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Bob Uecker’s Legacy and Local Music Spotlight (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Aug 22, 2025

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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

Now, a guy who considers a silver medal, a participation award, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back to Nightline.

We are helping you kick off your weekend.

We're starting to laugh in here in the studio.

Oh, it is so good to fill in for Pete.

And I hope wherever you happen to be right now, you're off to another fabulous summer weekend.

My name is Aaron Coreno, filling in for Pete Schwabba.

Alongside me is Catherine Lake.

station manager here at our Madison Studios, WMDX producer Conrad behind the board.

Thanks to you for watching on StreamYard.

If you're not able to listen in the car, you can watch anytime, anywhere you happen to be.

We are live from the city deck right downtown Green Bay where producer Conrad is normally with Pete at the WGBW studios.

Catherine and I are at our Madison Studios, and we're laughing because of the commercial break.

I came back into the studio and Catherine's like, do you hear that?

Is that someone playing Pink Pony Club on a marimba?

I know

who he

is.

I know who he is.

It's Eric De Los Santos.

He is the marimba guy on Stay Street all the time, but I can't believe he's playing Pink Pony Club

on the

marimba.

Channeling our chapel rowing energy here in the...

Madison office here tonight.

I love Chaperone.

She's absolutely the best.

Yes.

Producer Conrad has been looking at your text at the Civic Media app.

You can text us anytime through the free Civic Media app or call us and pick up the phone.

855-752-CIVIC-855-752-4842.

And our question of the night tonight, what is your all time favorite?

reality TV show, Current, Past, Streaming or Over the Year.

Dave on StreamYard said Gilligan's Island.

That's

funny.

Dave is still scared of quicksand.

As a result, it's hilarious.

Wisconsin Rapids, Michelle Young wrote in saying that the reality show, Tough as Nails, they need to make more seasons.

I guess it didn't last that long, Tough as Nails.

I don't know that one.

John from Madison says naked and afraid.

And I would say I'm curious about that show, but I feel like I don't know.

It just...

It makes no sense to me.

They dropped

somebody off naked in the woods, right?

Isn't that what

that is?

And it's heavily censored, which there should be an uncensored version of it.

Well, I mean, I don't like to go on my back porch this season because of the mosquitoes.

I can't imagine being naked out there, giving them my entire body to bite.

There's no way.

way.

Nope.

Not enough money in the world.

Producer Conrad's a fan of hard knocks because you're the sports guy.

Yes, of course you are Conrad.

just there's something about watching football every day that I love, you know.

So you must be happy to know that the football season is in full swing.

I mean, college football technically starts tonight or tomorrow.

Oh, really?

Tomorrow, yes.

And I am actually I'm going to the Packer game tomorrow.

So I'm excited for that.

Wow.

My brother played football and he often said, you know, he played baseball too.

He was a little leaker.

He played lacrosse in college and he says to this day football was the best his favorite sport

It's fun to watch but I could never get all those pads and I was I could bear I didn't like any contact leg football fine

fine

ultimate Frisbee fine

don't touch me golf Don't knock me down bowling

All good.

What can I do that doesn't involve having to deal with other people directly?

Yeah

Ah, thank you for those texts.

This was a fun night.

This is what Friday nights are all for.

I know Pete says Thursday night is the Christmas Eve show of the week.

That's what he calls it, doesn't he?

This is the holiday of the week, Conrad.

It's the Christmas Eve of weekdays is Thursday, you know?

Thursday.

And then this is like Christmas day, you know?

It's the start of the weekend, and you know, like Christmas after Christmas, usually get a little vacation after that, you know?

Yeah.

See, he just wants to take time off.

I know what you're

saying.

know

what you're up to.

I know what the hidden.

All right.

We have a Terry Barr coming up at seven thirty five.

She's getting us in front of the biggest bands throughout Wisconsin for another bar band Friday.

But I want to talk specifically about something happening Sunday.

