A Nite of Laughs, Films, and Disgraced Athletes (Hour 2)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who always reads between the lines until he sees a car coming.

Peach Waba.

Welcome to

Night

Light.

All right, it is Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen.

Hope you're having a great day.

Welcome to the show tonight, a fun show, a fun Wednesday show.

I would say a slightly more fun than last Wednesday show.

And the last Wednesday show was pretty damn fun.

So it's great to have you here.

Hope you're having a wonderful evening wherever you are in our vast, gorgeous, beautiful state of Wisconsin.

Conrad Krieger is working the board tonight on the other side of the glass from me, but I can see him.

How's it going?

It's cold.

Come on.

You're wearing short

sleeves.

Yeah, but, you know, I got a jacket.

Well, yeah, it's fall in Wisconsin.

I wish it was step 70, you know.

I love that you complain more about the weather than anybody and you are a lifelong resident.

Like, what are you expecting?

And I'm expecting, you know, 70 degrees,

unseasonable warmth.

Yeah, it's become you want it to be the norm.

Fun show tonight, folks.

We have some laughs and some independent film talk.

A fun question about disgraced athletes coming up.

Rob Brackenridge will be here at 6.35 tonight.

Rob is a very funny, Appleton-based stand-up comic.

If you don't follow Rob on his social media platforms, you should.

He's on TikTok.

He's all over TikTok.

Middle-aged dude.

who has made a splash on TikTok.

That is impressive.

And he's also on Facebook and Instagram, but he posts these really fun little things he does with his mom, who is in her 90s and sharp as a tech.

And Rob's got, I love Rob's accent.

I can't wait to get an

update on his

mom this time.

Here's my ma.

He's just so funny.

But yeah, we'll find out how she's doing.

She is his biggest fan, I hope.

And he takes his mom all around.

And Rob has some great

Giggs coming up that you're gonna hear about he's a very very funny comedian We have a clip of Rob will play in just a bit and it's it's vintage Rob Brackenridge So he will be here at 635 then at 720 our pal Ezekiel Drew's will be here and Ezekiel is an actor in the founder of the Milwaukee Independent Film Awards That's a film festival in Milwaukee that takes place December 5th.

I think is the opening night and

It's it's unbelievable the amount of this is their second year.

He's put this film festival together and it's unbelievable.

It's year two They've got a ton of films and I'm very eager to talk to Ezekiel about this year because he's got one year under his belt always fun to see the progress someone makes when they're an entrepreneur and Putting up this huge endeavor called a film festival because they are a ton of work so

Ezekiel will be here at 720.

I don't know.

Do you remember what he wore the first time he was on the show?

A pink suit.

A pink suit.

And it was, it was a dazzler.

It looked great.

And he's got like this bald head and the pink suit.

He looked like, I don't know, that's like, that's like a look where you want to brand yourself.

Yeah.

Everybody knows who you are, you know?

So I don't know if that's Ezekiel's personality all the

time,

but we'll see what he wears tonight on the stream.

I'm sure it will be interesting.

Lots of fun stuff.

By the way, before we get any further, I have to say, All's Fair, the Kim Kardashian legal drama.

Did you watch it?

I have not watched it yet.

I'm too caught up in two actually really good shows.

So I haven't been able to sacrifice any time to watch All's Fair.

It was at zero.

Then it shot up to 6%.

on Rotten Tomatoes, then it fell to 5%.

It is now hovering at 4%.

Still historically bad.

You know, I saw a tweet yesterday, and it was a screenshot of All's Fair, and I saw the lawyers in like a conference room.

The hot women lawyers.

And she's wearing like a business suit, you know?

But the one thing is that she has cut out of it is by her butt, and you can see her thong.

Wait.

What?

It's the funniest.

Oh, I think I can show

it to you.

You've got to find

that and show that.

And the comment on it was, she's wearing business sexual.

Yeah, she shows major cleave.

I mean, it's so, it's such a joke.

You cannot expect to be taken seriously as a legal drama.

I don't think.

Well, A, if you have Kim Kardashian in your show, but it might have been her pitch.

In any event, the show is at 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.

That's pretty bad.

Apparently she is going through law school.

I

thought she was done.

I think she failed the

exam.

She flunked the bar.

Yeah, I think she has to redo it, you know.

I gotta tell you, unless I was like completely passionate about the law or I had been wronged by a law and had that kind of motivation to get me through law school, she's already like a billionaire.

Where is your motivation to hit the books?

You know what

I mean?

I think it's very weird that she's like doing the show well.

Right.

Like it's like people can get a preview of what you're gonna get from

her.

Yeah right show us what kind of lawyer you're gonna be.

Here's a cool thing, folks.

On December 4th, if you are in the Madison area, drop by the Atwood Music Hall in the Atwood neighborhood.

It is a great brand new state-of-the-art facility.

We are going to be screening a film I made called The Godfather of Green Bay.

On December 4th, doors open at 6.

