Binge or Cringe with Producer Dom (Hour 2)

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Binge or Cringe with Producer Dom (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Jun 11, 2026

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Greg Bach

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So again, stick around for that after the show is over.

But right now we are just kicking off hour number two.

And I think it's important to state what we talked about at the beginning of this show, just so everyone knows who's joining us.

This is our penultimate episode.

And tomorrow will be the final show for Nightlight, and we will be done from there.

So we will do a boatload of thank yous throughout this hour and tomorrow, but we just want to let everyone know that we have officially one and a half episodes left as of right now, because we still have an hour.

And I was told I can't go anywhere.

Pete Schwaba

You said the quiz coming up as a questionnaire, not a quiz.

Greg Bach

Well, it's the binger cringe, like we always do.

Yeah, because there's no competition there.

We're just asking our opinions.

Pete Schwaba

Remember?

I tend to get squeamish whenever there's a near of anything involved.

So

Greg Bach

I

Pete Schwaba

just

Greg Bach

didn't know.

So did you get upset when Jane Mattenair was around?

No, I liked Jane a lot.

So you did there?

Wonderful people.

Try to start them static.

Try to start them static.

Indeed.

Drama.

So yeah, so yeah, we'll be, we'll be talking about that here and there.

We'll be doing the questionnaire in a little bit and also we'll be talking right now about the question.

Calm down, Pete.

The question of the night.

Hit it down.

Let's go.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Greg Bach

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Greg Bach

The question is, whoa, who?

Not what.

Who makes the best French fries?

Let us know.

eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic leave a comment on that live stream again we are streaming on facebook youtube and the platform we are we still call twitter so let us know your thoughts we have a bunch of text messages both on the question as well as your thoughts on the announcement we made just now so let's just start at the top dom thoughts on fries

Oh,

man, and you were we were talking about this in a super secret show Yeah, how user like a surprise that you McDonald's was the number one pretty much number one unanimous

Pete Schwaba

Is it number one?

I haven't looked at all the tax yet,

but that's I've been scrolling through and I've been seen a lot I've been seen a lot and I I would have to agree.

It's a boring answer, but it's they're just they are I know

They're perfectly salty, they have the best size and shape, and it doesn't get much better than that.

It doesn't.

It doesn't.

Really?

It doesn't?

At all?

Greg Bach

I hear the joke.

In life?

Pete Schwaba

I like McDonald's fries, too.

I'm not against it.

I would say, for me, there's a place in Chicago called Superdog.

It's

Kathryn Lake

a

Pete Schwaba

drive-in.

It was close to my old neighborhood.

Then there's one in the suburbs.

In fact, my college roommate Paul worked at the first Portillo's when it was a trailer.

And my favorite was Superdog and we would argue what's better.

Well, Superdog did not franchise.

They have two now and Portillo's is like nationwide.

So Paul wins that one, but I love Superdog fries.

Greg Bach

I've had Portillo's fries.

They're fine as well.

I mean, I just met in

Pete Schwaba

general, like

Greg Bach

the

Pete Schwaba

restaurant we

Greg Bach

would argue and

Pete Schwaba

they're both, I love Portillo's

Greg Bach

too.

Um, I mean, for fries because they're my favorite and they're the only franchise I can think of that actually settles them.

This is what they always sell would be red Robin.

Cause I love steak fries.

I love

Kathryn Lake

just

Greg Bach

when you throw a, when you throw a big fry down in front of me, I'm like, I'm getting my money's worth.

When it's those places where it's like, Oh, these are strings.

What are we doing here?

Why are you charging me this much?

What is this?

What is this?

Kathryn Lake

But yeah, I love

Greg Bach

it.

I love a steak fry.

I love Wendy's fries cause they're a little bit bigger as well.

Yeah.

Those, those are the fries that are in my jam.

And then of course, I mean, I feel like waffle fries are separate.

They're different cause they're not

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fries.

Greg Bach

They're just

They're wonderful potatoes and yeah, they're wonderful.

Oh my gosh waffle fries always take waffle fries, but steak fries are my jam.

Nice.

Pete Schwaba

I be honest.

I like a baked potato with just melted butter, you know, before

Greg Bach

it gets a French fry.

I was gonna say you like a French fries prequel.

Right, right.

Well, what are the people saying on the text line, Dom?

Yeah, we have quite a few.

I'm gonna go through here.

We got John from Columbia County saying

Fries is the only thing I will have at MD, I'm guessing Mickey D's,

Kathryn Lake

but it

has to be at noon, hot and fresh.

See, there's one for McDonald's.

Special order.

Greg Bach

And time.

It's like, what are you doing?

I gotta go get the fresh fries right now.

It's the only time of day.

How long have

Pete Schwaba

those been sitting under the lamp over there?

Don't even try to serve me those, you punk.

Greg Bach

Those look like 230 fries.

I don't want them.

Give me some nude fries and nothing.

We also have Monica from Malorabtexi and saying, Culver's, but not even fries could soothe the pain of this show ending.

I've been with you since the beginning, Pete.

I will miss listening to you guys while I work out.

Monica's awesome.

Yeah.

Pete Schwaba

Mucho's awesome.

Monica is

Pete Schwaba

awesome.

Michael Steele, too, from Tosa said, no, why don't go?

Thank you, Michael.

That's very nice.

And if Monica's working out right now, you got this.

