Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, as we kick off hour number two.
Broadcasting here over the great state of Wisconsin from beautiful downtown Green Bay Our question of the night is what is your favorite kind of frozen pizza?
We're kind of narrowing this down.
I don't even know have we ever done pizza in general Conrad?
I don't know if we have I don't think we have
How do we sidestep that?
But we're going frozen pizza tonight.
So we've gotten some great texts already.
Please share your favorite frozen pizza.
You can text us on the app, the Civic Media app, very easy to use, or at 855-752-4842, 855-755-CIVIC, or on the stream if you happen to be watching the radio.
It's great to have you that way too.
However you're joining us, it's just a pleasure to have you here with us.
Christina Laurie is my guest.
She is the editor of Up North News.
If you have not checked out Up North News, Christina, how can they...
How can listeners get UpNorth News?
Is it something you go and email?
You have to go to the site and sign up.
How does that work?
great.
It's kind of thing like when you check your email first thing in the morning, I always see up North news and I'm like, Oh, what do they have today?
Like it's, you know, sometimes I nothing really jumps out at me, but more often than not, I end up spending a few minutes reading up North news.
It's just, it's that informative and that fun.
So we were talking about Vince Lombardi and what a pioneer he was of civil rights, something I had no idea.
Uh, there were times he wouldn't let his team stay at a hotel if they didn't allow people of color or, you know, he boycotted a game.
in the South.
That's pretty remarkable.
The Barty Schickover has had coach in 1959.
And when he took over, they only had one black player in Green Bay.
So during his next decade there, he added 12 more.
Well, actually.
rewind.
He added 12 more immediately that first season.
By the time he left almost half of his team was black players, which was unheard of at the time.
He also hired the first black assistant coach in the NFL.
And I mean, it's one thing to just hire black athletes.
It's another thing to be their biggest defender.
And that's right.
It just shows his true character.
And the reasoning behind it was really interesting.
Also, you know, going back like I
currently, you don't really think of Italian Americans as a marginalized group.
But back then, he felt like he was personally discriminated against too, because of his Italian roots.
So he felt a kinship with black Americans, obviously, to a much lesser extent.
But that was kind of the impetus of his
entire way of being.
And it wasn't just on the basis of race.
He had, when he ultimately left Green Bay to go to the Steelers, he had a few gay players on his team who were not out at the time.
And he champions them.
And, you know, that was all private.
That was not made known until about a decade ago when they spoke out about it.
But it's just incredible because he was so ahead of his time and it's so on brand for Wisconsin, right?
Like where our motto is forward.
He was just like such a pioneer in so many ways.
I'm pretty gutsy too to have that kind of, you know, courage back then, especially when he felt marginalized as well.
That's, that's a remarkable story.
Right now, this seems especially topical at a time when DEI is such a conversation.
These weren't, as people like to say, didn't earn it hires.
That was not the case then, just as it is now.
Because as we know, adding those 12 players to the team was only an asset for the packers.
It went on to absolutely dominate that entire decade.
So he was looking for the best of the best, and he found them in those black players.
Very well said.
I'm so conflicted here because I had so much to talk to you, but we're running out of time.
I wanted to jump into, not jump into shipwrecks, but I wanted to talk about shipwrecks.
We'll save that for another time, but let's end with the sweet stuff.
Pancakes.
You did a recent article about pancakes.
I didn't know they dated back to 600 BC.
How did that even happen?
Does it even have a griddle back then?
How do they do that?
One thing we like to do is just celebrate.
It seems like there's a national day for everything.
Yeah, too many weeks ago.
It was National Pancake Day, and it's just a great opportunity to shout out some local businesses, gauge people's opinions.
What's their favorite place to get?
pancakes.
My personal favorite place is to make them myself.
I don't think anything can top a homemade pancake.
But we also wanted to shout out that pancake mix that I personally used to, it's from this place called porch light, which is a nonprofit that provides housing for people in Madison who don't have it.
And it also gives them employment opportunities.
So they actually help.
make this pancake mix.
They also have scone mixes.
They have a great fresh bakery.
They make pizzas as well.
It's just a great opportunity and a way for you to feel good and eat good.
Yeah, no, I love that.
And I think if people knew more about certain products or brands or whatever, they would buy them.
Like, I didn't know that.
Now I do.
And that's probably the first place I would go.
