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Eddie Murphy & Barr Band Friday Nite (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Aug 8, 2025
Hope you smoked him if you got him during the intermission portion of the show.
This is Act Two.
Very exciting.
It's a Friday night here at Night Light.
We are broadcasting...
as you just heard statewide.
It is a beautiful night, a bit muggy here in downtown Green Bay, but it is a gorgeous night along the Fox River here at City Deck Landing.
Hope you're having a great night, whatever you're doing.
Enjoy those last couple weeks of summer, folks.
And Conrad, how are you doing?
Exactly.
Folks, if you missed hour number one, we had a great talk with Mike Clemens.
He kept us posted on how the Brewers are doing Pat Murphy.
That was interesting when he said Pat Murphy is kind of the new comic relief for the Brewers taking Bob Euker's place.
And he's right.
And it's funny that you can walk that line because I said I saw Pat Murphy going to the mound.
You could read his lips, he dropped an F-bomb and he was upset.
But then the fact that he could turn around and be funny at a press conference, you gotta love a manager like that.
When a team is jamming and stealing bases and playing station to station or making the right moves, sacrificing, stealing.
knowing when to take the pitchers out.
There's something to be said for that and it's a beautiful thing.
And it's amazing that not every team does that.
Like, especially like Mike said, you got the Mets with a $350 payroll and they have a winning record, but they should be better.
Yeah,
So we had a great talk with Mike.
We also have a great question in the night, folks.
Heinz Ketchup, and it's about time, has a new fruit smoothie.
I think that sounds disgusting.
They mix it with fruit and Heinz Ketchup.
which is delicious on a hamburger.
I don't see it in a smoothie.
But our question of the night is what is even more disgusting?
What's an even more disgusting smoothie than the new Heinz ketchup and fruit smoothie?
We've had some great texts so far.
Be part of the fun, folks, and text us.
You can drop us a stream comment.
Text us on the app.
Do the old fashioned text line at 855-752-4842.
So far, the winner is AJ from the 608 who said...
Pig's feet, a pig's feet smoothie.
Was it pickled or not?
It was pickled.
It was pickled.
That makes it a little better.
All right, so you're all caught up, folks.
It's great to have you with me here at Nightlight tonight.
We are kicking off act two here.
And we're going to start with, I thought this was interesting.
First of all, I want to play a Tom Cruise.
This isn't tied to what I wanted to say, but I love this scene from Risky Business.
I've been sitting on this clip all week and it was, Risky Business did drop this week, but I want to get this clip played because this iconic phrase came out of this scene between Tom Cruise and I forget the other actor's name.
He also played, he plays Miles in Risky Business and he's very funny as Miles.
He also plays Booger in Revenge of the Nerds.
So those are his two biggest roles.
But here's the scene between Tom Cruise.
I really hope you believe this.
I trust that you did a great scene from Risky Business.
Joel, you want to know something?
What?
Every now and then, say what the f*** gives you freedom.
Freedom brings opportunity.
Opportunity.
Makes your future.
Be right there!
So your folks are going out of town?
Tomorrow.
You got the place all to yourself?
Yeah.
Have you ever seen that movie?
I actually, I still haven't seen it yet.
It's really interesting because there's, it's a really good movie, like there's good action.
It's kind of got some sexy stuff in it, you know, there's some great scenes between Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMorne and some of the other call girls and Tom Cruise's friends.
And then there's this great character actor named Richard Mishour, I think I'm saying that correctly, who plays an Ivy League recruiter who shows up at Joel's house while he is throwing this party with escorts and all of his friends.
And it's just a really solid movie.
There's a lot of funny stuff in it.
Tom Cruise is great in it.
This is before he was Tom Cruise.
He was just a really solid actor.
It's got great moments.
It's funny.
It's thrilling.
There's a great scene at the Drake Hotel in Chicago in downtown where Tom Cruise took his dad's Porsche out and he and Miles are trying to get away from Joe Pannelliano's character, Guido.
Another classic line that Miles says I have a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp And it's a great chase scene So if you haven't seen risky business that that is probably due for a classic movie pick of the week one of these days It's just a fun film and it doesn't I Guess it's a teen comedy, but I don't think it really falls into like a Maybe like fast times type thing, but it's more about the character really great film
So, all right, this is, we are kicking off Act 2 here, folks.
I also want to talk about, I thought this was interesting because I found this clip, trying to figure out, let's do Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Let's do James Cameron first.
This was interesting.
