Fart Walks and Pocket Items (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabach.

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 Schwabach.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

We are officially underway here.

Great to have you with me.

It is Wednesday night here in the state of Wisconsin We are broadcasting as Todd said from downtown Green Bay, which is it's a beautiful night here.

We've got people out First of all, it's not that warm.

I don't think but there's still people out It's almost like people have decided they've had enough of cold weather and they're just gonna be out like it's warm even though it's not Am I reading too far into this Conrad?

You know, I don't think so

I don't think so

all right As long as I got a voucher

I get I do got a question is is a nice cold meal at a fair price the same thing or

I Appreciate a cult.

What are you thinking like a lunch or a bologna sandwich or something like that?

No, I don't appreciate that as much.

That's a nice hot meal You know what I will say I don't have sandwiches like I used to oh like I appreciate a good sandwich But usually when I have them now, I don't make them at home like I'll go to

potbelly or jersey mics or something, you know,

you know Jimmy John's just released their hot subs.

They toast them now.

Yeah, I've tried those.

It's really good.

It is good.

It's better than any other toasted sub I've had around here.

Even potbelly.

Well, potbellies is a different level.

I don't

think

of it as a fast food really.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I feel like it tastes more fresh there.

I don't

know.

Lots going on.

We have a lot to get to tonight, folks.

Great show.

Mike Schmidt, the comedian, podcaster.

He's the host of the 40-year-old boy podcast, which is absolutely hilarious.

Mike can talk for an hour and make you laugh.

He's just got such a great comedic brain.

He's fantastic.

He'll be here at 6.35.

We're going to talk about movies that kind of made Mike a man a little bit.

We're going to talk about film noir.

And Mike's going to tell.

Tell us the story.

I'm not sure I want to hear this or not about how when he played basketball when he was younger and they played against girls.

So prepare for that.

I'm sure it'll be funny.

Mike will be here.

It's good to have him back on the show.

And then Mike Radu will be here at 720.

Is it 720 or 735?

720.

720.

Mike is the owner of movie theaters in Depeer and Chilton, independently owned, old school, very cool movie theaters.

And Mike will be here in studio in person, always fun.

And we'll talk about his really cool theaters.

But we do have a lot to get to.

And let's start with news that happened here or affected those of us here in Wisconsin.

What happened with Yannis last night?

I kind of read about this.

But I thought, you know, you're the sports nut.

So you tell me, Conrad.

Apparently, both parties were in the wrong, more

or less.

It was 118 to 111 with like 40 seconds left.

Right.

Bucks up and they, they lost.

Oh my God.

And Tyrese Halliburton's dad wanted to do a little chirping.

Sure.

And well, there's another video that you don't see in like the actual broadcast is he's just standing there and his dad's talking the whole time.

Just saying.

To Yanis.

Yeah, whatever.

And Yanis had enough of it.

He's like.

You're not even in the game.

You're just a dad watching your son.

I get it.

It's, you know, your

son

just moved on in the playoffs.

But still, it's it's a terrible thing to do.

And

it's pretty classless.

Yeah, exactly.

And but Yannis walked over and say got his face, but he had to like crane his neck and arch his back.

It's a very funny video.

It is.

And he's liking the guy's face.

But I know blows were exchanged or anything.

It's funny that the video that I'm talking about that you don't see.

But I

I forget where I saw it.

I think it was ESPN or something.

Tyrese Halliburne's dad is just talking to him for like 20 seconds straight.

And Yannis is just staring at him straight in the eye.

Like kind of farther away.

Right.

And then finally he had

enough.

The guy just would not shut up.

No.

And well.

Halliburne apologized for his dad.

Yes.

And Yannis even said, we're good now.

It's the heat of the moment.

You shouldn't

do

that to a guy who just lost in that fashion.

They lost four to one in the series, and then they blew a big lead.

What do you attribute that to?

That's not a good sign.

Well, I mean, first, Damian Lillard's a key piece to that offense.

Yeah.

And they only had him for one game, two games, two and a half, and he didn't play well.

I mean, he just got, he just came back from, you know, having that thing in his

right.

So, I mean, that's the main thing.

And the other thing is they just didn't play defense, I feel like.

Great defense.

I don't do it.

I don't know if Giannis is gonna it's gonna be a gonna be back in Milwaukee Come on.

I mean, he's a very little loyal guy, but

and that's what's crazy is years ago You would never think anything like that would even come up.

I just don't

think the franchise has been loyal to him.

Is that right?

Yeah Well, what would help more money or more players?

Oh, they need to support Giannis I mean the players they have I mean Gary Trent was doing his thing, but other than that Brooke Lopez

It's not what he used to be right they keep him around just cuz he's I guess a fun guy He's a swell guy.

