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One Battle After Another (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Sep 26, 2025
And now, a guy who thinks outside the box and hates cliches.
Pete Schwabba.
All right, let's Friday, folks.
Friday is here.
You made it.
You're here with us at Night Light.
I'm going to help you get into the weekend.
We got a great show tonight.
Love our Friday shows.
It's a bar ban Friday night.
Thank you, Conrad.
However you're joining us, wherever you're joining us from across the great state of Wisconsin or beyond, it's great to have you.
Lots of fun planned on the show tonight.
I've got a at 635 a mystery guest will show up to give a very fast movie review of the the new film one battle after another the new Paul Thomas Anderson Leonardo DiCaprio Sean Penn Benicio del Toro Regina King film that opened yesterday.
This thing is crushing 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, a great director and outstanding cast, and it's a mystery thriller with a little bit of comedy.
I will be checking it out this weekend, but someone beat me to it, and I will talk to them at 6.35 tonight about the film.
So you'll get a quick little film review at 6.35, and then at 7.05, this is kind of fun too.
We're gonna talk about movies with one movie in particular that I've mentioned time and again on this show.
I don't mean to talk about it a lot, but it comes up because some of my guests mentioned the Godfather of Green Bay.
Catherine Lake, the producer of The Morning Show, John and Gordy at WMDX in Madison will join me because it was her idea to have this great charity screening of the film at the brand new Atwood Music Hall.
So we'll do that and I'll give you details on where or when I should say at 7.05 when Catherine swings by.
Catherine.
I don't know if you know this kind right Catherine is was instrumental in getting nightlight on the air
I hope it's not I hope it's that not a blocked artery, but she's great So Catherine will be here at 705 and then it is as I mentioned folks a bar band Friday night Terry bar our Wisconsin music expert Will be here at 735 as she is just about every Friday
bringing us great tunes from primarily local bands and great conversation.
Always fun to talk to Terri, and is she out at a concert tonight?
Do we know her?
Is she just showing?
She
So there you go, three fun guests.
And I'm going to give you some information on a new film.
We're going to talk about a fun screening in Madison of my film.
All the proceeds will go to charity and then Terry Barr at 735.
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I mean, you know, when you eat enough crappy food, your chances for having an experience like this go up.
And
Apparently, according to where I read this, many foodies, it says, have placed fermented Baltic herring on the Mount Rushmore of horrible food, alongside stinky tofu in China.
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We're doing this on the heels of last night where I squared off against Ben Chan, Jeopardy Champ Ben Chan.
And well, I'm trying to be humble about this, but I schooled him.
The one he got, I gave him.
I would have guessed soft sell.
And Ben did admit for all of his hundreds of thousands of dollars he won on Jeopardy.
And look, the guy has, his IQ is triple mine.
I'm not really staking a claim here, but.
He did say, this is my worst category.
And so we happened to just get them in the right night, but it was so fun having been here.
We took the quiz and I thought, you know what, let's open that up to the public or the couch potatoes, so to speak, and find out what people's favorite one hit wonders are.
I have a couple, and they're sort of different.
Stuck in the middle with you by Steelers Wheel.
Love it.
And a lot of people would argue maybe that's not a one hit wonder because Jerry Rafferty was in the band.
There you go.
Great tune from a totally blankie on the Tarantino movie, Reservoir Dogs.
And that's the song Michael Mann, not Michael Mann, Michael Mezzan sings into the guy's ear, who he's just cut off.
Very disturbing scene.
But a great song totally fits in that movie.
And it's one of those songs I can't turn off when it's on the radio.
So I love that song.
As I mentioned, Jerry Rafferty was in that band.
And he had a couple hits after he left Steelers Wheel.
He had Write Down the Line, Baker Street, one of the all-time classic songs ever.
But technically, Stuck in the Middle with You is a one hit wonder.
And I'm going to throw another one in there that's maybe a little unconventional.
99 Love Balloons.
I love that song.
I love the woman who sang it.
I remember the video from high school, and they never, I don't know if they ever had even close to another hit.
They never even got back to the plate.
You got one,
Con?
And it's a great.
It's one of those.
That's one of those songs, too.
You can't turn it off.
And it's so funny because legendary bands have songs that are fine and they had 20 hits.
