SPEAKER_00 0:05

Good afternoon before the early evening to one and all. This is Andy Positive And Wyolita. We are bringing to you live from Riverwest Radio. The perfectly dusty street of center. Mother's musical diaries with Andy and Wyolita. Now with a hot new phone line. You gotta call or text the show at 414-812-1730. That's 414-812-1730 1730. A great year for the fire ant. Now that yeah, this little darling delivers a really painful sting that you guessed it. It feels like you've been burned with fire. And if you happen to be really unlucky and you fall asleep on one of their nests or pitch your tent on their home, you might end up in the hospital with any flatty shock. But it's not all bad. The fire ant is a great friend to the ruddy copper butterfly. Now you gotta get this. The larvae of the ruddy copper butterfly secrete a ton of sugar, uh, so the fire ants bring them back to their nest and feed on the sugar while protecting the larvae from predators. They just sit there and sit suckle on the sugars of that larvae. Ha ha ha ha ha! That's life for you. And full of life is mother near and dear with a diary entry, because that's how we start the show with one of her diary entries. And then at some point we'll play a song from her musical archives. And finally we end each show with her with mother breathing. Closely, then entering my room to impart wisdom that offers a good deep sleep. And the words of Mother, a diary entry. Andy took a bee sting on his nose today, and he didn't even cry. Sometimes I wonder if he's in touch with his body at all. Last week, he was walking around the house talking to me about his schoolwork, and he fell flat on his face, rolled over, popped back up with no expression, and he never stopped talking. Like nothing happened. I said, Andy, are you okay? And he looked at me like I was crazy. And maybe I am. Crazy for beeferoni. But boy, oh boy, little Richie Verola really does that song some j serious justice. And if you've never heard of Little Richie Verola, you know you're not alone. Yeah, I think he was more of a big deal in like uh his home state of Pennsylvania, and I think among among the m musicians uh uh uh uh Illuminati in uh Los Los Angeles. And uh because he died in a car crash and pr pr pretty young, actually. Uh boy, you got you have got you have got to be careful because you just never know. You gotta use your blinkers and don't tailgate too closely. Anyway, he he did release uh Little Richie that is uh did release one great solo album on Verve in 1968, uh the one we just heard. Little Richie was one of these one of these musical geniuses who he just heard a song and had it instantly memorized. And uh something he could do apparently when he was like three years old, and that's why they call him Little Richie! He was a prodigy, and he had a he had a long-term gig with the Louis Prima band, and uh that's probably why he Who is that? This fella comes into my studio and interrupts my show! It's okay, Mel, I like you. You can do that, you know what? There's what there's one person that can come in here and do that, that's Mel. You heard it. Mel says, I'm the man, so that I'm the man. In Little Richie Verola, he uh he had his long-standing gig with Louis Prima, and that's probably why Los Angeles musicians knew about him. And uh special note here that we'll play some tunes from one of those records in the coming weeks where Little Richie's playing with Louis Louis Prima. But uh, as I was saying, he played with the Louis Prima band, uh, but in his off time he was experimenting with synthesizers and an ARP and these sort of rock and jazz arrangements that he he even played live with his material a little bit. I think he got as far east as Sioux Falls, South Dakota or something like that. Or Rapid City hit uh right around there. But no recordings exist as far as I know. If anyone out there has a bootleg of Reggie Varola playing fusion, good clapper, you gotta let me know, and I will travel to hear this. Anywho, great stuff from Little Ritchie Varola. Yeah, just a quick update that all has been rectified with WXRW. Uh, we both signed an agreement of terms, and I won't be pursuing a grievance, which was in their words, quote, quote, rapidly becoming one of the most complicated talent disputes in the history of low power FM broadcasting. And quote, uh drama much anyway, no worries, no teeth, is really that's what I say. And so we're all patched up, which reminds me, Pierre, you tore up your toenail the other day.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Uh thank you for your concern.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

