Cherry Pies and Echoes: A Night of Laughs and Tunes (Hour 2)

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Hello.

Hello, Wisconsin.

I'm Pete Schwaba.

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Got a great show for you tonight.

And it is an absolutely beautiful evening here in Wisconsin.

It is rainy and chilly and overcast, and it feels like Thanksgiving is in the air.

So if we can't have warm weather, at least we can fantasize about holidays that are right around the corner.

And that's what it feels like today.

Kind of a chilly day, not a bad day to sit home or...

Bad night to sit home and watch a movie listen to the radio Hopefully we will be able to entertain you here for a couple hours before you officially start your weekend when we officially start ours Happy Friday.

I think Conrad.

How are you?

I'm

doing good.

Yeah,

you know I went to that cell place that you know you that we talked about yesterday for My

sandwich look like it was in a food fight.

I looked at it.

It looks spectacular.

They did a great job this time.

I think they hurt us

Really?

No, I know you're joking, but you know what's interesting is the person who made my sub, I saw them next door at Gelato at the Rise and Grind.

So, you know, she might have seen me in here and tuned in and thought, oh my God, he's talking about

me.

I

made a terrible sandwich.

It looked like a crime scene.

So you

ate there and it was good?

It was good.

Yeah, they have good

sandwiches.

I mean, it's not like... It was just a basic, you know, provolone and ham with some of the works on it, but...

Well, a basic, I think, would be just provolone ham.

Just bread.

If you accentuate and get the work, what are the works?

Well, the works for me is lettuce,

tomato, onion.

That's a

work.

Cucumbers and pickles.

OK.

That's a delicious

stuff.

But no mayo.

No mayo?

Wow.

OK.

It upsets my stomach too much.

And it's just too, I don't know, slimy on it, if it makes sense.

I don't know.

Sure,

that sounds good.

I do notice you're rocking the shorts tonight.

It's a little cold.

I

just said it's a beautiful blustery night here in Wisconsin, but you're that, you're winter shorts guy.

Well, actually, I, you know, I went to work out a little bit ago.

And I spilled half of the water I had on my pants.

I thought you were a little underdressed.

I'm like, what is with this?

They're kind of air drying in my car.

That's cold.

Very

good.

That's awesome.

So what did you do?

Did you do you blast your quads or what happened over there at the gym today?

Yeah, I did yeah, I did that did the quads.

No, I did it was a bicep and back day

All right, so you do a lot of people do that they break it down How often can you work the same muscle in a given week?

Well, so I do two two of the days of the week are like upper and then lower and then I split it down to

like back and by today and then.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you'll do the same muscle twice within a week.

That's okay to do.

Yeah, but nothing like it's like what it comes down to is like four exercises per per muscle.

Yeah.

A week.

Yeah.

Okay.

So if you do biceps, you do two bicep exercises on Tuesday and two on Sunday, you're okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I realize I'm getting my health information from

a

radio.

But no, I am curious about this because I was told once a week and then you should let your muscles heal.

But then my doctor said, well, try lifting weights twice a week if you don't feel like walking as much.

You know, there's something I wanted to talk about today.

And it's getting caught off guard and having to speak.

And something just dumb comes out of your mouth today that I scanned.

I scanned into the gym.

OK.

Yeah.

And the guy goes, thanks, Conrad.

And I go, thanks.

I'm like.

I just keep walking like what did I just thank him for?

Doing his job.

I don't know what I was thinking of for And then I taking your car.

He's like a first responder.

Come on.

I think

those

guys I guess it's just why can't I've been like hey?

How's your day going or something like that?

Thanks, thanks

is not horrible.

That's not a bad He is telling you to have a good workout.

I

Did he did ask me one time.

He's like hey Conrad.

How's it going?

I so I just said thanks.

Thanks.

I did say that once like I just keep

Like my headphones are on and then you see yeah, so Just and then I walk and I'm like stupid.

No, there's a great Brian Regan joke where he's like the guy drops you off the airport and cab drivers and say yeah, I have a good flight I go you too It's just a re-exactly

I did that on my flights actually on my flight back from

Chicago, the guy goes, have a good flight.

And I say, thanks, thanks you too.

And I just keep walking.

I'm like, why do I do this?

But everybody, they hear it all the time, I'm sure, because it's just a reflex.

Take care.

Take luck.

Yeah.

So we should find that.

Maybe I should think about what comes out of my mouth before you know.

