Planes, Trains, and Gordon Lightfoot (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who does his own stunts, Pete Chwaba.

Hello everybody.

Welcome to Night Light.

It is Tuesday.

It's not just Tuesday.

Because I know Tuesday, it's been said on Seinfeld Tuesday has no feel.

A lot of people don't really feel Tuesday, but this is a Thanksgiving week Tuesday.

And that's different.

That kind of feels like a Thursday to me.

But if I want verification or if I want to be vouched for, I can't go to Conrad Krieger tonight because he is still in Florida.

It wasn't a one-day trip and joining me tonight a night like once again is my pal Aaron Zahmers affectionately known as Zahmers.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, yeah, you know, I have to agree it

very much does feel like a Thursday, but yeah Still with the rest of the work from the previous week crammed in

Right, it's a short week which makes us feel good, but it's a week's worth of stuff you have to do in like two and a half days So it's it's there's the rub as they say.

How are you doing tonight, buddy?

doing well,

always an adventure, making radio.

Absolutely.

Well, it's great.

You are holding down the fort in Madison there.

Is anybody still there?

I'm curious.

A few people are.

John and

Gordy,

who now have their statewide program that anybody who's been listening just heard, they may not have left the building just yet, but they're certainly about to, if not.

But after they leave and after Megan leaves, I will be the only one here.

So soon there will be nobody else.

That is creepy, dude.

Well, tell John and Gordy I said hello, my civic media older brothers, as I refer to them.

It's great to be on the air.

It's Tuesday of a holiday week.

This is a short week for me.

I am done tonight, and we will have some outstanding highlight shows coming up Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

And this week, it's fun.

We've had really fun guests this week and as we do every week, but on Friday, particularly, we're going to have a best of this week because we had Tom Lennon, we have Lance Barber on tonight from Young Sheldon, Paul Vandenplatz from Wonderfully Wisconsin, and then some other really fun best of shows coming up Wednesday and Thursday as well, which include interviews from Wisconsin Foodies, Arthur Ersink, Mike Schmidt, Katie LeClerk from A Cherry Pie Christmas, which was shot in Door County.

Actor Mike Starr you might remember Mike from Dumb and Dumber.

He was the guy that picked up Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels They were singing right in his face.

You're maybe like that movie, right?

I

haven't actually seen that one.

Oh dear god.

I know it's required.

I know it's required viewing I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

So I remember Mike Starr from Nightlight with Pete Schwabba

Okay, well, that's fine too because he was great But he's one of those guys like we had him on and I kept having to cut him off because we had to go to commercial because it's radio and most people nowadays are used to podcasts where they just go and go and Mike has got so many stories But it'll be nice to see what con put together with Mike star in that Thursday night.

That's Thanksgiving Day best of Also my interview with David Zucker will be part of that show the comedy city guys here in Depeer trapper chef

We played one of his songs so a lot of fun still on nightlight the rest of the week But tonight we got a great show too folks.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

We are talking about I'm just gonna lead with this but Because a lot of our guests this week were determined by an event happening next week December 4th at the Atwood music festival There will be a screening of a film I made called the Godfather of Green Bay It's December 4th starts at 7 o'clock doors open at 6 sponsored by Downwinds Distilling

and the John and Gordy morning show at WMDX here at Civic Media.

The Atwood Music Hall is a great venue, and it's going to be a lot of fun.

Tickets are only $10.

Part of the proceeds go to the Dane County Humane Society, so it's for a good cause.

John and Gordy are going to host a Q&A with me after the screening.

And the Godfather of Green Bay is a feel-good comedy.

As I mentioned, Tom Lennon, who was on last night, it was great talking to Tom.

Lance Barber is on tonight.

They were both in the film.

Lauren Holly who will be on the show next week next Wednesday Is in the film she plays opposite me?

That's right.

I got to act I got to act opposite Lauren Holly Tony Goldman's in the movie all kinds of great Milwaukee actors like Eric Price and Rob Martin Tracy Thorpe from Chicago Steve Seger and Jimmy Pardo Mike Segal Mike to me all guys you've heard on a night like night light and gals too So it's gonna be a lot of fun.

It's a feel-good movie perfect way to kick off your holidays and a lot of the proceeds go to

a good cause, as I mentioned.

So come on out, say hello if you can.

We'll have some food, some drinks, some conversation.

It's going to be a blast.

And tonight, from the godfather of Green Bay and young Sheldon, and he just informed me too that there's a new season of the comeback with Lisa Kudrow.

Lance Barber will be here at 6.35 tonight.

At 5.35 on the show, my old pal Stuart Waddles, who is our civic media news director for Southeast Wisconsin.

Aaron.

Did I tell you what Stuart and I are going to be talking about?

I don't know if you did.

Oh, I mean, I know part of it is going to be a certain musical artist that has had a resurgence

lately.

It's going to be outstanding.

Gordon Lightfoot, because it was the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald Stuart, because of that, just discovered Gordon Lightfoot's music.

So he'll give us a little roundup of what's happening in southeast Wisconsin, maybe some new stories we should pay attention to.

And then we'll talk some Gordon Lightfoot.

