Lazy Days and Stand-Up Ways (Hour 2)

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Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

I am Pete Schwabba.

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Oh, it's great to have you here tonight.

That was a fun intermission.

Conrad, what'd you do?

Oh, well,

I just spent your intermission.

Well, I went out for dinner.

Got a couple appetizers.

If by dinner you mean gelato.

A couple drinks.

Nice.

So you're hammered.

We're jammin' here, folks.

It's Monday night.

It's great to be back on the air.

We are prepared to kick off act two here.

If you missed the first half of the show, you missed me talking about the film, Weapons.

It's a new film that is just getting incredible reviews.

I thought it was fine.

It was creepy for sure, but I don't think it lived up to the hype of Zack Greger's first film, Barbarian.

I thought that was a much cleaner story, creepier.

get more scary for sure.

But this was a good movie.

I'm just kind of ashamed of myself that I rushed out to see it today.

I came down early.

I could have, I could have been laying in bed on National Lazy Day.

But no, I got my butt to Green Bay to go see a movie to prepare for this show so I could communicate to all the couch potatoes what I felt about weapons.

And it was good.

It's not like I don't recommend it.

I just didn't, I didn't like his.

much as barbarian Zach Kroger's first film.

So there you go.

Talked a little bit about my, my wife's class reunion.

I went and told a few people my wife was pregnant.

That was fun.

And I got some very strange looks, which is really honestly, that's what I live for folks.

I love seeing stuff with a straight face.

Maybe you guys do this too, just to get reactions out of people.

You know what?

It's, this has really helped me, you know, I think when I go to my tenure, I'm going to wear a monocle.

Okay.

I want to suit up.

You're gonna all right talking a British accent.

Have you came like I'm super rich?

Oh my

gosh,

and I flew in from London to be here

You think people might think the jig is up when you they notice you brought your mom as your date with that I Think that's great.

I think a lot of people BS especially at that 10th reunion It's like you kind of want to give the illusion.

I remember at my 10th reunion a lot of people were talking about how much they made it's like

Settle down.

Okay.

First of all, I don't care.

You know,

I think I'm gonna start the conversation.

That's like, you know, an icebreaker.

I'm just gonna be like, Hey, I haven't seen you.

How much do you make?

I think that's always a good question.

Ask them what religion they are, how they vote and what they make.

And then she says just to throw it.

I'm gonna have a napkin with those three written on it.

Just

talking points for the night.

Just to remind, there was a great comic who was already established when I started Jimmy Higgins.

That's where the mom date came up.

One of his jokes was like, you know, I couldn't get a date for my 10 year reunion.

So I brought my mom, which was great.

Cause a lot of guys remembered her from the prom.

Oh, you're a good dancer.

People don't forget.

So you're pretty much caught up folks.

Our question of the night is it's national laziness day.

So let's celebrate and all share how we practice laziness.

Text lines are open.

Phone lines are open.

855-752-4842.

855-755 Civic or you can drop us a stream comment or text us on the app.

Hey, can I put this up on the... I'm gonna put this up.

My first hour guest, Fallon Buchholz, has created this TV show called Instability.

It's a web series, and they're having their premiere sometime in November, November 16th, as of right now.

I hope they can stick to that, but we'll keep you posted on that.

It sounds interesting.

I shared also who the laziest person in the world was, Jeremiah Carleton, who laid in bed.

For 70 years.

Do you believe that

though?

What year was that?

Who cares?

Well, I'm just saying like there's a lot of like, you know, it was like in the early 1900s

when you want to have video games or TV or

what are you gonna do in bed?

Yeah, maybe he got live entertainment to come in every day While he's laying in bed eating a croissant

Listen, I'm guessing people did pretty much the same things in bed.

We do now but

It probably takes their time more because they don't have color television to watch

Yeah,

but I

don't it's a it's a weird thing that like You know if you if you inherit that much money, why would you not

go

out and explore the world?

And

you can travel you

could go anywhere exactly that's you know unless he really is that lazy is like well, I do have the money but like

Plains I choose not to use it our pal Mike Straylow

who is gonna be, he's coming back on the show soon.

Mike is a guy from Marinette.

I love this guy.

He's been a Milwaukee Anchorman at CBS 58 for like 20 years, just retiring, but he's still hosting a weekend show there.

They did a great piece recently that I wanna talk to Mike.

