Sports, Sneezes, and Sweet Treats (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who loves to watch true crime, but only if it's shoplifting, Peach Wabba.

Welcome to Night Light, 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.

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 gonna 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 night.

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, um, let's get, uh, boy, it's, it's, 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?

Like, 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 packer's 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 packer, whatever team.

I don't know, man.

You're OK 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.

People do that.

You haven't seen that.

I mean, the last time I was at a pro football game was probably 10 years ago.

I mean, they show it on TV.

It's like, 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 I'm over my shoulder pads.

Okay, just start Wowing over people Not people things in my yard

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,

but 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 in 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 was batting in the clean up spot and just joy, joy or tease.

I love your glove.

You can, you know, your gold gold glove 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.

You know what was really cool though?

The Yankees lost?

Yeah.

That was nice.

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 that.

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 it 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 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 you know, but I 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.

And

you cheer for the other I had a I'm 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.

It's 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.

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

Guaranteed 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 that sneeze is pretty loud.

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.

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Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

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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.

I think it was him.

But that was like my childhood.

So I don't.

But

give

me his number.

I'll talk

to

him.

I scream cake like all birthdays that I've had.

And Oh, Dairy Queen makes some good

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 tonight.

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 push interesting development since we're doing a sports thing tonight It's peach wabbit and nightlight on the civic media radio

network

Welcome back.

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

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

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.

Do you like those cooking shows?

No, you know, I did like the Gordon Ramsay ones where it wasn't it was Hotel Hell is what it was called.

Oh, yeah, you try to fix hotels that also have restaurants Right, just always be hilarious even though it's probably you know planned or whatever right have 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 wasn't 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 tush-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.

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, you know, Packers were among the teams that wanted to 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 touch push except guys are behind I mean when a running back is about to be stopped the guys come up I mean you gotta outlaw all that it just opens up a can of worms

the 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, uh, like, together.

You know what I mean?

That's why it's hard for the rest to see who's gonna fall start on it.

But then they're replaying like, yeah, it's a full start.

You know, but I honestly think it will be Ben next year, after this year, after how many fall starts they've missed on it.

What's the next?

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 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.

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

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

Like 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 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

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.

What shoulder 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.

I really wanna see you I really wanna

Ladies 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.

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 other contributors, right?

We've 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.

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 don't know

is whitewater woj.

That's hilarious.

So.

So yeah, I was doing a bunch of that.

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

I think he's the Adrian Wojnarowski, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's the, he covers the bowls.

I think he covered the bowls for Yahoo or something.

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

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 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.

little bit NFL from the perspec fan who seeks to learn s with the fact that I don't just learned and I think even if you don't care you'll probably like t an e-mail from our spo we're actually going to h now and I got to meet

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.

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 yours for now, at least.

We 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 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 carte 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 evolve 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 happy.

Come on,

man.

Sorry about that, Parker.

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 haven't talked about.

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, uh, 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 bag, man.

He needs some Twitter followers, right?

Or 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.

Come

on.

We love this.

You're your sport connection.

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.

Um, he's got a really awesome lineup for us.

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

So

morning though, seven a.m.

Yeah.

Take my email off that list.

Um, 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 don't like to define what I'm doing by what I dislike, but when I watch so many manufactured arguments,

on sports shows.

Like, okay, I know you got to 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

That's 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 great.

I appreciate that because I really don't like conflicts.

So if we were

to see a dream,

that's awesome

But yeah, it can just get tired or something 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 just before we start.

Like

he

doesn't

deserve.

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

What are you hoping?

this show does not become.

Like you've got all these ESPN shows and these Fox Sports shows.

Is there one that just 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 would 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?

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 Anderson is here.

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

Make the call Conrad Krueger is also part of it.

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

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

Network.

favorite song, don't you dude?

I love it.

Peach Waba 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 Underson and Parker Olson.

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, but 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.

Um, and, but too, on the other side of that is, 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, I can do it.

Yeah, 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 on my moments in radio and I've had some some colleagues and some 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.

I think that kind of 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.

If that's 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, what are you doing?

Do something with it at least.

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, 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 I would like to get into covering more.

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 them.

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?

Yeah.

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 AM.

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.

Yes.

Oh,

man.

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 yet.

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 0-2 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 around for a little while.

Good luck, guys.

