Coaches, Cinemas, and Cinematic Surprises (Hour 2)

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Coaches, Cinemas, and Cinematic Surprises (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Wed Jan 14, 2026

Pete Schwabba

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.

Hey, hey, welcome to Night Light everybody.

Happy Wednesday.

You are halfway through the work week, my friends, and the weekend is upon us, and there is going to be so much to do, but we've got so much to talk about tonight on Night Light, because first and foremost, I would like to introduce the lovely and talented Dom Lee, who is in for Conrad tonight.

Conrad is under the weather.

He is ill, as they say, in certain circles, and he is taking a well-deserved sick day.

Dom, his temperature was 112 last night, so we just thought it would be best.

112.

Yeah, to send him packing.

I'm sure he's doing fine tonight.

Dom Lee

How are you, sir?

I'm not doing too bad, you know?

I love being on this show.

I love being on Nightlight, you know?

I'm on other shows on the Civic Media Network, but this show always gets me going.

And you want to know why?

It's because of you, Pete.

So thank you.

Thank you for being here.

I've made you blush tonight, so.

Pete Schwabba

Listen, buddy, that's uh, it is great to have you we've worked together several times now and it's always fun and you you have made the rounds of the civic media shows you you hosted or Produced John and Gordy.

Mm-hmm.

And what are you doing now?

What are your daily duties now

Dom Lee

now?

My daily duties that kind of go back and forth with another producer Parker Olson who is on mornings with Pat quite low Yeah, we kind of switched back and forth now doing civic media mornings in in the mornings And it's been it's

Pete Schwabba

been

Hold on.

Civic media mornings, airs in the mornings.

Who would have thought, you know?

I find that strange.

So you got Greg Bach, the awesome Greg Bach.

That's cool.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

So you're looking good, buddy.

Are you staying healthy?

Because I would hate to have you go down halfway through the show and then have to bring in Parker or another producer, because that would be

Dom Lee

tough.

Yeah, I'm doing pretty good.

I have, I had a couple New Year's resolutions that I did.

I'm trying, I'm starting to work out more.

You know, eat more, eat healthy.

You know, after work, I'm not going to fast food.

Culver's has me in a chokehold right now.

So I would say eating healthier, making my own meals.

But overall, Pete, I'm doing pretty good.

I'm doing pretty good.

I'm glad to hear that.

What do

Pete Schwabba

you make at home?

Like, what meals are you making when you make dinner at

Dom Lee

home?

Well, recently, I just made steak, all right, with mashed potatoes.

I make...

Let's see, some spaghetti, some homemade lasagna, so very Italian sort of meals, maybe beside the steak, but I make a lot of good, hearty meals to really build my fat.

You

Pete Schwabba

are an all-American.

Kid.

And I say kid, when I say kid, I mean adult.

But that's fantastic.

And you are Italian, correct?

Like you're, you're like of that famous Chicago Italian breed where you make spaghetti, you make your own pasta, you probably have your own pasta maker at home, I would have met.

Dom Lee

I do.

Yes.

Yes.

And people, people have called me the Italian stallion, which I don't know how much I like that.

But, um, you know, I'll take, I'll take what I can get, you know, you could do a

Pete Schwabba

lot worse.

Listen.

If it makes you feel better, I'll call you the Italian medallion.

There we go.

You like that?

I love that.

Listen, I want to make you comfortable.

Dom Lee

Yes, yes, please.

I love that nickname.

Pete Schwabba

We'll get through this, buddy.

And I'm glad you're... Have you stayed healthy this winter for the most part?

Are you keeping illness at the door?

Dom Lee

Yeah, I haven't gotten sick, not gone wood.

I haven't gotten sick in a year, a little over a year.

Now, I haven't gone to the doctors in a while, but I think so far from what my parents say, I'm pretty healthy, you know?

No issues.

Pete Schwabba

That's good.

Well, good for you.

Well, I'm happy to have you.

It's great to work with you once again.

And Conrad, if you're listening, and I seriously doubt you are, get well soon and take care of yourself, buddy.

But we'll hold down the fort here while you're gone.

We've got new sports and weather coming up in just 20 minutes, folks.

Civic Media's news team will keep you posted as we always do.

That is coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Great show tonight.

We've got really fun guests.

Joining me at 535 tonight will be Marv Wall.

Marv is the executive director of the Malva Center here in Green Bay, a great museum.

We've talked about it before on the show.

They have outstanding exhibits, a great space, and Marv is going to join us at 535 to tell us what's going on.

And I feel bad for saying this.

I still have not been to the Malva Center, and I think they show great movies.

They have great exhibits.

It's just a dynamite facility.

So one of these days I will make it over there But Marv will tell us what is happening and Dom, you know, he Marv has kind of a name like you kind of an old-school name Marv Dom you guys look like you should you sound like you should be hanging out together at a social club and

I don't know.

Those are great names,

Dom Lee

Dom and Marv.

I love Marv.

I think, you know, I probably have a third uncle named Marv somewhere down the line, but I really, I like that name.

You know, I feel like I can be good friends with them, right?

Maybe during the show, I get a drink after the show with them.

Who knows,

Pete Schwabba

you know?

See what you do during the breaks.

you know, kind of cozy up.

Maybe before you know it, you guys will be palling around Marvin Dom.

It's a great name.

I'm excited to have Marvin on the show for the first time.

Then in hour number two at 635, the awesome Jim Healy will be here.

Jim Healy is one of the programmers of the Wisconsin Film Festival and UW Cinematheque there in Madison.

Dom, have you been to UW Cinematheque?

I have

Dom Lee

never.

I'm going to be ready just as much as you are.

I have

Pete Schwabba

no clue what that is.

No.

It is, well, I've been there.

I've hosted Q and A's there and I've seen movies there and it's the phenomenal facility right there at Vilas Hall in Madison on University.

It's a free program and they, you know, screen great films, classics, some new movies.

They have great Q and A's there and it is open to the public.

So if you're a movie, if you're a movie buff, definitely check out Cinematech and Jim will be here.

He's one of the programmers.

He also programs or is one of the programmers.

Of the uh, wisconsin film festival, so we'll talk to jim and see what we can expect maybe at this year's festival Which is just around the corner.

Believe it or not and we will talk movies jim one year on facebook uh mentioned that he had watched 735 movies In one year and i found that amazing and that is pretty typical for him.

So he's a big-time cinephile and we will uh We'll have a great discussion about movies with jim healy at 635 and then at 720

Patty Vasquez ladies and gentlemen brings the funny you've probably seen Patty if you've seen her it's probably been at a Wisconsin comedy club She is a longtime stand-up comic now.

