A Nostalgic Night with Mascot Theory (Hour 2)

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This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who gives edible undies as gifts just because they taste good, Pete Schwabba.

I forgot about that one.

Welcome to nightlight ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Friday everybody.

You have made it to a long weekend and what better way to go into the weekend than to listen to the radio and talk about the things we love in life and the things folks that bring us together.

Movies and TV and music and comedy.

and some sports, all kinds of stuff.

We cover it all here at Nightlight on a nightly basis, and it is so great when you're part of the show, so thank you for being here.

Conrad Krieger is on the other side of the glass tonight.

How you doing, buddy?

You know, I wish I could say better after that Wisconsin,

huh?

What the heck?

Game last night.

I mean, I'm not trying to be, like, I don't know a ton.

I just think you went out and got this high-profile coach that was in demand three years ago in year three.

On your home opener, you should be able to handle Miami of Ohio a little better.

See, I remember the days where we'd get those games and we'd win like 65 to like three or something.

Right.

Hands off to the defense, they played, they played pretty well.

But the offense, even, you know, Billy Edwards, when he was in, it just, it didn't look good.

And I just got disappointed.

I turned off the game when it was three zero at halftime.

So I was like, there's, we should be winning by at least 20 right now.

It's funny.

I didn't turn the game off.

I was following it and reading it I didn't turn it on because it was three to nothing by the time I got home So I'm like why am I gonna I'd rather watch a movie.

I'm not watching this.

I'm just It doesn't look like we're gonna win a lot of games this year after

tough schedule to yeah, so

gotta face Alabama which That's gonna be I think they're gonna win by a handsome

amount.

Yeah, we'll see well anyway

not to bring everybody down, but we've got a great show for you tonight.

Get over your Badger Blues and join the fun tonight, folks.

Fun show at 6.35 tonight, WGBW afternoon host, Eric Westfall is here tonight.

Very excited to meet Eric and introduce him to Nightlight listeners.

If you haven't heard him yet, you should.

He does a great job here at WGBW.

Spinning the oldies, it's so much fun to listen to.

He's also an actor, I found out recently.

So we'll talk to Eric about all kinds of stuff.

And then it is Friday, and that means it's a bar band Friday night, folks.

Terry Barr, co-host of Max Inc Radio, right here on Civic Media, or I should say on WMDX Saturday nights from six to nine PM, will be here.

She has got an excellent band.

You see who she sent?

Yes, and you know, should we not say it?

I don't want to say it because we've talked about this band on the air before.

They're great.

The lead singer has been on the show and has played.

And I'm very excited to have them featured tonight.

And Terry, they have new material that we will be premiering tonight.

It's very exciting.

It's 7.35.

Terry Barr, our Wisconsin music expert, will join the show.

And she does every Friday.

So that will be fun.

We've got, I'm digging this nightlight window-love thing we've been doing.

We've been getting some really fun people.

We had

a family that we took a picture of.

I took a picture of earlier today.

It's just been a lot of fun.

Emerson was a good sport last night and if you're wandering by the window folks at WGVW here in downtown Green Bay, there is a chance you might be asked to have your picture taken through the glass so we can post it on social media.

That's been kind of fun.

We have a great question tonight as well.

The phone lines are open as they always are.

Join the show and talk about anything that's on your mind, folks, that we're discussing.

If you have an opinion about a movie or a show or whatever, we'd love for you to weigh in as you guys, you all know the rules, so don't be shy.

If we got to do this first, because this is kind of a cool thing, this is our first, as I mentioned the last couple of nights.

Typically, when we do contests here at Civic Media, they've only been kind of promoted during the day.

But this week, we've got the Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway Contest, which is really cool.

You can win a free night at Chula Vista.

That kind of doesn't really make sense.

You can win a free night.

You can win the opportunity to pay big bucks to stay at a hotel.

Of course, it's free.

That's the grand prize, right?

Yeah.

All right.

It's the Chula Vista overnight stay and a dining voucher.

The value is $175.

Chula Vista is a great place.

We had our civic media party there one year, Christmas party.

It was a blast.

It's beautiful.

It's the Wisconsin Dells.

How can you go wrong?

So it's the nightlight last chance, summer giveaway, and we will be giving away the keyword tonight right after our first break.

We will give you the keyword.

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On the app so you have to have the app to play text in the keyword and you are enrolled and eligible to win the free night stay at Chula Vista Good luck everybody.

Let's play.

Let's have some fun.

I we missed out today.

I tried to get You ever you know a cow chip throwing is

No,

okay, that's You know I should Google that because I don't want to selling an idiot.

I'm not a farm guy, but I think it's when you throw you know what a cow pie is

Well,

I know the the candy

Should not be a candy named you never had a cow pie

a

cow

tail a cow there's a it's like a little

Carmel

inside and I think there's there's nuts in there too a little bit of corn

Yeah,

that's you know

I have to Google this quickly because I don't want to give false information.

I think listen.

I'm in the dark on this

Cow chips refers to two very different things.

Dried cow dung used historically as fuel or for soil enrichment.

Those are two very different things.

And in the modern American West, we're a competition called cow chip throwing.

So what is it?

Okay, you're throwing cow poop.