Think

before you

speak.

That's just a perfect lesson.

I know the guy at my gym always has a quip for me, like a funny.

Oh,

nice.

How you doing today?

Better than yesterday.

Okay, you don't have to elaborate that's that's enough I

don't need

to know what happened yesterday I do maybe I do maybe I don't maybe give me something to talk about in the air But maybe it's gonna be three hours of my life if I ask him to follow up So

you just never

know you got a kind of it's like in the moment you have to gauge what you're in for my thing is like You know, how's it going good?

I'm done that I hate being I love being done at the gym and walking to my car That's the best part good.

You know see you later.

Yeah, yeah

So I am very excited folks this coming out this weekend is predator badlands reviewing Insanely at like I'm gonna look it up again yesterday.

It was like at 97% and for a scary thriller To be pulling that kind of score on rotten tomatoes is pretty damn impressive predator badlands the the franchise has totally turned around Oh now it's at 87

But audience is 96%.

So that's pretty good.

This Dan Trachtenberg, we talked about him last night with Mike, with Matt Miller when he was here.

He has turned the franchise around because he made, he directed Prey in 2022, which was like the predator monsters showing up pre-historically a little bit.

I think it was prehistoric or it was many years ago.

And then there was this animated film that came out this year and now there's this and they're all reviewing really well.

So I'm excited.

That's probably what I will check out this weekend.

You know, I was driving home last night.

You ever get this guy?

It's always got a pickup truck too, which I'm not anti pickup truck.

I'm kind of in the market for one.

I would buy a pickup truck if they weren't so damn expensive.

But this guy couldn't, he was tailgating me while I was going to the freeway last night when I left here.

And then he gets in the other lane and that guy's going slower than me.

and this guy's pissed and you could tell he's got somewhere to be and his 2009 Chevy pickup truck someone needed to borrow it for a dump run I don't know what the I don't know what kind of hurry this guy could have been in but he's then he's riding this guy and finally that guy slowed down probably because he was pissed and I passed him then he came around and passed that guy on the right and he revved it that's the that's the sign when you know someone's really pissed off is when they

gun it and they do like 40 it's like you got around the guy neither one of us was gonna fall for your shenanigans but he gunned it man he like really late and he could have hurt someone it's like he just took off

you know my favorite thing about people you know riding uh riding you and it's just like they'll get on you and then they go to the other lane the guy's not going that much faster than you right

so he's just like stuck it I love that it's so funny

It's hilarious and it's like and that happened to me tonight.

I get cut off like every day I'm so done with this drive and the guy sometimes They'll come around you and they almost clip you like yeah, it's like they're trying to prove a point or something It's like well if we both end up in the hospital or our cars end up in the shop.

What did you really prove more on?

Hey, I got good news out tonight.

Okay, I did that the Hollywood beats by the way folks I don't know how closely listen to the Hollywood beats.

I do them every day here my computer

Took a powder today, and I I mean it's working, but I forgot to transfer the beats to this computer So we're gonna have the same beats throughout the weekend, but I have they were really funny too like the stuff I wrote today and one of them was giving props to Kim Kardashian because her show all's fair

was getting a zero on Rotten Tomatoes.

And people are calling it the Toronto Sun called it the worst TV show in the history of television.

The New York Times said it was existentially bad, like it is getting panned.

Well, hold on to your seats.

The show is picking up a little steam and is now up to a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.

No longer in the category of worst show ever, just laughably bad now.

So they're working their way up.

a handsome 6%.

And listen, I wrote a movie that got like a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I'm not like saying I'm the guy.

I'm just saying, you know.

You know, I did feel bad last night, so I did write a positive review.

Oh, no, you did.

I went under my critics account on Rotten Tomatoe.

It's a secret guy.

Oh, that's pretty sweet.

Yeah.

You like hacked into Rob Thomas' account.

Rob's like,

I didn't

give that movie a good review.

What's going on here?

So 6% and climbing.

Hey, without further ado, folks, it is Friday.

I hope you guys participate in Nightlight tonight.

So we are going to go to our Nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

OK, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

OK, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

What app do you use the most?

I thought of this yesterday because my phone is getting, I don't have like a ton of memory on my iPhone.

It's getting a little crowded, it's starting to slow down.

I'm probably gonna have to delete more video, but it got me thinking like, what apps could I do without?

So that's tonight's question.

What app do you use the most on your phone, your iPad, whatever?

Let me know.

