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We've got the big story coming up here and
you know,
it's you know, Trump taking over the entire country in each and every city now.
His plans to go nationwide
and take over
every blue city he can manage.
Why not?
Which he can't manage.
Yeah.
But
you know, I heard,
I heard an interview of a taxi driver in DC.
Yeah.
And they asked, well, what do you think of all this?
And the guy says, well, I'm all for it, you know, I feel safer with all these police around.
Whoa.
Okay.
That is scary stuff.
Yeah, it is.
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John?
Well, in our DCs being taken over by the federal government,
the
more police, the safer you should feel.
All over the place.
All right.
We have a text from Mark.
This is interesting.
We were talking about CJ earlier.
CJ
was
on Maggie's show and whined when he wouldn't just answer the questions she put to him.
His attitude seems to be all hail Lord Trump.
According to this, Mark says, I have my Guy Fawkes mass ready.
Now I just need the knives and cape.
And by the way, V for Vendetta is one of the best movies
I've ever
seen.
I'm inspired by that movie.
That's
one of
those great films.
You really have to go out and see that.
All right.
Maybe we'll talk to Pete Schwab.
Pete Schwab about that and other amazing things that are happening at the theaters.
Yeah.
He's come out in about a half hour.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, let's get what we got a phone call.
Oh, we do have Joe.
Let's go to Joe right away.
Good
morning, Joe.
What do you got for us?
Hi.
Hi guys, I don't think you can give more attention to this occupation of Washington DC.
It's absolutely mind-blowing because it is so insane.
Okay, this taxi driver says he feels safer.
What are the statistics say?
Not how you feel, what are the statistics say?
And
obviously it's been 30, they've not had this low of a rate in violence, in crime, in DC in 30 years.
Obviously, they're heading the right way, and then Bigfoot, Mr. Lyre President, is going to be moving in.
He's talking about going into Baltimore.
Baltimore has had a 50-year low in homicides.
New York City, he's talking about going into.
Here's a headline about New York City.
NYPD announces record low shooting victims in the first half of 25.
So where are we in terms of they're going in the right direction?
He's going to throw all these
these troops, and they're to what?
To what end?
What are the metrics he's going to use to say whether this 30-day occupation is going to do anything?
I mean, what are we talking about?
He's going to go from city to city, having 30-day occupations, and then renew the emergency, and then renew it again.
How is this going to go in the future?
Who's in charge of the police department?
Are all the police force officers supposed to report to Donald Trump?
Is that how
it's going to be
with their chief?
I think that's what it is.
He's allowed the police departments to do whatever they want.
I mean, that's directly from the commander in chief.
Do whatever you want.
That's the orders to a police department that has rules, regulations, whatever, right?
That's it.
How does this go with lawsuits farther down the line
when
there are rules in place and then people are breaking them?
I mean, it's just it's his usual Theatrics for nothing yet because we are it's all a show people.
We are paying for it So anyway, it's more to be found out, but I'm sure he's gonna wipe it out just like Superman in 30 days,
right?
30 days.
What's he gonna have the lowest number in 60 years?
I mean, what's the metric to say that this is working?
Thanks
a lot.
Yeah, he doesn't care about the numbers.
He just wants a show.
And I think even if it's not working, he's going to go ahead with it anyway, because at that point he's got nothing to lose, which by the way, that is the current state.
And you know, the thing is, she brought up the fact that all these cities, you know, their crime rates are going down, regardless of whether they are Democratic cities or Republican cities.
They're going down in D.C.
in general.
Crime is going down about 20 to 30%, all right?
Yeah.
I mean, across the board.
Let's listen to his announcement of taking over DC here.
This is cut 96, okay?
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.
This is liberation day in DC, and we're going to take our capital back.
We're taking it back.
under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.
I'm
officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
You know what that is?
And placing the DC Metropolitan and Police Department under direct federal control.
And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.
Very good people, but they're tough.
