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Comedy and Curling with Greg Bach (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Wed Feb 11, 2026
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Nightlight, folks.
It is time for Act 2 of this Wednesday night edition of Nightlight, one of my favorite nights of the week, I might add.
Aaron Zommers is riding shotgun producing the show, working the board, making the wise cracks when necessary.
And Rob Thomas is my current guest.
We will be back with Rob in just a moment.
If you missed hour one,
Head over to CivicMedia.us and it is stored there in podcast forms.
You can hear our talk about Valentine's Day, part of our interview with Rob Thomas, all kinds of fun stuff.
Check it out at CivicMedia.us and we talked about, well, there's no more Bob's Bad Breath Burger.
So maybe they've replaced it on the menu.
We did find out that that gem of a burger is gone.
from the weary traveler freehouse there in the Atwood neighborhood of Madison.
But I'm sure they've got something else on the agenda.
We talked about the the burger competition here in by the Wisconsin beef council.
Did I get that right?
It's the Wisconsin beef.
Yeah, the Wisconsin beef council is kicking off their third annual Wisconsin's best burger contest this Friday.
All the details are in our number one in podcast form.
So check it out, folks.
Our question of the night is, what is your favorite winter Olympic sport?
I say ski jumping.
Rob Thomas said the luge or the bobsled.
Crazy sports.
Aaron Zommer said, what did you say again, Aaron?
The slalom.
The slalom.
Yeah, the slalom's cool too.
All these high octane sports seem like they happen in the winter Olympics.
And that's why I think I prefer the.
the Winter Olympics.
So great guests tonight, folks.
As I mentioned, Rob Thomas is here at 6.35, the host of Civic Media, Mid-Mornings and Comedian, Milwaukee-based comedian.
Greg Bach will be here.
We'll talk to Greg and find out.
We'll have a little comedy talk, some movie-making process talk.
I was a guest on Greg's show earlier today, and we'll carry over that conversation a little bit.
And then in hour number three, we'll have two guests.
Mariah and Michael will be here from the Door County Film Festival.
They made a music video together, which I'm excited to see.
The Door County Film Festival will take place at the Northern Sky Theater all weekend.
It's going to be a blast.
I'll be there.
Hope you come on out and see some great films and, you know, be part of the fun.
Q&As at film festivals are outstanding and it's great insight into the movie making process.
So if you can
If you can get yourself out there, come out and join the fun this weekend.
What did I miss summers?
Are we good?
We caught up.
I think we're caught up.
I think we're caught up.
I think we got to get back to Rob Thomas, who is waiting patiently from his home, also bummed out about the Bob's Bad Breath burger no longer being there.
But we're making ourselves feel better by talking movies with one of our favorite film critics.
Rob, we talked about Crime 101.
And by the way, if you want to see all of Rob's
Reviews they're at not that Rob Thomas a sub-stack.
He does a great job every movie that comes out It seems like it's there and Rob has a great review of it So you liked crime 101 that's opening this weekend I want to ask you about another film that I'm pretty excited to see and Just for the premise alone cold storage Tell us about
I haven't seen it, but I'm also excited
partly because the screenwriter is David Kep, who's a UW Madison graduate.
And this was originally a book he wrote.
And now he's written the screenplay for this.
And it looks fun.
It's like it's like a lab outbreak that was kind of mutating goo that gets out into the community.
Liam Neeson continuing his.
comedic turn and this is in it and there's a Joe Keary from from Stranger Things.
It looks fun.
I mean it looks like a like a the kind of horror comedy like a Sean the dead type thing that I really like so I'm
excited.
Yeah, my bad.
I thought you had seen that a Georgina Campbell is in it.
She was in Barbarian which was really good.
She was good in that so yeah a great cast and Joe Keary this is not much of a departure for him.
Seemingly from Stranger Things, but he's one of those guys He's got like a mystique or an aura around him like a Woody Harrelson or a Sam Rockwell He's just like that guy that people just seem to
and
He's doing he sure is So all right cold storage.
I'm trying to see what you saw ascend help, right?