That was the whole idea that I wanted to get Mike back on the show, because I wanted to talk about the, is it 10 chimneys or 12 chimneys?

We've talked about it a little bit on the show before with Frank Anderson, but Mike just did this great piece on it.

And he sent me a Facebook text and said, and the third is on the way.

hilarious.

I love that Mike likes the show.

I'm not going to lie.

And I found my picture of me in a light blue tux from my prom.

And I know there's a picture of Mike in a light blue tux from a family reunion.

So we're going to share those when Mike is on the show next.

That would be probably in a couple of weeks.

So we'll figure that out.

Great to hear from you, Mike.

We have more texts on social media.

Help me out here.

I don't want to miss

one.

Yeah, we just had one that came in a little bit ago from

Warren McKenna.

Oh, Warren McKenna.

New civic media

employee.

New member of the civic media family.

Oh, that's nice.

Let me pull that up here.

I want to read Laura's comment.

If Laura is on during the day here at WGBW.

So if you're in Green Bay and you like timeless oldies and local news, Laura does a great job playing some quality tunes.

And she, where is her comment?

I want to read that.

We got to have Laura on the show too.

She says, dated a guy once and found a prose cons list he made about me.

What?

You know who also did that?

Rachel.

Well, Ross.

Ross, okay.

Rachel found it.

Rachel found it, that's correct.

And

so Laura's experience is pretty similar.

She says, in the cons column, this is what it said.

Lazy takes naps, reads books, works all the time.

That doesn't make sense.

She can't be lazy and work all the time.

And cats, she says, wait, what?

Can you be lazy but work all the time?

Needless to say, I'm glad that relationship didn't last.

We're glad it didn't last either, Laura, and we're glad you're part of the Civic Media family.

So thank you for being part of the show.

So that's our question tonight, though, folks.

You still have time to get in on the fun if you want.

How do you practice laziness?

In honor of National Laziness Day, that's what we're talking about here.

That's our question of the night.

And I'm going to the text line.

Finally, getting back to the text line, John Murray from Madison says, can't sit for 10 minutes, no time for lazy.

Well said, John.

I'm kind of that way, too.

I can sit though, but I'm always doing something.

John also says, I usually stand and seldom sit and lounge.

Now we know a lot about John.

Kind of right, we're learning a lot about John.

And his old lady, is he so eloquently refers to his wife, the love of his wife?

Yes, yes.

So we'll see if she weighs in as well.

But John says, pull her opposite of my childhood, sports and lounging around the clock.

But sports isn't lazy.

And lounging

at that age, you usually do it because you're tired.

If you're watching sports, then is it lazy?

Yeah, probably.

But, you know, you get a temper.

But it's fun.

You

get a temper.

You start throwing bricks.

Yeah, so you're

active.

Throw a chair through the window.

We've all been there.

Here is John's better half.

Melissa says, uh, Melissa from Willy Street in the 608.

She says, I stay in bed for as long as John lets me.

That or the dogs.

So Melissa doesn't want to get out of bed.

Sounds like a fun house.

Melissa says, I took two naps today.

See, I can't nap.

I can lay down and look at my phone for like 10 minutes, then I got to move on.

You know, I love to be able to nap.

There's sometimes where I just have to take a nap, I feel like, and then I wake up and I feel worse than I did before.

But you do sleep, you do nap.

For like, yeah, for just a little bit, but like, I feel worse when I get up from the nap.

I got to be better at that.

I gotta practice napping.

Ed from Madison says, laziness is a state of being.

If you have to practice, you're doing it wrong.

All right, that is very fair.

Ed from the 608, thank you buddy.

Nick from Marshall says, I enjoy sitting back in my lazy boy.

When he put lazy boy, LAZ boy, and then in parentheses, lazy boy.

So he's not lazy if he's going to that amount of effort to explain what he meant.

Rocker and recliner and listening to music.

Again, I don't,

Maybe that's lazy.

Like if you don't go to work because of that Listen couch potatoes.

I want to say I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that if your brain is stimulated And maybe you're not being very active, but I think that's okay I don't know if I would consider that laziness.

I think you know some weird way you're being a go-getter Steve from Florida

says, if I'm really feeling lazy, I usually sit on the couch and watch my favorite old movies I have seen a million times.

Now that I would say could be lazy because we all like to do, I have my comfort movies, I put them on and just kinda, yeah, that's a good answer, Steve.

