Ballerinas and Fast Times (Hour 2)

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And now, a guy who likes to dine and dash, Pete Chihuahua.

Welcome

back.

I was laughing so hard, because last week we had a guest on the show.

Do you remember this guy, Conrad?

His name was Miles Kristen, and he was supposed to talk about a film festival.

Yeah.

And we booked him, but he had a conflict, and he manages a supper club, and he says, I can only stay for a minute.

because I'm managing a supper club.

And the whole time I'm talking to him, I'm just thinking about all these people dining and dashing or helping themselves to booze while he's on with me talking about the Stoughton Film Festival.

Beautiful stuff.

Love the dining and dashing.

Welcome back to the show folks.

My name is Pete Schwabba Mike Siegel is here as my guest Kelly Peterson joins me here in studio at 720 to talk about her film her documentary about the Ukraine and many other things Kelly's dad was a famous or I'm sorry grandfather was Ran a very big production company and was responsible for many sitcoms in the 1960s So we'll do that.

We'll read your text our question of the night is what is your favorite teen movie?

And that's what Mike and I are talking about right now.

Mike Siegel is the host of the Travel Tales podcast and a very funny comedian and TV host as well.

So what did I do, Mike?

Two for four or three for five?

You were about two for five, I think.

Oh, that's not good.

All right.

Yeah.

So we're talking about fast times at Ridgemont High, an iconic awesome comedy, maybe the teen comedy of teen comedies.

And I have some questions here for Mike.

So let's get to those right now.

Conrad, you got the thing ready?

Our little bell and whistle, literally.

Mike, are you ready?

Yep.

Yep.

Okay.

Mike Siegel, host of the TravelTales podcast, world traveler comedian, stumped me.

And I have to, now I have to give it back to you.

But you're a guest.

So I was going to kind of go easy on you, but I wrote a couple of questions during the break that might give you pause.

So we'll see.

All right.

Okay.

What excuse did Spicoli give Mr. Hand as to why he was late for class?

There was a crazy line at the food machines or something, right?

There was a There was an insane line at the food machines.

That was like the add-on But his first line just couldn't get there on time just couldn't make it.

I will accept that

Couldn't make it on time this just couldn't make it so

great

All right, Mike is what we'll say one for one number two.

This is kind of a rhetorical question Where the hell were the parents during this whole movie?

Mike Oh, yeah, that's me that again Pete.

Sorry did I cut out?

Yeah, I think it's me.

Sorry

about I said where the hell were the parents throughout this whole movie.

I don't think you see one parent like

All right, now we're

coley's little brother.

That's it.

Oh, that's right

Curtis Yeah,

I only hear you knock Curtis knock better entree All right Mike is two for two number three.

What does judge Reinhold say when Phoebe Cates walks in on him in the bathroom?

Remember we're on the radio.

You don't have to say the bomb part.

Okay,

okay

Doesn't anyone f-ing not?

Bleeping not.

Mike is three for threes destroying this quiz.

What was the second one?

Where are the parents?

I gave you that one.

That was a freebie.

I appreciate your time.

I like to make guests look good.

All right, we've got three more here.

What famous actors were Sean Penns, played Sean Penns fellow stoners?

and buddies.

Oh, that would be Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards.

Yes, very impressive.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

See, I thought maybe Eric Stoltz always comes to mind, but I always forget about Anthony Edwards.

That was very well done.

Yeah, it's confusing because he has hair.

That's why he has long hair.

And he's not in surgery, pretend surgery.

Right.

All right, number five.

What band?

Did Spicoli hire with his reward money for saving Brooke Shields from drowning to play his birthday party.

Oh Is that in the the credits?

Yes, I think he I Almost said the stones because he said that in the dream sequence.

Oh, yeah, but I think it's Van Halen.

Yes, correct Yeah, my face.

I

love

that.

What's it gonna do with the prize money?

I'm gonna go to London and

jam with the stones, but I love when he says to the

Stu, the interviewer, after the surfing contest, he says, who would you get this jacket?

Stu just blows them off and goes, oh, the network gave it to me.

Jeff, so

great.

He was great at that.

He was great.

And he goes, oh, those guys are Fs.

