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Hats, Holidays, and Hilarity: A Year-End Wrap-up (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Tue Dec 30, 2025
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It was only a couple of times.
I don't do it regularly.
Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, it's great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.
And to celebrate our last live show of 2025, I'm wearing a hat.
What do you think, Con?
I'm trying to be like you.
Yeah, I'm in my home office, which is currently my son's bedroom holidays a house full of people and it's a little chilly downstairs So I thought you know what I'll try to look cool hip and wear a hat I don't know how that's gonna work out, but I'm going with it anyway better to be comfortable
Yeah, what's going on at the studio?
What am I missing?
you know freaked
Oh, into your new apartment you're talking about.
Right.
What's that all about?
How much body heat do you give off?
That's my question.
That's what I'm
Well, are you totally
in
New bachelor pad, living the single life in Green Bay.
You could do a lot worse than that in life.
Exactly.
Right next door.
And your folks
you?
Okay, for those of you listening last night I was doing the show and a guy went by the window Kristen Lighty was on and I even told Kristen this and the guys waving like he knows me and I'm waving back and I said, oh my god, I think I might have accidentally booked another guest I don't know who this person is it was Conrad's dad and I I've only seen like a picture of him But he had a hat on I didn't recognize him.
So it was kind of relieved that I didn't double book a guest But your dad having said that would have been welcome to come on the show and
Spend a little time with us.
So anyway, yeah, it would have been fun.
We've already got a stream comment.
Love that.
Daniel Barry Sports Highlights says, Happy Tuesday.
Hey, guys.
Hey, Daniel.
Great to have you, buddy.
Hope you're having a swell Tuesday.
As I mentioned, this is our last show of 2025.
The rest of the week, we will be playing Nightlight Highlights Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
So that should be fun to some of our best and most
fun moments
here from 2025 in the last few weeks.
And then we will be back live January 5th for a whole new round of shows.
And then we don't get a day off Conrad for nine months.
I don't know if you heard that, but the word came down.
We will not be taking any
Two short weeks, and then we're back at it.
There's some big news here within Civic Media today, and I don't want to oversell this.
or get people too excited, but we have a champion in our Civic Media Fantasy Football League, and I'll let you elaborate on
Britney Merleau
Meteorologist extraordinaire, the award-winning Britney Merleau.
has dominated the Civic Media Fantasy Football League, of which I was not invited this year, which I'm trying to come to terms with.
I know.
And my son, like in his league, he begged me to join.
He's like, come on, dad, you got to do it.
And I showed up for the draft.
I don't think I even opened it.
After that, it was the same.
Two years ago, Rocker brought me into the Civic Media.
And I always mean well, like I mean to play and pay attention and look at stats and add players and all that kind of stuff and sit guys during the buy.
But after the draft, which is fun, I just completely lose interest.
I just don't care.
In fact, I'm not a gambler.
I like to watch my team.
Or if there's a really good game on, I'll watch parts of that.
But I just I don't I don't study it enough.
Like I'm guessing you and Brittany do.
And we also do.
full defensive players.
So there's like defensive linemen, there's a linebacker, there's cornerbacks, safeties, defense punters, kickers.
So it's like, you really had to pay attention and look in the waiver wires for players and stuff.
So yeah, I mean, it was interesting.
That's for sure.
I mean, she, Brittany Merleau in the championship had Derek Henry, and we all
know he did
And that was the that was the game changer right there.
I mean that was your that's your dagger as Wayne Larraby would say
Well, that's good for Britney.
She's a football fan.
I remember it's a Christmas party a couple years ago talking to her and she was a huge football fan and she does such a great job with weather I I think you could have stepped up your game a little bit and give her more of a run
I
but well
Speaking of your players and Conrad is a huge Packer fan.
I don't know if I've ever met a bigger Packer fan Mike Clemens will be here at 6 10 tonight We will talk to Mike about the shape of the Packers what they're going through.
I think here's the issue though con I don't think the injury report comes out until Wednesday Thursday
Thursday, okay So we might not know too much about what's happening with Jordan Love or
I almost said Mason Rudolph.
Where did that come from?
Josh Jacobs.
I need to know what's going on with Mason Rudolph, Mike.
That's why we asked you here.
So we'll talk to Mike at 610.
Before that, we're going to talk about a great celebration of lights they do in Oshkosh.
For the last several years, the Oshkosh celebration of lights.
