
Transcript
Building Dreams and Packers Trivia (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Tue Nov 4, 2025
Welcome back.
Welcome, welcome to Nightlight, folks.
Kicking off hour number two here.
If you missed hour number one, you can still listen to it.
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We talk to Ian Teal about what is coming up at the YWIGA International Film Festival next week.
Very exciting stuff and a beautiful
setting there for a film festival too, an international film festival at this little opera house.
In Why
born in Why We Go Wisconsin.
We Go Fremont, that's where my family hails from.
I'm dead serious.
construction mode today.
Tonight's question, folks, is what is your favorite documentary?
We had a great documentary on last night named Doug Prey
who was a native Wisconsinite, but has been part of some amazing projects.
So it got my wheels turning.
And I think we need to talk more about documentaries.
So that's our question of the night.
Let us know what your favorite documentary is, and I will read your text on the radio.
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You just cannot wait to start talking.
I'm just waiting for you.
I'm just
gonna follow you.
I know I'm holding
on to the headphones.
I'm glad Conrad's here.
Let me just say that.
I got
an
email from
someone I didn't know, and I was like, what is happening?
We
were teasing Conrad in his absence about how many vacay, somebody said, what does Conrad have like 38 days vacation?
Yeah, how many days of vacation do you have Conrad?
And I think that someone was me, but, and then I think I can't remember who it was.
It was either Todd,
or Emerson.
Well, it's a great company to work for.
You get all this vacation.
And he's the only Conrad gets up any day.
So he was in Tennessee at a wedding.
Oh, congratulations to the lovely couple.
Was it a good wedding?
a date?
Oh, so like bridesmaids, like you go hardcore press.
radio producer.
okay Conrad we love you.
We need to find you a lovely Lovely human to be paired with
think that you're awesome, and I love you.
He will he will
He's just a good, he's a good one.
So I just want him to find happiness.
That's all.
How ridiculous am I
my media like mode right now.
Development.
you, Sam.
I love coming in.
I told you, I'm like, we should do this like once a week because I feel like we get so off track
So let's get to it.
Let's get to this construction outfit.
this.
I am not doing all of the work, but
I do like to look the part.
And we, as you know, non-for-profits, everyone like does anything that they have to to get it done.
now we are in our last phases of getting this new museum built.
So we are adding on to our current children's museum located across from Babies Road.
We are two million short and my friends, we are literally
starting to prioritize putting education over revenue streams to help us operate that museum.
This is a very awful place to be.
I mean, it's an amazing
place to be, but- Yeah, you should be applauded for that because it's like saying, I can't stand when people, we need to run these schools like a business.
No, it's an investment in our community and our world.
So hats off to you.
Hard hats off to us.
So it's this great new reaching new heights campaign.
You guys have raised like four and a half million dollars or something like that, but you're still a little short.
We're still a little short.
So we have our building ordered.
We have all of the things, but as you know, like building costs are starting to go up.
we need to really push for this last, you know,
million to get this thing built.
And I know there's people out there listening going, oh, the corporations will do it.
Oh, there is so much need in communities right now, and no donation
too small.
So if you are like, you know what?
I wanna support play-based education in this children's museum.
$5 does a ton for us.
A ton.
Is that
great.
Are you kidding me?
If everyone listening right now gave $5?
And then that took care of everything.
Correct.
With five new exhibits that is going to house.
So let me share with you our capacity right now is about 350 people.
If you come to our museum on a Saturday, there's about 700 bodies trying to get through our museum.
We have a ginormous holiday extravaganza coming up on the, I believe the 22nd, do you have that date in front of you?
I should have that,
apologize.
Holiday extravaganza, we have reindeer, we have Santa, we have all of the things coming to the museum and we are at, we're full.
We're at capacity and any parent out there going, I'm not going to take my kids somewhere that,
I'm not gonna be able to
or have to wait if it's cold or any of those things.
So we're denying that education to children at a place where we say that play is the right of every child that comes to our museum.
are tried and true.