And
they
know what's happening.
They've
done it before.
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law order of public safety.
Well, that'll be a big job in
Washington, DC, and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
All right, see?
Allowed to do their job.
Anything they want.
They're
free.
Do whatever you
need
to do.
That's right.
Knock some
heads.
At least one pundit and one of the TV talk shows had this to say about DC and lawlessness.
Let's listen to that.
I mean, I have lived in the Washington metropolitan area for my entire life, almost 50 years now.
I've lived in the city for 20 years.
The most violent moment in my life in Washington D.C., the greatest cause of a threat, not only physical threat, but bigger threat to the country, and certainly to law enforcement officers, was January 6, 2021, when
Donald Trump supporters, his allies, some people who currently work for him.
charged into the Capitol, beat cops, screamed profanities at them, yelled kill the cops, said they wanted to hang the vice president of the United States, and Donald Trump's response to that, here in the nation's Capitol, at the Capitol building, was to pardon everyone who was involved, and in some cases, rehired them into his government.
So, watching this play out in the White House briefing room, without any mention of the violent crime that was committed on his behalf in Washington, D.C., is a little...
a little unusual.
Yeah,
just to say the least.
A little unusual.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And not only that, but as we've been talking about too, he has kind of struck on a great idea, takeover cities, democratic cities.
And he is going to take this nationwide.
So let's listen to cut number 95 here.
All
right.
But hopefully LA is watching.
That mayor also, the city is burning.
And we're going to have the
same thing here.
But then I'm going to look at New York in a little while.
Let's do this.
Let's do this together.
Let's see.
It's going to
go pretty quickly.
And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster.
We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent.
He's an incompetent man.
And we have an incompetent governor there.
Pritzker is an incompetent.
His family threw him out of
the
business, and he ran for governor.
How about the money you lost?
Now I understand he wants to be president, but I noticed he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance, you know?
You never know what happens.
I'll ramble a little bit.
He's a gross
incompetent guy, thrown out of the family business.
But when I look at Chicago and I look at LA, if we didn't go to LA three months ago, LA would be burning like the part that didn't burn.
Let's see.
What?
Yeah.
It's just rambling.
He
does.
He's just
making
this stuff up as he goes along.
But you know, one of the funniest moments I think is when U.S.
Attorney Janine
Pirol, I can't even believe
I'm saying that.
I know.
Judge Janine, look, she came out there.
There's a
size difference.
They should have had a box for her to stand on.
I really think
there should have been a box.
It was a little, it was funny, you know, and not to say anything, you know, about a person's height, but she's
You know, it just came across kind of funny.
That's all.
Anyway, she came out there and personally, I think this is what she said was something that a script writer would have been, you know, ejected out of the, out of the room for coming up with saying, yeah, we want this in the next episode of Idiocracy 2.
Okay.
They'll say, no way.
You can't say this.
Well, here's Janine.
And my final note is this.
These kids understand that the jurisdiction is through the state attorney general Brian Schwab.
I did a poster of the young man from Doge who was beaten bloody with a severe concussion, a broken nose.
And then I did a poster
of what
happens to those kids because I can't arrest them, I can't prosecute them.
They go to family court and they get to do yoga and arts and crafts.
Enough.
It changes.
Oh
boy.
I'm telling you this is a US attorney and the funny part about that is that she is sitting there making posters.
What is she talking about?
Making a poster.
Where are they going to put the posters?
Exactly.
I know.
Where are they going to put the posters?
She's making these
posters to make her so happy, keep her hands busy.
I don't know what.
She's not doing anything.
I mean.
Trump had to take over DC because she's not doing anything.
I can't do anything.
They're all too young.
And then in a previous interview, she said, well, rehabilitation, that's ridiculous.
We got to
stop doing that.
Wow.
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Weather-wise, we'll let you know.
And a whole lot more coming up on John and Gordy in the morning on
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It's John and Cody in the morning.
