Jennifer Nowicki on Tea & Bringing It Into Your Everyday Life (Hour 2)

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Welcome

to

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You go.

It's casual Friday.

I was a little too casual.

I didn't feel the need to have my camera on, Greg.

And you panicked, and I apologize for that.

I didn't

panic, but I also feel like people listening on the radio are like, what do I care if your camera's on or not?

I was way too relaxed.

Welcome to Nightlight, folks.

I hope you're relaxed.

I hope you're having a great Friday.

Wherever you're joining us from around the state, where we broadcast, it is great to have you.

You made it through another week.

We made it through another week.

And I think we're all doing just wonderfully here.

I am Pete Schwabba looking down the state.

Greg, is that what we decided?

I'm looking down the state at you, down the shoreline.

Yeah, you're looking down at me, basically.

It's what we decided.

You're

looking you.

in Merry Christmas Land USA, Marinette, Wisconsin, looking down here in lowly radio park in Racine, I guess that's how it's working.

We're on the same body of water, I find that kind of...

I don't want to say intimate.

That's weird, but like we're sort of on the same wavelength and Dom is Lake Michigan adjacent in in Madison there.

So We're all here though.

That's what's important and we're here together on this Friday night.

So happy Friday guys.

How are we doing?

Good save I'm doing quite well.

It's Friday.

I'm excited I've got a weekend of nothing that I have to do but there's stuff I want to get done

So for me, I'm very like, yeah.

Your Brewers are in first place.

Our Brewers are undefeated right now.

First place.

Can someone just mail us the World Series ring?

We'll just take it right now.

Thank you very much, everybody.

And if anyone's like, how can you talk like that?

I'm a Brewers fan.

Trust me, I'm kidding.

But yeah, I'm excited.

It was a it was a good game yesterday.

I do not let my head get too big on those kinds of victories It's great to win an opening day.

I love that, but it's not something where I'm like, well, that's it Everyone

else just

turn it in just put all the brewers on the all-star.

No, it's it's it's it's 161 games left and We will have ourselves a good season.

I believe with Pat Murphy two-time coach of the year at the helm

I

love Pat Murphy.

I have a cool name.

Pat Murphy.

He just passed away a few months ago, but even before that, Pat Murphy is a great interview.

Mike Clemens loves talking about him.

He was on the show last night.

He's just got a great approach.

He reminds me a little bit of Phil Jackson, how he used to coach the bulls with his Zen and his,

he would

always say something to get people thinking and just kind of have fun.

But Pat Murphy is a little more playful and just really likable.

What's funny is that the likability and all that awesucks very.

However you want to describe it, anger is other sports fans so much because they think he's just being fake.

I'm like, nope.

That's him.

That's him.

You have a problem with joy, but that's not my problem.

So Pat Murphy's our guy and, and I love him.

I think he's great.

And so yep,

go

bro.

Go bro crew.

Go.

That's my crew.

That's my crew.

And, Dom, on the other hand, your team is, well, defeated, as is mine.

But it's a long season.

We got a long way to go.

There's no reason to panic yet.

You're not jumping ship yet, are you?

Not yet.

I want to see how tonight's game goes, though.

You know, that's the big... This is going to be the true test, you know?

I know it's... If we lose, it's an 0-2, but, you know, that's pretty big, you know?

For a White Sox fan, I just... I get too sad about that.

I can't... You

know, for a White Sox fan, you should be used to it.

Wow.

You're right.

Look at the bright side, Dom.

You're only 0-1.

That's true.

And you're not a Rockies fan.

True.

Yeah, so there you

go.

All right.

I watched almost an entire basketball game yesterday.

I watched Illinois and...

And Houston, honest to God, like I always, at this point in my life, I come in for like the last five minutes.

And if it's right there, if it's close, I'll watch it.

But I was just lazy last night and it turned out to be a great game.

And with the Badgers out of the tournament, I'm kind of going for, I think Illinois or Iowa State are my teams.

You threw

down?

Cause you're Illinois,

right?

Yeah, there you go.

There you go.

There you go.

There is something to be said about watching sports when you have no dog in the race whatsoever.

