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Welcome.
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
How we doing, folks?
Hope you're having a great Friday wherever you are.
Thank you for being here.
We've got a great show for you tonight to help you head into the weekend in style.
Conrad, what is going on tonight, buddy?
How are you?
Green Bay.
I knew you were going to go right through the weather.
I knew
Yeah.
No, it was raining earlier.
Now it's just really windy.
So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I don't lose power because I live around a lot of trees.
Uh, it is crazy.
My daughter said yesterday at Steven's point, she was in the basement for like an hour and a tornado touched down like five miles from the campus.
Um, I heard from, I know we reached out to Brittany Merlot, uh, yesterday.
I heard back from Brittany later that said she was like, uh, quarantine, not quarantine, but, uh, in safety and a basement, like she couldn't even look at the weather because she had to stay safe.
And then Corey Hartman did get back to us last night, but I kind of stopped checking the chat.
After 6 30 and he got back to us just after 6 30, but he said he was out chasing storms I mean how cool is that?
That's awesome.
So Yeah, it's very cool and Cory works so hard as does Brittany a great team there and so and it sounds like you know Today is a little better, but we'll see still stay safe out there folks.
We've got some wind here in the Marinette area.
I'm looking out the window right now on the trees or swaying a bit, but hopefully we won't not have any more tornadoes, but
Anyway, it is great to have you here folks tonight.
This is Friday.
We are heading into the weekend.
Lots of movies opening up.
Lots of great colored television to be watched this weekend because the weather, guess what, Conrad?
We're talking about the weather.
50s next week.
Like low 50s.
So that means, yeah, that means if you are, if there's wind, it can feel like 40s or even 30s.
I'm kind of close to the water.
It's always colder there.
So I don't know.
This is like the summer that will never start.
However,
I will say this, and this excites me very much.
One week from tonight, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest movie star, possibly, arguably, in the history of the world, has a film opening called Mission Impossible.
It's the eighth chapter, the final reckoning, Tom Cruise.
That opens one week from tonight, and I cannot... I'm so excited to see this movie.
I can't believe it.
What about you?
You gonna see it?
know what?
The guy will not return my calls.
He's incredibly rude.
Uh, yeah, it would be great to get Tom Cruise on nightlight.
And he seems like the kind of guy, you know, that clip we have of him, Conrad, we have to hold onto that where he played that joke on that guy when they went to like G force and the guy passed out in the backseat and Tom Cruise was telling this.
I mean, he couldn't even get through the story.
Was he telling David Letterman or Jimmy Fallon or something?
He was laughing so hard that he took his plane up so high the guy in the back seat passed out.
That's so diabolical.
He
He couldn't stop laughing.
Yeah, it was just nice to see that human side of him because for the longest time, you know, he was like a heartthrob.
You know, when I was in grade school, high school, whatever risky business came out,
He was like a heartthrob and he was in the outsiders and he was in all the right moves.
He was a really good young actor.
Then he did Top Gun and he did some other films and the Scientology thing kind of followed Tom Cruise around quite a bit and people weren't sure what to make of that.
They thought maybe he might be a little weird.
I don't know much about Scientology.
I'm not saying it's weird.
I'm not trying to offend anybody, but I know there was a stigma attached if you were a Scientologist, that they were controlling and all this kind of stuff.
Whether that's true, I don't know.
But Tom Cruise was part of that.
And he got up on Oprah one day and jumped on the couch and acted crazy because he was excited he had a movie coming out.
Everybody thought he was nuts.
And listen, he is a little nuts.
The guy does his own stunts.
And to me, that alone puts him in a different stratosphere movie star wise.
But now he has won everybody back over.
He's shaken that kind of crazy gene or whatever it was that he had.
that was perceived by the media and now he is back full force.
He's made probably since he danced on Oprah's couch, five mission impossibles, maybe more, Top Gun 2, all these great films.
The guy does not make a bad film.
And I've sung his praises on this show several times, because I think he's amazing.
