Wisconsin’s Finest: Comedy, Music, and a Hint of the Blues (Hour 3)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who prefers to travel by catapult, Peach Wabba.

Hey, welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's do this.

It's Friday.

How we feelin' Wisconsin?

Feelin' pretty good.

Con, based on the old schedule here, we've done about three weeks of radio in one week.

That's true.

I'm

exaggerating a little bit,

but... Just a little bit.

How are you tonight, sir?

I'm doing good.

Good.

We got a fun show tonight.

This is gonna be a great show, a Friday show.

This is kind of the kind of Friday show you dream with, you dream about.

So here's my recommendation.

We are jam-packed with guests tonight.

So I would recommend...

either pouring yourself an old-fashioned, mixing an old-fashioned, whatever the proper terminology is, and just hang with us for three hours, the whole show, a Friday night.

We'll be done by eight o'clock, you can still binge watch something, take a walk, whatever, but we just have too much show, and I would love for you guys to be a part of it.

You often are, through our text line or phone line, they're always open at 855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic, let us know what you're thinking.

and contribute to the program as needed.

Yeah, we got great guests tonight.

Hey, I meant to mention this yesterday.

Are you a country music fan?

I would say I've grown increasingly towards it.

I've started to like it more, but I'm still on my favorite genre.

No, mine either.

And I like old country.

More than I do the new country and I but I'm trying to be more open-minded I feel like there are some new country artists that are pretty good and I like the genre Mixing I think that makes it a little more exciting for me But I still don't love it, but I do like it and I'm open-minded but the CMAs were the other night the country music awards and Lainey Wilson She's a town.

She's a talented kid as they say Are you familiar with her work?

I've heard a few of her tunes

She hosted the event and she also took home like best album, best entertainer of the year.

Like she cleaned up.

So country music fans would love to know how you feel about that.

My favorite country music artist nowadays is, I think you know.

You want to venture a gas con?

Morgan Wollin.

No.

Kailin Cole.

No.

Our favorite here at night.

Our favorite country artist.

We have to check in with her because that single.

that we've added to our bumper music mistreated, right, is so great.

And I thought, she's never gonna talk to us again, because she's gonna put her on the charts.

And we haven't heard from her, so maybe it did, but it's a great song.

And when I hear stuff like that with country, I really do like it.

So anyway, that was a big win for Lainey Wilson the other night.

And then...

We're gonna tell you tonight throughout the course of the show, folks.

You're gonna learn where you can see great Christmas movies playing on the big screen in the Milwaukee area.

We'll keep you posted with that.

I'm gonna tell you about a really cool concert coming up here, a 40th album release anniversary coming up here in Green Bay.

It's gonna be a great show right down the street here at the Meyer in June.

We'll tell you about that.

password trends, we're going to cover that.

Do you have a method to your password choosing?

I do.

What is your password?

1-2-3-4 ABCD.

Well, it's funny you say that because I was reading earlier and a lot of people use that.

They said the most common passwords are once again, they have the name admin in them, or the word password, and then 1-2-3-4-5-6.

Admin 1-2-3-4.

You I mean, I'm not saying you could hack into the Pentagon with that kind of you know savvy but You think the Pentagon's using admin one two three four big tank one two three four.

I don't know what they're doing But I do know this Pardon me.

I am sick and tired the two factor identification For my yahoo fantasy football email

Just hack me and take it.

I don't care change my roster for me if you like I hate doing the two-factor ID It's a pain in the ass.

Yeah, it is, you know There's some times in GMO or like your session expires While you're in the middle of doing something.

Yes,

I'm like what?

Why do I need to resign in I'm doing work.

I'm here.

I just tapped the keyboard 30 seconds ago

And sometimes like with my Gmail, I don't, I know roughly what the password is, but I don't sign in enough to memorize it.

So I gotta open my list.

It's really maddening.

Like the password thing has just gotten off the hook.

But let me ask you this, would you change, would you do a fingerprint?

Cause I don't like that either.

Well, I have a fingerprint on my MacBook and my iPad.

Do you?

Okay.

Nowhere else though.

You know when iPhones used to have the button, I did use the fingerprint then.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if I like that either What if someone comes in like in a spy movie and takes you out and then they just lift your dead finger to the iPad so they can access your

I'm already dead

You want them to access all your packer news, do you?

That's fine with me.

They're gonna find something they love.

That's kind of how I feel I feel like there's really nothing on my computer.

That's that exciting.

I don't want to be hacked but

It is getting to be a headache because I use different passwords like You know, I've got my streaming platform passwords fantasy football all my banking passwords all this kind of stuff and they're all different I don't use the same password Pete one two three four, you know, it's probably taken anyway.

This just reminded me of something hilarious once yeah, I Had a Disney plus account when I was you know relatively cheap and Someone hacked into my Disney plus

And they made themselves a profile on your really yeah, and I said like I forget it said like Alex's family.

I'm like um what Alex's

family

so The only way I knew how to like try to communicate with them is I made like four profiles saying get off my account

And they deleted

every single one and just put a winky face.

That's it

I deleted it, I like permanently deleted it, took off my cards, permanently deleted it.

But I thought that was kind of funny though that they did that.

Yeah, that's a serious taunting.

