Ghostly Tales & Cinematic Adventures (Hour 2)

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

And now, a guy who still likes to build a fort.

Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

Kicking off act two here on this beautiful Thursday night.

What a glorious night to talk movies and TV and all the things we love about life on a nightly basis, which we do here.

It is great to have you with me.

Conrad Krieger is working diligently on the other side of the glass.

I'm not even...

What is going on with the Brewers?

I just need to know so I know what kind of mood you're gonna be on the rest of the

night.

Well, they can't hit the ball again, so it's just...

Are they losing?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

You know, I can look forward to the Packers at least.

Yeah, you've got other things in life, believe it or not.

Well, hang in there, Brewer fans.

We'll try to help you through this next hour by talking about some really cool things.

We will be back to our guest, Kara Mulroney in just a minute.

Our word of the night is based or is inspired, I should say, by the...

National Dictionary Day.

What is your favorite or least favorite word?

And you know, Katie Skullin is very talented singer-songwriter.

She's been on the show a couple times.

She posted something earlier that I saw like in the headline or whatever on your phone at the screen, you know, it pops up.

Yeah.

Doily.

Doily.

That's a great word to not like.

It's weird.

I don't even know what it means.

It's like those little things that you put on a chair, like the white lace.

Things that you put over it.

You know what a chair is right?

I think so Look Google the doily and post it in the stream because I'm sure that if you don't know then other people probably don't know too But maybe it's a generational thing my grandma had doilies around her house, but that one made me laugh We also talk ace freely passed away by the way so kiss fans.

I'm sorry to if you're hearing that here for the first time I'm sorry for your loss, but I think it happened several hours ago

He was one of the ace freely was like where I grew up on the northwest side of Chicago in the city.

People are like their rock bands basically is how they identified how they drew life breath every day.

Pink Floyd kiss and they would have these arguments.

Sometimes they would result in fisticuffs over who was the best guitarist.

You had Jimmy Page.

You had David Gilmore and then you had ace freely.

So I was not a huge kiss fan.

I know our friend Terry Barr is so.

We are sorry for your loss, Terry.

Terry will be here tomorrow night for Barman Friday night.

Maybe we'll talk a little ace freely then as well.

Coming up at 735, Dan Hess from the Old World, Wisconsin will be here.

They have a great, all month at Old World, they're doing some really cool Halloween stuff.

So we'll talk to Dan about that at 735.

Yeah, those are doilies on the stream.

You can see those.

Those are just, why would you compromise a chair by putting a doily on it?

I feel like,

They're just going to fall off every time you sit in it.

It's not like the best looking chair.

Maybe the doilies are an improvement in that case, but I don't know.

All right, let's get back to our guest.

Carol Mulroney is here.

She's a filmmaker and an actress from Milwaukee.

She made the popcorn pick of the week.

It was Pee Wee's Big Adventure, which she just saw at the Oriental.

And how magical was that going?

You have two kids now.

You get to take them to a movie palace, this majestic theater.

and watch one of your favorite, that must have been like a surreal experience almost.

You know, it really was.

And they were scared of the same parts, of course, that we were all traumatized by like large March, which our five year old misremembered as me and Jean, which I also like.

But yeah, just we couldn't even say things like it was a night like that.

They freaked out.

I have to rewatch it.

I don't remember some of this stuff.

Just

like tonight, it was the worst accident I ever seen, right?

You recall now?

I do.

Yeah, it's been so long.

You know, here's a great thing we should do.

You had this outstanding, these things are called cameos and celebrities will, for money, but it's kind of cool that they do this.

will give you a message.

And they will, it's like they're talking to you.

Like you and I are talking over the stream.

My son, my sister Molly got my son Joe on from Kevin from the office, Brian Baumgartner.

And he was like, happy birthday, Joe Schwabba.

He's like talking like their best friends.

And you had one from Pee Wee Herman or Paul Rubens.

What was that

like?

Uh, it's what I'm doing right now.

I'm just, I'm speechless.

I was gobsmacked, which is another favorite.

