That takes me
back.
If you want to see the cheesiest show ever, even when I was a kid in the 70s and early 80s when Love American Style was on, I just watched it because I kind of had a secret crush on one of the actresses called Connie Francis.
But the way they talked, and I don't think I'm supposed to be watching the show, they talk about like swinging.
And, uh, oh, we're back together now, because my wife had to be a swinger for three months to see how it went, but now we're back together.
I was like, kid, I'm like 10 years old.
I'm like, how do you just get back together with someone after that?
She's out hitting the swinger's clubs, then.
It's just a crazy show.
I don't know what shows you were
man.
Love American Style.
I'm telling you.
And you could probably find them, like, on Prime or Netflix.
This was a big show in America.
Yeah.
Yeah, I loved happy days
yeah, that's that's fun, too I remember thinking like I think I've said this recently to someone but when I was a kid I grew up on the northwest side of Chicago in the city and I would go to pick up my buddy Billy Amato for school every day and his brothers This is a big Italian family.
They Worshiped the funds.
I still want to be the funds.
I can't pull off a leather jacket though.
I can't pull out a leather jacket.
He was cooler.
I think
when he was in the white jacket, remember like season
buses.
They would come out and one day Bill's brother was taking the garbage out when I got there to pick him up for school and they didn't even call it happy days, they called it the Fonz.
Like, did you see the Fonz last night?
Like he's like this mythical.
He's all that matters in that show.
great.
But anyway, that's a much better show.
I probably shouldn't have been watching Love American Stuff.
That's all right.
I did and it molded me and I have marital issues because of it.
But anyway.
How are you buddy?
How are you doing?
Well, this is Emerson layman joining me folks here's here in the studio.
He's one of our favorites.
He drops by from time to time weather Regardless, I
Yeah, so you made it okay You I here's what I love about having you on the show.
You're just so game for anything
Let's let's party, man.
We've got a good time.
We've talked racing.
We've talked Seinfeld.
We've talked more pickleball.
Yeah.
And I'm going to ask you tonight about that.
And
love
You have a lot of responsibility on you because you're the younger generation, you're a young buck, and you found this game that the geriatrics have sort
their own, and you're dominating, I assume.
But no, it's a lot of younger people are playing it now too, right?
You know, I like to
No doubt.
I started playing when there were not a lot of young people and...
look at all these young people now they jumped on the bandwagon so i cannot take credit for any of it but it's so cool to see and it it makes it a lot more fun when you know you go to tournaments and you're playing other people your age just you find other people to play with
your
can keep up with you yeah
it's fun do you talk about that much when you're on the air in the morning on tv is there room for that kind of i'm not usually up at that hour but i've seen clips but i've never seen you talk about pickleball
okay
your first level.
That's
funny that you
Yeah.
Yeah, ill time.
No, that's okay.
It was a good time So where do you how often you play now?
Are you part of the club in Green Bay?
I know you've been up to my hometown and play
throw you on the
know I can't forget that this time.
No, but the last time he was in Marinette.
wasn't sick I did something happen.
I forgot or something, but I'm such a homebody It's all right, and I live a half a mile from the rec center like just no excuse for me
hang out I know you don't gotta play just come hang out and that's what I was gonna do last time
gonna bring my taper quarter and do some interviews perfect
But what it could have should all right remind me though.
We got to do that
they
And you feel like when you're done, you feel like it's a workout.
Like you're sweating a little bit.
You get your heart rate
Yeah, your
You know, you're
Yeah, it's
a
good time.
Do you find that I love in the Y the Y has everything yeah, like they teach a karate class
It's like a green belt teach in
cross stitch on Fridays.
It's like they just have it's the
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, if you guys have a question for Emerson or about pickleball.
You can call us, you can text us, he will take questions.
This guy thinks on his feet, he has a bonafide professional news man, if you will.
How are things going on the morning show?
Don't think about stealing this guy.
He just slipped.
Come hang out.
But we can show you around the station a little bit.
Like this is sliding window.
I'll just reach over and touch the knobs.
All right.
When we come back, we're going to talk about a new show.
Emerson is helming at WBAY.
It's a great show.
It's a staple in the community.
You're not going to want to miss this.
It's nightlight with Peach Wobble.
We got Kailin Cole coming up tonight in studio.
And it's a bar ban Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.
Terry Barr will be here a little early tonight at 7 0 5.
We're coming right back on the Civic Media radio network.
Hey!
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody, on this beautiful snowy Friday Valentine's Day here at Nightlight where we are...
I wouldn't say there's romance in the air, but I think there's a lot of love in the studio right now.
sitting here with Emerson Layman, one of the anchors and co-hosts of the Green Bay of the WBA Y Morning Show here in Green Bay does a great job and you're here in the studio.
You're always so much fun when you're here.
