September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Legendary actor Conrad Bachmann, a Louisville native, is back home from Hollywood and always ready to spill the tea. His son Brett is CEO of Heuser Hearing Institute, a godsend for hearing impaired children.
Both Bachmanns have great stories to tell!
Both Bachmanns have great stories to tell!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what news Radio eight forty wh's America's greatest actor.
I know, I just played a clip from Denzel Washington.
Not Denzel Denzel Washington, but America's truly greatest actor. Conrad
Bachmann is back at the studio. Here we go. Well,
it's good of you to what did you just parachute
(00:20):
out of your private jet and just land out in
my studio? No, I did, I had you know that.
I know a lot about you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Just the hangar man to keep it quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, I know you hang you roll with the big guys. Yeah,
Brett Bachman, his son is with the Heiser Hearing Institutes.
Could see again, to see you too, sir. You're the CEO,
aren't you president? Or They got a bunch of titles.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A bunch of titles, but I don't really do a
whole lot.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of it because your dad gotten you in any trouble lately.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know, all the trouble he's gotten into I can't
really talk about in the air.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We'll tell you later.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, we just got finished with a three week
tour across Europe and that hasn't hit over here in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Got into he tried to dump me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
On where were Oh in the Thames here in England.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We did it. It's pretty good, you know where that is? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Why do you think I'm dumb?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know, I gotta tell you, I've heard so many
good stories about you, but that one tops it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We were in London. My wife loves the Jack the
Ripper tour. Yes, I'm serious. There's an actor or this
dude who takes you on a guided tour of the
Jack the Ripper sites. And my wife's standing there with
her mouth agape. What I'm like, come on, he's making
this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah? Did you go to the dungeons?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't go in dungeons. I just left. I sit
up there and sip Starbucks up on this.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know now, my wife always listens to those murder podcasts, right,
I mean, and for the longest time I started when
we were dating. I would remove all the pointy objects
in my house before she got there, because I'm like, honey,
I'm not going to make you mad. You know how
to hide the body.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Conrad, what did you did you go and bang on
the doors of Buckingham Palace and say let me in?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I did, matter of fact, but obviously I didn't have to,
because as soon as they saw me coming down the hallway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
They opened the door. Of course, they said, Bachmann's here.
That's right, we've come to see the Wizard. Oh, come
on in. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I used to visit that in my earlier days.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Were you shooting a film over there or you No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, but I'm getting ready to do one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's what all this is about, aren't you ninety three
years old?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now next month?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's unbelievable. You're going to shoot another film. That's why
you're growing the beard.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm playing a Confederate general. Oh, and the war will turn.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You know your lines already?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, No, you're like Brando. They have to have somebody
write the lines on cardboard.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, my age, Now I get the lines on a board. Yeah,
we'll good for the old days of soap.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's okay, they're just Q cards, that's all right. Just
you're convincing as an actor. Yes, that's just that's good
for you for uh.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, and you know.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
One of the first things they asked me why I
got to this, They said, you know, Terry Minor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of course they did. And then I hate saying this
but you're still working at age ninety two, almost ninety three.
I'm trying, man. It's because you blew all your money gambling.
Did you betting on UK We're going to talk about
stop betting on Kentucky football and you won't lose all
your money. I thought we were going to talk about it, Okay,
See Brett, I give your dad a hard way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And right back. I mean, we don't let them stop.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I think I'm gonna tell them a story now about
you and that convertible.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't believe a word he says to people. He's delirious.
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's what you get to do at ninety three.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's delusional. I know you have a big event coming
up called Butterflies in Motion. This helps the Heiser Hearing Institute.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes it does. It helps.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It directly funds our scholarship program for all the kids
to come to our Language Academy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Explain about the Heiser Hearing Institute.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We started nineteen forty eight, seventy eight years ago, and
kids that are born deafer a hard of hearing in
Jefferson County can come to Heiser here and Language Academy
tuition free and we have all kinds of educational opportunities
for them, language opportunity, speech and hearing, everything done for free.
