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Arcade Nostalgia and Musical Teasers (Hour 3)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Jan 9, 2026
I have no idea to be honest.
I don't either but I would imagine It's it's I know it's more than a quarter, but you can't even get a soda I remember one as a kid sodas were like 35 cents then we were outraged when one up to 50 and Then and now I think a can of soda.
Maybe it's a dollar.
I don't know
And it's, you know, you can buy a two liter thing for about the same.
Like if you're ordering from Domino's, a 20 ounce soda is like three bucks.
They really stick it to you, because they know you're not leaving the house anyway.
So if you're ordering soda, you're desperate.
They really let you have it.
Hey, this is Nightlight with Peach Waba, folks.
We are kicking off act three on this Friday night of a big, our first winter weekend without a holiday.
But we've got playoff football.
We've got some great movies this weekend, lots to do.
in and around the state.
And it's Friday.
So rejoice, sit back and enjoy the last hour of Nightlight.
Terry Barr will be here.
It is a bar ban Friday night.
We love when Terry comes by and she's gonna bring two great artists tonight.
One of them we know, it's Katie Scullin and Katie's been on the show before she's outstanding.
She's got a new album coming out.
We'll talk about that with Terry.
And then Terry will surprise us with another artist as well.
So that's exciting.
If you missed the first couple hours of the show, we had Greg Bach from Civic Media Mornings here on Civic Media.
At 535, he was here.
We talked about his new comedy club in Milwaukee.
It's not new, it's a new space.
The laughing tap has been around for a while, and Greg is one of the co-owners, and he's also a very funny stand-up comedian.
So if you missed that and you want to hear that,
Check out the podcast at civicmedia.us Nightlight with Pichuaba and then an hour number two we talked to Mike Clemens who gave us some just great insights on the Bears and the Packers game tomorrow night they square off at Soldier Field on What should be a bomby night for January?
I mean, you know what's crazy con today?
It was 60 in Chicago and
No.
No.
But how cool would that be?
How cool?
Yeah.
No, I would take it.
We've got, so Terry Barr coming up at 7.35.
We also, our question of the night, I think we should just reintroduce the question of the night, is people want to get involved Conrad, and we want to know their favorite arcade game, so take it away, the nightlight 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.
That's right, folks.
We're taking a trip down memory lane going back into Nostalgiaville.
I played a game called Track and Field that I thought was really fun.
I also liked Mr. Do and Dig Dug, two similar games.
I liked a lot of them, but I would say those are the machines I probably headed for first at the arcade.
And typically all the popular games were spoken for, or you had to wait, you had to put your quarter up there, or whatever the procedure was in your name of the way.
Conrad said... Asteroids, yeah.
Great game.
So what is your favorite arcade game?
Let us know at 855-752-4842-855-75Civic.
You can also text us on the app or drop us a stream comment if you're watching the radio on Facebook, YouTube or X. Let us know your favorite arcade game.
Bridget from the 818.
It says Pong.
I loved it as a kid.
That's our second vote for Pong, Con.
I think it'd be really cool if an absolute, the best of my knowledge, that is the first home video game.
I think it was in arcades as well, but I remember the first kid on our block that had pong, it was like, you know, the first person with a car.
It was incredible.
So thank you for that, Bridget.
Thank you, Bridget, from the 818.
So we've got, that's our question tonight, folks.
Be part of the show.
Let us know.
I sent you a clip earlier this to put some perspective on things.
We all know inflation is really high right now You know It's it's really incredible.
I just said a two liter bottle of soda was like three bucks.
Maybe I don't think it is I think it's like five dollars now So I found a clip of speaking of memory lane and going back into nostalgia Of this receipt that someone found in what 150 bucks in groceries
bought you.
Con, let's play that clip right now.
Little
Debbie's brownies were $1.09.
A big yogurt thing was 50 cents.
All vegetables were 25 cents.
Oh my gosh.
These are the little Gerber baby foods, 55 cents.
Wow.
A big Baird's large white loaf, like a bread, $1.26.
Tortillas were $1.50.
How much is it now?
Like $4?
Yeah.
Not like four or five, but anything name-brained like Gerber.