I do too and this is vintage Sam Raimi.
It's got You know, you see the trailer and you think oh, it's a girl getting even with her boss But it doesn't quite play out that directly So he takes you on these little tangents that are really good and you kind of don't know what's gonna happen It's a it's a good film the reviews.
It definitely earned grid very good reviews and
Yeah, there's a couple jump scares in it.
And I dig it.
So we'll talk about that next time.
So what else have you seen that you really like?
You mentioned the Nirvana movie.
Okay.
They've had a web series since 2008, the premise of which is they're trying to get their band booked at this little club in Toronto called the Rivoli and every episode one guy comes up with this one crazy scheme and you know and then it plays out from there and it's sort of a mix of like mockumentary and almost like jackass like pranks because they're talking to real people on the street as they're doing this.
And I mean, I'll tell you, I saw, I think, I thought this was the funniest movie I've seen in a long time because it just goes places that you never expect.
And I mean, like the first opening scene, they parachute off the CN Tower in Toronto playing to land in the baseball stadium next door.
And I don't know how they did it.
Like, I don't know if they I mean, I don't know how they did it.
But it's it's it's just incredibly it's like Jack Aspen with more apologizing because it's Canadian.
That's what I said.
So I've seen other people who didn't quite vibe with it.
But like, to me, it was like the and I saw it in a packed audience, which is like the best way to see a comedy.
And people were just Putin hollering.
So I highly recommend that if it's playing near you.
That will not be a wide release.
Will it?
Or is
not this weekend?
funniest movie of the year, folks, from Rob Thomas.
That's high praise.
He is our guest right now.
We're talking movies.
He does great reviews at his not that Rob Thomas sub-stack.
All right.
The other one I'm excited to talk to you about, Rob, is good luck.
Have fun.
Don't die.
Tell us about this movie.
I've read some reviews.
It's reviewing like crazy.
It's sort of like a like a comedic Terminator where he comes back to our time and says AI is gonna destroy the world I need a team of regular folks to stop it before it, you know, it goes goes
live or whatever.
Yeah.
Um, so great premise.
And the director is, uh, this guy, Gore Robinski, who's, you know, he's made some great movies, like, uh, the original, the ring and the first part to the Caribbean movie, but has not made a movie.
I don't think in a few years.
And he's a great, like visual stylist and very playful.
Uh, but the script is just so obvious.
Like it's like.
scenes were like, oh, kids are on their phones.
So they turned to zombies or like, like I just was.
Yeah, I was I was pretty let down by it because like I said, I'd like Sam Rockwell.
I hate AI.
This should be right at my wheelhouse.
But yeah, I was kind of disappointed to be honest with
you.
Yeah, that's a drag I wanted to like it.
I love the title and then I
yeah But I tend to agree with you for the most part on movies So maybe I'll put that on the back burner, but tell us about a classic retelling of Dracula loop croissants Dracula.
Van
But it's just a weird, it's not really a horror movie.
It's sort of like, like I said, sort of like a Gothic romance.
Dracula has these like in his castle, he has all these like little animated gargoyles that like
It's he sort of like grew in the minions in a strange way.
It's very weird.
I mean, it's almost worth seeing just because it's such a weird Take on a story you've read or her watch 50 times before but I can't really say I recommend it
Okay, have you seen the cliff booth trailer?
I did What did you think?
I mean the trailer looks cool a trailer doesn't always tell the story But I thought it had a great
Yeah.
I mean, I could, like
guys.
that movie will not be playing in Marinette.
I'm
I've got my fingers crossed, but I'm not getting too excited.
it'll play.
Yeah, right.
Last one for you, Rob.
You reviewed this film, The Night Nurse, that you saw, or it's right out of Sundance.
Yeah.
Looks
It was neat.
It's this virtual side Sundance will have this virtual option where you can like stay home and stream movies for like three or four days So I saw a bunch and this one was really interesting and was and the other Madison connections the editors this guy Alex Jacobs who lives in Madison It works like four-star video the video store, but he's a great editor and it's this weird sort of creepy I guess I would say thriller about this woman who works at a
As a nurse a night nurse at a memory
for
memory care facility and she gets caught up with this con man Who's one of the patients and you're not quite sure is he actually have you know?