He's a nice guy, but

he's not

he's almost I think he's almost like 40 now or something around there, so

he's getting

up there and

the honest needs a Scotty Pippin I mean or you know Kyrie or something

dame dame was that it's

just

that he got hurt I mean, it's like two years in a row.

He's gotten big injuries that kind of just Sucks for the bucks

I'm not really a fan of them, but

but can you imagine like if let's say things had escalated last night and Yanis absolutely opened up a can of whoop ass Just clocked another player's dad.

Oh, I can't stand parents yelling crap at any level of sports sit down and shut up Cheer your kid on but don't say one thing to an opposing player on the other team

If you're in grade school, high school sports, shut up.

Cheer on your team, and that's it.

And it doesn't change.

At this level, this guy probably deserved a poke in the chops.

But yeah, this isn't going to do that, you know?

One of my buddies actually sold Tyrese Scalovarton's dad a car.

I won't get

any further details.

Was he chirping at him then, too?

He was chirping, to be honest, already.

OK.

All right, that's great.

So we have some texts we have to get to last night.

What was our question last night?

It was the, not the first lady question.

Favorite TV theme show?

Yes.

Songs, theme song.

And Bud from Jamesville who listens from the 608 overnight.

Always nice to know someone's manning the board there, so to speak, not the board, but is tuning in.

And Bud says, hey Pete, I really enjoy the humorous introductory statements made by Todd to open your show.

Well, thank you, Bud.

I'm glad to hear that.

He says, I will periodically send you possible introductions.

Oh, this is interesting.

I might have a co-writer, Conrad.

There we go.

But please, absolutely.

Send those in, bud.

Absolutely.

He says, because I have a lot of time to think while I'm driving around Madison in the wee hours of the morning throwing papers.

Oh, that's what he does.

OK.

He says, how about this?

Peachwaba, a man who rarely knows what he's saying until the words leave his mouth.

That's

pretty good.

I don't like it.

Peach Wabba, a man who speaks out of both sides of his face and says the same thing.

I don't think Bud likes me very much.

These are not very nice things to say about.

Todd, if

you're listening, please start making those.

Bud

continues.

My humor is a little cerebral.

Emphasis on little.

All right, well, there we're in agreement, Bud.

He says, love your show.

Bud from Janesville.

Thank you, Bud.

Absolutely.

Send anything you want.

Send them.

Fire away.

You're alone with your thoughts at five o'clock in the morning in Madison.

That can go good or bad.

You either turn serial killer or you contribute to a radio show when you have that much time on your hands.

Yeah.

I might have been exaggerating a little, but sends another text.

He says, listening to your interview with Mike about Marinette while delivering papers on Marinette Trail coincidence.

Yes, love the show.

Thank you, bud.

Yeah, Mike Strahler was on the show last night.

That was a lot of fun having Mike in studio here.

We kept Mike for an hour.

Yeah.

I felt like we could have talked for like another half hour.

So.

But he's got work to do.

He's got to get back at it.

Bud sends a third text in.

It was a slow night delivering papers last night.

So Bud was part of the show, and I love this.

He says, the theme from Moonlighting with Bruce Willis and Civil Shepherd gets my vote.

Bud from Jamesville.

That's a great one.

Thank you, Bud.

And please keep listening at those hours.

I think that's fantastic.

I think we got to get to our question of the night.

What do you think, Conrad?

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

What is in your pocket?

Going with something a little different tonight.

Be honest, folks.

Reach in there.

But not for too long, because that would be weird.

And tell us what's in...

Tell us what's in your pocket.

And you might get something else in your pocket.

But answer the question, honestly.

Tell us what's in your pocket.

That is tonight's question of the night, 855-752-484-2855.

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X Twitter.

Twix.

Twix, yeah, let us know what is in your pocket.

I'm gonna go first.

I have a movie stub for the film Drop.

Showing off there, okay.

I know, movie stub.

I've got two dimes, because that's what I thought I was gonna owe the meter out here, but I got somebody else's time, which is nice, yeah.

And a condom.

Well, why is there a condom?

Somehow I was doing my budget last week.

I've got a $1,200 a month condom.

That's how much I spent a month.

Wow.

And I don't even use them.

It's weird.

No, I don't have a condom.

Just for comfort?

Just to have in case.

So I've got a movie stub and a couple coins.

And that's it.

That's honest.

I could make up something funny, folks, but it can't all be about the laughter.

Tell us what's in your pocket.

Conrad, what's

in your pocket?

What is a what is a pocket full of sunshine?

I Think that means drugs if I had oh, that's just my guess to it.

