Happy Birthday K-Man(Hour 1)

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Welcome, welcome, welcome tonight, ladies and gentlemen.

It is a beautiful, beautiful Tuesday night here in our gorgeous state of Wisconsin as we ease into summer.

And when I say ease into summer, I am speaking conservatively because it doesn't feel like it's ever going to get here at this point.

It's like gloomy and

But they're all wonderful days.

Don't get me wrong.

I don't mind a little rain.

I don't mind some bad weather.

But give me a nice day, especially because today of all days, we should have good weather because it is the kid, Conrad Krieger, the K-man.

It's his birthday.

Happy birthday, buddy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How's it going?

It's going well.

Did you wake up to birthday greetings aplenty?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Definitely got the birthday wishes.

All right.

What are you going to do?

Wait, don't answer that because that's kind of plays into our question of the night.

So we'll get to that in a second.

Okay.

But you're 26 today.

Yep.

That's a big day.

Yeah.

Just told me you're off your parents insurance.

That's such a bad way to start your day.

But you have a little time.

I have until the end of the month.

Okay.

And

what are you going to do then?

You're going to do the ACA?

I have no idea.

You're going to roll the dice.

Just never have health insurance ever again.

Never have

health insurance.

It's so ridiculous.

Yeah.

Like who can afford, we have decent insurance I would say through my wife's work.

Not as good as it used to be.

You know, it used to be like my wife's a teacher and it used to be, you became a teacher because you have kind of an extended break in the summer even though most teachers work a lot during the summer.

You have great benefits.

Well, the benefits are gone.

The benefits are like average.

So it should just be more.

affordable.

And for a guy like you, you're young and healthy, you could probably get the best deal possible.

Yeah, I should be able to.

Yeah.

You got any health issues?

No.

I don't think I could ask you that.

Yeah, I don't know if I want to say that on there.

Anyways,

we should get the insurance and then you can come clean.

Tell us everything that's that's that's past.

Well, happy birthday.

We have a we have a little celebration throughout the show that we're going to do on behalf of Conrad's birthday.

And

We'll get to that in just a moment, but there is a Facebook post and we have some things you can play a part of throughout the show.

First though, I think before we introduce, or I should say who the guests are, let's play a little birthday song.

When it was my birthday, you played that horrible dog's barking happy birthday.

Was

that horrible?

Yeah.

Horrible?

It was awful.

It's common knowledge.

It's a known fact, as they say.

But this is my favorite.

rendition of Happy Birthday that I would like to play for you, so let's hear that

now.

There are several fine young men who I'm sure are gonna go far.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Ramones.

Hey, these minstrels will soothe my jangled noobs.

I'd just like to say this gig sucks.

Hey, up your Springfield.

One, two, three, four.

Go to hell, you old bastard.

Hey, I think they liked us.

Have the ruling students killed?

Oh, sir, those aren't.

Do as I say.

Have Conrad Krieger killed?

That's a great happy birthday.

Yeah.

That's a great, uh, this couple is walking by back and forth.

They're very confused.

They don't know if they watch a lot or not.

Um, so do you have, uh, do you have plans like, I know you're working today, but what are you going to do?

Like you're going to have like a bash this weekend.

You got friends coming to town or what?

Well, it wasn't, it's not really a birthday thing.

It was just something I had planned a while going to a comedy show on Saturday, a comedian, uh, Noel Miller who, uh,

I like his podcast and I've listened to him for, I don't know, probably like six years or something around there.

Nice.

Where is he performing?

He's at the Improv in Milwaukee.

Well, actually, it's like Brookfield.

Oh, okay.

And so, I mean, actually, I seen him there already.

I went to a show, I don't know, two years ago, and he's part of the Tiny Meat Gang podcast.

Tiny Meat Gang?

Yep.

I don't want to do a deep dive into what that means.

So you've seen him before?

That's good.

That's good.

Wholesome, clean, cut, fun on your birthday, right?

