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Hey, welcome to Night Light.
This is Pete Schwabba.
Welcome to the show.
It's great to have you on this Friday night.
The weekend is finally here.
Conrad, how you doing?
I knew you would and I, you know, I'm not a huge Marvel fan myself, but you know what?
Let's change things up and let's get right to the question of the night because we got Matt Miller coming in kind of early tonight from the Milwaukee Film Festival.
So here's tonight's question of the night.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Pregunta.
Question.
Question.
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Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Question.
Questions.
What is your favorite Marvel movie or character?
There's a big release this weekend folks Thunderbolts.
It's finally out in theaters So it begs the question.
What is your favorite Marvel movie or character?
And I will admit Conrad.
I'm not a huge Marvel fan I enjoy the occasional Marvel movie, but I don't rush out to the theaters to see it but
That's our question of the night, folks.
So let us know what you think at 855-752-4842-855-75CIVIC.
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Let us know what you think.
What do you say, man?
You're going to see the movie tonight, right?
I love it.
So and it's got really good reviews.
Yeah, I should have.
Yeah, you guys should be in for a treat and the dream
Oh, yeah.
Wait, what's the theater?
Okay, nice.
Outstanding so what's your who's your favorite?
Or what's your favorite movie?
Give me your movie and character because you could speak to both
Yeah, I was I was gonna say I was gonna do both anyway So I'll say my favorite movie is the original Iron Man because that's the first Marvel movie I saw and it really started off for me And I was like this is amazing.
Oh, wow I don't remember what age but I really really liked that movie the first time I saw it so I'll go with that but my favorite
My favorites out of the Marvel Universe is, I would say, it's tough.
I've been going back and forth because I really liked WandaVision.
So Wanda's like one of my favorite characters because that show was one of the best shows in Marvel, I think.
But it's tough.
Iron Man and Captain America are like a tie for me at first.
It's funny.
I don't I don't know the characters like you do or the movies But I it's hard not to like just based on what I've seen Captain America.
like Winter Soldier It's just because of his story before he became a superhero is kind of cool.
Yeah, so I would probably say him or Wonder Woman one.
Well, that really blew me away with gale gado like When she's crouching with that shield and like that is just one of the coolest scenes and any of the Marvel movies I've seen
So I have a tie, but my favorite film I
I meant to look that up before the show, but I didn't so I'm still gonna say Wonder
You know now it's coming back to me.
Isn't that the one where they said finally DC is on the same level?
Yeah, I mean Marvel.
I think yeah.
Okay, I should have said Batman.
If I was just going to go DC anyway.
begins is still probably my favorite.
But
it's postponed, you mean?
might
It was supposed to
and
Okay.
Wow
That's the one with Robert Pattinson.
Yeah.
And that movie is fantastic.
Yeah, it was good.
It was a little long.
I thought it could have been about a half hour shorter, but I say that about a lot of movies, you know, but
So that's our question, folks.
Let us know.
We'll read your text on the radio.
We've got a great show tonight.
Matt Miller is here.
He is reporting live from the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Matt has been taking in all the movies.
So he'll give us an update as to what is going on in Milwaukee tonight.
And that is just a few minutes away.
Matt is going to join us at 6.20.
And then we have a special guest.
It's kind of a guest.
You know, there's been this big debate online about who would win in a fight between a Silverback gorilla or 100 men.
And I don't know why they went with 100.
Maybe they thought that's how many it would take to defeat a Silverback gorilla.
But it seems like even 20 or 30 dudes, if they all went at the same time, not fearing for their lives, could do it.
But I guess the catch is that they all are scared for their lives.
So you'd kind of ease in.
Anyway, this is all old news, though, folks, because Conrad and I encountered, we stepped out to get lunch one day, and we were up at Heritage Hill.
And lo and behold, one of the gorillas got out of the zoo.
It was a silverback, and we tried to corral it.
and get it back in in the zoo and uh i'll just say it didn't end well for conrad and we're gonna play we have a clip of that because i was recording it with my phone i should have probably dove in more and helped conrad out but i did record it with my phone and we'll play that at 650 tonight after we let matt get to his movie so we've got matt miller uh our encounter with the silverback gorilla at 650 and mike clements civic media sports authority joining the show at 705
And also, folks, I know you know this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
It is Friday, and that means it is a bar band Friday night.
Terry Barr from Maxink Radio will join the show at 735.