Okay, if I had a guess but based on the drugs you've done

None

of them, you know, I think they're saying they make them feel like sunshine Yeah, that makes sense or it could just be that they got a lot of money and that's sunshine.

Yeah,

um I also got

a walk it but you got a walk it in your pocket

And what's the, what's the, I couldn't think of the other line to that.

There's a locket in my pocket.

And there's a new toothbrush on my toothbrush or something like that.

That was a great book.

I remember reading that.

I could have made the joke, if I was immature, that I have a pocket full of bad intentions.

What is a pocket full of bad intentions?

Just use

your

imagination.

Because Todd's going to cut that as a promo.

Bud, what do you think about that?

So that'll be one.

Going to the social media accounts.

Matt Harper, rock rap artist, Matt Harper from right here in northeast Wisconsin says wallet, keys, knife.

Okay.

That might have just incriminated himself in a crime.

Sharpie, pen light, chew.

Wow, this, this pockets are bulging.

Yeah, those, those are gonna weigh you

down.

Falling water.

Mike on the social media says, Uncle Sam.

OK.

Got Uncle Sam in your pocket.

Mike's calling

the shots.

Sarah Jean Rosenberg, debit card.

Please share those numbers with us, Sarah.

We'd love to know what your pin numbers are for the debit card.

It's all about giving.

And Amanda Nimmer says, nothing, because they don't make pockets big enough on women's jeans.

A little bitterness coming out there.

What

would you have in your pocket, Amanda?

We'll read some more of your texts coming up, and we're gonna talk about a new walk.

It's called the fart walk.

I've done that.

All right.

Kind of like crop dusting, I guess.

I don't know.

We'll talk about that next.

It's a real thing, folks.

We'll read your texts.

Mike Schmidt is here at 635.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

Great to have you with me on this Wednesday night in our beautiful state of Wisconsin.

Did you panic when I thought I'd be cutting it close?

No.

I know.

I thought I was going to get here at like quarter to and I know what was going on in Marinette.

I could not.

I was like stuck at a stoplight for like 20 minutes.

Do you have to empty your pockets up there?

Oh, I got pulled over.

Yeah.

Sorry about all those condoms, officer.

So this is kind of a thing I saw this on puberty last night pu bitty love that pu b I

love that news outlet.

It's great.

Yeah, it's There's a lot of misspelled words on it.

That makes me nervous

Well, it's there.

They're a London base.

Oh, they are

so they spell color the other way

smarter

than us They's not color

though.

They spell color with with

you.

Yeah, they misspell it.

We don't not impressed

This is something they had on the site last night.

It said

What is a fart walk?

Why is it good for you?

It says, would you fart in the street?

No.

If you go on a fart walk after a meal and do that, it could help improve your long-term health, according to scientists.

Scientists in lab coats research this.

They followed crop dusters around, apparently, with test tubes and came to a conclusion here.

It says, in general, breaking wind, especially when done loudly, is frowned upon in polite society.

Years of social conditioning and maybe some tellings off from parents have meant that most of us, when feeling the need, do it in private or hold it in.

But now, scientists are saying that going for a fart walk after a meal.

could actually be beneficial to your long-term health, especially if you're over the age of 45.

The benefits of a fart walk include promoting intestinal mobility.

I don't even know what that word is.

That's motility?

Or movement of our intestines to get rid of gas and prevent constipation.

And this one scientist says, I totally support fart walks.

Farting, while undeniably funny, is just a...

part of nature and is caused by the digestive system.

While our bodies are designed to move waste through the intestines to be finally excreted, exercise can give that process a helping hand.

And it especially helps you if you have diabetes, which is a great excuse if you rip one and don't mean to.

Sorry, I have diabetes.

It's not funny.

I'd still laugh a little bit.

It's

just, it's just cropped

us.

It's just, I think farts are hilarious.

I don't know.

Well, listen, we've been on the air.

Nightlight has been on the air for about 16 months now.

And I tend to shy away from bathroom type humor.

If it's funny, it's funny, but it's easy too.

So if

there's

something really funny about it, I'll talk about it.

But if it's just like farts for the sake of farts, not funny.

Sorry.

But

you know, I will say I've done a fart walk.

I believe you.

It was after I don't know because my brother and my sister a lot.

They actually told me about it.

Like, after you eat a big meal, you need to go out, you need to walk it off, you need to have the fart walk.

And I'm like, never heard of this?

I guess I'll try.

Did you think they were messing with you?

Kind of.

Yeah, I would too.

They called it a fart walk, so I was like, all right, well, I'll try

it.

I've never heard of

that before.

And actually, you know what?

I felt like better than I usually would after a big meal.

Instead of going onto the couch and just laying down and being like, ugh.

