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Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who never leaves the house without wearing a cup.

Pete Chwaba.

It's not true.

I'm not wearing a cup right now.

Mostly just because it's Thursday.

Hey, welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.

Great to have you with me.

I am Peachwalla.

I could have just as easily made a joke about going commando, Aaron,

but I'm

not gonna do that.

I'm way too mature for that kind of thing, though.

Well, of course, I would expect nothing less.

That is the voice of Aaron Zommer's, ladies and gentlemen, joining me tonight on Nightlight, because the kid Conrad Krieger is on vacation like only Conrad can do.

Of course, he's at the NFL Draft.

hoping the Packers will draft him as their punter or sign him as a free agent.

But Conrad will be back on Tuesday.

In the meantime, I am in great hands here.

We had Sam last night.

I know you and Sam don't get along personally, but you're both very professional.

That's news to me, but okay.

I guess I'll keep my

distance.

He badmouthed you all night.

Listen to the podcast, Aaron, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

No, you guys are both awesome.

Thank you so much for filling in tonight.

Absolutely.

Oh my God.

Catherine Lake is here.

Gordy is here of John and Gordy fame.

What is going on?

And he's got a puppet.

That is so unprofessional.

For you to come in here with a, what is that, an ostrich?

Hi, Pete.

I've always wanted to meet you.

Gordy Young, come on in the stream here so people can see.

No.

Oh, sorry.

There's no Gordy.

It's just a puppet.

How are

you?

I'm the cheek.

All right.

Why are you here?

This is a

family show because I'm trying to keep your seat warm for you buddy on Monday.

I'm sorry.

Are you on the

air?

I am on the air.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

And people are listening, and this is just, it's absolute chaos breaking out.

But you're legend and radio, so it's okay.

You raise the Q rating of the show.

Really?

Yeah, you want to have a seat?

Do you like our new microphone setups here?

I do.

With Milton Berle books.

Folks, if you haven't tuned in to John and Gordy, they are outstanding.

They're on every morning here at WMDX from 8 to 6 to 8.

6 to 8,

6 to

8.

I

love you.

I love you too, buddy.

in the most platonic way possible, I assure you.

Nothing is happening.

Do you dig me in the big way?

Is that what you're saying?

You

know, we can talk,

okay, after the show.

What is happening here?

I make a joke about going commando and the next thing I know, Gordy's hitting on me.

It's just a weird sequence of events.

See,

we love

you.

That's great.

Have a seat, man.

No, that's okay.

Yeah, absolutely.

Hey, you want to hear the show I got tonight?

Yes.

Who's on?

So I don't know how.

tied in you are with the world of stand-up comedy.

But comedy legend Rich Scheidner is on the show tonight.

He's also an author.

You've seen him on Letterman, Carson.

He's making the popcorn pick of the week at 6.35 tonight.

And

Rich is awesome.

And he's going to tell, he's got all these great old stories about comics,

like

Henny Youngman, the first Civil War comic, a funny story about Steve Martin.

And he wrote a book about it.

So he's going to come out and talk about

it at 6.35.

And then I've got

Catherine you'll know who this is too.

I

thought Catherine.

Why Catherine should be in here

come

in

here if

she

wants

it's

Madison.

She owns this town come on

in

here Don Rosen

of W. R. J. M.

Really?

Yeah.

Don

and I

like

to get

together and talk about celebrity sightings because Don's had a few of them.

I've had a few of them.

Hi Catherine Catherine

Lake ladies and gentlemen he is the

radio anymore

No, you don't do radio.

You have a great radio voice.

It's good to see you guys.

This is a fun little impromptu

party.

We thought we'd come in and just show you how it's done.

Yeah.

Listen, if you've got a pie

graph or something, I'd love to see

it

because I'm kind of learning it on the job still.

But Gordie Young of the John and Gordie show, mornings here from six to eight

on WMD.

By the way, missing for the last two days, a little illness, but John Peterson without Gordie Young.

Not a good thing.

Sorry, it just didn't work.

There was no structure.

There was no laughter.

You were missed.

You were missed.

Really?

You think so?

I

thought there was drama between Sam and Aaron.

No, it sounds like

this is much.

I'm

going to ask for a raise now.

I didn't know I was that important.

