Thursday Night Thrills(Hour 1)

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Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Conrad, what night is it?

It's Thursday, which means it's a Christmas Eve of weekdays.

Damn right, sister.

It's a great night.

It's a Thursday, ladies and gentlemen.

You're almost there.

The weekend is right around the corner.

All you have left in front of you is Friday.

It's fantastic.

And in the meantime,

to Segway from Thursday to Friday.

You got nightlight.

We're gonna talk about some really fun stuff tonight.

Great to have you here.

Wherever you're joining us from around the beautiful state of Wisconsin, it is absolutely great to have you because it is a beautiful night.

You've got lots of cool stuff happening this weekend, which is right around the corner.

Did I mention that?

And we've got a fun show.

Fun guests.

Fun discussion fun topics phone lines are always open.

You can always let us know what's on your mind folks throughout the course of the show Love to hear from you guys and it makes the show that much more fun.

How you doing today con?

I'm doing good.

Yeah

You know, it's it's it's a little chilly.

So I I Did something that made me a little sad today.

Oh, no, what's that?

I turned on the heat First time first time is

that right?

Yeah, I've been you know waiting cuz my electric bill has been

pretty low since I haven't had to use AC or heat.

That is a sweet spot, isn't it?

It's perfect.

Yeah.

It's like the only thing that's going on is lights, you know, the fridge and my TV.

I'm totally with you.

What do you know what your bills are for like electricity when you or when you use your heat, let's say, you know, one bedroom apartment, that's not crushing.

No, but it goes up, I would say by like 20 bucks or somewhere on there.

Okay.

But it was nice.

I was only paying like 45 bucks this past month.

So you pay 45 bucks even when you don't use heat or AC?

Yeah.

Oh, you don't have AC, right?

You have a wall unit?

I

have

a wall unit.

But that eats

up.

I would say when you have it off and then you turn it on and you're just trying to catch up, that's when it goes bonkers.

We have like a gas fireplace and I've been using that but it's so like cozy I almost look for excuses to turn it on like some nights I'll leave the sliding doors open so I get a breeze and get chilly and then I'll turn on the horribly not energy efficient at all but it's all about the ambiance and I love getting home at night and especially like tonight there's a game on I'll probably turn the game on if it's close turn on my fireplace that's not too bad

And then I'll probably throw on a movie or something, but what's the game is a was it Pittsburgh tonight and no, it's no it's Vikings

and Chargers tonight.

Oh

That's

a good one.

Yeah, Aaron Jones is back from injury

for the Vikings.

Yeah, okay How do we feel about Thursday night football?

I love Thursday night football.

Yeah, me too

It's it's a sweet spot because you get like two days off and then it goes back.

It's like

our days off

I'm ready for the weekend now, you know after Thursday night football

It's like, it's like, that's, if Thursday is the Christmas Eve of weeknights, NFL football on a Thursday is like Santa on his way.

And I know the players don't like it.

A lot of the commentators say Thursday night football sucks because these guys are sore.

They've had two or three days off whatever it is.

I get that, but selfishly as a fan.

A lot of times I won't even turn it off.

It's two dogs.

I'm not going to watch that, but like this is a pretty good game tonight.

And I always like watching NFC North teams, too.

I'd say Thursday night football is one of my favorite days of football.

And then Sunday.

OK.

Not Monday?

Monday is the least favorite, I'd say.

Yeah.

That's usually the worst game, too.

At least he puts the good games on Sunday night.

And Thursday night, you're not going to mess with Jeff Bezos.

You're going to put a good game

on.

This past Monday, the game started at 9 PM.

Oh, yeah, there's two of them, right?

Yeah, there was

two last week.

So people like, you know, on the East Coast, that starts at 10 for them.

Right.

I bet employers love that.

So yeah, so that'll be interesting.

Hey, folks, if you are, we're going to pivot and go from the gridiron to book fest.

It starts today, folks.

The Wisconsin Book Festival is happening in Madison tonight through the 26th.

Bringing together authors and readers of all ages and all interests.

Are you a reader, Conn?

