Unwatched Gems and Musical Vibes (Hour 2)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

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

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome to Night Light.

Hey everybody, how you doing?

I am Pete Schwab.

It is a beautiful Friday night here in the state of Wisconsin.

Hope you're having a great day as we head into the weekend.

Lots going on today, lots to discuss.

I'm gonna talk about my ride down tonight.

That's always fun, right, Con?

That's a good time.

Yeah,

yeah.

And we've got lots to discuss.

We've got overzealous Facebook posters.

We're gonna talk about TV shows.

We've been meaning to watch, but haven't.

And kissing a girl on screen as part of a role, actor Neil McDonough says he would never do it, and it's cost him work.

So we'll discuss that.

Lots of controversial topics to get to in the way of show business tonight.

We're gonna talk about movies and TV and comedy and music and all kinds of great stuff that makes us happy, especially heading into the weekend.

Working the board tonight, as always, is Conrad Krieger.

Hello.

Hey, buddy.

It is it's you know, it's getting down today.

You know, I checked the app today the weather app.

Oh, I'm

14.

Oh

God, you know what?

I went to bed last night.

It's funny you mentioned that I was little my eyes were tearing burning.

Yes, and When I got home my wife had a lot of the windows open and I don't think the air bothered her because the night before I left the air on just because the

But does that even matter like you're still getting air from the outside?

Maybe it's filtered a little bit, but I don't know if that really helps that much or not, but

Yeah, so it you know, it's I hope it gets down.

I hope Canada is like all right.

We let's stop putting it to them Let's leave it in Canada,

right?

It's not really much they could do.

I mean trees were struck by lightning.

It's not really a

But it does seem to it's just like the third year in a row.

Maybe it's come from Canada.

I don't know but we'll get through it We'll figure it out folks and we'll do it together.

I have some fun guests tonight Coming up at 635.

This is gonna be fun.

We've got Spencer young He's a great artist who is local here to northeast Wisconsin and Green Bay and he posts he paints murals and cleats and all this cool stuff.

He painted a couple murals

for the studio here in Green Bay with a football.

So we'll talk to Spencer at 635.

He will be here in person.

That'll be a, that'll be a gas, as they say.

And then it is a bar band Friday night, folks.

So Terry Barr, our Wisconsin music expert and host of Max Inc Radio, which you can hear on WMDX Saturday nights from six to nine.

We'll be here as well, bringing local music as she does every week.

And she's got a couple of great, did you listen to the music she sent?

Actually, I didn't get to listen

to it yet.

Oh, it's so good.

There's a group called Bascom Hill, I assume named after Bascom Hill in Madison, but they have a great song called, you never gonna guess what it's called.

Bascom Hill?

No,

light it

up.

Oh, okay.

That's

their song, light it up.

I mean, could there be a more perfect song for this show?

And to play that song in this show will be a blast.

And that's at 735 when Terry drops by.

Lots of stuff.

Okay.

I want to discuss this because there's this actor Neil McDonough Neil McDonough and You know, he's just like he's you know, he's one of those actors you'd know his face if you saw him Very well traveled as an actor.

He's been in a ton of stuff

You know how I know him mostly from He was the bad guy in Paul Blart Mall cop to

a Mall cop to that's a deep dive.

Holy smokes.

He's the bad guy in it really

Yeah.

All right.

Well, his deal is, and he's a good actor, handsome guy.

He refuses to kiss another woman on the big screen or the small screen.

He won't do it.

He's very devoted to his wife.

He says he does not want to kiss another woman.

And he says it's cost him work.

Like studios won't go near him.

They won't.

They just won't offer him roles.

Now, this is a few years ago.

He's had, you know, he's kind of

made a little bit of a comeback, but he said it cost him roles until finally, Graham Yost, one of the producers of Justified, great show with Timothy Oliphant, offered him a role as a bad guy.

Because he has a good actor, and he has a really cool look.

I mean, he plays such a good bad guy.

Oh,

yeah.

I mean, he was in Red 2 as well, and he was a bad guy as well.

Was he in Yellowstone

2,

maybe?

Yeah.

He's

in everything.

You know, I think he's done enough work, though, because I'm just on IMDB right now.

It says 148 credits.

Yeah.

Oh,

yeah, he's he's a pretty decent amount.

He's halfway to our pal Richard really.

Yeah.

Who's got like, actually he's got like 350.

But Neil McDonough, yeah, good actor, minority report, boomtown, Captain America, the first Avenger in 2011, great resume.

And the guy was not starving, even if he took a year or two off, as long as he was living smartly or within his means, I'm sure he was fine.

But

He says he lost his swagger, his confidence as an actor.

He felt like less of a man, because he wasn't working as much, because people weren't offering him roles.

And I respect a person who sticks to their principles, but it's just kissing.

And you make good money.

And usually the person you're kissing is pretty attractive.

And here, this is the sexist in me.

I understand why women wouldn't do it.

But man, if you're a guy, and here's why I'm saying this, his wife doesn't care.

He says it has nothing to do with her saying it.

She doesn't care.