You know, I've never seen him sitting in a, you know, watching a movie for a long time.

I should explain, Steve is

kinda dead.

Or maybe he just can't really... Okay, but maybe he can't fully relax unless you're not around because he feels like he's setting a bad example.

Finally Conrad went back to Wisconsin.

I can watch some TV.

Tom from New Berlin says, well, I have to learn to be lazy.

You saved me money.

Therapist lost.

Well done, Tom.

We provide a service here.

Annie from Watertown says, maybe I get up in the morning and then a yawn emoji.

I want people to be lazy sometimes, but I don't want them to fall asleep over on the air.

Tom says, is there lazy therapy?

This is it, Tom.

You found us.

Tony, the trucker in the 608 says, Pete, I sleep late, don't shave, sweats and flip flops.

Don't look at my phone and do takeout.

That's a good lazy day.

Yeah, we could all, as usual, Tony, the trucker has shown us the way.

Nick from Marshall says, TikTok, I thought that's what clocks were for.

Well done.

Nick, my wife.

That is how my wife is lazy.

She loves TikTok.

Conrad's mom chiming in says, I like to sleep in when I can, slowly get myself out of bed.

That's kind of a funny visual.

Your mom really slowly getting out of bed.

Always nice to hear from you, Paula.

Thank you.

Take a load off.

Go back to bed.

Nick from Marshall says, Laysboy is actually the proper name.

But it's lazy.

Yeah, but look, so it's la.

And

then dash

Z. So makes that Z. He's spelling it like Laz, like Baz Lerman.

Yeah.

So it's lazy boy without the Y with the dashes.

It's just lazy typing is what it is.

I think so.

All right.

Sorry about that, Nick.

Didn't mean to offend.

He says pronounced lazy boy.

All right.

Thank you for the clarification.

We've got Trevor Klumpner coming in.

He's going to be in the studio.

He is a Northeast Wisconsin-based stand-up comic.

We love having comedians on the show.

And he will be here in just a few minutes.

Tom also on the text line says, Pete and Conrad love.

Thank you, Tom.

We love you too, buddy.

Always love when you're part of the show.

Oh, we got stream comments too.

Deandra Marie.

She says, hi, Pete.

Hi, Deandra.

Good to hear from you.

She says, if you are overstimulated, then rest.

That's the problem.

I'm never overstimulated.

I love stimulation.

I picture you at home just like with eight different screens with like

different

programs and then you're on your phone video poker.

I drive people crazy.

I really do.

You think I drive you crazy Conrad?

You don't even know.

Nick from Marshall on the 608 says, I also sleep in late.

Here's the thing, like I can't nap and I can't sleep in either really.

If I go to bed at three in the morning, maybe I'll sleep till nine.

And it's not a good sleep.

Yeah, it's like five hours of sleep.

Yeah, it's terrible Yeah, and I would love to go to bed at like 10 o'clock and get up at like six because I do like mornings

Yeah, it's hard.

It's hard to since we started doing the show.

It's hard to fall asleep at like 10 anymore

and I'm out of here I'm home by 9 but still I got to eat something.

I got to watch Just go to sleep That's

my wife says why

don't you come in go to bed at 10?

I'm like, yeah, come home eat and go to bed.

No, thanks

I gotta watch my, I gotta watch my stories.

Okay folks, coming up next, laughter will be here in the studio.

Northeast Wisconsin based comedian Trevor Klumper joins the show.

It's not too late to be part of this laziness extravaganza.

How do you practice being lazy?

It is national lazy day.

Let's rejoice.

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Welcome back.

This is Night Light.

I am Pete Schwabba and Tom from New Berlin just took us down memory lane Conrad.

He says, is Scottish herkle-dirkle?

It's the time you were binge, you binge in the bedroom.

What was that again?

It was a nap, right?

Herkle-dirkle, yeah.

I saw the Scottish people saying nap.

Well, kind of like lazy herkle-dirkle.

Herkle-dirkle.

Yeah.

What'd you do yesterday?

I was herkle-dirkled.

Exactly.

Sounds obscene.

Sounds like a

wedding

dance.

Yeah, I could go with that like the chicken or the circle circle sure that is the voice by the way of my next guest Trevor clumber a comedian from here in northeast, Wisconsin Appleton based and he is only been doing this a few years you told me

so

like three or four somewhere around there That's exciting.

Yeah.

Yeah, so let's alright before we get into all things stand-up Trevor first of all, thank you for being here.

