The Perfect Weather (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who still likes to build a fort.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

Happy night light great to have you with me beautiful day here in Wisconsin a little fog earlier.

I Don't know how talking about the weather Became part of my daily routine here when I open the show, but I guess it does affect mood and You know That's alright.

I don't like do a five-day forecast or anything.

I'm not that I'm not that bold, but it's interesting.

I Think I mentioned the weather because this is a very special night

As you know, Conrad, we are going to dip our toes into the weather topic tonight with our pal, Brittany Merleau.

Yeah.

I'm excited to hear that it's not snowing anymore.

But I heard that it's going to get a little colder on this weekend, but other than that.

But you know snow.

You know Brittany does not control that, right?

Well, she knows a lot about it.

You think she's got it?

So she can confirm my feelings, you know?

She is.

And she's here and the award-winning Brittany Merlo, I might add.

She cleaned house at the Wisconsin Broadcasting Awards a week, a week and a half ago, maybe.

But I'm always excited.

I am fascinated by weather.

So we'll talk about that with Brittany tonight at 7.35.

She will be here.

Before that, Chris Foren will be here at 6.35.

Chris and I are going to recap the... We talked with Matt Miller recently about...

the Milwaukee Film Festival, but we didn't really go into the awards.

So Chris is aware of who won awards and he had interesting information about the attendance of this really cool film festival and we'll talk about what's opening this weekend and what we're watching.

It'll be a lot of fun and a perfect chance for you to weigh in and share what you're watching and what you think about what we're saying.

And this is great because I will say this, Chris Foran, Brittany Merlot, you could probably find two richer people

Two taller people, couple people that drive nicer cars, but this is National Decency Day Conrad, and I guarantee you will not find two more decent people than Chris Foren and Brittany Merlot.

That is

correct.

I

cannot stress

that.

That is correct.

So kudos to you for being here tonight, folks.

Fun guests and got a nice question.

We'll let you guys weigh in on that.

That'll be exciting.

Phone lines are open.

855-752-4842.

855-755-CIVIC.

You can always call.

If you're feeling down, we'll cheer you up.

I hope we cheer you up anyway, because, you know, it's Wednesday.

You might be limping to the weekend personally.

I've discussed this before on the show.

I like the week.

like having a place to go and a reason to get out of bed in the morning, although I do do other work on the weekends for other various pursuits of mine, but this is the most fun.

Talking on the radio about the things we love, movies, TV, comedy, music, all the great stuff, the culture, the arts, and what is going on in Wisconsin.

And we are coming up to summer festival season.

Maybe we'll talk a little bit about that with Chris as well.

This is a big day in show business.

Conan the Barbarian opened on this day in 1982.

You ever seen that movie, Con?

It sounds familiar, but I don't think I've seen it.

It's a doozy.

But I feel

like I've seen the title.

You know

what I mean?

You know what?

It was a milestone because it made people worldwide take notice of the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a good actor.

That was his first movie role.

And he just

played a strong guy.

I mean, it was fine.

And Arnold Schwarzenegger is fine.

He's fun in movies.

But a lot of cool stuff.

We have to talk about this.

First of all, I want to give a shout out to our pal, Eric Jelland, is in the hospital recovering from some type of brain surgery, I think.

And he's OK.

But I had no idea.

I saw this on Facebook yesterday and just got sidetracked last night.

But get well soon, Eric.

We hope you're... It sounds like he's gonna be okay.

He's hoping to tour again soon.

But yeah, anytime you have surgery in that area, it's major stuff.

So hope you're doing well, buddy, and get well soon.

And let's move on to another topic.

Not nearly as pressing as Eric's health, but the story you shared...

A woman asked AI ChatGPT to analyze the coffee grounds in her cup that she made for her husband.

Am I getting that right?

Yeah, you know, it's...

I had her read it a couple of times and be like, did I actually read this right?

That's what she asked the AI to do that to the coffee grounds.

And what happened there?

AI said her husband's cheating on her based on the...

I had to read it like three times because it's so crazy.

Yeah, it's like how Okay, AI says that why what clicks in your head going?

You know what he probably is

He probably is but that makes no difference now.

How can chat GPT know that based on coffee grounds?

And not only that she's or the guy said that

Or somebody said that with chat GPT also said he's flirting with a woman whose name begins with E And this they surmise this from coffee grounds not they AI chat GPT So the woman is filing for divorce Probably started toward affair with AI You know, I feel like he dodged a bullet.

I think so.

I think I did him a favor because

He said this is not the first time this happened.

She listened to an astrologist before the last time who said her husband's problem.

I'll be cheating.

This guy is either a prince of a guy, or a scoundrel, or she's crazy.

I just had to think about the conversation that had to be had with that.

Like, honey, are you cheating on me?

Because this AI says that.

How do you explain these coffee grounds, honey?

And he's probably, what if he's just the nicest guy, just does nothing wrong, does everything.

It's just,

yeah.

Maybe she just wants out and she's playing the crazy card.

It's like the old Steve Martin joke, whenever I have to walk through a bad neighborhood, he goes, I've realized muggers will not rob you if they think you're crazy.

So the first thing I do before I walk down a block and a city street in a dangerous neighborhood, I wet my pants.

So maybe she's playing the crazy card.

I don't know it sounds like they both need to change.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like it's time to move on

Absolutely more stuff in the news.

I thought this this Morgan Wallen thing when he left Saturday Night Live like he he kind of He hugged Mikey Madison and then he didn't stick around for credits and you know They do that mingle thing at the end of the show.

It's just kind of customary.

It's tradition.

Well, he left Early right in the middle of the cameras are still wrong.

He walked right toward the camera and just took off

kind of rude.

I'd say it was ignorant and he didn't know, but that was his second time hosting the show.

So then he posted a picture from him.

He's on his private jet and he says, get me back to God's country.

