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Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy Friday, everybody.
Great to have you with me.
Joining me on this overcast, downright chili, Wisconsin evening.
I hope it's nice or where you are, but down here in our, over here, out here, up here in downtown Green Bay, it is blustery.
And we got a muscle through tonight.
Hopefully it'll be nicer this weekend for Father's Day.
Happy Father's Day ahead of time to all the dads out there that might be listening.
It's an important job and at times, thankless.
But keep keeping the faith, folks.
Dad's tip of the hat.
Conrad is riding shotgun as usual.
Do you have a nice Father's Day message for your dad, Conrad?
I'm sure he has good qualities too, though.
You know
yeah,
I got you
We did.
We had Todd Alba was here.
Yeah.
It was fun to be a guest on Todd's show.
We have him on Nightlight quite a bit, and he's had me on several times.
I always enjoy hanging out with Todd.
And yeah, you were here.
You produced that show, too, or helped produce it, I suppose.
Really?
Yeah.
At two o'clock?
Yep.
What were those guys still doing here?
Oh, to be a guest on the show?
Yeah.
Oh, I thought they were like loitering or something.
They were waiting for the
And we've got more stuff going on.
It's a new Whisco Weekend weekend, like they all are.
Lisa Hale hosts and does a great job with new Whisco Weekend.
I have a classic movie pick.
Do you have anything in the show this weekend?
All right.
Well, that's, that's exciting.
Good luck.
And I have a classic movie pick, which I'm very excited about.
I sort of have a flag day.
Well, the whole episode has a flag day theme.
And I picked a movie that I think kind of plays along with flag day.
I like to do that whenever I can.
And Kristen Lyrely show is on.
I think I'm on that show this weekend, right?
You are.
Yeah.
So Kristen and I will have fun.
Check into Dr. Kristen Lyrely's talker, if you will, this, this weekend.
You have two chances to listen on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Kristen does a great job, so.
And we've got a fun show tonight.
We've got a lot to get to, as usual.
Friday is jam-packed, starting us off at 635.
Actress and horror film fan, UP actress, I should say.
Stephanie Guernel will be joining us here over the stream at 635.
She's gonna talk about a couple movies she's working on currently and that will be out soon.
So we'll talk to Stephanie.
She makes it all happen from Upper Michigan.
I don't know, that's gotta be,
You know, I think we had a comedian, Jessica Phillips on the show months ago, and I did a gig with Jessica, who lives in Houghton, Michigan.
And folks, if you're a stand-up comedian, or in Stephanie's case, an actress, there is some driving and some travel involved.
And those are very remote places.
Stephanie is based out of Sioux, St.
Marie, Michigan.
Beautiful area.
But man, that adds some challenges to a career.
is a working actress.
But Stephanie will be here to tell us all about it at 635, as well as two new cool horror films she's in that will be out soon.
And then at 705, comedian Steve Hofstetter will join us for a bit.
Steve is a very funny guy, very hardworking comedian and...
He I really enjoy his comedy.
He did a drybar special.
He's been on Fox Sports He is just he's I think he's won a Nobel Peace Prize if I got that right for a comedy charity work.
It's very specific category But what a cool thing You ever want a Nobel Peace Prize?
Conrad in my previous life.
Yeah prove it
if I
he's nominated.
Okay, Steve was nominated.
Oh never mind nominated
That's pretty cool.
I'd take a nomination for anything.
But Steve will be here at 7.05.
He's performing in Appleton this weekend, so we'll get the details in as I understand that there are still a few seats open, but not many, because Steve packs them in.
So he'll be here at 7.05, and then it is a bar band Friday night, ladies and gentlemen.
Terry Barr.
is still on vacation.
I think she is into maternity leave time at this point, but she is, this is her third Friday.
She will not be with us.
We miss Terry desperately, but her vacation is well earned.
And filling in, like he did the last couple of weeks, will be Rocker, her Max, Inc radio co-host.
And Rocker's always fun to talk to as well on a Barman Friday night.
So there you go.
That's a show.
Let's not waste any more time, Conrad.
Let's get to the question of the night, shall we?
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Pregunta.
Question.
Question.
Okay, I have a question.
Questions.
This question.
Domanda.
Question.
Question.
Questions.
In honor of Father's Day, who is the best movie or TV dad?
You can say who you'd want to be your dad or who you think was the best out of the dads you saw.
