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Dips, Disco, and Disco Dips (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Nov 14, 2025
Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.
This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.
Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.
And now, a guy who appreciates a nice hot meal at a fair price.
Pete Chwaba.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's John and Gordy filling in for PD's on vacation and hope your evening is going well.
It's so warm.
Isn't it?
It's just unbelievably canny just like summer again.
It is.
Yeah.
It was beautiful sunshine
today.
I guess it's going to be the same way tomorrow, but it's pretty warm in the studio this morning.
Really is.
We have Conrad standing by up in Green Bay.
Good evening Conrad.
How are you?
Yeah, it was hot here as well up in Green Bay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you guys get outside or
anything?
Well, well,
yeah a lot of leaf work because it's you know, gonna be just a few days here to get all those leaves taken care of mulched whatever you do with them blow them around Yeah, so yeah, we took care of that in the yard and I think we're all set and ready to go although I hear a little tip here, you know from Johnny's
Johnny asked, well, Johnny's
gardening
cornering.
I was going to say something like that's stupid.
But anyway, I bought a plastic hose roller.
You know, you just roll up your hose.
Yeah.
How's that work?
That didn't work real well.
So do not buy a plastic one.
What you need a metal one.
You really have to have a metal one because the hose from the faucet into this roll, it broke.
It broke at that point.
And I just thought, how would that have happened?
I have no idea.
But anyway, do not buy one of those ever again.
Thank you for that consumer
tip.
There you
go.
Conrad, did you get outside?
Yeah,
did
you?
Well, I'm
getting fun and exciting.
You're an outdoor kind of guy.
I didn't do any yard work because I live in an apartment.
So I get that handle for me.
But, you know, I did, I did, I took a little walk just cause I was like, I'm not, we're not going to get this much longer.
So.
Right.
Yeah.
Do you
have a nice three or four miles or a nice
park nearby or where?
There's, there's so many different parks to choose from in Green Bay.
But I like to, I like to choose a walking trail into pier that actually goes under a bridge as well.
It just goes, it just goes for miles.
Do you have a watch?
Can you count your steps?
Do you
have
something like
that?
Yep.
Yep.
Okay.
Cool.
Did you grow up in Green Bay?
No, I grew up in a small town named Key Wascom.
Well,
I
love Key Wascom.
Where
is it?
I don't know Key Wascom.
I can't remember where it is.
I've actually visited Key Wascom.
I
just
don't remember where it is.
Do you know where West Bend is?
Yeah.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
It's about seven minutes north of the West
Bend.
Cause we were going to West band and all of a sudden we thought, ah, let's get out of here.
And we drove around and yeah, we went through Kewaskam.
Okay.
A little bit later on, we'll have rocker in the studio.
Now usually Terry Barr does bar band Friday nights.
Well, he's going to stream yard in.
Is he?
Yes.
Oh, I thought he was coming in.
Oh, okay.
Well, if you were here when
we were talking production, I missed the meeting.
I miss most of the meetings.
And then later on this evening, Tom and Christy Manus, we've had them on before a few times in our show here in Madison.
They are unbelievable.
They have so many stories to tell, so many places they visited in Wisconsin, different books, you know, mysterious things in Wisconsin.
And of course, you've got one here where they're just
what they travel all around.
This is historic Wisconsin roadside towns off the beaten path in the Badger state.
and they go all over and they continue to find all these amazing places, just a little bit odd.
And sometimes they're just
little things, but they're amazing little things, right?
Fun stuff.
They've actually traveled all around the world, I think.
But they prefer
Wisconsin.
I think that's your next book.
Going Around
the World.
Something, yeah.
Something global.
Some kind of global trip that they're on, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, you know, hey, I got to tell you this.
I heard this on the way in.
Do you have HBO?
I
do have HBO.
Well, how about that?
I
know.
I know it's amazing.
Sean Lenin produced something about his dad and Yoko.
You know, I heard something about that.
You can remember what it's called or just a documentary
about his later life.
Yeah.
And give him a letter of credit to Yoko.
Yeah.
And he was asked, what was the one of the most missed
Misunderstood misunderstood things about Yoko.
No, he goes her singing.
Well, she was a different kind of singer or screamer.
Well, this is the thing.
He said that was just kind of a modern way of singing that she tried out and she did it.
She.
has actually a pretty nice voice.
She writes her own song, so it's all in this special on HBO.
Yeah,
I got to see that.
I know she was classically trained as a pianist.
Yes, yes.
And she really
was very talented.
Supposedly, it was a very nice voice.
Yeah.
So she sang a
few things on one of, you know, really?
Yeah, several albums.
Yeah.
And it wasn't the screaming that you think of that.
Yeah.
The
Banshee.
The Banshee scream.
Yeah.
But yeah.
She lives in upstate New York somewhere.
We're
not in the middle of nowhere now.
And she's in her nineties.
She's getting wild.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Quite a bit older than John
Lennon.
Sean is like 50 years old now.
I know.
Isn't that amazing?
And when he looks at his dad, a picture of his dad who was in his late thirties, uh, he feels like he's older than
he is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, that's gotta be a weird feeling.
Yeah.
And then of course he said, you know, Yoko looks at him as though he's still a child.
And we all do as adults, right?
I mean, our kids, no matter how large they grow, how bizarre they look when they're older, we still see the little child in them.
You know, Sean, oh no, Lenin, he has been involved in a number of projects of remastering some of...
John Lennon's works over the years, and it's interesting.
He's left.
Julian Lennon is not involved in any of that.
It's wild, isn't it?
Julian sounded just like John.
Yes, and it looks amazingly
like John.
Amazingly like
John.
But Julian Lennon kind of felt left out of that whole process because he wasn't really around, you know, much after after John left Cynthia Lennon for Yoko.
And so he wasn't really involved
with the
music.
with with his solo, Lenin's solos.
Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here.
But
well,
but it's interesting, though, he kind of gets cut out of, I think, although they the two of them get along, Sean and Julian.
Yeah.
Sean apparently doesn't involve Julian in the music end of
Julian had so many really good songs just
briefly
and a good album and all of a sudden he just kind of fell off the face of the earth stopped.
I don't know why.
Do you know
why?
Well, he really got into photography.
He's a really great photographer.
He actually puts on you know shows and get in galleries.
All right
But I think that's his main
thing but
but lately he did put out an album not too long ago and it's just called Jude
Oh, because,
you know, he was Jude.
He was the
Jude.
Anyway,
should we get to the question of the night?
I don't know.
I think we have to have music provided.
Question of
the night life to cue us into the question of the night.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Question.
Question.
Okay, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
What's that?
Questions.
What?
What would be the question?
What would be the question tonight?
Conrad, take it away.
Well,
it is national guac de guacamole.
And I just want to know your favorite chip dip.
Okay.
All right.
All right,
we have a list.
I mean, we post the question early and a lot of people contribute.
Yeah.
And let's go to wonderfully Wisconsin says I'm a sucker for queso blanco.
Is that a
white?
That must be.
K. So Blanco.
Yeah.
That's a white cheese, I think.
Yep.
It's the one.
Yeah.
And, and, and Amanda Nimmer says all the dips.
Well, control yourself, Amanda.
Take a bath in him.
You know, Tim Baker, I'm a sucker for French onion.
But you know, it's the breath thing.
I know.
Yeah.
And Mike Mercury, our friend comedian.
He says he loves guacamole, but if I had to choose one, I'll take French onion.
My goodness sakes.
All right.
What about you, John?
What do
you prefer?
Oh man, I tell you, I just like guacamole dip.
Yeah.
And you know, here's the thing, and this is the secret.
You can have a really fantastic guacamole dip if you put cumin in the guacamole.
It it makes it makes the difference worlds of difference.
Just do that.
I've never heard.
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
Catherine Lake says spinach dip remotely healthy.
Yeah, that's kind of good, actually.
Oh, yeah.
Spinach dip.
Yeah.
Like a ranch dip or a quack.
I like quack a lot.
Yeah, I do too.
Yeah,
I guess that would be my choice.
So, uh, yeah,
Dom's in the studio taking pictures of kind of dip.
Do you like Dom?
Yeah,
just yell it out.
What do you what are you at?
Okay.
French.
Oh, no, really French.
Yikes.
Okay.
All right.
Good enough.
All right.
Well, you can chime in.
You can call us 855-752-4842.
That's 855-752-4842.
I mean, you gotta spice
it
up a
little bit.
You gotta have something that's creamy for these chips.
You just can't have French onion.
Eric from Madison says pico de gallo, de gallo.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that.
Anybody want to take a stab at that?
I
don't know what that is.
I don't know either.
Does anybody
ever scratch in their head?
Is
that the
you
know
what
that
is Conrad?
Is that the green?
It has a light.
It has a light sauce to it, but it's more like vegetables into his chunks.
Like a vegetables in like tomato, peppers,
stuff like that.
Is
it green chilies?
in that
picture of it right
now.
I see it's kind of chunky.
I'm not really into that stuff.
No,
you know, chunky.
No, I don't like chunky stuff.
No.
That's sad.
I like salsa.
You know, that's actually one of my favorite.
I love it.
But guacamole with a little cumin in it.
Just it's unbelievable.
It tastes like you're in Mexico.
I like a hot
salsa.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Yes.
All right.
Okay.
So we got that.
Yeah.
All right, let's see.
Well, you know what's next.
What's
next?
Guys, we actually got a caller right now.
Oh, do we?
Cindy from Appleton wants to chime in on her favorite dip.
All right.
Cindy, go ahead.
Yes.
I'd like to hear it.
Well, my two favorite dip are a good crab dip and a good creamy, good creamy Chipotle
dip.
Oh, Chipotle dip.
Yes.
Yes.
I forgot about that.
You're right.
That is really good.
That's great.
Very
good.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
Thanks for that.
Yeah Um We you know, we know
what about the other end of this thing what kind of chip do you
like?
Oh, you know,
I like I like,
you know, you really have a you threw us a curveball here Gordy.
I like the tostito the
multi grain dip or
multi grain chip.
Yes.
Those
are really hard to find in some grocery stores.
But I think they're really good for
you.
I don't like the scoops.
You don't like the scoop.
You don't need that much.
Well, that's
also
or
dip you're having.
Yeah, I like the kind of the bite size chips.
Oh, yes, the smaller
ones.
Yes,
right?
Yeah, the circular.
Yes.
Hey, guys, we got another call.
Oh, okay.
Who is it?
Ollie from the Northwoods.
Ollie.
Okay, Ollie.
What do you got?
What's your favorite?
Hi guys.
I like to have a artichoke spinach dip with Parmesan cheese and I like
to
make it with some water chestnut so it has a little bit of a crunch to it and then I usually serve it with pita chips.
Oh,
that's great.
Yeah.
Oh, you're making me hungry.
That is really a good dip as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In fact, that's one of
my favorites as well.
Yeah.
Artichoke.
Wow.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
We're just getting started.
You
can thank Conrad for that one.
Conrad, good question.
Although
we
could
take credit for it.
All right.
Just getting started with Nightlight for a Friday night.
It's Johnny Gordy in for Pete Schwabba.
We'll be back with more on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Business Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on Civic Media Radio and John Engordy filling in.
And we were having some fun with the question of the night.
What is
your
favorite guac dip or dip, basically, for your chips?
Right.
And
running through some of the answers here.
Yeah, some really great suggestions, though.
Well, we had one from Eric in Madison, and we didn't know how to pronounce a pico de gallo.
Yeah, that's the pronunciation because Catherine.
corrected us.
She said, Gaio.
Texting.
She's our program director.
And then she said, Mexican.
There she goes.
And
then she
continues
to.
Yes, green, because we wondered what color it was.
Yes, green.
I thought it was finding by text everything we're saying.
And then she said, I'm wrong, drunk.
Well, come on.
It's only, well, it's certainly 20.
Face yourself.
No, she's worried about us.
Oh, really?
She thinks we were drunk.
We talked to Scott Dickers, who was one of the founders of the onion.
Yes.
Yes.
And they're still going strong.
I mean, you could subscribe to their their newspaper.
You get a newspaper mailed to you each month.
And I haven't done that yet.
But I'm waiting for a deal on the subscription rate.
It is a little price.
Yeah.
But Scott's not really involved in the onion anymore.
But he has a book.
And it's called The Onion Story.
You might want to check that out.