James Cameron, who, you know, he's one of the most successful directors in Hollywood.
He did Avatar, Titanic, Titanic 111 Oscars.
It's really hard to argue with the success he's had.
Avatar's a franchise now.
Titanic can only sink once, so I don't think that one's coming back.
But very successful, but I can't say he's like one of my, like, I don't long for a James Cameron film when I'm sitting at home.
There are these big epic movies, which are fine, but the guy is the boss on his sets.
And I thought this was funny.
This will be in my Hollywood beats for Monday.
Matthew McConaughey auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson.
which ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
And apparently, I think McConaughey was just coming off of Days in Confused, in which he was great.
And he read for Cameron and produced for John Landau, and this was in John Landau's book.
He said, McConaughey did the reading, crushed it, everyone loved it.
And James Cameron said, he said, he loved it too.
He said, I'd like you to read again.
Give it another read.
McConaughey says to James Cameron, no, that was good.
And according to John Lando, that is what kept Matthew McConaughey out of Titanic.
The role eventually went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Matthew McConaughey did just fine, but that's one of those roles that must make an actor go, oh, why, why didn't I just read it again?
Cause sometimes that can work in your favor.
Sometimes if you show Moxie,
and guts and you're willing to say stuff like that, they respect it.
And other times, your audition can lead to Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role you wanted.
So I thought that was interesting.
Here's another thing, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
One of my favorite movies from the 80s is The Terminator.
Pardon me, The Original Terminator.
I thought it was creepy, creative, inventive, had some great action and suspense scenes.
This is a clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to Rich Eisen.
Do you like Rich Eisen?
He's all right.
I think he's great.
I love his show.
His interviews are great.
And I love that he interviews a lot of show business people, not just sports people, but Schwarzenegger goes on the show.
And here's a clip between Arnold and Rich Eisen talking about James Cameron.
True or false, the original I'll be back line in the Terminator was written as I'll come back and you had to convince James Cameron to change it.
I'll be back.
Wrong.
So Jim Cameron wrote, I'll be back.
And I said to him, I said, I don't like the way I sound when I say, I'll be back.
I didn't quite understand the L thing.
OK.
Being German speaking.
And I said, well, I'd rather say, I will be back.
Mm-hmm.
Sounds more machine-like.
And he says, all right.
He says, but I mean, are you the writer or am I the writer of the script?
And he says, well, you're the writer.
And he says, well, then don't tell me how to write.
He says, I don't really know how to act.
Let's just keep going like that.
Let's do 10 takes if I'll be back.
Did you pick the one that you like?
And that's the one that we do.
But the interesting thing about it was, no matter how much we argued about this, it was a line that no one thought would be ever repeated again.
And so when the movie came out, I remember I was in New York.
And the guy came up to me after the screening and says,
Oh, I don't know.
I'm a big fan of yours.
Can you repeat the line?
I'll be back.
And I said, I'll be back.
And he says, no, no, no, no.
The way you say it in the movie.
And then I said, I'll be back.
He says, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's an army guy in Iran off.
And then it happened again and again and the next day again.
And all of a sudden, I said to myself,
Wow, this is kind of weird.
I called Jim Cameron and said, this I'll be backline.
I said, I think he was so right.
I said, because he wouldn't have been that cool if I would have said, I will be back.
Right.
And he said, no, I told him it will work.
And he says, but it's going to be the most repeated line, I think, in history.
And it has become really one of the most repeated lines.
And did you see the original Terminator?
Yeah, yeah.
So great.
And that line, the first time I heard it, I knew he was going to do something like he did.
But the way you don't know, like, would it have been just as popular if Schwarzenegger had said, I will be back?
Maybe.
But James Cameron is probably right when a guy's got instincts like that.
But I love I love Schwarzenegger like he's so great in interviews.
He's so likable.
But I do have a story.
My buddy Stan Johnson, who is a.
stand-up comic who started doing open mics when I did, like in 1991.
Stan was much older, he was probably mid-40s.
Kind of down on his luck at the time I met him, and he was a cab driver in Chicago.
And you could tell Stan at one point had kind of a built, you know, he's probably like you, how you are now, but he's in his 40s, things starting to sag a little bit.
Heck of a nice guy though.
In fact, he used to go on stage and he has whole acts written out.
And he even wrote out,
before he goes into his jokes, thank you, thank you.
In response to the hopeful applause that he would get when he took the stage.
What if he didn't get up?
