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Welcome to Nightline, ladies and gentlemen.
Got a case of the Mondays, folks.
We have the cure.
Here's the thing.
I love Mondays.
I'm back behind this microphone, getting to talk about the things I absolutely
love to talk about with all of you and love it when you guys participate.
So we'll have some fun here tonight on Monday with the weather absolutely stunning outside.
Summer appears anyway to be here.
I still have flannel sheets on my bed and I'm not feeling that confident enough yet to pull them off.
But I do sense it could happen.
It was June last year before I pulled the flannel sheets off.
And I want to say June the year before that, or maybe late May, but I still have them on.
I don't know where you guys are at with this, but I'm going to hang in there a little longer and hopefully we'll be off to the races here soon because the weather has been beautiful.
It was a pretty good weekend.
Conrad, how are you doing?
Yeah.
it.
You never know.
And it was, it was just nice enough today where, or I should say this weekend, where I had to, one of my presents to my wife from Mother's Day is she wanted this like brush gone from the side of our house.
And she just knows how to trap me and say, you know, and get it done.
Cause she knows I'm not gonna say no, even though I hate doing yard work.
I would rather have weeds and sort of trim them nicely and say that's our weed collection.
Rather than go out there.
So I did that and I had a friend come over and we were kind of BS'ing as we did it and I didn't quite finish it but it was a beautiful day and I actually didn't mind doing some yard work because it was so beautiful outside.
It's just the reason to be outside which was great.
So hopefully you guys had a great weekend.
Hope all the moms had a great weekend.
It's also my mom's birthday today, Amy Schwabbe.
She always gets
I feel like people that have their birthdays close to a major holiday kind of get robbed a little bit.
Well,
It's like being born on Christmas, you know.
Well, here's your Christmas slash birthday gift.
It's kind of a raw deal.
Wow, that is serious glass half full thinking.
I appreciate that.
Your birthday's in June, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
So you're not by any major holidays.
No, that's not too bad.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I gotta start gift shopping already for you.
We'll see what we can do.
How much is a seven iron?
Well, I'm sure you could pay, you know, top dollar if you wanted to.
Really?
1200 bucks for golf clubs.
That's what golf clubs go for these days around racket.
I thought you're gonna say it went so horribly you took your seven-iron to the golf teacher Just broke just broke.
Oh, wow the
Well, you must have some power behind those swings, dude.
price.
Okay.
Well, the bottom line is it was gorgeous.
It's gorgeous now.
And that let's do this before we even get
to our guests.
Before I introduce the guests, I want to talk about the question of the night, because we got a great one.
The weather's great, and we need some music to go along with it.
So here is our question of the night.
the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Here, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Questions.
What, ladies and gentlemen, is your favorite summer song?
This is a good one.
There are some songs that make you think of summer.
I have a ton of them.
In fact, I started to make a list and then my list got totally out of control because there are so many great songs that make you think of summer.
Lots of obvious ones, but share with us what your songs are.
What, when you hear it, what do you just go, oh yeah, that's summer and you gotta hear the song and it just takes you.
And there are obvious ones.
Don Henley's the boys of summer which really isn't about summer always makes me think of summer for some reason good vibrations by the Beach Boys love good vibrations Do we have some good vibrations?
Yeah
Boys are just
hear the Beach Boys.
Even if they're not singing about summer, it makes you think of summer.
I love the song, I Get Around, In My Room, When I Grow Up to Be a Man, all these phenomenal, sloop John B. The Beach Boys are just the summer band.
So that's kind of an obvious one.
You got a favorite summer song, Conrad?
In one playlist?
Yeah.
You just keep adding songs.
Oh, and you're in
Is he a
Let's hear it, man.
Yeah.
Every
I just roll the windows down.
How do you access a song, though, in a playlist when you have a thousand songs?
But
That's a great summer song.
I don't know what it is about hip hop that kind of lends itself to summer, too.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good one.