Keep going.

Greg Bach

Push.

Go.

Don't think about

Pete Schwaba

fries.

Greg Bach

One more set.

One more set.

You got this.

Pete Schwaba

She's eating her fries while she's

Greg Bach

on the treadmill.

I got these

fries at noon.

I mean even now We also have Michael's seal also saying steak and shake a chili cheese fries Never

Greg Bach

had steak and shake in my life because it's

not really

Greg Bach

prevalent here in Wisconsin is it?

It's like I can't think of any

Pete Schwaba

around I don't think they're prevalent anywhere anymore.

I remember there used to be one like around Decatur, Illinois that

Greg Bach

might

have been

Pete Schwaba

the closest one to Chicago But they're not there's

not a lot of there was one around there was one by me and Frankfurt, Illinois But that one went away like five years ago.

So okay, but um

Moving on we got Brett from Brown Deer Texian says I don't know who has the best fries, but I know who has the best the best radio

Greg Bach

show

Pete Schwaba

This is funny Chris.

I don't think you read this one down from the Sun Prairie says so sad not to have you guys on the radio anymore I truly enjoyed all the shows you guys have put on You will all be missed civic media will have some big shoes to fill not really Chris because everyone this is an anomaly But everyone at civic media has big feet.

It's a weird.

It's the weirdest thing ever So civic media will be just fine, but the great puts his big clown Hey

Greg Bach

size 13's are perfectly average, right?

Pete Schwaba

Yeah,

Greg Bach

I

Pete Schwaba

think so you're like 612.

Yeah

612 All right, we're gonna move on here.

We got jewel from cross planes Texan in saying McDonald's hands down, but there were better when it made with tallow

Greg Bach

Yeah, that's the whole beef tallow thing as a thing now.

I'm like why are the wire fries better with that?

Tallow's not good for you, right?

Like, that's beef tallow.

It's like fat.

Pete Schwaba

Mm-hmm.

I have

Greg Bach

a

Pete Schwaba

moisturizer with beef tallow.

Honest to God, I don't know if I'm rubbing sodium onto my... I don't know what it is.

I don't get it.

My wife just says, this is good, so I use it, you know?

Okay, we got Jim from Brookfier, Texas, from WAUK saying, best french fries, cops frozen custard in the Milwaukee area.

I don't know if I'm saying that right, but great taste and not greasy.

They won't taste as good as now as they can't be enjoyed while listening to Nightlight.

Very sorry to hear the show will be ending.

Pete and Greg, you did a great job, all the best.

in your future.

Thank you, Jim.

Thank you for the love.

Here's,

Pete Schwaba

and Melissa from Willie Street, a texture I pretty much from night one said, so gonna miss the show.

You guys are my break from stupid and ridiculous news.

Great conversations, great guests.

So thank you for saying that, Melissa.

Greg Bach

Oh, that makes me feel good because some people thought we were the stupid, ridiculous news.

I've read the emails.

We got Andrew texting in on WDK says did you know fried it did not come from France.

They are cooked in Greece Good

Greg Bach

Lord

Stop the price

Greg Bach

Andrew from Maine with a zinger my goodness gracious like the good old days, but would you have spelled Greece?

I would have

Pete Schwaba

spelled it like g-r-e-a-s-e I Am it's a technicality.

Yeah,

Greg Bach

I don't want you to

Pete Schwaba

throw the whole case out.

I'm just

Greg Bach

saying

But I feel like it makes sense when you say for their name in France, you got to say they're not they're made and they're cooked in Greece Yeah, no, I get it.

Okay.

It's a great text either

way.

Greg Bach

We'll get a punch up.

We'll do a rewrite

on that one.

Um,

Greg Bach

second draft

Well, what's up from Holy Street also texted in about the question of the night says okay French fries are hard because for each different kind of fry There's a different establishment right crinkle fries culvers skinny fries steak and shake and curly fries Arby's Wow really went in depth

Oh god, Curly Fries.

I

Greg Bach

forgot

about

Pete Schwaba

Curly

Fries.

Greg Bach

Curly Fries.

And then when you get the Curly Fries and then they accidentally put like a regular fry in there too and you're like, am I the king of the world?

Pete Schwaba

It's great, but you know what?

The other thing with Curly Fries is like, it's great when you get the big like spiral staircase looking thing

Greg Bach

that's like

Pete Schwaba

three inches long

Kathryn Lake

and then you get

Pete Schwaba

the one that's like the tiny and it's like hard

Greg Bach

and it

Pete Schwaba

can take a filling out, you know?

It's like, it's a, it's a

Greg Bach

craft

Pete Schwaba

shoe.

I still eat

Greg Bach

it.

Yeah.

Here's what you do Pete you put that tiny one you put it at the bottom of the ketchup cup and just let it sit around and do nothing and then It's nice and soft you marinated exactly

We got you we got Chris we still got Chris from WMDX says best french fries are at Mouya burger second best are at eating out burger well done Oh

Pete Schwaba

my god, I forgot about

In-N-Out, but you have never done that.

Mouya is

Pete Schwaba

good.

Mouya is so good.

Yeah In-N-Out is outstanding, but Mouya closer to home

Awesome fries totally agree with you Chris.

Yeah We

Greg Bach

got thunder we have by the way folks if I if I go away for a moment We've got thunder and lightning tornado watches happening down in southeastern, Wisconsin if we lose power I'll be back.

