Weather and Holiday Stress(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

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And now a guy who loves to watch true crime, but only if it's shoplifting, Peach Waba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm sitting here awash in papers.

How's everybody doing?

I hope you guys are doing well.

Wherever you're joining us from in this day tonight, it's so great to have you.

Christmas is approaching.

We've got some Christmas talk tonight.

We got great guests.

A fun question.

It's gonna be a really, it's gonna be an extravagant night here tonight at Nightlight with Peach Waba.

Conrad Krieger is on the other side of the glass working the board tonight.

And how's it going?

I mean, it's going well.

Yeah, it was nice and nice and warm today.

Wasn't it?

All right.

I didn't go out Not really an outside guy.

Well, you know, I worked up a sweat in the gym and then after I got out I was like, well, actually it's Pretty nice and I was wearing all you know, my winter get up

And I had

the window rolled down for a little bit just because I was so hot from the gym And it was like 40 Yeah, that's insanity.

It felt it felt nice, you know.

Yeah, no, I'm with you.

I think

I'm excited.

It looks like it's going to be a white Christmas.

I don't think it's going to be that cold out.

At least, I mean, that could change tomorrow.

Yes

it could.

And it's interesting because we will talk to our first guest tonight.

I'm really excited to have my first guest of the night tonight.

in the form of one Mace Michaels.

He is our Civic Media Weatherman and does such a great job.

You hear him probably at the top and the bottom of the hour keeping you informed on weather and we'll talk to Mace about what kind of winter we can have or we're going to have this year.

I keep hearing cold and snowy but I'm excited to hear from the expert.

So Mace will be here at 535.

We'll ask him if it will be a white Christmas, maybe seek some confirmation.

And then we've got Rob Thomas here in hour number two to talk movies.

I saw a great movie last night, and I'm so excited to talk about it.

I don't know if Rob has seen it, but I'll tell you guys about it in just a few minutes.

It's an outstanding film.

Probably will be an Oscar contention.

At least that's what I read.

And after seeing it, I can pretty much verify that it was absolutely...

A great watch.

And then we're going to talk some Christmas in Hayward in hour number three with James Nets.

Am I saying his last name right?

Yeah.

Looks like one of those names where it's kind of a no-brainer, but it could be different.

Just like the basketball team.

The Nets.

The Nets.

But his is with a Z. So it's not like Nets.

It's Netsz.

Netsz.

Just to be, you know, completely...

just to cover all the bases.

So great guests and lots to talk about as Christmas is fast approaching, ladies and gentlemen.

I hope you're getting your shopping done and getting everything.

We have an interesting question tonight too that we're going to put out to you guys because Christmas as great as it is and the holidays in general, whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, whatever, you know, they can be pretty stressful.

So we'll talk a little bit about that and

All kinds of stuff.

We got Bears Packers again this weekend.

I have to say, this is so, this is so Schwabba.

Okay, so we had an outstanding Thanksgiving.

Like the kids come home, they both have great news.

They're both doing well.

We had, I don't even remember what happened.

I think the whole family got together.

Everybody had a blast.

And now Christmas is right around the corner.

I think I told you earlier in the week, we're gonna go see Frank's Christmas show.

Love the Myers Theater.

Also Frank and his whole troupe do an amazing job.

And my daughter calls today, she's got the flu.

So I'm like, well, do I go get her tonight?

Cause I felt bad.

You know, you want your child to be at school and sick.

That's terrible.

But she's not a freshman.

It's like her third year.

And for selfish reasons, I'm going, well, do I really want the flu?

There's there's worse places you could be than a dorm room.

Come on kiddo

Yeah, no,

but she she more or less offered and by Saturday she should be out of the woods in terms of being contagious because I'm like You know, I can't miss war.

I don't like to if I couldn't do this show I Think I missed two shows last year because I was sick.

I did not get the flu shot Well, I learned my lesson this year.

I got the flu shot.

Do you get the flu shot?

No,

I haven't I haven't in over 10 years.

See, you're young.

And I never there were years that I didn't get it either.

But it's so I have never had a reaction to it.

It's like, I'm just going to get it because last year it was the one year I didn't get it and I got the damn flu.

And it was horrible.

So I think I missed two shows.

I think we put a rerun on.

I'm just trying to avoid that.

So yeah,

we don't want

the flu going around the house.

I don't do it because I

Every time I get it I get sick instantly.

I think that's a myth.

No, I actually it happens.

You know what vaccine gives you horrible symptoms is shingles and I don't think you'll have to get that for a while.

Yeah, I think I got one when I was a baby or something.

The

shingles shot?

Maybe that's not one of them.

Wow.

I had one like when I was 40 and I thought I was going to die.

And I'm like, if actual shingles is worse than this, and supposedly it is, because they last like 12 hours, it's brutal.

But apparently you do not want shingles.

It's even worse.

So I will get, I will get that again.

But I had a flu shot with that.

And I thought that was the flu vaccine that was making me, that was giving me the flu because the symptoms are similar.

