Popcorn Pick and Sad Grocery Store Songs (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who considers a silver medal, a participation award, Peach Wabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Great.

to have you with me on this Thursday night.

Folks, consider this across the state.

Consider this a pre, a Packer pre-pre game.

Because I know everybody wants to watch the Packers, not everybody actually, but some people.

So we hope you join us for a little while.

In the meantime, we have a great show tonight.

When I say we, I don't mean Conrad and me.

I mean, the wonderfully talented

Amanda Nimmer, who is filling in for Conrad tonight?

Hi,

Amanda.

How are you?

Not too bad.

How are you?

I haven't seen you in a long time.

It's been a

while.

Did you recognize me when I came in?

I did.

Without the mustache and the sideburns?

I didn't even notice the sideburns.

Well, I was joking.

Obviously, these aren't great sideburns.

These are just like incidental sideburns, I think.

As long as you don't go too far with your sideburn.

Journey

too far

too far is when you let him keep growing and then they become mutton chops

Conrad said recently he was gonna grow mutton chops, and I didn't believe him.

I don't think he can He should yeah, I think he could do it.

I look he could pull the look off But he said he didn't think he doesn't get like facial hair in that area

and

some kind sometimes guys get you know different.

I don't know

Well, November is almost here.

So no shave, November.

Is that no beard, November or something?

It's

no shave, November.

No shave, November.

Can I not shave my armpits or my legs?

Is that what you're telling me?

Why are you doing that now?

Well, it's the winter's coming up and I like to tan.

I've never been to a tanning bed.

I don't tan at all.

You tan?

No, no, no.

I've seen Final Destination.

No.

What happened in final destination?

Oh my god.

I think it's the first one or the second one where they lock the girls in the tanning bed.

Oh, and then they like melt.

Yeah, no.

No, no, no, no.

What do they do?

They just get a really ridiculously evenly balanced tan and look like dynamite?

Sure, that's the alternative ending.

Are

you a horror fan?

You kind of are.

Kind

of.

I'm a horror fan, but I'm not a gore fan.

Like

just, you know, slasher flicks.

Not

really.

I care about a story when it comes to movies or TV.

Listen, I get it.

I'm totally with you.

I can even watch a horror film if there is a good story with it.

And it's not just gore for gore's sake.

So I'm totally with you there.

It is great to have you here tonight.

Thank you for filling in.

I know you have kind of a drive to get here, as do I. And it's great to have you filling in for Conrad.

Conrad is taking some R&R.

He is not overstressed at work.

He is not...

you know, he didn't like need a breather.

He's at

the Packer

game.

He's at the Packer game.

So you can guess this is purely fun on Conrad's point and good for him, well deserved.

And are you a Packer fan?

No, I mean, I'm completely indifferent.

I'm not like, I'll go to the games and have a great time.

But I don't care outside of that.

you don't care outside, like you don't follow them.

I don't follow them if they're doing well, cool.

I'm glad, because that means everyone else is very happy, but the second they lose and you go back to work on a Monday, it's like the

worst.

Yeah, it is.

No one's happy and I can't handle that.

My wife is like that.

She could not care less about sports, but she shows up on Friday, everybody's got the jerseys on and it's all they're talking about.

These are school teachers.

And then she shows up Monday and she's like Sunday night, she's already predicting tomorrow's gonna be brutal.

Oh boy.

Or everybody being in good mood.

So anyway, how have you been?

What have I missed about your life?

Well, you haven't filled in for counting quite a while.

No, I haven't.

I don't even know the last time I was here.

Quite honestly.

I mean, I was out for a medical leave for a while.

So,

you know, doing well from that other

than

that.

I mean, we missed you at Sputnik Fest.

Listen, I was not invited to Sputnik Fest this year.

Sputnikfest, for those of you who don't know, or didn't hear my interview with Greg Vadney recently, who is the director of the Rawr West Museum in Manitowoc, they put on Sputnikfest every year.

And it happened last weekend, correct?

Last year, you invited me and Greg invited me to judge the costume contest, which was a blast.

The whole thing is a blast.

It's just a fun, nutty time.

But I will say your son,

is kind of like the Michael Jordan of Sputnikfest kid costume contest.

And he's only six years old.

He's got a lot, he's got a lot of contests ahead of him.

He took what, second place in the... I'm sorry, I'm biased, but I think it should have been first.

But yes, he took second place.

He went this year as a rover.

What is that?

Oh, like a lunar rover or

something?