Although I will say, if we could have bragging rights up here in Northeast Wisconsin,
You did mention in the article, the best pancakes are found.
Say it.
been?
I
been.
I don't live here.
So I have
list of, I live an hour north of here, if you can believe that.
But I have to make a long list of things I need to do in Green Bay.
I'm slowly checking them off the list, but I've not been to that place and it sounds amazing.
Yeah.
And
I love
All right.
We have about a minute left.
Tell us one more thing about these pies.
They're Dave, Dave Elmer.
Pies, am I saying that right?
It was a Wisconsin farm, and they supposedly have the best pies in the world.
Let me
guys.
It's Dave and Elmer.
You know what?
Let's save this.
Let's do this.
I would love to have you back soon, and we have to save some stuff to talk about.
I have 800 questions I didn't get to, but I cannot thank you enough for your time tonight, Christina.
It was great to finally have you on the show.
Keep up the amazing work at Up North News, and let's do this again, I hope.
You're welcome.
Good luck at football practice.
That's Christina Laurie joining us here on Night Light.
Have you been to the pancake place?
Cheese curd pancakes or
Okay.
You know you could probably put cheese curds into like you ever had like those hash browns where they have cheese on them and a little bit of sour cream They serve them in a lot of places like at fish fries up in Marinette You could probably work cheese curds into hash
would probably be dynamite.
them on a burger at Culver's for God's sakes.
Well, that was fun.
Christina Laurie, great guest.
Do you read Up North News?
So you could say you're informed about sports.
Yep.
That's about it.
We've got some texts we need to get to here.
We're a little bit behind because that was a prerecorded segment.
So we will get to our texts.
And oh man, we got a whole bunch of texts here.
People love food questions.
We have to do, I think we need a food thing every night.
Oh, we got good action last night too with our gene action.
A lot of people kind of irate.
So Rosemary before the break said, I'm a cell phone moron and a computer idiot.
No, you're not Rosemary.
Those are very normal questions, especially if you're not a social media enthusiast.
Rosemary says, yes, I found it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm old, short, long, short, Alexa.
Old, short AI.
I'm glad we could help Rosemary.
I'm glad you found Wonderfully Wisconsin.
It's a great thing to follow from the 608 Park Plaza frozen pizza from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Best around hands down.
Get the ground beef and cheese, add green olives, and you have yourself a night.
That does sound fun.
I think we should get some of our best pals together and get a park lake, a park plaza, frozen
go.
Rosemary also says, best frozen pizza is the one I take out of my freezer, not fussy, just hungry.
I'm going to rip through these.
We got a lot of texts and not as much time.
Jim from Ableton says, little chute, Kokona, Wisconsin are the home of Jax DeGiorno, lotsa matza, connies and many other brands that come out of two factories on County Highway 0000.
That is interesting.
Salt maybe on the bottom.
What is it?
It's like crust.
It's like little breadcrumbs.
they're one of those few places like there was Connie's pizzerias and they've transitioned into frozen pizza well, too I don't know many brands that have done that very well
or as successfully as Connie says.
Brian in Green Bay says, we have local high schools do frozen pizza fundraisers where the kids make them day of.
Splendid.
Preble pizzas are what we call them.
All right.
Katie from Madison says, Emile's pizza is great.
At a local dive bar, they used to add celery salt.
Oh, that's good stuff.
After cooking in the countertop oven, perfect.
Thank you, Katie.
That's an underrated topping.
Little celery salt with your white prepper flakes.
good.
It's kind of like that what you're just saying on the bottom of the
okay.
Same kind of texture.
Nick from Marshall says scream in Sicilian.
We've had a lot
Pamela says, used to love pizzeria uno deep dish.
Now we enjoy Kroger's three meat rising crust frozen pizzas from Pamela in Wisconsin Rapids.
That is awesome.
Meat sweats is still the best name for any pizza.
I think And so we've got a lot more text read we'll get to those our pal Mike Clemens the civic media sports authority coming up next to talk badgers and free agency at speechwabbit and nightlight civic media radio
We are having fun here on a Tuesday night.
We are partying like it's Tuesday night in downtown Green Bay, but we are casting that party statewide and hope you are enjoying as we talk about frozen pizzas and Up North News and now we turn our attention to a civic media sports authority who is going to keep us informed on everything we need to know about the tournament and Maybe we'll start off with Frank Sinatra's house.