Obviously, your own fathers are most likely irreplaceable, but if you had to,
in honor of Father's Day, who was the best movie or TV dad?
I think, you know, I, it's weird.
I usually give the question some thought.
I really didn't tonight.
So I'm going to kind of ruminate a little bit on this.
I have a couple that come to mind, but we put the question out there.
It's 855-752-4842-8557-5-CIVIC.
You can text us on the app.
Very easy.
We're on statewide.
So just click any of the stations.
Are there brewer games on tonight, Conrad?
Are we preempted in any of the smaller markets?
Let's go to the Google because I would love to hear from people on the app.
But if you're watching on the stream, hey, that's fun too, folks.
You can watch the radio.
I'm wearing a really spiffy shirt tonight.
I got my eyeglasses on, and I did not shave.
I like it.
Yeah.
Remember that we should peak grow a beard question.
I'm almost in that territory right
Oh.
But I don't think I'm gonna.
what do you mean
the
electric razor
right?
was took an hour with that thing it does with that old weed whacker
Not really.
You use an electric razor?
it takes you 10 minutes?
I've never tried one of those.
Interesting.
I've always done the wet shave.
Really?
Always.
And it takes me about three minutes to put shaving cream on and go to town.
And I don't... Yeah, that surprises me.
Even 10 minutes.
Because I thought about making the switch because it seemed easier and faster, but not according to what you're saying.
be over after the show.
I'd like to borrow your...
Yeah, so, well, okay.
That's a nice dad moment, though, speaking of Father's Day.
I remember I taught my son Joe to shave, and we have a picture of him holding the razor, and it was a very monumentous occasion in our house.
That was fun.
I don't know that my dad ever taught me to shave.
He's very handy.
He's rewired things, he's moved walls around in our house, but he never taught me any of that stuff.
And he never taught me how to shave.
I think I had to ask the neighbor to play catch.
You know what, come to think of it, I'm not really a fan of my father.
Wow, right.
He's a good guy, he's got good qualities.
He did, I got none of his handy jeans though, and he never forced me to do it.
And frankly, if he had, I would have probably, I would have probably resented him.
So.
Oh dear.
I don't mind it.
When I put on headphones or I'll put some YouTube videos on and I like to do it before I relax like, but I'm not, I don't think when I was your age, I don't think I did either.
Like I was already living with my wife at the time and she'd be like, you expect me to clean all this?
And I'm like, no, I don't.
It just doesn't bother me.
Have a seat.
Let's watch color television.
We'll clean it when we're ready.
I don't know.
Yeah, exactly.
But I've changed.
I've evolved, as they say.
So that is our question, folks.
In honor of Father's Day, who was the best movie or TV dad?
Let us know.
You can let us know in the stream.
If you happen to be watching the radio, you can check us out on YouTube, ex Twitter, or Facebook.
So be good to have you.
Please chime in.
We've got some great...
Some comments we'll get to in just a minute.
I want you to tell the story that you had today.
You had an issue at a gas station with two old Coots and I've had similar... I'm gonna tell you how I handled it when I was your age and how I handle it now.
So you go tell me what happened, because this is a good story.
have to.
As
Okay,
walk
you gave him the head shake
Right.
Some people think they're owed it.
And what can you do?
They're two old women.
The head shake is about all you can do.
You can't leg sweep them.
I feel like some people feel like they're entitled to that.
Like, well, I'm old or I have a disability or I'm just a jerk.
Some people walk through like you're there to hold the door for them.
I will say when I was your age, it used to bother me more.
than it does now.
I had an epiphany at one point where I was like, I'm not holding the door open for praise.
I'm doing it because I want to be that kind of person that just tries to make someone's life that little bit much easier.
But I say that, and there's been times I've wanted to get people in a headlock.
I
you're welcome.
I don't know, maybe they both thought the other was gonna do it, neither one of them did.
Hey, we've got some texts I wanna get to from last night's show.
I always try to let, I try not to miss any texts, but we've had a couple here and we were outside last night.
Things got out of hand with the Papa Murphy's pizzas we were cooking on the grill.
They were dynamite.
Check out the chicken tie.
I think it was the chicken tie pizza that was the best.
So we had...
Where are my texts here countered?
What am I looking for here?
We've got
It's kind
know if we would have got
it came in at 757 That's that's cutting close
especially for the length typically the thought that steady Eddie puts into his texts He says Pete back in the day late 60s tiny Tim became cultural TV and musical
A musical sensation taking the 1925 song tiptoe through the tulips to number 17 on the top 40 charts.