I was, I would go, Stan, you had to write that down, thank you, thank you.
And he laughed.
Stan was a great guy, loved him.
But one day, he's driving his cab and Stan told a few of us that he was a bodybuilder back in the day and he was really good.
He brought pictures one night and the guy was jacked, you know.
Schwarzenegger gets in his cab from a hotel and he was at the height of his popularity.
He's probably late 80s probably running man Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan Johnson turns back at him holds up his bicep and he goes What do you think Arnie?
Can I do anything for these while he makes a muscle?
Schwarzenegger takes a quick look at Stan flexing his bicep and just says arm exercises Like the most
Apathetic response you could possibly get.
Now, part of me understands why I'm sure Schwarzenegger got that all the time, and it gets annoying.
People doing that to you all the time, maybe just had a fight with his wife.
I don't know.
But he was not very nice to my pal Stan, but I do love him in interviews.
He's very interesting to listen to.
Yeah.
They did that in John Claude Van Damme.
This is my cousin from Luxembourg.
All right, we come back folks.
We're going to talk about Eddie Murphy, his worst movies, and I've got a really funny Richard Pryor clip.
This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.
started.
He just gave me
It was good to see John.
Hope John and Jim are both doing well.
This is interesting.
We talked about chocolate chip cookies.
I want to say that was our question of the night earlier in the week.
your favorite chocolate chip cookie.
I said Mrs. Fields, so I Googled Mrs. Fields, and I left a window open I forgot about.
I want two things.
If I ever decide to have plastic surgery, and I have had my calves done, but if I ever decide to do that, talk me out of it, because Mrs. Fields, Debbie Fields was a beautiful woman.
And like so many older people do, when they go onto the knife, they just look different.
Man and women they just sometimes they did pull their face too tight or something because she had plastic surgery.
She didn't look like herself
I don't think it's not like a tattoo removal or something, but I did find this too
I really like her.
I've heard her in interviews.
I think she's so cool.
But in 1969, the Oakland A's introduced ballgirls to sit along the foul lines and shag baseballs and foul territory.
One of the first ballgirls they hired was Debbie Fields.
Pretty cookie.
Still love Debbie Fields.
All right, so this was kind of fun.
Today, I saw this Eddie Murphy, an article about him talking about his least favorite films.
But I want to play this clip too, because this is really funny.
And I haven't had a drink in a while.
I don't know if I'm going to go for the rest of my life without a drink.
I highly doubt it, but you never know.
But this is one of Eddie Murphy's influences and an influence to a lot of comedians, a lot of stand-up comedians, the great Richard Pryor.
And this is him on The Tonight Show.
It's a very quick clip talking about drinking.
And it literally floored me and it's the perfect segue into Eddie Murphy.
So go ahead.
Drunk.
I don't know.
I know people out there to drink and see, you people drink normal.
These people drink, have a couple of drinks, feel fine.
Social drinking.
Yeah.
Me, I couldn't stop drinking till the barn turned and go, we got no more liquor.
I love that too.
And I love when Johnny Carson.
Who was great, and I think he's probably considered the greatest talk show host of all time late-night talk show host of all time I prefer Letterman, but when those guys would laugh so hard at a comedian it was just it made it that much sweeter
And I just love Carson's reaction to that Richard Pryor clip.
So speaking of Richard Pryor, I know that he was a big influence on Eddie Murphy.
And I remember this because I heard an interview with Eddie Murphy, because Eddie Murphy, when I was starting out, was kind of an influence on me.
I didn't want to work dirty like that, but I loved that he did.
And Eddie Murphy, in a recent interview with Complex 360, which I think is a podcast, talked about his bad movies.
And I love that he wasn't afraid to do that.
Because at the beginning of his career, he made great choices.
I should say the beginning of his career post-SNL.
He made Beverly Hills Cop 2.
His first film, though, was 48 Hours, very highly rated, great reviews, Trading Places, one of my all-time favorite films with Dan Aykroyd, great film.
Beverly Hills Cop, outstanding.
And the concert...
I was trying to think of before was not raw.
It was delirious.
That is the album I think to put him on the map when he's like 19.
But if you have a favorite Eddie Murphy movie folks, feel free to share it.
I still like him.
He's great in Shrek.
His highest rated movie, Conrad, I don't think you'll get this.
I don't expect you to know all of them.
But do you know what it is?
It's a more recent film.
And it surprised me.
I liked it a lot, but I was surprised it was his highest rated film on Rotten Tomatoes.
