Barr Band Friday Night & The Badgers(Hour 2)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who appreciates a nice hot meal at a fair price.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome Wisconsin.

Happy Friday everybody.

It is six o'clock.

Are you home yet?

Are you in traffic?

What are you doing?

Either way, great to have you.

Hope we can make your drive a little easier or your transition into your evening a little nicer after a long day of dealing with work, traffic, politics, whatever it is, folks.

Hopefully you've been listening to Civic Media all day and a voice of reason.

And now you just need a way to transition into the rest of your evening.

It is Friday.

That's exciting.

Who doesn't love a Friday?

We're gonna do this, right?

We got a great Friday show for you guys tonight.

I've asked Mike Clemens to be on the show.

Terry Barr, it's a bar band Friday night, so we have two great guests.

We've got a great question tonight.

Conrad is here.

He decided to stop by.

Good to see you, Conrad.

Yeah, it's more of a stop by every night.

Just checking in for a couple hours.

Just checking in on you and making sure you're doing well.

Appreciate that appreciate that Yeah, lots of fun stuff.

I did not have a good drive in tonight.

I this is weird usually The last couple times I've talked about coming into work on 41 involve me and someone either being a jerk or whatever But today I had two cars in front of me and it was like a pissing match.

They wouldn't they were talking to each other I don't know if they were friends or there was some incident before I got stuck behind them, but these two clowns

Took both lanes and they were drawn at each other.

I honestly I was ready to call the cops.

I thought someone's gonna Do a pit move here or run the other one off the road People lose their minds when they're in their cars It's like nobody I mean, I know people lose their tempers when they don't have a weapon But that's when people are scared most people want nothing to do with a fight But boy you get behind the wheel of a car

Or you have a gun, you have some type of weapon that makes you feel more masculine, I guess, or accelerates your anger and it's all bets are off.

It's pretty scary stuff.

But I was stuck behind them for like 15 minutes and they would not leave each other alone.

And then finally around O'Connell, the truck, there was a pickup truck and like a little BMW and the pickup truck made a quick move and got off, probably trying to avoid the other guy.

And he did this crazy maneuver and followed the pickup truck.

So I don't know what happened.

If there is foul play somewhere in O'Connell tonight, I hope I don't get called as a witness, but yeah, people act, they lose their minds when they're in their cars for some reason.

And here I am talking about it.

I was ticked off too, but man, I'm not gonna get in the, I'm not gonna do that with a car.

I've told you, whoa, I just went through puberty there.

You hear

that?

Speaking of masculinity.

I told you my story, right?

When I was late for that gig that one time on 41.

What was, yeah, I don't think so.

I'm gonna have to save that for another,

I

mean, a fist fight on the freeway,

on the highway,

bleeding out

of a

kind of

blood

on my shirt and I had bloody

knuckles

and it was awful.

But I wanted no part of it, the guy, but I was like, all right, either getting a high speed chase with this guy and we all die or we get out here and we just go at it and it's over.

And I didn't want either.

But man, I would be the first guy to chicken out.

Some type of car duel Plus I got a hybrid I'm not gonna win that

You know what I did today that was pretty dumb

What's that?

I've only done it once before and it was when I live in Milwaukee and I walked out of the house without a without my keys on me and the door locks shut the door behind you and That happens in Milwaukee though, you know three years ago And it's so embarrassing having to call your landlord having haven't come down.

Well today it happened again

So is this

a

regular occurrence like

I was in a rush to get out.

I was like, I need to get to the gym.

I need to get my workout done so I can come back do some work.

I have my phone.

I have my wallet digging in my pockets for like five minutes, looking around my car, had a call and they wouldn't answer right away.

Now, how quickly did you hear back from him?

Like, how were you?

Well, it was about I was.

I had my garage open.

I was just sitting on my car, just waiting for 15 minutes.

And it's just so embarrassing when they come around.

It's like, I forgot your keys inside, did you?

I don't suppose you got your ID on you either, right?

Listen, I'm not that bright.

You don't have to beat me up over.

I do that all the time.

Like there was a point about two years ago within the time span of a month.

My son was living at home.

My daughter was still at home.

There were three instances of our keys being locked in various cars.

And I have to call USAA and I have to say, look, yes, it's me again.

Please send someone, you know, oh, it's, it is embarrassing, but look, you know.

You gotta get in.

What are you gonna do?

Yeah.

It made it worse that I didn't, my car keys is attached to my house keys too, so.

So you're dead in the water.

You're

not going anywhere.

I couldn't go to the gym, come back, and then call.

You could have done push-ups next

to your

car and started the workout.

Yeah, I guess so.

That's thinking

right there.

Oh, man, that's hilarious.

That's a great way to start the show with Conrad and Pete's Tom Fullery.

Really fun show, though, tonight.

We got Mike Clemens here, folks, at 6.35.

Mike's got a lot to report on.

Got some Badgers, some Marquettes, some Packers.

Lots of stuff going on in the world of sports, and Mike is the Civic Media Sports Authority, so he will fill us in at 635.

Sure, Mike will go off on one of those awesome Clemens tangents, too.

Sometimes he just starts with something, and it's like, I would talk to you about that for 20 minutes, Mike, if we didn't have sports to get to, because he's an interesting guy.

He loves movies, he loves art, he loves reading, all that kind of stuff.

So, Mike will be here at 635.

It'll be entertaining either way.

Yes, I will

and then ladies and gentlemen, it is a bar band Friday night are our nightlight one of our besties of all time Terry bar will be here bringing new music and sparkling conversations She's so much fun to talk to and she's gonna kind of tell us about what's going on around the state too musically There might be a few things you guys want to catch if you're in the mood for some music barband Friday night and

Here's

a weird thing

You know what I'm gonna hold never mind.

I didn't say that Conrad Okay, I listen we've been making fun of Adrienne Brody since

that Oscar speech.

Yeah,

well deserved But I'm I Don't know we'll get into it, but I think right now Conrad let's pivot it's time for our question of the night

Let's talk about the question.

Okay question question question

Question.

Question.

Here, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Question.

Questions.

Well, it is international, maybe national, pancake day, flapjack day.

I'm sorry.

It's international flapjack day.

