Jimmie Kaska on the Latest Streaming Shows & What’s Worth Watching (Hour 1)

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It is.

Friday night folks you made it through the week as did we all it's a great it's a great beautiful evening here in Wisconsin hope you had a great day wherever you're joining us from tonight across this beautiful state summer is officially here and as you folks know that I've listened to this show before you know that I think Wisconsin is the state of summer so we're gonna try to bring you a summer show tonight something that makes you chill and laid back and

You know, feel like it's 70 degrees and sunny.

Greg Bach joins me as always.

He is here joining us from Racine tonight in a place I like to call Radio Park.

Hey, buddy.

Hello, everybody.

How's it going?

How's it going?

How's it going?

Welcome to Friday.

It is Friday.

That was very,

very

interesting.

Thank you.

Interesting voice.

I like

it.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to Friday.

Hope you have a

good day.

Now, before we go any further, I think we need to establish and let people know, remind them that it is casual Friday, Dom.

Friday's here and the week's in the rearview.

Whether you're still on the clock or already mentally checked out, Pete and Greg are here for you.

So kick back and grab something to snack on.

It's casual Friday with Pete and Greg.

Kick back and how about a big piece of beef jerky kick back and grab something to snack on that's my favorite part of that hole What do you have there great?

That was an apple you were like

beef jerky.

I'm like, okay, I guess Apple's better

Tom, how are you buddy granny Smith for life?

All right Those of you watching on the stream I should point out that Dom has he has changed his appearance a little bit into the phone booth And he came out looking like he is headed to basic training.

I love the haircut

high and tight.

That's a haircut you could set your watch by Don.

Tell us about your haircut.

Let's see the sides.

I want to see the side.

All

right.

I'll give you

guys the full the full

is a

perfect Perfect to get you on the live stream folks get on the live stream right now so you

gotta see Dom's

new hair

Man, I'm I feel like a new man.

I feel like a new man I'm I don't I just so much weight has been lifted to I had so much hair and I felt like I just lost a couple pounds like it's so nice It's just fresh feeling.

I just I just love it.

It's just like a summer vibe.

It's casual Friday vibe.

I love it

It's a summer cut, casual Friday vibe.

You packed it all.

That's a lot to unpack in that,

but I love it.

You're absolutely right, Dom.

And now you said, Mama Lee and Papa Lee, how do they feel?

Have they seen the new Moss?

I FaceTime both of them.

As soon as I finished my cut and they both loved it.

That's adorable.

They both loved it.

They were like, oh, they're approval.

Yeah, they got approved from both mom pops.

Did you get,

have you been grounded or something after a haircut in the past?

Like what?

No, they, my mom always used to buzz cut my hair.

So I'm assuming that she, you know, was like, okay, bringing back the years there.

So I don't know.

I never got my head buzzed when I was a kid.

I always wanted that, but my parents said, no, they would never buzz, even though all my friends, like it was like, whenever school was done, it was like there was a line of little boys in my neighborhood and they would never let me get a buzz cut.

I will ask this question though, you mentioned this is like, this has not been, and I'm not putting this out here like you have to ask permission or I'm not looking to like start some kind of like 80s sitcom fight here, but you did not tell your significant other that you were doing this at all.

It's true.

It is true.

It was kind of just combative.

I've told her in the past that I was doing it, but on this specific day, I haven't told her.

Yeah, I probably should.

And she'll figure, she'll know in about a couple hours here.

She'll

figure it

out, yeah.

She'll figure it out.

But yeah, I probably should have.

Throughout the course of the evening.

She'll

learn that I cut four inches off my hair, yeah.

It looks good, dude.

Oh, I appreciate it.

Yeah,

thank

you guys.

Excellent.

Al chiming in on the text line in the 608 says, summer is definitely unofficially here, officially here on June 21st, guys, just in case you were scoring

at

home.

That is absolutely right.

Al, thank you very much for listening and chiming in.

So we have a great show tonight, folks.

We are welcoming our pal and Civic Media Sports Director,

The fabulous Jimmy Cusco will be here.

We're gonna talk about, we'll probably touch on sports at some point, but we're also gonna talk about some of the shows Jimmy watches because he's big.

For as busy as that guy is, Greg, I can't, every time he's on the show, he's seen more than I have and he's got opinions and they're just great.

So he's a fun guest and he'll be here after the news at the bottom of the hour.

Very much looking forward to that.

Yeah.

And then in hour two, this is exciting guys.

We got kind of a nice streak going here with games that we play in hour number two and Dom puts a game together, typically a contest, but not always.