But yeah, I, it was my, it was a present from my amazing beloved husbands for my 40th birthday.

We were going to watch Pee Wee's big adventure outside.

That's what I wanted.

And he opened it with this cameo from Paul Rubens and

Pete as you know because they sent it to you he went on for eight for almost eight minutes this Magical human being did not have to do that.

Like yes, you know, yes, he paid the money and it was not cheap Says he's like I would have paid double.

I don't care.

It was

amazing Wow,

but went on for eight minutes so generous so sweet

Um, I like I I still I don't watch it that often because I'm just so humbled Yeah by the gift both from sure and from paul rubens And what makes it also harder to watch now is of course that he passed and you know with the timing he would have been sick at that time he

would have been

um in treatment for cancer at that time so just

As a document, it just, it couldn't be more special and dear to me.

Just that he was given it.

Yeah.

All he had during, you know, through the end.

That's really cool.

We have a little clip of that, audio clip at least, that you were nice enough to share with us earlier.

So let's play.

This is...

Paul Rubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, giving Kara a birthday wish over these things called cameos, folks.

Google them.

They're great options as gifts.

And she got one from her husband, Tate.

And here is a snippet of him talking to her.

Let me just say this.

Your friend is making her first feature film.

You probably already all know this.

But I'd like to say this to you, Kara.

Great luck.

And that's awesome.

I mean, I understand that you are an amazing actress and storyteller and filmmaker and that you're a very big fan of me, me, me.

And I appreciate that.

It tells me quite a bit about you right off the bat.

It tells me that you are very bright and have amazing taste.

That's

so great.

I mean, how masterful was that?

Like he says something really sweet, like

imagine,

imagine, imagine hearing that from your hero.

But like, it's also like, ah, that's too much.

She does in Midwestern.

I was like, ah, stop.

Paul Rubens.

And then

he

does stop with a joke.

Masterful.

Oh, that's so great.

And you just said Midwestern, like, because we are typically a lot.

There are people, I bet you, that put that on the resume.

Paul Rubens told me I was a great actress on my cameo that I paid for.

Honestly, God, right?

I mean, here you are just soaking it up.

That was really cool.

And you could tell he was.

Uh, just into it.

It's fun.

Whether it's there was such, there was such a warmth.

Yeah.

I wish I wish the listeners at home could see, but yeah, just such a warmth and tenderness.

That's so great.

So, so yeah, see, see Peewee's big adventure.

Watch Peewee's play house.

Um, he, uh, he has all kinds of what he's in.

Um, Oh God, what's the cocaine movie?

Uh, uh,

blow

Johnny Depp.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think below he has so many surprising.

I think he's in mystery men.

He's in he does a voice in the nightmare before Christmas.

So you

know,

you can you can catch him.

That's

great.

Well, it's very cool.

All right.

So tell us you're working on a new film.

You said it's in post and it'll probably be a year.

But what what's it about?

I'm I love what you do.

You have a great imagination and the short films you've done that I've seen in the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Outstanding.

But what is this next one about?

Yeah, you're so nice.

Who would ever not come on your show?

You're so freaking nice to everybody.

I'm

usually mean to most people.

You're easy to be nice

to.

I can't imagine.

It's funny.

When the movie is done, I can imagine someone watching it and thinking, well, that was very visionary.

Like you say, like it's very creative.

It

was very interesting.

No, but the one you did about the one you did about the medium and your pregnancy or trying to get pregnant, that was

very,

that was, it was.

Brilliant.

Oh, that's simply too much.

But well, I'll give you the log line because

when

I start to explain it, it just makes me sound crazy.

So I'll give you the log line, which is a 40-year-old mascot maker facing her accidental pregnancy alone in the present day, makes radio contact with a newlywed in mourning in 1958.

Oh my

goodness.

Right.

So it's kind of a lot packed in there.

But I will simplify it by asking, are you

Are you familiar with the Moth radio stories?

Oh my gosh.

Sorry, sorry.

I'm sorry to judge you.

I didn't mean to.

I don't know much about radio.

It's a wonderful thing to discover.