This is 55 cents.
It'd be like $4 now.
If not more.
A diet coke 20 ounce like liter, I guess would be like 75 cents.
That's a lot of stuff.
And what year was this?
Is it even say?
I should have the top.
Uh, 04.
Oh, wow.
No, wait.
97.
620.
97.
I mean,
There's some comic that does a great joke about you can't leave the house anymore without dropping 100 bucks.
It's like post office, grocery store, 100 bucks, dry cleaner, gas station, go into the mall for something quick or a convenience store, 100 bucks.
And that was just not even 30 years ago.
That's what 150 bucks bought you.
And I'm not saying that like talk about inflation, but just how time when we look back on stuff like arcade games, a quarter.
Or a soda 50 cents and then we're seeing what these people got for 150 bucks.
So it's fun to Do you even have you even noticed how much things have gone up Conrad like in the last five years?
Yeah It's crazy and it never goes back down like little Debbie's
The whole pack of them were like a dollar or something yogurt's for like 60 cents.
I remember that And it's and people's wages don't go up That's that's the that's the rub I think and you know minimum wage has gone up like a nickel in 30 years or something like that So we've got I found this kind.
I thought this was interesting It's hobbies that seem to attract the kindest people So I wanted to talk about this.
I think this is from USA Today
But what do you think?
Think of a hobby that you think kind people would be drawn to kind
Yeah, you don't show up to talk about a book with an edge.
This book sucks with the book.
So here are some of them, I thought.
I thought the exact same thing when I was reading through these pottery and the ceramic arts.
There's no one sitting down to make, you know, a bowl with a barbed wire tattoo around their bicep.
Maybe there is.
I don't know.
Little do you know.
pounding red bull crochet.
That's another big one again.
Well,
And they could be like, you know, maybe these people that put this list together did not see the beekeeper with Jason Statham.
That guy will take you out.
Yeah, that's a totally different beekeeper.
Different kind of beekeeper.
But birdwatching too.
I can't even picture birdwatchers swearing like look at that effin morning dove I mean like these are just like people that are calm people gravitate toward these Hobbies, I think it's kind of cool hiking another one probably not quite as much You hike on
Oh And it's like giving me the stink.
I almost said the big I think I literally from a stink bug So
You're the last person that saw me alive.
This thing attacks me.
Woodworking, another one.
Woodworking is like, you know, you stay calm.
It's supposed to be therapeutic.
I've never done any woodworking, but board gaming, another one that
Way to live on the edge.
No kidding.
And here's one.
This one this one was interesting.
Someone said, believe it or not, death metal.
That that kind of shocked me, to be honest with you.
What's your music?
Okay, we've been working in there for two years now.
Okay.
I don't even know your music of choice
We are so done with this conversation Tom from Hartford in the 262 says I saw an arcade game and a custard stand in Cedarburg
It featured Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movie Terminator.
Very cool looking.
The red robot eye.
I remember that game.
That is a cool game.
Great one, Tom.
Thank you.
Tom says tic-tac-toe.
I think he's talking about our friendly hobbies.
I wouldn't call tic-tac-toe a hobby.
Some people can really get into it, I guess.
I guess so.
Not like a fountain pen enthusiast or something like that, but...
All right folks terry bar is going to be here.
We've got new sports and weather coming up in about 10 minutes And next segment we are going to talk to a we have a special movie reviewer who's going to pop in for one of what we call a thumbnail movie review It's coming up after this and then we've got terry bar to help us close down this week.
It's nightlight with peach waba on the civic media radio network Tell me
started.
It's a Friday night edition of nightlight and I am so glad you were here folks our question of the night You still have time to get in on the fun is what is your favorite arcade game?
We've had just a wide array of answers.
It's been really fun breaking those down And I have to kind I know I've been talking all week about maybe going to Chicago tomorrow Yeah for the game or whatever, but I forgot I have a fountain pen enthusiasts meeting.
The stink bug has been neutralized.
Does it stink in there?
I put them outside.
They stink.
The second you grab them, they emit some kind of odor.
And I don't I don't even know how they get in.
They're not small bugs, but they're like wasp size.
