Welcome back.
Our night like question of the night ladies and gentlemen, what are your Valentine's Day plans?
We'd love to know share them with us if you would Most people seem like they're a little hesitant.
We've gotten some texts, but people don't seem like they want to share too much and you certainly don't have to Todd from to peer Did did text us and said if I were to stock this is in reference to earlier when Conrad said you kept condoms in your piggy bank.
Yep
Todd said, if I were to stockpile condoms in a piggy bank, they'd expire before I could even use one.
Well, yeah, with that attitude, Todd.
Who said I don't have expired condoms?
Here's my problem with that.
Let's say you have, you know, a partner at your house and you're like all raring to go and it's like, oh my God, hold on, I gotta go get a condom.
They seem like they'd be harder to get out of the piggy bank than to get into the piggy bank.
So now you gotta make it create a whole scene with a hammer and break the piggy bank.
You got pennies all over, you know, falling all over the place
for the appropriate condom.
I think you need a better system.
So
sorry.
I said it just looks cool to have a piggy bank, alright?
Well yeah, but you don't have to put condoms in there.
You could just put pennies in there, like most normal people, or a quarter or something.
There's gotta be a better way.
That's all I'm saying.
Todd, you and Conrad should put your heads together and figure this out.
But what are your plans for Valentine's Day, folks?
That is our question.
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JB, checking in on the stream, says, Frankenmuth is amazing.
Kids love the water park, and there is an amazing, really old restaurant with great fried chicken.
Okay.
So Conrad, we know JB is the guy behind the guy.
He's
us to several guests.
Really good dude.
He's been on the show himself as a guest.
I'm starting to think there's nowhere JB hasn't been.
He even knows Frankenmuth, Frankenmuth, Michigan.
So good for you, JB.
Thank you for the referral.
If we're ever in Frankenmuth, John McGivin was already there, unfortunately, but you know what?
My guess would be he probably found the fried chicken restaurant anyway.
So there you go.
Pardon me.
So, pardon me.
As you know, folks, too, the phone lines are open.
You can chime in on whatever we're talking about.
Just great to hear from you.
Conrad, let's get to this clip.
I found this.
This cracked me up.
This was Will Ferrell.
Was he on Colbert?
this to you a few days ago.
I've already forgotten where he
get to this clip.
It doesn't matter.
irrelevant.
But it's him talking about what he used to do in college.
And this reminded me of guys I knew in college.
And I just lost it when I heard this.
It's such a great story from Will Ferrell.
In college, I would dress up like a janitor and interrupt my buddy's lecture class with like a bucket and a mop.
Once again, a lit cigarette.
And just roll in.
And the teacher would say, can I help you?
No one threw up in here.
The professor would go, no.
Sorry, I'm from physical plant.
They gave me a call.
That someone threw up in here.
Are you sure no one threw up in here?
Teacher, we're gonna know.
I don't know why you're here.
And just to make two of my friends laugh in the back row.
And then I just walk out.
Pardon me, that reminded me of a buddy of mine.
I was in a philosophy class once and he kept walking by.
He would never look in the room.
He just kept walking.
He'd go this way He'd wait 30 seconds and come back the other way very purposeful walk Very good clip.
He'd turn and go back.
He probably did that 10 or 12 times And I'm on the floor.
He's not even acknowledging but he knows I can see him It was such commitment to the joke for a college kid Before I knew much about comedy at all or before he knew anything about it was very funny stuff, but can you picture Will Ferrell?
Doing that is
20 year old
that.
Yeah, that's great stuff All right, so yesterday folks we started to get into this yesterday, but we had the pretty packed show yesterday as well Josh Brolin it was his birthday and He's about my age We're both very muscular, but
He is a, I just looked over and Conrad just raised his eyebrow.
You didn't even look at me.
You just kind of raised your eyebrow.
I was like,
say.
But I do love Josh Brawl.
I think he's a really good actor.
The first thing I think I ever saw him in was the Goonies.
And I thought, oh, this guy's pretty funny, whatever.
Kind of made me think, oh, I'd love to be an actor.
It'd be fun to be in a movie like that.
But he was great in the Goonies.
I recently watched the Sicarios, one and two.
First one has Emily Blunt.
She's very good in it, too.
