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Broadcasting live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who hates shaking hands, Pete Schwabba.

Oh God, that took me back.

We spend like a whole week on shaking hands.

Yeah, I was I think we decided that we're no longer shaking hands people.

I don't I still don't mind it like I'll do it.

I just think it's a strange how it came to be which is kind of weird, but let's not get into all that again.

Hey, welcome to nightlight ladies and gentlemen.

We are on the air officially here on a Wednesday in beautiful rainy windy downtown Green Bay.

Are we gonna get like a tornado?

I mean it looks

I think we need one of the Conrad's five day forecast or at least five hours.

If you look outside the studio right

now,

which no one is listening can, it is raining and the trees are definitely, they're shaking up.

It's windy out there.

He's not the best color man in the business for nothing, folks.

That is the voice of Conrad Krieger working the board tonight.

meeting all your needs as listeners.

If you have something to say and want to call in, Conrad will take that call.

He will make sure I see your texts and we'll be off to the races.

So we've got a wonderful show here planned for you guys tonight.

I hope you can leave the day behind.

Whatever it had in store for you, whether it was politics, family arguments, bad drivers, whatever it is, kick back, relax, gather the family around the radio, and let's do some night light.

Let's talk about some movies and TV and music and comedy and all the fun things about life.

And tonight, we're gonna give you a little sports as well.

We like to talk sports once in a while.

You know what, actually, we have not, I think it's been a long time since we've talked sports, other than the occasional.

Comment here and there, but Mike Clemens is here tonight Conrad.

That's got to make you excited.

He's one of your

I'm excited to talk about the Brewers because they have been really hot

He's one of your sports idols and he's one of my just kind of life idols I would say that too.

Yeah, I Looked at Mike for a lot of things What is the situation with the Brewers?

Are there hot game behind the Cubs a game behind the Cubs now?

Okay,

and you know it wasn't too long ago where we were like eight eight and a half games back

Right.

And now we're second place, where I think we're fourth in the actual NL rankings right now.

Yeah.

So

that's, it's exciting time for

Brewer baseball.

Can they, and I'm asking this as a Cubs fan, can they sustain that though?

Are they hot to the point where this, it has to cool, where the Cubs have kind of been somewhat steady.

I guess they've had a couple of hot streaks, but what's your take on that?

You know,

these past couple of seasons, we've been hot right away.

And I think we've kind of melted off at the end towards the end of the season,

going

into the playoffs.

This year we started out bad.

True.

Terrible.

And we've, with all the pieces we have, we put it all together, looking good right now.

And I hope that we can just keep going, you know?

So who are the real Brewers?

Somewhere in between?

I think this year is a good shot to make playoffs and see what can happen.

All right, very diplomatic.

Well, that's Mike at 635.

I'm sure he'll have all the answers.

Mike watched a couple cool things, too, that he posted about on Facebook.

I want to ask him about one in particular, September 5th.

I've seen that movie, really good movie.

And Mike saw it and really liked it.

And I'm not surprised given his journalistic background.

But we'll talk to Mike about sports and about a movie he saw.

That's all at 635, the Civic Media Sports Authority.

Mike.

Go Daddy Clemens.

I just added that in there.

I think Mike needs it.

Go Daddy's a brand,

you know that.

That's true.

I can't do that.

Mike Hop To It Clemens.

Like do it all Clemens like if Mike's listening.

I really don't need a nickname guys.

Thanks Let's stick with a civic media sports authority because that's what he is and excited to talk to Mike at 635 and then tonight We sat down with Frank Hermans yesterday, and we're gonna play that interview tonight at 720 Frank is always so much fun.

He has dress rehearsals all week for his new show called In the what is it called again in the spray on the spray hill on

I found my thrill on Scraze Hill.

Found my thrill on Scraze Hill.

I love that.

And it's a new show.

Frank is very prolific.

He puts out a lot of different shows every year.

They typically crush at the Meyer Theater here in beautiful downtown Green Bay.

The Meyer Theater is an absolute treasure.

And I don't know if, like, how many cities the size of Green Bay

have a theater that size or with that much history and charm and beauty, but it is an absolute treasure.

And Frank kind of, he crushes all of his plays crush at the Meyer and he has one opening tomorrow night.

We'll talk to Frank about that when he is here retroactively at 720.

So there's your show.

That's a show Conrad right there.

Yeah.

We've got Conrad's weather updates.

We've got Frank and Mike and we're going to be talking about

Should we just do the question?

It's a little, it's a couple minutes early, but I think it's good.

I think people can have fun with this.

Let's do it.

So let's do this.

Here's the Civic Media nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

What is your favorite Will Ferrell movie?

It is Will Ferrell's birthday.

Today is the actual day, ladies and gentlemen.

And I mean, you know, like I said, I think I said this last night, and rarely, not rarely, but occasionally, we have an actor or actress that has such a track record, such a resume, that we can make this the question of the night.

And Will Ferrell has an incredible body of work.

And I need to specify this because it's actually, what is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

is our question of the night.

So happy birthday, Will Ferrell.

Let us know what you guys think, 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

What is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

So there you go.

Let's have fun with this one.

Always more fun when you guys are part of the show.

Text us, call us.

We'll put you on the radio, either your words or your actual voice and let us know.

what your thoughts are and will Farrell and you could share anything you're thinking throughout the course of the show.

You're welcome to contribute.

Do you have one?