And it doesn't matter if you follow sports or not.

It is such a special day.

Sunday at.

American family field is Bob Uker's

celebration

of life day.

It's Bob Uker day where they're going to have everybody come together and there's going to be some special programming before the game.

They're saying you got to get there by no later than 12 15 into the seats.

The game starts at one 10.

Yeah.

But they're going to have a whole.

video and they're going to have everybody coming together at the game to celebrate Bob's life.

They're gonna relive the memories.

And I have been looking forward to this for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.

My parents actually, thankfully, were thinking ahead and they got tickets in the cheap seats.

I think we're actually in the Euker seats.

Come on.

To watch this.

Oh, so how long ago did he pass?

Now?

Boy, Conrad was at.

Earlier this year or late last

year?

It was late last year.

my gosh, and we're

still talking about him.

What an impression he made on

the

whole world, the country certainly, and Wisconsin, my goodness.

Mr. Baseball.

I know that Todd Alba.

on the Civic Media Radio Network has talked a lot about Brewer's Bay.

He's a big Brewer's fan.

He's a sport.

He's my, he's my guy when it comes to talking sports outside of Conrad.

He has like nine

jer, jer, jerseys from the Brewer's, like nine different jerseys.

But he's talked a lot about the movie just a bit outside.

Yeah.

And

if you grew up in Wisconsin, even if you lived here for a little while, you listened to Bob on the radio.

It was something you just did.

He kind of set the precedent, in my opinion, of muting the commentators on TV and turning up the radio because you didn't want to miss the enthusiasm, the get up, get up, get out of here, gone, Mr. Baseball.

I mean, he is Wisconsin.

You think of Wisconsin, you think of Bob Euker.

And it's not just people from our state, but...

Conrad, I mean, you can back me up on this.

It's people of all different teams all across the league, all across the country.

Yeah.

He's been on late night.

He was on late night a lot because he was a real character.

Yeah.

And he knows everything, right?

He knew all the stats, of course.

He just knows baseball.

Yeah.

You know, there was a story, I think it was last week, Self-Freelick, who's on the team right now.

Last year, he was, he sat down for lunch and Bob Euker sat down next to him and

Cell had a meeting in about, you know, 20 minutes or whatever.

And they talked for two hours.

And it didn't matter that he missed because he said, I was talking to Bob Euker.

And, you know, obviously there's like, that's, that's fine.

You're talking to Bob Euker.

You're talking to Mr. Baseball.

That's completely fine.

I miss a meeting for him.

And my brother was telling me this, but the spirit of Bob Euker is alive in this team right now because they're, they're, they're that good.

You know, even a little bit of a stretch here, whatever it's the Cubs who cares.

But there's something special and.

Bob brought people together and it was interesting when you watch some of the old footage from local Milwaukee reporters, our colleagues who cover the team.

Our peers at other media companies who've covered this team, they said there's something about the way the season ended last year.

When the players left the locker room hours after the game and the season was over, there was a weight in the air that just felt different.

as if they knew something we didn't know back then.

And so now we get to celebrate Bob and his life and all of his friends who are going to be there.

Do you mind?

I'm going to read some of the things that are coming up here.

Bob Costas, who's a legend in the sports broadcasting world, a longtime friend of Bob's.

Of course.

He's going to be hosting the pregame program on Sunday on the field.

There's going to be surprise guests.

The brewers have said there's going to be rarely seen content from Bob's life.

and other details.

They all ticketed fans are going to get this lapel pin featuring the Bob Uker uniform patch design and both the Brewers and the Giants, they're going to be using baseballs and bases that feature a Uker celebration logo that are going to be used during this one game only is pretty special.

That's pretty nice.

Throughout the game, they're going to be preparing features.

The 50 50 raffle, which I always

buy a lot of and lose.

There's gonna be three different charities supported by Euker throughout his life that the proceeds are going to benefit.

So that is the Wounded Warrior Project.

And we air those public service announcements across our civic media.

