Welcome back.
As we kick off hour number two here at Nightlight, coming to you from downtown Madison, right above beautiful State Street here in our state's capital, Johnny Beiner is here with me in studio.
The great Madison comedian is joining me.
John, it's good to have you.
It's good
to be
here.
And you're not a huge beer drinker like myself.
I'm not a, no, I'm not, I don't get messy.
Not saying you do, I just.
Well, yeah.
I am not a huge.
You're a drinker.
I think that's smart.
You have to write comedy.
You can't be too drunk when you do that kind of stuff.
John's here.
We're going to give him a comedy quiz in a couple of minutes.
Our question of the night is what is your favorite beer?
It is National Beer Day.
And we're also kind of celebrating a nightlight inspired beer that you can get out at Flix Brewhouse at Easttown Mall right now called Hazed on Radio.
Brewmaster Dave Hansen put it together, reached out.
We said, yes, of course, please make a nightlight beer.
And it's been available.
I think just during the film festival, when the film festival started, so I'll probably pop out there today or tomorrow and have a little taste and see what, see how great Dave's work is.
Jack from Maramax says, I'm not much of a beer drinker, but my favorite beer was Meister Brow.
Wow, we got some like, I don't want to say that's like on par with Rhinelander beer or Blats, but I always thought Meister Brow was like kind of a, one of those inexpensive beers you get when you're in college, maybe?
I could be totally wrong.
Is that like hams?
Yeah, like hams or something.
Okay.
When someone said hams before too.
But Meisterbrow, it's got a high name.
I don't know.
Jack says it used to be brewed in Chicago and owned by Miller if I recall correctly its brewery was the last Chicago brewery to close I do kind of remember that now that you say that Jack He says and hasn't been produced since 1978.
He says I'm an old guy.
What can I say come on Jack?
You're not that old Currently, I'll have a beer with pizza or a brat and I prefer blue moon.
That's like number three for blue moon Conrad.
What do you make of that?
Yeah, damn right well said all right
So keep those texts coming, folks.
We'll read them as they come in.
What is your favorite beer?
Johnny Beiner is here.
We've got a few more minutes with John.
He's going to take our comedian quiz.
So we talked about your letterman spot.
You got a dry bar comedy spot, which is really cool.
That's like the new comedy central special like
everybody.
It's a milestone.
I got a lot of mileage out of that.
A couple of the clips they put on got really viral, and I got a lot of work from it, so those are
good.
The clips we have of you are so great, and tell us first, I want to play a clip of yours, but tell us about the Cavalry podcast.
The Cavalry is, it's a podcast me and Andrew Slater, another fantastic comedian we do together.
We came up with it.
We were on a cruise ship together when COVID hit.
So it was like, oh, well, we can't work anymore.
You want
podcast just to, you know, keep our brains going.
And we are on episode like 257 or something.
So we've been doing it ever since, you know, 2020.
COVID hit, and it's basically the gist of it as, you know, the cavalry.
It's the cavalry, not the cavalry.
As people
religious thing?
No, it's like calling in the cavalry will bring topics that we get a lot of pushback on.
And then we, you know, present the topic and the other, we're looking for backups for
the
other person, you know, to back you up.
And we sometimes
We're usually able to back each other up, but sometimes we're like, no, that's ridiculous.
You're wrong.
Is he a Wisconsin comic or is he is
not?
He lives in Portland.
Oh, that's so
cool.
Yeah.
He's out.
He's out West.
Is it only comedy talk or do you have talk about other comedians?
We it's not only comedy talk.
I mean, we half the episode is us just kind of shooting the breeze, talking about whatever our week and you know, just things.
And then we get into the topics the second half.
Is
there a
recipe exchange or anything
like that?
No, we have
different segments.
Sometimes we have appliance talk.
If like I had
to order a fridge from Menards, I'll talk about that.
We have sports talk.
That's kind of a big thing because he's a big sports guy.
Sports will affect his mood, his demeanor.
I don't follow this, but I don't know anything about sports.
So that's kind of a fun dynamic.
ask questions and we did like a, we did a bracket and then we did one for football and he gets so.
frustrated
win with
knowledge
at
all.
You know, I'll be like, oh, okay, let me just hit random and then I somehow beat him.
He's like, oh, that's
so great.
Um, can I, do you mind if we play a clip of your comedy?
This is one of my favorite jokes.
Oh, I insist.
It's not your comedy.
It's another community.
No, this is Johnny being her talking.
This is one of my favorite bits I've ever heard folks.
Conrad, let's play the, uh, the clip of when he was in a third grade, please.
Hello everyone.