So that's our question of the night, folks.
Be part of the show.
Text us.
What do you think?
What is your favorite summer song?
You can stream us if you're watching on X, Twix, Twitter, whatever they call it now, Facebook, YouTube.
If you're watching on the WGBW website or the WISS website, let us know what is your song of summer?
There's another one I love that.
by Daft Punk, the one they
did
with, we have that, right?
Let's play that on one of these breaks.
It's called Get Lucky, and it was Stephen Colbert's song of the summer, and he had legal issues, because they were supposed to perform it, but CBS had a legal issue, and they said no, so he did his own version of it.
It was brilliant TV, and he danced to the whole song and brought in all these celebrities who were filming stuff at CBS.
It was phenomenal.
It was dynamite.
But we'll play that tonight, too.
That's a good one.
But let us know what your favorite summer song is, folks.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2-8-5-5-7-5, Civic.
Or you can let us know over the stream.
I just mentioned all the websites or the Civic Media app.
Whatever is easiest for you, it's just great when you guys participate.
Our guests tonight, this is fun.
We're going to do some comedy talk and some movie talk.
And coming up at 635 is someone I don't know, and I love having people I don't know on the show.
We've never met, but we were referred.
We have mutual friends.
Chastity Washington will be here at 635.
She's a comedian, I believe Milwaukee based.
We'll clarify that when she's on the show.
Very funny, very funny comedian.
She's also a teacher, so I'm sure she gets a lot of comedy from that.
My wife is a teacher, and I love hearing what kids say in the classroom.
And she probably learns tactics like when she has to deal with hecklers in a comedy club to deal with her students.
So we'll do all that.
Chastity will be here at 635.
And then our pal Matt Miller will be here at 720.
The Milwaukee Film Festival is finally over, folks.
It's a two-week extravaganza.
So we will talk to Matt about, we'll put kind of a bow on the Milwaukee Film Festival.
We'll talk about what he's seen.
And we'll do all of that tonight on the show.
It's a great night.
It's a great night for night light.
It's gorgeous outside, but don't go outside, folks.
Sit inside.
Listen to the radio.
Let us entertain you.
Let's have a laugh together.
Lots of texts.
We got a couple of texts we got to get to from over the weekend.
Did
you notice that?
Yeah.
And bud texted us, right?
Let me see if I can find bud's texts.
We need to print these up because they go so far back.
It's like three days back now.
There's bud.
So he's delivering papers on a Saturday at 4 a.m.
Papers got to get delivered guys a workhorse, man And our question what was our question that night?
I'm trying to remember It
don't know if you're not referencing the I don't think he's okay He says oh my gosh Pete you made me chuckle with the comment that you were going to go home and try to get your wife pregnant
That would make my wife laugh, too, bud.
He says, I am definitely going to drop that line in the most awkward moments possible.
Oh, you're welcome, bud.
By the way, my wife and I are both 61, which makes it even funnier.
Love your show.
But you are much older than me.
Not my wife.
I think we're done having kids.
But did I say that or did I just say that because of the Bluey song?
much.
I was going to leave my wife, Mary, another woman who still wanted to have kids just so we could watch Bluey with our kids.
That's what a great show.
with?
Yeah, OK.
I think Bud wants to have a sleepover with me.
But that's fine.
I'm good at a sleepover, Bud.
Bud says, hey, Pete and Conrad, if I have to listen to one more LFG commercial, you'll see a story about a paper boy running through the neighborhoods of Madison yelling, SFU.
I know what that means.
Ha!
Love the show, Bud from Jamesville.
Thank you, Bud.
And thanks for listening on a Saturday morning.
It's nice to know people are out there listening to the show on a Saturday while they're delivering papers.
That's fantastic.
So lots of stuff.
I saw a lot of stuff this weekend.
I finally got around to seeing BlackBag.
Loved it.
I'm deep in the throes of Mobland with Tom Hardy.