It's just that he loves his wife and he doesn't want to kiss anyone else.

Well, good for him, you know?

Sure.

Look, I did it.

In my movie, The Godfather of Green Bay, I had to do an intimate scene with Lauren Holly.

It's not comfortable.

I'm not a hero.

You wrote it in yourself.

I did

write it in

myself.

And it is weird though.

It's a weird, uncomfortable thing.

There's nothing really sexy about it, at least not in my case.

She was great, she was a trooper, but there were eight people in the room filming this.

It's not like you don't get the sense you're cheating.

I was happily married at the time, still I am, but I did get home for Thanksgiving that year.

We shot in October in Marinette.

I went back to LA, came back for Thanksgiving, and I showed a rough cut.

to my family and my mother-in-law looks at me during that scene and says, you cad.

And I, you know, I get it, you know, she was half kidding.

But that's, it's kind of, I admire him because it's kind of a gutsy stand to say I'm not doing that.

But also it's like, just do it.

Yeah.

It's acting.

Yeah.

That's the biggest thing.

It's acting.

It's not real.

Yeah.

You know, in the next movie that you.

Would you mind writing a kissing for me?

You just

tell me what you want to do.

Was Sydney

Sweeney?

Sydney Sweeney, I've heard of her work.

Start with her soap and then I'll write a kissing scene for you.

Sounds good, sounds good.

Make out with a bar of her soap.

We'll talk.

Oh, that's funny.

We have that promo where we're talking about Sydney Sweeney's soap.

And I said, you know, what if she stinks?

You know, I know she's pretty and all that, but what if she smells really bad?

And I extended an offer.

I said, Sydney, come by.

the nightlight studios, I'll smell you and I'll let you know if it's a good product.

For free too.

For free, exactly.

Hell, listen, I throw an airfare out of my own pocket.

No, but my daughter heard that and she goes,

dad

and her cousins were about her age.

Like they didn't get really the humor.

It was kind of

weird.

I'm like, I'm obviously kidding.

My daughter has a great sense of humor, but it's still just the idea of her father smelling another one.

So I need to steal McDonough's onto something.

I don't know.

Hey, I think we should get to the nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Hey, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

All right.

What is a TV show you've wanted to watch, but haven't yet?

What's a TV show you just haven't gotten around to watching it, but it's on your list.

You want to check it out.

And the inspiration for tonight's question of the night comes because I just finished Dexter last night, season one.

And it was, it came out in 2006.

My wife watched it years ago, said it was good.

I just never got to it.

It really, to be honest, did not interest me.

I was like, wasn't really into serial killer stuff, but good writing is good writing.

It's a good show.

I finished the first season.

It wasn't totally what I expected.

They kind of kept me guessing, even though I figured out one of the elements of the story, but it was just really well done, well acted.

And I'm going to stick with it.

And I think there's like seven seasons or something.

So I'm probably going to be on a bit of a dexter kick for the next few weeks.

And I know that Lisa Hale, the host of New WISCO Weekend, which you can check out tomorrow morning at 8 p.m.

here on WGBW and WISS.

She's a big Dexter fan and she wants to come on the show and talk about Dexter with me.

That's a dedicated Dexter fan right there.

Yeah, and Lisa scares me so I'm gonna let her do it No, she Lisa's great.

She's a big I love her takes on TV and movies, so we'll definitely line that up Soon, but yeah, it's a good show.

So that's mine.

I kind of just did it, but there are a few others too.

I Haven't watched The Gilded Age yet, although that's relatively new

I only watched one season of Mad Men.

I'll probably go back to that, but there are a few shows I haven't gotten to that I would like to, but what are yours?

855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

Let us know what show you've wanted to watch, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

What's yours, Conn?

You know,

last year I watched the show on Peacock called The Resort, and it was fantastic.

It was with Kristen Malorty.

Malorty?

I don't know how ever you say it, but...

Kristen Malorty.

I don't know who that is, yeah.

Um, I really liked that show and I was like, I don't think peacock can beat this.

So I haven't watched a peacock show since that show.

And I, I have been meaning to give it another try and watch a poker face.

You know what?

I, that was one for me.

I started watching it about a month ago and I got through five episodes and it's good.

It is.

It is good.

And Natasha Leona is good.

It is one of those things where, I guess it's like Colombo in the sense, I never really watched Colombo.

That was a little bit before my time, but like, I didn't understand, she's just a regular person who always every week finds herself solving a murder.

It's like, well, come on, at least make her a PI or, so that part of it was just, but it is well done for what it is.

I just had trouble with that kind of mechanism, but I did like it.

It is a good show.

All right, I might give, you know, Peacock a chance.

I don't think they can beat the show that I really liked.

So I haven't.

So you're condemning

the whole thing.

They did a good thing, but I don't trust them to beat that song.

Exactly.

So I'm saying.

I did start watching another show called Love and Death on HBO.

I watched it about two weeks ago.

I just watched the pilot, Jesse Plemmons, Ashley Olson.

It's set in like 1980 and they have an affair.

They're two churchgoing people and they have their own family.

and they have an affair, and I didn't get into it enough to find out who dies, but there is a murder on the show, and then it becomes kind of a mystery.

