Cheese, Comedy, and Card Games: A Wisconsin New Year (Hour 3)

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And now a man barely six feet tall, but a mountain of muscle.

Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back.

This is Night Light.

It is great to have you here, folks.

We are jamming through a Monday night sort of a holiday season version of Night Light.

The week between Christmas and New Year's.

Always fun.

Conrad has Stranger Things to watch coming up on the big release, New Year's Eve.

That should be fun.

Um, and lots going on.

We've got, uh, tomorrow night, we're gonna have Mike Clemens on.

He's gonna talk, uh, some Packers and, uh, the, the Green Bay Injury Reservers.

The Green Bay Injury Reservers.

I don't think that's gonna stick, but it is apropos.

And they'll go back to the Packers next

year.

But for now, that's pretty impressive.

They made the playoffs though, cause their injuries kind of started before they clinched anything, I would say.

Yeah.

We had

to like, I mean, Tucker Kraft was huge.

when that happens.

Oh,

that's right.

I mean, that just tore our offense.

Took

our

offense off course, like, fully.

Yeah, they called me.

Did they?

Hey, Schwabs.

They said we need a mountain

of muscle.

We need a mountain of muscle to play tight end.

Um,

So, we've had a lot of fun here tonight, folks.

So far, Lisa Hale was here.

She is our news bureau chief here in northeast Wisconsin and does great work here at Civic Media.

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Do you stream a podcast?

You do, right?

It's not just TV you can

stream.

Do you stream?

I guess

kind of.

You give it a

listen.

You click play.

Give it a listen.

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All of them.

We're

all over the place.

So check out our number one.

We ranked our top five favorite sitcoms.

Comedian Kristen Lighty was here last hour.

You can see her at the Skyline Comedy Cafe, New Year's Eve, a great show with John Caparulo.

And she's got a lot of other fun dates coming up.

So check out her website, Kristen Lighty.

I think it's just KristenLighty.com.

But if you give a Google, you'll have all the information.

at your fingertips.

It's the Information Superhighway Conrad.

I don't know if you know that about the internet.

You can find out almost anything there.

He's really?

Yeah.

I need to get on it.

Listen, it's not a fad.

It's not going anywhere.

So we did that.

And coming up in just a couple of minutes, I'll have comedian Des Mulroney on.

You can see Des at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington.

He's part of a great show there.

And that's a great venue.

We've had several comics from Memories on.

Des will be here in just a couple of minutes.

And then

Comedy and Cheese Conrad.

That's our third hour at 7.35.

Donna Hahn will be here from Plymouth, Wisconsin.

That's the cheese capital of Wisconsin.

And if you're the cheese capital in a state known for cheese, you're not messing around.

That is where the king cheese is.

Yeah.

But they drop like an 80 pound or 100 pound block of cheese to count down the new year.

So I think that'll be really cool.

Don't stand under it.

It could be dangerous.

Yes.

Don't try to catch it.

Don't try to catch the cheese.

But we'll talk to Donna at 7.35.

And I think it's time right now, Con.

We reset our 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.

All right, so yesterday was a national card playing day.

So our question today is, what is your favorite card game?

I said Texas Hold'em.

Did you give us yours now?

Mine is Hearts.

Oh, that's, you know what?

I don't know how

to play Hearts.

I'll teach you some time.

Yeah,

there's more than three rules though.

So

I'll bring my listening a game honest to God There's always that guy at poker you got like seven people and he's always the guy who was brought there by someone else who goes have you guys ever played this and then he goes into a 15 minute x1 a and it's like why did why is this guy here?

You know those guys aren't fun to play with you know who is fun to play with in a poker in a poker game me Kim Kardashian

You mean Alura from Allsfair.

Kim Kardashian plays Amin cards.

It's for poker, I think it's her game.

So let us know, folks, 855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

And we will read your text on the radio.

We'd love to know your favorite card game.

And you can also drop us a comment through the app, Civic Media app, very easy to use.

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or X, drop us a stream comment, and we will read that on the radio as well.

I think we have a phone call.

Let's go to that call, Kam, before we bring Desmond.

Yeah, it's Greg from Walkershow.

Hey, Greg, how are you?

Good.

How are you, Pete?

