Nostalgia, Racing, and Pickleball Triumphs (Hour 2)

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Hi, I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Night Light.

We are kicking off hour number two, also known as Act Two, here on a Thursday night.

It's a fun night here at Night Light.

We've got the popcorn pick of the week.

We barely got that in Conrad in the first hour.

We were coming down to the wire

there.

Our guest Dan

Marcus is the morning host here at WGBW.

I'm chatty.

And it was great.

It was fun, you know, and we got the the pick is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which is an absolute classic.

So if you're looking for something to watch this weekend, folks, or whenever and you haven't seen Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who is the woman who was the female lead in that movie?

Catherine Ross.

Catherine Ross.

That was the year after the graduate.

Oh, no kidding.

Okay.

And that movie has one of the best endings.

It's just great.

It's a great movie.

Which one?

Graduate or

Butch Cassidy and Sundance?

I don't

remember the end of the graduate, but I'm sure it was a happy ending.

Hi-o!

So we got the popcorn pick of the week.

We've established that Conrad and I both have spatial issues when it comes to other men in health clubs, movie theaters, men's bathrooms.

Everybody just spread out when you've got the room.

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Play the game.

And our question of the night.

We gotta catch up on text here, Conn.

But our question of the night is, in honor of National Bowtie, Dan, you know bowties, what is something outdated that you wish was still popular?

I said arcades.

Dan's got an answer.

Bell bottoms.

Oh, really?

You miss the bell bottoms?

I do.

I miss the bell bottoms.

And about the same time was hip-huggers.

Hip-huggers, yes.

Did guys wear those too?

Not hip-huggers, but bell bottoms.

Yeah, but bell bottoms, sure.

Yeah, I had bell bottoms with like a three inch

cuff.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah,

you got a rock that you should bring those in.

Do

you ever go retro

when you're when you're playing music in the morning?

No, you play oldies.

I mean, no, no,

no,

because none of that

fits me anymore.

You go straight leg boot cut.

Well, I said arcades.

I also liked the air of the flip phone before smartphones came into play because I felt like I liked having a phone and someone I could talk to while I was driving.

But I, and I use my smartphone and I like it, but I could do without it, I think.

So that's mine.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Texting.

What tech?

What

Conrad?

Mine shops.

Yeah, mine was mutton chops, you know if if I could grow some I'd have you know, you can't grow facial hair there Unfortunately, I can only grow a neck beard.

Oh God.

Oh, don't do the neck I'll tell you what though you grow a neck beard.

No one is getting near you on those treadmills

This says they're going to stay away from Macbeard.

All right.

So here we are.

Hour number two, ladies and gentlemen, great to have you with me.

Dan Marcus is here.

This

I know if I may.

Yeah, absolutely.

I just got a text from my wife, Vicki.

OK.

She says, we have bell bottoms in the store where she works.

They're called flares.

Oh, I knew that.

That's another word.

That's a current word.

She works at the loft in the mall.

Okay.

And so if you want bellbottom slash flares, go to the lock.

Go to the lock.

That's a

Green Bay clothing store?

That's in the mall.

Yeah.

Okay.

When you, oh, Bay Park Square.

What's

that?

Bay Park

Square.

Yes.

Do you remember Port Plaza Dan down

here in downtown Green Bay?

I was in it once, that closed right after I got to town.

Oh no.

I was in there once.

What happened?

I bought socks from JCPenney.

And they said, that's what shut it down.

We don't like those tube socks that Dan Marcus bought.

So there's a lot of things we maybe miss.

I don't miss the bow tie.

The bow tie is still around.

I kind of think the bow tie is cool.

But Mark from Prairie to Sack, he's in the 608 says, I worked at the holiday gas station on highway two up in Superior back in the late seventies.

And one main night before the Canadian fishing season opener, I was alone working the night shift and pumped several thousand gallons of gas.

That was the 11 to seven shift.

So he was a guy, and that was one of our textures said, they miss when the gas station guys would come out and refill your tank for

you and check

your, wipe your windshield for

you.

Yeah, you go ding ding over the cord.

Yeah.

They came

running.

And

they come running, and they had uniforms.