Yeah, like he said, my name's Johnny Beener.
So, obviously that sucked growing up.
Thank you.
That always hurts my feelings.
Picture this little Johnny Beener out of recess, third grade, trying to play kickball.
Just trying to fit in, but I'm having a hard time.
I got some, you know, bullies circling around me, chanting, Johnny Beener has a tiny wiener.
He's a very logical kid, you know.
The only thing I could think to say back was, yeah.
Yeah, I'm nine.
Pretty sure we all have tiny wieners.
We're third graders.
He's making fun of me.
But you want to make fun of someone?
We should be making fun of the kid that's hung like a horse.
He's the weirdo.
What's he doing with a grown man's penis in third grade, right?
He's got nothing to look forward to.
Mine's going to get bigger.
I've seen my dad's.
I think we all have at some point, right?
You seen your dad's penis?
I was just kidding.
We got a weirdo at the end of row one here.
Please tell me it wasn't recently.
I
would say that's my favorite in the soap.
Okay, those are two
excellent choices.
Those gotta be go-tos, like, tried and true.
Yeah.
If you're having a terrible crowd, you know.
All right, I still got the wiener joke in the soap.
The
wiener wiener, that's probably the oldest joke that I still do.
Okay.
Because it's, you know, I'm not a household name, and if they go to, let's go see comedy, and the comedian is Johnny Beener, I can't just ignore my name, you know?
Right.
I mean, I
can I do sometimes because I've done that bit so many times, but it's like it's such perfect because people are like, yeah,
that
is an inconvenient name to have as a child.
Oh, that's good stuff.
Are you ready to take our comedy quiz?
I'm ready.
All right.
This is going to be exciting, folks.
This is the first ever.
quiz, stand-up comedy related quiz given to a comedian.
ramifications there, but this is the first time we've done this, and Johnny's our guinea pig, so I think he'll do quite well, though, I'm excited.
Johnny Beener taking the first ever nightlight stand-up comedy quiz.
Conrad, you got the bell ready?
All right.
I was worried Conrad was out having a smoke or something.
There's no bell.
He isn't smoking.
All right, this comedian has a famous bit about the seven words you can't say on TV.
George Carlin.
Yes.
All right.
Oh, seven bells.
Sorry.
It's lackluster.
We usually have, I have a bell too, but I don't have one here in Madison.
So you'd be, just think about the bells.
There's got to be an app or something.
Yeah, right.
Probably.
All right.
Johnny's one for one.
This comedian is now disgraced, but had a 1980s sitcom where he played an OBGYN and would wear colorful sweaters.
Bill Cosby.
Correct.
Boy.
Hey, all right.
We're on a game show now.
I thought he took a powder.
He was just looking for a better effect.
That's what you get with
always working.
All right, two for two.
This comedian is famous for his observational humor in his show about nothing.
Ooh, Seinfeld.
Yes, three for three.
I'm seeing him at the Overture sometime coming up.
You're seeing Seinfeld at the Overture Center?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
How much did you take?
It's just out of
curiosity.
I think $80.
I don't think
we're near the front.
We're going with some me and my wife are going with some friends.
They're selling seats that out here by the bus stop that are like 14 bucks.
That's exciting.
Yeah.
I've seen him before.
I've been on a show with him in New York.
Oh, no kidding.
That's I've seen him live twice and he's great.
But it was so long ago.
I wouldn't even know like, I don't even know what he talks about.
I was just still just stand up.
Is it him just like talking about his career?
Um, I think he does improv now.
He does improv.
He plays freestyle.
He does arms
expert.
All right, let's get back to our quiz.
Seinfeld gets enough shout outs.
All right, Johnny Beiner, Nightlight Quiz.
This famous comedian had her own show about her blue collar family and worked in a diner where they served loose meat sandwiches.
The show also starred Laurie Metcalf.
Roseanne.
That's a great show.
Great show.
Me
and my
wife
recently
revisited that.
It's a phenomenon.
Yeah, that's, I loved it.
My wife got me into that show because I liked her comedy okay, but her TV show was outstanding.
Um, all right Johnny's four for four this comedian played a sports writer who played a Sp this comedian played a sports writer who lives near his brother also played by a comedian and his parents Ray Romano,
Johnny is five for five.
Is that the Jeopardy bell?
Just says
it.
It says as what
Okay
Correct, right
Oh,
right.
You got the right answer.
This comedian was arrested in Chicago on December 4, 1962, after a performance at the Gates of Horn Club in Chicago for violating a state obscenity statute.
Is
that
George
Carlin
again?
No.
That
was Wisconsin, wasn't it?
