Political Characters and Packer Fans(Hour 2)

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right at 8 p.m.

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Our question of the night given that it's election day and Luke Mathers is coming by to take our fictional political character quiz Luke does very well on the nightlight quizzes and he will be here to show off in a little bit But our question is who is your favorite fictitious political character?

We've we're a little behind on text, but we'll get to those in just a few minutes But please let us know who your favorite fictitious political characters Craig.

Do you have a favorite character?

Well, I saw your tweet earlier that that was going to be a question, so I actually made a list, but I could give you one.

I could give you my top favorite.

Sure.

Probably.

It's probably Bobby Newport from Parks and Recreation.

He's Paul Rudd's character.

I'm Parks and Recreation.

Right.

I

saw Leslie Knope.

Is that her character on that

show?

Leslie Knope.

Leslie

Knope.

OK.

I didn't watch the show, but I saw it was Amy Poehler.

That's

great.

She's on my list as well.

I mean, she's great, but Bobby Newport is ridiculous.

That's great.

Yeah.

She runs against him.

She runs against him.

Oh, okay.

He's just not all there.

He's just... He's like

a politician.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Perfect.

Craig, there's one texture.

Contacting us says this is from AJ from the 608 says I'm so excited to see no packers.

No life the movie I think we all need something uplifting.

Thank you so much Craig.

There you go.

Oh Well, you're welcome.

I mean that while I was making it I was like this is I think I'm making something you don't see very often which is just a Fun documentary.

It's just not there's no Conflict really.

It's just just watching people have a good time.

Well everything you do though

is fun, Craig.

And even when I talk to you, if you wanna see more of Craig folks, go to pbswisconsin.org and click on the Directors Cut episode.

I host the show, Craig is one of the guests.

And he was delightful on Directors Cut as well.

And you get a little more insight.

And we even show a clip of the movie, AJ.

So you can see a clip there if you go to pbswisconsin.org.

But everything on all of your content, Craig, is just kind of irreverent fun.

And yet it's informative.

Tell us.

Yeah, you're very welcome.

Tell us about the the sugar challenge.

What was that like?

Well, first of all, I'll say that early videos really there was no point or or you didn't gain any insight into them.

But lately I try to do that a little more.

OK.

The the sugar video.

I mean, I think it was a big change in my channel.

I was doing I was doing like shorter kind of sillier stuff and I decided I'm going to

I'm gonna step, I was trying to do a lot of videos.

I was doing them sometimes every weekday, sometimes three times a week.

And I decided to step back.

I took like a month or two off and we just, I wanted to do something that was a bigger, like a mini documentary, like a long experience.

And the video I think ended up being like 10 to 12 minutes long.

It was the longest video I'd ever made at the time, which is now completely normal on YouTube.

I uh and my wife and I just uh we quit added sugar and I made a video kind of explaining what added sugar was and showing our experience throughout the month and I mean at the time I was probably eating a lot more sugar I mean ever since then I've been eating less sugar because of that experience I think right um so what when you're going from eating a lot of sugar and then no added sugar uh

We both found that around day four we were like we were completely drained We hadn't we had no energy it took it took some time for our bodies to get used to it How long did

it take before you didn't have that craving?

I don't don't remember but it was probably like ten days like seven days and then going back to it or Well, because we could still eat fruit because it's technically not added sugar, right?

so

Things got sweeter, carrots got really sweet, apples got really sweet.

And then I remember we had a celebration at the end of the month and I wanted ice cream.

And I had like a few bites of ice cream and I felt sick.

It was too much.

I'm back to ice cream now for sure.

But I don't, but ever since then, I don't have as much, nearly as much sugar as I, or, and I'm well, I'm much more aware of how much sugar is in everything.

Where can people, do you have keywords handy with you if they wanted to check out that particular episode of Weezy

Waiter?

It's called, we quit, I think it's called, we quit sugar for a month.

Here's what happened.

That's what it's called.

Okay.

So you just search that, or if you just probably search quit sugar on YouTube, you'd probably find it.

That's so cool.

My guest is Craig Benzine.

He's the filmmaker behind No Packers, No Life, which you can see this weekend at the Wisconsin Film Festival at the Barrymore Theater.

