Welcome tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
There are no participation awards in the NCAA tournament you it's one and done, baby No certificates no plaques I Guess the participation award is just making the tournament.
that's kind of a cool thing.
He did something good
I have never heard of the Horizon League.
I'm going to assume you're not making that up.
But good for anybody who makes the tournament.
Green Bay's
Come
Milwaukee's
Horizon League.
one.
OK, I got you.
Green Bay, UWGB Men's is in the Horizon League?
Yes.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah, it's a great league.
It's a fine league.
What you've got, you were telling me earlier, some kind of cool stuff, the Green Bay women's team.
What's
It's a tough draw.
What will that be on like?
Well, they oh, yeah Okay,
right
I gotta be honest I would rather watch that than two teams I don't know like I would totally cheer on the
Even though they're in the horizon league, which I'm not a fan of that league, obviously, but the Green Bay women's team, I think that would be a phenomenal game.
How many screens you got going over there at Casa de Conrad?
Okay.
The one the biggie the big yeah, I cannot believe like This is nightlight folks.
We were talking about the NCAA tournament, which is entertainment and it's a very it's one of the most entertaining things yeah all year this this was our question last night and Here's the sad thing, okay?
I Love this tournament.
I love sports, but I love a perfect movie even better
I almost turned off a close game last night to watch To Live In Diane LA, which is this week's classic movie pick
week.
And I had to force myself not to do that, because I've seen To Live In Diane LA 10 times.
And I don't know what's going to happen in the game.
So that's unwritten history.
So I stuck with the game.
But it's very entertaining.
The tournament so far, you got McNeese State.
There's a couple good upsets, right?
Colorado State.
No, I, were we in the air or was that right before?
Who McNeese?
Conference tournament.
We got an upset brewing here.
Florida is only up 19 on Norfolk State with 10 minutes left to
Colorado State.
Yeah.
But one of the reporters said, you know, people will talk about how they had many opportunities.
They could have won this game, but it's like the first half was terrible.
They were down by 22.
That's the reason they lost, not because they missed opportunities.
Right.
I think I'm in three brackets.
I'm crushing in one purely luck.
I'm getting crushed in another all skill.
And then the civic media want to have to figure out a way to check, because if I had picked all the right upsets in one bracket, that's what you want to do.
The problem is I've got this upset going here, this upset going here, and I don't know that it's going to produce a winner for me.
But I picked North Carolina in all of my brackets because I thought they're going to tick people off.
Nobody wanted them in.
They got in.
Now I know they're going to win because that's what North Carolina or Duke does.
But North Carolina lost, so it's a non-issue.
lay it on
Out of how many?
You're
place?
Sports fanatics.
Yeah, I don't... 25th.
There's gotta be, what, 50 people in my middle of the pack?
That's...
Only that many people signed up for the civic media.
No, there's a lot of people.
There's a decent amount.
You said you're dead last, though.
I'm dead last with Jimmy, yes.
Are you saying I'm in the lower fourth quadrant or something
So I'm tied for 25th with six
I am at first in one.
I'm tied for first with eight other people.
That was before the Colorado State upset.
I don't think I picked that in that one So I don't in fact I picked I did pick a lot of upsets early on I do that I try to get the upsets and then my final four typically I don't think I have a seed higher than fourth in the final four so
Well, you
I would love it if you told me.
I'm in 30, but I pick the same picks in every one of them.
It's like buying the same
number and buying 100 of them.
Hey, all right.
Despite all this fun talk about the NCAA Tournament, folks, we have a very packed show tonight.
Great guests.
This is going to be fun.
We're going to get out of this week and head into the weekend in style.
Our first guest tonight is at 6.35.
Don Brown, the host of This Week in Walk-A-Shot.
Don does such a great job.
I've been on his show a couple of times, and he, Don, is up bright and early.
every Saturday morning.
It's such a fun show.
And he tells you what's going on in Waukesha, but Don has such, he's got such an easy to listen to voice.
It's a good show.