What the heck? What the heck happened? You take baths. No one takes baths anymore, Pierre. This isn't the old one. Where you roll your town on dusty and get treated on a couple buckets of hot water. We take shower. I can't I can't unhear that. One time I had a bubble gathering. We're gonna go ahead and do that. I'm just gonna be a line number two. Okay, brother lovers. I bet you have something to say about it. Here's just here with all those soap bubbles and bubbles gathering in there. I got it, I got it. No, sir, no violence. No violence, no, sir, I love you, but like I always say, violence is for the dogs, and I don't exactly look to be a dog in this life, and uh why don't we just go ahead and hit that, Wileita? Yeah, come on, that was wonderful to hear. And all it was really great to hear from Mad Dog, too. You know, we got a couple of uh calls in last week when people were like, is that the same Maurice Mad Dog Vishon from the AWA, the American Wrestling Association? I said, yeah, of course, yeah, of course. Who else? I mean, what the heck do you even think? Of course it's the same Maurice Mad Dog Vishon. I I don't I don't know any other mad dog in Maurice Mad Dog Vishon. And uh, but again, it was really great to hear from it was also great to hear from the OCs. That's the last band we just heard, sometimes called the OC. And other times OCs, and then OCS, and also Orange County Sound. I don't really care what they call themselves. It's just really, really good music. And you know what else is really good music? Yes, yes, it's that time. Mothers count down to five best of five best of things to do with orange. Okay. Now, uh, just a disclaimer, I don't think it's a good idea to do any of this, but mother lovers, you gotta know that there are people who worship the Orin. And father is one of them. I I don't judge. My my beef with father goes far beyond his fetish with Orin. Uh so I am neither judging nor advocating here, I'm reporting. And here we go. Number one! Number one! We okay Orinate into Kitty Corn later to make interesting postmodern sculptures! Ha ha well I've seen that, so yeah. That uh that that that actually that actually does that actually does kind of work. Okay. And at number four, what do we have here at number four? Number four! Okay, best of things to do with orin! Uh given that orin is okay, yeah. Best things yeah, okay. Uh given that orange is sterile, combine with hot water and clean interior floors with it. Spray from bottle. Okay, that's not really how that works. Orin isn't it it's not sterile, it's pee! It comes out of a dirty place. Ergo, it is dirty! Okay, where do they get this stuff? Where the heck do they get this stuff? And uh, okay, what do we have here at three? Number three, yeah, just press that over there. We need that three! Okay, uh, at three. Use liberally on face for anti-aging. Good as a facial toner or cosmetic. Yeah, no. Your body is getting rid of that for a reason, people. Okay, I can't wait till we're over with this. Okay, coming in close at uh number two. Okay, uh sprinkle orange on neck to repel vampires. Oh god! No, those are lies! That's a lie, Wyolita! Yeah, I know you're gonna get yourself killed if you go into a vampire den armed only with orange. You're dead! You're dead, fella. I'm just telling you right now. Straight up, you're dead. Okay, I think we have one more. And uh I feel a little sick. Okay, number one from Mother's Countdown to five best of best of things to do with orange! It says Oh yeah. Okay, one. Mix equal parts orange with unpasteurized milk and drink to relieve colds, sore throats, asthma, allergies, digestive disorders, and cure cancer. Okay, yeah, right, yeah, okay. I've got a I got a bridge in the Mojave I'd like you to take a look at. Yeah, but be, yeah, yeah, but be sure to bring your jug of orange, because it's gonna get real hot. Ola, did that ever sound good? Oh, the Avengers playing Peter and the Wolf. Yeah, you gotta you gotta tell your friends about that one. It got me all excited. I used to think that wolves were just human beings in wolf costumes. I have no idea where that came from. Uh but it's true. I probably watch too much TV. I don't really know, but uh I had some bad ideas about a lot of stuff. Wolves were humans in costumes, yeah. Breakfast cereal came from a breakfast cereal tree, and uh bologna was a food, stuff like that. I could go on and on. Chickens came from a What else? A potato chips, of course, didn't come from potatoes, but were rather wholly originated from the chip. I mean, not sure what that means, but it was a truth I held. But I mean, what do you expect when you grow up in a culture that forsakes life? Really? I mean, just think about it. Oh hey, uh mother lovers! Just getting an update from the bureau. Okay, yeah, this is just in a news and global network breaking announcement. Okay, you gotta sit down if you can. Okay, Dolly Parton is dead. Cause of death is unknown at this time, but foul play has been ruled out. Or wait, no, it looks like she died of cancer. Okay, yeah, she should have drank you should have should have drank that orange, Dolly. Haha! No, just kidding. Uh they say humor is the antidote to all of life's all of life's woes, and I believe it because I'm sad. Uh she was a real force, uh, people really did like her. Looks like we have a call there. Uh Wyelita, uh, can we just maybe put that through? Yeah, I'm gonna fade that out. Yeah. Yeah, that news report is over. Sorry about that, Dolly, but we're gonna give you a little homage in just a second. We're gonna take this call. Go ahead. Okay, I guess I'm gonna I'm gonna assume that this caller that you knew Dolly Parton and you're calling to just testify a little bit. Oh, this is a mobile kent's cruise. I told you not to settle no disagreement with without first talking to me and my associate. Gimme telematics. Now you're really doing yourself a hole there, Andy. Kent we're talking about Dolly Parton's untimely death. Dolly would have never s settled no disagreement without talking to me and gimmick first. Now you should have taken an example if you matter so much. Hey, Andy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, hang up. Thank you. Jimpin Jiminy, I don't like that guy. And he sounds he sounds fake Southern too, if you ask me. Heavens to Betsy, what a loon. Yeah, okay, well, I mean we're trying to talk about we're trying to honor Dolly Pardon. He's talking about stuff that's the past. I don't want to get a caught up in the past. Okay, well, yeah, yeah, I cue that record up and let's I'm gonna get out yeah, let's get out the candles.

