Sports, Sneezes, and Sweet Treats (Hour 1)

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Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Friday, everybody.

We are coming to you from beautiful Green Bay.

It is another gorgeous day.

Is this Wisconsin?

I don't even know.

Is this the Midwest?

What is happening?

Is the world ending?

That's a question for you, Conrad.

Uh, I don't think so.

All right, good.

Let's take the good weather.

Yeah.

Can take it anywhere you, you know, I hope it's better tomorrow so I can go golfing maybe one last time.

I hope this doesn't mean it's going to be a horrible winter.

Like we'll be punished for having a great fall by 18,000 inches of snow or bitter cold.

But for anyway, right now, let's just enjoy it, folks.

It's great to have you here.

And I hope you had a wonderful Friday, a big weekend, a fun weekend, great movies opening.

There is nothing not to be thrilled about.

We have great movies opening in our theaters There is a Cubs Brewers game tomorrow nights some game 5 baseball the Badgers take on the Iowa Hawkeyes You've got NFL football

So much exciting stuff, and it should be a gorgeous weekend.

If you're not into sports or movies or anything, take a walk.

Enjoy the fall colors.

Just an amazing weekend on hand.

No reason not to enjoy it.

And let us help you ease into it.

We got a really fun show tonight.

I'm excited to welcome a couple guys, actually three guys, but once here all the time anyway.

His name is Conrad Grieger.

And we will...

Welcome two of his cohorts in a new sports show here at Civic Media called Make the Call.

Greg Anderson and Parker Olson will join me at 635.

And the two of them and Conrad will tell me all and you all about this really cool new sports show.

It's a sports round table and it's going to cover all kinds of sports happening here in Wisconsin from pros down to high school.

We'll get into that and have a fun discussion and tell you more about it so that you can listen.

When does it hit the air con?

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow's the first episode.

Yes 7

a.m.

Look at that great timing.

You can check it out on the civic media We also have a podcast being posted on the website as well.

Do you want to check it out later?

Okay on the civic media website.

Yes.

All right very good Well, that's good to know so those guys will be here at 630.

We'll have a great.

We'll have a great talk about this new show Jimmy Cusco is involved Mike Clemens might appear from time to time you got top to bottom talent and it's gonna be a blast

At 705, there's a really cool event happening at a really cool venue in Madison.

The Bounty is a vintage clothing shop and they're doing a really cool event for a new series.

They're hoping to get on the air that the Overture Center is involved with and it involves classical music.

I'll tell you all about it.

It's 705, a really fun event tomorrow night in Madison if you're around.

And then it is a bar band Friday night.

Terry Barr will be here with great tunes like she always brings and really fun conversation.

We love our Friday nights with Terry here at Nightlight.

So...

With that in mind, it's weird when people walk up to the window and one guy left and he came back and he pulled something out and it was a camera, but I'm like, do I hit the deck here or what?

You don't know what the crazies are going to do, right?

I think they're going to steal

your

likeness.

Did you see that?

They could steal that.

Just don't kill me.

That guy that just walked by, he had the triumvirate.

I love it.

He had the Packers hat, sweatshirt, and sweatpants on.

Oh, that's great.

Any time a dude, a grown man, wears all three things of his team like that, and not just Packers, whatever team.

I don't know, man.

You're okay with that, though.

You know, my favorite thing is when you go to a game, it doesn't matter what team it is, and they're just dressed in full pads.

They got the shoulder pads.

You haven't seen that?

I mean the last time I was at a pro football game was probably ten years ago.

I

mean they show it on TV.

It's like

guys.

Oh wow.

There was a guy

this year that dressed in full pads.

He had the knee pads, thigh pads, shoulder pads and helmet.

That's really strange.

You know when I was younger and I played football I used to put a Ladanian Tomlinson jersey on over my shoulder pads.

Okay.

Just start

plowing over

people.

Not people, the things in my yard with the football.

Conrad, this is a grocery store relax.

That's funny.

We've got, well while we're on the topic of sports, let's get into the Cubs Brewers right away because

I know you're frustrated, but very frustrated.

If you're a network right now or like, it's just, it's a series and it's, I know Brewer fans are very nervous.

I still think you have the edge going into a game five.

Your, your pitchers are probably fresher than the Cubs, I'm guessing.

We went through a decent amount of pitchers.

Yeah, what's his name leader hosin or whatever it was new ski.

What's his name?