And no matter where you're from in Wisconsin, you should tune in and check out this week in Waukesha.
Don does a great job.
He will be here at 635 talking about a new podcast he just launched.
So that will be fun.
I've been waiting to have Don.
Don was on like nine months ago, right?
Yeah, something like that.
I wouldn't return my calls.
I don't know what's going on.
And then at 7.05, Sean Hannish will be here, the director of Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.
I would say a rousing success on the documentary film market.
It played here in Wisconsin at Marcus Theaters and probably a few other places as well.
And I believe you can stream it now on the Roku channel.
out.
I haven't seen it yet.
And I was the one, like I reached out to Sean a couple of days ago and I said, Hey, you're just, he's got a couple of screenings coming up in Wisconsin.
So I assume that meant I couldn't stream it yet.
And on the way in today, I'm like, wait, Roku TV.
Cause typically a film when they're still on the festival circuit, they're not streaming yet.
And I just kind of made that assumption, but I'll probably watch it this week.
And I'm very excited.
Heard nothing but great stuff about this documentary.
And Sean will be here at 7.05 to tell you where you can see it in Wisconsin.
He's got a couple of big screenings coming up soon.
And we'll get some clarification on the streaming issue as well.
Sean was on the show about five months ago, right before they released the film.
So it's always fun to talk to someone like it was with Anders Linwall.
Like, how do you feel now?
The film is out.
It's a success.
So very anxious to have Sean back on the show.
That will be fun.
And then...
It is a bar band Friday night, folks.
We didn't think it was going to happen because Terry Barr is on vacation.
And how can we do a bar band Friday night without Terry Barr?
I'll tell you how.
We have her partner in crime on Max Inc Radio.
Rocker will join us tonight.
He is filling in for his co-host and is bringing.
Rocker is doing things differently.
doesn't roll like Terry.
I don't know how those two get along on that show, but it's a long running show.
It's award-winning.
They make it work.
But Rocker is bringing little bits of a lot of different songs from a lot of different groups.
So that'll be fun to change things up a little bit too.
Excited to have Rocker here at 735.
Great guests, as you can tell.
Today, all right, we are on a roll here, folks, with food questions.
And we're gonna keep that train moving.
Today is National Crunchy Taco Day.
National Crunchy Taco Day.
Soft tacos, we have no use for you on nightlight time.
But this national day that should be celebrated leads us to our question of the night.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
What is your favorite Mexican food?
Last night it was what's your favorite Italian dish?
Very popular question tonight.
We're switching ethnicities at least when it comes to food although Conrad might become Irish What is your favorite Mexican food I?
Almost wanted to specify or drill this down a little more and ask what is your favorite taco?
Like is it shrimp regular taco, but I think Mexican food opens it up a little more.
I like
I like a lot of Mexican food, but here's what's gonna make this question tough.
I think we should play our clip from Jim Gaffigan, who can put some clarification on this.
Mexican food's great, but it's essentially all the same ingredients, so you'd always have to, as a weighty, you'd have to deal with these stupid questions.
People'd be like, what is nachos?
Nachos?
Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables.
Oh, and then what is a burrito?
Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetable.
But then what is a tostata?
Tortilla with cheese meat or vegetables?
Well then what is- look it's all the same!
Why don't you say a Spanish word and I'll bring you something?
Mexican food is great, but it is all the same.
It's almost a conspiracy.
It's almost like they had a meeting 200 years ago in Mexico City and one guy stood up and was like, hey, look, the reason I got everyone here is pretty simple.
I figure we could rename this one entree seven times and sell it to the North Americans.
The French said it would be a good idea.
Ah, that's great.
Now, in defense of Mexican food, you could kind of say the same thing about Italian food.
It's pasta, meat, red sauce.
Conrad and I will give our answers when we come back after a short break.
But I will say this, I don't like Mexican, I don't like refried beans.
Oh, gross.
The lard creeps me out.
I always ask, but sometimes when there's like a language thing you get mixed up, mixed up when I say no refried beans, they think I want extra refried beans.
So we will give you our answers when we come up.
