Sequels(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who once tore his ACL playing chess, Peach Waba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's do this.

We're doing it either way whether we're ready or not It is time overture Start the lights whatever the whatever the phrase is we are on the air ready to do nightlight and hopefully help you light it up a little bit tonight and hopefully I Don't know hopefully make you laugh a little bit.

So you warm up.

It's a cold crummy day here in the state of Wisconsin I'm not sure

Summer will ever get here.

Not that it should be here yet, but it's been a pretty sucky spring for the most part and very wet out and just kind of gross.

So hopefully we can have a few laughs tonight, talk about cigars, some comedy, lots going on.

We got a jam-packed show here for you tonight, and it's going to be fun.

We got a great question.

And however your day went, folks, leave it behind.

Leave the political discussions, the quarrels with coworkers, family, whatever.

Just get home and turn on the radio and hang out with us here at nightlight Conrad is riding shotgun once again.

Yes.

How you doing buddy?

I'm doing all right.

Did you I have to say this this cracked me up Mike Straylow reached out today Mm-hmm and apparently he was listening last night To our interview with dr. Kristen Lyrely and she went off on you know She mentioned at this OBGYN conference.

She went to somehow that turned into a conversation about

various forms of lubricant.

Yes.

The only one that she didn't mention, I think, was WD-40.

So, Mike, apparently, I didn't know where she was going with that.

I thought it was like this medical conference.

And I said, you know, are these lubes you have to use in the birthing process or something?

And she said, no, they're for sex.

And I said something to you, like, are you writing this down or are you blushing or something?

And Mike thought that was very funny.

So he actually went out of his way to share that, which I thought was really cool.

I know Mike listens sometimes when he's on his way home.

So thank you, Mr. Strahlo, if you are listening, tip of my hat, my friend, that's good.

We can use that as a promo account.

Yeah.

Yeah, let's pull that.

And I also, I told Mike today too that he has a picture before he came on the show a few weeks ago.

I saw, we had just become Facebook friends, I saw that he had a light blue tux on at a wedding.

And I had a picture of myself in a light blue tux from prom, which I couldn't find before he came on the show while I found the photo.

And I look handsome as I'll get out with puffy hair and a light blue tux and white shoes.

I literally look like cousin Eddie in this picture if he were to dress up.

And so the next time we have Mike on, we can compare photos.

I think that'll be really fun.

So drive safely, Mike, if you're listening.

Lots of fun last night too.

Kurt Krause, I want to get, I want to do this because we couldn't, I forgot to share this photo with you before Steve Segerin came on the show.

And Steve was not on for very long.

I should have probably blocked another segment for Steve because he's so fun to talk to.

But Kurt.

shared this photo, Kurt Krause is a local actor and filmmaker here in northeast Wisconsin.

I think technically he lives in Sturgeon Bay, which is probably northeast Wisconsin.

And he reached out many years ago and he said, hey, I was an extra on the Godfather of Green Bay, a film I made about 20 years ago, shot primarily in Marinette and a little bit in Vegas in LA.

And Kurt was an extra.

He's only 18 years old, but he got a picture.

from the set, and he shared that last night.

I had never seen this, but Steve Segrin played the bartender Ralphie in the film.

And Kurt was an extra, so he had this photo taken.

Conrad, let's put that on the stream.

So we've got... All right, if you're watching on the stream, there's a photo of Kurt, 18-year-old Kurt, giving the thumbs up.

Milwaukee's own Eric Price, brilliant comedian.

Steve Segrin in the front and center, kind of crouching down.

Looks like he's twerking.

Another brilliant comedian.

Tom Lennon is right behind Steve from Reno 911 who played D.U.G.

in The Godfather of Green Bay.

And then Dennis LaVell who played Harvey Scoric, which is the whole reason myself and Lance Barber's characters were road-tripping to Wisconsin, was because the talent booker for The Tonight Show, Harvey Scoric, is from there and he goes back every year to Dear Hunt and hangs out at this little bar where they do comedy.

So that was kind of the whole gist of the movie.

Joe and Kenny.

Our character names, me and Lance, drove all the way to this fictional town in Wisconsin to get seen by the talent booker for the Tonight Show.

So there you go.

That's Harvey Scoric, Dennis LaVell, D.U.G., played by Tom Lennon, Steve Seger and Ralphie the bartender, Eric Price, played a character called Rat Boy, and he was hilarious, and then Kurt as an extra.

What a fun thing for Kurt as an 18-year-old extra to get a picture with these guys.

And especially at that point, Tom Reno, because Reno 911 was all the rage for Tom Lennon, who played

Lieutenant Jim Dangle.

Do we still have the new boot goofing clip somewhere?

I'll have to find it.

God, that's a funny clip.

Thank you, Kurt, for sharing that.

I'm sorry we didn't get that up last night, but frankly, we didn't have Steve for that long, so we probably wouldn't have been able to show it last night.

But thank you for sending the photo and listening as always.

It's great to have all of you here.

We have got a lot of show, as I mentioned.

Pardon me.

Very, very funny comedian Rob Brackenridge will be here tonight, Appleton-based.