And he asks Greg and I questions and a lot of times textures text in their answers too, which is always fun.

John Murray, I'm talking to you, but.

We're gonna do a game tonight.

Tell people about the game.

Yeah,

sounds really fun.

This one is called TGI Friday or fraud.

So it's similar to what we did with real or fake.

I'm gonna give you an old TGI Fridays menu and you guys are gonna have to decide whether that was really on the menu or if it wasn't.

All right, it'll be 20 questions.

Similar to what it is.

P, you're up.

It's four to two, I think.

Four to two in favor of Pete and there's two ties as well.

Two ties, yeah.

It's gonna be pretty fun.

This doesn't, this already doesn't feel good.

Like, I feel like if I win, I know too much about TGI Fridays, if I lose, I'm now five and two.

And also just like, everything about this just feels

bad.

Like, I don't know.

I just- It's a recipe for disaster if I can use the menu.

But here's the thing, Greg, if you win, yes, it means you know a lot about Fridays, but also that you have a good memory.

So- It's true.

Because TGI Fridays, they're not even around anymore, are they?

I think there's a couple

sitting

around

somewhere, I don't know.

Are you really?

I can't tell you the last time I went to, are they the ones who do the bloomin' onions or is that Applebee's?

I can't remember.

I think that's Applebee's.

Cause we had an Applebee's here in Christmas city and I'm not a franchise.

You know, you go to Door County, there's no franchises and it's kind of refreshing.

You feel like you're a little bit out of America for a while.

But here we actually had Applebee's and when they left, I was sad because I felt like through this franchise, it connected me with the rest of the world.

All right, we are going to know we're not going anywhere folks.

Hey, here's what I did a funny thing last night you guys after the show I'm doing laundry and Do you guys use the measuring cup for the detergent?

Now I use the pods is through a pond doing all right We were on pods for a while.

We're back to the detergent But I my wife said you should measure that because I put laundry and I just go like this real quick.

Yeah, and she goes you should measure that

And I'm like, I haven't done that in 25 years.

I feel like it's so pointless.

Like, I think I can get close to that without trying to pretend I'm a scientist and top off the liquid exactly at eight ounces or whatever it is.

And this, we kind of had a little argument about it.

And I just thought it was silly.

I'm like, you just need to trust me.

I have a good eye for detergent.

See, I feel like you are pushing a narrative that's just going to make you look foolish if you.

But

what are

the consequences, Greg?

If you put too little in, maybe your clothes don't get washed enough, you put too much in, it turns into a Mr. Mom situation where it's just like spewing out suds.

But I would say this, I would say this, okay, take the cup, take the measuring cup in there and try to replicate the stream of detergent.

Is it crystals or is it liquid?

It's liquid.

Okay.

I would say like, you know, you do it, you do a poor, you do a quick pour like this.

Would you say that this motion here is like, all right.

So

that's like a solid like, all right.

That's about two and a half seconds.

And then pour, try to get the stream, the same consistency to the cup and pour for two

and a half.

And

see how different there, if you're on, you're on cool.

Then there you go.

But maybe she's just looking out for the wellbeing of your clothes.

Also, I guess my point is I got to put the lab coat on before I get that technical want to do this, but.

I feel like, you know, even if I'm a little off, plus or negative, it's not the end of the world.

You know,

if my clothes start to smell over time, she's probably right.

And if the thing explodes, then I know that I'm right.

What are you gonna say now?

Google says it does cause some issues.

Sometimes it can ruin the machines.

If you overdo the detergent, it can cause excessive suds and there can be some buildup.

So I'm not, it's just Google.

Again,

I'm not.

I'm not pouring the whole thing in there.

You know what I mean?

This

isn't Mr. Mom, okay?

He knows what

you're doing.

I just feel like it's sort of like, and then I felt, the more I thought about it, I felt silly, like if I'm holding this thing and pouring it in and getting it exactly to eight ounces or whatever.

But why does that make you feel silly, Pete?

Let us know, tell us why.

It's time consuming.

Really?

I feel like I'm playing scientist or something,

yeah.

Okay.

But maybe I should embrace it and pretend I'm a

scientist.

I feel like you're really opening up here.

I feel like we're really having a moment.

I, by the way, have watched shrinking a lot lately.

It's a show about psychologists, but that's fine.

I don't know.

I've not dealt with that in a while.

In fact, well, now we've switched from fabric softener sheets.

By the way, folks, this is Epic Radio, the laundry habits of Greg and Pete.

I've noticed we've lost a viewer.

So

I'm going to take full responsibility for that.

