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Laughs, Fouls, and Hollywood Dreams (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Wed Sep 17, 2025
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are kicking off act two here on this scorcher of a Wednesday night.
I bet it's still 80 degrees out, Conrad.
we'll see what happens.
We're having a lot of fun tonight, folks.
Mike McGill is here.
He is an Appleton native who has been doing some great things out in Hollywood.
He's got some great credits.
We're going to talk to him about Shameless in just a few minutes.
He did many, many episodes of Shameless.
Our question of the night is, who is the best pro athlete, turned actor or actress?
And Conrad, I don't know if you saw this text, your dad had a great one.
And I'm going to try to find it right now, but you could probably find it faster than I can because...
he
he would say.
Yeah.
All right, so Steve from Florida says, hands down, athlete turned actor all around personality, Bob Uker.
Yep.
Again, I didn't even think of Bob Uker.
He could have played any character if Hollywood gave him a chance, but as we all know, he was kept back in the back row.
I agree with you for the most, maybe we get Mike McGill's take on this.
I don't know, Bob Uker in a serious role, like doing a love scene.
He would've made it funny,
I guess.
I would've paid money for that.
Absolutely.
I'm with you.
Take my money, Bob.
Absolutely.
Wasn't Jason Statham, he was like an Olympic swimmer or something?
Wasn't he before he became an actor?
He's had a pretty good, nice career, too, actually.
Oh,
man.
There's a handful of
them.
Yeah.
I've seen his name.
Some of the texts I have to get to, I've seen Jason Statham's name in there a couple of
times.
I don't know what he did, but yeah, he obviously was, and I think he was in a professional martial artist.
Yeah.
But, you know, the native Wisconsinite name is going to put you above Statham no matter what.
And I didn't mean martial artists like Karate.
I mean, he drew pictures of Marshalls.
He was very good at it, Mike.
He had
a very good career.
Somebody has to do it,
right?
Drawing sheriffs.
So all right, my guest at the moment is Mike McGill.
We've got a few more minutes with Mike.
As I mentioned, he grew up in Appleton and you've probably seen his work if you've watched the show Shameless.
You were on pretty much like the run of the show, right, Mike?
Yeah, they hired me.
My first episode was the second episode of the first season.
So they stopped the pilot, and then they brought me in right after that.
And the idea was it was going to be, they called it a recurring co-star.
And
they would dangle that carrot so many times if you'd think, oh, I'm going to do another episode.
And then I'd always do like a one episode, and then never get hired again.
So I did the second episode of Sameless the first season.
And then they didn't bring me back until later that first season, like maybe episode eight.
So, you know, episode three, four, five, six goes by and I thought, well, I guess it's another one I'm done.
But thankfully, somebody in the writer's room remembered me and they started bringing me back in towards the end of the first
season.
You did like a hundred episodes or something like that.
And I can hear it.
You're such a humble guy.
You have that Wisconsin kind of Midwest.
You know, as an actor, Mike, what did, and you probably get this question a lot.
And I don't think, I think people are great everywhere, but I only know people from where I've lived, like Chicago, Wisconsin, a little bit in LA.
And my first instinct is to say, oh, he's such a humble guy.
He's so Wisconsin.
But did growing up in Appleton give you a point of view or make you bring certain tendencies to your acting or give you a perspective?
I think it's just, you know, it's just how you're raised.
We're just where we were the time where we were raised in the place where we were raised, you know, you just have a bring a blue collar work ethic to it.
And that's something that a lot of people, you know, out in the West Coast, they're born with kind of a sense of entitlement.
And I'm like, let's let's roll our sleeves up and get to work now.
Let's get it done.
Yeah.
So,
you know,
it
It served me well, obviously, for the John Wells shows that were based in Chicago, being from the Midwest.
It certainly helped me, I think, in my career book job, knowing that I'm like, OK, this isn't going to be handed to me.
I've got to do the work.
At the end of the day, you want it to feel natural.
You want to be like, oh god, I could tell this guy's acting,
know, right?
That's what that's what you're going for.
So luckily for me being a drunk butterfly wasn't too much of a stretch.
I had lots of practice growing up in Wisconsin.
Absolutely.
So what do you prefer, Mike, when it comes to acting roles?
Like, do you like big studio films or independent films?
Do you feel there's more freedom with independent films?
Or is it all about the director and what the director's after?
I just like to work, period.