Then Lance Barber at 635 and then my old pal Courtney Cronin doled a very funny stand-up comedian and writer will be here at 720 So we've got some some music some laughs a little celebrity element to the show.

It should be a fun You know what it is Aaron?

It's the kind of show Conrad is gonna wish he was here for

Absolutely, and we're just gonna have

to tell

him to go back and watch it on YouTube or listen to the podcast

I'm sure he's got the whole family down there in Florida huddled around the radio

and listening to nightlight tonight as they always do.

So I had this happen.

I don't know what happened.

You're a tech guy.

Maybe you can help me with this.

All my ads, my inbox in my email, I'm getting Kansas City ads.

Ads from Kansas City.

And on my sports, I use the Odyssey app to follow my teams.

It's all Kansas City.

I'm getting these Kansas City lawyer ads, like, Mike's got this.

Go to Mike'sGotThis.com.

He got me $600,000 in a settlement.

Mike's got this.

I'm going to take hostages if I hear that ad one more time, and I'm getting Kansas City chief stuff.

What do I do, Aaron?

Help me.

You know, I wish I knew.

I've also been the victim of, I'll say, misplaced advertising.

A few months ago, I was just reading some news articles for work on my phone, and I noticed an ad for a breast milk pump.

And I'm like, huh, that's weird.

I'm not the target audience.

And I scrolled down a little bit further and there was another one.

And I'm like, okay, that's even weirder.

The next day I went and I was reading some articles just on like games for my own entertainment and the ad was for a different breast milk pump.

And I'm like, okay, who, who at Google told you something very incorrect about me?

This does not apply to me in any way.

You know, I know that you probably aren't the target audience, but if the price is fair, you might want to move on that.

You know, I guess, yeah,

I can stock up for the future.

Who knows?

I would buy them all and sell them in the black market.

Maybe jack up the price, let's capitalism, buddy.

You could use this to your advantage.

You know, I didn't really think about it that way.

Here's another tech thing.

I know you can relate to this too, as most of the people listening probably can.

But this morning, it was ad after ad, worse than ever.

I think I was on Twitter, then I went to Yahoo News, and I couldn't find...

the the X to close out the ad and it took up like three quarters of the page I'm like hate that I had to maximize my screen.

I still couldn't find it It's like they're the tech guys or the code writers or whoever they are Are trying to raise people's blood pressure and the the amount of the news story I could see was about two It was about an inch of like a 12 inch screen

So I had to scroll.

I just gave up.

And then I'm like scrolling, reading this article two lines at a time.

It was maddening.

Yeah.

Like really, all that does is make people leave the website.

I mean, the thing that I hate the most is when you do see the X, but then it goes away for a little bit right when you're about to click on it.

So you end up clicking

on

the ad and then it comes back later.

It's like, are you kidding me?

This is

so annoying.

I guarantee they do that on purpose.

And the other thing they do, I think is when the ad pops up.

You're right.

You go to click on it and it disappears.

You open a whole new page so they get clicks or the spot where you're supposed to click moves.

It's really many.

And I will not, I will not buy that product.

I make a point to say I'm never buying that product.

I don't care how expensive or inexpensive the breast pump is.

I'm not buying that product.

Right.

Like if they were, if they're respectful ads, I can close out of whenever I want, you know, regardless of what the product is, you might have my interest just to support your business practices.

Exactly.

All right, we speak the same language.

That's great.

So we've got a really fun show tonight.

Great guests, as I mentioned, folks.

And I want to read a couple of texts because I don't like to miss texts.

But John Murray.

One of our regular textures in the 608 texted me because we had prerecorded material on last night to close the show and he texted during that time So John in the 608 said evening gents great show as usual Peter you got skills and your sidekick needs a show sometime soon What do you think about that Zomers?

Well, maybe he's talking about Conrad, you know,

he didn't specify maybe

he didn't

mean

No, he was listening last night and then he put a PS and he said I don't think Conrad should ever have his own show

I missed that text.

But I think he was giving you a compliment and he compliments con every night too.

John's a great guy.

Then you left another one.

This is also from John in the 608.

He says, my grandma, Gigi, made the best pumpkin bars ever.

And she always made me my own personal pumpkin pie.

I would make her proud every year and down the whole thing after dinner, homemade pie heaven.

Now only Jesus and the Gigi's family upstairs get to indulge.

R.I.P.

GG Thanksgiving is missing a star on earth.

Very nice text, John.

Very nice text.

Made him his own pumpkin pie.

That's like some serious special treatment.

So I think, you know, as I'm without further ado, we should get to our nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Oh, man.

That's a great one.

It's Steve Martin's birthday today.

Very simple question.

What is your favorite Steve Martin movie?

How do you like that one, folks?

Driving home on the way home right now?

You get to think about that?

Text us.

Let me know your favorite Steve Martin movie and I have a feeling I know what a lot of people are gonna say because You know planes trains and automobiles dropped on this day.

Actually, I think that's on this day in 1987 Actually, I don't think it's Steve Martin's birthday forget everything I said up until this point.

Just disregard the entire show No, but Steve Martin, I think planes trains and automobile automobiles dropped on this day in 1987 one of my favorite movies a fat-free movie

if I may.