What is your favorite Mexican food?
That is tonight's Question of the Night.
We're coming right back on Night Light with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back.
This is Night Light.
I am your host, Pete Schwab.
Great to have you with us, regardless of where you are joining the show from across the state of Wisconsin as we broadcast from beautiful downtown Green Bay.
The snow is basically almost gone.
I need to say basically more.
So the Badgers play tomorrow at night.
That's kind of cool.
Okay, I like that.
I think we can
it.
It is a tough matchup, but they got to be tested.
They got to come out.
I thought, like we talked about yesterday, a little lackluster yesterday.
It's any urgency.
And we've got a possible upset brewing, folks.
What are they winning by now?
14.
I've lost the game.
That's not comfortable for me.
You need at least a 50 point lead going into halftime.
That is how every team should come out.
The Badgers should have won by 30 yesterday.
a reason Duke is Duke, and I can't stand them, but I don't know.
Our question tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is what is your favorite Mexican food?
And I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go through the whole thing.
I want chips and guac to start.
And then I want fish tacos.
Maybe shrimp, just fish tacos.
I trust the establishment owners.
Give me some fish tacos, some lime, and some great rice.
That's my Mexican, that's my favorite Mexican food.
I am a sucker for a good burrito, but I'll start with the tacos.
More manageable.
What about you?
I want
Okay.
Oh, you do the guac and then the salsa.
enough.
Enchilada.
That's the nuance.
Oh, like
I think that's not specific.
I think it just depends on from restaurant to
Yeah.
Don Brown, our guest at 635, checks in on the stream.
He says steak enchiladas, homemade guac, steak burrito.
Don just gave us three choices.
And they're all delicious.
Well, typically, a couple of years ago, it would have been a humongous margarita with double the tequila.
Because I can only drink margaritas if they're not that sweet.
So it sounds like I have a problem, but I like the double tequila.
It's just very tasty.
What do you do?
I was like, what is that monstrosity?
There is a name for that.
It's called insanity.
Yeah.
Steve, come on.
Wow.
Really?
it up.
So we just heard Jim Gaffigan's Mexican bit.
Very funny bit.
But a lot of those you could kind of say that about.
a lot of different ethnic foods too, I think, that it's all the same stuff.
But that's our question tonight.
Folks, be part of the show.
What is your favorite Mexican dish?
It is National Taco Day.
On the text line, Anna from Madison says, hi, Pete and Conrad, my favorite Mexican food is cheese enchiladas with beans and rice washed down with a Doseckis Mexican beer.
If there is a room, if there is room, a flan for dessert.
Anna with the detail, I love it.
Yeah, the rice.
I love Mexican rice Monica from Mount Horrib says cheese and jalapeno tamales Oh followed by tray Letch's cake.
that
You know what I have a weird thing about tamales When I was a kid I was so unfussy about what I ate and I grew up in the city Chicago on the Northwest side.
There was a trailer
about three blocks away and they had, you know, Chicago dogs and beef sandwiches.
They used to sell their bread, their bread for the Italian beef sandwiches.
They would dunk that in the beef juice and sell it for 25 cents, two halves.
And they called it dunk bread, 25 cents and eat bread soaked with beef juice.
It was the most delicious thing I've ever had.
But they also had the Chicago fast food tamale are these little processed.
I like, I grew up.
Eating them so I like them better than actual tamales.
How sad is that?
It does because I love tamales.
Yeah I'm with you Monica.
That's great.
And she says oh and a guava margarita.
Oh, there you go Everybody going for the margaritas tonight Tyler from Wisconsin Rapid says the worm on the bottom of the bottle.
That's Tyler's meal Tyler's kind of a jokester.
I don't know if you picked up on that over the last time throw us some some
Some good stuff every once in a while.
Thank you guys for the text.
Keep in comment.
What is your favorite Mexican meal or food?
It is National Taco Day.
We're celebrating that.
And our food questions have done very well on the text line.
People love chiming in about food.
