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Kurt Krauss on Moonlight and Magnolia & the Magic Behind Gone With the Wind (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Tue May 26, 2026
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Wow.
I'm sure what that is.
You don't know what Voltron is, Pete?
What is that again?
Voltron was a Japanese anime cartoon from the 80s, where five robot lions come together to make one big super robot that fought the tyranny of universal, like...
crime and people like that is pretty cool.
I watched it a lot of kids.
Yeah,
they
redid it.
They redid it a few years ago.
But yeah, it's, yeah, five, five pilots in five robot lions and those robot lions come to form one super crime fighting guy named Voltron or lady or person.
I don't know.
I'm sure robot.
But yeah, all we need is to love it.
Well, we have Tucker.
We've talked.
So we have four lions.
We just need one more.
maybe you can be that fifth line.
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The question is, you know, summer is pretty much coming here.
Like we got just a few more weeks for it's officially summer, but what is the best vacation spot in Wisconsin?
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But really quick, here's a question I have.
Before we ask the question, Pete, of your favorite spot, what is it like living in a touristy area?
You live in that area where like, I mean, like your population probably skyrockets over the summer.
What's it like living there?
And do you feel the need to like, you're like, all right, we just got to get out of town right now.
We don't, I wouldn't say Marinette is a vacation destination necessarily, which is interesting because we are directly across the bay from Fish Creek of Green Bay.
So it's the same body of water, but this, I wouldn't say we get a ton of vacations in Marinette.
Where I live in my community, we do have some seasonal homes.
The population in our little neighborhood here tends to go up quite a bit in the summer.
but I wouldn't say the whole area.
Now, Crivitz is a big vacation area, and there are people with cottages in the county and stuff like that, but it's not like Eagle River or Anakwa or one of those areas.
But I remember going to those areas.
One of my answers was gonna be Three Lakes, because that's where my grandma had a cottage, and that was where I spent a lot of my childhood.
Very special place to me.
As an adult, I would say we like to go to Door County.
It's close.
It's a couple of hours away.
If we go around through Green Bay, we don't have a boat where it only takes like 20 minutes to get there.
But yeah, it's got great culture and restaurants.
And, you know, I love Door County.
That's great.
That's a very popular answer.
My sister and my brother-in-law have been going to Door County.
I think now, my goodness gracious, they've been married for over
you know, over 25 years now, they go there once a year at least.
And they usually
do a
summer, sometimes they even do a winter trip too, just to take in, you know, cause that's, I mean, door counts getting popular in the winter as well.
But Dom, what about you?
Do you have memories?
Did your family come to Wisconsin for the summer for like trips and whatnot?
Only when I first moved here for school, University of Wisconsin, gosh, there was a few years where I did go camping in the summertime.
And I, like Pete said, I went to Krivitz, right?
I think that's how the town of Krivitz.
And yeah, there was a great, yeah, it was great, great camping, everything like that.
I'd say that is my favorite.
I do like the Dells as well.
But I've gone there quite a few times now to where it's not as good as Krivitz, but I definitely would say, I definitely would say definitely a bigger.
Yeah, it's more touristy, I would
say.
Yeah, it was Scott's and Dell's not as good as Krivitz, but we got water parks.
So I have never.
I have never.
The only thing I know about Krivitz is that there is a piggly wiggly there.
At least there was when I used to work for a refrigerated warehouse.
We used to house the like.
Wiggly Wiggly foods that would be distributed to various stores all over the state and the store 182 Krivitz.
I remember that Yeah, so
it's a weird there are a couple It has a couple claims to fame most recently I would say about eight years ago the Broadway star Julius La Rosa Passed away in Krivitz and I read that
I heard that on the
radio I'm like wait a minute what and apparently he had some connection and went there
and lived out his days in Crivets.
And then Brett Michaels from Poison, his mom lives there.
And he was in Crivets a couple summers ago and he claimed he was gonna come back and do a big summer concert.
Never happened, come on Brett, put your money where your mouth is.
But yeah, his mom and stepdad live in Crivets, so.