The script is great.

The acting is great.

The story is beautiful.

It's got laughs.

It's heartwarming.

It's got great story.

It's even got suspense on some level because you, I mean, you assume they'll get home, but they tell the story in such a great way.

It was executed flawlessly.

So that is my favorite Steve Martin movie, but I want to know yours.

He's done some great ones.

I would do honorable mention like The Man with Two Brains, The Jerk,

Deadman don't wear a plaid I like to go back to early Steve career when I talk about his his movies But let me know what you think be part of the show 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic You can also text us on the app very easy to use and if you don't have it you should get it because it's outstanding and very easy to use like I just said If you're watching the radio on YouTube Facebook or X you can drop us a stream comment there and let us know what your favorite Steve Martin movie is

Just a heads up to folks.

We've got some really cool stuff happening.

WGBW station manager Dan Marcus is going to come into the studio and tell us about a really cool event here in Green Bay.

We've got Giving Tuesday happening next week here at Civic Media.

It's going to be a phenomenal time and a charitable time.

And we've got a text-to-win contest coming up that we're going to tell you all about too throughout the course of the show.

Another one of our awesome multi-state Civic Media text-to-win contest.

Who is that Zomers?

This is Steve Earl with Continental Trailways Blues.

Oh, a song

from plane strains and automobiles.

I love it, dude.

I love it.

We're coming right back.

It's a nightlight with Pete Schwab, but Dan Marcus is here.

That that I recognize You know a really underrated soundtrack in that movie, too It's peach wabba and night like great to have you with me on a Tuesday that feels like a Thursday because it's a short week and it's a big holiday Happy Thanksgiving to all listening and wherever you're joining me from across the state.

It's great to have you Our question of the night and that's why Zomers was playing that song was what is your favorite Steve Martin movie?

Planes, Pranes, and Automobiles came out on this day in 1987 and that's why that is our question of the night.

So let us know, let us know what your favorite Steve Martin movie is at 855-752-4842 or you can drop us a stream comment or use the app.

The app is outstanding and very easy to use.

It's my pleasure not to welcome a guy who is sticking around longer than he probably wants to, but he's joining me.

He's the station manager here at WGBW.

I'm proud to call him a mentor and a friend, Mr. Dan Marcus.

Mr.

Well, you know, you're you're you're kissing up.

You know, you're just I'm not kissing up.

I don't do that, despite your good looks and your rippling muscles.

I never do that kind of thing.

Dan, I wanted to have you on because there's this really cool event going on here in Green Bay.

So if those of you in northeast Wisconsin are listening, we need to talk about help me say it.

Chris Kindle Market.

Chris Kindle Market.

It sounds like a really cool event.

It is.

I mean, this is where this is an outdoor market, German style food.

Of course, there are beverages and but crafts and beer and programming.

I mean, Santa's there for the kids, you know, and but one of the neat things is because it's outdoor and it's cold, a cold weather event, they've got igloos that you can rent.

I mean,

that's going to rent them.

You can rent them for like 75 minutes.

I don't know how much it costs.

It doesn't, you know, that's prices.

Besides the point, they, they provide a pretzel tray.

So come

on, you know, is that for warming purposes or what do you think people are renting glues for Dan?

I don't want to make any nefarious.

No, they're not there and they're playing scrabble.

Come on.

the way your voice rose when you said that makes me think.

Well, I just channeled my puberty,

didn't I?

Exactly.

That sounds like a great event.

That sounds like a lot of fun.

Well, it is.

And the nice thing is that it's three days a week.

It's not just Thursdays Friday.

It's not just Thursdays, for example.

Now, it's not happening this Thursday because it's Valentine's Day Thanksgiving, but

Uh, it's happening Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Did I get the, yes.

Yeah, I think the 20th

through December 20th,

December 20th.

And, uh, but this is, it's a gathering place.

It's, uh, it's its own little community.

Absolutely.

It sounds like a blast.

And, uh, the Green Bay is just a beautiful place to be for, uh, for Christmas.

If you're in the area, definitely check that out.

Uh, hey, how was the parade last weekend?

The parade was a hoot.

Yeah, we were well represented.

Well, we had the station van there with a big rubber nose out of the theme of the parade was Rudolph and friends.

So we had antlers out the side of the vehicle and we had we were playing music and people as we were going down the street were dancing to

Wonderful Christmas time and Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer and it was I love those and we were passing out candy to the kids

Yeah,

yeah, I

I'm kind of conflicted because as much as I love Christmas like my wife is one of those people She'd say put the tree up a week before Thanksgiving.

I'm like no no no no fully enjoy Thanksgiving.

No, what's your wife's first name Mary Mary stop that

He's one of the bosses here, Mary, you heard him.

But I kind of feel the same way, although you can say like the Green Bay Christmas Parade is kind of a Thanksgiving parade too.

It's just a fun

holiday.

Yeah, definitely.

But it takes on a Christmas flavor and Santa's in it now.

Santa doesn't come around for Thanksgiving, so that makes it a Christmas parade.

Well, this will be logical here.

Well said.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

My wife and I are hosting her son and his wife and my dog and my cat.