And Stu just goes, ha ha, fantastic.

All right.

All right, number five.

What did Mark Ratner purchase just to talk to a girl?

And remember, he gets teased about this by

Damone.

He had a crush on a girl at the photo mat, so he bought $10,000 worth of film or something crazy.

$100 worth of film, and he didn't even have a camera.

$40 is worth of film, Rat.

You don't even own a camera.

That's correct.

All right.

Mike is six for six.

One more question here for you, Mike.

What kind of car did Jefferson have?

that was totaled by Spicoli and Jefferson's younger brother.

And bonus point, if you can name the year.

It was Trans Am.

I

know that.

Oh,

close.

Oh, it's a Firebird?

It's a Trans

Am?

It's like the twin brother.

Or is it a

Camaro?

Yes.

OK, it's Camaro.

And a bonus point, if you can guess the year.

A year?

I don't know.

It was new.

I mean, the movie came out in 82, so maybe it was in 81 or 82.

Well, we'll give you that one.

It was a 79 Camaro.

That's fantastic.

Sweet ride, pal.

Sweet ride.

You

can't fix it.

You can't fix this car, Spicoli.

My old man's got an ultimate set of tools.

I can fix it.

Pete, I had one bonus question for you.

Oh,

yeah.

This is super hard.

Well, yeah, I mean.

If you can remember, DeMone's five point plan.

Oh,

man.

The first thing you do, wherever you are.

I had to write these down.

Wherever you are, that's the place to be.

Isn't this great?

Yeah, that's number three.

That's number three.

Compliment her?

Isn't this great?

Isn't this great?

Isn't this great?

Is it compliment her?

No.

All right, here, I'll give you the ones I remember.

Play cashmere,

Led Zeppelin.

Oh, that's your

half right there.

Yeah.

It comes to making out in side one of Led Zeppelin four.

Side one of Led Zeppelin four.

And then

they cut to the scene.

Well, that's, you know, all the Zepads all complain because they're playing cashmere in the car, which is not on Led Zeppelin four.

So there you

go.

All right.

So it's that one.

It's wherever you are.

That's the place to be.

Isn't this great?

That's two of them.

And then something about order for her.

The lady will have a Coke.

I will have a Coke as well.

Something like

that.

I had to write it down.

It's a great later.

We'll have the linguine with white clam sauce And I'll have the same and what what's the other one?

He the number one is the first one is never let on how much you like a girl It's like oh hi Debbie and he's about the cardboard cut out of Debbie Harry there.

Oh,

right

That's one and two is always call the shots kiss me

You won't regret it.

You won't regret it.

Yes.

Oh, I should have got that one.

That one's great.

Mike Siegel is here, folks.

He is the host of the Travel Tales podcast and a very funny comedian and TV host.

Kind of does it all, Mike.

You also do rewiring, don't you?

Are you do nails or something?

You got all kinds of rewiring.

Yeah, I do HVAC, you know, anything you need me.

Where can people see?

I know you still do standups sporadically, but go to funny mic dot com for more information.

But where can people see you live anywhere?

I'm doing if I'm in town, I'm mostly doing the comedy magic club in Hermosa Beach here in

LA

outside of LA and

Yeah, it's mostly a lot of ships these days.

So

other than

little local things, that's a private event, some one-off things.

But yeah, it's mostly a lot of a lot of cruises these days.

And the Alaska season is about to start.

Wow.

Are you on one of those huge cruises where it's like they have a water park on a ship?

I haven't done any of those mega ships, those 6,000 passenger ones.

I wouldn't mind doing it once only because they have a dedicated comedy club in those where

you

work with other comics.

And usually I'm the only guy on the ship most of the time.

So it'd be fun to work with other other comics.

You know, it would also be fun.

What's that?

Just all day, just do cannonballs into the pool or the water slide.

Isn't that the comedian?

So what have you seen Mike?

What are you?

What are you watching?

Have you seen any movies or you binge watching anything?

Oh, what did we just watch?

Well, I wouldn't give it a rave really, but I just watched the all 10 episodes of that Nathan Lane sitcom.

Mid-century modern.

It's on Hulu.

Oh, OK.

And it's from the guys who did Will and Grace.