You know, you walk it off and you

feel better.

I don't mind a fart walk occasionally, but it is harder to light them on fire.

Yeah, well, that's a different problem.

I don't get it.

I mean, that's just yeah, it's I guess it's just what people call crop dusting.

Well, if you if you have that in your pocket that lighter right there,

you're ready to go.

I need to keep a lighter on me.

I need to be as prepared as Matt Harper.

Rockwrap artists just got nothing Matt is prepared.

He's like a Boy Scout.

He's ready for anything.

I mean, if he doesn't have a belt on that, that's the cause for

disaster.

Or if he falls in a lake, he's not coming back up.

So that's our question tonight, folks.

What is in your pocket?

Please be honest, no judgment.

Maybe a little bit of judgment.

But we've got, let's see, I did Bud's text.

We got that.

Willie Nelson is 92.

That's pretty impressive.

Gene Hackman, we're not, Spinal Tap is coming back, folks.

I'm excited about that.

They've remastered it.

and that will be coming out soon.

All they do now is re-release movies because there's so many crappy movies out there that's like all these franchise and superhero films.

So people who just like good movies have to rely on these re-releases or independent films or have to go to film festivals.

It's not fair.

So our question, folks, the night like question of the night is, what is in your pocket?

And we're gonna get to some of your texts here.

Steve, I saw your dad texted Conrad.

He says, in my pocket is gas receipt, phone, and keys to my vehicle.

Okay.

There you go.

Very basic.

Your dad's a meat and potatoes kind of pocket guy.

He just grabs what he needs and out the door.

He's out the door.

He doesn't have a pocket full of bad intentions.

Sherry from Horecon says, thanks, my love.

I don't know, was that meant for me or Conrad, Sherry?

Maybe the bud do you think sherry has a crush?

Oh, you think sherry and bud have something going on

maybe

could be We'll keep that mystery dangling there sherry says I have no pockets Good evening Pete and Conrad good evening sherry.

Sorry about the pocket thing.

It's not too late It's never too late to start having pockets barb from walk of Shaw.

That's the 262.

She says I use a used Kleenex my airbud kit my airbud case and lint Okay, see that's honesty.

I like that

We're all just human beings.

Tell us what's in your pockets, folks.

Barb says, oops, air pod, not air bud.

That's a great movie, air bud.

She had the dog in her pocket.

That kind of counters what Amanda said about not having enough pocket room.

Thank you, Barb.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids, he's in the 608.

He says 15 joints.

I don't know what the question is, Tyler, it's your pocket.

Okay.

And again, no judgment.

That is illegal in Wisconsin, though.

Sadly, I don't get it, but whatever.

AJ from the 608 says, hi, Pete and Conrad.

It looks like it's 89 cents and a Menard rebate receipt.

Fun stuff.

She says that's great, AJ.

89 cents.

That gets you nothing in modern day society.

You can't

even afford a fart walk with 89 cents.

All right, dollar.

Mike Schmidt is here in just a few minutes.

He is the host of the 40-year-old boy podcast.

Check it out.

It is absolutely hilarious.

Mike is one of my favorite stand-up comedians, and I've known him forever.

And we're going to talk movies.

We're going to talk about some of his fun day jobs he's had, and maybe some film noir.

That's coming up next after Civic Media's news team tells you what's up.

It's Pete Schwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Night Light.

Great to have you with me on this Wednesday.

Our question of the night is what is in your pocket?

Conrad's mom checks in and says mailbox key and phone.

It is a mile walk to the mailbox.

I could be a fart walk.

She times it right.

That is a long walk.

It's funny on that thing too, like on puberty, they had a couple walking together, like that was bringing them closer together, which I suppose it can.

Brian from Milwaukee says, two lens cleaning wipes for my glasses and some blue pocket fuss.

Most people don't have anything too exciting in their pocket, but I appreciate the honesty.

And I'm truly curious.

On the stream, Dave says, a Swiss Army knife, car keys, wallet, phone charger.

Lint.

PJ says, besides my hand, Lint.

And then Craig says, Pete, regarding one of tonight's subjects, most teachers don't pass wind in public.

That are private tutors.

Oh my God.

Okay.

That's a great show.

I should have read that over first.

Thank you, Craig.

Share what's in your pocket, folks.

That's tonight's question of the night.

Mike Radu coming up at 720.

Mike is a theater owner.

And he is an independent theater owner.

No megaplexes.

He owns two really old, cool theaters.

We're going to talk about that with Mike.

He's coming into the studio, which will be fun.

But right now, I'm excited to welcome another Mike.

Have we ever had two mics on the show?

at the same on the same night.

I think this is radio history.