Doing very

well.

Good to hear from you.

Happy holidays.

Thank

you, sir.

You

have good holidays?

You know what I am.

I am.

Good time with family and friends and...

Had a good time with the hundred and four year old grandmother.

Oh, yeah, still living in her own house, but she's she's doing awesome.

So and we went out to eat because a hundred and four grandma doesn't cook anymore.

But anyway,

come on, grandma.

I know, I know.

I mean, she cooks for herself.

But, you know, anyway, yeah, have to tell you about this card game that I played.

at a uh church christmas party okay and um uh it's called flip seven and it requires a special uh deck of cards have you played this Pete?

I

haven't I've never even heard of it no

okay you have to all the cards are numbered and they're numbered like one through twelve

okay

and the goal of the game is to not get the same number repeated so you can draw as many cards and you have to get up to 200

So you you count your points throughout the the turns you get and then You can't you can't get repeated cards.

So it's it's really cool now Yeah, I don't have braille cards for this.

I do have a braille uno deck that I

like

so

Yeah, yeah, so I like playing UNO as well, but also play UNO online through our website called RS Games, which is a games website for people who are totally blind or visually impaired, but yeah.

That is

so great, Greg.

I didn't know they had that when it came to UNO, but what a cool thing to have for people with site issues.

That's fantastic.

Yeah, yeah, so I just wanted to call in them and I hope you guys are having a good Christmas or or New Year's and I love that civic media is doing something for New Year's Eve and my alma mater Carol University is sponsoring it on the walkie-shot station here, so that's Greg are the Milwaukee station as always

yeah 100.3 exactly our art

Yeah, not brand new, but still new station out of Milwaukee there.

But Greg, you

are

awesome.

Thank you for listening, my friend, and have a great New Year's.

You're welcome, Pete.

You and Conrad have a great New Year's too.

Don't drink too much eggnog, okay?

No way.

Okay.

All right.

Thanks,

Greg.

It's Greg

from

Milwaukee Shaw.

That actually sounds like a really fun game.

The problem is I'm going to forget it by the next commercial break.

And I don't really feel like I have a handle on it, but it did sound fun.

All right.

Thank you, Greg.

And moving on here, it is my pleasure, folks, to welcome to Nightlight.

He's been here before.

He's a very funny stand-up comedian and a very talented actor.

And he joins us now.

Is he on the phone of the stream, Conn?

We're in the stream.

Oh, we got Des over the stream.

Des Mulrooney joins us.

Hey, buddy.

How are you?

How you doing, Pete?

It's been a minute, man.

Good to see you

again.

Yeah, good to see you too.

How have you been?

You were here probably last summer, maybe?

Or spring?

Or I tried to get you, but your mom was having some health issues.

So I hope that turned out

OK.

Oh, that's right.

That's right.

Yeah, she's doing better now.

Good.

That's right.

Yeah, she had an open heart surgery, and everything went well, so she's recovering.

Very good now, but things are going way better now.

Good to hear.

Thanks for asking, man.

Absolutely.

I'm very happy to hear that.

I want to say it was funny because I wanted to have you on because I think you were doing shows at the time with your dad, T.P.

Mulroney, who is a very good comedian and guy I looked up to and watched you stand up when I started in the 90s.

How did those shows go?

That's right.

Yeah, that was at the Kenosha comedy club and we did a That was the weekend after Father's Day weekend.

So we did a father son show Him and I and that that was great.

That was that was a fun weekend.

That's a great club up there Very nice people nice staff, but yeah me my dad Yeah father son show so he went up I went up and we and we make fun of each other a little bit and

You know, people brought their sons to show.

It was a nice thing.

Yeah, but yeah, we do shows together and that's been going well.

So yeah, it's great club.

That's great.

Not

many father-son duos in the stand-up world.

I'm sure there are a few others, but that's a kind of a unique show that they were able to put together because of your relationship.

Yeah, not too many.

Not too many.

So we were fortunate to do that.

that weekend.

So we're hopefully trying to wake up some more together.

We do a lot of private shows together.

My dad does that.

He sees the golf comic.

Oh, nice.

And so that's what he's known for.

He does a lot of golf type shows at country clubs and things like that.