Look what that
cat dragged in, Mr. Brett Michaels.
Well done, that's why you go there.
Nice, thank you, thank you very much.
But yeah, beautiful area.
Absolutely.
I mean, well, I can only say from what I've heard about it.
I should check it out one of these days.
But we got ourselves some text message thoughts here.
Dom, let's kick it off with you.
What are the people saying regarding tonight's question?
What is your favorite vacation spot in Wisconsin?
I've never heard nothing but amazing things.
And it's like...
from me, from here, and we're seeing, it's about a five hour drive and- Dude,
it's like four hours from here.
And I'm
two hours north of you.
Like it is up there, but it's gorgeous.
The Apostle Islands are close by.
I've never been there and it is definitely on my list.
Maybe it's a place where we should do a live
show.
Ooh, I like
it too.
Nightlight live from-
The Apostle Islands.
On the lake.
A
little kayaking.
There we go.
We do a show on the lake.
We get a pontoon boat.
See, I'm just using any reason to get a pontoon boat.
A pontoon boat.
Or we just get some water sound effects, kill the video and say, we're coming to you live from Lake Superior.
They'll never know.
Nobody knows.
You can't prove it.
Come on, please.
Okay, we're gonna keep going here.
I'm trying to make water sounds right now and it's not working, okay.
All right, cool.
What do we have next on the text
Yeah, my wife and I, we've been talking about doing a trip, a summer trip.
And Devil's Lake is always the top of that list.
So that was probably gonna hopefully happen sooner than later.
What else we got there, Dom?
Nice.
agree on it.
Dark County has those great limestone formations.
You just, the natural beauty there is incredible.
I totally agree with you.
I just feel like Wisconsin is the place.
Like, it's just the place.
Small
it.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
And
has the
There we go.
Okay.
It's not a destination to get away from, get away to, but if you're ever in Milwaukee and you want a moment, this again, this isn't Door County, this isn't.
This isn't Devil's Lake or Wisconsin Dollars.
You're not going to do an overnight here.
But there's a place called Atwood Park.
It is like when you go there, it's like you are on a island in the Caribbean.
The water is gorgeous.
The everything about that feels like you are nowhere in Wisconsin.
If you're ever in Milwaukee, Atwood Park along the lakefront on Lake Drive.
is a great place to stop for like an hour or two on a nice day.
Just take a look.
It's, I cannot, when she said, when she said clear water, that's the first thing I thought about was at Wood Park.
So if you're ever around that area, that's my, my recommendation.
Nice to know.
Yeah.
Well, Nick, you will get there.
All new time.
Save your money, Nick.
save up as killer bees.
The comedian used to say, uh, we've got some, uh, we've got some Facebook comments here.
Uh, Scott Tom, one of my favorite Madisonian says, refuse to say, I hope they never find my secret place.
Okay.
Thanks.
I guess it's every girl for herself.
Thanks, Scott.
Uh, Daniel Wheeler says, uh, Danny wheels, he's going to be on the show next month.
Fox River mall in Appleton.
It has a borrow pizza, air conditioning and no deer ticks.
That is my kind of inside guy dude right there.
Me and Danny wheels and kindred spirit.
Where are you going?
The mall food court.
Get a slushy Janet on Facebook says Eagle River spent a lot of
time.
There's a kid
could not agree more beautiful place.
That's where we would go.
when we wanted to see a movie, when we were in Three Lakes.
Eagle River was like 10 miles away as the Vilas Theater.
Really cool charming little theater.
Thank you, Janet.
Stacy Sue says, Sister Bay at Al Johnson's Swedish restaurant with the goats on the roof.
Yeah, that is a funky place.
My goodness.
Oh yeah, it's a place to see.
Stacy Sue also says in Michigan, it would be Mackinac Island, fudge, biking, et cetera.
I agree with you, Stacy.
We did our honeymoon at the Grand Hotel.
Macon Island is spectacular, but it's not Wisconsin.
That's what I will say.
But you know what?
We're not going to chastise.
I just like, I love when anybody's reason for going somewhere is fudge to me.