You're up for anything like I say.
Always happy to hang out on a Friday night
And I met you through Conrad.
You went to
school with his older brother,
with
no.
No edgies were exchanged here, though, as I understand it.
You don't seem the type
pretty good guy.
So tell us about your new show, Emerson.
small towns.
It's a segment that's part of the action to news at six newscast.
So it airs every Thursday during the six o'clock news.
And it's a beast, man.
It Jeff Alexander was the the person who started it with a photojournalist Michael Bergman.
And it just they travel around every week to a small town and find the characters, find the stories that make these communities.
So special in northeast Wisconsin.
Yeah, and Jeff after I think it was like 30 years at WBA Y Retired moved back to is to be closer to his family in Washington State and my boss came to me and said you're taking over small towns and I Said all right.
Here we go.
I had a couple months kind of Prepare yeah, and yeah, it started we just had our seventh
My seventh story air last night.
We went to Appleton Jones Park.
They've got pickup hockey every week.
So it's just kind of finding little things like that, right?
And Appleton, not necessarily a small town, so to speak.
But, you know, you find that that small town feel like the every small town has a little ice rink or something like that, right?
And you just find these different characters, these different stories.
And it's just so cool.
I've always I've been doing news for five and a half years now.
And.
I've never considered myself like the investigative reporter, you know, digging into the hard documents.
I love those stories that showcase the good going on in the community, the ones that make people smile.
I think, I think, you know, that hard news is super important, but I think it's just as important to show the good that's taking place and wonderful people that are making the world a good place.
So to have a segment like this where I get to really focus on that and do that, it's
kind of my my wheelhouse as a storyteller.
And I appreciate the higher upset WBA why who recognized that and said, Yep, you're going to be the one that takes it over because when you step into the shoes of someone who's been doing feature storytelling for 30 years and then has built this this segment into a really recognized and
sought after segment by by our viewers.
It puts a little bit of pressure on your shoulders.
You don't want to fall on your face.
But I've been getting a lot of positive feedback, which I'm very grateful for.
Michael Bergman, the photojournalist who worked with Jeff.
He he's working with me now.
I get to work with him every week.
And he's fantastic.
He's been doing news just about as long as I've been alive.
So he knows he knows he knows what he's doing.
And yeah, it's just such a cool segment to be a part of.
And
I'm really grateful to kind of carry the torch, so to speak.
But it does sound like just
pressure, though.
Like, guys have been doing it for 30 years.
Yeah.
You put your own spin on it to kind of differentiate
Yeah.
So I try and put my little spin.
When I was on the show once, we talked about Wisconsin Adventures.
That was a series that I had been doing kind of when I first started here at WBAY and going around trying different things.
So I'm kind of meshing the two together.
I go to these small towns.
Last week, I went ice boating in Fond du Lac.
Oh, wow jumped in the back of the I wrote around on Lake Winnebago I got my cell phone up in the air trying to take pictures and it was it was such a cool experience that I would not have done had they not emailed us and said hey you might want to check this out for small towns and I I'm just trying to take people and If they can't go do it themselves like experience it through the TV or if they see something in one of these small towns We've gotten emails and letters from people saying
I went and checked this out because I saw it on on your show like that.
That's so cool.
It's it's getting these small communities the recognition I grew up in a small town.
He asked them like we talked about and I loved it when the news would come to my town growing up.
But a lot of times it was either it was either high school football or like a house fire or something was never bad.
Yeah.
And so to be able to go to these communities and talk about the positive things and highlight them in a positive way.
They get so
appreciative of that.
They're so, they're so proud to showcase their community.
And I think that's special and that's important to do, especially when you're local.
Don't you think
that's why people tune in too?
Like, I mean, if you want hard news, go, if you want to pull your hair out, go watch national news.
but it's the, and the other thing I find interesting about Green Bay News, and maybe we've talked about this in the past, there's something about this community.
people don't leave in your position.
The anchors, I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's the positive feedback they get from the community.
They don't want to give that up or whatever.
But like so many people make a career of it here.
It's a really cool place to live and to do this job because we talked about this last time I was on the show, but you know, people are watching because they share that feedback with you and that positivity.
And I love that story that you told or.
Sometimes it's not positive, but you know you deal with it.
You take your punches to It's it's a cool place to live and to work and it's just Northeast, Wisconsin is I think it's pretty up and coming man.
You've got some awesome Developments going up.
You've got these awesome cities Green Bay got the Fox Valley out like just all these like the number
one place to live for
They're they're proud of
this region in the state.
And yeah, it's cool to be able to just go around and share these stories and experience new things that I didn't even know were happening.
And I've grown up in the state.
I've lived here for I'm 28 years old.
I've lived here for 24 of the years if you don't count my four years in college.
So it's I'm almost out tonight.
And yeah, it's it's really, really special.
