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Dells, De Niro, and First Ladies
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Mon Apr 28, 2025
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Welcome back.
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, so great to have you with me on this Monday, this windy Monday night in the state of Wisconsin.
Hope you're having a great day.
We have a great question tonight, and it is who is your favorite first lady?
Text us, let us know what you're thinking.
So far, Michelle Obama is in the lead, I would say, handsomely, but I will read your texts in just a few minutes.
We'll play some catch up there.
Nellie Clues will be here at 7.20.
She's a filmmaker and a director whose film The Dells will screen at the Milwaukee Film Festival tomorrow night and then again next week.
We've been having some fun with the Milwaukee Film Festival guests and all kinds of great stuff going on.
I'm gonna talk about the Accountant 2, which I saw over the weekend, and drop.
But right now, we have a few minutes left with our pal, Zane Lamprey, who is coming to Wisconsin.
You can find out his dates at ZaneLamprey.com, where he will be playing in our state.
We're going to talk a little bit about his TV shows right now.
He's got all these TV shows on.
He's a very busy guy.
Zane, I have to get this out of the way.
I saw recently that you tasted Bull's Testicles.
Where did you get this information from?
On the interwebs.
The dark web, apparently.
I don't know what's going on.
Yeah, for sure I have.
Yeah, those are, you know, Rocky Mountain Noisters, for sure.
Bull testicles.
I have them, you know, sliced and breaded and fried, not like whole.
Do they melt your mouth or is it like...
just are they kind of
tough they're horrible they're just like they're like they're like the worst chicken nuggets they're just like I mean it's I think it's a right of passage and I think a lot of people are really going out there to have these you know for the flavor they're very gamey and and nasty but but you know look so doing my my drinking shows doing my food shows
Sometimes you have to have to eat things for the sake of the show, and that was definitely one of those
things.
Take one for the team, sure.
Yeah,
exactly.
I'm proud of myself for not making a teabagging joke there.
I wasn't sure the latitude, but yeah, continue.
It's best that we did it.
So tell us about Have Fork Will Travel.
This looks like a really cool show and you really get into some great food talk, too.
I mean, you got it all covered.
Food, drinks, it's just all fantastic stuff.
I did, but I don't want to burst this bubble that you've made up.
But these are all things from a time when those kinds of shows
were the staple of many of these networks, travel, food, cooking, a fine living network.
But that's just not the way that it is anymore.
I had a food network, a travel show for Food Network, where I traveled around the world trying different foods.
I did the same thing for drinks.
But there's just not any network that's doing that kind of stuff anymore.
And it's really like a product of YouTube.
where people can kind of go out and keep people their entertainment together or go down the the rabbit hole with with social media and so you know though those shows just aren't it's just aren't really happening and i yeah i did a bunch i did i did a bunch for i did uh... like six or seven different series uh... and had a great time i think i i struck while the iron was hot but now it's it's kind of moved on you know travel channel all they do is like paranormal stuff right now they don't even do travel it's just a weird thing
That is really weird.
Food Network is kind of the only one, but they're sticking with their stars.
And cooking, I don't know that that's even around anymore.
But when it was all happening, I was in the mix and I had some great shows.
And I think I've eaten and drank in 71 countries.
And
yeah,
I got lucky.
And
that's all of those combined are almost as much as we eat and drink here in Wisconsin.
So kudos to you.
That is correct.
So all right, so you've done the hosting thing.
You've done all that.
You're very busy doing 140 stand updates a year.
What do you prefer?
And where do you see your career going?
Like, do you want your own sitcom?
Are you happy just performing live in front of audiences?
Where are you in five years?
I'm never happy, even if I was doing a sitcom.
I would never be.
I wouldn't be.
Not that I'm not happy.
I'm always happy.
I'm never content.
I'm
never content.
I never accept the way that things are.
And I think that's the reason I'm able to keep to stay busy is that I'm always trying to figure out what to do.
I know a lot of people
You know, friends that were hosts at the same time as me are now, you know, they're doing different things.
They're not even in entertainment anymore.
So, I mean, look, I'm happy doing these shows, these stand-up shows.
