Farewell to a Radio Legend(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live 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 whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Schwabba.

Hey, hey, welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Tuesday everybody.

Great to have you with me in this as we kick things off here from beautiful downtown Green Bay on what is supposed to be kind of a weather night here in Wisconsin.

So we will keep our eyes on that.

We'll keep you posted.

We've got I know you guys are used to Conrad's five day forecast that we you know we share ad nauseam and sometimes he's right but he's I think we can tell people now you're basically guessing most of the time Conrad.

Yeah, you know, I just go off, you know, Apple, whatever, you know, the weather app on Apple, and I feel like they're guessing most

of the time too.

At least you're using that.

I thought you were like a gut instinct or something.

Yeah, you

know, I think it's gonna snow tonight, but yeah, that's just...

Well, we've got an actual weather guy on the show, and I'm so excited to have this guy on the show.

He does weather here for Civic Media.

Mace Michaels, he's gonna be here at 6'10".

He's

gonna be here Thursday.

I just asked you before the show.

Oh, sorry.

Mace is not coming on tonight Thursday Thursday.

He will be here.

So we're having mace on right after all the bad weather passes.

Yeah, he's gonna keep us informed.

I Just wrote like a bunch of questions for mace.

Sorry.

Hopefully Hopefully they will still be good on Thursday.

That's okay.

We

got we already have a pretty jam-packed show tonight I would have had to rush things with mace and I don't want to ever do that with mace Michaels because I love his work here at civic media and

We will enjoy talking with Mace Michael.

How's that for a teaser, Con?

We got Mace Michael's coming up on Thursday.

Yeah.

You know, I can fill in for him here on Nightlight until then,

right?

Well, I think you basically already just said everything you know about the weather, so I really... It's gonna snow.

You know, it's weird because I almost did the show from home tonight because we are supposed to get bad weather.

And it's supposed to start while I'm on the air and

I don't

know how I feel about that.

So we'll have to figure it out.

But we will find things out as we do and we'll let you guys know as well.

So hopefully if you're in your car right now, take it easy.

Take your time.

Get home safely.

It's just Tuesday.

You got a long way to go before the week really gets fun.

So we're hoping to help with that by having you here tonight so we could talk about movies and TV.

Some comedy some music we're gonna talk about some fun local stories and I'm very excited because at 535 my pal Jane Matinair host of it Matinair on air will be joining me To discuss her last week here at Civic Media before she retires Jane has had an absolutely

amazing career, spanning I think 45 plus years, and she's somehow only like 50 years old, which is really impressive.

But Jane is just an outstanding media person, broadcaster, whatever you want to call her, she's done news.

I think she used to spin tunes con years ago.

And for the last couple of years, or a couple of years plus, here at Civic Media, she's hosted Matt and Air on air.

So she's been on the show before.

She's done the popcorn pick.

We've just kind of talked casually to Jane, and we will do so again tonight in her last week here at Civic Media.

That'll be fun.

Mace Michaels will not be here, folks.

It's 6'10.

I totally misunderstood what you said.

Sorry about that, Conn.

Greg Vatney, though, will be here at 6'35.

Greg is the executive director of the Raw

museum in beautiful Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Here's what I don't understand, Conrad, and maybe we can ask Greg this.

Manitowoc is a stunningly beautiful city.

Oh yeah.

Right on the lake, I've been there, I hosted their Sputnikfest costume contest a couple of years ago, or a year ago.

It was, I mean, I don't think I'd ever been there, like, driven around the town.

Beautiful, right on the lake.

Sadly, it gets lumped into that Steve Avery and the making of a murderer.

That's what people equate

men to walk

with.

Now, that'll go away, I think.

It's not like he was Dahmer, but it's still a town that got a little bit of fame for a bad reason because it is such a great town and so beautiful.

And Greg will talk a little bit about his adopted home city and what's going on at the Raw West.

They always have great things.

It is a gem of a museum.

right here in northeast Wisconsin.

And then Jenny Peterson from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Madison's History Maker Space.

She's going to tell us what is going on in this history maker space right off the Capitol over the holidays.

A really cool event.

We'll talk to Jenny about that at 735.

So there you go.

That's three guests, Conrad.

Those are three marquee guests as far as I'm concerned.

We're also going to give Greg a quiz.

Yes.

Does he know this or should we spring it on him when he comes

home?

I don't know.

He does not know it, so.

Sweet.

It's a great quiz.

I came up with it.

I love it.

And my friend Chat.

Chat GPT is my wife's best friend.

There's like, I feel like there's a third person in our marriage right now and not a hot one either.

Was that inappropriate to say?

No, Chat.

Chat's like intellectually stimulating.

Exactly.

Great personality.

All right, fair enough, but I hope you said you got your own answers, which I like I like that because I like

I'd go to chat to get the ball rolling,

you know, yeah chat can Chat can work as immune at times.