Pete Schwaba

Just call 9-1-1 radio park

Yeah, we got Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids Technion says silly text alert Donov Ark may have been the most infamous of french fries when it comes to potato.

I give Culver's the prize

Greg Bach

I like Culver's,

Pete Schwaba

too.

Let's see here.

Going through here, going through.

Oh, here's one I wish we would have seen when Veronica was here.

You see that one, Tom,

from Andrew?

Yes, two thoughts from Miss Pope.

Yeah, how do you turn incentives into investments, ensuring revenue generated rollback into the film office to fund future incentives, and any plans for a Hallmark holiday movie?

Greg Bach

Oh, yeah.

Well, we'll ask her that next time she's, oh, never mind.

We'll send her a pony express, so exactly exactly

And then we have Andrew Texan says five guys make some good fries, but I do not live in range of culverts So can't compare that's unfortunate.

Greg Bach

How are you not in range of culverts?

It's everywhere now.

I saw one in Macon, Georgia Yeah, more than five guys.

I would think I've never been to a five guys either because I feel like that food just makes you I need a nap

Pete Schwaba

You know what you do you fill up on peanuts when you're waiting to order at five guys at five guys the

Greg Bach

one on State

Pete Schwaba

Street You crack peanuts.

It's like you're in a bar

Greg Bach

at least

Pete Schwaba

they used to do that I don't know if they still do but it was I mean it gives you something to do while you're waiting but kind

Greg Bach

of

Pete Schwaba

fills you up too

Greg Bach

All right, well, let's let's do one more from the text line and then we'll

We'll take a short break.

Yes.

I'm looking through here.

Jewel.

Do that one from Jewel.

Jewel, yes.

I love you guys.

Sorry, you're lost your old slot with less expectations.

You did it for me.

Pete Schwaba

Wow.

Thank you very much.

I kind of feel like this is a Trump cabinet meeting right now.

Greg Bach

Why are we

Pete Schwaba

wearing

Greg Bach

larger shoes and everything, and I'm about to fall asleep, but... Boom!

See what I did there?

Political.

I love it.

All right, we're going to be reading more of your text messages, your thoughts on our big announcement, as well as the question of night.

Who makes the best French fries?

And when we come back, it's a final questionnaire from the Game Master himself, Mr. Dom Lee here on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Me Network.

Stay tuned.

Stay close.

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Greg Bach

Welcome back to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bogg here on the Civic Media Network.

We're coming to you live from all over the state.

I am in Radio Park in Racine where you can hear the storm in the ceiling right now.

We're also up in Marinette, Wisconsin, AKA Christmas City, USA.

Mr. Pete Schwabba and all the way in HQ.

in Madison is Mr. Dom Lee, and we are here in the second hour of nightlight.

Thank you so much for joining us this evening.

If you want to be part of the conversation, 855-752-4842-855-75 civic, leave a comment on the live stream or currently streaming on Facebook, YouTube and the platform.

We still call Twitter tonight's question of the evening is who makes the best French fries?

Let us know your thoughts and we'll get to that.

We're reading your text messages and your, uh,

your opinions on the matter and other things as well as we're talking.

But thank you so much for joining us.

We really appreciate your time.

And, uh, yeah, Pete, uh, seeing a lot of great text messages tonight and a lot of opinions on French fries.

Great

Pete Schwaba

stuff.

That's a heck of a combo.

I think people, I picture people kind of eating fries while they send in their opinion, which is nice.

Uh, we've got Lil' Erv on the stream says, what the show is ending when tomorrow night is our last show, Lil' Erv.

And he has been with us from the get go.

That's Dave.

He is from Christmas City.

He also says McDonald's

Greg Bach

and

Pete Schwaba

followed closely by Culver's Wendy's.

There you go.

So he's got, he just likes fries.

Greg Bach

The best fries are in order.

McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Burger Chef.

That's an old reference.

Burger Chef.

Oh my

Pete Schwaba

gosh.

Good poll.

We had one

Greg Bach

of

Pete Schwaba

those.

Greg Bach

Yeah, we did too.

And then it turned into a hearties.

It was on Sunset Drive.

Sunset Drive in Waukesha.

I'll never forget that as all at all because you're like, we're going to McDonald's.

Yeah.

We're going to Burger

Pete Schwaba

Time.

There was another one up here called Burger Time.

And then there was another place just called Burgers.

It's like, really?

Like that's the best.

Like you're in the meeting.

We're launching a new business.

Burgers are going to be our thing.

Greg Bach

What do we

Pete Schwaba

call ourselves?

What McDonald's is taking?

Just burgers.

Greg Bach

Where you going?

Where you going for dinner tonight?

Burgers.

Burgers.

Burgers burgers All right, we got a couple of callers on the line right now.

We got whistler Yeah, we got whistler on the line right now.

We want to talk about the question of the night You want to patch whistler on in hey whistler?

What's going on?

What's your thought?

What are your

thoughts

Greg Bach

on french fries

french fries?

Okay, uh, I got to go with mcdonald's because When I first came to wrestling center, we didn't have any

Restaurants other than uh, a dog and suds

Kathryn Lake

But then then we got a

hearty's Okay, so they say then Hearties hearties moved away and we got a McDonald's All right.

There

you go.