She has got two great songs and one great artist.
So we'll talk about that.
But Terry is calling it tonight, Conrad.
nephew.
Yeah.
But that's so cool because like she's still.
Like she's a good aunt, but she's still keeping the Barbie and thing going.
She didn't take a vacation day from us, which I love.
So we'll hear some new tunes.
We'll have some great talks with Terry, Mike, and Matt Miller in just a few minutes.
Matt is also going to go over some big summer releases for the blockbuster releases that basically it's here, summer movie season.
I mean, it's May.
And this is when it starts.
This is about the time last year that the fall guy came out.
Maybe it was already out.
Maybe it was late.
Great
You just lost any credibility after your Marvel
The fall guy?
Yeah.
I kind of do remember that.
I almost watched him.
Last night, I was looking for something to watch.
I still can't.
I'm still waiting, putting off White Lotus Season 3 for some reason.
I have to be in the right mind frame or mindset to watch that, but.
I went, I think it was on Netflix.
This film came up called classified starring Aaron Eckert.
And I like Aaron Eckert a lot, but man, as he made some dogs.
This guy makes great films.
He's a great actor, but he makes some clunkers.
So I went to my phone and I looked up classified on Rotten Tomatoes.
Zero percent from critics.
That might be because there weren't enough reviews, but.
8% of audience.
For our country, America, or even the world, to only draw an 8% with a major movie star in a film, that movie is awful.
It's got to be.
And obviously I didn't watch it, but I was, I was like, I was kind of angry at him.
I'm like, why do you have to do this?
Like he's made so much money.
He's made so many good films.
It's like, what are you thinking?
Yeah,
Yeah,
you.
Oh, please.
Yes, I love homework
everything
and right It's a great movie if you haven't watched it that the sequel just came out yesterday It's called another simple favor and I watched it last night
And I think it was a fun movie.
It was good.
Some of the critics were right about it.
But also, I think people just don't like Blake Lively.
So they panned
it.
I think you're right.
You were concerned last night after you read a review for that movie and that didn't pan out like everything was OK.
All right.
I settled on office space last night.
I went through, tried through classic, which I haven't seen in about 10 years.
So I thought I'll put in an office space.
I'll go to bed happy.
And boy, did I, there's another thing happening in the news.
Terrence Howard, years ago, I know this is going to sound weird.
I pitched a Marvin Gay idea for a movie to a very big Hollywood producer.
One of the biggest there is, I don't know why I chose that to pitch him, but I'm not the guy to make a Marvin Gay movie.
I'm just a huge fan.
But we had a nice talk about it.
He liked the idea He he wasn't into making a Marvin Gaye biopic at the time but now there's one coming out and Terrence Howard passed on the role because it came out that Marvin Gaye was gay or at least bisexual and in the script there is something that calls for there's a scene that calls for Terrence Howard to kiss another man So he passed on the project.
He passed on the opportunity to play Marvin Gaye
one of the most iconic singers of all time, whose life was filled with drama.
And it's probably going to be a great film.
And Terrence Howard said, no, thank you, because he didn't want to kiss a man.
And then he followed it up and he said, I would.
If I had to kiss a man, I would cut my lips off.
Now, I have a couple of issues with this because I feel like if you're an actor, you got to get past that stuff.
It's just a kiss.
I wouldn't look forward to it, certainly.
But my god, to play Marvin Gaye.
But then to say this is to be so to escalate it like that and say I would cut my lips off Like why do you have to go to that extreme?
I Used to like this guy so much.
I used to love Terence Howard.
I I still like him as an actor.
He's got a cool look.
He's got a great voice, but I just They kind of brought him down a little bit for me.
I gotta be honest And that's it and then I read today too.
Also, I love this Tom Cruise
He does these stunts, he does his own stunts, and he's doing this stunt in Dead Reckoning, the second part of Dead Reckoning, which comes out.
It could be the last Mission Impossible film, number eight for Tom Cruise.
And he said, he's doing this, I mean, what this guy does, he's on an airplane wing going 120 miles an hour.
And he said it gets cold and it exerts a lot of energy.
So the breakfast he eats before he shoots seems like this.
He eats like a bunch of sausages and 12 eggs.
The guy's a legend, man.
All right, we're coming back with Matt Miller from the Milwaukee Film Festival.
We'll find out what Matt has been seeing there.