It's like all a big reality show here.

I love it.

We like to have fun.

You

know, that's what it's all about.

Will you guys be part of my question of the night?

I think it's

time for us to do the question of the night.

Was this shared with you, Aaron?

It was

not.

Okay, so let's just go right to

it.

We'll figure

it out.

We don't need an intro for the question of the

night.

Ladies and gentlemen, in honor of National Bucket List Day, the question tonight is what is on your bucket list?

That is the nightlight question of the night.

You gotta go to Africa?

I gotta go to that

continent.

You know, it's funny you mentioned travel because that's the first thing that came to my mind is I'd love to go to Alaska.

I

would

love to go to Alaska.

That's very doable.

Yeah, I know.

I did stand up comedy there in the 90s.

I did at Anchorage.

Really?

Good crowd.

You know what?

It

wasn't a good

crowd.

They were chilly, but there was a great, the show was great.

They were good crowds.

And then we had, there was a band, like a house band that played every night and they were fantastic.

Really?

It's like one of the best weeks I've ever had on the road.

And then I got hell of it for like four bucks because it was Alaska.

I imagine it just like Northern Exposure.

Remember that TV show?

I just, I would love to walk right into a town like that.

Seriously.

Yeah.

That's how you picture it.

That's how I, I don't know if that's real, you know, really the way it is, but that's the way I

picture it.

I mean you get the problems,

but it

was.

I enjoyed myself, but that's our question of the night.

So, Gordie Young wants to go to Alaska, Catherine wants to go to Africa, and it's all about travel, right?

Interesting, isn't it?

Yeah,

I'd like

to go to Italy.

I've

never

really been, you know, and I'd like to win an Oscar.

I probably have a better shot at this point.

Going to Italy.

Yeah, especially since I want to Oscar for sound design, and I know nothing about that.

But that's our question of the night, 855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

Let us know what is on your bucket list.

Why is she leaving bailing?

Why I got it.

We got a text on the stream 92.7 WMDX says we love having Pete at the WMDX studio.

Yes, but that's from WMDX Why don't that?

But sometime why don't you get up early and and crash our show in the morning?

I'm not gonna beg to get up at that hour, but if you say Pete

We've got a spot for you.

Pete, we do have a spot for you.

Come in

tomorrow morning.

Listen, I am staying in like Kettle Moraine.

That's where they put me up.

It's

like I'm in the

western suburbs.

I'd have

to leave now to

get back here somehow.

I don't even

know how that works.

That's like Kettle Moraine.

That's

beautiful.

Beautiful this time of

year.

But if Gordy and Catherine are here and you're in Kettle Moraine and I'm not doing it, who's manning the text line?

That's what I

do.

It's a little paranormal x-files activity.

Yeah, yeah.

Now I'm kind of freaked out.

I'm glad you guys are here.

Who is on the text line?

There's a lot of people.

You get a lot of text from all over the state.

It's amazing.

But you

guys must, too.

You're

like local legends.

You know, Madison is a sleepy little town, so the first hour is, you know, a little spare of text.

Because nobody's up, yeah?

Nobody.

Well, it might be up, but it takes a while for them to get going.

They kind of get their text muscles warmed up.

Yeah.

They got to do

their thumb exercises.

Anyway, it's great to have you here, Pete.

It's fun to be here.

I love

doing the show from the studio.

It's fun to inhabit the same space you guys do.

I love when you guys came on my show.

You did the popcorn pick

last week.

That's

great.

Now, why are you here where everybody's up in Green Bay tonight's the night, the opening night of the NFL Draft?

I would have thought you'd be there, no?

You know, somehow I got talked into, all right, I'm in Calamari and I'm in a tent.

They got me in a tent, but it's nine bucks a night, but they're covering it, so that's good.

No, I told this story last night, actually.

I'm in this hotel, and I check in Tuesday night.

I did the show in Green Bay.

I come down here, and my room smells like weed, like strong.

I'm like, maybe it's in the hall, and it's just wafting in here.

But I asked a security guard who was walking by, and he said, that's coming from this room, right?

And she goes, yeah.

So I had a new room.

But it reminded me of a story, Gordy,

where I was

doing stand-up comedy.

I was working in Winnipeg at a club, and they used to, you know, in the contract.