And Rob was concerned about weather, so I don't think he's coming in.

We'll get Rob on the stream online.

He'll be just as funny, I guarantee it, and just as engaging.

He's always fun to have on the show.

And then, pardon me.

And then our pal Norm Kepesky, owner, one of the owners of Appleton Cigar, who is a proud sponsor of this show, and it's great to have their support as well.

Norm will be here.

in the second part of the show, talking about a great event coming up June 2nd called Smoke on the Fox.

And Norm's a great guest.

Last time he brought cigars with him and he did a breakdown and showed us what cigar was what and what drink goes with this cigar.

And it was really insightful because I like to smoke the occasional cigar, not certainly to the extent Norm does.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about cigars, but they are fun to talk about and even more fun to smoke in the right setting.

Did you, uh, you got a cigar last time, right?

I did.

Yeah.

And there's no pressure on Norm to bring cigars, but I'm just saying if he, yeah, he showed up and tripped on his way into the studio and a couple fell out of his pocket, we'd give him a good home.

That's all I'm saying.

But it'll be fun to have Norm in the studio tonight and smoke on the Fox.

It sounds like this is only the second one.

They started it last year.

And it sounds like just an absolutely phenomenal event.

So we'll discuss all of that with Norm at 7.35, Rob Rack and Ridge at 6.35.

Your texts throughout the show, ladies and gentlemen, are always fun.

And before we get to some sad news, let's jump into 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.

Questions.

Oh, yeah.

Big, big chapter in the Mission Impossible franchise opening this weekend.

It's the eighth.

And it begs, you know, I just started thinking, what is your favorite sequel?

That's tonight's question.

There's so many good ones and there's some that never should have happened But a great sequel you can't beat it because it just makes you hungry for more and it's interesting because Mission Impossible started out like I thought the first film was fine.

I didn't think it was great The second one I honestly I thought was garbage did not like it even though Robert Town wrote it legendary Hollywood screenwriter, but after that Mission Impossible 3

Maybe one of my favorite action movies of all time.

It just started.

JJ Abrams directed it and it just went and it did not stop.

Great movie.

So that is tonight's question of the night.

What is your favorite sequel?

And I've been trying to get through some of the Mission Impossible's before the final reckoning opens this weekend.

It's going to be a big opening.

But there's so many great ones.

Godfather 2, Considered by some, maybe the best movie of all time.

and better than Godfather 1.

And I've never been able to put a sequel ahead of like the original because typically the original is a film I liked so much.

Like Batman Begins loved it.

I loved that they did Batman Wright and made him a dark character who kicks ass and wasn't, you know, like George Clooney wore the nipple suit and Michael Keaton and the great actors, but it was just bad movies.

They could not hold a candle to Christopher Nolan's Batman.

films.

And a lot of people think The Dark Knight is better than Batman Begins.

So I'm sure we'll get some votes for that.

Toy Story 2.

A lot of people think that's better than the original.

I like the original personally, but I love that one too.

Fury Road, Bad Max.

Great movie.

Empire Strikes Back.

Widely considered the best Star Wars movie.

Top Gun Maverick.

All kinds of stuff.

So what do you think, folks?

That's our question of the night.

Let me know.

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That is our question of the night.

Can't wait to read your responses.

I will say mine, Conrad.

I want to say is probably... I might have to go Fury Road, because I like a lot of sequels, but not enough to say maybe better than the original.

But Terminator 2 is a good one.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Joe Dirt 2.

Oh, nicely done.

Talk about the most irrelevant sequel ever.

I'm completely kidding.

And you had the guts to say it.

I'm completely kidding.

Do you have a favorite sequel?

I do.

It's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Oh, yeah.

Because that one's, I think, I believe is better.

And I will also say Attack of the Clones is better.

Clone Wars.

Wait, is that the?

Is that

the?

So the Phantom Menace,

in my

opinion, yeah, Star Wars is not a great movie.

That was the first one in the second trilogy, right?

Yes.

Yes.

I think the second one blows Phantom Menace out of the water.

Agreed.

And we're not talking about the original trilogy because the original trilogy is a masterpiece.

All three of them.

And it was new.

It's hard to compare it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Agreed.

It's interesting because Empire Strikes Back was fantastic, I remember.

But the third one was kind of fuzzy and weird at the end.

I didn't dislike it.

It was just

a different vibe.

I'll never be able to experience that without the movies that are the one, two, and three that came out.

I'll

never be able to experience just those three because I wasn't born then.

But I believe that you know at the end of it Anakin came back to his ways as you know as himself not Darth Vader went back to Anakin at the end of six

Yeah That was

kind of cool, too And then you get to see his ghost at the end of it which is Anakin not Darth Vader

Yeah, you've got you've got Rockies to to choose from Marvel.

There's some sequels in there.

I know Captain America had a sequel and

So let us know, folks, what is your favorite sequel?

That's what we're talking about tonight.

And it is all, this is all just a prelude, a prelude to one of the biggest openings of the summer, if not the biggest, Mission Impossible, the final reckoning, which opens Friday officially, probably Thursday night in some places.