I have no idea where in my house they could get it, but.
Enough with the stink bug talk.
We have a very quick we do this periodically folks We have a movie reviewer who is gonna join us now for a few minutes and he shares my last name and We are gonna talk about a movie He just saw and he will tell you whether or not he recommends it before we get to Terry Barr with bar ban Friday night joining me on the phone right now is Joe Schwabba.
Hey Joe
Hey, how you doing good?
How are you?
I'm pretty good.
Oh, very nice.
Very balmy outside.
Oh,
I just learned what that word is, so I've been using it a
I've heard it both ways.
OK.
You say, listen, I knew what you were talking about either way, even if you want to pronounce the L, I'm totally fine with that.
But listen, thanks for joining us, kiddo.
I want to ask you, I know you saw Marty Supreme.
Conrad saw it and liked it.
I have not seen it yet.
I have heard really excellent stuff about this movie, but I wanted to get your take on it.
What did you think of Marty Supreme?
Yeah, I thought Marty Supreme was great.
I thought it was really fun.
I thought Timothy Chalamet's performance was very good.
I thought the Supporting actors were very good as well Gwyneth Paltrow and
Odessa Azion I believe her name is very good.
I did not enjoy Kevin O'Leary being in it I have a couple of weeks and and almost none of them have to do with the actual movie I thought the actual movie was great, but I Don't know a 24 has been doing this thing where they cast
regular people as characters or like parallel celebrities as characters and I just like I Don't know.
Maybe I'm speaking for experience a little bit.
It's hard enough being an actor and Getting roles.
So I'm like, what are we doing given a role that Kevin O'Leary?
Seems like he's doing okay.
Yeah, I don't think
So it's a weird choice to think Yeah
You talked about Timothy Chalamet.
There is serious Oscar buzz around him.
The nominations come out next week.
You've seen some of the films.
I know you saw Sinners, One Battle After Another.
Where does his performance rank with like Michael B. Jordan or Leonardo DiCaprio in your
opinion?
I think it's right there with him.
I think he did a really good job in this movie.
I'm trying to it's just it's it's it's one of those movies that's infectious because the protagonist just cares so much like you know you think about something like ping-pong and that's something like your weird cousin is really good at but not something that you really care about or think about but you know when when a movie's written in pace like marty supreme is it's the character
And the performance makes you care about the, you know, the topic.
It doesn't
matter.
It could be anything like ping pong is interchangeable, but.
I love movies where a character just cares so much about one thing and it makes
care about it too.
However, I will say that I feel like there are some people missing the point with this movie.
probably
lot of dudes.
He's not a good guy.
The marketing kind of makes it seem like he's going to be your underdog sports hero.
But this is more of a wolf of Wall Street or a good fellow.
He's a bad dude.
You should not relate to Timothy Shalvey in this movie in a lot of ways.
You should not.
Yeah, I agree you just you still definitely root for him, but I think you know I Don't think that he's like This is weird because the portray the trailers portray the movie in a very different way and I don't know if that was part of the marketing plan for the movie but you know the trailers make it seem like you're watching an underdog like You know like
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah,
She was good.
Yeah, she's good.
I mean she's good and everything I don't know if she had a ton to do in this movie Yeah, but the I would say Odessa Zion was very good.
She was very very likeable I was feeling that her career is gonna kind of explode after this
Yeah, thank you.
Appreciate it.
I know I make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow because she's kind of odd sometimes, but she is a very good actor.
All right, we are coming back with Terry Barr after the news.
It is Bar Band Friday night, folks.
Glad you're here.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.
time
It is that time of the week, ladies and gentlemen, when we welcome our pal.
You know her.
You love her.
She's one of the co-hosts of Max, Inc.
on WMDX, which you can hear on the podcast if you don't live in Madison.
It's well worth it.
It's an award-winning show, and Terry is an award-winning contributor on so many levels.
And she joins us here as our Wisconsin music expert on Friday nights for Bar Band Friday night, and she is with us tonight as usual.
Hello, my friend.
Oh,
hello, Pete and Conrad and all of your fabulous listeners and viewers, wherever they are watching or listening from.