Wasn't he
arrested in Wisconsin?
Yeah, Carlin.
Maybe.
This one, I don't know.
He's an influence of a lot of comedians.
Oh, Bill Hicks.
No, no, pre-Bill Hicks.
This guy was back in the 50s.
First name starts with an L. Larry?
No, Lewis?
Lenny?
Lenny Bruce.
do you have a want-want?
Duh.
All right, that'll work.
All right, you're still doing well.
You're five, four, six.
a tough one.
This comedian put out a comedy album called Delirious and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live at just 19 years old.
Eddie Murphy.
Yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny's six or seven.
This comedian has recently played comedy on state and she currently hosts the show after midnight.
Oh, Taylor Tomlinson.
Correct.
Great.
It's a good delay there, like a swear delay.
This Minnesota native used to be married to Roseanne Barr.
Tom Arnold?
Yes.
Wow.
Nice,
dude.
All right.
I worked with Tom.
Did you?
He wouldn't let me sell my t-shirts.
Oh, that's so lame.
I know.
Like you need the money, right?
You're opening.
Well, I was
opening for him.
This was a long time ago.
And I showed up and the club owner was like, Oh, Johnny was wondering if he could sell t-shirts and Tom goes, Tom goes, you're going to ask me right in front of them.
And then he goes, yeah, that's fine.
So I got to sell Thursday.
And then when I showed up Friday, the club owner was like.
You're not selling the rest of the weekend.
Johnny Bean, ladies and gentlemen, thanks, buddy.
This is fun.
How did I do?
Check him out in Wauwatosa.
Seven for eight.
We'll continue this next time.
I got a lot more questions.
All right.
We're coming right back with a writer, award-winning writer, Victoria Davis.
Thanks, John.
Thank you.
All
right, that was fun.
Our first ever Nightlight Quiz was given to, first ever Nightlight Comedy Quiz was given to Johnny Beiner and he did quite well.
Seven for eight, we'll finish that up next time he's on the show.
This is Nightlight with Peach Waba.
Welcome back ladies and gentlemen.
Our question of the night is what is your favorite beer?
It is National Beer Day and we're also celebrating the night light beer that you can now get at Flix Brewhouse out at Easttown Mall called Hazed On Radio.
It will be there probably until supplies run out I would assume.
Brewmaster Dave Hansen, it's his own creation, and he is a great guy who does great work.
But that inspired our question, along with National Beer Day, what is your favorite beer?
PJ on the stream says, New Glaris Spotted Cow, all the way for me.
Conrad, what is that, four for Spotted Cow?
Yeah, I think so.
But three Blue Moon, but Blue Moon, non-alcoholic for me.
Because I'm a lush I still get drunk even though it's not alcoholic.
I don't know how that happens, but that's how much of a lush I am steady Eddie Let's say let's say you know what we're gonna do I'm gonna introduce our guest Then we'll read steady Eddie's text because I want her to be part of that and I want her to hear the joy that is a steady Eddie text So joining me now on the program is award-winning journalist and writer and Madisonian Victoria Davis.
Hello.
How are you?
Can I say you're?
From the Capital Times, I know you work there or contribute.
I don't know how.
I don't know.
I've got two
main gigs in the Cap Times.
It's my local gig.
And then, uh, Animation World Network is my, you know, my kind of abroad, not abroad.
What am I saying?
The remote gig,
a
broad gig.
We do cover global stuff, but yeah, that's, that's from my, my, uh, kind of college stomping grounds and in SoCal.
Wow.
So those are two very different publications, I would imagine.
Yeah.
Well, both arts and culture, which is great.
OK.
So I kind of get the best of both worlds with local stuff here and then stuff that's going on in Hollywood or in France, at Anisey and things like
that.
I love that.
And I love that you have that connection to that creative world and animation.
Tell us how you ended up because that's in Southern California.
And
you started, you've been writing for them for a while, correct?
Yeah, I think
five years now.
Yeah.
And how long have you been back here?
And with Cap Times, I think either five or six years.
Okay.
And are you a native Wisconsinite?
No, I'm from Minnesota originally.
That's right.
Your husband is from here.
No, we're both from Minnesota.
He's so, but we went out to California for my college and because he was a Marine.
And then we came here for his college.
Wow.
I know.
We're all over the
place.
A couple that works together.
Look at this power couple.
Okay, so you chose Wisconsin.
Yes.
Over Minnesota.
When you came back to the Midwest, do you get a lot of grief for that?
We do get a lot of grief, but we're not sorry.
It's so much warmer down
here.
And
you wouldn't think four hours makes a big difference, but it really, really
does.
Where in Minnesota was it?
