Meet the Parents & Wisconsin Film Festival(Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who doesn't have 20-20 vision, even in hindsight, Peach Wabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Good Friday, everybody.

Hope you're having a great day.

Fridays are typically happy.

Conrad, you having a good Friday?

Yeah, I think so.

I think it's pretty good.

We're coming to you live from Madison tonight, folks, so it's great to have you with me wherever you're joining us from.

There's a lot going on in Madison this weekend, but it's the weekend and it's Wisconsin, so there's a lot going on everywhere.

Hope you have great plans this weekend and hope you had a good week.

If you had a tough day,

Sit back and chill and let us sort of make you feel happy.

We've got a great guest tonight, some good conversation, some funny clips, some good music, a perfect way to send you into the weekend.

I have to say...

This is strange.

If you're watching on the stream, I feel like I'm a McDonald's drive-through attendee right now with this microphone or I'm playing, you know, Minecraft or something.

I can't get used to this microphone.

I'm in Madison and they're redoing the studio here and it's going to look amazing.

It looks amazing now, but I'm used to having a microphone.

And I mean, I still do, but a different kind.

I'll take a big Mac.

Yeah.

Drive around, please.

Drive around to the second window or I'm a time life operator.

I can order you some encyclopedias.

You probably don't even understand that reference.

I do.

I watch friends.

Do you?

Is that the only way you know what an encyclopedia is?

No, I know what it was before.

I went to school when it was still, you know, like a thing.

OK.

They still had the hard copies.

In elementary school, yeah.

I just saw this funny onion headline.

I'm assuming it's in regard to the tariffs.

America defeats America.

The onion, they don't bat a thousand, but God, they just crush it.

And when they are on, they are on.

And ladies and gentlemen, I am coming to you from the hometown of the onion.

This is where it was created.

This is where it was all started.

Madison, a great comedy town.

We're going to be talking about a great comedy tonight.

Greg Liana and Jim Vincent.

The filmmakers behind the original Meet the Parents will be here in studio because they are in town for a screening tomorrow of the original Meet the Parents at the Barrymore Theater at 1.30, which I will be introducing and interviewing them afterwards at a Q&A.

We'll discuss all the great things about this, just this little gem of a movie that went on to create one of the biggest live action franchises.

in the history of movies.

And it's a great little film.

If you're in the Madison area or don't mind a road trip, come on out.

It should be a great day.

The Barrymore Theater, for those of you who are not in Madison, just a beautiful old theater.

It's got the stars on the ceiling.

There's a balcony, great lobby.

You smell popcorn when you walk in and they've got a great, I think you can get actual booze there too.

Those of you who are alcoholic should definitely swing by tomorrow at the Barrymore.

But it's going to be a fun day.

Greg and Jim will be there.

They're going to be here tonight to talk a little bit about the screening in person because they're in Madison.

They'll be along at 6.35.

And then it is a Friday night.

Nightlight, once again, folks, is making radio history.

We don't do it often.

But when we do it, we do it right.

Terry Barr is here for Bar Band Friday night.

And since she lives in the greater Madison area.

She will be here in studio as well.

So we've got wall-to-wall studio guests our friend Terry who is one of the hosts of max Inc radio will be here tonight.

She's got two great bands She'll be here in person.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

So, you know, I we just thought of this last night con about inviting Terry Yeah, I thought for some reason she lived like halfway between Madison and Milwaukee.

I didn't realize she was so close.

Yeah, this worked out so

So you wanted a signing bonus.

I said no she countered we worked it out.

Okay.

She'll be here.

Good.

Yeah So were you serious about your a six minute 40-yard dash time?

You just said

yeah Yeah, because I tore my ACL when I I took one step

with Jess

Like that guy in the lit on Faceplanned it but I finished the race there you go six minutes

to

go

I did, I drove down here last night after the show in Green Bay.

I got in my car.

I came down to Madison.

I pulled over to get gas.

I don't know, what is it?

Nine o'clock at night.

I'm somewhere around Fond du Lac.

