Clean Sweep and Home Runs (Hour 1)

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And now, a guy who appreciates a nice hot meal at a fair price.

Pete Schwabach.

Welcome to

Nightlight, folks.

Let's... I almost said a really... I almost said something I can't say on the radio.

And it starts with LFG.

And I can't say... I could have said part of it, two-thirds of it.

Let's frolic gingerly.

But I'll do that.

Let's go.

It is a Tuesday night, folks.

Here at Nightlight, and we have a really fun show planned for you tonight.

Some great guests.

We're going to have a lot of fun with a local cleaning company.

And then we welcome a director behind a great sports documentary.

He's been on the show before.

I'm just going to tease it right there, and we'll come back to that.

But great guests, a great question.

We got some good conversation lined up.

How are you doing tonight, Conrad?

You know, not as well as I wanted, because the brewer's lost today.

My Cubs are making it a series, at least out of the gate anyway.

We play in an hour.

Yeah.

So hopefully we can make it two to one.

What if like as the show went on and the Cubs and the Brewers are playing, like one of us just got increasingly angry throughout the course of the show.

That'd be really unprofessional.

I just tell you like this, 11 zip brewers, would you just walk out?

I would, I'd quit.

That's rational.

But you know, like.

What are they supposed to do anyway?

The Brewers have, I think, an eight game lead now that the Cubs won, right?

So eight games were borderline still, I guess, mid-August.

But six weeks?

I mean, unless the Cubs go on a Brewers streak and the Brewers play 500 ball, the Brewers actually probably could play 500 ball the rest of the way and still hold on to first place.

So it's uphill climb for the Cubs.

But the Brewers continue.

They're hot streak although you could say they've lost two of their last three But how many of they won of their last 15 of their last 17 or something 17 of the last 19 I'm gonna have to

look at that.

I'll look at that way.

All right.

So what better time to Talk about one of our guests who will be here at 720 tonight our pal Sean Hannish Sean is an accomplished director He was an accomplished director before he made just a bit outside the documentary

more specifically, just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

I just kind of went through it again today.

It's such a great film and it really... I hate to say this almost because it might hurt Brewer fans, but it's a better documentary or says more about the people of Wisconsin or Milwaukee that they lost and still had this outpouring of affection from the community.

It's such a great film if you have not seen just a bit outside You could probably get through most of it before Sean is here at 720 and it's available on Roku I think Apple TV probably a few more other streaming platforms, but Sean's a great guy and he's made many other movies too He will be here at 720.

I have specific questions for him because I think his documentary Might have inspired this current brewers team Thoughts,

you know, it really could you know, I think I think the main

is Bob Uker.

That has inspired this team?

Yeah.

Okay.

I think it's that they saw the response from Milwaukee, the city of Milwaukee and beyond for a runner up.

Yeah.

And they're like, we gotta win.

Can you imagine if we actually win?

I

think it's that and Uker and that combining and just making this beautiful baseball stretch that we have.

And then I saw today, Pat Murphy almost followed Craig Council to Chicago.

Really?

Yeah.

So how much of this do you put on Pat Murphy that he's responsible for?

20 wins, 40 wins?

I don't know.

But that was an interesting storyline today.

So we'll talk about all of that with Sean.

And then in the first hour at 6.35, this is going to be fun.

The Mary Mades of Green Bay are here.

Alex Vannevin and Lisa

I want to make sure I already got their name wrong once.

I don't want to do it again.

Lisa Gutowski.

Alex Vaniphen and Lisa Gutowski will be, I almost made a joke right there and said, clean it up, Shwapa.

It would have been a great

one.

That's bad.

That's terrible.

They are going to be here at 635 to help us clean up our act.

They're going to be in the studio with some great cleaning tips.

I think this is fun because I'm like a bit, my personality is kind of a binge personality.

It's kind of the same with cleaning.

I'll let things go and then I'll get disgusted with myself and then it'll be cleaner than it's ever been before.

And I'll keep it clean for about a week and then I'll fall off the rails again.

So they're going to give us some cleaning tips.

I think it'll be fun and we'll have them here in the studio and I think let's get some window.

We can get some pictures of them through the window, maybe washing the window.

Oh, we missed yesterday, didn't

we?

We did.

But you know what?

It couldn't go on forever.

Yeah.

I think we just have to do it sporadically.

I couldn't get David Zucker to come to the studio and take a picture of him outside.

He probably would have boxed at that.

Ha, boxed another bad pun.

So what do you do?