You've gone with a

group?

Well, I'd say his comedy style is dark.

OK.

So maybe not wholesome.

We talked about this recently.

Yeah.

I should have pressed you more.

I wasn't sure about that.

Well, he's super funny.

And I've actually seen him four times.

And he is a different set every time so oh, that's he is a couple jokes that you know He's like I got to keep these in there, but what's his name?

No, well Miller

no Miller.

All right.

I'm gonna Google that during the break.

He's he's also a youtuber That's that's how I found him.

He was actually he started on vine if you remember that yeah, yeah, that's that's why he is a Vine that just one like super viral.

Okay,

and I can't recite it but

Wow, he's only 35.

He is five feet nine inches tall.

This is what I love about Google

They always he used to have a partner and now he just he rides solo now.

Oh, okay.

The tiny meat gang was a joke because they're short.

Oh Okay,

there was they always called himself short Kings.

Okay, I like it.

Well, that sounds like fun this weekend in Milwaukee

Yeah, and before that getting a we're doing a suit fitting and then I got a wedding and

November for a for a buddy.

Okay,

and then after that we're going golfing and then

yeah the show Dude, that sounds like a fantastic birthday weekend a little golf a comedy show Getting fitted for a is it a suit or a tux?

Yes, okay outstanding.

Well, that's fantastic You know before I introduce who or say who our guests are let's do this Let's get the text rolling and let's do our question of the night

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

Oh, yeah.

How should Conrad celebrate his birthday?

What would you do if you were Conrad?

This weekend's plans excluded.

He's 26.

He's a young buck a strap-and-lad if you will how should Conrad celebrate his birthday Sure Todd Michael's uh response first.

Well,

I

would bleep a part

of it.

I

don't know.

I don't know if you can Which wait a minute.

What can't I say on the radio

the first part

hookers?

I don't know if you I don't

Well, you said it anyway.

Clean it up a little.

I mean, you said it right now.

Anyway,

Sony might as well just go ahead.

That's kind of a phrase.

He said hookers and blow.

And I mean, you could say like an escort and blow.

That just doesn't have the same.

That's an old show business.

That's, you know.

Yes.

So that is not how you will be celebrating.

No, no, not that way.

That's Todd's.

He's your boss.

And if he's telling you that's how you should celebrate, I think you should consider it.

That's all I'm

saying.

All right.

Well, it's your life.

Your birthday.

Thank you, though, Todd.

How should Conrad celebrate his birthday?

That is the question of the night, folks.

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So that's exciting.

So tonight folks, we have a good show too, and why wouldn't we on Conrad's birthday?

Matt Miller will be here.

He's a Milwaukee film critic.

He is coming by at six Actually about 640.

I think Matt said he was gonna be running a little late when we booked him.

That's fine Matt will be here to talk about movies.

He has seen he saw the movie friendship You didn't see that did you

know it like it had a very small theater times.

Yeah

Like there's only like a couple of theaters that have it around here.

One of them's in Kimberly and then the one in a Schwabbanon.

Yeah.

But it's like, oh, here are the times two o'clock or like five.

It's like, um, I can't really do that.

But

I always do that.

I do that.

Like I'll check the movie times and it's like, oh, it starts in five minutes.

So

I have

to, um, but, you know, Madison Ballerina friendship.

And, um, so we're going to talk to him about those, uh, films.

And then also what is still to come this summer is a

Big summer, we are off to a great start with the box office.

There are some great movies coming out, including Jurassic Park, Superman, the Fantastic Four, and I know Connor is excited about Happy Gilmore

2.

I'm really excited about the release this Friday.

How to train your dragon.

Oh yeah.

Live action.

Oh my god.

So excited.

I'm going to see that as I need to check times.

I need to see when I can get in there.

Right, absolutely.

I'm excited to see that too.

And this is the first one, there was a two, right?

There's three movies

actually.

This is the first live action

one.