Nice.

Yeah.

Nice

group.

I wish I had a fireplace in my house.

It'd be perfect, but, but you know what I'm going to do because it's the Packers and the Lions.

I'm because that is a Thanksgiving tradition in the old Marcus household.

So I am going to watch the game, but I'm going to turn off the color so it's in black and white like it used

to be when I was a

kid.

Really?

Yeah.

You remember black and white TV, you do not look that old and I'm not kissing up again.

But I will say that you're wearing the enemy's colors here.

You got some, you're rocking.

You know, I

got dressed at 430 in the morning and it was dark in the bedroom.

I couldn't turn the light on.

I'd wake up Vicki.

So I just grabbed a shirt and turned out to be this lion colored

one and I'm sorry.

Just make sure you take it

off.

I'll be wearing a packer.

But paraphernalia tomorrow

Dan do you have a favorite Steve Martin movie?

Maybe we could end on a dead man.

Don't wear plaid.

How great is it?

Oh, I love that movie to couple my job Oh,

yeah, yeah Great somers.

Have you seen that dead man?

Don't wear plaid.

I have not but I'm gonna have to make a point to now Start with that one then go to dumb and dumber.

You won't be disappointed.

I'll give you your money back.

All right to be Yeah, that's fun.

Thank you sir for the update

Steve Martin former a staff writer for the Smothers Brothers brothers I admire that man and he was in the room when Mason Williams wrote the song classical gas on his guitar because Mason Williams was a staff writer too Are you serious?

I heard that from Pat Paulson directly from Pat Paulson face-to-face when I interviewed him who was also a staff writer for the Smothers

Brothers That's right, you know

I met him.

Is he the guy that always ran for president?

Yeah, I did meet him.

And he said, you're going to be famous.

I said, why is that?

He said, because everybody that meets me becomes famous.

He was wrong in my case.

Yeah.

We're doing OK, though, Dan.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.

Oh, thanks for having me on.

It's nice being here.

All right, we are coming right back with Mr. Stuart J. Waddles to find out what's going on in southeast Wisconsin.

Talk a little Gordon Lightfoot.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Oh

my god, I just I want to ask someone to slow dance right now

That's

exciting.

Hey,

welcome back to nightlight.

I'm peach wabba.

That is Gordon

Lightfoot

Not exactly a pick me up, but I will tell you why Mr. Zommer has decided to play Gordon Lightfoot and it's because it has to do with our next guest who I'm about to bring in any moment right now, but first I have to tell you guys

We're doing a ticket giveaway.

I told you about the screening of the Godfather of Green Bay December 4th at the Atwood Music Hall in Madison next Thursday night, a week from Thanksgiving.

It's going to be a great night, and we are giving away tickets.

So if you're in the Madison area and can attend that night, all you have to do is text the keyword, and you can win two free tickets.

Or we're giving away four, right, Summers?

Yeah,

four tickets.

All right.

So...

I almost said half the Brady Bunch could go, but that would mean I'd have to include Alice and Sam.

So, um, we have four tickets to give away.

So if you, and I give the keyword now, right, Zomers?

Yeah.

Just say

it.

Yeah.

And that's, that's for Thursday.

Thursday, the fourth at 7 p.m.

at what music hall is, is the time that you have to be able to make it.

Dora's open at six, film at seven, Q&A with John and Gordy and me afterwards.

It's going to be a really fun night.

Part of the proceeds go to the Dane County Humane Society.

So.

And uh, it's a fun movie to watch.

So the keyword is actor A C T O R A C T O R So if you can go and are interested in checking out the godfather of green bear next Thursday night, text in the keyword and we will take this information Um, and one of our textures just said was that casper?

Yeah, it's making the music was making me cry.

So let's bring in our guests and explain why we went with kind of a

One of my favorite songs, but you could you could say is part of a downer, but I guess it depends on your perspective.

Mr. Stuart J. Waddles joins the show.

Love having Stuart on.

He is our news director in Southeast Wisconsin.

You can also hear him here in Northeast Wisconsin from time to time.

Hey,

buddy.

I thought I was on hold for the Butterball helpline.

I forgot.

I thought I was on your show.

I was

waiting.

I got a different

tab that's open.

They do have that, don't they?

Yeah.

Since you're here, can I start defrosting it now?

What happens?

What kind of turkey catastrophe do you think happened where you have to call a 1-800 number?

I bet there's a virtual

AI chat now from

the fine

people at Butterball.

No kidding.

That is crazy.

I forgot all about that.

That was on the Butterball helpline.

How are you, buddy?

Well, thanks.

How are you doing, bud?

I'm doing very well.

Thank you.

Thanks.

It's always fun having you on.

I especially appreciate it in this five o'clock hour since we've added it because you're kind of tied into southeast Wisconsin and the Milwaukee area.

And I thought we could have a little discussion about some stuff that's going on.

But first, I have to ask you, before we get to that, or Gordon Lightfoot talk or whatever, do you have a favorite Steve Martin movie, Stu?

I was going over this.

I do.

I think it's leap of faith.

I know that's not a good one.

It's not going to be on most people's list, but I've never seen it in a theater when I was young.

