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Wonderfully Wisconsin (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Mar 14, 2025
Let's light it up, folks.
We got an hour to go here in our nightlight week here.
Great to have you with me.
We've had some great texts.
Our question of the night in honor of International Pie Day.
This is the wrong kind of pie, but it's more interesting than math pie.
What is your favorite kind of pie?
We've had so many great suggestions.
I've forgotten that some of these exist.
Starting with Key Lime, which seems to be almost the consensus, I would say.
Paul, do you have a favorite kind of pie?
There is only one correct answer here, and that is in Southern Door County going and getting a Belgian
That's a popular one, but prune, poppy seed are more the traditional flavors.
Wow.
I have to tell you, that does not sound appealing on any
No, no, a cherry.
A cherry Belgian.
Okay.
But they make prune pie.
That is the traditional flavor.
No kidding.
Prune and poppy seed.
Yep.
I am curious.
I do kind
Oh, yeah.
Fig Newton's never looked appealing to me when I was a kid.
I always thought, why would you do that when you give chocolate and all that other stuff?
But that does sound interesting.
Paul Vandenblas is my guest here.
He is the founder of the Wonderfully Wisconsin channel.
It is fantastic.
Check it out.
We are getting through your text.
How are we doing on TextCon, right?
All right.
Well, that's I wonder which one we're closer to.
Hey, we've got a fun week coming up next week on Night Light, folks.
Some great guests, as usual.
Todd Michaels will be here.
We're going to be talking about aliens, which supposedly exist now, according to a new documentary.
Todd will set the record straight.
Dave Hansen, the brewmaster at Flix Brewhouse in Madison will be joining us.
Christina Laurie from Up North News does great work.
Scott Klase.
actor from the show, Bosch Legacy, who has been on every single season is going to join us on Wednesday, Rob Thomas.
Mike Toomey makes the popcorn pick of the week, a really fun week next week too, but we got a whole hour to go here before we fully embrace the weekend, and Paul the In-N-Plus is helping us do that right now.
So Paul, I had a big question for you.
So, I don't know where to start.
Let's talk about your videos.
Before we get back into some of the more fun food stuff, how much effort goes into that?
When you're cutting like Rob Brackenridge was here last night, comedian from Appleton, he did a quick video with us and he said, well, I have to edit it first.
Now I've edited things, but never.
TikTok videos or Instagram videos.
How much work goes into that?
How long does it take?
Quite a bit, you know, for a one minute video, because that's what I try on TikTok.
It's right around a minute.
So I would say there's probably 45 minutes to an hour worth of editing, voiceover work, choosing the correct audio,
it's like I choose my music and it's whatever music is going to be the feel for that video.
So it takes about an hour.
just for editing no
Yeah, I don't know how some people do movies.
I can't even imagine now.
understand why that takes six months.
That's why it's more appealing when you make little, like, they used to be vines, and then there was Twitch, Tic Tac Now is the big thing, but yeah, it seems like it would be more rewarding to shoot something and have it up that day, like boom, you know?
Do you get to eat for free when you go to some of these places?
Nope.
Do they notice you?
No?
No, and that's okay.
I'm there to support these small businesses.
So I'm just happy to do that.
Oh, nice.
I have not done that
And what's cool about the Apostle Islands is if you go in summer, it's a completely different experience than if you go in winter.
Right.
So it's so cool.
And they have those caves there.
You get
No, I'm I'm Belgian.
Oh,
so we'll specifically Wallonian Belgian.
So that's getting real deep Wisconsin.
Wow.
So that's where my family heritage and I grew up eating those pies from that area.
And I love them.
Is it
Like, nobody ever, oh that guy's Belgium.
Honestly, that's like, you guys are friendly and there's no, you don't have any, you don't really carry any baggage into a new friendship when you tell someone you're Belgian, right?
No, no, we got, we're known for our beer and chocolate, so hey.
And waffles.
Waffles, that's right.
All right, there you go.
What is the most bizarre place in Wisconsin you've seen?