Tonight's question, ladies and gentlemen, everybody loves pancakes.

How do you like your pancakes?

Saturday morning, that was a big pancake day in our house.

So Friday night is the perfect time to ask the question, how do you like your pancakes?

I will go first.

I have two answers to this question.

When I was a kid, I liked butter, pure maple syrup, and some cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top.

Now, I still like cinnamon sugar, but I like my wife makes these protein pancakes with walnuts.

Little bits of bacon and blueberry all packed into the pancake and they are dynamite Little maple syrup some cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top Those are my favorite pancakes.

I could I could easily just eat regular pancakes too though.

I love

them.

Okay, I Really enjoyed chocolate chip pancakes with peanut butter and syrup on it You told me that recently.

Well, you told me it was actually that I liked it with waffles peanut butter

And waffles and syrup.

Yeah, that's right, okay.

But I like it on pancakes, too.

Same thing, a pancake and a waffle.

I mean, right?

Peanut butter is my favorite topping for any, like, breakfast thing.

Yeah,

so

we've learned.

Okay, that works.

Ladies and gentlemen, the phone lines are open 855-752-484-2855-75 civic.

As always, you can chime in and let us know what's going on in your life, what you think of what we're talking about.

Chime in.

Be part of the show.

And tell us how you like your pancakes.

That's a great question heading into the weekend.

All right, here's what I was going to say.

I didn't know if I wanted to tease this or what, but Adrian Brody has been pissing me off all week.

First, there was that speech.

It was completely unhinged.

Missed the Oscars record by one second, as I understand it.

The guy calls me today.

He tracks me down.

I'm an easy guy to find.

I don't hide from anybody.

But Adrian Brody found me.

got my number and called me and kind of gave me the business over the phone.

He didn't like what we were what we've been doing.

We didn't do it last night, but like, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we had a little fun saying he's still talking.

We play parts of his speech.

Yeah.

Great actor.

Terrible monologist.

Actually, it's not even a joke.

I think he's still going today.

I think it might go to Sunday whole week speech

Well, he's got the record then for sure But I'm gonna play that phone call in the next segment.

It's just Adrian Brody called me up.

I took the call I didn't recognize the number, but I took it I knew it wasn't a telemarketer But I didn't know it was Adrian Brody.

It didn't say potential spam on it

No, the speech was spam

And normally, look, I'd be excited.

Like, I don't really get starstruck.

I've been around celebrities in my life.

Some of them I really respect.

Some of them I think are great.

Others couldn't care less.

But I would take a call from Adrian Brody.

He's a two-time Oscar winner, and he's a great actor.

He really is.

And when he started in the business, there were comparisons to Robert De Niro, which, to be honest, are warranted.

He's that good of an actor.

He just sucks at the acceptance speech.

That's where he goes off the rails.

And, you know, he didn't like, but either way, actors are sensitive.

He did not like what we did this week on Nightlight.

So he called me.

I'm going to play that.

I'm going to play that clip after the break.

But in the meantime, how do you like your pancakes, folks?

Or should I say flapjacks?

I like pink.

I say pink.

I think most people say pancakes.

I know McDonald's for a while on their commercials is saying you get two sausage links, two griddle cakes, griddle cakes.

That's just kind of weird.

Flapjacks I could go for.

I like flapjacks.

I like pancakes.

So let us know what your favorite pancakes are.

That's just something we have to get to the bottom of as listeners.

So what am I supposed to cut to this Conrad?

It's there if you wanted to.

All right, this is breaking news, I guess.

Some breaking news in the NFL Conrad reports.

Geno Smith got traded to the Raiders

for a third round pick.

That's right, folks.

A player you don't care at all about went to a team that suck.

You know what that's breaking news Conrad?

If he shows up here at WGBW.

Well, it's it's it's like crazy because the Seahawks are just unloading every right now and sort of the Jaguars.

I saw a tweet today that said you.

two are released by the Jaguars.

I love

to get traded by the Jaguars.

All right.

We're going to play my conversation with Adrian Brody coming up next.

It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Madison says, hi, Pete and Conrad.

When I was in Door County, there was a restaurant that had granola pancakes.

Oh, I've heard of those.

They were really good with butter and syrup.

There you go.

Yeah, a little crunch in your pancake.

That never hurt anybody.

That's great stuff.

Brian from Milwaukee says, whole wheat pancakes with sugar-free applesauce, cinnamon, and walnuts.

I'm on the dash diet, need to eat healthy.

Wow.

It's funny that doesn't sound healthy.

It sounds delicious Honestly, but I guess it's all healthy.

Have you ever had buckwheat pancakes?

Buckwheat.

I think they're like wheat.

They're like a real hard like grind it up.

It's like a Remember stone wash jeans Probably not this is like a some of the listeners know what I'm talking about This is like a stone washed pancakes pancake.

It's like ground up.

It's like kind of I don't know I like buckwheats, but that sounds kind of like what you're saying here,

Brian

That's what the pancakes look like is stone wash.

Well, I'm looking at a picture right now.

The idea behind a stone washed denim is you beat it up with stones.

That's kind of how the pancake like a buckwheat pancake is like inside.

It's like real.

I know it's got an interesting texture to it.

My dad gave him to us when we were younger.

We hated him, but I like him now.

But those are great texts.

There are no wrong ways to eat a pancake, folks.

So please let us know what your favorite, how you like your pancakes.

That's what we're going for here.

I saw this.

This was really strange.

I don't know what, this is what we get, I guess, for after the last election.

There have been a lot of attacks.

Remember the guy who said conception starts at erection?

Oh, yeah.

A little irrational.

But here's a guy I saw this on a friend of mine's Facebook feed.

This is from Heartland Signal.

Michigan Republican Josh Shriver proposes total porn ban.

If you're a guy proposing a total porn ban, you know what that tells me about that guy?

What's that?

He watches a lot of porn.

He's trying to get rid of it.

He can't stop.

And we're all his hostages.

That guy's getting primaried really fast.

I don't know what the big deal is.

He called it.

Shriver made the announcement on X, of course, on Wednesday, calling pornography a scourge.

Read a Bible passage before you watch it.

I don't know.

Balance your life out a little bit.

You don't have to just dive head first into whatever.

It's just, God, leave people alone, will you?

