Laughs, Blockbusters, and Streaking Tales (Hour 2)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chawba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who appreciates a nice hot meal at a fair price.

Pete Chawba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Great to have you with me.

Thank you for being here.

I am thrilled tonight to be back in the air.

It is finally Monday.

We get to do this again Folks we get to talk about all the things that bring us together There's nothing dividing about what we talk about here on night.

There's no politics once in a while I get Conrad once in a while I get political and I rip on the wig party or the Federalists

you know

by and large This is not a political show.

We talk about all the things that make us happy

Yeah, I don't I don't remember the last time you

You want political on the show?

I

do slip up once in a great while.

Something just irks me and I have to say something.

But we keep the focus on the lighthearted, the fun, things that, like I say, bring us together.

Movie and music and TV, comedy, theater, and lots of fun stuff happening in Wisconsin.

I'm trying to get someone, I called someone at a cheese event today.

I'm trying to get them on the show for Friday.

But it's tough to get people on the phone sometimes.

Like, some of these smaller events in small towns,

I don't know if they check their phone that often, and I don't know if they're really interested in being on the radio.

But we'll keep after them.

We got a really fun week guests this week, folks.

So keep the dial right here.

As usual, the phone lines are open.

Always welcome to T. We always welcome phone calls, texts, whatever.

We love it when you guys are part of the show.

And we have a great one tonight.

At 6.35, the Piat family will be here.

Chris, Paul, and their son, Elliot.

I believe Ellie, I don't know if I ever clarified this.

Kim Shevchik will not be here.

She is typically here with the doctors in Recital, or this particular event is called On Stage for Cancer.

So that's kind of what they call themselves as a group, but the Piat family are just incredible musicians with or without Kim here.

It's always better when Kim is here, but they will be here with their child, Elliot, and they are going to sing for us in studio.

It's going to be fantastic.

And that's at 635.

And we'll be talking about On Stage for Cancer, which takes place very soon, I believe, in just about a week.

July 31st, Thursday, July 31st, at the Riverside Ballroom here in Green Bay.

And then finally, last week, we tried to connect with Rob Thomas, but we could not.

But we have a lot to discuss with our pal Rob, who is a Madison-based film critic and is the CityCast Madison newsletter editor.

Rob will be here at 7.20.

I imagine we'll talk about Superman.

Do you know if he saw it?

I think he has.

I looked at his reviews last week, and I have to update that.

But I

looked at CityCast Madison, his sub-stack, which you should follow at Not That Rob Thomas.

He does great movie reviews.

And we'll talk to Rob.

I'd be willing to bet.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Rob saw Superman.

OK.

I'm guessing he probably saw it.

I'm just curious to see what he'd say, because I

I was, you know, editing your beats and what you think.

It's a little different than what I think.

You

loved it.

I loved it.

Most people, I will say, love it or really like it.

It got good reviews, but I feel like some of these superhero movies, these franchise blockbuster movies, I think the critics throw them a bone.

I think they're rating them on a different level because it's the same thing I said about F1.

It's a great video.

The music is great.

The action is great.

The CGI is great.

But give me some stuff.

Here's the weird thing about Superman, too.

And we'll talk more about this with Rob.

Wendell Pierce is a great actor.

He plays Perry White, a big character in the Superman universe, the editor of The Daily Planet.

Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane.

Wendell Pierce was wasted.

He had like five lines in the whole movie.

What was that sportscaster's deal at The Daily Planet?

I don't know what the hell he was saying half the time.

He didn't have to be in the movie neither to the blonde with all the cleavage They

weren't useless characters.

I don't know.

What was your reaction when you saw Bradley Bradley Cooper as Joel this superman's dad He was fine.

I thought it was funny.

I was I didn't expect that but was it supposed to be funny?

I guess I don't know if it probably yeah, I

mean he was fine I mean Marlon Brando played Jor-El in the first Superman in 1979

I don't know.

There were things I really enjoyed about it.

I loved, I thought Superman and Lois were great.

They were great.

I think they bolted a great job.

Nicholas Holt is a great actor.

He did, I thought he did phenomenal as Lex Luthor.

He did, but it was like, it was obviously they were parry, they were kind of, the filmmakers were kind of relying on the fact that we already know Superman's story.

There was very little setup needed there.

Lois Lane was a little more hip, cool Lois Lane than in previous Superman's.

And Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor, it was like obvious they were trying to have him be Elon Musk.

And

so

therefore I don't feel like they had to really develop the characters.

It was just kind of, it was fine.

That's my take on the movie.