I saw the first one when it came out.

I don't know if I saw the next two, but I am excited to see what they do.

So lots of fun stuff going on here tonight.

Frank Anderson will be here in the second hour.

He's the founder of Wisconsinology.com, and he posts really cool stuff on social media, and also on his website, Wisconsinology.com.

Frank is also a director, an editor, and a producer, and he makes amazing documentary films and commercials, and he's an animator.

He is what I call a showbiz Renaissance man, and he's a heck of a good guest here on Night Light, and he will be here at 720, so that's fun.

We'll do all of that.

We're gonna do the guests.

We're gonna read some texts and You know, I was gonna ask you last night.

We didn't get to it, but I'm curious What do you think of stick?

That's the new comedy show

on Apple

TV with Owen Wilson about golf so far.

Have you ever seen the movie a tin cup?

Yes.

No I

knew it.

I knew what you were gonna say.

I just haven't seen it.

It has a feeling like that.

Okay,

and if you haven't seen tin cup then it doesn't make much sense, but

It has a feeling, a washed up golfer, he's trying to get back in, but this time it's with a student he has, that he finds, because he works at a golf course, and this kid can drive like a dream.

He hits like bombs.

And he drops everything, he's like, I wanna be your coach.

So it's on episode, they dropped three episodes right away.

So far, it's really good.

He drops everything.

Yeah, no, I think Owen Wilson does pretty good in it, and the other characters that have, I think, add something to it.

That's awesome.

I gotta check that out.

You also saw Paddington.

in

Peru.

All right, let's hold that.

I want to hear about that.

I want to hear what you thought about that.

I have not seen any of the Paddingtons.

I only know that in the unbearable weight of massive talent, Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal talk about Paddington to the point of tears.

So we'll talk about that when we come back.

We'll read some birthday texts to our birthday boy Conrad.

We're going to do all of that.

Hey, Matt Miller's here.

and Frank Anderson.

Might be the first time ever.

We might make radio history, but glad you're with us too.

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Beautiful.

Great song.

We heard Sly and the Family Stone going into the break, which was relevant because he just passed away at the age of 82.

I think his name was Sylvester.

What's his name?

Sylvester?

I just

hit this

in the beats.

No, it wasn't.

It was... Stewart.

Sylvester Stewart.

That's right.

You know what?

Funny last night, I googled Sly Stone because I couldn't remember what his...

Or no, I said, what are the biggest hits?

Because I remembered Dance to the Music, which we have, and Everyday People.

And I wanted it like another song, and I couldn't think of one offhand, so I googled Sly Stone Hits, and it came up as Sliced Stone Hits.

And believe it or not, that was what they called them sometimes.

Sliced Stone.

And I was like,

That's a weird thing that just kind of worked out.

The band Sly and the Family Stone is often referred to as sliced stones due to their unique sound.

How do you like that?

Why can't I make a mistake once that that gets me a million bucks?

It's a good question.

This just kind of saved me like four seconds.

It was still kind of cool.

Anyway.

He has gone at 82.

But if you want to see a really cool documentary, it's called Sly Lives.

I think it's on Hulu.

Really cool.

Like a very, like a serious pioneer in music.

You know, Influence Prince, the Red Hat Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder, and some great tunes as well.

So, um, all right.

And then, uh, okay, here's my dilemma, Conrad.

What would you do?

You don't drive an hour to get here anymore.

I do.

So for Father's Day, we were just going to go out to eat.

because my daughter just got a waitressing job.

We were going to go out to eat.

And then my dad calls and says, hey, my brother Andrew, who spends, he comes up to Marinette a couple of times a month.

He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And he said, Andy wants to go to a Cubs game.

So they want to get in the car at seven in the morning on Saturday, drive to Wrigley Field for Marinette, which is a solid in traffic four and a half, probably.

Go to the game.

Have dinner and then possibly drive back or just get a hotel room.

I got to tell you The first thing I said was just no I drive every day.

