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And now, a guy who loves the sin, but hates the sinner, T. Chwaba.

Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Monday, everybody.

It's finally here.

The work week.

And for those of us who love our work, I say rejoice.

Great to have you with me on this Monday night as we broadcast from beautiful downtown Green Bay on a Conrad, say it with me, beautiful, gorgeous, sunny, warm night.

I didn't say it with you.

That's all

right.

I was gonna say, but you could suspect because both of us somehow you're a warm-weather guy, but very committed to northeast Wisconsin

Yeah,

I lived in Wisconsin your whole life.

Yes, you still complain about cold weather.

Yeah, you know, it's it's my own fault

Mine too.

I moved back.

I had like almost 15 years of warm weather and no winter and I did not mind it.

I loved it But love Trump's all right

Yes, yes, it does.

Were you

ever tempted to move down to West?

You know, when

my parents were down there and after college, I was like, well, you know, it wouldn't hurt for a couple of years to go down there.

But, you know, I didn't want to leave all my friends.

But here you are.

Here I am back, still in Green Bay.

Well, there's nothing wrong with that.

You could do a lot worse.

It's beautiful here in downtown Green Bay tonight.

I hope it is wherever you are in the gorgeous state of Wisconsin as it appears the summer.

Box office season is here and summer weather seems to be right around the corner should be a good week, but great to have you Lots to talk about tonight.

We're gonna do a deep dive into the movie fast times at Ridgemont High with my pal Mike Siegel who sent me a picture of Demone from fast times at Ridgemont High about two weeks ago and Mike is kind of a world traveler he hosts a podcast Mike Siegel does on

Traveling it's called the travel tales pod podcast and I was waiting for him to kind of be available so we could discuss this great movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High one of the great comedies of the last 40 years or so and We'll do that and then we'll talk tonight at 720 filmmaker Kelly Peterson will be here in the studio.

She's driving up from

Well, you don't need to know where she lives.

She's coming up from somewhere else in northeast Wisconsin.

So Kelly will be here in studio talking about her new film.

She's working on and she is an award-winning filmmaker and she's also got a pretty famous grandpa who played a part in some big TV shows in the 1960s.

So we'll have a nice chat in studio with Kelly.

Some teen movie talk and fast times at Ridgemont High Talk with podcast host, TV host and comedian Mike Siegel.

And that's your show, folks.

There's your guests.

But we have a lot to get to before that.

Let's do this.

Let's get the question out there, comrades, so that we can let people start texting in if they so choose.

And we'll talk about a couple of things that are certainly on my mind here tonight as we kick off the show.

Here is 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 teen movie?

Keeping with the theme of fast times at Ridgemont Eye, what is your favorite teen movie?

There's a ton of them.

And I know your first instinct, folks, is probably to go John Hughes films.

And you can certainly do that.

But we've talked quite a bit about John Hughes Probably about a month ago, but absolutely if it's a John Hughes film 16 candles breakfast club Ferris Bueller fireway mine is probably Fast times at Ridgemont High.

I also like days and confused a lot The Richard Linklater film, but there's tons to choose from you got varsity blues Rushmore say anything

The Lost Boys was on a list.

Heathers was on my list.

I haven't seen Heathers in Ages, but loved it.

The Princess Diaries, Footloose, Friday Night Lights.

Pardon me.

One guy said, Hoosiers is a teen film, and I guess it is, of the Karate Kid, Vision Quest.

There's all kinds of great teen movies from over the years.

Another one of my favorites is Dead Poets Society.

Love that film.

American Pie.

If you like the more risque things, like you could argue that Fast Times at Ridgemont High is, but a lot of great teen films, let us know what your favorite is at 855-752-4842.

855-75 Civic would be great to hear from you.

And I will read your text on the radio.

Kyle, what do you say to that?

What's your favorite?

I would say Spider-Man.

Spider-Man's a good one.

That's on this list too.

Yeah, it's just, I just Googled.

And it's great because all these movies come up you kind of forgot about.

But Spider-Man, is it 2002?

2003?

Yeah, Toby McGuire won.

Yeah.

She's all that.

The girl next door, can't buy me love.

So many great teen movies.

Risky Business, another great one, a classic.

But you know what, is not one of my favorite teen movies.

What's that?