And the buzz coming out of the Cannes Film Festival is just that this film is great.
and he does all his own stunts once again.
Sean Penn in a recent, I think it was, Sean Penn was on the Justin Thoreau podcast, not Justin Thoreau, Lewis Thoreau podcast, and he was singing Tom Cruise praises.
He thinks Cruise is not only a great actor, one of the best, but he thinks Tom Cruise is the best stuntman in Hollywood.
So I can't say enough about Tom Cruise.
I'm so excited to see Mission Impossible next week, and we will have to wait until then.
A few things opening this week, we can talk.
about that a little bit, but hey, we got a great show tonight.
Conrad, you found our first guest, Nate Vomoff, and great photographer.
If you're watching on the stream tonight, folks, Nate is a Milwaukee resident, and he takes pictures around the state and other cities too, but his focus seems to be Milwaukee, and he takes stunning pictures of Brewtown.
So...
Nate will be here tonight at 635.
We'll talk to him about his process, about his artistic vision, and he has merch for sale on his site, like a Milwaukee calendar.
He does some really cool work, so I'm excited to meet Nate for the first time.
And then, folks, it is a bar band.
Friday night, our Paltieri bar will be here with most excellent tunes and great conversation, like she is every week.
So there's your show and we got a great question tonight.
Conrad, I think we should get to it because we've got quite a few responses on social media.
We should probably start reading.
So why don't we go to our question of the night?
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Pregunta.
Question.
Question.
Here, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Question.
Questions.
We got a good one, folks.
What is the food that totally grosses you out?
What food totally grosses you out?
Like you can't even go near it.
You got to hold your nose.
And it's interesting.
I gave a shout out to a friend of mine who had passed away yesterday on the show.
I was hanging out with his family today.
Part of the reason I'm doing the show from home, I wanted to be around here a little bit more today, but great contributions just in conversation today.
And someone mentioned ham spread.
Oh, yeah.
That is old.
Old school, right?
I mean, have you even heard of
just
I think it's also called sandwich spread, but it really has always kind of grossed me out.
But my friend really liked it, and we were talking about, and my other buddy said oysters.
But I actually really like oysters.
I know the texture is not really...
Great, but you put some garlic and some salt on an oyster and they're delicious But that was always and then the other one was something called his brother said bird nest soup that you get in China and he said Bird nest soup has the consistency of a loogie Which really grossed me out I've never had bird nest soup, but that is our question of the night folks What is the food that totally grosses you out laying on us?
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Conrad, did you get a phone call?
Oh, we got a phone call now?
Yeah.
Based on the question already.
Yes, we might be making radio history.
Who is it?
It's Ali from the Northwoods.
Ali, how are you?
Well, I'm I'm better today.
I had a hard cup last couple of days.
Apparently I ruffled some feathers the other night and I wasn't sure I would ever call in again.
But what happened to anyway?
Wait, you didn't you
don't ruffle feathers on this show.
Did you?
Well, apparently I did and
Um, I really felt bad and I cried all night and oh
Oh,
no, I gonna call again, but I
decided
to try to put that aside because I'm very sorry that I know other people's circumstances
Correct
and
I if we made you feel bad in any way.
I apologize.
I don't it wasn't you it
was
uh Apparently someone disagreed with
something I said about my my parents bringing us to the drive-thru and that was a hard thing to take because they don't understand the situation and I didn't take time to explain the situation that my parents my dad was in the army and my mother was a stay-at-home mom who cooked and sewed
to take care of four little girls while my dad
in the army.
And taking us to a drive-thru while stopping to get sandwiches and ANW root
was their way of being able to afford to treat their four little girls to something special.
Absolutely.
Nothing wrong with that.
No,
well, I don't I don't remember if someone disagreed with you or made you feel bad about that But either way, I apologize
and
I we loved getting the phone calls.
So just ignore ignore any negative energy Ali, please
Yeah, that's that I stay away from social media because of that and I always felt Was so thrilled when I found civics media and felt that it was
such a
uplifting and fun show, so that threw me off quite a bit.
