Quarterback Debates and Valentine’s Vibes (Hour 1)

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This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba.

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Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I am Pete Schwab, and this is great to have you here, folks.

It is a Wednesday night.

Am I crazy or are the days getting just a little bit longer and a little bit warmer?

This might sound crazy, but it's, I mean, it's, listen, it's really cold outside.

But there's a non-nip in the air.

There's something that is telling me that spring is sort of getting closer.

We are almost in February.

I don't know.

I think things are looking up.

Conrad, how you doing?

Doing good.

Do you

agree with that?

Yeah, I mean, it's nine degrees.

So, you know, it's getting warmer.

It's not nine.

It was sixteen in Marinette.

Tell me it's colder in the tropics that we call Green Bay.

I mean, you know, it's on a weather app, so it's gotta be legit.

Okay.

I only base every weather I look at off my weather app.

All right.

Well, that's fine.

Yeah.

So you're not golfing yet, but you might rock some

shorts.

I miss it.

I don't know.

Call me crazy.

I like at least that it's getting later.

It's staying light out a little bit later.

It's 5.07 right now.

Yeah.

On my MacBook Pro clock, and it is still light outside, folks.

So I'm happy about that.

It's Wednesday.

We're halfway through the week.

We got a great show tonight, folks.

Really fun guests.

Some great conversation.

A great question, and hopefully you guys will participate, and we will be off to the races for another fun evening here at Nightlight.

A show designed to help you forget the day, escape, put the booze down, put the crack pipe down, just listen to some Nightlight and let's have some fun.

That's your escape, folks.

What are you laughing at, Conn?

Is that too optimistic?

Yeah, I think so.

You know, I just got to mention, it's my favorite day of the year.

Wednesday,

it's national kazoo day.

Oh Really you played a little kazoo back in your day, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, you got some yeah,

I mean no I have the kazoo with me here.

I'll play a little fantastic What do you think

I've never been more disappointed

That was absolutely atrocious.

Uh, was it Star Wars or Superman?

You know, uh, you know, uh, I can't, it's Fox, you know, when he, the intro to the movies, you know, the

Fox.

Oh, Fox Studios, yeah.

Yeah, who's that?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

The best one ever that they did, I think it might have been Fox Searchlight, but it was when Ralph Wiggum was on top of the 20 for the Simpsons movie in 20.

That's so great.

Well, happy National Gazoo Day, folks.

It is also Blueberry Pancakes Day, which I think last year on this day, we did a question like, how do you like your pancakes or something like that?

So we don't want to double up this quick, but next year, folks, keep your eyes peeled for that pancake question, but happy Blueberry Pancakes Day to everybody.

We got to talk about this because last night, Conrad did what I like to call a con binge.

and

they don't happen often.

I've done this before too, but I want you to tell everybody what you watched last night and you watched an entire season in one sitting.

I was really excited for this, just because of the commercials.

I was like, oh, this looks like a show that I'm actually really interested in, because not a lot have really drawn my attention recently.

And it's Wonder Man.

Which was on Disney plus

new show

came out with eight episodes all of them same day, which I was like That's not that's bad news for me.

It's so great when they do that So yeah, I watched they're about 40 minutes and I didn't want to stop watching because it was really really interesting

So you watched eight episodes forty minute episodes That's 320 minutes of color television in one night.

That is how many hours is that five and a half hours?

Yeah, I've watched

Yeah, and, you know, didn't go to bed till about two thirty.

See, you're young.

You got that kind of stamina.

I could never.

I say I shouldn't say that.

My wife and I watched the final season of Bosch.

It's about seven years ago.

They're wrapped up the whole show with an eight episode season.

We want we went home.

I said our plan was to order a pizza and watch like the first four episodes and then finish the next four the next night.

We jammed through the entire series in one night.

And that sounds really fun.

but When you're done, you're kind of like did I forget stuff that it's so much to comprehend I

I guess I love this series though.

It was

so good, huh?

It

was it was fantastic.

It was the best Marvel series since Loki and I mean the last series is their devil was okay, but now this one was

Fantastic, and I was Marvel guy, but I have to check that out

like it's doesn't have the

Don't know like same Feeling as a superhero movie because it's not really a superhero or TV show.

It's doesn't have this.

It's not a superhero TV show It's kind of about a basic man who has powers that he doesn't want anyone to know about

okay?

All right.

Oh, it's worth that's a con.

It's a con binge.

She recommends check it out if that's up your alley

Definitely watch it Disney plus

all

eight episodes streaming now

We've got news, sports, and weather coming up in just 18 minutes, folks, and a lot of fun to be had tonight on, I almost said, on Netflix.

You know what I did?

I write out my notes before every show, and I even write news, sports, and weather, like remind people that it's coming up.

But tonight, I put news, ports, and weather.

Oh, wow.

So at 5.30, folks, you're gonna get the news.

They'll tell you about various ports around the state.

There's a port in Green Bay, right?

Yeah, and the weather so there you go Who wants to hear about sports anyway when you could talk about ports?

And then we've got some really fun stuff coming up, but we got a great lineup tonight.

I'm very excited from St.

Croix Falls in Wisconsin.

Lindsay Fry will join us for the, she is the marketing director of the Festival Theater.

They have a really fun Valentine's Day show coming up.

She'll tell us all about it.

We like having Lindsay on the show.

She's been on before.

