Comedy, Music, and Marinette Magic (Hour 3)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who considers a silver medal, a participation award, Peach Waba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

It is the Christmas Eve of Weekdays, and it's almost Christmas Eve.

Happy Thursday, everybody.

Hope you had a great day.

And we hope to elevate it a little even more here at Nightlight Tonight.

If you had a crummy day, that's okay too.

Hopefully we can have a few laughs together, some insightful conversations, and turn this day around.

Fun show tonight.

Great guests.

Another good question.

I think we got a good

holiday movie, Christmas movie question tonight and talk a little bit about re-gifting.

Is that okay?

A lot of people say it is, no.

And Conrad's got a story about waking up sweaty.

We'll get to that in just a moment.

That'll be fun.

Conrad Krieger is here tonight.

He has not taken a powder yet, so he's still in the other side of the class.

They're

still

time.

They're still time to

take powders.

Listen, you're lucky I don't take a powder, because if I take a powder, you're in big trouble, pal.

Yeah, I could do it.

What would you talk about?

Um, sports.

There's not enough

of that on

the radio You know what you and Mike Clemens and that Casca character.

I'll tell you sports guy something It's fun to have you as part of the show.

Yes Sports is entertainment.

We love sports.

Hey, we got a fun thing tomorrow night, too That's gonna be a lot of fun with Parker and Gray your pals from make the call

It's gonna be three Packer fans and two Bears fans.

Yes, because we are in Wisconsin We'll be the underdogs.

I'll say this, you know, we're we're really we like to look at the stat sheet.

Oh

Really?

We're Packer fans, but we're realistic about it, you know, we're not gonna be like Packer's gonna win okay by 50 points We're gonna be realistic.

We're

always I

mean to make the call we're realistic about it, but we have fun, you know

It's weird because sports opinion shows are almost more fun to me.

I like when a guy's willing to make a prediction.

I don't want to put Mike Clemens on the spot because he's a reporter.

And he's so good at what he does.

And he might do that once in a while.

Mike's a fun guy to get.

Jimmy as well.

They're both outstanding reporters.

Not that you guys aren't.

I'm sure you guys are too.

But make the call is basically just giving your opinions,

right?

Yeah, it is all opinions.

I mean, sometimes I just go in there and just...

talk about what I'm going to be thinking about for these games.

I

mean,

Gray has some spreadsheets.

Oh,

boy.

He has about three each week that he just stats and stuff.

Parker Knight is kind of going there, winging it

his own.

Oh, man.

OK.

Well, it'll be fun to talk stats.

And you Packer fans always have a ton of stats about the Bears and how long we've

not

had a quarterback and how you took the lead over the last 30 years.

The Bears had a commanding lead and now the Packers have a commanding lead.

That'll be tough too.

What are the Packers up by like eight, 10 games?

Something like that.

It's not insurmountable, but it's, from where they were 30 years ago to that, that's a huge swing, right?

Oh yeah.

I mean, you know, a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, I wasn't completely sold on Cale Williams.

I'm definitely getting there.

Yeah, he's interesting.

I mean, there was this rumor, I won't dominate with Bears Talk, but there is this rumor that Joe Burrow wants out of Cincinnati.

And in the Chicago, a couple of the Chicago bloggers said, should the Bears pursue Joe Burrow?

Is he more suited to Benji?

I don't know.

Because Burrow...

Wasn't he an MVP or an MVP candidate took his team to the Super Bowl either as rookie or second year or something like that?

I'll say this Joe Burrow with a competent offensive line is correct.

He's never had that.

No.

And that's a sin.

I mean, that guy is good.

And I was like, man, if you put him with Ben Johnson behind that line, I love Caleb.

He's fun.

He's exciting.

But half the time at the end of the game.

He's bailing them out cuz they either drop passes or he missed an open guys from the pocket earlier So I mean he's getting better.

He's only in his first year with Ben Johnson.

I do think he'll be he already is good I think he could be

really this is what I think Ben Johnson incredible coach.

Yeah, if Justin Fields had Ben Johnson I don't think they're just I think Justin Fields will still be the quarterback there

Justin Fields, that's interesting.

You say that

he still has not

had a really good coach

It's it's funny because everyone thought that Aaron Glenn was gonna be just as good as Ben Johnson

All real all right cuz he was the defensive coordinator in Detroit

and I mean The Jets just don't still don't have pieces that they need.

Yeah, the Bears got the pieces

That's part of that's a big

part of there's still a couple pieces away from I think Super Bowl contention, but

yeah Yeah, for sure and I you know now the rumor that I was looking at Miles Garrett last week Oh those guys that guy is a and a good dude like he's a monster on the field.

Yeah

But you hear he's miked up and he's talking with the other players like he was even cool to Caleb Williams and The rookie he was going against on line.

I love Miles Garrett He would be another Michael Parsons if a team could pry him away from

well, you know He has right now ever since he's trying to break the sack record this year Yeah, and he is the number written on both of his wristbands.