I think I have one episode of that left to go.
But they drop, it's one of those shows where they drop an episode a week and it kind of sucks.
So I got to wait every Sunday night.
I have to wait for that, but it's good.
It's a good mob movie It's not like it hasn't been done before but it's just done.
Well guy Richie is one of the executive producers He's a great director and it's definitely got his kind of fingerprints all over it from the executive producers chair as well It's a really it's a good mob show if you're looking for a mob show Black bag was a great spy thriller if you're looking for something like that good stuff
And what else did I watch?
Oh, Speed Racer Conrad.
Yes.
Taking you to trip down.
That's a trip down memory lane for you.
Is that
It's very busy.
Yeah.
There's a lot going on there.
My son really identified with it, too.
And he identifies with the character and the struggles of the character.
Like, I didn't like all the visual.
It was a little too much for me.
But I love the acting.
There's some really solid moments in it, like, just kind of kick-ass moments, you know?
All right, we're going to read your texts.
When we come back, folks, lots of fun stuff here tonight, like comedy, movies, texts, songs of summer.
Summer is here, apparently.
We're not going to let it go.
This is Pete Schwab at Nightlight on the Civic Media
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What is with those guys?
The crazy helmets, remember?
Okay, so you just want people to see his face?
No one has ever seen his face.
But these guys are like pop artists.
Like, wouldn't you want attention?
Like, you're in the spotlight, you know.
you can
All right.
That's a great song, though.
I love some Daft Punk and Get Lucky.
Great tune.
We got some good answers on social media earlier when we posted our question.
Luke Mathers, Civic Media's own Everyman.
All things... I bet you don't even know Luke's title, do you?
He just does
I would just call him like, right.
I mean, he's just his title is Luke Mathers.
That's it.
It's just his name and people go, oh, Luke.
Yeah, the guy that does everything.
He says summertime by Mungo Jerry.
Great tune.
That was in, I think, Wedding Crashers 2.
It was very well used.
Yeah.
Love that song.
We'll hear from that.
We'll hear Mungo Jerry at some point.
Sarah Jean Rosenberg.
Hey, Sarah Jean.
Thanks for listening.
She says, fishing in the dark is the first one that came to mind.
That is the nitty gritty dirt band.
I don't really know that song that well though But thank you for thank you, Sarah for playing great to hear from you.
Mike Dessertel says 4th of July Esbury Park by the Hollies Which I think that was remade by Bruce Springsteen at some point the Hollies
Beautiful good.
That's a summer band.
Actually, they make me think of summer Daniel Wheeler checks in also on social media says beach baby by first class 1974 brings me back to when I worked for the Nina Parks and Rec Department in the summer listening to the oldie station in their trucks I love when people share an actual memory with the song too.
That's awesome Daniel Feel free to share like why you like the song or what was you know what you were doing when the song played
That's awesome Monica Hale says soak up the Sun.
Yes by Cheryl Crow Love that song Kind of a summer song by default all of Cheryl Crow stuff All I want to do is have some fun drinking beer over Santa Monica Boulevard great stuff Let's go to the text line if you want to let us know what your favorite summer song is eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic Brian from Green Bay says
Are you implying that you don't wash your sheets in winter?
Not at all.
I wash them.
you?
Dude, religiously.
I can't sleep in dirty sheets.
And my wife and I have a lot of sex.
So we have to constantly wash the sheets.
a sandwich?
No, I forbid that as well.
Unless it's tied to sex somehow.
No, no, I don't want any crumbs in my bed.
And I do wash the sheets religiously once a week, and I'm not even kidding about that.
I'm not a neat freak.
Like I don't leave food around or anything like that, but I can leave, I can have a clothes pile or something, but no, not when it comes to sheets.
Nice try, Brian.
Tom from New Berlin says, Pete, it's George Carlin's birthday today.
I'm giving you the seven word challenge.