All right.
Wisconsin Dells, Door County, always like, but there's fantastic fudge.
Wow.
Great point.
Now I feel bad.
Sorry, Stacy Sue.
You can say
whatever you
want.
to each their own, to
each
their
own.
Vince on the, on Facebook says, Wisconsin Dells, the Vegas of the Midwest.
Beth says on Facebook, don't be ridiculous.
Three Lakes is the only place I agree with you, Beth.
I've seen Beth there.
Beth is a friend of my aunts.
I love Beth.
Thank you.
JB, the guy behind the guy behind the guy says, best vacation spot in Wisconsin apparently is Florida.
Finally, the weather is nice and people leave the state to go somewhere even warmer.
I find that odd.
I don't know.
Okay.
All right.
Well, layman Rob says Lake Superior, the opposite of Florida.
Thank you, layman Rob.
That's Rob.
That's Rob from Tigerton, baby.
I love when Rob gets ahold of us.
Rob, don't forget, drink your water, please.
That's, uh, that's not a suggestion.
It's an order.
Drink your water, and that goes for everybody.
Drink your water.
I like the switcheroo, the middle of the names there.
That's very... I know, he does, yeah, his name is Rob.
For the last time he's layman, but he's from Tigerton.
He is amazing.
All right, we got to get out of here.
We'll talk more about your thoughts on tonight's question.
What is your favorite vacation spot here in Wisconsin?
A nightlight with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach.
Coming up next, Kurt Krause talking about theater and movies here in Wisconsin.
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That's right, baby.
We are coming to you live from Wisconsin all over the state.
And this is Vacationville, USA.
The summer is here.
Our question of the night is what is your best
Vacation spot in Wisconsin or your favorite vacation spot in Wisconsin share that or if you want to be like Stacy Sue You can say a place from somewhere else too.
It's all about vacation and peace of mind Our night
or your body said don't ask me.
I won't tell you.
Yeah, that's
true.
He's keeping it all to himself
Yeah,
it's just him in a in a pup tent on a lake.
That doesn't sound fun to me anyway, you know, okay
if I could
counter my pal Scott Tom
But hey, we have a nightlight movie club this weekend or this weekend this Thursday night folks in the second hour as we do every week We will discuss a movie and we'd like for you to be part of it.
You can chime in with texts or calls.
Tell us your favorite part of the Outsiders that is this week's movie the classic Francis Ford Copeland movie that was Adapted from the Essie Hinton novel of the same name.
We'll be discussing that on Thursday night
Be part of the fun.
It was a star making roles for almost all of the cast, including Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe.
Who am I forgetting guys?
Not Matt Damon.
See Thomas Howell.
See Thomas
Howell.
Ralph Macchio.
Not Matt Damon.
Not Matt Damon.
No Matt Damon.
Matt
Dylan.
And Diane
Mayne.
And Diane Mayne.
And many, many others.
Many others.
Leaf Garrett was in that movie.
It's kind of cool.
People are like, who?
He was.
Big as pronounced life carrot.
That's right.
You know what, Tom?
He's like 67 right now.
Oh, you're watching on the stream, folks.
You just got a serious.
We're going to keep things moving here with one of my favorite guests.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's been on the show before.
You've heard him.
I'm sure he is a very busy, Wisconsin based actor, making his home in Door County.
He is also a film producer.
And now he joins us tonight.
to talk about a few other things he's working on too.
As always, it is my pleasure to welcome Mr. Kurt Krause.
Hey, buddy.
Hey, thank you for having me back, Pete.
And very nice to meet you, Greg and Dominic.
Nice to meet you as well, Kurt.
Welcome to the show.
You've got, again, if you're watching on the stream, you've got the nice background.
It looks very Dork County in your background there, Kurt.
You got some nice trees.
Do I see water back there?
You do.
That's Lake Michigan right behind me.
I've heard of it.
Very nice.
Just doing his thing.
It's gorgeous, Terry.
You have a nice home, my friend.
It's great to have you here.
So listen, we have a lot to cover.
So let's jump into your new endeavors after the news.