He does have a audio audio version of it.
And I I
And mentioned in the book.
All right.
You are mentioned in
book.
I mentioned that book because I recognize the onion being really, really innovative and fun.
It's just really off the wall.
Back in the 80s,
late 80s, late 80s.
Yes.
And we were at another radio station and we thought, Oh, this would be a great feature on the radio station.
Onion radio.
Basically.
And so can we play that cut, Conrad?
This is a little clip from his book.
And this
is Scott Dicker's narrating as well.
One of Bob's staff engineers was John Peterson, a local DJ at one of Madison's rock radio stations, WMAD.
With his dulcet tones, he expressed to me his great appreciation of the onion and his dream that the onion have its own radio segment.
which he would play on his popular morning radio show on WMAD.
He offered to help us produce a show that would bring Onion News to radio audiences.
When I first visited Abela Audio, I salivated at Bob's extensive rack of well-organized sound effect and music CDs.
They put my meager sound effect albums and unusable, due to copyright restraints, movie soundtrack albums to shame.
He not only had any sound effect you could want, digitally recorded,
but an amazing royalty-free music collection called Nostalgia Themes.
Bob and I immediately negotiated a deal where I paid him a flat fee, $50, to copy his music CD treasures on digital audio tape so I could use them in my own productions.
The tracks would score countless Onion audio productions in the future.
A bed of teletype machines was still the requisite sound of a parody newscast at this time.
Even some actual newscasts continued to use this ever-present background sound effect.
And John had an impressive version from the series' 1000 and 2000 collections offered by Sound Ideas, a professional sound effect library.
He even had more than one teletype option.
I adapted a few onion stories as radio scripts and played news anchor Oswald Pliffett.
I conscripted Christine Wentz, an exceedingly pleasant and gung-ho voice work cohort,
to play another anchor named June Bunt.
There you go.
So,
yes.
So, you mentioned in the book.
The book is called The Onion Story.
It is.
It's out now.
It's brand new.
He's written several books, actually.
But this one is a little bit more personal.
This is a chapter where he discovered radio as another way to advance the onion legend.
And, of course, everybody knows about them now.
Yeah.
Well, the TV
shows were really fun.
I
mean, they were really good.
They had a takeoff of the early morning network shows, which are just, you know, brain dead.
They're God awful.
But the guests were really, really outrageous.
In fact, I have one.
I'll edit it up.
Yeah, I have it.
Edit it up for our morning show.
And we never ever got to it because we never get to half the stories I bring in Sadly, you know, we'll have some time.
You think so?
Yeah.
Thank you for
promising that.
Well, I remember the onion news, the TV onion news.
Yes.
We're talking about the same thing.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It didn't last that
long.
No, it was on for a couple of years, I think, but a lot of those clips are available on YouTube.
All right.
Uh, we're still getting some texts from Catherine.
Oh yeah.
And, uh, I don't know what this one means.
Not as drumpy as before.
No, you just said really.
And then, uh, I forget.
Dats.
What is that?
What does that mean?
I don't know what that means.
Dates.
I don't know.
Dats.
Okay.
Alright, just keep texting.
Yeah,
you keep trying.
Yeah, we'll figure it out.
And again, the question of the night is what is your favorite chip dip?
And we're taking your calls and suggestions on on the text as well.
So let us know what you think.
Yeah, rockers in the studio and we're getting ready to do the Maxink preview the Friday night edition.
Yeah,
this is a special edition.
Rocker says that it's going to be a sing-along where
every
song we have to
Sing
along.
I didn't know that he brought
the lyrics in so Fabulous it might be a more irritating version of the program.
I can't wait.
Hey, we got a text here from Laurie.
Hey word Good evening.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned a good dip salsa verde that's made with Green shows chopped tomato or chopped onions lime
cilantro and can have jalapeno peppers anywhere from a mile to to hot.
I love that.
Usually served with a good tortilla.
Anything with lime in it.
In fact, that's that's what I had to walk.
Thank you, Laurie.
You know, it's cumin and a little bit of lime.
If you drive supply, delicious talk of food.
I'm getting really hungry.
Well,
Dom, could you run down and get some food?
Oh, wait, we need him.
Yeah.
All right, when we come back, after we take a check of news, we'll be the... Back with Rocker.
Welcoming Rocker into the studio.
It's John and Gordy in for Pete Schwabba Nightlight, the Civic Media Radio Network.
This
is Nightlight with Pete Schraba.
John and Jordy are filling in.
We're trying to irritate you so much that you just can't wait for Pete to come back.
Mission accomplished.
It's time for us to welcome rocker into the studio.
And we had you on our early morning show here
in
Madison this morning.
Good to see you again, rocker.
How was your day?
It
was great.
We're double dipping guys.
Awesome.
Yeah, I know.
Maxine Caradio Saturday night, six to nine PM.
But you know, I was going to say that the chip dip
I think the apropos for
the moment would be
onion dip, right?
Onion dip for the onion.
But of course, I was going to bring up my memory of the onion because I came to go to school here at UW in 1986.
Onion coupons.
And yeah, I mean, when I got into the dorms, we were in the dorms and there was this crazy newspaper, right?
And.
Really, it was all about the ads.
The Uncle Jim's ad with free onions and free shrooms.
Yeah.
On your zah.
Wow.
And then, of course, the the bottom, you could just clip off with the scissors, the whole bottom of the paper.
Yeah.
And then that would be like a coupon book each week.
And it's great drinks pizza.
You know, it was just taco grande.
I mean, you know, that's what that's what made the popular.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, other than like the soap opera, the soap opera just like descriptions of what happened that week.
And the university calls the university calls by the university police were always good fun, right?
Good reading material.
That's actually true.
Yeah.
It wasn't even.
Yeah.
They would just, they would go and they would find stuff where the UW, you know, police were involved and it's always students and drunk people.
I forgot about that
section
and all the classified ads
too.
Yeah.
Those were the
days.
Those were the days, weren't they?
We're
getting a few more.
So what is your favorite dip?
Are you going with onion?
I'm going with onion
today.
All
right.
Paul says beer cheese dip.
Yeah, with
the
soft pretzel.
Yum.
That's actually my mom texting in.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Okay.
I got it.
My mom is on the phone right now to clarify some things for you guys.
Oh,
gosh.
Okay.
What is it?
Okay.
Good evening, Catherine.
You can clarify
a few
things here.
You're odd drunk rants here.
I mean, I should I don't know why I can't shut up.
I don't know why I can't stop texting you guys.
I'm like,
stalking you throughout
the
day.
But okay.
So the dip way answered.
And then I got into, because dickers, because
we're
doing the dickers.
We
understand.
Yes.
Thank you.
If we're doing the dickers salute, my experience with him, when you start playing anything having to do with him already audio wise, my experience with him was radio pirates.
I got into the radio pirates I wrote for the onion a couple times like your wife did John I did a couple of reviews of movies and things like that But I was never really and it was a business manager believe it or not for a little while like for like six months or a year maybe but but it was the radio pirates with dickers and laughing ourselves nauseous
with
the voices and the scripts
He is so flipping funny and his partner, Jay Rass, so funny, great writers and the experience of doing, oh my God, just laughing ourselves sick.
That's it.
Well, we
all chipped in a few times.
And the thing is, from what I remember, Scott was very specific about the dialogue.
Right.
You know, he didn't want to change it.
Yeah.
Anyway.
All right.
Anyway, that was my yeah, I know.
He's a good writer.
And we did get the reference to DAP tape, D-A-T tape.
Digital.
Yes.
Because I forgot that's the way we used to work on.
Right.
Yeah.
Anyway, this is so dumb.
Goodbye.
I was
the producer.
Bottoms up.
Okay.
All right.
We're taking all this time away from rocker.
Rocker wants to preview what's going to be on a bar band Friday.
Go ahead and wave your hands if there's another call coming in.
Just let us know.
All right.
All right.
Rocker.
Let's talk about let's talk about Max Inc.
Yeah, here we go.
Maxing radio Saturday nights this week.
Rob Roberts is spinning local Wisconsin made music on Maxing radio and you can listen to the podcast of the show.
Listen to the live stream and at civic media dot us slash Maxing radio or listen to our podcast at your our Spotify and Apple music pages.
Just search Maxing radio.
So you guys I will be out.
on Saturday night because it's my birthday.
And I will be at VO five.
Yes, November 15th, seven 30 PM sharp.
This is the 20th anniversary extravaganza of the legendary Madison band VO five.
It's all going to take place at Atwood Music Hall.
And that's at the corner of Winnebago and Atwood Avenue on Madison's east side.
In case you're not from here, get your butt down here
because
it's going to be, of course, VO five is a disco.
70s disco tribute.
It's just
absolutely amazing.
And
for this show, they're going to have a special show with a string section, enhanced horn section, and the hot oil dancers along with right.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The hot oil dancers.
That's right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're in for a great show.
And there's gonna be a mayoral
proclamation for Madison.
I think V05 day.
Can you believe it?
20 years of V05.
That's happened in tomorrow night.
And V05, back in 2015, they did a rap song for Wisconsin.
And it's really fun.
It's a little different than what they normally do, the disco, but it's theirs.
And it's Wisconsin rap.
This is V05 Wisconsin rap.
All you people from Brooklyn think you're really great.
Well, I'm here to tell you about a better state.
It's a state of mind.
Don't need to be refined.
It's 100% grade A behind Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
If you ever start feeling all horny and hairy, go up to Dora County and get you some cherry.
And late that night, she can take you going up to the White Gull Inn for the Friday fish spa.
If you like to get naked and ain't afraid to show it, go to Mais & Métis Beach and let the world know and throw your clothes on the sand.
Weave your gonads in the breeze, give it up by mosquitoes and sand fleas.
Don't matter if your fatter got blotchy skin, in Wisconsin looking funny, well
it ain't no
sin.
Take that picnic along and a frisbee all and watch out for the...
Oh, that's
great
stuff.
It really is.
Yeah.
Vio five.
Vio five.
The Wisconsin rap 20 year extravaganza tomorrow night at the Atwood music hall.
Yeah.
Really.
It's going to be a great show.
Can't wait.
tons of dancers.
Yeah, but Gordon will be going.
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
You're
gonna
be there
celebrating your birthday.
So that's right.
It'll be
fun.
And we're gonna be bringing my wife Alice and my daughter Lizzie.
We're gonna go have a lot of fun, right?
You know, normally we're working during VO five at Atwood Fest.
So we get to kind of have some fun here tomorrow night.
Flannel Fest, it's coming up the record company, the mascot theory, Beth Killiband.
American Scarecrow's and they do this benefit for the Wisconsin Warm and Cool Fund.
And it's really a great show.
They've raised $170,000 for this fund already.
It's in its 11th year.
And on the 21st of November, that will be at the Barrymore Theater here in Madison, and then November 22nd at Tanner's Bar and Grill.
That's in Kimberly.
which is just outside of Appleton.
And the record company, they're a Grammy nominated band.
I'm sure everybody knows this song, but I didn't even know actually, it was the record company.
So this was great.
Discovering this, the record company, the mascot theory, Beth Kiliband, American Scarecrow's, it's flannel fast.
Right now, let's check out the record company.
This is off the
ground.
I gotta get myself up off the side of the road Things are looking clear as I have a plan Don't know how it'll end but I know where to begin Gotta get myself off the side of the road Gotta quit lying to myself and let the truth be told I gotta quit lying to myself and let the truth be told
and let the truth be told.
That's a great
sound record company.
Yeah, I mean, they're a really big band.
But it's kind of fun because, no, of course, they're going to be playing with three other kind of local or regional bands, American Scarecrow.
So they are from Minneapolis.
Of course, Beth Killiband and the mascot theory are from right here in Madison.
And where's that show again?
That is going to be at the Barrymore theater November 21st and the 22nd at Tanner's bar and grill in Kimberly.
Excellent.
Right up there in the Fox
Valley.
I think we got time for another one here.
All
right.
You know what?
I'm going to skip ahead to a rockers closet then real quick if we got time, right?
Yes.
And we were talking about a segment snowpack.
Yes.
And his album was constant saying, right?
It was back from 1987.
He's from Milwaukee.
It's co-produced by Victor DeRenzo of the Violin Femmes and Brian Richie of the Femmes, the bassist he guests on banjo bass guitar and mandolin for this song.
