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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

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And now a man barely six feet tall, but a mountain of muscle, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back.

Kicking off our number two as we broadcast statewide here in Wisconsin from beautiful downtown Green Bay Which is right next to the city John Egan lives in and to peer and he is my guest right now Our question of the night ladies and gentlemen in honor of fat Tuesday.

What is your fat Tuesday meal?

I said rigatoni D from Magianos Conrad said Pasta what's the fettuccine Alfredo with a big Mac on the side and a big glass of milk?

No milk case you want to vomit right now no milk

Uh, and John, uh, John said, uh, pizza.

What else did you say, John?

You said if you were going to go nuts and then you listed like every food I've ever heard of.

Right.

Yeah.

Anything from a pizza place.

But yeah, no, my, my fat Tuesday meals and definitely jambalaya.

That's my go to.

Oh,

that's right.

Yeah.

Cause we got the text right when you said that that's a great go to.

Um,

All right.

So John is here.

He's a comedian right here in Northeast Wisconsin to peer-based.

He does improv.

He does stand up.

Very funny guy.

Just did a gig with him in Marinette last month where he crushed.

John, you said in the email back we had some fun with that before.

Yeah.

Something about Aldi.

I love Aldi.

I was scared of Aldi 20 years ago.

Now I've embraced Aldi and I think it's the greatest thing in the world.

Do you have thoughts on Aldi or were you just dropping that in the email like to be funny?

No, I want I actually wanted to see because some people still like aren't all in on all these So I honestly wanted to get your perspective and go from there because I I agree.

I was also scared.

I remember in college.

I All I heard was that they had cheaper prices and I got scared when you needed a quarter for the cart and I walked away and never came back for like a decade, but

But now it's my favorite place.

I was there today.

It's the greatest thing in the world.

It truly is.

And why were we scared?

I remember driving by, when I lived in Chicago, they were never beautiful on the outside.

And what does that matter?

But I always thought, what goes on in there?

Because at the same thing, I just thought, how are they getting those low prices?

Is it even food?

And it's phenomenal.

It's so great.

Because it is the Wild West.

If you have not been in there before, it takes a little bit.

Right because people are just grabbing boxes from shelves and throwing things in and like things are like spilt and just like it's just but it's worth it because it is just the same food that that big stores.

It's just a different brand name and Mark cheaper because they didn't use it for for the regular products.

It's it's fantastic.

That's a great point.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

I was gonna say my only thing right now is they're switching to the self-checkouts.

Okay.

Yeah.

And my Aldi has four.

And so what we everyone does is it's not completely on center with a check with an aisle though So we all make a line and it's always someone or two people who make a new line On the next aisle over and then like just start cutting and like I'm gonna lose it one of these days like I keep my anger in check because I'm just an angry Irish guy with problems But I'm gonna blow up at someone soon like he's like I don't know how you can't look around the aisle and notice that people are coming

They keep coming and they're checking things out.

And I don't know why you think that a new line is

fun.

Yeah, nobody thought to move over there.

See, I'm a thinker.

I'm just gonna do that.

You're right.

It's weird.

It's like, there's just clueless as to what's going on around them.

But you're right.

Aldi is like shopping in your own kitchen.

You know, people are helping themselves to boxes.

And I will say I like the quarter thing because oftentimes when I go to the Aldi and Marinette, people just give you their cart and sometimes they don't even take the quarter.

And it sounds funny like they're trying to be a big shot.

They can afford a quarter, but it's a nice gesture.

It's a very simple, small thing that goes a long way, I think.

Well, and the fact that they have, as they call it, the Isle of Shame, it is just a bunch of good stuff you can buy.

We bought our outside umbrella and stand there.

They usually have clothes.

They usually have Legos and toys and books.

So it's like they've got a lot of stuff at Aldiware.

They're always just missing a couple things.

That's my only issue is that you always have to go to a store for like three things.

Like

today,

no mini bagels, no rice vinegar, like nothing else.

So it's always two things that are missing that you really want that they do not have.

That's my wife's biggest complaint too.

You have to start with Aldi and then go other places to get the rest of the stuff.