She's a radio host as well She's had a remarkable career and she's very funny.

She's gonna be working memories ballroom in Port Washington So we'll talk to Patty about her upcoming date here in Wisconsin She is a lot of fun and we're from the same hood more or less in Chicago So I'm excited to connect with my old pal Patty that will be a lot of fun

Dom if I had to tell you Who the most who the highest grossing actor was in the history of Hollywood Would you have a guess would you even know where to start?

Dom Lee

I might have one guess maybe By

Pete Schwabba

the way

Dom Lee

Tom Hanks Probably way off.

Pete Schwabba

Oh, that's a great guess.

Well, I mean it's listen if someone had asked me that question I probably would have said Tom Hanks Tom Cruise Harrison Ford, you know

Maybe Scarlett Johansson it was Scarlett Johansson, but she has been dethroned Zoe Saldana Wow is the highest grossing movie actor of all time She has made her films I should say have made and they're going by film grosses 15 billion dollars She was in all three of the avatars

She was in three Star Trek's two Avengers movies one of the Pirates of the Caribbean and she's probably gonna stay in the top slot for quite a while because there are at least two more Avatar films in the pipeline so Zoe's sell down 15

Dom Lee

billion that's starting to add up that start now now that makes sense That's I mean a bunch of Star Trek movies.

Yeah, there's I mean there's a lot of high-end movies there.

It makes sense

Pete Schwabba

I will say, I don't think those movies made that money because of Zoe Saldana, but it is a testament to her talent.

She is an Oscar winner and she is an unbelievably talented actor.

But I don't think she carries like the star power, even of a Scarlett Johansson who was number one before her or a Tom Hanks, but that could change.

I mean, she's a big shot and that was kind of cool to read that.

We've got a lot to get to too.

We've got...

You know what, Tom?

Let's not waste any more time.

I'm sick of screwing around here.

We're 10 minutes in.

I think it's time we get to the night like question of the night.

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Pete Schwabba

Domanda.

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You ready for this, Tom?

All right.

You're nodding.

It's radio, buddy.

You got to say yes.

Let's hear it.

Who is your favorite coach?

Who is your favorite coach?

It could be college.

It could be pro.

It could be fictional.

And I got the inspiration of this question because I think the movie Coach Carter dropped today and I started thinking.

And yesterday we were talking about all the coaching vacancies in the NFL.

A lot of coaches have been fired.

A lot of good coaches have been fired or walked away.

Mike Tomlin.

John Harbaugh, Mike McDonald.

You could argue whether or not Mike McDonald is a good coach.

He didn't have a great record, but he was kind of a hotshot when he took that gig in Miami.

And who was the other one?

Someone, oh, Brian Stefanski, a two-time coach of the year, but he's been stuck in Cleveland.

They let him go.

So there you go.

It's coaches are everywhere.

So let us know who is your favorite coach, folks.

That is tonight's question of the night.

You can let me know at 855-752-4842-855-75CIVIC.

If you are listening on the app, you can send us a text over the app.

It's very easy to use the Civic Media app, and we are on statewide, so just click the little icon next to the station you're listening in or on and send us who your favorite coach is.

If you're watching the radio on the stream, drop us a stream comment and give us a like or a follow while you're there at Facebook or YouTube or

wherever you happen to be joining us from.

So, do you have an answer to this, Dom?

I want to say my favorite coach.

I have two.

And they're both, actually, I'm going to say three.

Wow.

And I know you and I are both Bear fans.

Dom Lee

Mm-hmm.

I have one.

Yeah, I have one.

I think I know what you're going to say.

I'm going to

Pete Schwabba

jump ship here, Dom.

You might not be happy with this.

Vince Lombardi.

And I love George Hallis.

I love Lovey Smith.

I think it looks like Ben Johnson's working out.

But I'm going to say...

This one party's not my favorite all time, but you could argue he is the greatest coach of all time.

My two favorites are in the world of hoops, and they are Greg Popovich and Phil Jackson.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

Dom Lee

Yep.

Phil Jackson was great.

Pete Schwabba

Great.

I mean, 10 titles, sticks with the bulls, four with the Lakers.

You can't argue with that.

And then Pop, who I think is a free thinker.

I love the way he thinks.

I love how he's kind of like Phil Jackson, even though I don't think they really liked each other.

They kind of had this rivalry.

And Phil Jackson said at one point, Greg Popovich has to have an asterisk next to one of his titles because I think it was during his strike year or something like that.

But they are both fantastic coaches.

And then in football, I would say it's hard to argue, and I'm basing this on what I've heard other people say over the years about Vince Lombardi.

So I got to put Vince Lombardi up there too.

What about you, Dom?

Dom Lee

I would say, again, I wasn't born when...

This coach was a coach, but I would say Mike Dicca.

I would say Mike Dicca is probably one of the one of the better one of the best coach This is super biased, but I do I do

Pete Schwabba

really

Dom Lee

like Mike Dicca I like Ben Johnson right now as well, but Vince Lombardi was a great choice I really respect that and also Greg Popovich, you know, he perfected the art of passing so I like all of these these coaches, yeah

Pete Schwabba

I'm a big fan.

I like Popovich.

I like that he speaks his mind.

I know sometimes people think sports people or coaches should stay in their lane.

I disagree.

I think if you, if you, you have, you're entitled to an opinion like anybody else and Popovich is great.

I liked Ditka.

I thought he was a great motivator for that one year and 85.

I remember it.

He was great, but I don't know that he's a great exes and O's.

He's a great coach.

I don't know.

I just don't know if I'd put him in that upper echelon, but

But definitely Phil Jackson, Greg Popovich for me, and Vincent Bardi.

And don't tell any of my bare friends.

So let us know who your favorite coach is.

Is it the, are we going to break already?

Dom Lee

I don't know if I

Pete Schwabba

agree with that.

We are coming right back, folks.

And when we do, I'm going to tell you about what is the most dangerous sport.

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

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Great to have you with me, folks, on this Wednesday night.

Conrad is under the weather, folks.

He's got the pig flu, but I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow.

I hope not.

If it's the pig flu, I want him to take a week.

You know what I mean, Tom?

I was teasing him for having scurvy, but he just had the scratchy throat, and I looked it up myself.

I self-diagnosed, and I told him to take a night off.

Is that strange for a boss to...

to do like a little brief inspection.

Dom (co-host)

Not at all.

And in fact, it's very nice of you.

You know, I appreciate that.

And I'm sure Conrad does too.

He's going to be he's going to be lively tomorrow.

Tomorrow, let me tell you, he's going to be up.

Pete Schwab (host)

Save him some money.

Yeah, I don't know if he reaches deductible or not.

