Swearing, Sneezes, and the Silver Screen (Hour 2)

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Pete Chwaba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I am Pete Schwabba.

I like most of you.

I am trying to stay warm.

I hope everybody is doing just that and having a great day.

It is Thursday, ladies and gentlemen, in this short week at Nightlight.

We have lots going on tonight, lots to get to.

and including news, sports, and weather, which is just 24 minutes away.

We'll keep you posted on the cold and what's happening around our state as we always do here at Civic Media.

Great to have you with me, no matter where you're joining us from.

I hope it... It's probably not any warmer than it is in northeast Wisconsin, but maybe a few degrees warmer.

Either way, you gotta bundle up.

Be careful out there.

Don't go anywhere if you don't have to.

And, you know...

Listen, this is a great time Conrad to be a couch potato.

Stay home, watch some color television, listen to the radio, smoke, drink, whatever you have to do.

Get to know each other again if you're a couple.

And remember, smoking is cool.

Smoking is really cool, dude.

Yeah.

If I start smoking at my age, it's not gonna affect me until I'm, you know, I'm gonna have a whole bunch of other stuff by then.

Well, you know, yeah, when you go work out, like when you try to, you're gonna be wheezing though.

Do some curls with a cigarette in my mouth.

Tell

me.

Okay, that would be really cool.

Who is not looking at that guy going, oh man, I would love to be like that dude.

You'd have to like do that outside though.

Because they'd throw you out, you

mean?

Yeah.

But are you referencing this because when I said I told my wife I was gonna start smoking because it's cool?

And at my age, I'm out of the woods in

terms of health.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And she just didn't understand that.

That's I'm not saying it's a huge issue in our marriage, but I feel like that makes good logical sense if I start smoking in my 50s

You should be like, you know, the high schoolers, you know, leaning on on the high school wall, you know and just my letter Yeah, you should do that now

How creepy would that be?

Hey girls, I got a letter

I would do no such thing welcome tonight late folks fun show tonight great guests a fun question and We're gonna talk we're gonna keep you posted throughout the night about the weather and not that anybody needs this although I do I do wonder because I called my folks earlier, and I said listen.

I'm going to Green Bay I'm gonna stop at Walmart on the way home if you need anything let me know You can't leave the house.

They're like well.

How cold is it supposed to be?

And I was like

I just couldn't believe they were asking me, like, how do you not know how cold it's gonna be?

But you know, they're retired.

They're at home a lot.

But I think they would have tried to go out to breakfast tomorrow and been like, oh my God, this is crazy.

But I would just not leave my house if I didn't have to.

And I never had, really with DoorDash streaming on demand.

It's not making someone else leave their house, you know?

I'm paying them to do it though.

I

have that power.

That's

true.

It's a $5 tip.

That is the voice of Conrad Krieger, who is producing tonight's show.

We have, as I mentioned, a very fun show tonight, folks.

We have, first of all, here's how cold it was.

I've been known, there's something called a Pete sneeze.

And I've done this at home, and I freak my kids out sometimes.

I don't know what it is.

I just, I have these really intense sneezes.

And I was reading the Hollywood beats, we were recording them earlier.

And Conrad jumped about two feet out of his seat, maybe dropped his phone.

I don't know.

He's just letting me ramble.

And let's just give the people a taste of what you were dealing with, Con.

Has a sneeze ever been played before on the air?

I'm always looking for different ways.

I'm kind of new to radio.

I would love to break some ground somehow.

That is so gross.

This is like Pete's gross day.

Let me tell you what happened this morning.

So it's, you know, today wasn't, we didn't have a high of 10 below, but it was, you know, nippy outside.

So I'm running low on coffee.

I put my last couple scoops of coffee in the coffee maker, and I decide like a genius to cut my nails over the kitchen sink, my fingernails.

One of them flies into my coffee.

So

typically, hold on, let's not bury the lead.

Typically, I would dump that and just remake another pot because, you know,

I have reasonably clean hands.

I sanitize and I wash my hands regularly, but you don't know what's under your fingernails, you know.

I might have stopped a crime last night.

I might have, uh, I don't know.

But anyway, my point is I drank the coffee.

I fished it out, but I didn't have any more coffee.

What

would you have done?

If I, if I didn't have any other coffee, I...

Still probably would have dumped it out.

I'm not going.

It's not

my disgusting neighbor's fingernail though.

See that's the thing.

It's my own.

It's my own germs that were on my person before I cut said fingernail and it flew into said coffee.

It's not gonna affect the taste or though maybe if it does in a good way, I'm a millionaire and I've discovered something.

But I realized I'm kind of prudish about stuff like that.

Until I realize I'm not gonna have coffee today because I'm not going to the store To get coffee and I probably would have drank it if it was my wife's fingernail because you know she's I

Should stop

yeah, we need to know not that I'm just saying like if you if between a husband and wife I don't think a fingernail is a big deal

Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

I think I still would have dumped it out regardless on

coffee lists.

Yeah, probably

See that's the difference

between just cuz I freak out anything in my drink.

I'm not a quitter.

I you know, I I went to After a workout I was like I'm kind of kind of want something to drink so I went to Taco Bell to grab like a some type of diet soda or something sure and One thing I

died

One little residue of something dropped in my drink.

I don't know what it was, but it was a little black speck.

And I saw it.

Do you think I powered through that drink?

But hold on, dropped from where?

The roof of your car?

No, it was just, no, it was in there already, like when I got it.

No, you don't drink that.

That's different.

I dumped it out.

I've got, I'm not saying I have the cleanest fingernails in Wisconsin, but I'm upper percentile.