We've got more coming up here.
You just won't believe what Dan or Donald Morning Guy in Milwaukee
had to say.
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All right, now this is radio host, Dan O'Donnell.
Okay.
He posted this.
So, uh, heavily Republican Walker Shark County, which got hit just as hard with the recent rains and Milwaukee had to go through.
Right.
Gets no National Guard help.
Yeah, good question, Dan.
Yeah, this is, uh,
This is something that's kind of interesting.
I mean, it is a Waukesha County Republican Party, basically.
And they didn't ask for any help.
So somebody else chimed in and answered to that.
So if Waukesha County was hit just as hard, why hasn't your GOP buddy, Waukesha County executive, Paul Farrow, declared a state of emergency for the county like Milwaukee did?
which would expedite flooding response efforts, including help from the state and federal government.
What about that, Dan?
What about it?
Because, you know, it looks like the Republicans in Waukesha County are just sitting back a little lazy, not helping the people.
And that's kind of what they've been doing all along, by the way.
All right.
All right.
I want to get to this real quick.
This is JD Vance.
This is cut 89, if you can get to that.
Listen to what JD Vance had to say.
They just gave huge tax cuts to billionaires because they needed the extra money for something.
I don't know what it was, but he he
It feels a little remorse, JD does.
And he wants to help the common working class man.
Does he really?
Let's listen to this.
The second thing the tariffs are doing is it's bringing in a lot of additional revenue, which of course we're using to give tax relief to the American people and make it easier for average Americans to get by.
Do it.
The second thing the tariffs are doing is it's bringing in a lot of additional revenue, which of course we're using to give tax relief to the American people and make it easier for average Americans to get by.
All right.
So make it.
I wanted to repeat that.
for everybody to know that he is trying to make it easier for Americans to get by.
To get by.
You know, it's really nice of him to think of us in that way.
He knows that we're having a tough time getting by.
So he's going to make it a little easier for us to get by while they gave billions of dollars in tax cuts to the millionaires and the wealthiest people in the world and the wealthiest companies in the world.
And he's going to make it easier for us to get.
to get by.
That's nice of him to
express that sentence.
You know, really
condescending crap here, isn't it?
Can you have time for Bill Gates?
Yeah.
I think to
we do.
Yeah, we do.
We do.
Let's let's play Bill Gates butter.
This is this.
This is the story.
He's
got a new thing for butter.
OK,
it looks, smells and tastes like the butter we're all familiar with, both out the farmland, fertilizers or emissions tied to that typical process and this butter breakthrough.
It's happening right here in Batavia in the middle of an industrial park in a suburb west of Chicago.
Something unprecedented is happening.
The company is called Saver, and you better believe it.
Their pioneering tech uses carbon and
hydrogen.
This is pretty novel to be able to make food that looks and tastes and feels exactly like dairy butter, but with no agriculture whatsoever.
And no
long ingredient list the average person can't
pronounce.
It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit of lecithin as an emulsifier and some natural flavor and color.
How?
Fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains.
The goal here, replicate those chains without animals or plants.
And they did it.
They tell me to simplify.
They take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up and oxidize them.
The final result.
It looks like a wax, like a candle wax at first.
But they're fat molecules, like the ones in beef, cheese, or vegetable oils.
Sustainability is why we are here.
It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases using no farmland to feed cows.
The land
footprint
is like a thousand times lower than what you need in traditional agriculture.
I know what
you're thinking.
How does it taste?
I love butter, so I'm going to take a really healthy amount.
Admittedly, surprisingly...
Like butter.
Of the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted every year, 7% is from the production of fats and oils from animals and plants.
So when could you get a taste yourself?
Yeah, right now they're working directly with restaurants, bakeries and food suppliers, releasing these chocolates made with their butter in time for the holidays.
Saber butter in either its current manifestation or with our partners.
We expect that to be on the shelves kind of more like around 2027.