I would say I'm more of a listener, but I do like some books, too.

I'm

trying to get back in and being a reader.

It's tough.

I think I like an audiobook.

Yeah.

A lot of people do.

If I, see, I wish, if I lived in Madison, I would go to this hoping it would motivate me to

read

more

because I was

a reader and I at some point that fell off.

But don't miss out on New York Times best sellers, Jane Hamilton or Mary Roach.

They will be in Madison alongside dozens of others as they gather for readings and conversations around their writing.

And it's all happening right now.

If you want more information, if you need motivation, a kick in the butt to go start reading again like I do,

Go to civicmedia.com.

There's more information there about BookFest, a really cool thing happening to me.

Do we have a BookFest in Green Bay?

No, I don't

think so.

Who do we talk to about this?

Jim

Schmidt?

Maybe we make our own Nightlight BookFest.

Oh, I like that.

And we, and you are sitting, reading to everyone.

And we keep all the profits.

I'm thinking a covered charge, a hundred bucks a person.

As Steve Martin used to say, one show, goodbye.

So that's happening.

And we've got a great show tonight, folks.

Two really fun guests.

It's Thursday.

That means we make the popcorn pick of the week tonight and we give you, heading into the weekend, a great movie suggestion from our guest.

And making the popcorn pick of the week tonight will be Jason Mansmith of the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.

Jason's been on the show before.

He's part of the Civic Media family.

And if you haven't been to the Thrasher, you gotta check it out, but we'll talk more about that with Jason.

He's gonna make the pick tonight.

He's a theater guy.

Opera House Guy, but he watches some colored television, goes to the movies.

We'll get the pick from Jason and you can do what you want with that pick.

But typically we've been batting, our batting average the last few weeks has been outstanding with the popcorn picks.

So I have no doubt Jason will make a good pick tonight.

And then at 735, I am happy to welcome from Chicken or the Egg Photography, Chris Rogowski will be here.

We're gonna talk about comedies.

Chris is also a musician.

We're gonna talk about upcoming dates he's got.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

That's at 735.

Lots of fun here tonight on Nightlight.

We got a great question.

I have to get this.

This drove me crazy.

I do these Hollywood beats here at Civic Media.

They play at the bottom of the hour, typically.

you know, common through entertainment stuff.

And there's a lot of stuff in entertainment I like reading about.

I love reading about the art part of entertainment.

Movies, TV shows, I'm a big binge watcher.

I love movies.

I love comedy, music.

It's this nonsense that comes out like from these gossip rags that drives me crazy.

And you see headlines like today on E, from E News.

This was on Yahoo Entertainment.

The headline was Khloe Kardashian shares a surprising update on her sex life.

I think when we have headlines like that, that's when America really started to go downhill.

I find that like so dumb.

Now, my job here at Civic Media is to write Hollywood beats, so I try to make funny stuff sometimes, and that's why I read it and I wrote a beat about it.

So that cracked me up.

But then they use phrases like, she spilled major tea.

And all it was was like the season premiere of the Kardashians.

And she's telling one of the other people on camera that she hasn't had sex in three years, which I doubt, but okay.

And then it just so happens, her sister has a libido gummy line.

They are shameless product talkers.

So it's do it that way you want folks, if your libido is lacking.

Or if you want to be better at sex with or without a partner take a Kardashian gummy apparently that's the That's the rule there.

That's what they were going for.

So this is a national croc day.

We have the phone card Yes, sorry you making some long-distance calls over there.

Yeah to London But this was kind of it's national crocs day.

Yes, you know, I don't a pair of those.

I have a pair of crocs

Sadly there, I wore them and now they're all sticky.

So

I

haven't worn them since then.

I don't have a garden hose.

I don't have a garden hose.

I

think it's sticky.

The popsicles in them or something or what?

I honestly kind of forgot why they got sticky, but maybe they... I don't know.

I should probably wash them

off, but I love my crocs.

I never, this is kind of, it's not embarrassing.

Like I never thought I'd be a croc guy.

When I saw him the first time, I thought they were the stupidest thing ever.

