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Soup Wars and Sports Talk (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Jul 31, 2025
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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, great to have you with me.
It is Thursday, Christmas Eve of weekdays.
Conrad Krieger working the board.
He hates soup, but we still like him.
We just don't trust him.
And I think that comes with the territory.
If you're just joining us, we had a great hour number one.
We talked about...
The fact that I'm I linked in profile I put want to be crooner as a joke and LinkedIn is now trying to find me singing gigs And listen, I'll take one.
I'm not not about I'm not beyond that We are question of the night because of Conrad's hatred for soup.
We decided to Just go all out here.
It's a two-parter one.
What is wrong with Conrad and two?
What is your least favorite soup?
I say cream of mushroom We've had a lot of broccoli dislike so far
through the text line.
Conrad does not like any soup, except broccoli cheese, which you could argue isn't necessarily even really a soup.
But we also talked to Civic Media's sports director, Jimmy Cusco, who is still on the line.
He's agreed to stick around for a few more minutes and talk a little bit about his area of expertise.
Although, Jim, you do know quite a bit about...
Broccoli cheese isn't a soup.
Broccoli cheese is a dip.
So you
dip other
things into it.
That's what broccoli cheese is.
You dip other soups into it, and then you make a whole big mess.
It's actually one of my favorite ones when you have like a fresh baked bread to dip into.
It's a great bread bowl soup is what it is.
Yeah.
Again, it's a dip.
It's a condiment almost.
It's not really a soup, so.
Jim, you have to, if I were you, Jim, speaking of condiments.
We had the curator of the National Mustard Museum on the show last night because National Mustard Day is August 2nd.
That guy was more fun than I ever thought he would be.
And I've never met so much, someone with so much love and passion for a condiment.
It was a beautiful thing.
All right, so thanks for sticking around, Jim, and helping us kick off hour number two here.
What else are you watching?
Anything?
Before we get to sports, you said happy Gilmore 2.
Yeah,
happy Gilmore too is kind of it's it's it's gonna be polarizing because as a standalone like just as a movie.
Yeah, honestly, it's not great It's it's kind of a mess, but as someone who watched the original
and enjoyed it as a, you know, teenager, 20-something, whatever.
It's a love letter for those people who were alive and enjoyed the original, or maybe people who've caught the original since then.
That's all the movie is.
It's literally just taking you back in time.
It's a nostalgia trip with tons of cameos, lots of fun, a lot of cameos, a lot of actual flashbacks to the first movie.
You know, some tributes tucked away in there.
That's what it is.
It's less of a standalone, like you gotta go see this movie, probably why it's direct to streaming and not in a theater, and more again, of a fan service for those of us who enjoyed the first one, and we're around for that.
Well, there's no bigger Happy Gilmore fan than the K-man.
All of his hatred for soup, he channels into his love of Adam Sandler, so way in here, buddy.
So the back half of the movie really struggled, and that was a big part of it.
It just felt like it was unnecessary over the top.
What was brilliant, I thought, about the first Happy Gilmore movie, as goofy as it was, was that it was somewhat plausible having someone come onto a tour with a little bit of personality and a super long drive.
You start seeing the personalities emerge a little bit, even in modern day golf, where people try to stand out.
But that was a little more plausible than what they were trying to do.
in this one.
And I felt like maybe it was just a thread that once they had burned through all the nostalgia, like, well, we need something to hook people.
How over the top can we get?
How can we have big colors and explosions of things and drop people in that way?
And I think that for me is where it kind of got lost because it wasn't like that way in the original.
And I thought the original, the brilliance of it was that it was somewhat plausible that you would get a hot shot guy coming in who had played hockey and then hits in a fist fight with Bob Barker.
To me, that felt realistic.
I love that you use the word plausibility and happy Gilmore in the same paragraph.
All right, so let's talk sports, Jim Conrad and I have been talking back and forth.
I'm a Cub fan.
He's a Brewer fan, obviously.
And I said,
You know, the Cubs for a very short time had the best record in baseball.
They've been fairly consistent.
The Brewers are on a hot streak like I haven't seen in a while.
And I thought, I don't think they can sustain that.
Well, I said that two weeks ago, and here they are.
What do you think is going to happen down the stretch in this little rivalry we have?
I think people are looking a lot into what happened today at the trade deadline and panicking a bit that there wasn't more done for either team,
the
Cubs
or the Brewers.