And so we raise money probably to the tune of
(04:14):
about one point three million dollars a year to be
able to provide that education to them so that their
parents can have them fulfill their educational dreams. And that's
got Our biggest fundraiser for that is called Butterflies Emotion,
which is a lunch event starts at eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Am on October third.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Tables are available through our website and you know, all
of the proceeds go into that scholarship program.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Is that Thehearinginstitute dot org.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes see, you're so good. You must work in radio.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I just figured this out how to run this internet
thing yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes and so, and it's actually been voted number one
daytime event for a long period of time because it's
so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I heard, it's pretty magical. And then talk about the
number of children, young people that you are helping.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, through the school, we're educating all the kids that
are born deaf, and then through our clinics we saw
I think it was around thirty two hundred children last year, right,
and now we've broadened through with the legislature and Governor Busher,
we've been able to expand to thirty one counties now,
so we have three mobile vehicles that we take out.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We just opened an office in Aez, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well yeah, you bet, and we've got another one opening
up in Morehead, Kentucky, and then our next location here
in Louisville will be on fourteenth and Broadway.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Outstanding. I think people more people should know about the
Heiser Hearing Institute. It's astounding the work that's done there.
And I just had no idea how many people were
affected in this area. Yeah, and you guys are catering
to a lot of them, and good for you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We did so about thirty or forty percent of the
clinical patients. Our children are pediatric cases and the rest
our adults are. As we like to say, we serve
everybody from twinkle to wrinkle, and a lot of that
has to do with multi generational living too, so we
can make sure that grandparents can talk to their grandchildren
and if they're helping with childcare, it helps them to
(06:15):
be able to listen in what the kids are saying
and be able to help them learn to read and
do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What I recall from the Butterflies in Motion memory is,
isn't each table like a motive of some movie or something? Right? Yes, yes,
that's a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It is fantastic. This year, we're doing it a little
bit different.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
For those people who want to decorate, We're letting them
decorate and do the whole table like what you've seen
in the past. But we've had a lot of people
that are really loyal to the event, and some of
them are like, it's been ten years. We just want
to come and support the mission and support that and
then coming in the night before to decorate table what
was fun? But right now, so what we're doing is
(06:53):
we're decorating a significant number of the tables as well,
so that people can come in and just come to
the event, not to stress themselves out about what movie
do I do?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What can I now? I know I will have a decorated.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Table, and there will be at least four or five
others that we know that will be decorated, but the
rest of them if you just want to come and
buy a table or your company buy a table, you
just come on down and then you get to enjoy
the event. We have you know, photo booths, we have,
you know, access to the videos of the kids and
what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's just a it's a magical day.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And are any of the movie themed tables ever honored
anything that your father's been in, like Tremors? Yes, had
worms all over it. We've had Tremors. We've had a
bunch of those. And you know with the whole cast
in for a table one year. Yes, we had the
original cast of Trumor's. The only one that didn't come
in was Kevin he was because he was working.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, it was actually a spectacular event. You You wouldn't
believe that Tremors came out so long ago and people
still recognize it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, that are the gay Cabalero. You know, he loves
that film.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I mean he did. I think he almost won an
Oscar for that. For the realism, that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's him. Conrad Bachwin. He's a versatile actor. He gets
shot or mulled by a bear every film that appears
so well.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Actually I remember seeing him.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He was in a TV show called Gangster Chronicles and
Bugsy Seagull came in and he's in a telephone booth.
I think I was like seven years old watching this
thing and Dad's coming out there, and then all of
a sudden he gets this and all these blood packets
are popping off on him when he's getting.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, say that again. I die great, I die great.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He does.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What a great slogan for your business code.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Conrad Bachmann, actor, I die.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Joe Quinny wipe me out in a telephone booth on
Gangster Chronicles. It was the most fun, the most best
dying I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Joe Pesci, Joe Penny, Joe Penny. That's another dude.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, he was the lead in Gangster.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You're old. You're not wearing any squibs, right, you gotta
blow up or anything in a minute, are you not?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Today?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay? Good well, happy birthday in advance. Let's have lunch
again sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Nomber twenty six.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're right, that's right, you're like Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes I get the bird.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, okay, it's great to see again. Conrad Bachman, Yeah
you too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What are we gonna get together again?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And let that tomorrow drip on you tomorrow, We'll do that.
That's right. We were eating in a place and the
ceiling was dripping on me, and I'm like, what the
from a place. Do you invite me? That's I forgot
about that now now the deal's off. That's fun is
zoom lunch?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
All right, So your event is October October third, eleven am.