But I've been kind of watching over the course of this week or the last two or three nights, dead reckoning, and it's good.

So I'm pretty excited.

You know, I thought you were talking about friendship for the biggest opening.

Friendship?

Right.

No, that opened at like three theaters, but I want to see that.

I'm very excited to see that.

I

do.

It comes out Thursday, but in the theater in Shwabbanan, it's four o'clock and 6.45.

I'm like, well,

I can't do that.

I'm Thursday.

Yeah.

Well, it's an hour and a half.

You could maybe make

it.

Yes, it's, yeah, I'll be really close.

Exactly.

I'll be sweating bullets here.

We've got a little bit of bad news about a man who brought us a lot of laughs over the years.

We'll talk about that next and read your texts.

And then we'll talk to Rob Brackenridge at 635 about some comedy, cigars in the second hour.

We've got it all, folks.

Laughter and cigars.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

This is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab, but you got the Civic Media Radio Network here, folks, for your drive home or your gathering around the radio or working out, listening to the app, whatever you're doing.

Great to have you with us on this cold rainy day.

We've got to

We've got to lighten things up, folks.

We've got to light it up tonight.

That's what we're going to do.

Rob Brackenridge is here at 635, Appleton-based comedian, one of our favorites.

He'll be along at 635.

And then Norm Kopesky, one of the owners of Appleton Cigar, will be here in studio, I believe.

Right, Conrad?

I'm going to see Norm in person.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

All right.

That's the best way to do it.

That's the best way to norm.

And that's a great segue because we, not to not to bring it down because norm's visit here will be really fun, but George went, passed away, I believe today at the age of, or last night at the age of 76.

He was, he played norm on Cheers and he had some other credits too, including Fletch.

He was in a movie called My Bodyguard.

and he'll be missed.

By all accounts, I met him once in the grocery store and I introduced myself because we had mutual friends and I thought that would endear me to him and it ended up being a very awkward exchange and I regret introducing myself but he was very nice and a very humble guy.

By all accounts, even when he talks about his role as Norm on Cheers,

He says a thousand other guys could have played Norm, they couldn't have, because the writing was so good.

He says, Norm is just me with better writing.

There were hundreds if not thousands of actors who could have delivered on the absolute gems that I was handed on a silver platter every Wednesday morning when they would record Cheers.

So he had a great run on Cheers and a very humble guy also refers to himself as the worst improver ever.

which is crazy because he got most of his training at Second City in Chicago.

I think he was a Chicagoan.

I know he trained there.

He says, I sucked basically, and he told this to the AV club in 2009.

He says, sucked out loud, I think was the quote.

He said, for somebody who made his living at Improving for six years, I'm probably the worst improviser of all time.

So, you know, very grateful for the breaks he got, but also downplaying his talent as well, because he was very funny at Norm.

as Norm on Cheers.

So George Went will be missed.

And I don't think he worked much recently or in the last few years, but great credits in addition to Cheers too.

He's very funny and Fletch.

And this was kind of a cool thing when my kids were growing up in Los Angeles.

We lived in an area called Valley Village, which was right next to Studio City.

And that's where George Went lived.

And he was on, we had very good friends who also lived.

in Studio City.

And Studio City did Halloween right.

They had great decorations and people went all out.

Jimmy Kimmel went up and down the block interviewing people for his special in that neighborhood.

And I remember George Wentz House was on our trick-or-treating route and he was always really cool to all the trick-or-treaters, whether it was him or his family who went to the door.

Just seemed like really, really cool people and a really good dude.

So he will be missed.

And we have, here's our tribute to Norm too.

We have one of my favorite lines when he walked into Cheers.

Uh, it was close because there was another one where he walks in and Sam says, what's up, Norm?

And he says, my nipples, it's freezing out there.

But this is probably my all-time favorite.

Conrad, if you please.

Afternoon, everybody.

Hey, what's happening, Norm?

There's a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing milk bone

underwear.

Oh, man.

That's classy.

Great stuff.

George went, gone at 76, unfortunately, so.

All right, now we're gonna pivot here because our question of the night is, what is your favorite sequel?

And we've got some great responses on social media.

Our pal Rich Tellerico, we can have Rich back on the show.

Oh yeah.

He wrote the... Substitute teacher?

Substitute teacher sketch at, sketch at, for Key and Peel, very funny guy, and a great guest on this show, he's always fun.

Rich said T2, Terminator 2, so.

Hard to argue with that one.

A lot of people, I think, would agree.

But again, I like the first one was so different and gritty.

The second one was a lot slicker.

It was a better movie.

No question.

But I like the first one, too.

Kurt on social media says Empire Strikes Back.

I thought we'd see a few of those.

Jody from social media says The Accountant 2.

Wow.

A new one.

Thank you, Jody.

Nick Wallander, our pal from Comedy City, into Pierce, says The Last Jedi.

That's three right well seven really no six because I don't know why they did that It's it's eight what?

Well,

yeah,

no the last Jedi is one with the Ewoks, right?

Because the first one is for Empire is five and last Jedi I think is six But that is when they won the whole thing that was cool,

too.

