Long Movies(Hour 1)

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This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who loves to watch true crime, but only if it's shoplifting, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome.

Ladies and gentlemen tonight lights I'm so glad the weekend is over and Monday is finally here and we can do another show In front of the entire state of Wisconsin because we are broadcasting live statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay Greats to have you here on a Monday, and I don't think you need any

You don't need any pick me up today because it was so beautiful outside today and Conrad I'll go to you first because every night I ask you how you are you say well pretty good It was 45 today.

You you immediately jump to weather.

I know it fuels you How did you feel today?

Oh, I don't know if you could see but I'm wearing shorts today.

I saw I Saw your shorts.

They're a fine-looking pair of shorts.

Did you come right from the golf course?

I wish I wish I did I wish I did okay

Yeah, that's a beautiful day.

Go ahead.

I gotta say For the stream we're live on Twitter now it Twitter was down like all day I just got it to work so usual Twitter viewer tune in now

we're live

on there

and Things are really picking up.

We have one viewer on Twitter right now, so I can tell people We're a little disgruntled about Twitter, but it is up and running so please join us on Twitter or YouTube or Facebook or WGBW, right?

Yes,

you can also stream us on the app folks.

That is really easy to use and if you're listening on live radio Well, there's nothing wrong with that either.

It's just great to have you at Monday night addition of nightlight a beautiful day Hopefully you're still outside and you're listening to us on the app and taking us with you So however you found us, it's great to have you here fun show tonight.

I've got two in studio guests I always get excited when I have guests coming into the studio We have northeast Wisconsin

based actor Dan Davies who's doing some great things.

He's gonna be here to discuss some projects he has coming up in a big event coming up at the Tarleton Theater here just down the street.

It'll be great to have Dan on the show again.

He's been here before.

We'll catch up with Dan and we'll have a good old time.

It'll be good to have him here.

And then at 720, we have WGBW's own.

Peter is not an on air personality, but Peter Van Doren is a

Big time, he's a cog here at WGBW, WISS.

He does great stuff.

He's a very hardworking guy, got a lot of great accounts, and he is a huge fantasy baseball guy.

So he actually said, hey, I would love to discuss this on the air if you ever want to.

And I said, that's a great idea.

I don't really get, I've done fantasy football periodically.

And even that, I kind of slack off on.

And that, as I understand it, is much easier than fantasy baseball.

A lot

easier that much, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean think about how many games there are

Yeah,

you got to set the lineup every single day every day and Obviously fantasy football.

It's just you know for Thursday.

I can't even keep up with that

Sunday and Monday, so I mean Yeah, I play a fancy basketball.

Okay,

which I do

set my lineup every day.

Yeah,

yeah, but I It's I think it's a lot tougher

For the scoring wise of base.

Yeah, it's a lot tougher to determine who's gonna be who's gonna be good that day because They could go all for four next day.

They could go four for four with two home runs

Yeah, I have friends have done it.

Yeah for years and they do it every year and they get together and they meet for the draft and I don't know how they keep up with it.

So I

I Drafted a team last night

No,

two days ago drafted a team.

I

drafted a fancy baseball team.

I was like, yeah, why not give it a try and my second pick was someone who just has to have Tommy John surgery

So you got to drop them

Yeah, I just, yeah.

Same with football.

You just, okay, cut him loose.

Well, Peter Van Doran will be here in the second hour.

He's going to tell us everything.

I have questions.

I mean, I don't think it's something I'll do, but I feel like there's enough people out there who probably are into fantasy baseball.

If I had more time, I think it's something I could really get into.

But as I mentioned, I tend to slack off even with fantasy football.

One year I won it with...

One year

I

won my fantasy football league and I barely, there were weeks I'd go into it where a guy didn't even play and I didn't replace him.

Like

everyone was so mad that I won.

I'm like, hey, you know, I got the goods people.

So we'll talk about fantasy baseball with Peter.

That's coming up.

That'll be fun.

And talk about baseball in general.

They're in the throes of spring training right now, right?

Like it's full force.

Baseball season is just around the corner.

And on a day like this, I can't think of a better thing to talk about here at Nightlight.

With Pete Van Doran who'll be here.

It'll be fun and Let's see what else kind of there's a lot going on.

I saw some movies over the weekend.

I want to talk about that I want to talk about Vanna White.