They put you in this nice hotel, but it's really a room above the club.

Oh, great.

It looks like somebody died in there at some point.

Somebody

owed me, you

know.

But I go in there and it smells like weed really bad and just musty guy smell.

It's horrible.

So I call the club owner and I said, what is the deal?

This really smells in here.

It's terrible.

He goes, really?

Tommy Chong stayed there last week.

He didn't say anything.

I swear to God, that's interesting.

The room smells like Tommy Chong.

That's why

it

smells.

So they moved me to.

They moved me to a

Ramada.

Wow.

I get that kind of stuff.

You know, Tommy Chong is like 86 years old.

I'm serious.

Yeah, I believe you.

He's done well for himself.

He's doing okay.

And it's not from a lack of smoking weed.

I

can, in my own experience, I can share that.

But that is tonight's question, folks.

What is on your bucket list?

Share it with us.

Stream us.

Text us on the app.

If you don't have the Civic Media app, you absolutely should.

It's so easy to use.

Just click the little text icon right next to the station you're listening to and let us know what is on your bucket list.

Aaron Zomers sitting in for Conrad tonight and Conrad stands actually, but

I could stand.

Oh,

well, you don't want to do that.

Why am I supposed

to do this exactly like Conrad does, you know,

I bring my own style.

So

does

Conrad get the night off now?

Yeah, he's at the draft.

Oh, is he?

Yeah, he's

partying hard.

Okay.

He is partying hard, my friend.

This is a pleasant surprise.

Thank you.

Well, it was a surprise.

It's not that pleasant.

Oh, it's good to

see

you

guys.

I never see a

Catherine

anymore

when I come in here.

I know.

And you're already

back

taking a nap, probably.

Well, do you like the new studio here?

Isn't this cool?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

I wish they had left the couch, though.

There's still room for the couch in here.

The problem, I think, is that if you have the couch, it's no longer ADA compliant, because then you can't fit a wheelchair through.

Oh, is that really it?

I believe that is the reason.

So, oh, wow.

OK.

Just get a smaller couch.

That's true.

How about a nice hide-of-bed?

Then I wouldn't ever

stay in Kettle Moraine.

That's right.

A hide-of-bed.

A roll-away bed.

Yeah, exactly.

A Murphy bed.

Yeah, that's what this studio's like.

Hammock.

No, it looks awesome.

I love it.

And it's always fun.

It's fun to look over State Street.

Yes.

So it's awesome.

It's always wonderful to have you in town.

Thank you, buddy.

I'll come on your show anytime you

name.

Okay.

Tomorrow morning, six 20.

Next time I'm in town.

Six 20.

Look at you.

My

God.

I probably you guys are so responsible when it comes to radio.

I know you're already booked.

So I don't want to infringe.

We're booked weeks in advance.

Yeah.

It's hard to get on our show.

It's Gordy young ladies and

gentlemen.

Check out the morning show with John and Gordy.

Will John be back tomorrow?

Hell, I don't know.

We don't

talk.

Did you call

in sick today?

I did.

And

you're here

tonight?

Yeah, I've been a little under the weather the last couple of days.

Oh, thanks for coming in.

It's nothing contagious.

This is

like when you call in sick at school and then the teacher sees you out of the park

or something.

Exactly,

yeah.

It's all good.

That's awesome.

Thank you, buddy.

All right.

Good to see you.

We've got speaking of right there.

Oh, God, not on the neck.

Go home and my wife's going to be.

Well, Gordy had an ostrich puppet

and

she'll like.

She'll be very affectionate ostrich.

I would say

so.

But that's like such a weird excuse like if I had a hickey and I went home and I said to my wife, what actually happened?

She'd go, oh, it's

Gordy's

ostrich.

All right.

Yeah.

That sounds too

weird

to be

made

up.

Yeah.

So I think she'll buy it.

Awesome, buddy.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

Feel better.

All right.

Tune in.

Let's do this.

We've got big changes happening here at Civic Media.

And the new schedule is fantastic, folks.

And speaking of Gordy and John, even though we have a new schedule, you can still hear them six to eight every morning here at WMDX, followed by Stephanie Miller from 8 to 11.

Here in

Madison.

Right.