Let's check it out right now because it's a good song.
It's about Milwaukee.
It's pretty cool.
It's about Milwaukee.
It's thank God this isn't Cleveland.
Yeah.
You know, some people think they got a lot to complain about when they get a flat tire on 35th and National.
Or they get lost in the industrial valley on the way home from a Brewer's game.
But not me.
See, I know better.
Cause I've been all over the whole
world.
I've traveled far and wide.
But it's always great to get back home to the land of a thousand bars.
Some people bitch about Milwaukee, but me, I know me.
I really can't
The
good old days, you know, Sigmund's not pick had a big hit with Kathleen way, way back when, but you know, just going back to the time when there were thousands of bars in Milwaukee, but what a place that's changed.
I
think it has changed a little bit, but every, I mean, there were like three bars on each block.
Oh yeah.
And in a house, right?
Yeah, in the middle of it.
Oh, tons of places in Milwaukee like that.
So what happened to sick?
He's still around.
He's still jamming in Milwaukee.
I mean, to me, I love how passionate he is.
Yeah, like he must really hate Cleveland, you know, and so we got to have like Milwaukee be better at Cleveland's expense.
But you can tell
he's like, thank God.
You just
get it
out.
Have you been to Cleveland?
I
mean, I've been through Cleveland.
Have you been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
That's
a great
place.
I actually got off on the wrong exit once and you were driving around Cleveland like, man, where's the freeway?
How do we get back on?
You got
a
zigzag.
Wow.
Okay.
Um, let's see.
We just have
where we just have a minute,
about a minute here,
but we
can, uh, we can come
you know, we can stick around.
Don't leave.
Well, I'll tell you about, you know, a couple of things that we're going on, right?
So make sure that you go listen to our podcast, right?
Because you can hear things like BAM.
BAM was right here on Max Inc Radio live in our studio and BAM, the band, they're playing with Jeremiah Jam's band coming up Friday, November 21st at the Harmony Bar.
And let's just listen to a little clip.
This is Mountain Live recorded right here in this studio.
Okay.
I think we have that.
Or perhaps not.
I think we should wait till the next segment.
Yeah, we don't have time for this,
but I'll tell you
what, well, yes, for the moment, but
we'll be
back with Rocker with the Maxing Preview, the Mount Bar Band Friday night, and stay with us.
It's John and Gordy in for Pete Schwabba on Night Lights.
This is Nightlight with Pete Trauma, John and Gordy filling in, and it's Fire Band Friday with Rocker in the studio.
And we've got great music to play for you.
But first we get... Let's get
caught up in the
text.
Yeah, because Steve apparently Conrad's dad.
Correct.
Okay, that's confirmed.
He likes French onion dip, but...
More so now today.
Anyway, he likes the hot beer cheese.
It goes with just about anything.
I agree with him.
You can put anything in it.
Chips, potato chips, french fries,
soft
pretzels.
You can do anything.
Anything.
Conrad, do you agree with your father on
that one?
What side are you on?
Because your mom said beer cheese dip.
I
mean, you know, beer cheese is great, but I go with buffalo chicken dip.
Oh,
yeah, that's
good stuff.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
With hot red hot sauce in it.
All right.
All right.
Good to know.
Yes.
All
right.
Let's get back to
rock.
We got this great song.
We let up to it now.
We let up to it.
It was bam.
And they had played here just a week ago right here in the studio on WMDX down in Madison.
And every Saturday night we feature a live performer in our studio.
And this was bam.
Of course, you can see him live coming up the Harmony bar with Jeremiah Jams band out of Green Bay.
That'll be Friday, November 21st, but right now mountain.
This is live from the man city on Max, Ink radio.
This is bam.
You know, now
that's got a
great sound.
I can hear the rest of the bar sing
along.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Everybody get into it.
And they're just, you know, great Wisconsin guys that the bassist, he's from Wisconsin Rapids up there.
So W FHR territory.
And then some guys from Baraboo.
And then some of the guys are from Madison.
So that they're all from around the whole state.
That's the beautiful Bo Allen Melton music.
Bam.
B A M M. Find them on Facebook.
They're really great.
All right.
All right.
Uh, you know, I went into my closet, right?
Yeah.
So let's, let's get into another one.
I thought I'm seeing him in a snowpick, but you know what?
I found another little gem that I thought I'd bring in tonight.
You got a lot of stuff in that closet.
I do.
I hope you
go in there and clean it out everyone.
No, no, that's the problem.
Really?
It's all clutter.
Oh my gosh.
That's why a lot of stuff falls on my head while I'm looking for great tunes like this from loose Bruce Kerr.
He's from Waukesha, the cheesehead song.
He's a humorist, right?
And it's an original song about Wisconsin.
And by birth, he's from Waukesha, but he graduated from University Wisconsin Law School here at Madison.
And he records the songs and videos now in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California.
Wow.
But he's been on Dr. Tumeno, Jim Bohannon radio shows coast to coast.
And he's actually an attorney now, a high tech attorney for Sun Micro Systems in Northern California.
But he does funny songs.
And I thought I'd bring it in right now.
Let's check it out.
This is Bruce Kerr, the cheesehead
song.
Christmas time.
Beer and rods are tasty, but quite apart from these.
There is only one thing that we love and that is cheese.
Hey, I'm the living cheesest that you are talking to.
And cheeses stick together like darling, I'm with you.
So if you really love me and when you want to please honey, I come from Wisconsin.
Give me sex or give me cheese.
Hey, where's the twinking fountain?
I think you mean bubbler is
Ain't too Green Bay, he brought along some cheese.
I've
held his last tattoo today, woo!
At Madison, the capitol, in Grape and Rocket Breeze.
A
motto of
Wisconsin, give me sex or give me cheese.
Hey, I'm a living cheeser that you are talking to.
And cheesers stick together like I am stuck on you.
So if you really love me, and when do, when do?
Say cheese,
cheese.
That's
beautiful.
I like that a
lot.
All right.
Bruce Kerr.
Oh yeah, loose Bruce Kerr.
Really well.
Loose Bruce Kerr.
Yeah, is that funny or what?
That is great.
I couldn't help but bring that one in.
All right, Maxi.
tomorrow night.
That's right.
What's the lineup?
Every Saturday night, six to 9 p.m.
It's going to be Rob Roberts.
He's just going to be in for us.
I'm going to be off celebrating my birthday or reveal five at the Edward Music Hall.
So Rob will be spinning tunes and we'll be back next week after
that.
Very cool.
All right.
Well, we'll see you there.
I'm going to go to that show.
That'll be a good time.
Got to be can't wait.
737
30
sharp is when it starts.
So open at seven.
All right.
They got a lot of music to cover.
Okay, we're getting a pretty
good response with the, uh, the favorite dip for your chips.
Yeah, we got some more.
We did answer there at the
bottom.
Oh, okay.
Hi, John and Corey and rocker.
The secret to great dip is a great chip.
I agree.
Miss.
Miss
Mike's chips.
Really?
I had a free port Illinois.
Oh.
Best potato chips on earth.
Wow.
I've heard of Mrs. Mike's.
I'm going to have to try that.
Order some online and get some French onion dip and you'll have an experience you will not forget.
Believe me, it's worth a try.
Thank you.
John Murray from Madison.
Okay.
And Tom from New Berlin says sometimes I'm a dip.
Does that count?
Okay, Tom.
Thank you for that.
Yes, that does count, Tom.
Rocker, once again, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Thanks guys.
I really
appreciate it,
man.
Yeah.
Thanks for coming in.
We've
got more coming up right around the corner.
Tom and Christy Manus, they are travel writers and
Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.
This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.
Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.
And now a guy still not convinced computers are here to stay, Pete Chwaba.
I'm with Pete on that.
I'm not sure of it.
Oh, yeah.
Tech.
I'm trying to convince you otherwise, but it's not working.
No.
Um, this is John and Gordy, uh, filling in tonight.
He'll
be back next week.
Yeah.
Monday.
Yeah.
And we've got, uh, you know, our big question tonight is, uh, because it's quack day, right?
We're celebrating.
What is your favorite chip dip?
And, uh, and we have one response here.
Uh, it's hard to beat queso dip.
with tortilla chips.
Yum.
And I once improvised and added some grated cheese and bacon bits to a tub of sour cream.
That was a party hit.
Sounds good.
Not too hard to in displease a party group.
And how about this?
My favorite dip has to be Pete Schwabba on a crispy crunchy nightlight episode.
Okay.
You two guys need too bad either.
Yeah, that's from steady.
I
appreciate that.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Well, we welcome in Tom and Christy Manus.
They've been here a number of times on our local show here at WMDX.
But good to have you on Pete Schwab's show.
Good to have you both in.
We're excited to be here.
Yeah.
So happy holidays.
We're getting to the holiday season here.
And do you have any recommend
Recommendations on holiday places to go, things to see around Wisconsin.
Any favorites?
Of course we do.
Well that's good because I asked you a
little while ago to come up with some.
So I'm glad
I asked.
But yeah, let's talk about the books.
Historic Wisconsin Roadside.
That's one book and the other one is Secret Wisconsin.
You're very mysterious and very secret but some great places that you have discovered.
Tiny little things, big things, it's just amazing.
Amazing book and
I would suggest
these books if you're really going to make kind of a staycation in Wisconsin
and
pick up these books, you're invaluable.
Yeah.
And if you know somebody that you don't know what to get them for Christmas talking about Christmas, yes, it is.
It
is.
It
really is.
And another thing too is we like things that are really inexpensive.
Yeah.
And Secret Wisconsin, you can do everything, experience everything in a book for $64.80.
There you go.
See.
So some could say we were cheap.
That's pretty good.
I you figured I didn't want to
say that So holidays
give us some
give us some ideas.
I think I'll start out with one of my favorite things to do for the holidays and it's up in Barron, Wisconsin.
Okay, I had to think Barron, right?
It's Barron County.
It's Barron County right outside of
rice like
the small town of Cameron.
It's a really
small town.
It's called the Pioneer Village Museum.
Okay, and for one weekend they open up
at christmas and you know santa's there and you can take the horse drawn buggies around and there's music in the little chapel and there's gifts and crafts it's really fun
yeah you buy
ornaments
there
yeah you can buy anything and it's free
really
yeah it is yeah and that is this year it's december sixth and seven
okay excellent and and we'll be there
oh you are okay
do you go
over here make it an annual deal
we try to go and see santa
yeah
Because it's really unique.
They have Santa in like a boat house with an old
boat.
And the old boat.
He is.
He's in all.
Yeah, it's a
little different.
That's a little different.
But the old boat on display is one that used to be or used to be one that delivered mail on the on one of the lakes.
Sure.
Yeah.
Well, that is interesting.
Okay.
So Santa's delivering mail and sitting in a boat on
Christmas.
Yeah.
But it really is a little
different.
It is different.
We like different time for that.
And the kids like that kind of thing.
So what made you think how mean we're going to go this year?
Why would you have thought about doing it?
Well, because we're signing our books there.
And it is a lot of
fun.
Yeah.
All right.
What date are you going to be there?
We're going to be there the sixth and the seventh.
Okay.
Friday night and then Saturday during the day.
Okay.
Actually, that's be Saturday night and Sunday during the day.
Yeah.
Good thing I
keep
her around.
All right.
My wife's the same thing.
So that's how far is that from Madison?
Oh, that's quite a trip.
So it's it's about it's under four hours.
Okay.
Yeah,
well, that sounds like an easy ride.
Any other any other holiday ideas that jump out at you know,
there
has
to be a whole bunch
of
them.
Oh, definitely.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Oh, yeah.
See, we're quick.
You know,
all this stuff in less.
Let's
go to the next
one.
Another favorite of ours is the in Sparta is a Chris Kringle Market.
Okay.
And
It's, I mean, they have the little wooden, you know, market booths that they built.
You know, it really looks European and it's really crowded because it's really popular.
But throughout town, they have these sections set up with a little booth and, you know, people are selling their handmade crafts or whatever, you know, and, you know, cousin Eddie makes an appearance straight with his bathrobe holding a can of beer.
Well, I mean,
I
mean, I don't know if he comes for free or if they hired him.
I don't know.
But but it's kind of fun.
It's a different cousin that
he could be.
Yeah.
And
as far as that's not that far away from here.
No,
that's a little closer.