And the second one, well, Vinicius Del Toro's in both of them, actually.
But really good, solid action films.
Pardon me.
So my favorite role, though, that Josh Brolin has ever played was probably Llewellyn Moss from No Country for Old Men.
That's a film I watched the first time, and it was kind of hard for me to watch because...
The character of Anton Sugar is so creepy, and Javier Bardem plays him with such conviction.
He's so good in that role and so creepy, and then whatever the hell that thing, that cattle prod thing he's dragging around and killing people with, I'd never seen anything like that.
So once I got used to it and the way he killed those people, it was an easier movie to watch.
But Josh Brolin plays...
a guy who finds two million bucks from a drug deal gone bad and sugar is looking for the money and Let's do what clips do we have again?
We've got the one where he's on the phone Yep, and then the other one is where he's talking to his wife.
so let's do that That's the clip right after he finds the two million bucks.
He's been out into the evening with all hours.
Yeah
his wife Yeah, okay, so let's do that.
He found two two million.
He's hiding it under his trailer in the trailer park they live in
because he knows somebody is gonna claim the money.
I'll just let the clip speak for itself, but it's really good acting.
And then we have another great clip between Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem as
well.
Look, right now, it's midnight Sunday.
The courthouse opens nine hours from now.
Someone's going to be calling in the vehicle number on the inspection plate on my truck.
Around 9.30, they'll show up here.
But for how long do we have to?
Baby, at what point would you quit bothering to look for your $2 million?
What am I supposed to tell Mama?
Why don't you try standing in the door and hollering, Mama?
I'm hollering.
Lou Ellen?
Mama, pack your things.
Anything you leave, you ain't going to
see again.
Will.
Don't fall down, apologize.
There'll be things that happen.
But we can't take him back.
Such a good character.
He plays like this Vietnam vet who is just very matter of fact about everything.
And Kelly McDonald plays his wife.
She's really good too.
Kind of reluctantly going along with everything.
Josh Brolin.
is plotting here, but he finds two million bucks, he knows somebody's gonna be looking for it.
He does not know there's a tracker in with the cash that Javier Bardem's character Antoine Chagur is gonna find.
And the scene where he finds out the tracker is in the suitcase, he's on the run, and it's just a phenomenal standoff, like only the Cohen brothers can do, or few can do.
Here's another scene from No Country for Old Men where Josh Brolin calls.
He's looking for Woody Harrelson's character to sort of broker a deal and he gets the guy who's trying to kill him.
And he is worried he's gonna kill his wife as well and that's Anton Sugar, who has principle.
The great thing about, have you seen the movie Conrad?
have not.
Okay, the great thing about Sugar is he has, he's like principled.
He's evil, but he does not go back on his word.
And here's the scene, it's over the phone.
Anton Chigur has just blown away Woody Harrelson and now he and Josh Brolin have a scene
together.
You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not what I'm going.
Do you know what I'm going?
Yeah, I know where you're going.
All right.
You know she won't be there.
It doesn't make any difference where she is.
So what are you going up there for?
You know how this is gonna turn out, don't you?
Nope.
I think you do.
So this is what I'll offer.
You bring me the money and I let her go.
Otherwise she's accountable.
The same as you.
That's the best deal you're gonna get.
I won't tell you you can save yourself because you can't
Yeah, I'm gonna bring you something all right Decided to make you a special project man.
You ain't gonna have to come look for me at all
Great movie I highly recommend it no country for old man Josh Brolin How old is he today 57?
Yep.
Yeah 57 it's got a good good resume good acting resume
All right, we have one more clip, and I asked you to find this because you're the big Adam Sandler fan.
And this is, wait, was it his birthday or is it the movie?
That dropped today,
Yes.
Okay, so here, I remember seeing a trailer for this movie.
We went to see Boogie Nights.
There was like seven or eight of us.
We're at the Universal Movie Theatres.
And Jimmy Bardo, who has been on this show before, we're watching the trailer for the wedding singer and right as the crowd noise dies down and everyone's laughing at Adam Sandler.
He just says in the Jimmy Pardo voice, it's one to see, huh?
And the whole theater heard him say it.
It's beautiful.
So here's the clip from the wedding.
Anything else we need to know here, Conrad?
You clipped it.
So tell us if there's something we're gonna miss.
