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Magic with Lou Lepore (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Mar 20, 2025
That's me ladies and gentlemen.
So great to have you with me on Night Light Tonight, folks.
I am Pete Schwab, your host, Conrad.
Conrad Krueger.
we doing?
Riding shotgun.
I don't know.
I never know.
I always want to say Krueger still to this day, but I managed to muscle through your last name, because I have a last name like Schwab, so I get it.
We just made our popcorn pick of the week, folks.
On borrowed time.
starring Lionel Barrymore by The Great Mike Toomey.
The hilariously funny Mike Toomey, who is on the phone with us right now, our question of the night, which I did ask Mike, and he said eggplant parmesan, is what is your favorite Italian dish?
It's national ravioli day.
It's about time ravioli was recognized as one of your better, if not organically cool looking pastas.
I say straight up linguine with garlic and oil, extra garlic.
Conrad said the pizza.
the crazy Italy pizza with the really designer pizza.
All delicious.
No wrong answers.
There are only your answers.
But let us know.
Be part of the show and we'll read your text on the radio.
Mike, I have to ask you.
You said, all right, we played your bit, the public service announcement you did years ago.
When was that?
For the marijuana.
Okay.
And you can't use that anymore.
Yeah, that was a, you know, something that got shot down.
But let's say you shared that with us like a year ago and we were able to dig it up.
Can we play it or will that get you in trouble?
Not while you're on the show, but just as a public service announcement when it comes to marijuana
to
warn
people.
I suppose if you were able to find it, I don't know where it is, but we did it like how many years ago?
It's all over four years ago.
Wait, that's when you wrote that Which bit are you talking about careful though?
You can't stop that train with your face.
Oh Yeah, no that
I'm sorry.
We were talking about two
different.
Okay
that one I can I can get no you can play that one.
Okay, of course
we have it somewhere in the nightlight archives
We have somewhere, right Conrad?
Or should we have Mike resend that at some point?
If you don't mind sending it, Mike, in the near future, we can, we can, I just want to get the word out about marijuana.
I think
it's
very
dangerous.
I'm happy to do that, yes.
I don't even smoke it.
And I still, I'm not, you know, you do a lot of drugs, right, Mike?
Oh
yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right now I am.
That's why I'm such a bad
guest.
Anything to get through this interview, Pete.
So all right, so we had a text or someone emailed the show.
And I have to find her name here.
But she asked about Kirk Rocker.
This is a character you do.
And I was her name is Jules Smith.
And I'm surprised I didn't know about this character because we've been friends for so long.
I feel like I know, you know, you do all these great characters.
Tell us about Kirk Rocker.
Well, Kirk Rocker is a takeoff on like every shock stock who thought he was like, you know, just being outrageous.
And all he was doing was like swearing, you know, on the air, like he felt like he was pushing it.
And he would, and you know, he would just, he
would talk like this and say, man, you know, I'm just telling the truth.
That's all I'm doing.
All these other asses on the air, man, they're just kissing the corporate ass man.
And the guy, he says the word ass all the time and tries to work that in was like,
all these, all these ass monkeys out there, you know, sitting there walking the corporate line and kissing the corporate ass.
Well, I just told the truth.
Mike Desitel on the stream just asked, can Mike do his Batman impersonation?
You got some Batman for us?
And if not, that's okay, because we have a clip we can play.
I'm more than happy to do it, citizen.
Mike Desitel comes from the Berg of Marinette, Wisconsin, one of my favorite cities in the world.
Good day, citizen.
Very nicely done.
He also wants to know what's your favorite candy bar?
See this is what happens Mike when you come on your fans come out
I think I think Mike would be the first one of the first to tell you that I have 82 favorites
Okay, so is that bit available to play do you have that on?
You have a recording of that or something we could because that that is one of the greatest stand-up comedy bits ever and a lot of comics have stolen from you and Made kind of their own derivation of that bit.
Is that out there somewhere?
