Popcorn Picks and Peculiar Words (Hour 1)

Broadcasting live 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 whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Thursday everybody.

It is the Christmas Eve of weeknights as I like to call it love me a Thursday night You've got some Brewer baseball tonight some NFL I'm gonna catch up on slow horses later lots lots to absorb lots to watch tonight So there's always TV watching to be done folks.

I don't take it lightly I don't expect you to take it lightly.

I take this very seriously Because color television is one of the greatest inventions

I don't know, probably like aside from like the polio vaccine maybe or something, but it's one of the greatest inventions in humankind.

And I celebrated every night here at Nightlight.

Working the board tonight, Mr. Conrad Krieger, how

you doing buddy?

Yeah, I'm excited to watch some colored television as well.

Netflix just released a series called Starting Five.

This is season two of it, and it follows five basketball players through the NBA season.

Oh, like a reality show.

One of them just so happens to be my favorite NBA player, Kevin Durant.

Oh, you love Kevin Durant.

So I already watched two episodes today, and I'm enjoying it.

Did they drop it all at once?

Like Netflix does?

I love that.

So I'll probably be binging that.

And it's just a fun series to see the inside look of what they go through

behind

the

scenes.

That is fantastic.

Well, it's always good to have a new show.

I started the chair company last night.

I watched

the first

step.

What did you think?

It was creepy and funny

at the same time.

He's creepy and

funny.

Like the guy is like, there's never a calm moment with that guy.

You don't know

what he's going to do.

What do you think of that scene when he goes to explore that place when he had the deviled egg first before he left?

That was great.

And then the guy coming up behind him, stop looking at the chair, and then he starts chasing him.

It's just so weird.

I'll stick with it.

I gotta find out more about this guy.

I haven't watched his other two shows, The Detroiters.

I think it was Ben Reiser that was telling us about that.

That's where he's from, Tim Robinson.

So I'll probably do more of a deep dive into some of the things he's done because he does have his own style.

I mean, and I'm sure...

You know, I don't know.

We'll just see what happens with the chair company, but it's pretty funny.

And it's just a guy who's like, it's like OCD or not even OCD.

He's just like conspiracy theorists.

Like he investigates a chair company because he sat in the chairbroke at a very important moment.

So bizarre.

So but yeah, lots going on tonight.

And we've got two great guests.

The popcorn pick of the week happens tonight, folks.

Every Thursday at six thirty five, we make the popcorn pick of the week and give you

a movie recommendation that you can check out over the weekend or whenever.

And tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week, I'm joined by Kara Mulroney.

Kara is a Milwaukee based actress and filmmaker and very talented and a good friend of mine.

She's actually been on the radio.

Conrad, she's actually co-hosted a radio show with me.

Oh, that's cool.

Couple times, I think maybe.

I was on another station down in Milwaukee.

They let me pick my own co-host, and I brought Kara, because she's great.

So she'll be here tonight as a guest.

She's a very busy mom now.

She's got two young kids, and her husband is a filmmaker, who's a great guy.

So I met Kara years ago on...

PBS Wisconsin, because she had a short film in the Wisconsin Film Festival, and I interviewed her on PBS Wisconsin.

I interviewed her husband on PBS Wisconsin, who's also incredibly talented, but nice people.

And Kara will be here.

She's always a blast to talk to as well.

So she'll give us the popcorn pick of the week, and we'll find out what's going on with Kara.

And then tonight, a little later in the show, and the second hour is better.

It'll be dark outside, and we've got Old World Wisconsin is putting on its legends and lore this month.

And it's creepy stuff on the weekends.

It's just great.

We talked about it a little bit last year.

I'm very excited to talk to Dan Hesto.

He'll be here tonight at 7.35 and we'll tell you what you can find if you're willing to venture over to Old World Wisconsin this month and check out some of their cool, really creepy stuff they have going on.

Not too creepy, creepy enough.

I think you could bring the kids to a lot of this stuff, but we'll ask Dan all about that in hour number two.

This is I don't know if you knew this con.

This is a national a dictionary day You know that's pretty cool, right?

I guess I mean celebrate the dictionary sure

Um, why not the dictionary though?

There's national, all kinds of other weird stuff today.

Why wouldn't we have a national dictionary today?