My issue is like with Netflix and HBO, I feel like my daughter who is in college should be able to use those apps while she's at college.

But she has to sign in sometimes remotely.

And I'm like, just, you know,

I get it.

If you have a child that's out in the world and has their own money and is making their own money, make them get the apps.

I guess I don't have an issue with that, but they make everybody pay now.

Yeah.

Well, Netflix is the worst out of them kind of right now because they put a location like thing on it now.

Exactly.

That's what I'm talking

about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I can't use my brother lives in Appleton and he was like, yeah, you can use mine and I can't use it in Green Bay.

Yeah, that's lame.

I mean, you guys are cheating.

Well,

you know,

you are a full-time employee of Civic Media.

You can buy your own.

He's helping me save some pennies, you know.

Yeah.

And that was the thing for a while, too.

We would do, like, the exchange.

Hey, give me your HBO and I'll give you my Netflix or whatever.

Well, I mean, when I did, I did have something.

Now, I don't have any streaming service.

That's mine.

Really?

Oh, man.

The last one I used was Apple TV.

Serious aberrant behavior.

Yeah, I mean Apple TV is just like it went up in price again So I'm like do I spend the 12 bucks to watch Pluribus?

Probably should

What but do this dude and I've said this before on the show pay for a month Watch as much TV as you can and then cancel it and then come back.

I mean there's there's a couple movies on there, too It's like, you know, I can't it's like going to the movie theater.

Yeah,

but you're getting more out of it

exactly

and you can eat your own snacks there

Yeah, that kind of sucks

You don't have snow caps sitting around your house or juju bees.

You

don't know what I have.

That's true.

I don't know.

All right, so we will get into a lot of stuff tonight, folks.

We've got, as I mentioned, jam-packed with guests.

Coming up at 5.35, we're going to talk some local sports.

And when I say local sports, I mean Wisconsin sports, the Packers, the Badgers, the Bucks, the guys from Make the Call, the great new Civic Media Sports Show, of which our boy Conrad Krieger is a part of, one of the roundtablers, Greg Gunderson and...

Carter Parker Olson Parker Olson totally spacing out.

I know Parker's name.

So Those two guys will join con and me will have some sports talk here at 535 and we've got two packer games to cover Yeah, I want to get you guys I want to hear what you guys have to say about sure because you won't have another show

before the second packer game, which is about- The next

show we're recapping both games.

Right.

Yeah.

So they got Minnesota on Sunday and then Detroit.

So we'll get into that at 5.25, do some Badger Talk.

And then at 6.05, is it 6.05?

I don't have my schedule here.

Yep, yep.

Our pal Joel Karnick joins us.

More sports talk.

Deer hunting is a sport.

It's considered sport, right?

Joe will be here to talk about Deer Hunter's Roundup, something he has been doing at 98Q Country for years, and it's really cool.

And we had Joe on last year to discuss it, and it was really fun.

So Joe will be here again.

If you're a Deer Hunter, you won't want to miss this.

And Joe's just a fun guy to talk to.

Then at 635, Joe's not at 6th.

I'm totally confused now.

Joel

is down at

6.10.

At 6.35.

Tom and Steph Clark, the comedians.

They are a power couple in comedy.

Tom is a Wisconsin native.

He hails from Milwaukee.

Very funny guy.

He's been all over HBO and Netflix and everything.

Social media blows up.

And his wife Steph Clark.

is also a very funny comedian.

She is from Southern California.

I don't get it.

They make it work.

Who am I to judge?

She has adopted Wisconsin as her second state.

They are a blast.

They will be here at 6.35 to talk about a couple of dates they have coming up in Wisconsin in the next few weeks.

So you can check them out here and then see if you want to go see them live, which I highly recommend.

And ladies and gentlemen, it is a bar band Friday night.

Our pal Terry Barr will be here.

One of the Max Inc.

co-hosts, the award-winning Max Inc.

co-hosts.

She and Rocker do a great job.

Terry will be here at 735 with outstanding music and a really fun chat as we do just about every Friday night here with Terry.

So there you go.

That's a show.

That's one, two, three, four, five, six guests, Conrad.

Have we ever done that?

Did we just break a record?

We're breaking nightlight history.

It seems like we do it every night.

They're going to give us a six hour show and we'll have 18 guests on one day.

Or just we talk the whole show.

Just talk the whole show.

Yeah, that's fun.

I don't know if you're like me.

I get sick of my own voice after like seven minutes.

So we'll do that.

And I think it's time.

Before we go to the break count, let's get our question of the night in.

This is the night like question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

OK, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

OK, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

This is a great one.

What is the saddest song?

You could also answer what is your favorite sad song?

I think we did something similar to this almost two years ago because this kind of sounded familiar, but Listen, I love sad songs.

Sometimes you're just in the mood for some melancholy You kind of want to feel bummed out.

You want to think about a time in your life that's gone.

You want to think about

People that are out of your life whatever it is the question is what is your favorite sad song?

I'm gonna start off and say the boys of summer by Don Henley Nobody on the beach.

Nobody on the road Great stuff about summer and the days of summer going away So but let us know yours 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic you can also text us on the app or if you're watching the radio on Facebook YouTube or

X, you can let us know there.

Drop us a stream comment.