Oh, I

believe it's 15 or something like that

15 No

For the sack record.

He needs I know this because we just played them he I just did what you did.

I said we He is one sack away or one and a half sack away.

Yeah, so like the number not

one five

Yeah,

he is one point five.

No, like I'm saying like the full number of sacks, you know, I mean Not the number he needs to get to that number

Okay, the full number you

give well the record is 22.5.

Okay, so he has

he

is 21.5.

I forget

what note he has the written number.

Yeah on his wristband and that's scary for a quarterback

But here here's an interesting thing that we can tie to Wisconsin Brett Favre.

I remember when he just

kind of took a dive and gave Strayhand the record because they were buddies or he liked them or respected them or whatever.

And at the time, I thought that was one of the coolest things.

And I loved Farv's game.

I loved watching him play.

But now I don't know.

I feel kind of bad for the guys that had the record.

It's like, well, this is a gift wrap sack to Strayhand.

I kind of feel differently about it now.

I don't know if I forget who marks something, the guy who had the record.

Gaston.

Did you ever see that video of him pressing Brett Favre?

Maybe.

He went up to Brett Favre, said, hey, how's it going?

I want that sack back.

And Brett Favre's like, what?

And then you actually got mad.

He's like, I want that sack back.

Yeah.

Why did you take a dive?

And you wonder if Favre, having some distance from it, thinks, yeah, kind of like you're affecting history.

You're not just being a good guy.

I don't think Brett Favre has any remorse.

Probably not.

Yeah, I doubt it.

He ripped off a charity, probably doesn't.

But you know, TJ Watt, JJ Watt, couple Wisconsin dudes, they're right up there with the sack lead.

And yeah, it should be interesting.

But anyway, wow, we got off on a major.

But that's tomorrow night.

Folks, we'll have Bear Packer talk.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Tonight at 5.35,

We're going to talk about another very popular sport.

That's correct.

Sweeping the state, at least in Oshkosh, the world's snowshoe championships.

That's happening this weekend.

And is it the world?

Con?

I believe it's world snowshoe championships.

Our guest is Matt Doherty.

He is the director of North Country Sports, and he'll be here to talk about this really cool event in Oshkosh.

It's either the world or the regional snowshoe championships.

And I gotta be honest I've snowshoed it's exhausting like if you I'd almost rather try to run from Miles Garrett I lied It's snowshoeing is tough like and if they're having a race Anyway, we'll talk to Matt.

It'll be really fun to learn more about that.

It's Thursday, which also means it's the popcorn pick of the week Madison based singer songwriter and filmmaker James Runde.

He's been on the show before

He'll be here to make the popcorn pick of the week at 6.35.

And then in the seven o'clock hour, we've had this band on before called Radio for Pets.

They're a punk band.

Most of the members are from the Marinette Menominee area, which you've ever been to the Marinette Menominee area.

You don't go...

cool punk bands come from here, but they do.

Radio for Pets, I think some of them live in Green Bay now, but Sam is a member of Radio for Pets, and he's gonna be here tonight to talk about his new comedy troupe in the third hour.

And you know, if he brings a guitar, we'll let him play it.

We'll see what happens, but Sam's always fun.

He'll be here at 720, so there's your show.

Lots of fun tonight.

What is going on?

You know, let's do the question.

All right, it's the 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.

Questions.

Who is your favorite character in a Christmas movie?

What character is your favorite from a Christmas or holiday movie?

There are a few Hanukkah movies out there.

What was the Adam Sandler one eight crazy nights or something?

Yes, that's a pretty funny movie is funny So let us know if you have a holiday movie that you think is you have a favorite character from please share that with us eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic You can also text us on the app or you can drop us a stream comment if you're watching the radio on YouTube Facebook or X

We welcome all comments, and there are no right or wrong answers, folks.

There are only your answers.

Let's have some fun with this one.

I haven't even... It's a busy day.

Initially, by default, I'm gonna say Clark Griswold, because even though we've talked about that movie quite a bit this week, it's not maybe a great movie.

It's a funny movie.

It's like comfort food.

But frankly, like in the first vacation, it's Clark Griswold's story.

So I'm gonna say Clark.

I mean, that's a great

one.

Yeah, I'm guessing you might say the same thing because you

know it is but I'm gonna say it's two characters actually

okay

the sticky bandits the wet band it's the wet band is sorry You're

confusing that because the tar I think they are in the

well I put that on the social so that was wrong but

boy that's yeah, you know what

That's a good one to the wet bandits and I also like I want to say overall Jimmy Stewart and it's a wonderful life, but I'd have to probably say I'll stick with Clark, but the wet bandits that's a good one.

Do you remember their move after every time they hit a house?

Yeah, they turn the water on me.

Yeah But one of them did that the other one didn't like the Pesci didn't like that,

right?

He didn't like the wet bandits either.

But that's still the scene where he steps on the nail and you just see it coming.

And then you see Daniel Stern's face and it sinks in how much pain he's in.

It's just such a beautiful moment.