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So let me know.

What do you say, Conn?

Well, you already saw my answer on Facebook.

Oh, that was

so lame.

It's

not an

app.

That's the only thing on your phone that's not an app.

The

Settings app.

I guess it is kind of an app.

You know, I just go on there sometimes and just look at the serial numbers.

Mess around.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just, you

know.

It's just a nutty Saturday

night.

I just look at my screen time, though, if make sure the Wi-Fi's on.

Bluetooth.

I don't even know.

Mine

is poker, and I can't log into Facebook because I have this

other

computer, so I'm totally strapped tonight.

I would say my actual, my actual one is probably TikTok, I'd say.

TikTok, really?

No, no, actually, there's a game I play.

It's called Clash Royale.

I've heard of that.

That's what I do with poker.

I'm on that all the time.

I'm on probably Facebook and poker.

But let us know.

I'm curious because I know people, some people are Instagram people.

And if maybe you do notes or something or Google Drive, there's no wrong answer here.

Let us know what app you use the most.

And we got a great show tonight at 635.

My pal Tim Waco will be here.

Tim is performing at Memories Ballroom.

I think it's this weekend.

I had it in the questions.

Yes, this Saturday at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington, a great venue for comedy.

And another friend of mine, Jim McHugh, has a deal with Memories Ballroom to bring a group he has called the Chicago Comedy All Stars.

Which is a little deceptive, because he books a lot of Wisconsin comics there too.

But it's just all stars.

But it's at Memories Ballroom.

Tim will be here at 6.35.

And then it is a bar band Friday night.

Terry Barr will be here.

I've heard the music she's bringing.

It is outstanding, folks.

You're not going to want to miss this.

And when I come back, after a very short break, I'm going to tell you where you need to go into our county to see some great movie sites.

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

Network.

Yes,

sir.

We got some laughs and some music tonight, folks, here on Nightlight.

Tim Waco will be here at 6.35.

Very funny stand-up comedian and Terry Barr will be here at 7.35.

Our pal Terry, who brings us new music and outstanding conversation every week, just about every week.

Conn, I think we're gonna save the movie set thing till 7.05.

Okay.

And talk a little cheese curd.

Yeah.

Because I saw that.

Up North News, I'm kind of addicted to Up North News again.

It's just a great publication.

I think Pat Krightlow, the founder of

that, I

think, yeah, Pat does a great job Up North News.

And they put a list out of best cheese curds in Wisconsin.

You and I both kind of have an issue with it.

I think we're on the same page here.

I know your second home is...

Your weekend place is Quick Trip.

So you're a fan,

so we're not attacking anything here.

Yeah, I am a huge fan of Quick Trip.

Huge fan.

You like their chicken sandwiches, correct?

I like their chicken sandwich.

You like their chicken or their cheese spuds.

Cheese

potato things, but they never have them.

Yeah.

And I go for those over the cheese curds, but all they have is cheese curds.

They are number one on this list of Up North News, so we need probably to get Pat on the

blower.

Yeah, we definitely talk about that.

We have an issue with it

No, actually, okay, this is nothing to do with up north news.

This is a poll they took

Yeah, and these are

the results.

So it's not up north.

Oh, okay.

So it's okay.

Yeah makes more

sense So quick trip was the first one they listed.

They're

not really making it one correct it but it's Turtle Lake is

They're doing

something up there quick trip in Turtle Lake has exceptional cheese curds

The seasoning and the breading is perfectly balanced as the ratio of curd to coating.

So it's not like a universal recipe?

They just do it better over there.

It's strange.

Something in the water, maybe, in Turtle

Lake?

It's something in the lake.

It's the turtles.

Yeah, then they've got Pine River Dairy in Manitowoc.

I have not heard of most of these places.

Well, any of them, really.

But you've got Pine River Dairy in Manitowoc.

Rachel's roadside bar and grill in Wittenberg.

Do you know where Wittenberg is?

I actually don't.

I have seen the sign for Wittenberg from time to time, but I couldn't tell you where I saw it.

I don't know if it's when I go to Madison or if it's around here.

Ellsworth cheese.

You know where that is?

That's in Ellsworth.

Ellsworth.

Yeah.

And they have a whole town.

It's just like the Ellsworth cheese curd.

It says they have fresh, not frozen ones that squeak in your teeth when you bite it.

Okay, now here's the issue.