At 635, Matt Miller, Milwaukee film, Milwaukee film critic Matt Miller will be here to talk about the Oscars.

Like to talk about I have to pace myself because I could talk about the Oscars every night, but I think once a week Will suffice because I know everybody doesn't share my interests But we will talk to Matt about that at 635 it's gonna be a blast and then at 720 I've been trying to have this next guest or this 7 o'clock guest on for a long time Molly Snyder from on Milwaukee comm will be here and Molly writes really cool really funky Articles at on Milwaukee and she is Milwaukee through and through

Just a Milwaukee girl and we're gonna talk to her about all kinds of stuff the Laverne and Shirley fiftieth anniversary a fun event coming up at the Lakeland brewery there or is it the lakefront brewery in Milwaukee Molly's also got a typewriter festival.

Oh, we'll talk about and it sounds really fun So lots to do and we're gonna talk about the movie song sung blue She wrote a great article about that and 13 things that she noticed in the film.

I'm halfway through it.

I rented it today

just so I could sort of contribute to this conversation.

And I was getting tired of everybody coming on the show saying they had seen song sung blue.

And I haven't.

And this is the Wisconsin movie of the year, you know, like it was filmed while it wasn't filmed here, sadly.

That's one of my criticisms.

But nobody outside of Wisconsin or Milwaukee cares about that.

But I do.

But it's still a good movie.

The Neil Diamond music is so great.

And Kate Hudson rocks in it.

She is so.

Good.

So I'm kind of pulling for her to win the Oscar.

So we'll do all that.

Great guests.

And I think right now it's time to get to our nightlight question of the night.

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All right.

This question is inspired

was inspired by our guest from last night, Seth Wickersham, who wrote a great book called American Kings about quarterbacks.

And I just thought it'd be fun because it's a great debate.

This is one of the things that it's kind of subjective, but it's kind of not because numbers don't lie, but you could argue different eras of the quarterback.

It's just a fun discussion.

So our question of the night is who is the greatest quarterback?

Thank you, Seth Wickersham, for the inspiration for the question.

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But let us know who you think is the greatest quarterback.

Con your sports guy.

I'm gonna let you go first.

Well, I broke it up into three categories.

And are they all three packers?

No.

Most talented quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

And some of the throws I've seen by him just don't make sense.

Some of the pockets he could fit into and all the pressure that he faced.

I just like the best quarterback ever witnessed.

Okay.

The greatest of all time.

I think it's Tom Brady because of the rings and how many times he did go to the big, you know, the big game.

Right.

And then the best movie quarterback

of all time.

Movie quarterback.

Okay, now we're talking.

It's

Uncle Rico.

Without a doubt.

It's hard to disagree with Aaron Rodgers, but I will challenge it a little bit.

And I asked Seth Wickersham this yesterday about Steve Young.

I don't know that anybody's had those tools.

And like he had a rocket arm.

He threw for accuracy.

He was

fast.

And I feel like if he hadn't sat, and he got a Super Bowl ring in his limited time as a starter, I feel like if he had just come out and started, we might be talking about him as the greatest quarterback of all time.

But he went to USFL and then he sat on the bench for probably at least five years behind Montana.

I don't know why he did that.

But that's the only, but yeah, Aaron Rodgers, it's hard to, it's hard to argue with that.

So you say Rodgers, Brady.

And in terms of Brady, just because it's fun to discuss, Montana was 4-0 undefeated in a different era where he got his lights knocked out every game and he was half the size of Brady.

Brady is 7-3.

Two of those wins, the other teams completely choked.

So he could just as easily be 5-5.

Which, look, getting to 10 Super Bowls, maybe that's enough to say you're the greatest quarterback of all time.

I don't know.

But I said Montana

Okay,

yeah, just to be because I knew most people would say Brady and you could you know You say that I can't really argue that seven to three is pretty good record

You know the one of the one of the most boring Super Bowls I've ever watched was with Tom Brady in it It was the Patriots versus the Rams where Jared Goff was the quarterback.

Oh,

yeah It's the worst Super Bowl I've ever seen

did golf play poorly in that super I just barely both

teams played poorly.

Did they

it was like all field goals until one

One score.

Let me throw this at you.

Most overrated quarterback of all time.

Ah,

most overrated.

Troy Aikman.

Honest to God.

Like, I don't mind him.

I know, I know Packer fans hate him.

Most cities where he announces the game, the fans probably don't like him.

Never threw for 4,000 yards, threw for more than 20 touchdowns in a season once.

Carrier at 165.

Touchdowns 141 picks 32,000 total yard.

I he's and I didn't realize this till about a year ago I thought he was one of the greatest all-time because they have three rings under him But those are not good numbers.

I'll hold my answer after the break.

All right That is a reason to come back folks Conrad's answer after the break coming up We're also gonna tell you what are some popular snacks in Wisconsin popular Super Bowl snacks

Made in Wisconsin.

We'll do that next.

It's Pete Schwab at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight.

Great to have you here, folks.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

We are talking about quarterbacks.

That is our question of the night.

Who is the greatest quarterback of all time?

A lot of different...

Things can come into consideration when you're making your choice.

TDs, yards, wins, all kinds of different stuff.

It's a fun discussion.

Different eras come into play.

This question is inspired by our yesterday guest, Seth Wickersham, the ESPN senior writer and author of American Kings, A Biography of the Quarterback.