So the last Jedi came out in 2017.

Oh, it did.

Yeah,

that's

oh, yeah with

Kylo Ren

Yes

driver.

Yeah, that was a great one.

It was actually I enjoyed the movie

What's the one I'm thinking of the third like the sixth installment was

right.

Why can I think of the name?

We'll figure it out.

Thank you, Nick Mike it does tell says it hasn't been made yet, but when the Godfather of Green Bay 2 comes out, that'll be it.

Damn right.

It will Mike right.

Yeah, buddy.

Yeah Conrad can play the lead Mike writes the check.

We'll get this thing done

I appreciate Mike's always got nice words about the Godfather of Green Bay.

Thank you, pal.

So it's the return of the Jedi.

Return of the Jedi.

That's right.

I don't know why I can't

think of that.

All right.

Going to the text line, Sherry from Horikon says, good evening, Pete and Conrad.

Good evening, Sherry.

Awesome to see you here, as always.

Oh, here's another one from social media.

Monica Hale says, Magnum Force, the sequel to Dirty Harry.

That's a great pull.

Thank you, Monica.

Chris Casper, our civic media pal.

Listening in Madison on the 608 says Terminator 2.

Another one for Terminator 2.

Ed from Madison, 608 says Godfather Part 2.

Phenomenal.

Liz from Sockville says, I agree with the Empire Strikes Back.

Don't you love when the listeners agree?

Oh yeah.

Bond.

We gotta do a cruise.

Let's do a nightlight cruise.

We'll get out on the open sea.

Everyone can meet each other.

Conrad climbed up really quick there.

Oh, yeah.

Also from the 6-0.

Just get your sea legs under you.

You'll be fine.

Terminator 2, another one from the 6-0-8 for Terminator 2.

Brian from Milwaukee says, Star Trek 2, the wrath of con.

Star Trek 6, undiscovered country.

And Star Trek, first contact with the Borg are all my favorite sequels within the Star Wars movie franchise.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

We're coming right back with Rob Brackenridge on Nightlight with Peach Waba.

Welcome back.

Wait, okay.

That's a song that'll get you fired up, huh?

It is, you

know.

Great tune.

Makes me want to go

outside, but... Makes me want to lift weights and embarrass myself at the gym.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wabba, folks.

I am Peach Wabba Conrad Krieger, the kid riding shotgun.

Lots going on tonight.

Norm Kepesky from Appleton Cigar will be here in the second hour at 7.35, talking about Smoke on the Fox, a great event that happens June 2nd.

We'll do a deep dive with Norm then when he is in the studio.

And right now, it is my honor and privilege

I cannot say enough about this next gentleman.

He truly inspires me on a daily basis just to live a good life.

And he's a very funny man based out of Appleton, Wisconsin.

He's traveled the world over, bringing laughs across the globe.

His name is Rob Brackenridge.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, hey, I'm sideways on

this thing.

I

like it, yeah.

I'm like a fighter man.

I'm flat.

You're a Batman.

You know how Batman

is.

Now you're upside

down.

Oh, man,

that's awesome.

I think you got a new TikTok there, buddy.

That's fantastic.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

How are you?

Good.

I miss having you here, though.

I'm not going to lie, Rob.

It's more fun when you're in the saddle here.

Rob over the stream is better than no Rob at all.

It was great to have you on the show.

Even the sideways, Rob, is better than no.

Exactly.

So, hey, did you hear about Norm?

Uh, Norm, uh, George went today?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's, I'm very sad about that, but I did use, I used to have a joke about him.

Oh, please.

Sure.

Okay.

Why is the, it's the answer to why is this bar stool soggy?

Uh,

I don't know.

George went.

It's dumb.

His last name is a past tense verb.

I was just telling how I don't know if you do this like when you were in LA or even in Wisconsin when you see a celebrity like do you introduce yourself or do you kind of let the moment pass you by?

I

would I would feel kind of embarrassed because if they don't know me you know like if you say you know you see someone that you recognize and you say your own name I don't know I don't do that.

Yeah, I didn't I went up to I approached George went in a grocery store because we had a couple of mutual friends and I don't know what like the second I open in my mouth.

I'm like, why are you doing this?

I was one of those moments where I wanted to go.

Well, I'm a writer and you don't know who I am and whatever.

And I just kind of felt like I slinked away.

I was like, you're an idiot, Schwabba.

I had that exact same experience, except with Dustin Hoffman

and a

gelson.

and Pacific Palisades, you know, the Gelsons and the Gelsons.

Well, all the celebrities are always at that.

I was looking through the pate and there he was.

In the pate?

And I just, I looked over at him and I recognized him and he saw that I recognized him.

And I just, I couldn't think of anything to say.

So I just said, I hear the duck livers good.

And he looked at me like I had just said something bad about his mom.

He just looked at me like, is that all you could come up with?

And he just walked off.

He didn't buy any pate or

anything.

Oh, I think that's hilarious.

Could he tell you were trying to be funny?

No, no, I wasn't trying to be funny.

I was just trying to engage.

It was right when I first moved to LA.

So I was just trying to engage conversation with another citizen.

