On Stage 4 Cancer & Milwaukee Film Making (Hour 2)

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On Stage 4 Cancer & Milwaukee Film Making (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu May 22, 2025

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chihuahua.

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And now a guy who likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain, Pete Chihuahua.

Let's

do it.

Let's do it, folks.

Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.

It is Thursday night.

Such a great night.

Heading into a long weekend.

A little extra long for me, because I'm off tomorrow night, too.

But long weekend right around the corner, folks.

And I'm sure it's going to be well earned.

Whatever you're doing to get you to this point, you're almost there.

And you can sit back this weekend and have some bratwursts, some, what else you got?

Conrad sausages.

Burgers.

Burgers, hot dogs.

Beer.

Just stuff your faces until you're sick.

That's what long weekends are for What are you gonna eat?

Well, seriously, what are you going to a cookout or what do you think

you're gonna?

You know, I gotta keep it healthy for myself, you know, we don't have got some chicken some rice some some eggs and egg whites I Got the good stuff.

That's great

Are you going to like a barbecue or something?

No, I know.

I just you know, that's just what I eat.

It's just how you roll.

It's how you ride.

You know, last week I was like, you know, I need to be a little bit more healthy with what I'm eating.

So I asked ChatGPT to make me a fitness plan.

Seriously?

And I think it did

pretty good.

Wow.

You know, I know what I'm doing in the gym, but when it comes to, you know, eating the right stuff, it can be hard sometimes.

So.

Yeah,

it is and it's hard, like for a guy like you, you're still a young guy.

You

could

probably eat crappy food for another 10 years.

Well,

you don't want to, I'm

not saying you

should.

Well, see, I have a very slow metabolism, so it adds up pretty quickly.

You do have a slow metabolism?

Oh yeah.

How do you know that?

Well, how do you measure

that?

I think it was the doctor that told me that when I was younger.

So it's like a clinical thing like you actually have a slow metabolism.

I think I think it's something with with blood drawn that you can see that Oh, wow, cuz I think when I was younger kind of did some blood tests with with my mom when I was younger, but Interesting.

Yeah, you know, it's just you gotta eat right ends

Absolutely.

I think in it's it's time.

I'm turning 26 and

two weeks.

Are you really?

Yeah.

Oh wow

Yeah.

And the longer you like, I ate a lot of fast food when I was younger, especially when I was doing stand up and on the road, I ate like crap.

And I feel like I'm, you know, you kind of pay the price.

You eventually have to pay the check on that.

So the quicker you can get the healthy eating at a younger age, I think you're better off.

Even like weightlifting, all that stuff, you pay, it pays dividends down the road.

So, all right, this has been health talk with Peach Wobbin.

Hey, welcome, folks.

This is, we got a great show tonight.

First of all, we're okay.

I got to kind of plug both shows, because we're not going to be here tomorrow night.

But we have a, how does this sound?

How is this for a rocking show where we are not even in the studio tomorrow?

WBAY's Morning Anchor, Emerson Layman is going to join us.

Director Michael Collins will be here talking about his movie, Almost Sunrise, which is a documentary about two veterans that walk from Milwaukee to LA.

To increase awareness for veteran suicides beautiful film and that's the new whisk a weekend classic pick of the week from yours truly and we'll also play on the network and Who else do we have Eliza

Eliza will be here new civic media latest yeah,

yeah, and then it's a bar man Friday night Terry Barr has agreed to let us pre-record her and she's a trooper and that's up

for a guest show tomorrow night, folks.

So all original stuff, you're not gonna wanna miss it.

There will be no question, unfortunately, which is part of the, that's the only drawback, because it's more fun when we get to read texts and take calls and all that kind of stuff.

But we can do that tonight, folks.

The phone lines are open, as far as you know.

And we do have a great, let's do the question of the night, and then I'll tell what awesome guests we have coming up.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

All right.

The question of the night is what celebrity passing would make you the most sad?

And I thought of this last night because we've been talking about George Wendt the last couple nights and it's always harder to me when...

People that bring laughter pass they leave a legacy of just Total laughter in a career like even George went you got Cheers He was in Fletch He was an airplane too like everything he was in second City everything George went did

basically resulted in making other people's lives more pleasurable through laughter, which I think is fantastic.

He's also Conrad, I don't know if you knew this, he's Jason Sudeikis' uncle, Ted Lasso

himself,

yeah.

I don't know how, I didn't really research that, but I thought that was kind of a cool nugget.

Anyway, so it got me thinking, what celebrity passing would make you the most sad?

I'm gonna say right now for me, as much as laughter is a big part of my life, I love to laugh, I love to watch comedians and funny movies, and I grew up watching all that stuff.

The biggest loss for me personally, I think, would be Bruce Springsteen.

That would make me the most sad.

So I'll say the boss, I'll start things off.

Springsteen is 76, still playing three hour concerts, still singing about what he believes in.

That would be a sad day for me.

And my whole family really.

I think the guy has walked the walk his whole adult life and even people that disagree with him politically.

Look, those have been his songs his whole career.

He's been singing about the working man and all that kind of stuff.

He is the genuine deal whether you like him or not.

That would make me the most sad.

Conrad, what say you?

You know, I would probably say Adam Sandler for me.

Okay.

Because I still really like his movies and what he's putting out I think.

It brings like it's like a comfort movie right like it's always I know what I'm gonna get it's gonna be funny I'm gonna enjoy it so I'd say him because I wouldn't want to miss those

movies brought a lot of laughter in his life

a lot

of people so that would be a big one too so this is kind of an honor of George went who I didn't know But I just it just got me thinking so what celebrity passing would make you the most sad let us know folks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2

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It's funny you mentioned AI because we've got a song.

My buddy Mike used AI to make a Pete Schwabba song.

And we will play that in the next segment.

So it's very funny.

It's silly.

And Mike is doing it as a joke, I want to say.

I mean, we're friends.

He likes me.

I think he likes my work, but the song is utterly ridiculous and funny, and you will crack up.

And I believe my name is repeated twice in the chorus, which is just a strange thing.

But I was cracking up earlier listening to it.

We'll play that in the second segment tonight, folks, and get your reaction in, and we'll read your text.

And we've got a great show tonight.

The Doctors in Recital.

Kim Shefchick and the Peots, right?

Yes, we'll be here

in studio will

singing to their hearts content at 635 they got a big event Cure for cancer.

What's it called Conrad?

I got it.

I got I had the poster right here.

No, I can't remember it Kim sent it to me stand by because this is a big deal This is so much fun.

They do the doctors and recital concert every year, which is for a great cause on stage for cancer Which happens in July they're gonna sing we'll probably have them back before then and try to help them increase awareness

for On Stage for Cancer, a great, great event.

And the show is called Serenades for Supper.

So there you go, that's fun.

So they'll be here in just a few minutes.

Always fun to have Kim and the Peots in the studio.

And then my pal and Milwaukee based filmmaker, producer, director, cinematographer and film professor, Tate Bunker will be here.

Tate's done some great work, and he is an artist, and we will talk to him about his process and some of his movies.

It's just great stuff.

So there you go.

That's a show.

Let us know.

We'll read your text on the radio.

What you think, what celebrity passing would affect you the most or make you the most sad?

We got a call, Conrad?

Yes, we do.

Brian from Milwaukee.

All

right.

Brian, what's up, buddy?

Hey, not much.

How are you?

Doing great.

Good.

Yeah, the one passing that would really affect me and get to be would be Dick Van Dyke.

Oh, wow.

Now, listen.

He's still alive.

Yeah, he is in his

mid-90s, I think.

Almost late 90s now.

I think he just turned 98 or 99 like last week or this week.

I

think you're right.

Isn't it?

Okay, so that's really interesting to me that he's your choice because he is so elderly.

But he's left so much in his career for us to enjoy that that would still affect you like that.