I like doing them at breweries.
Do I prefer that I was doing theaters and stadiums?
Yeah, sure, that would
be okay.
I
wouldn't be upset with that.
And I'm doing 140 shows a year, but I...
Could I cut that in half?
Yeah, that'd be great.
If I was doing bigger ones, I could do less of that.
But I am happy with what I'm doing.
And there's always conversations about bringing those shows back, whether it's the drinking show, the eating shows.
I had a meeting with the guys who created, according to Jim for Jim Belushi, about doing a sitcom.
There's always stuff in the works, but Hollywood work, it moves at a very strange pace.
And when I'm out here doing
My stand-up shows, I can dictate that pace.
I can be the master of my own destiny, which, you know, all the shows that you mentioned and more, they all got canceled.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I was never me who quit doing those shows.
It's just that the networks changed, then the regime changes.
You know, think, think, move it, move it and out.
I don't have control over that.
So
I do like that.
I feel like the fork was still on my bed.
Yeah.
No, to be honest with you, I think it was about 15 years ago.
See, I have a black and white TV, so that could be part of my problem.
That does, yeah.
That's really interesting you say that, because anytime I've been on a project that didn't go or got canceled, people, I think it's...
how they treat you on the way out.
It's like, listen, we're either going to bring this back, but we know we definitely want to do something with you.
That means we never want to see you again.
We're never calling go away.
So if it's working out for you, if they bring back your shows, I think you're ahead of the game, buddy.
Yeah, look, I mean, I've
I did the show three sheets.
That went off the air.
People loved that show so much that Mark Cuban created Drinking Made Easy.
And then that went off the air.
And people liked that so much that we were able to do a show called Chug for Nat Geo.
And then this other network that was called Drink TV brought back the same
iteration of a show called Four Sheets.
So I've seen it happen four times.
So I'm very optimistic and open to the idea that it comes back.
But in the meantime, I just turned in my book.
I'm writing my second book.
I'm doing stand-up.
When I'm back home, I'm very busy.
So I have a podcast, and it's good.
I like being the master of my own destiny, but I wouldn't mind someone coming in and rocking the boat with something bigger.
Absolutely.
Well, listen, if I can take any credit at all, and I will, for the new picture on your website, it kicks ass, and you're kicking ass.
So keep up the great work, and always good to talk to you, buddy.
Come back soon, and I hope you crush it here in Wisconsin.
If you get near Green Bay, let me know, and we'll have you in the studio.
It'll be fun.
I will.
Yeah, I will.
You'll
get back on the sauce.
You don't want to hang out with me.
I'll do my best.
Keep walking, too.
All right, man.
Take care, Zane.
That's Zane Lamprea.
Check out, I would say check out Have Fork Will Travel, but it's been off the air for 15 years.
That's a guy who kind of prides himself in doing his research.
So we'll have Nellie Clues coming up in just a few minutes, folks, to talk about her documentary, The Dells, which you can see at the Milwaukee Film Festival, which is in full swing.
Let's get to some text.
Our question of the night.
It was National First Lady's Day.
Oh, I forgot to ask Zane who his first lady was, but that didn't come out right.
Who his favorite first lady is.
His first lady.
That sounds very terrible.
But that's our question of the night, folks.
Let us know who is your favorite first lady.
And going to the text line here, Anna from Madison says, Hi, Pete and Todd.
My favorite first lady is Michelle Obama.
She's not afraid to say anything.
She's great.
Totally agree.
Anna, outstanding choice, and Michelle is definitely in the lead.
I would say tonight, Christine from Slinger says, in history, Dolly Madison and Eleanor Roosevelt.
In my lifetime, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama.
Dolly Madison, she's
back to, she must have read a book, right?
I mean...
I
It's gotta be they ain't donuts after she had to be worthwhile as a first lady and Eleanor Roosevelt.
She's she's a butt kicker too.
That's fantastic.
Thank you Christine.
Nick from Marshall says can't pick just one.
I think I would have to say Jill Biden, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.
All right, three fine first ladies.
Well done, Nick.
Thank you.
Tom from New Berlin says, Todd, my ex-wife, she was always president.