This is kind of a willy-nilly list because that would indicate that those cheese curds are raw or they're not breaded and deep-fried, right?

They are if they

squeak in your teeth.

Yep.

Those are some great curds.

Those you like those.

Oh, those are my you know, I go to festival foods, you know kind of almost every week and Right when you enter they have a cheese curd table

Like for sampling.

No, I'd like you can oh

just the different cheese curds

And it's like different every week.

It's rotating, like brands.

So you just eat the curd?

Yeah.

You don't put it on a crack or anything?

I don't think I could do that.

I love it.

I can't eat straight cheese.

You

know what?

This seems

like a recipe for disaster

for me at least.

Usually I can't, but like with it being small and it goes down.

Okay.

Do they ever have like, here's where I'm a sucker for when it comes to cheese.

Smoked Gouda.

If there's like a smoked Gouda cheese curd, if any of you know where I could get my mitts on a smoked Gouda cheese curd, I am so there.

Because that I would eat straight up cheese.

Other than that.

What if it's

squeaky though?

Wouldn't, I don't think it would be.

If it was smoked, it's drier, right?

When it's smoked?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm not really a cheese

aficionado.

We need to ask Terri about this.

She knows.

Oh, I bet Terri

does know.

And then there's, uh, there's, uh, Felt's Dairy and Steven's Point.

I go to Steven's Point periodically.

Their dill variety are my own personal favorite, uh, side note for reestablishing that classic squeak and pull after you get home.

The cheese master at Felt's taught us to just microwave two to three for about seven seconds.

Oh my gosh.

And that was Karen, Karen W. From the up North news.

She responded to this.

And then Henning cheese and keel.

Okay.

I don't know.

Uh, you know, I just, the quick trip to me is like, have you had other cheese curds?

Exactly.

Because that is not even close.

I'm sure

they're fine.

I'm sure they're passable.

But

I

assume they mean that the deep fried ones, you get off the rack there, you know, when you go in, but maybe they're talking about, maybe they have a different display or something.

You know, if someone comes to Wisconsin and they ask me, I really want some cheese curds.

Where should I get it?

I'm not saying quick trip.

Yeah.

I'm saying, well, if you want something fast, you go to Culver's.

Correct.

Not Quick Trip.

Right.

And you wouldn't come to Wisconsin.

I really want to try a Wisconsin burger.

Have you been to McDonald's?

I mean, it's just kind of like, it's a strange thing.

Watching the radio on the stream tonight is our pal Dave.

He says his favorite app is iHeartRadio.

You know what?

I use that all the time, but on my TV.

Cuz I always have music going in my house.

I'm just I like to have music in the background Sometimes I put on like classical or I'll put on jazz or something But I always have some mood music at my house and I use I heart radio to do it So I'm a big I heart fan as well Dave and Dave says golf rival.

Do you know that one con?

I've played it.

Have you

yeah,

okay?

Just a golf app.

Yeah, you know, it's kind of a game.

I love golf games

video It's like it's that you can play it on your phone.

Yeah,

okay

That's kind of cool.

Yeah, download it and play it on your way home

Like everybody else driving Dave also says do you like AC DC?

Are you going to see them?

I don't

I didn't know they were Taking stage anywhere locally.

I do I mean I I'd say I like AC DC.

I like the two songs shook me all night long and back and black I Like Thunderstruck Thunderstruck's good.

They had a song called big balls.

It was a little

Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap.

That's a good one.

Yeah, they got some good tunes.

I don't know if I'd go see him though, Dave, but I do like ACDC.

Where are they playing?

Let us know.

All right.

Hey, when we come back, Tim Waco will be here.

Very funny guy who will be performing at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington.

Tim will be here in just a few minutes after the news.

Don't go anywhere, Pete.

Pete.

I'm

going to

make a beeline for the rest.

We're coming right back with Tim Waco.

It's a Bar Band Friday night.

Terry Bar will be here at 735.

You're here on a great night, folks.

What's your favorite app?

That's our question.

We're coming right back.

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

Hey, this is Robbie Schultz, and you're listening to Night Light with Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back.

That was Robbie Schultz, ladies and gentlemen.

He's been on the show before.

A fine cooker of ribs and all things meat involved.

He might put a little extra love in your ribs, Conrad.

It's opposed to your amps.

We

still haven't figured out what that means.

I don't think I want to know.

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

Our question of the night is, what app do you use the most?

We've got some texts we'll get to in just a little bit.