Yeah.

A lot of times with bow ties and hats, it was like, it just seemed like the world was more civil.

And I'm not one of those days of your guy who said, well, I was a kid like,

If I was a kid now, I'd be doing the same thing kids do now.

It's like we weren't special necessarily.

That was just what was in front of

us.

I won't argue that that was the culture of the time and That was a good job pumping gas.

That was a good first job.

Absolutely

John from Madison.

He's in the 608 also says hello Peter and Conrad spent my adolescence in the late 70s early 80s It was a wonderful time to grow up in a small town

Bras were seldom part of any summer ensemble.

I assume he's talking about women.

During this beautiful time and this pair well with the ever popular tube top, it's been a while.

They say these things have a way of coming back into fashion.

Maybe next year, unless there's an executive order banning them preemptively, never know these days.

Well, John, you know, bring back the tube top.

Who says you can't be the guy?

Let's do it.

Daniel from Anastasia.

He's the 920 says do we text in the secret word only once or do we text every night's word to qualify?

They can do it every night, right?

Yeah, it's it's well.

There's different words every night Yeah, and so it was yesterday today and then tomorrow's the last day, right?

So you can text in

once per show.

Yes, but you can do it every night.

Yep.

That's

Danny.

That's Danny wheels

And then Bridget from the 818 says, fondue parties.

Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah.

You ever been

to one of those?

Oh, yeah.

I had a fondue set.

Did you?

With the long forks and you just took like French bread cut into cubes and you dipped it in hot.

You dipped it in cheese, right?

Hot cheese.

What's the cheese in a fondue?

Is it, can it be different?

It's called fondue cheese.

Oh.

I think, I don't know.

It's been a long time.

Wow.

But you would buy it in bricks.

Okay,

and then the fondue pot and you had like a Bunsen burner on the bottom And it would it would heat it and yeah, we ought to have a fondue night here at night You know what it did it made people sit around the fondue set and everybody had their own Tine long fork, okay, and you if you wanted the fondue you had to sit around in a circle and talk before as your

Hopefully

not

double-dipping but dipping and

no

nobody

double-dipped No, that wasn't even a thing then nobody talked about double-dipping

Bridget continues saying my mom used to have them in the 70s fondue parties and bridge clubs Wow, yeah, my parents used to have card parties with bridge mix chocolate mix cocktails appetizers They got together regularly with people and had fun

Bridget, that's a great text and it reminds me of something I miss also when I was growing up.

My grandparents, my grandma was a great piano player.

Okay.

And we would stand around the piano and sing.

Sure.

Just at get-together.

I was pretty young, but I remember the grown-ups doing it.

What were the songs?

Oh, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling or all the crooner songs.

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?

That is one of the songs.

And just all these great songs and people would sing them together.

Even if they couldn't sing, it was more about the social activity and community and friendship.

That was what a party was then.

You know, the whole attitude of a party has changed now.

It's how wasted you can get, I think.

Right.

But it's not, it was an important conversation was the reason for the party.

Correct.

And now people get together and everybody's on their phones.

They're still together.

My parents would do bridge parties and people would bring their own card table.

Oh, I love that.

Wow.

Yeah.

Cause my parents only owned one card table.

Come on.

We were modestly income to family.

What do you think we're made of card table?

Yeah.

Exactly.

So all right, Dan, let's get back to you for a little bit here because I think like I said earlier, I feel like oldie stations are just the best because every song is a hit.

And I said earlier, it's almost like it's not fair to the other stations because you're playing nothing but top 40 hits or, you know, music that has stood the test of time.

What is your favorite?

I assume that that's your favorite.

Genre of music?

Yes, absolutely.

Completely 100%.

It's the music I grew up with.

I've had the great fortune.

I backed into radio, but I've had the great fortune of meeting the people who made those tunes that I grew up with.

And boy, that's been fun.

Talk about that.

You told me during the break that you got to introduce, you got to meet some people from these famous bands

when you would introduce them.

I lost count at 60.

Wow.

And that was 20 years ago.

Three Dog Night.

The Turtles who did Happy Together.

Yeah.