It got me thinking, this is a great argument to have, and we've all

I remember arguing this with my Packer fan friends like I'd say Jim McMahon, they would say Bart Starr or Brett Farr or whatever Dave on the stream says Terry Bradshaw Interesting Says he called his own place.

I didn't know that and Terry Bradshaw's numbers again He's I think he's 4-0 also like Montana in Super Bowls Montana's numbers are better Terry Bradshaw does not have great numbers Terry Bradshaw through for

212 touchdowns, I think, and 210 interceptions.

But the guy won four Super Bowls.

Joe Montana has great numbers.

Steve Young, my guy who I thought could have been the best of all time, drafted by or started playing for Tampa Bay in 85, really chewed it while he was there.

Three TDs, eight picks.

I mean,

I don't think Tampa Bay, they were terrible.

Eight, eight TDs, 13 picks the next year.

First year in San Francisco through for 10 touchdowns, no picks, but he was not the starter.

He didn't start full time in San Francisco.

I don't think until like 92.

He's got like eight years of respectable stats in the NFL when it comes to yards and throws.

I can't even imagine what he could have done with another.

He threw for 33,000 yards, 107 touchdowns.

No, I'm sorry 232.

What am I looking at here?

Yeah, Steve Young threw for 232 touchdowns on 100 picks or something like that.

I mean he I don't know con he look up his Highlights, I think you'd be impressed.

You're a sports guy.

Yeah, but you tell me but Akeman is horribly overrated just as an individual player

Certainly qualified to do color commentary at game so but let us know who your favorite quarterback is or who you think is the best ever I said Joe Montana Conrad said Uncle Rico and

Well, I broke it down, but most talented Aaron Rodgers greatest of all time Tom Brady Best movie quarterback Uncle Rico.

Uncle Rico.

Yeah,

I guess so I was talking you know, you're talking about most overrated.

I Have two kind of

That are back-to-back kind of Tony Romo He had some impressive stats, you know during regular seasons, but he always choked every every time and Crucial airs.

Yeah, and I think this is the Dallas Cowboys way It like every single thing every single bad luck thing that he did went to the next corner in deck

Prescott was it?

Cuz that great regular season quarterback,

you know before Jordan Love got that big contract Dak was like the highest paid quarterback

Right.

And he is a terrible playoff record.

And I mean, some of the worst interceptions I've, interceptions I've seen is from him.

Some of the worst clock management I've seen from him as well.

He just, I don't know, just those two quarterbacks, they, they got paid very well, but never made it.

I mean, Tony Romo never

made it to a Super Bowl.

They're both kind of fun to watch.

Like Romo could really light it up during the regular season.

No, I said the same thing a couple of years, a weeks ago, we were talking about, I don't know, Jordan Love or whatever.

And I think To me Eli Manning is more of a big gamer than Peyton Manning Peyton Manning was another phenomenal regular season quarterback But he didn't win Super Bowls because of his play.

I mean he's got two rings

Peyton Manning already always had a fantastic team around it pretty much true Eli Manning sometimes did Right Eli Manning also was you know, he's known for His his big games, but he was also kind of known for his interceptions as well.

Correct during the regular season.

Yeah

I'm

pretty sure he led the league like three for three separate years or something like that for Interceptions

Well, and you could argue that one catch in the Patriots Super Bowl I mean

it was

more of a great catch than a great throw, but But the guy got it done when it mattered.

Yeah, I

don't

know So it's a fun argument.

Let us know who you think is the greatest quarterback of all time Casey on the stream says Shane Falco.

Who is that Conrad?

I'm pretty sure he's from a movie Bobby Boucher

Oh, yes, he's from the replacements.

That's Keanu Reeves.

Oh, Keanu Reeves.

Yeah, right.

So I will take that.

I did ask the make the call guys about the question tonight.

Okay.

And Jimmy Cusco said from that in 2004, Michael Vick video game.

That's a whole other.

Well, I agree with them because he just you could run with him and he had 99 speeds.

And you know, Parker Olson said Tom Brady.

So, okay.

I think most people in your generation are gonna say Tom Brady.

Yeah, I

mean just like with hoops a lot of them say LeBron James

I'll say

over my generation go get out of here.

I'll still say Michael Jordan.

Yeah, and I would maybe agree I think Brady is a better choice over other people just because he got there so many times and When the game was on the line, he was great, but the LeBron Jordan thing I don't know how you can make that argument Maybe if you've never seen Michael Jordan play.

Yeah, I mean what I grew up

I would watch just Michael Jordan highlights.

Yeah, repeat trying to do a you know a 360 layup in my backyard You know my son Joe

has seen the last dance three times.

It's such a great great so good We've got also Super Bowl snacks.

I Wanted to get to that.

I don't think we're gonna have time to do that Maybe we'll do that at the top of the second hour Because these are all snacks made in Wisconsin for Super Bowl

for Super Bowl snacking.

So we'll get to that too.

New sports and weather is coming up next, folks.

Then we have Lindsay Fry here from the Festival Theater in St.

Croix Falls.

Our question of the night, who is the greatest quarterback of all time?

And then I got to talk about Heinz Ketchup at some point.

They need to be stopped.

These are ridiculous products.

The keg, chup, we'll discuss.

All right, it's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

We have to, uh... Heinz ketchup has to be stopped, ladies and gentlemen.

They have the keg-chup now for Super Bowl parties that they're pushing.

