Popcorn Pick with Dobie Maxwell(Hour 1)

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And now a guy still not convinced computers are here to stay, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I have something in my throat there.

You know what it is?

It's gelato.

I was going to say, is it

gelato?

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm having a little gelato.

It's a Thursday night.

It's the Christmas Eve of weeknights.

And I'm in casual mode.

It's like basically casual Friday.

Just having some gelat.

It's good stuff.

And you know what?

And it should be like Happy Gelato because they're open again, but this weather, I'm telling you, I've about had it.

I can't, I almost woke up this morning and I was gonna take a walk and then I go out in my living room and it's raining.

And I just wanted to crawl in bed.

I wanted to crawl back in bed and do the show from bed.

That's how, that's the mood I'm in.

Like this has been like the suckiest spring that I can remember.

Yeah, I mean yesterday it was I was wearing shorts, you know, and I was sad when I had to put pants on again today You

had a sniffle while you're putting your pants exactly, but it's you're kind of winter shorts guy anyway to a degree This is getting you know, it's

the rain's hitting your legs then it's kind of cold and get your

leg hair all wet exactly look

all the way around, even in downtown Green Bay.

It's fantastic.

This is fun, folks.

We have a great show tonight.

It is great to be on the air talking with all of you, building a community here through entertainment, through movies and TV and music and comedy.

Let's connect here tonight and really get this thing done because we want to go into the weekend feeling good.

There's some great movies out there.

There's some big movies opening this weekend and lots to watch on TV.

If the weather is going to be like this,

I say, I'm gonna stay and watch TV.

Checkmate mother nature, that's what I say.

So we'll cover all this kind of stuff tonight.

In fact, it's Thursday and that means there's gonna be a popcorn pick of the week.

A new pick that you can check out this weekend and making that pick will be my pal, Dobie Maxwell.

He is a Wisconsin based comedian.

He's an author.

He did radio for years.

This guy is a show business, just a workhorse.

And hilariously funny.

He'll be here at 6.30.

We'll talk to Dobie.

We'll get his popcorn pick of the week.

He has a new comedy special he wants to talk about.

We'll certainly bring that up as well.

And then at 7.20, my pal Jim Healy from Jim is one of the program directors at UW Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

And the word cinephile gets thrown around a lot.

Jim is an absolute cinephile.

A couple years ago on Facebook, he posted that he watched almost 800 movies in one year.

Now, he has to do that to some extent for the Wisconsin Film Festival, but he's just a movie buff, and he is very knowledgeable and really fun to talk to about film.

So we'll do that.

We'll dabble into a little Gene Hackman at 720, maybe some Michael Mann on the heels of our conversation last night with Mike Schmidt.

Maybe we'll touch on David Lynch and

He'll tell us what he's been watching, too.

I know he saw Sinners.

Have you seen Sinners?

I have not seen any of the big releases yet, you know?

I want to go see that and Thunderbolts.

Yeah, Thunderbolts reviewed well.

It got like high 80s on Rotten Tomatoes, but I feel like they kind of grade Marvel movies a little differently.

I feel like they just did not like Marvel movies, the critics kind of put bad reviews on them most of the time.

Yeah, but I mean what are I mean the one with

I'll admit the Captain America movie that came out was bad

So that one deserved

it but

and that you know what countered that I want to say if I remember correctly got about a 50% a rotten tomato and that's not panning it It's just not fresh, but it's not like You know, I don't know I I don't know how I feel about that But anyway, it got good reviews, but sinners is like crushing like it typically folks when when a movie opens big

And let's say it makes $100 million of the box office.

If the next week it makes like $40 million or $50 million, that's still considered a healthy gate and not huge drop-off.

And especially in the horror genre, which sinners is in that realm, there's an even bigger drop-off typically.

Well, sinners set a record last weekend.

It made like $45 million in its opening week and it only dropped off 6% in its second week.

So that is

insane, crazy word of mouth.

And it's a vampire film.

And Ryan Coogler just has a magic touch.

Everything that guy makes, whether it's Creed or Black Panther, he's got it.

He's a very good filmmaker.

So I'm very excited to see Sinners.

I'll probably see Thunderbolts at some point, but I have to say Sinners is probably first on my list.

