Product Placement and Goat Yoga (Hour 2)

Broadcasting live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who binge watches TV for a living but doesn't get paid, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome.

Tonightlite.

I am Pete Schwab.

It is great to have you with me on this Thursday.

We finally have a nice day outside, at least here in northeast Wisconsin, although there's always the imminent threat of rain.

But for now, it is gorgeous.

There are people outside probably not listening to the radio.

I don't like that, but it is nice to see people out and about celebrating a Juneteenth here in Green Bay.

Lots of people out celebrating today.

That's exciting.

Happy Juneteenth.

Lots of people eating gelato.

So it is a summer is in full swing.

It looks like finally And this show is in full swing.

We have a great one tonight folks.

I Am excited because we are going it's Thursday, which means we're doing the popcorn pick of the week and that's always fun We'll do that at 635 with our guest who will be in studio JB Thompson.

He is a film producer and a

kind of mover and a shaker.

I just call him the guy behind the guy behind the guy.

He will be here at 635 to make the popcorn pick of the week.

That's always fun.

We'll have a new movie that we can check out, maybe one you haven't seen.

And if we have a good trend going here where the guests the last few weeks have really brought some some

Kind of obscure movies to the popcorn pick of the week, which is which is really fun But also it's nice when people pick one that we just haven't seen in a while that we really like so we'll do that at 635 like we do every Thursday night here at nightlight It's the popcorn pick of the week and then in the second hour.

I'll be joined by Chelsea Myris

And she is from the Old World Wisconsin Museum.

And we're going to have a lot of fun talking to Chelsea.

They have some great summer events coming up.

We'll discuss all of them, the kind of stuff they have for kids, a mid-summer extravaganza, a 4th of July celebration that they'll have down there.

We've talked about the Old World Wisconsin Museum a few times on the show.

And it's always fun.

And it's just a very special place.

So that is an hour number two.

We have a great question of the night, which we will get to and beg for your enjoyment and your participation in the show, ladies and gentlemen.

And I have to make a special announcement tonight.

Conrad is not here.

So he's fine.

There's no other NFL draft or anything like that he has to go to.

He is just, well, he's got the night off and Amanda Nimmer, kind of the all-purpose producer here, social media expert, the award-winning Amanda Nimmer.

Welcome.

Can we say award-winning when it's third place?

It's still an award, right?

I

guess.

I didn't even get a piece of paper.

I've been shut out of the Oscars for 30 years now.

I'm not getting, no, that's very exciting.

Of course, it's noteworthy.

Alright, alright, I'll take it.

Have you been able to parlay that in any way?

No,

no, not not really No,

I'm gonna give you 20 bucks just cuz I'm happy for you.

Yeah, I'm cool with that.

Yeah,

I'll take

it

technically that's monetizing So who wouldn't take 20 bucks 20 bucks is 20 bucks

So Amanda is sitting in for Conrad tonight.

And Conrad is, and it's because he, I still don't even know really what's going on.

He's doing the morning show.

Correct.

He's doing

the morning show because I can't do the morning show.

You

know, I

got the two kids, I got

my other

half who works third shift, who gets done at six AM, which is when that show starts.

Yeah, right.

So, you know, driving up 40 minutes for Manitou, it just doesn't work out.

So he's been doing mornings this week.

He'll be back.

He will be back and they're shipping me off to Madison for a couple days the whole it's just chaos and it's all because Todd Michaels Thinks he needs a vacation.

Thanks.

Oh my god that poor man needed more than a vacation He needs a spa day on an isolated island far away from any type of online communication system.

Yeah, I mean that's not gonna happen because

I thought he was off this week.

And then the first day he's supposed to be on vacation, I was telling this to Conrad the other night, we're getting texts and Todd's in the group chat.

I'm like, wait a minute.

Do you know how often we're like, stop it.

I know.

Stop it.

Go

away.

Stop.

And he's like, no, guys, it's fine.

We're like, no, it's not.

Go away.

And

we've got it.

Part of it's for selfish reasons, because I feel like if the boss is on vacation, go be on vacation so we can have, you know, we can have the run of the place.

Yeah.

So we can go party down.

Exactly.

You know, at my old radio station when the boss was on vacation.

We used to take random office supplies and we would use one of the wheelie chairs

and

bowl ourselves down the hallway to hit them.

We had two teams.

That's

what we did when

he was on vacation.

Did you grow up?

Was your previous work experience on the show The Office or something?

