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Cheesy Celebrities and Popcorn Picks (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Nov 20, 2025
Broadcasting live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.
This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.
And now a guy who can still look intimidating and leg warmers, Pete Schwabba.
Welcome, welcome ladies and gentlemen to Night Light.
I am Pete Schwabba.
I've actually never worn leg warmers.
I imagine they would be quite warming on the leg, on the lower leg region.
I don't know, I find that hard to be true.
Skeptical of the leg warmers effectiveness.
No, I'm saying you wearied them.
No, I've, I'm a pretty open minded guy, but I can honestly say I don't think I've ever worn a piece of like women's clothing.
Maybe my wife's bathroom if I had to like...
run to the door for something?
Yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
I mean, whatever, right?
Is it
nice and pink?
People gonna judge me for that?
No, it's got like 18 different bathrobes.
Are you a bathrobe guy?
No.
Me either.
When I was younger, I guess I was, but
no.
I got, you know what I got?
I got one of those massive towels.
That's pretty much a bathrobe.
Yeah, right.
Because how big it is.
Like a Moo Moo.
It's funny, I don't, I remember there was a phase like when I was growing up, there was five, there were five kids and it was pretty, you know, I would say we weren't uptight.
Like the boys would walk around in their underwear and the girls, I don't know, whatever, not, probably not quite that scantily clad, but I realized now when I look back, when my parents would give us bath rubs as gifts, that was sort of a hint.
Probably
like, hey, you don't have to walk around so open, you know?
So, but I've just never, I don't know, I've never,
Never done it.
It seems like a hassle
Yeah,
I don't know.
Yeah, you live alone.
It's not an issue for you.
No.
Yeah, no that I you know, it's Just walking around,
you
know,
I think it was miracle on 34th Street.
There was a guy I think the neighbors the neighbors name was mr. Galey and he was a single guy in his fifties and He wore full pajamas.
He went to answer the door one night.
He wore full pajamas and a robe and slippers
You
know that?
That seems comfy, you know?
Did people ever dress like that?
Who would have?
Like, the most I do in there are like sweatpants and my moccasins and a t-shirt.
Like, I cannot imagine putting on nighttime attire in the eight o'clock hour when I'm going to bed in two hours, and that's like getting dressed in the morning.
Yeah, I
put on basketball shorts and a t-shirt.
Right.
That's what
I'm wearing
to bed.
Yeah, I don't...
You got you have to have something on your dogs at night.
No, no,
they Well, they're
the winter I do
they're nicely they're nicely tucked into the
blanket Listen, I always like I'll have moccasins or socks or something and I have gorgeous feet But I do keep them covered,
you know, I have carpet so it doesn't really you know, I don't have the cold hardwood.
Yeah, that's that we have hardwood That's probably part of it.
All right.
Wow.
That was a serious tangent right out of the gate
But that's what we do here.
It's not a big deal.
Yeah, exactly.
It's great to have you, folks.
Welcome to Nightlight.
It is a Thursday edition.
It is the Christmas Eve of weeknights.
We are almost at the weekend.
And I say that, like, because I know it's good for everybody else.
I don't really care about the weekend.
I like weekends.
I don't love weekends.
I like doing the show.
I like having purpose every day.
And on the weekends, I kind of like, I don't know, I walk around, talk to the neighbors, stop in, see part of a game with my dad or my friend.
I'm kind of directionless.
I don't know.
Do you actually make plans for the weekend?
Not every weekend.
Like, you know, I'll make plans with my friends sometimes.
But if I don't have plans, it's just like, all right, I should probably clean a little bit.
That's the most amount of things.
That's what I do now.
But now that the kids are out of the house, cleaning is so easy.
There's like nothing to clean almost.
And I noticed this the other day when I take the garbage out.
My wife and I were like an elderly couple.
There's like one small bag of garbage in the garbage can that I put out.
It was like moving an empty can out for the waste management people.
I don't know where we're not producing any garbage.
That's sort of unsettling.
But anyway, the weekend is almost here and it's gonna be a great weekend.
There's a big parade downtown.
Did you know that this weekend?
Are you gonna do that?
Well, no, I'll be on a plane.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, you're leaving.
I'm leaving on Saturday to go down to Florida.
Yeah, that'll be fun, dude.
You know, ditching the cold weather
to go to 80 degrees.
Please wear pants in Florida, even though you wear shorts here when it's cold.
That'd be great.
You know, uh, yeah, we're, golf is the plan.
We're going to Disney.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Golf is, yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun because it's, it's a little different down there.
Cause like, you know how in Wisconsin, you go out of, you know, you go out of bounds kind of, it's like in the woods, you know?
Yeah.
And it's like you're hitting out of like the grossest dirt.
It's like
hard.
Right.
The courses
that my parents play at.
It's like you go into, it's not, there's trees, but it's like sand on the outside, not dirt.
So it's, it's like hitting out of a bunker on the side.
Well, that's kind of cool.
Are the courses is crowded down there since they can do it all year round?
Or is it not as bad?
No, no, I mean, I don't know.
I don't think so.
You
know,
it's it's different every day even in Wisconsin.
It's like there's one day you could go and it's not busy and then the next year like waiting every whole so
That's a good long break right in the middle of right in the middle of fall But you will be missed we have a short week next week.
We'll get into that probably tomorrow But it is great to have you here for the time being this is a great fall night.
It's like mid 40s not too cold
for the time of year.
We got a holiday parade this coming weekend.
There's nothing not to be excited about in life right now, folks, as the weekend approaches.
So there's a great parade.
We'll talk more about that with Connie Feldman, who is going to be here in just a few minutes to introduce herself to the nightlight audience.
And I just talked to Connie before the show, and we have a ton of stuff in common.
You probably don't know this, Conrad, because Connie's one of those Wisconsin people that keeps their head down and works,
and you
know she's there, but she does amazing work.
Very low maintenance, like myself.
She is a bona fide Renaissance woman.
You're gonna be surprised when we hear all the stuff she's done.
It's pretty cool.
So she'll be here at 535.
And then in the six o'clock hour, this is exciting, Amanda Nimmer.
One of the nightlight producers Amanda helps us out here from time to time and she is our social media guru here at civic media She's gonna make the popcorn pick of the week tonight at 6 35 and now she has a child So we'll see if that affects her pick, but she's gonna give us a movie pick that we can watch this weekend That is the whole point of the popcorn pick of the week It's an information exchange.
That's what we do here.
We share ideas and we watch things that bring us together Amanda is I'm sure
not gonna let us down and give us a great pick.
And then I'm very excited for this.
One of our nightlight regulars here was Consonology's Frank Anderson.
We've got Connie Feldman, a Renaissance woman.
And then we've got a Renaissance showbiz man, Frank Anderson at 720.
Frank is a musician, producer, director.
Animator, he was doing animation in the 60s.
The guy knows everybody.
He plays with Butch Vig and all those bands and he's just a really connected, fun guy to talk to.
But Wisconsinology is typically our focus here because Frank has this great website, Wisconsinology.com, that delves into the Wisconsin weird, historical, interesting.
And Frank has this uncanny ability to tie everything you bring up in conversation to the state of Wisconsin.
So he's very fun to have on the show and he's a regular.
If you listen to the show, you know, Frank, he'll be here at 720.
So that's a great lineup.
You know, Wisconsinology is great because I, before I knew about it, I didn't know anything about Q. Oscombe.
Oh, and it's on there, right?
Yeah.
And I was looking through and I was like, why is Q. Oscombe on there?
There's a famous poet that lived in
Q. Oscombe.
That's right.
Oh, we found that early on.
Remember when we first started doing the show?
Glenway Westcott.
Glenway Westcott.
That's right.
I remember that.
That's awesome.
Definitely.
You got to check out Wisconsinology.
It's just great information
on the state.
Totally agree.
We were laughing before because I, you know, I write these Hollywood beats here and they play typically at the bottom of the hour throughout the day on the network.
They're just, you know, showbiz tidbits that might be helpful to give you something to watch or a suggestion or to keep you informed.
And some of them are funny, some are just informative.
I wanted a couple of them tonight to be funny and I could not get there.
I did not have a tag, my comedy brain was not working, and I got mad and I said, I am gonna take, I probably threw an F bomb in there, I'm gonna take hostages.
And Conrad started giggling like a school girl, and I don't know, it's just something I say, but it does sound ridiculous.
I get that now that you pointed that out.
I just didn't expect it when he,
I was like, oh, maybe I should leave now.
I think the cops are gonna be up.
What are your demands?
I just need some funny jokes.
Then I'll let all the hostages go.
I could have done like a quick change.
I want a helicopter, a monster truck, and all the other stuff Bilberi asked for that.
That's a great movie.
Outstanding movie.
Hey, let's get to the nightlight question of the night.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Pregunta.
Question
Who is the cheesiest?
Showbiz personality Kind of thought of this this week because I'll just tell you why my answer is Steven Segal because whenever I see his face pop up He just I just don't like him He's creepy.
He's a bad actor.
He makes bad movies and someone who worked on a movie set told me that he
This is how vain he is.
He changed the Levi's tag on his jeans instead of saying 38 or 40 waist to say 32.
He would have them so on the label to make it look like he had a skinnier waist.
And I find that so odd.
He's already famous and in movies.
And he has to cut a corner there?
That's weird.
I think that's just good thinking.
Of course you do.
Did you ever see his TV show where he trains the police?
No, I honestly so
bad I just said I looked him up quick.
I don't think I've seen any of his movies to be honest
Stevie Segel check it out.
I watched his first movie was Above the law and they shot it in Chicago while I was going to college there and I was like, alright, I'll go see this and You know, it's fun when you see your hometown in a movie, but and it's kind of a kick-ass movie It was like okay is an action movie.
He's a he's a badass.
He does like serious martial arts
probably take me.
But he, you know, the lines are so lame.
And the more powerful he got, the worse his movies got.
So that's my answer right out of the gate.
Steven Seagal.
Total cheese.
I'm just looking through these movies, you know, and they just
all
his movies, they're the same.
He kicks ass on a submarine, on a golf course, on an island.
There is.
OK, there is.
I'm just looking.
There's four.
Movies right here that are all named different and they all have the same kind of picture of him holding a sniper,
right?
That's it You've seen one movie you've seen them all that's kind of his career except above the law, which is not awful and Sharon Stone Plays his wife in that before she was a big star and I'm sure she's like oh my god.
This is awful
855-752-4842-855-75 Civic, you can let us know your favorite cheesiest showbiz personality.
And what made me think of this was the other night we had a question in honor of National Butter Day, what's your favorite dairy product?
So this is what your, who's your favorite dairy showbiz personality?
Cheesiest.
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What do you got one?
Yeah, you know I think this is more recent one and I think it's cuz I saw how he acted before this movie and after and I think he he's his
direction totally changed.
And that's Austin Butler.
He was more of a Disney kid kind of guy.
Was he a Disney kid?
Yeah.
Yeah, I believe so.
And he played Elvis.
And I don't think he lost the voice of Elvis since then.
He can't kick it.
I think he's like, this movie was great.
I need to keep going with this.
This style of myself.
Oh, that's
funny.
So I think he's cheesy because he's not acting like himself, actually.
That's a good answer.
I'd probably fight you a little bit on the I think he's a decent actor.
He was really good in I
mean, I'll say I don't think he's a bad actor
I just think
he kind of got into this mode and
I'm just trying to create a yeah, he was great in Oh One spot a time in Hollywood and he played one of Manson's guys.
All right, we're gonna do that I'm gonna tell you about a new thing you got to check out at Starbucks to talk about cheesy It's beach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network
It is great to have you here, folks.
We are, hopefully we got a great show planned for you that you are just gonna absolutely, well, hopefully it'll help you ease into your evening.
It is a Thursday night, the Christmas Eve of weeknights.
Tomorrow is Friday, that's a breeze.
It doesn't even count really as a work day.
So we will have some fun here tonight before we send you out to finish the week tomorrow.
Conrad Krieger, producing the show, working the board.
And did you see this story I sent you about the Viagra?
Yeah, I I read it and I just I was like, okay How that makes sense?
I Don't know
So just to share this the story is that Viagra apparently can cause It can help cure forms of deafness and hard of hearing You hear that what
I thought about making that joke, and then I thought it's just too easy, and you walked right into it.
It says Viagra could reverse some deafness.
About three in 2,000 people are born with auditory impairments.
The good news is that popping a Viagra could come with you, could come with a surprising perk beyond the bedroom.
So if anyone ever finds your Viagra, you just have to pretend it's for your hearing and say, what a lot.
So there you go.
Is it all the blood rushing?
To your hearing muscles?
I'm confused on all that words.
Listen, I stopped
taking Viagra because I got tired of calling my doctor after four hours
every damn time.
He's
like, is this Pete again?
Cut the pills in half.
I'll say this.
I feel like every TV show I've ever seen has always, did these kind of throw in a Viagra joke in there?
Every TV show?
Yes.