That's one of

my

favorite things to do is go to baseball at other parks.

Like I went to a game at Angel Stadium in Pasadena or Anaheim, Anaheim.

And it was the...

It was the angels versus the A's.

It was a third place team versus a fourth place team.

And I was like, I don't care who wins.

I'm just going to have fun and watch baseball.

And it's amazing.

I love going to baseball games when I don't care about either team.

It's less stressful, right?

No, exactly.

And you wear Brewer's gear and you're just like, yeah, what are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

Do something.

I totally relate to that.

I had a moment, my college roommate and I were big.

professional Chicago sports fans and we would lock ourselves in our dorm room and watch the Bears and one time they lost a close game and I picked up a chair and I'm like ready to throw it.

I look at the TV and here's my team hugging the other team and laughing with them.

They played the game and

I'm

the spaz moron who's taking it that.

Seriously, and

I guess

it really changed my outlook.

I still get invested, but I'm totally with you I love watching a game where you really don't have a horse in the race

That's why it's really hard for me to dislike teams like I get frustrated about certain teams and it's usually around like the fact that they just You know like the Dodgers have a huge payroll and it's very hard to compete against things like that.

It's not impossible

Just difficult.

But then when I watch these games and I see these guys like rounding second base and they get to second base and then they're laughing with the guy who's the second bait and like, why am I getting upset?

Those two are buddies.

Like, let's, oh yeah, it's a game and I'm not playing at all.

It shouldn't matter one bit.

So yeah, I get

what you're

saying.

I have to take moments where I have to say, take a breath, it's fine.

So.

They're going along John

Silver's

after

the game.

It's Friday, guys.

This is a blast.

Hey, we have a new segment.

We're rolling out today, which is kind of exciting.

In the first hour, we'll be doing it at 535 called Binge or Cringe.

And Greg, let's take this time to invite people to play along.

We'll tell them we're going to each talk about a show that we're binging or is binge worthy and then one that is cringe worthy or that we find cringe.

So share your shows with us.

That's at 535.

And we'll tell you kind of what we're watching and maybe what you should avoid but let's have a discussion and open this up tonight like listeners

Absolutely, and not only that we have a great show for everyone this evening in these in the six o'clock hour We're gonna be talking where the name goes right?

Oh, I'm looking at the wrong rundown everybody Jennifer

no

wiki

Jennifer Nowicki is our guest.

She is the owner of Cultivate Taste Tea and is a certified tea specialist through the Specialty Tea Institute.

She'll be joining us to talk about tea and how we should bring it more into our life.

So that's going to be in the second hour.

Not to mention, we'll be talking about a question night, which we'll get to in a moment.

A whole bunch of other things as well as the nightcap to round things off, but it's going to be a really fun show.

Yeah,

I'm excited.

I'm excited to do the question.

Let's do

the

question.

What are we doing here?

Let's get to it, Dom.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Your casual Friday question of the night, folks, is in honor of Quentin Tarantino's birthday.

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And it is going to be fun.

We've got a few casual Friday stories to get to, guys.

What do you say?

Time for casual Friday, baby.

Let's do

it.

All right.

The first big story.

Big news coming from your favorite guy in the world there, Pete.

Your favorite dude.

We're opening with the boss, I love it.

I thought, yeah, of course we are.

Thanks for throwing that bone my way.

Yes Bruce Springsteen starts his land of hope and dreams tour next week and he says and I'm warning everybody I have friends on both sides of the aisle He says it's going to be political and he is not backing down.

He said we're gonna go out there We're gonna defend America and we're gonna we're gonna do this, right?

He said the East Street band was built for tough times and these are tough times

And here's what I'll say.

Yes, Springsteen is political now.

I feel like he didn't start that though.

He has been singing about the same stuff from the Stone Pony Club when he was 19, the working man, people struggling, what's going on in the streets.

That's been his message from day one.

And I think all of a sudden people had an issue with that.

And I know he's saying born in the USA, people miss the meaning of that.

It was kind of a tongue-in-cheek song about America and Vietnam.

and people still played it at their fireworks celebrations, but it was kind of a protest song.

