Popcorn, Bob Uecker, and Late Night TV Shifts(Hour 1)

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

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who prefers to travel by catapult.

Pete Schwabba.

I hear there are rough landings.

Yeah, I know.

Those catapults can be dangerous.

Well, yeah.

Not a lot of fun unless it's, you know.

Well,

anyway.

You got a

trampoline or

something to land

on or a net.

This is John and Gordy.

Filling in for Pete Schwabba today.

That's right.

John Peterson, Gordy Young, live from our studio here in Madison, the WMDX headquarters, the global headquarters of Civic Media.

That's right.

But Conrad is with us.

Good afternoon.

Good evening Conrad.

Yes.

How's it going guys?

So far so good, but it's

early yet.

We just started.

We started down the hill here.

Yeah, so Pete's gone tonight and tomorrow night, and then he'll be back Wednesday.

Nobody knows where he is.

It seems to be a mystery.

I have

a feeling by tomorrow night, I will be the new godfather of Green Bay.

Oh,

wow.

Is

that

right?

Really?

You're taking over?

By tomorrow

night, yes.

I'm going to have to practice the pack arena.

Well, good,

good to know.

Thanks for the warning.

Well, you know, you don't know until tomorrow night.

So

we'll, we'll find out.

Tune in then.

Yeah.

We got a lot of stuff to get to a lot of media stuff and some great interviews.

We've got some great guests coming up a little bit later on.

That's right.

Well, our very own Todd Alba, he'll be here.

We're going to talk to him a little bit about, you know, the big celebration of life for Bob Uker over the weekend that took place at AMFAM.

and some other things about late night television.

Sure.

Things like that.

Well, we

work out of the same studio, but we never ever get to talk to him or even

get him on our

show.

Well, we work different hours,

you know, right?

I hope so.

We're here really early in the morning.

We work at

the same time it would.

That

would be crowded in here.

Yeah, we're here from six to eight a.m.

He's here from what two to four?

I think so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we're going to talk to Todd in a little while and also Tom and Christie Mannis.

There's some great travel writers and they've got a couple of books that are really good.

We've had them on a couple of times now on our morning show and they'll be in a little bit later.

Yeah.

They've got a terrific book called Secrets of Wisconsin or Secret Wisconsin.

I guess it is a guide to the weird and wonderful and obscure.

And then they have this, uh, their original book, historic Wisconsin road sides, great little places to go all over the state.

So that'll be fun.

Uh, we'll get into it with them.

Yeah.

Well, let's talk about, uh, the movie theaters.

Okay.

I mean, we have the greatest movie theaters in the Midwest.

You see a lot more movies than I do.

Yes, I do.

So you've been,

what did you just went to see?

I just went to

see the Fantastic Four.

Yeah.

Big thumbs up.

Conrad, you like superhero movies,

right?

I love that film.

It was fantastic.

Yeah, you and I agree on that film.

One of the great things about the Fantastic Four, this particular version of it, was just like a comic book.

I read those comics.

I had the original comics.

I just sold those damn comics for a lot of money.

But it was just like reading the comic book.

It was it was that good.

It didn't go into a lot of theatrics.

It was just typical Fantastic Four fighting a villain.

and winning,

you

know?

But Galactus is, you know, pretty big.

Pretty

big

villain.

So, you know, I was wondering how they're going to beat Galactus.

I mean, he is like, you know, 300 feet tall and eats worlds, consumes them.

Now, was this a remake of an earlier movie or is this the?

Well, there are a number of different fantastic forces throughout the decades.

But this is the best one.

I like this one a lot.

But it's centered on a baby of all things.

I never thought Galactus would be the fatherly type, but in this movie, that's what he was

after.

Don't

give away any spoilers to

those of us that haven't seen it yet.

My son, my oldest son, it's Gen Z. He hates any kind of spoiler at all.

Even the previews, even the trailers, he won't watch them.

Really?

Yeah.

Doesn't like that.

Yeah.

Conrad,

you liked it,

huh?

Oh, I loved it.

Like John was saying, it's just like the comics.

That's why I loved it so much.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is really great stuff.

And by the way, the thing looked like the thing that Jack Kirby used to draw in the old days.

I mean, it was just the way he looked.

And a lot of those scenes in the movie were right out of the comic strip.

I mean, the colors, the loneliness that you could feel, Ben Grimm feeling as he was walking down the streets.

It was just really, really cool.

