Light vs. Darkness: The Daylight Savings Debate (Hour 1)

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How do you feel about daylight savings time?

More AM or PM light?

I have to be honest, I don't know anyone who wants it to get darker earlier.

I think depression sets in, and I think winter is depressing enough.

I mean, it's already dark before six, basically.

I think that's early enough.

But that's tonight's question, folks.

How do you feel about daylight savings time?

Would you prefer more AM or PM light?

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So what do you think, Amanda?

More daylight?

More morning light?

Normally I used to love fallback because you got that extra hour of sleep.

For

one night.

For one night.

However, now that I have children, that doesn't matter anymore.

So I mean, it's all right.

I mean, you get into the kind of cozy vibes earlier, like, you know, sitting down for the night just to chill.

Cause usually for me, like when it's dark, that's when it's time to just stop doing things.

It's now my time to just...

Yeah, just be

so I mean that's fine.

I think spring forward is the one that messes people up the most

Yeah, that is weird because you never seem to catch up on that like fallback is great I feel like I get up a little earlier the next day or two or three seem a lot longer But man that's spring ahead as much as you're happy that it's spring and summer's right around the corner It's you just don't feel like you ever catch up.

So I say more PM light

It sounds like you say the same.

I do.

OK.

But let us know what you think, folks.

And we will read your text on the radio.

That's fun.

And I have to say, before we get to some texts here, do you know what the air walk is?

I do not.

You got to Google it.

It's people that look like they're literally walking on air.

And it's like,

oh, is it that dance?

It's a dance move, but they do it in professional sports.

I think it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

absolutely looks like some type of magic.

It's amazing.

And I love watching guys do it after they score a touchdown or just on reels when people do it or when people are learning how to do it.

That's kind of funny.

I think it's awesome and I want to learn.

Is that something you think we could do?

How would that go over?

I feel like it's a lot of jumping and I mean, I don't know about you, but in my mid 30s here, my knees are not for it.

You don't need much air.

And that leads me to my next topic here in the opening segment here of Night Light Tonight, folks.

Amanda, do you believe that Buzz Aldrin was on the moon and Neil Armstrong?

I mean, I don't have any reason not to.

I don't either.

Kim Kardashian has come out and said it never happened.

And you know how she knows this?

TikTok.

Okay, this is just gonna make people hate TikTok and it drives me nuts because...

When used properly, TikTok is an entertaining

app.

Oh my god, my wife's addicted to it.

It's great for just, you know, shutting down and not using your brain for a while.

But everyone's like, oh my god, TikTok, it's just all this dumb information and it's rotten your brain.

I mean, there's so many different things online that are rotten your brain.

TV's rotten your brain, books are rotten your brain.

I mean, name something that's rotten your brain.

It's awful.

I agree and I...

Like I said, my wife is really into TikTok.

She likes watching and she does it for like health help stuff.

There are some good people on there.

But sometimes she stumbles across the thing and I do this too.

I fall into that trap like, well, someone online is saying this.

It must be helpful or truthful or whatever.

But there was a guy she pulled up once who called.

He's like, you get out of bed in the morning.

You do this.

You drink this.

You eat this.

You do your sit-ups and your push-ups all within like the first 20 minutes.

He goes, then I knock things off my get blank done list.

So, all right.

So he swears, which that's how we all talk now.

It's not a big deal.

But he's got tattoos all over.

He's got piercings on his face.

And I don't want to be that guy.

But, huh?

You're good.

Sorry.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Oh dear.

What did I do?

You didn't do anything.

I keep messing up.

There's too many things going wrong around me.

I apologize.

You're doing great.

Take a deep breath.

You're doing fine, Amanda.

But you know, this guy, that's how he presents himself as a master of science here, telling us how to do things.

And I just, I'm like, hun, you know, okay.

But so TikTok has some good stuff, some stuff you have to do your own research on.

But Kim Kardashian, who says we never walked on the moon because she saw it on TikTok, I don't know what to do with that.

Do you think she believed she used to look the way she did before all the plastic surgery?

She had ribs removed apparently.

Oh my god have her like I don't know.