So that's good chat GPT our pal I don't really use chat GPT.

I will Google stuff I'm still in the archaic googling stuff age, but I think they use AI to Yeah, it's just a different brain.

I

mean any kind of I feel like search engine plays off AI now

Listen, I'll be honest.

I write these Hollywood beats every day and they take a while if I want to do them properly But if I just went to chat GP and said chat GP T write me a Hollywood beat or a Hollywood joke.

What would what would come back?

I think some robotic answers probably.

Yeah Something that wouldn't

sound like peach wabba.

What if they were funnier than what I was awful would that

be?

Yeah, I just like you did it one night didn't tell me I'm like those

are really funny

today

Either way, good stuff.

Great to have you here, folks.

It's a little, you know, we'll see what happens with the weather.

I know Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, we are all getting snow, although it keeps changing because Madison and Milwaukee, it looks like, are getting more rain as the night goes on, and maybe temperatures will warm up a little bit, so we'll see.

But that could still be treacherous to drive in.

Yeah, there's nothing more scary than, yeah, it's gonna be freezing rain tonight.

You're like,

oh, that's right.

That's the worst, yeah.

And I'm hoping, like...

There's been a few times where I've just gone over to the Hyatt here and splashing around in the pool.

There you go.

Remember the hot tub?

Oh God, that was awful.

Here's what I like about the Hyatt here in Green Bay.

It still has a steam room and you don't find steam rooms.

You don't really even find sonnets in many hotels, but the Hyatt still has a steam room and they had a hot tub.

So I go in the hot tub.

This is a recap.

Some of you may have heard this.

This is a couple of years ago.

We had horrible weather.

I was like, you know what?

I just want to go.

I want to soak at my core temperature up a little bit.

I go on the hot tub.

Within minutes, there are like 14, 12-year-old girls, because there's a gymnast convention in town.

And the chaperone, of course.

I left that hot tub so quick.

I just felt so creepy.

It was awful.

Well, you should feel creepy.

They joined you.

You'd enjoy them.

It

would have been weird.

Yeah.

That would have been weird.

What if I walked in with flippers?

And a snorkeling mask and a, that would be weird.

And you snorkeled in the hot tub?

Now snorkeling makes it even creepier.

I shouldn't have said, I just meant flip, just like a spaz, you know, nothing too weird.

But yeah, I still, you're still, you're not gonna, what do you, what would you have done?

You're leaving that hot tub,

right?

I'm jumping into the pool instead.

Cannonball.

Gonna do some cannonballs, yeah.

the backstroke.

That's pretty sweet.

All right.

So there we go.

You got guests.

What do we have?

Let's do the question and give people an opportunity to question or to text an answer before we get to text a win, which is coming up in just moments, folks.

But right now it's our night like 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.

What is your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

Jack just turned 88 like a couple days ago and I

I don't think we've ever really talked much about Jack Nicholson on the show, so I'm curious what your favorite Jack Nicholson movie is.

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Always nice to get likes and follows in this modern day.

Can we ask ChatGBT for likes and follows?

What would happen there?

I think it would give us information on how to get more likes and follows.

I'll take that.

Maybe the ChatGBTX account can give us a follow.

You know what's funny?

You just said, chat GBT.

And that's what my wife calls it.

And she refuses to call it chat GPT.

And I just shake my head now.

I don't even try to crack her.

It's just a

tongue twister.

It must be easier because you just did the exact same thing she did.

But let us know what your favorite Jack Nicholson movie is, folks.

Mine is Chinatown without question.

I did like the last detail a lot.

Very good, younger Jack Nicholson movie, but I really love, love, love Chinatown, in my opinion, one of the greatest.

All-time films.

What do you say, Con?

You like Jack Nickerson?

I mean, I think you already guessed it.

Did I?

You know who's... What movie is he in with one of my favorite actors?

Kevin Hart or The Rock.

Let me... No.

No?

Oh, Sandler.

Oh, what is that, Rules of Engagement?

No.

What is that movie?

I was gonna make a joke, you know, but I was hoping you'd say it, and then I'd just be like, no, it's Batman.

Anger management.

It's actually Batman,

though.

Oh.

Wait, he is in Anger Management with Sandler, though, right?

No, he is,

but Batman is my favorite Jack Nicholson

movie.

He plays the Joker.

Interesting route to get there.

We needed a road man for that.

I wanted you to guess, and then I was going to

say, it was going to be

a, it didn't, it didn't matter.

I thought you were going to say, you wanted me to guess, I would say Anger Management, you would say,

good dog, gun it!

No, like your own man.

Well, that movie is hilarious, though.

Jack Nicholson in that movie is so funny.

Yeah.

He's phenomenal.

He's a great actor.

So let us know.

Folks, be part of the show.

It's always more fun when you guys precipitate, as John Candy once said.