I want

to because when you were talking about the when you were doing the show bus beats Yeah, you said you want to go see Mickey 17.

I did I want to dive deep.

I did you see it?

I didn't see it.

Okay, the commercials.

I was like, what is this movie even about?

Cuz I was so confused.

I will explain all of it after we do our question

of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Question.

Questions.

What's in your sack lunch?

Yeah, sounds kind of weird.

But let me set this up.

I'll preface this by saying it is national pack your lunch day.

Do people still pack their lunches?

I know they do.

Sometimes you go to work and there's stuff in the refrigerator.

A lot of people eat out.

But this day in particular brought back great memories for me of putting a brown, a bag lunch together.

When I was a kid, I used to put salami and cheese and mustard.

I think that was my favorite.

Well, peanut butter and jelly was probably my all-time favorite.

Yeah.

But I used to put salami, cheese, and some mustard as I got older.

And then I got hot lunch.

I went to a Catholic school in Marinette.

It wasn't a very big school, Marinette Catholic Central, and they would have, you know, they were serving lunch for like 200 kids.

And if they were serving, they made these pancakes, they would have pancake day.

The pancakes were like an inch thick, really light, not my cup of tea.

If you didn't like what they

were

serving, you were screwed.

It's like, all right, I guess I'm having bacon.

But, so I did take a sack lunch.

I've done it as an adult at times and I think that would be in my sack lunch salami With like cheddar cheese and mustard and right now That sounds pretty damn good.

That's my sack lunch.

What is your sack lunch folks?

It is international.

No national sack lunch day.

I'm sorry.

It's national pack your lunch day So I would love to hear from you 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic

these food questions have gone over gangbusters lately.

People love to talk about food and why, I mean, what's, let's talk about a sack lunch.

What's in yours?

Let me know.

What do you think, Connery?

What are you doing there?

I mean, I haven't packed a lunch in a long time.

It's

usually eat out.

If, you know, if I'm, if I bring a lunch to the studio here, it's whatever I have leftovers in

the,

you know, just bringing something a little healthy.

I don't try it.

I don't want to eat out a lot because I did that in a,

In college wasted a lot of money.

It's expensive.

It ends up for sure

So I'd say when I was younger though, I don't I was a cold lunch person I'd always get the pack a pack of bag lunch because I wouldn't I didn't like what they served usually,

right?

So I had PB and J was just the go-to for me I think

it's so weird because I remember my friends that went to like Marinette Marinette High School and We were at the Catholic school as I mentioned much smaller

And they're like, oh, no, we have burgers.

We don't like the main entree.

We have burgers.

What?

It sounded like it was like fine dining over at the public high school.

And I wouldn't say it's that, but at least you do have options.

So for me, and when I went to Catholic school in Chicago or in Marinette, when we moved up there in junior high, it was kind of the same deal.

There was hot lunch.

Actually, at my Catholic school in Chicago, we always brought our lunch.

And we just would sit it in the coat room.

Like if you had a cold sandwich, you're eating that four hours later and it's warm.

Yeah.

So, but that's what's in my sec lunch.

Salami, cheddar cheese, white bread and mustard.

I'm going retro here.

And that sounds mighty damn fine right now.

Tell us yours again, Conrad.

Well, all right.

So I'd say PB and J was probably my favorite sandwich.

Right.

But when I was younger, I don't know why.

I thought it was the coolest thing to have a lunchable when you walked into the lunchroom.

Oh, wow.

So I always ask my mom for lunchables.

She didn't.

They're so unhealthy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How do you feel now about a lunchable?

Oh, they're disgusting.

They're gross, aren't

they?

So nasty.

I was traumatized, too, because I always had kids that like when I was a kid, my mom was kind of one of those.

She wasn't like a total granola, but she put healthy stuff in there.

I'd get a peanut butter sandwich, carrots.

If I got lucky, maybe some Fritos or something.

But then there were always those kids.

that had like two bags of chips.

Like mostly it was the side items that they were sporting and kind of showing off too.

And I remember whenever I got the opportunity, I would take Doritos.

Yeah.

Taco flavor typically and I would put them on my peanut butter sandwich.

Oh man.

I've done that as an adult at times.

As any sandwich you add chips to it.

I feel like it tastes better

for some reason.

Get that

crunch.

You want to hear something funny is one of the friends I used to sit with at lunch every day.