Great memory, Steady Eddie.
He got married on Johnny Carson's show.
Tiny Tim was a strange looking man with a high and annoying singing voice.
A strange man with little talent or creativity.
So what I'm really saying, Pete, is that I still have a chance to be a cultural icon and bring home some serious cash.
Steady Eddie, Tiny Tim died on stage in 1996.
That's a great text.
All right, we'll read Bud from Janesville's text that we got overnight.
And I'm gonna tell you folks what movie set had the most cocaine in the 80s.
It might surprise you.
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Conrad is sitting in the producer chair, and he's not just sitting there.
He's actually producing so that's that's good
question for the dad
Certainly protective
Yeah, I don't know let's get to I want to read the text we have but these are from last night where our question was Who's a celebrity?
Who's famed you just not get and I don't want to let these go this one surprised me Greg Schwem syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services He's been on the show several times.
He says Owen Wilson That's interesting.
I like Owen Wilson.
I think he's kind of quirky But you know I get everything subjective Joel Karnick civic media zone says Charo
I don't disagree with you, Joel.
I actually kind of do, because she is really talented.
She's vivacious and likable, but the only thing I would say in counter to what you're saying, Joel, is that she's a really good classical guitarist.
And she'd been on Nightlight, so I'm loyal.
Thanks, Joel.
Alan Whitebird says, Pete Davidson.
Oh, that's interesting.
I don't know what Pete Davidson really does.
I know he was on Saturday Night Live.
He's a stand-up comic.
He did his own movie, but He's kind of a just a he's he seems like he's segwaying into that I'm just a celebrity status and nobody really knows what his exact skill is you like Pete Davis con Pete Davidson.
I'm sorry.
Yeah,
Okay Alan Whitebird on social media.
That's his celebrity.
He doesn't understand
Carmella, how are you tonight?
Hey, I'm great, especially now that I get to talk to you.
Oh, you're just a big sweet talker.
It's great to have you.
What's on your mind tonight?
Well, I couldn't think of any dads.
And then you said movies, and then I asked, it could be TV shows, but then I thought maybe Father the Bride, Steve Martin's character.
Oh, yeah.
That's a good one.
And then I wanted to add about the holding the door thing.
And it goes both ways.
I had been, and especially a quick trip.
I swear I'm in a quick trip every day at least once a day.
Like
most
people.
Yeah, I know.
And I also try to open the door and I do the eye roll like when I get some young whippersnapper, but it's not always young people too.
And then I swear sometimes I'm holding the door for like two minutes and it's like, okay, all right, next.
Here we go.
That's okay.
That's the worst when you get, it turns into like rush hour, everybody leaving and somehow you get designated the door holder for like five minutes and you got a life to lead.
Yeah.
Exactly.
That's awesome.
You too.
Thank you, Carmella.
Have a great night.
Bye.
I'm gonna say, all right, my dad's, here's my dad's.
I have three.
Howard Cunningham from Happy Days.
He could be a little crabby, but he was always there.
And he just seemed real.
Like he wasn't a fantasy dad, like just the guy who's always the greatest guy.
He, you know, ran a small hardware store.
He could be kind of cranky at night.
He argued with his wife sometimes, but at the end of the day, just a great dad.
I actually have four.
Phil Dunfee from Modern Family, love Phil.
Oh yeah.
Kind of wishy-washy, kind of wussy a little bit, but just a good guy.
Yeah.
James Evans Sr.
from
Good Times, played by John Amos, loved him.
A real kind of a hard guy when he had to be, but also kind of a big softy.
Raising his family in the Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago was always there, well, until they killed off his character, but loved James Evans Sr.
and then of course Homer Simpson.
Homer Simpson is another, just a knucklehead with a very low IQ, but a good dad at the end of the day.
And
what about you, Con?
Look the guy's got his corpse.
Okay.
Hey, we have a do you have a dad?
Oh, you already said that
one
yeah, he was very funny.
Our little harmonica.
Yeah, he was a funny, funny dad.
All right, so I teased this before the break, so we need to play it.
I was just scrolling through Instagram.
Anderson Cooper is interviewing Barry Diller, one of the most famous TV and movie executives ever.
And this was their conversation about coked up movie sets.
And I just got the biggest kick out of this, and it surprised me.