I'll make it up to you guys.

Well, we don't use the fabric softener sheets anymore.

We use fabric softener liquid.

And now I do have to measure it out.

And it's like a little, it's a whole thing.

And, you know, it's, that's what I would do.

But then again, I just have the pods.

So I just check that in there.

I don't eat it cause you don't eat the pods.

No, this ain't Florida.

Right.

Yeah.

I just don't want to make a mistake in life.

That's, that's my goal.

Folks, we have a really fun show tonight and it's casual Friday and we're wearing casual clothes and I had to wash some that's what that's how this whole fiasco last night happened with the measuring issue and So I'm wearing this handsome shirt Dom's got a haircut Greg's got Greg's got a shirt with a collar Greg you've been a t-shirt guy lately

and you rocked the t-shirt man.

I can't do that

I go back and forth lately.

Like in the past year, year and a half, I realized that I mean, I'm not saying you can't wear a t-shirt at my age, but I just don't want to have a closet full of t-shirts, you know?

So

I've got some more collared shirts.

I mean, like a lot of flannel shirts now.

This one is a nice, it's a nice Lee denim shirt.

I'm going to a

concert tonight.

So I'm excited and want to look nice.

You know what you

can't wear at our age?

The tube top.

It just doesn't work anymore.

I can't pull it off.

Well, challenge accepted.

Sounds like we've got a wardrobe picked out for next casual Friday.

Exactly.

I think, guys, without any further ado, we should get to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Our question of the night is standby.

This is exciting.

Trump, our president,

wants his face on the proposed commemorative $250 bill.

And this is an honor of America turning $250, the big 250.

Our question tonight, though, is, whose face would you like to see on a commemorative $250 bill?

I've thought about this.

I got some great answers.

Yeah.

Rick Astley didn't even make my top 100.

So that's our question of the night, folks.

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There you go.

Awesome.

We got some stories to talk about here.

Let's see what's, what do we feel like kicking it off with?

We saw a list here.

I love very much.

Colbert Colbert.

Yeah.

Colbert was done as of last week.

I mean, honestly, we don't have much time to talk about it.

So we can just kind of tease and maybe come back on the other side of the break.

But Colbert's last show was last Thursday, but any sort of mention was absolutely lost by not just CBS, but a couple other, but another network as well.

And there are reasons why,

Yeah, it seems like we'll talk more about the about grown adults being professional about things when we come back, but we got to we got to take a quick break and pay some bills.

I'll say this.

I remember when Letterman was on.

Yeah.

He attacked the network at times mercilessly and they took it and they had a sense of humor.

He called CBS.

He said, because this network is run by monkeys, Letterman said that.

And guess what?

they didn't cancel them.

So we will delve into this and Stephen Colbert and CBS as well as a couple of other really fun, casual Friday stories, folks.

That's coming up next after this very short break.

And Jimmy Cuska joins us at 535.

It's nightlight with Pete Schwabba and great

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Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach, casual Friday edition folks.

Great to have you with us.

Our question of the night is who do you think should be on America's commemorative $250 bill?

Donald Trump, apparently, I assume it was him, wants his own face on the proposed $250 bill.

And maybe that will happen.

Maybe it won't.

But whose face would you like to see on the proposed?

$250 bill.

It's such a weird thing to say.

You're paying for something and you're like, I'm sorry, all I've got are $250 bills.

It's ridiculous.

It's a stupid idea to make that bill.

It's just so stupid.

It's so absolutely stupid.

You know what you can do?

Make it like a war bond type of thing.

You make a commemorative dollar bill that you frame.

and you can buy and then it like, you know, like, you know, something like that.

But this is just pure Huxter, Grifter, Chicanery, in my opinion.

I hate the idea so much.

He'll sell them each for $1,000.

Yeah,

absolutely.

Absolutely.

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Yeah, absolutely.

So we were talking about the CBS and the Colbert fiasco, Greg, and they did not have much of a sense of humor as I understand it.

Correct?

No, absolutely not.

So

Last Thursday was the, was the final airing of the late show, not just for Colbert, but the show in general was just canceled after I think 33 years started by David Letterman.

And, and by the way, with great ratings too.

So probably making the money.

But after that was done, the CBS news director, news president, Tom Sbrowski, reportedly directed CBS mornings the next day to ignore the final show.

And they did that because he made a, he made a joke.

about the fact that their current anchor of the very low-rated CBS Evening News Tony, Tony Docapil.

Docapil?

That's

kind of why I wanted you to say this

one.