Mr. Oskie, that's

it But he throws heat yeah, he does he can get up to 105 and

he's

fresh He didn't

pitch last night.

Did he

no no he pitched game to and now he's

Now how many innings can you get out?

I'm hoping

I'm hoping at least like six tomorrow.

Oh,

wow

I'm

hoping it's not like a bullpen game where they just keep

Putting the new pitchers

I think that's what the Cubs are gonna have to do there They're gonna have to like do an inning or two at a time and maybe that will be effective,

but you know the biggest thing I didn't like last night was that That lineup that the Brewers had was very questionable I didn't like Bryce Terrang batting at the cleanup spot.

That wasn't my favorite Kristen Yelich leading off wasn't my favorite either haven't they been doing that he let off

Jackson Cheerio

was

the leadoff for when we had the first game one and game two when we you know a hot bat hot bats Jackson Cheerio let off.

Okay,

and we'll we'll contrast it was batting in the clean-up spot and it's just Jory oh joy or tease I Love your glove you can you know your gold gold glove Yeah contender, but I don't like the bat

Well, it's funny because I didn't even think it was gonna be a series.

I thought in the way the Cubs are playing the way the Cubs are playing I was like I just hope they get a game and then they got the game and we were saying last night I thought the Brewers were gonna come out hungry not wanting a game 5 That's the weird.

That's the weird thing about the series like the Cubs are completely outclassed in the first two games Then last night the Brewers couldn't even score a run and now we're at game 5 and it's like as a sports fan

I love it and I'm sure we all have our teams we want to win, but it's a series and it's a fun rivalry and somebody pointed out last night It only started and I forget about this sometimes in like 1998 or something the Brewers are still in the American League before that

Yeah, you know, you know what was really cool though that the Yankees lost.

Yeah, that was nice

Here that leads me to my next my buddy Mike Schmidt posted this and I'm not picking on Mike But like I can't stand when people post vague social media comments like he's like

I'm so sad tonight.

I can't believe this happened.

All my Saturdays are free now or something like, oh my God, what happened?

I'm looking at the comments.

People are saying so sorry.

Like they knew what he meant.

He was talking, he's a big Phillies fan.

And that was a horrible, I could not, did you see the end of

that game?

I think that pitcher had a little anxiety attack at the

end.

Something.

Yeah, he just chucked it away.

That's like little

league stuff.

There were two outs, right?

He could have, he could have threw that underhand and made a better throw.

He could have done that, but if there's two outs, he had plenty of time to throw to first.

And that's little league stuff.

Where am I going with it if it's hit to me?

And he just blanked.

Yeah,

I think he just was in that moment, had a little anxiety attack.

I would have acted a lot

cooler.

I have a friend that's a Phillies fan and he, you know, wasn't happy.

If you're a Phillies

fan, that's like the worst.

That's a tough way to end the season.

It is.

And it's like.

And for Mike I feel bad, but like I it took me 20 minutes because he's a friend I wanted to try to find out what's going on He's talking about a damn sporting event.

I thought he had a death in the family or something But that's how people get on social media.

They do that on Twitter, too Well, this isn't good like what what are you talking like nobody just knows what you're talking about?

You know what I did tweet last night.

What I wish I wasn't born in

Wisconsin

Wait a minute.

The Brewers lose a game that's not even a series defining the end of a series and you wish you weren't born here?

That's a little bit of an overreaction.

I've had so much heartbreak

in

the state with sports.

Oh, get out.

Listen, dude.

OK.

And I'm coming to you like this.

Like, this state, Wisconsin has had pretty good for, I think Milwaukee is one of the smallest markets in basketball and baseball, right?

Yeah.

All right, they just won NBA championship.

Like that's pretty

sweet.

I was kidding, but you

know, I know, but

still, you know, well, the Brewers is tough because they never won something.

That I get.

But like the Packers have two championships in the last, what, 30 years.

Maybe they should have had more, you could argue, but still two Super Bowls.

So you got to see that in the smallest market in the NFL.

Then you got to see a Bucks champ.

I mean, I don't think you're devoid.

I could say I wish Milwaukee was in Illinois.

What would

that do?

Then I would cheer for the other alumni too.

Listen, I'm just happy to be here.

I don't know if you guys are like this.

When I sneeze, it is literally from the innards of my soul.

Yeah.

And I can't, I like.

I want everybody closes their eyes when they sneeze, but I inherited this from my dad It's just a huge sneeze is like a full body experience and today on the freeway or on the highway I double sneezed my eyes were closed for like two minutes.