And I haven't seen a good vampire film in a while.

So I'll probably check that out.

You know, the last good vampire movie was Renfield.

Wait.

Oh, you're joking.

What

does Ren feel like?

That's

the

Nick Cage movie.

Spacing out.

Oh, dear God.

The Nick Cage with, I can't think of his name.

Let

me go to the Google quick.

Yeah, go to the Google.

I kind of remember that, but I don't really remember that.

There is a new Nick Cage film opening this weekend, too, called The Surfer.

He takes his son back to surf where he surfed as a kid.

And as it turns out, it's been taken over by tough guys surfers.

And you might be laughing at that, the idea of tough guy surfers, because I did too.

When I lived in LA, I kind of laughed when somebody alluded to the fact that surfers were tough guys, because on the surface, at least, they don't seem like that.

They just seem like chill and riding waves, but they're extremely territorial.

And that was news to me.

That was an education.

So this movie, The Surfer,

Think it looks pretty good and it got good reviews, so I'll probably check that out, too So sinners and surfer I think are on my list,

so it was Nicholas Holt

Oh Nicholas Holt.

Oh, he's all over the place

Yeah, he was the he was Renfield's like he played his

assistant or something like that

and yeah, so It was a good movie though.

I enjoyed it.

It was it was a fun movie I got a rotten

tomato that because I remember that being out but not seeing it or

You know on Google users 72% like this movie.

Okay.

That's pretty good 58 58 and rotten tomatoes.

Yeah That's not awful So lots to watch especially if we're gonna have crummy weather.

I know Sunday is supposed to be like 60 and sunny so that'll be fun But we also I need to get to we had a couple of texts come in overnight from our pal bud

who listens between four and six when he's tossing papers out of his van.

I think that's how he described his gig.

But these came in very early, 4.27 a.m., very admirable bud.

Bud does more between four and five a.m.

than most of us do all day.

And hopefully he wasn't getting rained on this morning.

He says, Peechwaba, man who can fart in any key, ha, love your show, bud from Janesville.

Boy, I already regret bringing up that fart walk thing last night.

I just, I went there and I haven't really gone there with the show, but it was so silly to make the term is go have a fart walk, get rid of the, you know, it's supposed to be healthy.

And you just don't, you don't need to make it clinical.

It's like, you got to rip one, go outside and be a gentleman.

We don't need to give it a name or a title for medicinal

purposes.

A gentleman's walk?

A

gentleman's walk, that's great.

I love it.

But texted us again, he says, Hey, Pete, in my pocket, that was last night's question of the night.

What's in your pocket?

A beer bottle cap and my car keys.

Probably not a good combination.

Love your show, Bud from Jamesville.

But you know what?

At that hour, I'm not encouraging anybody to drink and drive, but I don't know.

Just make sure the papers get to where they get to.

And thank you for listening and thank you for the text, buddy.

Great to hear from you.

Ed in Madison says, keep up the good work.

You are awesome.

That might have been meant for Maggie though.

And then Brian from Green Bay, that's the 920 says, OK, Yoko doing the show from bed.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah, I'm not above that.

Right.

If this weather continues, I will find a way to do nightlight from my comfortable warm bed because this is getting ridiculous.

I don't blame you, Brian, but I'm not saying you're innocent either.

All right, that catches us up.

But I think we should get to the 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 your favorite or least favorite emoji?

We are just the emoji culture.

Even in business emails now, people put an emoji at the end of something.

And that fascinates me.

I remember as early as like, I don't know, 2009, 2010, whatever, if another man sent me a smiley face, I felt weird.

I wasn't comfortable with that, but now, look at me, I'm Mr. Emoji.

Laffy face, thumbs up, disco guy.

I'm like, so I've totally become part of the culture.

I've embraced emojis, but I don't know how I feel about it.

So.

What is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

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What is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

Do you have one?

Do you

want me to be serious here?

I don't care.

I like

the middle

finger emoji.

Really?

Sent it to all my friends all the time.

You know what?

I went through a phase a few months ago where I'd seen one too many people flipping off the camera and posting it on social media.

I'm like, enough.

This is stupid.

Like, OK, you're a rebel.

I get it.

Relax, easy rider.