That sounds like right out of a sitcom

there.

No,

it

wasn't The Office.

You really did that.

I mean, we did fun stuff like that.

You

have to

leave a few minutes

early.

It's kind of weird here, though, because by the time I get here, and Con is here, it's just the two of us, mostly.

Occasionally, the cleaning people come in, or Eliza will be here, or whatever, but it's pretty chill.

We can't really play pranks on each other.

We could.

Yeah.

I mean, I could go put a tack on someone's chair, but I wouldn't be here to enjoy it the next morning with you.

No.

And I wouldn't do that anyway.

I'd rather line it physical harm.

Amanda Nimmer, thank you very much.

Filling in for the kid Conrad Krieger.

Who is, uh, who is off tonight because he's producing mino in the mirror.

Are they being nice to him?

I don't know.

I think so.

I

mean, if they remember his name at all.

He's just that guy.

No, that's just them.

They don't do names.

Just whatever's easiest.

I mean, you got Jim in the morning who can't say, uh, Frank Hermans.

He can't?

No, he calls him Frank Hermas.

And we're like, Jim.

Oh dear.

That's an easy one.

I know.

Schwabba would kill him.

He could never say Schwabba.

That's hilarious.

I had, all right, driving down, and it's a shame Todd is on vacation because he loves my driving stories.

Today I had a doozy, and this is the second time this has happened to me.

Not only were there two cars driving in sync, blocking both lanes for about five miles, going meh low to mid 60s, which is not awful.

It's better than 40s, but it's still like, let's go.

I got a life to lead here.

Two pickup trucks.

talking to each other through the window.

The driver and the passenger of the other side are having a conversation.

How fast were they going now?

Like low 60s.

Oh,

no.

No,

no, no.

And occasionally the trucks would kind of like the driver of one truck was getting in on a two and they were kind of getting closer.

It was very dangerous.

And they looked like idiots.

And I gave the tap.

I'm not going to lay on the horn because I don't want.

I've already been in a skirmish on the road about 25 years ago and I never want that to happen again.

But I gave the toot.

The guy goes like this with his finger.

He puts his finger up without even looking at me, like, we're just having a thing here.

Oh, like an archer, like, have you watched archer?

No,

I haven't.

Oh, man,

someone on here, please tell me you've watched archer.

I gotta write that down.

No, you're like the 10th person since I've been doing the show.

But that's his thing, like, someone will be, like, trying to say something important, and he'll just

hold his finger up.

Won't even look at them.

Just

hold the finger up, continuing to drink a drink or something.

That's

exactly what this was.

It was like, Hey, we're doing a thing here.

We're in the middle of something.

Okay, but you're on the interstate.

Pack it up, wrap it up and move.

And they finally did.

But then when I was leaving Marinette, this truck is in front of me about 50 yards, keeps veering over like three times.

One time it got onto the shoulder where the grass, past the gravel where the grass starts.

And I got my phone ready to call 911.

I didn't want to pass him because he's all over the place.

That drives me crazy too.

And you don't know if someone's drunk.

I've had, I've had to call

those in.

Oh, I have, I have too.

Believe me.

If someone, if something flies off a car or they're all over the road, this guy kept veering like maybe he had a kink in his neck or something because he kept veering to the left.

I mean, it could be a situation like my car.

So, uh, it's Kia and it has some issue that can't be fixed.

No one can figure it out.

But when you let go of the steering wheel, normal cars will just go straight.

Mine goes right.

You need an alignment

adjustment.

No, we checked.

It's not an alignment.

They can't figure it out.

How do they not figure that

out?

I don't know, but it drives me nuts.

So it could have been a situation like that.

Or what I experienced coming up here in the mornings is people falling asleep while driving.

I had to follow a Minnesota car.

for like a few miles because A, I didn't want to pass him and B, I didn't want him to hit someone else.

So I'm like on the phone with the, you know, non-emergency line.

They called

me back and they're like, yeah, he just drove all the way from Minnesota overnight and he was just falling to sleep.

He pulled over to nap.

They told you that?

Yep.

So somebody else had called that in too, obviously.

Someone must have.

Here's what's weird.

I've called that non-emergency line at times.

And that's like waiting for customer service with like Verizon.

Like, okay, this is an emergency, but I have other things to do with my day.

Like you almost have to call 911.

And that's when I started calling 911.

I'm like, you know, they're driving weapons kind of this is an issue.

get this person off the road.