We're doing it again.

Mike Schmidt is a comedian, one of my favorites.

And he hosts the 40 year old boy podcast.

And he is just a great dude.

It's great to have him back here on Nightlight.

It's been too long.

He joins us on the stream.

Hey, buddy, how are you?

Two mics, one Pete.

How are you?

That sounds nefarious somehow.

It's really dirty.

It sounds

dirty.

Not as dirty as two Pete's and one Mike.

Well, listen, I've been on hold here for, it seems like an hour and all I've heard is you talking about farts in the forest or whatever the hell you're talking about.

I mean, I, and my first, my favorite thing was, Hey man, I don't do any bathroom humor and then forget it.

Katie bar the fart door because you went

bananas.

You know, I don't do that.

I said I don't.

I think I've talked about it on one other occasion.

This just was kind of staring me at the face in the face.

It was like something I couldn't deny.

That's

all I do, Mike.

And it's just so silly.

I had to address it.

So I see.

Well, that's fine.

It's your show.

You handle it.

I enjoyed the disclaimer of top words like I never do this.

And then

I know it's

like horses sprinted for the gate.

I rarely tell racist jokes, but

guess what?

Exactly Hey, it's good to have you on the show.

How are you doing Mike?

I'm good man.

Thank you for having me on the show and I will tell you I didn't know if I was if people could see me I Couldn't remember because it's been a while since I've been here and I literally just got out of the shower It looks like somebody dragged me out of a swimming pool So I was like my camera's off.

It's staying off.

Nobody wants to see this.

It's ridiculous

Could you not have timed that better where, you know, like you could have put some clothes on or?

No, I'm not naked.

I'm wearing clothes.

But I'm just, you know, my hair is a fright.

And, you know, me, I often, I often shower right before a performance until I like to handle it.

I only put myself in gloves that have a shower backstage.

We have a friend.

And since we started off on the wrong foot with the bathroom humor, I'll just keep rolling with it.

But our friend initial, I'm not going to say who it is because that would be unprofessional.

That would be.

I'm a professional, but it names with pitch, ground.

So maybe you can figure out who it is, but he always had to go number two before he went on stage.

That was just like a nervous habit he had.

Well, he mistimed it one night and we were at jukebox comedy club in Peoria.

And one of the funniest things I've ever seen was his name being called onto the stage and all I could see were his feet in the stall under the door.

And I was

like, there's no

way he's making this.

Even if he's extremely talented, it's not happening.

But we

all

have our routines before we

go.

But I loved, I loved that you said, cause you said, uh, he mistimed it one night, which made me think he was on, you know, instead of going before I went on stage, he got on stage and hell, I, you know, I forgot the order of this.

And if any one of us is going to do that, it's going to be pitch ground.

That's the kind of, and he used to wrestle, right?

I understand he used to wrestle.

I can't say his

joke for that on the air, unfortunately, but it's a beautiful joke.

And he's not above leaving a little pile on the stage if he mistimes things.

All right, let's move on rapidly, because we've got a lot to talk about.

What's in your pocket?

Do you have pockets, Mike, even though you just got out of the shower?

At this moment, I do, because I'm wearing sweats, but there's nothing, an area thing in the pocket.

But during the day, usually...

i'm just as boring as everyone else except for the guy carrying a knife um the correct man i don't care if it's a swiss army knife you have a weapon in your pocket dude no you can try to pretend it's like oh i might run into a jar i need to open no sir

We know this is for shipping somebody in a dark alley.

Don't try to get off.

There's an emergency whittling situation But

I I'm just on phone wallet keys.

That's why I'm phone wall right

nothing wrong with that appreciate

the

honesty and It's good to keep clean pockets.

It's

okay.

Did you ever like I'm gonna ask did you ever carry anything?

What was there anything more than phone wallet keys in your pocket in your life?

What have you carried?

Yeah, I tend to

Probably I don't like to like if I if I'm trying not to carry like a backpack or something I'll shove stuff into my pockets, but it's not it's like the same stuff we've been hearing tonight phone charger Occasionally some bad intentions that kind

of

thing Mike.

Sure.

Are you a handkerchief guy?

Are you ever one of those dudes?

You know what?

Here's the weird thing.

I'm not a handkerchief guy I think they're like kind of gross but I

do

yes I do keep like paper towels in my pockets just in case because all of a sudden

You never know when you're going to need it.

Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah.

A bounty, carry a pack of bounty with you, that's totally fine.

But a handkerchief, that's a commitment, man.

That's like a piece of clothes that you vomit in.

I mean, it's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

There are times I'll be around like some old school guys and I'll see them pull out a handkerchief and I'll have like this visceral reaction where I just almost dry heaved.