Yeah.
Not sure.
We need a comma in there or something, Tom.
I don't want to misrepresent you, Tom.
Tom is an avid texture, and I love his text, but I, yeah, I mean, I think he
Give us some clarification.
I didn't know that but she's again not to go back to the word peculiar but I've heard that she was kind of a peculiar first lady and a peculiar person, but I love that.
Who doesn't love a sance in the White House?
John from Columbia County, that's the 608, I'm sorry.
He says Barbara Bush was a class act.
I think a lot of people agree with you there, John.
Barbara Bush.
I remember hearing a story about Al Franken on a plane with Barbara Bush.
Well, she says, well, you're a great impressionist, Al, but it's nice that you don't have anything you've noticed about my son, George.
And he goes, no, I have something.
He kind of laughs.
He kind of goes... She said, well, I don't think that's very accurate
at all.
Oh, my gosh.
They
got into this argument on the plate.
It was great.
Thank you, John, for the text.
Susan from McFarland says, my first ladies would be Michelle Obama.
However, if you know anything about the history of Eleanor Roosevelt, you would...
would be certainly, she was an amazing first lady.
Boy, Michelle and Eleanor are kicking butt tonight in her little informal poll on the stream.
Daniel is listening and he says, I second that Michelle Obama.
All right, Michelle Obama's our front runner easily.
Hey, I wanted to ask you about, this is a hell of a segue.
they?
Oh yeah, I went to broadcasting school.
Where do you stand on exorcisms, Todd?
Do they work?
Are people actually possessed?
Todd, in his spare time, folks, is a paranormal investigator, a very insightful one, and does great work.
And we've talked numerous times on this show about some of the work he's done.
I love talking to Todd about this stuff.
But there have been movies made.
Where do you stand on
I
But sometimes I do believe in them.
And the one thing that scares me, and this is gonna get kind of deep, but sometimes people who may have mental issues,
Some issues in their life with alcohol and drugs and all that kind of I worry that there might be more there than just Everyday problems, okay, and and I worry that sometimes it's overlooked and maybe there's a little something extra going on there But I do believe in them.
I don't understand why religious
That was my next
else, folks, can you hear about a comic who drinks and walks 50,000 steps
while he's on the phone with cock fights happening behind him?
soup, then
something.
Oh, that's horrible.
That's the voice of Todd Michael sitting in for Conrad.
We are coming right back with filmmaker Nellie Kluzitz, Peach Wabba, and Nightlight.
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Welcome back.
This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba.
I am Pete Schwabba, your host.
So outstanding to have you with me on this.
incredible Monday night here in the state of Wisconsin who is your favorite first lady that is our question of the night the night like question of the night Saturday was National First Ladies Day so
I would say Michelle Obama, wouldn't you say Todd is just way ahead of the pack right now.
Absolutely.
In terms of all around awesomeness.
So we got some Barbara Bush votes.
We got some one for Hillary and Eleanor Roosevelt, I would say, making a good showing.
only one.
Because you're biased because of your name.
know.
I said, I actually had a crush on Dolly Madison, too.
I got to put her up.
You know,
bought those once just because I was curious.
Yeah.
I'm like, what
and I was like,
I do that?
it's terrible.
You know, go, I'm glad I ate that.
All right.
So now folks, we're going to turn our conversations to independent film.
This is exciting.
The Milwaukee Film Festival is in full swing right now, is a great film festival.
And joining me now here at Nightlife for the first time is the creative talent behind the film, The Dells.
My pleasure to welcome director, Nellie Clues.
Hey, Nellie.
Hi.
Thank you so much for having me.
This is great.
It's great to have.
Hey, do you have a first lady, a favorite first lady?
I'm trying to think.
Michelle Obama is a good one.
I kind of like Lady Bird Johnson, if only for the
name.
And she's cool as well.
She's cool, but it is a cool name.
It's hard to... It's like if you had a president named Cobra, that's like the equivalent.
It's kind of a badass name, right?
Yeah.
Well, it's great to have you.
How are you doing tonight?
Are you excited about your screening coming up?
Very, yeah.
