Popcorn Pick with Tom Clark(Hour 1)

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

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

And now a guy who gives edible undies as gifts just because they taste good, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

I forgot about that one.

You've been burying that, keeping that in a vault, waiting to break it out.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a great one, isn't it?

You know, you get home late at night, you got a game waiting for you, you're hungry, you just eat a nice pair of edible lundies.

It has to be weird about it.

Nobody has to make it a kinky, weird, dirty fetish thing.

They just taste good.

What flavor are you rocking?

Strawberry.

Strawberry?

Yeah.

I'd probably go for a watermelon.

Strawberry banana.

Oh.

OK.

Watermelon's good.

You'll have to bring some samples of it.

Watermelon's good.

It's a superfood.

Yes.

I don't know if that translates to edible underwear, but yeah, I'll bring some in.

I'll bring that when I ask to go to the Fourth of July party.

What can I bring?

And they'll say, surprise us.

Oh, boy, will I.

You shouldn't have said that.

Done and done.

Welcome to Nightlight, ladies and gentlemen.

Great to have you with me on this Thursday night.

Lots of fun to be had tonight.

It's another gloomy day in Wisconsin and that is radio weather as far as I'm concerned.

It is a beautiful day when it comes to radio and discussing the things we love.

Movies and TV and music and comedy.

We're doing the popcorn pick of the week tonight.

That'll be fun.

And we're talking indie film tonight.

Tom Clark, comedian Tom Clark will be here at 635.

Tom, I just had the pleasure of doing a read through.

We have a mutual friend.

who I didn't know Tom knew, who has been on this show, Rich Tellerico.

Tom is good friends with Rich as well, and Rich put together a read through of his new movie script that we did over Zoom the other day, and Tom read the lead role, and it was very funny.

So we'll talk to Tom about that, and anything else he's got cooking, we have a little, how funny is that clip I sent

you?

He

is a great standup.

And we'll play, I've got about a minute long clip of Tom's appearance on Conan that we'll tease in the next segment before he joins us at 635 to make the popcorn pick of the week.

I know Tom's gonna come up with something good.

And then Grace Painter-Cazelle, I wanna make sure I'm saying this right, because I did reach out to her and I asked her phonetically how to say her name.

And I think we nailed it.

So we will...

We'll talk to Grace at 720 or 735.

I can't remember when we booked Grace, but she will be here.

And she is the founder of Ruby Red Films, which will be, they do a lot of stuff.

Grace will be here at 720.

They're doing a lot of stuff.

They've got a project in the works now.

She's a Milwaukee based filmmaker and just reached out to the show about two weeks ago.

So I'm glad we got her on because her project sounds great.

And I'm very excited to talk to Grace.

at 720 over the stream.

And we've got, you know, this is so funny.

We talked about that when JD, JD, JB Thompson was here a couple of weeks ago, the guy behind the guy, behind the guy.

I made just kind of an aside almost, a throwaway comment about how I thought shaking hands was silly.

And it is.

It's just kind of a weird thing.

I don't know how it came to be.

I've done a little research on the topic.

Apparently, it's to show the person you're standing opposite from that you're not carrying a weapon.

Because oftentimes, people that are right-handed would reach across the body and pull out a sword, a sword, some kind of weapon.

So if you reached out your right hand and put it out, you were showing them you were not carrying a weapon or a sword or a machete.

So

it served its purpose back then, but mostly people don't walk around with weaponry like that.

Yeah, I would say it probably isn't the same meaning anymore.

Right.

But we've just grown accustomed to it, so we still do it.

I think it's strange.

So what do you,

nowadays, what do you think shaking hands actually, actually means?

Well, it's just like a hello, how do you do?

How's your father?

Is it some sort of respect?

I think it's just a peaceful greeting, but I'm fine with all of that.

I do think it's strange Like when you introduce two people hello stranger, I'd like to squeeze your hand.

Let's have an intimate act here I have no idea where it's been or how you choose to use your hand in your spare time But I'd like to hold it for a while,

you know The video that we're gonna play that you sent me.

Yeah

about the handshaking.

I thought it was hilarious because he's like, don't do these.

It's like, you know, I think I've done all of these.

Of course.

And I had a friend who is going through insurance training and he learned that when you shake a man's hand and a lot of times that's thinking becomes kind of a pissing contest for men.

It's who can squeeze harder who has the, and that's what's silly too.

And this guy said when they were the insurance company, he was undergoing training for.

They suggested when you grab someone else's hand, you kind of turn yours a little bit.

So your hand is on top establishing dominance.

Like they're gonna buy renters insurance from you because of that.

It makes no sense.

You know, the one, I don't know if you've seen this before when someone shakes in hand and then they'll like put the other hand too with it.

Oh yeah, that's way too intimate.

That is weird.

That's like you're basically dating at that point.

We don't need that.

And then there's the guy that tries to squeeze the living daylights out of your hand, catching you off guard.

It's

like,

there shouldn't be a contest.

But I find the idea that you just meet someone and you're holding a body part of theirs.

It's just kind of odd.

Like in the Far East, they do the bow.

That kind of says the same thing.

It's nice to meet you.

I feel like that's more respect too.