Dementia or is he sort of this like a con and he pulls her into these phone scams he starts doing it's really
atmospheric and interesting.
That's a very small move.
That one will probably not play Marinette, I have to say.
What a chip.
I don't think it has a distributor, but probably will come to streaming at some point, but definitely worth seeking out if it does.
All
right.
Real quick, we have about a minute, Rob.
Greenland 2 or Weathering Heights, either one of those?
I'd see either one, yeah.
either one of them though?
I haven't seen
one, but I'd see by either one, yeah.
Weathering Heights is supposed to be like a softcore porno flick.
Absolutely.
Hey buddy, this is always fun.
Thanks so much for your time as usual.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks Pete.
You got it.
All right, that's Rob Thomas folks.
Check out his work at CityCast Madison.
He is the newsletter editor and does a great job there and his movie reviews are available at not that Rob Thomas a sub stack so Google that and check them out.
I Don't nothing plays in Marinette Summers.
I went to see it's like what did I go to see the other day and it was already gone Oh the 28 days later the third one, huh?
That's gone already.
Yeah, the movie was made for Marinette people
We'll figure it out over the break.
We're coming right back and I'm going to tell you ways you can save money just in time for Valentine's Day, folks.
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Welcome back.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
This is Nightlight and it is great to have you here folks.
I hope you're having a wonderful evening Putting the cares of the day behind you and joining us for some movie and TV and comedy and music talk as well as all things Wisconsin We are doing it all here tonight.
It was great to talk to Rob Thomas Aaron Zommers is producing the show tonight and
I want to talk about this uh Zomers this it's called the run nation championship uh it's where these two dudes back up and run at each other full steam head on they call it some guys lead with their head and try to knock each other out it often ends in someone being completely knocked out there there is no skill i'm sure there's some type of art form to it but they are just too massive
Humans running at each other full steam.
the
exactly and I you know I get looks listen.
I used to be a fan of MMA and now I
It's hard for me to watch it mostly because of the fans.
I still like I've mentioned before I took martial arts for years I really appreciate the art form and and what those guys do in their training.
It's a brutal sport.
There's no doubt about that It's just the fans that bother me with their affliction t-shirts and they're just thinking they have some type of ownership over something they don't even do It's really hard for me to watch those events because of the fans.
However this
At least when you watch boxing, the sweet science, MMA, you also had this sport, Zomers, which made no sense to me, the power slap, where two dudes or women in this case stand opposite each other and wind up and slap each other as hard as they can, and they try to get the pressure points, the line right along the jaw, and they often do, and somebody is just out.
So this is even more barbaric than that, because it is just two massive objects.
running head-on.
If you want to check it out, folks, it's Run Nation Championship.
Google that.
Right.
As much as I'm talking crap about how dangerous it is and how people are going to get hurt, I'd be lying if I said it's not fascinating to watch and kind of hilarious.
Like the slap thing you watch and they do the slow motion recap, just this giant hand and the face, just a wave as it slaps across in slow motion.
It is funny.
There's just the part of your brain that always thinks that kind of stuff is funny.
It is, and I'm more fascinated.
I would love to have someone on the show who does this.
What, and is it because you have no athletic ability or is it because you think you're strong and you're stronger than other people?
That's probably what plays into it the most.
They're solid.
I mean, there are some human beings that are just more dense than others in multiple ways, but like running at each other.
I just, it's a serious injury every time you do it and the concussion and like you said during the break and they try to couch it like, oh, we're making this as safe as we
There's nothing about it that's safe.
Right.
I remember reading the article that you sent over and they were talking about making rules of like, oh, you have to hit each other kind of on the side or whatever, instead of going fully head on and colliding heads.
But how much of a difference is that really making?
Are they even actually doing it?
How do you enforce that?
If it happens, it's too late.