It's great to have you

here in

person what Tell us a little bit about your background a little bit about you.

Um

Man, where

do you want me to start, I guess?

Prenatal.

Prenatal, okay.

earliest memories.

Now whatever.

Never met my dad.

No, so, yeah, so, you know, normal life.

I got out of, I've always been a big fan of comedy.

Yeah.

And I just, I never really saw it as a career thing.

Like other people do that, you know, but I was watching stand-up since I was, you know, in middle school.

Yeah.

And, you know, but like I said, never thought about it, you know, out of high school, I joined the army.

did that for a while and then when I got out and moved to Appleton I was in a band for a while and then one of my friends who was a musician started doing stand-up and I was like oh you can just do that and so you know I started going to open mics and stuff like that and yeah just I've always had a really heavy grind mentality so I just kept at it and you know you just end up funny is funny you know you just you get somewhere with it

Is that weird?

Like I remember when I first started doing stand up and I was telling my dad, this is what I'm going to do.

And he was like an academic.

He was a lawyer, went to law school and he was supportive.

But he said, he goes, well, that's fine.

You know, is there a school you can go to?

Or is there somewhere you can study?

And I'm like, not really.

I mean, have things changed on that front?

There's nowhere.

I know that people teach workshops.

Yeah, you know, and I mean, I guess there's like improv stuff that's very helpful and

stand

up, you know.

Most of the time people will say classes really don't get you anywhere like it'll like jump start you I guess but like I Took a crowd work class when I first started and it was really helpful like I can't I can't stress that enough how awesome that was for me kind of you know changed how I look at things So I mean there's stuff.

I mean it's all mentorship really.

Yeah, that's all stand up ever has been I feel like is that weird.

It's one of

the

not that you don't do this in other professions, but you really learn by watching other comedians.

Exactly.

And

then

cataloging what works for you.

But I'm curious, like you said, that crowd work class.

I've never heard of that before.

Is that, how does that work?

Do they simulate

a club atmosphere?

No, it was all, it was done during, I want to say either tail end or beginning.

Yeah, it was like tail end of pandemic.

It was all through Zoom.

So it just was, the guy was essentially talking about

Not necessarily how to do crowd work, but just good practices when doing crowd work, like repeat what is said to you.

There's little tricks to it that I'm not gonna get into on here.

Don't give away the secrets.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But there's, yeah, it's weird.

The closest simulation is they would, like the teacher would pretend to be.

a crowd like a heckler or something, you know?

And then you would respond to that with stuff that we had gone over in the class.

It was like only, I wanna say like six sessions.

It was worth every penny.

Seven grand, how much was it?

Oh, I think I only paid like a hundred bucks, honestly.

Well, that's good.

I probably would have taken something like that, too, because the first time you're on stage, as I recall, it's been years, but the first time you really get heckled where someone's really mean or nasty, that kind of throws you a little bit.

Freezes you up

instantly.

You said before we went on the air, I was asking you if you had a heckler story.

Do you have one?

Did

you be able

to use those talents?

Yeah, no, I wasn't, unfortunately.

I just got really angry.

I've been very fortunate.

The worst heckler I had up until this point was just, you know, we call them polite heckles where they're just like, you're doing it.

Good job.

You know,

you're just like, hey, you're kind

of upsetting my flow, you know.

But I was, I did this show in Minnesota, like maybe a month, two months ago.

And there was a person in the audience and it was just, the whole show was set up to be very bad.

And I was probably, I don't know, three minutes in, nothing's really hitting.

And I start hearing like a cricket sound.

So

I'm thinking like, oh, that's a ringtone.

Like, hey, shut off your phone.

But then I said another joke.

And when I said the punchline, I heard it again.

And some dude was in the audience with an app on his phone playing cricket sounds.

Playing crickets.

Yeah.

And I saw red.

I could not help myself.

This this might offend you.

I actually find that kind of funny.

Oh, it's hilarious if I like it's terrible Yeah, yeah, if you're like that dude's friend, you probably think he's the funniest dude in the world, you know

We've made use of the cricket thing here when I do the Hollywood beats.

Yeah Yeah, cuz it was for that one of those movies you're like,

you know, you know me well the next time I'm trying to be funny in front of Trevor.

Let's hear some Just I'm just setting up

Alright, so that's cool.

So do you work primarily, mostly locally, Trevor?