But it was shingles because everybody that gets the shingles shot is like, yeah, it's pretty bad.

But

Or at least those that react to it some

day,

but

they say

you don't want shame.

It's not as bad as

shingles.

I just have to get over to my fear of needles and then maybe I'll do it again.

Oh,

is that

the reason?

It's that and I feel like I get sick every time I take it.

So

I don't

I used to like have

this attitude where like I'm gonna I'm not scared of needles I'm gonna watch the needle go into my arm and I could it was no big deal and now as I get older I'm the biggest wuss.

I don't want to see that

Every time I've had to do something with the shots or getting my blood drawn, I look the furthest away I can.

There's no way I'm looking at someone putting something in my vein right now.

It's different though.

When

you get a shot, when they draw blood from right here, that's

a

more sensitive area.

I can't

watch

that.

But they're going to jab at it.

I'm a mountain of muscle, dude.

If they put a needle in my shoulder, I barely feel it.

So I'll tell you this right now.

Yeah, I You know since I moved to Green Bay, I got I had to go to get a new Doctor, you know,

yeah,

and I've been putting off getting my blood drawn for almost almost a year and a half now

Blood for what?

Oh just to get a basic blood test.

Yeah

blood test and I every time it gets close.

I'm like, oh No, I can't do it

Wow

Yeah, this time it was I actually had to come into the studio.

So I was like, well, I can't come in today

Smiling about it,

but just don't look it still feels weird because they're in such a weird place

and sometimes I

can't find the vein And

you

feel like a you know a taboo doll or whatever one of the voodoo doll, you know

Well last time I did get my blood drawn.

I didn't have any sugar or anything after it and I tried going upstairs And I almost had it I was fainted on those stairs

Oh wow, that's terrible.

That's another reason I don't do it.

Just get it done, dude.

All right, we've got this.

And then I'll tell you another thing I'm not gonna do.

This scares me more than getting my blood taken was a friend of mine on the way down today.

We were talking about a newscaster who he's friends with who I remember.

And she is like one of these type A, live life to the fullest extreme.

She has jumped out of an airplane 2,000.

times no thanks it's like you're trying to have an accident like you do it once because I we may have talked about this before when I was like 21 that's kind of macho and I thought oh I have to jump I have to do a skydive once that lasted for about three weeks and I'm like I'm never I don't know I don't know if there was like an accident the news or something or the shoot didn't open but I know I would get the guy who

is distracted and going through a divorce or something or his wife's cheating on him and he forgets to pull a latch or pack the shoot or something.

I know that would be me.

I am not doing that.

And all these people say, uh, YOLO.

Of course I like skydiving.

YOLO baby.

And it's like, you know, that means you only live once.

But all the more reason not to skydive.

If I, if I know I'm going to be reincarnated, sure, let's go do it.

But one life.

No,

why

would I but two thousand dude, that's like You're trying to die.

I Get that there's a rush.

Yeah get that it probably feels great, but no way

That's I mean I like riding roller coasters because of the thrill that I get.

Yeah, that's

a better alternative

Yeah, I mean it's still dangerous.

Is it?

Yeah, well, you know derail

Just to like to scream an eagle at Great America or at Six Flags.

That's like a wooden one

That is the I've been I've done that ride so many times and every time I feel like my back hurts after my back is just Oh, it's in pain, but I'm like it was worth it.

Yeah, you're lucky if you get out of there with a Hey, let's get to 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 the most stressful thing about the holidays?

So I found this thing.

It's all about stress and what people stress out the most over, but the holidays as fun as they are can be very stressful.

So that's our question tonight, folks.

Unload.

Get this off your chest.

What is your, what stresses you out the most about the holidays?

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And if you're there, give us a like or a follow if you're so inclined, but let us know what stresses you out the most around the holidays.

Kind of got an answer?

Shipping and handling.

Explain that.

Well, you know, it's that time of year where you're coming around late gift shopping a little bit, kind of.

Leaving it to the last minute.

I believe today's the last day that it's like you could get your gift before Christmas.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I believe it's today, but if you're like me, you left one gift to the last moment and you remembered it today.

Just one.

And then you look on the website that you got a link for and it says, all right, it's $40 for this.

But the shipping is international.

So I guess how much that was 40 bucks

And it's not even gonna get there like there's

no

guarantee Exactly paying as much as the actual cost of the item that is nuts.

So I'm like, what's So, you know, I had to go to the Amazon and fire away on there and hopefully get it before Christmas

That is brutal.

I was hoping I mean it is my fault still but it's still what it costed

No matter what time I looked at it, $38 for shipping.

That's so weird because, and that's your brother's father-in-law.

That's a lot of coin to drop on a distant relative.

Like maybe I do that if it's my actual father-in-law.

I'm not trying to.

No, he's a great

guy.

I'm sure he's

a great guy.

That doesn't mean you're going to empty your pockets.

I'm just kidding.

Yeah, that's a lot.

Yeah, so I mean it.

I mean, the other gifts that I got before, like it's like, oh, you have to reach this amount of money to get free shipping.