A little bit of pressure.
Yes.
Not going to lie.
Like you don't want to mess it up.
I I tell people if
If appointment television was still a thing, I think small towns is in that trend where people say every Thursday at six, I'm tuning in because I want to see where they go this week.
And that's I don't.
Carry that lightly like that's that's a really it's a good pressure to you're not gonna
start adding musical numbers and yourself doing some soft shoes
I hope not yeah, if we have to do that I really hope there's a good reason there's a good reason behind it I mean, maybe we'll showcase some tap dancers or something.
Oh, that could be cool I've always been kind of you know, I'll do anything on TV except wolves I do not mess with wolves if there was ever like a no no wolves or my
One that's so just came out of nowhere.
Yeah, I'll do a lot of stuff in even wolves.
No way
incredible animals.
from the alpha.
That's what I've learned
away from all of
Yeah, I'm good because they only only the top wolf the alpha is the only one who procreates So they get stronger as it's incredible.
if they could if you if somebody designed like a shark cage and you could go out in
shark cage.
You got the underwater working against you.
You've got a shark You're in jail that that terrifies me.
I hear what you're saying
like Phil on Modern Family when it comes to clowns.
can't catch his breath and he feels dizzy.
so great.
No, I'm good.
Conrad, you know that?
I didn't know.
You gotta tell everyone back in Kewaskim.
19 just on Twitter, pal.
They all love Wolves.
So you got
work cut out for you.
I respect it.
We got a text here for you, Emerson.
Todd Michaels sends in the Vlasik pickleballs, dill pickle corn puffs.
And then it looks like that's something he added where it says oddly good.
I didn't know that
thing.
Yeah.
out.
Got your new snack
can take that to the pickleball court.
We also got a text from Bridget from the 818 who says, the wedding date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney.
Her favorite romcom.
Oh, my mom sent me a text to share to answer that her favorite romcom is how to lose a guy in 10 days Matthew McConaughey, yep, and Kate Hudson, maybe yes Yeah, it's a good one.
I have never seen that all the way through mine is that awkward moment Is that what it's called?
Zac Efron Michael B Jordan Miles Teller
That's like it.
That's honestly one of my favorite movies of all time really just falls into the rom-com category.
So I gotta add that to the list.
I love miles.
It's a pretty I love that movie.
I could watch the movie over and over again.
All right.
Hey, we have a first of all when can people see the small towns?
added intermittently on this show.
And it's a quiz about Wisconsin.
It's
light Wisconsin quiz that you were a sport enough to say you would take the quiz.
And we've done this twice so far in like the last month.
Mathers here at Civic Media, one of Civic Media's own.
Yeah, yeah, three wrong.
I believe but don't let's not
they've all it's the same question for everybody pretty
he's about your age.
I'm competitive and he was only a C student.
So there's no pressure on you.
I was a D All right, so let's let's do that.
I shouldn't take this correct because I've already taken it
all right, so you're just giving me an answer sheet.
Did you circle?
Oh, no, okay.
Layman is here from the WVAY Morning Show.
He's one of our favorites.
He's in the studio and he is about to put his reputation on the line, ladies and gentlemen, take the night light with Conson Quiz.
How well does Emerson Layman know the state he calls home?
All right.
Can you ready?
All right.
I got my belt ready to number one The first kindergarten classes in the US were held in what city in 1856 at the home of a German couple I'm gonna go.
gonna?
I'll read
right.
Yep.
Is it a water town be kiosk them and see?
Green Bay or D, Sun Prairie.
I'm gonna go A, Watertown.
Double Bells, baby.
One for one out of the gate.
I like where this is going.
Number two, focusing on a group of 16-agers, lives in Point Place, Wisconsin, 50 years ago.
What's the name of the groovy Fox period sitcom that starred Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis?
Was it A, that 70s show?
B, Friends?
C, Cheers?
Or D, Black Doves?
I
Oh, man, he's giving Luca a run for his money.
I hope Luke's
All right, good point.
overconfident.
Here we go.
Number three, Delavan, Wisconsin is the location of the factory that produces what brand of rectangular chocolate mint candles?
Is it A, Mars bars, B, Twix, C, Junior Mints, D, Andy's Candies.
D, right?
Andy's Candies?
Wow.
Yeah.
I was the same way when Luke got that.
I'm like, how did you know?
Those
it was process of
I've never seen rectangular junior mints.
Yeah, number four what tear inducing satire news site was found by two founded by two students at the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1988 is it a puberty be the onion see The poke a the pope
that one Or D ESPN be the onion whoa he has four for four ladies and gentlemen Emerson layman is on a roll.
We will continue this
and see how he fares after a very short break.
Don't go anywhere.
Emerson Lehman's here.
It's a bar ban Friday night.
Terry Barr comes up.
