Will Ferrell’s Birthday Bash and Brewers’ Comeback (Hour 1)

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Oh, God.

That took me back.

We spent 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 strange how it came to be, which is kind of weird.

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Are we going to get like a tornado?

I mean, it looks... I think we need one of Conrad's five-day forecasts for at least five hours.

Well,

if you look outside the studio right now, which no one 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.

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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 gonna 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 they 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 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 Herman's 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 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 in the other guys as detective Alan Gamble and his wife Sheila where you're like, well, good for him.

Good for him.

He's just a well-rounded character.

Now, you know, it's 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

really 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.

He's He'd my favorite scene is that was when he's outside in

his car or whatever.

Fixed his car

and 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.

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.

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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 the, what was it called?

Heads of State, right?

Head of State, yeah.

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

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, Elba 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, you can kind of see what's going to happen.

It's one of those movies.

You're like, uh-huh, well, I would say it was okay.

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...

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.

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.

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 a comedy.

I don't mind an action with an occasional, ironic bit of comedy or something.

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.

And 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.

So there's real life consequences.

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.

And I would definitely I recommend that movie.

It's it's really fun.

OK.

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 635 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 Herman'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.

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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.

Steven 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.

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, 855-752-4842 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 in 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?

Jameson 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, Jameson.

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.

Well, 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 okay.

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.

This is Nightlight with Peach Waba.

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 fifty-eight 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, he could be that

age i can watch anchor man over and over, i have a little feral story i have a little feral 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 at a becoming like a theater tech and one of his roommates was uh... jerry paris's son andy jerry paris was uh... the 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 uh... it had the dustin hoppin in there it had uh... queen latifah and amma thompson and so it as a to show he's a good guy uh... 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 but a hundred hundred ten people stand next to some you know the boyfriend soon to be husband of megan nick offerman

oh yeah nice

you know it just hanging out with these people and food and then will ferrell gets on this little stage with the microphone and then pulls up emma thompson and they sing don't go break in my heart with elton john key and i have that on a grainy video on the phone i had back then that's just like you know my brother and i said one day we're gonna 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 it sometimes the fish just kind of jump in the boat for me i you know it sometimes it's inexplicable but you know it that happened so that's um... i heard you guys earlier talking about the brewers and yeah um... and yeah that they've had an amazing turnaround and out 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 contras 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 it's

sixty-five, sixty-six years old, gonna make this work.

Well, Murph is just this unbelievable personality.

He knows his baseball, he's 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 that would probably, if you came along with me to cover a Brewer's game at American Family Field, at first you'd say, 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 got a really good offensive approach, strike ball.

It's a great question, intern.

Great job.

It's your first question, Juvent.

How long have you been with us?

Feels like a lifetime.

How long has it been in turn?

I think this is my fifth game.

Fifth game?

Your first decent question, really.

Not a great question, but you know, 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 from up in Green Bay.

And you were sitting here the other day?

I was not done.

So you knew?

First time here?

This season, yeah.

Well, Cam, you introduce yourself.

Well, now, yeah.

Cam, nice to meet you.

Where are you from, Cam?

originally from California.

Where?

San Diego.

It's a big city, big state.

San Diego.

Where in San Diego?

Aguahua.

Oh, sorry about it.

Now, you'd 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 going to say that 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.

Right.

Right.

Or he'll tell the beat writers, yeah, I don't read any of your stuff, but go ahead, 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 in the pre-game meetings, we don't have him the dugout.

He lets 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.

And he goes, 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.

i mean all these other guys are so prepared you know or they get big answers he just read cuz 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 know in the game that weathered you know he's a month away or a week away or whatever so then is 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 mares 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 create me now he is not a name-dropper pat murphy is a very down-to-earth guy um... any you know he played the baseball himself again 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 what 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 twenty years ago he heard he heard mcpat 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's show and I told you that out to Pat.

So then, Pat says, he said, you know, Billy Crystal left like, oh that was kind of cool meeting Billy Crystal, like, yeah, I'm not going to his show, we've got another game tomorrow, we've got to travel, yeah, I'm not going.

So like months later, there in Los Angeles,

and maybe a Dodger game or something and Billy Crystal comes down again and gets mad at him like, hey, I told you, I was serious, I told you.

Now this is kind of grainy, so turn up your radio, but this is the story that Pat Murphy, the Brewer's manager, told us about getting into 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're streaming to get over whatever game, whatever.

It's a five o'clock show.

I'm going to Australia tonight.

I want you at the show.

And he was like pretty adamant about it.

I was f***ing all in one.

So my daughter was there and I took my daughter, we sat in 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?

I think you've known

it.

Oh, did he?

Yeah.

That's all the show.

I blew me away and then right at the end they had these guys come and get me was a Billy wants to see in the green No, he wants to see so me and my daughter go back.

I'm figuring there's gonna be 50 to 75 people there right wait for It's just like this smaller than this room Myself my daughter Billy comes walking in flips me a water flips her 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.

he's 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 think this dude actually can get these guys to a world series look at it here's the other thing i mean there's no doubt the organization is missing bob uker for fifty years you know he was that class clown amongst the team and the players kept it like now that and just by naturally pat murphy being who he is he's now filling that void

That

is so nice.

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.

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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 going to 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, where they had their hearts broken again last year at the end of the Brewers season, all that, but

except for the cubs in chicago right now which are now in first place and as conrad was point out earlier in the hour do you know we're just in a game behind them right now yeah i mean it sucks to be in chicago white socks the mycox 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 bucks as long as they've got you on a thing you know at the biggest thing that the question mark right now is if luke luke fickle can kind of save his job you know we have 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 although football

and it's like the old george carlin bit you know football's on a gridiron he's called it a ballpark you know that kind of thing but that's just the 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 a training camp before you get into this long seventeen and soon to be eighteen game regular season so 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 at him because we got a chance from civic media to interview him was by the way we didn't you know uh... you got map before your head coach and brian gudekin sir 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 in Luke Fickle and Greg Gard.

Have you seen or heard about the documentary A Road at Night?

No, no, but I've heard you guys talking

about it now.

Yeah, it's great.

You'll have to, when it comes out on streaming, I'll send you a link or something, but John Roach, a Madisonian, 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 guys from the tribune and gleason 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 um

Badger basketball and the passing of a Howard more 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 in the Packers very soon and

another thing 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

5th.

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 producer named rune arledge and being in 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 terrorists that have attacked the israeli wrestling team and holding them hostage and now the guy is there's supposed to cover sports has to change over into news and he's he has to

beg other network for satellite time and uh... there's this tremendous actor who plays peter jennings member peter the

uh...

previously news he happened to be there so he used him as a 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 hb o excellent documentary that shows the way it's supposed to be done covering news or sport

i saw it mike and right when it came out and i was blown away by

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.

I love

that you liked it.

Well, as long as I've been in the business, I know how authentic it was, because that kind of arrow was just sort of being phased out.

But I know what that equipment looked like.

I worked with guys like that that were in their 50s.

that 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.

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.

And is it at the Hudson Center still?

Anybody

can just walk over there?

Yeah.

Yeah, it'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.

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