We always love when you guys participate.

And we will read your text on the radio.

Also, leave us a like or a follow while you're there.

That's always fun to get to.

You know what I call that, Conrad?

Validation.

And when we come back after this very short break, Conrad is gonna tell us what his favorite, sad song is.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.

It's Friday, folks.

Great to have you here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Great to have you with me.

Conrad Krieger working the board.

We are talking tonight.

We've got a lot of guests, as I mentioned.

We'll have the guys from Make the Call will be here.

Conrad's

colleagues

on that show that you can hear every Saturday morning at 7 a.m.

here at Civic Media.

Greg Anderson, Parker Olson, and Conrad will be part of that discussion as well in just a few minutes.

Then our pal Joel Karnick will be here talking to Dear Hunters Roundup at 610.

And Tom and Steph Clark, two very funny comedians.

We'll join us at 7.05 to talk about their, no, 6.35, I'm sorry, to talk about their upcoming dates here in Wisconsin.

Great shows, they're a very funny duo and funny individually as well.

But it's great when you get a little extra bang for your buck when they're on the same show.

And then it's a bar ban Friday night.

Terry Bar, 735.

She will be here with some great new music.

So a big show.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite sad song?

I said The Boys of Summer by Don Henley.

You got one, Con?

Yeah, you know, I think I said it last time.

But it just, you know,

two years ago, people aren't going to remember.

OK, it's the song Apologize by Timbaland.

I don't know that song.

I'm not gonna sing it.

You could sing it or pull it and play a few bars for us later in another segment.

We could do that.

Well, all right, so When I was younger I'd watch these like Montages with that song in the background of like I don't know some like TV show I was watching and it's like the sad moments of the show And I was like tearing up really funny.

I don't know how old I was I was pretty young but that that yeah that sucks

Makes you makes you a little teary.

Sometimes it's not even a sad song You just have a memory of a song and something sad happened or it reminds you of a time Maybe when you lost somebody or a breakup or whatever But let us know what your favorite sad song is.

Can you pull the boys of summer?

Well, let's

come back from a break with that.

That's a great Don.

I'll grab both of these songs and yeah grab those boys of

summer the boys of summer and I think last time I said all Lang Syne Dan Fogelberg, which is also kind of a sad but a fun sad song

about unrequited love or past lovers.

So there's all kinds of diff.

There are no right or wrong answers, folks.

They're only your answers.

So share them with us and let us know what you're thinking, what your favorite sad song is.

Hey, if you're looking for something to do on December 4th...

Please, please, please come on out and join us if you're in the Madison area for a screening of a film I made 20 years ago called The Godfather of Green Bay.

It is the 20th anniversary screening sponsored by Civic Media, John and Gordy, The Morning Show, and WMDX, and Doundren's Distilling of Madison.

Great sponsorship behind the show.

Thursday, December 4th, the doors open at 6 p.m.

The show starts at 7.

At the beautiful, brand new,

Still kind of brand new atwood music hall in Madison in the Atwood neighborhood a great film if I I mean a great a great crowd film I don't want to say I made a great film, but it's a good film and people like it Audiences like it.

There are some big laughs.

There's some funny northern Wisconsin bar characters characters in the movie The Bodines did the soundtrack Kurt Newman of the Bodines more specifically wrote a great soundtrack and a great score

Let us use some Bodine songs.

It's a really fun film.

Tony Golden, Lauren Holly, Thomas Lennon from Reno 911, Lance Barber from Young Sheldon, me, Tracy Thorpe from Second City, just an outstanding actor.

So many great actors we cast from the Midwest too.

It's going to be a really fun night.

I would love it if you could join us.

Tickets are only $10 and a dollar from each ticket goes to the Humane Society of Dane County.

So it's going to be a lot of fun.

So I hope you can come on out and say hello.

There's gonna be a Q&A afterwards some mingling some food some drink I'll be there.

We'll huddle together in the December cold in Madison and Warm up the night with a great movie and Conrad Krieger's presence.

He's gonna be there getting sound bites and interviewing people It's gonna

join the huddle.

Yeah, it's a while.

I'm gonna say huddle.

I mean kind of metaphorically We're not gonna be yelling break right before

we start the movie cool though

Get you in the mood for a Green Bay movie.

Absolutely.

And

if you like small town bar characters with Wisconsin accents, that's like, I could have shot this anywhere, but I love the, I love the Northern accent too.

That's why we, we shot it in Northern Wisconsin.

So, um, we talked a little bit about passwords.

I got to tell you, I had a burger last night.

I was telling you this before the show.

Yeah,

and it was awful.

I and I won't say where it was from because this is your

place of worship I don't want to I would have to bleep it out

probably But I've been on this good program and I just was jonesing for some red meat last night and I set the heck with it I'm gonna eat a burger.

So I got a bacon double cheeseburger and I probably slept for four minutes last night

See, I know where you got it from and me thinking it's okay

I love this place as much as the next person, but if I'm on, you know, like a fast or something, I'm not going there for my

relief meal.

No, I know.

But, you know, I'm thinking I'm here anyway.

I was getting

gas.

Oh, I guess.

Oh, well, now you just ruined it.

You just ruined it.

You just gave it away.

No, there's the BP station or the holiday station is a killer burger.