So leap of faith.

He was a not of a, not a carny, but he would go from town to town and have a revival.

And they were kind of scamming people through

a

religious deal.

I ran away and again, one of those things that yet one of those core memories, I think it was maybe 12, 13 when that came out, sort of a theater.

That's fantastic.

I'm more

of a

Steve Martin TV guy, though.

I'm looking at his credits.

I'm more of a TV guy for Steve Martin.

His work on the Muppets.

Oh, love it.

Great, great point.

That was kind of raised on King Tut and the whole, you know, that whole bit that he did with that.

And then his work on 30 Rock, he did a bit.

He did an episode of 30 Rock.

He was Gavin Valour.

And he was, he was some sort of a financial guy who was locked up in his own home, but Liz didn't know it.

And so he played a character on that and it was really good.

You know, he's one of those guys, like I'm seeing some of these texts roll in and we'll read those in a little while, but like he did movies you forgot he did or so great.

Like I saw one of the textures said all of me with Lily Tomlin.

I

totally forgot about that movie.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is maybe one of my top 20 comedies of all time with Michael Cain.

I don't know if you ever saw that outstanding movie.

What's the one that

was based on Henry Hill?

It's not like a sequel to Goodfellas.

And now it's an escape in my mind,

but he didn't have it.

Yeah.

Oh,

is that my blue heaven?

Yeah, my blue heaven.

Yeah.

Okay.

That wasn't officially the Henry Hill story, but it was Henry Hill in the witness protection program.

Oh, I did not know that.

That's very interesting.

Yeah.

I saw the movie years ago and I still didn't know that.

That's great.

Yeah.

Um, good fellows rewatch recently.

So that's fresh on the mind.

Oh, fantastic.

That's one of those movies.

Good fellows.

I cannot turn it off when it's on and I'm flipping around.

It's on.

It's like, all right, I'm watching at least till the next commercial break.

Probably longer though, to be honest.

Oh, so you're getting a

commercial break.

So you're not getting the good stuff.

Well, I'm saying if I'm flipping around, you know, you don't, you don't flip around.

I only go to Hulu and then Netflix.

Like it's not already

on

in progress.

I guess mostly if I'm at a hotel room, that's where I encounter these kinds of opportunities to watch.

and you're right they're edited so they're not yeah

yeah for one minute you're telling them to go get a shine box the next or at the party you

got

between wait a minute there's

a

blood in here yeah in the trunk when they're in the trunk

what happened to him um so we had uh obviously Thanksgiving is a couple days away Stuart and last nice question what's your favorite side you have a

particular side item or part of the meal you look forward to the most.

It all works together.

It's all, it's all a symphony of food.

And I think each has its own kind of, because usually with my fork, I get a little bit of this and a little bit

of

that and mix some cheesy potatoes with the rice thing.

So it's all good.

My mother-in-law makes some good beans, some baked beans.

Oh,

baked beans.

Nice.

I like that addition.

You know, somebody, I think it was, Zomers was a conrad that texted in last night, he likes

Or maybe it was you.

He mixes the potatoes, like mashed potatoes.

Oh,

that was me,

yeah.

With corn.

Is that, are you the one that does

that?

Oh yeah, that's a fine idea.

But with no

gravy.

Well, maybe you get a little gravy in there in the next bite, but one bite can just be the potatoes and gravy.

Maybe the next one, you invite some corn in there, you know?

I don't know if it's standalone.

It is good to hear.

that I'm not the only one who mixes all the foods on Thanksgiving.

Well, what kind of psycho is there kind of?

No, you get off of there.

I'm not getting you.

I'm pushing you over there.

You stay there green beans.

I'll tell you what my brother is the kind he can't let his food or at least maybe he can now he could never let his food touch and he would have to eat it compartmentally.

Like he couldn't just take, you know, a lot of people go for the stuffing, the potatoes, the turkey, the crayon.

They get all in their mouth at the same time.

And it's like a street fight.

And my brother just had to have it individually, which I always thought was kind of strange.

And you should

get him those paper plates that have the little individual compartments.

Christmas gift for him.

That's how we do it in our house.

It's classy stuff.

So Stuart, I'm so excited that you wanted to talk about Gordon Lightfoot tonight.

But is there anything happening in Southeast Wisconsin we need to know about?

Any big stories going on?

Yeah, there's some heavy stuff going on.

The slender man

thing, you up to speed

on that whole deal?

Well, we talked about it a little bit yesterday.

Is there has there been a new development?

I know that the manhunt was not that long and they they caught him.

But

the Walker

Shaw

County DA came out with some pointed language about the notifications and when they should have happened and when they didn't.

And when the the victim and all of this how they weren't notified for like 12 hours after it was first discovered that.

Bracelet was cut.

So yeah, it's there's some some questions going on about that that that whole deal

What was there any clarification as to how like I heard the bracelet Zomers and I talked about that a little bit yesterday that the bracelet was caught off I don't even know how you do that.

You have to have probably like some kind of industrial fiskers But how did she get out because she was in a home, right?

And I'm wondering how she even got there's no

security guard waiting at the door

I

mean,

from the follow-up interviews that the person who was with her has given, they were saying they were coming in and out the window.