All right, lay it on us.
know how.
But I need you While you're near me I don't feel blue And when we kiss I know you need me too I can't believe I found a love that's
so pure
and true
Freakin.
You left me here all alone, tears running constantly.
That's ominous.
We're coming right back with the Green Bay Film Festival's Nikwateer.
Coming right back on Nightlight with Peach Wabba.
Don't go anywhere.
Welcome back.
What are your plans for Valentine's Day, folks?
That is our question of the night.
Let us know and we will read your text on the radio.
Joining me now in the studio, if you're watching on the stream, you can see this gentleman sitting next to me.
His name is Nick Watier and he is with the Green Bay Film.
What is your exact title at the Green Bay Program Director, right?
Oh, Treasurer,
okay.
I'm the Treasurer of the festival.
But we're also, we all kind of do double roles.
So we work in the door and I'm helping with, you know, sponsorship opportunities, our fiscal receivership program.
So there's a little bit of marketing, a little bit of sales, a little bit of everything.
That's fantastic.
And you've been there for a while because you've been on the show three or four times over
the
last 14 months or so.
Yeah.
And it's just like we're constantly changing the way that we work and, you know, trying to, trying to keep things fresh and exciting.
Yeah.
Like this year, we really want to make sure that people are understanding the value of the community experience.
I think that we're seeing a lot of people that like to watch.
the streaming services, the Netflixes of the world.
And they're great.
There is something nice about the comfort of your own home and the pause button, like, don't get me wrong, that is awesome.
But there's also something about watching a comedy with, you know, 100 other like-minded folks and hearing that community laughter or when we're playing our documentary series, like, to be able to have the conversations afterward.
And that's why it's like important to me to make sure that we bring the artists in.
to have that conversation about the work that they just did.
That's the whole festival experience too, right?
Is those live appearances, live audiences, I agree with you.
I think it's true.
It is nice to watch movies in the comfort of your own home.
But I find myself, I don't know if you do this either, Nick, but I'll think of stuff to do.
And
I'll
pause, I'll go, oh yeah, now I can relax, I
did that.
Oh wait
a minute, I should put my stuff in the dryer before I come back.
You don't do that at a movie theater, right?
I won't even go to the bathroom for two hours if I'm into the film and I'm putting myself through hell if I'm in the theater.
So you've got a couple big events coming up, we'll talk about those in a few minutes here, but tell us, give us a little bit of background if you would about the Green Bay Film Festival.
Yeah, so we're kicking off our 15th season this year.
Oh, good for you guys.
And like I said, we've been through a bunch of iterations.
We have a great relationship with Oneida Nation and we used to do our festival at their hotel.
They have a nice conference center out in Oneida.
And we've grown through the years.
We went over to St.
Herbert College for a while.
Now we're at the Tarleton Theater downtown Green Bay, which is a phenomenal host to give us that.
that cozy community feeling.
Like when we were at St.
Norbert College, again, phenomenal screens.
We had three or four theaters going at the same time.
But what kind of ended up happening was our audience got dispersed around the city of Depeer or a village of whatever it's classified as, right?
You know, there was the Bruder Hall down the street and there was the Fort Howard Theater and there was two screens in the web in the Walter and it was fantastic.
We could play a lot of stuff.
But you could get lost even among the friends that you came with.
Well, I need to see something here at this time and here at that time.
Right.
So to try and really enhance that community element and to like one of the pieces of feedback we got was you couldn't see everything because there were four screens running at the same time.
So we've kind of narrowed that down now and made it a, you know, our screeners, our selection committee has kind of picked the cream of the crop.
We've picked the things that we think are the most important.
And and we make it one screen and we make sure that we have somebody there to tell a story to have a talk back to Do a demonstration we try to make it a more interactive than just looking at the screen for you know 20 minutes for a shorter an hour and a half for a future
right Pardon me it says on your website the film festival curated for Green Bay.
What's that mean?
Can you explain
that?
So what we've done is we actually have
for this year, several sessions where I'm not even gonna drop a number because we just added one earlier this week.
So we're still programming for this year.
We have two sessions, a March and an April that are both Wisconsin filmmaker focused.
So everything we'll be playing at those was made in or with people from the state of Wisconsin.
And then we have a Packers feature that's coming.