We've got a couple texts that we got overnight from our pal Bud in Janesville.

Remember we met Bud the other night, Con?

Yes.

Did you meet Bud?

I did.

And his wife, that

was

fantastic.

And I got to be honest, I thought Bud was going to be older.

Oh.

Okay.

Yeah, he's a young guy.

He is.

He's a young strap and lad.

But we met Bud at the Godfather of Green Bay screening last week at the Atwood Music Hall.

Bud says, hey Pete, I know you're going to catch some flak regarding Moscata.

I knew I said it wrong.

Do you know how to say that Wisconsin town

name?

I'm pretty sure.

I thought I said it right.

Because I thought we've had this conversation before.

I was

trying to think we did have this conversation before.

Anyway, Bud says, but I still love your show, Bud from Jamesville.

Bud sounds like he took that a little personally.

And then a half hour later, Bud texted us between four and six a.m.

on the rebroadcast, and he said, hey, Pete, I'm glad I was not the only one who raised an eyebrow when Bob mentioned the money shot.

Love your show, Bud from JVIL.

Bud must have been running out of time because he just said, L-Y-S, Bud from JVIL.

He's abbreviating.

Must have been under the gun.

Bud, a third text from Bud, moments later.

Hey, Pete and Conrad, my favorite football movie features, Lucy Van Pelt and Charlie Brown Wink, L-Y-S-B-F-J.

He was really pressed for time on that third text.

Thank you, Bud.

Always great to hear from you, buddy, and it was great meeting you last week.

I had a weird thing happen last night.

Every once in a while, my wife will wake up screaming.

And

I think, oh great, she's dreaming about me again.

But I went in, this was so crazy last night, I went in to wake her up and I said, I'm like, Merit, Merit, wake up.

You know, she's like, what?

And I said, what were you dreaming about?

And she said, Timothy Chalamet.

And you know, I said screaming, not like a passionate screaming, kind of like Timothy Chalamet was being a real jerk to my wife.

So if I ever meet the guy, I'm gonna

give him a

knuckle sandwich.

You were pointing at something, Conn, right there.

You got a text.

Oh, yeah.

All right, folks, when we come back after this very short break, I'm gonna tell you what the keyword is for our text-to-win grown-up gift list, multi-state text-to-win contest here at Civic Media.

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Pete Schwabba is so great to have you here, folks.

So what, what more are you gonna do on a Tuesday?

Conrad, if you didn't have this gig, what are you doing on a Tuesday at 5.20?

Well,

I don't know if we're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba then, because I wouldn't be here, you know, when we're producing the show.

No, but I'm saying, like, if you didn't have- No, I know

what you

mean.

Listen, you had to restore some faith after that last joke

you tried.

Yeah, I tried.

I don't

think that one

landed either, but-

I was hyper focused on text to win.

So let's get to that.

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So once we get that, you will be eligible to win 200 bucks cash.

That is not a bad daily.

I have to say so myself.

Wouldn't that be easier?

Like then a gift cart, like someone gives you cash?

That's great.

Would you report that to the government anyway?

Would you pay taxes on that 200 beans?

No, no.

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Okay, so we got that.

All right, so I want to say, you know what I did earlier?

I'm going to see Frank Herman's Christmas show at the Meyer.

Awesome.

I think last time Frank was here, I talked about how I wasn't really in the mood for Christmas.

I wasn't feeling it, but we went and saw Frank's show at the Meyer.

I brought my wife, my two kids, and two of my girlfriends, and we had a blast at this Christmas show.

You're looking at me so seriously.

You're two extra girlfriends?

Yeah, you want one?

No, my wife is the world to me.

That was obviously a joke.

We went to the show.

It was so great.

And I left that theater.

The snow was falling in downtown Green Bay.

We had just seen us.

We had some laughs and Frank was singing in his great cast of the Let Me Be Frank productions.

It was such a great time.

So I'm excited to say we're going in again this year and I can't wait to go.

It's going to be fun.

I want to turn our attention to a story you saw in the Shepherd Express today.

Yes.

It's a fun story, a fun tale.

If

you would, you know, this just is so crazy.

It reminded me of a Simpsons episode, and I'll tell you which one after, but here's, it's a very, it's just a blurb, but it says on November 14th, a mom popped into a WA Wright Elementary School in Mount Juliet, Tennessee to deliver some paperwork, leaving her 10-year-old son in the car outside.

She returned to the parking lot to find the car gone, a TV station reported.

She assumed it had been stolen with her son inside.

A witness said they had seen the car driving recklessly out of the parking lot.

But when police checked the family home about a mile away, they found the car in the garage and the child in the house with the dad.

He explained that he had had an argument with his mom and decided to drive himself home.

Officers declined to charge the boy because he's too young to be held criminally responsible.

Put that kid in juvie, baby!

That's so funny.

How did he-

It's insane.