He'd always get, he'd always pack a lunch every day.

A weird combination he had that I totally forgot about until now.

He usually had a chocolate pudding cup and

he had a

string cheese.

Oh

gross.

And he dip

his cheese.

Oh come on, that's awful.

That's horrifying.

No, we thought it was gross.

But he's like, no, it's really gross.

You gotta try it.

I never got pudding.

My mom would never put pudding in.

Once in a while, you know, she'd splurge and get a ho ho.

or a ding-dong, which are basically the same thing in a different presentation.

But anyway, what's in your sack lunch?

Let's have some fun with this one, folks.

You can go back to your childhood, relive something, or even now, if you took a sack lunch now, how would you make it healthy?

And you don't have to, certainly.

There are no answers, folks.

Only your answers.

So I did see Mickey 17 this weekend.

Bong Joon Ho's new movie he is the creator of parasite he directed it won an Oscar for best picture and best director Very talented guy, and I think I told you last week I watched At the advice of or at the mention of the film from Chris four on the host And that was good from 2006 river monster But I gotta tell you Mickey 17 I'll elaborate a little after the break, but Robert Pattinson is so annoying in the movie

He uses his voice.

It's like so I'm just trying to get by here and I'm an expendable and then you know his tougher self comes out in another version of himself It's one of those but nice message really cool effects too long it kind of Not that great And that was his first swing with a big budget too, which is too bad.

I'm sure I'll get another one Because I really like the guy.

I think he's funny in interviews.

I like his stuff

Did you see Mickey 17 folks?

Let us know what you thought.

I don't know.

We'll talk more.

We got a very short break here.

Then we're gonna tell you what happened on Saturday Night Live between Elon Musk and Mike Myers.

Sort of.

That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwama on the Civic Media Radio Network.

at 6.35.

Peter Vandoren with some fantasy baseball talk coming up in hour two.

Our question tonight is, what is in your sack lunch?

This is in honor of the National Pack Your Lunch Day.

So you can tell us what's in your sack lunch, folks.

You can tell us what you like to have for lunch.

You'll elaborate.

If you saw Mickey 17, love to hear your thoughts.

I didn't think it was that great.

That's kind of how we went into the break.

Did you said you were looking forward to did you have friends that saw the film?

I was looking forward because I like Robert Pattison.

Yeah, I did too typically.

I loved him as Batman.

Mm-hmm Doesn't get that that side of him in that film which kind

of sucks really uses is really annoying.

He's like this very passive hero with an annoying voice and The creatures are cool the scenery is great.

I love the idea

But it goes on too long and they don't really get into what the film really is until later and in the meantime you're stuck with him doing this It was very cold and I thought they were gonna kill me, but they didn't and it's just like why am I why is he doing that?

See what when I was watching the trailer.

I thought that it was like he was like a test dummy For like and he like died a bunch of times.

That's what I got from the trailer

that is

the story, like he signs up for this program where he's an expendable and they can kill him and they can reprint his body.

And at the end of the movie, they think he's supposed to die from these creatures, but the creatures are friendly.

And then they reprint him.

So there's two of them.

And it's called a multiple.

And it's just like, got kind of convoluted, but Mark Wahlberg, Mark Ruffalo plays this like politician in it and he's great.

But yeah, it's just not that great.

That's kind of bummed out.

I did watch Heller High Water over the weekend just because I was looking for something to watch and I saw it like when it first came out.

Liked it, didn't love it, but I know a lot of other people love it.

So I gave it another chance.

And yeah, good film.

Taylor Sheridan wrote it.

I'm sure most people have seen it by now.

It's not like I'm breaking news or anything, but I don't know.

And then you saw the Gorge.

I did.

Yeah, I was like, why not?

Go back to Apple TV.

Yeah, coughed up the 10 bucks.

And, you know, I really enjoy some of the stuff they put on Apple.

Like the movies that I've seen besides the wolves, I really enjoyed.

Yeah.

And this movie, what you said was like, yeah, it's a great streaming film.

It's a great Netflix.

I thought Netflix, but you're right.

It's Apple TV.

Yeah.

So I think it would be it's better than a Netflix film, actually.

Right.

I would agree.

But.

I don't know.

I thought it dragged in like the first part.

I feel like that first hour where they, before they go into the Gorge.

Yeah.

I enjoyed it.