Still a lot of time if you want to catch a few movies in Milwaukee.
And we'll talk about the summer box office too.
Lots going on here at Nightlight.
So great to have you with me.
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That's the show, folks.
It's a Friday night.
Perfect way to send you into the weekend.
And right now, I'm excited to welcome my next guest.
He's a regular here at Nightlight, and he is a Milwaukee film critic who joins us from the Milwaukee Film Festival tonight, our pal Matt Miller.
Hey, Matt.
Hey, I am reporting on location tonight at the Oriental Theater.
That's fantastic.
How does it look?
Is it beautiful?
That's one of my favorite movie theaters anywhere.
It is respondent.
I always tell people the Oriental Theater is my favorite place in all of Milwaukee.
That's probably the film fan in me saying that, but I just think there's nothing like seeing a movie at the Oriental.
And we're all very excited.
It's a centerpiece movie tonight.
They're screening the documentary The Librarians.
Obviously, very politically of the moment, talking about book banning in libraries and freedom of speech.
So I think it's going to be a very powerful movie, very a potent one for our current political environment.
And very excited to check that one out.
That's fantastic.
You know, it's funny with the book banning, Matt.
A friend of mine, Dave Patterson, his mom wrote The Bridge to Terabithia.
Catherine Patterson, a
Newberry
winner.
Yeah, and he's he wrote the film version.
He's been on the show several times.
Really great guy.
That book I decided to read with my daughter while she was in middle school and I wept twice.
It's such beautiful writing and that book has been banned.
And I'm like, what is the matter with people?
Like I just don't get it.
So that is a great movie.
I haven't seen it, but I've heard really good things about the librarians.
Yeah, and I believe the director I believe is Kim Snyder who directed the documentary called Us Kids about the growing political young movements Really really excited to text this one out tonight Screenings at 7 so if you're listening and you're in the Milwaukee area come on down
You got time and say hi to Matt Miller What what have you what's been the vibe there Matt?
Have you just been going in the movies?
Have you gone to any events?
What else have you seen?
Let's start there
I'm a movie head, so I just go to all the movies like a complete weirdo, but it's been a really heartening film festival this year.
Obviously, there's always talk about movies, struggles, post-COVID and stuff like that.
Milwaukee Film has had some changes over the past few years, but it's just been really wonderful seeing the crowds at these festivals.
For movies I would not expect there to be crowds for.
I went to a 10.30 in the morning screening of a documentary about former Pizza Hut locations.
That was almost entirely sold out.
That one was like tons of audience and members there for that one.
And then at like 8.30 on a Monday night, I went to go see a checked journalism drama called Waves.
And that one was almost entirely full as well.
So it's just been really wonderful to see people showing up for the Milwaukee Film Festival and seeing some really good movies in the process as well.
It's been a lot of really good stuff thus far.
And we still have another whole week to go.
Yeah, that's great that it's a two-week two-week dealio.
What was the Pizza Hut documentary like was that really cool?
I Really liked it.
That's actually one of the standouts of the festival for me It's called slice of life the American dream and former Pizza Hut And it's a documentary that kind of goes goes to various pizza hut locations throughout the country that Closed if you remember those iconic kind of Pizza Hut locations with the kind of slice shaped windows
And it goes to these former Pizza Hut locations that have become something else that in one case became one of the first LGBTQ churches in Florida.
Another one became a barbecue shop in Illinois.
Another one became a dispensary in Colorado and kind of detailing how all these locations kind of paint a picture of America and of the American dream and kind of, you know, the transformation that our country does.
I thought it was really great really charming really good subjects Yeah, that's been one of the three standouts.
I would say of the festival for me so far
So have you seen the movie the secret mall apartment?
I Did that is I was actually gonna say that is another one of the standout movies that I saw at the film festival this year.
It's
very fun for people who don't know and can't tell by the title of the movie.
It is about some people who built a secret apartment in a mall in Providence.
And it's a very fun documentary, kind of a caper documentary, but also gets into, you know, what's this art and what is the definition of art and, you know, the people trying to, in their way, fight back against kind of this corporate behemoth taking over Providence, Rhode Island.
I really like Secret Mall apartment.
I'm hoping that maybe it comes back for a post festival run But yeah, that one's really tremendous if people can seek that one out wherever you can find it.
I Thought that was just like the coolest sounding movie and I love the poster it just got me it really hooked me I can't wait to see it.