Not

another teen movie.

That's a great movie.

It's a fine movie.

It's not on my list of...

Best, but it's good.

Yeah, I wouldn't say I would say a fine terrible movie.

It's a fine watch

Greece is another one of my favorites great classic fame almost famous you could argue was a teen movie Cameron Crow Also made that film as well as fast times at Ridgemont High But let us know what you think folks and if you're watching on Facebook or on the stream Pardon me, which you can also you can watch the broadcast on Facebook YouTube

X give us a like or a follow if you don't mind We always like to get likes and follows here at night light kind of helps us helps us feel good about ourselves It gives us self-confidence So any likes or follows are much appreciated on any of the platforms So this was big news today a lot of a lot of things I woke up to a message from Chris Casper Who shared an article regarding Trump's tariffs?

on moviemaking and Hollywood.

He's gonna put 100% tariffs on any film shot outside the US.

So, I mean, this tariff journey has been interesting on many levels with other products and other, you know, I know he's tried to play hardball and I've read stuff like where the Chinese haven't blinked, so he retracted the tariffs.

But, you know, whether or not this happens, it could be devastating.

for the industry, but maybe not.

I mean, if they actually are enacted, that's one thing.

But there was a producer, I read this article on Variety today, and it said, a French producer said, technically, films are services on which you can't impose tariffs.

So this could end up in court and take a long time.

If it even picks up steam.

I mean, who knows?

Things can change very quickly with President Trump as we know But both sides will be hurt it makes no sense either.

I don't know why this would be a thing The global film community has worked quite well together for the most part there are film festivals all over the world.

I don't understand Unless you are Actively trying to hurt an industry this makes absolutely no sense And one producer in the variety article said rather than have

tariffs or go this route where people are punished.

How about having a national film incentive?

We have film incentives in different states.

We'll talk a little bit about this tomorrow night on the show because there's a bill in Wisconsin here that's gonna get looked at this week.

But we don't really have them.

We don't have them in Wisconsin right now.

Minnesota has them, Georgia, Illinois, New York.

There's a lot of states that have them.

Why not make a national film incentive to keep business here?

Nothing wrong with that.

But I hope we don't get punished either for wanting to see foreign films.

We'll have to wait and see what the fine print says, if and when it will go into effect.

But there's a lot to be determined here.

But the showbiz community is up in arms about this.

Trump has never seemed that crazy, or at least he badmouts Hollywood a lot, even though it's put a lot of money in his pocket.

So we'll see what happens.

But I'm sure you can certainly contact your Congress people.

I think it's a silly idea, but I think it's also a long way from having any Validity to it because as we know a lot can change and sometimes they're just big words, so we'll see what happens But the Hollywood box office the summer block office is is in effect this past weekend is considered the first summer blockbuster weekend and I saw sinners

Can you saw Thunderbolts?

Yes, I did.

You liked it.

I loved it.

Okay Do you think?

People who aren't necessarily Marvel fans will like it like is it just a good movie

I think You I mean Yes, I do think that people will still like this.

I think it's a great You know kind of like they were once Villains or just lost causes turn

into something

good

Yeah, that's what I read about

it and some one character in particular you'll you're gonna love no matter who you are this names Bob

I Was hoping you would say Florence Pugh cuz I absolutely love her well.

She was great.

I heard she was fantastic in

yeah, she was great Yeah, she was I mean there are so many you know good characters in it, but like she it felt like she was the main one

yeah

That's exciting.

I think before we move on or before I talk about centers, I want to congratulate all the winners here at Civic Media.

Do we have a list?

We need to, you know, talk about these people.

I think I sent you a list earlier.

Did you print one up?

We got to recognize people.

Brittany Merleau, a three-time winner.

Mino in the mayor, second place.

Congratulations to Mino in the mayor and to Todd and Amanda and Conrad, who also works on that show.

Pretty amazing stuff.

But we will list all those winners tonight.

Civic Media was well represented at the WBAs over the weekend.

Quite the festivities too.

I saw a lot of pictures from this broadcast or from this event and it was just fantastic.

So we'll read off those names shortly.

Quite a few winners here from Civic Media making everybody proud.

Great to have you with me.

I saw the film Sinners this weekend and it's taken me a couple weeks to get to it.