And I don't have many golf jokes.

So we do theaters together and things like that.

And so when I do do shows with him, I'm kind of like the

the mainstream material part of the show.

If they're sick of hearing golf jokes, they'll hear me talk about the grocery store or whatever it is.

The Young Bucks.

That's great.

Can your dad follow you, Des?

Yeah.

Well, you know what?

It depends.

Depends where it's at.

Depends where it's at.

If we're doing, he does the older crowds.

If we're doing an old country club, he's the man.

But if there's some people in their 20s, if it's a young crowd, my dad's like, hey, why don't you go a little long?

He goes, well, why don't you just close it out?

I'll take it from here.

I'll take it from here.

Your dad used to do a great joke about athlete contracts, and they're not even.

proportionally, it doesn't even, it's not even the same thing now, but he used to do a joke about like, let's say Rick Sutcliffe for the Cubs makes $10 million a year that comes down to 40,000 a pitch or whatever.

And he would do the pitch and he'd go, oh, he would say that's like two months rent for me.

And he'd throw the pitch and he'd say January, February, March, April, just a nutty night out on the town.

Like it's just a very good comic.

So you're learning from a really good comic.

Does that, has that helped you or do you find, does he give you too much advice?

Just enough?

How does that work?

out in your house.

You know, he gives me almost zero advice.

You know, maybe a couple of tags here and there on some jokes, but you know, even when people were like, did your dad encourage you to do stand up?

Well, you know, are you doing stand up because of your dad?

And that's just not at all.

When I went to my dad, when I was 18, I'm like, yeah, I think I want to stand up.

And he immediately said, well, don't actually do it.

Wow.

He goes, I know you're thinking about doing it.

He goes, that's great.

You know, maybe you want to go up once, you go, hey, he goes, but my recommendation is do not do stand-up comedy.

Don't actually do this.

It's a terrible life, terrible career.

It's a grind.

And I'm like, oh, really?

OK, OK, I don't know.

And so people think my dad, like, brought me into the business.

That's quite the opposite.

I just really want to do it myself.

That's

really funny.

I think anyone in the business does would not think that because all of us and I have a son probably a little younger than you who's going into business and I don't I never encouraged him and you know I'm supportive when I have to be but you're a little

timid about it because we're kind of reliving what you guys are going through.

We've all been there and so we're going to feel those things all over again.

It's kind of a weird thing but I'm sure it's great to watch him and have him as an influence.

Desmond Rooney is here.

We're going to do a very short break and then we're going to come back and I'm going to tell you where you can see Des on New Year's Eve.

It's going to be a great show and we'll tell you about a movie that he is in and where you can rent that too.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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I'm Pete Schwabba, this is Nightlight.

Greg, I'm sorry, Sidney on the stream says, Peugeur?

Is that how you say that?

Peugeur, it's a Persian card game.

I don't know how to say that, but I'll have to look it up.

Sidney's a sharp dude.

He was at the Godfather of Green Bay Screening in Madison, I'm forever indebted, and now he's taught us about a new card game.

Class A individual all the way.

Thank you, Sidney.

I will look that up.

Right now, joining me over the stream for a couple more minutes is our pal Des Malruini.

He's a very funny stand-up comedian and a very talented actor.

You can see him.

Des, why don't you just tell us where people can see you on New Year's Eve?

Yep.

I'll be at the memories ballroom, which is in St.

Porridge, which is going to be a little.

Port, Port Washington.

That's

right.

I know it's north of Milwaukee.

I don't

have memories ballroom.

You can type it in a Google Maps.

But it's a great venue.

Nice place.

I bet you did New Year's Eve there two years ago with Jimmy McHugh and the Chicago Comedy All-Star.

So it's a great show, especially New Year's Eve.

It's a hell of a time.

So you pack everyone in there and a big show, great comedians, and it's going to be fun time.

Who else is on the show with you, Dez?

We got Jimmy McHugh and Michelle Krajeki and then another guy, I haven't worked with before.

I don't know if you saw the flyer, but funny man.

Jimmy said great things about him.

And Jimmy's so funny too.

That sounds like it's gonna

be a

fantastic show.

So, Memories Ballroom, a good venue too.

You've been there before?