Yeah.

And I think the handshake that drives me the most crazy, though, is you ever get that guy who will shake your hand and his index finger kind of crawls up your wrist a little bit?

That's invasive.

Yeah, I know it,

yeah.

And very off-putting.

You know, the worst one, I think, when you're shaking hands.

I usually don't tend to initiate it myself.

Yeah.

But someone who recently washed their hand.

And then you get the wet hand.

Yeah,

even though that's a clean hand, it's still very unsettling.

Or you don't know if they washed their hand or if it's something else.

Well, you think they just peed on their hand and offered it to you?

It could have.

What kind of a psychopath would that have to be?

Yeah, but there are those guys, they squeeze it so hard, it's like, it's sort of like a, you know, it's like buying a huge pickup truck.

Or I think it's the same thing, you're compensating.

If you're willing to grab someone's hand that hard, it's just not cool.

So with that in mind, I think it's time to go to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

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Question.

Question.

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Question.

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Question.

Question.

Questions.

Oh, you guessed it.

Ladies and gentlemen, perfect timing.

This is national handshake day.

I'm not making that up.

There is a day that celebrates the shaking of hands.

How do you feel about the handshake?

I want to know.

And what would be a better custom?

I like the fist bump.

It's kind of touched knuckles.

It's a very quick kind of... Again, I don't know why we have to touch each other when we barely know each other.

But I like the knuckles better than...

better than the handshake?

Unless it's a friend.

Look, and I'm a hugger.

Like, if I know someone well and I haven't seen them in a while, bring it in.

Let's go, man.

Okay.

I'll give a hug.

Yeah.

But I find the handshake, you know, kind of strange.

So let us know what you think about the handshake.

How do you feel about the handshake and what would be a better custom?

What do you think would be more apropos?

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We'd love to get them.

So I think, I like a bow is good.

I think knuckles.

How about some weird move?

How about a, how about a dab?

I think that could be kind of cool.

Let's have a mini dance-off to say we like each other.

Well, I don't like that one.

Yeah, well, you know what?

It's not all about you, Conrad.

So here's a video I found.

This is, I was looking for, like, you know, my buddy Mike Tume finds these old instructional videos and I couldn't find one on the handshake and I googled...

basically googled my, I probably have no more fingerprints because of my googling today.

But I found a kind of a mock old school handshake video.

So let's hear that

now.

Bill, what's got you still on edge?

I'm just so nervous to meet all these new people today.

I'm afraid I'm going to shake their hands and

They won't like me.

Bill, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Over your lifetime and career, you will shake many a hand at social and professional gatherings.

And during that brief moment of physical contact, people are going to form opinions of you.

Your handshake could give them the impression that you're a warm, kind person.

Or a cold and aloof one.

You'll want to know how to give a handshake that creates a favorable impression.

I know, that's a lot of pressure.

Bill, don't be such a little emasculated mass of inanity.

It's time to be a man and learn how to shake a hand properly.

Well, alright then.

There are three keys to a successful handshake.

As you take the other person's hand, make sure to grasp it fully.

The web between your thumb and forefinger should connect with the web of the other person's hand.

Don't give a finger shake.

Be sure your handshake grip is firm, not a dead fish grip like a pansy.

However, you don't want to crush the other person's hand with a gorilla death grip.

Give the person's hand one pump and then release.

I

have a couple things.

If you use the word pansy and you really mean it, we're done.

And don't say man card that that's another one.

Oh, you better give up your man card Okay, those two those two Commonalities I could I could do away with but so there are

rules, right?

You know, I Like it said in there.

I've done all those I've had a

little

hand sometimes not you know going into it and then all of a sudden they got

Yeah, death grip and I'm sitting there just like

you can't once they Establish once they go in and really squeeze your hand you can't squeeze back because you're basically a dead fish at that point You're at their mercy.

You're you're your pointer finger and you're pinky.

It's just getting crushed.

It's awful.

They're all yeah, your fingers are like over the other ones Tom Clark our guest at 635 very funny stand-up comedian actor and Wisconsin native son has a very funny joke about hinge.

He has a great bit

I would Google this if I were you folks.

Go Google Tom Clark.

Awkward moments, something like that.

He does a great joke about shaking someone's hand and to make it extra weird smell your hand.

Oh, no.

And it's so great.

He sells it so well on stage.

So, you know, I think instead of a handshake, like that, like in the animal kingdom, they bump heads

like a ram.

That might

be too much.

That would be pretty cool.

Less intimate.

You say, hey, nice to meet you.

Just bump your

heads together.

Yeah, break someone's nose.

Yeah, that's great.

So I want to tell you, all right, that's our question tonight, folks.

It's National Handshake Day.

This day exists.

How do you feel about the handshake?

And what would be a better custom?

I called 911 today on my way down.

Really?

Someone was swerving, dude.

It was bad news I was on the phone with the cops for about five minutes And I told him what kind of car this guy was like literally and everybody's trying to avoid him was crazy You know what that's a guy whose hand I do not want to shake

I would like to give him a beating, though.

No.

All right, let us know your thoughts on the handshake, folks.

855-7524-842.

Tom Clark is here tonight, making the popcorn pick of the week.