But the film has reviewed incredibly well a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes for a horror film about vampires starring Michael B. Jordan Ryan Coogler is the director and I just cannot It was just a spectacle every aspect of the film was great The acting was really good.

The direction was excellent the set design the aesthetics of it.

It's set in the south

earlier last century, like in the 30s.

And Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, and they set up a juke joint in the country.

That's their goal.

They went up to Chicago, worked for the mob, and then came back home and stole from the Italians and the Irish as the story goes.

They had all this great Irish beer, Italian wine, and they set up a juke joint, and it is descended upon by vampires.

Really good movie.

Not overly gory either.

There is some gore But the actual gore parts a lot of the movie is leading up to this fun night Where they and the music is so great Buddy guy has a cameo plays one of the characters as an older man at the end of the movie I will say this if you see sinners and I highly recommend it stay through the credits because

When when I went to see the film in Marinette this past weekend It was my wife and me and another couple sitting a few feet away the couple left during the credits after the credits and they did tease through the credits a few others short scenes They flash forward into the 90s But the end of the movie actually happens at the end of the credit roll And it it made it for me it made it a good movie a great movie

So I cannot recommend Sinner's enough, but I'm not a vampire guy.

I'm not a horror guy.

It's just a great movie.

Ryan Coogler is a fantastic filmmaker.

All right, we're coming right back.

We're gonna read your text.

Our question of the night.

What's your favorite teen movie?

I say Fast Times at Ridgemont High in Days and Confused.

Conrad says, what did you say?

I said Spider-Man.

Spider-Man.

So share with us your favorite teen movie, and I'll read it on the radio.

We are coming right back.

This

is Pete Schwabba and Night Light on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Great to have you with me on this Monday night in the beautiful and warm, finally and sunny state of Wisconsin.

We are, Mike Siegel is here tonight at 635.

We're going to talk about fast times at Ridgemont High.

I'm going to ask Mike five questions about the film.

He's going to ask me five questions about the film.

We'll do a deep dive into some of the characters and some of the great scenes.

And we'll touch on award-winning, or I'm sorry, on teen movies as well.

Mike is the host of the Travel Tales podcast.

which is a very informative, very entertaining listen.

If you're so inclined, he is a TV host who has hosted such shows as If Walls Could Talk, What You Get for the Money, TBS Movie Break.

He's been all over the TV and he's a very funny comedian.

And then at 720, Kelly Peterson, a independent film producer and documentary producer is here in the studio with me.

Kelly is working on a documentary about the Ukraine, which should be very interesting.

We'll talk to her about that.

at 720.

That is a Kristen Lierley referral, Conrad.

I don't know if you remember that.

So excited to see Kelly.

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

Let us know what you're thinking.

Matt Harper checked in on the social media post and he says Varsity Blues.

I think that's a popular one.

I think we'll get some some votes for that.

I've seen that but it's been so long and I liked it but I don't remember much about it.

It's one of those films that just didn't stick with me but I did like it.

That makes sense.

So we'll go to the the stream here Dave says one crazy summer Paul Rudd film

It sounds

familiar one crazy summer.

I think that was the No, that wasn't that was pre-Paul Rudd.

This is going back to the 80s John Cusack.

Yes, of course Joel Murray our pal who's been on the show had gold weight great cast

Very nice.

Nicely done, Dave.

Joseph Wolf checks in on the stream as his favorite TV movies, dating myself a bit, but he says, American graffiti, dazed and confused, fast times, risky business, so many good ones.

Joseph, I am totally with you.

And I liked American graffiti, but those other three you listed are three of my all-time favorites as well.

And they're all from the 80s.

The 80s was kind of a great era for teen...

Not that that's when the teen movie started, but there were so many great teen movies.

And you just listed three that have nothing to do with John Hughes.

John Hughes has like his own library of teen movies, but those are excellent.

So that's our question for the night.

Check in, stream us, text us, and we will read it on the radio going out to, where are we here?

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says, what do you think about the Goonies or Stand By Me or Lord of the Flies?

I think those are totally teen movies, Tyler.

Because the Goonies, well, they're like, prime middle school, 12, 13, 14.

I count that.

But there is... Not the Goonies.

I'm sorry, stand by me.

Okay.

The Goonies has some teens in it.