She's They are strange.

I don't know their their new season is on and I find it very

they're not someone that I would Take any scientific fact from

absolutely

Alright, we have to do a quick break.

When we come back, Amanda's gonna tell us what's going on in her hometown of Manitowoc and we're gonna talk trick-or-treating and read your texts.

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Hey, it's a Thursday night edition of Nightlight.

It's so great to have you with me, folks.

It is the night before Halloween.

I think the nights before major holidays are all fun.

I know Christmas Eve, obviously, is the granddaddy of them all.

Thanksgiving's fun.

Halloween, there's just something creepy in the air, something night-oriented and cool.

But let's talk about Thanksgiving as it happens in Manitowoc.

By the way, if you want to get in on the show, be part of the show, folks.

Tonight's question of the night is, in regard to daylight savings time, how do you feel about it?

Do you like more AM light or more PM light?

I know a lot of people that just want to keep things even and not turn any clock back.

We did it for farmers, right?

You know, Arizona doesn't have it.

I don't think Indiana does either.

What?

And they seem to be, well, Indiana.

They're OK.

I think we'd be all right.

So what happens in Manitowoc?

You were telling me before the show about this big party they used to have, they don't do that anymore?

Yeah, so back in 2023 is when they decided to end it.

It was called Windigo Fest.

It was Wisconsin's largest annual Halloween festival, celebrating freaks, folklore and all things Halloween.

And it was in Manitowoc and they even had like

Old actors from like the older horror flicks come into appearances.

Apparently they used to do a big Halloween parade down the middle of the downtown district streets, which was before my time when I moved there.

So yeah, they used to do that and they ended it and they switched it to a brand new little festival that just started this year called Nightmare on 8th Street.

So instead of it being like an expo thing,

And they already had it.

So Manitowoc does Halloween all month long.

Nice.

They have tons of things going on.

But Nightmare on 8th Street, they block off a good chunk of the side streets off the downtown area.

They have a screen going with Horror Flicks.

Love it.

They have a band performing, a kids area, all these spooky vendors.

It was pretty cool.

I don't, you know, it's funny.

I don't.

Halloween was never my holiday, but as I get older, I just like that

It's a big deal.

I like that there's stuff going on.

I like anything that brings people together, anything people celebrate.

I've got a neighbor who goes all out.

His name is John.

He puts up this great display.

Every night he's got music playing and all these not mannequins, but like special effects things going on.

He plays creepy movies.

It's just fun to see people get excited about stuff.

So that's pretty cool.

That sounds like a great thing for the Raw West Museum.

to restart.

It's quite near them.

Okay.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So it's a couple blocks down.

We're gonna have to tell our

Pomprega of Adne about this and see if we can get something cooking there.

Oh, yeah.

He doesn't have enough on his plate.

So what do you do for Halloween?

You got the little one, you taking them out?

So living in Manitowoc was kind of a culture shock for me because I grew up in the Fond du Lac area for a while and they've never had trick-or-treat on Halloween because of an unfortunate schmurder.

of a little girl.

I don't know what I'm allowed to say.

I think

you can say all of that, but that's terrible.

Yeah, and it basically scarred the city into never having trick-or-treat on Halloween ever again.

I've

never heard, how long ago was that?

I want to say about 30 years.

That is

awful.

It was a long time ago.

I could go into details, but that's not everyone's bag.

Yeah, then we don't have to do that.

When I moved to Manitowoc and found out that they actually have trick-or-treat on Halloween, it blows my mind.

It's not only that, it's also at night.

Yeah, okay.

So, because Fond du Lac doesn't do it, it's middle of the day, the weekend before.

That's crazy.

Yeah, so they actually have trick-or-treat, like 5.30 to 7.30 on Halloween night.

Every, doesn't matter what day it's on, it's...

There you go.

And then apparently they're doing like a haunted mini golf at the mini golf place.

The skating rink is doing some kind of costume contest.

There's a costume contest basically anywhere you look in that city.

Oh, that's so great.

And that's all

in Manitowoc.

That's all in Manitowoc also has a little like haunted speakeasy area.