So, you know, just in reading about it, I think he's probably just trying to sell merch and be a tool on purpose to kind of get

the word out there, like, but it's sort of divisive.

It's saying, oh, we hate New York City.

This is where God, you know, all the money is made in New York City.

So God kind of likes New York City, too.

And he couldn't stick it out for 45 more seconds.

He just needed to get back, toughen up Buttercup.

Give me a break.

You know, so that led to the Sunday conversations with Caleb Pressley, which I watched.

I think that's where I saw this.

I

think.

Caleb Pressley's hilarious.

Um, but he said they asked him, you know, why'd you leave?

He's like, I was there for like 10 or a week or something.

Yeah, I just wanted to get back.

45 seconds.

He couldn't stick around another 45 seconds.

It was obviously strategic and planned.

And he wanted to make some waves.

I thought it was funny that in did you listen to the whole interview?

I

just

read it.

They they had a conversation about his, uh,

It's Pete.

It's his parole officer.

Yeah, he's not a prince.

No, but he's not.

He's not like a terrible guy, but like he's obviously trying to drive a wedge here into that whole rural urban kind of thing.

To me, it's a little bit political what he did.

So something funny about about Sunday conversations that was the other guy who doesn't talk.

He's just eating there, sitting there eating ice cream.

OK,

his name is Glennie Balls.

Of

course it is.

Do you remember the Indiana head coach that chucked a chair?

Yeah, Bobby Knight, yeah.

He dressed up as him during that interview.

Because Morgan won through a chair off a roof and Nashville and could have killed someone?

It was like,

you needed to get that deep cut to get that joke.

That's funny.

I just think it was lame.

Yeah, I mean, stick it out.

You don't see anyone else doing that.

I bet everyone else is.

They've done that too.

They've been there for a week.

And they asked them to come back.

It was rude, and it was like, you know, there's so many battles you could pick in life.

That's a weird one.

I think it's time we get to our 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.

Folks, in honor...

of Civic Media's award-winning meteorologist Brittany Merleau's appearance on Nightlight Tonight.

The question of the night is, what is your perfect weather day?

Give me the perfect temperature, season, precipitation, humidity, whatever you want, and share with me your perfect weather day.

It's interesting because I immediately went summer and I went 75 and I basically went Los Angeles weather 75 and sunny and no humidity But then I saw Todd Michaels He said 60s early fall

Yeah, that's pretty good, too That's a great time and you know what kind of it's lowering so it always reminds me of just like uh winter's coming but

I can't have them on right now.

What?

Will you do me a favor?

Go to the door and get some information from them.

There's some kind of roller derby team.

I think they'll really, really be fun.

But I can't have them on right now.

Conrad is earning, he's going the extra mile, folks.

He's about to take, he's about to, he's about to talk to about nine enthusiastic roller derby people.

So maybe we could talk about some roller derby on Nightlight.

I think that could be fun.

But I'm gonna say, I either, I wanna say 75.

And no humidity summer day, but I could also be talked into fall and here's why because fall is Fall is there's no bugs and I love that so I'm gonna get back to you with my pick, but I love what Todd said 60s 60s early fall.

What about you con?

You know my favorite is spring not this spring because the spring sucked really does but I love

when you finally get that the first day of nice weather and it's a little bit windy still but it's warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt and you go inside and you're like summers, summers around the

corner.

It's common, yeah.

I don't mind that except like right now like again today I get in my car to come down to Green Bay.

I bet there were 200 Mayflies in my car and the door was open for four seconds.

So that's why I don't like spring.

I like fall and the crispness

especially in midwest fall.

So I'm going to say, but I'm going to stick with sunshine 75 sunny, no humidity.

That's my perfect day.

All right.

So we'll do that.

And we've got a couple other here.

Oh, we get some good ones on the social media too.

So let us know, folks, what is your perfect weather day?

Brittany Merleau is here tonight.

So we are celebrating weather.

I'm going to ask her about the farmers almanac too, because I've always been kind of in awe.

of the farmers all night.

And I still, I don't know exactly what it is either.

So maybe she can clear that up for us.

Lots of fun stuff.

Chris Foren coming up at 635.

We're going to talk about where you can see outdoor movies this summer in Milwaukee.

Chris wrote a cool article about that.

Take a trip down memory lane to when they built the freeway in Milwaukee, too.

That was kind of a cool thing.

He did a great article on that.

We'll talk about movies and TV.

Brittany Merlot at 735.

Your texts in between, fun stories, some comedy clips.

We're doing it all tonight here at Nightlight.

Great to have you with me.

I read your texts next on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

This is Night Light.

We are, we're doing it Wednesday style folks.

Great to have you with me.

This is Night Light on the Civic Media Radio Network, Conrad Krieger riding shotgun.

I am your host for this evening's broadcast, Pete Schwabba.

Our question of the night is what is your perfect weather day?

Brittany Merleau is here tonight.

I have weather questions as I often do.

And she is always nice enough to be patient with me and come on the show and answer them.

So Chris Foran coming up at 6.35.

We'll talk about some cool stuff going on in Milwaukee.

Outdoor movies.

We'll talk about what's opening this weekend, what we're watching, and about the first freeway being built in Milwaukee in 1952.

Chris did a really cool article on that so I'm gonna ask him about that as well So we got some texts on the our social media sites in regard to our question.

What does I can't read Amanda's?

What does this say?

It's a meme The question is what is your perfect weather day and she sent in a meme that said I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot not too cold all you need is a flight jacket It's got a movie right it's got to be but I don't know

I don't know what movie that is either.

I like to quote, even without context, Monica Hale says, crisp autumn day about 40 degrees.

Ooh, it's too cold.

Sorry.

I didn't mean to denigrate a text, right?

I immediately got to chill when I read that.

Crisp autumn day about 40 degrees with the sound of wind rustling the trees.