Or do
I have
to beg you to do it on the air next
time?
If you go to DrybarComedy.com, you can check out my Drybar special, and I close with it there.
Oh, fantastic.
All right, we're totally doing it.
Connor, take a memo.
We got to find that.
All right, last question for you, Mike.
Then we'll let you get to bed.
Are you binge-watching anything?
We talked about movies.
What shows are you watching?
I know you and Beth last time, you guys were watching something you shared, and I want to say
it was...
We watched the white Lotus, we actually are caught up with that, so we have to wait for it every Sunday to watch it.
Are you watching
that one?
I just finished season two about three weeks ago because I wanted to go right into season three, but I forgot they roll them out like that, and I can't stand that.
I have about four of them built up now in season three just because I want the option to at least continue if I'm digging it, you know?
Right, correct.
Um, and I, I thought that's fun.
We just finished the first season of a show called paradise on Hulu.
Did you watch that?
No,
I've
heard that was good.
Yeah.
Sterling K Brown.
And it's kind of got a weird futuristic, uh, James Marsden is in it.
It's, it's really good.
It's really well done.
And it left us, you know, looking forward to that next season.
What about, have you seen severance?
No, but that's what everybody's talking about right now.
Okay, I just watched the first I was saying in the open I watched the first episode of season one the pilot last night and I just like the first 40 minutes I'm like come on pick up go somewhere You know and then it kind of pays off and the premise is interesting But like I was saying you can't if you go to Roku and you just type in s severance comes up Like
to Google and type in se severance comes up like it's this crazy popular show So it's kind of like one of those things where I feel like I'm being bullied into watching it almost
Right
But I'm hearing from my friends the same thing you're hearing, that you keep waiting for it to pick up.
And it's so far from what I'm hearing from my friends, where they're at, not there yet.
Really?
All right.
Something must happen.
I mean.
But it must be great.
It must be good.
Yeah.
That's what I'm thinking.
All right.
You just sent the evil weed bit.
So Conrad, I just sent it to you.
Let's see if we can pull that.
We can play that later in the show.
Awesome stuff.
Mike, thank you so much for being part of the show as always.
Oh, a quick plug for your Christmas show.
Yes, we do those every year.
Usually it goes at the Weekend after Thanksgiving, but we haven't finalized that yet, but I will come back with you and talk about
it.
Are there still tickets left for this year's show?
Listen, I know this isn't current, but I'm just I'm trying to like plant the seeds because last year when
when we did this.
I got my dates mixed up.
I don't know what happened, but you were like, it was last week.
I was like, no, we talked about it in April and September, but I missed the actual show.
So this year we'll be more on it.
All right.
And I just sent you the other one.
Oh, you sent the gray one.
All right, fantastic.
All right, we got serious Mike Toomey coming up in the near future on Nightlight.
Thank you, buddy.
Always fun to talk.
Thanks for the movie recommendation.
Love it.
Thanks, Pete.
All right, see you, buddy.
That's Mike Toomey.
His show is every year down in Kenosha.
It's a Christmas show.
It's Mike Toomey and Friends Christmas show.
It's so much fun.
And I will keep reminding you guys as we get closer.
I know we've got time, but I just, if you live in Southeast Wisconsin, I don't want you to miss it.
So all right, we've got some texts we got to get to here tonight.
Our show, our question of the night is, what is your favorite Italian dish?
It's national ravioli day.
And we've got steady Eddie is doubling up today.
Did you see that?
I did.
Two texts in the same show.
And we'll get to that one, too.
This is exciting.
Monica from Mount Horrib says, Penne Arrabiata.
Best Italian food I've ever had was in Dublin, Ireland.
Interesting.
Best Chinese food was in Mexico City.
What the heck?
That's awesome.
She says, go figure.
That's a pleasant surprise, though, when you get there and find something you're not expecting.
It's a vacation for your palate as well, Monica.
Thank you for the text.