He must have driven something previously, you know, like one of those little go-karts or something.

How do you, you gotta have some knowledge, right?

I'm trying to think of like, what if he actually did park it in the garage and he just knew perfectly how to get in there and everything?

Like, I'm trying to think, it was probably the dad who saw that put it in the garage, but

if he just

was like, well, I need to get the garage and he need to close the garage door.

Don't tell your mother.

I parked the car for you.

Oh, it's a great story.

That is so funny.

Ten years old.

Yeah.

Can you reach the pedals at ten maybe?

I'm thinking maybe the kid played some video games or something that, you know, maybe he was driving or he had one of those little

tonk of trucks.

It's believable too because a witness said they saw the car drive away recklessly.

So that little punk could have really hurt someone.

You know, I'm just confused how he even knew how to put it in drive.

It's probably like a touch, maybe.

Yes, or a spin, the spin dial thing.

Would you push

in the brake to do that?

Correct.

You know how I know that?

Cause I had to wipe my car off yet again today, sixth time this season I've had to wipe my car off and I go in and I like to warm it up, but I don't get in to push the brake and hit the button.

So I have to lean down, push in the brake with my hand and then hit the button to start my car.

That's kind of a demoralizing.

Makes you feel really strange.

But great story.

Love that.

And I'm glad, you know, do you think there should have been some kind of punishment?

Folks, the phone lines are open.

If you have an opinion on this, I'd love to hear it because I think that's really weird.

Maybe he got grounded.

Yeah, like in-house, they handled it.

Don't worry

officer, we're gonna ground him.

No video games for 20 minutes.

And he'll go through withdrawal.

You can't

use the iPad today.

Yeah, and he'll learn a lesson.

Oh, that is fantastic.

We've got a stream comment here on our question of the night, which is your favorite, what is your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

Our pal Dave on the stream says, a few good men, I forgot about that.

He says, followed by one flu over the cuckoo's nest, another classic.

I don't know what to make of Dave's next comment, Conrad.

Is

that a

movie?

No, that's how you say that town.

Oh, Dave, you expected me to remember that.

Moscow day.

Seven minutes ago.

Moscow day.

I don't like that.

I think it should be changed.

What do you think about that?

Make it easier for Radio House.

That's all I'm asking Muskaday.

Thank you, Dave.

Thanks for the tip.

Citizen Dave, appreciate it.

We've got some social media comments here too.

Brett in Brown Deer, his phone is in the 920, says, easy rider.

Oh yeah, very early Nicholson.

Terry in the 414 says, the shining.

Can't go wrong with that great Terry Roger from Stevens Point says my favorite Nicholson movie as Colonel Jessup and a few good men you can't handle the truth Great choice, Raj.

Can I call you Raj?

Ronnie and the 920 says five easy pieces was my favorite Nicholson movie I am due for a rewatch of that one.

I haven't seen that in ages Probably understand it better now too.

All right when we come back the legendary Jane Mattenair will be here folks.

So we are coming right back after the news

Got lots to get to on tonight's show, and I'm so glad you're here.

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

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwabba, and it is great to have you with me, folks.

Conrad, why does Google ask me to sign in right before I need Google?

Literally the

seconds are

ticking down.

Hey, can you sign in with that password you haven't used in a year?

Awful You should ask your friend chat GBT about that.

You know, I don't maybe it'll tell me to make the passwords easier to remember

All right, folks, we are moving on here.

It's gonna be really fun.

I'm very excited to have my next guest on the show.

She has spent over 40 years in the radio racket.

I think did a little TV too, did some news, maybe spun some tunes and hosted, I'm gonna tell you about what she did.

She did one of the coolest things ever and is the creative force behind a song.

We'll tell you about in just a minute, but she most recently has hosted her own show here on Civic Media for the last two plus years, I believe, with Greg Bach and her...

Our name is Jane Matanare, and the show is Matanare on Air, and Jane joins us now over the stream.

Hi,

Jane.

Gentlemen, good evening.

Thank you so much for having me.

How are

you?

Oh, it's our pleasure.

I'm glad you were able to.

It's a big week for you, so I appreciate you taking the time, and your house looks so festive, if that is

your house.

I brought in the tree just for you.

Did you just cut that down a few minutes ago?

I did, yes.

Yes, exactly.

On my way home from work.

I appreciate that.

You're like Diana Ross.

You could redo your living room for an interview.

Sure.

Cut down a

tree.

Me and Diana, we have so much in common, yes.

You do.

Well, you both have had long careers, Jane.

And how are you doing?

How do you feel this

week?

It's a little unsettling.

I won't lie.

You know, this has been my life for 44 plus years.

But at the same time, Pete, I am, I was talking to a friend about this and she asked me over the weekend how I was doing.

And I said, you know, I look back at things and where I started from and I'm satisfied.

Yeah.

I am satisfied.