You know, like some of those websites.

Oh,

like, well, if you have Prime.

Well, no, no, it was, I didn't buy any gifts besides that one on Amazon this year.

So I went to this one website and it was like, yeah, all right, so if you do $60, you

get free

shipping.

But the item I bought was $50.

So, well.

Either I get another item worse than the shipping cost right there.

I think you know what's gonna cheer you up when we come back after the break and You're gonna hear a story.

I'm gonna tell you about a guy who tried to escape in a cop car But he was nude that's coming up next folks.

We'll read some of your text It's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Night Light.

Great to have you here, folks.

Mace Michaels is coming up after news, weather, and sports at the bottom of the hour.

Mace will be here at 5.35.

Very excited to talk to him.

This will be his first time on the show.

Rob Thomas coming up on hour two to talk movies.

And James Nets will be here.

Photographer James Nets talking about Hayward.

What's the event called?

Hayward Christmas?

It's just Christmas and Hayward.

They

have so many different events just in Hayward.

And it's so picturesque.

It's so beautiful there.

So we'll talk about that with James and hour number three.

I saw this movie has been mentioned a lot as an Oscar contender.

It's called Train Dreams.

I hate that it's on Netflix because I do feel like Netflix does not want people to go to theaters based on what I've read.

And they put a movie in a theater for about a week and then they put it.

You know, on Netflix, so you can watch it in your living room.

Which is how I watch this.

Very good movie.

Train Dreams, Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones.

I don't even want to say too much, because I don't want to get... You just should watch it.

It's just a nice movie.

It's a drama.

There's not any heavy action or anything like that.

And...

We'll talk I don't know that Rob Thomas who will be here in our number two has seen it yet, but I am gonna ask him about it I really really like the story.

It's just about a guy who built the railroads and he was an orphan and It's about his life and the people he meets building railroads some of the tragedies he sees he marries a wife and they have a daughter and

That's all I want to say.

It's just great.

I cannot recommend this movie enough though It's just a straight through drama and it's only an hour and 45 minutes long which It's not a short movie, but it's not some of these epic movies or where they tell the story of a person's entire life can be three hours and you don't need that this film does like all the important parts and talks about his friendships and he experiences tragedy and all that kind of stuff and Then I just love the way it ended to it was so good and just a great drama.

So I highly recommend

train dreams on Netflix.

Very solid film.

If you're looking for something to watch in your living room.

So yeah, I saw this con.

This was in Denver.

The police in Commerce City had an eventful weekend like usual, but this time there was one arrest that stood out from the others.

The Commerce City Police Department shared some of the most significant incidents that happened over the weekend, and they posted this on YouTube.

There were 300 calls for like drunken...

driving and that kind of stuff.

But there was one guy who tried to sneak into the grounds of the police station and he was trying to steal a patrol car.

He took a police car, he got it, took it out, they had a very short chase, they pulled him over and discovered he had no clothes on.

What?

There's a lot that's wrong with this story.

Like stealing, first of all, stealing a car, wrong.

Stealing a cop car.

Stupid moron with no clothes on even dumber Like You know and then he's covering himself like they pulled him over and he covers up it's like I Just thought he wanted to be naked like all of a sudden you get shy you just stole a police car in the nude I Love that phrase in the nude there was a comic you should do a joke every and every phrase with in the nude I was taking the garbage all this night

in the nude.

But I just thought this was so crazy.

And they booked him with for third degree motor theft, motor vehicle theft, second degree criminal trespass and driving without a license.

There's nothing, there's no mention here of indecent exposure, him not wearing any clothes.

I

think they were like, all right, this was enough.

I think.

Well,

yeah, I mean, being naked is it's inappropriate, I suppose, but it's not like you're hurting anybody, maybe hurting our eyes.

That's

just sounds like the

He wasn't no mentions of like he was drunk or anything

Not that I see her and you know what strange like I expect this kind of behavior in Wisconsin.

We like to drink

Well, I mean, so you said it was in Denver, right?

It was outside of Denver Commerce City.

Oh, okay.

Well, you know our city police department could have been a

packer could have been a packers fan

Just left over you know ticked off.

He did it for Micah

to try to rob a Colorado cop car.

I don't know.

I love stories like that though.

Mike Siegel who's been on this show several times always says there's nothing funnier than a naked guy.

Cause something went wrong.

Like there are perverts and that's not cool.

But like, typically I saw this real the other night on Instagram and this soccer player hit this crazy goal and he ran up and he jumped on the fence and his teammates run over and they're like, you know,

grab an atom and they pull his shorts down.

So he's like on a fence with everybody staring right at him and his shorts go down like.

Oh no.

It's always something that goes horribly wrong.

So there you go.

Our question of the night folks is what stresses you out the most about the holidays?

And I'm going to steal an answer.

I've never, I don't think I've ever done this willingly a nightlight before, but Jenny Brand, our colleague here at Civic Media, who does a great job.

I was thinking this over and I read her response and I was like, yes, that's it.