Okay, so here's what, all right.

This is a weird thing I like I said earlier before the break folks We have I've been poking a little fun at Adrian Brody all week because he gave a very long speech at the Oscars didn't really go anywhere kind of me entered he won the Oscar second time he's a best Oscar winner and he's like 49 or 50 like that's incredible.

He's a great actor, but his speech was ridiculous Get me entered it didn't go anywhere.

He kind of said a lot of different things

and he missed the record for Oscar speeches by one second.

I think they said it went on for six minutes.

And my joke was that just like the movie The Brutalist, his speech needed an intermission.

It was not a good speech.

Well, we had fun with that on the show.

Conrad played a couple clips of him still talking.

Today, he tracks me down, he finds me, he calls me on the telephone, and we had a little conversation and I...

Suspected something was up.

I saw the number coming in.

I recorded the call and we're gonna play that for you right now.

This is me and Adrienne Brody.

I Recorded my ringtone too.

Hello.

Yeah, is this Pete Schwabba?

Yeah, who's calling?

It's Adrienne Brody chief.

Or you can talk about me about my accepted speech.

How did you get this number?

I could get to anyone.

You see how broad my shoulders are.

Yeah, but what's that got to do with it?

Yeah, I know you think you're hot

with your little radio show, but people love my speech.

I'm sure they did.

I'm surprised you're not still giving it, to be honest.

Yeah, I want an apology, and I want it right now.

Dude, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here, but most people thought your speech sucked.

It was meandering.

It went on forever.

I'm sorry, but it was almost as long as the brutalists for God's sakes.

Aw, yeah, I know a lot of people didn't like my speech.

You think I don't know that?

You know, I'm need phone calls.

I thought to make... Yeah, no one understands

me.

Uh, um...

Yeah.

Hey, Adrian, come on man, relax.

It's cool.

Look, you got two Oscars.

Why would you care what anyone thinks about your speech or feel the need to talk for that amount of time and not really say anything?

Come on,

man.

Oh, you know what?

Here I am opening up to you and you take another shot at me.

Have you seen my shoulders?

Yeah, but

I mean... Have you seen?

My shoulders.

Yeah, man.

I saw a lot more of you than that in The Brutalist, which was totally unnecessary, by the way.

Look, dude, I- Yeah, look, it's cool, Schwab.

You know, I'll do anything for a role, but yeah, people love my shoulders.

Hang on a second.

R.B.

Weinstein's calling from prison and make sure I'm treating his ex-wife well.

You believe that guy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, no hard feelings, chief dick.

And then he was gone.

He was out of my life.

It was just the weirdest thing.

He just like hung up so quickly.

I'm so glad I recorded that.

Yeah, I'll have to.

I gotta come clean.

Conrad added the ring as a sound effect.

That's not my real cell phone ring.

Wait, I don't know what you're talking about.

But he was serious and apparently he's not just going after people, everybody.

He's not gonna call everybody who didn't like his speech.

He's just going after people in media that have radio shows or podcasts or talk on TV.

He's not happy about it and whatever, you know.

Look, the guy's earned some street credit.

He's got two Oscars.

Don't think you needed to call me some of the names.

He did But whatever it was cool to talk to Adrienne Brody at the end of the day, you know, I'm a filmmaker Yeah, I got a couple scripts in the in the works.

Maybe we can work something out I'll take I'll take back what I said if he agrees to be in one of my movies

I think that's fair.

You could name the movie after what he insulted you cheese cheese penis I

Didn't know if we could actually say that word you know what I emailed

Todd, let's see if we can say that.

Let me see what he said.

I don't know if he got back to me or not.

No, he did not.

All right, so, oh, wait a minute, he did.

I think we made the right decision.

That's all I'm gonna say.

That's such a harmless word, though.

Come on.

That's not even on George Carlin's seven words you can't say on TV.

Conrad also broke a story here, folks.

Geno Smith got traded to the Raiders.

That sucks for him.

But we should ask Mike about that.

I mean, you know, we'll cover all things sports with Mike coming up after the news always funny have Mike on the show and I want to ask Mike.

I want to know where Mike is staying for the draft.

Yeah,

I mean he's media.

I'm sure they They must have hotel rooms booked for media But I know he's got kind of a sweetheart deal here in Green Bay.

So yeah, I mean taking care of

the hotels are but I mean even the ones in Milwaukee are booked up.

Yeah, so we got a shower here

Mike has like a couch one of those.

Yeah.

What do you call those floatable beds or inflatable beds?

Air mattresses.

Air mattresses.

That's it.

Thank you very much.

Mike Clemens after the news folks.

It's a bar ban Friday night.

Terry bark coming up at seven thirty five.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night edition of nightlight on the civic media radio network.

You always have some disappointments in the year.

I think for me, the thing that's been on my mind I think as we've concluded this season is we need to continue to ramp up our sense of urgency.

These opportunities don't come, you know, the life of a player in the national football league is not very long.

We've got a bunch of good guys in that locker room.

We've got a bunch of talented guys in that locker room.

And yeah, I think it's time that we start competing for championships, right?

There you go.

That's Packers' Gym, Brian Gutekinst.

What do you think about that, Conrad?

I think he's correct.

It is time to compete.

It is time to compete.

That's kind of a saying like we gave it our all out there.

I mean,

I mean the Raiders can't say that.

Well, they can now that they've got your boy Gino Smith.

The guy we really should be asking about all this is Civic Media Sports Authority, Mike Clemens.

Man, if only he were on the show tonight.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

We've got Mike on the phone.

Oh, this is great.

Hey, buddy.

How are you?

I'm good, you know.

what brian goodkins is saying is uh... yeah okay you people remind me every day like a broken record i've got the youngest roster in the NFL fine i'm here to take to the locker room you could be here now year year and a half two years it's time okay we're in what they call the super bowl window and i need you guys to pick it up and pick it up a step and when they bring in guys like josh jacob's who you know about halfway through the season he's even got

the second and third-year players coming up to him and saying, man, I mean, and Josh is like, yeah, dudes, this is what it takes.

This is how hard you have to work at this head practice, after practice, in the weight room at 6.30 every each morning.

So that's what's good against this.

He's going to the whip a little bit, right?