And, you know, I keep putting my card in the thing and it says, please see attendant.

I'm like, okay.

It's a new debit card.

I thought maybe there was something wrong.

I tried again.

I hit pay at the pump again and I tried again.

It says, please see attendant.

I look at the guy in the window.

I give him one of these, you know, hey, what's up?

And he says over the microphone, he says, you have to pay inside.

Do you want to pay at the pump?

I go, yeah, I want to pay at the pump.

That's the thing goes, OK, you have to you have to do it inside.

I was just like the weirdest conversation I've ever had.

And then he came out and fixed it.

And I went on my merry way, but it was really just kind of a. You know.

If I was at a gas station all night working, I'd probably smoke weed.

You'd probably see three people a night.

It's got to be like the most, it's got to be hard to stay awake.

And my friend, Mike Schmidt, remember he was on the show and told

a

story about how he went in the back and took a nap and somebody came in and cleaned the place out and they had it all on camera.

That would be so tempting.

But very nice guy.

We figured it out, but there was definitely, we were having trouble communicating there, but I.

I worked it out.

You know what else I saw?

Sometimes I like to take the road less traveled, so to speak, to quote Robert Frost.

I went through this little road and there was this house on a small highway and it had that thing where the sheriff is like leaning against the house.

It's like a silhouette and it looks like a marshal kind of leaning.

You know what I'm talking about?

I mean, I kind of got the picture, but I'm not really.

They're like silhouettes, they're like cutouts, and you lean it against your house, and it looks like there is a sheriff leaning against your house with a cowboy hat, like he just stepped off a dude ranch or something.

And I just, I don't know what the point of those is.

I'm not

really- Decorations?

But they're not decorative, they're just kind of strange.

Is it like to scare off prowlers?

I don't think I've ever used the word prowlers before, but- Yeah.

Is it to scare people away or is it just like, hey, we think this is cool?

I

think it's I think this is cool.

I'm going to see if I can find a picture of this.

We'll put it up on the stream and see if people can help me out because you see that they're not that rare.

Like a lot of people have them.

I just don't get it.

So as I mentioned, I'm in Madison, folks, the Wisconsin Film Festival is here.

I was looking through the guide today.

Great films.

And I saw one, a scary movie that I'm supposed to introduce.

And it got me thinking.

And it also led me to tonight's question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

It's Friday night, folks.

It's not the 13th, but we can have some fun with this.

What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

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Conrad, how can people watch the radio?

Yeah, so on Facebook, we're WSS, WGBW, or Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

On YouTube, it's Civic Media or WGBW.

And on Twitter, WGBW or Civic Media.

There you go.

Get ahold of us.

Anyway, you can, folks.

It's great when you guys participate.

Terry already checking in on the stream.

That's Terry Barmedia, ladies and gentlemen, our Bar Band Friday night guest every Friday here.

She says, you soon.

Yes, you will, Terry.

We'll be here.

I will let you in if the doors are locked.

PJ also checks in on the stream and says, the hills have eyes.

All right, I have to make a disclaimer here, folks.

A lot of the suggestions you send to me, I'm not going to know.

I don't really watch.

Scary movies that much.

It's not that I don't like them.

I don't like the grossness I'm not a whore like I remember going to my high school friend when we lived in LA lived in San Clemente.

We went down there for Thanksgiving He and his wife said oh You got to see saw you have to see this movie.

It's great.

So we eat this huge Thanksgiving dinner our kids are playing all day It's a great day and then they end it with saw the worst movie

I mean, some people, if you like horror, you probably love Saw.

I was repulsed.

And not really that scared, just really grossed out.

So I don't know if The Hills Have Eyes, PJ, is kind of a gore movie or a scare movie or whatever.

But I just want to say in advance, I don't know a ton of scary movies.

But I'm putting this out there to you guys because I know a lot of people do love scary movies.

So please share them.

And we have a caller.

Can I do that?

Yes, we do.

Holly from the Northwoods.

Hey Ali, how are you?