SPEAKER_08 23:19

In my hometown, a blackie Kentucky. He came passing through one dark, gloomy day, and I considered myself as lucky when he told me he would take me away. And though he was older, it made me no difference. His promise of riches was all I could see. At last I could leave the coal mines of Kentucky and know something better than sad poverty. Lucky Kentucky, you know that I miss you, but there are other places in the world I'd like to see. So I must take this chance to be something more than nothing. But I'll always hold you in my memory. But I've never adjusted to sociable living. The friends that he knows, they're all strangers to me. Thousands of miles from Blackie, Kentucky, in a mansion with a husband that never loved me. He won't let my family and friends come to visit because they are country and poor, he's ashamed. What would I give my life floored? If I could just go see them. All that's changed about me is my name. Black in Kentucky. Oh Lord, I miss you. If I could come back home, I'd never leave you anymore. I'd like to see my poor, hard-working cold mind and daddy, and mama and the kids, and the friends I knew before. My world is as black as the coal in Kentucky. He won't let me leave him. There's no way to win. I'll take my own life, dear God. Please forgive me. But I've got to get back home to Blackie once again. I've left him a note, and in the morning he'll find it. It's my last request, and he can't refuse me. I've told him to bury me back in Blackie, Kentucky, where my family and my friends can come and visit me. Blackie, Kentucky, I'm coming home to you, but different from the way you remember me before. So make me a place and I'll lay me down to rest and I'll sleep in your arms forevermore. I'll sleep in your arms forever more.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Yeah, come on, that's nice. She could really sing and uh real proud of her roots too. And uh me, Violeta Pierre, uh we're gonna pour some OJ for the OG of country music. And uh thank you for your service, Dolly. Thank you also to Steve Steve Sokala for agreeing to come out of the greatest live radio program in the world and why the operative word is greatest, and also live. And r and radio too. And uh but uh Mother's Musical Diaries worth Andy and Wylita and 104.1 FM, WXRW River West Radio, and we're gonna talk to Steve in just a few minutes. We gotta get him on the phone line in just a few, and then and then uh just um we gotta make sure it's uh the the line is clear of any sort of interference or radio obfuscation, and Wileita and Pierre are gonna take care of that with some creed air and Steve Owen. So in the meantime, uh while whilst waiting for uh uh all clear on the radio frequency, a short introduction to Steve Solhola, and who is this for this Philip of North Minnesota? He plays the heck out of the accordion. Plus, plus, he often performs as a one-man band complete with bells, jingles, horns, drums, everything. And if you if you know anything about Andy Positive, it's that I love one-person bands. You got the Space Lady, Hassel Adkins, King Louie, uh Glenn Meadmore, and uh now Steve Sollaw. Uh but he's more than a one-man band. He's also played with proper bands and has released all sorts of material CDs and what have you. Like the band Berserk Blondes with Kaylee Matusack and ha ha ha! Not that Muchimatusak, you NFL Oakland Raider nuts. And also a band called The Flying Finns. And uh in the in the newsletter yesterday I sent a link to one of that's what it was actually today. I sent out the newsletter. It got delayed. I sent a link to one of Steve's one-man band videos where it's about him being called Steve. Uh but it's no, but right now, hey, let's let's play an homage performed by Steve and the Flying Finns. Because he's finished and he's proud of his finishness. And uh it's an homage to the Minnesota State Bird to uh the mosquito and Waylita. Let's chew that up and let's go.