And of course, Nathan Lane is great in it, but I'm like, does it hold up as a whole?

I don't know.

We kind of watched it because a friend of my girlfriends is one of the cameramen on it.

And she knows a lot of people behind the scenes.

So we got to

check this out.

And you ever watch something that's like after a couple episodes, you may not be digging it, but we got to stick it out.

We're going to have dinner with this guy.

We should be able to

answer questions.

I have done that many times, yes.

All right.

Well, that's a good one.

What about the movies?

Have you seen anything?

I have not.

Oh, I watched down the plane.

The new one, not new, but the Bob Dylan one.

Complete unknown.

I enjoyed it.

I thought it was great.

Yeah.

And a lot of times those rock biographies can be little hit or miss.

And also sometimes it could be just total.

Oh, this is just a behind the music episode.

Right.

And just kind of like.

But this one I liked and I thought the lead kid that Timothy Chalamet was great.

Yeah, he did a really great

job.

I like those movies better when they're about a certain time period.

It's not like, oh, here's Bob Dylan as a baby.

Nobody cares.

Right.

You know,

just try to cover the whole career.

You're talking 60 year career there.

No, I like that a lot too.

And I recommend to you, Mike, see Sinners if you get a chance.

I really like that.

I thought it was great.

I'm hearing good things.

I'm hearing

good things.

Any other famous or great comedy teen comedies you want to throw out there before we let you go?

Something you can recommend comedies.

Well, I'm again, we're the same era of you you and I but I'm I can always quote 16 candles.

Yeah,

really rocked my world when it was there Absolutely, I loved I loved and a lot of it is not I guess PC anymore.

Oh, yeah,

right.

Yeah, for sure.

Something's just don't age as well, but

We're thinking of a particular character from the Far East who is very funny and wore a red plaid suit and some of the funniest stuff and you can't say it anymore and that's fine, but

yeah.

Yeah.

Anthony Michael Hall in that movie is hysterical.

He's

great.

It's absolutely hysterical.

Great movie.

Mike, thank you so much, buddy.

This is always fun.

Yeah, I had a blast.

Tell your significant other.

I won't use her full name, but Piper.

Okay.

She always comes up

as

a Facebook friend suggestion.

And I don't do that with women because I don't want women to get the wrong idea because just out of habit, I always ask them out right after I make a friend request and I don't want to embarrass myself like that.

Pete, I'd like you to keep your distance.

Okay, we'll do that.

All right, Michael, thanks so much, buddy.

Check out the TravelTales podcast and go to funnymic.com.

All great stuff.

Thank you, pal.

Thanks, Pete.

You got it.

That's Mike Siegel, folks.

On the stream, I gotta catch up here.

Dave says, history of the world part one, that's a great, that's just a great comedy.

I don't know if it's a great teen comedy or not, but it's a great comedy.

Well done, Dave.

Dave also says, any Cheech and Chong movie, of course I can rub the great stuff.

All right, we're coming right back.

I've got an in-studio guest, folks.

Award-winning filmmaker Kelly Peterson will be here next after a very short break.

Great to have you with me on this Monday night on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I

just wanna dance the night away With Senoritas who can't sway Right now, tomorrow

I'm Pete Schwab, great to have you with me on this gorgeous Monday night in the state of Wisconsin, wherever you are listening across our fair state.

Fantastic, great to have you.

Be part of the show, folks.

Our question of the night is what is your favorite teen movie?

And we've gotten so many, I cannot believe the array of movies we've gotten, like dramas too.

I always think comedy, but we've gotten some great drama submissions too.

And Joseph knew it was Van Halen when I asked Mike that trivia question about who did Spicully hire.

to play his birthday party after saving Brook Shields from drowning.

Joseph also says, Jen Jones, early Gen X, the cohort of absent parents.

Yes, of course.

I was asking where the parents were in fast times at Ridgemont High, because they were nonexistent.

And that's why the Tom Fullery was able to take place.

So keep those texts coming, folks.

I will read them on the radio and be part of the show.

Thank you to Mike Siegel.

And now we turn to my next guest.

I'm excited.