And they have this contest in sock prairie and I call there and every once in a while, it's usually pretty easy to get people to want to come on the radio to talk about their

cool event or whatever, but sometimes people like, they act like you're up to something.

And that's what this woman was like today.

I called and I said, Hey, I'd like to talk to someone.

I love to interview you on the air.

I think it could be fun.

Tell us about your cow chip throwing contest.

And they're like, what are you trying to do?

I'm not up to no good here.

I'm trying to promote your event.

And I think it could be fun because that's something I would never, like I wonder who the person who invented cow chip throwing was.

Talk about board

They must have a boring day

but I could pick one of them there piles up and throw it yeah, and there you go And it started a phenomenon folks if you will it's it makes lawn darts look healthy So I was unable to to land a guest for the cow chip throwing contest in sock prairie But it sounds fun if you want to go you like throwing around cow poop half hazard Lee go for it I have to do

All right.

What is your favorite music Conrad?

If you were to eat somewhere, what kind of music would you hope the establishment is playing?

Well, is it live or is

it?

No, I mean, just like on the radio or serious or something Spotify, something like that.

Like, oh, well, I mean, if I'm just eating at a restaurant and it's, you know, just classic topics, probably or something.

I don't know that because I'm not going to be like listening what I mean, you know,

that's kind of my point.

I, in Marinette, I ate at a Subway recently.

I made reservations ahead of time.

And they had like this heavy metal head banging music on.

I wanted to kill myself.

I'm like, what are you doing?

Are you trying not to have customers?

Like, I love classic rock.

I don't know that I want to hear classic rock while I'm trying to eat like a decent meal.

You know, give me some jazz or some, some cool, I don't know something, but like,

Yesterday I went to the dentist and they were playing country music and I'm not a country music fan.

I'd like some old country But I'm sitting there in the chair waiting for my mouth to numb and I'm listening to these tunes.

I Just got really depressed.

I'm like, I know some people like country.

I respect that I Don't think I necessarily would have wanted to hear rock and roll either.

Give me something easy.

I'm like I'm at the dentist.

I'm about to hear a drill in my head.

I

I don't know.

I think it's crazy the people commit to these.

It should be something ambiguous, I think.

You know, Morgan Wallin, while you're getting your teeth drilled, it's pretty nice.

You're a Morgan Wallin fan?

I'm a fan of his chair throwing.

Okay.

He's had some issues.

Yeah.

Whatever.

What do you like him or not?

I don't care.

I don't know anything about Morgan Wallin.

I'm just saying, put on, in one place I was in, I went to get a fish fry about six months ago at this local place in Marinette.

They have the news on.

Oh, there

we go.

It's like a bar, and they're blaring news.

I'm like, wow.

Are you trying to kill the party, honestly?

Yeah, I feel like having a beer and listening to the news is not that... Play some smooth jazz, get you in

the mood.

Exactly!

Something to...

Have a

scotch?

Set the mood, exactly.

That's all I'm trying to say.

I see a question of the night in the future regarding this music choice.

But I think it's time, folks, speaking of questions that we get to our nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

OK, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

OK, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

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All right, keeping with our nostalgia theme this week on Nightlight, what store do you wish you could still browse in?

Like online shopping is efficient and you still kind of browse You tool around with the cursor you click on this you click on that you can get through things faster, but there's Something I really miss about going to a mall and I'm saying a mall because when malls were the thing and it kind of killed a lot of downtown's I was like I miss downtown's now I miss malls because malls are not as popular as they used to be but I do miss going into a store and just kind of browsing

And now the only place I do it are like secondhand stores.

But I used to love to go into music land and look through the records and tapes, see what's on sale, see what the new releases were, just take all the vinyl and slide it back and forth and check out what was new.

I really miss music land.

So what do you miss?

What store do you wish you could still browse in?

So many.

You remember things remembered Conrad?

You too young for that?

Things remembered?

That was like a little kiosk at the mall, and they sold little trinkets.

I

mean, you got a bunch of those at every mall you go to.

There's a lot of kiosks, yeah.

But things remembered was like a staple, like Orange Julius was in a lot of malls.

Even the gap, I don't think there are any gaps anymore.

I used to like to walk into the gap.

OK.

Get a nice pair of jeans.

Get some slacks.

Get some floods.

Get some floods in a nice collared shirt.

There you go.

You can't go wrong with that.

Stereostores, though.

Video stores.

I used to love to go into video stores and just look through the movies.

And you end up walking out with like two or three, because there's a lot I haven't seen, but I do miss video stores.

I miss driving by a place and seeing it and going, there are other movie fans in there right now.

Except I gotta tell you this, this was funny.

There's a family video in Menominee that just closed a couple of years ago.

And I went in there and someone pointed out the Godfather of Green Bay on a shelf.

And just like a couple rows down was a guy thing.

I don't know if they're both Gs or how they were aligned.

And I also co-wrote a movie called The Guy Thing.

So I got two movies on the shelf at this video store.

And I live in this tiny town.

I have no ego.

But the guy says, the woman, he's got two movies right over here.

And she goes, huh, all right, would you like that to go?

She could not have cared less.

I'm like, this is a video store.

Not even a, oh, that's cool.

It was more like, don't annoy me.

You're stupid.