Well, I'm I'm good when I'm tempted to say the scariest movie is the one we're living in right now.

I

Knew I knew someone was gonna say that.

Well, I have to be the first, you know, I I have two scary movies that I Remember being truly frightened in one was Alfred Hitchhaw the birds

Oh,

yeah.

And the other was Pujo.

Oh, the dog.

Do you have a dog?

Yep.

You bet.

Did that freak you out about your own dog?

No, it just was not a good

deal.

It was terrible.

It was terrifying.

All those Stephen King movies are terrifying, I think.

It was definitely frightening.

Yeah.

Right.

All right, well, thank you for the call, Ollie.

Hopefully, we're currently living in this movie.

The ending has not been determined yet, so I hope this movie ends.

Not too scary for you, but I really appreciate it.

Well, I hope it ends

a happy

ending.

Me too, my friend.

Thank you so much for the call.

That's Ollie from the Northwoods.

Dave says, Fleet Farm.

That's a scary movie.

Yeah.

I've been to Fleet Farm.

Yeah,

it's not often.

Minards is butter, so.

Is it

yeah,

I think all the same don't they carry the same stuff, you know Menards is a

Wisconsin product.

I believe so you gotta love it,

but they're everywhere now, right?

Yeah, it's like quick trip quick trip started in Wisconsin's everywhere You

and your quick trip.

That's your you

know, I saw something yesterday two days ago quick the Royals They have QK on it with it is the other quick trip.

Don't like that.

Okay

We'll pick it up there after the break.

We'll indulge you more Conrad after the break and read some more text.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

My

own

beliefs are in my song.

The picture, the figure, the drama, and then makes

no difference.

in Green Bay.

And I was like, wait, why is that not?

We're good now, though.

You just missed me.

I do.

That's all it is.

But there's a kegger,

remember, so.

Yeah, that's all right.

Have fun.

Thank you.

Our question tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is what is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

And the texts are pouring in.

This is going to be one of those nights I think where it'll be tough to keep up.

PJ says, the hills have eyes is not gory or it's not as gory as saw.

So I have heard that's a great movie.

PJ also says a family gets stranded in the desert on vacation and while looking for help, they stumble across a deserted and nuclear testing site.

That's interesting.

He says it gets scarier.

That reminds me of the Gorge a little bit.

I wonder if they take things in the same direction.

We've got Tom from New Berlin says, Pete, with you on horror, there have been good ones.

I liked Silence of the Lambs.

Scared me.

What's yours, Con?

Human centipede

probably that's

a

movie.

I watched like The I didn't watch the whole movie I watched the part where it was bad and my one of my friends said hey take a look at this and I came in and I was like um no and left

That's did they tease you?

I hate I they already know I hate horror movies.

I absolutely cannot watch them.

I hate them So they just kind of tease me about it

Saying okay, anytime we would have a movie night.

They'd be like we're gonna watch horror.

Are you gonna go in your room?

I'm like, yes.

Yeah

Yeah, they just don't want you cool.

I think for me, it's the shining.

Yeah, really that's a movie that just like Not particularly gory either just creepy as all get out Really creepy movie Christine from slinger says the exorcist by far the book was actually worse.

I read the book Christine as a kid.

I agree with you

Don from Wanaki says, it's alive.

I think that is a movie, but I don't remember that one.

Thank you, Don.

715 says, Salem's lot.

I had the most nightmares from it.

Okay.

I don't remember that one either, but that's another one I saw when I was a kid.

Annie from Watertown says, I agree on blood and gore.

Thumbs down.

Lots of scary movies are good, but still absolutely creeped out by the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.

I'm with you Annie, but how tame does that seem now compared to what you see?

Unbelievable Brian call we got a call.

Yeah, it's Brian from walkie.

Yeah, let's talk to Brian.

Hey Brian.

How's it going?

Hey good.

How you guys doing?

This is gonna be probably one of the craziest answers you've ever heard I am 39 years old, but ever since I was kid I cannot watch this movie I've only seen it once and I will never watch it again.