Go to our website, The Hearing Institute dot org for
butterflies and mostly great Sea of Bachman. That's all back
in a few on news radio. Wait forty wha s
You know what news Radio eight forty wh's America's greatest actor.
I know, I just played a clip from Denzel Washington.
Not Denzel Denzel Washington, but America's truly greatest actor. Conrad
Bachmann is back at the studio. Here we go. Well,
it's good of you to what did you just parachute
(00:20):
out of your private jet and just land out in
my studio? No, I did, I had you know that.
I know a lot about you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Just the hangar man to keep it quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, I know you hang you roll with the big guys. Yeah,
Brett Bachman, his son is with the Heiser Hearing Institutes.
Could see again, to see you too, sir. You're the CEO,
aren't you president? Or They got a bunch of titles.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A bunch of titles, but I don't really do a
whole lot.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of it because your dad gotten you in any trouble lately.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know, all the trouble he's gotten into I can't
really talk about in the air.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We'll tell you later.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, we just got finished with a three week
tour across Europe and that hasn't hit over here in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Got into he tried to dump me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
On where were Oh in the Thames here in England.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We did it. It's pretty good, you know where that is? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Why do you think I'm dumb?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know, I gotta tell you, I've heard so many
good stories about you, but that one tops it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We were in London. My wife loves the Jack the
Ripper tour. Yes, I'm serious. There's an actor or this
dude who takes you on a guided tour of the
Jack the Ripper sites. And my wife's standing there with
her mouth agape. What I'm like, come on, he's making
this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah? Did you go to the dungeons?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't go in dungeons. I just left. I sit
up there and sip Starbucks up on this.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know now, my wife always listens to those murder podcasts, right,
I mean, and for the longest time I started when
we were dating. I would remove all the pointy objects
in my house before she got there, because I'm like, honey,
I'm not going to make you mad. You know how
to hide the body.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Conrad, what did you did you go and bang on
the doors of Buckingham Palace and say let me in?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I did, matter of fact, but obviously I didn't have to,
because as soon as they saw me coming down the hallway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
They opened the door. Of course, they said, Bachmann's here.
That's right, we've come to see the Wizard. Oh, come
on in. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I used to visit that in my earlier days.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Were you shooting a film over there or you No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, but I'm getting ready to do one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's what all this is about, aren't you ninety three
years old?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now next month?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's unbelievable. You're going to shoot another film. That's why
you're growing the beard.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm playing a Confederate general. Oh, and the war will turn.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You know your lines already?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, No, you're like Brando. They have to have somebody
write the lines on cardboard.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, my age, Now I get the lines on a board. Yeah,
we'll good for the old days of soap.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's okay, they're just Q cards, that's all right. Just
you're convincing as an actor. Yes, that's just that's good
for you for uh.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, and you know.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
One of the first things they asked me why I
got to this, They said, you know, Terry Minor.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of course they did. And then I hate saying this
but you're still working at age ninety two, almost ninety three.
I'm trying, man. It's because you blew all your money gambling.
Did you betting on UK We're going to talk about
stop betting on Kentucky football and you won't lose all
your money. I thought we were going to talk about it, Okay,
See Brett, I give your dad a hard way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And right back. I mean, we don't let them stop.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I think I'm gonna tell them a story now about
you and that convertible.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't believe a word he says to people. He's delirious.
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's what you get to do at ninety three.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's delusional. I know you have a big event coming
up called Butterflies in Motion. This helps the Heiser Hearing Institute.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes it does. It helps.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It directly funds our scholarship program for all the kids
to come to our Language Academy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Explain about the Heiser Hearing Institute.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We started nineteen forty eight, seventy eight years ago, and
kids that are born deafer a hard of hearing in
Jefferson County can come to Heiser here and Language Academy
tuition free and we have all kinds of educational opportunities
for them, language opportunity, speech and hearing, everything done for free.