It's essentially people telling true stories on stage without notes.

And so there's the Moth radio, which is, I mean, I think a podcast, but it's...

It can be hit or miss, but it's mostly hits.

If

you're in the Milwaukee area, we have exfabula, which is essentially the same thing.

I would argue better because they do so much.

uh, in community building and, and, you know, you know, community, um, involved storytelling and, and education.

So got a stump for, for ex-fabula.

And I, I also won't miss the chance to thank them for connecting me with my co-writer, Monica Thomas.

So.

So I play to back up to, gosh, this is a lot coming at your listeners.

So there's the pregnant mascot maker character that is played by me.

And it does follow my actual pregnancy, although we started shooting in 2019 when the script was not anywhere close to done.

So we're like, okay, we're just gonna grab what we can based on what I know of the film.

And then I gave

Here's where they're like, oh, I'm going to lose them.

I'm going to lose them, Pete.

I keep birth on camera as well.

So

yeah.

Yeah.

And it's very, like if you've seen Call the Midwife, like it's a very tasteful angle.

Yeah.

And it helps that my husband is also the cinematographer.

Right.

He was

lit.

He happened to be there.

You were lit beautifully.

Why not bring your 4K cinema camera and prime lens to the Earth?

No, there was no lighting.

It's all natural.

That's

natural.

There's a lot of natural.

We're gonna have to take some of the natural out in post.

But okay, so I'm the mascot character.

But Kyoko or Kay is the is the newly-wedded mourning in Chicago in 1958 and she's a Japanese-American woman now I did you know did my best to to research that

experience and listen to those stories.

So denshow.org, by the way, speaking of stories, denshow.org, D-E-N-S-H-O is a repository of stories of Japanese Americans who lived through internment camps during World War II.

you know, took all of that in, I wrote the script best I could, and then I searched for a co-writer.

And it was ex-fabula, the storytelling collective that connected me with Monica Thomas.

And not just, you know, she's a Japanese-American woman and she was so generous in sharing her lived experiences, her mothers, her recently departed mothers lived experiences, but she's also kind of woo-woo out there like me.

And so we're...

a really great fit.

She's also a typewriter artist.

She recently participated in Quartie Fest.

Oh, nice.

I've heard of that.

I think that's such a great name.

Well, I wish you luck with the...

with the project that it sounds like a big undertaking.

I

need the luck man.

Do

you know how they

currently?

Hey, hold that thought and hold that question.

We'll do a very quick break and then we'll come back and wrap up with Kara.

But I gotta ask you what you're watching too.

And you need to finish that thought.

So we're coming right back.

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I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight Steady Eddie and the 608 says Pete.

I just gave Nightlight with Pete Schwabba a thumbs up on YouTube.

So you can do that Conrad.

There we go.

Just there we go.

There we go.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks, Eddie.

Yeah.

He says I'm watching and listening to you and Conrad on YouTube using my phone while I listen to the Brewers on the radio.

Brewers Dodgers tied one to one after five and a half innings go Brew Crew.

I think that's changed since this text, but we appreciate the update.

Steady Eddie very much.

He says, literally is my favorite word.

Literally, I followed closely, wait, literally followed closely by ice and cream.

Steady Eddie, outstanding.

Ren from Madison in the 608 says, favorite word, magic, least wave, squat.

I don't know why that cracks me up.

The word squat.

Okay.

Thank you, Rin.

Great text, and thank you, Steady Eddie.

We're back.

We've got a couple more minutes with our current guest, Kara Mulroney.

Or is it Kara?

Kara or Kara?

I know,

it's Kara.

Paul Rubin says

Kara.

Only Paul Rubin can call me

Kara.

Everyone

else would definitely call me Kara.

Kara Bear was my nickname.

That helps.

That's a great one.

Okay.

So finish your story, please.

I'm sorry.

You were telling me about... Oh,

God.

What was I talking about?

Yeah.

What were we talking about?

We were talking about your movie.

You got matched up with your Oh,

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My, my co-writer.

Yeah.

Uh, right.

And I, I, I, yeah, I, I missed some, uh, connecting points.