So that's why I rolled the dice.

See

and not no way would I drink a drink from a fast food place where there was a floater absolutely not

You know, I was kind of thinking about it like okay.

This has to be like some mold from like the the soda machine there Yeah, like dropping okay.

They're from out from the nozzle or whatever right?

I was like that has to be like mold like they haven't cleaned this thing and you know six weeks or something

the good thing is for you

The mold that dropped into your soda, probably not as unhealthy as the soda.

Well, you know, it's fine.

Drink it

up.

It's not gonna hurt you.

I didn't drink it.

I definitely dumped it out.

So this is Pete's gross day.

I had a really disgusting wet sneeze that we shared with all the listeners.

Should I play it again?

Yeah, let's fire it up.

They just sneak up on me.

I don't know, like...

I don't know.

Look, I'm human, folks.

I sneeze, okay?

Yeah, I'm a mountain of muscle, and ridiculously good-looking, and funny, but I'm a disgusting sneezer.

Yeah, you just- I'm probably-

Kidding about

all this stuff.

Across the street, you know?

They're doing some work over there.

Yeah, the lights flickered at Shriver when I sneezed.

They probably all jumped out of their seats there.

Like, what is going on over WGW?

Hey, we got a really fun topic I want to talk about today, folks.

Swearing.

You know, a lot of people get bent out of shape about it.

I don't really have a problem with it.

I grew up in a household where swearing was forbidden.

We just didn't do it.

My parents were pretty proper people for the most part.

The worst my mom would ever say is damnation, which I still don't really even know what that means today, or she's condemning an entire country, which seems worse than saying, you know, an S bomb or an F bomb.

But I grew up really not swearing.

Unless I was out with my friends, then it was like a freedom.

rained and I swore but I'm curious as to how people feel about swearing um I don't know what did you

swear when you were a kid in your house I tried not to you know but sometimes I'd let them fly I guess

in front of your parents is what I'm

saying yeah well all right so without my parents being there I definitely would swear sure well yeah of course yeah I mean I tried not to but sometimes they just

fly out and I'd be like, oh, sorry.

Oh, really?

Okay.

Sorry to see you there, mom.

I got it.

I remember one time I had, I was having an asthma attack.

I was probably 17 and I couldn't breathe and my mom took me to the emergency room and they gave me a shot of adrenaline.

That's how they used to do it.

And the needle was like two inches long, right in the right in the arm.

And I just said, oh, shh.

And I said that word, which isn't even that bad.

And she said, Peter.

I was like, really?

A two inch needle into my arm?

So that's my history with swearing, but this all leads us to tonight's 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.

Questions.

How do you feel about swearing?

Do you let your kids swear?

And the reason I wanted to say this was because I just talked about how I did not swear in front of my parents when I was a kid.

Somehow, and I thought, you know, I'd raise my kids the same way.

I would forbid swearing in the house, but assume they would do it out of the house.

But my wife was raised a little more laid back than in my house.

And she would drop an F, an S, or a, what are the other bombs you can drop?

An A bomb?

B bomb?

A B bomb, whatever.

And my kids just all of a sudden felt comfortable.

So, Mayor, if you're listening, yes, I'm mostly blaming you.

I will also say I came around and I don't think it's a big deal.

I'm more concerned about what's behind the words you say than the actual words, because they are just words.

But I want to know how you feel.

How do you feel about swearing?

And do you let your kids swear?

I do now.

I mean, my kids are mostly grown, so I don't freak out about it.

Because I think freaking out about it makes it even worse Conrad grew up in a very laissez-faire house F-bombs, R-bombs, C-bombs,

I don't

even know what these moms are But I did not and I've come around I think there is a time and a place I still ask the kids not to talk like that in front of their grandparents even though they've mellowed out too quite a bit We are bear fans, so there's a fair amount of swearing over the last few years

So let us know what you know, folks.

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This is Nightlight with Pete Chihuahua.

A Thursday edition, the Christmas Eve of weeknights.

Got lots to get to.

When we come back, I'm going to tell you who our guests are.

For tonight's show.

They're all outstanding and we're gonna talk Oscar nominations and No more fingernail in the coffee talk.

I think we'll leave that.

Yeah

at the door,

you know, I was thinking about this question, you know And I'm thinking I'm gonna teach him a bunch of words

me

and you know when I have kids I'm gonna teach I'm gonna teach him how to say And I'll teach him how to say dude.

No way You can't

actually maybe I'll tell him

I don't know man

You don't think that's safe?

First of all, if you're going to teach them to swear.

Teach them cool words so that their friends idolize them.

So even their friends don't know what they're saying.

Like, what's that?

Like, I repeated words as a kid.

I had no idea what they meant.

And you just sound like a horse's ass.

You know, I think school, you learn a bunch of fun ones.

So you don't, your parents don't really have to teach you any because you just automatically get it there.

Correct and I will I'll be I'll admit in fifth grade I thought a part of the male anatomy meant mouth when I heard Starts with C and some guy was walking around saying oh he's talking about his mouth That's how clueless.

I was that's Catholic school for you.

Okay.

We're coming right back It's Pete Schwabba in nightlight glad you're here folks.

We got a fun show tonight.

Don't go anywhere

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwab, but great to have you here on this ridiculously cold.

It's only gonna get worse, folks.

It's gonna be horrible all weekend.

And I'm a glass half full guy, silver lining guy, optimist, thumbs up type of guy, but damn, it is going to be cold.

I've noticed too, Conrad, that I use the cold as an excuse even about things that have nothing to do with the cold.

