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Comedian Mary Mack on what makes a good night. (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Mon Mar 16, 2026
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And listen, 200 bucks, that's some good walking around money, right?
Yeah,
I mean, that's like,
it's like a half a tank of gasoline right now.
Oh my God, Pete, I, I filled up my gas tank this past weekend for the first time in a long $50.
I drive an SUV, I drive a Rogue, I don't drive like a big truck.
Okay.
And it was $50.
Yeah,
it's so funny.
I do have a big SUV.
I've got a small hybrid car and then a big SUV hoping to balance things out.
Man, when we first moved back to Wisconsin, I think it was like 80 bucks to fill my Land Cruiser.
And now it's like probably 60, 70 again.
Like it's getting
there.
And there's no end in sight.
It's kind of sad.
Nope.
is exciting though.
Hour number two, we got Mary Mack coming up in just a few minutes at 6.20.
yeah.
Love, Mary Mac, one of the funniest comedians out there.
You said, and I think Mary told me this, too, Greg, that her husband's very funny, too.
We should have him on some time.
His name is Tim Harmson.
He's also a stand-up comic.
He is one of the nicest humans.
I just, I just, he's one of the, do you ever, like, when you were doing stand-up Pete, those, those comics you meet, you're like, I want to be like friends, friends with you, like, like.
Doing
shows is?
fun, but like we want to get lunch or Tim is just want to marry is great.
Don't get me wrong.
But Tim is just one of those guys.
I'm like, you're just really cool, man.
Can we be friends?
We'd be bros.
Yeah, exactly.
So she'll be on at 6 20.
Very excited about that.
That's exciting.
And I agree with you.
Like I remember when I did stand up so long ago, but like the.
Headliners sometimes are there are comics who are great, but kind of make it uneasy And that maybe makes them funny and then I always remember being excited just meet kind of a regular dude or do death and it's like all right This is a good hang, you know
And then you want to be like can we just can can we go on the road together because I like this?
This is really fun Yeah, so I he's a good dude and I'm looking forward to talking to Mary a little bit later But we have ourselves a question to get to friends
Let's
talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Question.
Question.
Okay, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Question.
Question.
Questions.
What is a TV show you've been meaning to binge watch but haven't yet?
We've all got those shows folks you hear about it.
It's great Oh, I got to put that on the list then you don't then you can't remember what's on your list But it's one of those shows you hear about and I thought of this because Greg I don't know if you ever saw the show justified with
That is a jackpot of a question right there.
I am on cycle nine of that show.
I've watched that.
I love that show
so much.
People, I swear, I had no idea Greg was a fan.
But that dropped today, I want to say, in 2010.
And same thing with you, Greg.
It was one of the, first of all, the opening scene of the show.
Oh,
I know!?
Where he's telling the guy to draw on him, and basically, I mean, I don't want to say too much, but it's just one of those scenes that grabs you, and I was like, I know I'm gonna love this show.
That is Peter Green, who just recently died.
He is the guy.
He is in the opening scene.
And he's like, I gave you 24 hours to get out of Miami.
And the guy's like, you're not going to do anything.
And then you find out real quick what Raylan Givens is all about in that show.
It's about justified kills.
Oh my god.
So great.
And all the characters are great.
It's an outstanding show.
So ladies and gentlemen, put that on your list.
If you?
need a binge watch or something to answer this question with, I recommend, as does Greg, as you just heard, justified because it is a.
an excellent show.
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a lot of entries for the text to win contest.
I appreciate everyone getting in touch with us.
Tom from Hartford on WMDX says, I love Mary Mack.
That's wonderful.
Can't wait for you to hear her.
That also is like for me, my introduction, my real introduction to Walton Goggins, who was a character who was supposed to like either die in the first episode or only supposed to be on for a few episodes and the whole thing.
And if I'm not mistaken,
I don't know how this is going to change because one, he, he blew up in the past couple of years, but they were supposed to be rebooting that show because they did a show called justified city prime evil, which was fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
But then it had a, it had a stinger scene at the very end of the last episode that said, Oh, we're going to get more.
So.
I love that show so much.
I love that show.
It's great and I totally that slipped my mind about Walton Goggins who was blown up as you mentioned.
He's a huge star now.
Most
recently I saw him in White Lotus.