There were some great effects when he shields that girl.

That was so cool.

Amazing.

And the CGI is there, but what was that Jurassic Park character that came out of nowhere?

That was just a distraction, you know?

Okay,

I get that, but like, okay, here's these bad people.

Oh, and here's a dinosaur out of

nowhere.

I thought it was pretty funny that that was the whole route they went with trying to distract Superman to get him in there, but you know, I thought they did a really good job of showing Superman's, you know, humility.

That was great.

I agree with you there.

That scene at the Ems when he's talking to Lex Luthor, you know, that was great.

That was phenomenal.

That was great.

And I love the scene where he's saying, maybe the real punk rock is just being nice to people and having empathy and loved all that.

It's not like there aren't good things in the movie.

I just, I don't know.

I was a little, one of my, one of my positives, it wasn't two hours and 40 minutes, like every other blockbuster movie this summer, but, you know, lots to like

there.

When I'm really sick of a, like every super.

every superhero film I've seen in the past five years.

Why do they try to make it a comedy movie?

Like with witty one-liners?

Yeah.

Supposedly witty one-liners,

yeah.

I'm starting to get sick of it.

Like, okay, I can, I already see the joke setting up.

Right.

And then it goes, I'm like, okay, that wasn't that

great.

It's like the movie is being too needy.

Yeah.

Just tell the story.

But yeah, visually, cinematically.

Good stuff.

And it wasn't like I wasn't entertained.

I've got this guy, though, again.

Yesterday, I had this at F1 three weeks ago, and I had this guy.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

The guy in the crowd that feels like he has to provide commentary.

It might have been the same guy.

Because when we were at Jurassic World Rebirth, my wife and I, two weeks ago, or maybe it was a week ago, there was a dinosaur and the girls following the dinosaur.

He goes, oh, oh, and then this huge dinosaur comes up surprising because an even bigger one.

It's like, yeah, we're watching the same movie you are, buddy.

Oh, he was like, in the movie crowd?

Yeah, he's doing color

commentary.

Shut up.

That's terrible.

It's awful.

I had a guy next to me that just was laughing the whole film and Superman.

Superman?

Yeah.

Really?

Anytime there was something funny.

And he had a really bad laugh, too.

Just super loud.

And I was like, OK, come on.

And the lines, like in those big blockbusters, it's not like the lines are hilarious.

They're kind of like, OK, a little bit of comedic relief.

I don't know.

He did the ooze and odds too, like, cause he had a full Superman getup on.

He went to the movie and a Superman outfit.

Like he was like Superman pajamas.

Oh, that's funny.

And a little strange.

I had this, I watched this reel.

I've been really into reels on Instagram and it was a clip of maybe you've seen this one.

The caption was like, when you spend $20 on a firefighters costume, and then something happens at the party where actual firefighters have to come in.

So they show this guy in this like wussy fireman costume, his actual manly firefighters are walking by and he just looks at the camera.

So funny, but that's what that reminds me of.

Like, I don't know why, I don't know.

I guess, you know, you wear your packer's hat to a packer game.

Why not put on a Superman costume when you go see Superman?

Whatever makes it fun.

That's totally fine.

That's awesome.

So it's great to be back here, folks.

I'm so happy it's Monday.

We get to talk movies and let us know what you've seen.

As usual, you're welcome to text in, call in, let us know if you've seen any of the summer movies.

It's always fun to get a dialogue going.

If you are joining us on the radio tonight, that's fantastic.

We are on statewide on the Civic Media Radio Network.

So if you're tuning in on the radio, that's outstanding.

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You can also stream or watch the radio on Facebook, X or YouTube and give us a like or a follow while you're there.

We'd love to be recognized and that's what we're supposed to do is ask for social media relevance.

Did you like the show?

Have you liked the show?

Of course.

I'm pretty sure I have, but how weird would that be?

If

both of us didn't like the show.

If I'm not

following my own show.

I think I am though, because I get Amanda's updates.

Our incredible social media person, Amanda Nemer here.

But I do have thoughts on social media.

I'm amazed.

This is so, so crazy the age we live in.

Like, Miley Cyrus has kind of a grinding voice.

She kind of talks like this, you know.

Some guy, and my daughter showed this to me, put.

her voice saying something, and then some guy on a toilet in a restroom with his gas matching her cadence and her voice.

I was more laughing because I couldn't believe somebody did this.

Like somebody's watching Miley Cyrus in an interview goes, you know what?

That sounds like when I have gas.

I'm gonna record myself and put it to the, they're not getting paid to do that.