You know, I got goosebumps.

My kids didn't care that much about it.

You know, that because they wanted more of a spectacular superhero movie.

I just liked the way it was.

I mean, they were a stable.

I mean, they were just, you know, you could count on them being who they were every single issue.

And that's what this movie was like.

Okay.

Have you seen any other movies lately?

You're gonna preview for us here or review?

Well, I'll say that I watched Wednesday, the second season of Wednesday, the Adams family.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

And that was fantastic.

Really?

Yeah, I haven't checked out any of that.

Where do you find

that?

That's on Netflix.

Okay.

Yeah.

Conrad, is it time to do the question of the night?

Is this where

you do that?

Is this where we do it?

I think so.

Here we go.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Question.

Questions.

All right.

Conrad, take it away.

What's the question of the night?

You've got the question.

Yeah, in honor of Banana Split Day, what is your favorite sweet treat?

It

can

be anything you want, you know?

All right.

Boy, I like a good hot fudge sundae.

I'll go with that anytime.

You know, I'd go for a banana split.

I haven't had banana split in years.

Decades maybe 40 50 Wait, I'm not that old.

I think they still make those a Dairy Queen.

I know I probably

ordered I

just

never think about getting one

Conrad.

What's your favorite?

I gotta say it's you know one of those cookie sandwiches where there's ice cream in the middle.

Oh, yeah

Yeah, and Eminem is in that cookie too on top and bottom.

Oh, so good.

So

good.

Yeah

So we can take calls and texts, right?

If people want to pipe up about what their favorite sweet treat is, right?

Well, thanks.

Thanks for stopping me.

I almost kept going with this and I'm going to give everybody's answer in my answers.

I'm just going to keep talking about my favorite.

Okay.

Well, look, I'll tell you what, you know, banana splits is a cartoon.

All right.

And do we have that song?

Do you have the song anyplace?

Anybody have the song?

Do you have it?

Tom, do you have it?

I

can play it.

Do you have it played here?

Yeah, I can play it.

Oh, OK.

Give it a twirl.

Yeah, let's

do

it.

There you go.

one without the lyrics appeared.

Here they come.

There we go.

The banana splits were on Saturday mornings,

right?

Yeah, they were on Saturday mornings.

You know, again, you know, the banana splits were in these costumes, mascot costumes.

And I hated it.

It was just so fake looking.

It was stupid.

I would have much preferred animation, but all the guys in the classes in high school love banana splits.

Are you kidding me?

I was on the outside

looking and again.

That was a dumb show.

It was kind of based like, it was like the monkey's TV show.

They tried to be.

They tried to be.

But they were running around in these costumes.

And it was really aimed at little kids.

It wasn't aimed at teenagers.

Don't you think?

Well, tell the high schoolers I was going to school with.

Really?

They loved

it.

They liked it.

They talked

about it all the time.

They talked about the episodes.

And maybe they just did that so they didn't have to talk to me.

You know, I'm beginning to think that's it.

We've got a text here, John, from Catherine Lake.

Our station manager, and she says, my teenage child loves Wednesday.

You have two Gen Z boys.

What gives?

They like Wednesday?

What demo is this meant for?

That's the

question.

I don't know.

I think it's meant for everybody.

I mean, if you

watch the old Annem's family in the 60s,

then you'll probably wanna watch this.

And if you're not familiar with Adam's family at all, then this is a great introduction to it.

I think Netflix did a great job with this.

And I'm spacing the director of this.

Do you remember?

For Wednesday?

Conrad, do you know?

You don't know, do

you?

No.

Okay.

We got another

text.

He did Nightmare Before Christmas.

Oh.

Tim

Burton

Tim Burton.

Okay.

Yeah,

Tim Burton writes and directs there.

So it's

great.

We got another text in here from Pennsylvania.

Yeah.

Creme brulee.

Can't beat it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Creme brulee.

Is that the right way to say

it?

I don't know.

And okay, also yay, Sid and Marty Croft.

And that's right.

Sid and Marty Croft did the banana splits.

They did that.

Yes.

And they had done what else they had done?

Oh, I just like them.

It wasn't

the Muppets, but it was something similar.

It was very

similar

to that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Well, anyway,

you know, give us a call 855-752-4842.

That's 855-752-4842.

What?

I think we have time for just one story here.

All right.

And I want to get to the one inch TV again.

We played the center show.

People couldn't believe it.