And she said the unnecessary expectations we put on ourselves and the occasion.

And that's a great answer because, you know, you want the holidays to be great.

We look forward to it.

It's like, oh my God, it's going to be great.

So-and-so is coming to town.

We're going to do this.

And something always goes wrong.

It never seems to go as planned.

And I think a big part of trying to get through the holidays is accept that and just go, ah, whatever.

The bar is low.

Let's just have fun.

And we used to, when we traveled a lot, it was like when we were coming back to Wisconsin, it was like, oh, it's going to be snowy and beautiful and the grandparents and the cousins.

And then while it doesn't snow, it rains and then the cousins can't come because they got sick and then whatever.

So I thought that was a great answer from our colleague, Jenny Brandt, and I'm going to steal that.

And Daniel Wheeler also said, agree, you can't manage others, but you can manage your own expectations.

Very well said.

What about you, Conn?

Oh, you already said the shipping and handling.

Is it more the shipping or the handling?

Both.

The handling, too.

Like, you know, you want to make sure that present gets to your house intact.

Yeah.

No, that's one I would not have thought about either.

Well done.

All right.

So let us know what your most stressful time of the holidays is or what stresses you out the most.

And I've also got top 10 life decisions here.

People stress over the most.

We can get into that a little later too.

But hey, we are talking weather with our guy, Mace Michaels, that is coming up right after news, weather and sports right here on Civic Media.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is

Nightlight.

Rob Thomas will be here in hour number two.

We're going to talk movies.

A very big movie opens this week in Avatar Fire and Ash.

The third installment in that series from James Cameron.

And

the reviews are

decent, but it's supposed to be, and no surprise, an absolute visual spectacle.

So we'll talk to Rob about that.

I doubt he's seen it yet, but you never know.

and talking Christmas and Hayward in hour number three with photographer James Nets.

But right now, I'm very excited to welcome our first guest of the night.

I've been listening to this guy's voice for the last two years and he does such a great job reporting on weather here at Civic Media.

And I finally have him on the show, very excited to welcome our pal and outstanding weatherman, Mace Michaels.

Hey, buddy, how are you?

Hey there.

Thanks.

I appreciate the kind words.

Well, you know, it's the least I got to butter you up, Mace, right?

Because I'm going to bombard you with questions about winter.

I will try to answer them the best of my ability.

No, it's great to have you here.

And how did you get such a cool name?

Like, did you say I've got to be a weatherman with a name like this?

Or did you change it for the weather?

It's a great name.

Oh, I was five years old when I got into weather and broadcasting.

I mean, they were, I know it's sad.

I'm like, I love weather.

I'm from Minnesota, central Minnesota, up in the Brainerd Lakes area, west of Duluth and north of Minneapolis.

Sure.

And just

intrigued by why the weather made changes, you know, why why did we see such crazy seasons and you'd go from thunderstorms to, you know, snow sometimes in a month or two.

So that's what really got me into it.

But I was always was bitten by the radio bug too.

And then of course, with meteorology, that led me into TV.

Wow,

my

name, though, I didn't

even

answer that question.

That's you'll you'll love this GM in Wausau.

That was my first TV job.

Mace is my middle name.

Roger's my first name.

I've always gone by Mace.

Roger, dad's name, grandfather's name, but I've always been called Mace.

OK.

They didn't know what to use for my last name.

They wanted to change it.

So about a half hour before my first TV weathercast, they're like, well, you're going to be Michaels.

Are you serious?

Do you know how the broadcast world works?

Oh my gosh, that's hilarious.

So that's not your real last name.

No, no twig is my real last name which you can you know easily anybody can find that but I've been I've used mace Michaels all the way through most of my broadcast career Most stations on the TV side really liked it So that's just what I've kept using and you know now it's back as I come back around the radio from which I did in You know high school and college here.

I am using mace Michaels continuing on.

Oh, I love that

That's gross because that's why I asked you I thought that's way too cool of a name

Like I probably should have changed my name.

I had a couple monikers, like when I was doing radio in college, like, you know, Tim Dawson or something like, but Pete Schwab was like, it's kind of a mouthful to say.

One of our listeners says you have to wet your lips to say the last name properly.

So it's not an ideal name for broadcasting, but Mace Michaels, man, you are, that's a name you can set your watch by.

I love it.

Well, I had achieved meteorologists that didn't like it.

So they made me use Mace Rogers.

That was in Michigan.

But he thought I was like,

trying to be this big persona.

And I'm like, no, if you knew me, dude, I am not a persona.

That is not me.

We have that in common, Mace, because I'm a junior.

and it's Thomas Peter and they call me Pete and it is I don't know if this has been an issue for you but you know I used to be a stand-up comic I would get paid as Pete Schwabba or I'd forget and pay my taxes as Pete Schwabba and like well wait a minute it's Thomas then I'd have to get a waiver and I'd have to talk to an attorney and get it was it's created a lot of problems that you

Wouldn't think would be an issue, but I probably should have just done what I'm guessing you do and kept the same name and told people to write the checkup to Thomas Peter.