We'll hear some of Tom's comedy next, and I'll read your texts.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I do come from a long line of show business people.

Actually, my great, great grandfather was actually a Civil War reenactor during the Civil War.

A little ahead of his time, a little ahead of his time.

My parents are older, older, older than me.

If your parents are younger, you're probably adopted.

And growing up, they're very homophobic, very homo.

I'm sorry, they're very homophobic.

They hated words that sounded the same, but meant something completely different.

That is such a great joke.

I absolutely love that joke.

I got to watch Tom, he did my football fundraiser for me in Marinette about a year and a half ago with his hilarious wife, Steph, they both did the show and man, what a great show that was.

and watch it and Steph is hilarious too.

She did the middle spot and then Tom closed and getting to watch him for 45 minutes or an hour maybe even was just outstanding.

So Tom will be here at 6.35 to do the popcorn pick of the week and all right you have to now I just told you the story before the break about how I called 911 on my way down here because a minivan some single dude in the minivan

was swerving all over the place.

Then he's going 60, then he's going 90.

And it's like, I don't hesitate anymore.

I call 911.

And I stayed on the phone for about five minutes.

And this 911 operator got all this information.

But you had a story that you told me about during the break.

Tell that story this first one.

Well, I don't know what unlocked a memory for me.

And when I was younger, I don't know, 10, I think I was with my cousin.

And we were at a bowling alley.

And we were out like

Those between two doors, you know, they usually have a pay phone in there.

Yeah, and we didn't think that If we didn't have the money in there, I would actually call 9-1-1 So like we typed it in there's no money in it and it still went through And when I said it this is 9-1-1.

What's your emergency?

I just handed it to my cousin And all I heard from him was this is Colin

He told the 9-1-1 operator his name

so so

So they, they showed up at the bowling alley and we weren't there anymore, but they, they found out who it was.

And yeah, my aunts and my group, they took us to the police station and we got lectured by the talking to why it's not good.

That's so cool.

911 in a non-emergency.

I absolutely love that.

We were so scared.

We thought we were getting locked up.

I thought you committed.

It's like a felony.

Yeah.

That's fantastic.

How old were you?

I think I was like nine or ten something around there.

That's great Our question of the night is national handshake day folks.

How do you feel about the handshake and what would be a better custom?

On the stream Dave says pull my finger

Okay,

it's actually less invasive

I don't know if we need to bring bodily functions into the equation, Dave, but sure, why not?

Pull my finger.

Going to the social media responses from earlier today, Amanda says surprise attacks.

Like a surprise tickle?

A tickle or just a takedown?

It's kind of an escalation.

Hey, nice to meet you.

Yeah.

I'm a kneecap, yeah.

Thank you, Amanda.

Mike Desitel says, I like the handshake.

It's civil.

I knew Mike was gonna like the handshake.

Mike is a very, is a ridiculously good citizen.

And I knew he was gonna like the

handshake.

Yeah, I'd like to shake his hand.

Yeah, he says it's civil.

That it is.

However, I'm not opposed to arm wrestling.

Now you made it weird, Mike.

Our

pal

Vince Moranto says, grab ass.

Yeah, why not?

I mean, come on.

It's just a butt.

And your clothes go for it Vince.

Let us know how that works out for you.

I wouldn't

I wouldn't recommend doing that.

I don't want to be the first one in I'll tell you that much Dave Hendrick all my buddy Dave.

Love Dave.

He says I like secret handshakes.

Yeah, those are good.

Secret handshakes are great, but how would you get a stranger?

Yeah, just kind of improv it.

I guess yeah be kind of cool too.

I Like all these so far.

These are great answers as usual here from the nightlight listeners

And Andrea from Graffin says, since there are far too many healthcare, oh, sorry, that is not intended for us.

Sorry, Andrea, we're not gonna read a little too political for Nightlight, but thank you to you for getting involved and texting.

I assume that was meant for Maggie.

Yes.

Hopefully Maggie will see that.

Cam from Appleton said, oh, that's not for us either.

Hey Conrad, did we get any text that were mentioned for, are meant for us tonight?

Yes, yes.

Tom from New Berlin

said, what the

age?

Shaking hands is great.

But try bumping Uglies.

That's

too far, Tom.

He says with you, Pete.

So he doesn't like him either.

But he's going a little too far.

Tom, I was thinking of something less invasive or intimate.

And Tom's just putting it all out there.

I don't think I like that.

And I think a hug is OK if you do like a bro hug, if you shake hands and you keep the arms between you when you hug.

You know, last week when I was...

lifting weights I asked someone to spot me for bench press and I got what I wanted I said I want to do about four and I did it and the guy showed some respect he gave me some nucks yeah and I was like you know that's great not a lot of people do that in a gym because they're always like oh this guy he can lift more than me or he can't lift as much as me so you

lifted more than him I

know I don't know if I did I'm just saying that's like some mentalities you know and like that gym atmosphere

but

he's just like

Good job

dude.

There are some I love when I work out because there's never anybody there Yeah, but when I was living in LA I remember I was on like an extra cycle or whatever the guy next to me and this guy looked like a Bigfoot like he had hair everywhere Okay, it was a sweaty mess and he reaches over or he goes can I take a look at your sports?