But you look at what the Brewers had done.
They already made their big trades.
They just did it.
you know, ahead of the trade deadline.
I mean, the getting in Quinn Priester, getting in Andrew Vaughn ahead of all of this.
We've already made their big deals and the stuff they did today was more, you know.
like roster flexibility, they have an injury with Jackson Churio, so they picked up a 28 year old outfielder, kind of bridged that gap for a bit.
Got a couple of pitchers who are banged up right now, took on a bit of salary for that, for some depth, but, you know, the Cubs grabbed utility and fielder from the Minnesota Twins fire sale today.
So I feel like both teams felt good about where they're at, because again, they're...
The records are among the best in baseball.
So you feel pretty good about where you're at.
You don't need to blow things up necessarily.
Surely there's some weaknesses they might have looked to shore up.
But you look ahead, the Brewers have a very difficult remaining schedule.
They still have to play the Cubs again later on.
I think the Brewers have one of the five or six most difficult remaining schedules to go.
So I think that the race down the stretch between the Cubs and Brewers will be absolutely fascinating to watch given how difficult the Brewers schedule is and how the Cubs.
came into the year and came into the trade deadline for a lot of people with what many consider to be the top roster in all of baseball.
So I feel like where we're heading with both teams is a good place.
I think both themes are clearly headed for postseason.
But the trade deadline today is probably frustrating to people who wanted to see more done.
Great point.
It's interesting, like you just said, two of the best records in baseball, and now we switch over to the NFC North if we can get a couple minutes of Packer talk in here before we let you go.
That's a tough division.
In football, one of the best, if not the best.
So what do you see moving ahead?
What do you hear out of Packer's training camp?
Or do you have a prediction as to how you think they'll do?
Well, first of all here at Civic Media, we're collecting our NFC North radio affiliations like Infinity Stones right now.
So because we now have a Packers Vikings and we just acquired a Lions affiliate.
So we actually began our NFL coverage on current or soon to be Civic Stations tonight because Detroit is playing right now against San Diego in the Hall of Fame game.
Oh, yeah.
So the NFL season is playing is happening like right now, preseason anyway, which is practice.
But next week, the Packers and Vikings are joined in on it.
The Packers will get it going.
I think the most interesting thing about
about the Packers to me is that at the outside skill positions, receiver and cornerback, there is a lot of uncertainty as there has been for the last few years.
And to the point they've even switched, you know, Bull Melton to play defensive back, but now he's shining on special teams.
And does the team use a roster spot on a guy who's going to play special teams?
That's a converted receiver.
What do they do with guys like Matthew Golden, who's come out of kind of out of nowhere and is blowing up training camp and not getting a lot of attention in the press, but.
fans are certainly noticing.
I'm like, those are the positions where there's a lot of question marks.
And honestly, I feel like it's been for the last couple of years.
Packers will be just fine because the guys they have are all pretty good.
There's not a number one top.
Upper-level guy that they're throwing money at they traded Jair Exalator out or they got you know, let him and let him go So, you know that that part of it's out of the window Jair didn't play much last year So I feel like the Packers will be just fine and that might be the area of concern I think one of the underrated thing about the Packers this year This will be my last thought for the Packers part of it is the offensive line They just signed Zach Tom do that big huge deal to play right tackle and Elkin Jenkins playing center
now, and he's trying to get a new contract as well.
But their offensive line is quietly pretty solid, I think, going in.
And that's going to help with another year of Jordan Love, another year with a great running back in Josh Jacobs.
Offense feels pretty good.
Defense is very young and athletic, and that's something the Packers have been striving to.
It's kind of like what the Milwaukee Bucks did this offseason.
They got a lot younger.
The Packers have been one of the youngest teams in the NFL.
I think this will be the third straight year.
They'll be the youngest team in the NFL when they
open up the season.
The last two years they have been and they should be pretty close when they finalized the 53 this year.
They should be pretty close to that.
So youth is the word and the Packers are right there with the best of them.
Wow, goodness.
That was great, Jim.
Great answer.
Buddy, thank you so much for your time.
You're a great dad.
You know a ton about sports and movies, and you're a great all-around guy.
Almost famous is Jimmy Cusco's popcorn pick of the week and a great one.
Thank you so much for your time tonight, Jim.
All right.