I'm so, so excited to share the movie with Wisconsin audiences because it is...
a Wisconsin-centric film and um anyone so far I've showed it to him Wisconsin has a really uh good and interesting take on it you know really yeah
okay well we'll get into that too but first uh before I ask you before we jump into the dels um tell me a little bit about yourself and how did you get to this moment like where did you start out in your career and give us a little background if you would
Yeah, so I I've been making films for quite some time now like all in the realm of observational documentaries Nonfiction film is really what I love working on You know you get to kind of have an excuse to be nosy and meet people and see what they're doing and go different places So yeah, I when I started making this film I was based in the Midwest.
I was in Chicago and then in Iowa City Now I'm in
based in New York, and I'm originally from upstate New York.
And yeah, I've just sort of gradually worked on my own projects.
You know, I tend to work in a pretty sort of small scale way, like myself, doing a lot of the work.
I do collaborate with other people.
But yeah, kind of feeling it out, piecing things together and getting to know a place or a group of people and making it all about it.
So that's kind of interesting.
That's a very caro-wacky and almost approach to, you know, filmmaking.
Are you inspired by different locales, like to tell different stories?
Like, what is your connection to Wisconsin?
Did you have one when you made the Dells or did the story come to you another way?
Yeah, I mean, I had been to Wisconsin, you know, living in Chicago, to Milwaukee and Madison and other places.
But, you know,
I had made another film that was about tourism and kind of people going on contemporary, kind of like tourist pilgrimages to Niagara Falls and some other places.
And all my Midwest friends were like, you know where you should check out is Wisconsin Dells, if you didn't grow up going there.
So I went and I just found the place really inspiring because, you know, there's so much happening.
There's so many like visual layers and so much history and so many different people converging on this.
you know technically pretty small place and
it's so
kind of international um that yeah I was immediately drawn to it and you know I was living not too far away at the time and just kind of made up my business to keep coming back and forth and you know kind of get to know the rhythms of the place some of the people there what was going on.
So all right so your home base right now is New York what what uh what are you working on now?
Um, well, I'm working on a lot of screening and distribution stuff for this film, which has been really fun and exciting working on some new projects.
And then I, um, that I'm sort of in the beginning stages of, uh, and then I also do camera work for other people's, uh, other people's projects.
Nice.
I saw too that you lived, you taught film in California at Cal Arts and then also in Iowa.
So did you, have you ever learned anything yourself?
teaching film to others?
For sure.
Yeah.
I mean, it's really helpful to have to explain why you're doing something to other people or why you think you should do things a certain way or hear, you know, other options.
But yeah, teaching is super inspirational and, you know, there's lots to be green from just the things that students know or questions they ask.
So I do really like teaching and yeah.
A shadow tall, there's some really wonderful faculty members and teachers at UWM in Milwaukee who are doing a great job there in the film department.
They've got a cool scene, I think.
Yeah, they certainly do.
And I love talking to, and I had to ask you that because I love talking to people who make films, but also actually teach film.
I think that's such a unique and cool existence.
So.
This is my guest, as Nellie clues, her screenings for the Dells, which we'll jump into after the news.
I want to hear all about it.
It's this great story about people coming from all over to work in the Wisconsin Dells, and we'll get more details on that.
But the screenings are April 29th, 6 30 PM at the Oriental Theater, and then May 6th, 3 PM at the Downer Theater.
So two outstanding venues.
Have you been to those theaters yet?
Have you ever seen anything
there?
I've seen, I know I've seen the Oriental Theater, but I have
not
been, I don't think I've ever been to a film there.
So.
It's so beautiful.
It's like majestic.
It's gorgeous.
Are you going to do a Q and A at either venue?
I unfortunately can't.
No.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
So I wish I, I really wish I could be there, but.
All
right all the more reason that I'm gonna pepper you with questions after the news because we'll do our own little Q&A here and We'll jump we'll jump into the film the Dells with its director Nellie Clues.
She is here over the stream with us We'll ask her and hear all about her film the Dells which you can check out at the Milwaukee Film Festival John on the text line from Columbia County the 608 he says by the way, I make Bernie look conservative
There's a few of those listeners here at Civic Media.