But then I thought it was probably texting because that's just as dangerous as boozing it up, you know?

I mean, listen, I'll have a couple of cocktails in the car on the way down, but I know when to cap it.

I know what my limit is.

You know what I'm saying, Amanda?

There

is

a laugh.

See, last time we did this, you kind of did this thing where you laughed and you put your hand over your mouth.

I'm like, no, that's okay.

You can laugh.

So I'm used to a, like I'm used to being on air, doing the show myself.

Like

with

the board and everything.

That's how I was taught.

Oh, your old purpose, wow.

Old school.

That is, wow.

So when I would laugh, I always, it's just habit, especially when you're talking with someone

else.

You

just have to like pull away, hide it from the mic.

That kills the whole

tone.

You have to laugh.

All right.

Hey, I think it's time for our question of the night.

Do you have the thing for the, I just realized you might not have the intro.

That's what I lead into.

I asked you about the popcorn pick, but I forgot to ask you about the question line.

That's okay.

That's okay.

We don't

have to do it.

See if it's

labeled in

here.

See if you have it.

I'll try to kill time.

All right, right

now I'm

juggling folks because I'm on the radio, so they don't know.

Yeah, go ahead.

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.

This is a good one, folks.

Who is your favorite retired athlete?

No one playing currently.

I guess you could say old school from the days of your whatever.

Who is your favorite retired athlete?

That includes deceased.

I'm going to go right now.

I'm going to say, I'm sorry, Packer fans, but I have to say this, but I think Packer fans like him too.

Walter Payton is my favorite retired athlete.

And here's the thing.

Choose carefully.

It doesn't matter who you pick.

But I feel like in this day and age the stories you hear about athletes from 20 and 30 years ago Before social media, you don't know any of their skeletons or demons Like I've heard a lot of stories about other athletic heroes I've had but Walter Peyton was from my childhood 70s and 80s and Just loved him loved him on TV.

He was a happy guy.

He was always smiling playing the drums just seemed like a really

cool dude, to the point where I used to have, as a kid, I'd have dreams about getting to hang out with them.

So that's mine, Walter Payton.

Who is your favorite retired athlete?

And they could be deceased as Walter Payton is.

We've got some good answers already on social media, we'll read those, but let us know.

855-752-4842-8555.

75 Civic, and you can text us on the app, or if you're watching on the stream, you can leave a comment there at YouTube, Facebook.

Or what am I missing, Amanda?

YouTube, Facebook.

Twitter.

Oh, Twix.

Yeah, Twixter.

Twitter, yeah.

Sorry, I won't ever call it the other thing.

It's Twitter.

It's hard to do it.

And I heard these guys talking the other night, like, what do you do?

Like, it made sense when it was Twitter, because it's like, you tweet, you send a tweet.

What do you do on X?

Do you X?

I'm sending an X. That makes no sense.

It's not

catchy.

I would expect an X.

It's not clever,

yeah.

We've already done that if you're there give us a like or a follow if you don't mind always fun to get those for for nightlight And we will read your text on the radio.

We've got a great show as I mentioned.

I gotta check out Archer Yeah, I've heard that from several you

won't regret it.

It is so good And if you enjoy dark humor, it's just

the perfect place to

be

absolutely love dark humor We're talking it's the popcorn pick of the week folks.

There is a new

28 days is opening.

28 years later is opening this weekend.

Oh, I'm close.

We're out of time, aren't we?

But we're coming right back and we'll read your texts.

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

network.

Welcome back.

It is a beautiful night here in the state of Wisconsin and it's the perfect night to do nightlight.

I'm your host, Pete Schwabba.

Great show tonight.

Beautiful night in downtown Green Bay.

Hope you're having a great day wherever you are and

Hope you're letting us help you relax a little bit after whatever stress is the day brought That's why we're here.

We talk movies and TV and comedy and theater and music all kinds of fun stuff And our question of the night is who is your favorite retired athlete?

It could be from the 1800s.

What do you want it?

You want to go Ty Cobb?

Let's go Ty Cobb Nobody's picking Ty Cobb.

I said Walter Payton

Let us know at 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic or you can text us on the app or the stream.

It all works.

And we've got some social media texts we'll read right away.

At 635, it's the popcorn pick of the week.

The guy behind the guy and movie producer, JB Thompson is here in studio to give the popcorn pick of the week.

Then we'll talk Old World Wisconsin and hour number two.

So let's do this, Amanda.