I thought I was like, this is getting somewhere really cool because at the beginning you see his, um, pre-assessor

who was at the

Gorge and he, um, got in the helicopter and then they killed

him.

Yeah.

I was like, Oh no.

To give you the premise, it's two watchtowers, in between them is a big gorge covered with smoke and murkiness.

And you get a one-year contract to go and guard the gorge.

And your objective, and they're usually special forces guys, to make sure nothing escapes the gorge, which is intriguing.

One guy, the guy who got there before Miles Teller's character says he thought it was the gates of hell.

and they explain what happens, but Miles Teller's character falls for a woman in the other Watchtower who's also a sniper, Special Forces, played by Anna Taylor Joy, or Anna Joy Taylor.

And they have this crazy weird romance from a mile apart, and you know, I think it's worth a watch, just because, like I said, it's a good streaming movie.

If I went to the theater, I wouldn't have hated it, but I love the fact that I could watch it at home, and I love Miles Teller.

So.

the one thing I the only problem I had with it is when they actually got into the gorge which I knew was

going to happen

because he had a what is that called

the zipline zipline yes

he the zipline I knew was going to you know it was

going to spoil anything yeah

once he gets down there she falls him down there once she sees him and then I just feel like it drags I feel like it's like 40 minutes of down there just

I'm walking around finding clues to what happens, but I feel like it could have been like 20 minutes I wouldn't been fine.

I feel like every movie that's come out in the last six months has been a little too long even the really good ones But not the brutalist that was too short

captain America was way too long.

I agree with that

Yeah, they just always they just fall in love with their work and they're too long cut 20 minutes out You know, that's my issue with the host that Bong Joon Ho's movie from 2006 Half hour shorter that thing's brilliant

But they went into all this stuff that had nothing to do with the the river monster Okay, so we'll get to our we have a clip from Saturday night.

I don't know if we'll get to that before other guests But we'll work that in at some it was Mike Myers appearing on the show again.

I think the second time in two weeks He played Elon Musk as dr. Evil And it's very funny And then I don't know who the guy playing Trump was but he was good and the guy playing Marco Rubio and it was a

parody of what happened apparently last week in the White House.

It was the one thing in the news, apparently.

I didn't read.

I didn't know there was all that drama, but we'll get to that clip.

It's pretty funny.

Our question of the night is what is in your sack lunch?

And that's in honor of National Pack Your Lunch Day.

It's about time packing lunch had a national day, folks.

That's all I'll say.

Paula, let's start.

Oh, we should start from the beginning.

Oh, I went all the way back to steady Eddie's text from last night.

Monica from Mount Horrib checks in.

She says, I was in office today, so I had a PB and J with jalapeno raspberry jelly.

That sounds good.

Amanda in orange and four large carrots.

It's pretty healthy lunch, Monica.

I like the jalapeno raspberry jelly.

Yeah, that sounds

fantastic.

Diane from Madison checks in.

She's also in the 608.

She says, I would pack an apple, an orange, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a bag of chips and orange juice from Miss Diane in Madison.

Well, thank you, Miss Diane.

The orange juice is an interesting twist for your beverage of choice at lunch.

I like that.

I

liked apple juice with a PB&J.

That was a big thing in school, wasn't it, when you were a kid?

Yeah.

Apple juice, a little more exciting than water.

There's always that kid back in the 70s and 80s who was drinking water.

Like, that's what you should drink, but how ahead of the times were his parents?

Most kids had soda, Kool-Aid.

No soda, just water.

That's all.

No soda, just water.

Thank you, Diane, for the text.

And then Anna from Madison says, my sack lunch today would be a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread with mustard, hummus, nice, and rock carrots.

Ooh, I like that.

Little crunch.

And then Lorna Dune, shortbread cookies and a bottle of water.

I think I need to have lunch with Hannah.

That sounds dumb.

Absolutely delicious.

We got more texts coming in.

Tell us what you're favorite.

What's in your sack lunch, folks?

Very simple question.

Let's have some fun with this.

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Actor Dan Davies comes up after the news, and then Peter Van Doren talks fantasy baseball.

In hour two, it's nightlight on a beautiful.

Monday in Wisconsin.

Hope you're having a great night.

It's Pete Schwabba.

I'll be right back.

Hi, this is Danny Slate, and you are listening to Night Light with Geet Swabba.

