Cleaning Tips, Brewers Triumphs, and Documentary Delights (Hour 2)

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Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

Hope you enjoyed intermission.

We are kicking off act two on this Tuesday night edition from beautiful downtown Green Bay tonight.

We're talking with the Mary Mades of Green Bay.

Lisa and Alex are here in the studio.

We'll get back to them in just a minute with some cleaning tips.

Some back to school.

Organization and cleaning tips, and it's been a fun talk so far.

We'll continue that in just a minute.

If you missed the first hour, our question of the night is, how often in honor of the Mary Mades being here tonight, do you clean your bathroom?

Very personal question, but we're not afraid to ask the tough questions here on Nightlight.

Let us know how often you clean your bathroom.

We've had some, I think people are lying Conrad.

I'm not gonna lie.

I'm not gonna, you know, I think, like I say once a week ideally, but also as needed.

So, you know, if I'm fasting, I don't go to the bathroom as much.

So I don't have to clean every week, right?

I'm really opening up here.

When you're asking about the bathroom in general, I mean, I every day am wiping and cleaning my counters in my mirror every day.

You're such a

show

off.

But no, I'm just saying you almost have to kind of, you know.

We don't have to.

Those are the Mary Mades.

Our question tonight, how often do you clean your bathroom?

If you miss the first hour, we had a long discussion about a new show on Netflix called Are You My First, where people are losing their V card.

That stands for virginity, Conrad.

I know the kids talk these days.

And it's basically 24 to 34 year olds who just haven't had the opportunity to have sex yet.

And they're going on TV now.

They're rolling the dice and going on TV to see what happens and one of our text lines or one of our Textors on the text line said Where was that Conrad is the theme song for the show foreigners feels like the first time So as someone who I am not I've had sex seven times in my life and

It's really great if I remember.

I really enjoyed

it.

You have nine children, right?

I do have nine children.

Three sets of twins.

So, you know, you can weigh in on that.

We've got some great text activity on that.

We'll get back to the text line shortly.

How often do you clean your bathroom?

We talked about getting, well, we talked about you getting a perm, Conrad, and me getting a body wave, because we had this haircut situation.

I

said, I don't, I'm at that awkward stage where I kind of need a haircut, but I'm not, it's gotta get pretty shaggy for me to bite the bullet and go get my haircut.

I think you could do the perm.

Listen, perms are in right now.

How about a mulleted perm?

My wife would be like, lady killer, you know it.

You think you're a virgin.

Where do you get that perm with the mullet?

And it's go time, baby.

LFG.

All right.

And what else do we have here at Conrad?

We've got Jim from Brookfield.

I'm all over the place on my texts tonight, and I'm getting kind of...

I need Dan Schaefer here to recombobulate me.

Mark from Prairie to Sax says, just don't get a Bob Don Stark, that 70s show perm.

Yeah, that's a terrible perm.

Which one is that guy that

kind of stocky neighbor?

Yeah, he's the neighbor.

I love that actor.

John Murray says, oh, we read that one, John.

All right, I think we're caught up on text.

All

right, let's get back into this, because this is serious stuff.

You gotta keep a clean house, you gotta stay sanitary.

And joining us here in the studio for another segment, we've got a few more minutes with our friends from Mary Maid's Green Bay, Lisa Gutowski and Alex Vannevin.

Alex is buying this franchise, not the franchise, but this store here in Green Bay from...

Lisa, are you giving him a good deal?

Do you need me to intervene, Alex?

I can be kind of, I'm a

deal maker.

The good deal was the last 12 years of all the experience.

Such a great answer.

Family, you can't beat it.

All right, so we've established-

And of course I am.

Yeah, of course you are.

And we've established that you went to Omaha to learn how to clean a house

from

the king Mary made himself, brought you to Omaha, trained you to clean his house, and you've sort of imparted that.

How long does it take?

Like you bring someone into clean a house, you send them out there, is it like one of those things they get down pretty quickly or is there a system?

You said left to right or right to left, is that a thing?

Yes, top to bottom, left to right.

Nice.

So, and it's a week of training, possibly two weeks depends on, you know, the person and they go, and it does cause not everybody cleans the same way and fast or slow.

If you're slow, it's okay too.

Sure.

If you're fast.

You better be good.

Yeah, right.

Don't miss a spot.

Right.