Break a leg.

All right, we'll talk soon.

Thanks 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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Broadcasting live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

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And now a guy who's had a paper route for 25 years but never collected, Pete Schwabba.

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Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

I hope you enjoyed your intermission.

It is time for Act 2 as we barrel through this outstanding, beautiful Friday night in the state of Wisconsin.

I hope you're having a wonderful night wherever you are in our beautiful state and enjoying the weather.

And like we talked about in the first hour, there's so much to do this weekend.

Think of us as your guide of what's going on around the state.

You've got...

So many sporting events.

You've got great movies opening in the theaters.

Great live shows.

It's also going to be beautiful for you outdoorsy people.

I am a self-professed couch potato and an inside guy.

But I respect the outdoor people.

Get out there and enjoy that beautiful day.

Tomorrow and Sunday.

And it's supposed to be in the 60s, Con.

That sounds like golfing weather.

Have you

prepared a five-day forecast?

It looks pretty nice.

Right now.

Well done, sir.

Okay.

Well, if you missed the first hour, we had a great talk with Greg Anderson, Parker Olson and Conrad Krieger about the new show, Make the Call, a new sports show here on Civic Media that you can hear on Saturday mornings at 7 a.m.

that's repeating a.m.

Jimmy Cusca is also involved.

Jimmy's kind of the boss, right?

Yeah, he's he's he's the boss of the show, the host.

Even if it's not by title.

It's not bad.

You don't want to mess with you.

I think, I think,

yeah.

Yeah.

So check that out, folks.

And our question of the night, it is National Angel Food Cake Day and Cake Decorator Day.

So our question of the night is, what is your favorite kind of cake?

Please include frosting as well.

I said devil's food cake with cream cheese frosting and red and green like Christmas sugar sprinkles on top.

Dynamite cake my mom used to make Conrad said ice cream cake, which is also an outstanding choice So let us know what your favorite is eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five Civic you can also text us on the app or if you're watching the radio on the stream drop us a stream comment We will get to your text in just a bit, but right now.

This is kind of cool.

I heard about this really great event happening in Madison tomorrow night and

I just, I think I'm gonna let my guests explain it because it's, it's about a bio, they're making a TV show, a biography TV show and it's Tomorrow Night's, Tomorrow Night's Gathering is sponsored by Vintage, the Vintage Store in Madison.

It's on the south side of Madison.

And we have with us now from the Vintage Store, Jay Henley and the executive producer of From the Front Row.

Peter Allen.

So these guys are collaborating on this really cool thing.

And there's going to be a great event tomorrow night.

So guys, welcome.

It's great to have you.

Happy to be here.

Hello.

And congratulations.

No one has ever made me stutter over what is happening or this event.

So I really do have to let you guys explain it because it's not something I see too often.

You're going to film something at the Overture Center.

Jay, you own a vintage store.

You're sponsoring it.

Is that how this is working?

Yeah, the vintage store is the bounty here in Madison on South Park Street.

And yeah, I am a host for artistic endeavors.

And Peter and I chatted a few months ago, and I knew what Peter was up to.

I'm like, let's do a screening at the bounty.

I think it would be a kind of a fun venue for you to do your thing.

So this

is an episode premiere.

So we are currently

um working on a television series it's an independently produced public television music series

okay

um that will be nationally syndicated coming in the following year we got picked up by a national distributor um congratulations big three thank you or um one of the big three of public television who do the national syndication of it yeah and this is episode that we recorded at the overture center with

Greg Zellick playing that huge, whatever, 176 ton organ.

Yeah.

And also with a duet with Mark Hetzler, the trombone professor.

And it's kind of, you know, it's a 30 minute television music program where we go to a different venue each episode and film a recording of performance, but then also interview the

purveyors of the space or the curators of the space and talk about Kind of dive into the community behind the the location the line I use all the time is music is a lot like water it takes the shape of the place it's in so We the whole point of this it's kind of a travel show mix with a music show you go to a venue you record a session there and then you talk with the people make who

put the venue together or are curating the space.

In this case, it's the Symphony Hall, the big, beautiful organ.

We talk with the Symphony director and with Mark as well, the curator of the organ series.

And this event that we're doing here at the Bounty tomorrow at 4 p.m.

is the premiere of the episode that we worked very hard on.