He's Mike Clemens and he joins us now.
Hey Mike
What made you
because I saw your Facebook post And you said a Sunday night at the Sinatra's and it was this great picture of Nancy Sinatra and the Sinatra living room and they're all having dinner I just thought that was a phenomenal find.
I mean there's There's some sort of new thread that's coming up on I think that's my Facebook feed.
Yeah, and there's these great little stories about
just the way it was to be with Sinatra.
Like, who was it that said this?
Oh, Yule Brenner.
So Yule Brenner and his wife were close friends with Frank and his wife.
And so Yule, as a matter of fact, Frank had a bedroom where Yule stayed at.
And they'd come over, they'd have dinner, and then afterwards they'd sit by the pool.
Frank liked to wear an orange shirt.
You know, they would listen to the radio.
They would do crossword puzzles.
They would drink a lot, tell stories about show business and that kind of stuff.
But, you know, Frank was pretty good at chill.
I heard a great story.
Let's see, was it Martin Short that told this?
Or no, Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase told this when he was back for the SNL 50th anniversary.
It was one time, and ladies, he got to see one of Frank Sinatra's last concerts.
So, you know, somebody, hey, this is Chevy Chase.
He was a big movie star by then, after his one year on S&L.
And so they get him back, and so he said, there's a line, and you know, you learn and show business to say the right things.
He said, but there was some guy that was with him, maybe Martin Short or whatever, and you know, he got nervous, and he said,
Mr. Sinatra, I just want to say, yeah, I know, I know, I know I'm great.
What do you want to drink?
Is that a great line?
Yeah, I know, I've heard it all.
What do you want to drink?
You know, it's funny, Mike, because I remember Martin Short saying a similar story on like the David Letterman show or something, and he said, Sinatra asked him,
and what he wanted to drink and Martin Short said Scotch or whatever and he said straight up or rocks and Martin Short said he thought Sinatra said straight up or relax.
And Martin Short says to him, I guess, relax.
And he's like, what?
Like, this is really awkward.
All right.
I don't even think, like, if he's hanging out with Yule Browner by the pool, I'd be too nervous to actually be in on the hang.
But I would love to sit there, have them not see me, so I could just observe them hanging out.
That's what would make me feel more comfortable, I think.
Hey listen, my dad was a hard working guy, but every once in a while he would scrape it together and now that I think about it did some amazing things.
Like when I was 14 or 15, he took the four of us.
It was me, my brother, mom, and dad.
And we were in New York City for about three or four days.
One of his buddies had really made it in his business, which was in men's clothing retail.
And he had a wonderful apartment in Greenwich Village.
So I got to experience the village.
and some of the bars and shows there.
And then dad got tickets and we saw Yule Brenner and the King and I in Broadway.
Oh, man, how fun.
And I can't remember the woman that played as opposed to the actress who was in the movie in the 50s.
But this is like late 70s, early 80s.
But there's Yule Brenner on the stage.
And he also got his tickets to a show where Richard Burton was playing down in Chicago.
So doing Camelot, the lead of Camelot.
Wow.
Yeah, so I've been really... He never took me to an NFL game, but he took me to that stuff, so that was just, that was fine.
Well, you found your path anyway, Mike, I think.
Yeah.
As your Twitter handle would indicate, you're the guy, so that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
So...
Where should we start here, Mike?
Because we've got about four minutes to the news, and I feel like we're going to spend most of our time on the tournament, maybe.
Do you want to start with?
Let's talk about it.
Because really, you know something?
I'm not sitting here filling out a bracket.
I gave that up years ago.
There's folks that do that in the office pool.
That's fine.
To me, I'm just trying to figure out what these coaches can do.
to maximize this opportunity between greg guard and the badgers and shaka smart and and the market golden eagle so great guard man this team is really grown in terms of our personality no one thought they were going to break the top twenty five and they got as high as eight there for a while in terms of rankings they go into this thing what i think it eighteen closer last course they lost to michigan on sunday after playing four games in a row but when you look at that team with john tanje
Man, what a transfer there.
A guy can score as much as three, two points in a game.
John Blackwell, you know, on the guard.
Max Kleismann, who comes in, you know, is a spark on that team.
He missed three games, but he was able to come back for that big 10 tournament.
Kamari McGee with some speed.
Big Nolan Winter.