So I'll probably go back to that, but if you like watching couples fall in love to 70s music, like the Bee Gees, it is kind of cool.

It's got like a cool aesthetic to it, so.

But you can weigh in, folks.

Let us know the show that got away, 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2-8-5-5-7-5-CIVIC.

You can text us on the app or drop us a comment on the stream if you're watching on X YouTube or Facebook.

And let us know.

You can also weigh in on the kissing thing.

Would you kiss someone if you were in a movie or would you pull a Neil McDonough and say, no, I'm not kissing anybody except my wife?

And I assume he's held fast to that because I don't think he cave.

Now he's like in his 60s, too.

It's like, probably circumvented a lot of those kind of roles.

We

hope.

I don't have a girlfriend.

I don't have a problem with it.

You're like,

somebody hire me.

You need to kiss her.

Naked Gun opens this weekend too.

Very excited to see that.

It's reviewing very well on Rotten Tomatoes.

I think 92% was the last time I checked.

And there are other movies that review hire from a fresh standpoint on Rotten Tomatoes, but for a comedy and a silly comedy,

To rank that high is pretty cool.

So all right, we're gonna read your text when we come back and I'm gonna tell you about an I'm gonna tell you about someone who posted something on Facebook that really ticked me off It's Beachwabba and Nightlight great to have you with me on the Civic Media radio

network

Welcome

back.

This is a Friday night edition of Nightlight, one of my favorite nights of the week.

Definitely top five, but I love them all and I can't wait till Monday.

But for now, we're just gonna enjoy the moment.

We're gonna talk about some of the things we really like to talk about here.

Coming up in just a few minutes.

Spencer Young, local artist who paints really cool stuff, murals, cleats, and sometimes he paints with a football, as I understand

it.

He did.

He did last time he was on Mind on the Mirror.

He did last time he was in the studio.

He did that.

That's pretty cool.

That's great.

It'll be good to have Spencer here in just a few minutes and then...

It's a bar band Friday night ladies and gentlemen.

735 Terry Barr drops by with new music.

She has her finger on the pulse of the Wisconsin music scene as always and has picked out a great one of the songs is called light it up.

And we may have to, we may have to grab that one and put that in the box.

Yeah.

I love that Kailin Cole song.

It's a great song.

So well done.

All right.

So I have to get this off my chest.

People post stuff on Facebook.

Nothing is off limits.

They post pictures of their food, like they'll get a plate at a restaurant and post the food.

Like, yeah, I've seen mashed potatoes and meat.

But whatever, okay, you're excited about your meal.

Here's what drives me bananas, all right?

I have a Facebook friend who will remain nameless, Jennifer.

No, this person posted, they took a hike with their family.

And they called it hike day and they posted like the five main pictures you see the teasers or whatever and then if you click on the sixth window a hundred and fourteen photos of Trees and walking I mean Who is ever gonna

look at that many pictures?

That's like a step per picture you think right?

Yeah, a hundred and fourteen steps is a hike That's me making food in my kitchen

But it's just like come on 114 and whatever.

I don't have to look it didn't it's not like it bothers me I'm just like I would never take the time to do that and I guess uploading is easy And maybe she just didn't want to go through all of them So I'll just post all but what if you get the accidental one of your husband coming out of the bathroom or the kids scraping their knee or something like You got to go through give us some highlights give us three three or four.

I'll look at yeah

Because they're great people.

Oh, I want to see how this was.

I'm not clicking on a hundred and fourteen Photos of a hike through Durk County.

You know what to make it awkward.

You know what you should do?

You should go through and like every single one

That's like stalker ish,

that's like restraining order just the notifications a hundred fourteen peach wobble like

that is oh my god, that would be hilarious

Or I'll do a laugh face for one, then a surprise look for the other one, and then a thumbs up, and she won't be able to go, well, why did he surprise this one, but laugh at this one?

This one's not funny.

The fourth tree is always surprising, you know.

It's like, I can see sky in this one.

What?

So, all right, I got that off my chest.

And then driving down here, I had, again, the two people going the same speed, taking up both lanes for about, it was probably only about five minutes.

but on my head this has gone on for like two hours and I'm like just please you live in a society one of you slow down

you know remember yesterday when you had a mosquito flying around you

oh that was weird yeah

you know it's like how does it today had the same thing I get home and there's a fly in my in my in my apartment like my windows are closed I have the AC on how

did

this happen I was chasing that fly for literally an hour trying to kill it because you can't relax

Don't want the flight landing on me.

You know, it's work like not worse But almost as bad to me is twice the summer.

I've had one of those huge moths Oh, it's like a bird and they flap their wings and you can hear it going Like around the lamp or the fireplace and I can't I can't relax because it's like It's not it's not like you're scared of it or it's gonna hurt you same with a fly But it's so irritating when like when they land on you.

Oh that Flies are filthy.

I get a trick for you for that turn off all the lights and you turn on one

I've done that.

And it flies to it.

Usually that works.

Yeah.

But I had one about, I don't know, three weeks ago.