But where does the left to right come from?

Why is that just something that's easy to remember if you have a routine

or is there some sort of science behind that?

Correct.

So every room on top of the bottom left to right just keeps you in the same format all the way through.

Oh, I like that.

Okay.

And you guys have both established you have pretty clean houses.

I have a two-year-old and a five-year-old, so we do our best, but yeah, I mean...

I do use Marymades as well.

So they know when Marymades

is coming

in, it's time to pick up the house and get

the

toys put together and all that

sort of stuff.

And the kids help with that too.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Assigning the kids some chores is not unreasonable.

A little competition.

We'll do a 10 to

15 minute competition to see who can pick up the toys the fastest.

And the

kids fall for that.

That's like being in

the car and going, let's see who can be

quiet the longest.

My

five

year old does, but you know, the two year old, no.

Yeah.

Well, at our house, it was you get some extra screen time because screen time is like gold.

Oh, yeah.

For sure.

So they get some extra screen time if they help.

Nice.

And so putting your dishes away after every meal into the dishwasher, everybody has to do their own.

Wow.

So nobody's one job is to clear off the table.

Everybody does their own.

You

guys are tough.

And you have that here on your summer cleaning tips.

Make it a game.

Turn chores into fun challenges for kids.

Try five minute toy pickup or laundry sorting race.

Man, I wish my kids were still young.

I had no idea any of this existed.

The reward idea trade points, like you just said, for screen time.

So let's get to the back to the school one.

I think we did the drop zone.

Let's reset the homework station.

Alex, you answer that one.

Reset the homework station would be, I mean, just making sure you have a safe, clean environment for the kids to have all homework station, but also have those bins set out, making sure they're all labeled with what goes where.

And if you do that every day, then the kids are coming in, understanding where to put their stuff, where to put their backpacks, put their shoes, put the pens, pencils, and any homework that they have.

you can designate that time every day to get

that stuff done.

Exactly, just making that routine.

And for the parents, I mean, if they do get the clothes ready the night before and get their lunches ready the night before, and you do all that stuff and have breakfast knowing what you're gonna put out, all that saves the chaos in the morning.

Right.

And check the backpacks the night before.

Yeah, right.

That's the

big deal.

Wow, I probably would have been a lot better parent if I had met you guys about 25 years ago.

So the other one is rotate and refresh clothing.

Now, honestly, I love that in theory, but I'm also one of those people who's like, I've got 50 shirts, I wear eight of them.

I can't.

That's pretty much all of us.

And I gotta say, that's nothing Marymades does.

But it's stuff that you should do and the rules should be.

So if you do one load of laundry every day and you keep up on that, you don't have a whole pile

by the

weekend.

So as long as those little organization things, those type of things for laundry, so then Marymades can come in there and tackle all the big cleaning stuff.

So as long as you're getting that done, give us a call, then we can come in and do your bi-weekly.

bathrooms and kitchen and you don't have to worry about that.

You have your Saturday to spend your time with your kids.

Cause I've been there.

Like I save up laundry and I have to plan my whole day around it, basically getting it done.

Use a Sunday reset routine.

What's that?

A Sunday?

Yeah.

Use a Sunday reset.

Sunday is where you are now.

Like I just said, you're going to do, let's set the week.

What are we doing?

Okay.

Let's do get all the.

Go get all your stuff for all your lunches, right?

What are you having?

What are you having for breakfast?

You do all that stuff and do it all on Sunday So you don't have to worry about it all week when you're all both working, you know and about and life is chaos,

right?

Okay, do it on Sunday when you're all home and talk about it with the kids So they all know to what the rules are what you expect from them what their job is And they all like routine

Yes,

you sound like

You guys kind of both sound like my wife.

She's a kindergarten

teacher.

She kind of talks to me like I'm in

kindergarten.

We need a routine around

here.

I'm like, all right, as long as I don't have to do anything.

What is clean, high touch areas regularly?

I assume that means like the sink and stuff like that.

You just like

disinfect it.

Everything that's at eye level.

Okay, let me ask you this, because we've gone back and forth on this.

When I was growing up, my parents would just wipe the counter with like a wet cloth.

But my wife is more of a spray, a 409, whatever it is.

Is there a danger, and maybe you don't know this, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but of using disinfectant or antibacterial cleaner too much, where should people land there?

