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Vampires and Game Shows(Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Mon Jun 2, 2025
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Oh, happy Monday, everybody.
I am so glad the weekend is over and it is finally Monday.
So I have a place to go and a place to be and stuff to talk about.
I don't really talk about anything that exciting over the weekend, other than the weather and what to do.
what movie to see, what to eat tonight, folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, we get to get together as a group and talk about movies and TV and comedy and music and we're gonna do it all tonight.
And bar soap, that's on the agenda.
Conrad, did you get your order in for Sidney Sweeney Bath, what is it, Bliss, Bathful Bliss?
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And I think that's great stuff.
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about a lot of stuff tonight, folks.
Got a great show for you tonight, and great to have you here.
If you're watching on the stream, Conrad, how can they watch the radio?
Give us a like, give us a follow.
I think it's our friend, Todd Alba.
that coined the phrase, and Aaron Zomers is here tonight helping out.
Aaron, tip of the hat, how are you?
Yeah, I always appreciate, Zomers is great, because he's always here when I come down to do the show in Madison.
He gets me set up, or Chris Casper, but tip of my hat to everybody.
Corey, Aaron, Zomers, Casper, Sage, everybody here that helps out and lets me do my show here.
when I have to be in town for other stuff or civic media stuff or PBS.
It's great to, uh, we are coming live from, uh, Madison tonight, folks.
That's where we're at.
Overlooking beautiful state street on a gorgeous night in Madison.
Aaron, what do you think it is like 80 out?
It's hot.
Is it?
I haven't been outside
wasn't as hot earlier.
Yeah.
It's, uh, I mean, it's probably cooled off a little bit now, but it's so, this is so Wisconsin.
free right now.
Yeah.
That's what it says.
Conrad, let's get it.
Let's get a temperature check.
one at the ready and you're mailing it in on your five day forecast.
82 in Green Bay
82 in Green Bay.
So they're a one degree warmer.
But Conrad, you got the shorts on and the short sleeves.
You're looking good, bud.
It's another pantless night for Conrad
Pete's out of the, uh, when Pete's out of the studio doing the show for Madison.
Uh, Zomers is nice enough to wear pants when I'm here.
So I appreciate that, Aaron.
Thank you very much.
We'll see.
He's wearing it because you're gone.
I'm wearing it because you're here.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But you, you know, you've been here all day.
So Conrad, like he goes in and I think from like two o'clock on, you're like the only guy there, Conrad.
Place clears out.
It's a really creepy conversation.
creepy as Sydney's Sweeney Bathwater soap.
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So let's get to, we've got great guests tonight.
I'm very excited because I have two in-studio guests.
And the first one is a guy named Austin Galante.
He'll be here at 635.
And he has a movie called Sanguine.
Oh, I have to pull this up because it's a crazy title.
I love this title.
And I'll pull that up.
But it's 720.
My buddy Ben Reiser will be here.
Ben programs at UW Cinematheque.
And he's a great guy to talk movies with.
In fact, this will be fun.
Conrad, have you seen Sinners yet?
Oh, I don't know if I agree with that.
You know what?
It's a pretty good movie.
I highly recommend it.
And speaking of vampire movies, my first guest, Austin Galante, will be here in studio.
He's a Madison guy, Madison filmmaker, very prolific.
He's produced music videos too.
He's worked with Snoop Dogg.
And he's got a new film coming out in like a week.
It's called, I had to pull this up because it's a complicated title, Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
And it is a comedy horror.
Four vampires set out on a road trip to a cabin in the woods.
What could go wrong?
So I'm excited to see the film.
The trailer looks great.
And Austin is coming down here to talk about his film and his process and all that kind of fun stuff in person.
It'll be good to meet Austin and then Ben Reiser.
As I mentioned, he programs UW Cinematheque.
which is right here on the UW campus.
Folks, if you have not taken advantage of this really cool chance to see free classic movies right on campus here in Madison, I highly recommend you check out UW Cinematheque.
It's right at Vilas Hall.
Like I said, it's free and it's a great program.
Ben also works for the Wisconsin Film Festival and he did not like sinners.
