Popcorn Pick of the Week with PBS (Hour 1)

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

Hey, welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

All right.

Let's do this.

Conrad, should we do this?

I think we should light it up Thursday style.

I think it needs to be done.

If we don't do it, who will?

It is Thursday night.

And this is Night Light.

We are broadcasting as Todd Michaels with those golden pipes just told you from downtown Green Bay.

Statewide great to have you with me no matter where you're joining us from and no matter how whether it's on the old-fashioned radio the civic media app Or on the stream There's no right or wrong way to do this whatever is convenient.

We you can stream us You can watch the radio folks.

How cool is that?

That's right radio hosts like myself can no longer just roll out of bed and put on a baseball cap now We are basically on TV

And we get many stream viewers, and it's great to have those viewers as well.

And it forces me to clean up a little bit, which is great.

So you can stream us on YouTube and Facebook and X, WGBW website, the WISS website.

There's all kinds of ways you can nightlight.

And if you're there, give us a like or a follow.

We always appreciate those.

But great to have you with me.

We got a great question tonight, a really fun show.

We're gonna announce or I'm gonna plug a new contest we have here at Civic Media that you'll want to hear all about if you haven't already But tonight we have a lot of fun at the popcorn pick of the week because it's Thursday.

What do we call

Thursday Conrad?

It is the Christmas Eve of weekdays.

Yeah, right, buddy

And we have to make the popcorn pick of the week movie buff and my friend

And PBS producer, Mary Pacorni-Donnellan joins us.

She will be making the popcorn pick of the week at 6.35.

And then our pal Norm Kepesky from Appleton Cigar swings by.

We're gonna make one last final push here for Smoke on the Fox, which happens June 2nd.

This is a great event sponsored by Appleton Cigar that...

A lot of the money goes to charity and it's also co-sponsored by Lion's Tail Brewing Company.

So a really fun event.

Their second annual, we'll talk with Norm.

We're going to do a quick hit at 705 for that.

Then at 720, very excited to have my guest tonight, Laura Enright is on the show.

She's an author who has written books, many different genres and styles.

She's got a couple of vampire books though that we're going to talk about tonight.

So a little vampire.

Talk at 720 to get your Thursday Rolling here at least Thursday night as we roll into the weekend if you haven't seen sinners yet, maybe this will inspire you But we'll talk to Laura.

She's been on the show once before after having written the book meet the parents to meet the parent story

which is fascinating as well.

She's a great writer.

She's here at 720.

So lots of great guests tonight on the show.

And I'm not even including, when I say guests, your fantastic texts.

We always love to get those when you answer our question of the night or just share your thoughts throughout the course of the show.

Always fun to have the listeners participate.

I said to Todd Michaels Conrad about two weeks ago, we were on the phone and I said, we need a fun, a fun listener name.

like something the listeners or the followers of the show can call themselves.

And since we deal with television and movies and music and comedy, but I thought, how about couch potatoes?

Potatoes.

I said it as a joke and Todd cracked up.

He goes, I love that.

So I've been, you know, debating going back and forth as to whether or not to actually make it or put it out there.

But it is at least funny couch potatoes.

Whatever it is, folks.

Embrace your inner couch potato.

You know, we are not meant to work in the farms and hunt food.

We were a thousand years ago, but now I think God wants us to sit back and be entertained and contribute to your communities and all that kind of stuff, but there's nothing wrong with watching a little color television every once in a while.

So looking forward to all that you guys bring to the show as well tonight.

Lots of fun.

We do have a new contest here at Civic Media.

You have to have the Civic Media app to play, just like all the contests we've done here, and they're so simple.

I mean, all you have to do is text a keyword.

Each hour, you have a chance to win.

And whatever Civic Media station you're listening to, whether it's on the app, well, it has to be on the app, you just text the keyword and you're eligible.

Listen throughout the day for your chances to be a winner at 7, 7 a.m., that is, 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.

for the statewide Scotty Summer text-to-win contest.

Conrad, you can't win this.

You do know that.

We go over this every time, and I feel

like I have

to remind you.

Yeah, all right.

Because I'm going to win it.

Listen

for your

chance to win, and Civic Media's latest statewide text-to-win contest, our Scotty Summer contest starts Monday, June 2.

So we're talking about it now, but you can't play it on Monday, folks.

But get your thumbs ready so you can text off the Civic Media app.

Just listen across the network at those times I just mentioned.

