Popcorn Pick of the Week w/ Dan Markus(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain, Peach Waba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I love getting caught in the rain.

Actually, I got caught in the rain the other day.

You know that game I told you about, kind of, that we played soccer golf in my neighborhood?

Yeah, yeah.

All right, so we had our staycation last week.

It's usually my son will play and a couple neighbors, but on this day, my wife and daughter wanted to play too.

And as they're walking over, we kind of had to talk them into playing.

As they're walking over, it is like a monsoon.

And I'm like, are you guys close?

She's like, we're under an awning.

You're still playing.

I'm like, yeah, like there's no lightning.

Getting caught in the rain is

fun.

It reminds me.

I just started watching Seinfeld.

So

good for you.

And the episode I recently watched last night was about the pony.

I love that.

I had the pony.

And his softball game gets canceled while he was at the funeral because

it was raining.

It's gorgeous.

And

he played the game and sucked.

That's a great episode.

I love that.

Karma at its best.

That's the one where Kramer is telling him about the levels, changing the whole configuration with new levels.

It's like a log

cabin.

Actually,

I'm not

doing it anymore.

He's like, all right, so what

am I getting

dinner?

Well, I'm not doing it anymore.

So the bet's off.

Oh, it's so great.

And later when you get to like season four, you'll see that actor that's going to play Kramer when they do the show within the show does a funny levels thing, too.

That's the bit he auditions for.

Yeah.

It's so great.

I'm so glad you're watching.

Hey, welcome to Nightlight, everybody.

That's the voice of Conrad Krieger working the board tonight, producing the show.

It's a great show tonight.

It's a Thursday, folks.

That means.

You know what I'm gonna say.

It's the popcorn pick of the week tonight at 635 WGB W morning show host and Is Dan the program director?

I called him the program director.

He's like the station manager program He just kind of does everything.

He's just a guy.

I have to watch my P's and Q's around.

That's all I know Yep, but he will be here at 635 to make the popcorn pick of the week

and he told me the kind of movies he liked, so I think he's gonna have a great pick.

But Dan will be here at 6.35.

If you haven't checked out Dan in the morning here at WGBW, spin in the oldies, you have to, because he does really phenomenal work.

And I know I used this, I used this word a couple times already this week.

It's only my second night, but he is a radio legend.

Dan has been around for decades.

He's a radio guy, right?

Yeah, that

is true.

Like remember

when Corey Hartman was here about a week and a half ago?

And he's another guy, been in radio his whole life.

He's like on air, he does the weather, and then he's fixing engineering stuff.

Like, I don't even know how to talk to people like that.

I'm like, I go, how did you learn how to do all this stuff?

And, you know, kind of like Todd Michaels, he said, oh, I've been doing radio since I was like 14.

Yeah.

It's unbelievable, you know.

I don't even have to turn off my own mic here.

That's how inept I am Anyway, we do have a great show and then in the second hour folks at 720 WBA why a morning show host Emerson layman our pal will be here in studio and He's gonna tell us all about the Milwaukee mile which he attended last week.

That should be fun.

He's a big racing fan.

He's a pickle baller You know,

yeah, I don't want to you know, he'll probably talk about this, but you can now get lessons with Emerson at pickle ball.

Yeah pickle

ball

Are

you gonna get

a ball?

Here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna I'm gonna sign up for a lesson with Emerson and I'm gonna show up in really short shorts and roller skates Just to see the look in his face.

I didn't know that that's kind of cool.

Yeah, so he's that good He's a pro he took I thought I saw that he took first place recently

He probably did I don't

know I

didn't I don't know if I saw it, but yeah, I mean he probably did

Well, so we have two great guests tonight, folks.

We have a fun question.

But before we get to any of that, I would be remiss if I did not tell you all about the Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway Contest.

That's right, folks.

We have our own contest here at Nightlight.

It's only happening this week.

So if you want to get in on the fun and give yourself a chance to win, you have to do it tonight or tomorrow night.

I will give you the keyword after the first break at like 6.20.

