Time Travel, Comedy, and Rock Legends(Hour 1)

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Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Great to have you with me.

Happy Tuesday, everybody.

Another crazy fall night here.

Overcast blustery, as they used to say, in Winnie the Pooh, if I can quote Winnie the Pooh.

But a beautiful fall night here in northeast Wisconsin.

Hope it is gorgeous where you are too.

I'm sure it is because we're in Wisconsin.

This is a weekend-like state of mind we have all week here in our beautiful state.

So hope you're having a great day.

Welcome to Night Light.

Great show tonight.

Really fun guests.

Conrad is here.

Conrad, are you here?

I am here.

I thought

so.

How's your M doing?

It's better.

which means it's a little better, which means it was probably a piece of food, a crumb that keeps getting crushed a little more every time I hit the M key.

So it's better.

It's functional.

I'm not going to go out and buy a new computer, but if this persists, I'll have to take it to my pal, Paul, who takes care of all my computer needs.

And I usually just like throw him a gift card.

What do you do when a friend helps you out?

I have a friend that's helped me out with computers all the time.

He built my PC for me.

I don't even know how to talk to people like that.

They can build

a computer that's

insane.

I have no idea.

And then when he's trying to help me fix it over the phone, he's like, oh, do this and do this.

I don't understand what any of that means.

What's a spacebar?

But it's a little better.

Thank you for asking.

on behalf of my letter M. I can't even type anymore.

It used to be I can't write because those muscles are gone because I type.

So when I write, my penmanship looks like I'm in second grade.

But now I can't even type anymore because I will use voice any chance I get.

It's the epitome of laziness.

It's just me clicking twice on function and going in the Hollywood beats, blah, blah, blah.

It never translates perfectly.

I always have to go back and change things, but I would rather do that than sit there and type.

And I'm a writer.

I've been typing for the last 25 years.

I just can't do it anymore.

My favorite thing is when you voice text me, you know, and you say the line like twice that you meant to say, because you don't know if it said it and then it comes in twice.

I'll do that and then I'll try to get, I'll try to fire off a voice text in here during a commercial like to a potential guest or something and half of the message from the commercial that's playing will play during the voice.

So it'll be like, Hey Rob, can you be on the now at a Chevy dealers?

We have 20% off.

Like just, that makes no sense.

So, but all is good.

Tonight is a fun show folks.

You're here on a great night.

My pal Jimmy Pardo is here at 635.

Jimmy and I started doing, he started a little bit before me in stand up, but back in the late, the extremely late 1980s, we both started doing stand up.

He came fast friends and he is one of my oldest friends in the biz.

And it's just a great guy.

He'll be here at 635.

He's the host of the never not funny podcast.

Very few times, ladies and gentlemen, that a double negative is so effective, but it is when it comes to Jimmy's podcast.

It's very funny.

If you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it.

And Jimmy is also a hilarious standup comedian.

Have you ever seen Jimmy stand up?

I haven't.

Very stream of consciousness, off the cuff, really funny stuff.

He's like a comics comic, just a hilarious guy.

He'll be here at 6.35, great fun.

And then at 7.35,

Rex Sykes, the co-founder of the million, I have to pull this up.

I always get this confused.

I think of the million man march, but this is mission one billion.

This is a group Rex co-founded.

It's a huge networking organization that meets once a week in Milwaukee and they're having a big event tomorrow and TV executive Rocky Wagonhurst will be speaking there tomorrow.

So both guys are gonna be on the show tonight.

So that'll be good fun.

Rocky's had a very interesting career.

SS Rex.

So they will both be along at 735 to tell us about this fun event.

If you are in the business or want to make a movie or get involved in TV, this sounds like the event for you and the organization for you as you will probably go there and meet people that could be instrumental and build a little network for yourself.

It looks like a really fun event.

So we'll learn more at 735.

Got a fun question tonight.

Did you watch any baseball last night?

I did watch a little bit.

I watched football because the Brewers are out, so I'm still a little sad.

So watching baseball hurts a little bit.

Sure, I get it.

But that was a crazy win that the Blue Jays had.

I'm all about the YouTube highlights lately, and I watched

that today

while I was eating lunch, and man, those Toronto fans are electric.

Yeah, that home run when he hit

that.

It reminds me, one of my favorite sports moments involves the Toronto Blue Jays and it was when Joe Carter, I think it was in the early or mid 90s, hit a home run.