All right,

our

question tonight

is what's in your sack lunch?

It's National Pack Your Lunch Day.

Paula from the 920 says my favorite is also the PB&J, but I also like ham and cheese with mayo.

My side snack is chips.

That is the all American meal.

Or certainly sack lunch, Paula.

Well done.

Conrad, how do you feel about your mom's choice?

I mean, that's a great choice right there.

That'll

work, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rabbit says, what would Jake and Elwood have in their sacks?

Jake and Elwood, the Blues Brothers he's talking about, but I don't remember a

sandwich.

We're on a

mission from God.

On a mission from God.

That's the voice of...

Dan Davies, who joins me in the studio now, a Wisconsin actor.

And not that you only act in Wisconsin, but you're a Wisconsin based actor.

A lot of stuff going on.

I'm excited to get to you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Really fortunate.

Really busy.

Absolutely.

So it's good to have you here.

What is in your sack lunch, Dan Davies?

That's a personal question.

No.

You know, I'm old school, you know, genteel poverty from Wisconsin.

So it's always baloney.

cheese, white bread, mayonnaise, which actually is really good.

That's a great sandwich with a little onion.

An onion on a bologna and mayo sandwich.

Oh, it's really good.

That would make it a lot better in my

opinion.

Yeah, it's actually excellent.

Okay.

And

then

chips, you know, the same.

What kind

of

chips?

Whatever the, you know, low budget.

The generic Fritos or Doritos.

The moritos.

It's so funny.

I

don't ever, I remember having bologna as a kid.

and not thinking anything of it, but now when I literally get nauseous when I walk past baloney

in the

supermarket.

People still love it, they fry it.

I

just

don't

know what

I'm eating.

It's the color and the texture, I think, that

really creeps me out.

And you don't really know what's in it, too.

Right.

You know, it could be chicken lips or, you know.

Is that probably it?

And look, I

went with salami.

That's not much better.

If

at all actually it is much better.

Is it really?

Yeah, so because that's one of my favorite sandwiches to salami cheese mayonnaise and onions on white bread Wow, yeah, the Wonder Bread Okay, you know

old-school on Wonder

Bread.

Yeah, not even a newer whole grain sleeker healthier.

No, no, no.

I they still make Wonder Bread, right?

Sure.

Yeah, I've seen it.

I've seen Wonder

Bread.

But you go for the generic Wonder

Bread project.

Yeah, which

is Lunder Bread.

Oh, that's great.

So how have you been, dude?

Good, Pete.

You've probably been a few months since you've been here,

but

I see some of your Facebook posts.

I know you're busy.

So you like being busy like that, going from project to project?

Do you get downtime?

It's always a blessing.

It's always really fortunate to be that.

And I know you've had, you know...

Craggers and and all kinds people Ezekiel Drew's on your show.

I don't know him

well enough to call him Craggers though He would I think he would punch me in the throat

if I tried that but you guys are tighter

than we

are Yeah, it's been I'm just have a lot of great things coming up and you know first and foremost is really that giant spider the 50th anniversary screening Which we did have one in why we got a number of months ago, but this is part of the 50th anniversary tour

of The Giant Spider Invasion, which is cult classic directed by Bill Rabain, filmed in northern Wisconsin with Alan Hale and Barbara Hale and all kinds of actors.

And no

relation.

No relation.

That was really weird.

Yeah.

Skipper was, you know, Skipper and Barbara Hale was from Perry Mason.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so it's a great, it's actually a really good film and it's the 50th anniversary.

So Bill Rabain will be there.

He's 88 years young.

And he's gonna be there and you know sign an autographs and all kinds of I'm hosting it and we're having the rise of deer McGuiden right the proof of concept that we put together For a feature film that we'd like to start filming this summer.

Hopefully summer fall and that's gonna start the evening off and then I my shtick and then We'll introduce bill rebain and then and it's at the Tarleton part of the Green Bay Film Festival.

It's this Friday at seven o'clock

Tickets are still available, and they're dirt cheap.

They're only like 10 bucks.

That's the best, you know, film festivals are great.

I love almost any film festival I've been to.

I just like the experience.

I like the celebration of movies, but this festival, 10 bucks, because they can get expensive.

Some

festivals are expensive, and I still feel like it's worth the money, but 10 bucks, you almost can't afford not to go.

Even if you hate movies,

you have to go spend 10.