I don't

know.

Other than the doctor's office and you know when you're paying taxes

I'm using Mace Michaels, because that's what everybody, you know, when you're out and seeing somebody or everybody knows me as Mace anyway.

So the Michael Scott part just comes along with

it.

I love it.

Are you, how do you do around the holidays, Mace?

Are you, is there anything you're stressing about?

We do a question here every night and tonight's is what is the most stressful part about the holidays?

Are you pretty chill?

You seem pretty chill when you're giving your weather forecasts anyway, but are you, is there anything that stresses you out about the holidays?

I'm overall a pretty chill guy, but it not really stresses me out, but I am not a materialistic guy.

So finding presence for people is really tough for me.

So if there's something that stress or annoys me is that because I just don't know what to get anybody.

And I don't know what I want myself.

So it just doesn't go hand in hand.

Boy, that's a great answer.

I'm a terrible gift getter too.

But I'm in awe when I like my brothers does great with gifts.

My sister, like they get these gifts.

I'm like,

Oh, yeah.

It seems so simple.

Why didn't I think of that?

But I'm apparently incapable.

So I'm kind of right there with you.

That's

my mom.

She can figure out a gift to get for everybody.

And she's the one in the room who loves to talk to everybody.

And I'm just usually the guy who, I don't know what to get you.

And I'm going to go sneak off in the corner somewhere.

Here's a gift card.

Yes.

So let's talk a little bit about, if you don't mind, Mace, the weather over the next week and to get us through the holidays.

It was a little bit of a warmer day today, but are you enjoying this weather or does this seem like an Indian summer after last weekend?

You know, when I stepped out yesterday, I'm in Minneapolis, so I'm not far from you.

Just a little ways up the road.

Yeah.

It was weird for me to think.

I'm like, oh, it feels so much warmer.

And then I'm like, it's, you know, barely 30 degrees.

So, you know, that 30 degrees turnaround feels like a huge warm-up after we were, you know, having a tough time getting above zero like you guys this past weekend.

So, yeah, I like the little bit of a warm-up.

I don't need the winter blast so early.

Okay,

same here because I feel like a lot of weather people seem like like you talked about when you were five years old weather fascinated you.

It fascinates me too, but I've never felt the need to like chase it or like I'm perfectly happy watching a thunderstorm from the comfort of my own home or my porch.

But do you like winter?

Are you a winter

guy?

No, I'm more of a summer guy.

I mean, I don't

Dislike winter, as I get older, it gets harder to deal with.

But yeah, no, I'm more of a summer guy, but I don't, you know, completely like, oh my God, winter, what am I going to do the next four months?

Nah, I'm in weather.

I can't complain about it.

It's there.

It's part of the deal.

Very good.

Mace Michaels is my guest.

He does weather for civic media here.

It does a great job.

You

hear him at the

top and bottom of the hour.

You're one of these professional guys turning it all back around and doing the recap thing.

Wow.

I've been trained

well.

I'm still finding my way, Mace.

It was either this meteorology school or do nails, and I picked radio, so I'm doing the best I can here.

I love it.

No, no, no.

You got a great show.

I enjoy it.

Oh, thank you, sir.

I appreciate that.

Are you a... I saw this recently.

I think it was on Ranker, maybe, or something, but it said, the chances of a white Christmas have dramatically changed.

Have you found that?

I feel like...

You know, I could always count on a white Christmas when I went to Marinette, Wisconsin or in Northeast Wisconsin, but it does seem like we just don't get as much snow.

Is that kind of consistent with what your research shows?

You know, I'm not sure if it matches up for as much snow.

I mean, the last few years obviously have been less.

The thing that's kind of stuck out to me, and I'm far from a bigger climatological type guy.

I'm a day-to-day type forecaster.

That's what I've

been doing forever in my broadcast career.

That's what I'm best at.

Just thinking back to when I was younger now, here's the young guy, but when I'm older now, that's when I was like when I was a kid.

But it seems like the beginning of the winter and falls are much milder.

And then the late winter, early spring has at least here in Minnesota, trended much, much colder.

And I don't know if that's affecting Christmas, like you say, Christmas at snow.

But it just seems like we've been, I didn't think of a couple of Christmas ago, we had rain

on Christmas

in the 40s.

So I don't know if that's a global warming thing, that it's taking the poles longer to freeze, that Siberian cold air to really kick up.

And then once it's here, it stays a little longer than it normally would.

That's kind of the hypothesis I put together in my

head.

I don't know if there's any bearing behind it.

I'd have to do more research and read on it.

But it just kind of seems like that's been the trend of the last two, three decades almost.

That's interesting.

And that's the time I'm ready.

Like you feel like you kind of almost escaped winter.

Like, oh, it's been pretty warm.

Then all of a sudden now there's two really cold weeks in March and you're just ready to like drive off a bridge or something.

Those a few years ago, February was our coldest month of the winter.

And you're like, why is February the cold one?

It should be, you know, mid January, late December, but not the case the last couple of years.