But for right now, tell us, kind of catch us up on what you're doing.
The last time you were on the show, you talked about this degree you were going for.
I've never heard of this before, a master's in talent development.
Down in Illinois, you're an actor, you're a film producer.
What is a master's in talent development?
You can do a lot of things with it and besides helping you be, I think, a better producer and kind of finding what the needs are of crew and client, I can do things with non-profit work if I want to from here.
Once I receive the degree, I can do things and
developing strategy.
So again, when you're, as you well know, at working in indie film, so much of pre-production is putting together the money and financing for a project.
And so I think putting together strategy goes a long way.
So there's a lot of different areas that...
that I'm learning a lot of different of these courses.
I could go work in education from here as well.
And so when I had this opportunity come my way, it was actually with the job that came at the university and they were looking at bringing back a position that hadn't really been around since the pandemic.
So five, six years removed, they were looking for someone to come in and help as this assistant Reds Hall director.
with that develop that program and then pass it on to my successor and they said a part of the perks is of course an education that comes with it.
So I originally went in for the job but the just a really nice perk of it was being able to pursue a master's degree and this one looked the most interesting to me.
That's great.
Wow.
I mean, that's something that I've always been interested in because, you know, I come from the world of production as well, whether it's like mostly live shows.
And one thing that I've always been, someone told me once they said, if you want to get into specifically movie production, one thing you should know about is budgeting, accounting to a certain extent, knowing, you know, where, where to find the money, how to spend the money and how to spend it well because.
Studios and investors love it when you come under budget, especially.
So that to me has always been something that's been very interesting.
Is that part of the learning you're getting from the course?
Very much so.
And my experience also as an independent producer was learning that.
But I also knew that I had a lot more to learn, especially if we wanted to put together a bigger budget indie film.
Kurt, okay, we have about a minute and a half or so before we have to break through the news and then we'll talk about your new film project and this play that you've connected yourself to, which sounds really cool too.
But tell us, you are one of the coordinators of the Door County Film Festival.
What a great time.
I was there in February.
It was so much fun.
Tell people if, uh, if they're not aware of it, why they should check out the Door County Film Festival and put a recap on this year was such a great time.
Well, thank you.
And thank you so much for being a part of it this past year.
I've just, I've gotten a lot of really positive feedback from this year.
My
check bounced by the way, but I wasn't going to bring that up on the air, but
we could
discuss it
afterwards.
He's
been talking about nonstop.
That's the second one this
year.
No, the festival.
continues to grow.
It was started by Chris Opper, who moved here from Nashville originally.
And this came at a time where there wasn't a lot of film festivals.
Now film festivals are becoming more and more of a thing.
So I think it's probably the third or fourth longest running festival now in Wisconsin.
And like I said, every year it's been
continuing to grow and we get a lot of great submissions.
We have great speakers every year, including this past year.
Pete came and joined us and he were our keynote to kick off the festival and we've been able to bring in items such as talking about the new tax incentives and so we had
John Geroche, who's with Destination Door County, kind of talk about the impacts of a cherry pie Christmas and just how that really boosted things in our local economy then, as well as the tourist economy now, if people wanting to come and see the localness from where it was filmed.
We'll pick up.
We'll dig into that a little more after the news.
Kurt Krauss is here at Northeast Wisconsin based actor.
He's got a big project coming up.
He's going to tell us about after the news.
This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba.
Welcome back.
This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.
Great to have you with us on this Tuesday night, which is sort of like a Monday, but better because it's Tuesday.
Kurt Krauss is here, folks.
He is our guest here in the second hour.
He joins us tonight to talk about a cool thing.
He's got a film project called Amphibious, but Kurt, you're also involved in a play
called Moonlight and Magnolias.
Talk about the connection between the play and your movie, and tell us whatever you can about the play, which is right around the corner.
It starts June 3rd.
Sounds like a fun time.
Yeah, this was really just such a blessing for us.
So Third Avenue Playworks, which is based in Sturgeon Bay, has this show, which again will be running June 3rd to the 21st, called Moonlight and Magnolias.