Like, my wife is like, are you gonna go to the gym after your show?

I'm like, it's freezing outside.

It's like I'm not working.

I know, that's what I'm saying, but any excuse I'll have, like I went down to get a sandwich earlier and the guy goes, you want something sweet?

You want a cookie?

And I'm like, in my head, I'm going, yeah, it's 10 below.

Give me a cookie.

Like, what does that have to do with anything?

But I got the cookie.

If you said ice cream, maybe I'd understand.

Yeah.

Oh, that would warm things up a little bit in this kind of weather.

Yeah, you know, go outside, eat some ice cream tomorrow.

Perfect day.

I'm still trying to make radio history.

I don't know how to do this.

We tried with the sneeze before.

The phone is not exactly ringing off the hook, but Corey, one of our fearless leaders here at Civic Media said, take precautions tomorrow.

If you can work at home tomorrow, do so.

And I'm going to probably do the show from home tomorrow.

And I responded back, I'll probably be at home in bed under electric blankets.

Has that ever been done?

I hope not.

What do you think the sound quality

would be like?

Hope you don't do that.

I don't think so.

No, you know unless you have one of those, you know Tables that you can lay over yourself And it's just like you just see your forehead like a breakfast in a bed type thing.

Yeah, and you just see your forehead in the camera

Why but that's not like

because you're like laying on a pillow, you know

Not even showing my eyes.

Okay.

Oh, this is beach

Well, we'll see.

I still have hope for the sneeze.

I don't know if that's ever been done before, but

we'll figure it out.

We'll play it a couple times during the show and just see how it goes.

Let's

hear it again.

Are you sure?

Yeah, it was cute.

It's so awful.

You can tell I'm sick too, like I'm like, ugh, I'm sorry, fuck.

Let's not play the sneeze anymore.

I don't want to chase people away.

Uh, is this a good time to ask for likes on social media?

Yes.

Here's a disgusting sneeze.

Yes.

Go like our Facebook.

If you feel bad for Pete when he sneezes.

Oh, that's good.

Pity.

Absolutely.

All right, so our question of the night is, how do you feel about swearing?

Will you let your kids swear or do you let your kids swear?

Very eager to hear some of these answers to tonight's question.

We have a fun show tonight, folks.

Coming up in just a few minutes, I'm very excited about our guest tonight.

Ryan Albers will be here.

He is the event chairman this year.

for a really, really cool event involving dogs.

It is sponsored by the mid-morning Kiwanis of Oshkosh.

And it's called New Top Dog.

New, of course, meaning New Northeast Wisconsin Top Dog.

And it raises a ton of money for great causes in its contest.

People send pictures of their dogs in.

The public can vote.

All the proceeds go to children in need and pets.

Pet rescue pets in need.

It's gonna be great So Ryan will be here at 5 30 after news sports and weather to tell us about this great event that you can participate in And it's kind of an all-things new new show and when I say new Northeast Wisconsin Hanna Lopez will be here.

She covers door County for NBC 26 here in Green Bay She's been on the show before she is going to make tonight's popcorn pick of the week.

She'll be here in studio.

She's a lot of fun She is a fellow to Paul blue demon

That's our connection, and she will be here in studio with a movie pick, so you won't want to miss that.

And then, in hour number three, Irish author Molly Aitken will be here.

This is something we recorded ahead of time, and she was such a fun guest.

She's an author, but she's just an absolute joy to talk to, and I think you're really gonna...

like Molly and you might just run out and pick up one of her books because she's a really accomplished author and only in like her early 30s.

So she joined us earlier from the UK, even though she was raised in Cork, Ireland.

She joined us over the stream from London.

So that will be fun too.

And that's an hour number three.

In the meantime, we've got some texts we'll get to here.

Our question is how do you feel about swearing?

Do you let your kids swear or will you let your kids swear?

I Used to be more uptight about this than I am now.

I really don't care anymore.

They're just words It's more like the anger that would be behind these words that I would be concerned about

see when I was growing up would always say that to it like It's just a word.

Yeah.

Well, yeah as a kid when your parents hear exactly mom It's just a word.

No eat this soap No, it's cuz I never understood why it was so bad to say it when I was growing up, you know,

yeah

I never would have said, oh, it's just another word.

But

how did that fly in the Krieger household?

Well, they didn't want me to say it, obviously.

So I try to not say it by them, say any words by them.

That would be bad.

The one I don't like is MF.

I don't like that.

I feel it's demeaning to women and mothers.

And it's like people say it casually.

Like they'll just talk to their friend like, bro or homie or dude, they'll throw that.

And I'm like, what?

Like words have meaning they are just words, but they do have meaning.

I don't particularly like that swear word, okay?

Yeah, there's there's one that I that I don't that I don't necessarily like starts with a C.

Yeah Is it have to do with private parts?

Yes.

Yeah, that one's a tough one.

I've never

just cuz I hate how it sounds Not it's hard word.

It's just how it sounds It sounds really harsh when you say

so much for it's just a word because you're right some of them have a much bigger

Sting or bite.

I don't like that word either Sometimes I say words as a joke, but I would never call a woman that like yeah, even though I've been upset.

I don't even use the B word Unless it's to a male friend I

Usually say that when I'm on the golf course.

Yeah to your golf ball.

Yeah.

Yeah, I love when

people swear

John Murray on the text line in the 608 says, Pete, ever had a shot called a toenail?

You don't want that.

It sounds really awful.

He says, pour the bar mat into a shot glass at the end of the night and power it down.

Pour the bar mat into a shot glass.