And then in mind when the mayor are still on in their slot up in Northeast Wisconsin at WISS and WGBW.

So that hasn't changed.

But from six to nine on the network, you can hear Pat Crite low, and that's powered by Up North News.

And before that, it's Pam Yankee with the Farm Report from five to six a.m.

Matt Naranair, Jane and Greg from nine to 11.

The Tom Hartman show from 11 to two.

Todd Alba and my pal Aaron Zalmers, who is here tonight from two to four.

The Maggie Dunn show from four to six and Nightlight.

remains unchanged for now.

It's great to have you with me on this Wednesday night coming to you from Madison.

It's a popcorn pick Thursday night.

And we're coming right back.

What did I forget here?

I'm not sure.

All right, we're coming right back.

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

Network.

Just roll

me up and smoke

me when I die Just roll me up and smoke me when I die

Welcome back.

Tonight Light with Pete Schwama.

Great to have you with me.

I'm live from Madison tonight.

We had a little pandemonium here break out at the beginning of the show.

I can't remember

what

it was.

It was a beautiful thing.

It was like spontaneity, spontaneous.

It was good to see Gordy Young and Catherine Lake stopping by.

That was fun.

So our question of the night, ladies and gentlemen, is what's on your bucket list?

It is National Bucket List Day.

We've all got a bucket list.

Aaron, do you have something that's on your bucket list?

I would really love, funnily enough, since you mentioned earlier, you wanted to win an Oscar for sound design.

I would love to score a movie.

Oh, how fun would

that be?

It would be very fun.

I've written some music.

Really?

I went to school for music theory.

So it is something theoretically within my realm of capability.

I would love to do it someday.

Let

me ask you this.

Does working here with all this equipment in any way help you maybe produce something?

Yes, in a way.

It's definitely just the more audio that I process working here.

I'm able to record stuff at home faster, even though it's recording completely different things.

It has transferred over to some degree.

That's interesting.

That's a great bucket list item.

Score a movie.

And that out of the realm of possibility, like even if it's like an independent film.

Oh yeah, I'm not saying like I need to do the be the next John Williams or something.

Just a movie.

I think that's cool.

So let us know what's on your bucket list, folks, 855-752-484-2855-75 Civic, text us on the app, text us on the stream, YouTube, Facebook, or X. You can let us know what's on your bucket list and we will read it on the radio.

Always more fun when you guys participate in the show.

You know what?

I don't get political on this show because I feel like entertainment brings everybody together, like sports, it's something we can all, you know.

There are Hollywood haters out there.

They're kind of irrational sometimes, but, um, but

I don't get me

wrong.

Exactly.

What do you got against movies and TV?

Give me a break.

But I will say I was prepared to go slightly political today when I was on Todd's show because I saw a comment under a hotel site that had an interracial couple on the ad and they had, it was a white woman and a black husband and, you know, kids that were black and white and the

comments underneath were so hateful enough with this woke stuff.

I'm like, that's woke?

An

interracial couple?

That's been happening for centuries.

People are losing their minds.

I don't get it.

Yeah, it reminds me of, I think it, I don't remember which Star Wars movie, but I think it might have been The Last Jedi when that came out.

And there's literally like a quarter to a half of a second of two women kissing at the end of the movie and people freaked out.

It's like, dude,

Yeah, first of all, it's a galaxy far far away even if even if you don't If you're not with it, I guess in the real world, it's fantasy So I don't get

it all the more reason it's fantasy.

You don't even know what is happening or where they are right hairs But anyway, and I don't get it either because I don't like like there are people that are like done with Springsteen because he

It sings about this or that I'm like have you been listening to his music for decades?

It's

always been like

that.

It's

working man.

It's under like that's who he is Like Vince Vaughn was at the White House the other day I'm still it's not like I'm never gonna watch swingers again or old school.

I mean that just that mentality is so odd to me, but we are We are broadcasting live from Madison tonight folks.

It's great to have you with me at night late Aaron Zahmer sitting in for Conrad Krieger who is at the draft

This is fun.

And I feel like this needs a replay because last week, I think it was last week, actually, Mike did the popcorn, the popcorn pick of the week.

I think Gordy and John did it the week before that.

But Mike talked about how he wrote a song that was very famous in Wisconsin and probably around the country called the Pacarena because the Macarena was popular then.