We were in just the Twin Cities.
We weren't super far north, but they got like a foot of snow this week.
It's been like summer and rainy here.
And you're here in nice warm Madison.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
I'll take this anytime.
So this is great because Madison is like, I mean, honestly, of Midwestern cities, you know, take out, take away like, I don't know if you're from Detroit or Chicago or maybe even Milwaukee, which isn't as big as those towns, but you can't beat the city this size.
I agree.
Where else are you going to go?
and find a city this size, which feels even bigger than it is, but it's really not that big.
And you have access to the other big cities that are not too far away,
so you
can kind of get your fix and then come home.
to kind of a less.
When you say get your fix, you don't mean drive there to buy drugs.
No, because you can get those here, Victoria.
I don't want to.
That's true.
That's true.
We can
now.
That's true.
Thanks for the reminder.
Wasting
all this gas money for the last five years.
All right.
Yes.
Well,
get your big city fix.
I totally get what you
mean.
All right.
Well, that's that's exciting.
So tell us about the work you do for what was the other publication called?
So animation world network is
the one I'm only.
Yeah.
So that's like we come
animation both in the US and abroad.
Wow, what does it mean cover animation?
So we shows or comic strips
shows we've done comic strips before We've done games.
We've done TV shows and movies.
We interviewed directors producers voice actors The animators obviously we've done interviewed storyboard artists.
It's we kind of cover we try to cover as much of that process as possible
That's so great.
Yeah, so and then you interviewed me disclaimer for the cap times you wrote this lovely article and
Cause
you were in LA for a while
too.
I was.
I lived there for 14 years and they, you know, it was great.
I love Southern California.
It was beautiful weather and the longer, you know, if we stayed out there another year, we probably never would have left.
It was one of those kind of things.
I
know.
It's beautiful.
It's really hard to, to, to see yourself living anywhere else when you're there.
Right.
Because it's
so wonderful.
And then you go somewhere else and you're like, Oh, I don't have to pay.
like a thousand dollars for gas.
Right, exactly.
We would come back to Wisconsin in the summer and at Christmas for long periods of time because my wife is a teacher and I was at the time writing movies and I could take, I could do that from wherever.
So
we would come back and we're like, this is great.
And then we move back here and it's like, well,
That was great because we're on vacation.
Now we have to work.
And we have to stay here the whole winter.
But it's great.
It's like you can't beat.
Wisconsin is a very easy state to live in.
It's not, yeah, it's not too bad at all.
Yeah, like I said, I pick it over Minnesota.
All right, we won't tell the... Actually, Conrad, do we broadcast in Minnesota?
Okay,
app.
That's true.
For the stream, we go anywhere.
I
still
love Minnesota, but not enough to live there.
Too
little,
too late.
Do you have a favorite beer?
Are you a beer drinker?
I love a good raspberry beer.
Actually, one of the local pubs here sells it, and it's always really good.
But it's hard for me to remember what season it's in, because I always go and I ask where I think, oh, we don't have it in stock.
I think it's a fall thing.
Really?
But yeah, it's like a kind of a sour raspberry beer.
That's interesting.
I didn't know.
I know that like people say fruity beers, but I didn't know actually, like I know orange is a big thing, like in blue moon and that.
Yeah,
that's true.
All
right.
What about your husband?
Is he, is he a beer drinker?
Yeah.
Yeah.
As dark as it comes, basically.
I just feel like the burn in his mouth when he's drinking a beer.
I
can't do that.
Is that like Guinness?
I think, yeah.
He's a
big whiskey guy too.
So like just yeah, the darker, the better I think.
Okay, all right, so Victoria Davis is here folks.
We're gonna we don't have a quiz for you But next time you're here.
I'll have a quiz for you.
We'll
think of
some kind of thing Well, we're gonna talk about kids horror films.
This is interesting
because
Victoria wrote a piece Is it appropriate?
Is it not and I want to ask you if you guys have Ages in mind when you're gonna let your kid do this when you're gonna let your kid do that
That'll be fun, and then I know you saw something at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
I saw a couple
things,
yeah.
All right, we'll talk about that too.
That's all coming up after Civic Media's news team tells you what's up, and we read some more of your texts.
What is your favorite beer, folks?
It's a Monday.
It's a great night to talk about beer.
This is Pete Schwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Sometimes
I just kind of space out for a minute.
I almost just started when Conrad pointed at me singing along.
Oh, this is my part.
I come in and I'm so glad I didn't.
The music choices on the show are very good.
Thank you, Victoria.
I appreciate that.
I have an eclectic
taste.
We have, hey, we haven't had any jazz in a while, Conn.
