Racing Through Stories: From Springsteen to Angels of Dirt(Hour 1)

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live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who wanted to be in porn but didn't have the acting chops, Pete Schwabba.

Hey,

hey, welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Wow, what a night.

A Wednesday night, middle of the week.

We've still got three more shows to do, and I cannot wait to get started here.

We have an outstanding show tonight, folks.

Jam-Packed.

I have packed this show with guests.

We've got a couple civic media friends coming by, a couple all-stars, and a record producer and filmmaker who has made two amazing films.

and produced a lot of great records from some great 90s bands.

So I will tell you all about the guests and our question of the night.

We have had such great listener interaction this week.

I am still playing catch-up with texts from Monday night, and we will hopefully get through those tonight, if not tomorrow night.

But we've had, you guys have responded so well to the questions we've put out there.

that we I'm still kind of catching up so I will get to them though that is my vow to you I hope everyone had a great day wherever you are in Wisconsin it's kind of a gloomy day but not too cold I can dig this kind of weather count right I know you get kind of bummed out by the gloomy weather sometimes no no no

Man, if we didn't beat that into the ground enough last night, I'm glad your legs are feeling better no more.

It's not wrestlers' leg syndrome day anyway, so you probably can't.

You know, they're a little sore.

I did some legs today, so.

Did you really?

Yeah, after that, you know, the flare up yesterday, I had to get a workout.

Get out, yeah, get that dopamine going.

That'll cure that wrestlers' leg syndrome right up.

That is Conrad Krieger.

He's working the board tonight producing Nightlight and...

Tonight's guests, we've got excellent guests tonight, folks.

Wendy Schneider will be here at 635.

Wendy made a documentary called The Smart Studios about 10 years ago, maybe not quite 10 years ago, about Butch Vig and Steve Marker and how they founded The Smart Studios.

Just a little hole in the wall, kind of red brick building right at the corner of East Washington and Baldwin, right on East Wash, as you're headed toward the Capitol.

So many great records were produced there.

Nirvana's Never Mind, some smashing pumpkins, albums, garbage.

Just a lot of great bands.

A phenomenal documentary.

Her most recent film, which we'll talk about as well tonight, is Angels of Dirt.

And this was a great movie about Motocross and this hotshot motorcycle rider named Charlotte, who, I mean, I guess I can say it now, she lost her life kind of, I want to say it was in the middle of filming.

And Wendy carried on with the project.

She's just such a good filmmaker and has just a great eye and a great knack for storytelling, just like she does with record producing.

So we will talk to Wendy.

She'll be here at 635.

We'll tell you where you can see Angels of Dirt and the Smart Studios and get caught up with our friend Madison based Wendy Schneider.

And then at 705, David Grant Conrad coming by.

That's true from WMAX in Baraboo.

That's exciting.

He's got a really cool thing.

They are promoting Thursday.

They're letting the listener take over the airwaves.

This is a recipe for disaster, I think.

I

mean, but how cool is it?

Very cool.

And very, you got to be very secure to do that.

Yeah,

gotta make sure there's a couple words you can't say.

Exactly.

David will tell us all about this great request-a-thon it's called and it benefits Hope House.

So it's very, it's for charity.

It's just a great program.

They're calling it, David is calling it Purple Thursday.

And that's tomorrow.

So if you're in the Baraboo area, you can be part of request-a-thon.

And it sounds like it's from 7 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

It's a big undertaking.

You know who can participate in that?

My

grandma, Sheila, is in Baraboo.

And Carla, right?

Is it in Carla in Baraboo?

Yeah.

That's a lot of pressure to take over a radio station.

It is.

So we'll talk to David about that really cool event they have going on tomorrow down in Baraboo.

And then at 720, our pal Rich Lucasio.

WRJN's own, he also has big news because he's about to become part of another civic media family too with his on-air talents.

And he's also a wrestling ring announcer.

So he will keep us posted on all things wrestling and the new deal with ESPN and a couple of events coming up.

We'll talk to Rich and we're gonna give Rich a wrestling quiz.

Yes, it took me a while to create it with help.

Just kidding, it took me about five minutes.

All

right.

But it's going to be better than the last cause we did with chat, GBT, because I put some of my words into it this time.

Into your multiple guess?

Yeah.

All right.

Fantastic.

I'm pretty

sure one of my favorites is in there.

That's awesome.

All right.

We've got, this is kind of exciting, folks.

We've been talking about it all week.

This goes through October 3rd.

It's our go for the green and gold text to win contest 2025 here at Civic Media.

of a really cool contest.

Our text-to-win contests are always fun.

You have to have the app to play.

That's the only stipulation.

You have the app tonight between 7 and 8, shortly after 7 o'clock.

I will give you the keyword you text in on the app, the keyword.

We will text back a response letting you know we received your text.

And this is really cool.

Every day you are eligible to win 200 bucks cash.

That's money that's going to burn a hole in your pocket, ladies and gentlemen.

And gold jewelry.

I mean, how cool is that?

200 bucks cash and gold jewelry countered.

Not either or.

That's awesome.

We're not making people choose.

And entering every hour, every day, puts you, makes you eligible for our grand prize.

And this is even cooler.

Two club level indoor seats to Green Bay versus Minnesota.

That's football.

It's a Green Bay home game at 12 noon on November 23rd and we're throwing in a gas card to get you there It's like over a $1,500 value.

It's a really fun contest and you can see the green and gold square off against the Conrad purple people people leaders, baby So we will do that at seven o'clock.

I will refresh your memory a little bit about the contest and the rules and Then I will give you the keyword and this goes through October 3rd.

You can do it every day

And I wish you luck, because it's fun.