We do.

Radio stations.

The ALS Association.

Yeah.

It's already getting you a little weepy.

Really is.

And the Medical College of Wisconsin Bob Euker Chair for Cancer Research.

So there's...

partner with anybody and was there always Bob and Tom or whatever?

Is there anybody that he partnered with or did he do it by himself?

Color commentary, play by play, everything?

He had color commentators.

Various.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Throughout his career, absolutely.

Conrad, you know some of those?

Jeff Levering was with him too, right?

I feel like

that he's with him at the end.

Yes, Jeff Levering and then Lane Grindel, I believe, was with others

too.

Yeah.

I've been out of town too long.

I was in Chicago for 20 years.

So was Pat and Ron for me.

I didn't know baseball on the radio could be so much fun until I heard Pat and Ron.

Ron talking about his cat taking on a hat with a helmet to go into this cat box.

He went on to a tangent because they were bringing out cat litter onto the field.

And Ron Santos was like, oh, my cat uses cat litter.

Oh, yeah, he goes down there with a helmet and a light.

Oh, my God.

Well,

it's going to be a really memorable event.

And if you're going to the game on Sunday, I'd love to hear from you.

I'd love for you to text in through the Civic Media app.

They're selling out these games right now, aren't they?

The Brewers are just killing

it.

They really are.

I'm telling you, we've got tickets with Civic Media.

You can actually listen.

on the Civic Media radio network every Friday, a

free

ticket Friday where we give away brewers tickets to the club level.

Nice area, they got padded seats, there's a service, and anyway, I'm just really excited about Sunday.

I guarantee you, I'm kind of an emotional guy.

No, those people don't know me.

You are not.

I am.

I think there's gonna have to be a couple.

I call them like the mom packets of Kleenex.

Yes, mom.

There's like only 20 in a pack and they're always in mom's purses.

have three with me.

Yes.

So I'm going to have a lot of those with me.

I'm going to have to stop at, you know, stop somewhere on the way to Milwaukee to get those.

But Bob Euker's big day coming up on Sunday and just really looking forward to

that.

It's a day time game, yeah?

A day time game.

you're going to be by noon.

Don't be late.

You don't

want to miss

it.

been known to be a little tardy from time to time.

So I just probably get there a little early.

Question of the night again, what is your all time favorite reality TV show current past streaming or over the air?

We're going to read some more of those texts coming up and then coming up at 735.

Our friend and musical expert Terry Barr will be joining us for another bar band Friday Conrad has this music all.

Oh, yeah, ready to go.

I heard you jamming out, man.

You

were previewing it.

It's some great music.

And, you know, one of them I'm not going to say it's she's been played on Nightlight before.

And it's a different song.

It's time.

And it's fantastic.

So we're going to break some new music tonight.

All righty.

That's

fun.

That's fun.

All right.

Look at the fun is just beginning.

718 on a Friday night throughout the state of Wisconsin.

We're having a great time.

We'd love for you to participate and be a part of the show.

Feel free to text us.

Producer Conrad has the phone line open at 855-752-4842.

We're going to be back with more question to the night.

Terry Barr a little later on, and maybe we'll get some more Chapel Roan on the Marimbo over here off State Street Madison.

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dance party in here tonight.

Wow, look at that, Conrad, producer Conrad, picking out the great music tonight.

Welcome back to Night Lights.

I am your guest host, Aaron Coreno, along with Catherine Lake, filling in for Peach Swabba tonight.

Pete's taking a well-deserved long weekend vacation.

He'll be back on Wednesday, coming up Monday and Tuesday.

Local morning hosts here in Madison, John and Gordy will be filling in for Pete and they're

blast.

They could talk about everything.

You work

with them every day, Catherine.

Yeah, they

used to do media reviews all the time.

They had a TV show, you know, this on on 47 when they were actually on a cable cable back then, but Gordy was on 47.

But yeah, they they are media savvy and John used to review movies.