Yeah.
Happy Friday, everybody.
So you're on the phone tonight.
Sorry, go ahead Terry.
There's a lot going on so as we're kind of running around in the studio in different places I thought you know what I'm gonna just have to do it by phone and then some of this will be a surprise hopefully for people when they listen either tomorrow night or to the podcast after tomorrow night.
absolutely.
Well, do you want to start with Sean Michael Dargan this evening?
Sean Michael Dargan.
Sean is a really interesting guy.
And you know, you found the right person because he loves to wear saddle shoes.
I thought that was so interesting when I learned that about him.
And it's no, no joke.
He almost always has saddle shoes on.
He really, I know he just loves them.
He's found them to be super comfortable and he feels they always match his suits.
So he's kind of more of that old school type artist.
Yes, he's very, um, informed by the music of like Elvis Costello and even the gin blossoms.
Mm hmm.
He has an original band.
Oh, he, he just, you can feel those influences too.
But this is also fun.
He has an original band.
So he is the singer, songwriter, lead guitar player, uh, of this band.
He also has a Beatles tribute that plays all around the state.
They're called the Madison Mystery Tour and he has an 80s tribute band.
So this guy's busy.
white
Yes.
And he's really funny.
When you talk to him, you cannot stop laughing.
So if you catch the interview in his music tomorrow night, he is on Maxink Radio on WMDX out of Madison from eight until nine on Saturday night.
He is a hoot.
And you know what's really cool about him?
He's passing what he has learned about the music business on.
He now mentors students at the Memorial Union on the UW campus.
They book the acts.
They manage, they promote, and he helps them learn how to do it the right way, which I think is so great.
He is performing, and he's in his original trio, and that's who he is bringing into the studio to perform.
And the song that we are sharing tonight is, guess what, Pete?
brand spanking new it's off of his it's the newest single that is coming off of his album which will be released in the summer
got that
sure outstanding
They are based in Madison, but between all the bands he plays in, he plays all over the place.
Very influenced by that.
Absolutely.
If you do want to see him, he only has one show coming up.
It's in Madison on February 5th at the Weary Traveler on Williamson Street.
But
about.
Isn't that a great spot?
what, what a small cozy venue for a show like this.
Once he has his new album set this summer though, he'll be out and about everywhere.
So look for Shawn Michael Dargan.
I would love to have him the next time I do the show for Madison or something in the studio.
That's a great song.
And it'd be even cooler to see him at the weary traveler free house.
That is such a funky little joint and they have a great cheeseburger there.
called, I think it's called the Bob's Bad Breath Burger.
It is Pete.
You know it.
If anybody's ever been to Madison, they've probably at some point stopped there and had at least a sniff of that burger.
It is.
I agree.
And they often have cocktails and mocktails named after Wisconsin based artists.
Absolutely.
Katie has been in bands since she was in high school.
And after she won every contest she could win in Wisconsin with her bands, she went out on her own.
So she has been the lead of all of her bands.
And what is really important to her and I think as she gets older with her music, she is going to keep control of all of it because we've heard these horror stories of people losing control of their music or their copyright or whatever the case may be.
But she said she had to laugh because even though her music is on Bandcamp, where you still might get some money, Spotify, she said one of her songs, she earned like six cents.
after it played like 2000 times on Spotify.
Yeah, yeah.
So
working a couple of, she is working a couple of jobs.
She's teaching guitar and she's really brought her art together with her music.
She's a talented artist as well.
And you can see that when her new album is coming out, she's got her own artwork in it.
And it's just really fun to see her kind of blossoming as she does get older.
She's so great.
She's a yeah, and she's a graphic artist too, so I remember correctly so why don't we do this Terry because you've got something she's got a new Album coming out and you have something we can tease from that.
Why don't we play pieces from her last album?
Let that take us to break and when we come back we'll tease the new song before we say goodbye.
Does that work?
I love it Pete.
Let's
Yeah.
Yes.
That one's one minute because that's all she's sharing for the moment.
Yeah, no problem.
All right.
Conrad is going to play pieces that will take us to the break.
And then we will come back and hear Katie's a real quick snippet off her new album, just a little teaser.