Oh my God, it was very strange.

You know, I could see you at the video store just standing by those and be like- Standing by my titles, yeah.

You looking for a movie tonight?

Hey, right here.

What do you say?

You looking for a movie?

Just kind of leaning on the shelf doing that.

You

point

it

and be like star

Just like a lot of the guys in the adult film back in the adult section.

Yeah, there you go, you know, they had an adult section at family video They did I swear to God they had an adult section.

I don't think that's right.

Finally pornos for the whole family

All right, folks, we've got the keyword is coming up after this very short break.

Don't go anywhere.

It's a Friday night version of Nightlight.

That's the best kind.

We are coming right back.

This is Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

I am Pete Schwabba.

Great to have you with me.

Conrad Krieger running the board tonight, lamenting his badgers.

Hey, it's the Nightlight Last Chance Summer Getaway Contest, folks.

Join the fun, have the Civic Media app, and all you have to do is text in the keyword I'm about to give you, and you are eligible for a free night at the Chula Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells, and you also get a dining voucher.

It's worth about 175 bucks, not too shabby for texting in one word.

And tonight's keyword is dine, D-I-N-E, dine.

So...

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Good luck everybody tonight is the last night.

So get those keywords in You texted a picture of a cow pie of the candy

Yes, I can

read and it's

doesn't look appetizing

it does not really you know what it looks appetizing if you don't call it a cow pie If you just call it chocolate with nuts and caramel

Well,

that's not fun.

Well, give it a snazzy name, but here's the thing.

Here's what we have.

We got this great invention.

It's delicious.

It has pecans, caramel, milk chocolate.

You can't go wrong.

Why don't we name it after poo?

You know, it's just a Midwest name.

You gotta find something unique.

No other candies ever.

That name before?

For reasons.

We've got a text that came in last night.

We don't like to miss texts here.

It's from our pal, Bud, who delivers papers between 4 and 6 a.m.

and listens to the rebroadcast.

He says, hey, Pete and Conrad.

In response to your question, I wish the telephone party line would come back.

Oh, that's right.

Last night's question was something outdated that you miss, and it was in honor of the bow tie.

I remember these party lines because they were all over late night TV.

They wanted you to get on the phone.

It's probably just like cyber sex on the phone, I guess.

And you had to make sure someone else in your house was not on the other line because that would be awkward.

But he says, I wish the telephone party line would come back.

When my girlfriend and I were on the phone and we would hear the click of someone joining, we would start our sexy talk.

The person was usually one of my nosy aunts.

Love your show bud from Janesville Like if you knew someone was doing that in your family, would you pick up and listen in?

It would terrify me that reminds me of a I've seen from high mature mother.

Yeah Lily was on the phone with Marshall's mom.

Okay,

and She thought she hung up and then and she didn't and They had sex right there right next to the phone

and her mom just kept listening.

Oh,

they had actual sex with the phone unhooked.

That's different than phone sex, yeah.

She thought it was hung up, but the mom was just there listening.

That is just horrible.

If you just heard something like that, when she'd be like, well, let me hang up right there.

Listen, I've heard a story a friend of mine told me about someone he knew who was hiding in the parents' room.

The family was playing a game or something, or the kids were playing a game, and the mom and dad go in and they go to town.

And this kid is like in the closet listening and probably seeing stuff you never want to see under any circumstances.

And if they don't know anything about it, they're like.

Why

is he hurting her?

What is he

doing?

It's terrible.

All right, so if you have a response to tonight's question, what store do you miss browsing in?

Let's go back to the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.

I say Musicland, Conrad, you got one?

Yeah, I'd probably say Best Buy.

I mean, when I was younger, we'd go to Best Buy.

But they

still have Best Buys.

Or not, sorry.

I meant to say Blockbuster.

Oh, Blockbuster,

yeah, of course.

I was at Best Buy earlier today, so that's why I

said that.

Oh, I really miss when I was browsing at Best Buy earlier this morning.

Yeah, Blockbuster, I miss going to the stores and picking up a couple movies.

It's nothing beats it, you know?

Absolutely.

Totally agree.

Now you just got all of it at your fingertips.

855-752-4842-8557-5-CIVIC.

Text us, let us know what store you miss browsing in.

IC Music Land, Conrad's blockbuster.

John in the 608 says, Terry, in reference to Terry Barr, our pal coming up at 735 says, has a voice like a siren that hypnotizes me every time.

There's something going on there.

John makes it like a nefarious thing.

John also says ever play mud volleyball on a farm property did it serious cow pie mud slush never again.

Yeah, that sounds like a really Not a very fun time.

I will say Tom from New Berlin says Pete no matter no matter us stupid humans have existed we create competition

I Mean you there's everything you could name one thing and there's probably competition from

it

Absolutely.

John also says, I could listen to you and Conrad at the dentist.

Food for thought.

Oh yeah, put on the nightlight podcast, which you can check out at civicmedia.us.

That's a great idea, John.

I think I'm gonna suggest that to my dentist.

He says, like elevator music, but informative and fun.

That might be the best thing anyone's ever said about nightlight.

Love it, John.

Thank you, buddy.

John also, John again, his thumbs are busy tonight, people.

He says, ever go behind the curtain at a video store.