The show starts at 7.

It's about an hour and 25 minutes long.

John and Gordy from the WMDX Morning Show here on Civic Media will be there to introduce the film and introduce me.

They're sponsoring the screening complements of Catherine Lake, who got the whole ball rolling.

And then they're going to host a Q&A with me after the movie.

The movie stars Tony Goldwyn, Lauren Holly, Thomas Lennon,

Lance Barber, Eric Price, Rob Martin, Steve Seger, and Mike Seald, Mike Toomey, all kinds of great phenomenal actors in this film.

It's a who's who of comedy in The Godfather of Green Bay.

I play the lead role because I couldn't afford John Cusack, but we have great cast.

It's a fun movie, kind of a feel good movie.

And it was shot in fall in Wisconsin.

So there's some beautiful colors.

Hope you can make it out to the screening on December 4th, if you do.

The tickets are only 10 bucks and a dollar from every ticket goes to the Humane Society.

There will be no animals in the crowd though watching the movie.

They are forbidden.

So that was a stick.

That was a deal breaker for me because I have allergies.

But come on out.

December 4th should be a really fun night.

John and Gordy, my civic media big brothers will be there sort of piloting.

Hey, and they'll be here tomorrow night and Friday night with the K-man.

They're going to fill in for me because I'm taking tomorrow and Friday off to go to a film

festival.

Rocker will be joining on Friday now.

Oh nice.

Yeah, Terry said she couldn't make it Friday So rockers always

rocker at 635

sick moving the bar band up a little early I don't know if I like this Conrad all these changes about the Schwab it goes on one day of vacation and the whole all hell breaks loose No, that'll be really fun John and Gordy have filled in before and they're a lot of fun So check out tomorrow night show and Friday night as well, and I will be back on Monday So we have I got it.

Okay, so

We've talked about Pluribus, and I actually did, in one of my beats, I did a pizza pick.

I made the pilot a pizza pick.

I watched the second episode today.

Here's my issue with Pluribus, and it's great, but that pilot was so good.

It was so creepy and had such a great gimmick.

The second show was kind of like a letdown a little bit.

It was good at seeing how the character, Carol Sturka,

deals with everybody having this blissfully ignorant curse on them.

But that pilot was so great.

And I'm excited to see where they take it.

I did like episode two.

I knew it wouldn't match the energy level of the pilot, because the pilot was that great.

But check out the pilot, folks, and see if it hooks you.

It's an Apple TV show starring Rhea Seahorn, who was in Better Call Saul.

She played Kim Wexler.

Bob Odenkirk's wife and co-worker on the show.

She's very good.

And the show is very good.

And then I wanted to ask you Conrad, we're both fans of the chair company.

Yeah.

You know, Tim Robinson, I think is an acquired taste.

You either like him or you don't.

Definitely, yeah.

He is

so, he's

such a

spaz.

In that last episode, we're at the bar and that guy's trying to tell him the information.

What are you, what?

What are you saying?

I can't hear you.

Speak up, like.

He's so funny with the mundane, like the comedy is very subtle, but what was not subtle was the end of the last episode.

Yeah.

So if you want to know if you're going to like the chair company, go to the end of the fifth episode, watch the end.

And if you're turned off by that, don't watch the show.

But maybe it's not as funny if you're not watching the show because

of their text exchange right before is really what made it funny.

But it's a very good show.

I really like it.

And I'm,

you know, I was really just, you know, when he's in that chase scene in, you know, in the basement,

the basement.

Was this last night's episode?

That was, yeah, that was Sunday.

It was when he was walking through and he meets this man.

Oh, the old guy with his wife makes him kiss.

I

was like, what is

actually going on right now?

I

was so confused.

I was laughing so hard.

And one of the guys said he was down in this basement.

They didn't explain that.

And he was cheating with this woman.

And he said, no, if you want to gain my trust, you have to kiss my girlfriend.

And I let me take a picture, right?

So he like kissed her.

And he's looking at the camera.

It's so weird.

But it's so funny.

It's a great world.

So I'm digging the chair company, digging Pluribus.

If you didn't think that they could get any better, it's National French Dip Day.

I don't like some French dip.

Wasn't your dad's favorite?

We did a

favorite sandwich question like a year ago.

Yeah, that was his favorite, yeah.

I

like a good French dip.

Does your dad like the Chicago beef sandwich?

I'm

pretty sure he does, yeah.

He must.

Yeah.

It's like a French dip to the 10th power.

So that's exciting.

If you want to share your favorite sandwich with us folks tonight, you can, but we are about to unveil our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

I'm not saying it's a national holiday, but it is Tanya Harding's birthday.

So our question tonight here at Nightlight is who is your favorite disgraced athlete?

I think I have a feeling who's gonna...

It's got rockets at the top of the charts, but

there's a lot of

them.

So who is your favorite disgraced athlete?

Share that with us, please.

I will read your text on the radio.