Steady Eddie from the 608 already has some text street cred to his name tonight.
And he's coming back.
He says, when I was a little kid, my favorite Italian dish was my mom's spaghetti.
Now I enjoy my own homemade spaghetti.
It tastes even better when I eat it listening to night light.
Eddie, you are the best.
Thank you, sir.
He says, I like to keep it simple and delicious.
I'm not fuzzy.
He likes his pasta, like he almost made a joke you can't make anymore.
And how sad is that?
Stadietti, thank you, buddy.
Great to have two texts from the same show from Stadietti.
I love it.
Let's do some Ferris Bueller.
Yeah.
Because Ferris Bueller dropped on this day in 1987, starring Matthew Broderick.
And I think, is it Matthew Broderick's birthday?
Or did we pass?
That was recently, though.
you mean?
Wait, there's a
Oh, I got you.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
He's got a great great resume.
I thought this was funny too.
I saw that it was Gary Oldman's birthday today and we just played that clip.
Stephen Colbert last night.
Maybe we should play that too because it's in honor of his birthday.
Stephen Colbert addressed Gary Oldman's role in Slow Horses where he plays the leader of a kind of a disgraced MI5 group and
He's just kind of a slop and he passes gas all the time on the show.
So Stephen Colbert thought it would be funny if he put together a montage of Gary Oldman's other movies in which he passes gas and Gary Oldman cannot stop laughing.
Let's play that and we'll come back to Ferris Bueller, but let's play the Oldman clip.
Do you think any of your previous characters, any of those performances could have been improved?
bypassing gas, because I had to hear an example.
We took some of our favorite performances of yours and added that undefinable Jackson Lam quality.
Here we go.
And I bid you welcome, Mr. Hark to my
house.
I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry.
That was fantastic.
Get off my plane.
Any regrets?
I'm holding out this long.
Before adding that je ne sais quoi to certain characters.
couldn't even catch his breath.
He was laughing so hard.
And the best one was right in the middle.
He was Churchill for that really long one.
And this guy is giving him this look.
It's worth a Google.
The visuals are hilarious.
But Gary Oldman laughing like that is even funnier than the sound effects.
Great stuff.
All right.
What is your favorite Italian dish?
That's our question of the night.
Let us know at 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.
When we come back after this very short break, magician Lula Pore will be here talking about a great event coming up in Appleton and we'll do it.
back.
This is Lightlight with Peach Wabba.
I am Peach Wabba, your host.
Conrad is writing Shaka and working the board.
Todd from the920 says, I'm sorry Pete, if you type SE into Google, I'm pretty sure some NSFW content will come up.
That's not what happened earlier.
I don't know what he means by that.
Maybe, maybe Todd from
And now I'm doing like these mental gymnastics trying to figure out what SE could bring, but we don't have to get into that.
Thank you for the warning though, Todd.
I appreciate that.
All right, this is exciting.
We've had, I think, we've talked about magic a couple times.
on Nightlight since our inception.
And right now, joining me here on the show is magician Lou LePore.
He is a Northeast Wisconsin resident who is going to talk to us a little bit about Harry Houdini and a really cool event coming up in Appleton in the very near future.
He joins us over the stream.
Lou, how are you?
Great, Pete.
How are you?
It's great to meet
this is I'm I'm excited because I first of all I thought you were coming into the studio So that's my bad.
That's on me, but I also want to see how you plan to do magic over the stream and Knock our socks off here.
You just must be good at your craft.
That's all I'm saying
Magic has changed quite a bit.
Especially since COVID hit, people have backed off a tiny bit on that.
They're not having as many magicians doing strolling or close-up magic at restaurants.
But the guys that are in this group that I belong to, we're all very, very good and pretty proficient at magic.
That's great.
Hey, I just got to tell you one thing.
Yeah.
Gnocchi is my favorite Italian meal.
No, I was going to ask you anyway.
Believe me, I
let you off the hook.