I got to go back to watching K-Pop Demon Hunters another 4,000 times before the end of the weekend.
Get the sauce in your head.
You could do worse.
All right, buddy.
That's Jimmy Cusco.
Are you a fan of K-PopCon?
No.
know.
What
Yeah, hip-hop
Not soup though.
You hate soup.
Let's get to some texts.
We've had some great texts here tonight.
Our question again, folks, if you want to be part of the show, it's always more fun that way, is it's a two-parter.
Conrad hates soup.
Part one, what does it matter with Conrad?
Part two, what is your least favorite soup?
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids that's the 608 he says or he's in the six his phone is the 608 He says curly of the three stooches also had a soup phobia after his run with a bowl of clam chowder that bites back Something similar may have happened to Cal Calvin.
Oh, man Conrad you listen, you're taking some heat tonight.
I know you and Dave are both lovers, but I see a throw down.
And I don't know, maybe Tyler's, I'm sure he met Conrad.
Or maybe he met Calvin.
What do I know?
Calvin might hate soup as well.
He's going after all the producers.
Terry in Wausau, he's in the 715 says, I have a friend that lost his taste when he drank a flaming shot of Lopnause at Lopnause Bar in Wausau.
He eventually regained the sense after a couple of weeks.
All right, so maybe that's what happened to you.
It just never came back.
All right.
Thank you, Terry.
Barb from Waukesha.
She's in the 262.
Any tomato-based soups like Minestrone?
Yeah, you know what?
It's interesting, Barb.
I'm kind of there with you.
As I get older, I don't like the tomato.
I don't like the acidic soups.
Love a good tortilla soup, though, if there's a little tomato on that, it doesn't bother me.
608 says, I think I understand Conrad's soup aversion.
My mom used to pressure cook vegetables to the point someone could...
My mom used to pressure cook vegetables to the point someone could gum them who didn't have teeth.
I hate split pea soup.
I make German cabbage and potato soup and the cabbage stays crunchy.
Conrad just needs to try something that's not canned.
Could that be it?
well.
Okay.
Do you like soups that you can just gum?
No, no.
Oh, that's funny.
Anna from Madison says hi Pete and Conrad.
I agree with Conrad.
The cheese broccoli soup is great.
My least favorite soup is French onion.
It does feel like when you eat French onion, it feels like you're just spooning liquid salt sometimes.
Kind of with you.
Although I do like the little biscuit they give you or the little baguette.
No, it's like a Parmesan toast.
Something that they give you with French onion.
Usually like a
in it?
Pistrami.
Pistrami.
Yeah, or...
What do you call it, the Irish corned beef?
Corned beef, pastrami, one of the two.
Everett from Sun Prairie says, hey folks, first of all, there's nothing wrong with Conrad.
Some people are just weird about food.
He says there's nothing weird about you and it calls you weird.
Second, all soups are great if you make them yourself and you know what you're doing.
I cooked professionally for many years and have made some very strange soups.
Some good, some not so much, but it's a good practice to get into.
Having said that, hot oysters are an abomination.
That would stop me from trying an oyster stew that would not stop me from trying an oyster stew made by a trusted chef though Broccoli cheese soup can be good, but the worst is the nasty hot well sandwich change blizz Yeah, I
of that either.
We need clarification 262 From a bag you can find anywhere.
It's reminiscent of puke.
Yeah, you don't want whatever soup that is that sounds awful.
All right
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Greg Bach joins Nightlight.
Hey, buddy.
Hello, every... Oh, that sounds terrible, doesn't it?
No, you sound good, dude.
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I'm, I'm hearing myself through the, it's just, okay, as long as it sounds good to you and the people out there in radio land, I'm fine.
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What is that?
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Yep.
I started using a CPAP here a couple of months ago.
That's what I put on my face every night is for
sleep.
Okay.
How's that working
for you?
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All right.
It's great to have you, Greg.
It's been a little while since we've chatted.
I think I was on your show last since the time before when you've been on my show.
I want to ask you, I was listening to you guys today.
You and Jane are so great.
You just finished a tour of the state with our best friend, Todd Alba.
How did that go?
Oh,
it was fantastic.
We had a great time.
I mean, we talk about these two places all the time on the show.
of trying to reach people, have good conversations, find out what's going on, what's concerning people in Northwoods, Northwestern, Wisconsin, so on.