But he I was just the most and still to this day.

I just I

go

Oh

My god,

I think that's funny.

I'll never live it down

and that's the one of those things too that it stays with you for a while

You know, our idiocy, when we do things like that, every once in a while, I'll think of something that I said throughout the course of my life, whether it's to a celebrity or not, just, and I just kind of roll over in bed, kind of angry, like, how could I have been like that, you know?

Yep.

My Hoffman thing is the thing I'll never live down, and I never go up to celebrities anymore now.

If I see them, I run the other way.

I just I'm so embarrassed about the duck liver incident.

I don't my wife We lived by the galsons in Valley Village and right literally like four doors down and so you saw a lot of celebrities Everywhere out there, but you know at the grocery store seemed like the place to see them and my wife was a huge fan of Laurie Metcalf as am I the actor who played Roseanne's sister I can't think of her name right now on the Roseanne show, but she's so funny and that was

When we first got there, that was one of our first celebrity sightings.

Just at the grocery store, my wife didn't know what to do and she's just smiling at her.

Yeah, she said at first she smiled back and then she got a look on her face and just walked away because my wife wouldn't stop smiling.

I mean, it was like, there's no way to act.

You just have to not do anything, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's no real way to do it.

I thought Ricardo Montabon was the first guy ever, so when I first moved to Hollywood at El Compadre, did you ever eat at El Compadre?

Oh yeah, love El Compadre.

Yeah, and I was walking out of there, or he was walking out of there, and I was like, oh, Ricardo Montabon, I made it.

there and it's the best place ever.

It's great.

Great Margaritas too.

Yep.

I don't know if you watch the show Bosch, but they make a habit of going to those old great classic LA like you know, Musso and Franks or El Compadre or whatever this great scenes.

Here's my here's a funny one I had Rob.

And I know we're totally off on tangents here.

I swear we'll talk about your career in just a minute.

I

don't want to talk about nothing.

Come on.

My son and I were eating in a McDonald's right off the 101 freeway in the valley and This guy sprints past our table.

It's Lorenzo Lamas Running like it's an emergency into the bathroom So he obviously he didn't order because we saw him enter the McDonald's sprint past our table go right into the bathroom And then walk out cool as a cucumber about ten minutes later

He was obviously like on his motorcycle or something and just, you know, nature called and man, he was cutting it close.

Yeah, we've been there.

That's the worst thing about being a celebrity is like if you have diet, everyone knows.

And then they talked about it on a radio show later on.

Oh,

all right.

So.

My guest is Rob Brackenridge, Appledon based comedian, very funny guy.

If you haven't seen him, well, you probably have, but if you haven't, go to his, you got a website, right, Rob?

Yep, robbrackenridge.com.

I don't know how I came up with that

one.

Well done.

Your name came up last night.

Steve Sieger was on the show and I talked about the guests we were having on the next day.

And as I was talking to Steve, I realized your accent, you do a great Wisconsin accent and you do it in your act and it's a big hit.

You also have a hint of Illinois in there.

Has anyone ever told you that?

No,

I, well, actually that's not true.

Cause when I'm in Europe, people say that I sound like I'm from Chicago.

So maybe that, maybe it is kind of a, I think it's similar.

I mean,

it's very

hard ours, right?

Well, I know it like with the the long or this like in Wisconsin you'd say big in Illinois you say bag It'd be like a long like could you say break and read break and read?

It's not that part of when you say your name.

It sounds very Chicago to me

Yeah, my first name Rob.

I can't I mean, I can't really say it any other way when I was in Canada I said my name's Rob and they say is that red is red?

Yeah, I'm here to do a brisk,

but I don't yeah, it's Rob.

It's raw ROAB if I said it like everyone else, it would be ROAB Rob Right isn't that way, but I say right right yeah, I hate I hate my name

I like it man.

It's very memorable and it worked out well for you because there was you know, that's the perfect website So you should be lucky

and and I can use my accent for birth control.

So that's

But

there could be girls that love that accent.

You don't know that.

Believe

me.

Or maybe it's just me.

I don't know.

I always put it down to the accent.

But you know, do you

ever have that moment where it's like, you know, you're a handsome guy.

Like maybe you approach somebody and then they they're like kind of into you until they hear your accent.

Is it like that kind of thing?

Yeah.

If

I

keep my mouth I get more often.

Just

smile and nod and be the strong silent type and maybe you'll be closing more deals.

I don't know.

You have, this is great.

I love this.

You said, speaking of dialects, you call, how do you say this?

Whisksonic?

Is that?

Wisconsinic.

Yeah, it's like ebonics, but with, you know.

Right.

How are those similar though?

Just because we all talk kind of like that or?

Well, Ibonics is English, but it's been kind of changed to suit the way that people have learned to talk.

So Ibonics is very hard to understand to people that don't speak Ibonics.

Wisconsinics is the same way.

It's just like the counselors go, hey, you going out there or no.

And no one would know what that means.

Yeah, I was out in the ball.

You know what, my nephew was the ball to them side by each.

I feel

like I may have told you this before, but I have friends that watched the making of a murderer, the Manitowoc documentary, and they, you know, that's English.