It's 855-752-484-2855.

75 Civic, let me know.

You can text us on the app.

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And while you're there, give us a like or a follow if you're so inclined, folks.

Do you have a favorite disgraced athlete, Con?

probably say, come back to me, I'm still debating.

It's kind of, I

feel like the de facto choice is like OJ, of course, but there are a lot of other athletes that are accused of horrible things like killing, like Aaron Hernandez, former Patriots tight end, Oscar Pistoris, the track athlete who had the prosthetic legs.

Remember that guy?

And the whole world was cheering for this guy, and then he did this horrible crime.

I think he killed his girlfriend or something like that.

Ray Caruth was accused of a murder plot, I think, if not an actual murder.

Ray Lewis.

Yeah, but I'm not excused.

I think Ray Lewis hung out with some bad dudes and probably for his own good kept his mouth shut.

or the Ravens probably would have been looking for a new middle linebacker because he just didn't say anything.

I don't think anybody thinks he killed anybody, but he kept his mouth shut.

You know, I'll say this one.

Quintez Cephas, he was a Wisconsin wide receiver a couple years back and he got accused.

Oh, yeah.

But he was, he

didn't do it.

And then he couldn't play like a year or two of football, but he still got drafted.

So good for him.

But I feel like he didn't.

unlock his full potential because he had to miss, you know,

seasons of Wisconsin.

That's terrible.

Especially, I mean, if he didn't do it and it still affected his career, like Henry Ruggs is another one.

He was going like 150 miles an hour and killed someone.

I think he was a rookie.

We'll get into all this and I'll give you my pick when we come back, folks.

It is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Who is your favorite disgraced athlete?

Ladies and gentlemen, that is tonight's question of the night.

I think I want to say Pete Rose.

That's a good one.

He didn't murder anybody, but he never really admitted that he bet on baseball.

He was very, there was no contrition, no, I just, I thought he was very arrogant about it.

Now, obviously the murder ones are, like Tanya Harding inspired this question, but her crime wasn't even really her crime.

It was her boyfriend.

who took a lead pipe to Nancy Kerrigan's knee, which is kind of a jerk move, but I wouldn't say that's the word.

You got OJ, Aaron Hernandez, Oscar Pistoris, Ray Caruth.

I don't know, you could say Roger Clemens with the Roids, Barry Bonds maybe, I don't know.

Ryan Braun had some.

Ryan Braun had some, so he had some, he had some.

But let us know 855-752-4842-855-755.

Civic, answer the question.

I'll read it on the radio, folks.

It doesn't even cost you anything.

That's a great deal.

We have a phone call.

Conn?

Yes, Cindy from Appleton.

Oh, awesome.

Cindy, how are you tonight?

Hey, Pete.

Good.

How are you?

Doing very well.

Thank you.

Great to hear from you.

Well, I'm going to throw a little wrench and say that I think my favorite wrongfully disgraced athlete was Colin Kampernick.

who really took a hit for something that he was doing right.

Great answer.

And you're right.

He was disgraced and didn't even do anything.

He

took a knee and a peaceful protest.

I never even would have thought of that.

That's a great one, Cindy.

Thank you.

Have a

great night.

Okay.

That's Cindy from Appleton.

That's one I did not see coming.

Great answer.

There's a lot of them though.

There's a lot of disgraced athletes and I don't like it when they don't.

take ownership.

I think that's what makes Pete Rose probably my choice tonight.

So you need more time to think about yours.

No, it's Quinta Cephas.

Oh, Quinta Cephas, that's right.

Now, is he in the league now?

No, I don't believe anymore.

But he was on the Lions for a little bit.

He was like a really strong receiver.

Yeah,

that's too bad that he didn't.

Was his career affected

by that?

I mean, yeah, he couldn't play college football for, you know.

A couple of years, I think.

But he got drafted.

He still got drafted, but I think that kind of hurts the development, you know?

Yeah.

That's terrible.

At 635, folks, Rob Brackenridge will be here.

We have a clip of Rob's comedy.

This is so Rob.

I love this clip.

I found this today on Facebook.

Conrad had to edit it.

There's a little bit of swearing, but we worked around it.

And here is our guest at 635, Rob Brackenridge's comedy.

During Christmas time they always had that one TV channel that's a you will log, you know They had different channels and one of them was a fish tank It was just a fish tank with a fish swimming around in it.

It was live action, you know There's one fish swimming around and he had one of those long strings coming off of them, you know, I know I prefer to call it a fish string But this was the longest fish I'd ever seen

And it was not cracking off.

They had been feeding them some fiber.

He was like dropping a rope ladder to his buddies.

Now, I can't switch a channel to this f***ing cracks off.

I had 15 minutes invested in the f***ing channel.

I'm like, swim around.

Do some maneuvers.

Swim over by the bubbles and use it as a bidet.

That's Rob Brackernage.

He will be here in about 10 minutes.

Very funny guy.