That was in my daughter's room.

And I tried that in the thing.

This was not his first rodeo.

He knew what I was up to.

All right, let's read some texts.

Our question tonight, folks, is what is a TV show you've been meaning to get to, but just haven't quite gotten around to it.

I'm in the middle of one of mine.

I just finished season one of Dexter.

I did that with poker face.

And then love and death I'm kind of I'm gonna go back to that one but that one is a little Like the first the whole first episode Was these two married people falling in love?

Jesse Plemmons and Ashley Olson, and they're both good But it's kind of like I hate to this sounds awful, but get to the murder.

You know get to the mystery part of it

So I've got a few of them.

Let us know what yours are.

855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

Let's go to the stream.

Drew Mania.

Love that.

Drew Mania says, great show.

Thank you, Drew Mania.

Is that our Drew?

I'm not sure.

I know he listens sometimes.

He's a good dude.

All right, thank you, Drew Mania.

Appreciate the text and thank you for listening.

Dave on the stream says, yes, Dexter.

I'm with you, Dave.

As you know, Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones.

Band of Brothers, I could add.

I've never seen Band of Brothers.

It's supposed to be great.

It's a Tom Hanks playtone effort.

And I think it scared me off.

It's like the mini series thing.

Like it's a commitment, you know?

And I don't know why, like I watch whole seasons of shows, but yeah, I got to check out Band of Brothers.

And Game of Thrones was one of mine too, but I banged that one out about two years ago.

I

mean, do you

got

five months?

Yeah, I know.

And that's one that...

It can be depressing if you watch too many in a row.

When Joffrey's that whole plot with Joffrey, that takes a toll on you.

The red wedding.

Yeah.

It was just awful.

So that's our question of the night.

We have a local artist coming up in just a few minutes, folks.

Spencer Young is in the studio, very excited to have him here.

And it is a bar band Friday night, 7.35 PM, our pal Terry Bart drops by.

Let us know too if you want to weigh in on the kissing issue with Neil McDonough, very devoted husband.

Is he too devoted?

Got to put food on the table.

We'll read some of your texts in a little while, so keep them coming and great to have you with me.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight and you've got the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Happy Friday, everybody.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.

Great to have you with me tonight.

We've got lots of fun scheduled.

Got a great question.

If you are so inclined, let us know.

What is the TV show that got away?

What have you been meaning to watch, but you just haven't gotten to it yet?

I said Dexter.

What was your answer, Conn?

I said Poker Face.

Poker Face, that's right.

And I said I've seen some Poker Face episodes.

Pretty good.

So, that's our question tonight.

You can also weigh in on the Neil McDonough kissing thing.

It was in my Hollywood beats.

Was it today or yesterday?

It was yesterday.

Okay.

So, he refused to kiss a woman that was not his wife, even though he was cast in a movie or a TV show.

That was just, you know, that was, uh, he wasn't gonna do it.

And he thinks it cost him some work, cost him some self-confidence, but eventually he got back into it and people understood.

People are pretty much good, and he's a good actor.

So, they started casting him again, but...

I don't know man.

I don't think uh Well, I did do it in a movie.

So I I would just do it Conrad is begging to do it And we'll ask our next guest what he thinks too.

He is a local artist here in northeast Wisconsin who joins me in studio now.

He's the founder of forever young designs Artist Spencer young welcome.

How are you?

Thanks for having

me?

Hey, it's great to have you

I've seen your work because you've you've painted here in the studio before.

Yep, and it's pretty

It's pretty cool.

Tell me that what I saw you do were two, you did like classic packer photos, but you have an interesting way of painting.

Please tell us about that.

Yeah, I kind of, when I run with an idea, I just go full throttle with it.

So the idea was to, you know, normally paint with a paintbrush.

That's too normal.

I took a football cleat and a football, and that's the only thing I use to paint.

those images.

That's unbelievable.

What part of the cleat?

Not the actual cleat.

Oh, yeah.

So everything.

So I utilized the shoelaces as kind of like a little fine detail brush.

The toe as to cover more surface area on the canvas with the paint.

Like, yeah, just, it's kind of fun just challenging myself with different, you know, ideas and possibilities.

And hopefully, you know, I can incorporate in my future stuff.

And if it fails, it fails.

And I never visit that again.

That's the great thing about, like, I love when artists figure out a fresh approach to something, something that hasn't been done before, something new and unique.

Before we get into too much of your work, though, tell us, tell me a little bit about you, Spencer, your background, personally.

Yeah, I grew up in a small town just outside Green Bay, Shiacton, when I graduated high school there.

I went to St.

Norbert, played a little college football for a couple years and graduated with a...

Bachelor of Arts degree with emphasis of graphic design What corporate a little little bit wasn't my cup of tea and I decided to take a chance on myself I always had a ability to draw and paint and Within like that first month being on my own I got a phone call asking to paint the iconic Packer fence outside Lambeau field.

So you painted that that is

so

cool

Yeah, so all right, we'll get to that too.

But why didn't you like like the corporate stuff?

is where the money's at, I would

imagine.

Was it too limiting?