Love that.

Yeah, and they do like spirits with spirits is what they call it.

So I believe it's like at this little hotel area You can pay to spend the night and I don't think many have made it through the whole night

What do you mean like they get scared and leave?

Well, it's supposedly haunted.

Yeah.

Oh my

gosh, okay

All right, well that sounds cool.

Let's read some of our texts from social media today for our question of the night is, how do you feel about daylight savings?

More AM or PM light.

Tiff Burry says, let's just pick one and stay there.

Yeah, I think people would be in favor of that.

I certainly would be too.

But more than night, more than nightlight.

Hey, get it?

Conrad, look at Conrad.

Look how dedicated Conrad is to the show.

He texted from the plane.

I mean, it's not really, it's not really that big of an effort.

His wedding is destination?

His what?

The wedding he's going to is destination?

No, he just said PM.

He texted PM.

Oh.

He's going to Tennessee.

It's like an hour flight.

Yeah, it's not bad.

It's not bad.

Thank you, Con.

I agree with you, buddy.

PM.

Mike Desitel says, ask me in about an hour.

I assume that means he wants more night light.

Did it again.

Trig rude.

My pal from Marinette says more all the time.

I don't know if we can do that, but yeah, more nightlight again.

Most people think PM.

Janet from social media says PM.

April from social media says PM.

I hate when it gets dark early.

I feel like I should be in bed at six PM when it gets dark early.

April, there is a very easy fix for that.

Just start drinking the second the sun goes down.

and you will be asleep in no time.

All right, Emerson Lehmann is gonna be here, folks.

He is, I think Emerson is in the building.

In fact, I have to go let him in.

He is the anchor of the WBAY TV Action News this morning show here in Green Bay, and he is a blast every time he is here in the studio.

We got Todd Michaels, paranormal investigator coming up at 7.20, talking some Halloween spooky stuff.

So great to have you with me, folks.

What do you prefer, AM Lite or PM Lite?

That's a question of the night here at Nightlight.

I'm Pete Chihuahua, but this is the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Great to have you with me, folks.

Our question of the night is, how do you feel about daylight savings time?

More AM or PM light?

Jim from Appleton says, more PM light for me, what really messes me up is the change in spring and fall.

In my world, we would always be on daylight savings time.

Those people that push for full-time standard time haven't thought it through enough.

How do you think that?

How do you think that you would like two months of 330 a.m.

sunrise?

So daylight savings time is our standard time is when you don't change.

I'm confused.

Let's bring in a real news person to help me answer this question and he's just a guy to do it ladies and gentlemen It's my pleasure to welcome back tonight light one of our frequent flyers.

We always love when this guy's in the studio He is the morning anchor one of the morning anchors of the WBAY TV action to news this morning program here in Green Bay And he joins us tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week my pal mr. Emerson Lehman.

Hey buddy more morning

daylights

Really?

Oh, yeah, you're the first one that said that I like that

I

respect that you see when you go to work at 3 30 in the morning It's it's tough.

So yeah, it's nice to see Sunrise is before 7 31 our shows over with so I like to see a little morning daylight And then it makes it really easy to go to sleep earlier at night.

So this is kind of my time of the year.

This is where I

I like to shine a little bit.

What so are there days you come out of the show and it's still dark?

Oh, I mean seven

so we

take our like we'll take our skycams throughout the morning show and right now Typically like we've got the Manitowoc skycam beautiful sunrise over like Michigan usually yeah Right now that's just starting right as our shows ending whereas once we fall back this

This weekend

we'll start

getting around like six o'clock ish and be able to enjoy it a little bit more So yeah, it's it's dark for a while right now

Do you feel like like there have been times in my life where I've been a night person a night owl or in a morning person like I like them both.

I like being up getting at it I also like staying up in the quiet and the serenity of night, but

Do you feel like you're getting so much done?

Do you feel like you're way ahead of the curve when you get up that early?

It's

so weird because, don't get me wrong, I hate it when my alarm

clock goes off.

It

is

the, who doesn't, right?

However, you're half my work day's done before a lot of people are awake

or they're just

starting to wake up.