So let's get a jump on this and let's start tonight off right with our nightlight question of the

night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

What is your favorite or least favorite word in honor of National Dictionary Day?

Words are great.

I consider myself a poor man's wordsmith as a writer.

But I love words.

They're great and they're beautiful when people use them correctly or use them and string them together flawlessly or fluidly and brilliantly.

I love, love, love words.

But there are some words that drive me crazy too.

But there are some that I love.

So tonight's question is what is your favorite or least favorite word in honor of National Dictionary Day?

Let us know at 855-752-4842 855-75 Civic and we'll read your text on the radio.

You can also drop us a comment if you're listening over the app and If you're watching the radio on this dream, you can drop us a stream comment through YouTube Facebook or ex Twitter Give us a like or a follow too if you're there folks on Facebook

Or YouTube, can you do likes on YouTube?

Yes, you can.

You

can.

I

thought so.

Yeah, you can

give a little thumb

up.

You can give a

thumb

up.

On Twitter?

Yeah, well, I do.

You

can follow us on Twitter or

me.

I think you can like it.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, you can like it on Twitter.

It's like a little heart.

Yeah, you can heart us.

But that's kind of like, that's extreme.

Like, I don't know if I want to click love.

I mean, I might like a post, but it's like Facebook, you can go like, you can put

a heart.

Heart.

Yeah.

But Twitter, it's like, no, no, no, you either love it or you go home.

Or you just tell why you don't like it in the comments like everyone else does.

Exactly.

And they don't hold back on Twitter.

So let's do that.

But let us know what your favorite or least favorite words are.

And we can talk about some of that in just a moment.

I'll ask Conrad what his favorite words are.

Have you seen this?

What are your thoughts on Britney

Spears?

Loved her and how I met your mother.

Did she do like a walk-on?

She

yeah, she she loved the show so much that she wanted to be on it and she plays the hilarious role in it actually.

Oh sweet.

Yeah, I like her when she Kind of has a sense of humor about herself.

I think she's really fine.

I don't I could take her leave her music I will say this when Britney Spears dances Turn the music turn the sound down watch her dance

It looks idiotic.

But having said

that- I think that's for a lot of

people.

For a lot of people, exactly.

But I don't really have an opinion on her.

I don't know her, but I know she's been through all kinds of stuff.

Her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, they were soulmates for about three years in the early 2000s, is writing a book about her.

It just in time for when the child payments stopped.

He was getting like a half a million dollars a year from her for their two kids.

And he's put on a lot of weight.

since he started.

I

don't even know who that is.

He was a backup dancer for Justin Timberlake.

Nice.

Yeah.

And I guess he's not always a DJ, but I mean, he's, I just, I can't stand people that write books like that.

Like the gravy train is over.

I'm going to write a tell all book.

And supposedly he put in the book that she would stand at her son's bedroom doorway at night holding a knife.

Didn't really say why or what, you know,

whatever.

But

yeah.

You know, I'm writing a book are you about you?

Just make sure you Make me look beautiful.

Okay You got nothing man.

You got nothing on me.

I could write a book about you dude.

Oh, no, please don't it's coming But I just think that's so weird and she says it's not true obviously, but that's my pet peeve And I think it's a bad character trait and we have to come up with a question of the night

For people to do that like inexcusable behavior because it's it really disgusts me I thought you would be excited about this Kate McKinnon is gonna play

Aphrodite in Percy Jackson.

You see that I I'm a huge fan of Percy Jackson.

I read all the books Okay, and I watched all the movies and now I'm enjoying I enjoyed season one of it on Disney Plus So it's kind of it kind of the new season is pretty close to the book.

There's differences, but

I think she's gonna be great at it.

Why

doesn't she work more?

Like everything she's in, people love her, whether it was SNL, the Barbie movie, she had a great cameo and that, I mean, not more than a cameo, a minor role, but she stole every scene she was in.

She does Hillary Clinton perfectly.

I mean, she's great.

Yeah, she's awesome.

But this is news.

It's like, oh, Kate McKinnon's working again.

Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be watching that.

I'm sure you will.

I think you should.

I know we tried, we talked about getting a Haktua Girl fan club together.

You should do it for Kate McKinnon, because she's actually incredibly talented.

Yes, she is very talented.

The Haktua Girl, not so much.

Well, she's talented, but I don't

know.

Now, where is she yet now?