How often do you clean your... Well, you know, it's...

I think I do the same thing.

It's like, at one point, I'm just like, okay, you need to clean.

Yeah.

It's starting to get gross.

That's how I am too and I can't like my wife will be like we need a schedule Well, no we can have one but I to me.

It's the eye test.

It's like this is gross.

I need to clean it It's that simple,

you know, I do it by the the full sink test if I see that there's full dishes in there.

I'm like, I should probably do

it It's like a holding cell.

Yeah, you know It's like I forgot I have a dishwasher because I haven't had it in so long.

Yeah,

sometimes I just keep filing up on my dish

in my sink and I'm like, wait, I don't even need to clean

it.

We don't even do it at our house.

I'll wash a dish.

If I'm done with something, I'll rinse it to make the actual soaping of it easier.

My wife is like, just wash it now and put it away.

I agree with that in theory.

Like to get back at me, she'll just put something in the sink with like cereal or potatoes or whatever in it and it'll get hard and then I'll do the dishes because I don't mind doing dishes.

I put some music on it, kind of like it.

But she'll kind of like, I'm like, can we at least do, like I'm giving her that yes, we should wash something right away and put it away or in the dishwasher or whatever.

But short of that, can you at least rinse it?

Cause I'm probably going to be the one cleaning it.

And the answer is no.

I think

you

did my sink done.

I like fill it up with water and then I soak it.

The dishes?

Yeah, like I soak it

until I'm ready to wash it.

So they soak in dirty water, really?

At least it's not getting hard in there.

That's true.

No, listen, that makes sense to me.

And when the kids are gone, it's just me and my wife, I just wash a dish and put it away.

Why go through every dish in the cabinet and fill up the dishwasher over the course of three weeks?

I'd rather just wash a dish right away So we will get into all of this at 635 folks and you can tell us your tendencies to the phone lines are open and the text lines let us know Throughout the course the show what's on your mind.

It's always great when you guys participate and without further ado I think it's time.

We got to the nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question

question

question

Question.

Question.

Here, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

You threw my timing off, God, right?

Oh, yeah, we'll get to that.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, the question of the night.

How often, in honor of the Marymades being here in studio, how often do you clean your bathroom?

Not your whole apartment, not how often do you do dishes.

How often do you clean your bathroom?

Because that can get to be the grossest

room in the house pretty quickly, especially if you're a dude.

So that's our question of the night.

Let us know, 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

And don't be, you know, there's no judgment here.

This is a judgment-free bathroom cleaning zone.

I'm not gonna judge.

I'll just be, I'll come out right now and just say, I shoot for weekly unless it gets too gross.

And I have kind of my own bathroom, so it's not like I'm offending anybody, like, but my bathroom is also, turns out to be the guest bathroom when we have guests.

So when we do have guests, I have to go down there with a putty knife, clean the whole damn place up.

No, I never let it get that bad.

I shoot for every week, but mostly just when it grosses me out.

And I saw that you responded on the social media, Conrad's line was to the question of like, how often do you clean your bathroom?

Conrad said, people do that.

That's disgusting.

That is disgusting.

What do you do?

You just clean it when you have people over?

No, I try to clean it weekly.

Yeah.

And I'd say it's, I test similar to that.

Like, if I see a bunch of toothpaste

and I

sink, I'm like, it's probably time to get cleaning.

You know, I probably was worse at this when I was younger, but now I'm a pretty clean guy for the most part.

I don't mind deep cleaning stuff, because I like the feeling of what it's done.

And it's so much so that when Todd Michaels was here, and he used to get after us about the bathrooms here, and I noticed the morning guys were never on the emails, that irritated me.

And I can say that now.

And when I see Todd, I'm gonna have it out with

him.

Well, he's gonna send a ghost on you

then.

I know he could.

I wanna have him back on to talk ghosts.

We haven't done that in a while, some paranormal talk.

But he can't complain anymore.

And I wanted to say,

One time I was really irritated because that bathroom was absolutely disgusting.

And if I was at like, you know, the Pfizer forum, I wouldn't leave a mess like somebody left in the bathroom

here

once.

I couldn't believe it.

And I was kind of annoyed that I got like, what do you think I

am?

I wouldn't do that.

I don't think he knows you that well Peter.

He doesn't know me at all Conrad.

So let us know folks, how often do you clean your bathroom?

And you can also send us a comment on the, what I like to call the Civic Media app, very easy to use.

Or if you're watching the radio on the stream on X YouTube.

or Facebook, drop us a stream comment.