Well, I know it easily, Tom.
I know that by heart it was one of the first bits I ever learned.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can say any of the words on the radio.
No, I can't.
Even the harmless ones.
Even the word that George Carlin says or said sounded like an obisco snack treat.
Snack treat.
He goes, that shouldn't even be on the list, but it is.
And I'm not gonna risk it.
Nice try, Tom.
I feel like the Textures are trying to challenge me tonight.
You getting that vibe?
Yeah, I feel they are.
I don't mind it.
Bring it.
Brian from Green Bay also says, golf clubs are not a racket.
Tennis, different story.
Yeah.
Good point.
Good point.
Brian in Milwaukee says, California dreamin'.
Yes, by the mamas and the papas.
Really anything with California in the title can be, is considered probably a summer song.
That's a great one too.
Annie from Watertown says, summer in the city, John Sebastian.
And I think, I think his band was the loving spoonful, if I'm not mistaken.
But we have we'll have some of that we'll have some summer in the city.
That's a that's a go-to Annie great choice, and he also says Or I'm sorry Anna from Madison says hi Pete and Conrad my favorite summer song is summer in the city by the Love and Spoonful So I'm pretty sure John Sebastian Bach was the creator of the Love and Spoonful So they're both right so we'll hear some of that for sure tonight bar from Waukesha says sweet home Alabama.
Yeah, that's a summer song too.
It's Leonard Skinner, I believe.
Yeah, that's a song I always think of when I think of summer.
Tom from New Orleans says, Tom Petty songs remind me of the summer.
Yeah?
Great one.
Great one, Tom.
And I like the, like when I was in, I think it was middle school, the waiting was at the top of the charts by Tom Petty.
And it was the first Tom Petty song I had heard.
And I just always think of it with the summer of like 19, maybe 1980 or 81 was the waiting.
That was my song for that summer.
So thank you for that trip down memory lane Tom from New Berlin.
Steve in Florida Conrad's Dead says great summer song 1984 summer of 69.
Yes.
Great song.
And if you're a Taylor Swift fan.
She sings that with Brian Adams.
He comes out on the stage, and they sing it together, and they're both rocking guitars, a really fun version.
But that's one of my favorite songs from growing up.
And I will say, we've talked about this song a lot on this show, but The Power of Love, Huey Lewis in the News, another song I equate with Summer because I think that's when, well, that was a Summer blockbuster.
Power of Love came out, Back to the Future.
Sherry from Hurrican says, good evening, Pete and Conrad, Aruba Jamaica.
Oh, I want to take you.
Oh, little Beach Boys.
Newer Beach Boys.
From Cocktail.
I like it, Sherry.
Thank you.
Sherry also says, I watched the Pope One and the Attorney.
They were both outstanding.
Movies.
Conclave?
Yeah.
Oh, the Pope One.
She couldn't think of the name.
I watched the Pope One.
And the Attorney, I think maybe she means the accountant?
second one I didn't like as much.
True.
All right, we're gonna get to your text too.
We're gonna do a quick break here where Civic Media's news team will tell you what you need to know.
Great to have you with me on this gorgeous Monday night, folks.
We got comedy and movies tonight.
It's all coming up.
First, though, the news.
It's Pete Schwab in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
This is Night Light.
I am Pete Schwab.
It is great to have you with me on this gorgeous Monday night here in the state of Wisconsin as we broadcast statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay tonight.
Always fun.
Tom from New Berlin says, washing my first car.
That was, is that tied to a song Conrad?
Am I missing the song?
Maybe that's a song.
Maybe that just reminds me of summer.
That could be.
I'd write a song called Washing My Car.
It would have to be summer.
You can't wash your car in the winter, not in Wisconsin.
Jack and Diane by Mellon Camp.
My friends and I would sing that on road trips in the 80s.
That's Barb from Waukesha.
Great one, Barb.
I think my most current song, though, is Get Lucky by Daft Punk.