I think it was to win the World Series and his face, like if fireworks could be a face, it was Joe Carter.

He hit this home run and he's just doing this and running around the bases.

It was a great sports moment.

So I think, I told you yesterday, I went to a lot of Dodger games when I lived in LA, took my son,

His first favorite team was the Dodgers.

And I was going for the Brewers.

I thought I'll root for the Dodgers in the World Series, but I think I'm going for the Blue Jays.

The city is just a great city.

And I love LA too, but like the city of Toronto is great fans, you know, and a fun team to watch too.

Probably spent a lot more or a lot less than the Dodgers too.

I think they're like fourth in payroll or something.

Are they really?

I mean, they're still pretty high up there.

Wow.

Okay.

Well, it should be a good series, at the very least.

And I'm excited about that.

I'm excited about Bruce Springsteen delivering me from nowhere opens this weekend.

Finally, I've been reading stuff about this for a year, talking a little bit about it on this show.

So I'm excited to see the film.

And I think Jeremy Allen White will be a good boss.

He looks the part certainly in the trailers I've seen.

I'll do a

Hollywood beat that will probably, will record tomorrow, probably start playing on Thursday to talk about upcoming movies like I do every week here.

And that will definitely be one of them.

So I'm excited to see what the critics have to say and I'm excited to see the film.

That should be fun.

Lots of stuff going on.

I think I sent you that clip.

I love, you know, I used to not like it when people in Saturday Night Live would break.

and start laughing, but the Heidi Gardner thing with Beavis and Butthead.

It's a classic.

It's unbelievable.

One of the greatest moments in Saturday Night Live ever.

But I hated like, when Jimmy Fallon was on the show, the sketch would start and within 20 seconds he'd just be cracking up.

I'm like, why is he on the show?

Put him in the studio audience.

If he thinks it's so funny, it just, when it happens all the time, it's not, but he's Fred Armiston.

Who's the other guy?

Bill Hader.

So funny as these two guys doing this this They're like doing this like accent.

I don't even know what kind of accent it is But they're telling the story to this kid about Santa Claus and Armiston starts out talking about Santa Claus or talking about a snowman and how he doesn't have legs.

He has a snowball

And the kid is hilarious.

I know that's a visual thing.

You can't see the kid, but he's hilarious.

But Armiston is telling this story in this crazy accent and Hater breaks.

And then Jamie Foxx is in it and he's just trying not to laugh, laughing at these guys.

So I think this is worth playing on the radio alone enough just for the audio comedy in it.

Here's a clip I found today that's kind of old.

I just found it today though from Saturday Night

Live.

Yes,

we know it very well.

His nose was like no other deer.

Yeah, it was electric.

They light up like a big red cigarette.

Yeah, Santa Claus, I'm having trouble looking to see a driver in the sleigh at night time.

So he said, Rodolfo, there is something special about you.

Rodolfo said, who?

Me?

He goes, yeah, talking to you.

Rodolfo said, no, I'm like the other deer.

He goes, no, you're not.

They don't have a regular nose.

They're black.

They're just there for a man.

Oh, yeah.

He knows.

Could you get us a cab?

I'll get it, but first listen to this story about Santa Claus.

He's got in the black of your

mind.

Ok, so Santa Claus.

He says, I'm going to put Rodolfo in

the...

In the front.

Not in the back.

In the light.

We're just lining up.

So Santa Claus, we're using his brain.

You like that story?

Oh my gosh, there's our cab.

Thanks, Alexi.

Please,

miss.

OK, make it fast.

Once a bunch of children got together and they said, hey, from the snow, let's make a person.

They make this... So they make... They make this person, before his legs, they make a big ball of snow.

Before his

belly, they make a smaller ball.

And sometimes no man are made of two balls.

And then this one is made of three balls, front and three balls.

Anyway, the kids, the kids, they

take it.

I just love hearing people lose it.

And Fred Armiston obviously was doing some type of Hispanic accent, but what was, Bill Hader was like, it was like half Dutch, half, that was so bizarre, but it cracked me up.

I love people breaking up.

All right, I think it's time we get to our night like question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Okay,

I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

It is National Back to the Future Day.

What era would you like to travel back to?

National Back to the Future Day, great movie.

What era would you like to travel back to?

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If you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, or X, I'm getting used to calling it XCon.

I still call Twitter anytime.

I do casually, but it's just like, is it a battle I want to fight?

I hate it either way.

But

I don't know just like I'll never call it Ampham, you know

What do you call it

Miller Park?