This is when newspapers and you put the newspaper over the bike and I would be and I always save the sports because I like that the best so he

He starts to reach for it, and then he goes, can I take a look at your sports?

And I go, yeah, as soon as I'm done.

He goes, oh, is that how it is?

Yeah, sweaty McGee.

Oh, freak.

Hey.

He could just say, all right, let me know when you're done.

Right.

Or here's an idea.

The only times at that time was a quarter.

Get your own.

You got a ballies membership.

Get yourself a newspaper.

Um, and I want to talk about Scarlett Johansson and Colin Joes to clickbait too.

Bulls save that.

Remind me that.

I got tricked into clicking.

Uh, it's happened before.

Alright, folks, when we come back, it's the popcorn pick of the week.

Our pal Tom Clark is here, the very funny comedian and Wisconsin native son.

Gives us a movie to check out.

You won't want to miss that.

Tom is always a blast.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Great to have you with me on this Thursday night the Christmas Eve of weeknights The Kid Conrad Krieger riding shotgun and this Our our question of the night is it's national handshake day.

How do you feel about the handshake?

What would be a better custom?

And I'm only rereading the question because we usually play the Popcorn Pick of the Week music to intro this segment that we've been doing for quite a while now, but Conrad seems to be back in Payphoneville when he called 911 with his cousin.

Do we not get the Popcorn Pick?

All right, hold on.

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.

That's right, buddy.

Don't think I won't throw you under the bus if I have to.

I think that's the first time you've ever forgotten.

It is the popcorn pick of the week.

Folks, it is great to have you with us because now, all right, by the end of this segment, ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna have a new movie to check out.

Either one you haven't seen or maybe one you've seen and forgotten about or one you've never heard of.

We've run the gamut here with this segment that we do every week here on Thursday nights at 6.35.

And here tonight to make the popcorn pick and just catch up in general is one of my favorite comedians.

He's a Wisconsin native son and he joins us over the stream.

Mr. Tom Clark.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, how

you doing?

Doing very well.

How are you, Tom?

Good.

Now, I've got an idea, you know, for the handshake day, but this is how to avoid handshakes.

Okay.

Medium shake someone's hand.

Smell your hand.

I

have to come clean, Tom.

I told them

your

joke earlier.

I kind of mentioned that, but of course I footnoted because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen when you do that joke and the way you smell your hand is just gorgeous.

So that's a great one.

Are you all right?

No, I told people also that you I didn't know you were a friend of Rich Taylor Rico's as well.

You probably know him better than I do.

But Rich has been on this show several times.

Great guy.

And we did this fantastic read through of his new script.

I won't divulge any details, but it was over zoom and you played the lead role and you were fantastic, buddy.

Oh, thank you so much.

Yeah, I've known Rich here.

The funny thing I saw Rich perform at Second City like in 1999.

I think Stephanie Weir was in that company at that time and he did this.

They were playing freeze tag and he did this thing where he's sitting down and Stephanie Weir is like this and they say freeze and Stephanie Weir says, I'm a ballerina and Rich says, that's not going to bring your mother back.

And that line just killed me.

He's like, I'll be upstairs polishing my gun.

Oh, man, that's great.

And I told him that when I finally ran into him out here.

And from that, we started to develop the friendship.

And then he took my stand up class, which is actually where that idea for the movie came from was.

Yeah, again, I won't go into the details.

But but I asked people to stand in front of the class and and the class members say, what do you see in this person?

So you look at somebody, you might say, oh, this guy looks like Biff from Back to the Future.

This guy looks like a lumberjack or whatever.

So from that, one of the things he got was how he got his idea for the movie.

That is incredible.

So that was years ago.

And the script

is just

finally, it's funny.

And that's just what happens with writing sometimes.

You table something or you shelve it and you go back to it.

But yeah, it was a very funny script and a great idea.

Yeah.

No, it was a lot of fun.

I was surprised to see him there.

I didn't realize.

Yeah.

Well, you must know about your movie career as well.

He did.

Well, he said that and he said he remembered me from being a Chicago standup.

And I kind of remember him.

I think he was just starting out in improv, but he and I did some really bad pilot together.

Oh,

that's

where I remembered him from.

And I don't even know if he remembered me from that, but he was just a really nice guy.

And I'm happy to be his friend.

And he's a great guest when he's on the show and really talented.

Oh,

yeah.

All right, so let's talk movies and TV snacks, Tom, before we get into some other things you have going on, how do you typically like to watch movies?

What's your approach?

Theater, home?

I mean, now it's all home.

I don't think I've been to a movie theater in five years or six years.

Really?

Pre-COVID.

Pre-COVID.

Yeah, I just don't go at all.

Actually, I did go to see...

What the heck movie was it?

The Deadpool 2.

We were in Vegas and we went to a movie.

This guy wanted to see Deadpool 2.

And it was fine.

I don't know.

It's such a, I mean, the big seats.

And I miss like the sticky floors and the popcorn everywhere.

And I used to like a comfortable seat, you know, go back to the old way.

Seats are a little too

comfortable now, I think.