You want to hear something funny, actually.

There's this actor, this actress that kind of got a small bit rolling Chad Powers.

okay

and she was supposed to have one line and she she did it but then the huck to a girl replaced her in the in this in the show she's on the show yeah for like us for like two seconds oh my gosh and she literally took out that one small bit actress that's really trying to get into acting

So for two seconds of screen time where she probably just her only line was probably hawk-tua.

I would have laughed

so hard if it was.

Oh, that's terrible.

No, all she said was like, I'm disappointed in you or something like that.

I'll tell you another thing, and it's kind of along the same lines.

I can't stand.

I'm getting very tired of loaded millions and millions of dollars celebrities taking commercial roles away from actors who are trying to break it.

We don't need, if I see Ryan Reynolds again,

Honestly, God, you have a beef with

Ryan

Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg.

Mark Wahlberg, Ryan Reynolds and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Those

are my three.

All starting a movie.

Are you going to it?

I probably to

hate.

Watch it.

Yeah, I probably would.

But they're they're

my Mount Rushmore of annoying.

Anyway, let's let's keep it positive.

Let's go to the.

You have a quiz.

I do have a quiz for you.

You know, college basketball is starting soon.

Yeah.

And with that comes some new players with some awesome names.

And I wanted you to kind of see if you could figure out which ones are real and which ones I made up myself.

I don't know when this started giving Pete quizzes that are like he barely has a chance at because I don't follow college basketball.

And the last one Ben Chan was here.

The guy's on Jeopardy.

Yeah.

And I'm facing off.

Although that one I want.

You

did.

You did.

Because it was about what was that quiz we took with

Ben.

I forgot.

I crushed

him.

You did.

It was brutal.

It was line, it was a music lyrics, I think or

something.

Music.

I did 10 seconds of music.

Oh, it was, it was, it was about one hit wonders.

Oh yeah, one hit wonders.

Oh, that was a proud moment.

Yes.

I'm even texted me.

How do you beat this thing?

Oh honey, you did so well

against the Jeopardy

champ.

Your abundance of useless knowledge has made me so proud.

So my favorite words, I had to be honest, I did not really.

I've been kind of struggling with this all day.

There are a couple words I really like.

Cinnamon, love that word.

And it's a superfood, bonus.

Dongle, I'm kidding.

Cinnamon, Malifluous.

It's like a musical, smooth music, like a string instrument.

Words I don't like, yummy.

I feel like it's almost intimate when people say that when they look at something,

they look at me and

go, yummy.

No.

And peculiar is another one, buttress.

I don't like the word buttress just because I'm immature.

All right, we'll find out what words Conrad likes or doesn't like when we come back.

And I'm going to take a college basketball quiz.

That'll be entertaining for all the wrong reasons.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wava, Thursday night version, folks.

Kara Mulroney is here at 6.35 to make the popcorn pick of the week.

You're gonna leave this show with nothing else, folks, than a great movie recommendation.

She's got two kids, might be kids movie, but she's also really into movies and acting and all that, so you might get like a classic.

We don't know.

You just have to stick around and find out.

And then Dan Hess from Old World Wisconsin, just outside of Milwaukee, will be here in the second hour telling us about legends and lore that is happening all month at this really cool museum under the umbrella of the Wisconsin Historical Society, which does really amazing work.

So our question of the night is what is your least or most favorite word?

It is National Dictionary Day.

Conn.

Yes.

Go for it.

I'd say my favorite word is scoundrel.

Yeah, that's a good one.

That's one of my favorites.

I would also say buttocks.

I said butt dressed and you said buttocks.

I love it when people say it instead of, you know, butt

or

ass or

fanny.

And then my least favorite word is literally.

Oh, because it's so overused.

I can't stand it when people just put it in the middle of a sentence.

And most of the time they misuse it.

Yes, one of my favorite bits in iMetroMOTHER is that Robin says it too much because Barney says they don't teach correct grammar in Canada.

And then Ted gets mad when she uses it because he's a word snob.

It's like people do that with the word right too.

So the other day, right?

Yeah.

I'm with you so far.

You've got me.

Scoundrel's good.

That reminds

me of CAD.

The first time the first time a mother-in-law saw my film The Godfather of Green Bay and I had this intimate scene with Lauren Holly my mother-in-law looked at me and said you cad And then slapped me it was fun.