Yeah, Miller Park is a good one.

What happened there Miller just said no, sorry

Yeah, I think there are some numbers that were like I don't agree with that

too much.

Okay County Stadium those days are long gone.

Yeah, Soldier Field County Stadium local ballpark There's too many there's too much money to be made.

It's too bad because those are

Veterans Park, you know, all those great stadiums.

But let us know, folks, what era would you like to travel back to?

I'm gonna say the 1940s.

Right after World War II, gin joints popping up, jazz music.

And that's when the beats started, like Kerouac started writing about taking his pension from the military and just traveling America to see what people were up to.

Doing things very unconventionally.

But even those that did things conventionally could still go to see jazz.

And I don't know, it seemed like a great time in America.

I'm romanticizing it, of course.

Every era had their problems.

I almost said the 50s, but I think I'd go back to like the mid to late 40s.

What about you, Ken?

I said the medieval times, because I think I can make a good night.

Think so,

huh?

Or a jester.

You could have great hair, according to aircrafts.

Probably, you know, live a short life, you know, but... Yeah, you

could... I don't...

I hate the medieval times on every level.

I hate going to the hotel in Vegas.

I hate the seven course meal where you go and they come in, they call everybody ye and do that kind of stuff.

I just have no use for it.

I'd just be in the middle of nowhere, you know, just free with two coins

as a night.

All right, let us know what era you would like to travel back to, folks.

Folks, it's national back to the future day.

Jimmy Pardo was here at 6.35.

Lots of fun tonight.

Glad you're here.

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the glory that is Tuesday night here tonight.

Great to have you here.

We have a great question tonight.

It is National Back to the Future Day.

Great movie.

And it got me thinking, where would you travel to if you could go to a certain time, whether it's in our own country's history or before the United States even existed?

Conrad picked the medieval times because he wanted to be tortured in that stretching machine, I guess.

Yeah, well, no,

I'd be a knight and I'd represent the king.

Yeah.

King's Guard, you know?

You'd be total establishment.

And then on my side gig is being a jester for the king as well.

You have to put your sword down and pull

out the microphone.

All right, that works.

I said that the late 1940s, like when gin joints and jazz clubs started opening up after World War II, that must have been a great time to be here.

We survived a terrible, terrible time, potential threat.

You could argue America's in a pretty bad place right now.

Maybe we'll come out of this even better Who knows but that's where I would go if I had a choice.

I don't think I'd go back to the 1800s or Even before the depression was kind of seemed like maybe a cool time in America But the 50s there was a lot going on interstates were being built houses were affordable 60s there was all this crazy stuff happening 70s as well.

I don't know couldn't you go to like

I don't know what the handy stores were back then, but you could go down the house aisle and pick out a house

to be built.

I'll take that one.

A nice three-bedroom, two-bathroom.

Well, all the houses were small.

I think that's when a lot of people started going to California that all these two-bedroom, one-bath homes in decent weather, and they were affordable back then.

Yeah.

Would you do what Biff

did?

Oh yeah, yeah, a bit from back to the future.

And would you go back in time knowing your knowledge now of betting on games?

Yeah, I would.

I definitely would, too.

I mean, it's kind of cheating, but I mean, who are you really hurting?

The bookies.

But I mean, they're probably still going to make money because not people are going to not make money.

I would do it smart, though.

I wouldn't try to clean out

the house.

Yeah, I

would make very, it's like in the sting.

You have to take him and not let him ever know you took him.

You can't gloat.

You just place those bets and you make a cool million a year.

Wow, what a lucky guess.

Yeah, wow, this guy's on it.

Yeah, so Conrad said the medieval times, adjust your slash knight.

That's like saying, when I grow up, I want to be a cop and a professional football player.

Yeah, why not?

When you're

a kid.

Rob Momart says, if it was like the Flintstones, I would definitely visit the Stone Age.

Sadly, it was not as accurate as portrayed on TV.

Yeah, there was no animation back then either, Rob, which would have affected Rob's art.

What do you think Rob would have done?

You know, it would have been cool to do the, like, you know, you run to make the car move.

That seems like

a lot of work

to

me.

Kind of like the push-button start myself.

I want you to get it going down that

hill.

Yeah.

With no brakes.

It's not too bad.

Thank you, Rob.

Daniel Wheeler says, I'll ride shotgun with Conrad in the DeLorean and go back to medieval times.