We recorded last year.

spent many hours in an editing booth, you

know, making

it just a perfect 26 minutes and 46 seconds, as is PBS is wanting us to deliver.

And yeah, it's a big thing.

It's a nationally syndicated program celebrating the joys and beauties of what artists in this community is making.

And we'll be sharing, we've done episode at the Borough.

We also, the party barn, I think we're on air here, we can't say the actual name of the venue out in spring green.

The shifty barn, maybe it's also known as.

That was a barn.

That's the funny, the joke of that episode is we can't say the name of the venue the whole episode.

Even during the episode?

Yeah, well it's good it's beyond BBS, you know, you can't.

Oh wow.

You know, there's, you know, FCC regulations are a real thing, so.

Yeah, don't mess with them.

And then, and we have an episode we filmed at the Cardinal Bar as well with the Latin Jazz Night they do there.

So this is, this will be a celebration of us getting to show the world this episode.

And if listeners are interested, they can come on down to the Bounty South Park Street.

1041 South Park Street.

It'll be four PM tomorrow.

Seating is limited, but we can squeeze in and.

It's a really wonderful space that Jay has curated here, too.

Every time I walk in the door, there's someone doing chalk drawings, floor-to-ceiling chalk drawings in the back, or just all these beautiful little bits and bobs.

It's like walking into an art museum.

I was looking at the store online, and I love, it's so unique.

I mean, I've been in...

tons of vintage or, you know, vintage and vintage clothing stores, but I don't think any of them have had a resident artist.

Like, I just think that's such a great idea.

Tell us about your store a little more, Jay.

Yeah.

So, you know, I often am challenged with the two minute elevator speech to say what the bounty is about.

And I think it really kind of boils down to I collect stories and

in stories, people are attached, objects are attached, things are attached.

So I take great pride in telling stories.

So part of the name of the business is the bounty environmental narratives.

Kind of a heady word of just basically saying, I tell a story in a space.

And with that comes, you know, supporting the creative community around me.

So

you know, when I opened the shop two years ago, I wanted to interact with creatives in Madison, provide a platform for them to do their thing, like be creative, design, you know, have a space that they could come and showcase their work.

And you know, what that turned into was me realizing that, you know, I can sell things to keep the lights on, but really what I

and after is the community and, you know, connecting these artists with the local community and connecting the community with these artists.

So I kind of, you know, refer to the Bounty as a community center here on South Park Street.

So very

much

a third

space for my opinion.

It's exactly kind of goes...

tied in with our mission as our show, this idea of these places where people come together and share art or just see each other's presence.

It's really cool.

It's a match made in heaven in my opinion.

I think it's that's

what attracted me to this whole thing was like the collaboration between the two of you.

I had at first I was having trouble wrapping my head around and I kept asking Jay.

All right.

Now what's happening?

He's coming in, but it's not at the Overture Center.

It's at your store.

I think it's fantastic.

Jay Henley is here.

He is the owner of the vintage store, The Bounty in Madison on South Park Street.

And he is sitting right next to the executive producer of From the Front Row, Peter Allen.

Peter, where did you get the?

The idea for this for this show.

Did you shoot a pilot on spec and pitch it to PBS?

How did this happen?

We well, yeah, we were It was kind of my long-term dream I have a show on WRT, you know, I've been in the broad I have my day job as I'm a back-end engineer for public television So I've been surrounded by I've been doing in studios my whole life, you know getting fans in the studio and making them up and I was kind of

dreaming about how to do it in a visual way.

But I've never really, I literally was at a party barn show and just kind of sitting there thinking, looking around at what a wonderful venue and what a wonderful experience and like how do you, I don't think anyone's really capturing this in

this

play.

No one's formatting a show like it.

And then kind of the,

the stars aligned and our partner in crime with this, their executive director, Claire Canapel, who she's the executive director, I'm the executive producer.

She was approached by Buzz Kemper, who owns Audio for the Arts, which is a prominent recording studio in town.

And they had just bought a bunch of 4K cameras.

And I had literally, the night before,

he came to her, described to Claire, my dream of starting like an Austin City Limits style like

television.

Yeah.

Oh, and I was raised on Austin City.

So like my dad would record Austin City Limits and then watch the morning before cartoons.

I remember waking up as a kid.

Just all right.

Yeah.