I'm just trying to help a brother out, you know.

Hey, new sports and weather folks is coming up in just seven minutes.

So sit tight for that.

This is a fun night here at Nightlight tonight.

My guests are Marv Wall from the.

Malva Center in Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay Jim Healy from Madison Cinematheque UW Cinematheque is here to talk movies in the second hour and some funny Patty Vasquez joins me in hour number three at 7 20 our question of the night is who is your favorite coach a Very important question that needs to be asked.

I do want to say Dom I do this once in a while people text me at the last minute when we're about to go off the air and I miss it And I don't like to miss texts from listeners.

So last night

Right at the end of the show our question was who is your current movie or TV crush and Bridget from the 818 said officer Dante on Chicago PD Benjamin Let Levi Aguilar, I think she's saying the actor's name is do you know that actor Dom?

I don't I'm gonna have to Benjamin

Dom (co-host)

Levy Aguilar

I gotta look that up.

You gotta go to the Google.

Yeah,

Pete Schwab (host)

I gotta go to Google.

Now, I met your girlfriend.

You brought your girlfriend with you to the screening of The Godfather of Green Bay in December.

Very nice girl.

You're dating up, as they say, so good for you.

But do you have a celebrity TV or movie crushed on?

Dom (co-host)

Oh, man.

I think I... Robbie, who's...

from Wolf of Wall Street, what's her name?

See, this is why, you know- Margot Robbie.

Margot Robbie, there we go, yes.

Pete Schwab (host)

You started with Rob, and I was like, wait a minute, you have a girlfriend, but that's okay, it could be a man crush.

I

Dom (co-host)

hope she's not listening.

Margot Robbie, yeah.

He's

Pete Schwab (host)

a great one,

Dom (co-host)

yeah.

Pete Schwab (host)

Now, would your girlfriend be upset if she heard you say you had a harmless crush on Margot

Dom (co-host)

Robbie?

She wouldn't, but I wouldn't tell her.

I wouldn't, I'm not gonna tell her that I do have a secret.

Crush on Margot Robbie.

It's just not something that I think she would enjoy.

She wouldn't outwardly say it, but, you know, she'll give me a cold shoulder every now and then, so.

Okay.

Well, why rock the boat?

Pete Schwab (host)

You want a blissful home life.

So before the break, I talked about this.

I found this, I thought this was great.

This was from a wise brother media.

Dangerous sports that you wouldn't necessarily think are dangerous.

Number one, water polo.

Wow, and here's what Under the description it says one person says I'm a pretty strong guy But nothing prepared me for the brutality of what goes on above and especially below the surface It's straight up mauling a water-based combat sport another says they still have scarves from people's finger and toenails and another compared it to competitive drowning

That

Dom (co-host)

is nuts.

I mean, yeah, you have to tread water for, I think, pretty much the whole time.

I mean, I can't.

Being goalie is even difficult, you know what I mean?

Because you're staying in one spot.

Pete Schwab (host)

Absolutely.

I just treading water would be exhausting for that length of time.

And I knew there was like jockeying and it got a little physical.

I had no idea to this degree, though.

Another one, and this surprised me, darts.

It's not just the risk of you getting hit in the back.

It's alcoholism.

One dark player said, major incidents of surprises of the liver.

And it's not a joke.

You compete in the pubs, you drink, it calms your nerves and you drink more.

Another said, how many sports are there where you can actually drink and smoke when it's not your turn?

I used to do a joke in my stand-up act, the golf.

If you could wear a cardigan and smoke and drink between turns, not really a sport.

It's a skill, definitely.

But they put darts in that category as well.

Number three, sumo wrestling, and I get that 100%.

One person says it's the only sport I watch, and injuries are extremely common, especially for the knees.

That's weird, because the water polo and the darts were a bit of a surprise.

Nothing with wrestling in the title would surprise me that it's a dangerous sport.

I'm sure the injuries are crazy.

Here's one, Dom, for you.

Cheerleading.

Dom (co-host)

I could see that.

I could see that.

I can definitely see that.

Yep.

Yep, you know, you're 20 feet or 10 feet off the ground.

If not more.

Yeah, there's bound to be some injuries to be had there.

Yep.

Pete Schwab (host)

And I know God, like I remember I was friends with some of the a couple of the dudes that were cheerleaders and they said it's really stressful.

Like you're launching a girl in the air and you

Sometimes they met now the fall is typically broken a little bit.

They don't just outright miss them, but that would be terrifying And the other one that I think a tug of war is on this list which I found strange But it says if you look at the Wikipedia page it lists death and dismemberment In its accidents people aren't understanding physics and use a rope not rated for the tension the rope snaps and with the force of a combined pull snaps back and can kill people on impact

And here I was about to start a tug of war club here in Marinette, Wisconsin.

I do think like gymnastics, like I see what these girls and these guys do when they're, and here's what makes me what I don't get.

How do you practice that?

Like these people are doing triple flips.

And how do you even practice that?

I know you get spotted when you do one, but it is insanity to me.

And what they can do is such a skill.

It's really impressive, but I can see where it would be dangerous as well.

Dom (co-host)

I know my sister did that a lot too.

She was heavy into gymnastics and there's a lot of just trial and error.

You know, keep falling and getting back up.

That's pretty much it.

Pete Schwab (host)

It's even worse if you're heavy in gymnastics, Dom.

I'm not saying your sister was, I'm just saying it's harder to do some of the stunts.

Daniel Wheeler on the stream says my favorite coach is Tom Burvin.

He was my high school tennis coach.

That's pro.

We should have opened it up there too.

Yeah.

Folks, if you've had a coach that's your favorite too, feel free to share that as well.

Stacy Sue on the stream says Mike Holmgren.

I thought we might hear about Mike might make that list too.

All right.

New sports and weather is next.

We're coming back with Marv Wallets, Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwabba

Welcome

back.

I'm Pete Schwabba.

This is Nightlight.

It is great to have you here on this Wednesday night, folks.

We are broadcasting live from beautiful downtown Green Bay and being produced from Madison tonight.

Dom Lee is sitting in for Conrad, who is... He's got the bird flu.

No, it's Scurvy.

I don't know.

He's got the mumps.

I don't know.

Conrad is under the weather.

I got to ask you... I got to ask real quick.

Sorry.

What is Scurvy?

Scurvy's like that when you lack vitamin C a lot of guys that used to sail used to get it back when I was in the Merchant Marines a lot of the guys were good I was kidding though.

My love when you don't know like for all you know I was on ships with guys that had scurvy.

Now this is years ago and they lacked vitamin C so they would get like these gum diseases and It was you know kind of a serious thing.