So that's like

sneezes and...

I've seen someone do that.

Do a toenail?

Yes.

I've never heard of that.

In a Milwaukee bar.

That's really awful.

And then Cam sent a picture of a guy banging his head against the counter.

Is that what it's like listening

to the nightlight?

That's what it's like listening

to your sneeze.

To

my sneeze.

That makes good sense.

All right, folks.

New sports and weather is next.

And then we are coming back to talk about a new top dog.

You do not want to miss that.

Hanna Lopez is here, too, in hour number two.

And we talk with an awesome Irish author in act three.

This is Peach Wabba.

In nightlight, we're coming right back.

Welcome back I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is nightlight on a Thursday a wonderful night in as far as weeknights go Thursday is top dog.

You see what I did there Conrad?

That's great.

That's called a segue in radio

That's great.

I don't know if my sneeze will put me on the map, but that segue might do it.

We are turning our attention out to a really cool event that is happening locally here, just coming up very shortly here, called the New Top Dog.

That new, obviously, is Northeast Wisconsin Top Dog, a great contest where the public gets to vote on dog pictures and it raises money for an outstanding cause.

And joining me here in the studio right now to talk about it is the chairman of this year's event, Ryan Albers.

Hey, Ryan.

you broke down and went with the headphones.

I did.

I'm gonna try it out.

Give it a shot.

You know, you know, we take them off if you don't like it.

I have to ask you, before we get started, you have the Kiwanis pullover on.

My dad was a Kiwanis member in Marinette, Wisconsin.

What is mid-morning, Oshkosh, mid-morning Kiwanis?

There's a lot to unpack there.

What is that?

What's going on there?

So

it's basically an organization that is...

international organization and it's for the benefit of children in our community.

And we do fundraisers and volunteer and things like that to improve the lives of children in our community.

And it's called mid-morning Kiwanis because there was actually another Kiwanis club that used to meet earlier than us.

They were the early birds.

It was at like six o'clock in the morning or something.

That's insanity.

And we meet at eight.

And eight is mid-morning.

So we meet at eight o'clock in the morning on Fridays at the airport in Oshkosh.

Oh, that sounds fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got a group of like 40 to 50 members.

Right now and everybody's super active and it's just a phenomenal club.

They're kind of like my second family

Very cool.

How long you've been involved in the group?

So I've been a club member since 2015 I took a little sabbatical during COVID just to focus on my business, but then I was pulled back in and So now I'm can't get probably gonna be a lifer.

What is your day job?

So to speak or what was your career?

So I'm one of the owners of a branding agency in Oshkosh called Quill Creative Studio.

And so we do corporate brand identity development.

And yeah, so it's a lot of creative work and spent some time to focus on that.

Very cool.

Well, it's good to have you here.

I'm very excited to talk about this event.

It's the new Top Dog, Northeast Wisconsin's popular online

dog photo contest and fundraiser.

It pairs local rescue organizations with area breweries.

I love how you make the jump to beer, because we're in Wisconsin.

Always.

I spent the

first six years of

my career

in the beer industry.

Did you really?

I did.

I was at the distributor level.

Oh, fantastic.

And it raises funds for pets and kids in need.

So tell us about this event.

How did it start and how long has it been around?

Yeah, so it's been around since 2020 and it started with the need to have a new fundraiser because our club was you know, they were the fundraisers they were doing kind of ran their course and they wanted to do a new fundraiser and just leveraging kind of like that digital crowd sourcing And if it can kind of go viral so the idea was that we could pair

local breweries with local animal rescues.

And then we split the proceeds 50-50 in each one of the contests between our Kiwanis Club for children's programming and then the rescues themselves.

So it started with just a concept that, hey, you know, we could run a photo contest and get people to, you know, solicit donations.

And it blew up.

And since 2020 we've raised over $700,000.

That

is unbelievable.

I was going to ask you about that.

in just five years.

And did you take a year off for COVID?

Did you say?

Yeah, I was out of the club for a little bit and the club kind of ran with the idea and it grew into the beast that it is today.

And then I was appointed chairman this last year and because I'm one of the owners of a branding agency, I took a whole brand refresh and made some slight tweaks to things just so I could really get my hands around it.

and uh... and we're about to launch on monday with the registration week

so it's it's just kind of a genius thing you put pictures of dogs online

Who doesn't want to see dogs and who like I'm allergic to dogs I would still look at dog pictures like and and kids dogs and kids are the recipients of the proceeds So it would be take somebody pretty heartless to say no, thanks,

right, right Yeah, it's it's phenomenal most of the funds that these rescues are you know earning

go toward medical costs to keep these dogs alive.

There's a lot of them that come to them in pretty rough shape.

So a lot of those funds go towards medical costs to make sure that it's not, you know, they're all no kill rescues.

So we've got five contests that are going to be going.

The breweries are Fifth Ward, Stone Arch.

Bear Bones, Fox River Brewery, and the Fond du Lac Brewery, which is a newer brewery in Fond du Lac.

And they're all paired with rescues, and we can talk about those too.

But the idea is that you submit a photo of your dog for $10, you get 10 free votes.

And then once voting opens on February 2nd,

You solicit votes from your friends and family.

You share that link on your social channels.

And whoever ends up getting the most votes at the end of the contest gets to work with a brewery to brew a beer in their dog's honor.

And then you get there, you know, your dog's photo on the can.

And, you know, if it's a pug, you can call the short snout stout or whatever.

And people just go crazy about this.