But sometimes these one hit wonders are just overall better songs.
Like.
pound for pound when it comes to a song.
I like the song.
I don't know if Kings of Leon would be considered one hit wonders.
The problem is if you're a music aficionado, you can rattle off tons of songs.
But Kings of Leon, I think it's use somebody maybe is the song.
And that's a great one too.
It's like not even used to play it all the time.
And I don't know if they had more hits.
I kind of remember that That's pretty cool, but rarely you clean I don't think you clean up that often because most of the The money that comes in when you're just making your first deal so I've read goes to the producers of the studio or whatever so the fact that he
Got himself a sweetheart deal is pretty cool.
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Folks, let me know what is your favorite one hit wonder, and I've got another really funny thing to tell you about Robert Redford when we come back.
It's Night Light with Heechwaba on the Civic Media Radio
This is Nightlight.
Great to have you with me, folks.
Fun show tonight.
Mystery film reviewer in just a few minutes talking about the film One Battle After Another, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leo DiCaprio, Regina King, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, getting a 98% in Rotten Tomatoes, which is pretty impressive.
So all week we've been playing catch up on texts.
I have to say, this couple I met out here, I've been doing the Nightlight window fun.
taking pictures of people, posting them on Facebook.
And this couple came by and this guy was in one of those riding wheelchairs and his wife, very nice couple.
I got to talking to them.
He was in radio like his whole adult life.
And he worked at WLS in Chicago, a huge, giant radio station when I was a kid.
And then out in San Francisco, his name was Joel Schwartz.
He and his wife, Kathy, I took a nice picture of them and it's on Facebook right now if you wanna check it out.
Lots of nice people in downtown Green Bay, have you noticed that?
We are.
For every loud muffler in downtown Green Bay, there are very nice people.
So I can't really complain.
I saw this about Robert Redford.
His favorite word was possible.
And his least favorite word was whatever.
That kind of reminded me of my dad, because my dad always hated, or probably still doesn't, people say, whatever.
It's like such a big term.
But Robert Redford was, I think, older than my dad is now, but it's maybe a generational thing.
I thought that was kind of cool.
Conrad, we should get a true crime person on the show because Robert Redford's daughter, her husband was killed.
It's like a famous true crime story when they were students at the University of Colorado Boulder.
And this guy was shot, and this guy's been at...
large for like decades now.
So it was, I was just reading about it today and I'm like, I don't want to do like a deep dive because I'm not a true crime expert, but it would be fun to, we should have a house true crime expert on retainer.
We've got Kristen Lyrely is our nightlight official gynecologist.
Well,
Yeah, that might work too All right, we've got to play catch up with some of the texts we have from last night where our question was The saddest song what was the saddest song and so let's read through some of these because I don't like to let texts go unread it's just improper and Our question tonight folks is what is your favorite one hit wonder song?
Let us know that is tonight's question.
We'll get to those texts in just a moment after I clean up from last night
Jules Smith listening on WGBW last night said, amazing grace.
That's interesting because that's a song that can definitely bring tears to your eyes, but I find it very uplifting actually.
But that's great.
Thank you, Jules.
Mike from Madison in the 608 says, hey guys, recently found the show, not a potato yet, but maybe someday fingers crossed.
Bigger than.
The Whole Sky by Taylor hits hard.
Also, Old Blue by Willie will get you smooches.
Thank you, Michael, from the 608.
I think that text and the fact that I just read it automatically makes you a potato, a couch potato.
So welcome aboard, my friend.
Thank you for the text.
Jack from Merrimack says, Saddest Song.
Certainly Diamonds and Rust should be on the list.
Thank you, Jack.
Eric from the 608 says, Dead Puppies by Ogden.
Ed Sol?
You know that band?
I don't.
How about the song?
Thanks for listening.
Todd from Oshkosh in the 920 says, say something by a great big world.
Will you Google that?
That's really bothering me because I read that earlier when I printed this and that song is like, I can't remember it exactly.
Monica from Mount Horrib in the 608 says the living years.
Yeah, that's a boy.
I'm surprised we didn't hear that more last night Mike in the mechanics.
I think was the band
All right, we can cross that off the list the living years though is that's a
That's a really sad song about a guy singing about his dad.
