SNL’s Historic 50th Season(Hour 1)

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This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain, Peach Waba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I got a case of the Mondays and it feels amazing.

Great to have you here as we kick off a brand new week with so much potential.

All the things that could possibly happen and all the experiences we can have on hand and teed up for a new week of nightlight or non-nightlight.

Whatever you got going on in your life, have a great week everybody.

And this is a great way to start it.

It's great to have you.

Conrad, how you doing?

I am doing good.

It was a fun weekend.

Yeah, you golfed you said yeah, that's exciting and what that was one

part though You know what was fun is just doing laundry.

Okay,

so fun.

Did you have to wash your golf pants?

Yeah, well, I wore shorts so those you know, I I made a mistake going out there were shorts and just like yeah, I know well my my brother and His well my sister law and some of his friends were at the state dart

tournament.

Oh, really?

Yeah, that was at the Rush Center.

The Rush Expo.

Yeah.

And they got fourth place.

Was golf too athletic for them?

So they had to switch to darts?

How does that work?

What was funny

is, is I texted my brother on Saturday, which he did, they had the state tournament on Saturday as well.

But they did good enough to move on to Sunday.

Oh, that's cool.

I

love darts.

I was like, do you want a golf on Sunday?

He's like, well, I'll let you know.

Actually, he's like actually she come down I watched them get fourth and he's like all right ready for golf

No kidding.

Yeah.

How is it watching darts?

Hey, you know actually it was

it was pretty

intense.

It was it was state is

It's

pretty

intense,

you

know that they were it's not like Pretty much everyone there is good at it.

Yeah, so it's not you know So that was fun

and then it

was his birthday too.

So

Which sports weekend.

Yeah.

No, it

was it

was fun.

And then yeah, I watched hacks

The new season very good show.

I'm out of the new season.

I really enjoyed it There's some moments in a like kind of cringe.

Yeah, make me a little cringy,

you know, but

other than that like nose so far I think there's gonna be like a couple more episodes left or whatever.

Yeah

But it's really good.

Our pal Rose Abdu, of course, is on Hacks.

She's always fun to have on the show.

And she does a great job on Hacks as well.

I had a great weekend.

It was nice until Sunday.

It got a little cold.

But it was a beautiful weekend with friends.

And I mentioned last week we had a family friend who passed.

And so we were all kind of hanging out.

And that's fun.

And we've got services coming up.

this coming weekend, which a ton of people are coming to town for.

So it sounds like it'll be another busy, but fun weekend on the holiday weekend.

Are you, you got big plans?

I do not.

I was, you know, my, my sister-in-law invited me to go camping with, with her family and, you know, but last time I did it, we slept in a tent.

I just, I can't do a tent.

The tents suck.

You got to love camping to do that.

I said.

You know, I'd love to but I don't think I could do a tent.

She's like why not?

I'm like, you know, I think I enjoy glamping more

You enjoy what glamping?

What's that glamorous camping?

Yeah, well, you know camper RV.

Yeah, that's glamorous Last time I back her for like a week straight

Yeah, I've never been a big camper.

I can't do it, but I've done it and it can be fun.

It's fun to be with people and hang out, but just not my cup of tea.

Great show tonight, folks.

Great to have you here.

Whether you're joining us on the stream or the app or on the radio, the phone lines are open.

Let us know throughout the show what you think.

We have some fun topics and some fun guests tonight.

Dr. Kristin Lierly will be here at 6.35 tonight.

She has always fun to have on Nightlight and she has her own show now.

So a lot has happened to Dr. Lyrely since she's last spent any sort of significant time with us.

She'll be here at 6.35.

We'll ask her about her show.

And she has two people she really likes to follow on Instagram.

We'll have to ask her about that because I didn't know she was such a big fan of magic.

That's kind of cool.

She performs magic every day because she's a doctor and she delivers babies.

So maybe the more ethereal, I don't know, it'll be fun to talk to Kristen.

We got a lot to catch up on.

She'll be here in studio.

And then my pal Steve Segeron will be here at 735.

Steve is an artist, an actor, and a former stand-up comedian, a very funny guy.

I've actually cast him myself in a couple things.

So it'll be fun to talk to Steve.