I mean, if you get a big studio film, you've got more money to play with, obviously, but you also then you have 50 people that have to sign off on everything.
Whereas if you're doing an indie film, like when you guys were probably doing your film, you were the boss and you had final say, and that was it.
And that gives you a nice kind of freedom too.
So if you can find a happy medium, that's why I think a lot of these guys
A lot of guys that are kind of in the pole position, they'll do a studio film or two and then they'll run off and do a passion project or a low budget indie film where they can stretch a little bit and maybe play a role that they wouldn't get to do within the studio system.
I don't have that problem because the studio and quite frankly, even the indie film circuit isn't calling by name.
I'm just happy to get a gig in there anyway.
Give me a paycheck.
It's so hard because so few times in your career in this business, unless you're Uber successful, do you ever have FU money?
And then maybe the couple
of
times you find you have it, there's no one to say FU to.
It's like the
timing
never works
out, right?
Take a look in the mirror and say FU to
yourself.
Mike, again, I hear the humbleness and all that, but is there, and I know you like to work and I love when actors say that, you know, I think when we're younger, I remember when I was a stand-up comic and I was jaded already at 24 and thinking I knew everything and you really have, you know, anything.
So you get to a point where you're just
you appreciate the work.
And it's like, man, if we can figure out a way to fool people and tell, you know, make a living at this, it's great.
You've won the lottery.
But are there roles, having said that, where your agent or your reps will call you and go, Hey, you're going to read for this.
What role would you not want that to be?
Are there roles you try to steer clear of?
At this point, not right now, currently, no, I'll take anything you, I'll take anything, you know, I mean,
Honestly, I can't think of anything off the top.
I'm smart enough to know at this point I'm not going to get a part where I'm going to be the love interest or the leader.
I'm a character actor.
I would love to find a role that suits my personality and gruff but lovable and makes the audience laugh or connect with the audience at some point.
Um, there's very few.
I think there was, I think I remember getting an audition one time where it was just in some freaky thing with this guy.
I mean, I won't, I won't get into the particulars for your audience, but it was, it was like, yeah, this guy kind of sounds like he belonged in insane asylum or, you know, not, uh, Arkham asylum, not, uh, not on the movie screen.
So, but, um, well, very few things offend me.
but you know over the run of shameless and I would tell people like okay look if you've never seen the show I'm gonna tell you right now it lives up to a title so you know even sometimes we get those scripts I'm like oh man somebody's gonna have a problem with this you know but but for for for Bill Mason I was like oh my god what a great what a great role for an active play you know I mean it's just like
Whenever anybody asks me, like, who's your favorite character on Sims?
There's no hesitation, Frank.
Yeah.
Just the stuff they gave him to do.
And he was so good.
He
was
great.
I was like, man, I can't believe I'm getting paid to have a front row seat to watch him be Frank Gallagher.
Honestly, it's funny.
You were talking about how the title of the show is appropriate.
My daughter was watching shameless when she was like a sophomore in high school.
Before I knew what it was.
And I'm like,
she's
like, dad, you want to watch one of these with me?
I'm like, yeah, sure.
And I'm like, how long have you been watching this?
She's
a couple of
years.
I'm like, oh my God.
Sometimes
people go like, oh, you know, so and so the big family want to meet you.
I come over and it's like middle school.
And I'm thinking, oh,
gee.
Um, Mike, before we let you go, what are some, what are some places you like to visit when you come back to it?
How often do you get back here and where do you have places like we used to always say, well, we're going to Leon's and Oshkosh.
We're going to this
place.
Definitely, definitely Leon.
If I'm in town, I'll definitely get Leon.
Uh, Mims Charcoal Grill in Manassas, any Tom's drive-in, you know, that's, that reminds me of my youth, uh, JD's drive-in, which is right by, right by Appleton East.
Um,
Frank's pizza on College Avenue, which is now peary pizza and then they have cranky pats and Oskar's like the same the same recipe pizza that that was always a after you know, like after we do the pub crawl on College Avenue, we'd always end up at Frank's pizza at the end of life.
That was definitely one of our big hangouts when I was growing up.
But yeah, we are for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mike, you know, and honestly,
You know how it is living on the West coast.
Like you can't find, it's a hard target search to find any cheese curds out here whatsoever.
You go back home and you can go to any quick trip.
You can go anywhere.
They're like dropping off trees and they're great.