And how I met your mother.
What do they
do Marshall is telling Barney.
He's like It was a really fun time like you should really try it And then he stops and he looks at the time he goes It's been at six hours.
I should probably go call my doctor.
I'm like, I feel like hours I've seen episode of something that's just always like it's four hours.
I should probably call a doctor.
Yeah, it's a weird I know that people younger and younger are taking it just to take it
Um, so, and I know that older guys, I do feel sorry for like the older generation before Viagra was out.
If you were, if you just didn't have that, if you couldn't do it, you couldn't do it.
And I remember Doug Bifone, a former bear on a radio show saying it was, it was like shooting pool with rope.
So
it's nice that
Viagra exists and they, they stumbled onto the creation of Viagra while looking for a cure for baldness.
So.
If they could figure that out, this could be a three-stop shop with this pill.
That had to be a funny, if it was a focus group of people
that were just in there.
For the hair.
Well, I don't have any hair back,
but.
But why is everybody crossing their legs
in that focus
group room?
So I thought that was kind of funny.
I want to tell everybody about this, though.
Why don't you do this?
Because you found this and you sent this to me, the Barrista.
It feels like every year.
Around this time Starbucks comes out with something special for the holidays, right?
And this year they came out with like okay, it looks like a Gummy bear I guess but it's in a kind of like a cup form right you can fill it with coffee and it has like a little hat on it on top the shape like yogi bear and you can drink out of it They for some reason this has gone like crazy viral and everyone wants it and they're running out and people are getting angry they ran out of it
People are insane It's like it's just a bear cup like it's so stupid.
It's like the tickle me Elmo doll or the jingle all the way movie where Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito I think was fighting over the last Christmas toy people are insane and They were throwing hands over this barista.
It's
a bear.
Yeah, and you know, it's not like they're getting it for their Children either.
It's like it's for coffee.
I guess it can be for anything, but
yeah
It's for coffee, so it's like, it's them who actually wants it.
It's not a gift, or you know, whatever.
And these two dudes on this video, or that Link you shared, probably 30s pushing each other.
These two white guys over a stupid, I want my bear shaped coffee cup.
What does the matter with you?
Yeah, there's, I guess there's more important things than bear coffee cups.
I guess so.
Okay, so I've got this...
Hey, I gotta let people know.
It's December 4th, folks, if you're looking for plans in Madison.
Please come on out to the Atwood Music Hall in the Atwood neighborhood of beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.
We are screening a film I wrote, directed, and acted in called The Godfather of Green Bay.
It also stars Tony Goldman, Lauren Holly, Thomas Lennon, Lance Barber, some great actors from Milwaukee, including Eric Price, Mark Borchart, Rob Martin, some great actors from Chicago, and some outstanding actors also from Northeast Wisconsin.
We really hit a home run with our cast, all great people.
And it's this fun comedy, feel good comedy about
a comedian living in Los Angeles who gets an opportunity to be on the night of the Tonight Show.
He just has to road trip to Wisconsin to do it.
And it will all be explained on December 4th.
Tickets are only 10 bucks and a dollar of each ticket goes to the Dane County Humane Society.
It's for a great cause sponsored by John and Gordy of the morning show at WMDX here at Civic Media.
They will be there as well, introducing the film and then they will bring me out for a Q and A afterwards.
It's going to be a really fun discussion.
Love those guys.
It's also sponsored by Doundren's Distilling, a fine outfit right there in Madison.
So it's going to be a really fun night.
Come on out if you're in the Madison area or up for a road trip.
Come on out and say hello.
Conrad will be there.
I will.
Yes.
Yeah.
I just wanted to
watch the movie again.
That's it.
That's the only place you can go on the big screen these days.
I think I'm going to leave before the Q&A though.
Yeah.
That's going to be the
best part.
And you could watch it in your living room, folks.
You could
stream it, but come on out to the big screen.
You
can't beat a fun night at the movies, especially with some fun civic media people.
All right, we've got some texts here.
Oh, Mike Dessertel says, does Viagra perk your ears up?
Gives you an
ear
boner.
Good one, Mike.
Appreciate that, buddy.
Mike is the king of the puns.
Mike's name is going to come up when Connie Feldman is here, too, because they know each other.
And Connie is coming up next.
She's going to keep us posted on what's going on around the state and around Northeast Wisconsin.
Hope you're having a great drive home, folks, or a nice old-fashioned if you're already at home.
It is great to have you here at Night Light tonight on this Thursday.
We are coming back with Connie Feldman, WGBW reporter and anchor person that is next on Night Light with Beach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
My love I really wanna know you I really wanna go with you
Welcome back.
There we go.
Are we back, Tom?
We're back.
Right on.
This is Pete Schwabba and Night Light.
Great to have you with me.
It is just after 5.30 here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Rich Talarico says Chester Cheetah.
That is his cheesiest.
Showbiz celebrity.
He took it kind of literal.
Is that a real person?
Is that a real thing?
You know Cheetos?
Yeah.
Oh, that's their mascot.
I didn't know that, okay.
I try not to eat the Cheetos, but I do like the Cheetos.
What do you get?
Do you go soft or the crunchy?
Oh, like the puffs?
Yeah, the puffs kind of melt in your mouth.
That gets too stuck in your teeth, I
think.
Crunchy's more like a street fight in your mouth.
Yeah.
It's like a serious... It's a real.
Yeah, strong food.
I did that today.
I ate a chip and it cut my lip and it wasn't even a Dorito.
But I've done that like on the pretzel bun, like you bite in and it's like, oh, I didn't know I was going to get a serious injury coming for a pub burger, you know, crazy.
You know, in winter, it's not good to eat salt and vinegar chips.
Why is that?
Because if you have chap lips, that's going to hurt
you.
That's going to hurt.
There are men who fought wars in this country, and then there's us chip eaters that also deserve here.
Mike Desitel on the stream says, Wisconsin equals cheese, Schwabba equals Hollywood.
I don't know about that.
He says cheesiest showbiz personality is Schwabba.
I can live with that.
Thank you, Mike.
Speaking of Mike Desitel, I'm about to welcome one of his friends here to the show.
She is our colleague here at Civic Media, specifically WGBW.
And she does outstanding work.
And she's had this really cool career.
And she joins us here tonight on Nightlight for the first time.
Connie Feldman, hi, Connie.
Hey, Pete.
Nice to meet you.
How are you?
Hey, Conrad.
You were laughing at what we were talking about before, but you were doing that thing where you try to cover up your, like, it's OK to laugh on the show.
You're like going, oh no, I don't wanna laugh at that funny thing Pete just said.
What am I doing here Connie?
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you for doing this.
It's nice to see you here.
I'm a puffy Cheeto girl
though.
Puffy?
You know, I have to,
yeah.
I do the puffy ones.
All right, I like the puffy too.
They're a little more, you don't have to do as much work, I guess.
Yeah, exactly.
I feel like I could lose a tooth with some of the hard crunch.
But you still
get the cheesy goodness.
Yeah, and it's real cheese.
It leaves a nice coating on the roof
of your mouth.
It's all good.
That's what it says on the bag.
Real cheese, I'm like, all right, maybe there's like a fraction of, maybe it was cheese at one point, come on.
Let's get this out of the way because Mike Desatelle obviously is listening.
He's a good friend of mine.
And I know that you told me before the show you guys have this TV connection.
Tell us about that.
We do.
In fact, hey, Daz, he was an overnight producer in my early, early years in television at Fox 11.
And he called me up one night and it was about midnight.
And he said, hey, Connie, have you ever anchored before?
Anchored the news?
I said, no, I haven't, Daz.
He's like, well, get some sleep.
You got three hours before you're live.
You're filling in on the morning show.
And that's how I learned to anchor.
Look
at
that.
And it was a three hour long show.
So, you know what?
By the end of it, I was just, I was pretty comfortable.
Because you don't have another choice.
And he was the producer.
He was.
I will always remember Daz for that, as well as many other things.
Really, really talented guy.
Yeah.
He's all over Facebook.
I think they probably charge him rent.
He's on Facebook quite
a bit.
But no, I love Mike.
So let's talk about that.
So for background about you, we just gave a little bit, but you were in TV.
Now
you're doing news here at WGBW.
And this seems to be your career, just TV, radio.
What do you prefer?
And tell us a little bit about yourself.
Yeah.
Well, my joke is you just never know where I'm going to pop up next.
I was at...
But mainly, I started at 26 actually, before 26 had news.
They were still a Fox affiliate.
Oh, wow,
okay.
And then mainly was at Fox 11.
Did everything in the newsroom, morning show reporter, beat reporter, weekend anchor, valley anchor.
Then I took time off about 15 years to raise our daughter.
Okay.
And then I went back and most recently I was the weekend anchor at local five.
And I did, I was the health reporter, I did the health watch segments.
And had been talking to civic media for quite a while, because they didn't have a news position yet,
but
they wanted to create one.
And what I love about it is I'm still a big believer in local news.
I think local news
matters.
And I think people
want to hear about what's going on.
And this is really attracted to that.
And then all the perks of...
of working in radio.
Yeah.
You don't have to comb your hair as much or brush your teeth.
The
hair and makeup routine is so much easier.
I think that's so true what you said about local news because I found when I, you know, you get into these, or at least when Facebook first came out, I remember getting into Facebook Wars when I lived on one of the coasts and I was like, I think, oh, I don't know if these people like me anymore.
Maybe I don't like them, but then you see them.
And their little town, it's like, oh, they're just people.
Like there's something about a community and not just small town, but Green Bay.
Like it's all people coming together to solve local problems.
So the national political discourse doesn't really apply.
And you can still work with people and it's not.
about a capital gains tax cut or something.
It's about filling the pool with water and where are we gonna find the money.
Whatever it is, I totally agree with you.
That's a great point
you just made.
And you get to see the great stuff that people are doing, local people just in the area.
Absolutely.
That's the heart of it and I find that true with anchors in a market the size of Green Bay like it's just they are they are like celebrities here and people really do trust them and really do look to them for news and It's not all the talking head type stuff.
It's actual local news and a lot of
them I've you know been around for a long time and that's what's What's nice about Green
Bay?
Yeah, what do you like better Connie?
Are you more of a do you like radio or TV?
Well, they both have
their perks Yeah, you know, it's hard to say what's better because right now I'm just really all about radio.
I
love it.
I really love
it
and I mean you have so much flexibility To do, you know, you're not lugging a camera around everywhere You can you know cover news on the spot.
You can go on air, you know live just like that I could I could anchor At home in my jammies
if I want
to
It's good stuff.
That's pretty cool.
You shared with me a really fun stat.
Speaking of local, Conrad, you'll appreciate this.
You told me a statistic, well, not a statistic, but a Toyota-thon story.
Oh my gosh.
And what happens during Toyota-thon.
And I think Packer fans will take a real serious interest in this.
Can you share it?
And many already have.
It's a thing.
Many Packer fans are convinced, it's a sports superstition now, that when Toyota-thon starts,
Jordan loves stats, go up.
And look at last week.
Actually, Toyotathan kicked off on Sunday.
What did Jordan love do?
He comes back after shoulder injury, completes two passes, no interceptions.
He says-
Two touchdown
passes?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
What do you think of that, Con?
I think there's a merit there.
You know, it's funny.
One of my friends works at Toyota in Appleton.
And they just, they gave out like trading cards.
Yeah, he's got his own trading card.
And it has a little piece of the sweater.
Yeah.
Like Toyota's thong sweater in it.
Yeah.
He's got a marry Toyota thong sweater.
Do
they give him like a free car for this type of thing?
I would love a Tacoma.
I don't know.
That's not really a pickup guy, but those Tacomas are pretty sharp.
That's kind of cool.
So are you a Packer fan?
Lifelong, Northeast Wisconsin native?
Okay.
So you're a hometown girl.
That's really cool.
And that's
a lot of the news in Green Bay.
And Shaly Pittman was on recently when she was training me that we were talking about, you know, when the lead story is going to be the Packers in Green Bay.
And she was a little shocked at, I was like, no, I'm telling you, this is what people wanna hear about, you know?
It's not that I cover all sports stuff, but you know, if the Packers do something, people are interested.
Yeah, and that's what they wanna hear about, like you said, that's really interesting.
Okay, so let's talk about, there's a big parade this weekend.
Yes.
That's fun.
Yes.
Right here in downtown Green Bay.
Yes.
Will you be there?
I will not.
No.
Well, I'll be there in
spirit
because
I helped Dan Marcus.
Yes, you do.
Decorate the car.
Oh,
he
wanted an idea for how we're gonna get his car to look like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer So I take full credit for for that idea
if you want to see the pictures you can go to our Instagram Yeah, bgbw there's a picture on there, but what we should have been
rolling on was Was the hour of Dan and I trying to do you remember what a we call them hippie hops?
Yeah, I remember those.
Yeah.
Well, that's what I suggested That would be a really big red ball.
You could bend the front of your car
But then it was drooping and we couldn't get it.