It's like 10 hours a week.

I'm in the car.

What would you do if you were me?

I wouldn't I wouldn't do it.

No, it's just so easy to sit on the porch

Yeah, that's a that's a long Land's

Barbara teased me about sitting in the porch last night But I'd like to sit on the porch in the summer

Have a nice seltzer, a nice non-alcoholic beer, play my guitar.

I don't think I want to sit in the car that long.

As much as I'd love to go to a Wrigley Field, you know, I spend a lot of time at Wrigley Field as a kid.

I haven't been there in about five or six years, but I just, it's the car ride.

And we'd probably talk.

It'd be fun.

That's a long drive.

It's a very long

drive.

So I think I'm going to pass, but.

It's fun to ponder.

All right, so it is Conrad's birthday, ladies and gentlemen.

Our question of the night is, how should Conrad celebrate his birthday?

Do I have the social media responses, Conrad?

They should be.

Do I have them here?

I want to read those because we always get great.

I do not have those.

So we'll go to the text line.

And how apropos the first texture tonight on the K-man's birthday is Paula Krieger.

Same last name, no relation.

Ha, just kidding.

Of course they're related.

It's Conrad's mom, and she says he should fly to Florida and go golfing with his mom.

Well, I thought Wrigley Field was a tall order.

I mean, if she pays for airfare, you know, I'm all for it.

Don't you think she would?

Yeah,

I think so.

You wouldn't be

paying your own insurance soon.

You don't have that kind of scratch.

Exactly.

That's a great text, Paula, and happy Conrad's birthday.

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

Happy birthday, Conrad.

I think Conrad should go golfing in Dork County.

You know, I was close to Door Coney while I did it when I golfed today.

Really?

Not really.

I was like two hours away, but.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says, kick that big monkey's butt, blow out his candle and eat his cake.

That is kind of a kick-ass text.

I don't really fully understand it.

But I like to kick that big monkey's butt.

Is that some kind of birthday thing I'm unaware of?

Jargon?

I'm

not aware of it either.

Love it, Tyler.

If you feel like elaborating, please don't hesitate.

Ed from Madison, also in the 608 says, in my adult life, I have never worked on my birthday.

I suggest Conrad follow my lead.

Well, he's already here, Ed.

I'm out.

Keep pushing buttons.

Listen, if you ever had an excuse to take a powder, it would be on your birthday.

Some great responses from social media, too.

Daniel Wheeler says Conrad should celebrate his birthday with a free medium order of McDonald's fries available exclusively through their app.

Wow.

I like the suggestion, but I'm going to have to pass.

A

free fry on the app, a Civic Media Scotty Summer Contest on the app.

It's all about the app tonight.

Thank you, Daniel.

Aunt Carla checks in.

Conrad's Aunt Carla.

Happy birthday.

Love Aunt Carla and Grandma Krieger.

That's kind of nice.

Oh, thank

you.

Yeah.

Does your grandma like is she you have a good relationship with your grandma?

Yeah,

yeah Emerson layman our pal Emerson he is one of the hosts of the WBA Y morning show here in Green Bay He says happy birthday Conrad and you guys went to the same high school

You know Emerson did double actually he posted the happy birthday on that and on my timeline

and on your timeline So thank you Emerson those numbers add up What now where was Emerson and he was a couple years older than you?

He

was

one or two years, I can't remember.

One or two years older.

Yeah.

Okay.

His brother was a migrant, so.

That's right.

Okay.

J.B.

Thompson, that's the guy behind the guy, Conrad.

Yeah.

Behind the guy.

I took out a guy there.

He says, happy birthday, Conrad.

Paula Krieger, double dipping.

Mom, add it again.

Happy birthday, Conrad.

Love, mom.

And mom's text got three likes.

There we go.

See, all of that is going to affect the algorithm, Conrad.

These are going to be rolling in all night.

Mike Desitel says, Happy Birthday Conrad.