And they reached out to us because they saw that we were in the fundraising process for amphibious.
And through this community partnership, they're offering 50% of all donations given on what they call their pay what you will preview night, which will be that Wednesday.
Love
that.
And then they'll continue to be promoting our film throughout the run of this show.
And then we...
through the fourth, the fourth through the 21st are receiving 100% of all donations that come in.
So they do a different partnership with the show and when they saw this one coming up on the play bell, Moonlight and McNally is, because it's based on the, it's a comedy behind the scenes based on the film of Gone with the Wind, they thought why not, why not a play about making a movie correlated to
the actual making of a movie.
Yeah.
So yeah, this this one, I think folks are really going to enjoy Moonlight and Magnolia is is is based on the true story of the chaotic behind the scenes of trying to make Gone with the Wind.
And so anyway, in this show, they're three weeks into production, and everything's going awry.
And so the producer locks into his office, he locks up the
director and screenwriter, and they says, we have to rewrite this thing in five days.
And so it's very, very comedic.
It's a play of four individuals on stage doing this.
And, you know, folks are going to be laughing and cheering them on.
And anyone who's familiar with Gone with the Wind, I was a big fan of the film growing up.
You know, I think you're going to get a lot out of it as you, you know, you know, the days of a Clark Gable and says, right, Butler, and of course, Scarlett.
Para, you know, Mammy, so all these great characters, you know, as they're trying to rewrite this show, anyone who knows that knows the production, I think it's going to
love it.
The only thing I really know about the production like hijinks is the fact that, uh, at the same time they were making the Wizard of Oz and they, they said like the Wizard of Oz had five directors and one director like, nope, you can't do it anymore.
You got to go back to gone with the wind.
Cause that's how it was back in the day of the studio system where it wasn't like, it wasn't Christopher Nolan executing this long winded, not winded.
I'm sorry.
That sounds insulting, but like a long, huge version of his, uh, take on the Odyssey or whatever.
But back in those days, like, all right, Steve, you're coming off that movie.
You're going to go on with the wind.
We'll see.
later.
Good luck on that one.
It was just absolute chaos, it seems like.
Sure.
Yeah, the studio system of Ben is so different than the studio system of now.
I'd like to think we've redevolved for the better.
That's the voice of Kirk Kraus, folks.
He is our guest.
He is a Northeast Wisconsin based actor and producer.
And he is here talking about
A really cool operation.
He has worked out here between a play called Moonlight and Magnolia's.
And if you go see it, what's the date?
If you go see Moonlight and Magnolia's, the funds go to your production.
So that'll be Wednesday, June 3rd for the 730 show.
I'm actually going to be there giving just a real, a real short address to the audience.
And then myself and some of our production team will come back then on the 12th and we'll do kind of a talk back with the audience.
And that'll be about midway.
through the run of the show.
I love it.
And I love that you, you've been part of a lot of short films, but this amphibious is a much bigger, more ambitious project.
It's a feature film and you're trying to raise $300,000.
Tell us about the story of amphibious and how this came to be and what, what is your connection to it?
Why you're the one that wants to bring it to the big screen.
Yeah.
So originally I was the, the writer of amphibious and still primarily
and though I've also had now some screenplay work with a future director of the project, and that's Michael Seibel, and he helped with some of the script rewrites.
It
was
originally a short story that I submitted to a writing competition, and it ended up being a finalist, which told me people liked the story.
But it was something to inspire particularly for the young people and those who might be struggling with identity or some suicide.
and ideation to help them recognize that the things that that make you different that might be scary as a young person are those things that make you stand out and become become a star in whatever area of life you're called to as an adult so that make character in amphibious his name is ever he was born in syndically so he has wet toes and and wet fingers and he's hid the secret away from his classmates for for his his whole life and he's transferred to
different schools and just always under the radar type guide.
And when it's discovered, of course, he's targeted by some of the students in bullied, but you have a response of a very caring staff at the school.
And it's actually the English teacher slash swim coach who says, you know, what you have here is like the envy of a lot of swimmers because advantage in the water.