That's my current favorite summer song.
And then I got to go back to Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys.
So we'll keep reading your texts.
Keep sending them 855-752-4842-855-756.
What did I say?
Civic.
That's what I was choking on the C. I was choking on the V.
already.
Let us know what your favorite summer song is, folks.
It looks like it's finally here.
Matt Miller is coming up at 720, Milwaukee-based film critic.
We always have fun talking to Matt.
But right now, I'm very excited to welcome a new guest tonight, Light.
We have mutual friends, but I've never actually met this comedian.
But she's very funny, and I'm thrilled to have her here tonight.
Milwaukee-based, I think she can correct me if we're wrong.
Chastity Washington joins Nightlight now.
Hey, Chastity.
Hey, how are you doing very well?
Thank you.
How are you in Milwaukee?
I
am
I am walking.
Yes.
I you've been all over the place like I was looking at your credits and I'm like I think you either live in Milwaukee now or used to but it's good that you're still there.
It's a great comedy town, right?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
We've we've grown a lot.
Yeah, I saw on your resume that you played the comedy cafe and I have to ask you
Yes.
Did you play the one that was downtown or the one over on Brady Street?
Both.
Both?
Oh, wow.
Both, yeah.
I'm that old.
That's how old
I am.
Well, I played the one on Brady Street in the 90s, and it was my favorite club to work in the entire country.
I was Chicago-based, but I loved it.
They were so great to me, and I was only, I think, featuring at the time, middle act, you know.
getting like four weeks a year, but it was some of my best memories in comedy were working Milwaukee.
So I assume it's a good place to be based from too though.
It is.
It is.
It's been, um, it's been blessed.
I've been able to, to work everywhere and people kind of, you know, and also kind of open doors a little bit.
A lot of times people don't know everybody that's from Milwaukee either.
You know what I mean?
So,
uh, so it's been, it's been a blessing, you know?
Absolutely.
So.
All right, let's talk about, this is your first time here.
So let's talk about, tell us a little bit about when you started and what that was like.
Okay, so, okay, I'm gonna take you back, I'm gonna take you back to mid 90s.
Okay, take you, I'm gonna take you back to
some of
this, right?
Okay.
So I started in 1994.
And I am a Wisconsin product.
I went to the University of Wisconsin Parkside in Cut Nowhere, Wisconsin.
And yes, and that's where I started my freshman year first show ever in our student union.
In a student talent show.
And went from there, I was of course working on my dramatic arts degree at Parkside Bear.
And, uh, and from there started to do performances in the area and then started working in Milwaukee.
We had four clubs in Milwaukee at that time, which was, which was incredible.
Yeah.
Uh, you know,
so great.
So you were going to open mics as early as your freshman year in college.
Yes.
That's impressive.
And it's funny, we have another parallel here because I think I was 20, it was like a student coffee house show.
I went to DePaul University in Chicago and I went up and did stand
up.
Okay, come on DePaul.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Come on.
It was like, it was a very friendly crowd and I crushed.
And I was like,
oh, this is
easy.
And then you go out and you do the open mics and they hand you your hat basically and send you your way.
But what a fun, fun place to start.
And it sounds like you had a very similar experience in college.
I did.
I did.
I was, I was really well received.
I appreciated like all of my teammates.
I played basketball at the time.
sweet.
For the Ranger Bears.
Nice.
And so all my teammates showed up and my other friends, my best friend, all of us on campus showed up.
So that part was very, very cool.
And then of course, like you said, you got your hat and your booty handed to you when you go to real places.
They look at you like, why did you think that was funny?
Why did you bring that up?
Who said?
No one's clapping.
So, yeah, it was, you know, a learning curve, learned quite a lot, but continued to work, started to get, you know, some paid gigs in Milwaukee, and then really started to flourish, work those couple of years, and then started to go to Chicago, top of the 2000s.
2000, 2001, started regularly coming to Chicago.