Howard Kalen, who is just an enormous personality and one of the best singers ever who sang Happy Together and Eleanor G. I think you're swell.

He wrote that one.

He's a fascinating person saying back up for Bruce Springsteen.

Oh, wow.

Saying back on some Bruce Springsteen songs and he was saying back up on stage live with John Lennon.

No, and this was when John Lennon was into baggism So bag well baggism was John's philosophy that you covered people with bags Head to toe couldn't see who was in the bag But you had a conversation with them because that would not allow you to judge that person by how they that was a thing that was well He tried to make it a thing and it didn't but he and Yoko did the bag covering thing

In concert at the Fillmore East, Howard was singing back up for him, and Yoko turned to Howard and said, put this bag on me, which Howard was more than happy to do.

It didn't drown out her voice, unfortunately.

But I think he might have moved the microphone away from her and she wouldn't have known.

That is great.

That is so much fun.

I remember going to concerts and thinking that radio DJs had the best gig in the world because they got to introduce the bands.

And in my head, that meant they got to meet the band, party with the band, whatever.

When I was a comedian in the 90s and touring, I was in Myrtle Beach and I got to introduce Huey Lewis and the news

who

were huge in the 80s

when I

was in high school.

But the big band at the time was Hootie and the Blowfish.

Oh, wow.

Darius Rucker.

Yeah.

They asked me if I would introduce Huey Lewis in the news and I said, please welcome Huey Lewis.

I almost said hooting the blood fish and I would have felt like a foot tall

because

I loved Huey

Lewis

in the news.

You

know what

I mean?

I almost blew it though, but a lot of pressure there.

I've, you know, I've, I've, I've met the temptations.

I've met Mary Wilson of the Supremes.

The list just goes on and on and on.

You

mentioned.

the movie The Temptations.

And I asked you if it was the one from the late 90s and you said yes, and there's a great

Who was the temptation that died?

It wasn't

Eddie Kendrick.

A couple of them.

Eddie Kendrick's has passed, but you're thinking of David

Ruffin.

So when he died, the next segue was like they show all the temptations singing and then he's gone.

He's gone.

It was

this great piece of filmmaking and they have a great story.

And I regret all those years I worked doing stand-up and I worked Detroit.

I never went to see Hittstown, USA.

Oh, yeah,

I want to do that.

I want a road trip.

Well, yeah road trip.

Let's go to the Cavern while we're at it.

Nightlight road trip, Conrad.

We'll pick up some Playboy bunnies.

Get the guy from the treadmill.

We'll make this a big bus.

We'll

go to Detroit and

see Hitsville University.

Do the

show on the road.

I would love it.

Yeah, there we go.

What are we doing here?

Let's do some radio.

Dan, thank you very much.

Thanks for having me and Pete.

Always.

Let's do it

again.

Absolutely.

Continued success in the morning.

And tune in to Dan Marcus here on WGVW every morning, playing the oldies and the only way that he can do it.

So tonight's keyword is Del's folks texting.

We're coming right back with WBAY Morning Show host, one of them anyway, Emerson Layman.

That's next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

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We are rocking the Thursday night here at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's so much fun to have you guys a part of the show.

Keep those texts coming.

Our question of the night is, what is something outdated that you wish was still popular?

We've had so many great answers.

And the one I love, somebody said, well, what did Dan say?

He had a great answer.

Conrad said mutton chops.

What are the bell bottoms?

Bell bottoms is a

great one too.

Those can stay out

on red.

Relax.

Like I said before, if I could grow them, I would have.

You could pull

them off, I bet.

Thank goodness.

I look like Wolverine.

You think so?

Yeah.

Conrad,

now that I

think about it, I think he could pull them off.

Yeah.

But you

do have a young face.

Not many can, though.

Yeah.

You could probably, you do, and that's a good thing.

We're a youth-driven society.

And luckily, I'm still in my really late 20s, but you...

You make jokes about how you can't grow mutton chops.

After you go through puberty, they're going to come in.

Yeah.

Maybe want to hit 30.

You're getting there.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is my pleasure to welcome a nightlight pal, one of our best chums here.

We love having him in the studio.