So he's always been that guy.

So when people get in their 50s or 60s or whatever and say, oh, he used to be good, he's not, he's never changed.

He really has not.

He has been that guy.

And if you can't put politics aside and enjoy some great music, I feel bad for people that can't do that.

I do that.

I have lots of actors I like that I know are Republicans or right wing or whatever.

I don't care.

I want to be entertained.

I think it's just funny to me that there are folks out there who fit the exact description of what Bruce Springsteen does in his book.

The characters he sings about are the people we know in our lives.

Blue collar working class folks and the songs he is writing to uphold those individuals, to shine a light on everything that's great about that.

Those same people are like, no, stop it.

Don't do that.

That's bad.

It's

like,

dude, he's singing for you directly.

He cares about you right now.

Why are you plumping for the billionaire over there when this almost billionaire likes you more?

He's singing about the struggle that we all have.

That's what I don't understand.

And he covers some Guthrie tunes and he sings with Fogarty, who also sings some anti-war songs

and

stuff like that.

To say that, oh, he's political, he's against the troops is nonsense.

So

he just drives me crazy.

That's bologna pants, I will tell you that much.

But I think you're right.

He was never overtly political.

He just sang what he sang and it had a message in there.

I feel like people made him have to become political.

Like he had to

say something finally and they forced him into this and they shouldn't be shocked that he's like, no, I believe in the working class, blue collar.

That's what I sing about.

But yeah, that's, I'm sure it'll be an amazing 42 hour show a night.

And he's one of the few billionaires who

can still sing about it.

Because he's officially a billionaire.

I understand singing about the working man.

All right, we've got a couple more stories we're going to discuss here.

Welcome to Casual Friday, folks.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Block.

We are coming right back.

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.

We are joining you this Friday night and happy to have you aboard.

Fun show tonight, folks.

We've got

Owner of Cultivate Taste Tea Jennifer Nowicki coming up in the second hour.

That's gonna be fun at 535 after the news we'll do binge or cringe a new segment We encourage you to be part of share a show you're binging or one that you are Cringe watching whatever you so desire our keyword for our multi-state break in a spring text to win contest this hour is Splash S P L A S H Splash so text that in only on the app

And good luck.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite Quentin Tarantino movie?

But we were in the middle of our three big stories.

So let's get back to that, Greg.

The second big story.

So I'm, you know, Pete and I are in the world of comedy.

We've been there for a long time.

And one of the most, I would say probably the most prestigious honor of all comedians is the Mark Twain humor prize that's bestowed upon one lucky comedian every year from the Kennedy center.

And even though last week they vehemently denied actually quote forcefully denied about this.

Bill Maher will be winning this year's Mark Twain Prize, which makes me very unhappy, because I do not think that he should be getting this prize.

Period.

Here's the thing.

When he launched Politically Incorrect on ABC, or maybe it was Comedy Central, I can't remember, it was the early 90s, I kind of thought it was a good show, and he wasn't afraid to say what he thought.

And then he kind of became more liberal and now he's swinging back and trying to appeal to both sides of the out Which is fine if that's what you do as

long as you're

not grifting.

I think he's kind of grifting I think he's trying to remain relevant and

here's

why I have an issue with this award Greg.

I don't think He is not the humor guy he's like 70 something now if he was gonna win this it should have been 30 years ago This

seems like

a lame attempt

And I don't think he should have won it then either.

There's funnier people.

He's fine.

He can be funny and

tell

jokes and all that stuff.

But I just feel like this administration can't get it right.

It's like, now he's getting it now.

And Carolyn Levitt went out there and said he's not getting it.

And then she had to go out and kind of eat crow.

Like it's just a mess.

And I feel like this is almost by default.

Yeah.

I just think it's one of these people who they say, well, he sort of seems to like the president.

They hung out and had dinner.

So give it to him.

And

Yeah, he's spoken, you know, whatever.

I just don't, I think he is, I think he is sanctimonious.

I think he's self-serving.

I think he is arrogant, smug.

I don't think he's very funny.

I think he...

thinks his opinion is right no matter what and everyone else is wrong.