Most coked up film set.
Coked up film
set?
Oh, Popeye.
No, you can watch.
By the way, you can watch it.
If you watch Popeye, you're watching a movie that you think of it in, you know, the thing they used to do about record speeds, 33, whatever.
This is a movie that runs at 78 RPM and 33 speed.
It is a Coke.
You visited the set.
I
did.
And you instantly knew everybody's Coke'd up.
Knew it.
You couldn't escape it.
They were actually shipping in film cans at the time.
that the film cans would be sent back to LA for daily processing of the film.
This was shot in Malta.
And we found out that the film cans were actually being used to ship cocaine back and forth to this set.
Wow.
Everyone was stoned.
The cocaine has always frightened the living daylights out of me.
Ever since Len Bias died, I think he had just gotten drafted by the Boston Celtics.
It always freaked me out.
Never wanted to go anywhere near it.
But that story did crack me up.
We have a guest on Monday, folks, Phil Krause.
He owns the Time Community Theater in Oshkosh.
And I told him I would give a shout out because he's coming on the show on Monday, but they're playing the Magnificent Seven at the Time Community Theater in Oshkosh.
On Father's Day, the 2016 version with Jonathan Joss, who was just...
who was just killed, actually, by a gunman.
Jonathan Joss was... I'm already blanking.
What show is he on?
I gotta pull up Phil's text.
But anyway, the Magnificent Seven 2016 great film.
Check it out at the Time Community Theater in Oshkosh if you're looking for Father's Day plans.
When we come back, horror film extraordinaire personality and actress, Stephanie Giorno will be here.
It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.
We are coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hey, this
is Adam
Brody and you're listening to Nightlight with Pete Schwab on the Civic Media Radio Network.
with me on this Friday night, folks.
Friday the 13th as we head into the weekend with some just absolutely lovely weather, at least here in the studio.
Wanted to read a text we got last night too from Bud.
Bud is out delivering papers between four and six a.m.
down in the Madison area.
And he says, hey, Pete and Conrad.
The reason I said that was because he listens to the rebroadcast.
You ever listen to the rebroadcast, Conrad?
thanks a lot.
Thought you were serious about the show.
Okay.
Bud says, Hey, Pete and Conrad, I don't get rappers.
This was in response to our question last night, like, who's celebrity do you not understand?
He says, I watched Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance.
And first of all, I couldn't understand him.
And second, there doesn't seem to be much musicianship, musicianship involved.
Now get off my lawn.
Love the show.
Bud from Jamesville.
Thank you, Bud.
You know what?
It's interesting.
I have actually become a Kendrick Lamar fan since that halftime show.
My kids are both into Kendrick and I totally get him now.
And I would say the same for a lot of performers.
You can't understand what they're saying.
So I don't know that it was definitely a rap thing or whatever.
It's just, you know, people get into playing the part and all that kind of stuff.
Like I know all of Springsteen's lyrics because I know and love Springsteen, but I don't know that I would know everything anybody is saying.
But yeah, I get that bud.
I don't know a ton about rap either, but thank you for the text and drive carefully out there and we will stay off your lawn.
Okay.
One more thing before we get to our guests, Conrad Kamm earlier texted this in.
I thought this was great.
We've been talking lately about, you know, we, I celebrate colored television folks and movies.
I love it.
I'm an inside guy.
I love everything about entertainment.
I love movies, TV, yada, yada.
So I say, let's celebrate ourselves.
And I have referred to listeners of nightlight.
Previously as I still can't even say it couch potatoes couch P Tatos Pete Tatos So this is what cam one of our listeners put together.
I just love this counter.
It's gonna post it in this dream right now That's horrifying and you know what that is look at how straight my hair is.
Yeah, it's it's definitely not that way.
It's my face super imposed on a potato.
It's a couch potato and
What happened was on Facebook, my daughter, at the beginning of COVID, I let her straighten my hair if she let me watch John Prine videos, because John Prine was one of the first casualties of COVID.
So she straightened my hair, and we posed for a picture together in the mirror.
And that's the picture.
So Cam found the picture of me with straight hair, which is, I don't know.
Thank you, Cam, I think.
That's not a good picture.
but it's better than my high school graduation picture, I will say that.
All right, so, ladies and gentlemen, we are gonna pivot here and talk about some acting, primarily in horror films.
My next guest has never been on the show before, but I thank God for social media, because every once in a while, someone pops up as a friend suggestion, and I'm like, oh, an actress.