He's just great
and you think
he's such a good actor like when you when I saw him and justified I'm like this guy is a character a type.
He's the southern borderline white supremacist bad guy whatever but he has gone
above and beyond that like crazy.
He's a really talented actor.
So you're
right.
Those two square off over the years and justified.
It's a great show.
I said Peaky Blinders and I saw the first episode or the
first season
and I liked it, but I never went back to it.
But that's one I keep meaning to go back to.
For me, I that that one is I go back and forth and whether or not I'm going to watch it because I feel like it's in a lot of in a lot.
It's the vein of
the, what's the show of that?
Breaking Badware or
the
Sopranos where these are objectively bad people who I am now forced to root for because they're the stars.
I kind of like got burnt out on the whole anti-hero thing because I'm like, I'm tired of rooting for terrible people.
And that's like, you and I have a back and forth about Ted Lasso.
I know how you feel about Ted Lasso, but what I liked about Ted Lasso is like,
Everyone is normal complicated Nobody is like it's not like that the end of the first episode you see Ted line just like just Doing a dank rail off a toilet seat.
It's like it's he's got problems We all got problems and I know I appreciate that With peeky blinders that's one I'm I'll eventually watch one day for me better Call Saul is another show that I know that's gotten nothing but critical acclaim and people love it but
that's when I want to, I kind of want to like knock out in a few weeks.
I don't want to, I want to dedicate myself to it because I watch better breaking bad.
And I've heard nothing but amazing things about Better Call Saul.
So that's the show that's
been on my list for a very long time.
Dom, what about you?
I've never watched Breaking Bad.
And I know it was the anti, I just, I've heard so many good things about it that it's so hard to straight.
I just haven't been able to watch it, but I just, it sounds so good.
And I see so much like in like October on Halloween, I saw everyone wearing like, you know, Jesse and, and, and Brian Cranston outfits and stuff.
I'm like, wow, I got to watch this.
I got to watch it.
How have I not watched this yet?
Yeah,
it
fills up you in.
The writing
on that and Better Call Saul, I think they're both Vince Gilligan, is
just
so great.
And you just, it's so rare that you just, you're like, where is this scene going?
But you trust the right, you're like, I know
is
gonna be great.
I'm gonna stick with it.
And so, yeah, those are all great ones.
On social media, Brenda says the bear.
I saw the first season, I got to get back to that, but Boris says shrinking another one on my list.
I hear it's great.
Yeah, that one's on my list too.
That's another Bill Lawrence.
He did scrubs and he did Ted Lasso.
Dave on the, on the live stream says watch better call Saul first.
And I think that's a good plan.
Like if you watch, if you haven't seen either one, Dom, start with better call Saul and then watch breaking bad
It's before.
And, uh, you know, I think that, uh, you know,
For me, Breaking Bad sucked me in.
I just started watching it one day, and I watched the first two seasons in a weekend.
I was like, yeah.
love
a good binge watch.
We did the same thing with Young Sherlock on Prime.
We watched the entire show in two days.
I thought it was very, very
good.
I'm adding that to my list now, too, because we just talked about that last week as well.
I've got to put that.
on there too.
Dave also says the Sopranos, kind of the same thing you said, Greg.
You, terrible people, but the writing's so good, you stick
with
it.
But it's like, who do I root for here that's kind
of,
you know, the lesser of the bad guys.
What is trumpet Joe says that Mr. In Between is a show he heard is good.
I don't
know.
I've heard of that show.
Yeah.
What was the other one?
There was another one that I was wanting to watch.
And now I totally, I had it like, Oh, the leftovers that show came out a long time ago.
And I've heard, and it has like, like all three seasons between them has an average score of like 93% on rotten tomatoes.
It's a show about the people who are left over after the rapture, like people are raptured up to heaven and
these?
people who are here now.
And I've heard nothing but amazing things about it.
So it's like, that's the problem is like there's so much, like there's so much good television out there.
It just piles up after time where you're like, I mean, I feel, I feel absolutely intimidated by the amount of TV I would have to watch to be caught up with what the world, because there are so many other shows out there that people like, oh, this one, like, slow down.
I need to watch like stuff from the 90s still.
And by the way, speaking of Vince Gilligan, his show on Apple, Pluribus, very good.
Very, very
good.
Okay.
So I did not like Pluribus, Greg.