So we'll hold Don Brown's feet to the fire a little bit closer when he's here and make him specify exactly what meal he likes the best.
We've got, have you been watching Reacher?
The third one is out that we're waiting, but they're doing it like it's prime.
So they're dropping it one at one at a time, like every week.
I can't stand
Okay.
White Lotus, there are some shows where I'm fine watching one a week.
Like, if there's a cliffhanger episode, I'd like to be able to watch the first 10 minutes of the next one just to see what happens with that.
But White Lotus, I'm fine with.
It's just good writing, but I don't crave another episode all the time.
Sometimes I want to see what happens, but I'm with you on that.
Reacher, on the other hand, I like the show.
I don't love the show.
Season two, I didn't really like that much.
But season three has one more episode to go.
So I'll have to see what happens with that.
And I am going to stick with Severance, I think.
Those are my two shows for now.
And I got to tell you, I almost got pulled over.
Well, I didn't almost get pulled over.
I was driving by a cop.
I was doing about 80 and 65, which is faster than I usually drive.
And I don't know.
I looked right at him, though.
That's what I do.
I don't like sometimes you drive by a cop and you act like you don't see him.
You don't know what to do.
I looked right at him while I drove past like.
I know, I'm going fast.
Like I was trying to fess up.
All right.
Don Brown is coming up.
Ladies and gentlemen, after Civic Media's award-winning news team tells you what's up, you're here on a great night.
Sean Hannes is here.
Rocker's here.
And Don Brown coming up next.
It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
of acrobatics.
We have some breaking news from the tournament, ladies and gentlemen.
Conrad, let's do that.
16th seed, Norfolk State has cut the lead to 31.
Florida is now up 52 to 21, but
they
have shaved a few points off that since we last checked.
Only three minutes to go for the half.
Until they have now it's 32 points.
I heard they're second half team.
So
they are second half team I don't even know if they're a team 32 points the first half and then The text line Nick from Marshall says Pardon me Nick from Marshall says ground beef chimichanga and a bottle of either Jiritos or Goya soda.
I hope I'm saying that right
Yeah.
Uh, he says no alcohol for me.
And then continues says tipsy cow makes a really good PBR bettered fish taco.
Interesting.
Nick's in the six oh eight.
So I assume he means that's in Madison.
I love a fish taco.
Well said, Nick.
Uh, Gordy from Oregon.
He's also in the six oh eight says Play-Doh mixed dough.
It's not like an idiot.
I don't care.
I know what that is.
I don't know how to say it's like a mixed plate.
I think just like a sample sample platter at El Pastor South or at South Park Street Madison or Mahi fish tacos when traveling Gordy apparently does not like the mix the fish tacos in Madison's we only get some money travels But yeah, that's I love a seafood platter.
You ever get one of those like when you're at a restaurant that
is
pretty decent seafood
Keep those texts coming folks.
What is your favorite man?
I'll I'll try not to torture the the language either But if you want to spell it out for me, that'd be great.
All right, we are going to welcome our first guest of the night I'm very excited to have this guy and I'm gonna challenge him on something.
I hope he's ready I'm gonna ask him to back up his words.
He might not remember this but I am gonna say something about it It is my pleasure to welcome back tonight light my pal and the host of this week in Waukesha
here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Mr. Don Brown, Don, how are ya?
I'm great,
Pete, how are you?
Can you hear me okay?
I can hear you great.
You look
great, you
sound great, love the living room, the baby grand in the back, it looks fantastic.
I've used that background myself.
I was about
to say, I feel like you have the same piano.
Here you are, my house.
This is my second home.
Yeah,
you weekend there.
You gotta have a fireplace and a piano where you weekend, I agree.
Absolutely.
Hey, it's great to have you, buddy.
Really great to be here.
Thanks for having me on Pete.
So if you had to pick you said you like steak enchiladas homemade guac or a steak burrito What if you had to narrow that down the guac you could just have with anything?
Let's not even cuz I love it all it would be like if there was an authentic
Olive Garden type Mexican restaurant like family.
Oh, it's that one.