It seems to trend colder later.

So overall mace like this winter.

Um, I can't tell, like I read this thing about fewer white Christmases and a warming trend.

But do you think this winter will be, and I'm doing this purely for selfish reasons, because if it's really cold, I want to brace myself.

Or if you're going to tell me, well, it should be a little warmer, not much snow.

I want to feel good about it.

So do you have overall thoughts, whether it's from Minneapolis across Wisconsin to what this winter will be like?

Kind of just a thumbnail sketch, if you would.

I you know looking at and again that is not my area expertise but just kind of following what the models have shown and how our pattern has shifted over the last few months.

Of course the national weather service they do a fantastic job the climate prediction center of long range forecast but looking at least through the rest of this month.

And there's a model that, you know, it doesn't nail down the day-to-day stuff, but it really gives you the trends of how things look over the next month.

We definitely are trending on a very active pattern, so maybe better chances for snow, but it also, it's not trending to as many warm days like these.

We're near normal or colder than normal as I even plunge into, I'm looking at the model right now in the mid to mid January.

It's got some real shots of Arctic air.

So if that trend continues, you know, and with the La Nina, the colder waters in the Pacific Ocean, that tends to favor us to be having a colder and snowier winter.

Well, it's starting off that way, and that may just continue.

The Climate Prediction Center doesn't expect that to slow down until sometime into the spring months.

That's got to get you excited, Conrad.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Thanks

a

lot.

Thanks a lot, Mace.

I was wondering if he was there.

You know, I see him here in the chat, but he didn't say anything, you know?

Yeah, he's kind of like during the interviews.

He chimes in once in a while,

but

usually

I have to call

on him.

He raises his hand like he's in school.

I take the

powders.

He takes the powder.

So, Mace, what like?

What is something like obviously tornadoes and hurricanes are very dangerous?

Is there a type of weather that kind of freaks you out a little bit as a meteorologist, like a really bad thunderstorm or something?

Like what kind of gets you excited?

Excited wise.

I mean, I enjoy thunderstorms.

I mean, it's just meteorology thing.

But if there's a type of weather that, you know, I wouldn't say scares me, but if it was headed to my house,

You know, I'd be, we had a thread of some very large hail here and thankfully it diminished a couple of years ago.

I knew, you know, they were, it was putting out softballs and baseballs about 10 miles north of me and the vector of it was coming this way.

And thankfully it was much smaller and really the storm dissipated.

It was, you know, one in the morning too.

So it was even, you know, a little scarier from that aspect.

And

then I lived in Florida for 10 years.

My wife and I and, you know, hurricane season, I don't miss it.

I don't want to deal with it.

The tropics, I understand it, respect it.

It was fun to forecast it, but I don't want to live in it again because you just have to worry about your house and home and your family and your friends all the time when the storm's headed your way.

So I don't miss that at all.

Wow.

Mace Michaels is here, folks.

We're gonna do a very short break and then we'll have Mace for a few more minutes and then we'll let him get on with his evening.

We're gonna talk to Mace a little bit more about weather and maybe I'll ask him if he's a Vikings fan or what he's binge watching.

We'll have some, we'll let you off the hook, Mace, a little bit, not just keep this weather related.

We'll try to give you some fun too and not talk

so

much shop with you.

But it's great to have you here.

Our question of the night, folks, is what stresses you out the most about the holidays?

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Great to have you with me wherever you're joining us from around the state or maybe in Minnesota like our current guest, Mace Michaels is.

News, sports and weather is just around the corner folks coming up at the top of the hour.

We've got a few more minutes with our new pal, Mace Michaels here.

He does a great job here at Civic Media covering weather.

Mace, what, have you ever chased

a storm?

I have with that crazy guy Corey Hartman if you're familiar with him.

I was just gonna

give him a shout out because I saw you had severe studios on your LinkedIn maybe or something and I got addicted to the videos and it's Corey's voice chasing these storms and I was wondering if you ever had done that with him or Jordan Hall who we've had on the show.

I have, you know, we never really ended up, you know, I'm usually in a studio somewhere when most of the weather is going on.

But when it happens, yeah, I've been lucky enough to go out a few times.

Never seen a tornado, but plenty of wall clouds and

shelf clouds and fun things like that.

That intrigues me.

And, you know, I know where I'm safe and I'm not safe.

So, you know, I never worry about what I'm doing during that type of chasing.

That's pretty cool.

You also, you mentioned TV.

How is it?

Is it different doing the weather?

It is, I'm sure.

But like TV of all these fun graphics you can use, does it kind of make your job easier?

Or is it a little more difficult because of all the bells and whistles?

Well, just like here in radio, we're ad-libbing.

We're just talking about whatever we want to talk about, and people are always surprised that, yes, the news people are reading off scripts, and so is sports, and then there's ad-lib in between.

But weather's all ad-lib, and that's because I got the maps behind me, so I kind of set my script with the maps.

Even though I'm not writing anything down and I, you know, put together my story, just like a book, what I want to tell.

