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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who still likes to build a fort.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

How are we doing tonight, Wisconsin?

Great to have you with me on this Thursday night.

Conrad, what is Thursday night again?

It

is the Christmas Eve of week.

We dates how right you are.

Yeah, so Merry Christmas everybody great to have you here on nightlight We are broadcasting statewide over our beautiful cold state tonight from beautiful downtown Green Bay and The phone lines ladies and gentlemen are open you are welcome to share anything you'd like with us throughout the course of the show always more fun when you guys Participate in the tomfoolery that we have going here every night from six to eight.

So we have a good show tonight.

It's great that you're here

We have a great show tonight and tomorrow night.

We sort of have packed the show with nothing but fun.

And you know what?

What are we doing here?

That's what we're here for, right?

We're trying to get you to escape your day, have some fun show biz talks and entertainment talk and ease into the rest of the night here on the Christmas Eve of weekdays.

Tonight, folks, it is our popcorn pick of the week.

It's Thursday.

That means we do that every week.

And tonight, making the popcorn pick of the week, giving his pick.

is none other than Main Street's host, John McGivern.

He will be here at 6.35.

John is a public television rock star.

I want to say his last show was the most watched PBS show, I think, ever.

And it was only on in like three or four states.

That's how many people found this show and love it.

And now he's branching off into even more states with his new show, Main Streets.

And we will talk with John a little bit about that as well.

After he gives us his popcorn pick of the week, we'll talk about the launching of season four of Main Streets.

Very excited to talk to John about that.

I had the opportunity to be a guest on his previous show, which was called Around the Corner when they came to Marinette.

And that was a lot of fun welcoming John into my house.

And he made fun of me.

And I gave it right back to him.

And he was okay with that.

We had an instant friendship.

John's great.

And then at 720,

all the way from down the street here in Green Bay, Nick Wattier will be here talking about a really fun event at next month's Green Bay Film Festival.

They're having an event to honor, I think it's the 50th anniversary of the film, The Giant Spider Invasion, and Bill Rabain will be there as well here at the, I think it's the Tarleton, if I'm not mistaken.

That's where they do their...

There are venues for the Green Bay Film Festival.

So Nick's been on the show before.

He's always fun to talk about.

The Green Bay Film Festival is a really, really cool festival and I love the way they do it.

They don't do it all at once like many film festivals where it's just one week of craziness.

That's fun too, but they space it out.

They do like one event a month and it works for them.

So good for him.

Nick will be here.

We'll talk to Nick about what they have coming up.

It'll be great fun as always.

Conrad, how you doing tonight, buddy?

You know, I'm doing good.

I'm a little tired.

I was on mino in the mayor this morning.

Well, I wasn't on it I was behind the scenes in Green Bay while they were having fun in Oshkosh

That is a much less salacious way to say that than you were on mino in the mayor.

Yes So you were here they were in Oshkosh?

Yeah, I'm just here sending out the signal so everyone can hear it.

Okay.

Yeah,

get

yourself a big old

coffee, maybe and just kind of kick back

I had a little too much caffeine, I think, this morning.

I was off the

walls.

It was just you

here?

And then I hit a crash around midday.

It took a great nap.

Now, are you close enough where you can go

home

to

take a

nap?

Well, yeah.

So I was here until around nine.

And then I'd go right just a block down to the Y down there.

Oh, OK.

And

that's where I worked out.

So I went there.

And then after that,

I was like, it's nap time.

Went home.

There you go.

All right.

It's nice that you live close enough like that.

Yeah, it's pretty close.

It's only about 13 minutes.

It took me,

it's only about 13 minutes.

It's only about 13.

It's about 13 minutes, 19 seconds or so, give or take.

I don't have the exact time, but you know, it's around there.

Depending on if I hit the lights.

It took me an hour and 40 minutes to drive home last night in that slop.

Oh, that was, so I got those.

all season tires, you know?

And the guy who I got him from in Appleton was like, these are going to be great in winter.

They're going to do everything you need.

I was sliding every single time.

I didn't even barely touch the gas.

My wheels just kept spinning.

Really?

In town?

Yeah.

In town,

yeah.

We had a convoy of about, and I talked about this last night of the year on my way down, how I got stuck behind a snow plow because they take up like a lane and a half.

And last night, there was like five cars.

