Chwaba.
Welcome back.
This week kickoff hour number two, broadcasting live statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay, wherever you're joining us from in the beautiful state of Wisconsin this fine evening.
It's great to have you.
We have a question of the night we're having some fun with.
It is International Pet Day.
So our question tonight is what is your favorite animal movie?
Could be a pet movie, could be an animal movie.
We've had some good responses so far.
So chime in, let us know what your favorite animal movie is.
Who said?
Who said Jurassic Park?
norm norm on the accountant?
No, no, he did say Jurassic Park because that's something he needed to see in the big screen and there's another Jurassic Park coming out and
Yeah,
It does and Scarlett Johansson begged the producers of the film to be in a Jurassic Park movie and she got her wish show season it.
That's kind of cool
My favorite animal movie.
Yeah, you know what I'm gonna I think I said Did I say the Lion King?
No, I said how to train your dragon.
Yes.
I have great
memory of going to see that with my son.
And I really liked the movie.
I also liked The Lion King.
I took my kids to see that.
But I want to talk about another film I saw involving an animal is new.
And Rob Thomas introduced me to it about three weeks ago.
The movie is called Flow.
And you can stream it now.
Well, it's on HBO for everyone to watch.
If you have HBO, it's called Flow.
And it's about a cat that gets caught up in a flood and has to survive and has to work together with other animals in order to survive.
It's just a really it's like an
an hour and 20 minutes long.
And it's just a great watch.
It goes quickly.
There's no dialogue, but it's really captivating.
And the animation is cool.
And I'm not a technical guy, but I noticed how much I liked it.
And Rob even said he didn't know how these guys did it.
I think they're Latvian filmmakers and they did this very low budget, but it's a really cool film and it's called Flow.
So I will put that into one of my answers as well.
Tom from Mimberlin says, for an education wishbone.
When?
Six minutes ago, that would have been during the news.
What do you think Tom's referring to?
Did we talk about education?
Wishbone?
Maybe you had something to do with cigars.
Give us clarification, though, Tom.
I'd love to know what you were talking about there.
Stadietti.
Chiming in a little early tonight.
I gotta say I like this.
I like when steady Eddie gets to us early Because it's fun to read his text he says Pete my favorite animal movie the blob 1958 it's my milk tubs pick of the week Wow milk duds We've talked about milk duds on the show
steady Eddie loves them
It says, Milk Dud's Pick of the Week.
He says, starring Steve McQueen.
In the movie, McQueen's girlfriend is played by Anita Corsette, who later in her career played Andy Taylor's girlfriend, Helen Crump, on the Andy Griffith Show.
It was my first scary movie seen at a theater.
Like the Giant Spider invasion, it's a pretty cool low-budget flick.
Good to know.
He says, if I ever get a dog, I'm thinking about it, I'm going to name it either seriously dude.
Seriously dude?
I like it.
Sirius is known as the dog star and is the brightest star in the night sky love it Yeah, or my other choice is Schwab of the mutt.
I love it.
That would be my mob nickname Eddie Schwab of the hut people would be scared of me if people call me Schwab of the mutt that would mean You know don't go to sleep on me because I'm coming for you steady Eddie.
Thank you steady Thank you steadfast Edward.
It's great to hear from you, buddy
Um, Tom says PBS, shown history.
Okay.
Thank you, Tom.
Um, what should we do, Conrad?
We got so many, we got so much funny stuff we gotta...
Play our sketch again?
I'm sorry.
I mean, we obtained audio.
Ladies and gentlemen, in case you weren't listening to the first part of the show, we obtained audio from the Philadelphia City Council meeting.
The mayor called an emergency meeting.
They had to get things together to get the Super Bowl parade up and running.
And they were very self-conscious about the city of Philadelphia's image.
Because as you know, people pee, puke, do other disgusting bodily function type.
things they've punched horses they've made out and Made love to police cars.
They're just the worst fans at least at least that are captured doing such things We had just a couple months ago a guy was yelling at a Green Bay Packer fan Remember that woman?
She was all decked out in Packer garb and this guy's yelling and he's calling her
He's saying the worst words
you can
say to a woman.