And honestly, people are like, what about the money that you're making at the door?
Absolutely, like a business.
That's our operational cost.
That pays for day-to-day things.
right?
It's a non-for-profit, correct.
So adding on 16,000 square feet costs a lot of money.
Anyone tried to remodel a room in their house lately?
Yeah, it's crazy expensive.
Can you?
it is a lot.
We
doing it.
Yeah.
I like, I'm out there digging in the dirt,
stuff.
They won't give me
a jackhammer yet.
I
keep,
Pete, I keep saying, hey, they're like, no power tools.
I know.
My guest is Heather Hiles.
She is the business affairs director at the Green Bay Children's Museum.
They are in the middle middle of their, what is this called?
It's reaching new heights.
They've raised over $4 million.
they're trying to raise another million.
Just to
finish this off, I'm going to tell you friends, give because it grows.
the simplest way I can say it.
help.
You know what, I'm normally not a hardcore press like, hey, please help us out financially, but if you can and you are compelled right now, get us over to the finish line so I can do my job.
all the STEM-based learning
Yeah, all of the AI.
We're bringing all of that, the CAD programming.
All of that is coming into the education that we're working through with children.
And Pete, we're finding out that
that education is starting earlier and earlier than we originally thought.
Experts are now saying you should be reading to your baby before it's even born because they're hearing and that helps with their literacy and
So that zero to three is so critical in brain development and the block building and where there give them every opportunity
something that's not a screen.
Is there any, anyone saying amen to that out there right now?
I
Right.
No, you shouldn't.
Pete, I can help you.
right.
So Pete, I honestly for you, so one of the new exhibits that we have coming is a trades and training exhibit.
So it is literally a two by four house that
When you and I went to college, we were told, go get your four year degree and you're gonna get a job and things are gonna be great.
That
not the world that we live in.
And our trades are being desecrated right now.
Anyone out there who is looking to get a plumber or to get an electrician, like it's few and far between because people just aren't going into those.
We're bringing in an exhibit working with those skilled trades, working with NWTC, working with UWGB to help.
teach those kids at those early ages with the snap circuits about how electricity truly works and about plumbing and about Virtual welding and all of that really cool stuff.
what?
They need to have these dreams.
they do want to be influencers.
Number one thing that they want to be right now is influencers.
There are.
I mean, I hate to say it, but it seems like.
Agreed.
I mean, I mean, don't, and listen, I've got, I'm not trying to brag, I've got over 200 Twitter followers.
You do?
I destroyed Twitter today.
And only took me 12 years.
Are you serious?
Oh, good luck.
It's brutal.
I'm dead serious.
First of all, it's horrible.
I know it is.
I was like, why did I do
Yeah.
You people are not kind.
Oh no, my little heart's gonna be broken there.
a safe space for me.
Really?
TikTok?
Do you TikTok?
Conrad, we should make a TikTok tonight.
Look at me, I'm like village person.
This is a tailor-made moment for a TikTok creator.
All right, Heather Heil is here, folks.
We are going to have more with Heather when we come back after a very short break.
Steve in the 920, that's Conrad's dad, says Band of Brothers is his favorite documentary, mini series based on Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Wow, you're dead.
really pulled those numbers out of nowhere, didn't he?
He says, I try to watch it once a year and there you go, that's why.
Conrad's mom following suit, I picture them on the couch just texting together.
Isn't that sweet?
I love
I'm so sweet.
They got the YouTube pulled up.
for them.
Paula says I like documentaries about the life of singers and their bands.
Great.
I agree.
Keep those coming, folks.
What's your favorite documentary?
We'll be right back with more with our friend Heather Heil from the Green Bay Children's Museum.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.
You've got the Civic Media Radio Network.
It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight with the dancing Heather Heil.
Dave on the stream says, just a bit outside.
There you go.
That's a nice Conrad.
Are you over the Brewers yet?
No.
Did you watch any of the World Series?