Let's read these social, you're the award-winning social media.

How many times am I going to say that?

When is it going to start to annoy you if I keep calling you the award-winning?

You're honestly the only person who's mentioned it in a while, so I'm cool with

it.

Well, you know why that is?

Because I'm a big sweetie.

Daniel Wheeler says, John McEnroe, I loved his outbursts on the court.

Yes.

I kind of forget.

I don't watch tennis or golf much, but I loved when I was a kid and seeing McEnroe just erupt and yell at the judges and say things like, you cannot be serious.

It was gorgeous.

Vince Moranto on the social media says, fortunate enough to have grown up watching Walter Payton, Michael Jordan, Tony Esposito, Ernie Banks, and Frank Thomas.

Hard to pick just one.

Yeah, I would put Michael Jordan up there too.

Ernie Banks too.

Let's play two.

Gotta love Ernie Banks.

My other childhood hero when I was growing up was Lou Brock, who played for the Cardinals.

Loved his game.

Love how fast he was.

He had a cannon for an arm.

But I'm still going to stick with Walter Baton.

Chad Fran on social media says Brett Favre, duh.

Hey, this is open for discussion, Chad.

This is not a open and shut case.

Chad can get a little sassy.

Well, except Brett Favre, he's got some, I would say he got skeletons in his closet after he retired, it seemed like, with the charity thing.

But on the field.

Even as a bear fan, I love that guy's game.

When a guy can puke on the sidelines and go back into the game, he's okay in my book, because I would have hung it up.

Monica Hale says, Yannick Noah, French tennis player, turned musician.

I did not know about the musician.

Monica, thank you for that, but I do remember him as a phenomenal tennis player.

Great choice.

Matt Harper, Michael Jordan.

You know Matt Harper, right Amanda?

Don't don't ask me about this the sports.

I don't do the sports unless it's playing rugby

No, no, no Matt is a rock-wrapped

Oh that Matt Harper.

Okay.

He might

be a good athlete

by the way We got a collar on the phone.

We do we do is

it

it is Richard who wants to share.

Oh,

please put him through

there.

We go.

Hey, buddy.

How was how's it going tonight?

Oh It's getting warm, but it's going you know

I got two right up there in football, Gale-Sares, I used to watch them all the time, and Walter Payton.

Nice.

And you know how Walter Payton got so many yards?

Just running

hard.

In the off season, when he trained,

at

his residence, he had hills.

He put a hardness on, and he'd run up the hill like he was a ski lift.

And sometimes he would put weights on too, right?

The ball I'll set it down ahead before he went down.

Yeah, wow.

That's a great

memory.

I remember that.

He got extra yards every time he went down forward with the ball reaching out like he was at the goal line.

That is awesome.

And you know,

it's funny.

You talk about Gale Sears, Richard.

I remember like he was before

my

time, but those highlight reels.

That guy, if he didn't break

his knee,

who knows

what would have happened.

I watched him live, you know, watching the games.

He just caused so much trouble.

If they'd have had medicine, he'd have had a knee and went longer.

Yeah,

no kidding.

Hey, that's a great call.

Thank

you, Richard.

Much appreciated.

Have

a good one.

And two great

choices.

You too, buddy.

Yeah.

Walter Peyton and Gale Sayers.

Can't go wrong there.

Matt Harper says Michael Jordan.

Our buddy Rich Talarico said, do you know how to pronounce that name, Amanda?

on the social media, Fedipitis.

I'm gonna say that, sure.

It sounds made up.

It sounds perfect.

I

gotta go to the Google for that one, Rich.

Rich is always up to something.

He's a funny guy, I don't know.

He's the one who wrote the substitute teacher sketch on Key and Peel, so that could be a play on that.

Conrad Krieger, supposed to be taking the night off anyway, he says, Marshawn Lynch, interesting.

I've never heard the K-man talk about Marshawn Lynch.

And then he also says, also my favorite brewer of all time.

Prince Fielder.

Very nice, Conrad.

We miss you, buddy.

Hope you're having fun with the guys in the morning.

And then let's go to the stream and let's try to get these in before the break.

PJ says, Tony Hawk, who, while retired from competition, remains a prominent figure in skateboarding and a successful entrepreneur.

I like that.

Outside the box, I never would have thought of Tony Hawk.

Scott Tom?

I know Scott.

He says, have a great live stream.

Jimmy Pardo Jr.

would, James Pardo Jr.

would be proud.

Well, thank you, Scott.