He's always a blast.

That's at 735.

We've got a question we're about to lay on you people.

It was the last episode of Saturday Night Live for its historic 50th season last Saturday.

So our question of the night revolves somewhat around Saturday Night Live.

Why don't we just do that right now, Conrad?

Let's get to it.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

Who is your favorite SNL cast member of all time?

Not character on the show, but actual actor, comedian, whomever, whoever is your favorite, let us know.

And...

This will be interesting because there's a wide range of well, there's a couple generations To choose from you got the not ready for primetime players the original cast then Bill Murray joined right after that after season one Chevy Chase left Then you've got the cast that I remember the most which is Phil Hartman Dana Carvey John Lovett's Kevin Elon But that not ready not ready for primetime players cast that was great Jane Curtin

Gilderad or Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Ekra, it's tough to compete.

I don't know, it's tough.

And then my son said Bill Hader in that group, he likes that group.

Conrad, I'm sure you have opinions.

I will say, I was talking to my son earlier today, Joe, and he said typically, or he's read that whoever, whatever the ensemble was when you were in middle school is typically the cast you gravitate towards.

I thought that was interesting.

I don't think that for me, it would be Kate McKinnon.

Well, of course.

I didn't even have to ask you, because I knew you couldn't wait to share the name Kate McKinnon.

She makes me laugh every time I see her.

She is absolutely hilarious.

And I mean, even if you break it down to go male and female, for me, it might be Kristen Wiig and Gilda Radner, a tie, but I think my favorite all around is just

who made me laugh consistently was Phil Hartman.

And from that group, I had trouble choosing between him and Dana Carvey.

But I'm gonna go Phil Hartman as my all-time favorite.

You say Kate McKinnon, what do you, our cherished listeners say?

Let us know who your favorite cast member of Saturday Night Live was.

If you wanna share a character, that's fine too, even a skit, great.

Go for it.

Our specific question is, who is your favorite SNL cast member?

Of all time, you got 50 years to choose from, folks.

We have a clip we'll play.

Do we have time to play that now?

Yeah.

Yeah, we

do.

Let's do that.

This is Mike Meyer.

OK, I got to set this up.

Several years ago, Mike Myers was on a benefit with Kanye West.

And they were trying to raise money for Katrina victims.

And Mike Myers.

who I don't know if he was still on Saturday Night Live at the time or not, but he was talking about how where you can donate and Kanye West went on this rant about people in New Orleans.

And frankly, a lot of what he said is probably true, but it had nothing to do with what they were talking about.

And Kanye West just kept looking at, I'm sorry, Mike Myers just kept looking at Kanye West like, oh my gosh, he's going totally off script.

So that was a little contentious for the two of them.

So they did a parody of that this past weekend on the season finale.

It started out in an elevator with Mike Myers, Scarlett Johansson, and then Kenan Thompson joins in and plays Kanye West.

And, well, let's just hear what we hear.

We know what celebrity you're going to run into here.

That's true.

Oh my God, is that Kanye West?

Yeah, what you talking about?

I'm going to remove my song, fam.

Come on, give me one good reason.

Besides that.

Besides that, how is it not relatable?

Everybody got a cousin.

Okay, I guess it's my stop.

Again, so nice to meet you, Mr. Mayer.

No, no, it's not.

It's just not your stop.

What are you doing?

You can't leave me alone in here with him.

It's fine.

I heard he's a deli.

Oh, hey, you might Mayer's, right?

Kanye, what's up, man?

It's just yay now.

Sorry, yay.

I guess it's been a while.

Yeah, since that hurricane Katrina benefit.

Yes.

You know, when I told the world that George Bush don't care about black people on live TV.

Yes.

And you

just had to stand there looking stupid.

Yes.

So, uh, what are you even up to?

Oh, me?

I'm in the KKK now.

Of course you are.

Yes, yes.

How's your kids?

My kids?

My kids are safe.

That's good.

Family stability is important.

Isn't it, though?

Yes.

Yeah.

Diddy stuff is crazy, right?

What?

Diddy.

He's on trial right now for like a bunch of stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I heard about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's so crazy, man.

You think you know a guy turns out to be a full crazy monster, man?

Yeah, right.

So what happened to you?