I could probably get a job painting portraits of wealthy landowners and save up my coins to buy a goat.

Nice.

Daniel feels it's worth traveling back

then to have a goat.

So I'll see him.

I'll see him back in medieval times.

You know, I'll protect his goat because I'm a knight.

Or you'll make his goat

laugh as

a gesture.

Exactly.

Okay.

Vince Murano, comedian Vince Murano says, any day where a company like Apple or McDonald's stock became available.

Yeah, that's kind of like the Biff thing.

You know what's interesting?

I have friends who bought stock and IBM and made a lot of money and I have friends that did not buy stock.

What was it?

Xerox, they missed it.

They were like, gonna do it and they didn't and they missed out on a fortune.

So that could probably be equally as frustrating, I would think.

My pal Sean on social media says the 1940s with any luck, I'd be the pushiest and most successful prophylactic salesman in Queens, New York.

That's a different kind of creepy.

Anybody want to buy a rubber?

Who's buying from a guy

like that?

Going down the street.

Walking door to door.

Rubbers for sale.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Try to sell the housewives rubbers.

They're stuck home with a bunch of kids.

Maybe they'd be your best customers.

I don't know.

Lil' Irv on the stream says 1984 with enough money to buy Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, something, something.

Facebook, Tesla, and Bitcoin.

NVIDIA.

NVIDIA, what's that?

I'm pretty sure it's just a technology brand, I believe.

I don't think they... It's in my PC.

Is it?

So it's still...

But I don't know what it does.

Okay.

It's there.

The key is what you got to do is buy low and sell high.

That's the one thing I've learned.

That's the numbers guy.

That's the numbers guy.

Edward from the 414 says, the 90s, I was in my 20s.

It wouldn't even be fair.

Yeah, the 90s were pretty good too.

You had the dot com boom.

Economy was great.

You're pretty good music.

And it was before smartphones.

I like that.

Like I had a cell phone in the 90s.

It was like a flip phone.

Realistically, that's all I needed.

Have a few chats when you're in the car.

I just, I don't need everything at my fingertips.

That's kind of what I like about the 90s and early 2000s.

Thank you, Edward.

Brett in Brown Deer says, I'll go back to the 60s and go to Woodstock and see how bad the brown acid was.

I knew somebody was gonna say or make a reference to that.

I wouldn't even know what to do.

Like if I was...

What would you do if you're at a concert and all of a sudden you're about to run, you're around a bunch of nude people?

I don't know.

It's just kind of like Steve, let's save Conrad's dance text for when we come back.

Jimmy Pardo is here folks after the news.

That'll be fun catching up with Jim.

I've got a lot of cool stuff to ask Jimmy.

He's got a lot of different interests and he's always fun and he'll probably make fun of my shirt again like he did last time.

Stick around and find out.

It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

We're learning more of the city of the time There's no one

The question of the night is, it's National Back to the Future Day.

What era would you like to travel back to?

And Clint, in the 608 says, go back to the day of my birth and tell my parents to stop the circumcision.

I don't know if

that's really an

era, but every little bit helps, right Clint?

Great text, thank you.

All right, I'm very excited folks to welcome my first guest of the night.

We go back a long way, he's a great friend.

hilarious stand-up comedian and incredibly accomplished podcast host and host in general, multi-talented, the one and only, Mr. Jimmy Pardo.

Hey, buddy.

Hello, Pete.

How

are you?

Good.

You know what?

I'm just, I like you.

I'm yearning for the time where we all live in the days of pre-clint circumcision.

I mean, it's just, it was a different time and his parents just didn't, they didn't do them right.

And we're all, and we're all feeling it.

It was definitely a more innocent time.

Your words I'm with you buddy.

I I hope you appreciate I played that song I know you're a huge fan of Chicago as am I but compared to you I can't even hold a torch but I sent Conrad this song make me smile I said let's play some Chicago for when Jimmy comes on but my computer gym is having an issue with the M's they're not clicking when I click the M so my first text to Conrad was can you pull ache e-sile

okay and

luckily

I corrected

it.

You already found it.

He

did.

Conrad's good.

He is.

Well, I corrected it.

He'd still be looking for the song that didn't exist if I hadn't caught my stupidity.

Fair.

How are you, buddy?

I'm doing very well.

I just saw Chicago in concert at the Hollywood Bowl about a month ago.

It was my 112th time seeing them.

Oh, my God, really.

Yeah, that's all like, you know, I mean, they've been around a long time, but I've been seeing them since 1981.