Sorry about that.

Um, the, you know, so there's this log line, which is maybe a little difficult to track, but the, the easy way, uh, uh, to sell my movie, hopefully is that, um, it's like,

to women telling stories back and forth through the radio and seeing how those stories impact the other woman in her life in real time, in that real, their timeline.

But right, what I was going to say now, as I'm speaking, I remember that now distributors pick up a movie or don't pick up a movie based on how many followers you have.

So, and

that's not just the film, but, oh, you know this.

This I just learned from our editor, Chris Thompson, who's going through it with his current film that he co-edited, co-produced.

I know,

Chris, sure.

Oh,

yeah,

yeah, super talented filmmaker and great, great guy.

But yeah, so how many followers, not just that the film has, but that your, your actors have.

And so going back to Hawk to a girl, she has a huge following.

So

she would cast in that movie for that reason, presumably.

As you might guess, I don't have a massive social media

following.

I

don't, you know, I'm an exennial.

I don't spend a lot of time on social media.

So.

So that's gonna hurt.

We're gonna have to

do like grassroots marketing kind of

thing.

Go on, buy some followers.

Yeah.

You

gotta

do something.

Yeah, will bots win the day?

I don't know.

Hey,

Kara, I have to, first of all, I know, I know how busy you are.

I appreciate you sticking around so long.

You're so much fun to talk to.

Thank you for making the pick of the week.

I wish you luck with the feature, but before I let you go, I have to ask you, are you binge watching anything?

What can you recommend?

Oh, geez.

I'm not... I'll tell you what.

My children are binge-watching.

Sure.

And that is K-pop Demon Hunters.

I don't think you can binge-watch a feature film, but they're trying.

They are watching it and listening to it.

It's

crazy popular.

Every day.

It is crazy popular.

And both my husband and I going to bed at night, the songs are in our head.

We'll have to put music on just to get the songs out of our head.

And it's a great movie.

It's a great movie.

And the songs are bangers, but...

Yeah, it's earworm material.

I gotta see this just to see what all the fuss

is about.

Can I ask you a question?

Have you ever, if you're in a theater where people are talking, have you ever tried joining in?

I've run the gamut.

I've given looks, I've said shut up.

But have you

ever talked like, talked to the screen like, don't do it, man.

Is it a curse to me that I haven't either?

Like maybe-

You know what?

I did, there was one time I was in a movie with my college roommate.

I was like 20, whatever.

We go in there and it's a horror film and the people, the kids that the monster, I was probably a Jason movie or something.

They were chasing it and they hit the gun and they put the gun to lock the door.

So that's what they used to lock the door.

And I said, oh, you idiot.

like I

said it was like the second or third

line I said and some guy told me to some older guy was like in his 50s says hey shut up will

ya so

that was

and he shut you up for your movie viewing live

I've and I've experienced it from both sides because I've been that guy and I've I've been putting my place deservedly so back when I was

A young idiot.

Well,

right.

You kind of have to see what the contract is.

You

go into the theater

and you're like, are we all going to talk?

Or

are we going to not talk and shun the talker?

Kara, thank you so much.

Let's do this again, please.

And keep me posted on your movie.

I will.

I'm sorry for hijacking so much of your time.

What are we doing here?

You're on here to talk and you did that

beautifully.

It was

fun.

You're forcefully.

Yeah.

Oh, thanks so much.

And thanks, Conrad.

Go, Brew Crew.

Yeah.

There you go.

Thanks, Kara.

Have a great night.

That's Kara Mulroney, everybody.

Check out Peewee's Big Adventure.

Since she said go, Brew Crew, do you have an update?

Has it gotten any better?

It's three to one.

Oh, man.

All right.

Well, what do we do here, man?

What can I do?

Do we finish the quiz quick?

We have like three

more.

Let's save the quiz for the last segment.

And right now, let's read a couple more texts.

Dave on the stream says his least favorite word is irregardless.

That's a good one.

That's not really a word because it means when people use it, it just means regardless.

But that was a pet peeve.