They're fresh, but they are like a hot commodity out here.
You can't get them.
In Wisconsin, our gas station cheese curds are better than what you
would find
for sure.
Mike.
LA's gain is Appleton's loss, but I'm glad you spent this time with us.
I can't wait to have you back on again, and I can't wait to see what you do next, buddy.
It's been great
having you on
the show and great getting to know you.
Thanks for having me, guys.
I really appreciate it.
You got it.
Anytime.
That is Michael Patrick McGill.
Check him out in Shameless on Bosch on The Office.
It's Kenny Anderson.
We didn't get to that.
We'll do that next time.
But great guy.
It was fun to have Mike on.
Greg Schwem is coming up in just a few minutes.
He is a syndicated columnist, and he writes for his own column, The Humor Hotel, on Tribune Media Services.
We're going to tell you about a really cool event coming up to help fight cancer.
It's coming up at 7.20.
How are we doing on Texcon, Rad?
We got some text to read.
We got some text to read.
All right, let's get some of these done.
So your dad said... Bob Euker.
Bob Euker.
And Mike McGill said, I'd love to see you do a love scene.
So I don't know if I agree with him there, but everything else he said I pretty much agreed with.
Monica in Mount Horrib, she's in the 608 says, Travis Kelsey did a respectable job in Grotesquery.
Yeah, I believe that is.
Was that a movie?
It
Sounds like a good Travis Kelsey vehicle.
But she says, but Bob Uker.
So that's her first choice, too.
Another vote for Uker, which is great.
Edward in the 414 says, not sure if he counts as an athlete, but Sean Connery placed third in the 1953 Mr. Universe contest in London.
Check out the pick online.
That's our second Sean Connery.
Crazy.
And I did see that picture earlier.
He was.
a mountain of muscle.
AJ from the 608 says, hey PNK, I'm gonna say Carl Weathers for sure.
There you go.
We agree with you, AJ.
414 says, Terry Cruz, thank you 414.
AJ from the 608 again says, Predator is one of the best movies of all time.
Change my mind.
I mean, look, when I first saw Predator with that, it was like state of the art effects at the time.
I thought it was amazing.
And yeah, it's kind of corny.
I love the scene.
There's a scene at the beginning where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers shake hands and they zoom in on their biceps.
Even when I was like 20, I'm like, this is so lame.
But when the action kicks in, it's phenomenal.
So I would not try to change your mind, AJ.
Thank you for the text.
We'll get to more of your texts in just a bit.
Greg Schwem is coming up next.
I am Pete Schwaba.
This is Night Light, Conrad Riding Shotgun, a beautiful night in downtown Green Bay.
We're coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.
listening to Civic Media.
Shwaba, this is Nightlight.
I want to give a shout out to my pal, Mike Desitel, who is the one who put me in touch with Mike McGill.
And he said,
oh,
there's this guy from Appleton.
He's an actor.
And I was like, oh, that's great.
And then I looked him up and I'm like, I know Mike McGill.
I've seen him in a ton of stuff.
So it was great talking to Mike.
And thank you, Mike Desitel.
Mike's social media comment to our question of the night, who is the best professional athlete turned actor?
Mike said, are you waiting for someone to say OJ Simpson?
I thought about OG Simpson earlier, and I was going to say it as a joke, but I can't even say him as a joke.
He wasn't the original naked gun.
And he was... fine.
He wasn't great.
Yeah, no kidding.
Danny Willis, Danny Willis says Mike Ditka playing Mike Ditka and kicking and screaming.
Yes.
He did well, but that's not really a stretch.
It was just, it was super funny.
It was.
He followed himself around to get in character.
Amanda Nimmer, our pal Amanda from here at WGBW says, John Cena, the man has taken some of the most absurd roles and has become a very versatile actor.
And Conrad added a quote that said, Ricky Stanicki is my fave.
You guys both are big fans of The Seaman.
And Jay Campbell.
on social media says Bob Hucker.
Great one, Jay.
Thank you.
We've got some more text line texts to get to.
We'll get to those in a while.
First, I want to bring on my good friend.
He's also a syndicated columnist.
He writes a column for his own, his own column at Humor Hotel.
And you can see his stuff at Tribune Media Services.
And he's an all around swell guy.
Mr. Greg Schwem joins us now.
Hey, buddy.
Hey, man.
Good to
see you again, Pete.
And you know what?
Can I just jump in?