I have to be honest.
The first season.
But I know I'm in the minority.
It gets critical reviews and, you know, everybody you talk to loves it.
It's just not, it's not vibing with me for some
love Ray of Seahorne and love Vince Gillian.
Sorry about that, Pete.
You were talking about Mr. Inbetween and you were saying that you didn't hear the show a lot.
It has 95% on Rot Tomato.
It's an Australian show.
And it looks really, really good too.
So yeah, some of these shows I have never heard of before.
And if you want to watch it
now.
There's no pressure because there's, like Greg said, there's so much content out there.
if you haven't seen Breaking Bad yet, you get distracted, you watch this, you watch that.
But that's a good text.
Thank you, Trumpet Joe.
And then Stacy Sue on the stream says, we're no angels.
of Sean,
okay?
Oh, that's going back to the Sean Penn conversation we were having.
Sean Penn, yeah.
Yeah, that's Sean Penn and Robert De Niro in like a weird like old school.
Priests, right?
Yeah, they're a priest in like the 20s or something.
Aaron Cruz on the live stream says Spartacus.
That's a new show too.
I don't know what that has.
I've heard, I've seen advertisements for that one.
I personally don't really get down on Greek or like that show.
Rome that came out years ago or for some reason they just don't grab me.
They just like Yeah,
I'm not a medieval times guy either
like
even when I go to one of those medieval castles for a 1200 course meal I'm kind of like okay.
I go this is fun.
We get to call the women winches Okay, is that the draw here like what is the deal and we eat the way they did back in the day?
Would you like more Pepsi?
Yeah, right exactly and I just but I will say having said that I really got into Game of Thrones and I could not stop watching.
Oh my god Game of Thrones What a just just a cruel cruel cruel lesson in in in dedicating yourself to a product just Totally falls apart in the last fall two seasons and then you expect me to watch two other shows No, I'm not watching these shows.
Why cuz the last one and it's sucky
Yeah, I can't.
I'm trying not to get drawn into that either.
Daniel Wheeler says lost on social media.
Patrick Mines, one piece, Stranger Things, Wonder Man's Severance.
The list goes on.
Get
to that list.
Wonder Man's an easy
watch.
I've heard that's great, too.
It's a very fun show.
Hey, this is exciting, Greg.
Our friend, mostly yours, but I want to be as close to her as you are, because I think she's so cool.
Mary Mack is coming up next.
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Pete, I am so very excited about our next guest coming onto the show.
She is comedian, singer, songwriter, a performer, voice actor, all the things.
For me, one of the big things I've said before on the show,
performed on the Grand Old Opry.
Please welcome to the show, Mary Mack.
Hi,
Mary.
That was the best, most cheerful intro I've had in ages.
You know that?
It's usually, oh, this next person does comedy and she might have a couple of things to say.
Oh,
that's terrible.
Please welcome to the show.
Please welcome to the show, Lady Comic, Mary Mack.
Oh, he crushed that.
I'm listening to that intro going, oh my God, Mary is living my best life.
So good for you
and it's great to have
you.
Hey, thanks so much, Pete.
Thanks, Greg.
Thanks, Dominic, for having me back.
I was really, whenever I go to Eastern Wisconsin, I'm like, whoa, I wonder if I can get on Nightlight again and talk about what's coming up.
And I've been watching some shows.
Oh, sweet.
Yeah, more than normal.
Listen, we can start there.
Shout them out.
What are you watching?
What shows are you getting into?
Gosh, the one I'm laughing so hard at, it's so funny.
And I have to look her name up because I keep forgetting her name.
We have a similar name.
What's called the Mick.
And my nickname is
Yeah.
And it's with Mackenzie.
It's the gal who's on
uh always sunny in philadelphia um and this show the mix streams on hulu and it is
I am laughing like I wake up in the middle of the night, put on TV to go to sleep.
And I think I'm waking.
So so Tim can't sleep in the in bed with me anymore because I'm laughing so and he snores, but also I'm laughing.
If it's not his snoring, it's my laughing that's keeping us up.
I'm like, just I can't stop from laughing at this show.
She is she's such a good actress, such a great media actress.
Caitlin Olson,
Caitlin Olson.
Yes.
And she's so that show is canceled next.
I heard nothing but great things about it.