Hey, John, what did you think about the Oscars?

Did you watch?

Yes, I I watch every year.

I was a I'm a huge movie person And I would think it was like yeah, I was obsessed with movies as a kid So I still watch it and this is the first time my kids watched it too.

I think well last year they watched the I am Ken song and they loved it So they watched a little bit more because they liked wicked.

Oh, yeah, it was fun.

I enjoyed it I thought Conan did fantastic.

He was great Did you have any problems with the the award winners or the best picture actors actresses?

My only issue was Amelia Perez in my humble opinion.

It's the worst movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture.

And it got 13.

What is that?

That's crazy.

And the issues with the main actress and the director and all these things.

I mean, Zoe Zeldanya, I'm very glad she won.

She's a great actress.

It was like a kind of a makeup one, not a makeup one, but one of those like, hey, you are a great actress.

You deserve this.

But man, I don't remember any of the songs in that movie, and it's a musical.

That's not good.

If your musical doesn't have memorable songs, that's not good.

Right.

I felt the same way.

It looked weird.

They had sometimes two sets of subtitles, what they were saying, then what they were singing.

The end was weird.

I really think I was like, God, this got nominated 13 times.

I couldn't figure it out.

I didn't hate it.

But I was just like, there's a lot that's wrong with this movie.

Yes.

Yes.

It was a, in concept, something very cool and outside the box that was just very poorly executed.

When you make a Spanish language film with a French director who doesn't like the Spanish language, not a great thing or a choice.

What was the best movie you saw of all those that were nominated or what have you seen that you could recommend?

Geez, I think, I mean, for me,

I'm a big horror guy, so the substance to me would have been a crazy amazing left field play.

I mean, it's an old school homage to old horror movies and body horror.

The fact that it made me like gag at the end is showing you that they went crazy with the body horror.

I knew it wasn't going to win.

But I did, I mean, as much as it kept happening, Nora was a cool movie to win all that stuff.

I mean, it was such a...

Experience to watch that movie of like because like you're in that world for that like two hours Of what's going on and and I forgot that that guy made the director made

Tangerine in The Florida Project, which I love.

I love it.

You're not in The Florida Project.

You need to see it.

It's a must-watch movie.

Dude, I just saw The Florida Project like six weeks ago.

It is in my top 10 of all time.

The ending of that movie is so great.

Loved Willem DeFoe.

I know you don't like him because he's from Appleton, but like all of the things.

I really did.

I loved The Florida Project and I liked Inora.

And I thought, I was happy at one because of all the cool stuff Sean Baker said.

He talked about indie film and going to theaters and like, it is impossible not to like this guy.

And even Mikey Madison, like she did carry the film.

And yeah, it was a great night for that movie.

And I thought the whole broadcast was great.

Right, yeah.

First ever Ghostface killer from Scream to win an Oscar.

That was fun for Mikey Madison.

Oh, she was?

Slight spoilers.

I'm so sorry if you haven't seen Scream 6 from...

10 years ago now.

You just angered a lot of people.

Well, and it was funny because, you know, Demi Moore probably wasn't going to win.

But the fact that the young, hot actress won for her instead of Demi Moore is literally the plot of the substance.

It was just very weird that our.

That is weird.

And I got a couple like I posted on Facebook just that I like Mikey Madison speech.

She had great energy.

She was happy.

It was very genuine.

And I kind of got a little bit of pushback.

And I'm like, I'm not saying.

Demi Moore was bad, although I don't think that what she did in the substance, she was good, but she didn't carry the movie like you had Margaret Quali there, the monster.

Like, I have no problem with Mikey Madison winning.

She was great.

Yeah, no, she was good.

I mean, none of them were really surprises, but it was good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, buddy, thanks so much.

Let's talk movies again soon.

And I don't care where you're from, John.

You're OK in my book, buddy.

This was fun.

Thanks Pete.

Always a pleasure and yeah, I love Craig.

I said I don't like him earlier, but he's amazing He's gonna he's gonna be better than me.

We have fun.

Yeah, it'll be fine We'll get you guys in here one of these days and you can do some improv that would be a blast Okay, sounds great.