Oh, I thought so with that last name.
I was in Milwaukee about a month ago at a place down near Pfizer Forum, this great Italian restaurant.
And I ordered gnocchi for the first time in 20 years.
And man, it did not disappoint.
It was great.
So I'm with you on that.
It's not my favorite or my go-to.
But man, I love a good plate of gnocchi.
This was, you know, I'm not a red sauce guy.
I think I kind of sidestepped the red sauce and went with a, it had a different kind of sauce on it and that's why I ordered it and I can't remember it right now, but it had tons of garlic.
Yeah.
I totally agree with you.
All right.
So before we get into your career in Houdini and this great event coming up, Lou, tell us and tell the listeners a little bit about yourself.
How did you get started a little bit about your background, if you would?
I got started pretty young in magic.
I was maybe between like eight and 10 years old.
And I was.
gifted a book on magic and a couple of different tricks from a small shop in Evanston, Illinois.
It's since gone out of business.
From there, I just got the bug.
It wasn't really a performing bug, so to speak.
It was more of a
And still to this day, when I look at something and I figure out how it's done or I read how it's done, that's what really got the bug in me.
It intrigued me as to how things, the modus operandi behind the magic.
And there were a couple of small tricks that people really wouldn't know the name of, but the Chinese wands, linking rings, things like that.
And then it was a book of beginner magic.
And then my very first book of real magic was my parents and I went to New Jersey, which is where I'm from originally.
And we stopped in a shop because I had the bug.
My dad took me down to a shop and I saw the shop owner's daughter blew me away with card magic and coins and stuff.
And one of the books that I wanted was a book called JB Bobo's Coin Magic.
And I learned my very first coin trick from that book.
And to this day, I still use the slight and do the trick.
Wow.
So I've been doing it for a long time.
Like many magicians, I dropped it, picked it up, dropped it, picked it up.
Career got in the way of family, things like that.
And college, I did it a little bit through college.
Um, but I, you know, I never, I never had it as a job during college and much later in life, I actually had it as, as my full-time job.
Oh, that's so cool.
Um, so let me ask you, my guest is Lula poor.
He is a magician, retired magician, as I understand it, but it sounds like you still don't ever really truly retire.
It sounds like you're still kind of in the world a little bit, which is kind of nice.
Uh,
Listen.
I consider myself a comedian because all my best friends are still guys I started with.
I only did it for like seven or eight years full time and then I switched to writing.
So I totally get that.
But you still feel, I guess it's who you identify with mostly.
blood.
Yeah.
So you talked about going into that shop and finding magic and learning how to do tricks.
How long did it take you?
to get good at them.
Like, I'm sure there are like the go-tos that you learn when you're starting out.
How long did that take you before you thought, hey, I can do this?
I would I would practice and practice and one of my very first shows I did it pretty much every every magician starts out doing birthday parties Okay, so, you know, you've got guys in the area.
I don't know if you're you know, Rondini, you know Bruce that's all these guys in the area.
They all do birthday parties Alright, so the very first birthday party I ever did was a friend of my sister.
My sister is about four and a half years older than I am and she had a friend that
his little girl, little boy was having a birthday party.
And so I trooped in there with all my little stuff and I'm much younger.
And I was so nervous.
It was unbelievable.
And I had been doing all this stuff, but had never done it in front of a real audience.
I had done it in front of relatives, grandmother, grandfather, all these different people and friends and family.
And everybody said, wow, you're really good.
But I had never really been in front of an audience that was going to give me $10 or $5.
Right.
So I'm standing in the kitchen.
And the first thing the guy realizes is everybody is how much I'm shaking.
And he hands me something.
He said, here, take a swig.
And I took, before I even realized it, I took a drink and it was beer.
And you made it disappear.
Like I said, I didn't look at what was on my hand.
I was thinking, you know, it's soda water, something like that in my head.
And so, well, it calmed me down.
Hey, Lou, Lou,
let's pick up, let's pick up right there.