It restricted my creativity.

Everything's super brand standard, to say the least.

When you're using the color, like a mute, puke green color over and over and over again, it kind of gets boring.

They don't even want

that to be

flashy.

No.

I know I could be doing something that I enjoy.

You know, it's not like I didn't enjoy working in the corporate setting.

It was just like, not what I wanted to do.

It wasn't my purpose in life.

So.

You know what's interesting?

I'm not trying to like, probably bash corporate anything, but because when I, I'm still a writer, but when I was making most of my money writing, I wrote screenplays.

But when you write a screenplay, it's like, you don't know.

where to start almost.

It's like, it's 120 pages.

What do I do?

What I liked about freelancing for corporations or studios was they gave you parameters.

Sometimes that's a relief.

Don't you think creatively you're like, okay, I got to do whatever I can within this framework.

Yeah, it's nice to have a little structure.

You know, that's why too, like I freelance graphic design.

So like when someone gets me like a set task where, you know, certain guidelines I need to follow, it's nice.

But then there's times where I'm like, well, I kind of just want to go crazy and see what I can come up with on my own.

And

That's why I'm doing what I'm doing right now.

Well, good for you

for

starting your own business too.

What kind of stuff do you do at Forever Young Designs?

Are it commissions

or is it people?

My philosophy is if I could throw paint on something, it sticks.

basically anything, so murals, paintings on canvases, I have customized cleats and shoes and jackets, hats, graphic design work, pretty much anything art related.

I've probably dabbled in it a time or two.

Who comes, who hires you?

Like who, like if I'm a regular guy, if I'm a business, what do you...

How does that work?

What would people hire you for to do cool invitations a big mural or

like anything?

Generally, it's just like a random message like it can be like, you know 11 o'clock at night It could be right away in the morning.

Just hey, would you be interested in painting a mural?

Would you be interested in painting shoes?

So it's like something it's something new every day, you know, I

That's what I really enjoy about it.

Cause it's like, you never know what the next day is going to bring.

How long did it take you?

You said you got a call kind of quickly, but how long did it take you to the point where you were, this is what you do.

So I was like a month in on my own painting one mural.

And then I had that phone call asking to paint that Packers fence.

And I just kind of rolled with it.

And, you know, my work got kind of out there in the area and, you know,

Build connections and just talk with a bunch of people and people see my work and

it's got to help when you have a big It's like a billboard

kind of drive

by who did that?

Yeah, definitely So tell us about that tell us about the the Packer fence.

Yeah, what was your inspiration for that?

So like I said the owner reached out to me because it has been a tradition in the community that you know is

pretty well known if you're in the community, uh, they wanted to continue that tradition.

And every year we just come up with a specific theme to like that would tailor that season.

So, uh, the, the one season, like when Rogers threw the Hail Mary pass at Ford field, the, the home opener for that season was against Detroit.

So we did, uh,

homage to that play.

Let's just say there were not a lot of happy Detroit Lions fans.

Maybe

did a little painting of their own late at

night after a few drinks over your

creation.

So, all right.

And then you did some stuff

down the street here, right?

Yeah, a little bit everywhere, I guess.

So I do a lot in the Green Bay community.

I've traveled as far as New York, installing murals, Texas.

Uh, gonna be going out to Indiana here pretty quick to install another one right outside Indianapolis.

Wow.

Yeah.

So getting out of Wisconsin too.

Wow.

Nice.

So, uh, what's the meaning?

Where did you come up with for every young design?

So it's got like layers, I guess.

So my last name's young.

So kind of wanted to pay homage to like not only myself, but like the people that kind of brought me to the situation I'm in today.

So I had amazing parents that, you know, supported me in my crazy endeavors and, you know, come from a very small town.

So when I say you want to be an artist, you know, there's some parents that might be a little skeptical at first, but mine were like all on board, you know, they supported what I wanted to do.

So.

With that being said, I just wanted to make sure I was carrying a legacy at the end of the day.

My guest is Spencer Young.

He's the founder of Forever Young Designs and a local artist here in Northeast Wisconsin.

Although we just found out he's starting to go everywhere and bring his art to different communities.

Let me ask you something.

With my background too, I get asked that question.

Oh, my kid wants to do this, but I say they should have a fallback.

And I always say,

Don't have a fallback.

Do

what you want to do.

You can always go back to school Yeah, and then throw yourself into something else, but setting yourself up in You know almost expecting to fail.

Yeah, that doesn't that doesn't work for me I tell my kids that too.

I'm like go full throttle with that support yourself Yep, but go at it with everything

you've have and then see where you're at Yeah, I always say if if I had any doubt when I first started I would have never attempted to do it, you know, cuz like I always

like I watch a lot of like shows you know and like the cartoon and anime shows you know there it's always the protagonist is always a positive attitude that's kind of how I approach life too it's like you know you don't want to have any negative thoughts or like ideas that you're not going to be successful in what you want to pursue so like for me like I always had the mentality it's like I'm gonna go big or go home right nothing's gonna stop me

Good for you.

You're not like going to law school during the day doing your art

at night.