Like let's say you clean up the dishes, now you clean the counters.

How would you go about that in your house?

We have the little...

Disinfectant cloths on the counter and we take them out all the time and I Can't answer to your question other than the fact that it's probably not great for what you're wiping on the material you're wiping on all the time right Affected the alcohol in it, but I do it all the time.

Yeah every day many times a day at home

Would you be willing to call my wife?

Does that's probably not what you guys do?

Tackle paper clutter Lee or tackle paper clutter early Like mail and stuff.

Mm-hmm.

Yep again that Sunday thing just get all that stuff done and out of the way and Sunday's the day for walking around and just looking at your hosts,

right?

I

agree with you and we

just talked about this yesterday

I said I went through mail for the first time in like over three weeks because I pay everything online.

It's all like ads.

But every once in a while, something's in there

and I

have to spend an hour and a half going through mail, which sucks,

which I just found our renewal for our vehicle.

Oh, which was yes.

Three months ago.

Yeah.

You don't want to

toss that in the recycling.

Right.

Because that's not automatic repay.

Correct.

Exactly.

Keep a cleaning caddy handy.

Is that like a little bucket with cleaning stuff?

Yeah, exactly.

So just like we have at Mary Mids, each team has a tote filled with their multi-surface toilet, grease glass, all that sort of stuff.

So you have one at home too.

And then you know, keep it under the sink or wherever you want to keep that in your mudroom closet.

And then when it's time to clean up after dinner, you got your little caddy and get to work.

Love it.

Are you guys, are your cars clean?

Well, mine is.

Yeah.

Okay.

Spotlights.

I mean, you are professionals.

I expect everything in your life

should be.

No, not

everyone's.

Where's your, where's the chink in the armor for both of you?

You can open up.

This is radio.

I don't mean to make anyone cry here, but like, let's get personal here.

Where do you struggle in your life, either being organized or cleaning?

The entryway or for your...

you know, backed by the garage for us.

Well, now that school is starting too.

The kids coming in, kicking off their shoes, trying to hang up their jacket, all that sort of stuff, just teaching them that.

But it ends up, you know, being like the Bermuda Triangle of

the

area where you're missing a shoe

every day or something.

So that's why you

go back to those bins.

The

bins are good.

The things that hang up your backpack are good and all that.

I love it.

All right, so I have to ask you, this has been fun.

Thank you for the tips, you guys.

Lisa and Alex are here for Marry Mades.

Lisa's been the owner for 34 years.

She's selling it to her, her nephew, Alex.

Alex, where can people find you guys?

Just social media or?

Yeah, www.marrymades.com slash Green Bay.

You can give us a call at 920-434-9308 and reach us either one of those.

And if you go to our website, you can get a quote right online as well too.

Outstanding.

Clean it up, folks.

Tighten up.

Give them a call.

They won't let you down.

Thanks, Pete.

We'll get, next time you guys are here, we'll talk more about TV.

Sounds good.

But I got kind of into the cleaning stuff because I need the help.

So, all right.

When we come back, Sean Hannes is here, the director of the documentary, Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Brewers.

We will catch up with our pal, Sean, after this very short break.

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

Can you go to the sound?

Would

you hear that fast train?

Ooh, fast train.

Great to have you here with me tonight lighting up the night as we do every night here Conrad Krieger work in the board We will have Sean Hannes here in just a few minutes talking about his documentary Just a bit outside the story of the 1982 brewers and this got me thinking the reason I wanted to have Sean on is because I knew that I knew the brewers streak would end as soon as I reached out to him but I wanted to talk to him because I feel like His documentary might have inspired brewers the brewers like yeah

It's this great documentary about how the city rallied behind a team that came in second place.

Basically, we're the runner ups.

So I feel like these brewers are probably like, if we win, this town is going to go crazy.

And they're the hottest team in baseball right now.

So we'll get Sean's opinion on that and talk a little bit more about his documentary, which is so fun.

If you haven't seen it, you have to check it out.

You're scon-reads dad.

Check it in.

Did you see this?

I did, yes.

He says, this is Steve from Florida.

Conrad's dad says, Pete, I got to say, when Paula and I visited Conrad some weeks back, he showed us the WGBW studio.

We were very impressed by the welcoming smell and cleanliness of the left to right spot on studio.

Well, your dad writes a good text.

Yeah, he does.