It's like
a convertible?
No, it's
a
regular car.
I've had bad luck with the Green Bay Parade because last year I was going to participate.
I don't know if they ever knew this, but our previous manager here said, yeah, do this, this.
And I left like three hours before the parade and they said, we got to park like somewhere.
I'm like, what?
By the time I got to Green Bay, there was no parking.
I ended up just doing two hours of work here.
I didn't even participate in the parade and I was furious.
And I'm texting people, where do I go?
What do I do?
And
nobody's answering
because they're having fun at the parade.
They probably
figure Schwab's show is statewide.
But I'm here.
I wanted to represent.
Yeah.
So that didn't work out.
Part of it was my own fault.
But this year, I just can't do it.
So I was bummed because I wanted to show... I wanted to hang out with Dan Marcus.
I did too.
And I
had a prior engagement, unfortunately.
But yeah, I was really excited to...
Well, it's going to be a fun parade.
Conrad won't be there either because he'll be flying to a golf course.
So...
Poor Dan is
gonna be there.
I know.
Well, I'm sure other people
there's gonna be some people with
them and it's gonna be like the street That's a big parade.
It's huge.
Yeah, and he'll
be kind of close to Santa so
yeah What can you tell us Connie about deer hunting season?
Well, I can tell you it starts a week from No starts a Saturday
this Saturday.
Yeah, doesn't it Conrad?
Yeah
Man, I gotta get a gun.
Yeah, it's a nine-day hunt.
They'll prepare it.
Well,
I can
tell you,
actually, I just did a story on it.
Today, we've been doing a lot of stories because chronic wasting disease
is a big deal now.
Oh, yeah, it's a huge deal,
yeah.
And so, hunters have to get their deer checked out, but they're also, they said today, the deer population is up from like in 2009, it was nine million or something, and now it's double that.
That does not surprise me.
Well, and part of it is because the younger people aren't getting as much into the hunting sport, but also because the CWD people people are worried about it.
Maybe they
don't what does it do for people that don't know exactly what I mean I have an idea of what it is, but you have to after you
take a deer or drop a deer, kill a deer, whatever it is.
I've always used my bare hands.
You have to, what do you do?
You have to get it tested then?
Yeah, they have testing.
And what happens if it's
positive?
Well, if you're in a CWD site
or
area, but they want everybody to do it, just to be sure,
to
see how much the disease is spreading.
If your deer tests positive, you get another tag.
Okay,
so you can go get another deer.
I gotcha now.
What do they do with the deer?
Do they just dispose of it because it's Yeah, well
and and that's the other thing you have to be careful how do you how you dispose of it?
You have to treat it properly You can't leave
a
gut pile in the woods for example.
Okay, if your deer has CWD
have you ever hunted con?
When I was younger
like I've asked you this when I was
like I think the last time I went hunting I was like 13, okay?
Yeah, that freak that would freak me out a little bit But I will say the deer are everywhere like when I pull we have this little our little community in the city of Marinette
It has tall trees, it's kind of on the outskirts, and there are deer everywhere.
When I go home at night, they're by the old folks home, they're everywhere.
Yeah, and
they're walking through the city of Green Bay, and now you see them all the time.
Really?
Yeah.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Connie Feldman is here.
I always want to say Feldman, and it's Feldman.
Am I like my
cousin Marty?
No, it's Feldman, double L. That's probably
gonna get better.
I don't know, showbiz is like a Feldman name, but you're Feldman.
That's right.
All right, fantastic.
Connie is here.
We are going to talk about a lot of different stuff.
She's going to tell us about a really cool documentary she made, Climbing Mount Rainier.
You are a Renaissance woman.
And
I'm going to prove it after this.
It's Peach Wabba and
Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Shwaba, this is Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen, and it's great to have you with me.
Our question of the night is who is, in your opinion, the most cheesy celebrity?
I said, I said Steven Segal Conrad said, uh, Austin Butler.
We're curious.
I would never have lumped him into that category, but I just
got your reasons.
He's got that Elvis persona that still falls them after the movie.
Can't shake it.
You can't.
Yeah.
Do you have one?
You know, I was thinking about it for an actor.
I want to say like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Oh, that's interesting.
You just see
that
it's.
painful for me to watch him act.
Yeah.
You know, another one I think kind of in that same generation is Kevin Costner can be really cheesy sometimes.
He
takes himself
very seriously.
Oh, but I love Kevin Costner.
Were
you a
Yellowstone fan?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And dances with wolves.
But what about Steve Harvey as far as like TV personality?
Oh, he's hard to take on a lot of levels.
Yep.
I've heard too many stories.
Oh, oh, really?
Nothing horrible.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good, let's just leave it at that.
I think that's good.
That's interesting.
You went Steve Harvey.
For cheesy personalities.
Cheesy
personality,
yeah.
That's interesting.
We were talking about Connie Feldman is my guest folks.
She does news here at WGBW and she's a former TV anchor and we're going to learn a lot more about Connie in the next few minutes here because she truly is a show, a showbiz, just a Renaissance woman, I think.
Some show business, but you're
very well
rounded.
You told me before the show, let's get this out of the way, because it's uncomfortable, but Conrad and I were talking about Viagra.
Oh my gosh.
What a lead.
I know.
I
just got to get this off my chest.
Poor.
The problem is I can't say anything
now.
I know, I know.
Under the circumstances that you can't
tie back the
wire.
So, but you said something funny before the show because I said people are using it to deal with hard of hearing it.
Whatever it does it helps people here, right?
And you said that I guess this ties into your documentary I found this fascinating you you Well when you're climbing a mountain what happens
you
have to take
Viagra.
Well, we took it Yeah, once you get to us.
It's a vessel dilator so it increases blood flow And once you get to a certain elevation, yeah, it
it helps your body function.
How about that?
And the most common use of it, actually, as you guys had said, was a side effect when they were using it for multiple other things.
Right.
And, yeah.
They
stumbled onto...
Our team doctor broke out the bag, and I'm like, whoa, what's going on?
I'm alone on a mountain with a group of men.
I don't know if I like seeing this.
I'm uncomfortable, fellows.
I don't blame you.
And then whatever they say, you probably don't believe me.
I don't know, this helps clear out
your,
yeah, OK, guys,
I'm
going
to
go.
So that leads us into your next resume thing here that makes you a Renaissance person, which I think is so cool.
You made a documentary.
I did.
And tell us about that, because this sounds fascinating.
It was really cool.
Still, to this day, probably my favorite news story of all time.
But there was an Ishwabbanan man named Jeff Pagels.
He was a paraplegic.
He wanted to be the first paraplegic to summit Mount Rainier.
And the way he was going to do it was his buddy designed to sit ski.
and he would pull himself, they would secure lines, and he was gonna pull himself 50 to 80,000 times all the way up this mountain by his arms.
So I went out there actually with Terry Barr's husband, who was my photographer on the mountain.
We covered the story, and then we made it into a half an hour documentary about just the extraordinary things.
It was all about the outdoors as a healing place.
And it's about people's abilities, not their disabilities.
And then I went on, I went on to climb other mountains with him.
We were on a mountain in Norway with a group of blind climbers.
And we were roped in.
And I remember thinking to myself, I want to be roped in with blind climbers.
But you know what?
They're so used to feeling with their feet their way through life.
they were so much more stable than we were over the rocky parts.
That is unbelievable.
Wow.
So, yeah.
And he's just, he's got a great message.
We're still, we're still best buds to this day.
Shout out to Rainbow if you're there.
So you're tied with blind climbers.
Yes.
And they're very steady on their feet.
Who's leading this?
Like, there's somebody in front, I'm sure, and they're just following him or her?
Yeah, there's a guide.
A guide was leading.
Is that typical to all be tied together like that?
On certain rocky crevasse parts, let's say.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to tie in with someone.
Because
that kind of, Conrad, that sounds like a hostage situation.
You got nowhere to go.
If somebody makes a bad move or something.
You know, and you talk about trust in your life, your climb team, and you do.
That is
something I got to say.
I've never had a desire to do is climb.
tip my hat to you, because that's pretty amazing.
And the fact that you've done it with a paraplegic and blind people is really unbelievable.
What made you want to do that?
That's, well, I mean, it's funny because I remember saying afterwards, if someone ever asked me, you know, why do you want to climb mountains?
There's no way I can give them an answer that would make sense.
Because you can.
Because there are so many people who can't
do it for a variety of reasons, whether it's financial or physical or any matter of reasons.
The fact that you're fortunate enough to be able out in this glorious place and strong enough to be able to do it, there's something really inspiring about it.
It makes you
feel like as someone that has all their capacities or is in pretty healthy shape, it really
like when you first told me that earlier, I'm like, I felt kind of bad about myself.
Why don't I do more stuff?
Well, that's really why I do it, Pete.
It's just how I make people feel kind of crappy.
All right.
Mission accomplished.
Connie
Feldman
is here.
Can you stick around for a few more minutes?
I would love to.
Fantastic.
We'll talk more about this documentary.
your theater background and the Packer Dip.
That's all coming
up after the news.
Our question is, who is the cheesiest celebrity?
Share your vote with us, folks.
Be part of the show.
And lots of fun stuff.
Popcorn Pick of the Week coming up at 6.35 and Frank Anderson from Wisconsinology at 7.20.
Conrad, what else?
We got so much going on here.
Am I missing something?
We got some cool stories too that we can talk about.
Should we tell them about the bake sale?
I don't think you want anything I bake.
There's no big sale.
We're coming back after the news for act two folks.
It's peach waba and nightlight on the civic media radio
network
Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.
This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.
Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.
And now, a guy who believes in an eye for an eye, but only if they're lowercase, Pete Schwabba.
Hey,
welcome back, folks.
You are just in time for Act 2 here on a Thursday edition of Night Light.
Great to have you with me, and thank you for joining us.
Conrad Krieger is here working the board and doing the dirty work behind the scenes.
What is the dirty work behind the scenes,
Conrad?
Making sure, you know, you're on the stand.
I don't swear.
Making
sure
I don't
take
hostages or
swear.
Someone's got to keep you in line.
I almost took hostages in the first, well, before the show because I couldn't think of a joke for one of my Hollywood beats and I was just so mad.
And I was having one of those days where I was dropping things a lot and I, you know, you just kind of a klutz and everything's going wrong and it's like, I buttoned my shirt wrong and it's like, one of those days.
And then
you said, you know, just me, I'm on an island here.
I mean, I had a pretty, pretty nice day.
Well, besides the laundry incident I told you about.
Oh, he bought a brand new white sweatshirt.
Well, I bought a new sweatshirt for one of my favorite NBA teams.
One of his
favorite teams in the last, what, month?
Or since Kevin Durant went there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Houston Rockets.
Anyways, well, I just got it in the mail today.
And I was like, oh, this is nice.
I tried it on.
I was like, that looks nice.
Then I wore it to hear earlier.
And I was going to the gym and I got out of my car.
And I think that I maybe.
touched my car a little bit or something.
You know when it gets kind
of,
car gets a little dirtier?
Well,
I got a huge black stain on the back of it, brand new switch.
And it was an emergency, ran back home, put the laundry machine on delicate lawn, waiting to see the aftermath after I get home.
Conrad, I can get it out for you.
Oh, look at
that.
I'm a stained master.
My attack.
If it doesn't come out.
Should he
shout it out or?
Nope.
Okay.
Fells nap the soap.
What is it?
Fells nap the.
That's a real thing?
It is.
Does it have anything to
do with you?
My mother used to use it to get the grass stains out of my brother's football uniforms.
And I'm a master stain remover, so.
No kidding.
I owe Conrad.
Conrad's been my tech guy, go to.
Every time I have a question about editing, audition.
Yeah.
So he's my hero.
It's
the least you could do, it sounds like.
All right, so I think so.
I'm hoping the delicate, you know.
does the job because I'm taking it in a few days to Florida with me.
That's gonna be
your Florida sweatshirt.
Exactly.
I'm gonna make the scene and you can't have that
nonsense.
I need to have it on.
It's funny, I think I told you a few weeks ago, sometimes I come down early before the show and I'll see a movie that's not playing in Marinette, which is most of them.
And, pardon me, so I go to, I can't not get a snack when I'm at the movies.
So this particular day, I was starving.
So I got,
I wasn't starving, I was hungry.
I used,
I throw words around like it's
ridiculous.
So I'm eating nachos and I'm watching this movie and I can show up here and
I
go
to the restroom
here
and I see this
big clop of cheese and I'm smiling at people
on the
way out talking like, who's that schlump, you know?
So horrible, you just look like such an idiot.
Hey, are you gonna see Wicked?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I
can't wait.
I love the
first one.
I did too.
I just watched it again last
night.
Yeah.
We won as a big group last Thanksgiving.
So my sister just suggested today when they get to town, she's like, let's go see Wicked.
Yeah.
It's a lot of other movies I want to see too, but I would, it's fun.
It's a great group movie, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is the voice of Connie Feldman.