Thank you, John.
Who's your favorite first lady?
Get in on the fun.
We are coming right back for more with Nelly Clues.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back.
That's...
That would be the background music for my life.
If I could have that just follow me places.
here people go who's this dude coming?
I like this.
Tomorrow night a nightlight Milwaukee Anchorman from CBS 58 and Marinette native son Mike Strahler will be here in the studio sitting next to me.
I'm so jealous
Oh, yeah, that's right
He was on, I think channel two at the time.
And then he went down to Milwaukee.
Just one of those guys that I've always had a lot of respect for, cause I wanted to be a news anchor or a weather guy at one point, you know?
So I'm really jealous.
Please get some pictures with him.
He's a
Marinette, I don't like him that much.
He's a native, a Marinette native son.
I'm a transplant.
So we'll have, he's kind of like my homie.
We'll have that to talk about.
studio in Green Bay tomorrow night.
So that'll be fun.
And then.
Founder of the Sogo Film Festival, Miles Kristen.
What did I say?
guys ever.
We could be homies.
We could pretend we were more exotic.
Our question of the night, who is your favorite first lady?
Let us know.
We'll read your text on the radio, but right now.
It's time to talk movies again.
My guest is Nellie Clues.
She is a filmmaker and her film The Dells is playing at the Milwaukee Film Festival tomorrow night.
And then again on May 6th at 3 p.m.
But tomorrow night is at 6 30 at the Oriental Theater.
So Nellie is with us now over the stream from New York.
Nellie, it's so great to have you here tonight.
Thank you for being with us.
Yeah, my pleasure.
So all right.
So tell us about the film.
What is The Dells about?
So it's kind of a group portrait of a lot of the international students, the J1 student workers who come to the Dells in the summers, and also at other times of year, but my film focuses on the summer, to work at, you know, the water parks, motels, fast food restaurants, and it's kind of seeing the place through, you know, their
sort of experiences to an extent um and kind of seeing what they think of this place and what they get up to um and kind of their experience being kind of fish out of water uh in a place they've never really been before most of them.
What is their experience?
I mean do they do they like it?
Is it a favorable experience for the most part?
I mean I obviously can't speak for everyone you know lots and lots of different students come from different countries and I only got to know some people and
But, you know, I think it's a mixed bag.
I think it's, on the one hand, amazing to go to a new place and meet friends from all over the world.
And, you know, it's really novel and exciting.
And, you know, then there is, you know, you're working a lot.
People are working really long, kids are working really long hours.
And it can be kind of difficult and it can be kind of not totally what they expected in that way.
Like there's a sense that it's going to be so kind of glamorous and
It's exciting, fun summer, and I think it is a lot of hard work, and they do face a lot of challenges in that way.
That's interesting.
Where did this idea come from?
People told you about the Dells, but this is another level like you're kind of doing a deep dive into that world sort of with these workers How did you like with every documentary filmmaker?
There has to be that moment where you go I'm gonna spend multiple years of my life working on this or a long amount of time whatever it is What was that moment for you?
And what was your inspiration for making the film?
I think what I
Excuse me.
I think when I visited for the first time to kind of check out the place and see if there was possibility there, I just saw so many of these students kind of walking around and just immediately thought that that would be something that could sustain, could sustain a film and could sustain my interests.
And then, you know, not just those students and their social world, but, you know, Wisconsin Bells is a place that I just find, you know, it's kind of designed to
generate novelty and generate um kind of like you know excitement and a little bit of escapism and so I did find that for such a small place you know there's a huge density of people coming in um and so it just was always generating new possibilities so every time I would go I would meet new people um catch up with people I'd already met find out about interesting you know local people and businesses so it just kind of kept giving new possibilities so uh
That was what I liked about it.
Was it hard?
Did they all want to talk to you or was that a struggle getting people to come on camera and talk?
Like, were they worried about anything or apprehensive?
Yeah, I mean, not everybody wants to take part in the film.
And, you know, I was just going to ask and explain a little bit about what I'm doing.
Some people I developed friendships with and spent more time with some people who are in the film.