But then I found a picture.

I was going through an old bin of pictures.

Trying to find my light blue tux picture for when for when my straila was

here

and I couldn't find it But I found a picture of me in college with another guy and we're both flipping off the camera.

So I am a total hypocrite I admit that So but I think what I where I was going was I think it's funnier in emoji form.

It is funny looking emoji

it is and I'll say this with the you know flipping off the camera and

It's funny when you just are scrolling down like Facebook or something, and that's what comes up.

Like, did you really have to share that to... Right, you didn't need

to post that.

Yeah, you did.

You're not breaking your ground.

I will say it.

Probably the most used one, though, is the laughing one.

I

send it when things aren't even that funny.

Just to make them feel better.

Ellen DeGeneres used to do a great joke about how people would put in parentheses, ha-ha.

After they wrote something like, you wouldn't have figured it out.

If you have to say, ha-ha, there's probably not a great

joke to

begin with.

But yeah, I totally get that.

So that's what we're talking about tonight, folks.

That's our question.

What is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

Feel free to chime in and we will read your text on the radio.

That's always fun.

I'm already anticipating what Bud is gonna say at 4.30 in the morning or where his head will be.

the newspaper when it comes to the newspaper.

Exactly.

Um, I read this in, uh, our favorite, uh, hard news website, puberty.

Here we go.

Uh, 65% of people say they're afraid of phone calls.

You know, honestly, I, I don't answer phone calls that I don't know because I don't either.

Obviously they're trying to sell you something or whatever,

but I'm not afraid.

Are you

afraid to answer?

Yeah, what if they tell me something and then I believe it?

You don't trust yourself.

I had one one time that said, I think I was around, I don't know, 17 or something around there and said I was in debt.

I was like, what?

I'm in debt.

How do they know that?

They don't.

Who is this?

They just, they're trying to get money.

All right.

So that's what we're talking about, folks.

What is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

That's tonight's question of the night.

It is a popcorn pick Thursday night.

Dobie Maxwell will be here making that.

And Jim Healey and I will talk great directors in the second hour.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And we'll continue with this after the break.

This hate picking up phone calls.

I think I'm with you.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

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I'm trying to time that last bite of gelato with the end of the break and it didn't really work out very well.

I got one of those headaches now.

Hey, it's Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight.

Welcome back, folks.

Great to have you with me on this rainy, horrible, miserable spring day in Wisconsin.

I know I'm usually like a pretty positive guy, but I've really had it.

I'm done with this weather.

And we were talking about during the break, and I probably should have brought this up on Monday, but it completely slipped my mind.

Shadr Sanders.

Oh, we got a phone call.

Conrad's like...

It's very similar to like when I get to a punchline when I'm with a table full of people and right as I'm about to say the punchline the waitress walks up and I have to restart the whole story So, um, was that for me?

Just had to do I have to take some tools to the

problems with the phone again I'm just gonna eat.

I'm just gonna eat yogurt all night or gelato.

Sorry All right.

Our question of the night folks is what is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

Ed from Madison says, you're awesome too, but yes, that was from Maggie.

That's all right, Ed.

Maggie is awesome.

I kind of figured that, but I just thought it was good to read a positive text, regardless of who it was directed to.

Lori from Hayward says, favorite ones, Lori from Hayward.

I don't see emojis though, do you?

If you scroll down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's some emojis there.

That's kind of a funny one.

It's the happy face with one eye closed and the tongue out.

Now whoever designed that is really doing a deep dive because I don't think anyone's ever made that face like most emojis are based on a face a smile tears coming down whatever This is interesting Laurie because I've never seen an actual person make that face

you know it is I Think most emojis aren't actually based on it's like something you wish you could do but you can't

you don't think there's a bunch of guys in lab coats

getting people to make faces and doing scientific research.

This is clinical now.

Could be.

It's like the fart walk.

There we go.

That's the one I like.

And then she sent another one.

Laurie sent another one with a tongue sticking out and eyes like going all googly.

That's a funny one.

I

think that looks like a dog.

The tongue out one?

Yeah, the tongue out with the sad eyes kind of thing.

Okay.

If you have an emoji and you want to share it with us, folks, we can share it on the stream.

So feel free to do that.