It doesn't look like they're really even enforcing it either.
So there you go folks check that out if you're looking for a new combat sport Run nation championship.
There you go.
It could be the next big thing I found this the other day on I think this was on Buzzfeed and it said here are some ways you can save money that you maybe haven't thought about Because right now folks were dealing with some serious inflation.
We've got all that happening things are very expensive still
Here are seven moves you can try that will help you save money.
You ready for these bombers?
All right, let's go.
Okay, unplug your electronics.
TVs and game systems pull power even when they're off.
Smart power strips make it easy to
You're saying like, even when the phone's not plugged into it, you're still getting charged when something is in an outlet.
A very small amount, but yeah.
Yeah, interesting.
Okay.
Number two, seal up any air leaks.
Drafty doors and windows let money escape.
Use some weather stripping and caulk to keep your heated and cooled air inside.
I think you rent, right?
I do.
Do you pay your own heat or utilities?
Well, there's another one turn down the water heater most people set their water heater to 140 degrees dropping it to 120 degrees saves energy and still keeps showers hot That's a good one number four plan all your meals before shopping.
This is one that I need to do.
That's a huge one Huge a simple weekly plan to cut down on food waste and impulse buys absolutely Number five cancel subscriptions keep only what is necessary
I've said this for the longest time.
The best thing about streaming is you don't have to sign a year contract.
You can buy something for a month.
I'm trying to practice this.
Right now, I probably pay 120 bucks a month for streamers and I'm trying to get better at just canceling something, getting it for a month, watching two or three shows, and then moving on.
That's a great one if you can do it, folks.
Number six, make do-it-yourself cleaning products.
Vinegar and baking soda clean just as well.
I don't see myself doing that.
you live with dudes.
I do I do that's impressive Here's another one skip the heated dry cycle on a dishwasher.
I Do that anyway because I'm like just let it drip dry, but that's something I bet a lot of people don't even think about that's a good one
I've stopped
running through the dryer at all, and it'll hang them up.
Now, it depends how much you have to wash at a time, and if you have the space to hang them up.
But any little bit counts, a lower heat or anything like that.
When I was growing up, people used to still hang their laundry in the yard.
And I'm like, yeah, why don't we ever get away from that?
Red Light Districts and Hanging Laundry folks, two things that are part of days of yore.
Hey, we're coming back and when we do, Mr. Greg Bach, the host of Civic Media Mid-Mornings will be here.
This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Gregory Gregory Gregory Gregory Gregory
Oh, I love that.
There's a song by Tori Amos called Pretty Good Year that has my name in there, but it's far not happy enough for this time of night.
You're a Greg though, dude.
You don't strike me as a Gregory.
Does anyone call you that?
No, honestly, they don't.
One person called me at once and I was surprised and I kind of liked it because she was someone of like...
Merit and respect and I was like you can call and I meant that like respectfully She's like Gregory.
I'm like you can call me that that sounds right coming from you like that sounds very professorial and No, but no no one ever called not even my mom when she's upset with me
Oh,
dear.
Hey, that is the voice of Greg Bach, ladies and gentlemen.
He is the host of Civic Media, Midday Mornings.
Here on the network, he does a great job, and we are extending our conversation from earlier because I was a guest on his show.
So we're talking tonight, and we thought we would keep things going here.
It's great to have you, Greg, and thank you for jumping on in beautiful Kenosha, the city of the future.
I
stick to that.
Yes.
All
right.
I love it.
I'm here for the future.
I'm here for now.
I'm here for...
A while, we bought a house.
Okay.
I love it.
And better than Racine?
I mean, that's sort of a, that's a hot topic, Pete.
What are you doing to me, man?
Seriously.
I've lived in both.
I've lived in Racine, Caledonia, Kenosha.
I'm a south, I'm a southeastern Wisconsin kid.
I was born and I was raised here.
I've lived in this region all my life.
I've lived in all four of those counties.
Racine is really nice.
I would say this.
Racine has more going for it than they are willing to admit and I think they have a lot of good future ahead of them if they get some good development, things like that.