Again, pretty Clint circumcision days.

And I remember the band made mention of that.

They said, this isn't this.

This one goes out to Clint's parents.

You know, let's let's do it right Saturday in the park.

Put down life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's 112 times.

That's like, that's a summer home.

Jim.

I think it is.

It's probably more than that because I've spent some dumb money on this band.

But I think it'll be the last time, Pete.

You know, they're down to one original member.

And while the current band is great, it's not the band.

You know, if you're just a casual person going, hey, let's go listen to those great hits, you're in good shape.

But if you're going there to see the guys that you grew up, you know, posters on the wall, this, that, and the other, a little disappointing.

How do you, I'm sure I've asked you this before, if not.

on a previous appearance on the show when we were just hanging out.

But like, what's your favorite era of Chicago pre-clint circumcision, of course?

You know, I was just talking about this with my buddy, Stuart J. Waddles.

And we were discussing... I can't even... Come on, Stuart.

Did you hear just

hear his newscast?

How did you know that name?

I did.

Is that the name of a newsman?

Oh, yeah.

Stuart's great.

How do we feel

about it, Pete?

I love Stuart.

He's

phenomenal.

I'm not saying I don't like Stuart.

No, no, no.

I know that.

You understand that?

I got no problem with Stuart.

I got no truck with Stuart.

Well, you think he should change his name?

I don't know.

I don't take it.

I don't take a newsman seriously who goes by Stuart J. Waddles.

He sounds like a cartoon mouse.

And I just don't.

I don't trust him with my news.

I immediately I just picked your Stuart little and.

And this is his buddy Stuart J. Waddles and the two of them go on hijinks together Pete.

They stew little and stew waddles.

They just, you know, the tiny little world in the gutters.

You know, here's what I'm going to say on behalf of my friend Stuart J. Waddles.

She's got a face and a voice you can trust, Jim.

Name aside, I'm just saying, like, you know, Conrad, let's, you know what, cut that from the podcast, right?

I don't want Stuart to hear that.

It could send him.

Or you don't want Stuart to hear the positivity.

It's interesting story could take it Stewart's actually taking comedy classes.

He's friends with a lot of comedians believe it or not So he'll be through

I don't I don't believe it.

I don't believe it.

They've done the read of the news.

I don't think he's got it Dude, come on.

You know, I love stew waddles.

You know, I always have always gonna be stew waddles man My favorite era Chicago is

It kind of it started in the 80s, but it's hard not to ignore those classics But you know the first time I saw them was 1981.

So I'm a child of the 80s

Yeah,

I'll answer your question if you know back to the future day if I can go back to any erode certainly would be the 80s Okay, you know when it was a you know, it was just a for guys our age It was an easier time, you know The hardest thing that my biggest worry was am I gonna open the record store on time?

You know what I mean?

That was the biggest worry I had

You know what my biggest worry was in high school?

There was this thing going around where you thought it was a real funny joke if you signed your friend up for the draft.

Or to enlist in the... So you'd fill out the card and then you'd have military recruiters calling you and guys in my high school thought that was hilarious, Jim.

Wow.

So that was kind of a worry.

Did you go to school in 1967?

Are you older than I think you are?

No, we still

had... That was still the thing.

The draft happened up until... Because that was the Cold War, too.

Yeah, I know.

So that was a little bit of a concern, but by and large, I'm totally with you on the 80s.

It was a fun time.

I do remember talking to somebody, you know, I believe it was a broadcaster Ed Till when it looked like we might go into it.

I might have a draft in the late 80s.

And I think, you know, you and I and probably others were probably like, we were just, we were just too old to not be drafted, but just young enough to like, well, they might need us.

Right.

And it was, I remember it being a little scary, so I couldn't even imagine what it was like for our parents from Vietnam.

Sixties, no kidding.

My dad was dishonorably, he was honorably discharged because he had a back issue or, you know, I think I would have made it, but my four siblings might not have been born if

he had to go to

Vietnam.

It's

like,

I can't even imagine what that's like.

Now, back issues of what magazine?

What did he have back issues of that got him kicked out of the service?

True detective

or spy

detective or whatever that was called, cracked.

The occasional, the occasional

crack.

In Mad Magazine, he was making those, making boobs out of mountains to entertain himself.

We're going to let this guy go.

You, Jim, last time you were here, I still laugh about this.

It was very cold.

I was sick.

I grabbed a very warm shirt.