And we're going to talk about a great movie location.

There was a film shot in Dork County called A Cherry Pie Christmas.

And next Tuesday, Katie Leclerc, the lead actress in the film, will be here.

on the show, but tonight we're going to talk about some of the places they filmed in Dirk County, beautiful Dirk County.

We'll get to that in a little while, and it's Bar Band Friday Night.

Terry Barr will be here with brand new music and really fun conversation.

Right now, I'm excited to welcome a friend of mine to the show who knows a little bit about music and comedy as well.

He'll be performing at Memories Ballroom just outside of Port Washington this weekend, and he joins us now over the phone, my pal Tim Waco.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, man, haven't seen you.

I've heard you in a long time.

You sound great, you guys.

Well, thank you, Tim.

It's great to hear your voice.

And I think the last time I saw you, you did that football fundraiser for me and Marinette about maybe

five years ago.

That was a blast.

I remember part of it.

What part do you remember?

When you dropped me off at the hotel.

That was

fun.

You know, that's the

only time I get

double

doors.

Yeah.

It's the only time I get to see comics anymore is when I booked them to do a show in the town I live in, so I appreciated

you making the prize.

I have a real history with what's gone through you now.

Oh, yeah, I know you do.

Yeah, we had a home in Rhineland there for many, many years.

Oh,

I didn't know that.

Yeah, every summer, Lake Thompson, some holiday acres.

Yeah, my parents started going up there actually in the 30s and 40s.

Wow.

And so we went every day, every summer.

for at least three, four weeks.

I got more trouble there than I ever did in Chicago.

I just, kids get married at 14.

It's not good.

They're driving at seven and their dad's left.

Turn left, Bobby.

Okay.

Yeah, I love to talk about radio stations.

There's a AM station, it's probably still there with Channel 12 TV, but it was WOBT to Wobbitt, which I said every time.

But we laughed and then we went home.

I think it was, our

pal Pete Moore had a joke about small town radio stations.

Like there was only one station so they had to play everything.

It was like that was Leonard Skinner,

the

sweet home Alabama followed by J.S.

Batch.

That's great.

And now a lecture by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Breed.

It's so great.

That's funny.

That's a great bet.

He's a great guy.

Great guy.

I've seen him on Facebook and he's very funny.

But yeah, things are going good.

I was out in Las Vegas the way we go.

Oh, OK.

I did Brad Garrett's club.

Oh, yeah.

How about you crush there?

I did.

Your first night wasn't so good.

I was doing shorter sets because Brad goes on, but he wasn't there a lot of the time.

Great guy.

I mean, and the club is outstanding.

And I was, I used to get tired at the end, you know, and I was doing it without cause they were short set and realized he got no ending here.

Welcome.

What's wrong with

you?

And so, so actually it was great.

It's one of the best clubs I've ever been at.

The audience is right there in front of you, but they're perfect level and they're not too low.

They're not too high.

And it's a class thing.

I also won $6,200.

Wow playing what the ATM So it was paying off that night, that's nice

The cameras are on me.

No it was we I had a great time, but yeah Yeah, I gambling man you gamble you guys gamble.

I don't really anymore I play I have my video poker app, but I don't gamble for real money

No, stay away from what I used to do.

I I have a lot of gambling I found out

I was gambling way too much.

They used to work at the Tropicana there for 12 years.

They blew it up.

There's a baseball stadium there.

So that's interesting.

That would be nice in the summer of baseball in Vegas.

But yeah, the best way to stop gambling if you're compulsive, I have ADD.

I have ADHD.

I have a high death.

And I have all these behavioral problems.

And I was gambling so much, I was losing money.

I found a way to not lose money.

You want both the listeners would know, get thrown out of the casino.

Yeah.

Guaranteed you can't come back in.

No, you know, I've been thrown out of 11 casinos.

I'm not making that up

really

never say never say to a Native American.

Well, I won't do that joke right now anyway The best way to get thrown out is you walk up to the craft table.

You have to know anything about the game of crafts up which five dice towards you, right?

Yeah,

you're supposed to do trail take them all five throw many a yell yopsy And security is there within six minutes and you just go home

So, Tim, all right, tell us about... I want to talk... I have a lot of comedy questions for you, buddy, but I want to talk

about

Memories Ballroom a little bit in Port Washington.

Have you done this room before for

Tim McHugh?

Yeah, about five times.

Yeah, Jimmy Book's great shows there.