And you mentioned these places, these cities, these towns, but when you go there and you meet the people, it changes everything about your perception.
And going to the Northwoods and talking to folks who are just, you know, regular everyday folks, just like we are down in the big cities of southeastern Wisconsin, out of last.
And I had, and I had two great road made,
great roadmates in Jane and Todd.
So it couldn't have been more fun.
I can't even imagine.
That's great.
And did you, um, when you're traveling around like that, like, did you ever work the road as a comedian or were you kind of always more like based?
Okay.
I did, I did road work.
I, you know, I didn't, I never did months on the road or, you know, did big long stints, but I mean, I've got the car and traveled 16 hours for a weekend and yeah.
And that's when you
decided
Colorado is not as beautiful as they think it is.
So some of it's real boring.
Yeah.
It's kind of weird.
I was surprised.
The first time I drove through Colorado, it takes you a while to get to the mile high part of it, right?
It's very grass.
It's like grassland, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, it was fun.
It was fun to listen to the show.
You guys also do a segment I love called This Shouldn't Be a Thing.
Yeah.
What have been some of your favorite
Snippets of
that.
Oh, gosh.
Got me on the spot here.
Well, we did.
My God, I had to go back.
I mean, there are just times where, where Jane and I are just cracking up and I'm, I'm, I'm now I'm thinking, I'm trying to think about all of them, but wow.
Take
your
time.
It's like asking you to pick my favorite children.
There's like 40 of them.
I don't know.
You have 40
favorite children.
Just 40 favorite.
I have like 78 children, but only 40 of them are worth anything to me.
40
of them have jobs.
Working the road.
Yeah.
You don't know what happens out there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
Um, so who do you guys have coming up that you're excited about?
Oh, well, I mean, we have our regulars coming up.
I just, I always love talking to, we have Darren Von Gruden next week on Wednesday.
He comes on the show once.
a month, the first Wednesday of the month.
And he gives us the lowdown of what's happening in the farming community.
He's the president of the Farmers Union of Wisconsin.
And, you know, there's a lot going on.
And in the farming world, the, you know, federal state government impacts them so deeply.
And we think, and Pat talks to Hans Brighton Moser as well.
And we talked to Pam Yonkey, who's the host of the Midwest Farm Report.
And
until you really talk to farmers and understand what they're going through.
It's like, you know, we don't really, unfortunately and shamefully, we don't think about farmers a whole lot.
And when you talk to them and realize what they do, what they provide and what they put up with to do their job, it's, you know, we should be giving them all the money all
the time.
Let them
do their work.
Okay.
Buy them a new piece of equipment.
That's for you for just being a farmer, being amazing.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a great point.
You know, all right.
We've got to do, when we come back, Greg, I want to ask, I've got some fun questions for you regarding movies, comedians, that kind of stuff.
But before we go, you, I think, posted about Ozzy Osbourne when he died
last
week.
You seem like you're a fan.
I wasn't really into Black Sabbath when I was younger, and I could take or leave the Osbourne show.
Do you find when someone iconic dies that you weren't a fan of, and you have to read all the stuff on social media, do you feel left out?
Because I do.
It depends on who they are.
If they're someone who is genuinely a good person and made good art or did a good thing and they're not my jam, I actually just, I just feel bad for the fans.
I feel bad for the family.
If it's someone I don't particularly enjoy, I'm like, yeah, we can just, can we just, can we all just be quiet about it?
Can we just mourn in silence and just, yeah, great.
I understand they were amazing, but, you know, no, I, it depends on who the person is, is what my reaction will
be.
I think you were getting at Hulk Hogan there, but
we'll have more.
Me?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I've never heard of the man.
I've never heard of that guy at all.
I guess he's a true American or whatever.
Greg Bach is here, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll have more with Greg after the news and lots of fun still to come.
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Great to have you with me on this Thursday night.
Tomorrow night on the show, artist Spencer Young is in the studio.
He is going to paint Conrad.
I think I told you this.
He's going to paint an actual couch potato.
So we have
to look
forward to it.
It'll be fun to meet Spencer for the first time.
And it's a bar band Friday night.
Our Wisconsin music expert, Terry Bar, will be here talking about local awesome bands that she brings every week.
Right now, my guest is Greg Bach.
He is one half of the outstanding duo of Matt and Air on Air.
If you're watching on the stream, you can see Greg as I can.