It's easy the extraterrestrial

and my scene that freaked me out was when the mom finds a little girl in the closet or bathroom or whatever with ETL shriveled up.

She picks up the girl, tries to escape the house, and they got these guys in those space suits that come just like breaking in through the front door and through the windows.

That scene- That is

scary.

Has petrified me over because I was a kid.

I thought you were

joking at first, Brian.

I thought you were kidding.

I thought you were going like Phil Dunphy

and

Ghostbusters scared, but that was scary.

I remember that.

That was kind of a trippy.

And the whole rest of that movie was just like, oh my god, these guys in Heads, Bats, Toots, and everything else just scared the hell

out of me.

I don't

think you'd like saw Brian.

Stay away

from

that one.

I can't

watch any of those.

Can't watch our own movies.

Thank you for the call, buddy.

Appreciate

it.

Yeah, take care.

All right, Laurie from Hayward says heard on the news.

Oh, we're not gonna keep those texts coming folks Dave says makes you pay inside.

Oh, he's referring to the gas

Yeah,

makes you pay inside cheaper gas.

I would do that.

I'd walk a few extra feet To save a few pennies.

Yeah, close to a little exercise.

Yeah, why not

this picture on the stream

I used to love the Madison camera.

I feel like I have a huge trunk right now.

Honestly, I could feed a small country.

So weird.

Feeling a little bloated right now.

Let's see if they can fix this.

Sage, if you're listening.

So I thought this was really cool.

And I know you like the movie McGroober a lot.

Will Forte said he really misses Val Kilmer.

They were good friends and they became good friends.

I think even before McGroober, he had

Val Kilmer staying with him because Val Kilmer got into some argument with his landlord in Malibu, moved in with Will Forte, and Will Forte says he got Kilmer into reality TV and they loved the amazing race.

And the two of them were going to go on the show together.

They wanted to do it, but their agents totally shut them down and said it would be terrible.

And I thought this was funny because it shows you how much Val Kilmer evolved.

He met...

his wife I can't remember on what movie but she was like this serious actor acting on the west end in Great Britain or whatever that theater district is it's so famous and he was embarrassed that he was doing a real genius and he was brilliant and real genius and real genius is a good movie but he's probably this young idealistic actor and then he wants to go on an amazing race I'm like that's a huge

But he obviously got over that hang up about not doing stuff that was like really high-end or very artsy because there's nothing artsy about reality TV So I think that's actually kind of cool though Will Forte says to this day he regrets not doing that with his friend Val Kilmer There's also folks at the Wisconsin Film Festival Greg Liana and Jim Vince will be here in just a couple minutes talking about their meet the parents screening tomorrow at the Barrymore

There's a movie playing tomorrow night at the Barrymore.

I can't even say the title.

It's got like an R rated word in the title, maybe an NC 17 word.

Yeah.

And Ben Reiser was on the other day and he talked about that.

Remember, he said, I can't say the name of the movie.

Well, I looked it up in the guide today when I got to my hotel and I'm like, I'm definitely going to see this because I'm so curious about the Rolling Stones.

And all you have to do is Google Rolling Stones Movie Wisconsin Film Festival and you'll see the title.

So I'm gonna check that out because I'm curious but lots going on in Madison this weekend if you're around Check out the film festival Milwaukee Film Festival coming up in a couple weeks, too.

So that's exciting Terry Barr is here.

It's a bar ban Friday night Terry will be in studio tonight We'll be making more radio history here on nightlight as Terry Barr joins us in person.

I don't think she's convinced I really exist I think she thinks I'm AI we will prove all of that wrong tonight

When she shows up, Greg, Leanna and Jim Vincent are here too to talk about their screening tomorrow that's coming up after the Civic Media News team tells you what's up.

This is Pete Schwabba and Night Light.

Great to have you with me on this Friday night on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Great to have you with me on this Saturday night.

People on the text line are actually saying the name of the movie tomorrow.

So I can't say it on the air.

Oh, there we go.