I'll throw that in.
We've got the miles.
Yeah, let's, but thank you.
It's music is everything, right?
The last time I was on here, you guys had Katy Perry on and I was like, this is fantastic.
Oh
yeah.
That's the voice of Victoria Davis.
She is an award-winning writer.
She writes for the Capitol Times and she is in the studio here with us tonight at Nightlight.
I'm going to read this steady eddy text because last
You see the length of this test.
I see it.
Yeah.
He is a prolific texture.
And he does
such a great job.
And I want to make sure we
don't miss it.
So we're going to read this.
And then we'll get back to our interview here.
But steady Eddie, he's in the 608.
He says, my dad drank would be, well, no, my dad drank, would drink a couple three chief Oshkosh beers.
which was my mother-in-law's favorite
beer.
So Eddie is, he's incorporating moments of tonight's show into his text, which was no small feat.
That's pretty impressive.
He says, returnable brown bottles, 24 in a case.
I
believe you, Nostady Eddie.
That's impressive.
He says, when we watched the Packers on TV in the era of Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, Willie Wood, Max McGee and Paul Horning,
The Golden Boy, those are the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end.
Incorporates music?
That's what they were doing.
He says, Pete, FYI, there was a real Chief Oshkosh.
Please ask your Wisconsin expert guy about Chief Oshkosh next time he's on your show.
Con Memo.
Sounds good.
You got it, buddy?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
That's Frank Anderson.
I'm sure it's who he's talking about.
He says, I'm a light drinker, but I would never drink a light.
But I would never drink a light beer.
Why would anyone do that?
I drink gluten-free beer these days for health reasons, doctor's orders.
Alt brewing in Madison makes some delicious, rich and expensive gluten-free beer.
Hollywood Nights is a good one.
Okay, good to know.
Thank you, Steady Eddie.
Gluten-free beer is probably so much better for you.
I would imagine.
And just all of the, all of like the wheat that's in there.
Constance, I know.
Conrad's mom checks in and says another good beer is the blueberry bobber.
Does that sound familiar, Conrad?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a great beer out of Appleton.
Yeah.
Oh, look at that.
All right, Wisconsin beer, bringing it local.
I love this.
Great text tonight.
Keep in coming.
Folks, you still got time.
What is your favorite beer?
Victoria Davis is here.
And I want to ask you, okay, so you were at the Wisconsin Film Festival this
year.
I feel inundated with the festival.
I'm doing the Q&As and the introduction.
introductions, and I saw some great films.
What did you see?
I got to see so one of my favorites that I saw was Alone, which was a film that was done last year.
It's actually a student made film with on forgetting the name of the organization, but
It's basically about it's kind of a passengers meets Wally.
You've got it, you know, short film.
It's about this little robot that's kind of managing the ship by herself and she decides to make herself a friend.
And it's very cute.
And then she discovers that because she made this robot with an energy source that's powering the ship, she has to kind of choose between the two.
And I won't spoil it for people that want to go see it, but the animation is beautiful.
And I, being a mom, cried.
There's a lot of kind of parallels to.
to parenthood and to even sibling relationships and friendships.
But it's a really lovely film.
Is it a feature length?
No, it's a short film.
So I think it's like seven, six or seven minutes.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
How did
you find out about that just because of the
animation world?
They have a great, the Wisconsin Film Festival has a really great guide.
And I just kind of selected the filter for animated.
films and animated short films and that was at the top of the list and it was just like it looked really really lovely to like really good eye candy so that drew me in right
away.
That's great now did you go to that alone or did
you bring your daughter?
I didn't bring my daughter this time because you just sometimes with animated short films you there's not always kind of a oh this is kid-friendly or this isn't kid-friendly and
animated shorts specifically can get very personal and very symbolic and creative and abstract, which...
I always love, but I just never know how my daughter's going to respond to something
like that,
especially if there's any kind of adult theme in there.
And so, and she's three and we're just starting to introduce her to the theater.
So she did not come with me this time, but I would love to take her next year.
And then what was the other one you saw?
The other one that I really liked was called Battery Daddy, which is a stop.
Also animated.
Also animated.
It's a stop motion film.
And I'm a huge sucker for stop motion because of my job.
like learning all the stuff that goes into that process.
It's incredible.
It's fascinating.
It
sounds so tedious.
Yes, it is.
I have so much respect for people to do that because
I could never do that,
I don't think.
Yeah, I actually did an article on, it's called Pig Bird Studios and they did an animation for a song by Imogen called The Happy Song.
And they basically do their stop motion.
It's extremely tedious.