I think Pete should let you host a segment on the show where you interview him.

I'm going to get all the dirt.

Hey, we got a few minutes to kill in the next segment before Matt Miller joins us.

Maybe we'll do that.

We've also got some more text to read.

We'll get to all of it tonight.

It is the K-man's birthday.

How should he celebrate it?

That is our question of the night.

Frank Anderson is here in the second hour.

We got a really cool story about an Indian burial ground from an Indian tribe here in...

our Native American tribe here in Wisconsin.

We're going to do all that.

Matt Miller is coming up after the news.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off of

you.

You'd be like heaven to

touch.

Have you seen the Dear Hunter?

I have not.

That song might be my favorite song from a movie.

I know we've done a question like that before.

What is your favorite song from a movie?

Or some kind of derivation of that, but I don't.

That was just one of those moments in a movie where it was the perfect song for the perfect moment before all these guys went off to fight in Vietnam and a moment between these friends and it was just fantastic.

You know where I saw from?

Jerry Seinfeld's movie about the Popdarts.

I forget what it's called

again.

That song was in Popdart movie?

Popdart movie.

I forgot what it's called.

Unfrosted?

Unfrosted,

yeah.

You know what's so funny is...

I don't know.

The reason I kind of laughed is because I used the show Seinfeld in one of the beats for tomorrow.

Roseanne Barr is saying that God told her to send a racist tweet in 2018 about Valerie Jarrett.

And it got her fired from the Connors.

Now, have you ever seen the Connors?

A

couple episodes here and there.

You know what?

It did pretty well.

I was surprised.

the driving force behind Roseanne, which was a great show and she was really good on it.

And they took her personality and they perfectly molded it into Roseanne Connor.

And I can't imagine Roseanne the show without Roseanne Barr.

But the Conners, they fired her after this racist tweet and they brought the show back anyway.

I think they canceled the show for like three weeks and they brought it back.

and the show did really well and it ran for seven years without Roseanne.

But she says God is the one who told her to tweet that, which I, has God ever talked to you?

Not to send racist tweets, I can say that.

What has God told

you to

do?

Clean your room.

Something like that, not something that she did, that's just.

That's strange.

It's an excuse, you know?

Yeah, and God doesn't even follow her on Twitter.

That's the thing I think is strange, folks.

Anyway, so there you go.

So we saw, Matt Miller is coming up in just a few minutes, folks.

Tell us, what did you think of Paddington and Peru?

You've

seen all

of them or no?

I have seen the first one.

For some reason, I haven't seen the second one yet.

But the third one, Paddington and Peru came on Netflix and I was like, you know what?

I'll watch a movie.

Yeah.

And I thought it was great.

Okay.

It was the story of how Paddington got to where he is.

What was his, his background, you know?

And what was,

he's a panda, right?

Uh, he's a bear.

He's a bear.

Okay.

Yeah.

Isn't he from the East or like

somewhere in Asia?

He's like, I forget what they call it, but he's from Peru.

And he's, he's a certain type of bear from Peru.

And these bears love these oranges.

That they can turn into jelly

Okay,

and that is their quote-unquote gold over there all right for the Bears and it's just him finding his his way back because his He has this long relationship.

He lives in in Britain with his family and He keeps sending letters to his aunt Lucy It over in Peru, okay, she's in the retired

Home for bear retired bears or something like that.

They have that.

Yes Anyways, she says I I'm tear I am sad.

I need you over here.

So he goes over there and she gets kidnapped

Oh dear.

So it's him trying to find his grandma or his aunt.

Oh And he finds all the stuff about him.

He finds this other guy that's like I can take you there, but he's obsessed with gold Okay, and the map leads it to gold.

It never really was gold

So is it like all those movies are supposed to be really sweet?

Yes, it was it was

okay

Did you cry behind

it was that's did you cry during the first one?

No, I

They said they said in

an unbearable way.

It was Paddington to that made him cry.