And then we start to get a little bit more into the
the nationwide, the worldwide selections.
We have an animations package, some comedy, some sci-fi, environmental pieces.
We're looking at this new event that's coming up is going to be focused on native storytelling.
Okay, so either about you guys do that often, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Well, and and part of that too, we have awesome partnership.
Like I said, with One Eye and a Nation, they're helping us with some of our print services and they're helping us find filmmakers that are connected to the area that, you know, we want to help those local artists anyway.
Yeah.
And if they can help us make those connections, we're all about it.
Did I last time you were here or maybe it was the time before that, did you say you guys are financing films now too?
Yeah.
So how does that work?
So the festival is a product produced by our 501C3 Film Green Band, Incorporated.
And what we can do is basically offer grant programs.
And we've set it up in a way where if you want to produce a film in the state of Wisconsin and and really it could be anywhere.
Basically, our bylaws indicate that we are trying to create a hub for the enjoyment and creation of film media.
So if
We can work with you to help fulfill our mission We can create a donor's choice bucket and people can donate funds to us and say hey I want this to go to the amphibious film project That's one of them.
We're working right now.
Okay, and when that money comes in we hold it in a special account and as Amphibious starts to have bills to pay whether that's actors or locations or anything like that
We cover those invoices for them out of these funds that we've received as donations.
And you control it.
Yeah.
So
it's not like you're giving it to a filmmaker who can go.
Right.
I mean, we don't pay the film.
We pay the invoice.
to create the film.
So through that, we're also building a network of editors and colorists and actors and locations and getting like a database of what these people cost and what projects they've been part of before.
So we're trying to build that network of people and help everybody find each other.
Do you have how high of a budget will you go up to?
Is the sky the limit or?
I
mean, the highest I've done so far is 60,000.
OK.
Our target for some of our current projects is in the hundreds two hundred thousand is I believe the target for amphibious and I mean really there there isn't a limit to what we can collect and I think what's nice about our project is We're funding the the work we aren't buying the film right so
We help get the art created.
It's up to the artist what they want to do.
If they want to license it, they want to stream it.
They want to sell it.
That's all on them.
We're not keeping them from making money.
It's not a nonprofit project.
The nonprofit is helping fund the project.
That's so great.
That's a very unique and cool thing.
We'll talk more about that.
And we're going to talk about giant spiders, ladies and gentlemen.
That is coming up next after the news.
Nick Wattier is here from the WW.
The Green Bay Film
Festival.
This is Pete Schwab and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
you
And tomorrow night on the show, ladies and gentlemen, we've got a jam-packed show tomorrow night.
Emerson Layman from the WBAY Morning Show will be here.
That's here in Green Bay.
Emerson has become a staple on your TVs around Green Bay.
He'll be here tomorrow evening.
He often drops by the studio when we have a blast when he's here.
He's got a new show, right, Conrad?
Yeah, so we'll talk about that and then Kailin Cole will be here.
We just added Kailin last minute She's gonna come by do a pre-record and we're gonna air she's an up-and-coming singer-songwriter.
She's phenomenal She's been featured here on bar ban Friday night from time to time Thanks to Terry Barr.
She's in Green Bay performing this weekend So we'll talk about that with her tomorrow and then we'll get out her out of here and on the way to the show with enough time to get out there and entertain the fine folks of Green Bay and then it's
Obviously, it's a barman Friday night.
Terry Bar will be here.
So big show tomorrow night as well.
Right now, my friend Nick Wattier is in the studio talking about the Green Bay Film Festival and a really cool event coming up next month.
Nick, let's jump into this before we before we run out of time to get sidetracked.
You've got giant spiders invading the Tarleton Theater.
Please explain that.
I'm so excited.
So back in what was it?
1975?
Yeah, 50 years.
Yeah, it's 50 years ago.
the giant spider invasion came out and and Bill Rubin, who is, um, he's a Latvian American that, um, moved to the States, started selling camera equipment.
And then after making some money, he made his own little studio up in Gleason and just started cranking out these, I mean, what we now call B horror films.
Yeah.
And he's got 10, 15 projects out there.
They're all.
They're all great cult hits, but the giant spider invasion really took off.
It was featured on Mystery Science Theater,
it's been
featured on Rift Tracks, and it's got this huge following.