I'm like, who would ever wear those?

And I was not on the croc train until about four years ago and I backed into it.

Like I didn't, it still was something I would never wear, but I took the garbage out one night.

My son had a pair because he's like your age and

you guys

don't care.

You don't have that.

Hey, these are silly.

You guys are all more about comfort,

which I

admire about your generation.

But I put the crocs on and I took the garbage out and I was like, wow, this is like a vacation for my feet right now.

This is pretty impressive.

And then my son wanted nothing to do, he's like, yeah, whatever.

So I took him.

Now I own a pair of crocs.

I have come 360.

I own my own crocs.

And I don't even know how I feel about that.

Whenever I see someone, I always make the joke.

I say, hey, do me a favor.

Don't tell anybody you saw me wearing crocs.

which just calls more attention to it.

But do you put them in a four wheel?

Sport

mode.

That's four wheel, I think.

Sport?

Who is it?

That's when you put the hook, the strap on the back of your ankles, correct?

What's the one that's in, you know, in the front position?

Isn't that sport?

I don't know.

Like maybe a week into Bernie's mode or something.

You're kind of chilling.

I don't know.

That's a good question.

You know, I used to work at a shoe store at Champs.

Yeah.

You don't realize how many crocs we would sell there.

So what's the deal?

I get why people wear them, you slip them on.

That, to me, is the most appealing thing.

Yeah, I mean, some kids liked it for the giblets.

Those little things you could put in the crocs.

Oh, decorate them?

Those are called giblets.

This

keeps getting worse and worse.

Yeah, so kids like it with that, they can decorate their shoe how they like it, but also comfort.

And one of the major crocs that we sold was, cause it's cold here, you know?

We had fur lined crocs.

And wife is a pair of

those.

And those things, let's just say, are heaven on feet.

See, I do,

are heaven on feet.

I do moccasins.

I got some big furry moccasins at home.

So, and those are a little more home friendly, I think, than crocs with the fur, but my wife loves her furry crocs.

There's... Yeah, I had a pair and, you know, they kind of got wrecked, but I haven't bought a new pair yet.

We're gonna talk more about this, but right now we need to get to our night light question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Question.

Questions.

What is something you wish...

You were better at.

It's all about self-improvement.

That's what we do here nightly on Nightlight, folks.

What is something you wish you were better at?

Let us know on the text line at 855-752-484-2855-75 civic, or you can text us on the app, civic media app, download it today.

It's very easy to use.

There is no, it is free, right Conrad?

That is correct.

All right.

Very unlike our book fest that we will throw here in Green Bay.

That's going to cost major dollars.

But yeah, download the Civic Media app.

Or if you're listening on the stream or watching the radio, drop us a stream comment and let us know what is something you wish you were better at.

I'm going to say right now, and you know what?

I'm going to do a tease count.

I'm going to hold on now.

I'm going to tell you after this break.

See, that's what I created that, you know, in radio.

You created the tease.

I

can't even say that one straight.

I've been doing radio two years.

Okay, so we're coming back and I want to know the answer to your questions, folks.

What is something you wish you were better at?

Two great guests tonight.

Fun question.

Lots more coming up.

Crock talk throughout the show.

You do not want to turn that dial or that app or whatever.

Stay with us.

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You know, there's all the big stuff.

Like, obviously, I wish I was more handy.

But...

I realize I never clean out my email box or my voice messages.

I probably have a thousand voice messages on my phone.

Thank God, if they limited it to like 50, I would clean it out.

But maybe the problem is they don't put limits on it.

It's like a memory thing or something.

But yeah, I need to be better at that.

I've got so much junk mail, though I can't bring myself to go through it.

All I get basically in my email now, my main email is junk.

Or ads, that's probably 80% of it.

What about

you?

I would say I wish I was better at, you know, being creative in the kitchen kind of, like cooking.

Yeah.

I'd say like, I can make food, but it's not the best.

So I wish I was better at cooking.

Well, you

got time.

I

mean, who's a great chef at your age?

I mean, give me a break, right?