You have a chance to win $100 cash or a pair of Milwaukee Brewer's club level tickets each hour.

Each hour.

Our hourly entry qualifies you for one of two grand prize trips in the Scotty Summer at TextWide.

TextWide?

This is one of those days.

I'm having trouble spitting it

out.

I

haven't talked to anybody.

It's all right.

I've been like prepping the show and I've had scripts to write for PBS and polish those up because I got that coming up.

I literally have not talked to anybody all day.

So this is kind of me stretching

it, folks, so bear

with me.

But it is a statewide text-to-win contest.

The grand prizes are Wisconsin Summer Vacations.

You ready for this, Conrad?

In either Dork County or Baraboo.

Yeah, those are two great locations.

Look at Baraboo throwing its hat into the ring.

Beautiful area.

And we're even throwing in gas money to get you there You have four daily chances to enter beginning Monday, June 2nd 7 a.m 11 a.m 2 p.m And 4 p.m a text in the keyword after you get it Through the app and you will be all set to go.

So good luck everybody with the Wisconsin with the Scotty summer civic media contest And where do I start we got a lot to cover here.

So, okay We have to hey, you know, you know what I found in my car from two days ago

Lottery ticket

you ever buy a

lottery ticket forget about it.

No, I don't think so.

Do you play the lottery?

Not often.

I yeah, I've done the scratch offs.

Usually I do it right away It sounds obscene

But what is that?

What do you what do you win with a scratch?

It's like where you win like 20 bucks or something not win a million dollars

I won a hundred off one once

how much are

they?

I it was a Christmas gift like a stocking stuffer, and yeah, I want a hundred bucks off it

I Feel like if you're gonna spend a hundred bucks

Make the reward bigger

You know

less of a chance

it would have been cool to get a hundred thousand but I'll take a hundred thousand.

Yeah, I play when I think about it I don't really play that often and I always put the ticket in my car and I forget about it and I do check though like even though it's been a few days I'm like, oh, yeah, did I win millions?

Let me check.

I don't think I've ever even gotten one number like it makes you realize how

How impossible it is to win the lottery.

Yeah.

Honestly, God, there's six numbers.

Maybe I get one if I'm lucky.

And you don't win anything for getting one.

I don't know if you knew that.

I think you get it.

What is it?

It starts at like three, right?

Yeah.

Or is it like four?

If you win three, what do you get?

You get like your money back or

something like that.

Something like that, yeah.

That's so lame.

Whatever.

Hey, we got some text.

Yesterday, after the show, it ended.

Civic Media Zone, Corey Hartman.

Texted in he had a great text and last night there was a phenomenon With the textures.

I didn't even know this was a thing Maybe I heard it but people love the text The question last night was what is your what are your favorite burger toppings because it was national hamburger day and a lot of people said peanut butter Couple lunatics even said peanut butter with nuts crunchy peanut butter and burgers

And we had fun with it.

That's not something I don't think I would do, but there's another voucher here in the form of Corey Hartman who says, I once thought peanut butter on a burger was blasphemous.

I never thought it was blasphemous.

I just thought it didn't sound tasty.

But Corey says, then I tried it and there's no going back.

Then he put a Homer, I love that Homer.

meme he added there to our Homer's drooling about food.

Great stuff.

Thank you, Corey.

Well, we got a great question tonight, too, buddy.

I think we should get to it.

Let's talk about the question.

OK, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

OK, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

What is your favorite movie score?

We're talking score here folks.

You have a song.

That's fine.

You can share that But what is your favorite movie score I Think we should give a little demonstration here.

You got those babies lined up.

Well, which one do you want to play

here's my favorite Danny Elfman and this is what kind of Instigated this question.

It's Danny Elfman's birthday today and the movie up dropped in 2009 16 years ago, so

Up has a beautiful, let's hear some Up first from Michael Giacchini.

Beautiful.

Now he's one of the best composers for movies.

And that's a great one.

And I loved Up.

I liked the first 20 minutes of it more than I liked the whole movie though, I have to say.

It was so sweet watching how the couple got together, this great music.

You

know I when I was clipping this I watched like that little thing that they have in that video and it's like going through the whole story Yeah, I was like wow.

I haven't seen this movie in so long.

It's such a good movie.

Oh,

it's great and and I'm being I'm being overly critical because I did really like the movie but that first segment with it's just so beautiful Yeah, it's also Danny Elfman's birthday today.