What was the other one I sent you from Rob?

It was about the Wisconsin diet.

Oh, yeah, that's a

short one too.

Can we

get

the Conan one in and that one before the break?

One or the other?

Let's do Conan.

This is a great clip that I found.

I don't know if it was on Rich Eisen's show or what, but Conan telling the story about Jim Carrey showing up at one of his parties where Conan's mom was there.

Here's that clip now.

I lived here during the late night show, late 90s.

And I was living on, I think 79th and Amsterdam in a rental.

And I had a party and halfway through the party and my mom was in town.

So she was at the party too.

And it was my staff and we're all hanging out and having a good time.

I get a call on my phone, first cell phone ever.

And it's Jimmy Miller, who's the manager for Jim Carrey.

Jim Carrey at the time had just come off of four insane, it was that mania.

Yeah.

He was the most famous person.

Four number one movies like in one year.

In one

year.

And he said, hey, Conan, I'm in town with Jim Carrey.

Can we stop by the party?

We hear you having a party.

Can we stop by?

This was not a Hollywood party.

This was just my, I said, yeah, sure.

Yeah, okay.

So lo and behold, Jimmy Miller and he shows up and there's Jim Carrey.

who had met like once briefly but he comes in he's like hey Conan couldn't be nicer everyone in my staff's eyeballs is they're just melting like this is not a guy who would ever have been on our show at that time we were still struggling to make it biggest star in the world and everybody's freaking out and at one point I noticed my mom is in the corner talking to Jim Carrey and she's talking to him for a while and you have that feeling that we've all had we're like

She detaches, she comes over to me, and my mom, I always thought of as Margaret Dumont in the old Marx Brothers movies.

Well, goucho, you know.

My mom had kind of a regal air about her, and she said, well, and I said, mom, what were you talking to that guy about?

And she said, well, he's interested in comedy, and I told him my son had a struggle, but you stick with it.

I mean, that's gorgeous.

My mom probably wouldn't have known who Jim Carrey was then.

So great.

All right, Rob Brackenridge will be here at 6.35.

Folks, after the news, our question of the night is, who is your favorite disgraced athlete?

I say Pete Rose, not for the severity of the crime, but just because he was a jerk.

And let's be honest, that haircut too.

Comedian Bobby Slayton used to call it.

He used to say, Pete Rose walked into a barber shop and said, give me the mo.

All right, we will be right back.

It is a great night here at Night Light, folks.

Wednesday, we're talking independent film in hour number two.

Rob Brackenridge is up next, one of our faves.

It's Pete Schwabba in Night Light.

Great to have you with me on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Our question of the night is, who is your favorite disgraced athlete?

Let us know.

But we did get a text in regard to the chair company from the 920, our pal Daniel.

Danny Wills and Manasha says, oh man, the recent episode of The Chair Company really took the show to another level of dark comedy.

I agree.

Yeah,

I thought it was whimsical.

I don't know.

It's a little dark, but I have to say, anytime you're watching a comedy and it literally, you see something that makes you sit up in your chair like, I can't believe I'm seeing that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Great stuff.

Thank you, Daniel.

All right, let's get to...

Speaking of laughter, this next gentleman, he's not going to make you think of dark comedy.

He's just out and out funny, and he's one of our favorites here.

It is my pleasure to welcome Appleton-based comedian, the hilariously funny Rob Brackenridge.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, I'm back.

You're

back.

Good.

I've been sitting in this little square, this whole time waiting to see you again.

Yeah, well, mission accomplished and it's good to see you too.

I always love when you're here, but if we can't have you in person, it's great to have you on the stream.

And listen, phone would be fine too, Rob, you're that funny.

And even if we had to do Morse code, I would figure out a way to make it work.

Yeah, I got a really good Morse code joke.

I don't know how to do laughter back on Morse code, but I would if I understood it better.

It's a great joke.

Wow.

Feel free to use that one.

I appreciate that.

Hey, do you have a favorite disgraced athlete, Rob?

Oh, Antonio Brown, of course.

Oh, yeah.

What did he do?

He exposed himself or something like that?

No, he fired a gun at a boxing match in Haiti, and he was arrested in Dubai today.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

And he's, he's right now on an airplane coming back.

So that, that's going to be my favorite one.

I'd like to get him fresh off the press.

The guy's got his quirks.

There's no question about that.

Okay.

Um, how are you buddy?

What's new in the world of a, tell us, how is your mom?

First of all, you're so funny when you put your mom on social media.

She's so funny and so adorable and so sharp.

And she's in her 90s.

Yeah.

95 in January 25th.

Wow.

I know.

It's amazing.

I just, I'm so lucky to have her, you know, it's so healthy.

And she actually came to my show.

I was headlining at the skyline last week with Mike Merrifield.

Yeah, that's

right.

Yep.

She came to the first show Saturday, sold out, completely sold out.

You know, it was one of those nights where you could do no wrong.

It was just like.