Thank you, Laurie.

Those are awesome.

We've got, oh yeah, the phones are going haywire.

What's the deal?

What if we have to make an emergency call?

We probably should use our personal cells, then.

No, that's going to be affected, too.

Mike, on the social media, he texted a microphone, a movie camera.

a box of popcorn and a star.

I assume that was specifically geared toward nightlight because of what we talk about in the subject matter.

So that's awesome, Mike.

Thank you.

Mike also texted me the other day and he said, you no doubt know Mike Strelow is from Marinette.

He keeps just having my back.

But I'm like, how in the dark would I have to be to book this guy on the show?

and have no idea Mike had a connection to

Marinette.

And have him take the Marinette quiz.

And have

him take the Marinette quiz.

Mike's awesome.

He always helps me out.

He's found us a few guests, actually, and he was an extra in the Godfather of Green Bay.

Yeah.

He was the guy who was squatting in the woods.

I know, I mean, it was phenomenal acting, but he was a real sport and a great guy.

Matt Harper on social media, oh, he gives, he gives, was that the rock and roll sign, the two fingers up?

You got the pinky and the index finger and then your thumb is holding down the two middle fingers.

I think that just means rock and roll Conrad, did you see Matt Harper's?

Yeah, it's rock and roll rock star rock star because the other ones hang loose with it's just the thumb and the I use that one.

Yeah, I like that one.

Yeah, I can dig it Thank you Matt awesome rock rap artist love Matt JB Thompson guy behind the guy Dan Davies has the best collection of emojis Dan has been on the show and Dan says coolio

If a guy uses the word Coolio, I guarantee he uses emojis.

Oh, yeah.

That just lends itself, that kind of language.

And he says, Dan Davies, please share one.

And I think Dan shared a kitty cat or something, a kitty cat rocking, rocking out.

I think this is just a personal conversation these two gentlemen are having on our text line.

But thank you for playing, guys.

Nicky Serge have our pal Nicky.

Miss her so much.

Least favorite.

Thumbs up.

She says, I loathe this emoji.

Boy, that's a strong.

I'm kind of indifferent.

It's like, all right, it's an emoji.

I don't love it or hate it.

But, you know, I guess he hates

it.

She probably doesn't like it because instead of getting an actual answer, some people just put a,

yeah, maybe that's why I can't be bothered by actually typing to you.

So here's a thumbs up.

I get that.

Todd Michaels says light bulb.

What's the other one Todd had on there?

I like the light bulb.

I don't know what the light bulbs for though.

Hey, we have a phone call?

Yes.

Who do we got on the phone?

Oh, we got Cindy from Appleton.

Oh, love, Cindy.

Cindy, how are you?

Hey, good, how are you?

Doing great.

What's on your mind?

Well, my least favorite

emoji is the poop emoji.

Oh, that's a good

one.

It makes a point, but it's kind of gross.

It is

gross.

It's like, it reminds me, like, I got to go clean up after my dog or something.

It's terrible.

Yeah.

That's great.

Do you have one you like or one you actually use, Cindy?

Well, smiley face I guess is my favorite but you know the like I say the poop one just kind of turns me right off

It kind of ruins your day.

Yeah

Thank you, Cindy appreciate the call.

Have a great night Ronnie on the text line from the 920.

Oh, he did the one with the or maybe it's a she I don't know but that with the eyes Looking straight ahead But the eyeballs are looking up and there's just a nothing expression.

I love that one too.

I like I also like the emoji with the little yellow

face, obviously, but it has the glasses on.

And it's just kind of a nothing expression, just glasses.

I like that one too.

Can we squeeze a call-in counter?

Yeah, this is Ollie from

the Northridge.

All right, Ollie,

what's up?

Hi, well, being a foodie, I like any of the food emojis.

And I'm borrowing my grandson's Android phone, and they have a ton more emojis than the iPhone does.

Oh, is that

right?

But I wanted to say that because of the game last night, I didn't get to hear your whole program.

But I was listening in the morning when your newspaper guy was out and about.

And I wanted to say what was in my pocket was a set of keys because I have been bothered by bears coming in.

garbage, and so I use the key.

I sleep with the key, and that way I can push the car alarm and it scares the bear away.