Have a great night.

John.

Thanks.

You too, sir.

All right That's John Egan check out at Brewers Raptors on Twitter and on blue sky John does a great job hosting that podcast and he's a great follow and as you just heard a very good guy so

We have Our question of the night ladies and gentlemen, it's fat Tuesday.

I don't know if you celebrate fat Tuesday.

I don't know Do people go crazy for fat Tuesday like Conrad you and your friends get around You know have a card game or Throw back some shots and celebrate fat Tuesday.

I share this oh my my amazing partner Georgina who is not only reinvigorated my own

He's still going.

Sorry, that was the wrong feed.

I didn't mean to click that.

It's still

going.

That's his Fat Tuesday meal is his own voice.

Good lord.

No, I don't think I've ever celebrated Fat Tuesday with any of my friends.

There was a great comedian, John Knight.

Good comedian.

Very nice guy, two out of Pittsburgh.

He's do a joke.

where they get all the ashes for Ash Wednesday and he said all the priests get together on Tuesday and play poker and smoke cigars and they call it poker Tuesday to set up for Ash Wednesday.

It's a very funny bit.

Bridget checks in on the text line from the 818.

She says, pizza and salad.

Yum, yum.

Yeah, that's a great Fat Tuesday meal, but.

I don't need the salad in there.

I gotta be honest.

It's Fat Tuesday.

That's, salad is what you eat all through Lent, I think, right?

Yeah,

yeah.

I was, you give up meat.

Yeah.

So, salad's a part of that.

So, I'm not going near it on

Fat Tuesday.

I'm not teasing you, Bridget.

You eat whatever you want, even if you want to eat pounds of salad.

That's the day to do it.

Steady Eddie checks in.

He says, Pete, I was not thinking about today being Fat Tuesday, but tonight I made some pasta.

with a five cheese tomato based sauce from a jar.

And then I added a fried cut up bratwurst and some onion.

I enjoyed a magical blending of cuisines, Italian and German.

It was delicioso in the worst WURST way.

Bon appetit, steadfast Edward.

Oh, he's very dignified tonight, Conrad.

He's a steadfast Edward.

Um, and I still love that John Belia with alligator gumbo and king cake for dessert.

You posted a picture of king cake.

I had never seen that before.

I haven't either.

Yeah.

That

looks, uh, Yeah.

I don't know about the, John was saying something about the baby in the middle of it.

That's kind of weird, but, um, the cake looks good.

I would steer clear of the baby and the salad on fat Tuesday.

Uh, Craig Kinnett is coming up next.

He's in studio.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about Wisconsin film festivals.

He's.

Fresh off the Door County Film Festival, we're looking forward to the Green Bay Film Festival where there will be a tribute to Bill Rabain and the Giant Spider Invasion.

We're going to talk some... John Minow is going to work his way into this next segment, Conrad.

Did you know that?

That's awesome.

By way of Craig Kinnit, yeah.

All right, so we're doing all that when we come back.

Keep texting us, folks.

What is your Fat Tuesday meal?

Let us know.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This might be the best text I've ever read.

Our question of the night is, what is your Fat Tuesday meal?

Because Fat Tuesday is the day, folks, you can overdo it.

Smoke a bunch of cigarettes if you're going to quit smoking, eat a lot if you're going to diet.

Have a couple beers if you're gonna give it up whatever this is Brian from Milwaukee says a bag of George Webb cheeseburgers and fries That is so like not old school But what's the word like a bag of cheeseburgers like he's just gonna cut through all of them and then he says don't forget the root beer float Is that what George Webb is known for root beer floats?

I think they have good root beer down there I've eaten at several of them over not for a while, but I like George Webb

And that must be a thing like you get a bag of cheeseburgers.

I

In Milwaukee there is one

sack of burgers

kind of close to my house and I ordered that at like 2 a.m.

After going to the bar and I forgot that I ordered it and fell asleep And my My roommate walked upstairs woke me up.

He's like, hey, it's your bag of burgers.

Oh, that's

so funny

We had, my brother lived at a place in Madison with like three other guys and some of their high school friends went and came down to party and they did and he put a pizza in the oven at like three in the morning and then

they all passed out.