And we were talking about how I used it in a movie I made called The Godfather of Green Bay and Mike said, I saw that, you know, and you probably don't know this, but I wrote a song.

Called the pack arena and Jane McNair sang on this on the song on the recording And so I think since the draft is in Green Bay right now.

We've got some Green Bay stuff that left over from the Todd Alba show that Aaron was certainly a part of I think we should hear a little bit of that the Mike Clemens creation with Jane McNair on

vocals

That's

hilarious.

I-

Jane has such a great speaking voice sort of so unique.

She does.

She's

kind of great.

That's her singing.

It sounds

nothing That parts her too.

No, it's not it was her broadcast partner at the time Dan Weber But you said Mike Clemens is not credited.

I This is I just found this on a random YouTube video.

This isn't like the you know, the official label release or anything like that So this only mentions those two, but if Mike says he wrote it, I believe he

wrote it

I believe him too.

He has no reason to lie.

And it's not like, I mean, all the proceeds went to charity.

It's not like Mike's getting screwed out of royalties or anything like that.

But

a

very cool thing.

I had no idea about this.

It's just so great.

All right.

Rich Scheidner is coming up in just a few minutes, folks.

He is an author and a legendary comedian.

You've seen him on Carson and Letterman and all the shows.

He's one of the people that really influenced me in my early stand-up days.

Just a phenomenal comic.

He's gonna make the popcorn pick of the week in just a few minutes and then we will talk to him about some really Fun iconic stories about comedians one that involves Steve Martin and lamb chop and it is hilariously funny and then our pal Don Rosen comes by at 720 To talk about celebrity sightings, I'll probably ask Don what's on his bucket list too What do you think son?

Let's do this.

What do you

think is on Don's bucket list on Don Rosen's bucket list?

Yeah

I don't know.

He's already done a lot of stuff to my knowledge.

Let's think about that.

Let's ponder.

Let's noodle.

We'll be back right after Civic Media's award-winning news team keeps you informed.

Folks, this is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome

back.

Ladies and gentlemen, live from downtown beautiful Madison, Wisconsin tonight, looking out over State Street on a gorgeous spring evening here in the state of Wisconsin.

Conrad is at the draft up in Green Bay.

our typical home, Aaron Zommer's sitting in.

Thank you for riding shotgun, buddy.

Conrad will be back Tuesday night and probably, well, very hungover, let's be honest.

But hope he's having a good time.

Our question of the night, it is National Bucket List Day.

What is on your bucket list?

Share it with me, please, and I will read it on the radio.

But right now, it is time, ladies and gentlemen, for our popcorn pick of the week.

And joining me...

to make the popcorn pick of the week, is an author and a legendary stand-up comedian.

You've seen him on... What did you do, Rich?

You did all the shows, right?

Carson, Letterman, all the

big... I did everything I was supposed to do.

I did about 16 Carson's and half a dozen or eight Letterman's and Lennos and HP.

I did everything I was supposed to do then, and I'm still talking to you.

That's what I do.

I

pray on the guys that still need to talk

to me.

I got my hooks in you, buddy.

I'm not

behind a little vultureism.

It's good, man.

So we've got

a lot to talk about, Rich.

You were here a few months ago.

We're going to do the popcorn pick.

And

then I want to hear, I love what

you're

doing on social media.

We'll talk about that too.

But let's start

with a little

conversation about movies.

How do you like

to watch

movies?

You like to go to the theater rich or do you like to be at home?

No,

no, no, I'm watching at home.

We got a great home system.

I think you know the theaters is just the problem is people the problem is people you know to come in they got to be on their phones that I try on it drives me nuts.

I was Bonnie Ray concert last night I I knew this this I haven't been in concert a while but the reason I stopped going is because people singing along with it

Angel from Montgomery, woman right behind me, had to break out the Diane Crow voice.

It was just horrible.

It was horrible.

But I like to sit at home.

I like to sit at home and watch.

And so we got a great system.

and sound system and a great big screen and high depth.

And you know, it's great.

But every once in a while, I'd still like to go to a movie because I can go into daytime.

I'm an old comedian.

We always go into daytime.

We are like, you know, there's certain movies you've got to see big screen.

