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The Dude(Big Lebowski Tribute)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Wed Mar 12, 2025
Welcome to Night Light.
Welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen to this.
Very special edition of Night Light.
Kind of like a very special after-school special.
We have an abbreviated show tonight.
It's great to have you with us, even if it's just for an hour.
I guess that's all we get of you people, but we'll take it.
Right, came in?
Yeah.
So we don't really have a... It's kind of a different show.
We don't have a question of the night because part of this is prerecorded, but...
We'll get through it anyway.
And we have a really cool topic tonight.
We decided to do something kind of cool for our special hour-long edition of Nightlight on this Wednesday night, following phenomenal coverage here throughout the day by Civic Media.
We're going to talk about the big Lebowski.
You ready for that, Conrad?
some dude duck.
It was a good day to do this because last week we celebrated the day of the dude.
And there are big Lebowski festivals everywhere.
It's beyond a cult film.
I think of a cult film like a smaller thing that has a small, loyal following.
The big Lebowski over the years has become a huge, much beyond a cult following, but very adamant supporters, I would say.
I think there's a Lebowski festival in Milwaukee every year.
I think there's one in Kentucky.
But anyway, it's one of my favorite films and one of my favorite Coen Brothers films, obviously.
And we're going to talk about that tonight.
And we have a special guest joining us.
And it's the guy who inspired my love for this movie, The Big Lebowski.
And his name is Greg Leanna.
He will be here at 635.
I should tell you, we were very close to getting Bunny Lebowski on the show, but it didn't work out.
Actress Tara Reid was going to join us because she's a friend of Greg's.
They're collaborating on something, but it was unable to happen.
Maybe we'll do that down the road.
But we have great talk about this great movie with Greg at 635.
We're going to play some Big Lebowski clips at 620, some of our favorites.
And it should be a fun show.
It's going to be a very quick hour, but I hope you're, I hope you're having a great night wherever you're joining us from in Wisconsin and you're settled in on this very special edition of Nightlight.
I feel like we need some
Sentimental, sappy music, Conrad.
Do we have anything like that in the nightlight library?
We don't do many special shows.
It feels kind of good.
It feels kind of...
It is cool.
And we have a theme.
We don't really do theme shows.
I know Dan Schaefer and I talked about doing a wire, a special wire segment, because we're both huge wire fans.
And I liked Dan even more when he told me that.
I didn't care for him before that.
But he and I have since become friends.
Conrad, you're supposed to laugh at that so he knows I'm joking.
Dan Schaffer is a hell of a guy.
You got sad music?
Let's hear it.
Well done.
That is
is my jail.
Yeah, this doubles as Sad Lobowski music or or special episode music as well as No more gelato in Green Bay next door to us music.
reopening soon.
hope I want to
Gelato
It was 70 yesterday.
They should have had a very special opening in honor of our very special episode But that is kind of cold
But anyway, we have a great show tonight, folks.
It's going to be on and off, a little Lebowski talk with Greg Liana at 6.35, some clips at 6.20, and tomorrow, big day, Conrad.
And I think you know what I'm talking about.
Say it along with me.
National
Scout Cookie Day.
Listen, Gleason never rehearsed.
I don't like to rehearse.
It seems strange to me.
So what is your favorite Girl Scout cookie?
This will be our question.
Maybe Thursday night, we can put this out to people.
We can actually field answers.
But what is your favorite Girl Scout cookie?
It's not a cop out.
I mean, they're popular for a reason.
People love thin mints because they're great.
I like the peanut butter ones, too.
I think those are the best peanut butter cookies I've ever had.
called.
now, aren't you?
I am, because I
Aaron Zomers is a big fan of the Samoas, too.
But Samoas have what else?
They have chocolate, like kind of a toasted coconut, right?
Yeah.
See, toasted coconut.
Real coconut should not even have a seat at the table if toasted coconut is there Toasted coconut is the greatest like whether it's an ice cream bar or a cookie or whatever.
It's phenomenal stuff I would go thin mint then I would go peanut butter then Samoa.
right?
And what's the trefoil or something like that?
Is it tree foil trefoil?
That's just the shortbread Oh
That's like a cookie you have tea with, right?
OK, caramel and sea salt is like the ranch dressing of the last two years.
Everything has caramel and sea salt on it.
Try this turkey.
Fred put caramel and sea salt on it to try something different It's just all over the place people are losing their minds over that stuff, but it is good So those are good.