SPEAKER_04 28:57

Some like Cheetos, others like Fritos, some other brothers and the mothers like Doritos, but there's one thing that everybody and Beetles never stolen her like Mosquito. Step right up. You want to know I'm best. I'm gonna put it to the ultimate test the fair for your life.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Oh, come on, that was really outstanding. And on the line here we have uh Steve's Hokala. And uh I just want to make sure we got the the levels all set there. And uh okay. And go ahead there, Steve. Hey, what's happening, everybody? Hey, there he is. I had the wrong microphone, but I think we got it now. Uh can you hear me over here? Can you hear me? Oh yeah. All right, Steve Sokala. Welcome to the show, big fella. You better believe it, y'all. I'm happy to be on the air. Yeah, hey, listen, I wanna let can we just get right to it. I got some big questions for you. And uh okay, listen, a lot of bands and songwriters they make songs about the walrus and only fools falling in love and and and heavenstairs and what have you. You gotta tell me why Minnesota and the Midwest figure so prominently in your music.

SPEAKER_06 31:51

Well, I really think there's the thing about goofiness. Uh, you know, if you want to be normal, you're gonna end up being a goofy one because we're outnumbering the normal people, aren't we, brother? I have no idea what you mean, but I think I get it. We're so normal, uh I don't know, a lot of kids were dropped, I was punted. That's my response to that statement.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Wait a second, wait, wait a second, wait a second. If I've if I'm following your logic here, what you're telling me is that because uh when I think of punting, I think about uh American football. And uh you're telling me that uh American football is exclusive to Minnesota because you were punted, and that's why you write songs about the great state.

SPEAKER_06 32:32

Wow, I just love Minnesota. I was born and raised here. I've been to 32 different states, but there's just some magical about this place, you know. I uh other than the mosquitoes, they suck.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Yeah, you you know what you know, one thing that's really magical about the state is the Minnesota Vikings, isn't that true? Oh yeah. Go, you can't just leave it at oh yeah, can you tell who's your favorite? Who's your favorite pig skinner?

SPEAKER_06 32:58

Well, you know what's interesting. Uh I'm uh I'm a little older now. I I probably gotta go with Carl Eller and the purple people eaters. But yeah, I've been uh in and out of my time machine a lot this week.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

That's classic, Carl Eller. He's the guy that ran the ball backwards for a touchdown.

SPEAKER_06 33:17

Oh yeah, guard tackle at end. I get the guy with the ball. This is a swim meet, Steve.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Hey, listen, uh, you're you're from Palo, Minnesota. That's way up there in Evelith. Can I this could be a sensitive question, and it's not totally music related yet. But uh, do you do you or you have any relationship with the great sport of ice hockey?

SPEAKER_06 33:39

Well, you know what's interesting? I I grew up in poverty, so I never really got to play any of those real expensive sports. I played basketball even though I'm only five eight, so but I loved it. I I had uh I still checked people in basketball, so I made up for it.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Hey, listen, that's what I was wondering about, Paylo of Minnesota, and you know, you seem real proud of your home, but I I gotta say, uh think about my home and it just seems kind of depressing to me, and I just I imagine growing up there c it couldn't have been all uh balloons and uh candy corn cakes and what have you. What it's had to be p kinda rough, right? You know, it's dark all the time, people are always drunk, right?

SPEAKER_06 34:18

Well, yeah, I say there's there's more alcoholics than people up on the range. Some of the livestock are alcoholics too. But uh you gotta make light of it. It's a dark world and you gotta find the light, just like Dolly always says, you find someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Yeah, I like that. That that sounds like a philosoph life philosophy. Can you tell me one more thing, Steve Solcola? What is can you listen? I got you. I told you I love uh one person bands, and uh what what's your philosophy of the one-person band?

SPEAKER_06 34:52

Well, the problem with the one-man band is you'd think there'd be no drama, but there is. Me and the lead singer and the accordionists just don't get along. The drummer is doesn't even show up half the time to rehearsal, but he's the funny one, so we keep him around for the bottom. But uh no, it's kind of uh it's kind of goes without saying. If uh if I'm in a good mood, then everybody's in a good mood in the one-man band, and there's a certain stability in that, unless of course I'm not, in which case it's a disaster, but the show must go on.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

You know, you you know, you you so you got a lot of inner drama, and that's what you know, artists oftentimes they they have uh yeah, they have they understand drama because they have their dealing with their own inner drama or dealing with a past and and what that's kind of grim and things you don't want to think about, you turn it into something else like art and music. And uh so is that true for you too?