He is one of the hosts of the WBAY Morning Show, and he has a whole lot of other stuff going on.

We're going to talk about too.

Emerson Layman, hey bud.

How we doing?

We're doing great, man.

It's always great to have you in the studio.

And I know you live close by.

You don't have an excuse not to come to the studio.

I thought Conrad lost my

number.

It's been a little while since, you know,

it's been a

couple months.

And yeah, I'm like, oh, I guess nightly, I mean, you guys have been blowing up.

You get all these awesome guests.

I'm like, all right, my time is coming gone, but I got a nice little text message from Conrad said, it's kind of like a...

Yeah, no, it's just like hey Thursday 7 20 like oh nice to see you again.

Yeah, good to hear you guys are

that tight

Here we

go.

Let's do it.

I'm like, all right

Good to be

back.

He's the face of the show when he's doing that stuff.

He's

gonna have a little tutorial My he should start it with my dearest Emerson It's been months since we've conversed.

I don't know what will work.

I'll say it's great to have you know

great to be here

like

Out of fashion things, you know, I'll send him a letter next

time.

Send him a handwritten letter to get him on the show.

Carrier pigeon, please.

That was one of the ones I love, too, is the handwritten letter.

Do you

have something you miss, either from your childhood or days of your?

I

don't.

I want to come back to that.

I want to think about it, because I'm sure there's something, but I'm going to rattle my brain a little bit here.

Hopefully a commercial break will help, and we'll circle back.

Perfect.

This is kind of a throwback, too.

Right down the street, across the street here, is a haberdashery.

That's an old school, hat and suit store.

I haven't heard that word here because I use it sometimes to be funny, but there's actually one here.

That's probably the third time in my life I've heard that word.

So

yeah, that's not common.

You just think people are doing Tom Fulery when they say that kind of shenanigans.

Yes.

So, all right.

Hey, before we start, because I want to get into the Miracle Mile, which you were just at.

We'll talk some racing.

Sure.

And I know you've got, I assume you've got pickleball news because you're always a pickleball news.

You are moving up the ranking buddy.

It's impressive.

But tell us about your show.

How is small towns going?

Small towns is rocking, man.

So we actually tonight at six o'clock, so just aired probably an hour ago.

We had our kind of like our best of summer look back.

It's a cool music video that

my predecessor did a story on this band who wrote a small town song that we just kind of highlight, kind of look back at some of the stories that we've done so far

this summer.

And then

coming up on Labor Day at noon is our Labor Day small town special.

So a half hour of just some of Shane, my photojournalist and I's favorite stories that we've covered over the summer months.

really looking back at that.

So we'll take a trip to Depeer, why Oigas in that one, two rivers.

I'm missing Plymouth.

It's just, it's so much fun.

We were just up in Oconto, so toward your neck of the woods a little

bit.

Yeah, I was gonna say, it

would've killed you to go a little

further

north.

We're getting up there.

We're working our way up to Marinette.

But yeah, we were up in Oconto today just chatting with a gentleman who paints pedal cars.

Like it's just

what's a pedal

car like these little old like little old like roadsters They look like

but actually kids can get in

them made for kids, right?

Wow,

and they look amazing and it's just so fun to go to these different small towns and to meet these really cool characters and just share

their stories I love it so much It's got to be like you're never gonna run out of material either because there's so many great small towns in Wisconsin

and and and there's so many I mean like

Sometimes you double dip too.

I've done two into peer because there were two awesome stories into peer You know, well, I did one up in Marinette back in October if you find me another cool one I'll go back up to Marinette.

What was the

one you did in Marinette?

The pickleball tournament you came to.

Oh, right.

The Swensons.

Yeah, they do such a cool cool job for You know the sport of pickleball and I wanted to showcase them and if you play pickleball in Wisconsin You know who Brian and Kim Swenson are so we had to yeah had to show shine a little spotlight on them

I'm gonna, all right, when we do the news, you think is something that's outdated that you wish was, and I'm gonna think of another cool Marinette thing, because we got a lot going on.

Sounds like a plan, man,

let's do it.

It's a

small town, but we got stuff happening.

Have you been to Kewaskim?

I've dabbled

in Kewaskim.