Whatever I said was perfect.

Yeah.

It's one of those ones where you just want to keep it in the bottle.

Right.

And she, because every other show she'd come to, I bombed.

You know, this was the first one where she just saw me kill.

I have to be honest.

I can't see you bombing, Rob.

Well, your material is hilarious, but you're really likable.

You're animated.

How do you bomb?

Well, you know come on.

You've been a comedian You know what?

It's like a second show of Friday.

That's all I have to say to it.

Oh, yeah, okay.

I get

that one can

No, everybody bombs you're right But when you say this is the first show she's been to that made me think you had a string of shows and that's what I had an issue with I can't see you bombing in a string of shows, but you know

No, it happens every once in a while.

But when it does happen, it sticks in your mind like, I mean, you just can't forget it.

You can't sleep for a couple of days afterwards.

You know, when you bomb, it's it's something you tell yourself, oh, it's nothing.

It was just the crowd.

It was bad, you know, but you keep going in your mind.

Oh, I could have said this.

Oh, I have a really good comeback, you know.

So.

But it happens, you never remember the great shows, you just remember the bombs.

That's a great, yeah, that's great.

It's not great, but it's a great quote about stand up.

What do you do when you bomb?

Do you just keep going?

Do you address, like if there's a heckler, do you address it?

Or do you just keep doing your act?

Because some guys, you know the comics who get up there and they're so good when they bomb.

Like

Eddie

Kindler, like you go, oh, he must bomb a lot and he got good at dealing with it.

And that's how he's so

funny when

he bombs, you know what I mean?

But what's your practice?

Yeah, I had a friend who had a great line when he was, cause he would bomb a lot.

So he would say, well, you know that a comedian is only as good as his crowd.

And right now I suck.

And so he would, he, that was his favorite line.

So even if it was a good crowd, he would do it.

That's hilarious.

What what I do usually is I slow it down because a lot of guys will speed it up And when I was first starting out and stand up if I was bombing I would speed it up to try to get to the next punchline speed it up now when I Start feeling that the crowd's not with me.

I slow it way down so it's almost like we're So anyway, you know, I do it as slow as I can just so that and

whether or not they get it or not, that's just the way I deal with it now.

And I actually wrote a joke that, if I really hate the crowd, I tell them this joke.

And it's not a bad joke.

I was just tired of comedians.

Is it okay if I tell you?

Is there

swearing?

No.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

There's nothing wrong with this joke.

See, I was so mad at comedians going, well, I'm gonna close with a...

I guess I'm going to close with a joke.

What do you guys want?

Dirty or clean?

And then they tell some street joke, you know?

Right.

So I decided I'm going to write my own joke.

And it's not it doesn't offend anyone.

It's just it's it's the best joke.

And I only tell this to comedians or I tell the crowds that because crowds never get it.

But comedians always get it.

And that's why I know you you're going to get it.

OK.

So wait.

Two Jews walk into a bar.

Then they realize they're going to be in an anti-Semitic joke, so they leave.

So the bartender turned, there you go.

So the bartender turns to the drunk and he goes, you're in this joke, aren't you?

And the drunk goes, of course I'm in this joke.

Where's the gorilla?

And he says, well, I thought you were bringing the gorilla.

And the drunk goes, well, I don't have to put up with this.

I'm a professional.

And he staggers out of the bar.

So the bartender looks at me and he says,

Well, if I hurry up, I can get into a good traveling salesman joke.

So he's traveling down the highway and he comes up to the farmhouse and he goes, knock, knock.

The guy inside goes, who's there?

And he goes, it's me.

I was the bartender.

Now I'm the traveling salesman.

He opens the door and it's a gorilla wearing a bathrobe, smoking a cigar.

And he says, hey, where were you in the bartending joke?

And he goes, that was today.

There you go.

See.

You appreciate that.

Does it get a

laugh to do do crowds?

No, it gets They just leave in

a bad nothing.

Oh, it gets a mad they get so angry because they they almost got a punchline.

Okay, here's all what's a traveling sales?

No, oh, you know, it's a it just it gets them really mad, but For some reason comedians love that joke

That's hilarious.

That was today.

That's great.

That was

today.

Hey, you mentioned Mike Merrifield, and I saw on your Facebook, I don't know where I saw this when I was looking up all things Rob Brackenridge today, but you said you were the cheeseballs.

Were you guys a comedy team?

Yeah, that's a great.

We were the comedy team.

Yeah, it was Steve Hartman.

me and Mike Maryfield and we toured around, we set up a whole bunch of shows all through Wisconsin.

And they were clubs, they were theaters, they were just bars, you know?

But we filled the entire couple of months with all these shows and we ended up doing them and it was a lot of fun, but it's hard to keep them going because everyone else had their own life, they had to get back too, so.

Right, that's great.

We enjoyed it.

Yeah.

Do you know Steve Ait and Jimmy Pardo?

Yeah.

I just, I love, I love Jimmy.