Oh God, that's gotta be House on the Rock.
Yeah?
Yeah, that place is wild.
Oh, yeah, it's it's so odd just but you're kind of in awe when you
it's just it's so different It's different way different than anything you'll ever see all right best micro brewery Boy, let's go with Omega Brewing works in Omrol.
It's the tiniest tap room you've ever seen I think they can fit maybe 10 people in it But
are actually starting to win awards for some of the best beer coming out of Wisconsin
So
about them.
Go there.
Go
of the 10.
All right.
Favorite city
Oh man, that's tough.
Let's go with Eau
Crosse, La Crosse.
I mean I mean La Crosse.
I accidentally said Eau Claire, but for me La Crosse it's For the size city that it is it seems so much bigger.
Okay, and their downtown is incredible
It's a really good foodie city, so if you're looking for good restaurants, they have a number of breweries there.
If you're an active person, a ton of opportunities for hiking
everywhere, getting out, doing kayaking on the Mississippi fishing.
Just incredible.
It's incredible.
All right, so.
Paul, ladies and gentlemen, Paul Vanimplos is here.
He is the founder of Wonderfully Wisconsin.
Check it out on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.
He's got quite a following.
His videos have gone viral.
I've never even gotten a sniff of a viral video.
In fact, when I see other people's viral videos, they just get pulled.
It's like I'm a cancer for viral videos.
Paul has agreed to take our Wisconsin quiz.
And again, now this is not...
There's no studying required, Paul.
I think you'll probably do OK.
We've had some people crush it and a couple of people that just did OK, but it's just a fun quiz.
So it's multiple choice.
All right.
And Conrad, you get the bell ready.
All right.
Paul Vanipas, founder, wonderfully Wisconsin.
Taking the new, we should rename this, the wonderfully Wisconsin quiz.
Do you have any sponsorships open for?
Sure.
Absolutely.
Boy, I think that's
Where's my bell?
You gotta go stereo on that.
Where's the bell?
All right, one more time, Conrad.
Ready?
All right, Paul is one for one.
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?
That's 70 show.
I do believe that's Andes.
All right, number four, no peeking poll.
What tear inducing satire news site was founded by two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988?
The one, the only, the onion.
Bam!
What else is ears ringing?
Alright, number five.
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. Fondle X Spiders.
C. Milwaukee Brewers.
I'm sorry, C. Milwaukee Braves.
D. Milwaukee Brewers.
That's a Brewers.
How did you know that?
Oh, I'm a big baseball fan.
Okay.
Guess I believe you all right number six Paul is five for five crushing the wonderfully Wisconsin quiz aptly named for his his endeavors 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 D ten times Boy, that's tough.
I'm gonna go with a 20 times.
I'm sorry Paul.
It's D ten times.
I would have
This is embarrassing the first time I saw that I would have guessed a hundred times because I've been there in the summer Oh, it seems like it really does and ten doesn't seem like that much, but it really is though.
Well, all right You're still doing very well.
I would say you're what is five out of six.
That's like a b-plus, right?
Soviet satellite Sputnik 4 fell out of orbit in 1962 and while most of it burned up on re-entry, a 20-pound piece of debris crashed to the ground in what city?
Do I even have to read them?
No, I stood right on the spot.
It's Manitowoc.
Isn't that cool?
Yeah, right in the middle of the road.
It's cool.
Manitowoc is correct.
When I went there, I thought there was going to be more like a big plaque and pictures and it's just this little round ring in the because it's in the road.
They can't do much, but
It's really cool to see that.
They have a festival
Sputnik Fest, and it's one of the funkiest festivals in the United States.
It really is.
I judged the costume contest there last year, and I don't know what happened, but I wore shorts, it was October, and I think I got hypothermia because everybody else there was in costume.
I don't know what I was thinking, but it is a really fun festival.
All right, number eight.
Paul is six for seven, Conrad?
Seven for eight.
Seven for eight.
No, because we've only read seven questions.
Oh, man, let's go with Ozaki.
It's probably Dane.