Conflict of interest, or?

I've been there.

I haven't done a story there, because it's very fringe, our viewing area.

I did it when I was in Milwaukee.

Oh, okay.

Oh, that makes sense.

It has to be on around

here.

Like the town of Kiewaskam, some of them get Green Bay, but the village, they get Milwaukee.

It's right on the

border.

So

we'll see.

Maybe we'll have to work Kiewaskam in there in the next couple months here if I can find something.

Conrad.

Got it.

Go to Sunburst.

How about

that?

That could be an option.

That

sure

could be an option, Conrad.

I

appreciate that.

Monica from Mount Horrib, she's in the 608 says, isn't it like Pocky?

That's the sense then.

Little breadsticks dipped in various flavors, chocolate, strawberry, and banana, et cetera.

I really don't know.

Do you know what sense it is?

Never heard of that.

Mark from The Sacks says, the thin man movies were great and bringing up baby with Carrie Grant and Kate Hepburn.

Mark is a fan if he's calling her.

Catherine Hepburn, Kate, he's abbreviating that like pals.

I love that mark.

First name basis.

First name basis, exactly.

And then you read this one, I think, from Everett Sun Prairie, who also said...

It was still available in the 90s at Walgreens, Sen Sen.

Oh, that's been a while then.

It's harder to find than Sidney Sweeney bath soap now that I can't pay top dollar.

I know what I miss.

I can't wait to come back for the commercial break.

All right,

fantastic.

That's Emerson Layman, WBAY Morning Show host.

We're coming back to talk pickleball and get his answer to the question of the night.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwama.

This is Nightlight.

I know.

Where's the deal?

It's like become a thing and I'm probably going to take your picture through

the window.

This is

the place to be.

Nightlight.

Tomorrow Night on the show, Eric Westfall will be here at 6.35.

He is another new on-air personality here at WGBW.

And Terri Barr will be here at 7.35 for Bar Band Friday Night.

She will bring awesome tunes and great convo, so do not miss Tomorrow Night's show.

Right now, we are talking with our pal Emerson Lehman.

He is one of the hosts of the WBAY Morning Show here.

Do you call it Morning News or The Morning Show?

Action to News This Morning.

Oh, I got it.

Write that

down.

WBAY Morning Show that counts.

Action to news, Green Bay.

Action to news this morning.

This morning.

Because we cover all of Northeast Wisconsin, Pete.

I know you do.

Yeah.

That's insane.

And some of the UP.

Some of the UP as well.

Yeah, we're

like two blocks that way.

Okay.

I sang

there.

I was in a swing choir when I was in high school.

In the auditorium there?

Yeah, we got to go in there.

I was like, whoa.

It's pretty cool, isn't it?

It was really cool.

Yeah.

I still get lost.

Do you really?

It's a maze.

It's a great building.

It's so cool.

There's so much history in there.

Do you have...

anchors like that you You know watched growing up either on real news or in movies like Ted Knight or Ted Baxter is one of my all-time favorite sure Do you have people like that that you watch and you go?

Oh, man, I would love to do that

Yeah, that's the reason I got into news was I was sitting it was like my junior year of high school and I was watching the news with my mom and

I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life I thought I was gonna be a race car driver and then I kind of figured that wasn't

gonna happen Yeah,

and I'm trying to think what am I gonna do to make money and I liked talking I thought being on TV would be kind of cool and we're watching the news and I said I can do that.

Yeah, they just read a teleprompter.

What yeah, let's Absolutely done then I went to college and figured out that's not all they do There's

a lot that

goes into it, but I fell in love with it anyway.

So that's what that's what

got me into the

the news aspect.

But I mean, you asked people that I like admire.

One person I would shout out is Joyce Garbasiak.

She was a longtime anchor down in Milwaukee, loved watching her growing up.

And then I actually, when I interned at Channel 12 in Milwaukee, I got to learn from her and be able to like be able to

Converse with her and just she was the first person when I got my first job to reach out to me and say I'm really proud of you.

Congratulations.

It was it was pretty

It

was so cool

and

I when I won Miami, too She was one of the first people to reach out to me and say congratulations, you know, so proud of you it

That was very special.