Yeah.
But but we would highly recommend it.
I mean, it's really a cool spot.
A lot of stuff to do.
They have a really good spiced apple cider
at Jenny's cover.
It's
it's an old rest.
Well, it's not old.
It's a restaurant when you can step back in time.
And everything in there is, is antiques, but everything has a purpose and a story.
It's not like they just pulled a bunch of antiques and, you know, right in there.
Yeah.
I mean, it, it really is a good place.
And they make all their food handmade.
And, and her recipe for apple cider is, I think if I remember right, your firm or grandmother.
So, and it's really good.
Yeah.
Hand it down from the ages.
All right, so what else you got for us?
Let's go to the next one.
Well, I mean
you have the list over there, so
Yeah, well, you can't read it So you're
gonna get into a family So in
in
Spooner another huge event in Spooner is ladies night out
Where you know you bring donation or you buy something from one of the stops or one of the shops Excuse me, and and you get entered into the drawing, but it's probably one of the most popular events in Northwest, Wisconsin And we'd also recommend Going there too So that's a lot of fun.
Yeah up in the Northwood
Spooner ladies night it is
it is ladies night and that is November 24th.
Yeah, it's a Monday night from
two to eight.
A lot of husbands go though also.
Oh, yeah.
There's a nice brewery there.
So yeah.
So they can go to the brewery.
I would have thought more of a singles thing than anything.
Well, you know, that's where that bar is.
The
big dicks but corn saloon.
You know, we're President Kennedy.
He peed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's in that town.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Familiarize everybody with that story.
Yeah, I mean that's tell us
again.
Yeah, so when uh jfk was campaigning yet north west wisconsin Uh, he was in spooner, you know, he hit all the small towns I know but you know just like everybody else you got to go so right so he stopped in this in this bar and and uh, you know took a leak Yeah, took a took a leak and then uh You know when he was done somebody handed him a glass of beer somebody a lady bought him a glass of beer
and he drank a little but left it there, but they kept the cup and it's now in a display that they have, you know, newspaper articles, but also the bathroom hasn't changed since he was there, so you can stand there and you can literally go to the bathroom and pee the same place that JFK did, because I don't think it's been updated and it's not very clean either, but...
Well, it's true that women can't participate, but I get it, I get it.
Yeah, this reminds me of like a Derby O'Gill and the Little People.
Do you ever see that movie?
I did not.
Because they had
one of the little people drink out of a glass and they saved the glass and they put it on top of the bar and everybody
was
just ooing on over something
so silly.
It's the same thing, yeah.
Something
like that.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, they have a little display case on the wall, you know, with a few things in
there.
Sounds like a great trip, you know.
Yeah, go
see that.
There's actually a lot of things to do in Spooner that people don't really...
know about.
Most people focus on Hayward, which is, you know, 30 minutes away, you know,
but
Spooner really is one of those little hidden towns that you need to look at.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
That's a big recommendation.
Big thumbs up.
Talking about some holiday things here with Tom and Christie Manis, travelers,
historic Wisconsin road signs.
One of the books and the other one is Secret Wisconsin.
Well, fill us in.
What else do you got?
Any other holiday
ideas?
Oh, sure.
Look across.
Look across.
They have the rotary lights.
Oh,
yeah.
Every town has lights.
Yeah.
But lacrosse.
This is over the top.
It is a big deal.
I think it was a couple of years ago.
Somebody vandalized all their lights or stole their lights.
Oh, no.
But they're back up now this year.
I know they're putting them up right now.
What is a rotary light?
It's a light display put out by the rotary.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
And it's right down on the riverfront park.
Okay.
But that's pretty exciting.
Yeah.
It is.
Now we have a question here from Anna of Madison says hi, John, Gordy and Conrad.
Please ask your guests about the Old World Christmas Market at the Olsdorf Resort
in Elkart.
Is that what it
is?
Do you know about this?
I
know about it, but I haven't been.
We haven't been.
Okay.
All right.
See you.
Pleasure to stop.
All right.
Yes.
But also down there, like Geneva, you might have heard of the Santa Cruz.
They take the Mel boat.
And you can take your kids on the cruise and they go through a light display on the shoreline.
And then at the very end, there's a little house with Santa there and the kids.
Now, you can't go in the house, but Santa comes by the boat.
Oh, wow.
And so the kids get to see Santa.
That's cool.
So
that's in Lake Geneva?
It is.
So that's before the lake freezes over.
Well, yeah, and they have little people swimming out there to keep it from,
you
know, like the
ducks.
They didn't have enough ducks, so now they're, you know, they're little bathing caps, you know.
See, that's a detail that we didn't cover.
Okay, here's another one.
It's not in Wisconsin,
though.
Oh, all right.
Sure.
It's in Fairfield, Iowa.
They put on a great Christmas event there.
They have a town square with a gazebo, you know, old fashioned, everything.
They have horse and buggy rides around the square.
They do a kickoff where they light everything up.
They have a Grinch Christmas village, which is so much fun.
I think
that'd be cool.
It's really cool.
I think it's a carpenter that puts it on so they build all these little things and the families can go through
it.
Is that
Whoville?
Yeah, and the buildings are like from the movie.
But Fairfield, Iowa, they do an incredible job with
Christmas.
What's our Iowa's?
Southeast.
Yeah.
It's also one of the quirkiest towns you'll ever come across.
Really?
It is.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's about 10,000 people.
Oprah called it America's...
Who cares?
Yeah anyway, but
most unusual small town They
have more restaurants per capita than San Francisco in this little bitty town and the restaurants are anything you could think of
There's Turkish Ethiopian Egyptian, you know anything you wouldn't think it really is a small town.
Yeah
All right got about a minute left here also
in the
Yerks observatory.
I hope I said that right.
The world's largest glass tree.
They started last year or two years ago.
Glass blowers are actually blowing glass on site and then they're taking the hot glass and building, building the tree.
Wow, that
must be incredible.
Wow.
Yeah.
I have enough time.
I have one more.
Yeah.
Okay.
In Eau Claire, there's a place called the glass orchard and they do glass works and they also have an apple orchard.
But for the next couple of weeks, they hang all their glass ornaments in the apple trees and you can walk through the magical fantasy land and pick up what you want.
Let
us let a combination orchard and glass blowing.
Yeah, we will continue with Tom and Christy Manus and find out some more ideas for the holidays.
It's John and Gordy in for Peach Wawa Civic Radio Network.
John and Gordy in for Pete Schwabba on Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We're back with Tom and Christy Manus with talking about some holiday ideas and other ideas, places to go this time of year.
That might be fun for you and the family.
And taking your texts and your phone calls if you want to call in.
Yeah, a big question.
6-8-8-7-9-8-2-5-5.
Question of the night because it's a
Guac Day today.
What is your favorite chip dip?
Feel free to give us a let's ask Tom and Christie a texture.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, guacamole.
Definitely is mine.
Yeah
What is it?
What do you like in it?
Do you like the cumin idea and a little dash of lime when that make it taste really good?
No, I like it Pretty plain.
Okay, little dice tomato little dice.
Oh, yeah Dice tomato and
a little diced
onion and little lime juice and pretty simple
Well cumin see you have everything but cumin in it
if you put it just a little pinch of it.
John's crazy for cumin.
I'll try it.
It really makes it kind of Mexican.
Well, I've had my fill of cumin lately because last night we were at our local EAA chapter chili cookoff.
Oh, and
some of it had a little too
much in there.
It was a little strong.
Yeah.
I've been to those chili cookoffs, you know, Sturgeon Bay.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
That's great stuff up there.
Christie, do you have a favorite dip?
I do.
And it's not his.
I like an old fashioned one that my mom used to make, which is cream cheese, sliced olives, Worcestershire sauce.
Wow.
And some olive juice.
It's just milk.
Yeah.
Put a little milk in it.
Are they green?
Green
olives.
Okay.
Yes.
That would be good.
And it's good on a bagel
also.
I do like it too.
Yeah, he likes that
too.
Well, it's good that you can get along.
You can agree on something once in a while.
Okay.
All right, let's get back to some more travel items for this time of year or any time of year.
What do you got?
Yeah, basically.
Okay, so an Oshkosh is celebration of lights.
Oh,
oh, yeah.
Which is basically a celebration of light.
It's very celebratory.
It goes from the
invention of the light bulb all the way up to neon and then.
It does.
But if you're in the Oshkosh area.
Oh, it's a great thing to do.
Well, how about, uh, I mean, we have a celebration of lights here in Madison.
Oh, it's great.
And all in
part.
Is it, is it, yes, all in part.
I love that.
It's the same kind.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Great thing.
And I just read that Viola Zoo is going to have some kind of a light thing this year.
Oh, I didn't hear that.
I hope
it
doesn't scare the animals.
Yeah.
No, maybe they're going to light the animals up.
No, that'd be
something to watch
them walking around.
Dress them up in, uh, yeah, LEDs.
Yeah, that's
pretty
safe that way.
Or have you traveled lately?
What new things have you seen as we talked to you last?
Have you been out and about?
No way around tell us about it.
You're working on another book.
Well,
we
we
there's a chance we have to release next year The second one is pushing into the year but okay, but our next one coming up is called lost treasures of Wisconsin is its Release day is scheduled for May 1st and it's about things that aren't here anymore that everybody has fond memories of
Oh, yes.
We're
pretty
excited
about that.
Yeah.
What have you got?
A couple of
like
like old bars and restaurants
and big sky driving.
Yeah.
Oh, the big sky driving.
I know right
where that
was.
Headliners.
Yeah.
Headliners.
Yes.
We had a TV show
called
Smokey Sky Driving.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We work.
I know you did.
We worked at Channel 47, which is located right there.
I was a viewer.
Were you really?
Yes.
You're kidding.
No.
How's that so were you you were living in Madison here?
Yeah, I was I grew up in Mount Horpe
Okay, so
you were
the
one person to watch that show.
Yes.
Fantastic to hear
that.
I remember when 47 started.
Oh,
yeah.
Well, we were there.
That was a big deal when we got back then.
Yeah
It was okay.
No, we were not we're gonna save this story.
This is a teaser We're gonna save the story to release date.
Okay, but during the research on this book with
with Smokies Christy found With what's being a good teaser anyway, she found something really interesting with a family member that is tied to the restaurant that goes back from history that that she didn't know and It's really really
interesting.
Well, can't wait to find that.
Yeah, I'm not gonna tell you but it's pretty exciting Yeah, this
is tight in with Smokies.
It is.
Okay.
Yeah, which is a steak restaurant
Yes, it was.
It was.
It's
been rated.
It has
been rated
the best in the Midwest.
Of course, Madison in Wisconsin.
It's
weird.
A lot of these great restaurants don't pass along from generation to generation.
Doesn't it look strange?
I think it is.
You
know, Madison had so many great restaurants, and they still do, but a lot of the older ones are gone.
Pretty sad, I think.
Well, Smokies was a great place.
It was.
And it was an iconic history.
Yeah,
you
walked in there.
It was like going back to 1960.
Exactly.
They hadn't changed anything.
No.
Now, wasn't there a dinner club right on Verona Road and the Belt Line?
It was in the shopping center parking lot.
And it was a steakhouse, I believe.
It was a fantastic... Well, maybe it was a...
Maybe they had fish there.
I can't remember now.
No, I can't remember that.
Okay.
Well, how about La Tigre?
It's Dylan.
Have you been to La Tigre?
I don't know that one.
Oh, you have to go to La Tigre because that is a legend in Madison.
It's right off
the belt line
at what exit?
Verona Road.
Okay, Verona Road.
And it's right next to Doran's hardware.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
And they have a hot plant, hot.
oil lamps in there all over.
At least
they did when we were in there and it's actually brake oil.
Oh, he did brake oil.
That has tires
on the walls and it's a lounge.
And you will get reprimandered if you swear in there.
Really?
Yeah.
I can't say any swear words.
I think that's the son that said it over.
He probably doesn't like
that.
Now, do you know that from experience?
No, I swear it's all the time.
I swear
a
lot.
It's a problem.
And I got kicked out.
No, I don't know.
Oh, that's quirky.
Yeah, it's a weird place, but it's a fun place.
Good place to go.
All right, we're going to continue with Tom and Christy.
What we got another suggestion here, Mark.
All right, make
it
quick recipe for pumpkin hummus.