He made a joke about him and the editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss, who is just absolutely terrible about the fact that...

They didn't get a visa for him to go on the China trip with Trump, so he had to broadcast from Taiwan.

And he made a joke.

He made fun of power.

He made fun of the news.

He made fun of the company.

He did what he did, what Johnny Carson did.

He did what Jimmy Fallon does, Jimmy Kimmel does.

And because of that, his final show, they were told not to talk about it.

I mean, it is just pure stupidity, in my opinion.

to do something like that.

Just

take a joke.

Insecurity and pettiness.

It's like,

really?

Well, they said that, well, we stood behind you.

It's like, no, you didn't.

Just because Paramount canceled the show, we know who was behind this.

And it's CBS, like it's the whole changing of CBS.

So don't sit here and go, well, he wasn't very nice to us and was very unprofessional for his colleagues.

He's not your colleague.

You guys are CBS News.

He is a...

Court Jester, you're not on the same level.

Correct.

Take a joke.

That's Trump behavior right there.

Oh, it is when he withheld disaster funds.

These states need to be nicer to me if they want.

It's

like, are you kidding me?

Yeah.

It's insanity.

Yeah.

Horse kaka.

I can say that.

There's another thing that's not going to make President Trump very happy.

And that is this great American state fair is being thrown in honor of the big 250.

And a lot of artists are jumping ship.

They

don't

want any part of it now.

They were told it was a nonpartisan event.

But as

it gets closer, the people like Brett Michaels and Martina McBride and the Commodores are saying it's very divisive, actually, and they don't want to do it.

And Martina McBride specifically put out this long statement that was great.

And she said, you know, I

I sing to all 50 states.

My fans are in all 50 states.

I want no part of this, but he does still have vanilla ice and freedom Williams from CC Music Factory, who did say he hates this idea.

He doesn't like the president, but he's doing it despite his fans who are telling him he should drop out.

There's all kinds of dysfunction going on here, Greg.

You should Google the words, Freedom William's toilet rant.

We cannot repeat what he said

on the radio because it

was so latent with cuss words and swearing.

But yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's also not just, but the, okay.

I pulled a small piece of clippery from a movie that every time I hear someone say the great American state fair, I think of this.

Would you please play that quick for me, Dom?

The Lone Rangers?

How can you pluralize the Lone Ranger?

What's wrong with that?

Well, there's three of you.

You're not exactly alone.

Shouldn't you be the three Rangers?

No idea what

you're saying right now.

The Great American State Fair for America, that makes no sense whatsoever.

It's so angering on an English level, I get so peeved when I hear anyone say the Great American State Fair.

And again if you look at this lineup not just not and not the not the artists not the artists either like forget the artists They go a lineup of every day the themes it is bonkers like we got

Land and prosperity, the American canvas, military and veterans appreciation, wings of freedom, horsepower of America, faith value and inspiration.

Like this is just, and it's free.

How can it be free?

These people live on grifting.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know anything about it.

I mean, it's going to be televised.

Is every night, or is just the news going to cover it?

I'm sure they will.

It seems like it's thrown together, too.

I'm sure this UFC thing is part of it, too, which is another

embarrassment.

But

anyway, it's going to be low attendance.

It's going to be a lot of stuff going around because they just threw this together.

You can't do that with something this big.

God, so stupid.

Martina McBride dropped out.

That's all I know.

Thank goodness.

I think we should have Dom.

Dom's haircut will be performing on July 3rd, folks.

So tune in.

You should be there, buddy.

I'm ready.

Hey, Jimmy Kuska joins us after the news, folks.

We are taking a Dom Quiz, a world-famous Dom Quiz in hour number two about TGI Friday menus.

It's Casual Friday.

It's Nightlight with Pete and Greg and you.

Glad you're here.

This is the Civic Media Network.

And casual Friday ladies and gentlemen, it is so great to have you with us on this Friday night as Greg plays air drums I can always tell how much Greg likes to song the Dom pics by how how much you're pounding Yeah, let's pretend well, it's Greg.

It's

Van Halen and we're talking about Alex Van Halen.

We're talking about a guy who used those drumsticks as a weapon, not as a device to deliver music.

He was very much in, he loved to pound those drums and I love watching.

I don't get me wrong.

Eddie Van Halen, a God amongst guitar players, but Alex Van Halen is someone who needs to be watched and studied when he's playing drums.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

Sounds a little too violent.

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

That is Greg Bach.

He is coming to you from Racine and Radio Park.

I am Pete Schwabba coming to you from Northeast Wisconsin, Christmas City, USA.