I had an English teacher who could not stand the word you're regardless.

Conrad's mom checks in from the 920 and says, my favorite word is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins.

My least favorite word is the F word, which is used way too much.

Sorry, mom.

Francine?

What word is that?

What word she's talking about is the word I use way too much when I'm golfing.

Oh yeah, well there you go.

You've got, I think it's okay if you're golfing.

Do you swear in front of your mom and your dad?

Do you drop f-bombs?

I used to not.

Now it just kind of slips out sometimes, you know?

I still don't.

My parents are like, honestly, and I have a filthy mouth oftentimes.

And my own kids swear in front of me.

Well, my brother has a worse mouth than me, so I'm in the

clear.

You're the golden child.

All right, we're coming right back, ladies and gentlemen, to talk about legends and lore at Old World Wisconsin with Dan Hess from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

That is next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

Great to have you with me on this Thursday.

We are in the home stretch here on this Christmas Eve of weekdays.

Conn, I don't know if I saw Dan just sign in, but I've got no screen here, so I don't know if he can hear me.

He can hear me.

Yes.

Perfect.

All right.

Ladies and gentlemen, this month at Old World Wisconsin, this is a very exciting thing.

We talked about this a little bit last year as well.

They do legends and lore, and they have just these great events, and we wanted to, we always like to talk to our friends at the Wisconsin Historical Society, but right now it is my pleasure to welcome to Nightlight their living history coordinator.

He is the general manager of experiences and events.

Mr. Dan Hess, Dan, welcome.

Thanks very much for having me.

Well, it's great to have you and thanks for taking the time out.

If you're a Brewer fan and I were pulling you away from the game, I'm sorry about that, although it sounds like it's not

going that

great anyway, so it's great to have you.

So I have to ask you, before we get into some museum talk, do you have a favorite word, Dan, or a least favorite word?

Oh.

Let's see.

That's our question of the night.

It's National Dictionary Day, so.

Sure.

You know, we're all about history and sharing stories here at O'Leil, Wisconsin, and bringing that to life.

So I suppose living is probably one of my favorite ones.

Nice.

That's great.

All right.

Well, let's get started then.

I want to, I know we don't have you for that long, but I would love to know.

If people like myself, I've never been to Old World Wisconsin, and last year at this time I said I got to get down there, and of course I didn't, but it just seems like a really magical place and an absolute treasure for those of us that live here in Wisconsin that we need to take advantage of.

For those listening who haven't been there, what can you tell us about it if you want to give us an overview?

Yeah, so we're located about 45 minutes outside of Milwaukee in Eagle, Wisconsin.

And we've got about 600 acres of land here actually.

So huge site, one of the largest living history museums in the country.

And we've got over 60 historic buildings that were brought here from all around the state of Wisconsin, from Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River and from the Illinois border all the way up to Lake Superior.

So

lots of

amazing things.

Yeah.

So I read, I was reading earlier, probably on your website, that building Old World Wisconsin sounded like such a huge endeavor.

It opened in 1976, but took 10 years to put together.

How has it evolved since it came out 1976 or open then the year of the bicentennial?

We're almost at 50 years.

How has it evolved since then, Dan?

Yeah, so our 50th anniversary is just around the corner next year.

But we're still adding things today.

So this past May, we opened up the Witt-Nables Tavern.

So that came from Old Ashopin, so a little bit north of the Conwalk, up 67.

And we've restored it after bringing it here from there.

And we showcase what it might have looked like, what it might have been like as a 1930s tavern, just prohibition here in Wisconsin.

That's great.

You have an actual working brewery on the grounds as I understand it now.

Tell us about that.

I would imagine that would be pretty popular with visitors.

So yeah, right up there with our tab and right next door.

It's been open a few years now.

We've got our brew house.

So amazing place when we're open in our summer seasons.

We're brewing beer in there every day that guests come.

Not only are we brewing that beer in the historic ways, we're able to then give a sample of those different beers to our guests.

I love it.

All right.

So October is a really fun month for you guys.

Can you tell us about legends and lore?

Yeah.

So it's my favorite event here.