And all you have to do...

Well, you have to have the Civic Media app, which I assume most of you have anyway.

You just text in the keyword and you are eligible for a one night Chula Vista overnight certificate and dining voucher.

It is $175 value.

If you're rounding up, it's basically 200 bucks.

But it's a text-to-win giveaway.

Only during between six and eight tonight.

So when I give you the keyword after this first break Text in the keyword on the app and you are all set folks.

Good luck everybody.

It's a fun contest and it's only happening tonight and tomorrow night So good luck.

I we are not eligible again.

No

But it doesn't mean, look, we could still go to Chula Vista.

It's not like we're not welcome there.

We could pal around there.

Yeah, we could absolutely pal around.

Jump in the pool, splash around, do some cannonballs.

Chula Vista does have a really cool water slide.

That's also a roller coaster.

How does that, like, so you sit in a car and you go around through water like that?

And it splashes

water?

Yeah, you know, you go around.

It's pretty cool.

I've done it a couple times.

Really?

Mm-hmm.

You did not attend the Civic Media Christmas party there though a couple years

ago.

Yeah, I just couldn't I couldn't make

it.

Yeah, you got a brand new job that's paying you a lot of money and you had other plans.

I guess

that's possible.

You know, I was I didn't want to get, you know, too drunk there

when

I just started working there two weeks ago.

I'm drunk most nights.

You had a funny story today.

Conrad was at the Y on a treadmill.

Take it from there.

Well, this this Y it's

It's the West Side Y. So it's the biggest one, I believe, by mass.

And it has probably 20 treadmills all in the line.

And I'm like, OK, I'm going to go to the right because there's no way someone's going to go next to me.

They're going to go to the left.

Right.

This guy settles up right next to me.

So weird.

There's

20 other treadmills.

And he puts it to 10 and

starts the

highest.

I don't know if it's the highest on those, but he starts just booking it next to me.

Just trying to show off.

What were you doing?

What level were you at?

I was at two, and I'm at an incline of 11.

Very emasculating.

I was like, come on.

And I don't know if I told you this, there was a one time where I got emasculated.

Again, I asked for a spotter.

Oh, yeah.

For a bench.

I was going for two plates, I think, at that time.

And I got four.

And he goes, hey, really good job.

Do you mind if I sit in?

And he just reps it

for 10.

He's like, all right, thanks, man.

He reps your max 10 times.

Well, his girlfriend was right over there watching.

Oh, man.

I was like, really?

I felt good about the four.

So based on his 10 and your four and his girlfriend, you have to say, well, look, I know I didn't bench as much as you.

Does she have a slightly less attractive sister at home than

I

could date?

Who would be OK with a four rep guy?

And then you went into the shower and he followed you and stood in the stall there.

That's, I don't understand people like that at urinals.

It's the worst.

Yeah.

And I

don't get

it.

I, I don't know.

It's really strange.

I feel like there's some places that it's acceptable.

I got a ball game that's, you know, just keeps rotating.

There's a lot of people in there.

What if

you're at like a restaurant where there's like six or seven stalls and person just saddles that next year, like, what are you doing?

Spread out.

What are we

animals?

Yeah.

I mean, come on.

I mean, some bars that have the

Oh, the

trough trough awful Wrigley Field used to have that and it's like it's just a you feel like a like you're in prison or something You know, I don't know and it's tough when you're the envy of all the other guys, right?

I mean, yeah, you know Hey, this is you got big news tonight for your packers and I'm gonna give you this I'm gonna give you a minute to gloat

They won the Micah Parsons sweepstakes.

You must be thrilled.

Okay.

I am super happy I've been on cloud nine ever since that trade and I was

sports boner time Can I say that on the air?

I think

yeah, yeah, I was I was scrolling on Instagram, you know when the trade was happening and I saw an Instagram page that's like bears and then they showed that Micah Parsons follows Cale Williams

They're like, oh my God, it's happening.

It's happening.