So now we have a McDonald's Culver's uh a toggle bell But no no hearties or anything like that.

I'd like McDonald's

Pete Schwaba

All right, that's a great

Now previous previous you were had this lady out or about the Wisconsin film Okay, yeah, and in the local paper today There's a couple of young people that are doing the lower Wisconsin Riverway in regards.

It's doing a documentary about the Indian tribes in the mountains

And that was just in the paper today.

And that will be coming out later this year, I think.

Greg Bach

Oh, fantastic.

Wonderful.

Thank you very much, Whistler.

Thank you very much, Whistler.

We appreciate the update and your thoughts on the question of the night, my friend.

Yes,

Pete Schwaba

sir.

Greg Bach

Really quick before we have to go to a break, Ollie from the Northwoods is on the line.

Ollie, how are you doing this evening?

What are your favorite French fries, my friend?

Well, I'm very sad to hear that you guys are leaving.

I just woke up and...

I must have been having a terrible dream when I heard about

it.

Oh,

yeah.

Sorry, very

sweet.

I like Alfred and Trice, but my favorite potato is a couch potato.

A couch potato.

Oh, you got it.

Pete Schwaba

Bringing it back.

Thank you, Ollie.

Oh, Ollie, thank you

Pete Schwaba

so

much.

You're one of our

Pete Schwaba

favorite couch potatoes.

We

love you so much, dear.

If I miss you tomorrow night, I just wanted to say goodbye and I wish you guys all the best

Greg Bach

Thank you for thank you for always calling in letting us know your thoughts on all sorts of topics It's always been a pleasure to have you around

Well, I couldn't miss a food of

Greg Bach

food Yeah

Like a

Pete Schwaba

Joe DiMaggio 56 game hitting streak going

Greg Bach

with the questions.

Pete Schwaba

I'm glad Ollie got in tonight.

Thank you very

Greg Bach

much.

Pete Schwaba

Oh,

Greg Bach

all right, Ollie.

Have yourself a wonderful night.

Yeah.

So thank you very much for everyone who's calling in.

Do we have any, like, I don't think we have time to start the, let's, let's not do this.

No, let's wait.

Yep.

Let's wait

until

Greg Bach

after the news break, but let's read a few more text messages from the people on the line regarding the question tonight and other thoughts they may have.

Absolutely.

We have Bridget saying, thank you for the laughter, entertainment and connection.

Your voices have been a part of so many people's daily lives and you'll be greatly missed.

Greg Bach

Thank you very much, Bridget.

Appreciate you very, very much.

I'm trying

to go

Greg Bach

through here.

Have we

Greg Bach

got

all, I think we got most of them here.

And

Greg Bach

Carmella just sent one in as well.

Says, not, not happy to hear you, you and Pete have been canceled.

Neither are we.

We're not happy as well.

Carmella, you just like all, yeah.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah.

And she said, she did, she had a long text.

Thank you very much, Carmella, but she also put a PS red Robin french fries are my favorite.

Greg Bach

I got somebody in my corner.

It's a post script.

Carmella is another one who's been with us for a very long time.

I've always appreciated the calls and the text messages from Carmella.

So I really appreciate you chiming in there.

And then we'll do one last one here from Ronnie and Horicon listening on WMDX.

So sad to hear your show that promotes Wisconsin culture is ending.

Ollie says it all.

Thank you very much, Ronnie.

We really appreciate that.

All right.

We're going to take a really quick break.

Well, we're not going to take a quick break.

Hey, Greg, I think

Pete Schwaba

let me jam through just a couple here on Facebook because we've

Greg Bach

got a

Pete Schwaba

whole bunch of them.

Boris says McDonald's, but he likes Del Tacos as well.

I love Del Taco as well, Boris.

I never thought fries would go good with tacos, but they do.

Mike Dessitel says McDonald's Vince Moranto McDonald's and Popeyes is a close second.

Oh yeah.

And we've got several others we'll get to at some point, but thank you folks.

Keep them coming.

Greg Bach

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Folks, we're going to take a short break here.

We're going to break for the news.

So stick around when we come back.

Again, we'll be doing the final questionnaire from Dom Binger cringe here on Night Light with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

Stay tuned.

Stay close.

Welcome back to Night Light.

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Coming up still, we have the nightcap where we wrap up everything, talk about what we learn, and we're going to probably just also say a good night to Dom, because he will not be here tomorrow.

Yeah.

Thanks, Dom.

I'm going to New

Buffalo, Michigan.

Greg Bach

But you're serious about radio.

Going

Greg Bach

to New Buffalo, Michigan.

Yeah.

What

do

Greg Bach

they have that we don't?

Beaches.

Greg Bach

I've

been there.

Greg Bach

The beaches are fine.

Oh,

no.

Greg Bach

They'll be there this weekend.

Yeah, but I got a whole Airbnb.

I was a long planned out trip and so this

Greg Bach

weekend and so this weekend Pete me Dom new Buffalo.

Yeah, what time should we

Pete Schwaba

get there?

That's

Greg Bach

what we leave

right away.

Greg Bach

Let's read right now 24 hour venture.

Let's do it.

We'll do the last we'll do the final show from new Buffalo times on the

Pete Schwaba

phone babe cancel just go to the holiday and

Greg Bach

Yeah, seriously.

I'm sorry.

They couldn't take a joke.