And I'm like, all right, this is O'Connell County.

When we hit Marinette County, it'll probably turn, but nobody wanted to pass them.

We're all doing like 30 miles an hour is maddening.

On the highway?

On the highway, on 41, yeah.

Pardon me.

So there you go, but much better tonight and they got the roads cleared and it's fantastic.

So now we just sit back and wait for even more snow this weekend.

Should be fine.

Can't wait.

Speaking of Groundhog Day.

So I saw this, this cracked me up.

You know what?

Let's do our question first.

Let's get this out of the way because tomorrow night, ladies and gentlemen, is a very romantic night.

One of the most romantic nights of our year.

Would you agree with that Conrad?

I don't think I'm going out on the limb here.

It's

very romantic.

Yeah.

It's no sweetest day, but it is Valentine's Day and it's happening tomorrow night.

And that leads us to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

What are your Valentine's Day plans?

Now, I want to sort of set this up a little more.

If you don't have a special girl or a special guy, that's fine.

It's still a day you should kind of lose yourself in you, though.

Like what are you gonna do?

It's Valentine's Day treat yourself order some good food buy yourself some flowers if you're alone That's fine, too.

If you're a couple with someone you can tell us what your plans are I want to know what everybody's Valentine's Day plans are and I don't think it's any coincidence that today is national condom day right before Valentine's Day So go out and pick up a boatload just in case you never know

not just national.

It's international.

Oh,

is it international?

It's international condom.

Oh, no.

I kind of messed that up didn't I?

So

everywhere give people the wrong everywhere

celebrates condoms today.

Yeah, so if you're listening In Sri Lanka right now get out there get yourself some condoms.

It's let's celebrate this all over the place But it is Valentine's Day.

So tell us your plans eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic I'll be honest.

I mean, I'm married and my wife tolerates me But I still will probably go home tomorrow night after the show kick my feet up and watch a movie

or some color television, maybe make some popcorn, something like that.

And then we'll probably celebrate on the weekends.

But I don't have huge plans tomorrow night.

But what are your plans?

Let us know in the stream too, or the app.

If you've got the app, it's very easy to use.

Just click on the little text icon next to whatever station you're listening to, and let us know your Valentine's Day plans.

Conrad, what are you going

to do?

Well, I'm going to produce nightly with Pete Schwabble from 6 to 8 PM.

All right,

very romantic.

Do you see what other date is today?

It is

world radio day.

Oh, yeah, and that's significant because

well, we're on the radio

You know what I'm gonna do just to celebrate tomorrow this might be too information too much It might be too much information folks.

I'm gonna wear a condom throughout tomorrow night show just to celebrate both days because I feel like radio

Condoms they kind of go hand-in-hand.

It's also get a different name day.

I'm not gonna do that I like my name Dude, there's not a name you you ever wanted Not that I'm not embarrassed about now like when I was a kid, you know

what when I was younger I thought my name sucked so I was like why couldn't you name me like Brent or something

Brent there you go.

That's a dude's name

No, I will, at this point I'm keeping my name, there's no point in changing it, but I will be, I'll be wearing a condom tomorrow night throughout the show.

That's

like a

Glenn Moore show or what he does, you know, that's your way of, you know, keeping the focus off the radio.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I'll be wearing a condom so I won't be focused too much.

Or as Glenn said last night,

I know something you don't.

That's what he would do in the meetings, why he put syrup in his shoes or a piece of bologna in his underpants.

So that was a lot of information.

And I feel like, I feel like I have a bond not with Glenn that I did not have before last night's show.

I had a great text exchange today with Glenn though, very good guy, and he was a really fun guest to have.

So we'll definitely...

In fact, he said in his text today, he said, you know, while I was making funny faces last night on the radio, I could have been talking about a new movie I have coming out that's the best work I've ever done.

So I love

that he forgot

about that and lost himself in the show.

But we'll have Glenn back on to talk about his new movie coming up, coming out soon.

So this cracked me up.

And just in time for Valentine's Day, folks, I think this is just terrible news.

Kanye West.

and Bianca Sensori are most likely splitting up.

And I mean, you know, the divorce rate is very high, but I feel like if they can't make it work, who can?

Is it something to do with what she wore at the Grammys?

Well, maybe she finally had enough.