And I cannot wait to talk.
One of the reasons I like having Ben on is because he just doesn't care.
He will
form his own opinion.
He's not influenced.
I don't think I'm influenced, but maybe I am a little bit.
I like centers.
Was I influenced by the insane reviews and critics reviews and audience reviews?
Maybe.
But I really liked it.
Ben did not so we'll talk about that.
That'll be fun at 720 and I think right now Conrad we should get to our question of the night Let's
talk about
the question.
Okay question question
question question
question
question question this question
What is your favorite game show of all time?
It is national game show day folks national game show day
So what is your favorite game show of all time?
Please text in and let me know and I will read your text on the radio.
855-752-4842-8555-75 Civic.
I think I have to go and I'm mad.
I had a three hour drive today, Conrad.
I was going to ask you to pull that clip.
There's some guy on, I think it was Wheel of Fortune.
It's all over Instagram.
You guys might have seen it, but he's like.
something like his answer was like, fax me a sausage plate or something like that.
It was like the worst guess ever.
None of it made sense.
So maybe we can find that for tomorrow, because it's a really funny blooper, if you will.
But I like, I think I'm gonna say Wheel of Fortune, because I feel like I like Jeopardy.
I liked prices right.
I liked Joker's Wild from the 80s.
But I feel like Wheel of Fortune is something I could compete.
I feel like if I went on Jeopardy,
The pressure would be on and I would come across as a dunce.
And I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want to present myself that way.
So I'm going to say Wheel of Fortune.
What do you guys think?
Wheel of Fortune's, you know, I don't know, maybe not my cup of tea.
I kind of just get bored when I watch it.
Okay.
I'd say my favorite is Hidden of, or Legends of the Hidden Tomb.
which is a Nickelodeon game show that I watched when I was, you know, young.
And it's like an obstacle course they have to get through to lift like the spirits or the curse that, yeah.
But it was a Nickelodeon game show.
So when I was younger, I watched it.
Yeah, it was really, it was a fun
show.
Did you watch Double Dare when that was on?
Our buddy Mike Schmidt, who's been on the show before, hates that game show.
Because it's the one where kids roll around and food and have food fights.
It says this show should just be called screw you Somalia.
We're just having food fights on TV.
That was horrible.
What about you, Aaron?
You got a favorite game
My favorite game show, I think, has got to be Game Changer, which is not on TV.
It's on Dropout, which used to be called College Humor.
I've never heard of that.
It's basically...
What's called game changer because they change the game every time and a lot of the time they'll give them a question or An activity but not actually tell them the rules And it's a lot of comedians trying to figure out what the hell they're supposed to do.
Okay, and it's very funny.
I like that But let us know what yours is folks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic What is your favorite game show that is our night light question of the night?
As I mentioned, filmmaker, Madison based filmmaker, Austin Galante will be here at 635 and UW Cinematheque Programmer, Ben Reiser.
And he's a big time movie fan.
We will inevitably, inevitably butt heads about a couple of films we've seen, which will be fun.
I got to tell you, you know, Conrad, I've told you about this game we play in my neighborhood called soccer golf,
All right.
So this started during COVID.
We kick a ball to a tree.
And everybody's got their own balls, kind of a COVID friendly game.
And it's become this thing in our neighborhood.
Well, the other day, we carved out a new nine holes.
And we're playing the new course, which takes us down to the water.
It's beautiful.
Masters eat your heart out.
And these two deer run across the road and a mom deer accidentally kicks or bumps the baby deer.
And the baby deer is laying there in the middle of the road.
I have a picture of this.
We'll post this in the stream after the break.
But behind my daughter's soccer ball is this deer.
And I swear to God, it was maybe 10 inches tall.
If that it was a baby.
And she walked over and took her ball away and we left the deer there.
And after about two minutes, it cut up and it just scrambled and took off.
But it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen too.
Even cuter than my own kids' births.
I'm putting this baby deer ahead of that.
Yeah.
I mean, those are more majestic to me, but this baby deer was adorable.
It was gorgeous.
So, um, all right.
So our question is, what's your favorite game show of all time?