It was that and Ricketts that was the other big illness where you I think your bones just deteriorate but

You know, even though I gave Conrad the once over and I examined him last night, I am not a doctor and I am not qualified to answer these questions.

However, there is a guy about to join the show who is much smarter than me and we will ask him all kinds of questions about really cool stuff you might see at the Mulva Cultural Center.

He is the executive director there right there in Green Bay, a beautiful, really cool facility that we have in downtown Green Bay.

Mr. Marv Wall joins me tonight.

Hi, Marv.

Hi, how are you doing tonight?

Good.

How are you?

Marv Wall

Really good.

Maybe a thoughtful reference.

Maybe it's Lupus.

Pete Schwabba

Lupus is another great... Hey, any guest who comes on the show, Marv, and opens with a Seinfeld joke is tops in my book.

So I'm even more glad you're here now.

Great reference.

Do you have a favorite coach, Marv?

Favorite coach?

Wow.

That's our question of the night.

Marv Wall

My Packers roots will probably get me to Lambeau and Lombardi.

We actually had an exhibit here for that the Packers loaned us when the draft was in town and it had the history of the Packers from 1919 on and what Cruelly Lambeau did with his relationships with the Presquizette and such.

You got to give him kudos for starting the best franchise in the NFL.

Pete Schwabba

That's that's pretty hard to argue with that and I we've talked about this and I actually said Vince Lombardi as well I was spent the first part of my childhood in Chicago I am a Bears fan, but the two things I will say it's tough to argue with Vince Lombardi is possibly the greatest coach ever in the Packer Museum the Packer Hall of Fame I should say really outstanding exhibit there at Lambeau Field

Marv Wall

Yeah, I agree and they just took what they had in storage and created an exhibit for us and it was amazing

Pete Schwabba

That's excellent.

So all right, so we've talked a little bit about the Malva before here on the show But you know, this is the first time you've been on so give us a little background Marv What's your what's your story?

Marv Wall

Well, the mobile center was started two years ago.

I was actually on board for the construction.

So I've been here for four and a half years now.

So we were two and a half years under construction.

And then we opened in December of 23.

So we've just been open for two years.

So we've only had three large exhibits per year.

So that's six large exhibits.

And then all the other things that we have going on here too.

So we're a fairly young organization.

And we just made a big change this last year in our pricing model where previously we had charged for our large exhibits and films, and now we're offering those for free for our large exhibits plus most films.

There's some that we have to charge for because of the way they're contracted, but it was a big change in December, which has been a huge change for us.

Pete Schwabba

You talked about how long you've been there.

Where were you before you were at the Malva Center?

Marv Wall

I started my career as a CPA actually for 13 years, local firm called Wifly, and then worked at an engineering company for the next 23 years.

So most of my career was working with accountants and engineers.

So working at a cultural center is a bit foreign to me, but exercising the other side of my brain has been a lot of fun.

Pete Schwabba

It sounds great.

I always thought like working at a museum or a theater would be pretty chill and kind of a fun gig, you know kind of laid back, but So all right, Marv, let's talk about some of the things you guys have coming up here Do you get what is what do you guys offer?

Let's say that other museums might not like what what makes the Malva Center Cultural Center stand out more as opposed not that it's a competition.

I know you guys all work together, but what's different about it?

Marv Wall

It's a different type of model.

Most museums have a static offering.

We were just at the Reagan Museum last October, and obviously it's geared toward Ronald Reagan, and they have a lot of things very specific to him.

And so there's children's museums.

Other types of museums typically have a fairly static or doesn't change a lot offering because that's what they want to show.

Procure where our content changes constantly we typically have three large exhibits a year so our Our offering is ever-changing so we don't want to be the place where you just come one time and say oh check the box I've been there.

I don't need to go back again for another five to ten years We want to bring you back again and again with our various varied offerings and you know

have it be the place where if I'm looking for something to do, Mobile Cultural Center comes to the top of mine.

Pete Schwabba

That's a great answer.

Are you referring to the Reagan Library in CME Valley, California?

Marv Wall

Yep.

When we get to our exhibits, we co-curated an exhibit with them, and it's showing there now.

It'll be coming here next summer.

Pete Schwabba

That is an absolutely spectacular.

I've been there and it's an incredible spot I mean, I think and I if I remember correctly Reagan is buried there and it overlooks like this gorgeous I mean, it's like on the side of a mountain sort of and it was like the only thing bad about that is that he can't enjoy the view because it's Unbelievable and the stuff they have there is really cool.

So that's a great

Marv Wall

place for me.

They do a great job.

They're really good people there.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah

Okay, so what do we have?

Marv Wall is my guest, folks.

He is the executive director of the Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay, just an absolute gem right there in Tidal Town.

What do you have coming up?

Let's talk about some of your exhibits.

You want to start with films, because I love what you guys offer in the way of films, or we could just go with exhibits that are upcoming.

Where would you like to start?

Marv Wall

How about we start with exhibits?

That's our next biggest thing.

That's kind of our main focus, I should say.

We have a 10,000 square foot exhibit hall on our second floor.

We just moved out life in space a couple weeks ago and we're moving in the real Genghis Khan right now.

So that's our next big exhibit.

Genghis Khan was kind of a, people either loved him or hate him.

His father was actually killed when he was nine years old, and his family then was outcast by the tribe that he was in.

So he had to create some alliances, gather some other people to help fight with him, sort of unifying different tribes, and kept doing that until he had the largest contiguous empire in the world, and that still stands today.

pretty much as a self-made person.

And again, a lot of things we talk about today are because of him.

He actually promoted trade and religious freedom.

And that's one of the ways he unified his empire.

He kept everybody together that they weren't still trying to fight and get away from his empire.

They wanted to be part of it.

Part of it was because they were afraid of him too, because he kept trying to.

Increase the size of his empire and was pretty ruthless in doing that So it's a lot of a lot of history that About Genghis Khan and how he came to power and what he was able to do I

Pete Schwabba

Remember watching I think it was the discovery channel.

They talked about Genghis Khan and they talked to These guys in San Francisco and they all thought they were probably descendants of Genghis Khan like he

is supposedly responsible for millions of people being alive.

Like he did a lot of stuff, not just intimidating, but

Marv Wall

prolific if you might want to use that

Pete Schwabba

word.

That's a great word for it.

He was, or to quote another Seinfeld, he was a master of his domain.

Anyway, there's great, it says you have the largest collection of Genghis Khan era artifacts ever to tour the world.

I love that that is just coming right to Green Bay.

and also you'll have a live Mongolian musical performances and a chance to speak with the artist.

Is that part of Malva's sort of modus operandi too, is that it's more interactive like that?