Mom, too.

Yeah.

And then Nick from Marshall says he cleans his bathroom once a year.

OK.

Yeah, I think.

It's not a bad deal

if

you have 50 bathrooms in your house.

That's too many times.

That's too many.

You guys should get together and have like a cleaning day.

I feel like I missed the text.

I don't like to miss the text counter.

Are we good?

Are we caught up?

Yeah, you're good.

Oh, we got a stream comment.

Dave says, I have magic toilets.

I have magic countertops.

It seems like once a week and bam, it's done.

There's a lot of typos, Dave.

Dave, this is very unlike you.

He says, I take care of the...

Poop Volcano Green Lava Orange Marks Daily.

What the hell has gotten into Dave tonight?

Way too much information, dude.

But good to have you back.

All right, so it is my pleasure, folks.

This next guy and I have become friends.

We met through our pal Todd Alba.

This is what people do here.

We network and we build friendships here at Civic Media and specifically here at Nightlight.

He is a director of many movies, a very talented guy, but his most recent effort is the 1982 Brewer documentary I just mentioned before, just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Brewer's.

He joins us now over the stream, a native Wisconsin son and our pal, Sean Hannish.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, how you doing, Pete?

Doing very

well.

It's great to see you.

It's really great to see you too.

It's great to hear from you last week and the happy we could jump on.

I just, you know,

Here's what happened, Sean.

Here's my way of thinking.

My dad is so in, you know, we're Cub fans.

We're originally from Chicago and he is just like, all year I've been getting updates daily about the Cubs game.

Instead of watching highlights, I get my dad's rundown, which is fine.

And he's like, you know, they got the best record in baseball, Pete.

I said, I know I'm going to start now because it's August.

It's a long season, Sean.

So I say, I'm going to start now.

The second I start following.

My team, the Brewers, the team 80 miles to the north goes on a streak like I've never seen before, and my Cubs are nine games back all of a sudden.

So I thought, this is incredible, this run they've had.

So I thought, we gotta talk to Sean.

You must be thrilled.

Oh, I mean, of course.

I

mean, you know, I've been a Brewers fan since I could put together my first two thoughts.

So, I mean, having, no, it's really incredible.

you know, after the summer of 1982, which was the best Brewer's summer ever, until this summer.

I mean, it's such a special thing to be able to watch a group come together and gel and have chemistry.

And frankly, I think they're all really good friends.

I mean, I know you're a Cubs fan,

but I

got to tell you the whole, this is, it feels like sometimes we're playing a video game.

I bet, I bet it does.

Just don't.

This is baseball.

Two out of three is great.

You know, have a winning streak of 11 and then a 14.

Come on now.

It's insanity.

And I'll say this.

Yeah, I'm a Cubs fan.

I grew up three miles west of Wrigley Field, the first part of my childhood, then came here.

All my best friends are Brewer fans.

And when I was a kid, even in Chicago, we would drive up because my mom's family, my parents met at Marquette and my mom's family moved to Milwaukee when she was in college.

They're all Brewer fans.

We used to tailgate at County Stadium.

So I always felt like they were my second team.

So I would never like, I'm not an adversary here.

I think it's great for the people of Milwaukee and Wisconsin and Sean Hannish and Kelly Call.

Well, I mean, it's, it's.

pretty phenomenal that you know I will admit we've seen that when the burrs do well people tune in and you know find the movie and they watch it either for the first time or they watch it again um and we're I mean we're over the moon I mean listen

the

making of that movie was such a career highlight and then now you know just to see people you know to get all the feedback from people which has been astonishing I mean I still can't believe we're at

100% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes like that.

Again, that's like the brewer's streak.

Like these things don't actually happen

in nature.

But I'm really happy for all of the young fans because they will be able to look back, no matter how the season ends, they'll be able to look back and go, you know, that summer of 2025 was the best summer of baseball in my life.

And I mean, for me, this is like, you know, 82, of course, you know, I was 14, you can't beat that.

But I'm having so much fun this summer.

And my son is watching games with me, you know, he grew up here in Pasadena, but he's a Brewer fan through and through.

He can't stay on the Dodgers.

And with my dad, you know, and my whole family, in fact, I drove up to Palm Desert to spend time with my family and my dad is...

got out of the hospital.

So we all watched the game Saturday together and, you know, watched Montessario hit that unbelievable, you know, home run.