And if you're there, give us a like or a follow.

If you don't mind, we'd love to get those.

But as usual, you can comment on anything we're talking about tonight throughout the course of the show, folks.

It's great to hear from you and it's great to read your texts on the radio.

Be part of the show.

I have to say, I told you I've been watching Dexter lately.

Yeah.

And we had Lisa Hale on the host of Newisco Weekend last Friday.

She is like a Dexter fanatic.

loves the show.

It's probably your favorite show of all time.

I'm on season four.

I finished season four last night with my daughter.

And I was absolutely stunned the way the season ended.

I cannot believe it.

And I'm going back, I'm so late to the party on this show.

I just had no interest in it years ago.

But this is like from 2009.

John Lithgow plays the killer named Trinity in season four.

And wow, I just, the writing on that show is so good.

I was absolutely shocked.

So I'll say that if any of you have an opinion on season four of Dexter, the John Lithgow season, would love to hear what you think.

And you know what?

Our spoiler's okay.

I mean, the show has been out for 15 years now.

How long do we have to?

I'd give it another five.

Another five years, okay.

That all starts now.

But unbelievable TV, I loved it.

I'm also at that stage right now where I'm kind of at an awkward haircut stage.

I kind of need one, but it's not terrible and I don't know what to do, because haircuts are not cheap anymore.

It's like, you spend like 50 bucks, right?

Yeah, around 50 bucks, with tip.

With tip, okay.

Yeah, so I'd say it's about like 40.

41 and then the rest tip

see I'm not ever gonna spend that much on my hair because I have the kind of hair I can just push it back That probably sounds like I'm bragging or whatever.

I don't know what it is But I just I don't want to spend that much on a haircut because you got to get a haircut like every three weeks Well, I get it every six weeks.

Do you really mm-hmm?

I Don't know what to do with that.

I guess you could just

I I like to make get it a little longer

So when it's cut short,

I really, I really like

it.

Why don't you get a nice- No,

no, no.

During COVID, I grew up my hair and I absolutely hated it.

Never

do that again.

You and I, as a gag for the show, should go in and get a cut in color.

I'll get a body wave.

You get a perm.

We'll make this happen.

Conrad can get the perm.

All right, we're coming right back.

And when we do, we're going to read your texts.

And I'm going to tell you about a sex tape.

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Welcome back to Nightlight.

I love reading texts.

We had a text from last night actually that I have to get to.

Sometimes our pal Bud listens while he's out and about in Madison from between 4 a.m.

and 6 a.m.

and Bud listens on, how does Bud listen?

Do we know the app?

It might be the replay?

It's gotta be the radio if it's the replay, right?

Yeah.

Well, it might be the Civic Media app.

It could be the Civic Media app.

Either way,

It's great that Bud is out listening.

And he says, Hey, Pete and Conrad, our question last night, by the way, was your life is at stake.

What action hero do you hope is coming to rescue you?

And Bud from Jamesville in the 608 says, Hey, Pete and Conrad, in response to your question, Angelina Jolie.

And I'd better need mouth to mouth resuscitation.

I love your show, Bud from Jamesville.

Bud, you just have to fake it.

So she brings you back.

You know who did that?

Who?

Oh, Smalls.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Love that scene.

Test your knowledge

quick.

That was a great scene.

That was pretty, I did all right there.

Yeah.

That was great.

You were on the spot.

I know my movies sometimes.

This is interesting.

There's so much crap TV out there right now.

I'm not a reality show guy, but there is a new series.

There's two of them that I can't believe.

Let's do the Virgin one first.

This is a show called...

Are you my first?

And this is on Netflix.

It premiered August 18th.

This is a show where people go on to lose their virginity.

They should have combined this with Milf Manor.

So this is funny.

There was actually a show that already did that.

But

it was in the UK.

Oh.

And it

was the most awkward show you could ever watch in your life.

Yeah, who wants to watch that?

First of all...

Luckily, it's not like 18 year olds.

It's not like that barely legal crap.

It's like 24 to 34 year olds, typically.

And these are the same producers of Love Island.

But the contestants are 24 to 34 years old.

And they are looking to have sex for the first time.

I mean, look, like in the four year old version, I think Steve Carell's character, he said, it just didn't happen.

Every time he was about to, something happened.

Hilariously in that movie.

But I'm sure it's traumatic for people that get to that point and wanted to have sex, but couldn't.

And now they're going to go on TV.

That makes it worse.

Right?

Now your whole family can see it.