Yeah.
And that looks kind of interesting.
I guess it does look interesting.
Yeah.
We'll get to more.
We'll be back in just a few minutes on nightlight on the civic media radio.
Yes, we're
back
on
the air.
This is Nightlight with Pete Trauma.
John and Courtney are filling in tonight and we have very special guests.
and great books as well.
It's Tom and Christy Manus and tell us, you know, wait, let me just go first to our text here because we've got a few texts and suggestions.
We talk about the pumpkin hummus, which sounds like a really good deal, doesn't it?
I mean, that sounds like fun.
I've never
thought about pumpkin.
I
try
it.
We mix pumpkin in almost everything now.
We
put it
in tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce.
We always mix it in.
Wow.
I've never heard of that.
It really is.
It's really good.
We found out only because at Aldi, they sell it all in one container, you know,
pumpkin
and tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce.
Oh, wow.
And it's really nice.
It kind of waters down the tomato taste, the bite, and it's fantastic
stuff.
One of the two, one of the chili recipes last night had pumpkin.
Oh, yes.
And it did.
It
took the bite away from it.
It does bite away.
The acidic away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, they always say to give it to dogs if they have an upset stomach, too.
Is that right?
Yeah, so that makes sense.
I didn't know that.
John Murray, we appreciate your comment about John and Gordy in the morning.
Great dynamic.
Catherine is a nice jump in every time.
Jump in every
time.
She jumps in every once
in a while.
And Gordy commercials are very well done.
Oh, well, thank you.
And John, your passion is exactly what we need to hear every day.
Thank you both for the journey.
All right, well, thank you.
Yeah, and plus he also mentioned here Hope to see you at the Atwood movie.
Oh, yes.
Yes the godfather of Green Bay We do want to remind everybody that's happening at the Atwood music hall here in Madison.
You should make the trip This is a Pete Schwabba written movie.
He directed it.
He stars in it.
There are some other stars in there
We're at Tom Lennon and Lauren Holly and I'm missing somebody.
Oh,
Lance Barber.
Tony Goldwin.
Last Barber?
Yes.
Thank you, Conrad.
Anyway, this is happening at the Atwood Music Hall here in Madison, December 4th.
That's a Thursday night, 7 p.m.
powered by our friends at Doundrens Distilling.
And it all goes to help, or portions of it go to help the Dane County Humane Society.
And thank you, Eric Swenson, for filling me in.
As far as the Supper Club, I couldn't think the name of it.
It was a fish place or a steak place on Verona Road and
the Belt Line, and it's called Filers Club.
Remember
the White Horse?
Oh,
yeah.
Right down the block.
You remember that?
Yeah.
That would be in your new book, right?
Yeah.
Nob Hill and there's so many of them.
The Cuba Club.
Oh, yeah.
Sure.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that's kind of Madison-y, but we're statewide at this point,
right?
But read about it in their next one is okay now you've got another that's coming out in the summer May
1st, okay in that book Los Angeles, Wisconsin is literally the entire state
Okay,
we tried to get things from every part in the state Okay, and then the work the book we're working on right now is small town, Wisconsin
small town, Wisconsin
It's going to be towns with 15,000 people or less.
But but it's, you know, what are you looking for when you go to a small town like that?
We look for quirky.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the first thing.
We don't look for old buildings or stuff like that.
We like pop culture and exciting stuff.
It'll have like lower.
Yes.
Famous people, you know, pretty much how the town
started.
It's got to have a cool vibe to it.
Okay.
What's
the what's the smallest town in the book?
Do you have any?
idea.
Yeah.
We're still picking towns.
It's kind of funny because I was up near Shanno and driving through the countryside and we ran across a diner.
No, it wasn't a diner.
It was a supper club.
And it was the most gorgeous looking supper club I think I've ever seen.
It was neon lights and flashing signs.
And you go in and it's just it's really kind of nice, but it has a regular bar.
And I
Mentioned this the other day.
It had a ham sign, you know, where the ham
spear
hams beer and the water would rotate and it would look like it was.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was hypnotized.
I
love neon.
So yeah, yeah.
It wasn't the fire, fire room or fireside.
Maybe I can't remember the name of it.
It was just unbelievable.
Yeah.
Well, if you were in
Shawano, Shawano,
Shawano.
Did you go to Twig Sundrop Museum?
Oh, yes, I did.
Yes,
right in town.
Yeah, that's kind of a fun place.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
There's so much packed
in there.
Because, yeah, Sundrop was my favorite soloist, a little kid.
Yeah,
me too.
Oh, it still
is, ours.
Oh, yes, still
is.
Yeah.
Yeah, we don't really drink a lot of coffee hardly she doesn't drink any I Occasionally will have some but but our caffeine in the morning is diet sundrop.
That place is amazing on a Saturday all the people bringing in their bottles and exchanging them for full bottles
I mean,
there's some people getting
four and five cases.
Yeah, I'm exchanging really kids that wheel them out to their car Yeah, it's kind of a fun place.
Is that on the Fox River side?
Or is it on the downtown side?
I mean, it's all downtown, but
it's downtown.
Yeah.
Is it
it's,
uh, you know where the river is?
Yeah, it's closer to the river.
It's on the
north side.
It's
on the north side of the street.
Yeah.
On Main Street.
Yeah.
And we're actually going to be there.
Oh, you are.
We're going to be signing books there too.
We are.
We're signing
a lot of
books.
This is our list the next couple of weeks.
Oh, wow.
You're on tour.
And this doesn't have everything.
We had a few more today
because we've got the statewide audience tonight.
Okay, so when are we at Sun Drop?
Okay, so Saturday the 22nd.
Thank you.
I have a hard time with it.
You should see the looks we get.
Okay, so we're at Twix Sun Drop Museum on Saturday the 22nd from 10 to 12 and then later that day we're going to be in Stevens Point at bound to happen books from two to four.
And then we mentioned Spooner Ladies Night Out.
We're going to be there signing books at Round Man Brewing.
December 4th, we're going to be at Peppin Library.
And then December 6th, we're going to be at Pearl Street Books in La Crosse and then also Pioneer Village, the 6th and the 7th and Cameron, which is just outside of Rice Lake.
And then the 11th, we're going to be in
Superior at the Bong Veterans Historical Center.
If you haven't seen that, it's really cool.
They've got a cool Pete here 38 lightning World War two.
Oh, really?
And he's one of the top maybe the top he's one of the top aces of World War two.
So yeah, I mean, it's I'm a word.
I'm a warboard bird fanatic.
So I love that stuff.
So I'm really excited to do that And I did pick up a book about him recently.
I just haven't been had time to read it and then the 12th
We're probably going to be in early.
We're waiting to finalize that.
Um, and then I added three more today,
but then we're leaving for Europe on the 18th.
Okay.
No,
that's going to be a different book, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll be there.
We're going to be in Europe, the Mediterranean actually, um, over Christmas, which we're kind of excited about spending Christmas.
We're going to actually spend Christmas day in Italy.
So that should be interesting this year.
Yeah, who am I thinking of that does a tour of Italy all the restaurants there on CNN?
Oh, um
He's an actor.
Yeah.
Um,
oh Stanley Tucci.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, he's got a good show.
That
is such a great
show Another great show if you haven't seen it is somebody feet bill
Somebody few
somebody Phil Rosenthal.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
That's hilarious.
We love that.
He was just
here recently doing Madison.
Oh, yeah, he's on a book tour right now.
He produced everybody loves Raymond.
Yeah,
exactly.
Yeah.
Last month I think travel show and he goes around to different restaurants all over the world and
what a great gig.
I know.
Yeah, you guys have fun, too.
Don't you?
We have a
blast.
You must put a lot of miles on the car.
We
do.
We do.
We have to get a new one about every two years.
And the prices aren't that great now.
Do you do you have a hybrid?
I hope you do.
It saves a lot of gas.
No,
unfortunately,
we have a big draw.
Oh, okay.
There's a lot of places we go are off road, back roads, so we like to go to the Colorado Rockies.
Yeah, as much as possible.
Yeah.
But we do love what we do.
Yeah.
Well, I can tell.
I mean, you're writing a book about everything that you do do.
So you still do the
keeping track.
The magazine
articles.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
We write a lot of places.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You have a website?
We do.
Smalltownplussize.com.
Smalltownplussize.com.
We are actually small town travel specialists.
And then on social, it's Tom and Christie travel.
Well, Instagram is Tommy.
It's just our names.
Tom and Kristian Bannis on Instagram and Facebook is small town plus size.
Why the plus
size?
Because
when years ago, we used to go to small towns and made plus size adventures out of small
towns.
Because there's this misconception that there's nothing to do in small towns, where actually you'll find more and quirkier things in small towns than you will in most other
places.
Any museums that pop up in your travels lately that you've
gone
to?
In Sparta.
There's the Sparta.
Sprockets and
rockets.
Yeah.
They have bicycles and they have astronauts.
There was an astronaut
from Sparta.
Deke
Slayton.
Deke Slayton.
He was
one of the early, what are they called?
The Mercury Seven.
And Deke Slayton never got into space because he had some inner ear problems.
I remember hearing
about that.
It's a neat museum.
Yeah, this museum is a combination of a bicycle museum and a space museum.
Why not?
The only place in Wisconsin where you can see an actual moon rock.
And do you remember the bicycle that had, they put skis on it?
And then there was another bicycle, they put ice skates on it.
Okay.
Well, they have them at that museum.
And you can't I mean they were only made for like once because if you want to see him that's the place to go
Sparta is is really it's a cool town that people overlook And I think they don't have a lot of advertising dollars, but it is really
Really cork me Tim now also the all you remember all the roadside attractions back in the day because you talked about this morning, too The big roadside fiberglass attractions well Fast fiber class company just outside the city limits made a lot of those across America and you can walk through The still have the molds and all the molds.
Yeah, and you'll see like big boy and you know all kinds of stuff.
Yeah
Wow.
I think it's the fiberglass graveyard.
I
want to go to the fiberglass.
It really is cool because you get to look through and just imagine what these, you know, molds were and what they created because you're seeing the outside, not the details on the inside.
Is that where the McPherson company is?
Or maybe I'm thinking of another place.
Where's the place
for
the musky?
That's a giant musky.
Fresh water fishing hollow fame museum.
Yeah, okay But but you can stand I think they say you can fit like 20 something people inside the mouth when you go inside
And it's like you can't go inside.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there's stairs.
Yeah, there's stairs and then you can overlook the city and I Want a picture we gotta
do
this.
Yeah,
do you take a lot of
pictures?
Oh, yeah
Yeah,
we should all go on a road trip together.
I like it.
We should get a
bus.
Yes,
go through the state see all these things
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
I mean
But we take so many pictures because you never know when you're going to need something.
And when something comes up, when an opportunity for an article comes up, you know, you just search your pictures for something and say, oh, yeah, I have photos so I can write about it.
You know, so.
Oh,
yeah.
That's terrific.
Well, that's great stuff.
OK.
Let's see.
Got a few more minutes to
go.
But you were talking about small towns, though.
Anything interesting that you've come across so far that makes small towns so unique?
The people.
OK.
Oh, OK.
Wait.
We're running out of time
here
for this.
particular section, but we'll come back with more.
Be back with Tom and Christy Manus.
It's John and Gordy filling in for Pete Schwabba on Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side.
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day.
It will brighten all the way.
It will keep.
This is Nightlife with Pete Trava, John and Gordy filling in tonight.
And we're finding out a lot of places to
go in Wisconsin.
Wow.
Conrad helping us out this evening.
Pete Trava will be back on Monday.
We're continuing our conversation here with Tom and Christy Manus.
So where are we headed next?
What are we doing?
What's happening?
Well, let's go
to
Phillips.
Phillips.
Where is Flip Phillips?
So Phillips is...
It's on Highway 13.
Yep.
and
it's way up north
most people have driven through it going up north and you see these you know concrete things on the side of the road just on the south side of the city limits and it's a wisconsin concrete park and you know
okay wait you know the wisconsin concrete park
it
is something that doesn't seem like it'd be an attractive place to go
Exactly and
you
drive by and you see a few things you go.
Oh, yeah, that's interesting, but you keep driving Yeah,
you know have to pull in
yeah, it's so it started by Fred Smith who was a lumberjack back in the day and But he he started as parents were immigrants from Germany And then he started building these things in a spare time out of concrete and he he made a model like colorful on the outside
colorful class, anything that would shine and catch the light, you know, he made sculptures of different things.