You know what?

I like it when it's about.

50 to 55 and I can still leave the window open and hear some wind.

But man, 40's pushing it a little bit for me personally.

But thank you, Monica.

That's a great answer.

Lehman Bob says being outside and mowing lawns.

That's his perfect weather day.

Sounds like he'll do that no matter what though.

That's kind of cool.

All right, thank you Lehman Bob.

Awesome.

We got a text overnight at 4 a.m.

Bud from Janesville likes to text us at that hour because he listens while he's out delivering papers.

He's in the 608, he says, Hey Pete and Conrad, I got a chuckle when you said to keep it clean since this is a family show.

You started the show explaining you wash your sheets a lot because you and your wife have a lot of sex.

I like your thought process about laundry.

Thank you, bud.

Anyway, sometimes my sense of humor is too cryptic in that I don't provide enough clues to figure out my punchlines, or maybe they're just not that funny.

If you remember, I like to think my humor is slightly cerebral and that the punchline is not readily apparent.

I do remember that, bud.

I like jokes that leave a person with a puzzled look that eventually turn into a chuckle after they figure out my punchline.

I know that if I have to explain a punchline, it loses its effect.

Oh well, that's how I roll.

He says, my favorite genre of music is chill radio on Pandora.

It's primarily instrumental, like Jesse Cook, for example.

After listening to all the political talk shows on civic media, I need to chill out.

Yeah, I think we all do, bud.

That's why we're here.

Thanks for the text.

He continues those things.

Would you please provide me your snail mail mailing address?

I've got some things I think you and Conrad will find entertaining and possibly an idea for a segment on your show.

Love your show, Bud from Janesville.

So what address do we give it?

You always have to assume it's going to be a fertilizer bomb.

Oh no.

So I think Bud could be playing the long game here like he likes the show.

But he's doing a unabomber thing.

I'm just kidding.

We'll give you the we'll give you the station address Absolutely, bud.

Thank you for listening and thanks for the text.

Please keep listening.

Please keep texting And he's taking my advice because here's another text from but he says peach wabba a guy who comes to a complete stop at every stop sign Peach wabba a guy who treats every stop sign as a suggestion Love your show bud from Jamesville ps the papers are going to be late this morning.

Oops Probably late because that first text

Took about 12 minutes to read and probably about 30 minutes to comprise I'm teasing bud.

Thank you, buddy cam from Appleton, but I can't read this Conrad.

What is this?

So

a meme so max

well it so It says that HBO.

Oh,

yeah, you know now now that it's just max is changing its name back to HBO

Max what it was

right which yeah

And you can ask the AI on there, how many times they've changed it, you know, the Twitter AI.

And they've changed it twice since 2020, from HBO Max to Max.

And now back to HBO Max and 25.

What is the Dizzle Man?

What are

they going for?

They just, HBO was like, nope, we need our name in it again.

To

me, that's like, you know, when they went from HBO to Max, they took the part of the name.

That's like the less popular like that's where all the skin flicks were the skin of max movies run cinemax Nobody cared about cinemax.

Yeah, so you take HBO off and you just call it max that made no sense to me.

That's like Taking coke out of Coca-Cola or Coca.

I don't know something like you know now they're going back to HBO Max It's about time maybe I'll start watching again.

It's like taking Schwab away from Pete

Very similar.

You laugh, but I'm just saying.

Sherry from Oregon says, good evening, Pete and Conrad.

Good evening, Sherry.

Tom from New Berlin says, 65 on the beach, a cool buzz and tasty waves.

Little Spicoli.

Yeah, there we go.

I love that.

Steve from Florida, Conrad's dad checking in.

Perfect weather day in Wisconsin.

That's a disclaimer, Steve.

He says, is during the fall weather in the middle 50s with no mosquitoes.

Well, it's hard to argue with that.

In Florida, the keys always in the 80s and 90s, where you get the breeze from the golf and Atlantic to make you feel cool.

That's pretty good, too.

Sounds like your folks missed the keys a little bit.

Well, you know, he's talking about the mosquitoes, but he'd always say, you know, I think the no seams are worse.

What are those?

They're little bugs that you can't see and they like

bite you or

something.

And he always.

You know I say I think there that might be worse

I always remember when I would work there was a comedy club in West Palm Beach That I would do I would do there on the Tampa and West Palm Beach had the the pometo bugs And they're flying mosquitoes, but they're huge Fine flying mosquitoes Pometo bugs.

I think was it flying mosquitoes

mosquitoes can fly no matter what

They're not mosquitoes and what I'm gonna Google this we gotta get to the bottom of this or I have to get to the bottom of this Chris Warren coming up after Civic Media's news team tells you what's up and We've got some some fun stuff to talk about with Chris.

We'll read some more of your text and then Brady Merlowe ladies and gentlemen at 735 What else are you gonna do on a Wednesday?

We're crushing it already and we're only a fourth of the way into the show see that I know math It's peach waba and it's the Civic Media radio network and you've got nightlight

Take it into town.

Good night on a Wednesday, folks.

I'm Pete Schwabba, Conrad Krieger, riding shotgun.

We're talking about all of the wonderful things in and around our state and show business and comedy and all kinds of fun stuff tonight.

A palmetto bug is a flying roach.

Okay.

Worse than a mosquito in many ways, but I don't know why I got that confused, but they're really gross.

I'm sure your folks know what they are.

I just gotta have them in the

keys.

The word roach creeps me out.

Yeah.

I don't like flying either, but that's a different story.

Todd Michaels also on the stream said that Amanda Nimmer's meme is from miscongeniality.

I have never seen that

actually.

I saw it years ago.

It's a fun movie.

I like Sandy Bullock.

Brittain Merlot will be here at 7.35.

We're going to talk about the weather.

Folks, people say do not ever talk about the weather or movies.