Yeah, actually, I posted it on social media under the Facebook.

Yeah, I got the question.

I got the responses right here.

I did not post mine for some reason.

I think he's absolutely hilarious and the other guys as Detective Alan Gamble and his wife, Sheila, where you're like, wow, good for him.

Good for him.

He's just a well-rounded character.

Now, you know, he kind of plays like the was kind of in the beginning and then at the end, he turns into a badass.

They call that character arc, my friend.

I've never seen the movie all the way through, really.

It's so funny.

I've seen clips of it that really make me laugh.

Like Mark Wahlberg can't believe that Will Ferrell is married to... He asked that

like four times.

He's like, really?

Yeah.

No, seriously, who is that?

But very funny, I will say my favorite Will character movie and role is Frank the Tank in old

school.

My favorite scene is that was when he's outside in his car or whatever.

Fixing his car when the wife comes out with a beer.

That's so good.

You know what everybody likes about that scene?

I mean, it's a great scene, but the whole thing is great.

But when he says, no, thanks, honey, I got a fresh beer.

And then he just looks off camera and goes, hey, Mike.

He yells to his neighbor.

I've had so many people share with me that they thought that was one of the funniest moments in the movie.

And I mean, talk about a role, in my opinion, that was made for Will Ferrell.

Like, he's actually pretty versatile.

Like, he could do some different things.

He's usually a goof.

But man, as Frank the Tank in old school and the way Vince Vaughn

and Luke Wilson play off him.

It's just, it's absolute gold.

I really like him actually in Spirited, which is the Christmas movie that he was in with

Ryan Reynolds.

I didn't see

that.

And it's a play on, you know, Scrooge.

Right.

Yeah.

He's really, he plays the ghost in it.

So funny.

Yeah.

I'm down on Ryan Reynolds.

I just, no desire to watch a Ryan Reynolds

movie.

Well, he's, I wouldn't say he's, you know, he's kind of the main star in that, but I think Will Ferrell plays a better part.

acts better than him in that, too.

I

don't know.

Yeah.

No, he's great.

So let us know what your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role is.

And it could be, you can even say the cheerleader that he played on Saturday Night Live or the thing in the cowbell sketch, whatever it is, favorite role, favorite movie, we accept all 855-752-4842-8557, five civic text us on the app.

Very easy to reach the show.

We are on statewide, so you can click on any one of the stations you're listening to.

and fire away.

Also, we are on the stream.

If you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, or ex Twitter, you can send us a message there on the stream and we will read it on the radio.

Let's have some Will Ferrell discussion.

You said you saw this movie, John Cena and Idris Alba.

Love Idris Alba.

I liked John Cena.

I'm kind of souring.

I think we're getting too much John Cena overload.

He can be fun.

But he's popping up a little too much.

And I want to say, all right, that's enough.

Pace yourself.

But how was it called?

Heads of State, right?

Head of State, yeah.

And you know, Idris Elba plays the, I forget what his title is, but UK, he's the main

one.

And then John Cena plays the president, which is hilarious.

Okay.

Which could happen.

But it's funny is that he plays, he was a movie star that turned into...

The president

that could never happen.

Oh wait a minute.

Sorry.

It already has

so let's just say In it each elbow kind of like makes fun of him doing like roles in You know the movies that he's done but also being the president he plays more of like a Strict guy and

John

Cena's like kind of like oh, whatever kind of fun, you know, but then the other these guys want to make I don't know

catastrophic events happen really and then Yeah,

so it's

they have to work together, which they don't like to at the beginning obviously like their views are different and whatever and They have to work together to put these guys down

and they come back to save the world basically

pretty much You know, it's you can kind of see what's gonna happen.

It's one of those movies.

You're like, I would say it was okay It was

it wasn't bad, but

It wasn't good.

But the fact that you're saying it's okay, and you're kind of the target audience, the 20-something male, um, strikingly handsome, pretty stocky guy, that's who they're looking for.

Well, thank you.

Jesus, by the time you laughed at that,

I was getting a

little weird there.

Thank you.

I'm going with the

compliment.

I appreciate it.

So here's my issue.

I don't, I'm kind of done with the action comedy.

I want my action to be suspenseful.

I went there to be potential danger.

I don't care if I ever see another action comedy again, because the comedy is typically lame and the action is goofy and you never really feel like anything is at stake.

Yeah, one thing I would say is that there is more comedy than action, which I agree with you.

I think

there should be more action in it.

I'll watch a comedy if I want to see comedy.

I don't mind an action with...

an occasional, uh, ironic bit of comedy or something, but like, the blatantly trying to be funny and action just, it's an old trope now almost.

The whole genre is a trope.

So there is one movie on Prime that I really recommend and that's Deep Cover.

Yeah, it's about improv

comics that need a job and they play like an undercover, you know, they do a real improv situation in real life.

Okay.

So there's real life consequences.

Do they have, does it have like a Nathan For You type feel?

I don't think I've seen it.

Oh my God, it's just a hidden camera show and he gets people to do stuff.

It sounds very similar, but I'll have to give that a try.

I would definitely, I recommend that movie.

It's, it's really fun.

Okay.

And it's like the plot I haven't seen before, so I think it's new.

Good to know.

All right.

We've got a lot to cover tonight.

As I mentioned, Mike Clemens will be here at 6.35 talking sports, and we're going to ask Mike what he's watched because he posted it on Facebook the other day.