I think he turns 71 Danny Elfman created such movie and TV scores as the Simpsons theme

And Midnight Run.

Midnight Run is my favorite movie score.

Let's hear a little Midnight Run, Conn.

Actually, should we do Simpsons first?

We can.

Yeah, let's do it.

Let's do Simpsons.

I wonder if he gets paid every time they run this.

That's a lot of money if he does.

I really don't know how it works with I would imagine he does Because every time they play your episode that you wrote as a writer You get a kickback, you know, you get residuals.

So

I

assume it's the same for Danny Elfman, but he's got Was part of every episode.

How many episodes do you think there are now?

Well, the show's been on for like 36 or 37 years.

So if he gets five cents even

for every episode since then.

And the guys loaded, actually met him at a party once.

He was a very soft-spoken guy.

We were just standing around the keg on this guy's deck.

This was probably 1997.

Very nice guy.

But my favorite, why did you want to play The Simpsons first, by the way?

I just like it.

Oh.

Okay, fine.

All right, here's Danny Elfman's Midnight Run score.

This just makes me happy.

My all-time favorite movies, too.

Let's let it play till it kicks in.

Give us just a little V.

We could just play this to the break.

Could we?

Yeah.

I like this as background music.

I wish this music followed me around in my everyday life.

Give us a little more volume

there.

All right.

So this is my favorite movie score, Midnight Run.

And I know a lot of people say Hoosiers, Rocky, Gladiator.

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Folks, there are no wrong answers.

Please let us know what your favorite movie score is at 855-752-4842-855-75CIVIC.

We will read your texts when we come back.

I've got social media text to read here.

It's a popcorn pick of the weeknight, folks.

It's Thursday.

Mary Picconi Donlin will be here.

She is a PBS producer, Madison-based, and a movie...

a movie buff.

So we'll do all that when we come back after this very short break, your text being read on the radio.

That's coming up.

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Pete Schwabba, great to have you with me.

It is the Christmas Eve of weeknights, Thursday, folks.

Hope you're having a great week.

A short week, more than likely, given the long week and last week.

Great to have you here at Nightlight Tonight.

I just, I had to text, thought Michael's gonna be on the show next week.

We're

gonna do

some paranormal talk, that'll be fun.

And I said, when he agreed to the time, I said, you rule.

And he said, I rock the docks, rule the pool, and shake the lakes.

Okay.

Very confident.

I've never heard any

of those.

I love those.

That's your morning show producer, mine and one of the mayor producer, Todd Michaels folks.

That'll be fun.

I always thought so much fun to talk about paranormal stuff with.

And I realized, do we have texts?

We gotta read our text counter.

Gotta keep after me, man.

I got so much going on here tonight.

We got a phone call to let's do the phone call.

Let's get

Ali

on

the line from the north

love hearing from Ali Ali.

How are you tonight?

My favorite score is the one from chariots of fire.

Oh, that's a good one

Yeah,

yeah, what was that called chariots of fire?

I mean, I'm just googling Ali I Think it's just called chariots of fire actually, but it's great.

That's like really inspiring

I love when people come up with stuff too, Ollie, that I kind of forgot about.

That's a great

one.

Yeah, that kind of oldie help.

I think it was by someone named Van Gellis.

Van Gellis or Van Gellis.

Yeah, I do remember that.

It got a lot of radio play too.

Great stuff.

Thank you.

It won an Academy Award or something too, didn't it?

I think you're right.

Boy, that's a great one.

Thanks so much, Ollie.

Appreciate the

call.

Okay,

thanks.

That's our pal, Ollie from the Northwoods.

Love to hear from Ollie.

Anna from Madison, she's in the 608 says, hi, Pete and Conrad.

My favorite movie score is the Godfather.

Well, you're a good company there.

That's a good one, Anna.

That might have won an Oscar too.

I can't even, I'm not even gonna have time to Google all these because most great scores are in that conversation.

Thank you, Anna.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says, the score is nine to five.

Pete's peeps over the Conrad commandos.

You know, I made an underwear change recently, not meaning I changed my underwear, but I went with a whole different style.

We got to have a discussion about that one of these nights, because I think we did an underwear question at some point like a year ago,

didn't we?

Yeah, we did.

But do you remember what the question was?

I don't remember completely what it was.

All right,

we'll find

it.

We gotta do something.

But Tyler's text commandos made me think of that.

Thank you, Tyler.

Nine to five.

That's a good one.