He's such a jerk.
And that's Philadelphia.
So they won the Super Bowl.
They had to have a parade because that's what people do.
We obtained audio of the city council meeting as they were planning the parade.
I don't know.
It didn't go that well, but let's, should we fire it up?
Yeah, let's do it.
Thank you, City Council members, for coming in on such short notice.
Now we've got a real dilemma here with this parade right around the corner.
People!
Our town's sports fans have such a terrible reputation and I want this to be a rebrand for our city.
Now we know parade attendees are going to show up and act like assholes and embarrass the shit out of us.
So what do we do to keep this to a minimum and put our best foot forward and let people know that our drunken sports fans do not represent other Philadelphians?
Sir, what if we just pleaded with everyone to act like mature adults?
That's cute.
Seriously though, I think what we need to do is try to keep certain people out of certain areas and away from the cameras where their behavior could hit national news.
It's a good idea, but what about the guy who celebrated a little too much and ended up dry-hopping police motorcycles a few years ago?
drink.
Okay, yeah, that's the whole problem right there.
I like the way you think, but I'm not ready to condone any type of vomiting just yet.
Sir, we have met with the committee friends of public urinators, and we've asked them to please tone it down.
They immediately got defensive and threatened to pee right there at that meeting.
People,
that's very noble, but we've only got so many city blocks people.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but we're forgetting about people who just want to randomly start beating people up.
Great point.
I couldn't weave one of the Super Bowl during COVID and just had a virtual parade.
You got
smooth voice.
that's unmistakable, but Great great voices in Philadelphia.
If not, you know, definitely There aren't too many crazy incidents this year though.
It didn't seem like
other than the general puking peeing and
other other types of incidents
So, all right, we have Tim Cody will be here in just a few minutes, folks.
He is the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council.
They have a big event coming up.
We're gonna talk about that with Tim.
We'll also find out what Tim's watching on TV.
Did we ask Tim last time he was here if he has a favorite military movie?
I don't remember that.
I feel like I probably did ask him that, but we'll have to find out again.
So we'll ask that.
Tim coming up in just a few minutes, he's in studio.
That's always exciting too.
We have...
What do we have Pat Healy?
What do we do with this because it was Matt Dylan's birthday this week?
completely inappropriate to say
He just wants to impress her so much Here's Matt Dillon in the week of his birthday from something about Mary.
Oh really?
Oh, where would I have seen your work?
Well, have you been to?
Let me see Santiago chili twice last year which building is yours?
Are you familiar with the Sankr Stadium?
Did you build the Estadio Olímpico?
No, just down the street.
The Celento Catellante.
Towers.
Lying is always funny.
When you know someone is lying, that's why George Costanza is like one of the greatest characters in the history of television.
Do we have time for the office space clip?
Yeah.
Let's play that.
This is one of my favorite clips from Office Space.
It involves Richard Realy, who plays Tom Smikowski.
Richard's been on the show several times.
We get to have him back soon.
But here's a great clip from Office Space.
Hello, Peter.
What's happening?
We have sort of a problem here.
Yeah.
You apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports.
Oh,
yeah.
I'm sorry about that.
I forgot.
Yeah.
You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out.
Did you see the memo about this?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I have the memo right here.
I just, uh, forgot.
But, uh, it's not shipping out till tomorrow, so there's no problem.
Yeah.
If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great.
And, uh, I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo.
Okay?
Yeah, no, I have
the memo.
I've got it.
That's right.
Hello, Phil.
That was not the clip I thought it was, but it's still a great clip.
That's Gary Cole as Lumberg was his name.
way are there that many Air Buds.
I'm not even gonna do that.
Even looking
there are of you at the time.
All right, we have the President of the Fox, the Fox Valley.
The Fox Valley Veterans Council, Tim Cody will be here.
I just call him El Presidente, but it'll be good to see Tim again.
He's in studio, folks, coming up after a very short break.
This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome
back.
Man, it is, we are zooming through a Thursday night here.
It is like the, what do we call it?
Conrad?
The Christmas Eve of weekdays.