The nickname isn't really catching, but I'm still trying.

And Dom Lee is in Madison.

We are the Yatterhay Triangle.

And it is great to have you here on Casual Friday, folks.

And what better way to celebrate Casual Friday than with one of our good chums who is a colleague here at Civic Media and does absolutely amazing work

typically in sports as the civic media sports director, but he's also an avid color TV watcher.

And that's what we bond over from time to time.

Mr. Jimmy Cuskett joins us now over the stream.

Hey, pal.

I got two thoughts.

First of all, the air drums, I love it.

My dad's a drummer and a cover band.

He's got the flowing, it's not a mullet, it's a flowing moulay.

So my dad has, he's big, big in the drums.

So I've gotten to see that.

A million times over the years.

And second of all, yeah, I'm coming from you outside your triangle there.

I'm over here in southwestern Wisconsin.

So I feel like we got most of the state represented right now.

We're like a

Yadurhe Rhombus right now.

Like it's, I couldn't

think of the word.

Is it Rhombus?

Or is it Rhombus?

I think it's a

trapezoid.

Uh, trapezoid, uh, what?

I could ask my fourth

grader,

but he's

a currently runner out.

He would know.

He's

got student of the month.

I could really embarrass you guys by asking my nine year old child.

Let's see here.

Uh, we could be a, we could be both.

We can honestly, it's, you're right though, Pete.

It's more trapezoidal.

Okay.

But if you really just get fun with the, with the lines, we could probably also be a rhombus.

I feel like, uh, yeah.

It's all

fun stuff.

Yeah.

Uh, we were going to talk about TV, but welcome to geometry folks.

That's right.

A little math talk on casual Friday, which doesn't seem appropriate, but.

No story problems, I promise.

Jimmy, so you reached out to me and I love that you did because I know how busy you are and I never want to like just be presumptuous or say, let's get Jimmy on to talk some TV because you're so busy with your job and you do such great work here at Civic Media.

But you've been keeping up with a lot of shows and I like to have conduits on occasionally, especially for shows I haven't seen so we could share them with the audience.

But let's start with the boys because I have seen

Four seasons of The Boys and the first episode of season five, my son basically forced me to watch it.

He's a huge boys fan.

What is your take A on the overall series and B on the fifth and what's supposed to be the final season?

You know, this was there's a group of shows that all kind of happened at the same time this spring and this was one I was looking forward to because this was the finale.

This was it for this show This one was ramping to the finish and I was curious, you know for a show that started out really strong in the first few seasons You know, it's a very adult show, right?

It's very gory very a lot of a lot of adult themes in this show But it started off so strong for the first few seasons the season four kind of

It kind of fizzled for me a little bit.

It wasn't as good as first three seasons.

Um, I got to season five and I was kind of, I knew where this was all kind of, it had to come to a head at some point.

So everything was, all these loose sense would have to wrap up at a certain point.

And without spoiling it for you, Pete, and without spoiling it for people in the audience, the loose ends do get wrapped up, but very awkwardly.

And in some cases, very unsatisfyingly, that's a really big word.

It's a plot story, but I just gave you one in one where it works.

I feel like the end of this show, I think people will talk about just how disappointing it was because the show started with such strong potential.

And, you know, they do stray from the source material a little bit and they do it for TV, obviously.

But it was, for me, a bit of a letdown for the end of a show.

It was fine.

You know, it was it was fine the way it ended, but it was still fine.

It was fine.

Yes.

Well, I've been hearing this from a lot of people.

Now I will admit, I have not watched the boys because, uh, gory stuff makes me scared and I'm, I will admit that.

Uh, but I have been hearing from both friends and from like bloggers and whatnot that this fifth season is really sort of leaving something to be desired.

But the question I have is, aren't there supposed to be a bunch of.

offshoot shows coming out too.

Like they're not letting, like they had that other show, they had that, like that, not a prequel show, but the kids going to that high school for gifted kids.

And I think that's done, but I think there are going to be other offshoots of programs.

So it feels like this is the end of this story, but it will continue.

Correct?

Well, they canceled the Gen V is the show you're talking about.

Yeah, Gen V, yeah.

Well, that was, they canceled that.

And that was going to be sort of a,

Sequel to the actual the boys, right?

It was supposed to be like it would carry that on and the characters in that show did make very brief appearances in season five But again, it's one of those parts you said about left you wanting more that was one of those things leaving you wanting more, right?

They do have a prequel series that takes place about 50 years before the events of the show that starts And it ties in a couple of the characters in the show.