We'll do that.
I think Thursday night when we're back live.
We'll do a favorite Girl Scout because as you know people have been really digging the food questions.
I feel like we should be a Do more food segments.
I don't know but it's a special show we talk about whatever we want and
We've got Matthew McConaughey has a new movie coming out.
He has been retired or on sabbatical or hiatus or in a drunken stupor.
I don't know.
For six years, other than doing voice for some kids movies, and he's in this new film called the, what is it?
The Rivals of Amzia, I
Amzia, yeah.
And it's getting, there's some buzz.
I don't know if it's good or not, but I really, people make fun of him for his, all right, all right, all right.
He was caught naked once in his house, playing the bongos.
You can't really be caught naked in your own house.
That's sort of like trespassing.
The guy can do whatever he wants.
He might have been on the front porch though.
That's where he might have crossed the line, playing the bongos.
But he's a good actor.
Like sometimes he's kind of like, you almost want to laugh at him.
Like those mercury commercials, those just got kind of silly.
remember
Oh, come on.
Really?
He's driving.
He's got like, he's, he looks really slick.
He's got a suit on and he's driving around and he's talking to himself.
It just seems a little insane.
But you know what?
I think Mercury saw a pretty, pretty good bump in their sales.
So I do like the guy.
Loved him in days and confused.
Dallas Buyers Club, true detective.
The season he did with Woody Harreld, Woody Harrelson, Woody Harreld, Woody Harrelson, phenomenal.
And there is a buzz around the rivals of Amzia King.
So we'll check that out.
That's another one.
Robert Redford is coming out of retirement.
And his was an actual retirement because he's 88.
He executive produces a show called Dark Winds with George R.R.
Martin, who I believe created Game of Thrones.
And Redford is going to do a cameo in the first episode of season three.
And he hasn't acted in six years.
There will be a close set.
Because I understand he likes to work naked.
People have to sign a non-disclosure.
But that should be interesting.
You wondered like, like Gene Hackman, God rest his soul, had not acted in ages.
But that was by choice.
Like he kind of retired in 2005 or so.
Like, Redford was acting well into his 80s.
So it should be interesting to see what he does or what kind of role it is too.
I did watch that show.
I watched the pilot and I did like it.
I don't know why I didn't go back to it though.
It's kind of a reservation, cop show set in the 70s, if I remember correctly, good stuff.
Have you been following The Bachelor?
You say that like you're kind of looking down your nose at other people.
watched Milk Manor.
Yes, you have.
So you can't look down on anybody.
Here's another thing I thought was cool.
This will drive people crazy.
I think Vanna White, beautiful Vanna White.
I had such a crush on her when I was younger.
When I say younger, I mean 48.
And she, it was just disclosed.
She's been doing Wheel of Fortune for 42 years.
42 years.
You know how she's been able to do it Conrad and stick with it for so long?
I Wouldn't rule that out maybe I'll tell you how she turns letters That's not that taxing.
Oh To make to make matters to make the gig even more cushy.
She works 34 days a year I Know and she only gets paid like three million bucks a year.
I Would do it for half that and I would wear the outfits.
Hey, I gotta pay the bills buddy.
I'm not I don't care.
I'm at the point where I don't care what people think of me So anyway, love Vanna White though.
It's it's great.
What a what a fun and she she talks at the end of the show.
She's so likeable You know and I'm not and she's next to Ryan Seacrest What do you figure what do you think of Seacrest you got an opinion on Seacrest?
I Can't figure out if I like the guy or not
And it doesn't matter.
He doesn't care.
But he's just he's kind of likable.
But like when I worked on that show, Sports Soup, I wrote sports sketches all day with four other sports fans.
It was one of the funnest jobs I've ever had.
We would walk across the street.
We'd cross Wilshire to record everything.
And there's Seacrest in his corner window studio recording gobs of stuff that he gets paid millions of dollars for.
And he would give us a wave like he was that nice of a guy.
But there's something disingenuous about it.
I can't figure it out.
I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
All right, we got a fun show.
Greg Gleana is, Greg Gleana is here.
It's tough to say.
He is the creator of the Meet the Parents franchise.
He's been on the show before, but I thought I would have him on today.
Actually, I thought he was bringing terror read.
If I had known he wasn't, forget it.
Greg is here at 635.
He is the biggest Lebowski fan.
Turn me on to the movie, Gangbusters.
Very excited to talk to him.