So it's a little bit different from a lot of other kind of Halloween kind of themed events.

Whereas we try to do as much storytelling as we possibly can with it.

So there's

It's a place that you can come and hear many different stories, most of which are, you know, are legends and lore of a sort that are Wisconsin based.

So we'll tell the story of the Ridgway Ghost out from Southwestern Wisconsin.

We also tell the tale of the Beast of Bray Road, which is just down the road from us here outside of Elkhorn, amongst a lot of other different

things.

Some of these, I mean, I know kids are welcome, but just reading about this, Dan, a lot of this stuff seems incredibly like really creepy.

Do kids get scared or is it mostly for the

adults?

We like to talk about legends and lore where it's always spooky, sometimes scary.

So the thing I really like about it is it's not gory at all.

Yeah.

So.

We'll tell the stories of Baba Yaga and some other things.

So they're older stories, but they're spooky, but they're really, I'd like to say that we're usually in the G to PG range.

Okay.

Yeah, tell us about the tale of Baba Yaga.

It says a Slavic folktale of a supernatural, or the supernatural, an old woman who lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs.

That is really creepy.

Yeah.

And so, I mean, the story comes from

Germany and Austria.

So their their kind of fairy tales are known for being a little bit more spooky than than the fairy tales we might know from Disney today.

Sure.

How about the maze?

I love this Elantern lit walkthrough of the sorghum maze.

Yeah, so it's dark.

So

yeah,

so

we the

We use sorghum, which was another plant that was historically grown here in Wisconsin, especially around the 1900-1910s, that would have been used at that time to make sorghum syrup.

We still use it to make that today, so sweet syrup.

Yeah, you have a chance to walk through the maze using a lantern to kind of guide you through it in the dark.

My guest is Dan Hess here tonight representing the Old World Wisconsin Museum.

Dan is the Living History Coordinator and the General Manager of Experiences and Events, and he's telling us about all the cool stuff going on there.

This month leading up to Halloween, they have events October 17th and 18th, 24th and 25th.

Dan,

The other one I wanted to add.

Oh, the seance.

That sounds really cool.

Can you tell us about the Victorian seance?

Yeah, so seances are something that we don't often think about, but we're a very Victorian era thing.

So people historically did them quite a bit.

And I will say it's not a real seance.

Some guests might be happy to hear that, but

it is

a performance kind of talking about

what those things might have been like and kind of a bit of a bit of humor might be in it as well.

Oh, that's good.

How much time do people need, Dan?

Like, let's say a guy's got a wife and two kids, they roll up.

Can they spend the whole day there?

I mean, it sure sounds like they could.

But how much time should they carve out to really soak in kind of everything you guys are offering this month?

Yeah, so for legends and lore our gates open at 3 p.m.

Actually So guests can come in and we've got the grand opening of our closing barn cafe was last weekend grand reopening I should say So we're happy to have that so we've got food and beverages and you can take advantage of our retail store things like that get your dinner before you start at 3 o'clock and then

the grounds open up at 5.30 for the event.

And I really would suggest if you want to see everything to be here ready to go by 5.30.

We've got lots of different stuff going on for everyone.

That's great.

I want to ask you about a couple more of these things.

A 1930s haunted Halloween costume party at Wittnebel's Barn or I'm sorry Tavern.

What is that exactly?

So that's at the 1930s tavern that I was talking about.

So it's, we've kind of got, so the staff that'll be in there are in 1930s costumes and we'll have some 1930s kind of Halloween theme music playing things of that nature.

And we've got some historic cocktails that you can partake in as well.

And that's just people rolling up in costumes.

Like that's not.

The employees sort of putting on a show, that's everyone is welcome to come in and wear a costume and have a few cocktails.

Absolutely.

And whether it's for there or throughout the entire site, you're welcome to wear your costumes.

Absolutely.

Through all the searches for the hodag, how successful has Old World Wisconsin been looking for the hodag in the long tail trail?

Yeah, we seem to find him pretty often.

might take a little bit of hiking along the trail to be able to find them.