That's a great answer

I because I remember watching him as a kid when I was younger Yeah, I prefer watching the classic shows like Dick Van Dyke and all those other shows that were on TV land at the time Because I prefer that over what was on regular TV and I still do

That's fantastic and now I don't

mind watching me TV and you know, Nick and I and stuff like that, but he Just like Lucille Ball and a lot of those others have great legacies and

Considering that he's in his late 90s and he's still singing barbershop.

He's still doing dance and he's still making appearances at

the

work shows.

I mean,

that's insane.

So great.

Thanks for the call, Brian.

Outstanding.

Thank you.

Yeah, Dick Van Dyke's a good one.

And that shows you what kind of track record he has as a celebrity, as an entertainer, as an artist, leaving behind so much stuff for people to enjoy.

Great call.

let's see what else we got oh mission impossible the first mission impossible was released today movie in the tom cruise genre if you will 1996 and now here we are on the cusp of the eighth film in the series being released the final reckoning mission impossible the final reckoning drops in theaters this weekend i am i'm so excited we got a big group

Go on Sunday.

We'll have a celebration of life on Saturday for a friend of mine And we're gonna go see Mission Impossible and I cannot think of a better way to spend Well under the circumstances anyway Memorial Day weekend so Mission Impossible Alien 3 dr. Quinn medicine woman the movie was released on this day I don't know if you've seen that Conrad but I know I do remember the Simpsons used to kind of not make fun of But they used to have a lot of fun with dr. Quinn medicine woman

And that was one of Homer's favorite shows.

So that's the show, folks.

We've got Doctors and Recital here in studio at 635 singing the night away.

They're going to make the popcorn pick of the week also.

So they're going to sing and tell you a movie that they all really love and give you a recommendation.

So we're getting a lot of a lot of bang for our buck at 635 with the doctors and recital.

And then Tate Bunker at 735 Milwaukee based director.

We'll talk about that.

And in just a couple of minutes, you're going to you just have to hear this.

This song was written for me by my friend, Mike, all with AI.

And, you know, I can't believe it.

I'm sure AI does more.

More important things than writing songs about radio hosts, but I will say for what it is Conrad, it sounds amazing.

Right?

Yeah.

I'm not saying it's a good song.

Okay.

But it sounds, you know, I mean, it's clever what Mike did is really funny.

So I think you guys will like it.

We'll read some of your texts.

We're doing all of that.

We got a lot going on here tonight.

It's great to have you here.

My last live show of the week.

I can't believe it's already here, but...

great to have all of you listening please text please call be part of the show we are coming right back with a peach wabba ai song trust me you're not gonna want to miss it it's nightlight with peach wabba on the civic media radio network

here comes my baby here she comes now

Welcome

back to Night Lights with Pete Schwabba.

I am your host, Pete Schwabba for this evening's broadcast Conrad Krieger riding shotgun as he so often does.

We're gonna premiere an AI song about Pete Schwabba.

Probably the only radio show in America.

You'll hear play such a song given that I'm the host but it is kind of funny I think you get a kick out of it.

We'll read your texts.

We have a phone call.

Yes, we do bang these calls out, huh?

Yeah, Richard from Walker show.

Hey, rich.

How are you?

Hey, I'm doing pretty good.

I got a true story memory of a humorous happening for you.

Okay

I'm standing in a bus stop shelter

And there's a gentleman in there and we're talking and I find out he's a veteran.

Okay.

And he was in Vietnam.

And we're talking and I told him, you know, I just heard Bob Hope died.

And he said, no, he didn't die.

He's in the hospital.

So I said, well, I think I heard he died, but he's really old.

He's probably not coming out.

It doesn't sound good.

And he said, well, I don't know.

He said, you know, I met Bob Hope.

And I said, really?

He said, yeah.

He said, when I was in Vietnam, I went to a show and I personally met him and he helped me get through the war, Vietnam.

I said, that's pretty cool.

He said, matter of fact, I became a fan club member and I write letters to him.

No kidding.

And I said, really?

So now what happened is on public radio after Bob died, I hear his daughter's interview.

His daughter's got a book out about him.

And she told him in the hospital bed the story of two guys had a bus stop shelter saying you died.

And she said he laid in bed there laughing so hard he couldn't stand it.

And that's the story and I think it's true happening.

That is a

great

story.

You know, you saw us talk about dying in front of the fans, dying on stage.

So there it is written by a veteran in his club, fan club.

Fantastic.

Thank you so much, Richard.

That was

fantastic.

Have a

great day.

You too, buddy.

Uh, great stuff.

We have another call.

Yeah, once let's take let's take that call to That's hilarious Dave on the stream says Morgan Freeman.

Oh, that's good Clint Eastwood and Steve Martin.

He's got three and those are all Titans of Industry of the show biz industry.

Yeah, those would all be huge losses Morgan Freeman's got to be in his 80s.

I know Clint Eastwood's in his 90s But great answers.

Who do we

have?

the phone is just a little.

The phone's messing up?

Yeah.

Okay.

Caller, I think it was Susan.

Yeah, Susan.

Try us back if you would.

We're having some phone issues, but sorry about that.

All right, we got to play this song.

This is my buddy Mike Desitel, who is from Marinette.

He was an extra in my film, The Godfather of Green Bay.

He is a...

He's a titan of social media.

I will say that Mike is all over the place He worked here in Green Bay in the news game for years and years wrote for the Marinette Eagle Herald He's had a long career in media and TV and he's a really good dude and he wrote this song About me and it's a little weird to introduce a song about yourself, but it's all tongue-in-cheek And I think you guys will get a kick out of this.

What is this called Conrad?

Which one today?

Pete Schwab was nightlife.

Pete Schwab was nightlife.

Not

nightlife.

Well

We know what we're doing

here.

Alright, go ahead and play it.

We'll see you in a couple minutes.

That song actually goes on for 18 minutes.

It's like the Inna Gata De Vita.

Mike, thank you, buddy.

That was great.

Now, we found out, we'll have to get to this Tuesday, but there was another song.

He slowed it down.

It's one you can slow dance to.

A song about Peach Wabba that you can slow dance to, which I think is exactly what the world needs right now.

You know, Todd on the stream said, new theme.

I think we make that the

new theme.

Here's

the thing.

That was AI.

Yeah.

The

singer,

the music, everything.

All you have to do is type in a little description.

Is

that crazy?

And it just makes a song for you.

Thank you, Mike.

I wonder what he typed in.

That was fun.

Probably Peachwaba Peachwaba.

I'm surprised that I got the name

right.

It's a dessert for all.

Thank you, Mike.

That was fun.

And we'll do it.

Maybe Tuesday we'll have some more.

We can make that our question.

We can have people choose between the two different Peachwaba songs.

There we go.

Todd Michael says, yes, killer theme.

All right, Todd.

Mike, your work is getting noticed here.

Thank you, buddy.

All right, our question of the night is, what celebrity passing would make you the most sad, getting our social media responses up and running here?

Rich LeCasio says, Billy Joel?

Todd Michaels, David Letterman.

I'm with you, Todd.

Love, love DL.

Nick Wallander from Comedy City says that Larry McCarron or Bill Jarts, a couple of local heroes, absolutely.

Nikki Zerjav, our pal Nikki, who we miss very much, Tom Hanks.

The beloved Tom Hanks, that would be a big loss, too.

Daniel Wheeler, I love Daniel's texts.

He says, Kate McKinnon, because of the heartbreak it would cause to Conrad.

Not because she would be dead

at 30-something,

because of how it would affect Conrad.

Yeah.

Conrad's

response.

I'm appreciative of

that.

Daniel Wheeler, you're right about that.

All right, we'll read more of your texts as the show progresses.

Please be part of the show.

It's always more fun when you guys participate.

Coming up next, the Doctor's Inrecital in the House.

Thursday Night Light episode.

I am Pete Schwab.