It was just amazing.

A one inch TV cut 14 if you can queue that up.

And we could all enjoy listening to what it's like to have a one inch tiny TV.

Let's hear it.

Today I'm towing with a tiny TV that lets you change the channel where the channels are your saved video.

But it doesn't just play each file from the beginning like a media player, they start in the middle like you're watching a live broadcast.

The Tiny TV 2 keeps track of how much time you've been watching, and whenever you change the channel, it starts the next video at the same time stamp so you can channel surf like a pro.

It even comes with its own Tiny IR remote, a tiny 2 hour battery, and 8 gigs of storage for about 10 hours of video.

You charge and upload videos over USB-C that you'll have to shrink them first on a desktop.

It's quick, but the app sadly doesn't let you queue up multiple videos at a time.

Oh, and you might want to remove the tiny remote's button battery as it tends to drain even if not in use.

Oops.

Hmm.

Okay.

Remember when we had these old, tiny TVs?

I do.

Yeah.

They were like transistor radios.

Yeah.

With a long antenna that didn't get any TV

stations.

Right.

They were crappy.

They didn't work at all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It

was awful.

It was.

And the picture was terrible.

Yes.

When it did receive a picture at all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You could really still couldn't see it.

Yeah.

The screen didn't.

It was not.

Did

you have a color one?

I had a color

one.

No.

Mine was just

black and white.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, Jim's been on the porch of the town.

Hey,

you

know what?

Come on.

We're going to talk about the commercials that you see at the movie theaters.

Oh, yes.

All right.

That's a big controversy

now, right?

Yeah.

There's a good side and a bad side to all of this.

We'll get to it in just a few moments right here.

Yeah.

And a little bit later on, we're going to talk to Todd Alba about Bob Uker and everything else that the Milwaukee Brewers are up to.

Man, they're hot this year.

And Tom and Christie Manus will join us a little bit later on on Nightlight.

with Pete Schwabba, but Pete's not here.

It's John and Gordy from Madison.

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We're John and Gordy filling in for Pete Schwabba

tonight.

Yes, it's nightlight.

Listening to a little bit of Frankie Valley in the four seasons there.

It's been a long time since I've heard that.

I didn't

see that at the end of the Broadway play.

Oh, the Jersey boys?

Jersey boys.

Yeah, it's a great play.

I've seen it.

It'd be great.

Oh, you have?

Oh, yeah.

It's like the greatest hits of the f-

It's four seasons.

Yeah, kind of their backstory.

And, you know, they came up in a rough way.

Yeah, there were some gangster

involvement.

Yeah.

Anyway, yeah, I saw it up at the Palace Theater in Wisconsin Dolls a few years ago.

They were there destroying the clean cut vision I had of them

Four seasons

that's the end of that story You know we asked the question of the night earlier.

What's your favorite sweet

treat?

Getting a bunch of them here Susan from McFarlane says guys good to hear you in the evening And hello to Conrad is always nice to hear you on the air anyway Love the banana splits with hot fudge that cracks when you hit it with a spoon.

Oh, yeah

Yeah, that's a good, that's a good taste.

And also a little caramel on there for just the right creaminess.

Tom in New Berlin says chocolate of any kind.

Steve from Florida, checking in from Florida.

My favorite sweet treat is anything chocolate, especially hot chocolate chip cookies out of the oven.

Oh yeah.

Oh man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Doesn't get much better than that.

More

chocolate of any kind I guess covers it.

Yeah, and John from Madison says, welcome to the show, John and Gordy.

Love your morning show and never miss French, French silk pie is my number two favorite, but Hershey bar with almonds is my go-to.

I have to have something sweet before bed.

Well, that's not good, is it?

Eat my dessert late night, usually a Hershey bar.

Yeah, okay.

A little story here.

My younger, Jen Zier, has always been a very giving kid.

And he was always just giving stuff out to his older brother.

And

he would do that to me.

And he knew that I liked a certain candy bar.

And it's the almond joy.

I love coconut and almonds on dark chocolate.

Man, that is the die for, okay?

So every time now, he lives in the apartment above ours, he comes home shopping and it gives me a big bag.

of almond joys.

Does he

really?

Oh, that's nice.

He

gets me.

He's still

that kind of kid.

He's thinking of his old man.

That's nice

of him.

That's why I have the guy I have today.

He's just kissing up to you because he doesn't want you to raise the rent.