About the big Lebowski in honor of the day of the dude, which just passed that's coming up after some big Lebowski clips which are coming up next This is Pete Schwabba and nightlight a very special nightlight on the civic media radio network
When we do stuff like this, this is a very special edition of Night Light Tonight, kind of a shortened version.
We kind of piecemealed it together.
We've got some interviews, a couple pre-recorded things, but it's weird.
The first thing I want to do coming out of a break is read a text.
When the listeners are not with us Conrad, the show does not seem real.
me.
You could have.
Would have killed you to do that.
save that for Thursday, buddy.
That thing is gonna blow up.
The Civic Media text line is gonna explode.
It might be exaggerating.
Yeah, we have a, this is a special edition of Nightlight, so it's great to have you with us.
We're only doing an hour and we are celebrating the day of the dude, which happened last week, but we haven't had a proper mention of it, should I say.
been able to properly celebrate the day of the dude.
So we thought this is a short show, so we'll do it tonight.
And Greg Liana will be here in just a few minutes to talk about... He'll come on and he'll say, you know, I'm not the guy that knows the most about the Big Lebowski, but he is.
And he turned me on to it.
I had seen it, but he's like, give it another chance.
It's great.
And I did.
And now it's one of my favorite movies.
So that's kind of what we're talking about here tonight on this very special edition of Nightlight.
We have some clips here we'd like to share with you.
Some will take you down memory lane if you've seen the film, and if you haven't seen the film, well, maybe they'll make you want to.
So Jeffrey Lebowski, a former roadie who loves to bowl and drink white Russians and lives most of his life in a bathrobe in an extremely modest, to say the least, apartment in Los Angeles, is visited by some thugs.
And this is how the story gets set into motion.
They steal the dude's rug.
Where's the money, Lebowski?
We want that money, Lebowski.
Bunny says you're good for it.
Where's the money, Lebowski?
Where's the money, Lebowski?
Where's the f**king money,
sh**head?
It's down there somewhere.
Let me take another lock.
Don't f**k with us.
Your wife owes money to Jackie Tree Horn.
That means you owe money to Jackie Tree Horn.
Ever dusted dead beats, Lebowski?
No, no, don't do this.
Not on the rug, man.
See?
See what happens, Lebowski?
You see what happens?
Nobody calls me Lebowski.
You got the wrong guy.
I'm the dude, man.
Your name's Lebowski, Lebowski.
Your wife is Bunny.
M-my wha-
My wife, Bunny, do you see a wedding ring on my finger?
Does this place look like I'm f***ing married?
The toilet seats up, man.
Okay, so I stand corrected.
They don't steal his rug.
They pee on his rug, basically ruining it, or as the actual Big Lebowski says, every time a rug is miterated upon in this fair city, I'm responsible?
So that kind of sets the story in motion.
The dude wants to be reimbursed for his rug that is ruined and it becomes this big caper.
Where should we go next?
What's a Jesus?
All right, this is the Lebowski with John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, his bowling compadres and their arch rival played by John Trichiro, who goes by the name of Jesus.
I see you roll your way to the semis.
Dios mio.
Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man.
Let me tell you something, Pandeyo.
You pulling your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes and take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger till it goes.
Click.
Jesus you said it man nobody with the Jesus
So the thing with I love that they don't even call him Jesus.
He goes by Jesus, which is pretty gutsy.
Yeah, I Wouldn't even do that and my name's Pete But he's such great character because he's like this pedophile
and they just harass him the whole movie, but he's a great bowler.
It's just so Cohen brothers, like the character's so layered, and John Chichiro plays him so well.
Do we have time for our last clip?
Yeah.
All right, cool.
This is, okay, this is Lopovsky.
He thinks he's out of the woods.
A couple of thugs grab him, and he's got a white Russian in his hand that's his drink of choice, and he's whisked into a limo, trying not to spill his white Russian.
Hey, careful, man.
There's a beverage here, huh?
Start talking and talk fast, you lousy bum.
We've been frantically trying to reach you, dude.
Where is my damn money, you bum?
Well, we... I don't... They did not receive the money, you nitwit!
They did not receive the money!
Her life was in your hands!
This is our concern, dude.
No, man, nothing is f***ed here.
Nothing is f***ed?
No, man.
The damn plane has crashed into the mountain!
No, man, come on.
Who are you gonna believe those guys are...
We dropped off the damn money.
We?