And as far as the age thing goes, I mean, like, you know, Steve Martin has won it and Conan won it a couple of years ago, or was it last year or the year before?

But that was one of the best ceremonies ever.

That's on Netflix.

Watch that prize ceremony on Netflix.

But I just think that this is, this is the, this just like, it's like the, the, the correspondence dinner they're going to have this year.

Trump is going and they're going to have like a magician.

Like it's just the thing of like packing it with people who support or like or even give the whiff of liking and to me Bill Maher is nothing more than I don't know if I'd call him a grifter But I would definitely call him riding trying to ride the right coattails I don't know what he's getting out of it other than just remaining relevant But I don't see him like pushing his own line of pillows or fragrances But I just think this is a bad move because I don't think he should get it I don't think he's funny and I think he's proven over and over again that he is he is

anti-Muslim he is he is just not right for this award so boo the Kennedy Center

yeah and I misspoke I don't mean that his age should have disqualified him I meant he's not as funny now as he was 30 years ago why is he winning now I guess was my uh non-articulate point I was trying to make but yeah and he gets its old hat too like when he talks about you know

He doesn't want to be married.

He is borderline creepy with the girls.

He dates.

It's a little

weird.

And, um, you know, and I just think like, and he hates kids.

It's like, he's kind of one note.

He

kind of

know where he's coming from all the time or whatever.

His show is good.

He designed a good show.

It's not as funny as it used to be, but whatever.

All right, Dom, if you please.

The third big story.

Greg you thought sharks were scary before well try a shark on caffeine or cocaine or painkillers because that's what's happening my friend in the Bahamas Oh, this is not happening in Florida.

Oh my gosh

is Florida upset about this I Feel like they're like encroaching on Florida's brand right now

This is from news nation sharks in the Bahamas have tested positive for cocaine caffeine and painkillers Showing the impact of marine pollution.

Well, I assumed it was from pollution and they weren't

It wasn't like the Land Shark coming out of the ocean to buy some Coke.

But they've analyzed blood samples from 85 sharks, 28 of them had drugs of some kind in their system.

How do you

like that?

This reminds me of Cocaine Bear, the movie Cocaine Bear.

Oh, great.

I didn't want that.

Great.

We got a sequel.

Nobody asked for Cocaine Shark.

Or what was it?

Was it Pain Killer Shark or Pill Shark?

Sharks on Pills.

Tyler.

It's all the sharks with bad

backs.

They're looking for those handouts.

Oh my God.

I mean, it really just says that we're all going through hard times.

Even though a marine life is, they need to kick back and forget about things too.

And look, man, I ain't gonna hate on some sharks for partying a little.

Things are tough.

Things are tough.

You're misunderstood for so many years and you're not as, I mean, yes, they can hurt you, but they're not as vicious as you think.

And frankly, I feel like dolphins have been getting a free ride for way too long.

That's a nasty creature right there.

Nasty.

The dolphin.

Dolphins are maniacs.

Aggressive.

I can't even say on the air some of the things they do.

It's just insane.

But sharks.

Did I miss something?

I'm here for you, buddies.

Oh,

wow.

Yeah, we, you know, our shark brothers and sisters

should be

able to partake.

Dolphins, I know are one of the only other mammals that have sex for pleasure.

That's the only thing I never knew dolphins were

sometimes well, you know this dolphin hatred you guys have I don't have dolphin hatred.

I'm just saying that they are an incredibly aggressive animal

Okay, we are coming right back after news sports and weather folks for our first edition of binge or cringe tonight's key This hours keyword is splash for our multi-state text-to-win contest break into spring text-to-win contest text that in on the app.

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And we will be right back with binge or cringe.

This is Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the civic media network.

I feel the shiver run up my spine.

I feel the warmth of a hand in mine.

Ooh, are you laughter in the rain?

Walking hand in

hand with the one I love.

Ooh, how I

love the

rain.

We're going to slow things down now, folks.

That's an interesting choice, Dom.

I like that.

Hey, this is Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight.

Greg Bakas here.

He is on the other side of the stage for me.

We're working the show.

We're helming the show from opposite sides of the water and the state.