But I just I should.

And I didn't want to do Taco Bell, you know,

because that

would have really.

been a fall from grace, you know,

my couple of my buddies were over last weekend.

And we were, you know, stayed out a little too late at bar clothes.

And we got back to my house and my friend goes, I'm going to order some Taco Bell.

You guys want anything?

I'm like, no, he's like, he's like, I'll pay.

Oh, yeah.

Six tacos.

I was like, I don't want any of the random meat that they put in there.

So I ordered their like Cinnabon

things.

My

son calls

those creamy balls.

And he knows I won't order them

if he calls them that.

They are that.

But you know what?

They're kind of good.

They're

really good.

They're really good.

Yeah.

Especially after I had a couple.

You don't really typically go to Taco Bell for your pastries.

But that's not a bad one, I will say.

Yeah.

But it was an awful night of sleep.

And I, you know, you kind of crave something and then you're like, why did I do that?

But you kind of have to do it too.

Otherwise, I'll just wonder, do I still

like bad food?

You still, you have to satisfy those cravings sometimes.

I know.

Hey, the guys from Make the Call, Gray and Parker will be here.

Conrad's gonna join the discussion.

They are the hosts of Make the Call here on Civic Media.

We're gonna talk some packers, some badgers, some bucks.

Don't go anywhere.

It is a jam-packed show here tonight, folks, and it is great to have you with me.

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

Network.

I really wanna go with

Happy Friday, everybody.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Night Light.

It is so great to have you here.

We're having some fun tonight.

We got a jam-packed show.

Great guests.

We're talking sports, music, comedy, all the things in life that make us feel good.

And right now, our question of the night, folks, is, what is your favorite sad song?

855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

Jim and Kenosha, he's in the 262, says,

or his phone is in the 262 says taxi.

I think it's from Harry Chapin.

Oh, Harry Chapin has a few sad ones.

That's great, Jim.

Thank you.

Adam from Oregon in the 608 says Blink 182, Adam's song.

Only coincidental, song has my name.

Adam in Oregon.

Thank you, Adam.

I don't know that song.

You know that song, kind of?

I'm

not really much of a Blink 182 person.

I've heard a couple of their tunes though.

Yeah, they got some good songs.

I don't know if I know that one, but keep those texts coming, folks.

We will read them throughout the course of the show.

We get a lot of texts on social media.

We'll get to it at some point too.

But right now, let's kick off an extended sports part of tonight's episode of Nightlight.

Joining me now on the stream to talk some sports is, well, we have a couple hosts coming.

Right now we have one of them.

We'll bring Parker in, right, Khan?

You feel comfortable having just one of them here and not both?

Or is that going to be weird for you?

No, no, no.

Parker's great.

Parker's great.

Parker's fantastic.

Parker also joins us now over the stream.

One of the hosts of Make the Call here on Civic Media, which you can catch Saturday mornings at 7 AM.

And you might recognize, if you do tune into the show, Conrad Krieger's voice is one of the hosts as well.

And Greg Gunderson, I'm assuming, will be along at some point.

But hey, buddy, how are you, Parker?

I'm doing alright, Pete.

You know, I got my nap in tonight, which was very good.

Woke up 15 minutes ago, down to sandwich, and now I'm here.

You took a nap

at five o'clock.

That's impressive.

Well, I got home around three, and I'm like, you know what?

If I don't take a nap.

That half hour with Pete's gonna be a lot longer

than half

hour.

It's gonna be a slow night for me.

Well, I appreciate you getting a few winks to make yourself more into the interview.

That's fantastic.

But I don't think, first of all, I can't nap.

I can lay down and space out.

I just can't sleep.

And it's very frustrating.

It's before working here.

I was not a nap guy, but then I started doing mornings with Pat Crilo.

And I wake up at four o'clock now.

So

it's a little

different now.

And I need to nap.

Does Pat nap?

That's my question.

Oh, he has to write it, right?

He's he's older.

He's

gotta write.

I don't know.

Pat is older, but slightly immature.

So I'm oh, I don't I don't want to judge him for and no.

We love Pat, Pat's awesome, and he must be a blast to work with.

We love

him because he's slightly immature.

Exactly.

Well, hey, it's great to have you here.

Hey, do you have a favorite sad song, Parker?

You know, when he said that I was trying to think of something, I'm not a sad song kind of guy.

When I'm listening to music, I'm trying to usually lighten the mood.

So most of my stuff is kind of happy fun.

I can't think of... When we get back from break, I'll let you know.

I'll figure something out.

Have you ever had your heart broken Parker?

Maybe I should have prefaced this, you know, ask you that first.

It hasn't felt awesome, but I wouldn't say broken.

Fair enough.

Well, let's jump into some sports talk here because the Packers specifically have two big games coming up within just a few days.

They're playing on Thanksgiving against Detroit and they've got the Vikings this weekend.

And I'm going to ask you and Conrad.

How do you think that's gonna go?

Like they've kind of been, you know, they had two surprising losses.

They eked out a win last week.

You know, they're gonna turn it around at some point.

And I know this as a Bears fan.

They're gonna turn it around right before they play my Bears, most likely, because that's just what happens.

But how do you see the next two games going, you guys?

I mean...