I'd say also the spider, the tarantula on his face.

The scream, the best movie scream ever.

The moments

before he screams is hilarious.

Like

this is

like, what's on my face?

Yeah, it's great.

I'm gonna have to give that a rewatch.

I haven't watched that in a couple of years.

So all right, let us know folks.

Who is your favorite character from a Christmas movie?

And we will make you part of the show.

That's the fun part.

What happened?

You woke up really sweaty today.

Tell me more about that that sounded intriguing.

Yeah, you know, I mean, I guess I've had problems with my heat before.

Like in the summer, I couldn't turn it off always.

So it was always kind of like there and it was hot in my apartment in the summer.

Until finally, I called the maintenance man and he's like,

Flip to switch anyways.

Well, it's on and I woke up sweating this morning It's like what's going on?

I have I haven't Usually it's not that warm when I wake up So I go to the thermostat and it's at 85 degrees in my apartment and it's my my heat set to like 64 or something like that So what's the deal?

I don't know so I'm like what's going on?

So what I did is I just opened all of my windows turned on a fan

in the winter.

You turn out a fan with the windows open, because you had to.

You would have sweated to death in December in Wisconsin.

And your parents would have had a tough time explaining that.

Yeah.

Hey, we've got news, sports and weather coming up at the bottom of the hour, folks.

I'm gonna tell my sweaty heat turning up story too.

After the break, I'll tell you what happened there.

And then we'll talk some re-gifting too.

And a giant Santa.

People put a huge Santa in their yard and the neighbors.

As you can imagine, had an issue with it.

But all that is coming up after this very short break.

It's a fun night.

Glad you're here.

Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

That's right.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight on a Thursday.

It is a popcorn pick of the week night here at Nightlight.

James Runde will make the pick tonight.

He is a Madison-based musician and filmmaker.

And tons of fun.

And in just a few minutes, we'll have the news coming up.

And then after that, we're going to have some...

World Snowshoe Championship Talk.

The whole event takes place in Oshkosh this weekend.

I believe more accurately, Brilliant, Wisconsin.

But we'll have Matt already here.

He will tell us all about the event.

It sounds like an absolute gas.

All right, so you were telling your story about, so you have no idea how your heat got up to 85 degrees last night.

No idea.

Because it wasn't that warm.

I mean, it was still warm.

It was like 78 in my apartment before I went to bed.

Well, that's warm too.

Yeah, it already was warm.

So I turned it down as like 64 So I assumed that you know when I woke up it'd be 70 ish.

Yeah,

but no one up which made no sense to me,

but the landlord You told him I assume and he's gonna look into it.

We're sure

I'm only there for another week.

So Okay, so

here's my hot story.

All right, I was at a party

one summer it was all right this is Chicago probably 1995 the warmest summer like 300 people died that summer because of the heat it was horrible very hot summer and my pal Joe Bardetti had a barbecue or a party and some kind of weird thing where he put a fish on the wall and you threw something at the fish it was this crazy theme party no idea

And so my friend Rich Brown, who's been on this show before and sworn a couple of times on the air, he, he and I thought it'd be really funny if we turned Joe's heat up.

So we turned his heat up to like 90 degrees or whatever.

I thought it's summer.

They probably have the heat off anyway.

So, and then we forgot about him.

We hung out at the party.

He was mostly outside anyway.

And I went home and I was telling my brother what I did.

And he goes, that's pretty stupid.

He goes, he could die of, boy, boy, boy, you throw some medical term at me.

And I'm like,

Are you serious?

He's like, yeah.

And I'm like, oh my God.

So I called Joe's apartment and I get his answering machine.

I go, Joe.

And then I realized, don't say your name because if he's already dead, you're going to get yourself.

So I thought, we got to go down there.

Let's go.

I got to go and I had had a couple drinks.

I didn't want to drive.

So my brother, Tim, got in the car with me two o'clock in the morning.

We drive back into, I lived on kind of the northwest side.

We drove down into Lincoln Park to Joe's apartment and I walk up to the window and the window is open slightly like three inches and I walk up and the heat is pouring out of his apartment.

Oh no.

So I'm banging on the door and I'm going to the window and I'm like, Joe, Joe, I'm yelling.

Finally, you know, he was pretty lit when he went to sleep but he gets out, he stumbles.

This shirt was just like drenched in sweat.

And he comes to the door and I go, I am really sorry.

I played a joke on you and I turned your heat way up, but I didn't want you to die.

So we drove back down, open your windows, turn on your AC, whatever.

And he didn't have AC, but he just looked and put his arm around.

He goes, oh, you're a pal.

He goes back to bed.

We drove back home.

But he's like, it's the drunk mentality.

Oh, Pete's a great guy.

Now he almost killed me.

He drove back, but he almost killed me.

So.

Great friend, great friend.

Don't mess around with the heat.

Because I didn't think in the summer, you'd think they'd turn it off, but I don't know.

Yeah.

Crazy stuff, Conrad.

So here's the thing.