So when I'm doing TV stuff, which I'm on three stations over here in Minneapolis.

So if you're in Western Wisconsin, you probably can't escape me.

And I apologize

for

that already.

Did you ever see the movie Groundhog Day and

Bill Murray's?

Oh, sure.

Does that make you laugh?

Oh, it makes me laugh.

And it sometimes makes me scratch my head because there are weather patterns that get like that.

Oh, that's so funny.

So you're in Minnesota.

Are you a Vikings fan?

Do you follow the NFL at all?

I do, but I don't intently.

What I do follow closely is MLB.

I'm actually a meteorologist with the Minnesota Twins.

I saw that.

That's my cool job.

That's really cool.

What does that mean?

I didn't even realize that baseball teams had employed meteorologists.

Would you just inform them on weather for the game?

We are the only one, actually, that has a meteorologist on site.

A lot used consultant meteorologists on the phone or something.

But I'm on site.

There's two of us split up that big home schedule, the 80 games, and I'm here for them and letting everybody know when it's going to rain or not, you know, baseball and water don't mix

really.

So you get to watch the game, though, too.

Oh, well, on a sunny 70 degree night, there's nothing better than watching a baseball game semi behind home plate.

It's beautiful.

I spoiled and I'm blessed to have that job.

It's awesome.

One more question for you about weather and it also pertains to movies.

What did you think of the movies, the twister movies?

Like you kind of watch those and go, whatever happened or oh, this is pretty fun.

You'll laugh at me.

The first one I saw and of course I loved it.

I have still yet to see the second one.

Oh, okay.

I

would

imagine it's more realistic just because the CGI is so much better.

And I thought so.

I've seen both and I thought the second one, I don't know how realistic it is or not.

I'm just a movie fan, but the effects were pretty amazing.

Yeah, oh, that's what I've heard it and seen the clips of it.

The effects looked amazing.

I just wasn't as excited for the storyline Yeah, I was hoping there'd be more throwbacks to the first movie and and they you know, no Helen Hunt I was disappointed

right and Bill Paxton sadly got arrested souls no

longer with us, which

is a bummer but Mace this has been fun.

Thank you before we let you go I just have to ask you when you're done at the end of the day and you kick your meteorologist feet up and you're not

Looking at weather.

Are you binge watching anything?

What do you like to watch on color

television?

I'm not binge watching as much because we have three Yorkies in a kitty.

So they keep me busy and I am playing or collapsing one or the other.

Okay.

No TV, no movies.

It's on if they're, you know, my wife will put stuff on, but I usually am not the one picking it as much.

I mean, if I'm watching something on TV, it sports.

Nice.

That's outstanding.

Thank you so much for your time tonight, Mace.

It's been great getting to know you, and I hope we can have you on more often.

Keep doing a great job.

Love listening to your forecasts.

Thank you, and happy to come back anytime.

I appreciate the invite.

Thanks.

You got

it.

Have a great night.

All right.

That is Mace Michaels.

That was fun.

It was worth the wait.

Two years

gone

round.

I've been listening to Mace do the

weather, and we finally got him on the show.

He's a busy guy.

Yeah.

Actually, we didn't really ask because I didn't know.

Sometimes you know when you start out you're like I was the same way with Clemens like he's so busy I don't want to burn

it

like in your mace every twice an hour I'm like he doesn't have time to come on this little song and dance show

I mean do you think he does?

Do you think he'd kill him to give us a couple twins tickets?

I was hoping for him to say yeah Pete pretty much Wisconsin is gonna be sunny and 70 moving forward

I wish.

I'll take some baseball tickets, yeah.

Yes.

You can probably throw you

a couple

if you're willing to take the journey.

Drive across the state.

That's not an easy drive.

No, no, especially in the winter, too.

Exactly.

I did see this.

The white, the, where is that?

Oh, yeah.

The best city for Christmas, Conrad.

Do you know what it is?

Oh, I guess.

I do like how I printed the colors on that one for you.

Which one was that?

Oh, the map.

the one with all the numbers on it with the cities.

I did that just for you.

Did you really?

Oh

yeah.

That's a lot of color print right there.

Sharpen the crayon next time because you went outside

the

line.

I'm sorry.

No, this is really good.

Yeah, because this one, look at this little black and white one.

It's like a thumbnail.

Yeah,

that's not fun.

All

right, we'll talk about that after we're gonna do the news and then we're gonna come back.

I'm gonna tell you what the best city for Christmas is.

You might be surprised, but maybe you won't.

And you might be kind of ticked off.

So we'll see.

And we'll read some more of your texts.

Our question of the night is, what stresses you out the most about the holidays?

And I'm totally plagiarizing tonight.

Jenny Brand, I agree with her expectations, but I think I agree with Maze too, is buying gifts for people.

I'm really not good at it.

You know, just go with the old, you gotta do socks.

Everyone needs some socks.

Nothing

says I put no thought into this like socks or a gift card because socks for a guy That's what we just get and I'm fine.

You know, I love getting socks now.

I do too when I was younger.