In fact, last year, he sold out a theater in, not Waukesha.
Waiwega.
Waiwega, that's it.
He sold out Waiwega with the film, and now we were blessed with this opportunity to show it again on the 50th anniversary of release.
Bill's coming out to talk about it.
We've got Dan Davies, who he's working on another project with, coming to lead the Q&A, but we'll have audience Q&A as well as Dan's lead conversation.
And we're just super excited to have the opportunity to show this work.
I mean, I've seen it before, but when I heard we were playing it, I'm like, okay, I need to revisit and
watch
it again.
And man, it really holds up.
Like, you know, it's, like I said, 70s horror, it's...
Got a lot of actors from from its day that were you know,
I remember Alan Hale from Gilligan's Island exact in it.
Yeah,
yeah, and and Just the ingenuity of seeing how they were able to produce if I remember correctly It had something like a three hundred thousand dollar budget,
which
isn't nothing especially in you know, 1970s dollars like that's that's some money compared
to the
types of films we're normally playing but
It ended up in 1975 being like one of the top 50 grossing films bringing in something like 30 million dollars.
Isn't that something right?
So and I think what I'm so excited about is we get to highlight to our local audience here that there's real work that comes out of our area that gets noticed and gets picked up.
I mean, a lot of Bill's work is is super popular overseas.
He's a huge hit in like Germany.
But to see here.
locally what he's done and, um, like again, the ingenuity working on a budget, they needed this spider that was, I don't know, eight, 10 feet.
In real life, it's built out of a Volkswagen bug.
Right.
That's right.
Took a Volkswagen bug, wrapped it, put
legs
on it.
They did a bunch of metal fab and like they're driving it down the streets of Merrill, Wisconsin, where they shot most of the film.
And like, I assume we're going to find out
on March 14th at the event when we have the Q&A.
Like, I assume it was just kind of an open call for extras.
Hey, anybody in town that wants to be in the movie, you're going to get chased down the street by
this
spider looking
bug.
And it's super cool.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm super excited because Bill's gonna be there Dan's gonna be there We'll have the film to play.
We're also featuring one of Dan's projects the rise of deer McGinnon the musical
I want to ask you about that too.
Yeah, because Dan has been on the show and he's talked about that But get it just if we could still keep the focus on the giant spider effort.
So Bill is like 88 now, right?
He's gonna be there
He's been on the show before, and I remember him saying that what I love about his story is that he, I think he emigrated here, lived in Chicago, discovered Northern Wisconsin, and kind of never turned back.
He just loved it up there.
Absolutely.
And he built all this.
He was very innovative too, as I recall, in terms of camera equipment.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I think he kind of is one of the pioneers that made CinemaScope a thing.
Yeah, that's right.
Like he
got licensed to sell Cinemascope and pushed it through the through the, you know, mid market, the Chicago area and kind of got them to keep up with what started happening and influence what was happening on the coasts, right?
But he's still up in northern Wisconsin.
We sent Vance from our team up there to do an interview for a print piece.
And man, just the wealth of knowledge that he has about
the way to get things done again,
I
think that people that haven't tried to make film or video media the thing that people understand is sometimes it's just hard to get the spark and Then the motivation to go with the spark
like it
takes an idea and then it takes the willingness to do the work to get it done,
right?
That's why like even
Some people the room is a very popular film now for not being that great I think it's inspirational that Tommy was so put in the work to make that happen with
the room
story enough.
Oh the room man That's got to be about eight or ten years old now It was shot in LA by a gentleman named Tommy was so it's pretty famous for like I don't know a week or two into filming firing his entire crew and getting new people
He wrote it.
He directed it.
He stars in it.
And again, it's like, you know, it's not a fantastic movie, but it has this rocky horror far following where people will go and they'll bring footballs to play catch during the movie.
And there's like one of the things he bought as a set dressing was like a frame, but he never changed the picture that came with the frame.
So there's just like a picture of a random spoon.
Because that's what came in the frame and it moves around the set to different rooms.
So like it's a it's a game for the audience.
Find the spoon
and they
throw spoons in it.
It's such a blast.
Anything to keep the focus off the movie, apparently.
Kind
of.
But again, it's it's like I can watch that movie alone and understand that, you know, it may not be the best written thing.
It might like it's shot really well.