I'm sure it'll end up streaming somewhere, but
Matt Miller is here.
We're going to talk about the Milwaukee Film Festival for a couple more minutes, and then we'll talk about the summer blockbuster season, which is upon us, folks.
He is reporting live from the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Get down to the Oriental tonight and check out librarians.
If you're looking for something to do, Matt will be there, and he will be here after the news.
We'll be right back.
It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We are back here at night lights.
I am peach quava great to have you with me on this Friday night We got a lot going on tonight folks our question of the night is what is your favorite Marvel movie or character?
I said mistakenly Wonder Woman that shows you what I know about Marvel, but I kind of suspected I was off on that one I kind of thought it was DC and Conrad says ironman so right now on the phone with us is our buddy Matt Miller he is
calling us live from the Milwaukee Film Festival, where he is about to see the librarians at the beautiful Oriental Theater.
Matt, what else have you seen?
Did you see a movie by any chance called The Dells?
Unfortunately, that was on my to-do list.
It was on my hot list.
And unfortunately, I had to eat dinner.
I had to finally make some time to eat food and drink water.
So unfortunately, I wasn't able to see The Dells, but I heard very good things about that one.
I'm sorry, I thought you were serious about movie watching that.
I
know,
I
know.
Here I was thinking I was a dedicated cinephile and instead I'm just a nerd.
I
know, I know another film tonight playing because I think my son is going to go see it as AJ goes to the dog park.
That looks really interesting.
And I had the filmmakers on the show here.
Have you heard anything about that?
Yeah, that's one of the hula gante options, I believe as well, which honestly, this year, I think is where you can find a lot of the busiest ones.
this year.
I know that's where the new Cronenberg is here with the Shroud stuff like Sister Midnight as well.
A dead lover.
Lots of really fun, weird stuff to be found at that Hula Gante selection.
And I've heard some people have checked out that AJ goes to the park and have had a really good time with it.
Kind of almost seems like maybe it's got like a Joe Parra vibe to it, which is a fun vibe to have.
So another one people can check out at the film festival.
Yeah, and it's I think that's one of the films that has like three screenings So if you miss it tonight, you might have enough I think it's already played once but maybe you have more opportunity to see it, but it looks funny Yeah, that's an important thing
about the yeah, that's an important thing about the film festival There's still a whole other week of it left.
So there's a lot of movies that haven't even played really yet I know there's a documentary called the Diamond King about the official artist of the Baseball Hall of Fame and
Painted a lot of the Don Russ Diamond King baseball cards.
I think that one sounds great And obviously we still have the closing night movie Jane Austen wrecked my life, which is a rom-com in theaters I know how crazy a rom-com in theaters.
What a concept
Yeah, the Diamond King looked really good too we had Mark Evans on the show talking about his His film and that that sounded fascinating too the lineups of films just look fantastic Have you gone to any events?
Matt, have you been to any of these happy hours they call them, or mixer type thelios, or afterwards parties?
Unfortunately, I'm not much of a party guy, and I haven't been able to make my way to many of those yet, but obviously that's kind of a cool part of the film festival is that it is as much about what's off-screen as it is on, that you get to have these really cool interactions with either your fellow filmgoers or with the directors of the film.
I know in the case of the opening night film, Sally,
The director was here in town for that.
And I believe one of the subjects was as well.
So it's always a really exciting way to see a movie to know that, you know, there's stuff going on beyond the theater as well.
Absolutely.
Let's switch, Matt.
I know you're limited on time tonight.
We'll get you out of here before the next break.
But what the summer box office is basically here, like you mentioned earlier in our text exchange, I was thinking it was Mission Impossible, the final reckoning.
kind of kicked it off.
But what in like, what are you looking forward to?
What do you think will be the obviously mission impossible?
But after that, what are you looking forward to this summer?
Yeah, I'm actually really looking forward to this year's summer blockbuster lineup.
Obviously, it's a lot of franchises.
Obviously, it's a lot of, you know, traditional blockbuster stuff.
But I do think some of it has a little bit more personality this year.
You have your mission impossible, which has, you know, Tom Cruise like putting in an effort the way no other movie stars putting in an effort.
You've got this.
You've got the live action Lilo and Stitch movie, which actually looks really charming.