And I find that admirable, Greg.

I think it takes a special kind of duo to do such things.

It takes a dynamic duo to do such a thing.

I like that.

Thank you very much.

Could not agree more.

We have a fun show tonight, folks.

We're gonna be talking about tea.

in the second hour with Jennifer Nowicki, the owner of Cultivate Taste and Cultivate Taste Tea.

She's coming up at 6.20.

Right now, we are doing something kind of different, kind of cool.

It's casual Friday here at Nightlight.

And we decided to do sort of a fun segment called Binge or Cringe.

And

this is where the three of us, Greg, Damley, and myself, are going to talk about a show we are binge watching or have binge watched.

And one we've cringe-watched or given up on or we just think is terrible.

And we encourage all of you to share whatever you might be watching as well, whether you're binging, cringing, whatever you can text it in, call us.

However, just be part of the fun.

And I think this is exciting, guys.

Anytime you start a new segment, there's always hope.

There's always hope,

yes.

Indeed.

So who wants to go first?

Should we start with Domely?

Oh, boy.

I mean, of

course.

Do

we have music?

We have an intro.

We have an intro.

There we go.

Let's do it.

Oh, well, let's start with that.

Yeah, let's do that.

Hit it or skip it.

We're sorting out what's worth the watch and what belongs in the never again category.

This is a segment we like to call Bend Your Quench.

Okay, how much fun did you have doing that I'm very fine.

It was awesome.

I love it.

Oh

wait that was that was you The more you know You are a master of voices.

I had no idea my goodness

my

goodness

All right rich little

yes, so I get to go first you guys get you guys appointed me okay if you like you pointed All right, so something mmm a binge worthy show

Yeah, I'm gonna have to go fallout.

I I love fallout.

Okay, it's the reason is because it's just so amazing There's no actually

no

reason for it.

I played the video game.

So I just know I got attached to it very quickly That's my binge-worthy show nice now my my cringe-worthy show I will admit.

Yeah, it's it's everyone's watching.

I'm sure it's the office.

I'm just

I do not like that.

I think it's a cringe-worthy show.

Are you talking about the US version?

Yes, the US version.

I've watched it once and I just said, not again.

It's just not my cup of tea.

I don't know.

How much of the office

have

you

watched?

Every season, every season.

Oh, you cringe-watched the whole thing?

I

did, I did.

And this is a long time ago.

It's too much

cruising.

I have a I mean, I don't know how you feel about the office Greg I my history with the office is I watched the British one It was one of the best shows I've ever seen 10 episodes 12 episodes I think and then they wrapped it up with the Christmas special Mm-hmm.

I was reluctant to watch the American version because I just thought they're gonna Americanize it.

It's gonna go on too many episodes Well, I was wrong.

I admit a total Mia culpa I started watching it probably two years after it was on and I think they actually kind of did a better job because the season was so long and they managed to make it funny

for five solid years.

And then at times it was funny after that.

I think it's a great show.

It was funny for five years.

It's an eight

season show.

Well, yeah, but I mean, I think most shows have trouble staying either relevant or funny after five seasons.

That's just my opinion.

I don't just agree with that.

I think that Americans sitcoms, the ones that I would say in the traditional vein of that 22 to 24 episode season, it is tough to nail that for.

a prolonged amount of time and I personally feel like a lot of comedy should just ditch out at five seasons or at least allow yourself like my big problem with a lot of shows is that when you like when you watch a show like when you do something like that when you watch all the episodes in a row and you know okay I'm coming up on season seven and season eight's the last season

You kind of want to feel like there's going to be a good dismount and sometimes it just doesn't happen.

And I'm my biggest, my biggest example of that is going to be the big bang theory.

Like I love the big bang theory.

I've watched that, but that last season for knowing it was going to be the last season with so many episodes, it feels like it wraps up in my head, like so disjointedly.

where it just doesn't feel like everyone gets as good a send off as Sheldon does, but that's just my opinion.

But yeah, I mean, I, I'm fine with the office.

I don't ever turn it on.

I've watched, I watched up, I watched it through Michael leaving.

And then I was like, I think I'm good.