Right.

Yeah, as he should.

I mean, especially, well, you know what, let's hold on.

I want to ask you stuff about the draft, Mike, but let's get to some other stuff.

Do you have a place to stay, first of all?

for the draft, Mike, you taking care of?

I've got an option or two, but it's going to be tight.

And first of all, I kind of have to wait for what, you know, the Packers going to say, but it's going to be, it's going to be, I still haven't heard about if the cruise ships are actually pulling up into Green Bay for extra, extra room for people.

You know, we'll see.

You could do worse.

Disney cruise ship right out here in the Fox River.

I think you could do the water slide and then go to work.

Well, that's like the old high school thing.

You're going to take your date down to see, you know, the snipes or something like that.

Hey, let's go down to the Fox River Valley and go look at the cruise

ships.

You lost me, Mike.

I was never that devious.

I'm kidding, obviously.

I just

heard about it.

How do you like your pancakes, Mike?

That's our question of the night.

That's plain buttermilk with the you know melted butter and warmed up syrup and there's a place.

Oh, you know what you reminded me?

There's a thing in Racine County that's the River Bend Nature Center and they do a fundraiser like it would probably be this weekend every Sunday and They and you go to this little place.

It's off of the creek that leads into Lake Michigan in Racine County and They have a bunch of maple trees

So the sap has come out of the trees, and they've got people out there actually that melt it down, takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.

How about that?

And they make the syrup right there, and they serve it over the pancakes.

Wow.

That's the way I like mine, man.

I'm going to have pancakes tomorrow.

I'll just talk about pancakes.

It is truly making me crazy tonight.

I'm doing this keto thing, and it's brutal.

So all right, Mike, so we've got a lot to get to.

Can I just, before we start out, were you at the combine?

Yes, all week.

This is such a fun time if you're an NFL fan, especially if your team has not been very good like mine hasn't over the last few years.

I love the combine.

I love the free agency, which starts Monday and then the draft.

This is like the triumvirate of the NFL offseason.

It's so much fun.

Are there any big stories that you stumbled onto with the combine or that you found with what you do?

Some great

people?

Yeah, you know, there's cynical people like maybe on social media that call it the underworld Olympics and it's hyped and blah, blah, blah.

If you're a 22 year old.

young man and you have been working for ten twelve years for this moment you're trying to get into the damn NFL and you have really worked hard in lifting weights and in running and jogging and playing four years of college football and trying to stand out and now hopefully that you know you get picked for the dance and you get into the NFL and get a job this coming summer and get on a team and so it means everything to these guys

And while the combine is really something to do the measurables, you know, your height, your weight, your wingspan, your hands, and how high can you jump in your 40-time, your bench press, and all that.

Medicals,

yeah.

Perhaps the most important thing, if you're Brian Goodekins and his scouting staff is the first chance to really meet face-to-face with some of these kids.

And Kevin Savansky, the head coach of the Browns, said it's sort of like speed dating, because you get 20 minutes with the kids.

But think about this.

Think it's like you were going to hire someone to read the news on your show, and tonight you were going to interview 12 candidates in 20-minute interviews.

I mean, how drained are you going to be?

That's what it's like for those teams.

That's a lot of work.

and it's a long day to any you know used to be a little bit more where you get up around seven or eight uh... that uh... that the players have to get their first mri in the morning at seven a.m.

they got to go to this doctor they got to go across the street and do this and they got to do that and and then they got to have a you know interview with the team and they get they got to run that night uh... they have done by five or six and then you know the coaches and the players might hurt not the players but uh... you know that the teams

might go out for a beer or two or three, and at a stake at St.

Hummel's.

Well, Goodell, who turns everything into a TV show, has now shifted that to prime time.

So you see these people walking out of the Lucas Oil Stadium at 9-9-30, or the people have to cover it like Rich Eisen or Stacey Dale, a reporter, and you know, getting to know these folks, and they've got to be back there at eight o'clock in the morning, you know, after being on the air for 12 hours.

it's kind of a grind but you know it's the NFL it's not exactly you know construction work on the road but that that's what the atmosphere is like between this huge convention center and lucas oil stadium so you know i'm sure one of the things that you've been reading about are talking about is wide receiver if christian lotton you know and we we've sat down with good occasion to talk to him for an hour closed door to conference room that they kind of set aside for those of us that cover the team we came down from wisconsin

uh... christian Watson torn ACL last game of the regular season against the Bears what's the story there the swelling went down he's had the surgery he's making progress but you know you can't count on him to maybe november thanksgiving or so Romeo Dobbs wide receiver twice he had concussions even when he started wearing the guardian cap of the extra padding on the helmet in games and at practice

Is he concussion prone?

No, we don't think he is.

They've examined that, they don't.

And then, Jaden Reed, you know, the great receiver you've got going into his third year, number 11, not only a great receiver and an H-back and, you know, jet sweeps and punt returner, but I told you after the Eagles game, there he was with his arm in a sling all jacked up.

He had a severe dislocated shoulder that required surgery.

So, uh, Goody said, yeah, he's probably going to be, you know, limited during OTAs and minicamp, and hopefully he'll be ready for training camp.

So that's what you say.

You got to bring in somebody.

And then you got Josh Jacobs, the running back, coming to us at Super Bowl, doing interviews with us and saying, um, Jordan Love needs a number one.

He needs a more experienced receiver out there.

So would it be Devonte Adams who got cut by the, by the Jets this week?

Eh, maybe.

or DK Metcalf, right?

The big dude from the Seahawks.

Six foot four, 235 pounds.

He doesn't have the best numbers sometimes when it comes to yardage and first downs, but he's certainly a threat.

And I got it they have to look out for.

So John Schneider, the GM of the Seahawks, now John, you know, it's from Depeer.

He grew up in Green Bay.

Oh, wow.

He was on the Ron Wolfe and Ted Thompson's staff.

Matter of fact, when Ted said, hey, we're getting rid of Brett, you know, he's the one that put together the trade with the Jets.

So he's been the GM of the Seahawks.

And he was on the radio yesterday and was asked, can he confirm the DK Metcalf, one of their stud receivers, once out of Seattle?

Let's play that

count.