And I, I think that's a gift.

I do.

I, I don't know that everybody gets to say that after their, you know, whatever they chose to do.

over the course of their lives that they can leave with some satisfaction.

And I think I'm satisfied.

Wow, that's, yeah, you're right.

That's about all you can ask for.

Before we continue with this line of questioning, do you have a favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

Oh, excellent question.

Thank you.

There are so many.

But I would, I love, something's gotta give that he did with Diane Keaton.

Yeah, great movie.

It's a wonderful film.

It really is.

It's a great, great movie.

That is a great choice.

All right, so let's get back.

I've got so much to ask you.

You've spent many years doing news.

I do.

And

I'm sure some of those, that could probably stay with you depending on the story, but can you share any highlights you had doing news, a good story, or something you broke that was really cool?

Well, and I'm really grateful TMJ took me on and I am not a journalist, Pete.

And I've always been very, tried to be very clear about that.

I have great respect for journalists, which I am not.

I don't have a degree in that, but I had the opportunity to help out a charity in slinger that did therapeutic horse ride lessons for adults and children with special needs.

And they were going to be closed because they had a bathroom that was not ADA compliant.

And so TMJ let me do a story about them and their attempts, and we helped raise them, raise enough money to get that bathroom put in.

And as what people were, but that's the other thing I found over the years, Pete, is.

how generous people in Wisconsin are truly.

I've been involved in different fundraisers of all different kinds over the years.

We did stuff the bus at the mix for decades and the day before Thanksgiving a food drive and people would come out in droves.

We would fill up three buses full of donated food and so I've always been

overwhelmed and humbled by the generosity of our listeners and people who've listened to me in different places all over the years.

But the other thing about doing news that I don't know I expected, and maybe that's why I'm not a journalist and I would not be a good journalist, because I found covering some things so very, very heavy.

Yeah.

And I found it very difficult.

The Uvaldi school shooting in particular,

I found very, very upsetting.

And I had a hard time shaking that off.

You had such a great, you mentioned TMJ and that's where I started kind of doing some guest hosting.

That's where I met you.

I'm sure you don't remember me.

I did like 20 shows.

But I thought, the second I heard you talk Jane, I just think she has the best voice.

And you kind of like when did and you must know you have a great voice for broadcasting.

When did you know that?

Like when did that

occur to you?

Oh, but Pete, I've been a ham for such a really long time.

It did.

It started very early.

We we were I was raised Catholic from a big Catholic family.

Same.

We were in mass when I was about four or five.

And it was a particular service.

where the priest goes through, let us kneel and everyone kneels, let us stand, everyone stands, let us sit, everyone sits.

And I said to my mother, when everything was nice and quiet, quite loudly, apparently, why doesn't he make up his mind?

And the whole congregation burst out laughing.

And it made it into the paper.

And they hung it on the fridge.

And I just remember,

Thinking well, all I did was ask what I thought was a perfectly reasonable question and I got a great reaction that I never expected this great laugh and I think that kind of set me on a path to seek that more of that I want more I want to make people laugh.

I trust your smart assery Was nullified in the confessional I hope Later, it's

I don't go anymore.

So that kind of alleviates that problem

You know, speaking of Catholicism, I'm the same way, 16 years, Jane, of Catholic school here.

And it had no effect.

No, I'm kidding.

But I remember making my first confession, a bunch of us were in line in like third or fourth grade at this Catholic

school

in Chicago.

And the priest came out, he came out to yell at us.

And I was next.

I'm like, wait a minute.

Now he knows what I'm gonna say to him, because this was back in the day where you went in and there was that cloth there and they couldn't see who you were, but

he just came

out and gave us the business and I'm like, now I gotta go in there.

He's gonna know that I killed a guy in third grade or something, you know.

Terrible.

Well, but they kind of couldn't see through the little, we had the little screen.

That's true.

You can't tell me you didn't know who was who.

Yeah,

you're

probably right.

Who are we kidding?

Um, so did you, and were you a DJ before you did news?

Like, did you work at music stations?

Oh, that was the beginning.

Absolutely.

Talk about that a little

please.

That's great.

My very first job was at KNUJ Radio in New Olm, Minnesota, which was a poker station in a very, uh, heavily agriculture community.

And I helped them launch their hip FM station KXLP.

And when we first went on the air, there were only two of us.

And I did mid days from 10 to two or three.

And then he did three to seven until we built out the staff.

And then I was there for about three years and moved to the Milwaukee area.

And when I started at the mix, I started at overnight, but.

I went into radio because I wanted to be the cool night rock chick and I am none of those things.

I am not cool.

I was never a rock chick.

It was like that's in your way started.

No, but it wasn't.

I know it didn't fit who I am.

And I was doing nights on the mix and the general manager, Jack Lee, God bless him.

apparently heard me and thought, she's pretty good.