Oh, yeah client and everything that was

fun though I

remember I remember working the road and going to movies with comics during the day and I missed that that was kind of a fun routine, you know

Yeah, it's everything's on your computer everything you can just watch and you know, I remember This was like probably 1981 or two.

I I was I was friends with this There's like one black family in my neighborhood and

We were friends and they took me downtown on a Saturday night.

We saw Skate Town USA at an all-black movie theater.

It was the most culturally awakening experience of my life because just hearing people yell at the screen and just the interaction

with the

movie.

It was the most entertaining movie I've ever watched.

You go to like, you know, walk a show and watch a movie.

It's so like

Blanned but there was like it was so active like I felt involved with the movie and like people are narrating stuff I mean, it's the funniest experience of my life.

That's

great.

I miss that.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally What do you what is your kind of like what genre do you like to watch time?

Do you have a favorite or a typical genre that you watch in the Clark household?

Usually comedy usually somewhat

poignant his poignant genre I mean sort of we like we like funny, but we also like something that has a little dramatic flair to it I'm trying to remember what we watched recently we watched this movie Thelma about this 90 year old woman who goes on a quest to To get a scammer get her money back from a scammer

with Richard

Yeah, yeah Richard roundtree.

That's right

It was it was good.

It was a little slow paced, but I did enjoy I enjoy a movie with like a good concept like

yeah,

especially like a Character that doesn't get used a lot of like an elderly woman and man going out on a quest to To kind of be the idea was like they're doing their Tom Cruise mission impossible right to get their money back and They're going around in like a motorized cart and yeah, I enjoyed it, but it was you know

It's always hard to execute in the execution of it.

Totally.

I have to be honest.

I loved that concept.

When I read that, I was like, I cannot wait to see this.

It got like 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

And it

went and I was bored to tears.

I was like, yeah, this is a real clunker.

And I don't know if like they were.

thinking oh this is so cute this 90 year old woman is trying to get her like that yeah that's great but it just was kind of slow right I don't know

super slow in the editing and like I get the idea of like they move slow but it was just uh yeah I like you said I was just like such a great log line but yeah just

died on the screen.

And something we've all wanted to do as well is when we get scammed or go after scammers.

But what do you, what is your snack of choice, Tom?

When you watch a movie at home, whether you're alone or with staff or whatever, what's your snack?

I mean, it's popcorn.

It's the standard.

Yeah, or not.

I can't, I know some people like to

love it

I

love

it.

Tom Clark is my guest.

He is a very funny stand-up comedian and actor and a Wisconsin native son.

He came from Milwaukee and started his comedy career there.

He's joining us tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week.

I'm with you too about the popcorn.

And I don't mind buying like gourmet popcorn if it's already in the bag and already made, if people really know what they're doing.

Do you have a, and the nice thing is Tom, and maybe you can go back to your.

Movie going days when you did go to the theater.

Did you ever

sneak

booze in to the theater?

I I did not I went on a date one time and This was not stuff.

This was pre stuff and she decided to buy She's like I want to buy you know Southern Comfort or something and have it in the theater.

She comes in it's a handle of Southern Comfort and

We're sitting in the theater.

I don't even remember what movie it was.

I think it was role models.

And she just I just hear she gets a big large coke.

She I just hear like three quarters of it poured on the floor of the theater, not even like subtle going to the bath.

And then I just hear into the soda glass.

I'm like, Oh, this is like our second date.

Oh my gosh.

And that's not even the worst one.

The second worst one was, went to see Goodwill hunting at the Oriental Theater.

The girl fell asleep halfway through the movie.

And I was so tempted.

It's not even a comfortable seat.

It's the Oriental Theater.

It's like, you know, gum on the floor.

She just dozed off.

I'm like, this is not good.

Did you just sneak away that or what?

Oh, I was so tempted to just leave the theater and just let her wake up.

You know, how do you like them apples?

I

was

saying was that

was that did she pass out after drinking half a bottle of Southern comfort?

Like you probably could have seen that coming.

Yeah, these are two separate dates.

One was the Southern comfort lady who.

Managed to stay awake.

The other was the girl who just fell asleep midway through the movie.

So

yeah,

that was I Don't think it's ever worked out with going with a girl to a movie theater.

I went with Steph to see I was in a movie called freaks of nature And I was with Dennis Leary

had a

big scene in the movie and

And then stuff like this was when there was like the shooting at the movie theaters.

And she just panicked.

She couldn't sit in the theater.

So I couldn't even watch the rest of the movie because she had sort of a panic attack with that.

So it's just me and girls at movie theaters just doesn't seem to work out at all.

Just go to a play next time or so.

Go to a museum, Tom.

Yeah.

What kind of a...

What kind of cocktail do you like when you when you watch a movie at home?

Do you have a good old Wisconsin old fashioned or just a beer?

What do you what do you do?

I wish I had a good answer.

I it's literally like water.

It's like nothing.

It's not so not like I've oh my god, I've cleaned up my act a lot.

It

sounds like you were affected by that Southern comfort girl like you thought I got to fly

right

and scared straight, you know, something like that.

Yeah, I can't, you know, I know, yeah, there's nothing really, you know, maybe once in a while rip your float.