Right.

Your grandma.

You're going to hear lines like, Al, your knee is on my hair.

Are you sure this is your first time?

If someone's got, you know.

Sorry, all I have are magnums.

And a lot of apologizing.

Let's be honest.

It's like your first time.

You don't know what you're doing.

But deep people are older.

First of all, I love the courage that they're willing to do this, but also I would never do this.

How do you think

they casted people?

Based on spasticity, I guess.

I don't know.

Because here's one guy, this one contestant, a guy from Austin who I think is a comedian.

told another contestant, who's also a virgin, that his celebrity crush is William Howard Taft.

That's interesting.

I mean, is it any wonder he's still a virgin?

Beautiful woman, but I'd have sex with a deceased president if I could.

But I guess I'll settle for you, girl that's out of my league.

Do you think there's one secret non-virgin in there?

People that just want to do it for the money or just just want to get lucky You could and there's way, you know, you could be like that's why I put I like are you sure?

And that could go both ways the guy that's taken forever I Don't know without getting to you know what we don't talk about sex nearly enough on this show.

Yeah, and you're right

We got to bring that back So I don't know I'm half of me wants to watch this and half of me wants to be a contestant

No, but I would like to, how funny would that be?

My wife is home watching TV and she sees me.

Wait a minute, we have two kids.

Yes, we had sex twice, but I could still maybe qualify.

No, I think it's terrible.

I don't know.

Like most of these people say they were waiting for the right for something, saving themselves for something special.

And that flick show?

Yeah, that's, I think they gave up on their

journey there

then.

Exactly.

Or

they're just like saying that to, you know.

Well, of course.

Not

be

embarrassed.

It's like the bachelor.

Like they're really looking for love.

And one of the hosts is a former bachelor contestant.

Our question of the night, folks, is, and you're welcome to weigh in on the virgin talk as well.

And how do you feel about more sex talk?

Nightlight.

We need a poll.

We want to be.

We need a poll.

We don't have to start with the sex talk now Conrad.

But we could do something like that.

That could be fun.

But our question of the night is how often do you clean your bathroom?

We've got the Mary Mades coming up after the news folks.

It's gonna be so fun having these guys here.

They're gonna give us cleaning tips and give us all kinds of advice.

But our question of the night is inspired by them.

How often do you clean your bathroom?

Mike on this, pardon me, Mike on social media says, is that really a thing?

So he kind of.

You guys are of the same, you guys should be roommates.

Sarah Jean on the stream says once a week if it needs it or not, usually on Sunday.

Sarah Jean sounds very practical.

And then there's a little Beavis.

Where's that butthead?

I

don't know, I can't remember.

I think that's Beavis, the blonde haired guy, the blonde haired cartoon.

Yeah,

yeah.

Thank you, Sarah, and thank you, Mike.

Going to the text line here, oh, people are chiming in on this.

Chris.

Sheridan from Jamesville says daily good for Chris.

I want to be a house guest.

Yeah, that's Chris's house That's a lot of motivation John Murray for Madison says not often enough Peter Chris also says my wife is mean, so it's not Chris's own doing.

He's forced Don't let that woman go Chris John also says we clean when we notice something in there gets fuzzy or gross Too much info.

I think that's too late

too late.

Yeah, then you got to call a team

John says, of course, we are always wiping the sink area.

Can't let the counter get funky.

Haven't reached hoarder status so far.

All right, keep those texts coming.

We can get one more in here counter.

Jameson from the 814 says, same situation as you.

My own, but it's also the guest bathroom.

Weekly, however, sometimes I treat it like the scene from the movie Friday with good smelling spray.

Honestly, the Cats litter box creates more mess than I do.

Gotta love those cats.

Alright, we're gonna do the news and then we're coming back to tell you how you can help clean your bathroom more efficiently.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Night Light.

I am Pete Schwabba.

You've got the Civic Media Radio Network, Conrad Krieger working the board tonight, as usual.

We were talking about all kinds of stuff, keeping our house clean, virginity, lots of stuff going on here.

We're kind of all over the board tonight.

So we'll get to all of it, but we will not embarrass our next guest with virginity talk because these guys are serious They are here in the studio.

They're serious about cleanliness as am I. I don't know if you guys can tell I'm well anyway Alex Alex Vannevin and Lisa Katowski are here from Mary Mades Green Bay Lisa is the owner and they're here in the studio tonight and we are

We're going to have some fun here.

You guys have some tips for us.

We want to find out more about your company.