I think as far as he hasn't really been in movies, but.
I'm going to go with Peyton Manning as far as just comedic timing.
I mean,
we
always see him as commercials.
So, but I mean, I don't know why the guy hasn't done more.
I mean, Saturday Night Live, I think was one of the funniest episodes that an athlete hosted.
Interesting.
Did you see the one Tom Brady hosted years ago?
Yes.
I thought that was really funny, too, when he was in his underwear in the office.
Yes.
Yeah.
I thought that I, but.
I mean, I thought that they wrote good stuff for Tom Brady to do.
I think Peyton Manning is just naturally funny.
And he's like that.
I actually worked a corporate gig with him, and he's also good at improvising.
He's a
good off-the-cuff guy, too.
And he yells Omaha, Omaha, even when he audibles at a corporate event.
At a corporate event.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what they pay for to hear him say that.
Right.
Um, well, that's cool.
Thanks, Greg.
I was going to ask you that anyway.
So we, uh, how are you?
I haven't seen, we've talked in a while.
It has been.
It's been about four months or so.
So yeah, it's been a great summer and, uh, love in the Chicago weather, just like I'm sure you're loving the Wisconsin weather.
It's beautiful right now, you know?
Do you have a sunburn right now?
I do.
I do
have a sunburn.
I, uh, I am outside an awful lot and I, um,
Well, I just got finished with like about a five mile walk.
Oh my gosh.
was a perfect day for that.
But I have spent almost the whole summer outside because we may have talked about this before, but I have taken on a side hustle.
When I'm not on the road doing comedy or so, I have a corporate gig here in Chicago on Friday.
I was in Atlanta last week for a corporate gig, but I give tours of Chicago.
Oh,
cool.
Walking and bike tours.
And the weather has been, I've done that most of the summer.
Love it.
And the weather's just been so great.
And yeah, I just, I have spent my whole summer outside.
Wow.
Well, you gotta put some aloe on.
That's all I'm saying is get something I hate to see.
Now, when you give these tours, Greg, are you having to avoid the ICE groups or the military in Chicago?
We have not seen the military
yet.
I get
asked questions about that all the time, and I did predict so far correctly.
that the National Guard would not be coming to Chicago.
I started to
get asked about that.
I said, they're not coming.
And I don't think they'll be here.
ICE is a different story, but no.
The city has been so chill and so accommodating, I think, this summer.
And tourism is just
great.
don't really quite know where we're getting that.
Crime cesspool of crime
thing.
Well, I know where I know where it's coming.
We know where we're getting it, but yeah Yeah, but I didn't have what are your favorite places to go in Chicago Greg like if you're giving tours and you're showing off your city Like yeah, what are your favorite
spots to show people?
Well, it's interesting because the tours that I give I mean are pretty structured So I work for a company if we haven't so
There's three that I give.
The one is the most popular one is the one that you would expect when you come to Chicago.
Like if you had one day and you would go see Michigan Avenue and the Bean and Millennium Park and you'd go down State Street and you'd see the Chicago Theater and the Wrigley Building and all that kind of stuff, Marina Towers.
I give another one.
This is on bikes and this one goes through like five different neighborhoods.
It starts down in
like Streeterville, where the John Hancock building goes, goes all the way up to Wrigley Field.
And we go through several different neighborhoods.
We go through Lake View and Lincoln Park.
And
I love giving that one because it really gives people a chance to see where Chicagoans live.
I always tell my groups, if you've got more than one day, you need to get out into the neighborhoods.
You
need
to get into Logan Square and Wicker Park and Edgewater because that's where that's where Chicagoans live.
You know, it's like, I always tell you, I go, we don't, for the most part, we don't live on Michigan Avenue.
Right.
Just like you go to New York City, you know, people don't live in Times Square.
They live on the Upper West Side and down in the village and so forth.
So I could spend, I've spent a lot of the summer going to neighborhood festivals.
And I love them because they're all like that that weekend, the neighborhood, I don't care how much crime there is in the neighborhood or how they always put their best foot forward.
Yeah.
You know, it's like, oh, I'm going to taste of Cabrini.
this weekend.
That's gonna be awesome.
You know, an Englewood Fest was great.
I would do that too.
Typically when I go there now, I do the more touristy things or go to Second City or the zoo or whatever, but yeah, give me a tavern on a corner in a great neighborhood, man.
That's the stuff I miss the
most.