Exactly.

Marv Wall

Each exhibit has its own uniqueness.

And this is our first one where we'll have live performers in it.

So there's always something different or something new that is with each exhibit.

Dinosaurs are dinosaurs.

We had a lot of animatronic dinosaurs.

The Lego exhibit had...

things that you could do and kind of lose yourself and Legos for an afternoon if you want.

This one has a lot of history, but then it has live performers that will be in our exhibit hall every day for performances.

There'll be singing, there'll be calligraphy, in period clothing, so it'll be a neat exhibition.

Pete Schwabba

You have one coming up too, it's a ways off it.

Rolls in in June the Cowboys history and Hollywood.

I spent years in Southern California.

I'm a writer and I am fascinated by Will Rogers.

We've been to that museum before So that exhibit really jumped out at me.

It looks like it's just a lot of fun.

What can you tell us about Cowboys history and Hollywood?

Speaking of Ronald

Marv Wall

Reagan, right?

That's another first for us.

We we co-developed that with the Reagan Museum.

So that one is

Premiered in October at the Reagan Museum, it'll be going through April of this year.

And then they'll pack it up and ship it to us.

So it'll be running here June 10th to 12th.

We'll have a member only preview.

And then June 13th, it's open through September 7th.

Very neat exhibit.

I got to meet a lot of the people that put the exhibit together.

And they're very passionate about the

They have really great connections out there with different museums with the Ronald Reagan portion of it.

They really didn't emphasize in their exhibit, but when it comes here, they're going to send us an extra section just for the connection with Ronald Reagan in Hollywood.

So it'll be one of the few exhibits that we get that are brand new, that will be the second time being shown.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, that's really exciting and then you've got right now if people want to catch it a tactile images Exhibit art or seven art movements is that that's here through February 11th couple a few more weeks if people want to check it out

Marv Wall

Right.

That's we we have two exhibit spaces one is our large 10,000 square foot hall upstairs, which we have the large exhibits

The Packer exhibit that I talked about previously and now tactile images is down in our atrium.

So that's a smaller space.

Those have always been free for people just to come in and view and they're just in the open space in our.

exhibit hall it's museum quality so there's no outside light external light sources and things like that that you need to have for museum quality whereas the things in the atrium typically are different different level so the tactile images will be here through February 11th and then we'll change that over to where children sleep from February 18th to April 15th and that is about how

Everybody is different.

People live differently.

And it kind of focuses on the children and how they go about their lives.

So it's about different people and kind of focuses on the children.

Pete Schwabba

That's great.

We're going to do a very short break.

We'll come back and have a few more minutes with Marv.

He's going to tell us what films we can see at the Malva.

New sports and weather coming up in 10 minutes.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Welcome

Pete Schwab (host)

back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Night Light.

Great to have you with me.

News is on the way, folks, just about eight minutes away.

Our question of the night here at Night Light tonight is, who is your favorite coach?

And it could be a fictional character, like coach on Cheers or...

Craig T. Nelson or Denzel Washington, or remember the Titans.

If you had a high school coach, any coach, all options are on the table.

My guest right now is the director of the Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay, Mr. Marv Wall.

Marv, have I told you how cool your name is?

I love the name Marv.

Marv Wall (interviewee)

No, you haven't.

Do

Pete Schwab (host)

you get that?

It's an old school name.

I love it.

Marv Wall (interviewee)

It is old school.

Yeah, there's not many Marvs out there.

Pete Schwab (host)

No, it's very cool.

I was saying because the producer tonight is Dom.

I like Dom and Marv.

You guys sound like you should be hanging out at a social club like in the 1960s.

Marv will get a beer after this.

How about that?

You know?

Marv Wall (interviewee)

There

Pete Schwab (host)

we

Marv Wall (interviewee)

go.

We can talk about another great coach, Marv Levy.

Oh,

Pete Schwab (host)

there you go.

Boy, that was heartbreaking.

I've never felt for a guy, you know, it was, I think it was Dan Reeves and Marv Levy both lost four Super Bowls and they were great coaches.

they were um marv we have just a few more minutes here let's talk about some of the the films you guys have playing such great movies um and there's one that's just around the corner it's playing on the 18th uh which i believe is saturday mysteries of the great lakes i'm fascinated by the great lakes uh what can you tell us about this film

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Yeah, that's what I really like.

We have six different documentaries going and every quarter we dropped three off and add three new ones.

Mysteries of the Great Lakes has been a great one for us.

It actually has a lot of footage from here in Chano in Chiachton with the sturgeon spearing when that has not spearing the sturgeon spawning where they come up the river and it's you know, you can walk across the river because of all the sturgeon that are there.

So it's

it has a lot of local connections and that's really a lot of our more popular films have that local connection.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's great.

I've seen the sturgeon up here in Marinette when they it's unbelievable like these prehistoric fish and we saw a couple that were probably 10 feet long.

They're absolutely fascinating.

And I didn't realize that that's what that film features.

So that sounds like a really cool.

Now, if people wanted to see that, Mar, where would they go?

Do they just show up and pay or should they buy tickets ahead of time?

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Those are free.

But we do recommend that you register for tickets ahead of time because with our new model, we're...

We're very popular now.

So there's a lot of people that want to see the different films.

So on the website, you can register for the tickets there.

That one shows pretty much every day at a different time.

Our six different documentaries will rotate different times.

So if you go on our website and just register for the tickets, there will be no cost.

But we have 200 seats in our auditorium.

We just want to make sure that we're not oversold.

And then the

Pete Schwab (host)

thing is,

Marv Wall (interviewee)

the large exhibit, we do the same thing.

We only allow so many people per hour or half hour to go through the exhibit so that we can make it safe and a good experience for everyone.

Actually, for life in space over Christmas, we were typically booked from the minute we opened to the minute we closed with people that wanted to come in and see the exhibit.

Pete Schwab (host)

Is that

Marv Wall (interviewee)

one done?

Yeah, is life in space gone now?

Yeah, that left on January 5th.

So we're about a week, a couple weeks away from Genghis Khan, so that'll be our next

Pete Schwab (host)

large exhibit.

And I'm just sitting here thinking how much fun I would have, but are the films all family friendly as well?

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Yes, and most of them you can't, you know, in the world now of streaming movies, you can pretty much stream anything you want, but the documentaries that we get aren't available on streaming services.

They're typically 40 minutes long, so we see a lot of, you know, families come in where you don't want to sit down for a two and a half hour movie, but for 40 minutes you can keep a youngster interested.

that are very popular.

So we actually do have a space documentary yet, the space, the new frontier is one of our documentaries.