It was just like a quick.
sort of encounter conversation that we had.
I got to know a couple of local taxi drivers who drive people around in like van, little like minivan taxis in the gels, and those guys were both really awesome, really...
welcoming hosts to a lot of the students that are driving around, especially this one taxi driver, this guy Jason who's wonderful, gives a lot of advice.
So that was a useful place and an interesting place to spend time, always getting new people learning about what goes on and what they should do to navigate.
That's so great.
My guest is Nellie Clues.
Her film, The Dells, is playing at the Milwaukee Film Festival at the Downer Theater on May 6th and at the Oriental tomorrow night at 6.30 p.m.
Have you seen the film with an audience yet?
I have,
I
have.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag.
I've gotten some...
Really good responses to the film.
I've sent it to a lot of the students or everyone who's in the film as long as I can, you know, contact them.
Um, so that's been really interesting to hear their responses.
Um, I've shown it, uh, we did like a secret screening before the premiere, like in Madison at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
And that was really, that was really amazing because, you know, people who, um, have spent a lot of time in the Dells have a different take, like I was saying, and people were really interested in like,
you know, what's your favorite ride?
Like, you know, they just have like a more in-depth, uh, knowledge and they're seeing a place they knew, you know, maybe in a slightly different way.
So that's really fun.
And,
you know, and I'm
sure there's audiences in Europe who just find it like so novel and strange, like the kind of American kitsch aspect of it.
I
think it's
like...
even more stands out even more to them.
So it's really interesting depending on people's what they're bringing to it, what they get out of it.
Are you seeing like the response you'd hope to get when you started the project?
Like, is it kind of what you thought it would be or did it evolve into kind of a different project, maybe more comedy or more heartfelt stories or where is it now compared to where when you started out?
Yeah, I mean, I think I think it's a I think it's a fun film in that, you know, a lot of young people kind of roaming around.
You know learning There's like quirks of what they're learning about the culture that they didn't already know and you know, there's comedy there I do think it turned out like a little bit more Serious than I expected and in some respects because of what was saying about people kind of having a hard time having to put in a lot of work hours and You know, I also filmed
It's not really super explicit in the film, but I filmed during 2020 and 2021 when
there was a
lot fewer students because of COVID, obviously, it was harder to travel.
So the people that were here, you know, parks were closing down.
They were kind of having to scramble to figure out something else.
And there's a lot there.
And then, you know, now.
After having made the film you know there's a lot in the news about international students getting visas revoked
you
know
pretty
arbitrarily and you know they're they're kind of vulnerable like they come here as guests and.
You know it I think that was made clear to me when I was making the film in one way and then now it's kind of come true in a different way so.
makes me think differently.
Did the Dells, did any of the establishments or hotels or restaurants have any issues with you talking to the employees?
Was it was it hard to get releases or did you have to go through that process?
I mean, I mostly focused on spending time with students who wanted to be in the film, like in off hours when they weren't working.
There's there's definitely scenes of people working at various like hotels and restaurants and things.
But, you know, the big water parks, like they don't really, why would they really want someone to come around and
you know, come in and bother them with a camera.
So they were a little less like open.
And so mostly it's, yeah, like, I met some really great business people and got to know a lot of local folks.
But the main meat of what we were filming was sort of off hours, hanging out at dorms, parties in between going to Walmart a lot and riding around on the taxi.
Yeah.
So what like the people that come over here, the students, what are they hoping?
Do they just want the experience of being in America for a while or are they hoping to end up staying here?
Are they trying to get experience in the service industry?
What kind of people come here?
Yeah, it's a mixed bag.
I mean, for the specific program, the summer work travel programs through the State Department, you know, there's lots of different sort of rules and regulations, but.
Basically, you have to be a call you have to be some kind of college or university student like whether undergraduate or masters or something So people have that in common and I think it really varies some people are like Yeah, really curious about America and excited to experience what goes on here People want to improve their English.
They want to make new friends
um, you know, maybe you can make pretty good money if you have like a server job or something like that.
Right.
A little bit less so at these like housekeeping jobs and things.
They really don't pay well.