They're right on the lake and there's really good stuff and summertime there is beautiful.
It's so interesting you say that because I've often said that about where I live in Christmas City, USA, Marinette, Wisconsin.
That's not really catching on, I'm gonna be honest.
Did you give yourself a nickname?
I'm trying.
I'm trying.
Like the Chamber of Commerce never calls.
I don't know what is happening, but we are on Green Bay.
This is the same body of water.
I look out my window and I see egg harbor and we are the same body of water.
I feel like we haven't maximized our potential and we're much farther north, but like I mentioned to you earlier, like this migration from thanks to global warming or climate change, whatever you want to call it.
the Great Lakes are gonna boom, dude.
And Gary Indiana is gonna have a comeback.
So I think all of us on the Great Lakes are sitting pretty.
We might not be here to see it, but, you know, planting a seed, I suppose.
Boy, that was an amazing story that ended really apocalyptically.
Yes.
Good Lord.
That's my jam, buddy.
Yeah, yeah.
But no, I love it here.
I love Wisconsin.
I love, I mean, it's, I've never lived anywhere else but here, but.
Now that we have some roots down with a house, my wife and I and our tiny dog who's somewhere here, if she gets crazy, you'll hear her.
But, you know, I mean, we're very lucky.
We're very, very lucky, especially
in today's
day and age, to be able to afford to buy a home.
Let me rephrase that, afford to pay a bank to let us have a house.
But yeah, I think that when I think down the road, it's a very good investment.
So I'm happy about it.
So is it a good Valentine's Day town, Greg?
Because this is our last live show before Valentine's Day.
Are you a
Valentine's guy?
Not really, no.
My wife and I, this is going to sound hokey and corny, so please spare me.
I beg of you, patience for what I'm about to say.
My wife and I kind of have this belief that Valentine's Day should be every day, so we're always like being cutesy, and I love you
and stuff
like that.
And on the day, we'll wish each other happy Valentine's, and this year it's on a Saturday, so we'll probably go out and grab some breakfast.
But it's not like two dozen roses, chocolates, and I'm whisking you away to a weekend in Egg Harbor.
It's just, you know, happy Valentine's Day.
I love you, and I'll say it again the next day.
I think it's true love when you reach a point in your relationship where you go, why did you buy me an $8 card?
We're saving money here.
Go to the dollar store, dammit.
And I'm part of that anyway.
I feel like enough with capitalizing and built money from people with these ridiculous, a card now, Greg.
Christmas, birthday, first communion, whatever.
So ridiculous.
Wow, I
didn't realize you were real.
rebelling against big card.
Oh man, listen, don't get me started.
So you just walk up to a, do you just walk up to a, like a 10 year old on their first communion and throw some cash go, spend it somewhere you want, I don't care.
I
just made my first communion a few weeks ago.
So I'm, I'm of that.
No, I'm just kidding.
I
do
still
have the leisure suit.
I made my first communion.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
All right, so we know about that.
I want to ask you about comedy in Milwaukee.
You're a comedian.
You own a comedy club.
And to me, in the 90s, we spoke a little bit about this this morning.
You know, Milwaukee, I had been there in college to party.
I went to high school in Marinette and in junior high.
I've never lived anywhere else in Wisconsin.
So when I went up there from Chicago to do stand up, I could not believe how hot the audiences were.
They were fan.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Are they still like that?
I mean, the ones that we would have, I mean, right now the club is closed, but we're, you know, we're working towards renovations and whatnot.
But yeah, the audiences were always great.
They are always in it to win it.
They've always wanted to have a good timing.
You think about it nowadays, like we're not talking about a place where you go pay five bucks or 10 bucks and whatever, you're paying money like anywhere between, whether it's us or somewhere else between 20 to 30, maybe more depending on where you're going.
You want to have a good time.
So you go in there excited.
You go in there ready.
And you go in there wanting the comedian to do well.
That's the other thing to try to instill into younger comics is like, they don't want you to fail.
They want
you to
do well.
And it's your game to lose if you want.