Right?

What's, what's be the fix the mirror in the bathroom or something like

that?

Maybe so.

All right.

Let's get, let's get to this.

This is a big issue now.

AMC theaters decided to put more advertising in before the movie.

Okay.

Yeah.

More commercials.

They

cut a deal with an advertising group and they were going to put more ads in.

Okay.

And they even had a disclaimer saying that don't worry, the movie will start 25 to 30 minutes after.

the ads begin.

That was

really they said that 25 to 30 minutes of commercials.

Not a lot of people liked the whole idea.

No.

So AMC is walking that back a little bit, especially get this after the executives at major movie studios quickly became angry.

On top of the extra ads, AMC would also still be showing its branded pre show stuff.

and it caused a delay in starting the film and leading theater goers, get this, to avoid showing up at all early to the movie theaters to see the theater trailers.

That's where you

see

the next movie coming up.

That's where you get excited about seeing your favorite characters.

You know their movie is about to be released.

So yeah.

Yeah, I like

the trailers, but not the commercials.

The

major studio said, wait a minute.

blowing these people away.

Right.

And moviegoers, uh, you know, hit X and A complained about it.

And they said, uh, that they would simply begin showing up at the theater half an hour later and miss all the trailers and all the great ads.

Uh, they, one person said, they want me to pay to sit and watch 30 minutes of advertisements.

That's dumb.

Yeah.

And plus everybody shows up then much later and it's harder to find a seat.

I mean, it's very confused, you know,

Well, that's a lot of confusion.

Here's the positive side to the story.

Okay.

I've got Gen Zers and they're not real quick.

They're not real fast.

You know, they're very relaxed.

They play games all night, wake up late in the morning, if in the morning, maybe in the afternoon.

But here's the thing.

They always wait till the very last second to leave for the movie.

I mean, when the start time of that movie is in the paper, you know that that's the time we should be there.

Right.

But they look at it as the time to leave.

Leave the house?

Yeah, leave the house at that time.

And it or even a little later.

So they're freaking me out.

You know, I don't want to miss the beginning of the movie.

Right, right.

So,

uh, you take separate cars, you and your wife go in one car and they go in another.

Yeah.

No, no, that doesn't work.

But here's the thing.

That's, that's the positive side for me with these ads and even more ads for far as I'm concerned, I can get there and probably even get some popcorn.

You know, we're always running into the theater and we get free popcorn because we're part of the, uh, the club

at the Marcus

theaters.

Sure.

And, uh, I never get free popcorn.

And I love popcorn.

It's the only reason to go to the movie theaters most of the time.

Not for the movie.

No,

no, no.

Who knows what the movie is going to be like.

Okay.

Wow.

Okay.

Well, I, you know, I, so they responded the, uh, the movie theater chain that said,

uh, they're backtracking on that.

They're not going to add

all those ads now.

Oh good.

Yeah.

Well,

that was

a bad move.

The movie studios did

not

like it.

The fans did not like it and everybody's gonna show up late.

Yeah, that's no good.

No,

it's

not.

Yeah.

We got a couple more texts here of people that still love their sweet treats.

Okay.

Oh, I mentioned that.

Sure.

And love the Dairy Queen blizzards as Paula from Florida again, peanut butter cups, Dairy Queen blizzard with peanut butter cups.

Oh man, make me hungry.

Just thinking about it.

Okay, when we come back, we're going to talk to our buddy Todd Alba.

We'll get his dessert.

Yeah, we'll find out what he likes.

What kind of ice cream treat or whatever he likes.

And we'll talk a little Brewer's baseball and Bob Uker.

It's all coming up on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba with John and Gordy sitting in on the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's great to be here guys.

I'm

excited.

It's always fun to be a night light with the level Conrad is

And now I can, yeah, we see each other.

I've been on your show once or twice.

I called in once from the...

from the street

one time.

That was fun.

And normally when I'm on night light, as Conrad knows,

I

try to find an interesting location to appear from, but my travel budget has been greatly curtailed.

So the choice was either,

I thought, well, what can I do as funny?

I thought, like, could come in via my phone from the crapper.

That might

be kind of

funny,

but I thought,

no, probably not.

And so all you get is me here at the desk, but I have...

And I didn't even hear the question of the night.

What is it?

What's your favorite sweet?

Yeah, what's your favorite sweet treat?

Basically,

right?

I had I heard the guys the beginning of the show.

