associates running the farmers market coming through here he wishes remain anonymous but he's been really great help to have here.

So what else we got three minutes what else do people know about the nunchucks why they should take a closer look.

Oh no modest modest and humble to the end so.

I mean this is cruise so far I think like all the shows that we have played I'd say we got like a fair amount of like.

Like compliments and like for us like just starting out I feel like we're not doing too bad especially with the way that we're playing and like everything and so.

Well even though like I mean I went to so the nunchucks the band before I joined them I'm the newest member I before I joined them I actually went to their basement show.

Where they had their first show at Jesse's house actually and I went there with like a few of my friends a lot of people a few people went there from mostly from school just people that we all knew.

And we all went there and I thought that they were pretty good and then like a lot some people were joking like oh that's a hit or something like that they were like joking about that.

But I mean for the most part like some of the songs like everybody a lot of people I know me and my friends of people that I showed up with we thought that some of the songs were covers that we might have just never heard.

But they were really just originals and so like they were like pretty good especially for band just starting out and then a little later they asked me if I wanted to join.

I felt like we're missing something terrific and then after I had.

Like join like I got to know like all the songs nice now you're the straw that serves the drink for the nunchucks right only kidding.

Hey so I want to thank again Evan Ben Dixon Jesse Kelner Cruz Perez and Anthony Dizinski the nunchucks walk south punk rock band check them out check out their other pages especially an Instagram and thanks for joining me.

My guess next week is Alderman Joe Piper and congressional candidate Samuel Denhoff and then I also have a retired Milwaukee police officer who's got a new podcast out so it's going to be an exciting week next week.

Thanks everybody for joining me today and join this beautiful Saturday please remember safety is everyone's responsibility thank you for the birthday wishes.

Go for a meal mahogal air and you again check us out check out our podcast page two to check out on past shows mighty max glad to have you back and addicus excuse me amicus a lot of you with my good friend James Centel the addicus of walk a shot is next.

So thank you again for joining us and see.

Thank you.