Scott is a huge Jimmy Pardo fan.

Scott, I would encourage you to look for the last time Pardo was on this show, and he made fun of my shirt.

It was gorgeous.

Also on the stream, Green Bay Lama says, welcome back to Green Bay, Joe Keegan.

I finally watched The Godfather of Green Bay thanks to your appearance on The Liarly Show was entertained.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for watching Green Bay Lama.

And Kristen, if you haven't checked out Kristen's show, it's on Saturday and Sunday, and it's great.

Kristen does a great job.

and three o'clock, right, I believe?

Yeah, three o'clock.

Saturday and Sunday, Kristen's outstanding, so that was a lot of fun to do.

She said, I'm never coming back, but that's okay.

We had fun, our one hour together.

Carrie from Tosa says, Donald Driver, a real class act, could not agree more, Carrie, that's a great choice.

Annie from Watertown says, hard to believe how popular tennis was then, 70s, and not now.

It's popular now, don't you think?

But was it more popular in the 70s

right now the rage is pickleball everyone cares about pickleball Name one pickleball athlete couldn't do it

Emerson layman.

Oh

Well, he's my favorite.

I don't know if he's the best or not, but Annie from Watertown says Billy Jean King another great one trendsetter Jim from Appleton says We're gonna save this text Jim because we got a we got a break and then we got to JB Thompson here the guy behind the guy to give

popcorn pick of the week.

Great to have you with me tonight, folks, on the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's time for the Nightlight Popcorn Pick of the Week, where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't.

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, and it is Thursday night, so we are jumping in to do the Popcorn Pick of the Week.

Thank you, Todd Michaels.

He's not even, he's still working, even though he's not here, because his voice just permeates the network.

I

think he's got a problem.

He might.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome.

I've gotten to know this guy over, well, he's a listener and he's referred guests and he knows a lot of the guests I've had and he's very tied into the film world here in northeast Wisconsin.

He is a smoker of cigars, a producer of movies and I refer to him as the guy behind the guy.

behind the guy.

JB Thompson joins me in studio now.

Welcome back tonight, buddy.

Thank you very much, Pete.

Appreciate it.

Last time you were here,

you were on the stream, right?

We had you on over the interwebs, I believe.

So it's nice to have

you here in the studio.

How was the

traffic coming up?

It was beautiful, actually.

The southbound traffic was not good, but coming up here, and it was fun to watch people compete for parking spots out here on Washington.

Like they literally, it was like blood.

Trying to get in his part as well.

You

know, it's weird.

It's like in the winter, like all of these spots will be available, but it's summertime in Wisconsin.

Well, everybody just takes advantage of it.

And it's like, there's no parking anywhere.

Might as well be Manhattan, you know.

All right.

So this is exciting.

So we're going to get to know you a little bit tonight, JB.

We're going to do the popcorn pick first.

Then we'll find out what JB is working on because he's a very busy guy and he's got a lot of projects in the works.

You're tied into film festivals.

We'll get into all that.

I see a rock in the Appleton cigar company hat, which I'm a huge fan of.

we'll talk about some cigars in a bit too, but let's talk, let's start with movies.

This is the popcorn pick of the week.

What do you, how do you like to watch movies?

You like to go to the theater or watch at home with friends?

It really depends on the type of movie it is, right?

So judging different film festivals and stuff, I'd rather do it at home.

Okay.

Because then you're, you're 30, 40 minutes into it and you're like, then you can turn it off.

Yeah.

But when you go to the theater, I mean, typically you've done like I'm,

I have more leniency with movies at home.

Like, if I'm gonna go spend money in the theater, I pretty much know or suspect I'm gonna like it.

And you're right, I think I maybe have walked out of one movie from a theater my whole life, because you go there, you take the effort to go there, you put the money down, you're staying, you're miraculously hoping things turn around so often do not, but.

Your inner father comes out like, you spent

money on this, you need to sit through this.

Exactly.

So, alright, so you like to watch at home.

What is your genre of choice when it comes

to films?

To be honest, it's all over the map.

You know, I really like good story-driven movies regardless of what genre they're from.

So it could be like I just went to the premiere for Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road, which was an independent promotion.

So that was kind of a vampire movie.

How was that?

Where did you see that?

Sun Prairie, they had a preview.

Screening for Marcus, right?

Marcus there, yep.

How was the film?

It was great.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a buddy comedy of essentially a group of vampires on a rampage going through and doing what vampires do.