Um, so, you know, a variety of reasons, but I do think people are united who come, the students that I met were, you know, excited and curious to kind of see, you know, in the U S we kind of export a sense of like, yeah, kind of glamour or like opportunity.
And I think that that really
has worked to a large extent um historically and it is a place that draws people um and then of course they come to one very specific place which is not like a lot of other places in the u.s so they kind of they they get something kind of different but um unique
what's the uh do they have a or maybe did you find that they have a sense of what did they think of wisconsin like did they like
Being here.
Yeah, I mean again super varied.
It depends, you know, like it depends on your job.
It depends on your housing situation People I talked to a lot of students who are really struck by how beautiful it is here, you know in the nature and all of this and people were very like A lot of people commented to me about how many thunderstorms there are and all the time It's like,
you
know, it's this constant cycle of thunderstorms in the summer
and you know like it depends like anywhere you go on who you meet you know some people are making great local friends and some people have like a boss who's you know being a jerk to them and so it really you know it's very varied um and but I think
I think a lot of people do develop an affection for the place.
Okay.
So I always ask people what they come on, what they're watching.
You're a filmmaker, you do docs.
What do you watch on TV when you're not busy planning a project or in the throes of a project?
Oh my gosh,
binge watching anything?
I'm not binge watching anything, but
I do sometimes like to, I'm meaning to rewatch the show, like a lot of the show, Cheers.
Not all of it, but I did that a while ago and it kind of just goes down really easy.
And I think it's a great show.
And I
like stuff about groups of friends and like, you know, kind of a hangout show where you don't have to, it's not really about the plot continuing.
The sitcom style kind of is a nice background thing to have.
I totally agree.
It's funny you say that too, because I always watch.
like I'll pick I'll go through a sitcom when I'm just laying in bed on my phone and I'm on cheers right now and I'm just totally
I mean, I watched it when it first came out, but that show is such a treasure.
So it's funny that you mentioned that.
I'm with you on Cheers.
But hey, thank you so much, Nellie.
It's been great getting to know you.
Good luck with your screening.
Yeah, thank you
for having me.
Absolutely.
Our pleasure.
Good luck.
Break a leg.
All right.
Thanks.
That's Nellie Clues.
Check out the Dells screening tomorrow night at the Oriental at 6.30 and May 6th at the Downer at 3 PM.
When we come back, we'll wrap all this up.
We'll read some texts.
And I'm finally going to tell you about these movies I saw.
Very excited folks.
Don't go anywhere.
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We are in the closing moments of this Monday night show.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's been absolutely majestic, spectacular having you be part of the show.
Thank you for all your texts.
Thank you to Nellie Clues for joining me and Zane Lamprey, who is probably still walking.
I would only guess.
It sounded like he was only at about 40,000 steps.
Wow.
Whenever someone walks that much, I'm like, they either do it.
Because they're that's their exercise.
They want to stay in shape obviously, but also Like maybe they can't give up big max like he's got you know what?
I mean like he has to walk that much to maintain But that's a lot that's hard as you get older.
I Think Mino was telling me once he took a walk out here and he was so proud of himself He walked for an hour and he gets back and he looks at his Fitbit or whatever was because he burned 130 calories like it's like not even a ho ho
So you got you got to do go the extra mile So I wanted to okay, let's let's finish up We've got a couple texts here, and then I want to play a clip for you guys that I thought was really cool that I found last night But our question of the night was who is your favorite first lady in honor of National First Ladies Day, which was Saturday Jim from Appleton.
That's the 920.
He says I have to go I don't know if he's listening at the beginning of the show, but this is eerie and peculiar He says I have to go with Abigail Adams
And Dolly Madison, both strong women, steering their husbands toward women's rights.
Yes.
Again, that's a guy that must have done a lot of reading.
that?
you know, I just
probably should, right?
I mean, that's stuff we should know.
Todd, please.
If this is like a once a month podcast, I'll read up on all the first ladies.
I cannot be reading and doing all this research before every show.
Steady Eddie in the 608.
says Pete, combining Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics means the past, the present, and the future all exist simultaneously.
So in another time, in a universe far, far away, I, Steady Eddie, am the 599th president of the United States.