Okay,

which you have not seen

I haven't seen that one.

I've got to see both of them.

I recommend Pennington through I think it was a great movie I'm gonna start with the beginning though because I do want to see like it's harder for me to sit through a kid's movie now

without my kids, but it doesn't mean I can't do it.

Like I still want to see Lilo at Stitch.

It's crushing the box office.

I want to see it too.

So I

am curious.

It is Conrad's birthday, folks.

Our question of the night is how should the con man spend his birthday?

Ed from Madison.

That's the 608.

He says in my adult, oh, I already read that.

Sorry.

Jim from Appleton says, happy birthday, K-man.

Little.

You see that little birthday cake?

Yeah, little birthday cake emoji.

He said, you should grab a comfortable outdoor lounge chair, go to Highcliff State Park, find a nice quiet spot, and just relax, recovering from all of Pete's notes.

I've been to Highcliff.

I went to the golf course there, actually.

Oh, OK.

And yeah, it's a lovely, lovely place over there.

Listen, Jim, don't encourage insurrection either.

Conrad is fine.

I don't give him that many memos anymore.

I've slowed down.

Hey, there's another family member, Steve.

It's about time, Steve.

He's in the 9-2-0, but not really.

He's in Florida.

He says, seeing Conrad isn't too far from Lambeau Field and is the Green Bay Packers number one fan.

He should spend his birthday working out with Jordan Love and the team.

Happy birthday, son.

Very nice, Steve.

You

raised a fine son.

Did your dad, did your dad see your outfit last night when you look like Coach

McCartney?

No, he did not.

Oh my

God, you could have like, Conrad, if you wore that outfit to Lambeau Field and Jordan Love saw you, he would probably say, hey coach, and catch himself before he, you look that much like a coach, it was awesome.

Claire from Knowlton, that's the 618.

Conrad, go to the Google, where's

the

618?

I don't even know that.

She says, I always think about The Dear Hunter with that song too.

Great movie with Christopher Walken, yes.

Claire Christopher Walken that's the first movie I ever saw Christopher Walken in and he was so good and His character is so tragic But I was like who is this guy?

He was great

Tom from New Berlin.

He's in the 414.

Our pal Tom says, Conrad, go golfing.

And since your birthday, unlimited mulligans.

Oh, that's nice of

you.

Yes, yes.

That's a good one.

All right, so we've got more.

All right, so I missed part of Mike DeSatell's social media post.

He said, happy birthday, Conrad.

I think Pete should let you host a segment of the show where you interview him.

Then underneath, nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Which is run by Amanda, correct, our social media guru.

She says, Mike, Mike Desital, no questions off limits.

And Mike says, well, I do want to remain friends with Pete.

I have no idea what Mike would ask me that's so condemning.

I have almost no skeletons in the closet metaphorically.

I have a lot of dead people I've buried.

But how wonderfully Wisconsin, our pal Paul says, how about Conrad finally goes to cheesesteak rebellion for his

birthday?

I still haven't done that.

Where is that?

It's in Green Bay.

I think it's in Depeer, actually, maybe.

But it's a Star Wars themed restaurant.

Oh, yeah.

OK.

I definitely, I still need to go.

I haven't done that yet.

And yeah.

And

Paul has

been there.

Yes.

He was talking about it last time he was on the show.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh, you replied, but those did not come up.

Did you purposefully not?

I just said that's a great idea.

Okay.

Uh, our pal Nikki's Urgev.

We miss Nikki so much.

Nikki, how are you?

She says, happy birthday, Khan.

Thank you, Nikki.

Uh, thank you, Nikki.

Hope you're well.

Monica Hale says, happy birthday.

I know you're watching what you eat, so you should treat yourself to a massage instead of food.

I don't, I don't know.

I'd have to go somewhere.

I don't have anyone to give me a massage.

Maka, are you offering to give Conrad a foot massage?

That's my question.

