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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who never leaves the house without wearing a cup, Pete Chwaba.

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?

I'm

doing good.

It just started downpouring down here in

Green Bay.

I knew you were going to go right to the weather.

I knew

it.

Whenever you're not here, I have to go straight to weather.

You know, it was, it was, it was a pretty nice day though.

And then it got, it kind of got windy a little bit.

Yeah.

And then now it just started raining.

I don't know how, if it's raining by, you know.

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, but 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.

I heard from, I know we reached out to Brittany Merleau yesterday.

I heard back from Brittany Laird that said she was like a quarantine, not quarantine, but in safety in 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, uh, yeah, it's very cool and, uh, Cory works so hard as does Brittany, uh, great team there.

And, uh, so it sounds like, you know, today is a little better, but we'll see.

Still 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 are, uh, swaying a bit, but, uh, hopefully we won't not have any more tornadoes, but, uh, anyway, uh, 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?

I had for a second.

I thought you're gonna say he's gonna show up on nightlight, but you

know what?

the guy will not return my calls.

He's incredibly rude.

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 on to that where he played that joke on that guy when they were 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?

But

yeah.

He was laughing so hard that he took his plane up so high the guy in the backseat passed out 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 whenever risky business came out He was like a heartthrob and he was in the outsiders and he was in all the right moves.

It was a really good young actor

Then he did Top God 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.

Oh, 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 that?

Yeah, yeah, I've heard of it.

I've never tried it, but it

just

sounds disgusting.

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 is 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?

We have one right now.

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 didn'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 was in the army.

And taking us to a drive-through while stopping to get sandwiches and A&W root beer 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 call.

So just ignore ignore any negative energy Ali, please

Yes, 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

good

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.

I'm not definitely not one of them.

And neither were any of my

sisters or my dad.

Oh, that's great.

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.

I

just

looked it up, and it's like it does not look

appetizing.

It looks terrible.

It looks

disgusting.

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.

Do you remember what mine is?

I should probably.

What is it?

It's canned tuna.

The smell everything about it just grosses me out

Dude can't tune is not that bad.

It's the smell.

I can't get past the smell of it Like it's I can't do it

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.

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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.

This is, I'll read kind of reading 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?

No, I haven't had liver either.

I just think it's disgusting.

It sounds gross.

It's hard to say something's bad when you haven't tried it, but like,

I

just can't get

over

that it's 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.

I love onions.

That meal may be somewhat palatable, but I don't know.

John on social media says canned green beans.

Oh, that's interesting.

It's like

you, man.

I

don't like green beans either.

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

you, Eric.

What is it?

It refers to the edible interior parts of an animal, including skeletal muscles.

People, is that an actual food though?

I mean, I could list gross stuff,

but 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 Nimmer.

This surprised me, Conn.

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.

OK.

Well, sometimes, you know, like the hot dog would fall on the floor.

So you just eat the bun.

You just eat the bun.

It's like it didn't taste that good.

I know some people, you know, like my buddy of mine, he can't do ketchup and he also can't do sour cream.

And then my, my aunts over in Beribu doesn't like ketchup either or mustard.

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 love sushi.

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, festival has $5 sushi, sushi nights on Wednesdays.

So I hit that up all the time.

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.

Well, yeah, I mean, Quicktrip is a nice little meal, you

know?

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 never says Todd Michaels during 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 could see that I don't mind it, but I could see it.

What is that?

Is that like?

Fish

babies or something?

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 Oscar go, but I don't know 100 percent 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, Ali, Tom.

Thank you very much.

Monica in Mount Horrib, 608 says, I can think of worse, but I'm eating, so I'll just say cucumbers.

Oh, wow.

Oh, really?

She 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,

Belu, B-A-L-U-T, con, Google.

Belu, 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 love double

eggs.

I just, I've 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 Pacific 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?

It is, yes.

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 actually sauerkraut.

I don't hate it, but I don't know.

All right.

It is a bar ban 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 Vamov.

Nate, how are you?

Hey, I'm doing

great.

How about you?

Doing very well.

Thank you.

It's great to have you and great to meet you.