There are still tickets available, as I understand it.

So Craig is joining us on the stream.

Craig, we got some more.

Tony Zimmerman from Civic Media here says Bobby Newport is awesome.

Tony also says Josh Lyman from the West Wing.

Did you watch the West Wing?

I haven't

seen it.

I've seen like the first couple episodes.

I never really watched

it.

I know I

gotta get on

that.

And then Cheezoo says, I think the anime Craig's talking about is I Shield 21.

It is.

It's mentioned in the documentary.

Okay.

Wow, thank you, Cheezoo.

One of the people I interviewed brings it up.

All right, so a million subscribers.

I know I mentioned this earlier.

Truly blows my mind.

You're doing this all from well, you started in Chicago.

Now you're in Madison Where where do you get these people?

How do you?

Does your stuff go viral and they're from all over the world?

Are they primarily in the Midwest?

How does that work?

How does I mean, I'm sorry.

Could you ask you just that again?

I'm just kind of amazed that you have a million people.

Yeah, well, I guess I I just

It's just a slow build.

It was just like a slow sort of I started early on the first like three years of making videos.

I had nobody.

It was like I had like 32 subscribers on my hundredth video and I eventually There was there was a blog way back when that someone made that they were reviewing YouTube videos

And I managed to get their attention, and they wrote a video.

They loved my videos, and they wrote an article about me.

Oh, nice.

And that's when the YouTube community kind of found me.

But it was very slow.

It was just a very slow sort of growth of subscribers.

Probably after they found me, it took another year before I got to maybe like, I don't know, 5,000 subscribers.

And then just working other youtubers at the time found me and just sort of collaborating with them and Then they their audience sees me and I know it's just a slow build and it's for its people all over the world.

It's a Yeah

All right, so you've got you've got this great YouTube channel you've got acting credits and now you made a film.

What's next for you?

Well, I'm going to keep making YouTube videos, but I am writing a screenplay.

I want to make a fictional feature film.

And that's something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

I've just never found the time.

And I guess maybe I'm a perfectionist and I've avoided it.

I don't know.

But that is something I'm earnestly working on now as a screenplay.

And I want to make a film.

So hopefully within the next year.

That's so great.

Walt, listen, buddy, thank you for your time tonight.

I wish you luck at the screening in Madison to the Barrymore.

I'm sure it'll be a big hit.

I remember seeing the clip on Director's Cut, and it was just a really fun film.

And for your first feature film documentary, whatever you want to call it, I think hopefully you have a winner there.

Looks great.

Well, thank you.

You're welcome.

And thanks for having me on.

Oh, my pleasure.

Have a great night, Craig, and break a leg this weekend.

All right.

Thank you.

That's Craig Benzine.

Check out his film.

Check out his YouTube channel, Weezy Waiter.

Have you been there, Conrad?

I was just checking it out before.

Yeah, it looks like I have some videos to watch.

A million people, Conrad.

A million people.

I'll add one more to that million.

That's the size of the Quad Cities plus Northeast Wisconsin.

Yeah.

You know how many?

I have eight followers.

I have eight followers, and I have $24 in an offshore account.

I don't see how I can parlay either one of those into a million followers.

And I'm in my early 90s.

So I'm running out of time,

folks.

Early 90s.

Help me

out.

Don't I look great?

Keep those texts coming, folks.

Who's your favorite fictitious political character?

That is our question tonight, 855-752-4842-8557-5CIVIC.

Where do we leave off here?

I'm kind of behind on text.

We did Mr. Smith.

We did Robert Redford, American president.

I am not good at keeping up with these texts.

Okay, Steve from Florida says, great political comedy movie, Robin Williams in Man of the Year.

I did not see that.

I know nothing about Man of the Year.

Conrad, rotten tomato, rotten tomato at Forrest, if you would.

My good man.

Jim from Appleton says,

Here we go again with Macho Camacho.

I have to see Idiocracy.

I have no more excuses.

I've been hearing about this movie for years.

I don't know why I haven't seen it yet.

But Jim from Appleton says, I believe that Macho Camacho is from Idiocracy.

It is, Jim.

Thank you.

My favorite is Elizabeth McCord from Madam Secretary.