They didn't realize it was being sarcastic and they're here and they are wearing very inappropriate swimwear.

Pete Schwaba

Since when is the speedo inappropriate for a man in his fifties?

Greg Bach

Fair

Pete Schwaba

point.

Greg Bach

You know what?

You're wrong.

You're right.

I'm wrong.

I apologize for, uh, for, uh, for being judgmental and narrow-minded on that one.

So, uh, folks, we are here on the penultimate episode of Nightlight and we are going to dive right now into a

Quiz not a quiz questionnaire.

It's questionnaire made up by the game master himself Mr. Dom Lee tonight's edition of binge or cringe Dom what do you got for us?

Yes, this is the last edition of binge or cringe And we're gonna we're gonna keep it going as it is You're gonna get a topic and you have to decide whether or not it's something that you will binge or you will cringe and There's gonna be no wrong answers.

No no heated debates.

Greg Bach

No quizzes trust me trust me

I'll get a wrong answer.

So we're

Pete Schwaba

all

Greg Bach

winners.

We both get

Pete Schwaba

a participation award.

That's what I'm

hearing.

Yeah, that's what it is.

That'll be a fourth tie.

Beautiful.

All right, guys.

Beautiful.

Let's let's binge your cringe.

All right.

The first one is taking photos of your food.

All right, just taking

Greg Bach

photos of

Pete Schwaba

your cringe cringe cringe cringe.

Greg Bach

I've

Pete Schwaba

done

Greg Bach

it.

But I

Pete Schwaba

saw the air of my ways within like 20 minutes.

Greg Bach

I will take pictures of my food and send them to people directly like on a

Text message only if it's warranted like like this is either a giant meal or a really weird thing But not just to say hey, I was doing this

Yeah, I'm a big Instagram story or so I'd like to take pictures But I've also I'm P. I agree.

I kind of like realize that it's not it's just not for me.

Pete Schwaba

It's like what am I doing?

Yeah All right second one cruise ships.

Do you binge or cringe cruise ships?

cringe I cringe too

I've never been

Pete Schwaba

on a cruise ship.

My wife has motion sickness.

So I don't think I'll ever be able to partake.

I would binge to do it once, but yeah, it's not like on my bucket list or anything.

Greg Bach

I would try a riverboat cruise, like one of those Viking ones where I can see both sides of the shore.

So that way, if anything happens, I'm like, I'm gonna swim over here now.

See you guys in a bit.

But in the vastness of the ocean, no thank you.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

Couldn't do it.

I gotta shrink it.

Um, all right.

Matching tattoos with friends, binge or cringe?

Greg Bach

Uh, uh, not only not only binge, I've done it.

Oh, really?

With friends?

Yeah.

I have a friend, my friend, Mike have matching tattoos.

What was the tattoo?

Mine's on his, mine is on his back.

Mine is on my back.

His is on his arm.

And they're different.

Like, like we got it.

Mine is like the size of, I don't know.

Like it's, it's.

the size of a softball, baseball, maybe.

And his is the size of like a half dollar.

I'm like, really?

You went small and like, I got this big thing on my back here now.

Okay.

Thanks.

It's the Obama logo from 2008 and the date of the election.

Cause we worked on the Obama election together.

So we told each other, we're like, all right, if he wins the two days after the election, we're going to get tattoos.

And we did.

So that's cool.

Sounds like you committed a little more to

Pete Schwaba

it than he did.

Greg Bach

Maybe he says it's still there.

I'd bitch it too.

I have one of my with my brother.

Me and my brother got the same one on my shoulder So does it say mom loves me most it doesn't it says I'm the better sibling and then his says I'm the worst sibling

Pete Schwaba

That's a lot of

Are you kidding me?

Hi, I'm kidding.

I'm joking.

Okay.

Yeah, that was a pizza.

Greg Bach

What do you have?

What do you have?

It was

Pete Schwaba

almost your last night anyway, Don.

Yeah.

After you.

Am

Greg Bach

I allowed to fire him?

Okay.

It's a dagger-dart ball.

I used to play a lot of 3DS, and on a 3DS we had all

Greg Bach

those words.

No idea what those words mean.

A video game.

Big

Greg Bach

video

game.

Ah,

Greg Bach

gotcha.

Big

video.

All right.

Pete Schwaba

Whizzler says tattoo cringe.

Greg Bach

Okay,

whizzler, calm

Greg Bach

down.

All right, all right, all right.

I hold my hands up here on the livestream.

You can see I'm definitely a binge.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

All right, let's keep it going here.

Binge or cringe, electric toothbrushes.

Electric toothbrushes.

I

Pete Schwaba

have one.

I own one.

I'll do that.

My wife has one.

I've never done it.

Greg Bach

I like to control.

It's a clean, unlike a handheld one, like a non-powered one.

You get that dentist clean.

I will stand by that.

Pete Schwaba

Okay.

I

Greg Bach

have to talk to Donald.

All right.

Does he

Pete Schwaba

know his tenure as Nightlight Dentist is about to end?

I mean, we went the extra mile.

We got a dentist for the damn show.

Greg Bach

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

All right.

All right.

Um, binger, cringe, banana bread, banana bread,

Greg Bach

binger,

cringe.

Greg Bach

Oh, binge binge.

Absolutely.

You almost said cringe because you can't play sometimes you're like, I know.

I

do

Greg Bach

the same thing or without butter.