Wow All right, Paul is seven for eight.
I think if you get nine for ten everybody needs to go follow wonderfully Wisconsin right now Just a suggestion, right?
It's a good way to help
All right, how we doing on time?
Can we keep you through one more quick break?
It's like
Okay.
I know you want to stay but all right Number nine celebrated on April 22nd Earth Day was created by then Wisconsin US senator a Gaylord Nelson be Aaron Rodgers C. Tammy Baldwin or D. Scott Lucas believe that's Gaylord Nelson Wow
Bells to go around.
All right, we're going to stop right there.
We're going to do a very quick break.
And then Paul's got six more questions.
We got to be able to bang that out in the last segment before the news.
Paul Vandenplatz is here, folks.
Check him out at Wonderfully Wisconsin.
Great channel.
We're coming right back.
What is your favorite kind of pie?
Kate from the 715 says chocolate pie.
That's a great answer.
No derivative.
Just chocolate pie.
If there's chocolate and pie, I think I said chocolate cream pie initially.
Yeah.
Before.
Key lime reared its beautiful head Bridget from the 818 says my favorite pie is pumpkin pie with lots of whipped cream on Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day and any other day during the year the best well that narrows it down thank you Bridget from the 818 those are great texts Terry Barr coming up in just a few minutes after the news for a bar band Friday night love the music Terry is bringing tonight and can't wait to talk to her about that but right now we have a few more minutes with our new friend Paul Vandenplatz who is taking our Wisconsin quick
And is he nine for ten Conrad or eight for nine eight for nine eight for nine All right, you ready bud.
All right number ten What is the motto for Wisconsin a deer are near B beer for all C forward D. Whoops.
Sorry.
I didn't see you there
as much as I want to answer D. It's it's C forward
Paul van de Blas, check out Wonderfully Wisconsin.
He's here in the studio tonight taking the, this might be the first time we've ever given this quiz in person.
Yeah, I think so.
It's true.
I'll mark this day.
Paul, big day.
Where?
Number 11, where was the first quick trip?
Eau Claire.
I'm not surprised you got that one.
In what Wisconsin city was the typewriter invented in 1867?
Was it A. B. Verdam, B. Beloit, C. Keele, D. Miloque?
That's tough.
Let's go with Milwaukee.
Damn.
Instincts.
He's embarrassing us, Conrad.
I'll go back to the drawing board here.
What is the state wildlife animal?
Is it A. Badger, B. Whitetail Deer, C. Elk, D. Oriole?
Badger.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Why don't life animals?
That's probably the white tail deer.
That's a tough one.
That one in the typewriter.
I'm surprised you got the typewriter, because I don't think I would have gotten that one.
But that's the white tail deer.
All right, so Paul is 11 for 13.
Very respectable.
Number 14, two more questions.
What was the highest recorded temperature in Wisconsin on July 13, 1936?
Probably D107.
It's B-104.
Oh, man.
I'm going to give you just a complimentary.
11-14, still nothing to sneeze at.
Number 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.
Oh, that's Mark Ruffalo.
Yeah, nice.
Close and strong.
12-15, not bad, Paul.
That was a very respectable showing.
Hey, this has been fun.
We have a couple minutes left.
And what I usually do when people come on the show, we talk about TV and movies a lot.
Have you seen anything lately that you're excited about when it comes to binge watching or a movie you saw or a kid's movie?
You got two kids.
Yeah.
I would say just Wisconsin theme, green and gold.
Yeah.
Incredible movie.
good.
Very good.
But no, my wife and I are watching Severance.
Unbelievable.
It is good.
all I know.
I don't know.
The cinematography is great on it.
There's just elements of comedy that are just worked deep into it.
You know, it's nothing slapstick.
You know, it's none of that.
Yeah.
And it's a very deep thinking show.
You could rewatch it five times and you'll just notice different things.
It is so good.
So you guys like the same TV
Oh, yeah.
nice.
It's great.
If you find a good show, you just, when the other person's out, you like watch all the shows.
It's very unfair.