I love Talioni and feel that she is underrated as an actor.

I agree with you, Jim.

She was great in The Family Man.

That's a movie I recommend with Nicholas Cage.

I'm a Teleoni fan, too.

Brian from Milwaukee.

Thank you, Pete and the gang for a great, fun, filled, entertaining show.

It's a nice break in the evening from Politics.

Thank you for all you and everyone at Civic Media.

Well, thank you, Brian.

This is about as political as we get, I would say.

Just mentioning that

there's election

coverage after the show and encouraging people to vote.

That's about all we're gonna do there, but I do appreciate the kind words, Brian.

Thank you.

All right, we're gonna come back, we're gonna read more of your texts, and we might do, if we have time, attribute to Carla from Cheers, maybe?

Yeah.

Let's just see what happens.

And Luke Mathers is right around the corner, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's give him a big hand when he's here.

Let's make him feel special.

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

It breaks my heart, when it hit or fall

sticking by his film, Man of the Year, even though it did not get great reviews.

But still appreciate it, Steve.

And I'm a Robin Williams fan as well.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab.

Great to have you with me.

We are barreling through a show tonight.

Luke Mathers is here at 735, Civic Media's own Luke Mathers.

He's gonna take our fictitious political character quiz.

You won't wanna miss that.

Luke is lots of fun when we do these quizzes.

Tom from New Brilins says, Pete, missing your show watching Corey Booker still being impressive on the floor.

He's been talking for over 20 hours now, is that right?

Sounds like an Adrian Brody speech.

And that's not quite as long as Adrian Brody.

Adrian Brody could still be talking for all we know.

I wish I had a

song

like that.

Corey Booker is trying to get the title.

Good luck.

Al from Jackson says, have to stop listening and have dinner.

But full name is, yes, Dwayne Elizondo, Mountain Dew, Herbert Camacho, the five time ultimate Smackdown champion and president of the United States in the movie Idiocracy.

You know what's funny is my son reminded me, I have that DVD in my house.

I

don't know where it came from, but I've never seen the movie.

I still have not seen the movie.

And the character Al says is played by Terry Cruz.

That's hilarious.

I gotta check that out.

Mike from Cottage Grove says, highly recommend West Wing.

It's probably my all-time favorite.

You're not alone, Mike.

I know I'm in the minority there.

And then Barb from Walk-A-Shot says, someone has a case of follower envy.

I'm more, probably Barb, but I'm more flabbergasted by that.

That's so many people.

to follow a guy.

That's amazing what Craig has built there.

And I know there are people with even more followers.

I'm in awe of all of them.

My path in life was not the social media course.

I went for the old time thing where you don't need a lot of social media followers, but now you do.

There are people that go into audition now, and people say, how many followers do you have?

Because they want you to bring an audience.

If you get a part on a show, if you direct a film, if you have a following, that helps your case.

whether you're talented or not.

I mean, ultimately, you have to have the talent, but I think that could put you over the top if you do have a good social media following.

That said, Barb, yes, I am.

If I could kneecap Craig Benzine for his followers, I would make no bones about it.

Mike from Cottage Grove says, oh, and my favorite character is Josiah Jed Bartlett, played by Martin Sheen.

We've had about three now for Martin Sheen as their favorite political character and all the more reason to watch West Wing.

We have

Luke Mathers is coming up.

Stay tuned, folks.

After the show, Dan Schaefer and Todd Alba will be live from Civic Media headquarters in Madison and fill you in on election results as they come in and give their analysis like they are so good at doing.

So what should we do?

We've got a few minutes before Luke gets here.

Do we do Carla?

We could do that.

We could do Christopher Walken.

I could explain the scene that you want to know so bad about.

White Lotus?

What would the people enjoy more what would the listener let's celebrate the listener right now if you think it's white lotus for shock value I know you can't get too graphic because

Well, all right, I could just go we could do both, you know, we could talk about Perlman and I could just explain the scene a little bit why it freaks so many people out and

I might regret this but let's do that

the one of the reasons it freaked me out like I mean just thinking about the internet and social media and everything

Some people wait to watch it all, you know,

and

then you kind of expect that scene coming.

I

watched every episode as soon as it drops on HBO Max.