And part of me loves that there are people that are willing to do these things to make us laugh.

And I don't just mean bad fart jokes, but like on social media, they'll post stuff and it's like, oh, that's really funny.

And they're not comedy writers.

They just did a funny thing.

And it's out there for the world to see.

You know, there's something similar on TikTok.

There's this guy who plays these games like TikTok games.

Yeah.

And it's like, oh, you have to say this word.

And if it matches because it's like the accents or whatever he does it with his farts And he gets like he does it like every day he gets like 30,000 like she does so he's making he's making bank farting on camera

I Just don't understand people sometimes

this is where

we're at though

whatever pays the bill

whatever pays the bill and you know frankly Anybody can put something really funny on social media with a cap.

I don't know if they could do it full-time

Or they'd be comedy writers, but maybe some of these people do that But typically I think it's probably like a one-off like a guy's a really funny idea and he does it or a girl and it's hilarious And they get a ton of likes, but what do you follow that up with?

I don't know.

Yeah I'm kind of out once I go to the bathroom for the day.

I've got no more material.

What do I do?

But that was really strange and I was almost embarrassed laughing at it in front of my daughter because she showed this to me and I felt like I should have been

the more mature person here.

But I had literally had tears coming out of my eyes.

And I only hope after watching that, Miley Cyrus had an opportunity to see what this guy did with her voice.

It was very funny.

Let's see.

So we talk Superman.

I'm watching the new show, the new Bosch spinoff, which is the second or third.

I think it's the second spinoff called Ballard.

Maggie Q plays Renee Ballard, kind of a female version of Bosch.

I don't love her acting, but the show is well written.

Aesthetically, it looks really cool.

So I think I got through six episodes over the weekend because it was too beautiful.

I didn't want to go outside.

And it's pretty good.

I think I would recommend it so far.

Did you watch any of the new streaming movies?

What is there?

I can't even remember

what I watched.

After the break, I'll tell you about the couple I've watched.

They're both prime movies, head of state.

which with John Cena and then I also watched Deep Cover, which is about improv comics.

I've seen that.

I

haven't watched that.

No, no, sorry.

I saw that and I saw the one heads of state.

I just I got to tell you, I have no desire to see it.

But

let's

talk about that.

Let's talk about that when we come back.

And I watched a movie called Amongst the Wolves, which is a film set in Ireland and a kid who gets in trouble with gangsters has a homeless vet come to his aid.

in defending him against these gangsters.

It's pretty good.

I paid six bucks for it.

I would give it a three out of four stars.

Good Sunday night.

Good old fashioned Sunday night entertainment, a little movie watching.

All right.

Hey, great to have you with me, folks.

We didn't do the question of the night, Conrad.

Oh, we need to get to

that.

I totally blame Conrad for that.

We're going to do the question of the night right when we get back and it involves nudity.

This is Peshwaba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

And it breaks

my heart when it hit our phones.

Finally Monday, here at Nightlight, I am Peach Wabba, welcome back.

A lot of sorts.

We had a long weekend too, we didn't

do a

show on Friday, so that was kind of strange.

You do anything fun on Friday?

I did, and I'll tell you about it right after we get to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

It's national nude day.

Nude day.

National nude day.

If you were to go streaking, ladies and gentlemen, what event would you choose to streak at?

It's national nude day.

If you were to go streaking, what event would you choose?

Think I would say a conclave

You know I'm gonna go this brings me back to something that we little

streaking days

Said it was an event that we found last year It's a nude cruise We found that event

Are you just like

we talked about it last year?

Okay,

I thought you meant like we like did a remote from a nude

That is a perfect

yes, we need to do that

depending on the attendees.

Yeah So it's national new day if you were to go streaking what event would you choose 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic you can also text us on the app or on the stream if you're watching nightlight on Facebook Twitter X or YouTube I Say a conclave, but there are a lot of different events typically when people streak

Just to give all the priests something to like distract them like I want father father John wait.

What was that?

Don't a streaking in a nude beach defeats the purpose A quilting club typically it's sporting events and I always say You know people used to get outraged I remember when it would happen if my parents had people over it was a Super Bowl party.

That's awful Why people get so freaked out by nudity?

Mean I know the the typically the guy.

It's always a guy.

Yeah

woman's drinking,

you know, I feel like it's become pretty regular in movies now

What?

Streaking movies just nudity.

Oh nudity.

Well, yeah Well, sure.

Yeah, and I get like To me I don't I think the person's a little off if they're willing to do that and get arrested But

and it's like a $10,000 fine or something is it that much?