Did you find a costume like that or did you make it?

We made it.

So my son...

He makes all these ideas and he asks us to make it happen and we make it happen.

That's

so cool.

So he literally rolled into the contest, perhaps crashed into the stage twice.

You know, we're just gonna.

You're responsible driving.

Just a little bit.

Maybe that's why he got second.

Right.

But no, he had like his car was like all decked out with like cardboard and paint

and

like the like heated blanket wrapping foil things.

And he had like a little box.

on his head that he could see out of with like little fake cameras on it and we gave him a little grabber so he could pick up rocks.

So

what does

that

do for him when he like he takes seconds?

Does he feel really special?

Does he get home that night and keep the costume on for a while and just live in the imaginary world a little bit or what?

He loved it.

Like he got great reception from everybody else.

And then they gave him a $50 gift card for second place.

So we went straight to the store and he, he picked out everything he wanted.

That's a week's worth of gas for the lunar rover.

Okay.

Well, I'm very excited for you guys.

That's fun.

And it's fun as a mom to see that kind of stuff.

You know, you just get to live vicariously.

And the kid has no straight stage fright right now.

So.

Oh, do you?

No,

not so much.

Yeah, you seem you're

kind of a speak your mind type.

You gotta be sometimes.

I agree.

And then there are times where you're like, this is when we need to be quiet.

It's just not worth it.

I totally agree.

Well, it's great to have you here.

Amanda and her folks, give her a shout out, send us a text, call in, say hello.

She does a great job, and I always have fun working with her when Conrad cannot be here.

So we will get you through this Packer pre-pregame show known as Nightlight.

Mm-hmm.

You think we could start something there?

I don't think so.

I really don't care.

I want people who want to talk about movies and TV.

I love sports, but it's whoever is here, it's going to be a blast.

The phone lines are open, folks.

855-7524-842-8557-5CIVIC.

Always fun when you guys chime in on whatever we're talking about, and we have a really fun show tonight.

Joining me, it is Thursday, so that means we're making the popcorn pick of the week at 6.35.

My pal, comedian, actor, and now...

Immensely successful artist, Steve Seger will be here.

I sighed because it drives me crazy.

I have all these friends who left comedy, and I have three friends who left comedy and now are successful artists.

And on paper, I shouldn't like them for that, because that's just too much talent.

Is it?

It is.

I couldn't sell a painting, but Steve's great.

He does great work and we'll talk to Steve.

He is gonna make Steve Seger and he is gonna make the popcorn pick of the week.

He's gonna give us a movie recommendation that you all can check out this weekend.

Here's the thing,

if you

could be an artist that could sell things, what do you think your medium would be?

I'll tell you what, I like...

And when it comes to art, and I don't know a ton about art, I took a couple art history classes in college, but I like moments that are captured.

So maybe that would lend itself to photography, but I love paintings too, where there's an expression or something or a moment.

And it doesn't have to necessarily be people.

And Steve's art kind of does this.

He captures like a seaside escape, you know, or the corner of a fence with someone in their pool, like.

I like anything that like lets me go and live in that space for a little bit.

You know, there are people who get hired for weddings and they live paint a moment throughout the entire tea of it.

I know.

Is that crazy?

I have, I guess he's my aunt's significant other, Elliot Fromm, who does that.

He paints with both hands.

And

he was a Chicago guy, so he would show up at all these sporting events and paint Bull's logos or Bear's logos.

They moved to Asheville, and now I guess he's painting North Carolina stuff.

I don't know, but he's immensely talented.

And Steve and I have a mutual friend, Leo Benvenuti, who is also...

doing very well in the world of art.

So anyway, we will talk to Steve about all of this at 6.35.

I'll ask Steve what he's watching, might ask him for a heckler story or a road story maybe.

And Steve also made a list, I think it's a working list where he talks about songs he never has to hear again.

And I think that is a perfect segue to our question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Here, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Questions.

All right, this is sort of along what I just said, along Steve's list of making questions, or making a list of songs that you never need to hear again.

And this is something that happened to me recently.

I heard a song in the grocery store, like I always do in Marinette, Wisconsin, and it just bumps me out.

They're like 1980s B-sides.

Like, at least play the hit.

Tonight's question.

What's the most depressing song you can hear in a grocery store?

What is the most depressing song you can hear in a grocery store?

I have two, and I would love to hear what you have to say, Amanda, but I have two.

One is, and this is one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard.

Set the Night to Music by Roberta Flack.