And Jack Janicki, you know, is kind of a, and then the Stephen Crawl story, where here's a big talented kid that just was, I don't know, his head was someplace else.
and great guard calls them out in january after press catches one little line basically said yeah we're probably gonna have to you know give him a little more time at the bench one of those kind of lines and this kid realized us okay i guess me and he turned it around and help that team put on that you know that the great second half they did and now they got a decent seed they're gonna take on montana badgers just arrived in denver
their game is going to be though uh... thursday at twelve thirty out in denver and then shaka smart and all of his things you know like the domino how do i make guys around around me better he he i didn't realize this until a recent interview where i didn't know that he grew up listening to al mcguire on nbc oh really yeah and that's what it's not see that explains everything every yeah that's great he is such a motivator that way kids he said things like
growing up in this part of the country i couldn't help but follow the basketball program uh... i went to co coaching change myself when we lost my college coach bill brown and you know and i and i cried me and he comes up with these great dramatic things and talks about you know it's not only what can you do the player but how can you make the players better around you great philosophical philosophical things
but Al McGuire would be proud.
And that's how he's got this program turned around.
He's going back to the tournament fourth year in a row with guys like Cam Jones, Stevie Mitchell, David Joplin, who's probably going to have the most games played as a market player out of Brookfield High School in the Milwaukee area.
So, you know, two interesting stories in those two coaches.
We'll see how far they get in this tournament.
Badgers, a three seed Marquette, a seven seed.
We will talk more about this with Civic Media Sports Authority.
Mike Clemens, he's calling us from Sinatra's living room and we'll have more after the news with Mike.
So stay tuned.
This is Peach Waba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Watertown says pizza is the best way to get whatever into kids.
Living on food stamps in WIC, Wisconsin.
Oh, what does that stand for again?
I'm blanking.
A women infant children benefit included canned tuna, tuna pizza, tuna plus mayo plus cheese plus green pepper plus chip crumbs.
Better than you would think.
Oh, that's good to know, Annie.
I never, I never would have thought.
I know they put Fritos on pizza now.
I never heard of tuna though, but that's.
Good insights.
We'll read more of your texts coming up.
What is your favorite frozen pizza is tonight's question.
Right now, we have Civic Media Sports Authority, Mike Clemens with us, and we're talking about the NCAA Tournament.
The Badgers drew a three seed and Marquette a seven seed.
Mike, how about Michigan pulling a five seed even though they beat the Badgers?
We
As far as I go on that.
So Wisconsin, once again, I swear to God, if they have to play Duke again, it seems like every year, and maybe it's just in my head, they draw Duke in their same bracket or region.
What is the deal there?
Because if they end up playing each other, we're going to have to see clips from 2015 again, which is really hard to get through.
Greg Guard is biting his tongue.
Maybe there are some things he'll say more about it when the tournament is over.
in terms of just any he doesn't understand what you know what there's this this term is going right on in the walkie way and why we have to go out to denver why do we have to have answer questions about what can you have handle the mile-high thing you know that's going to be raised uh... when they play their game on thursday if they can handle those altitude so yeah i mean you know you know i have stood next to these athletic directors on selection sunday
and when the cameras in the microphones around it sounds like well yeah we can count on this all along etc off the record when you're standing next to them they have no clue what's going to happen no no clue and their names get announced and where they're going like huh what okay well what do we say what do I say what it's okay they gather the thoughts and they give you a nice little song by oh yeah we we sort of knew this is all along we're very excited to be playing who we play new mexico yeah we're very excited to be
going to Cleveland and playing New Mexico.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause I mean, really, what are they supposed to say?
Right?
Like, oh, we got screwed again or why are we just in?
It's a
All right.
That's what it's all about.
Right.
So will you be going to Denver, Mike, or are you just going to be watching the games from the comfort of your own home?
You know, I haven't followed college basketball until like a couple of weeks ago, but I do think the Badgers seem like they're in kind of a good position.
Like, I feel like they can make some noise.
And there's something about this team, and maybe it's Tanjay, but I feel like they could do something.
Well, if they're rested, and I don't know what the lesson learned from the Big Ten tournament, playing four straight days, but if the spacing is there, if they can get the three-point shot going, they're a very tough team to beat, and they're the best in the nation.
They've been percentage-wise from the free throw line, so if their opponent's stupid enough to
try and think that following them or getting physical is the way to go.
That will play into their hands.