We got to do the news and then we'll come back and I want to hear the end of that and we'll jump in and
Houdini stuff.
Lou LaPore is here.
He's a Northeast Wisconsin magician.
We're coming right back after the news.
It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media radio network.
You got Nightlight with Pete Schwabba here.
And our question of the night, it's not too late if you want to play, is what is your favorite Italian dish?
It is national ravioli day.
I said pasta with garlic and oil, extra, extra, extra garlic, and then double it.
And Conrad said a funky, cool designer pizza he had in Italy.
Our guest, Lula Pour, a magician here from Northeast Wisconsin, says gnocchi.
And there are no wrong answers, folks.
It's just fun to read your texts on the radio.
So Lou is our guest.
We're talking about how he got started and when he felt comfortable performing magic.
Lou, we had to go to the news.
So please continue your story about you.
You wolfed down some beer at a kid's party and then you felt a little more at ease.
A
And a free swig of beer.
That's hilarious.
I want to give a shout out to the Mike Desitel who introduced us.
And he is part of this group, you're part of too.
Before we get to that, I have one more question.
As a magician, when you watch big things on TV, like David Blaine or, you know, David Copperfield.
What are your thoughts on that as opposed to going to a table and doing magic or sleight of hand like do you get excited about big Illusions as David Copperfield used to call them or are you more of the purest just kind of smaller tricks?
yeah,
You know, I enjoy the big illusions, but they they don't trip my trigger as much as as much as other stuff Because I know I know what you know when I when I see a phenomenal close-up artist I know what they've what they've gone through, you know, like I don't know if you remember the name Ricky J
you know, Ricky J was, he was a phenomenal card artist.
He, you know, and he grew up in the world of magic and, you know, circus freaks and all that stuff.
I mean, he could scale cards and he could use cards as, you know, he could throw cards and impale a card, you know, into a watermelon.
But his sleight of hand was, you know, beyond, you know, beyond anybody else's.
He was phenomenal.
I used to work comedy clubs, and there was a magician on the show.
I worked with the amazing Jonathan a couple of times.
Yeah, and what these guys do, it's more fun for me to say, how the heck did he do that?
Whereas I'm watching a huge, like when he made the plane disappear, Copperfield, I'm like, well, there's a camera trick or something involved.
It's almost too big.
You know what I mean?
I love the stuff up close that happens that you can't.
you know, figure out or even know how to comprehend, I guess.
front of you, right
And as you said, it's not something that's, you know, that that's so far removed that, you know, sometimes when you get to a big illusion, like, you know, walking through the wall of China, making the Statue of Liberty vanish, people think exactly what you did, you know, it's got to be a camera trick.
But once you have a deck of cards and you're sitting right there with that person and you shuffle, you know and shuffle the four aces into the deck and then immediately cut all four aces right out of the deck right underneath their nose is that that You know that that is it's sleight of hand, but it's still to me more magical sleight of hand more magical magic
really cool stuff All right, so let's talk a little bit about why don't you tell us Lou about the organization you belong to it's dr. Lynn minor ring
three ninety eight international brotherhood of magicians.
I didn't even know this existed.
And then we can segue into Houdini from there and the big event coming up.
The international brotherhood of magicians is our parent group.
And that's a group that that actually is worldwide.
The international brotherhood.
So they've got and when they've got like different when you've got different local groups.
that are part of that, you've got what's called a ring.
And our ring is ring 398.
It's in Appleton, and it meets at Monty's Magic Theater in Kimberley.
So it meets the second Tuesday and the fourth Tuesday of every month.
The second Tuesday, we have what's called a jam meeting, and that's just about magic.
So people can do anything they want there at that meeting.
They can do cards, coins, mentalism, something that they're working on if they've got something in progress or they're looking at pattern for a particular trick and they want to talk to the group about it.
The fourth, which is kind of the official meeting, which is the fourth Tuesday, is a themed meeting.