This is a really great contest.

And also, I want to let you know that once you text in the keyword, you're going to get a link back.

If you click on that and sign up for the Civic Media newsletter, Civic Media Today, or follow us on social media, you have extra chances to win.

Do we know how they do that, Conrad?

I'm not up on the mechanics, but it's supposed to enhance your chances.

Yeah.

Who's got a problem with that?

Well, I mean, yeah.

It's just a better chance with those prizes.

I mean, why would you not want a better your chance?

Absolutely.

I don't know, man.

What would you do with 200 bucks?

Um, you know, I think I'm gonna

pass.

I don't I was gonna say I can't I don't want to say it.

I don't I would 200 bucks.

I think I just go

out for a great dinner.

Yeah, no, that's that's a good idea.

Well, versus what I was going to say.

which is not family-friendly apparently or something.

No, I would go to, you know what I would do?

I'd probably go to the tornado room in Madison again, because I went there with my son Joe about two months ago when we were both in Madison and we spent about $190, just the two of us.

But it had to be, you know, a great environment there, you said?

Unbelievable.

And great food?

Throwback steakhouse, the food was outstanding, the service was outstanding.

It's just, you don't get, it's kind of good service.

Hard to come by these days.

Anyway, you could do whatever you want with the 200 bucks, folks.

We will have more information on the go for the green and gold contest after the news at seven o'clock, and I will give you the keyword shortly after that.

Great show tonight.

Let's get to our nightlight question of the night, Khan.

What do you say?

Let's talk about the question

question question

question question question question This

might be my favorite question I've ever launched on this show the boss Ladies and gentlemen is 76 years old Happy birthday to Bruce Springsteen our question.

What's your favorite Springsteen song?

And talk about

was so easy to pick when I was younger because I would pick one of the hits then I found out like the Nebraska album and the Devils and Dust album where he's just songwriting and it's just him and I it took my love for Springsteen to a whole new level as in my opinion the greatest American songwriter he has big anthems and born in the USA glory days born to run all these big stadium rockers

But he's got these beautiful ballads and these little odes and these great songs too.

And I don't think like, like a lot of people will say Dylan is the greatest songwriter and Dylan is great.

But to do what Springsteen does with the big hits and the pop music and selling out stadiums and then also do kind of what Dylan did too.

I just think he's the best.

So, but it's not a contest.

Just tell us your favorite Springsteen song.

You all know, you know, at least a couple of his tunes.

I'm going to say I had trouble with this one, but.

I would probably say Thunder Road.

On social media, I put Thunder Road or Reason to Believe and everything else you wrote.

I kind of capped out there.

So every single song.

Every single song.

Yeah.

What about you, Ken?

You know, I really like Rosalito.

Oh, we play that.

It's one of our bumper tunes.

And it's

funny.

I didn't really know any Bruce Springsteen songs, you know, before he made me pull these songs for bumpers.

And

I

haven't named his Rosalina in this.

I haven't changed it.

Yeah, that's a great version, too, that we have.

I love that one.

So let us know, folks, 855-752-4842-855-756.

What is your favorite song by the boss?

You can also drop us a text or an app text, app message, if you will, or you can drop us a stream comment if you're watching the radio on Twitter.

YouTube or Facebook.

Let us know and we will read it on the radio.

Be part of the show, folks.

It's always more fun when people participate.

And speaking of which, Con, first of all, before I get to these texts from last night, I want you to have an Instagram soulmate, as I understand it.

Please tell this story.

Yeah, just, you know, about 10 minutes ago, I got a request to message me.

I was like, huh, I wonder what this is.

Don't know who the person is.

And it says, the doctor told me I have one, only one month to live.

I've decided to spend this time traveling alone, quietly saying goodbye to the world.

I have no children.

My only regret is that I couldn't spend this life with you.

Again, I don't know who this is.

Do you text them back?

What are the assets?

I don't mean to be insensitive.

I'm sorry you're dying.

But seriously, what would you leave me?

Yeah, she keeps going on saying you were my first love and you always been in my heart.

I left you some assets.

I hope this is a gesture brings us together in the next life.

I'm ready to serve very well to this world.

But if you had a month to live, are you texting strangers on social media?

Well, first of all, you know, obviously it's it's not real.

It's someone trying to collect because it's like to collect these assets.

You have to send your bank information or something like

that.

And

so there is there is that angle just on this.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, obviously, it's like a link.

And if you touch that link, who knows what you're going to.

They can take your identity.

Well, I think I'm in love, though.

Listen, I

What if hear me out rom-com pitch?

What if this person is legitimate?

Let's say it's someone who works over at Shriver across the street or it You know at the Haberdasher down here just sees me watch you walking back and forth with your salads Something I want to be part of the Conrad business and they do this and you're gonna pass that up because you think it might be a Russian bot

Yeah, you know I'm okay with not taking that risk to be honest

Okay.

Give me a lot of money.

You know, I can send along your information if you'd like.

No, who could we send though?

That would be fun.

That would be a great practical joke to send somebody's social security.

Yeah, that's great.

I have a spot on my pants too.

I just found out when I was getting dressed to come down here.

So I wore a longer shirt.

Like, you know, we all have pants we like that fit as well.

I put like pasta or something on it.

And now I got an oil stain.

Well, you know, you probably shouldn't put spaghetti in your pockets.

I'm just letting you know.

I don't see the harm.

All right, we're coming back, folks.

We are going to catch up on tax when we come back.

And oh, man, what else kind of there's so much going on?

Well, you know, there's Kim Kardashian.

I don't know.

We'll tell you a Kim Kardashian story about how she cheats at poker.

This is Peach Waba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio

network.