To me, if they meet, well, it's like the way Michigan played them.
You know, slow the game down, pass it around, keep it away from them, and find the little things on the tape.
There's these little things you do.
You know what, if you go to the left more on this guy, he doesn't seem to be able to cover as well if you want to your right.
So, you know, if you can get, if we get the ball to this shooter,
on the left side of the key if he goes left he's got a better chance of
you
it
How do you think, before we get into some NFL stuff, Mike, how do you feel about Marquette?
They're kind of a higher seed, a seventh seed.
They've got Auburn in their region, but they've also got Michigan State, who Wisconsin just beat.
So I feel like if they get hot, you know, maybe there's a chance, right?
Yeah, you know they were rated high to start the season and I don't think that they were exactly Decimated by injuries they just they got cold with some of their shooting and inconsistent and You can see the frustration from Chaka smart there particularly in January and February and they turn things around here toward the end But you know they go a team that was ranked seventh around December so but when they
started getting into some of the other games in the big east and i didn't think that some of those teams in the big east they were losing to were necessarily that good i didn't think the big east was that good of a conference except you know they could not get past st johns everyone in new york is just crazy excited about st johns uh... being you know one of the top six top seven uh... ranked teams in the nation uh... but they lost was at all three times to them uh... so you know i
To me, Marquette is probably the more disappointing team because I think everyone thought that they were going to be a hotter, more consistent shooting team and higher scoring team when the season started.
Yeah, that's interesting.
You shared an article with us, Mike, on that Heels of Free Agency ending here, NFL Free Agency, that was written by Mike Florio.
This obviously affected you reading it, and I was reading it, and I don't even pay attention to where we get our information.
I do like Mike Florio.
I think he's, you know, he shoots people straight, but what is his beef exactly with insiders and how we get our information?
Is he saying in this article, well, I'll let you give an overview of the article as a sports journalist.
I've thought that
on this show in particular.
Maybe I want to share with listeners about how things work in the NFL these days, because there's so much interest in contracts and where's Aaron Rodgers going to go in these kinds of stories.
There was a situation about a year and a half ago where Adam Schaffner from ESPN, the top NFL insider, and
we
was asked by Dan Patrick said what what do you get these stories how do you put this together well you know yeah you want to see how the sausage is made i mean you know i i get i get clues here i get hit there i get picked there and i sort of piece together so you're guessing you
know well
want to say
that right so he he got into a place he painted himself into a quarter that he should never have done it the fact is you know if it looks like a
If it looks like it, smells like it, you know, it feels like it, that it's probably it.
You're probably on the story.
But you're also getting it from sources.
And most of those sources are the agents.
Mike Florio, for folks that don't know, I mean, he's on camera a lot.
He's on camera on Sunday nights.
He was an attorney.
And about 20, 25 years ago, he started a little website called Pro Football Talks.
And everybody was using that blog as like a chat room to drop their rumors.
Because there's millions of dollars on the table.
You know, it's a card.
The NFL's a big card table with a bunch of chips on it and millions of dollars.
And dudes are trying to, you know, get their fair share off the table and in their pocket and walk away.
So he started carrying these stories that were all turned out to be true because they were from players, agents, coaches, GMs, owners.
sharing the stuff when you see these guys down the sidelines before game that's all the stuff that they're talking about you know they're networking hey man if i get fired you know i think i think i could get that gm job would you be my head coach if i end up going to carolina you know that this is what they're talking about pre-game so florio sells that website to nbc sports for millions of dollars
and you know now he continues to work on his content there are times he's been way wrong on stories and never apologize for it and you know he'd be really ripped erin rogers for allegedly uh... passing up a woman though you know was wearing a bandana she'd be going through cancer treatments and it did not a graphic and he called a mature look look at what and printed out erin rogers is well he didn't do his facts checking that erin had actually find that woman stuff
on the way to the plane and when they came back she was still there when they came back from a trip he'd already he'd already signed stuff for but you know he he ripped air rod just for three days and never apologized for it when it was he was completely off is
that how they wrote a thing today
that said listen these NFL insiders like Adam Schefter at ESPN Ian Rappaport NFL Network Jake Glazer at Fox to a lesser extent these days they'll say
All right, Aaron Banks goes from the San Francisco 49ers to left guard at the Green Bay Packers, a four-year deal worth $77 million, athletes first did the deal, or Drew Rosenauce brokered the deal.