But we will be back after this song and a short break with Terry Barr.
It's Barbie and Friday Night on Nightlight with Beach Waba.
Hey, next week, folks, is gonna be a lot of fun on Nightlight as well.
Monday, GBW reporter Connie Feldman will be on the show.
Sherry Stoka, great nutritionist and founder of Wayless MD will talk to Sherry about some tips for losing those holiday pounds.
And then comedian Rob Brackenridge will be on the show.
But a lot of fun and some real characters and fun guests on the show next week.
Jason Jerry, the Green Bay Llama will be on the show.
Patty Vasquez, Christina Laurie, influencer Christina Laurie, Wisconsin, Wisco Dive Bar's personality, Jared Shutz, I hope I'm saying that right, Logan Robey from Wisconsin Travel, Ellie Bordo from Up North News, all kinds of fun, and Terry Barr, I hope anyway, next Friday night, she's here with us
now,
week.
I will actually be hosting Katie Skullens' release show,
but I'm going to chime in with you next Friday during it.
So hopefully I can bring you a piece of it live.
Yeah.
Terry is here.
It's a bar band Friday night.
We've got a couple more minutes with Terry and we're talking about Katie Skullin who is a phenomenal singer-songwriter.
She's been on the show before.
We just heard her song Pieces in the last segment and now Terry's got a special treat for us tonight.
Tell us about this new thing she's working on Terry.
Yeah.
a new song it's the first one that she has had in more than a couple of years you just heard pieces and that was from her most recent album and she said it's just been a struggle to kind of keep up and get back at it but now she's thrilled she's got the energy to take this through and so much so that she loved this song and she did a video too so next
Friday, the first release of both the song and the video will be happening at this place called Copa.
It's in South Madison.
And here's another sidebar that goes with this Pete.
It's owned by Dale Stitcher.
He's a Verona native.
He may be better known for being Elton John's Piana tuner when Elton John was on tour.
Yeah.
I've heard of him.
Yes, he is creating this amazing space, and it's not often open to the public, so this is going to be a great show.
Again, it's next Friday night, January 16th, that is, at Copa, and we'll be blasting out all the information about it.
Otherwise, you can find it on Katie's website, KatieStollen.
It's S-C-U-L-L-I-N dot com.
her brand new song that is not being fully released until her release party next Friday But she was willing to share this little clip of it with us
And again, she will be releasing both the full song and a video to boot.
And then her band is going to play a full show.
So it should be a lot of fun next Friday.
And I'll try to be live for you from there and bring you a report.
But for now, we get a little, little snip of the song.
i can't wait to hear the whole thing oh my goodness i love her voice i know i do too and she's got a way of changing it to fit whatever kind of song she's doing she can belt out some rock and roll i've heard her do that as well but i know this is really the style that she loves
be
and Go pack go, right?
we'll see.
Oh, sorry Pete.
Okay.
That's the Conrad Conrad go back.
He's all over it.
Good luck to both of you
Terry, thank you so much.
And I know you're right in the middle of stuff.
So I appreciate the time and we'll talk to you next week.
And yeah, crush it tomorrow night.
You got it.
Thank you guys.
See you all later.
You're welcome.
That's Terry Bart.
Check out Max, Ink Radio, folks.
It's on here on WMDX, I should say, from six to nine on Saturday nights.
And if you want to check it out and you're not in the Madison area,
Listen to the podcast at civicmedia.us terry and rocker do an excellent job and it is an award-winning show So my thanks to everybody who was on the show tonight Greg Bach Mike Clemens terry bar.
Thank you for all your texts and calls Thank you for con thank you to Conrad for only saying happy new year about seven or eight times
But, you know, from your mouth to God's ears.
So we've got a great show coming up Monday, folks.
Have a great weekend, Conrad.
Final prediction.
Give us a score.
42 to zero.
Okay.
Hackers, I'll say 42 to zero bears.
And we will see who comes up.
But it's going to be a fun night.
Party safely, folks.
Have a great weekend.
And we will see you or talk to you, I should say, on Monday night on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
I'm Pete Schwabba saying good night, Wisconsin.
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