No, I had to.
It was maybe the greatest World Series ever.
A lot of people are saying that.
I mean, come on, my team was out.
I know your team went out after mine.
Your team knocked mine out.
So if I can get over it, enjoy the World Series.
know, but by the national champions,
at
like
World.
I wanted Toronto to win more than anybody,
did.
I was back and forth because my parents were going for the Blue Jays and I would go over there and I, you know, I'm not, the Dodgers, not my favorite team, but I lived there long enough, took my kids, blah, blah, blah.
So I like the Dodgers.
So they get a hit and I go, yeah.
just from instinct and my mom would go, who are you cheering for?
I'm like, why are you mad at me?
Like the Blue Jays are not your team either.
But we
Dodgers that much that we wanted them to win.
I was going
it.
The gods must be crazy.
I did see that.
Wild.
They've been a Coke bottle and kind of upon a sub-Sahara African culture.
Very great stuff.
And all right, I think, are we caught up on Texcon?
We got a couple more.
We got a couple more.
Okay, we can say, let's not, let's not.
That's easy.
We'll blow all the text right away.
Okay, yeah.
All right, so Heather Heil is here from the Green Bay Children's Museum.
She is the director of business development.
She was telling us all about this great campaign.
They have the Reaching New Heights campaign where they've raised
I mean, more than about three quarters of the money you need.
We do.
Yeah.
A million bucks short.
About a million to go.
we're just, it's nothing to shake a stick at.
Oh, Elon.
Yeah, my buddy.
Like, hey, maybe a little something, something for a girl.
always volunteer.
I would welcome you with open
would tell me what you would want to do.
So you would tell me your skill set.
Like, hey, I'm not really people-y, so maybe I could clean something, or I'm really people-y, or I want to do a science experiment with kids, or I want to...
read to kids, or this is where I really feel I would be most impactful.
And after the background check on you, and you
Oh, yeah, I got to do a background check.
No, thanks.
Hard pass.
I would say these hands are registered lethal weapons.
Is that what the kids want to hear?
That's exactly what the kids want.
The kids do the parents don't.
I was working at my daughter's school, and I went up to the principal at the end of the year, and I said, hey, when you do the background check on me, everything checked out, right?
And he goes,
Yeah.
And he was like, I didn't really do it.
something
I have on my record too.
That's not too bad.
Yeah, I know.
So, but
pulled on me a couple of times.
Speeding?
Not, knock on wood.
time cause I'm always late.
I am.
But
saves you like
holidays are right around the corner.
So we have our holiday extravaganza kind of kicking things off coming up on November 22nd.
So that's where we have right after the holiday parade Santa and his live reindeer come to the museum and we have the largest indoor snowball fight Green Bay has
seen.
can come inside and do that and Santa gets involved and get some really great photos and again get your signs on with that stuff.
After that we go
into our breakfast was Santa that we have.
And then we, of course, go into all other holidays because we celebrate equally at the museum and learn about all of the different traditions that people here in Northeast Wisconsin do.
And we have, um, so Hanukkah
we celebrate, um, uh, the, so the Hanukkah is the minority.
I see I'm going to talk your.
not firing at all cylinders.
The menorah, just in work with lights and the Chinese New Year and all of those things are coming up.
Also our New Year's, one of our other biggest events is our Kids Rock and Eve event on New Year's Eve.
And at noon, the fire department comes with their ladder truck and does a countdown with us and like lowers their ladder
lose their mind.
It's so awesome.
We're excited.
I'm gonna let a little sneak peek up.
might be something with K-pop happening
well.
Gonna put that out there.
Because I remember when I took my son Joe to his elementary school, they had firefighters coming.
This is shortly after 9-11.
It was about probably a couple months after.
And the firefighter, oh no, we went to the firehouse in Van Nuys, California.
We were doing this tour and then they got a call.
Yeah,
It was unbelievable.
And I was, here's what happens when you hang out with a bunch of comics.