Usually the winning dog gets a couple thousand votes.

couple thousand votes

so if people want to enter their dogs where do they go they go to what's the website they go to

yeah it's called newtopdog.com simple enough and right on that website you'll be able to scroll down and see the five contests and you select them basically whether or not you you know whether you want to support one of the rescues that are listed or if you really like a brewery and you want to work with that brewmaster you could select it based on the brewery

It's it's I mean it's an honor for a dog to have a beer named after it, but it's sort of like You know a trophy that they can't really enjoy Sure picture on a dog food or something like

that.

Yeah Well, there are a lot and there are a lot of other prizes that we're gonna be giving away, too So there are definitely some more pet friendly prizes like you know leashes and gift cards to You know like C spot run and some other things that are more

Yeah,

so if I want to go vote am I voting for what I think is the cutest dog or the cool like Or is it just open like what dog do you like the best?

Like how do you coach people on how to vote if you do?

Yeah, whatever compels you I suppose if there's a specific rescue that you'd want to contribute to I would definitely say to visit that page Starting on the February 2nd, then you can go to the the new top dog page and you know go into that contest and

look through photos, and if there's a dog that really speaks to you, typically somebody knows somebody in the contest, and they've seen it because somebody shared the photo of their dog, and they're trying to vote absolutely.

This is fun.

Ryan Albers is my guest, folks.

He is the event chairman for this year's new top dog, a really cool thing that has raised a

$700,000 in just about five years for pet rescue and children in need.

Where do the children funds go to?

Like Head Start programs or for abused kids?

You said it goes through Kiwanis.

What kind of kids are the recipients of these?

Yeah, absolutely.

The Kiwanis Club has a variety of programs that we do to basically offload the funds that we've gathered.

Some of them include a program called iPads for Autism, where we purchase iPads for children from families that couldn't afford an iPad because it's a great learning tool.

We also have a program called...

project undercover where we purchase undergarments, socks and underwear and fill closets at school because there's a lot of kids that you wouldn't believe don't have socks and underwear and it makes them feel, you know, really out of place.

Teacher grants.

We also support some pantry programs that stock schools with snacks and, you know, to-go foods so that these kids who, you know, their lunch is the only meal of the day, they can take something home with them.

So it's all about just improving the lives of children in our community.

Absolutely love

it.

So, all right, so you can go online, you vote on the cutest dog or a dog that, as Ryan said, sort of you feel connected with over the picture.

Is there a swimsuit competition?

I have to ask that.

Oh my

goodness.

You could definitely have your dog be all soaking wet after coming in from the lake.

Usually they're all naked though.

Oh, see, I got red flags all over that.

Do people dress their dogs before they post some of the pictures?

There are some crazy photos.

You know, people have fun with it.

It's just one of those things where it just has to be a photo of your dog.

You can't have other people in it or, you know, honestly, just the dog is the focus.

And then the winners, first through third place, actually get to have a photo session with Deb Lake, who's a member of our club.

She's a professional photographer.

And then you get a photo session with her.

And those are the photos that we use for the cans.

So they're nice.

Chris, very cool.

So all right, so the entry opens January 26th.

Just go to newtopdog.com.

Correct.

Okay.

Entry opens January 26th, 10 bucks to post a picture of your dog and make it eligible.

Voting begins February 2nd.

And then the contest concludes March 1st.

That's kind of a fun month.

So is there anything in between?

Do you have releases or little parties about the voting opening?

Do you guys kind of milk this?

It seems like it would be a fun event to really get the most out of.

Yeah, absolutely.

So actually this coming week on Tuesday at Fifth Ward.

The Oshkosh area Humane Society is going to have celebrity bartending to kind of kick this off.

So they're going to have a bunch of people that work at the Humane Society bartending at Fifth Ward.

There's some other kickoff events that they're having.

Fox River Brewing, for instance, they have a tap room that they are all decorating for.

Valentine's Day and they're having puppy love Sundays with some promos those days and they'll run the leaderboards on the screen and stuff.

But really the thing to keep people engaged is throughout the event we have match days.

So there's some of our sponsors that have contributed funds to double the dose those days.

So every dollar is going to count as two votes during those match days.

And you only know what days are match days if you're following our Facebook page and see when we announce them.

That's a great point.

What are the socials you guys are on if people did want to get more involved or at least follow it?

Absolutely.

So it's Facebook and Instagram.

If you just search new top dog, it'll pop up there and just follow those pages.

That's where all the stuff is coming out.

E-Power Marketing does a phenomenal job.

They're our marketing partner.

And there's a lot of content that'll be going out on that.

I mean, we have like 12,000 people in our email list.

So, you know, we'll be getting the word out, but especially on social media, I'd follow.

You mentioned puppy love.

What is that?

Is that like just sort of a.

puppy category or is

it

separate or is it like dog speed dating?

What is that?

No, it was an idea that the the team at Fox River Brewing came up with to have some days throughout the event where they could run some specials.

So, you know, I'm not exactly sure what they're doing yet.

Maybe it's, you know, if you come in and you show that you're registered, you could, you know, get a free beer.

I know they're doing foot long hot dogs for sure, but they love a doghouse outside and stuff for some photo opportunities.

But it's just something to help push the program.

What a great program too.

I mean, honestly, you're kind of tapping into something no one can say.

I mean, who doesn't love rescue animals to begin with?

kids in need.

And then you've got, you know, some beer thrown in there.

And it just seems like a great event.

What has been the impact on the community as a whole?

Just like if people rallied around you guys, has it grown every year?

Yeah, it's, you know, there were a couple of years that were really popped off, especially around COVID when people had their stimulus checks that came in.