Great to have you with me.

My weekend is starting tonight, folks.

So yours probably will start tomorrow.

Either way, we are in the home stretch.

Hanging out here, the weather's supposed to get a little better.

So hopefully everyone will have a great weekend on Memorial Day.

Exciting.

Tate Bunker is here.

He is a Milwaukee based director who will join the show in the second hour at 7.35.

We'll read some of your texts.

We've got...

Doctors and Recital in the studio, Kim Chefchick and Paul and Chris Piat.

How are you guys?

We're

doing

well.

We are good.

We are good.

So much fun.

We are so grateful to be back and we're wearing actually our other hat tonight with on stage for cancer, which is conflicting, right?

Because doctors and recital.

Yeah.

Like Dr. Jekyll, doctors and recital and then on stage for cancer hide.

Well, I thought.

So this does not that's not like the name of your you guys need like a just a threesome band name, you know But

is it

three beer, but you just mispronounced it free beer

It's free beer.

It's free.

Because if it's not free, nobody's going to come to listen to

us.

No,

but there's

three of us.

Oh, come on, Paul.

Three.

We meant to say three beer.

I'm pretty

sure a lot of people would show up.

It was threesome, too.

Right?

With the wrong idea, maybe.

Yeah,

exactly.

Show up with a bottle of, oh, if Kristen Lyrely was here, we know what she'd bring.

OK, that's inside joke.

They don't go over well on radio.

Either way, whatever you guys call yourselves or whatever your side hustles or hobbies are, I don't want to know.

I'm just glad to have you guys here.

We love being here.

And we

love when you let us talk about things that are important to us.

Yeah, well, and we were talking about the four of us getting tattoos.

We were

during maybe one visit and we could do that on the air.

Do

you need a tattoo artist?

I could do it.

I'd never done one before.

Oh, well,

you sold that.

What's

a better way to learn?

No, you can start on Pete.

I would say that by the time you get to me, it might be OK.

I

don't know what he's

doing.

This is the popcorn pick of the week, by the way.

Yes.

Do we hear the music and I just missed it?

It's time

for the night.

We recommend a movie that you'll either

enjoy or won't.

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

All right.

The doctors in recital, Kim Shevchick, Paul and Chris Piat are here and they.

They are beautiful singers.

We're going to talk to them a little bit about their movie preferences.

So thank you for agreeing to do the popcorn pick of the week.

Yes.

Even though, as I understand, the Peats just found out about this a couple of

minutes ago.

But they love surprises.

Oh,

yeah.

We love surprises.

We sure do.

All right.

So since there are three of you, we'll do this in order.

This will be very orderly.

Let's start with movies.

And then before we hear your beautiful voices, which I can't wait for.

What genre is typically your favorite?

Let's start with Kim.

I like historical fiction.

Oh, OK.

I specifically like a little bit of drama and a little bit of love story.

World War Two movies.

Those are my favorite.

Nice.

All right.

It depends on my mood.

I mean, the rom-com is always nice when

you

just want to kind of not think.

But I do like action.

You do?

I did not know this about her.

Wow.

You guys are.

We're besties, yeah.

Wow.

We don't watch movies

together.

Because neither of us are good at watching movies.

No.

No, we're both, like,

both adjusting during a movie.

They'll

be creating a nonprofit organization while they're watching a movie.

Yes, that's actually true.

That's type A movie watching.

What about you, Paul, what's your favorite

genre?

I don't know if I have a favorite, but I do enjoy the psychological thriller.

Ooh, okay.

I like something that...

Keeps you thinking about it for a day or two.

Yeah, you know,

have you ever seen house of games?

Joe Montaña That's kind of a con hustle.

Have you ever seen the sting?

Yes, Paul

Newman Robert Redford classic.

Yeah,

great stuff

Those are all outstanding genres.

How do you guys like to watch movies?

Let's start with Paul this time You like to go to the theater or watch him at home.

What's

your tactic?

I like snuggling up on the coach at home.

Okay

It was fun,

but can you can you watch a movie like that?

I feel like I'd fall asleep in about two seconds.

Oh At home

all the way she'll be sleeping right away

Well

at home because I can do things people in the

theater So while I

will multitask three movie I actually like going to the theater.

Yeah, I

mean I love the big screen.

I like the smell of the popcorn I

always get

popcorn.

I always get snacks.

I'm that person who's got the full

It

is tough because when you're at the theater, you don't look at your phone as much.

Hopefully not at all.

You've silenced it and that.

When my wife and I watch movies at home, one time we had one on.

We have a good-sized couch.

We were both kind of laying there, kind of cuddled up, watching a movie.

And I could tell she was asleep.

She's laying in front of me so I can't see her eyes.

But not a peep, the whole movie.

She fell asleep during the opening credits, wakes up during the closing credits, and says, so what happened?

Oh, man.

Oh, that's my favorite.

Nope.

Nope.

You get to

watch

it

again.

Exactly.

So

that happened with me and my husband.

We were watching Conclave.

He fell asleep at the beginning.

He wakes up towards the end.

He goes, what happened?

I said, they

picked a new

pope.

Yeah.

Oh, that's the way to go.

Did you hear when they picked the new pope, all the Cardinals were watching Conclave?

No

way.

It's where?

That was a real story.

Do you think they watched it and were like, oh, that's not how it happens?

Do you think they critiqued the?

Totally.

Well, apparently it was pretty

close to.

Are you Catholic

Paul?

Yes.

OK, 16 years in Catholic school.

Yes.

Now, first they picked a guy who was a mechanic.

So maybe they didn't know what they were doing and they went to the movie.

No,

I don't know.

Yeah.

All

right, let's keep this going all right favorite movie snack Kim we'll start here.

Well, okay.

I like traditional popcorn, but I like milk

duds

Your dentures love that you.

Oh, I

love that you can eat it and it takes like 20 minutes to disappear.

That's

the worst thing about this.

You are no

longer doing my tattoo.

He hates.

Yeah,

exactly.

Yeah,

sorry, you just lost that.

Conrad hates chewy goodness.

What about you?

Oh, that's

my answer.

Popcorn

and

milk duds.

No, okay now my wife likes popcorn and like bunch of crunch or chocolate, but the milk does isn't I don't even know what it's

chocolate and caramel

But is it chocolate or oh?

Yeah,

what would

it

be?

Look, I haven't had a milk dud since the 70s because I Kind of a contemporary guy.

That's one of my earliest memories is going to see Superman in the movie theater and having

nice Was that your first great movie?

It might have been my first movie.

It's

You better, Benji.

My first movie in the theater was Top Gun.

Oh!

No kidding.

Oh, you're a kid, Paul.

I am.

He is, baby.

He's the youngest.

No, not the one that just came out, Pete.

Yeah.

Yes, you're fourth.

What is your favorite snack, Paul?

Well, I do like the milk though, as well, but Raisinets.

Raisin' us?

Another popular one.

Absolutely.

Doctors in Recital, if that is your real name, are here in the studio.

Kim Chef Chick, Paul and Chris Piat, they're going to sing for us soon.

We're talking about movies right now and making the popcorn pick of the week as we do every Thursday night here at Nightlight.

So where do you go?

Let me ask you this.

You're at a theater and there's a bunch of young punks.

John running their traps.

What do you do?

You tell them to be quiet?

Do you get the theater people to do it?

Do you give them dirty looks?

I'm

a dirty looker.

I'm all over that.

She's a middle school teacher, so she's got this.

Oh, yeah.

Mama puts her foot down.

With the three of us in the theater together, Kim and I aren't even going to have to do anything.

We're just going to let her do the thing, and we're just going to keep watching the movie.

OK.

It's usually just a look.

You

can do it with a look.

But if I have to go over a look, I can do that.

Here's what I do.

I just say typically, I'll just say, shh.