Why?
The royal we.
You know, the editorial, I dropped off the money exactly as per... Look, man, I've got certain information.
All right?
Certain things have come to light and, you know, has it ever occurred to you that instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new s***,
You know, this could be a lot more complex.
I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple, you know?
What in God's holy name are you blathering about?
Philip Seymour Hoffman, what a loss he was.
You know, it's funny, I'm watching the show Zero Day with Robert De Niro.
Joan Allen and Jesse Plemons, an actor I really like, is in it too.
He's married to Kirsten Dunst.
And Jesse Plemons is great in everything I see him in.
And I feel like, not just physically, they kind of physically resemble each other, but he kind of reminds me of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
And he's capable of doing the same type of roles, but Philip Seymour Hoffman's great.
He was in Mission Impossible, played a real badass.
Then he plays this kind of wimpy assistant in Big Lebowski.
Such a great actor, but the whole film has just a great cast.
And we will discuss that and do more of a deep dive into the Big Lebowski in honor of the day of the dude.
And Greg is going to take my Big Lebowski quiz.
That's coming up next after the news on this very special edition of Nightlight with Pete Schwab.
Great to have you with me on the Civic Media Radio Network.
lighting it up for Madison tonight on this gorgeous Wednesday evening here in Madison, Wisconsin.
So in celebration of the day of the dude, which was last week, I thought it would be fun to have someone who sort of, I always liked the movie.
I saw it the first time the Big Lebowski came out.
But I didn't love it.
And at the time, I was doing a lot of writing with my writing partner, Greg Leanna.
We had all these great talks about movies.
And he loved the Big Lebowski and he kept encouraging me to go back to it.
He said, I'm telling you, give it another chance.
You're going to love it.
And boy, did I. It's like one of my all time favorite films.
And, you know, in the movie over the last 20 years has become an absolute cult classic.
I would say it's beyond cult, but definitely the.
people who are fans of the film are truly fans.
They have Lebowski fests all over the place and a national day of the dude like we had last week.
So I thought we would celebrate that a little bit tonight on this shortened show with the man responsible in part for warming me up to the big Lebowski.
He joins us now on the phone.
He is the creator of Meet the Parents and a prolific movie writer and former stand-up comedian Greg Galliana.
Greg, hey.
Hey, thanks for having me.
I'm glad I played a small part in getting you tuned to the big, big Lebowski.
It's one of the great copies of all time, I think.
I agree.
And, you know, when I saw this and when I realized I wanted to do this, I was like, well, who better than because I remember you would come over and we would write.
And it was like, you kept quoting the movie.
And I'm like, yeah, it was funny.
And you could tell I was lukewarm.
And you just kept after me.
And I'm so glad it was like, it's just like one of my all time favorite movies now.
So it's
You know, I had a similar, I saw it, I liked it when it came out.
But I think it wasn't so repeated viewing that really appreciated it's genius, you know.
Right.
And that's kind of like, I guess the Coen brothers get that privilege of people going back to watch it like, you know, with our backgrounds with independent film, you don't get a second chance.
But since they're the Coen brothers, people keep they stay with it.
And I think a lot of people did.
Yeah.
So all right, let me ask you this, Greg.
Uh, where do you rank it in terms of Cohen brother films?
Uh, I would say it's my favorite and I love the Cohen brothers.
Same,
but I think I definitely watched it more than any other.
I mean, I love, uh, Miller's crossing.
Yeah.
And I think that I think I, I mean, I know I've watched the big old else be more than any of those films.
I never get tired of it.
And if I'm.
If it happens to be on somewhere and I have to watch it, you know.
Right.
Yeah, one of those films you can't turn off.
You know what?
You know what I love about it?
You know that I'm a big Laurel and Hardy fan.
Yeah.
I think it's very Laurel and Hardy influenced.
I had this theory because it's a humor of suffering.
You know, this horrible stuff keeps happening to the dude like Oliver Hardy.
A couple years later, a book came out about the Korn brothers and their giant Laurel and Hardy fans.
No kidding.
Yeah.
And I was like, you know, the moment when he throws the ashes and they blown his face there with a straight face, that's Oliver Hardy.
You could have put Laurel and Hardy into that.
There's so many visual, the funniest stuff about the movie to me is as many great quotes as there are.
It's so visually funny.
We crashes into the.
dumpster.
Oh, it's great.
When the sheriff throws the cup at his head or the ass, you know, it visually is very funny.