So I don't know.

It's special.

You know, the Brewers

are

special.

They have a special group of fans.

I mean, a number of teams do, obviously, the Cubs do as well.

No, but I think as in your documentary.

as you showed how special those fans are.

We're going to talk about that after the news.

Sean Hannish is here.

He is the director of the film Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Brewers.

I'm going to ask him a very important question when we come back because I think his documentary has inspired this team.

We'll do that next when we come back.

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

We are jamming through a Tuesday night here folks.

It is great to have you with me We talked to the merry maids who spruce the place up a little bit in studio and now Helping us bring this thing home is our pal Sean Hannish the director of just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Brewers check out his IMDB page folks He's made several movies a very talented guy and we are proud to call him a friend of nightlight here He joins us from California Sean.

All right, I'm just gonna lay it out there

And I know you have to, I don't want to put you on the spot and make you, you're a very humble guy, but I feel like this got me thinking during this Brewer's streak.

I wonder, you know, when this film came out last spring, it got a lot of eyes on it.

You said you got a hundred percent of Rotten Tomatoes.

People love the film.

Do you think it could have inspired this team?

You know, Pete, when you emailed me that question,

I you weren't the first person who's mentioned it and listen I clearly you know uh the team is playing the front office put together an amazing squad these guys have a ton of pluck they don't give up ever right on any any pitch any at bat or any inning um got a great manager so I here here's what I can tell you I mean if listen if it has that's

on the players themselves.

That's awesome.

I don't have any confirmation if any of them have seen it or not.

Perhaps a couple have or perhaps they all have.

What I do know is that the fans that are attending the games, you know, the Die Hard Brewer fans, there's a really good chance a good percentage of them have seen the movie

or at

least seen the trailer.

And so I think one thing that I think people take away from the film is just a real sense of pride.

in the community, in the city, in the state, and how much we love our teams, because I think we love our teams harder than any other state.

I think we love, we do, we love them hard.

And

that

was born out to bear in the parade that we threw.

So it's back in 82.

So it's kind of like, I feel like there is,

a decent percentage, maybe it's small, maybe it's 10%, maybe it's 20%, maybe it's 50% that go to these games and they're like, wait, I've, you know, I was a Bruce fam before I saw just a bit outside, but like the movie helps give context and really kind of, we're creatures that live through narrative, through storytelling.

And I think that story tells us is that,

Long before the Brewers there were the Braves long before the Braves there were the original American Association Brewers You know, we're a baseball city.

We're a baseball state We've always had great fans and it's something to really take pride in and so if they you know come out to an extra game because of it if they yell a little louder if they are wearing a jersey with extra pride, you know, I could see I could you know

They've said that, you know, Murphy's said some of these crowds are just they're absolutely bonkers.

And listen, they should be bonkers without the move because the team is playing so great and the games have been so exciting.

But I don't know.

I mean, I think as I do think it helps to create at least a beginning and a middle to the story that some Milwaukee Brewers on their way to a championship.

They reminds people, great players have played here

that we're

actually champion.

city if we win or even if we lose in the seventh game of the World Series.

I don't know if that answers your question.

No, it does.

And the reason I was going there with that question was because I feel like if some of the players have seen it, or coaches, front office, whatever, and saw how the city responded to not even winning, to being the runner up to the Cardinals, they might be like, can you imagine what the heck this place is going to be like if we actually do win?

And just the ball players don't need something to motivate themselves, but

I also feel like that couldn't help but motivate them if they saw that or knew that, if that makes sense.

I think so.

I mean, if the players have seen it or, you know, and I hope some of them have.

Sure.

I mean, to know that the fans have your back no matter if you win or lose.

Yeah.

As long as you play hard.

That's, I mean, there's a sense of pride in the organization.

And they've always had it.

You know, we're just putting up a mirror to it with the film.

Right.

But I think they, you know, I'm proud to be a Brewer fan.

You know, I know, yes, we haven't won in so long and all that.

But for the players specifically, I think there's one part of the movie I think that could hit cut really deep.

And that's Robbins, Robbins interview at the end.

Oh, man,

yeah.

It's really one of the most honest and beautiful.

And I applaud Robin.

I thank him.

I'm incredibly grateful that he gave us what he gave us from his heart.