And it was a

very hot summer already and now the oven's going at 450 for like seven hours or whatever.

And one of the guys worked nights and he gets home and he goes, hey dude, your pizza's done.

It's like this, just piece

of circle.

Craig Kenan is here, ladies and

gentlemen.

He is in

the studio back.

He's been here before a few times and he joins us in the studio, which is always fun for me to have you here in person, Craig.

So welcome, my friend.

Super cool.

Super good to be here.

Yeah.

To see both Conrad and you, my friend.

Equally or is there a... Well, Conrad

and I haven't been out for a while.

Conrad gives you less crap.

So you probably are a little more happy now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's good to have you, buddy.

Welcome.

And thanks for coming in.

You were just telling me...

About Tuesday you had a

right.

I heard you mentioned that little plastic baby in the king cake Yeah, and John mentioned that just a little bit earlier And that's a tradition that goes back over a hundred years and it's not that I know that but I remember talking about that with a group at Comedy City So maybe John heard that same thing too

and

it's it's a little right now It's a little plastic cakes or a little plastic baby.

It's about an inch or two You know not very big and whoever bites into that sucker

You get good luck.

And maybe dental work.

And maybe choking.

Who knows?

I don't like my desserts when I have a chance at a serious injury.

I tend to steer clear of that kind of stuff.

Well, and yeah, eating a baby, that just is a

little bit

strange.

But yeah, it's good luck to bite the baby.

Well, thank you.

That

sounded really weird.

Thank you for doing that research.

Yeah, I just thought it's like, OK, what would I have for Fat Tuesday?

What would you

do?

And you know, last week you're talking about soups, Pete.

Oh my gosh.

And I was so mad at Conrad.

Don't tell him this, but he let me down.

He doesn't have his

headphones

on right now.

No, no, I see that.

You

don't even get a chance to hear how much, how much, how wrong you are.

I don't know if he's really from Wisconsin.

That

just kind of makes.

What's up?

Well, he didn't like soup.

He said it's

like a watery meal.

I don't, I don't like soup.

He's not a soup fan.

And it's like, man, what the heck was that gal talking about?

The Zupa Toscata.

Oh, yeah.

That

was like the favorite soup of the night.

You got to try that one.

It's fantastic.

But one of my favorite soups is a seafood stew.

Oh, yeah.

And my god, I

can't find it anywhere.

And if it's, to me, that would be a real Cajun-type dish.

So if

we're going to celebrate Mardi Gras, let's go with the seafood

stew.

You could fill up on some stew, too.

That would be great.

That would set you packing, man.

That's fantastic.

Uh...

So we've got a lot to talk about.

You've been a really

busy guy lately.

You're at all these different film festivals.

You've got events coming up.

Let's start with the Door County Film Festival.

Oh, that's a

great place to start.

I want to apologize because I got the flu.

Kurt Krause, he said, hey, would you want to come on Saturday and do something?

Pete, we would have loved to have you there.

I would have loved to have gone.

But I did.

I got really sick.

I missed three nights on the air.

And I think that was the Saturday.

And I ended up going out of town, but I still felt like dog crap.

But anyway, thank you for the invitation.

It was pretty

bad.

It was pretty bad weather.

or two, not terribly so, but it was snowing continuously for like two days.

That's right.

That's that light

snow coming down the whole

time.

Was I sick?

I don't know what's going on, but I remember that because I left here.

I was going to Milwaukee to see my son that night and we had to pull over in Sheboygan and get a hotel room.

Oh, that's

right.

You said that on the air,

man.

What a waste of money.

No

kidding.

That's an hour away or what is well.

But things my wife tells me to do.

Yeah, I guess.

All right, so give us a rundown.

How was the festival?

Give us some highlights, because we haven't talked about it since it ended.

Kurt and Chris are fantastic guys.

Chris Hopper and Kurt Krause.

Both of those guys.

I really like those guys a lot.

And they are just wonderful examples of Wisconsinites, seriously.

Kurt is just the most humble, dearest, sweetest guy that I know.