So he's naming these agents, and it's like, you know, these so-called insiders, they're not fooling anybody.
Their sources are the
agents,
in fighters as billboards to say hey look what our firm got for this player they're just only they're only advertising to the college players hey sign with us look how much money we got our guys and that really reporting and and the fact of the matter is you've seen less and less of us guys like me and radio guys at the milwaukee journal fatnell was scott scott state journal able to break these stories because there was a big change in the business
Do you remember when Drew Rosenhouse was Javon Walker's agent?
And Javon had this big softball tournament down at what was then Miller Park and brought in a bunch of B-list celebrities.
And then he had Terrell Owens, he's out there in the sidewalk, and Terrell's doing the sit-ups and crying, and that's my quarterback.
Drew Rosenhouse was becoming the headline of the story, just like the movie Jerry Maguire.
And I think at some point, Roger Goodell rightfully
Greg gathered the owners and say, this is not about the agents.
It's about the players.
It's not about the owners.
You owners don't want this stuff exposed.
Right.
All right.
And the agents figured out, why are there three or 400 of us?
Let's all just go.
Let's call co-op.
So the agents have all gone to about four or five mega agencies where they share the secretaries in the offices.
and the facilities, and there's one or four places where they do all the booking, and they break their stories with the so-called media partners.
So when ESPN and Disney crack the check for half a billion dollars for the rights for Monday night football and all that, or CBS, or Fox, those are the people that get the stories.
Or the NFL Network, which is owned by the owners.
They're the four or five guys that get the stories from the agents.
and floria pointed out it's kind of a charade these guys are really breaking stories they're just they're getting group tax from the agents and they're just sort of the p-r-flags so understand that
That's part of the process that's going on.
That's really interesting you say that where the agents get named.
It's like a tip of the hat.
It used to drive me crazy when Hollywood trailers would come out of it.
From the studio that brought you, no one cares what studio a movie is from.
It's the same thing with the agents.
They don't, fans don't care if Drew Rosenhaus broke her deal.
And it says right here in Florio's article, insiders aren't journalists.
They're external PR reps.
That's really interesting.
Well, that's
of what
But you know, I'll tell you, Goodell,
And the owners have, and people say, you know, Mike, don't talk politics.
Just stick to sports.
And as Aaron Rogers once wisely said at his locker during the Colin Kaepernick situation with the national anthem, he said, you know what, sports and politics are closer than you
think.
And
agents for anger and anger becomes this addiction and people want to know what's going on with their politics and what's going on with their sports team and that creates the phone calls and the twitter and the reaction and they buy jerseys and they go to war but in terms of and that's not to take away from tom pelicero who came up through the ranks of the brick green break prescasette then worked in minneapolis
and that there was a writer and then became the you know one of the faces of the nfl network he's worked these guys work very hard chaffner used to come to green bay when he wrote for the denver post wearing a full suit on sunday and not just because he was arrogant he wanted to be who he is he has worked very hard to get to that level and build those relations as an internet job and he lives on that phone twenty hours a day but you know it's not like will mcdonough was the you know the newspaper writer out of boston this sort of
you know built this sort of thing or Peter King or remember John Clayton
hey Mike hold that thought for one second we get a real quick break okay all right we're coming right back with more with Mike Clemens on nightlight
PJ on the stream says, my whirlpool oven has a pizza button.
I thought he meant when I first read that, my whirlpool like is hot tub.
Yeah, that's what I thought too when I read that.
Serious customization.
And Robert Layman on the stream says, Christina does an excellent job with Up North News.
I get it every morning.
I love Christina and Up North News.
And he also says, I love taco pizza.
Yes,
Yeah.
I think he loves Christina more because he said that twice, but we love Christina too.
Thank you Robert and taco pizza is awesome We've got some more text to get to but Mike Clements is on the line with us right now Mike It's always great the way you break things down.
It's just so insightful and I can't thank you enough for that
Yeah, you know, I mean I'm surprised that fans are a little more just okay, physically what are what's like of an NFL team doing to put the best
players together to to win games but they are fast and since there is a salary cap and since the long off season uh... that's the thing that people you know are talking about right now but who's out who's spending too much money who's wasting money who got overpaid who's getting underpaid who deserves more pay and so you know it creates this it's a whole industry for the nflb you know relevant
12 months a year, and that's the period we're going on right now.