Have you ever re-gifted, Con?

Actually, I don't think I

have.

I mean, I think it's

considered... Maybe,

well, I guess with white elephant gifts, I've probably done that for, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I didn't use the product in a year.

So I'm like, you might as well just...

Well, today is national re-gifting day.

And I think it's become more, and re-gifting, not to be confused with giving someone a used gift is just you don't really take it out of the package, you just wrap it again and you give it to them like in old school when Will Ferrell re-wrapped the toaster and gave it back to Luke Wilson.

And he goes, actually, I gave this to you, Frank, for your wedding.

So I don't want you to keep it.

And Will Ferrell's like, he goes, okay, I will.

He goes, I hope you like it.

I love it.

He just re-gifted it.

So apparently the phrase re-gifting was coined on Seinfeld in 1995.

I thought it was around before that, to be honest.

But Elaine re-gifted a label maker for Tim Wadley, played by Brian Cranston.

But now they're saying a new poll found that most Americans 61% are okay.

somewhat okay with re-gifting.

22% are solidly behind re-gifting.

And this is interesting because giving something used, re-gifts rank lower than used gifts.

64% think second-hand gifts are okay.

And I'm one of them.

I don't really care.

I'm at a point where I don't want more stuff anyway.

The world has too much stuff that just goes into huge garbage piles.

I'm okay with that.

What if they re-gift experiences?

Yeah, cuz that's

my thing

If there was a way you could do that I'd be totally fine with it.

Let's recreate an experience Okay, yeah, let's do it.

Honey, let's pretend it's our first date.

Go back to the bed.

Come on.

Let's go.

It's a re-gift.

It's a re-experience Use socks.

So obviously you don't want to use socks, but like a book or something

Yeah,

take a book or

yeah, if you've read it already, you're like, well, I'm not gonna read it again.

So The

pages aren't missing.

Give me a give me a book a viva la book

That would just mean I have to start reading again.

Okay, so we've got our question of the night, folks, is who was your favorite character from a Christmas movie?

I said Clark Griswold.

Conrad said the wet bandits from Home Alone.

Well, he said the sticky bandits.

We corrected that and moved on.

It's the wet bandits.

So let us know 855-752-484-2855-75CIVIC.

We're going to talk World Snowshoe Championship coming up after the news, which is next.

You got news, sports and weather, some snowshoe talk.

Then it's the popcorn pick of the week.

We are off to a great start and I am so glad you're here, folks.

We are coming right back.

We're coming right back, right?

I think so.

We both can't take a powder.

Well during five minutes see we could we can take a short powder We'll do that.

Okay, and then Sam work gula coming up in hour number three to talk about his new comedy troops So we got snowshoeing movies comedy covering all the bases.

It's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio

network

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Our question of the night is, who is your favorite character from a Christmas or holiday movie?

Let us know and we will make you part of the show.

That's what we like to do here.

Always more fun when you guys participate.

We have a judo champ coming on the show tomorrow.

I mean, that's pretty cool.

Here's what I think is cool.

He's coming on over the stream though, because if he's here in person, it could get ugly.

Look, if you took me down, what will we do?

I'd cheer him up.

Would you have my back?

No, I'd cheer him up.

You're going to be taking a long powder, buddy.

All right, we are going to turn our attention here to a really cool event happening in the Oshkosh area this weekend.

It's my pleasure to welcome to Nightlight for the first time.

He's the director of North Country Sports and here to discuss this fantastic event, the World Snowshoe Championships.

Matt Doherty, welcome to Nightlight.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, our pleasure.

How are you tonight, Matt?

We're doing great.

Do you think the interview is going well so far?

I give it a solid B plus so far.

Oh, come on.

Aim higher than that.

We're going to crush this thing.

It's good to have you.

Before we start, I have to ask, do you have a favorite character from a Christmas movie?

Boy, it's really hard.

I have young kids at home, so it's hard to say that there's much better than elf right now.

Yeah, the kids love elf.

That's a great choice.

All right, fantastic.

Okay, so for those who aren't familiar, Matt, give us a little background on the snowshoe championships.

You know, and if you don't mind, maybe a little history about snowshoeing.

I think we all know what it is, but how did it come to be and how did it become a competition?

Yeah.

So I think I'll start there like snowshoeing.

It's actually one of the older sports that exists in the whole world.

And it was one of its biggest things is that social clubs would get together and race on snowshoes, especially 1800s through the early 1900s.

So through Canada and Europe, social clubs were based around snowshoeing.

So they would host races and other events with snowshoes.

So it's been around for a really long time and it's now morphed into like a modern sport.

It's really, it's running.

with these fancy racing snowshoes attached to your feet on groomed and ungroomed snow throughout the world.

Wow.

So it's basically just a race.

You're running as best you can with snowshoes on.

Yeah, it's just it's just a running race.

That sounds really exhausting I'm just being honest when I was a kid my grandpa had a pair of at our cottage in Three Lakes He had a pair of the old-style snow shoes.