You've you've got a lot of interesting horror stuff this summer coming out with 28 years later, which is not only a sequel to.
not only a sequel to the very good zombie movie from about 20 years ago at this point, but also is the first Danny Boyle movie to come out in about five years.
For those who don't know, Danny Boyle did train spotting.
He did Slumdog Millionaire.
For some odd reason, his career is kind of, unfortunately, I just think they don't make the kind of movies that he's very good at making anymore.
So I'm excited to see a new Danny Boyle movie coming out.
a new movie called Weapons from the director of Barbarian, the horror movie hit from a few years ago.
So it's a really good mix this summer.
We don't oftentimes have a good mix of a summer, but this year you've got original movies, you've got some comedies with the naked gun reboot.
And you've got franchises that I think people are actually excited about the new installments as opposed to franchises where it just feels like, well, our board at the studio told us that we have to make a new sequel because it hasn't made a billion dollars lately.
There's not as many of those dead-in-the-water franchise movies as we sometimes get in the summer.
Danny Boyle too directed I think he directed the first 28 days, but then did not direct the second one So that's interesting that he's coming back and I liked the second one too, but I'm excited to see to see this one as well What have you heard anything and I agree with you Tom Cruise I was just reading before on the show his his breakfast he eats before he does these crazy cliff climbing plane
Flipping scenes where he eats a dozen eggs and all this sausage because he burns so many calories and he it's cold apparently Have you heard anything about the movie?
I know it's gonna be awesome
Yeah, I don't think they've premiered it yet.
So I haven't heard much but there's obviously a lot of excitement about it.
It is Giant air quotes the final mission impossible movie.
I'm sure they'll try to reboot it in a few years But I think this will definitely be the last one Tom Cruise has
planned for a while.
And I mean, the movies he's made with McCory, Christopher McCory, his writer-director, that is, he's joined the franchise ever since Rogue Nation.
And he just really is in tune with what Tom Cruise is best at.
I love the way he captures these old school stunts, these insane stunts that he does.
So I'm really, that's definitely one of the top five movies this summer that I'm looking forward to.
And going to see that one on the largest screen possible, absolutely.
Absolutely, yeah, I think I can I'm gonna watch all of them ahead of time too before I go and see that one just The thing is they're
all really good.
They're almost all really good I don't like Mission Impossible 2, but otherwise else you've got a really good marathon there
Absolutely.
No, Mission Impossible 2 was horrible and it was written by Robert Town, which was crazy But I think it was like a paycheck because that movie lost me but other than that Yeah, they've all been amazing like it's it's an incredible franchise
And
also, honestly, if Mission Impossible 2 is the worst entry in your franchise, that's a pretty good franchise, because at least Mission Impossible 2 has that crazy operatic John Woo about it.
You know, at least it's got a personality.
You know, it's
got a
boring bad franchise entry, like so many franchises aren't there.
Very well said.
So let's talk about, you saw, Matt Miller is my guest, check out his work at A Man About Film.
I assume you'll have an article after the Milwaukee Film Festival, Matt, on your sub-stack.
We'll look forward to reading that at some point, but what have you seen?
I know we talked about, I have not seen centers yet, but you have.
Did you like centers?
I'm a really big fan of centers.
That
is the
new Ryan Coogler, a juke joint vampire movie that has become a box office sensation.
Which you love to see but I think that movie is tremendously done Ryan Coogler is one of our best young kind of emerging directors Obviously, he did Fruitvale station and Creed and the Black Panther movies And yeah, I think sinners.
It's the music is incredible in it.
It's mostly a music movie Which is great.
It's beautifully shot.
It's scary when it's time to be scary.
It's funny There's a shot in the middle of the movie that if I see a better shot this year
I'm having a very good year, just a perfect calculation of what the movie is trying to talk about in terms of culture and in terms of kind of, you know, culture clashes and things of that nature.
Really, really good movie.
It is kind of blockbuster.
You want to see Hollywood make where it is good entertainment, but also a lot on its mind, a lot to chew on afterwards.
I really enjoy centers.
Wow, I'm so excited to see that I kept missing the times and and talk about Ryan Coogler He has got the Midas touch man.
I don't think he's made a film that hasn't made a ton of money.
I mean Yeah,
he's and all he's done is make great hits and a lot of times out of movies I mean we forget that no one was really looking forward to Creed before Creed that came out
It seems like kind of, you know, shameless nostalgia franchise bait.
And then it came out and it was like, is this the best Rocky movie?