I said to my friend Paul Gilmartin, and I think my friend Jimmy Dora was in the car, the three of us are in there.
And I said, and this fire truck pulled away and the kids are watching these firefighters.
And I got to tell you, I had a lump in my throat and Paul goes, are you sure it was in your throat?
But
was exciting.
Kids love firefighters.
It's unbelievable.
Honestly, one of my greatest fears in this world is that kids at some point will not want to grow up and be a firefighter or a police officer anymore.
So as long as I am living in this world, I will always, always champion for them to see that and to feel that because police officers and firefighters are amazing human beings and we love you and people do support you and just...
keeping you.
I love all people.
Heather
Wait a
So that's great.
And always good to hear from Lance Barber.
So Heather Heil is here, folks.
She is the director of business development at the Green Bay Children's Museum.
They are in the middle of a campaign.
They're reaching new heights campaign and they love your help if you're willing.
They're building a brand new addition, 16,000 square feet.
It's going to be spectacular when you guys get it done.
It
will.
We're building big things.
We're building dreams.
Think of your younger self and how you want to help others in our community and what our...
our future
No, you have to know all of the things.
In general, someone looking to come visit Green Bay, some must do for the holiday season.
Downtown Green Bay and the Broadway Market has a, I always say this incorrectly, the Chris Kringle Market, is that how you say that?
It's called something.
It's a market though.
It has little shops and they do wine walks and they do all of these special activities and it's quite spectacular.
So they have that there.
The Wisconsin Public Service does a garden of lights at our Botanical Gardens that are unbelievable and if you have a chance you should check those out.
Our Meyer Theater here always brings in amazing tribute bands and check their schedules and it's just a
glorious theater, and you and I talk about this all the time.
We need to support those arts and those
because if we don't, they will go away.
Yeah, so much fun.
Like Frank and Frank is just a...
genuinely great human
so, yeah.
I actually teased him one time.
I'm like, hey, you and me on the road together.
Can you imagine?
Like
just a couple of things.
If you're looking for things to do here, I love doing those things.
And I'm actually kind of bummed this weekend, Heritage Hill, which is like a historical park here in Green Bay.
They have a Snapdragon
Tavern happening this weekend and it's sold out.
So they go back
to like in 1816.
60s Tavern and they have like
all
costumed and like the spirits that you would be drinking and the games and the travelers and I am all about an immersive experience.
So yeah, it's so cool.
So just watch Heritage Hill because they do that a couple times a year.
I remember I was reading this book about Teddy Roosevelt if I could name drop and he and they said they were celebrating an election win back in the
when Roosevelt was like turning the century, but they said they were, all the great songs were playing and one of them was called, there's going to be a hot time in the old town tonight.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, shake it up.
That was before like jazz, I think even.
What was the music like?
So to go to hear it and chill to something like that.
And they have like
musicians
it's just really, like I love that kind of stuff.
very, very cool stuff happening here in this area.
Okay,
nervous about this quiz because I really just am new to football, believe it or not.
So I am like a tailgate.
I'm a tailgate queen.
Like
love to go out there and get out there and do all of that, but I'm just starting now to learn the game.
So, I
take you in?
Bushwhackers, and I could be like, take
story.
Like, is there like a vein that we stayed in with these packer questions?
Or is it like,
Okay.
So actually, like, all right.
I know
were all
heartbroken after the game.
Like, let's just be honest.
However, we are still number one in our division, you guys.
Number one.
Yeah.
Number one.
Okay.
When you say we.
Oh, I... Me.
Me.
Fair enough.
That's fair.
All right, so this is our nightlight Green Bay Packers quiz, history quiz.
Quarterback history quiz.
Quarterback slash history quiz.
Quarterback sneak.
And I can't think of anyone I'd rather have taking this test here in the studio than the unbelievably talented Heather Heil, who is here with us again on nightlight.
And it's just great.
So here we go.
Number one, I'd like to start with number one.
I know that's usually a good place to start.