All right,
there you go.
So can't wait for the butter.
Can we go to Dick real quick here?
We
don't have time right now.
Well, we have trouble coming
up after the
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It is Pete Schwabba.
Good
morning, Pete.
Good morning guys if I were if I were less mature I would have said like what yeah after the hearing aid thing, but I'm way too I know I
know thank you, you know we introduced a pack arena on
the show
for the very first time with that plane But it is it is a major element in your film the godfather of Green Bay now you told us it was on to be and
we checked
it out
out there, it's also
on
Prime, which you would make a little money on if people played it there.
So
yeah, just a little,
just a
little.
But I got it, I got
it.
My wife and I, we just love the movie.
Absolutely.
When did you make that?
When
did that come out?
Well, it came out in like 2007.
We shot it in 2004, probably maybe 2006.
We actually had our premiere at the Wisconsin Film Festival at the Orpheum.
And yeah, it was always a lot of fun.
We shot in northern Wisconsin.
I was still living in California at the time.
And then we shot a few days in LA and Vegas too.
But we shot 19 days in the Marinette Menominee area up here.
It was fun.
But it was gorgeous.
I don't know where you got the aerial views.
Would you have drones for that?
There weren't even drones yet.
Maybe there were military drones, but a guy named the cinematographer Dale Myron, God rest his soul, passed away a couple of years ago, but he was just this fearless camera guy.
He was hanging, he was, he was telling the other guy in the helicopter, hang onto my belt.
Really?
He's hanging out of the helicopter with this sheriff that let us use took us up in the helicopter nice enough to Yeah, give us his chopper and give us his time, but Dale was great and he would when we shot Going to Vegas from LA to Vegas the car ride.
He was in a pickup truck like two feet in front of this little crappy geo
And he's going like this, like, come closer.
Come on.
And I was, I thought we were all going to die.
I mean, he had sandbags in the back of a pickup truck.
And he's like, we're going 65 on the way to bake.
It was horrible.
Like some of that guerrilla stuff you do when you're shooting an independent film.
But it just gorgeous autumn.
color in your film.
It's just, it's fantastic.
And it really sets the mood, the whole feel for, you know, Green Bay Packers season, everybody in the bar waiting for the game.
It
was
just fantastic stuff.
And I just, I thought that you as a leading man, I didn't really expect that.
But there you are.
You're the romantic interest.
It was just thank you.
Yeah.
It was wonderful.
Of
course, you know, it made it a lot easier to accept you as the leading man with Lauren Holly next story.
So yeah, this was a great role for her.
And she did a fantastic job in that film.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She was so great.
It was one of the most surreal moments of my life.
Like we had started shooting.
And I had met with her in LA, and she was just great.
We were like, oh my gosh, we hit a home run.
She had just adopted three boys.
So she was kind of coming out of a short retirement of a couple years.
And she was just in a great place.
She was happy to be working again.
And she really liked the role.
She knew a lot about football.
Um, so when she got to the set that night, I remember we were shooting another scene and all of a sudden it's like, wow, all right, this is real.
Lauren Holly is in Marinette, Wisconsin.
So it was, uh, it was, it was surreal and it was just a wonderful time.
What was the name
of the bar that you shot
in there?
Uh, well, it's had a few different.
Names I think when we were I think it burned out.
Oh, it's not there.
It's not there
burn down and they rebuilt it because it was such a Marinette is a suspicious amount of bar fire I think when we shot there it was called the whitetail in and then it was up north and then it was a lot of different places But we were supposed to just shoot the interiors there because we thought it looked really beautiful Yeah, and it was the the crew lit the place beautifully
Um, and then we were going to shoot exteriors at a different place.
It was like this scenic place from the exterior on the river, more fall colors, but it was an independent film.
You know, we had, we had to cut stuff off the schedule and we ended up shooting this kind of eyesore bar from the outside too.
So, but it kind of worked.