I think the Packers right now, as I heard about Toyotathan, it's on.

Jordan Love is definitely gonna lock it in right now for whatever reason this time of year, causation or correlation with Toyotathan, I don't know.

He certainly does seem to lock it in around this time of year because I think it's the time of year where...

You're in a spot that you just need to frankly.

We were looking at the standings earlier today And I think this is more true for the Vikings frankly than it is for the Packers the Vikings I believe are sitting at What is it six and seven or four

and six six eight?

Yeah.

Yeah

That's in the rest of the division is above 500 by at least two games.

So if you if you lose right now, if you're the Vikings, then you're digging yourself into hole and it's going to be pretty hard to get back out of that.

So I think that the Vikings are really going to scratch and claw in this game.

I think JJ McCarthy is going to try to have a good game, obviously.

I'm not sure that I think that he should be an NFL quarterback entirely.

But the Vikings are always the thorn in the Packers side.

I'm really interested in What former Packers running back Aaron Jones is gonna be doing is he comes into Lambo?

I think Packers will win on Sunday this week, but I think it's gonna be tough Next week on Thanksgiving.

I am not looking forward to it.

I I think the Lions are gonna absolutely Take out some bad memories on us

Really?

Okay.

Well, let's sticking with the Vikings for now.

Do they have con as their pass rusher back?

Is it Greenlaw?

I'm not sure.

I

haven't checked into that

because this could be another 10-7 game really like I don't see JJ McCarthy doing anything against the Packer defense.

He's just and I don't totally agree with you.

Parker like I still think he's going to be a decent quarterback down the road, but he's very far away from that right now.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I think I I don't know what the Vikings real situation is because earlier this year it seemed like they didn't want him to play at all.

They do.

They did the kind of weird thing with the injury list when he was on it.

And it didn't really feel like he needed to be on it.

And then all of a sudden he was off and he was starting and was like, Hey, I don't really know how they got upgraded.

But I don't know.

It's very interesting.

I think that he

It was overhyped coming out of college.

I think he was in a pretty easy system over there at Michigan with Jim Harbaugh Granted he won a national title and he's got to be doing something right and he's getting paid millions of dollars to be a quarterback So he's got to be doing something right

right now a great point.

What do you think con defensive battle?

Well, you know one thing I haven't seen from JJ McCarthy is his you know Dealing under pressure.

Can he do it?

And that's what the Packers

That's what they're going to do.

The front line is just going to go for him.

It's going to be like three seconds, probably.

He's going

to be under

pressure instantly with Micah Parsons, probably getting double teamed.

And then Rashon Gary on the other side, which Rashon Gary is amazing as well.

So

it's a true test for JJ McCarthy.

Can he survive under pressure like that?

Absolutely.

But you've got Brian Flores on the other side and a pretty good defense there too.

I mean, I like the idea.

I like Green Bay's offense doing better against the Vikings than the other way around, but it still could be a kind of a slog.

You know, it just comes down to our receivers actually catching the ball.

Yeah.

Yes.

It's just that simple.

All right.

So that's, uh, uh, we've got Parker Olson on the stream folks.

We're talking, uh, he is one third.

Conrad being another third of the hosts of make the call here on civic media Which you can hear 7 a.m.

On Saturday mornings.

We're talking Packers over the next couple couple weeks not even a couple couple weeks It's five or six days from now.

They'll be playing the Detroit Lions as well and Parker you said you thought the Lions were gonna get some revenge

Yeah, it's just with how badly

The Packers beat them, frankly, at the week one or week two.

I just have a hard time seeing that Dan Campbell coach team doesn't come in absolutely ready to bite off your kneecaps.

Because that's the type of team that they are.

And they're also significantly improved from what they were at the beginning of the season.

Because I think that the Lions were just kind of trying to figure out what was going on.

without Ben Johnson being there anymore.

Obviously he's over to your bears now.

So I think that they had to get their feet under them a little bit.

And I think that they've done that pretty well.

It's been kind of a weird phenomenon this year.

It seems like with nobody in the NFL really seeming like the team.

Maybe

the Eagles.

Maybe the Eagles.

I'll give you

maybe the Eagles, but like the bills that.

They lost to the Texans last night.

They're not, they're not the team.

Um, they've had a couple of their losses Conrad, I don't know about you, but it's, I don't think that there is a very significant front runner, except, except maybe the Eagles.

I give you that Pete.

The Broncos, you know, they're, they're the best.

Yeah.

No, I'm scared.

They're

joking, but no, you got Sean Peyton.

I mean, they're pretty decent.

You don't want to play them to playoffs, right?

No, I think, I think they're a good team.

I just think they're the worst, best team.

Okay.

Yeah, that's a very good point.

I'm a fan of it.

You know one thing I'll say with this Lions and Packers matchup They have something similar to us is that they lost one of their best Dump-off targets like we did Tucker Kraft.

We lost they lost Sam LaPorta

Yeah,

who's I mean he's gonna be out maybe the rest of the year now.

So

really

yeah,

so

They're tight end to is kind of like our tight end to where they don't do much.

They're just out there.

What do you guys think about like?

I mean, you probably love this.

I mean, Dan Campbell calling the plays and he goes for it.

I think he was 0 for five last week.