Peaked in once, made eye contact with a dude, ran.

I remember I did that once.

I was in the adult section looking for some movies for a bachelor party.

I really was, but I felt like I had to over explain to the guy while I was there.

I was like 23.

I felt so stupid.

I know what John is saying.

You make eye contact with a guy.

You don't want him to start talking to you like, hey, what do you like?

You just don't want to do that.

Looking

for recommendations.

Please help me.

Let's put our heads together here.

Come up with some ideas.

The keyword tonight.

Dave, you might want to retext.

The keyword is dine, D-I-N-E.

Dave Cunish on the stream says, Lormons, that is a Marinette department store that was like my friends, the Boils own that store or were one of the owners.

And I always say they were like the Marshall Fields of Marinette, Wisconsin.

But you could say that Marshall Fields is the Mormons of Chicago and Milwaukee, but that's a great one, Dave.

Thank you.

He also says, good fellows, best in town, in Twin Cities, best something.

I was the type I can see.

He tried to type it again, and it still said the same thing.

Can you understand the comment?

I think I maybe know.

Alright, we'll noodle it.

We're coming back with Eric Westfall, new on-ear host here at WGBW, and we're going to read some of your texts and have a blast.

It's Nightlight with Pete Chihuahua on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

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back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I am Pete Schwabba.

It is great to have you with me, folks.

We've determined that Dave's word was porn, is what he was trying to say.

It's a place called Good Fellows in Marinette, and he misses browsing in there because they had the best porn.

in the Twin Cities, which is also, it's not Minneapolis, St.

Paul, people very arrogantly call Marinette Menominee the Twin Cities.

So, and that's where Dave, Dave's a native, so I knew what he was talking about.

He says, oh, in regard to the Cow Pie Festival, it's a big festival.

They used sun-baked poop, low moisture, but not too dry, or the poop gets, I can't even say that word, I'm so grossed out right now.

Ronnie Daniel Barry sports highlights says happy Friday.

Hello everyone.

Hello, Daniel.

Great to have you and Dave Cooney says it's a pot shop now the family video that sold pornography in the back like every family video sure should Is now a pot shop.

There's about 12,000 pot shops in Menominee, Michigan

So all right, I'm excited now.

We're gonna pivot here and get to our first guest of the night.

He is new meat here at WGBW, but he's not new to radio.

But if you listen throughout the day, you probably know this guy.

And if not, you're about to meet him.

His name is Eric Westfall.

Hey, buddy.

How's it going, Pete?

It's going great.

I love that you came in to the studio.

Yeah, yeah.

That's huge.

Let's assume you don't live in too far away.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's not too big.

Well, and you know, I mean, it's nice to be over on this side of the glass.

So usually I'm sitting in Conrad's spot over there.

And I try to get out of there fast enough so that he can get everything ready.

I know you guys have a little more preparation than I have.

I get the music doing all the heavy lifting for me.

Do you?

Well, I got a lot of questions to ask you about radio.

I think

you have a really cool gig and I'm excited for you and Dan was on the show last night Dan Marcus and we had Laura on last week So all three of you guys are new here and it's it's it's nice that you have a working relationship already You guys already knew each other.

Yeah, you all obviously love oldies.

So that's exciting Tell us First of all, I have that most importantly.

Do you have a story you missed browsing in Eric?

That oh, yeah, I heard you talking about that.

So I was trying to think a little bit when I was younger at Prangie way Oh pretty one that I liked over this would have been in Appleton.

I guess I grew up over in Greenville at the Appleton Prangie way on College Avenue Because I video games and stuff like that.

They always had sales on and I

Try to talk my mom into getting me something.

So I miss Prangie way and then as a little bit older, you know as junior high and high school Eric in the mall chess King

I Love it.

They had I forgot about chess

King.

Yeah, are there no more of them?

Oh, I don't think so.

I couldn't tell you the last time I mean, I don't really go into malls anymore.

Yeah, but I don't

I don't think chess Kings around we had a limited

like Marinette has the Pine Tree Mall, it's still there, but it's not as exotic as the Appleton or Green Bay or certainly not Milwaukee or Chicago, but we had a Prangie way.

And I remember when we moved to the area when I was in junior high and my dad was pointing out these Wisconsin stores we had never heard of, he said, that's a Prangie way.

That's kind of like Kmart, that's Prangies, that's a little more upscale like Marshall

Fields.

That's how

he described, like a 12 year old's

gonna

shop at Prangies.

And I have another story about the Prangie family.

One of the sons,

was running the Marinette Store.

And I had a holiday gig where I was trying to get people to sign up to donate money for kids.

And he said, ask people if they wanna buy an ornament and then the proceeds go to charity.

But I came out of the gate swinging and I said, do you feel like helping a needy child this holiday season?

So they had to say, if they said no, they felt terrible.

He pulled me aside, he goes, yeah, let's not approach people like that.

You're going

for the- Maybe back off on that hard side.

Going for the juggler, kid.

This is so funny, you said prank away.

Well, prank.

was what I actually worked at.

Prangies in high school in the men's fashions to men's men's wear departments wearing all your chest chest King clothes No, you had to wear like they have made why don't you our actual suit and tie?