This is a first time guest in the studio here, Kelly Peterson, an award-winning filmmaker and Northeastern Wisconsin resident and a friend of Kristen Lyrely.

She introduced us.

A good friend.

Thanks for that connection.

Amazing.

Absolutely.

I don't like Kristen personally, but she does really good.

So no, she's fantastic.

And you've been on her show, her new show.

So let's give a plug for that.

Yeah, we were the second guest.

Lana Nyland and I, we talked about a documentary I'm working on, on Lana on Ukraine.

So it was, it was really neat to, to chat about that.

Yeah.

So let's start with that.

You're a filmmaker and you're making this documentary about Ukraine.

Tell us about, well, tell us about.

Lana and then tell us about what the story is

So I guess I could go back a little bit to where before the full invasion happened I was actually in Russia

that is my

husband He's a pilot for a legion and so he's ex-military so we've traveled all over and as X mil as X media and ex-military That's one place.

We've always wanted to go not knowingly everything that was happening at the time, but we I mean we knew but not to that level

so we went to Russia we went to Moscow and st.

Petersburg and You could feel a little bit of attention and a lot of people that we met there.

They were from Ukraine

a

lot of the uber drivers the bartenders the people who worked in the hotel so I Thought I don't know why is this brotherly war happening for long?

so

It was something that, when I thought everybody knows everybody, we ended up going to Poland, leaving Russia, and that was when a woman came up to me, she was from Ukraine, and she said, I live in Mariupol, which is a border town, and a lot of the police in my town are there at the border trying to protect my city.

That's when I really got involved with the Ukrainian war or the Russian war.

And I met Lana through a colleague and she's amazing.

She delivers humanitarian aid to the frontline medical supplies.

You name it.

She's amazing.

She was a dancer.

And now she is, she's basically turned in her ballet shoes for a bulletproof vest.

Oh my gosh.

So, all right, so that's our introduction to Lana.

How did, what made you say she's so incredible?

I'm gonna make a documentary and kind of a dangerous part of the world and dedicate what is typically years of your life.

Her story is so powerful.

What she did when when the full invasion took place is she was taking animals in she was risking her life to start this nonprofit called Ukrainian Patriot and Basically, it helps get medical supplies to the front lines not just to the soldiers but to the people living in these war-torn countries that are bombed by Russia and that was

her mission, and it still is today.

She was about, she moved to Ukraine, she's a Canadian, but she moved to Ukraine to dance with some of the most elite dancers.

And when she was there watching tanks pull up near her apartment, and it was something that was, she knew at that moment, I'm no longer going to dance, I need to help my country.

That's incredible.

And so she's not a native.

No.

Oh,

wow.

She's not a native.

That's almost more impressive that she decided to do that.

And it's not even her native country.

And that's what's so amazing about Lana is that we now have an international board.

So I sit as a chairwoman representing Ukrainian patriot for the United States.

But we also have people from all over the world that she's brought in to help.

Ukraine and it's really, really echoed with her message.

And so I'm following her story with everything that she's been helping with

in Ukraine.

That's interesting too, because you don't, I mean, at least I don't think about, like you think about war, you see the images on TV, what the people of Ukraine are going through.

You don't think about the pets.

I mean, or at least I'm not a pet owner, but I'm sure there is.

traumatized by this as anybody, right?

At one point she, I think, brought in 15 dogs into her small apartment in downtown Kiev.

And now she's working on building a sanctuary for animals and veterans out in Ukraine.

And the images of those animals, those pets, is heartbreaking.

I've had many meetings with her via Google.

I hear the sirens.

She's got pets high.

I think the first time I interviewed her when we were doing this documentary, there was no power.

Really?

There were

no lights.

It was winter.

It was cold.

All right.

We're going to talk more about Kelly Peterson's documentary about the Ukraine when we come back.

When will it be done, do you know?

My goal is to have it finished by the end of the year.

OK.

Oh, that's exciting.

OK, cool.

So also it is uh you played that song Conrad and I didn't even say it was Frankie Valley's birthday.

I'm playing it again right now.

He's like 104 and he still performs kind of.

And a little bit Cinco de Mayo too.

It's fun watching all the people celebrating Cinco de Mayo, driving by in flags.