It's such an odd, I don't know what it is, but the song makes me...

but it just, I just kind of like, I hear that song and I'm like, I think I'm just going to turn in for the night.

Cause the rest of the night is set the night to music.

It's the most, it gets in your head.

It's one of those songs you can't let go of.

It's not like it's even a horrible song.

I love killing me softly.

It's nothing against Roberta Flack.

I hate that song.

The other one I hear, you can laugh at me.

You're like covering up.

You're like, you don't want to laugh.

I

know you do.

All right.

So the other one is, is something like Thriller.

When I hear a song that people used to go crazy for at high school dances I went to and was so full of youthful energy and you'd flip out when you heard it on the radio or at a dance or whatever and now you're just a schlub walking down the aisles buying soup or something in the grocery store.

Why

are you soup sad?

It's sad.

It's the alliteration.

It's sad soup.

I don't know what it is.

I just don't it really depresses me because it was such a

iconic thing back in the day when I was younger and now it's like I don't know I find it very depressing but Marinette in particular and if there are Marinette people listening would love to know what you think I don't know where they find these songs but I hear these songs on the radio I'm like oh I kind of remember that yeah I never needed to hear it again I don't know where they're unearthing these tunes to

set a sidetrack or a soundtrack for my shopping.

But that is tonight's question, folks.

What's the most depressing song you can hear in a grocery store?

I know that's kind of specific, but have fun with it.

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X or you call it

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I refuse to call it the other one.

It's always Twitter.

X is lame.

Twitter was great because you could say, I'm going to tweet.

Yeah.

Well, you can't win.

I'm going to X. Yeah.

It's just stupid.

Yeah.

Whatever it is, whatever you call it, it's great to have you watching the show.

Let us know what you think.

Your most depressing song that you can possibly hear in a grocery store.

And I will read it on the radio.

Our second guess of the night, folks.

This is fun.

Al has been on the show a few times.

Al Petrelli, the guitarist and musical director for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

They're gearing up for another tour.

We're going to tell you where you can get tickets.

We'll talk to Al a little bit about his music.

He's a really fun interview.

Steve Sieger and Al Petrelli, a great question.

What more could you need?

You don't need the Packers, folks.

Stay with me.

It's Peach Wobbly Nightlight.

I'm coming right back to read your texts and tell you that you can no longer kiss someone's grits.

We're coming right back.

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That's mine.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I'm Peach Waba.

That is a song that Amanda never needs to hear again, or a song that she does not need to hear in a grocery store.

It makes you think of sad animals.

Yeah, I know.

Do you not remember her with all those sad, like, if we're just five cents a day, you could save this starving

dog?

What that's

from?

I'm pretty sure.

Sally Struthers?

No, Sarah McLaughlin did like

Oh, that was Sarah McLaughlin.

Yes, of course.

Well, that's a good one.

And that's sad.

That's gonna make you even sadder.

So that is our question tonight, folks.

Name a depressing song, something you don't want to hear when you're in the grocery store.

And this happened to me recently.

I posted it on Facebook and I got a lot of people.

I named the song and people, Corey Hartman wrote out the lyrics.

He knew exactly the song.

He read my mind.

It was a Steve Winwood song.

And I'm not anti-Steve Winwood.

but anyway hey folks if you missed idea fest last night here at civic media sponsored by the cap times uh in conjunction am i saying that right with uh civic media you can catch it tomorrow night last night tony evers was on the show and tomorrow night right here we will not be on live on the radio we are putting a best of green we will be on live actually in green bay

We have a best of show with our new Green Bay personalities, Dan Marcus, Eric Westfall and Laura McKenna.

So we will be on in the Green Bay market, some sort of a pre-recorded show, if you will.

And IDFS will be on the rest of the network.

The CapTimes does a great job.

And Tim Walls will be on tomorrow to talk about the state of politics in the upper Midwest.

Fun show.

We'll be here though too.

If you need some night light, we'll be splitting time like we did last night as well.

So Flo is gone.

Do you remember Flo, Amanda?

For a progressive?

No.

Oh, man.

No.

She's still very much with us.

Flo was a character on Alice, which was a show in the 70s.

And Flo was a saucy, sassy waitress who would tell customers, she'd say, kiss my grits.

And it became like a big, I think there were like t-shirts and everything.

She passed away at the age of 88.

a couple days ago, she was the last surviving member of Alice.

And I didn't watch the show a lot, but that's how popular this phrase was.