It was a good night John in Madison in the 608 says his least favorite letter or his faith is least favorite word.

I'm sorry is He says the word slit makes my skin crawl for some kind of

That's such a strange one.

I love it, John.

He says he just shuddered.

Edward in the 414 says resiliency instead of resilience, or I feel nauseous, which means you cause nausea instead of the correct nauseated.

Yeah, you, boy, you could open up a hole.

I've had people say that to me, I'm suffering from nausea.

That's not a word.

I mean, I know what you're saying, but like, and I'm not this.

Brightest guy in the world like I know words to a degree, but I'm not claiming to Do you know what the Oxford comma is?

No,

it's when you use a comma before the word and

It can

totally change his sentence.

Yeah I Used to feel strongly about it.

I still I guess I still do John also says words with silent letters bug me to pneumonia dumb knee why funny because my name is John All right, let's see if we can get this

this hoop quiz.

I know I'm gonna.

Okay.

This is not gonna be good.

Yeah.

So basically, I'll give you a name and you just guess if it's real or not.

And if it's real, these are actually players in the NCAA right now for basketball.

Okay.

This is great because I used to follow college basketball like crazy.

I have no idea what's

going on.

Well, now if you hear these names, you're gonna have a couple favorite players.

Listen, I hope some of these are because they're awesome.

All right, let's start off.

All right.

That's the name.

A-L-L right.

Yes.

Is it real or fake?

It's

fake.

It's real.

Come on.

It's real.

Somebody went to spell the word L right on the birth certificate and put an extra L

on or what?

I don't know.

That's so weird.

All right.

OK.

All right.

0 for

1.

All right.

Puma Brooks senior.

Yes.

That's a fake name shoe brands and then you

all

right.

I almost went with Puma Nike All right always right

No

It's

a

come on I'm seriously wondering if their brothers always right.

I don't know

I Don't like it.

All right over

three.

Yeah,

George Washington the third

If that's a made-up one, I'm just kind of mad at you.

Which one?

What do you think it is?

I'll say yes.

Yay!

Correct.

One for four.

Batten 250, baby.

Alright.

Bill Gates Jr.

Correct.

Here

we go.

Alright.

You're two for uh... Two for five.

Yeah, two for five.

Tennessee Rainwater.

I hope that's real.

That's a great name.

Yes.

Oh, I love that name.

Pete Rainwater.

Yeah, that doesn't sound good, but Tennessee Schwabba.

That's insane.

All right, whatever.

Tennessee Rainwater.

I love that name.

Does he play for Tennessee?

No, he doesn't.

He should.

All right, the next one.

All right.

Jet Steel Frederick.

Yes.

That's false.

Oh, come on.

That's a great name.

All right.

Chandler

Bing.

Now you're insulting my intelligence.

No.

No, it's

not.

So somebody was a big fan of friends named their kid Chandler Bing and he happens to be great at hoops.

Yep.

Oh my god.

All right.

Well, I'm wrong.

Big enough to move.

Three.

Three for eight.

All right.

Three

for eight.

All right.

Next one, which is not a bad three point percentage.

Not bad.

All right.

Kai you know, that's a real name.

Come on.

Like the whiny cartoon character spelled differently, but yes What's I thought you're doing?

I thought you're turning all right This one this next one is so awesome.

It has to be real It's not

though.

No,

it's not It should be I Got that one right and this next one too dunk Tyson dunk Tyson Even if there's not a real person named dunk Tyson, they should change their name to that.

I'm gonna say yes

It is not.

Oh, I

made it up.

I'm happy to miss that one.

It's a great.

All right.

We could fit one more in here, right?

Yeah.

Burger Irving.

Yeah, that's real.

That's just, you couldn't make that first word up.

That's why I was.

You like that burger.

All right,

to be continued.

That's a great one.

Good quiz.

I'm not doing terrible.

No, you wait.

Four for, you know, five for.

Caramel

Rooney is coming up at 6.35, folks.

After the news, we're going to make the popcorn pick of the week.

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

It's time for the Nightlight Popcorn Pick of the Week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't.

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome back.

Hi, I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight.

So great to have you with me, folks.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite or least favorite word?

And that is an honor of National Dictionary Day.

It's high time.

Such a wonderful read.