What do you mean?

Nothing.

Not one thing.

Uh, let's wait for the next one.

Yeah.

No, come

back!

There's plenty of room in here.

There's plenty of room in this elevator.

So, Maya's... that Jewish Protestant, actually.

Protestant, yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

Hey, you know, we should take a selfie together.

Come on.

Hold on.

The elevators are so slow sometimes.

What was that?

You must have hit stop or something.

I think we stuck, man.

We gonna be here for a while now.

Oh, no.

Should we jump up and down till something happens?

Nah, man.

I don't like doing crazy stuff.

You don't understand.

I get really claustrophobic.

Oh, trust me.

I understand.

I'm a few phobics myself.

But right now, we just need to relax.

You

want some knots?

No, I'm good.

I just got to get out of here.

I got to get out.

Calm down, Mike.

You sounded like a lunatic.

Why don't I play you my next single, man?

It's a love song.

OK.

Yeah, it's called Squeezing on my Grandpa Booty.

You know, it's just for sheer longevity.

Kenan Thompson has been on this show longer than any cast member in history.

He is always funny.

I don't know that he's ever like the funniest guy on the show, but he's so consistent and so funny.

So that was kind of cool.

It was cool to see Mike Myers back on the show too.

All right, another thing happening this week.

Very exciting.

May 23rd, Mission Impossible, the final installment, dead reckoning, the final reckoning.

Actually, Mission Impossible, the final reckoning, is the actual title.

It has been getting worldwide premieres at Cannes Film Festival in New York over the weekend.

It's already made 12 million bucks.

It's not even in theaters yet.

This thing is going to go through the roof.

And I'm so excited.

I can't wait.

We're organizing a big group to go on Sunday.

Conrad, it might be worth the trip to Marinette and our North.

I'm excited for it.

It's gonna be that much fun.

I think it's gonna be great.

It's gotten...

The buzz is crazy.

The stunts are great.

It's Tom Cruise's best.

And this is the biggest release, I think, box office release that I can, in modern memory, maybe since the last Mission Impossible.

I mean, all the Marvel ones are big, but they're all sort of big.

This is huge.

I can't even begin to say how excited I am to see this movie.

This is what movies are all about.

This is the blockbuster, the summer blockbuster, ladies and gentlemen.

Starting this Friday, Tom Cruise has been getting standing ovations everywhere he's gone, where this is played.

And the buzz is real, folks.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here at 6.35 in studio.

Then my buddy Steve Segrant at 7.35.

We've got a lot to talk about with Dr. Kristen.

That's coming up in just a few minutes.

We're going to read your texts when we come back and talk about a new millhouse.

It's Pete Schwabba.

and nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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What do you call it?

Twix?

What are we calling it?

Twix.

I like, I like Twix.

So, but great to have you with me, folks.

We got a fun show tonight.

And our question of the night is who is your favorite SNL cast member?

Not necessarily character, although you're welcome to share that as well, if you like.

But we're wondering who your favorite SNL like actor or comedian is.

So many great ones.

Dave on the stream says Eddie Murphy.

I kind of forgot about Eddie Murphy.

Yeah, I forgot he was on SNL.

And even more so, I forgot about Joe Piscopo.

But there's good reason for that.

Eddie Murphy was, I think it was pretty much he and Joe Piscopo were like the two marquee names.

And that was right.

Was that right after the not ready for primetime players?

But Eddie Murphy is great.

Good one, Dave.

Dave also says Chris Farley from Madison.

How about Chris Farley?

Oh, yeah.

I forget Chris Farley, right?

My favorite male.

Favorite male?

Yeah.

Just of all time.

Yeah, he's great.

And the stories

that surround Chris Farley in the writer's room, and if you've read books about Saturday Night Live, Chris Farley had fun and really entertained people on and off stage.

You know, and like, with SNL people, like, going off doing their own movies, sometimes they're clunkers, you know?

I think Chris Farley had really good

air,

like, as a cast member, really good movies.

And there were movies that the cast members did that Lauren Michaels was also a producer on.

And I think Tommy Boy was one of them, the David Spade movies, the Rob Schneider movies.

I don't know if you could count Chevy Chase's movies like that, because his were separate films, as were Bill Murray's.