We are throwing caution to the wind tonight here at Night Light, and we're going to talk about both.

How do you like that?

And if we have time, maybe some religion and politics.

But right now, it is my pleasure to welcome to Night Light, one of our pals here, who comes by quite frequently, and we have great discussions, spirited debates about movies and TV and all kinds of fun stuff, typically involving Milwaukee.

He writes entertainment stories for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel very well.

His name is Chris Foran, and he joins us now over the stream.

Hey, Chris.

Hey Pete, how are you doing?

Good, how are you?

Okay.

You're such a mellow guy.

I feel like I build you up too much and I'm like

singing your praises.

Mellow, spent, it's hard to know.

It's a final.

I love how chill you are, but I always catch myself doing that.

It's like, geez, why would get out a hat and cane and do a tap dance to bring Chris onto the show?

That's not fair to you.

No, it's not.

I appreciate the laudatory

comments.

How's it going tonight, buddy?

How you doing?

Good good just listen I was listening to some of that or reviewing some of the shows for the last couple of weeks realize how many more movies I have to catch up with but I'm

But there's too many to watch.

Well, it sounds like you're doing OK.

We'll definitely do some movie talk.

You've seen more than me or you're at least more caught up than I am.

But let's talk first about the Milwaukee Film Festival because that just ended last week.

It sounds like it was a huge success.

And I didn't realize I knew that they had fewer films this year.

But what you were saying is they have fewer films and but the same amount of people, which is really encouraging.

Yeah.

this year they decided to cut back a little they've had they've had a couple of years of pretty rough financial sledding and for all sorts of reasons and so this year they they used the last bunch of years they've been in four theaters in the Milwaukee area the two historic ones in the east side the down in the oriental both the both religious institutions for some of us and then the times on the west side and the Avalon theater which is also

like from 1929 in Bayview.

This year, they just stuck with the two on the east side, which the people who run the Milwaukee Film Festival also operate the theater.

So they were able to have more control over the screenings.

But because they had fewer theaters, they had fewer screening time slots, they had something like 30% fewer movies at the festival this year.

But the announcer attendance for the festival today, and it was something like only like 200 below last year.

And considering having fewer screenings they had, it was, if you do the math, which some of us had to, it's around 47% higher per screening attendance.

And that's what I had heard and what I had seen during the festival.

There were a number of screenings that sold out, which is not, it's not unheard of, but it would seem to be a lot of them.

And every screening I was at was fairly close to packed, whatever time of day it

was.

Really impressive too, given the size of the venues that they were selling out.

uh, you know, especially

like the

Oriental, but, um, what do they attribute that to?

I mean, it's a long festival.

It's two full weeks.

They have multiple

screenings, but I, yeah,

but I would think the multiple screenings that's not unheard of, but it's amazing that like some shows, I know they, they played three times and they're

still getting those attendance

numbers.

And, and, and that's not unheard of.

They've done that before, but in other words, they do that with more movies this year.

Um, they, they, they're, uh,

They tossed out the idea that because it was more compact, people could actually go to them.

They could make it easier to get to more than one screening a day.

And if you're going to a movie on the East Side and then going to Bayview, that's a 20-minute drive or 20 minutes to go to the West Side versus a 10-minute walk, for example.

And one night, I went to a movie.

I met some friends who had taken the day off and had gone to movies at the Oriental.

And I met them at the Downer.

And they parked like halfway between.

Yeah, that's nice.

I mean, the the and I may have said this on your show before that Milwaukee Film Festival has done a really good job of making the festival a destination, almost excluding the movies.

I think people go to the festival to go to the festival.

They always show good movies.

But I think people like to be part of that festival experience.

They hang out for the Q&As.

They love it when there's a filmmaker there.

Almost it doesn't really matter what they're showing, you know, it I've seen.

You know, that happened in almost every kind of movie I've been to.

And so I think that's part of it.

I think it just made it possible.

I don't know if you know a lot about film festival audiences, but they tend to be a little older.

They tend to be over 40 or 50, usually over 50, which means they have more flexible schedules often.

So they're able to do more of this.

And I think a lot of it's kind of like, I don't know if you, if you were when you were younger, if you went to summer fest, like you went like multiple days.

Film festival is kind of like that.

I mean, people really like just to go.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a great point.

I do.

I do remember Summerfest.

I was at the comedy tent every year.

Oh boy.

Barely wearing, well, I wore clothes, but it was very hot, Chris.

I remember.

Did you get combat pay for that?

Because the comedy tent was tough.

Those were tough crowds, I remember.

It's not a great, most people were in there to get out

of the sun.

Yeah, and it's just like they're barely listening.

You could have a good show, but most of the time it was just very, you just kind of did it to do it and

to go to some extent.

Yeah, I remember a lot of heckling.

Really?

Oh.

Yeah.

I remember a lot of disinterest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that too.

That

too.

So that's pretty impressive.

A 47% increase per screening, as mentioned in your article.

And I agree, like Film Festival.

attendees are a little older, but they also know more about what they want.

I think they crave those films.

Like I

just did an

article for Civic Media where there's kind of this pocket, and I'm in this.

I live in a smaller town.

We don't have an independent film theater.

It's a megaplex, so to speak.

And if you want to see, not sinners, but like let's say challengers, you got a week to do it.

Or an A24 movie that's really cool.

They're still making these movies.

But

you

really have to seek them out.

And if you don't live in Milwaukee or Madison or a city with a cool indie theater, you just really got to do your homework.

And film festivals are a perfect place to see those kind of movies.

Right.

You're totally right.

Having said that, the movies that sold that were really popular at the festival were movies that I would think of are fairly safe or traditional.

That was a really popular movie.

I think one of the movies that sold out the minute they started selling tickets was a movie called Four Mothers about a.