She is here.
We are getting to know Connie.
She does news here at WGBW.
She's a great reporter and anchor person, and she has a long history in TV, and she's also a mountain climber and all kinds of stuff.
We will get right back to Connie, but coming up at 6.35, folks, is the popcorn pick of the week.
It's a WGBW party here tonight, because Amanda Nimmer, one of the producers here for Civic Media,
And she's also our social media guru.
She will be here tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week where we give you a movie recommendation that you can take into the weekend.
And then our pal Frank Anderson will be here at 620.
Check out Wisconsinology.com.
That's Frank's site.
He knows more about Wisconsin than, well, than Conrad, frankly, so.
I don't know if that's a lot or a little, but
that
makes him an authority, but he's a pretty smart guy.
So Frank will be here at 720.
That's fun.
That's an hour three.
Our question of the night is, who is the cheesiest celebrity?
I said Steven Seagal.
Conrad said, tell me again, Austin Butler.
You're forgetting a lot of my answers.
Listen, I
got like a 10,000 texts I haven't
gotten here.
I'm looking
at the text line.
And
Connie, who did you say
again?
I said Arnold.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, yeah.
And then I said, Kevin Costner is kind of cheesy and you kind of
almost threw down with me.
I did.
I'll take you
on that one.
Dave on the stream says Martin Short.
Now that's interesting because he is cheesy, but I think that's kind of on purpose.
That's kind of his shtick.
But I could see that because I've said in recent years I was just talking about this today with my sister who I just mentioned Molly We were talking about only murders in the building And I said I'm really kind of over the whole Steve Martin Martin
short
thing.
It's cute.
They're both funny They're both legends.
Yeah, I can't listen to their Cheeky banter anymore.
I don't know.
Hey, what about the new Matlock?
I haven't seen it yet.
I love Kathy Bates.
I do too.
Yeah,
it's good, huh?
Well, you know, I like the part, she's an older woman going back into the workforce and she plays this dumb old lady shtick so she can, but she's brilliant.
To trap people.
Yeah, and she gets them every time.
Oh, that's
awesome.
Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah, I gotta check it out.
It's on my list.
And Mike Desitel, who is responsible for a small portion of Connie's career, I guess, or a
tip of the
hat.
I
owe it all to you,
Daz.
Says, if you want to know about T-Zone Hunting, watch The Godfather of Green Bay.
Well, that's a great segue, so let's do that.
If you're looking for plans, folks, or something to do, December 4th in Madison, come on out to the Atwood Music Hall in Atwood.
the Atwood neighborhood.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
I'm going to be screening my film, The Godfather of Green Bay.
And it's sponsored by John and Gordy of the WMDX morning show and Downerans Distillery.
It's going to be a really fun night.
Some of the proceeds go to the Dane County Humane Society.
And the Godfather of Green Bay is a comedy I shot in Marinette 20 years ago.
It's kind of our 20th anniversary.
The Baudin's did the music solidifying its place in Wisconsin movie history.
Kurt Newman wrote an absolutely spectacular score.
which he told me at the time he had never done before.
And I was just blown away.
He did a great job.
Tony Goldman, Lauren Holly, all kinds of fun actors from Milwaukee in the Midwest.
It's a really fun movie to watch with a crowd.
There's going to be Q and A afterwards.
There'll be cocktails.
I might whip up a Bundt cake.
We'll just see how they
even
goes.
And Conrad will be there taking pictures and hobnobbing.
I want to see it now.
How can I see it if I'm not in Madison?
I don't know if I want to tell you because then I'm worried people won't go to the screen.
You can stream it.
If you do a Roku search,
it'll come out.
I'll ask you after that.
Ask
me during the break.
So I don't have
to spill state secrets.
So that'll be fun.
Come on out on the fourth, folks.
It should be a really fun evening.
And that's about it.
I think, are we caught up?
What am I missing?
Well, we got there's some a couple texts we could go to on the text line if you wanted Yeah, I love reading text
and we'll get back to Connie too.
So Connie I know that you told me earlier Also, you have a theater background and you were in a chorus line and a Christmas Carol.
Yeah,
how fun was that?
Well, it was here.
Yeah, it was with Berter players out of Depeer Okay, and I had not I had done theater, you know high school and college but had not done anything locally But I heard they were doing a production of a chorus line
And it was my dream.
That's a fun show, yeah.
Just to tell myself I auditioned, I went and auditioned just to tell myself I had the courage to do it.
And I got a little bit part, but oh my gosh, was it incredible.
Did you
have to do like the leg
kicks?
Really?
I did, and I did the whole, you know.
I really need this job.
It was amazing.
They do good shows.
So then I went back and did a Christmas Carol with them a couple years ago.
I was Mrs. Cratchit.
A couple years
ago.
Nice.
So you kept those chops fresh.
I wanted to.
They were gentle.
They were kind.
And gave me a break, so,
and I loved it.
Don't you love community theater people?
Are they not like
the most fun?
They're all there as a hobby, mostly.
It's fun.
And the talent we have in this area is really
incredible.
Agreed.
I totally agree with you.
When I was just talking about the movie I did, we auditioned people.
We probably maybe brought more people in than we needed to, but we didn't know what we were working with.
And then we auditioned local people and it's like, oh my God,
this
is fantastic.
Like you don't expect that.
And then you see there's some really great talent.
Yeah, there really is.
And what about a Christmas Carol?
That was, or that's what you were just talking about,
right?
Yeah.
Christmas Carol.
That was also with Bird or Players.
So what, are you gonna do it again?
I
would do it again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Could you with work?
Yeah
breaking the stories with
with radio.
I could okay
We've got oh, I we got a texture here who wants to know about your mountain climbing and I didn't get to ask you this either But let's do the texture and then I have a question for you as well from the 608 Tom says Hi Pete.
I think Dan Levy is really cheesy and I wouldn't mind I wouldn't mountain climb unless unless
Tom is our accidental mountain climber.
That's a good excuse to mountain climb Tom.
I'm with you 100%.
Who's Dan Levy?
Dan Levy.
Levy?
Okay.
What did he do?
Why is he cheesy?
Maybe it's just because he pronounces his way.
Do a Google Dan Levy cheesy.
Let's see what chat GPT says.
Mark for Prairie to Sack in the 608 says, now all the songs from Sound of Music will be swimming through my head.
Climb every mountain, there you go.
Another one for Connie.
That's awesome.
And Mark says, does the Green Bay Parade have song?
Duluths does, goes something like Christmas City, wonderful city, all dressed up in snow and mistletoe.
Come this Christmas to the Christmas City, let's go.
I just looked it up and the song was written, sung by Merv Griffin circa 1962.
That's really cool.
I didn't know Merv sang.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Sure.
He says, uh, uh, and then Mark says, my folks always had it on and I especially remember it being on getting back home for the deer opener after moving to Madison.
Mark, awesome stuff, man.
Thank you.
That's pretty cool.
All right.
So how did, how did they do this?
How do they do the the the guy who you said was the paraplegic in the in the wheelchair
Jeff play Jeff bagels
Jeff bagels are there trails that Or did he have to go over?
How rough was it?
I guess
well, it's no a lot of Renea was snow.
Yeah,
so he would you know, it was on a sitski So he would sit and they would put lines in rope, you know ahead Yeah, and there was a pulley and he would pull himself up
That sounds really well treacherous and just like a ton of hard work.
It was and he started climbing when he was 50
This guy have like arms.
Oh, yeah, like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yeah, he does
I wanted to ask you also about this packer dip that you
and Dan
are doing in the morning show here
Dan and I are having a dip off because I
held Dan Marcus Yeah,
he's Dan talks.
He's been talking about as a dip.
I've known Dan for probably like 20 years
It's still talking about the dip and he brought it in.
It's some pretty good dip.
I have to give him that.
What is the base of the dip?
I think he won't tell me.
It's a big secret.
Oh, he's one of those.
Yeah.
I think it's cheese whiz.
I can taste cheese in a can.
It's an
old Marcus family recipe.
In that dip.
You know that squeezy cheese?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm bringing my dip in tomorrow.
Okay.
And we'll have a dip off.
It's like a dip off.
Yeah.
Who are the guinea pigs?
Who gets this?
Whoever's here.
Whoever's here.
Dan and I, and then Conrad comes in once in a while.
That's fun.
Are you gonna taste the dip,
Con?
I'll be here at 12 tomorrow, so, you know, I might be able to try it.
I said there's gotta be, because otherwise it's not much fun of a dip off if it's just Dan and I. Yeah, because it's like you're gonna cancel each
other out.
You vote for me, I'll vote for you.
Can we just keep you?
We've got to do a short break.
Do you have anywhere to be?
Are you meeting a group?
I love being here.
I
have to ask you what you're watching, and then we also have to...
Talk about our alma maters.
Oh, yeah, I'm
very similar.
So we'll do that
Connie's here for this is awesome We're setting a record here Connie Feldman is here.
We're coming right back and we're gonna read some more of your texts before we make the popcorn pick of the week It's Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network
Welcome back to Nightlight.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
And it is, we have a really fun show going here tonight, folks.
Connie Feldman is here.
She's going to close out this next segment with us before we bring out Amanda Nimmer for the Popcorn Pick of the Week.
Our question is, who do you think is the most cheesy celebrity?
And Monica and Mount Horab in the 608 says, Keenan Thompson from SNL.
She says, I like him, but he's always smirking as if someone's behind him tickling him and he's stifling a laugh.
That's very true.
Boy, that's very observant, Monica.
Thank you.
Did you ever see the skit he did with, uh, what's up with that?
He's his talk show host who's a little James Brownish and he comes out and this music kicks in and he goes,
When he hears the music, he has to dance.
He's like, what's up with that?
And the Ted Lasso guy is doing the, he's doing this.
And Martin Short is in it.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on Saturday night.
What about Mike Myers?
Is he cheesy?
You know.
Yeah, but on purpose, I think, don't you think?
It's part of a shtick, I think.
Which
I guess that counts.
We didn't really put any parameters on the
question.
I need to know the rules.
You are not a rule breaker, Connie Feldman.
Chris Casper says, it's a win-win for the wives.
I think he's talking about the Viagra helping with hearing so we can listen to our wives and the obvious other benefits.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids in the 608 says, Will Ferrell makes me say dead gummit.
Is he saying that like He said that in movies,
you know, like oh
I'm not as like I like will fair a lot, but I'm not that guy that's like seen everything he's ever done
You know, he's funny, you know, I watched kicking and screaming the other day because it's just came back on Netflix It's so good.
It's so funny with my dick in it
And him trying coffee for the first time is hilarious.
I don't remember
that.
I'm not really a
coffee drinker.
So
when Anchorman first came out, we went as a news station, and I did not get along at all with my co-anchor at the time, and he was very Ron Burgundy-ish.
Oh, funny.
So we were all sitting there and they had a code, you know, cough once if it reminds you of Connie, cough twice if it reminds you of my co-anchor.
Who was in Michigan?
He wasn't here in Green Bay, but he was a very Ron Burgundy type.
Now, what year is this?
What year are we talking here?
Roughly.
I'm not going to like Google.
2003.
Right
around
when it came out, I guess.
Yeah, yeah.
That's hilarious.
Are you a Ted Baxter fan?
I
love Ted Baxter.
How fun is he?
I would be Mary Tyler Moore, but I love Ted Baxter.
We had Steven Leo on the show who wrote Kicking and Screaming, and they are two of the best comedy writers.
They also wrote Space Jam and The Santa Clause, and they were this great comedy team from Chicago, and they were on this show, and they cracked me up even just on Zoom
on the show.
They were that funny.
So let's talk about, before we let you go, Connie.
You and I almost went to the same school.
We were
one letter away.
Yeah, and you went to the paw.
You're right.
And I went to the paw.
And I spent most of my adult life explaining to people that it was not the paw.
Yeah.
It was like the paw on the dog was how we used to say it.
The paw on the dog.
Oh, that's interesting.
So they thought you were mispronouncing your own school.
Yeah.
And is that school known for broadcasting?
They have a pretty decent broadcasting department now that was supposed to be there when I went there, but was completed about a year after I
left.
But it's a phenomenon.
That's a small liberal arts school.
Nice.
Really good school.
Expensive.
The Harvard of the Midwest.
Is it?
Oh my God.
Does everybody say that about there?
Of course.
That's
so funny.
I used to say that when my kids were in preschool.
I'd go, this is like the pipeline to Harvard.
Some parents are like, are you serious?
I'm serious.
Church of the Valley preschool is the Harvard of the Midwest.
Crazy.
All right.
So we've got, how are we doing on tax count?
Are we caught up?
Yeah, right now we are.
Oh, fantastic.
Okay, so what are you gonna come back and make the popcorn pick one of these days, Connie?
I would love to do that.
I want to know what Amanda has.
What else can we look forward to?
How do you spend the holidays here in Green Bay?
What's your favorite Green Bay holiday type thing?