I even

wrote down it with Cinco de Mayo, and I'm like, hey, what's going on out there?

All right, so we're coming back.

Kelly Peterson is here.

We're going to talk more about our documentary.

I'm going to read more of your texts.

What's your favorite teen movie, folks?

Great to have you with me on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

It's a Monday edition of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I am Pete Schwabba.

Conrad, the kid Conrad Krieger riding shotgun.

Bridget in the 818 says, the Outsiders, favorite book, favorite teen movie.

That is a great choice.

You still have time, folks, if you want to share your favorite teen movie with us.

And Bridget is not alone.

Brian from Green Bay, he's here in the 920.

He says, the Outsiders, stay gold.

I love it.

Let's ask our guest, filmmaker, Kelly Peterson.

She's kind of a, I'm going to call you a Renaissance woman.

I don't know if you get that a lot.

Yeah, first time, but I like

it.

Okay.

I feel extra special now, but do you have a favorite teen movie?

Oh boy.

Well, as a teen, I mean, I guess going into my teenage years, I really liked E.T.

Oh, there you go.

Great movie.

Yeah.

I always think of the comedies, but that's a great one.

Dead Poets Society, there's so many great movies.

All right, so we were talking about your documentary, Ballerina on the Battlefield, about a Canadian ballet dancer who goes to live in the Ukraine and ends up sheltering pets during war.

You said you're hoping that it will be out by the end of this year.

What do you still have to do?

Are you still shooting?

Are you just completely in post-production?

So I've stopped shooting.

I mean, I could keep going and going, but it's a war.

So I've stopped taking any more incoming media and now I am finalizing and touching the writing and then I'm going into post.

Okay.

And how long do you anticipate you can be done by the end of the year with post or?

I

think so.

I mean, I think so.

I'm

a little farther along, but I think I think I could get there.

Okay.

That's exciting.

Um, I write all of the intros for POV and independent lens for PBS and introduce the films.

And, uh, I cannot, I have such, I wish I could do a documentary film.

I've strictly always done narrative stuff, but you can't, the emotion and the stories are so real.

It's so authentic and genuine.

And I'm sure that when people see your film, how is Lana on camera?

Is she a good?

kind of charismatic leading lady, so to speak, for a documentary.

She's genuine.

She's Lana.

And I think she represents everything that is happening in Ukraine

and how

she's doing everything she can, what she can do to help the people there.

She's amazing.

How close has she been, or the pets for that matter, to these bombings and battles?

Oh, she's been near death at least three or four times.

Yes.

She's had Russian drones follow her.

No kidding.

Yeah.

It's been, it's been closed on many occasions.

Can she leave?

She can.

She can just go back to Canada if she wants, but she's choosing to stay

there.

Home is Ukraine.

And how long has she been there?

Oh boy, since the early 2000s.

No kidding.

Okay.

So she's got a definite connection.

She does.

How does this compare your level of passion with other things you've done?

Oh, well, you mentioned PBS.

I worked for PBS for, for many years.

Oh, fantastic.

Producing documentaries and

You know, there's always a different, whenever you're working on your next project, there's always that passion.

And I think with this project, it's been, I'm very passionate about it because it's a war and it's a modern war.

And we're documenting something we've never seen in our lifetime.

We've got technology.

We've got cell phones.

We've got things we haven't seen in a modern war.

that we're using to document.

So this film will be a little bit different in the sense that there will be a lot more.

There will be a lot more documentation with cell phones and internet and all of everything.

But that makes things easier for you kind of, right?

It doesn't, it doesn't because I

don't have everybody signed on like for media liabilities and whatnot.

So the ones I don't have, I have to blur out and I have to get creative.

So it helps, but it doesn't.

But I also feel like it's the moment that it's actually happening.

That's pretty cool.

I have absolute... Now, how much time have you had to spend over

there?

That's an interesting question.

I have not been to Ukraine I have have photographers that I'm working with

who

have been over there and we do the interviews together via zoom via whatnot There's a photographer Daryl McKay.

He lives in Canada.

He's been my lead photographer And he's captured all of the footage most of the footage and Lana herself when she goes out on they call them runs when they take

humanitarian aid and medical supplies to the front and to the people who need it the most.