I'm a parks and rock guy.

I love parks and rock.

I'd much rather watch parks.

And I feel like that's, it's sort of the new, like, are you a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones fan?

Do you like.

the the office or parks and rec and I prefer parks and rec but I get that in the office it's it's good it's fine but it's

you

know

nothing crazy I mean it's to me it's Steve Carell and Ed Helms and I came around on Dwight Schrute yeah it really won me over so those are good Dom well done buddy thank you that you have you

guys watch fall out though or

I've

seen

two episodes

I have not yet.

I want to watch it, but I have not watched it yet I also feel like that's gonna be a TV show where when I start watching it I mean it's gonna be like I'll watch an episode or two and then later that night I finished the first season

It's a

binge worthy show.

Let me tell you I've done that.

Did you play the

video game Greg?

No, I don't play video games

I'm a dork.

I feel like it's weird.

I live in a day and age now where I feel like a dork for saying I don't play video games.

We're back in the day when

I was a kid.

If you were a

video game player, you were a dork.

Now it's like, oh, you're a dork who doesn't play video games.

Weirdo.

The nerd sides have switched completely.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's awesome.

We are in the middle of Binger Crinch here, a new segment we're trying out here at Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

Greg Bach is on the other side of the state or downside of the state and Dom is in Madison.

Greg, you want to go?

Yeah, sure.

So a show that I binged, I mean, I think I watched it like in one sitting, if not one, definitely two for sure.

But I watched a show called Ludwig, which is on Britbox.

It's a

It's a murder mystery, comedy, drama, cop show with starring David Mitchell of Mitchell and Webb.

And he plays a gentleman named John Taylor, who is basically his whole life is making puzzles and crossword puzzles for like newspapers and what like is very famous for doing that job.

He does crossword puzzles and other kinds of things like that.

And he has an identical twin brother who is a cop and he has disappeared.

And the brother who makes puzzles

decides to impersonate him to find out what happened to his brother.

And like all British shows, it's six episodes.

So as soon as you're done, you're like, where can I have more?

I know.

It certainly, it currently sits with a 97% rotten tomato score.

And I think it's fantastic.

And I just hope we get a couple more series before it's done because that's how it works with British shows either.

They're on for one series.

or one series and then three years later, a second series, or it's on for 48 years and it never ends.

So, but this is a really good show.

I really, really enjoyed it.

And I would say one that I, I don't know if I'd say cringe watch.

I mean, I liked it, but people didn't.

But the Marvel show iron heart, which was filmed a few years ago.

but it finally came out last year.

And I really enjoyed it.

It's about a young girl who goes to MIT and she basically it's like this, you know, the, the, the, the spirit of Tony Stark is in her system.

She wants to help society and she's brilliant like he is.

And it's, you know, it just wasn't well liked, but I watched it and I said, this is really fun.

I really, really liked this story.

I wish, I hope we get more, but we.

probably won't But yeah, that's those are my those are my bench.

I if I'm gonna throw like a real cringe with the one I'm not gonna say a show that I'm watching.

I'm just gonna out my Sister she watches that show levels blind on Netflix and I watched I Watched 30 minutes of it and I just got up and said nobody on this show deserves happiness and I walked out

Guilty I watched that show.

So pretty

good.

Oh, it's so bad Who's in that?

It's a reality show.

So no, oh

God

Okay.

I'm not a reality guy.

I admit that.

Neither am I.

Neither am I. I don't like reality shows.

I don't enjoy competition shows, except for like the first portion of the voice back in the day.

But like those shows where they like, they basically just have to be the worst versions of themselves.

Right.

So they can get attention and win or whatever the winning is.

I don't know.

But I just, I was like, this is terrible.

I don't like this at all.

So that would be the only one I would, you know, if I'm watching a show and I'm enjoying, I'm enjoying, I'm trying to think.

I'm trying to think of one that I didn't enjoy, that maybe is cringe, but at the top of my head, it's not coming up with anything.

The problem is like when you don't enjoy it, you typically stop watching it, but there are, and that's cringe too, but also you can watch for a little longer.