I can't say it on the air, but it is about the Rolling Stones.

And it's supposed to be, this text says, it's a great decadent concert tour flick.

The

horse was flowing through their veins.

I'm not a drug user, but I know what that means.

I

don't, horse.

Heroine.

Oh, yeah smack

H. I only know this because I watch film noir as kids today these hopheads And then Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says the climb.

I don't like heights.

No that movie either Ladies and gentlemen, it is great to have you with me on this Friday night as I mentioned earlier the Wisconsin Film Festival is currently underway here in Madison.

It kicked off last night Tomorrow at the Barrymore at 1 30 there will be a screening of the original meet the parents.

That doesn't mean the first one

in the big studio world.

That means an original film that we've talked about before on this show that was made by Chicago comedian Greg Liana and produced by Jim Vincent.

They are here with me in the studio right now.

Hey guys.

Are we at 130 or one?

I thought it was

one.

Is it 130?

Is it one?

I think it's 130.

Excuse me.

I

thought I

could sleep in.

Let's Google that.

Yeah.

You might be right about that, but get your tickets.

It's going to be a great day.

Are you guys are you excited about this?

I always love seeing it with an audience because it gets still gets big laughs and that I don't watch the movie.

I watch the audience.

Yeah.

You know, so

how are you guys?

First of all, let's load on because

I got a lot of

questions.

How did you?

Is it good to be a Madison?

Have you been here before?

I love Madison.

Yeah.

Great

city.

The movie Logan's run.

Why?

Because everyone's 23 and I feel like they execute the people over 30.

Is that a good thing or bad thing?

No, it's nice.

We're over 30.

I like it.

I like it.

OK.

I always liked Madison.

Yeah, it was a good comedy town.

We

talked

about you and I are both stand-up comedians from Chicago.

We both worked at it used to be called Funny Business down the road.

And Jim, have you been here before?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, we actually 30 years ago, before the film was purchased by Universal to remake it.

OK.

We showed it.

at the Madison Film Festival.

Oh, really?

So this is sort of like a coming back 30 years later.

So yeah, I have no memory of that.

Well, maybe you weren't invited.

You weren't really.

That's probably what it was.

I think you were.

Well, maybe you were in LA.

I don't know.

But so it's sort of it's, you know, it's fun because we when we were here 30 years ago, people really liked the film.

And yeah, we got such a great response from it.

I'm

excited because I haven't seen

I haven't seen it with an audience.

When you and I started writing together, the film had been done for 10 years, and I never got to see it in Chicago at a theater.

So I'm probably as excited as anybody to sit with a real audience tomorrow in a great, really cool, old theater and watch this film.

Tell us about the theater.

I haven't been in the theater.

What is the theater?

It's it's like one of those old time theaters with the stars on the ceiling

and a

balcony and an old lobby where you go in and you can get a cocktail.

You can get, you know, all the other stuff they have, too.

But it's just it's got all the steps down to the restrooms and

like

those winding staircase.

It's

beautiful.

It's a great venue.

The sound is terrible.

No, I'm just kidding.

Is that the word?

I had a film screen over here at the Orpheum years ago and it was like jam packed.

And it's like a 1400 foot,

you know,

big, but the sound was like two seconds behind.

I thought I was going to lose my mind.

It was awful, but the Barrymore is great.

You guys are going to love it.

Have to ask you guys too, since you're here and our question of the night is scary movies.

What's the scariest

movie you've ever seen?

It depends when you ask me, if I was a kid, I would say Night of the Living Dead or, you know, Frankenstein or something.

But I think now.

I don't really get scared at movies.

I love the movie 1408 with John Cusack.

You ever see it?

No.

It's this evil hotel room, basically, but I think that's it's not scary, but it's kind of like makes you like, you know.

Yeah.

That's fine.

What about you, Jim?

You like scary movies?

I think the sequel to meet the parents was pretty scary.

But yeah, there's a film with Josh.

I can't think of his last name now.

Um, yeah.

30 days, 30 of nine or something.