And he

does a lot of

work.

He even does work for people down in Nicaragua.

I don't know if you realize that or not.

But I didn't know that.

But that guy is outstanding.

And then Chris Opper has been with that festival for a long time.

We met up at the Independent Filmmakers Guild up here in Green Bay.

And I think we all took you out for pizza that one time after that, which was quite

a long time

ago.

And I know there was a highlight because we're just like, hey, we got Pete Traba with us.

Awesome.

And I

think that was right at the time when Godfather Green Bay was coming out.

Yes, wow, that's taken me back.

That's back quite a bit.

I woke up in a motel room Conrad.

No more details.

No more details.

Very suspicious.

But I didn't pay for anything, so I'm not complaining.

Yeah, that's right.

Wow, nice.

But the festival up in Dork County is such a gorgeous setting, even with that little bit of snow coming down.

It was between Fish Creek and Egg Harbor,

I believe.

More than Sky.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And

it's a great facility, man.

I couldn't believe it.

And the nice thing is, is that this place isn't being used at all in the wintertime.

So when he gets a chance to bring people there, it's a great

use of

that facility.

And I'll tell you what, my film looked fantastic.

Tell us about

your

film.

The inheritance

yeah,

I was part of three movies.

I know that

thing The inheritance is of is a short film that I did with Ian teal over at why we go and It's like hey Ian.

We've got a day.

Let's make a movie here.

I've got a script

It's kind of about, you know, I just heard this thing on the radio from Elton John.

He's talking about, oh man, I just lost a friend.

He was such a great friend.

And I would give up my fame and my fortune if I could have one more conversation with this friend.

And I'm like, oh, that's

so sweet.

That's so commendable.

But really, what would happen?

if you got the opportunity for

that.

Big argument.

Well,

yeah, or who knows?

I mean,

and that was and that was it because we used the bar in why we got in the opera house to make the film and we actually shot it there and then they played it at their film festival.

And it was so cool because people could turn around and look.

But I see you got a cut.

That's awesome.

Let's do that.

We'll pick up there after the news.

Craig Anthony, is here, ladies and gentlemen, send a text if you have a question for Craig, or me, or personal problems, or tell us what your fat Tuesday meal is.

We're coming right back after the news.

It's Nightlight with Pete Chihuahua on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

He checks in from Appleton and he says, if you want real Cajun food, north of New Orleans, come to Appleton, Wisconsin and stop at the nationally award-winning Cozy Corner.

Oh, I want to go there.

You

been there?

I'm right in that town, no.

Con, you been there?

Okay.

Jim says my Fat Tuesday was full of Italian food.

The wait line at the Cozy Corner was too long for my hunger today.

Okay.

You still got time, Jim.

We got a few hours for him tonight.

Daniel from Manasha checks in and says, Fat Tuesday growing up Catholic, I kept it real and enjoyed a bowl of lard with a glass of chicken broth.

Oh,

that's so nice.

That's a great meal.

I think I know that, Daniel.

I think I know

that, Daniel.

Could be Daniel Wheeler.

I'm not sure.

I

think it might be.

Tom from Minona.

This is my text.

I love this one.

He says, this is Tom.

I like to rub my feet together and drink milk out of the cow.

Wow.

You want the self-cuttle?

Yeah.

Listen, we'd all spoon ourselves if we could just for some affection.

But rubbing your feet together, as I mentioned last week, is the closest thing to self-cuttling.

It's just a relaxing and Tom wants to do that.

apparently laying under the udder of a cow.

That is the idea of a chill evening on Fat Tuesday.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

Craig Kennett is here.

We were talking about the Door County Film Festival.

Yeah, we were talking about Door

County Film Festival.

Let's see, let's pick up right there where we left

off.

What should people do next year you're gonna have it?

What's the one thing you can tell people about what happened this year that would make them wanna go next year?

What do we miss?

You know, any film festival

worth their salt has this opportunity for you to rub elbows with the folks and talk with the filmmakers.

And the Dark County Film Festival has that as well in spades by all means.

And you know what, I don't know if you've heard that film Green Blah.

Have you heard anything about

that?