SPEAKER_06 35:46

No, I'm I'm definitely the opposite. When I'm having my my blue moods, when I'm feeling depressed, I I can't actually leave the couch or the bed, you know. It's just yeah. But occasionally I'll get an idea that I'll remember or write down whatever I got energy for. And then whenever the sunshine comes back, that's when you hope to capitalize on that. Super email artists sometimes just kind of put your hair in front of your eyeball and say it's not a seismon and keep trucking, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 36:14

I think so. I think so. I like that. It sounds like when the sun comes out, that's when you get creative.

SPEAKER_06 36:21

Yeah, and I've always been when I'm in a good mood, that's where I'm most productive. I I I always kinda, you know, hats off to any artists who can still be productive when they're sad, but I'm a hot mess express whenever I'm in a bad mood. Luckily only get them about 300 days a year.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Oh, Steve. Yeah, I could tell you there's a lot of jokes, but there's a lot of serious I listen, I know a lot of clowns in my life, and I know that underneath that makeup, there's a real serious person, and I I really appreciate that. Okay, listen, tell me, when you you made that uh listen, I've been stalking you online, I'm not gonna lie. And uh you gotta tell me what the heck you're doing in Superior, Wisconsin when you have so much Minnesota in you.

SPEAKER_06 37:02

Well, it's interesting. Superior Wisconsin is actually in Minnesota. We just completely conquered them. But uh we we leave the label of Wisconsin on there just uh for their ego, you know. Wisconsin needs a win pretty bad right now.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Yeah, that's true. I like that. So superior is really superior, Minnesota because it's superior and what have you. Can I ask you listen, you know, in in your video I I sent the mother lovers a video where you got this bike helmet on your head, you made a symbol that you crash with your head. How d what when you think about when you m you make a lot of your own instruments, don't you?

SPEAKER_06 37:41

Yeah, I'm what they call a duct tape engineer, and yeah, it was 3 a.m. one day and I was going into a gig the next day, and I was like, holy smokes, there's only two limbs I'm not using in my one-man band, and one of them's illegal, so I just kind of thought, well, shucks, I should get a cymbal helmet. So I literally just stayed up all night perfecting it and it's still not perfected, but it served me for like six years now.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

It's it's pretty it's pretty good. What it you know what it does is it it offers this strange kind of moment of chance encounter because sometimes the symbol's on time on the beat, sometimes it's not. It's and sometimes it hits the front of your head, sometimes it hits the back.

SPEAKER_06 38:20

Yeah, drummers will relate to this one uh because yeah, you need to if the if the if you want it to hit right on beat one, you need to almost start the neck movement on beat three and a half. And yeah, somehow I got the muscle memory pretty good most of the time. Usually it's pretty performative, like a da-da-da-da-da-da, crash. That I can nail consistently. But if I'm trying to just do it kind of statically, static in with the song, it's it's really quite a tough deal. I uh I've taken a lot of time getting it better, but a monkey could do it better, but nobody will be seen in public with that, apparently. Uh, maybe I just got some courage. Or no standards, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Yeah, that's some insider stuff about when you decide to make that crash with your neck and your head. I absolutely love that. Listen, tell give g listen to all the young kids out there listening to the show, and there are a lot of them in their closets and what have you. You gotta tell, listen, you know, why why dedicate your life to music instead of doing accounting? Because you could have been an accountant, you could have run a library, what have you? Why, why, why make music in a in the way that you do, Steve?