I tour all around, mostly Midwest.

I haven't really made it out to the coast yet.

I go down to Austin sometimes, but yeah, I haven't really hit New York or LA.

Right.

And can you stay busy around here?

Are there enough clubs or places you can go up and just keep working on your bits?

Yeah, I mean, just like last year, I feel like I had a show every weekend, you know, like I was traveling around.

Like the Comedy Club in Appleton Skyline, it's owned by a chain of clubs.

So you get to tour around in those two, which is very helpful.

Yeah.

And then there's like a couple of production companies I work with that'll book me on stuff.

Nice.

Yeah.

All right, my guest is Trevor Klumpner.

He's a Northeast Wisconsin based stand-up comic and we will have more with Trevor after the news.

We also got another stream.

Deandra left us another stream comment.

Did you see that?

Just kind of

coming after me a little bit.

So

she

says, ha ha.

Well then, this is in regard to my comment about I always have to be stimulated.

She says, ha ha.

Well then, why didn't you come to my show this weekend?

Lots of stimulation.

I have no doubt.

DeAndre, I hope you crushed it.

I'm sure you did.

Trevor Klumper is here, folks.

He's in studio.

We're coming back after the news with more Stand Up Comedy Talk.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightline on the Civic Media Radio Network.

And Pete Schwabba, this is Night Light.

It is wonderful to have you here on this Monday night, folks.

Tomorrow night on the show, this is exciting.

We've been planning this for a while.

From the Recompobulation area here at Civic Media, our political authority, Dan Schaefer joins me.

At 6.35, we're gonna talk about the show, The Wire, a show Dan is very familiar with.

It's one of his favorites.

It's one of my favorites.

And frankly, a lot of people consider it one of the best TV shows of all time.

I've seen it twice all the way through.

So that will be a fun discussion tomorrow night with Dan.

He can bring some of his political expertise.

And if you don't know the show, The Wire, it takes place in Baltimore.

And they really do a deep dive from a narrative standpoint into city hall politics and the police force.

It's just great.

It's a really solid show.

And then our pal Rob Brackenridge comes by the studio.

He will be here.

It's kind of like a Appleton comedian night.

Yeah,

yeah, I guess.

Appleton Comedian

Week.

So Rob will be here tomorrow night.

He's on the show frequently and one of our besties.

So we'll have Rob on tomorrow night as well.

But right now, we're going to jump back into a conversation we were having before the news with one of Rob's friends and a fellow Appleton comedian, Mr. Trevor Klumper.

That's me.

Yeah.

So are you, how's it going?

Are you having fun?

Currently or in general with life?

Well, hold on.

Okay.

I think I know where you're at with life because I wanted to ask you about this.

On your website, you say you're a guy in a constant existential crisis.

Can you elaborate?

Oh, that's my Instagram, I think.

Oh, is that what it is?

Yeah.

It's my personal Instagram.

You're really doing some deep dives on me.

I hired a PI.

That's how serious they took this interview.

Yeah, I know.

I'm always second guessing myself, second guessing what's going on around me.

Is this real?

Is this actually happening right now?

Everything is just, and then, but I feel like with that type of perspective, I can just be like, well, this is gonna happen, and we're just gonna ride it

out.

Do you, you say you've been doing stand-up about four or five years.

Are you still at the point, do you get nervous before you go up?

Every single time.

Yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Is that, this is a good thing

though, right?

Kind of.

Yeah, it keeps the energy up for sure.

You know, I'm not gonna go up there and just be like, hey guys, what's going on?

You know, I'm gonna be like,

what's up?

So where do you find inspiration for your jokes?

Typically if there are topics or subjects really get your wheels turning or is it something that just typically comes to you out of the

blue?

I'll just see something and I'll think about like what makes that thing funny and I'll talk about that Usually though, it's just I'm having conversations with people and I'll say something and I'll be like, oh, that's actually a really funny premise Yeah, and then I'll write it down and you know really plug away at it Like I was just like I just wrote a new joke today based on

parents getting on social media and how they'll like comment on your stuff and it's really embarrassing but when you're a comedian it's even worse because my mom is writing things like that's that's not how it happened you know yeah not good

I don't

need you editing

me on Facebook so do you write Trevor typically like will you sit down and spend a certain amount of time writing or do you just kind of

do things like you said before when they come into your head?

Well, I'll write that idea down and kind of the trajectory I want to go with it, like with a couple notes and then I'll actually sit down and write that bit out.