So I hope Mike's ready for that.

Frank Hermann's here at 7.20.

And when we come back, we're going to read your texts about our question of the night.

What is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

It's his birthday today.

Let's rejoice.

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

You see, war is not the answer for only love.

Let's do it, folks.

It's Wednesday night.

It's a beautiful night in the state of Wisconsin.

A little rainy, a little windy here in Green Bay.

In fact, that's a frightening amount of wind out there.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I looked on the weather app, which, you know, isn't great, but said there's a flood watch out here in Green Bay.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, that's exciting.

It's supposed to rain for the rest of the night.

So I'm

not a tech guy, but.

We have an antenna, I assume.

Are these winds going to knock over our antenna, or has the antenna, have they progressed since the 80s?

That's a great

question.

Thank you.

That's what I do.

I'm a producer, not an engineer, so.

Well, I don't

know.

You should know more about this stuff than me, though, Conrad.

OK, so our question of the night, folks, is in honor of Will Ferrell's birthday, which is today, what is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

And mine are one and the same.

Frank the Tank from old school.

Conrad says, it's the other guys.

And what's his name?

Detective Alan Gamble.

That's a great name.

Let's go to the social media responses first.

We've got, oh, Conrad Krieger.

You just answered that, so I don't have to read that.

Thank you for saving me the...

You're welcome.

Daniel Wheeler says, Phil Weston in the movie, Kicking and Screaming, hilarious movie.

My favorite scene is when Will Ferrell's character belittles Mike Ditka by clarifying Ditka is the assistant coach and his only two jobs are backing up the coach and getting juice boxes.

I forgot about that.

Stephen Leo, who have been on the show a couple of times, wrote that film and they said it was really fun to work with Will Ferrell and Mike Ditka.

Ditka is crazy as he is.

Everyone I know that's like shot a commercial with him or done something with him in the media says he's like a total pro to work with.

He shows up, knows what he's doing, gets in and out of there, and he's made a mint.

Doing that type of stuff.

JB Thompson, the guy behind the guy, behind the guy, says more cowbell.

I don't, what is his, do we know his character's name in that skit?

It's just the cowbell skit, so.

I'm not sure.

What's this?

The combo guy, that works.

Kurt on social media says Jackie Moon.

Who was Jackie Moon?

Semi-pro.

Oh, semi-pro, yeah.

That's a great one.

Nice, Kurt.

Nice poll.

Boy, some of these I've seen so long ago, but old school stuck with me.

When I saw old school, and we were talking about this last night with Mike Schmidt, old school is one of those movies within the first like two minutes I knew I was gonna love it.

Yeah.

And it's like Todd Phillips.

setting the stage and then his girlfriend comes, the new people come out of the bedroom.

The terror of catching the early flight home.

But when he's, the cab driver's funny.

I mean, Matt Walsh asking him if he can have his tickets for the mixer for the, I love that kind of everyday stuff.

It's just so great.

So old school is definitely mine, but text us on the app.

on the text line 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2 or on the stream.

And we will read your text on the radio.

Let's have some fun with Will Ferrell tonight.

Going to the text line, Tony, the trucker, he's in the 608.

He says, Pete, sorry to say he is my least favorite actor.

Doesn't matter what role he plays.

I think he is terrible.

I think everyone has an actor they dislike.

I think we have a new question of the night for tomorrow night or Thursday.

We'll figure that out.

That's a great point, Tony.

And you know what?

You're absolutely right.

It is all subjective.

My dad cannot stand Will Ferrell.

I don't think he's a master thespian by any stretch, but I do think in the right role.

He's hilarious,

you know There's there's an actor.

I already have in mind

really think you can't stand.

Mm-hmm.

Who is it

Josh Gad?

Why

is that?

I just think

he's annoying

That's really interesting.

I Don't totally disagree with you.

I just think every role he plays is not

It's just kind of,

I don't know.

It's interesting.

He's always got kind of a weird look on his face, too.

I don't look kind of, you know, it's not a physical thing.

I just, no, I'm serious.

But he always has his expressions.

I don't totally disagree with you.

It's interesting you said that.

So we'll have to catalog that, Conrad.

Take a memo.

Sounds good.

We will keep that.

Thank you, Tony, for the question of the night suggestion.

And you know what?

Frankly, Will Ferrell probably doesn't like you either.

Wouldn't it be funny if Will Ferrell texted us?

I don't like the way Tony trucks.

I think he's one of the worst truckers.

I think, I think Will Ferrell is a, is a potato.

You think he's a couch potato?

I think

so.

I think it would be so funny if we got the, the comp was Will Ferrell is to acting with Tony the trucker is to trucking.

Oh.

Or Will Ferrell wishes he could be to acting with Tony trucker is to trucking.

Cause Tony trucker, Tony the trucker is a listener.

I'm always going to side with the listener, right?

Jamison in Pennsylvania, he's in the 814.

He says, stranger than fiction or everything must go.

Both more serious roles, but he gets the job done so well.

That is like the anti-tony text.

That's great, Jamison.

Thank

you.

Everything must go is hilarious, actually.

Never seen it.

I've never seen it.

It

is a serious role, but I think he plays a funny part in that.

Anna from Madison says, hi, Pete and Conrad.

My favorite Will Ferrell role is in an SNL sketch, the Spartan cheerleaders.

I knew somebody was going to say that.

He played Craig, along with Sherry O'Terry.