SPEAKER_06 39:28

Well, you know, the joke I tell is that I couldn't, actually. I I uh have no other marketable skills, so I'm glad the marketing's going on. But yeah, I probably could have been an accountant. You should see me count to five. It's like one, two, winky face, tongue out emoji, six, seven, ten, a, q, r, four. We get there one way or another, but you know what, really, when push comes to shove, you gotta do what you love. That's a line from Futurama. And uh it's kind of funny growing up on a farm, you know, uh it's kind of just shoved down your throat relentlessly as an apostolic Lutheran that you gotta be humble. You gotta be humble or we'll kill ya. Which uh sometimes you just have to resist. You have to be creative. You can only be told, when are you getting a day job? When are you getting a real job? So many times before you end up just having to. Like everyone's got a breaking point, and for me it was still pretty civil, you know. I could tell it was love, but uh that uh Lutheran humility kills you in the long run, because I didn't I didn't even have the courage to tell everybody who loved me that I make three times more than I do with my full-time roofing job. Like, art is the type of thing that you can absolutely succeed at especially you young kids, if your heart will let you keep a day job, by all means do it. Like, you know, I question this career choice every day, every hour, probably every hour, every minute, but uh, I work about 90 hours a week. Given it eleven years, I'm still far from a success. But I sleep at night knowing that I have made a lot of people smile. And if I make a couple people smile at every show, I think my life was worth living. So if that's the kind of life you want to do, just know it ain't easy, but it might just be worth it.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

I couldn't agree with you more. It depends on how you define success, because you know, if you're doing something that really gives you some pleasure and it makes other people's lives more bigger, sounds like a success to me, but hey, listen, you gotta know. Listen, I'm telling you right now, if you decide to take a turn, it's okay. You know, people change, you gotta do what you gotta do, and then if you change course, it doesn't mean you're a failure, it just means you change course. You hear what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06 41:41

It's true. I shingled roofs for fifteen years before I could validate taking the leap, but sometimes you gotta take the leap and actually fail before you know what you have to do. And in my case, I was kind of just tentative to take the leap, but my uh my my ego just wouldn't let me not try. But yeah, it kinda becomes who you wanna be. Yeah. People ask all the time, do you wanna be like Weird Al or do you want to be just a local celebrity? What's your goals? And I tell you, I just wanna have a four-digit number in my bank account counting the decimals.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Yeah, I don't know anything about that. But listen, I want to say before we go, listen, what you said about humility is really true. You know, you you can't you can't assert yourself as an artist if you're equ equally, if you got that what'd you call it, that uh that Agna uh Angelical uh Lutheran Oh apostolic, yeah. It's brutal.

SPEAKER_06 42:35

We brutal, we survive but barely.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

And then and then the other thing is that whenever you want to take a leap, I gotta I need a new roof, so if you uh just just know that well, I'll just leave it at that. And also I wanted to tell you when when you come into Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_06 42:52

Yeah, I think I'm there Saturday, actually. I got uh a wedding gig. I'm playing uh no, that's Saturday yeah, Saturday the twelfth. Yeah, I'm in Milwaukee for the trash panda's wedding. That's stoked.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

Where is that at? No, it's I'm not gonna crash it, I'm just wondering.

SPEAKER_06 43:12

Well, I'll visit you if you want. Yeah, there's uh it's in one of the suburbs. I gotta check. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

You don't know where it is?

SPEAKER_06 43:19

Because I thought I just Well I mean I wouldn't it's I got the address saved somewhere, but yeah, it's a beautiful Polish family, and it's a lead singer and a drummer in a really awesome punk metal band getting married, and yeah, they wanted some old school polka at the wedding, and I'm big fans of them, so I'm happy to be included. I love Milwaukee area. You guys are great.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Yeah, I mean if you happen to remember that address right now, I it's not that I wouldn't go there and I it's not that I would crash the party 'cause I don't like to do that, but I just but listen, let me tell you, I'm gonna be coming back from Minnesota that night. So i if I get back in time maybe we can go get a beer at the Holler House.

SPEAKER_06 44:00

That'd be beautiful. Yeah. I can't give the address because I don't know what it is. I gotta follow up with them and practice them bullying bulkes I've been neglecting you.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

You know, I know two things, three things. Change changes the rule. Uh two is that uh you you you really you you you can do a lot of things at once, I saw it. And uh three is that you're you're probably pretty honest, so I'm gonna take that as word. And listen, I really appreciate you coming out of the show, and uh I hope to play some of your music in the near future. And uh Steve Sokol, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_06 44:34

Good luck with that Wisconsin diagnosis. I love you guys.