And first, I have to ask you how initial thoughts on tidiness here at WGBW.

Is everywhere you go, are you judging cleanliness?

Well, no.

To be honest, this is a judgment-free zone.

But because of all the years of doing it, I'm always looking at it.

Yeah.

You have a nice studio.

Thank you.

I'm not judging, but it does look

pretty good.

All right.

Yeah.

You're not just saying that

because

Conrad ran a wet mop through here for hours today.

All right, because I think that's what, I mean, we all do that when we go into a restaurant or someone's home, you have an initial like, I don't know about this, you know, but you guys must, you know, you're kind of the masters of cleanliness, right?

I'd like to think so.

All right, so it's great to have you guys here.

Tell us a little bit about Marymades.

I've owned it 34 years.

Um, it's been a business a little over 40 years.

It started in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dallin Peterson was the founder.

Okay.

Um, when I did my training, I cleaned his house.

That's how he trained you?

Yeah.

And this, like this guy owned it, but it wasn't quite the business it is now.

Obviously if he can just have you over to kind of give you the pointers.

Not then he started in his basement of his home.

Really?

Oh yeah.

And then, you know, some 15 years later, he sold it to service master who currently owns it.

Okay, and I think it branched out to about 400 different franchises throughout the United States plus Canada and I think even Japan as well

Wow, so what made this guy think he was the authority on cleanliness?

Well, I think his wife

Okay, so he saw a need for the

business and

that's it and our you know It's funny because I could never we've had someone come and clean our place

and sporadically over the years.

But that seems like something people have trouble justifying.

Like am I just a lazy ass?

Why can't I clean my own house?

What kind of people are, is your clientele typically more well to do?

No, honestly, our average cleaning customer is a three bedroom, two bath home.

No kidding.

The big, big homes, you know what I mean?

We clean those too, but they aren't our most average customer is a three bedroom, two bath home.

It's when you're both out working.

And you just don't have enough time to do all the things.

And remember, it doesn't have to be the whole house.

It can just be Mary Made's kitchen and bathrooms and floors.

So I mean, you can tell it to what you need.

Things change over time.

So you've owned Mary Made's Green Bay, Lisa, for 34 years.

34

years.

Are you like, you gotta be anxious just to say, I'm never doing any of that.

Do you

still clean?

Yeah,

you do.

Well, I don't go out and clean on a daily basis, but I go check homes and I...

still pitch in when needed.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

Well, it's part of what you do to make the employees know that you'll work right alongside them.

Right.

You're not asking them to do anything you wouldn't do yourself.

Exactly.

Great point.

And now you guys just told me before we came out in the air, Alex is your nephew and you're buying the company from your aunt.

Yes, Mary Mades of Green Bay.

She actually owns Mary Mades of Appleton and Mary Mades of Green Bay.

So I will be, I've been managing for about 12 years.

So I went to school at Fox Really Tech for, and I got my business management degree there.

I knew my Aunt Lisa had a great business with Mary Mades of Green Bay and thought it was a great opportunity.

And 12 years later, here I am.

Wow, good for you.

And now you're about to be, you're about to be a mogul.

Right.

Right.

Are

you going to unload the Appleton

business as well or are you just looking at it?

My daughter, my daughter will do that.

Okay.

And so we're just, that'll all happen in time.

Yeah.

And right now it's just business as usual.

Okay.

And I'm still going to hang around for a while and help Alex out until he gets all transitioned over.

Nice.

With the home office and everything's

good.

Is Green Bay or Appleton is one of those cities dirtier than the other when it comes to homes?

I'm

half kidding.

You're actually thinking about it.

I'm sorry Lisa.

So how much like you say a three bedroom, two bathroom house is typically who uses your services.

What does that cost?

Like if people are listening right now and they're like, boy, I could use that, you know, like our load here.

What's that going to run people?

Sure.

And it all depends on how many hard floors.

How many are you having?

bed stripped and made, you know, all different things that go into it, but just normal general cleaning for that and wash floors, clean bathrooms, go out toilets, tubs, general pickup, you know, about $128.

$128

every

two weeks.

Every two weeks.

So 250-ish per month.

So

if you just decide not to go out to eat.

Yeah,

that's how you sell it, right?

Once a month, that's how you sell it.

No

kidding.

Or get the less expensive bottle of wine

or something.

Right.

Well, because it's, you're not paying for the babysitter.

You're not having the wine, you're not having dinner.

And have a nice dinner at home instead.

Yeah, roll around

naked in your own home, Conrad.