Wow, I'm sorry to hear
that.
Well, I'm glad
you said that, but thank you for calling back and not staying away.
Never stay away, please.
We love getting your phone calls.
Well, my bad food of the day is every Christmas
My mom had to have Ludifest because of her Scandinavian heritage and not one of us kids could even stand the smell of it cooking, let alone getting it past our nose.
What was it called
again?
Ludifest, a Norwegian fish.
It's a dried fish that they boil and it's a lot of people love it, but
you're not one
of them.
definitely not one of them and neither were any of my sisters or my dad.
Ollie, thank you so much for the call and glad you came back.
Never be a stranger, please.
No, thank you very much.
You're
welcome.
Bye bye.
I've never heard of that con.
just
appetizing.
It looks it
Oh, that's horrible.
All right, folks, that's our question.
What is a food that really grosses you out?
I think for me, I'm going to say bologna.
Really?
Yeah, bologna and rice or tapioca pudding, anything or like a cream mushroom sauce.
I don't like the cream sauces and bologna.
That's for me.
I just can't do it.
I should probably.
What is it?
Dude can't tune is not that bad.
All right, let us know what your least favorite food is we're gonna read some text when we come back and maybe we'll play a really fun clip Lots of fun here tonight on nightlight you're hearing a good night folks.
Happy Friday.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Rich LoCasio.
You're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.
I would like to introduce to you the pine tree mauler from Marinette, Wisconsin.
He is Pete's
Oh, the lovely and talented Rich Lucassio, ladies and gentlemen.
I am Peach Wabba.
This is Nightlight.
Great to have you with me on Friday night.
A gloomy Friday night.
Another gloomy night in Wisconsin.
We are getting crushed.
So we need to listen to the radio and talk about really fun things to warm our souls.
It is great to have you with me tonight.
Conrad, the kid Conrad Krieger riding shotgun.
And our question of the night is...
What food totally grosses you out?
We're gonna jump right into the text because it's one struck a nerve with people, boy.
Kat, this is, I'll read the social media posts first.
So we'll go our Facebook post, Kat Angel says liver.
I don't know if I've ever had liver.
Is that crazy?
a liver, you know?
It's an innard.
Yeah.
It's like saying, oh, I'm having lung, or I'm having a gallbladder for dinner.
It just does not a good sound, especially with onions.
Like onions, I love onions.
That makes that meal maybe somewhat palatable, but I don't know.
John on social media says canned green beans.
Oh, that's interesting.
like you, man.
I don't like green
the canned goods.
I like green beans.
Thank you, John.
Mike Desatelle says liver and onions hands down.
I think we might have an early favorite here for the worst.
Yeah.
Worst food.
Thank you, Mike.
Eric says awful.
What's that?
Any animal?
Oh, it's awful.
I don't even know what that is.
I'm going to have to go to the Google.
Go to the Google.
Take a memo and go to the Google.
Conrad's going to look that up.
Thank
Eric.
What is it?
Is that an actual food, though?
I mean, I could list gross stuff.
Do people actually eat that?
This is including heart, kidney, liver, and tongue.
Oh, God.
Thank you, Eric.
You might be our official winner tonight.
Wayne and Kathy, they also say liver and onions.
Another one wonderfully Wisconsin our pal Paul says head cheese or blood soup.
Nope.
Just nope And he would know he eats a lot of food.
He's been to all these cool places to sample their food So I am going to defer to wonderfully Wisconsin give him a follow great stuff Amanda never this surprised me con she says ketchup She says I can't even handle the smell of it.
That's our award-winning
Social media person here at WGBW, she's been on Nightlight several times.
Ketchup.
I used to eat ketchup sandwiches when I was a kid.
Okay, that's... Well, sometimes, you know, like the hot dog would fall on the floor, so you just eat the bun.
You just eat the bun.
do sour
a
I mean, I really don't eat ketchup now because it's very acidic, but I like it.
But I guess I can see that.
Thank you, Amanda.