Absolutely.

Um, and that was the best thing.

I mean, I haven't been a comic in years, but was going to the theater and nobody was there during the day.

So you could stretch out, you know, all

that kind of

stuff.

Yeah.

If

we had phones back then, we could be on our phones, but we didn't even

have them

yet.

So, um, what do you know?

I was going to say, when you go to a theater, I know you're, you're kind of a guy that doesn't take a lot of crap from people rich.

That's kind of your, you're not afraid

to say it,

to say it how it is.

Your reputation precedes you.

When people are talking in a theater, what do you do?

Do you shush them?

Do you threaten them?

Do you give them a

look?

If it's possible, I move now.

Yeah.

Shush them.

I've been far worse.

This has actually happened.

Rick Overton and his girlfriend at the time, Debbie DuPay, my first wife and I, Carol Liefer, went to Westwood Village in LA to see Victor Victoria, right?

Blake Edwards movie, right?

This guy back and he's talking.

I turn very nice.

I mean, but I'm much younger and much angrier.

And I turn, I go, come on.

And he just stares at me.

And then he talks some more.

I mean, he's just talking to a regular boy.

He's like, I don't know what this actor's funny.

You know, I'm like, come on, man.

He's like, no.

And then the third time I turn, he went FU.

And I really went over to chair.

I went over to chair.

I went over swinging.

I grabbed his funny shirt and I was tagging him.

Tagging him and tagging him hard.

And so he finds, all right, all right, he's down on the floor.

And I was like, Hoverton said, my feet were up in the air.

You couldn't even see me.

I was down, down.

And we get up, I get up, I go back to my seat, you know, I watch the rest of the movie.

I mean, I'm done.

It's over and I watch the rest of the movie.

And he moved.

I don't know where he was.

And the end of the movie comes up to me, his shirts ripped, he's holding this little chain.

He says, you got to learn to deal with your anger.

I said, you got to learn to deal with the fact when you say F you to somebody, that starts the fight.

That kind of escalates things where I'm from when I'm from when I'm from when you say that The next thing is a punch.

I mean, I don't know where you're from, but we don't do like 13 f use back and forth, you know, right?

That's where it was.

It's on

but if I'm much different I just move I move I move I did they're talking if I can all if I can move it at all possible.

I just moved that's it That will be the guy down on the bottom of the pile I'm 72 Are you really?

It'll be up there

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Overton was on the show recently.

He did the popcorn pick like five or six weeks ago.

Love talking to Rick.

Are you guys still

friends?

He's great.

Yeah, absolutely.

He's a great guy.

Great guy, great comic.

Improvisational wizard.

Yeah, he's fantastic.

Rich, what's your favorite movie snack?

Like when you're sitting at home or in the theater, do you

change it up?

Popcorn, popcorn, popcorn.

No, popcorn, popcorn.

Popcorn I like butter and I put the yeast on my wife does started then did a yeast on top of the butter and And I and I like it.

Wow butter everything's them everything I everything I eat is just a butter delivery system thought is you know You realize lobster you go lobster man.

Lobster's a little butter and then one time I had lobster without any butter I went lobster is just a butter delivery system In fact, I'll eat shoe leather if you dip it melted butter

That's great.

So you like to watch movies at home.

You like popcorn.

What kind of movies, Rich, like, what's your favorite genre?

What do you typically like to watch?

I tell you the truth.

I mean, my wife and I'll do like, we'll take one director.

We'll just go through that whole director's library.

That's a great way.

So, you know, right.

So it's where whoever it is is John Houston, whatever we just go through them and and but I like the old I'm done right now I'm watching a lot of old pre-code movies So we watch this movie baby face with Barbara Stanwyck young Barbara Stanwyck.

It's really wild man pre-code is pretty interesting because they were really, you know, they were out there in terms of 1930 movie or 1929 movie really out there, but um

Yeah, I like that.

I like that.

But it's, you know, comedies are tough.

You know, we're comedians.

So comedies are tough, you know.

But certain movies, man, just, I mean, you know, Dr. Strange Love, I'll watch again and again and again.

And Don't Look Up, which is kind of a recent favorite movie.

But I generally like...

something with aliens.

If it's a movie about aliens, I want to see the aliens.

Oh, nice.