Oh,

yeah.

a comedian or a writer, I can't remember which, who ended up getting saddled with his older mother and three of her friends when the other friends went off on some trip and he had like the gig of a lifetime.

And movies with older characters always seem to do very well there.

I saw one of the movies I saw that I enjoyed was a movie called Memory Lane about an elderly Dutch couple who, the wife is starting to have dementia challenges, so they decide to go on a

Tripped a driving trip to Spain to help jog some of her memories and that really good attendance and But it right in the wheelhouse.

I have heard Correspondingly I have heard that movies that are really kind of wacky in terms of structure or style Don't always go over as well interesting,

huh?

although although I know Matt Miller was talking about that Vulcan Vulcan is a Dora.

I think it's off camera.

Yeah

crazy max uh michigan movie i wish i had seen that that sounded awesome and um that there are other audiences for that too it's just it's just the ones that seem to be there's audience still wants to have a good time and i think i think a lot of people these days are kind of looking for a break i know when i was trying to pick i usually just i have a time window i'm gonna go see something and i was i had two choices and i ended up going to see a quirky animated movie that was kind of silly kind of all over the place because

I wasn't ready for the heavy issue movie that I was running against.

My guest is Chris Foren.

He writes entertainment articles for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

He joins us here on Nightlight from time to time and we talk movies and TV and all kinds of fun stuff.

Chris Matt was on the other night and I forgot to ask him, but I'm glad you're here and you mentioned in one of your articles about the awards.

What were the, if you could name two or three films that came out of the Milwaukee Film Festival that people should watch or that won awards, what would they

be?

Well, the one that won the big audience award that they announced today was the librarians.

And it's a documentary about spoiler librarians.

And it's, you know, I hate to say usual, but this is a topic that's been told a number of times about how librarians are kind of the first line of defense on the First Amendment

and stuff

like that.

I can't believe that won't either be on public television or in theaters in some form.

And I think Matt may have mentioned in the closing night movie, which was Jane Austen Wreck My Life, I think it's called.

That I know is coming to Milwaukee theaters and probably Madison in another week or two.

But a lot of it, but you were right saying there, a lot of it is hit and miss.

I mean, 824 movies almost always end up on streaming on

I guess they're now calling it HBO Max again.

We were just talking about that.

But 824 movies end up there.

That's why I finally caught up with Sing Sing, which is a remarkable movie.

So I heard.

And they just added, I think, The Brutalist, or they're adding it Friday, actually.

So I can see what you suffered through, finally.

Well,

I love you

hear your thoughts on it.

I could be way off.

I'm just a fan.

But yeah, I don't

know.

Well, I, I, I, you know, I watched, I rewatched the first part of mission, the mission of possible things, the new ones coming

out.

Yeah.

And I've liked most of the movies a lot.

And I'm in a minority and not a Tom Cruise hater.

I think he sets out to do something and he does it, you know, and, and, and I enjoyed it.

The, it was dead reckoning part one.

Now, even though the second one is now called final reckoning.

I liked it, but it's two hours and 45 minutes.

And it moves faster than that.

It doesn't feel slow, but it's two hours and 45 minutes.

Just a logistics of it.

You know, if you're going to a theater, you've got it, you know, stocked up on provisions and, you know, and, and, and, and, you know, there are websites that will tell you when you can go take a bathroom break.

Those are sometimes worth consulting.

Oh, I

liked.

Oh, I didn't know that.

I never heard of that.

That's great.

The best one is the one called.

RunP.com.

And I'll leave some of them because one of the things I look for is whether I need to stay for the credits.

I love watching the credits, but sometimes I got to go somewhere.

And I went to see the Thunderbolts movie this weekend, and it's Marvel, so I knew there'd be something at the end.

But apparently, as I've heard in your talks and others that I haven't seen Sinners, that's the next one that's on my list.

And Sinners is a movie that you also have to stay for the credits.

You absolutely have to stay for the credits.

And I'm glad you know that because this couple is poor couple.

If you heard

me

talking about they left and I'm like, I was going to my car with my wife and I'm like, they missed like the

closure.

I get it.

But, you know, it's like, like when that happens, it was interesting when I saw Thunderbolts the other day, it was like third weekend or second weekend.

And nobody left.

They know better.

You know, they knew because it's a Marvel movie, you know, right?

Yeah,

part of

that.

put on the filmmaker i'm like don't do if something is that essential to your film put it where people can see it you know because a lot

of people leave

during the credits

yeah what they do in marvel and i think they do a really good job with it i think they've got done with science is the one in the middle credits is just some goofy thing

yeah

like at the end of the first avengers movie in the middle of the credits they're all eating shawarma you know and and and then the one at the end of it is advances the overall arching marvel

Saga and in fact the one that's in the end of very end of Thunderbolts Makes me feel a little better.

I don't want to spoil it too much But it makes me feel a little better about the fantastic foreign movie that's coming out this

My guest is Chris for and we'll have more with Chris after this very short break And we're gonna tell you where you can check out outdoor movies in Milwaukee That's coming up next on nightlight with peach waba on the civic media radio network

Welcome back.

I am Pete Schwab.

This is Night Light.

Great to have you with me this evening in this beautiful night in the state of Wisconsin as we broadcast live statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay.

Keep those texts coming.

We'll catch up soon, folks.

What is your perfect weather day?

Some answers all over the place and somebody just texted about a blizzard.

I have half of mine not to read that, but I will our guest right now is Chris foreign.

He writes entertainment Brilliant entertainment articles Chris.

I'm gonna build you up again here for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel No,

you

just do your thing though.

You're just like so chill.

I love it Hey, where can you wrote an article about outdoor movie theaters and again?

I don't

I don't even think to do that in the summer anymore, but is that still a thing in Milwaukee going to the drive-in?

Well, there's two separate things.

There's one is, and the two separate stories.