They were hilarious.

I thought Molly Shannon was the other.

I don't remember that sketch, to be honest.

Yeah, it's funny.

It's just him being over the top and kind of crazy.

Julie, or I'm sorry, Jewel in Cross Plains says, AKA Gator Conrad.

Oh, what's that?

Was he in Semi-Pro?

Was that in Semi-Pro?

Was he Gator?

Maybe that's

Josh Gad.

Is that his nickname?

I actually, we need some clarification.

We

need some clarification.

We gotta go to the Google.

Thank

God for the Google.

What did radio people do before the Google?

Because look, I haven't seen every movie.

I'm a fan.

So you could text in a fake Will Ferrell character and I might just believe you.

Thank you for the text though, Jewel in the 920.

Jameson says, finishing right now.

Does that mean he's finishing the movie?

He says, under, he says, oops.

So maybe that was a mistake.

He's meant to text his wife or something or other.

That's OK.

Mistakes are made.

All right, Mike Clemson is coming up.

After the news, folks, Mike has seen a movie I'm going to recommend to you and a documentary that I haven't seen yet, but Mike has.

And I'm very excited to see it.

We'll tell you what that is after the news.

And of course, he's the sports authority.

He's going to give us an update on the Brewers and the Packers.

That's all coming up next after the news.

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

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It is great to have you with me tonight.

What a gorgeous night to sit inside and listen to the radio, gather the family around, and let's do this right.

We are excited.

We have a great question tonight.

What is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

It is Will Ferrell's birthday.

He's 92.

Looks great.

So let us know we've got some great texts and I want to say too I have to clarify this Tony the trucker when I said he was the will ferrell of trucking I think he he's gone above and beyond he says 52 years and over 3 million miles and still going That's insane

that's a lot of miles

that's like forest gump of trucks Tony

Be safe out there, buddy, and thank you for your great text throughout the course of the show.

Love having you as a listener.

Right now, folks, we're about to welcome a guy.

We tried to come up with a nickname for this guy earlier in the show, but he already has one, and it suits him perfectly.

He is the Civic Media Sports Authority, and he joins us now over the phone, our pal, Mike Clemens.

Hey, buddy.

Did you say Will Ferrell's 92?

Doesn't

he look great?

No.

I

had to just google it.

I came up with 58.

You're close.

You're

close.

Like, you know those Hollywood types?

They got access to all the great ointments and slathers, whatever you need.

He could be that

age.

I can watch Anchorman over and over.

I have a

little girl's

story.

I have a little girl's story.

Sweet.

I was going to ask you anyway, but please share.

My brother is an IT guy and sound guy, lighting guy.

out of northwestern university went in for acting and becoming like a theater tech and

one of his

roommates was uh... jerry paris's son andy jerry paris was uh... the dentist on dick van dyke and then later you know a directed happy days

okay

and so andy was his roommate says if you come on back so you know in the middle of the height of that of happy days my brother there is on the set and henry winkler was having trouble with the speakers in this mustang

And so Andy said, oh, you should have my friend, my friend, John, work on this.

And so he fixed his speakers.

And that was the first star that John has worked on.

Like, one of his clients was on Colbert last night, Joaquin Phoenix.

Oh, wow.

I mean,

he just keeps on having all these people up in the Hollywood Hills.

If you need to transfer your cell phone or a new PC or install it, this is the guy that they hire.

One of his clients is Megan Mulally, who played Karen on Will and Grace.

She's like a Broadway singer, right?

So off to the side, she's had a band.

And in 2006, John was in Chicago from LA with this band and said, hey, why don't you come on down and see Megan perform?

I can introduce you.

Sure, yeah.

So my brother's running the board.

Megan's up there with her band.

And all of a sudden, Will Ferrell walks into this thing.

And there's about 1,500 people there having dinner.

It's a fundraiser for some local charity.

And he goes up to the stage and kind of clowns with her for a little bit.

Then he whispers something to her, and she goes, OK, all right.

Will Ferrell, everybody, he walks off.

So when she finishes her show, she comes down to us in the crew, and she goes, follow me.

We're going to the Chicago Modern Art Museum.

So we follow her limo.

We go inside.

Will Ferrell has been in Chicago for the last several months, shooting a picture called Stranger Than

Fiction.

It had Dustin Hoffman in there.

It had Queen Latifa and Emma Thompson.

And so to show he's a good guy, he put up the food, the buffet, the waiters, a band, a karaoke thing.

And the next thing I know, I'm in this with this film crew of about 110 people standing next to some, you know, the boyfriends soon to be husband of Megan, Nick Offerman.

Oh yeah, nice.

You know, just hanging out with these people

and having

food.

And then Will Ferrell gets on this little stage with the microphone and pulls up Emma Thompson and they sing Don't Go Breaking My Heart with Elton John and Keith E.D.

And I have that on a grainy video on the platform I had back then.

That's just like, you know, my brother and I said one day we're going to write a book called One Phone Call Away From Greatness.

We have these brushes like that.

I love those stories more than anything, Mike.

Like everybody who has a celebrity story, and one of my guests last night, Mike Schmidt, has a ton of them, and we're still, he's got like a library of them.

Just one offs, in some cases, two offs.

But you always, you come on the show, and you're our guy here for sports at Civic Media, but you always have great stories like that.

So you've been around, and I guess in your travels, you have some fantastic show biz stories too.