But his or there are some of the characters there was there, Wisconsinics were so strong, they had to turn on the subtitles.

I thought that was hilarious.

I've heard that from my friends too, but they, you know, they, that's a very strong, those guys in Manitowoc have even stronger than I do, you know.

Right.

I don't think yours is really pronounced until you kind of go in and do characters though, do you?

I suppose not.

I mean,

yeah, I do, I totally make it a character when I go on stage and stuff, you know, when

I

talk like that.

But it's actually, that character is my fishing buddy Todd.

His name is Todd Stammer, and he still lives here in Appleton for

Gracie

X. He's like, yo, he

stalks like maybe he was kicked in the throat a long time ago, you know.

He's like, oh, yeah, Rob, we're going to go all my way and they're really jumping in the boat out there, you know.

That's great.

So you have, you got this great, you know, TikTok, you're very.

big on TikTok and you made one last time you were here and it was really cool and I was kind of in awe of it because I've never even attempted to do that, but they look really slick.

You know, when you get them done and you got the words on there and it's moving, has that really helped you as a comedian?

I mean, social media, you have to be on it.

It's very helpful, but TikTok in particular, has that brought you more audience?

I think it has because now when I go, I've only been doing it for a year now on TikTok.

Wow.

And I go to shows, people say, oh, I saw that, you know, I saw one of your, or now I've been doing a lot with my mom, you know?

Yeah.

And they say, where's your mom?

You know, bring your mom.

Everyone loves my mom now.

So I'll have to get her her own TikTok.

And then

I can be a, you know, a guest on hers.

You think she'll have you on?

Ah, she probably not.

She'll be, you know.

She'll say send me a tape like a club owner or something.

All right, Rob Bracken-Ridge is here.

Rob, when we come back, I'm going to ask you a question of the night.

It's about favorite sequels.

And then I'm going to ask Rob about his influences.

And then we have a little fun quiz, I think we can play with Rob, too, called, guess the catchphrase, the comic catchphrase.

and we'll see how he does with that.

But it's great to have Rob here.

We're coming right back.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

My name is Pete Schwabba, riding shotgun as usual, always, usually always, is Conrad Krieger.

Norm Kepesky will be here at 7.35 talking about Smoke on the Fox, a great event co-hosted by Appleton Cigar.

They are a sponsor of this show.

It would be good to talk to Norm.

And right now we have, oh, our question of the night is what is your favorite sequel?

So let us know, we've, we've, we've been crushing the questions.

We need to hire an assistant Conrad to go through the text, because we can't keep up with them.

And that only means it's just so awesome when people participate in a show like this.

So we'll read your texts.

We'll keep up with them.

But what is your favorite sequel?

Right now, our pal Rob Brackenridge is joining us via stream.

And he got things figured out, Rob.

You're upright.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Do you feel better?

Was all the blood rushing to your head the way you were before?

Oh, my god.

I

know.

All the, yeah.

I have to click out.

There you go.

Rob is an Appleton-based comedian and what shows do you have coming up, buddy?

Where can people see you?

Next Saturday.

Actually, this week I got open, so I will be appearing at my home.

OK.

If people want to buy, you know.

We'll be over.

But then, Saturday, where am I?

Oh, Eagle River.

Eagle River?

Nice.

Yeah, I made the big time, huh?

Like when we were starting out, we always dreamed of one day thing.

River I made it and clear in too.

Wait, what's it called?

The Chanticleer in.

Oh, OK.

Yeah.

I work.

I work a lot of places where I have no idea.

But like weeks ago, I was at a parish.

Where was that?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

And I was at a parish.

I thought, oh, this is going to be a terrible, terrible gig.

It was fantastic.

It was great.

You've got to do this football gig for me that I do every year.

I'm hoping you can do it next year.

It's a charity event that just raises money for youth sports and a lot of comics from Wisconsin, sometimes Chicago, or even one-year LA.

It's a really fun event.

I would love for you to do it.

I'd love to, yeah.

All right.

Done deal?

Yeah, when is it?

I don't know.

Oh, good.

But it's a hundred bucks in your pocket, Rob, for two hours of material.

No.

I'm scratching right there.

I can't

afford to pay Eagle River money.

But Eagle River's a great town, though.

Those gigs can

be very fun, though, right?

Yes.

I love doing these.

I love not getting on an airplane for one thing.

I'm sick of that, but it's just nice to jump in your car, drive a couple of hours and then have a bunch of people who already know who you are.

You know, that's the best part about doing these gigs.

You know, they already know a couple of my catchphrases, my erno stuff.

They go, oh, there's the old guy.

I love it.

Do you have swag at your shows?

Do you have an erno t-shirt or something?

I do.

Oh, nice.

I'm

a whore.

Yes, I I sell it says use guys speak, Wisconsin X or no And then it's got a picture of Wisconsin I don't have one here

if you bring one next time you come to the studio bring one.

I'll pay how much are they?

I'd sell them for 30 bucks now, which I feel terrible But people pay it so I'll take

whoa on second thought, you know, my wardrobe is pretty good right now.