That's the message here tonight.

Let's say two bathrooms.

If I just wanted two bathrooms

clean twice.

Our minimum charge is $60.

So you can have one person coming clean for $60, and they could probably get you two bathrooms done in that time.

And maybe the kitchen floor depends.

Because those are the problem areas, right?

dirt and grime or whatever accumulates.

All right, so well, that's kind of cool.

So how did you get involved?

Lisa, 34 years ago, walk me through this.

You're

like, I want to get into

this racket.

I have my accounting degree.

And so I decided way back then, what can I do that I don't have to work nights and weekends?

Yeah, right, right.

And I want to make money.

And so I had a friend of mine who her brother was doing.

just starting the company in Green Bay.

And he had been there about three months and I thought, you know what?

I kind of cleaned my way through college, you know, to help with money.

And so I thought, I'm going to try it.

And so

that's how I was.

No nights, no holidays, no weekends.

That's what brought me into it.

And that's what we still stand by.

So we hire for the working mom, Mary Mages, put your kids on the bus, come to work in your home before the kids get off the bus.

Wow, that's pretty nice.

So it all kind of ties

together.

And what about you, Alex?

Did you just grow up watching your aunt clean or what made you want to get into this?

Exactly, yeah.

Actually, I remember when I was little, my mom was working for Lisa, her sister.

So I was going to some cleans on the side on Saturday mornings with my mom and Lisa was there and just watching that, knowing that, seeing that.

And then later on, when I went to business school and...

seeing how great of a business my aunt had, just knowing that I wanted to get into something like that and then realizing, you know, further down the road, you

know,

maybe there was a retirement talk or something that, you know, maybe it was a great opportunity for me.

Okay, and he's saying Saturdays by the way, they were voluntary for people who wanted to work on Saturday We are only

Monday through Friday and we clean in the morning hours.

So

are

you looking for people?

Is that why you said that?

Because he was saying he worked Saturday We used to years ago and we still do on occasion for like new construction or something like that But again, they're voluntary for the weekend.

Nobody else doing if they wanted they do if they don't don't because I always have enough people

nice So what's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in someone's house or can't you say?

Oh?

You don't have

to name names, but you must

see.

No, I don't want to say weird stuff, but things that have happened are like walking and the kids had, um, they did forts.

Okay.

And there are literally the furniture's upside down and sideways and everywhere.

And there's every blanket in the house is, and every cushion off of everything.

Yeah.

And that's kind of scary.

But it's not terrible.

Alex has got a better one with his kids.

He's got a better one.

Well, I don't know about, you know, that with my kids, you know, other than the normal mess that a two-year-old and a five-year-old make.

But we do run into some hoarding situations and, you know, we do the best that we can

with

that.

And just like any home, we're going to go in there and, you know, get the high dusting on top to bottom, left to right.

get all the woodwork, wipe down countertops, tabletops and tables, vacuum and wash hard surface floor, the works.

And

then we

can really dig into...

There's just no bad

host.

Exactly.

We can really dig into picking up different things if we need to and base it on time.

So there are a whole bunch of different things we can do.

My guests are Alex Vannevin.

He is buying Marymage Green Bay from his aunt, Lisa Gatowski, who is here too.

They're joining me in the studio tonight.

We're talking, we're going to get to some cleaning tips too, which will be fun.

Let me ask you this though.

Are your own homes clean?

Yeah.

Okay.

You don't ever let it go?

Okay.

First, my host is the first one off the schedule when we don't have enough people.

If somebody's on vacation or somebody's sick or something happened and the day is going to change, I'm the first one off.

Yeah.

weeks and weeks at my house to go without getting cleaned by Marymades.

But, no, everybody has to toe the line at my house.

All

right, that's good to know.

Have you ever walked into a house that was so bad?

It's like an absolute pigsty and you're just like, I'm out, no thanks.

I have, but only in seriously, in 34 years, I've only had two ever that had to say we can't, not for any other reason than it's health reasons.

The danger, yeah, right, I totally get that, okay.

So, Conrad, you know,

you can... 60 bucks, man.

Okay.

That's

good.

Well, let's talk about some summer cleaning tips.

I know summer's winding down, but I'm sure they apply to all the seasons, maybe.

You guys have something you say, create a cool-down zone.

These were shared with me.

I hope you guys know what I'm talking about.

Okay.

Cool down zone set up a spot near the entryway for shoes backpacks towels and water bottles This keeps dirt and melted popsicle trips from spreading through the house.