Kind of because I feel like that's sort of not as invasive as, hey, come on.

or seriously, or this isn't your living room or something like that.

I've done that on occasion, but typically I just like to do a subtle shush,

right?

Is it

effective?

Does it work?

Sometimes, yeah.

It doesn't happen that often, but we have a theater in Marinette where sometimes kids just go there to hang out.

They're like, you know what?

I'd rather pay eight bucks and talk somewhere where there's sound and picture going on instead of in their cars or whatever.

So that drives me crazy, but I don't know.

What's the last movie you saw in the theater

warfare?

Really a deep movie a couple weeks ago.

It's a new movie about well about war Iraq the director is a guy who it was his platoon in Iraq and they came under heavy fire and I'll watch war movies.

I don't like to watch them, but this was I

really

love war I

think

it's the explosion and the dismemberment I

like

I would say the dismemberment is not a high point.

That whole band of brothers and that was

some of them are great movies.

There's no question about that.

I'm not but some of them like this was intense.

Yeah.

And they were like these guys in this unit were like kind of concussed and some of them were really injured.

It was so hard to watch and it may but you know what you left the theater saying

you know if you want to support troops don't send them where they don't have to be or only send them if they really have to you know what I mean like I think that's what the director was trying to say too but all right so where would you what kind of movie big marvel film franchise film like mission impossible eight opens this

week no I boy I boycotted Tom Cruise ever since the couch incident

oh you need to come back around Kim

no I refuse

Conrad

have removed.

Put a man on her.

Can we just talk about how he's sold his soul to the devil somehow to look the way he looks at his age?

It's just ridiculous.

He is a freak.

There's something wrong.

He's 82.

He's 83 or

something wrong.

He's 82.

Well, look, the guy has all these movie stars.

They have access to the best health stuff.

True.

The guy's got his quirks.

I don't disagree with you.

But I've said this before.

I think earlier in the week, I loved him in risky business and all the right moves.

And he did taps.

Then he went into the Scientology and danced on Oprah's couch.

But now he is one week back over.

He does not make a bad movie.

He is a perfectionist.

And we played, we had a clip of him.

It was a joke he played and a friend of his.

He's a pilot and he took this flight.

And there was another guy in the front seat and a friend of his in the back seat and a friend back in the back seat would not shut up.

So Tom Cruise took the flight up really high, really fast, forcing the friend to pass out.

But the best thing is him telling the story.

I think it was David Letterman or something.

He couldn't even catch his breath.

Like it was so diabolical.

He's laughing because his friend couldn't.

And he's like, he wasn't in any danger.

He kept insist.

I just think he seems like a interesting guy.

He's an interest.

Makes good

sense.

That's fair.

That's safe.

All right.

So, um, have you ever cried during a movie?

Paul, let's start with you.

Oh, absolutely.

Okay.

Do you know offhand what it was?

Oh, there's been multiple.

Okay.

Any, any good, like, you know, get on your desk movie.

Yeah.

At the end to save the professor or.

Oh, that's a great one.

Hope you know what I'm referring to.

Absolutely.

Braveheart, okay.

We were just like dumbfounded.

We couldn't believe what we had just watched.

Yeah, that's a great answer, Chris.

I can tell you the movie hands down that I cried the most.

I know where you're going with this.

Like

literally the entire movie was The

Shack.

The entire movie.

The Shack.

Oh

my gosh, it's

phenomenal.

The Shack.

It's like a spiritual religious type.

experience that this man has.

And it is pretty powerful.

Yeah.

Well,

and God is a

woman.

God is a woman.

Oh,

and you meet the Holy Spirit and they're all a different ethnicity.

Oh,

that's why it was so cool.

So

cool.

It's it's it's really, really good.

Do you think it's weird when people still say he with God?

Because I'm like, we don't know what

who knows.

You know, I don't

know.

Not to make this weird,

Kim.

Oh my gosh, yes, I've definitely cried at lots of movies.

I'm trying to think the last one.

You

know

anything where there's anything where there's a old person who you know like overcomes anything I the old people get me all the dog movies the art of racing in the rain that movie I

cry all right We're gonna do more we're gonna get the popcorn pick of the week when we come back We're gonna dry our eyes and we'll come back and we'll get each of their popcorn pick and then they are gonna sing folks You don't want to miss that it's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio

network

ever had.

I am Pete Schwabba, the kid Conrad Krieger is riding shotgun as usual.

Brian from Milwaukee said not the lube again, I roll.

Oh,

Kristen Lyrely has left a lasting legacy on the show.

Hey, this is fun, folks.

On stage for Cancer is here.

I was referring to you guys as the Doctors in Recital, which you are for part of the year.

We are for part of the year.

But we're going to talk about this great event after we get your popcorn pick of the week.

So Conrad, if we could have a drum roll, that would be outstanding.

Kim chef chick your popcorn pick of the week.

Well, I am a little bit of nostalgic with Forrest Gump.

Oh, it was my first date with my husband

I

still enjoy watching it.

Okay, and I've been to several of the places where it was filmed.

Yeah, do you still enjoy your husband?

Whenever we have a fight we just put in Forrest Gump.

That's a great one.

What about you Chris?

The American president

Oh, nice.

Look at

this.

Not a typical

tear-jerker, though.

I mean, there's some emotional stuff there.

There's some

emotional stuff.

Honestly, I don't know why.

I just said, did you want to be president?

Is that why?

I'd be so good.

Why not a middle school

teacher?

I'm fine with that.

What about you, Paul?

Well, sticking with the tear-jerker theme from Before the Break, a movie that I loved was I Am Sam, great music, wonderful acting.

I mean, it's a sad story, but it's definitely worth a

watch.

None of these have been picked yet as the popcorn pick of the week.

So I love all of those answers, you

guys.

Thank you.

Well, definitely that, but

unique.

I

heard unique.

That is unique.

All right.

On stage for cancer is this outstanding event you guys have.

It's coming up July 31st.

So it's a ways off, but people can start getting prepared, getting their tickets, that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

So right now you can get a table, a reserve table of eight.

So it's that Riverside Ballroom.

We have, um, we're going to have dinner and then we will entertain with a very amazing show that Chris is putting together.

and it is essentially what a lot of people are doing other than our sponsors are reserving a table in memory or in honor of a cancer thriver so for example I lost my mom to cancer in the last year so we are having a table that will be in honor of her and so

some of

our family will be at it so that's what we're we're encouraging people to do we're also gonna hopefully sell tickets and

hopefully have live stream as well.

We will have live stream

as well.

So even

if we sell out the event, cause you know, you can only fit so many people in, we'll have live stream tickets too.

So are you going to do another backstage thing like you did for Doctors and Results?

That was so fun when you were like.

Actually we

can because the night you're, you know, you're, are your Wednesday night.

Monday through Friday.

Yeah.

So Wednesday night, the night before we'll have rehearsal.

Totally in for that.

Yes.

That'd be awesome.

We have to do that.

That would be really fun.

Yeah, that is fun.

It's called a serenades for supper.

Yeah.

So you get food, you get drink, you get all that kind of stuff.

I assume with a nice ticket package.

Yep.

Okay.

We'll have an auction.

We'll have a silent auction.

We'll have a live auction.

We'll also have, in our live auction, we'll be auctioning off art, live art.

that is being painted during our numbers.

And then at intermission, we'll actually live auction off the art that Trisha Spice will be doing.

We have a wine and liquor poll.

We've got...

What is that exactly?

A wine and liquor poll?

Oh, sounds absurd.

Where's

Jackie?

Jackie, where are you?

You're in charge of that.

Basically,

pay some money.

You

get some corks, and then they draw your number,

and

then you take the wine or the... You get to

pick a bottle.

And it

could be a $100 bottle or it could be a $10 bottle.

Yeah.

Oh, what a jib.

If you get the $10 bottle... They're all going to be

very, very valuable, Pete.

I'm sure.