And then there's another one, Lewis and Clark, The Great Journey West, very popular too.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's the other one I was just going to ask you about in the space.

Like, is the cinematography on that, like from the Hubble telescope, or do you show like the Eagle Nebula and that kind of stuff?

What is that?

Because everyone is fascinated by space.

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Right.

It actually shows very well on our screen.

Our Samsung Onyx screen is an LED screen, so it's

Pete Schwab (host)

not like

Marv Wall (interviewee)

your projector screens in most other movie theaters.

The picture on it is extraordinary.

It's one of only three in the United States currently, so it's very high quality.

And when you're showing, like you say, the crab nebula and all these different things in space, the picture is really great.

Pete Schwab (host)

Before we let you go, Marv, and thank you again for your time.

Is there an exhibit you haven't had yet that you would love to get?

Marv Wall (interviewee)

Oh, boy.

Actually, I'd like to talk about our last exhibit for this next summer.

It's an exhibition about cancer, which you think, oh, who would want to go see that?

But it was created by M.D.

Anderson out of Texas, and it will be the second place that it shows for that one, too.

They're going to premiere it in Houston, then we get it second.

But it's from cause to cure.

So it's a hopeful and an educational exhibit about what's new and innovative in fighting cancer and some feel-good stories about good things that are happening in that arena.

That'll be half of our exhibit hall and then the other half will be a fine arts exhibit.

So it'll be a new thing for us that our first time, you know, with every thing of cultural center, you need to have fine art there.

It'll be our first exhibit that we, you know, we truly have some fine art here coming in next fall.

Pete Schwab (host)

outstanding.

Truly a trea in Green Bay, the Malva C thank you so much.

Check it out for your time tonight.

Marv, let's do it again some time.

Have a great night.

We're coming right back after

Lots to discuss.

We're going to tell you about some records that were set in Wisconsin, and Jim Healey will be here to talk movies at 6.35.

It's all in Act 2, Peach Waba, Nightlight, Civic Nadia Radio Network.

Peach Wabba (host)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Peach Wabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who once tore his ACL playing chess, Peach Wabba.

Hey, welcome back to Night

Light, folks.

It is time for Act 2 here on a Wednesday night.

In the beautiful state of Wisconsin, it is great to have you with me tonight.

Wherever you're joining us from, welcome.

Lots of fun here tonight.

If you missed the first hour of the show, we talked to Marv Wall, a guy with a really cool name.

Don, would you agree?

Dom Lee (co-host)

I would.

Like I said, I got to get a beer with him.

He agreed, too.

So, you know, this is a

Peach Wabba (host)

win-win.

Yeah, now you're, now it's awkward.

Now you gotta, who's

Dom Lee (co-host)

gonna

Peach Wabba (host)

take that first step,

Dom Lee (co-host)

right?

Peach Wabba (host)

Yeah, and then he just left.

No, he was a lot of fun to talk to.

And that is the voice of Dom Lee, who is filling in for Conrad tonight.

I just confirmed what Conrad has.

Conrad is out sick tonight.

As it turns out, he has gigantism.

So.

That's a tough one.

I don't know that he'll be back tomorrow.

It takes a while to kick it and to have everything come back into shape and size.

But if anyone can do it, the guy who can bench almost 300 pounds can do it.

Conrad will be just fine, folks.

Don't need to worry about Conrad.

So we'll confirm that too.

There might be an update later in the show as to what Conrad is battling.

My guess is it's kind of what I have, but maybe a little worse, scratchy throat, cold cough, that kind of stuff.

Here's the season and Conrad get well soon.

Dom Lee, it is great to work with you again.

And let's make this, you know, we're talking about coaches tonight.

Let's make this a Notre Dame moment where we tap the sign and say let's let's do radio like a champion for the second hour.

Third hour we can slack off, but let's let's really kick some ass to second hour.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

I'm good.

SPEAKER_??

Okay.

Peach Wabba (host)

So if you missed the first hour of folks, check it out at civicmedia.us.

Marv Wall was here.

He was a lot of fun to talk about.

And that Malva Cultural Center in downtown Green Bay is just a really cool, cool space.

So definitely check that out.

We also discussed dangerous sports, water polo.

Who knew it was dangerous?

And darts as well because there is alcohol involved.

My guest this hour is my guest, I should say, is Jim Healy.

He will be here at 6.35.

Jim is one of the programmers of UW Cinematheque, which is at Vilas Hall.

It is a free program.

Check it out, folks.

It's right there in Madison, and they bring in some outstanding films, some great prints, some restored classics.

They have it all there, and they occasionally have great Q&As as well.

It's like a year-long film festival.

experience right there at UW Cinema Tech.

Jim is also one of the programmers of the Wisconsin Film Festival and he is a big time cinephile.

So we're gonna talk movies with Jim at 635.

Later in the show, Patty Vasquez, very funny comedian will be here and she is now also a columnist and a radio host and I think she is a plumber.

I'm kidding.

She does all kinds of stuff though, folks.

It'll be great to have Patty here and that's at 720.

And I think con or con.

Oh, look what I did.

Oh, man.

You

Dom Lee (co-host)

know, I'm

Peach Wabba (host)

sorry.

It's Dom, con.

It's those two are I encourage one of you to change because common Don, I don't know.

You just did this to Dom.

Dom Lee (co-host)

I know, I

Peach Wabba (host)

know, I

Dom Lee (co-host)

didn't.

Oh, I knew you were going to say something there.

I knew you were going to say it.

Peach Wabba (host)

Listen, that cracks me up.

I saw what South Park did with six, seven a couple of weeks ago when I watched the season finale.

Hilarious my wife is a kindergarten teacher even the kindergarten kids are getting into the six seven stuff and they go six seven

Dom Lee (co-host)

if anything they're getting in more to it than you know 20 to 30 or higher 20 higher I mean every younger generation kid is just that's that's they're getting obsessed with it it's too much it's way too much

Peach Wabba (host)

you know it's really strange because my wife is a kindergarten teacher

and she says that she kind of talks and for those of you not watching on the stream we're moving our hands like kind of up and down each hand that's the sign the universal symbol for the phrase six seven and my wife talks like that automatically and these kindergartners will give each other looks like side eyes like she's doing six seven like

Kindergarteners cracking up and that cracks me up.

I think it's a really funny thing

Dom Lee (co-host)

if I was a kindergartner I would be doing the same thing, you know, absolutely,

Peach Wabba (host)

you know, it's

Dom Lee (co-host)

a good

Peach Wabba (host)

deal to look forward to during the day a snack and that come on get some six seven action But let's reintroduce our nightlight question of the night

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Peach Wabba (host)

Who is your favorite coach?