Tarleton 2, which is really a cool venue.

And it's been around, it's been a cinema since I think what, 1925 or something like that.

And it's one of the oldest in North of Milwaukee.

It's beautiful, I love it.

So it's gonna be a great venue, a great time.

And Bill Rubin is just an amazing guy.

You've had him on your show before.

He's 88.

I

wanna tell you something about Bill Rubin.

When I was putting my questions together, I can't type anymore, Dan.

I

hate

typing.

So I use voice a lot.

And when I

said Bill Rebane's name, it came up as Billy Rubin.

That's his Jewish half brother.

I'm Billy Rubin.

I'm not

from the North.

Correct.

And if Bill shows up looking jaundiced or yellow, you'll know it's because he lacks Billy Rubin.

But I hope that doesn't happen.

No, he's been on the show.

He's great.

He's very sharp.

Let me

ask you this about Bill.

You know, sharp as he still seemed, I know he has some physical issues.

He probably, for those reasons alone, could not direct.

But does he still write?

Yeah, he still writes.

He could direct, though, but it would be shorter days.

It wouldn't be the long eight to 12 hour days.

He would be able to direct.

He's still sharp as attack.

He's still writing things, still crafting and creating things.

He will say, Dan, I've got a part for you in this, this and this.

And he's been in the business for over 60 years.

And he knows so many of the old school guys from Hollywood and worked with them since about 19.

the late 1950s and yeah he still he still has projects and and you know his darling that was giant spider invasion that

was

a top 25 box office when it came out in 1975 right which is just crazy that's when jaws came out and all these you know great films one flew over the cuckoo's nest and and all kinds of stuff and

you know, giant spiders right up there with them.

Yeah, that's cool.

That's going to be fun this Friday.

And it sounds like Bill kind of got screwed on

some of the money.

Yeah, he did.

Creative Hollywood account.

Yeah, like, yeah, which happened a lot during that time.

So I think it still happens.

I think it does, too.

Yeah, Sean Connery was the one to kind of put some of that shenanigans to rest.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Back about 25, 30 years ago, he wanted to go through their books,

you

know.

Oh, wow.

Just say let me see.

Because he was a

promised like four percentage points net percentage points and there's never net but he says Willers got to be you know so he was he was calling him up saying I'll come visit you and we'll go through the books together and they're like oh you don't have to do that because he's a bad a bad oh we forgot to carry a one we'll kind of check

yeah I it's funny you say that because I have a lot of my friends are writers and Steven Leo Steve Rodney Cleo Benvenuti have been on this show and I've never asked them directly

in person, but I've heard that when they wrote the Santa Claus, the studio, they always offer net points.

And I

remember

when we sold a guy thing, it was like, well, you'll get 5% of the net and everyone's like, you're never gonna see that.

Yeah, it's like, okay.

Well, in the case of the Santa Claus, here's how it happened.

Here's what has to happen for you to get net points in Hollywood.

The actor, Tim Allen, was his first feature film, so they didn't overpay him.

The film did so well, they didn't promise any of the gross to anybody, so.

even with creative Hollywood accounting.

They couldn't hide the profits.

But that's what it takes.

That's so wrong.

Anyway, Bill, I

understand, felt kind of victim to that.

He did, really.

But there are other things in the works.

You might be doing Giant Spider 2.

And he's got these other great projects.

And it's an honor when he asked me to be a part of them.

Sure.

And to have a role in them.

I'm just like, Bill, I've been a fan of his.

I saw Giant Spider Invasion when I was nine years old.

10 years first came out.

Yeah, it

was at the

Rosa in Wapaka, Wisconsin.

And I went with one of my uncles.

I think he was drunk.

And he's like,

Danny, we're going to go see a giant spider for mate permission.

He

didn't know he's talking about a

movie.

No, no.

My uncle

Wayne actually, yeah, he came off the Menominee res and then took me to a film and then we went into a bar.

right afterwards, which was fun.

At 10.

Yeah, at 10.

Okay.

Would you have

an old-fashioned?

No, the Shirley Temples.

Okay.

Yeah, it was, you know, but he was at least kind of cool that way.

He wouldn't feed me drinks or anything until it was probably 12, so bless his heart.

That would be the perfect opportunity for you to slide your Shirley Temple glass back across the bar and say, don't be afraid to put a little booze

in it.