That's a great point.
I love I think you're right like Creighton's Clearwater is playing.
He's looking at the paper He avoids something because he's got a joint in his lap and when his car hits that dumpster and goes up in the air
And
the coffee cup do the sheriff is so great like everybody Jackie tree horn.
It's just the whole cast is fantastic
Yeah, it's really it's brilliant writing.
I mean in great actors, too, of course
And based on, I'm sure you know this, the big sleep, I think they took Philip Marlowe and they just put the dude in his place and made it a rug.
And it's just such,
it's brilliant.
I read that they said Fargo was based on a true story.
And the Big Lebowski was not advertised that way, but there's way more truth in the Big Lebowski than in Fargo.
There's more that actually
happened.
Oh, very cool.
Have you ever been to any of the, like, Lebowski Fests or anything like that to take place?
Oh, no, I haven't.
I would love to, but I've not yet.
I can't see myself, like, traveling hundreds of miles to do it, but, like, if it was in the
same city, it'd
certainly wander over.
Yeah.
Exactly.
That's funny.
So who is your favorite character, aside from the dude, I assume, in the cast?
Who is your favorite?
Well, Walter, then, if not the dude, Walter is just a hysterical character, you know, the guy that everything is Vietnam and just his anger temper tantrums and where he treats Donnie.
I mean, I think the dude is, I mean, Walter is my favorite character.
Here's the issue I had.
I think some of the times when you first watch The Big Lebowski, you kind of miss some stuff.
Like when they're in the car.
And he's like, I roll out of here with the Uzi.
You didn't think I was rolling out of here naked.
Did you take the hill?
And he's saying all this stuff.
And I'm like, it's so fast.
I didn't even catch what he was saying to like the second or third viewing.
And I think that's the issue with, for me anyway, with the Big Lebowski was like, what the hell's going on here?
You know?
Yeah, you gotta pay attention.
For
sure.
I love that.
I love that.
But they said it was based on an uncle of theirs or something like that.
Something that was always, everything was Vietnam.
They took that from life.
All right.
So Greg, I came up with this funny, I think it should be fun, a Big Lebowski quiz.
And I can't think of anyone I'd rather give this to.
Well, I mean, there are those who know more than I about the movie, but I'll do my best.
Well, this isn't anything you needed to research.
You're not, I know you're not.
You know whatever an authority, but I think you should be okay with this quiz I didn't do anything.
I'm not trying to to stump you or anything But I think you'll probably know these maybe one or two tough ones, but let's try it Conrad you ready you got the bell ready.
Oh Perfect beautiful.
Where's my bell?
I would love to do stereo somebody took my bell And I know in the mayor,
okay, all right
All right, Greg Liana is here, folks.
He is the creator of the Meet the Parents franchise.
He's got several other things in production and a very funny, formerly very funny stand-up comedian.
He's been on this show several times and we are celebrating the day of the dude.
Greg Liana, writer-director, is going to take the dude quiz or the Big Lebowski quiz.
All right, you ready, Greg?
I'm ready.
Here we go.
We'll start off easy.
What is the dude's favorite
drink?
White Russian.
Well done.
You ever had a white Russian?
I have not.
Really?
I've also never had open carton of milk in the supermarket before.
I know you're not a big drinker, but white Russian is one of those things like I think you have to experience, especially if you like the movie, but you know, that's just me.
Right.
All right.
So here we go.
Number two, who is behind the theft of the dude's rug?
who's behind it.
Yeah.
Who
orchestrated
it?
Well, the second time is Maude Lebowski, but it's Jackie Tree.
They peed on his rug.
Is that what the question was?
Those are the
guys
that
showed up to take the rug, the rug peers, but who sent them?
I guess is the question.
Well, they didn't come to take the rug.
They just came to get the money back that the money was spent, but they didn't take the rug.
Oh, well
said.
You're right.
Okay.
All
right, we're gonna accept that because that's true.
That's not what I was going for but you're absolutely right And that's why Greg is on the show.
He knows more about the Big Lebowski Barely than me All right, why does the dude why is the dude so desperate to get his rug back Greg?
Yeah,
let's go three for three.
All right, what is Walters?
Last name.
Soap check.
Beautiful.
Don't you love that scene where he picks him up outside where it says soap check security?
It's just so great.
Everything about Walter is awesome.
Who is who is that?
Greg is four for four, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
Who is the dude's favorite rock band?