That's it.
That's Thursday night, baby.
Tomorrow's Christmas day of weekdays.
And we have our civic media Christmas party.
That's exciting.
Yeah,
yeah, we do just a couple months after Christmas, which is just a
couple months
Our question of the night you can still get in on the fun folks is what is your favorite animal movie?
It is international pet day
And we've had some great answers so far.
So keep those coming.
And it is my pleasure right now, though, to introduce a guy who's no stranger to the show.
He's been here before.
I call him El Presidente.
He is the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council.
And he does great work here locally.
And he's in the studio with us tonight.
Again, Tim Coby.
Tim, how are
you?
I'm doing well.
Thanks for having me.
Am I the only one who calls you El Presidente?
I've had so many nicknames over the year that actually I did have one.
Well, they called me El Hefe.
El Hefe?
Oh, what does that mean again?
I used to know
it.
The boss.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
I wish I was bilingual.
I like your sweatshirt.
Thank you.
It says, for those of you watching in the stream, you can see it says the dog father.
And I thought initially that was a Snoop Dogg thing, but there's a story behind it that has nothing to do with Snoop Dogg.
Thank God, because Snoop Dogg gets enough airtime.
So tell us the thinking behind the shirt.
I love it.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, this is going to be one of the signature drinks at our March 7th Veterans Ball.
And it was actually, I kind of created it one Christmas.
When my daughters and my wife were celebrating Christmas Eve, we just got a big, uh, mastiff breed.
Oh yeah.
And, uh, we were sipping on new bourbons and the girls were asking me to make some different types of drinks, old fashioned or Christmas, old fashioned, cranberry, old fashioned, et cetera.
And we're going through that and they like that, create something different that's never been done before.
Well, that's pressure.
So I'm like, yeah, a lot of pressure.
So I'm looking through.
I have a really nice bottle of rye and I like Manhattan's.
I like old fashions.
And there's a drink called a Godfather, which is a bourbon and amaretto.
So you take those three and I kind of combined them and this kind of slips right between those three.
So it's made out of rye.
It's made out of sweet vermouth.
It's got bitters and then you do a topper of amaretto with an orange twist.
Wow and My girls tasted it.
They're like dad.
This is really really good What should we call it and they had just given me these socks that had a picture of the dog Which is this big mastiff with a cigar in his mouth and they said we're gonna call it that dog father
That sounds like the perfect drink
to get your daughters to taste test
if
they're legal age, and it's not like a sleepover for 12-year-olds.
Yeah, that's
correct.
All
right, good.
So, dogfather, I like it.
So, people will be able to get that at an event you have coming up.
Tell us about that.
That's March 7th, Veterans Ball.
Where will that
be?
That's going to be a venue 404 down in Oshkosh.
Okay.
Venue 404 is a 1920s bank.
It's perfect for the theme prohibition ball Actually Johnny Depp's movie public enemies.
Oh, yeah, some stuff that was filmed in there They actually have a 1920s theme all the time in there and they have a prohibition vault bar down in the basement And then they have a beautiful ballroom up top with a bar as well.
So It's gonna be a great event.
It's a second year.
We've done it
Last year was a pretty good success.
We're hoping this year as well.
So it's just your tickets are all inclusive.
That's the first thing you need.
Okay.
Your tickets are your donation.
So we don't ask for any more money when you come in there.
Okay.
So unlike other charity events, you go in there, you got baskets, you got raffles, you got
shaking down all
night.
Right.
Shaking down all night.
Here, just our sponsorships and our tickets raise the money.
So what I wanted it to be a little different, I wanted the people just to be able to come in and celebrate what we do and celebrate our mission and not have to worry about anything else.
So when you walk in, it's like being in a speakeasy.
Oh, nice.
And so your tickets get all inclusive drinks, all inclusive food, casino tables, jazz and dancing.
And we have James P. Conley coming to be
Uh, for about a half an hour, he's going to do a little bit in the break in the band.
He's a nationally known comic.
He's a X Marine, Harvard grad.
Uh, he's been on Netflix.
Americans got talent.
Dry bar.
Nice.
Dry bar.