It was like this roadside place and it was constant.
It really, I think we captured.
I think you captured that whole feel for that.
And now.
The subject matter is, I think, typical of most comedians, right?
They want that big break.
They want some talent scout to notice them and put them on one of the big shows,
comedy shows.
Yeah, the Tonight Show.
And in your case,
yeah, you were writing about the Tonight Show and having a talent scout at this remote bar in Wisconsin.
That was just funny as heck.
And I got to say that you're... Who was it?
Lance Barber?
Who played Kenny?
He really, great supporting character for your character in that.
That was just a
goal.
Yeah, Lance was just like one of those guys, like we auditioned a lot of people, but when he came in, it's like that cliche, like everybody else go home, you know, because this is the guy, like he was that good and just a great guy.
We've remained good friends and he's been on Nightlight a few times and I knew, everybody knew he was going to
you know, just work a ton and he has.
He's had a really good run with Young Sheldon and the comeback.
So yeah, we knocked it out of the park with Lance.
Talking with Pete Schwabba here, host of Nightlight on the Civic Media Network every evening.
And now, Pete, I wanted to ask you, you know, you've had a few showings of this, but have you done anything recently?
We want to bring this film to Madison and
you know, read a theater or something and have a little get together
and bring it back and show the Godfather
Green Bay
way.
What do you think about that?
Would love it.
And we, when we released it, uh, Marcus theaters put it out in like 12 theaters.
Um,
yeah.
And, um, Madison was our best, uh, people in Madison really responded to it.
So I'm excited to, uh, people in my hometown did not care for it one bit.
We know you know what people everywhere for the most part the response was really good But when you watch it in the town you shot it in yeah, no one is paying attention to the story
You just hear people whispering.
There's my garage.
There's my cousin Phil, you know, that kind of stuff.
So that was kind of frustrating.
But no, Madison, we had great screenings.
I would love to do
that.
Well, we'd like to play it here is only just to give away t-shirts, really.
I'm a little low on laundry.
I would love that.
OK, we'll give you one.
The thing that the thing is Michael Wilmington did not like your film.
Dwayne Dudek.
did not like
your film.
And, you know,
when you, when you have these big, you know, highfalutin critics coming out against you, boy, I don't know how do you fight something like that?
I, you know, Dwayne, I don't understand him.
Now he's, he's from the Milwaukee Journal.
Is it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
For him to say you don't have to be overly sensitive dairy state booster to take offense.
I enjoyed everything in that movie about the dairy state
and
having
a
lot of fun with it.
You were having fun with it.
Well, I didn't understand it either, but Michael Wilmington is from Wisconsin.
Yes, he
worked at one of the papers here for a while.
That I don't know, but I remember, I think he gave it like two stars out of four or whatever, and Dudek just
Crushed it and I it was a good thing.
I never came face to face with him for about a month after because I get the deal.
I thought he got a little harsh, you know, for a little independent film and I haven't gone back to it.
I kind of forgotten about Dwayne Dudek.
So thank you for that.
We, you know, retraumatize you.
It's the nature of the business and I don't have any ill will toward anybody.
But he, you know, it's we got a great review from Ain't It Cool News, which at the time was like the hip cool.
online reviewer.
So the Tribune or the Journal at the time, I was like, this is the review I was most clinging to and we got a lot of other good reviews.
And when we screened it in LA, I cast one of Nia Vardalos' friends, Tracy Thorpe, and she had all the success with Big Fat Greek Wedding.
So Nia came and she introduced me to Tom Hanks' company and
Tom's partner Gary Gessman loved the movie.
He said after the Big Lebowski, it was his favorite film ever.
So I was like just kind of blown away by that.
So it opened some doors, you know, but we got some good reviews, but you're going to have bad reviews.
That's just the nature of the piece.
I have to say that the cinematography was great.
It really was.
The thing is, when you don't notice the cinematography, that means it's really, really well done.
I mean, you had scenes in the car.