Now, he was a folk artist and so that the Kohler Museum stepped in, they restored the park and then they turned it over to the city of Phillips and also an organization called Friends of Fred Smith who run and take care of the park.
And so his take on things, I mean, he was, I don't
I don't think he went very far in school because he was a lumberjack.
He went to work.
Sure.
He couldn't read or write.
Right, and he couldn't read
or write.
But he was one quirky dude.
I mean, he had his own borrowing site, too, where he would put, you know, the sleighballs on his knees and play violin and jangle his knees along.
Okay.
I mean, I mean, he loved entertaining people.
But in this park is over 200 concrete statues resembling different things.
But you really have to look at the depth that he thought of these things and these these statues
There's there's the Clydesdale the Budweiser Clydesdale.
Yes horses.
He's got that there.
He's got a bright negrum.
He's got All kinds of animals
sacajawea But but everything has a meaning though.
It's not just Building statues just because it looks nice or it's fun.
Everything has a very deep meaning to him
And it's significant to him.
And in his bar, they served Rhinelander beer in the glass bottles, obviously, in the day.
And they used to hide the bottle, broken bottles under the dirt of the floor.
But he ended up taking those bottles and using them in his artwork.
So it's kind of a neat place.
Above the bar, they have created an Airbnb, which is, we've stayed there.
I had Tom all stressed out because I said it was all those things came to life at night.
And there was a back door that was all glass and no, I know
they don't come to life.
You know, they could.
You don't know.
And that and they do a lot of unique.
I want to say classes.
You could take different art classes there.
We took a fucking place.
Yeah.
But talking about holidays, that's a great place to go because they're decorated for the holidays.
Okay.
It's just fun to go and walk through.
We
took a felting class.
Phillips, yes, right downtown Phillips.
What kind of class?
A felting class.
You know, I'm not the artist at all, so I'm like, yeah, it's
fiber arts.
Well, we made felt things.
Well, fiber arts, of course.
Yeah, we made felt things.
But she ended up making, she made a Jim Croci.
oh no get it
yeah
as an ornament for our christmas tree that's very nice unique see we're very quirky and unique i just i just made a
blob and got it finished as fast as i could
yeah i you know this uh cement park my i know
my
concrete my concrete park my wife has been there
What her writer her writer friend lives just outside of Phillips.
Oh, no, okay
And she went there and she said it's the most weird place
ever.
It's different
I guess you put sticks in the concrete and it creates soldiers or something like that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just it's just a weird thing.
I mean they have a big musky and they have a
A milking maid,
you know, milking a cow.
But imagine that at night.
See, can't you see where these things might come
alive or they're haunted or something?
Yes, you would think it would be.
It's like kind of like a graveyard.
Why not?
Why not?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, Kolar Museum restored it and it really is a big deal.
You know, when you look at it and look, there's like I said, there's over 200 sculptures and each one has a significant meaning.
It's really an amazing place.
I mean, she was stunned.
Right
up there right in the middle.
No, it is but people dry.
I mean we're guilty of it, too I mean we drive by you know But you need to go in and take a look and and they're doing a better job with creating plaques and explaining his art and so forth But but he's a folk artist.
Yeah from immigrants.
So it's
yeah, that's great stuff
There's probably four parks similar to that around the state where people have immigrated and that's how they express themselves.
Yeah
Okay, there's one in the what is it?
North freedom
Oh between north freedom and there's a steel.
Oh, what is this?
Did all be a steel construction and well, do you remember the name of this?
It's right on highway 12.
Yeah, evermore.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Evermore is right across from the ammo plant.
Yes.
Yeah, I've
been there.
Right besides the ladies.
Amazing place.
Yeah.
I bought a few things at the ladies back in the day.
Oh, did you?
Really?
Wow.
Obviously, they weren't worth keeping.
Anyway, this John Murray says, Hey, John, you know, I like your talking like a soldier bit.
Remember when I was
From the front lines, I pretended like always in some kind of documentary.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Okay,
well, it doesn't matter.
All right,
thanks, John.
We got about, yeah, we're out of time.
We're out of
time now, but...
Tom and Christie Manus.
It's always amazing fun stuff.
Your things are just amazing.
We just love coming.
Yeah, well, we love having you here.
And if you want to find out more about Tom and Christie, go to smalltownplussize.com.
and you find out about all the books and their travels and everything else and yeah, keep in touch.
We'll have you back.
We'll go to Amazon and just plug
it in.
Yeah, you can get it anywhere.
You can
get it at our publisher's website.
Okay, terrific.
Free shipping.
All right.
It's John and Gordy.
Free shipping.
Still going.
Okay.
All right.
Now I got it.
That's going to do it for us.
Conrad, thank you for all your help.
Pete Schwab will be back on Monday.
It's John and Gordy here for Pete and everybody here at Civic Media.
Have a good weekend.
and that won't be
Welcome back.
I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.
Our question of the night is, who is your favorite disgraced athlete?
Let us know.
But we did get a text in regard to the chair company.
From the 920, our pal Daniel, Danny Wills, and Manasha says, oh man, the recent episode of the chair company really took the show to another level of dark comedy.
I agree.
Yeah.
I thought it was whimsical.
I don't know.
It's a little dark.
But I have to say, anytime you're watching a comedy and it literally, you see something that makes you sit up in your chair like, I can't believe I'm seeing that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Great stuff.
Thank you, Daniel.
All right.
Let's get to speaking of laughter.
This next gentleman, he is not, he's not going to make you think of dark comedy.
He's just out and out funny.
And he's one of our favorites here.
It is my pleasure to welcome Appleton based comedian, the hilariously funny Rob Brackenridge.
Hey, buddy.
Hey, I'm back.
You're bad.
Good.
Good to see you.
I've been sitting in this little square this whole time waiting to see you again.
Yeah, well, mission accomplished and it's good to see you too.
I always love when you're here, but if we can't have you in person, it's great to have you on the stream.
And listen, phone would be fine too, Rob, you're that funny.
And even if we had to do Morse code, I would figure out a way to make it work.
Yeah, I got a really good Morse code joke.
I don't know how to do laughter back on Morse code, but I would if I understood it better.
It's a great joke.
Wow.
Feel free to use that one.
I appreciate that.
Hey, do you have a favorite disgraced athlete, Rob?
Oh, Antonio Brown, of course.
Oh, yeah.
What did he do?
He exposed himself or something like that?
No, he fired a gun at a boxing match in Haiti, and he was arrested in Dubai today.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
And he's, he's right now on an airplane coming back.
So that, that's going to be my favorite one.
I'd like to get him fresh off the press.
The guy's got his quirks.
There's no question about that.
Okay.
Um, how are you buddy?
What's new in the world of a, tell us how is your mom?
First of all, you're so funny when you put your mom on social media.
She's so funny and so adorable and so sharp.
And she's in her 90s.
Yeah.
95 in January 25th.
Wow.
I know.
It's amazing.
I just, I'm so lucky to have her, you know, it's so healthy.
And she actually came to my show.
I was headlining at the skyline last week with Mike Maryfield.
Yeah, that's
right.
Yep.
She came to the first show Saturday, sold out, completely sold out.
You know, it was one of those nights where you could do no wrong.
It was just like.
Whatever I said was perfect.
Yeah.
It's one of those ones where you just want to keep it in the bottle.
Right.
And she, because every other show she'd come to, I bombed.
You know, this was the first one where she just saw me kill.
I have to be honest.
I can't see you bombing, Rob.
Well, your material is hilarious, but you're really likable.
You're animated.
How do you bomb?
Well, you know come on.
You've been a comedian You know what?
It's like a second show of Friday.
That's all I have to say to it.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I
get that
No, everybody bombs you're right But when you say this is the first show she's been to that made me think you had a string of shows and that's what I had an issue with I can't see you bombing in a string of shows, but you know
No, it happens every once in a while, but when it does happen, it sticks in your mind.
Like, I mean, you just can't forget it.
You can't sleep for a couple of days afterwards.
You know, when you bomb, it's it's something you tell yourself, oh, it's nothing.
It was just the crowd.
It was bad, you know, but you keep going in your mind.
Oh, I could have said this.
Oh, I have a really good comeback, you know.
So.
But it happens, you never remember the great shows, you just remember the bombs.
That's a great, yeah, that's great.
And it's not great, but it's a great quote about stand up.
What do you do when you bomb?
Do you just keep going?
Do you address, like if there's a heckler, do you address it?
Or do you just keep doing your act?
Because some guys, you know the comics who get up there and they're so good when they bomb.
Like
Eddie
Kindler, like you go, oh, he must bomb a lot and he got good at dealing with it.
And that's how he's so
funny when
he bombs, you know what I mean?
But what's your practice?
Yeah, I had a friend who had a great line when he was, cause he would bomb a lot.
So he would say, well, you know that a comedian is only as good as his crowd.
And right now I suck.
And so he would, he, that was his favorite line.
So even if it was a good crowd, he would do it.
That's hilarious.
What what I do usually is I slow it down because a lot of guys will speed it up and when I was first starting out and stand up if I was bombing I would speed it up to try to get to the next punchline speed it up now when I Start feeling that the crowd's not with me.
I slow it way down so it's almost like we're So anyway, you know, I do it as slow as I can just so that and
whether or not they get it or not, that's just the way I deal with it now.
And I actually wrote a joke that, if I really hate the crowd, I tell them this joke.
And it's not a bad joke.
I was just tired of comedians.
Is it okay if I tell you?
Is there
swearing?
No.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
There's nothing wrong with this joke.
See, I was so mad at comedians going, well, I'm gonna close with a...
I guess I'm going to close with a joke.
What do you guys want dirty or clean?
And then they tell some street joke, you know,
right?
So I decided I'm going to write my own joke.
And it's not it doesn't offend anyone.
It's just it's it's the best joke.
And I only tell this to comedians or I tell the crowds that because crowds never get it.
But comedians always get it.
And that's why I know you you're going to get it.
OK, so wait.
Two Jews walk into a bar.
Then they realize they're going to be in an anti-Semitic joke, so they leave.
So the bartender turned, there you go.
So the bartender turns to the drunk and he goes, you're in this joke, aren't you?
And the drunk goes, of course I'm in this joke.
Where's the gorilla?
And he says, well, I thought you were bringing the gorilla.
And the drunk goes, well, I don't have to put up with this.
I'm a professional.
And he staggers out of the bar.
So the bartender looks at me and he says,
Well, if I hurry up, I can get him to a good traveling salesman joke.
So he's traveling down the highway and he comes up to the farmhouse and he goes, knock, knock.
The guy inside goes, who's there?
And he goes, it's me.
I was the bartender, now I'm the traveling salesman.
He opens the door and it's a gorilla wearing a bathrobe, smoking a cigar.
And he says, hey, where were you in the bartending joke?
And he goes, that was today.
There you go.
See.
You appreciate that.
Does it get a
laugh to do do crowds?
No It
gets They just leave in a bad nothing.
Oh, it gets a mad they get so angry because they they almost got a punchline.
Okay.
Here's all what's a traveling salesman No, oh, you know, so it just it gets them really mad but for some reason comedians love that joke
That's hilarious.
That was today.
That's great.
That was today.
Hey, you mentioned Mike Merrifield, and I saw on your Facebook, I don't know where I saw this when I was looking up all things Rob Brackenrich today, but you said you were the cheeseballs.
Were you guys a comedy team?
Yeah.
That's
a great idea.
We were the comedy team.
Yeah, it was Steve Hartman.
me and Mike Maryfield and we toured around, we set up a whole bunch of shows all through Wisconsin.
And they were clubs, they were theaters, they were just bars, you know?
But we filled the entire couple of months with all these shows and we ended up doing them and it was a lot of fun, but it's hard to keep them going because everyone else had their own life they had to get back to, so.
Right.
That's great.
We enjoyed it.
Yeah.
Do you know Steve Ait and Jimmy Pardo?
Yeah.
I love Jimmy.
He's my favorite and a comedian.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
Well, he was on the show last week, and we were talking, I think we touched on this even, or maybe it was the last time he was on, but Steve Ait and Jimmy and me did this show called The Three-Headed Monster.