Got its own day.

Joining me now, folks, this is time for the Popcorn Pick of the Week.

I'm very excited.

My next guest I've known for a few years.

She's an incredibly talented filmmaker, actress, producer.

She does a lot of different things.

She's also a mom to young kids.

And I'm sure their house is crazy.

So I really appreciate her taking time out to give the Popcorn Pick of the Week.

Miss Cara Mulroney.

Hello there,

Cara.

Hi.

Hey, Pete.

How are you?

I'm doing very well.

How are you tonight?

Oh, I'm really well.

Thank you.

That was a very kind introduction.

You're always so

kind.

I'm underselling you because I know that, you know, I got to keep the floor low just in case you're having a tough mom day and you can't deliver.

But I know you're going

to.

Oh, yeah, I'm gonna do my very best.

Yeah, I will say, yeah, in the morning I thrive, but you know, maybe it's good to be loose at night on the radio.

I'm gonna be very present with

you.

You are fine.

You're so much fun.

And I just love when we get to hang out or be on the radio together.

It's always so fun.

And I'm just such a huge fan of yours.

So, do you have a favorite word?

Cara or least favorite

word?

Yeah, I was listening.

The one that always comes to mind is cacophony, which I used to think was cacophony.

Cacophony certainly sounds nicer.

Where it's like pandemonium and maybe in that vein would be Marge Simpson's delivery of cuckoo bananas.

So there's a theme, certainly.

I like crazy.

With chaos.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Yes, yes.

You know,

I always thought, and now that I can see you on the stream, I always thought, and I've told you this, and I don't think I'm the only one who's ever told you this, but you kind of have a similar look to Catherine Keener.

that is so kind and it never gets old.

I got it not too long ago and I feel like I could be her goofy cousin.

It's definitely a complimentary likeness, but I'll take it.

Well, you could play her

sister or yeah, and it's definitely a compliment, but also I'm talking to you right now.

You sound like her, too.

You have kind of a similar voice, because I just watched the Seinfeld recently where she plays Jerry's girlfriend.

Oh,

yeah, how do I

miss that?

She's the one who paints the Kramer.

And she's Jerry's jealous girlfriend.

Oh, gosh.

Yeah.

Wow, I miss that entirely.

It's a great episode.

Well, being John, I'll check it out.

Being John Malkovich was such an influential film to me.

Oh, yeah.

And that was my first time seeing her.

And what did you think?

Did you

think when you saw her, hey, I kind of look like her?

A

little bit.

It's it's an odd thing.

I mean, have you ever seen someone that looks like you?

Or do you have a celebrity doppelganger?

I don't know about doppelganger, but we did this recently.

What's

one of our questions was what celebrity do people tell you look like?

And I said when I

when I'm in shape, Sean Penn, and when I'm not in shape, Chris Penn.

But I've heard

a lot of- You're Sean to me.

You're Sean to me.

Well, thank you.

I've got a ways to go.

But anyway, I've heard Don Henley at different points in my life.

The columnist Bob Green, again, when I'm overweight, but yeah, Michael Douglas occasionally, you know, it varies.

Oh, I can see that.

Oh, I can see Michael Douglas.

Yeah.

Well, plus you have that nice main to work with.

My hair.

It's a wig.

It's a wig.

It

used to be longer.

It

was.

It was quite long.

It's not a wig and it's I do get a body wave apparently.

I don't I just like to say body wave.

Oh, yeah.

I want

it, honey.

I don't even know

what a body wave really is.

I just remember a friend of mine

in eighth grade said he became he came

back from the from the salon or whatever his mom took him to get a haircut and he said he says I got a body wave too.

Okay, so it's sort of a it's sort of a permanent right sort of yeah they do something

to give it some some body.

Right.

That's right.

That's right.

It's sort of a treatment.

Yeah.

It's sort of like a looser type of perm.

Yeah.

Anyway, you're rocking it.

Well, thank you.

Tate had really long hair for a while, but he was on

the show

semi recently and he's cut his hair off.

And I think that looks pretty good on him too.

He's got

one of those faces.

Yeah, he agrees.

Well, and he gets... Oh gosh, what is wrong with me?

I'm walking Phoenix.

He gets walking Phoenix at times.

Oh, that's

interesting.

Yeah, I

could say

that.