Even though I wasn't a huge Alice fan, I knew about Flow and I knew about the phrase.

So she will be, she will be, should I say she'll be missed?

I forgot she was alive.

So I don't know if she'll be missed, but she had a great career.

She's missed by someone.

She's missed by someone.

And if you're,

Watching on the stream, there's, kiss my grits right now.

Grits will never be the same.

Yeah, absolutely not.

Daniel Barry Sports Highlights, happy Thursday.

Hello everyone, happy Thursday Daniel.

I love that name.

Daniel Barry Sports Highlights, that's his handle.

Mike Desatelle says, Ralphie, how's Rocktoberfest looking for you this year?

He is talking to our first guest, Steve Segrin, who is not with us yet, but he'll be here shortly.

I should say that Steve has been,

Steve has been.

Steve and I have known each other a long time.

We did stand up together.

He was one of my idols when I started and I was never able to quite emulate Steve, but I did work with him in a movie that I've talked about from time to time on the show, The Godfather of Green Bay.

Steve was very, very funny and he's an accomplished actor, aside from The Godfather of Green Bay.

Mike also says, I don't want to hear Sentimental Journey by Doris Day in a grocery store or anywhere, but I do like Doris.

You know, I like that song.

Anything, I can take the crooners anywhere.

Give me Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Doris Day.

Give me some Patsy Klein.

I respect that.

That's a good text, Mike.

Thank you, sir, for weighing in.

Hey, we've got a giveaway we can do tonight too.

This is a really cool thing.

Ben Giles, our pal from Oshkosh.

has put together the funniest comedian, Oshkosh's funniest comedian contest.

And Josh Blue will be headlining the show.

It takes place September 13th.

That's this Saturday at 7 p.m.

I'll be hosting something over here at the Tarleton, so I can't be there.

But Ben, this is a great contest.

It's been going on for months.

The headliner on Saturday will be Josh Blue.

It starts at 7 p.m.

We are giving two tickets away.

If you text us, what should we make the keyword?

Funny?

Comedian?

Oshkosh.

Oshkosh.

Text in the word Oshkosh, and we've got two tickets for a really enjoyable night this Saturday night at the Oshkosh Arena.

That sounds so intimidating for stand-up comedy, the Oshkosh Arena.

But I think they block part of it off.

But Ben is a great guest.

He's been on the show before.

Text us, and we have two tickets for you to see the finale, months in the making, folks.

Our question of the night, as I mentioned, is what is...

Well, I forgot to go.

I had it awkwardly worded.

What's the most depressing song you can hear in a grocery store?

And we're getting some texts rolling in.

Mike already said Doris Day.

What is the name of the song you picked?

Angel by Sarah McLaughlin,

I think.

Angel, okay.

I said Seth and I to music and thriller.

Two very different songs.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says the banana boat song.

Deo, he's a day-day-day-oh, although Beetlejuice made it fun.

That would actually put some pepper in my step if I heard that song in a grocery store, I think.

It's one of those that kind of just forces your body to move.

Yeah, yeah.

But, you know, Tyler's got his opinions.

Thank you, Tyler.

Paula, Conrad's mom loved that she's checking in, even on a night when her son is probably behaving irresponsibly.

Paula, let's be honest.

I'm kidding.

Conrad is probably tailgating right now and having a blast over at Lambeau Field.

Paula says, I agree with Amanda.

Every time that commercial about animals comes on, I mute it or change the channel.

Yeah, it's all coming back to me now.

That is very depressing.

Commercial.

In fact, you almost want to give them money just to never put the commercial on again.

Just five cents a day.

Why are you muting the mic when you laugh?

Conrad laughs.

That's why people love Conrad.

If you ever want to be like Conrad, and who doesn't?

I'm just kidding.

Amanda Nimmer, filling in for Conrad tonight, working the board.

Give her a shout out, folks.

Barb from Waukesha, I think we have our winner for the two free tickets to Oshkosh's funniest comedian.

Barb texted in Oshkosh, Barb, we will get your, we need Barb's email.

Her email and phone number.

Email and phone number please Barb and we will get those tickets you.

Anna says I wouldn't want to hear Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.

I never want to hear that song again.

Anna that's a great choice.

Steve Seagrant is coming up next to make the popcorn pick of the week.

It's a Thursday night edition of Nightlight and it's great to have you here folks.

Amanda Nimmer's here.

What could be better?

Coming right back.

Welcome

back.

This is Nightlight with Peachwaba.