I'm styling so I

I'll bring you next time I do it though.

I'll bring one for Conrad and one for you.

We'll split

that

mean a triple X and I'm kidding Conrad.

I'm a kid because I love you're talking about me Conrad's this guy's got some muscle on him man.

Whatever you bring He'll fit into it.

Even if it's a small It looks better though if you're small and you're like busting out of it.

That's fantastic.

Yeah, like a sausage casing on him

Exactly.

All right, you got another gig coming up too, Robert, a place called the Open

Bar.

Oh, that's a, yeah, that's like open mic or a dry bar.

You know how they have, I have a dry bar.

Oh, yeah.

Well, there's a guy, Ron Feingold out of Florida that now does Open Bar.

You know, Ron?

Yes, I do.

He's a comedian, magician,

yeah.

Yeah, he's a good guy.

I hear, okay, so I took the train from Chicago to Grand Forks, North Dakota.

I was tired of driving.

This is in the 90s.

I'm doing stand-up.

And Ron was the opening act.

I was the headliner, not nearly ready to headline yet, but they paid me, so I did it.

I get off at the train station.

Ron is there to pick me up and drive me to Minot, North Dakota, four hours.

The magic city.

Is it?

Yeah.

Well, that's what I call it, because I think it's a miracle anyone can survive the winter there.

But yeah.

Well, I remember a billboard that said, why not Minot?

And I'm like, that's the best I could do.

So within five minutes of meeting Ron, I didn't know him.

He told me about an awful breakup he had, and the circumstances were terrible, something you'd never want to know about your significant other.

And I'm like, this is five minutes into the drive.

I think he was tearing up.

I'm like, oh, dear God, why didn't I just take my own car?

But we worked together all week, and he was a great guy.

He's a really good guy.

Yeah, he is.

Very good.

That's the way it always was on the road though.

You'd get into the car with the guy you don't even know and all of a sudden you're letting out your innermost thoughts and stuff.

Back then we couldn't afford a psychiatrist or anything.

So the guy that you're working with had to fulfill all those needs.

They had to put up with your nonsense.

So you gotta tell people where they can see the Drybar Specialist.

Just Google Drybar Rob Brackenridge.

That's a big deal, buddy.

Yeah, it was I mean I I taped it like four years ago and it's been getting a lot of views and that's how I get a lot of my work believe it or not that's People see my drybar special and I get a lot of corporate gigs that way.

Yeah, and they're clean.

You have to be clean, right?

Yes and you they send you a form that you have to like follow all the the rules on it and you can't say I mean you can't say damn you can't say

you know word by word I had to literally go word by word and just figure out which words I could say and I'm amazed that it turned out as good as it did because I was really conscious about what I was saying.

All right, let's pick up there after we got to do the news here intermission coming up, and then we're going to do a comedy quiz for Rob.

That'll be fun.

So don't go anywhere, folks.

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of Nightlight on this Tuesday evening.

Great to have you with us as we talk about all the things in life that make us happy.

Comedy and TV and movies and cigars.

We got cigar talk tonight.

Norm Kepesky will be here at 7.35.

We'll read your texts and get caught up at about 7.20.

And our question of the night is...

What is your favorite sequel?

We've been having fun with that one and we talked a little bit about George Wentz passing today, too If you missed our one you can always catch that on the podcast on the app if you have the Civic media app, which is very easy to use you should have it if you don't Great to have you with me and right now we have a few more minutes with our pal Rob Brackenridge who is always fun to talk to Appleton based comedian and he is right side up now Rob

I have to ask you something.

I thought this was so funny.

I was looking at your website tonight and You did make me laugh comedy central's show.

Yeah

And so I don't know if we went to LA about the same time, but that was one of the first TV appearances I made as well as a comedian.

Now, I have kind of like, you're pretty animated and you've got great energy.

So I'm assuming you made people laugh.

That was a horrible experience for me.

I'm standing there with my dry sense of humor and just getting nothing stared at.

I think Mark Cohen, the host, even made a joke at like, ooh, that was a rough one, you know, like whatever.

But I-

Rodney, you know, it was horrible.

What was he experienced like for you?

I

think I had a very similar.

I was on with Lewis Black.

Oh,

wow.

You remember those guys at Ron Pearson?

Yeah.

I remember Lewis Black.

Yeah, for sure.

I worked with Lewis.

I never worked with Ron Pearson, though.

Funny guy, though.

Yeah, Lewis, you would think because he's so angry all the time.

You think he just, you know, but he made the girl laugh.

It was right off the bat.

He just, it was a really pretty girl.

you know and uh she's like well I was on

you know

how Mark talks to one and gets a little story first he said uh so you were bitten in the butt by a horse she was yeah I was on a I was on a um I was shoot and the horse bit my butt and then he goes okay well here's Lewis Black and Lewis comes up he goes oh uh can I see where the horse bit you

And then she started laughing right away.

So it was only like five seconds.

So she made $5.

Oh

my God.

Yeah, it was horrible.

I literally, I was 0 for three.

I think I had three cracks.

I was like, well, this is a credit.