Yeah, it's something around there and you get banned for life from the stadiums

I don't know.

We got some social media.

We always post the question of the day on social media, folks.

So if you're on Facebook, you can respond earlier or throughout the day, too.

Mike Desitel says on social media graduation at the school for the blind.

Okay.

I mean, yeah, that works.

It's a good way to hide your shame.

Vince Moranto, comedian Vince Moranto says, any polar bear club event, then I'd have an excuse.

It's still streaking though.

You don't do the polar bear thing naked.

You wear a suit.

Yeah,

I don't know if you'd want to be naked at a polar bear

event So what does my answer is that okay?

And a nude cruise

and a nude crew well streaking

I

guess just means you'd be running naked so sure

I feel like a nude cruise doesn't just have people naked all the time

so like

What are they like naked hours or a naked happy

hour or something?

It's like six to twelve is the naked.

Six to twelve

is the nude

hour.

After after dinner.

So don't just have a bunch of naked people at dinner.

You're not putting your best foot forward

if you eat a big meal

and then go nude.

Yeah, I don't know.

That's a weird one.

I don't understand streaking.

I don't think I would ever.

Well, I know I would never streak, but like if you were to brew a game and your buddies gave you a couple hundred bucks, would you run out?

No,

no,

because that wouldn't even.

cover the fine

yeah and i don't want to get banned for life from because i love going to miller park they would ban you for life yeah is that right wow i i'm i think actually a good one would be a movie theater because it's dark in there that defeats the purpose you get the you know you just get to see a little bit because the light from the screen

right that's true

Leave something to the imagination.

Do it during the ads.

I'd love to watch a streaker during the previews.

Actually, I don't

mind.

Remember how you talked about how they were adding, you know, more ads to the

AMC?

Did that?

I feel like they did it to Marcus, too, because

the

movie started at four and it didn't even start actually until 430.

Interesting.

Yeah, that's a long time to make people sit through.

There was like six trailers.

And a couple like Kia ones too.

And it obviously, the weird thing is like, you know, sometimes like my wife and I would go to a movie and it's like, oh, we're going to be late.

No, they got all those previews.

Well, then we show up.

That's the one day they didn't have all the previews.

I missed the first five minutes of

the

movie, right?

So that's kind of a drag.

So that's our question, folks.

Be part of the show.

Text us, call us.

Let us know.

We've got...

We've got a great, I love the Piat family.

They're coming in at 635 to talk about on stage for cancer.

They're going to perform live in the studio.

They're outstanding.

I got Rob Thomas at 720 talking movies.

We got a great question.

So join the fun and let us know what you think.

Bridget from the 818 says, great show, Pete.

You always make me laugh and have great information.

No thanks to Streaking for someone else UW Madison football game during the jump around.

Well done, Bridget.

That's a great one.

Nothing could rune jump around, though, even if some horrible person is streaking.

Cory Hartman says at EAA on the tarmac, obviously.

That's great.

I

think a little streaking could help the EAA.

It

doesn't really need the

help,

but

while the blue angels are in the air.

Really?

I dare you to look away.

Lee from Depeer, he's in the 920 says streaking coming out of the corn at the field of dreams.

There you go.

Oh This is good.

We're gonna have fun with this.

All right, folks.

Let us know where would you streak?

It's national new day.

It's also national tape measure day

You could put a tape

measure to good use

with a streaker.

Let's be honest.

All right, the Piat family is coming up next.

We're going to talk about on stage for cancer folks.

Lots going on here tonight.

Great to have you with me.

A beautiful Monday in the state of Wisconsin.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight and you have got the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Night Light.

I am Pete Schwab.

Great to have you with me on this Monday night.

Con, you got to help me disseminate like these texts.

Somebody mentioned Superman, but did a political thing with it.

So I don't know if that was meant for Maggie or us.

Yeah, that might-

That

might be for Maggie.

That might be for Maggie,

sure.

So, but Mark did- I don't know.

Let me know.

Mark did text back.

Mark from Prairie to Sex says, crypto is the dog, right?

Crypto is the dog,

yep.

In a bad dog, I might have skipped those behavior.

In the opening segment, reminded me of my dog's behavior when he came back from a foster after I had gotten out of the hospital in 2013 with a chest tube and collection box strapped to my side.

Oh God.

I was glad to see him too, but I needed to rest him a bit to avoid him snagging.

He was super glad to see me.

Once HD figured it out, he gentled down.

I only understood about two of those words.

I have to be honest, Mark.