But now she's on a show called High Potential, which is also on Hulu ABC and Hulu.
Yeah.
Remake of a Swedish show or something, but also very she's fantastic.
Yes, she is fantastic.
It's because she's got her character down very similar in the Mick and always sunny.
So it takes a while to like her character in
in high potential but that's also very good but definitely different character for her so yeah really um but her slapstick is so great i slam my coffee down here um but
yeah really i love
slapstick and that was like oh it's so so so funny that's my my two bits on um on uh
Who I'm what I'm watching, but I'm watching or I just don't want to hug I don't want to hug you're from
you guys.
Oh
We?
invite we invite you to our show come on and talk we want to hit like are there recommendations Are there shows you feel like that like you need to be watching this show right now?
This is like the you know that
like
you tell other comics when you go do shows like have you been watching the show?
Yeah, I just think that the make is such a good escape
Yeah, right now I think I've been searching out escape stuff.
I'm a big huge PBS fan.
So, um, I know March 22nd, there's an old timey.
They're all mostly old timey, but there's another old timey one coming out called bookish.
And it's a mystery and I watch all the mysteries and my, my thing, and I've said it before on this show is like, I really love like PBS or especially BBC mysteries.
Cause I'm trying to go to sleep.
Like I don't want.
anything too good to happen too fast.
Slow, slow show.
And I want to be able to go to bed.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to the four sites.
I have no idea what the synopsis of it is.
Did we talk about line of duty last time you were here, Mary, that Great British Show?
Did I?
Oh, I.
I have seen line of duty, but it's been so long ago now I might have to rewatch it.
This is so
good.
Yeah, I just watched it like less than a year ago and it's so good.
I know I talked to somebody about that on the show.
I thought maybe when you talked about British police procedurals that you were the person.
It would have been me and I would have forgotten the show already, which is great for the lifespan of my streaming.
I don't have to like get too many streaming services because I will forget.
after a few
years.
I'm watching this new show called the Mick.
You just talked about that a month ago.
So if those are your jam, there was two shows that came out last year, late last year.
I cannot wait for their second series to come out if they actually happen.
But a show called Ludwig with David Mitchell, where he plays a guy who makes crossword puzzles for a living.
He does puzzles and he solves murder mysteries.
And then Death Valley, and I don't remember his, I think it's Timothy Spall, but he was in the Harry Potter movies.
And he plays an actor who moves to a small English village, but his show that he was on was a like a crime show.
So he solves mysteries as well.
So those are really great.
I didn't realize, we gotta go.
Oh my gosh, we'll be right back though.
And we'll be back with Mary Mac here on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.
Stay tuned, stay close, you're
awesome.
I talked about introducing Jason Chef the other night here in Marinette, and he played all the great Chicago Doms.
He did not play old days, and I love that song, Greg.
No,?
I'm sorry.
Let's get Mary's take on that.
Hey, our guest is the very funny stand-up comedian and writer and voice actress.
Uh, she is a Wisconsin resident splits time.
She's got a place in Minnesota.
I think Anna plays in Wisconsin.
She's bi-statal, whatever.
I don't know.
Mary Mag is with us.
It's so great to have you here, Mary.
Thanks.
Yeah.
I need to sell my house in Minnesota, but I don't want to clean out the basement.
So I just keep buying more crap.
It's, uh, yeah.
up the sad things.
Fair enough.
Let's get to some happy things, especially happy things for people who might be interested in seeing you live because they'll have a couple opportunities coming up this month in just a couple weeks.
Tell us about your show.
First, let's start with Sheboygan because it's on March 28th.
Yes, is that March 28th?
Oh my gosh, am I in Sheboygan?
I think I'm in Kenosha.
You're in
Kenosha on March 27th, that I know because?
you're...
Oh, I've got the 29th in Kenosha.?
Oh, this?
is a mess.
Oh, here.
Maybe that's another year.
Maybe I...
Let's go to Merrimack.com and find?
out.
Oh, my gosh.
Maybe you're making a prediction here.
I
hope.
I don't want to be that guy.
Oh, my.
Yeah.
No, I'm in the... I might have said that wrong.
I'm in Kenosha on March 27th of Friday and then Holman, Wisconsin by La Crosse at Drugans.
um gulf
and
that's on uh the 28th so i'm i'm uh and then i go to west bend in may so i'm coming down around that eastern side there and uh i'll bring my snow shovel because because
You got more snow than us up on Lake Superior now.