So they're going to have a lot of fun.

They're looking forward to it.

They'll have a great time.

You'll enjoy them very much.

They're going to be on Monday and Tuesday and then coming up Wednesday when Pete returns.

Producer Conrad, you ready for this?

Oh, I'm not

surprising you here.

I I know what you're gonna say, but it's okay.

I think you can't steal this prize Coming up Wednesday Thursday and Friday of next week on this show We're gonna give you a last chance summer getaway to Wisconsin Dells.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah Pete is the only one who gets to give that away just

Pete

damn

Conrad, you can't use the certificate with Pete.

You could go together, but not with this one.

would do that.

I'm going to have my parents text in, all right.

It could be kind of fun though.

Pete and Conrad hanging out at a water park.

I wonder what.

That's like a novella waiting to happen.

A novella.

You're so.

No, okay.

Well,

anyway, but you're going to have a chance to win a getaway to Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin.

Dell's Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week.

One final way of saying, Hey, we are, we are not done with summer yet.

and listen for that special keyword to text Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week right here on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba when he returns.

I'm glad you are trying to hang on to the last vestiges of summer because they will pop up again in September probably and I hear this is going to be a tough winter but I'm really

Looking forward to fall and I know you were not because it you know anxiety with school me It was excitement and getting new clothes and seeing my friends again My kid is very excited about going back to school too.

Well you raised a good one I did because I couldn't think of anything I'd want to do less honestly all the way through college It wasn't even it's just it's just the whole tone changes like July 30th.

It's like

Everything changes.

It's like, get new blue jeans, do this, get books, get pencils, get excited about being in class all day long.

No.

No, I'm not excited about it.

Too soon.

Still not.

I've always been the guy too who likes to push things to the last minute.

So that's why I like to savor as much of summer as I possibly can.

Well, that's also living in the moment.

That's a good thing to do.

Living in the moment.

Now it's August.

It's still warm.

It's great.

No problems.

Like how to get together.

My friends and my family too, for that matter, don't they know I'm the last one that wants to stay up?

Like you can rely on me to stay up to the very end.

Our holiday party two years ago, I seem to recall that being

your role.

You can't talk about that.

Okay, sorry.

Management could be listed.

Human resources.

eight five five seven five two civic eight five five seven five two four eight four two you can text us tonight through the free civic media app terry bars joining us at seven thirty five producer conrad we've been going through the the text for our question of the night tonight what is your all-time favorite reality tv show current past streaming or over the air conrad said hard knocks catherine said

survivor

and i said big brother

real world you know

the

original

Okay.

I'm going back to our text here.

And from earlier, Michelle in Wisconsin Rapids says the reality show tough as nails.

I don't know if I've heard of that one.

I wonder, is that a weightlifting one or racing?

I'm going to have to go to the Google for this one because I don't need to go to the Google.

Yeah, I don't know that

one.

While you do that, Melissa on Willy Street in Madison says parking worse.

And then

I think she's talking reality, reality.

That's sad of reality.

Melissa went on to say, I couldn't handle getting my car towed in a big city.

Oh boy, it's a nightmare.

In Chicago, don't forget about it.

Don't go get it.

Just leave it.

They have it.

It's like three floors down underneath the underneath of Chicago.

You don't want to

go there.

How do you know where it is?

It's terrible.

You just got to know and it's awful.

My ex-husband had his car towed more than I can even admit.

So he knows exactly how to get there.

I don't know how it is in a lot of communities around Wisconsin because I've lived in Green Bay Madison in Milwaukee.

And I know they're talking about, there's lanes on Willie Street in Madison where during rush hour, they open up both lanes

and if

you're parked on one of them, you could get towed during certain hours.

I know they're trying to remove that in Green Bay.

It's like...

parking ticket USA downtown, which I understand.

Especially by your studio Conrad, right?

Yes,

definitely.

But I always have to giggle a little bit.