Maybe

that's the,

that's what he calls his dog.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm going, it was supposed to be a he, because D and E are quite close on the keyboard.

But he got, he put him capped, Chris.

That's what I don't get.

Oh, then I don't get it.

Yeah,

all right.

Mark, we got the gist of it, but you're welcome to elaborate.

And it's great to hear from you as always.

Our question of the night is, it is national nude day.

If you went streaking, where would it be?

Where would you go?

And let's be honest.

Streaking is on all of our bucket lists, right?

No.

No.

Conrad, you know what?

I'm losing it because I totally forgot I was going to do a gag when we opened the show and did the question.

I was going to have us be shirtless and everyone think we're naked.

So

now I just.

Now Conrad is just disappointed.

It's Monday.

Why did you have to do that?

I

know.

Well, we could also do that.

We're naked from the waist down, but then we can't really.

All right, enough nude talk.

We've got some phenomenal talent in the studio, helping us celebrate National New Day, National Tape Measure Day, a weird day.

Who came up with that?

That's what I want to know.

OK, but why are we putting it on the same day as National New Day?

Well, that's what I said before the break.

Let's really get into this.

No, no, no, no.

Let's not go there.

If a guy

shows up at a nude beach with a tape measure, that's a red flag,

OK?

Maybe it's a red flag.

Don't

make everybody self-conscious.

All right.

So the voice is your.

Hearing folks are in the studio.

It's the Piat family.

Chris, Paul, and their son, Elliot.

Nice to meet you, Elliot.

Good to meet you.

Thank you for being here.

And would you have brought Elliot anyway if Kim couldn't make it?

Kim Shevchik is not here this time.

She's usually with you guys.

OK, that's good.

And then for moral support, Elliot's girlfriend is here.

What is your name again?

Tess.

Tess, she is here.

If you're watching on the stream, do not put pressure on Tess to say anything, because she's not.

She's here strictly for moral support.

You feel supported, Elliot?

I do, okay.

It's great to have you guys here.

So before we get into this event on stage for cancer, which is just around the corner, tell us a little bit for those who might be unfamiliar, tell us about your family and your connection to music.

Well, I am a music teacher.

So music has always been a big part of my life.

And while I was in college is when I met Paul.

He, I met him in school when he was in school for music and we kind of started playing together at that point, 30 some years ago.

Wow.

We

don't have to put a number on it.

Do you still

like

to

hear each other sing?

That's the big question since

you're

both

music.

All right.

Honestly,

my favorite thing to do yet is to play and sing mass with my wife, actually.

Wow.

That's very nice.

Okay.

Catholic mass.

All right.

Very

nice.

Yeah.

And so we have two boys.

Ian's at work and we've got Elliot and they're both singers.

Elliot plays violin and mandolin and Ian is a bass player.

Nice.

So it's kind of all around.

Did you get them started early?

Like did you know, like, you know, it's different with music and sports.

Like if you force your kid to play sports, I don't think that's great.

But forcing kids to learn music is something no one ever regrets that.

So I think and you'd have to.

Oh, it's terrible.

Maybe the two days, the two days.

Well, I think it's different when your parents are musicians.

Yeah.

Because I think that our house was always full of music and, you know, just performing and doing things.

And I think that they just took that for granted.

Like that's just what everyone's house was.

Yeah, it was very strange to to see like other families and.

And know that they they didn't.

talk about time signatures and stuff like that.

Cord progressions.

Oh, that's great.

All right.

You guys are going to perform something right after we talk about on stage for cancer.

But we have a phone call.

Is it for the P.S.?

It's Mark from the SAC.

Oh,

all right.

Oh,

that's OK if we take a quick

break.

Absolutely.

We

need clarification.

All

right.

We do.

Mark, how are you, buddy?

Doing great.

Yeah, I was just trying to, I was he, you know, when he said HD motors.

they spell correct me there was he when he settled down but my dog was he came back from being fostered when i got all the hospital there in twenty twenty three twenty on twenty three there and he was just super psyched to see me and uh... and i had this this you know collection box on my side with the chest to bring and he was just jumpin all over the place just like crypto was in the movie and uh... but i just had to pick it up they kept on to kind of twisted my body you know to the side that didn't have the

the chest tube and people what he kind of figured out that i got a key to get a cell down a little bit you know he gentle down because he's he's sitting right next to me right now that uh... but he um... but he is you know he's big old yellow lab and he um...

labs are

great but he was glad super glad to see me that uh... you know like last time he came back from foster he was just you know that i didn't have the same equipment stuck to me that time but i mean that it just kind of reminds me of the dog once once the dog figures it out yeah

I think I have to...