Yeah.

30 days of great vampire film.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

It's, it's a, it's a, you know, I can always see it over and over again.

You know what I like about that?

They make vampires scary again.

Yeah.

Lately vampires are like these romantic figures.

They're really just humans that are misunderstood.

I would say I'm old enough to remember when clowns were funny and vampires were scary.

Um, I don't,

uh, if you guys, what do you guys, Val Kilmer died this week.

What do you think about Val Kilmer?

Great

actor.

Yeah.

Well, he was he was classically trained.

I mean, he is a really good actor.

He was classically trained as an actor.

And if you look at his series of movies, he's done quite a few movies.

What was the comedy he did in the 80s that with the real genius

or top secret?

Top

secret.

Yeah, that was his first big.

Yeah,

big film, phenomenal movie.

He says to the girl.

She says what's your name?

He says Nick my father thought of it while he was shaving But that was written by the Zucker Brothers Abrams all Wisconsin guys, so that was a fun not

all I remember were

cows,

right?

There was something with cows they inappropriate cow scenes.

Yeah, but anyways he I There was a documentary he did about his life toward loved it toward the end.

It was fantastic

That scene I talked about this the other night at the beginning of that documentary.

He's in a trailer with Rick Rossovich, the actor

and

another guy who was in Top Gun who I think ended up marrying Kelly McGillis.

I don't know his name, but and Val Kilmer is just being silly and he's imitating Tom Cruise and making fun of him a little bit.

And there's this great Chris Isaac song.

That was the best part of the whole film.

It just had this great energy, but it was really cool to learn more about Val Kilmer and what he's been going through the last however many years.

Didn't you write a horror film?

Yes.

After we were writing something, you said, I want to write a horror film.

We're still trying to get it made.

We have Tara Reid is going to star in it, and the actress who plays the nun, Bonnie Arons, is going to star in it.

The actress who plays the nun.

You know the iconic nun scary face?

Oh,

OK.

I sat on a backpack when I was walking through a store in Chicago.

But yeah, she's the nun, the evil scary nun.

You told me years ago, you thought,

And I think this is funny.

When we would write late at night, you said, comedy's got to be a nightmare.

You always used to say, I love comedies that are nightmares.

And it's funny that you wrote or you took an interest for a while in horror films because they're like the nightmare without the funny.

Is that a similarity, you see?

It's not dissimilar.

Horror, I think, has a, comedy is a little bit of a connection with horror.

They don't be relatable and things that scare you or make you laugh.

But this was a I just wanted to see if I could do it.

I'm trying to stretch my My writing chops little abilities

All right, let's talk Jim I never really I've talked to you quite a bit Greg over the years when we were right together about meet the parents or when you've been on this show What are your thoughts?

You know you put a lot of blood sweat and tears into this Original film gem.

What do you think of what the studio did?

Were you happy with

it?

Well?

You know, I mean, I guess ultimately people found out about the movie because Universal made it.

Yeah.

Now, we had another offer for the film, actually, to go direct to video.

I know people don't know what that term is anymore, but, you know, for National Lampoon, and they were launching a new video line or something, but it fell through.

That

was the biggest disappointment.

of all for the

sound like a natural fit.

Oh, they put

ads in their magazines, come national impunes, meet the parents.

Yeah, that was a big.

But but you know, I would say, you know, you know, happy with it is an interesting way to put it.

I think there was a lot of frustration, obviously, on Greg's side and my side of kind of how it all kind of came together.

But

You know,

I would be totally happy with their deal if I could release mine.

Yeah,

then otherwise I'd be fine with whatever they did is fine, you know, but that's the only thing about

they've tied up the original film

show and accepted film festivals.

So they're

OK with this.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And having it on YouTube because it's on you don't know the universal police will be here in five minutes.

No,

but I get a copyright infringement thing.

You

didn't post it though.

Somebody else posted

it.

I posted it

initially.

You're just incriminating yourself.

I know.

The police don't even have to come.

I was trying to come.

They don't.