I'll never, never forget that.

You

see how he worked the Emmy into the conversation.

Just two big

moments in your life.

You remember who reaches out.

So, you know, yeah, it was very special that she did that.

I

was actually going to ask you because I know you were nominated again last year.

You're such a young guy.

You've already got an Emmy and a nomination.

Like, what's in store this year for someone who's already an award-winning newscaster?

I don't know, man.

We'll see.

I think nominations come out in October, I believe, or maybe late September.

So in the next couple of months here, I thought we had a really good year.

I'm really proud of the work that our morning team has been doing.

We had a ton of live coverage from the NFL draft.

I was

really proud of that.

We wrapped up EAA a couple of weeks ago.

We were down there for three days of that week, just kind of doing things different and kind of separating ourselves in that way.

Get to anchor alongside someone like Tammy Elliott who is just the ultimate professional It helps me elevate my game and right it just I'm really really proud of the work that we've been we've been doing this year and hopefully the the judges will think so as well, but You know, it's cool to win an award and go home with a trophy But I mean it's you're not doing it for that right you do

it

because

you want

you love the gig you

love

the

gig

you

love, you know being a part of

of those viewers' everyday routine and just being a part of that and knowing that you're doing important work.

And that's what you do it for.

But if someone wants to give you a cool, shiny statue for doing it, you're not going to say no.

Absolutely.

That's so great.

Well, Small Towns is Emerson's kind of side hustle at WBAY.

When can people see that before you move on?

So Thursdays at six, you can watch every week.

And then

I'll do another plug for our special that's coming up on Labor Day, so if folks get home at noon on Monday, turn on WBAYtv and you'll get a half hour of just some of our favorite stories that we've had the chance to cover so far this year.

We've had a really good time.

That's fantastic.

Emerson Lehman is my guest.

He is one of the anchors at Action 2 News This Morning here in Green Bay at WDB.

See Conrad is taking a picture.

He's getting the

window picked.

Can you get their name Conrad, the family name, so we can put that on Facebook?

So we've been doing this thing where we take a picture.

I'm probably going to ask you to take your picture

through the window.

I'll do it.

I'll take a picture through the window.

That's all right.

You used to have your picture taken.

So all right, I want to ask you, you were at the Milwaukee Mile.

I was.

You're a huge racing fan.

Major.

So what is the Milwaukee Mile for?

I've never heard of it.

And I know I'm a sports fan.

I've heard of NASCAR, what is the Milwaukee Mile?

One

of, if

not the oldest, oval racetrack in America.

Okay.

So it's at the State Fair Park, right on the grounds there.

And it's a mile long concrete oval.

So it's part of, you mentioned the Indy 500.

So it's part of the Indy Car Series schedule.

So the Indy 500 is like the marquee race of the year for the Indy Car Series, but they still have 17 other races outside of the 500.

I did not know that.

So they go to Road America at Elkhart Lake.

They make a stop there back in June.

And then the first year back to Milwaukee was last.

year.

They had a double header Saturday, Sunday.

And I was very proud of that because they had left attendance had been low at races and the series had gone away.

And a lot of people said the miles dead.

That's it.

It's not going to come back.

It's just there's not a passion for it.

They can't make it work.

And then NASCAR dipped their toe in with their truck series and came back.

And I kept saying,

IndyCar is going to make one more run at it.

IndyCar is going to make one more run at it.

And it was probably a hopeless feeling for me, but I was just, I was just,

it's going to

happen.

It's cause I grew up going there, right?

I

just love IndyCar being in Wisconsin.

So

close.

Yeah.

And they, a lot of haters said it wasn't going to happen.

And it happened last year and they had two really

decent crowds for the first year back.

And then it went from two races to one race this year and they sold out the grandstands.

So the

ones

that they had seats available.

So IndyCar racing is alive and well in Wisconsin.

I will make that

proclamation.

I was so happy to be sitting there with my dad, know nothing better than a day at the racetrack with your pops.

And just, yeah, it was a great race, first time winner for the IndyCar series.

And

Yeah, man.

It was just a great

time.