And, you know, but that that.

regret that he still feels for not, you know, not being able to win the World Series.

And I think as we get down the stretch here, you're gonna have guys like, you know, Yelly and, you know, Woodruff and all these guys.

It's like, you know, if we do get there, we're gonna go, you know, there's a good chance you only get one shot.

You can

never say, oh, you know, oh, we'll be back next year.

That's what these guys, that's what got us through losing in 82.

Because we're like, we've got this great group.

We'll be back next year.

We never made it back.

So.

I don't know.

I'm really grateful that you asked the question to Pete.

If it has one Iota, if it helps us team one Iota, then I'm just happy we made the film.

Well, I was talking about it earlier with Conrad and I think what almost makes you, you probably, maybe you don't want to hear this, but what makes your film even better is that they didn't win.

And you got to showcase the people of Milwaukee and Wisconsin and what great fans they are.

But I also, I love, you're right, that scene with Robin Yacht at the end where he's talking about his friendship with Ozzie Smith.

And Ozzy Smith's like, oh man, you got to get over that.

And Robin Yown's like, that's easy for you to say.

You won.

It's so funny.

What is Robin Yown like these days, Sean?

He was such a young.

He kind of had this big mop of blonde hair.

I think the first time I saw your film, I missed his Chiron.

And I'm like, who is this dude?

Like he has dark hair now.

He's rocking the ponytail.

Is he just kind of a granola?

Or where does he live?

What's his life like

now?

The dude still looks like Adonis.

He stands up and you're like, you should just jump in the batter's box right now.

He's like built like that, you know?

He's just an athlete's athlete.

Wonderful guy, humble guy.

I'm excited.

I'm actually gonna see him Sunday because we put together, Kelly and I put together the films for the...

Celebration of life for Bob Uker.

Oh, oh, you were telling me about that last time we spoke.

Yeah So for those of you who are able to make it out, you know, we're we've got about 25 minutes of film on Bob Uker's life told in his own words But the yeah, we'll be seeing Robin there, which will be great Okay, you know that Simmons is gonna be there as well and he's he's You know, I think I think for the guys there was a lot of healing around the movie, you know in that

Premier I remember walking down to answer a few questions and I looked back and I can see all the guys They were all sitting in the same row and I looked at you know Ted Simmons had tears streaming down his eyes

Wow

a while it was misty and you know be bukovic was gone and it's just like they were all There's some healing that happened

though

like again when you could put something into a story into context I mean, that's how we that's how we make meaning

Right.

Yeah, very well said.

My guest is Sean Hannish.

His film is just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

If you haven't seen it, you have an opportunity to check it out.

It's on the Roku channel for free.

But if you want to put a few bucks in Sean's pocket, you can check it out at Apple TV or I think it's Prime,

Sean.

It's Prime and Apple TV.

It's Roku.

It's also going to jump out here on Tubi in the coming week or two.

So it's starting to get available in

a number of different

places.

It's a great film, and it will make you proud.

If you're a Brewer fan or just a Wisconsinite, it'll make you really proud the way the fans behaved.

And it was such a fun team.

You know, I don't know if you saw this, Sean, today.

Well, today is when I read about it.

Pat Murphy almost followed Craig Council to Chicago.

I didn't, I didn't read that.

I didn't know that.

I just read it today and Conrad and I were talking about that.

Like how many wins is Pat Murphy?

He's such a fun guy, but how many wins is he alone responsible for?

His managerial practice is like 20, 10, 50.

I don't know.

I, you know, if you ask people that are in the, I have a friend who's in the quant world in baseball, you know, the people that do all the statistics, they would say a manager does nothing.

Come

on, I don't believe

I

disagree with that wholeheartedly.

Um, you know, I think the manager can be responsible for Truly responsible for anywhere from five to ten wins.

I here's what they can be responsible for though is is a lot of losses Yeah,

oh great

point.

Yeah That's that's and he you know, it's knowing his pretty he's such a I'm so happy he stayed because he's

Having come from the college ranks, he really knows how to work with young players.

And boy, do we have a lot of young players and get the best out of them and really create a team framework.

He's the right guy.

I mean, it reminds me a lot of Harvey Keane.

I mean, really, he's probably the most Harvey Keane-like.

Harvey being the manager of the 82 Brewers.

The like manager of the Brewers have had since Harvey in that.

how he gets along with players, how he communicates.