When I go back to my hometown or other smaller towns, which I love small towns, like love small towns.

And they have parking rules.

I'm like, okay, okay.

I'll never forget.

My brother came to visit me in Madison from Chicago.

And when she asked him for 60 cents as he was exiting the park, and he just snorted and handed her a buck and said, keep the change.

It's like, you snot.

Two hour parking in downtown Plymouth, Wisconsin.

I'll leave it there all night.

I'll take my chances.

I'll

take my

chances.

Conrad, are you from a small town?

Yeah, I'm from Key Wascom.

Oh, that's right.

We played you in

sports back then.

Yes.

Yeah, I mean still when I was in high school.

I did play a Plymouth a lot That is we we do we go by scum town Come on let

it go.

There's

gotta be something good from what he was come

under the

Conrad, right?

Oh, I did like Sunburst ski hill.

That's great.

That's about it

Apparently we're getting into the small towns on the show.

We'll still... Bar Band, coming up.

Yeah, we'll read your texts about your favorite reality TV shows.

Our question of the night, thanks for watching.

For those of you on StreamYard, the Civic Media app, the place to text into the show.

Coming up at 7.35, we're going to be speaking with Terry Barnext previewing the latest in music on a bar band Friday.

More on the way with nightlights across the Civic Media radio network.

Stay with

us.

Time to check out original music with Bar Band Friday on Nightlight.

Now your host, Peach Wabba, and special guest, Terry Barr.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

It's Aaron Coreno filling in for Peach Wabba tonight and joining me is Catherine Lake.

Hello.

So glad to have you here.

Thank

you.

So glad to be kicking off the weekend with you, Terry Barr.

How's it going?

Hi, you too.

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to be joining the both of you and Conrad in Green Bay as always.

Conrad is the best, isn't he?

He is.

The con man.

The con

man.

He's solid.

He is.

Solid.

I was going to say Conrad, your reply to that would be.

Yep.

You got it.

But it's just so fun.

I mean, I just like the fact that.

You Terry are the new music expert because I my experience has been mainly music radio.

Yeah, we talk from time to time

But

you have some big music that we're gonna be introduced to here before we get to that though and you knew this was coming Well, I have two questions, well, I'll ask you the first one now and we'll talk about the

second one later on there now, so

Nothing no shockers here Terry your favorite reality TV show

all time.

This is easy.

I am going with behind the music.

Oh, that's a good

one.

Good choice.

Yes.

VH1 MTV.

Everyone had the reality and then the weird twist.

Yes.

Beautiful.

Behind the music is a great show.

That's a different kind of reality show than you've been talking about.

But to me, that's reality.

Does pop up video count?

Pop video.

It's not a reality show though, but

it was fun.

I do.

It was like the bubbles would pop up and tell you things about the song or the artist.

Right.

It wasn't a

reality show because there weren't people in it.

But anyway, when

you said

that, Terry, about behind the music,

and

you said VH1, I remember pop-up video because you'd watch like, I don't know, you'd watch like the music video for True Blue by Madonna.

Right.

Yeah.

And then in the background, it would be like.

And it would be like.

As she filmed this scene, someone fell off a ladder or

like something like that.

You had

no idea, right?

Ooh.

That's kind of a reality.

I think so.

Not like we are used to today, but I don't know.

That could work.

I think it could make a comeback.

I think it could.

I think so.

Terry Barr previewing all of the latest in music and host of Max Inc Radio Saturday nights on our sister station where we're at right here in Madison on WMDX.

You can listen on the Civic Media app.

Terry, what have we got to look forward to?

I am bringing you two of my newest favorites this evening.

I'm going to start with Tyler S.

Jay, he is based in Appleton and he has really a unique story.

He's not originally from Wisconsin.

And before he arrived with his family, he's married, has two kids.

So my artists tonight are two very opposite people.

Interesting.

Yeah.

So when he moved here, he decided, and I find this so fascinating.