So like it wasn't a security,

it was

like a group home.

So it could have been in like just a neighborhood.

Well, and you figure

there's questions about people in the neighborhood even knew that she was there.

And maybe they don't

deserve to know, but maybe they do.

So there's a lot of questions.

That's crazy.

So you're saying it was an escape like in a bottle rocket when.

Luke Wilson just left, but he snuck out with bedsheets even though it was voluntarily.

Yeah, open the door walk and duck down and get a get a bus ticket.

Do you guys do a does Kenosha Racine do a holiday parade or a Christmas parade?

Scenes got a big

one Kenosha has gotten into the whole holiday spirit with like an official downtown tree lighting.

Um, we're seeing, we're seeing has been a pioneer in this.

They've been doing this for like decades.

They're big, uh, Christmas party.

They did it a couple of weeks ago already.

They're already like two weeks past their holiday.

Okay.

So it's a holiday parade, not just a Christmas parade.

Otherwise that wouldn't

really.

Well, yeah, but what are we doing here?

I mean, it's Christmas time.

It's Christmas and I understand not everybody observes, but it's a tree that's, it's a Christmas tree.

Anyway, Gord.

Oh, very well said.

It's nice to hear your voice up.

You're doing news up here in Green Bay.

And

I know

it's fun to hear you.

I know that I don't hear much of WRJN, but it's nice.

How is that?

Do you have to break up?

Have you broken a big story in Green Bay yet, Stuart?

Connie and I are working very closely, and she kind

of

takes the lead on that.

And I kind of provide ancillary response.

support but she takes the lead on the Green Bay stuff and I do here and the fine folks in Green Bay would hear Connie here in the afternoon.

So we're kind of working things out and sharing the voices.

You guys do such a great job.

It's great.

You got it.

Thank you very much.

That is the voice of Stuart J. Waddles.

You have a voice like when did you know Stuart?

Like because you have one of those voices that's so distinct.

I remember when I first started working for Civic Media and I'm like this guy's got killer pipes like and it helps

when you break a story that's like kind of got some weight to it with your voice.

I know that might, I don't know if you've ever heard that before, but when did you realize I got to do news?

It wasn't so much news.

It was one day realizing I could go Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, monster truck challenge.

So once I honed in on that, I'm like, well, okay, what do I do with that?

And Gateway and Kenosha had a radio program, got into that and just kind of got into radio from there.

Paid some dues, doing promotional stuff.

We'll learn another computer systems work, programming.

And this is doing everything.

Had some accounts.

Oh, nice.

You did it all.

I did it

all.

And then an opportunity came up in the WRJN to focus in on some news.

And I was like the kid getting a USA Today out of the newspaper box and I was eight or nine years old.

So

kind of

kind of worked it all together.

I'm kind of amazed if people like you and I kind of tip my hat like Corey was up here, Corey Hartman.

was up here and he was doing something with you know the equipment and I'm like how do you guys know everything like but it's people like you that started when they were 14 and they know some of the tech stuff some of the news stuff some of the it blows my mind and it's you know fantastic frankly to be surrounded by people like that.

Yeah we had a Commodore 64 in the house and I was little so if I had to play a game I had to know how to run a command line.

So I had to put in CMD slash this slash this CD change directory.

So I was running DOS when I was six or seven years old.

I got really excited when you said that because I thought you said you had the Commodores at your house, which would have been really big

news.

No,

no, I had the Jordanaires.

We're going to take a quick phone call here, Stuart.

I think we have cameras.

Sorry.

Do we have Cindy from Appleton on the phone?

I

am.

Hi, Cindy.

How are you?

Say hello to Stuart Waddles.

Hi, Cindy.

Hi, Stuart.

How are you?

Well, thanks.

How are you?

I'm great.

Thank you.

You've got a big parade

there in

Appleton tonight, don't you?

What's that?

Oh, yeah.

You've got a big parade there in Appleton?

Yeah, we have our big Christmas parade tonight, and that's why I'm getting out of town.

Don't distract her, though, Stuart.

She's calling Night Light and listening to Night Light, so we want to keep her here.

Cindy, what's going on?

Well that event you're having next Thursday in Madison.

I'd love to get there, but unfortunately it's a weeknight I'm wondering if I could talk into doing the same kind of event up here.

Maybe at the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh or the Meyer Theater in Green Bay

Well, that is a great idea Cindy and there is something in the works So I will keep you apprised of that as it gets closer.

I really appreciate that.

Thank you very much All right, Cindy we got to go we're up against the break.

Thank you for the call my friend.

We are coming right back on nightlight

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is a beautiful, I know it's raining, but it's a beautiful night here in Wisconsin.

Stuart, how is the weather in southeast Wisconsin tonight?

A balmy 45 degrees about and dropping.

It's gonna get cold.

It's about 50 right now.

We're getting cold.

There's a wind advisory in effect for tomorrow from the southern part of the state.

Could be some snow coming.

I think you're getting a lot of snow, aren't you?