He's, he's my favorite, he is my favorite stand-up

comedian.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

Well, he was on the show last week and we were talking, I think we touched on this even, or maybe it was the last time he was on, but Steve Ait and Jimmy and me did this show called The Three-Headed Monster.

And we build it as three headliners for the price of one when all of us basically had 20 minutes of materials, like three middle acts.

That's a great idea.

So we only work like two rooms, but Steve, I had who's hilarious.

He's so funny

as

well.

Watching both of those guys was so great, but he had t-shirts made that said three-headed monster, and the only place we did the show was in St.

Louis, the catcher-rising star.

So

it

had all the tour dates on the back, just St.

Louis, and then TBA, TBA, TBA, TBA was kind of a joke, you know?

So I'm in this gas station, and I have that shirt on, and this gas station attendant says, he goes, hey, what's

that, three-headed monster?

I go, it's a stand-up comedy show, and he goes, oh.

I thought maybe you might have been in a band or something.

It

would be a great name for a band.

We would have been so impressed if I was in a band.

My guest is Rob Brackenridge, very funny stand-up comedian from Appleton.

He's got some dates coming up.

We'll discuss those.

Rob, you got a stream comment here from JB Thompson who says, Rob, awesome that your mom supports you in your endeavors.

Totally agree with him.

And then Ezekiel, our guest in hour number two says, loved the joke, Rob, I chuckled.

So there you go.

You're on a roll here tonight.

I got a chuckle.

That's almost as good as a chardle.

Or a guffaw,

maybe, if

things get really crazy.

I could only dream of getting a guffaw.

And then Mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608 said it wasn't bad.

He gave a chuckle.

Well, it's chuckle-worthy, Rob.

I mean, that's something, right?

And that joke is supposed to be when you don't like a crowd, right?

And you leave them with it.

Right, right.

Yeah, so

there you go.

It's my punishment.

And there's never been a better punchline than that was today.

You got to visualize that.

Gorilla smoking the cigar with his bathrobe on you know and fuzzy slippers and he's like that was oh geez I need that money You know

In reference to JB's quote are I hope I know the answer to this are you your mom's favorite comedian?

Well, yes, I think she cuz she loved

everything that I ever did.

I was always in theater, you know, so she would come up to me and she'd say, you were the best one, you know, and mom, I was the tree.

I was the tree.

She's like, yes, but you really, you know, she is really my biggest fan.

So yeah, I would say whether she believes it or not, she would say that I'm her favorite comedian.

That's fantastic.

You, I want to give you a quiz, if you're okay with that, a catchphrase comedy quiz.

But we have about a minute and a half till we have to do a quick break.

And I thought I would try to tell people where they can see you.

You got some big, some fun dates coming up.

Yeah, I'm going to be at Pasquale's.

Now you, I'm sure you've worked this one.

Pasquale's in McDonnie, Michigan.

I worked at, yeah,

probably eight years ago, I hadn't done stand-up in six years or something like that.

And they were desperate because there was somebody canceled and I was like, well, okay.

They

just

went up and they were very nice.

And I only had to do like 25 minutes, so it was good.

And that's how they introduced you to this next guy.

We were very desperate to someone canceled.

Here he is.

Poat.

Shweebie.

Shweebie.

Shweebie.

Shweebie.

He's the only guy we found that

had

a

car.

So yeah.

Yeah.

He's a nice guy though.

That's a fun read though.

Yes, it is great.

I love it.

It's uh You you got a you know figure out you got a you know work.

That's where you get heckled heckle practice there at the

Okay, nice.

See yeah, they all come out they drink and you're on a bowling out You're at a bowling alley isn't I think it's a bowling.

I can't remember because I haven't done it for about ten years

Yeah, there's something there's stages like four inches off the ground.

So

yeah, you tower over

Yeah, I'm trying to remember it, but I'm sure it'll come back to me.

That's November 28th Friday.

All

right, let's pick up on your upcoming dates.

We're gonna do a really short break.

Negani Pasquale's on November 28th.

That is a great venue if you're up north.

It's worth the road trip to see Rob.

We're coming right back with more with Rob Brackenridge.

It's Night Light with Peach

Waba.

On the stream, Dave says, Ray Finkel laces out.

That's from Ace Ventura, right, Con?

Yeah, I believe so.

I can't remember the character that well, though.

Dave's most, his favorite disgraced athlete is from a comedy movie.

That's not so bad.

Rob Brackenridge is here, folks.

Rob, you still with us?

I'm so glad

you- I sure am.

I thought maybe you'd take a powder during the commercial break.

But I'm glad you.

Yeah, I did powder

my

nose.

It

was a little

shiny.

We used your a clip of your stand up where you're watching the fish take a dump and string hanging and like, you can't turn it off until you see what happens.

That's what my favorite bitch.

So funny.

Because it really happened.

I never said

that's the funniest stuff.

Yeah.

That's

great.