So who do you want to see this film the most?

I want educators, history.

I want everybody.

I feel that this is going to be...

How Ukrainians live every day and sometimes I feel we take our life for granted.

We have a bad day The gas pump isn't working

right

let's put in perspective what I saw this morning air sirens people running children running to the bomb shelters Let's put everything into perspective

right That's fascinating.

I think too like in the reason I asked that I think using the pets is something you don't always think about

you just see how horrible war is through different eyes.

Like recently I saw the film Warfare.

And man, you wanna support the troops?

Don't send them to stupid wars or don't send them to wars they don't need to be at.

That is how you support the troops.

So to see these highly trained Navy SEALs in this film and how they react after this horrible bomb goes off and many of them are concussed, it's like, why would you ever?

But it's the same thing with pets.

You don't think about how it affects.

Creatures that can't even really defend themselves.

So quick story.

Yeah, so the photographer I'm working with Darryl He was at a train station in Ukraine and there was a puppy at a I don't even know it was in the it was near the bat It was in the bathroom and he came out and said there's a stranded puppy.

There's there's a lot of them So Lana's little heart she went in and she got the puppies and one now she has as one of their mascots for Ukrainian patreon.

Oh nice,

so

But the devastation that they go through, they're shaking.

They

are

so scared.

I mean, they don't know, just like children don't know, they just want to be normal and it's tough.

Listen, I'm scared to go into a men's room, war or not.

I don't like, try to avoid them at all costs anyway, so I totally get that.

Sorry, I don't mean to, sometimes I can't help.

I like the humor.

So.

All right, so you're going to be done at the end of the year.

Do you have distribution lined up?

Are you still trying to work on that?

Are you going to go the festival route?

So I'm looking at a few options.

I haven't quite decided, but I'll definitely do distribution in terms of selling.

And we'll see what that looks like once I've completed.

But I'm quite hopeful.

Yeah.

My guest is Kelly Peterson.

She is an award-winning documentarian and reporter.

You've won four Emmys.

I have.

You told me.

So probably my last question for the ballerina on the battlefield, how much does your reporting background, how does that help you as a filmmaker?

I think listening is a key aspect of that.

I've learned.

If there's one thing I've learned in my journalism career, it has been to actually listen to what people

are

saying.

And I think that's helped a lot.

And also the connections that I have to help tell this story.

And what I've learned from some amazing people I've worked with from the East Coast to the West Coast.

That's great.

And I mean, documentary filmmaking really is reporting.

It

is.

You're telling a story just like reporters do.

It is.

It

is.

That's great.

All right, so I want to shift gears here because there's another fact about you that I thought was really interesting.

Your grandfather, is it Howard Ackerman?

Harry Ackerman.

Harry Ackerman.

He was kind of a big deal.

in the TV world.

He wasn't a producer.

He worked for a studio, correct?

He did.

He did.

Tell

us about some of the work he does, because this is fascinating.

Oh, my goodness.

So for those listeners out there, if you're a 60s sitcom fan, you'll appreciate my grandfather.

And those who have loved sitcoms, he produced Leave It To Beaver.

He brought I Love Lucy from radio to television.

He did The Flying None.

He did, uh, oh my

goodness.

Dennis Amenas, the

Dona

Riccio, Gidget.

Dennis Amenas, Bewitched.

I have all these photos at home too, with him, with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in their home in Palm Springs.

Wow.

Yeah.

He was, he really taught me a lot.

I used to sometimes go, at the time he was working on I Love Lucy, it was another episode that they were remaking right before he died.

And I remember going in and watching and yeah, it was amazing.

So you kind of grew up around show business more or less, it sounds like.

Yeah.

Did you grow up in Southern California?

Northern California.

Okay.

Born in Santa Monica and then moved to Northern California for my mom and dad's work.

But we had a lot of family in show business.

My grandmother's Eleanor Donahue, who was the oldest daughter and father-in-law's best.

She's

still alive in Palm Springs doing very well.

Nothing makes me more excited than meeting people with connections like that or just an obscure, although you've been around it, you seem to know a lot of people in show business.

That begs my next question.

How did you end up in Northeast Wisconsin?