I hated it But now I'm like this will be great.

I'm totally with you because we talked about this last night I'm never gonna go out and buy socks so give them to me But I mean in terms of me buying gifts for others.

I just want to be better at it So all right open to your thoughts folks.

Tell me how I can improve

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

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who doesn't believe in sex after marriage, Peach Wabba.

Welcome back.

Oh yeah.

We are jamming here on a Wednesday night ladies and gentlemen a Wednesday night version of nightlight Hope you're having a great day, and if you're not please join us for some fun here, and we'll try to Try to send you off to bed in a good mood We're off the air at eight o'clock though Conrad people don't go to bed Some do o'clock My wife does sometimes she's a kindergarten teacher, so I think if She could probably go to bed at four o'clock in the afternoon if she if she could sometimes because it's pretty exhausting

What time do you usually crash?

Depends on the day, I feel like.

But usually probably around one.

One

a.m.

Maybe earlier, 12.30 to one.

Sometimes

there's those nights where I just can't fall asleep though, you know.

I'm trying to get to bed earlier, but it's tough.

Because I leave here, I drive.

Sometimes I go to the gym and I'm wide awake.

Then I have a double cappuccino or on midnight.

Well, that's probably...

why you're staying up.

I'm doing just

fine,

buddy.

So lots of fun here tonight.

We had Mace Michaels on in hour number one, if you missed that.

He was a lot of fun.

He does such a great job doing weather here at Civic Media, along with Brittany Merleau, Corey Hartman.

Corey's kind of a badass when it comes to weather.

His company is called Severe Studios.

That's more or less saying we look head.

eye to eye with weather.

And I saw a video of him.

He was kind of narrating and chasing the storm.

It was just, it's like, I don't ever want to chase a storm, but I wish I wanted to chase a storm.

Does that make sense?

You want to do the thing, but like you're scared.

It's not even like, here's the thing, like with fear.

Yeah, I don't want to do stuff that might kill me.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, me too.

Like you want to take a poke at me?

I'll fight you.

I'm walking away from that.

I'm not walking away from a tornado.

So there is a fear element for sure.

I don't know.

Would you do that?

Well, I mean, you know, sometimes when you're chasing a tornado, you know, there's, you could find love.

So if you're in the movies, yeah.

So that's why I'm always going to chase the tornado.

I already found love.

You should go on like a young Christian singles tornado venture.

I think I could find

Kenny

Sweeney.

Sidney

Sweeney, is

that

her name?

Sidney Sweeney, yeah.

You know, I'm confused because Amanda Zyford, they look like twins almost.

They're in that new movie, what's it called?

The Housemaid.

That looks creepy.

Really, really creepy.

It is creepy.

It's an erotic thriller, I think is what they're calling

it.

Anything with Sidney.

Erotic.

It has

to be erotic if it's

Sidney Sweeney.

Like the boxing one, it was erotic

sports.

She was a nun in a movie and somehow that became erotic.

That's not right.

So there you go.

But Mace was here coming up at 6.35.

There's Rob on at 6.35 or 6.20.

I believe 6.35.

6.35,

I think so

too.

6.35.

We've got Rob and we are keeping him for two hours because I miss Rob.

We're keeping him past.

Rob will be here at 6.35.

We're gonna talk about some big movie openings, some holiday films.

I don't think he's seen Avatar yet, but I will say that like the reviews are in, there's like 180 reviews in, it's probably not gonna get any more, or they'll trickle in, it's at 70%.

But that movie could stink, and the special effects alone are gonna get it a decent review, and it's James Cameron.

So I'm not, my bar is always low with these movies when I go in.

And I usually leave going, that was fun.

Not thinking it was a cinematic masterpiece, but it was a fun movie.

I

really enjoyed the last one.

I went

with a big group of my friends.

Well, that was one of your college shows.

Easier to go with a group.

This time I'm going by myself.

Why?

So you

can focus more?

I think ever since I started living by myself, going to the movies by yourself is so much better to

me

because...

You don't know what the other people around you're gonna do and then they could pull their phone

out

and be like, you know But there's no talking anyways in the movie

right

and I don't want to talk no I'm

totally with

you so I like I mean it's cool actually to you know discuss it after it though I don't

have an outlet after to talk about it see that's the thing if you go with someone my favorite thing to do is

Like my wife likes to eat before the movie.

I like to go to the movie and then eat, cause then you can discuss the movie.

You're not like in a hurry trying to rush through dinner.

We've been there so many times telling the waitress, Hey, we're trying to make a movie.

She could not care less.

And then folks in hour number three, James Nets will be here.

Nets with a Z. He'll be here.

He's a photographer.

We're going to ask James all about Christmas and Heyward.

If you could.

I've been through Hayward a few times.

It is a very picturesque place.

And I'm very excited to talk about Christmas there because that's one of those like, you know, you go through it, especially at Christmas time, it feels like they should be shooting a movie there.

Like it's one of those kind of places.

So, we'll talk about that.

Right now, I think we should reintroduce, Con, our night-like question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.