But this is how it works.
If you give them a good time, they're going to love you.
They're going to love you.
That's great.
Do you have to kind of set the tone as a club owner or as someone who runs a club?
Because I remember when I would work these.
Clubs at various places and you could tell the clubs are really well run and they kind of train the audiences not to be Doofuses, you know what I mean?
Yeah,
have you done that?
Yeah, I mean when you come in we give you a spiel we tell you what we tell you the You know the overview of the room wears what and how to do things and then we give you a little bit of a this is what we expect of you and We don't
relay consequences, but we do make it clear that we have expectations for behaviors.
And once the show begins, if you violate those expectations, we let you know, and you get a couple chances, depending on your attitude, sometimes one, sometimes two, but we will enforce those rules and people will be thrown out.
That's great.
Well, I wish you luck and we'll keep
keep touching base about the new space.
I'm very excited to see that.
It is a great comedy town, and I'm glad that you're reopening there.
All right, so Greg Bach is my guest folks.
He is the host of Civic Media, Mid-Mornings here on the network.
Does such a great job.
And also a very funny comedian, club owner.
We've established all of Greg's many professions here.
You and I talked earlier about one battle after another and sinners, the two front runners for this year's Best Picture Oscar and probably Best Director.
You thought in I thought you took the conversation interesting direction because you said these Why we resurrect these legacy brands and rarely get big payoffs like from some of the franchise movies We
hit on
that and and are you are you a comic book guy or a franchise film guy or do you prefer these kind of
films?
I mean when it comes to so like
It depends on the franchise, honestly, but when it comes to comic book movies, I would say that I'm kind of 50-50 in the world.
I read some comic books, but I don't read a lot.
I'm not adept at it.
I watch a lot of comic book movies.
I understand the motivation of the franchise when it comes to comic book movies.
It's fairly new as opposed to, may say, a Star Wars or Indiana Jones.
So it's
going to keep
going, of course.
Marvel's not going to...
They're not coming out tomorrow and be like, yeah, you know, we're done.
Pack it up.
And then 10 years later, they re-resurrect it.
That, I understand, is going to keep going.
The newly renovated DCU is going to keep going.
I'm talking about things like Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park or Transformers or Tron, where these things that, Tron's probably my opinion, the best example, because you have a movie that came out in 1982.
It didn't do well.
What was it like 40 plus years later for 39 years later?
They released a sequel it didn't do well And then they're like let's do this again with a totally different past totally different story nothing to do really with the second one kind of but a little bit and It didn't do well and it kills that franchise and then people who enjoy Tron like I do I probably won't see another Tron movie for at least another 10 15 years even at that point I'm like we don't have to do this there isn't a great deal
of, uh, I don't think there's a lot of payoff in these legacy sequels, these legacy reboots.
You know, some do well, some don't.
It depends on how much money you're spending on it, but like a lot of times they do middling to do poorly and then that just kind of ruins their, their, their reputation and legacy.
So I don't get it.
Whereas you can say like, all right, we'll spend $50 million on this idea.
It's a brand new idea.
It could be something it might not be.
But at least at the end of the day, we might not lose our shirts.
Whereas like we spent $700 million on this and they lose everything.
And it's funny because like you talked about the Tron reboot or remake, whatever they want to call it.
Jeff, that was like early AI or CGI, whatever.
And Jeff Daniels, not Jeff Daniels.
Jeff Bridges looked really strange in the movie.
And I'm always fascinated to why Hollywood
does remakes of movies that didn't even do that well.
Like, there's not that much of a drought of material.
No, there's not.
There's tons of... You said it before.
You alone have tons of scripts sitting there waiting for someone.
If you are one person, I have to imagine that there has to be tens of thousands of, whether it's TV shows or movies out there, you can find good ideas.
and mine them and work on them and make something out of it.
I mean back in the early days of film they would make like 50 films a year and hope three to five of them made money.
I'm not saying that a studio should make 50 films a year but I think financially it makes more sense to put less money into smaller projects and grow them versus putting your entire and putting your entire bag of money on one or three films throughout a year and one may do well and the other two just
bomb especially in today's day and age where it takes a lot to get people to come
to the theaters.