We

are celebrating the boss tonight.

He is turned 76.

And to be honest, I don't, it might have been yesterday actually, but either way.

Well, he is 76 now.

He is 76 either way.

And he is still doing three hour concerts.

And I keep going to see him thinking, Oh, this could be his last tour.

I'm sure he just keeps going and going.

So happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen.

Wendy Schneider will be here in just a few minutes telling us about her film, Angels of Dirt.

There is news about that film.

And we have David Grant coming up at 7.05 to tell us about a really cool event happening in Baraboo tomorrow where you can take over the radio and make requests or say you don't want to hear something.

It sounds like a really fun.

charity it's it's it's for a good cause you know Conrad did you know that

yeah great cause

so we'll talk to David about that at 705 and then our pal Rich Lucassio will be here in studio and then there's a reason he's in Green Bay we'll find out that at we'll find out why at 720 what was the Kim Kardashian thing I kind of didn't get that it was just like a meme or a gift all right

well it was a picture I saw the other day and it was Kim Kardashian wearing

reflective sunglasses

yeah

plain poker so as you can she's she's looking at her cards and everyone around her get the reflection on her sunglasses and see the cards that she has

so it was an accident i kind of pitched it like she was cheating somehow i mean she is kind of

cheating because she's letting everyone know that's

cheating yeah she's not gonna benefit her in any

way i don't know who goes into poker games like yeah i'm gonna

reflective sunglasses.

This is just the strategic area I need is to let everybody else know what I'm carrying, what I'm packing.

Hey, we have a phone call, Conrad?

Yeah, Linda from Waukesha.

All right, Linda.

Good evening.

Hey, Pete, what's

up?

Not too much.

You tell me.

Hey,

don this soap on that spot, rub it in good, and then wash them.

It gets movie theater butter out.

Come on.

Wait now wait a minute.

I have heard that now that you say that and I really appreciate the call.

Thank you What

if I've

already washed them?

Yeah, will the

dawn still try

it really?

I don't know if you've already washed them, but try it anyway Just rub it in really good before you put it in the washer.

Oh, that's a great

try.

I love that home spawn recipe.

What do I owe you?

Play the contest you can win 200 bucks.

That'll be my payment to you

We're

working on

it.

All right.

Outstanding.

Thanks so much for the call.

Yep.

All right.

That's Linda from Wagasha.

See that?

People helping people.

Yeah.

That's beautiful.

Yeah.

So let's get caught up on some text from last night.

Our question last night was who was your favorite female rocker?

And some of these responses are from when Dr. Kristen Lyrely was here last night.

She was on the show here in the studio with me.

And she's always fun.

Mary from TOSUS is Conrad.

Hearing the crashes, assume you're not kidding.

Yeah, you know, I just had a flare-up yesterday.

He's okay,

Mary.

But thank you for your concern.

Mary also says continuing, RLS is tough.

Suggests checking with Dr. Omar, compounding pharmacist with Weltopia in Thienesville.

Oh, that's a mouthful.

Yeah, I'll write that down.

Hear him on Earls.

What's going on?

Probably has an assist for you.

I don't think Mary thinks we were joking.

I think she actually thinks you were harming yourself.

No, you know, I cleaned up the jelly.

It's all good.

All right.

Thank you, Mary.

Mark from Prairie to Sex says the Doc Rocks agreed.

Kristen Lierly is a rock star.

She's got fans all over the network.

Terry from Cross Plains, he's in the 608.

Or she, Conrad.

Hey, Pete, I stand with Ollie and have to say Tina Turner, the flip side of Proud Mary, was funkier than a mosquitoes tweeter.

I've heard that song before.

For your information, I've got RLS2.

I've seen Bruce over 50 times.

Wow.

You got me beat by about 40, 43, Terry.

Wow, good for you, though.

Listen, he does so much for charity, your money is going to a good place.

In addition to being entertained, he's walking the walk too, so that's outstanding.

He says, Terry from Cross Plain says, my birthday is tomorrow, so close to the boss.

Happy birthday, Terry.

Steady Eddie last night said, Pete, I choose Joni Mitchell as my favorite female rocker.

She is a great songwriter and has a wonderful voice despite her pack-a-day smoking addiction.

She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

I think Eddie needs his own rock hall, Hall of Fame.

WMDX, John Murray from the 608 listing, he says, this is why I live you, Peter.

I think he meant love.

I'm uncomfortable with that.

You know, you never know.

Never know.

Appreciate the love, John.

Thank you.

Right back at you, partner.

Ross from Crawford County in the 608 says, of heart, barracuda and dog and butterfly.

I think that was, he was referring, he was probably playing the quiz along with Dr. Liarley.

Thank you, Ross.

John also says Joan Jett and I went to different high schools together, but she's not my fave.

Nancy Wilson was the best female rocker of my time from Hart.

Oh, very well done, John.

Paul from Bayview in the 414 says Pat Benatar.

Yeah, honestly, I thought we'd get more votes yesterday for Pat Benatar.

Carrie from Tosa says Blondie, cutting edge and so ahead of her time.

Totally agree, Carrie.

Tyler in Wisconsin Rapids from the 608 says, Ricky Lee Jones has my vote.

On a side note, the dock is coming in hot and Conrad broke all the jelly jars.

That can't end well.

There's a lot going on here last night.

There was.

It's a big mess.

Thanks, Tyler.

Edward from the 414.

For me, it's a toss up between Stevie Nicks and Alanis Morissette.

I forgot about Alanis Morissette.

Great text, Edward.

Conrad's mom checked in and said, I love Joan Jett.

best female rocker.

Your mom said that with a lot of confidence.