Been there a few times before.

Yeah, I've done this with McHugh before and with always great comics on the bill.

It's it's it perfect perfect gig if you've never been there before I know you've been there probably Pete, but like to the the listeners free parking Wow, that's huge.

It's it's out.

There's just cornfields.

There's nowhere else around it.

There's no hoopla No one's gonna mug you on the street.

This is

not a show in the city It's free parking you go in there.

It's a nice ballroom that they got food

It's a great venue, so they got to check it out.

Outstanding.

Well, I hope you knock them dead, Des.

And before we let you go, you and I were in the same movie, a movie called The Road Dog.

You played the lead character, which is very cool.

I think that was your first movie role ever, if I remember correctly.

It was fun to work with you on that, and my writing, sometime writing partner, Greg Liana, directed it.

Where do you, did that do anything for your career?

It must be a thrill to tell people, hey, I was the lead in a movie opposite another great stand-up, Doug Standhope.

Yeah, yeah, that's uh, well, I don't know what numbers it did.

I mean, there's there's so many like movies out there I don't you know, I asked Greg like how did it do?

He goes, that's too funny, you know But but it's a great movie.

That's that's a thing.

I mean

To get in the movie theaters, you got to be Spider-Man or you're the X-Men or whatever.

But there's a lot of really good movies being made.

And Greg Liana is a wonderful writer and director, as you know.

And so it's a good movie.

Doug Stanhope is phenomenal in this.

You were great, Pete.

Your scene was one of my favorite scenes.

Yeah, it was fun.

So just a good cast.

It was just a solid film.

It's on Amazon Prime, Apple TV.

I think it's free on Amazon Prime now.

I

didn't even know that because for a while you had to pay and then people are like, hey, your movie's free now on Amazon.

I don't know if it's supposed to be free, but it's free now.

It's free on Amazon Prime.

So check that out and it's good.

Very good film.

It is a good film.

And it kind of bookends our conversation because you play the son of a comedian in the film, which you can certainly relate to as we discussed earlier.

Desmol Rooney, folks, check out The Road Dog on Amazon.

It could be free, hopefully, fingers crossed.

Or if you want to see him live in person, check his act out at Memories Ballroom on New Year's Eve in Port Washington, a great venue.

And it's going to be a great show with our mutual friend, Jim McHugh, as well.

Des, thank you, sir.

Always fun to talk to you and come back soon.

Of course for love to Pete.

Thanks for having me on

you got it.

All right does more Rooney Very funny guy did a great job.

This is his first movie role and I remember thinking wow this guy's he's got the chops Conrad when is you when are you gonna do your

first movie role?

And whenever you make a new movie

you're not

getting any younger dude whenever whenever you make a new movie I'll be the lead I already know

I

don't even have to audition.

He's got like information.

I mean you got blackmail me or something Our question of the night folks.

What is your favorite card game from the 608 Monica from Mount Horribb says Euker because I pissed my partner off with how reckless I play We don't play for money.

So why not take a chance on an unrelated note?

I was thinking today if you and Conrad had a conference it would be called pet con Okay

Let's take a memo

con you never know and if you know peccan you know is spelled with a K

with a K Correct you

can hear that

I tried to pronounce it that way She says Monica continues and although pet lovers might show up expecting furry pets They would soon forget about the disappointment once they see how soft and cuddly you both are As long as you stop short of requesting belly rubs.

Well, if I'm gonna go to all that

Trouble

I respect at least the belly

rub come on Monica Thank you for the suggestion though.

You never know.

Maybe we will start a convention Joe in the 715 says very big fan of BS and then in parentheses the actual title of the card game which I can't say on the radio Thank You Joe game.

Yeah, it is a fun game.

I haven't played it in years But I remember always like playing that at sleepovers and stuff.

Yeah, that was a fun game Bridget from the 818 says crazy eights great for all ages

Kind of like Uno too.

Yeah, definitely the inspiration maybe for Uno Kate from the 715 says garbage.

Is that the same as trash?

Have you ever heard of trash?

I've played I've played garbage, but I can't remember how to play it now

I have to and I like garbage a lot, but there's someone on the Social Media said trash.