And I had no idea what I was going to watch.

These two brothers meet these girls on their trip in Thailand, and they go on a boat cruise, or not like a boat that...

John Gries character has okay massive boat.

Oh, is that the one from season two that she died on and he inherited?

No, no, no, okay bigger boat.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Well, so John Gries character his girlfriend is with the two brothers Okay,

and

they get really drunk then they go out for this dance of the moon party And let's say they They pop some stuff Drugs.

Yes, they they come back

on the bagel drugs drink more.

Okay

And then It's felt like it was building for a while and it is that his brother Wasn't out of the closet yet, but he could be

okay

and The girl says you too.

She kiss But their brothers so I'm like don't is this gonna be a spoiler alert like no,

okay?

I'm assuming they do because I know people really weirded out and that's

and let's just say that's not the only thing that happens

And

freaks

a lot of people out.

I saw an article that a freak the whole college campus out.

And if you're not prepared for it, like I was, you're going to stop it, take a beat, go outside for a second, be like, what did I just watch?

Why did they put that in there?

What is it?

Is it the Schwarzenegger kid?

Is he one of the?

Yes.

OK.

Yep.

because I saw his name attached to this.

But I'm really trying to avoid too much hype around the show because I haven't started.

I'm probably going to start it when the last episode drops.

And we're one episode away from that, right?

Isn't there eight?

I

believe there's one more episode

after this.

OK, so I could probably start watching it now.

I

mean, the last episode on Sunday was amazing.

That was a really good episode.

Look, it's a great show.

Mike White is a great writer.

And he seems to shock a little bit in every season.

This he seems to have outdone himself every year

You think that they just it's the white lotus three seasons in a row, but every season is so different

Yeah,

the problems in it are entirely different from the last ones.

That's so great.

It's such a good show.

I'm excited to watch it But I told you what I was watching yesterday

Yeah, your six shows that you're watching

and that's what you have to do when your show doesn't drop all of them at once

And you get one dropped per week you have to have I Have to have at least and this is I liked it how they do this with Bosch legacy They put four of them out in the new and final season.

There's four episodes from the get-go Then they drop two on a Thursday night So there'll be three more Thursdays of two episodes being dropped so I can watch two up I can at least feel like I'm watching a movie.

Yeah, and not a 40-minute show that doesn't do anything for me

The White Lotus episodes are like an hour, though.

They are, yeah, like almost like a movie every episode.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is about that time to celebrate Election Day.

Luke Mathers will join us very shortly to take our fictitious political movie and TV character quiz that's coming up next on Night Light.

Who is your favorite political fictitious character?

Let us know on the text line or the app.

Seven, what is our number?

855-7524-842.

855-75-CIVIC.

We're coming right back.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Ladies and gentlemen, great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.

I'm not gonna lie though, it feels like a Tuesday afternoon.

Something in the air, I don't know, it feels pretty good.

Stick around folks, after nightlight tonight, Dan Schaefer and Todd Albra, Alba, Albra, where did that come from?

You know what?

It was his outfit the last time he was here.

Dan Shafer and Todd Alba will fill you in on everything you need to know after the polls close at 8 p.m.

You still have time to get to the polls if you want to vote, but they will be live from Civic Media headquarters in Madison and touching base with all of Civic Media's reporters across the state for outstanding political coverage like you always get here at Civic Media.

My guest tomorrow night on the show are Scott Lucas.

He is the front man for the band Local H, and he made a really cool documentary called Lifers that is playing at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

And then our pal Frank Anderson will be here, the founder of Wisconsinology.com.

All things fun, weird, cool, and interesting Wisconsin.

They will both be here tomorrow night.

Tony Zimmerman on the text line says, Corey Zimmerman went over 25 hours.

That is a...

Movie waiting to happen, but not even a fictitious character.

That is a real character.

And we're gonna talk, we're gonna talk to our next guest about that right now and see what his opinion is.

He joins us now, I assume from Madison, there's a very ambiguous backdrop there Luke like, he doesn't want us to know where he is.

Luke Mathers joins us, hey buddy.

Oh, we can't hear you Luke.

We don't have Luke.