One is a roundup that, one of the stories that went up this week was on free outdoor movies that communities show.

Usually they're kid movies.

And there used to be a lot more than that, but there's still many, there's still a number of them, whether they show them in a local park.

Lots of Disney, lots of Moana too, you know, things like that.

Then the other one are driving the, what we, you and I think of traditional outdoor driving theaters.

And there are still some, we lost two this over the winter this year, Wisconsin.

The Highway 18, the gentleman who ran it for many years, at the last couple of years at the end of the season, he put a for sale sign on it and then the spring would come, he'd take it down and

and run the theater, but he retired after last year.

The one at the highway 18 is in Jefferson, in Jefferson County.

And that is, that's still for sale or anybody wants it.

And then there's also one in Chilton.

Oh yeah.

That, that, that they're, that the local theater operator has been, has been leasing and they just decided to step back and because they run the theater, I think in Chilton and into Peer.

And that's enough these days.

Yeah.

But but there's still there's still eight others.

The Milwaukee has the one the mall in the south the one last one in southeast Wisconsin is known as the Milky Way drive-in and it was open during the pandemic in the parking lot at the might at the independent minor league Baseball Stadium in Franklin and Southwest part of the walkie-talkie area and They they basically when the Milwaukee milkmen are in town They put up a screen and they have one of these nice LED screens.

They don't have to wait till it gets dark and

It's been a thing, but this is their sixth season, so more power to them.

But there are still a few others.

There's the Stardust in Chateau outside Minneapolis, and I think that opens in late May, and then Field of Scenes, one of my favorite outdoor driving theater name, in Freedom, and that one opens also in late May.

It's either like Ron Labor Day or Memorial Day, rather, or...

the first weekend in May and a lot like a lot of like the Skyway driving at Fish Creek opened this I think May 2nd for I think they opened for the Thunderbolts.

That's a nice one.

Yeah.

And the big sky in the Dells is already open and so is what's the one in Monroe the sky view that is also open as is the one in Richland Center the Starlight 14.

Do we

do we like watching movies in our car?

I know it's

a novelty.

I think it's like a lot of things.

I think people do it for the, you know, for the something different.

Yeah, they do it.

You know, they just, if you see whenever we, you know, every couple of years, somebody does a story about, Oh, drive-ins are dead, you know, and or, or, or, or, or the other side, drive-ins are back, you know, same story.

I will, I wrote it one in 1983.

So I mean, it's, you know, the same thing, but

I think some people it's just a different way to do stuff, you know, and it's it's it's like going to an axe throwing bar, you know, it's not you know, just go over drink you do something different and

less of a chance of a serious injury going to a drive-thru ideally but

I

you hope I know

why

kids go I don't I can't ever see myself at my age just going to a drive I want a

more

optimal theater experience I think you know but

well and what I wonder too is about I mean I

old enough to remember when, you know, the cars didn't have headrests and things like that.

I just don't understand the logistics.

Chris

Foran is my guest.

You can follow him at C. Foran, F-O-R-A-N, one, two.

I thought you had left Twitter, Chris, or I would have tagged you for some reason, but I just pulled it up and here you are.

I haven't left it.

I don't post a lot of stuff on there.

Not a political statement.

It's more of a, I am wary of

of the bots eventually recreating me in some digital form, especially after watching Black Mirror.

I am afraid of being recreated and then replaced by

myself.

Can we keep you through the news?

We got a couple minutes left, but I would love to talk about what's opening with you and all that kind of stuff.

But you mentioned Black

Mirror.

That's

a show I have never watched.

And I've heard really good stuff about it.

I don't know why I can't get into it or why I haven't started it.

You're a fan, though, right?

I'm a fan, but it would be in the pilot things.

I'll say it's not for everyone.

Okay.

They are they are alarming.

It's an alarmingly prescient show It's predicted me predict the early seasons predicted many things that actually happened and it is The season isn't as angry as some of the last couple seasons had been but it is very sad Huh, and that's it's not for everyone.

It's extraordinarily well written

and the actors acting cast is

phenomenal.

What did you think of Adolescence?

Did we talk about that last time you were here?

I

don't think so.

That's another one I'm not sure I can recommend only because it's so much.

Oh, it's tough, yeah.

It's so well done.

And I don't want to say it's a trend because maybe I'm drifting kids kind of stuff.

But it is very well acted.

It is very honest.

It is also not cut and dry, which is it kind of makes you

make your own decisions which is not the turn favor of you know murder or whatever but it gives you the context and you kind of take it from there and it is also British production which means they you know they end when they should end rather than keep going.

Four episodes it was great, and I it was but like you said about black mirror.

It was just sad It's hard to watch, but it's a great watch.

It's one of those things I categorize like I'm glad I watched it, but I'm it's never I'm never gonna rewatch it Chris

Ward

is here He's gonna stick around through intermission, and we will come back after the news and talk about what's opening this weekend and what he has seen He's the guy you want to talk to folks.

He writes for the journal Sentinel about movies and TV.

We're coming back It's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

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

Welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Kicking off Act 2 on this Wednesday evening.

Big fun tonight.

My guest is Chris Foran.

Brittany Merlot is coming up at 7.35.

We've got a fun question in honor of Brittany's appearance, the award-winning Brittany Merlot.

What is your perfect weather day?

We'll catch up on some texts in a few minutes here.

But first, Chris and I are going to talk about what is opening this weekend.

Does anything, Chris, excite you?

I know Mission Impossible is what we're all waiting for, but what about this weekend?

There's at least one movie that reviewed quite well, the Final Destination chapter.

Yeah, that's not my idiom necessarily.

But what I'm reading about this one is that it's pretty inventive in terms of, if you know what the Final Destination movies are, the people who somehow managed to cheat death and death comes back to...

get them basically and this is apparently this is a family of people who should never have been able to survive in the first place or something like that and it's always been fairly creative.