He's going to he's going to Chicago And everyone in the comments was like really you had a jinx it like that come on

Took a picture or posted a picture of Michael Parsons at O'Hare yesterday Yeah, I don't know if it was really him.

Yeah, but of course, you know bears Twitter went crazy And I don't I don't I didn't read it long enough because I know there's trolls all over the place But he's probably flying through up to Green Bay.

It's like

I don't know.

Hey,

I think it's time we get to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

It's National Bowtie Day.

What is something outdated that you wish was still popular?

Something outdated that you wish was still popular.

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If you're on YouTube, Facebook, or X. And give us a like or follow if you're there, folks.

We'd love to get likes and follows.

Who doesn't?

But I thought about this, and I saw that you answered on the, and that's a great one, mutton chops.

No reason you can't bring those

back.

They're just so cool, you know, and you see the picture that I put there, right?

I did.

Wolverine, yeah.

You, Jackman.

You know, if I could grow mutton chops, I would have

them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I kind of, I went two different ways on this.

I wish arcades were still around.

I thought those were fun.

And also flip phones before smartphones.

Oh, really?

I love the flip.

I love.

I love the cell phone technology and I'm in my car a lot and I have been, when I did stand up or when I lived in LA and I was driving around, I love to be able to talk to people.

But when the smartphone came out, it took over my life.

It's just all my apps, I play poker, I'm checking Facebook constantly.

I loved that time when we had cell phones because they're good for safety or whatever and you could talk on the phone to people.

Now people don't even do that, they text.

And you call people and it's like, what are you calling me for?

to say hello.

No, no, no, text me.

Okay.

Thank you, son or daughter.

So that's what I would say.

It's simple.

I like bow ties, though, too.

I like loafers.

Those are kind of gone.

I like that stylistically.

What about flood pants?

Flood pants are coming handy for safety if you're ever in a hurricane.

That was probably my second one.

You know, a nice pair of, you know, flood sweats.

Wait they're in though now.

You see guys walking around in suits with tight skinny jean tight pants and floods and those big ridiculous like clown shoes they wear well That's just a style thing now.

I think I think it should definitely go over the sock You know,

I don't think of course if

you're wearing a suit.

I don't think you should be showing off your socks

I totally agree.

We're in agreement with that.

We don't agree on much

But I agree with you.

So let us know, folks.

What is your answer?

What are you something outdated that you wish was still popular?

Rubik's Cube, whatever.

There's no right or wrong answer.

There are only your answers.

Be part of the show.

And let's have some fun.

Dan Marcus will be here at 6.35.

He is the WGBW morning host here, spinning the oldies every morning.

Can't wait.

He's going to make the popcorn pick of the week.

And then Emerson Lehman joins us, both guests tonight are in studio, which is fun.

Emerson Lehman will be here at 720 talking about Miracle Mile, Pickleball, his work at WBAY.

He's an Emmy-winning host.

I don't know if you knew

that.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I think the last trophy I won was for intramural bowling or something.

I mean, that's one to put on the shelf.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're going to ask Emerson to bring in the trophy and then we'll distract him.

We'll sell it on the black mark.

Nice.

Lots going on here at Nightlight, folks.

Great to have you with us.

Let's have some fun.

We are coming back with the keyword to the Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway Contest.

That's right.

The keyword is coming up after the break and we'll read some of your texts.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Night Light.

Great to have you with me on this, was it Thursday Conrad?

It's the popcorn pick of the week, actually.

Yeah,

got distracted there.

We are doing the popcorn pick at 6.35.

Dan Marcus is here.

WGBW morning host will make the popcorn pick of the week tonight.

That's exciting.

Emerson Layman from WBAYTV here in Green Bay.

He is one of the morning show hosts.

We'll be here to talk about the Milwaukee mile.

Have you been there?

I have not made it ever, but it looks really interesting.

I think so too.

He's a big racing fan and a big pickleball fan, so we'll cover a lot of topics when Emerson is here at 720.

Our question of the night is, what is something outdated that you wish was still popular?