I think I have to educate myself more on Supergirl and that kind of stuff.

And I had no idea they were melting down.

I didn't really see much that was political about the movie.

I just thought it was a fun movie.

But Mark, thank you so much for the call and take care of that dog.

He sounds like a great dog, even if he doesn't have superpowers.

He doesn't have superpowers and he sometimes chomps the pheasants when I go hunting with them.

But that's OK.

That's outstanding.

Thank you,

buddy.

Have a great night.

OK.

That's Mark for Prayers.

It's funny, every once in a while I will call or I'll ask somebody to clarify and they immediately call and do so.

I

love it.

Does your wife do that when you need something?

At

home?

Yeah.

We

usually only talk on the phone when we're

at home

and I'll be downstairs.

No, of course she does.

It's great to have you guys here.

The Piat family is here, Paul and Chris and their son, Elliot, and we're talking about on stage for cancer.

Okay, so this event is so great.

It takes place July 31st from 6 to 8 p.m.

on a Thursday.

That is a conflict with Nightlight, by the way, so we'll have to work something out there.

I think we should do a live stream with you either that night or during dress rehearsal.

That would be

really cool, because Kim did that once.

Yes.

Let's talk.

I love that

idea.

We can help each other out.

That would be

fantastic.

And I was totally kidding, obviously.

But that would be fun.

So we've got, all right, so Dennis Peters.

Who has a connection to this station?

He was on the former morning show here quite a bit.

I've never met Dennis.

I hear I've never heard a bad thing about this guy.

He sounds immensely talented and like such a great guy.

And I know that I had heard that he had cancer.

So do all the proceeds go to one person or do you take a collection and it is dispensed somehow?

How does that work?

Right now we are we have a thriver.

because a lot of times you get diagnosed with cancer and you hear the word cancer and especially stage four cancer and you think it's over.

But there are so many ways that you can still continue to live and continue to thrive with cancer.

And so we don't call people, you know, survivors or cancer patients.

There are cancer thrivers.

We designate a thriver to be our main thriver for the year.

And we have one event per year.

This year it's at the Riverside Ballroom on the 31st and Dennis is the thriver.

So our proceeds will go to Dennis.

I love

that.

Does it bother you that people, that you have to do fundraisers for people?

Like, don't you think

people just, I feel like they get screwed over.

Here's the sad part.

Yes.

First of all, we all know too many people that have cancer, right?

But on stage for cancer focuses on musicians and small business.

Owners who generally aren't really cared for by the normal means of the health care community, right?

Like insurance we think about you go to work and one of the questions you always ask is but what are my benefits, right?

What does my insurance look like and sadly it is not equal for everyone.

No, it's not

and Music is important the arts are important and if that's your livelihood and you get sacked with cancer What do you do because you can't perform?

or you can't perform to the level that you had been, and then how do you pay these bills to be able to survive?

So that's really what drove Kim and I to start On Stage for Cancer is to really support the people who need the support so that they can continue to thrive through it, continue to live their best life, do what they love, and enrich the world by doing it.

That is a fantastic answer, and I think that should segue us into a song.

What do you guys think?

Sure.

I like it.

What do you have planned?

We're going to do Fields of Gold by Sting.

Oh my god, I love

that song.

Conrad, hit record.

We're going to sell this on the black market.

This is honestly one of my favorite songs.

All right, we've got Chris and Paul Piat and their son Elliot performing Fields of Gold here on Nightlight.

Take it away.

You'll remember me.

When the west wind moves upon the fields of barley, you'll forget the sun in its cellar sky as we walk in fields of gold.

So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley.

In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold.

Will you stay with me?

Will you be my love?

It's jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold.

See the west wind move like a lover's soul upon the fields of barley.

Feel her body rise as you kiss her mouth.

promises lightly and there have been some that have broken

but

I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold we'll walk in fields of gold many years have passed since those summer days

the children run as the sun goes down among the fields of gold.

You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley.

You can tell the sun in his jealous sky.

Walked in fields of gold Yeah, we walked in fields of...

Welcome back.

I am Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight.

So good to have you with me.

It is finally Monday and we get to talk about the things we love once again.

The long, brutal weekend is over.

So great having the Piat family here.

in studio.

Rob Thomas is coming up at 720.

We'll talk movies.

He's a Madison film critic.

And our question of the night is, it's National Nude Day.

If you had to streak, where would you streak?

Let us know.