I'll stick on one thing.

I'll make sure I give everything I got in one category.

You gotta.

Otherwise, you know, you can always, like I said, you can always switch gears.

I love too, there was this comedian named Charles Fleischer who was in the Roger Rabbit movies as a voice and he was a comedian.

He said, when people came up to him and said, I want to be a comedian, what do you think?

He always said, don't do it.

And he said, if that was enough to get them not to do it,

they never would have made it anyway.

I'm not quite that harsh, but he's got a point.

So for what you do, is there competition around here?

Do you have the market?

Are you the guy people come to paint?

I don't really think of it as competition.

I feel like it's a big enough sandbox that anyone can...

have their opportunities.

So whenever I see another artist have a project, I'm good for them.

That's amazing.

I'm their fan too.

Because at the end of the day, I don't think there's really rivalry.

I think there should be just healthy competition almost, whereas we should support each other because we're all just in the same field and we all want to be successful at the end of the day.

And ideally, learn from each other to some degree or be inspired by each other.

We were talking before you came on I said my cousin does Are he paints with two hands and he does

he

shows and he's down in Chicago So he paints a lot of Chicago sports stuff and and they've since moved but I'm fascinated like what is your style?

Does it have a name

and not really I just think it's inspired by a lot of things from my experiences growing up So a lot of artists influenced my work.

Oh, like I said a lot of life experiences.

I just

I pick up a brush and whatever my brain tells me to paint, I just paint it.

So if somebody said, oh yeah, Spencer Young, he's that blank artist,

what would they say?

It's kind of funny because I notice people will say, oh, I know that's a Spencer Young original right there, but it's like, I can't see that.

Like for me, it just comes naturally.

So I don't know what is the giveaway that makes it my own artwork.

Do

you have influences like Pollock or Picasso, whatever, do you have

people

that influenced you?

Yeah, so Dr. Seuss, I love Dr. Seuss.

Like if you ever look up his like dark series paintings, like definitely 180 from what you normally see in the children's books.

Then David Cho, that's always a fascinating character.

He's the one that painted the headquarters at Facebook, and then instead of getting a payment,

he invested in the stock at Facebook and they became essentially when they went public, like $300 million or something.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

So I

should have

held out for more money.

I

know it's

like, I

want a free Facebook account

done.

Right.

Well, and it's like, that's the cool thing.

It's like, it's not just his artwork, but I love that he took a chance on himself and like, you know, it really paid off.

You know, there's

If I'm one to gamble, I don't go to casino, but I gamble on myself a lot for my opportunities.

So that's

what you should gamble

on, right?

Exactly.

No, you're going to show up and do the job and not have to rely on others.

You were recently on ESPN.

How did that call come through?

And what was that like?

Kind of crazy.

I had a phone call from a producer.

He asked me.

You're the artist that paints the fences around the area.

I said, yes, I am.

And we got your contact information from someone that works in the studio here.

And we'd love to do like a small segment with you.

And I said, lucky for you, I'm painting a mural in the area.

So if you want to stop by with the cameras and talk to me, then yeah, we can make that happen.

So

that's pretty cool.

All right.

We're going to find out, I'm going to ask Spencer what he painted when he was on ESPN.

When we come back and we'll find out more about this.

Up-and-coming artist who is right here in Northeast Wisconsin is pretty cool and we'll ask him about the show that got away, too That's coming up next after this very short break on nightlight with peach waba on the civic media radio

network

Welcome back folks.

We are lighting it up here on a Friday night from downtown Green Bay as we broadcast statewide here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

So great to have you with me.

My guest at the moment is Spencer Young.

Local artist here in Green Bay, although he is more nationally recognized now, we were talking before the break about how he was recently featured on ESPN.

Did you paint something specific for that appearance?

Yes, I actually painted a fence in someone's backyard.

So Green Bay themed and it was right across Lambeau Field.

be a better setting for that.

What was ESPN like?

Were they just kind of like letting you do your thing?

Or was

it just wanting to tell me?

Oh yeah, they just said pain and we'll ask you questions.

And I talked with Shea.

I think she was live at training camp reporting.

So I had the ear pods in and everything, listening to her talk.

Are

you a Packer fan?

Oh, 100%.

Yeah, no doubt.

I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't.

You

wouldn't be an artist if you weren't

a Packer fan?

Well, I wouldn't be like, so I actually work with a lot of the Packer players and too would I customize like football cleats and shoes.

So I would say a good majority of my work is with the players too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How do you do that?

How do you paint cleats?

I mean, is it a special kind of paint that doesn't wear

off?

Yeah, it's basically trial and error and a lot of prep work is involved.

So like the best way to describe it is

If you want to paint your vehicle, like obviously you sand it, you acetone, wipe it down.

Then you do like thin coats of paint and then basically you have a nice shiny car.

It's the same thing with shoes too.

Nice.

It lasts like it.

Yeah.

I mean, like it has this natural wear and tear after a while, you know, but like for the most part, yeah, they hold up pretty good.

So our question of the night.

is what's the TV show that got away when you've been meaning to watch.

And a lot of people have said Dexter, myself included.