There's only thing at Olive Garden the trio where you got like your three different pastas So you can choose from yeah, I think that that's what it would be for me because I love all Mexican food and it's just like you said it's protein Tortillas and cheese yeah, whatever that other but I was thinking because you said you're you grew up in the Northwest side of Chicago.
You might remember
on Clark Street in the north side, and then closer to Lake Andersonville or Edgewater.
There was one on every other block.
Counter service, you know, Mexican restaurant.
After a long night of drinking, you'd get these like football-sized burritos.
Oh, wow.
And you'd have steak and beans and scrambled eggs.
And you could really only eat half of it at a time.
And that would, you know, soak up all the booze.
And when you wake up in the morning,
And you had your perfect, like, hangover burger, but your hangover burrito, and all you had to do was heat it up.
Second half, yeah.
Fantastic, yeah.
So that was a favor.
But you mentioned that you like fish tacos, right, Pete?
Yeah.
So if we ever get you to Waukesha on a Friday, the raised grain brewery right down the street from my house has this wonderful blackened cod taco.
Oh,
wow.
And that's the only time they serve it.
During the week is on Friday lunch from like it's like 11 to 2 or something like that, but it's it's worth the trip It's one of the best I've ever had
That sounds amazing.
I like black and fish, almost any kind.
Me too.
I don't
remember those places you're talking about, those specifically, but when I was in college, we used to go to like, it was somewhere, now it's a gorgeous neighborhood, west of the loop, but it was a little dicey back then, but they, I think they, I think on the menu it said burritos the size of your head.
That's what they, and that's what we used to order, and we would just tear into it like it was a discovery channel kill or
something, you know.
I think all the other places just mimicked that.
They saw how well they were doing and like, yeah, why not?
That's great.
All right, so I have to hold your feet to the fire on something, Don.
Yes.
A few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago,
last
week, actually just happened.
You said on the Civic Media Chat, you were the most Irish of anybody in civic media.
I truly believe that.
How do you know that?
There's four square.
I'm four square, meaning I'm like, all four grandparents are virus descent.
OK.
My father's parents came over from County Clair during the war for independence.
My grandfather was actually in the Civil War, got out, looked like by the skin of his teeth, and met my grandmother in Buffalo, where my family's from.
And through my grandfather, I have dual citizenship.
Now brown with the knee looks very English, but we're actually very Irish So I have a hard time dealing with that but my mother was a McNamara her mother was a Ryan and her people came over during on Gortha more the great famine and Irish married Irish for generations and worked on the railroads most of that family and So yeah, I'm 100% I used to work in Ireland
No kidding.
I've been there, you know, stayed with family.
Yes, I've been on several trips and it's a real passion of mine.
I've been working on a, I have a book idea about a great uncle of mine that was a big, you know, gay football hero in Ireland and was involved in the War for Independence and that's been a 20 year project that I finally need to finish.
But yeah, I know Irish music.
When I managed in Evans, you know, when I worked with Julie.
My sister, yeah.
We had some of the best traditional music, perhaps anywhere in the world.
You know, Chicago is a hotbed for great traditional Irish music.
And we had like some of the biggest names, John Williams, not the Star Wars, John Williams.
Right.
In the Irish realm, he is that John Williams.
And another Liz Carroll, who's considered one of the greatest fiddlers like in the whole world.
Very nice.
All
right.
Well,
you totally put
me in my place, Don.
You backed
up your words.
But I don't know.
I don't know if you listen to Maggie Dawn's show, but I didn't realize she's very Irish too.
She did a whole St.
Patrick's Day, kind of took a step away from politics and talked about Milwaukee's Irish heritage.
And I thought that was a great show.
So hats off to Maggie.
I'm about probably 60 to 70% somewhere.
I'm
saddled with the
last name of Schwabba.
I'm not really sure.
But
I've
got my mom's a Murphy, my grandma was a Griffin.
I can't
remember Julie telling me that because Julie looks very Irish.
She does.
And my
favorite thing, I love Irish dancing.
I grew up around all that.