It's 114 ounces or something like that.

And it's like... 175 bucks or something like that.

What do we got, Con?

Oh, gotcha.

Yes.

Um, so...

And then they had that remember it was the ketchup smoothie Conrad I was trying to remember.

Oh,

they had the horrible ketchup smoothie and then they've also got a ketchup Where is that ketchup smooth?

Oh ranch ketchup Hmm, I just sounds enough for enough ranch where we can be done with ranch.

I think It's a fine product, but it's gotten into everything Now there are people dipping ranch in ranch and it's wrong

I'm very excited to welcome my next guest, folks.

She's been on the show before, and she's the marketing director at the Festival Theatre in St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

They do really outstanding work there, and they have a really cool event coming up on Valentine's Day in just about a week and a half.

Joining me now over the stream is Lindsay Fry.

Lindsay, how are you?

I'm great.

How are you?

Good.

It's good to see you again.

I've got my cat here, Cosmo.

Oh my gosh,

I hope that was a cat.

Just saw

this crazy tail come in and it was not.

How are you tonight?

I'm doing great.

I'm enjoying the slow winter.

Are you

a winter person?

When the time comes around, I have my activities I enjoy in the winter.

Okay.

You're not a native Wisconsinite, correct?

No,

I'm not.

I'm from Kansas originally, so definitely different winters in Kansas.

Is

that like Wisconsin without as many trees?

Yeah, and all the roads are very straight.

Really?

It's

like Tornado Alley, right?

Yeah.

You're much better off here in Wisconsin, Lindsay.

We're happy to have

you.

So how are things going?

How long have you been there now at the Festival Theater?

I'm going on my fourth year.

Oh,

great.

Okay.

I don't know if this, I don't know if you're a sports fan or not, but I typically ask all the guests that come on the show our question of the night.

Do you have a quarterback you think is the greatest of all time?

Oh boy, you know, I'm not a sports person.

Okay.

I

respect that.

I definitely probably know a handful of football players, but I'd have to say Tom Brady, probably because that's the only NFL quarterback

that

I can name.

I appreciate your honesty.

How about an all-time greatest stage actor or musical theater actor?

Oh boy, you know, right now, kind of my winter fixation is Barbara Streisand.

Oh, nice.

Watching all of her movies and listening to her albums, so.

She's done pretty well for herself.

Yeah,

all right, that's a

great answer.

All right, so tell us all about this really great show coming up on Valentine's Day that Festival Theatre is sponsoring.

I don't think it's at your space though, correct?

Yeah, so Festival Theatre is partnering with the Chateau St.

Croix winery to put this event on.

The concert will be at the winery on Valentine's Day, starting at 6pm.

And it'll be three of extremely talented musicians, Joni Griffith, Amanda Wise, and Debbie Kildee.

They're all kind of coming together.

They're all like...

you know trained musicians and singers to bring an evening of Celebrating love in all of its moods What does that

mean?

I saw that on your website.

What does that mean love in all of its moods or?

Iterations or whatever.

Can you explain that or elaborate?

Yeah, well, I think love is such an umbrella term for a lot of emotions and you know, I think they'll definitely be some

heartbreak, some love songs, there's lots of humor on what we do for love.

Yeah,

they're kind of tapping into all of that.

That is that's great, and I think sometimes the heartbreak I mean some of my favorite songs are very sad songs like they're just fun to listen to and I even listen to them like when I work out like they're just that powerful Even though they don't really necessarily celebrate love but celebrate a breakup and I bet these women you have Performing them are outstanding.

Where do they come from?

Oh, yes.

They're all based in the Twin Cities in Minneapolis, but travel around a lot and perform as well.

Okay.

Oh, that's great.

Now, it's $25 to get in, but if you pay more, if you pay $38, you get wine.

in dessert.

There's like kind of a package deal we're offering so you can come and just see the concert or you can get a little package deal and you get a glass of wine and some dessert at the Chateau which the Chateau has a full of food menu as well so they have excellent food they make really good.

like they smoke brisket in house and stuff.

So lots of really great stuff.

And I know the Chateau has events going on all day for Valentine's Day.

So I know some people are coming to do a port tasting and then stick around to have dinner and then see this concert.

So there's a lot going on.

Are

you a wine girl?

Do you like wine?

I do like wine.

Okay.

Here's my issue.

All right.

Can I can I open up a little bit here?

Of course, it's a safe space.

I appreciate that.

Wine and dessert.

People have those together sometimes.

I don't get that it's like too much.

It's too much.

It's overload.

It's too much sweets.

It's too much sweets.

I think so

together.

You know, that's really interesting because there's a lot of wines.

Well, there's like different varieties so you could pair it with something drier, which maybe wouldn't be as

much of an

overload.

or having like a full body, like red wine mixed with something a little sweeter is kind of nice.

I know that the Chateau also serves port wine or port, which is wine fortified with brandy.

So, and they have exquisite port if you're into that.

And if you've never tried it, I highly recommend.

Okay, that sounds great.

I just always see them paired together and I'm like, I like both of those, but I think a little distance.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, maybe if you're not a big like sweet.

I don't want to drink

red wine with my Twinkies.

I want them later, right?

I don't know.

Maybe that's just me.

All right.

Well, I can't think of a better venue for a Valentine's Day show than a winery, so that's kind of cool.

What made you do that?