So that would be a different category, but that would be a good question one night too, best Saturday Night Live films, but that's a great category too.

We have to do, oh here's Daniel Wheeler says, Will Ferrell.

He broke so many of his fellow cast members with his offbeat characters.

Their attempts to stifle laughter made the skits even funnier.

He also elevated cowbell to a top tier musical instrument.

That's true.

And you just forget, it's not like I forgot Will Ferrell was on SNL, but there are so many characters that didn't come to mind right away that we're probably going to be hearing about throughout the night.

JB Thompson agreeing with me.

Phil Hartman, amazing actor.

I agree JB, guy behind the guy, behind the guy.

Phil Hartman had a bit part in quick change and was hilarious.

Just as a guy who was a renter with his wife, he just makes everything funny.

Ezekiel Drew says, it's go time.

Picture Chris Farley, I think we know where Ezekiel's loyalties lie.

Sarah Jean on social media says, oh man, way too many favorites.

David Spade, Kevin Nieland, Eddie Murphy are probably some of my top favorites.

I take that back at Damon Wayans and Phil Hartman, dude.

Damon Wayans?

I didn't even know he was on us.

I didn't either but did I I don't know I totally forgot I Think we got to go to the Google.

I just yeah, I mean he's on it and then we've got on the text line Why these are all great though?

Monica from Mount Horrib says Gilda Radner outstanding choice Monica and Gilda Radner just I mean talk about a life that's cut too short

Damon Wayans purposefully got himself fired from SNL by going off script.

I snapped.

I just did not care.

He

said

that.

The first I typed in Damon Wayans SNL and that's the first thing that popped

up.

That's great.

And he did not do the Larry David where he told off Dick Ebersol and marched out and then went back in like nothing happened.

Just like the character he wrote George Costanza did that.

But Larry David did it successfully.

Damon Wayans obviously just wanted to leave.

He had a lot of other stuff going on too.

Melissa from Madison also says Gilda.

Great choices.

Thank you, Melissa.

Thank you, Monica.

Love Gilda Radner.

Steve from Florida says, I gotta say Chris Farley has been my favorite SNL character, maybe because his hometown was Madison.

Yeah, that's a good reason.

But regardless of where Chris Farley is from, you're not being a Homer.

He's just hilarious.

He'd

be up there no matter where he was from.

And he graduated from Madison, right?

I think he grew up in Madison or spent his whole life there until he went to Chicago and did Second City.

Fairly certain.

Brian from Milwaukee says, Sherrio Terry.

Oh, nice poll.

Will Ferrell and Dan Akroyd.

That's a nice varied time stretch there.

Yeah, sherry otaria forgot about Rachel Dratch is hilarious to Debbie Downer is one of my favorite all-time SNL characters Steve also said about Chris Farley.

He always made me laugh uncontrollably Agreed Steve Brian from Milwaukee says David Spade can't forget Gilda Radner who married Jean Wilder who is from Milwaukee You see how everything ladies and gentlemen comes back to Wisconsin?

Wisconsin is the center of the universe both comedically and non comedically

We have texts.

I always like to read these because I don't like to let texts go on red.

But over the weekend, what's our question?

The most disgusting food?

What food, yeah.

Yeah.

We have, oh, Kristen Lyrely in the hizzy, ladies and gentlemen.

She will be along.

And I'm going to ask Kristen her least favorite food.

Don't tell me now, though.

Think about it.

Ruminate.

John Minow.

This one made me laugh.

I saw this over the weekend.

Minow says, ox tail.

That doesn't sound good.

I'll tell you what, it's not nearly as delicious as bullpenis.

We talked about that last week.

Deandra Marie, fantastic singer-songwriter who was on the show last week, says, Oysters!

I agree texture-wise.

But I think we decided we liked Oysters

for the most part.

I mean, I like shellfish, so.

That's right.

All right, we'll have to read the rest of these after.

We got a break coming up.

Kristen Lyrely is here.

Doctor!

Kristen Lyrely, if you're nasty.

If you know her from her own TV show.

I'm sorry radio show TV's down the block.

That's coming You got a face for TV, you know, you're just putting your time in here radio and we know that all right We're coming right back after the news Civic Media's news team is gonna tell you what's up.