You know, obviously DJs or DK has requested a trade and

We are you know entertaining that we are talking to a ton of teams taking offers seeing what that looks like and Yeah, here we go.

I mean, you know, you know, you always have to do that the thing they understand here is that you know our responsibility to you know, Jody Allen, you know the the 12s You know first and foremost is doing what's absolutely best for the organization

And then B was best for the player.

Hopefully, you know, both those things merge and it's an ideal situation.

Sometimes it happens.

Sometimes it doesn't.

Hopefully in this situation, it does.

That's interesting, Mike.

What do you think if the Packers wanted to do that?

I was hearing today earlier on Sports Radio, a first and a third they might want for him.

That seems

high.

I don't see good kids giving up that much.

Right.

This guy.

I just, I just don't.

i don't know he would much rather get uh... i'll listen i'll use a second round pick and get a good receiver come out of this draft right and and you know uh... i'd much rather pay a guy for the next four years rookie contract money then you know dk metcalfe money you know or devante atoms money as good as the adams is and things that they could they could bring to the team now

John Schneider said that, you know, DK Metcalf is a good guy, a good player.

This is just business, not a personal.

Hey, we may have to bring him back, but they just had to release Tyler Lockett, Speedy Tyler Lockett, because he's kind of an end of his run, and he's a salary cap hit.

And so Schneider's got to make some tough decisions, so they were going to have this

Listen, we're going to release Tyler Lockett, but we want to thank him.

He's been so great to the team and the organization was there for Super Bowls and community and all that stuff.

And DK Metcalf agents are leaking to the athletic and ESPN.

Hey, we want to trade.

We want out of Seattle.

We don't want to be a part of a rebuild, which kind of spoiled, you know, took away the spotlight in the Seattle area.

And so John Schneider was asked about with Metcalf agents calling the media,

while the Seahawks released veteran wide receiver Tyler Lockett.

Yeah, probably not intentional, but very disappointed in the timing.

You know, we wanted this to be a very special day.

We wanted it to be, you know, Tyler Lockett day.

We've had Cap casually, very famous, extremely important legends that have been, that have been, you know, Cap casually individuals that we, you know, probably could have handled a little bit different in the past.

So we wanted them to

Handle Tyler situation as classy as we possibly could so yeah, you know, I was we all we all were very excited for you know to to have this Really nice day for Tyler to celebrate Tyler and Yeah, I'd be lining if I you know, I felt bad for Tyler, you know, you know the TVs You know all about DK instead of instead of Tyler Lockett

Interesting

Mike, you said before the Packers needed true number one and you said DK McCaff didn't have great numbers.

I know he's an athletic, he's a phenomenal athlete.

Is he a true number one?

Is he just not had a quarterback to throw to him?

That's part of the situation too.

That's what he's looking for.

You know, that's what his agent is putting out there too.

He wants to go to a team that's got a shot to win it all and somebody can throw the ball to him.

uh... whether or not he could and i'll hook up with you know rustle wilson if rustle ends up with i don't know the raiders or something like that but that's one thing he's looking for here's what i can tell you while i don't know exactly what's going to be on goodie's mind and what he thinks of these guys or maybe there's some you know just uh... a guy just like you know they were mckinney you know they beat the sick look at the two free agency brought in me you didn't really know that much about they were mckinney from the giants last year

but look what he did once he got to green bay in that system right we didn't know about josh jacob's because he was burned up out there with the raiders but wow i mean for him to take over and to fill the shoes of erin jones pretty amazing so at the end of the day those two guys know they came in and perform they became a locker room leaders the one thing that i i know for sure in a very brief conversation i had the hallway with goody

It means everything still to this guy.

I do not want to and listen Think about this you're a stool duck was pretty good corner You brought him in and he was performing for you, but he starts lipping off about Joe Berry in the defense of coordinator and stuff and what happens he gets traded,

right?

Alexander you run out there on the field, you know during the calling toss against Carolina and you there's some other things what happens?

They sit your butt down at the Spenya

Or

your Romeo Dobbs, you decide you're having a little breakdown.

You don't come to practice a day and you don't explain what's going on.

We're going to suspend you.

You know, he's not interested in any drama.

I never get tired of the phrase, lipping off either, by the way.

We'll have more.

Is that an attractive guy to sign for Green Bay right now?

I don't think so.

We have to do a very quick break and we'll be back more with our friend, Mike Clemens, right after this.

This is Peach Waba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

And neither are you.

We are the same.

Whatever you love me.

Answers our question of the night.

She says buckwheat is really good for you.

I forget why I keep trying to get into it.

I did some research on this, Annie.

And in the second hour, I'm going to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about buckwheat because of your text.

So thank you for that right now.

We've got a few more things we need to get to with our friend Mike Clemens.

He's the Civic Media Sports Authority and always fun to talk to on Nightlight.

Mike, before we pivot to women's hockey and then some basketball, let's finish up with the NFL.

The Packers, Mason Crosby retired today, is that right?

Yeah, you know, the free agency starts next week.

and the packers first thing they're doing when they get back from combine and they've sort of got some prices out there what the market could be looking for they resign is a mcduffey's done a really nice job as a backup uh... linebacker signed into a two-year deal and the next day brennan mcmanus the guy that they brought in as a kicker uh... last year and did so well assigned him to a three-year deal and then low and behold the next day

it's an outfit mason crosby decided to retire as a packer so mason came in today signed a one-day contract and they held a press conference this afternoon and you know he played for sixteen years for the packers

you know we

talk a lot about the run at quarterback between farve and rogers but how about the run between ryan longwell and mason crosby back-to-back great kickers like that and mason was that this afternoon her press conference he held at lamblefield was

It was every time he thought he might have been caught after six years.

He kind of he kind of he got into a slump.

He's missing some P.A.T.

He's missing some field goals.

And he thought he might get cut after about six years in Green Bay.

In the end of the 2012 season, you asked about if I ever thought I was going to get cut.

I definitely did at the end of that season.

And Charles Woodson came up to me late in the year and he was just like, dude, like are you trying to make kicks?

And I was like.

Well, yeah.

He's like, he's like, stop it.

And I was like, wait, what?

And he's like, don't try to make the like, just be you do your job, right?

Like do the process.

And so I've told this story a bunch because they like, it was like such a simple thing that like kind of got me out of the slump.