And then it's nice, come two, three o'clock, I've got,

Open schedule so I can go get your errands done.

You can go do a lot of stuff You can take a nice fat nap that I like to do a lot Yeah, so it's kind of hit or miss I definitely enjoy staying up late as well So I mean I probably don't have the healthiest sleep schedule, but

what is

what time do you go to bed at night?

Typically now that the Sun's going down earlier.

It's probably closer to like 839 okay summertime.

It's like usually

10 o'clock, and I'll get maybe five hours of sleep, and then right back up and go again.

My grandpa tells me, if you need more than four hours of sleep, you're doing life wrong.

He's in his mid-80s, so I guess he's- Wow.

But

if he slept more, he'd be in his 120s.

We don't know.

He's still active.

It's Kim Carty as she in science.

That's what we're doing here

at Nightlight.

See, that's what I used to like, because there were times when my kids were young and I had, I remember one year in particular, I was writing on a TV show.

I just sold a pitch and I was freelancing for some of the networks.

I couldn't turn the money down.

So I slept very little and I was invigorated by it, but it does catch up with you.

At some

point.

I'm that's what I'm worried about.

It's right now.

It's I don't like I said I like to nap So I try and catch up there get an hour or two, but I mean summertime especially there's so much going on at night and I

want to

go There's pickleball to be played Pete.

You

gotta go.

You gotta go We'll get

to

that.

You

gotta go take all that in we talk about that every time I'm here So I gotta they gotta throw another what if you got what if you just didn't

go to bed and you went to bed at 8 in the morning and slept till 3

Well, no because my

I work from like 3.30 until 11.30 noon,

because

I go out and do interviews and we have shoots and whatnot afterwards.

So a lot of people, that's a common misconception.

My father jokes with me all the time, like, oh, you're done by 7.15.

You're done with your day yet.

No, we're in early.

We're reading through everything.

And then we got a lot of prep work for other stories and whatnot afterwards.

So it's not just on the news for three hours.

Peace out.

We're

on with our day.

I'd be nice.

I'd be nice.

Don't get me wrong, but that's not the case.

That is the voice of Emerson Layman.

He is one of the anchors of the WBA.

Why?

Action 2 News this morning.

Show here in Green Bay, and he joins us here periodically at Nightlight, and we have just a blast when you're here.

So let's talk.

You're here to make the popcorn pick of the week.

A lot of responsibility.

I've been on quite a few times now.

I've never had this honor.

I know.

I couldn't

believe that.

When you told me this, and Conrad let me know as well, I was a little bit nervous, but I think I've got a good one.

I

think you're gonna be

okay.

Yeah, I think I'll hold it down.

So

let's start with some preliminary questions about movie ones.

Of course.

Theater or home?

I love the movie theater, especially you gotta get the big tub of popcorn loaded up with butter and salt and just that experience.

You can't beat that.

I haven't gone as much as I would have liked to.

I had a couple that I wanted to see in the theater that I

Didn't make the time to do and that's that's on me, but I still am definitely a big theater person

Do you have the do you have do you have the big tub you take in that they refill for you?

Do you bring your own?

I do

not know I just I just flip over the extra a couple bucks, okay, and that's

That's what I should probably invest in that maybe.

I

don't know.

I see.

I think that's I can't do it.

I'd be embarrassed.

Yeah.

That's a whole

new

level.

Be proud.

You're

saving money.

I feel like when I go in there, people are all look fatty wants popcorn or something.

You know, like, I'm not, you know, because that's what people do.

And

the tubs are huge.

I love when the people like walk out with the trash bags of it be like the extra afterwards That's how much you lose the freshness.

Yeah, I just

I don't know that I love it that much but same All right, I mean what about you?

For me I like the movies I like going to the movies it gets me out of the house But there's also something about just being in the comfort of your own home for sure I did have a question though, and I don't know if this is on your list But are you a novelty popcorn bucket person?

Since those have been all the rage.

That's kind of what I was that what I well What's a novelty popcorn?

Is that when you had bring your own bucket?