Great guy, Roland that runs it.

It's a ballroom from, I don't know, the 30s.

Oh, nice.

They

have

dinners, and they have shows, and it's... The crowds are great.

They sell it out all the time.

They have a great chicken and comedy.

You can't beat that.

And the chicken is good, as opposed to...

A lot of the chickens that we get today

in

the world that are more antibiotics than somebody that just came back from the army in Vietnam.

So no, I love the place.

It's fantastic.

And I'm up there with Bill Bunker.

Do you know Bill?

No, I didn't know any of the other names.

Bill Bunker's a funny guy.

He wrote a lot for Jim Gaffigan.

He wrote a lot of the stuff.

Oh, nice.

And he's very, very family oriented.

He's just...

He's got a great bit about his wife, you know, he goes, she gets a little weird.

She goes, but you realize there are three cartons of milk in there and he opens the fridge.

He goes, uh, is it supposed to be three or one?

Is there an answer to this question?

So he's just got great stuff.

So it's going to be great.

I've done it a bunch, bunch of times.

Yeah.

I've been doing, uh, some clubs, some clubs, I'm doing some, a lot of corporate stuff.

I

corporate or are you like, uh, I do the condos a lot down in Florida.

They're a blast.

You can pay more in a day than you do in a month.

But I'm doing some, uh, some civic shows, you know, for some groups, you know, the corporate shows we do.

I got some good ones coming up.

Can I tell you a couple of them?

Yeah,

absolutely.

Yeah.

I'm going to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a group called the parents of uninteresting children.

That's Tuesday, Tuesday, November 5th.

Then I go over to St.

Paul, Minnesota for the association of extremely tall Lutheran tour guides and Ludifest cookout.

My third year up there.

Let me go to Devil's Lake, North Dakota, even the Devil's Lake, haven't you?

I

have,

believe

it or not,

yeah.

Native American Drapery Association, 75th annual golf tournament and wrestling powwow.

Oh dear, all

right.

Yeah,

that's not good.

That's a bad one.

Sorry, Wisconsin business.

April 3rd, I got a good one.

What is it?

The League of Dyslexic Pharmacists.

Pharmacists?

So instead of three pills for 30 days, you take 30 pills in three days and you're done.

Oh, I love

it.

Yeah.

And I'm going up to the, uh, New England for the, you know, the daughters of the American revolution.

I'm doing the daughter of a revolving door salesman annual spinorama.

That's a big show.

And, uh, Hamilton, Ontario, great show.

It's a Canadian show for over overactive Canadians called shut the heck up.

And then I go down to Florida.

I do three shows.

once in Jacksonville for doctors without borders.

You know, that's a great group.

Yeah.

And then I go to Jacksonville again, I go with doctors without border collies.

And then I go to Orlando for a dentist without teeth.

So I'm busy.

You're on, yeah, you're on the road a lot.

It's like, so what, Tim, how do you

How do you describe your brand of comedy?

Like you're very rapid fire.

Like if people go out the memories, they're gonna, like you don't give people a chance to rest.

It's very like joke, joke, joke.

It's just great.

So is that, is that something you learn from an older comic or who influenced

you?

No, it's just my excited person.

I'm better.

I just want to keep moving.

It's great.

I just keep moving.

I don't stop.

Some people tell great stories.

I don't know.

I tell stories with jokes within the story.

So there's a joke every.

three or four seconds.

Yeah.

But I just I'm really good.

I tried slow down a little bit, but it doesn't work for me.

I took a class with a guy named comedy class when I was playing music out in LA and doing the records that went nowhere.

They used to keep the records and release Tim.

But with Stanley Myron Handelman, you remember him?

No,

he was on the well, he was in the Dean Martin show every

week.

And he was managed by he was a slow talk like this from New York.

He's very, very funny.

And he would talk about going slower and slower and slower.

And then he heard my son, he goes, you are an exception.

Stanley was this great guy, a little Jewish guy with a cap, just very clever.

He said, he got in a really bad accident in LA.

He said, see the sign?

I went to see him.

I go, see him.

How are you doing, Stanley?

He goes, let me ask you a question.

If the doctor says it doesn't look good, what do I do?

And he was OK.

He made it through.

He was hysterical.

So yeah, that's how I got started.

I took a little class, but it's like comedy classes.

You can teach people how to, you can't teach them to be funny.

Right.

You can teach funny people to organize it.

Which a lot of comics

need help with that.