Working through Chicago, working, you know, working the south side, working the west side, working, you know, then eventually got opportunities to start working at jokes and notes in Chicago, which was in Bronzeville.
And then getting some, you know, opportunities at some of the other clubs, but not as much.
And then
Uh, things really broke through for me.
I got to do, you know, coming to the stage and, um, BET's Common View 2001, 2004.
Nice.
And that just, you know, opened up, um, other doors, got to, got blessed to do, um, HBO's Def Jam in 2007.
Oh,
wow.
Um, you know, and
so
just really, really, really, really have been really, really blessed all these years, you know, JFL and...
You
know, it's been great.
Oh, I know what that is.
That's just for laughs in Montreal.
Nice.
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, before everything, you know, shut down within the last couple of years, but I, because I did it back in 2013.
Okay.
Yeah.
Isn't that funny?
Were you in, were you a new face?
Um, I was a new face and then I had a lot of, a lot of showcase spots.
Nice.
Which was very cool.
Yeah.
I got to showcase with some, some great folks.
I've been
I've been blessed to work with some folks.
They did a NACA conference one year with everybody from SNL.
You know what
I mean?
Oh, wow.
Nice.
So it's been, it's been really blessed.
You know
what I mean?
I love that the way Montreal does it, they have the new faces, but most of the people in the new faces, when I did it, I had been doing stand-up for 10 years.
And it sounds like you have been doing it for almost 20 years.
So, but you're still the new face to them, I guess.
Uh-huh.
To them.
Yeah.
You know, to the industry folks and folks that have no idea who you are, you know.
Um, yeah, so absolutely.
Uh, Chastity Washington is my guest.
She is a Milwaukee based stand up comedian.
Uh, we're going to hear a little bit of your comedy now.
And then I obviously have more questions for you.
Can you, can you sit through your own act?
Can you get through this?
Okay.
I
can.
I'll be mad at the end,
but
go ahead.
Take me out.
Here's Chastity
Washington.
Hit
your
face on the window.
You're sliding out the seat.
Your friend will throw up on the bus every week.
Hit your
face on the seat in front of you.
Concussion.
My kids now want to take a Uber.
A Lyft.
They don't know fun.
These kids don't know fun.
They don't.
Like recess is different.
Recess used to be everything.
Like at some schools, and I'm from the Midwest, so it get
It's 1932 degrees.
and some schools that can't go outside.
We went outside to be nothing degrees.
We lost skin, eyes, fingers, told somebody to bury you.
They wouldn't find you till the end of the day.
Now they gotta have recess in the gym.
You ever seen recess in the gym?
It's like war.
Not everything.
Tears, blood, throw up.
This kid's laid out across the whole gym floor.
Ducking crawls like bullets.
They jumping off the bleachers.
You ever seen a kid choke another kid with a hula hoop and drag the ass?
That's Chastity Washington.
She is with us now over the stream from Milwaukee.
I can relate to all of that because my wife is a teacher and has been for decades.
Let's go there.
First, before we get to the teaching stuff, I want to ask you, when did you know, Chastity, A, that you were funny and B, when did you think I can be funny in front of strangers?
Because those are two very different things.
It is.
You know what?
Okay.
I knew I was funny young, I did.
It kicked in maybe seven, seven or eight years old.
I knew, because I would always challenge myself, like if I could make my teacher laugh, right, this is it.
Come on, I don't care what goes on after this.
If I can make this direct laugh.
Unexpectedly, that was my key.
If I could catch them when they weren't expecting to laugh, that's what I was looking for.
I was always, I could mimic everybody.
I could do everybody's voices in class and impersonate everybody.
People would have jokes, but I would figure out a way they get their jokes out.
do mine at the end and make sure it was funnier than everybody else.
So yeah, so that's what it was for me.
And then it set in probably that night.
I mean, I had always performed, I was always a dancer, if that makes sense.