We should move her.

And so they moved me some warnings.

And that's where I spent the rest of my career, pretty much.

It must be tough going through life, not being as cool as your voice.

That's what I'm hearing.

You

don't think you were cool.

I totally disagree.

Jane Matinar is my guest.

She is the host of Matinar on Air here on Civic Media for a few more days anyway.

She's had an amazing career.

We've got one texture, Tom and Hartford Jane, who says polka Jane.

Sure, that

works.

Yep, KNUJ played pokas.

And what I remember very specifically about that, my first job there was reading farm implement commercials live when there would be four syllable words that I had never seen before.

And you're just, so I learned how to say things really, really quickly when I didn't know what I was saying.

When you said you were spinning polka tunes and then you you went to you set up a hip That you're not talking about polka as a hip.

No, we were no no no we played contemporary It was probably hot hot AC would have been the category at that time, but it was don't forget this was the very early 80s and so it was lots of air supply and Little River Band and that kind of stuff

All those

bands that you are embarrassed to admit you love when their songs come on

There are still so I love peer Prairie League.

I still have old I have old 70s albums and I grew up on bread and all those really sappy love songs and And now I am no longer a valid person.

I don't listen to ballads.

They annoy me

You're older and jaded now you're cool

Well, Jaded, certainly.

Cool, questionable.

Jane, all right, so for the last couple years, you've been hosting your own show on civic media here.

What has that been like?

Had you done something like that previously, your own talk show where you get to talk about events that you deemed important or that you were interested in?

What's that been like?

It's been a wonderful experience, and I am so grateful to Civic Media because I came with Kristen Brigh.

Uh, I had met her when I was working at TMJ.

She had gotten the opportunity at, uh, with Civic Media and she said, you want to come with?

And I said, sure, let's go.

Nice.

And, uh, landed there.

And then when she decided she had another opportunity that she took and they offered me the opportunity and I was a little intimidated, but I think producing for Kristen for that first about year, uh, really helped and helped my confidence.

And it's just about being informed, and I think, and reading as much as humanly possible about the things that you're going to be talking about.

And admitting also that I don't know everything, and that's why we have experts on who can explain to me.

That's a great answer.

We have Sydney Politics on the stream says, sorry if I missed it already, but what's happening with the matinee show after she retires?

Well, Greg is gonna, your co-host Greg will take over for a while, right?

That's the

plan.

How's

it been working with Greg?

Do you have to

keep in line?

It's been so wonderful.

No, it's been so wonderful.

We have had so many laughs.

and in some very difficult moments.

And there was a point about two months after the election, the presidential election, and I found a story, I think it was in the cap times, about they had a school naming contest in the Madison area to rename a school.

And they left it up to the public.

And so you know how it went.

And so the choices were schooly McSchoolers in and and schooly this and the other one was big Chungus.

And.

And Greg and I were talking about this off the air and we just had one of those laughing fits, you know, when you just it's so ludicrous and so silly.

And we laughed like that, like we were seven years old for about 10 minutes.

those are the moments I am going to miss and cherish and remember and just to see how much he has grown in his role and and now that he's going to be stepping in and it's very exciting I'm so proud of him I'm so happy it's been wonderful working for Calvin I've loved

Everybody at Civic Media.

All right.

Jane McNair is here.

We'll have her for a few more minutes.

We're going to do a very short break.

Tom also says, Jane, you were both wonderful and we've got a little more text love.

I'll read after the break.

Jane McNair is here.

We are coming right back.

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

Welcome

back.

So great to have you with me on this Tuesday night as we prepare for weather.

It's looming.

That's a great feeling.

I hope you're inside and safe and warm, everybody, and talking about the things we love to talk about in life.

We're doing it here tonight, movies, comedy, TV, and I'm gonna give you the keyword again in our multi-state adult, no, not adult, Conrad, what is it?

Grown-up gift list.

Yes.

Not adult, that could be construed the wrong way.

So it's our grown-up gift list in our multi-state text-to-win contest.

We love our text-to-win contest.

Once again, this hour's keyword, you have to use the app to text this in, folks, is holiday.

H-O-L-I-D-A-Y, holiday.

Good luck, everybody.

Our question of the night is what is your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

Jack just turned 88, two or three days ago.

And more importantly, we're talking with our good friend and the host of Matt and Air on Air for the last couple of years here at Civic Media.

She is hanging it up this week.

So it's great that she took some time here to spend a few minutes with us on Nightlight, Miss Jane Matt and Air.

It's so nice to be here.

Thank you so much, people.

It's great, Jane.

Thank you.

It's been fun just listening to you and learning from you for the last couple of years.

So thank you for that.

But you and I spoke recently on your show.

Here's one of my memories I have of Jane McNair.

And you said, look for something in the movie, Green and Gold, that doesn't make sense.

So I watched that movie like a hawk.