Serious XM.
He's a really nice guy.
He agreed to come up and do this, uh, with us from California.
I remember the thing he kept saying when we're talking on the phone is, I don't know why I'm going to Wisconsin in March.
It could be worse.
You know, so, I mean, it's just going to be a great, great event.
We still have tickets available.
We still have sponsorships available.
So if anybody's interested, March 7th, this will be a fun time.
It sounds like it.
Where do people go to get tickets?
They can go to our website at foxvalleyveterans.org slash
ball.
Fox Valley veterans slash or I'm sorry Fox say it again Fox Valley
veterans dot org slash ball
Okay,
if you get to our website you can find it right you can find it on there And they can buy the tickets right on there.
You can do sponsorships on there We have a few sponsorships still available and we have a really cool sponsorship That we did last year which was very successful and that's sponsoring a veteran for a ticket
Oh, nice.
So you can either, if you don't know one, you can just say, Hey, I'd like to sponsor two veterans and donate and we will find two veterans to come.
Or if you have a veteran in mind, you can give us their name and buy a ticket for
them.
Oh, that's great.
And how much are the tickets?
So the tickets are 150 for standard and then.
300 for VIP.
Now the VIPs get a little bit better stuff down in that vault basement, better food, top of the line.
And they get to have a one on one with James Conn laid down.
Okay.
150.
That's Conrad.
Are you going to chip in here?
I might have to.
But if you think about it, you'll get dancing, all the drinks you want, all the foods you want, casino gambling, and a comic show.
for $150.
That's an incredible deal.
That's a pretty good deal.
And people go, oh, that's a lot for a ticket.
Not really.
Yeah.
And I'm not asking for any more money for you afterwards.
Right.
And now parking is $1,000.
We should establish that.
No, that's fantastic because it's all inclusive.
And then people can relax the
rest of the night.
People can relax the whole time.
And parking is actually very available there.
Yeah.
There's two public lots and you got public parking all along the street too.
Folks, Tim Cody is here.
He's the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council.
We'll talk more about this fantastic event he has coming up on March 6th.
Is it the 7th?
Okay, March 7th.
And we'll get into some more stuff about some veteran stuff.
We'll talk maybe a little movies with El Presidente.
He's here in the studio.
This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back.
We are hanging out with Tim Cody.
He is the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council.
He's here in the studio with me at Night Light.
And we're talking about a great event they have on March 7th.
Let's just review this, Tim.
March 7th, the Veterans Ball.
It's in Oshkosh.
Tell us where it is again.
It's at venue 404.
In Oshkosh,
okay.
In
Oshkosh.
Great night.
You can, you buy the tickets, it's all inclusive.
They're not gonna ask you for money the rest of the night.
Let me just ask you, because I feel like sometimes you hear veteran benefits get cut or they're having trouble raising money for veterans, this or that.
If people can't...
If we can't raise money for veterans, what does that say?
Do you have trouble with that?
Are you surprised that you have trouble or are you surprised how much people give?
Do you find that you struggle to raise funds?
Well, I mean, raising funds for a charity is just an all-encompassing, no matter what charity you have, almost, right?
Yeah.
Mine's a little different in that I think of my charity or the Fox Valley Veterans charity as a kind of invisible charity in that
We do physical, we do fiscal assistance, financial assistance to veterans in need.
And then we also do a lot of connections of them to get help.
So one, we try to help them in their emergency situation.
We try to keep them from getting evicted.
We try to get their teeth done.
We try to fix their car.
We try to do all that stuff, right?
But we also try to connect them.
with services because there's a reason that they're not thriving and we got to figure that out.
Otherwise, they'll just be coming back for more and more and more, right?
That's always something that you're just fighting, but I don't have any visual for that, right?
I don't take those veterans that I help and I don't put them, I don't take pictures of them and I don't put them on the TV and I don't go, oh, look at this person, he's in need and I'm going to, you know, I don't, we don't do that to our veterans, right?
So
I don't have a whole lot of visuals.
So it's a kind of an invisible charity in that sense.
We have a nice little office with three of us in there.
That's about 10 by 10 office.