I usually pick a couple of horror movies to watch in theaters every year and then kind of limit it to that and I forget what I've got slotted in there's there's several good ones coming down this summer but I would think that I'm not sure another one that should be it just is intense but

probably not getting as much exposure as this movie Hurry Up Tomorrow.

The weekend and these seemingly in everything this time of year, Jenna or Tega, who's great in everything I've ever seen her in.

But what's interesting to me about it is it's directed by a guy named, a director named Trey Edward Schultz, who is probably best known for a horror movie he made called It Comes at Night, which is really frightening.

But he also made a wonderful

wonderful family drama called waves a couple years ago.

It was I was in inexplicably ignored the Oscars, but really well done.

Huh?

There's yeah, this is I'm like I said earlier that my I'm hoping to use this weekend to catch up on centers because I have missed I have some it's very hard for me to miss spoilers because I write about a lot of these things before they actually open

right

and I've sort of missed some of it.

I don't think I

why I saw Thunderbolts over that because then I had gone six days without seeing a Marvel teaser or spoiler

that I

thought was stunning.

And

right.

And I actually liked it.

I think I remember hearing correctly, Conrad, I know, like that I like Thunderbolts quite a bit.

And but I also didn't hate the Captain America movie.

So maybe I'm not the right person.

Oh, there you go.

So I mean, really interesting, interested to talk to you after you do see centers.

So keep me posted on that.

And

I think that's a movie at the end of the year, I assume, or I think we'll hear a lot about.

Let's go to TV.

You and I are both watching Mobland, and it's a guy, Richie, executive produced.

He may have directed an episode or two.

I feel like they're not really reinventing the wheel, but it's well done.

Every week, I do look forward to seeing what happens.

Yeah,

it is really.

And again, there's so much to choose from that you can't make.

It's it you're making the choices.

So you can't say this is what the trend is but boy, it's an intense show Tom Hardy is you know and Tom Hardy is laid back for Tom Hardy,

right?

but Pierce Brosnan and and Helen Mirren more than make up for it in

Way over the time.

I mean Helen Mirren is like going back to her Caligula you're over the top.

She's coming on strong here.

Yeah

And I'm a huge fan.

I mean absolutely

same.

It's a lot but it's it's interesting.

It's it's I have a I One of the movies I keep me to catch up with is the movie at the Tom Hardy movie where he plays the two identical twin

British

gangsters to praise and because I'm fascinated by

And we all are, I think, British Crimes.

I don't know if you saw The Gentleman, either the movie

or

the series again, which he did.

The movie is very fun.

I haven't seen the series.

But, you know, there's something, British Crimes is just sometimes better.

I know they keep rerunning on turn-classic movies.

The great Michael Cain movie, Get Carter, which is just unbelievable film.

if you haven't seen it.

I don't think I've ever seen that one.

I think I saw the remake, but I, now that you mentioned it, I don't think I ever saw the original.

Well, Michael Keen is, you know, we're used to him being kind of this bumbly guy.

He's, he is a feral force of nature.

And the music is, is, is so influential in British pop culture that like 10, 15 years later.

Human League are their big hit album with Don't You Want Me and their other hits covered the get Carter theme on the album.

Oh,

now is what I thought.

What the heck is this?

I better find out.

What did you think of Drop?

I was not intending to see Drop.

I saw it.

I had a window on the Marcus Theaters and AMC Theaters.

do this thing that i would encourage people to check out and i need to check out more of them they do a on monday nights they do a mystery movie

oh yeah

you pay you pay six bucks and all you know is the npa rating and whether it's a horror movie or not and uh you know i had a window i think my wife is out of town so i went to see it and it ended up being dropped and um i was disappointed i'd seen the trailer because i was spent the whole movie waiting to see that scene where she's hanging out the window

yeah

but

Um, kind of spoiled it a little bit, but I thought it was solid.

I mean, it was, it was, you know, again, another fear of technology.

Yeah.

Movie and, uh, but the performances were good and, uh, it kept moving and, uh, it didn't give you too much time to think and you didn't, I didn't really find myself looking at my watch, which is my, always my test for a movie.

I wasn't really planning on watching.

Right.

I liked it.

I liked it.

I say I liked 80% of it.

I liked it until the

end.

And then it got a little

crazy at the end, but I still liked it.

I went with my wife and my mom who is 80 and she's like, I liked it.

I kind of knew it was going to end okay.

I'm okay with that.

So, but I just thought it was some sloppy.

They cut a few corners where I think it could have been a little more believable at the end, but it was still a good film.

Yeah.

And I agree.

And I, yeah, that's usually within the writing or, or in the case of, you know, some of it's like,

For example, the Mission Impossible, the first Mission Impossible movie.

The movie was too long, so that's a Brian De Palma cut out all the stuff that helped it make sense.

Right.

What movie are you most looking forward to this summer, Chris?

Well, you mentioned...

Mission impossible.

That's real high on my list.

I can't wait partly because I because I know it's not gonna disappoint me It's not gonna be you know, it doesn't give you the best thing I ever saw on earth.

It's but it's gonna be solid, you know and The funny thing about it is that it's it's almost certainly not gonna be the biggest movie the weekend it opens because it's opening the same weekend as Lilo and stitch which has Such a built a live-action we will sit which is such a built-in audience that there's no way it's not gonna be the biggest movie

I am, again, I'm not a huge violence person, but I am a very big Anna de Armas fan.

And so the John Wick spinoff ballerina looks kind of interesting to me.

I am required by statute to watch every Wes Anderson movie.

So the Phoenician scheme I've heard is like the ultimate, ultimately twee Wes Anderson, which I would have thought Asteroid City was, or the French Dispatch, which I enjoyed too.

there's all sorts of goofy things to summer and goofy in the sense of like, you know, yes, Fantastic Four should be that should be very good.