Do you, do you folks have thoughts on the Sydney Sweeney bath soap?
Bath time bliss.
Order now while supplies are limited.
You can get a 30 pack.
I know a lot of people aren't buying it for cleanliness purposes, but whatever, whatever, you know, she thinks that's a way to connect with her fans.
A lot more intimate than a nautograph though.
All right, we're coming back.
We're going to read your texts.
And what do we do?
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Maybe we'll play a funny Dana Carvey clip.
We'll figure it out.
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from Madison tonight ladies and gentlemen doing the show right above State Street as we do every so often here and it is great to be in our state's capital beautiful night here on State Street and we are coming to you live and Conrad is up in Green Bay and he is not wearing pants I have issues with that but as long as he wipes the seat down I guess there's nothing I can really do right yeah I have no proof I have no proof he doesn't have pants on and frankly I don't want proof so there you go
Um, our question of the night, folks, is what is your favorite game show of all time?
I said, uh, Wheel of Fortune.
I did like Price's Right too when I was a kid.
And what was yours again?
Legends of the Hidden Tomb.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right.
Very cool.
So as I mentioned before the break, we were playing this game we play in my neighborhood called Soccer Golf and a deer ran across the road and was knocked over by its mother.
Do you have the photo con?
In
able to.
So this baby deer, and I swear to God, it was maybe 10 inches tall.
It's the smallest fawn I've ever seen.
And it got knocked over by its mother.
It was laying in the road, and I have two photos.
There it is.
If you're watching on the stream, you can see the photo.
That's the baby deer.
And if you have the other one, Con, this is to show you how small this thing is.
This is my daughter's soccer ball covering most of the deer, if we could pull that one up.
But it was unbelievable.
And this is only, see, that's a regulation soccer ball covering almost the whole deer.
That's how tiny this thing was.
And it lay there for like two minutes and then it got up and it like sprinted away.
It was one of the coolest things.
I do that a lot.
It wasn't one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
It was probably the coolest thing I saw last weekend.
I'm trying to be more grounded in
I don't want to be used too much hyperbole.
But our question of the night is, what is your favorite game show, folks?
Way in, and I will read your text on the radio.
Always fun to do that.
I had a lovely drive down here to Madison today.
No issues, Conrad.
I expected fully to have more on driving stories.
And I didn't really have any.
I did have when I left town in Marinette today.
You ever get that person that really hurries to get out in front of you when they're entering
main thoroughfare?
Yeah.
And then they go really slow.
Yeah.
It's like, why would you do that?
They speed to get out and from, oh, I got to get out there.
And then I'm going to go 10 miles below the speed limit.
You're obviously not in a hurry.
I don't get that.
But anyway, it was uneventful drive, beautiful day to drive today.
And you saw Karate Kid.
a quick thumbnail of Karate Kid.
What did you think?
Okay.
And I saw the first two.
I didn't see the third one.
Okay.
But so it follows the story of this kid who was in Beijing and then moves to New York and
Don't know the story is kind of it's okay.
It's an okay story feels repeated the the end of it wasn't Just like the other karate kids like you if you watch karate kid two or three You're like I kind of get a sense what's gonna happen at the end.
It was a little different more the same a little different And then
we're seeing
if you're watching it in a theater by yourself.
You might as well watch it in your living room, right?
Okay,
sudden.
Yeah
You didn't see you didn't see warfare, but Ben is gonna come in here in the second hour He did not like the sinners credit scene But no, I'm sorry I know he didn't like the warfare credit scene where they show the soldiers the real guys who experienced this what we just saw in the movie so I am excited to talk to Ben about that, but So you're lukewarm on it, but it was okay,
A serviceable movie.
Let's get to some of our answers for the question of the day.
Our social media responses.
Civic media's own Luke Mathers.
There's only one answer.
Jeopardy.
I think you're supposed to say, what is Jeopardy?
But we'll excuse it, Luke.
Thank you, buddy.
Monica Hale says match game.
The stars answers were funny, but also the host stars.
host or stars, ribbed the contestants with dumb answers, agreed, Monica.
That was, you could catch those.
I think they're on, they're on one of the, probably maybe game show network.