It was terrifying It was horrible and I try to open them.

You know, yeah, then you break your corpuscles or whatever they are

But can you imagine hitting another car and- Sorry, I was sneezing.

Yeah, what's your story son?

You had too much drink, no officer, I had a really big sneeze.

I guarantee no one's ever said that.

I think, I think you get a certain age and you just get that big sneeze at some point.

Yeah, I guess so.

Or maybe- I guess

sneeze is pretty loud

too.

Does he?

Yeah, I hope I never have to sneeze that loud.

Dude, you're gonna have to.

I kind of do a little quiet one.

Not like that.

I benched 275, but this is how I sneeze.

All right, it's time for the nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

Well, this is exciting, folks.

It's National Angel Food Cake Day, and it's also National Cake Decorating Day.

So our question tonight is what is your favorite kind of cake frosting to please please include frosting 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic you can text us on the app or on drop us a stream comment if you're watching the radio on YouTube Facebook or X It's a it's a fun question leading into the weekend where everybody has their cheat day.

You can think about a nice big piece of moist cake

And I'm gonna go first and I'm gonna say chocolate devil's food cake with cream cheese frosting I could eat an entire cake myself like that and believe me.

I've tried What about you?

You know, I don't know what I haven't had cake in a while at least this type of cake Yeah, I can't remember if there's frosting on it or not, but ice cream cake.

Yeah ice cream cakes outstanding

That's like I believe my brother doesn't like regular cake.

That's why we had ice cream cake when we were

Younger when we had birthdays.

I don't think I've ever heard of that before somebody doesn't like cake especially a

kid.

I can't remember if I think it was him But that was like my childhood so I don't but

give me ice cream cake

ice cream cake like all birthdays that I've had and Oh Dairy Queen makes some good.

Oh Dairy Queen and then there's that brand Caravelle or something those are really good too and there's a grocery store in

Marinette Jacks, they have just individual pieces of cake.

And I think it's Carnival.

I think it's a company from New York.

They make this like rainbow cake with like, ooh, it's so good.

And then you got like actual sugar in the frosting.

So it's kind of crunchy, really good stuff.

But let us know what your favorite cake is tonight, folks.

That's our question of the night.

And please include frosting, cake and frosting.

The assignment is too pronged.

Let me know.

855-752-4842.

We are coming back to read your texts.

And I am going to tell you something.

Let's talk about the tush bush

interesting

development

since we're

doing a sports thing tonight.

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This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, a Friday night version.

You're almost there, folks.

Actually, you're probably there.

We're almost there.

We've got a little ways to go here before the weekend, but a big one on tap.

As I mentioned before, there's all kinds of sporting events.

There's great movies opening this weekend.

Roof Man with Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst looks really cool based on a true story about a guy who robs McDonald's stores by drilling in through the roof, a veteran.

who has this skill, I guess, and it's based on a true story.

He's getting great reviews, and it sounds really cool.

And then last night's popcorn pick of the week was from Matt Miller, who's a Milwaukee film critic, and we had a lot of fun talking to Matt, and he recommended the movie Good Boy, which is a PG-13 rated thriller about a dog, and it's all... The dog is like a hero, and it's all told from the point of view of the dog, and that's getting excellent reviews.

So...

Good movies, lots of cool sports events, and a gorgeous weather weekend.

So maybe our question, Conrad, should have been, what are your plans this weekend?

Because frankly, you're spoiled for choice.

But we went in a different direction.

We decided to celebrate cake.

It's national, is it an angel food cake?

What is it?

It's something cake.

And it's also national.

There's two, this is an equinox when these two holidays or these two national days fall on the same day.

It's National Cake Decorating Day and National Angel Food Cake Day, I believe.

Sorry.

You know what you can do to celebrate National Decorating Cake Day?

Please.

You

can watch the new Netflix show.

Is it K. Halloween Edition?

Oh, man.

I'm so not watching that.

Come on.

You can gather the family.

Watch that around.

If

I gathered my family to watch something like that, they'd be like, is that OK?

Because they know I wouldn't watch something like that.

You like those cooking

shows?

No.

You know, I did like the Gordon Ramsay ones where it was hotel hell is what it was called.

Oh,

yeah.

You

try to fix hotels that also have restaurants.

Right.

And it'd just always be hilarious, even though it was probably, you know, planned or whatever.

Right.

You want to

give a blow up or something.