Todd Michaels, producer of Mino and the mayor.
Get this sushi.
He says we should not eat anything raw.
Okay.
I like that theory, Todd.
I just I love sushi too.
Some ginger on there, some soy, a little wasabi.
Get out of town, man.
You know, you don't need to knock the price off sushi.
That just makes me nervous.
That puts me on Todd's side.
I don't need to charge what you need to charge.
It's worth it.
I don't think about that.
I think about the price tag, right?
Yeah, but you get a lot of your meals at Quicktrip.
I mean, you're not, you're not that fussy.
you
Paul responded.
He says, this is Paul from Wonderfully Wisconsin says, for shame, Todd, sushi is delicious.
And then Todd replied, Wonderfully Wisconsin, and he put a bunch of puke emojis.
Amanda Nimmer says, Todd Michaels, Jerry, you're missing out on deliciousness.
I don't think Todd cares, Amanda.
He seems very comfortable with his choices.
Going to the text line, Terry, she's in the 414 says, Escargo.
Oh, I can see that.
I don't mind it, but I could see it.
What is that?
Is that like
Yeah, it's, I want to say octopus babies.
Oh, OK.
Go to the Google on that one too.
I might be wrong about that.
I've had escargot, but I don't know 100% what it is.
Rich from Madison, he's in the 608.
He says, when?
Wine?
I don't know what Rich meant there.
And then Al from Madison in the 608 says, liver, no innards in me, especially that one is just a piss filter.
Al says the liver is just a piss filter.
Ah, that's great.
Anna from Madison, the 608 says, hi, Pete and Conrad.
The food that crosses me out is asparagus.
Interesting.
I like asparagus, but I guess I can see that.
Thank you, Anna.
Tom from New Berlin, this is very sweet.
I love when listeners support other listeners.
He says, Ollie, love.
So good for you, Ollie, for calling in.
Thank you for coming to the defense of one of our comrades, Ollie, Tom.
Thank you very much.
Monica in Mount Horrib, 608 says, I can think of worse, but I'm
I can think of worse, but I'm eating, so I'll just say cucumbers.
Oh, wow.
Oh, really?
He says I have a very strong aversion to them.
I know it's odd, but so am I. All right, Monica.
There you go.
You have a good sense of self.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And let's do a couple more here.
Nick from Marshall says belute, B-L-B-A-L-U-T, con, Google.
Blue, oh, he says, which is a Filipino delicacy of hard boiled, fertilized duck eggs that contain partially developed embryos?
Sounds disgusting, and I will never try it.
You know, I'm gonna add double eggs to my list.
I can't do double eggs.
Yeah, I can't do
I just had a bad experience.
Thank you, Nick.
We'll get to more of your texts soon.
But coming up next, Milwaukee photographer, Nate Vamoff will be here.
Looking forward to meeting Nate.
That's coming up after Civic Media's award-winning news team keeps you informed.
This is Pete Chihuahua at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Welcome back.
This is Nightlight.
I am your host, Pete Schwabba.
Great to have you with me on this overcast.
At least it's overcast in northeast Wisconsin.
Is it still raining there, Conrad?
Okay.
Well, wherever you are in Wisconsin, we hope you're enjoying better weather than we are.
And either way, I'm just glad you're listening to the radio and being a part of Nightlight tonight.
It's great to have you.
Our question of the night is, what is your least favorite food or what is a food that really grosses you out?
Conrad's mom checks in and says sauerkraut.
It smells awful.
Interesting.
True.
It does smell bad.
Some people love it like I'm brats, though.
Yeah.
I don't hate it, but I don't know.
All right, it is a bar band Friday night.
Ladies and gentlemen, Terry Barr will be here at 735, bringing most excellent tunes as she always does.
And her sparkling personality, we love to talk to Terry on Friday nights.
It's something we look forward to all week.
That is coming up in hour number two.
Right now, it is my pleasure to welcome to Nightlight for the first time Milwaukee based photographer, Nate Vamoff.
Nate, how are you?