Gordon Ramsay, probably.

Doubt it.

That's a good one.

Cook at home more and be better at that.

Yeah, I wish I was and the obvious one for me is I wish I was more handy because my dad can rewire stuff fix plumbing He fixed up our whole house wherever we've gone He's changed every room put drywall up all this stuff a guy can do everything guess how much he taught me Conrad Nothing

yeah,

I was the hold the flashlight guy basically no I wish I was more handy and I could have been more proactive about that But I'm gonna say just on a day-to-day basis.

I wish my

email box was cleaner and my messages,

you know I will say all that to mine as well and just say I wish that I could you know kind of control my binge eating habits sometimes like or you know portion out stuff like I feel like I'll eat like like the classic thing we always say like you can't just have two cookies or whatever or

one piece of

pizza exactly

just probably all you

need you take one bite and you're like I could eat yeah I could eat a lot of these right now so I wish I could just be like all right

Just to you know, I'm done

But like are there people out there that I'm gonna have one piece of pizza a salad a glass of water and one cookie for no I These people don't exist as far as I'm concerned.

I eat pizza till I can't move anymore.

Yeah, I feel like you know It's just all about portion control.

Yeah, and sometimes like all of some chips and then you over eat the chips and then you

Feel bad.

Chips are the worst too.

Yes.

Chips and cookies.

There's like no nutrition.

That Kardashian article I was talking about before.

Yeah.

It said, I love at the top of the articles they'll say, three minute read, two minute read, like to let you know ahead of time how much time you're gonna spend.

This was supposed to be an eight minute read.

And I'm not kidding, it was four paragraphs.

I think they're just pointing to their audience.

Maybe, or themselves.

They had to go back and reread some sentences.

It

would take the dunce, Kardashian's son, eight minutes to read this.

That was just so crazy.

I don't know, how do people feel?

The Crocs is almost like a sub question tonight, because that could have been a question too.

Yes.

I do like talking about Crocs because I don't get them, but I own them and I like them.

I'm very conflicted about the Crocs.

But it is Thursday, folks.

The popcorn pick of the week is happening in about 10 minutes.

Jason Mansmith from the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake will be here.

He is also part of the Civic Media family, which will be exciting to have him here on the show.

He's been here before.

And then Chris Rogowski, local musician and photographer from Chicken or the Egg Photography is also a sponsor of the show, coincidentally enough.

And Chris will be here at 735.

So lots of good stuff happening.

I don't know where to go here because...

I had so much stuff.

I needed to get off my chest.

I'm getting a new roof today.

You probably haven't lived through this yet,

but

it's the first time I've ever had a new roof.

And I'm like, well, I turned on the fireplace this morning and I'm like, oh, I'm just gonna sit here and read it.

A friend of mine sent me a script.

I'm gonna read the script.

It's like World War II is happening on your roof.

It's very nerve-wracking because we have skylights.

I'm like, one of these guys is gonna fall through the skylights on me or

It's terrifying, like the noise.

So I'm a little on edge tonight.

I think you should be fine.

If I get jumpy, just, you know.

Well, there's no

skylights in here, Pete.

All right.

So you don't have to worry here.

It's a ripoff, man.

We should have skylights.

We got the big window right here, though.

A

skylight would go through like seven.

Seven floors.

Are you surprised we haven't seen more craziness in this window?

I mean, I've been flashed twice.

Yes.

And then, frankly, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more if people are listening.

I welcome that sort of thing.

No, I am surprised like more great like people puking or whatever because there's bars here, right?

Yeah,

I don't know.

Maybe I'll walk by, you know, once.

Why don't you just go outside

and vomit?

Would it kill you?

What is your, what is something you wish you were better at on social media?

Dan Davies, our pal Dan says, semi-nude kitten juggling.

Is this Dan the semi-nude or the kitten?

Please clarify that.

Only the kittens, oh, see, I'd get ahead of myself.

People oftentimes answer.

He says, only the kittens are semi-nude.

I'm wearing lime green Speedos.

No kittens or Speedos for that matter are hurt in this stunt.