A BYOB restaurant, an ethnic restaurant.
To me, that's city living.
We are coming right back with Greg Schwem.
We're going to tell you about a really cool event he is part of to help raise funds for cancer.
That is coming up next after the news.
This is Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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That is tomorrow night on Nightlight right now.
We're gonna get back to our guest, Greg Schwem.
He's a syndicated columnist.
He writes his own column called The Humor Hotel.
And you can check out his work on Tribune Media Services.
He has really funny stuff there.
insightful as well.
And he joins us tonight.
We're going to talk about a really cool event he has coming up at Zany's in Chicago.
I know we have some Chicago listeners, and we'll ask Greg, what is this?
How did this come about, Greg?
First of all, tell us what it is.
It's for colorectal cancer, the Alliance.
Tell us what it is.
Yeah, so this is, it's actually at Zany's Rosemont, though it's the bigger of
the rooms,
the room right by the O'Hare airport.
So I became a
colon cancer survivor in February of 24, I had a cancerous tumor removed.
And after that, I started to, I got a totally clean bill of health, which was a great thing.
And after that, I started to kind of get involved in fundraising and sort of lend my efforts to live events where we were trying to raise money.
I did, I co-hosted something called the Blue Hope Bash back in May.
And I asked,
some of the folks who work for the Colorectal Cancer Alliance full time, have you ever had a stand-up comedy event?
And they said, no, we've never actually never had one in the whole country, which I found
little bit odd,
just seems like such a natural way to raise money.
And I said, well, I would like to be the one to organize the very first one.
So in Chicago here, there's a WGNTV, there is a reporter named Mike Lowe.
And he also, he had stage three colon cancer and he is doing great as well.
But I reached out to him and I said, you know, you're on television and so forth and would you like to lend your efforts to it?
And he said, sure.
And then I was doing some jokes in some of my shows about just going through surgery and so forth and trying to find some things to laugh at about.
And I was working with a comedian.
named Jason Cross, who's a Chicago guy.
And he said, you know, I've had experience with it too.
And I thought, well, okay, we should all just get together here.
I thought it would be interesting to have everybody on the bill have had a, what we call it a journey.
a personal journey.
And yet we're all fine and we're all healthy and we're all showing that we're willing to laugh at it.
So the event is called Laugh Your Ass Off.
How
appropriate is that, Craig?
Come on.
Exactly.
But
let's just call it what it is.
And all the money that we're raising is going to go to the colorectal cancer alliance.
So I'm headlining Jason's featuring.
Mike's going to MC.
And we just can't wait.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
It's this coming Sunday, September 21st at 6 p.m.
at Zany's Rosemont.
And again, for your Chicago listeners, for your ones that are even just over the border, come on down.
I mean, it's not that far of a trek for people living in southern Wisconsin.
And I'm getting so many...
I'm getting so many calls and emails from people are saying, well, you know, I'm coming because my dad had colon cancer or my mom died of colon cancer.
And this would be a great way to help support that.
So if you know of somebody who had it or if it's, you know, this is a very common form of cancer.
It's the second leading cause of death among cancer.
patients, but it's also one of the most treatable forms of cancer if it's caught early.
So
it's a little bit of an awareness show as well.
Wow.
Well, I wish you luck.
I hope you pack the joint.
And as Greg mentioned, it's this Sunday, September 21st at 6pm at Zany's in Rosemont.
That's a beautiful room, the newest of the Zany's.
I love that room.
And everybody talks about how they don't like the downtown room.
It only seats like 90 people and you're cramped in there.
I love it.
I love the nostalgia.
Way up on top.
Yeah.
But well,
you know what that room used to be, right?
Yeah, it was like a was it a strip club or they
should strip or no there or something like that.
It was
a club.
Yeah.
I've had I've always felt that room.
So I think you like that room better than me.
I've always felt like I was doing well, but not great.
You know, like, like, like it could turn at any minute.
Yes.
Well, third show Saturday, you're counting the minutes to get through that, you know.
Totally.
Well, I always thought, I always thought for me, the worst show, I think this is true at any comedy club, but particularly big city clubs.
I always think second show Friday.
Yeah, that's true.
Late show, because my, my, here's my theory about late shows on Friday.
I always feel like everybody in the audience.
None of them planned to be there.
You know, the cab driver just, the Uber just threw them out in front of a club.
Like I've had it with you guys and they're just like, oh, well, let's go in here.