Okay.

Yeah.

And you sit down and-

Yeah, usually if I have some extra time, like it'll be in my reminders and I'm like, oh yeah, that thing.

Yeah.

I'll like actually sit down and like really flesh it out.

Nice.

Did you ever have somebody say something to you like another comic?

That really technically they said but it was something you said that got them there And then do you ever have an argument over who gets to do the bit or you just say can I do the bit or what

never had the argument about it?

Usually I'm pretty giving with that stuff because if they're riffing on something and I add something that's still their joke You know, I'm not gonna take ownership for that.

I feel like a lot of stuff like

I wouldn't say everything I do, but a lot of stuff, you know, there was someone said something, another comedian said something to me or a friend, which, you know, and that line ends up making it like perfect, you know, even funnier than it was before.

So I love it when that happens.

Oh, same.

It's a free gift, you know?

Yeah, and it's like, I think, do you find it's harder to hang out with other people?

Like now you've been doing it four or five years, you're pretty solidified, you probably got your comedy friends.

Is it different when you hang

out with people who aren't comics now?

what's that like?

I don't know if I have friends anymore.

You've already shunned them.

I've been shunned to them.

I'm so busy.

I have my normal day job and then I'm on the road on the weekend.

There's a couple people I still really keep in touch with.

And no, literally my friends are the funniest people in the world.

Way funnier than I will ever be.

I'm just really happy that they didn't pursue stand-up comedy.

Yeah, right.

That's

fantastic.

All right, so it said, I learned a little bit about you too.

I don't know where I saw this on the

website or your dossier or whatever, but it says, my question is, how did growing up in a poor town, you were in the military?

Okay.

And you also call yourself a nerd, even though you're wearing that cool hat, nerds don't

wear hats like

that.

Cool hat.

I like

it.

How did that mold your comedy persona?

Well, you know, it's like anything with writing, you know, write what you know.

So, you know, when I first started out, the stuff that was funny to me was childhood stories.

Sure.

So, you know, I started writing about growing up in a small town, you know, low economic status, being in the military, because, you know, that was a big chunk of my life.

What branch of the military were you?

I was in the Army.

Okay.

And it just, you just, yeah, you write what you know.

And, you know, I'm starting to branch out.

Oh, well.

So I was raised in like an atheist household.

And so because of that, my mom is always like, you should like look into, you should question things, you know, essentially.

And so I started going to church a lot and really looking into other religions.

And so I do have a lot of religious material now because

I

know more than I should about religions I don't believe in.

Just because it's fun to know, it's good

information.

Sure.

Did you go to the services in those religions to check them out?

A couple of them, so in the army,

pretty much you can go to any service.

All the religions are represented.

So you can go to anything you want.

But mostly it was just individual research.

I remember even the pastor I had when I was in high school, like a Bible study, he told me to read other books just because it's good to know.

other things.

Don't you like that?

Yeah, I love it.

I never trust people.

I don't know if this is it.

Yeah, don't look too close.

So where do you... Okay, so how long were you in the military?

Six years and

then

the two IRR or whatever they call it.

Yeah, do you

like stripes, the

movie stripes?

Yeah, I love stripes.

Were you more like Bill Murray or Harold Ramis or The Cruiser?

Probably more like Bill

Murray.

kind of a smartass.

Yeah, I was the funny guy in my branch, or as a lot of my friends, the biggest BS-er in the platoon, you know, whatever.

I like it.

That's

awesome.

So, all right, so you talk about doing stand-up comedy.

Do you, in this area in northeast Wisconsin,

Is it different than in other parts of the state?

Like where are some of your favorite clubs to work in the

state?

Oh man, um in the state I mean comedy on state is the best comedy club in like it's tops five I think in the United States in general a lot of very famous comedians would agree with that statement

I

had a good time at comedy cabin in Jamesville.

That's a it's a cool little club.

They got out there

Laughing Tap is a cool, I don't know if they're little anymore, they're just, they're upsizing right now.

They're pretty cool.

Yeah, you should have Greg in here, yeah.

Yeah, he's been on the show and he has his own show.

He's a co-host with J. Matt and Eric.

Greg's a great guy and I still have not been to the Laughing Tap yet.

There was a club in Milwaukee called the Comedy Cafe, which was...