I've heard to read that dance, so I don't know if I believe that.

Mike on social media, Mike Dasatel says answering your questions.

That's very funny.

Did Mike put the Laffy emoji under that comment?

Can you check that out?

Never did it himself.

Never coming on the show again.

Tim Baker says, nunchucks.

You wish you could stop doing nunchucks.

You know, that would be pretty cool to be better at, you know?

It would be.

My kids learned those when they were younger, when they did all this martial arts stuff.

I'd be curious to know if they remember anything about

it.

I saw who liked it, and it was the guy behind the guy.

Behind the guy.

Oh, JB.

He's dead to me.

Amanda Nimmer from WGBW, our social media guru says understanding finances, mortgages, escrows, taxes, et cetera.

It's like a whole other language I can't grasp.

That's another great one.

I suspect we'll hear more of that throughout the course of the show.

Let us know folks, what do you want to get better at?

Text, call, just get ahold of us one way or the other.

When we come back after the news, Jason Mansmith from the Thrasher Opera House will be here to make the popcorn pick of the week.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wobble.

We're coming right back.

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, Pete Schwabba.

All right, welcome back.

It is the Christmas Eve of weeknights, and there is a Conrad, there is a Meatloaf tribute concert.

Oh, that's fun.

Yeah, that's where I just saw a bunch of teachers out there, and they said we're going to Meatloaf, and I thought it was a bunch of teachers getting together to go have Meatloaf.

Hot look?

Yeah, exactly, or casserole of some sort, but they're going to a tribute concert.

So that will be our nightlight window of fun.

We'll be a bunch of teachers who are pretty wound up about making a tribute to Meatloaf, which I can totally understand.

Right now, folks, this is exciting.

It's Thursday.

One of my favorite nights of the week.

easily top five.

And we make our popcorn pick of the week.

Every Thursday here with a special guest and joining us here tonight on Nightlight to make the popcorn pick of the week is our pal Jason Mansmith.

He is the director of marketing at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.

If you have not been, I highly recommend it.

It is a quaint, intimate, really cool venue.

And Jason does an amazing job and he joins us now over the stream.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, bud.

How you doing?

Thanks so much for having me on this highlight of the

week.

Pleasure is all mine.

How are things going for you?

Are you still part of the civic media family?

You bet.

I love that.

I just wrapped up a show a couple of, about an hour and a half or so ago, so.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Always a

fun time.

Yeah.

Do you want to tell people about it before we jump into some movie talk here?

Well,

sure.

I mean, I always got to promote that, right?

So

join me each and every weekday afternoon on 93.1, the wave in ripping.

AM 1600 and got all kinds of great music for you from three PM until five PM.

So happy to be in bed on that.

So station coming up on 30 years next month.

You can believe it.

Yeah.

That is fantastic.

Yeah.

Pretty special.

You have quite the life there running a very cool venue and, uh, and now you got a show.

It's just, uh, that's a good life, bud.

Yeah, I better clarify.

I

do not run the venue by any means.

I didn't mean to insist.

If Jason's boss is listening, that's not what he told me.

Our

executive director, Rachel, is an absolute rock star and we've got a wonderful team out there in Thrasher.

We're just really, really excited and we got a lot of really, really exciting things to talk about with you tonight.

Yeah, we'll do all that.

And I did say you're a director of marketing when I brought you on.

So hopefully that doesn't get you in trouble.

No.

All right.

Fantastic.

So let's talk movies.

Yes.

Do you, how do you like to watch movies, Jason?

Are you a theater guy?

Are you a stream at home guy?

A little bit of

both.

You know, there's been some area upgrades in theaters around the area here, mainly in Fondlack and things like that down in the southern part of the valley.

But where I'm at in Ripon is actually the first Marcus theater amongst the entire company was here.

Yeah.

So.

we have that in our downtown.

So I've been able to dip into a lot of different spots.

But I also do like grabbing something from the streaming service or whatever and checking it on that way too because it's super comfortable and snacks are close, right?

Absolutely.

That's a great answer.