They would come in to the schools, the Catholic schools
in
Chicago.
Whenever I would throw back a few with my Irish friends in college Sometimes that always didn't go so well and I knew a guy who got into a fight with another guy because the other guy was from Dublin And my friend was saying I'm a hundred percent Irish and the guy from Dublin was saying no you're not Where do you live and he was saying Chicago he goes well then you're not really Irish
they threw down Don nice the guy from Chicago is probably more Irish than the Viking from Dublin so I'm with the I'm with your guy from Chicago
I didn't know who I was with.
I just wanted to get out of there.
But let's talk about some more serious radio business.
You do a great job with This Week in Waukesha.
We'll talk about that.
But you have a new
podcast on.
Tell us about that.
Well, that's essentially what it is.
The concept This Week in Waukesha as a radio show has now gravitated away from radio now to podcast.
And so I no longer have to get up at four in the morning to prepare for my seven and nine show.
I do miss that, but I also miss, you know, we used to have the studio in Waukesha.
So for me, as a former alderman, I used to call it the office of former Alderman Don Paul Brown.
And so people could come see me in person and we'd get a lot of work done for the city.
It was great stuff.
But now we're in this excellent studio and racing and radio.
What are they called Radio City or there's another name for it, but I don't know if you've been there yet, but it's beautiful.
I have not I hear
it's gorgeous.
It was built for radio and it's I felt like Howard Stern like couple times I went down there to do my show so but Civic Media wants to make a big commitment to podcast because they're all the rage, you know radio obviously is still the the favorite song it's the mature offering and having local radio is essential but
I've heard great things about podcasts.
So when when they approached me about moving to a podcast, I said, yeah, great, because they get great listenerships.
And what's also changed is instead of a two hour show, it's two 20 minute interviews in the podcast.
Okay.
And so there's no commercial breaks, none of that.
I don't get to put in the music, which I miss, but you get to have some really great conversations with people that are making a difference where we live.
I always talk about like when I was on one of your shows previously, or I think when you were on mine, we talked about a Wisconsin state of mind that people anywhere around the state should be listening to your show.
And I know you're syndicated and all of them, but I also think when people have a chance, they should listen to my podcast because, you know, Waukesha is very much a big part of Wisconsin.
You know, we're, we're home to the oldest university, Carroll University.
We are a second city to the state's biggest city.
We're in one of the most affluent counties.
A lot of things happen in Waukesha that I think they affect the rest of the state or oftentimes are influenced by what's going on in the rest of the state.
And there are so many common bonds that I've noticed as a transplant that unite us all as Wisconsinites or cheeseheads or badgers, if you will.
And so that's why I'm glad to share all the great stories about Waukesha.
It's a birthplace of Les Paul.
There's like so many great innovations that they came out of here.
You know, great music.
Yeah, Rackers from Waukesha.
Your next guy.
I was really honored to be on the same ticket as Rackers.
Oh, wow.
All
right, Conrad, let's not let that get passed,
though.
Yeah.
We gotta bring that up with
Rackers.
His brother, Dan, owns an authentic vinyl record store in downtown Waukesha.
Oh, nice.
That is worth a visit.
They have really cool t-shirts.
And yeah, it's a really cool scene.
So I mean, there's a great music history in that family.
My guest is Don Brown.
He is the host of This Week in Waukesha.
And now, I'm sorry, I might have missed this, Don.
Is the podcast name the same, This Week in Waukesha?
It is, yeah.
They decided they wanted to keep the same name.
They wanted, you know, Waukesha to be a central topic.
But I have guests on that aren't from Waukesha, or they may be a little further out in Waukesha County.
But my guests from last week,
was a good friend all the way from high school has a really important think tank out of Washington DC called Truth in Common, which basically it's a nonprofit that works with local communities, organizations and people that teach them how to address misinformation and how to have civil conversations with people that you don't agree with politically, which we see a lot more of unfortunately.
And doing really important work.
But I think that's relevant to Waukesha and to Wisconsin, of course.