And I'm like going, I'm like, what?

Actively where is it performatively watching this movie and I was I came up empty, but you had an issue with the ladder Yes, it was

a it was a plot point and they needed they needed an accident to happen in order to move the plot along right so they had a ladder out in fall and Then it was Christmas time because they were Christmas lights on the eaves

And the ladder was still up.

And I said, no, self-respecting Wisconsinite would put would leave the ladder up and just put lights over it.

It would never happen.

It would never happen.

And it just aided me.

It's like anyone who lives here.

No, it's no.

That's so funny.

Jim on the stream says, Jane's voice reminds me very much of Lauren Bacall, a legend in film.

Have you heard that before, Jane?

I'd be willing to

bet.

I haven't.

Thank you.

What a wonderful compliment.

Thank

you so much.

That's fantastic.

So what are you going to do now, Jane?

You're going to have all this time on your hands.

Do you collect stamps or beer cans?

Are you

going to watch your color television?

Stamps, yes.

Yeah, it's definitely going to be stamps.

No, my husband and I are trying to get rid of things.

We've been in our house for 24 years.

And now that we're going anywhere, but you know, you just accumulate so much stuff.

Yeah,

we have so much stuff.

So I square Monday.

I'm going to be taking my car to the shop because it started making a new noise.

My 13 year old Subaru.

I'm not feeling good about this.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

So.

But then I'm going to start going through things and trying to get rid of things.

I am trying to be as responsible as possible with goodwill and upcycling and as much of that as humanly possible to keep it out of landfills.

Do you have that Catholic thing where you go, is God trying to tell me something because I'm hanging it up this week and now my car goes on the fritz?

Is this God's way of getting back at me or telling me I should stay in radio chain?

Oh, no, I never thought that at all until you planted that seed in my head.

Jane,

we

have, this has been so fun.

I've loved having you on the show.

I hope you'll still come back sometime, even though you're retired.

You are going to be, you know, you're going to need some things to do.

Oh, well, absolutely.

Hey, they're letting me keep the laptop and the microphone.

So I'm always available.

And by the way, I have all your email addresses, so don't think you're getting rid of me.

Sweet.

You didn't just hide from me.

No.

All right, before we let you go, I have one thing.

A lot of people might not know this about you.

And The Great Mike Clemens is the one who told us about this, but you are also a songwriter.

I made a film called The Godfather of Green Bay.

We screened it last week in Madison.

I feature the Macarena throughout the film as this drug guy's main song that he loves.

I had no idea until recently that you wrote a version of that song with Mike Clemens.

Do you care to elaborate?

Oh, absolutely.

Our program director at the time, Brian Kelly, said, Macarena is a huge global hit.

It's waiting for a parody.

I want you guys to do this.

And so Mike and then my then partner Dan Weber and I all kind of took turns and wrote lyrics for it.

And then Ryan and I went down to Chicago and recorded it.

And it became a crazy.

crazy sensation.

We sold cassettes because that's how long ago.

We sold cassettes for five bucks and we raised, I believe it was $92,000 for the Child Abuse Prevention Fund.

And we had a worldwide map up in the studio and we would put pins in because we were hearing from all over the world.

We mailed cassettes everywhere.

All right, we have to hear just a quick snippet of that before we let Jane go.

Conrad, if you please.

That is so great.

And

if you thought the original Macarena got stuck in your head.

Oh, it's bad.

Yeah, it's a bad earworm.

You won't, you won't.

You won't thank me.

One little tidbit about the Pacarena.

The captain of the space shuttle at that time was from Wisconsin.

And I actually have footage of NASA playing the Pacarena for him as their wake-up call and him doing a dance as he's floating.

It's so cool.

What a cool thing.

Hopefully, maybe a few more songs.

You've got the time now, Jane, to check it

out.

That's true.

Before we let you go.

I'll use

some blues.

Oh, you got the voice for it.

John Murray in the 608 says, enjoy your retirement.

You've earned it and come back as a guest often, as your family will allow.

Be well, Jane.

And my sentiments exactly.

Jane, thank you so much.

Enjoy your retirement.

And please don't be a stranger.

I will not.

And thank you so very much.

Pete Conrad, you guys take care.

Take care, everybody.

All right, that's Jane McNair.

You can still hear her this week.

She's sticking around, and Greg Bach, her partner in crime, will be sticking around as well.

So that's good.

Thank you to Jane McNair.

When we come back, we've got, oh man, Greg Vadney is going to be here talking about Manitowoc.

We got a quiz for Greg, Wisconsin Historical Society stuff in the third hour, great holiday events, a lot coming.

Question of the night, it's all happening here at night.

Great to have you with me.

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

The clouds in the

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 washes his hands even after using a towel, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome

back to Night Light, folks.

Hope you're having a great night.

Hope you got home safely.

If you're still on your way, be careful out there.