Yeah, don't be

afraid.

I can't develop an alcohol issue if I don't have any booze.

I have 10 going on, 21.

Bring it on,

no.

So, what can people expect, Dan?

Like, you're gonna host the occasion for

the

50th anniversary at the Tarleton.

If people decide to go, let's say they've never seen the film, what can they expect in terms of the movie and then what happens

afterwards?

Sure, so yeah, we'll start the evening off.

I think it's either Kregers or...

Nick or Vance is going to give me an intro.

I'll come on, do my shtick.

We'll do the Rise of Dyrmageddon, that provokat concept that we shot, which is really, it's when in film festivals and all kinds of things, it's about 15 minutes.

I'll come back on again and do a little shtick and then do a little intro to the Giant Spider invasion.

I'll intro Bill Rabain and then the film.

And then we'll have a Q&A after.

That's so great.

What's the reaction?

Like you showed this at Weigah.

Yeah.

When people see Giant Spider, I'm sure film enthusiasts love it.

Yeah.

Have you have you seen people that didn't know what to expect that went in?

What's their reaction?

So we got a standing ovation in why we got at the Gerald Opera House, which was really, really cool.

And, you know, Bill was his daughter showed up kind

of

unannounced surprise.

And there were friends he hadn't seen for years.

And it was a wonderful event.

So we're hoping the same thing.

this Friday and being part of the Green Bay Film Festival and being part of the Tarleton is always nice.

Yeah, for sure.

When you do these events.

You say proof of concept

for

people that might not understand it.

I don't fully understand it.

That's when you shoot a part of the film to show to investors.

Yeah, tell us about that

a little bit.

So we shot 15 minutes worth of a film that we're going to start hopefully shooting this summer fall.

It is a we call it the citizen cane of zombie apocalyptic zombie dear musicals

about time somebody and

it's a comedy and it's a musical and has a really good message and we shot the 15 minutes and we sent it to a bunch of film festivals it ended up winning a lot of them which surprised

us

and now we're gonna put the Prospectus and pitch packet together to raise money for it and you show them the 15 minutes to say this is what we did on a

shoestring budget imagine what we can do with you know 200,000 with your money Yeah, we're gonna take your

money and run So what okay, so you get the proof of concept.

Have you raised?

I assume you've raised money for projects because you've done a lot of independent films a lot of films What is that process like?

I'm sure people listening are like my guest by the way is Dan Davies He's a local actor and filmmaker Check him out at the Tarleton this Friday night, right this

for the

50th anniversary of a giant spider invasion Dan does great work as a host as well as

as an actor.

So I got totally sidetracked.

What's it like going and raising money?

I've done it myself.

Do I

hate it?

It's terrible.

What's

it been like for you?

It's basically, you know, you have to do the horse and pony show, but you have to have a real prospectus.

You have to show the ROI return on investment potential.

You have to go through all of that.

And you do, we could do Kickstarter, GoFundMe.

There's all different angles to go at it to raise the money.

But if you could get a few angel investors, and they literally are angels,

because

to be honest with you, it's not.

you know, it's it's any investment nowadays is risky, but film is is especially risky.

But you try to modify that by saying we've got already a distributor interested.

We got three distributors actually interested in the project before it was it's even made.

So you have to kind of say we've got a distributor.

This is who stars in it.

This is boom, boom, boom.

This is your return on investment.

And then you just try to raise from then.

So you

say that.

But I feel like

You know, at least when I would approach people, I would say, look, investing money is risky

to

begin with.

But for one guy in particular, I'm like, you can invest in another parking lot, probably have a safer investment, obviously, or...

You can invest in something really cool and have your name on it.

You bet.

And I mean, does that resonate with people?

Are they interested in being part of it that way?

When you pitch it as invest in your local economy, local filmmakers, and it's a creative endeavor.

You can be part of this creative endeavor.

Very cool.

All right, we're going to get into that.

I want to ask you about...

The Rise of Dear Mageddon, The Proof of Concept.

And you have another film, Ed Gein, The Musical.

Oh, that's a stage play.

Yeah, no, it's a stage.

All right, we'll talk about that.

It's the next Hamilton, maybe.

Right?

You never

know.

Sweetie Todd.

Sweetie Todd, there you go.

All right, Dan Davies, local actor, Northeast Wisconsin based actor.

But he acts all over the place.