And we build it as three headliners for the price of one when all of us basically had 20 minutes of materials, like three middle acts.
That's a great idea.
Yeah, so we only work like two rooms, but Steve, I had who's hilarious.
He's so funny
as
well.
Watching both those guys was so great, but he had t-shirts made that said three headed monster.
And the only place we did the show was in St.
Louis, the catcher rising star.
So it had all the tour dates on the back, just St.
Louis, and then TBA, TBA, TBA, TBA was kind of a joke, you know.
So I'm in this gas station and I have that shirt on.
And this gas station attendant says, he goes, hey, what's that three headed monster?
I go, it's a standup comedy show.
And he goes, oh, well, maybe you might have been in a band or something.
It would be a great name for a band.
We would have been so impressed if I was in a band.
My guest is Rob Brackenridge, very funny stand-up comedian from Appleton.
He's got some dates coming up.
We'll discuss those.
Rob, you got a stream comment here from JB Thompson who says, Rob, awesome that your mom supports you in your endeavors.
totally agree with them.
And then Ezekiel, our guest in hour number two says, loved the joke, Rob.
I chuckled.
So there you go.
You're on a roll here tonight.
I got a chuckle.
That's almost as good as a chardle.
Or a gaffaw,
maybe
if things get really crazy.
I can only dream of getting a gaffaw.
And then Mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608 said it wasn't bad.
He gave a chuckle.
Well, it's chuckle-worthy, Rob.
I mean, that's something, right?
And that joke is supposed to be when you don't like a crowd, right?
And you leave them with it.
Yeah, so there you go.
It's my punishment.
And there's never been a better punchline than that was today.
You got to visualize that.
Gorilla smoking the cigar with his bathrobe on you know and fuzzy slippers and he's like that was oh geez I need that money You
know In reference to JB's quote are I hope I know the answer to this are you your mom's favorite comedian?
Well, yes, I think
because she loved everything that I ever did.
I was always in theater, you know?
So she would come up to me and she'd say, you were the best one, you know?
And I, mom, I was the tree.
I was the tree, you know?
She's like, yes, but you really, you know, she is really my biggest fan.
So yeah, I would say whether she believes it or not, she would say that I'm her favorite comedian.
That's fantastic.
You, I want to give you a quiz, if you're okay with that, a catchphrase comedy quiz.
But we have about a minute and a half till we have to do a quick break.
And I thought I would try to tell people where they can see you.
You got some big, some fun dates coming up.
Yeah, I'm going to be at Pasquale's.
Now you, I'm sure you've worked this one.
Pasquales in McDonnie, Michigan.
I worked at,
yeah, probably eight years ago, I hadn't done stand-up in six years or something like that.
And they were desperate because there was somebody canceled and I was like, well, okay.
They
just
went up and they were very nice.
And I only had to do like 25 minutes.
So it was good.
And that's how they introduced you to this next guy.
We were very desperate to someone canceled.
Here he is.
Poat.
Shweebie.
Shweebie.
Shweebie.
Shweebie.
He's the only guy we found that
had
a car.
So yeah.
Yeah.
He's a nice guy though.
That's a fun read though.
Yes, it is great.
I love it.
It's uh You you got a you know figure out you got a you know work.
That's where you get heckled heckle practice there at the
Okay, nice.
See yeah, they all come out they drink and you're on a bowling out You're at a bowling alley isn't I think it's a bowling.
I can't remember because I haven't done it for about ten years
Yeah, there's something there's stages like four inches off the ground.
So
yeah, you tower over
Well, I'm trying to remember it, but I'm sure it'll come back to me.
That's November 28th.
All right,
let's pick up on your upcoming dates.
We're gonna do a really short break.
Nagani Pasquale's on November 28th.
That is a great venue if you're up north.
It's worth the road trip to see Rob.
We're coming right back with more with Rob Brackenridge.
It's Nightlight with Peach
Waba.
Welcome back.
On the stream Dave says Ray Finkel laces out.
That's from Ace Ventura, right, Con?
Yeah, I believe so.
I can't remember the character that well, though.
Dave's most, his favorite disgraced athlete is from a comedy movie.
That's not so bad.
Rob Brackenridge is here, folks.
Rob, you still with us?
I'm so glad you- I
sure am.
I thought maybe you'd take a powder during the commercial break.
But I'm glad you said that.
Yeah, I did powder my nose.
It was a little shiny.
We used your a clip of your stand up where you're watching the fish take a dump in the
string hanging and like you can't turn it off until you see what happens.
That's what my favorite bitch.
So funny because it really happened.
I never said that's the funniest stuff.
Yeah.
That's
great.
I mean, that thing had to crack off sooner or later.
I just recorded it so I could, you know, cause I couldn't wait for it to happen.
So I just recorded it and fast forwarded.
He had places to be.
Oh
yeah.
I can't sit there all day waiting for a fish to use him a day.
Can you imagine if he saw a female fish he thought was cute and he can't crack it off and he's just, it's gotta be mortified.
That's terrible.
Yeah, you can't get it.
I mean, if you have toilet paper on the bottom of your shoe, that's embarrassing.
But this guy, he's never going to live that
down.
All right.
So you got Nagani, November 26, Nagani, Michigan, actually a really fun room.
And I think they give you a pizza.
They're known for their pizza, right?
And you get a pizza after the show, which is kind of cool.
And it's the 28th.
It's the 28th.
Oh, 28th.
OK.
I have to tell you, when I did that, that date in Nagani, a friend of mine.
I was just going to go up and drive right back.
It's like two hours from where I live.
So I thought, all right, I'll chill in.
So a friend of mine was an FBI agent in Marquette at the time.
And he and his partner.
came over to see the show.
Well, you hang out with two FBI agents.
The stories, to me, are 10 times more interesting than stand-up comedy stories at that point.
And he's a dear family friend, so we hung out to like two in the morning.
Well, when I left the hotel room, I hung out there for like an hour, then I went to the show, left my key in the room.
It was like a mom and pop place.
So after about eight pictures of beer, it's two o'clock in the morning.
I'm not driving back to Marinette, so I gotta go back to the mom and pop place, knock on the door and wake them up.
to get back
in
my room.
That's
the Triangle Motel, right?
I don't remember.
I was there that one time, but they hated me.
She was so mad, but she let me in, which is sweet.
I guess I don't like it.
That's the worst.
It's one of the worst hotels you can stay at.
It sticks in my mind as I call them ankle scratchers, you know?
Why is it?
Why is that?
You get those little chiggers in your ankles when you stay there.
That's where I came up with the idea for ankle scratchers.
What kind of gig is it?
Oh, well, it's an ankle scratcher.
That means they put you up at a motel six or something.
Oh, that's I stayed in a motel six once in Kankakee, Illinois.
I don't know why I lived in Chicago at the time, but my wife went with me.
We get to the hotel.
I thought I'll make a night of it.
It's a motel six.
And someone just drew on the popcorn ceiling a bunch of male genitalia.
And I'm like, well, this sort of laying there looking up, you know, it's kind of got our motors running, but
it depends on how realistic it is,
right?
Was it was it the Sistine Chapel or was it a bathroom wall?
Rob Brackenridge is my guest.
He's a very funny, Appleton-based standup comedian.
You can see him in Negani, Michigan on the 28th of November.
What else you got coming up, Rob?
You got quite a few dates here.
The next day, I'm in, so the 28th, I'm in Nagani.
The next day, I'm in Sheboygan Falls at the Odyssey Fund Center.
Ooh,
nice.
Yeah.
That one, have you done that one yet?
No, but is there, it sounds like there's gonna be a bounce house there or something, is that?
There probably is.
It's got everything.
It is a bowling alley, too.
So this one is definitely a bowling alley.
And you can, like, I've worked at it a bunch of times.
In between bits, if a joke doesn't go over, you can hear the pins falling down.
Somebody picking up the spare.
Yeah, someone picking up the
spare.
My career's taken off.
Well, I like the great thing about you.
I know you kind of like to stay close to home.
So you work these gigs that probably give you more material.
I mean, you've worked big rooms and you've done your own specials.
Hey, tell us about your special coming up.
You're doing a new one.
That's exciting.
Yes.
Oh, I got the t-shirt on.
Open bar comedy.
That's what I got paid for doing it.
Is that the opposite of a dry bar comedy special or is there to play on words?
Yes.
Okay.
So what does that mean?
You can swear on this one?
Yeah, I don't know if you know Ron Finegold.
Oh,
I
do know Ron Finegold.
He is a fantastic comedian, a magician as well.
Oh.
I've known him for probably 35 years.
I've been doing comedy for 37 years.
And he was one of the first guys I worked with.
He was like my opening act and Jeff Valdes comedy club in Colorado Springs back in the late 80s.
Yeah.
And he
he's now doing these open bars and uh he it's kind of his contraaction to drybar because in drybar i don't know if you've seen my drybar special it's called legend dairy
yeah
da i r y love that yeah hilarious uh but uh you have to be really clean and they give you like a little uh a video uh of someone telling you how to be clean you know and you have to
sign all this stuff where you know you're you can't say the word poop and everything you know and uh so I do that you know and then uh with open bar he just goes whatever you want to say just
go
for it you know so it was kind of neat doing doing those two because you couldn't put them back to
back
yeah
all kinds of fun here on nightlight folks great to have you with me we will be right back for act two after intermission i'm peach wabba on the civic media radio network
Welcome
back.
We are jamming through a Tuesday night here at Nightlight tonight.
So great to have you with me.
as we broadcast live statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay tonight.
Very excited to welcome this next guest.
As many of you may know or may not know, there was a film shot in Door County recently called A Cherry Pie Christmas.
Right down the road here, and tonight joining me on Night Light is one of the stars of the movie, the female lead actress, Katie Leclerc.
Hi, Katie.
Hi, Pete.
Thank you so much for having me.
Are you getting homesick for Wisconsin?
Oh my gosh, I actually really am.
And this is not a joke, but literally this morning, I'm making one of the Wisconsin cherry pies, which is to say that there's cheese in the crust.
And so I opened a package of Renard's cheddar cheese today and I went, oh my gosh, it's so good.
Yeah,
I'm
homesick.
We stuck with you.
That's awesome.
So before we jump into this great movie that you shot in Dork County, tell us a little bit about you.
Oh, well, I'm a Scorpio and I'm just kidding.
That's fine.
I'm an actor.
I am.
I'm a baker.
I'm a dog mom.
And I try to keep things pretty low key.
I don't know.
I've been an actor for over 20 years now.
And yeah, I love it.
It's it's really the any time I get to be on set, it's the best version of myself.
That's fantastic.
All right, well, tell us all about a cherry pie Christmas.
It sounds like a delicious Christmas, certainly, and
Dore County is known
for its cherries.
Tell us a little bit about the story or the movie first, then we'll get into some of the shooting stuff.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So I play Emma Parker, whose family has owned Cherry Orchards for over a hundred years.
And as you know, in Door County, a lot of the businesses that are established there are passed down generationally in the family.
And this story is no different.
So my character has big city dreams of being a big pastry chef.
So she lives in a big city of Chicago.
But she's up for a promotion and up for a job that
is the pastry chef in New York City.
And she really wants to take this new challenge on, and she's really hoping to get hired at this new place.
But before that happens, she goes home for the holidays to visit her.
parents and realizes that the family farm is struggling a little bit more than her parents let on and her family really wants her to stay in Door County and take over the farm and she kind of has to figure out is that something that she wants to do or can she sacrifice her dreams of becoming a pastry chef in New York City and simultaneous with that she of course gets reintroduced to her high school sweetheart played by
by Ryan Carnes.
And so her parents would like her to sort of rekindle that love.
And they're hoping that that romance is another thing that will draw her to stay in Door County.
And you have to watch the movie to see if the love wins or not.
That's so great.
Well, I mean, honestly, it's so funny.
Like sometimes when I watch movies, and that's kind of my background too, I want to disappear in them.
And I find myself drawing more and more to films shot in beautiful settings, even if they're not
like a genre I don't, if it's a place I want to live, it's like, I want to go there.
I want to live that life that this character is living in this beautiful community and she's baking cherry pies, reconnecting with old loves.
I mean, this just sounds fantastic.
Is it a romance or is it a rom-com?
How would you identify the film?
I would say it's more like a Christmas romance film.
Yeah.