So you would do cards, coins, rope magic, mentalism.
You would do something that fits in with the theme.
Okay, wow.
And Dr. Lynn Minor, Lynn was actually a, he was very instrumental in getting us to actually become a ring.
Okay, so it isn't that, you know, they give it, it's not that you can get, you know, like 10 guys together and all of a sudden say, oh, we're going to be a ring.
You have to go through a bunch of different procedures and processes with the actual parent organization.
And Lynn was the territorial vice president at the time and helped us jump through all those hoops and kind of get everything, get all of our ducks in order and become an official ring.
And we're very, very proud of it and very pleased with him as far as him doing that for us.
It was very kind.
Not to get too inside baseball here, Lou, but like, when you guys are all hanging out, you know, I remember when I would work comedy clubs, there were comedians-comedians.
The comics through the back of the room, the other comics loved.
Is it that way with magicians?
Like, when you guys are doing sleight of hand, let's say, in front of each other, do you all bring something new to it, or do you all kind of play out of the same playbook?
Are you ever in awe of other magicians you're hanging out with?
Yeah,
Nice.
Okay, so we have this great event coming up here in Appleton at the Appleton Library, March 24th at 4 p.m.
Can you tell us about the event?
Okay.
Sure.
What we're going to do is we're going to get to the library at 430.
They're going to have the official welcome.
They're going to have a brief history of Houdini and Appleson's importance, you know, because Houdini called, you know, started out, you know, here in Wisconsin when he was, you know, in Appleton when he was a child.
And then what they're going to do is we're going to have two magicians perform, Bruce Hetzler and a gentleman named Rick Moraine.
They're both going to perform.
And then the ring is actually going to donate a book to the library.
And then we're going to cut a cake.
Nice.
Oh, that sounds great.
Yeah.
No, go ahead, Lou.
Sorry.
No, no, no, go ahead.
I was just going to say you have some fans listening.
AJ from the 608 says, hey, Lou, I've always loved magicians.
But what's the state of your profession today?
Then she adds, I feel like I rarely see this profession anymore.
That's interesting.
There are times when people look at magic as, you know, more of a, you know, a lesser art, but it's probably one of the oldest performing arts, you know, in history.
Okay, it dates all the way back to, you know, the 16, 1700s.
Okay, when guys were doing the cups and bowls, you can actually, you know, see, you know,
see depictions of it in very old very old books and then there'll be descriptions of things so you know magic magic sometimes you know gets a bad rap you know somebody you know a lot of people go oh my god here's the magician he's gonna have me pick a card okay so that's why you know that's why when I do close-up magic and I do strolling I don't I try not to have as many card tricks in it or many of the same tricks
All the time, you know, I want I want to show them something different so that you know, we can we can get a better a little better, you know Perseverance or perception.
Sorry perception of magicians
It's interesting you're saying that I remember when I was in college and I would ride the subway in Chicago They had these guys that would play the shell game They'd walk around and ask you for 20 bucks if you can follow the peanut and they're obvious It's all sleight of hand and people would get cocky
And I found myself rooting for the guys who are ripping these people, not even ripping them off.
It's a, it's a, hey, if you can guess, but they're sleight of hand.
And I remember one woman in particular going, that's easy.
It's right there.
And of course they pick it up and it's there.
And then they do it again.
And she puts $20 down and whoop, it's not there now.
Like, and people would get so mad when they would storm off, but I.
I enjoyed, I found it interesting that I was cheering for the guys who were doing the shell game as opposed to the people guessing.
I went, um, we went back to visit and I went down to Times Square with a cousin, uh, to see the old Doug Henning show on broad, off Broadway, the magic show.
Yeah.
And, um, as we were going there, there was, there was a guy doing the three card Monty game.
And it's same same thing as the shell game.
You know, it's a three card Monty You got two blacks and a red queen and you got to find the red queen keep your eye on the lady Right, and I found myself doing the same thing as you I was kind of cheering for the operator, you know that I was like, you know, oh, he's good.