Um, yeah.

And I want to say what's, what do you got against the quicker picker upper?

It's a little more sanitary and you don't have to carry that disgusting thing.

That's Rosie.

Rosie, I'll tell you.

Um, let me tell you this sixth grade West view, a middle school in Romeoville, Illinois, sixth grade.

Uh, our gym teacher was a man named Mr. Nellis.

And, and he was your prototypical old school.

the baseball hat from the 20s in 1977, baggy blue pants whistled the whole night.

And he had constantly, he would fish into his pocket and pull out a handkerchief that never saw the inside of a washing machine, never saw anything but his pocket and his nose.

That was it, like bang, bang, bang, bang, back and forth.

It was a one-way street, a two-way street.

So then one day he comes in this, you can ask Lenny,

my brother who will totally tell you this.

He reaches in, he's fishing for the handkerchief one day and we're all like, oh Christ, here it comes.

And he reaches in and he pulls out a hot dog.

And bites it a couple of times and shoves it back in the handkerchief pocket.

Never

forgot.

Just a health violation on so many levels, Mike.

Right?

This is the guy teaching me about why hair is growing where it's growing.

And now he's got a pocket full of sausage that I'm not interested in.

What are you doing, man?

He's teaching you about hygiene.

He's pulling a hot dog out of his

pocket.

Right.

Mr. Nellis, man.

You're going to curb it.

Oh, that's awful.

Great.

It was

great.

It

was him and Mr. Krushka.

I gotta tell you a Mr. Krushka story.

Mr. Krushka was also a gym teacher in Westview.

And then when I went to Bolingbroke High School, he was a teacher there.

And he had this cadence the way he would talk, Schmitt, what are you doing?

And he called it by their last name.

So one year, my sophomore year, we had a transfer student.

A kid from probably Vietnam, I don't know, somewhere over there.

Somewhere where their names end in G's.

And we adopt him.

Like my crew adopts this guy because we want it where he's like our guy.

Like he's got super long fingernails and he's just a different cat and his language, his English is bad.

So we're doing archery outside and as a gym experience.

And we're shooting and it's Fong's turn to shoot.

And Fong goes, and we go, Fong, now when you shoot, you gotta go get the arrow.

And he's like, he's like, okay, I don't know what he said.

And we're like, no, when you shoot, you gotta go out because he was shooting in a hay bales and targets.

And there's like 15 of them lined up and people are like, they're all shooting.

So Fong shoots his arrow.

And I should tell you, this is in like 1981, I think.

and Fong shoots it and then he goes to run out today, pale and grab the arrow and Krushka's down the line.

He just goes, Fong, what are you doing?

You'll wind up like Sadat.

Get back here.

Because a week before this, Anwar Sadat had attended a parade, uh, his last parade, but, but Krushka out of nowhere, out of nowhere drops that on Fong.

Fong, get back here.

You'll wind up like Sadat in front of 13 year old boys.

Gorgeous.

Oh God, that's funny.

Marty Krushka.

That's the dudes.

They were legends.

Oh, that's so great.

Mike, all right.

I don't know when this story happened, but I've heard from a couple of our mutual friends that you have a story about playing basketball against girls.

And I hope this isn't a horribly misogynistic story or something, but it's

supposed to be

very funny.

Well, first of all, that just sounds horrible the way you framed it.

You played basketball against girls.

Well, it sounded

like it was an experiment, the way I heard it the first time, but I've never heard the story.

All right.

First, I'll just tell you, you know, I love sports.

Love playing sports, but I didn't play sports in school.

My grades weren't there.

My mom wouldn't let me, whatever.

It didn't matter.

So I play, but we play sand lot all day baseball.

We play basketball on a nine foot rim and dunk.

It was totally fun.

So me and my friend Mike Scott and Mike Casey, you think you had a lot of mics in the studio tonight.

We got me three mics on this team.

And we wind up having a talk because there's on our on our girls basketball team in the high school.

And again, this is freshman year.

Yeah.

So there was the three best players were women, these girls.

I don't know if I should say their names, but I won't say their last names, but it was Judy Patty and

Nola.

No, Mike.

And they they no, Mike's no, Mike's on the ladies team.

And so.

It got into like a like a beef like a war of words where we were talking and Mike could play basketball, Mike Scott.

He didn't play on the team, but he was okay to good.

Mike Casey was not as bad as me.

I'm gonna, here's how bad, the truth will be, here's how bad I am at basketball.

I get a friend named Jimmy O and Jimmy O's nickname besides Jimmy O is Stool or Stooley.

And the reason he got that was he plays basketball like a word I can't say on your radio show.

So that's why he was nicknamed stool.