Right.

Josh Brolin.

Yeah.

And, um, not Leah Thompson.

I can't think.

Martha Plimpton, maybe?

Yeah, they're teens.

Absolutely.

Bonnie D, checking in from the 262, risky business.

Double exclamation point.

Could not agree more, Bonnie.

I am so due for a rewatch on Risky Business, too.

That's a fantastic one.

Ronnie from Horicon, that's in the Horicon, that's not the 920, actually.

But Ronnie's area code is 920.

Ronnie says, I loved the Breakfast Club.

Another classic.

Thank you, Ronnie.

And there's one I didn't mention earlier.

I would put Napoleon Dynamite in that category.

Definitely.

One of my all-time faves.

And definitely a teen movie.

I think Napoleon and Kip are both teens of various age degrees.

Barb from Waukesha.

She's in the 262.

She says, super bad.

Yes.

Is so much fun to watch.

Could not agree more, Barb.

That's a great one.

Great film.

Annie from Watertown.

She's her area code anyway.

He's the 920.

She says, OMG.

Can you imagine that orange guy watching a movie with subtitles?

I don't care how he watches this movie.

Movies, Eddie.

I have issues with the PBS stuff he's talking about with my wife as a public school teacher.

And yes, now Hollywood.

So he's not certainly doing himself any favors with me personally.

And it sounds like with you either.

Anna from Addison says, hi, Pete and Conrad.

My favorite teen movie is Lady Bird.

And, wow, Lady Bird.

Is it okay?

I did not think that.

See, I go right for the comedies.

But there are plenty of teen movies that I mean dead poet society was not a comedy great teen movie though Anna's in the 608.

Thank you, Anna Monica from Mount Horrib says hard to choose just one but the first one that came to mind was little darlings with Christy McNichol and Matt Damon Great choice Monica forgot about that one not Matt Damon Matt Dylan a little darling.

I don't even know if Matt Damon was born yet But I think you met Matt Dylan Brian from Milwaukee says along with Teen Wolf

with Michael J. Fox, Napoleon Dynamite.

Great choices, Brian.

Awesome as always.

Thank you, sir.

Carrie from Tosa.

She's in the 414.

She says, better off dead.

I want my $2.

Great choice, Carrie.

I actually tried to watch Say Anything recently, and I was unable to.

I watched it, but it seemed dated.

And it's still a great movie.

But I just couldn't get through it.

We got some more texts here.

Annie from Watertown, Dazed and Confused.

So lived it.

Annie lived the story of Dazed and Confused.

She went to a high school with Matthew McConaughey playing Wooderson.

Great character.

Thank you, Annie, again.

Brian from Milwaukee also says, Little Miss Sunshine.

Yeah, wow.

I've forgotten so many about these.

Ronnie from Horeca also says the outsiders was a favorite.

Don't know if you mentioned it.

I have not yet, Ronnie.

Thank you.

Then an anonymous texture from the 920 says favorites are weird science, real genius or pretty in pink.

We've talked a lot about real genius lately because of Val Kilmer.

Yeah.

But that's a great one too.

All good.

Brian from Milwaukee also says Clue, Cody from the 608 says Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Tom from New Berlin, the Sandlot.

Outstanding choices, all.

Keep them coming, folks.

Keep those texts coming.

We'll read them.

Mike Siegel is coming up after the news.

And we are going to do a deep dive into one of my favorite teen movies, Fast Times at Ridgemont.

Hi, that's coming up next.

Stick around, folks.

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

Network.

folks on this Monday night.

Finally, a warm and sunny night here in the state of Wisconsin.

This is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwabba, and I just wanted to shout out some good words to some of my colleagues here at Civic Media, the Wisconsin Broadcast Association Awards for this past weekend.

Congrats to Brittany Merlot, the Snow Queen, bringing home three awards.

That's incredible.

Maggie Dawn won Best Radio Show, Todd Alba,

Best feature I think or best special.

I know in the mayor.

They were like what second or third radio show second.

Yeah, that's really cool here in Northeast, Wisconsin Jane and Greg won a best feature award Amanda Nimmer best social media right here at WGBW W ISS part of the team

and Todd Alba and yourself for producing, you've been involved with, I know you've been there.

Not in a weird way, I mean producing your show.