We'll talk with Rick Helms about that at 545.
I'm sorry 535 right after news which comes up.
We'll be here in just about 15 or so minutes.
News, sports, and weather is on the way.
We'll have Rick Helms on to talk about Oshkosh.
Mike Clemens will join us to talk Packers and NFL as the playoffs creep ever closer.
Paul Gilmartin will join the show at 635.
Paul is a great stand-up comic who used to be the host of Dinner and a Movie on TBS.
Did I say Dinner and a Movie?
It's Dinner and a Movie.
Can you tell I haven't talked to anyone today?
We got people in the house So I went over to my brother's cottage and I just camped out there and did work Honestly other than a fast zoom meeting this morning.
I was just typing off.
It's a shame I can't type the show because it'd be very legible Yeah,
type
exactly Paul Gilmartin will be here Paul's very funny and What a great do you ever watch dinner in a movie?
You know that show?
They remade it.
Jason Biggs and Jenny Mullen, I think is her name.
I don't know if I'm saying that right, but they're the new hosts.
But Paul and Annabelle Gerwitch hosted it for, I don't know, 15, 20 years.
And it's such a great, it's one of those ideas where I thought I wish I would have thought of that pitch.
Preparing food while you're watching a movie.
It's like an interstitial program.
It was so great.
Paul will be here at 635 and then
We're going to talk a little more about Memories Ballroom and the great New Year's Eve show happening there tomorrow night.
Jim McHugh, who put the whole show together, will be on the show to discuss.
Jim is a very funny guy.
And Conrad, you'll appreciate this.
Jim is a Packer fan living in Chicago.
awesome.
He and I...
We'll have a great discussion because i'm a bear fan living here in northeast wisconsin and jim is a packer fan we're both men without a home so to speak so we'll have a fun talk about that and he brings his chicago comedy all stars regularly to memories ballroom in port washington a great show and we'll talk to jim at seven i believe seven ten is that we have jim and then we'll have uh
Yeah, Mike Kauth will be here from Comedy Sports.
He is a head coach at Comedy Sports, and they have a great New Year's Eve show going on too.
So lots of options.
We're going to keep you guys posted.
Give you some ideas for what you can do tomorrow night.
If you're making last-minute plans, you'll definitely want to hear the rest of the show.
You've got Oshkosh Lights, Mike Kauth in Comedy Sports, and a great show at Memories Ballroom.
So we'll do all of that.
And throughout the course of the show, it'll be fun.
Our last live show of the year con what do you and people overdo that?
They say oh, I'll see you next year all these great jokes But it's weird when a year comes to a close and we've had I don't know what do we do 250 shows or something like that?
Well, I mean, yeah,
Well said he's not the best color man in the business or nothing I Was looking for some philosophical reflection there.
So ask me what I did last night when I left the studio con
you went to the studio?
I went in search for buns, and I don't, that's not any nefarious, there's nothing weird about that.
I, for New Year's Eve, we have a party every year, and this year it's at my sister's house, and I bought, if you had a Chicago Italian beef sandwich.
Oh yeah, of course.
Okay, so I got one beef, I got three tubs of it, and here's where I scored.
This is with Pete, Pete, if you ever need bargains, folks, come to me.
I'm surprised more people don't ask me for advice anyway, but if you're looking for big, big savings, they sell it online and they'll deliver it to your house.
But it's like, it was like 180 bucks for three tubs, Jardinera and the bread.
So I realized here in Marinette at Aldi, they sell the tubs for 15 bucks a pop.
$45 I paid instead of 180.
Got three jars of Jardinera for like 10 bucks, but I needed buns.
I needed good French rolls.
Well, last night.
Schwabba stopped by Meyer and scored a huge win with, I think, five bags of French rolls.
Because you got to dip them in the beef juice.
So that's what I'm going to do.
So I am all set for New Year's Eve.
You know, I haven't been in one in like 25 years.
I didn't even, I kind of forgot Wisconsin even had them.
You go there a lot?
Oh, that's huge.
Yeah.
That's cheaper than my French rolls.
I'm kind of annoyed right now.
So what are you doing on New Year's Eve?
I'm gonna
Fantastic.
Well, you could watch the big cheese drop.
Donna Hahn last night and that would be that would be fun too but two cities in Wisconsin were ranked in the top 100 to spend New Year's Eve in.