I just moved to town, a TV credit, you know, and it went on the resume, but it was one of those nights like we were talking about before where I'm like, I can't believe that happened to me.

And then I put myself out there like that.

It was terrible, you know, and it was my worst TV experience.

I did not make her laugh at all.

I thought maybe I could do, the next person, I didn't make them laugh.

I thought I could do impressions, you know, so I came up doing burn and fire, but it was trauma.

I mean, that kills, but she didn't know who burn

and fire.

Ah, nice.

Oh, that's great.

So, all right, so we were talking about, I wanted to ask you, like, who are you being as animated as you are?

I would imagine based on your act, like if casting directors were to show that would lead to like acting gigs because you kind of act your fun, your high energy.

Who are your influences growing up?

Was it comics that were like you or not necessarily?

Well, yes.

I mean, George Carlin was very animated, you know?

Yeah.

And his earlier days, later on he just got to be kind of a curmudgeon, you know?

But in his earlier days, he was like, oh, where's the blue food, you know?

And I always love that, because it's just, that's what you want to see.

If you're looking at a face, you want to see that face be animated, you know?

Right.

And that's kind of what I do a lot, so.

What about now, Rob?

Are there people like when you see them on TV, you can't turn them off or they make you laugh?

Or are you like a lot of comics where they don't want to watch comedy when they're off?

It's hard to watch it, actually, because I don't want to be influenced by it, too.

There's

always

that.

Oh, I just came up with something.

And only maybe I heard that.

So it's kind of hard.

And it's hard for me to listen to comedy because I can see the setup and punchline.

I can't really enjoy it like most people.

I still like, Brian Regan always makes me laugh.

I mean, just people that just are constantly coming up with new stuff, you know?

Yeah, he's amazing.

Yeah, because I don't come up with new stuff.

That's, I mean, I do the same act basically.

I change it a little bit each time, because I try to make it fresh and real, but it's basically a script I do, you know?

Interesting.

All right, so I noticed also, I was checking out your website.

you've done shows like of all you've done casinos corporate gigs you said you did a parish recently you've been overseas tell us a little bit about like how are corporate shows compared to club shows for you

well I usually I mean corporate shows can can be either really good or really bad and a lot of times they're they're very iffy about bringing in a stand-up comedian because a lot of times you know sometimes the

bad words will slip out, you know, and then they're responsible.

The person that was responsible for booking you is always looking at the boss going, is the boss laughing?

It doesn't create a very natural, you know, relaxed atmosphere.

But the last one I just did was in Fond du Lac, and they did it at a theater, the Thelma Theater in Fond du Lac, which is a fantastic place to do comedy and to see anything.

And it was really just perfect.

The lighting was perfect.

The sound was perfect.

And it was packed with a bunch of people.

And it's just, you never know what you're going to get.

But I've had probably 75% of my corporate gigs are scary.

So

what about cruise

ships, Rob?

Like, you have to be clean on cruise ships, right?

I mean, you did a Drybar special.

You obviously got the chops to work clean, especially if you're doing corporate gigs too.

Howard, have you done cruise ships?

Yeah, I've done five different cruise lines.

I like Holland America is a really good one.

The worst one is Carnival because in Holland America, you do a 10 minute welcome aboard show, then you do a one hour show on Monday.

And that's all you do for the whole week.

And you're out there for four.

So you do four shows, you come back, you get like 10 grand in your bank account.

Then Carnival, you got to do 13 shows per

week.

The first one's got to be for kids and then it's for the night one is for the drunk parents.

So I don't know who's worse.

The kids are the parents.

They make you do a show for kids.

Yes, in the daytime too.

So it's like when you'd normally just be relaxed, amping, you got to come up with an hour of material that children will enjoy.

So it's terrible.

I don't do cruises anymore.

It's been 10 years since I've done a cruise and I don't miss them at all I miss the money and I miss I like the trip Even that is you're just sitting in your cabin for so long.

There's only so

You

know, it's I don't like cruise and you got to be completely clean.

So yeah, you can't put poop once and stuff of a

Holland America wasn't Norwegian.

It was a Norwegian cruise.

I still have the the complaint, you know, I saved it

some

way.

Ended by the comedian who said the word poop, you

know?

Rob, can we give you our little comedy catchphrase quiz?

Are you open to that?

Oh, sure.

They're not too tough.

I knew most of them.

I think you'll be fine.

Conrad, are we ready?

That's what you're gonna hear, buddy.

If you get it right.

Oh, I hope I can hear

that.

I think you can do this.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rob Brackenridge, Appleton-based comedian taking our nightlight comedy catchphrase quiz.

Here we go.

Question number one.

Did I do that?

He has glasses.

He's a little... Oh, who's that?

Did

I do

that?

Yes.

You're on the

right track.

What?

Yeah, at a bow tie, right?

I can't think of his name.

Do I get a ding for that?

It starts with an E. I

know him.

I'll tell you, if you get this one, you're going to get all of them, because I thought this was the toughest one.

I wanted to start you off.

Did I do that?

All right,

Urkel.

Urkel.

We have a buzzer, Conrad.

All right, we'll give it

to

him Hiked up