You know, I was trying to walk that fast.

Half the people at the University of Hawaii aren't even aware there's an Indian meet the parents.

Well, but they, you know, they definitely tied, you know, our hands with it because we had deals to distribute it afterwards on DVD and everybody said we can't touch it because the University will

will, you know, shut us down in 10 seconds because they're legal department.

Now

they're making another sequel, apparently.

Right.

So

that's going to tie it up even more.

But even before that, they just 30 years later, they were just like, no, can't show it, can't release it.

But it's, for some reason, it goes along with this whole adventure, this whole 10 year, 15 year adventure.

I mean, has anything really, you know, I don't know.

I had a universal, when we had the premiere of the new film in LA, Greg and I were there.

By the way, it was in a shopping mall.

And one of the universal executives came up to me and we were talking and she said, look, your film has taken a long time to get to where it's at, which is opening with the new film I'm talking about.

And she said,

a lot of, you know, great films take a long time to happen.

And now, you know, she was talking about like, shouldn't they had just, I think we're releasing Schindler's List or whatever.

But she was saying that film took 10, 15 years to come to the screen.

And

it's not as funny as Meet the Parents.

No, no,

no.

But, but, you know, her point was that, you know, it takes time to to let it

kind of become what it is.

But again,

I don't care if it took five years or so.

As long as they let me release mine.

Right.

I don't who cares.

But

it

was a joke with friends of mine.

When does that meet the parents?

Because it just took all these years.

It was like, yes.

My guess are Greg Gleana.

He is the writer, director of the original Meet the Parents.

Thank you, Casper.

And Jim Vincent, who produced the original film that's screening tomorrow with the Barrymore Theater.

Did we figure out if it's one or one thirty?

We get some

I say one, but I could be I say one two, but

One two one

two one.

Just show up on every one

test But it's gonna be a great time.

There's gonna be Q&A Greg and Jim will be part of the Q&A I'll be hosting it.

It's gonna be a really fun event.

Hope you guys can be just like this can check it out It'll be just like this only with a lot of people and stars stars in the sea

a lot of

comedy a lot of happening Yeah,

after the film before the film during the film.

It's just gonna

be a day of comedy Jim you were in the movie

Hmm.

Yeah.

Did you have to

beg to be

on screen or did you get

dragged on screen?

Well, you know, Craig is tough with casting, but you played a gas station attendant.

I did.

I did.

Well, the day the day we did that, it was a tough day.

I had I had the flu.

So I was running really high.

I was really out of it.

So, you know, but, you know, you come and you do your job and you do what the director needed to be done.

And but

I think afterwards, I was like, okay, you know, it worked the way the direction Greg had given me.

But again, a tough, it was a hard day because I think we had, yeah, that's true.

But this one, you know, for having the flu, for me, it was a harder day.

That's actually a horror scene.

If you look at

it,

his scene, it's like a horror movie.

Because the guy comes in, he's going to meet the parents, and Jim's characters just go back.

Don't do it.

Yeah, I'm going to do a vampire film based on that.

But you know, but it was it was it was a great it was a fun day.

But but

again, what are you talking about?

Well, he was

just

acting.

You were directing.

That was like a whole you had a lot on your mind.

Daily a truck would drive up with problems.

Yeah, we had a phone number on the truck.

The scene we were shooting in the background was a truck and it had a huge phone number that it was prominent in the scene.

And we're like.

You know, so we called them and they're like, you can't show our phone number.

I'm like, okay.

So we had to work around that.

It was a long day.

That's just the kind of stuff that happens.

It's just movies.

Well, I think at the same time you were doing your movie or you did your movie after.

No, I didn't know Greg.

You didn't know Greg.

I

did mine in early like 2003, 2004.

Oh, okay.

So it was well

after.

I was envious.

Like I saw all these Chicago comics.

in this great movie happening.

I was like, oh, I should have started two years ago, assuming I would have got a role, of course.

Greg Glana and Jim Vincent are here.

They are the brains behind the original Meet the Parents, which will be screening.