Are you googling it right now?
No, pretend like you're thinking I'm sure dr. Do little I'm rotten tomato.
No, no that might be as high as grossing Dolomite is my name.
Oh, I haven't seen really funny Dolomite is my name and effing up mother efforts is my game if that's his catchphrase through the whole film and it's so funny I Also liked another Eddie Murphy film that he did With Steve Martin called bowfinger
It's a little over the top, but kind of a fun Hollywood parody.
Do you want to know what his worst rate of movie is?
I feel like it's
46% of audiences liked it.
This is according to the imperfect data that Rotten Tomatoes gives you, but it's the best metric we have.
He plays a selfish literary agent whose fast-talking ways allow him to close any deal That sounds funny actually But he goes after a New Age guru Cliff Curtis from Fear the Walking Dead fame and It just did not resonate at all got a zero percent.
It had Eddie Murphy in the movie and still got a zero So there you go and his highest rated is Dolomite is my name.
I think my favorite one.
I did not like Axl F
the most recent one.
I thought it was okay, but it got about a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I was just like, eh, I don't know if it was worth that.
Maybe a 40.
I love it when a movie gets like critics like it, but the audience is kind of like, like this one had 67% critics liked it, according to Rotten Tomatoes, 48% of audiences, which probably means they didn't like the ending or they killed off a main character.
But there you go.
Heck of a career, Eddie Murphy.
Hey, let us know, folks.
Do we have text to read?
John Murray says he's not Gary Oldman for God's sakes.
Just read it best you can.
John taking a shot at Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I don't know if that's very wise John.
He's got a place in Madison.
Just watch your bees and queues John also says love some old-school Arnold Arnold politically challenged sometimes now and wish he would say Be quiet.
of our show for tonight and it's our last show of the week.
I'm already counting the minutes to Monday, but before we get out of here tonight, we have one of my favorite segments of the week.
And one of Conrad, Conrad, this is top three for you, right?
Or is Terry right at the top?
It's one.
It's one.
It's
So we're both in agreement.
Yes.
Barbaton Friday night, the most excellent time of the week.
What else are we going to say?
Terry, you wow us every week with your music knowledge and your personality.
You can catch her on WMDX as the co-host of Max Inc Radio every Saturday night, and she is our Wisconsin music.
expert, Ms.
Terry Barr.
Hello, my friend.
There is a new Heinz ketchup, a new Heinz ketchup and fruit smoothie that we've been talking about.
It sounds disgusting.
So we've asked people to, uh, to chime in with, uh, even worse sounding smoothie.
And our winner so far is our friend, AJ from Madison.
And she said a pickled pigs feet smoothie.
And that sounds, oh, I hope we don't chase you away.
Hey, so, okay, so let's, let's get into this.
I, I love the artist, you know, I think I've said this before, Terry, some of my favorite artists are just singer and acoustic guitar.
Now I say that and then I hear a different version of a song like, like with Kailin Cole, I love when she would play in the studio.
Then I've heard her produced single and that sounds great too.
But our artists tonight, you've got a little bit of both.
You've got.
the acoustic in her singing and then you shared a song too that's more produced.
Tell us all about Chloe Louise.
Chloe Louise is an award winner.
Of course, started really young, got a guitar as a kid, learned to play, and then started being kind of pushed in a good way by family and friends because they thought she was really good.
So they had her enter contests.
The first one she enters and she has told me she was scared to death.
She had to get on the big stage at the Overture Center in Madison.
This is real.
So she does it again, and she wins again.
And then I think they told her something on the order of, OK, that's it.
You can't enter again.
You need to let other people win.
Oh, come on.
And she is still only in her early 20s at this point.
She goes on to enter a local radio station contest where every single week you are given some kind of duty to write a song.
So basically you get the paper, you get this duty, you have to figure out how to write a song and then play it.
She wins this.
Her music, as you will hear when we listen to this, it's so storytelling.
It's so good in that realm of how she is able to take really personal things and turn these into stories with music.
And every single one is very personal.
But after this, ups and downs of life and love and everything else, and then 2020 hit, she had been signed to an independent music label.
Oh my gosh.
I mean, she was on a roll.
I was going to say steam rolling.
But it all kind of stopped.
And when things did get back kind of normal, she just wasn't ready.
So she really in the last few years has not been doing very much.
And yeah, I know she's so good.
And I actually messaged her.
I was listening to some of her older music again.
One song will hear tonight.
And I said, we miss you.