Yeah, I don't know if there's a big appetite for that after

you know, the main show itself, sort of spending.

Really big chunks of time in season five almost kind of setting it up introducing characters mentioning them several times in an episode then seeing them for like a minute, right?

There were just so many things were awkward about this season and right it was it was it was uneven at best I think but There were just parts that just you just kind of you kind of just turn your head like oh, okay That's what they decided to do here.

It was not nearly as fun I guess and if you're looking for entertainment, I thought the first few seasons were fun and when I say

Gory and things like that, like that kind of stuff.

It's not like scary Gory.

It's it's comical Gory.

It's just

over the top, hits you in the top of the head with with just fun special effects, right?

That was the first few seasons.

Nothing too terrifying about it.

But the last season did, as you said, it did leave you wanting more.

I think the critics were right on with that.

I will say in season four, there was literally something hitting one of the characters over the head that I thought was

a bit too much, in my opinion, and I am not a prude, but I thought it got a little crazy, and I loved the first season.

I thought it was well written, it was a cool story.

And you know, like the Holander character is one of the great villains in TV history, but I know that a show is, I know how much boys fans anticipate the end of the show because my son was like, he wanted to stay up and watch it at two in the morning,

But he had a lot to do the next day, and he thought, if I do that and I don't like it, I'm gonna be irritated the whole day.

More show because I haven't slept.

But that's what these shows do to people.

They wanna stay up.

I have no idea, and maybe you guys know this, why they release things at 2 a.m.

Oh,

I didn't see it.

I know that nowadays with streaming services, it all differs.

Like some shows will be released the day of.

Right.

And

then for this it was midnight Pacific time.

So they said it was going to be a Wednesday release.

Midnight Pacific is two AMR times.

So that's why the timing for this one was weird.

Yeah.

And I know with some Disney plus shows now they're saying like, all right, this new episode comes out, they come out every Tuesday at eight PM, or if it's a Hulu show that's on network, it comes out the next day.

So it's really sort of a crap shoot.

And for me, I just watch it the next day because I'm like, I'm not going to sit here and wait until eight PM for the show to come on.

That's half the reason why I have streaming is not to

follow your rules television.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I'm a rule breaker.

He's a rebel TV.

Yeah, totally.

Let's talk before we get to some of these other shows like Daredevil and Invincible.

Did you see Mandalorian and Grogu yet?

So this is something I haven't made it to a theater yet.

I haven't.

But we have a theater in town where new releases are five bucks.

So I've got five dollars waiting to go see it.

I haven't made it to that.

But, you know,

I've seen all the other stuff that kind of connects that universe, but it gets to be a lot.

A lot of the Disney stuff, you're finding yourself having to watch hours of like backstories.

Like there's so many references and plotlines that are referencing things that were on Netflix for Daredevil, for example, referencing the Netflix show or in the case of Mandalorian Groger, there are like three shows and like all the movies.

And there's so many connected universes, whether it's Marvel or Star Wars now, it gets to be a lot for the average viewer.

So I don't know.

Exactly what, you know, what's even the plot of the movie is or how it ties those things together.

But I could safely say that I among my friend group, a bunch of very avid Star Wars nerds.

It's a sensible lot of excitement about this.

This is a question for you and Greg, I guess, because Greg is a big Star Wars fan too.

As am I. But Mandalorian and Grogu picks up.

Or is this the show that ends right before episode four?

And is it continuation of Rogue One or am I confusing that

with it?

So Rogue One is a conti- So Andor is the show that is the prequel to Rogue One.

So if you watch Andor, you could watch Rogue One directly after you're done watching it, which I actually suggest everybody do.

And honestly, to me, Andor season one and two and Rogue One, you don't even have to be that big of a Star Wars fan to watch those film, that film and those shows because they're just so self-contained.

I mean, it does help, of course, especially with Rogue One, but the Andorra is, in my opinion, Andorra is the greatest TV show that Star Wars put out.

And I used to say that about The Mandalorian seasons one and two.

The show lost it for me on season three a little bit.

It got a little weird, especially when you had to watch the book of Boba Fett to understand season three of The Mandalorian.

And you're right, Jimmy, you got to watch Ahsoka.

And that wasn't a bad show either, but...

That happened with a lot of, with Marvel, you know, in a post end game, people, people started to refer to it as like, this feels like homework.

This feels like I have to like watch, like.

It's 200 hours of programming behind me to understand what's happening now.

And on top of that, Disney was like, Hey, Marvel, remember how you made like $40 billion?

Uh, start making more.

And they were like, cool.

And everyone's like, this is too much.