That's our question, 855-752-4842.

You can call in, text in, or text us.

Let us know on the stream.

However, your night lighting tonight, it will be great to hear from you.

So the Peats are here.

Chris, Paul, and their son, Elliot.

We just heard the song Fields of Gold.

You took us to break.

It was just absolutely beautiful.

How long does it take to play the mandolin,

to learn how to play the mandolin?

Oh, that's a loaded question.

Yeah, it seems complicated.

That's a little weird for me.

I played, so I played violin when I started when I was 10.

Like yeah, I started that I played through high school um and then I kind of got sick of it a little bit.

I was like it's a little too Classical for me.

Okay.

Um, so I was like, what about mandolin?

It's the same.

It's all the same strings So I know like I know where my fingers are supposed to go I know where my

fingers are

supposed to go too

But, um, yeah, I picked this instrument up, what, like three-ish months ago, maybe?

Oh, really?

Yep.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's like three months ago, so I'm not super good yet.

More complicated than the guitar, I would assume, right?

Yeah, I can't play that instrument.

Okay.

To me, it's less, but that's, I have like nine years of violin, so it's easier for me.

It's unfair.

Chris, Paul, and Elliot, the Piat family, are here talking about On Stage for Cancer, this great event that's happening from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 20th.

Sorry.

Thursday, July 31st at the Riverside Ballroom.

And proceeds this year will go to Dennis Peters from the Glam Band, who is a relationship here with WGBW and WISS.

Like I said, I've not met Dennis, but I hear he's just a great guy.

And I'm so glad you guys are doing this, and that On Stage for Cancer exists.

You started this with Kim, and you guys also do Doctors and Recital in January.

That's a charitable concert you guys put on.

How can people find out more?

information about the event and just what you guys do in general with On Stage for Cancer.

Yes, so if you go to our website, which is onstage, the number for cancer.org, we have all sorts of information on there.

You can follow us on Facebook.

We keep up to date on Facebook.

We have on our website, there's ways to donate to Dennis, just donating cash.

Even if you're not going to

the...

Nice.

You can donate cash.

You can bid on auction items on the 17th.

We have an online auction that will go live.

So you can bid.

You don't have to be at the event.

You can bid on any of those

things.

We do actually just we just hot off the presses added three tables.

We were sold out and we were able to add three tables.

So right now.

You can get there from our website onstage4cancer.org.

You can buy a table.

So tables, we're selling them by the table.

They're $500 a table, which is $60 to $50 a ticket, which includes dinner and then the night of entertainment.

We'll have a full concert for you.

They also said it's a variety

show.

Is there other stuff besides just music?

Are there jugglers or comedians?

What are we looking at here?

Mostly

try.

Well, there may be funny moments, no.

We, I think the coolest thing that we offer is that we will have an artist painting live to the music.

And we will be auctioning off her painting.

Oh, very nice.

For Dennis.

So it should be pretty cool.

And she does really intricate work and need things like she'll incorporate music into the painting, like actual sheet music.

So it's very cool.

So is this sold out so early because.

Dennis Peters is such a swell guy and he a lot of people around here know him or is it just this event just go over gangbusters every year

Well, we we were about halfway sold out before we announced Dennis was okay Dennis was our recipient So I'm sure there's a lot of people coming to support Dennis and there's so many people that want to support him And so we're just really encouraging people

to donate online.

We're also selling live stream tickets for $20 because we sold out so quickly, though we still have three tables.

Go buy one.

So for $20, you can be there with us from the comfort of your own home.

I mean, Pancelis, we talked about that before.

So if you choose to do that.

Is there

any other way to be at home?

Honestly, let's just, I

mean, for those

of us who have kids, we have to work around that.

And you don't have to pay extra for it, just 20 bucks.

You can still watch the whole thing.

Your son, Elliot, is here.

He just performed Fields of Gold.

It was great.

So you're at UWSP.

Yes.

So what do you hope to do?

What do you want to do with music?

Are you going to follow in the footsteps of your parents?

Are you in a band?

game plan

really I could I could really go for anything but my my main like if I were to pick anything I would do I would write music for Broadway so I would want to write shows stuff like that I did a lot of theater in high school but was

that was that little head fake not proud of your time on the stage

He's just not a fan of self-glossing.

Oh, that's all I sense that that's very unbelievable.

Um, but yeah, I it's a lot of good memories.

So I thought I I don't know if I would want to be a performer But doing something more behind the scenes would be fun and since I love music so much that that would be a good like

It would be a good little

area for me.

That's great.