You were a huge fan of the show.

Oh, 100%.

Yeah, that's, now they got the new series coming out.

So it started rewatching that.

And then if I had to say the one that I need to watch, it just came out yesterday.

So, and that's twisted metal.

Oh, yeah,

you tell

me about that during the break.

What is

that show now?

So it's like based on a video game So like I remember being a kid and I played that game all the time, you know, it's kind of like a battle royale game.

Yeah, so they made an adaptation to it and Yeah, the first season was amazing now season two is here and it's gonna even get better I think exciting when you have like a whole show to look forward to like

oh for sure

You

watch movies.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, what have you seen?

Pretty much everything this

summer.

No, I haven't

Okay, yeah, so when you say you've seen pretty much everything you mean like I mean like just all genres in general.

Yeah, so there's nothing that you know when There's there's always something out there for me to watch.

Yeah.

Nice

So all right tell people where they can see your work Spencer.

You have your website.

So yeah, um, www.foreveryoungdesigns.com I'm on social media.

So Instagram Facebook, but yeah, I post right on daily

So, you can see my art quite frequently if you're following me, so...

That's so great.

Can we put some of his art up on the stream?

If you're watching on the stream, folks, on YouTube, Facebook, or... So, I've seen that.

You

did that.

That's

so

cool.

How long does

that take you?

A day.

One day?

Yeah, so, as tradition for the past, like, 10 seasons, I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, paint there until...

Basically the song goes down.

So if you're watching in the stream folks, we're looking at it's a picture of Jordan Love winding up the throw a pass.

It says my Packers go pack and what else?

Yeah, I love my packers.

I love I love so and love.

Okay.

God.

It's the paying homage to Eddie J's poker song.

I love my green.

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what was that like when you you just said you're a huge pack of anger played football at St.

Norbert's your northeast Wisconsin guy

When you got a contract from the Packers and when you were commissioned by them, how high

were you?

And that's the thing.

It's not really a contract by the Packers itself, but it's like a local resident in the area.

And he asked me, this is just tradition.

And I already knew, growing up, what the fence was.

My grandpa, who's also an artist, and I should have mentioned him as an artist that influenced me.

He was the biggest Packer fan I ever knew.

So like, unfortunately, he passed away before I started doing all this.

And I know he's grinning ear to ear, you know, when he saw that opportunity, because he knows what the fence was.

So it's kind of cool that like something that I would hang out with him, like drawing at the table, creating art.

And now, like, you know, get to kind of pass that along.

It's cool too, you were

talking about during the break about your dad who poured concrete.

Yeah.

Very different than what you do.

Yeah, he's happy that I found what I wanted to do.

I know he said he just didn't want me to bust my back like he did, you know, and I know how hard he's worked throughout his whole life and to make sure I had a good opportunity.

You do kind of look

like

you could like...

lift blocks of

concrete

don't just install it.

Don't be wrong.

I'd held them in the summer, you know, but it wasn't anything too strenuous.

Are you doing something this year for the start of the season?

Do you have anything lined up?

Yeah.

So the plan is to paint something.

It's always the day before the first home opener.

So it'd be September 7th, but

We had a couple of ideas in the work.

It's normally a surprise when like the fans come in.

So got to keep it on the download till then.

Yeah.

So

that's a little bit of a teaser.

When will they be able to see what you've done?

Yeah.

Right at the home opener.

The

home

opener.

Yep.

Can you say where it will be or?

Yep.

The same fence.

So that fence gets painted every year.

OK.

Yeah.

So it's funny because like the we had to replace the fence one year because there was so much paint on it.

Yeah, like and it was like kind of weighing it down a little bit.

So

can we pull up another of Spencer's paintings con

Chris Farley?

That's awesome.

That's my hero That is so cool.

Yeah, he's one of my favorite.

I actually did a recent Chris Farley painting too.

It's a quote from

dirty jobs or dirty works.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I was with the skunk.

I can't remember what the quote was, but I had to make sure I incorporated that quote in one of my

paintings.

So.

So all right.

If you want to, if you want to learn more about Spencer's work, follow him on the socials, go to his website.

He does great work.

This was fun, man.

Thank

you for

coming in.

I really

appreciate

it.

No, I appreciate you having me, you know, my pleasure.

And thank you for the Dexter endorsement because I'm going to.

the better part of the next few weeks.

I'm gonna be wrapped

up catching up on that too.

Spencer Young folks, check out his work.

We are coming back for act two after intermission.

It is a bar band Friday night, folks.

Terry Barr will be here at 7.35 and we will read your texts coming up next.

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

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who believes a penny saved is in Jack... Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back.

Ladies and gentlemen for act two of tonight's episode of night light Hope you all were able to use the restroom or get some more Candy popcorn candy pizza.

Let's get set for hour number two here We got a lot of fun still headed our way Terry bar will be here our Wisconsin music aficionado and she's got two great bands We're gonna discuss tonight at her during her appearance at 735 Terry is batting afoul.

I'm sure there's one song

In a year and a half.

I haven't liked but I can't remember it.