No, that's one like each movie has like its own like themed

No, I don't care

As

long as

it's got butter and salt on it,

we're rolling.

I don't do popcorn at the movies anymore, really.

I mean, I'll do it like if my wife gets it, I'll have some.

But once I stop, that's a rabbit hole.

Like you just keep piling it in and I can't do

it.

I will say though, I appreciate the bucket over a bag.

Some theaters, they'll do

the paper bag.

Oh, that's

real.

Yeah, it's

not as... I think it's greasy.

It's not as effective in my

opinion.

And it's loud.

It's so loud.

Every time you

take a bite, you're like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm... Right.

Yeah, not as good.

I had a guy, I went to see One Battle After Another about three weeks ago.

This is just like, I know, I'm like part of God's candid camera thing.

The guy in front of me, two rows in front of me has a box of M&Ms.

Peanut, they're loud.

Shaking them?

Yeah.

Every time he goes to put some in his mouth, he shakes it first.

I'm like, what are you doing?

You gotta make sure they're still in there.

They're not sticking together, they're M&Ms.

You putts, just whatever.

All right, that gets me to my next question.

You just fired up now.

What do you do, Emerson?

When you're there and there's a group of people misbehaving, being loud, and you could have kids, you got the old guy who can't hear going, what did he just say?

And they're talking like they're in their living room.

What do you do

for that?

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

So I'm probably

just

sitting there and making passive aggressive comments to the people that I'm with, but not really initiating.

I'll be honest, and I don't know what this has to say about the state of the movie theater industry right now, but the last few movies that I've been, I typically find myself going to show times that aren't super packed.

So I don't deal with it too much.

I sit six rows away

from

everybody and it's...

Like, I haven't been in a packed movie theater for a, like, premiere

night

in a very long time.

So, that's... I don't really think that has as much to do with movie theaters as it does when I decide, yeah, I'm gonna go to a show at 10.30 in the morning on

a

Thursday or something.

I did that for my birthday a couple years ago.

I just went to... It was a Wes Anderson movie.

I think it was the French Dispatch.

I went...

It was on a Wednesday at 11, 11.30 in the morning.

No one in there.

I'm like, this is the best birthday ever.

I'm just

chilling by

myself.

I'd never done it before.

Great experience.

I've talked about that before.

When we lived in L.A.

and my wife and kids would go back early for vacation, some days I would go 9 a.m.

they have screenings in L.A.

because it's L.A.

it's movies.

So I'd go at 9.

then I would see something at 11.30, then I'd see something at two, and I'd be watched out like my brain.

I'm like, I need daylight.

But once in a while to do that is just like the greatest feeling ever.

Oh, especially someone like you.

I know you love movies.

So

that's

just got to be the

perfect getaway.

If it happens that they line up and there's stuff I want to see, too, you kind of have to get lucky.

But what is your favorite movie snack, Emerson?

Yeah,

popcorn.

Popcorn.

I'm going to stick with the popcorn.

Yeah, it's same.

Popcorn okay with a side of nacho cheese you dip the popcorn in the nacho cheese

popcorn in the nacho cheese That's got to get messy.

It's I mean you have to do it, right?

I'm not saying you don't get all the way in It's just a light little tap tap my husband taught it to me And I thought it was gross at the time, but I encourage you so you're taking

like one little piece of popcorn at a time Yeah, yeah, see I'm shoveling that stuff in my mouth so

I'm

not the cleanest of eaters so

I did that when I came in here.

Every once in a while, I'll go to see a movie at Marcus East before my show.

I'll go in the afternoon.

And one day I was starving and I got a pretzel with nacho cheese and I was just scarfing this thing down.

And I get here and I see on the monitor, I got a big nacho cheese stain.

I'm like, sure.

Wear that with pride, man.

You're doing your research, and that is the price you pay for it.

I can write that off, that

cheese on my shirt.

That's a write-off.

It's a new shirt.

How do you feel about French fries and milkshakes?

That's a thing.

I know a lot of people that do that.

I love French fries.

I love milkshakes.

I have done the dip here and there, but only one or two.