Well, our question tonight is what is your favorite kind of cake?

And please include a frosting choice.

And it was an angel food cake.

I forgot.

I temporarily forgot, but it's National Angel Food Cake and Cake Decorating Day, Big Cake Day.

I wanted to touch on this though because, and correct me if I'm wrong, I just glanced at the headline, but did the Eagles try four push pushes in a row and they came up broke?

Yep.

Wow.

That is all the more reason that I'm glad they didn't outlaw that.

No, actually, they didn't come up broke.

They did get a touchdown, but they tried it four times in a row and finally got it.

So it can be stopped.

I mean, if you

I never understood that let's stop the tush push like defend it

It's it's funny that's you know Packers were among the teams that wanted

that's right

and now a lot of people want to like it's it's a headline of Should it have been banned at the beginning of the year and people were like making fun of the Packers for asking that to be banned

But what's the difference between a quarterback sneak and the tush push, except guys are behind?

I mean, when a running back is about to be stopped, the guys come up.

I mean, you got to outlaw all that.

It just opens up a can of worms.

The

one thing I'll say is, you know, it can be done, but it has to be done like right.

It's the one thing that they're talking about now is how every single time you watch the Eagles do it, there's someone false starting in the, the refs don't call it

every

time.

So, call it.

That is the biggest thing about it right now that they're talking about.

I guess.

I mean, either call it or defend it.

Get your pad level low, whatever all those cliches are.

I mean, that's the whole game is trying to run the ball down the other team's throat.

You can't take away a play that is the epitome of that.

I don't understand that.

So, it's so, you know, fast and everyone's light up against each other, super, like,

together.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

That's why it's hard for the rest to see who's gonna fall start on it, but then they replay like yeah,

it's

a

start

you know, but exactly I honestly Think it will be Ben next year after this year after how many false starts they've missed on it

What's the neck try not to be so aggressive out there guys And I'm not one of those guys.

I'm not like I just think it's a little snowflakey.

That's the game.

No, I

I just don't agree with the false starts that are happening.

Of course.

The play is fine to me because it works.

Right.

Every time.

And kudos to the person who designed, I mean, that's your whole, as an offensive coordinator, that's your whole job is to find a cool play, you know.

Here's the other thing I thought was funny from the world of sports.

I guess LeBron James said he's got a big announcement.

Did you see this?

I know what you're going to say.

People are like, oh, is he retiring?

Is he moving teams?

Well, he just announced a new line of whiskey or bourbon.

Hennessy.

Hennessy.

Yeah.

And some guy got really ticked off.

Some fan bought tickets because he thought it was going to be LeBron's last seat.

He anticipated and spent all this money and that wasn't it.

Well, again, that's not LeBron's fault.

That's all people do is hype themselves up in the media or try to get publicity and stuff like that.

And this guy's mad because he went out and.

Try to read my

mind.

He spent eight hundred fifty-three dollars on tickets because obviously the Lakers didn't even know so they brought up the prices for the final game of the year And now and now did you see what he's doing the suing right?

I

hope it goes to court Our question that I folks is what is your favorite kind of cake?

Frosting too, please.

I said chocolate devil's food cake with the cream cheese frosting my all-time favorite you can even sprinkle some red and green Sugar on there too and give it a little crunch like my mom used to do at Christmas Conrad says ice cream cake also dynamite Janet on social media says white cake with white buttercream frosting

Mmm, that sounds good.

It does sound

good.

I do as I get older I do kind of like white cake.

I always preferred chocolate, but

Getting an affinity for white cake George on social media says what would happen if you mix angel food cake and devil's food cake?

Mixed together You'd have a human being with two sides a very conflicted Very conflicted individual like me George

Eat the cake.

Shut up.

Mike Desitel on social media says my favorite cake is a pancake.

My favorite topping is with fresh strawberries.

Very well

done, Mike.

That's awesome, too.

Well, let us know what your favorite kind of cake is, folks, and frosting.

When we come back, we're going to talk about the new Civic Media Sports Show.

Make the call with three contributors, one of whom is sitting across the glass from me.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

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and gentlemen, my name is Rich Lucasio.

You're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I would like to introduce to you the pine tree mauler from Marinette, Wisconsin.

He is Pete Schwabba.

Did you do that because that was like kind of borderline sports really?

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

I am Pete Schwabba, and that was the lovely and talented Rich Lucasio with the tag there.

So this is exciting, folks.