Let's do the question of the night and then after the break I'm going to tell people the two best cities in Wisconsin to spend New Year's Eve.
They're part of a great list but right now it's time for our nightlife question of the night.
Question.
Question.
Here, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Question.
It is national bacon day, ladies and gentlemen.
Hot, fun in the summertime is all I have to say.
Bacon is where it's at.
If you haven't tried a slice of bacon, definitely indulge.
And it leads us to our question of the night, which is, what is your favorite kind of meat?
How's that for a vague question?
In honor of National Bacon Day, what is your favorite kind of meat?
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We will read your text on the radio And that's about oh Stacy Sue is she is on it already.
I didn't get the sentence out.
She says turkey Turkey's great.
That's meat, right?
It's foul But it's meat.
It's me.
I always think of like the red meats, but you're right turkey is meat
Some people consider fish meat, and that's just not right.
So all right, we're gonna do a very quick break.
News, sports, and weather is coming up in about 10 minutes.
When we come back after this short break, I'm gonna tell you the two best cities in Wisconsin to celebrate New Year's Eve.
We made a list, folks.
We made a list.
We're not that high up, but we've got two representatives, which I think is pretty cool.
Yeah, we'll do that.
I'm also going to tell you about a really cool sculpture in honor of Home Alone that Daniel Stern is doing involving himself in a spider.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio
network.
So
you can see, oh, what's going on?
What's going on?
Welcome
back.
It is the eve of New Year's Eve.
Kind of a chill day before we party our little butts off tomorrow night.
Stacy Sue on the stream says, love bacon though.
She said turkey in response to our question of the night, which is what is your favorite kind of meat in honor of national bacon day?
Stacy Sue said turkey, but put a disclaimer just now saying she loves bacon.
And that's, bacon's a good thing to love.
It's healthy, it's good for you.
especially if you eat pounds of it in one sitting, it's very good for you.
I am Pete Schwab, but this is Nightlight.
It is great to have you with me on this Tuesday.
We are doing our last live show of the year.
And we will have highlights shows the rest of the week.
So those will be fun, too.
And we will be back on January 5th, coming up at 5.35 after news, sports and weather.
Rick Helms will be here.
He is the event manager of the Oshkosh Celebration of Lights, which is going on through New Year's.
That's kind of cool, Khan, that they keep it going through Christmas.
Oh,
And you can add that to your New Year's Eve plans if you're still looking for something to do.
Our question of the night, once again, is an honor of National Bacon Day.
What is your favorite kind of meat?
I think I said bacon, but I might... Bacon's from a pig, right?
Yes.
I had to think about that for a minute.
Okay.
So I would have to say bacon are like a good... We had steak on Christmas Day and my dad made it.
And I'm not necessarily like I like meat.
I don't love it.
I could probably be a vegetarian if I had to be, but man, was it good.
So I'd have to say
Bacon or steak, what about you?
That's interesting because I think I would go unless the person making the steak Was great at it.
I would probably go a juicy burger as well with some good condiments like I know it's not as high grade of meat, but Man, it's good stuff.
Okay, so I saw this list.
This is from Wallet Hub.
They listed the top cities for celebrating New Year's Eve.
Remember, we kind of got shivved, I thought, on the Christmas list.
Aside from Marinette, which is Christmas City, USA, Wisconsin didn't really represent on the best cities to spend Christmas.
We do have two in the top 55.
So you know what that means, Con?
Can I take a guess which cities?
One of them is 55th.
That's where I'm going with this.
So we have two cities in the top five.
Yeah, go ahead.
You are incorrect, sir.
No.
Milwaukee is on the list at number 55.
Okay.
Right behind Key Wascom Madison is 44th.
Oh, okay, so that doesn't surprise me Madison knows at a party as does Milwaukee But I'm surprised that on a list of a hundred cities.
I really thought Green Bay would be on there somewhere
Yeah, you've got Orlando, Florida number one.
I mean seriously
they have
All right, fair enough.
Number two, Vegas, probably the same deal.
Number three, New York, where they dropped the ball.
That's weird that New York is number three.
You think it would be number one because it gets so much press over here.
Number four, Seattle, Washington.
Exactly.
Or some great quarterback play from Sam Darnold.
Yeah.
Number five, Los Angeles.
That kind of surprises me.
I mean, LA is a fun town, but it's not like.
To the best of my knowledge, there isn't like a central Lake New York where they kind of do the New Year's thing.