I said flip phones before cell phones, because I do like having a cell phone, but the smartphone has taken over my life.

I also said arcades.

We're doing this in honor of national

Bowtie Day.

That was the inspiration for tonight's question.

So we have some texts coming in already from the 331.

That's Nancy from Illinois Disco.

Oh my God.

Conrad, fire up some disco.

We have to find some disco for Nancy.

I love that.

Thank you.

Disco.

How did I not think of that?

I love disco.

Tom from New Berlin, the 414 says the matrix phone, it was by clicking a switch blade style.

Was it matrix or the blade?

I thought it was the razor.

He's probably right though.

Tom also says over the top, but cool then.

From the 262, Barb in Waukesha says, the full service gas stations, especially in winter.

Now that's a great one.

I'm barely old enough to remember this, but I'm sure you don't count it, but like, you pull your car up and people come out and check your tires, fill your

gas tank, it was great.

We had one actually in Qoscombe when I was growing up.

Are you kidding

me?

And it's not there anymore, sadly.

But yeah, I would go there a couple of times in the winter and be like, I do not want to get out of my car.

It is cold.

Well, yeah, I mean, I think people would use it.

I just don't.

I think it probably is expensive.

You're

the store owner.

Yeah.

Make people.

Some at some point in life, they started treating us like animals.

You can get out and pump your own gas.

Ridiculous.

They should honestly make robots to do that, right?

Well, that's probably coming.

Yeah.

Monica from Mount Horrib.

She's in the 608 says, my hair.

Just kidding.

Had a friend tell me the 80s called.

They want your blue jean jacket back unrelated.

Just watched just a bit outside.

Loved it.

We will have to pass that along to Sean Hannish and Kelly Call.

That's great, Monica.

I really enjoyed it too.

Great film.

And especially if you're a Brewer fan, but even if you're not a Brewer fan, a really good film.

So check out just a bit outside.

Mark from the sack says, WKRP, Les Nessman always wore a bow tie.

Yes, he did, Mark.

Who was the other guy who was the senator?

I think it was Paul Simon from Illinois always wore a bow tie.

Very defining, defining characteristic.

You can say feathered hair.

That's another good one.

So we'll read some social media responses too.

We have to do the keyword.

This is exciting, folks.

It's the Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway.

We have a few more days of summer here, and we're doing this right.

You get a night at Chula Vista overnight that's in the Wisconsin Dells and a dining voucher, a value of 175 bucks.

That's dinner and a great hotel.

All you have to do is text in the keyword on the Civic Media app and you are eligible to win.

And tonight's keyword is Dells, D-E-L-L-S.

as in Wisconsin Dells.

So text in Dells on the Civic Media app and you are eligible for the text to win giveaway.

The Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway Contest.

This is fun.

Oh yeah.

You know?

Chulvis is a great place.

Great place.

We had our Christmas party there a couple years ago and I was pretty drunk.

No, I was not.

But it's funny you said that before because...

everybody was really well behaved because it's work.

Who's

gonna get hammered at a work party?

You know what I mean?

Unless it's like an after party or something and people have already bonded and you feel safe, I think that probably happened

at that party.

I think maybe after and they went to the rooms, that's where.

Yeah, I've heard some stories actually, so I know that happened.

So that's good stuff.

Here we go too, John from Columbia.

He's in the 608 Columbia County.

He says, cell phones are the death of humanity.

Yeah, you could certainly argue that, John.

Thank you for the text.

We've got our social media responses here to tonight's question.

Conrad said mutton chops, of course, and was gracious enough to put a picture of Wolverine, you know, to Hugh Jackman.

Danny Wheels, Daniel Wheeler said, playing video games at a strip mall arcade.

Yes.

until upperclassmen bullies chased you out.

They wanted to play Mr. Do and told you to take a hike.

Sorry that happened, Daniel.

Amanda Nimmer, WGBW zone says, more couch co-op games.

Let me be around people, dammit.

So that's like kind of what kids do now, but they do it online.