We're supposed to get some and I hope we don't get too much I have to go pick up my daughter tomorrow and I think it's just supposed to be flurries but Conrad's not here to give me one of his five-day weather forecast, which is just basically him looking out the window and guesstimating so

What's that you guarantees a five-day forecast I'll give you a two I can't give you a five

the kid does not like confidence.

I will

say

that

Can we keep you a little bit past the news?

Would that be okay?

Because I would love to do a deep dive on Gordon, on Gordon Lightfoot a little bit rather than rush it right now.

I think he

deserves it.

Dude, you have no idea how excited I was when you said that you kind of just discovered his music.

Well,

I discovered it, just

I discovered him and the whole story and just all of it.

And it's just very interesting.

That's so great.

I'm excited to talk about that.

We'll do that after the news and act, too.

But I have to tell you, Stuart, what are you watching on TV right now?

Have you happened to catch any of the episodes of All's Fair with Kim Kardashian?

I've not.

I did watch this documentary on Peacock.

Downey wrote it.

You may have seen this one.

Jim Downey.

It's a Jim Downey documentary.

What is it called?

Downey wrote that.

I think it's what it's called.

Downey wrote that.

I have not seen a hour about Saturday night, like Saturday night live and Jim Downey and his impact.

And I get sandlers in it.

Chris rocks in it.

I mean, just anybody who was on Saturday night live coming and telling their, uh, their Jim Downey stories.

I didn't realize how far back he went.

Like I knew he was part of that, uh, the late eighties, early nineties Conan era, but he was part of the early like beginning of Saturday night live.

Yeah.

I know of him.

I did not know about the documentary, though.

I'll definitely check that out.

Was he the guy?

There was a guy Conan O'Brien used to talk about.

Not Conan O'Brien, I'm sorry.

Harold Ramis.

Oh, that was Tom Kenny.

Have you ever heard of that writer?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well.

He was a

comic, too.

Yes.

No.

You're thinking of Tom Kenny, not the guy with the glasses from the

80s.

Oh, that's what I went to.

Doug, I'm sorry.

Doug Kenny, who I think was Stork in Animal House.

Remember

Stork?

Okay.

So he apparently, I could be getting this wrong, but Harold Ramis said that he was always threatening to end his own life, this guy who was tortured but very funny.

And they said, when they found his body in Hawaii, it was either Harold Ramis or Chevy Chase said he probably slipped looking for a place to jump.

because they ruled his death.

Accidental is such a horrible story, but Jim Downey is another one of those legendary Saturday Night Live writers.

I didn't

know he didn't work on Letterman.

Like he got, I don't know if he was fired or he kind of left during that non-Lauren era and he went to work for Letterman for a couple of years.

Yeah, that could be.

Have you seen any of the other, the John Candy documentary I haven't

seen yet?

No, that's on the list.

Same.

I started watching a Gordon Lightfoot documentary instead.

I got caught.

What's that one?

What's that one called?

It's Lightfoot.

It was on Amazon Prime.

It was put out in 2019 while he was still alive.

So there's interviews with him.

Oh, yeah, it doesn't go too deep.

What I don't like is that it's got like bald one in it.

Why?

I don't.

He was a fan and I guess he was a big star.

So if you get maybe somebody who's making a documentary and they want to get more visibility, you put.

Alec Baldwin in it, maybe.

But yeah, there's too much Alec Baldwin, but it's still good.

I mean, I wish you would go a little deeper.

I like the, you know, to me, are you a John Prine fan?

Not so much.

Okay.

I was a fan.

I found one of his YouTube videos.

I crawled down the YouTube rabbit hole one night and sitting on the floor, it was this really cool venue like in Toronto where a singer would perform and everybody sat on the floor.

It was like a very kind of almost had like this hippy vibe.

But, um, Gordon Lightfoot was in the crowd and he was sitting there.

And while John Prine was singing, they cut to Gordon Lightfoot.

He had tears streaming down his face.

And there's something about when one of your heroes, like you just mentioned Letterman, when David Letterman would laugh at something, I just, it's like a knee-jerk reaction.

I would just laugh because I trust him.

It's the same thing with Gordon Lightfoot.

When he was listening to John Prine sing and started bawling,

I was like, that is one of the coolest things ever.

It's obviously one of his favorite Prime songs, but

Gordon Lightfoot.

It's just like a paperback novel.

Sorry.

Huge Lightfoot fan.

We're going to talk all about that.

He's the guy, by the way, that I learned how to play the guitar.

I bought a Gordon Lightfoot songbook.

and just went through it and learned

hundreds

of others, brother.

Oh, man, he has got so many.

He's one of my favorite songwriters.

Stuart J. Wattles is here, folks.

He covers news.

He is the news director in southeast Wisconsin.

You can also hear him here in Green Bay.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite Steve Martin movie?

Plains, trains and automobiles.

One of my top 10 of all time, a fat free movie on every level, dropped today in 1987.

You know, it's a it's a Thanksgiving staple or just a holiday staple, but it got me thinking and I wanted to ask this question.

What is your favorite Steve Martin movie?

And like I said to Stuart, there there are some we've forgotten about.

Like that's how prolific Steve Martin has been in Little Shop of Horrors, one of the textures.

Oh, that's that's

on my list.

Me too.