Maybe my favorite room to work

in the

whole country back in the 90s and then they moved in the changed ownership and all that kind of thing But yeah, I think Wisconsin is a great

comedy state.

I agree.

It's the people are very grateful to be indoors

Is there a calm is there a Wisconsin sensibility like I know that like

some of my friends that were from Boston.

They all had this identity, like there was Boston comedy.

To a lesser degree, Chicago, New York has it.

Is there like a Wisconsin point of view for comics?

I don't know.

I feel like what cultural...

milestones do we have to really share in that way?

You know, Boston's always known for being brassy, bold, hard-hitting.

In Wisconsin, we're just nice, and I feel like nice and comedy don't always... I agree with you, but I

would say we're

quirky.

Yeah, we are quirky.

We're not afraid to be silly.

Right.

I think it was Doug Stanhope that said, like, the problem with New York comedy is they're too afraid to be silly.

Interesting.

And so, like, everyone else, like, it's fine to be silly.

Who cares?

Like, we're gestures, we're clowns.

Like, be silly.

I don't even want to hang out with people that can't laugh at themselves or have their guard down, right?

So, all right, you also say on one of your social media outlets that you, by the end of your set, or something to the effect, like, you'll be the guy next door or the guy they think they know.

Yeah.

Your comedy, is it relatable?

Is it stuff like that?

We heard a little clip of it in the first

hour.

Yeah.

Is that how you identify yourself to audience?

Yeah, like relatability is everything like I feel like the biggest Trick a comedian can pull is nostalgia, you know, like that always seems to pull on something Yeah, but yeah relatability like even if you didn't grow up in a small town you can pretty much imagine what it's like to grow up in a small town If like being a nerd not everyone's a nerd so you know my perspective is almost kind of making fun of nerds even though I am one But I don't look like one so that's very helpful

Yeah, so it's just, yeah, that's what it is.

You've got that enigmatic thing going for you.

You say you're a nerd, like you said, I wouldn't have guessed that.

I don't know what is a nerd anyway.

Oh,

these

days everyone's a nerd.

Everyone's a nerd, right, but you're also in the military.

You grew up in a poor town.

I think those perspectives alone, rather than just being a guy from a neighborhood in New York or Chicago for that matter, probably gives you different perspectives on

what you find

funny.

I agree with that.

I wasn't in a sequestered city where everything is the same.

Everyone believes the same type of things.

I've seen the world.

I've seen small town USA, which is where...

For being honest, that's where everyone is that you're going to be performing for.

Yeah, totally.

My guest is Trevor Klumpner.

He is an Appleton-based stand-up comic.

He's joining me here in the studio tonight on Nightlight.

Great to have you here spending time with me and Trevor, folks.

Who are your favorite comedians that you watched growing up and who are your favorite Wisconsin comedians?

Growing up.

Man, that's a hard question.

It's really big into Chappelle.

Love Chappelle.

I am trying to think what my Patton Oswald was really big for me.

I think he's still to this day one of the funniest comedians working.

Very good comic, yeah.

There was some unfortunate things, but my favorite comedian up until something happened was Louis C.K.

It's still, I mean, I don't know.

He's a great comic.

I listen to his stuff.

Yeah, I mean, you can't argue he's a great comic.

Yeah, funny is funny.

Right, right.

Yeah, Louis C. K. was probably my biggest, for sure, as a kid.

And now, my favorite Wisconsin comics.

There's a guy from Appleton, Hayden Fredrickson.

He's, honestly, I think the funniest comedian in our scene.

Kristen Whitey here in Green Bay, I love her to death.

Oh, Kristen's great, yeah.

She's been more helpful than anyone ever in my career so far.

If you're listening, Kristen, I love you.

She's a nightlight frequenter.

We love Kristen here.

Yeah, Kristen's awesome.

My girlfriend, Kate Hermsen, very funny.

One of the funniest in the scene for sure.

But then, you know, if we go out of the scenes, we got Sasha Rosser out of Madison, Reagan-Namela in Milwaukee.

Like, Wisconsin's got a really solid comedy group right now, I think.

And we just mentioned our pal, Rob

Reck.

Rob Reck, yes, is

the legend.

tomorrow night.

So that will be fun.

And then what about like growing up, you said you watch Chappelle.

Do you have concert like comedy concerts that you want?

Like when I was a kid, we had Eddie Murphy.

I remember listening to Steve Martin albums.

Do you have people like that that influenced you?