Nan in Brookfield on the text line in the 262 says, hi, Pete and Greg, I would binge the pit and cringe love story about JFK Junior and Carolyn Bissette.

Nan from Brookfield, have a great weekend.

Thank you, Nan.

You have a great weekend as well, and thanks for playing with me.

I've heard nothing

but amazing things about the pit, but it's

also one

of those shows where you have to prepare yourself.

Yes.

Because it's so just heavy and emotional.

So Jack from Merrimack is on the phone right now.

Jack,

good

evening to you.

What show do you find binge worthy right now?

Well, I don't do streaming.

I haven't done my son.

been a while, but the bottom line is I get theories that I think are interesting on DVDs.

I got the first three seasons of the foundation series and it knocked my socks off as a sci-fi fan.

World building and the special effects, the acting, I mean it's just amazing especially through a sci-fi fan.

My recommendation for Bingeworthy.

They're talking about as many as 80 episodes.

I watched the first 30 in three days.

Wow.

That's impressive.

That is impressive,

Jack.

You

could go pro in regards to TV

watching.

That's fantastic.

Wow.

Holy cow.

Man.

Awesome.

Oh, thanks so much.

Did you have a good wait?

Do you have a cringe one check?

No, I do not.

Like I say, I don't do any of the streaming services.

So I don't really have anything that I've seen enough that's cringe worthy.

I just get the DVDs are the ones that I think are interesting.

I want to just be so serious also with who's the guy that played Mag.

Tom Selleck.

Yeah,

Tom

Selleck.

I

thought it was quite good.

But, but no, no cringeworthy ones that I can think of.

You

can stay positive.

That's awesome.

Thank

you for

the call.

And we're about to go to break.

So Pete, I think you should hold on to yours.

Okay.

And we can talk about

it on the other side, but we're seeing some texts come in.

AJ from Madison said, would switch from Seinfeld and 30 rock, but now I don't have 30 rock mornings and nights.

Okay.

What does that mean?

I don't know what that means.

I

will say this.

I watch Seinfeld and I'm, it's whatever.

I don't like.

You're just whatever on Seinfeld?

Yep.

Yeah.

Wow.

It's fine.

It's good.

I mean, I understand its cultural impact.

I understand why people love it.

But for me personally, I'm like, okay, I get it.

And that's, you know, I'm good.

I'm good.

Yeah.

That's

all.

Look, I go back and forth because I watch TV shows when I go to sleep.

I go back and forth between Seinfeld, Cheers, sometimes friends.

I like to keep it light.

And yeah, I'm a big time Seinfeld fan.

But I can't binge watch the...

Half hours anymore, but I typically do the dramas, but I'll tell you what I'm binge watching and cringe watched After this break folks, we are coming right back.

This is been your cringe This is also casual Friday a nightlight with peach wabba and Greg Bach and you've got the civic media network

Welcome back.

Always fun to be played in by the Bodines.

Love it.

A fine Wisconsin band.

All right, so this is Peshwava.

Greg Bach is downstate.

That's a good one, Greg.

You just live downstate.

I live upstate.

We could keep it simple, right?

You live upstairs.

I live downstairs.

Yeah.

And we are your...

And Don lives down the street.

Tonight,

like tonight, Don is in Madison holding down the fort, working the board.

We're in the middle folks of a new segment.

We're trying called binge or cringe and we've enjoyed your texts and your calls Please we'll talk about this for a few more minutes You can weigh in if you're binge watching something or if you find something cringe that you want to share You'd be doing us all a favor.

So feel free to share any of

that

with us All right, so I guess I'm up I my binge show and I've got so many

But is the one I'm going to go with now is slow horses.

I don't

know,

slow horses.

I watched the first season and then I started watching the second season and I just sort of faded off.

Okay.

It just did not hold me.

Again, another show everyone loves and I understand why they love it.

I'm not saying it's bad, but for me, I was just like, I think I'm good.

Wow, I've

heard of it,

too.

I get

that.

Yeah.

97%

on rotten

tomato, too.

Wow.

Say that again, though.

97% on rotten tomato.

That's really good.

And I think he won an, they've won awards for the show.