We're, I guess, one of those battleground states.
Absolutely.
Don, Greg on the text line says, Carol University just took a group of 30 students to Ireland.
We have a biology teacher who's native Irish.
Don might
know
him.
Kevin McMahon, you've got fans talking to you on the text line.
I love that.
Yeah, I bet that's Greg Wandsneider.
who works at he works at carol okay and he's also a he's a walk shot north graduate and just a wonderful guy he's he's good friends with greg back our producer okay who does um
up north news and Matt Nair on air.
He must be
tied in because he says the
studio.
He's very tied in, yeah.
Yeah, he says the
studio in Racine is called Radio Park, so Greg knows
that.
Radio Park, thank you.
I can't believe I goofed on that.
He also says Waukesha is the goat, Don is also the goat.
Oh, that's very nice.
Thank you.
Triple G is one of his names.
He could be a rapper, in my opinion.
His first name is overwhelmingly G. He's got three Gs packed
into a five-letter name.
I think I love that.
Greg, thank
you for the text.
Born and raised and a true son of Waukesha, very proud son of Waukesha.
That's awesome.
Sure, Racker knows him, too.
He'll probably send Racker a message as well.
Are you on?
What do you have lined up for tomorrow morning, Don, or on the podcast?
So tomorrow morning on the podcast.
So the podcast, we record them at basically between 11 and 12.
And then they usually go live shortly after that.
And that's a nice thing about podcasts is that you can you can visit the page anytime and watch different.
You know, there's a kind of a unique culture to podcast.
So it's like, I don't have to necessarily, in fact, I kind of have to steer away from reporting on timely news.
Yeah.
but really focus on, I mean, I'll mention things, especially historic things that are going on.
So like a, when I tomorrow show, I'll mention that a couple of new restaurants that opened up in downtown Waukesha, a couple of new bars.
And we're excited about that.
Let's jump into
that.
Let's talk more about that.
We're going to do a really short breakdown.
So sit tight, and we'll come back, and we'll talk about that Wisconsin state of mind, too.
I like that.
Don Brown is here,
ladies and
gentlemen.
Host of This Week in Waukesha, taking some time out to join us on a Friday.
We're coming right back.
It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media, radio network.
Hey, this is John Gries, also Uncle Rico, and you're listening to Nightlight of Peach Waba.
All right, I'm gonna give... I'm not gonna give any updates on the tournament, because I don't want people to, like, all of a sudden ditch us.
Folks all the games right now are clunkers.
Don't even waste your time.
I am told by CBS and their affiliates.
They are expected to get pretty pretty exciting after 8 o'clock.
So there you go Welcome back.
Sean Hannish will be here after the news at 705 talking about his documentary
Just a bit outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers, which has a couple of really cool screenings coming up here
in Wisconsin.
I can't wait to
see that.
Yeah, me too, Don.
I just cannot wait to see.
Is that on the stream yet?
I think it is and I think I
just
it might be available on Roku We're gonna ask Sean about that because I didn't think it was typically when a film is still in its festival run Yeah, you can't get it yet, but this one might be out so we'll we'll
find
that out and But okay, so let's talk Don you Don Brown is here check out his show and his podcast this week in Washington this week in Waukesha We both did you grow up in Chicago?
I
mean, I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, in Orchard
Park.
Oh, that's right.
OK.
The Green Bay of the East.
And I was a big Bill's fan.
But I did kind of grow up in Chicago because I went there in my 20s.
And my mentor in the restaurant business, may he rest in peace, he had a motto that you're never too late to have a happy childhood.
And that was Chicago for me during the 20s and 30s.
I was
exposed to so much great music.
So many interesting people, you know, great culture, amazing food, of course.
Yeah.
You
know, Chicago in many ways, Evanston in many ways was like the buffalo of my dreams.
You know,
Evanston
always reminded me a little bit of Madison.
It's got kind of that cool vibe.
It's vibrant.
There's a great big 10 school there.
And I don't want to talk about Chicago right now, but I, because
I
love living there.
I love growing up there.