And it looks so much light.

Are you in Milwaukee right now?

Yeah, downtown.

Connery, look at how light it looks behind me.

Yeah.

It's a little different here in Green Bay.

I look like you're in the behind us or something.

Yeah, it's very dark.

I mean, the view is straight out over Lake Michigan, so the sun's still out out there.

It's a little cloudy.

Nice, dude.

Yeah.

Photography has served you well.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, it's great to have you.

How are you doing tonight?

Doing great.

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.

He's got a dog named Brutus, golden 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 pharmacist 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 one of the first.

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.

It's cool.

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 is 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

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.

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 vent 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?

Instagram's

probably the best.

Otherwise, my website, NateVomhoff.com.

You can

see all my 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 up a couple of times a year and get some fresh photos.

This one was snapped right before the playoffs last season, which didn't end in the best manner.

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.

That was an effector, just the way the camera was set up.

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.

There's a game being played.

It was 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 a

nice 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.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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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 gonna 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 Smoke on the Fox is a really cool thing, especially if you love you a good cigar.

So definitely don't miss that.

Right now, my guest is Nate Vaughn.

Nate Vaughn, God, Nate, help me out, man.

I'm having a, what the heck?

Nate Vaughn, sorry about that.

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 Ollie is back on the line from the Northwoods.

Hey, Ollie.

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 Hirschhoff.

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 they were

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?

Uh, not familiar, but I just jotted down the name and I definitely want to look that up and sounds sounds interesting.

That's

excellent.

Passion about similar, similar stuff.

Yeah, thank you.

We get great phone calls from Ali.

Um, so I was mentioning before the break, uh, the neighborhoods of Milwaukee to me.

I always love skylines.

I always love the Chicago skyline.

You know, 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, 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.

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.

What other cities do you like to photograph, Nate?

Recently, I went to San Francisco.

I was able to capture their skyline when the fog wasn't out, which is kind of cool.

So you actually got some prime photos there.

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.

Chag 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

Applied of mine, 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 we do it on time

we got about a minute left

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.

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And we've got a great show tonight.

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Terry Barr will be along at 735 with new tunes and excellent conversation.

Our question of the night is what is a food that totally grosses you out?

We had a great discussion earlier and got a lot of activity on our social media pages and here on the show.

And we resolved a situation with Ali and another listener, and people came to her defense.

It was a lot of warmth and a lot of virtual hugs here on Night Light.

It was, as usual, our listeners are the best.

Thank you for being with us tonight.

Right now, my guest is Nate Vomhoff.

We have a few more minutes with Nate.

He is a Milwaukee-based photographer, and he is also a pharmacist.

And he takes really cool photos.

So I recommend you check out his website or you can follow him on instagram where he posts really cool stuff too.

We've got Nate for a few more minutes here.

So, Nate, what do you say to people like when you became a photographer, I assume you had to get an actual camera and learn how to use it and all this intricacies and lighting and lenses and all that kind of stuff.

Can you be a real photographer and use an iPhone?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, like I said, the shot I got yesterday was with the iPhone.

So, I mean, you can take incredible photos.

The problems come when you're, you know, looking to blow them up larger in life and print them out.

Then the quality sometimes goes down a little bit, but the cameras nowadays and phones are pretty powerful.

So what do you take your pictures with?

You mentioned a drone and you mentioned that you did use an iPhone for one, but do you have a specific camera you like and do you have to change the lenses?

Do you light stuff?

How do you do that?

Yeah, so I have my drone is a Mavic 3 Pro.

The 4 just came out, so I have to look into getting that one.

But then the camera that I have, I have a Sony mirrorless camera.

It's 7R4.

And I do have a couple of different lenses.

And I didn't start with multiple lenses.

I started with one and kind of just reinvested from money I made from photos and just keep amping up the collection of lenses.

Were you taking pictures before the digital camera became all the rage?

Did you use an actual film camera?

Have you ever used those?

No, I never used a film camera.

So right when I started, mirrorless were coming out.

So I had a DSLR and then the mirrorless started taking over the market.

So that's when I invested in the Sony camera.