And probably come with

milk cups.

I didn't mean to denigrate.

Okay, you're

right.

Milk cups.

Tape to every bottle

individual tickets 62 50 dinner drinks silent auction live auction singing dancing and so much more.

What will you guys be doing?

Will you be performing there?

We

are.

Okay.

Kim is leading Dolly Parton's nine to five.

Oh, love it.

Paul is going to be singing James Taylor's How Sweet It Is.

And Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett.

Great tune.

Yep.

No.

I'm

excited.

I heard of you

first.

I heard

of you live.

You got a lot of time to practice, don't pull.

I

sent an email out if you didn't

read it.

And we do

have the Power Tool horns with us,

and they're incredibly

talented.

We've got all sorts of wonderful local musicians donating their time and talent as well.

So much fun.

Doors open at five, dinner at six, performances to follow.

So people are going to be dancing to those songs?

Or you have a separate DJ?

Or how does that work?

Yes.

So some of the numbers, there will be people in the show dancing.

And then there is one number where everyone is invited to dance along.

Oh, fun.

Do you guys need me to dance?

If you need me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not joking.

I'm a phenomenal dancer.

I'm

serious.

Well, are you going to do your show that night?

Probably as you come after your show.

What do you think

you could do your show live?

Yeah, we could we could we could take the show on the road We could do that.

I like it.

My nickname was growing up golden feet.

That's the kind of dancer I am

Okay, I need to explore this

Kim is looking like he might be serious, but there's no way he is

All

right,

how should we do this because I I want you guys

to do a couple tunes.

Can we have them play us to the break con?

And then we'll have more time.

Yeah, we have about a

minute.

Is there something you want to play just to get us to the news or intermission coming up here, folks?

On stage for cancer, Kim, Chef Chick, Paul, and Chris Piat are in the studio here.

They're going to sing something to take us to the break, and we'll have a little more time after, and they can sing something else too, right?

Oh, yeah.

Yes.

All right, whatever you want.

The fox went out on a chilly night Prayed for the moon to give him light For it many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town, oh, town, oh, town, oh Many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town, oh He ran till he came to the farmer's plant The ducks and the geese were kept there and he said a couple

my chin before I leave this town.

Pete Schwabber, Pete Schwabber!

Let's go back to Nightlight, folks.

That is my new theme song created by Mike DeSatell.

It's good.

It's AI.

It's Janon.

He just did AI, and this is what he says.

He says, I wrote the song for the most part, making sure to put your name in twice in a row, which makes it funny to

me.

Added

a few radio details.

Oh, next time you guys come back, if you could acousticaize that, that would be great.

Oh,

game

on.

Challenge

accepted.

I added a few radio details, then a skeleton outline of the movie, The Godfather of Green Bay, being sure to include the double negative detail.

That's, I...

I get heckled by Tony Goldman's character and I make fun of him for using a double negative.

And then Mike says, I ran that through AI and it spit out a pretty good set of lyrics.

I tweaked it a little bit and then sent it to another AI source for recording that AI re-tweaked my re-tweaking and came up with the song.

The music AI allows you to choose various genres.

Wow.

The effort, even though it was AI.

Thank you, Mike.

That was really fun.

I'm impressed.

I think that's pretty cool.

We're going to get a lot of mileage out of that.

I'm going to lose a lot of listeners over the next few months because we are playing the crap out of that thing.

It's catchy.

It's in my

head already.

It's in my

head.

I'm living rent free in Kim's head.

I love it.

On stage for cancer is your folks.

If you missed the last segment, we're talking about they made the popcorn pick of the week, which was fun.

We read some texts.

Our question of the night is, what celebrity passing would make you the most sad?

And that was inspired by George Wentz passing because he brought so much laughter to our lives.

And we will continue to read those texts as the show progresses.

But right now we have a little while longer here with our pals on stage for cancer, sometimes known as doctor's and recital, but you have this great event dependent, but you have this great.

event coming up serenades for supper and all the proceeds go to

I would assume fighting cancer.

Yeah.

So our cancer thrivers in our community that are either in the music industry, artists or people who are small business workers, employers.

This, this concept really arose from our, um, knowing people who just were in that area.

And when you get cancer and you have to fight cancer and you're ready to go to all your appointments and now you realize you can't do your side gigs and you don't have that traditional backup.

plan of, you know, the traditional family medical leave and those kind of things.

So we created this nonprofit to help those people out.

And because we're musicians and we're friends with many musicians in the community, we decided to put on event.

Last year had a great result at the Weiner.

This year we decided to do the dinner and a show and something a little bit.

Different but fun and we're excited.

I love it.

Chris has a great show of a lot of variety and Everything's tied to food or drink.

So it's pretty creative and you will never see another thing like it

It sounds like an extravaganza and I don't use that word lightly But it's more information go to onstage the number for cancer on stage for cancer.

Org Ticket packages dinner drinks silent auction live auction July 31st.

It sounds like a

And if you like what these guys do in here when they come on the show and how great they sound there's just more of that at this event And it's a it's a steal as far as I'm concerned goes to a good cause to

exactly And who doesn't want broasted chicken?

I mean sign me up,

right?

6250 for broasted chicken.

Where do I sign

and one of a

kind?

Can you guys sing something else for us?

I love when you guys

sing.

Sure.

Slow it down and get schmaltzy.

A little romance.

A little slow dance

music.

These two are gonna get romantic.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

Conrad, start the camera.

It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart.

Without saying a word, you can lie down.

There's a truth in-

What is

that song?

It's old.

I don't know who originally did it.

Allison Crouse and Union Station.

Oh, that totally sounds like Allison Crouse.

Wow, that's great.

Let's ask Mr. Google who originally did it.

Do you guys, like, what do you get really excited to play at an event like this?

Or even coming into a show like this?

Do you have a specific music that really gets you excited to sing?

I like singing with the band, which is why it's so exciting that the Power Tool horns are joining us because

then I get to

sing nine to five with that.

and it's way fun.

It's so much fun to have like horns blasting, like bam.

You sent me videos of you singing Mamma Mia and it was so fun.

Oh, the Mamma

Mia.

That was fun.

That was great.

That was fun because it was these, you know, fancy piano players playing Mamma

Mia and the

piano and then I come out wearing my ridiculous polyester

outfit.

It was fantastic.

Oh, you had a blast with it though.

You totally got into it.

Yeah,

that was actually really

fun.

Yeah.

So all right, so this is the kind of stuff they can hear there and some uptime you're gonna do Margaritaville at the event on the 31st Okay, and when can people start getting tickets for doctors and recitals?

Does that just sell out more and more every year?

Do you get more more people every year?

Yeah, so doctors and recitals my other nonprofit hat they We our show is in January, which is

why the two are very separate so I can still do them both.

So the end of January is our show.

We usually start selling tickets in October, but because all of our tickets are on sale through the Widener, it's basically when they tell us we

can

turn them on.

So we'll probably start selling tickets September, October.

This is at the Riverside Ballroom event.

This is at the Riverside Ballroom.

That'll be

really fun.

Yes,

we're very excited

about it.

What is the capacity there, is it?

Well our our seated tables we're gonna have just over 250 and

then

we're gonna have live stream so people can also stream for you know You don't get the chicken you don't get the live ambiance and those live painting and all the fun stuff But we'll have lots of ways for people to continue to enjoy our events

Yeah, you can make a hot pocket at home and just watch it.

You could sit on your couch

and fall asleep with

your wife.

That's

true.

But you won't have the opportunity to participate in the wine pool.

No.

No wine pool.

No.

You can't buy the painting.

I know.

No, that sounds like a great event.

Check it out, folks, onstageforcancer.org.

It's onstage, the number four, cancer.org.

Can we get one more song out of you guys before we move on here?

Sure.

What do you got for us?

Well, James Taylor.

Yeah,

whatever, whatever you guys never played a bad song.