Oh my gosh, from the UP.
So I had to send a friend request and try to get her on the show, and we did just that.
Stephanie Gerneau joins me now on Nightlight.
Hi, Stephanie.
Hi Pete, thanks so much for having me.
I listen I am in awe of you because you live so far like I where I live in Marinette at first of all I think I told you this in our exchange every time I see someone from the UP I'm like oh my god I live right across the river from the UP well the UP is giant it's like
yes
you're like six hours from me or whatever it
is
Yeah, all the way on the eastern side.
I mean, Canada's my backyard.
That is
great.
Because there's a Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan, and then one in Canada, too, right?
Yep, that's right.
So, all right, so tell us a little bit about yourself.
You're an actor.
How did you get into this racket?
And how do you make it work from Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan?
Yeah, okay, so I've been acting since I was in high school.
I'm 35 years old, so you know a long time But yeah, I did a lot of stage theater And actually I hadn't got introduced into film until two years ago One of my friends that I did stage acting with
they decided they were going to just make a movie here in Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan called Killer Cabbage.
And so that was my first step into, you know, the actual film life.
And that was that was a really fun movie to do.
I play a reporter and it's set like it's the only part of the film that like goes back to black and white.
And we do like the the old timey like the
The detective shows almost like a film noir
type.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it gives that little bit of throwback, but it's about killer cabbages that come to earth and try to take over.
Yeah.
And so that just kind of started the whole snowball from there.
Um, there were a couple of people involved in that project that loved it so much.
They also wanted to try their hand at a filmmaking.
So there was another project that was
was done last year called Yuper Frankenstein.
And that is in post-production right now.
It should be almost ready.
But that's going to show throughout UP theaters.
So I'm really excited to, yeah.
Yeah.
So we're trying to like put the UP on the map.
Like we do exist up here.
Yeah.
And it's such a great place to film.
I mean, there's so
many, I
mean, you can't really do a.
like a big city thing but like it's so beautiful up there and you've got the lakes and you've got the forest and there have been some great like anatomy of a murder was filmed up in Marquette and so I think I think it's great and why not the UP so all right so you've got this film killer cabbage have you ever heard of a film called the giant spider invasion
I have, yeah, so I'm a huge fan of B-movies.
I love indie film and I love that they just go outside the box, but...
Go
ahead.
Well, I was just asking because this Killer Cabbage kind of reminds me of, you know, just sort of like the Giant Spider invasion was in the mid-70s, and we've had the director on the show before.
And I love the, like you said, I like the B movies too.
And Killer Cabbage, Yuper Frankenstein though.
Please,
tell
us what Yuper Frankenstein is.
So Eupra Frankenstein is kind of our take on the classic Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
It is about a scientist whose wife tragically dies in a lab accident and the scientist is trying to
master the art of reanimation.
My character comes in as one of the lead neurologists in the nation and kind of helps him create this monster.
And so it really is just like a horror play, but with a uber twist.
Does Frankenstein have a UP accent?
That's what I want to
know.
Unfortunately, he does not.
He doesn't say much.
There are some UP accents that are dropped.
There's some, you know, like jokes that only Upers or people who are familiar with the UP will understand, like, littered throughout it.
So it's fun.
It's a fun throwback.
That's great.
Now, you're also credited as a writer on that film.
Yeah.
So it was kind of like a collaborative effort.
Um, we had Dave Karens wrote the original script and then like as more of our minds got together, we just kind of all added to it, like made some tweaks throughout some ideas.
Um, so he was kind enough to kind of give me a writing credit with some of my ideas that, that I had towards the film.
That's excellent.
Um, all right.
So.
Tell us if you would Stephanie.
My guest is Stephanie Gernot.
She is a UP based actress a living in Sioux St.
Marie, Michigan We're talking about some of the films.
She's done.
I love I just love the title Yuper Frankenstein.
Is that available anywhere to see or stream?
Almost, so it's still in post-production.
It's almost done with the editing process.
So hopefully within the next couple of months, we should be doing some UP theater releases for that.
So I'll be posting on social media about that once that is actually happening.
Okay, outstanding.
Talk a little bit, if you would, Stephanie, about the limitations you have.
because of where you live.
And you probably didn't know you were going to start film acting when you moved to or grew up in Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan.
I don't know if you have a family now or what, but you probably have commitments that will keep you there.