Do you share these with your clients?

We can if they

ask questions like that when we're on the phone.

But yeah, as like an organization tip, you would think of it like an airport security line.

You want the bins for the shoes.

Nice.

You know, the backpacks hung up on the wall if there's a hook for that.

And then a drop zone for everything else.

And if they're coming home now that school is starting, you know, you would say, all right, let's make a clear bin for the homework, a clear bin for pens and pencils and all that sort of stuff.

So.

It's just that little bit of organization that goes a long way.

And then Marymades can come in and do all the big cleanup for you.

Okay.

Well, that's good.

And the deep cleaning too, right?

Like,

I

mean, you probably don't want to go to someone's house and say, I'll have to fold 30 blankets.

I mean, I'm sure you'd maybe

do it.

We do it, sure.

But, you know, people really need, in my opinion anyway, to keep their house deep cleaned,

right?

Well, I'll tell you something.

All my years of doing this, I've told people, one of the things and reason why I've always had Marymades, and I...

and this is a selling point too is, and the kids will tell you this too, when you're coming to clean, Mary made some of the day cleaning, we're coming every Wednesday, or every other Wednesday, or

once a

month on Wednesday.

Here's what everyone says the night before cleaning.

Get everything picked up, the

cleaning ladies

are coming tomorrow, because you have to, we don't know where to go with all of your personal stuff, so you do your general pickup and it keeps you on top of your piles.

So for me, it's time to put away all the folded clothes, put all the shoes where they belong,

Just put stuff away.

Can I just share on a personal note what has made my life easy?

Like when I was a kid and I would have to do chores and that kind of stuff.

Scrubbing the tub, no thanks.

But there's this scrubbing bubble stuff now.

Five bucks, you just squirt it and you wash it down 20 minutes later.

That stuff's amazing.

Yes.

We have something similar.

And when you do it, it just, you know.

and you go every two weeks.

All of

our products come from our home office, so it's not exactly scrubbing bubbles, but it works just like it.

All right, we'll

talk about that when we come back from this really short break.

Lisa and Alex are here from Marymades Green Bay.

We're talking about cleaning tips, and we're gonna get back into it right after this very short break on the Civic Media Radio

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Great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.

We have an honor, well, our question of the night, if you want to get in on the fun folks, is how often do you clean your bathroom?

And that's our question of the night because we've got the Mary Mades in studio tonight.

Lisa Gutowski and Alex Vanneven are here from Mary Mades Green Bay.

And we are talking about, we're about to get into some cleaning tips for back to school stuff.

But I just think cleanliness is kind of fun to talk about.

I think people have different hygiene.

practices and different, like you ever go, what do you guys make of when you go to someone's house and there's that smell?

You know what I'm talking about?

Like you just, whenever you go to someone's house, it smells different.

It's like, and it can be like kind of a food smell or like a deodorant smell.

I don't know.

Do you notice that?

Like, does every house have its own particular smell?

Not particularly.

No, no, no, I've been in many, many homes.

I mean, there's a few, but.

Because, of course, there would have to be, but mostly no.

And all our chemicals are odor-free and environmentally safe.

So we don't notice or have any

smell.

I just might, I maybe have a heightened sense of smell.

I was

raised

by wolves.

I kind of think I do too, but I don't really notice it that much.

Well, I'm gonna

defer to you on that one.

Yeah.

Jim from Brookfield says, my wonderful wife will clean the bathrooms at least once a week.

I think somewhat of an obsession she has foregone intimacy to clean the bathrooms.

Should I go on the reality show?

It's only for versions, Jim.

I don't think you qualify, but I don't know what goes on in your house.

And I don't want to know, but thank you for the

text.

It sounds like that he needs Marymads.

He might need Marymads.

Yeah, exactly.

Save your marriage, hire married maids.

I like

that slogan.

Think about it guys.

Birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day.

Do you do one time cleaning?

Sure.

Okay.

Yeah.

So, but it's a minimum of 60 bucks.

Sure.

They go in and how many hours of cleaning does that get you?

One.

One hour?

Yep.

Oh.

So if someone's there, like, is it go, do you do like an eight hour deal?

No.

Or is it eight times?

It's funny.

Some people think that.

But when you

call and set it up and we come through and walk through your home and you're asking about cleaning service.

Okay, you generally go through and do the general pickup before we come.

So you kind of do half or a quarter of the work anyway.

And we come in and we're doing all the dusting and vacuuming and scrubbing and the more you do the more we can get down deep.