He doesn't like the Eagles.
Clarence.
Say again.
Clarence.
But he does not like the Eagles.
Is that what you're... That's
correct, but that's not the question.
Who is the dude's favorite rock band?
I know rock isn't your first love, Greg, so this might be a little bit of a tough one for you.
Not credence.
Oh, he got it.
And my next question was going to be, who is his least favorite?
Rock band, so you can
go
with it.
What does the dude... Oh, never mind.
Sorry.
There he is.
Okay.
What is the name of the man they mistake the dude for?
Could be kind of... There you go.
Boom.
Let's go.
Greg is one, two, three, four, five for five, crushing it.
All right.
What do the nihilists put in the bathtub while the dude is having a soak?
Marmot.
Oh, yeah.
Are they the same thing?
I think so.
That's another one of my favorite lines when they're sitting at the bowling alley at the bar.
He goes, what are you, a park ranger now?
All right, who plays the Big Lebowski's daughter, Maude?
Julie.
What's Juliet more what they're
close enough
Julian
all right
wait
Julian more Julian okay six seven Greg is seven for seven All right, well that last one was a little shaky.
I gotta make up for that
I got a couple here.
You might because I thought if you crushed it I gotta have a couple you least have to think about but Who all right here this one might be a stretch for you who is model
boss
keys friend the video artist
Who is there when miles?
Miles begins with an H.
You're
right about the H. What's that?
You're right about the H.
Yeah, it's this is
a. My old harrigan or something.
I can't give him.
Give him a light tap.
It's Knox Harrington.
Knox Harrington.
What is in my.
Nox Harrington,
the video
artist.
Yeah.
So what'd you do, Lebowski?
So great.
I love that scene.
I'm a friend of Maltese.
All right, so Greg is, well, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
I would say 7.5 out of eight.
Very respectable
score.
I haven't watched it recently.
I should have watched it before.
No,
that would have taken the fun out of it.
All right, Greg is doing very well here.
What adult film name do the co- I'm sorry, I can't read my own writing.
What adult film name does one of the nihilists, actor Peter Stormer, go by?
Does
that make sense?
The name of the porno that he started?
His porno name.
Oh, oh, oh.
That's
the movie is logjam and
I can't I can't think of it something it's some sexual in in your window but
Carl hungus All right, Greg is seven point seven point five out of nine
Still doing really well.
That was kind of a tough one, especially if you haven't watched it in a while.
What character, another kind of tough one, Greg.
What character in The Big Lebowski wrote over 150 episodes of the show called Branded?
Oh, what is his name?
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
He's had health problems.
I hear a little show called Brandon
Arthur.
Oh
nice be shallower.
Yes
Wow nice pull that was a tough one He's like
it
another
user
All right, just as an aside, what was his son's name you remember?
Little Larry
yes
Very well done.
All right.
Greg is crushing the Big Lebowski quiz.
We got a few more questions.
We're going to do a very short break.
And we will come back with Greg Liana, who is here to help us celebrate the day of the dude, which was actually a few days ago.
But you can never not celebrate the Big Lebowski.
And we're doing that on this shortened episode of Night Light.
Hope you're having a great night.
Glad you're with us.
We're coming right back.
And Greg will finish the quiz.
And I'm sure he will continue to nail it.
It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hey, this is John Legend and you're listening to Night Light with Pete Schwabba.
Welcome
back to this shortened version of Night Light, but no less fun.
We are celebrating the day of the dude.
has its own national day, very deservedly so, and helping us celebrate the day of the dude is a big dude fan and Big Lebowski fan and the man who made me more of a Big Lebowski fan.
Meet the parents, writer, creator, Greg Glana.
Greg, you're doing so great on the quiz.
When is?
I'm sure there are listeners who can do way better than me, but I'll
do my
best.
You know what?
You don't need to listen.
Don't be intimidated by someone in their parents' basement who knows everything about the Lebowski.
Is Meet the Parents 4 coming out anytime soon or five?
What are they on now?
You
know, all I know is they're in talks.
OK.
That's all I know.
They should consult you.
That's what I say.
All right, let's see.
We got a few more minutes here with Greg.
Let's see if we can finish this big Lebowski quiz.
He's doing very well.
I think he's got 7.5.
8.5 out of 10, I believe.
Is that correct, Conrad?
It's eight and a half out of... Eight and a half out of 10.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
All right, here we go.