The
story has some holes in it.
Like there's an actor that comes in and now she has his can.
that she has cancer.
And it's never referred to again for the next 90 minutes of film.
Why?
I don't know.
But it's it's a blast.
And, you know, I think that that film gives me that inspiration to encourage other artists.
Yeah.
Because while it's not famous and popular for the reasons that Tommy wanted it to be.
He has been a champ in embracing the audience he found.
He goes to these screenings.
Yes, he knows people are making jokes.
Yes, he knows people are, you know, just there to, to almost mock it, right?
But he's embraced the fame he found.
And there's actually books about the process of making the film, The Disaster Artist, which I think was adapted to a movie with Seth Green, or no, sorry, not Seth Green, Seth Rowland.
was in The Disaster Artist, which is an adaptation of the making of The Room.
It's such a tough thing, because you want to celebrate it for the reasons you think it's interesting.
But that might not be what the filmmakers' intentions were, because he probably wanted to make a really good movie.
I think that's with all art, though.
You
can only control it until you let the audience see it, and
then it's in their hands.
It is what it is at that point.
Same things with music.
You write a song, it's about something, you release it, and everybody thinks it's about, I don't know, you know...
Look at Taylor Swift.
It's it's about this boyfriend.
Well, she never confirmed or denied but that's what everybody thinks it
is.
It just becomes fact because that's what people think.
Yeah, exactly I was just looking at the giant spider invasion credit list on IMDB pro and this this Paul Benson came up and I was like God that name looks familiar.
He was in a movie I did years ago here called the guy I'm like, oh, he was the farmer in that And
that's the thing it's a small world when you get to people that have actually
done the work and put things out.
Like I said, a lot of people might have an idea, but to have the wherewithal to go through and do the work.
Yeah.
Like you don't realize that, you know, generally speaking, a script is one page per minute of final work.
And, you know, if you're shooting Hollywood style, which a lot of Indies aren't, you do two to three pages a day.
Right.
All right, so let's talk, okay, so that, tell us when that is again, that's March.
That's March 14th,
I believe, that's the Friday.
And can people get tickets, do they go to the Tarleton?
Those tickets are live on the website right
now, gbfilmfestival.org.
We want to pack that place, we want everybody to get a chance to see this.
So we're only charging 10 bucks for the event.
And it's cool that Bill will be there because he is just yeah, he's kind of iconic He's in his I know late 80s now.
He was great when he was on the show Craig can it was here helping out with that and He was still it really sharp like he knows stuff and he's talking all right, so tell us
about the rise of Dear Mageddon.
I've been hearing about this film since
I
started doing this radio show.
I've had Dan on the show.
They're kind of evasive when they talk about it.
It's like, well, it's just musical and it's high school football.
And it's like, I am so eager to see this film.
So I saw it.
The cut we're playing is a short.
It's 15 minutes.
OK.
Is it a short or is it a feature?
They're making the feature
now.
They're making the feature.
OK, got it.
That's
right.
The short is.
done and what we'll be playing the features in process.
The the thing about the short, it was all shot in Appleton.
And just like you said, it's kind of high school football.
It's kind of deer hunting.
Most of the movie takes place in a bar
where,
you know, different people are having their conversations.
And then all of a sudden it turns into a musical.
There's there's really nothing quite like it.
And Craig actually has I wish I could remember it now because, you know,
put a microphone in front of me, I go blank, but Craig Kinnit has some of the best lines in that movie.
Singing lines?
No, they were speaking at that
point.
But yeah, there's nothing quite like that experience in Dear Mageddon, which I'm excited to see again in front of an audience.
So that's going to open the event.
That's a Friday of your event.
And then the Jan Spider invasion will play after that.
And then you'll have a Q&A led by Dan Davies, who is the director behind Dear MacGaden.
And from what I understand, I don't know a whole lot of details, but I know Dan and Bill are working together on more projects.
OK, that's fantastic.
So hopefully I can get more information out of them there, because I can't wait to see what they come up with next.
This is such a great.
System you guys have to because I know you serve food, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, so people can go in get some food chill out Can they eat during the film or absolutely all right?