So now you're right, Jimmy, this all feels like an assignment, but Mandalorian and Grogu, I don't know where it picks up after season three of the Mandalorian, but it's a continuation of that show.

And Ahsoka.

The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett all take place about five years after Return of the Jedi.

So it all is kind of in that, I call it the Palpatine Nynology.

People are like, it's the Star Wars.

I'm like, no, it's the Palpatine Nynology because he just won't go away.

But yeah, it's daunting.

There's a lot happening.

I

will concur that Andor is, I think, the best Star Wars show.

It might be.

It's in one of my favorite shows, period.

There's a lot of

There's, you know, there's tense moments.

There's, there's a lot of emotional moments and a lot of things that you can relate to in real life.

I think, I think for anybody, even if you're not a Star Wars person, if you're to somehow enter the Star Wars universe in a, I guess more adult way, more serious way, I would start there.

Why not?

It's fun.

It's a,

it's a, it's a good ride.

So.

Absolutely.

Uh, Jimmy Casca is our guest.

He is the Civic Media Sports Director.

He joins us periodically to talk TV.

All right, so I want to say this, Jim.

First of all, kudos for choosing to go to an independent theater.

I'm the same way here in Marinette.

I try to wait till they go to the independent theater, but I think that's really important too.

We just have about a minute and a half before we have to do a quick break, and then we'll come back and talk more.

But what other of these shows, what gets you the most excited to tell people about Daredevil, Invincible, Shadow Lord?

So for me, of all of it, you know, I think the boys is the one that's probably got the broadest pop culture appeal.

I just Anthony star incredible acting performance of this, just amazing to watch throughout the show.

I'm surprised he doesn't have any awards for it.

But I personally like to go a little bit more, you know, I like talking about invincible too, as well as another

a superhero kind of spoof show with, again, a web comic based material.

So I think it's all kind of fun to talk about.

But, you know, with all the shows, I think the boys comes up the most in pop culture.

I think it's the most broadly appealing of all the shows that are out there.

Absolutely.

I will check that out.

I do have to, like I said, I saw the first episode in the new season.

I liked it okay, but I gotta give, I promised my son I would watch the rest of it.

So the next time he's home, we can break it down.

But it also doesn't help that he said kind of what you said.

He was disappointed.

So it's like, I'm excited to check out the rest of it.

But that's neither here nor there, folks.

It is casual Friday here at Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwabbe joined as always by Greg Bach and Dom Lee in Madison and Arpel.

Jimmy Koska is here.

We will have a few more minutes with Jim when we come back after this very short casual Friday casual break.

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Welcome

back.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach, coming to you on the Civic Media Network.

Great to have you with us on this casual Friday version of our show.

where we kind of kick back and we chill, right Greg?

We chill.

Casually.

Casually.

And I don't know if that word chill still fits with Dom's vernacular because he teases us about these new...

Highfalutin' words that he

has.

Calm, calm

works, yeah.

Calm choke.

Really, you

guys?

You guys took

the

work.

We used to say calm.

Yeah.

Now we're back to calm?

We're back to calm now.

I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.

That's where I just lose all hope for your generation, because you're like, guys, we say calm now, really?

Like you invented that word?

It's a new wave.

It's a new wave.

Oh my gosh.

That's our Dom Lee, ladies and gentlemen.

Get a

real job, you whippersnappers.

Joining us here as he often does is Civic Media Sports Director Jimmy Koska.

Jimmy, I want to say on every company meeting we have, I do have to say, as great as you are at what you do, it does depress me when you say things like high school football just six weeks away.

And it's still cold here.

We haven't even entered summer in Marinette.

But that excites you and that excites me therefore.

Any chance for Pete to whine about the weather in Marinette?

It's still cold here.

Oh

my

gosh.

I mean it's mid 80s right now and that's both inside and outside.

I have refused to turn the air conditioning on.

What?

Oh my southwestern, Wisconsin is the warmest place on the planet.

I feel like but it is yeah, it's mid 80s right now outside and inside but no, um Yeah, high school football high school fallsports believe it or not are not that far away because as I looked at my my my planner for today I noted that you know today as we're doing this is you know, we're at the end of May and This time in two months will be the start of what they call and the wi is dead week That means no coaching contact for the week before

or high school football practice begins.

So two months from now, I will be sorting equipment and getting ready for a high school football season.

What's happening right now, of course, is spring sports playoffs, baseball, softball, soccer, track and field, all that.

Today, in fact, sectional meets for track and field around the state.

So it's still busy in high school sports land.