And she's saying that like Super Mario Brothers, I guess, stuff

like that.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, those are great fun times.

Super Mario Party.

Yeah.

Rob, Bobby, Utah, Smitka.

I know him.

That's Rob Smitka.

I went to DePaul with him.

He says, Improv DePaul.

We were a groundbreaking group, Rob.

Miss you, buddy.

And great to hear from you.

Thank you for the response.

And then Marinette's own Scott Lieberin says, handwritten letters.

Wow.

That is a good one, too.

You could not pay me to write a letter.

I don't remember the last time I sent

one.

Maybe to my pen pal.

You have a pen pal?

Was it the guy from the gym who was on the treadmill next to you?

He knew where it was going to be.

He followed you home just to get your address so he could mail you a letter.

I don't think those muscles work in my hand anymore to write a letter.

Even when I write my signature now, it

looks like chicken scratch.

Yeah, when you get the bill and it doesn't even look like it.

It just looks like scribbles.

Yeah, it's terrible.

I went to the dentist today.

That was terrible.

I had to put it.

You get a cap on and

he

was drilling, doing the drill.

And he put the numbs, they put the needle in your jaw to numb your jaw and I'm sitting there for 20 minutes and he goes, can you still feel your cheek?

I go, yeah, he'd do it again.

So, but now I got a cap at least.

I was worried I was going to need a root canal.

Yeah, it's the worst thing is going to the dentist and waiting in that chair.

It's awful.

It feels like an hour every time.

They show you animal pictures and I realize or videos and they had one of camels up there.

And I think camels are like.

weird mutant animals

Yeah, there's a they're

not attractive animals.

I gotta show you during the break a picture of a camel without the fur

Without the fur?

Oh gee, I can't wait to see that all right We're coming back with the popcorn pick of the week Dan Marcus is here folks It's a fun night here at nightlight and it's great that you're here.

It's peach waba on the civic media radio network

You're just too good to be true

It's time for the nightlight popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't Here's your host peach wabba.

All right.

This is exciting folks One of my favorite segments we do every week here at nightlight is the popcorn pick of the week where we give you a recommendation for a movie

that maybe you've seen it and you wanna rewatch it or maybe it's something you haven't seen and it's just kind of an information exchange here that we do every week.

On Thursdays at 6.35 and we always have fun personalities to make said pick and joining us this week is brand new WGBW morning host, Dan Marcus.

And you are a radio legend.

You've been around for decades.

Casablanca.

All

right.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Dan Marcus, everybody.

I'm out of here.

Thank you.

No,

I've had that happen.

I'm sure you have too.

Like you have a whole list of questions planned and then the guest, you ask them, how are they?

And they answer every question that you've got in like three minutes.

Yeah.

All right.

I guess we're done here.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for saying that about me.

I don't, I get uncomfortable with that word.

I heard it once before and okay, if you want to

call me that, I don't.

Okay.

Conrad asks me to refer to him as a radio legend when there's cute girls around, and I always help him as his wingman, but I'm happy to do that.

He pays you for that, right?

Sure.

Okay.

So,

but it's great to have you here.

This is

exciting.

And you have, how's it going here at WGBW

so far?

I mean, I'm having a blast.

I'm working with you and Laura McKenna is back, Eric Westfall is back and working with Conrad every day.

It's a bit much.

Yeah.

But I like the guy, you

know?

He grows on you.

Sure.

It's a good group of people.

It is a very good company and I'm just thrilled to be here.

I really

am.

Well, we'll talk more about your, actually, let's do that now.

Before we get into the movies, tell us a little bit about your background, Dan.

Like I called you a radio legend.

You've been around for decades.

You've worked at a lot of cool stations.

Tell us a little bit about how you, the path that got you here.

Oh, gee.

I started at my college campus radio station, UWSUW at Whitewater.

Okay.

And just to volunteer, it was a non-commercial.

I walked in, they let you play whatever you wanted to play, free form radio.

I was learning what this switch does and how to say that and how to pronounce the letter W. W. W didn't work.