Yeah, I listened to like a lot of Cosby.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Another one.

Yeah.

So funny.

It's insanely funny.

I

listened to him too.

When that whole scandal came out, I was blown away.

I just could not believe it.

I'm a

bummer.

Trevor Klumper is here, folks.

And we'll have a couple more minutes with Trevor.

When we come back, we'll finish up reading some of your texts.

And I'm going to ask, Trevor, when was the moment that he knew he could do stand-up comedy?

Or when he wanted to try it?

We'll do that.

And I'm going to ask him what he's watching on color television as well.

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Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

We are just about to put a bow on this show.

I am Pete Chihuahua.

It's been fun having you here tonight.

And thank you so much for being part of our fun tonight talking about laziness with our question of the night.

My thanks to Fallon Buchholz and Trevor Klumpner is my current guest here in studio.

We'll be back with Trevor in just a second.

We have a couple texts here.

We want to get through Jack from Miramaq.

He's in the 401 forces.

How did he lazy?

I learned well as a kid.

Go fishing, motor out onto the lake in your flat bottom boat with its one and a quarter horsepower Johnson.

Set the boat in a drift that won't take you ashore for a few hours.

Drop a line overboard from your cane pole.

Maybe.

I

don't know anything about fishing.

Yeah, I think those are the ones that don't have reels on them that you just kind of put out.

Make it look like they're fishing.

Oh, okay.

So you're not even actually fishing,

which doesn't take a whole lot of effort.

You're pretending to fish.

You're gain bulk and go to sleep in the sun.

If you're feeling ambitious, you might even bait the hook.

Jack from Merrimick.

Jack, A for effort, buddy.

You put a lot into that text and it sounds like you've...

made laziness an art form.

That's fantastic, thank

you.

Sounds

like a way to get away from his wife.

It could be,

you never

know.

And she's probably happy he's doing

it too.

I want you to go fishing more, honey.

Tom from New Berlin says, if you can't laugh at yourself or the follies of life are special, why not share?

Totally agree, Tom.

Well said.

And our pal Steady Eddie says, Pete, my laziness is God given.

I'm truly blessed.

Thank you, baby Jesus.

Like a camel can go for days without water.

I can go for days and not do a GD.

Glad he put in parentheses, gosh darn.

Thing, as far as laziness goes, I'm what you would call a natural.

Don't hate me, Pete.

It's in my genes.

But my father was secretary of idleness in the Carter administration.

Your so-called lounging just ain't gonna cut it anymore, Pete.

I know you can do a lot more or maybe more like it a lot less.

Slow down, man.

Conrad is young and still has a chance to become the goat of lazy.

I'm on my way.

I mean, I would say Steady Eddie makes good points, but this text took a lot of effort.

He is not a lazy guy.

He says, chant, let's go slow, let's go slow, let's go slow.

My Buddhist elders tell me Steady Eddie, be the lazy.

Now I understand that laziness is a journey, not a destination.

I believe I could write a bestselling book, but I think he just did Steady Eddie.

I could write a bestselling book about being lazy and I would make a million dollars and become famous, but I'm pretty sure that that ain't happening.

lazy and unsure of yourself.

Steady Eddie, you've outdone yourself.

I would say that's a steadfast Edward text, not steady

Eddie.

Well done, buddy.

We have a few more minutes with my current guest, Trevor Klumpner.

His first time on Nightlight, he's here in the studio, made the drive up from Appleton, brave the traffic.

This is a total aside thing, but have you noticed that Northeast Wisconsin traffic has gotten, there have been more jerky drivers here, or is that just?

Yeah, I mean,

Yeah, for sure.

Especially in Green Bay, I was here a couple weeks ago for the Fringe Fest, and I feel like people were cutting me off left and right, and I was like, what is going on?

I'm a very defensive driver, so I get yelled at a lot.

Yeah, it was it was specifically that weekend, but even I was here for something this last weekend.

It was driving home and I feel like people yeah, I don't know

you're right I don't get I mean when I was growing up in or in high school at least I would come down a poor plaza mall or whatever it seemed like everybody was so friendly and maybe I just have rose colored glasses on but you know living in Chicago or even Milwaukee I kind of expect that

but I

thought Northeast Wisconsin was a little more chill

I mean, population's growing, you know,

more and more

people on the roads.

People getting upset, they need more comedy.

Trevor Klumpner is here, folks.

You can see... When can we see you next?