Boy, you know, I love, well, I love the Christmas parade, the holiday parade.
You know, it's hard for me.
They combine the holidays,
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
It's hard for me to get out.
One of my favorite I see I'm one of the people who love I love the winter.
I love the snow.
Do you I love, you know climb mountains Yeah, if I wouldn't live here if I didn't love it, but when Aaron's Hill opens up for sledding Where's that?
I love a
good sledding hill.
Oh, it's in tidal town.
It's a tubing hill
Would it be weird if you and I went sledding together?
We just won't tell anybody
It'll be our little secret.
That might
make it weird.
You know, but if I told my wife, I'm going sledding with Connie Filman, she'd be like, Oh, that's interesting.
Have fun.
There's a lot of great, I mean, Triangle Hill.
There's a toe rope.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
Tidal town, you know, tight.
It's next to ear and till.
I've
seen it, but I've never.
I've been there.
I have not
been seen.
You need to get out.
You need to get out of your
house.
I do.
I sit home and watch color television until I do.
Tom from Anona says, he does those homes.com commercials.
If you look in your chat, I sent you a picture.
Dan Levy.
Okay.
In my chat?
Okay.
I'm going to look up.
This is great radio.
Me looking up.
Oh, Dan, that's Eugene Levy's son.
Yes.
Are you a Shits Creek fan?
I am not.
Don't
swear.
I just like to say that joke because I could swear on the ear.
And I've tried.
I've tried to like it because I hear so many great things about it.
Yeah, but
I'm with you.
I thought it was okay, but I didn't go back to it.
I felt like, okay, I'd seen enough and it's fine.
It's funny, but I didn't, uh, it wasn't like something I wanted to binge.
What are you binging?
Are you binging anything right now?
Right now.
What did I just get done binging?
Um,
Oh, you could think about
it.
Yeah.
What's the one with the judge?
Who gets a son out?
All's fair
Think about that.
We'll do that
next time.
All right.
We got Connie.
This is so fun Thank you very much
for
keeping us informed and entertained and a true showbiz Renaissance woman here Connie Feldman.
Thanks so much
Thanks for having me
any time.
All right Conrad.
Thank you too, but you can't leave.
Okay We are coming back to make the popcorn pick of the week with Amanda Nimmer
our hotshot social media guru here at Civic Media and WGBW.
Our question of the night, folks, who's the cheesiest celebrity?
I say Stephen Seagal, and I think I win, but you can weigh in and be part of the show, too.
We're coming right back.
It's Peach Wamba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
It's time for the nightlight popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't Here's your host peach wabba welcome back Great to have you here folks Having some fun here on a Thursday night in beautiful downtown Green Bay as we broadcast statewide over our beautiful state on this gorgeous fall night How you doing con you hanging in there I'm doing good.
You know, we're
halfway done.
You're almost on vacation
You got one more day.
Yes, one more day.
How
you feeling?
I'm ready to put my toes in the sand.
That's not a visual
I like to think about.
But I don't blame you.
All right, folks, it is time for the popcorn pick of the week.
So let's get to it.
It is my pleasure to welcome my very good friend.
She helps us out here on Nightlight as a producer from time to time.
She does outstanding award-winning social media work as well.
And I would just give her a trophy for just being a good person if I had that kind of authority.
But I don't.
But let's bring her on anyway.
She's here to make the popcorn pick of the week.
Miss Amanda Nimmer.
Hello, my friend.
Hello.
How are you?
Not too bad.
Not too bad.
Yeah,
you're really looking forward to Friday
Are you really then you can really are you
you're on vacation next week, too?
No, I don't get to use my vacation.
Come on Amanda You do work very hard.
I will say that.
Hey, we could you mind if we take a quick call before we get to the popcorn pick.
Are you good?
Okay Who do we have con it's a surprise?
Oh dear.
I do not like surprises.
Hello surprise caller
I know that voice.
Ollie, that is fantastic.
And what I think is so funny about that is, you know, I'm the biggest inside guy ever.
I
knew you liked, you said something about like in Tennessee.
And then I thought, oh, that killing the deer bear hand.
And I better hook up that song and sing that song.
That
was absolutely beautiful.
Thank you so
much for that,
Ollie,
outstanding.
Have a good night.
You too, thank
you.
I knew when she said that about the bare hands, I was like, I knew it, made her think of that.
All right, Amanda, that cannot be your popcorn pick of the week, what you just heard.
It was a beautiful song, but we are gonna ask you for a movie at some point, but let's have a little discussion first about how Amanda Nimmer likes to watch movies.
Where do you go?
Do you go to the theater?
Are you just like one of those people that likes to watch at home?
I...
It's hard because it's it's gonna depend on my mood.
I'm not gonna lie Yeah, I did just go to the movie theater for the first time in quite some time and I have some beef
You have some beef you mean you have issues with the theater or you took you stole food into the theater
I mean, it's been a while since I've done that but now
beef is a tough one.
Yeah.
All right.
So
what's the what's
the problem?
so
As I said, it's the first time in a long time since I've been there.
And it's the culture of the theater that got to me.
Oh, that's interesting.
Because it's one of those theaters that had like the really nice relaxing chairs, you know?
Yeah, sure.
Love those chairs.
So we had people all around us who had blankets, wearing PJs, took their shoes off.
Oh, yeah.
And I was like, what in the world is happening right now?
That's
not right.
Yeah, I
agree.
So like in my mind, I'm like, if you need to be this comfortable, you need to just stay home.
Just
go to bed.
At that point.
So where was, was this in Manitowoc where you live or in Green Bay?
No, I drove up to Green Bay.
It was at Marcus Theaters.
Which one?
Bay Park or East?
East by the mall.
Yeah.
People get very comfy there for some reason.
They feel very at home.
It was, I honestly just couldn't stop looking because I'm like, you know, I mean, yeah, I was relaxed, but I had my shoes on.
I was still wearing my coat.
Like this isn't my house.
I'm not going to get that level of comfortable there.
Did you see bare feet?
I did.
Oh, that's awful.
That's like on a plane.
You can't do that.
You cannot take your shoes off in a movie theater with bare feet.
I'm sorry.
I draw the line there.
Did you say something?
No, I mean, what am I going to say?
Like, hey, don't be comfortable.
Put your shoes on.
I don't know.
That's a little too dumb.
No, I sat, I watched the movie.
What was the movie?
The whole time.
It was, now you see me, now you don't.
Oh, so this is like probably last weekend, right?
This was on Friday.
Friday I went.
So that's not a movie you bring the little one to.
Was that like date night or something or what?
Um, so my partner's a big fan of the series and as soon as I saw it was in theater because I believe that was The first day it was in theaters.
I believe for um Yeah, I like quick went down my very short list of contacts and I was like someone please just watch my kid I'm begging you for just two hours for the movie.
That's not asking for anything else.
We didn't get dinner.
I was like just the
movie How was that movie by the way
It was honestly pretty good.
Yeah, that's
what I did There were some parts where I felt it was rushed because I mean they had too many characters like that happens when you have returning characters and then Brand new set of characters you're introducing, you know, you're gonna have bits where you're like I felt like that kind of played out a little longer
sure
but Overall, it was pretty good.
They wrapped it all up pretty well
see there That's the issue with me because I'm like you I like to go to the theater
But I do think there's an etiquette and you're right.
It's kind of a newer culture.
I feel like, you know, I like the theaters where you can buy your tickets ahead of time.
You might pay a little more, but you don't have to rush in and get your seat.
And the people, if they're willing to pay a little bit more, they want to watch the movie.
They are there to see the movie.
Like so often the cases like in Marinette will get kids that come in and they just want to hang out in the theater.
Like they probably paid for a different movie and then they just came in this one to horse around.
And it's the same thing with the bare feet.
This isn't your living room.
Shut up and watch the movie like that's what you're dealing with in the theaters I do however like when you go to a theater because I do think it brings people together And if you have the right clientele that are really focused on the movie that's to me is ideal
No, I agree.
I agree because like sometimes like if it's if it's one of those comedy films where you're laughing at the right parts with other people or
if you're like me and you're laughing at the wrong part, but there's one other person who laughed with you.
No, you're not alone.
That's a great
point.
That's, then you have like this cosmic connection with a stranger and it's a beautiful thing.
Sorry, so do you have a specific kind of a typical genre you like, Amanda?
Typically?
I've been leaning a lot more toward suspense.
Who done it?
kind of films.
Okay.
Um, I like TV shows better because I'm more invested in the long run.
Yeah.
Especially since, I mean, it is a bummer, but at the same time, I do enjoy like the, what do they call it?
A mini series drama series that they've been doing lately.
That's the trend because there's never a second season.
So like, I really enjoy them because the stories are done well and they're wrapped up, you know, in a nice neat bow.
But at the same time, I'm like, can we keep going?
I fell in love with these characters.
Can I keep watching?
I'm totally with you on that.
My guest is Amanda Nimmer.
She is a producer here at WGBW and our Civic Media's award-winning social media guru.
She is just great and fills in here for Conrad from time to time at Nightlight.
We love having her on the show.
And by
the way... Speaking of Conrad, how much vacation you got left, by the way?
You know, it's it's it's skin down there somehow.
He's still got three weeks left before the end of the year I
was like When I heard he was on vacation, I was like again
I hate it when I can't get like, but like when Khan leaves and you can't fill in, I'm really sort of, I mean, I'm always in good hands because everybody in Madison's great too, but it's, I miss you guys.
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So suspense, me too.
But is that horror, Amanda?
When you say you like suspense, are you talking a little bit about horror or dipping your toe in the horror pool?
Cause I don't mind a little horror.
I don't like gore though.
I don't like gore.
I think slasher films just for the sake of, you know, gore is, they're dumb.
That's not my thing.
Um, but no, like it can dip into the horror like, uh, the recent conjuring film.
I loved that was great.
I love the new one.
Is
that good?
Yeah.
I haven't seen any of those.
I've got to see that.
Have you seen all of them?
I have seen all of them now.
And that's
not gore.
That's just haunted suspense.
It's haunted.
It's supernatural.
Ask based on true story.
Supposedly if you believe in it.
Yeah.
Well,
um,
But like I mean there's also Like other films where it's just dispensed the whole time and you're sitting there going this person did it.
Oh wait.
Nope new detail.
I guess it might be this person
Are you ever worried when you watch a movie like the conjuring that there's some sort of curse that because a lot of people think that really happened There's the conjuring house.
We've read about and that kind of stuff and Are you ever worried that if you watch it you're cursed and that's gonna happen to you?
No,
okay.
No, I don't feel
that
Me either, just checking.
Now, if it was a weird movie that had a bunch of static and a girl climbing out of a well, perhaps.
Now, you have a little guy.
You call him the walrus.
He's adorable.
He was in the Man It to Walk costume contest at Sputnik Fest.
That was a lot of fun.
Do you have favorite kids movies that you like to watch with him?
So he's six now and it's honestly great because he's starting to transition out of just simple cartoons and into things with more complex stories like real people TV shows and movies we actually just Caught up and watched all the Jurassic parks with our six year old.
Oh, that was
except the one that just came out We're just about to start that one.
Okay, and he's obsessed the whole time with them
Really
my kid has an old soul.
He loves the original Willy Wonka.
Oh, he doesn't like the one with Johnny Depp.
He thinks it's weird and scary He loves the original Ghostbusters
Same
yeah, so like he's starting to transition into these little fandoms and I'm a hundred percent for it.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That's a gift actually Let me ask you this.
What is your favorite movie snack Amanda?
Popcorn
dipped in nacho cheese.
Oh, we've talked about this, haven't we?
Yes.
Oh yeah, definitely.
It
seems like a lot of work because you take one piece of popcorn.
Well, I used to not take one piece of popcorn, but thanks to, you know, the good old surgery I had to have, I now have to have one piece at a time.
I know, but you got to do one piece anyway.
Do you take a fistful of popcorn and just dunk your whole hand in the cheese?
No, no, no, no.
What you do is you get your little cup of cheese, and then you sprinkle the top with popcorn, and then you start eating it out of there.
Oh
my goodness.
Wow.
That's a plan of attack.
You ever do that, Con?
I've never tried that.
No.
You're going to now though, aren't you?
I might have to.
Next time I go to theater.
All right.
I think without further ado, we need to get to this popcorn pick of the week.
Our friend Amanda Nimmer, drum roll please.
Mr. Conrad Krieger.
Amanda Nimmer, social media award-winning social media guru.
What is your popcorn pick of the week?
Dogma.
Have we talked about that movie before?
It
might be Lisa.
You guys
are both huge fans.
Dogma.
Wow.
Nice pick.
So I thought about this lot in heart because I was like, oh, it could be the movie I just saw because it did have a twist I didn't see coming.
And that's, I got to say, that's very rare for me to not guess it.
I, for some reason always do, but this one, I did not catch it and it was good.
All right.
Hold
your thought right there.
We're going to do a quick break.
We'll come back and we'll find out more about Amanda's popcorn pick of the week.