It's a Bar Band Friday night.

Terry Barr is coming up at 7.35 with new music and outstanding conversation, as always.

And we've got a really cool thing happening in Madison this weekend.

We're going to talk about at 7.05.

But right now, I'm...

Excited to welcome two of my next two guests.

They are headed your way.

There's a new sports show, and it's called Make the Call, and Conrad Krieger is involved, right?

That's correct.

Pretty exciting.

And the show is being brought to you by Civic Media, of course, and joining me now to discuss our two of its main contributors, in addition to another, several others.

Contributors, right?

We got Mike Clemens, Jimmy Cusco.

Yeah.

All right.

Wow.

I'm like the only person not involved in this show.

I guess I shouldn't be offended or anything, but it's my pleasure to welcome Greg Anderson and Parker Olson, two fellow civic media colleagues.

Welcome, guys.

Thank you, Pete.

Thank you for having us, Pete.

Oh, my pleasure.

So, okay.

So before we jump into the show, and it sounds really cool, but tell me a little bit about yourselves individually first, like a little background, if you would.

Parker, do you want to go first?

Because we should get the impressive resume out there at the front.

You have to stop building me up like that, man.

So yeah, with the sports background on me, I'm straight out of college.

I just graduated from UW Whitewater in May.

And over there, I was doing a bunch of sports coverage.

I was writing for the Royal Purple, is the student newspaper there.

Then I was using social media a bunch.

for how much I use social media to cover like the big whitewater sports that actually got me a little bit of attention and people started to realize like, oh, that guy can actually kind of talk sports.

Cool.

Okay.

Oh,

really?

Cool.

All right.

That's fun.

Nice.

Um, they, uh, doing that earned me the nickname whitewater woj.

If you're familiar with Adrian Wojnowski,

I'm known

as whitewater woj.

That's hilarious.

So.

So yeah, I was doing a bunch of that.

He's on my, one of the podcast, sports podcast.

I think he used to, Adrian Wojnarowski, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He covers the bulls.

I think he covered the bulls for Yahoo or something.

And they would say he came on the air and dropped Woj bombs.

Oh yeah.

A little bit of a stretch, but it cracked me up.

So, well, that's cool.

What

about you?

Yeah, for sure.

What about you, Gray?

Well, I'm afraid I don't have a surname like Wojnarowski to build up Nor a resume like Parker's but frankly the my best my best Contribution and resume note as a member of the make-the-call team is is as a fan.

So I actually within civic media.

I'm primarily

I talk between songs I show up on three of our different music stations and just give a little local personality between the songs of varying types I do two country stations and one adult hits 80s 90s and now type thing and I basically was given the reins on on 13 hours a day of radio and they said

hey talk about

what you want right keep it local and I thought okay this this is you know

It might be too much.

It might be too little.

We'll see when I start writing things down.

And what do you know I had plenty to say?

And it was mostly about football.

So finally, a couple of weeks ago, I got an email after spending months over the course of two years on these programs, just one hour a day, Packers Update, a little bit NFL, from the perspective of the ignorant fan who seeks to learn specifically.

I lead with the fact that I don't know, but here's what I just learned.

And I think you'll think it's cool.

And even if you don't care about football,

You'll probably like this.

And that turned into an email from our sports director saying, hey, we're actually going to have you do this on purpose now.

And I got to meet Conrad and Parker.

Oh, that's fantastic.

All right, Kahn, since you're part of this operation too, a little background, please, if you would, regarding, I mean, we know you on this show, but you're a huge sports fan and you have a sports background.

You played sport, right?

I played sports,

yes.

I mean, it goes back to when I was young, you know, I watched sports all the time as a little kid, watching it with my father and my mom.

in in college I primarily I went to school for journalism and with that I just went full sports on every single thing I wrote every single video I made everything like that did stuff for Milwaukee baseball the UWM team the Panthers yeah go Panthers

nice

so I just I'm a huge sports fan and I love to write about it love to talk about it so

That's excellent.

This is such a great idea and we'll get into the show now.

But I remember when I would be a guest on shows and I would go in and these guys would have their favorite team sweatshirt on and a baseball hat.

And then they talked about sports and that was their job.

I'm like, this is the coolest thing ever.

So tell us about the show, make the call.

I love the title.

What will the format be like?

Round table the in a one-word answer round table is the idea and that's part of why that's part of why Jimmy Cusco was so comfortable Well, he did want to be here certainly he was comfortable missing because he said that this is not his show and I'm kind of glad that he's not here because Jimmy

We get to say this without you here.