You've got this great space, but I also see today, I saw an email from you.

You guys have acquired another property, it sounds like, or a place to put productions on.

Tell us about that.

So we Tom Wilson in St.

Croix Falls donated the funeral home in St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin to us.

And so it won't be a performance space, but it will be a whole building that we will use as a full service costume department and

like a costume shop and will be actor housing so that's really great for us because festival theater relies on a very generous and great uh host home uh program where people in the community house traveling artists that stay here for our productions um and sometimes depending on like whatever's going on in life it can be a little difficult so now that we have our own space we won't have to rely so heavily on um

our host home program, which we've got great, generous host home programs, but now we'll also be able to house our own actors, which just means that we can have more actors come into town.

Do you think it's going to be haunted?

That's a great question.

You know, the historic auditorium that we perform in has a theater ghost named Pepper.

Oh, I love it.

Why are theaters so haunted?

Every theater, it seems like it's haunted or has some ghosts that can't let go.

Maybe a former actor or something, right?

Yeah, definitely.

Pepper.

Pepper is definitely a little prankster.

Sprite.

Anything that goes wrong in the building, it's Pepper.

That's

so great.

I just don't tell the actors what it used to be, and I think it'll be fine.

Lindsay Fry is my guest.

She is the marketing director at the Festival Theatre in beautiful St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

Tickets are $28.

It's a great Valentine's Day show next Saturday at the Chateau St.

Croix winery.

You get a great show for $25 if you want to spend a little more.

You get dessert and wine and all kinds of stuff.

You can find more information at festivaltheatre.org.

What else do you guys have coming up?

So right now we're kind of in our slow season.

We're prepping for our professional summer theater series to start in the summer and we're hosting auditions for our Playmakers series, which is our arts education program.

And we're doing Frozen Junior this spring.

Oh,

fun show.

So well, on February 15th and 16th, we'll have auditions for Frozen Junior and then our first musical of the summer Shrek.

the musical, which will be open to community members to audition as well.

It'll be kind of a big, big production.

So Shrek is open to all ages to audition and Frozen Junior is our youth program.

So it'll be ages eight to 18.

It

sounds like

I'm

out of the running for that one.

Yes, but you can audition for Shrek.

That's right.

If you know any young people or...

Anybody who wants to get on stage, you don't need any experience.

You know, we're very welcoming to all to just get involved and develop a love of theater.

How much effort does that take to really build a community theater, but it is a community and you have to.

you know, sort of a foster that atmosphere and build a brand, so to speak.

Is it hard to find good actors there?

I know you guys bring actors in from other places sometimes and even a director, I think we had on the show previously.

But what kind of talent is there in St.

Croix Falls?

There's a lot of talent.

You know, we last year, we did the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and we had over 100 youth audition.

And it was so hard to

be able to cast.

You know we cast as many people that we had room for and so it's great to see how much talent there is in the area for young people and adults.

We have a lot of local community members who had either like done theater in high school or just like curious about theater and want to try it and festival theater is definitely a place where you know you don't have to

be like a theater kid your whole life or anything like if you you want to try something you can audition for us

and

even if you don't want to be on stage there's so many opportunities to get involved we have a lot of local community members who help with props and costumes and putting our sets together so there's like such a vast town that we have in the community and so providing opportunities for them to

to showcase that

is lovely.

It's so great because my daughter spent her, you know, as long as we've been in Wisconsin, she's been going to the Bayshore Theater or Theater on the Bay as it's called in Marinette.

We're on the other side of the state, but she, I mean, her first love is being on stage and performing, but...

Every second or opportunity she got to go there and build sets and paint and do all that other cool stuff She was just over there like what I love about theater people is it's just in their blood whether you're on stage behind the scenes Whatever it is.

What is your obviously do marketing at the festival theater?

But I know you're also an actor Lindsay so listen We're gonna do a quick break and then we'll just keep you for a couple minutes on the other side of that so think about

your favorite role in the theater, and then I'm probably going to ask you what your binge watching too when we come back.

All right, Lindsay Fry is

here

from the Festival Theater in beautiful St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

We are coming right back.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and

this is Nightlight.

Great to have you here, folks.

It is Wednesday.

And we are cooking.

We're cooking like it's Friday.

We're doing like a Friday on a Wednesday.

It's very confusing, but we'll get through it.

It's a lot of fun.

My guest joining us on the stream right now from beautiful St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin is the marketing director of the Festival Theater.

She's also a very talented actress.

Lindsay Fry is with me right now.

She thinks Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback, but she admittedly does not really know quarterbacking, but she loves Barbara Streisand.

So we'll take that as an even better answer.

Thank you, Lindsay, for that.

So we were talking about your role.

I mentioned you're an actor, you're the marketing director.

What's your favorite role?

You obviously love theater.

And I love people who love theater.

I find them to be so immersive and passionate.

It's so great.

What is your favorite thing to do either on stage, backstage, marketing, whatever?

Definitely acting on stage.

That's where I got into theater and found a love for and...

You know, that's that's the hat that I like to wear and then I love working in theater in the theater world and doing admin for a nonprofit theater company.

It's something that I think is just great.

It's important.

Yeah,

for sure.

Yeah, it is important and art and like live storytelling.

It's really like a sense of community and stuff.

So I feel like that's

also very fulfilling and enjoyable to me, but definitely acting.

That's great.

It's so great.