Yeah.

Oh God.

That sounds amazing.

Yeah.

Love banana bread.

All right.

This is not on the list, but what about zucchini bread?

Do you guys binger, cringe, zucchini bread,

Greg Bach

cringe?

No, thank

Pete Schwaba

you.

I actually like, I've had, I listen before I had it, I would have been cringe, but they make it work.

They do.

Hats off to the zucchini chefs of the world.

Greg Bach

Hats off to Mr. Zucchini bread out there.

Good job.

All right, this one, I think I know you guys' answers, but binge your cringe matching family Christmas pajamas.

Binge your cringe.

Greg Bach

I would binge it for fun.

I mean, if you're in the right, if you have the joking mindset, yes, binge.

But if it's like a thing like, you're not wearing your set, cringe.

It's gotta be fun.

It's gotta be fun.

I guess I'll go you say what you want Pete.

I think

Pete Schwaba

it's Lame, but you know I Yeah, all right, that's all I have to say welcome to this new show called binge cringe or lame I almost got into a whole class war thing, but I'm not gonna do that cuz I'm more mature than I want to keep politics out of our

Greg Bach

last

Pete Schwaba

Whistler says power tooth brush cringe.

Greg Bach

You know what whistler?

You're on my list now, okay?

I'm gonna have a lot more free time My goodness

gracious, oh, it's funny.

Um, okay, we're gonna keep it going here binge or cringe self-checkout lanes binge or cringe

Greg Bach

I mean I binge cuz no actually binge because it gets me out of the store quicker

Pete Schwaba

I'm gonna say cringe cuz people lose their jobs.

I always go to a manned cash register

But maybe I'm just

Greg Bach

a

Pete Schwaba

little more committed to democracy than Greg.

No, I'm kidding.

Sometimes I do the, I do the self-checkout if I'm in a hurry, but I always try to go to the, taking all these shots here.

Greg Bach

So you guys are,

Benji Creeple.

I'm a

class warfare here.

He's like, but sometimes

if I'm being honest, if I'm being honest here, I gotta get out of here.

And this lady is writing a check for $3.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, that is a problem.

Greg Bach

I

Pete Schwaba

got coupons,

I'm

Pete Schwaba

writing

a

Pete Schwaba

check, and I want lottery tickets and cigarettes.

Okay.

Next.

Speaking of the next binge or cringe, lottery tickets.

Do you binge or do you

Greg Bach

cringe?

Cringe, cringe.

To the point where when the lottery hits a certain point, my wife will say, hey, would you mind picking up some lottery tickets?

I'm like, hey, would you just mind if I burned some money on the front lawn too while I'm

Pete Schwaba

at it?

I get that.

I do just for the fun of it.

My parents buy us lottery tickets on St.

Patrick's Day.

And I will get one if it gets up to like $2 billion, which is stupid because your chances are even less because everybody's buying lottery tickets.

But it's just fun to spend a couple bucks.

I probably spend $4 to $6 a year on lottery tickets.

So I guess I have to say binge.

Binge, yeah.

And if I win, binge to the second power.

Binge or cringe?

Gas station pizza.

Greg Bach

Oh binge binge yep quicktrip has some of the best gas station pizza there is

Pete Schwaba

cringe No, it's it

Greg Bach

whistler.

Do you disagree?

Pete Schwaba

He disagrees with the jammies or he likes the jammies I would say whenever I go into a gas station and there's pizza there There's always like grease creep essence

Greg Bach

of

Pete Schwaba

grease soup on top of the pizza and I can't do that It just looks terrible

Greg Bach

me even doesn't all pizza look terrible when you think of like if you open up a pizza from in place and you got to put the

paper towel down and some of those,

Pete Schwaba

I'll stomach, but

Greg Bach

can I tell you something guys?

We're really quickly here.

Like, we'll get back to the game.

We were going to order a pizza on, I think it was Sunday and we were looking at places.

We were like, we always try to go local and we went to it.

We were looking at a place and after everything was 50 bucks for a pizza.

Pete Schwaba

Isn't that, that's, I know.

Yeah, we the same thing here in Marinette pizza is ridiculous and it's fine.

It's

Kathryn Lake

good.

Pete Schwaba

No way you you better be a gourmet awesome Ten stars on Yelp pizza if I'm gonna pay

Greg Bach

I

Pete Schwaba

mean

Greg Bach

I don't even care like that's not I'm I don't know I'm not doing $50 pizza.

Yeah All right, go on it's a drop there.

Yeah, it's pizza.

It's just pizza.

Um, all right, been your cringe trampolines you guys binge or cringe trampolines

Greg Bach

I mean, as a kid, I binged the heck out of them.

That's why half the reason went to Kevin Heckenkamp's house as a kid.

You know what?

If it's there, I'll do it.

Absolutely.

But I warn everybody.

I'm like, hey, you might be taking me to the hospital later.

Pete Schwaba

I'll binge it too.

My grandma, my dad's got like seven siblings and they were always into gymnastics.

They had a trampoline and I did a few seat drops.

Nice.

I can do some backflips on it, too.

What about

Greg Bach

you, Dom?

I can do some.

I'd say Minjix.

I like to do backflips.

I'm a very flexible guy.

Greg Bach

I say, oh, this is once again, how great Dom is.

No,

man, stop it.