Chicago is the closest place to us.
It's seventh.
And then no other Midwest cities until like, good Lord, St.
Louis is 16th.
Cincinnati is 19th.
St.
Paul was somewhere on this list.
But I feel like Madison and Milwaukee would be higher just because, and I'm not saying this to suck up, but Wisconsin is kind of a party state.
We like our Ackie Hall and I'm surprised these are, I bet no one that made this list has ever celebrated in Madison and Milwaukee.
Would I be wrong to say that?
I agree.
Hey, tell me about Marty Supreme.
You saw Marty Supreme.
Give us the thumbnail.
You said it was great.
It was fantastic.
It
I was locked in the whole time.
I was just like, what's going to happen next?
What's going to happen next?
Like the character, Marty Mauser, like Timothy Chalamet did him so good.
Like he's kind of a jerk, but like it's because he has a pursuit of this dream and he won't stop at anything to...
be the number one, you know, champion for ping pong.
And I mean, mainly it's about like, you know, money and stuff like that.
But he just wants to win.
And like, it's just the whole movie is him trying to win.
Did you see balls of fury?
I love that movie or a night out on the town.
Did you like the movie?
Balls of fury.
Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Okay, how does this compare as ping pong movies go
Okay
yeah This one and you're talking about their buddy.
not even so far
I think I told you Avatar like, it's not like I didn't like it, but like the end was, it looked like they just took the end off the second movie and put it on this.
I swear to God, you won't even be able to tell the difference.
You feel like you're watching the same movie.
And the last battle goes on for like 45 minutes.
And they got all these flying creatures.
You don't know who's on what side and it's insane.
But Marty Supreme is definitely on my list, a critics darling.
And also I want to see Song Song Blue based on the Milwaukee couple.
who formed the cover band, Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder.
So those are on my list this weekend.
Lots of show coming up, folks.
Great guests.
We're going to break for news and weather and sports.
And then Rick Helms will be here to tell you about a really cool event they have in Oshkosh that is going on through the weekend.
It's Peach Waba in Nightlight.
We're coming right back on the Civic Media radio network.
Welcome
back.
I'm Pete Schwab.
This is Nightlight.
It is great to have you with me tonight, folks.
It is our last live show of 2025.
We will have highlight shows the rest of the week.
But we are going out with a bang.
Great guests tonight.
Paul Gilmartin from Dinner in a Movie will be here at 635.
Mike Clemmons coming up at 610.
Talk Packers.
Another comedian, Jim McHugh, talking about New Year's Eve shows at Memories Ballroom in Port Washington.
And Comedy Sports
Legend and head coach Mike Kauth will help us close up a shop here tonight and Lots to get to our question of the night in honor of National Bacon Day What is your favorite kind of meat?
I say bacon or steak Conrad says a juicy burger and there are no right or wrong answers folks There are only your answers so be part of the fun and be part of the show Alright, it is my pleasure to welcome my first guest of the night
This gentleman is the event manager of the spectacular Oshkosh Celebration of Lights, and he joins us now over the stream.
Mr. Rick Helms.
Rick, welcome.
Thank you.
How you doing tonight?
Oh, it's Rick on the phone.
I'm sorry, Rick.
I got that confused.
I'm doing very well.
How are you?
Not too bad.
All right.
Well, before we get to this really cool festival of yours, and I can't wait to talk about it, I have to ask, do you have a favorite kind of meat, Rick?
Well good burger is definitely a go-to around the house, but there's nothing beats a good steak
Boy, I you took a slight pause there Rick and I really appreciate you giving that some thought and noodling the question and not just shouting out the first thing that came to your mind So thank you for your attention to our question of the night All right, so tell us all about the Oshkosh a celebration of lights
Well, the Oshkosh Celebration of Lights started as an idea about 25 years ago with half a dozen gentlemen that wanted to do a Christmas event involving lights.
We're in our 24th annual this year.
It didn't take too long to get the idea off the ground and running.
That is fantastic.
So, all right, have you been part of it that whole time?
No, I've been a part of the organization for probably about 10 years now
Okay, how much work goes into this?
You know, it's such a long event like six weeks I think you guys start Thanksgiving weekend and go through the new year.
How much planning does that take?
The planning is year-round We never stop working on ideas designs corrections.