Like, I know I'm in the minority here on that opinion.

Like, I don't even say I didn't like it.

It's just, I feel like I've maybe watched too much at once and I need to come back a little later.

Oh, that could be.

I love it.

I love Gary Oldman.

I love the guy who plays Jack.

That might be his actual actor name, but it's a great show.

They are like a disgraced section of MI6.

And they

get all the crap cases, but Gary Oldman's a genius.

He always ends up solving the cases.

And you're right, Dom, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It's really good.

Really funny thing they did was Stephen Colbert interviewed Gary Oldman because his character is kind of a pig He's got holes in his socks.

He farts all the time drinking and they put fart sounds in all of his other movies that were serious

Gary

Oldman

I've never seen a guy laugh like that.

I love

the

guy.

He's got a sense of humor about himself.

It was great, but really liked the show and binged like, I think it was season four or five recently.

And

it was

like, I just wanted it to keep going really.

It's one you can really jam through the episodes.

And it's a British show.

You might want to put on the subtitles, but it's really a show.

My cringe show, I'm almost more excited to talk about.

I'm sure you guys haven't seen this, but maybe you've heard of it.

All's fair the Kim Kardashian juggernaut legal drama Oh, she heads up a firm of divorce lawyers all other beautiful women an LA law firm where they're not afraid to show cleavage in the court And this in her name on the show is allura like there's nothing clever

about this, but she knows her audience.

That's who's watching the show.

It came out, it got a 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, like historically bad.

Some of the reviews said, worst TV show of the year or ever, labeling it a dumpster fire.

Critics blasted the Ryan Murphy legal drama as a brain dead, existentially terrible, unforgivably dull.

I mean, it's a bad show.

I watched 40 minutes of it.

It's absolutely awful.

Well, and that's the thing too is like Ryan Murphy doesn't need to do everything, right?

Like he is always making TV shows.

And by the way, congratulations to all his fair.

You've made it up to a whopping 6% on rock.

But like listen to the, listen to this cast, Sarah Poulson, Glenn Close, Nisi Nash, Naomi Watts, Tiana Taylor are all on that program as well.

And somehow it is just the, I mean,

The day after it premiered, the screed on social media was just like, who is getting fired tonight?

Who is getting fired because of this show?

Because people just hated it.

Reading those social media reviews gave me hope.

I was like, okay, these are social media people who I oftentimes kind of disparage, but they were right on point.

This is a bad show.

It got renewed almost immediately though, because audiences, it was

like a 65.

Are you serious?

Yes, because her crowd watches it, and they think she's a genius.

So what are you supposed to do, right?

The numbers speak, it's a bad show though, all's fair.

Check it out if you really want to cringe folks.

If you want to binge though, I recommend Slow Horses.

Gordy on the text line in the 608 says, I got turned on to Homeland in February, finished eight seasons in six weeks.

Fellow couch potato, awesome Gordy.

Love it,

love watching

some color TV where you can't walk away, it's outstanding.

And I binged Homeland too with Claire Danes.

Pretty good show, Mandy Patinkin.

Um, he says OMG, the writers were effing amazing, uh, certainly had a love hate relationship with Claire Danes portrayal of a CIA agent.

I think that's what they were going for.

So yeah, I get it.

I watched the, I watched up, I watched that show up until the point where what's his face like took off.

And then when I was like, all right, well, I'll come back for next season.

Then I never came back.

It was fine.

I mean, like, again, it was fine.

It was very,

it was

a, you know, and I love Mandy Patinkin.

He is just fantastic.

Like, and you know, the whole cast was wonderful, but.

I can't believe all's fair.

Got a second season.

That's just, there's no truth.

There's no justice.

I can.

Oh, disgusting.

Disgusting.

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Muya is outstanding.

Oh, this is from last night.

Yeah, this is from last night.

OK.

Yeah,

we're

tough.

Muya, where is that?

Well, there's two in Madison.

There's one down the street on State Street.

Then there's one near

Sun Prairie.

One in Middleton, too.

Yeah.

Where?

One in

Middleton.

Oh, it's

done.

All

right.

Great stuff.

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Let's get out of

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