And so I was a dancer from the time I was a little kid.
And
would always I ended up like being the the host of all of our pep rallies in high school and
was a student government and stuff like that so it didn't fully set in I mean I was always in front of an audience if that makes sense yeah even though I wasn't doing stand-up I was always for whatever reason ended up in front of an audience finally joined the drama club my senior year of high school after much convincing by my my acting teacher
Mr. Brown.
But I didn't do stand-up, like I said, until I was 18, until that night in the student union.
It was like October of 1994.
I'll never forget it.
And that was, it was like, I don't know, something click,
if that makes sense.
Oh, it totally does.
And there's an obvious parallel between teaching, because you're up in front of an audience, so to speak, and stand up.
But what about
basketball you said you played college basketball did that give you any kind of courage because you're in front of a crowd there and you're performing so to speak did that help you in any way and stand up
you know what it did that helped me with uh structure and discipline
okay
if that makes sense
um
because you have to have a certain level uh of discipline to be able to do the job you have to have consistency um
Yeah, you do have to be, you know, confident, but also the practice time.
Right.
And just also mindset.
You know what I mean?
Like, I was a player that had to evolve.
That was very, very talented player, but undisciplined.
And so my coach had to, oh, I was a hothead.
Oh my God.
I gotta put out a practice.
Get out of there.
You know what
Coach Biller, get out of here.
Washington.
I'd be like, what?
Ugh.
You know.
You don't tell jokes to an upset coach like you would a teacher.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Chastity Washington is my guest.
We are talking about stand up comedy.
She's also a teacher in Milwaukee.
We have to do a quick break here, Chastity, but when we come back, I want to ask you about, you know, things you can draw from teaching and stand up comedy and who can be a tougher crowd at times.
I'm sure that, you know, you probably treat your students like hecklers sometimes and hecklers like they're your students.
So we'll do that after a very short break.
And our question of the night, ladies and gentlemen, is what is your favorite summer song?
8-5-5-7-5-2, uh, Civic.
No, 8-5-5-7-5-Civic.
Why can't, it's like so close to my old phone number.
I can't remember.
I don't know what's going on tonight.
It's a Monday.
But it's a glorious Monday, because we're talking comedy and movies, so it's great to have you with me.
We're coming right back with Chastity Washington after this very quick break.
This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
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This is a Monday night version of Night Light, so much better than the other nights of the week, but I will say the same thing tomorrow.
So great to have you with me on this Monday.
I am Pete Schwabba, Conrad Krieger, the kid Conrad Krieger riding shotgun tonight as we barrel through a Monday night here.
Matt Miller is up at 7.20.
We'll be talking about, he's gonna put a bow on the Milwaukee Film Festival, that is, and we'll talk about some summer movies and what we've been watching, like we so often do here at Night Light.
Right now,
Teacher, stand-up comedian, former college hooper, Chastity Washington is here.
Chastity, it's great to have you.
Let's talk a little bit about what it's like as a teacher.
Like, what grade do you teach?
Right now, I have K4 through 11th grade.
K4 through 11th grade.
Oh, that's a wide range.
How do you do that?
That's a crazy range of kids.
The morning is all elementary, you know, whichever the mix, whichever classes I have that week.
And then the afternoons are my middle school and high school.
So I teach physical education to everyone.
And then for middle and high school during the week, I also teach drama theater arts.
Wow, nice.
Yeah, so it's
a good mix for me.
Yeah.
What do you like teaching more?
Like, obviously, you have athletics in your past, but also drama and comedy.
That's a great mix.
You know what?
I love both.
I do love both, but the drama does.
Light a fire for me to see the light bulbs come on and kids to see kids burst with confidence to see them do things that they didn't know that they could do or pull out things that they didn't know they had, you know what I mean?
So that part is is awesome.
That's great.
What what are some parallels?
Like, do you try to be funny in front of your kids when you're teaching or you try to discipline
hecklers?