But yeah, we just hear people always getting excited about it.

We go to, you know, pet expos and stuff.

And people are always saying, yeah, I entered my dog and I ended up getting beat out or

My dog was on this can, and when you talk to people about it, they really get excited about it.

It's such a cool thing, too, because who really cares if you win?

If you're part of it, it just seems like a fun thing to be a part of.

And then if you do win, it's great, but just a neat community-type thing.

So we're going to have a few more minutes with my guest, Ryan Albers.

He is the event chair this year for a new top dog.

Check it out at newtopdog.com.

They're doing great things for kids.

Compliments of the mid-morning.

Kiwanis.

You got it.

Oshkosh, Midmortem, Kwanis.

All right, we're coming right back.

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

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Great to have you with me.

We are talking about swearing tonight, folks.

That is our question of the night.

How do you feel about swearing?

Do you let your kids do it?

I don't really let them, but they do it anyway.

And what am I going to do, really?

Conrad grew up in a very swear happy house.

I was raised a little differently, more proper, but there are no right or wrong answers, folks.

But let us know what you think.

That is our question of the night.

Coming up in Act 3, Molly Aitken, an Irish author will join us from the UK.

She is an absolute blast.

And then coming up at 6.35 to make the popcorn pick of the week is Honolopez from NBC26 here in Green Bay.

She covers Door County and does a fabulous job.

She will be here in studio.

It would be great to have Hannah back.

Hannah back in the studio.

My guest in the studio right now is Ryan Albers.

He is the event chairperson of this year's New Top Dog, a great contest where people enter photos of their dogs

Um, and people vote on the photos to find the cutest dog or the dog they most connect with.

There are no, there's no real criteria.

You guys haven't really laid out, uh, you're kind of leaving it willy-nilly, but I think you like it like that.

Everybody likes something different.

That's right.

So, and it, it has raised over $700,000 since 2020.

Uh, the proceeds go to pet rescues and, uh, children in need.

It sounds like a great event.

And it is sponsored by the Oshkosh mid-morning Kiwanis, the early morning Kiwanis.

Those guys are mailing it in they don't do half the work you guys do right?

No, I think they don't

they don't exist anymore.

They don't really for everybody to show up There's another club in town, but they meet at noon at the bar.

See that's more sensible.

That's

Yeah, but it's great to have you here Ryan So tell us a little more tell us a little bit about the rescues.

Yeah, so There are some rescues that you know like Humane societies that we have in the program that have brick and mortar locations, but there are also some rescues that you know have

dogs that are available for adoption that are in foster homes.

So we have the Oshkosh Area Humane Society that's paired with Fifth Ward, the Nina Animal Shelter that's paired with Stone Arch Brew Pub, then we have Wilson House Rescue which is paired with Bear Bones, and Unforgettable Underdogs that's paired with Fox River Brewery, and Sandy Paws Rescue which is paired with the Fond du Lac Beer Company.

So, you know, they're just phenomenal organizations.

They do so much.

They go above and beyond to make sure that dogs find a good spot to live and flourish because a lot of them come to those rescues and shelters in pretty rough shape.

So all those funds, you know, typically from what I've heard, majority of the funds go towards vet bills to make sure that they keep their promise to be a no kill organization.

Wow.

I can't even imagine like where can people like you just mentioned those breweries and the rescues if they wanted to get more involved aside from this event that's coming up How would they do that contact the brewery or or where would they go to adopt a dog?

Yeah, so all of these rescues and you know like the humane societies they have websites Especially for the rescues like Wilson house and unforgettable underdogs and sandy paws They have dogs that are you know available for adoption, but there's

also dogs coming in that need foster homes.

So I would definitely suggest reaching out to some of these organizations and they're all over the state.

Um, they all do great work, but these are just the ones that we're working with for this contest and they're always short on foster homes.

So to, you know, foster a dog until it finds its forever home is a phenomenal way to help.

That's great.

Tell us about the bonus.

Uh, there's bonus payments that you guys offer.

How does that work?

Yeah.

So, um,

the breweries and the rescues are all running their own individual contests.

And it's not really that they're competing against each other, but they kind of are.

And whoever, uh, all of the rescue contests of the five, whoever gets the most cumulative votes gets bonus payouts.

So there's additional funds that go to the top three rescues, uh, depending on how they land at the end of the contest.

Okay.

Wow.

That's great.

You guys have thought of everything.

All right, so the contest starts.

Entry's open.

January 26th, it's just $10 to take a picture of your dog and post

it, right?

Yeah, and you've got 10 free votes with that.

Everybody who has a dog has tons of photos on their phone already.

We make it super easy.

But yeah, you enter for $10, get 10 free votes, and you'll get your links to start sharing for voting starting February 2nd.

One of

the few times it is actually OK to buy votes.

Yeah,

because it's for good

cause there are no election rules here.

Voting begins February 2nd and the contest concludes March 1st.

Participants and supporters can learn more and sign up at newtopdog.com.

Do you have a favorite, like I say, who doesn't love dog movies?

Typically when they come out, they do well because there's a dog in it and who doesn't love man's best friend, right?

So do you have a favorite dog show or dog movie?

Well, I mean I have an eight-year-old who likes to watch you know like pop Academy But it gets old after a little while.

Is that a TV show?

It's yeah, it's a show where all the dogs talk It's like you know the the whole buddy series with you know golden retriever things sure But I would have to say my favorite movie that has a dog and it would probably have to be the Sandlot

Cause it's just a phenomenal message about, you know, don't judge a book by its cover, especially when you think about these rescues that are taking in these talks that have had rough lives up to that point and getting a second chance.