Ross from Crawford County, he's in the 608 says, Ozzie's mama, I'm coming home.
I don't know that song either.
Thank you, Ross.
Great stuff.
Glad Ross is listening.
Ross seems to binge nightlight and then he goes away for a while.
Then he binges.
There's no right way to listen, though.
Either way.
Great to have you back, Ross.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids in the 608 says, my popcorn pick of the night.
The saddest song starring Isabella Rossellini.
The saddest song.
That must be the name of the song.
Isabella Rossellini.
I don't know that one.
Isn't she an actress?
Oh, she is.
She's great.
And I don't know.
I didn't know she made music.
He was making a popcorn pick of the night.
Maybe the movie is called The Saddest Song and I just haven't heard of it.
Maybe he's having a little fun with us like Tyler often does.
Jules Smith also says, Jules in the 920, the winner takes it all by ABBA.
Yeah, that's a great song, too.
Thank you, Joel.
Outstanding stuff.
Thank you for your texts from last night.
Let's turn and get a couple of these done tonight from social media.
Spirit in the Sky, our pal Vince Moranto, who will be here next Thursday night making the popcorn pick of the week.
Oh, this is the one you read, Con.
I love that guy named Greenbomb.
Has a friend named Jesus.
Yeah, that's a great tune.
Do we have that in our bumper music?
We should add that.
Spirit in the Sky?
Just put it on a loop.
Chris Anderson says, too shy by Kaja Goo Goo.
Great tune.
That was big when I was in high school.
I love that song.
And that was a definite one hit wonder.
Do we have a... I gotta get my mouse here.
Whoa, these old responses are coming up.
What is going on with this screen?
Was this fixed?
All right, we'll discuss this off the air because it's not really that interesting.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are here on a great night.
We have a mystery film reviewer coming up at 6.35 after the news.
Katharine Lake is here at 7.05 to tell you about a godfather of Green Bay screening happening in Madison in December.
And we've got Terry Barr here for Barbie on Friday night.
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title of the show.
Keep those texts coming, folks.
I thought people would have fun with One Hit Wonders.
Our question of the night is, what is your favorite One Hit Wonders song of all time?
We touched on this last night with Jeopardy!
Champ Ben Chan and thought we'd keep it going and open it up to all the couch potatoes.
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All right, so as promised all right this movie I've been talking about lately I've probably talked about it at least I've probably anticipated this more
than any film since Mission Impossible earlier this spring.
This film is getting almost 100%.
It's a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It stars Sean Penn, Regina King, Benicio del Toro, and Leo DiCaprio.
And it's directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, outstanding director of Boogie Night's Fame and Magnolia, all kinds of great films.
And this is crushing with critics.
And it opens this week
One of my the people I'm closest with in my life who is also a film buff saw the film last night And it is my pleasure to welcome actor writer and my son Joe Schwabba Joe.
How are you?
Okay, perfect.
And I didn't know, I didn't want to like build you up too much.
I know there's a little nepotism involved here with this review, but honestly, you were like the first person I knew that saw this movie.
So last night we didn't even get to talk that much.
So...
What you're saying here on the air to me will be my first true review of this film and I'm excited because it's crushing with critics I'm
There's some great supporting roles as well.
It's also really funny.
It was so much funnier than I thought it was going to be.
You know and I know his movies do have some humor in them, but this I mean I was there was multiple times in the theater where I laughed out loud
It's really interesting because I saw that on Rotten Tomatoes when I was reading some of the reviews and I recently on this show I Kind of said I don't like action comedies.
I think 99% of them are really stupid The comedy is not great.
The action is not great It's just kind of very mediocre all the way around but this is this more of a comedy or is it more of a
Mr. No, I wouldn't say that I would say it's very like situational humor like a sort of like a Coen Brothers movie.
It's similar to Big Lebowski in that way where it's not like I don't even I mean you'd call Big Lebowski a comedy, but It's more the comedy brought out through the characters rather than like gags
So it, it follows a group of revolutionaries and it's kind of split in two different time periods.
So it follows this group of revolutionaries and then once they've kind of lost, uh, the regime goes after one of these revolutionaries daughter.