Like did he make, you know, did he top the original with Creed?
Um, and then obviously he did Black Panther, which I think is probably the second best Marvel movie across all of its 30 some movies at this point.
I think that's in the conversation.
And even Wakanda forever, you know, for a movie that had so much writing on it and, you know, it's, it's lead passes away.
And, you know, it's in the weird MCU stew of trying to set up this post-Endgame world.
I think that movie actually is a lot better than people might think.
The Ryan Coogler part of that movie is really good.
Well said.
All right, so let's try to get through a couple more of these before we let you go, Matt.
Drop, what did you think about drop?
I liked about 75% of it.
I thought the end got a little crazy, but what was your take on drop?
Yeah, I really wanted to like drop more than I did.
The movie, I think it's this who done it that kind of doesn't really supply you with a really interesting batch of kind of, you know, question marks and mysteries.
And as a result, you kind of midway through the movie are like, I'm just watching a movie about a woman on her phone.
Like that's what this movie is going to be.
And, you know, it's really hard to make people just sitting on their phone at an awkward dinner, good cinema.
And the director tries his best, but I just don't think there's enough kind of meat to the mystery and to the entertainment aspect of that movie.
I really wanted to love that movie.
And I kind of walked out just kind of being like, that's fine.
You know,
I was kind of the same way, like she's on her phone.
And as it's wrapping up, Brandon Slunar says, I'll call 911.
And the guy was already in her house.
And then she takes the elevator down 80 floors, gets in her car, hits traffic, gets to her house, and somehow the thing's not over.
It's just like, it's just sloppy writing.
You know, that can be fixed.
It was really
frustrating.
And I also, I think the movie starts poorly too, because this movie, which
It seems like it's gonna be a light, fun, you know, kind of like dinner who done it murder thing.
And it starts and it wants to be this, you know, stereotypical 21st century, no, actually this horror movie is about trauma.
And it's about, you know, it's about
these heavy
subjects.
And I think that's fine.
I think there are a lot of really good horror movies about trauma and about how like, you know, the real monster in this movie is depression and all these kind of mental things.
And I think there are really good movies about that.
We don't need every single horror movie to be, but actually it's about trauma.
You know, it'd be nice in the case of, and especially in the case of Drop, which it feels like such a tonal clash with the rest of the movie, which is supposed to be, you know, kind of this lighter, fun, kind of weird, contrived dinner, hitchcock mystery to kind of have this really serious undertone to start the thing kind of just.
You're not buckled in for a wild ride.
You're kind of like, oh, this is a darker thing than I really want.
Right.
Matt, we got about 30 or 40 seconds left, Matt.
Did you see Warfare?
I
did see Warfare.
I think Warfare is quite a good movie.
That's the new war movie directed by Alex Garland, who we just talked about.
He's worked with Danny Boyle a lot in the past.
He actually wrote 28 Days Later, and this is an Iraq war movie.
Very immersive.
uh... doesn't make you want to go to war it's a very effective
right
the war movie
i thought it was outstanding i really did and uh... i look forward to doing this again soon buddy i know you got a movie to get to but i appreciate you taking the time out thank you so much and enjoy your hometown movie festival mad it's
fantastic he that he thank you so much for having me
always will get a wrap up when this thing's done but thanks so much map you bet
Okay, buddy.
All right, that's Matt Miller.
We are coming right back with Conrad and me taking on a silver back gorilla.
It's right after the break, folks.
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And our question of the night is, what is your favorite Marvel movie or character?
You can answer either way.
I, admittedly, am not a huge Marvel guy.
I've seen most of the films, I would say, but it's not in my wheelhouse.
But I thought I would put it out there.
I know there are a lot of Marvel fans that listen to the show.
Including the kid Conrad Krieger and so you can share your favorite Marvel movie with us or character at 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic or text us on the stream if you're watching on YouTube Facebook or Twix and You can also text us on the civic media app PJ on the stream says my favorite Marvel character is Cyclops I'd like to be able to emit a laser beam from my eyes.
Well, who wouldn't PJ that would be a pretty cool party trick
Do you know Cyclops con?
I think I don't know who was it was George Carlin or someone used to joke about the flamethrower.
He's like, how did the flamethrower?
How did that get invented?
It's like if some guy sitting there going man, I'd really like to set that guy on fire But he's so far away Like seriously out of the flamethrower.