Yeah, it didn't have to be from Prangies, but you know chest King was a little bit too fast It was very 80s.

That's true.

All

right, that's great So how's it going here at WGBW what I don't know like what kind of stuff are you doing on air at your last gig?

You're so good at this, I assume it's not something new to

you.

Yeah, so previously, I worked for six and a half years on another station here in Green Bay.

And Laura used to be right across the hall from me.

She was in the mornings, and I would see her usually when I was coming in.

She was on a different station, but we were the same company.

And they decided to make some changes as radio companies do.

And it's interesting.

been in this business about 20 years now, and I've lost my job numerous times.

But previously, it was always like, oh, well, you are a live night guy.

There's no night guys anymore.

That's going away.

That's sad.

Yeah.

Or the station is making a format change, and so we're going to get rid of their staff.

OK, I can understand that sort of thing.

But I was doing very well.

And so I was getting ratings bonuses.

And I had some endorsements and things like that.

Those aren't things that if you're doing terrible that you get.

So it was a corporate decision made by somebody in Georgia or wherever.

And it happened to people all across the country.

So it didn't really matter how good I did.

But I was very excited though to get the call.

And I was actually thinking of getting out of radio.

I was like, man.

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 15 times.

But I've heard, like, you hear of these legendary radio guys that have all been fired multiple times.

Oh,

sure.

It just comes with the territory, right?

And it's not even necessarily that you're doing anything wrong.

Yeah, oftentimes it is.

I mean, it can be any number of things.

Sometimes, and I don't know that that happens as much these days, but sometimes it could be a personality clash, you know, with the management or whatever.

Eric Westfall is my guest.

You can hear him afternoons here at WGBW playing the oldies and he's had a long career in radio.

And it's funny, you were talking about how at night it's different.

I used to love listening to the radio when I was a kid and knowing that there was somebody there playing songs and connecting with the audience.

And the first time I did radio, I was trying to get, I had a student show at DePaul University and then I came home to Marinette in the summer.

And the radio guy there, Jim Callow, gave me a job from 2 to 5 AM.

So

I show up at 1.30 and the other guy that was there from like 10 to 2, he's got like a Colt 45.

He's sitting back smoking a cigarette and just playing tunes.

I'm like, look at this guy, man.

He's got

the life.

He's

just chilling.

And that just isn't the case anymore.

No.

Automation pretty much took care of that.

In each market, so here in Green Bay, one station does have to have somebody there.

all hours of the day.

But on air?

I mean generally they will have them be an on-air person.

They'll have them do it live because they might as well.

You gotta have somebody be there.

There's always somebody wanting to cut their teeth with that 12

a.m.

to 6 a.m.

shift.

Absolutely.

So how did you, what made you want to go into radio?

Like how old were you?

And what made you go, I gotta do this?

I was actually a little bit older than most people.

Dan, I think he got into it just out of high school, maybe even in high school.

I was a little bit older.

I had sort of, I went to college at Lawrence University and I did a little, I was in the studio there a couple of times, but nothing really.

But I was a theater.

person.

And so I like the performing aspect of it.

Yeah, you know, acting and all that.

And so I really liked the performance element.

And when I graduated from school, I was actually going to become a teacher.

I was certified to become a theater teacher.

And, you know, they should probably put you in front of the kids.

Like day one instead of like at the end and I just I love kids I have so much respect for teachers now after going through that but I just I didn't really want to you have to do so many things that has nothing to do with teaching and I just that performing aspect and I thought well you know radio seems like and at that time I was living down in Milwaukee and Gateway Technical College in Kenosha so I drove three days a week to from Milwaukee to Kenosha taking classes there

to get that associate's degree.

I already had a lot of credits transfer over, but get that internship and all those things that are how you get started in the business.

So I wanted to make sure that I did that.

And in Milwaukee, obviously, is a very large market.

So I interned on the country station there at the time, FM106.

You know, I knew eventually I would have to leave the area if I wanted to get on the air.

And yeah, I went, you know, it wasn't in country music.

I got my start and I heard you earlier say you didn't care for country.

I'm not a big fan either.

So I try actually working on a country station and nothing to learn all these artists names and, you know, country USA and all that stuff and be excited about that.

It was tough, but there were a few artists I liked.

But anyway, so.

Yeah, I moved up to Wausau and that's where I was the night guy there and then went to Steven's point after that and did mornings on the station that then decided to flip and then I was in Shano for a little while and I have family there and a lot of good people in Shano but I would never work for that small of a market again.

They broadcast parades on the radio in Shano.

I never thought that was a thing before but I'm like, a parade is a very visual event.

You can't really

get a lot out of it on the radio, but they sold sponsorships.

So you make it work?

Yep.

Wow.

Look at this marching band now.

Oh, they must have 30 kids out there.

And you're

like,

if only

I was playing country music again.

And listen, I'm not a hater.

I really don't dislike country music.

I do feel the new country has kind of a...

kind of a sound to it.

It's almost like a homogenization sort of.

I like when they genre mix.

I think that's cool.

But just pure new country.

I just give me the old stuff.

And if it's on too long, I'm just like, we got to change this up because they never really rock.

And they never it's always kind of, I don't know.

Yeah.

No, I know what you mean.