Hey,
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Doing very well.
Thank you.
It's great to have you and great to meet you and It's it looks so much light.
Are you in Milwaukee right now?
Yeah, I'm downtown Connery look at how light it looks behind me.
very I mean the view straight out over Lake Michigan, so the sun's still out out there It's a little cloud nice dude.
Yeah
photography has served you well.
Yeah, absolutely Well, it's great to have you how you doing tonight doing great.
It's a
It's the weekend, so we're here.
We're here.
Absolutely.
All right, so for those of us, Nate, we want to get to know you a little bit tonight.
We know you take great photographs.
We have some we can share for those people watching in the stream tonight.
But it is a visual medium, and this is the radio.
So let's try to get people excited about what you do despite all that.
First off, tell us a little bit about yourself.
So, I mean, I am a photographer.
I'm also a full-time pharmacist.
So the photography is just kind of a side thing that I do.
I lived out in Milwaukee, I've got a dog named Brutus, cold and retriever.
And yeah, I guess what else do you want to know?
All right, well, I find it interesting because I read your bio on your website.
I saw the email you sent us and now you just, you mentioned pharmacists often.
You must be almost as proud of your pharmacy work as you are of your photography because you don't hesitate to mention it.
I think that's cool.
I think it's important to let people know that.
I'm not just a photographer.
So I also, you know, busted my butt in school to get my pharmacy.
So,
yeah.
Can you be, can you be creative as a pharmacist?
No, that's more legally.
Not really.
No, I mean, if I were doing some compounding, maybe, but I'm a community pharmacist.
So I work in your local Walgreens and deal with patients day in and day out.
But the photography kind of gives me a little release to get out and be creative.
I think it's so funny when my daughter was young, we used to take her, we lived in Los Angeles and our pharmacy was like, I think it was like one of the first CVS's or one of the first I'd heard of.
And she said, she wanted to be a pharmacist because she got to, because the pharmacist at this particular pharmacy got to walk up like three steps into a different level.
And she thought that was cool.
This is what a five year old thinks about being a pharmacist.
One of the purges.
The old store I used to work at was like that.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Models changed.
getting down on patient level became important.
So
that's great.
All right.
So tell us a little bit about how did you find photography?
When did you start doing this and when did this love for this creative art develop?
So I've always
been kind of creative, but I kind of really picked up steam in my last year of pharmacy school.
I was going down to the Navajo reservation for my last rotation, which is kind of like on site experience.
And I just
wanted to have a nice camera when I was down there.
This is before iPhones were, you know,
the quality that they are now.
So I bought a Nikon camera, went down there, got to see some of the great American Southwest, took a bunch of photos there, moved back to Milwaukee once I was graduating.
And then drones became important or like, you know, more commonplace and offered a new perspective of the city.
So then things kind of just took off from there.
People were like, Hey, how do I buy photos?
How do I, you know, get.
get you to take some photos for me.
And just being able to see a new perspective of something that is more common was really exciting to people.
It just kind of took off, and here we are.
Wow.
So that kind of happened quickly, it sounds like.
You started taking pictures, and people wanted to buy them that fast?
Yeah, it was pretty quick.
It was just like, oh, I prioritize sunsets, and I like architecture.
So it's something that people are familiar with.
It's their home.
They're proud of it.
being able to buy a photo and, you know, hang at your house.
Yeah.
So
what, uh, how is, I know you photographed other cities as well.
We'll talk about that.
Uh, I come from, uh, my hometown, uh, initially with Chicago and the great architecture there, it's known for it.
How is, uh, how does Milwaukee stack up against other cities?
Like, I, uh, how is the architecture there for you as a photographer?
So I am a fan of both like older architecture, more historic stuff, but also modern architecture.
Like Milwaukee City Hall is incredible.
It's just beautiful.
It's just, you know, the history of it there.
But also seeing like the new skyscrapers growing up in cities.
Like I love the Wilshire Grand in LA.
That building's beautiful.
The Salesforce Tower in San Francisco is beautiful.