Well, have you seen all of his tweets?

Yeah, he's out of his mind.

I mean, he's...

And Elon Musk just lets all those tweets just go.

Yeah.

He's got

a very nice platform.

I've seen it's it's crazy.

It's awful.

And, you know, it's funny because it's Twitter.

It's a privately held company.

He could do whatever he wants.

But people that are so wrapped up in free speech, it's like you don't really have free speech when it comes to a private company.

They have their own expectations.

But Elon Musk, he really has none, except as long as you say crazy stuff, he doesn't care.

Yeah.

Or give the Nazi salute.

Yeah, that hit home, though.

I thought if Kanye and Bianca can't make a go of it, who can?

Maybe we're just not supposed to be together for our entire lives.

I mean, I thought they had something special.

I was wrong.

She has something special that we've all seen.

But Kanye is crazy.

I mean, what, what?

Apparently now there are lip readers and they say he was, people could see him saying, drop the coat now.

And, I mean, it's so weird.

She really did look like she was in a hostage situation.

She did.

Yes, she did.

And he, apparently, I don't want to make light of it.

I think he probably struggles with mental illness.

Obviously, I think that's been made public.

But at some point, yeah, you got to call quits on that marriage.

Do you think he's going to get someone else who looks even more like Kim Kardashian next?

You know what?

Maybe he can get Kim Kardashian next.

Did you see she came out, Kim Kardashian?

Her cluelessness is just incredible to me.

She said on the Kardashians the other night, and I just read about this.

She said she couldn't believe she got booed at the Tom Brady roast.

She's like, they booed me.

I'm like, do you watch your show?

Yeah, I don't think she watches it back.

She's booable.

Yeah.

Like epic proportions.

She said she'd never do a roast again.

Because they're not good for the soul, and she never imagined she would get booed.

And then they edited him out.

Like, how fragile are you?

Don't get me started.

Too late.

Alright, I don't care though.

You know what?

I'm happy because John McGivorn is here at 635 to do the popcorn pick.

Tomorrow night's Valentine's Day.

It's a wonderful couple days at Night Light here, folks, and I am so glad you're here with me tonight.

We're coming right back.

This is Pete Schwabba, and Night Light on the Civic Media, radio network.

I get so lost sometimes

Peter Gabriel's birthday today That's one of my all-time favorite songs.

I love in your eyes.

Happy birthday to Peter Gabriel.

I don't even remember.

I think he was like 76 Did it say?

Oh We don't have it on the sheet.

All right,

so

he he he turns 76 or I don't know I'm trying to

He's still putting on new music though.

Oh, that's that's cool.

Yeah

guys a gamer 75 75 he's got to be older than that.

It says February 13th 1950 I see that but yeah, that surprises me.

Okay

Whatever it doesn't matter.

It's good to have him in the world.

He makes beautiful music and happy birthday Peter Gabriel so

This Kanye stuff, it's like the world is falling apart, folks.

Kanye West and Bianca are getting divorced, it looks like.

And the announcement comes right before Valentine's Day, on National Condom Day.

A conspiracy theorist might look at this and connect the dots.

And I'm sure they are right

now.

I'm sure there'll be some new thing we hear that all the lunatics will be buying into.

Did you see this picture of Zoe's Aldana and her three boys?

I put it on the show sheet.

If you could put that on the stream Conrad, I just think it's hilarious.

She has three sons all within like four years of each other.

They're like from six to 10 in ages and they all look exactly like her.

Which is great.

I mean, she's a beautiful woman.

I don't know if that's good though for three young boys to look exactly like their mother and they have long hair like her too.

Which is insane So That kind of cracked me up.

I don't know that I would want I would feel bad if my kids looked exactly like me I Would want them to aim higher when it comes to their looks But I realized they have no No control over it really and then did you see this?

Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelsey thing cheese fans are really upset apparently they went out to eat with Brittany

What is the matter with people?

You know, honestly,

I didn't hear anything about that, but it didn't look like they took the game serious.

But because of that?

No, not because of that.

They played like crap.

Yeah, but a lot of that could have to do with the Eagles and Yeah, it's it's just hilarious to me like they're truly blaming this double that like they've got to eat Do you not think people eat within 72 hours of the Super Bowl?

There we go.