So it's really, it's really cramped.
But, you know, other, other charities have buildings.
They have animals.
They have, you know, people coming off an airplane.
I mean, they've got beautiful things, nothing against that.
That's great.
Yeah.
That's what tugs at heart strings.
I have a hard time getting people to picture what we do
as
a visual.
And so, in that sense, it's hard.
We have expanded every year.
We've grown every year.
We're working hard at doing that.
We're trying to expand our reach, so we cover out of Gamy County, Winnebago County, Calumet County, Wapaka County.
We did over 35,000 in Brown County, and that's by exception.
Brown County isn't technically in our area.
That is by an exception, where we reach out
When that veterans, they're not getting the assistance in Brown County.
Um, so we will cover that.
So we've reached up into Brown County in the last two years, we've done well over 30,000 in assistance in Brown County.
Um, and now we're getting ready to reach down, uh, in a, in other counties like Fond du Lac County starting to expand.
We're starting to do more exceptions in Fond du Lac County.
So there's always a need.
I mean, I can tell you, I went in a point in time count.
You know what that is?
No point in time count is when you go out.
at one time.
And this is how the federal government kind of dishes out federal money for homelessness.
You go out into the cities and you, you count homeless people.
So our office went to Appleton and Oshkosh and we did that.
It was a sub zero night with snow.
They were over 80 people, 80 homeless folks the year before same conditions.
There was only 30.
Wow.
So almost a three time increase on a sub zero night.
That's incredible.
That, that to say, we have a housing.
We have just a really housing problem.
I think everybody's heard it.
But we really have the inflation and the housing shortage.
It's just really hit people hard.
And so, you know, that stuff's happening.
There's going to be a need for a while to do this to get it.
You can't build houses fast enough.
And when you build them, you can't get them cheap enough yet.
That takes
years down the line, you get people to move out of where they are, et cetera, those type of things.
And housing is 69, 70% of our, of our assistance.
So do I find it hard?
I find the Fox greater Fox Valley area is the most generous area I've ever lived into my entire life.
Nice.
I mean, it is a great place to be a charity and to raise money.
It's sometimes just so great because I think other charities move here because they're like, oh, it's really good.
We want
some of
that.
You have community foundations in Green Bay.
You have a community foundation in Appleton, a community foundation in Oshkosh.
You have Unitedways.
You have just, you know, many of the big corporations are just very socially responsive.
and they do great work.
They support several charities all over the Fox Valley area.
But it's still work.
I mean, it just never stops.
There's always, I'm always finding different ways to ask for money.
So what do you, what do you do when you see 80 people out in those kind of conditions?
Do you like round them up and take them to a shelter?
What's the
What's the plan there?
The other plan there when you do that is you, you, you want to ask if they will talk to you.
Yeah.
Right.
Many of them don't want to talk to you.
Right.
Of course, this is at night.
So many of them are trying to sleep.
And so there's never a real great way to do it, except at night is where you get them at their spots where they're homeless, right?
We're during the day, they're not there.
And so you can't, I mean, there are rules, whether you can count them as homeless or not.
So you have to actually find them outside of a shelter.
They're had to acknowledge themselves that they are homeless and then we try to get as much demographics and at any point in time They don't want us to talk to them or answer any questions.
We don't we just kind of move on But you just try to get as much we give them Resources if there were beds that were open and we knew their beds that were open, you know We can direct them to shelters and things like that And we just try to get as much information as you can But the purpose of the count is to get a count and then you you know
send that up through the bureaucracy to the federal government and they have some formula on how they dish out money.
Deal with it, yeah.
That is the voice of Tim Cote.
He's the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council.
They have a great event coming up here in the Fox Valley in Oshkosh on March 7th.
That's a Friday night at venue 404.
It's an all-inclusive night.
There's a comedy
There's a comedy show, comedian James B. Connelly, he'll be there, he's a vet himself, correct?
And
former
Marine and Harvard grad.
All inclusive, food, drinks, love that you have jazz, casino games, it sounds like a great night and people can once again tell us how to get tickets to him or how the veterans.
Right here.