But yeah, it's sort of like, I don't know, that's what I like.

Do you like, do you find when you watch?

Not just the alien movie, but any kind of space creatures, any kind of

space creatures.

Yeah.

Have you seen a movie called, what's it called?

Battle Los Angeles?

It was, it's Aaron

Eckhart.

No.

It's from like 15 years ago, and it kind of flew under the radar, but it's about Marines.

in Los Angeles and aliens are invading Los Angeles.

Oh, I didn't see that.

I didn't see that.

I didn't see that.

It's great.

I forgot the name of it, but I, it is great.

Yeah.

It is great.

I did see it.

I did see it.

It was

one of those movies I was like, I kind of stumbled on and I was like, well,

I'll give this a

shot and I loved it.

Like my

expectations were low.

No, I remember that movie now.

Yeah, that's a great one.

Rich Scheidner is here, folks.

He's

an author.

We're going to talk about his books and he's got this new thing he does in social media where he tells these

fantastic stories about comedians.

He's here to make the popcorn pick.

What do you think, Rich?

Are you ready to give us a great pick?

A great pick.

A popcorn

pick of the week.

A movie you can recommend.

Let's do a

drum roll.

This is big stuff.

Rich Scheidner, ladies and gentlemen, making the nightlight popcorn pick of the week.

Anatomy

of a fool.

Oh, wow.

Couple years ago.

Yeah, nice.

Yeah, that actress.

Yeah, I know this actress is great She's great.

It's interesting Yeah, it's very artistic.

I mean I Yeah, very nice awesome.

Are you so just came you know when you first said that I came in my head That's it.

So that's one folks if you haven't seen it.

It's only a couple years old You probably stream it just about anywhere great movie Oscar-nominated Best picture awesome pic.

Thanks buddy.

Yeah,

that was great.

Yeah

How are you doing?

So let's do this.

You're in Asheville, North Carolina now.

You left LA, right?

Yes, we live in Asheville, North Carolina.

OK.

So my aunt moved down there recently, like probably right before the floods.

How did you get through that?

Are you doing OK?

And what's it like down there now?

Are people

going through it?

Well, it was wild.

I'm telling you, it was absolutely wild.

Power was out for, I think, like 10 days in our house.

We had a generator, but we didn't have.

I didn't like.

Fill the propane tank before and so it really had to be judicious with that.

What's interesting We had water because given well a lot of people of course they lost electricity lost the water city water, too City water was out for months My neighborhood A lot of trees were on the side of the mountain so it wasn't flooding for us.

It was trees that came down a lot of trees on my property But I got lucky just missed the house missed the car took out fence, but the roads we have a

private community.

So our roads were blocked and all the driveways.

Interesting thing to me was it just sort of ad hoc crew formed the first day to open up the road to through one road goes into community house.

So we had to open that road and we just started and then we worked every day for like seven days.

Every day I'd get up like my job eight in the morning is out there with these guys and chainsaws and I learned that there's a hierarchy.

By the way, Milwaukee Tools is a big favorite.

Milwaukee's high, high, high up on the tool, tool echelon.

And then when it comes to the chainsaws, it's tough to beat steel.

A guy showed up with, what is it that Sears used to make?

I can't remember with their craftsmen.

So everybody's out there with steel chainsaws and he comes out with a craftsman.

And really, I mean, they heckled him off the crew.

He had to go back.

He had to go back and a couple days later.

He finally was able to buy a steel at the hardware store with an open like 340 center But I mean I never saw anybody going like he was shamed his he was shamed for his choice We don't get those leaves off that branch over there But we had so much fun we had so much that just that you know that guy kind of

And it was and it was work every day.

And I you know, you just got to a bond with these neighbors of people, you know, some of these guys I didn't hang out with before.

Right.

And and it was tremendous, tremendous.

But there's I mean, this place is going to be a long time.

They're still cleaning up places.

There are still streams with huge tractor trailers in them where they floated downstream and then got stuck there.

And just there they haven't pulled the debris from all the streams yet that that turned into huge rivers and the rivers that were it was.

Historic a 29 feet crest on the river the biggest before that that they ever Recorded was over a hundred years ago at 22 feet.

So it was seven feet above the record We're flooding it was incredible and there are a lot of a lot of people that There was a guy who just this was really sweet.