Well, that is interesting.

So my husband, as I mentioned earlier, he was Air Force, ex-military.

And I

said I'd love to be ex-military, but you have to be military before you could be.

If I walked around, is that like stolen valor if I just started saying, well, I'm ex-military?

Maybe.

I would never.

Disrespect our armed forces by doing something like that.

We have a text for Kelly Conrad.

Is that what you're telling me?

Yeah.

Conrad's on it, man.

On our

text

line, this is, I can't see anything because the lights went off in our, oh, Tom says, how cool.

Some of the shows I loved as a child.

That's great.

So all right, you're telling us, thank you for the text, Tom.

Yeah,

thank you.

So how did you end up here, your husband?

My husband,

well,

sort of.

So we ended up, he retired in 2016 and we moved from North Dakota because that's where we were relocated.

And then there was an executive producer opening at WFRV here in.

No kidding.

Green Bay.

So I sent my resume in and I'll never forget Kevin Osgood, the news director at the time.

He emailed me within five minutes and he said, did you really mean to send us here?

It was like kidding.

He was

joking.

He's like, you're so overqualified.

I said, no, I want to, because my husband's from Wisconsin.

So

this was

home.

OK.

So how long have you been here now?

Oh, I think it's going on seven years.

Oh, yeah.

It's not that

long, really.

I know.

But it's home.

Yeah.

It's home now.

Yeah, I work at NWTC.

I absolutely love it.

I teach college courses here.

And yeah, love it.

What kind of college courses do you teach?

Oral communication courses, public speaking, and

English.

Nice.

So what what do you do?

Is that all you're doing now?

Are you retired from the TV world?

Well, I guess for now I'm gonna be retired until I finish my documentary

and

Honestly, I don't know if I want to get into the 24-7 news business again.

That's a lot

It's a lot but in Green Bay here.

It seems like like we've had people from local outlets on

And I know they're reporting hard news too, but it seems like they're just sort of in the community.

And it seems like a lot of the stuff they get to report on is kind of cool stuff.

It's so cool.

But

as the news director, it's 24-7.

But it's super cool.

And there's so many talented people in this market.

Should we talk about some of your awards when we come back?

Sure.

You might as well toot your own horn while you're here.

Oh, I'll let you do that.

Good people to take your classes or whatever.

But we'll do that and we will have more in just a few minutes.

Kelly Peterson is sticking around.

She's in the studio going to help me close it down.

I'll get back to your texts and we'll wrap this up nice.

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Welcome back tonight, folks.

I am Pete Schwabber.

Great to have you with me on this Monday night.

I always say I can't believe I'm so happy it's Monday, because I don't know what to do with myself on the weekends.

But we are finally back broadcasting here statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay.

Tomorrow night on the show, we are going to talk about the Wisconsin Film Incentives, which it's coming up before I believe the Senate, but we'll have a guest on tomorrow night at 7.05, University of Wisconsin's Stout Professor will be here to discuss how important these incentives are.

Talk about the chances they have to pass.

That's at 7 0 5 tomorrow night.

Cliff Wall, who is part of the park's... What is Cliff's title?

Because Cliff has been here in different capacities.

He's also on the park's board for... I just sound like an idiot.

I just have to pull this up.

And then we're going to talk about, at 6 35, we're going to talk about a comedy contest in Oshkosh.

The search to find Oshkosh's funniest person.

Conrad is throwing his hat into the ring.

He will be doing stand-up comedy.

You didn't know that, but I volunteered you.

Oh, thank you.

Cliff is part of the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks, and he's going to talk about the importance of state parks and what is going on locally here.

Cliff was here.

Are you guys Packer fans?

Yes.

Kelly, I'm talking to Chris.

He didn't want to be on the show, but I'm kind of including him now.

Kelly's husband, Chris, is here.

He's the former military.

Yes.

And who is also a pilot.

So, Chris, you're being a very good husband, bringing your wife to this nonsense tonight.

So, thank you for that.

But you guys are Packer fans.

So we had, Cliff was on a few weeks ago and he brought Sam Venese with him, who is trying to get his brother into the Packer, or he's already in the Packer Hall of Fame.