I wouldn't recommend

Conrad does not want anyone touching his dogs.

I hate feet.

I can't even stand looking at my own.

He's just turned your head away when you put your socks on.

Claire from Knowlton texted us back, the 618 phone number is a carryover from Southern Illinois.

I'm in Central Wisco now.

That's a good move, Claire.

Not much going on in Southern Illinois.

I used to work at Comedy Club down there, and it's pretty barren.

We have Matt.

He's

here.

We got Matt?

Yeah.

Matt Miller?

Milwaukee film critic Matt Miller?

Is he on the line?

Hey, buddy.

Howdy, howdy, howdy.

Great to have you, and glad you could do this.

Thanks for adjusting your schedule slightly.

Did you have a class?

Did you say Matt?

Yeah, I had an appointment, unfortunately.

But thank you for just in your schedule, because I will rearrange my entire life and everyone in it to talk movies.

I'm sure your wife and kids appreciate that.

But we sure appreciate your time.

And it's great to have you back.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

It is officially summer in terms of movies, in terms of weather, in terms of festivals.

It's great.

Yeah.

You look like you got a little sun, buddy.

My appointment was a workout situation, so I am sweaty and I'm sitting.

So I am attempting to be healthy, trying to make up for all the time I spent in a dark movie theater eating Mike and I.

Oh man, you're paying the check.

Awesome.

I love it.

Well, that's great.

So I'm a little behind on movies in theaters, and I know you're much more caught up than I am, as usual.

But here's one that I'm kind of struggling with, Matt, because I saw really good reviews, really good audience scores, at least on Rotten Tomatoes, for whatever that's worth.

But John Wick Ballerina, the latest installment,

I've seen people I respect kind of come out against it, but it reviewed well.

What

did you think?

Yeah, it's interesting because ever since John Wick has become kind of modern action movie canon, you know We've seen all these ripoffs come out We've seen like stuff like gunpowder milkshake and you know all sorts of these movies that are trying to do the John Wick thing and you can watch ballerina and you can see the real deal is

and the ripoff all in the same movie.

So the first half

of

ballerina plays like a ripoff.

The action is totally serviceable.

You know, it the plot is kind of dumb and silly and kind of you don't really don't really have much investment in it.

There's just not that much excitement to it.

And that's because I think the first half of the movie is directed by the credited director, Len Wiseman, who's kind of

a hack like he did the fourth diehard movie he did the total recall remake that no one asked for he's totally a serviceable director in every way and then the back half of the movie

cooks the back half of the movie plays like a genuine real deal john wick movie the action has these really cool clever fun beats the action doesn't cut as much you're genuinely like you can tell that a stuntman is now behind the camera because they are just absorbing all of the cool like

flexibility and the cool stuntman work that goes into these action scenes and for that half of the movie it rules.

There's like

these

awesome flamethrower fights where like people are lighting their feet on fire just for the kick of it and you've got like this crazy kind of ski resort filled with assassins and they're all like there's like fight scenes with ice skates on and stuff like that.

It's like

It is so clever and fun and there are action beats that you will remember because that's the stuff that makes John Wick pop is that these are people who are like the story of this action scene is going to be this.

The story of the action scene here is going to be mirrors.

There's beats and action ideas going on instead of just you know what if a person kicked another person in the face.

So what I'm trying to say I guess is that the movie's kind of a mixed bag but

It's all worth it for that back half where you were watching quality, awesome action.

Anna DiArmus is a very captivating lead.

She is playing the ballerina, the ballerina assassin in the movie.

I had a good enough time.

If you like John Wick, you will like most of ballerina.

And if you're not a big John Wick fan, then you probably have tuned out the past two minutes of that.

You know, I want to ask you if I could go off on a tangent just briefly.

Yeah,

absolutely.

Total recall.

I remember like 2012-ish, the remake, I saw that coming and I never saw it and now it's gone and that's the first I've heard you mention it.

Was that terrible?

It is a total waste of time.