We have some pictures that Terry Barr shared with us that we will share on the stream.

So if you're listening or watching on the stream, I should say, there we go.

Terry Barr was at the mile.

She was.

Look at that.

She's everywhere.

She's

everywhere.

She is

everywhere.

That looks

like it was post-race.

OK.

Yeah.

That's post-race.

Let's

do

another one, Con.

There they go, that's part of the race.

Yeah, so that that might be right toward the end as well or when they're in the pits Yeah, so that's in the going in for their pit stop.

So you see the tires that are laid out We had a beautiful day for it was gorgeous man.

Yeah, it's crazy There was a pop-up rain cloud they so they don't race in the rain because yeah slick racing tires on The race was it was getting to a point where it like okay, maybe a caution like something spice it up toward the end

Mother Nature was paying attention and she's a race fan because just one random pop-up cloud started spitting like sprinkles not enough to soak the track and like make a big delay but just enough that they had to throw the caution flag and and slow them down for a couple laps and bunch

of all

back up and then the last 20 laps was just a shootout incredible to watch so

much

fun, but it it was Chamber of Commerce weather.

Otherwise, like it was 68 degrees sunny.

There's another look at that the blue blue skies just it was one of those

What

is

that phrase?

I've never heard that before.

Chamber of Commerce weather?

Yeah.

Like when, you know, beautiful Green Bay, Wisconsin, check out the blue skies, sunshine and 70 degree weather.

Like it helps the chamber of commerce.

You put that in the brochure because you want people to come and

visit.

I've never heard of that before.

You learned something new today.

I did.

What is a chamber of commerce?

No, I'm just kidding.

Don't ask, don't get too into detail, man.

Be careful there.

That's cool.

I have to ask you two, have you seen F1?

Because you were the first person I thought of when I saw that movie.

I am.

I don't want to admit this.

I haven't yet.

You have to see

it.

So the plan was to go see it with my dad.

Yeah.

And then by the time we finally got together, it was out of theaters.

OK.

And I'm a little bummed about that because everybody I talked to, oh my gosh, you have to see it in theaters.

It was incredible in theaters.

So I don't know if I want to wait until at some point, I feel like there will be another showing.

Or if I'm just going to say, you know what, I'm going to.

Find a friend with a really

big flat steering.

Yeah, I

need to watch it.

I've heard very good things

yeah

from people in the racing community and From I'm here.

How did you like it as a film scholar?

Love it as as a movie the story sure

But the racing scenes, a guy like you, that's probably all you, I mean, you still wanna see a good movie, but the story was fine.

But it's something we've seen a million times.

But yeah, the racing scenes were amazing.

And Emerson, the coolest thing, and my son laughs at me, because he liked it more than I did, but he said, I said the coolest thing about the whole movie is the pit crew.

I cannot believe how fast those guys

worked.

Two seconds.

How did

they do that?

Two seconds.

Four new tires and two seconds, go.

Yeah, it's wild man.

Indy cars they take about like eight seconds because they fuel up the cars too, but okay.

Yeah f1 Two seconds and

doesn't even seem if

if they do two and a half seconds the commentators say all that was

over

slow stop Yeah, oh, it's wild.

It's wild man.

Did

you see

f1 con?

I watched it on my laptop

I feel like that's worse than

me watching it in my living room Conrad.

I was laying in bed and I saw it.

I'm like, you know what?

Yeah, let's watch it and then I should

rent a theater.

I

think because how loud the cars are I think it would have been so much better.

Yeah, I'm pretty upset with

myself that I it's really I should have just went on some Tuesday.

Yeah, I got a picture with Greg Marcus a couple weeks ago.

I just needed to plug that real quick Marcus theaters.

Oh Marcus theaters.

Yeah.

Yeah,

of course.

Yeah, the guy who pops up on the

oh Greg Marcus.

Yeah.

Yeah,

of course I was Very starstruck.

I try not to get starstruck.

I'm at my friend's wedding.

He's her like distant cousin

So he's there and

I walked right up to him.

I said mr. Marcus I have to get a picture with you if you don't mind he goes Oh sure a lot shorter than I was expecting him to be but

Very kind guy.