Like you're talking about

again.

I totally forgot

about

it.

It's number

one on your list.

I think so.

Yeah.

Okay, Lil' Irv on the stream says, Darren and I just watched The Godfather of Green Bay.

Loved it.

Do you wear a cup for the live scene?

I think he's talking

about it.

Well, we're

waiting.

No judge smells.

I did

not

wear a cup.

We've got another question for Lance from Mike.

I'll save that one.

Lil' Irv says his favorite, Steve Martin movie's Parenthood.

And Sean on the stream says the jerk.

We'll get to the text line in hour number two.

Stuart J. Waddles is here, folks.

We're talking Gordon Lightfoot, and we're going to talk to Edmund Fitzgerald after the news.

So great to have you with me on this Tuesday, a rainy fall Tuesday with Thanksgiving right around the corner.

What could be better?

It's Beachwabbit and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who always looks ahead, even when parallel parking.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back

tonight, ladies and gentlemen.

We are broadcasting from five to eight tonight to our new time slot, an extra hour.

And it is great to be with you.

And I hope you're having a great week as we get ever closer to Thanksgiving, which is just around the corner.

So much to be thankful for this holiday season.

And that will be...

showcased in my nightlight window fund photo tonight that I will be posting probably during the next break.

Thank you all for being with me.

Aaron Zommers is in tonight for the Kid Conrad Krieger who is on vacation in Florida.

Probably golfing might have the whole family around the radio listening to nightlight if he's a pal.

That is the voice of Aaron Zommers and my current guest is Stuart J. Waddles, who is the news director from southeast Wisconsin.

He has agreed to stay with us a little bit into this hour so we can have a discussion on the Edmund Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot at 635 Lance Barber from Young Sheldon and the Comeback and the Godfather of Green Bay will be here to discuss our really cool screening that we're having next week in Madison on December 4th.

More details on that to come this hour as well.

And then

The hilariously funny stand-up comedian and writer Courtney Cronin-Adult will be here at 7.20 in the third hour.

Zomers, we got some people texting in for the tickets.

Do you have the information you need?

Yeah.

Well, it's all done automatically.

So you can still text in for the whole rest of the show.

So next week, Thursday, December 4th at 7 p.m.

doors open at 6.

Movie starts at 7.

We're going to be screening Pete's movie here in Madison.

The Godfather of Green Bay at Atwood Music Hall.

If you can go and you can get three other friends, family members, perhaps strangers to go with you, you can text in the word actor for your chance to win four tickets.

Actor, A-C-T-O-R.

Very well done, my friend.

So yeah, we've got a good amount of text so far, but you still have a shot.

So please text in and I would love to see you on the fourth.

What else do we cover?

Oh, I talked about how we can't.

I can't ever click out of the ads.

Yes, I can't

find the X or

you

also talked about bombers hadn't seen a dumb and dumber.

That's yes.

Thank you, Stuart.

That needs to be repeated.

Come on,

man.

Yeah.

And I don't want to be one of those guys because I can't stand those guys like you never saw like you're less of a person or something, right?

But I in this case, bombers, it might be true.

Yeah, I know.

I acknowledge that I own that there.

There are some things I haven't seen that I really should.

Hey, me too.

You want to see it, though, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, you're telling me there's a chance.

Yes.

Oh, yes.

And I did get that, at least.

All right.

So to me and I, people have fought me on this.

I think that is a near perfect movie.

The writing is flawless.

It's, and the way I, here's what, here's my theory on the story.

When Jim Carrey is daydreaming that he's charming and he's a really dumb guy, he's daydreaming about being charming the way only a

Idiot's capacity would be for being charming, like lighting his own farts on fire, throwing popcorn in his face.

He's not daydreaming out of his capabilities, I guess.

And that's a testament to the character.

For the writing of the character is that character

is just,

it's perfect.

It's knowing what this guy was about.

It's

like he

had to be based off of somebody.

Oh, great.

It's truly one of my favorite movies.

That is the voice of Stuart J. Wattles.

Do you have a good, what are you going to do this Thanksgiving stew?

Oh, eat some turkey.

Actually, the in-laws make some ham, too.

I hope they make a ham.

They better make a ham.

But yeah,

there's cheesy broccoli casserole.

There's mashed potatoes and gravy.

So that's the in-laws tomorrow, and then we'll meet up with my family on Friday.

Is it a plus or a negative that you live close enough to have two thanksgivings?

Because I remember when my wife and I would always go to Marinette.

And we try to cram everything in.

And there are times I almost thought, I wish we lived far away so we could do our own thing, but as fun as it is.

Yeah, it's a convenient thing, having it.

We usually do it again back to back days.

Thursday, everybody watches football, so that's on in the background.

And then Friday, everybody's looking around like, it's going on, everybody.

Force of conversate.

All right, so before we get to Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the evidence Gerald, I promise we'll get there I thought of you when I when I clipped this earlier and it was this is off wise brother media Do these celebrities give you the ick and I'm just gonna name a celebrity stew and you tell me if that celebrity gives you the ick, okay?

Katy Perry Nick.

Oh, okay Chris Pratt No, okay

Jared Lado.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.