They almost look like tennis rackets or like with wicker or something Yeah, and I know recently well about ten years ago with my kids.

I rented snow shoes and they've come a long way

And my grandpa's were purely decorative.

I don't think he ever did any snowshoeing.

But I imagine now they're like state of the art.

Are they more metal and like cleats almost?

Yeah, you can get them made out of just about anything now.

There's carbon fiber ones.

There's metal ones.

There's ones made out of like a soft plastic.

So there's a wide variety of racing snowshoes available.

But people do use like a more traditional snowshoe that you could just pick up.

Oh, do we lose Matt?

We might have lost Matt.

We'll see if we can get Matt back.

This event is at the Arians Nordic Center, and it starts today, actually.

It looks like it starts today and goes through Sunday.

Technically, it's in Brilliant, Wisconsin on Round Lake Road, and it is free for guests.

You can participate.

You do have to register.

I don't know when we get Matt back.

We'll find out if he can still register.

But it's from 6 a.m.

to 9 p.m.

So this is interesting.

I have half a mind to show up and see how I do.

I wouldn't bet any money on good ol' Pete.

You know, you're taking a lot

of shots at me tonight, Conrad.

Maybe I'll have the judo champ come in here tomorrow night and take you down.

What do you think about that?

Are you going to cheer him on?

No, because I'm a human being.

I don't like confrontation between people.

I'm a lover.

I'm a bridge builder.

So we'll try to get Matt back out.

Was he stream yard or phone?

Yeah.

Oh, man.

I feel like I want to ground you.

Like I want to like send you to your room.

Maybe I should send you to the break room, but then I got no one.

Well

then, yeah, I don't know what you're, what

are you going to do with breaks?

See, that's the rough.

I don't like that.

So I feel very at a serious disadvantage.

But Conrad needs an attitude adjustment tonight, folks.

If you have suggestions, feel free to weigh in on the text line.

We heard from Chris Casper, who says his favorite, and we're going to get a lot of these.

Buddy the Elf.

It's his favorite Christmas movie character.

That's a great one, Chris.

And that's what Matt just said too.

I think Matt, maybe Matt took a powder.

Oh, Conrad, Conrad's moving into action.

Monica from Mount Horriban, the 608 says, Will Ferrell plays his character Buddy in Elf, flawlessly, but so does Alistair Sim as Scrooge in the 1951 version.

That version has always been my favorite.

Okay, that's not a remake.

She's talking about Scrooge.

Okay, Monica.

I don't know if I've ever seen that one.

Obviously, I've seen a Christmas Carol and Scrooge is a great story.

And I'm not surprised someone said Scrooge.

That's a good answer, too.

Brett in Brown Deer in the 920 says, I gotta say my favorite character in a Christmas movie is John McClain in Die Hard.

I thought we were gonna get a Die Hard one, too.

John McClain, that's a great answer.

And technically...

Or not technically, most people consider Die Hard at Christmas movie.

I could go either way on that one.

But I'll accept that.

Thank you, Brett.

Good answer.

So we're trying to get our guest Matt Doherty back on the blower or on the stream.

He got cut off.

We were talking about World Snowshoe Championship, which is this weekend.

It's a multi-day event in Oshkosh.

And I have to say, I'm very curious.

Because snowshoeing sounds very tough.

It's not like skiing where you just kind of slide.

This sounds like a ton of work.

I found this earlier, Khan.

I don't know if you've ever seen this, but do you know how a lot of people in Japan celebrate Christmas?

By going to KFC.

You've heard this.

Oh yeah.

How

about

that?

What do you make of that?

I've heard that it tastes better in

other

places.

In Japan.

because

they

don't use so many other stuff, additives.

It's like healthy fried chicken.

I don't know about healthy, but protein, you know.

I

believe we got Matt back.

Do we have Matt?

Oh, great.

I'm here.

Hey, Matt, there you are.

Good to have you back, buddy.

Thanks.

So let me ask you this.

Are you a, are you a snowshoe or yourself?

I would assume you are.

I was in my youth up through college.

Okay.

And yeah.

But do you still own a pair?

I still own several pairs of racing snow shoes

Wow, how did you do so you obviously erased?

How did you fare?

I was a fairly competitive at the higher end of racing won a lot of races North American championships and stuff This is all the way back in the 90s.

So I'm an older man

You got you got a young voice dude.

You do not sound old.

You sound like you could get out there and tear it up

I appreciate that.

Very kind.

How did this event come to be, Matt?

Like you said, a competitive snowshoeing is kind of old, but how did this event in Oshkosh, the world championships, what claim can we make to that here in Wisconsin?

Cause I think this is a perfect place for it, to be honest with you.

Yeah.

So the world's snowshoe championships annual event and it travels all around the world.

Last world championships were in Spain, they're held in Italy.

So as a sports council, we bid on the event and looked for the best places to bring it in the United States.

And one of our connections is with the Aaron's Nordic Center.

And we thought it's just the perfect fit.