All right If you're watching on the stream folks, we've got Zoe Saldana up and the picture of her three sons who look exactly like Zoe Saldana

They look like

they could be in the

lioness program.

I mean, I don't want to judge, but if your three sons look exactly like you, a beautiful woman, maybe at least in the formative years, cut their hair.

Do something to differentiate them physically from their mother.

But you know what, they're Hollywood kids.

They don't care.

They're not they're not on this on the playground here in Green Bay or in Milwaukee hanging out They'd probably go to some rich school You know we get away with stuff like that probably have names like like Will Smith named his kids.

What are his kids?

Or Nick Cannon's kids

like they have names like that.

I don't remember us kids.

I can't remember those

Ken, those were too

outrageous.

They're completely outrageous.

They make no sense on any level.

We also, folks, I obtained some information, an audio tape of the Philadelphia City Council planning the Super Bowl Parade in Philadelphia.

And we're going to be premiering that on Nightlight.

Maybe tomorrow, possibly Monday, we'll have that.

It's a meeting.

It's pandemonium.

Trying to do their best to juggle Philly sports fans and keep them You know just kind of keep a harness on them so to speak because they're pretty crazy the amount of puking and public urinating and fighting Like why would you ever go to a sports parade in Philadelphia?

And if you do you should expect one of those things to happen to you someone's gonna pee on you You're gonna go home with vomit on your clothes.

You might get your hat taken off from your head

You might get your hat tag.

You might have a fan in your face because you don't like their sports team.

But you might just get randomly sucker punched.

It's a, it sounds like a miserable experience.

Yes it does.

Yeah.

But we've got some audio and we'll be, I've got my top secret source delivering it to us as we speak.

So it will either be here tomorrow or Monday.

Oh man, it's tough.

I, you know, you put yourself out there because you want to break a big story.

We will be debuting that on Night Light in the very near future.

You won't want to miss that.

All right, our question tonight is what are your Valentine's Day plans?

Valentine's Day is tomorrow night.

Whether you have a special someone or not, make it a great day.

How are you going to celebrate?

That's our question tonight.

What are your Valentine's Day plans?

And as I mentioned today is also International Condom Day.

Do you are you I don't want to get too personal here Conrad, but do you like one of those guys that keeps a condom on hand just in case?

No,

you got to like run to the gas station and break up that moment

if you say like I don't keep it in my wallet Yeah, but I don't do that.

Okay

But in your nightstand, I would imagine you have a healthy supply I

think we're getting too personal here Pete It's not my nightstand

You know I can I just want everybody listening to know I don't ever expect Conrad to answer Honestly, I wouldn't so

I keep them in a in like a piggy bank a piggy bank And every time I get one I just throw it in there, you know So I just keep saving

I'll take ways to make sex even weirder Alex for 500 Susan from McFarland says since it's National Condom Day, maybe the president of the United States or should I say Eli and the Musk

Condoms today all over the world and Air Force One You know what Susan?

Nothing would surprise me you might be honest something there Terry from wasa says I quit smoking recently And I have to give my wife credit helping me to quit you see I always enjoyed a cigarette after we had sex Then he says fix this joke I Have nothing to add to that Terry so maybe all right, you don't smoke anymore

After sex with the wife, have a nice milkshake.

Get yourself

a hot

chocolate.

Maybe some lamb chops.

I don't know.

And then Brian in Green Bay says, VD plan, washing my minnow in the mayor mug.

Oh, that sounds like fun.

All right, folks.

John McGivern's coming up next to make the popcorn pick of the

week.

Ladies and gentlemen It is Thursday night it is 6 35 and you know what that means Conrad you know what that means?

All right before I introduce our

next guest It's time for the nightlight popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

There we go.

I couldn't launch into the Popcorn Pick of the Week until I heard the whole shmere, the whole production.

Welcome back, folks.

We are broadcasting live statewide from beautiful Nattown Green Bay.

Great to have you with me on this Thursday, the Christmas Eve of weekdays.

And it's a Popcorn Pick of the Week.

And it's even more special because my old pal, my old acquaintance, no, he's a pal.

John McGivorn is here joining us now on Nightlight for the second time.

John, how are you?

Hey, Pete,

how are you?

Good.

Great to have you, buddy.

Good to see you.

You as well.

This is really fun because, you know, like I said, I don't know you well, but every time I've been around you, you just kind of, you have this great energy.