It's, I mean,
like one thing can take years of their life, and a lot of it they do for free.
And so it's a passionate thing.
You're
not getting a signing bonus
to make it a
short stop animation
film.
It is a total passion
project in
every instance.
For sure.
It's
so great.
Yeah.
Isn't it funny too how you since you because so your daughter's three?
Yes,
I remember when my son was born He was like one year old and we had the TV was just on and I think it was Walker Texas Ranger We didn't
make a conscious
effort to put it on it was just out of the background So
I'm
watching him hold my son and there was a an episode of where a baby got abducted from a shopping cart and I started balling.
Oh,
yeah
You just, everything makes you more emotional because you have this thing in your life that you're not.
It's true.
The depths of your emotion you never thought you would
experience something like that.
And you're like, that's great.
We're not leaving the house this week.
I have to recover.
Yeah, exactly.
Unless Chuck Morris
is with us and wearing
his cowboy boots.
Exactly.
We're
not going out.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes.
OK, so you did a great piece recently about a scary film, Zoo Pocalypse.
Yeah, the night of the zoo, the night of the zoo, Zoo Pocalypse.
Yeah, how?
All
right.
And it was a great article.
Very well read.
Thank you.
But what is this a thing now making scary
movies
for kids?
And how do they know when to,
you know, walk that line?
Yeah, because I interviewed like Dreamworks did it recently.
They've had a couple like animated.
series for kids that are like kind of dive into like voodoo stuff and ghost stuff and they've got grunt like gremlins and then they've got Curses like these are kind of more scary horror based stuff, but it's for kids And I was really really curious and I mean I've seen all of the projects and obviously Zupac lips I watched and It's one of those things where like my three-year-old probably couldn't handle it
But also there are some three-year-olds that I'm sure could it's it's an
interesting
because they make these in the zoo pocalypse specifically they make these zombie monsters like
They're almost like gummy candies.
That's like the texture of them.
So when they're losing
limbs and
things, it's just funny.
It's like watching a gummy bear lose its head.
They said, here's what it said, an alien virus that turns a bunch of zoo animals into zombies made of goo.
And then actor, comedian Scott Thompson, who's in it says, the movie looks like a bruise came to life.
Yes.
Sounds horrible.
I love that line, though.
It's a great line that he said, but it's, I know it.
It sounds so gross, but it's really fun to watch
and the characters
are the design for them was inspired by the Muppets So I think there's just kind of this like inherent The the rule that the director said is that for every scare there had to be a laugh
to kind of even it out
for kids So that when they're watching it and maybe getting you know scared
Scared out of their pants.
Tone it down a little bit.
Yeah, exactly.
That they can mull it over with a bit of humor.
So your daughter's three.
Victoria Davis, by the way, is my guess.
She is an award-winning writer.
and a journalist and works for the Capitol Times.
And tell me the name of the animation.
I get another-
Night of the Zepacolips.
No, no, your other gig.
Were you
right for- Oh, my job.
The one that
makes
you money.
Yes, yes.
Animation World Network is the one in California.
And then I work here locally for the CapTimes.
Okay.
I keep forgetting.
I always want to reverse the order in that sort of thing.
But do you have like things as a parent?
Because I remember thinking, all right, with our son, who is our oldest, he can't have gum until he's five, no soda.
We didn't let him play video games until he was 10.
That's impressive.
Well, I think
we
made it till he was
nine.
I think we bought a week and we justified it by saying, well, you exercise.
So we bought that.
Yeah, we tried
to stick with it.
And do you have those rules set up?
Have you thought
that?
We tried.
I mean, it was hard with my job because my daughter was home with me and I would.
Watch screeners before interviews and she's this like seven month old baby
and I'm
holding her and she's just kind of watching and I'm you know doing the best I can And and so I think it was we our goal of course was like let's wait as long as we possibly can before she's watching shows and and we tried and it just
came early for us that she ended up watching.
You don't ever get to that point where it's like, all right, I gotta get something done.
Put in the baby Beethoven video.
I've definitely put in the baby.
I love that you mentioned the baby Beethoven video.
Those are great.
That's gotten on our TV a few times
when I
had to like do the dishes or something.
But most of the time I'm trying to watch it with her
because
it's kind of become an experience at her house where we're just a big movie family, not just for my job, but.
We've always been that way.
What movie are you very excited to show her when she's old enough?
Oh my gosh, there's so many.
Be it a kids movie
or a scary movie or a comedy or whatever.
There's so many.
You know what's funny?
I actually, one of my friends just showed their child.
So I'll tell you an animated one and I'll tell you one that's not animated.
But one of our friends just showed their child Tarzan.