And so we raise money probably to the tune of
(04:14):
about one point three million dollars a year to be
able to provide that education to them so that their
parents can have them fulfill their educational dreams. And that's
got Our biggest fundraiser for that is called Butterflies Emotion,
which is a lunch event starts at eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Am on October third.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Tables are available through our website and you know, all
of the proceeds go into that scholarship program.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Is that Thehearinginstitute dot org.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes see, you're so good. You must work in radio.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I just figured this out how to run this internet
thing yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes and so, and it's actually been voted number one
daytime event for a long period of time because it's
so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I heard, it's pretty magical. And then talk about the
number of children, young people that you are helping.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, through the school, we're educating all the kids that
are born deaf, and then through our clinics we saw
I think it was around thirty two hundred children last year, right,
and now we've broadened through with the legislature and Governor Busher,
we've been able to expand to thirty one counties now,
so we have three mobile vehicles that we take out.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We just opened an office in Aez, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well yeah, you bet, and we've got another one opening
up in Morehead, Kentucky, and then our next location here
in Louisville will be on fourteenth and Broadway.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Outstanding. I think people more people should know about the
Heiser Hearing Institute. It's astounding the work that's done there.
And I just had no idea how many people were
affected in this area. Yeah, and you guys are catering
to a lot of them, and good for you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We did so about thirty or forty percent of the
clinical patients. Our children are pediatric cases and the rest
our adults are. As we like to say, we serve
everybody from twinkle to wrinkle, and a lot of that
has to do with multi generational living too, so we
can make sure that grandparents can talk to their grandchildren
and if they're helping with childcare, it helps them to
(06:15):
be able to listen in what the kids are saying
and be able to help them learn to read and
do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What I recall from the Butterflies in Motion memory is,
isn't each table like a motive of some movie or something? Right? Yes, yes,
that's a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It is fantastic. This year, we're doing it a little
bit different.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
For those people who want to decorate, We're letting them
decorate and do the whole table like what you've seen
in the past. But we've had a lot of people
that are really loyal to the event, and some of
them are like, it's been ten years. We just want
to come and support the mission and support that and
then coming in the night before to decorate table what
was fun? But right now, so what we're doing is
(06:53):
we're decorating a significant number of the tables as well,
so that people can come in and just come to
the event, not to stress themselves out about what movie
do I do?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What can I now? I know I will have a decorated.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Table, and there will be at least four or five
others that we know that will be decorated, but the
rest of them if you just want to come and
buy a table or your company buy a table, you
just come on down and then you get to enjoy
the event. We have you know, photo booths, we have,
you know, access to the videos of the kids and
what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's just a it's a magical day.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And are any of the movie themed tables ever honored
anything that your father's been in, like Tremors? Yes, had
worms all over it. We've had Tremors. We've had a
bunch of those. And you know with the whole cast
in for a table one year. Yes, we had the
original cast of Trumor's. The only one that didn't come
in was Kevin he was because he was working.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, it was actually a spectacular event. You You wouldn't
believe that Tremors came out so long ago and people
still recognize it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, that are the gay Cabalero. You know, he loves
that film.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I mean he did. I think he almost won an
Oscar for that. For the realism, that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's him. Conrad Bachwin. He's a versatile actor. He gets
shot or mulled by a bear every film that appears
so well.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Actually I remember seeing him.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He was in a TV show called Gangster Chronicles and
Bugsy Seagull came in and he's in a telephone booth.
I think I was like seven years old watching this
thing and Dad's coming out there, and then all of
a sudden he gets this and all these blood packets
are popping off on him when he's getting.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, say that again. I die great, I die great.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He does.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What a great slogan for your business code.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Conrad Bachmann, actor, I die.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Joe Quinny wipe me out in a telephone booth on
Gangster Chronicles. It was the most fun, the most best
dying I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Joe Pesci, Joe Penny, Joe Penny. That's another dude.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, he was the lead in Gangster.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You're old. You're not wearing any squibs, right, you gotta
blow up or anything in a minute, are you not?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Today?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay? Good well, happy birthday in advance. Let's have lunch
again sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Nomber twenty six.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're right, that's right, you're like Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes I get the bird.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, okay, it's great to see again. Conrad Bachman, Yeah
you too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What are we gonna get together again?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And let that tomorrow drip on you tomorrow, We'll do that.
That's right. We were eating in a place and the
ceiling was dripping on me, and I'm like, what the
from a place. Do you invite me? That's I forgot
about that now now the deal's off. That's fun is
zoom lunch?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
All right, So your event is October October third, eleven am.
Go to our website, The Hearing Institute dot org for
butterflies and mostly great Sea of Bachman. That's all back
in a few on news radio. Wait forty wha s
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