And just to reiterate, folks, it could be a real coach, college, pro, any sport, high school, you name it.

Maybe a coach you had.

A fictional coach, like coach from Cheers.

Coach Carter, Coach—what was his name?

Remember the Titans or the coach from Rudy?

Whatever.

Gene Hackman from Hoosiers.

That's a great coach.

Let us know what your favorite—who your favorite coach was.

You can let us know on the text line at 855-752-4842-8557.

You can also text us on the app.

Or if you are watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or—

X you can drop us a stream comment.

We'd like to read stream comments as well And we love that there are people out there viewing the radio.

That's always fun, too So let us know we've got some clips here, too.

We Dom I got his name right this time.

I didn't call Conley.

That's a great sounding

Dom Lee (co-host)

name Yes, I gotta I gotta meet with Conrad and talk about that.

Yeah, that's good.

Peach Wabba (host)

That sounds better than

Dom Krieger, although Dom Krieger sounds kind of cool too.

Dom Lee (co-host)

People say Dominic, you know, you can just switch the full government name if you want.

Dominic Krieger, full government name.

Love it, buddy.

Peach Wabba (host)

All right, let's hear one of these clips.

I tasked Dom with finding great coach clips, and I recommended Bobby Knight because he's always a good one.

The other one is Dennis Green and you found, well, let's start with the one you found.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Okay,

Peach Wabba (host)

all right.

Tell us about this clip.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Yeah, this is Mike Gundy.

I think he was an Oklahoma State football coach.

I don't remember the exact date, but he was mad at the media press for, you know, kind of harping down on his young players and he wanted it to harp down on himself.

So let's take a listen.

Mike Gundy (audio clip)

That's why I don't read the newspaper.

because it's garbage.

And the editor that let it come out is garbage.

Attacking an amateur athlete for doing everything right.

And then you want to write articles about guys that don't do things right and downgrade them, the ones that do make place.

Are you kidding me?

Where are we at in society today?

Come after me.

I'm a man.

I'm 40.

I'm not a kid.

Write something about me or our coaches.

I'm writing about a kid that does everything right.

That's hearts broken and then say that the coach has said he was scared.

That ain't true.

And then to say that we made that decision because Donovan was because he threatened to transfer.

That's not true.

So get your facts straight.

And I hope someday you have a child and somebody downgrades him and belittles him and you have to look him in the eye and say, you know what, it's OK.

Peach Wabba (host)

There we go.

I actually love that I sticking up for his players.

That's great.

Mm-hmm.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I great clip I loved it I and I there's an iconic little piece in there, you know, I'm 40, you know, I'm you know talk to me I thought that was really funny.

I just thought it was love it

Peach Wabba (host)

Yeah, I love a cup first of all any coach with a southern accent goes up a couple points You're always more fun to listen to and I just love that he stuck up for his players like that We've got a text from the 715 Christie says Ted lasso

I'm not surprised we heard Ted Lasso.

People love Ted Lasso.

Great choice, Christie, and thank you for listening.

Hope everything is doing great there in Eau Claire tonight.

It's great to have you.

608 says Tony Dungey.

Totally classy.

That's a great one, too.

Super Bowl winner.

Dom, do you remember that Super Bowl?

Dom Lee (co-host)

I do.

Briefly.

Briefly.

Not terribly, but I remember.

I remember a little bit.

Yeah,

Peach Wabba (host)

absolutely.

We beat our

Dom Lee (co-host)

bears, buddy.

In 06.

I tried to forget about it.

Peach Wabba (host)

Yeah, that's right.

And it was kind of, you know, it's really weird.

Peyton Manning.

I know people love the guy.

I'm fine with him.

I don't love him, but like, he's got two Super Bowl rings.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Unbelievable.

Peach Wabba (host)

But in a Super Bowl, in a big game, I would take his brother.

Eli took the Super Bowl.

They want his teams won because of his play.

Peyton Manning kind of backed in.

I don't know if you remember this, but in 0-6 the Bears beat themselves.

They fumbled.

Cedric Benson fumbled.

Rex Grossman threw a pick.

It was raining.

And Indy won.

They won the game.

No question.

It wasn't because of Peyton Manning.

Same thing with when he went to Denver.

So great regular season quarterback.

Decent quarterback in the playoffs, but...

I would take his brother.

Dom Lee (co-host)

I like that.

I 100% agree with you.

You know, in Denver, they had what one of the best defenses ever assembled.

Yeah, you know, so that makes it makes a plea.

Yeah, Von Miller.

Absolutely.

So

Peach Wabba (host)

that's a great, great choice.

608.

Thank you.

Tony Dungey is a is a classy dude.

715 says John Ratzenberger.

Oh, this is in relation in regard to what we were talking about earlier with Zoe Saldana being the highest grossing movie actor ever.

715 says John Ratzenberger is the third highest grossing actor of all time, mainly because of his many voice over roles in Pixar movies and his brief appearance in The Empire Strikes Back.

I did not know he was in The Empire Strikes Back.

But yeah, he was in the Toy Story movies and very funny too, John Ratzenberger.

Of course, I like him as Cliff Clavin, who played opposite his counterpart Coach, who is Coach Ernie Pantuso from Cheers is probably my all-time favorite.

fictional coach Uh, you got another clip for us down.

Let's hear the uh, is the bobby night one good?

Let's hear the bobby night one.

Yeah, let's hear

Bobby Knight (audio clip)

No, you only got two people they're gonna tell you I'm not gonna be here one is our s id and the other is me Who the hell told you I wasn't gonna be here.

I'd like to know do you have any idea who it was?

Who?

They were from indiana, right?

No, they're not no weren't from indiana and you didn't get it from anybody from indiana, did you?

I'll handle this the way I want to handle it now that I'm here you up to begin with

Now just sit there or leave.

I don't give a s*** what you do.

Now, back to the game.

Who's got a question?

Peach Wabba (host)

He was such a jerk, but he's a good coach.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Yeah, he sounded terrible.

I wouldn't want to talk to him at all.

Peach Wabba (host)

Oh, he's awful.

But look, the guy, you can't argue with success.

I mean, he was a great coach.

For his time, that guy, he would not be a coach by modern day standards.

He was just too, I mean...

It would hit his players and stuff like that.

He would hit his parents.

Oh Yeah, he would totally Yeah, he had some issues.

He was like kind of a coach of the 60s and 70s.

Maybe the coached into the 80s, maybe in the 90s, but he was He kind of mellowed out as he got older, but he was very volatile.

That's Bobby Knight and We've got Monica from Mount Horrib says couldn't narrow it down to just one flip Wilson

in the fish that saved Pittsburgh.