When you say nothing

at all, Keith Whitley.

Keith Whitley.

That's the song?

That's who originally released it.

Oh yeah.

I

remember that

name, sure.

Beautiful

song.

In 1988, and then Allison Krauss and Union Station covered it six years later.

as a tribute to him on a tribute.

I love it.

If we just play two, if we run out of time, we'll just let them play us out, right?

We'll come back and read some texts.

And thank you guys for being here.

And if you finish before the break, that's fine too.

We can talk some more.

But it's on stage for Cancer, Kim Chef Chick, Paul and Chris Piat.

Great to have you guys here.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Can't you see the sunshine?

Can't you just feel the moonshine?

Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?

Yes, I'm going to Carolina in my mind.

Karen, she's a silver sun.

You best walk away and watch it shine.

watch her watch the morning come a silver tear appearing now

Sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine?

Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?

Yes, I'm going to Carolina in my mind.

Now, dark and silent late last night, I think I might have heard the highway call me.

See ya.

forgive.

It's a Thursday night edition of Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab, a great day to have you with me.

It's not like a phenomenon, I would say, but I love days when it gets warmer as the day goes on, or even at night.

I was out with my daughter last night just hitting some stores when I got back to Marinette, and it was warmer at night than it was during the day.

It doesn't happen that often.

Yeah, you know, it kind of felt like that today a little bit.

Yeah.

I mean, it's still a little chilly.

I'm wearing a sweatshirt and jeans and it's May like that's usually When I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt, you know,

yeah Yeah, exactly.

It's just a sign of hopefully good good weekend weather What celebrity passing would make you the most sad that is our question of the night here at nightlight Let's get through some text.

We're a little bit behind on social media Monica Hale says Trevor Noah Because he had a challenging upbringing and has endured a lot

but has used his fame to call attention to the struggles of those less fortunate and to advocate for human rights.

And he does it all while being funny.

I have to be honest, I don't know much about Trevor Noah.

I kind of like, I watched the Daily Show when it started, like back when Craig Kilburn hosted it.

And then John Stewart for a while, and then I just, I don't know, it's, I mean, it's still a good show.

I just don't, sometimes you just get sick of something, even though it's funny, well written.

And Trevor Noah was great, too.

It was one of those things where Stuart was kind of a hard host to replace because he has such avid fans.

But Trevor Noah stepped in and by all accounts was excellent.

Thank you, Monica.

Who is yours again, Conrad?

And I'm Sandler.

And I'm Sandler.

That's right.

And mine was Bruce Springsteen.

Okay.

Annie from Watertown.

Oh, Annie is not happy with us tonight.

She says Peach Shwaba.

Capital OMG.

What a horrid question.

Well, it's a little morbid.

Kind of.

But we're celebrating their lives by saying we don't want them to pass away, Annie.

We'd be sad.

So you see how I backed into that and made that a positive?

Annie says, really bad question.

This is a separate text.

Really bad question of the day.

Even if not a funeral day.

I don't know if I understand that part.

Maybe

we get it.

She does not like the question.

You know what they can't all be winners We can't bet a thousand Andy, but it's still nice to hear from you either way Anna for Madison.

She's in the 608 says hi Pete and Conrad the celebrity passing that would make me sad is Ringo star Yeah Well, there's two Beatles left actually but Paul McCartney and Ringo star That would leave one beetle and they're not gonna be around forever.

I think both those guys are in their 80s

So, but a great one.

Thank you, Anna.

Jim from Stoughton says, Bill Murray.

Yeah.

Such a funny dude.

Loved him in meatballs.

Loved him in meatballs.

Jim, he's great in everything.

Even when he's more of a serious, even if the role is more serious, Bill Murray is just a phenomenal actor.

And he's funny even when he's not trying to be because he's such a good actor.

He brings humor to roles that are more serious because he's Bill Murray.

Lost in translation.

He was great.

I mean, he's really good at everything, but that's one that, to me, took him to another level.

Susan, no, I'm sorry, Terry from... Where is Terry?

Is that her last name or is that the town?

That's her last name, correct?

Well, either way, Terry is texting us.

T-E-R-I.

She spells it like Terry Barr.

Terry Ryan?

Terry Ryan?

There is a Terry Ryan, a famous Terry Ryan, too.

She says Carol Burnett, another great one.

And Carol Burnett is getting up there too.

She's no spring chicken.

So I don't want, now I'm making it worse.

I'm saying, oh, she's really getting up there.

You're going to be sad very soon.

I don't mean to say that.

But Terry is in the 414 and she says Carol Burnett.

Thank you, Terry.

She's listening at WAUK.

A fine outfit.

Jameson from Pennsylvania.

He's in the 814.

He says, has to be Anthony Hopkins and musically Billy Joel.

Second Billy Joel, Rich Luccasio said Billy Joel, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a sad one.

But nobody's really going younger here.

I mean, older people are more likely to pass away, but I'm just saying.

Ed from Madison says Mel Brooks.

Wait a minute.

This is terrible, but I think Mel Brooks already passed away.

I'm going to the Google.

No, he is 98.

Wow.

That's a great one.

All right.

Well done.

I thought Mel Brooks had passed away.

Thank you, Ed.

Mel Brooks is a genius, comedic genius.

Brian from Milwaukee.

Oh, I already read that one.

That was lube-related.

We'll steer clear of that one.

Tom in West Alice says Patrick Stewart.

Okay, wow.

Really great variety here in these texts.

Love it.

Thank you, everybody, for your texts and calls.

Do we ever get the phone situation figured out, Conrad?

No.

Really?

Tyler from Wisconsin-Ravitz says Jerry Mathers as the beaver.

He did play the beaver, but is that I think that's That could be a detective question from a few days ago Thank You Tyler This is tomorrow is road trip day it is and we're not really gonna get to do anything about road trip because that would be a fun question

Yeah, I'm not making any road trips really this for this You know this Memorial Day weekend.

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere either.

I like a good road trip.

I've really

I hope I road trip up to Dork County soon.

All this talk that we've had about Dork County makes me want to go there.

What was it that put you over the top?

There was a film festival there recently.

There's an art fair there.

We had Shane

on.

It's not about any of the events or anything.

It's just getting up there, join a scenery, exploring something I didn't see last time.

Got you thinking about it.

Yeah.

That's a beautiful area.

I love it.

I have not been there.

We usually, for a while, we were going in the spring.

because, like, all of our spring breaks didn't align, so one year we went to Florida, but, like, Dork County is so cheap in the spring.

And we would go there.

It's phenomenal.

You just drive.

You know, it's not that far away.

Yeah.

Close beauty.

All right, my thanks to...

Cure for Cancer, also known as Doctors in Recital, after a very short news break here, where Civic Media's news team will keep you informed.

We are coming back with Milwaukee-based director, producer, cinematographer, and professor, Tate Bunker.

He has done some great work, and we're going to talk about it next.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

We have a show put together.

It is an original show.

It will not be live I had to take a night off for a to attend some friend stuff, which My weekend will be a little longer.

So I'm excited about that I'll see some friends and family this weekend, which will be fun But we do have a show we won't be live so there'll be no question of the night

But we've got a lot of fun stuff happening.

Emerson Layman will be here from WBAY.

He is one of the morning anchors there.

Always fun when Emerson comes in.

Director Michael Collins will be on the show talking about his film, Almost Sunrise, which is my classic movie pick of the week.

Just in time for Memorial Day and then the latest member of the WGBW Civic Media team, Eliza Cussin will be here.

And it's still a Bar Band Friday night.

Terry Barr, co-host of Maxingradia will be here bringing new, most excellent tunes and great conversation.

That's all coming up tomorrow night on Nightlight.

Hope you guys have a great weekend.

We do have some show left and a great guest.

I'm very excited to have this gentleman on the show.

He's an extremely talented cinematographer, director, producer.