There's a lot of maintenance that goes on behind the scenes
all summer long stuff is being repaired, rewired, looking at ways to improve things and what we can change for the following year.
So it really has a quite lengthy process.
The setup alone, we usually begin the second week in October and we're finishing up just before Black Friday when we begin.
Like you said, it's a six week long event.
Yeah.
So all right, so it says you have two and a half miles of drive through the EAA grounds.
into what you call a winter wonderland with millions of sparkling lights.
But what I like about this too is it says you can also tune into 101.9 to hear your favorite holiday tunes while you're doing this.
What a great idea.
Tell people who are listening what they might expect if they come in and do this event or take part in it.
Well, when you pull in, we've got multiple lanes of entry to try and get everybody in in a timely fashion and you just enter.
through a series of entrance huts where we give you some information and You're also able to make donations to the local food pantries that we work with several of throughout the city And they collect tons and tons of food for those that are in need this time of year Once you get past there, then you're into the light show and you're just immersed in trees and displays and cutouts and all kinds of twinkly little things that
bring smiles to all the children.
Is it the kind of thing that gets bigger every year, Rick, or do people come from around the state, or is it mostly a local event?
With the new location out at the EAA grounds, we've started to attract people traveling down Highway 41, and they have no idea what it is, so they drive by and make a point to get off the highway, come and check it out.
So we have a lot of people from outside the area.
We have people that are headed to Chicago that stopped by.
It's definitely a regional show, I would call it, because it's definitely not just the city of Oshkosh.
We attract quite a varied clientele.
And you also say you have volunteers that make it possible.
I'm sure you have to rely on people to give their time.
I would imagine it's not very difficult finding volunteers for such a fun community activity.
No, we have hundreds of volunteers every year that help throughout the summer doing repairs.
We have volunteers that come out between October and the end of November to help get everything set up from private individuals to local businesses that send teams of people out.
Every night when people drive up to the entrance huts, they're talking to their local volunteers.
They're talking to their friends, their neighbors, their family.
Those are the people that are in those buildings, making sure everything flows throughout the night.
These are the kind of activities I love around this time of year.
It's just people coming together in communities and putting on great shows like this and great community events.
I think I read this right.
It's free, right, Rick?
No, it's $20 per carload.
When you bring the canned food or item donations, then we give you $5 off.
So it's $15.
But every Sunday, we have sponsored community nights.
So those nights are free to the general public to come on out due to our gracious sponsors.
So we have a community night every Sunday evening.
That's what I was looking at.
It says free community nights.
Okay, what a great thing.
And people bring food.
I love that.
Tell us a little bit about, since our question of the night deals with meat, you have in your bullet points here, four Bex Meats drawings.
Can you explain that?
What is that, Rick?
We just do a little contest where people can enter to win some backs meets because they're one of our sponsors So it's a pretty simple thing to go online and do and you know, we draw some winners and help support a Local small business that does me processing and it's very delicious.
So I use them all the time
Fantastic, my guess is Rick Helms.
He is the event manager for the Oshkosh celebration of lights An activity or an event that sounds like an absolute spectacle right there in the EAA grounds
of Highway 41.
It's a great event.
You also have something called Special Cause Nights.
Rick, what is that?
Well, we'll have different special events going on.
We have a couple nights that are for seniors.
We have Veterans Night.
We've had a night that supports the local Humane Society, so we'll collect items for pets.
that are going up for adoption to help them out as well.
So we just do different things like that to kind of pay tribute to special groups and make sure that they feel welcome and appreciated.
That's excellent.
So what is coming up after this?
What do you do once an event like this is done in the books?
What does Rick Helms do?
Do you have other events you want to talk about or do you take a brief break and start working on this again?
Well, like we said, this is a year round endeavor.
I do have multiple jobs.
So I kind of go back to those and concentrate a little bit and then we get back into it after it takes about a month to take everything down.
So by the end of January, beginning of February, everything's packed away back in the semi trailers and transported back to the warehouse and take a little time off.
And then we start working on repairs and thoughts for the following
year.
Do you have I see that you have special nights for seniors and veterans?
What are those and what can you tell listeners about that Rick?
Well veterans night they get to come out for free and Then seniors night we do a $10 carload So we do two different senior nights and those are all sponsored by other local businesses as well to help offset some of those costs for them
I would imagine when you're driving by on 41 and you see this great spectacle of lights, it's great publicity for the event.
So I love the location of it.