Yeah, and you know, sometimes the fish just kind of jump in the boat for me.

I, you know, it's sometimes it's inexplicable, but you know, it, it happened.

So, um, I heard you guys earlier talking about the brewers and, um, and yeah, they've had an amazing turnaround and any success that the brewers have had again this season.

Let's start with Matt Arnold, the GM and how he's got that large scouting department working throughout the Western Hemisphere.

to get guys like jackson trio out of there you know or the this great catcher william contraries who to me even though his batting average is done he should have been the starting catcher for the nationally because i thought he looked better than the dodgers will smith last week but uh... and then it's pat murphy who's in his second year as the manager he was named nationally manager the year last year because no one thought after craig council that the brewers had a chance

and how does this guy first-year manager at sixty five sixty six years old gonna make this work well murph is just this unbelievable personality he knows his baseball he've been doing it his whole life but he seems to figure out how to push the buttons on people and make things work now there's one thing he does it would probably if i if you came along with me to cover a brewers game at american family field at first you said this guy's a jerk

because if you came in the press room with me or in his office before the game this is the way he treats he looks around the room and he looks for first-time reporters or interns this is how he treats them when they walk into the press room.

Any interns up there?

Siegler knocked in the first two RBIs of his career what can you kind of say about his approach and limited appearances?

Yeah I mean he's look like he's got a really good offensive approach strike ball it's a great question intern great job.

What's your first question, Juvent?

How long have you been with us?

Feels like a lifetime.

How long has it been, Inter?

I think this is my fifth game.

Fifth game?

Your first decent question, really.

Not a great question, but we're going to give you credit.

I'm excited for him.

Big hit today.

Big, big hit today.

He's been in the cooler, hasn't played very much at all for us.

What is your name?

Cam.

Huh?

Cam.

And you were sitting here the other day?

So you knew?

First time here?

Well, Cam, you introduced yourself?

Where are you from, Cam?

Where?

Big city, big state.

Where in San Diego?

Oh, sorry about it.

Now you think he's a jerk, right?

But you know, by doing that, he brings you in.

Yeah,

you

know and he breaks the ice in the room and whereas so many of these other coaches They're almost like you know people in the White House going into the press breeding like it's the CIA or something He breaks the ice that way and that's what he does with the players too.

I was just gonna say that like he thinks on his feet You know, he's in the moment not just delivering platitudes like a lot of you know coach speak or whatever you want to call it But that's uh, that's great the first great question first good question you've asked

or he'll tell the beat writers yeah i don't read any of your stuff but go ahead and ask a question so then i think i texted you this like i gotta come on the show and tell you this so it's a couple weeks ago and and and in the pregame meetings we don't have in the dugout he let us in his office i mean

he'll

open up his phone someone said you know how's brandon woodruff coming along this is like a month ago just a second

And he gets out his phone, Pete, and he starts reading the emails from the trainer directly to us.

Because he doesn't care.

There's no filter on the guy.

Wow.

I mean, all these other guys are so prepared, you know, or they

give

you big answers.

He just reads.

Because you know what?

He knows it doesn't make any difference what happens on the field tonight with, you know, bats and pitches and all that.

That's what matters, whether or not you're going to win the game.

Not whether, you know, he's a month away or a week away or whatever.

so then it's it that trip to story and i think we're talking about the film that you know sixty one the roger there story back in like nineteen sixty sixty one when this guy beat the single-season home run record of the Yankees roger bears that that was set by bay bruce right right and i was directed by billy crystal and goes uh... yeah i've got a billy kittney now he is not a name-dropper pat murphy is a very down-to-earth guy

Um, and he, you know, he played some baseball himself and then got into coaching.

But he said, I got, somehow I got to know Billy Crystal.

I don't know how, but he said one time he was at one of our games, you know, in Arizona.

And then they said, Billy Crystal, won't you see it?

So he came to the dugout after the game, introduced himself.

Well, we know what a big, huge baseball fan Billy Crystal is, right?

Yeah.

But it, and this is like 20 years ago,

he

heard.

he heard that pat murphy is a is a character a guy to watch out for so then billy said hey pat went to come to my show tonight in phoenix and what i'm not sort of testing it out it was called seven hundred nights it's about the story about his dad died when he was fifteen years old and he figured he only had about seven hundred sunday nights with his dad so that's when they sort of got to know each other i remember billy crystal talking about that promoting it on letterman show and i and i told you that out to pat so then

pat says he said you know it billy crystal left like all that was kind of cool meeting billy crystals like

you

know i've got not going to show we we've got another game tomorrow we had a traveling yeah i'm not going select months later they're in los angeles and maybe a dodger game or something and billy crystal comes down again and get mad at him like hey i told you i was here so she went so but then i did now this is kind of grainy so turn up your radio but this is the story that pat murphy the brewers manager told us about

Getting a know Billy Crystal.

You haven't come to a show.

I've done three shows you haven't been there.

I'm giving you these tickets right here.

You're coming to my show today.

I know you scrimmage will get over or whatever game whatever.

It's a five o'clock show and it's my I'm going to Australia tonight.

I want you at the show.

And he was like pretty adamant about it.

So my daughter was there and I took my daughter who sat like the third row and it was

If you ever get a chance to see it, it's called 500 Sundays.

It's about him and his dad, and it's emotional, you know?

Have you seen it?

Oh,

did he?

I saw the show.

It blew me away.

And then right at the end, they had these guys come and get me.