Like he's not doing his guys any favors.

Is he?

When you go for it that many times and a couple of the times you're like, what are you doing?

It's, it's such a weird age of football that we're in because five years ago that happens.

You're calling for the guy's job.

Um.

Now with the analytics and everything, and everyone for whatever reason has really embraced that over the last couple of years, which I did not really expect in football.

It's almost acceptable to do that.

And frankly, it's kind of encouraged at some points.

I think there needs to be a little more common sense, maybe, with when we're going forward on fourth down.

But you know what?

If it ain't broke, and sometimes it's not, it seems like.

Yeah, I don't know.

I would love to know what the analytics said when he was over five.

A couple of those times, it was probably the analytics were on his side.

The other times, he's just like, oh, this is me.

This is what I do.

And it's like, well, OK, that's just the kind of guy.

I like the guy.

I just think it's like, I think he's kind of a meathead if that's what he's going to do all the

time.

With it being the Eagles, I want to push my luck on the fourth downs.

And it could have been closer a little bit if they kicked some of the field goals, too.

You know, what are you gonna do?

Sometimes you go for it and just doesn't pan out.

So what do you guys say with predictions over the next six seven days here?

Well, how do you think the Packers are gonna come out of this?

I think they go one in one and then I think Maybe a one or two score win against the Vikings Yeah, I will be surprised if it's not a two-score loss to the Lions

I

was, I'm going to say the same thing.

I think it's going to be a one-one.

We went against the Vikings and lose to the, to the Lions.

Um, you know, the, the Lions are a really good football team.

And with us actually having a little bit of in week two, we looked like an orchestrated team actually, like our defense played well or offense

played

well.

The, these past, I don't know, five weeks, it's like offense is doing something.

Then the defense sucks.

Defense

is doing something.

Our offense can't do anything.

So we need to get that in order before we beat these, you know, these really good teams.

Absolutely.

Do you guys have a prediction on the rest of the season?

Like I said this, I really mean this.

I think the Packers are going to turn it around.

They always seem to.

But it's a tough division.

Yeah, I think we had this on.

We're going to talk about this tomorrow morning.

I make the call in our first segment.

I think that all of us were pretty much in the same boat of they're going to be a little bit better, but they're not going to be awesome.

I think I've got them going four and three.

I think that they're going to split the series with Chicago.

And I think they're going to split the series with the Vikings.

It's a couple of tough ones in there.

I'm not too sure that they can come out of that better than five and two.

I'm taking four and three.

Four and three probably get your playoffs.

You know, I'm thinking 11 five and one so that means we lose two I think I think we can win against the the Broncos and in the Ravens I think we can do it, but the Vikings and these divisional games They just feel like a tougher battle all the time.

Yeah.

No great point Okay, we're gonna come back.

We're gonna do a very quick break here and we'll come back with more sports talk Maybe we'll get into some badgers, but you're just gonna have to hang around and find out Parker Olson is here.

It's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

Adam in the 608 says, Olivia Newton-John, hopelessly devoted to you.

Yeah, that's kind of a sad song.

That was from Grease.

Great movie.

And thank you for the contribution.

Adam, much appreciated.

We'll get to your social media text in just a bit.

Got quite a few of those, we'll get to.

Right now, we're talking with Parker Olson, one of the hosts of Make the Call here at Civic Media, which you can catch every Saturday morning at 7 a.m.

A roundtable discussion of all things Wisconsin sports, Conrad Krieger, Parker, and Greg Anderson.

And then you guys, is Jimmy on every week?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

So, and Mike Clemmons.

He's the man.

He's the guy with the plan.

He actually hosts this thing.

We just kind of show up and he tells us, hey, talk.

And I'm like, okay, cool.

I knew he was like EP'ing it, you know, I knew he was like the executive producer I didn't realize he was along for the ride and he is the busiest guy He's got to be one of the busiest guys at civic media.

I when he comes on the show I'm like I can't even believe we got him like but he's awesome, so

Yeah, I'm not sure when he sleeps.

I'll be on both of them him and my comments.

I don't know what either of them

sleep

All right, so I I want to

bring up one more thing about the backers.

This Toyodathon.

You guys, you mentioned it a little bit.

Are you superstitious?

Is that a thing?

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

I can get behind a little Toyodathon magic.

Sure.

Well, it'll be interesting.

When will we know if it's a thing this year?

Like he's got to turn it around right now, right?

Yeah.

I mean, what is, what is he on now?

Is this his third year of doing this?

So, and he's off

to a good start.

So maybe there's something to it.

Maybe he really likes cold weather football.

Maybe that's it.

How about that?

You know, the numbers, the numbers don't lie.

I saw stat 30, like 30 touchdowns during the Toyota Thon and only four interceptions with like

4000 yards something around there and a really high completion rate.

So it's something about

doing the

heck noticed

that Talk about a stat geek.

Holy smoke.

Someone was on that Hey Parker.

So what do you think about Luke fickle?

Well, you know, I feel like you know I thought the Badgers would be where Indiana is now and I'm kind of bummed because that's my like college sports I'm all about Wisconsin and I it really hurts me that they're not better

Yeah, I think it hurts a lot of us.

Strangely, it also hurts the economy really badly.

It

was an article recently on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the economic impact of badger football not being good.