If we still need the assist by then, I will not be living here.
Yeah, I don't know how I read that off your email.
So my bad, I might have.
But you have a date.
Do you not have a date in Kenosha?
Or I'm sorry, in Sheboygan?
I, you know, last year.
I bet you pulled up last year's email.
Last year in March, I played Sheboygan.
And you know what?
That's where I learned you can.
that's where I learned about touch tones, touch tunes on your phone where you can play the jukebox and I learned how much fun it is to when people are listening to like gangster rap in a bar to suddenly put on Celine Dion my heart will go on and oh my gosh the joy of doing if you're ever sad
just go to a bar where they're like, just play exactly the opposite of what they're listening to.
And just don't, don't volunteer that it was you because they'll hate
But just kind of sit there innocently and watch everybody go run into the jukebox as soon as it comes on.
It's fantastic.
Two things I love about this.
One, hearing Mary Max say the phrase gangster rap is just wonderful.
Period.
And also
My mom's listening right now because she's a fan of the show and I guarantee you when you mentioned Celine Dion, she started singing.
I'm not wrong.
Do not argue with me, Jackie right now.
I know I'm right.
Not that I even listen to Celine Dion that much, but it's just the fun of seeing people panic like that because if you put in like an extra quarter, you can pop the line.
You can make you can make Celine Dion a
priority play.
Do you want to know what's the coolest part of that too?
It's just like whatever bar, you know, if there's ever a place where you kind of had like not a great experience, you can be at anywhere else.
You can be at your home and suddenly just play.
It's the most passive aggressive thing I do is like, I'll play like Helen Reddy, where somebody was like bad mouthing ladies or something,
and
I'll be at home and I'll play that at a bar where
they're being like sexist and I'll have like I am woman and you can do that from your own couch.
It's like calling your senator.
I had a great time doing that.
You guys have anybody you're mad at?
I'll play him a song.
Tell me where they go and when.
Just come on.
See what I would do is if I went to a bar and did that I would I would not only I would never Volunteer myself as the person who did it, but I would look around for the toughest guys in the place just like like like lip-syncing quietly What what this song this song really brings up human emotions for me.
All?
right,
I Want to know where Mary's hanging out in a bar that still is Helen ready on the jukebox boy with the best
ones
In all in any bar where they're bad moth and women that's
I love it
With my luck, I'd put that on the jukebox, and I'd end up in a slow dance with one of those guys.
And it would be the kindest cuddling you've had in a long time.
You'd feel that little spoon energy.
That's what men need sometimes.
They need to feel like the little spoon.
I'm open to that, but if the guy wanted to take things further, I'd have to head fake him or fake an injury or something, because I'll slow dance with a guy, but I draw the line there.
You just simply say, no, thank you, sir.
Oh, that's interesting.
And you and you and you and you kiss his hand and they thank you for the dance and you have on with your day
Mary have you played I've heard really good things about the Kenosha comedy club and is that a good like have you played there before?
Yes, I go I usually go like once a year.
I like it I I like it's a big space and you can cram a bunch of people in there and and Yeah, I mean
I don't know why, I guess I'm just, I got a lot in common maybe with the folks that are, I mean.
I've been brought presents that were welded together for me.
And so that's how I'm connecting with these folks is like my family welded, they weld.
A lot of people making homemade booze and jars and bringing
I have a lot of things I need in jars.
There's so many, there's so I'm connecting on some, they like jokes.
I like jokes.
Um, so yeah, I'm connecting on a lot of
levels.
I have
to get out there because I live in Kenosha.
I live five minutes away from the Kenosha Comedy Club, so I come check it out.
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
It really is.
And then in the summer, you know, so they got this magazine down there called Happening's Magazine and he runs the comedy room and he books like little jazz fest and he books, he books cheese fest and he puts all these festivals together.
Frank Carmichael and he's such so much fun.
Don't tell him I said this.
He might be almost 80.
And he's making about 80.
Sorry if anybody listening is 80, but I can't believe he has the energy because I want to go to bed right now.
He's cooking like Thursday in the park fans in Kenosha.
You just bring your own booze and drink in the park.
And it's fantastic.