It's
like you're in the room, Greg.
We have a great text here for Greg.
Pete, shout out to Greg.
This is from Carmella.
She's in the 4014, as is Greg.
Pete, shout out to Greg.
Love him.
Civic Media is killing me tonight.
I just left the Tosa library in her gym, Santel.
He's still talking, but she left.
He says, I had to be somewhere by 730.
So I left.
He's such a great speaker.
Then I get in my car and hear you, Pete.
Say my guy, Greg is a guest.
I will listen on the app later.
Here is where Greg plugs the app for free.
Tee he loves you a long time with Carmella.
I think most of that was meant for you, pal.
Well, I appreciate that.
We absolutely love Carmella and shout out to the civic media app.
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Dynamite.
Yeah, Jim Santel, that's another guest that we have on our show weekly on Thursdays.
And he just, you know, a former U S attorney, practicing attorney, advocates, bringer of good things, you know, explainer of good justice and good works and can make the most complex cases digestible, even for guys like me who barely got out of high school.
So, uh, yeah, it's.
Thank you very much, Carmelo.
I always love hearing from you, and we appreciate you listening via the radio or the Civic Media app.
Which is free, as I understand.
App,
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Greg, you are also a comedy club owner, probably because you got sick of driving 16 hours to Colorado.
I totally understand that.
What is going on?
I know the laughing tap in Milwaukee moved or is about to move.
What's going on there?
Do you like your new space and who's coming up?
Well, honestly, that's where it's kind of it.
We are, we are finalizing all the information of the new space can't announce the exact location, but it will be in Milwaukee, of course.
And we're looking forward to bringing the good news and really getting
People in there immediately because it's coming up to fall like we're not gonna I mean state fair is here That means summer's over people put down your shorts and get on your your woolly pants here comes fall, right?
But yeah, we want to get we got we want to get ready for the fall season We're getting ready for the comedy festival which happens in October It's our 20th year for the festival patent Oswald is our our main headliner and we'll have more information on who's gonna be performing in the weeks to come but there's a lot going on and the tap is the tap is
not in a physical space right now, but alive and well in our hearts.
And as we know more, I will share more.
Oh, that's great.
I didn't realize.
OK, that's fantastic.
Are you jaded?
You got to be jaded, Greg, owning a comedy club.
Do you still are there?
Are there comics you watch and roll your eyes?
Are you still just a huge fan?
How does that work?
I can't imagine owning a comedy club.
I don't think I'm jaded.
I think if I was jaded, I will.
I think if I was jaded, I would just.
Not even care.
I would be one of those comics.
We all know them who just like, I don't laugh anymore.
I don't laugh, you
know, like they're proud of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, I've heard, I've heard all the jokes.
Well, no, you haven't.
You just don't like to laugh.
That's another problem.
Talk to a therapist.
I don't know.
But I don't think I'm jaded.
I have my nights where I don't want to like, you know, be in, in comedy's gaze because I'm just like, I'm not feeling it, but I still, I still marvel at the fact that, you know,
I have the ability to watch comedy all the time.
I get to see these amazing comedians who travel all over the world, have been on television, been in movies.
And, you know, here I am sitting in the back of the room and enjoying the night.
And it's not lost upon me the awesomeness that that can be.
You know, it's the gratitude I have for it is still there
very much.
And the jadedness, I think I'd probably just get jaded when I see
bad comedy trying to be edgy or think it's smart in the, in the newer, you know,
some of these
comics who were like, try to tell, like, I just tell edgy jokes or I just, you know, I just, you know, say whatever I feel.
I'm like, yeah, but everything you say sucks.
So I wouldn't be proud.
It's
not the audience.
No, it's not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the audience sucks.
Like, I don't know.
I think, I think some of your premises, notice I didn't say jokes.
Some of your premises are terrible.
Yeah, that's funny.
Who are your favorites, Greg?
Who do you like locally and nationally?
Who gets you excited when you watch comedy?
You know, Patton Oswell is still the top of the mountain for me.
He's the guy who is the one that made me feel like I could do comedy.
He's, you know, his brand of storytelling, observational humor, you know, and his growth as a human, not just on stage, but as a person, you know,
He has he in my opinion has grown and realized who he is and Accepts the world as it changes and I think that's important for a lot of young comics to do because you know There's a lot of comedians out there older especially older dudes.