I am Peachwaba.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is exciting one of my favorite times of the week it is time for the popcorn pick of the week

It's time for the night It's time for the night like popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't Here's your host peach wabba.

That's on

me.

I should have I should have gone over that with you Amanda drove all the way

to be

here just so we can stay here tonight.

Before anyone's like, Amanda can't run the board.

No, I can't.

They changed everything.

It's a new board.

It's a different board from the last time I was here.

It's not

even spelled right.

It's spelled B-O-R-E-D now.

That's how different it is.

And

she's trying to adjust.

Folks, this is exciting.

It is the popcorn pick of the week.

And I am excited to welcome back one of my friends.

He's one of the funniest people I've ever known or worked with.

He was a great comedian, is a fine actor.

And now has added painting to his resume.

The multi-talented Mr. Steve Segrin is here to make the popcorn pick.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, what's going on?

Nothing.

It's good to see you.

Thanks for doing this, Steve.

What else do I got to do?

I got nothing to do.

That's the spirit.

That's the attitude I love for my guests.

I had nothing better to do.

Steve, we've got a few things to talk about, but let's jump right in and do this popcorn thing.

Let's talk some movies.

Okay.

We've talked movies over the years, and I love talking movies with you because on car rides or whatever it was to stand up gigs, I remember we had a laugh once over the movie True Believer, and the store was

called

Arts Supplies, and they were looking for art supply.

Yeah.

For whatever reason, that floored you and you kept talking about it and you won me over and I couldn't stop laughing.

But we share a love of a lot of the same films.

But how do you, how do you typically watch movies, Steve?

Are you a theater guy?

Do you like to watch them at home?

Usually I watch them at home, but lately I go back to the theater.

It's so hot out here in LA that you got to get some air conditioning, you know, so right absolutely cool dark place Yeah,

that's right.

So it but air conditioning aside a better climate aside Do you prefer to watch him at home because you're alone or are you adverse to watching with a crowd?

No, it's

If a movie I want to see is on TV, I'll watch it on TV.

If this movie I really want to see right away, I'll go to the theater and see it.

In some movies you want to see it a big screen, but

you

know, my rule of thumb now is I will not watch anything in the Marvel Universe.

I

won't watch any DC, no comic book movies or superhero movies anymore.

Or sequels or remakes, like Freaky or Friday.

How many have they done?

Like 20?

I know.

It's like, I want to see a movie that's got an original idea.

Yes.

You know, something original and, you know, basically the superhero stuff is the same movie over and over again.

It's just the costume changes.

That's it.

It's

like,

yeah, it's like with wisecracks and they think they're so funny.

And yeah, I'm with you.

But everything you just said, I don't watch superhero movies, sequels, remakes.

That's like you have two movies this year.

We're your options.

Exactly.

That's why I don't go to the theater that much

anymore.

I've been watching all their films.

But, you know, I've seen two movies in the theater in the last couple of weeks.

I do want to say, too, you are every filmmaker's dream.

Like, yeah, I'll go to the movies if the air conditioning's working.

I just...

What do

you have like

what's fun?

No, no,

no, no, please go

I was gonna say like once upon a time in Hollywood I had to see that in a theater had to see that on a big screen So I want to see that one and then I saw a Nora on the big screen.

I want to see that right away and Then I want to see weapons, baby That movie is awesome big fan.

Okay, that's my popcorn pick of the week if you haven't seen weapons go to the theater and see it.

Oh, I but

We kind of usually like to build up to that a little bit, but that's OK.

I'll come up with another pick.

No, I never really sent you a format for how we did, but that's totally fine.

And that is a great pick, Steve.

Did you see Barbarian, which was Zach Kragger's first?

Yes.

Yes.

I like that.

I didn't like the ending too much, but all the way through up to the ending, I thought it was great.

Yeah.

weapons was so creepy.

It was so good.

Do you have a favorite type or genre of film you typically like to see, Steve?

No, I like sci-fi, but not exclusively.

In fact, I made a list of movies that I liked before I came on.

Oh, sweet.

And they're all over the place.

They're all over the place.

It's just like horror.

There's some sci-fi.

There's

a couple action things.

And some indie films that I like a lot.

Like I saw East of Wall, which I really liked, but it might be kind of an acquired taste.

It's about horse trainers in North Dakota.

And the actors are the actual people.

It's got a kind of raw feel to it, but it's beautifully shot.

And if you like horses, you definitely got to see the movie.

Some people won't like it, but I did.