I think it's kind of fun when they show those old shows.
I'll stop for like a minute or two and then I'm like, why am I living in the past?
And I'll move on, but I'll get a laugh out of it.
Mike on this social media says the old Hollywood squares.
Okay.
Great one too.
Thank you, Mike.
So, let us know what your answer is.
Did Steady Eddie already text us Conrad?
All right.
Steady Eddie says he's in the 608.
Where I am right now, Steady Eddie, good to be in your hood.
He says, Pete, no pants for Conrad tonight on Nightlight.
Sounds like an extremely casual Monday.
A little too casual.
In the Green Bay studio, my favorite game show.
What is Jeopardy?
Did you hear that, Luke?
Steady Eddie, bringing it.
So, have some fun with it, folks.
You can go over... I guess I technically, I was on a game show.
I was on Make Me Laugh when I was a stand-up, and it was a horrible experience.
I didn't make anybody laugh.
I was a decent comedian.
I should have made somebody laugh, but it's a horrible format.
Annie from Watertown.
Annie from Watertown says, really, a hard one.
Password was great.
Family Feud, because one can play along.
Jeopardy, because it's Jeopardy.
Haven't really watched since No Alex Trebek.
Okay.
I forgot about Family Feud.
I like Family Feud, too.
You can play that on the Wii, too.
That was always fun.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids, he's in the 608 too.
He says, with a gong show count is a game show.
Absolutely, Tyler.
Thank you, buddy.
And then in the 715, used to love MTV's remote control.
Totally forgot about that one.
Thank you 715 all right when we come back Madison based filmmaker Austin Glante will be here He's gonna tell us all about his new really cool film.
We're coming back after the news folks.
It's peach wama and nightlight on the civic media radio network
This is a Monday night version of Night Light.
We are coming to you live from beautiful downtown Madison above State Street here at Civic Media headquarters, folks.
Great to have you with me on this Monday night where we are finally able to be back on the air after a long, miserable weekend and get to talk about the things we love.
So it's great to have you with me.
Our question of the night is, what is your favorite game show?
It is National Game Show Day.
So what's your favorite game show of all time?
Dave on the stream says, the price is right, especially Diane.
I know what that means even though I don't know who he's talking about because I just remember the prices right girls having a crush on all of them when I was like in middle school and Dave says whose line is it anyway.
That's a good one too.
Little comedy too.
John on the stream says our boys are fully trained and well equipped.
I don't think that's meant for this show.
All right.
So we don't want
to
get into a whole Catholic priest thing.
It's not what we do here.
All right.
So great to have you with me.
I'm very excited to welcome my first guest of the night.
He is a Madison based filmmaker named Austin Galante and he has a new movie opening in like a week and it's called Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
Austin, welcome.
Hey, how's it going?
It's great.
Thanks for coming into the studio.
I always like doing these interviews in person whenever possible.
So I hope it wasn't too.
Was it a bad commute for you?
No, it's pretty, traffic's pretty thin, about 25 minutes.
From Sun Prairie, right?
That's not too bad.
Yeah.
All right, let's jump in, because I've got a lot of questions for you.
I was looking at your IMDB page.
You've had a pretty interesting career.
You've done a lot of different things.
And on this film in particular, you've worn a lot of different hats.
So actually, all right, give us some background in you first, because I just kind of said you've done a lot of things.
What brought you to this moment?
Well, I was in a band for a long time and we did tour around the country and made music videos and we ended up moving out to LA for a while, lived out there for eight years and I did acting stuff out there and so commercials, extra work and got to go see a lot of different studios and stuff.
I've always wanted to act and, you know, the audition process is just like grueling, you know, you're, you know, I would go to auditions out there and there'd be like 50 people who like fit the bill, right?
For one little part of something.
Um, so, you know, I kind of kept doing that, but I had kids and, um, I moved and fixing up my house and I was, I was learning how to engineer and produce music on my own.
and learning more about film stuff.
And then I ended up, I moved here about eight years ago and met some people and started doing film stuff.
So I don't know, one drunk at night, we decided to just make a movie.
That's great.