Luke will not do very well in this quiz if we can't hear Luke He'll figure out we just we were talking up Luke like he could do anything Yeah, and then we have this audio

mess up.

Are

you sure you need to get the tools Conrad is it on our end?

We can figure this out

It's maybe just a tap with the screwdriver.

I think that's my wreck.

That's my recommendation.

He can't hear us.

Oh, that's such a bomber

Luke will try to figure this out.

So what should he do, Conrad?

Should he sign in, sign out?

And then we have two videos.

We have Luke's audio and Luke Mathers.

Is there a guy named Luke Audio who's trying to get in on our bid here and take over?

Should we call Luke?

Ask me if he wants us to call him.

Yeah, Luke says get my call.

Okay.

All right, we'll do that.

So, and then we have a text from Tyler too.

I wanted to read this.

This was here.

Here's a very Tyler says from Wisconsin Rapids.

Here's an obscure one for you.

Henry Fonda in the movie failsafe.

I forgot about them.

And I don't think I ever saw it.

Actually Tyler.

So very nice one, Tyler, who is in the 608.

You're still have plenty of time.

You have plenty of time if you wanna hit the polls, or plenty of time if you wanna answer our question of the night, folks, which is, who is your favorite fictitious political character?

We've had all kinds of great answers tonight, and we will continue to read your texts as they come in.

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We can, Conrad is trying to, we're trying to get Luke Mathers on the phone because the last time Luke was here, folks, he took our Wisconsin quiz and did very well.

So we have a fictitious political character quiz for Luke that we put together tonight.

And as soon as we can get Luke, the technical issues ironed out here, we'll have Luke.

We got him?

All right.

Luke, you there?

I'm here, Pete.

Hey.

I apologize, man.

How are we doing?

It's just I already, it's just I shouldn't have talked you up so much.

That's the problem.

Because I sit there and I sing your praises and then, you know, and I'm sure it's just one of those things.

But how are you tonight, buddy?

I'm doing well.

How are you doing on this Tuesday?

It's fine Tuesday evening,

you know, it's a great day It's a great day to be it was constant night.

It's a great day to be in the air and we're having fun tonight We talked about a great documentary called no packers.

No life about Japanese packer fans looks like a great film and now we're excited to have you on because we have another quiz for you and you did so well on our last one and I know you're pretty informed when it comes to politics and

fictitious politics.

So I'm hoping you'll do as well.

I'm trying to rack my brain now because I don't want the bar set too high for this one.

I'm trying to think of all the different excellent textures and contributions for favorite political fictional characters.

And some of them are really like

It's like, oh yeah, I forgot about that.

So I'm a little worried about a potential quiz here because I may have more gray areas than I anticipated before when I agreed to come out of the air with you tonight.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm the same way.

Like I thought, honestly, earlier today, I was, you know, you and I had talked about this episode.

And you were the one that recommended this question.

I'm like, oh, that's great.

Like it's so simple.

Yes, of course, fictitious political character that I'm like thinking, well, there's only been like 10 movies about politics, but there's actually been a ton because I forgot about a ton of them.

There's always there's always a movie with a president, though, even if it's like a doomsday scenario.

Yes.

You'll get the fictional presidents.

And so there's a lot kind of I was even thinking of Parks and Rec.

So when

You guys were talking Leslie Knope.

I was like, oh, that's a good one too.

Yeah, Ron Swanson from that show as well.

Oh, yes.

He's a politician too.

I called her Leslie Knope because I didn't even watch the show.

And there's a comedian named Mark Knope who spells it that way.

So that shows you what I know about Parks and Rec.

But what do you think?

Should we jump right into it?

First of all, Luke, did you vote?

Absolutely.

I was

a voter today.

OK.

What about

you, Pete?

Oh, of course.

I told the story earlier, I went and registered in the wrong ward in my town because I was all sleepy and I'm looking at this map.

And luckily the poll workers set me straight.

So they really got

there.

I've done that before.

I've had to go to, there was a polling location right next to an apartment that I lived at.

And I was like, Oh, this has to be my location.

Not even like thinking second nature of it.

Nope.

I was, I was right outside that ward line.

And so I had to go and register at a different location than all of a sudden too.

So I've been there.

I've been in your shoes.