That's like my, that's the time of my, it's, I love that type of stuff.
I just show me a field where I can bring my own booze and I'll have the best day of my life.
What are your our guest is Mary Mac the very funny Mary Mac for more information go to Mary Mac comedy comm did I get that right?
Yeah So I Just totally forgot what I was gonna ask.
Oh, what is your what is your drink of choice Mary?
Like if you go to a park and you can bring your BYOB What are you drinking?
It depends on the temperature and the time of day.
Okay,
so I Guess if it's pretty hot
I want to mix like a, I don't like a sweet rosé, but I like a dry, soft, blank rosé type thing if it's hot.
did a lot of work that day I'm ashamed to say that I like a bushlight and I'm really trying not to like bushlight because they freaking hate women and so
I'm
trying not to like them but I love bushlight and and it's a low gluten beer and like uh so if I don't do that I'll have like a corona which is also lower gluten beer
And then I know you weren't expecting somebody to go on and on about this, but I have lists that I keep in my head.
And when I'm on my deathbed, this will be the only thing I remember.
I'll be like, it's 10 o'clock and we just mowed.
It's 10 AM.
We just mowed.
OK, I need a.
I need some V8, spicy V8, some bushlight and a lime all together mixed up with some ice please.
Like I will, I won't know anybody's name, but I'll know time of day and what drink and according to activity.
I think
you're redesigning a Bloody Mary for your type.
Like it's a bushlight,
a V8?
super spicy and a celery stick.
That's it.
Oh, that's nice too.
like a lime in there.
You know, olive would probably be real good in there.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
Do you like bloody Mary's?
Yeah, I do.
But you gotta watch that.
That's that's mixed because some of it's got flour in there.
And that's
Well, I'm just gonna say, and I'm not being paid by anybody for this, but across the street from the Kenosha Comedy Club is a place called Captain Mike's.
They
have phenomenal Bloody Marys.
Oh,
yeah?
Yes, I go there.
My wife and I go there like usually once or twice a month just for bloodies on a Sunday morning, get our bloody thing, go home the rest of our day.
You know, it's really
nice.
Yeah.
You know, it's so weird.
Like as someone who doesn't drink anymore, I love talking about drinking because I feel like I still stay connected.
And man, that just made me wanna bloody Mary.
Mary, you're getting some love here.
I don't even like the liquor in the bloody.
I only want just the stuff.
So I can just have to V8 and whatever else.
There you
go.
You got a fan, Tom, in the 262 says, I love Mary Mac.
Wow, thanks.
Mary, did you watch the Oscars at all?
Or what kind of movies are you
watching?
No.
I did not watch the Oscars because I don't know if I like the Oscars anymore.
And that's quite sad to say on a pop culture show like this.
That's OK.
You're having no obligation.
I'm just feeling like rich and famous people are just seem to be getting more and more out of touch.
So I didn't watch it.
Um, I watched the Mick instead.
Well, we were just, I mean, that's what I was, I was saying to Pete earlier is that
Last year, I felt like with Conan's first year and the LA fires were happening.
So there was all this, there was a need to like come together and be a part of something on like a human level.
And it was so much fun.
And then this year, it just felt like he was trying to tell jokes to a bunch of people who didn't know how to laugh at themselves.
And
that's the biggest problem is that you have these people who are world-class comedians coming in there to entertain.
And then you have these millionaire billionaire.
movie people who are like, OK, whatever.
I don't care.
You know, it's not fun.
It's not fun at all.
So it was Conan hosting again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he had a hard time then this year.
Yeah.
I thought it was better
last year, but his monologue.
We were talking about this earlier.
His monologue was really funny.
Like there are great jokes and he's good at that.
But I just thought the comedy throughout the rest of the show is pretty lame personally.
Tom is Tom is your biggest fan now, Mary.
And he says polka bar.
uh we were talking about before and then 715 Matt Eau Claire says on the conservative jukebox I love to play Ray Willie Hubbard's conversation with the devil genius another suggestion for you Barry
I'm taking suggestions so that's great I gotta play that
one
If you want to get tickets, find out where Mary is going to be performing.
Go to Mary Mac comedy dot com for more information.
Mary, thank you so much for being here.
We really appreciate you so much.
Thanks, you guys.
And thanks for filling me in a little on the Oscars.