And you, a debt of gratitude.

So congratulations to all the awards taken home by Civic Media the other day.

Very cool stuff.

All right, so keep those texts coming folks.

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

This was inspired

by my friend Mike Siegel, who is about to join us.

He sent me a picture of D'Amone a couple weeks ago.

And all I have to do is look at that guy and I hear his voice and I hear his lines from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and I think about him selling concert tickets on the down low.

And I thought we need to talk about teen movies.

So it is my pleasure to welcome now to Night Light, a guy who's no stranger to our airwaves.

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

Hey, Mike.

Hi, Pete.

How you doing?

Good.

How are you?

I was fascinated by that story of the mice drinking the wine.

That's good stuff there, buddy.

That's money well spent.

We needed to know that, Mike.

We needed to know that.

Those are fun to write.

I bet.

How are you, buddy?

I'm good.

I'm good.

I'm in town for a little while, so that's kind of nice.

Though I'm usually, you know, flying this way or that way or on a performing on a cruise ship

or

doing something.

So it's nice to kind of like chill for a little bit, although it's kind of, uh, I don't know if you remember from your days in LA, this is the May gray time of year.

Yeah.

When it's, uh, you know, kind of, it's cloudy.

It doesn't rain, but it's just gray and cool.

Well, your

gray period is a lot shorter there than here.

So I don't really know sympathy for you.

Where were you?

Were you on a cruise or just traveling and enlightening yourself as you often do?

Well, a little bit of both.

I combined one.

I did a ship in February and it dropped me off in Rio de Janeiro and I looked at the dates and it was the first week of March actually and I went, wait a minute.

I know that's really close to...

to Mardi Gras time and it was yeah, it was like two days before Fat Tuesday So it's like wait a minute.

I'm just gonna stay here for a few days and see this and that was pretty amazing I had been to Rio before but never during Carnival and it was it was it was pretty nuts

It just seems like an absolute spectacle, but like something you'd want to be alone at you don't want to Take your family the wife and kids or even the girlfriend it seems like you just want to walk around yourself and absorb everything

I did, and I did do that, but on the other side, it would have been a lot more fun in my 20s.

I have a feeling.

Oh, yeah, right.

It's one of those things where I was an observer, and I think back then I would have been more of a person participant.

Yeah.

But I was pretty good to stand back and watch the spectacle rather than be the spectacle these days.

Rather than be the guy running around in a jockstrap and clogs exactly because you're so happy.

It's Fat Tuesday.

Well, I talk about it.

And every time I go to a town, especially a city where, you know, it can be kind of rough.

I never want to stand out as a tourist.

So I always try to like, you know, try to fit in.

And I knew like two minutes into like walking on the street in Rio that I was not going to fit in mostly because what I was

Well the way I was dressed because I was wearing clothes and they're not They're not that big into that.

Yeah, the khakis on and the heart again I was I was

wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

They asked me if I'm going to a wedding

That is fantastic.

Do you ever get sound bites when you're at these places, Mike, for your podcast?

Or do you play stuff?

Or do you interview people where you are as opposed to just people who can talk about travel?

I do sometimes, especially on the ships.

And I've interviewed a bunch of my fellow performers or some of the cruise directors and things like that.

Something on the street like that.

It's just so insane and the the audio is terrible and you know some of these places You don't want to be walking around with anything expensive looking sound equipment or

good

microphone or something I mean pickpockets and street crime and that that can be

it's that bad

It depends on where you are, of course.

I mean, I took the train there in the metro in Rio and it was fine.

But then again, during Carnival, there was a heavy police presence and so many tourists that they're on the lookout for stuff like that.

But I did tell, I did ask one of these guides of where I was going to the Samba Parade.

I was gonna take the train in the middle of the night and he's like, the stop you gotta get off of there, we wouldn't recommend it.

And I was like, okay.

So I aired on the side of caution.

I probably would have been fine, but, you know, Hey, I'll spend the extra dough there.

Yeah.

Have you ever been pickpocketed either when traveling somewhere or even like in Chicago or LA or ever been pickpocketed?

You know, knock on wood.

I'm very, I'm Uber careful now, but

I

have, um, I've been in some places where I'm in certain cities.

You know, I've known so many people in interviews, so many people that have gotten, uh, stuff stolen, like in Barcelona, it's very common.