Oh, there you go.

They're getting fancy.

But, you know, if I'm a good boy.

Yeah, I mistook you for someone who liked to party, Tom.

I didn't know you were.

You're from Wisconsin.

I thought

maybe

I set you up there for a cocktail.

But all right, Tom Clark is here, folks.

The very funny Tom Clark.

We're going to do a very short break.

We're going to come back and get his popcorn pick of the week.

Great to have you with me on this Thursday night.

It's Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network and Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

I am Pete Schwabba and we are talking Popcorn Pick of the Week here with our guest, Wisconsin native son, Milwaukee native son.

The very funny Tom Clark has joined us over the stream.

We're just about to get his Popcorn Pick of the Week.

Tom, have you ever cried during a movie?

What makes you cry?

You're kind of a big burly macho guy.

What makes the rain come?

Oh my god, anything, anything.

They totally, yeah, they, they, if you're a, if you're good at pulling at the heartstrings, I will, I will let out an audible sob during the movie.

I think I was with stuff and I just, I can't, I wish I could remember the movie off him, but I went, I was just like.

And she liked

seeing your sensitive side was at a good.

Moment your

relationship.

Yeah, she appreciated that.

That's great a lot of a lot of d-bags So she is I think surprised that I was

audibly sobbing.

Alright,

what about

like when you were, like I said, you're a big guy, you played football at St.

Norbert's as I understand it.

That's right.

And I don't think I would mess with you, certainly, mostly because I just think you're a nice guy.

But that aside, like, have you ever been in a theater and people are talking, have you ever shushed anybody or given them a look or threatened them?

No.

This is kind of unrelated, but we're watching the movie Shallow Hell, which is the Jack Black movie where he, you know, he's dating Gwyneth Paltrow, he's really heavy, but he's only able to see their inner beauty.

We're about three quarters of the way through the movie in the sky in front of me, whispers to his wife, he's like, oh, he only sees their inner beauty.

I was like,

How are you just getting that?

Like we're way past you realizing, like that was the funniest thing.

I laughed out loud.

Steph and I laughed out loud when we heard that guy.

I think I've told this before on the show, but

I went to, I don't know if you remember.

Oh, good Milwaukee comic, Mick Lozinski.

I don't know if you ever met Mick.

But yeah, he and I were working Indianapolis together.

We went to see Pulp Fiction during the day.

It was like a one o'clock showing.

And I think it was just the two of us and then these two other guys in the theater.

And it was the scene where Travolta, you thought he had died and then all of a sudden he's alive again.

It's, you know, non-linear.

They're just telling the story

and

jumping around.

And this guy could not wrap his head around that.

So we're like 10 feet.

We just hear the guy go What?

Wait a minute What's going on here out loud Tom like say I'm like are you kidding me like you don't you think it's like an editing Gaff or something like trust me that they think they know what they're A little faith buddy All right, I think it's time to get our popcorn pick of the week from our pal Tom Clark Conrad if you please

That's the night like popcorn pick of the week by Tom Clark.

Tom, what can you recommend?

I'm going to recommend 1984 repo man with Emilio Estevez.

I believe in one of his first roles.

Yeah.

Wow.

Nice pick.

Have you seen that?

Like I probably I've seen it once and I thought it was really cool.

I probably saw it in the 80s and I have not seen it since.

Have you

seen it recently and does it hold up?

Um, you know, here's a funny thing.

They would broadcast there was one point on channel 18 in Milwaukee where they would broadcast our rated movies Uncut unedited and we did not have cable in our house.

We didn't have HBO.

We didn't have select TV or any of that stuff.

So So you could hear swearing and I reap a man has so much swearing and I was blown away by it and

I just thought it was so cool because I wasn't really, we kind of just kind of raised pretty Catholic, so I wasn't really going to a lot of R rated movies.

So I must, I recorded it off the TV and I probably watched it like, you know, 15 or 20 times.

It has like this punk rock soundtrack and just so many great lines.

Harry Dean Stanton's in it.

And it's just such a bizarre movie.

I just love it.

It sort of makes fun of Scientology and

Sort of the end of the world and it sort of reminds me of being a comic because it's sort of these low-level repo men and their lives Their life sort of repoing cars and there's a line in there.

It's like, you know what?

I hate ordinary people They avoid intense situations a repo man gets into intense situations Like I was like that's like a comedian.

That's the same thing.

So

Wow.

Love that

movie.

Great choice.

98% on the tomato meter on Rotten

Tomatoes.

Oh my

gosh.

Yeah.

And it's a brief synopsis because I needed to hear this too.

I knew he was repo'd cars, but after being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto, Emilio Sivas, lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent named Bud, Harry Dean Stanton.

This makes me, I had forgotten about this movie and now I want to see it again because I would love to see if it holds up.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Great choice, my

friend.

Yeah.

And all the repo guys, they all have beer names.

There's a guy named Bud, a guy named Miller, a guy named Ole, but that's Olympia beer back when that was a beer in the 80s.

So that's a that's a fun thing to watch for

that's a great thing too I remember when we would you know and when you first get a VCR you just want to tape everything you see on TV because you think you're gonna watch it but like Rarely do you actually record something that's great?