And I'm not going to throw any numbers out because I'm totally going to miss because I don't remember what it was that I read.

millions of dollars.

It's a lot of economic impact when the bad football team is not good.

But yeah, for Fickle, same boat as you.

I honestly thought that they would be maybe not quite to where Indiana is right now, but I certainly thought that they would be a top 15 team with him.

Because frankly, we've gotten used to the Badgers being the top 25 team at all the time.

Frankly, I can't think of a worse season.

then like bubble of top 25 and now boy they just they're scrapping along for a win.

It's really upsetting to see.

It's really sad.

I do think that they're going to turn it around a little bit next year.

I think after Chris McIntosh, the AD at Wisconsin, after he came out and said, you know what?

This is our guy.

We don't blame him.

We blame what's going on with the landscape of college football because you got to remember that too.

Fickle got hired at Wisconsin when NIL was becoming a big thing.

The

transfer portal was still becoming like basically everyone's a freak.

Asian now.

Yeah.

Um, so he's got, he's got a tough task with a school that frankly, even though we were just talking about it being a bubble, top 25 team, it's not, it doesn't have a lot of, um, cashier.

It's

not

a big flashy football school that a lot of guys want to go to.

So he's got a tough task.

Um,

Certainly hoping that he can turn it around.

I think with the commitment from the ad he's gonna get a little bit something going on

I think their problem is that they tied their wagon to the Buickathon instead of the Toyota so I don't know if the bad Hey, we've got Gray has just joined us over the stream now great Gundersen also one of the hopes of Make the call so great.

How are

you doing great guys?

Can you hear me?

Yeah

Good to see you.

Excellent, excellent.

Fantastic to be back on Nightlight and so sorry I'm late, y'all.

It's deer hunting season starting tomorrow, of course, as you know, but I'm from an area that, as you can tell by the plaid, is heavily affected.

So the schedule for the afternoon somewhat controlled itself.

What have I missed?

Oh, man.

Well, we closed up our Packer talk and Conrad and Parker educated me on what's going to happen in the next few days, which is nice.

And we sort of shifted to Badger football a little bit.

Do we want to keep these guys through the break?

And we can leave them right up to Joel Karnak.

Yeah.

Because Joel's going to come on to talk about deer.

Are you guys deer hunters?

I have been in my past.

I'm not currently I do when we need food though.

So times are not as lean So if they do get lean again, I'll be out there again.

You hunt for food

Wow.

Yeah, yeah subsistence only I want to keep the herd intact as best as I can and it's had some trouble the last few years So I have no business taking trophy bucks or or

any other form

of deer when as far as I'm concerned The herd could grow if I don't so in some day someday I may need the deer that I'm leaving behind this year as far as I see it.

Well, that's a great answer

So do you have an opinion on the, how do you think the Packers, we got about a minute and then we'll come back.

If you guys don't mind hanging through the news, we can keep you for a few more minutes too and then we'll let you get on with your Friday night.

Absolutely.

How do you think the Packers are going to come out of this next, the next few days here at Gray?

I think we get a win against the Vikings.

I think JJ McCarthy is not going to be able to figure it out in time for that, but there are some scary possibilities like Justin Jefferson taking advantage of some missing defenders and some defenders that haven't been

playing up to snuff, you know, if the pass rush doesn't get home and the cover, the corners don't cover well, that's going to be a problem.

But if one of those two does their job pretty well, I don't think the Vikings can stand up against it.

You guys are all in cahoots.

on the next few days.

That's pretty impressive.

And I'm sure there's that kind of cohesion on the show.

Check out, make the call Saturday mornings at 7 a.m.

Gray is here.

Parker, two of the hosts and Conrad Krieger joins them and Jimmy Cuska.

That's all the sports knowledge you need around the same table.

So we got a lot still to come, folks.

Act two and three are going to be outstanding.

Joel Karnick is going to join us in just a few minutes after the news and we'll keep these guys for a couple more minutes.

It's a bar ban Friday night.

Our Paltteri bar comes by and then was

He's a Wisconsin native and very funny Tom Clark joins us with his very funny wife, Steph Clark.

They will be here too.

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Hey, welcome back to Night Light.

Great to have you here folks.

We are kicking off our number two here the second act as I like to call it on a jam-packed show Conrad and I had we opened the show With a talk about passwords that once and once again, I just got off on a tangent don't I

yeah It's always just one two three four,

you know, it's never on it's never on the sheet, but you roll with it.

I give you credit for that

So we covered that.

Conrad's co-host, Greg Anderson and Parker Olsen are here.

You can catch that show at 7 a.m.

on Saturday morning here on Civic Media.

We will get back to those guys in just a minute.

After that interview, Joel Karnick will be here at 610 to talk Dear Hunter's Roundup, a really cool thing he's been doing for years over at 98Q country.

And we've got comedians.

Tom Clark and Steph Clark will be here later in the show as well, talking about dates they have here in Wisconsin.

That is Milwaukee is Tom's hometown and Steph is a SoCal girl who has, I think, thrown her arms around Wisconsin.

She was a lot of fun last time she was here at Con.

True that.

And she puts up with Tom, so that's kind of cool too.

And it's a Bar Band Friday night.