Hmm usually on mass transit.

You got to really be careful This and the beaches too like people lying out on the beach and like they go into the water and there's somebody or even like lying in the sun with their eyes closed Somebody just walk by snatched something the wallet and

the shoe.

They'll never yeah

that out But whereas opposed to you know, America, they're they're afraid to come in here because the crime is more is less street crime but more violent crime

Right.

So, you know, guns and things.

That's what the world is scared of.

That's what I'm scared of here.

Sure.

I don't think I've never been pickpocketed.

If I sometimes, though, I think if I were to be pickpocketed, I'd hope they'd be bad at it and just keep their hand in my

pocket.

He's wearing a boxing gloves.

Boxing gloves.

You're doing this all wrong, sir.

You got to take off the gloves.

My guest is Mike Siegel.

He's the host of the Travel Tales podcast and TV personality and a very funny stand-up comedian.

Mike, let's talk about, like I mentioned when I brought you on the show, this whole subject talk tonight was inspired by the picture you sent me of Demone.

Oh, right.

It's one of the greatest, you know, not even a lead character, like a secondary character, but made such an impression in that movie and was so great.

Oh,

yeah.

And it was one of those things where it's like that came out.

I think I was a freshman between my freshman and sophomore year in high school So it was like hit me right in the in the wheelhouse.

You know what I mean, right?

It was like I was like, is this what high school is gonna be?

Yeah, you know, I just thought it was I

think to like what's so funny is like I wasn't I never use drugs, but I always laugh the hardest

at the drug

kids.

No, it's Picoli, yeah.

Yeah, those kids.

Like, I remember a kid coming in late.

We had to go to Daily Mask because it was a Catholic school.

We'd go to Daily Mask and this guy walks in, this kid, this eighth grader walks in like 20 minutes late and the priest looks him and he goes, where were you, Dave?

And he stands there.

I swear to God, he stands there for like 10 seconds.

He just goes, I was late.

And I'm just like, it's perfect.

It's perfect and it's just.

It cracks me up.

So there's a whole cast of those characters in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, including Spicoli is also is the highlight of that.

But whatever happened to DeMone, I know I would see him at the grocery store sometime.

I can't even think of the actor's name at the moment.

I can look it up.

But

Richard Romanis,

he

actually owned for a while in your neck of the woods over there.

I think maybe it was on Kowengi owned a coffee house for a little while.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I was like in a little espresso, something like Bob's espresso, or yeah, something

like

that.

Robert Romanus, I think is his name.

Robert Romanus, yeah.

And he would pop up, I remember seeing him in a Sopranos episode as well.

So every so often, he'd pop up in some kind of episodic TV thing.

And I was like, but you know, he'll always be D'Amone.

He was like, is that D'Amone playing a lawyer?

What's he doing?

Right.

He'd top off your coffee and try to sell you wintered skinner tickets.

Oh my god, how many people must have?

He has to answer to that every day, right?

Every day.

And you're right.

The sad thing is, like, if you're the Fonz or some huge role where you cashed in on and you became a very rich person, he's a minor role on this movie and he didn't cash in on that.

Like, maybe he can go to festivals or like conventions, but yeah, he's got to make a living.

You know

Ratner Ratner same thing.

I think he'd be finally left acting Oh, you know after you know mark the rat Ratner.

He was like by the by the 90s He was you know, he was out of it.

I just figured he would have gone a full time at the movie theater, but

You get a wear nice tux.

It's all right

He was great too in the movie though like those guys they were all fantastic.

All right, so let's talk about this So what is your favorite scene from the movie Mike?

And I know we're gonna give each other a little quiz I do have a couple questions prepared for you that are like little mini trivia questions But let's talk about the movie first like do you have a favorite scene in the film?

Well, one of them is definitely I mean, I don't know what I what I can say on the the radio or not

Use your best judgment.

No effort s bombs, please

Well, when, you know, Spicoli's in the, he comes in late.

And again, like Dave Esk, you know, is like, I think Mr. Han comes down on him, you know, and tears up his thing and tells him to go down to the, down to the principal's office.

I don't know.

Can I say it?

I don't think we could say the D word.

No, we can't.

You could say, you could substitute it with the P word for that.

body part, I think.