It sounds familiar, but I don't know.

That's

the punk rock movement

here in Green

Bay.

That played on

documentary.

Yeah,

documentary.

A very meaty documentary.

Holy cats, it's huge.

And it talked about all these punk bands that came to Green Bay and would oftentimes bypass like Milwaukee or Chicago or some of these other bigger

towns

just to come to Green Bay.

And we're talking band guys like Henry Rollins.

But it's like holy

cat.

And the red hot chili peppers were here for the famous.

That could have been a different time.

But I got a chance to see that film finally.

And it was very endearing.

It was a well worth the watch.

And then they had a get together afterwards that I kind of missed out on.

But we got a chance to chat with people before then.

So just meeting other people passionate about what you're trying

to do

is so inspiring for yourself, seriously.

And that's what we need to do.

And you know, the people and the Academy Awards this last weekend.

They talked a lot about getting into the theater, Pete.

Did you catch that?

I did.

Sean Baker said that,

yeah.

He was the guy that won for Anora.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

He was a real passionate dude.

Oh, his speeches were great.

Yeah, and you know what?

He was pretty quick about him, too.

Yeah.

That other guy.

What the heck?

He went on forever.

What was that guy's name?

Do we know that guy?

The guy from The Brutalist.

Is he still talking?

Let's check in and see what's happening.

He's got to be done by now.

Counting me down.

Okay.

Thanks.

He

restarted.

He started

again.

He took an

intermission.

Life is a brutal life.

And he came back.

Adrian Brody.

Adrian Brody.

Hey, this wasn't his first rodeo, though.

No, obviously.

He could keep going.

It's an ongoing rodeo.

And I

thought that, you know, he said that.

I thought, OK, he's going to wrap this up really nice and sweet.

Yeah.

He went on an extra three minutes.

It felt like that was crazy.

I told him to cut the music.

Yeah.

But so that's, I think, in a nutshell, in a roundabout way, the coolest part about film festivals, getting a chance

to meet.

Definitely.

talk, see, understand what is happening.

There was a woman that showed a film there that was a love letter to the girl that she gave up for adoption.

And you don't ever see stories like that.

She gave up this girl for adoption.

She was a musician and it just didn't have what the relationship wasn't working out.

So she wanted to give this child up, but she wanted to stay connected.

And she was able to do that throughout the course of her life.

And

It was just a beautiful film to watch how this girl grew up independently, but knew her mother, who knew her biological mother the

whole

time, and the adopted mother was super supportive.

I saw that film.

That was Kate Stapleton.

Yes, yes, yes.

She was on the show one night.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, because we were talking about that.

Oh, very cool.

And did

they

do any music?

They were not here live.

It was an interview over the phone because she was going to be at Dora County.

Yep.

Well, that sounds great.

And it's so, you know, they filmed green and gold there.

I mean, Dork County could conceivably be a film hub.

I don't know if that's what the people of Dork County want if they want any more people there.

But I

talked with Chris Opera and it sounds like they're in the midst of building a film office up there independently of what they're trying to do down in Milwaukee.

And

I think that that might be, you know, probably a really great idea because there's already people wanting to use Dork County as a film location.

It's a great location.

It is gorgeous.

All right.

Let's turn our attention to another film festival.

You are like the most tied-in guy with Wisconsin Film Festivals that I know of.

I

used to be.

Green Bay.

That's coming up.

We've had Nick Wattier on the show before.

That's going to be a fun event.

Talk a little bit about that.

You're going to be pretty involved.

I love

Nick.

I love Nick.

The last time I saw him was in Door County, and I went to fist bump him, and I punched his drink right into his coat.

Oh, my gosh.

What a goofball.

You know, I don't know what it is about Door County, but I saw Nick there.

We fist bumped and ended up antiquing the rest of the day.

So it's just one of those things that happened.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, no, Nick's a good guy, and that's a great film festival.

I want to check it out.

It's a different kind of format, and they've got some cool stuff this year.

So talk a little bit about what you have going on.

And Green Bay has kind of gone through a couple of shifts with how they actually run the festival.

In the last two years, they've kind of broken it up.