Barb from Waukesha says, no Brewers game, but the Packers should be very interesting.

Pacers.

Pacers.

Pacers game.

They face it.

Oh, OK.

That's right.

They're up 3-1 against the Knicks.

And a lot of people are rooting against the Pacers.

Yeah,

I mean

at least a lot of people in my circles.

I feel like the big bad nicks, you know People should be rooting for them to lose because it's New York

And you know if the Pacers do go it's gonna be two small market teams against each other in the finals and the

NBA probably hates that right?

Probably I feel like they hate it when the Bucks won too.

Who's the other team?

So it'd be okay.

See the Thunder.

Oh, right,

right.

Okay.

Sure.

All right, Barb

We're cheering for who you cheer for.

Thank you for the text.

Barb's in the 262.

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

Mine is the Wizard of Oz.

Excellent score, excellent text, Sherry.

You never disappoint.

Thank you, my friend.

Steve from Florida, he's in the 9-2-0, but he's in Florida.

Conrad, your dad pulls that off somehow.

Yes, he does.

He says, Pete and Conrad, FYI, if you get the Powerball on the lottery, you win $4.

double the money on a $2 bet.

That doesn't really get my motor running.

But I do appreciate the information.

I didn't know that.

I knew it was something though.

Steve also says, FYI, Pete, Paula and I tried a burger with peanut butter for dinner tonight and it wasn't too bad.

A brave new world.

Your parents are adventurous.

Conrad, that's fantastic.

I wish I could have been there to try it with

them.

Oh my God, this is funny.

Okay, this happens all the time.

I've done this.

Barb just texted back.

Her initial text was, no Brewer's game, but the Pacers game should be very entertaining.

And I always, you know, I thought that was meant for us because I always encouraged people to text their thoughts throughout the course of the show.

Barb sent another text saying, LOL, that was meant for my son.

She probably texted her son what her favorite movie score was.

I'm sure he was happy to get that.

I don't want to get a text from him.

Exactly.

No

matter what it's about.

So, social media, Mike Destatell said 25 or six to four.

Love the song.

I don't know.

I'm trying to figure out context there, Mike.

But it's great to hear from Mike either way.

Nick Wallander says, this might sound random, but I think Little Miss Sunshine had a great score.

It did.

Or inception, he says.

I don't remember inception score.

Thank you, Nick.

Nick's texts are great.

Nick was here a week ago doing.

Great improv games.

Oh, yeah, two

weeks ago.

Yeah, yeah with Scott

two weeks ago

Yeah, it was a lot of fun great guy check out comedy city folks if you haven't right here in Depeer Northeast, Wisconsin Good laughs Monica Hale says broken flowers a lot of really cool Ethiopian jazz I'm ashamed to say I've never seen broken flowers.

It's a Jim Jarmusch film But great text.

Thank you Monica Ethiopian jazz as a score

That's pretty cool.

Uh, some stream tech.

Oh, Nick again on the stream, he says, Oh, up is a good choice.

It might be Pixar's best film overall too.

Boy, that would spark a great discussion

because I

know he would get pushed back on that and he'd probably have a lot of people that agree with him.

Thank you, Nick.

Nick says about 790 episodes of The Simpsons.

Look at this guy.

He's an encyclopedia.

Yeah.

They might hit a thousand.

Like, that show's not going away anytime soon.

Oh, no.

It still gets ratings, and it's expensive.

Like, animated shows are expensive to make.

Although you don't have Ted Danson type or Jerry Seinfeld type salaries, you're still paying your voiceover actress.

I mean, I would love to know how much one of those episodes cost to make, but Nick says 790 of them have happened.

Paula.

Conrad's mom also.

Boy, your folks are texting, they're texting on the stream.

Keep it us busy.

Yeah.

Get my steps in here between your parents' social media platforms.

Paula says, Skyfall by Adele for James Bond.

Ooh, that's interesting.

That's a great one.

All right, keep those texts coming, folks.

What is your favorite movie score?

Score.

That's the music composed for background and mood and all that kind of stuff.

Hey, we're coming right back for the popcorn pick of the week.

It's Peach Waba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's time for the nightlight popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't Here's your host Pete Schwabba

Welcome back to nightlight ladies and gentlemen Great to have you with me on this Thursday night Where we all come together and talk about the things in life that make us happy

And tonight, in particular, it's movie scores.

Share with us what your favorite is.

That's our question of the night.