FoxValleyVeterans.org slash balls.
Correct.
That's correct.
And we have a great MC, Dan Davies.
I was just going to ask you about Dan.
Yeah.
He's chiming in on the stream here.
Actually, I don't know that that's Dan.
I assume it's Dan because
that's Dan's movie.
So he says, Pete, who is hosting the prohibition ball?
So Dan is either hammered right now and completely forgot he took the gig or he's just trying to get some help you promote the event, which is fantastic.
So Dan, good luck tonight.
Or that night break a leg.
He says, you may be interested after you ask Tim Cody.
Also, is that a two?
You're wearing on your head.
I've had this hat for like 20 years and my son's like, dad, you can never get rid of that.
It's past the point of I want to get like a derby.
Kind of like you're wooby.
But it's warmer
because in this kind of
weather, I'm always cold even in the studio.
Dan, thanks for watching and good luck.
We hope you break a leg and don't be funnier than the comedian.
I don't know if Dan's funny.
You know, he's a very good actor.
He's a great guy.
He's been on the show several times.
Yeah, to me, Dan is funny.
And I met him at the Appleton Cigar Company, who is another great supporter.
That's right, where Dan and I met.
And he volunteered his services.
So after five minutes of conversation, I was going to take that up.
That was for sure.
He has never volunteered to give me Jack's squad.
So I hope you feel.
Very sad.
I feel privileged.
No, Dan's very talented actor here in Northeast Wisconsin.
Just another reason to check out the veteran's prohibition ball.
And it sounds like a great event.
You know, we had a veteran on the other night, Tim, named Jason Moon, who is you probably know JB Thompson.
I do know JB.
JB's the guy behind the guy.
That's what I call him.
He sends a lot of guests our way.
It's really fun.
Conrad, you taking off?
Geez, what is this?
He's like trying to get us to slow dance or something.
But Jason is a musician and has a group called warriorsongs.org and they teach veteran healing, encourage healing through music and
arts and all
that.
It's so great.
I encourage you to check it out.
He was a great guest, wasn't he, Khan?
Yeah,
he was.
Yeah.
And a very good musician.
So, all right, so that sounds great.
pitch this one more time before you leave him.
But right now it sounds like how many tickets are left?
How many are you trying to move?
We can take up to 150.
Okay.
So I could still we're probably just at about 70 right now.
Okay.
So we got some room.
Yeah.
We it always
Makes me nervous.
This is what happened last year, too You know, you get a bunch of tickets in the last two weeks But you know, I have to start giving numbers out to my to my caterer and everybody else coming and So if you're thinking about it, I'm just telling you The whole vibe of this is great Everybody shows up in character.
And so it's and it's really easy to do
Right,
it is I can tell you for a guy as he needs is like puts the spenders on in a newspaper hat or something like that He looks like he's you can go get a striped suit at goodwill And for the ladies my wife bought five dresses last year from Amazon it didn't even cost her 125 bucks She turned three back in kept us the second one because she knew we'd be doing it a second year They can get fat little boas for the hats and stuff like that for their heads feathers and
It's in today's environment.
It's easier for them than, than the guys to get dressed up.
You know what you should do?
You got to have like a speakeasy password.
Remember like in the old movie, they're not going
to shave an haircut.
We're working on that.
We're working on that.
That venue 404, if you're listening to Jim, venue 404.
He's, he's the owner has a, a alleyway door with actually a cage thing on there.
And for two years, we've been trying to do that and get him to do that.
But you know,
You got to go all the way down to the balls of the basement and come around and it comes out into the vault speakeasy bar.
And so that would be perfect.
But, you know, they worry about insurance and it's too dark and they've got a lot of storage and stuff down there from renovating and things like that.
But we're working on getting that cleared out so that we like, hopefully next year, if we do the same thing, they would have to come up through the alleyway.
They'd have to have that password, knock on the door and then make their way down just like a real speakeasy.
Other than that,
You're coming into the front door this year.
I thought this was really cool because last night we had a Marinette Wisconsin-themed show.
Everyone on the show that was a guest had some tie to Marinette.
Tonight...