I mean, that thing had to crack off sooner or later.

Sorry, I just having to yeah, I just recorded it so I could you know because I I couldn't wait for it to happen So I just recorded it and fast-forwarded

good places to be

Oh, yeah, I can't sit there all day waiting for a fish to use a bidet

Can you imagine if he saw a female fish?

He thought was cute and he can't crack it off and he's just it's got to be mortified.

That's terrible

Yeah, you can't get it.

I mean if you have toilet paper on the bottom of your shoe, that's embarrassing This guy he's never gonna live that down

All right, so you got Nagani November 26th Nagani, Michigan actually a really fun room and I think they give you a pizza They're known for their pizza, right?

You get a pizza after the show, which is kind of cool

And it's the 28th.

It's the 28th.

Oh, 28th.

Okay.

I have to tell you, when I did that, that date in Nagani, a friend of mine, I was just going to go up and drive right back.

It's like two hours from where I live.

So I thought, all right, I'll fill in, you know.

So a friend of mine was an FBI agent in Marquette at the time and he and his partner.

came over to see the show.

Well, you hang out with two FBI agents.

The stories, to me, are 10 times more interesting than stand-up comedy stories at that point.

And he's a dear family friend, so we hung out to like two in the morning.

Well, when I left the hotel room, I hung out there for like an hour, then I went to the show, left my key in the room.

It was like a mom and pop place.

So after about eight pictures of beer, it's two o'clock in the morning.

I'm not driving back to Marinette, so I gotta go back to the mom and pop place, knock on the door and wake them up.

to get back in my

room.

That's the Triangle Motel, right?

I don't remember.

I was there that one time, but they hated me.

She was so mad, but she let me in, which is sweet.

I guess I don't like it.

That's the worst.

It's one of the worst hotels you can stay at.

It sticks in my mind as I call them ankle scratchers, you know?

Why is it?

Why is that?

You get those little chiggers in your ankles when you stay there.

That's where I came up with the idea for ankle scratchers.

What kind of gig is it?

Oh, well, it's an ankle scratcher.

That means they put you up at a motel six or something.

Oh, that's I stayed in a Motel 6 once in Kankakee, Illinois.

I don't know why I lived in Chicago at the time, but my wife went with me.

We get to the hotel.

I thought I'll make a night of it.

It's a Motel 6.

And someone just drew on the popcorn ceiling a bunch of male genitalia.

And I'm like, well, this is sort of laying there looking up, you know, it's kind of got our motors running, but

it depends on how realistic it is,

right?

Was it was it the Sistine Chapel or was it a bathroom wall?

Rob Brackenridge is my guest.

He's a very funny, Appleton based standup comedian.

You can see him in Negani, Michigan on the 28th of November.

What else you got coming up, Rob?

You got quite a few dates here.

The next day, I'm in, so the 28th, I'm in Nagani.

The next day, I'm in Sheboygan Falls at the Odyssey Fund Center.

Ooh, nice.

Yeah.

That one, have you done that one yet?

No, but is there, it sounds like there's gonna be a bounce house there or something, is that?

There probably is.

It's got everything.

It is a bowling alley, too.

So this one is definitely a bowling alley.

OK.

And you can, like, I've worked at it a bunch of times.

In between bits, if a joke doesn't go over, you can hear the pins falling down.

Somebody

picking up the spare.

Yeah, someone picking up the spare.

My career's taken off.

I like, but the great thing about you, I know you kind of like to stay close to home.

So you work these gigs that probably give you more material.

I mean, you've worked big rooms and you've done your own specials.

Hey, tell us about your special coming up.

You're doing a new one.

That's exciting.

Yes.

Oh, I got the t-shirt on.

Open bar comedy.

That's what, that's what I got paid for doing it.

Is that the opposite of a dry bar comedy special or is there to play on words?

Yes.

Okay.

So what does that

mean?

You can swear

on this one?

Yeah, I don't know if you know Ron Finegold.

Oh, I do know Ron Finegold.

He is a fantastic comedian, a magician as well.

Oh.

I've known him for probably 35 years.

I've been doing comedy for 37 years.

And he's he was one of the first guys I worked with.

He was like my opening act in Jeff Veldas Comedy Club in Colorado Springs back in the late 80s.

Yeah.

And and he he's now doing these open bars.

And he it's kind of his counteraction to dry bar because in dry bar, I don't know if you

seeing my Drive R special, it's called Legendary.

Yeah,

D-A-I-R-Y, hilarious.

But you have to be really clean and they give you like a little video of someone telling you how to be clean, you know, and you have to sign all this stuff where you know you're, you can't say the word poop and everything, you know.

And so I do that, you know, and then

With open bar he just goes whatever you want to say just go for it You know so it was kind of neat doing it doing those two because you couldn't put them back to back Yeah,

I got a funny run a fine gold story for you Can we keep you for a few minutes after the news and give you this quiz and of

course

fine gold story great guy though.