Terry Barr is here at 735 with great new tunes and really fun conversation.

Tonight's question of the night is, what is your favorite sad song?

We gotta catch up on some texts.

We'll do that in a little bit, but be part of the show, folks.

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Nick Marshall in the 608 says, she's gone by Bob Marley and Careless Whisper by Wham.

Careless Whisper is a great one.

That's a very sad song.

I hope the Packers aren't singing a sad song for you guys because you're getting a lot of mileage.

Like, what is your favorite season to cover you guys?

I'm talking, this question is directed at Mr. Parker Olson, Greg Anderson, and Conrad Krieger, the hosts of Make the Call.

Favorite season to cover.

I would say probably this time of year, honestly, just because there's so much going on, football is my number one thing.

But once you get basketball going, it feels like you've got a lot going on and it's not quite overwhelming usually.

So I'm a big fan of that.

I know NFL for you, Con, right?

You know, I'd say it is this time because basketball also starts around this time as well.

It's a crazy time of year,

especially when

the

baseball

playoffs are going on too.

That's insane.

It's like I like one of the sports equinox happens when it's like there's hockey hockey just starting out I believe baseball basketball and football.

Absolutely.

All right.

So you want to give us a quick update on the Bucks Parker?

Did they overspend for Miles Turner?

What are your thoughts there?

I will say that I

Don't follow the bucks incredibly closely.

But what I can tell you is when you bring somebody in that, frankly, you kind of just bought, you should expect them to be a top performer on your team.

I'm not 100% sure that that's exactly what's going on.

You certainly has not been what they wanted him to be.

Conrad, I know that you can probably talk about this a little bit better than I can.

But it just doesn't quite seem like the chemistry is there, doesn't quite seem like he's got, doesn't seem like he's cooking like Jordan Love and Toyota Fun, which is what we probably are getting.

It's

the Buick of Fun.

That's

the

problem.

Yes.

You know, I just, I'm concerned with Miles Turner a lot.

I mean, it's just like,

Last year, he did have a great point guard in Tyrese Halliburton, who averages, like, you know, eight assists a game.

So, I mean, he'd always be in the right spot.

And just with this Bucks team, it doesn't feel like the chemistry is always there, especially with Yanis out.

But

when

Yanis is out, he's trying to be that top guy, and it just can't, it just doesn't happen.

He averages, like, 13 points, which, how much you pay for him is not what you want.

This has been great, guys.

I just want to say, does it bother?

You guys, the co-host, the Conrad's real favorite team is not the Milwaukee Bucks.

Uh-oh.

Who is it?

I'm

breaking a story here.

I

guess, yeah, I guess I didn't say.

This is news to me.

I break

all the big news.

Where ever Kevin Durant goes.

Yeah, I, you know, the first, all right.

Let me explain, okay?

The first basketball game I ever watched was Seattle SuperSonics.

Yeah.

And Katie, that was his rookie year, and it was the best basketball I've ever seen.

So you stuck

with him.

That's loyalty.

I like that.

Listen, you guys, this has been really fun.

We're about to bring another colleague of ours on the show.

So I'm going to let you guys go.

But keep up the great work and make the call.

Love the title.

Love the show.

You guys are fun to talk to.

It's just keep up the great work.

And thanks so much for your time tonight.

Yeah, thanks for having us on.

We appreciate it.

You got it.

That's Parker Olson and Greg Gunderson.

We are letting them get on with their Friday night.

Conrad, you're still stuck here for the foreseeable future.

I was about to

say, thanks Pete.

Take

it

off.

He's gonna take a powder.

All right, we're gonna pivot here and we're gonna talk about another sport because I don't think deer hunting really gets mentioned when you think big sports, but it is, it's an institution here in Wisconsin and there's a really cool thing going on over in Park Falls.

So joining us right now to talk about it from 98Q Country is Morning Show host and program director, our panel Joel Karnick.

Hey buddy, how are you?

I'm doing hang on I'm wiping some tears from my eyes because I just got finished listening to at this moment by Billy bearer the beaters.

Oh, that's a great one Joe

That one always makes me cry from family ties.

Yeah.

Oh, that was a great song.

Billy Vera and the beaters.

Oh, yeah.

It's so funny how a song like that just touches you.

I thought you were going to be funny and say like one of these deer hunting novelty songs that comes up every year, you know, by the Uppers or whatever.

Well, the 30 the 30 point buck song does actually have weeping in the song after they finish not getting the deer.

So yeah, I guess that would that quality.

Hey, speaking of not getting the deer, Joel.

I have a friend and a colleague and a partner on a couple projects named Bob Brown.

He made a film called Escanaba in the Moonlight, which is all about deer hunting, starring Jeff Daniels.

Have you seen the film?

It's the best worst movie I've ever seen, yes.

I cannot wait to

tell them

that.

That's great.

It's shot in and around Upper Michigan, and they even make reference to Menominee.

I live right across the river in Marinette, so I got to kick out of that too.

But it came out before I even met Bob, but a fun deer hunting movie.

And deer hunters love it.

They go, that movie made so much money when it came out because these deer hunters kept going over and over to see it, like they really embraced it.

Yeah, I back when it came out, I actually owned a video store here in our small town.

And that thing had a waiting list of about a month.