So then a couple years ago, we had the ultimate showdown against me against him to see who was worse and I lost So that's how bad I am and luckily I didn't get the the stool nickname.

He continues to wear it.

Oh,

sweet.

Yes, sir But I like on the small rim forget it I was like backing people down and you know, it was amazing because I was like combination of Bill Lane beer hurting people and Kevin Duckworth with one head of jumpers I was amazing, but regular basketball ten foot rim forget so

So, Judy is in Mike, having a bit of a thing, and they're like, we could beat you guys in basketball.

And Mike's like, you could never be us.

There's no way.

He goes, me and Mike and Mike would kill you guys.

And they're like, we play on the team.

We would absolutely destroy you.

And I'm nervous because I'm like, Mike, now what are you doing, man?

This is probably bad.

And they're like, well, then let's play.

And he's like, all right, we'll figure it out.

We'll play.

We'll get together and we'll play.

So the summer comes and Mike tells me hey, we're playing we're playing them this week.

I'm like, what are you talking about?

He's like we're gonna play them.

We're going on a Falcon Ridge and we're gonna plan I'm like, oh Christ.

All right, so me him and Mike and like I don't practice or anything again I don't I don't know what to do.

I'm just I play street basketball,

right?

So and then we get there and they're like they're they're in like almost like matching uniforms and they're doing a layup line Amazing

And, you know, Mike's practically, he didn't, but he smoked that day just for no reason.

He's like, all right, let's do this.

You know, like, that's how to shape in basketball.

So

great.

So we get

there.

Let's, let's, can we, can we, uh, the game

is

about to start.

Can we wait?

We're going to do a very quick break.

We'll come back and find out

what

happened.

And Mike's a pickup basketball game.

I love it.

It's beach wabba and night light.

Mike Schmidt is here on the civic media radio network.

I am Pete Schwabba.

Conrad is back.

He was back last night after a lengthy stay at the draft where he was asked to leave with good reason.

I'm kidding, Conrad.

You know that.

I'm very excited, folks.

My friend Mike Schmidt is on the show, very funny comedian and host of the 40-year-old boy podcast.

Absolutely check it out.

Mike was in the middle of telling a story about how he and two other mics.

We're playing, we're about to square off against three girls who are outstanding basketball players.

They're very good.

Right.

As a matter of fact, when they arrived, like I said, as freshmen, uh, you know, our, our, the girls team was never anything I guess to write home about.

But then when these three arrived, everybody was like, all right, here we go.

Yeah.

It's about time we've got some, some juice with the, with the arrival of Judy, Patty, and so we get there.

And like I said, they're, they're hitting shots.

I'm, I'm looking at, cause again, Mike's good.

Right

and Mike and my other friend Mike is just, you know, he's just there.

Mike, Mike, he never talked.

I don't know.

I think I heard him talk twice throughout all of high school.

He's one of those guys.

Mike, I'll say with Mike, we actually, one time after school, me and Mike went with Mike because Mike had a fight with Maher Allen and they had a fight like three o'clock high.

They fought for like 45 minutes.

Oh, wow.

Blood and mud.

It was gorgeous.

And then it was at the end.

At the end, they shook hands and we just went home.

It was crazy.

It was the weirdest thing.

Right.

No guns.

None of that craziness.

Everybody goes home.

Put the guns down and fight like men people.

Yeah.

Or women,

whatever.

They went at it.

I mean, I think about it now.

It was like, Titanic climb with Mike and Mar-Alan.

Yeah.

But then Mike, it was great.

It was a spectacle I won't soon forget.

So they're practicing.

They're really good.

And I tell Mike, the guy who's good at basketball, I go, Mike, look, man, you got to.

Like you got to score every time.

You got to carry us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Please.

And he's like, well, don't worry about it.

Yeah, we'll be fine.

And and so we gave them the ball like to take it out.

And they were like, no, no, no, you guys take it because, you know, they were they were good basketball players and we were just this motley crew of nobodies.

And and the game started.

And Pete.

We beat the hell out of these

girls.

The story was going the other way.

That's a lure.

We destroyed them.

Like, I don't know if they scored.

I don't remember if they, but we, I knew there was trouble when after like the sixth time we scored, sweet Georgia Brown came out of nowhere.

We lay, I mean, it was demoralizing.

Cause again, we're bad.

Like Mike's, Mike's okay to good.

He's not on the team or anything.

Like he's just a guy.

And Mike and me and the other Mike are just, we're stone pillars, but Pete, let me tell you this, as good as these women wear basketball, and they continue to be good throughout their entire high school careers, it's very hard to defeat a seven inch height disadvantage.

