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Welcome back to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.
We are kicking off hour number two.
I'm just asking you this, Conrad.
Do you think we can top hour number one?
Oh, he's getting a call.
You know, we get calls, Bob, but I think Conrad's just doing that.
I saw Michael Jordan do that one time in Chicago where he walked through.
What do you mean?
Well, he was walking through.
He was going into a restaurant.
He didn't want people to bother him.
And he just picked up this phone and pretend.
And I looked at it.
The screen wasn't lit.
There wasn't anything going on.
Not that I was going to talk to him, but
he might have been listening to your Urban Legends and Stranger Truths
podcast.
I think he's
probably got better things to do
than that.
Sorry, that was my dry cleaning.
You're dry cleaning.
Oh, what year is this?
1971.
Conrad is a dry cleaner.
Bob Dennis is my guest.
You can hear his podcasts, Urban Legends and Stranger Truths.
And he also has a podcast called Mobb and Mafia News.
He is here in studio.
Our question of the night ladies and gentlemen is what is your favorite baseball movie?
Lots of baseball stuff happening this week in terms of history.
Anyway, we've had this is the week that the Sandlot dropped and they didn't say dropped though back when that movie came out it was released and then in 1989 Major League and of course the documentary just a bit outside will be streaming soon and we'll have some information on that Friday when Sean Hannes joins us
but what is your favorite baseball movie that is the question we're asking tonight i would say a league of their own and uh
you ever see the long kiss goodnight
How often do you and your, no, I'm just kidding.
I would never ask those questions.
Yeah, I would.
I like to make things uncomfortable.
But if you love Gina Davis, check out the movie, Long Kiss Goodnight.
She is just, it's total badassery.
She's really good at it.
So, and then we'll have a few more minutes here with Bob and then Mike Mercury will be joining us over the stream from Madison, Madison-based comedian and writer.
All kinds of fun stuff happening here tonight on Nightlight.
Bob, I'm trying to figure out where I want to go here, because as
ask you.
Let's start with the structure of the mob.
Because you sent me this thing.
It's the mafia, the mob, the syndicate.
In Chicago, it's called the outfit.
There's the cartels.
And then street gangs.
How does all
OK.
Very simple.
We know what the mafia is.
We know how it exists, primarily because we've seen the movies.
So I don't really need to get into a real
deep report on that.
It's just you have a godfather or a boss who has a consigliariates his person that he counsel with of course and then beneath him is an underboss underneath that and the underboss runs everything.
The underboss is the buffer between the the godfather and everybody else so that if something happens he has deniable culpability.
And then underneath them are the Kapo regimes, which just basically means the head of the regimes, the guys who are in charge of the different divisions of the family.
And then beneath them will be the soldiers who are out of the streets and doing all the work.
The
street
Yeah.
Okay.
thing, like, I know, and I'm getting all my knowledge here from movies, but it's kind of a big deal, A, to be part of a street crew, then to run a street crew, and then it's Kapo, right?
captain.
And then would the next step up from there be underboss?
Yikes.
Yeah, it's not something that you would be able to.
They would either have to die naturally or something would have to happen to them for you to be able to move up.
It's kind of like movie reference in The Godfather.
Clemenza, quote unquote dies.
Right.
And Frankie.
Five fingers comes up and moves up into that position then next he so Clemens had to die for him in order to move up to be okay to head up that part of the family,
right?
And in terms of being like a made guy like we say like in good fellas You
touch him.
He's a made guy is that our guys in street crews made guys or is it only when you become a capo?
Can anyone be a made guy
You've had you've had to do something that has contributed to the mafia organization and improve them financially as well as
protective wise.
So you can be a street soldier for years and years and never be anything but a street soldier.
And you would not necessarily be a maid guy.
A maid guy is another step up.
The maid guy is one step before going up to the next level of running his own small unit within the family.
Okay.
Wow.
So it's very structured.
Yeah.
Of all those positions, what's the least stressful?
Where are you least likely to get an ice pick to the neck?
Yeah, I know that but like I mean if you're earning money for them You're probably somewhat insulated like like let's say in good fellas Jimmy Conway
by De Niro He could never be a maid guy because he was half Irish like Ray Liotta, but they were good earners
made so much money and paid Paul Cicero's character Paulie
Are they, I know they're not, they can be off and they don't even need permission because they're not made guys.
But you still have to get that order from someone, right?
Like if someone's making you a lot of money, aren't they somewhat protected?
They're like a franchise.
They're bringing you the money and they're paying you the dues, but they're getting back from the family as well.
So they're being told, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen, you can make a boost here or whatever.
I'd love to be a made guy.
Anything my chances are not real good.
Just as a radio
Yeah, I my nickname that my mob nickname would be the big softy Like I could I don't think I could ever awesome.
I give him another chance
I don't think so.
I went to the mob with my son in Nevada in Las Vegas many years ago and I used to go through and they had there was actually a story that followed you as you went through okay and
They would have to, they gave you a name, a tag that you wore on your neck and mine was Iceman.
They gave you an optic name.
Yeah, everybody got one.
Yeah, you went through.
Wow.
And they put an RFD on these tags that you wear.
I shouldn't tell you this.
You're sworn to secrecy just for going to the museum?
I don't know.
Anyways, there's an RFD, a radio frequency device, put into the tag.
Right.
Now, I read everything.
So while we're in line, I'm reading this RFD tag.
And I thought, well, that's kind of odd.
But you follow this.
And there is this video.
We chose James Kahn to be our host.
Oh, nice.
So he followed us through.
And at one point toward the end, he says, yeah, I got to go do this thing.
And this guy's going to talk to you.
I looked at my son.
I said, take your tag off.
Put it over there.
So we took our tags off.
We put them on the other side of the room.
And then we walked over to the right side.
And we waited.
And when we did, on the screen, the door flies open and these guys go.
And they're all shooting to where our tags were.
Because if that had the RFD in it, so that's where they knew where we were at.
And we were on the other side of the room, you know, and we walked out and the guy that took the tour said, we want to talk to you, come here.
And I was like, uh-oh.
So we walk over and he said, you are the first person in like five years who's done this.
How did you know this?
I said, I read the tag.
It said it had an RFD in it.
And he said, what is an RFD?
And I said, well, it's a radio frequency device.
And that tells you where people are at within the building.
Oh my gosh.
And he was like, OK.
So I don't know.
They've probably changed it since then.
But did he say we could really use a guy like you?
Yeah.
It's like, no, don't ever come
back.
We
time.
Alright, let's talk about you mentioned Jewish mobsters before.
Lefty Rosenthal was played by Robert De Niro in Casino.
Let me ask you this, Bob.
What movie do you think encapsulates or gives you the most realistic look at the mob?
That's like... I'm sure they do, but... I mean, you know, I love them because of what they show, but none of them can really show everything.
If you want to read about it...
If you want to read something that will tell you the truth is get a copy of the book, The Vellacci Papers.
The Vellacci.
You lost me at book.
Okay.
Well, maybe maybe they got an audio copy.
But he reads anymore.
Yeah.
Well, you could between here and your trips to the rich people in Madison, we, you know, you can listen to.
But the Vellacci Papers were, I guess, I think it's Sam Vellacci.
I can't remember his first.
Yeah.
He testified before the first person ever to testify before the government about the structure and how things were run within the mafia.
That's fascinating.
I mean, it's just like, wow, they, they.
alluded to that in Godfather 2, right?
that's the one where they drown him in the bathtub, and Al Pacino shows up at the trial, and then he realizes, I better not say anything.
But didn't they kill him anyway?
They
Oh, they killed Frankie, that's right.
Okay.
But they told him that, you know, if you do this, you take yourself out, you know, we'll take care of your family.
Right.
Boy, that's a raw deal.
The other thing that's not quite right in the Godfather is, and that is that when Michael goes into the restaurant and kills the...
police captain, which they would never do.
That's just way too hot for the, for the mafia.
They don't want that kind of attention, right?
They don't want that kind of attention.
They would have offed Salatso.
That was no big deal.
Yeah.
But, you know, they have been going to the restaurant and sitting down and talking and they're going to have a meal and then he goes into the bathroom and he's got to try and find the gun.
And that would never happen.
With the mafia, it's go in, shoot him, be done and walk out.
I hear what you're saying, but they they didn't think he could get in with a gun on him And I I know what you're saying conventional wisdom wise when it comes to the mob is they would never kill a police captain But I thought they made it plausible Because they own people in the papers and they just they have to expose this guy as a dirty cop And if they were had that much vengeance in them to do it like it's believable
whether they
don't know but in the movie
from a screenwriting standpoint.
I thought it was plausible.
I just think if these guys would just calm down, they could solve everything with like a thumb or a leg wrestle
something, you know?
Hug it out kind of thing.
Let's have an arm wrestle and we'll get to the bottom of this.
We have about a minute left, 1923.
kind of keeping with the mob theme, because the mafia was introduced in the show in 1923, season two, which just ended without spoiler alerts, even though I already know what happened, because I'm an idiot and read something.
Overall, you like the show, right?
Oh, yes.
Because the thing is, is if you watch any of these Sheridan programs, Taylor, Taylor Sheridan, all of them basically are like Godfather themed.
shows, they're all follow that same string.
And I enjoyed it very much.
The thing that I enjoyed also as a side note is all of the older actors who are in all of these, a fellow that some of the older guys that are in there, I just, I really enjoy seeing them.
I liked seeing the actors.
And now Helen Mirren, who was in 1923, which just ended, is also in the new mob series that we're just talking about.
Oh, right, with Pierce Brosnan and Tom Hardy.
Yeah, she plays a wife.
Okay.
Wow.
I'll have to check that out.
We can discuss that when you come back in.
And I have not finished 1923.
I'll probably finish it tonight.
I like it a lot better than Yellowstone.
Yellowstone lost me after season two, but I like the prequels a lot.
They
land man, it was like.
one.
Felt gross.
Some of it was great, but with the women, the way they wrote the women characters.
good.
All right, Bob Dennis, thank you very much as always, buddy.
Thank you, sir.
Check out Urban Legends and Stranger Truths podcast and mob and mafia news.
We'll have Bob back again soon.
Always fun to talk, buddy.
Have a great
night.
you, sir.
All right, we're coming up, we're coming right back with Mike Mercury, who is not in the mob, but should be.
And he's funny.
Even the mob needs some humor once in a while.
All right, it's Peach Wabba at nightlight.
We're coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hey, this is Adam Brody and you're listening to Night Light with Pete Schwab on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Jody on Facebook answered our question of the night.
She says the natural.
Great movie.
I think probably the natural or a league of their own are probably our two most Or a major league maybe probably three
base I can't believe it.
No, that actually technically only got one vote because the other guy was joking He he let us down that path and then gave us the hand
Welcome back to Nightlight.
I am Pete Schwab.
Great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.
I'm back on the home court here in Green Bay, beautiful downtown Green Bay broadcasting statewide.
And it is my pleasure now to welcome a very funny guy.
I love, he brings a writing background, a comedy background.
He's also one hell of a grocery shopper.
And he joins us now over the stream.
My pal, Mike Mercury.
Hello, PD.
How are you?
I noticed you took the liberty of saying that you're Ryan Gosling on the Kyron there at the bottom.
see
You felt like you had to put Ryan Gosling movie star.
Yeah, we had to clarify.
First of all, you're not even Ryan Gosling.
You use the name and then you thought people were so stupid, they wouldn't know who he was.
I love that, Mike.
a
Not more than once, Mike.
No, not really.
Okay.
Occasionally, I get that.
Why?
Why do you ask?
Sometimes when I don't know someone and I but I sense they have a good sense of humor it's a little risky but I'll email them and then I'll sign it or I'll say I'll say hey this is I was referred by let's say Mike Mercury this is Pete Schwabba and I'll put in parentheses Tom and Amy's boy.
And, you know, it's weird because I'm in my fifties and people might go, I don't need to know that, you know.
So anyway, Mike, we had a texture earlier who asked if it says Pete asked Mike if he ever worked at Kelly's in Middleton, Wisconsin.
And this is Tony, the trucker, the texture.
We get quite a few texts from Tony.
I went
I love that you don't even know for sure you were in the bottom quarter, but you're kind of announcing that you were.
Whatever.
You're
smart.
It worked out.
Okay.
Um, and so I don't know that I worked at, I don't think I worked at Kelly's cause I don't know what it is, but I did work.
I bartended.
briefly at the Bowling Green in Middleton, and I was a DJ at the nightclub Rustys.
It was a bar, really, a nightclub, whatever.
That was my first job DJing, and we would spin the tunes of the day and crank it up to 10 and blow the roof off the place until, you know, one o'clock in the morning,
the
Yeah.
Tony the trucker, he says, if so, has he ever thought about using the experience in his show?
Tony has obviously seen you and maybe you dealt with a heckler or something because he's recalling this.
So we'll have to.
Yeah, I
It's a good thing you took boxing lessons on your kid.
You used to box in the service.
I always love those guys.
I did a little boxing in the service.
Right.
That's great.
So all right, Mike, do you have a favorite baseball movie?
That's our question of the night.
I
I think I've told you before, I watch movies.
I like watching movies and good shows.
As soon as I'm done, they have left my head pretty much permanently.
The other day, this is where my taste in movies lies.
I watched, obviously, a rerun of Three Amigos, which is the only major motion picture that I have a credit on.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, because I was a, not as a performer, I was a production assistant on Three Amigos in 1980s, whatever, 1985, maybe, 86, I don't know.
So the baseball movies, I've seen The Natural, I've seen, whatever, you know, Tom Hanks one, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't remember any details.
I've seen them.
I like them.
Do I have a favorite?
I wouldn't, I don't know, maybe.
Okay.
Thanks for playing along, Mike.
couldn't tell if you
Listen, I played baseball.
Little League, I was in Little League Baseball, but I was literally the kid who stood out in right field daydreaming while baseballs soared over his head.
When I was 10 years old, I was playing baseball, and during the game, I was writing my speech for winning an Academy Award.
Yeah.
There was a kid, I was coaching when my son was, you know, I don't know, 10.
And he had a teammate, the kid we put in right field and the ball never went out there.
It was coach pitch.
And finally he gets this hotliner to right field.
And this kid is so freaked out.
He lifts his glove to get the ball.
And I swear to God, four pounds of grass fall out of his glove.
It was such a beautiful moment.
It was great.
All right.
Mike Mercury is here.
He's got a lot of stuff he needs to get off his chest.
We're going to do that next.
I have clarification, Mike.
I'll put this in your head and we'll talk about it when we come back after the news.
Tony, the trucker says, tell Mike, my mistake, the place was called Rusty's and he tended bar there.
So we'll get into that after the news.
Mike Mercury is here.
Madison Bay standup comic and writer.
Having fun here on Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
to Nightlight.
I am Pete Schwab, your host for this evening's program.
Steady Eddie checks in with a text that says, Pete, for me, Field of Dreams was just a little corny.
and just a bit outside.
Major League, starring Bob Euker, was hilarious and right down Wisconsin Avenue.
Good point, Steady Eddie.
He says, and though I haven't seen it yet, I understand just a bit outside is a Grand Salami home run.
That's all I got for Nightlight Tonight, Pete.
So it's time for me to get up, get up and get out
of
here, gone for Steady Eddie.
Is that what Euker used to say?
Yeah.
Mike, does that sound familiar?
There you go
Yeah steady Eddie is a resourceful guy and very helpful.
Did you see the Sandlot Mike?
That was mine.
David
other baseball.
That's some other baseball movie.
Okay.
All right, so Tony
the trucker thought, uh, he got, he got mixed or he got confused or sent the wrong thing.
He says, tell Mike, my mistake, Rusty's.
It was Rusty's where he tended bar.
Kelly's was the local hamburger joint.
So do you remember Rusty's?
Very well said.
Thank you, Tony.
On the stream, Dave says, field of dreams for me.
Then he said, hot mic.
You know, Dave, I think to me, I like when people can kind of hear during the break, the goings on.
of the ambience at the radio station.
And that's what I'll say, even though we probably just forgot to hit a switch or something.
Mike Mercury is here, ladies and gentlemen.
He is a Madison-based stand-up comedian, very funny guy, and a great writer, too.
You sounded like you had a lot you wanted to get to, Mike.
And you said, I should just ask you what's up?
Oh, I can't hear you now, Mike.
Mike's got the floor, and I can't hear him.
Is your mic off?
I
think he actually muted his mic.
I want to call him Ryan Gosling because he has Ryan Gosling on his.
You took something out of your ear and then we missed you, Mike.
Maybe the earbuds.
Wouldn't be the earbuds though, would it?
I think he accidentally muted himself.
So Mike Conrad thinks you muted yourself.
That sounds obscene.
I see it.
That's all right.
I don't
It was just fun to see the name Ryan Gosling while you were searching for the on button for your mic.
So, so what is going on?
You got you got something on your mind tonight.
It sounds like you're here on the
on
four
you got to
Yeah.
What city in the UP is that in?
Is that like
on
it's
And
Or just go in there and empty your pockets out and leave and save yourself the time.
yeah.
So when is that Mike?
That's exciting.
When is that
night,
11, 12, probably the ninth or 10th.
I think it's the 10th.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm looking forward to that.
So I've been getting in fact, I was doing some planning today and I thought, I thought maybe today I should go to the gym.
And then I was like, I am in no shape to go to the gym.
I would have to get into shape just to go to the gym to start to get into shape.
So I did not go to the gym.
Instead, you know what I did?
because the Girl Scouts came around.
We still get people coming to our house and there's, you know, it's Girl Scout cookie time.
So I ate Girl Scout cookies and they're delicious as ever.
They seem to have been victimized by the shrinkflation of the mint cookies are now roughly the size of a quarter.
But the good news is, you know, one serving size is approximately one box.
You could just eat.
yeah it doesn't matter you just eat them it's like a sleeve
of cookies is one serving size
yeah i think that's about right and uh but and you know i i don't i don't normally eat a whole sleeve of cookies i'm trying to be healthy and i watch you know i'm not the most well informed guy but i've been watching
Watch I get a lot of my information from commercials is that's where I get a lot of my information And I've been seeing this Jardin's commercial over and over.
Have you seen the Jardin's commercial?
No, they have yeah, it's it's a medication for I think it's I think it's a for diabetes if I'm not mistaken and they have they have very high tech high high big big production
commercials, it's got a whole cast of big people that are happy, and they dance, and they sing along, and they have their own song, and they look so damn happy.
It looks like so much fun every time I see one, I'm like, God, damn it, I wish I had type 2 diabetes.
I really, because that is, I can't believe how much fun they're having.
I'm working on that, so I'm going to get another box of Girl Scout cookies and see if I can get some, some Jordy and some
traction.
I, you know, that's the funny part is like, I feel that way with insurance commercials.
Like the insurance industry is basically the mafia.
It's a racket.
It's your paying for protection.
And, you know, when, when something happens, they say, well, you know, maybe we'll cover it.
But it's like, wait a minute, what?
Okay.
But it's like Geico and these insurance companies.
It's like, God, people are having so much fun with their insurance company.
I have USAA and it's like, you know, it's a very boring company.
I think I'm missing the boat.
Mike, do you feel sorry for billionaires?
It
was based on your sub-stack.
And I'm with you.
I hear a lot of billionaires complaining, regardless of which side of the app.
They can't catch a break.
No,
So
the
it's reality
Yeah,
in
whatever, and I don't like all the players.
But I watched, I turned on the news last night, the local news, I just, I thought the local news, that'll be safe enough.
And they, I tuned in a little late, I tuned in just in time to see the weather report.
And the guy, the weatherman was
It's severe weather awareness week this week in the state or in the country, I think.
So the weatherman was describing the differences between a watch and a warning by comparing them to tacos and their readiness to eat.
This is absolutely true.
I watched it.
I was like, this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen on local TV.
And that's, you know, that's saying something.
And then, and so it was so, afterwards I went to bed, I'm like, oh my God, how we're so dumb that they have to show us pictures of tacos in order to grasp the concept of what a tornado watch might be.
When to go to the basement.
And then I got up this morning, and it still bothered me.
So I went and did a search on Google.
If you search, taco watch, taco warning, and it turns out that there were hundreds of results from all over the country.
Other weather station, other TV weathermen, weather people and media outlets have been using the exact same graphic with the tacos to help people understand the differences for years.
This has been going on for years.
And I saw that and I was like, so then I found a Reddit, I found a Reddit comment, whatever, I don't know what they call the Reddit, you know, the.
a reddit thread and some of the redditors were commenting about how they had seen this taco comparison and it for the first time in their lives helped them to understand the difference between a watch and a warning and I went oh my god Darwin was wrong because these people yeah it's helping
helping dumb people stay alive.
We have the graphic up that you used on your sub stack.
Yeah, it's just crazy.
Is that like one of those, it's three tacos.
We need to get to the basement.
Like you're right.
It's so insulting.
Like how stupid are we?
God.
Did they explain how they got the tacos or why they use tacos?
So perhaps there was some setup.
Maybe the guy, you know, it was tongue and cheek.
Hey, this is pretty funny.
But after I discovered that this has been in widespread use for multiple years all over the country, I was like, oh, no, this is no accident.
This is a well choreographed.
you know the department of stupidity whatever department that is decided they should issue this as a way to help people not get killed in a tornado or something I don't it's unbelievable.
I could also backfire and say no if we eat tacos it's cool we can we don't have to go to the basement because apparently if we eat tacos then we're safe.
And
if they think we're that
stupid that's not much of a leap to think people could actually think that.
Hey, you had a gig in Waukegan you wrote about, too.
It converted the casino or something.
I thought that was really funny.
It wasn't a converted casino.
It was a place that whoever owns it got a permit to build a casino, and then they were sued by a Native American.
group in Wisconsin who also wanted to build a casino in the general vicinity.
I think they wanted to put theirs in Beloit.
This one was in Waukegan.
So they sued them.
So instead the people in Waukegan threw up basically an inflatable tent because they wanted to get theirs open right away and start bringing in some income while they settled the lawsuit.
Anyway, they've settled the lawsuit apparently, and this one in Waukegan won, and now they're going to build a real place, but it takes several years.
And so anyway, it was basically in the parking lot across the street from a Walmart.
It looked like a giant.
You know those big white plastic tubes that farmers store their silage in?
It looked like that.
It's higher up in the air and inside it was a whole blown casino with people, you know, drinking and gambling and carrying on.
And they came to a comedy show and they had set up a temporary wall basically.
It was like a vinyl wall to just to divide the room into a showroom so you could hear everything happening out in the casino just
that's
Yeah, he's still using references from a 1995 Tom Cruise movie or whatever that was.
That
screams comedy.
We're going to do a very short break and we'll come back with a few more minutes with Mike Mercury.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome
back to Nightlight.
I'm Paige Schwabba.
We are in the home stretch here with our friend Mike Mercury.
Tom from New Berlin says, Mr. Baseball, we love Japan.
I don't know that movie, Tom, but we did Google it.
Conrad and I discussed it.
There must be a Japan reference in there we don't get, but that's a Tom Selleck movie from Tom.
And then Brian from Green Bay says, with your bumper, I still wake up at night thinking people owe me for my paper route for the Eagle Herald and the Journal Sentinel in Marinette.