Oh, look at that move.
Oh, I like that
My guest is Lula poor.
He's a magician from here in northeast, Wisconsin And we're talking about an event coming up at the Appleton library March 24th at 430
You're going to talk about Houdini, commemorate the birthday, the 151st birthday of Harry Houdini.
What can you tell us about Harry Houdini Lou when it comes to, like I looked him up earlier and it says Houdini used what is called static apnea in which he remained calm and did not move or for more than is necessary to conserve oxygen.
In other words, Houdini's ability to escape underwater confinement came not from magic or even special equipment.
Rather, from a skill, few people know how to develop.
Does that make any sense to you?
Can you explain that to us?
That's the same type of thing like David Blaine did when he was buried alive.
And so David Blaine would do the, he kind of practiced that also.
Houdini, I think David Blaine held his breath longer than Houdini did.
you know, at the time.
And if I recall, now I haven't read a lot about that specific, you know, part of Houdini, but there are divers, you know, the pearl divers, I think use the same type of breathing technique or that type of technique to go down really far.
How long could he hold his breath?
Okay.
Conrad, you think you could beat that?
No.
All right, fair
Okay, well, that's pretty good.
And
Let's stick with the sleight of hand
I didn't
He had some close calls though, didn't he?
When it came to these escape things he would do, did he ever come close to death during one of those?
A lot of it was, you know, when Houdini would have a, he would always put a challenge out there.
So when he would do a challenge escape, you know, he made sure that he always saw
you know like if it was a huge one like a box or something he made sure that he looked at that you know that item a day or two ahead okay so that he could figure out he and his team could figure out how he could get out of it okay now when he would do a lot of people would say you know oh he came you know doing all the bridge jumping you know people would you know they would they would put handcuffs all the way up his arms
You know, and people would bring handcuffs and, you know, say, oh, you know, put this one on, you know, you can try this.
Well, as they were coming up to him, you know, his team was making a decision as to what handcuffs would go where.
So if he knew that it was maybe something that would give him a problem, he would put it farther up on his arms so that he could get the easy ones off and on the bottom of his wrist.
And then he would just drop the top ones off, you know, and they would just drop
off.
It's a science.
That's fantastic.
Lou LaPore is here.
He's a Northeast Wisconsin based magician.
Great event coming up in Appleton.
We'll have a couple more minutes with Lou when we come back with Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
back.
listening to Nightlight with Peach Wamba.
Our question of the night was, what is your favorite Italian dish?
Tony, the trucker.
Love that name.
From the 608 says, Pete, hot Italian sausage, peppers and onions on a good hard roll with melted provolone.
That's the first Italian dish we've heard of all night that did not have pasta.
Well done, Tony.
That sounds great.
And Mike on the stream says, my favorite Italian dish is the Spagomlet.
He's referencing an ad lib from the Godfather of Green Bay by our friend Eric Price, which was a very, very funny line.
Thank you all for your text.
It was another good question.
People love their food questions, Conrad.
I'm
People love their Italian food.
Tomorrow on the show, Don Brown from This Week in Waukesha will be here at 6.35.
And then I welcome Sean Hannish, the director of Just A Bit Outside, will be here at 7.05.
And then we'll have an all-star appearance.
from Bar Band Friday night after that.
So right now we have a few more minutes with our guest, Lou LePore.
He is a Northeast Wisconsin magician hanging out with us for a while here on Nightly talking about a fun event coming up at the Appleton Library March 24th at 4.30 PM, where they will commemorate the 151st birthday of Harry Houdini.
Lou, you said you could do a trick over the stream.
How long did tricks take?
Do we have, we got about three minutes.
Do you think we could bang something out?
Fantastic.
I've never done it on camera.
So you got to tell me if, you know, if you can see everything.
Yeah.
And this is the only silk I had.
So it's the only bandana.
Okay.