Did they let you pull your vote back for Ralph Nader, or did it have to go through?

Ralph Nader, I was too young.

I was not able to legally vote.

I apologize.

I know the reference, but I could not participate in that.

I

almost went Ross Perot, and then I was like, no, and then I couldn't think of

a

fringe

candidate.

Way before my time.

All right, let's give Luke this our quiz.

Con Ready, you ready?

You got the bell ready?

Luke, are you ready?

I actually don't have the bell over here, so do you have one, buddy?

What those guys do with the bell?

Do I have one with the bell?

God, they steal the bells all the time.

Okay, I have a bell, so it won't be in stereo, Luke, but I'll really drill this thing if you nail one.

Okay.

All right.

Okay, so here we go.

Luke Mathers, ladies and gentlemen, taking the nightlight fictitious political character quiz.

All right, Luke, and the idea will be to guess the movie or the TV show.

We're going to give you the clues.

You name the show.

Okay?

All right, here we go.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus played Vice President Selena Meyer on this 2012 political show on HBO.

Yeah, well, I forgot about this one, too, but Veep.

Veep is a tremendous, it's full of so many good, vicious political characters.

It's awesome.

All right, if you were listening, you probably heard this one, Luke.

Luke is one for one.

Conrad, you keep score, okay?

Since you don't have a bell.

Yep.

I gotta give you something to do.

All right.

Taylione played Secretary of State.

Susan McCord in the CBS drama thriller that launched in 2012.

Oh, CBS drama thriller in 2012.

Yeah.

I might not get this one, then.

Was that scandal?

Scandal started on that one?

That was

not scandal, Luke.

That was Madame Secretary.

Ah, yeah.

I missed that one, too.

There's a lot of network television that's going to have some of these fictitious political characters that I've got no reference

of.

And there are more of these than you think.

So I'm going to get a gauge of where you're at here from a pop culture standpoint, and we'll adjust the questioning a little bit.

And I'll piggyback on the question I just said.

Kerry Washington played White House Communications Director on this 2012, also 2012, network show that starred Tony Goldman as the president.

See that scandal boom I Was one off I was one off different network.

I think CBS sounded right for that one But I'm glad that there was a follow-up that I could get

same year different network So I've got two two that I think might be tough Luke so I'll save those let's keep going here This okay, let's do this this 1996 comedy stars Chris Farley and David spade

Mike has a terrible habit of showing up at the wrong time and embarrassing his brother, Al, who happens to be running for governor.

Hoping to save his campaign, Al assigns his aide, Steve, to make Mike a remote cabin and hide out there for the remainder of the campaign.

That has got to be black.

What does he drink before?

I'm not even thinking that the guys in that one, yeah, he's running for governor.

The whole plot of that movie is political.

on the radar for the best political characters, but some good ones.

I know, and that's kind of how I was today too.

All right, this 1996, Luke Mathers is three for four.

This 1996 political rom-com starred Michael Douglas and was directed by Rob Reiner.

Oh, I know it, but I can't think of it.

It's not all the president's men, is it?

No, that's the Watergate era one.

Correct.

This one has president in the title, and the president is from a certain country in

North

America.

Yeah!

It's on the tip of your tongue.

I needed the help on that one.

Thank you, Pete.

That's okay.

That's a lifeline, you know?

We're all people

here.

If it's not on the stat sheet as an assist for you, that way you have the assist.

Exactly.

I love it.

All right.

Luke Mathers is what does he count right?

Four for five?

Correct.

All right.

80%.

That's a solid C, Luke.

You're doing great.

All right.

This political thriller stars Harrison Ford.

It takes place on a plane.

That's Air Force One.

Bam.

Luke's on fire.

And that was one of the ones that I was thinking of of that is a good movie Oh, yeah

The only the only cringe moment in that movie for me Luke was when he says get off my plane You gotta have that line in every movie though

Yeah, I would say that's one of those I feel like it was it was needed in a lot of the the movies from that era you wanted that one kind of punchline like it had to be

something like that.

And that's what it was for Air Force One.

And nobody delivers it like Harrison Ford.

All right, Luke Mathers is with us from Civic Media headquarters.

Luke is taking our political fictitious character quiz here in celebration of election day.