Just seeing the different, the way cities change.
I love cities.
So just seeing the way they change over time and, you know,
Why is this building going here?
What prompted the skyline to change that fast?
Cities are constantly in a flux of change.
So being able to capture that in a moment of time, you can look back at photos and be like, wow, this isn't the same place it used to be.
Have you ever heard of a movie called Smoke?
No.
I think you would really find at least part of it fascinating.
It stars William Hurt.
And there's a young kid in the neighborhood and he kind of takes the kid under his wing and he talks about the power of photography in one scene and there's One of his side projects is taking a picture of the same corner in Brooklyn every day for like 20 years And the way he talks about it in the movie and romanticizes photography.
It's just beautiful So I would recommend I do for a rewatch of that anyway It's been so long
but
that that scene in particular has always stood out to me and I love what you say about
architecture.
I remember being in downtown Chicago, probably about 10 years ago, and we were in a hotel kind of in the rush street area.
And I looked out and there was a building.
It had to be 40 stories tall and was all brick.
Yeah.
Like thousands of bricks for one building.
You know what I mean?
Like, as a photographer to capture those things, it helps you realize just how intricate and beautiful.
architecture is, right?
Yeah, I've had friends that have been like, hey, you know, like you have like encouraged me to learn to look up, like when I'm walking through the city, like, you know, being down at ground level, you're paying attention to the daily hustle and bustle, but just looking up and taking in and appreciating what's built around you is kind
of cool.
Okay, so we got a little bit of your background about how you started photography.
When did your love of taking pictures of your hometown of Milwaukee start?
You mentioned when you got back there, but when did you realize Milwaukee is a great town to photograph?
So I went to undergrad here, uh, and just even seeing the change and I think there's like a level of pride that Milwaukee lacked.
I grew up in Madison area and I feel like everyone was like, Oh, Madison, you know, it's the best city
in the
world.
Like it's, you know, it's, and I mean, I love Madison, but Milwaukee had this little.
bit of grit to it and it was new to me.
And then I went away to pharmacy school and just seeing the way the skyline changed and the investment and the way that all the players here have kind of come together to invest in the city and grow it has been really cool to see.
So just being able to capture that and get people excited about living here and calling this place home, I feel like the energy almost rivals out of Madison now, which is really cool to see.
And I feel like the cities can really build on each other.
Yeah, that's they have a weird rivalry that I've only learned about in the last 10 years or so.
I find it strange.
I don't think we're a big enough state where our two biggest cities should have a rivalry, but
no, I think that's coming.
I think they're coming together a lot more now.
I think there's more to gain by the cities working
together.
So absolutely.
And it's interesting what you say.
I agree about the grit like Madison is this kind of slick.
you know, a very contemporary, vibrant city.
And not that Milwaukee isn't, but there is that grit, which to you as a photographer, to capture some of that stuff must be, where are your favorite places around the city to go with your camera?
So Lake Michigan is obviously beautiful.
You've got the Milwaukee Art Museum just spreading its wings out over it.
It's incredible to capture the Hone Bridge with the lights on there.
I do a lot of work with Lake Hone.
which has been really cool to see the way the city lights up and everything.
And then the Milwaukee River, just being able to capture the energy of the boats going up and down the river during the summer is really cool.
But also in the winter with the ice, you can't beat the ice shots.
Yeah, that's great.
Let's do this.
Con, we have some photos.
Yeah.
Let's show some.
If you're watching on the stream, folks.
Check out, here we're gonna post some of Nate's work.
It's just beautiful photography.
Let's see about a few pictures, kind of, if you could post those.
Now, all right, tell us what's happening there, Nate.
All right, for those of you on the radio, there's this amazing bolt of lightning hitting the water.
Is it hitting the water, Nate, or is that where
the bend comes out?
That's hitting Bayview, so that's hitting the land.
Yeah,
that was
shot last night during the thunderstorm.
So that's a fresh photo, yeah.
And that's overlooking summer fest grounds.