How do you make this work?
Because obviously every movie can't be shot in Sault Ste.
Marie.
Right.
I have the most supportive husband.
He just loves...
making me happy and he knows that this makes me happy.
And so I have two children.
One is about to turn 18 and then I've got a 15 year old son who plays hockey because of course you can't live in the UP and not play hockey.
But you know.
They all love what I do.
They think it is the coolest thing ever, which I wasn't sure, especially with my kids, if they were going to be embarrassed that mom is acting or if they were going to think that it was cool.
But they're super supportive.
So some of the issues and the challenges that come with that is obviously travel.
There's a lot of opportunities downstate that I find like casting calls for.
And thankfully, I do have some family that lives down there.
So if there ever is a project that's down in that area, I can go and stay with them.
But I've actually been
flying out to LA to film some stuff out there.
So, you know, you just, you got to be willing to travel, especially when you live in an isolated area.
Oh,
and how sister.
So let's talk about the two films you said you were filming in LA because I think I told you everybody I know
friends of mine who are working actors and work all the time say the town is dead and
I've
got a son looking into possibly moving out there and everyone's like don't come now it's dead it's dead and then here my new friend Stephanie says oh I'm in two movies we're shooting you're like the only working actress in LA
tell us about
those projects if you would
So I owe it all to Dustin Ferguson who is a director and he owns the production company called SoCal Cinemas.
He is like the king of horror out there.
I think he has like 162 horror movies under his belt at
this
point.
Yeah, so I did a short
for him back in earlier this year called VHS Violence.
And he really liked what we did on the short.
And so we've been in contact with him and he wanted me to go out there and film some stuff with him.
So I actually just got back last week for filming a movie called Life Forms 3, which will be out on 2B this fall.
yeah and then like once that was done he was like I got another one for you called man eater and I'm really excited about man eater because Walter Phelan who is also
most commonly known as Dr. Satan and House of a Thousand Corpses, and Sue Lanier, who was in the original West Craven Hills Have Eyes, have also been cast in this movie.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so like my teenage self is kind of freaking out right now that I get to act with such, you know...
bigger named actors because I never thought that I would be doing this at all alone acting with them.
Great little milestones too when you meet people you've seen on screen or you know you're like oh my gosh pinch me you know I literally just started The Hills Have Eyes about two weeks ago and I got about halfway into it because I'd never seen it before so I imagine that is something that was probably something you saw quite a bit of growing up.
My guest
is Stephanie
Guerno she's a UP based actress.
making it, getting it done from Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan.
When we come back, I want to ask you, oh, what should we ask Stephanie Conrad?
we're gonna talk about horror movies and I want to ask you Stephanie We'll do this after the break think about what other kind of movies you would want to do because you've got you've got horror down on your I'm
looking at your
IMDb page right now and you've seemed to have mastered that so we'll talk about some other films when we come back We're gonna do a very short break this is Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network
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We are crushing a Friday night here.
It's a few minutes left here in hour number one before intermission Our question tonight is in honor of father's day.
Who was the best movie or TV dad?
I said Howard Cunningham Phil Dunphy James Evans senior from good times and Homer Simpson and Conrad said what did you say
and
that's a good one and of course obviously our own dads
are our favorite.
But Mike Desitel on the social media says, in modern times, I would say Lance Barber.
His role and the way he portrayed it grew better with each passing season.
He faced real issues in his relationship with his TV daughter and was genuinely solid as I've seen in years.
Lance Barber, obviously, was on the show Monday night.
He played George Cooper on Young Sheldon and was with me and the godfather of Green Bay.
Lance is a great guy and that's a great choice.
Thank you, Mike.
Nathan says, Bill Cosby.
What the hell is Nathan thinking?
it has to be a joke.
It's obviously
something.
And Monica Hill says, Robert Duvall in the great Santini.
Okay, maybe not the best, but at least realistic.
Oh man.
That's, that's brutal.
I'm sorry to hear that, Monica.
Great movie, though.
Thank you for the text, Monica.
Always fun.
All right, we have a few more minutes with our guest, Stephanie Gerno.
She is a Sue St.
Marie based actress, and she is the star of many independent horror films.
She just finished filming two projects in Los Angeles, and Yuper Frankenstein comes out soon.
You have to keep us posted, Stephanie, on when we can see Yuper Frankenstein.
I'm very excited
to see that.
I definitely
will.