Trust me, folks, it's hilarious.

I'm going to tell you something that's going to shock you when we come back about Greg's version and how it's better than the studio version.

That's coming up next on Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I've not seen that film.

I remember the song by Was it to know what all boyfriends know it was what was their name?

It's a Butch Vig band.

They were a Wisconsin band.

They had a song called Kill Dozer.

74.

I think it

was a band, actually.

Was it a movie or a band?

Well, it was a

movie.

Oh, it was a movie.

But there's a

song, too.

They sing a song called Lupus.

Conrad, if you could find Lupus, you'd be my hero.

OK.

Because, like, Lupus is a disease.

It's a disease.

Yeah.

But this song is like... The album was 12-point buck.

Butch Vig before Garbage, and before he produced Nirvana, right down here on East Washington, ahead this band, and that Lupus is a great song.

All right, Greg Beliana is here, folks, and Jim Vincent.

They are the brains behind the original Meet the Parents, which you can see tomorrow at the Barrymore Theater at either one or 1.30.

I'm sure there are still tickets available because it's a huge theater, although I understand they have a pretty good crowd coming out.

Come at 1.30, you'll miss Jim's scene.

Jim had the flu though if

you come at 2

30 you'll miss all of Greg

Greg you play the lead in the film What was was that scary or were you like I can't wait to do this or were you nervous about that?

No, that was That was the easiest part of it.

I think the

acting yeah, yeah

Okay, I just had to keep a straight face

and you did you were

a

great straight man And I will say Ben Stiller.

I thought he was good

And he's just a good actor.

He

was great in the studio version.

I will say this, and this could strike controversy.

Dick Galloway, better than Robert De Niro.

Well, different.

He was more every man where De Niro was the CIA paranoid guy.

De Niro's great, but he was over the top kind of.

I thought, and I think you're right, Dick Galloway is real.

And he's just like that guy that you and he's funny.

He's funny too.

Yeah, but but he doesn't try to be funny,

right?

He's just so

he

was a

salesman.

That's what he did his whole life.

Okay, and he lived in Park Ridge and I

just said a salesman is better than Robert De Niro I realized

that's a

ridiculous that sounds but in that role I liked it better.

Well, he was he I think he had

a really just human touch to who he was and

and every now and then there was something that was just too big that I have to Like once who's ready for roast beef you go And you know I tried to get him to stop but we did a couple takes final the cameraman's like just don't worry But he and there's one scene that gets a big laugh from the audience and I used it Dick was waiting for me to say action

on one take of something.

So he's just sitting there with a straight face and I use that as a reaction.

It's a big

laugh.

There's a scene in the movie.

If you guys go to see the movie tomorrow where you're sitting with him in a boat and all

this

stuff has gone wrong and he just looks at you.

We've already seen it happen and he just looks at you and he says, you break my Victrola.

Oh yeah.

What do you

say?

I was turning the handle and it broke off.

I threw it under the car.

No, they said, what'd you do with it?

I threw it under the car.

That's so great.

It's just, oh my God.

But that scene, I wanted a shot of the boat in the middle of the lake, a long shot.

And somebody forgot the battery or didn't charge the batteries.

Where were we filming?

That was out by... Wakanda.

Wakanda.

We had to drive into Chicago, get a battery.

So we started shooting at like three o'clock, racing the setting sun, and we couldn't get that shot.

I didn't I mean I'm sure

I'm sure it bothers you, but like didn't bother anybody else You know exactly what talk about our emo Phillips around the time this film was made He was still a pretty big name on Letterman a lot or the Tonight Show outstanding comedian and you guys are friends What was it like working with him like you were friends, but he also kind of financed part of the film or the whole thing I don't know all the whole story, but and then he was in the film too,

but he had nothing

When we were filming it he was off on the road.

I mean he was the best kind of investor.

He didn't okay, you know But yeah, we did hit the scene he's in But we had to raise another like 10,000 or what it was and I had to show him some you know I was worried because he hadn't seen any of it

Okay,