He was trying to get him into the NFL Hall of Fame, because basically he hired Vince Lombardi, played a very pivotal role in some great Packers teams.

So Cliff is a great guy.

He'll be here tomorrow night.

So.

That's super cool.

Yeah.

How did you become a Packer fan?

You've only been here seven years.

Well, this guy, I was a Niners fan.

because I was in Sacramento and I lived in San Francisco for quite a while, but he's kind of turned me into a Packers fan.

They're kind of one of the most hated rivals, too, I think.

Yeah.

Because there's some rough games in the past.

Rough.

Yeah.

But you like the Bears better than the Niners.

Well, there's that rivalry.

You can't beat the Bears.

And I've taken a lot of abuse sometimes on this show from him, from my Bears fandom, because Conrad is a big time Packer fan, too.

All right, so, oh, we got a kind of don't let me forget text because I want to ask Kelly here about Ukrainian Patriot you're on the board and this is Lana's your documentary for those of you just joining us Kelly's documentary is Ballerina on the battlefield and it will be out hopefully by the end of the year where she follows a woman who shelters pets in the war

Shelters pets

Supplies humanitarian aid medical supplies to the front line I mean she literally gets in a truck with a team and risks her life to get those supplies to where they need to be

Yeah, that's incredible.

So Ukrainian Patriot is her sort of so she found it.

Yes

Yes, so she founded Ukrainian Patriot and as I got to know Lana and start started documenting her we became really fairly close and

She had asked me or she'd asked me if I would be interested in becoming the chair the chairwoman to represent the United States of America Wow, so that's what I do I sit I sit on the Ukrainian Patriot, and I'm the chairwoman that represents the US Helping to get medical supplies humanitarian aid everything, but military supplies to the front lines.

That's so So cool, and I'm impressed that you're able to do all this from Northeast Wisconsin

That's how times have changed, right?

I mean, the fact that you can do this and make a documentary and not be over in a war-torn country is really advantageous.

It's super cool.

We were actually up at the Door County Candle Company, and she has a trench candle that we brought up there, and it's still displayed up there.

Oh, really?

Has Lana been here?

She has.

She's been here twice,

and we've done tours.

introductions and all that good stuff.

That's so great.

Well, you'll have to keep us posted on the documentary.

As it gets closer, we'll have to have you back on.

You can tell us how we can see it, or film festivals, screenings, or.

Good love it.

But don't go anywhere.

I want to ask you one more question about your grandpa, what he did.

I'm going to ask you.

Grandpa's cool.

Your favorite show.

So we'll do that after we finish these texts.

Jack from Merrimack says, best teen movie, American graffiti, hands down.

Every other one is fluff.

My comparison in my opinion.

That's Jack from Merrimack.

Thank you, Jack.

Tom from New Berlin says, my dad is a TV repairman.

He's got the ultimate set of tools.

I read that one.

I should read the other one first.

He says, when Spicoli has a pizza delivered to the classroom, he's just telling us his favorite moments of fast times.

That's fantastic.

Thank you, Tom Steve from Florida.

Did I read your dad's text?

Not yet.

I did not I cannot let family go by the wayside here Steve Conrad's dad from Florida says I can't really pick just one like Lay's potato chips because they're also good Hoosiers Rudy Caddyshack.

Yes back to the future fast times at Ridgemont High Ferris Bueller's Day off better off dead grease the original Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

All Epic Classics could not agree more, Steve.

That's awesome.

And Dolores, I don't know if I read Dolores's text.

She's in the 608.

She says, one of my favorite movies is Karate Kid.

Another great teen, not a comedy, but a drama.

These are all fantastic folks.

Thank you so much for your text and being part of Nightlight.

And thank you to Mike Siegel for being on the show, Kelly Peterson for being here in the studio.

Do you have a favorite show that your grandpa worked

on?

I really loved Leave it to Beaver.

That was one of my favorites.

Oh, he did Bewitched too.

Bewitched was huge too.

He did Bewitched and he has a funny story about, he told us when he was in studio with Elizabeth Montgomery.

Yeah, I mean there

are about 20 seconds.

Let's save that for next time.

We'll come back and talk about your documentary being that much closer and we'll get into some more of that stuff.