They select all their movies at one point, and then they break it up into like four different segments.

And there's coming up March 15th.

is their Green Bay Film Festival's Wisconsin's own part one.

And I think part two is April 12th, but I'm not exactly sure if my film is, I know it's not in the first one.

It might be in the second one, I'm not entirely sure.

But that is always a great time to go and watch.

The Tarleton is a really great venue for watching these films.

And actually, ironically,

or not so ironically, that is the location of the very first Wildwood Film Festival that we hosted

more than 20

years ago.

So that was super cool to actually

kind

of see that venue being utilized.

And it's gone through a couple of different changes since that time period, but now to see it go for a circle and actually it's back to being a Film Festival place or a theater and eatery and just an all around great party spot.

I mean, that's that's perfect.

I've heard nothing but great stuff about the Green Bay Film Festival and that does sound like a perfect venue.

You have.

OK, so talk about this Craig.

This is like the third or fourth time on the show.

I've talked about Bill Rubin and he was on the show with your help.

Thank you again for that.

But you guys have another cool event coming up surrounding the Giant Spider invasion.

Tell us about that.

Oh, I'm glad you asked about that, Pete.

You know, like I said, the Green Bay Film Festival is their typical, their Wisconsin's own part of the film festival is March 15th, but March 14th, the Friday before is going to be a big kickoff for the giant spider invasion.

And we're going to hopefully have Bill there answering questions and Bill just turned 88.

Whoa, seriously.

So, I mean, he's still sharp as a tack.

I love chatting with him, although he gets so doggone lonely being way up in the sticks.

Is he by himself up there?

Well, most of the time he is.

He's got people that come over and help him or

he's,

he talks to people on the phone a lot, but you know, that's still only.

gives you social time, how much.

But he's got so many ideas floating around.

And that's one of the things that, JB, if you're listening, we gotta make sure that you are like a project manager for this guy because we gotta get some stuff done.

He's just got so much stuff that he's thinking

about.

JB's the guy behind the guy.

He is.

Yeah, that probably makes him more famous than anybody, which drives me nuts.

Well, except he likes to lay low because he just goes by JB.

He's just got one of those monikers.

It's like Lady Gaga or whatever.

That kind of

works.

Yeah, it works for him.

So all right, that'll

be fun.

That's on March 14th.

Yeah, March 14th

at seven o'clock.

But here's the cool part, too, is not only is Bill going to be there, but our very own Dan Davies will be there as well.

Well, and to start the day off to start the event off where they're going to be playing the rise of Dear Mageddon, which is the teaser for the

real

film Dear Mageddon that they're hoping to shoot someday in the future when they get all these great cool Financers and whatnot, but that is going to be playing and Dan will be hosting the event and then Vance will be

coming on and asking some questions.

Vance is from the film festival as well, and he is really one of the key guys that helped get Bill there.

Vance, his last name escapes me right now, but he is a super huge movie fan, and when I was at the film festival last time, I was talking to Bill, and Vance was like, hey,

Come on over here.

Talk to him on the phone.

And he's like, no, no, I can't.

And so I actually introduced him on the phone just like that.

And they kind of, Vance went up and talked to Bill, interviewed him for a magazine which is called Physical Media Advocate.

That's a magazine.

Wow.

And you know what it's for?

Not

me.

Well, but it might be.

Because

it's actually for... Film

tech stuff?

Well, it's for film, like DVD box sets.

Okay, so anything that has this collectability there's still people out there in the world that are hungry for it Yeah, so we're seeing so much streaming and so much stuff coming on online But there are still fans for this physical media that's out there and the cooler you can make it, you know the better people will have to The more chances they'll get a chance

to see

it

Oh, that's fantastic.

Well, you got it.

We have a text here that is aimed for our guest, Craig Connit.

Daniel Mnashas says, what advice does Craig give to his boys and girls club kids when asked about making movies?

This is very similar to a question I was going to ask you.

Oh, cool.

And you kind of just, your attitude is like, make it.

Like, I love that you got an idea, and one day you shot something, and, you know, it's a little short, but you put it up, and that's how you exercise that muscle, right?