When people drive through, Rick, how long does it take to get through the grounds or the tour?
Generally takes about 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how much you stop and look at the displays.
We do have a couple of animated displays that you can tune in the radio to.
who listen to those specific songs.
So it kind of depends on how many of those you sit and listen to, but 20 to 30 minutes is a pretty good average.
Okay.
It's two and a half miles, folks, of seeing it drive through the EAA grounds, and you can tune your radio to listen to Christmas music.
It's a great event.
It goes through... When does it end, Rick?
I know I read that it goes through New Year's, but what does that mean exactly?
Our last night is tomorrow on New Year's Eve, so we always start on Black Friday.
is our opening night.
You go through a new year's eve every day.
So it's pretty easy to remember when to come out and visit us in between those timeframes.
And get out there tomorrow night.
What a great year or what a great time to say goodbye to 2025.
They've got horse pulled wagon rides.
It supports local nonprofits.
And there's even a visit with Santa.
So it sounds like an absolute blast, Rick.
Let's have you on a little earlier next year so we can get the jump on this.
But there is still time for people to enjoy it this year, I guess.
Absolutely.
We're running right now tonight and we'll be there again tomorrow night.
All right, fantastic.
Have a great event, Rick, and hope to catch up with you down the road.
Thanks so much for your time tonight.
Thank you.
You got it.
All right, that's Rick Helms, the event manager of the spectacular Oshkosh Celebration of Lights.
Check it out.
It's very reasonably priced and it all goes to a good cause.
You don't mind spending money when you know it's going somewhere or to people that need it.
Kyle, what are your thoughts on
I'll tell you what, I know that Appleton and Green Bay get a lot of the glory, but my wife's mother grew up in Oshkosh.
My wife went to school there, so I spent a lot of time in Oshkosh.
I did stand up there.
It's kind of, it's not the forgotten city, but it, I feel like it's slightly grittier than like Appleton, but a great city right in the lake, beautiful old homes at College Town.
It's just a great place.
So, all right, we were talking a little bit about Marty Supreme, and you highly recommend it.
I kind of recommend Avatar.
I want to talk about this show that I just finished last night, and it's in my beats for over the weekend.
You'll hear this if you listen to Civic Media through the holiday folks, but Pluribus is just, did not do it for me.
I finished the first season, the whole season after the first episode, which is great.
Nothing happens for like eight episodes and then last night I watched episode nine She finally and I want to say too much about it, but basically there's a It's kind of like people turn into pods and they're friendly, but there's nothing there and this ray of seahorns character is The star of the show and she's cranky and she's an author and I really like her as an actress but even her in this show I was bored to tears and
The last I'm not even giving anything away in the last episode of the first season.
She finally meets someone Another guy from South America who is also like her and doesn't want to be a pod like the pods are trying to get them to be pods because you're so happy and blank and it's just It's bad like Vince Gilligan created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul two of my favorite shows.
I think he got like I Don't know if it's like out over his skis or what but he's very good at
at showing something like he'll set up a shot in Better Call Saul to start the show and it's someone making coffee and it goes on a while and it's visually interesting and I love how he can take nothing and make it interesting.
Not the case in Pluribus.
The whole show is like that.
It's in my opinion, it's brutal.
If you feel differently or if you're watching it, please let me know.
Let's jump into this and converse.
Lil' Irv on the stream says Larry's Potato Sausage.
It's available now.
Con, what do you think of Potato Sausage?
Oh, sorry.
You think he's saying potato salad is his favorite meat?
It's close.
It's close.
All right, we'll get into this.
New sports and weather is just about 10 minutes away, folks.
We will get more into potato sausage after the break.
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This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.
You've got the Civic Media radio network folks and it's great to have you here Tuesday as we all prepare for a very fun holiday I would so what do you rank New Year's con and your holiday rankings?
After Christmas maybe four
after the fourth
maybe yeah,
a
I just try to work in Arbor Day whenever I can because it's just fun to talk about trees.
I put it up there.
It's in my top five.
I don't know where I put it exactly, but it's kind of a chill.
It's nice that you have this after Christmas because Christmas you have a let down, but then you also go, well, I still got New Year's and that's the way to ease back into the real world and a new year.
I think it's great space work.
Whoever came up with this spacing of holidays and sequence of holidays, tip of my head.
Yeah, all right, so our So we were talking right before the the break Lil Earth on the stream said he like Larry's potato sausage and it's available now.