I was just wondering if they're the same

Card game Greg from Waukesha says the Packers have actually recruited me to play and I'm blind.

What did they know?

Probably defended the runner for the other team last night Greg no offense I think Derek Henry's gonna win that battle, but

I appreciate your Chutzpah

and wanting to get out there and help your team Greg also says his desk related to a local Waukesha musician named

Emmett Mulroney, that I don't know.

Greg, and I'm sorry I just saw this or I would have asked him.

But thank you for your call and thank you for your texts.

We have more social media texts to get to.

We will do that after the news and after our next guest who is talking about a big cheese drop on New Year's Eve.

You don't want to miss this, folks.

Don't go anywhere.

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So great to have you here, folks.

We have an outstanding show again tomorrow night.

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Tomorrow night on the show, Rick Helms will be here talking about...

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Civic Media Sports Authority, Mike Clemens will be on the show, TV host and comedian Paul Gilmartin, you might remember Paul from Dinner in a Movie on TBS, comedian Jim McHugh, and comedy sports head coach Mike Couth will join us from Milwaukee.

That is a jam-packed show as well.

So be here tomorrow night, please, and be part of the fun.

We'll have a question of the night that you can be part of the show with.

And as always, your thoughts and ideas are welcome throughout the show, regardless of what we're talking about.

Joining me now, this is exciting, folks.

I've been teasing this all show.

We are the Dairy State.

Conrad, did you know that Wisconsin is known for its dairy?

I thought that was California.

Nope.

We have...

We have, well, I don't know, California is like a size of two countries.

Maybe they make more

dairy, but we do it better here in Wisconsin.

And joining us now to talk about the ultimate Wisconsin way to ring in the new year from the cheese capital of the world.

You heard that right, Plymouth, Wisconsin.

Joining us now is the executive director of Plymouth, the Plymouth Art Center, Donna Hahn.

Donna, hi.

Hi, good evening.

It's great to have you here.

How are you tonight?

I'm very good Pete, thank you.

Yeah, I'm glad this worked out.

I've been so excited to talk about this because it's an event that just sounds so Wisconsin.

And for those of us who haven't been to Plymouth, first of all, before we get into the event, tell us a little bit about Plymouth that you speak so proudly of.

Well, Plymouth is really officially the cheese capital of the world.

We call ourselves that and we obtained that title a few years ago officially.

actually you know 15 to 16 percent of all the cheese that's used nationally is coming through plummet at one point or another whether it's being processed here or you know created here or you know cold storage so we are really

the cheese capital and we're very, very proud of it.

So you're saying you're sort of the self-proclaimed cheese capital of the world?

Has anyone ever fought you on that or tried to challenge that status?

Not really.

Okay.

No.

And we've been holding that title really since the 50s.

Oh my

gosh.

And the original Cheese Exchange is just right down the block from the Plymouth Art Center.

It's in the old bank building.

It moved to Chicago after, you know, after some years after being in Green Bay, but then moved on to Chicago, but it was started here.

Wow.

So why not?

Why not?

Absolutely.

So what are you, you cannot at this point, Donna, you just have to

live.

It's the case.

Tell us your lactose intolerant.

Do you love cheese?

I love cheese.

All kinds of it.

What's your favorite?

Do

you have a favorite?

I love the Sartori Marlowe.

You know, I mean that is

a beautiful cheese and it just goes with everything and yeah, you can't beat it.

That's great.

Okay, so let's jump into this great event.

You have the Sartori Big Cheese Drop on New Year's Eve.

For those of us who, this is the first I've heard of this, so I'm sure there are people out there like me.

Tell us about this fun event.

Well, back in 2007,

A local photographer, Dennis Schwartz, came to me with an idea.

He said, you know, if they can drop a carp in prairie, prairie justine, why can't Plymouth drop a big cheese since we're so well known for our cheese?

And I said, well, I don't know, Dennis.

I mean, I'd love to do it, but how are we going to do this?

And he said, well, you guys are always creating so many neat events.

I think the Art Center could come up with something.

And so we did some research and we enlisted the Plymouth Foam products to create a big wedge of Styrofoam in the shape of a cheese wedge.

and we had a local artist paint it and that served us well for several years until it got so beat up from the wind and snow that then Sartori Company decided that they would create a real beautiful piece of cheap forest made out of metal.