Yeah.

All right.

Thank you, Paula.

Carrie from Tosa, again, says, and in honor of Rapture, Blondie.

Yeah, Rapture's a great tune.

Jim from Appleton, he's in the 9-2-0, says my favorite Lady Rockers are Amy Lee from, I don't know the band name there.

Sorry, Jim.

Martha Davis from the Motels.

I love Martha Davis.

Only the Lonely and what's the other one?

Oh, they had two hits that were huge and they're both great.

Amelie from 7,000 Apart.

That's a great one.

Thank you, Jim.

Totally agree, our friend Amelie.

And Nancy Wilson from Heart.

And on and on.

Thanks, Jim.

We've got a few more texts to get you from last night.

We'll do that when we come back.

Wendy Schneider will be here.

We'll get her take on Female Rockers, too, because she's been around her share.

And hey, folks, the Go For The Green and Gold contest, giving you details after the news at the top of the hour.

Peach Waba Nightlight from the Civic Media Radio Network.

I was one of the

first songs I learned how to play on my guitar because it was all like three chords and I've progressed nothing since then.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight.

Welcome back, folks.

We have a great show tonight.

I'm going to tell you, after the top of the hour, I'm going to give you all the details you need for our go for the gold, green and gold text to win multi-state contest.

We have a lot of fun with our contests here.

And we are going to deliver some prizes.

And I hope that a Nightlight listener will be the recipient.

But we'll do all that after the top of the hour.

Rich Lucasio, wrestling announcer.

and on-air personalities here at 720 and David Grant from WMAX in Baraboo is going to tell us about a really cool, just a great thing they're doing down at WMAX tomorrow for Hope House.

So we'll talk to David at 705.

Right now, I'm very excited to welcome my next guest.

She's been on the show before.

She's made award-winning documentaries and award-winning albums too.

She's got a foot in each Artistic platform if you will and she is a pal of mine and joins me now for Madison over the stream a Wendy Schneider.

Hi Wendy Is Wendy's mic not on Wendy there maybe she got cold feet

Stick with us, Wendy.

I'm gonna read a couple texts.

We probably just have like a technical issue or something.

Going back to our text from last night, we're still playing catch up, folks.

Our question of the night last night was, who was your favorite female rocker?

And that's because Joan Jett turned 68.

All these fantastic rock stars aging before our eyes tonight, we celebrate Bruce Springsteen.

Yesterday, it was female rockers.

Tom from New Berlin says, the Tyler Beatle.

Love it.

I don't know who that is, Tom.

I will go to the Google though.

Thank you for the text in the 414.

Mark from Prairie to Sack in 608 says, great to hear you, Dr. Kristen.

Yes, I'm glad you got to hear that, Mark.

Kristen is always so much fun when she's on the show.

And man, she can just talk about anything.

She's a blast.

So I'm glad you enjoyed that.

Steve from Milwaukee in the 262 says, you got to watch Oliver's last two shows.

They pulled footage from 2006 and footage of Stephen Miller as a college student.

It was hilarious.

If you're not watching John Oliver, folks, he pulls no punches.

He's handled this Jimmy Kimmel stuff really well.

He is a brilliant comedian and his show is very well written too.

So thank you for the text, Steve.

We didn't even get to Kimmel's monologue either tonight too.

He was back in the air last night.

His monologue was spectacular.

He took the time to thank people from the left and the right that supported him in getting his show back on.

He kind of, I know there was this big thing where they wanted him to apologize, but he didn't really do that, but he said he didn't mean to be insensitive to the Kirk family, but it was the other people in the Trump administration he was going after that he felt were being disingenuous.

But anyway, it was a great monologue, and I would Google it.

It's like 17 minutes long, and it was a lot of fun to watch, and I'm glad he's back on the air.

Even if he's not on, in all the affiliates, we'll have to get a count on that counter, and maybe he's only on two markets, but still I'm glad he's on.

I, yeah.

All right, man, a few words.

All right, we are gonna, I think we have, do we have Wendy now?

I believe so.

Oh, fantastic.

Wendy, are you there?

No, we still don't have sound.

Did she hear my brilliant intro of her and all the praise I heaped on her?

Should we just get her on the phone?

Wendy, if you can hear us, we're gonna get you on the phone, but stay on the picture too, so we can see each other, okay?

All right, we will get Wendy on the phone and talk about her film, Angels of Dirt.

You have to see it, folks.

If you have not seen Angels of Dirt, I'll tell you where you can watch it after we talk to Wendy.

Hopefully you can watch it now or it's coming out soon.

And we've also got her film, The Smart Studio Story, is outstanding to us.

So you definitely want to check out some of her work.

She is a phenomenal director and record producer.

Do we have...

Can we get her on the phone?

Oh, Conrad.

It's funny how Conrad's restless leg syndrome disappears when he gets focused on his work.

Yes.

From our social media today, we got some texts.

Our question of the day, folks, what is your favorite Bruce Springsteen song?

The boss is 76, ladies and gentlemen.

He is six years younger than my dad.

And my dad's got a good voice.

But he ain't doing no three-hour concerts.

Alan Whitebird says, I'm on fire.

We just heard a little bit of I'm on fire.

Thank you, Alan.

Great tune.

Mike Desitel says, the acoustic version of Born to Run.

Love it, Mike.

I found that about 20 years ago.

And I think I like it better than the big stadium version where it's all produced and stuff.

Eric Ratsack, lead singer of Ask Your Mother.

Stretch.

Chymanin says too many, but if I had to choose Glory Days or Thunder Road, Darlington County always liked that one.

Thank you, Eric.

Matt Harper says Glory Days is fire.