This week's pick folk is dogma.
So we're coming back to talk more about that with our guest Amanda Nimmer.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
I'm
Pete Schwabba.
Welcome to Nightlight, folks.
We are closing about to close down.
Hour number two, our question of the night is who is the cheesiest celebrity?
I say Steven Seagal.
Conrad says Austin Butler.
We will ask our current guest, Amanda Nimmer, that question as well.
She just made her popcorn pick of the week and it is Dogma, the Kevin Smith movie.
that starred Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and we were in the middle of a conversation about the film.
Amanda, so great pick by the way.
Are you an Affleck and Damon fan?
Is that why you like the movie?
Are you more of a Kevin Smith fan or is it the combination?
It's a combination of the both, but the reason I picked it is because of the controversy around the film.
Yeah.
Which
was
what?
I don't even remember.
It's been so long.
What was the controversy?
So when the film came out, the Catholic community was not happy about it, and they were protesting the film's release.
Yes.
But what's so funny about this is Kevin Smith joined their protest and was then interviewed by the news about why he's protesting his own film.
That is brilliant.
So the film got banned by a bunch of those communities, but the other controversy surrounding it was that it was owned by, um, by Harvey Weinstein's company,
Miramax.
Yeah.
And Miramax refused to give Kevin Smith the rights to his film back.
So for years, you've not been able to find it in any, like any DVD.
There was no new copies made.
You couldn't even stream it.
It was gone.
No kidding.
Huh.
until now, because as of 2024, a different company bought it from Euromax, and Kevin Smith bought the rights from them, and on December 9th, you can now buy Dogma on DVD once again.
Very nice.
So have you watched it recently?
I haven't watched it recently, but I've watched it enough that I have parts of it.
You know, I only saw it the one time.
I should give that a revisit.
Although I'm not the biggest Kevin Smith fan, but I appreciate his...
entrepreneurial filmmaking spirit.
He truly is like kind of his own guy, right?
I mean, he's just a force.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, his older films definitely, his newer ones kind of got a little weird from my tape, but...
Same.
I love, love, loved Clerks.
I just, to me, that's one of my all-time favorite indie films.
Well,
great
pick.
37.
Right.
And if you've seen the film, you know what Amanda's talking about, but I'm not gonna go there.
We've already talked about Viagra more than we need to on this show.
So I won't lead people back down that path.
So let me ask you this.
What are your plans for Thanksgiving, Amanda?
What are you guys gonna do?
Thanksgiving, I normally go to, I call them my parents, but they're actually my late husband's parents.
We go to their house and celebrate with them because...
It's just kind of how it is.
Tradition, yeah, that's great.
I was
gonna ask you if you cook or host, but you just kind of answer my questions with that.
No, I don't know how to cook a turkey to save.
Not like a whole turkey, no, I don't know what to do.
Just get some cold cuts.
That's almost as good, right?
Yeah.
I'm here for the leftovers.
I know what to do with the leftovers.
You ever have a turkey quesadilla?
Because those are delicious.
I have not, but I do love Thanksgiving leftovers, almost more than the meal for whatever reason.
It almost tastes better when it's like reheated for some reason.
Did you
see that Heinz is offering a, what was that called, kind of leftover gravy they're selling
at
Walmart?
It's like a squeeze bottle, like a mustard ketchup and it's
just
gravy.
It's really disgusting.
No, you got to, first off, gravy has to be warm.
I
don't even
do gravy.
And secondly, just no.
Secondly, just know.
All right, I have two more.
So Amanda, what are you, are you binge watching anything?
Like when you put the walrus down for the night, give him some Benadryl so he sleeps really well.
I don't know how you get your kid to bed.
It's none of my business, but no, what are you binge watching anything?
I did just, so I recently got an Apple TV subscription.
Okay.
And I just finished a series called Defending Jacob.
It was on, it has Chris Evans in it.
And it's about, you know, a boy that was murdered and they're trying to figure out who did it.
And Chris Evans plays the town's district attorney.
He's the guy who prosecutes murderers.
But all the attention turns to his son, who becomes the number one suspect, gets arrested and has to go on trial.
Oh wow,
that's
heavy.
It's one of those whodunnits that I just get sucked into, and it's apparently based off of a book series.
And the way it ended was, leaves you wondering, did he actually do it?
Or did he
not?
Oh, that's kind of frustrating.
You don't have the answer.
Don't you think?
Yeah, it is frustrating, but it's still so good.
Yeah.
Okay,
that's a great defending Jacob.
Defending Jacob, if it was good.
And what
about, and put your mom hat on for a moment.
What's the movie your youngster wants to watch hear that word?
I just use Conrad youngster.
Yeah,
I was I
was laughing last night a man I said who uses the word youngster and that was fresh in my brain and
I
just used it What is your little guy like to watch?
What's his favorite?
His favorite movie as I said was like Ghostbusters and the original Willy Wonka He'll make us watch that on repeat.
He is watching the original Freaky Friday right now
Wow, he
really is an old soul.
That's, wow,
this is
crazy.
Good for you.
I don't know what six year old is into that stuff, but he's watching it and he's loving it right now.
That's fantastic.
Hey, listen, you have a great Thanksgiving.
Thank you so much for taking the time out.
I know how busy you are and I appreciate your time tonight.
And thank you for the wonderful Pick of the Week, the dogma filmed by the dogma.
It's like-
The dogma.
It's like saying the Pokeman.
Look
it up on the Google.
It's a good movie.
Dogma is this week's popcorn pick of the week by way of our pal Amanda Nimmer.
Have a great holiday and talk to you soon.
Thanks so much, Amanda.
Yeah.
Have fun guys.
All right.
All the way from a beautiful man to walk Wisconsin.
That's great stuff.
We have Greg Vadney coming back on the show.
Do you know that, Con?
I do.
I do.
He is fun from the
Northwest Museum.
Yeah.
Love that place and what a cool.
There's so much in Manitowoc.
Remember, for a while, Manitowoc was, oh, that's the place where Steve Avery was from, from the, what was the name of that show?
I don't even know who that is.
He's the guy from the, I'll look it up during the break, but it was a big Netflix phenomenon during COVID.
where he did.
Did he kill the girl or not?
I'm sure a texture to let us know here before we even get back from the break.
But we are going to do the news, folks, and then we'll be back for Act 3.
Frank Anderson is coming up at 7.20.
We're going to talk fun, weird, interesting Wisconsin.
And I'm going to read your text next.
It's Pete Schwab.
Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.
Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.
And now, a guy who believes a penny saved isn't Jack... Pete Chwaba.
Welcome back,
folks.
It is time for Night Light Act 3.
Hope you had a great intermission.
and that our civic media news team kept you informed and up to date on everything you need to know.
It is a beautiful night in Wisconsin, a beautiful fall night as Thanksgiving creeps ever closer.
What a great time of year.
You got Thanksgiving right around the corner, Christmas after that, New Year's Eve, and then, well, not much after that.
NFL Playoffs is fun though.
That could be like, that's sort of like a holiday.
I don't know.
You got good movies, the Christmas movies, so much out there to see and watch this time of year.
We'll talk about some movies shortly.
Frank Anderson, folks, is coming up at 720.
Frank is always a blast, and he knows more about weird, fun, interesting Wisconsin than anybody I've ever met, and that's why we love having him on the show.
He's coming up at 720.
Let's see.
Our popcorn pick of the week that we got last hour from our guest, Amanda Nimmer, was Dogma.
The Kevin Smith movie starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck dogma.
I have not seen it.
Have you ever seen that
Conrad?
I don't think I've seen a lot of Kevin Smith's movies.
I was going to ask if you've seen any of his movies.
Have you seen
Quirks?
No, he's the creator of Jay, right?
Jay and Silent Bob.
Yes.
I've
seen the first one of that.
Of that?
No, that movie.
Because there's like two of them, isn't there?
I think there are, yeah.
I kind of lost count, too.
He's very quirky and very...
He's got his own little world and people
love it.
He's
got great fans.
I just, I'm not a huge, not a huge Kevin Smith fan, but I loved Clarke's.
So, I mean, and then we talked to Connie Feldman in hour number one.
She was here, she does news here at WGBW and she has been a former TV news anchor.
She made a documentary.
She mountain climb.
I've never, I've never talked to someone like Connie Feldman was very intimidating.
Not gonna lie to you.
You don't feel that when you talk to me?
Well,
You do some strange things No, I think I'm envious of you that you're going to Florida.
That's kind of fun
I think it's that I take my socks off and choose
when I
get in here.
I like to be comfortable when I produce do not do I am not looking at your dogs throughout the course of the show I But I know there are people like that though there are crazy radio personalities and people that used to do weird things Back in the back in the heydays of radio.
You'd hear these crazy stories, right?
Were they're just like naked or something?
Sometimes they're drinking and doing
drugs while they're on the air.
You don't see them, so.
They don't have a window like we have here, the nightlight window fun.
So that's not as much fun as I'm willing to have.
If you don't have a window and you're just in a little box, I don't want to hear it.
What's the diff?
What's
the diff?
So we don't, but they don't have the stream either.
Now when you do radio, you're basically on TV.
If people so choose, if they want to watch and tune in.
So you can't like, like I could do the show topless.
I don't think that would get us in any trouble.
Nobody
would want to see it, though.
That's the problem.
Yeah, I feel like people would tune in and be like, well, what
am I watching here?
Didn't want to see that.
What else?
Conrad and I had to talk to hour one, and this was interesting, like Viagra.
I know what you're thinking.
It's easy to make a joke about Viagra, but it is seemingly a wonder drug because it solves problems for men that they have as they get older.
Yeah, not me, of course, but But also it this just came out.
I saw this today it it helps with hearing if you have hearing issues Viagra can help You know as Mike Desitel said perk up your ears
Yeah, I guess it helps you mountain
climb too helps you mountain climb Connie said they would take Viagra and would open up well everything and that's what it does and it's other use as well
And it was a cure for baldness when they started looking for it.
So there's nothing Viagra can't do.
You just want to be careful.
Should I try it when I work out now?
Just try it in the comfort of your own home at first.
You don't want to take it at the gym because you just don't know.
Oh, it's been eight hours.
Yeah.
I gotta blast my quads and I've... I'm gonna get arrested.
No, you don't want to take a Viagra.
But so we had a conversation about that.
Lots of fun stuff tonight.
We did the... You know what I want to do?
I want to play that clip.
because it was Owen Wilson's birthday this week.
And we have a really funny clip.
Wes Anderson's first movie, first feature length movie was Bottle Rocket.
It's one of my favorite films, one of my favorite comedies.
And the Wilson brothers were in it, all three Wilson brothers.
It was Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and their older brother, I can't think of his name.
I didn't even know that they had another one.
He plays the guy who is like...
He plays in the movie, he's Bob's older brother.
Andrew.
Andrew, right.
Andrew Wilson.
And he plays Bob's older brother in the movie.
And he just starts wailing on his younger brother because there was a leaf in the pool.
And he thought Bob didn't clean the pool.
So he just starts hammering on his brother.
And then James Cahn makes a cameo, which is very funny.
And it's just a fun, quirky, weird movie.
We have a clip here that I just love.
It's the two, it's the Wilson brothers and Bob, their neighbor.
They're a rich kid neighbor, planning this robbery in Bob's kitchen.
And they're just idiots.
They rob bookstores and stuff that isn't really relevant or that you wouldn't get a lot of money.
But watching them plan the robbery, or in this case, hearing them plan the robbery, is gold.
Are the explosives really necessary here?
I think it'd be a lot more simple if I just walk up to the door alone.
I think that that would be... Why are you undermining me, man?
What's both of this thing?
Bob!
Look, I'm paying him!
Damn it!
You're not paying attention if you're messing around with the gun!
Now, wait!
Anthony, just keep the gun on the table.
I can't focus
unless the gun is on the table.
You just paid for it.
Shut up, man.
Shut up.
I'm warning you now.
Be quiet, please.
It's true, Dignan.
I paid for the gun.
Say it again.
Say it one more time.
Say it again.
Repeat what you just said.
I paid for the gun.
He's out.
You're out too.
And I don't
think I'm
in either.
No
gang.
And one of the next lines, you hear them arguing while Bob's playing with the gun or the Wilson brothers in the kitchen and Owen says, look at this kitchen, will you?
How does an A-hole like Bob get such a great kitchen?
Like they just, the dialogue is just so great.
And to me, you know, I like Wes Anderson.
He's a phenomenal filmmaker, but I feel like that was his best movie.
And then Rushmore.
And then after that, you could kind of pick and choose, but
Love Bottle Rocket.
It's definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it.
I
got a clip that I know you would love
right now.
It's one of the best acting performances I've ever seen.
Okay, let's... Yeah, I'll just...
Are you sure you think I'll like it?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, you wanna split this subway sandwich?
It is my signature sandwich.
It's called The Danger Witch, and it's dangerously good.
Be careful though.