Who is the first starting quarterback in Green Bay Packers history?
Was it A. Bart Starr, B. Ricky Weeks, C. Michael Redd, or D. Redd Dunn?
Number one.
Is
this going to be brutal?
I don't know.
I don't know.
No, okay.
See, you weren't helping
Red Dunn was the first quarterback
question, Conor.
That was a really tough question.
Who knows that?
Did you know that before you put this quiz together?
Stadium.
assigned
He almost said to do a third one.
All right.
You're doing fine.
You got a long way to go here.
Just 102 questions.
Sorry, my people.
Number two, which Packers quarterback won the first two Super Bowl MVP awards?
Was it A, Bart Starr, B, Brett Favre, C, Aaron Rodgers, or D, Matt Flynn?
Number one.
Number one.
just didn't know the red one actually that was a hard question.
I've never heard that
for
Aaron Rodgers.
like three
15 years.
Gonna get some of that in there.
It's just before that, that gets a little, when we get Magic Man and all that.
Yeah,
They started in 1919.
Is
right?
Probably.
Two?
three?
I'm gonna commit to three.
Let's go through.
you get the MVP when you win Super Bowl, so I was just trying to do the math there.
No, but if you play in the Super Bowl, don't you have to be in the Super Bowl to get the most valuable player?
player.
Oh,
See?
We're learning something.
Drop in our sports knowledge
on you.
my Dan right now is going ballistic at
I'm letting you down.
Number six, which Packers QB famously started 297 consecutive regular season games, was it A, Bart Starr, B, Brett Favre, C, Aaron Rodgers, or D, Don Majkowski?
Brett Favre.
Very well done, five for six.
Heather Heil tearing it up, folks.
Number seven, what QB of the Packers was drafted in the first round from Utah State University?
Was it A?
I think it's Aaron Rodgers.
Was it A, Peter Schwabler, the third?
Is that your cousin?
I actually have a cousin named Pete Schwabba.
And an uncle named God rest their souls.
B, Jordan Love, C, Brett Favre, D, Tom Brady.
It's not Brett Varv.
Utah State.
Because Brett Varv was OK.
Schwabler.
It was not Brett Varv.
It was who were the other
Jordan Love.
That's not a made-up person.
That totally sounds like a Conrad name.
I'm like, Schwabler?
named a dance after him.
Peter Schwabler.
OK.
I love how you went with Peter, too.
to make him sound like an intellectual, further distancing him from the world of the NFL.
Number eight, what year was the Green Bay Packers franchise founded?
Was it A, 1345?
No.
B, 1919, C, 2002, D, 18, 18.
1919.
Very well done.
Heather's on a roll.
Okay, you weren't sneaking
around there.
quiz.
People out there listening are screaming going, yeah.
Are
you
new?
like you
okay, whoo, she's not that embarrassing.
Number
looks smart?
Mike Holmgren?
Is that 55?
I
don't know, who are my
that Mike Holmgren?
Neither one of us really know what it is.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Honestly, Dan's probably texting and screaming at me right now.
Let's just do this.
Who was the Packershead coach?
Was it A. Con Happy Kruger?
No.
B. Mike McCarthy.
C. Matt LaFleur or D. Vince Lombardi?
B. B?
Yeah.
Is that the answer?
Yes.
We need to get the question right.
It is
yeah.
Because I'm weird with yours.
a all of them or
Mason Crosby It is for real how come well, let me just again non-for-profit world.
Oh
He did so much for this community, him and his wife and really like elevated, not only on the field, but off the field.
And so to me, a good player is someone who can perform on the field as well as off the field.
So that's why I loved him so much.
That's a
Good for him.
And who was it?
It was a John Roach.
Last week was on the show and he made this great documentary about UW.
basketball player was a little bit of a tragedy.
And John said, sports is the best when it elevates above sports.
Correct.
So many people don't want athletes ever to talk or say
All right, we are coming right back.
We've got three more questions for Heather.