And it takes you not as long.

Correct, well you've done.

So 60 bucks an hour, what if you got like six hours, is that

six times six?

So like I said, the average clean is $128 and that's a crew of two for about two hours and 15 minutes.

Then you

can get through a whole house and that

typically, okay.

No, a three bedroom, two bath.

Three bedroom,

two bath.

I would

say the best way is just give us a call, explain your situation, what you want done, do

you

want just your two bathrooms, do you want your whole main level cleaned and we'll really break it down for you on what we can do for you for that one time clean or weekly

bi-weekly every four weeks.

We have a whole bunch of different options.

So just call and give us your questions and we'll have answers for you.

And we try our best to send the same person back.

Oh, nice.

So they get to know your home, your life, your dislikes.

Do you ever have somebody like try to take advantage of the cleaning people and say stuff like, you know, why don't you throw a coat of paint up while you're in there too?

No.

Really, they don't.

Most of the people are not home when we clean.

Do you prefer that?

We don't care.

What we prefer is if we're in the room cleaning that you're not in there.

So if you and the kids are there, or you and your husband or whoever, just go to the other room.

Just because it's uncomfortable for the people that are cleaning.

But no, we don't care if you're home or not home.

Are there uniforms?

Are there Mary

Made

uniforms?

Yes.

Nice.

That makes it a

little more professional.

Is that one of the?

It is.

Each shirt we have has a Mary Made's logo on it, so.

Okay.

And you guys said, do you still clean Alex?

How often do you go out?

Are you mostly management?

I am mostly in the office, but when I need to go out and help, I'm out there helping whenever needed.

So I'll go out clean.

We do a lot of Airbnb stuff.

So

You know, Lisa and myself will go in and change loads of laundry if need be or just get the house ready and prepared so that when the crew comes in, they can come in there and do the stuff that really needs to be done.

Very nice.

All right.

So this is on the text line.

Conrad's dad chimes in from the 920.

He says, Paul and I clean our bathrooms once a week when we had our

Cat rascas, am I saying that right, Conrad?

That's correct.

Rascas is the cat named 20 years.

I would clean her bathroom once or twice daily.

The cat had its own bathroom.

Am I misinterpreting something?

Yeah, it's, you know, it's a litter box.

It's twice daily, that's too much for people though.

All right, so we've got some texts I'm gonna read and we're gonna do the news and we'll come back and we'll get these back to school tips.

Does that sound good for you guys?

Sure.

You okay?

Sounds good.

All

right.

And what do you, honestly, it looks pretty nice.

It

looks good.

Very nice.

All right.

Very

nice.

Is there a smell?

No.

There's no smell in

here.

Do you smell one?

I don't know.

I don't

smell anything.

You think

there's a smell in this studio counter?

I don't.

It's a welcoming smell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, now

you're just saying that because you said no and then I said it's a welcoming smell and you said oh, yeah, there's

a small meaning.

It doesn't stink.

Yeah, so if there's no smell, that's great

I'm gonna take your word for it Lisa.

All right, Lisa Kotowski and Alex van event are here.

We're talking about cleaning We're gonna give you some tips.

They're gonna give you some back-to-school organization tips for keeping your house clean those of you with children or grandchildren that are helping out and Our question of the night is how often do you clean your bathroom?

And I forgot where I kind of, Chris Sheridan said, my wife is mean.

John said, we always got that one, Jameson.

Jim says with dishes, I learned back in my old bachelor days, use it, wash it and put it away for the bathroom.

I clean it once a week, the turlet twice a week.

Do you believe him?

Who cleans their toilet twice a week?

The Marymades don't

want to say it.

Going into a lot of different homes throughout the years, I think everybody is different.

Everybody is different.

Yes.

And then John Murray from Madison says, oh, talking about Dexter.

Lithgow, he is maniacal and scary as hell, pure evil.

And he sold it hard.

We just saw that a month ago.

He's been a badass since the World T.S.

Garp.

I don't know that show.

You guys know that show?

T.S.

Garp?

Nope.

I thought I meant the world according to carpet first.

But he is great, John.

I totally agree.

And John says, superb character, actor.

Indeed.

All right.

We are going to do intermission.

Come back for act two.

We'll have a few more minutes with the Mary Mades.

They are in the studio, Alex and Lisa.

And then Sean Hannish is here at 720 talking about his awesome documentary about the Brewers called Just A Bit Outside.

Lots of fun here tonight.

Answer the question of the night.

Be part of the show.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

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