She's on at 7 0 5 tonight Conrad.
A little early and then we have Kailin Cole at 7 35.
We're coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We've got our question of the night is what is your favorite rom-com in honor of Valentine's Day?
We've gotten some great answers so far.
Be part of the fun folks.
Let us know what your favorite rom-com is.
You can text us at 855-752-4842.
Kimber, say that name again.
Conrad, does it just come right from memory?
You have to look at it again.
Muscaday.
Muscaday.
Yeah, I'm sure you would have got it.
Kimber from Muscaday says, Wolves, sharks, same, same.
So she's in the back, Emerson.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Oh, look at Terry Barr is doing
should just pause.
She's crushing.
For a
it's going
She's got like a connection to all of the answers.
The two of my husband is from Delaware.
I love it.
All right, Terry, keep playing along with us.
He's trying to beat me.
She's getting warmed up for Barman Friday night.
All right.
So Emerson Lehman is here from the WBAY morning show here in Green Bay.
And he is in the studio tonight, as he so often is.
It's always fun when he's here and he's agreed to take our Wisconsin quiz, the Nightlight Wisconsin quiz.
He's four for four.
Yep.
OK.
So number five, here we go.
The first cheesehead was not worn at a Green Bay Packers game, but instead at a game for what baseball team?
A. Chicago Cubs, B. Fondalac, Doc Spiders, C. Milwaukee Braves, D. Milwaukee Brewers.
Is it
it's the Brewers.
the Doc
I was
the brewers.
Yeah, I
All right, all right four for five number six during the summer the population of Dork County reaches blank the number of year-round residents Is it a five times B?
20 times C a hundred times or D ten times
block.
It's D.
okay.
It's D.
10 times.
That surprised me when I heard that.
I thought it was gonna be like a hundred times because I've been there and it's just insane.
It's packed.
Yeah.
10
all right.
All right, number seven.
Soviet satellite Sputnik 4 fell out of orbit in 1962.
And while most of it burned up on reentry, a 20-pound piece of debris
Crashed to the ground in what city?
Is it A, Manitowoc, B, Madison, C, Tomahawk, or D, Kenosha?
Oh, I feel
Yes!
All right, you're back on
You should go there and check it out It's pretty cool.
I a little thing right in the street right right right there memorialize it.
All right We're
I saw you we don't
But I wasn't cheating.
I'm just being a giver I'm like you and I appreciate that but I'd like
our guest we're gonna
God.
you.
Okay.
Here we go number eight
The first ever flag day was celebrated in what county?
Ozaki.
Oh.
Is that because of Kiyosuke?
Yeah, it's close.
I
flag day.
Oh, sweet.
So I
You could chime in if you know it, go for it.
Yeah,
your breath a little bit.
Okay, here we go.
Let's see if we can get as many of these in as we can.
Celebrated on April 22nd, Earth Day was created by then Wisconsin U.S.
Senator, is it A, Gaylord Nelson, B, Aaron Rodgers, C, Tammy Baldwin, or D, Scott Lucas?
Is it Gaylord Nelson?
Yes!
Now he's back on track.
far?
Okay, so I can still
All right.
Number 10, what is the motto for Wisconsin?
A, dear or near?
B, beer for all.
C, for all.
Forward or D. Whoops.
Sorry.
Didn't see you there.
Oh, sorry.
Oh, sorry
It's
right?
did that's
All right.
We're jamming number 11.
What was the first where was the first quick trip a West Bend?
Number 12 in what Wisconsin city was the typewriter invented in 1867 a beaver dam B. Beloit C. Keel or D. Mila walk a
say that.
You want to use a
You want to call your mom?
right,
All right.
Here we go.
What is the state wildlife?
Badger is it a badger be white tailed deer is it not badger see Elker D Oreo
a yes All right, this is number 14
We got two left.
What's the highest recorded temperature in Wisconsin on July 13, 1936?
Is it A126, B114, C104, or D107?
I think people
going to
Yes!
Process of elimination, fellas.
D.
I'm sorry, D, where did that come from?
15, what famous actor grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin and played an angry green guy?
A, Willem Dafoe, B, Chris Farley, C, Mark Ruffalo, D, Harry Houdini.
Uh-oh.
Conor, we need to revisit that last question.
We're going to give it to Bo.
I forgot about Green Goblin, actually.
Dude, always so much fun.
Thank you so much.
This is a blast, fellas.
I appreciate it.
Good luck with small towns.
Thank you so much.
I love the idea.
I'm sure you're great at it.
Come back and see us soon.
Look forward to it.
All right, Emerson Lehman, ladies and gentlemen.
Check him out on the WBAY Morning Show every day here in Green Bay.
Does a great job.
We're coming right back.
It's Bar Band Friday night.
Terry Barr is coming up next on the Civic Media Radio Network.