It's spicy.
You ever done anything dangerous?
Oh, jeez.
That is dangerous.
I've done something like that too.
I won't tell anybody.
Listen, one time, never mind.
That's too dangerous.
Anyways, my danger wits, it's only in the vault.
That's not a little secret.
That has to be one of the worst.
Did that ever run?
Yeah,
I mean, it's so good so good in a bad way.
It's just It's so
awful.
It is the worst commercial I've probably seen and the first time I like saw it like I got like goosebumps for how cringe like it was and how old were you in the first?
You probably didn't even know better yet.
You know it was cringe.
No, that was like 2018 I would say somewhere on there.
He's still in the Seahawks.
Okay
But it was when all those athletes were starting to get their signature subs at Subway, like Steph Curry, and I think Aaron Judge had one too.
What has happened?
Like Russell Wilson, first of all, he was a hero when he came here to Wisconsin.
Remember he, his eligibility was up at, or he graduated from NC State, I think, came here to play quarterback for one years.
I thought that was the year the Badgers could contend for national
championship
because they kind of had lightning in a bottle.
And
From there on and then he won a Super Bowl.
I'll say I'll give him the Super Bowl in Seattle.
He just kind of went downhill like not as a player, but people just thought he was kind of odd Yeah, I always liked him, but I he just didn't do himself any favors.
I think it's when he started dating Oh, what's her name?
No, that
was that was yeah I can't think of her name, but
Selena
Gomez
That's Benny Blanco.
You look that up.
Yes.
I'm going to read a text from Jim.
Jim from Kenosha in the 262 says, Apocalypse Palooza is my pick if you like a good, funny movie.
Oh.
Hey, Google that too, Conn.
That sounds downright chaotic.
I love it.
Thank you, Jim, from Kenosha.
Kenosha is a wonderful town in southeast Wisconsin.
I love it.
John from Madison in the 608 says, even in Gents, Nicholas Cage can bring the cheese.
Yes.
He says, pretty sure it's his goal in many of his roles.
Somehow he makes it work most of the time, pick a Cage movie and ponder.
Well, you know what Cage movie I
like.
National Treasure, all right, but he's not cheesy in
there.
Yeah, okay.
But he, my favorite Nick Cage movie is the unbearable weight of massive talent.
So funny.
He's kind of cheesy in that.
But I think that's his character.
Exactly.
But that's kind of what John is saying, too.
And Pedro Pascal is hilarious in that, too.
Great text.
Thank you, John Murray.
Mark from Prairie to Sax says, hey, didn't the Beverly Hillbillies, Earl and Scruggs have a song that's saying, take your shoes off.
You all come back tomorrow.
Probably.
Is that in reference to Ollie's song?
Or just people taking their shoes off and getting too comfortable.
That Russell Wilson commercial is the athlete.
Commercial equivalent of you taking your shoes off in the studio.
Yeah, I connected those down.
Okay, you know how like it's gross To have your you know your shoes off and when a movie theater, but it's also gross to hear someone chew that loudly Feed is more gross.
I think but I agree if they're like smacking away and he in the clip if you ever I'd recommend just you know looking it up if you ever want to cringe on YouTube
And look at the actual video, because he's chewing with his mouth open the whole time.
Russell
Wilson?
Talking and chewing, you know.
Oh, man.
Yeah, it was horrible.
I remember the first time you showed that to me.
It was awful.
Janet in Madison in the 608 says, hi, I'm not sure if anyone answered the question yet, but Dan Levy.
Levy.
Levy.
Because it's Eugene Levy.
Is the main character, oh, OK, she's just pointing that out.
I thought she was going to say just on a whim, the same guy our other texture said.
is the main character of Schitt's Creek and his dad is Eugene Levy from SCTV.
Canadians, eh?
Listen, the Canadians, Janet, I'm totally with you, have given us some of the best comedy ever.
John Candy, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, totally agree.
Great text, Janet, thank you.
And then we've got Mark from Prairie to Sack again.
He says, I'm tempted to say Donald Trump because he is smellier than...
You know, it's so funny as people know I don't really get political on the show, but they just can't help themselves.
It's like I don't care if Pete reads this or not, I'm gonna say it.
Smellier than rotten something cheese playing our president.
Thank you, Mark.
Mark is on fire tonight on the text line.
All right, so we've got, how we doing on TimeCon?
We got about a minute.
We got about a minute.
You're gonna have, this will be fun tomorrow for you because if we could get a plug in tomorrow night to make the call guys,
Yeah Conrad is one great Gunnerson Parker Olson will be here and you guys are gonna break down There's you know packer
games.
Yeah, there's one.
It's five days, you know It's like Sunday and then Thursday they play on Thanksgiving and it's both divisional games So we're gonna talk a little bit about what we're gonna see from
we'll have those guys on they were a lot of fun when we had them on a few weeks ago Right as the show launched and they will be back tomorrow night at 5 30 and we're gonna talk some deer hunting tomorrow night to with yes, yeah
So that'll be fun.
And a Bar Band Friday.
And it's a Bar Band Friday, and we've got Tom and Steph Clark, some laughs, great Wisconsin comedian Tom Clark and his great California comedian wife, Steph.
They will be here to make us laugh.
In just a few minutes though, Frank Henderson, folks from Wisconsinology, you never want to miss an appearance by Frank.
He's coming up next.
This is Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
To be true Can't take my eyes off of you You'd be like heaven to touch
Welcome back.
Richie Tallarico wrote a funny thing on the Facebook, our pal Richie Tallarico, Key and Peel.
Have you seen the Key and Peel skit where... It's another...
Skit I got it.
I don't know if Rich wrote that one, but I'll tell you about it later.
I want to get Frank Frank Anderson is here folks He is our next guest.
He joins us periodically here at one of our faves and he is responsible.
He is the creator founding soul founding member of Wisconsinology.com a must check out if you love all things Wisconsin the weird the fun the historical the interesting the proud it's all at Wisconsinology.com Frank is also a very talented musician and filmmaker and animator and
And he's my friend, and he joins us now here on Nightlight over the stream tonight.
Hey, buddy.
Hey, Pete.
It's nice to see you.
I just read your note you sent me.
Did you forget?
Not at all.
Oh, okay.
Possible subjects you might be touching up on.
Yes, well,
Listen, I know I wouldn't even have been upset.
I just usually touch base with you before because I know how busy you get sometimes editing or whatever your many projects.
So I'm glad I I'm glad we still got your Frank.
We always love when you're here.
How you doing?
Wonderful.
Yeah.
Wonderful.
Busy as always.
Yeah.
Still in showbiz.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Um, do you have a favorite cheesy celebrity?
You've watched your share of movies and worked with your share of celebrities.
Do you have a
favorite?
Are we, are we talking today's celebrities?
Yes.
Interesting.
Well, I said Steven Segal.
I don't like him.
Uh, yeah.
And Conrad said an interesting one, Austin Butler.
He, he felt like he never really dropped the Elvis voice from his Elvis movie.
So it could be from any era.
No, Austin Butler flew that B17 as Elvis.
It was so weird in the series, the Spielberg series.
I can't stand any of them.
I mean, Kardashians.
Oh, yes.
Have you seen Allsfair?
No, I have not.
I'm going to watch out of curiosity.
It was at a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes for a long time now.
It's up to 4%, probably a few of the Kardashians wrote a review.
I don't know, but yeah, they're up to 4%.
So
it's just terrible though.
But my favorite cheesy personality because he backed it up a talent was Charles Nelson Reilly.
Oh, that's a great answer and something.
you know quite a bit about.
Hey, so you did this great documentary.
Tell us the name of it again about Charles Nelson Riley.
The Life of Riley.
Life of Riley.
Great title.
Can people see that somewhere?
Is it streaming anywhere?
It's being re-released 20th anniversary.
Nice.
I love reminding people that it was the second highest reviewed film in the entire world for that year.
No
kidding.
Every time I looked at a variety magazine or looked at box office crosses, I knew where to look for life of Riley.
It was at the bottom, absolute bottom.
Yeah.
What would you rather have Frank money or just homage from critics, right?
Yes, I live on that.
That's a great answer and definitely check out Life of Rod.
Hey, while we're on the subject, I can tell you this.
Another 20th anniversary is my film, The Godfather of Green Bay, and Civic Media is sponsoring a screening at the Atwood Music Hall in Madison on December 4th.
sponsored by the John and Gordy show at WMDX in Madison, and Downfront's Distilling.
So I'm telling Frank, but I'm telling the listeners too to remind people, December 4th at the Outwood Music Hall, John and Gordy are going to introduce the film.
We're going to do a Q&A afterwards.
Part of the proceeds go to the Humane Society of Dane County.
It's going to be a great evening.
It's a fun movie to watch with a crowd.
And Tony Goldman, Lauren Holly, Tom Lennon, Lance Barber, they'll be on the show next week promoting it.
So definitely folks, if you're in the Madison area coming out and Frank, I will send you cab fare if I could get you to that screening.
I'd love to be there.
It's a great venue.
Yeah.
I'm going to be there with Joe from MST three, whatever.
Oh,
yeah, from Mystery Science Theater, Joel
Hodgson.
Deep here.
Yeah, nice and Wayne white and and the great dr. Z Two nights of it of rip roaring comedy.
When is that Frank?
Oh My
is it this year
is it's it's part of Joey song.
So,
okay,
January the night I believe
All right, we'll talk about that too before we let you go here tonight.
But
I've got a few topics, as usual, I want to cover with you.
And I'm hoping... You did a post on Facebook, and I clicked on it because I was fascinated, because I know Wisconsin Territory didn't always look like the state it is now.
But it was called Greater Wisconsin, and then I clicked on it.
It took me to a clothing outlet.
So I don't know if I... I was looking for more information, but I was just wondering, you know, we've got about a minute until we have to go to the news.
What was that?
That's It's the it's the exact outline of the Wisconsin territory.
Okay, it's huge and yeah, it's huge and but the part that's interesting is I believe Chicago and Wisconsin are culturally alike.
Yeah, I believe Chicago has nothing to do with the rest of Illinois
Interesting
far more online with Wisconsin
every way possible.
And by the way, I'll never say anything bad about Chicago because I love it.
It's a great city.
I work there and they are us.
I think they are us.
I have no hatred.
Imagine us with two NFL teams.
That is fascinating.
I've never heard that take before and I totally agree with you.
Same with the Luth, which is on the map.
this imagined Wisconsin territory really got it right.
That is great.
All right, let's get into that.
Frank Anderson is here at Wisconsinology.com.
Check it out during the news, folks.
While you listen to the news, of course, we'll come back with Frank
and talk about it.
Actually, go to Facebook, it's better.
Yeah, go to Facebook.
We'll talk greater Wisconsin, and Frank's got a couple great stories too when we come back.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome
back.
It is Thursday, folks, the Christmas Eve of weeknights, and we are in the homestretch here on this episode of Nightlight.
Here's the kind of day it's been.
I was telling you, I dropped everything today.
I bumped my head.
I dropped something.
I'm looking around.
I hear the music.
I know we're coming back.
I almost dropped an F-bomb.
I'm like, now where are my headphones?
On my head.
It's the kind of day it's been, Frank.
Frank Anderson is here.
Folks, the founder of Wisconsinology.com and a showbiz legend.
We love having him on Nightlight.
Frank, you sound like you had a little bit of a cold.
You okay?
Recovery.
Okay.
You sound good.
Everybody's got it.
I know it's going around.
What do you do
for that?
Do you take the vitamin D or the echinacea or you got you got a formula?
Well, I wish I could just drink a lot and pass out until the whole thing went through.
Can't you?
But I don't drink.
Oh, well, there you go.
Next best thing though is Nyquil.
That's close.
Hey, I wanted to ask you.
You posted something on Facebook.
It was called the Endangered George Reeves.
And it's a picture of George Reeves who played Superman in the 50s and all the injuries he suffered over his life are all of those accurate?
Yes.
Wow.
And my favorite, well, injuries and illness.
Yeah.
Gout and jaundice at an adult age.
That's crazy.
a view into the medical not so recent past where you could get gout in jaundice and be 40 years old.
His injuries are numerous broken bones, numerous sprains, unbelievable.
The guy went through hell, hell.
And I can't believe they dropped him twice from his Superman suspension.
So
horrible.
Twice.
That's 12 feet off the ground.
So he landed face first, right off that rake, twice.
It says, yeah, you got jaundice, ruptured appendix, sustained minor injuries to the left of his body and arm from automobile accident.
Injuries, this is the one that cracks me up, Frank, and you made mention of this too.
Injuries from youngsters during personal appearances include punched in the back.
jabbed in the upper thigh with a hat pin, hit with a rock, verbally abused, 1954 to 1957.
This poor guy.
It
was pretty awful being in the public back in those days.
Curly from the three Stooges was horribly abused by children.
Because they wanted to come right up to him and do all the three Stooges pranks right on him.
But they could only reach as high as his waist.