I think she's been a thousand

and it's not even that I wouldn't have liked it I just it was kind of like some stuff is great, you know and some stuff is really good Probably forgot about a really good time Terry will be here at 735 for bar ban Friday night and We've got a great question tonight folks

I started watching Dexter recently and it's been one of those shows that I've heard a lot of good stuff about.

It was a Showtime show that came out in 2006.

I just never watched it.

And there are a lot of shows like that that I kind of meant to watch but didn't.

So that is the inspiration for tonight's question.

What's a TV show?

You've wanted to watch but just haven't.

It just got away.

You got busy with life.

It happens.

But what is the show that got away eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic for me It was Dexter Conrad said poker face.

Yep.

So and poker face is good That was one of those two that I hence and you know the other one kind of went on a roll like a week ago I watched like three pilot episodes one of them was The Queen's Gambit.

Oh,

yeah, and I watched the beginning and I liked it because I just had watched a department cue

And it's the same creator.

So I'll go back to the Queen's Gambit, but I didn't like it as much as Department Q. That's

about

chess, right?

Yeah.

Well, it's yeah, it's in the chess world.

I don't know how deeply they get into chess because I only watched the first episode, which was a lot about her background.

And she was an orphan and her mom was, you know, her dad was married to someone else.

And it was all this drama for this, this girl.

But

it was a good

story.

I'll go back to

it.

I've been thinking about making a TV show about checkers.

The double jump

gambit.

So the king me gambit.

So while you're playing checkers, they're playing chess Hey, man, I want a piece of that action.

Um,

I'll write you in with the, you know, the Sydney Sweeney.

Yeah.

Well, Oh man.

Are they restocked or so?

By the way, can we get our

hands on

a case

still sold out?

You know, I had the 30 pack that I bought.

Yeah, it's already gone.

It's gone.

I used it

And was there a hole in the bar of soap or not?

Because this uncomfortably came up last night with my brother and his kids were in town, and my kids and his kids were discussing this in front of the grandparents.

And all I could think about was, do my parents know why there would be a hole?

You always think your parents don't know stuff, but they do.

So that's where we're at, folks.

We also talked in the first hour about actor Neil McDonough.

He refuses, he's a very good actor.

If you saw his face or if you Google him right now, you'll recognize him.

Like he's one of those guys.

He's a working actor.

He's all over the place and he's really good.

He refuses to kiss another woman on camera.

And he stuck to his guns and he says it cost him a lot of work.

So you can weigh in on that too.

He didn't, I don't know how long he went without work, but you know, eventually Graham Yoast, the producer of Justified gave him a gig.

brought him onto the show justified.

He played a bad guy opposite Timothy Olyphant.

And he is, I don't think he's starving, but on the one hand, I applaud him for not kissing anyone other than his wife on screen.

His wife is an actress and she's apparently very attractive, but she says, I don't have a problem with him.

If you wanted to kiss another woman, it's just him.

And as I mentioned in the beats or something so sweet about that.

but so strange.

So you're gonna weigh in on that too?

Would you kiss someone else on screen?

As someone who's done it, I can say it's not, it doesn't really feel like cheating because there's just people in the room, it's very mechanical.

Maybe that's just how I am.

Well, like

we said before, you did write it yourself.

I did write it myself.

I think I'm gonna need another woman to come in and join this too.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, another rewrite last minute.

Um, no, and I got lucky because Lauren Holly was the actress who I was with in the scene and she Had done that kind of stuff before so I was just gonna go into it You know, whatever and she kind of said we should hang out a little before just to talk a little bit So we did that so by the time the scene came up like there is kind of a method to it and now they have intimacy coaches and I think that's not a bad idea because I think a lot of women in particular were thrown into these

Rolls where they were just forced to do stuff or felt pressured to do stuff and not just what there were probably men too that were young and didn't want to say anything but felt really strange I'm not one of them But anyway you can weigh in on that too folks anything we're talking about you can let us know how you feel the phone lines are open and Conrad did you ever watch a sex in the city?

I think I watched like one episode maybe a long time ago because I saw the word sex in it

Probably really let down was 11 there was sex in it, but it was just not you know the kind probably I'm not gonna touch that one My wife watch it she was a big fan, and it is finally this Whole franchise is coming to an end.

There've been like six seasons.

I think five or six seasons two movies And now there's a reboot called in just like that.

That's finally going away But let us know folks

Let's get into act two.

We got to read some texts and catch up here a little bit Terry bars coming up at 735 for bar ban Friday night one of our favorite segments of the week Our question once again is what is the TV show that got away?

Do you just haven't seen yet?

But you've always meant to Let's go to the text line and see what people have to say.

We've got Kevin in Madison Did Kevin leave his his why did he leave his email?

Oh

Why'd you send him an email?

Let's see what's up.

Thank you, Kevin, for your email.

I don't want to guess.

Send him a mailer.

Such a vague term.

I'll say hi.

Send him an autographed picture of Conrad.

I don't

know

if anyone would want

that.

Why don't

we have those just in

case?

You should make custom baseball cards for us and just put them in the back.

Yeah, I'm down.