You know, there's so many guys we know that are hilarious, but they can't, it's not like they can't tie their shoes, but they're not organized enough to, I don't know,

go very far maybe?

Yeah, you have to, you have to keep.

So you have to have in three things to stand.

The old said, you have to have a beginning, a middle and an end.

You're set whether it's five minutes or an hour.

Sure.

And, you know, might do some peaks and valleys, but it's not easy.

And I think one of the problems is a lot of people today are doing those, the open mic things that, you know, what do they say?

They used to, you know, we were starting comedy.

There were a 50 of us and 500 clubs.

Now they say there's 500 clubs, 500 comics and 50.

My

guest is

Tim Waco.

He is a Chicago-based stand-up comedian.

You can see him at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington this Saturday.

It's going to be a great show.

It's a great venue.

And Tim is a Chicago-based comment.

Do you still use the guitar, Tim, to close your sets?

Because that's great stuff.

I do, yeah.

I really like playing.

I'm really a bass player.

So can't bring a bass on stage.

People just stare at you.

Because the bass players are usually hiding.

And that's what we're just, but we don't even know what we're doing.

to follow the chords on the guitar.

No, I, yeah, I closed it because it's exciting and I like to play.

I really enjoy playing and singing.

So yeah, I do it at the end and it works.

Like I said, I did a couple shows in Vegas without it.

Short set and I said, no, you know what?

bring it out, then it just was, you know, that's my ending.

You got to have an ending, right, Pete?

Absolutely.

You got to have an ending.

Hey, we have a

clip of your comedy, so we're going to play this now.

This is from your Drybar special.

I didn't know you could be clean, but now I do.

Good for you, Tim.

Oh, of course.

Here's a quick clip of Tim's Drybar special.

I hated high school because I couldn't do math.

Anybody have trouble with math?

Math-impaired people?

My brother has a PhD in symbolic logic.

That's the highest form of mathematics.

I have a blue checkbook with a picture of a coyote on it.

Both the checkbook and it's the owner are unbalanced.

I couldn't even do algebra.

Remember algebra?

A train.

There's always a train.

Remember the train?

A train.

A train leaves New York.

What the heck with the train?

I've got a rental car.

Now why does the train leave New York?

They never return.

Remember the teacher would call on you and you had no clue whatsoever.

Oh Tim, here.

Oh, we did hear.

We did.

Tim, would you like to tell the class what a parallelogram is?

Yes, if I had any friggin' idea.

I would love to tell the class.

Parallelogram, would you get two Western unions at the same time?

For three years, I thought a quadrilateral was a kind of wheelchair could only go sideways.

It was not a good school.

It was not a good school.

I don't mean anything.

What?

Oh, that's great stuff.

Tim will be.

Yeah,

I just keep rolling.

Who's that guy?

He's pretty

funny.

It was so fun to watch you a few years ago, because I hadn't seen you in quite a few years.

And yeah, it's just you just don't give the audience a chance to breathe.

It's a great style.

Who was your influence?

Like, when you were growing up, Tim, who did you think was funny?

Boy, I remember, I used to think Steve Allen was funny.

He had a show.

Oh, yeah.

And he had times when Buddy Hackett and, of course, Karlin.

And there was so many levels of it.

I played music first, but there's so many, a lot of comics.

We're musicians, almost like Johnny Carson played the drums.

Sid Caesar was a saxophone player.

And so every time a comic was on, it wasn't easy to find them then.

They had to be on that solo bin.

There were very few shows.

Tim, we've got

to do a really quick break, and then we'll have a few more minutes.

I want to ask you about that connection between comedy and music, too, when we come back.

We've got to do a really fast break, and then we're coming back with Tim Waco, who you can see at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington this weekend.

More to come.

It's Pete Schwabba in Night Light on the Civic Media Radio Network.

You know we've got to find a way To bring some love and care here today Picket lights and picket signs

Welcome back I'm Pete Schwab but this is not like great to have you with me on this Friday I need to make a clarification here this is actually kind of funny when we came back from the news before I brought Tim on the show I Conrad was was telling him to turn a level down giving him a thumbs down as Robbie Schultz

was saying, hi, this is Robbie Schultz.

You're listening to Nightlight.

And I was not giving the thumbs down to Robbie Schultz.

We love Robbie.

He was a great guest, too.

So in case Robbie, Robbie's probably not watching.

He's a Texas guy.

Yeah.