So I applaud you.
All right, so let's say, all right, last question for you, Paul.
What is the most, I think you kind of already answered this, most beautiful area of the state.
Did you, did I ask you that?
Driftless the drift it's driftless so you make your home in Appleton now What's your favorite?
Got a couple more minutes Conrad what can we ask Paul?
What's your favorite small town 100,000 and 100 and 4,000 what's population Green Bay 107 Favorite
small town of Wisconsin.
Oh boy.
That's a loaded question Well, I particularly like Pulaski.
I went
school there and just a great farming community real
everybody knows everybody, but in a good way.
It's
too in your business.
And being a part of a farming community, you really get to see what real Wisconsin is like and how giving people are here.
So I will always be forever grateful to have experienced growing up in a small
Oh yeah, my best friend since...
first grade he he lives there his whole family's from southern door county his parents met at southern door high school you know like uh so i spent a lot of time in southern door county um brussels nummer area
Oh, I'm gonna figure that
Awesome.
But likewise.
Thank
Yeah, I love coming on here and just gonna talk about
Wisconsin and what a great place it is.
Appleton.
I think it's a little bit quieter than
And and there's a lot, you know, it's a good foodie city.
there's just a lot going on nothing against Green Bay
catch a teagrass game,
know
It's definitely quieter.
We sit here and we have mufflers going by outside here.
We have to re-record stuff all the time.
All right, Paul Vana, plus this has been a pleasure.
I hope you come back sometime and we're going to...
We're gonna tweak that quiz.
We'll get something going.
Continue success with wonderfully Wisconsin follow him folks on all the platforms We're coming right back on a bar ban Friday night with our friend Terry bar that's next on nightlight with peach wabba on the civic media radio
network
Leave it alone Well I spent all that day Fixing up to go somewhere Thought I was late And I found she wasn't there
Now your host Pete Chwaba and special guest Terry Barr.
It's kind of like Terry and I are kind of co-hosts of Bar Band Friday night.
I feel like I have a really fun, cool co-host for...
30 minutes every week when Terry Barr is here.
She's the host of Max, St.
Gradio with Jimmy and Rocker and they do a great job.
She joins us here every Friday night at 735 for Bar Band Friday night.
Great to have you, my friend.
I was in Madison for three days this week and it was, I think it was 70 on Monday or Tuesday.
I don't know.
It was beautiful, though.
And it's.
Warmer in Green Bay today.
I think that it is in Milwaukee.
Oh Yeah, I mean not that Milwaukee's a tropical paradise.
I'm just saying like you know, we're a little farther north.
I don't know How are you tonight?
And it's fun because we talk about fun stuff as the Maxine crew always says we unplug from politics for at least a few minutes.
Absolutely.
So it's great to share music with everyone and to get the appreciation for local original music, which I love.
I had no idea there was this much local talent music-wise in Wisconsin.
I don't know how you, every week you show up with someone new that I haven't heard of and they're great.
And not that I'm Mr. Music, but I've, you know, I just feel like I can't believe there are this many undiscovered artists and maybe on some level they are discovered, but I feel like they should be huge, you know?
I
They are also in a million other projects as everyone is.
But each of them brought the name to the band representing one of them.
And rarely do you understand or get to know
which one is which in chocolate or bottle rockets?
Um Beth Killie
is the main artist in this group.
Beth is in four bands in the Madison area.
She also does Girls Rock Camp Madison and Ladies Rock Camp Madison.
So she is so willing to share her talents with everyone else who wants to learn how to be a musician or at least be a musician for a week or a weekend.
I, yeah, I feel so fortunate to know Beth.
Um, they moved away.
Her husband is a doctor and they moved away when he was doing his internship and I was so happy when they came back.
He's a musician too.
They actually met in the UW Madison marching band.
Oh, that's great.
That's fantastic.
Speaking of local.
Yeah.
Um, and this is great.
They all sing.
Oh, and by the way, if you scroll down the website, it's gin, comma, chocolate and bottle rock.
So we can keep trying to guess.