I mean, Wisconsin is a great place to bring a group of people to have a fun party, race, snow, shoes, and enjoy winter.

So where are you based out of?

We're based out of Saranac Lake, New York, which is just outside of Lake Placid, which hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Oh, yeah.

Very cool.

So what is, in terms of crowds, Matt, do people go and cheer people on?

Absolutely, yeah.

There'll be crowds.

It's a fun place to come watch.

Food trucks there, so.

So where can people find out more information about this, Matt?

Aaron's Nordic.com.

Okay.

Very cool.

And it says it's free for guests.

but it does require participation or I'm sorry, registration.

Where is that all on the website as well if someone wanted to race

and is

it too late for people to race?

Yeah, it's still on the website for registration and you can definitely register and Sunday is a Santa ski race and Santa snowshoe race.

So if you want to come and just have a fun race at your own pace, you can jump in that race.

My guest is Matt Doherty.

He is the director of North Country Sports, and he's here to discuss this fantastic event, the World Snowshoe Championship, which is taking place in Brilliant, Wisconsin, this weekend.

Matt, tell people what the first prize is.

That's pretty impressive.

Yeah, so there's a combined prize purse this weekend for there's the US Championships, the World and an Open Championships, that's over $16,000.

That's impressive and then it says there are prizes for top finishers across all races like if I enter this weekend and I surprise people What can I expect to walk away with?

There's different words for different races a medal from the top three all the top three and the overall winners get trophies as well as Check if you're one of the top three overall.

Okay, and is there like a party or anything afterwards?

Yeah

There's a banquet tomorrow night and fireworks on Saturday night at 8.30.

Oh, that's fun.

Have you been to Wisconsin before,

Matt?

Yeah, I've been to Wisconsin many

times.

Okay.

How do we stack up as far as winter sports go?

Oh, it's Wisconsin, the great state for winter sports.

And it's one of the states that I think it's got incredibly high hospitality and you guys are ready to have fun.

That sounds great.

Well, I love this event.

It sounds great.

I wish you luck with it.

And be safe out there to people.

Don't pull a hammy.

Matt, before I let you go, I ask a lot of guests this.

We talk about movies and TV a lot here.

Is there something you're binge watching that you could recommend?

Binge watching right now.

There's that new Apple TV series is Down Cemetery Road.

Can't get enough of it.

Oh, that's so great to hear that because I started the pilot and I got about 20 minutes in and I got distracted and I haven't gone back to it yet.

How far into it are you?

I

think I'm on episode six.

Okay.

Yeah, heats up after the first episode gets through the pilot and really good.

Outstanding.

Great to know.

Matt, good luck with everything this weekend and stay safe out there.

All right, thank you so much.

You got it.

All right, that's Matt Doherty.

If you're interested in this event, folks, participating or just watching, it sounds like a lot of fun.

It's in Brilliant, Wisconsin this weekend.

It starts today, actually.

I should have asked him, actually, if there was an opening ceremony or something, and it goes through the weekend.

So it sounds like a lot of fun, and it's free.

You just have to register, and there's a $16,000.

First prize that's a lot of saw bucks.

That's a lot of saw bucks and that's a lot of new snowshoes Conrad I think you reinvest in yourself if you win that

so we got a text from Brett in a brown deer Mm-hmm, and he said I've had KFC in in in Thailand No, I had trouble with that

the chicken is

exact exactly the same but the sides are weird no potatoes So they have a quiche like thing and some other stuff.

I've never seen before

Wow, okay, so

you're trying to KFC quiche.

No

I mean, look, their potatoes aren't great, but I don't know, if I go to KFC, I want the slaw.

They have great coleslaw, and I gotta have potatoes with my chicken.

When I was younger, I didn't like much from KFC.

I just like the skin of the chicken.

The healthy part of the fried or the original recipe You're probably still working that off All right, this is peach wabbit and I like folks we're coming right back and When we come back, what should we do con we got funny clips?

Yeah, we got some some stuff to talk about

We got some stuff to talk about and I'm going to tell everybody what is opening at the box office this weekend because there are a ton of films out there.

We'll do all that next.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media

Radio Network.

I get so lost sometimes.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight, a Thursday night edition.

We make the popcorn pick of the week and give you a movie recommendation at 635 tonight with James Runde, Madison based filmmaker and musician.

We've got news, sports and weather coming up in just a few minutes.

And our question of the night is, who is your favorite character from a Christmas movie?

I think Buddy the Elf is in the driver's seat so far.

Brett from Brownier also, he commented on the how Kentucky Fried Chicken is so big in Japan around Christmas.

That's their meal of choice, or at least for some people.

Brett says, no slaw and no corn.

I could do without the corn, but I gotta have slaw with that chicken.

I think the slaw is the best thing KFC has.

I don't know if you noticed about me, but I think slaw is disgusting.

Do you really?

Mm-hmm.

It's just lettuce and stuff like that chopped up.

I don't like the sauce.

The mayo?

I guess it's that mayo.

It's probably... It's like a weird tanginess to it.