I liked it a lot, especially the non-actors acting.

It's a really good, very well done.

You know, it's funny you say that because a movie I saw, I was kind of late to the party on the director for Enora.

I can't think of his name right now, Sean.

No, who is that?

Sean Baker.

Sean Baker, yeah.

And I saw The Florida Project probably a year ago and-

Awesome movie, loved

it.

Steve, one of my top 10, the ending of that movie just broke me.

It was

not what

I was expecting.

And it was just, but I love that he used real people and he got these kids to act like children that don't even look like they're acting.

It was a masterpiece.

It's great.

Yeah, they

were

acting like kids.

And the

only thing is, you know, William Defoe is kind of, you know, he shows up.

It's kind of takes you out of it a little bit.

Yeah.

But you get used to him in there.

But still.

What a great movie.

The ending, like you said, it was just perfect.

Yeah.

Perfect.

And I know it's kind of interesting because you can't film in Disney World.

They won't let you if you're going to shoot a movie, right?

So when the girls, hopefully I'm not giving away the ending.

Who cares?

The girls run off.

When the girls run off into Disney World, if you notice how that's shot, it looks like I think they're shooting it on a phone.

and

just following

them as they run through it.

So it's really cool, and it looks really cool.

And the ending, when you think about it, it's like, how else would that end?

There's no other way it could have ended, really.

It's beautiful.

It is.

And I kept thinking there's going to be, because the mom was such a mess, I thought,

This is going to end tragically and it's going to be predictable and it wasn't.

It was like he took it in a whole different direction.

I just absolutely love that.

And it's funny what you say about Willem Dafoe, who I really like and I loved him in that role, but you're right.

If he wasn't in the film, it might have been even better, even though he was really

good

and I'm a fan, if that

makes

any sense.

Yeah.

And the neat thing is that it's kind of shot through the kid's eyes.

I mean, everything.

Nothing seems to happen outside of that behind us.

You know, what am I trying to say?

You know, everything happens while the kids are there.

They see everything is happening.

It's not like something is happening that they don't see.

It's there.

It's their world.

You know, and they got, you know, I mean, that's, that's why the ending works so well.

I think, you know, they live right next to Disney world and they can never go.

Right.

And

finally, they're like,

screw it.

Let's

go.

We're

going to

Disney.

We're going to make our life fun for a few minutes.

Just

for a few minutes.

Yeah, it's great.

And then

the

shot of them running off to the Magic Kingdom is beautiful.

I love it.

I want to see it again now.

Totally with you.

We've got a text there.

Joseph says, South Dakota native here, east of wall is set near wall of wall drug fame, South Dakota.

I remember going there as a kid and that's where all the bumper stickers, I've been to wall drug.

And Joseph says also agreed, it's a great movie.

Okay,

thank you, Joseph.

Oh, it's terrific, terrific movie.

Yeah.

It is beautiful.

I like movies that, you know, take me someplace where I've never been or in a world that I don't know anything about.

And I don't know anything about training horses or anything like that.

And that's why the movie seems so interesting to me.

Totally agree.

And especially one, I think you and I both have talked about films like Manhunter, Earth, Living Dying LA.

I didn't know that was the first movie I've ever seen William Peterson in or John Pankow, the other great Chicago stage actor.

And I just felt like those are the movies I can lose myself in, you know?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, well, you know what William Peterson was also been thief.

He had a small part in thief.

Yeah,

he threw him

out of the bar Hey, so it's

Yeah, so it's what's his name from my NYPD blue effort Dennis France.

He's Dennis France.

That's right

Our mutual friend Mike Schmidt said William Peterson says the word pal better than anybody in anybody in cinema history Such a Mike observation.

I love that so much My guest is Steve Segeran.

He is a comedian actor and artist We have some of Steve's paintings.

We'll put up here in the stream shortly We're doing the popcorn pick of the week with Steve and before I ask you about snacks Steve.

I got to ask you

I said once upon a time in Hollywood was a movie you wanted to see in the theater.

To me, when I saw that, I knew nothing about it.

And I left the theater going, I think I really liked that.

I dragged my son Joe the next day, we went to see it.

And it's my favorite Tarantino movie.

I just think it's so great.

Yeah, mine too.

Mine too.

It's the best thing he did since Pulp Fiction, I think.

But other people would argue that.

Sure.

Yeah, when I went to see it and it ended,

I wanted, I could have watched another hour.

Me too.

They couldn't keep going.