SPEAKER_00 44:38

Steve Sokola when he next comes to town to play a set of music. We're gonna make sure we get out to see him because I think he's fresh. I think he's real, I think he's the kind of stuff we need right now. Local, peculiar, and definitely mullet as I wish I could be. But the old mob on top has let me down. Getting all thin like a little mad a cat for stuck to a rug. And okay, let's we gotta follow let's let's follow Steve Sokola without another accordion band. This is Herk. Milwaukee in a basement, and I bought their 45 because they were stinking outstanding. Herc H-E-R-C has a two-person band of drums and accordion and uh well, we have got to play more Herc uh late later in the year because then again, they've it's a really interesting act where they play one they play one bit of music kind of straight like that. One minute song is real punk, and then they they become their evil twins, and then they play like this death metal with an accordion and a drum. But uh speaking of death, uh we have another soul who left the planet and uh which is to say died dead, dropping like flies out there. Frank Beard, Z Top's drummer, died ammonia and the heart disease, and uh I loved his drum sound. And I have a special ear for drums, and Frank's ranks pretty high on my drum meter. And I wonder, Wailita, can we listen to something there? Yeah, let's do that. Cue that up, let's go! Zizi Top.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

I was born my papa's sun when I hit the ground, I was on the road and all the hand you can tell people just give me my hands.

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That is killer stuff from uh listen from the top. I love, I listen, I love, love, love, love that band, and I wish I could have seen them in a Texas roadhouse just sucking down a bottle of beer and enjoying the tap. Would that I could, mother lovers, and I I hope to high water you were wearing headphones for that song. I mean, it sounded so good! Oh, so good as if Dickens said, Why not I show? I'll read a Detroit passage from my blobled memoir titled The Diary of Foundos and Me, which will be illustrated by Waileza and Ishaw. We'll get a little deeper into the story. Last week, Andy told us about the neighborhood bullies who made him wade into a pond and retrieve a dead fish. The diarrhea of Foundos and Me. Lewin set the crayfish trwin set the crayfish free into the Bodeg's pool. I'll never bring crayfish home again. They have their own home, and Corine can't be good. I go rescue them, but the Bodeg dog, Chaka, a big flabby German shepherd, is not nice. At night, I stare at the crucifix on the bedroom wall. It's marble and sharp. Aunt Carrie says that demons are real. So is possession. I watched The Exorcist, and now I don't sleep much. Wow, just so we're all on the same page, and he's he's staying in the summer with his aunt and uncle, and uh Uncle Charlie and Aunt Carrie. And uh, before I tell you more about that memoir, we gotta play this song for you because I just love it so much. And you know he's a he's a drummer and he leads that band, so the drums sound just great because they're they're all mic'd up properly. And I'll tell you what, you tell me who that this that song that was in a uh it was in a movie, uh uncredited, one of the greatest movies of the last 50 years, 60 years, and it's it's in that movie uncredited. And if you can tell me, call or text us 414-812-1730. You tell me what movie that song featured in, uncredited, and I'm gonna send you a drawing of the main character of that movie. And I'm not kidding, okay? And uh so 414-812-1730, if you can tell me what movie fe that song was featured prominently in uh uh uncredited. And uh as I was saying, uh before I uh very uh gleefully uh switched uh gears to that song, we were talking about uh the diary of foundos of me, and I wanna make sure everyone's caught up here because Andy's spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, uncle Charlie and Aunt Carrie, and he has to live in the same room with his older cousin Lewin, and Lewin is really disgusted and he only cares about money. And uh we're probably gonna hear more about him later in the Diary of Foundos and Me, which is a memoir that I have penned. And uh but you gotta you know, we're getting cla it's it's one summer, we're getting close to the end because it's like August 15th in a memoir. And uh so uh if you want any updates about who's doing what, where, why, and when, you just send me a note, I'll try and catch you up to date. Otherwise you can go back and listen to all our old episodes on uh hydrogen cats and hydrogen splits and what have you. And uh oh also, I think I hear Andy Yes, mother. Don't be fooled by the knees here, Andy. Life is a mosquito and a stone and a phone. Oh, okay, mother. Listen, I'm never gonna forget that. You coming into my room just gotta tell me how life works, and I really appreciate that because you need some guidance in life. And I think that offers some real guidance about uh life is a mosquito and a stone and a rope and a phone. And I just love you, mother. I really do, and I also love Jerry Hahn! Not the Jerry Han from quality foods either. Listen, I want to thank Steve Sokala for coming on and interviewing with me. Hey, he's a busy fella. He's got his hands in one thing, his other hands in another, his knee is knocking around a ding bat, and the other knee is like doing a duck horn.