What do you guys when you're at home?

Do you play just socially?

Well, like how often you just break out the guitars at home and all sing together?

I play yeah,

I play all the time.

It's it's Something I it's like an addiction almost it's like that's how I unwind that's a

healthy

addiction like In the mornings a cup of coffee at the kitchen table.

I can lose 45 minutes in my life really Wow farting around playing but we planting a church often

Sometimes we will play and sing just for fun.

Honestly, with the kids where they're at right now, so busy.

It's hard to find time for us to do it all together anymore.

That's

great.

But that's great.

It's great to have you guys here.

Such a talented family.

We're going to do an intermission here and come back for act two.

We'll have a few more minutes with the Piat family, the amazingly talented Piat family.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

Rob Thomas coming up at 720.

Answer our question of the night.

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And now a guy who wants planted evidence so he could make a citizen's arrest.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

as we kick off.

Hour number two here on a Monday version of Nightlight.

So great to have you with me.

We've got such a fun night here.

We've got live entertainment in the studio with the Piot family who are here talking about On Stage for Cancer, which I will tell you a little more about.

It's coming up in just a couple of weeks.

At 7.20, Rob Thomas joins the show.

He's a Madison-based film critic and one of our frequent fliers here at Nightlight.

Conrad Krieger running the board.

You doing okay, buddy?

You need anything?

I'm doing great.

Okay.

Good to have you.

We've got a great question tonight, folks, too.

Pardon me.

It's national.

Hey, you know, when I just did that, I sounded like Lois Lane.

My voice got a little raspy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rachel Brosnan.

She was good.

She was great.

Yeah.

Lois Lane apparently has to have a raspy voice.

Yeah.

Rachel Brosnan.

Native Wisconsinite, by the way.

And Marco Kitter from the 1970s.

Superman.

They both had that, like, kind of.

It's a little sexier when they do it.

It just sounds terrible.

I'm in no danger of joining the Piat family in song during their stay here.

You're her manager.

You can be her manager.

Oh, really?

You be my house band, and I'll be your manager.

We can work something out here.

Our question of the night, it is National Nude Day.

So our question of the night is, if you had to streak or just wanted to, I suppose, what would you do?

Where would you go streaking?

What event would you choose?

We'll catch up on some text in just a minute here, but it's 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic You can also text us on the app or if you're watching the radio text us on the stream Dave on the stream says I'm not that into running So I would sit naked on a bench on a running path and watch the reactions That actually sounds very interesting and Dave says of course I'd be waving like forest

and wearing a smiley face pasty pasties on my nipples.

Pasties.

That might be the first time we've said nipples on this show, Conrad.

No, we've touched on nipples before.

You've got that in the memos.

That

was horrible, Conrad.

That

was horrible, buddy.

If you did it on purpose, you're a

genius.

Thank you, Dave.

Thanks for setting Conrad up inadvertently.

We've also got, I love this text from Tony the Trucker.

We've got an actual streaker chiming in, and he says, Pete, done that.

1974, past the auditorium of my alma mater as a school play was letting out, and yeah, alcohol was involved.

I wonder if anybody has ever streaked where alcohol was not involved.

It seems like it's kind of a prerequisite for running naked through wherever you go.

Yeah, liquid courage.

Liquid courage,

exactly.

Gets the crew a lot.

Lee from DePierre says, or we could all go streaking down at the quad.

Outstanding, a reference to old school, love it.

Tom from New Berlin says, I think naked drive through would be the

most

ballsy.

All right,

Tom.

Things are going downhill in a hurry here, thanks to my question tonight.

Mark from Prairie to Sack also says, Polar Bear Plunge would involve significant shrinkage.

Yes, I would imagine that's true, Mark.

I don't want to speak for all men, but

yeah,

probably.

You know, the issue isn't your question.

The issue is the fact that there actually is a day.

They dedicated to this.

I know it's really odd, but there's a day for everything.

Like there's

national, you know, peppermint tea day.

It's very specific.

And finally, Mark from Prairie to Sack.

in reference to our guests, the Piat family, and on stage for cancer says, cancer sucks.

And after my diagnosis in 2019, I took the line from Game of Thrones, there is one God and his name is death in your answer to that God is not today.

There is one God and his name is death.

Oh, okay.

And your answer to that God is not today.

Very well said, Mark.

I'm so used to there being typos in texts.

that I thought maybe he meant in-death.

But no, he got it right.

It was me that stumbled there.

Thank you, buddy.

That's a great text.

He says, attitude is a good chunk of recovery.