So the cinematography in it was beautiful and it was chock full of a lot of jokes.

Austin Galante wore a lot of hats.

He was on the show when

last time I

was in Madison promoting the film and I don't live in Madison.

Otherwise, I would have totally been there.

Well, that's good.

I'm glad it worked out.

When you see someone pour their heart and soul into something for so long and work that hard on something, I'm glad it turned out okay.

All right, so what is your, so you like to watch movies at home?

You're all over the board.

That's a great response because I'm that way too.

I don't typically watch horror, but I will if it's really good.

What do you have like a favorite?

So you watch at home.

What's your what's your snack of choice at

home JB?

To be honest, I'm not much of a snacker Okay, but when I do go for snacks usually I'll get like you know some of the stuff I brought in So some variety special popcorn, you know some different odd things I guess

Let's do that.

You did bring in a goodie bag.

Let's show people on the stream what we're dealing with here and how serious we take movies.

This is

serious.

This is serious.

The popcorn pick

of the

week.

All right.

Where is this from?

Oshpop.

Oshpop.

So that's

Wisconsin.

Chris, right?

Yep.

Chris

has been on the show.

Sometimes we have actual popcorn people make the popcorn pick of the week.

Have you tried this, Amanda?

I have

not.

All right.

Stop

staring.

It's delicious.

You can come and have

some.

We'll turn some of this over there.

But there's a couple of different varieties he sent me with.

He said, I need to make more friends.

This is the easiest way to do it.

Oh, cherry cola.

Yeah.

These are some of his brand new flavors that he's rocking out.

But he does a great job.

He's always come up with something new.

So generally something that he gets that's sweet and savory.

I love it.

There's

drumstick popcorn.

Well done, Chris.

And here is cherry cola.

Now, Chris was on a long time ago.

I could have him back.

And especially if he's given free food.

You've got to have him back.

Is that unethical, Amanda?

I think it's borderline.

I'd also think you need to clarify for listeners, when you say drumstick, do you mean the chicken variety or the ice cream variety?

No, I mean an actual drumstick like Tommy Lee.

It tastes like a wooden drumstick.

but with his sweat on it.

No, I think

that's

the ice cream one.

Yeah, it's got to be the ice cream one.

These are

great.

Thank you, Chris.

So we got these.

All right.

I'm going to try to set these up right here.

Put people in a mood for movies and popcorn.

There you go.

And then the deermageddon hot sauce.

Okay, deermageddon

is a film.

It's all

about merchandise.

And I've heard it's a nice, it was a play,

correct?

Um, nope.

Dear McGuiden is just, uh, Ed Gein was the play.

Ed Gein, the musical, theatrical play.

Yeah.

This

is, uh, Dear McGuiden and tell us about Dear McGuiden.

It's all about merchandising.

No, it's a love letter.

Yeah, for sure.

It's a love letter to Wisconsin.

And actually we're in pre-production for the feature right now.

We did a short that we put in a bunch of film festivals.

And

so that's coming to the end of its one year run there.

And it's been a lot of fun.

So, I mean, that's Dan Davies in that one.

A lot of people that you've had on this show, Dan Davies, Craig Connit, you know, I think Jason Busse, I don't know if he's ever been on here.

I don't think so.

But Daniel Wheeler.

Yeah, Daniel Wheeler.

The last switch of Wisconsin.

And yeah, just a ton of great people were in there.

Kayla Kelly, which I think she's been on here too.

Yes.

Kayla Kelly was on the show, yes.

Yeah, pretty much.

I was at the coffers of Wisconsin actors.

So she's in

that too.

She's a UP actress.

This is interesting because we had a week or two ago,

I had Stephanie Gerno on who lives in Sioux St.

Marie.

And I know Kayla lives up way up, I forget the town, but, and then I had a comedian on.

I try to reach out to the UP people because listen.

You take your craft seriously.

If you live in that remote of an area and are still willing to try to pursue a career in show business, I think that deserves a tip of the hat.

I agree.

All right.

So that's fantastic.

All right.

Fun fact about Kayla, I've actually been following her on TikTok longer than before she came on to your show.

Oh, okay.

When she came on, I was like,

Oh my God, I know her.

You don't want to know

what happened.

I have a funny story about Kayla before I knew who she was or knew anyone that knew her.

Somebody said, oh, there's an actress that lives in the UP named Kayla.

I didn't think it was Kelly though.