It seems like cigars and veterans between you and Norm, and now you got Dan on the stream.
Oh, it's JB, actually.
Yeah, JB.
He's trying to get some publicity.
Or he's throwing JB out of the box.
Who knows?
Both good guys.
Who cares?
Great to have you guys with us tonight.
And I think so.
This is a connection, too.
And you, like Norm mentioned earlier when he was here, when they do smoke on the Fox, those benefits go to the Fox Valley Veterans
Council, right?
That's pretty cool.
I make a lot of connections at the Appleton cigar company and up a prohibition here in Green Bay as well.
Okay.
You know, it's an area where a lot of veterans can go and they can relax.
Yeah.
You know, they can sit down.
They can talk.
They can, as we say, shoot the shit.
You know what, Tim?
I've had about enough of your nonsense.
We're on
live
radio.
He's a veteran people.
He has a carte blanche.
We can look the other way.
Right, Conrad?
And
JB also I've met there too.
Yeah, JB.
So let me ask you this, Tim.
What can people do if they can't go to this or they're not veterans themselves, but they want to help veterans or help the cause?
What's the best course of action for John Q. Public who wants to do something?
Well, he could become a sponsor.
We have sponsorships that are available and they're on the website.
So that's always helpful.
If you want to help a veteran for this event, you can sponsor a veteran ticket.
Yeah.
That's on our website.
So you can go in and you can actually buy a ticket.
If you know a veteran that is willing to go, first of all, they need to be willing to go, right?
And they got to do it, right?
We don't want to waste tickets on people who don't show up.
And you can buy a ticket for them and we'll get it to them.
Or if you don't know a veteran, we have veterans that are waiting in the wings to receive tickets.
If we get more applications, then we'll do a drawing.
If we don't get more applications, then we'll give out the tickets that have been sponsored and veterans can go for free.
That sounds great.
Let's encourage everybody to do that.
That's a great way to do it.
Can you stick around after a short break because I can't let you leave Tim without asking what you're watching on TV or if you have a favorite military movie?
Sure.
Maybe?
Yeah.
Think about that during the break, okay?
Okay.
We'll read some texts.
If you want to get in on the fun, folks, you got a few minutes.
What is your favorite animal movie?
It's National Pet Day.
National
love your pet love your pet day.
Yep.
Well, that's implied If you hate your pets, let us know that too and let them let us know why they're such jerks All right, Tim Cody is here.
We're coming right back We'll have a few more minutes and we will close this thing down.
This is Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the civic media
radio
A.J.
in the 608 says, Hi Pete, I love Babe and Homeward Bound equally, but Homeward Bound made me cry every time at the end.
I have to see this movie.
Have you ever seen Homeward Bound, Tim?
It's like from 1993.
It's a dog, right Conrad?
Homework yeah, I believe it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just see that dog that got lost the maze way back
probably yeah AJ says a good kind of cry Bridget from the 818 says I loved the movie babe Great memory movie did it win an Oscar.
I just looked at up Bridget during the break.
It did win an Oscar for best visual effects So there you go.
It's still an Oscar and
JB or we're up to our stream our stream text as well.
It's either Dan or JB texting.
We don't know who's throwing you under the bus Tim Cody is here.
He's the president of the Fox Valley Veterans Council and They have a great event coming up on March 7th.
We'll make one little one more pusher They still have tickets folks and it's for such a great cause.
It's at venue 404 in Oshkosh The cost of admission gets you in and there are no other expenses.
It's all you can eat drink comedy show
What else, Tim?
Casino games, swing music.
Just a really good time.
And there'll be prizes, by the way.
We have some really nice prizes.
We've got signed football for from Brett Farve.
We got a sign, another signed football coming in.
We've got some jerseys.
We've got some Packer swag.
We've got some good bourbon that's going to be given out.
That's going to be for probably from the casino game winners.
Nice.
Do you need me to sign a football to auction?
Sure.
Well, I got a nerf in the car.
Let's do this.
Let's
do that.
Why don't you sign the hat and then give it.
Give it a two?
Give it a two?
No way, man.
This
does not leave my head.
Tim, so as you know, you've been here before.