The polls close in about 15 minutes, folks.

So if you're planning on voting, get over there.

It's

your inline, stay inline, because if the line is longer than APM, you still have your right to vote.

As long as you're inline by APM, stay inline.

They have to let you vote.

Great point, Luke.

Thank you.

I was not saying that earlier.

Okay, Luke is five for six.

He's doing very well.

Luke, this political thriller in the 1970s, right after Watergate, stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters for the Washington Post.

That's all the president meant.

Absolutely just watched it a

few

months ago.

Have you seen the movie?

I I don't believe I have I think it used to be after At the end of high school when the it was kind of that weird period after you finished AP classes, but you're

still

in school The AP government teacher would give extra credit or for watching Films or it maybe wasn't a peek up, but it was different AP history class and I may have watched

parts of it then, but as a high schooler, I wasn't having my full focus on

it.

It's worth the rewatch.

It's a

very

cool, kind of eerie movie, danger.

It's great.

Let's try to get one or two in before the break here.

This political thriller, Luke, from 1939 stars Jimmy Stewart, who goes to Washington from his hometown and realizes how difficult it is to get things done in Washington.

That Mr. Stewart goes to Washington.

Can we accept that?

Town red.

Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

Mr. Smith.

Oh, yeah.

Jimmy Stewart.

Yeah.

Mr. Smith.

All right.

Let's do we have time.

All right.

We better.

We got time for one more.

OK.

This 1974 political thriller stars Warren Beatty after a presidential candidate is assassinated.

Political reporter Joe Frady begins to suspect that the mysterious parallax corporation may be may be involved.

The Mysterious Parallax Corporation.

Yeah, it's

not Citizen Kane.

It is the Parallax View, Luke.

You get a sad, you get a sad bell.

You're still

doing really well.

All

right, we'll have a few more minutes with Luke after a very short break.

So you can't go anywhere.

He's doing great.

And we've got a steady eddy text coming up too.

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

Tony

Zimmerman, a civic media content producing rock star says Stan Smith from the American dad.

He said CIA is political.

Awesome, Tony.

Thank you.

Tony's lighting up the text line tonight.

Welcome back, folks.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Great to have you with me on this Tuesday, where we are, man, we're talking about Packer movies.

We got a great question tonight.

You guys have all been so active.

It's always so much more fun when you guys participate in the show.

And now, if it wasn't fun enough, Civic Media's own Luke Mathers is joining us and taking one of our quizzes here at Night Light.

And Luke, you've had a couple that you've struggled with.

that frankly, I would have struggled with too if I didn't have the internet in front of me.

So you're still doing great.

And hopefully we'll get through three or four more questions here before we have to let you go.

Really appreciate your time tonight, Luke.

Oh, it's a pleasure, Pete.

I do love, like, trivia is one of my favorite things.

And so every time you have me on the show, I get to participate in some trivia.

It's a

way to

keep me coming back, man.

Oh, we'll keep doing it.

Perfect.

We'll keep doing it.

I always think I'm gonna be great at trivia.

Like, here's me at every trivia night.

Like, okay, I'm gonna rule this thing.

Let's go in there and hear the first question.

I'm like...

It's always interesting when

you go to a

trivia night and the first question sets the tone.

Like there are some trivia nights where it's like, Oh, this is, this is going to be kind of a pain in the butt because everybody's going to get these.

Like it's

going to be

kind of a lot of layups.

And then it's going to be only a difference of maybe one or two questions that's going to determine who wins.

And then you go to other trivia nights and it's like, Oh, I am way out of my own depth here because I have no idea what they're even referencing.

And I thought that I would.

be all right at this.

And

they're

like, all

start pretty

questions.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, let's see if we let's get okay.

Conrad, how are we doing on the score here?

What?

How's Luke seven for nine seven for nine?

Okay, still still hanging in there.

Luke and very respectable score.

All right.

This 1962 political thriller stars Frank Sinatra.

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed.

Oh my goodness.

I don't even know what the

No clue.

I don't even think a remote idea of that plot line

or what the what the movie might be I appreciate your blatant almost violent honesty there Luke.