Well, but just, he just stared at him and just let him have it right, just right in his grill.

And it just blank.

Yeah.

And it was the dream of every kid in high school to be able to do that to their worst teacher.

And he didn't care.

I mean, it was just like, and when he says like, there's a full crowd scene down by the venting machine, she's like, that's just your world when you're there.

It's like, I can't go to class.

Look at this action down here.

By

the way, when the guy in your class came in stoned and you said his name is Dave, I thought it was going to go into the whole Cheech and Chong bit.

Dave's not here, man.

Which would have been his only better answer.

Yeah, I would have had some respect for him if he had.

Do you have a favorite character from fast times?

I got to go with you.

I got to go with the demon like he steals it, man.

He really does.

Sean Penn, of course, but

Sean Penn's kind of like, you just accept he's the best character.

Yeah.

Separate of that.

And I love Judge Ryan Holden it, but I would probably have to say Demone, too, just because of his he makes the most of his on camera time.

And he's so great.

But I would have to say, Spicoli, I would still like as great as of an actor as Sean Penn is.

That's one of his best.

He's phenomenal.

He still is.

Right.

He hasn't topped it.

Oscar, no Oscar.

He still hasn't topped it.

Exactly.

Although I did like him.

I loved Sean Penn and Bad Boys.

Did you ever see that movie?

Yes, he's great

in

everything.

He's great in everything.

No,

no rat in their career for him

Yeah, no he ran but that's see that's a role you would think it would be hard to overcome to Spicoli is iconic and like he didn't even like think twice he was already in all these other Movies and at close range and bad boys and all these so that's pretty impressive that he was

able Well, you know, he had been on Broadway.

It was either before that I don't know if you saw the Val Kilmer documentary, but he's gonna play with Val Kilmer and I think Kevin Bacon and

on Broadway.

So, I mean, he'd been around, you know, he established as an actor and he did, he made it clear, you know, he wanted to do dramas after that and he didn't

want to be

pegged.

Great stuff.

All right, we will dig a little deeper into fast times when we come back.

I'm going to give Mike a quick trivia quiz on the film and he can certainly do that to me if you have something prepared, Mike.

Otherwise, no worries.

Oh, I do.

Oh, fantastic.

I don't

know if I'll stump you, Pete,

but I'm going to

try.

Accept it.

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Conrad is riding shotgun.

And there's a great text we got.

The question of the night is, what is your favorite teen movie from the 920?

Rain says, three o'clock high was fun.

I forgot about that movie, but that was a great movie.

That one was pretty good.

Yeah.

I mean, that one didn't get a lot of publicity, though.

We were like, so you and I are on the same page.

So we all got.

like the same we were in uh the john hues land you know so

he kind

of dominated that whole scene but there was a lot of product there

but

it's always interesting to see how each generation has their own high school movie like people after us

there was like

clueless and then american pie was like a huge

one

in the 90s for people super bad

was another great one

yeah and i don't know what i mean you have kids i don't know do they have one that they really

Yeah, it's interesting because I think that the truly great ones do stand the test of time.

Just during the break, Conrad was saying he watched Fast Times about four months ago.

Loved it.

My son Joe, basically the same age, loved Superbad, which came out when he was a baby, basically.

But he also loves Fast Times.

Like, I think you can... A great movie is a great movie, you know, regardless of its aesthetics, I guess.

But yeah, I agree with you about three o'clock high.

Paula, Conrad's mom checks and it says...

All of the Back to the Future movies.

Yeah, great films.

Great films.

Monica from Mount Horrib from the 608, she says, one more hysterical movie that hasn't been mentioned, Good Burger.

I never saw Good Burger.

Yeah, it wasn't

for me.

Yeah, Keenan and Kel so they were like if you grew up Nickelodeon or whatever they were on they were

big

stars big

that one slipped through the cracks Mike and I Mike Siegel that is the voice of Mike Siegel the host of the travel tales podcast check out his podcast.

It's fantastic And he's also a very funny comedian and TV host as well and we are both We go back a long way, but we're both huge fans of the film days and confused and Mike I was looking at all the cameos like

One of them is going to be a question I ask you, but even actors like this, I think it's David Chivarelli, he was the teacher that pulled the heart out or whatever.