It was not the most attractive shirt in the world.

And you made very funny comments.

You said, is that from the Tim Walls collection?

My daughter, Kate, still laughs at that.

And but what was so funny.

was just the way you looked at my shirt when you came on.

And I was literally like, here it comes.

I know it's coming.

And the wind-up, the pitch.

So beautiful.

No, Peter, if I mentioned Tim Walls, was that pre-election?

No, that was

post.

That was, you were here in January.

I can't believe it's been that long, but that was post-election.

Okay, so it was post-election, but pre... An auguration, maybe?

That could be.

Yeah, all right.

Well...

He was making some funny videos, whether or not you agree with his presence.

You know what?

I like the idea that he's doing it himself.

That fumbling, his thumbs wouldn't know what they hit.

We had a nice rally on Saturday.

We went to Daniel and I, my beautiful wife, Daniel, and we went to the rally in Beverly Hills, California.

Oh, nice.

And it was.

It was celebrity-free.

I expected to see a few celebrities out there, but I didn't see any celebrities.

It being Beverly Hills, I thought we'd see some big names of placards out there, but a little disappointing.

You know what was fun to go to in Beverly Hills is when we would all get together and watch the Oscars.

And a lot of us were very new out there, and then we would just walk down the street and see everybody going into the after parties.

Were you part of that when i think

i was part of that and then here's where it turned my wife who grew up out here and whose father was you know a star of star trek yeah uh she was at one of those parties once and we all you know this back our drinking days too so we would get we would go to the oscar party we watch the oscars again we're new we're new to los angeles we're young actors we think you know it's 30 this 30 years ago yeah and and then oh we could walk less than a mile to watch them go into the vanity fair party

And it was exciting.

Also, we're drunk.

Very important to know that we're drunk.

And my wife was like, I grew up here.

I don't understand why this is fun.

And it was like, yeah, you know what?

We're professionals.

Why are we doing this?

Why am I going down there to yell hello to Roger Ebert?

Why am I?

Oh, wow.

I remember one time I was really drunk and I was talking to somebody back in Chicago on a pay phone.

That happened to me along the the limo route and and roger ebert got out of the limo and then walked to the vanity fair party And I yelled to him.

Hey, uh roger.

It's me jimmy.

I'm on the phone with chicago

as if he's gonna go, oh, you're talking to somebody in the city?

Let me come over.

I don't know what I expected.

Well, hey, look, we all have our moments, but I will say to you, within a week of the death of Ace Fraley, you and I had, and I've told this story before on the show when Jimmy's been here, I apologize, but you saw Paul Stanley, and I thought you were gonna lose your mind.

We were at a gas station in the Koanga Pass, and you're like, oh my God, it's Paul Stanley, and you were almost hyperventilating, and you're like, where's my kiss CD?

I always have a kiss CD.

But the second he came over, I've never seen anyone more cool.

You were like, love the new album.

And he's like, do you?

Thanks.

Yeah.

When we went into the studio at first, he starts talking like you guys had this like five minute conversation.

It was beautiful.

It was pretty cool.

He talked as if he wasn't Paul Stanley of this.

He talked about it like a guy who's like, oh, you like our band?

Oh, that's great that you like our band.

Let's talk a little bit about it.

Right.

Not the fact that, again, I had his posters all over my wall as a kid.

And that's kind of how I feel about Ace Fraley.

You know, Ace was on my podcast about seven years ago.

Oh, nice.

So to have a legend like that on was really, really cool.

And then, you know, and he was a very nice guy, a real nice guy.

And you know, I'm always weirded out when people get a little overly emotional when a celebrity dies because it's like.

Come on man, right?

You don't know that person and I don't know Ace Fraley, but I will say he's been part of my life since 1976, you know sure and So I went it did put me in a funk for a day went with Ace's passing and again He was a nice man that when he came on the podcast

somehow destroyer or it was either destroyer or machine head was my first album and the other one was the second one I don't

machine head

by deep purple.

Yeah, deep purple and

My guest is Jimmy Pardo.

He is the host of the Never Not Funny podcast.

Check it out if you haven't.

It's very funny.

He's also a very, he's a hilarious stand-up comic.

And he's joining me here on Nightlight.

Jim, I want to say I think that was Paul Stanley.

He had the makeup on.

You

know, I could have just been a guy going to a kids party.

You know what?

Yeah, what

he asked is to go to the bathroom with him.

I thought that was a little strange.