Total Recall is one of my favorite movies.

I think it is a perfect Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

It is a perfect sci-fi movie.

It is both as smart and as dumb as you want that movie

to be.

You want a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger is saying silly quips.

But at the same time, there's this like crazy sci-fi mind bending stuff going on.

It's kind of a perfect movie.

It's the kind of stuff that I wish the rock made more of.

Yeah.

The Rock is our modern day Schwarzenegger.

Oh, great.

And where Schwarzenegger went and was like, I want to work with Paul Verhoeven.

I want to work with James Cameron.

I want to work with real directors.

The Rock was like, I want to work with the guy who made Jumanji and the guy who made Jumanji and the guy who made

Jumanji.

Matt, let's pick up right there when we come back.

We had to do a really short break.

That Miller is here and he has just worked out, folks.

He's ready.

Let's do this.

It's Beachwaba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwabba.

It is the K-man's birthday.

So our question of the night is how should Conrad spend his birthday or celebrate his birthday?

We've got some good texts.

We've got some more to read.

We'll get to those soon.

Right now we have our pal Matt Miller is on the line.

He is a Milwaukee based film critic.

And we were talking about John Wick.

So overall, Matt, thumbs up or down on Wick.

You seem a little mixed, but mostly in favor.

Yeah, I would say as summer entertainment goes.

It's a good time You will it does the smart thing of ending with its best stuff the final hour of the movie is better than the first hour It's not the best John Wick movie John Wick universe movie It's probably arguably the worst of any John Wick movie But you know the worst John Wick movie is better than most action movies that come out So yeah, I would say it's worthwhile at least for like a discount Tuesday or something like that.

I think you

will not feel like you wasted your money.

Nice.

I'm anxious to ask you about this next film, Friendship.

I've not seen it.

I live kind of in the sticks.

I don't have access to cool movie theaters like you have in Milwaukee.

But I really want to see it.

It sounds very cringe comedy fun.

What did you think?

What did you

think?

Yeah, so it's called Friendship.

It stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.

Tim Robinson is this dweeby guy, suburban guy who ends up kind of being obsessive about this neighborhood weatherman.

And I thought it was hilarious.

If you are a fan of, have you seen I Think You Should Leave on Netflix?

I have not, no.

It's kind of a sketch comedy show.

Tim Robinson used to be on SNL.

He was on SNL for like a season, didn't fit there, and he made this new kind of, you know, little sketch comedy show called I Think You Should Leave.

It's a lot of like...

anxious cringe comedy guys not knowing how to function in society

and

this is like a feature length version of one of those sketches and if you like I think you should leave then that is mana from heaven that is the best thing ever um it it even has you know it has it's kind of its own dan flashes t-shirt shop which if you know if you know I think you should leave you know what i'm referencing so it has kind of its own version of that in friendship I had a really good time with it if you are not a fan of kind of cringe comedy

And I think you should leave.

This is not the comedy for you, but if you are, you should be already seated to watch it right now.

I just made a note to myself to watch that because I remember when I was doing the rundown of what was opening and I was on friendship, I was like, I have to check this out.

Like I've heard really good stuff, but you're right.

It's kind of like a, I mean, I like that kind of stuff.

I like that discomfort, you know, like the office or something like that.

And I've heard, I think you should leave is like that.

times three.

Yeah, some of the sketches as all sketches, you know, shows are some are better than others.

But I think the hit rate is a lot higher than the miss rate.

I think it's it's pretty hilarious stuff.

And I've been really happy to see that it's kind of been a mild summer hit.

I mean, obviously, $15 million isn't going to give Avengers any heart attacks at the top of the box office.

But, you know, for a weird indie comedy starring a guy who is kind of more of a niche comedy star,

And obviously, this movie doesn't have the kind of massive publicity of something like a Lilo and Stitch or a Mission Impossible.

It's been really nice to see it.

Yeah, find some success.

Find its audience.