He quit drinking, moving to Wisconsin from, I believe he was in Portland.

He quits drinking, realizes how much he has missed

writing original music as a singer-songwriter, dives back into it.

Again, he's sober.

He's been sober for several years now.

And he uses that as an inspiration to write his songs, although he describes himself, and I find this hilarious, as an average guy writing about all the average things.

don't think there is such a thing in his life.

The stories he writes in his songs are incredible.

And Mile of Music in Appleton has become a huge event, huge, thousands and thousands of people from all across the country.

come to see the best original music, and these are not just Wisconsin bands.

These are bands from all over the country as well.

Tyler applied for the first time to be part of Mile of Music, and he was accepted and had an

a fantastic couple of shows.

And he played this brand new song.

It's called Santa Fe for the first time at Mile of Music.

And we are going to share it for the first time on the radio and on all the streams tonight.

Very exciting stuff.

Mile of Music, I love what they're doing in Appleton.

That is such a great arts city.

Yes.

Still underrated, in my opinion.

Well, not only underrated, under, you know.

utilized under publicized, I had no idea about this until this year.

And it's been growing.

And obviously, thousands and thousands of other people are ahead of us, which is kind of sad.

Where are we?

They're coming from all across the country to be part of this original music festival.

And for Tyler to get the, okay, we love your sound, you can be in this original festival.

And it's the first time he applied.

A lot of people that I know have applied and applied multiple times and either don't get in until several applications or never get in.

So.

I think he's got a great career ahead of him.

He has two Wisconsin area music industry nominated albums, and he has shows coming up.

If anybody loves what they hear when we share this song, he has shows coming up in Wisconsin Dells.

Dorough County, D.P.

Appleton.

He is really mainly a Northeast Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin musician, but anytime he can play anywhere, he will do it.

And I can share his website with everybody.

It's tyler-sj.com.

And again, it's tyler-sj.com.

And please, if you go to one of his shows, go up and say hi.

He just loves to chat with everybody.

Well, producer Conrad, queuing this one up, let's hear it.

Santa Fe by Tyler S. J. Right now on Nightlight.

Big words so full of small ideas and confidence that wasn't his don't

said yourself the hands you hold for security and for show but not the truth and hanging on ain't hanging on with everything we're standing on the circus

to talk for longer in good way.

Keeper key, you leave assured.

Half the hope and twice the hurt you say.

Miss me with your hallmarked autographed.

All your hearts and colds and ebbs and flows.

The sky's the inside, you good guy glow.

It's immature.

The misdirection may be bold.

We get along to get along.

Feel all but just your stuff is gone.

Chase a whim while I just chase the goals.

my soul.

I got that right, right?

That was good.

Santa Fe, two things.

One, definitely need to go to Santa Fe now.

It's on my list.

I've been convinced.

And two, there is nothing average about Tyler SJ as he describes himself.

Yeah.

I like

the lyric.

It was so lucky, aren't we, to have all of these amazing musicians, many that have moved away.

Now, Tyler J didn't live here before.

He moved here because of his wife, but there are others that have moved away and have since come back.

because there's beginning, I guess there's a really great community that's growing and now of course we're getting money in the arts from the governor.

So we just need to kind of keep these things rolling for these folks.

And I know you've talked about this before and I have yet to be there because it's actually in my neighborhood, but the Atwood Music Hall is a new venue that opened up here in Madison.

Oh,

gorgeous.

Incredible.

It is.

everything about it.

It was built by a church in the 1930s, but they had entertainment.

And you can only imagine then when they built it like that, and they put all these things in the ceiling to make the acoustics perfect.

And then eventually Operation Fresh Start was there.

And of course, that is a construction crew that learns how to do all the things.

Yeah,

Terry.

We're going to

be Terry.

We're going to join you back here in just a moment with

of barband Friday.

We got to take a quick break.

Stay with us.

It's night light with Aaron and Catherine filling in for Pete Schwab across the Civic Media Radio Network.