On Saturday, you plan your event.
That's true.
Like we're going to go see comedy on Saturday.
You don't know what the hell you're doing on Friday night.
Yeah.
Friday you start at happy hour at like four and then by 10 o'clock you're hammered.
Yeah.
And then you find yourself as a heckler.
You know, I'm pretty funny.
Right.
This is great, Greg.
It's called the, uh, it's for colorectal cancer.
It's the colorectal cancer or alliance this Sunday.
How do people get tickets, Greg?
You know, they can, they can go to the Zany's Rosemont website.
Um, and, uh, that would probably be the best way.
You just, you know, if you don't know what that is, just Google Zany's Rosemont.
They're the, uh,
There's a link to tickets out there and they're $37.
And as they said, all the money, I'll be doing a book signing afterwards.
All of the money raised does go to, we're all doing this, you know, we are all volunteering our time as we should be.
And all the money is going to go to people who need it and also just for a
cause.
That's great.
I know you're a standup guy.
I didn't think you were pulling like a crusty the clown, like, folks, those limos don't pay for themselves.
Greg Schwem is my guest.
Check out his work.
He writes the column humor hotel.
You can see all of his articles at Tribune Media Services.
All right.
I want to bring this up, Greg, because I thought you said you had an article.
It's coming out.
So that's a perfect time to plug your column.
Greg has an article coming up about the woman who ran over and bullied a father into giving
heard the foul ball at a Phillies game.
And it's so we are so polarized.
It's so funny how everyone says she's a liberal.
She's a conservative who she's just out of control, whatever she
is.
And, you know, the dad like I would love I can't wait to read your article.
But what did you think about the incident?
Well,
you know, the thing about is every time and we've we've been seeing stuff like this all summer.
You know, I mean, there was the U.S.
Open tennis where I was signing and the guy grabs the hat.
But there have been a couple of the ball incidents, too.
And I guess, and here's why I started thinking about it.
I was in Atlanta last week, as I said, and I went to a Cubs Braves game in Atlanta.
And I'm sitting in the left field.
They don't call the bleachers out there, but they're equivalent of the bleachers.
And I'm in the second row, and there's a guy in front of me.
So he's in the first row.
This is a fully grown adult and he's got a glove.
He's got a, he's got a baseball glove.
And so I said to him, I go, okay, I go, cause I like to talk to everybody around me.
And I go, if you get a ball, cause he's obviously ready for one,
I
go, what are you going to do with it?
He goes, I'm going to give it to a kid.
And I go exactly, which I think is pretty.
Big of him to have the glove.
I thought when I saw the guy with the glove, he didn't strike me as somebody who would give a ball away.
You know, it's like if you bring a glove to a game, you're there.
It's
just a
baseball nerd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But think about it, Pete.
If you're nine years old and you get a ball from a game, you're going to bring it to school the next day.
sleep with it.
You're going to let every kid.
touch it and grip it.
You're going to do the same thing and you're going to be like the king of the school.
And that's great.
But if you're an adult, okay, if you're a fully grown adult, what are you going to do with a baseball unless it's like Mark McGuire, 70th.
home run
know are you gonna like bring it to a party and like hey you everybody look what I got you know and like the host is gonna look at you like um I was kind of hoping you'd bring a vegetable tray but yeah thanks for bringing the baseball we you know we seriously what is she gonna do with the with the with a foul ball
well and she didn't get it
I'm sorry.
No, you didn't get there first.
That's kind of how the whole thing works.
It's like saying, well, you know, I really meant to win the lottery.
I just didn't.
Yeah, I was planning to go.
I was right behind the guy in the grocery.
Right.
They got the winning ticket.
I agree.
So but yeah, I just it's like, seriously, what what we what are you what.
What is she going to do with that baseball
she got it?
Is she going to take it home?
Is she going to mount it?
Is she going to frame it?
Is she going to look at it every night before she goes to sleep?
At what point do things like that stop having value?
What point in your adult life?
I know.
And I don't know how everybody's judging her.
She's going to go into work and people are like, oh.
Morning like
you
exactly like if she just came out and said you know in the heat of the moment I messed up.
I'm sorry Here's the ball people probably go.
Okay.
I could see that, you know, but
that's the way to go Hey, I would definitely I mean I would give a ball to a kid I would look around.