Greg is gonna, we have a, let's see, we got five more questions.
Let's see how Greg does here.
All right.
Greg, who is the narrator of the Big Lebowski?
The actor.
The actor, correct.
Sam Elliott.
Very nicely done.
9.5.
Out of 11.
We have a half a point.
I think that's funny.
We don't put the pressure on him again.
What character, here's an easy one for you.
What character dies of a heart attack during the altercation in the parking lot with the nihilists?
Donnie who loved bowling.
Is
that his last
name?
Yeah, that's correct.
No, that's done.
But I was not what Walter says when he's doing his eulogy.
What does he say?
Donnie who loved bowling.
Donnie was a good bowler
Yeah, all
right, I don't know
if we ever got Donnie's last name.
I don't think we did either I never even it took me like till the sixth viewing I think until I understood sob check was Walter's last name All right three more questions for Greg Leanna Kind enough to join us here and share in the day of the dude celebration here at nightlight which Lebowski
Bowling adversary's toe slips over the line during league play.
Oh, he's got these.
He's a pacifist.
Yes.
Think of.
For
the line.
Yeah.
What's your name?
What's your name?
I'm sorry, blank.
You're over the line.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you like cigarettes, Greg?
You're
still doing great.
11.5 out of 13.
Here's the thing.
I think you would have eventually gotten there.
So we do have commercial breaks and all that kind of stuff.
So I'm just pushing things along a little bit.
All right.
Two more.
What president is photographed bowling over the Big Lebowski's
phone?
Very well very well done How annoying is that bell sound getting Greg that's a serious question All right Greg is 12.5 out of 14 Crush in this thing last question on the quiz.
How we do it on time Conrad?
We still got
a couple
minutes
two minutes left perfect more more three.
Oh good So I have time to sing perfect if you want to all right.
It's only a matter of time What you ready for the last question Greg?
Yes, I am.
This is a really tough one.
What kind of car does the big Lebowski drive?
It's the same car Starsky drove on Starsky and Hutch in the 70s.
I didn't help Clint Eastwood made a film with this title.
Oh, Grand Torino.
Yeah.
You gave it to me.
I can't take a point for that.
I'll give you half a point with that one, so you finished 13 out of 15.
That's not too bad.
That's fantastic.
Is it okay now to say that you were trying to get Bunny Lobowski here on the show as well, but a previous commitment came out?
Yeah, she has the info, but... Terror read.
That's okay.
I said if you can make it call, if you can, I will.
That's why I like having friends in high places.
Thanks for trying.
We're trying to fund a horror movie that she's going to start.
Yeah,
that's what you were.
That's so cool.
And I assume she's the lead and she has a good scream.
Yep.
And we have Bonnie Aaron's who plays the nun.
We have her attached as well.
So
wait, who?
Bonnie Aaron's who plays the nun.
The movie, the nun, the horror movie.
Dude,
you see, I love how.
Like Greg writes all these great comedies, but you like writing horror every once in a while too.
I think it's similar to comedy in a way.
It's like,
yeah.
Bad stuff happening, but it's just not funny.
It's scary.
It's tragedy without a
laugh.
Can I plug Road Dog?
Yeah,
absolutely.
Go for
it.
My film, The Road Dog, which stars Doug Stanton-Hope and Pete Schwabba, is available on 2B for free.
So check it out.
It's my best work.
I expect to get a call for this horror film, too, by the way, buddy.
Absolutely.
All right, Greg, thanks so much for the help.
Happy day of the dude.
You're a trooper, man.
Thanks for it.
I'll see you April 5th.
What's April 5th?
Meet the parents at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Oh, I'm an idiot.
Of course, I'm hosting the Q&A.
I thought you were doing a park rich thing or something.
I cannot wait for that, buddy.
It's going to be a blast.
And I will plug the heck out of it on this show.
and on Directors Cut.
We'll do all of that.
It's going to be fun.
All right, great.
All
right.
Thanks so much, Greg.
Have a great night, buddy.
You too.
All right.
That's Greg Leanna, our big Lebowski quiz.
Mary Mack on the show tomorrow night and comedian, Appleton-based comedian Rob Brackenridge.
Tomorrow's a great show.
I'll be back in Green Bay.
Join the fun, folks.
Been great having you.
Thanks to Greg Leanna.
And on behalf of the lovable producer, Conrad.
Good night, Wisconsin.
I'll see you to your best friend's house, mama labor.