Both these guys who've been on the show, we got to get them back on the show.

Matt Harper, the rock rap artist from here in Green Bay, and Eric Rathsack, the very tall front man for Ask Your Mother.

Patrick Mines says, Jesse's girl, having a little fun with the question?

Because it was Rick Springfield, I think, that wrote the song, She Called Me Bruce.

Because everybody, he had the unfortunate issue of having spring in his name.

All right, do we have Wendy?

Wendy, are you there?

Yes, we

do.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Success.

How are you, my friend?

I'm good, you know.

I mean, I'm taking my multivitamins, being hydrated, loving.

I love the leaves turning, you know,

it's the

beginning of...

a break from a hot Wisconsin summer, but I'm good.

I'm working hard.

How are you doing?

I'm good.

I am also taking my multivitamins with a little extra D. So I'm right there with you.

We have to take care of ourselves.

I

wonder if I can put this speakerphone.

Can I do that?

It

sounds all right.

Does that sound good?

Okay.

Yeah,

that sounds

great.

I can hear you.

All right.

This is a little bit better.

Fantastic.

Well, how are you?

Like, I know your health is good, but are you first of all, I have to ask you, do you have a favorite Springsteen song?

Well, there's Born to Run because he says Wendy three times.

Yes.

Born to Run.

But yeah, no, I mean, the album Nebraska State Trooper is like a really

beautiful intense song but that was a record that um took me through like a really intense time of my life so you know yeah there were seven songs on that record and I can't remember the names and then state trooper but yeah that that uh record became really important to um

to me, probably one of the reasons I'm here.

So

that's so cool to hear.

Yeah, Johnny 99, I think was on that record and reason to believe.

It's just a phenomenal.

Have you ever heard his another solo effort he did?

It's the Devils in Dust album.

Oh, just unbelievable songwriting.

I would love for you to listen to that and tell me what you think because kind of you're an insider and I would love to hear what

I'm just from New Jersey.

But you produce music.

Yes, I'm wearing a denim jacket tonight, which is very Bruce Springsteen Yes, I mean I love Bruce Springsteen.

I have so much respect for him and Yeah,

all right.

Well our question last night I'd love for you to weigh in on this too before we get to Angels of Dirt It was Joan Jett turned 68 this week So our question last night was who is who is the best all-time female rocker?

Do you have an opinion on that?

No too many

Well, far too many.

I mean, I could just like Janice Joplin just sprung into my head.

It's women in rock, women performers, women artists.

You know, it's really hard to pin down and who's influencing you one morning.

It could be Amy Winehouse or it's, you know, Grace Jones.

It's just really so, um, so varied for me.

I think that, um, you know, people can narrow it down easier than maybe I can, but,

um,

so I don't have an answer.

I can't help you.

Although, um, I will say that Joan Jeff birthday is my birthday, September 22nd.

Nice.

Yeah, I turned 61 on Monday.

Yeah.

Happy

birthday.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

And I did something.

I had a few people over at my studio here and I called it a poetry potluck.

So everyone that came brought a poem and like every 10 minutes I would whack on a cowbell and somebody would stand up and read their poem.

So I want to just present that to your audience is a really nice.

It's a nice party.

No, I don't.

It's really a theme, but it was a nice activity.

Yeah, and

it's better than pin the tail on the donkey or the spanking machine.

I mean, it's a little more adult.

Yeah, I don't do shots anymore.

Something else every 10 minutes.

This is going to break your heart.

I was in Madison on Monday and I've got tons of favorite poems.

I could have crushed that party.

Well, the party was Sunday,

so

you would have been your poem would have fallen on deaf ears But but if you want to bring your poetry by the studio any time you're welcome anytime anytime

I will take you up in that one of these.

I am anxious to see your space there So let's let's talk about angels of dirt.

Is there new news?

Can people see it in a broader sense now or are you still in the festival circuit?

No, I finished the festival circuit and then I went and you know Just really peddled my wares around the states and brought the film to races and garages and people that are a bit more connected to the niche community that is flat track and then I got accepted and invited to go to Portugal and bring the film to the Lisbon Motorcycle Film Festival that was in May

And so I used that to just launch a three week tour in Europe.

So I took the film around again to, you know, real boutique events that, you know, that we're connecting the film with the community that is that the film resonates with.

Although what I learned over this year and a half was the film really resonates with a lot of people who have nothing to do with motorcycle racing.

So I love that.

I love

you know this opportunity that I have right now in my life to be conduit for this story as it goes out into the world because my time is is transitioning into you know just knocking on more doors and saying watch it watch it because the film and why you know we're chatting tonight is the film was launched on the digital platform a week ago so it's now available for anyone to watch.

Where can we see it which platform

if you go to well, it's not inventive But you get to it.

Just go to angels of dirt comm

the

easiest way to get to the film and it says watch now when you

go to the

website and I'll and for tonight because we you have me on the air I've put discount code into the film.

So if people go to watch the film, this is tonight only There you just have to put in Schwab a 35

35 with Charlotte's number.

And

so they will

get a 35% discount.

So angelsadirt.com, watch the film when you go to pay discount code Schwab us 35.

Oh, that is fantastic.

Well, I'm happy to be a part of that in password terms.

What tell all right.

So now that you told people where we can see it, tell us a little bit about the film and this great rock star of a motorcycle racer you followed.

While 2006, I showed up at Aztalan in Lake Mills, Wisconsin with a camera to interview young girls who I had seen racing when I was there as a spectator.

And the first girl that I met was Charlotte Keynes.

And I did an interview with her, met her mom and dad, and just found that it was an easy environment to be curious in.

You know, there was Charlotte, there were other girls.