That was day one.

And I gave myself a year to get that first job, right?

If I don't get it in a year, I'll try.

Become a lawyer like my dad wanted me to.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah, and I got a job working for cable TV in Jamesville Doing directing and camera work and sports and all every I was Uncle Dan.

Nice.

I had a kid show and It was just a hoot and I did that for like three four years and Then got my first radio job in Duluth and started my radio gypsy years

Wow,

but always gravitated back to

the music of the 60s.

It's my favorite.

Okay.

It's great because what I like about what you guys are doing here at WGBW is it's almost not fair to other radio stations.

When you play oldies, every song is great.

They were all hits.

There's no weak link.

Whereas if you turn on other stations, it's like, ah, maybe I like that song.

Maybe I don't.

Like you really can't go wrong with oldies.

Should I stick around and wait?

Maybe the next

song will be better, you know?

Exactly.

But yeah, there's no lag.

with the music

we play.

And all that music is so recognizable today.

And what people don't realize is that yeah, if you grew up in the 60s, that was your music.

But then in the 80s and 90s, oldie stations came on the radio, and the parents, you know, by now you're 30, 35 years old, but you're listening to your high school music in the car with your kids who are learning your music.

They start to love

it, yeah.

They start to love it, and that's what we see a lot of now.

We see two and sometimes three generations of listeners.

It's such a great soundtrack too, because most of the memories we have in life, we remember the good stuff.

And my kids will say that to me, you had this music of the 90s, what a great time.

And I went to high school in the 80s and I'm like, it was, but so is this.

You'll remember this is

being

great.

But the fact that oldies are the soundtrack to all of it, whether they're oldies from the 60s or the 80s or 90s, because those are oldies now too.

How far do you guys go up with the oldies here

in terms of what's the newest song we play?

Oh, I probably, you know, that's a good question, but I'd say probably 74 or 75.

Oh, wow.

And there's just a smattering of songs from that era.

Most of them stop at about 72.

OK, so we'll do Chuck Berry from the very early days.

And you'll hear Bill Haley, the very first popular rock and roll record rock around the clock.

And then we'll go up through Rocket Man.

I love it.

And you guys and you and we had Laura on last week.

She was great.

We have Eric on tomorrow night.

Actually, we'll meet Eric.

That'll be fun.

So

he's an interesting guy.

So is Laura, an interesting person.

But when

I when people say interesting to me, sometimes I can take that is it's like when I hand someone a script and they'll go, it was interesting.

But you mean he really is an interesting

guy.

He is.

Yeah.

There are a lot of facets to that.

Yeah.

And if you dig deep enough into my background, you'll find out that I spent four years working at a Playboy Club.

Really?

Yeah.

Where?

I have

pictures.

Pictures you are in or that you confiscated somehow?

Both.

Nice,

Dan.

No, pictures I took.

Okay.

Pictures of me with some of the girls.

We called them girls.

They were.

That's what we call them.

They we nicknamed them the girl bunnies.

They were playboy playboy bunnies.

And I'm friends with many of them to this day.

Okay.

Yeah.

Where was the

was at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva,

Lake

Geneva.

I knew my wife's family used to go.

He was a family.

They had families

there.

It was all the

Playboy

Club.

It

was a family resort.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The kids would go swimming or skiing, golf with dad, maybe.

Yeah.

Horseback riding.

It was

the same.

It's like, it's like, you know, Hooters now you go out, you have a fun family day, then you stop off for.

and wings at night.

It's fun for the whole

family.

I can neither confirm nor deny.

All right.

Well, this is great.

Kind of, we have something on Dan now.

He just

admitted over the airwaves that he's got some skeletons in the clock.

No, I'm kidding.

I'm sure you have a ton of stories just because you've had this great career and we'll have to have you on periodically where you can drop these little nuggets like

here.

But a lot of interesting experiences.

Let's get to some movie talk, Dan, because we're doing the popcorn pick and

I

thought, you know,

It would just be fun to talk to you and get to know you, but also to talk about some movies.