And they were fascinated by it.
And I've been holding off because there's like the opening scene where the parents are like mauled by the cougar or whatever.
I don't know if she's ready for that.
I don't know if I'm ready for it.
What if
she starts laughing though
during that?
She probably will.
She probably will.
My daughter is one of those kids that's like, she thinks that like ghosts are funny and she's seen like kind of scary posters and she's like, oh, it's so cute and I'm like, who are you?
The next
Wes Craven
or something.
Yeah, she's built different and she always wants like the ghost episode for any TV show she watches.
So I think I should have more faith in her really, but I also are my niece and nephew who are much older.
ten and six, just watch Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time.
And that's one that like me and my husband are like super excited about to show.
Is she old enough yet?
I don't know.
I'm like three's too early, right?
That's too early.
What are your favorite kids movies in general?
What do you?
Yeah, I mean, a lot of like the the Hayami Izaki movies are just really good comfort.
Yeah, because they're more slow and lower stimulation.
And you can kind of have them on and you listen to this really beautiful classical music.
And I really love that.
I mean, I don't know.
I also, again, love stop motion.
So, like, maybe this is why my daughter is the way she is, because we love Coraline and we love Nightmare Before Christmas.
Hey, that's whatever.
If you know one, it's a family.
Yeah.
You wrote about children's theater recently.
Yes.
As a young mom, what do you, is Madison a good children's theater town?
Yeah.
Where do we go for that here?
I mean, the...
Overture Center for the Arts has like the kids in the round and the children's theater and Madison is there and they like they put on an amazing production of Cinderella that I got to review
and that was
just lovely and all the kids were dressed up and they had TRs for the kids and wands for the kids and I think Madison actually really caters very well to it and there's a lot of like more independent
theater productions that go on at different libraries in the city as well.
Yeah.
What about Neil Diamond?
You saw that
review
that I
did not anticipate.
Like, I mean, I obviously grew up listening to his songs, but I didn't.
We've there's been so many, I think.
like musical productions.
Like we just did one for like Tina Turner and things like that.
And so there's been quite a lot like Abba has the mama musical.
And so like, for me, I was kind of going into it being like, all right, well, we'll see what makes this one different.
And the stage production alone was like, I couldn't take my eyes off at the entire time.
It was gorgeous.
Yeah, that
came across in your article.
You
thought it was, is it just a kind of a bio?
show about him?
It's about his life and about it's basically they go through all the lyrics of his songs and they talk about the stories behind them and kind of motivation behind them, which is really beautiful.
But they have kind of main stage props that they use to transform into different times of his life.
And they did it masterfully.
That is exciting.
We had Tim Sowers from the Overture Center
out here.
Oh, really?
He
kind of comes on semi-regularly, and that was one that stood out.
Yeah, that
was awesome.
When we come back, we're gonna do a very short break, and we will read some more of your texts.
What is your favorite beer, folks?
You still got a few minutes to get that in.
Victoria Davis is here from the Capitol Times, and we will ask her, I'm gonna ask you what you're watching.
On TV, if you're binging anything, if you get an opportunity to watch something that's not for kids or
three-year-olds,
we could talk about that.
And then if we have time, I would love to find out where to get the best bowl of soup
in Madison.
And you could probably tell me.
Yes, I got you covered.
I got you covered.
Fantastic.
We'll be right back to close things down.
And this is Peach Wamba at night.
Great to have you with me on this Monday on the Civic Media Radio Network.
There
you go.
That's the one.
It's still on my Spotify.
Welcome back
to Nightlight with Peach Wabba.
We have a few more minutes left here with our in-studio guest, Victoria Davis.
She's an award-winning writer and writes for the Capitol Times and Animation World
Network
Network.
Can't read my own writing.
That's my problem.
No, it's okay.
I have doctor's handwriting too.
I understand.
Conrad, I just sent you a message.
So I'm just letting you know that.
Okay.
Okay.
PJ on the stream says, Conrad's mom has good taste in beer.
Fox Valley Brew Blue Bobber is blueberry.
It's blueberry delicious.
All right.
I believe you guys have to try it.
I do like blueberries.
There's a place
Marinette that does that too.
And it's called a blueberry something beer, but it's there's something about that that's you can barely taste the blueberries
because of the
beer, but it's like.
makes it look really refreshing.
I'm surprised because blueberry is a pretty prominent flavor.
I feel like you put blueberry in something and you're going to taste that first.
I agree.
That's the voice of Victoria Davis.
So Victoria, what?
Where would you go?
If you were Pete Schwamba, you're wearing my shoes right now and you're just jonesing for a bowl of soup in Madison.