What is your favorite movie score?

And yes, it is the popcorn pick of the week, one of my favorite nights, easily top five.

every week we do it here.

And joining me tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week here at Nightlight is a good friend of mine and someone I've worked with for years at PBS.

She is a producer of many shows, many award-winning shows on PBS.

And she joins us now over the stream, Mary Bacourny-Thomlin.

Hey, Mary.

Hey, how are you doing, my friend?

Doing very well.

I want to share this story before we get started, probably about four years into the director's cut, my director's cut.

Rain, I guess you'd say when I took over after Charles Monroe Cain hosted you and I found out we have a connection in tiny three lakes, Wisconsin.

Please elaborate

It was crazy.

I was talking that I was going to go up north to meet my My sister-in-law is part of this family and and by the way, it's I don't even know if you know him It's called the Kelly family and you just freaked out they go the Kelly family

Who are you talking about, you know?

And anyway, we realized that you're, is it your mother?

And then the matriarch, we're like...

Best friends, Mary and Kelly.

Yeah,

Mary and Kelly, the matriarch who passed away a few years ago and my grandmother, sis Schwabba were like besties for their whole life and they lived near each other in Chicago and they both ended up with cottages up in Three Lakes.

So when you said the Kelly family, I don't even know.

I probably just said like, I wouldn't happen to be this Kelly family.

You said, yeah, it is.

So we had so much fun hanging out with them in Three Lakes and just, you know,

water skiing, swimming, playing softball, all kinds of fun stuff.

They're a great family.

And so your sister married well.

You must be happy about that.

It's always nice to go up there and visit, you know, just like, I'm just stopping by for the weekend.

I hope that's okay.

Mind if I jump on the pontoon?

That's fantastic.

Well, you're doing okay too, my friend.

And it's great to have you here.

Thank you for doing this.

I know how busy you are, but I also know you like movies.

So that's exciting

too.

I do, I do.

Um, so let's jump right in.

All right.

So this is called the popcorn pick of the week and I became fascinated Mary with popcorn, uh, several months ago and we came up with this piece and why, you know, I did all this research about why it became America's favorite, uh, movie snack and read all the stuff about how during the depression it was cheap.

And they would pop the popcorn outside.

And then it became a staple.

People would hear the popcorn and they'd smell the popcorn.

It just became a perfect complement to movies.

And it's probably by and large people's favorite snack.

But what is your favorite snack when you watch a movie?

I don't know if I have one.

I mean, again, popcorn is probably an easy one to go to.

Anymore, I love that the modern theaters, well, some of them offered the option of food, which is great.

And I could do dinner in a movie.

maybe a beer or something while I'm watching a movie.

Love that.

I mean, I've not been opposed to like sneaking in candy in a movie if I have to.

Right.

For my kids, you know, when they're younger.

Again, then popcorn got to be this weird thing with all this like saturated butter on it.

Yep.

But it makes me so good.

But at home, yeah, I'd probably just do some like salty chips or popcorn or something like that.

So nothing completely original.

I'm the same way.

And as far as like sneaking in snacks, we do that too.

And we sneak in like, I don't want movie theater soda.

Like if there's like a craft, a craft soda with real sugar, maybe I would do that.

But now my wife and I sneak in blue moon non-alcoholic beer.

We don't

really drink.

But it's like you're sitting there in the movie theater and it's a quiet moment and I'll hear.

And it's like, hun, wait till there's at least a car chase

or

something, you know.

Um, I know, but it's great.

And, and do you do the popcorn?

Do you like, if you go to the movie, you'll do chips over popcorn?

I rarely, I mean, I seriously, unless I go there to get like dinner and, and food like that, I really don't order popcorn that often.

So I do have a friend of mine that.

orders popcorn every time.

But he's kind of fanatic is like, you can't put your hand in his popcorn bowl.

So you get your own if you're going to have any, because it's just it's just not sanitary.

I kind of get that.

It's

like, I know I get it too.

And we have like in Marinette, we have this thing where if you you can buy a bucket, and then you anytime you bring the bucket in, you get they'll refill it.

But I feel like that is so degrading, making people carry in a bucket.

feeling like a bunch of Oinkers and we want our free popcorn.

It's so demoralizing to me.

And where do you keep that bucket when you're at home?

Yeah, exactly.

Hey, honey, grab the bucket.

We're going to the

movie.

Right.

I eat it.

I use it for cereal when I'm at home.