You're talking about, oh, okay, you said

David's confused.

I'm sorry.

That's why.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Fast Times.

Vincent Chiavelli.

Chiavelli.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's one of my

questions for you.

Oh,

okay.

Are we going to ask the questions?

You want

me to quiz you?

Let's start, but I do want to say that I...

One of my favorite Spiccoli lines is when he's getting on the bus and he knows they're going to look at cadavers and she Valley says, are you in this class?

And he goes, I'm today.

So great.

Yeah.

Let's do our quizzes.

Do you want to go first?

Do you want me to go first?

I'll go.

I'll go.

I'll be, I'll ask you one.

And this one, this has relate to Vincent Chevelli that, that character actor.

Always a weird looking dude.

And he pops up in a million films.

He's

great.

He was a science teacher at Fast Times.

Do you remember his character's name?

Oh, man.

No, I don't.

Well, I can't

remember.

Can't pull it.

I'm looking at it right now because I have IMDB Pro open.

Oh, OK.

So that would be cheating, but I wouldn't have guessed it.

Mr. Vargas.

Mr.

Vargas.

That's Mr. Vargas.

Yes.

Damn.

That's a good one.

See, I wanted you to challenge me.

I want to.

OK.

Take the IMDB away.

OK.

Don't look.

I'm going off.

OK.

Do you know at the end of the the?

I'm sorry you're breaking up a little bit.

Oh there.

I got you now Okay, do I know the end of is all I heard

No, do you know at the end during the dance who played the actress who played his wife?

Good God these are you are doing a deep

No, I don't but there's a reason I'm asking this all right should I?

Well it got no

later on, like 20 years later, because her name was Lana Clarkson.

And that was the woman who died in Phil Spector's house, who he supposedly killed.

Wow.

Yeah.

Never would have got

that.

And I wouldn't have either until, you know, when she, unfortunately, you know, was the victim of this, that they kept pulling that scene, you know, in her basically obituary.

She

was

horrible.

You know, she played, you know, the hot blonde and all these B movies.

Yeah.

In the 80s.

And that was like one of the bigger films she was in.

So, yeah.

It's a little obscure tidbit.

I didn't know if you'd get that one.

I would not.

And Joseph on the stream just said, and the science teacher showed up with his supermodel wife at the dance.

Yeah.

Thinking along the same line.

That's who that was.

All right.

I'm 0 for 2.

Let's just keep going with your questions.

Well, maybe we'll get to mine after the news because I got to redeem myself here.

OK, the song playing in the dugout when Jennifer Jason

leaves.

Somebody's baby, Jackson

Brown.

Yes.

OK,

that's

timely, because I literally just saw him play that at a festival yesterday.

Oh, get out

of here.

You know what's so funny, Mike?

I don't know if you remember this.

We used to do comic softball in Encino.

for a while back in the early 2000s.

And those fields, that was those fields.

I remember looking at the dugouts, going, which dugout was it?

Like, that's one of the fun things about living in LA.

It was at the scene where Jennifer Jason Lee lost her virginity to the Jackson Brown song, you know?

Absolutely.

All right.

So you got that one.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

I had a couple more.

One for three.

OK.

Do you remember, this is an easier one.

Do you remember the name of the burger place that Judge Ryan Hold was fired from?

I

think I have that same question for you.

Yes, I

do.

All American Burger.

All American Burger.

Great.

Whose rules are?

No

shirt.

No shoes.

No dice.

No dice.

All right, I'm two for four.

I'm coming back.

How are we doing on time, Conrad?

We got about a minute.

Okay.

Do I have another one?

Let's see.

Oh, okay.

I have one last one ready.

Yep.

You bet

Okay, what band does Jefferson asked him own tickets for?

Oh

He wants to take his little brother Cheap trick no Jefferson the football player wants these

oh Jefferson airplane Jefferson Starship you said Jefferson.

Oh Jefferson the

Jefferson is the football player.

I need help.

Earth, wind, and fire.

Two Earth, Wind, and Fire tickets for Jefferson and Little Brother.

And

he writes it down.

Those are the tickets I'd want.

All right, Mike Siegel is here, folks.

We're coming right back after intermission here, where Civic Media's new team will keep you informed.

And I'm going to give Mike my Fast Times quiz.

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