We know it's it's yours for now at least.

We like give me leave the team and I think the three of us are probably glad for that because he's got an idea that is bringing sports to the civic media network.

But round table simple weigh in if you feel like it.

We basically spend five minutes before the show goes live.

Here's the things we're talking about with here's put your initials underneath under each one so we know who's going to probably talk.

And that's about it.

a little bit of guidance that we provide ourselves and Cart Blanche from there.

So what can we expect on a weekly basis?

Like you guys open up, it's roundtable, I get that, but will it primarily be seasonal?

Like right now it's Packers, Brewers obviously.

Will you hit on other sports?

Will you cover just the big ones?

Oh yeah, we definitely want to involve as...

As the season evolves, we got to be covering that hockey stuff eventually, which means I'm going to have to learn hockey way more than I know already,

which

might be a little tough, but you know what?

Big sports guys.

So we're kind of happy.

Come on, man.

The only real consistency in the content, though, is the state of Wisconsin and from every scale, Packers, Brewers, Bucks, but also.

down to eight man football teams in your local market in certain circumstances.

Jimmy has brought on a couple different people for interviews who have like a gentleman who has just been recently quite involved in the new playoff football matrix system for Wisconsin high school sports.

So of course, Jimmy is a high school sports coach himself, a head coach matter of fact.

And so he's directly involved in that.

But those are the sorts of people Jimmy wants to be talking.

to and exposing more people to because he feels and we all feel that that deserves attention.

How did this come to be is something I find fascinating and we think fans will too.

I love it and it's just it goes along with civic media with the community you know whether it's the state of Wisconsin or smaller communities down to high school sports.

Have you ruled out Pop Warner?

Would you cover some Pop Warner football?

I guess they haven't talked about it.

We're

going to need to

talk about something.

Come on.

Those kids are leaving it out on the field, man.

I would.

I would.

I mean, how long until it's replaced with flag football?

That's careful.

This is going to turn into an episode of make the call here.

Whoa, whoa,

whoa,

whoa.

So will you guys, will you guys just have, will it be the same people every week or will you have guests or I assume you'll have rotating hosts because you guys are all busy, but like, will you have like, let's say a packer on or a badger or someone like that?

I would love to have that.

I don't know if we're going to be there right now, but I would love to have some Packers on.

Go

for like the third string guys.

Get the fourth

string running back,

man.

You need some

Twitter followers, right?

For those retired guys who played for three other teams as well, but live in Wisconsin when they're like, there's definitely, I know the niche.

You're exposing to me that I haven't thought about these things that I already have access to.

So how many of you guys, uh, con will be on at any given time?

Like every week, will there be four, three, five, or is it whoever's available?

Well, yeah, we kind of, you know, depending on our schedule, but we can see other civic media people that like sports as well.

Maybe we invite them to join the round table.

They don't have to be, have extreme knowledge of sports, but maybe just a passion for

it.

Okay.

You guys have my email, right?

Yeah, I mean,

yeah, we could see Pete on make the call.

Please, please,

certainly.

My guests are all contributors to the new show here at Civic Media.

Make the Call, a sports show, a roundtable discussion show about sports.

It's going to be great.

Conrad is part of it.

Greg Gunderson is here as is Parker Olsen.

So how long will the show be and how often will it air?

When can we find it, you guys?

We've got an hour long show every Saturday morning.

It'll be right at seven o'clock.

With that first segment of the show, we'd go through the top seven stories that we've got in Wisconsin Sports.

So we do our top seven at seven, which is how we kick things off.

And I think that's a really fun way to do it.

Jimmy is the creative mind behind this.

I think we need to give more credit to Jimmy.

He's got a really awesome lineup for us.

And I think it's going to be a ton of fun every day, every Saturday at seven o'clock.

So

morning though.

7am.

7am.

Take my email off that list.

So kidding, obviously.

So how do you guys, I mean...

It's so great that there are so many sports shows, but if you're starting your own sports show, that's got to be a challenge.

How do you differentiate it from all the other sports shows that are on?

It's easy to say you do something different, but without actually having something concrete that is different, I can't necessarily point to something.

I know that I do definitely have to have a certain amount of guidance from

The things i don't like honestly i i don't like to define what i'm doing by what i dislike but when i watch so many manufactured arguments on sport shows like okay i know you gotta write about something in the off season but there's material there it just i get that the effort might be extreme but that's what i want.