Well, listen, that's how rock and rollers do it.

That's how Hollywood rolls.

It's a different world out here, Pete.

Hey, so let me ask you something.

All right, you're this huge stand-up comic, and I don't know if you were asked to do this or what your thoughts were.

But when the comedians went to the comedy festival in the Middle East, I don't even know

if I'm

saying it right.

Is it Rydia?

Riyad.

Riyad, okay.

I was looking at it phonetically.

What did you think about that?

Because it was controversial, and I kind of thought at first, while they're going to the Middle East as ambassadors to make people laugh, and then I found out who was behind it, and I was like, oh, that's sick.

So I mean, they're all kind of defending themselves and getting defensive.

It was, you know, it was Bill Burr, and it was at Chapelle, and some of those guys.

What's your take on that?

You're closer to this.

I don't know if I could have said no fast enough had they offered it to me.

i don't care about i don't you know even the low money that was offered was like 350 000 which i mean that's i mean that's 100 000 is like 10 000 is good money like sure so it's life changing money but you know i feel it's i felt this on way about the live tour that you know the golfers who are taking that money and it's like they're like i'm making more money than ever and i and i play golf less it's like but you're taking money from people that

Use a bone saw blood money.

Yeah, how do you feel good about that?

So I felt that way about the about the live tour and then when I saw this thing happening and then I saw you saw like the the grid of comedians that went and it's like that makes sense that makes sense that makes sense like they're all kind of these guys and that and a few of the women who That just seems to be their brand where like they are okay with that and I was sickened by it and uh

you know the fact that Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle and Aziz and There's a there.

There's a fourth one who I oh Louie CK, you know, they're digging their heels in Right, whereas someone Jessica Curson immediately went I made a mistake.

I should not have done this.

I didn't realize it was you know the but for Bill Burr to say the royals were happy it's dude come on man, and I don't get it.

I

wouldn't go on

I'm sorry, Pete.

They don't need the money either.

They're the comics that don't need the money.

That's the other thing.

They're the

comics.

Let's pick up here.

We got to do a really short break.

Jimmy Pardo is here, folks, host of the Never Not Funny podcast.

We're coming back after a very short break.

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Hey, this is Mike Starr, and you're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back.

This is, uh...

Great, another text from Tyler from the 608.

He says, I want to see the Big Bang.

I bet that was a very blustery day.

That's a good one.

Thank you, Tyler.

Here is another text that's geared toward my guest, Jimmy Pardo.

Joe from La Crosse, he's in the 608 says, I finished watching the Godfather of Green Bay last night and I have to say that I absolutely loved it.

You two guys were great.

Well, thank you, Joe.

And Jimmy, every once in a while I hear Higgins and it just cracks me up.

Well, it's you know, it's it's one of those I was just talking about that role the other day Pete You know when you work on a picture like that you're not a set with the type of talent that I was on you You know, you really immerse yourself in the role and As you what I was talking about was the fact that I can't believe the the confidence that I had that you talked me into showing my rare my my my my my nude behind in addition to opening up the door in nothing but bikini briefs and a robe

And I did it.

And I don't know, to this day, I don't know how.

I would say no if he asked me today.

Yeah, it was peer pressure probably.

No, you didn't show your butt though.

It

wasn't.

I showed my butt because you were sleeping in the bathtub and you looked over and I'm taking a whiz.

We cut it though.

What's that?

We didn't use that.

You still shot it.

I still had to do it.

Listen, if you want it for your reel, just ask Jim.

It's fine.

We'll send it to you.

What if that was

the only thing on my reel?

Please, please hire me.

And it's just my butt from behind while I'm going to the bathroom.

Jimmy's ass is in demand.

That was you were very funny, though.

Well, Pete, I appreciate it.

You know, there was a lot of fun.

And there was October Fest, what, 2004?

Yeah, sounds about right.

It's

weird

I have because of this show I've had that I'm not had to but it just comes up And I haven't talked about the movie in so long and now we're doing a screening in Madison on the fourth and it's gonna it's like It's kind of come back into my life this movie.

I wasn't sick of it.

I'm proud of it I like it, but I'm still sort of like, you know It's just like if you had to do the same jokes

over and over.

I

don't know if that's a good example.

I think that's I improvise every night.

It's a different show every night.

But Pete, you got some new clips from that movie?

That's unfair.

I'm doing inside jokes on a radio show.

I apologize.

I keep clip.

No it listen here.