He's Milwaukee based.

He also teaches film at UWM.

unless something happens since we last spoke.

I hope he still has that game.

But he joins us now over the stream here on Nightlight.

Tate Bunker, hey, buddy.

Hey, how's it going, Pete?

Good, how are

you?

How are you doing?

Good.

You can hear me?

I can hear you fine.

You sound great.

You look great.

You look like an actor.

And that's, you got that going for you, even though you're behind the camera.

I appreciate

it.

I

appreciate

it.

You got it.

So I've been spoken with you in a while.

I know I've interviewed you, I think, on PBS and maybe on...

passed on the radio.

I don't know if I've interviewed you on the radio, but you made this great film called The Field, and we talked about that on PBS.

I just was curious.

It's been a few years.

What happened with that?

And can people see that anywhere?

It was such a good film.

Oh, yeah.

No, you can still see it.

It's still streaming.

It did a big North American run.

But currently it's doing its international run.

And it's done really well.

It's been dubbed in various languages.

It was kind of fun

to

see it in German.

But you can still see it.

And you can find it online.

So it's just the field 2019.

But yeah, it's still running its course.

And also one thing.

to thank you for that show is how much it got picked up or syndicated on various other PBS shows.

And so that was really kind of a great way of great thing for the film.

So I really thank you for that.

Please, you're a great guest and it's a great movie.

So happy to do it.

And I would love to see more.

independent films made in Wisconsin.

I think there are those of us that make them here because we love the state and we live here or whatever, but it would be great if the incentives came back and we encouraged even more of this.

But I feel Tate like it has to start young.

Like you've got a young child, I've got kids, you've got to work that culture into them young.

And I would love to see us become more of a state like that.

So it's just a no brainer that we have incentives and encourage other artists to come here, you know.

Yeah, well the you know, they're making the push now and and I've in the past like maybe about 10 years ago worked with a lot of people even with the Zucker brothers in a way

To

try to kind of push another another push then and it you know, eventually nothing happened.

So I feel like the the people who are doing it now they really have a really good chance and yeah

they've done the best work so

far.

I hope so.

So I got off on a tangent there.

I want to keep the focus on the field because you worked with, you cast Veronica Cartwright.

All right, so you're a director, you're well respected, you're great at your craft, but it still must have been a little bit, not intimidating, but were you, what were you thinking going into that film with this woman who has been in the birds and alien and

You know, I think she's the last shot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, right, when Donald Sutherland?

Yeah.

So what was that like?

It was amazing.

I always keep thinking about that famous shot in the original Alien.

you know, where the thing comes out of the stomach.

The very next shot is her face, like with the blood splattered on it.

And she's just so good at kind of screaming and like even, you know, spit up the cherry pits and which is Eastwick.

And so she's just amazing.

So I was just really excited and happy.

But we had a lot of conversations prior on the phone.

And she was she was coming back from New York and was like, why should I go all the way back to LA?

and then come right back to Wisconsin.

So I'll just come early.

And so she was great on the phone and willing to accommodate.

And so I felt like, oh, I got really lucky, not only like a really legend, but also someone who I felt like I could really work with and we could really collaborate.

Yeah.

Was she hard to get the script to or was she hard to find and get her to commit to the project?

No, I had

For my previous film, sorry about that, my previous film, I had met a casting agent through the distributor of Tricost Pictures, and so I'd gone out to LA and kind of spent time with her.

Actually trying to do another film that I wanted to do it was more of a political narrative, but it just it was just too big and I'm a low budget filmmaker and and so I had to put it aside but it'd been a while I'd spent so much time trying to find money that I was like I need to make a movie and so I just with what funds I had or I'd already kind of was gearing up so I shifted to this other film which was the field so

It's a great film.

You got a great cast.

Your wife, Kara, is a great actor.

Kara Mulroney, she's in it.

She's like, I almost want to equate her to a young Veronica Cartwright in the sense that she had a great scream too during the film.

There's some great, some scary moments in it.

And let's talk about, Tate, like you talked about how you like to make independent films.

What's the minimum?

I mean, it has some fun with this.

What's the minimum amount you can raise to make a film that looks halfway decent?

Like you're a schooled guy, you know what you're doing, you've shot, you've directed.

So it's probably different for a guy like you, but like if someone came to you and said, I want to make a movie, how much do I need?

Yeah, so if you're just like saying, hey, I wrote this script and I just want to direct it and I need to hire the crew and put it all together.

I would say like minimum like bare minimum would be 250,000 if you wanted it to at least try to get you know some name in there and to have a real production value to it which is there's so many movies made today like

you know, unless, you know, you're doing something different, right?

Like you think of like 100 beavers or something like that, which, you know, that's a different process that's really worked out and it's been very successful.

So, but, you know, those are, you know, kind of unique films.

So, but the industry is pretty much expects you to keep a certain production value.

Absolutely.

What kind of movies do you like to eat?

Do you watch with a critical eye?

Can you enjoy a studio film to watch or do you prefer independent films?

Oh, I like independent films.

I, you know, I like really, um, I don't, I don't watch any of them, the kind of Marvel kind of stuff.

I, I, I think of those as kind of fast food, which can be fun,

you

know, but I'd like to get a nice good gourmet film.

And, um, so I, uh, you know, I,

My girls are now of age where I feel like I'm starting to actually watch movies again.

So that's a good window there I haven't watched.

So I have a lot of catching up to do and it's been really nice.

So I would say I'm a little bit behind the talent track.

My guest is Tate Bunker.

He is a Milwaukee based producer, director, cinematographer, and he is also a professor of film at EWM and a very talented guy.

So Tate, I want to ask you.

What is your first love?

Is it cinematography or is it directing or is it something else?

I'm a filmmaker and I kind of in a way like you asked if someone like has a budget and doesn't know that where I can make that film I can take 250,000 I can make it look like a million dollars because I kind of I'm a different type of filmmaker where my background is experimental film and so I do everything.

And so

I kind of

write it, produce it.

I don't want to produce it, but I sometimes have to.

But directing and shooting is really where I'm at.

But when I started, I just really wanted to make a movie.

I had a story that I really wanted to tell and I didn't know anybody.

And so it was like out in kind of the woods in Florida at the time.

And I was like, I found this super eight camera and started making films.

High school my friends thought was really silly, but I only shot it superate because I had no one else was gonna film it

And so

I kept filming it and then I got I finally when I finally got to go to film school People kept asking me hey like hey, will you shoot my film?

And then I didn't up shoot people asked me shooting features and it just I never really kind of I love doing it, but I just didn't think like oh I could I don't know I just didn't it didn't I just was more focused on making a movie and

so I don't

know if that's the director

But as I kept going, I realized that really at my heart, I'm a visual artist.

And so being a cinematographer and making the image, the image making of the movie, visual storytelling is really, really important to me.

And so that's why I felt like the field would be it was, yes, it's like a kind of a paranormal love story, but it's unique.

It's different.

It's like really pretty.

It's really a lovely look at which is kind of unique for a scary sort of movie, but it's I There is some scares in there, but I just love in a lot of my films.

I just like making people feel a bit uncomfortable a little edgy and not knowing what to do or expect and But all my films have a kind of art house sort of effect because I come from that Experimental background

and

I teach in an experimental film school But my newest film that I'm

currently in post-production is actually a real change.

I just felt like I had to kind of, or wanting to kind of reinvent myself.

And so I'm working on a documentary, a feature-length documentary.

Nice.

I'm excited to see that.

Do you...

Do you have influences like when it comes to, and I'm asking you about cinematography, just because the field, you said it looked pretty, it did look gorgeous.

I think you shot it in Manitowoc, the Manitowoc area on this great farm, and it just looks stunning.

Do you have cinematography influences?

Yeah, I mean, I have a ton of influences.