So they were hammering him and hitting him.
poking him and at pinning him.
He hated making public appearances.
And you know, kids are real little jerks.
And any mob, the mob I fear most is a kid mob.
This also says fatal.
Well, that was he took his own life, but required 20
juries
out.
Yeah, there was some mystery around that, right?
He might have been hit by a contract killer.
Well, after reading this though, Frank, I got to be honest, because I'd heard that.
I'm like, well, maybe the guy did take his own life.
This sounds miserable, you know.
Maybe it was glad.
Enough of this crap.
I'm out of here.
Frank Anderson is
my
guest.
He is the founder of Wisconsinology.com.
Go there for all of your great Wisconsin, weird, fun, informative, and fun facts, great stuff about our state.
Frank, I was wondering, I know Christmas is close and last year we didn't get to this and I couldn't have you back on before Christmas for whatever reason.
I love the story you tell about leaving Chicago.
We got a touch on that too because that was a great theory that Chicago was more like Wisconsin than Illinois and I totally agree with you.
But can you tell either or both if we have time, the story about the Christmas ship
or you leaving
Chicago?
What's your favorite?
I'll try and do both really fast.
Okay The the arouse Simmons was a Christmas ship and in 1912 it sank it lost 17 aboard in November of 1912 and he did not have Joe Gordon Lightfoot to warn him that you don't go on the Great Lakes right in November back then but everybody knew you shouldn't everybody knew it
But he had a fortune in Christmas trees tied down on his ship.
Unfortunately, ironically, he had so many trees, and they were wet, getting wet by this horrible ice storm, that they added to the weight.
And he was already low in the waterline.
They added so much to the weight that he had barely inches between the raging Lake Michigan and his ship and the gullles of his ship.
So the ship went down off of two rivers, Wisconsin.
It was sighted shortly before it went down just north in Kiwani.
And right away it went into legend.
Okay.
So is it a ghost ship?
People ask me all the time.
Well, I read really dumb stuff like it has been sighted many times since.
And I go, by who?
Says who and you can never find that out,
right?
I've asked people everywhere who exactly saw this Go ship the Christmas ship.
It would be amazing if you could see it But I have a very nice illustration of it on the Wisconsinology.
Oh, okay.
I see that's what I thought I thought you said at some point people saw people on the ship, but maybe
that was a different ship Okay, go ship.
What's that one?
That's the Griffin
Yes, the Griffin,
yeah.
The Griffin, 1600s, largest ship, first western ship on the Great Lakes for the explorer, LaSalle, and it disappeared with loaded down.
They're always loaded down with furs, which was worth more than gold at that time.
Yeah.
And all the fur at that time and that moment came through the Fox River up into Green Bay.
And the ship left Washington Island, or maybe Rock Island just north of Washington Island.
It was never seen again.
As a ghost ship, it was sighted in the 40s in Door County.
I'm sorry, Washington Island.
A person going out for a morning walk looked off to his right in the morning and he's playing his day full crew packed down with first going on.
He could hear them talking.
French.
So who
who is that that saw?
Is that a reliable source?
Like
that's a person who lived in Washington County, a longtime citizen.
I mean, you probably want to hear.
He wasn't prone to this kind of mischief, but I wouldn't doubt it.
All ghost stories come from somebody making something
up.
I'm convinced, just somebody somewhere.
And when I speak, I'm always asked, no, but tell me the authentic story.
The authentic story is some guy made something up and that's what I'm telling you.
Alright, so here's one that I absolutely love and This it almost seems like you should have turned this into a screenplay Frank tell us about You driving home from Chicago in really bad weather Chicago, Wisconsin that is
Yes, so so I worked at a studio in Chicago animation studio.
I've been shooting It was 2 a.m.
When I left when I arrived two days before weather was beautiful blah blah blah
I did not want to stay.
I wanted to get back home to Appleton.
So, stupid.
I headed out into the night and got in my car.
How much time do we got?
Before a quick break, we've got, what, about six minutes?
Six or so minutes, and we'll have a few minutes after the break.
Good.
Plenty of time.
Absolutely.
I find myself not only in a traffic jam, but in a driving blizzard.
It's I can't see a damn thing.
I can see there's a break in the blizzard and I could see maybe 20 feet in front of me.
That's it.
I Don't have no idea where the freeway is.
I don't know anything.
I just know I have to head north But I can't even get north because I can't turn right or left or anything out of nowhere in the midst of this minor panic an older
1970s kind of Lincoln town car vehicle pulls in front of me.
And it is lit.
You have Christmas lights inside.
And I noticed right away, I can see in the back window, this guy's got Packer gear on.
And they're old, old guys.
And I see in the back in the rear bumper, it says, follow me to Wally's Tavern.
Man it to walk this stuff.
So hell, I'm gonna follow these guys.
I don't care if they go to Carbondale.
I'm gonna follow these guys.
And time goes by and I can't, I don't know where I am.
I can't, I don't know how they see, but I stay on their tail, really hard on their tail.
And all of a sudden I can see it.
I've been out there so long, a glint of dawn, you know, it's getting lighter.
And then I can see better.
And they kind of move out of the way into the snow is still falling heavily into the distance in front of me.
And I realized I'm on a crowded freeway and crowded because people were stuck and slowed down by the traffic and accidents.
And I lose sight of them.
But 10 minutes later, Manitowoc exit is right there.
And of course, I go left to Appleton.
That is cool.
And I wake up, I take a long nap.
I wake up, I go, you know, what the hell was that?
And they were having such a good time in the car.
I remember that.
Yeah.
And they had, you know, I could see their G on there in the green band.
And I remembered their outfits there.
Their gear was pretty old.
It was from another time.
And I told myself right away, don't go there.
They were not ghosts leading you home.
They're just old guys.
Curly Lambo.
But the more I thought of it, the weirder it gets.
Their car, the make, the gear, the gear, the follow me to Wally's.
I've never seen one of those bumper stickers ever.
And I noticed him put that.
And i look up wallies tavern sure as hell there was a wallies tavern, but there sure isn't now and there wasn't at the time that i followed them
No
kidding Yeah, whatever it's strange.
Have you ever googled wallies tavern or
i'm not going any further with this because it's weirding me out as it is i'd like to thank those fine gentlemen From the 20s From 50s 60s i would say
for leading me home.
But their car was like a 1971 Lincoln town car.
You know, every old man's car from that era.
So what year or galaxy or Lincoln town car?
Yeah.
What year was that, Frank?
Oh, my trip home.
It was 2000 2000.
Okay.
Oh, that's so great.
I remember doing that when I would do stand up.
And I always wanted to get home to my own bed.
If I wasn't within eight hours, I would just bite the bullet and go get some coffee.
But I remember getting home and being like, I don't remember anything about the drive.
I was driving for eight hours or six hours or whatever.
It's so weird how the brain works like that.
It is weird.
And usually when I went home from Chicago, I'd leave at 2 AM mainly because it was uncrowded.
It was a straight shot.
It was easy.
and I take the official Wisconsin Highway North, boom, I'm in Appleton.
No congested, no walkie, no nothing.
From Chicago, Wisconsin to Appleton.
We will be right back.
We'll have a few more minutes with our pal Frank Anderson.
This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hey, this is Nightlight with Pete Schwabble.
Great to have you here.
We are in the homestretch here.
Green Bay Lama says, I can't decide who's cheesier, Paulie Shore or Jim Carrey.
I gave Carrey the nod because his career is longer.
He's saying that's like a good thing, I think.
I would take Jim Carrey over Paulie Shore any day of the year, any day of the week.
Any day of any time.
Mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608 says, hearing what was just said will give me a new appreciation when I watch The Adventures of Superman.
Yeah, no kidding.
Thank you, Mark.
So Frank Anderson is here, folks.
Our pal, who is the creator of Wisconsinology.com, just told us some great stories.
Frank, where did that theory about Chicago come from?
That Chicago is more Wisconsin than Illinois?
That's no theory.
It's the food is the same as Milwaukee.
The ethnic population is,
identical, they have Croats, we have Croats, they have Serbs, we have Serbs, they have a broad and diverse Polish population, same thing.
We're both, both states are basically Eastern Europe, and absolutely.
And same with Duluth up north, also included in that map.
identical to, you know, just that region in Wisconsin, the Great North.
That is such an interesting, I've never considered
that.
Well, you know, you go just south of Joliet, Joliet,
whatever they say.
It's a south.
It is.
It's no relationship to Chicago, whereas you go north.
It's Chicago all the way.
Yeah.
As a guy who spent the first part of his life in Chicago and then the second part of his childhood here, I say that would make my life easier because I feel like a man without a home.
I get teased about being a Wisconsinite when I'm in Chicago and vice versa when I'm here.
So I think if that could happen, if you could start something with that and bring Lincoln too, we'll take the Lincoln legacy into Wisconsin
as well.
Oh, we get all of Northern Illinois.
I mean, the Northern top strip.
Right.
straight across.
We get Woodstock.
That's great.
I love it.
Hey, so you mentioned Joel Hodgson.
Before we let you get out of here, we've got
a
few minutes left.
Tell us about Joey's song.
And we'll definitely have you on again before that.
I'm going to see what I can do about getting down there.
But tell us about Joey's song.
It's coming up in January, like it does every year.
Give us some background.
Joey's song, it started out in the bar.
as a charity for Epilepsy, the founder of Joey Song.
It's named after his son who died at a very young age of Epilepsy, and he loved music.
So he started this festival in Madison.
It has grown so big, and it features, initially, it featured
big names from the 90s, you know, people I knew who I'd played with and played all the records.
But it has progressed way beyond that.
We have from the 2000s, it's gone right up to the 2000 teams.
That's
so
cool.
We have big stars and big surprises.
And, you know, Portugal, the man, endless solo asylum from back then.
What are they called?
Oh, yeah, solo
asylum.
Yeah.
runaway train great song
if you go to the joey song joey song dot org go there and you'll get all the information but leading up to the big show which is at the silvi beautiful venue yeah 2500 people uh on saturday night leading up to that joe will be at the atwood where your film is playing
yeah
Well, for two nights as the new comedy team, Hodgson and White, and I'm in the backup band with a bunch of Appleton guys.
And John Kausil of the Kausils is our drummer.
Oh, man, what a fun.
And Joe Hodgson, for those of you who might not remember, was the driving force behind Mystery Science Theater.
Still has a cult following, probably more than a cult following when it came out.
It was very funny show, very.
clever and innovative and he was a great comment
too.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, we'll have to do this as it gets closer.
We'll talk more about Joey's song.
It's such a great cause and who would not want to hear
all of this.
I can expect you and Conrad there.
I
hope so.
I don't have the final say and
I'll drag you guys backstage.
Come on,
please.
I would love.
All right, Con.
We're in your camera.
It's coming down for the Godfather of Green Bay screening to get some background stuff.
We could use the same excuse.
We'll come down and do some stuff for Joey.
So
I'll tell you what, uh, I'm going to work on your, uh, press credentials.
Okay.
Fantastic.
It's a pretty tough backstage.
Are they?
Okay.
I mean, I can't even fake my way in.
Oh geez.
So how are we supposed to get in
with a press credential?
You can go anywhere.
Can I put on like a mustache?
I would love to wear a
mustache.
No, no, no.
Okay.
All right, Frank, thank you so much, sir.
As always a blast.
Glad you're feeling better.
That's good.
Yeah, I am
too.
That's right.
All right, we'll talk soon and definitely before the big event in January.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your time
as
always.
Okay.
Carry on.
This is wonderful.
You got it.
Frank Anderson folks, check out Wisconsinology.com.
And every time you hear one of those records from the 90s, like
Frank was just talking about.
Like he's done so much work with Butch Vig and Steve Marker and our friend Wendy Schneider in Madison.
Frank played on a lot of those albums and it's just a really well-respected guy and for good reason.
He is a showbiz Renaissance man as I call him.
How about that story though with the drive home?
That is so cool.
It was the Wisconsin way of light shown on the
way.
Exactly.
You
know, Wisconsin, because they're all wearing Packard gear.
They're all wearing Packard gear, and they let our boy home.
All right, tomorrow night, folks, on the show, let's see if I can access this.
The monitor's going berserk.
Here we
go.
Well, we got to make the call, guys.
Parker Olson and Greg Gundersen.
Greg Gundersen and Conrad Krieger.
Yeah, I'm part of it as well.
Joel Karnick.
We'll be talking about Dear Hunter's Roundup, our civic media pal, as he did last year.
Tom Clark and Steph Clark.
Two very funny, a very funny.
Comedy power couple Tom is from Milwaukee.
He's coming back to do a show there and Steph his wife is from California But his adopted Milwaukee as her second home and she will be on the show with him They're gonna talk about that tomorrow on it and if that wasn't enough show show folks.
It's a bar ban Friday night Terry Bar will be here at 735 and I hope you will too We'll be back tomorrow on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
Thank you for all your texts and calls.
Good night,
Wisconsin
Stuck in no man land