I just don't like it.

You're not a fan of flavor country?

I don't like gravy or I don't like... Gravy, I'm with you.

Gravy or coleslaw is no go for me.

All right, fair enough.

So Brett has had these delicacies.

So there you go.

So all right, we found this great clip.

Jim Gaffigan, very funny comedian.

We were talking about re-gifting earlier and how 61%, it is National Re-Gifting Day.

61% of people are okay with re-gifting.

64% are okay with secondhand gifts.

I'm okay with both of them.

Don't spend the money if you don't have to.

And if you're just gonna...

Dump something somewhere give it to someone else absolutely, but we found this clip of Jim Gaffigan who tells It's just funny it's about getting a bathrobe right all right.

Let's hear.

Let's hear Jim Gaffigan

I got a robe for Christmas.

I remember looking at the robe thinking wow.

I hope I get the flu so I can wear it Who has the time to enjoy your robe?

What are we about to shoot a porno?

It's a weird piece of clothing.

How'd we even come up with the robe with some guy?

Hey, I got an idea.

How about we make a coat out of a towel?

And there could be a belt that goes around, and you could dunk the belt in the toilet.

It could be a toilet belt.

The indoor jacket, the robe.

You ever see someone outside in a robe?

They look like they escaped from the loony bin.

Uh, just getting the paper.

Before the monsters do, right?

The only time I wear a robe is when I'm staying in a fancy hotel, you know, that robe in the closet.

I just feel uncomfortable when room service comes and I'm in a robe.

Like I'm trying to seduce the room service guy.

Hello, welcome to my room.

I'm in my robe and here's the bed I rented.

Is there anything I could do to be more creepy?

I find it funny because this year I've gotten bath robes in the past and I agree with Jim I don't I'm not a robe guy but I kind of think I could be now like we have a my shower is downstairs and it's kind of our house is kind of open there's like a lot of windows and I don't like to keep the blinds closed so it's like well you know I can wrap a towel around myself

or just chance it, hope nobody, hope the postman's not walking by.

But I thought a robe, you know, maybe I'll get a robe.

So I actually asked my wife this year for a robe.

And he's right, they can be terry cloth and kind of whatever, but there's some nice ones out there.

They can be nice and warm.

Yeah, that's what I'm

saying.

Not my forte.

No, you just keep

your apartment at 85 degrees.

I get

out

of the shower and I'm already

dry.

Yeah, so I think I'm starting to kind of get down with a robe, but that's such a great joke, because I've never been a robe guy.

I don't know many guys that are.

My dad will wear a bathrobe, but he's from a different generation.

Does Steve wear robes?

No, he doesn't.

What

about a

toga?

Does your dad wear a toga around the...

You know, occasionally.

I'm in the mood for a toga tonight.

I used to wear a robe when I was younger, but it was nice and warm.

Well, that's kind of why I grew it though.

I think

that's kind of why too It's like at night if I could just put that out like I turn on our gas fireplace almost every night.

I'm afraid to get the bill It's not that bad actually ever but I feel like I should like sort of pace myself with the fireplace and So maybe your robe becoming handy.

I don't

know, you know, it's It's a nice gift.

That's a if you don't have anything else.

You don't have anything

else exactly So I would not want a robe re-gifted

I don't want someone else's robe.

That's where I draw the line.

I do not want a used robe, but I will take a re-gifted robe that has not been worn.

So this other thing that happened in Florida, these neighbors, somebody put up a giant Santa.

And you guys, I would love to know what you hear, what you think about this too, because if your neighbor puts up a giant Santa or tons of crap in their yard, how do you feel about that?

This sparked a holiday debate in the town of Severance, Colorado.

the homeowners association and that's where they get you.

These homeowners associations are like crazy.

You can't do anything.

I remember we looked at a house in California and you had to wheel your basketball hoop behind the garage every night and you could pull it out in the street and plays like a roundabout or not a roundabout but a cul-de-sac.

But at the end of the day you had to wheel it back.

You could not put a basketball hoop over your garage and to me that's America.

You put a hoop over the garage.

That's where a hoop belongs, but they don't want that because they all have to look perfect Anyway, these people saved up their money to put a huge Santa up there and People wanted it down.

I don't know how I feel about that because I kind of sound like a hypocrite like I want my basketball hoop But a big Santa blowing around.

I don't know See any of that stuff over here apartment

con.

No, not really I'm in like

the way back of the apartments too, so I'm not in the frontage road, you know?

Okay.

There's like eight or nine different apartment buildings, so I'm on the way back.

So not much, but I've seen a fair share of big Santas, and like, why not?

Who cares?

It's their

yard.

You're way in the back though.

That's why you don't need a robe, too.

All right, folks, news, sports, and weather is next.

Lil' Irv on the stream says, Jack and the Family Man, played by Nicholas Cage and Tay Leone.

And he says, tailioni is hot.

I remember that movie.

That's like a guy can go back and change time or something or he, it's sort of like a Scrooge thing.