Oh, yeah And who knows I might you know, I might be with all these other people grabbing for the ball But if I did come up with it, right, I would immediately go around and at the Braves Cubs game There was a kid sitting like three with his parents.
He was probably like four
sitting with his parents, and I would have loved to have just said, hey, buddy, take that.
Have a great evening, you know?
Don't you almost hope you get that opportunity?
I do.
I do.
I want that to happen.
I want to be a hero, damn it.
Yes.
Hey, you also, I did not, this is one of the articles I didn't get to read, but you said you had a take on the kiss cam.
at the Coldplay concert.
Tell me what that was.
And I got to find the article.
Well, I said the, the article was, uh, uh, advice from the Coldplay kiss cam guy from a guy who's never, ever been there.
So I think, you know, I, I basically, I basically said that this guy should start like his own business.
for people who the same thing, like how not for this to happen and what you should do if it does.
Because there's been books written about people who've been shamed on the internet, five people who have been shamed on the internet.
And I thought to this guy, it's like, you've got to turn this into a positive some way.
And I gave a bunch of advice for the guy, but it was, yeah, that came out.
That was another thing, bad stadium behavior.
That's what I said.
I'm trying to remember how I worded it in the baseball column.
you know, they were behaving badly or in the case of the kiss cam guy unfaithfully.
That was his thing.
You know, it's one of those things where I'm like, God, if he had just like put his head into the back of her hair to hide his face, like instead of making a big production.
And when did it become this, Greg?
Like what?
Like obviously, okay, they're fooling around.
That's not cool.
I get it.
But he has to resign.
The company says, oh,
We don't we're better than no listen this happens everywhere if somebody can get big big savings They don't give a damn what the CEO is doing at that company.
I agree as long as the stock price keeps going.
Yes
Yeah, who cares?
I
agree.
I agree.
The knee jerk reaction we have sometimes is just out of control.
We hate that
guy.
We hate that guy that we all worked for that gave us good lives.
A bit
of an escalation.
And
great Christmas bonuses.
That
guy's a jerk.
Greg, we have about a minute left.
Do you have any other live dates coming up or anything you want to pitch or your book?
Tell us where we
can see the book.
Yeah, the book is the book, which I'm going to be signing copies of it.
The colon cancer benefits.
So the book is it's actually been out about a year now, but people buy it and I like that.
So it's my latest book is Turning Gut Punches into Punchlines, a comedians journey through cancer, divorce and other hilarious
stuff.
Oh my gosh.
And it's been it was it was it was fun to write.
It wasn't easy to write, but it was fun to write and and people are
I get emails every now and then from people saying, I really enjoyed your book.
And it helped me a lot.
So you can get that on Amazon.
Well, right now, I'm more worried about the sunburn, even though you've been through a lot.
Yeah.
Take care of that.
You know what?
I'm starting to get worried about it, too.
I just want to keep this glow all the way through February.
Allo up, and we'll have you back on soon, buddy.
Great talking to you.
Have a great night, Greg.
All right.
Check out the event at Zany's on Sunday night.
We'll recap that when we come back.
It's Pete Schwabbit and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Welcome back.
I'm Pete Schwab, but this is Nightlight.
We are winding down this Wednesday.
Conrad, do you know who Eric Adams, Eric, I'm sorry, Eric Andrews is?
That I don't, is that?
We've got four one four here says Eric Andrews.
He was white chicks.
Everybody hates Chris Friday after next.
She's talking about Terry Crews.
Crews, Terry Crews was in the White Chicks.
Everybody
Chris.
All right, sometimes these texts get so crazy.
They get discombobulated.
We need Dan Schaeffer to come here and recombobulate.
Yeah, I think so.
Look at this stream.
It's flipping out unless that's the thing you're doing.
It's a crazy ghost chair.
Conrad's mom checks in and says, Terry Crews, another one for Terry Crews.
He's doing a great job as the host of America's Got Talent.
Thank you, Paula.
He is funny.
He was the guy in the Old Spice commercials too, right?
Yes.
Was that him?
Maybe.
part.
Monica from Mount Horib and the 608 says, don't remember if you said professional or just athlete.
Had to look it up, but Jason Statham was an Olympic diver.
Okay.
I think.
Yeah, Mike, I thought said he was a swimmer, but she says, I'm a bit obsessed with him.
That's okay, Monica.
We all have our show biz crushes.
John Murray in Madison says, OJ, damn the luck.