Well, where did you live in LA?
I lived in Hollywood for, I don't know, three or four years.
I'm not sure I can't remember.
And then,
Maybe five years and then north Hollywood.
Okay.
Oh, we could have been neighbors.
We probably were
like in Valley Village.
I was there from like 97 to 2011.
Okay.
Yeah,
we were definitely there at the same time.
We
ran into each other at one of the Starbucks or something.
Um, you talked about auditioning.
That's interesting because auditioning is an art form in and of itself.
And my guess would be that there are a lot of people that get parts because they're great at auditioning and they're probably fine actors, but like
I remember taking a cold open class when I first moved to LA and it was like 20 people in the class and Cecily Adams taught it.
Who used to book Third Rock from the Sun and she was like Don Adams daughter from Get Smart.
You know, she's I loved her.
She's no longer with us, but she was a great teacher.
And I remember sitting there going, everybody in this class is great.
Like there's just not enough stages.
Right.
So does that have anything to do with you trying to make independent films and kind of creating parts for yourself?
Yeah, absolutely.
you know, I still, I still audition for stuff, but not quite as much because I'm so busy doing this.
Yeah.
And, you know, I'm working on another film that I'm making this summer featuring Robert Lassardo or starring, starring Robert Lassardo, I guess.
And, you know, I bit off more than I could chew as far as like, still not having this movie like completely finished and released.
And, you know,
press for it and everything.
And then at the same time, trying to do all the pre-production stuff for the next movie.
So I'm just kind of running around with my head cut off.
But yeah, I still audition sometimes, um, whenever.
What kind of, uh, you say you audition when, when they come up, but you're Madison, Wisconsin based.
I would imagine there's a healthy dose of independent film shot here, but.
When you say you audition, is it mostly over Zoom to bigger cities or do you mean locally?
Well,
a lot of the, so I think most of the films made here are short films, most, not all.
I know there are a few other full feature length films, but the most of the auditions I get are
a lot of them are commercials and usually it's setting up your camera and doing the audition and then sending the tape to them to look at whether it's for a movie in Chicago or whatever, that kind of thing.
Well, let's jump right in.
Tell us about Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
It is a comedy horror movie about four vampires who get together for a Trip a road trip to a cabin in the woods and all of the stuff that ensues
You know, it's, I mean, it's pretty wild.
It's a R rated movie.
Definitely don't show your children.
What is it rated R for?
What did a ratings
board have an issue with?
Everything.
When you asked me if I could get you a 90 second clip, I started looking through the movie and I went, Oh, I bet this is going to beat the Deadpool's F bomb number.
So yeah.
you know it's like it's like it's like taking the the idea of vampires but then like just put putting them in a real life setting sort of and so it's kind of like four dudes that have been friends for a while hanging out partying and you know
Someone told me like maybe compare it to the hangover with vampires or something.
But I like that.
I don't know if that's accurate enough.
But do the vampires in your film have to follow the vampire rules?
Like you have to be invited in or no garlic or sunlight, that kind of
stuff.
There are there are different rules.
OK.
Yeah.
The it's talked about in the film.
But there there are there are different roles.
Yeah,
we'll have to wait and see the film.
When is it open and where can people see it?
It premieres on Saturday, June 7th at Marcus Palace Cinema in Sun Prairie at 3 p.m.
Excuse me.
You can get tickets on TickPick and if you search Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road, I imagine it'll pop up.
Otherwise, you could go to MarshmallowNayPalm.com.
And there's a link at the top of that page.
Yeah.
And then it should be on streaming.
I'm hoping sometime this month, you know, I have to wait for people to do things.
So it takes a little bit of time.
Where did the where did the idea for the film come from?
What was the inspiration for
it?
Well, I write a lot of my stuff based on.
things that I have, have access to or actors that I have access to, right?
So,
what's that?
I said smart.
Yeah.
Friendly film, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, this has a fairly large budget, but still a fairly small budget, right?
But things just add up and cost so much so quickly that I have to like look at, okay.
where can I shoot this, like what locations do I have and all of that stuff and put it together.
And then I personally try to write a story around those things and those people.