When I moved to Wisconsin, I was reluctant as a kid.
Love it now.
And
I
think like I've lived different places.
I've liked everywhere I've lived.
I
find
people to be pretty good all over, but you and I on your show recently.
And since we've both lived in Chicago, you cannot deny there is a Wisconsin.
It's almost like a mentality or a state of mind or whatever.
When I came up here as a kid vacationing, where I live now, it's very serene.
What is that?
Do you still find that living in Waukesha or is it a Northwoods thing?
No, I mean, Waukesha has got a lot of green space.
It might be one of the biggest cities geographically in the county.
And my big joke was that
the county got tired of running out of names for the towns.
And they said, screw it, let's just call it Waukesha.
But there is, it's neat because it's a city of 70,000 people.
As I mentioned, it's got a great university.
The downtown is really thriving.
I know when you have Rack around the show, he'll talk about a time when downtown was all boarded up and he used to get some great rental fees on a lot of the bands there.
got some great studio rental space
for
you know pretty cheap and so but um yeah no it's just a great but there's also you drive around and there's a lot of green space the parks are amazing and um there's a lot of people that they all a lot of them have second homes up in the north woods as you say and um they they love that i also love too the milwaukee area my wife's family her father's family had a place on lake okachi which is um
I think just past Okonomak.
It's like a 25 minute drive from our house in Waukesha.
Her mother's family had a place way up past Monaco, I think it was, or past Rhinelander.
And so she kind of had the best.
But I love that idea that you could just drive 25 minutes to your summer home,
your
cottage.
You'll spend a day, get a day, or spend a night.
And so I think, yeah, there's just a lot.
And, you know, there's the fish fry.
There's, you know, our love for cheese packers.
And, you know, it's funny growing up in Orchard Park, New York, I probably have more connections to Packer Nation than most Milwaukee Packer fans do because a lot of the great Packer legends did their coaching duties in Buffalo, like Jim Ringo,
the Hall of
Fame Center, Elijah Pitts is son Ron, another Packer, played high school football with my brother.
And so many others like that, that did
their
stints in Buffalo.
So I got to know a lot of these guys.
And you know, I was a child of the 70s and you had all those NFL highlight shows, great teams, great years was
a few reasons.
Of course,
the Packers were a big part of that.
And so even though I was a Bill's fan, the Packers for many, you know, in many ways were like my NFC team.
Yeah.
And oh, Magic was from Buffalo too.
Oh, Damakowski.
Yeah.
Silly me.
I went Magic Johnson.
You're talking about.
Magic Johnson was from Lansing.
He was a Spartan like me.
So yeah, we have connections of both magics.
Nice.
Hey, Don, we have about a minute left.
Okay.
We talked about TV and movies when I was on your show.
I'd like to extend you the same courtesy in under a minute.
Are you watching something you can recommend?
1923.
Yes.
Now that season two has finally come along.
It's yeah, God.
and it's really slow developing.
Have you been watching it?
You know what I mean?
No, I actually, well I watched season one, loved it, but they're doing that thing where they drop one episode a week and I hate that, so I'm letting
them build up.
I know, I know, I gotta take a few weeks off or something.
Yeah.
They're going to church.
I didn't
say that.
One of the actors, Jamie McShane, was
on the show.
He had it been out in a second.
So I'm kind of letting my episodes build up, but that's on
my list.
I love that
show.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right to do that.
Hey man.
Best of luck with the podcast.
Thanks so much, Pete.
Keep bringing the truth to the people and shooting us straight.
And
it's just
awesome having you on the show.
We'll figure out a Saturday in the spring sometime to have you on and talk about this Wisconsin state of mind.
I would absolutely rocker for me and.
Thank you to Conrad and of course to you Pete.
Thanks again.
You gotta have a great night.
Go belt out a tune on the piano.
They're done.
All right, Tom Brown.
Check out this week in Waukesha.
Great show and now a great podcast.
We're coming right back after the news with a director of just a bit outside.
The story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.
Sean Hannish joins us next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