I'm not sitting there the whole basket of fries dip in every one.

I've never understood that.

I can't do that.

I don't feel like...

Food needs to be combined all the time like some people think it does

that's just me combined in your stomach eventually Yeah,

and that's perfect.

That's that's for the stomachs job.

That's not my job to I don't know

all right judgment though Here's another question.

Are you and you're on statewide here?

Nationwide if you go stream app, you know, we've got listeners all over hello state and nation if you ever snuck booze into a theater

The news anchor you can trust.

Yeah for your answer.

No, I if I had I would I would say it.

Okay, I Feel like in college is when I haven't I haven't post college.

Okay, I don't know if I did in college or not It's something my friend group and I would have done.

Yeah, but I can't recall a specific Like oh, we went to see this movie and we had a couple of you know shooters in our pocket I've definitely pre-gamed some movies

But I don't know that I've snuck booze into the movie itself.

I don't

think I have.

What about drugs?

No.

Do you do any heroin?

No.

That's fair.

What about at home?

Do you like to make a nice cocktail at home?

Do your snack preferences change when you're at home?

Popcorn is still, if I'm watching a movie, I'll have my dinner while I'm sitting down to watch something.

So I guess it's not as much of a snack all the time.

I mean, maybe depending on the time.

Really drink that often.

I'll be honest with you.

My guilty pleasure is Arnold Palmer.

Oh, those are delicious.

I

will go through three gallons of that a week.

And I wish I was kidding, but I'm not.

Oh, but Arnold Palmer is just the lemonade in the tea.

There's no booze.

Yeah, no booze.

No booze.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like a long island.

Don't

don't get me wrong.

They do they

do make it with

they do make it with booze,

but

I am not drinking three gallons of the booze.

Yeah.

No, I need to clarify that.

All right Last question for you.

Have you ever yelled movie in a crowded firehouse?

No, is that does that happen?

Used to be it's against a lot of y'all fire in a movie house But the old Steve Martin joke is have you ever yelled movie?

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This is nightlight with peach wava a Thursday night edition One of my favorite nights of the week We are doing the popcorn pick of the week and my pal Emerson layman is here He is one of the anchors of the WBAY TV action to news this morning show here in Green Bay Does a great job there and he joins us here periodically at night light just for a kind of all-around tomfoolery Can I shout out

Amanda?

She's got

better music bumps playing in than Conrad does so

Shout out to you.

Thank you.

Yeah, you're picking at random

That's fine.

You know what that what you just played those like Conrad's favorite song I had to tell like a month ago.

I'm like I don't want to hear that song Cuz I sent him all this music and I could tell it's kind of fun because you know we're different generations and Conrad will just like I could tell the songs he likes So that's kind of fun.

You know, so he that's one of his favorite so so that was a good one

He did tell me what bumper at the beginning of the show not to play, because he's like, I've played it three times this week, so don't

do that.

I don't

know.

Pete likes to build a fort bumper, so okay.

No, that's all right, though.

It's all fun stuff.

Sorry, I got

off topic there.

That's

okay.

I gotta write some new bumpers anyway.

So Emerson is here.

We had a great talk.

He likes to watch movies and theaters.

He prefers it that way.

He likes popcorn as a snack.

And I think it's time we get down to business here.

And it is time for Emerson to give us his popcorn pick of the week.

Amanda, if you please.

All right, spotlight.

Oh, very nice.

Yes.

Great move, my son just watched that movie, maybe Monday.

I watched it with my dad this

past weekend and I was just thinking when he told me about this, I'm trying to, I have so many movies that I enjoy, but

Spotlight

is one, I don't care what part of the movie it's in, I don't care what I'm doing, I will stop and I will finish it right there.

It is such a good movie, such good acting, a really incredible important story.

Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton.

Yeah,

great story.

That's my pick.

You know and that is when I talked to my son Joe that earlier this week and he told me about spotlight I'm like oh that would be a great question tonight like your favorite investigative journal like I'm not surprised that you like a movie like that given your line of work.