And so long story short, he ends up pursuing swimming and he very
quickly he starts getting faster and faster than everybody else and he becomes not only not only the star but sort of the pseudo celebrity and over the journey he was reached with a lot of kindness and show he can now use his influence to bring kindness and whether it's through social media or just personal interactions he helps evolve the whole face of the school and people treating each other differently.
and really carrying themselves differently.
So he helps other people discover that gift inside of them, the way that different individuals in the show help reach up to him.
Yeah.
Wow, that's a, I mean, like to, it just sounds positive from, I mean, maybe that's from start to finish, but like it takes a wonderful turn to the positive, which I think something in movies we very much need.
Kurt.
One of the things that we've talked about with other guests and was mentioned briefly before are the tax credits here in Wisconsin.
We finally have ourselves tax credits in this state, which I feel like is many years late, but better late than never.
How do you see yourself utilizing those tax credits to help you make this film as far as shooting in Wisconsin and making it more palatable for other filmmakers here to do their projects?
Yeah, it's crazy because when we were...
First, writing and rewriting the screenplay, we didn't have those tax credits.
And so the original budget we put together wasn't even considering those because we didn't see that on the radar at the time.
I was actually asked to go then testify in Madison before the assembly.
They had a committee to hear about these tax credits and through Action Wisconsin, they brought together a number of us from around the state to talk about.
our different communities and different work that we do.
And so I went from not seeing it at all to all of a sudden, it's like, oh my gosh, it's here.
And now we get to actually say how this would impact us to now the actual application.
So one of the things we were able to do is say, with 300,000, which is how we were originally going to budget this thing, we're like, no, we could actually see even a greater.
financial profit, maybe even being able to do more with that, including being able to do non-location in places like Dora County.
And we're working with Film Green Bay to help put this together and they exist to really be a working arm in a lot of things, whether it's legalities or if people want to donate to a production through a fiscal receivership program, we're receding money through
then that's donated specifically to our project through Film Green Bay.
So this is, it sounds a little complicated, a little crazy, but all that being said, we're creating this film in a way that I've never created a film before.
And yeah, that's kind of how do you reach 300,000?
And it's like, well, you can do it a way that you've never done before.
So it's definitely uncharted waters, but it's amazing.
Again, like with this,
a community partnership that came to us through that third avenue, the playworks.
It's amazing where kind of almost out of the blue people hear about what you're doing and want to be a part of it.
So it's been special, learning curve, but special.
You have to be creative and you certainly are my friend.
That's really great.
Great catching up with you.
Check out Moonlight and Magnolia's June 3rd in Sturgeon Bay at the 3rd Avenue Playworks.
The proceeds go to help Kurt fund his movie.
So hopefully, Kurt will have you back on to talk about this big premiere of your movie.
And it's very ambitious.
And I tip my hat to you, pal.
Good luck.
Hey, thank you so much.
Thank you for having
me.
Yeah, you got it.
Anytime.
That's Kurt Krauss, folks, Northeast Wisconsin based actor.
And one of the founders or coordinators of the Door County Film Festival, if you get a chance,
Check out the Door County Film Festival.
They screen everything at the Northern Sky Theater.
It's absolutely beautiful.
And it is another great film festival we have here in Wisconsin.
So I don't know, man, web fingers and toes.
That's intense.
That's kind of cool.
I
would be swimming like no one's business if that were the case.
Or I would just be like, or I would just be like, look at my fingers.
You can't, you can't hurt me.
I don't know, I have no idea.
I'm so stuck in the world of like Marvel movies and superhero movies and mutation movies, I'm like, well, what could he do next?
Could the person save the world?
No, they're gonna swim really fast.
Inspire others to believe.
Believe in their own abilities.
It would make
you popular.
I'm sure there's an aspect of bullying that could happen, but it also could make you kind of cool.
Like a, you know, like a Teen
Wolf.
It depends on how you deal
with
it yourself.
If you, like, it's like the kind of thing is like, if you're a kid who's like, you know, a little hefty, you come in and you're like, yeah, I know I'm hefty, but I'm really fun and funny too.