That's definitely something that I would, I would think connects really well, but I just love that movie.

It's such a great movie and it comes up from time to time whether we're talking baseball movies, movies with an animal or movies with James Earl Jones.

It just doesn't matter.

It's such a great movie and that's a great choice.

So do you have anything you're binge watching right now or do you watch color television at home at the end of a long day?

No, I actually don't.

Between no, we don't watch much TV, but between the business I'm running and this program recently, it's just kind of.

into the computer

sounds like your eight-year-old kind of dominates the TV anyway with

sometimes Yeah, what do we let her

watch?

Best of luck with the the competition.

It sounds really fun and let us know how it goes and let us know what else we do to help.

It's

great.

All right, that's Ryan

Albers ladies and gentlemen We're gonna break for news sports and weather when we come back.

We're gonna read some of your texts and I'm gonna tell you

We'll talk about the Oscar, the nominations came out today, some great movies and great actors.

We'll talk about all of that after the break in Act 2.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.

Great to have you here, folks.

It's the Civic Media Radio Network.

Broadcasting

live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who wanted to be in porn but didn't have the acting chops, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, folks.

It is time for our number two of Nightlight, a Thursday edition.

It is the Christmas Eve of weeknights as we like to call it here.

A glorious Thursday evening where we are doing our best to stay warm in northeast Wisconsin as well as really throughout the Midwest.

We had made some Michaels on last night who said in, I think, Conrad, it sounded like Minneapolis, St.

Paul was even colder.

And I know they get some serious winter weather over there.

Yeah, I don't know how that's possible, you know, but

I know.

It is, it's, it's

It's gonna be pretty chilly and yeah

gotta bundle up.

We're dealing with it.

It'll be fine.

We'll get through it Hope you're staying warm tonight folks.

We had a great hour number one if you missed our number one live You can check it out at civicmedia.us.

We talked about a lot of fun things we had We we well we tried to break radio history or new ground and radio by airing one of my classic Pete sneezes

That was an accident.

Now, that was when I was recording the Hollywood beats that I do here at Civic Media every day that typically play at the bottom of the hour.

Conrad thought it would be funny not to erase the sneeze, but rather play the sneeze.

And I backed the decision fully, but I know it's a disgusting.

I'm coming off a cold.

It's not a good sound.

Sometimes you can have a more whimsical kind of clean sneeze where it's just loud and crazy like most of mine are, but that sneeze says cold.

You know, we do have a couple texts about it, so.

Really?

Yeah.

Where are those on

the text line?

Well, steady Eddie, he has something to say about your sneeze and so does my dad.

Your dad commented on my

sneeze?

Yes, he did.

Your dad not.

Your dad and I are in cahoots on a lot of stuff.

I wouldn't be surprised if he said, Pete, that sounds exactly like one of my sneezes.

No, it's

not.

It's not quite that bad.

No, it's

not.

It's not that

bad.

All right, we'll get to those.

We're going to read the text in just a few minutes and get caught up because our question of the night.

You know what, Con?

Let's just reintroduce the nightlight question of the night.

That's not it.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

How do you feel about swearing?

Do you let your kids swear?

Are you okay with it?

Thoughts on swearing.

Couch potatoes.

855-752-4842.

855-755 Civic, let us know.

You can also text us on the app, which is very easy to use, the Civic Media app, or if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or...

X, you can drop us a stream comment and I will read it on the radio proudly and make you part of tonight's show.

The first hour we talked about, well, we talked about my sneeze and it was kind of a gross, maybe the grossest hour we've done here at Nightlight in a couple of years because

I

also talked about clipping a fingernail that went into my coffee and I scooped it out and I muscled it down anyway because we were out of coffee and I would have had to get in the car and go to the store and get more coffee and I wasn't going to do that.

I don't even think I would have done that in the summer, much less when it's like five degrees out.

So you missed that.

You can catch it all in the first hour in podcast form at civicmedia.us.

My guests tonight, well, we also talked with Ryan Albers, who is chairing a great event called New Top Dog.

It is a great contest here in Northeast Wisconsin where people submit pictures of their dogs.

The general public can vote on the cutest dog and...

All the proceeds, they've raised $700,000 since 2020.

Go to Pet Rescues and Kids in Need.

It's a great program, and it starts January 26th.

You can submit your own dog for 10 bucks, and if you win, his or her picture will be on the side of a beer can.

There is no swimsuit competition, so we don't need to demean the dogs.

It's just a very wholesome competition, so you can check that out.

Coming up after news, sports, and weather at the bottom of the hour,

Hanna Lopez will be here from NBC 26.

She covers Door County and does a great job.

She is going to make the popcorn pick of the week.

When Hanna leaves this studio, we will have a movie pick that we can check out this long, cold weekend.

And in hour number three, Irish author Molly Aitken joins me over the stream.

That is pre-recorded content that will air at 7.35 and take us to the end of the show.

She was so much fun to talk to and a really, really...

Excellent author and prolific.

She said like two books published in the last five years and she's got another one of the works So somebody keep an eye on but a lot of fun here so far at nightlight, but let us know your answer to the question of the night And we'll have some fun with that too.

We have a caller.

Yeah, Ali from the Northwoods.

Ali from the Northwoods.

I'm familiar with her work.

Hi

Ali.

Hi Well, I probably will upset a lot of people, but I don't like flirting We didn't swear when we were kids

We might have Said oh rats or something but never swore And I remember that's what I'm saying shoot and my sister said I said the f word No indeed II did not but I was 40 years old and I was still getting in trouble

Listen Ali, I'm with you.