He's acting up tonight in the studio.

And that's why it's great to have him here.

This is Peach Wobb and Nightlight.

We're coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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From the 814, Jameson, he's in Pennsylvania says, did you mean what's your six pack lunch?

Just kidding.

If anything, that's an iced tea, an energy bar, and then hope to get in a smoke before the break is over.

Hashtag working life.

I would imagine if James had had to give up something out of that, it would not be the smoke, just guessing.

Daniel from Anastasia says his sack lunch would be, oh no, this is not a sack lunch.

Okay, Daniel is commenting on Mickey 17.

He says, I imagine Michael Keaton's 1996 movie, Multiplicity, when I heard about Mickey 17.

You know what, Daniel?

I didn't love multiplicity.

It was a great idea, but I don't, I don't even think Mickey 17 is as good as that.

That's my personal, that's my personal, someone said a Trump sandwich, old white bread full of bologna, Russian dressing in a

small pickle.

Small pickle.

I

don't usually talk about politics.

It was tough not to read that.

I know nothing about the pickle.

Okay.

So Dan Davies is here, ladies and gentlemen.

He is a, do you live in Appleton?

I live in Appleton.

Okay.

Appleton based actor.

Are there other actors in Appleton that are as kind of busy as you?

Do you have circles that you can hang with there?

Well, you know, that Willem Dafoe is from

Appleton and, you know, Harry Houdini and Edna Ferber.

So Appleton has had a lot of celebrities.

But yeah, I love Wisconsin.

I'm a massive Packer fan.

I love living here.

And to be honest with you, I've done Nollywood films so that I've done films in Nigeria, Ghana, Serbia, Qatar, Ireland, Jamaica, Bahamas, all over the United States and Canada.

But Appleton is my home.

Yeah,

I

don't like our winners anymore, but I love living here.

I love living in Northeast Wisconsin.

The people are amazing.

It's inexpensive living and, you know, low crime and

lots of beer.

Isn't that funny?

You're saying it's inexpensive.

Even Appleton, by standards, of other places, is still very affordable.

Where I live, it's really affordable.

You want to buy a house in Marinette, Dan?

They'll send you cab fare.

You go up there and check it out.

So that's cool.

And why not?

With acting, you can live.

As long as you have connections and you have people looking for work for you.

It makes sense.

And a lot of times

I'm doing auditions.

If I'm asked to do an audition, sometimes somebody will see something on Netflix or Hulu and they'll go, oh, Dan, you're going to be good for this role.

We'll just attach you.

But if I do an audition, I have literally a studio in my house.

Oh,

nice.

I'm able to do it.

So that I literally did one and there were 3,500 other gentlemen up for the role.

on this film that was going to be shot in New York.

And it had musical elements to it.

And I didn't get it, but it was narrowed down, which is always kind of cool, but 3,500 other guys.

That's a casting director's assistant who probably hates his life hacking through all that tape.

You said, all right, let's stick with this.

You mentioned musical.

Dear Mageddon, the musical is a stage play.

Well, Dear Megan, the musical is the...

I'm sorry, Ed Geen is... Ed Geen.

You have two musicals, and that's kind of where I was going with this anyway.

What is your musical background?

So I'm from Wapaka High School.

We had

a

great choral director.

He was there for about 40 years, his name was Gerald Kniffel.

He really got me interested in acting and musicals.

And he said, Dan, you could do this for the rest of your life if you put your head to it.

And I did.

And I created and gained the musical in 2010.

And that got nationwide on PBS, as well as Retro TV Network had 500 theatrical screenings all over the US.

And then that got

resurrected, SRS Cinema bought it.

We did another 13th anniversary tour last summer.

And now it's being made into a theatrical stage play, which I'm really super excited for.

So I adapted my screenplay into a stage play and got really great actors.

We've got Ezekiel Druze, the actor from Milwaukee, stage actor and film actor, to play Ed Gein.

I'm playing the sheriff in it.

Our

director is Deborah Lee from the Oshkosh area.

We have a great casting crew.

through great people that are working their butts off for our world premiere, which is April 4th, April 4th through the 6th

in

Oshkosh at the Time Community Theater, which is really cool because it's a 501C3.

So all the rental fees, all the concessions, and a bit of the tickets go back to this 501C3, which helps this theater, cinema in the middle of downtown Oshkosh.

So