But I think you start to see these things happen, not only in sports, but in politics as well.
They kind of mirror each other.
But what's the real story, and what's really the important thing that we should be talking about here?
We always seem to miss that, I think.
Right.
Mike, as always, thank you.
Hey, before we let you go, what's your favorite frozen pizza?
Do you have one?
Yes.
Sleep on your stomach.
Mike, great stuff
Thank you, buddy.
And we'll talk soon, I hope.
Thanks, Pete.
Talk to you down the road.
All right.
You got it.
That's Mike Clemens, Civic Media Sports Authority.
Laying it out there like only Mike can it's always fun to See that that's that's a great article to break down too like I don't even think of that stuff But it takes a journalist to identify that and go hey wait a minute and to talk about what Florio did and to kind of do a deep dive into it So that was fun Our question of the night as many of you know is what is your favorite kind of frozen pizza?
Wisconsin is the frozen pizza capital of the world Craig on the stream says
Tessie Pizza?
I think I'm saying that right.
Poor Tessie Pizza out of Stevens Point is my all-time favorite.
Exclamation point.
I will always pick up some when I'm over there.
You know, I kind of forgot about Taco Pizza, what Robert said, that is dynamite stuff.
Oh, yeah.
PJ also said he likes the Screamin' Sicilian pizzas and compares them to lotsa-motsa.
Would you say that's accurate, Conrad?
OK.
All right steady Eddie checks in Pete Paul Newman not much of it Not much of an actor, but he could make a hell of a good pizza.
Let's not forget salad dressings either
Steady Eddie.
Steady Eddie continues, actually, I would never eat a frozen pizza.
So pedestrian, so Wisconsin.
Steadfast Edward prefers to keep a personal pizza chef on call 24 hours a day.
Must be nice if you have the means there, Steady Eddie.
He says, okay, I'm lying.
One time I ate a frozen pizza while it was still frozen and I liked it.
Truthfully, whatever you got, even Totino's is good with me.
I'll eat anything.
I'm not fuzzy.
I wouldn't know steady.
Maybe he didn't mean fussy.
I don't know.
Maybe he's saying he's fuzzy.
He's no he's saying I'm not fuzzy The full body shape Thank you steady Eddie as always Ali from the North Woods told us what did she say again Conrad?
She's got
Jeff
was his name, right?
Yeah, okay, and Ali
Boy, Ali has got her finger on the pulse of the Northwoods.
That's impressive.
Yeah.
Chris Casper.
Always good to hear from Casper.
He says lotsa-motsa.
Can't argue with that.
Have you had the cheeseburger pizza?
I forget.
I don't remember what it was called.
It was in my town, Camelsport, when I lived there.
And they had a burger pizza there.
I'll never forget.
That was the first burger pizza I think I've ever had.
And it was one of the best pizzas.
And it pickles, bacon bits, pieces of ground beef.
Oh, it was amazing.
It's weird they can, you know, like the first time I saw a cheeseburger pizza, I'm like, oh, God.
And then I taste it.
I'm like, yeah, that's pretty good.
They do taste test all of them.
Annie from Watertown says, oh my God, pizza dreams, Emile's pizza in Watertown.
grew up on meals in the 1960s.
Call for delivery, run over to the A&W for root beer, still the best combo.
Yeah, you cannot go, wow, that's great.
A&W uses the real sugar to it.
Excellent leftovers the next day.
Cells frozen now, excellent, but just never found it.
Or any to equal the powdery crust, elastic, cheesy quality, except once in Guatemala.
Any should be a food critic.
beautifully crafted text there, Annie.
Bridget from the 818, I'm sorry, says, home run in.
That's our third one for home run in, including me.
She says, delicious.
Annie from Watertown also says, pizza the best way to get whatever into kids.
Oh, we already read that one.
I'm starting to repeat my text Conrad.
Sometimes they repeat
Have you noticed that?
I swear, or else I get bumped back up to the top.
Hey, great text, everybody.
Thank you.
This was a fun question.
Glad you guys were part of it.
Love to hear what kind of frozen pizza you like.
We are the frozen pizza capital of the world here in Wisconsin, and we just celebrated that tonight.
My thanks to Christina Laurie.
I will pass on Robert's text, your message to Christina.
That was very nice, Robert.
And Mike Clemens, as always, so much fun.
On behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night, Wisconsin.