I always prefer going to the theater to whenever possible, but you're right.

It's I watch a lot more movies.

It's just easier to watch them at home because they're right at your fingertips and I can jam through, you know, five or 10 movies a week and I'm not going to the theater that often, but I do prefer the theater.

What are your favorite kind of movies?

Do you have a

genre

you prefer?

You know, I'm kind of the comedy guy more than anything, but then I do like some of those suspenseful dramas.

or even kind of borderline, not horror, but just, you know, kind of in that where you're constantly thinking.

Like something's going to be, you know, what's coming up next or what's going to look like.

So yeah, those are kind of my favorite ones in there.

And, you know, I'm a sucker for a good musical and a really good documentary too.

Oh, wow.

Oh, good.

Nice, very taste there.

That's impressive.

I like that.

I like the caper stuff too and a good mystery as opposed to horror, but you said horror.

And this is kind of the horror season.

Do you have, and if it's your popcorn pick of the week, don't give it to us yet.

But if there's another horror film you like or something, we could talk about that a little bit too.

Do you like the slasher films or more like just the jump scares?

Probably more the jump scares than anything in my popcorn pick of the week is going to be a horror film.

But I'll give you

another one that I do really, really like.

And it's a remake.

and it's 20 years old, and you think about the guy that's in it who's going on to star in way bigger films, but Ryan Reynolds was in The Amityville Horror from 2005.

They

re-did that one.

It was so good.

Really?

So good.

Yeah, I enjoyed the heck out of it.

So that's one of my favorite ones, to be honest with you.

Okay.

What about the shining?

Did you see

the shining?

Yeah,

always.

Who

hasn't?

Yeah, it's kind of a silly question.

But I guess one that just to this day, there are scenes in that movie that scare me to my core.

It's and not even the parts like where he's chasing Shelley DeVall or his son or whatever.

It's just those like that one that's seen where he's in the men's room and the ball is happening outside and the men's room attendant is like a ghost or whatever and talking to him and that haunting music.

It's so creepy and so

well

done.

Yeah, another Stephen King one that I really really like these pet cemetery.

I don't know if you ever saw that

I have not seen pet cemetery.

No,

it's got Fred Gwyn in it who played Herman Munster for the month Yeah, that's awesome.

It's really good really good kind of suspenseful thing too.

All right,

that's fantastic So what do you have a favorite movie snack Jays?

Well, how do you say no to popcorn, right?

I mean, that's you know the classic the classic but

gummy worms or gummy bears are also another a good one you know when you drop those they don't make as many sounds as the Skittles

very strategic

not rolling

down the hill yeah exactly I was at the movies about I don't know 15 years ago with my son and he goes to get a snack and he bought he bought some nerd ropes

and

that cracked me I'd never heard of those before I'm like

What are those?

And he like blushed and looked embarrassed.

They're delicious, I have to say.

I just think it's a funny thing.

So do you, does your snack choice, Jason, change from theater to home?

Like let's say you're at home, you got a great movie on your, on your mind, you're going to kick your feet up.

Do you make something special or a pizza or so?

Do you change it up a little bit?

Not too often.

It's usually popcorn everywhere, actually, when when the movies go down.

A frequent popcorn eater.

I do like it.

So that's awesome.

It's an easy snack and always around the house.

So

absolutely.

Jason Mansmith is my guest.

He is the marketing director at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.

Absolutely.

Check it out.

We'll give you an idea of what's coming up there shortly after we make our popcorn pick of the week.

Do you have a Jason?

Do you have a movie cocktail?

Do you like to make a cocktail at home?

Not really.

So, you know, I

Not much of a drinker, so I'm going to probably err on the side of like a sparkling water, maybe a bubbler or something like that.

OK, that's a good.

What about drugs?

Do you have a drug you like to take when you're watching movies?

Not really, but I mean.

I guess

I'm open to try if we can do it.

Right.

You

give us a movie tonight.

I'll recommend a good drug for you to just kind of sit.

That was good.

What a deal.

Right.

Who knew I was going to be a part of the show tonight.