We really need your music.
We need your voice
on
Here is
the carry-over.
we could say that we were kids but baby you were 26 I ran to you you ran
with Jack's friend.
I was enough on North Patterson.
We are stealing her.
She's going to become a part of the MEX Inc radio crew.
What?
Yeah.
Like a permanent fixture?
Well, we have a little bit of a rotating cast these days because
Everybody's busy.
Everybody's doing crazy things, especially summertime.
So she wanted to slowly dip her toes back into the music scene and asked if she could join us.
And so she could be a part of, you know, the hosting.
She's learning to produce the show Conrad.
Like she'll she'll up her profile a little bit on Max Inc.
But like, and for those of you listening, Max Inc.
is on every Saturday night from six to nine PM on WMDX.
And you can check it out on the podcast too.
It's such a great show.
Terry and Rocker do such an amazing job.
But does she will she play locally anywhere, Terry?
We
That does not come across in her voice at all.
It's very energetic and lively and great.
And Terry Barr is my guest, folks.
It's Bar Band Friday night.
After we do a short break, we're going to come back and hear more of Chloe Louise, the new rotating host of Max Inc Radio and WMVX.
And I love this song too.
This is what we talked about earlier, Terri, playing the guitar and just singing.
And she's got such a great voice.
And I love the lyrics in this next song too.
So we'll talk more about...
the Australian Paige Kleber.
Can I say that?
But we'll do that.
And just a reminder, folks, on Monday, we've got a great show.
We'll be coming out of the weekend strong with Fallon Buchholz.
She has a show called Instability.
And she's going to be here live in the studio.
She's a Appleton writer.
That will be fun.
And then comedian, a Northeast Wisconsin comedian, Trevor Klumpner will be here too on Monday.
Terry, two in studio guests.
I don't
Network.
in.
I do want to say, Terry, I'm not saying I'm a good singer or anything, but on my LinkedIn profile, I put
kind of as a joke after some of my career achievements, I put wannabe crooner.
And every once in a while, I'll get a job posting for people looking for singers.
So just keep me in mind for Max Inc.
You never know.
And why it's so exciting, she hasn't put out any music in two plus years.
And it's fun to compare the brand new.
And then we're going to go back to a song she released in 2018.
And it's a live version.
And again, Pete, you said it's just her and her guitar.
But
Ah, her songwriting, her story.
It's great.
That's so good.
Louise.
Have a dozen for sale, yellow labs I say I want them all, you look at me and laugh You say, maybe one day when we've got a fence and a yard Don't want to jinx love like this or look ahead too far But here we are
And you can't help yourself Flipping through pages, looking at real estate I can't help myself Reading bad engagements, thinking maybe one day It'll be me and you 82, sharing coffee and reading the news zone Sunday mornings, you wanna hold back You can't help yourself You can't help yourself
We look at movie times trying to pick which one to see You say fine, we can see the romantic comedy Just to make me happy Our favorite corner store clerk He passed away last Saturday Hard to read that today
yourself flipping through pages looking at real estate I can't help myself reading bad engagements thinking maybe one day it'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee reading the news on Sunday mornings you want to hold back you can't help yourself you can't help yourself
you could be my wife I say hey what are you doing every Sunday for the rest of your life and you can't help yourself flipping through pages looking at real estate I can't help myself reading bad engagements thinking maybe one day it'll be me and you
82 sharing coffee and reading the news on Sunday mornings You can't help yourself You can't help yourself It'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee and reading the news on Sunday mornings You can't help yourself
Thank you.
She brings it in so many ways.
She's such a treasure here at Civic Media.
So we got one more text, Conrad.
Steady Eddie.
Steady Eddie chiming back in.
Where is that?
I got to read that before we get out of here.
Steady Eddie, steady Eddie.
There he is, Pete.
I had a dream.
parentheses nightmare last night my parents are trying to make me a drink of fried liver and onion smoothie my dad growled just take a sip steady Eddie his dad doesn't call him steady Eddie he says it's good for you I woke up covered in sweat and screaming thank God Pete it was only a dream sounds delicious Eddie and that's a great way to end the week thank you steady Eddie thank you all your texts for all your texts and calls everybody and thank you to my Clemens
and the lovely and talented and so much fun to talk to Terry Barr on a Barbie on Friday night.
Conrad, have a great weekend.
You too.
All right.
On behalf, well, you already said goodbye.
It's Pete Schwab and Night Light saying good night, Wisconsin.
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