Oh, it's beautiful mark from prairie to sax says the eternals
Deserved a sequel.
Yes.
It does Angelina Jolie one, right?
That yeah, that was kind of a big movie, right?
I do well
I think it was Angelina Jolie and then the girl from crazy rich Asians So the Eternals
Yeah, Kit Harrington.
Yeah, let's pull it up.
Salma Hayek.
Yeah, Angelina Jolie's in it and Richard Madden
Gemma Chan, too, from Crazy Rich Asians.
I didn't know her name, but I knew she was.
Oh, Barry Keogan, our bathtub bell.
All right, that's a good one.
Thank you.
Who texted that?
Mark, from Prairie to Sack.
Thank you, Mark.
Susan from McFarland says, good evening, Pete and Conrad.
I'm driving, so I'll probably spell Conrad wrong.
You did, but that's OK.
She says, anyway, what my first question is, why would men want to fight a silverback gorilla?
And my favorite Marvel movies are actually Doctor Strange.
I really haven't finished them anyway.
Have a nice evening, uh, hours.
Okay.
Well, thank you, uh, Susan.
And all right, let's get into that before we run out of time here, because the Silverback guerrilla issue online, it's all over the internet.
And the debate is, can 100 men defeat a Silverback guerrilla in basically hand-to-hand combat?
Really weird.
It's weird that someone would want to know this.
It's also weird that it's become a phenomenon.
I watched this clip last night on NBC News that said they did this whole breakdown.
And apparently the gorilla would get tired and the men would prevail.
But a lot of men would get their ass kicked early.
And part of the issue was men would go in tentatively and not really want to rush the gorilla.
So they would have to have a plan of attack.
If all hundred men weren't afraid of dying and they rushed the gorilla, it's over.
But there's a fear factor here.
But it is weird.
And the silverback gorilla, as I was reading about it last night, is in danger.
Like, why would you, you know, isn't it enough that we hate Canada now and Greenland?
We have to hate the silverback gorilla.
Why would we want to fight a silverback gorilla, an endangered species?
Conrad, I'm asking you.
I don't know.
All right.
So what people might not know, Con, is that Conrad and I, like I said, we were at Heritage Hill recently last summer, I think it was.
Yeah.
And a silverback gorilla got out.
And we thought we would be good citizens and try to corral the silverback gorilla, get it back to the zoo.
So it was two of us against the silverback gorilla.
And here's what happened.
Go!
Get him!
Conrad,
get him!
I'm going to punch him in the head!
He's got both my legs.
I'm sorry buddy, I'm getting out of here.
He just threw me.
Man It took you a while to get over that.
I had bumps and bruises, but yeah, I will admit you took the brunt of it I thought I was more the strategy guy Tell you where to attack But you got through it.
Okay.
You met your deductible certainly But you you were brave in the face of danger.
I will say that buddy.
no you healed remarkably well, too.
So yeah, like two days
Yeah, you were back, back behind the board, and healed up right in time for your trip to Italy, which was nice.
But watch out for those silverback gorillas, folks.
They're not, they're not gentle creatures.
They're not docile, but they're, I don't know why we need to fight them.
Like, that was a half, that just happened to, he just happened across our paths.
That's a weird thing.
It's not like we went looking for trouble.
This poor guy, we just wanted to get him back to safety.
All right.
So there you go.
That's our silverback gorilla issue that Was fun to make Tony the trucker from the 608 says Pete it's the Hulk over the past 50 years I've had jobs that required me to consistently lift heavy things resulting in bulging muscles Finding clothes to fit was a curse.
I'm with you, buddy You know do more reps though and just tone yourself Tony don't try to you don't need to pack muscle on at this point Who you're trying to who you're trying to impress really be careful out there
Tom from New Berlin says, Groot Love.
What is that?
Is that the Eternals?
Are those the Creatures?
Groot
Oh, okay.
I gotta brush up on my Marvel stuff.
This is embarrassing.
My DC stuff.
Oh, I love DC.
Paula Conrad's Mom checks in and says, my favorite Marvel movie is Guardians of the Galaxy.
I enjoyed the humor in
I do remember David Patista.
He was very funny in it.
All right, keep those texts coming, folks.
What is your favorite Marvel movie and your favorite Marvel character?
You can make some match.
We're coming right back with our pal, Mike Clemens.
He's here after intermission.
It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
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