Okay in a perfect world.

There's no swearing

But I just kind of, with all the problems in the world, I'm not going to focus.

I don't make it the number one problem if that makes sense.

But I would

still

prefer

a world.

Yeah, exactly.

Actually, the other night, I thought the swear word, and the other two people who lived with me said, oh, oh, what are you doing?

And that's me, myself, and I.

the three of us live together.

And apparently the other two didn't like that I was even thinking that

way.

My question, Ollie, is do you wash your own mouth out with soap when you have a slip

up?

No.

Okay.

All right.

That's smart.

My mom used to do that though.

I'll

tell you.

Yeah.

I know a

lot of people.

Yeah.

Sounds like she meant business.

Ollie, you're the best.

Thank you so much for the call tonight.

Stay warm and have a great

night.

I'll leave him in the North Woods.

So let's get some texts in here.

We've got some good text responses here.

Let's go up to the top of the list here for our question of the night.

I read our texts from John Murray, who told us about the most disgusting thing in the world, the toenail shot.

I'd just try it.

I'd just try it.

Do you like go into the bar and say I'd like to

do a toenail shot?

They're going to lock you up.

Usually, so what happened was.

Is that one of my, you know, one of my friends lost a bet and he had to do that?

Yeah.

Or maybe also like, I've seen fantasy football punishments like their last place have to do that.

And it's like literally at the end of the night, all those drinks, all those whatever in the bar, go into a shot glass and you have to drink it.

Like, whoever,

whoever

actually- Vile.

Created that, had to be like in some sort of like- Massacist.

Like, he was getting a-

Punishment

man.

It's that's worse than like sucking an actual old guy old fat guys dirty toenail That's so awful like who thinks of that,

you know, it's it's all it's all alcohol, right?

So it's you

know, it's dudes and alcohol and that is a dangerous combination Yeah, Steve from Florida Conrad's dad says thanks Conrad for not swearing in front of your mom and then parenthetically even though I know you have heard her swear

I totally threw Paula onto the

bus.

Well, I just, dad, you know, I have sworn in front of mom, so.

He's sworn 10 times just tonight, Steve.

Off the air, thank God, but there you go.

I

mean, even on air, but luckily I had the, you know, the swear, the bleep, you know, otherwise it would have been chaos.

You need a bleep button when you just walk around out in the streets just to- Just have it around.

Not offend people.

Have it right on

me.

Matt from Richland Center in the 608 says, love it.

My uncle taught me all the swears as a little kid.

My grandma told me I'd go to hell and never see my parents again if I kept saying, yeah, that is just diabolical.

That's worse than swearing.

I've heard the same grandma say the F word multiple times a day.

Great memories.

Matt, that is a great text.

Thank you, sir.

From the 202, the 202, it's important to teach your kids how to swear.

It's a skill like anything else.

That's not only what swear words are and what they mean, but when and where you shouldn't swear.

Also important is what words should never, ever be used.

That's very, that's great context because you're right.

They're gonna do it one way or the other so tell them when it's appropriate You know like if a kid's gonna touch himself Go to your bedroom to shut the door Same was swearing Now barb from walk a shot in the 262 my parents didn't swear and my four oldest siblings never swear my brother and I the youngest of the siblings liked to partake in naughty words I find swearing to be therapeutic

When extremely upset, a lot of people agree with you, Barb.

Barb says, a study was done not too long ago that proves the benefit of letting one fly when upset, swear away F. And then a bunch of those like things.

We know what you meant, Barb.

There's only one F word.

And it's the granddaddy of them all.

Monica from Mount Horriban, the 608 says, I swear way too much.

Don't have kids.

My cats probably swear in their own way because they live with me.

You are a bad influence on your cats, Monica.

I think that's great.

Trust me, cats swear.

Dogs are like too friendly and dumb to swear.

They just like, but cats, if they could, they're dropping F-bombs, C-bombs, CS-bombs, all the stuff they're saying.

Matt from Eau Claire says, it's a noise made by the human body exactly the same as if one were to verbalize the phrase organized religion.

which I find more offensive than get the F out of here.

It's historically caused more damage.

There's certainly an argument to be made there, Matt.

He says, in old English, the F word means to smite.

I endeavor to utilize my entire vocabulary.

And what do you want to do?

Smite, fight, or foot race doesn't roll off the tongue.

Wow.

That was some serious.

Matt is a man of letters when it comes to texting.

That was fantastic.

Thank you, buddy.

Uh, Daniel from Monashia.

Oh, it's our buddy Danny Weals says, my wife and I refrained from swearing around our son as he grew up.

Parenthetically, in private, we swear like a couple of rough necks on an oil rig.

Now he's an adult and naturally does not like to hear us swear.

So if I stub my toe and my son is with an ear shot out of respect to him, you'll hear me say, mother of pearl through clenched teeth.

I

cannot hear that phrase without like a pirate accent.

I don't believe he does that.

I don't believe Daniel.

Daniel's like an open enough guy.

I bet you 10 bucks he swears in front of his kids.

Chris Casper, our pal at Civic Media, our tech whiz pal says studies show that people who swear are more intelligent.

That's why I'm so smart.

Exactly.

And I think Chris is basically saying, by saying that, that he swears.

Thank you, buddy.

Matt from Mclare again.

This is my pooch.

The gal I was seeing when I got him saw a labradoodle named Barley.

My boy is Hopps, state law.

Did he put a picture on there?

Yeah.

Oh, that's a good looking dog.