So how do you like to watch movies, Mary?

Do you like to go to the theater or watch them at home?

I

usually watch them at home, especially as I get older.

So I was just thinking about this, talking to you.

I really enjoyed the modern conveniences now of being able to go online, pick my seat, and knowing that I can have an aisle or not, because just before, you know, I've been around for a while, it was always the risk of like going into a popular movie and like going, getting your tickets and you walk and like going, oh my God, am I going to be able to sit, I don't have to sit in the middle?

I mean, I

still have this flashback of just like traumatizing of going to the movie seven.

And

we went in

and it was packed and there were

I was going in with my boyfriend at the time and my sister, and there were three seats scattered all over.

So you had to sit by strangers.

And again, watching a movie like seven, you kind of want to have someone, you know, save by your side.

So now I've enjoyed going to the movie now more because I can pick my seat, but I probably still watch 90 percent of my films at home.

You know, it's interesting.

There's this big push to get people back to the theater and I'm kind of part of it.

I like going to the theater, but I love that we have the option at home.

I probably watch more movies at home, like if they're old film noir or classics or whatever, but I love going to the theater.

Unfortunately, we don't have the kind of theater where you can pick your own seats like that.

That's like a gourmet movie experience, right?

You don't have to rush in, your seats, they're waiting for you and they're usually really comfortable.

I was at Long Legs last fall.

I'm the only one in the theater.

Two people come in.

They sit right behind me for this.

What is that?

It's like, it's like antisocial behavior.

I mean, what on earth?

I just, it's a creepy movie to begin with.

Don't sit right behind me.

And I moved.

I'm like, and I gave him, I gave him a look and I moved, made a big deal about it.

It's just like, what's wrong with you?

You know.

That is basically etiquette.

Come on.

I think so too.

So what are your favorite type of movies, Mary?

Like, what genre do you like the most?

So it switched.

When I was younger, I would go for the epics.

I would sit there and watch Gone with the Wind, I'd watch Gandhi, Lord of the Rings, all those.

You know, Lawrence of Arabia was a bit much.

But as I went on in the night, now up by Taste of Change, where I never used to like horror, but my husband's a big fan of horror.

Oh,

wow.

I've actually really come to appreciate horror, thriller, action.

I guess just a movie.

If a movie is smart and surprising.

Just blows my mind.

I just love it rom-coms.

I'll do every once in a while, but it's really hard to find a good comedy It's really hard to find a good comedy and so when I do it's usually it's on rotation I'll just watch it like just like stowed away and then I'll go back to like trying to share movies That I grew up with with our kids to see if they still hold up, you know, like breakfast club holds up pretty in pink It's on the verge, you know things like that

I'd say for my most part right now, it's gonna be horror thriller.

Yeah, nice I'm trying to get like I like the horror films that aren't gory or like I've heard this this Movie what is it final destination or whatever that's

out

right now that they've invented creative ways to make people die I'm not really into that, but I don't mind being scared a little bit All right, let me ask you this when you're in a theater and people are loud

How do you respond to that?

Do you shush him, give him a look, throw hands right away and go fist to cuffs or what do you do, Mer?

I do probably the casual over like a Seinfeld look, you know, like over the shoulder once and then further around cranking it.

Try that.

Otherwise, I don't know, there's not much you can do.

I'm not

gonna really go fist to cuffs over, but if I can move, I'd move probably.

I am with you 100%.

I don't like to go for the violence right away.

And I, you know, I'm a grown man now.

I'm not going to do that, but I do give the look.

My guest is Mary Picorny-Donald.

She is a producer at PBS Wisconsin and has done some amazing work there.

And I've enjoyed working with her also over the last number of years.

She's making the popcorn pick of the week.

We are moments away.

Mary, have you ever cried during a movie?

Oh my God, too many times.

I mean, someone was just talking about soundtracks.

up.

I bawled within the first five minutes of that movie.

Are you kidding me?

You're killing me here.

It's terrible.

Did you, to me, I thought the first part of that movie was the best part, like when they showed

how

the courtship and all that kind of stuff, it was so great.

But I've cried like during terms of endearment, like when I was in college and I was like, you know, even more guy than like, and I found myself like, whether it was, it was almost embarrassing.

But I love when a movie can take you there when you're not, when you're not expecting it.

Yes, I do.

I do love that too, especially as a parent, you know, is that there's something very pointed about a child or something like that, like, or something that you're just relating to.