Yeah, um, no, I really liked his hair long.

I mean, I just feel like, you know, if you have nice hair Yeah, you know, you should celebrate it.

I mean you use your body you do what you want But you know, you've got beautiful hair Tate has beautiful hair.

He likes to keep it shorter.

We you know, I was thinking about

Popcorn pick of the week and it's I'm I'm honestly a terrible guest for this because my my viewing habits are just bizarre and you know because it's all about when you can get time and then what you happen to have access to but I on our regular TV as I call it You don't have to pay for there's one channel of BBC.

So that's my go-to.

I just go straight to BBC You know if it's a period drama, I'm here for it.

Yeah, they recently threaded showing Sherlock again from from

2010 and I bring all this up to say I really liked Benedict Cumberbatch's haircut and so for a while I convinced Tate to get like when we got married.

Well, speaking of what you watch, let's do, let's jump into some movie talk here.

I'm going to ask you how you like to watch movies, what snacks you like, and then we'll ask you for your pick.

And I know your, your life might be a little crazy right now, Kara, but you can, you can pick a movie from your childhood or your all time favorite or something.

Your kids like, there's no right or wrong answer here.

So you sit on

that.

I appreciate your, yeah, you're taking the pressure down.

There's never

any pressure here.

You've heard the show.

Um, okay.

So, so what?

How do you like to watch movies?

Do you like to go to the theater?

Do you like to watch at home?

Oh, I mean, you know, the cinema, it just makes everything...

It's just a different viewing experience.

It's wonderful.

So yeah, cinema first.

It's an event.

First and foremost.

It's an event.

And specifically here in Milwaukee, we've got the gorgeous movie palace, The Oriental.

We've got the Downer as well, which I love, but The Oriental is a true historic movie palace owned and taken care of and run by the Milwaukee film festival.

And so we went there as a family this last weekend to see Peewee's Big Adventure, which is, you know, I shouldn't be a bash it at this point.

It's it's my favorite movie.

It's Oh, did you just

inadvertently give us your popcorn pick of the week ahead of time?

I did.

I worked it in.

Yeah.

That okay.

Oh, we're gonna be like a sound effect or something.

No, we

do we

do a

little thing, but that's

fine.

We don't have to settle on it.

Another one might might come to mind, but

You know, yeah, I just saw it so many, I don't ever remember not knowing that movie.

I saw it so many times as a child on VHS that it just it when I hear the

the soundtrack, it's like a cascade of serotonin for me.

Oh, nice.

Oh, I'm happy.

And just, but, you know, Paul Rubens as an all writer, as a performer, Pee Wee as a character, you know, this, you know, he's wild.

Did your kids like it?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that was definitely not their first viewing.

Oh,

okay.

Yeah, the kids, well, because he's kind of like a big kid, right?

And, you know, Peewee's logic is kid logic.

Absolutely.

What a great venue.

Oh, right.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, right, there's just not many opportunities to, you know, to see your favorite film on the big screen.

You know, speaking of, I saw Barry Lyndon, so Stanley Kubrick classic, Barry Lyndon, saw it on a little TV.

You know after film school, so this is like a film that I should definitely like get and appreciate and I did I was a little confused by the casting Ryan O'Neill I just didn't I thought it was a fail quite honestly, sorry Watching on a little screen, but then we had the opportunity Opportunity to see it on the big screen at the Oriental on 35 millimeter.

Oh, okay.

This is completely different.

I get it

I get everything.

Yeah, all that's really interesting.

I just saw so many more subtleties in his performance, the humor that I really had missed on a small screen.

Yeah, when you have the opportunity to go to the movies and, you know, whether it's a new film or a classic, it's just it's quite a different experience.

Absolutely.

My guest is Karen Mulroney.

She's here to make the popcorn pick of the week.

She is a Milwaukee based actor, filmmaker, writer, producer.

You really do kind of do it all.

I've seen your films.

I've seen you act.

I've you're just multi talented.

So I think you're a great guest here tonight to make this to make this pick.

What are your favorite snacks

here?

Well, you know, I'm pretty basic.

I mean, it becomes Pavlovian, right?

Like you go to the movies, you're like, oh, God, I don't want popcorn so bad.

You can eat a huge, like just a shocking amount of popcorn.

A bucket.

Yeah, but I like the nutritional yeast, not the butter.