Don't leave folks.

It's great to have you here.

It's Monday Let's do this.

It's Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the Civic Media radio

network

And on the stream, ladies and gentlemen, you are seeing Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

She's a doctor, dancing and air singing, karaokeing.

Hey, welcome back to Nightlight.

This is Pete Schwab.

Great to have you with me on this beautiful Monday, sunny at least.

I wouldn't say it's the warmest night we've ever had, but Steve Segarin will be here at 7.35.

Renowned artist, Steve Segarin and comedian actor.

But right now, it is my pleasure to welcome to Nightlight as I do, but not nearly enough.

You haven't been here in a while, at least not for any length of time.

It's been a little while.

The world-famous host of

the

Dr. Kristen Lyley show.

This worked out really well because your name is Dr. Kristen Lyley.

Can you imagine if you didn't get that gig

and you're not even hosting your own show?

I'd be like, what?

What is going on?

Come on.

You know, that was not my idea.

And I'm still a little uncomfortable with it.

Right.

Because, you know, I'm just like a kid from Kokona.

The streets of Kokona.

The streets on the north side.

The gritty north side.

I'm a north sider by Hain.

Is that the tough part of town?

No.

Of Kokona.

A tough part of town in Kokona is 41, driving through and having to smell whatever it is we smell there when

we get there.

Money?

That's the smell of money, Pete.

I thought it was hog rendering or something, but whatever it is, it smells delightful.

It's the paper mill.

Here's what Kokona is like.

I grew up in, on the north side, near Victor Hain Elementary School that was named after one of my high school friends' grandfathers.

Oh, wow.

Because everybody is related in Kokona.

Is that true?

Yeah, pretty much.

I mean,

it's basically part of Green Bay, Metro, Appleton.

Isn't it kind of...

We never came to Green Bay when I was little.

We would always go to Appleton.

Really?

Mm-hmm.

What do you make of that?

They're all kind of connected.

Yeah.

Ish.

It's maybe a little closer.

But they've got the football team here.

Doesn't that do anything for you?

We didn't have tickets.

And

also, it was the 70s.

You didn't need to

come to Lambeau Field.

My parents were having a struggle time with it at home, so we didn't need to come all the way to Green Bay to struggle to watch the Packers lose.

But we love our Packers.

Yeah.

You, I've got the wrong set of questions.

Do you mind if I ask you questions about Steve Seagrin?

Is that a problem?

Yes.

You know, the

last time I printed out like a thousand questions for you, I don't think I got to one of them.

I know.

Can I tell you my favorite SNL cast member?

Yeah, absolutely.

There are so many good ones.

I'm one of those SNL people who, like every Saturday, I look it up to see, is it a new episode or is it one of them?

Still?

Oh, I

love SNL.

Nice.

Yes.

And then my goal is to make it.

through Weekend Update.

If I can make it through Weekend Update, then I feel like I have done my piece.

You

feel so old.

You feel like a kid again.

Yeah, like I should maybe go to bed after that.

But you know, sometimes I commonly I'll stay up.

And then some of the good skits are actually at the end.

Yeah, I think they can do like edgier stuff at the end too, maybe.

But my favorite was always when The Simpsons would make fun of Saturday Night Live and Krusty would say like...

when Krusty would host it and he'd say, well, the last hour is a real garbage dump.

They didn't have

any

problem going after.

Do you have a favorite cast member, though?

I would have to say so many good ones.

Yeah.

What about Eddie Murphy?

Yeah, Dave on the stream said Eddie Murphy.

And I

kind of forgot

Eddie Murphy was on.

Well, Farrell didn't even come to mind when I was trying to jog my brain, but there's so many great ones, and Molly Shannon and Gilda Rather and somebody said Sherry O'Terry.

I like Kristen Wiig when

she does the

tiny hands.

She's crazy funny.

I'm on

the floor, like

that is literally one of the biggest laughs I've ever had in my life.

Have you been seeing that skit with the Lawrence Welk skit with like the, I'm Debbie.

Oh

yeah,

we

played that on here before.

So they've been doing it recently with like the world leaders and at the end it's, I can eat and it's Donald Trump with the little hands.