It's funny you say that and I was thinking about our conversation earlier and I kind of trashed studio executives and I didn't mean to do that.
There
are some
that are very sharp but some that you know I have one project and the guy says it's a smaller studio but a very well-known studio that you get this actor with this grip will do it.
There's no development anymore.
It's all marketing and then you've got other people as a writer you're totally at their mercy.
I talked about this with one of my guests a few weeks ago
We were, my writing partner and I sold a script to Warner Brothers called Dream Girl.
Really funny story.
And Jamie Kennedy was attached to it, who you probably know from, he's also
a- Son of the
Mask?
Yeah, so, and that killed our project.
He decided to do Son of the Mask before our original story, which was like a nodding hill meets fatal attraction, he decided to follow Jim Carrey.
Like, why would you do that?
Why would your people let you do that?
Why would
the studio let you do that?
Because some agents, some managers, some person got in there and said, you know if you do this, you could be the next Jim Carrey.
I guarantee you at least one person said that in his ear.
You can
be
the next Jim Carrey.
And it tanked his career.
And he only went downhill from here.
But I don't understand it.
I don't get it.
But I'm also not a studio executive.
They have board members.
They have bottom lines.
They have stockholders.
They have all those things and they have to answer to all of them.
So they have to go for the short bet for big money.
But it just doesn't feel like they're making a lot of it.
Absolutely.
All
right.
Greg Bakas, your folks, host of Civic Media, mid mornings.
We'll have a few more minutes with Greg on the other side of this.
Very short break and we'll ask Greg what his favorite Olympic winter Olympic sport is.
And what else we want to do?
You already corrected me about thunder and lightning.
I really wish you were more of an expert, but you're forgiven.
We'll do all this coming right back.
Greg Bach is here, folks.
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That's some funky trot music right there, folks.
Well done, Aaron Zomers.
I'm Pete Schwab.
This is Nightlight.
Welcome back.
We got texts on our question the other night, and I hate missing these, but sometimes they go to that.
There's like social media, then it goes to the subversive social media part.
For the greatest invention on National Inventors Day, Denise O'Neill says the fly swatter.
That's a great one.
And then Vicki Savakina said, what do you like on your pizza and her?
Veggies and maybe some vegan pepperoni and then Monica Hale on what is the most Olympic?
This is tonight's question the most exciting to watch She says I had a cat who passed away who loved to watch slaloms and we'd watch it together sitting beside each other
when the buzzer would go off for the skier to leave the gate, she would look at the TV and then her eyes and head would be darting around as the skiers bounced up and down until they reached the bottom.
Then her gaze would drift to something else until the next buzzer sounded and she'd do it all over again.
May not have been the most exciting, but it's my favorite memory of watching the Olympics.
That's great, Mike.
Thank you so much.
Greg Abak is here, ladies and gentlemen.
He's the host of Civic Media Mid-Mornings here on the network and love it when he's on Nightlight.
Greg, have you heard of this sport?
Run Nation Championship?
No.
No, no, tell me more, please.
Okay, these two dudes square off and they get a running start and just run into each other.
And one of them typically is either knocked out, has a concussion, whatever, one of them goes down.
It is the most...
simplistic barbaric, even more so than UFC or MMA or the slapping of the faces.
This is just two massive objects running at each other.
It's beautiful.
I feel like if there's ever just a perfect distillation of regular society now, it's that.
If you want to see, that's social media personified right there.
Right, exactly.
Do you have a favorite, are you an Olympic sky grade?
Do you have a favorite winter Olympic sport?
I watch it when I can I like watching it I will say and this may sound very basic and it's because it's very Midwestern and I think it's hated on a lot but I love curling I love watching curling because I feel and I know this for a fact because one Mr. James Camel who is a late-night host on ABC Referred to it last week as the most unathletic sport there is and he said that while these people were sweeping the ice so quickly I'm like if anybody in that audience tried to do that they would die their shoulders would
fall off
their arms there is
I understand the idea that you may think there's no athletics, but to do what they do, they are world-class athletes, loving what they do, and I love watching, because it's such a slow-moving sport, and there's such seriousness, but people get so excited, I love curling.