And I knew that you would be perfect for this because I assume you love movies and a good movie snack to go with it.

So I thought this is a perfect segment to have you on.

How are you?

I'm good.

Things are good.

It's a really quiet time for me.

So I don't mean today.

I mean this time of year.

So I'm up for like, I got the emails like, sure, I'll come on today, tomorrow, whenever you need me Pete.

I appreciate that very much.

Thank you.

Before we get into some really cool stuff happening with Main Street and Season 4 and all that kind of stuff, let's knock out this popcorn stuff.

So what kind of movies typically

Does John McGivern like?

Do you have a favorite genre, John?

No, I'll sit down and watch anything.

In fact, we were at the movies yesterday, my partner Steve and I, because in fact, I'm doing nothing these days.

And we hadn't seen Wicked until yesterday in the movie theater, and we knew it was leaving.

I don't want to talk about Wicked tonight.

I do want

to talk about another one, but we like to go, and we like to go for the matinees because they're $7.

And so yesterday we saw Wicked, which I thought was kind of remarkable in the movie.

But can I tell you the one I'd love to talk about?

Yeah, for sure.

A real pain.

Have you seen it?

I have seen a real pain and I enjoyed it.

Yeah.

Did you talk about it on the air?

Just a very little bit a couple of weeks ago right after I saw it.

I thought initially when I saw it, John, I made the mistake, you know, all these nominees kind of run together and I thought it was up for Best Picture.

It's not, but Kiernan Culkin is up for Best Actor and he was great.

And so was Jesse Eisenberg.

In fact, I so enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg only for the fact that I knew that he wrote it.

Yeah.

I knew that he directed it.

I knew that he wanted to play the other role.

Did you know that?

I did not know that, no.

That's the role he wanted to play, but the producer was like, no, that's not going to happen.

You're going to play the role that he did.

And I just thought he was so understatedly brilliant.

And I thought the movie stayed with me.

I saw it a couple of weeks ago, and I've been talking about it for a couple of weeks.

And I

just, you know, talk about

a family and talk about funny and tender and lovely and history.

And I just, I loved, I loved almost every moment of it.

And Kieran was remarkable.

He was, I will say this, John, and not to, I'm not really disagreeing, but he was very similar to his character in Succession, but he plays that role so good.

Like you're right, he was really good and I could see why he got an Oscar nod, but I'm kind of with you, I feel like Jesse Eisenberg,

He just has such a great expressive face.

He always looks like he's kind of in pain, and you're always trying to read his mind with what he's thinking, especially when he's playing off Kieran Culkin.

That's a great movie, I saw it, and I liked it, yeah.

So what did you think of Wicked?

I thought Wicked was a spectacle, I liked it, but I'd be surprised if it won Best Picture, and I don't know why I'm saying that.

I don't think it will.

I think it should win anything that has to do with the art of making a movie.

Like it was a spectacular spectacle.

You know, you look at those numbers with hundreds of people on sets that were like, who, I must be just a basic man because who thinks

and

really sits down and says, this is what I think that opening shot should look like.

I'm like,

I'm a simple guy.

I

thought it was a great movie, but not the best movie.

Yeah, I'm with you there.

I thought it definitely should have gotten nominated.

In fact, of all the best picture nominees, John, I will say, I like them all for a certain reason, but none of them really jump out at me as like, I haven't seen, I'm still here.

And I haven't seen the brutalist those are the two I still have to see and those both sound like Oscar films to me These other ones like even a complete unknown really liked it, but I'm like, okay, maybe that could win or maybe this could win Anora Best picture.

I don't know

no no it'll be interesting year to see where they go and what they you know because it's It's it's really kind of a crapshoot for any of them.

Yeah, as you said, I'm not sure what what will but

The fact that Ariana Grande, like I loved her, I liked her more than I like Cynthia.

Like I just thought that that role is really, is kind of specific and she made it broader than I thought.

And I thought she was charming and like I loved her in it.

Yeah, I agree.

I thought she stole film in a lot of ways.

So let's talk about your movie.

Viewing experience time.

Do you prefer to go to the theater?

Do you prefer?

Do you have a chair you like to sit at home and kind of curl up with some snacks?

What's your approach to movie watching?