And I essentially included several of my friends that are actors and made them the main characters.
And initially.
Oh, one of my friends, his cousin is Lavelle Crawford.
So I had written the part for him and he, he read the script and he passed on it.
And I'm guessing it's probably cause I couldn't offer him enough money to do it, but who knows?
Um, I didn't really ask, but I then ended up finding Charlie Mack to play the part.
So there were a few people that I did have to have audition.
Um, but a lot of people I already knew.
So I just cast people.
I probably only watched maybe four or five auditions for the entire movie just because like I did a lot of footwork in searching out people that I thought fit in the first place.
And then I would watch the reels and I would watch like what I could find about them so that I could see like, does this person.
do what I need.
And then if, you know, they, instead of just because I did put out, you know, some casting things and I had like 600 people apply for a couple of the roles and, um, I don't really want to watch 600 auditions.
That's a lot of time.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So, I mean, obviously you don't, you, you look through them and go like, no, that you don't, you know what I mean?
Like you're shuffling through and say you get down to a few, but, um, I,
So the idea came from sitting there going like, okay, I have access to this cabin that someone said that I could shoot at, right?
And then these people that I have, I was like, well, this could be a funny idea to like kind of flip it and like, you know, a lot of horror movies have, well, we're going to go to a cabin, you know, and then like the monster shows up and I was like, well, it's kind of.
flip it around and have them have some.
OK, I'm intrigued
now.
Austin
Galante is my guest.
He is the director of Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
Comedy horror involving four vampires sounds great.
What where does the title come from?
Well, Sanguine Teeth, because, you know, vampires and then, you know, shot on a driftless road.
So there's a really big sort of.
Ah, momentous scene, I suppose, that happens on a driftless road.
And yeah, so that's kind of where it came
from.
And you said, before we went on the air, you said you filmed part of it in Madison, but not necessarily.
You kind of filmed around a lot.
When you do that, when you film in different areas, what does it do to your budget, too?
Well, it depends, right?
Because a lot of locations I was able to get, you know, people were just cool and were like, here, that's fine.
Shoot here, right?
And I did have to pay for some, but, you know, it was about access.
There's like four gas stations in the movie.
So.
That's a kind of a difficult thing to get because gas stations are so busy all the time You know like and they stay open till two in the morning because people are gonna buy alcohol
or whatever Yeah, and so
getting them to close down for any length of time is a bit of a challenge So I had to find some like pretty rural gas stations and and then I had a connection to one but so that was
part of traveling, right?
Like each of these locations was like, oh, I have this location that's here, but you know, I'm going to have to drive.
So there's a trade off, right?
What kind of crew were you moving around?
How many crew typically?
Um, not real big.
So the movie was shot over the course of last summer and there were.
like individual shoot dates where the crew might just be me and Douglas Montoya.
Like him running sound and me doing a couple cameras at the same time.
And then.
Let's pick it up right there.
We're going to do a real quick break.
Cool.
Austin will clear his throat.
Yeah.
And I take some water there
and we'll
be right back to talk about more of this cool new movie Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road with its director, writer, actor, producer.
We're a lot of hats, folks.
We're coming right back.
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Game show.
Anna from Madison says, Hi Pete and Conrad, my favorite game show is Jeopardy.
I would say Conrad Jeopardy is in the...
In the run.
Don't you think we're way
Yeah.
Tom from New Berlin says, Dialing for Dollars, WISN Milwaukee, the 70s.
I don't remember that.
Was that only a local show?
It's kind of cool.
title dialing for dollars.
That sounds familiar.
And then Tony, the trucker.
Hey, buddy.
He says, Pete, favorite game show is the chase.
Hope your stay in Madison is enjoyable.
If I wasn't working, I would have loved to take you to a great burger joint.
You know what, Tony?
It's funny you say that.
Thank you for that.
I used to eat at dotty dumplings.
And when I would drink, I would come down the night before.
I was shooting a PBS and I would have two humongous martinis Because I love their martinis and the burgers are phenomenal now.
I don't drink anymore.
So at least not yet you drink Austin
Yeah, once in a while.