So you just have Lakeshore State Park there.
And then this giant bolt of lightning just came down.
The lightning last night was just insane.
I don't know if you guys got the same, same up there.
It was pretty intense up here.
How did you get that?
Is it a camera you leave on or did you get lucky or how does that work?
No, I typically try to shoot with my drone or my camera, but this one is a straight iPhone photo.
No way.
Just kept snapping.
Yeah, it's actually outside my window.
So that's the view from my apartment.
Boy, that's impressive.
My guest is Nate Vomhoff.
Check out his work.
You can follow him on, what's the best, Nate?
Instagram or?
Instagram's
probably the best.
Otherwise, my website, NateVomhoff.com.
You can
see there are a lot of work there.
Beautiful photos there at his website.
So definitely check that out.
Come on, let's see another one.
Oh, there you go.
Miller, it's not.
American Family Field now, right?
I
still want to call it County Stadium, but it's been a few generations
from that one.
But yeah, so that one, that one was captured from a helicopter.
My flight tours is local here in Milwaukee.
And the pilot's awesome Tyler.
And we go a couple of times a year and get some fresh photos.
This one was snapped before the right before the playoffs last season, which didn't end, you know, in the best matter.
But
Right.
Here we are.
It's interesting.
It looks like the ground is coming up behind the stadium in that picture where the parking lot is, kind of in
the back.
Yeah, a
little bit.
Just the way the camera was set up.
It's
just the way the camera is there.
Yeah, but being able to look into the stadium, so legally you can't fly a drone within three miles of the stadium during gameplay.
So this is the shot that I could have gotten with the drone.
I mean, I could do it if there was nobody in the stadium.
Yeah.
Yeah, being able to see the stadium with the lights on with people inside and there's a game being played is super cool.
That is cool.
Let's see one more so we don't alienate our radio listeners too much, but let's see one more kind if we can see one more.
Now this one is beautiful.
We're looking
folks.
This is on your website too, right?
Yeah, it might not be.
I need to update.
Okay.
I'll add this
in collection.
Yeah, we're looking at a picture of Madison with the sky is like an orange pink beautiful the capital is That's gorgeous.
Um All right, we'll talk more with Nate mom hop we got to do a little bit of a break here We're gonna take care of some business won't be right back to talk more about photography
and more beautiful parts of Milwaukee that people might not even know about.
I didn't realize how beautiful Milwaukee was until I got off the freeway and went into the neighborhood.
So we'll talk a little bit more about that with Nate and where else he likes to take pictures.
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This is Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you with me on this Friday night as we help you ease into your weekend.
I know the weekends are fine, but we will be back on the air on Monday night, and that is when I truly get excited.
If you followed our social media earlier, you might have seen that Norm Kepesky was going to be on the show tonight.
That was my bad.
Norm will be here Tuesday night to talk about a really cool cigar event, Smoke on the Fox.
So Norm will be here to tell us all about that.
That's on Tuesday night, not tonight.
And uh smoke on the fox is a really cool thing, especially if you love you a good cigar.
So definitely don't miss that Uh right now my guest is nate vaughn Make nate vaughn god nate help me out man.
I'm having a
the heck?
Hey, can we take a phone call for you nate?
We have one of our listeners who wants to recommend something to you Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
This is ali is back on the line from the north woods.
Hey ali
Hi, I was just listening to Nate and hearing how much he enjoyed the gritty pictures of like the older parts of different cities and I was wondering if he had ever heard of Edwin Hirschoff.
Edwin was a self-taught photographer and he did some fabulous photos of the
of Minneapolis as they were tearing down some of the old buildings.
And his photographs were shown at the Minnesota Historical Society, but they're also in a book, which I unfortunately don't know the name of.
But that might be something that you might enjoy looking up and enjoy his photography.
It's
awesome.
Yeah, thank you so much for the call, Ali.
Appreciate it.
Nate, does that sound familiar?
Not familiar, but I just jotted down the name, and I definitely want to look that up.
It sounds interesting.