I thought, well, I guess it'd be kind of, you know, fun to go down to the popcorn store a block away and bring popcorn for everybody.

I went there, but he was closed.

So I

heard I heard John talking about his love for popcorn.

But without even knowing here, great minds think alike.

I went to the little candy store down the street.

Kill kiwi is kill one kill wins.

That's it.

Yeah, that's

kill wins.

Yes.

That's good stuff.

Yeah.

I brought you all a little dark chocolate.

Oh, I love talking about my last date.

I'm talking about some action.

Here we go.

I feel like

I'm feeding the feeding the bears here.

Where's

where's

the Italian

stallion dominically?

Look

at that,

what a catch by Dom and Conrad.

I'm sorry, we'll have to send some up there to Green Bay.

So yeah, I'm a big dark chocolate guy.

How about you guys?

Same

here.

Love

dark

chocolate.

Well, you know, I like the almond joys with the dark chocolate on it.

Sometimes you

feel like a nut.

Yeah.

Sometimes you don't.

And dark chocolate's really good for you, actually.

A

lot of antioxidants.

So

thank you.

It's healthy.

Yeah, you're welcome.

I enjoy watching a movie theater.

I too enjoy popcorn.

But a little bit of sweet.

with the salty, I think that's good.

That's a

good idea.

That's a nice balance.

I've never tried that before.

Way back in the 60s, I used to get the slow pokes because they took a long time

to eat.

Do they make those

anymore?

I don't know if they do.

I don't think they make slow pokes anymore.

So, we wanted to have you on to talk a little bit about Milwaukee Brewer Baseball because they're hot and, you know, they're having a wonderful season, although

they

lost yesterday, didn't they?

Yeah, they lost yesterday, but, you know, my four years playing high school baseball, my D1 scholarship baseball in college, I'm quite the authority on baseball.

You know what it was?

I was the manager for high school baseball.

Which high school?

Richland Center High School, Southwest with RCHS.

Okay.

The fighting

what?

The Hornets.

The Hornets.

That's right.

I love

Richland Center.

I know I have a lot of people.

I know you do.

You don't pick

up there.

I've been to WRC a few times,

when it was in the old place.

The old place that got

flooded, remember that?

Oh yeah, that's where I got my start.

I was in high school, 17 years old.

I was stupid enough to say, I'm not going to work at Hardee's.

And a kid with a speech impediment walks into WRCO and Ron Fruit gives me a job.

My first job on radio was engineering and folks that was actually a thing back in the day where you had to pot down or turn down

the network feed from

WTMJ.

Because if you, that went out over the air, you got a call from the boss saying, what the heck are you doing?

So you had to pot, you had to turn it down and you played the local, you know, WRCO.

And then you had to actually hit the commercials.

They were on what people would know as an eight track tape, a cart as they used to.

And then you had to play the local commercials and then turn it back up.

And so hearing Uker and at the time, Pat Hughes, that was my first job in

radio.

And so you watched all the festivities over the weekends.

The Bob Costas hosted a thing there at Ampham Field.

And they had Robin Yacht there and a number of other celebrities.

And that was great.

I've

only

seen the highlights.

I didn't see it live.

So

it was so cool.

I broke down a couple of months ago and bought my $19.99 subscription to FanDuel so I could watch the games.

And so what I'll do is I'll have a home, I'll watch on FanDuel, and then I'll turn on

the brewers radio broadcast sure

it

doesn't always quite sync up but i like levering and gring and grindle and josh mower on the radio and yeah i watched it and it was particularly well it was just done so well yeah but it was really cool i know

Conrad and Pete last week talked to our mutual friend, Sean Hannish, the director, one of the producers of Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1980 Milwaukee Brewers movie, along with Kelly Call, one of the producers.

And those two, Sean Hannish and Kelly Call, did all of the video work.

So all the video that you saw, if you were watching it on FanDuel, and I think Zama is our producer this afternoon, said, for those of you that might

have missed what Gordy was talking about, you can go to the Major League Baseball YouTube channel and they've decided to put it up there for free and you can watch the entire Our Plus ceremony

for free

on the MLP YouTube channel.

We didn't see it, but I'd love to see that.

Go back and look because Kelly and Sean, and they talked about this off the air a little bit with us last time they were on, they caught the family and the brewers when you could pass away.

There was a private ceremony I think in April if I'm not mistaken and They asked Kelly and Sean to put together a 15-minute Compilation for this very for this private service.