So we've been doing this event since 2007

And we're really happy to do it for the community because it just brings a lot of people together.

And we have guests from all over the place, coming from Chicago, Michigan.

Two years ago, we had a group here that said, we're going to start a tradition.

Every year, we're going to go to a different.

community and see what they have to offer on New Year's Eve.

And we found out about you guys.

So they brought like 12 people and they stayed overnight and plummeted.

And they were here and they let our countdown and they were, they were even in the building helping me bag up stuff.

And, you know, I mean, it was just wonderful.

But it just, it's a really homey hometown event and, you know, people love it.

So we're going to continue to do it.

This is our 19th year.

It sounds absolutely spectacular.

I have to ask you though, you said now it's metal.

I was under the impression it was actual cheese that you were lowering.

Well, you know cheese is very dense if we were to lift a piece of cheese this size on a hundred foot ladder by the far department.

I don't think it would stay up there I'm sure that we would have trouble But we do have plenty of real cheese the sartory company is very generous since they took

the event over pretty much as the sole sponsor.

It used to be that we had you know several sponsors and several cheese companies but when they created the cheese for us then they took over the sole sponsorship.

So since that time they've been presenting us with 250 bags of

cheese wedges.

So

each visitor, well I should say each family, that comes at around 9.30 because we're going to start distributing around 9.30.

Each family will get a little bag, a little gift bag of cheese and there will be two wedges in there and that's about a $15 value and so we hand out

250 of those and then inside the building we have on that I mean that's we handed out inside and outside but inside the building we have a cheese tasting table and then they provide cheese for us inside the building where you know people can come and you know taste two or three different.

of their varieties.

And then we'll have a cash bar and we have live music by the String Along Band.

And I mean, when we started this event, we had a number of different...

Evenings that we hosted, I mean, the first one was build your own party.

So you had a theme, you know, and you set up your table the way you wanted it, whether it was Wisconsin Badgers or the Roy 20s or, you know, whatever

theme you

wanted.

And then we had, you know, kind of smooth jazz.

And over the years that has evolved into more of a family event, because we dropped the big cheese at 10 o'clock.

So the kids can be here and still

get home and, you know, and go to bed at a reasonable time.

So, yeah, we just make it a real family friendly event.

And the Sartori family is very happy with that as well.

They were really for that.

So, and everything's over now.

We used to go until midnight, but the fire department will arrive around nine to 930.

And then there's quite a bit of work to do hoisting that.

big wedge up up in the air and if it's really windy we have to be very careful and we close down the street on the side of the building which is North Street and the fire department parks there and then we drop the wedge right in front of the Arts Center building and we're gonna

Wednesday night we're going to have a really great countdown because last year we kind of dropped the I should say dropped the ball

on that one.

I dropped the cheese on that

one.

Yeah because the cheese came down so fast that we didn't really get a decent countdown so this year we're going to have a microphone out there and we're really going to you know scream those numbers out loud.

that is great it's just gonna be so much fun again and then we have hot chocolate you know for the kids and and well for adults too and hot cider and then we have a couple bonfires so you know it's gonna be probably about 20 degrees so it's gonna be cold

So, you know people can warm up by the fire and and they could come in and do a little dancing and then by 1030 It's all over and you can go downtown if you want to and you know celebrate the new year, you know edit all clubs or whatever and You know just have a double double amount of fun

It sounds like an absolute blast.

Donna Hahn is my guest.

She is the Plymouth Arts Center Executive Director.

We're talking about the big, the Sartori, big cheese drop New Year's Eve.

New York lowers a ball in Plymouth, the cheese capital of the world.

They lower a monstrous block of, well, not actual cheese, but I did see this Donna.

Is it Sarvecio Parmesan cheese?

If it's not a real cheese block up there, where does that come into play?

Well, this is one of their labels.

So it's actually called Cervequio Parmesan.

Oh, Cervequio, okay.

Yeah, and we used to have one.

The cheese was Bellavetano, and that was, you know, one of my favorites.

But

the Cervequio Parmesan is definitely very good, too.

But they changed the label on our cheese, and it's about 80 pounds.

So, I mean, it is substantial.