And I'm cute.
Like, if you have a good attitude towards it, then boom, you got to take care of the moment.
You're like, I have web fingers and they make funny.
You're toast.
You chose to.
That's a great, there's a great community of filmmakers in Northeast Wisconsin.
Kirk Krauss included Daniel Wheeler, Dan Davies, JB Thompson, Craig Kennett.
They've all been on this show.
And I love people that take action and try to get projects made.
It's so hard to raise money
for
projects like this.
And to get creative and to see it through is really remarkable.
And I tip my hat to anybody who's willing to
do this.
I mean, absolutely.
I mean, the
All these ideas I've ever had, like whether it's like movie ideas or TV ideas or just like show ideas or whatever, I'm always like, that's going to take so much.
And I get very, very good scourge.
So it's good to see.
And especially like, good to see people like Kirk and we're going to be talking to your friend, Daniel Wheeler and, you know, the work that you've done.
But now that there is a mechanism when Wisconsin that can actually.
be sort of like an investment on, on behalf of people, like, you know, tax credits, like rebate systems.
That's important too.
Cause then not only folks like Kurt, people like Nathan Deming, who we talked to a couple of weeks ago, maybe we'll also see bigger projects come to Wisconsin as well.
I personally feel like Georgia was like, yeah, let's be the leader.
Let's do this.
Let's do it to it.
And Wisconsin, come on.
We got snow.
They don't dude.
They.
Atlanta is like, you know, when my son was coming out of college, he had a lot of actor friends.
Some of them went to New York, some went to LA, a couple went here, a couple went there.
And more than either one of those cities, people went to Atlanta.
Like there is that much work there.
You can make your living as an actor in Atlanta.
That's how
proactive they've been.
Pinewood Studios, one of the most famous studios in all the world is made, James Bond movies.
You look up Pinewood Studios in England, they opened a second location in Atlanta, because they're like, yeah, this is the place to be.
So maybe, just maybe Wisconsin is next.
They're sustaining it, and that's half the battle, because sometimes these incentives come and go, but tip my hat to Georgia or whatever.
All right, we're gonna come right back and wrap this whole thing up, folks, with the nightcap that is coming your way next, and we'll finish up some texts.
If you laugh, if you drinks, you'll
see what happens next.
It's not that with beach wobble.
Great vibe.
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The question of the evening is, what is your favorite vacation spot in Wisconsin?
And we're going to get to some of those questions right here.
But there is some breaking news happening right now that has come across the desk, which is very, very upsetting in the world of Packers.
Running back, Josh Jacob has turned himself into the Hobart, Wisconsin jail and is looking at five counts of domestic abuse at, let's see, it says like, it was a strangulation and property damage.
That is all we know at this moment.
We got that from both Mike Clemens and it's being reported right now in the New York Post as well.
There was a disturbance complaint involving Jacob's on Saturday morning and he has turned himself into the authorities.
and was booked into the Brown County jail on five charges, battery, domestic abuse, criminal damage to property, domestic abuse, disorderly conduct.
It's really honestly, it's domestic abuse slash other things, strangulation and suffocation and intimidation of a victim.
As we know more, we will let you know, but that is breaking news coming out of Green Bay and the Packers organization.
Again, Packers star Josh Jacobs has been arrested facing five.
charges of domestic violence.
So that is not the way we like to end our shows here, but we wanted to let you all know that.
And as we know more, we will let you know there will be more reports on civicmedia.us for that.
So, yeah, we wanted to do, yeah.
Coming up on tomorrow's show, we will be speaking to Norm Kopesky, who's the co-owner of Appleton Cigar, and he will be talking about his business.
He'll be on the show.
He's one of our sponsors.
We love talking to him.
We love having him here.
And then it's time for Martin Alvarado.
from the Madison library to give us his picks and his ideas on what's happening around the area, especially with spring and summer.
So come on back for the show tomorrow, five to seven for nightlight.
We are officially in the nightcap, folks, where we get the last minute thoughts, texts.
messages, things of that nature on our question of the night.