False sports are coming, but yeah, I'm already looking forward to the flaw.

I've already got football halvets and shoulder pads on the

line.

Oh my gosh.

Let's not rush it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, so there was a show that you said was in your pile of shows that you've been wanting to watch for a while that you were finally getting through to.

And that is what program, a very historic program on Netflix.

Controversial.

Yeah, I'm watching House of Cards right now.

I've gotten, I don't know, probably about 30 episodes in and I have a backlog and I'm working through it now that I'm outside of a coaching season and after plowing through the boys, Invincible, Maul Shadowlord on Disney Plus, going and Daredevil born again, which I had really been looking forward to.

Of all those shows, I was probably looking forward to that one the most just because I that connected that.

part of the universe and Marvel and superheroes feels more realistic and gritty to me.

So that it feels to be more, but back to House of Cards.

I had this in my backlog because anything that's sort of political thriller that has more than a two or three season run immediately to me, it's like, well, that could be a good background show for when I'm working on things.

But now it's less of a background show.

And now I actually have to pay attention to it because there's a lot of

connected stories that happen within it.

And I'm about two, maybe three seasons in and things are pretty fun.

I do enjoy a good political show, a good story with layers.

I had just

just also caught up by watching Landman, which is another, another really good show is Billy Bob Gordon.

I thought that one, that's that one actually has some potential to be really great.

I think that one could be fun.

Lioness is another one of those Taylor shows.

You know, there's, there's a lot of these shows kind of in the same vein, a lot of high, high drama, high energy

shows

that I've been, I've been finding myself gravitate towards as entertainment lately.

So, but yeah, that's the one I'm kind of in the middle of.

And Taylor Sheridan.

You know, the guy basically, he can write a great show and then he can just churn something out like Tulsa King, but Lioness was really good.

I loved the Yellowstone prequels.

I guess you'd call them 1883 and 1923, better than Yellowstone.

I gave up on Yellowstone sometime during season two.

I'm sorry, House of Cards.

Landman was kind of the same way.

I love the oil stuff, but the man, the daughter and the mom, I had to fast for.

It was brutal.

some of the dialogue and some of the story.

I love them because it's just like, they're so ridiculous.

And then they're so kind and nice.

You're like, why do you care?

You're millionaires.

You're not supposed to care about the people you're encountering.

You're supposed to just be whatever.

The thing I enjoy about Taylor Sheridan, I haven't watched all the shows because who has that kind of time.

But yeah, I know Pete, you do.

But what I love about a Taylor Sheridan show is there's always a scene in one of his shows where the older guy has to set the young people straight.

They gotta have a really long monologue where they're just telling it, well, kids, what you don't understand is back in my day and then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, it's just like, it's like always, and when it comes down, Billy Bob Thornton is one of the best ones for that job, cause he just talks in a way it makes it seems like he's always monologuing.

And he pulls off calling women darlin'.

I can't do that.

I've been told by HR.

I'm

not allowed to do that, but okay.

Fine.

Uh, yeah, that one's a good one.

I don't know if they're making a season three.

It kind of felt like season two of land man almost felt wrapped up.

Like the way they presented the end of it was like, okay, this, this could either be the series finale unintentionally or there can be a season three.

It just, I bailed after two episodes on

season two.

You guys both finished it.

Is it worth going back to?

Yeah.

I think so.

I, it's, it's, uh, this isn't going to be a show in your all time favorites list, but it's, it's pretty solid, I think throughout.

And, uh, yeah, there are some cringey parts of it, obviously.

It's like absolutely.

You got to have distractions, but, um, you know, I feel, I feel like even that part of it, it just kind of like,

a mood a little bit for everything else that's happening.

I absolutely should not take that show seriously whatsoever.

Maybe I need to reappear.

I don't need to see Billy Bob Thornton having sex.

There's a lot of social

commentary stuff you can just kind of skip over.

There's

this part where you're just like, yeah, this doesn't need to be there.

Exactly.

That is the voice of Jimmy Koska.

Check out his work here at Civic Media, folks.

He is our sports director and does outstanding work.

Jimmy is always so much fun talking TV with you and you reach out to me whenever you're available.

I know how hard you work, sir, and I appreciate your time.

All right.

Well, I got to go from this and get ready to plan for our weekend show here in Civic Media, which would be fun.

We make the call Saturdays and Sundays at eight o'clock.

So we'll be on that here shortly.

Outstanding.

Check it out, folks.

A great show.

And keep up the great work, Jimmy.

Great to have you.

And we are coming right back for hour number two of Casual Friday.

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