And the ending was so weird too, Pete, because it put me in this weird emotional place like, you know, oh wow, they stopped Charles Manson.

Yeah.

That's great.

You know, Sharon Tate is still alive.

That's wonderful.

But then it's sadness too, because it's not true.

But you want it to be you know, yeah, that's the title

want it's a fairy tale and it's

a fairy tale Yeah, and it was I like I liked it.

He did that like he's like I screw the facts Yeah, do it what I want to do what I would like to have seen happen I like that it's it takes some courage and I thought that was pretty cool.

He did it.

He kind of did that in the glorious bastard Yeah, exactly.

Yeah,

he I'm with you though.

I could have kept watching I could have like

What do Leonardo DiCaprio and Sharon Tay do now?

I need to see that, you know?

Like, or when they went to the ranch too to see Bruce Dern, I was so mad at myself.

I'm like, because I had heard of that place.

I was in LA for 14 years.

I'm like, how did I never go check this

out?

You

know what I mean?

Like,

it was that great of a scene.

It was so

cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was, it was a Western.

Basically, it was a Western.

Yeah.

It was an old Western thing and he's walking down the, you know, the, this main street, almost like a showdown.

It's really good.

It was, and they kept cutting back to Leo Dunn or the Capio, filming a Western.

It was terrific.

Right.

Which, those scenes I love too.

He was great too.

Okay.

So Steve, what is your favorite movie snack, whether you're in the theater or at home?

I like popcorn.

Popcorn.

I'm

boring.

Okay.

No, that's good.

Some chocolate.

Can you still?

I learned.

I go ahead.

No, I was going to ask if you like goobers.

They're hard to find still, but I had them a few weeks ago in a movie and I loved it, despite the horrible name.

I was never a goober fan, really.

But I wouldn't turn down a goober.

If a free goober is still, I mean, if it's free, it's me.

If you come at me with a goober, I won't say no.

I can pretty much assure you right now, I will never come at you with a goober steve just out of respect for our friendship.

I'd buy you some snow caps though or something.

Snow caps, I like those.

Yeah,

snow caps are great.

Like you said, anything chocolate I go for.

What about at, you know, you've been known to knock back a few scotches.

You used to go by, you had a moniker called Copscotch, one of the funniest things

in

stand-up I've ever seen.

All right, we're going to do a quick break.

Then we'll come back and we'll get Steve's other Popcorn Pick of the Week and we'll refresh you on what his first one was because it was so great.

And I'm going to tell you about Copscotch and Steve, what is his beverage of choice now when he watches a movie?

Hey, this is Nightlight with Pete Schwab.

It's the Popcorn Pick of the Week coming up next on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight.

Great to have you with me on this popcorn pick Thursday night.

Coming up at 735, our pal Al Patrelli from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be here to talk about some upcoming shows here in Wisconsin.

Al's always fun to talk to.

He fits he fits right he's from Jersey Amanda.

I don't know if you knew that.

I did not yeah, but he's kind of yeah But right now we are talking to my pal Steve Siegren Who joins us over the stream from beautiful are you in Venice Steve or Santa Monica?

In Marina del Rey now

Marina del Rey.

Okay, you got the south of Venice

got the rent control out there

Yeah, I guess.

Still high.

Still high.

No kidding.

It's great to have

you

here, Steve.

We talked about Steve's popcorn pick.

He gave us a teaser earlier.

We're going to delve into that again and find out.

He said he had another one he could provide us with too.

So two for the price of one tonight.

I

was asking

Steve before the break.

You used to do this character called Cop Scotch.

It was one of the most quotable things in comedy for people in our group.

Do you still drink Scotch?

No, I don't drink anymore, really.

I kind of outgrew it.

Just lost my taste for it.

Oh, wow.

I mean, I haven't had a drink once in a while.

Like, you know, like I'm going out to dinner with a bunch of guys in a couple of weeks and I'll probably have some wine.

Maybe I'll have a Scotch, but I just, you know.

I don't drink that much anymore.

Are you doing that steak thing again?

You guys go to that steakhouse in Koreatown?

Yeah.

I see those

pictures and I just get a pain in my stomach.

I mean,

I was never invited, but

I would have loved to have

attended.

Well, if you were here, you would definitely be

invited.

So I'll tell you, I haven't had a drink in almost three years either, and it's not like a court order or anything.

I just decided to kind of take a break and see what happens.

I love it.

I don't know.

Do you feel great?

Yeah, I actually feel a lot better.