But

I will throw

in a movie because I'm like, I need to cry.

So now that I know that, in terms of endearment, like, I need to cry every soon.

I'm going to throw that puppy in because I will cry every single time.

But have you seen it already?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, OK.

I watched that movie probably 20 times and I'll still cry.

I don't even know why I had it on in my dorm room.

I heard it

was a great

movie.

I like Nicholson.

I don't know what it was, but I haven't seen it since.

And I wondered if it would hold up and still make me ball.

I

think it would.

I think it would.

Because the acting was so strong in that.

Yeah.

Oh, it's just a great movie.

Nick on the stream says, sitting near people in an empty theater is like choosing the urinal directly adjacent to someone in an empty restroom.

I'm so glad Nick made that correlation, because I did think of that, because that's happened to me a number of times too.

I wasn't going to bring that up with you, Mary.

There might be something about you, Pete, that's like bringing this attention.

I don't know.

Like the cut of my jib from the back?

What?

What am I doing?

What kind of vibe am I

putting out there in men's rooms?

I hope nothing.

That's something you have to think about.

All right.

I think we are ready, ladies and gentlemen, to get Mary Picconi, Donalyn's popcorn pick of the week.

Conrad, if you please.

It's the nightlight popcorn pick of the week this week.

It's Mary Piccordi Donlan from PBS Wisconsin mayor your popcorn pick

I Am picking a movie that I just saw this last week and it's the strongest movie I've seen in quite a long time.

I'm going to recommend sinners.

Yeah, I right there

nice

Yeah,

I love that pick that is a fantastic pick you text me

Like we

just moved me so much like have you seen this movie?

It is insane.

It's so great.

I'm so glad you saw that.

Go ahead.

And I've been listening to the like the soundtrack like virtually every day just from beginning to end because the music made that the acting was great.

It was just a great, great take on a movie.

And yeah, just someone else was talking was they're just saying about Ethiopian jazz.

This was just interesting.

Bayou Jazz Irish soundtrack that just made the movie explode.

I highly recommend

it.

You know what's so great?

It's funny you say that because the jazz in the movie and some of the blues

I don't like it typically in movies when they take a big chunk out of the movie to play a song or have someone sing a song or whatever.

There was Conrad's favorite movie, The Fall Guy, last spring.

I don't know if you saw that, but The Star of the Film takes five minutes out to sing a karaoke tune.

And I'm like, what?

It was just such an odd choice, but Sinners, the music was so good.

Uh, I could not agree more with you.

Maybe we'll talk about that, uh, film for another minute or two.

We've got a few more minutes here with our guest, Mary Picconi down.

Then we're going to do a very short break.

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1996?

But it's like the only Oasis song.

Like, they're a great band.

But, I don't know, it's the only song I listen to.

So, big

whip.

Alright, welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

This is Pete Schwabba.

We are doing the Popcorn Pick of the Week.

We just did it, actually.

Mary Picconi Donlin, my guest right now, who made the pick, picked Sinners.

And I could not agree more.

Mary, such a great...

Film in in what I love about it is that it's not a franchise film.

It's not a Marvel film They just crushed it in every aspect of filmmaking acting is excellent the music the costumes It's a period piece when I first read that Michael B. Jordan was playing twins I usually don't like that gimmick now.

I totally get it and I loved it So that's a fantastic pick

Thank you.

Yeah, I went into it knowing just very little about it.

My daughter had seen it.

My husband had read all about it.

And I'm like, all right, sure.

I'll just give it a try.

And just like you said, I love that it's a standalone period piece.

And it isn't like a sequel.

It's just a very smart, well-done movie.

And I always applaud that.

Yeah, same.

And for those of you listening who haven't seen Sinners yet, I think Mary and I would both advise.

see the movie, stay through the credits.

You cannot leave.

A

very pivotal scene happens at the end of the credits, and I'm surprised they did that, but you know what?

I like the movie a lot.

After that scene, I love the movie.

I love them jumping forward in time a little bit, right?

Yeah, I know exactly but I was like I was lucky that I was getting up and slowly moving and all of a sudden it came on and I I was like one standing the other lights already up and people were walking out and they came back So I think luckily about two-thirds of the audience got to see that It's one of those things that I think I texted you about as well that irritates me a little bit I know Marvel movies always did that, you know after the long credits there's like things to set up the next one You know sometimes it's like

You said like when you saw like a lot of people had left and they missed it.