So

what is your favorite kind of music?

Like, I assume you like oldies, but yeah, I do like oldies.

I enjoy that.

Yeah.

And I first

you know, listened to oldies when I was, you know, late 70s, early 80s, when it first became a format, that's what my parents listened to, because obviously it was the music of them.

Before that, it was country.

Back when it was country and western.

And, you know, Willie Nelson and all those, and then the oldies came up.

But me personally, you know, I actually...

I'm a pretty big fan of bluegrass music, which especially like the really like upbeat and give me banjos and fiddles and mandolins and love and a good tempo and yeah, I'm usually

pretty happy.

I love that.

I just noticed, excuse me one second.

Conn, did you notice people are texting in the word fine?

Yeah.

All right.

Sorry, folks, the keyword is dine, D-I-N-E.

I thought that's how I said it, but if I.

If I misspoke earlier, I apologize.

But the keyword tonight is dine, D-I-N-E.

And that's why I said you can't spell diner without dine.

But like three people texted and fine.

Can they be eligible or...?

Well, just text and dine and then you're... Thank you for the legal advice Conrad.

Does he have a great voice or what?

Like Eric should just be like... Did somebody ever tell you you should go into radio?

You got that

voice.

Yeah, honestly, actually, how did I forget this?

So my first like...

taste of radio was in forensics in high school.

I completely forgot.

So I went to Hortonville High School, go polar bears, class of 92.

And our forensics coach, Cliff Morton, he came to me, it was my sophomore year and they had a brand new category called radio speaking.

And basically, you would pull some news stories out, and then you'd put them together.

They wanted you to put a commercial.

Sometimes they would give you a little newspaper clipping, and you had to create something in there, kind of the middle, then some weather, some sports, and put it all together with your transitions.

And he said, I think you'd be good to give this a try.

Prior to that, I usually did some acting categories.

And I said, sure.

And the first one, man, I got into the power round, took second place.

Oh,

sweet.

So you're like, OK, I think I could do

this.

Yeah.

And so then I ended up coming back to it years later and like, oh, that's right.

I kind of enjoyed this.

Just enough to suck you in

to this career.

All right.

Eric Westphal is here, folks.

He is the.

afternoon on Arrow host here at WGVW.

Every day you can hear him from two to six.

So definitely tune in if you haven't already.

We're coming right back and we'll do the keyword again just to be safe.

If you haven't heard the keyword yet, folks, it is coming up.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

Happy

Friday, everybody.

This is Pete Schwabba, and you've got Night Light here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Our question of the night is, what store do you miss browsing in?

Take yourself back, folks, to the 80s or 90s or early 2000s.

I know there's still malls, but what about those stores that don't exist anymore?

I said Musicland, Conrad said Best Buy, because he hadn't been there since this morning.

And then he changed his answer to Blockbuster.

Do you have one, Eric?

Did you give us one?

Yeah, I was praying you went

in Chest King.

Yes, of course.

Chest King.

Chest King for a mall store.

I love it.

That was great.

Steve from Florida says, I missed the old Five in Dime store Woolworths.

Oh, that's a great one.

best burger fries and milkshake located in every downtown.

Woolworths had that great lunch counter.

And Mormons and Marinette had that too.

They had, I love those stores where they were like, they had stereos, men's clothes, food.

Yeah, even Kmart.

Even Kmart.

Yeah,

those were all great stores.

Everett from Sun Prairie in the 262 says, what store do I miss browsing at?

Say it with me, the exclusive company.

Is that American?

No, what was

that?

The exclusive company was Mr. G. Right down just across the river, just off of Broadway, was the Green Bay store.

There was one in Green Bay, there was one in Appleton at Northland Mall.

The stereo stuff, right?

Yes.

Music, but then also nicer stereo stuff.

Nice.

That's a great one.

Thank you, Everett.

Here we've got that Melissa from Willy Street.

Hi Pete.

I think I know why John really likes Terry's voice because I have a deep voice as well.

Have a good night.

Oh, thank you.

Melissa, you have a good night too with your your deep sultry voice that your husband seems to love and one more here before we get back to Eric Judy from East Troy Says my email.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm reading the wrong thing Judy.

I almost gave Judy's email address out in the air She would have become very popular.

Yeah

Getting emails from everybody.

All right, my guest is Eric Westfall.

He is the on-air host here during the afternoon at WGBW, and he is a radio veteran.

I have to ask you, I want to get into some of your acting stuff too, but I hope you can stay through the news if that's okay.

Yeah,

man, I got no place to be.

Oh, that's, I'm sorry to hear

that.

He really squeezed us into his schedule here,

Conrad.

I

took the

whole

evening off

for you.

We'll make it a miniseries.

What is your favorite part of the day?

Because I haven't been in radio as long as you, and I know I have kind of a different show here, but a lot of my day is prep, which I don't mind.

But for you, what is your favorite part of your radio day?

You're on the air.

I'm sure that's fun, prepping, research, picking songs.

What's the best part of

it?

Yeah, I'm on the air part, although I really, and you know, we haven't gotten to do too much of that yet since we're still new.

But and it's probably because of the the actor and me.

I really like getting out in the public and and seeing the people out at events and things like that.

OK.