But so I looked her up because I was in the, well, pre-production, pre-pre-production stages of casting like a million and a half dollar film, a low budget indie.

And they told me about this UP actress.

We were going to shoot in the UP.

So I made a friend request.

Never she's enormous.

She's

denied you.

That's bad business.

I Might have sent her a message too.

Maybe she just thought I was a creep.

Anyway,

wabba guy Anyway,

the

project got put on hold.

So what would it look like?

I was how do I get this?

I don't know.

I don't think we need to merchandise all the stuff So

you guys what did you do the proof of concept for it?

Was that just a film festival

run?

Yeah, it's called the rise of deer McGinn.

So it was a small chunk of like something in that same

vein of that community.

So like another story driven thing from that community.

All right.

Let's get an update on that after we do the popcorn picks.

So, okay.

So

you go, no, it's

off track to hear.

No, you're fine.

All we do is go off on tangents.

That's part of the fun in my opinion.

So, okay.

So do you ever have like a full meal at home?

I mean, when you watch a movie or a

cocktail?

Not especially.

Really?

Like, you know, I drink every once in a while, but I'm not really a big home drinker.

Okay.

as much as I used to be, but I guess I also have three young daughters and a wife, so like trying to watch a movie at home is usually later at night to try to get it quiet so you can actually enjoy it.

Yeah, totally.

Do your kids, do you watch movies with your kids?

Absolutely.

Kids films, what's your favorite kids film?

Well, I don't know if I watch kids films with them per se, but like my oldest, we watched Spaceballs the other day.

Oh

yeah.

She was laughing because she got the humor and my wife's like, well, I guess you got one so far.

That like your sense of humor.

Your wife's adversarial when it comes to your movie choices?

She doesn't like my sense of humor.

I thought that was one of the biggest attributes for her to choose me, but I guess I was wrong.

I'm sure she has good qualities too.

All right, so what about like, do you ever try, I used to do this.

I know this sounds really geeky, but when I would have a certain movie on.

Is

your wife's name Caroline?

It is.

She's

on

the stream She's got a great sense of humor.

It's just different than mine, you know She's more of that straight laced kind of how things line up is is what she thinks is funny

dude I totally get that I my wife Does not laugh at me and I think that was my attractions or we met in our early 20s So I was trying to be a comedian and I think I saw that as a challenge in some weird way, okay, and she still hasn't laughed at me once and

in several years.

Anyway,

thank you Caroline for the text and we'll get JB home at a reputable hour.

So, all right, so, because what I used to do is like, if I was watching a movie about baseball, I'd have a beer, like

the

baseball game.

I was watching like a cop show or a PI movie.

I'd have like Irish whiskey or something, you know, like I used to try to pair it like that, but I'm not as geeky as I used to be.

Interesting.

You made it into an experience in your home.

I did,

yeah, I tried to make it into an experience.

JB Thompson is here, folks.

He's the guy behind the guy.

behind the guy.

He's also a movie producer and you do a lot of marketing stuff, right?

Absolutely.

All right.

What's the name of your business?

Midwest Digital Ninjas.

Yes, I love that name.

And we named it that because I worked for a lot of big marketing companies and they'd always brand everything for everybody with themselves.

Yeah.

And I thought the business should shine through so I don't brand any of my stuff.

Like all my marketing's out there, but it's not branded with my name.

It's all given credit to that business owner.

So.

That sounds like it.

It's kind of the way it should be.

Yeah, I agree.

Okay, but people don't do that.

No, well, they're always branding to try to get more business for that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay, so when you are at the theater, JB, I know you say you prefer to watch at home and people are being allowed.

What's your approach?

Do you shush them?

Do you give them a look?

Do you just start open up at a can of whoop ass or

what do you do?

To be honest, I probably wouldn't do anything.

Just chill and be able to concentrate and watch the movie mind you like I said I have three little kids

right

concentrate on anything And I mean the grant that they're 11 10 and 7 now

okay, so they're a little

quieter

Yeah,

but it doesn't bother me I can focus on the movie and people can be loud see you're a big dude I would think

I mean if he came over to tell you to button it at the movie theater

What do you think you'd do?

It wouldn't have to be him.

It could be someone half my size and I'd be like, I am so, so sorry.

I will leave.

I will

leave.

That's Wisconsin nice.

Oh,

that's funny.

What movies hit you right here?

What kind of movies make you emotional?

And if you have a specific example, that's fine too.