Greg Bach

What

did

Greg Bach

you say the other

day?

He

Greg Bach

weighs like 100

Pete Schwaba

pounds.

Greg Bach

When you said, like, James Bond, because why?

Because you were Swab or something?

Oh, yeah,

Greg Bach

seductive.

Oh,

Greg Bach

God.

My seductive voice.

My parents actually heard that, and they don't like it anymore.

All right.

Binge or cringe, New Year's resolutions.

Binge or cringe, New Year's resolutions.

Cringe.

Pete Schwaba

So cringe.

I'll say binge just because I like these two.

People are well-intentioned.

I don't know if I've ever stuck with one past Jan 4, but... But it at least makes you start

something, you know?

Greg Bach

You're trying, right?

Yeah, I mean...

Oh, Whistler's a trampoline in his backyard.

We can head to his house.

We're coming by.

There you go.

No, I'm sorry.

I just cannot do those because it's like you're setting yourself up for failure.

That's what I think.

I know.

I know.

Providing needles for everyone's balloons tonight.

I

Pete Schwaba

kind of got distracted by Whistler.

What was the

Greg Bach

question?

Pete Schwaba

He's

Greg Bach

going John Murray on this where it's just like answer, answer, answer, answer, answer.

It's awesome.

I love

it.

Yes, that was New Year's resolutions.

Yeah, okay, gotcha.

But we, I think we have time for one more.

Yeah, let's do one more.

The biggest one.

Binge all

Greg Bach

day.

Every bathroom in my house has one.

Done.

No way, really?

Pete Schwaba

This might be like...

A weird time to say this, but every show we've done I've been on a bidet the entire time.

They just feel that amazing.

No, I don't have one in my house, but sure.

I don't mind a little water

shot of the

Pete Schwaba

little

Greg Bach

pipe

Pete Schwaba

every once in a while.

Main street.

Greg Bach

No, I have and they're easy to install.

They're not.

Yeah, you can buy one for like 40 bucks installed in an already existing toilet.

And you're great.

It's wonderful.

I'll come to your house and install it for you for a price.

Kathryn Lake

Done.

But

Greg Bach

yeah, absolutely.

They're great.

They're great.

And the rest of the world laughs at us because we don't use them.

They think we're gross.

But you still use TP, right?

Kathryn Lake

Or is it in Lua?

I mean,

Greg Bach

yes, you can.

You can.

I mean, I. All right.

Yeah, absolutely, but it's

Kathryn Lake

just

Greg Bach

helpful and it's clean.

It's nice.

All right, folks, we got to get out of here for a moment.

But when we come back, it's the nightcap on this, the penultimate episode of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.

We'll be getting our thoughts together, reading your text messages as well as telling you what we've learned for the night.

So don't go anywhere.

Stick around, stay close.

You're watching us on the Civic Media Network.

Kathryn Lake

You're listening to Civic Media.

Find the latest news, information, and archives of all your favorite shows on the Civic Media website, civicmedia.us.

Greg Bach

Welcome back to Night Light here on the Civic Media Network.

We're coming to you live from all over the state, including Racine, Wisconsin, Marionette, Wisconsin, and Madison, Wisconsin.

We are the Yatterhey Triangle, and we are so happy you're joining us tonight here on our penultimate second to last episode.

I'm saying that for John Murray in Madison because it's

We got one more show buddy.

But yeah, the show will be ending as of tomorrow night, but we are going to have ourselves some fun right now and tomorrow night show as well.

We're going to be just kicking back, relaxing, having good chat, talking all the things we want to talk about.

We hope you can join us as well and send it off correctly.

So we appreciate everyone who's gotten in touch with us so far on it.

And we are officially in the nightcap where we get the last thoughts from you on, you know,

your opinions, they're coming through here, but also on the question of the night, who makes the best french fries?

Dom, do we have any more thoughts we want to share from the text line?

Yes,

we have just a few more.

We have Whizzler from Rich in Center, texting in on WMDX says, sorry to hear you guys leaving, have enjoyed Nightlight a lot, and will continue to Civic.

Greg Bach

There

we

Greg Bach

go.

I really loved all the other ones too.

His cringe has been just been just cringe.

Yeah, people play and then

Greg Bach

Ronnie from horror con is standing

in my corner right now Yep, Greg knows it once you use one you'll never go back.

We're talking about

Greg Bach

the days there.

Yeah, we're talking about the days They're amazing get one in your life and as whistler put them there just basically a big squirt gun on your toilet so

Pete Schwaba

Get yourself a bidet eat some french fries and have a great night.

Love the American dream

Pete, do we have any more thoughts

Greg Bach

on the

Pete Schwaba

Facebook page?

Yes, McDonald's regular fries or Arby's curly fries are my favorite for fast food.

No sauce needed.

That's from Sarah Jean.

Thank you, Sarah Jean.

Okay,

Greg Bach

let's not

Pete Schwaba

go too far there.

Scott Tom says Mickey D's, another one for McDonald's.

Rob Martin says, anyone who says McDonald's has no taste and shops at Target.

Come on, Rob.

Greg Bach

Rob,

Pete Schwaba

Rob, what boutiques are you shopping in then?

Yeah.

He says the best French fries are crispy and hot.

That means they're fresh out of the basket.

If that's what you're looking for, Culver's is where you need to go for the best French fries.

Rob, who is an awesome actor and the godfather of Green Bay.