Yeah, and

Rob Brackenridge is a great guy too.

He's going to stick with us and come back for a few minutes in Act 2.

Ezekiel Drews is here at 720 talking about the Milwaukee Independent Film Awards.

All kinds of fun here on Nightlight, folks.

Great to have you with me.

We will be right back for Act 2 after intermission.

I'm Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain, Peach Waba.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

To nightlight with peach waba great to have you with me.

It's a Wednesday.

It's a little chilly out but but not too bad Conrad's gonna complain about the weather regardless of

yeah

temperature temp as they say But we're having fun anyway, it's 70 in sunny.

Well, it's a little dark in the studio, but it's

warm.

It's yeah, it's like 72 72 I can live with that

Rob Brackenridge is with us.

He is my guest right now.

We will be back to Rob in just a moment.

Coming up at 7.20 is Ezekiel Druze.

He is the founder of the Milwaukee Independent Film Awards and a talented actor as well.

So we'll talk to him about this really cool festival, which is coming up in early December.

And speaking of early December, if you're in the Madison area on December 4th, ladies and gentlemen, stop by the Atwood Music Hall, the beautiful state of the art brand new Atwood Music Hall.

in the Atwood neighborhood.

I'm gonna be showing, we're gonna be doing a screening of The Godfather of Green Bay, a movie I wrote and directed many years ago starring Tony Goldman and Lauren Holly, Lance Barber, Tom Lennon, and a whole bunch of very funny comedians that I've worked with from Milwaukee, Chicago, some really funny people from Marinette, Wisconsin too.

They're all in the film and it's sponsored by WMDX, the John and Gordy show in the morning.

They're gonna introduce the film.

And it is sponsored by Doundren's Distilling.

It's gonna be a really fun night.

John and Gordy are gonna host a Q&A after the screening.

It's a comedy and it should be a really fun night.

Some of the proceeds will go to the Humane Society too in Dane County, which is great.

It's a good event for a good cause.

Please join us on December 4th if you're in the Madison area.

It should be a lot of fun.

Connor, you gonna be there?

I'm hoping.

Yeah, you can take some pictures.

Maybe I'll take a couple.

Yeah, bring a couple dogs in with me.

Why not

bring a

couple

dogs in?

Yeah No, no animals not allowed.

They cannot watch the movie.

We talked about Kim Kardashian show to all sphere It started at a zero percent Nowhere to go but up they got up to six percent on rotten tomatoes and now they are down to four percent

No, but the costume design on that on that set is just amazing

They just went in they had a meeting and said lots of cleavage, please for our legal drama

Good stuff.

So Ezekiel Drew's, we've got our question of the night is, who's your favorite disgraced athlete?

I said Pete Rose.

One of our regular textures is going to come back at me for Pete Rose.

We'll have that discussion in just a few minutes.

But let us know who your favorite disgraced athlete is.

And we will read your text on the radio.

We'll catch up on some texts in just a few minutes.

Right now, we've got a few more minutes with our pal, Mr. Rob Brackenridge, who joins us over the stream from beautiful Appleton, Wisconsin.

Um, I

You got I love that go.

I'm sorry.

No, no, please love the fact that you're doing that thing in Madison That is a great movie.

The Godfather

of Green

Bay is fantastic movie.

And we

were talking about Jimmy Pardo.

He he's really encompasses the The club owner guy.

He's that was hilarious

partying road comic.

He's in like bikini underwear

And yeah, it's a funny scene.

He's very funny in it, very just kind of obnoxious and hilarious.

So yeah.

You're great in it too.

I wish I could be there for that.

Well, would it kill you Rob to make a road trip?

Maybe you bring mom down.

It's rated R, but it's a pretty tame R rating, I will say.

Oh mom, yeah, mom, she's used to that kind of stuff.

Maybe I will, maybe I will.

I've got to be in Duluth.

Two days later, that's the other gig that I didn't plug.

Oh, December 6th in Duluth.

At the... Duluth is a

great comedy town.

Yeah,

it's a great town.

Dublin's.

Have you done Dublin's?

I think

I... Has that been around forever?

I think I did that in the 90s.

I think it has, yeah.

You do two shows and they pack at both nights and it's just great.

Yeah, I love Duluth.

That's a great town, too.

Well, that's a fun, you got a lot of fun gigs coming up.

And that's special open bar comedy special in Florida.

So you'll have to let us know when that is available for viewing.

And congrats on being able to swear.

That's fun.

Very different than the dry bar.

So have fun with

that.

Yeah, you got to come up with a name.

I got to come up with a name for it.

So if you think of a good name, just let me know.

All right, we'll put our heads together.

Any textures if you have a good name for Rob's comedy special.

that he'll shoot in Florida.

Let us know.

Your last one, tell them what your last one is so they can have that as a reference point.

Legend Dairy, D-A-I-R-Y.

I

love that.

So I was going to tell you my Ron Feingold story.

So we did that.