There's a great cast.

I mean,

you know,

Peter Pascal and and Vanessa Kirby.

But there's a movie called called materialists about with Dakota Johnson is like a matchmaker.

And she's got an ex boyfriend who's played by Chris Evans and a guy who ends up pursuing her played by Peter again, Peter Pascal.

And it's written and directed by Celine Song.

who made, I don't know if you saw the movie a couple of years ago, Past Lives, which is one of my favorite

movies

of the last five years.

I mean, I still think about how emotional that movie was.

And I know you and I are both looking forward to the, this is Spinal Tap as a 41st anniversary reissue coming out

this summer.

And then the follow-up opens like just a month later, I think, or something like that.

I believe that's

true.

I guess there's plenty to choose from.

And I just saw the trailer from Nobody 2.

Oh,

yeah.

And nobody's another one of those movies where, yeah, I'll just watch that.

And it's like, that was such a good time.

Isn't it?

Don't you wish there were hundreds of movies like that?

Like, my son and I played that one night.

Like, what do we love, Bob?

And we love Bob Odenkirk.

And we're like, let's see what this is.

And we love it.

It was just fantastic.

Well, I actually think there are hundreds of movies like

that.

Probably.

We

have to find them.

And sometimes it's like that, you know, go with your gut.

If you find like there's a person that you like.

I mean, I remember, I remember stumbling on to Sean of the dead.

And I thought when I first came out, I thought, yeah, I can believe this world, you know, right?

That there's a zombie apocalypse because we're all kind of zombies already.

Yeah, totally, totally by

that.

Hey, do you, you mentioned Wes Anderson here.

I still, to this day, my favorite Wes Anderson movies are one and two, Bottle Rocket and then Rushmore.

Rushmore probably technically is a better movie, but I just love the charm of Bottle Rocket and I love everything about Rushmore.

Every

film of his that comes out, I feel like I want him to recreate those or something.

I'm always a little disappointed, not that they're not good films, but I don't think he's ever matched those, at least not that I've seen and there's probably a couple I haven't seen.

I don't want to say they're all the same, but they kind of are all the same.

And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

Most Hitchcock movies are the same.

But I think sometimes that can be a lot for people.

The French Dispatch is about an American-language newspaper in France.

I mean, it's everything I love right there.

And it was so light and fluffy.

That you could see it almost like drift away while you were watching it, but I but I love the people in it and there were the mo there were Like like real tenant bumps is like the two where they're just moments that are just so wonderful.

Yeah

And they get past but yeah, no, I don't I I respect people not having interest in watching more of those it's there's you know, I mean it's It's it's when you get to those like bottle rocket where it's just so ground level and it's just so

It's all human.

It's not careful careful souffle like architecture that and

it wasn't as beautiful as some of his shots are

and like the Royal Tenenbombs and that like Bottle Rocket didn't have that.

It was about the characters and they were great shots and it

was

well executed, but it wasn't overtly.

Hey, look at what I'm doing here with color.

You know, I guess that

kind of thing.

Hey, Chris, we've got about one more minute.

I want to ask you, I think a lot of people are watching the pit.

I watched the first episode.

We've got about a minute left.

What do you think of the pit?

You said you're working your way through season one.

Does that mean you recommend it?

And by working my way through it, it's because it

because every episode is gut-wrenching.

And I feel like it was made to not be binged because I think if you binged it, it would kill you.

I mean, it's extraordinary.

It is way better than a prime time.

Doctor Show could be because they can show real stuff.

And there's a whole room of people who are all damaged and they're challenged.

There was one episode, I think it was five or six, maybe seven, where it almost felt light because there were a couple of things that went okay.

And it's just so well done.

And I can't believe that it won't be a big ME contender.

It is a lot though.

And if people have triggers from having loved ones in the hospital or watching characters crumble, then that's not the show to watch.

Very very well

Well done, buddy.

This is always fun.

Have a great night and let's talk soon.

All right You got it anytime Chris foreign check.

Whoa.

Is that what are we doing a dance party here?

I gotta got a dance Chris off here and play them up Check out Chris's work at the Milwaukee Journal sent all he does great stuff there writing about entertainment and Milwaukee

We are coming right back, and we're gonna catch up on your texts, and I want more information on RunP.com.

We'll look into that too.

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At Nightlight, that song was everywhere.

Like, was it two NFL seasons ago?

It was like a phone commercial, and it was this, and it was just like such a happy song.

That's why I had to have that.

I forgot we had that.

It feels like a summer song, you know?

That would have been a good pick for the summer song question.

That would have been, yes.

Speaking of which, what is your perfect weather day, folks?

That is our question of the night.

We've got a lot of text to get through here.

So let's do that.

Why don't we do that right now?

Luke Mathers from Civic Media.

You're familiar with Luke's work?

Yes, I am.

A fine upstanding individual in today's society.

He says, a nice October day with 55 degrees and sunny.

Yeah, that's hard.

You got the badgers on, right?

Oh, the leaves crunching onto your feet.

You can't beat that.

Mike Destetel, I'm trying to read this off my phone.

He says, a huge world stopping blizzard.

Next a storm that shuts down everything including bingo at the Catholic Church Wind blowing like there's no tomorrow as drifts pile up so much you have to shovel the front door at least twice an hour power outages Snuggling in blankets and lighting kerosene lanterns.

That's my perfect weather day.

I Will not cuddle you Mike during any blizzard, but you know what I I like it when people come come at it a different angle

You know, it's our first winter one.

I think Mike.

Thank you.

I don't know if he's heard of the tarp trick with snow.

What's that?

Oh, yeah,

you put a tarp under, you know, where where you're gonna shovel and then you just Move the

tarp.

It's kind of seems like pointless busy work.

I mean, it's be shoveling.

It does work You gotta you gotta go out there and set the tarp up though