And they're doing Shrek and they're doing Frozen Junior and February 14th at the Chateau Street.

I'm sorry, Chateau St.

Croix Winery.

They have a great Valentine's Day show.

So check that out if you're in the area.

What are your favorite shows to do as an actor, Lindsay?

Do you have a favorite you've been a part of, like a classic or something that was written, an original work?

Oh boy, you know, I think there's definitely like something special about every production, you

know, but

the kinds of like shows or theater that I'm drawn to definitely have some sort of strong ensemble, whether that's a musical or even like plays have an ensemble that is really enjoyable to work together.

in that way.

That's a great answer and it's hard when shows are done.

You get so, you know, kind of immersed in the play itself and your cast members and everybody you work on the show with that they become your family and it's very intense.

It's like a movie set, you know, and it's, those are just great experiences.

Okay, so are you in any of the shows coming up?

Yes, I am.

This season, we've got a stacked season of some really great shows.

Our youth show is Frozen Junior, which I'll be directing.

I'm also the arts

education director.

Oh,

great.

So

I'm

very excited about that.

It is everyone kind of a nonprofit theater, whereas a

lot of

apps.

And then I'll be in the rest of the season.

We're doing Shrek the musical.

We're doing a show called The Revolutionists, which is about four women during the French Revolution who were all beheaded.

And I'll preface this, that it is a comedy.

It's very-

I was just about to make the joke that that does not sound very funny.

But here it is, a very dark comedy, obviously.

Yeah, it's it's a comedy and it's kind of meta.

So they all come together to write a play.

It's it's a laugh out loud script.

While it's got historical elements, I'll be playing Marie Antoinette in that show.

Oh, sweet.

Yeah, it'll be a great one.

And then we're closing our summer season with the three musketeers, which is a very like slapstick farce comedy of this classic story.

So in this show, we have about 27 fight scenes.

I'm pretty sure that's the number.

It's going to have a lot

of speech combat.

I know a lot of our actors are already preparing and working on stage combat already.

Oh,

that's so great.

August.

And the Three Musketeers is a great show.

I remember I went through a phase when I was a kid, like for six months where I wanted my name to be D'Artagnan.

I just

thought

my parents didn't go for it.

So all right, when you're done, Lindsay, and again, thank you for your time tonight.

And best of luck with the Valentine's Day show.

That sounds like so much fun.

When you get home and you're with your cat, what do you binge watching?

What do you put on the TV?

That's a great question.

Right now, since it's kind of like...

are off season.

I've got a little bit more time on my hands.

I'm I'm definitely enjoying the gilded age.

She's

like historical fiction.

Carrie Coon is an actor that

I love her UW Madison grad in Wisconsin native she is out.

Did you see her in Fargo?

I

haven't seen Fargo actually on my movie list.

Well,

She's in the TV version, I want to say like season three or four.

All the seasons of TV are outstanding and she was great in White Lotus last year too, but I love her.

She's great.

Yeah, that's a great mentor.

So, okay.

Gilded Age, all right, very good.

Well, listen, don't be a stranger.

Keep us posted what's going on there on the other side of the state.

Hope the show crushes next week and I hope all kinds of people fall in love while they're eating wine and Twinkies.

That sounds like a lot of

fun.

I love that, thank you for having me on.

You're welcome.

Okay, that's Lindsay Fry.

Folks, check out the festival theater in beautiful St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin, especially if you're in the area next week and want a really cool Valentine's Day show.

I can't think of a better way to celebrate Valentine's Day with or without a party.

Conrad, I would go to that show even if my wife stayed home.

That's how cool I think it sounds.

Nightlight road trip?

Nightlight road trip.

We'll get a bus together and we'll go and we'll check it out.

Yeah, I think this Heinz stuff is what are they doing?

They've already really hate them, huh?

No, I don't hate them I just feel like it's greed because they are they're like coke for ketchup You don't have to do anything.

It's Heinz ketchup.

No hunts doesn't come close You know They they've got it.

They've crushed it.

They've mastered ketchup But this the keg chop come on You got to make a keg run we're out of ketchup

It just doesn't make sense.

All right, folks, our question of the night.

We're going to read some of your texts when we come back after news, sports, and weather, which is next, is who is the greatest quarterback of all time?

Sponsored by or inspired by, I should say, by Seth Wickersham, our guest last night for me, SPN.

We're talking quarterbacks.

We've got Matt Miller coming up at 6.35.

And we've got Molly Snyder from OnMilwaukee.com.

And hour number three, I finally made it happen.

I got Molly on the show.

It's going to be a fun night.

Glad you're with me.

It's Pete Schwab and Nightlight on the Civic Media.

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And now, a guy whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back, folks.

Great to have you here on a Wednesday night edition of Nightlight.

We are ending the day on a most positive note, talking about all the things in life that are outstanding, like movies and TV and comedy and music and quarterbacks tonight.

We talked a little musical theater.

If you are just joining the show, Lindsay Fry was my guest in hour number one.

She's the marketing director at the St.

Croix Falls.

Festival Theater in beautiful St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

Gorgeous area of our state.

And you can catch that on the podcast at civicmedia.us where all our shows are catalogued in podcast form if you missed something good.

Check it out.

Lindsay was fun to talk to and they have a fun Valentine's Day thing going on at a winery there next week in a show with some music, which sounds like fun.