It was, hey, Billy wants to see an agreement.

No, he wants to see.

So me and my daughter go back.

I'm figuring there's going to be, what, 50, 75 people that are waiting for him?

It's just like this, smaller than this room.

Myself, my daughter, Billy comes walking in, flips me a water, flips her a water, opens his water, what you think?

I was like, blown away.

I'm like, you must have done that instead of therapy.

He goes, exactly.

He goes, that's therapeutic for me.

He goes, that basketball coach that I told you, how great he was in the beginning, he said 260 shows later, I don't like the son of a

bitch.

My guest is Mike Clements.

He's the Civic Media Sports Authority.

We're talking about Brewers Manager Pat Murphy.

And he's like the kind of guy you write a play about, Mike.

Like he's just filled with personality, right?

There's a book there, man.

I'm fine.

And if this dude actually can get these guys to a World Series, look, and here's the other thing.

I mean, there's no doubt the organization

It's missing Bob Uker for 50 years.

You know, he was that class clown amongst the team and the players kept it light and all that.

And just by naturally, Pat Murphy being who he is, he's now filling that void.

He's now that guy in the clubhouse.

Boy, that's a great comp.

And just in time, right?

All right.

Mike Clemens is here.

We're going to keep him for another segment.

We got to do a very short bit of business here, and then we'll come back and talk.

Whatever Mike wants to talk about.

Mike, I want to ask you about September 5th.

And if we have time, the Jane Mansfield bio, but first we'll get to some Brewer stuff.

That's all coming up after this very short break.

On Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, you've got the Civic Media Radio Network.

Hey folks, great to have you with me on this, well, it's a Wednesday night for sure.

Coming up at 720, Frank Hermans will be here to talk about his new show, Found My Thrill on Scraze Hill, a Green Bay landmark, if you will.

Frank, we sat down with Frank yesterday.

We're gonna play that whole interview at 720.

He sings, he's funny, he's Frank, and he'll be here at 720.

Right now we have a few more minutes left with our pal.

One of the hardest working men,

in the sports racket, and that is Mike Clemens.

He's our Civic Media Sports Authority.

Mike, I think I said we would talk about the Brewers when we came back.

I meant the Packers, because training camp opens very soon.

Did you feel like you had a little bit of a rest?

Not

much, but you know, hey, that's a good thing, man.

Listen, I know that fans get frustrated that the Bucks were one and down in the playoffs, or they had their hearts broken again last year at the end of the Brewer season, all that.

except for the cubs in chicago right now which are now in first place and as conrad was point out earlier in the hour you know groups just a game behind

them

right now yeah i mean it sucks to be in chicago white socks the mycocks hockey team you know the bears mountain that could be exciting now with ben johnson is a new head coach and kelo Williams is a real good deal at quarterback but listen this for me to be able to cover the packers you know and as strong as that team is

the brewers and the box as long as they've got you know the the biggest thing that the question mark right now is if the loop loop pickle can kind of save his job even though he's got an extension with the badgers football team but great guard doing a phenomenal job all things considered with the men's basketball team over in madison but yet to know a week from tonight will be talking about packers training camp and i know there's some people are like all my god

You know, I'm just getting into summer.

Oh, not football.

And it's like the old George Carlin bit, you know, football's on a gridiron.

These balls hit a ballpark,

you

know, that kind of thing.

But that's just the way it is.

But you know what?

That's what it takes to get ready for a football season is about six weeks of training camp before you get into this long 17 and soon to be 18 game regular season.

So the big thing we're watching for

is the changing of the guard mark murphy stepping down and that policy will be the new guy and the big question that we had him because we got a chance from civic media to interview him by the way we didn't you know he you got map before your head coach and brian good it can sure general manager their contract is up in about two years will you renew that now or now we'll wait till the end of the season which is like okay

so

it'll be a prove it here for the new boss

wow

Boy that's something that's a lot of pressure.

Yeah Mike you mentioned the Badgers and Luke fickle and great guard.

Have you seen or heard about the documentary a road at night?

No, no, okay

I've heard you guys talking about

it now.

Yeah, it's great.

You'll have to, uh, when it comes out on streaming, I'll send you a link or something, but John Roach, a Madisonian, uh, put it together.

Oh, I'm

familiar with John.

I've never met John, but I'm familiar with his work.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He created the show.

I don't know if we've talked about this before, the sports writers on TV, which when I was in college in Chicago, that was the, like the first, it was pre sports radio, the old guys with the cigars and the hats

talking to it and those guys.

Yeah.

And the guys from the Tribune.

Yeah.

Excellent show.

It was so great.

I remember as a college kid watching these old guys smoking cigars talking sports and now he made a great documentary about Badger basketball and the passing of a Howard Moore that horrible car accident But it is it will never make you I was so proud to be connected to Wisconsin watching that documentary.

So we'll have to discuss that after you see it, but Well, that's exciting.