All right, so you sent three songs.
We picked two.
We put our heads together.
I liked both of the originals.
And I love the cover they did.
So why don't we start, Khan, with one of their originals?
This is a song called Lean, Terry.
Is this OK if we start with Lean?
All right, let's lean.
They slapped your wrist when you slammed the door told you girl don't you make a scene
music made you cry and at the times you had to dance and sing you
heard the big girls
No, their original music is incredible.
And what a showcase of vocals from these women.
Again, I mentioned to you, Pete, Beth Kealy, this is her fourth band, along with all the other projects she does.
She is a Verona person now, but originally from DPR.
Jen Farley.
This is her third music project.
She's in Madison now, but originally from Cleveland.
And then Shawnee Marks.
She also has, this is her third project.
She's a Baraboo girl.
through and through, but they play every instrument you hear, which is ridiculous.
Is this the kind of trio Terry that would be willing to come into the studio in Madison when Peach Wabba's in town?
They would probably love it, Peach Wabba.
Well, seriously though, what they just need, they almost sound like they could do acapella, but would they just be fine with acoustic guitars?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that'd be so great.
Thank you for that.
That was a great song.
Let's hear.
OK, so now they have such great like original stuff, Terry.
Yes.
You sent a song, Sweet Dreams, which is a cover.
Why?
I'm just curious why they would cover.
Maybe they like the song.
I don't know.
But that's interesting to me when a band with such good original music goes with the cover.
Outside of
When I saw Sweet Dreams, that's a famous song by the rhythmics.
And when it started out, I'm like, I think that's the rhythmics, Sweet Dreams.
But they had a cool arrangement with it, too.
It sounds really good.
So we will hear that song next from Jin Chocolate and Bottle Rockets.
It is a bar band Friday night.
Our friend Terri Barr is here.
Check her out every Saturday night, almost every Saturday night, from Max Inc Radio here on the network from six to midnight every Saturday.
Do they still replay it on Sunday?
fantastic All right, we're gonna do a very quick break here Dave on the stream says there is a what is it norsky nook Conrad in DeForest Yes, so and then Terry our pal our mutual parent pal Craig Knit says hi Terry
Hey, Pete, stop over.
Then he says, hey, Pete, stop over at the Tarleton before you head home, meet Bill Rubane.
Oh, I wish I could tonight.
Green Bay Film Festival happening right down the street, folks.
Check it out this weekend.
Conrad's
dad
Steve from Florida says best key lime pie in Key West is porkies in Marathon Key, 40 miles north of Key West.
They were the first to claim the title back in the day.
Steve continues anyway.
We are actually at a pie party.
Get together tonight in our little community over over 70 different pies at the party very sugared At this point your dad's tripping on sugar right now.
I'm so jealous.
Do you
That's interesting.
All right.
So here, we have a second song.
This is the song.
This is Gin Chocolate in Bottle Rockets.
It's a bar band Friday night.
Terry Barr from Maxink Radio is here, as he often is on almost every Friday, pending vacation days.
Gin, chocolate, and bottle rockets.
Love the title.
We heard Lean, and now we're gonna hear Sweet Dreams.
Ooh.
Very exciting.
Conrad hit it, buddy.
Sweet dreams are
Travel the world and the seven seas.
Everybody's looking for something.
They are also playing the mama cares fundraising show in Madison.
OK, that's coming up March 30th.
So we have been featuring bands playing that show.
They are one of the bands.
But by summer, they're going to be playing everywhere.
They play a lot of vineyards.
Oh, OK.
Hey, before it seems to be a favorite spot outside open air.
The Bammies are in the second year in the Green Bay, northeast Wisconsin area.
That show, oh my gosh.
Pete, it's grown to two nights, one night last year.
For the first year, it's only the second year, two nights, March 19th and 20th at the Tarleton.
Find it all on the Tarleton website.
Oh my gosh, it's gonna be so much fun, so much great live music in Green Bay.
Wisconsin.
Oh, take me to your best friend's house.
I love you, lady.