It's a great film.

It's a good movie.

Yeah,

I like it too.

And our pal Terry Barr, who is awesome, says you guys even like bath robes.

We'll get into that too after the news.

I'll address Terry's questions.

Peach Wabba and Nightlight News is next on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

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

Welcome back.

Tonight.

Great light.

Great to have you here, folks, on this Thursday night as we kick off the second act here.

Conrad Krieger is working the board tonight.

Conrad, how you doing?

I'm doing good.

Yeah.

Excited about hour number two?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Popcorn pick, always.

Popcorn pick, baby.

James Runde will be here at 6.35 to make the popcorn pick of the week where we give you a movie

recommendation by way of our guests.

James is a Madison based filmmaker and musician, very talented guy.

I've known him for several years now and I'm very anxious to see what he picks actually.

So if you missed the first hour, we talked about giant Santa Clauses.

We talked about Conrad's heat being way too hot in his apartment.

He doesn't know how it happened.

85 degrees,

huh?

85 degrees when he woke up, 64 when he went to bed, somethings.

A foot.

I think you got to look into that.

You might want to get one of those ring cameras.

What would freak you out the most if you got one of those cameras to record while you were sleeping?

And it's just

like... You saw something.

Like your landlord just walked in in a bathrobe.

Probably.

Turned it all the way up.

This counter's no good.

And then he just stood over you in his bathrobe and watched you sleep.

I think I would do something about that.

You take legal action,

right?

Yeah, probably.

What if you put in the lease agreement, I just didn't read it.

I can stand over you in

a robe.

It's fully within its rights.

With no question.

Checkmate, that's what I would say to that.

So we talked to Matt Doherty, first hour as well, about a really cool event happening in Oshkosh, more accurately, brilliant Wisconsin this weekend.

The world champion.

The World Snowshoe Championships are in brilliant this weekend.

So there's all kinds of information out there.

If you are so inclined, if you want to race or watch, it's going to be cold on Sunday, I think, right?

But Saturday should be okay.

Saturday looks pretty

warm.

Yeah.

34 degrees

warm.

Get that smushy snow under your snowshoes.

And then in hour number three, Sam Waragula will be here.

He is one of the members of Radio for Pets.

We've had them on the show previously and they just rock.

They are such a fun band.

These guys, most of them from Marinette Menominee, living in Green Bay now.

This is what I love about Sam.

He's such a good guy.

And I said, hey, because we had a fallout for tonight.

I said, hey, I need somebody.

What are you doing, Sam?

And he said, well, come down.

I got a new comedy troupe I want to talk about.

I was like,

Great.

I said, you don't have to drive all the way to Green Bay, though.

You can just come out over the stream of the phone.

It's like an hour drive.

And he goes, what else do I have to do?

So apparently there are a few holes in the radio for pets schedule.

So if you want to book radio for pets, check them out there.

Great.

But Sam will be here in hour number three.

Very excited to have him here in the studio.

I think as time kind of ran, we refresh people's memories about the 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.

Who's your favorite character from a Christmas or holiday movie?

Buddy the elf is strongly in the driver's seat tonight.

We haven't had a ton of responses.

I thought we would get more.

I thought people would go nuts for this question.

We've got some social media responses you can read as well.

That's true.

We'll get to those.

I want to address, so let us know folks, 855-752-4842-8557-5CIVIC.

You can also text us on the app or drop us a stream comment if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or X. That is where Terry Barr said, you guys even like bathrobes.

We also talked about bathrobes at the end of the first hour too.

And we heard a funny Jim Gaffigan clip.

You hear all of this, folks, if you want to go to civicmedia.us, all the Nightlight episodes are catalogued as podcasts.

And that might be a good question of the night, bathrobes, because I would really, truly be curious as to how many people wore bathrobes.

Yeah, we should get a, I'll get a pen

and paper out and tally it.

We'll do a poll, maybe.

Can we do that kind of thing?

Is that crazy?

All right, we'll do that.

And if you do want more information on the Snowshoe World Snowshoe Championships, folks, erinsnordic.com, a-r-i-e-n, s-n-o-r-d-i-c.com.

Check it out.

Okay, so I saw this.

This is kind of funny, do you?

Are you into astrology and stuff, Conrad?

Like the signs?

Yeah, do you ever read your horoscope?

No.

Okay.

I don't really either, but there are a lot of birthdays today, the celebrity birthdays, and it got me thinking.

I think if you're born in December, at this time of year, you're a Sagittarius.

And it was this great thing I saw on, I think it was USA Today.

It says someone matched the vibes of Christmas songs and zodiac signs.

Like a Leo is all I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey.

Supposedly your sign has a Christmas Carol that suits you.

So what is your sign?

Oh What's June?

This dude, I don't know I'm not What is it?

What is your birthday in June?

What sign is?

June

just tell me your birthday dude Gemini.

All right.

You're just

your Gemini

The Little Drummer Boy is your song by Frank Sinatra, though.

So you got a good crooner.