We're like I talk about whatever I want.
I don't care It's like yeah, but you sound you sound like an old man yelling at the clouds now.
Yeah, so
as far as newer can be actually, um, there, if, if you, if you, if you can tonight or check it out tomorrow, uh, Olivia Carter is a wonderful comedian who's making, I've worked with her many times.
She's making her tonight show debut this
evening on the show.
So you probably catch
it tomorrow on YouTube, but she is very, very funny.
Her, her ascent and her evolution.
as a performer has been fantastic.
My buddy Evan Holland Chicago is just phenomenal.
He is so, so funny.
And you know, it's just there are so many great comedians out there and it's almost it's a it's a it's a it's a double-edged sword because there's so many more places to perform now.
There's so many new ways to be seen.
But that means you got to work even harder to distinguish yourself from everyone else.
And, you know, it's not like the old days where it's like there, the city has one club.
We're
going to go
see three comics.
Those three comics are going to go on the road.
And then three comics, it's like, you have YouTube, you have TikTok, you have Instagram, you have the club, you have DIY shows.
And, and there, I mean, there's very much a great variety of comics saying wonderful things.
And I guess half the fun is finding them.
But yeah, it's, I could go on and on.
I mean, there's so many other comics out there, but those are the ones that are just popping into my head.
I mean, Dana Ehrman from Milwaukee, she is phenomenal.
And she's on your show, hasn't she?
She has, she's great.
Yeah, we gotta get her back
on, right?
And our buddy, Kristen Lighty, Kristen
Lighty is- Very funny, lover.
Good Lord, just absolutely amazing.
My guest is Greg Bach.
He is one of the he is the co-host of mat and air on air that you can hear from 10 to noon every day every weekday here on civic media 9 to 11.
I'm sorry 9 to 11.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Yeah It's interesting.
You said that about patent Oswald I'm just gonna be honest when I I remember going up at a club called Largo in LA a few times and It was a weird thing because it was kind of a club but kind of not I never totally felt comfortable
there
but patent Oswald was still on the rise in his career and
people it was like worship Greg to the point where I couldn't look at him objectionably objectively as a comic like he would walk up on stage and say Matt Damon and people would laugh and I'm like he hasn't said anything yet but that's the that's where he was still ascending and it was amazing but I totally agree with you when I hear him talk now I'm like this guy has evolved he's one of the best ever
yeah he you know
It's interesting you say that because I listened to an interview with him once and he spoke to that fact that when you reach a certain platform, when you reach a certain height in comedy, I'll just use that.
I mean, it can be really any performance art, but in comedy, you have to take in consideration.
This is what he's paraphrasing.
He has to take into consideration that
because of the name and the brand recognition, he wonders how much are they laughing at me?
And
the jokes I'm
telling versus, are they laughing because I'm Patton Oswald?
And I think that sort of reflection and inner like, you know, that realization can really inform what you talk about because it would be easy to stand up on stage and just say sentences and bloviate and basically do
a lecture, a TED talk, not name in any names again.
And people think you are the bee's knees, the absolute greatest ever.
And you haven't said anything funny.
So I think that's, yeah, I guarantee you that that night you saw him, I wouldn't be surprised if he had that thought with like, it was like, yeah, you know, the adulation is wonderful.
We love the claps, we love the laughter, but you have to wonder how, how good are you?
And
Are you, could you, are you at, are you at risk of resting on your laurels?
Right.
And he never did.
And what I thought was impressive was like, you know, in his mind, he had to say, look, I worked hard.
He always had new stuff.
And I'm
like, let him get
to the jokes.
Like you're supposed to be savvy comedy fans.
Let the guy talk.
It's like, I remember working with Bill Hicks years and years ago and he, people started shouting out the bits they wanted him to do.
And he finally said, we all shut up.
I'm not an effing jukebox.
Oh my God.
I can't believe you talk to the crowd like that, but it worked and he's right.
Let the guy, it's an art.
Let him talk,
right?
Yeah, absolutely.
I completely 1000%
agree.
Greg, what are you watching?
Have you seen any good movies?
Are you binge watching anything you could share with us?
Well, I mean, I saw both the Superman film, the new one, and I saw the new Fantastic Four movies.
I thoroughly enjoyed them.
I really, really liked them.
I'm a comic book movie fan.