Yeah.

And I mean, if you get a good wind, it's...

It could be a little dangerous, but we've got, you know, the firemen are really wonderful.

I mean, we have chains on it and ropes.

And our volunteer, Greg Heberlein, has been doing the cheese drop with us for many years.

And he's just really, really good at, you know, guiding it down.

Yeah.

You know, it's it's a safe event really

that sounds

great and

you have music A good band called the string along band which will play some great cover tunes Johnny Cash Willie Nelson Patsy Klein John Denver And it sounds like do you what kind of turnout do you typically expect Donna?

It could be anywhere from 500 to a thousand people Yeah, it's it's pretty big.

So we fill up our whole front

you know, plaza

area,

people park across the street and, you know, watch it from the car.

It's some of the older people that, you know, can't take the cold.

But yeah, it's just, it's all over in five minutes.

That is just, oh,

that

sounds like such a great time.

Well, Donna, thank you for your time tonight.

I wish you luck.

It sounds like you don't need it because this is a fantastic event on its own.

It is, you know, and I just want to mention that we've been

written up in several magazines over the years.

We've had national coverage on TV.

But TripAdvisor called us one of the top 10 quirkiest events in the United States.

So we're pretty proud of that.

I would imagine so.

Who would we be to argue with TripAdvisor?

It sounds

like it's

just a blast.

So keep

up the great work.

We want to definitely thank the Sartori Company for sponsoring the event.

Sartori is a fourth generation family owned company here in Plymouth.

They make some of the greatest feces in Wisconsin and probably the U.S., so...

This might be the hungriest I've ever been after a segment, and I have you to thank for that, Donna.

Well, I invite you to come and visit us sometime in the future.

I mean, we're planning to keep going with this event.

I would love that.

And not only that, keep us in the loop about other things that the Arts Council is doing there.

I would love to have you back on sometime if you're game.

So

thank you

so much for your time tonight, Donna.

It's been

great to get to

know you.

Thank you.

I wish you a very happy new year.

You too.

Thanks, Donna.

All right.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

All right.

Check out the Sartori Big Cheese Drop in Plymouth.

That sounds like a lot of fun, Conn.

You know, nothing beats

dropping

cheese.

It sounded like if they're not careful, their cheese actually could get caught in the wind.

All right.

We're coming back to wrap things up and read your text.

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We are broadcasting live from beautiful, cold downtown Green Bay statewide.

So wherever you're joining us from tonight, folks, thank you for being part of the show.

And if you texted or called, it was great to hear from you.

I would like to thank all of my guests tonight, Lisa Hale.

who we always have so much fun talking TV with, and then comedian, Kristen Lighty, who you can catch at the Skyline Comedy Cafe on New Year's Eve, and then Des Mulroney, another comedian who you can catch if you are in the Milwaukee area at Memories Ballroom.

And then we talk to Donna Hahn from the Plymouth, Wisconsin Arts Council.

It's the capital of the world, Conrad.

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I do.

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That's what I was to say.

Lil' Irv on the stream says, Piles is his favorite card game.

I've heard of that.

I

think the New York Times has like one of those games like Wordle.

I think they have, or maybe that's Tiles.

I don't know.

Thank you, Lil' Irv.

Appreciate the

text.

Yeah.

Okay, so I just looked it up.

You know, I just typed in Piles on Google.

Okay.

And he said, Piles is a common term for hemorrhoids.

And a very

popular

card game

involving

So, I hope it doesn't have anything to do with that.

I don't know what,

you know, probably card games made from worse ideas.

Steady Eddie in the 608 says, Pete and Conrad, way back last week, I told you about the effectiveness and talent of Packers QB, Malik Willis, that he did.

He says, and how I thought he should be a co-starter with Jordan Love, and the Packers should sign him to a five year contract and win a couple Super Bowls.

Sounds like a good plan so far, Con.

Steady Eddie continues saying, I asked you both what you thought of my idea.

Pete, you seemed dazed and confused at my perigunta and took a complete powder.

Doing all our callbacks.

Conrad's answer was not very responsive, weak to say the least.