He's so mellow in the pocket pancake.

Get out of here.

That leads me to my next question.

You just drew a parallel between managers.

Other than that, do you see any parallels between this Brewer team and the 82 Brewer's team?

I do.

I think the biggest thing is chemistry.

You know what I think also?

This team knows what it is.

It knows what it does well and it knows what it you know Yeah, it doesn't do that well and it stays away from those things same thing with 82.

I think if a team knows It knows itself and and plays within that prep like this team.

Okay, we know what they are, right?

They're fast.

They play great defense and we have a really good pitching.

Yeah We also don't swing.

It's we rarely swing at pitches that are outside the strike zone and I mean that's

Incredibly underrated You know statistic, but one the Brewers excel.

I think we're number two in the league in that You know the 82 Brewers you look at them and you know, obviously their hallmark was wall banging Harvey's wall bangers.

Yeah,

just busted the ball out of the park all the time and You know, but they knew who they were too.

So it's you know, I do think they're parallels and again

You don't go on streets like that without having a hell of a lot of team chemistry.

Right.

No, they're a fun bunch.

They seem like they really like each other.

Do you, you know, I just want to ask you this as a fan, you know, and being a Cub fan, it's different because that's a huge market.

There's another baseball team there.

But I feel like if I was a Milwaukee, if I lived in Milwaukee or Kansas City or even St.

Louis, it would bother me.

that these big metro market teams have an advantage.

Do you think MLB would benefit from doing more like a profit sharing thing like the NFL does?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it would have, it would strengthen the league.

I mean, when the Yankees are crying poverty, when the Dodgers did it off season, you're like, first of all, you're like crying me a river Yankees.

Yeah, right.

But yeah, I mean, I feel, I mean,

What's happening in Milwaukee right now with the Brewers is the best thing that could possibly happen to baseball right now.

Yeah,

because the Brewers are proving, you know, we You know, we can have a really pretty small salary, you know salary total and Be up by six or seven games against the next best team in baseball

right

like

It's a great story and it shows that, you know, a real work.

In fact, I rewatched Moneyball last week because they've been calling brewers Moneyball 2.0.

And, you know, it's sometimes you got to, you know, just accept some of the challenges you're given in that walk is one of the smallest markets and, you know, lean into, you know,

out thinking the system

make it that much sweeter when if you know if they can get over the hump here we'll have a couple more minutes with our pal Sean Hannes after this very short break don't go away folks it's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio

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Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight.

You've got the Civic Media Radio Network.

We have tomorrow night, folks.

It should be a really fun show.

Chris Miklos, the author of Tick Town, will be here.

And then joining me here in the studio after Chris is WGBW, new on-air host, Laura McKenna.

She's kind of been a staple here in Northeast Wisconsin.

Did you know that, Conrad?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So it'll be fun.

We'll get to know Laura a little bit here on the air.

She's coming in.

Place looks great after the Mary Mades.

And we've got a couple texts here.

We'll bang out before we get back to our guest, Sean Hannish.

Steady Eddie says, Pete, there ain't no doubt.

Steady Eddie is a lean, mean cleaning machine.

Steadfast Edward ain't got no time for clutter, dirt, grease or grime.

Steady Eddie.

PS, I used to have a cleaning caddy, but he quit and now works for Tiger Woods.

Kind of idea of a groan button.

You could hit real quick over there.

I appreciate the effort, Steady Eddie.

He has a PSS.

Christian Yelich hit a home run, number 26.

Brewers lead game two.

Brewers lead game two, one to nothing in the top of the second.

All caps, go Brewers.

See what I have to deal with here, Sean, on a nightly basis.

Just brew.

And then Bridget from the 818 says, I wipe down daily, deep clean once a week.

Outstanding.

Thank you, Bridget.

Thank you, steadfast.

Edward, back to our guest, Sean Hannes.

He is the director of Just A Bit Outside.

The story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

You can stream it on Roku, Prime, or Apple TV soon to be available on Tubi.

It's a great film, and you definitely have to check it out.

And what better year to watch the film than when the Brewers are on such a hot streak this season right now?

Sean, I had so much fun hanging out with you and the producer of the film, Kelly

call.

You guys were so much fun.

It was great getting to know you at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Do you have anything else planned that you guys are working on?