I think he tunes in.

He could.

Yeah.

If he wants to be back on

the show,

he's got to tune in.

No, love Robbie.

Tim Waco is here.

He is going to be performing at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington this Saturday night.

Great venue.

Tim, what?

How long is the show?

What do you, you got like a 45 minutes set you're going to do?

Yeah, at least 45.

Yeah.

45 to 50.

And um, yeah, it'll be about 15 minutes of music at the end.

Do you still do the rental car bit?

I do.

I've expanded on it a little bit.

I love that.

I think we all had that.

Um, I'm sure I didn't have a good one.

We were out of rent cars in the days.

It's just, it's just funny.

Cause I, I said, just get the insurance.

You can do anything you want with a car like Florida and put it in gear.

You ever try that?

If like 112 slam the emergency brake on donuts, you'll be doing croissants And you know that noise when the car is on that horrible nose you started again I do that for 20 minutes when I get a rental car just to take them off and then you don't have to return the whole car I went to law school.

I went to college in Indiana.

There's a state.

They could close Wow, Mississippi with cold weather I I was I went to school to go to law school and play baseball

I

ended up being a defendant and a musician, so there you go.

But yeah, music is good.

I started playing music, and you know, you ask about the comics.

We do anything just to see comics.

But you know what made me, even when I started playing music way back in the 60s, the guys that played were kind of grease balls, you know what I mean?

The rock and roll guys, the club guys, they were like, hey, hey.

And then the Beatles came on, and when I saw Hard Days Night, I realized these guys are funny and clever.

and smart in which a lot of musicians are.

So that's what got me involved with the comedy as well as the music.

Well, and comedy is musical, right?

It's all about timing.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

There's a big connection there.

You, I wasn't going to ask you, Tim.

You did this great joke about the fridge.

Do you remember that joke, the William the refrigerator, Barry?

You probably

don't know

where he's been

going.

No, nobody knows.

Yeah, I forget what it was.

It was something

about the

big cookie year.

I don't know.

It's probably

inappropriate.

So

it's inappropriate.

Yeah.

Like a big cookie would you go to like a drive to and they go, would you like a big cookie with that?

Who's big cookie?

Sounds like a very strange clown.

How are,

how are.

Wisconsin audiences compared to Chicago audience.

I always say when I did stand up, Milwaukee was one of my favorite cities to work.

The crowds were outstanding.

And I just loved going there.

You've worked all over the state, all over, well, everywhere, but how are Wisconsin audiences?

I think they're great.

They're great.

They're smart.

You know, it's a smart state.

Did you look at, I was looking just for fun at the, just for the people in Wisconsin, the people that are famous in all walks of life.

Wisconsin has an amazing amount of people from literature to

some sports to broadcasting.

It's just a wonderful state.

And I think that, I don't know, it's just got an interesting feel to it.

It's a, yeah, my brother went to Madison.

He got his PhD there and so did my cousin.

And it's just, I think they're a little better because Chicago audience, you can get, you can get some attitudes and some, some groups that are in there that aren't as great, but you know, with me, I just roll them over and just keep going.

But I think I never did a show in Wisconsin.

I didn't like that one club.

It was up in, uh, Germantown.

That was just incredible.

I have a video from that.

It's a VHS because if anyone wants one, I can print it, I can print it out.

It was an incredible show.

And we just, the audience at every night were, and you know, it's a lot of, because the, and the Appleton room was great.

And, you know, and they think it was set up because the rooms were set up properly.

They weren't just.

places where they only have a bar on the disco ball down and put up a laugh thing.

That's why Brad's club was so great in Vegas.

The audience was just right there at your feet and they were right there, but it was just great and makes a difference.

Aside from like Brad Garrett's club in Vegas or coming up to Wisconsin or Zaneys or wherever, do you have a favorite club that you like to work or a club you've had your best memories

at?

Well, I, yeah, of course I started at Janie's way back when I left the club in Mount Prospect and the Rosemont and downtown is a weird room.

It's a great room, but it's a tunnel.

Yeah.

And, uh, I like it, but I think, uh, I like the, I like the proper can in Las Vegas.

I worked there 12 years.

The one they just blew up.

That's how good my act was.

They blew it up.

And the thing about Las Vegas audiences and I think made Wisconsin cause they don't have as many venues.

They said they're ready to have a better time in Vegas.

They forget about whatever that happened downstairs for that hour and a half.

And that's your job.