But we've got guides that are trained at finding them that'll be able to help you.

This sounds like so much fun.

How much is it to get in and where can people find tickets?

Like if someone wanted to bring their family, what would they be looking?

Is it reasonably priced or how does that work?

So you can find them at olderoldwisconsin.org.

I'm going to double check here.

But $22 for adults.

And it's a little bit less for children.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

This sounds so great, Dan.

I wish you luck.

And what anything else coming up at Old World or any of the other sites that you could tell us about as we get closer to the holidays once Halloween is passed?

Yeah, so we've got the first two weekends in December.

We'll also have our Home for the Holidays event.

So another great event that we have here.

in our village area that showcases not only Christmas, but takes a look at some of the other holidays around that time of year, whether it's St.

Nicholas Day or New Year's or Boxing Day or Hanukkah or things like that.

So we look at all those different holidays around that time.

and share how people celebrated those back in the 1800s.

Sounds like people should just go to oldworldwisconsin.org and check it out for themselves and see everything you guys have to offer, because it's pretty impressive.

Absolutely.

Before we let you get out of here, Dan, I got to ask you, if you're binge watching anything, what does a living history coordinator like to watch on TV at home when you put your feet up?

Oh, gosh.

I'll be honest my wife and I have been watching Dancing with the Stars lately on Tuesday nights, but British Bake Off is pretty fun as well.

And then I think one of my favorite shows though in regards to living history type things though is it's called a Victorian Farm and it's a BBC actually show.

But you can find it on YouTube in a few other different places, but it's one of my favorite looking at the 1800s.

Whatever you can watch that brings you and your spouse together, I'm in favor of.

That's TV watching time is very precious.

So good luck with that.

Thank you, Dan, so much for taking the time out.

And maybe we'll see you down there this October.

Who knows?

But have a great month down there at Old World Wisconsin.

Thank you so much.

You got it.

All right.

That's Dan Hess folks.

Check out old world at Wisconsin.

Go to oldworldwisconsin.org and man, lose yourself in everything they have going on there at this month.

Cause it's a pretty impressive lot going on.

Conrad, I think we should organize like a night light bus tour.

Okay.

I want to go to that costume party.

I'm not kidding.

And I want to see the chicken legs.

I don't know.

Something yummy.

I'll tell you that.

Literally something yummy.

That was really creepy.

I didn't even mean for it to sound like that.

Mark in Prairie to Sack, that's the 608 says, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.

And if you say it loud enough, you're always precocious.

Very well done, Mark.

I like how you worked that in there, buddy.

Great text.

Steve from Florida, that's Conrad's dad says, favorite word, inspirational, least favorite, behind.

You think your dad means like trailing or

behind in work maybe.

Reference to the butt or

something?

I don't know.

The behind.

Behind

is what it would be.

You say it a little differently.

That's true.

Behind.

Don't get left behind.

All right, that works.

Thank you.

You got touched

in the behind.

Thank you, Steve.

John Murray from Madison in the 608 says scrumptious is a pretty word.

I like that word too.

Yeah.

John also says I watched my Saturday morning cartoons on a 12-inch black and white TV.

It was still a miracle box to me.

Very well said.

You didn't know any better either then, John.

It's like, yeah, we took whatever.

People used to love to listen to the radio, so.

Very, very well done.

We've got a couple more texts we'll read after this, and I'm going to finish my college basketball player quiz, folks.

It's night light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

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Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabbo.

We're in the home stretch here, folks.

So we just got another update on the Brewer game from Conrad's dad, who says the Brewer's are.

I see what he did there behind.

Come on, Brewer's.

Good luck, Steve.

And nice tie-in.

Nice callback.

Yesterday, we talked about our favorite grouches.

That was our question of the day.

And our civic media pal, Tony Zimmerman, said Pat Kratlow, our morning host here on the network.

And I didn't know, I didn't see this until today, but Pat Kratlow put a GIF, a GIF of Oscar the Grouch, which I thought was well done.

Thank you, Pat.