It was a beautiful thing the movie is the Manchurian candidate sad Bell Yeah, yeah, that's a tough one though, but I thought maybe Frank Sinatra would give you a I did not

know that he

was

he was he is the Manchurian candidate

Yeah, I don't even remember to be honest.

I saw the remake

I would say there's a much much too early for I'm sure that there's plenty of folks out there shaking their fists at the radio that I didn't get that But yeah, that one that one off my radar as well Pete.

Okay, man.

Let's go to the Google Frank Sinatra was he I think he was the Manchurian candidate.

It's just been so long since I've seen it I don't want to I don't want to mislead all right We got a few more here.

All right.

These are obscure Luke.

I kind of wrote these thinking

You might get this one.

All right.

Okay This this politically fictitious character is an overtly corrupt Animated mayor of Springfield based on a Kennedy.

He's mayor Quimby from this show Springfield and animated it's got to be the Simpsons.

Yeah All right back on track seven eight for eleven right Conrad.

Yep.

Okay.

I will see this might be a little obscure

But it's kind of fun.

All right.

Sorrel Brooke.

Luke's already like, oh, no.

Sorrel Brooke played corrupt local politician, Jefferson Davis Boss Hog on this series from the 1970s.

Oh, Boss Hog is, uh, that's, um, that's the Dukes of Hazard.

Yeah!

Yeah!

You got Bo and Luke Duke.

Exactly.

I know the Luke reference.

All

right.

I got enough fictitious Luke's out there that I picked that

one.

All right, this is going to be a tough one.

We'll ask Dan Schaefer this one because he's a huge fan of this show.

Aidan Gillian, Aidan Gillian or Gillian, I'm not sure how to say his last name, played city council person Tommy Carquetti in this acclaimed, critically acclaimed show set in Baltimore.

Okay.

So at least I listened across the network.

I get the promos.

I know the references that you and Dan have made for each other.

This one's got to be the wire.

Yeah.

Wow.

Those are the three questions I thought you might struggle with and you crushed them all.

No, those ones are much more on my radar than, uh, uh, Mr Smith goes to Washington and, uh, the Manchurian candidate.

Those ones, it's the, the, how far back you go kind of thing.

I pick up the, the, the more

pop references.

I haven't seen all of the wire and I haven't, I'm not like an admin Simpsons watcher, but I know

enough.

All right, that's great.

Tony Zimmerman answered that one, too.

He says, the wire.

Cheezoo says, blatant, almost violent honesty, lol.

Thank you, Cheezoo.

Somebody laughs at my jokes occasionally.

I appreciate that, Cheezoo.

Thank you.

All right, let's see if we can squeeze in a couple quick ones here.

In this 2012 political comedy, it stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galvanakis, when incumbent congressman, Cam Brady, commits a major gaffe.

Two wealthy CEOs decide to try to gain influence in their district by putting up a rival candidate.

Their unlikely choice is a naive tourism director named Marty

Huggins.

Yeah.

And it is an excellent, excellent movie.

And I laugh way too hard at it.

And that's the campaign.

That campaign.

That's a good one.

That's a great one.

All right.

One more.

This one's very recent, Luke.

Maybe almost too recent.

Robert De Niro plays former president George Mullen in this 2025 Netflix thriller.

Oh, I was just heard about how he played both roles or something like that.

That's a movie.

This is a different one.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then yeah, this is probably too recent.

I've been the new cycle has been wild.

So I

haven't had a chance to listen.

That makes sense.

Little television that I've watched daredevil.

Marvel's daredevil.

Okay.

And that's where my focus has been.

So I missed this one.

I

don't know that one.

The answer is zero day.

How did Luke do, Conrad?

11 for 15.

All right.

Pretty good, Luke.

Awesome.

One

off.

I'm usually 12 for 15.

I'm

usually

right in that four for five that area.

So I did underperform today.

Outstanding.

Luke, thank you so much.

This was fun.

Thank you to Luke.

Thank you to Craig Benzine.

All your texts and calls.

So much fun here tonight.

We'll be back to do it again tomorrow night.

Stay tuned for Civic Media's top notch coverage of Election Tuesday with Dan Shafer and Todd Alba.

Luke, thanks again, buddy.

Have a great night.

All right.

We'll be back tomorrow night.

Good night, Wisconsin!