And the way their feet
move too, like you gotta stay on your feet, you can't slip, you are on ice, and I...
I've come around like I think it was just Monday I was making fun of curling because I was so excited to get home Saturday night after seeing Anaconda and my wife and I got food we got home we turn on the Olympics boom sweeping no
thanks
but now it was on this it was on the gym last night and I was watching it I was kind of doing a deep dive from a watcher standpoint I'm like yeah I'm sure there's something there I don't get and I have total respect for them so
that's I mean there are a lot of curling clubs here in Wisconsin and they are
Serious they they are good people, but they and they take it seriously.
You don't you don't Cut down curling and
that's
so that for and and for me I yeah, I just like watching because also it just feels like a very Midwestern sport
Exactly, and there was a group from Madison.
I know that won the gold medal well like within the last 20 years or something like that So that's kind of cool boom All right, so Greg Bach what?
What where were you at on the Super Bowl?
Did you watch it?
Okay, I'm good for you.
I love people that just don't watch popular things.
I really mean that.
No,
honestly, God, I mean that.
Pete, are you the guy who says things like, you know, I used to love the postal service before it got really popular.
But I have defended the postal service my entire life.
I
don't like it.
I'm talking about the band, not the actual business,
but
okay.
Then you lost me.
I don't know.
Man, when it was the Pony Express, that's when it was cool.
Not anymore sold out, baby.
No, I don't watch.
No, I don't watch the Super Bowl and it's not because of anything.
It's just it's not usually that interesting to me.
I'll watch the halftime show.
Here's a question really quick.
I know we don't have much time, but do you feel like the commercials kind of got washed over this year?
I feel like it used to be the commercials and now no one's really talking about them at all this year.
It's bad bunny, which is great.
But like not even a memorable commercial that made people go, oh, wow, it's just
no one cared.
Or even the ones I remember were just kind of like, ugh, okay.
I remember because Ted Danson was in it and had bad AI.
But I don't, like some of the commercials, and we were talking about this the other night too, I remember when they were 20 years ago, it's like, oh, that was cool, that was cool.
Now they're trying too hard, Greg.
They're
like the bad comedian that goes on stage and is laughing at his own jokes to provide a laugh track.
It's awful.
Yeah, yeah.
Before
we let
you go.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead
buddy.
I was gonna say if I usually catch up with those on YouTube the next day and just see what's good and what's not That's how I that's how I get my news through YouTube apparently.
No, that's kind of what I do, too Totally.
Um, what do you binge watching anything you could share?
We've got about a minute minute and a half or so
Let's see here right now.
I'm rewatching new girl because I'm that guy and But I'm also we're you know, we just got done we're watching the show a high potential
Will Trent, I finished Landman.
What do you think of that?
Yeah, and then I'm waiting for Elsbeth and Matlock to come back on the air because they've been off for a couple of months.
But yeah, keeping up with some shows, very light comedies, dramas, nothing super serious or scary or anything like that.
I can't think of anything.
I mean, I'm hesitant about the new Ted Lasso season this summer, but I'll still watch it.
Man,
I'm in the minority.
That show makes no sense.
ever.
Oh, so you don't like happiness?
Cool.
I like happiness when it's plausible.
There are plenty of ways where happiness can be realistic.
This will be something we could talk about in the
future,
Greg.
We'll get
into
that
and
maybe
some land man next time too.
But I appreciate your time tonight, pal.
Always fun.
You
got it.
Have a great night.
You guys take care.
Thank you.
All right.
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Greg does a great job and we will we're going to break for news, sports and weather.
We're going to come back.
We're going to read some texts.
Maybe a slow dance, a few laughs.
We'll figure it out, folks.
We're talking Dork County Film Festival next hour as well in Act 3.
So come on back.
This is Pete Schwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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