Thank you for chiming in.

Rob, great text.

Stacy Sue says Little River Country Club, used with tartar sauce.

Ooh, that's interesting.

I don't think I could do that.

That

Greg Bach

sounds good.

I give it a try.

I give it a try.

It sounds good.

In a world where people are dunking their fries into frosties like animals,

Pete Schwaba

disgusting.

That's cringe.

That's cringe.

Totally cringe.

Tiff says, five guys, I order them extra crispy.

Thank you, Tiff.

Greg Bach

I gotta try these five guys.

Pete Schwaba

Pat says, McDonald's 24-7.

McDonald's is by far the, whatever,

Greg Bach

they serve

Pete Schwaba

billions of people.

I can't say, surprise.

Rich Brown says, the French, duh.

Very funny, Rich Brown, but he's better than that text.

Eric says, love the steak fries at Red Robin.

There you go, Greg.

Matt Harper says, Tom's driving.

Thank you, Matt, Tim Joyce, regional bias, but the fries, it's solid and field.

I think he lives in Buffalo where the AAA baseball bison's play.

Thanks to Richard Vargas says, five guys hands down the best, Mike Toomey, France.

And Amanda Nimmer, like I said, our pal here at Civic Media says, nobody because french fries are gross.

Greg Bach

That is just insanity right there.

How do you not like French fries?

I understand if you don't like many foods, but

Pete Schwaba

French fries.

You know, that sounds like me when I try a diet and I'm like, I don't know how you could eat that stuff.

And a week later, I'm shoving it in my mouth like a maniac.

Amanda says she had a little argument with Sarah Jean.

It seems like they've worked it out.

I think they're friends.

But then Todd Michaels daring.

Hey, Todd Michaels says Sarah Jean, can you believe this?

shizzle spilling from her muzzle.

That's a fry argument.

Go to Facebook, folks.

This

Greg Bach

is a

Pete Schwaba

whole turn into a whole chaotic thing.

I can't even keep up with it.

Greg Bach

But that's it for Facebook.

All right.

Well, folks, we're going to get out of here in a little bit.

But before we do that, let us get to what we've learned tonight.

Pete, what have you learned?

Pete Schwaba

I learned that we have one last text, and I'll read this one.

Andrew from Maine says, sorry to hear, the night is no longer going to be as light.

The Schwabba Bach featuring the Dom.

Very nice.

Well put, Andrew, thank

Greg Bach

you.

I like that, I like

Pete Schwaba

that.

I learned there's a lot of cool stuff going on in Baraboo over the course of the next few weeks, and

Greg Bach

it was

Pete Schwaba

great to have Scott hear a true circus fanatic who got himself a gig in circus and owned a circus.

Fantastic stuff.

That's cool.

That is definitely worth a check out.

Greg Bach

Nice.

Yeah.

When he said I owned a circus, I'm like, what?

Can we talk about that for an hour?

That sounds insane.

We bought a

Pete Schwaba

zoo.

Greg Bach

Exactly, but a circus.

That's going to be starring Matt Damon as well.

Dom, what have you learned here on your last night?

I think I have two things.

One is definitely get a new toothbrush, an electric one preferably.

Go for it.

It's good stuff.

Sounds good.

And a bidet, so I guess I have three.

And then the last one is again, I appreciate you guys.

You guys are awesome, awesome hosts.

I've learned a lot from you guys as well.

Thank you, Dom.

Thank you.

Thank you guys.

Pete Schwaba

You're the best.

I will say guys, it's been quite a ride.

Three months.

Oh my gosh.

But I truly love both of you guys and Dom.

You're awesome.

I was glad we got to work together.

We did a sporadically when I would come down to Madison.

It was fun to get to know you, but this has been great.

Thank you, sir.

No problem.

My hair is going to grow out next time I see you guys.

We're saying this because Aaron's arms is here tomorrow.

I wouldn't I wouldn't know that

Greg Bach

because I'm not ever speaking to Dom again, so I'm kidding.

No, I'm kidding No, what did I learn tonight?

I learned that you can actually own a circus.

I didn't know you could do that I figured that was something that one person couldn't do I felt like a corporation does Yeah, I don't know it's a

That's so interesting to me.

Plus also a Veronica Pope is amazing.

She's so cool.

She's

Kathryn Lake

so cool.

And

Greg Bach

in her hands, I hope the Milwaukee film office absolutely thrives.

And it's something I didn't learn, but I just knew, Dom, you're amazing.

So thank you very much for everything you've done for us.

And hopefully we'll stay in touch because you're a good, you're a good egg.

You're a good egg, my friend.

Thank

Pete Schwaba

you for all the texts from everybody

Greg Bach

and the show

Pete Schwaba

support, but we got another show.

It's going to be a blast tomorrow night.

Our pal Aaron Zamas will be here.

And one last stream comment.

Little Earth says first, but they shot me in the chest.

I laughed so damn hard.

I was trying to figure it out.

Little

Greg Bach

Earth, you're doing it wrong.

All right, folks, we got to get out of here, folks.

We're going to say thank you to Tucker, to Dominic, to everybody here for all the work they do for us.

And thank you to everybody who called, texted, left a comment on the live stream.

Without you, there is no us.

And we'll be back tomorrow for the final show of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.

Pete, say good night to the people.

Good night, Wisconsin.

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