So how does Dan Marcus like to watch movies?

Mostly at home.

Mostly at home, a lot of DVDs.

And what am I in the mood for?

I'll pull out that kind of DVD.

Do I want a John Wayne War movie or do I want the Ghost and Mrs. Muir?

You know, okay, you know, I've got a wide it's what am I in the mood for and that's what movies do They teleport you back and I like a lot of old black and whites.

Yeah, because I like that culture and I like remembering that people were kind and considerate and You know, it's a it's a harsh world now compared to the 1940s and 50s.

Absolutely.

So classic book classic rock classic

You're just a classic guy.

I'm a nostalgic kind of guy.

So all right, so you like those.

Do you like film noir?

Yeah.

Yeah, me too.

I've

been really into that the last

few years.

Yeah, there's some interesting stuff out there because it takes so many twists and turns so often.

Most of them do.

Totally.

Okay, so how do you, when you watch movies at home, what is your snack of choice?

Does it differ than when you go to the theater?

I make popcorn,

extra butter, thank you.

Milk duds, sure.

You get milk duds at home?

Yeah.

Conrad loves milk duds.

I absolutely hate milk

duds.

He just

told his boss he hates milk

duds.

I don't know what

to do with

that.

Conrad, what do you like?

Good and polity.

How about good and polity?

Anything that really takes a long time to chew and then it'll get stuck in your teeth.

I don't like it.

Oh, good and fruity.

Remember that?

That

was like the

spin-off of good and plenty.

Those were good.

Good and plenty is like liquor.

It's like that anise flavor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I never got into good and plenty.

You know what I'd like to find?

Sensein.

What's that?

Somebody on the network has to know sensein.

Please explain it to Pete.

If you know sensein, text us and see if you

can beat Conrad on the Google.

We'll figure this out, Dan.

Yeah, but that's not a movie treat.

That's just a haven't seen it for years kind of treat.

Well, there you go.

That kind of plays into our question of the night, too, is an outdated product that we kind of miss.

You're

talking about me again.

We miss the outdated Dan Marcus.

So, all right, so popcorn at home.

That's

good.

I get more exotic when I'm at home.

Food-wise, I don't do anything.

I

don't wear like, you know,

anything exotic.

But I

was trying to make

a bad joke there.

Conrad, we got something on Pete

now.

Oh, it might have got me kicked off the air.

I got

too much stuff on

Pete.

Christmas party stuff.

Save it for then.

But I like to make a meal.

I'll make like a steak or order pizza, get something you can't always get at the theater

when I'm at

home.

I guess

it changes

that.

Well, and I make...

a wicked cheese dip.

It's my mother's recipe.

I can't tell you what's in it because it's a, I want to patent it and sell it and retire with it.

My money, but it's that good.

And everybody I play it for guesses.

Oh, is it got this in it?

It's got beer in it.

Is it an ultimus?

It's a cheese dip.

It's got, I bet it has beer in it.

I'm not going to try to get you to say the recipe in here, but it's Wisconsin.

It's cheese.

I bet there's beer in there.

Keep betting.

I'm not telling you cheese dip your homemade cheese dip.

Okay, that

my

mother's recipe and I've been eating it since I was five Outstanding my guest is Dan Marcus folks.

He is the morning guy here at WGBW and the station manager and he plays the oldies every morning there's so much fun to listen to and Dan has made his career in radio and he knows this stuff and it's great to have him here doing the popcorn pick of the week Dan what kind of movies do you tend?

Do you lean to genre wise?

You kind of gave us a couple examples before, but do you have a

specific?

I like war movies.

I don't like gory movies.

I don't like scary movies.

Okay, but I like Well, let's see the that thing you do with Tom Hanks Yeah, I like and I've mentioned many times the ghost and Mrs. Muir you asked me off air What movie has made me cry?

I did Brian's song.

Oh great movie.

Yeah, are you a Packer fan?

You can still say that about it.

See that Conrad?

That's being open-minded.

I'm a bear fan too.