I

didn't see that, that's hilarious.

I'll find it for you.

It's so good.

We could play that.

So all right, so your favorite though is.

Oh, it's hard to pick.

I don't like picking favorites.

Wait

a minute.

You brought this up.

Well, yeah.

You said, can I say my favorite?

And I said, yes.

It's Eddie Murphy and Will Ferrell.

Oh, Eddie Murphy.

And Kristen Wiig's amazing.

What about Gilda?

You go back that far

with the show?

I do.

Yeah.

You know, it was so early, like the early cast members, I don't feel as connected to.

Yeah.

OK.

Anthony Michael Hall.

Oh, wow.

That's the down year.

But a lot of

people like that cast.

It's crazy.

They're kind of forgotten about it.

It was him and Robert Downey Jr.

was the cast, remember?

Oh my gosh, I totally forgot he was the cast.

Yes.

I have to ask you a question.

This was last week's, I think it was, was it Friday night con that we did the worst

food?

Yeah.

Food that literally makes you want to puke.

Do you have a food, the least favorite food?

John Minow said, Oxtail.

John Minow.

I know exactly what you meant when you said that.

Growing up in Nagani.

Was Oxtail?

Yeah.

Have you been to

Nagani?

I have, actually.

I did stand up there.

Walking around with their

tails?

You got to go out and kill one for dinner.

So it's a rough life.

That's right.

It's like growing up in the north side of Kekana, the gritty streets.

I don't remember

what

I said.

What did I say last week?

What was my least favorite?

I forgot, too.

I know mine was canned tuna.

Yeah, Conrad, can

I?

Oh, really?

I love canned tuna.

It's the smell.

When you open it, I just can't do it.

I can't get over that smell.

Do you have a little PTSD?

Did you have a bad canned tuna experience?

No, my dad would feed my cats growing up canned tuna.

And I'd just smell that when I'd go up in the kitchen or came home from school.

I was like, how could you eat that?

What about tuna in a bag?

You know they have the new bags.

Does that bother you too?

I actually really like tuna.

two mistakes.

Like some ahi, a nice ahi.

Yeah, that's good.

It doesn't have that weird smell to it.

Right.

I don't know.

Well, when it comes out of a can, it's just like,

ugh.

I worked in a salmon canning factory for one day in Alaska, one day, and they put everything.

in those cans, like they would just chop the salmon up.

Preservatives, you mean?

No, the salmon.

Oh, wow.

The salmon would come out on a conveyor belt, and we were all just standing on the conveyor belt, and we would just grab a can and just shove salmon parts into it.

And I was being picky, because I didn't want, like, spine and stuff in there.

An eye.

Yeah.

And they were like, no, just put the salmon in the can.

And I was like, I'm out.

I can't do this.

And that's when you decided, I want to deliver babies.

I'm going to be a doctor instead.

Another leap from salmon factory to doctor.

We've heard it a million times I said I think I said like tapioca pudding.

I don't like

I like

creamy like I can't do Alfredo sauce It's literally that kind of stuff, but I don't even remember what I said either.

What the hell,

you know, I think

you're coming up with a lot of things right now though.

Well, what about bobo tea?

Is that what you

brought me that night?

No, that was kombucha

kombucha, right?

All right

I'm sorry to bring this up.

I think I brought this up last time you were here too, but I was telling my sister I think that there was placenta in that

Well, it's called a scoby, but it's like a placenta.

But where does that come from?

Was that part of a person at one point?

No, it's scoby is an acronym Something bacteria and yeast Something something I'm sure somebody's gonna text it and tell us what the acronym stands for It's just this it's like a living thing that actually ferments the tea.

It's all it is is tea

Oh.

It's tea with sugar in it, and then the scoby ferments it.

So you actually take the scoby out.

You can eat the scoby.

It's healthy.

It's fine.

I did taste it.

I was not afraid of it after you steered us properly and said, no, it's OK.

But it's so it's not, it was never part of someone's body.

No.

OK.

No.

That's a relief.

But people think of it like it's like, because it floats in there.

It has a weird texture.

It's kind of,

it's like an oyster sort of a little bit.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Rubber.

It's

strange.

Yeah.

So

you said bologna.