My other guest tonight,

Matt Miller will be here at 635 to talk movies and Oscars.

We always love having Matt on the show.

And then in hour number three at 720, Molly Snyder from OnMilwaukee.com will be here.

Molly does these really cool things.

She writes great articles and she always picks great topics, whether it's like, you know, about

Her annual QWERTY Fest she does, a celebration of the typewriter, adult spelling bees, and I forgot to tell you this, Molly is going to give me a spelling, a little spelling test.

She's going to quiz me.

It's going to be like an adult spell, and it's going to be embarrassing

because I'm not

a particularly good speller.

But can you imagine an adult spelling bee?

I would probably go to watch that and have a couple cocktails.

That would probably be fun to watch.

Yeah, that would be pretty fun.

So Molly will be here.

at 720 and we'll talk to her.

I'm curious because when we talked earlier in December, she said we could talk about dry January, but I wasn't able to get her on the show until tonight.

January is almost over, but we'll ask Molly if she partook and how that went for her.

So we also talked about Heinz Ketchup.

They need to be stopped.

They have the keg chup now for Super Bowl parties.

Always looking for ways to market your product.

I get that.

But they tried to work their product into a smoothie recently a ketchup smoothie Just do ketchup you do it.

Well, it's really good

They also I don't know if you've seen these lays made a ketchup flavored potato chip No, that doesn't sound terrible Surprisingly a lot of people actually liked it.

Yeah, I guess I could see that

And it's potatoes people dip french fries into ketchup.

Yeah, I don't but you know Well, that's good look they're obviously doing something right, but this is a And this is what they say this is their press release and this is from food and wine If you're hosting a Super Bowl party and you're thinking you might need to buy a keg Hines has you covered that is assuming you were thinking about a keg of chop or ketchup

Heinz has just launched something called Kegchup, which is a 19.5-inch 10-pound ketchup dispenser that holds 114 ounces of ketchup.

What is it, like 20 ketchup bottles or something like

that?

Yeah, somewhere around there

probably.

Okay.

It is shaped like a beer keg with a pump dispenser at the top, sort of how you get to ketchup, like at a sporting event.

And you don't have to shake it.

Just squeeze it or wait to pour it out on its own.

You don't have to shake it because you can't.

So unless they have some new shaking science that makes all the particles and everything stay mixed, which I doubt, you probably should shake it.

But they say this is probably way more ketchup than you need unless your Super Bowl party is full or it's a tailgate.

They're making ketchup keg chups available for sale.

And you can enter a contest to get one early, hopefully in time for the Super Bowl, which is...

You know, creeping out for closer.

Uh, they are 175 bucks for 114 ounces.

That sounds like a ripoff con.

How much does a bottle of ketchup, four bucks?

Yeah, it was something around there.

So let's say it's five for Heinz ketchup.

And 114 ounces is like, let's say 15 bottles of ketchup.

That's like 75 bucks.

They're selling these for 175 bucks.

And there are rules to the contest.

All right.

Whatever.

It's good ketchup.

I don't mean to... I don't mean to poo poo.

You could just get a couple bottles.

Just to have him laying around.

I'll be that guy that has Heinz keg chups all over my house anyway.

So our question of the night, folks, is who is the greatest quarterback of all time?

We got a lot of social media responses.

We'll get to those.

Mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608 says, that was not meant for us.

Unless he's telling me not to be a quarterback.

He said sorry don't quit your day job.

This is my day

job He was talking about my kazoo.

Oh Well, that makes sense.

No, it was I should

let's give it another let's hear it Are you sure you want to know but I want to make sure mark is there on the money

here?

Let me get it ready

You must get so many girls

Hello ladies, have you ever heard the kazoo?

Mark Yeah, I don't I don't know that counter heads ready to make the jump to doing the kazoo full time But thank you for your text.

I maybe you know watching the more YouTube videos cuz I'd got basic all the learning I did with that,

you know all the lessons.

Yeah, and it sounds that good.

Yeah

We're shocking.

Steve from Florida, Conrad's dad in the 9-2-0 says, best quarterback of all time is Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers.

MVP of not only Super Bowl I, but also Super Bowl II.

Great man on and off the field.

That's pretty, you can certainly make an argument for that too.

So are you going by rings?

Are you going by yards, touchdowns?

What a good guy.

And why are they all good looking?

Why all quarterbacks?

Why are they all handsome?

That's just

not.

It's not fair.

Well, it's because they work out literally every second of the day.

Like, wouldn't you love to look like Josh Allen?

Six, seven, mountain of muscle.

Got the Hollywood girlfriend or wife, whatever.

You know, people could say Joe Namath.

I don't know.

But Bart Starr, like, he's before my time, but I've seen highlights.

He won two Super Bowls.

The problem is like the playing field has changed.

And now like Brady, there's no way Brady could have played till he was 45 when he retired.

They protect the heck out of the quarterback now.

You see these highlights of Terry Bradshaw and Montana just getting drilled after the whistle sometimes.

That doesn't happen anymore.

And I'm not saying it's wrong.

I like that they protect the quarterback because if the quarterback goes out injured, it's a pretty sucky game.

Good quarterback play makes the game fun.

I'm all for protecting them.

But when you're judging who is the greatest of all time, you have to take that into account, I think.

Montana was a little guy.

Not little.

He was 6'2", but he wasn't thick.