As a kid, that's all we did was go to the theater and I'm from the east side of Milwaukee.

So we went to the historic Oriental Theater.

That's where I saw everything growing up.

It was nine blocks from our house.

And on Sunday, my father would give us 50 cents and we'd walk down.

So that's where I saw everything as a kid, the sound of music, the Oriental Theater, the quarter to pay a quarter for snacks and the snacks that we bought.

um we're always like a box of red hots because red hots there were a lot of them and it could last you a slow poke do you remember

yes like a tootsie roll right sort of

a big tootsie roll on a stick that would take you the whole movie to eat unless you were me and and and made your way through it melt duds is what we always got as kids um at the oriental

and a jawbreakers.

We didn't have enough money to buy the popcorn and the soda, so we would get the nickel candy and we'd buy a couple of world's boxes.

But the Oriental Theater, which is still today, now blocks from where I live in downtown Milwaukee, and it's about nine blocks from where I live on the other side.

You know, so I think the oriental is the middle of where I live now and where I lived as a kid.

So it's

great.

Such a beautiful theater.

That's great.

What about when you're sitting at home, John?

Do you have a different snack for like when you binge watch TV or when you watch movies at home?

Popcorn.

Popcorn.

There you go.

With a Whirly.

You know the Whirly?

No, it's Whirly.

It's the popcorn maker that has, you put in your...

you're a quarter of a cup of popcorn and you fill that quarter of a cup with the oil and you put it into the whirly, you put the top of the whirly and then you turn it.

It takes like three and a half minutes to pop the entire batch and it makes the best popcorn.

So we'll do that on a movie night.

Otherwise, when we're watching TV on a regular

faces.

We don't do it.

But if we're like tonight, we're watching boom, we'll make the popcorn.

You got to make it an event.

And that that's that's perfect.

I love that.

And what kind of shows does John McGivern binge at home when you're not watching a movie?

Do you have a TV show you guys like to watch or that you're into?

We're in the middle, we just finished all five seasons of, so I'm on PBS and I'm on Passport, which gives you everything.

So all creatures great and small, which I never saw from the beginning.

And

so we watched all five seasons in the last three weeks, which is great.

We just started watching Poll Dark.

Do you know Poll Dark?

Yeah, that's been on a while, right?

I think I watched it right when it came out.

I think that's six seasons now.

And we look forward to, we're in the middle of the fifth season and it's a great watch.

I rather like comedies and I rather like something really light.

My partner, Steve, would rather watch a foreign film and I'm kind of like, I'm gonna fall

asleep.

Hey, did you see Amelia Perez?

We didn't.

Okay.

You want to talk about, all right, there's so much going on in that film, but when it comes to subtitles, you know, a lot of it's in Spanish, so they're singing in Spanish, they're talking in Spanish.

You've got, if you've got the regular subtitles on, you've got English, Spanish, Italicized Spanish for what the song is.

It's like, it's a nightmare trying to follow that movie, but I totally get what you're saying.

All right.

So that's great.

So is your popcorn pick of the week, John, the one we just discussed before?

Do you have something?

Is that what it is?

Or have you not given it yet?

A real pain.

OK, a real pain.

All right.

We usually do a drum roll, but we jumped into it right away.

And that is a great pick, folks.

If you haven't seen A Real Pain, it is a really good movie to watch.

So definitely check it out.

And it's free to stream right now.

I think I watched it, I don't know, at Prime or something like that.

Didn't cost me a penny.

How often do you go, Pete?

Do you go to the movies?

All right, here's my issue, John.

I live in the Marinette area, as you know.

You've been in my house, you know.

I've been on

your

porch.

You've been on my porch.

You've got a great porch.

I was kicking underwear out of the way of the cameras when you went through the house.

So you know exactly, you literally know all our dirty laundry.

But I

Our theater there is great, but it doesn't really, we don't get a huge variety.

We get the rom-coms, the action films.

There's no foreign films to speak of, very few independent films.

So I typically stream, or when I'm in Chicago or Milwaukee, I love the Oriental Theater.

I'll take the opportunity to see whatever I can there.

But mostly these days, and that's not how I like to watch movies.

I just do it because it's convenient.

Yeah.

So, John McGivern is my guest.

He is the host of Main Streets on PBS.

And I think we should turn our attention, John, to season four.