Bologna.

God, bologna, yeah.

Bologna.

I

can't do bologna.

That was like a favorite food growing up.

My mom would cut the edges, like she'd slice into it.

Cut the crust, yeah.

Not the crust, she would like make, like vector into the center of the bologna and then she'd fry it and we would have fried bologna sandwiches.

People love it.

I just, and I ate it as a kid with mustard.

Yeah.

You know what I can do?

As far as cold cuts go or your cured meats, I can do salami.

with

mustard

and a

piece of cheddar cheese or something.

Oh, yeah.

Get out of here.

It's great stuff.

Salami or summer sausage?

What's the difference?

Because I almost said summer sausage.

Are they that different?

Mm-hmm.

Really?

Yeah.

Summer sausage is like the Wisconsin.

It's brown.

It's smaller.

It comes in the big thing.

Salami tends to be bigger, thin slice.

You get it at the deli.

Yeah, I

think

Salami then and I don't wait that kind of grosses me out now, too But I would I would muscle through it if that if that sandwich isn't from me right now, and I'm breaking a fast or something I would eat that because but I have to look past the white specks in it.

It's just fat, right?

Yeah, I don't know I think I eat much differently than I used to not always I mean look I'll I'll mouse and Taco Bell once in a while,

but

uh

I don't know, I try not to do that stuff.

Oh, I used to be able to put away a whole bag of taco flavored Doritos.

Oh, taco is the best.

Oh, taco, like a regular size, big, like a normal size that a family would eat.

Absolutely.

I could pound one of them.

That

was the first, that was the first Dorito flavor I remember when I was a kid, was just taco, like nacho cheese, when that came on the scene, it was like, that became the new thing.

And I was like, well, what about taco?

Taco felt sorry for the taco flavored chips.

You can get them again though, they're back.

Yeah, I know.

It's like a retro thing.

It is.

All right, so let's talk about your show.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.

She's in studio, like she so often is here at Nightlight, and it's so great to have her here.

She has her own show now.

You're a guest on everybody's show, because everybody likes your insights and your intelligence and all that kind of stuff.

But tell us about your show.

My show is all about Northeast Wisconsin.

It airs on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.

And it's like a long form interview with somebody, like last week we talked with Eric Gennrich, the mayor of Green Bay.

This week we're having some folks, the mayor of Sheboygan actually and a school board member from Sheboygan and someone who runs a daycare in Sheboygan to talk about what's going on with childcare in Wisconsin.

You might be familiar that we are losing this giant federal subsidy.

Governor Evers had it in the budget to backfill.

Child care providers only make like $13 an hour.

I

know.

And child care is super expensive, and it's almost unaffordable for a lot of parents.

There are wait lists.

We don't have enough centers.

This is a crisis for families.

It directly hurts the

economy too.

Like if people can't find people to watch their kids,

I don't think people think

of it like that.

It's terrible.

Right.

And that hurts your community.

If you can't get people to come out and work in your small business, this is one of those complex problems that really needs a state or federal solution.

Right.

And it's not happening right now.

So we're going to hear some stories.

We're actually taping tomorrow.

So that's coming up

Saturday.

Okay, so if you have opinions on this folks tune in this weekend and well you pre-record so you probably can't take text during the show but do you get comments afterwards?

Like do people chime in after and

that's good.

Yeah, I get private messages on my social media accounts.

Okay.

I love that.

I want to know what people want to hear.

Yeah.

And it's cool to have time.

Like when I got to talk with Mayor Gennrick it was just so neat to like tease him a little bit about not being a good athlete in high school.

You know that?

That's what we talked about.

Like, how often do you get to get that from the mayor?

You know, he was like a real person.

He was like, you know, I was good enough to play, but not good enough to play in high school.

I was like, me too.

I'm less of an athlete, more of an athletic supporter.

Right?

So it was just, it's a nice, easy conversation, but we also get to talk about things that affect us here in the community.

So

I

don't know, I really like it.

I met Mayor Gennrich.

I always give this up because it looks like rich, it's rich.

I think we were both guests on Mino and the Mayor one morning, and he acted like it was my friend, and he said he was gonna come on this show, and he never did.

Oh, do you need me to do a solid for you?