You know, I wake up in the morning feeling pretty good.

Yeah.

And you know, the thing is, I think about things I did when I was drinking.

I'm like, oh my God, what was I thinking?

I can't believe I did that.

Thank God there wasn't social media back then.

Yeah.

But it's not like there was ever a problem, you know what I mean?

I wasn't getting DUIs or, you know, I can't say I was an alcoholic and I had to go to AA or anything like that.

And I'm lucky because, you know, it was easy for me to quit.

It was during COVID, actually.

It's just, you know, I wasn't going out and I just kind of stopped doing it.

I didn't like it anymore, so I just stopped.

Yeah,

I got really into whiskey.

my last few years in LA and I was making money and I was buying great stuff.

And then I moved back here and I had to trim something from the budget.

And I'm like, all right, well, you know, Kessler's isn't so bad, you know?

But like, it's, it kind of like, like with me, it was the same thing.

Like I loved having a cocktail at night, but I never, I was just like, all right, it does get to be expensive though too, if you drink the good stuff.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah.

And also, since I'm not doing stand-up anymore, I got to pay for drinks.

Did I ever tell you the story about when I worked at the, I think it was the funny bone in Green Bay?

No, it's just filling in just filling in for one night.

Okay, somebody canceled I went up to fill in I'd never worked there before and so you usually give me like, you know three drinks four drinks free Yeah, and so I asked for a scotch and and the guys what do you want?

I went just whatever the well is he goes We got Johnny Walker black, which was a high-class.

Yeah at the time And I'm like well, that's okay.

Sure.

I'll have one and I was drinking Johnny Walker black I had like three or four of them the next day I'm gone and they instituted the Steve Siegren rule

No top self scotch for any comic

Yeah, I

was just there for one night.

I don't blame

you for that either.

That's it's late.

It's bush league Yeah, where you working the Green

Bay

funny bomb, thanks for nothing see grin,

but I think

It was also partially due to the fact that Lewis Black was there the week before.

He was a big Scotch guy, too.

Oh, yeah.

So us two, between the two of us, we

probably drank

a lot of

it.

But they didn't have the guts to go after Lewis Black.

No.

They couldn't

have named it after him, but they didn't have to meet.

But you're immortal now, so that's pretty cool.

I

got a funny story out of it.

Yeah,

exactly.

All right.

I think it's time we get Steve's actual.

Do you have a drummer already, Amanda?

It's not necessary if Conrad did not leave it.

Oh, you got it.

All right.

Fantastic.

Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Sigurd is here.

He is about to make the popcorn pick of the week.

Amanda, if you please.

Steve Sigurd, what is your popcorn pick of

the week?

Okay, this is a movie that came out, I think two years ago, maybe and it's streaming.

It's on Hulu.

It's called Presence.

It's directed by Steven Soderbergh.

It's a ghost story and the cool twist in this one is the ghost is the camera.

It's all shot through the ghost point of view.

It's pretty

cool.

I love stuff like that when a director

does

something.

I

have not seen that.

The funny thing is, I almost wish I didn't say that because it took me about 20 minutes to figure it out.

I'm like, oh, I'm the ghost.

But it's really good.

It's Satterberg.

And it's cool.

It's a cool little movie called Presence.

Hey, you got the little thing.

All

right.

And it's got the poster up there, wasting no time.

If you're watching on the stream, you can see the poster.

That's creepy for some reason.

And I don't know why.

Streaming on Hulu.

So it's good.

Good popcorn movie.

That's a great popcorn movie.

Thank you, Steven.

What is the one you said before, too?

You said that.

Oh,

weapons?

Oh, weapons.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

Yeah, I've been talking about that movie a lot, folks.

If you haven't seen weapons.

Steve, that is his co-pick of the week.

I thought it was great too.

I actually did like Barbarian a little bit better, Steve, I will say, but-

Did

you really?

Kinda, yeah.

I love it.

All of a sudden, Justin Long, they go to LA and I'm like, what the hell is this?

I thought they made

an editing

error or something, but

then he shows

up and yeah, I thought that was really cool.

The ending of Weapons just knocked me out.

It was great.

I want to see it again.

I saw it twice.

But the less you know about the movie,

Yes.

The better it is.

Agreed.

All right, Steve,

can you stick around for a few minutes after the news?

What?

Yes.

All right.

I'm going to show you some

of Steve's artwork when we come back, and we're going to talk about movies and a TV show that we both enjoyed.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight.