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John & Gordy & Pete in the Evening (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Apr 10, 2025
Great to have you with me great to be on the air on this Thursday night the Christmas Eve of weekdays The weekend is almost here, and I've got nothing to do this weekend, which I'm excited about you ever have a weekend like that kind of where you're like I got nothing planned And yeah, so you could just chill
I'm excited to see it.
I've never seen competitive pickleball.
And having said that, I've played pickleball.
I just don't compete.
So that'll be fun.
Those are, I will partake in pickleball.
Those are my plans.
But other than that, I'm not doing a damn thing.
But I don't plan on doing anything.
I think I will go see some pickleball.
I wanna see if Emerson is, how funny, I would love to show up and see him just dominating 80-year-olds.
I think that would be so great.
This is exciting.
I heard this.
I've been talking a little bit on the show about the nightlight-inspired beer, Hazed on Radio, at Flix Brew House in Madison.
So yesterday, I don't know if I said this on the show, but I'll say it again anyway, Brewmaster Dave Hansen, who, in my opinion, made a really good beer.
Again, I'm not a beer aficionado, but I liked it.
It had a light kind of a passion-fruity type taste to it, like a little bit of a...
Kind of a spotted cow, but maybe Just a hair lighter.
It was a hazy IPA.
Thus the title hazed on radio Dave told me yesterday.
I said how's it selling and he said he pulled some numbers On my way out of town and he told me it was selling it was beating all the other local brands two to one so I Might have a new career.
I might be a beer mogul
But that's exciting.
You still get it.
That's the last night of the Wisconsin Film Festival is tonight at Flix Brewhouse.
So if you're there, check out a Hazed On Radio.
It's selling well.
So that's exciting.
Great show tonight, folks.
It's 6.35.
We are doing the popcorn pick of the week.
It is Thursday night.
John and Gordy, radio legends from WMDX in Madison.
We'll be here as a team.
to make the popcorn pick of the week.
And they will probably have their own picks, which is great.
We'll get two for the price of one.
Like you get every day on the morning show here on Civic Media on DMX, at least in the Madison area.
You get two for the price of one.
You get John and Gordy's picks.
They're both movie nuts.
They're both a little nuts.
And I can't wait to have them on the show.
That's at 635.
And then we've got Maximilian Blaska.
Max Blasca have you ever heard of a better name than that?
You know, any better not ever try to tell me what to do when he's here.
Put him in his place.
Logan's awesome.
He'll be here at 7.35.
And ladies and gentlemen, I think that brings us to our question of the night.
Let's talk about the
question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Pregunta.
Question.
Question.
Okay, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Question.
Questions.
What celebrity commercials do you dislike most?
I saw a slew of them last night.
And it just gets under my skin.
I'm so tired of it.
I'm so tired.
And this kind of sparked the two.
Telemarketing.
I can't handle it.
Stop.
This should not be legal.
Clogging our voicemail boxes with junk.
People telling me it's urgent that you get back to me.
Not for me, for you, because you're a telemarketer.
I don't have to do anything.
People say oh just empty your box.
Oh, that's fine, but I've got like 12 messages in there.
I shouldn't have to deal with that but while I was Contemplating this last night.
I saw I can this is my least favorite commercial.
It's the Zach Braff and Donald face on I think is his last name the two guys from scrubs
i know he's made a ton of money and good for him good for the actor good for him but i don't i i cannot stand the jake from state farm commercials
I don't know.
I'm gonna go with Zach Braff and Donald Fasson, though, T-Mobile.
I really... The we're buddies and this is what we do and I cannot take it anymore.
That's my least favorite celebrity commercial.
What about yours?
You got one?
Okay
And it's influencers like, uh, I don't know if you know who Druski is.
No, or, um, sketch.
These guys, they go prize picks and they promotes, Oh, it's really easy to make money higher or lower on all these NBA NFL, you know, games like betting.
Yes.
And it's like, no, it's not easy to bet higher or lower.
You, it's never a for sure thing on anything.
So I just hate how they say.
Really easy just put in my code get $20 off and win money.
It's easy to lose money It's easy to place the bet.
It's not easy to win.
Be part of the show.
Let us know what celebrity commercials do you dislike most, 855-752-4842-855-755 Civic.
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And you can text Nightlight, which is great.
And again, hold us on the stream.
We've got Kirk Krauss checking in on the stream.
We'll read that when we come back.
And all of your texts, great to have you with us on this Thursday night on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio
I am Pete Schwabba, your host for this evening's broadcast.
We had texts last night.
What was our question?
It was, what would you change your name to?
So I got to find that because there was a couple I did not get to.
I had a very long one from my friend, Mike Gregory.
But I know I did not read Andrew Genzer's text, who made a joke, and he was hilarious because I wrote with him on Sports Supo.
He says, nightlight with Beach Wamba.
Yes, finally.
And then Barbara of Pfeiffer-Wooge says, Mike Dessertel, if it weren't for my DVR, I wouldn't watch TV.
I kind of agree with her.
I just don't think I could sit through it.
Even on like last night, I was watching a show and it's just, it's that.
I think it was prime and you used to get prime and there were no commercials.
Yeah, it's just like oh now we have free V But there's commercials, but it's free.
Well, no you have to get prime to get that and now primes got the commercials to air Eric Ratsack from ask your mother our pal Eric says I actually loved a little way Lil Wayne in Samsung.
I don't know that one.
Tom from New Berlin says, Pete, the Scottish term for staying in bed all day is called, I remember this, Erkel Dirkle.
Yep.
We talked about that on the show.
Tom is paying attention, man, or maybe he just knew that.
Thank you, Tom.
He says therapeutic, and I could not agree more.
From WMDX and the 608, Peyton Manning, oh, that's those two again, Peyton and Eli Manning.
stop forcing them on the American public.
They're hard to listen to.
They're not as funny as they think they are.
I'm done with the Mannings.
And they're an annoying
There you go.
So we'll do that.
Maybe we'll do a skit with Peyton Manning.
Anna from Madison, that's in the 608.
She says, hi, Peyton Conrad.
I can't stand Joe Namath doing health insurance and hearing aid commercials.
Yeah, those are bad, Anna.
I don't know if I have an opinion on Joe Namath.
I don't really know anything about him.
He played football long before I was born, but those are just bad commercials.
Like the production quality is terrible.
It's like all old.
Oh my God speaking of older people and this is not meant to offend anyone but the Marinette You know, I live in Marinette.
the Marinette unofficial Marinette town car is the Buick Le Sabre and Today this is funny because yesterday I was talking about how I can't stand when two people Drive in a two-lane road and they just stay the same speed.
They can tell traffic is building up behind them
Neither one of them will get out of the way.
They're just both going the same speed.
That happened to me two days ago on the way back from Madison for like 10 minutes.
I was stuck behind these two clods.
Today in Marinette, I was stuck behind two handsome gray Buick Le Sabres.
Neither one of them would get out of the way.
If you're in the market,
Get yourself up to Marinette and you I guarantee you'll get a if it's supply and demand has anything to do with it You'll get a great deal on a Buick Le Sabre in Marinette.
It is the most It's has the least amount of sex appeal of any car on the market if you don't want to meet girls or guys for that matter get yourself the Buick Le Sabre and Put yourself out there There it is Look at that thing.
Oh, that's a piece of engineering right there
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, go sit in a Buickless Sabre.
It'll clear that up right away.
I just thought that was funny, because we were just talking about that yesterday.
Kurt on the stream says, Hayes on Radio is on tap at Flicks Brewhouse Madison.
That's right, buddy.
He says that's definitely going to be our audience choice award for beer at the Mental Health Warrior Film Festival.
Jeff Beinkenship and I will be leading the way.
Please do, Kurt.
Say hi to Jeff Forrest.
He was a great guest.
We've got your other friend Max on in just a little bit.
We've decided, Kurt, that Max Blaska is one of the coolest names we've ever heard.
Craig, can it?
Another friend of the show who's been in here several times says, I hate seeing past icons like Mr. T or Ice T selling life insurance.
Got no kidding.
He said, I know I'm old, but those make me feel ancient.
It makes you feel old, and it's like, how desperate are they?
Iced tea has got residuals from like 24 years of special victims, law and order, SVU.
He does not need the money.
Maybe he just loves life insurance.
I don't know.
Maybe that's his passion, his side hustle.
Who knows?
Craig also says, Pete, if you aren't doing anything Saturday night, we're shooting a new short in Greenville.
You'd be welcome.
I need a signing bonus and a per diem, Greg, Craig, and I need airfare from Marinette to Greenville.
If you can make that happen, I'm there.
Unfortunately, I have plans with my wife and I will be scoping out pickleball before that, Craig.
But I do appreciate the invite.
One of these days, I'll make it out there and break a leg.
Have a great time with the shoot.
Jennifer says, hey, my mom had a 76 Buick Le Sabre that got stolen from Staggerin and Nicosia, Wisconsin in like 1978 or 79.
LOL.
I think she's using voice text.
That's great.
Sorry to hear that, Jennifer.
That was a hot car back then.
Hey, it's the popcorn pick of the week on Thursday.
Keep your texts coming, folks.
What celebrity commercial do you dislike the most?
That's what we're talking about here on Nightlight.
Two radio legends coming up next.
John and Gordy from the WMDX morning show are making the popcorn pick of the week next.
On Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It's a night bite.
Great to have you with me on this Christmas Eve of weekdays, also known as Thursday.
Very exciting.
Our question of the night is what celebrity commercials
do you dislike the most?
And I have to say, I agree with every text we've gotten so far.
Just awful.
So let us know, be part of the show.
Great to hear from you guys.
Find us, get ahold of us any way you can.
Stream, Pony Express, whatever.
We'll read your text on the radio.
I'm very excited because Conrad, as you know, this is Thursday and it is the popcorn pick of the week.
Two guys have decided to join me to give, we're getting two for the price of one, which is what Madison area listeners get every morning when they listen to these two guys on the radio.
They are the hosts of the WMDX Morning Show on Madison here on Civic Media, and they are here to give us their popcorn pick of the week.
John Peterson and Gordie Young, AKA John and Gordie, great to have you guys.
You guys are awesome.
I love, I'm such a huge fan.
You've been great to me since I started here and I just think you're both terrific.
So I'm thrilled that you're both doing this.
I also want to say your popcorn pick of the week can be something you saw last week or when you were a kid, you use your whole life as a reference point when you pick your movies.
You probably already picked them and that's fine.
But I'm just letting you guys know that.
So I also want to say, I'm not a snitch.
But I saw Sam your hard-working producer the second year in a row at the Wisconsin Film Festival and Damn that guy can party
He put the engine up on a, uh, like a card table between two card tables to work on underneath.
And then it's, he got his finger caught in, in something and tried to pull it down.
And then the engine was, you know, teetering and he barely escaped with his life.
So.
He loves that car.
Movies net.
Well, when I go to, you know, I only go to a few movies a year.
But when I go and if I want to snack, I go with the I think they make them still the bunch of crunch, the Nestle's bunch of yeah, those are great.
So I like chocolate, you know, and I like the crunch.
So that would be my choice.
But I got I actually got about four free passes one time because I sat on somebody's nacho.
Dips in the seat and it was dark, you know, and I see it and I sat right in it, you know, and and then he gave me four free tickets.
That's just my story.
So much.
I like that I like when movie when you guys are at home watching films Is it different?
Do you cook something like I like to make food?
When I binge watch something or when I watch a movie at home like I like to go outside the box a little bit and get stuff eat stuff at home that I can't get at the theaters What about you guys?
I'm that guy in my family you know way back in the old days in the movie theaters they had like three or four movies you know you know
That that was what you write three or four marathon movies.
So I always bought at that time, Slow Pokes.
I don't know if they have Slow Pokes anymore.
Have you seen anything like that?
I haven't
if they had marketed it that way, they would have done better and maybe still been still been in business.
But hey, guys, can we John Peterson and Gordy Younger here, also known as John and Gordy from the W.
MDX morning show here on Civic Media in Madison.
We've got a phone call, and I think this pertains to our conversation.
Do you mind if we take a quick call here?
Sure.
All right, who do we have?
Brian from Milwaukee.
Brian from Milwaukee.
How are you doing tonight, buddy?
Hey, good.
Yeah, when I heard you guys talk about everything, you feed your dogs and how they want to eat just everything, we had a black lab, Coonhound Mex, his name was Boomer, and he loved bananas.
And it was crazy because...
We couldn't call it banana anymore.
We just knew what that was.
Then we started calling it manna
what that was.
And then it came to the point where he could be at the end of the hall on my parents bed.
I'd be in the kitchen grab a banana and as soon as it popped down to that banana, he hears that and here he comes drooling and he'll sit down right next to me like, oh, you got banana.
Like, dude, he loves his bananas.
awesome.
love popcorn too.
Like when I bought my green popcorn, like, oh, someone's making popcorn.
Right.
Exactly.
Boomer's diet.
All right.
I think we're at that point.
Conrad, what do you think?
Are we ready to get the pick from these guys?
I know they have great movies.
Their popcorn pick of the week is about to happen.
Ladies and gentlemen, Conrad, if you please.
John Peterson, Gordy Young from the WMDX Morning Show in Madison are about to make the popcorn pick of the week.
Who wants to go first?
See, now the pressure's on.
John is, you know, he's Mr. Movie, really.
He knows all these movies.
He's seen them all.
You know, I'm very pedestrian in my choices.
And, you know, I had a list.
I had it down to five different movies.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Because I really couldn't figure.
But the one that sticks with me,
that if it comes on TV, I'm going to sit down and watch it.
There's actually two like that.
But Shawshank Redemption, I know everybody says that, right?
That's pretty popular.
radio network.
I feel it's helping to me.
Our question tonight, folks, is what celebrity commercial drives you?
the most crazy.
What do you dislike the most?
I said the T-Mobile guys from Scrubs.
Bridget from the 818 says, anything Ryan Reynolds is in.
I am tired of his shtick.
I could not agree more.
That's awesome John When you guys heard a movie, what do you do?
Do you do you tell people like if people are quiet?
Here's my issue It's either kids being jerks and talking loud and I'll shush them But it's it's equally as annoying are the old people who think they're in their living room now Who's that actor?
Oh, he was in that other movie with the thing.
It's like come on You know, do you guys shush people or do you just kind of try to get through it?
In fact, I'm probably the one that everybody hates who talks during a movie.
Because I'm telling my son, you know, I'm referencing an older movie, and I'm telling him that I like this or the actor is forcing it or he's overacting or, does he actually, you know, think he believes this?
I'm making comments all the way through very, very quietly.
Yeah, maybe not.
I don't know that radio voice.
So I'm not quite sure.
I like the new tech that comes out.
It's always something new, like the new EVs that are coming out.
China has these incredible EV vehicles now that are actually more popular than Tesla's.
The most popular EV vehicle in the world right now.
It sells for like $15,000 an EV and it's yeah, and it's got like 300 miles you know per charge
It's just an incredibly high tech interior of the car.
I do any, I'll get up at five AM for you guys.
I'll do a rocky.
I'll drink raw eggs and we'll come on the air and have a, have a great time.
All right.
Have a great night.
Thanks so much.
That's a John Peterson and Gordy young checkout.
The John and Gordy show on WMDX in Madison every morning, such a phenomenal show and two great guys.
We will be back after the news, after Civic Media's news team keeps you informed with a guy with the coolest name in entertainment.
That's coming up next.
It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.