I

was six foot, I'm six two now, I was six foot in high school, and the tallest one of them was Patty, who was probably five, six.

And she was

the

center, maybe.

Yeah, yeah, and she's trying to guard me forget about I got one damning on this girl step off patty on every other day of the year every other day of my life But today I am I am absolutely shakning you to peace

It was a mess.

We left them laying in just a smoking ruin.

Was there talking afterwards?

Did you guys all part friends or what happened after?

Of course, we were friends all through school.

I mean, not hanging out, but you can see it all.

Again, it was four years.

We were going to have to be in there.

But I know that they knew.

Every moment they grabbed a basketball, every time they saw us, they had to realize that we were the L that would never be erased.

Because they're not getting a rematch.

There's no rematch.

I mean, they could call now, and I'm like, sorry, it's not happening.

You're taking this to the grave.

You got absolutely dominated by two slobs and a decent

guy.

I really thought that was going the other way.

Like they were

just dropping

bombs and crushed you guys.

That's so

funny.

We killed him.

We absolutely killed

him.

Do you remember this, Mike?

One time, you know, we were talking in LA and I.

You know, I'm a Jordan guy.

You've always been a Larry Bird guy.

And I always loved when something would set you off in a conversation.

And I said something about Larry Bird that was not, Larry Bird's great, but I don't know what I said, like he didn't play defense or whatever.

You said, do you want me to come over there right now and hit you?

I was like, well, no.

Well, and don't get it.

Michael Jordan is the greatest player I've ever played.

I, you know, don't, don't make me like I'm anti Jordan.

Jordan's the king.

Right.

Uh, I had a straight, I was, I had a stranger, whatever.

I was sitting, I was in a, like a restaurant in a mall, like a food court.

And there was a guy behind me.

He was on the phone and he was, uh, he was the LeBron guy and the guy on the other end of the phone was clearly the Jordan guy.

But they're having that argument

right

best and he's laying out Well, you know, the thing is he's 41 he's still doing it and you hear the guy on the phone He's like Jordan Baba and they're going back and forth back and forth after like 15 minutes I just turn and turn around I looked at him and I go six and Owen finals Beat Hall of Famers in every finals.

Yeah

six NBA finals MVP's Put the phone away To a total

stranger.

Yeah, and he left thankfully

And how do you like that's my argument for the Jordan LeBron thing like nobody ever even took Jordan to a game seven in the finals So it's tough to have I get a look and I give LeBron total credit I mean to do what he's done for as long as he has is incredible But they're different players LeBron is huge, you know, and I mean they both are but LeBron is a different player I think

Yeah, LeBron is 6'9, 250.

But also, there's something to be said for a 40-year-old man at 6'9, 250, still in 28 and 10.

I mean, he's a miracle.

And if you wanted to tell me he was the second best of all time, I would concede that point.

I would, too.

I like Kareem and all those.

There's a lot of guys I can argue for.

But from what LeBron's accomplished and done, and again,

The chase down block against the Warriors is ridiculous.

He has legendary moments that you'll never forget.

25 points in a row in the playoffs for Cleveland.

I mean, it's insane, dude.

But again, everyone has, like everybody forgot about Isaiah Thomas.

Isaiah Thomas is an amazing Hall of Fame basketball player.

He just, he's incredible because he's a jerk.

I know.

We hated him because he was mean to Jordan and he was a jerk.

I'm glad, Mike, that you and I agree on all three of these points.

And we didn't have another Larry Bird moment here because that did frighten me a lot.

Hey, Mike is going to stick around through the news, folks.

It's intermission here at Nightlight.

We're coming back.

We're going to talk about three really cool movies and maybe a bouncer.

I don't know, Mike.

We'll figure it out.

We're coming back.

Mike Schmidt is here.

Mike Radu coming up.

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Welcome to Act Two of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

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Conrad is here working the board and producing the show.

Our question of the night is, what is in your pocket?

It is not National Pocket Day.

This question is tied to nothing, except I want to know what's in your pocket.

So we've had some great, a lot of people walking around with knives.

I see a few more texts here.

We'll read those in a bit, but yeah, a lot of people carrying weapons, which is a little unsettling.

Tony the trucker says, hankerchief thing is gross enough.

I have seen people shake it out before using it.

Yeah, that's worse.

Mike Schmidt is here, ladies and gentlemen.

He is on the stream and we are talking about a wide array of topics as always.

Mike, I have to go back.

When you were telling the story about your gym teacher, calling everybody by their last name, I went through a phase where, and I think it was inspired by Chief Wiggum of The Simpsons.

would always see Homer and go, oh, Simpson.

Like, it was just, I don't know if it's like from the 50s or whatever, but when you call somebody by their last name, it's so old school.