I have not had a paper route for 35 years.
You must be doing okay, Brian.
I still have mine.
Yeah, we should maybe retire that bumper.
for a little bit, Conrad.
Let's put it on pause.
Let's snooze it for 30 days, as they say.
Hey, I'm just gonna do the sex one.
Do the sex one every single night.
Well, you already are, so...
But Brian, I don't want Brian to have post-traumatic stress from his paper out.
I totally understand where he's coming from.
Folks, Mike Mercury is here, and tomorrow night on the show, we have, who do we have, Conrad?
We've got Tim Schweigel, filmmaker and activist for Incentive Wisconsin, or active, what is it?
The film, Incentive Screw.
Tim is very active in that.
And then Rob Thomas, also from Madison, will join us tomorrow night at 7.20.
We got a whole Madison thing going here, Mike.
There's a lot of you people.
I got to have them all on the show.
Yeah.
Because
Yeah.
I kind of remember it, but I kind of don't.
But what are you?
Are you watching anything on TV you could recommend?
Are you a binge watcher, Mike?
Well, you know what, my wife and I were just talking about it because I sort of have gotten a point where I kind of prefer the binge watching as opposed to where they drop an episode and then you have to wait a week.
When we were kids, that's how everything was.
You would watch one half hour or if it was a comedy or an hour, if it was a drama probably,
then you'd
That
You can now,
I was waiting for that reason.
I want to watch them all if I want to watch them.
So I held off and now I kind of have heard stuff, but what was your take on the
So this is the benefit of not having a great memory for the detail.
Because season one and two, I remember them being good and enjoyable and funny and all those things.
But I don't really remember enough details.
So this season I'm watching three and I'm like, I think I like this one best.
And it was mainly because that's what I was watching now.
I think that's the only reason because my wife and son both said they thought that the
Either one or two were better seasons overall.
I think and that's that's fairly common though, especially when you have a new series There's a new series of something or a new movie that's good the first time you see it There's the novelty right there and by the time you see the third Season or the third sequel or whatever that novelty doesn't exist anymore And so it's just got to be the material has to be so strong
to be as compelling as it was the first season or first movie.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I do.
And I finished season two for whatever reason.
I put it off for well over a year and I did laugh at Jennifer Coolidge.
just the way
he
died after killing all
those guys to protect her fortune and not give it to her husband.
And then her last words in life where you've got this and she tried to jump into the boat and conked her head.
That's not funny, but I laughed because it's so dark and it's just so, I did not see that coming.
All she had to do was stay on the boat and wait to be rescued.
And she'd still
have $500 million.
So I love the writing on that show.
But where would you rank the third season, Mike, comparatively to the other two?
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
yeah
i totally get that
uh tony did
The trucker says, Mike described me to a T. If he ever becomes famous enough to need a bodyguard, I'm all
in.
He
is.
He's
Ryan Gosling,
Tony.
Mike, this was fun.
Thank you as always, buddy.
Good luck.
You can see Mike up at the Bay Mills Casino Friday, February, February, Friday the 10th.
That's this Friday.
And it's up
on
Lake Superior.
I actually look for it on a map.
They don't really, on their website, they don't really say what town they're in unless it's called Bay Mills, which could
and I
And
Well, if there's an empty stage, we'll know what happened.
Knock him dead, blow the roof off the joint and come back and see us real soon, buddy.
Always fun.
Good night, Ryan.
He didn't mean that.
He meant because your mom.
text the show.
He wasn't trying to make your mom joke.
But you know what, I wouldn't put that past Mike.
He's that kind of guy.
He used to talk about my mom all the time.
And we had an arm wrestle and then a leg wrestle and we figured it out.
Hey, thank you to Mike Mercury and Bob Dennis and all of you for your texts and calls.
Always fun here on Nightlight and always so fun when you guys participate.
We'll be back tomorrow night with more fun on Nightlight on behalf of the lovable producer, Conrad.
I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night, Wisconsin.
I'll see you to your best friend's house.
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