I was learning about races.

incredibly turned on by the community that I was connecting with.

They welcomed me in and it really launched a number of years where I was showing up all the time, shooting races and doing interviews.

I took a break from the film in 2008.

It didn't have much direction back then.

It was very random very broad stroke You know on this canvas of a story that hadn't really developed and then in I worked on the smart studio story.

Hey,

Wendy

I'm going to stop you right there.

Let's pick up right there.

We got to do a really short break here and we will pick up.

You're not going to want to miss this, folks, because there's a really, this film is great and you want to hear what she says next because it's probably going to make you go watch the film.

This is Peach Wabbit Nightlight.

We're coming right back on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

What better song could we use for my current guest?

Because I didn't realize he said Wendy three times in the song, but you get to walk in the sun with Bruce Springsteen at the end of that song.

So that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Why not?

Wendy Snyder is my guest.

She was in the middle of telling us about her film, Angels of Dirt and the Plot before we had to rudely interrupt her to get to a break.

So please continue,

Wendy.

I took a break from filming while I made the Smart Studio story and then picked up in 2016 and really, you know, had to merge together two very different stories of Angels of Dirt.

And so, you know, that took a while.

I had to raise money again.

I had to...

you know figure out a plan to release the film and in 2004 no 24 2024 it premiered at the wisconsin film festival

that was so fun i you know

I saw that at the Barrymore, I think, is where you premiered it.

And it was so fun to watch it on the big screen like that.

Same place I saw a Smart Studio story, probably eight years before that, and got to interview you and Butch and Steve on stage, which was a blast.

So, all right, so people can see this.

Go to angelsofdirt.com.

There's a promo code.

You can get a discount if you want to watch this riveting documentary about this flat track racer named Charlotte.

Did you do a spoiler or can you tell people what happens or?

I

feel like, you know, it's a journey to film and it's a journey about, you know, one woman's life, but also it's a gateway to a community and a sport that not a lot of people know about.

So I think, you know, watch the film because it's, you know, it's heartbreaking and it's powerful in a lot of ways to...

You know to learn about Charlotte and the the path that she took but also to to get a nod You know or to have you not really gonna not but you know the other women that are in the film or the history of the sport told through stories by you know legends like Mert Lawill who was in on any Sunday and and other participants it's a bit of a Carnival ride, I would say yeah, yeah, so

I would say there's a lot out on the film.

You can read the full synopsis.

But I think I want to draw people into just being open-minded and going down the rabbit hole of Angels of Dirt, if that makes any sense.

So tell us again what the promo code is.

If they go to angelsofdirt.com, watch the movie, and then they enter in Schwabba 35.

Yep,

Schwabba 35, lowercase

S.

Lowercase

S. I would love to hear what people think of the film.

This is an early part of the film's journey.

I've been doing screenings for over a year and now the film is out there being experienced by people.

privately are in small groups and I'm really curious what that experience is like and it feels really good to be letting it go in that way to, you know, to not

be

attached to it.

I think, you know, we'll still do screenings.

I have a screening in Appleton coming up.

I have another screening in Pittsburgh that I'm setting up for I think the spring, but it's really nice that more people everywhere, anywhere can watch Angels of Dirt.

Absolutely.

You have a definite style with Angels of Dirt and with Smart Studio Story.

It's a very big energy and did you have an influence from a documentarian standpoint or is this something you just kind of learned on your own?

I

think that it's hard for me to produce long-form work.

I think that my projects

When I do them are segments that I tie together.

Usually when I'm working on a film, the rough cut has all these dips to black because I'm just doing these like scenes.

There's a lot of scenes.

Smart Studios was like that.

Angels of Dirt was like that.

So I think that's more my style because I didn't.

you know, go to school to be a doc filmmaker.

I became a media producer working for a company in New York under a man named, whose name is Chris Drury, who really taught me about the strength of understanding who the audience was and navigating the emotional weight of a message or of a story.

And so I feel like that influenced me greatly.

I started working for him right out of high school.

At 17, I was working in New York for Chris.

At 25, I moved to Madison, and then I started, you know, going to school, but then I opened my studio, and I was working at SMART.

So, you know, I think that my messaging does involve dynamics, like emotional dynamics are important.

I wrote all the music for Angels of Dirt, and that was how I contributed to the story being told emotionally, and that's why my band's probably not playing out.

right now because my energy went elsewhere.

Yeah.

And I do want to say like before we wrap up your segment what I'm learning about now as a filmmaker is this new tax incentive that Governor Ewers has signed.

So filmmakers.

and film companies, you know, should look into the tax, the film incentive, the tax incentive for filmmakers.

They can go to Action Wisconsin, I believe.

It's really early in its, in how people are communicating about it, but it's a really.

You know, I want to try and take advantage of that with my next project.

It's a great program.

And it's about time we have that.

We talked about that quite a bit on this show and had people from Action Wisconsin on.

And it's I'm so excited.

And I hope it brings more work here.

And I hope it gets Wisconsin filmmakers to stay here.

And I hope you make another film soon, Wendy, and come back and tell us about it next time.

Poetry, Madison, I'm so there.

OK.

All

right.

Swabba

35.

I'll give it another pitch next hour.

You got it.

Thank you so much, my friend.

Thank you.

Wendy Snyder, folks.

You too.

Thank you.

angelsofdirt.com and click watch now and enter in the promo code at Schwabba35 for a 35% discount.

It is a really fun film and she found a great leading lady to be in this film.

And like she said, there's just a lot going on and it's heartbreaking, but it's a great story.

Let's see if we can get through a couple texts here.

Oh, Wendy said Grace Jones for favorite female rocker, Mark from Prairie to Sack, was answering the last nice question too.