We talk movies and TV a lot on the show.
Do you have, you're in the military for 28 years, proud army veteran.
Correct.
Are you still?
Am I still better?
I'm still.
I'm still better.
But are you okay?
You're retired.
Okay.
Yeah.
So what is your favorite military movie?
It'd have to be probably Private Ryan for World War II.
That was great.
I loved it.
The realism, great actors.
If you look back in there, it's funny.
I didn't realize it when, you know, I first saw it, but now you look back and you see how many
Actors got their shot and they're all those young young kids got their start.
That's really cool.
I love American sniper.
I really attached to that because I was over in Iraq during that time frame when he was actually doing that stuff.
I was working on I don't know if you remember the scene where he was going after the sniper and they were building T walls.
T walls were the big cement walls that you saw them putting up.
The engineers were putting them up and a Iraqi sniper was trying to take the engineers out.
I actually had to work on the contract for those T walls to get them.
Oh, wow.
There's a little thing called a, whether it's a system or an individual thing, that T wall itself is an individual hunk of concrete.
There's an argument you may, when you connect it, it creates a system.
And then that's a whole different color of money to use.
And we didn't have that color of money in Iraq to use.
So I had to write.
I had to fight to get that so we could put those T-walls up and argue that these are individual and this is not a system that we're paying for because it was millions of dollars.
Yeah, right.
So that gave you kind of more of a connection to that movie in a weird
way.
Oh, yeah.
He and I were over there at the same time.
I was actually in Ramadi when he was also in Ramadi and in Fallujah and and and and then in Sotter City area.
So I didn't know him.
I mean, I've never I've never met him, but
anything that during the time periods where I served, you know, you just kind of connect and you can.
Oh, Chris
Kyle.
I was thinking this was the Mark Wahlberg.
This is the Bradley Cooper played Chris Kyle
and he was
a famous American sniper.
Yeah.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Okay.
So I have not seen that one.
I saw, I saw the Mark Wahlberg one
and
then the TV show with Ryan Felipe that is not that great.
But so saving private Ryan though would probably be your top.
It's great.
Saving pride.
Ryan is great.
That first 20 minutes of that film, I look, this is me in my chair, like so real looking.
It's horrible.
It's very rare.
It shows the horror of, of combat and, um, you know, just what somebody experiences as they're watching it happen in front of them, right?
Absolutely.
And, uh, but not in a grotesque way and not.
not glorifying
overly gratuitous,
just like showing them.
It's just showing it.
It shows real, real courage, real heroes.
There's not the stupid unlimited clip of ammunition that never ends, you know, people shooting from their hips, you know,
and never getting shot themselves.
That is the worst.
And that's why, like, I like to show Reacher, but my God, like there's
10 guy shooting enemies 20 feet away.
It's like, I know he's strong, but come on.
It's sort of ridiculous.
Are those the kind of movies you typically like Tim or what else have you seen that you could recommend or a TV show or anything like
that?
I like all kinds.
I mean, I loved Yellowstone.
I love the Yellowstone area.
I was a big, I remember when Sopranos first came out in HBO.
Yeah.
And I think, I think that was the first
version of that type of TV show.
Yeah, right.
It took a mini series and an extended it.
And if you see almost every show copies that, right, they have a cool hunk of music in the beginning to introduce every single show does the exact succession.
Yellowstone, right.
They all do it, right?
And they have the, you know, it's so I like those.
What if I other things I watch lioness.
Of course, that's another military.
That was a really good one.
I just finished agency, which is really good.
I
just finished that too.
I
like that too.
It
started slow, and then it got
pretty good.
Tim, this is really fun.
Thank you.
Don't be a stranger.
Before you do your next event, please let us know.
And good luck on the seventh.
It's a great event.
Go to foxvalleyveterans.org slash ball.
Find out more information about this cool event.
And it's for a great cause.
And keep up the great work, my friend.
Thank you.
And thanks for having me on.
Any
time.
Thank great having you in the studio.
Thank you also to Norm Kepesky.
All your texts and calls, great when you guys are part of the show.
On behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night
Wisconsin.