So if they got nutritional yeast to me, that's a top tier.

Does

the

Oriental have that?

Oh, yeah, maybe.

They got a lot of toppings, but.

I go, the only problem with nutritional yeast, as you might know, is it doesn't really stick to the popcorn.

So, you know, you end up with a bunch at the bottom, but still it's just adds a complexity to the popcorn.

Not as salty.

And I think there's nutritional value.

I'm not sure.

But then my if I'm at home, this is embarrassing a little, but I like I like red wine, but I cut it with sparkling water because otherwise, you know, because you're watching a movie, you're a bit distracted.

Yeah.

So it's going down and it's going down too fast, you know, and then you're hammered through the movie.

I'm tired and then I don't make it till the end of the movie.

So add sparkling water.

Then mom, mom will make it to the end of the movie or else decaf coffee.

I am sounding like my, my grandmother, my dearly departed grandmother.

A little decaps, a little sweet.

Yeah.

Um, so what about, all right, so that's what you, your snack at home then obviously differs from your snack at the theater.

You can't have wine in a theater.

Well, some you can, I guess.

You can.

Yeah.

That's the thing now.

Can you do that at the Oriental too?

Girl, I think they have sorry to grow you my daughter They might even have THC seltzers.

I shouldn't I'm not sure but they have a variety They have a wide variety of cocktails in a can proper cocktails Back to a

city geez

That's pretty cool.

Well.

No, you just carry in

now.

We do that

My wife

and I

sneak in non-alcoholic beer.

That's at the point where that's the point we're at in our life right now.

That's how we like to party.

Um, little, little blue moon, non-alcoholic in the theater.

Um, so, all right.

So what about, uh,

did you say, sorry, did you say non-alcoholic?

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Are you in a, uh, yeah,

just for,

oh, I'm sorry.

That's a personal question.

I shouldn't ask you that on the radio.

I

don't know how much I make a year or two.

Is that what you're

getting?

No, good for you.

I'll say that we're all, no amount of alcohol is safe.

That's what they're saying.

So I take it, but it's with a bit of guilt because I might be shortening my life.

Listen,

I'm not happy about the fact that I don't drink anymore, okay?

Oh, good.

It was court

ordered.

And no, I'm kidding.

I just, I just kind of stopped for a while and I liked it.

But yeah, look at, I still look at a martini or an old fashioned every once in a while and go, oh man,

I would

kill for that right now.

But it's

just.

So you don't break.

No, not really.

I had a shot

of

Miller light at my uncle Joe's funeral a few years ago because he loved Miller light.

We all did that.

And then I tasted my son ordered an old fashioned.

And he did something different.

I can't remember.

I said, hey, let me have a taste of that.

And I just tasted it because I was curious.

But yeah, I could put him back with the best of him back in the day.

Yeah.

OK.

But it's health.

Well, right.

So health-wise, it's a concern.

Do you sleep better

without it?

Much.

Oh my

gosh.

Yeah, I know.

I'm

gonna sleep.

I'm we're gonna do a very short break here and I'm gonna get a two minute nap.

That's how well I sleep.

I

am.

It's

perfect.

All right.

Get it.

We're gonna do a very quick break.

Caramon Rooney is here when we come back.

She's gonna give us her popcorn pick of the week.

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

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Night Lights.

So great to have you with me on this Thursday night, this chilly fall night here in downtown Green Bay.

I hope it's sunny in 75 wherever you are though.

And it is great to have you here.

Join the fun.

Text us your favorite word or least favorite word.

It's National Dictionary Day.

This is funny.

And these corporate words drive you crazy too, I'm sure.

Monica from the 608 says, managers at my work use functionality too much, usually referring to some piece of crap system that's not functioning.

And opportunity, as in, I have an opportunity for you.

That's annoying, would do.

When translated, it just means you're...

You're shoving more work on me, but we're not paying you more.

Just say what you mean.

Agreed.

And TJ from Oshkosh says, NA Blue Moon is my favorite NA beer right now.

So good.

You are right, TJ.

And I was just telling Kara that.

And they're out of it.

Like last weekend, they were out of it.

at all three places in Marinette, I can get it.

So I had to switch to Sam Adams.

And Sam Adams is pretty good too.