Who is that from?

Daniel in Monashia.

Oh, that's probably Daniel Wheeler.

I love that question.

And Pete, this is how it happens.

Kid comes in.

I've got a little guy named Caleb.

Red-haired little little guy.

He comes in.

He's like, Mr. Craig, we want to make a movie.

Well, what do you want to make it about?

I don't know.

We want to we want to come in and we're gonna ask you for some glue and some rubber bands and I'm

like,

okay, that sounds great.

And then and I'll and so this is what they came up with the kids come in.

Hey, Mr. Craig, we need some rubber bands.

We need some staples and some glue and a battery double a battery.

All right.

What are you kids gonna make?

We want to make a time machine.

So they build a time machine and guess what?

The darn thing works.

Yeah.

Isn't it cute?

That's adorable.

So let's

make it happen.

You mean

while

they're going to go back and see dinosaurs.

Okay.

So not only will they learn how to write, they'll learn how to actually shoot that, but we're going to have to green screen the dinosaurs.

And we'll probably use these little puppet dinosaurs that I've got in my classroom.

So all of a sudden, now they're learning on multiple levels how to make a movie and how that movie magics and that tricks work.

Talk about

exciting.

We have a clip of you, of this little guy, I think, talking to.

Oh, this is a different thing.

Oh, that's a different thing.

That's a totally different thing.

Yeah, we've got Beckett.

So how long is that clip, Conrad?

It's about a minute and 30.

Do we have time to play that now and then we can discuss it when we come back?

Or should we

wait?

I'd play it after.

Play it after.

We can help close the last segment down with that.

Well, you know, in wrapping up the Giant Spider thing, Pete, you know, if you think back to all the classic science fiction movies from the past, it's like the Planet of the Apes wasn't really about apes.

It was about racism.

when you

really get

down to the meat of it, or Soylent Green, it wasn't really about what is Soylent Green, it's about the oppression of the poor, and the Terminator was about the AI takeover.

When the giant spider invasion actually represents the political separation of the masses that are drawn together through this giant spider trauma, and the giant spider represents the impossible escape from inflation.

So that's sorta... Who came up with that?

I don't know.

I thought that maybe the Republican buddies out there would join

in and

watch the

film.

I could buy into that.

Sure, why not?

JB, the guy behind the guy, checks in on the stream and says, Well said, Pete and Craig.

The Rise of Dear Me again.

Rides again.

Thank you, fans.

Cindy and the crew of the Green Bay Film Festival.

Yay.

Thank you, buddy.

Good to hear from you, JB.

So we'll do this.

All right, we're gonna take a quick break.

We'll come back and play...

Yeah, I'll tell you a little bit about what that is.

All right, fantastic.

We'll do that after a very short break.

Craig Anthony Kinnit is here.

He's going to help me shut this thing down.

Coming up next on Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Tomorrow

night

on Nightlight, Chris Foran from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be here.

We'll talk a little showbiz with Chris, like we often do.

And then, oh God, help me out with this guy's name, Conrad.

It's Rich LoCacia.

Casio, low Casio.

Here I am asking you for

advice.

Rich, low

Casio will

be here because

there are some huge events and wrestling coming up with John Cena and The Rock.

There was some bad blood.

Yikes, so we'll jump into that tomorrow with rich rich is always fun and as is Chris So that's tomorrow night of nightlight right now.

We have a few more minutes with our friend Craig Kenneth who's here in the studio talking about so let's do that Should we play the clip and then talk about it?

I'm sure if you want to all right Conrad this

is a clip.

This is a was this in the morning show this This was something that we did for the kids podcast.

Okay, we've got a little fellow named Beckett who is Not quite ten yet, or he just turned ten Wow and a little red-haired firecracker

Not all the kids at the Boys and Girls Club have red hair, just to make that clear, because I talked about two of them.

Why would we think they do?

I don't know.

That's because those are the only kids I talked about.

But he is just so sharp, and he knows more about sports, Pete, than I ever will in my lifetime if I started studying now.

Wow.

He's just so knowledgeable, and he wanted to make a podcast, so we made it happen, and it's really exploding.

And