So I'm going to take that and I'm just going to make a little hole right there, a little well in there.
Okay.
And I'm going to take this silk right here and place it inside that well.
Okay.
This is what I do for the kids when I'm strolling around.
Okay.
I love
And
How about, how about Spagomlet?
All right.
Let's see.
All right, it's gone.
Very well
give that.
Let's give Lou the bell Conrad.
Very well done.
So now where is
Oh man, that's great.
Dude, people just eat that up.
See, if you were at my table loo and I was eating an Italian dish, I would completely focus on you.
I think that stuff is so cool.
Honestly, God.
Well a lot of time what I do is you know is when I work a restaurant I love working restaurants with kids Yeah, and I don't mind adults.
I can do all adult parties.
I've done a lot of you know I've done a ton of cocktail parties and corporate parties and that's you know pretty much my my specialty is is corporate work, you know as far as corporate strolling magic and
club shows for corporations, but I love working for kids.
That's great.
Yeah, and kids are full of wonder.
You know what I mean?
They're
jaded like a lot of adults are.
I'm sure there are plenty of adults who'd enjoy it, but yeah, I totally get that.
So this event on the 24th, Lou, before we let you go, let us know how we can find out more information.
It's the 24th, March 24th, 430, the Appleton Library commemorating Harry Houdini's 151st birthday.
Where can people find out more information or get tickets if they need them?
It's open.
It's free and it's open to the public All they have to do is call the Appleton library if they want a little bit more information But that's pretty much all the information as far as there's like I said There's gonna be two magicians that will be performing will be cutting a cake will be you know officially recognizing Harry Houdini's you know 151st birthday and then we'll
We'll be donating a book to the Appleton Library in honor of Houdini and donating it from Ring 398.
That is fantastic.
And we'd love to have people show up with their kids so that we can get kids interested.
And there'll be information regarding Ring 398 and how the kids can join and become a member of our ring, which, like I said, meets in Kimberly at Monty's Magic Theater.
And we'd love to have kids show up and be able to teach them magic.
I love it.
Yeah.
Great stuff, buddy.
Good luck with the event.
And don't be a stranger.
Let's do this again.
This was fun.
Thank you.
Love to.
You got it.
All right.
Good luck.
Break a leg at the event, I should say.
That's Lou LaPore.
Check out the event on March 24th at the Appleton Library.
It's free.
And Conrad, you know my saying.
If it's free, it's me.
So that's fantastic.
I'd like to also thank in addition to Lula poor Mike to me and All of our textures tonight great job with the text everybody and the calls once we get the phones figured out Brian from Milwaukee gets in under the wire here.
He says kill bossa pierogi sauerkraut and stuffed cabbage rolls Brian is being defiant.
He wants nothing to do with Italian food.
He's bringing the Polish food and That's okay, too.
What whatever
What's your appetite, Brian?
Great stuff.
Thank you for the text.
Steady Eddie.
Oh my God.
Radio history again being made here on Nightlight.
Steady Eddie with his third text of the night.
There we go.
That actually has been done before, but not by Steady Eddie.
So let's read this.
He says, Pete, tonight I'm going for the three, three Pete, three texts to Nightlight in one night.
I should have read this first.
He says, ask Conrad to call the Guinness Book of World Records people.
This isn't a record for Nightlight.
Some people just
texting,
this is a record.
It's a personal steady edit.
You should be happy with that.
He says, I remember as a kid reading a paperback about Houdini.
I saw the movie Houdini starring Tony Curtis on TV.
The movie was magical.
It's my Milk Dud's movie, Pick of the Week.
I give it a third.
A what?
I give it three and a quarter milk duds.
Well, that's really gross.
Thank you so much, Teddy Eddie.
Thank you for all the texts.
We'll be back to do this all again tomorrow night, folks.
Great hanging out on the Christmas Eve of weekdays.
And tomorrow night, more fun on Night Light here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
On behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night,