Wow.

at this he's steady and he says replay the audio tape you know what steady Eddie don't boss us around please steady Eddie says Willis just had another good game my idea looks better than ever occasionally you two whippersnappers might consider listening to the wisdom of a boomer

I'm looking at you too, Packers head coach, Matt LaFleur.

Maybe the Packers can't sign Malik Willis do a five-year contract, but they know, but they won't know unless they try.

I'm just trying to help here.

Steady Eddie.

PS, favorite card game to play?

Two, poker and cribbage.

Oh, he has two.

Poker and cribbage, okay.

But usually not at the same time.

Yeah, those are kind of opposite games.

I don't

know how you play them together.

Steady Eddie, he just never disappoints.

It's brilliant.

Absolute brilliance.

Some of our social media responses, Janet on Facebook says, I have fond memories of learning cribbage from my grandma as a kid.

And all of us still play it to this day.

That is a big Wisconsin card game.

I love it.

I've never played

it.

Well, I'm not good at it, but it's fun to play.

Okay.

Rich Tallarico, our pal and frequent guest says pitch, a.k.a.

setback.

Haven't played that one either which is from that could be like a New York State game or something.

Yeah, maybe peach wabba says Texas hold them Rich LaCasio says no limit Texas hold them.

I'm with you rich I would love to square off with rich and mono a mono Texas hold them Eric Ratsack from ask your mother on Facebook says sheeps head cribbage and poker Those are all big Wisconsin.

I mean poker's big

everywhere, but sheeps head sheeps head yeah cribbage.

Yeah, huge Wisconsin poker or card games

Sean on Facebook says any poker variation.

That's a serious diehard.

Thank you, Sean.

Mike Desatelle says, pinnacle another huge Wisconsin card game.

Ever played pinnacle?

No.

Me either.

I actually haven't heard of it until now.

Really?

Oh yeah, it's a big one.

That one is a very popular game.

Comedian Vince Moranto says, I haven't played this in years, but the first thing that came to mind, he's got like a poker board there.

Queen Jack.

Is that heart?

No.

Kitty.

I don't know what that is.

Maybe a poker table with a bunch of hearts on it.

Sorry, Vince.

I'm doing the best I can here.

Thank you for playing, sir.

Tracy Thorpe.

Oh, a fine actress you can see in The Godfather of Green Bay says, number one, trash.

Number two, golf.

Golf is a great game.

Golf is so much fun.

Love golf.

And there's strategy, too, and like a little bit of luck.

Oh, yeah.

But it's a great game.

Number three, Kings Corner.

Yeah.

Con.

I love the last two ones.

They're great.

I don't.

Recall trash.

Yeah,

I don't know trash either unless it's like

unless it's garbage and just another name because garbage is a really fun I'm not trying to be funny garbage is a really fun card game Brett our pal Brett Kissinger author says cribbage Yes, sir.

That is a huge Wisconsin game and then Jay Campbell says uno I Have to admit uno is really fun.

It's just good clean American card playing fun

Greg, on the stream, we missed this earlier.

He says, what is it about comedy in New Year's Eve?

Jim Gaffigan used to do a New Year's Eve show in Milwaukee.

People want to laugh as they're bidding out the old year and in the new year.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is, Greg.

It's a great way to ring in the new year.

Yeah.

So thank you for all your texts and calls tonight, folks.

This has been a really fun night.

We'll be back live tomorrow night and then have some highlight shows for the rest of the week.

But I hope you enjoy this.

This time, between Christmas and New Year's, this is such a fun, yeah, we're working, but it's a little more laid back.

You feel like you're working, but it's not like rat race working.

You know what I mean?

It's kind of chill.

I'm still like doing the whole, the board right here has a lot of sock stuff

on it.

Got some footprints on there, sounds like.

And your dad walked right by the window and didn't even stop in.

And he was waving and I'm waving back.

Well, he just

expects me to do it like that.

That's, that's how I show them I do it.

Sounds like you guys have some things to work out there,

but it would have been fun.

I would have had Steve in the studio to say quick.

Hello

Give

a shout out with the

time management mind-eyed I Was like we only got one minute here.

Yeah All right, folks.

Listen, we're gonna be back tomorrow night We're gonna do this all over again, and I hope you'll be part of it gosh this year has been fun on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.

I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night, Wisconsin

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