So have you ever brought booze into the theater?

Was there a time like when you're a teen where you do that?

Not

not booze into the theater.

But did we smuggle in some snacks and some other things?

You know.

Jolt soda back in the day.

You bet, man.

That is for sure.

We did smuggle some of that in.

Sure.

I think

that's part of the ritual, right?

That's just part of growing up and got to smuggle a little bit.

Absolutely.

I forgot about Jolt.

Jolt soda.

But you're almost expected to sneak candy or snacks.

And I think when you're a kid, you know, even though you're not financially conscious, just as a frugal way to be.

How do you feel about previews, Jason?

You like the previews or you do like the previews?

I've actually

found a couple of the movies that I wanted to.

to really, really see based upon the previews.

And I think the one that pops to my mind the most is when that Dylan one came on a complete unknown, like I think it was really part of last year, right?

I saw the preview for that.

I'm like, oh, I kind of want to see that one.

Sure.

So have I

seen it yet?

No, I have not, but I will.

He would have crushed a thrash or opera house.

That's a great venue for Bobby D. Do you have a favorite actor?

Speaking of Dylan, like Timothy Chalamet played Bob Dylan.

I thought he did a really good job.

Do you have an actor that, like that actor that is enough to get you to go to a movie?

Samuel Jackson for sure.

That is my God.

I'm a huge Pulp Fiction fan, right?

I love that movie a lot in it, but a lot of the other things that he does too.

are just so good.

So, yeah, that's one of my favorite ones for sure is Samuel L. Jackson.

Great choice.

Are you a Tarantino fan by nature in addition to Pulp Fission?

I think, you know, yeah, reservoir dogs I got into, right?

And then a few of the other ones, Jango Unchained, right?

I liked that one that was good too.

So I wouldn't say a big Tarantino fan, but yeah,

some of the ones I do enjoy.

Oh, some of the stuff he's done.

Yeah, you can't deny.

It's just a great watch.

Um, what do you do in theaters?

Jason, when people are too loud, do you say something?

You call the cops?

No, I don't.

Usually I just deal with it.

I'm a pacifist.

I don't like to make too much.

Not even a look.

Not even that.

Not even a

look.

Okay.

You know, comments in my head, but that's about it.

You never know what you're dealing with.

Anyway, you're probably better up.

Um,

What, uh, so what, what about like, who do you like to go to movies with?

Like, do you have a, you know, a spouse, a partner, a group?

Yeah.

I think the last couple of months have been with my significant other and then, uh, you know, some families and friends.

So yeah, that's always a good thing to do.

We don't, you don't get on as much as often as we'd like to, but

sure

it's good.

That's great.

Okay.

I think my

nephew is huge into movies.

So he's five.

So, you know, we watch

a little bit

different movies then.

you know, than others.

But yeah, so those are

good.

Do you have a favorite kids movie?

Because some of them are great.

Like some of them, when my kids were young, I'll still watch them if they're on.

You know, I think I really my first real good kid movie that I liked a lot was Aladdin.

Remember when that came out

in the

90s?

Robin Williams in it and all the other things.

And that was really good.

But like off is good.

You know, some of

those other

animated ones, too.

So yeah, I dig them

for sure.

I love it.

All right, Jason Mansmith, director of marketing at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.

I think it is time to get Jason's popcorn pick of the week.

So Conrad, if you please.

What do you got, buddy?

My pick of the week, Tucker and Dale versus Evil

is a

great horror movie from 2010.

It's a comedy horror.

Oh, I love those.

know right and it's it's kind of spoofing off every other horror movie that's out there and kind of including the same thing so you know there's this group of college girls and then you know things happen and then they're always hiding out in the open you know where anybody can find you kind of thing but it's written differently this group of kind of like hillbillies were mistaken for killers by a group of the college girls and it just it's hilariously

funny and

it's a great kind of

spoof off of the horror movie.

So yeah, Tucker and Dale versus evil from 2010.

I would highly recommend that one.

There is a little bit of slasher in it.

I'll

be

honest with you, but you can get through it.

It's humorous.