Like that was my popcorn pick of the day, like that everywhere, everything all at once.

that that was a phenomenal story.

I guess we just got it.

And it hit me in the feels.

Sorry.

Let's

hear that again, TV.

Sorry, sorry.

The everything, everywhere, all at once.

Oscar nominated.

It was a phenomenal story.

Yeah.

And it was about, you know, like I remember when I go back and I've written some things and done some things.

And when you think about characters, I remember Stephen King on writing, he always says that no matter how insignificant a character is to them, they're their whole universe.

Yes.

And so as a lady in a laundromat,

that was running a laundry service and her husband.

So these are two people that, you know, hey, how you doing?

You drop off your laundry, you walk right by them.

Don't even think twice about it.

And they built this whole universe around it, but

you

watched every single one of those people change throughout that film.

You watched character arcs that were just beautiful in the development and the way they did it.

And they took one of the most confusing things ever and kind of simplified it.

You still have to follow some things and understand some things, but

I've seen other movies like Mr. Nobody is another example where they tried to use all these crossroads where you hit a crossroads and you make this choice versus this choice.

And it was really confusing.

Absolutely.

That's a great

breakdown, too, by the way.

Just love it.

And the director has a new film out, too.

We'll

talk

about that.

But that's a great pick.

Everything, everywhere, all at once, folks, is the popcorn pick of the week.

Compliments of JB Thompson.

We're going to do a very short break here.

And when we come back, we'll talk movies.

We'll talk area code hierarchy.

And

I think you know what I'm getting

at.

We'll do all that.

We're having fun here on a Thursday night.

Amanda Nimmer is in for the K-man.

And doing a bang up job.

You having fun?

Huzzah.

Yeah.

That was a good distraction.

We're

coming right back.

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Welcome back.

Oh, this is Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab.

It was great to have you with me on this Thursday.

Our question of the night is, who is your favorite retired athlete?

And the texts are rolling in.

We'll get caught up on those in just a bit.

Let us know at 855-752-4842, who your favorite retired athlete is.

An athlete of your, or days gone by, or icon.

Do you have one, JB?

I was thinking about that, and Rocky Byer is the first guy that comes to mind.

Oh,

Rocky Byer, yeah, Appleton.

Yeah.

And so I just remember hearing great stories about him, and they do charity events all the time, and the guy's in his late 70s, and they said he runs around and he'll spend 10 to 15 minutes talking to people all around the golf course for like 12 hours.

And I'm like, this is just amazing.

Where are people like, I talk about this periodically.

Where are people like that in our society that this guy who was a Vietnam vet, he was a pro football player, he's done a lot for charity.

Like it's kind of intimidating when you, when you, people like this exist and they have these, these incredible like Teddy Roosevelt, you know, resigned as undersecretary of the Navy to lead a charge up a hill.

Like he didn't want to send other people in.

I don't think those people exist anymore.

They probably do somewhere.

Probably.

I don't know what what would know to be pickleball champions that that would be the ones that are leading the charge as far as they're still being developed Dude, thank

you for dressing up by the way.

You look you look like a million bucks.

You got a suit and tie this I don't think this is the first suit and tie

guess we've

had on but it's

Very welcome didn't the guy in the pink suit.

Yeah, easy.

Yeah, yeah easy

Ezekiel Drews.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

He came in with the

pink suit.

That suit is a spectacle.

I love it.

It's fantastic.

All right, you're rocking the Appleton Cigar company.

They're a proud sponsor of, I hope they're proud sponsor.

They're a sponsor of Nightlight.

I can't speak for Norm.

He seemed to have a good time last time he was here.

But do you like a cigar with a movie?

That seems to go.

I say cigar and whiskey and a cop movie.

Man, that's a...

I don't need anything else.

You went back to like the theme and I mean, I guess it could have gone either way with the cigar and the whiskey or like a handgun or something in the cop movie.

But no, I think that'd be great.

But that would, again, I'd have to get that past my wife unless there's a smoking theater that you know of.

Yeah, that's true.

But you could holster up, I think, at home.

There you go.

Have a

gun on just to play the part.

Mark can stand

outside the window while the TV's on

and smoke a cigar outside.

Maybe the Appleton Cigar Company can do movie nights.

Ooh.

Now you're talking.

Yeah.

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I heard.

I was very intimidated when I met her when

I first came in.

You knew she was getting ready to post about you.

Yep.

So all right, we have to get this out of the way to JB.

It's so great to have you.

If I don't.