Here's a funny story Okay, Steve I this is so your friends with Steve very good friend.

I am all right Dave Dugan on Facebook today posted just a picture of Steve I on stage No caption no nothing and my first thought what would your first thought be if you saw that?

I would think probably the same thought you had, maybe not a positive one.

Dear God, what happened?

Oh, no, not Steve.

That was

my 100%.

So I go to Steve's Facebook page.

There's nothing posted.

It says no post available.

Oh, no.

And then I look and Dave's working with Steve.

He just didn't

post the other pictures yet.

By the way, how funny is that show?

Dave Dugan and Steve Ayet.

Oh, my God.

Oh, great show.

Yeah.

Excellent show.

What a show.

Steve keeps saying, I'd love to do your show.

Let me do it when I'm coming to Wisconsin to do stand up and I can talk about it.

And that apparently is never going to happen.

I don't think anybody in Wisconsin is booking Steve because I had heard of Pete from

him.

Um, yeah, I don't know.

I think Pete, I'm sorry.

I think Steve, um, uh, I haven't, he's not, he's not done my podcast either.

And I would love to have one anytime.

Yeah.

I don't, I, I'm on record.

He's the funniest guy I've ever met.

Very funny guy.

And I don't care if, if he doesn't want to do it, like I've had guys that say, look, I don't really do that stuff anymore.

I'm fine with that.

I don't care.

Great.

But, uh,

really, why don't you accept that when I say it?

This is like, this is my bare butt all over again.

I blackmail you with the butt footage.

You

know that I

love it.

Yeah, I was laughing because Steve, one of my best memories of Steve, you and I and Steve were miniature golfing for money in St.

Louis.

And it was literally the hole you always make fun of the windmill hole when your stand-ups are doing a joke.

Yeah, I have trouble with the windmill hole.

This was a windmill hole and Steve was trying to time it to hit the ball and right when he was on his backswing, you and I both knew he timed it horribly and was going to hit the blade and we looked at each other and Steve, I've never been.

I've never laughed so hard at someone's anger.

It was

beautiful.

Yes, he was, it was, by the way, I've lost back in those days, I was making and you know this, you make when you're beginning comic make 250 bucks a week, maybe.

And I remember one week, Steve and I were working in Toledo, I believe was Toledo, and I lost all that money to him on the miniature golf course.

I lost.

Oh my gosh, I kept because he's a better golfer than me.

And even on the miniature golf course, he's probably better than me.

And I keep

Doubly double or nothing double or nothing and all of a sudden I'm writing him a check for 250 dollars because we just played the initial goal What a I'm an idiot.

Oh my gosh.

He

took

it too.

I didn't lay off the hook

You know what do you gamble?

You'd you know, you touch the oven.

You're gonna get burned Pete What I've taken the money from a friend probably not

Me too.

I think we just found a chink in the eye at armor here is what I'm saying.

Like he's

a good

guy.

He's a hustler.

You know what he is?

He's a hustler.

What's the what's the word when you're when you're a hustler

or hustler?

Yeah, that works.

Yeah, I'm not a good.

I'm not a good pool player.

And then you are.

That's sure.

Again, brilliantly funny and a great

guy.

I want to ask you this and I'm hoping I can keep you through the news, Jim, for another second.

You have a son who is very interested in the arts, very talented kid.

I've seen some of the things he's done that you and your wife post online.

It's just great stuff.

And he seems to be following you into this business as kind of my kids are right now.

How do you feel about that?

You know how I feel about it?

I wish he went into anything else.

At the same time, Pete, he's opened for me about, he's done about 10 to 12 stand-up sets.

He's opened for me about 10 times.

Oh, I think he did.

He is, um, he's good.

Yeah.

And so that's the thing.

It's like, you know, you know, as, you know, as a comedian, I don't think there's as a, as a, as a dad, I say there's a comedian.

When you see somebody that's got it, you go, that guy's got it.

Or you see somebody that's like, why is this guy doing comedy?

He's horrible.

My son has it.

And so how do I feel about it?

I wish he was doing anything else, but how do I not encourage him to continue being hysterical?

That's exactly how I feel.

I just wish my kids were talented.

That's

the difference, and that's the

problem.

But I'm still nervous.

Like they're both sharp kids, but I'm still like, just go be an electrician or do something I don't have

to worry about.

So I don't have to like

worry about

this

again, you know.

Here's the other thing, Pete.

You and I both know what happens on the road.

Our parents didn't.

You know what I mean?