And then our pal, Robert Dennis, Bob Dennis, the mafia expert who lives here in Green Bay, said his favorite grouch is Mr. Costanza and also posted a picture of him saying, I got a lot of

problems with you

people.

Well done, Bob.

All right.

So I think,

We've got, oh I don't like to miss text Conrad, you know that.

What was your favorite Diane Keaton flick?

Andrea Makova, I don't know her, I don't think, but on Facebook she said, this is my favorite, some things gotta give.

Okay.

Thank you Andrea, thank you for listening and thank you for the text.

We always post our question of the day on social media folks, so you can go there and respond if you can't listen to the show, we still read them on the air.

Daniel Wheeler says, my beef with the letter H when placed behind a P, we get a new sound.

Like as in photo, when placed behind an S, we get a new sound as in should, but when placed behind an R, we get nothing.

Where's my rhythm and rhyme in that?

Daniel Wheeler is a very cerebral guy.

Mike Desatel says, my favorite word used to be gullible, but it's no longer in the dictionary.

Is that true?

My least favorite word is onomatopoeia.

I always forget how to spell it, so I can't look it up.

I would not know how to spell that either, Mike, but I think you did.

Pretty good job.

All right, let's finish our quiz con before we get out of here.

I took a college basketball player quiz.

I believe you're five for 11 right now.

One, two, three.

No, we got through 12, so you're four,

five.

Five for 12?

Yeah.

Yeah,

all right.

And burger, burger, Irving.

Burger, no.

Burger, B-I-R-G-I-R Irving was not a college basketball

player.

No, it was.

Oh, it was?

Yeah, you got that

one right.

I got that one right, okay.

Here's another one.

I love number 13 The fat fat brook speaking of Daniel's text fat fat Brooks PHAT PHAT I'll say yes Wow,

correct.

That's just too weird

six for 12 We're

in a good way though.

I like I love the name dunk Tyson.

I Wish that was

real and max defender love it

You have to be an athlete.

Yeah, it has.

Yeah, you could you could be a basketball player or?

Cornerback feel like you could be a

baseball player

to an infielder.

Yeah, good soccer defender.

Number 14.

Cookie Boogie Rivers.

That's real.

It is not.

No.

Damn.

I think I did a good job of creating.

You did.

Fat, fat Brooks.

No, that was real, too.

OK.

All right.

This one's weird.

Chuck hair.

Yes.

Wow.

Who does he play for?

You know, honestly, I didn't even, I, a lot of these players play for like D2 colleges

or something like that.

This all could be made up.

No, it's not.

Actually, I have a, I can look this up quick.

I have a

picture.

I'm just saying I wouldn't have known.

That I took today and he plays for Holy Cross.

Okay.

That's a real school

And if you're wondering where burger plays he plays for high point

I've never heard of that school

And I think you you asked where Tennessee rainwater.

Yeah, we're Tennessee rainwater.

Love that name

lay man.

Yeah

That's a college.

Yeah, that's like pride at Juco and upper Wyoming But hey, he says still qualifies.

All right last last one on the quiz go for it.

Dr. Bradley.

Yes

Is that right?

Oh, baby.

All right.

So I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight out of 16.

Dr. Bradley plays for Bethune Cookman.

Bethune Cookman.

Yeah.

All right.

So if I'm shooting threes and I'm eight for 16, that's

pretty good.

You know, you did well.

We're going to the dance, baby.

I thought you'd do worse, to be honest.

Thank

you.

How long is the Meet the Parents clip?

We got time.

Let's fire that up.

Let's go out on a laugh.

Meet the Parents drop this week, but here is a clip from my writing partner, Greg Leana's Meet the Parents, which started a franchise, his little independent movie.

Let's hear that.

You really have a beautiful home

here.

Oh, thank you.

I've always prided myself in being able to provide my family with a very nice home to live in.

We're going to have a lovely home too, Daddy.

Having a family means being responsible with money.

You agree

with that, don't you?

Oh, yes, sir.

I totally agree with that sir.

I've I've always believed Penny saved is a penny earned Did I say something

Daddy's mother's name was penny and he keeps her ashes in an urn