Let's talk about what you're doing.

You're doing such incredible things.

You're a TV rock star, possibly the most likable host in the history of television.

Am I overstating that or am I understating that?

I don't know.

Who knows?

No, I think you're right, Pete.

completely correct.

Appreciate your honesty.

If people only knew the truth.

Oh, he's so accessible.

No, not really.

Not really.

He's standoffish and aloof.

A little ornery, he's old and a little crotchety.

Oh man, that's funny.

So what, what can we expect?

Season four just dropped recently, right?

Or just started your few episodes in, I believe?

Or three episodes in tonight at seven o'clock.

Not that people should not listen to you at seven, but at seven o'clock on your PBS station will be Frankenmuth, Michigan.

Have you been to Frankenmuth?

It's that it's got the largest Christmas store in the world and it's it's this Bavarian village sort of like I had this preconceived notion that we're going to a Christmas village German village and I thought we're going to Wisconsin Dells but in the German sort of way when in fact it was really kind of incredibly well done and To watch the episode you will see

a destination spot that you'll want to visit.

Frank and Muth, Michigan.

That's great.

We did

the same week that we did Luddington.

We took, we took the Badger over.

Oh,

really?

The ferry that takes you from Manitou

to Luddington.

Oh,

nice.

Yeah.

But Pete, it was the week of the John McIverne bus tour.

Do you know that there are people who pay to do a John McIverne, go where John McIverne's gone?

There were two buses, 48 people on each bus counted up and they were on the

they got on the badger with us, which meant that I started working the moment we got on the badger because there were 96 people who were like, hi, John.

That's like a four hour ride, right?

They made me call bingo.

But that, that's happened now.

They did that for around the corner, which is the show we did for nine years.

It was

a diamond given bus tour and it's just continued through the four years of main streets.

That is so great, John.

Um, so

All right, Frank, it's funny.

I looked at your schedule today on your website and you have all the cities lined up.

And that was like, it took me back to like the 90s when I did stand up.

I think I worked every one of those cities, so I probably had some crossover with your audience.

But John McGivern is here.

We have to do a very quick break and then we'll come back with a few more minutes with John.

We're talking Main Streets.

They're in season four.

Such an incredible run for John as the host of several shows.

And we'll talk to John a few minutes more about that when we come back on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media.

radio network.

Hi, this is Danny plate and you are listening to nightlight with each wabba

What are your Valentine's Day plans ladies and gentlemen that is our

question, our nightlight question of the night.

What are your Valentine's Day plans?

Reach us on the stream, the app, the old fashioned radio, the text line, just reach us because we'd love to hear from you throughout the course of the show.

John McGivern is my guest right now.

He's the host of Main Streets on public television.

And I would say Wisconsin public, or I would say PBS Wisconsin, but you're kind of all over the place now, John.

You've, you guys are in like what six or seven states now it seems like.

We're on 32 PBS markets.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah,

it's

doing well.

We're really thrilled.

It's the number one local show rating wise of any of any market in the country as far as Thursday nights go

We beat them all.

I think I remember you saying that about around the corner, too, which I know you're not one to toot your own horn too much.

But that's pretty incredible, John.

I mean, to do that with two shows, that's remarkable.

You've got Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin this season, Cedar Rapids, Long Grove, Illinois, Kokomo, Indiana, West Bend, Wisconsin.

It sounds like it's going to be just a great.

Let me ask you, John, what's the biggest city you would go to?

It seems like most of these are sort of smaller towns or small ish.

Did you guys do a big city?

We have.

So if you watch this season, we did Indianapolis.

We did a neighborhood in Indianapolis.

We did Cathedral Hill in St.

Paul.

We did Northeast in Minneapolis.

So we're going into the bigger cities and claiming a neighborhood.

So Mass Ave or the bottle district in Indianapolis aired a couple of weeks ago, I believe.

those are my favorite to get into those big cities and kind of feel what it's like to a city like Indianapolis felt so much like my hometown of Milwaukee

and

sensibility wise it felt I thought oh we're gonna be in Indiana should I be afraid but I wasn't it was it was fine we you know

So I know we will do a neighborhood in the big city.

That's a great Yeah, cuz a lot of those neighborhoods are like small towns anyway Sometimes the people don't ever leave and you've they've got their customs and that's just great So let me ask you this you've got all right.