You know, it's like, that was the moment.

And then I kind of finished the year, you know, making some kicks, made it like a 48 yarder at the end of the season in Lambo.

And it was just like, that was what I needed.

Wow.

That's good.

I like almost any time Charles Woodson talks.

He says something.

It's kind of cool.

He's amazing.

I had to talk to him at Super Bowl as well.

He's hearing that guy.

He didn't say much, but when he did say something, man, it was a thousand pounds.

Yeah, well said.

Last NFL question, Mike.

Do you expect the Packers to make a big swing in free agency or just plug some holes?

What do you think they're thinking?

Well, you know, they...

always surprised me somehow some way every year it doesn't seem like it that strong of a class but i think there's guys that out there that can help them even at wide receiver at corner uh... but i think they also need to address offense of line

and the

reason i think that is that they did they had the the longest run of the starting five offense of linemen until what until elton jenkins got drilled in the shoulder

by the eagles linebacker no one smith and i swear i got to be i think vixangio said those guys it's the playoffs now they're not going to call it what when we have a play if if you if you have to cover a guy anymore hit somebody every play just hit somebody and he drills elton jenkin and who has a huge next-dingers arm goes completely limp and they didn't have anybody replace they put in this rookie travis glover who you know had three penalties to holding calls

and then they try to put in a backup tackle at left guard kadeem telfer and that changed that changed the packers offense and you know the game that they have a losing your season to the eagles who who went on against that tough defensive line to give trouble to the chief so i think they need to pick up uh... another veteran uh... line off at the line especially if they lose their center josh mires in free agency could he might get an offer that could be just we talked about last week walk away money

Like if Josh Myers just gets a ridiculous offer for five years and, you know, 30, 40 million dollars or something like that, we have to have our walk away money and a plan B. So that's what I think that they should do is get another veteran offensive line in the back up there.

Yeah.

Hey, Mike, can we keep you?

I want to talk some hoops with you, but I want to hit on women's hockey first before the news.

Can you stick around for a few minutes after the news?

All right, fantastic.

I'm going to go make some pad kicks.

I'll be right back.

Let's talk about this women's hockey team.

We've got a couple of minutes before the news.

Number one, they beat Duluth today, I think.

I had no idea.

I'm really behind in my college sports right

now.

No, the Wisconsin women's Badgers hockey team is ranked number one now.

Incredible.

Number one.

and they did when we were in winning games last weekend against the midget eleven to nothing at the hockey game so today they were a cup against number six dilute minnesota dilute they were hosting the game and uh... women from madison days the skated with three-to-one win today casey o'brien scorer eighty-fifth goal of the season eighty goals in the season first female player to do that in college hockey really is twenty eighteen their goalie ever mcdonald's pretty good twenty two saves

for her 32nd one of the year.

So now they advance to the finals on Sunday in Duluth of this WCHA final face-off tournament that they have, you know, for championship hockey for women's hockey.

So that's Mark Johnson for the Miracle on Ice team, you know, head coach of that program.

He was named coach of the year at a banquet they had at this thing the other night.

Really?

And so why were they playing it in the afternoon on a Friday?

They just don't want to compete with the basketball or was that just the way the chips fell?

No, it's a tournament.

So after that came another team and they had some, I think one last night.

You know, there's a grid going on.

And because Wisconsin was like the number one seed, now they advance to the finals and they're waiting to find out who they're going to play on Sunday for the championship of this tournament.

Fantastic.

All right.

Cook, what do you do?

What do you bake, flapjacks?

I don't know.

Make your pancakes, Mike, and we'll be right back and talk some hoops.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to hour number two of this Friday night edition of nightlight.

I hate weekends.

I like being here and talking.

That's what I do, folks.

It's so much fun and it's great, great, great when you guys participate.

So our question of the night is how do you like your pancakes?

It's National Flapjack Day, so fire away and let me know how you like to eat them.

Terry Barr is coming up at 735.

It is a bar band.

Friday night, she'll bring new music and sparkling conversation, as she always does, one of our Nightlight Besties, and talking to another pal of ours right now about sports.

Mike Clemens joins us, taking a break between the Combine and Free Agency.

Mike, are you at home tonight, actually?

Getting a night at home?

I am, because, you

know, because I got a game tomorrow night.

It's a buck's host and the magic.

But, you know, you're talking about pancakes.

Did you know for three years...

When I was 16, I got a job at a brand new international house of pancakes.

And I got a job as a cook.

And so that got me through the start of college.

It was a good job.

I had a great manager, a pretty good owner.

And they had a whole system, like they would train you at

16

years old.

It was a great experience for six weeks.

And so you'd be back there in the kitchen doing prep with the big Hobart mixer.

He thinks I just googled it.

It would cost you about 45 to 50,000 to buy

a

new one of these giant.

Yeah, because it would make like 10 or 12 gallons of this stuff to make.

Because you could go through that much.

This place was really busy.

It was really popular at the time.

On Sunday morning speed, we had people lined up outside of the parking lot to get in to one of the 110 seats that we had in this place.

making those buttermilk pancakes, but yeah you put in the mix and then the water and you know the key to make those things sweet was butter, extra butter.

You melted the butter in these huge pots and they just pour that melted butter into the mix at the very end and the pancakes would rise and you know you put them on the hot griddle at a certain temperature and then when you see them start to bubble and you flip them that one time you would

flip them over, carefully learn how to do it, get a little bit in the air.

You'd have to flip your eggs the same way too, you know, an omelette type of thing, learn how to flip it with your wrist.

I just made some eggs like that today, over easy in the frying pan.

And then when you sell them, as they say, like short order cooks, you get that line up of plates.

You flip the spatula underneath and you put it in your left palm, then you put it, you know, set it down in the air.

onto the plate that way, that way that they rise, they don't get smushed and all that.

I made thousands of pancakes for three years.

Sounds like you could put the apron on right now and get back there, Mike.

There's a coffee shop that was close by and a guy suddenly had an appendicitis and owned the place and it was like Father's Day, so I went back there and I did three hours in the kitchen after like I hadn't done it in 25 years, but you never lose it.

It's

like an altar boy when one of them gets sick and you have to come out of the bullpen and go up there and

serve.

to burn down the church when it comes to lighting the candles.