I won't say why that's kind of part of the movie, but the daughter ends up getting kidnapped.
And Leonardo DiCaprio kind of plays this bumbling, ex-revolutionary, higher-up member in the rebellion.
And he has to go track down his daughter.
And there's great supporting characters.
The scope of the film is honestly, it rivals Star Wars.
It's a really rich universe, which I wasn't expecting.
This, honestly, I can see this getting like graphic novel spin-offs for, you know, like a TV show because of all the world-building they do.
And I think that's part of the reason why it's three hours long.
It seems like a lot of movies are longer these days.
When I love a movie, I want it to be three hours.
Like, once upon a time in Hollywood, it didn't bother me.
Mission Impossible's can go long.
I don't care.
I sometimes don't want them to end when I'm watching a great movie.
Would you put this in that category?
I would say, I guess at times it felt a little long, but I think there, like I said, there is a reason it's long.
Is there some important setup that helps get you into the story that maybe drags a little bit, but it's totally worth it.
when you get into that initial, or when you get into that chase and that non-stop action, once you get to that, it's totally worth it.
I thought she was fantastic.
Her performance, honestly, it's really good.
And I loved her character.
My favorite character, though, or my favorite performance has to be Leonardo DiCaprio.
He's awesome in it.
And all runner up, I would say is Benicio del Toro.
He's hilarious in this movie.
All right, so obviously it's a thumbs up.
All the performances were great.
I love it.
Have you seen a lot of other Paul Thomas Anderson movies?
Would you say this is his best that you've seen?
The ones I've seen.
Yes, this is my favorite.
What other films of his have you seen?
I mean, it's a great setting in Miami.
You can just kind of hop in that.
And, you know, I mean, there is a serial killer killing people.
So if you get past that, it's a nice time, you know, being in Miami.
Another thing that's happened to me for Dexter is now that I'm watching Dexter, my social media algorithm has completely snatched onto it.
So my entire feed is just all like Dexter, like a thirst reel.
So it'll be like a serial.
It'll be like one of the killer characters.
And it'll just be like music edited to them, like dancing.
And it's just insane, but it's my entire feed.
I don't know, Will Ferrell.
Some songs just make you do things.
Pete Schwab and Nightlight, welcome back, folks.
I like those quick thumbnail reviews.
That was my son, Joe, did that, but I've had a couple other people on doing that.
That's a fun way to get, I think, listener interaction and sharing information with other listeners, other couch potatoes, if you will.
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She oversees the John and Gordy show.
And those guys who've been on this show, they're so much fun.
And she's going to tell all of you how you can be part of a fun cause and see the Godfather of Green Bay coming up later this year as we get closer to the holidays.
And then it is a Barbie and Friday night.
Terry Bar will be here at 7 35.
Man, I that first song she sent I like them
I love that song and I guess it's new It's a new tune as well.
So that'll be fun to talk to Catherine at 735 I got really lucky today when I got here most of the time I park in the garage Yeah, but if I want gelato and five extra minutes to save her.
Yeah, joy that is rising grind gelato
I look for parking right next to the studio and tonight.
I got totally lucky someone pulled out and There's 53 minutes left on the meter.
Oh, I scored a spot and saved two quarters.
What?
I trust Mark.
Mark always has interesting texts and he's kind of a.
He always has, this is not the first bit of unique information he shared with us.
That's really interesting.
Let's Google that con.
And when I say let's, I mean you please.
Edward from the 414 says, tub thumping by Chamba Wamba.
Did he text that last night?
Or somebody
Time for you to go to the places you will be from Just terrible But you know, thanks for playing well John from the 608 says American pie.
Okay.
I don't know if that's the one hit wonder though Maybe it is I can argue with John chance
knowledgeable guy John also says seems like a one-off I agree with that, but I want to say Don McClain has had other hits But I don't know you'd know better than me John Edward says or I'm too sexy by right said Fred great one Edward love it John says bye-bye miss American pie Yeah, he says cool classics still love it.
Yeah, that's the song I have trouble turning on or turning off
from Don McLean.
Great stuff.
Keep those texts coming.
What is your favorite one-hit wonder after the news when we start act two?
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Catherine Lake will join us.
We'll recap what you've missed.
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