I would say the biggest influence for me would be that kind of new wave period that hit all the globe with the faster film speeds and smaller cameras.

And so that period to me is really exciting, but as much as I...

I love tons of filmmakers.

I always come back.

I'm at my heart.

I'm Stanley Kubrick.

He's my largest influence.

I can't seem to escape him in any way.

And just how powerful, like, every image he has and how well it's constructed.

Also, I'm a big fan of Andrei Tarkovsky.

And so watching his films are very visual and kind of, you know, when I watch them, you know, it's just those kind of old, foreign films are the ones that, you know,

Kira Sawa like watching those films were the ones that made me like oh, I want to I want to make movies and yeah, I immediately was always wanting I mean my first couple films to obviously like these Narratives that was influenced by Hollywood, but eventually I was like I really wanted I like these really weirder Forms of expression, but they're all my films are narrative and commercial.

Yeah, we have about a minute left.

Hey, what?

What's your favorite Kubrick film?

And did you like Eyes Wide

Shut?

No, I mean I did I did but there's parts of it that just felt like it wasn't finished like he

all of his

movies He makes huge decisions at the last second like he cut all the narration out of 2001 Space Odyssey So that you know, though that kind of moment didn't get to happen and I feel it felt like you know It just didn't feel like a hundred percent his but definitely there's scenes and and moments that are like without doubt.

Yeah

Listen buddy, this was fun.

I'd love to have you come back on another time.

I had all these questions about UWM too, but maybe next time you could come on and talk about what that film school is like and we can get a plug in for that.

But keep up the great work.

I can't wait to see what you do next and let's talk soon.

Thanks so much.

Yeah, thank you so much for

having me on.

Anytime.

That's Tate Bunker.

Check out the field, folks.

Go on Roku and just you can stream it.

He also made another film called Little Red, which is very creepy.

And Mark Metcalf from Animal House is in both of those films.

And he is also a Milwaukee actor.

And my pal Mark Borchart is in the field.

And Mark is a terrific guy, too.

So Milwaukee strong, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to come right back and close this thing down.

We've got a couple of texts we've got to read.

And then, oh, we got a.

We got a song to close the show that just makes me feel great.

That's coming up.

This is Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

M.P.

Schwabba, your host for this evening's broadcast, which is dwindling, winding down.

My weekend is about to start, Conrad.

You are not taking a day off tomorrow.

What does that mean?

You just sit here and you look over here like I'm here and you pretend to produce or what do you do?

Yeah, pretending to produce the whole time.

Now, I'm actually producing mine on the mayor tomorrow morning.

Oh, look at you.

Todd Michaels has the day off?

Yeah, well,

kind

of.

Do you think Todd's earned that?

I think he's well above deserved that.

Yes, he has.

I always haven't talked to him.

He said he hasn't taken a day off in whatever.

And I was like, you've got to be joking.

That's definitely a top line right there.

On the stream, Dave says James Spader would be a celebrity he would hate to see pass or would make him sad.

Yeah, that's an interesting one.

He's had a great career.

Susan from McFarland, who was trying to call earlier.

Sorry about the phones, Susan.

Conrad was talking to his grandmother long distance, and we couldn't take the call.

We couldn't take the call.

Susan says, hi, you guys.

I did try to call in earlier.

I would say that I agree about Bruce Springsteen, but I also would like to mention Willie Nelson.

Oh, that's, yeah, Willie Nelson.

That'll be a sad passing.

Susan says, because he's the last of the highwaymen, and he has done so much for the farmers with his farm aid, and it's going back 40 years.

No kidding.

That's a great one too, Susan.

She says, great music tonight, and I always enjoy listening to your movie, Pics of the Week.

I have learned so much from you.

Wow.

Thank you very much, Susan.

I really do appreciate you listening.

This is much more fun when there's listeners, folks, so you guys are a big part of the show.

Steady, eddy.

He's in the 608.

He sent a text message that I'm about to read on the radio.

Pete, in honor of David Letterman, here is my top 10 list.

Reduced to six because of time constraints.

Celebrities, I would miss and make me sad if they died tomorrow.

Drum roll, please.

Conrad, let's do that.

There we go.

I didn't even have to ask.

He was ready.

Number six, Dick Van Dyke.

He finally meets his maker at age 99, tripping over that stupid living room footstool like he did in the Dick Van Dyke show.

Number five, Bob Dylan.

He's still with us.

Wait, Dick Van Dyke is still with us.

Right?

Yeah, no, he's saying.

Did he die?

No.

Oh, okay.

He said he finally meets his maker at age 99.

I thought that meant he had, I thought maybe he said he had to add some inside info.

He's a connected guy.

Bob Dylan, he is still with us, but at almost 84, he's certainly knocking on Heaven's door.

Well done, steady Eddie.

Number four, Paul Simon, yeah.

The nearer his final destination, the more he's slip sliding away.

I see what you did there, buddy.

Jack Nicholson, your damn right God ordered the code red.

One of the movies I can never turn off, by the way.

Number two, James Taylor, going to Carolina one last time.

Steady Eddie, his first celebrity he would miss the most if he passed away.

Number one, Paul McCartney gets to the end of the long and winding road.

Steady Eddie, where in the shades emoji tonight?

P.S., tonight's question made me a little sad, Pete, and on the Christmas Eve of weeknights.

Thanks, Schwabba in all caps.

So, all right, a couple of our most faithful listeners, Conrad, are coming after me about the question.

You know, I was gonna say something, but...

Well, your job as a producer, buddy, is to make sure I don't make a mistake.

Well, you know,

I wanted... Don't you ever!

No.

I wanted to see you crash and burn.

All

right.

I knew something was up.

I think it's a fun question, and you're professing your love for these people by saying this stuff.

I mean, we're all... No one here gets out alive, so we're all... We're celebrating these people, and I think it's great.

So, great text tonight, everybody.

Very, lots of fun tonight.

Fun show.

Thank you to the, not the doctor's in recital, the cure for cancer.

On stage.

On stage for cancer.

Great stuff.

They are always fun.

And thank you to Tate Bunker as well.

Check out the field.

You can stream it.

It's a scary movie set on a farm in Wisconsin.

And who do we have?

Tuesday night, we've got Rob Martin.

He might be in studio.

Rob just texted me and said he might drive up from Milwaukee.

That's awesome to be here.

It's fantastic and Rob speaking of the Godfather of Green Bay Rob Played a hitman named Chuck Martinelli in the movie who plays my characters Well, I don't want to say anything you haven't seen the movie spoiler alert, but Rob was great He auditioned and we needed kind of a heavy and we had another guy audition who was too scary For the hitman role.

I know that sounds weird, but it was a comedy and Rob also had that kind of vibe

Where he kind of looked like a tough guy, but he was funnier too and he did a phenomenal job and he created a yacht rock band That he had to quit because of an injury in the yacht rock band has since moved to Las Vegas, but Rob is a great singer He's an extremely talented guy.

He might be here in person Tuesday, but it'll be on either way and our pal Rob Paragonian

We'll be on Tuesday.

That's our next live show, by the way, at 6.35.

So that'll be a fun show, too.

Monday, we are off.

It'll be a best of show, but please still tune in.

Well, Monday actually is a big comedian show, all your

buddies.

Mike

Mercury, Mike Segal, Bill Leff, and...

Jim Pardo.

Some good laughs on Monday.

That'll be great.

All right.

Thank you, everybody for listening.

Thank you for your text.

Have a great, safe Memorial Day weekend.

Conman, have a great, safe Memorial Day weekend.

No road trips.

Just chill.

And we're gonna close the show with one of my...

time favorites.

Have a great

weekend everybody.

Good night Wisconsin.

I want a speech if out of me

Tell them to unite for truth.

That's what Brian Boynton will

do.

Someone say my name?

Who are

you?

I'm Brian

Dennehy.

What?

No, not Brian Dennehy.

Think you got it

here.

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