That's

right.

Did you ever hear Brian Regan's joke about the international, about the IHOPs?

No.

When an IHOP would go out of business and someone would rent that space, but everybody knows it used to be an IHOP.

Right.

Sure, it's that big blue high angle.

Yeah.

And he would do the guy sitting there trying to get insurance.

He's like, he's like, how many times did they hear jokes?

Like, uh, you know, they give the big insurance feeling.

He's like, you think I could get a rooty, tooty, fresh and

fruit.

There's one in Jamesville.

It used to be an I hop is actually one that I kind of trained in one summer while I was a kid.

And now it's some sort of cash and loan thing.

And you've got to think all the jokes that they get, right?

Every time they come in there, can I have some blueberry pancakes?

Silver dollars, please.

Yeah.

That's

so great.

Um, well, good to know.

I'd like, I like, I learned a little bit more about you every time here on the show, Mike, and I have to say it's, uh, it's liberating.

It's liberating and it's comforting.

Um, that's pretty cool.

So all right, let's, let's turn to basketball, Mike, cause this is a big weekend.

It's a big day tomorrow.

Even for, uh, you got the Badgers and Marquette, um, both playing as Marquette tomorrow or Sunday.

It's tomorrow

morning.

It's your right.

I mean, it's.

today's their tomorrow's all basketball eleven a.m.

the market golden eagles are at home and the other day shaka smart said after the loss to you know another tough game to you con on the road he said uh... you know i got you down saturday i'm like oh wow that's right you know this he's already wrapped

up for a

season so i went and looked and you did you know that alma quire played at st john

You know in their

plane tomorrow.

I think I did know that I remember I

didn't because I got home last night from you know covering a practice and and I turn on NBC and Jimmy Fallon opens up the Tonight Show last night With the number six ranked St.

John's basketball team in all the players all the young guys Singing a fight storm a fight a fight song for the Red Storm Huh, you know just one of his bits of like what it was cold hard opens to the show

And I realized, oh, you see, you know, St.

John's is ranked sixth in the nation, like Jimmy and New York City and all of

New York.

They're probably really excited about this team, right?

So that's the team that the Golden Eagles have to face tomorrow on their senior day.

And it's their last game for guys like Stevie Mitchell and David Copeland, who's probably going to go down with the most games played in a career at Marquette and Cam Jones.

and uh... i've come to office lost the other night to you con where they've got all that weather out in new england and off you heard this that there was a twenty two-minute game delay at the start of the game that the authorities came over to shock a smart head coach of marquette said coach we've got the pavilion here's leaking water and we got this water down here at the baseline and so he went to dan hurley the head coach of you kind of said

dan listen and uh... what will play in your practice court across the street we're not going home without play the game

is

talking about canceling the game so it took him twenty two minutes to mop it up and figure out fix the leaking and they got the game in the other night but market they've they've lost like three of their last seven games mostly on the road like to create in the little bit you can obviously that is not the ranking so big game for them tomorrow and they're honoring you know they'll be on the amigua record heap amigua played

first the saint john's red storm in from nineteen forty to fifty one before he moved to milwaukee and then took the the market warriors then to the nineteen seventy seven championship learn that this week

Yeah, that was a great win.

And I think that's why I know a little bit about Al McGuire is just because he was the last coach, or, you know, to win that championship in 77.

That was such a great year.

So, all right, you got Marquette at 11 a.m.

Then you got the Badgers at noon.

It's decision time.

I guess you could switch back and forth.

But the 12th ranked Badgers take on, is it, they got a 10-state.

10-state, yeah.

10-state, you know, great football

team.

Not so

good.

It's good ball.

Not so good.

uh... badgers they've only had two losses in the last like the last four weeks you know the last seven yeah they lost a lot of home to organ and then last saturday on the road to number eight ranked uh... michigan state but they beat minnesota in minneapolis the other night seventy four sixty seven and uh... if you see this jeff jenna key kid you know they put him out there to guard he come up out like in the you know the second half

and he's he's in your face you know he's a great idea and really hustles around and all of a sudden he trips over some guys you know face plan face first into the court and he comes up and he's walking around he's feeling around uh... you know the announcers even said like madlipa said like i i think he's picking up a tooth off the court and after the game great guard said yeah yeah he kinda looks like a hockey player now chip to do he's got a big chip tooth

You know, he looks like Jim Carrey and Duff.

Duff and Duffer.

It's got

the

bangs.

Well, that's nice, coach.

You know, Mrs. Janaki, his mom is probably listening to this on the radio like, you know, you're calling my son a hockey player now.

You know, shame on you.

But

anyway, he's going to be OK.

He had a little press conference and a trip to the dentist will have to fix that.

Mike, before we let you go, we're right now, as it stands, where do you see, you know,

Big 10 tournament, notwithstanding or Big East tournament, the rankings or the seedings, I should say, like, you think Badgers are three or four, Marquette, eight or nine?

Yeah, you

know, I don't have that good of a feel of it.

And that's because there's kind of a log jam at the top of that.

And, but I think, you know, I mean, it doesn't always seem like sometimes they've moved these teams around to in terms of interest and, you know, what they're going to be.

I don't know if they're going to play in that tournament they're going to have in Milwaukee.

or be moved to one of the other regions.

But, you know, the Badgers, they've been consistently good now the last two months.

They have beat an awful lot of good teams, and they're consistently good with the three-point shots.

So I would think that they're going to get a higher seed than anybody would have ever predicted out of this group at the start of this season.

Yeah, especially if they slumped a little bit, too.

It seems like Mike.

As always, my friend, thank you so much.

We'll be checking in with you, hopefully, during a free agency.

That's going to be an exciting time, as will the draft.

But glad you're home, enjoy your family, and let's talk soon.

I love the show, Pete.

Appreciate it.

Thank you for having me on the pocket

next

time.

Okay, buddy.

That's Mike Clemens, Civic Media Sports Guru.

Always fun to talk to.

Terry Barr will be here at 735.

It's a bar band Friday night.

She will bring new music and it's really good.

I love this Sam Ness.

This is who we're going to talk about.

He's a good singer-songwriter.

That's coming up at 735.