Ollie, that is awesome.

We got a run.

We're about to get cut off by a break.

Thank you for the call.

You need some scary emojis for the bears.

All right, we're coming right back.

It's Nightlight with Peach

Wapa.

It's time for the Nightlight Popcorn Pick of the Week, where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't.

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

All right.

One of my favorite times of the week here on Nightlight is our popcorn pick of the week.

And I always seem to, you know, we get some films that are popular or that you're not surprised by, and that's fine too, because sometimes they're great films and you just forget about them.

And then we get movies like we've had, like with Todd Alba.

I don't even remember the name of Todd's, you know, but I have them all written down, but I love getting an obscure one.

that you don't see coming.

So we have no idea what is in store for the pick of the week from our current guest who is here tonight and going to make a said pick.

He is a Wisconsin comedian.

He's also done radio.

He teaches comedy.

He's got a new special.

He's all over the place.

I think he's written several books too.

He's a man of letters and he's here tonight on Nightlight.

Dobie Maxwell,

hey

buddy.

There are Pete of Schwab, but thanks for having me back.

It's a treat.

You know, when Johnny gives you the, you know, it used to be when he gave you the one of these, you know, and same thing, I was great on the first time I'm thinking, I wonder if we had a good time.

You called and asked me back.

I got the call from Conrad.

I am delighted.

So I made the cut.

Thank you.

Dude, I, first of all, you know, sometimes you just, you were awesome.

That was a lot of fun.

And

sometimes you

just kind of forget, you know, it's like you've done radio and you're like,

oh yeah, I got

Adobe on again.

So

I'm glad you made the

time.

Thank you.

Love the show.

How you been?

You know, I was assaulted in a parking lot.

And it's like, when you assault the comedian, you're not pretty laid back.

It really is a hard job.

And I'm a guest on a sports talk show in the Milwaukee area.

And I've become a fun, I've been walking now, I had type two diabetes, I got diagnosed.

I've been walking 1100 straight days of 10,000 steps a day, that's about five miles.

So I went in there and I brought her veggie tray and people made fun of me.

It was fun.

So now it's become a tradition.

When I go in, I bring a veggie tray.

So I stopped at the grocery store, picked it up, I'm in the car.

We've all been in this situation.

It's you're right by the front door, five miles an hour, you're trying to leave the grocery store parking lot.

There was a, I don't want to call her a woman.

It was a female.

The NFL draft just was, she would have been about a third or fourth round nose tackle to Ed rusher, large woman.

And which is fine.

You know what?

Hey, we all have our thing.

And she thought I was trying to hit her.

I'm doing five miles an hour, Pete.

And she comes up and she just starts yelling and screaming and goes from zero to I'll kill you and learn how to drive and she's swearing at me.

So I'm thinking, I got to diffuse this with humor.

You know what I'm saying?

She's in a bad mood, probably had a bad life.

My window's down.

I said, hey, sweetie pants, are you coming on to me?

You talk to me like that.

You got to buy me dinner.

Okay, come on now.

Let's just calm down a little bit.

Pete, she walks up a foot from my face and spits right in my eye, spits in my face.

Have you ever had that happen?

I've never had that happen in my life.

Wow.

And I'm thinking, okay, this is a salt.

Now, do I have to go home and boil my face?

Do I have to drink bleach?

Maybe.

It could be, it could be, you know, COVID or trench mouth or foot and mouth or hoof and mouth, whatever it is.

So I'm thinking, okay, this day and age, every parking lot in America has probably has to have to be filmed.

So I'm just gonna, I'm going to go in, I'm going to report it.

Like, just look, this is not good.

I'm trying to, you know, be nicer.

I'm not trying to hit anybody.

Yeah.

You got this big piece of luggage.

And I'm assuming it was a purse.

And I looked at her and I said, what's that?

Your feed bag?

And she turns around and clocks me right in the face.

My glasses go flying.

I'm laughing.

I'm thinking, nothing good can happen here.

If I, if I attack her, which I'm not a violent person, but if I attack her, I beat up a woman.

If she beats me, I got beat up by a woman.

Nothing good is going to happen in this situation.

So I had to go fill out a police report and they looked at the video.

It's like John Madden with the telestrator that's like, well, we can't really be.