He hurt my heart when stuff hit the fan.
Yeah, that was, I mean... It more than just... It was just the awful thing in American history.
John said he was good and it seemed unlikely, but respectable cameo performances by terrifying linebacker for the Bears, Dick Butkus, were always fun.
That's true of cameo.
He was good, but I remember he was like in stuff and I was like, come on.
John also says there was a special feeling you would get when he acted in a civilized manner.
Dick Buckets, I think he's still, John's a Dick Buckets fan.
Dick Buckets used to be the color guy on the bear broadcasts and all he would do was go, come on, get him.
It's like, okay, thank you for the insights.
Steady Eddie in the 608 says, Pete, two best athletes turned to actors, Dick Pigskin-Wilson, all pro-middle linebacker for the Detroit Lions in the 1950s, who later played Mr. Whipple.
The police don't squeeze the Charmin guy.
Did we just do this with Steady Eddie?
He says, I lied.
Yeah.
This is
an old text, or
is he like plagiarizing
himself?
Just keep going.
All right.
He says, I lied.
Dick Wilson never played football, but he certainly could squeeze the Charmin with the best of them.
That's what she said.
Honorable mention.
This one is somewhat true.
Pete Bigdunker Schwabba.
I almost made a very serious reading error there.
Pete Bigdunker Schwabba, legendary playground pickup basketballer who would later go on to direct produce and star in the acclaimed movie, The Godfather of Green Bay.
Note, nickname Big Dunker relates more to Pete's prowess with a chocolate donut and a cup of Joe than his basketball abilities.
Steady Eddie knows me well.
They honor and celebrate Mr. Schwabba at Dunkin Donuts every time he walks through the door.
Eddie, let's start something there.
Steady Eddie, great text.
Said he brought it tonight for sure All right, so you are this is weird.
I'm not gonna say anything before I know what happened, but Jimmy Kimmel has been fired.
getting out of hand All right, I'm gonna save my judgment until I know the full facts, but we do have a clip I'm gonna let you set this up because I haven't seen this
Well, it I was looking for some clips, you know today like actors that or athletes that did some bad acting and a lot of it was Shaquille O'Neal
Yeah.
And this clip came up and I thought it was hilarious.
And it's Gary Oldman on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
And I think that's how it's set up.
It's just, it's great.
Sweet.
If we've learned anything from Shaq, it's that when an NBA player acts, it doesn't usually turn out well.
But now finally, someone is doing something about it.
Hi, I'm Gary Oldman, actor.
Some of you may know me from such films as Dracula, Air Force One and Kung Fu Panda 2.
I just as a professional basketball player, spends hours on the court, mastering every aspect of his game.
I, Gary Oldman, studied acting for many years to perfect my craft.
And just as I, Gary Oldman, actor would never try and join a NBA team just because I'm famous, I, Gary Oldman, would very much appreciate it if professional basketball players would stay the f***!
Out of movies.
Who the hell told you you could act?
The director on your power aid commercial.
You're not acting.
Some of you can't even speak English.
You suck.
Get it.
You suck.
See how I did that?
That's what I think.
You feel your emotion?
I can
do that.
You can.
The director of your Powerade commercial.
It's so funny.
Gorgeous.
When was that?
How old was
Oh man, that's funny.
you
no one listened to Gary Oldman.
You know what would be funny though is if like, I think it would be funny if Gary Oldman.
tried to play basketball, that would probably be funnier because the professional acting would just kind of be like, oh, come on, seriously, you're wasting my time, but him doing basketball.
Did he really?
Oh, that's very funny.
He was, what was the clip we played of him where they kept adding the fart, that was Colbert interviewing him and he said, because they were talking about him on Slow Horses where his character is kind of just this,
A grotesque guy who farts and doesn't really wash.
And Gary Oldman is a great sense of humor.
He was laughing hysterically.
All right, folks, coming up, we have a great picture tonight.
Wendell Love, nice couple.
not a kiss cam couple
facebook go like it on facebook uh just like us on facebook we like to be liked um coming up tomorrow night is uh victoria davis will be here making the popcorn pick of the week where we give you a movie pick that you can watch over the weekend and civic media sports authority mike clements will be here in studio i am jazzed about that it'll be good to see mike in person and uh we'll do all that tomorrow night on behalf of the lovable producer conrad we'd like to thank our guests mike mcgill
And great Schwem.
We'll be back tomorrow night.
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