I mean, everything was just very natural.
When you see a local film, it doesn't normally have that touch to it, you know?
And it
was really well done.
I love the fight scenes because they look like a real brawl going.
I mean, it just, they were funny.
Yeah, who is that?
Who played Jake, Big Jake?
It was
Tony Goldman.
Yeah, he was doing the arena.
Yeah, that was his thing, right?
I mean, the whole bar came together when he started doing the pack arena.
We played the hell out of that song.
That's to me, it was funny because we played at the death.
I just thought it got funnier.
And when we watched the film with audiences, yeah, that last shot where he's driving around in the car and he leaves his garage and he's got the Macarena and we'd seen him do it three or four times, you know, got a huge laugh.
So that was a lot of fun.
Yeah, a lot of fun with that song.
Well a full box of popcorn for me Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 71 percent.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
I thought for Rotten Tomatoes.
Yeah,
yeah.
Ever thought about a sequel?
Yeah, that's what I
was leading up to here.
Why don't you make another movie?
Yeah,
that's sneaky.
Well, I'm trying.
You guys looking for acting work or what?
Yeah, that's right.
That was our next question.
Yeah, you talked about it that before
too.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, nobody writes me a check.
I'll make anything.
All
right, why don't we get into the current films that are out there?
Now, you just saw a movie that Dom had just gone out to see yesterday.
And it's weapons.
Yeah, weapons.
Yeah,
that movie.
What did you think of it?
I thought I gave it genuinely a nine out of 10.
I thought it was really good.
Wow.
Yeah, I liked it too.
I thought it was creepy.
But I had a couple things that I was like well if but overall I really liked it But I felt this director Zach Kraggers.
I liked his last film Barbarian.
Did you see Barbarian?
I did see Barbarian Yeah,
it's very both of those films that he directed are very gory very gory films.
So yeah, they get that way.
Yeah, but I like Barbarian better.
I thought it was like a cleaner Cleaner story and but I did like weapons Yeah, I don't know that I would have rushed to the theater to see it like I kind of did like I drove down green to Green Bay yesterday early to see it
And there was two other people in the theater something's gonna trigger them and they're
gonna kill you Gordy and I wanted I wanted to go see the fantastic floor and Gordy
wanted to see naked gun At
the Marcus theaters here, and I was thinking we could sneak out we could get it in but they're they're out of the theaters this week They're gone.
They're
naked gun is yeah.
Yes.
Oh, man.
I'm trying to get David Zucker at my show Because I would love for him to talk about that too.
Like did you like it done?
I thought it was okay.
I thought there was some laughs, but I just don't think he can beat Leslie Nielsen.
Oh, yeah, that's the thing here.
And Liam Neeson's great, but he's still Liam Neeson.
I'm like watching this action hero, you know.
Yeah, but you know, he's brutal, right?
He's very serious and hard-hitting.
Oh, yeah.
Can you stay with us a couple of more minutes?
Of course you
can.
I can stay with you guys forever.
The check just cleared.
I am yours for the rest of the morning.
I'm
surprised it cleared.
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And we played the Bodines because the
Bodines did your soundtrack.
Yeah, for Godfather Green Bay.
What was that like?
How did you make that connection, Pete?
I think I kind of got lucky because I just reached out to them on their website.
I thought, you know, the movies very Wisconsin, very Midwest where the Bodines and
at the time they were between managers and Kurt Newman who founded the band and his wife Barbara were just kind of doing it.
Barbara was sort of their manager so she got right back to me and I went down to a show with some family members over the holidays I think it was in Green Bay and we met and yeah Kurt was into it and he wrote a score and gave us some of the band's music and wrote a couple original songs.
There's a great song he wrote called My Oh My where
Eric Price, he's the kid in the Beaver Patrol T-shirt, is dancing from the bar and then he stops at our table and he's kind of shaking his butt and Lance Barber is cracking up and so that song is called My Oh My and Kurt wrote that just for the movie.