So I don't know Monica from Mount Horrib says I don't watch football except for usually the Super Bowl So I am hands down the best armchair quarterback with such impressive qualifications Monica you're about as qualified as I am And I did want to play quarterback in high school for about seven seconds And then by the time the ball was hiked and I was like what am I doing?

What am I calling boom?

It's like I don't know how those guys do it So I do admire them for that.

You have to have fast thinking skills Fast thinking skills

Mark from the six oh eight says overrated Dan Marino.

Oh, that's interesting, Mark, because I would have put Marino in that category with like Peyton Manning really good at regular season quarterback, but he never won a Super Bowl.

He went to the Super Bowl against Montana in I think 84.

He might have been a rookie.

And they thought, oh, he'll be back.

He's so great.

I don't think he ever went back to a Super Bowl.

That's just what happens when you play for the Miami Dolphins, you

know, I guess so.

And you know what, the Miami Dolphins are the worst.

Every year when someone threatens that record of theirs to go undefeated and they pop champagne, like, because they're still the only undefeated team, I guess I understand why they do that, but it's pretty annoying.

But Merino had amazing numbers, I will say that.

But I hear where you're coming from.

Thank you, Mark.

Steve also says, in my condiment opinion, Heinz ketchup is only good on a hamburger.

Hot dog, brats, and salty french fries.

Maybe meatloaf.

Ooh, meatloaf, I forgot about that.

Don't you put ketchup in the meatloaf when you make it?

I'm pretty sure.

I think you do.

I don't know.

I never made meatloaf.

And you're like 26?

Dude, no time like the present.

I'll bring

it.

I'll bring it.

I'll bring

it up and bring in a loaf tomorrow.

Will you?

Every everything else doesn't sound right.

The Heinz company should just stick to the 14 ounce glass bottle and nine.

Was that Graham's nine gram packet that made them famous.

Yeah, I agree, Steve.

So 14 ounces.

OK, maybe that's what they think.

I'm Robert from McFarland laces out merino.

What does that mean?

Was he saying Marina's overrated?

Yeah, maybe.

Monica from Mount Horab chimes in again from the 608 and says after contemplating I think Colin Kaepernick could have been a contender had he not been shunned due to protesting civil rights.

I could not agree more Monica that was so ridiculous especially in hindsight as to what's going on now insanity

Thank you for the text Robert Come on con I was expecting you to guide me

there

It's

so funny there's

hilarious

it's so funny

That's great.

Thank you Robert and let's get to some social media text, too We've got Matt Harper says our favorite rock rap artist from here in Green Bay says I'd have to say Brady

You wouldn't get much pushback on that, Matt.

Richel Cascio says he saved every one of us flash.

Gordon.

Yeah, but it's a quarterback?

I don't know.

You know what, Rich?

Stick to wrestling.

Rich is gonna be on the show next week.

I'm so excited to have him back.

Um, Peachwaba, I read that one.

Sean Boyce, Peachwaba.

Young did start right away for the LA Express and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

That's true, Sean, but I mean, talk about bad teams.

He really didn't get a fair shot.

I still stand by my Steve Young comments and my comment that Troy Aikman is horribly overrated as a quarterback.

I think he's fine as a color guy.

J.B.

Thompson says Carl Davis hands down too bad about his injury early in his career.

He could have been better than Joe Montana.

Who is Carl Davis?

Not sure, actually.

Go to the Google account, will you?

Take a memo.

Richard Vargas says, if I was putting a team together right now and I could pick any QB who ever played to be my starter, it would have to be Joe Montana.

He'd have twice as many Super Bowl rings if he hadn't, if he had been coddled by the officials as some of the favorites, quote, are today.

Totally agree with you, Richard.

I just kind of said something very similar to that.

And he had Bill Walsh.

You know, that's another factor.

Do they have a great coach?

I think Seth Wickersham said something like that yesterday.

Do they have the right coach?

And that is what I will say the Packers have nailed that with coach quarterback pairings.

And Jordan Love, I think, is truly benefited from Matt, I almost said Matt LeBlanc.

Joey from Francis' coach.

Sean Boy says, I'm gagging as I type this, but Tom Brady.

Takes a big man Sean.

Thank you Daniel Kirby Pope on social media says John Elway That's our first vote for John Elway.

You had a Meyer Elway.

He lost I think three in a row or four And then he came back in one two But I don't think the losses were his fault, but he was he was unbelievable player Tim Nicholas on Facebook says Joe Montana agreed Tim Mike Jansen that's a vote for Uncle Rico

Put a nice pretty picture.

Eric Rathsec from Ask Your Mother, one of our favorites says, hard to say, Rodgers made some of the craziest throws.

Obviously Brady won the most chips with really good defenses behind him.

That's true too.

And of course, Montana.

Yes, tough to decide.

Eric also says, Mike Jansen, Uncle Rico, he was excited to see that picture.

Derek Fister also.

posted a picture of Uncle Rico by his van practicing.

So the debate continues, we will read more of your texts when we come back.

Uncle Rico on

one.

Uncle Rico is ahead?

Oh, he's just, he's just great.

He's the best quarterback ever.

He's the best

independent film quarterback.

All right, we come back, we'll read more of your texts.

I'm gonna tell you about a really bad golf bet that went horribly wrong.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

I'm Pete Schwab, this is Nightlight.

I'm really glad you're here, folks.

It's a great Wednesday night here in the state of Wisconsin.