Show me that sports writer that's going to find something that's going to squeeze the blood out of the stone.

So maybe we're, is that, am I saying we're going to attempt miracles?

Not quite, but be honest, honest reviews, even in the off season, not make up.

I'm not going to disagree with Parker because that would be good content ever.

And I think that, that precept should guide us just fine.

I think there's room for a show like that, though, because you're right.

And everybody can see through when people are trying to get clicks or just saying stuff to be controversial.

I mean, do you agree with that, Parker?

Like, I think people want to see a good discussion.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

And, Gray, I appreciate that because I really don't like conflicts.

So if we were

to see a Green Blast, that's awesome.

But yeah, it can just get tiresome sometime.

Like he turned on ESPN right now and then it's like, oh God, why are we still talking about Giannis not wanting to be in Milwaukee?

He wants to be in Milwaukee.

Can we actually talk about what's going on?

Yeah, right.

What are you guys?

If I ever feel like arguing with Parker, I'll know I'm in the wrong just before we start.

He doesn't

deserve it.

Wow, that's a big admission up front before episode number one.

What are you hoping?

this show does not become.

You've got all these ESPN shows and these Fox Sports shows.

Is there one that you don't want any part of or one you want to emulate?

Do you guys have an immediate answer?

Because I do have answers, but it's tough to paint a target out there.

And even those ones who I would say I would emulate come with their catches.

Pat McAfee comes to mind, but I know when people hear that name there's like three things that they're like I Don't know and I know me too, but that's what I want to be about this whole time.

Whatever I'm doing.

I want to appreciate the nuance I don't want to pretend I'm a hundred percent for or against something because that's just not how we work and I know I'm not in a political show We're talking sports, but politics are intertwined with life and I feel like we need to sort of

Be more honest about whatever we're doing.

And I'm like, yeah, I'm an honest, ignorant fan trying to learn about football.

I can see the middle linebacker running the poll, but I'm still not sure it's cover three.

Like, and I'll admit that to you.

And hopefully you can learn with me.

That's great.

We have about 30 seconds.

And then we'll do a quick break.

And I'd love to have you guys back on for a few more minutes.

But if you can address quickly the political thing, sometimes sports and politics do intersect.

How are you going to deal with that?

Carefully.

Yeah.

I'm a big fan of that stuff because I like to know about politics and I obviously really like sports.

So I'm a kind of a fan of when that happens, but we'll be careful.

Yeah.

You figure it out.

You got time.

All right.

Greg Gunnerson is here.

Parker Olsen, two contributors to the new Civic Media Sports Show.

Make the call Conrad Krieger is also part of it.

We're coming back to talk a little more to these guys in a couple of minutes.

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You got a new favorite song, don't you dude?

I love it.

Peshwaba and Nightlight, welcome folks.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night.

We are talking about a really cool new sports show here at Civic Media called Make the Call.

The Kid Conrad Krieger is involved and two of the other gentlemen who are also hosts on the show are with us right now too, Greg Anderson and Parker Olson.

So it's interesting, you guys, we kind of ended that quickly on politics, but I also, I know that some people don't like that.

They say, keep your politics to yourself.

Like when it's the rock stars or sports figures or whatever,

Why would they?

You know what I mean?

And you don't have to do a deep dive into it, but it's okay for them to express themselves, I would think.

Yeah, my perspective on like athletes getting into politics is you've got a platform, use it.

Like that's kind of the whole thing about democracy is if your voice should be heard, right?

Yeah.

And, but too on the other side of that is fans, maybe you don't want to know what

Jordan Love thinks about politics.

Fine.

Okay.

Just don't listen then,

right?

That's all I'm worried about.

It's like, you

know what?

You don't have to engage with that, you know?

And I mean, I've definitely been tempted in moments to share political thoughts on my moments in radio.

And I've had some colleagues and some mentors share with me their experiences with the same.

And I've kind of diverged from that, but I definitely

tend to in general so why would i expect other people to keep it to themselves you know i know if i've got a million people and i know that they'll listen okay first of all i worry about what i would be like if that were the case would be entirely intoxicating i don't think humans are built for it and i think i'm a human but i think i would still even knowing that

Try to affect some sort of change.

You know, I think I'd sleep better knowing that I tweeted in support of some cause, you know, and that's ridiculous But that's the 21st century.

It's that's right.

What else are you doing?