If I could say that humorous slasher.

So

it's sometimes it's not as bad when when there's slasher elements, if it is funny, especially if they're trying to be funny with the slashing, you know, yeah, for sure on that.

Well, I

highly recommend it.

Get it on and check it out.

I got it right here and I'm pulling it up on IMDb and I can see that, oh, not a big marquee name cast.

No.

I like that too.

I find for me, it's easier to lose myself in a movie when there aren't huge movie stars in it.

You know, you can kind of get into it more.

That's a great pick.

Jason Mansmith just chose Tucker and Dale versus Evil from 2010.

It is rated our comedy horror.

Have you ever seen Fright Night?

Yes.

That's a fun one too.

and April Fool's Day.

I don't know if you ever saw that one.

I think Biff from Back to the Future is in that.

And he's really funny.

And it's just a good mix of comedy and scary stuff.

So great pick, Jason.

I think Jason is going to tell us what's coming up the thrasher after a very short break here.

And our question of the night, folks, is name something you wish you were better at?

I say cleaning out my emails and phone messages.

Conrad says cooking.

There are people that have said finance stuff.

The sky is the limit.

Give us your answer.

I will read your text on the radio.

And maybe we'll find out what it is for Jason, too, when we come back on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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Our question of the night is, what is something you wish you were better at?

Could be anything from juggling to cooking to finances We've heard some great or or like Dan Davies cat juggling semi-nude cat juggling Right now our pal Jason Mansmith is with us on the stream He is the marketing director at the Thrasher opera house in Green Lake So Jason for people who haven't been there.

Tell us give us a little background about the thrasher

Yeah,

absolutely.

So our historic Copper House was built in 1910 by Charlie Thrasher.

That's where the name comes

in.

It's not a skateboarding magazine, which a lot of people maybe think that it might be.

But yeah, so Charlie has this great idea of providing a gathering point for the community to, you know, show silent movies at the time or just to get people together.

So he had that vision to build that and he did so.

And then it was

Well, it kind of went away for a little bit.

And thankfully, the community rallied in the late 1990s to purchase it and to renovate it and to open it back up in 1997.

And they've been hosting shows in the historic Thrasher Opera House since then.

That first year in 1997, they did three events.

This past year in 2024, we did 89 events.

So we have grown tremendously.

Over that amount of time and we are excited about some new things that are going to be coming to the thrasher opera house Not exactly to the opera house specifically, but to our offices into the space directly next to the facility

That's cool.

And I think you told me last time you were here the capacity.

It's it's a very intimate venue, right?

Yeah, uh 200 seats is what we have for you if we do a standing show.

It's no more than 300

25 I think.

Wow.

And then we do some cocktail sitting as well.

So we do shows with just, you know, 80 seats or a little bit less.

So we really have the flexibility and the versatility to kind of set the show how we like it.

And you know, if we have some newcomers to the area, maybe we're not going to, you know, see 200 tickets out of that, because a lot of people made me know them.

We're able to set that room for a little bit smaller, still make it feel comfortable for everything.

But we can open it up too if we need to.

That's fantastic.

Did you have Mary Mack there recently?

We had Mary here about

a year and a half ago,

I believe.

Oh, was it that

long ago?

Yeah, she was in on that.

Maybe last summer too, I think it might have been.

Yeah, about a year ago last summer.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

She was on the show and I remember she was talking about a date She had I can't remember if it was the first time she was on or or afterwards but Did you tell me this last time you were here?

I'm only asking because Halloween is coming up and I'm trying to keep people away from the theater But is there a haunted element to the thrasher?

Yeah, there is I think so I did some ghost hunting with a fellow civic media colleague and Lisa Hale as well.

So

really

Yeah, she's been down there to do some investigating with us as well on it.

So it's

There's some elements of it for sure, like most theaters haunted is always.

Can you give us like an example or something?

I personally have not experienced anything in there.

But when we were there, we just had some things they call paranormal for a reason, right?

Because it's not some things that did occur, you know, just some things that we maybe heard, things like that.

But yeah, for the most part, there.