Well, it turns out that it was, by the way, echoing everything you're saying, so much fun to hang out, you know, actually in person.

And the Wisconsin Film Festival had some real gems this year.

One of the films, I can't really tell you yet.

It looks like we are picking up one of the films that was there for distribution and are working on getting it into theaters in the fall really and Yeah, and again, I can't really say much more.

Okay, you'll be the first to know yeah, please

Listen, I want to

Kelly on anyway, so let's line it.

Are you guys working like a sales rep sort of or?

on this one, this is just on this next film, Cannonballs, which is my company's working as a distributor actually.

Nice.

And Kelly, Kelly comes on to whatever projects he wants to whenever he wants to.

Yeah.

You know,

having been the former president of CBS, he has that, you know, that kind of golden ticket.

That's excellent.

Yeah, so we're excited and I'm happy to share more.

I'll tell you more about it next

time.

All right, very cool I saw a film there if you guys and I'm just throwing you that I don't want I'm not asking for a taste or anything if you like the film but It was called threesome, and I saw it on the first or second night packed house at the Barrymore thoughtful funny And a huge twist that I can't believe I didn't see coming but put it on your radar really good film

I will

thank you for that.

Yeah, you're very welcome.

All right, so Sean what?

Let's see, I got so much to ask you, and of course we're running out of time here.

Let's do this.

If you had to use one word to describe the 82 brewers, what would it be?

Heart.

Nice.

I went with gritty, probably because of the mustaches and the bad hair.

And they're drinking at the bar after the games.

Same question.

For the current Brewers, Sean, one word.

Um, togetherness.

Nice.

Oh, you said that before.

You said chemistry, and that's a great, uh, great way to describe them.

Um, all right.

The, the Brewers ability, sorry, I didn't mean to give you a quiz, but I just thought this would be fun.

We can do it all

day.

The Brewers ability to win the World Series this year will hinge on blank.

Starting pitching.

Nice.

Very well done.

Man, you're a baseball guy, I could tell.

All right, so before we let you go, any new movies in the works, Sean, you're an accomplished director long before you did just a bit outside.

What are you working on?

Oh, man, honestly, I've got... I'm currently writing with my producing and writing partner, Paul.

We're working on an indie script that we've been...

Commission to write that I'd be directing and producing next year.

I can you know Tell you a little bit more about that

as that kind

of comes into action right now.

That's a little bit like you know, NDA land Um, we've got a really, you know, we've got this wonderful series.

That's about Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry in there It's a pilot for it is about their their time with the New York Giants in the 50s and then going on to Green Bay and Dallas in the 60s.

I think that's a really neat project

I've got a Western going on.

I've got a war film going

on.

It's a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff, but it's all, you know, hopefully it all like has a, you know, I try to, that they all have a heart and a really good, you know, journey for the characters involved.

That's kind of, you know, what we look for.

And, you know, some of these things they can, you know, you can be in development for a decade.

Yeah.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

That's, uh,

But you're an incredibly talented guy.

Can't wait to see what you do next.

And please, yeah, thank you for, I'll have Kelly on next and we'll, he's been badmouthing you for like three months now.

I don't know if that's my place to say, but just to, you know, watch that guy, will you?

He

can do that because we're cousins.

So, you know, we found out on 23andMe.

Oh my God, I love that.

Yeah, we were friends for 35 years.

We found out, you know, a couple of years ago, we're actually related.

That is nuts!

Oh, I love that story.

It was crazy and his wife said, well, of course you are.

Sean, thank you so much.

We'll do it again soon.

Keep us posted on everything and keep up the great work, buddy.

Great to talk

to you.

Thanks so much, Pete.

It's great seeing you again.

You too.

That's Sean Hannes.

Check out Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

Great film.

And check out Sean's other work on IMDb.

He's got a lot of great titles.

John Murray, get in the text in the last minute.

We'll do our best here, John.

Peter, movie alert.

Howard and Maude.

Harold Mott, I think he means, is one of the most fulfilling movies I've ever seen.

Really gets you thinking about your own humanity and what your role should be in society, thought provoking about relationships and what really matters in life.

Great flick for everyone.

Thank you, John, for the referral.

Appreciate it.

That's what we do here at Nightlight, folks.

We'll be back again tomorrow night to do it all over again on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.

I'm Pete Schwabba saying, good night, Wisconsin.

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