So which is it's a great point for people who are going to watch.

Yeah, terrible.

Um, all right.

So you are one of the busiest people I know.

I've enjoyed working with you for years now on director's cut.

And when I write and introduce all the POV and independent lens films, what else are you working about?

Or what could you direct people to that are listening to some of the work you've done on PBS?

Anything coming up or that

they can access from the

past?

Um, I'm working on some.

Wisconsin life stories that are coming up for the next season.

For some of you in the audience who might know, Jerry Abbs is a historian, storyteller, he's done several for us and I just did a

program on Jerry apps meet me at the fair about the history of county fairs.

And one before that was about cookbook like based on this mother's recipe.

So I've done a lot of that.

Otherwise, I'm working on one.

We're still like in the process of doing research unit, but there's always good stuff on PBS Wisconsin.

So, you know, it was great, great independent films, just great series.

So please, if you guys tune in.

Yeah, keep up the great work.

And I will see you Tuesday, my friend.

I will see you too.

Miss you.

I'll see you then.

All

right, you too.

That's Mary Picconi, Don Lin making the popcorn pick of the week.

Check out all of her work and the great work being done at PBS Wisconsin.

Good stuff.

So we've got some texts here.

Our question of the night is what is the best or what is your favorite movie score?

That's all subjective.

And you know what?

I wish Nick, I almost wish I hadn't acknowledged his text so that next time I saw Nick somewhere, I could just sidle up right next to him at the urinal.

I

truly, I was not gonna

make that joke while Mary was on, but that has happened to me so many times.

And I mean, not like a weekly thing, but you know.

What's worse?

What?

Having that happen to you or having someone sit right in front of you at the movie theater with a whole open theater.

Well, I probably at a scary movie like she mentioned seven I mentioned long legs probably in a movie theater because I'm like are they gonna kill me?

It's just like some kind of weird fetish thing where they want to go see a horror film and off somebody like I'm used to standing next to guys in urinals even though I think it's weird whoever invented that system It's like what are we animals?

Yeah, it's just part of our society now, but that's kind of strange.

I

All right, so Patrick from the 608 says, no major awards, but the Breakfast Club had some very choice score music.

I'm the dude, the reggae, dream montage, love theme.

Of course, don't you forget about me.

Yeah, that's a great one.

And Mary just said the Breakfast Club totally holds up.

I gotta give that a rewatch.

Steve, I know your dad, Conrad, we've been doing this long enough that I know your dad loves the Rocky movie.

Oh yeah.

As do I and it's original score music.

That's easily one of the best scores of all time and gonna fly now as a song But I think it falls into that score category too because I think bill county the composer Created the song as well mark from prairie to sax says I always appreciated the music played in the TV series Chuck I Don't know that show,

you know, so Mary before she left.

She said any Tarantino movie has a great soundtrack

soundtrack.

Yes, no question about that

Yeah, for sure stuck in the middle with you and his first film Awesome stuff daddio from Windsor love that name love the name daddio and love Windsor Is her Windsor, Wisconsin all I know is Windsor, Canada

Well to take go to the

Google.

I'm sure it's a Wisconsin.

He's got a 608 He says I love James Bond.

I love the James Bond casino Royale score Chris Cornell sings the opening song totally rocks

I kind of forgot about that.

I can't place it.

So, Winsor is right below Madison.

Right above Madison, right below DeForest.

It's a lovely name.

As is Dadio.

Thank you, Dadio.

Dennis from Milwaukee says Shaft.

Oh, that's a great one.

How can I forget Shaft?

We have that, don't we?

I

don't know

if you kept it, but I know we've cut it before.

I'll look during the break and see if I can.

I kind of have to be remembered.

like reminded what that it'll come to

you.

It's it's brilliant.

Nick Wallander also says inception was Hans Zimmer, some foghorn action and the use of audio illusions that sound like the music is getting continuously higher pitched.

It's called a shepherd tone.

Christopher Nolan likes those in his movies.

Wow.

Nick's on it tonight.

And this is your favorite score.

It is.

It is.

I love the I love the films and

the music to John Williams.

It

is

he's

maybe the greatest all time.

Yes, he's done Harry Potter and Star Wars too.

This is awesome.

All right, fantastic stuff.

When we come back, our pal Norm Kepesky will be here from Appleton Cigar.

We're going to make one more push and hopefully get some of you guys out to the big event, Smoke on the Fox.

That's all coming up after intermission.

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