But on air is fun because the one thing you're one person, you know, in the studio and you're making.

all this stuff and I find myself every now and then I will, you know, when the mic is cracked, I'll start forgetting, oh yeah, there's people out there listening and I'm almost like I'm talking to myself and then I got to kind of catch myself and oh yeah, you know, make sure this is interesting.

Right.

At the very least, brief

and interesting.

That's great.

And you mentioned before, you said you almost got out of radio because you had just lost a job you liked.

What would you do?

Like I feel like,

I've kind of been in show business in one form or another my entire adult life, and I've just accepted this is what I do.

If I'm unemployed, I will eat canned soup, whatever.

I'm not doing any, I'm not going to work in a store.

You know,

are you

like that?

Or are you like, what else would

you do?

Can you do something else?

Well, I will tell you the things that I was looking at.

as I mentioned before, liking to get out and amongst the public.

And, you know, now we have to wear a lot of hats and radio.

There aren't people doing all the different things unless you're, you know, really, you know, big time and some of the big markets, New York City or something.

So, you know, marketing and all that stuff show and relationship building and, you know, networking.

And that's really all a part of it.

People don't.

realize that.

And those are skills that, you know, I was able to develop.

And so I was really looking at jobs that would help that show.

I'll even

I applied at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Oh, nice.

Nice to be there, a membership and development coordinator.

Maybe if the person who got the job is listening, I hope they're doing good.

But I came close, but something like that, where I'm still involved in the community and something that I believe in and help making it good.

I'm really a firm believer.

And I chose to become the Green Bay.

It was a city I was born in, but it's not the place I've lived all my life.

And I want to do something that makes it better.

See, that's really interesting you say that, and I take back what I said before, because I think maybe I could work in like, like Greg Vadney is on the show Tuesday, and he's the director of the Roar West Museum in Manitowoc.

I think I could work in a museum.

Yeah.

Or some cool place where you're like, you have stimulating things around, maybe?

Yeah.

No, I

don't

know.

What about you,

Con?

I mean, a museum would be cool.

Yeah.

You could be like Ross from French.

Yeah.

You know.

It's probably nothing like that, right?

Depends on the museum.

You're the guy that gets to build the dinosaur displays.

That's like the Primo Museum.

Oh, yeah.

That's the coolest thing.

That would be a great one, though.

All right, so Eric Westfall is here, folks.

We'll have more with Eric.

He's going to tell us all about the Evergreen Theater and some of the cool stuff he has going on as a local actor as well.

And if you are interested in that kind of stuff, you want to stick around and hear it.

I'm curious myself.

Since I've been doing the show, Eric, I've never lived in Green Bay or really any other city other than Marinette in Northeast Wisconsin.

And I'm amazed at how many creative people there are here, how many actors, how many great bands, how many filmmakers.

So I'm excited to talk with you about that too after the after intermission here.

John Murray in the 608 says TGNY was an awesome department store in Freeport, Illinois.

Tons of best hobby and toys.

Mom loved it too.

TGNY that must have been out like a local.

Things that sound familiar?

No.

That's fine.

It's fine.

Judy also says, did you get my email address that I sent?

Yes, Judy.

I almost sent it to the entire listening public.

So I apologize for that.

And then Everett and Sun Prairie says, Pete, I did the 10 p.m.

to 2 a.m.

shift for a couple years at WWSP.

I think he means UWSP in college.

can confirm just playing tunes, a couple beers, as well as other enjoyables.

We don't need to get into that.

And just enjoying sharing the stuff we dug and with an audience of drunk college kids and other random local college radio supporters, really good times.

Everett, it was a really good time reading that text, so I can imagine actually doing it was very cool.

So thank you.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

We are coming back for Act 2 after intermission.

Eric Westfall will be here.

It's a bar band Friday night.

Terry Barr is coming up at 7.35 with a great band with new material.

It's Pete Schwab at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

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

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who doesn't believe in sex after marriage, Peach Wabba.

Welcome back to Night Light, folks.

Everybody was out smoking them if they got them.

Well, welcome back.

We are kicking off act two here at Nightlight on this Friday pre-long holiday weekend show.

Hope everybody's in a great mood.

It is great to have you here being part of the show.

We got a lot of texts we'll get to.

We'll do that soon.

If you're just joining us, our question of the night is name a store or what is a store to make it an actual question that you miss browsing in.

Stores that are no longer around due to mall closings or whatever.

I say Music Land.

Conrad said Blackbuster.

Blockbuster.

Bust blocker.

That sounds bad too.

And our guest here who in the studio is Eric Westfall who is the afternoon host here at WGBW.

You said Prangie Way.

Great choice.

Yeah, Prangie Wayne and Chess King.

I thought of another good one that was a fun one at the mall.

You know, if you didn't really, if you had to be there, because you know, mom was doing some shopping, but you wanted to kill some time.

Spencer's GIFs was awesome.

Oh, yes.

That's a great one.

Yeah.

They're still online, aren't they?

I think so.

It's like right up there with Brookstone.

But let us know.

That's our question of the night.

Be part of the show.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2-8-5-5-7-5 Civic.

Also, if you have not gotten your text word in tonight, folks, there is still time.

This is the Nightlight Last Chance summer getaway.