He says, Grace Jones, who was in the second Schwarzenegger Conan movie.

Well done, Mark.

We're coming right back for act two and our contest, our text to win contest.

It's Beach Wabba Night Light.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

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

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Kicking off hour number two here.

And what an hour it's going to be.

We've got Rich Lucasio coming up at 7.20.

He's got big news.

He's an on-air personality here at Civic Media.

He has news regarding that.

He's going to keep us up to date on wrestling.

He's also a wrestling ring announcer.

And we're going to give him one of our nightlife quizzes.

He's going to take a quiz about wrestling.

And I have no doubt he'll crush it, get it?

Rich, did you like that one?

Yeah, Rich is here in the building.

I'm talking.

He's two rooms away.

I'm still talking to him.

And in just a few minutes, we'll have David Grant here from WMAX.

They're doing a really, really cool contest down there.

And David is going to tell us all about it.

It's not a contest, actually.

It's sort of an event, I would say.

where they are doing a fun event where listeners take over the airwaves and all the proceeds go to Hope House.

So we'll talk to David about that in just a few minutes after we recap our number one here and tell you about our text-to-win contest.

Our question tonight is, in honor of the boss's 76th birthday, what is your favorite Bruce Springsteen song?

I said, dancing in the dark, reason to believe.

and all of his other songs.

I have an entire catalog tied for first place.

So you can be a little more specific if you like, folks.

But

let us

know.

We also talked about Conrad had a really weird Instagram message.

We'll get back to that at some point.

And we are playing catch up on texts from this week, folks.

We've had such a busy week here at Night Light.

We finally got through all of our texts from last night, just last hour.

And we'll read a few Bruce Springsteen texts here in a few minutes before we bring David on.

But right now, I'm going to tell you

all about our very cool text-to-win contest here.

That's our go for the green and gold text-to-win multi-state contest, ladies and gentlemen.

The last contest was statewide.

This is a multi-state text-to-win contest as civic media continues to grow.

You can, and this is cool too, the prizes, I mean, am I crazy, Conrad?

I'm not like bashing our former...

Contest but this is about this 200 bucks in cash and gold jewelry every day.

No, it's awesome That's the daily price folks.

Here's the one stipulation You have to have the civic media app to play that's all you need and it's a free download and if you don't already have it You should get it.

It's very easy to take all your civic media hosts and shows with you wherever you go And you just text in the keyword on the app It's very easy to do and then you are qualified to win 200 bucks in cash and gold jewelry every day and doing that

automatically enters you in the grand prize, and this contest's grand prize, our two club level indoor seats to Green Bay versus Minnesota.

We're talking football here, folks.

It's a Green Bay home game, November 23rd at 12 noon.

We're throwing in a gas card and we'll even get you there.

So it is like a $1,500 plus value.

Outstanding stuff.

I'm gonna give you the keyword right before this upcoming break, before we bring Rich LaCassio on.

And I will do that shortly, but be part of the fun.

Good luck, everybody.

Key word coming up in just a few.

Conrad, do we have David?

Yes, we do.

He's on the street.

You have to be kidding.

Do we have... All right, I need my... David, are you there?

I

am.

How are you doing

tonight?

This is a real treat.

We've got...

David Grant here, ladies and gentlemen, from WMAX in Baraboo, part of the Civic Media family.

How are you?

Are you up past your bedtime, David, being a morning radio guy?

You know, it's getting to that point real closely because, you know, we start our day somewhere between 4.30 and 5.

Be ready to go at 6 AM in the studio.

And tomorrow morning, we're getting up even earlier for this big event.

All right.

That is so cool.

Okay, so I love this event It's max FM purple Thursday Hope House radio requestathon that is taking place this Thursday You're kind of pitching it like you're letting the listeners take over the airwaves.

Can you explain that?

so that's exactly what's going to happen we have a link on max.fm website right now if you click on the whole post request to find there's a link to donate the cool part is when you make that donation you get to request a song a minimum $5 donation gets your request on the air a $10 more donation you can do a dedication if you don't like what's on there you can do a minimum $25 donation to bump that song play yours immediately last year it got a little bit

the

They're the only domestic violence shelter in a five county area that lost a lot of federal funding.

So we've set a lofty goal to raise $5,000 between 7am and 4pm tomorrow.

That is so great.

Hope House, for those of you that don't know, serves survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking.

It's a great cause and it's tomorrow.

The goal is five grand.

I would imagine once people start bumping songs, it's like a poker.

pot where it just keeps growing and growing.

It's like cha-ching.

Have you done this in the past?

Yes.

So we got, this is our fourth annual Hope House request, radio request.

Before we did this, we originally were doing a donation drive and we did that outside.

We did some broadcasting outside live.

Every year, the weather was absolutely horrible for this.

It was raining.

One year was almost snowing when we were outside.

And we said, okay, we got to find a better way to do this, a better way to help Hope House.

40 years ago, we came up with this idea, let's do a radio request to find it.

It's just kept growing from there.

Last year, we had a $3,500 goal.

We met and exceeded that.

And so this year, we sweetened

the pot

a little bit.

We said, we want to hit $5,000.

And our morning show hosts are going to do something absolutely crazy if we hit that goal.

Well, if you don't live in the Baraboo area, folks, there's a very easy way to follow this contest via the app, correct, David?

Yes, most certainly download that free civic media app on your mobile device.

You can stream us with you wherever you go.

You can listen to everything that's happening.

Just look for 997 Max FM, tap back some mouse, hit that stream button and you can participate.

And you also, you know, you're gonna need that app anyways, because you know, some key words for that go for the green and gold contest.