And then I've stuck with that one.

I haven't changed it out since I got it.

Nice.

Check out Nate's work at NateVomhoff.com.

All right, so let's talk about some moving pictures, Nate.

What kind of movies do you like?

Movies.

I'm kind of all over the board.

I'm always down for a good horror movie.

I tried to scare myself once in a while.

Besides that, I'm kind of excited for this Lilo and Stitch remake to come out.

Oh, wow.

It's an nostalgia of that, I don't know.

It's a fun movie Elvis Presley, you

know.

Okay.

Very cool.

Do you have a typical genre you like or do you like to go to the theater or watch him at home?

I am going to be honest.

I'm not a huge movie person.

I like to be outside and hanging out with the dog out there and, you know,

stay

out there.

So you're not

probably, you're probably not binge watching any TV shows you could recommend then either.

No, I

keep hearing how great white lotus is and I have not started it yet.

So we'll see if we get there.

All right.

Very cool.

Do you have a, uh, do you have a food that you find absolutely disgusting?

Something that you just can't eat?

Uh, I keep coming back to, I don't like mushrooms.

Don't put mushrooms in anything.

I'm not, I'm not a fan.

Uh, some people like them.

I was told growing up that they don't have a taste.

So I figured why put them in things if they don't have a taste.

So, and then it's a texture thing.

Fair enough.

Uh, Nate, have a great night.

Thank you for your time.

continued success behind the pharmacy counter and behind the camera.

Keep doing what you do.

It's great stuff.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

Thanks for having me.

You got it.

That's Nate Baumhoff.

Check out his website, natebaumhoff.com.

You can follow him on Instagram.

He's got great photos of Milwaukee, some of Madison, and then he's got San Francisco.

He did, and I think there's merch there too.

I meant to ask Nate about that.

I think he has a calendar of Milwaukee.

photography calendar.

You can check out if you're really into Milwaukee.

That could be kind of cool.

So Conrad, someone else is coming to the, not the defense of your mom, but Tom from New Berlin also says, I guess he's being adversarial.

Sauerkraut is a love drug, helps with gut, plus it has vitamin C, and lactic acid, which helps with libido.

Nature's Viagra.

You know except Tom if your breath smells like sauerkraut girls aren't gonna get near you or guys

or

whatever So,

you know my my dad loves sauerkraut.

I think so I think he's told me that it has good benefits to it I can't get past that like I've tried it before I've gave it a chance and Every time I try it.

I'm like this just doesn't taste good or smell good

Yeah, I have to I don't mind the taste of it like if it's on a brat It's not ever something I seek out, but I'll put some on a brat.

I've had that it's not too bad, but Tom

Yeah,

but is your dad giving you advice like?

You know he always he always tries to get me to try some new stuff I think and the one that he comes back to his liver.

He actually likes it

I'm

not putting that anywhere near

My mouth or my

nose.

That's one of our popular answers tonight.

And steady Eddie says, Pete, as a kid, I would not, could not eat liver and onions.

Couple puke emojis.

He says, as a kid, I wouldn't eat liver and onions.

No one could make me.

I still don't never will.

Final answer, steady Eddie.

That was from the heart.

That did not have steady Eddie's normal, you know, composition of his texts.

He

does

not.

He is not he's not a fan and a lot of people I would say that's our winner tonight so

far.

Anyway, we got a ways to go but Oh, here's a good one Nick from Marshall.

He's in the 608.

He says the smell of Limburger cheese grosses me out I have to be honest.

There are some cheeses I like But some cheese the smell I agree some cheeses just have a disgusting smell Nick says my grandfather used to eat all kinds of disgusting food including a possum.

Oh, no

That's horrible and he says and I also have an uncle who is a retired chef and also said possum is delicious when cooked the right way Yeah, when cooked as chicken or steak That's terrible I'm having trouble getting through isn't through Nick's text just because I cannot fathom eating a possum just from the way they walked

into the darkness.

It's so disgusting.

But Nick continues, he says, I don't know about you and Conrad, but the thought of eating pasta makes me want to.

Poor barf emojis.