We can't be sure that she spit in your face and I was late for the radio show So I had to go there and the guy said I saw it wasn't his fault.

She spitted him It took two men to tackle her down and I had to leave I had to be on the radio station So I think I broke my finger on my I'm left-handed a little

swollen there.

Yeah, it's well looks like it's

brought worse Oh my gosh, and then my left knee is messed up.

So it messes my walk.

So you know what?

I'm thinking, okay

I got to watch my smart mouth.

There's a lot of people that are that are just ready to go in the world right now.

Oh, yeah.

You're just picking time bombs.

I'm thinking, you know what?

You got to shut your mouth sometimes.

You know, there's so much to unpack there.

I have to go back to

start with that.

But that's

what's happened.

And that's a great intro.

And, you know, but you who made fun of it?

First of all, OK.

here in Wisconsin, you show up with a veggie tray and someone makes fun of you.

That seems wrong.

That was the first red flag of the whole story.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

You are right though, like you have to be ready, like you almost can't, like I've never been, since I've been about 30 probably, I haven't been afraid to confront people.

If something's BS, and now I gotta be honest, it's not like I'm more, I'm just more hesitant because things escalate so quickly.

You don't know

who you're

dealing with, you don't know if they have a gun, it's just, it's a terrible time to confront people.

It's under five seconds to, I'll kill you.

Maybe I was close to it.

Dude, it's five miles an hour.

We've all been in that situation.

It's a grocery store.

Move your tuchess honey, let's go.

It's like, it's cars, you gotta cross the thing.

But she just, it just rage and anger.

I'm thinking, okay, she probably had a hard life.

I'm not trying to be, but I tried to just freeze it with humor and she did, she was not in a laugh and mood.

I'll say

that.

You said she went up to the window.

I thought you were going to say, and we're now registered at Bed Bath and Beyond, but

it went the other

way.

And I can't, like, do you think you could have taken

her?

Let's, let's say you guys did throw down.

No, I would say in the WWE, she would have been a light heavyweight champion.

She was a big woman there and she had the red hair, looked like, you know, Ronald McDonald with a condition.

And it's, you know, the tattoos and I don't want to be stereotyped.

I don't judge people.

I really don't.

I, you know what?

I've had a hard life.

I'm just trying to get through.

Sure.

To go from that, you know, I'm trying to say, okay, let's have a laugh about it.

I got too close.

I'm sorry.

But this, no, this was not a.

I'm glad you're OK, dude.

Yeah, thanks,

man.

Yeah, that's scary.

Very unsettling to hear that right out of

the game.

Let's talk happy things.

So if you're up in Krivitz and somebody, you know, I think in the city, that's why I like, you know, the hinterland.

You don't get that in Rhinelander.

Oh, come on over for the Packer Draft.

True.

Did

you watch your draft?

I know you're a Bears fan.

It's totally cool.

But every football fan watches a draft, no matter what happens to be in Green Bay this year, but you watch it and you're just assuming your name is going to get called.

Well,

I wasn't assuming

my name was going to get called, but

I

did watch.

And yeah, I don't we talked a little bit about it because Conrad took some time off and went over to the draft.

Did you were you happy with how things unfolded?

You know what?

I just think it's cool, you know, because we're never going to how many people actually get to experience that.

Yeah.

Not even just get out in the first round and you're on TV and everybody's in your living room.

It's just a cool thing.

Most people don't get out.

Look, the backup punter, the Buffalo Bills draft, Pete Schwabba.

Caucasian I know

I don't think I do think I've reached a point in my life where I live vicariously I can relate to people sitting in the living room and and I'm Genuinely happy for them.

I'm like this is what a great moment.

This must be for this person, you know Except the people who like should their standards like we were talking about, you know, I don't know what the guy's deal is I don't know what happened, but that that was getting a little weird

You know, it was, and you look at a situation where, hey, okay, his dad's an NFL coach.

Well, you know what?

If you had a kid, you would protect your kid too.

Yeah.

You know, DN Sanders could be a little... I look at it, it's like...

I wasn't there.

I don't know.

I thought everybody

liked him, though.

I thought Dion Sanders was really popular with like

the NFL

alumni and, but I don't know anything about it.