I'm not going to spoil it.

I know what the word is, but I won't let the cat out of the bag on that one.

But

I'm going to drop in just a few minutes.

So I appreciate you not spoil

So all right, there's an added stipulation to here.

I think this is kind of cool what you and Emily are doing.

If you reach your $5,000 goal, your $5,000 goal, what happens then?

So we've agreed to get our fingernails painted purple.

by a professional.

And we're going to get our hair dyed purple before October 30 or October 23 to support Hope House of South Central Wisconsin at their Purple Thursday event.

And we even got our intern in on this today.

He's agreed to go from a blonde to dye his hair purple as well.

It's been with us for three days.

We've already drug the intern into this too.

He wants to impress.

He's trying to get ahead, right?

Good for him.

Right.

My guest is David Grant.

He is the morning host and station manager of WMAX in Baraboo.

Tomorrow, you could take over the radio airwaves, all the money that you donate via your request, or if you want to not hear a song that's on the radio, you can make a request for 25 bucks.

They'll bump the song that's on and play yours.

It all goes to Hope House.

And it sounds like it's an absolutely fantastic, just for a good cause.

And it sounds like it's a lot of fun.

You guys must have a blast with it.

this.

we do that day goes by so fast.

We have so much fun with this because you never know what you're going to hear.

One year we had someone playing Christmas music, and then another family member was bumping the Christmas music off from the same household.

And they went back and forth for about 20 minutes on that.

One year we had polka on there as well.

So there's a very good chance if you tune into 99 seven max FM and bear with Mara or via the free so media app, you might even hear a polka song or two on there as well.

We play

almost anything within reason.

Now, you know, it's funny, I was talking to Rich a little bit earlier, he goes, Well, is there any stipulations?

I'm like, Yeah, no nine minute songs.

Rich, he's like, Oh, so we, you know, so we have a few rules, we'll play a few minutes of it, but we're not gonna play all nine minutes, because we want to get all those requests in between seven and four and we go later if needed last year, we went until almost 6pm.

So you can imagine being on air from six in the morning.

till six at night, what that would be like.

You can't even like, I would imagine with those polka songs, you can't even get another song going before the polka songs over those are like 90 seconds.

Yeah, they are and then we're of course dancing around in studio during all this as well.

So there's a lot of shenanigans that go on with that part of it.

We actually set up some of our live streaming equipment and we have that tested.

We'll do a little bit of live streaming from the Max FM Studio tomorrow morning as well for the first time ever as well.

I love it.

I think it's great.

I hope we can send some of our listeners your way.

I hope it's a big success.

David, it's been great to get to know you on the air.

Let's do this again soon.

It sounds like a great thing.

Good luck with it.

Yes, thank you so much.

Thanks for having me on today.

It's finally good to get on here as well.

Anytime.

Let's do it again.

Yeah, let's do it.

I'm available anytime you want me.

Same.

All right.

Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.

That is David Grant.

Check out tomorrow all day from 7 AM to 4 PM.

It's the Max FM Purple Thursday Hope House radio requestathon.

Be part of it and give to a good cause.

Great stuff.

Con, let's catch up on some texts here, shall we?

I agree.

Let's do it.

It's time.

All right.

How did you do I have?

Okay, here we go.

So I'm about to give the keyword folks before we go to the break.

I will give you the keyword in our

Go for the green and gold text to win multi-state contest here at Civic Media.

We've got our question of the night is, what is your favorite Bruce Springsteen song?

The boss turns 76 this week.

Is he five?

He's like five years younger than my dad.

How old is your dad, Conn?

He's in his very late 30s.

Conrad, not indulging me at all.

So I'll read your dad's text first.

Steve from Florida, that's Conrad's dad, says, favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, Born to Run and Born in the USA.

He likes the born songs.

Yes, he does.

Those are both outstanding songs.

Steve, if you're you really want to hear a great version of born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen in Barcelona, it's from like 2009, maybe just outstanding.

And he makes Max the drummer work like it's like a 10 minute run.

So he's like going to keel over afterwards.

BJ from La Crosse says

I don't see BJ's text, never mind.

Jim from Appleton, he's in the 920, says my favorite Springsteen song is Factory The Working Life.

It's an absolutely perfect description of life before NAFTA.

Boy, I forgot about that song, Jim.

I will have to look for that.

Thank you, sir.

Rick from Madison in the 608 says, tunnel of love, love tunnel of love and a love when he sings it with Patty.

Man meets woman and they fall in love.

ought to be easy ought to be simple enough.

Great tune.

Great lyrics.

Well done, Rick.

Mark from Prairie to Sack.

Oh, we already read Mark's.

Edward says, glory days or brilliant disguise, sublime lyrics.

Brilliant disguise.

My favorite lyric and brilliant disguise is God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Just a brilliant, brilliant lyrics and brilliant disguise.

Troy from Madison in the 608 says, any version of Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen.

is great.

I agree, Troy, outstanding.

Thunder Road, check it out.

If you really want a great version of Thunder Road, he sings with Melissa Etheridge on the David Letterman show, probably around the year 2000.

And she brings him out because he's like her idol.

And it's just an excellent, excellent version of the song.

Oh, here's Edward again.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he sure of.

There you go.

Last verse in brilliant disguise.

We are Kindred Spirits, Edward.

Thank you, sir.

John from Madison in the 608 says, I'm on fire.

It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

It's something special for me.

Totally agree.

John, keep those Springsteen songs coming, folks.

He is 76.

Tonight's keyword.

Do I have time or should I wait for after the break?

After the break?

We'll do it right after the break, folks.

I promise.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I

don't sing often on the show.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Oh,