So he wrote a lot of great music, specifically songs for the film and a great score too.
That was good luck.
It was fun having all that control because everything I had done up until that point I wrote and sold.
And it's fun being in those rooms with studios and they you know But they only made one of the films that we sold called a guy thing and you're kind of You know, you write the script and then they kind of let you dabble with it a little bit And then they kind of send you away or at least they did us so it was it's hard when you sell something and never gets made So that was the fun of the Godfather of Green Bay was having so much creative
Now it's it's great the credit goes to garland productions is that yeah
Who's the Garland in this case?
Garland pictures, Garland stands for, I think it was Gary and Linda and it was the producers, Brian and Josh Edding, it was their parents.
They kind of did like a Miramax thing.
But they're the greatest guys you'll ever meet.
They're nothing like the Weinsteins.
They're so great like they're both like born and raised in the valley in California and Brian comes to Marinette and people within a week liked him more than they liked me like they're the most down-to-earth guys and they were that was one of the smart things I did was surround myself with good people and they're their tops.
All right Who do you got on the show tonight Pete?
A little guy you might have heard of and be familiar with his work called Dan Schaefer.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Yeah, Dan and I have been talking for a while now about him coming back on the show.
He's been on before, but we're going to talk about the wire tonight, the TV show, the wire, which is one of his favorites and one of my favorites as well.
And it's widely considered one of the best TV shows ever.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend it.
It's a great show.
And then Rob Brackenridge, one of my favorite comedians, will be in the studio after the end.
So it should be a good show.
All right.
Hey, we want to invite you to our WMDX listener appreciation party if you can make it.
If you're in town.
If you're in town.
If
you're
in
town.
It's on September 6th.
That's a Saturday.
And it's at Dondren's Distilling in Cottage Grove.
And we're gathering some of our WMDX personalities and love
to see
you come.
It's going to be a fun day, a fun afternoon.
It starts at 3 o'clock.
We're going to have
a tasting party there and take a tour of the distillery and have a good time.
So if you're available, we'd love to have you show up.
Oh, thank
you.
I would love to go.
That's a tasting party.
Is that wine?
It's whatever they offer.
A big
distillery.
So they've got a lot of different liqueurs to try as well.
They have liquor.
They have a coffee liqueur, a maple syrup liqueur.
watermelon brandy, they got all kinds of things.
And
they have
the playground there for the kiddos, so you can let the kids play out there while you have some fun tasting some of their fine liquors.
I always wanted to ask you, what were the shows that you found funniest?
Way back when?
I mean, I
was
very inspired by Letterman, Get a Life
from Chris Elliott.
Oh, that was a great show.
It didn't
last long though.
It was great.
It was on like one season.
It was two
seasons.
Was it two seasons?
Chris Elliott, Brian Murray.
I was I love Letterman and a lot of people say Carson is the all-time late-night king.
He probably is but I just felt like Letterman to me.
He spoke more to me and I know some people love Conan.
But
yeah,
yeah, definitely Letterman and I loved when Seinfeld came out.
I was like, I've never seen a show like this.
Oh, absolutely different.
And so I would say probably those two shows.
And what would you recommend as far as the current movie out there?
Would you recommend maybe sketch or Jurassic Park?
Have you seen any of the popular movies that are kind of sitting out there?
Superman.
Yeah,
I've seen all of those.
I would say the best, probably the best movie I've seen this summer was Sinners.
Yeah, absolutely loved it.
Went and saw
that myself.
It was great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I just saw a movie that was in theaters like you were looting to before they come and go so fast.
But 40 acres, really good.
You can stream it now at home.
Very good film.
All right, Pete.
Well, thanks for joining us, Pete Schwabba.
Listen to
nightlight tonight.
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network Tomorrow on the show.
Dr. Jim Conway will join us.
He's a UW Madison professor.
We're gonna talk measles.
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