I did do some research here because I saw Anna from Madison's text about buckwheats and

I knew they were kind of good for you, like better than regular flour, but this is what I, I just Google this after I saw Anna's text and it said, yes, buckwheat is generally considered a healthy food with several potential benefits.

Health benefits include they're gluten free and a lot of doctors, I've talked to a lot of doctors, two or three over the last 10 years have said.

Yes, give up gluten.

You'll feel healthier.

Even if you don't have celiac disease.

I've never really fully done that, but a lot of people say giving up gluten will make you feel better.

So buckwheat pancakes are gluten-free.

And buckwheat is a good source of fiber and protein, magnesium, iron, and antioxidants.

I do remember that buckwheats have a lot of fiber.

Let's put it this way.

You have to eat them on the way to the bathroom.

That's how much.

Oh, no.

No, they're very good for you though.

And I like the texture.

Are you saying we have a call?

Do we have time to take a call?

We have about one minute.

All right.

Yeah, let's get him on.

Who is it?

It's Ollie from the Northwoods.

Ollie from the... Oh, man, a call from the Northwoods.

I'm in heaven.

How's it going, Ollie?

Oh, it's going great.

I just called to give my two cents where if I bought the pancake.

Yeah,

please.

My mom was a farm girl from Norwegian.

Um, ancestry, and on the farm, we always had, uh...

Hey, Ollie.

Ollie, can you hold on for one minute?

I know this is gonna be a good story, but we have to do a break.

Can you just hold on so we can get the full story?

Oh, sure, no problem.

Okay, all right, we're gonna do a very quick break, then we're gonna come back in here about Ollie's pancakes.

Oh, if that doesn't already exist as a pancake house, it should.

Let's all go down to Ollie's pancakes.

All right, we're coming right back on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

There's a problem with Heather, Zion, bargain buildings, waitin' for police.

It's

Heather's hair.

Monica from Mount Horrib says, the only way I like pancakes is on someone else's plate.

I don't like pancakes, yet I'm meeting some gal pals at Pancake Cafe tomorrow.

It's not my choice, but I'll be having a gigantic mound of hash browns and cheese instead.

Yeah, cheese and pancakes don't go.

No, it's not.

I could do cheese and hash browns, or hash browns and pancakes, but that triumvirate there is not very good.

Thank you, Madika.

All right, we have a phone call from Ali in the Northwoods, and she's telling us about her grandma's farm pancakes, and this sounded too delicious to rush before the break.

So Ali, if you would, please continue.

Well, the pancakes are a lighter batter, so the pancakes are a little bit thinner.

But then you serve them with either lingonberry sauce or sometimes we use choked cherry sauce.

And then you pour heavy cream over it.

The top cream off the cow's milk.

Wow.

And they're delicious.

You put that in the

batter or on the actual pancake?

No, you put that on the actual pancake.

After the pancake is cooked, you put your lingonberry sauce or your cranberry sauce down on it, and then cover the whole thing with heavy cream, and it's heaven.

We lovingly call those amp-mini pancakes.

You have to open up a restaurant.

You've just thrown my whole world into upheaval.

I've never heard

of anything like that before.

They're delicious, and actually...

The Norski Nook restaurants serve a form of that high Norwegian pancake.

That sounds fantastic.

Thank you so much for the call.

It was definitely worth, it was definitely worth the wait through the commercial.

Thanks for listening

and thanks

for sharing.

I will, don't be a stranger.

Thanks, Ollie.

Wow, that sounded, I don't even like cream that much, but with the pancakes and the fruit.

That sounds really good.

Get out of here.

That sounds fantastic.

Steady Eddie is checking in.

He's from the 608, and he's one of our most, what would you say, prolific textures?

Yeah, prolific, for sure.

He's

got a lot of thought into it.

He says, Pete, I eat my homemade pancakes only occasionally, but when I do, I don't skimp on real Wisconsin butter or genuine Wisconsin maple syrup.

I like where this is going.

Pancakes on a Saturday or Sunday morning with a good cup of coffee.

It's a beautiful thing.

Steady, I'll take that full stack of flapjacks Eddie Yeah, you're not steadfast Edward when you're mowing pancakes.

You're steady Eddie.

That's awesome.

Thank you steady Eddie great stuff And then we got PJ check in on the stream.

He says I prefer waffles because they have pockets to hold the syrup He's a real connoisseur.

They're kind of the same thing, right?

I mean and they both have better that's

Not great for you.

So, right.

But I mean, I don't do waffles have anything pancakes don't.

It's pretty much just a pancake with the holes, right?

I think I

don't know.

It tastes different for some reason.

Yeah,

I'm imagining it.

I even had malt in there or something.

I don't know.

That's great text.

Oh, thank you, PJ.

Yeah, waffles are getting really hungry for breakfast.

I

like waffles better than pancakes.

Do you really?

Yes.

Yeah,

because

Like PJ said, for me, they got pockets to hold the peanut butter and the syrup.

Oh my gosh.

That's hilarious.

My mom makes them kind of how Ollie was saying, she makes them thin.

Or was that Anna who said that?

She makes them real thin, liquidy, and then.

The problem is like she gives them to all the grandkids and they eat, you can eat 12 pancakes before you even know what hit you because they're thin and they're a little burnt and singed and they've got, not burnt, but just darker and then they've got their fresh maple syrup and the melted butter.

It is outstanding.

Wow, great stuff.

Okay, keep those texts coming.

If you wanna get in on the fun, how do you like your pancakes?

It's International Pancake Day and I love that Mike Clemens worked at an IHOP, that's so great.

God, he must have read that manual inside and out.

He was like regurgitating all the IHOP

mission statement and

like procedure was so great.

All right, so we had, we played this already.

I think it deserves a repeat because I don't usually get called by A-list celebrities.

But like I said earlier in the show, we've been kind of poking fun at Adrian Brody for his very lengthy Oscar speech.

You know was not a great speech.

Let's be honest.

It was too long and he didn't really say much even though he said a lot and So we had fun with it.

We kept playing it over and over like he was still talking even Tuesday night But he found out about it somehow, you know, I'm a civic media.

It's a big network Word gets around things go viral and Adrian Brody called me to really let me have it earlier today And we have that recording right now

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