I don't
like some things just happen.
You know
what I mean?
It's not even a try.
You know, because nothing with them can be manufactured.
If that makes sense.
There is no kids see through everything.
They'd be like, ugh, what?
You know what I mean?
Like they, nothing.
If it's fake or you're trying to do something, you're doing too much, as they say, doing too much, working hard, ugh.
You know what I mean?
So,
no.
I gotta try some stuff just come.
And then it's just, it's totally organic, you know?
Yeah.
So let me ask you this.
You've been all over the country.
You've had all these great opportunities Montreal Comedy Festival working in Chicago.
It looks like you've been on the East Coast as well.
How does it work with teaching?
Do you have to schedule it around your day gig or is your principal understanding or you just do stuff in the
summer?
Yeah, I try to load up as much as I can during the summer, but I'm grateful.
I thank God that my bosses are understanding,
you know what I mean?
Like I've been able to tour.
I've been doing tour dates this past this year and and at the end of 24 with, you know, with Charlie Barron's and with Roy Wood Jr.
You know
what I mean?
So in
those come as they come, I'm like, Hey, you guys, this is an opportunity.
I gotta
And I'm grateful that they are understanding.
You know what I
mean?
Absolutely.
And you get crowds like Roy Wood or Charlie Barron's where they're paying a ton of money to see these guys and you're opening for them.
That's a different crowd, isn't it, than a crowd you might encounter in a basic comedy club?
The scale is amazing.
you know, how they draw is awesome.
I mean, yeah, it might be some folks, some comedy club folks with the scale of it, you know what I mean?
And it's their crowds, it's their audiences, and it's awesome to see.
You know, it's a great lesson in, I'm watching my puppy here, you know, it's a great lesson in your marketing.
ability, your use of social media, by targeting your audience, you know, like knowing who your clan is, you know what I'm saying?
So that's something I deeply respect about both of them.
They're really, really awesome guys.
I guess too, if audiences are paying 50 bucks a ticket or 75 bucks a ticket or whatever it is, they're going to be better audiences, aren't they?
Rather than just going to some comedy club where it's 10 bucks a night and a two drink minimum,
I would think the audiences would be much more attentive, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's
awesome.
And they're so engaged and it's great.
Yeah.
It's great.
Tell us
about your, you have a comedy special.
That's a milestone for a comedian, right?
I mean, that's fantastic.
Tell us about it and where can we see it?
It is.
Hey, come on.
It is it's called Live at Dandy, Jassidy Washington Live at Dandy.
And I recorded it right here in Milwaukee at the Dandy antique shop and event space.
It
was
produced by Milwaukee Comedy and directed by Matt Kimple, my my dear friend Matt Kimple and and shot and edited.
by traveling lemurs and the executive producing and streaming by EJ Comedy, non-stop comedy.
So it was an amazing experience.
It took us a minute to get it.
It took us like a year to get it and to get it edited, to get it where it needed to be and ready to stream.
And it got picked up right away by Amazon Prime.
And so now it's our Amazon Prime and YouTube and Tubi and Rebel.
And so it's on about seven platforms.
And you can say some YouTube movies real quick if you want to slide on there, or if you're a Tubi person, however you want to do.
And it's also, like I said, available on Amazon Prime.
So it's just incredible milestone for me, a long time coming, so many years in the making.
I'm so, so grateful, I thank God, to have
got the opportunity to do it and to self-produce it and to work with, you know, to shoot it right here in the city and work with folks here in the city.
And it's just so meaningful.
You know, it's so meaningful to me.
That is so great.
Check out Live at Dandy, Chastity Washington, Tubi Prime YouTube.
Can we keep you for a few more minutes, Chastity?
Yes, you can.
Absolutely.
We got intermission coming up here, also known as the News, and we will get into a little more comedy talk with our guest comedian, Milwaukee-based comedian and teacher, Chastity Washington.
That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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