And watch it over and over like this film.

Let's see Tracy Walter.

Yeah, Harry Dean Stanton Boy, not a lot of big stars in this though.

No, Tracy Walter is amazing too if you've never seen

He's just such a he's like a buddy of Jack Nicholson and he's just this bizarre character in the in the movie and just a bizarre person.

That's

so funny in a real life.

Tom, we're going to do the news and I'd like to come back and play something you sent me over text.

One of your first acting

gigs.

I

understand it.

Yes.

And we'll talk a little bit about what you have going on if you can spend a few more minutes with us and we'll get you out here at a reasonable hour.

Sound good?

For sure.

Okay, buddy.

I'll be

Tom Clark is here, folks.

The very funny comedian who hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, making his home in LA now.

It's always fun to have Tom on the show.

We'll come back and I'm gonna play a commercial Tom did when he was much younger, but still just as good looking.

That's coming up next.

And then we're talking independent film with Grace Painter-Cozelle at 720.

She is the founder of Ruby Red Films.

Fun night here.

Great to have you with me.

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

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

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

And now a guy who hates shaking hands, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back.

I don't know if I hate shaking hands.

I just find it.

Strange.

I don't know how.

Well, I do know how it started now.

It was to prove you didn't have a weapon on you.

But I feel like we carry less weaponry on our person than we used to.

I think it's outdated.

Mostly I'm just kind of having fun with it.

But that is our question of the night, folks.

It's National Handshake Day.

How do you feel about the handshake?

What would be a better custom?

We spoke in the first hour with Tom Clark.

who is still here for a few more minutes.

He gave us the popcorn pick of the week.

This week's pick is Repo Man, an outstanding choice and definitely due for a revisit in the Schwabba household.

Grace Painter.

Kazelle will be here at 720.

She is an up-and-coming filmmaker in Milwaukee and the founder of Ruby Red Films and a very talented actress, as I understand it.

So we'll talk to Grace at 720.

Right now we have a few more minutes with my pal, Tom Clark, who joins us over the stream from, are you in LA, Tom?

Yes, yeah, about 20 minutes outside.

Okay, yeah.

I can't reveal my location.

That's our second secret tonight.

We can't talk about Rich Tellerico's funny new script and we can't say where you're joining us from because you are our target.

Right.

It's funny.

You say that when I moved to Marinette, when I was in junior high, people there, it's a shipbuilding town and they build ships at Marinette Marine and now it's called Fink and Terry, but people were so proud of the fact.

And maybe it's because I moved there from Chicago and it's like that weird thing where you feel like you have to kind of one up somebody, but people would say, you know, we build ships here.

And if there's ever a war, we're like,

the eighth place that will be attacked.

Like, we're the eighth most desired attack city.

And I'm like, well, that's a terrible thing.

Like, I'm not, doesn't really make me proud.

I'm just kind of scared to be here now, but very funny.

Great pick with repo man.

What do you have coming up, Tom?

What do you have?

Do you have dates?

I know you come back to Wisconsin a couple of times a year to do stand up.

Yeah, in early December, I'm going to be back in Wisconsin.

I'm going to be in Kenosha, I believe, December.

Oh, nice.

First week of December.

And then Saturday, I'm doing another show in Key Wascom, just outside of West Bend.

So, so yeah, those are the two big shows.

And otherwise, touring around.

I've just mainly bounced between Arizona and California doing a lot of shows in there.

Nice.

going to Arizona tomorrow for a show in Munns Park, Arizona.

So all your listeners in Munns Park, Arizona.

We do get the occasional texts from someone where I'm like, where's that area?

I

didn't even I never heard of it.

Munns Park.

It's near Sedona.

OK, we have a Conrad's eyes perked up because he is was born and raised.

He's a Kowaskam kid.

I am.

So that's exciting.

So you're going to tell your family.

Yeah, I mean they're in Florida now, but

yeah,

okay Jerry Jerry Walski is the one who's uh booking that gig.

I think you know Jerry Do

you know Jerry?

Do you know what uh where you're working at there?

I do not I can find out but uh

I'm trying to figure out.

Is there a funny bone in Kiewaskum or?

No.

I think there might be a

Zanies

though.

Catch a Rising Star, yeah.

That's

funny.

Yeah, I'm trying

to see.

I know.

Well, when you come back, Tom, we'll have to, especially before the Kenosha Day, I know that's, I've heard really good stuff about that room down there in Southeast Wisconsin.

It's supposed to be very funny.

Let me ask you this.

Have you found, you're a big Packer fan, Tom.

Have you found Packer bars?

in Southern California, do you have a Packer Bar you go to to watch the games?

Yeah, there was one in Woodland Hills that we would go to, but I believe it shut down.

But you know, I haven't found anything out here since then.

But usually I just go anywhere.

There's an NFL package.

You know, my dad's, he's 99.

So for me, it's like trying to find a place that's

Quiet and that you know, he's not gonna get trampled or something right?

so he's So usually I just try to find a nice place that has the NFL package and then Hang out and have have lunch nice, but I'm excited.

I actually I did a gig at a church in Beverly Hills and

I ended up winning the raffle and I won two Rams tickets to any game I want to go to.