We've got weather coming your way, coming our way.

We are broadcasting from downtown Green Bay.

It's supposed to start, of course, right during my drive home.

But it's going to be bad in Madison, Milwaukee, here in Northeast Wisconsin.

There's a lot of stuff on the way, so be careful out there.

That was a great hour number one.

Would you say so?

I would say so.

You know what?

That

was fun.

I don't even know if we can top it.

Maybe we should just put a rerun on and get out of here.

Not just saying that to

beat the weather.

It was fun.

We talked to Jane McNair, who is the host of McNair on air here on Civic Media.

She is retiring after over 40 years in broadcasting.

What a career, like spin and tunes, polka, rock, overnights, morning, did news.

And then now hosting her own show for the last couple of years.

That's quite a career.

So it was fun to talk to Jane.

But you know, it was funny because when that movie, Green and Gold came out and we had the director on the show.

Yeah.

Jane saw it before I did.

And she said, I want you to notice something in it.

And then we'll talk about it.

She had me on her show and I'm watching this movie looking for something that would jump out at me about it.

That bugged Jane and I'm kind of mad that she did that because I really didn't the whole movie I'm just looking for that something about the Packers Yeah, it was it was really strange and then when I went on there I didn't even relate to it at all They left a ladder out.

No, Wisconsin.

I would ever leave a ladder out.

I would

Well,

do you want a ladder?

No, I actually don't But I don't think my brother would leave a ladder.

He's that kind of guy

When you're looking in someone's second floor, always take your ladder with you when you go home.

That's the lesson.

You know, maybe I'll get a ladder just so I don't leave it outside.

Just prove

Jane's

point.

I think that's the least we could do because she's retiring.

So we did that.

We talked about this great story.

about a 10-year-old kid.

Do I still have that or did I throw that away?

That was such a great story.

Conrad found this on the Shepherd Express and I'm just going to read it again because it's so funny.

November 14th, a mom popped into an elementary school in Tennessee to deliver some paperwork leaving her 10-year-old son in the car outside.

She returned to the parking lot to find the car gone.

a TV station reported, and assumed it had been stolen with her son inside.

A witness said they had seen the car driving recklessly out of the parking lot, but when police checked the family home about a mile away, they found the car in the garage with the kid in the house with his dad.

He explained that he had an argument with his mom and decided to drive himself home.

Officers declined to press charges because he's too young and could not be held criminally responsible.

You know,

You probably want to keep a file on that kid though.

I've been mad at my mom even when I was a kid.

I would never have the guts To drive an automobile a mile

at that age.

Oh, definitely.

That's

a weird kind of kid

I can't even read I couldn't reach the pedals.

Yeah, I didn't know it to be a ten at two I'd be scared.

I'd hurt someone too like I'm not I got this who's what ten-year-old?

That's a confident ten-year-old, you know little strange

I mean, keep an eye on that kid.

Maybe he's just maybe he likes to drive.

Maybe you'll see him at NASCAR one day.

Yeah, and then I'll have a great story.

I do think it was interesting when I, you know, I do a lot of voice text.

You've seen some really crazy messages from me.

Yeah, definitely.

I was writing Jane's questions today and it said, is my pleasure to welcome Jane Matt in here.

I said Matt and air and, you know, voice text isn't going

to get

Matt and air.

So Jane Matt in here.

And I got one for Greg Vadney too.

I'm going to share one, Greg's here, because that made no sense either.

You know, I think, you know, there's sometimes like today, I got a message from you in it.

I think you didn't realize that it already had the whole message there, but it was, it was a duplicate.

Oh

yeah.

That happens sometimes when I hit send, the whole message re, like it sends two messages.

I'm like, wow.

He really wants to give his message across.

Did you get back to me?

No, probably not.

you didn't get back to me twice to even the score.

All right, let's remind our awesome listeners what our question of the night here is the night like question of the night once again, folks.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Here we go.

What is your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

One of the legend one of the true legends of Hollywood maybe in the conversation is one of the greatest actors ever top 10 I don't know.

Where do you rank them?

You're welcome to share that as well, but what is your favorite Jack Nicholson movie?

He just turned 88 like two or three days ago and I've been meaning to talk about Jack Nicholson on the show we have not so Monica in the 608 says here's Johnny the shining have you seen that?

You know actually I have never well all right, so I've seen it in a way of just a little bit

clips

clips But I saw it in ready player one because a big part of that movie and the book is that they go through the shining

Wait,

what do

you mean?

So the movie ready player one is like all like VR like it's like a video game movie kind of okay, and one part of it to get to this like Easter egg They have to go through the shining

It's like a video game.

It's

like an actual Paranormal shining episode.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

It was crazy It was I mean that if you haven't seen ready player one, that's a phenomenal movie.

I have

not seen it.

When is that when did that come out?

20 probably you're 20 like 15 around there 2016.