That's excellent.
Sounds like you're passionate about similar stuff.
Yeah,
thank you,
Ali.
We get great phone calls from Ali.
So I was mentioning before the break the neighborhoods of Milwaukee.
To me, I've always loved Skylines.
I always loved the Chicago Skyline.
It was my hometown.
and there are other cities with great skylines.
I never thought when I was a kid, at least, or even in my 20s, Milwaukee had this brilliant skyline.
To me, and it's gotten much better now, it's beautiful, but when you got off the freeway and got into the neighborhoods, to me, that was where I was like, oh, wow, this is a beautiful city.
There's some gorgeous neighborhoods.
Do you have a favorite you like to go to?
I
mean, that changes, I feel like, depending on the season.
And also, I guess, what I'm trying to get into.
Lately, I've been going to the Third Ward a lot more.
Beautiful with the historic kind of Soho vibes.
But adjacent to downtown, it's walking distance to my place.
Bayview is incredible.
And then I feel like the cool new neighborhood is kind of like, and it's been cool.
It's the neighborhood by North Avenue.
Yeah.
All the way down to like Bronzeville is it's gonna be crazy what happens in the next couple of years, I feel like.
So just seeing the city reinvest in
and rebuild what was destroyed for freeways.
Absolutely.
Tell us again, please, Nate, where people can see your work.
What is your website again?
My website is NateVomhoff.com.
All right.
So let me ask you this.
You seem to really like being a pharmacist.
You seem like you've done well with it.
But you seem really vibrant about taking pictures.
So if this ever became a gig, would you want to do that?
Where do you see photography taking you?
I'm not really sure.
I'm just trying to have fun with it, I guess.
And I mean, the cool thing is that I do this on the side.
So if there's a project I'm not passionate about, I don't take it on necessarily.
So having that as an option is kind of nice.
But also, I mean, there's a lot of cool opportunities I have to pass up just because I've got, I'm tied down to the day job.
But that being said, I worked hard for my pharmacist license and everything.
Uh, not planning to give that up anytime soon either.
You ever try to take like really cool pictures of pills?
No, I keep the camera at home.
That's good.
All right.
Uh, what other cities do you like to photograph Nate?
Uh, recently I went to San Francisco, uh, was able to capture their skyline when the fog wasn't out, which is kind of cool.
So you actually got some, some prime photos there.
Uh, I've shot Los Angeles before I've shot Chicago before.
Different cities have different rules with the drone.
So sometimes it's just ground photography.
Sometimes it's with the drone.
Shaw Green Bay a little bit.
Madison obviously seemed already.
And then, I don't know, it's just trying to get out and capture different cities.
Capture some stuff in Sydney, Australia.
That was cool.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, you've got some beautiful photos of and these are on your website.
I know because I looked at them earlier San Francisco.
You did a bang up job there.
Those are beautiful photos.
What is there?
Are there other places around Wisconsin?
Like you mentioned Madison and we saw a picture of one of the pictures you took of Madison.
But what about other parts of Wisconsin that you like to photograph?
So like I said earlier, I love cities.
So cities are going to be a big draw for me.
But this year, I've been kind of taking it as a
I guess the goal to capture some golf courses.
I feel like Wisconsin is known for some incredible golfing.
So being able to capture some different courses would be really cool to add to the collection.
Absolutely.
So let me ask you this, Nate.
Actually, how are we doing on time?
Okay.
Can we keep you through the news, Nate, just for a few more minutes?
Yeah, absolutely.
I've got a few more questions.
I want to ask you about all these people who think they're photographers right now because they have iPhones, myself included, but we'll talk about that and what you need to be a full blown photographer.
We'll do that after intermission here as a civic media news team tells you what's up.
Nate Baumhoff is here at Milwaukee photographer and an enthusiastic pharmacist as well.
He's here.
He's going to stick around through the news and we'll ask him a few more questions and maybe even ask him what food absolutely turns his stomach and get him involved.
in the fun here tonight.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight.
We're coming right back.
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