So I'm excited about that because I haven't been to a SoFi stadium.

Boy, I yeah, I only have watched games from there.

And that announcer, it sounds like the Hunger Games that kind of house announces like it's for the guys always talking.

And I'm like, shut that guy up.

But

I'm sure it looks spectacular.

Yeah, it's a beautiful stadium.

And, uh, yeah, I'm very excited.

It was very awkward because I just finished like headlining and then they like immediately did the raffle and I'm like setting up my merch table and then they're like, and I'm like looking and I'm like, do I say something?

And I'm like, I want to go to the Rams game.

I don't care that I won this.

It's

a lot

of old people.

They didn't care.

They're

not going to go.

They're just walking past you going, well, you really cleaned up here today.

Didn't you buddy?

Want

to buy a shirt?

Come on.

Let's go.

We have the, you sent this to me.

This is a commercial.

Set this commercial up please.

It's only like 30 seconds long, but I'd love to play it.

Yeah, and in 2003, there was a sort of like cattle call for an audition for movie tickets.com.

It was the old sites like Fandango where you'd order your tickets online.

I never understood the point of it and I was the spokesperson for it.

But yeah, I was just lucky enough to be cast.

I was there for like six hours.

The people before me were all clowns, literally clowns.

people dressed as clowns and they like it was like people left the audition because it was like we were like in the waiting room like four or five hours I had nowhere to be so it just so happened at me and these two other guys were the last three left we went to the room and uh we just hit it you know we just killed it in the audition and then they wanted to do a call back and I was out of town and they tried the two guys with another guy and it didn't work out so they're like we want you

And next thing you know, it was playing in every movie theater across the country TV.

I

had a I had a bunch of billboards in LA where this was up on the billboard.

Like it was crazy.

That's so fun.

Yeah.

This

was

pretty amazing.

All right.

So it's Tom Clark, our current guest and two other guys.

And this is the

One other thing I want

to

mention is during this, the night before I ended up having a burrito and I had severe stomach flu.

So as I'm doing this, if you want to know what the thought process of an actor is, my thought process during this is I have to go to the

bathroom.

Enjoy.

Go into the movies because we use movie tickets dot com.

We just buy our tickets online and pick them up at the theater.

I don't get why everyone doesn't use movie tickets dot com.

You don't.

Convenient.

Secure.

Easy.

Movie tickets dot com.

Your own personal box office.

No arm.

No, it's no arm tickets.

It's a silent

arm.

That must have been a kick.

See that before every movie, like in your friends calling and stuff.

Yeah, it was the silent are you know that the beginning and the end were all improvised So me saying it's a silent are ended up being like a hit like always got a laugh in the theaters and I had a buddy who was friends with Derek Jeter and He was went to the games with or went to the movies with Derek Jeter and he calls me this is Brody Stevens who was oh, yeah

comedian and he goes, Tom Clark just went to a movie with Derek Jeter.

He saw your commercial.

He laughed out loud.

Derek Jeter thinks you're funny.

And it's like my gun.

It was so funny.

But yeah, that was, it was amazing.

And we ended up doing a second commercial because they thought this is like, oh, this is our these are our spokes guys.

The second one didn't hit, and that was it for us.

It was cool while it lasted.

That is cool.

I remember Brody Stevens used to hang out at the Starbucks right down the street from my house at Riverside and Laurel Canyon.

And I didn't know him well, but he was part of a comic softball weekly game I used to go to.

And he was so funny.

He would just sit out in the outfield and yell, let's go to work.

Like over and over and I know he was on the best damn sports show a few times on Fox.

He was a really good guy.

That would be another special I'd recommend or you know another movie choices.

Joe Brody has a special on Amazon.

I think live at the comedy store.

And it's it's a great representation of like what it's like to go up at the end of the night at the comedy store when everyone's drunk and people are leaving and he decided to shoot his special.

And just the guts on that guy to do that.

And it's really funny.

And you'll definitely become a fan of him.

Oh, that's

great.

And just his boldness.

Now I want people to become a fan of, I think everybody listening is already a fan of you.

But just in case, you do such great crowd work, Tom.

And you're always posting videos on your social media accounts.

Where can people follow you?

And how do you recommend they follow you to see some of these clips you post?

I'm on Instagram and TikTok, Tom Clark comedy on both of those.

That's the best way to see those.

I mean, you can follow me on Facebook as well, but Instagram and TikTok are kind of the ones I want to grow a little bit more.

But yeah, I try to do at least one or two a week and there's always something silly or ridiculous that happens during a show.

that you'll enjoy.

I

love that you're so self-deprecating too.

You posted something recently where you totally wiped out going up to the stage like you did a header, I think.

Oh, yeah.

That was hilarious, but I actually thought maybe you got hurt.

Yeah, I was walking on the stage and the guy introduced me.

He said the wrong name.

He says, ladies and gentlemen, Travis Clark.

And as I'm walking up, I'm going to shake his hand.

I'm like, no, it's time.

And I just, you know,

But over tea kettle just fall on my face.

I'm down for like 30 seconds I get up you can see it on my Instagram, but It's funny then two weeks ago.