All right, so who are your acting influences?
Like when you grew up, you already mentioned one of them was in the Hills Have Eyes, but who did you watch growing up and who did you think like maybe two years ago when you started film acting?
I want to model my career after hers or his.
Who did you learn from?
Honestly, like I really loved Helen Bonham Carter and just her way of being authentically these characters over the top.
you know, horror icon.
Like she is my inspiration.
She is who I really want to, to be like, and really just like all these Jamie Lee Curtis, all these, all the classic horror, final girls, you know.
Yeah,
great.
Those are
all great.
Have you ever been to Mackinac Island?
Of course, yes.
It's been a few years, but I love it out there.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
It's like one of our favorite places.
And I always thought that would be a great place to shoot a horror film.
I know.
The Grand Hotel there, yeah.
Which is
supposed to be haunted anyway.
Right.
So we could actually do something with that.
Definitely.
All you filmmakers out there, let me know.
Since Stephanie ate your
ideas.
Exactly.
So are you a native of Sault Ste.
Marie?
Like, is that where you grew up?
Yeah, so I was born and raised here in Sault Ste.
Marie.
I moved away to the Tampa Bay area for a little while and ended up coming back, coming home to raise my family because, you know, small towns, you just, you can't beat a small town to raise your kids.
Yeah, especially when it's what you know, and you had good experiences there.
So that's,
That's excellent.
So what other kind of acting do you want to do?
Is there a role you want that's not horror related?
Would you like to be in a rom-com or an action film or something?
So horror is my everything.
So I would be very happy with just staying in this category.
But if I had to choose something else, it would be like very drama, something very serious or action.
Like that life forms one, I got to kill a bunch of aliens.
So that was pretty fun.
So I could do another action film.
That's great.
Well, Stephanie, we'll be paying attention.
Let us know when these films come out and we'll have you back on and keep us posted about how things are going.
It's been really nice getting to know you tonight.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for having me.
And I look forward to talking to you soon.
All right.
Break a leg.
Thanks.
I shouldn't say that to someone who's in horror films.
That's Stephanie Gernel, folks, UP based actress.
And all I should, you know, we should have done kind of right as head or do like a horror scream.
We'll do that next time.
You would have had to be ready for that, anyway.
So, all right, in just a few minutes, folks, after intermission, Steve, Steve Hostetter will be here, and we have a little sampling of his comedy.
He's at the skyline this weekend.
In Appleton, he's gonna join us after the break, and here is a small sample of Steve's comedy from his Dry Bar Special.
My trick is to bring a pillow with me, like a full bedroom pillow.
Every flight.
And I was flying home from a gig, and I put the pillow down, I put my head down.
And the flight attendant comes racing over.
And she says, you can't have a pillow in the exit row.
And I said, but I do.
It appears we're an impasse.
She said, well, what happens if we crash?
I said, it'll help.
It's a pillow.
I don't know if you know much about these, but they're soft.
They float.
Those are the qualities of something I'd like to bring with me to a plane crash If I knew that we were gonna crash I could bring anything in the world I'd bring a pillow and a second plane.
Those would be the two things I'd like to have She said no, what if we crash in the pillow fall someone has to get by it.
What will you do?
I said oh in that case, I'll I'll let them step on my pillow Because I'm not a monster And you'd have to be
for someone to be on fire, screaming, and just say, could you please watch the pillow?
That's Steve Hofstra.
He'll be here after the news.
Did we give Cam a shout out for making the couch potato?
Yes.
Did we mention Cam?
I know we showed the image he did, but okay, I just want to make sure we got
Yeah, which is...
which we talked earlier about that.
That's so cool.
Okay, so we're gonna be back, folks.
I gotta read Kurt's text, though.
He says, our question of the night is, who's your favorite movie or TV dad?
And Kurt Krause on the stream, watching on the stream says, when Malcolm in the middle came to Fox in about 1999 or 2000, we literally had friends call the house saying, you got to see this show.
This is your family.
They were pretty much spot on.
So best TV dad is Hal, played by the brilliant Brian Cranston.
That's awesome, Kurt.
Chad Fran says, hey, Pete, hey, Chad, thanks for listening, buddy, or watching.
Dave on the stream says, dad unshameless, William Macy.
That's fantastic.
All right, we're coming back.
We'll read more of your texts after the news, and we'll have Steve Hofstetter here.
He will be here, and it's a bar ban Friday night.
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