She's the only missed one.
Her boyfriend will not break up with her as of yet.
Hopefully she'll do well in these last three and we'll read more of your texts before we close things down.
It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio
In the home stretch here on a Tuesday night, broadcasting live from downtown Green Bay statewide in our beautiful state of Wisconsin.
Tomorrow night on the show, Northeast Wisconsin based actress Heather Art will be here and influencer and AI expert Jeremy Carrasco will be here.
Looking forward to that show.
That will be fun.
We've got a couple more texts we'll get to here before we finish our quiz with the lovely and talented Heather Heil, who is next to me in the studio.
She has lost the construction garb and she is taking our packers
If you think that will help you to put the hard hat on.
No.
Okay.
But thanks.
I
appreciate that.
I
No, I don't know.
I'm not familiar with, but I was listening like all night and I've been writing stuff
really love to watch a good documentary.
Bridget in the 818 says, I remember going to the theater to watch Hoop Dreams.
It was really good.
It was hard to choose a best documentary.
Totally agree, Bridget.
Great.
Thank you.
This is Chloe from the 630.
Making a murderer is our favorite documentary.
He absolutely did it.
Oh man, that's opening a can of worms.
Cause I don't know if he did.
Okay, what else we got for text?
In the 847, Justin from the Northwest suburbs of Chicago says, my favorite documentary is unknown cosmic time machine on Netflix, a documentary about the new James Webb telescope.
Wow.
That's interesting.
It does sound really interesting.
The web, he and Hubble, of course, always competed.
They jackied for first position with...
I'm totally making
this up.
Okay, I was like, wow, you know a lot about
my pleasure.
quick tell you my favorite documentary?
Is that okay?
All
Recently, it's gonna be that John Candy documentary.
I fell in love with that thing so hard, like it was just,
So good.
It has all
because we was coming out and I was like, and we, John Candy movie and did
thing.
And now it's come out and there's just this glorious scene in this documentary where it goes into the Steve Martin scene of planes, trains, automobiles.
And when Steve Martin's character is berating him on like what an awful
nobody likes him.
And all of a sudden John Candy just says, I like
Yeah, and I just it just made me stop in my tracks and like it was waterworks and I mean I've seen the scene before but just the He was a good human.
He gives me faith in humanity and I love that and behind that is I'm in a documentary club, you know So once a
ladies and we all pick different documentaries the other one we just watched that I am Obsessed with it's called Crip Camp and it was made in about 2020
And it's about people with different abilities who in the 70s and 80s would go to specialized camps to be together.
And one of them wanted to be a film producer.
So there's all of this raw footage of them at this camp.
And it's kind of like a cat skills camp and how they all form together and go against the Disabilities Act against Ronald Reagan and all of this activism that they did.
It's really a beautiful historical piece.
called?
It's called Crip Camp.
Okay.
And regardless of your political beliefs, though, Obama's had some backing in on it, like Michelle Obama is like a producer on her.
It's like, it's a really incredible watch.
any time that you can learn about something in a fun way Yeah,
win
It's so good.
And Catherine O'Hare's in there and she's a national treasure.
love her.
Yes.
Honestly, I am obsessed
for Guffman?
Yeah.
Dinner with anyone it would be her
Oh, yeah, fantastic All right, you've got three questions left.
I think we can squeeze these in sure we can before we get out of here number 11 Which Packers QB was known as the Magic Man was at a Bart Starr Don McCoskey?
Hot fun in the summertime.
Okay number 12 who led the Packers to victory in the famous ice bowl game was it a Malik Willis be Bart Starr see Aaron Rodgers or D George ice McGee
Bart Star.
Oh my gosh.
She's only got one wrong, right?
Malik, though, I like that.
know, though.
I really just didn't know that red one.
Nobody, red
They are owned by me.
C and D.
Yes.
Orange.
I know, and I don't like them when they're square either.
I like them when they're all misshapen.
Game
much.
Learn
thank you.
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