My wife is Betty.
So my favorite First Lady is Sweaty Betty, wife of President Steady Eddie.
It's going to be beautiful.
First Lady Sweaty Betty will be honored and appear on the trillion dollar bill.
President Steady Eddie.
P.S.
Yes, Pete, in case you're curious, Canada does become our 51st state.
Hey there.
A little wacky-to-backy to Steady Eddie.
I don't know.
You know, he could just be a free-wheeling, kind of fun-loving guy.
is about drugs,
true.
You know.
It is true Dave on the stream says Teddy's horse for me All right, I don't get that theodore Roosevelt
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
go.
I got I got that's so weird He said Teddy and I immediately went to Franklin Teddy Roosevelt is one of my favorite presidents ever that guy was really Yes, and I'll tell you
you know sure founding the parks and the guy
resigned as the undersecretary of the Navy to lead a charge up, I think it was San Juan Hill, like those guys don't exist anymore.
They'll send other people's kids into battle.
Don't make
me go off the top, I will listen, I will make this show
political now.
No, so all right, thank you Dave for the text and thank you all for your texts.
All right, I gotta play this clip, because I found this last night, I didn't know this, Robert De Niro auditioned for the Godfather, did not get a part.
Coppola did not cast him.
And as history shows, he played young Don Corleone and Godfather II and won a Best Actor Oscar for that.
But I found it was posted somewhere, this audition of him, De Niro auditioning for the role of Sonny Corleone, which went to James Kahn.
And here is Robert De Niro's 24 second audition.
You're gonna take both of them out on me.
You're gonna take them and you know what they're gonna do to you.
And you know what you're doing, you knock somebody off.
You take a gun, you shoot them right up against his fucking head.
That's what you do.
You get his brains all over your nice new Ivy League suit, Michael.
That's what happens.
I know you can do it.
All right, you prove it to me.
You can do it, God.
Prove it.
They're all laughing.
That's so great.
I mean, listen, he probably would have been a great sonny.
Yes.
But James kind of sonny.
That's the way it happened.
You can't picture anybody else.
I don't know, I think that's fantastic.
And DeNiro certainly did okay by himself too.
Brian from Green Bay says, why am I hearing Todd?
So confused.
We're not hearing Todd.
Brian, I hear Conrad.
What is this?
It's the wacky-to-backy again.
So I saw, I just, a very quick thumbnail, I saw these two films over the weekend, The Accountant Part Two.
Ben Affleck plays an accountant.
And if you saw Accountant Part 1, which I really liked, I thought it was good.
This one was kind of brutal.
Like, the caper parts of it are fun.
And John Berenthal plays his long-lost brother.
They're both badasses who have been trained militarily by their father.
And those parts of the movie were good.
But Ben Affleck talks in this, like, weird accent.
Like he's trying to throw himself into the character even more and he says stuff to John Berenthal like when when the whole movie's over.
He's like, what are your plans?
Like he's like he's trying to talk like how people on the spectrum might talk it was so Awkward and he does it on and off throughout the movie and he didn't do it in the first account Really weird.
I I've never been able to get on board with him as an actor But I like his directing and then I saw drop which was good.
Have you seen drop time?
I have not
A woman, a widow, out on her first date gets all these threatening texts dropped onto her phone and she's trying to figure out if it's the guy, her date.
Or I think when you drop on someone else's phone, it has to be within like 50 feet or something
that.
So they're in a restaurant, she's trying to figure out who it is, throughout the course of the movie.
Really liked it, but got crazy at the end.
And I see that so often, like even in the accountant too, the last shootout.
They're just running and shooting, and there's like 50 guys shooting.
I'm like, really?
Nobody hits them?
I mean, I'm a bad shot, but jeez.
little crazy at the end, but I did enjoy it overall.
Brian says Liberace.
All right, folks.
Thank you for being with us here on nightlight tonight.
Thank you to the guests, the texts.
You guys are awesome.
Thanks for being part of the show.
We'll be back tomorrow night to do it all again.
Mike Straylos here.
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Peach Wabba nightlight on behalf of Todd Michaels.
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