Yeah and I mean I it's funny because I do not do investigative pieces like I'm the make people smile stories and and I love that but I have a lot of respect for the people that do that investigative work and that story the it's just it's incredible man I mean

I'm Catholic.

And to see that whole...

Story unfold and the work they did.

It's just it shows the importance of

thank God Journalism very

very incredible.

All right this week's Popcorn pick of the week is spotlight a great movie.

In fact, I've only seen that once I'm due for a rewatch because it is a phenomenal movie That's a great pick dude.

Thank you.

I had to I had to live up to the hype here So I'm glad I'm glad that lived up to it.

Absolutely So go out and rent spotlight folks if you haven't seen it check it out And if you have like me, maybe you're due for a rewatch but great act I think

Did it win an Oscar?

I don't

know for sure.

I was actually going to look that up before I came in,

but I figured- This picture says- Ah, Piedle, no.

Winner Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

I thought

so.

I just couldn't remember.

Yeah, when you have a subject, a topic like that, and you nail it or execute it well.

You're gonna bring home some hardware.

All right, that's awesome.

Well, all right, so let's switch gears to the little screen here, buddy.

What's going on at WBAY?

Yeah, man, we've been busy.

Small Towns is rocking.

Just had another episode air at six.

I just wrapped up 20-ish minutes ago.

Really?

So every Thursday, check that out.

We've got a big night on Saturday.

Action to news this morning team our draft special is up for an Emmy Award So

we will find out

Saturday if we bring that home our executive producer Jackie is gonna be headed down to Chicago We're hopefully walking up on stage and accepting on our behalf, but uh excited to follow along from up here in Wisconsin and Hopefully have a big reason to cheer and scare my neighbors as I'm yelling next door But yeah, just you know staying busy really uh

It's a busy time of the year, right?

We've got a

lot of

big big stuff coming up the holidays You know, we just had our coats for kids drive raising a lot of getting a lot of coats collecting those to help keep kids warm this winter I do want to mention November starts in two days.

Yeah Steve or meteorologist and I are doing no shave November this year to us Sure spread the word fellas for men's health.

I love it very passionate about it not just

I'm very passionate about mental health, lost a friend to suicide in high school, very passionate about mental health and taking care of your mental, but men's physical health as well.

Fellows, make sure

you're

making those doctor's appointments and taking care of yourselves so we can be there for our family and our friends and loved ones.

So I don't know how that's gonna go.

The longest I've gone.

Have

you ever

had a beer before?

The longest I've gone is two weeks.

Okay.

I think it's gonna be fine.

I received some compliments.

So I think it's going to be fine.

Can you just do a goatee or does that not count?

Or are you supposed

to not shave at all?

I mean, like I'm going to keep it neat, obviously, for TV.

But yeah, I'm going to rock the full suite.

What we got.

So we're going to see how it goes.

But yeah, really looking forward to it.

We're going to be bringing some guests on throughout the month to highlight the importance of it as well.

Dr. Rai with Prevea is going to be joining us later this month.

So yeah, just want to.

Fellas out there make sure to make those appointments follow along if you're and do

it yourself

if you are able to and it's gonna be a good cause for that as well So looking forward to that that's awesome, and that's what I love

about like local news as compared to like I can't watch national news anymore I just read my news, but I do love local news like whenever it's on it's more about community Yeah, and what's happening here?

It's like I know you report on politics sometimes and you have to but like it's just great that

we can put that aside and it's like the pool is opening or it's no shave November.

It's just fun stuff like that.

Yeah.

It's

cool to be able to use the platform that we have and to share the important messages with people in the community.

And like you mentioned, local news, like we're, we're living in your neighborhoods.

We

are going to the same grocery

store as you are right here.

So it's important.

We care about the communities that we cover, the communities that we represent.

And yeah, it's going to be

We've talked about it before on here, but it's such a privilege to have the job that I do, and it's one that I don't take for granted, and we're always trying to put our best foot forward for the communities.

We do a great job.

Emerson is going to stick around through the news.

Act 2 is coming up next.

Our question of the night, how do you feel about daylight savings time, or AM or PM light?

We're coming right back.

It's nightlight with Peach Waba.

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