So who

knows?

And he had a good, good college career and his teammate went number two.

And it's like, Hey, he's got a great chance now to prove everybody wrong.

Okay, I'm going to come in there and be good.

I look at it as a pot.

You wish the guy well.

I'm sure anybody bad.

Well, all right, let's go to let's get this popcorn pick going here.

And then we'll

talk about you got some other cool stuff we have to talk about.

My guest is

Dobie Maxwell, he is here to make the popcorn pick of the week.

Dobie's a comedian, Wisconsin based, he's lived all over though, but I know he loves his home state and he's got a few things we'll get to in just a minute.

How do you watch movies, though?

Are you a theater guy or at home?

I thought about this when you approached Ben.

I love this concept.

I'm old school and I'm cheap, okay, which I don't know that's gonna be, and I'm from Wisconsin, so I went to a rummage sale maybe three or four years ago, and it was so funny, this married couple, they're moving out of their house, and this guy had about four or five hundred DVDs in the binders.

Yeah.

And

all the guy movies, all the Star Wars, all the Godfathers, all the Guy Hard movies, just everything.

And I just got a wild hair up my nose and I said, how much for all of these?

And his wife perked up, you can have them all for $100.

because she wanted to have gone.

You could tell that that was a big bonus content.

She wanted

to have gone.

And

the

guy's like, oh, well, that's all I said.

Well, sold $100.

So before he could say no, I bought them.

So I went through them all and I figured it out.

They come to about 14 cents a DVD.

for all these and there's great movies in there and there's like 400 of them and all the guy movies in there so i'm thinking okay i have dbd players like 40 bucks at uh you know manards has them and and i pop in movies and i you know i own them i can watch them as many times

i want

to i can put them on pause i can change my transmission fluid i can do whatever i want to and watch them that's how i like to watch movies and you say what what i like to make my own food and watch them so

That's probably not the sexy answer, but that's how I like.

Hey, however you do it.

I mean, I know there's this big movement now to try to get people back to the theater.

I'm all for that.

I love

I love going

to the movies, but I probably watch more at home than I do in the theater just by way of convenience.

So no, I think that's a great answer.

What's the last film you've seen in the theaters, dope?

Oh, man, that's a really good question.

It's been a while and.

That's good.

You caught me off guard there.

It's been that long.

You got Father Green Bay.

I think it was, I really don't recall.

Okay.

Give me off guard.

Yeah.

Do you, I love the, I do see DVDs at garage sales once in a while and I don't go to many of them, but if it's like on the way home and I see something, I'll stop.

but I rarely like the movies.

Like it'll be like a 70s or like Steven Segal movies or something.

I wouldn't even pay 14 cents for something like that.

But like, I, and I also hate, this is what drives me crazy when I'm walking through the garage sale and the owner is bird-dogging me, trying to give me

the history

of every little

item.

I'm like, I don't, I'm not going to do the same thing you did with your stuff.

Just back up and let me, you know, kind of visualize this end table in the basement, you know.

So,

but anyway,

what is your, do you like, let's, all right, let's do this, dope.

If you were watching a movie in a theater and a bunch of people were talking, and I run into this often in Marinette, it's either older people who think they're in their living room and they talk loud or the kids who are in there just hanging out and wanted to pay 10 bucks to do it.

I don't get that either, but what would you do?

Do you confront them or do you just kind of let it pass?

You know, again, I try to be nice and after this latest incident, I don't know if I'm going to confront anybody in my life.

You know, I'll get, I'll get whacked by the old folks home.

But I like to, you know, they do the whole cough thing.

Like, like you got whooping cough, like,

you know, go

right behind him.

You try to be nice about it.

It's like, shh.

And some people, depending on where you are, will write to them.

We all paid to get in.

Isn't it fair?

Talk afterwards.

Go outside.

Absolutely.

I did that too and Conrad, I told you this when I went to see, I think it was Long Legs, kind of a creepy movie.

And I get in there and I sit down, I'm the only one in the theater.

So I kind of want somebody else to show up so I'm not on my phone like I could be in my living room.

So this couple comes in and they sit, I'm in the last row, they sit right in front of me.

Like it's their favorite spot.