And I'm not so delusional that I can't tell you when one isn't good or I haven't enjoyed it, I should say.
But I did enjoy the Fantastic Four as well as Superman.
As far as TV shows, I just watched
two wonderful British detective shows on Britbox, one of them called Death Valley with an actor named Timothy Spall, who was in the Harry Potter movies.
He played Peter Pettigrew.
And then I watched another one called Ludwig, which with David Mitchell, who's one half of Mitchell and Webb, which is a famous comedy duo out of England.
And that's another, you know, they're both detective shows and they're
cool takes on the detective trope of TV shows and procedurals.
I mean, those two shows and, and, uh, deli boys on Hulu, those are three shows that I literally sat down and just watched just absolutely just power watched and finished their first seasons.
And, and, and, and I, and Pete, I think you'll enjoy this on Saturdays.
One of the things that my wife and I do is
After we do our errands and we get ourselves home for the Saturday afternoon, we usually binge watch the 80 show Simon and Simon.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I haven't forgot about that show.
Oh,
yeah.
It is.
I have that.
That theme song is an iconic theme song in my head.
And I just.
I was like, I looked for it and I found it on some, I think the Roku channel.
And I was like, let's watch an episode.
Well, two and a half seasons and we're like, it's Saturday.
We
got to watch Simon and we got to watch your rick and AJ.
Rick and AJ got to solve a crime.
Greg, we have a bug.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
Oh,
I was just going to say it's, it's a, it's a, that's a great fun show.
And it's a, I wouldn't mind trying.
I wouldn't mind seeing a reboot of that one.
That's great.
That's a show I just totally forgot about and every once in a while you hear about that and they're so worth a revisit and whether it's for nostalgic purposes or because they're really well done shows and they hold up.
I was going to ask you if you could do this in 30 seconds.
Yeah.
Before we let you go, give me something great about Milwaukee that people don't know about like Summerfest, the Brewers, whatever.
Give me an awesome thing about Milwaukee.
Atwood Park and Beach.
It's a little bit north of the city, a little bit north above UWM.
It is a beautiful, beautiful spot.
There's a little park.
There's a beach down some steps.
And on a clear, beautiful, warm day, if you're down there, you feel like you're in a tropical island.
Conrad is agreeing and shaking and bobbing his head.
That's so great.
Thank you, buddy.
Always fun, Greg.
Thank you very much.
Have a great night.
Thanks for
having me.
You got it.
I appreciate you both.
Anytime.
All right.
That's Greg Bach.
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Welcome back.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
This is Night Light, Conrad Krieger working the board.
Great to have you with me tonight.
We are in the home stretch here.
I'd like to thank my guests, Greg Bach and Jimmy Cuskett.
It's been a Civic Media All-Star show, and my Civic Media brethren always deliver.
Dan Schaefer is on Greg and Jane's show often, and he is coming on in two weeks to talk about the wire.
We're finally doing that.
Possibly the greatest TV show ever.
A lot of critics say it is the wire.
Dan loves it.
I love it.
I'm really looking forward to that.
That's probably going to be August 12th, I think we...
decided on, but we'll have more information.
So let's get through some texts here, Con.
Where do we leave off?
I like this one.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says, I don't care for alphabet soup.
I can't get a word in edgewise.
I'm embarrassed I'm laughing at that.
Thank you, Tyler.
Awesome stuff.
Everett from Sudden Prairie says, also, how do you chew, oh wait, sorry.
Everett has a two-parter.
Like our question tonight, he says, hey folks, first of all, there's nothing wrong with Conrad.
Some people are just...
Wait, I already read that, didn't I?
Did I read his second text?
No, I don't think this happens when I jump all over the place like this.
I read Anna's, okay, here we go.
Everett from Sun Prairie says, also, how do you choose a favorite?
Arnie Flick, Predator, Terminator one and two, Running Man, Total Recall, True Lies, the list goes on, all great fun.
Jingle
is that?
Jingle all the way.
Dave on the stream said, kindergarten cop, that's another, ooh, good, that's a snooze fest.
And then let's go to Annie from Watertown.
Beef noodle is her least favorite soup.
I don't even know if I've heard of that.
Beef noodle soup?
Beef noodle soup?
You said needle.
Beef noodle soup?
That sounds even worse.
No, it's tasty.
Jim from Appleton says, what's wrong with the K-man?
Absolutely nothing.