It was the family it was the brewers organization and kind of the who's who a Broadcasting like Al Michaels was there Bob cast us and they did a 15-minute version of this and so the brewers when they're gonna do this

a celebration of life came back and said, well, you guys put together a compilation for this day.

And so they, I know they were there yesterday at Amphib field and, and they said it was really surreal to see their work up there.

It was quite an honor to be asked.

And I thought it was just, it was a plus stuff.

Yeah.

Where can people see that movie now?

Just a bit outside.

Well, thank you so very much for asking.

I get no, I get no wealthies off the field.

I just, I love talking about it.

because it captured, I mean, I was alive in 82, I don't know,

you

guys were.

And it did something to this state to bring people together and robbing you out and Paul Mahler, Paul Mahler, all those guys.

Anyway, to answer your question, you can see it for free on Roku and the Roku channel.

Or if you have Apple Plus TV, you can find it on there.

Either just watch it or you could buy it.

Or also on Amazon Prime.

So you could buy the DVD as well.

I own the DVD.

Talk to Todd Alba here and John Gordy filling in for Pete Schwab.

Do we have that Euker clip that we played earlier this

morning?

Yeah, we have it.

Conrad has it.

Conrad, why don't you go ahead and play

that?

We cut 22.

All right.

That sends one to right center indeed.

Get up!

Get up!

Get out of here!

To me Bob Euker just symbolizes the joy of summer.

Sitting on our front porch and bringing up a little transistor radio and dialing up the old AM station.

83 beautiful degrees of game time going.

Here it is.

Strike called.

And we are underway.

Cooking out Brots and hamburgers with family and friends just always on in the background and became a familiar part of the

family.

Summers outfishing and there's my dad and there's Bob on the radio calling

the game.

His old side stories that he would go on, that's where the magic was.

If you didn't enjoy baseball, then you didn't like sliced bread either.

Brewer's head for Arizona on their up-and-coming trip.

Out there you can hold a hot dog out your car when doing cooking.

Can't hit a curve ball with four baseball bats and a tennis racket too.

All you got to do is turn the die on.

Q-Curve was always there.

Through the radio, I felt I was literally there.

Throwed out motion, the passion, excitement, and the cold.

We're going to smash up the metal basin!

Thanks for listening, everybody.

Thanks for being Brewer fans and we'll

get together again.

It's hard to even imagine anyone liking any other team except for the brewers.

Yeah.

Right,

Gordy?

Yeah.

Well, Cubs long suffering Cubs fan here, but, uh, but, uh, what I loved about Pat Hughes, you know, he spent all those years with Euker and you can still hear some of that with Pat Hughes.

I mean, completely different style, but he still has the same kind of sense of humor, a little bit, a lot, a lot of inside

stories.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's been play by play with the Cubs for, I don't know, 20 years or at least Terry Kerry passed away.

Yes.

Yes.

That's right.

Well,

I remember Merle Harmon, I just throw that in.

And you guys probably remember, well, maybe Gordy didn't listen to a lot of Brewer's broadcast back in the day.

Well, I moved to Wisconsin in the mid-70s.

Even when the Brewer's were not great, I was thinking about this this morning to get ready for our show.

I think one of the starkest memories for me of Euker

was at my grandparents' house on East Hazeltine in Richland Center in the summer.

And my grandparents didn't have air condition in the house at the time.

The windows would be open, that summer breeze would be blowing in, and grandma would be fixing, you know, freezing strawberries or freezing corn.

And my grandpa would be doing quote unquote book work at the kitchen table.

And on their kitchen radio, there was Euker and calling these games.

And it's just something that immediately takes me back to my childhood and this sense of comfort.

And even when the brewers were not great, that's usually when Yooker was at his best, telling all these great stories and being the entertainer that he was.

But to Bob Costas's point yesterday at this celebration at Ampham Field, I thought this was really good and important.

He said, yes, everybody knows what an entertainer and comedian Yooker was, but take all of that away and just his abilities

as a sports broadcaster should put him into a Hall of Fame alone.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He knew the game really

well.

Yeah.

It was

just a ton of his boys.

Right.

Just how easily he called those players.

A hundred percent.

Yeah.

And just.

And he was an everyday guy.

And as far as being a comedian, I mean, his appearances on the Carson show were just legendary.

I mean, I think he was on there more than anybody else.