That

would be great, because I never even asked him.

But

I would

love to have it.

He seemed like a good guy when I met him.

He seemed like pretty cool.

He is a good

guy.

Was he a good guest?

He was a really good guest.

And he answered hard questions with like real answers.

It wasn't like political talk or, you know, garbage.

It was like, this is a tough answer.

And I'm just going to tell you the truth.

Why don't you love people like that?

Like they don't give you a canned response.

He's a good mayor, right?

Pretty good.

Yeah, I think he's a good one.

Better than Jim Schmidt was.

I'm holding her feet to the fire.

If Jim is listening, Jim, I had nothing to do with it.

All right.

That's Kristen Lyrely is here, folks.

And we have a quiz for Kristen Lyrely.

And we'll talk a little bit more about her show and all kinds of fun stuff.

I want to ask you about your documentary, too, if I could do that.

Oh, please.

That's all coming up.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Rich Lucasio.

You're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I would like to introduce to you the Pine Tree Mauler from Marinette, Wisconsin.

He is Pete Schwabba.

Thank you, Rich.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

That is a great nickname wrestling the Pine Tree Mauler because we have the Pine Tree Maul.

in, was in Marinette.

I don't even know if it's still called the Pine Tree Mall, though.

It's gone through many iterations over the years.

We used to do this thing where we would walk around the mall when we first moved back here, and my wife and I would try to pick out what store was where.

There was the id, there

was music land,

yeah, all these crazy,

yeah, the id boutique.

Oh, I totally forgot about that place.

We had a Regis, we had a-

Oh, here, Stylist, yes.

I'm saying that like

that's a huge thing.

It's not, it's

a

Regis.

Nobody was huge to us.

Yeah.

Asco was there, like all these old stores, Prangie, Prangie Way.

Anyway, crazy stuff.

Oh, now you're making me think of all those stores.

Probably not that different than Kakana, but Kakana's a little bigger than Marinette, I think.

We would go to Appleton.

Yeah.

So would we.

Or Fort Plaza.

That was like a big deal.

was that post-Port Plaza?

Port Plaza was first, right?

But it was too far for us to drive from Cacana to Green Bay.

Cacana's

closer to Appleton than here?

Oh, I didn't know that.

Okay.

Port Plaza was a big deal, though.

That was, like, a great, right across the street.

I

know.

All right, so tell us, all right, we're talking about the Dr. Kristen Liarley show.

Dr. Kristen Liarley is here.

She's the host.

How do you like hosting?

It's so much fun.

Yeah.

It's so different than me, I guess.

You're

really good at it.

You picked it up in no

time.

And I have

my doubts, I'll be honest.

No, you do very well.

It's like having a conversation.

Yeah.

As long as you can, I keep it going and ask interesting questions and try to take it in a way that people want to listen.

I just, whenever I have a new guest and most of my guests are not used to being on the radio,

I

always just tell them, we're just going to talk about the stuff that we usually talk about.

So Justin Schumacher, who was my guest a couple of weeks ago, he's the chair of the town of freedom.

and he's also the director of the Otagame County Park System, and he was super nervous.

I

was listening to part of that.

Yeah, that was a good interview.

But he didn't seem nervous because we had a great conversation beforehand, and I was like, listen, we're just going to have the same kind of talk that we did before.

And in between, when we were doing a break, he goes, this is my bar talk.

I know how to do this.

So it's just your bar talk, the stuff that you would be talking to or talking to anybody about.

Is there a particular kind of guest you want to get on the Dr. Kristen Lierley show?

Do you have a mission, so to speak, or are you just looking for interesting people?

I

like to highlight the beauty of Northeast Wisconsin.

All right, I'll do your show.

Geez.

Sorry, continue.

No, that's what it is.

It is just, there are so many hidden treasures here.

So whatever we can do to bring people together to have that conversation so that other people in the community can go, oh, the children's museum or, oh, I didn't know that about freedom or, oh, I didn't know that Eric Gennrick was not a good athlete.

Just kidding.

Just kidding there.

You are a good athlete, just not good enough to play in high school.

If I ever get

him on the show, I would love to have him do something athletic or sports related in here.

Yes.

Let's put our thinking

cash back in.

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