My worst soup.
Add me to the list of split pea soup haters.
On the side, on the side, does any...
On an aside, I think he meant, does anyone remember the movie Rody?
It was an all-behind-the-scenes movie about setting up for bands and other shows.
I don't remember that.
I remember a show like that, but I don't remember what it was called.
Thank you, Jim.
Steady Eddie says Pete and Conrad clickbait headline soon to be seen on Conrad's new YouTube food channel.
Conrad declares war on soup.
but not broccoli cheese.
And why he says you should hate soup too, Steady Eddie.
Steady Eddie adds a post script and says, I don't eat much soup these days.
Usually it's very high in sodium.
As a kid, I loved Lipton Chicken Noodle soup, but refused to eat vegetable soup.
A lot of puke emoji.
I don't even, the puke emoji is even gross.
Yep, it's a post script.
Are you giggling?
Like you just heard something dirty?
What do you think people are just putting two letters together
Please, seriously.
I have something else to add.
You know, that kind of makes sense.
I think we're out of something there.
John, from the 608, he's in Madison.
This is Conrad, my friend.
I can eat anything except for peas.
Saw a film about bird nest soup, OMG.
It's mostly bird spit.
That's the only bad soup I am aware of so far.
Is that really a thing?
Are you really eating bird spit?
That sounds tasty to me.
Of course it does, because you hate the normal stuff.
John says, I love this exchange.
John had some trouble with his keys.
Ever had writer water soup?
Fair question.
And he says, he meant Warner water.
He corrected himself, but he didn't mean that either.
I think he said wiener water.
Remember when we were talking about the hot dog soup or the hot dog water?
Hot dog water from 7-Eleven last year?
Yeah, from 7-Eleven, but it was a hoax.
Hang in there, John.
I have fat thumbs too.
I have trouble texting sometimes.
Tyler from Wisconsin, sorry Conrad.
I got my alphabets mixed up.
Boy, these texts are all over the place.
Right, no.
And he probably did that over a bowl of nice hot soup that you would have hated.
Everett from Sun Prairie says to clarify,
This is interesting, and these might have gotten mixed up too, Conrad, because he already texted us.
All right.
Everett from Sun Prairie says to clarify, a hot well is the hot holding solution for soups at many restaurants.
A well of hot water with a bain-marie?
which he says is basically a metal bucket with a lid.
The soup sits at temp until it is empty or it gets dumped.
Usually from a bag that came frozen, the soup sits and gets nastier and nastier, having started from a low bar already.
Coincidentally, I am having a lovely black bean soup with tortillas, vegetables, chicken, cheese, and Valentina extra hot right now, a dollop of sour cream to boot.
All right, that was well done.
Thank you, Everett, from the 262.
That was awesome.
And our pal Tony the trucker says, Pete Campbell's chicken noodle is disgusting.
It's the texture of the noodle.
Yeah, that is true.
He says FCC regulations won't let me tell what
they remind me of.
You could listen, you could text it, Tony.
I'm the one.
I just, the pressure's on me.
I can't read it.
But you put that image, I can't believe that's the last text, and I have that disgusting noodle.
No, no, here we go.
Melissa from Willy Street getting in under the wire from the 608.
She says, hi, Pete.
Please tell my husband, John, to stop drug texting.
That's right.
Melissa and John are married.
I forgot about that, because he called her his old lady last week.
Remember that?
All right, Melissa, you hang in there.
We'll talk to Greg.
We'll do an intervention.
Drug texting never hurt anybody, right?
Um, we got a great show tomorrow.
As I mentioned, it's a bar band Friday night.
Terry Barr will be here.
She is our Wisconsin music expert who always brings outstanding local bands with her and performers and, um, uh, also Spencer Young, a local artist, uh, designer.
What's his company called?
he does
murals.
Yeah.
cool.
It's very cool.
And he painted it.
with a football, as I understand
Yeah.
And he has agreed to paint a couch potato tomorrow with a potato.
I don't know how he's listen, he's an artist.
I'm going to leave it open to interpretation.
But I based on his work that I've seen.
He will not disappoint.
So that'll be another fun night of Nightlight tomorrow, folks.
Thank you for all your texts and being part of the show.
That always makes it so much more fun.
Everybody, have a great night.
We'll be back tomorrow night on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
I'm Pete Schwabba saying, goodnight,
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