Like my friend who's a brewmaster at Flix in Madison, Dave Hansen said they've nailed non-alcoholic beer.

Like it tastes good.

But I care more like a whiskey guy.

That's always been my drink.

I never drank regular beer.

It just wasn't for me.

But the non-alcoholic whiskey is not quite there

yet.

Yeah, I can imagine.

I'm impressed by your restraint.

Well, especially because I imagine you're in environments where there's drinking.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess that's where having the NA option comes in.

When I was pregnant, I would always have something that resembled a cocktail.

Oh,

yeah.

So you'd be

sprinkling water with some cranberry.

It is helpful.

Yeah, absolutely.

When I go to a supper club now, I just get like club soda with lemon.

Room temp and a cocktail glass I can rock that that's not too bad.

No, I'm just curious why a room temp?

I don't know I don't know

it's

not I understand that logic, but it's not that it's just I want to I don't know It's it's very unsettling to drink something too cold

Oh, maybe.

You aren't getting older, aren't you?

I'm settling.

I'm unsettled by a cold beverage.

I just need to play that back for you.

Yeah, I clipped that for me.

And hey, we've got a fun clip you sent us.

We're going to play in a little bit too.

But let's get to your pick.

So this is Caramel Rooney.

Milwaukee actress filmmaker is here to make the popcorn pick of the week.

I want to ask you one more question before I ask you what your pick is.

What do you do in theaters when people get loud?

You're kind of a Brassy Irish I wouldn't mess with you type.

Would you say something or what do you do?

Well, I'm probably like most people where I start start with a look I mean it depends where you are like, you know You know if you're in a theater where there's a lot of you know when in Rome, yeah

I would start talking as well, but, you know, it just becomes a part of the experience.

Now, if someone's on a phone that is infuriating and I would go back to my hall director days and I confront sounds aggressive, but I would, I would approach.

Yeah.

I would approach.

Do you want to hear something?

You just reminded me when you said that when I was at my daughter's play, children's theaters about, I don't know, eight, nine years ago, some guy sitting right in the middle.

His phone went off and it was a duck quack.

And it kept, he couldn't find the damn phone.

I was about ready to go over there and get him in a headlock.

And then this moron answers the phone and he's taken the call.

Yeah.

Yeah, I should be there in about 20 minutes.

Yeah, yeah.

Like, what is the matter with you?

Oh, I swear to God, I like look for him after and he took off.

He wasn't there.

I missed him, but I was going to say, you know,

These kids have been working for months and you're talking about, oh

my

gosh, he seriously needed a beating.

And

everyone would have been with you.

Like

no

matter what you said or did, like the whole theater would have been with you.

You could have led them up.

We all

ganged up on them.

All right.

Kara Mulroney.

So great to have you here.

I think it's time.

Conrad Adromo, please, if you would, for Kara Mulroney's popcorn pick of the week.

Go

for it.

My popcorn pick of the week is your favorite childhood movie.

So for me, it's Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

So I'm sorry if I'm bucky.

So you can say officially it's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, but I guess what I would say is go back to your, a movie that you watched on repeat as a child.

you know for for comfort but then maybe also from like an investigative point of view like look at like oh my god is that why i like the color red or like is that why i got a german shepherd or you know just like why was that why i married this woman like you know the crush on my this actress that as a child like to what degree did this movie that you watched on repeat form you

So, so that's

my pick, but

I don't mean to like fuck, you know, or like not refuse the assignment.

No, you

did.

You did a little spoiler alert with Peewee, but that's a great choice.

And that's totally fine.

I didn't really go over the ground rules with you beforehand, which I typically do, but that is totally fine.

And I love the angle.

And you talk about like, I had such a crush on Adrian Barbeau when I was younger.

And to the point where...

Remind me, wait, who is that?

I'm sorry.

Adrienne Barbo.

You just have to Google it.

She was in a ton of 70s and 80s movies.

Beautiful.

Wait,

what's one of them?

What's one of

them?

If you saw her, you would know who she was.

But I actually, I liked her so much.

I thought when I was in my mid-20s, you know, maybe I got a shot.

Her career is pretty much her best... Her best work is

me.

Did you ever shoot your shot?

Did you have the opportunity?

I did not.

And I, you know, I fell in love with someone else and it just worked out.

Does she look like Adrienne Barbone?

No, she looks like same hair color.