You know, that's that's you know, I think of stories of Bill Murray wandering in eating people's french fries and saying no one will ever believe you It's like

Um, does your title indicate in any way that the show is interactive?

It's called make the call.

Will you encourage people to call or is it prerecorded or is it live?

We'll get, we'll get to live at some point.

You're going to have to manage to get all four of us, including Jimmy to actually wake up at, uh, like six a.m.

on a Saturday if we're going to do live.

So that might be kind of

tough.

The show's designed to operate without him though.

It's, it's, it's, it could theoretically work.

He's a pretty busy

guy.

It's probably good that you have those plans,

too.

I'm with Parker, though.

It's Jimmy's show for now.

It's like planning the sky dive.

You know, you say through the whole process, we're going to jump out of this plane.

Cool.

I agree with you.

But then when you try to push me out of it, no.

No, we need the

plane.

What are your favorite sports to cover?

All three of you guys.

Let's start with Khan.

I would say basketball for sure.

That's been my favorite sports since I was a young in but the football then next and then baseball.

Okay.

What about you Parker?

I mean football has always been my number one.

Baseball probably my two.

I've got I played tennis for pretty much my whole life basically at this point.

So tennis is something that I would like to get into covering more.

Oh, nice.

What do you got, Gray?

Football.

And I'm a bad golfer.

That's what I play.

But as far as why I'm here, football.

So what do you do?

I feel like if I was ever on a sports show or hosting, I would fight tooth and nail to gravitate away from, I don't know, it would be tough to cover sports I don't like.

But you kind of have to do that, don't you?

I mean, you got to give, you got to interest everybody, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

And something that our show is trying to focus on too is it's not necessarily just

Wisconsin sports.

Obviously, we're talking about Badgers Packers Brewers, but we also want to get into like the nitty gritty of Wisconsin sports.

We've got a segment about high school sports.

We've got a segment about called Campus Connection that focuses on some of those smaller colleges in the state of Wisconsin, particularly the YX schools, the UW system schools.

We'll be talking a bunch about

So I think that could be kind of our niche.

And I know Conrad and Gray, you might not know a ton about those division three schools quite as much.

So maybe that's how you start learning about stuff,

right?

These guys have a lot to teach me.

We each bring something different to the table, and I'm not going to teach them anything about football, but they're still listening to me patiently, and we'll see how long that lasts.

I have plenty to learn from you about football.

Greg Anderson, Parker Olson, and Conrad Krieger are here talking about the new Civic Media show, Make the Call, a sports roundtable show that will air on Saturday mornings at 7 a.m.

It's going to be great.

Do you guys have predictions, speaking of the biggies, do you have a prediction for tomorrow night, Cubs Brewers?

Oh man.

Are you guys that stressed out?

Yes.

I entered our chat room this morning and they said, Gray, are you also reeling?

And I got to tell them I was like, I'm insulated from this.

I don't like baseball quite enough to be hurt by this yet.

So like I was almost enjoying that I don't know enough to be hurt quite.

Wow.

Thank you for your honesty.

What about you, Parker?

I think Conrad and I are kind of in the same boat that we're hopeful but we might need to cross our fingers and our toes to be happy on Saturday night.

It just seems like we lost all momentum and there's nothing going right our way.

You know what, it's such a weird series and I'm a Cubs fan because I grew up the first part of my life in Chicago and I didn't think the Cubs would go down 02 and I didn't think the Brewers would get shut out last night.

It's such a weird series, you don't know.

I thought the Brewers were going to come out last night and grab the bull by the horns and not want to game five.

And they looked lifeless or they couldn't score a run.

So it's like, who knows what to expect tomorrow?

It should be interesting.

Yeah, you know, the Brewers are, they're very streaky as the season has shown us with how many wins they happen to get.

And losses were certainly the same way.

And unfortunately for the brewers, they looked a lot like the September version of themselves

when

they went 500 in the month.

Yep.

Guys, this was fun.

Best of luck with make the call.

It sounds great.

I can't wait to listen.

Thank you for taking time out tonight to be with me and have a great night.

Conrad, don't you go anywhere though.

You're not gonna stick to the ground for a little while.

Good luck, guys.

Break

a leg.

All right, we'll talk soon.

Thank you for having us.

You got it.

All right, we're coming back with Jay Henley, a really cool event happening tomorrow night in Madison, and we'll tell you all about that.

And it's a bar band, Friday Night, Terry Barr coming up at 7.30.

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