Yeah,
sometimes I feel like I should start again.
I wasn't like court-ordered.
I just stopped but
Austin Galente, that's his voice folks.
He's here in the studio.
He is a writer director producer actor
He's worked in the music industry.
He's done a lot of different stuff, worn a lot of different hats.
His film, Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road opens June 13th at the Marcus Theater.
June 7th.
Oh wow, we are really close.
I thought it was June 13th.
June 7th at the Marcus Theater in Sun Prairie.
What do you do after that?
How long of a run do you have?
Is it kind of based on the turnout or that kind of thing?
It's just, that's just a one-off premiere.
Working on getting it on streaming.
Yeah, it's I highly doubt it'll get a theatrical run.
It's a very I mean, it's quite a long movie for an indie movie and You know to get your movie into theaters is quite expensive.
Yeah We
were talking about your cast it's kind of a big cast for an indie film I think
Ambitious.
Where did you find your actors?
Let's see.
I knew a lot of them or quite a few of them.
And then, you know, there were some recommendations from people.
And then I did a fair amount of looking on IMDB to find a few people that I needed to fill some, some of the last roles.
And I also put a casting on backstage.com.
Yeah.
And I got a lot of responses, but I don't know.
I didn't actually, I don't think I actually put anybody in the movie from there.
was one person that I had cast for a role and then they flaked.
Oh, great.
Gotta love that.
I had to find somebody like the week before.
What kind of actors did you find?
in the Madison area.
Is there good talent here for movies?
What's the film community in general like, would you say in Madison?
Yeah, there's a lot of good actors here, I think.
And then in Milwaukee and Chicago, there's a number of people from Chicago, or at least a few people from Chicago in the movie, and also a handful probably from Milwaukee.
I think there's a couple from Madison, Green Bay, there's at least one or two.
I don't have a hard time remembering exactly where everyone's from.
No pressure.
Someone lives in Racine.
You're not a native Wisconsinite.
So you've been here, like you said, about four years
Eight years.
Okay.
So how do you find overall the state?
They're trying to pass this incentive package for filmmakers.
As an outsider, you said you lived in LA and Oregon.
What is your...
your perception of Wisconsin and the filmmaking that goes on here?
I think it would be great if they passed the film incentive.
Same.
I don't know.
I haven't looked at the bill to see exactly what it would do.
I've got a copy right here.
I'd love to have your opinion.
Give me 37 minutes.
Give me 30 seconds, I'll speed read it.
I think anything that's going to bring more attention, more funding,
the new movie that I'm shooting, almost shot in Montana because of grant money.
But...
Yeah.
I mean, if it's going to bring other productions here, that's good for actors, right?
That's good for crew.
And I think it would be marvelous.
Let me ask you this.
And I want to, I'm glad you'll stay through intermission slash the news because you've had a great career in music.
You've worked with Snoop Dogg, Silo Green, who wrote Conrad, am I right?
Is he one of your favorites
He's
favorite song?
It's not
invitation, but we'll talk about that with Austin as well.
But I want to ask you, you've won some awards for acting.
You've got like a best honorable mention for best supporting actor or something like that.
What made you, you're the guy behind this film.
What made you not give yourself the lead role?
Well,
I don't know I think It's a lot to do right
like
all the stuff that I did for the movie and I I felt like you know in writing it I had to think about like how can I pull this off with a minimal crew and still act in some of it, right?
And I wanted to be able to kind of control, you know, the lighting and camera and stuff like that.
And for a lot of it, I'm doing director photography.
And then there's like a portion where we shot at the cabins, someone else was sort of taking on that role.
I was still doing lighting and a lot of other stuff.
I mean, not a lot changed.
It was just a lot of hats.
And so trying to be like, you know, a lead actor would have been a lot.
I actually have a much bigger part in the next movie and it's it's gonna be pretty intense, you know trying to because it's like switching your brain from Gotta set up all these things and then oh now I've got to remember my
lines Austin Galante is my guest he will be here through the news We'll talk to him about his time working with people like Snoop Dogg and Celo Green's gonna be a lot of fun folks Don't go away civic media news team is about to tell you what's up.
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