He he moved from Pensacola, Florida because he was sick of the hurricanes

Oh my right and he's in this group that I'm in this group that I'm in the stop drinking group and he and he moved up and his friend both of them were Vietnam vets and Tony come on move up here is not a problem in hurricanes so he comes up and he moves to a place called Pensacola North Carolina which is like a few miles north of agile right he's gone his house is gone he's gone never found them there's so many things that got washed downstream washed down river like

he's

passed away later yeah yeah

Yeah, nobody had nobody had nobody had cell phones for us for a few days, right?

So, uh, his friend, I saw him at this place.

We all gathered and he said, uh, I'm going to go up there and check.

I said, you want me to go?

He goes, nah, I just got to go check what he means.

All right.

I'm sure he's all right.

He goes up there.

There's going to foundation that this house is gone and him.

Can't

let's let's pick up there.

We can back.

We do very

sure the water coming off the mountain to cut the cut I'm supposed to do comedy sorry But yes about the flood and that was it.

I'm like what it is now.

Yeah, take a break.

We'll jump break and then and put a Put a bubblegum commercial on something

nice We'll jump we'll jump right back in a comedy when we get back with rich cider a nightlight with peach wabba on the civic media radio network

Welcome back.

Tonight Lights.

I'm your host, Pete Schwabba, coming to you live from Madison, Wisconsin tonight.

Our question of the night is, it is National Bucket List Day.

So what is on your bucket list?

We will read your texts coming up.

My guest right now is the very funny and very accomplished Rich Scheidner.

He's an author and a legendary standup comic.

And he made our popcorn pick of the week, which was Anatomy of a Fall.

Great pick.

And we just kind of ended the last segment on a very, very sad story.

Hey, you know what?

I got some funny ones.

I got some funny.

I got some semi-sad funny.

I wouldn't even count class assignments funny anymore.

Here's where I want to start, Rich.

You post these great stories on Facebook and you call it a history of stand-up comedy.

Is that?

A book one of your books or is a book to be?

No,

I've been written.

I've outlined it.

I have a show that I do a history of stand-up comedy.

Oh, yeah.

So I have all these stories that there's no room in the show.

I do an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and 20 minutes and then do a Q&A.

And there's so many other stories.

So and it covers so many different areas that I started putting them on.

I have a hundred videos prepared.

Wow.

I've been doing it for a while, and I stopped doing it, then I started doing it.

Then I was like, what am I doing with these things?

I mean, I'll just start posting them.

So as these younger people, you know, edit them and get them, put captions on them and get them ready to put on social media.

I've just been posting them.

So here, that's where I like to start is you told that story right

before

you break about your friend.

You have something called, and I watched this one a couple of days ago, deathbed humor.

Can you elaborate on

deathbed

humor?

That's a great one.

Yeah, you know, anybody can be funny when you're young and healthy, you know, but when you're dying and you come up with humor, that to me is, you know, gallows humor, they call it gallows humor.

Gallows humor came from the fact that it's a story, whether it's apocryphal or it actually happened, I have no idea, but a condemned prisoner was walking up the gallows to the hangman's noose.

And his foot creaked on a board.

It just creaked.

And he looked up the executioner said, you sure this thing is safe?

So that's where you get gallows you were from.

I mean, if you would crack a joke while you're facing death.

One of my favorites, W.C.

Fields, who was a great vaudeville entertainer before he became a movie star back in the 30s.

And he was a standup.

And he was on his deathbed.

And he was a noted atheist.

And he had a Bible open.

on his chest and his friend came in and said, WC, you're reading the Bible.

He said, looking for a loophole.

Oh, I love that one.

I mean, I love that kind of stuff.

I do too.

The other one.

Voltaire, you ever hear Voltaire?

You ever hear Voltaire's last words?

Voltaire?

Voltaire's dying and a priest, Voltaire, the French philosopher, he's dying and a priest says.

Are you ready to renounce Satan and both there goes my dear man now is not a good time to make new enemies

That's great, where can people Can people follow you on Facebook to hear these?

Yeah, you're following me on Instagram Instagram tick tock Facebook, of course, you're sure

The other one I like so much I had a guest on recently while I let you do this first.

This is when