And I will say that Door County,
is such an incredible backdrop and such a beautiful destination that that destination fulfillment is absolutely captured in this film.
And Door County kind of becomes a character in and of itself in this film.
So it was a real treat to actually get to film there and see the community and see the people that represent Door County as well.
And yeah, I think a lot of that really comes through in the film.
Did I see, I don't know if I saw this correctly, but it said, you shot in March and April for a Christmas movie.
How did that work?
And was there fake snow or how'd you swing that?
No, Pete, y'all got real snow in March.
What the crud?
Listen, it
could
happen.
Oh, now you sound like it was constantly, what the crud?
Yeah.
No, but it really was our first day of filming.
It was six o'clock in the morning, and we filmed in a blizzard.
And when I say blizzard, like, I'm from California, so that might not mean the same thing to you, Wisconsinites.
But it was a freaking blizzard, okay?
It was a blizzard.
The crew members were in parkas and scarves up to their ears and then had to carry their equipment like on a toboggan, like literally with a sled tied around their waist through the snow to get to the actual filming location.
And what was really cool is the scene that we filmed in that moment is the sort of breakdown in myself and Ryan's characters and it's the like
Pivotal moment of like is this relationship going to work out or is it not?
So it's kind of the low point for the characters and there's a real-life blizzard and it's just such a cool You know life imitating art art is imitating life moment that it really works in the film But you know the literally the snow is sticking to my eyelashes
Wow
So you did
get a little actual Christmas weather.
That's really cool.
I was not
oh, yeah
That was at your first time in Wisconsin
No, no, my ex-husband was from Lake Zurich, Illinois.
We drove across the border because I wanted to say that I'd been to Wisconsin, so we drove to the Marge Cheese Castle.
So that was my first time in Wisconsin, but I don't know if that really counts.
No, Dora County is much better.
You're better
off.
Way better.
My guest is Katie Leclerc.
She is one of the stars of the movie, A Cherry Pie Christmas, which was shot in Dora County in the middle of winter, also known as March, not too long ago.
And the film is out, but it's gonna be available to stream November 15th.
I understand.
Do you have any, can you tell us where on November 15th?
There's just VOD.
Oh yeah, pretty much everywhere.
So it'll be, you know, Amazon, Roku to be all anywhere the places that you get most of your streaming stuff.
So
yeah.
I hate to say this, but I'm going to watch the film for two reasons.
I want to see your performance.
I want to see the story, but I'm one of those geeks that I live right across the bay from Door County and we go there a lot.
And I've filmed stuff in my hometown where when I've showed it, people go, there's my garage.
Like there's not even, they're not even paying attention to the story.
So I'll probably have a little of that with Door County because I've been there so much.
But did you have to do a lot of research for this role?
Like you play a pastry chef from Wisconsin.
Like what as an actor, what went into this for you?
Well, you know, Pete, I asked the director if he wanted me to do a Wisconsin accent, but he said it was too much and he told me to back it off.
So I didn't do an accent.
No, no.
And I didn't end up doing that, but I did give the up and they said, what are you doing?
Don't do that.
And then in terms of the pastry, actually, I am a pastry chef myself.
Oh, nice.
I have a business that I call Katie Bakes.
And I'm hoping to get the website up and going so I can ship baked goods to people across the country, katiebakes.com, coming soon.
Love it.
It was really, really and truly a dream come true to be able to film those days where it was just me and the crew and a bunch of
flour and butter and sugar.
And it really is me in my hands, like making all these pies.
And I have to say, one of the plots of the storyline, the reason it is a Wisconsin quote unquote, Christmas pie is that there's cheese in the pie crust.
And so while we were filming, I was like, is this isn't going to work?
Like, does the chemistry because baking so like scientifically specific.
So while we were filming,
in someone's just in their home, I'm standing there grating cheese and making the pie crust.
And I looked at the director, we were about to go to lunch.
And I said, I have to make this pie.
And he said, what do you mean?
I said, tell some PA to bring me my lunch back.
I'm standing right here in this kitchen.
And I looked at the homeowner.
I said, can I use the oven for real?
He said, yeah, sure.
So everybody went to lunch and I stayed and I made the characters Christmas pie.
And I'm happy to report that it works.
that if anybody is looking for a twist on an old favorite it's sort of like the you know apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese like a very old school kind of sounding recipe.
You just do like two thirds cheese and then one third butter like in your regular pie crust just swap out try some cheese and the chemistry works and the flavor is amazing and
People should try it because it really, really does work.
I would find a way to mess that up.
So the best thing to do would just be go to katiebakes.com, I think, and play it safe, folks.
Hey, so you can be late to the set on this because I also noticed you were a producer.
How'd you swing that?
Well, this is actually my fifth Christmas movie with our director, John Stimpson.
We found a really good thing on a film many years ago called
Christmas All A Mode was our first project together.
We filmed that in 2019.
And John and I just became really fast friends.
And, you know, as we kept collaborating more and more, we realized that we had, you know, similar connections and the ability to sort of help the production in a bigger way.
And so I was officially brought on as a producer on this project.
And I think it'll be the first of many.
That is fantastic.
I did notice that.
I was going to ask you about that.
You've got love letters to Santa in your credits, a very Vermont Christmas, a Cape Cod Christmas, Christmas Alamoad, and now a Cherry Pie Christmas.
Would it kill you to
do a
film about Arbor Day, Katie?
Come on.
I mean, I do love trees.
I'm a nature gal, so let's go, you know?
When did you know that you wanted to be an actress?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, pretty early on, I was Annie in my eighth grade production of Annie, and I got bit by the bug instantly, like really immediately.
My family, at that time, we lived in Colorado, and then we moved to Southern California, we moved to San Diego.
I felt like that was close enough that I could sucker my parents into driving me back and forth for auditions.
And I have the most supportive parents in the world.
And they said, yeah, we'll do anything for you, kid.
And then they sure did.
So it paid off, I suppose, but it was only because of the support of my parents that I actually did make it.
Great stuff.
Was that your moment?
I'm fascinated when I talk to other comedians or actors or whatever.
I want to know the moment, if there was one, when they said, I'm going for this.
I can do this.
Is that what you just described?
Or was it a separate moment?
Or was it when you were in Annie, where you hooked immediately and you're like, by all means, I'm doing this?
Immediately it's something about the lights.
It's something about the audience reaction It's the ability to elicit a response from somebody for the purpose of entertainment and also hopefully they learn a lesson in the process I love people Pete.
I love people.
I love the study of human behavior.
I I just think there's so
Like, that's my favorite part about this job is that I get to be a pastry chef in this one and then be a dermatologist in the next one.
You know what I mean?
And I get to learn people's view on the world and how that changes.
And it's just...
It's the best job in the world.
Are you fascinated when, like I'm not surprised here you say that, but I also know actors or friends of mine that have none of that and they're pretty good, you know, but like I feel like what you just described would really help you as a performer, right?
Oh, I think so.
Yeah.
I totally think so.
Yeah.
All right.
And maybe it's a little bit of a trauma response.
Like maybe I'm just predicting people's behavior all the time, you know
what
I mean?
Right.
Well said.
We'll have a couple more minutes with my guest, Katie Leclerc.
She plays Emma Parker in A Cherry Pie Christmas, which was shot in beautiful Dorr County right down the road here.
We'll have more with
Emma Parker slash Katie LeClaire after this very quick break.
Don't go anywhere.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Great to have you with me.
It is Tuesday night, folks, and we are rocking it.
It's like we're looking at Tuesday going, all right, Tuesday.
You don't like me.
I don't like you, but it's on.
And we are getting through Tuesday with the help of one of the stars of a Cherry Pie Christmas, which was shot in Dork County.
It drops on video on demand and all sorts of streaming platforms in just a few days, on November 15th.
Katie LeClaire is here.
She plays Emma Parker in the movie.
And we are talking about
a cherry pie Christmas, but also her career.
Do you have influences, Katie?
Like who did you watch growing up where you would see them on the big screen and you're like, oh yeah, that's
me.
When I was a kid, my favorite actor was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I knew you were gonna say something like that.
You're laughing and I go, I bet she's gonna say like Charles Bronson or something.
That's great.
I couldn't be more
farther from who I am.
My favorite actors were Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandra Bullock
because my
dad just watched a lot of 90s action movies.
So that's what I kind of grew up on.
But I mean, I feel like my main influences now are
like like we were just talking about like I just love the people that I get to play.
So in terms of like what I'm consuming of course I'm you know watching all the shows that are like we're in the golden age of television I think like every week we get a new feature film on our TV screens.
So I definitely love television and and obviously I love film and yeah but I grew up
in the 90s action era.
That is great.
Have you seen Pluribus?
No.
I just watched it last night.
It is so unbelievably creepy.
And I'm just, I can't say enough about it.
It's the same guy that did the Better Call Saul on Breaking Badz.
It's really-
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, cool, cool,
cool.
What, okay, so for people listening that haven't seen Cherry Pie Christmas yet or any of your other umpteen holiday movies, Katie, where would you tell them to start?
Like, what are you most proud of that you did, whether it comes to TV or film?
I'm sure you have pride in all of your work and you seem to be a serious student of it, but where would you have them start?
Well, I'm I'm best known Pete for the TV show switched at birth and on that show I played a deaf teenager who went through the trials and tribulations that every teenager does but happened to be deaf at the same time I'm most proud of that work because you know we filmed that in 2000
10 was when that series started.
And there wasn't a whole lot of death representation on screen at that point.
I think there's a lot more now.
And I think we've learned a lot collectively in the process.
But that is by far and large my most proud work that I've ever put out.
You know, we had five seasons, 104 episodes.
We won a Peabody Award.
I mean, I
really think this
show created a lot of conversations for families to have together.
And I'm extremely proud of the work that we all did on that show.
I read that about you, that you have a hard of hearing or you have hearing issues.
And I was wondering about that because I have another friend who was an actor who struggled, did sign language and everything.
Does that give you
more of an insight as an actor when you don't hear as well as other people, you have to tune into different aspects of a character.
Does it benefit you in any way?
I'll say that I think in hopefully in all ways of my life and in more than just in the acting profession, I think I'm a good listener.
And I think that that's
I have to concentrate on people and really listen to them and really try to understand what people are trying to say with their words, but also with their body.
And yeah, I think it creates a more well-rounded experience.
That's a great answer.
All right, two more questions for you, Katie, before we let you get back to your pillow factory or the sleeping headquarters, whatever.
Did you have a favorite memory of Door County or a spot you liked in particular?
Oh, yeah, so we we stayed at the waterfront hotel.
It's the greatest I mean like the view of Sturgeon Bay right there with the freaking icebergs in March.
It was cold That was such a wonderful truly amazing experience and die the host there was just so Warm and welcoming and and the other thing is we did a we did in the movie.
There's a fish boil, which I'm sure you're
listeners and viewers know about, but it was my first time learning about the fish boil.
And we actually ended up having to film that scene twice the first time we attempted to film there was Thunder snow Which is just a curse word like why would anybody put those two things together
like I'm
just like what are we even doing?
So we couldn't end up we ended up not being able for safety reasons not being able to film the fish boil that night and then they Reset the film or the scene rather in the daytime rather than nighttime and we had to do a reshoot so I actually got
to experience the fish boil twice, which was quite fun.
It was really cool.
Yeah.
That's so great.
We have about 30 seconds left.
Are you binge watching anything you could recommend?
I just watched the movie Game Night last night.
Oh, that's
fun.
Yeah.
It's a great movie.
It was so much fun and a good ride.
Yeah.
Katie, please keep us posted on your movies, be they holiday movies or whatever.
I did see some of your work.
It's just great, and I'm a fan, so please come back and tell us about everything you're up to in the near future.
It's been great meeting you.
Thank you so much, Pete.
I appreciate your time.
You're welcome.
All right, that's Katie Leclerc.
Check her out as Emma Parker in the Cherry Pie Christmas.
It drops November 15th on various streaming platforms, and
yeah, that was fun,
Conrad.
Yeah, that was great.
I can't wait to see the film.
It's exciting.
I'm going to watch it twice.
I'm going to watch it for the acting and the story, and then to pick out
my favorite county
landmarks.
I think so.
Yeah, I
think I'll do the same.
On behalf of the lovable producer Conrad, I am Pete Schwabba, saying goodnight,
Wisconsin.