Yeah, I do
recommend if you if you would like to eat during the film come a little bit early because everything is made to order so I Think you'll have to check the website for me, but I'm pretty sure we're doing doors at five for a six o'clock Show and
and if
that's the case you want to be there at five so you can order have your food fresh
Freshly cooked for you.
I love the lobster mac and cheese at the Captain Crunch chicken.
Everything that mark makes is fantastic over at the Tarleton
I would think you'd have a venison in honor of the deer because you know they might
they Tarleton actually like surprises us with a themed menu for pretty much every event Like we've done Valentine's Day event
Tarleton or
Tarle.
Oh, well name is Tarleton.
It's Tarleton.
He's been on the show before and I loved having him on the show Okay, I thought it was Tarle
I just want to make sure I was not Tarleton is his legal name, but he goes by Tarle.
Okay.
That works.
So I didn't offend him is what I'm here.
No, not at all.
What are you telling me, Conrad?
Two minutes.
To wardrobe change?
Yes.
All right.
So what a fun night.
So folks, get your tickets.
It's the rise of deer McGuettin.
It's in this is I'm only explaining it how Dan has explained it to me.
He's a high school football glory days guy.
Yes It sounds like there's a little dose of maybe Escanaba the moonlight with the deer hunting or something and And then and Dan is the star of it as I understand it and then you got the giant spider invasion Dan will host the Q&A.
Yeah, who hosts the Q&A for Dan?
Are you gonna hold Dan's feet to the fire?
I I probably should you should I mean that that is my role.
We're
gonna do a Q&A with him, so I'll
I didn't know if he wanted one because he's prepping to work with Bill
So
if he has the time and if
he's willing, I will definitely
lead that conversation.
OK, fair enough.
You've got other films, too.
We'll talk about those, right?
You've got Saturday six
films.
Yeah, so Friday.
Always
consummate.
So let's get into that.
We got to do a very quick break, and then we'll talk about what's happening Saturday at the Green Bay Film Festival, which is just around the corner, folks.
Lots of fun stuff happening right here in downtown Green Bay over at the Tarleton Theater.
This is Peach Wabbit and Nightlight.
We're coming right back with more with Nick Wattier on the Civic Media radio
network.
Green Bay Film Festival talking independent film and a really fun event coming up next month down at the Tarleton Theater down here in downtown Green Bay Bridget checks in she's in the 818.
She says lots of chocolate and time with my sweetie.
Those are her Valentine's Day plans.
Thank you Bridget that sounds like a lovely evening and again folks you can chime in even if you don't have a sweetie.
How are you gonna spend the day?
Make it a you day.
You got plans Nick?
I'm actually going to visit our friends at the Door County Film Festival tomorrow.
They started tonight.
Yeah, right.
And tomorrow they're having a nice big networking event.
I believe it's four to six.
And then at six o'clock, they're playing Green Blah, which I don't know if you've heard that.
That is a...
I first heard about them, like, seven years ago when they were still in pre-production, but they made a fantastic documentary about the punk rock scene in Green Bay, which is a lot bigger than you ever would have thought.
Oh, fantastic.
Yeah, so Green Paw will
be playing at the Dore County Film Festival tomorrow night.
Um, and I will be there.
So if you want to meet me, um, if, if you're interested in helping with the film festival, we're always looking for volunteers.
So come say hi.
I'll be there.
If you're online, you know what I look like.
So there he
is right
there.
He's sitting next to me.
Um,
That'll be really fun.
Yeah, Kurt has been on the show and Chris Opera.
They were on the show a couple of weeks ago.
That sounds like a really fun.
Yeah.
Well, and Kurt actually is one of the filmmakers who's doing that amphibious project I mentioned.
So he's working on that project and we're helping raise funds.
So he was like, Hey, can you come say a couple of words about amphibious?
And so I don't know if I'll be on stage or if I'm just recording something for him.
But yeah, Kurt's a great friend.
Hardworking
guy.
Absolutely.
You know, he was in a movie I made 20 years ago.
He was an extra.
Really?
And he the last time he was in here.
He brought a picture of the two of us on the set.
It was the Godfather of Green Bay.
And he was like 18 years old.
I was gonna say, how was he in a film 20 years ago?
Wasn't he like
18?
In a bar, too.
He probably shouldn't even have been there, but he's worked hard ever since.
I tip my hat to Curt and he's a great
guy,
too.