So you'll be back at

we'll cover the packers very soon and and i'll be up

there with you i'll be up there with you in green bay and then you know you're talking about that film that i posted about september fifth yeah and it's talking about nineteen seventy two and the olympics in munich germany and a bc was there and they had this new producing a moon arlogian and being just cutting edge and then all kinds of things we're using in in television fifty years later and then all of sudden this news breaks out that there's these terrorist

that have attacked the israeli wrestling team they're holding them hostage and now the guy this they're supposed to cover sports has to change over into news and he's he has to beg other networks for satellite time and uh... there's this tremendous actor who plays peter gennings member peter the anti-review c news he happened to be there so he used him as sort of reporter but it shows you and it's so authentic

right down to the two-inch tape machines in the equipment and the technical challenges they had back then to get this broadcast on around the world and covered and then the ethical questions like okay now you're gonna go live you got peter about two hundred yards away with binoculars what if one of these terrorists takes a uh... an israeli wrestling uh... athlete there and execute them right there on the patio you know in live tv are you gonna show that and so check that out september fifth

on HBO, it's an excellent documentary that shows the way it's supposed to be done, covering news or

sports.

I saw it, Mike, and right when it came out, and I was blown away by the cover, into the layman, and I consider myself that, because I'm not a news guy, just that the controversy of letting a sports crew cover this tragedy, like, that was a big deal.

But the look of the movie was great.

It was like a thriller, it was really well done.

well as long as i've

been in the business i know how authentic it was yeah kind of arrow is just sort of being phased out but i i know what that equipment look like i work with guys like that they were in their fifties they were there during that period and you know if i was teaching any high school class or uh... you know college journalism class i would show them that because this is where we started from this is where the breaking news thing on television came from and this is when it was done the right way and now you know how we drift off

from that model 50 years later.

So great.

Mike, we'll have to get to the other stuff next time.

Thanks so much for your time tonight.

As always, my friends, such a treat to talk to, buddy.

Take care, Tom.

Okay, YouTube, that's Mike Clemens.

Look for his updates from Packers Training Camp, which is right around the corner, over in your hood there, came in.

Yeah, yeah.

Right around the corner.

Are you gonna watch any of that?

Oh, I'm gonna go to a couple of days.

Just watch the practices.

Oh yeah, I did it last year.

It was a lot of fun.

Sweet.

And is it at the Hudson Center still?

Anybody could just walk over there.

Yeah, that's pretty sweet.

All right, very cool.

Well, when we come back, folks, after intermission, we'll recap the show, we'll read some texts, and we'll play a funny Will Ferrell clip.

Sorry, Tony, the trucker.

And then we've got Frank Herman's coming up at 720.

Great stuff.

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

Network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who loves the sin but hates the sinner, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back tonight, ladies and gentlemen.

It is time for Act 2 of this evening's broadcast.

Great to have you with me.

Work in the board is the kid.

Conrad Krieger.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great.

Have you had a mood swing since the first hour?

You still

think you can get through this?

You know, I'm thinking I can get through it, yeah.

All right.

I think you can,

too.

It's going to be OK.

No doubt in my mind.

We are having a lot of fun here tonight, folks.

We talked to Mike Clemens in hour number one.

He gave us an update on the Brewers.

They are red hot, only a game behind the Cubs.

And Conrad and I talked a little bit about what, I mean, it'll be tough for them to keep that pace.

I

mean, winning

80% of their games in the last 10, you can't sustain that.

But I would love a 101 season.

Is this still possible?

Oh

yeah.

Okay.

Maybe.

That could happen.

I haven't done the math.

No, we'll do the math.

Get the slide rule out and we'll go to town

on

that.

We also talked about it's Will Ferrell's birthday.

So our question of the night is what is your favorite Will Ferrell movie or role?

We've had a few varying, I don't know, some dramatic actually, some comedy.

I said

old school, Conrad said the other guys.

But let us know.

If you do want to text folks, we have pre-recorded content starting in about...

13 minutes.

And that's our interview with Frank Hermans of Let Me Be Frank Productions.

He has a new show opening down the street here in downtown Green Bay at the Meyer Theater, the beautiful Meyer Theater.

So Frank, we're gonna play, we sat down with Frank yesterday.

He played a song.

We had some laughs.

He tried to get fresh.

I had to repel him.

Conrad had to step in.

It was awkward, but we got through it.

And that is what you do in radio, ladies and gentlemen.

Frank's interview will be played at 7.20 tonight.

So if you do want to respond to tonight's question of the night, try to get it in in the next five minutes or so, so we can read it before we jet.

We also talked about this.

I am so done.

with action comedies.

Give me a comedy or give me an action film where I feel like there's something, something's in peril or something.

I'm tired of the action comedy.

The comedy sucks and the action's not really that thrilling.

So that's something we covered also in hour one, as well as our discussion with the, uh, the outstanding Mike Clements.

So that's a show.

We've got a few more minutes here.

And I want to say, you know, I just realized, I don't think it's very noticeable.

I spilled toothpaste on my shirt the last time I wore it.

Well, it's if it landed on the blue spot that kind of looks like toothpaste.

It's on the light blue spot if you're watching on the stream I don't think it's visible, but why do I still feel like a slob?

Like I'm practicing hygiene.

I'm brushing my teeth Which I forgot to do today,

but

nice We had a kind of a night a meeting before the show with Aaron Karenow and I was the whole meeting I'm going oh my god I didn't brush my teeth today of all the days you needed to share a computer with me

So anyway, but I had and I still feel like a slob.

It's not like I have tomato sauce or a piece of cheese on my shirt.

It's toothpaste I'm a hygienic But I still feel like a slob.

I don't get it It's weird.

I think that's I think that's a personal thing because like you're fine.

Yeah,

it's just toothpaste

My

shower.

And you washed it, so it's gone.

I

did wash it, but I think that little stain is here with me.