I kind of congratulate the Conrad on the Michael Parsons

move.

Yeah, that's a

great move, huh?

That is

a

really, that is a sad film though, and a great story, Brian's

song.

And I told you about the Playboy Club.

When I was working there in the early 70s, they had the Brian Piccolo golf tournament.

Oh yeah, right.

Two consecutive summers and...

Packers and Bears especially were there.

Ray Nitschke, Dick Buccas, you know, all those people were there in front of my eyeballs.

And they were palling around, hugging each other.

But they were on the golf course, not a football field.

You know what's funny?

You just reminded me of something.

When I was in college, I was watching a Bears game.

I grew up the first part of my childhood in Chicago when I lived there, and I'm a Bears fan.

I'm sorry.

Me too, the last 30 years.

This is our decade, Dan.

My roommate and I were

so

both the

Bears fans.

We

were so mad.

I almost I lifted a chair and I like wanted to throw it through the wall.

Yeah, 19 year old idiot.

And then I look at the TV.

And they're all laughing the players that just they're playing the game and they're laughing like what a loser am I That I'm like taking it this person.

Yeah,

this is so silly is that reminded me when you

said well I am on sports I think people take sports way too.

People have forgotten that sports is entertainment.

Yeah.

Oh, it's totally entertainment Yeah, we talk about sports here on a semi regular basis.

I would say all right

Dan Marcus is here folks.

We're gonna we're gonna wait after this very short break Then he's gonna give us his popcorn pick of the week and I'm gonna give you the nightlight end of summer getaway Keyword again, so you could text that in on the app and be eligible to win a night at you

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You know what if Conrad and I can't win I saw Dan slipping you 20 bucks earlier.

We're coming right back with Dan Marcus.

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Hi, I'm Pete Schwab.

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Summer is dwindling, but the good news is Dan Marcus is here.

He is the morning show host here on WGBW and he is showing me a picture.

Is that you?

That's me.

Wow, what a great getup, man.

I'm 17.

You got the bowtie.

Conrad, this is Kismet.

How old are you there?

About 18, 17, somewhere near.

And who's the, that's a playboy, playmate.

Do we know who that is?

Well, it's a bunny.

Not a playmate.

There's a

difference.

There is.

Okay.

Playmate was in the magazine.

Bunny

was in the club.

They're

like the waitresses.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

And

that's Bunny, Marcy and me hugging.

She looks lovely.

And

were you guys good friends or?

We're still good friends.

Really

good friends.

No kidding.

Yeah.

This is Marcy again and me.

Oh, doing

a

piggyback.

I'm giving her a piggyback

ride.

And you look very happy with a body on your face turning back to the camera.

That's fantastic.

These are not going on the internet.

No, well, they're not too.

She's obviously being modest.

She's trying to.

Well, yeah.

And there was nothing immodest about the club

at all, really.

But I don't want them to go on the internet because, well, frankly, I look like a dork.

I think you look cool, Dan.

Well, maybe now.

We did find one of the snacks, Dan, likes, that is an outdated snack called Sen Sen.

And Conrad, just put it up on the stream if you're watching on the stream.

It's Sen Sen, a confection.

Yeah.

Oh, that just means sugar, right?

Sugary or sweet, probably.

You know, I don't know.

It just

tastes

like nothing has tasted since then.

Oh, that's too bad.

Was

it like a mint

or something?

No,

it's

not minty

at all.

It's actually almost kind of tart and sour.

Everett from Sun Prairie, Texas at St.

Saint's, and the lilac flavored candy.

Kind of weird, but I kind of liked it.

Yeah, it is kind of weird.

And thank you for texting that in.

I appreciate it.

That's,

yeah.

I don't get the...

The packaging is not great.

I understand it's very old, but like you got it's like a toffee fairy or something like something that's technically a candy, but I would never want to eat It's like eating candy flavored charcoal.

Okay You know that's fair.

It was very different and but Does anybody listening know if they still make that I'd be curious and

where can you get it?

Conrad,