So I hope they have a great turn out there.
All right, so.
What else is oh Saturday after the giant spider invasion on Friday you'll clean all the spiders out of the theater You'll have people in and what's happening in Saturday?
Well, we've got six films from Wisconsin filmmakers on Saturday,
okay?
So this will be a separate ticket event again for the year.
We're doing $10 tickets So very affordable to come see bring that's great.
We we want people to experience this but yeah like and and
Kurt, I'm hoping is going to be there again for Saturday because we're showing one of his projects from the furnace, which was, um, they called it the dollar baby project.
Stephen
King.
Yeah.
The Stephen King had released the rights to all of his, um, short stories for a dollar.
Um, you had to apply and be accepted and they were.
Um, but I saw that in its debut down in Oshkosh last year and just a fantastic piece.
Um, kind of talks.
human trafficking.
There's kind of a theme with Kurt's projects generally is that they usually have a good story have a have a good.
How do I say it?
Not just a story, but like a story to tell a lesson to learn.
Okay.
And from the furnaces, no exception, you know, talks about family life talks about the
The struggles of trying to find your own way being in bad relationships.
It's it's a really touching piece And again, I mean, how do you go wrong with Stephen King as a
writer?
Stephen King's material and right I heard they knocked it out at a park which is even more impressive because you had to buy for a dollar I heard Kurt pocketed 75 cents of that for himself and shot the whole thing for a quarter.
So that's
I don't know what their actual budget was, but what I saw that was made on a lot more than a quarter.
Oh, that was it.
It's extraordinarily well made.
It's a great community here.
I've learned since I've been doing this show, really, I didn't know there was such a strong independent film community in Northeast Wisconsin.
You've got the Dora County Film Festival, why we got Green Bay.
Do you guys all work together?
Do you try to differentiate yourselves in some way?
So we have.
Not not necessarily partnerships, but relationships with all these festivals and like Craig who's you mentioned earlier Craig can it he ran the Wildwood Film Festival out of all right and like his focus was all very much Wisconsin made about Wisconsin Be a little kooky be a little crazy, but be about Wisconsin, right and and he kind of had that focus and
Dorr County, I think is is a nice cultural mix of works that are coming a little bit of local a little bit of distance What we tried to focus on at the Green Bay Film Festival in our past was really trying to find the cream of the crop the best of Indy and bring it here to try and and build that confidence and find an audience that Is willing to to pay to go see something that doesn't have Tom Cruise on the poster
right
right like we had focused and and this focus has shifted over the years but
Traditionally, we had focused on showing the best of the media to our area.
And what I'm trying to do now is focus even more on those local artists.
Yeah.
You know, we still want to show great stuff and our local artists are great.
But we want to give a little bit more opportunity for those local artists to show off in our area.
Love it.
Well, keep up the great work, Nick, and keep us posted here.
I love hearing about what you guys are doing.
It's such a unique festival, and I think you guys are doing great stuff.
So keep it up and keep us posted.
Thanks, Pete.
I
appreciate you and your show.
Anytime,
buddy.
It's great to have you.
And you have no excuse not to be here because you're right down the street.
Like you
probably
didn't even have to park your car, which is always nice, especially with the Green Bay parking.
Hey, tomorrow night, folks, on the show, we've got our pal Emerson Layman will be here from the WBAY Morning Show.
Always fun with Emerson, up and coming singer-songwriter, Madison-based, I believe.
Or maybe Nashville now, but I think she's from Madison.
Kalen Cole will be here.
And then Terry Barr will be here, one of the co-hosts of Max Inc Radio for Bar Band Friday Night.
Lots of fun tomorrow night on the show, too.
I'd like to thank John McGivern and my buddy, Nick Wattier, here, sitting next to me.
And thank you for all of your Valentine's Day texts.
We'll be back tomorrow night to do it all again.
Right, Conrad?
I think so.
We didn't get bad news or anything, did we?
No, we didn't.
Would you tell me if we did?
We're good.
We're good.
OK.
So come in tomorrow.
I would.
All right.
Fantastic.
This is Peach Wabba at Nightlight.
Been a lot of fun, folks.
Hope you had a great night.
And we will be back on behalf of the lovable producer, Conrad.
Good night,
Wisconsin.
I think it's one of those deja vu things