You guys have a wonderful, wonderful night.
You too, Mary.
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Pete, it was a crazy, crazy day.
For me, yeah.
Although it sounds like it was for you, too, as well.
But I hogged all the drama today,
so at
some point, I would love to hear about your... Oh.
You
meant the three inches of snow I had to
dutifully and?
heroically plow through?
Yeah, totally.
I'm a guy who should be put on statues around the world.
Tom said earlier in the text line asked how much we got Tom I think we got between 32 and 36 inches I'm not sure exactly at if the count is in but hopefully you did better there and Hartford Tom also says regarding Mary Mac she has such a down-home voice regular people that's what you think Tom Mary is a world of drama I'm kidding
For tomorrow's episode, we'll be speaking to civic media meteorologist Mace Michaels.
Wow, that was a lot to say.
I got that in
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Civic media meteorologist Mace Michaels will be joining us to break down the winter storm we just had over the past weekend.
And yeah, talking about the weather to come too, because the
weather?
later this week, at least around this area in southeastern Wisconsin is going to be a lot warmer in the fifties and the sixties.
And then we'll be talking to critic and city.
cast Madison newsletter writer, Rob Thomas for his Oscar analysis.
I'm looking forward to that one because it kind of like, you know, the conversation we had with Matt Miller last week, I like listening to people like you are in the industry.
He's in an industry.
I like to listen to that stuff.
So it's really, really great.
That'll be on tomorrow's show.
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And you know what?
I want to say this too quickly, Greg, because periodically over the last couple of years, history has been made.
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I have not seen that yet either.
That's the new Yellowstone show.?
It's Dutton Ranch, I think?
Or
it's not out?
yet.
There's another one I think out now.
I
can't keep?
track of them, to be honest with you.
And Jay Campbell says white lotus.
Yeah, there've been a series of probably at least three or four.
Well, there's Yellowstone and then there's 1929 and 1889.
1889 has Helen Mirren and Harrison
Ford.
Yes, 1883, I believe.
1883.
And 1923.
And honestly,
I gave up on Yellowstone when the Japanese tourists were stuck on the side of a cliff, both at the same 20 feet down in street shoes and clothes.
I don't know how that would ever happen in my life, but the guy saved them and it's just kind of, but those two shows, Greg, those both those prequels, I thought were outstanding.
Really liked them.
Well, and then Kevin Costner leaves the last season.
So they kill him off and they're
like, well, what do we?
do?
Well, let's give one of the guys, he's a Marshall now.
And they want
to make that other spinoff show.
And basically anything Taylor Sheridan writes, which is just basically an old guy at some point telling young people how it's, how the world really is.
And there's a new show with Kurt Russell and, oh, who is the, he's co-starring with.
No, who is it??
It's someone.?
Yeah.
They just get huge stars for these shows.
But yeah, I watched, I watched, I watched like half a season of Yellowstone and I got up out of the room.
I said, I can't watch none of these people deserve happiness.
All right, forget it.
It's terrible.
It's like succession.
They're just horrible people.
Stopped watching that show too.
I was tired of rooting for terrible.
Same.
And the show billions as well.
Like just terrible people.
I'm like, they all deserve retribution, whether it's jail or something else, but terrible.
Matt,
it's?
clear.
Matt, no Claire is listening.
He got, got in touch with us.
He says he's been meaning to binge the works of Mel Brooks.
I think that's a great, great plan.
He also went on to say that my suggestion for a binge would be doctor who 20, 20, oh five to 2017.
Hey, if you have the whole weekend, check out 63 years of the show as well.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
There's a lot of doctor who to catch up on.
So thank you so much to everyone who got in touch with us.
But yeah, I, I
I bag about Taylor Sheridan shows.
I love Landman.
It's a great show.
You know, I like the first season parts of the, the mom and daughter drive me crazy.
Yeah.
Um, and, and Billy Bob, I like the second season I started and I, I did kind of bail on it, but I, I agree.
Taylor Sheridan, when he wants to write something great, he does.
He wrote
Sacarios, Heller Highwater, uh, Lion S is a really good show.
Yeah.
Then he's got Tulsa King.
which is like, you know, the guy knows how to write for a genre or and he signed like a 20 show deal.
You gotta, you gotta keep churning them out, you know.
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Pete, send them off.
Good night,
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