It's on the light blue part of the shirt though, so I think I'm good.

Hey, tomorrow night, folks, we have a great show too.

Paul Vandenplatz from Wonderfully Wisconsin will be here in studio, right Conrad?

For the popcorn pick.

For the

popcorn pick of the week.

Paul will be live.

We had him on the show a few months ago.

He's a great guest and he has an outstanding Facebook page called Wonderfully Wisconsin and TikTok.

Give him a follow there because he does great stuff.

If you like food and you like Wisconsin and who doesn't.

You definitely want to give Paul a follow at Wonderfully Wisconsin.

He'll be here tomorrow night.

And then we have from the Thrasher Opera House tomorrow night, Jason Mansmith will be here talking about some of the really cool shows they have coming up.

And Jason's a great guest.

He's been on the show before.

So that's tomorrow night on Nightlight.

I really want to play this clip.

Let's finish our tech.

Let's get these texts out of the way, because I don't want anybody to be left out here tonight.

Our question, as I mentioned, what is your favorite movie or role of Will Ferrell's?

And we've got some great responses.

There is one, I think, behind.

There we go.

Tom from Minona, he's in the 608, says, Ricky Bobby, that was a funny movie.

Yeah, my favorite is, I can't think of his name, but the guy who plays Borat.

I don't know, it's been so

long.

The French, I think is French race car driver.

He's hilarious in that.

I like Will Ferrell, but he's not a guy other than old school that I watch his movies over and over.

So I've seen.

Tele-Daganites.

Tele-Daganites, but I don't, I do remember the scene where he's racing and the guy's catching up to him and he's right behind you in his, in his ear and Will Ferrell's like.

Right behind me in my subconscious.

No, he's really right behind you.

Step on it.

You know, like, it's just such a weird scene.

And it was so funny.

And what's the one where Will Ferrell is running for office?

The campaign.

And Zach, yes.

Such a good movie.

And he leaves that filthy

voicemail on Zach Galifianakis'.

Yep.

Oh, my God.

And the way Will Ferrell talks, and that is so funny.

So he's got some roles, I like.

But I said old school.

Conrad said the other guys Bridget from the 818 says elf.

This was tough I loved stepbrothers old school and blades of glory.

Oh my god.

I forgot about blades of glory

Yeah, I haven't seen that in a while was such a funny movie.

She says but I love elf I love the scene where he flips John hater upside down and they're like in the 69 position skating around the ice.

It's so funny that

really cracked me up.

I have a story about Elf that I thought was funny and it's sort of a six degrees of separation.

My buddy Dale Myron, God rest his soul, he shot The Godfather of Green Bay, did an outstanding job.

He owned a post production suite with his buddy Dan.

Dan Lieberman, I think was his name.

And Lieberman is still a great editor and was editing Elf.

And Will Ferrell's people came into the editing suite and were yelling at him and saying that this role was gonna ruin Will Ferrell's career.

And you know, Dan's Leventhal was his name.

Dan is just the editor.

He's not like, he didn't write the script, whatever, but he has to listen to this.

And as it turns out, I think it took Will Ferrell to another level.

Yeah, that's a replay on every single Christmas, you know?

It's like a lot of people's favorite film.

Chris from Sun Prairie,

He is in the 773.

Remember Khan?

Yeah.

He spells his name like you.

He's got the K.

I like it.

I like it too.

Chris has my favorite part.

Will Ferrell plays his big Earl in Starsky and Hutch.

Hilarious.

That's the other great thing about Will Ferrell.

When you've got a very mediocre movie or even a clunker, you can at least get some good Will Ferrell laughs out of it.

Great text.

Thanks, Chris.

Teresa from Madison.

She's in the 608.

It's a stranger than fiction.

That's either, that might be our...

front-runner tonight.

I think that one is multiple,

yeah.

Yeah, and then Mark from Prairie to Sex is also a stranger from

fishing.

Definitely in the running,

then.

All right, with a thumbs up.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank

you, Teresa.

You know, we also got another comment on our Facebook.

Yeah.

Monica Hale says Buddy the Elf.

Buddy the Elf.

All right, there you go.

And Chris gave me the thumbs up because I got it right this time.

Yes.

It took a while, Chris, but we know you.

We know you, buddy.

Thank you.

So I want to play this.

Let's do this.

Since it's Will Ferrell's birthday, let's...

Let's play the old-school clip.

So

here's one of my favorite scenes from old school one of my favorite roles of

welfare

That's so that's all we have in that clip.

Yeah.

Oh, I thought you had where he I thought we cut where he chugs He goes just one and then he chugs he goes fill it up again.

No Turns into Frank

least Frank so

gorgeous.

I want to play a couple other clips, too I thought this was hilarious.

Norm McDonald has been showing up in my feet a lot on social media and

I never met Norm when I did stand-up.

I didn't do stand-up for that long, maybe nine years, but our paths never crossed.

But I have so many friends who I truly respect, who absolutely think the world of him.

And I've rediscovered his stand-up, and he's so funny.

And I found this clip on Conan, and I want to play it for you now.

This is Norm McDonald before he passed away, obviously, on Conan.

A wife went into a coma.

Oh, sorry to hear

that.

And the doctor said to me,

And you won't hear this from any 1935 comic.

He says to me, there's one way to wake her up, but it's a little unconventional.

You go in there and you have oral sex with her.

I said, bye, God.

He says, I've seen it work.