You got the whole theater and they sit right in front of me.

So I had to be the guy to leave.

and go somewhere else in the theater.

Oh, God, that drove me crazy.

Now, see, okay, now, that's cool.

What I would have done is just reached over and got to help myself to popcorn and snow caps, you know, taking a suck off the big Pepsi.

You sit that close, you're paying for my snacks.

I believe you.

I believe that you would do

that.

Do you have a favorite genre, dope, of movie you like to watch?

You know, the guy movies, the mob movies are kind of cool.

Yeah.

Like stuff you'd never do.

And comedy, I don't know, as a comedian, do you watch comedies?

I do.

Once, you know, it's hard to get me.

So again, I love I love Godfather Green Bay.

It exceeded my expectations.

It was wonderful.

But not a lot of comedies do with with the masses.

I'm with

you.

I don't tend to think it's funny.

I know disrespect there.

But we're comedians.

We think differently.

And I like I'm with you.

I like to watch something different typically if there's like a new comedy that's all the rage.

and it's a good movie and not just a silly one line, you know, whatever I'll do it.

But all right, we're gonna get Dobie's pick.

We're gonna do a very quick break and then we'll come back and I've got a couple more questions for Dobie.

We'll get his popcorn pick of the week.

And then we're gonna talk about his new comedy special, which is pretty cool.

This is Pete Schwab and Night Light on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

The

champion of dance, his news will put you in a trance And he never leaves the disco alone

It is a pleasure to be here tonight.

And thank you for being with me, folks.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite or least favorite emoji?

So send those in.

And if you want to send a picture with your text, we can share that on the stream as well.

We've got some good ones so far, and we will get to text in just a little while.

Right now, we usually, I'll tell you, Dope, usually our popcorn pick of the week is done by now, but

that

story was so epic.

I don't mind.

Thanks, man.

I'm sorry to slow

it

down.

I have a favorite emoji, too.

Can we?

Absolutely.

The one with the party hat, where they're blowing the noise maker.

Right.

I like that one.

I like

that one,

too.

And I like the guy in the disco outfit is kind of disco-ing.

When

I first saw that, I

actually laughed.

And now I'm the guy that shares it.

So let me ask you this.

A couple more questions, and we'll get your pick.

Do you have a favorite movie star or someone you'll just go see a movie because this movie star or stars is in it?

Yeah, John C. Riley of all people.

Oh, nice.

I just have that guy.

He does comedy.

He's great.

And he just, every movie he's in, I love.

And the other one is Michael McKean.

He is in everything.

He's in Spinal Tap.

He is in Better Call Saul.

He's in just all my favorite movies.

He was, he was Eleni or Squiggy.

Not that I love that show, but I grew up in Milwaukee.

I just, I would love to meet him and say, you, if you're in it, I'll watch.

He's one of those guys.

I don't

know.

When he achieved this or there are certain guys that get to that that point in their career where everybody just wants them in their project

And he's

great as an actor.

He's funny.

He just can do everything and he that's a great Those

are probably a good guy to like in comedy.

It's like you have to be the funniest No, you got to be good in the car from riding the Marinette, you know Pete's a good guy.

You are funny, but you're good in the car

I'd rather be with a guy on the road who's good in the car than on stage because on stage

I can walk out of

the room, but if you're stuck with someone in the car

Um, it's, it's trouble.

Uh,

all right.

So, so, um, what was I going to ask you?

Okay.

So what is your favorite movie snack dough?

When you're watching movies in the theater or at home, or is it the same thing?

Well, in the theater, actually, I like raisinettes and goobers because I like the raisins and the peanuts.

It can't be, it's got to be a mix.

You eat them together.

I do eat them together.

And I know that's probably against the movie snack laws.

And I don't know, but it's because double it's only, you know, it's $14 for one box.

You got to have two.

But I do like I do like that.

And at home, I know this is weird.

I grew up in Wisconsin.

I have an affinity for liverwurst.

I just do.

Brown swagger, a good brown swagger is great.

I love it in a sandwich form and I have a good thick liverwurst sandwich.

I love sauerkraut.

I know that's bad.

I eat weird stuff, but that's what I like.

I'm home watching these DVDs.

I can do it.

So nobody has to do it but me.