You've been in some pretty big movies You were in sheer madness.

I remember in Chicago that that ran forever And now you've been hosting

your own show in a couple different derivations thereof, I guess.

What is your favorite thing to do?

Are you at home more now than you ever have been?

Do you like doing bigger productions where other people write for you?

What's your favorite?

I still do my stand-up theater stuff.

So in fact, this Saturday, a week from Saturday, I'm in McGwanagall at a 900 seat performing arts center.

And I do that.

while we're not shooting.

So we shoot from May through October.

And if I had my way, I love doing the theater stuff where it's just me.

I don't work with anybody but me.

I get

in there an hour before.

I make sure the lights and the sound is good.

And then the people show up and I spend an hour and a half with a group of a thousand people usually.

And that's kind of my favorite thing.

And it still gets me where, you know, my heart is

racing before I walk out on stage and I think every time, why do I do this?

I got to quit doing this.

I hate this.

I get out there and I leave and I'm like, oh my God, that was the best.

So that's what I really love doing.

That TV stuff has now is so second nature since I've been doing it for 15 years.

We've been doing a show.

Wow.

And it just takes so much more time.

You know what it's like, Pete?

Yeah, it

takes a lot of time to make a half hour of television.

So each one of those episodes is four and a half, five days of spending time in a community.

That's fantastic.

We have a couple of texts here, John, that are sort of directed at you.

Well, part of this one is anyway, Monica from Mount Horrib says.

Disregard the first part, John.

She says, like the sex positive program.

Thank you, Monica.

That's why I'm here.

She says, love John McGivern.

For Valentine's Day, she will be trying to avoid her loser ex-boyfriends.

Moon is full.

They all come out.

Well, curl up with some John McGivern.

That's what I say, Monica.

I mean, you can't go wrong.

And then Tom from Jackson says, hi, Pete.

Is John Irish?

I would assume you are, John, but I don't want to answer for you.

So I

wish

yeah, my I'm a given to my mother's maiden name was Oh Fahy.

Oh, yeah, we're so Irish.

Yeah, you could get in fights with yourself after a few drinks with that being that John we got about a minute left favorite memory of Main Street's over the last four seasons something you want to share

It's usually people people usually ask what was your favorite?

Yeah,

my favorite is generally wherever we are that week

And then, so what's coming up is that we just decided on the next 13 episodes because season five has been given a green light.

So I think my...

Memories will be made again, starting in May through the end of October.

And we're spending eight of the weeks in Wisconsin again.

We're coming back home and only doing one episode for the other states and eight of them in our great state of Wisconsin.

So I'm looking forward to

it.

They're so lucky to have you.

Keep up the great work, John.

It's so great.

And if you ever come up this way to do another live show, give us a heads up.

I'd love to have you in the studio and we can have some fun here and help you promote it.

It would be a lot of fun.

That'd

be

great.

Thanks,

Pete.

All right.

Have a great night.

Keep watching those movies.

That's John McGivern.

Check out Main Streets on PBS Wisconsin.

He is a bona fide, uh, such a great host and a good guy and even better guy.

That's what they say.

Where does that come from, Conrad?

He's a great talent and an even better guy.

I didn't worry.

Have you never heard that before?

I've heard it before.

I don't know where it's from, though.

All right.

Let's go to the Google.

All right.

So we'll read some more of your texts when we come back.

Civic Media's news team is going to keep you informed and tell you what you need to know.

And then at 7.20 tonight, folks, Nick Watier will be here from the Green Bay Film Festival.

We'll be talking about a very fun event they have coming up there with giant spiders invading the Tarleton Theater right down the street here.

We'll do that at 7.20.

We'll read your texts when we come back, and we'll talk about one of my favorite actors, too.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who writes checks his mouth can't cash.

Pete Chwaba.

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

while you look

for the appropriate condom.

I think you need a better system.

So

Todd... It just looks cool.

I'm

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.

855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

Let us know.

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

introduced

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?

I sent

this to you a few days ago.

I've already forgotten where he

was.

I want to

get to this clip.

It doesn't matter.

It's

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

a

20 year old

guy.

I can definitely picture him doing

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,

that's an interesting thing to

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.

Yes.

All right,

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

talking to

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?

I

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?

The wedding singer.