As you know, we have just a little bit of summer left here, and we are doing this really cool concert.

All right, concept.

What is it?

Conrad, it's a contest.

Yes.

I can't make mistakes like that with an actual pro radio person sitting next to me.

It's

very, it's very

emasculating.

You're the pro.

I don't have somebody else like doing all the... You don't have a Conrad?

No.

Oh, come on.

I got to do all the heavy lifting myself.

You know, we came in here and I don't know, people can't see it because it's out of camera range.

I mean, there's like a whole food spread that he... No, I'm just kidding.

Conrad whipped up a

quiche?

Conrad's like, please hire me away from this monster.

But we do have the nightlight last chance, summer getaway.

And our keyword is, for tonight, is dine.

D as in David, I-N-E, dine as in diner.

What other examples can I give?

I gotta make sure people understand that.

Dine.

Like...

Like fine, but with a D So text that in on the app folks and you're eligible to win an overnight stay at Chula Vista and we're even throwing in some free grub It's worth 175 bucks and it is all yours if you are the winner.

So good luck everybody.

You still have time And

all

you have to do is send a text What else do we say Conrad?

What else do we miss?

What do I need to recap Conrad's bummed well

bangers, you know

If you haven't tried it yet, go out, if you're in Wisconsin, go out and grab a cow pie.

The candy.

The candy, yeah, you gotta clarify that.

Go out and eat cow dung, folks.

My name is Conrad Greger.

Yeah, we covered that too.

We got some texts, we'll get to those.

Let's do steady eddy.

Steady eddy texted in early tonight, and we usually, I'm under the gun on Fridays to get through a steady eddy text.

But we'll do Steady Eddie right now.

He says, Pete, I miss Kmart.

I would go with my dad on a Saturday.

Oh, that's great.

It's not steadfast Edward tonight.

No, it's not.

Kmart is not highbrow like that.

But Kmart, are there any Kmart's left?

I haven't seen one in super, super long time.

Yeah, if there is, I couldn't tell you where.

Because the one of Menominee just closed like two years ago.

So that made me think maybe there are still some out there, but.

Anyway, either way, Everett from Sun Prairie, some clarification on a previous text.

He says, the exclusive company was a small record store chain rumored to be a Chicago mafia front.

How do you like that?

I went to the Blue Mountain Road and Brown Deer Road locations in Milwaukee.

The question is Everett, did you ever whack anybody?

That's what I want to know.

I'll sneak one more in here before we get back to Eric Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids.

Also, Drucker's general store in Hooterville.

See, Tyler likes to get these cheeky things and I think he always has some kind of innuendo.

Pickles in the barrel, another one, or the best.

I've never heard of that.

Have you heard of Drucker's, Eric?

Well, Sam, you know, I believe Sam was running it up until his death a few years back.

Sam Drucker?

Yes.

Are you playing a joke?

Who is that?

No, that's from the, that's from the TV show.

Petty Go Junction or whatever, yeah.

Well, actually... Is that what his text is referring to?

I'm pretty sure.

Tyler, how old do you think I am?

So it would be, and there's a couple shows that use that.

They use Druckers.

Well, Sam Drucker's, Drucker's general store in Wooderville.

All right.

I love it.

Hooderville sounds like a nice little Berg.

Dave says, I don't want to get censored.

He was the one that typed in porn, but he spelled it all kinds of different ways earlier.

And then he also said tempo, which was a store in Menominee, Michigan that was like, I always confused it, like when targets came out, I thought, oh, they're bringing back, oh no, that was tempo.

Kind of the same department store, but have you guys ever heard of the tempo?

No.

All right.

It's a Marinette Menominee original.

All right, my guest in studio folks is Eric Westfall.

You can hear his work here on WGBW afternoons from two to six, spin in the oldies, break into the news, do in time and temp.

Yeah.

Right?

That's a radio thing.

Well, yeah, but there's

other people that do that.

So I don't, I don't have to.

So nobody can.

Yes.

Yeah.

Nobody can blame me though, you know, if it's the weather's bad.

I didn't give the forecast.

Conrad gives a mean five day forecast.

I

do.

I look out the window and.

Just say how it is.

It's more like a five-second forecast.

He can't predict the future.

All right, so you're also an actor, Eric.

We covered your radio career more or less.

People can hear you on WGBW every day.

I was saying this to Dan Marcus last night.

Like, oldies, like, I would imagine the ratings are gonna go through the roof because who doesn't love oldies?

You're playing nothing

but hits.

Yeah, and nobody, there's not another place.

You can get that unless you go online or get Spotify or something like that and pay money for it.

Right,

exactly.

All right, so tell us about, you're also an actor here in Northeast Wisconsin.

How did you get into that?

And tell us about some of the play, we'll get to the one you just talked about in Abrams.

I think

that sounds

really cool,

but you've

done Shakespeare and everything, so tell us about

that.

I have, you know, and I think this goes, I probably, this started when I was a little kid, like I would wear like,

Different clothes and that I would keep costumes and then create characters like my mom would come home from work And suddenly I'd be some little man or say you know so I think that's where it first started But you know that I was very excited once getting to high school and actually being able to do plays in that So I've been doing it all my life.

Sometimes the job is you know doing nights obviously