Summer is here.
What is the best vacation spot in Wisconsin?
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Uh, Daniel Barry on the live stream says happy Tuesday.
What's up, everybody?
Hello, Daniel.
Welcome to the program.
So happy you stopped by and, uh, you know, let us just, you know, hello, we're happy to have you.
I would
love to, I would love to know if Daniel, if you want to explain where the sports highlights part of that go, like does he.
Is he like an editor?
Does he work for a TV station?
I would love to see just say these are the highlights.
I appreciate it as a fan.
I don't know, but I would love to know that Daniel Barry.
If you ever want to share that, that's awesome and happy Tuesday too as well, buddy.
Let us know your world, Daniel.
Yeah.
Bring us in.
All right.
We still have some last, we have still some leftover text messages, some thoughts on tonight's question.
What is your best vacation spot in Wisconsin?
Take it away, Mr. Dome Lee in Madison.
That's what I was talking about.
That violist theater, it's adorable.
Right
downtown Eagle River, it's so cool.
You know who else was from Eagle River?
It was David Zucker's pal and collaborator, Jim Abraham's, who actually, I think he had a summer home there, but I think he ended up relocating full-time to Eagle River.
Can I give you a fun factoid piece of information regarding a musical choice for Mr. Dom Lee?
He played it vacation by the gogos.
Yeah, the gogos guitar player Jane Weedland born in O'Connor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Is that right?
And their lead singer was in briefly the drummer of one of the first hardcore punk bands of all time, the germs, Belinda Carlisle.
So I just, you know, whenever I hear the drummer.
She was a drummer.
She was drummer.
Yeah.
So there you go.
I remember
she dated a pro ball player named Mike Marshall.
I think was his name.
He was a Dodger and everybody loved Belinda Carlisle.
She was so fun.
He had such great energy and I didn't know she's a drummer though.
That's so cool.
She did so much cocaine in the 80s.
She once said she's surprised she still has a nose.
Well, listen, we've all got our quirks and
I know
Dom is trying to kick the smack habit and it's been quite a few years.
I
think we have one more text message from Brett in Brown Deer.
His privates is cool too.
When we were kids, my parents had a cabin in a little track of land called Sweetheart City.
All cabins and in the summer, kids playing everywhere and parents getting hammer playing dice.
If we didn't interrupt their partying, we could do anything we wanted.
That sounds really fun.
Sounds really fun.
There you go.
Clean American fun right there.
There you go.
And then there's one last one.
Just popped in here.
Melissa from Willy Street in Madison and WMDX says point beach forest preserve.
Very, very wonderful.
Do we have any Facebook messages left over?
Mr. Schwabba.
We do not.
Facebook is out and there have
been no
X's posted either.
Yeah, that's fine.
Well, let's see here.
Pete.
What did you learn tonight?
I learned we just got another last minute text from Dave.
I think
it's a little nerve.
I think they're the same person.
I'm not sure.
I just canceled my vacation.
Okay.
Cool.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you for that, Dave.
Appreciate that.
Okay.
Pete, what did I learn?
I learned that Jim Santel knows a lot more about the law than I do.
Yeah, I always like talking to Jim very
I love I love when Jim just talks for me It's like I feel like I should do I'm doing way more listening because he just can go and I'm like Educate us, please sir
everybody.
We did it, Pete.
We did it.
Do you
have a Wisconsin license, Dom?
I don't, not yet.
Like driver's license or license on your car?
Neither.
Okay, get on that.
Actually, you should be given.
That's actually kind of, I think that's a
law
right there.
All right, folks, we got to get on out of here.
Remember tomorrow's show, Norm Kopensky, who is the co-owner of Appleton Cigar will be here as well as Martín Alvarado from the Madison Public Libraries.
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We're so happy you're joining us tonight.
And folks, we hope you have a great night.
Thank you so much to Dom and Tucker Engineering and Traffic for all the work they do.
For everyone who called, text, got in touch with us.
We love that very much.
We got to get out of here, so Pete, say goodnight to the people.
Good
night, council.
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