I don't know this product I don't even really know what potato sausage is.
I'm assuming they put potato in the sausage like they do cheese or something But I do like potato Potatoes and I do like sausage.
So I assume I would like potato sausage.
You thought I said potato salad
And that would not play into tonight's question.
You
Where do you stand on egg salad?
Yeah, I got no I got no place in my life for double eggs or egg salad.
I like scrambled eggs
Yeah, they're lovely.
Stacy Sue Johnson says if I could pick where I would like to live in Wisconsin, it would be Madison.
Well, what's stopping you Stacey Stacey is referring to our list of New Year's Eve cities Wallet Hub did a study and they ranked the top 100 cities in America to spend New Year's Eve Number one was Orlando number two was Vegas number three was New York Madison made the list at number 44 and MKE at number 55 I feel like they should be a little higher.
I know there's a lot of cities And I think the fact that you make this list means you have a pretty good New Year's Eve
But it seems like Madison and Milwaukee just Given how much we'd like to party it seems like they should be higher and I'll say this count Minneapolis is 43rd right above Madison Minneapolis is a great town love it, but I'm sorry.
It does not have the reputation Wisconsin does as Like a party city.
I don't have trouble believing that's ahead of Madison.
They do
Yeah, maybe they do.
It's actually not a bad
I could see that.
But let us know, folks.
Our question of the night, this is a good one, too.
What is your favorite meat in honor of National Bacon Day?
That is tonight's nightlight question of the night.
Brett from the 920 said, smoked salmon.
Now, that's not a meat, obviously, but it's fish that's smoked and it's kind of dense.
I would almost accept that.
It's great.
The smoked salmon is fantastic.
I got a party cold with onions and all kinds of trimmings.
It's good stuff.
Thank you, Brett 262 says always a steak medium rare.
How do you get your steak con
Extra done.
Yeah, I like no
Yeah, I like it medium to it with slightly well done, but not too well done like I don't like when I'm eating a steak and it's like in a pool of blood
It just kind of grosses me out a little bit.
I know it's probably more macho to like your steak like that, but I'm willing to concede this one.
That was from Tiff in Nashville.
Thank you, Tiff.
Tiff also says somebody needs to open a good old-fashioned Wisconsin supper club down here.
Well, no time like the present, Tiff.
Get to it.
262, Tiff.
I wonder if that would go over.
Because they don't want all these Chicago people that go to Door County.
always said, oh, great deep dish pizza.
But I think like a lot of Chicago people go to Door County.
I don't think you want the deep dish pizza like you get at home.
I think you want cheese curds or a supper club.
And I don't know if that would work in Nashville, but I think a good Wisconsin supper club, if it's done right, would probably flourish anywhere.
Just my two cents.
What do you think?
Okay,
Yeah, so I think I think there was this supper club I used to go to in three legs We'd spend like the whole day swimming and all that and we go out and they had that like that cheese spread It was like merc's cheese.
It's not it's like a cheese.
They probably add stuff to it.
It's not like pure cheese
But damn was it good on a cracker with like a coke as a kid and I used to watch the adults drinking old fashions I was like I could not wait To be an adult and have an old-fashioned.
That's true.
I know you're kind of being funny, but that's I told they were
Yeah So I was getting back to a pluribus.
I do not recommend it if you're watching this show I know it's got its fans and people are going with it and I think partially based on the street cred of Better Call Saul
and breaking bad, but I would love to hear if you are watching Pluribus, I would love to hear what you like about it and have a spirited discussion.
Not an argument, certainly.
There are good things to it, but I would love to hear that if you have thoughts on that.
All right, coming up in hour number two after the news and sports and weather will be our civic media sports authority, Mike Clemens.
He will be joining us and we will press Mike a little bit on Packer injuries.
What else does he think Mike wants to talk about, Con?
You're a big time packer.
I saw that I laughed.
It certainly does.
They are decimated for sure.
Probably worse than anybody else in the league.
Mike will be here at 610.
And then Paul Gilmartin, former host of Dinner in a Movie and a very funny comedian won't be here at 635.
A comedian, Jim McHugh at 710 and then
Comedy Sports head coach, Mike Alth, helps us close out the show for 2025.
He'll be here at 720.
We are coming back, folks, afternoon sports and weather.
Stick around, lots more nightlight coming up.
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