Where do you go?
I will, I'll never stop singing LaLan's praises ever.
Oh, that's, they have a really good like classic French onion soup if you're into that.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna butcher the name.
Lestelisa State.
Dayawa is also really good.
That is a West African place in Madison that does really, really good soup.
And they like, if you're really into kind of like meatier soups where you've got like the bone in there and it's all kind of, yeah, really, really savory.
So I'm referencing
your article you recently did about soups
for
the Capitol Times.
And where can people, where can people, if they want to get to know you better and see what kind of writing you do and what do you do?
Is there, do they just Google?
Victoria Davis Capital Times, will
all your articles come up?
Because it'll
tell people how to find
yourself.
Yeah, so Capital Times, the search engine's a little bit different than some websites.
I think the best way to kind of find my writing is if you go on my Instagram or my Facebook, my website is linked in there and I'll have a, I have a cap times tab and then there's like a pop up where it's like, see the latest articles.
That's probably the best place to go.
Um, but you can also like if you, cause you can't like click on my name on the cap times, that's not like hyperlinked to the other articles.
Some websites do it like that.
Um, but yeah, the cap times has more of a.
sophisticated like search engine process.
So yeah, the best way to go and see it is on my website.
Okay.
What about, here's my most forgotten soup that I love.
Lentil soup.
But I
never think about it.
Lentil soup is good.
I love
lentil soup.
It's
so
healthy
too.
Royal Indian's got a good lentil soup.
Royal Indian.
Okay.
Let's do this.
I want to ask you a food genre and I want you to just think of a restaurant and
share
it.
Okay.
Indian food.
I mean, Royal Indian.
Oh, I guess we just covered that.
All right.
You set me up for that one.
I did.
I walked
right into it.
Italian.
Oh, man, no-nose.
Where's
that?
That's off, like, not off Whitney Way and Raymond.
That's where my husband and I actually used to live and we would drive to no-nose all the time because it was right next to there.
But that's, no-nose is, it's on, I'm trying to think,
It's the west side of Madison, kind of on a little strip mall, right next to actually the Votense golf course.
Okay.
All right.
Mediterranean.
Oh, that one's harder.
There's
tons
of... Because Mediterranean, there's so many like crossovers.
Yeah, that's true.
You've got like a lot of like taco shops that are also Mediterranean.
Right.
Yeah, like bot like Baja tacos is really really good.
I've heard of that
place.
Yeah, is that that's that's right next to oh the the movie theater What's our what's like the our big movie theater
Marcus
yeah Marcus point.
Okay Marcus point cinema.
It's like right across the street from
that wish it was right next to the Italian place because
Yeah, no no's and then Baja you'd be yeah, you're you'd be rolling yourself on
my stomach for the rest of my life.
Yes,
exactly
All right, let's see.
What else do we have here?
Mexican food.
I mean, I go back to Baja Taca.
But what's the one here?
The one here next to the Capitol is a really good one.
And the name is escaping me.
La Casina.
Yes.
That's
what
it's called.
I literally just made that up
because that's like the most common name for...
Let me look it up.
I'm going to look it up right now.
I don't mean to make you do homework.
No, it's a really, everybody is like, who's listening to this right now is like, come on, Victoria, you write about food for a living.
No, no, don't worry.
You can't think of the taco place that's literally right next to you.
Bel-Air.
It's the Bel-Air Cantina.
Oh, Bel-Air,
I've seen that.
Okay.
All right, very good.
So.
We've got about a minute left.
Anything you could recommend that you're watching on TV?
The residence is great.
Because my husband and I are watching Only Murders in the Building on Hulu for a while.
And then I think that's wrapped up or is kind of in limbo with the next season.
For this season, yeah.
And if people are looking for another kind of funny sort of out of pocket murder mystery.
The residence is great.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Hannah, thank
you enough for coming in tonight.
This
is so much fun.
Thank you for being
on the show.
Victoria Davis, ladies and gentlemen, check out her work, Google Victoria Davis Capital Times, but you're going to have to type extra because there's no hyperlink with her.
Just
go on the
website.
I find that wrong.
All right.
Thanks so much.
Have
a great night.
Thank you.
Thank you also to Johnny Biener for coming down into the studio.
Thank you for all your texts and calls.
Tomorrow night on the show, mob expert Bob Dennis and Madison-based comedian Mike Mercury.
I'll be back in the home court, back up at WGBW.
Thanks, everybody.
Conrad, what do you say?
Should we get out of here?
Yeah, I think so.
All right.
All right.
Let me do this like I do it every night on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
Good night, Wisconsin.
Yeah.