Wow.

Monica, great pull.

Basketball movie.

I saw it in the theater in the late, it's probably early 80s when that came out.

Walter Mathau in the Bad News Bears.

That is a great one as well.

And Tom Hanks in a league of their own.

That is the text of the night.

Monica from Mount Horrib.

Thank you very much.

Totally forgot about Flip Wilson.

in the fish that saved Pittsburgh, which is also one of the greatest movie titles in history.

608, this is, oh, this is Mark from Prairie to Sac says Lombardi was not only a great coach, he was a great human being.

He integrated his team and insisted that his players of all colors be treated equally.

He also supported gay rights.

That is correct.

Mark, excellent text and pardon me, another great quality about Vince Lombardi being just kind of ahead of the curve there too.

in addition to being a great coach.

Kerry from Tosa and the 414 says Ted Lasso as well.

People love their Ted Lasso.

You watch Ted Lasso, Dom?

Dom Lee (co-host)

I have a little bit, yeah.

And that makes sense, you know?

That's why we're getting so many feedback.

He's a great coach, you know?

What can I say?

What can I say?

I gotta

Peach Wabba (host)

say, this is not a popular stance.

All right, when we come back, I'm going to tell you what I think about coach.

Not as a coach.

And I'm also going to tell you about some really cool records that you might not know were set here in Wisconsin and we'll finish reading our text.

This is Peach Wabba Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Dom Lee (co-host)

Network.

Peach Wabba (host)

This is Nightlight with Peach Wabba folks great to have you with me on this Wednesday night Dom Lee and I are having some fun here tonight in Conrad's absence We did get a text about Conrad's condition.

We'll update you here briefly Pardon me Tyler from Wisconsin Rapid says he heard Conrad's bubble blower backfired and he ballooned like the blueberry girl in the movie Willy Wonka and the chocolate

I Don't maybe that's true.

I can't confirm that though Tyler also says John candy and cool runnings.

Wow nice pull.

That's a great text.

Thank you Tyler and we've got Oh, here we go Todd or Billy From the 401 for says probably coach Taylor from Friday night lights the series I never watched that

Friday Night Live.

Did you watch that, Dom?

Dom Lee (co-host)

I've watched it once.

I don't quite remember it, but I watched it with my dad way back.

It is a really good movie.

Peach Wabba (host)

Is that the movie or is that the show?

That's the movie, right?

Friday Night Live.

It was both.

I think the movie, I think they turned it into a series after that.

Cindy, if you're listening, call back.

I missed Dom's message, so we'll get you on if you can call back in the next few minutes before we bring Jim Healy on at 6.35.

Jim was here to talk movies.

and about what's coming up at the Wisconsin Film Festival and UW Cinematheque.

We always love when Jim joins us to talk movies and there is no one better to do it with than Jim Healy.

So we have one more coach clip and this is a great one.

This is Dennis Green after his Arizona Cardinals lost to the Chicago Bears in like, and I don't think the Bears scored an offensive touchdown.

His team collapsed and you can hear it in his voice.

Here's Dennis Green.

Four picks against Grossman and two fumbles.

What do you see about the

Dennis Green (recording)

Bears?

Shut them down that way.

No, you know what I mean.

The Bears are what we thought they were.

What we thought they were.

We played them in preseason.

Who the hell takes a third game in a preseason like a bull?

We played them a third game.

Everybody played three quarters.

The Bears

are who we thought they were.

That's why we took the damn field.

But they are who we thought they were.

And we let them out the

Peach Wabba (host)

hook.

Wow.

Ouch.

I mean, I can't even imagine losing a game like that.

I remember that game.

But we've got, that's our question of the night, folks.

Who is your favorite coach?

And going to social media, Dave Hendrick, my pal Dave Hendrick on Facebook says, Ernie Pantuso, coach.

Love coach.

Mike Mercury, Madison Bay stand-up comedian says, coach.

Craig T. Nelson from the show, coach.

Eric Rassack from Ask Your Mother also says,

He was going to say Craig T. Nelson as well.

You can say that, Eric.

You can all share these coaches.

Matt Harper also says, oh, he says Kyle Chandler as Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights.

Another one for Friday Night Lights.

Comedian Boris Hamilton, listening from Los Angeles, says Phil Jackson.

We talked about Phil Jackson a little earlier.

PJ, as Michael Jordan used to call him.

Tim Baker says Don Knott's in Gus.

I don't think I ever saw Gus.

I don't think I have either.

And then Tony on social media posted a picture of a purse that says coach Looks like a leave a ton

Dennis Green (recording)

bag maybe

Peach Wabba (host)

Erica Larson says Jim Mora and posted a meme of that crazy Jim Mora when he kept saying playoffs It's always great.

However, you guys reach us social media text stream app.

It's all great Bridget in the 818 says Phil Jackson.

He is smart and cool

Kind of a hippie too.

So he was good coach.

No question about that.

Thank you Bridget for the text So Dom here are some records you might not know that were set in Wisconsin I saw this on up north news love the work they do there.

Ellie Bordeaux is coming back on the show soon She is one of the reporters for up north news, but These are records that were set in Wisconsin that you probably didn't know about and The first one I'm gonna say this is number seven if you go to up north news wi.com

The most llamas pulling a carriage.

That's probably why you moved to Wisconsin, right, Don?

What?

I didn't even know that was a real thing.

Like, what's

Dom Lee (co-host)

going on?

Peach Wabba (host)

This is so crazy.

Last night, we had the Green Bay llama, Jason Jerry on the show.

And I thought llama in Green Bay, and this was a real thing.

Mayor Jim Schmidt walked a llama over the bridge.

So Jason started a Facebook group called the Society of the Llama or something like that.

A weird thing to associate with Wisconsin, but number seven on this up north news list says most llamas pulling a carriage.

It's unusual to see any llamas in Wisconsin in general, especially when there are 56 of them at once.

I mean,

Dom Lee (co-host)

I gotta see this.

I gotta see this for

Peach Wabba (host)

myself.

Dom Lee (co-host)

That is a

Peach Wabba (host)

strafford.

Stratford, Wisconsin resident was able to hitch 56 llamas as well as eight ponies to a cart.

and break the world record for most llamas pulling a carriage.

I mean, of all the records to aim for.

Dom Lee (co-host)

Listen, that's the one to hit, you know?

That's the one that I would love that record, get me?

Peach Wabba (host)

The question is, were the llamas doing this against their will?

What if they didn't want anything to do with this record?

Here's another one.

Number 10, most siblings to compete in a marathon.

It was the Capral family.

And the siblings at Oshkosh natives ranged in ages from 18 to 44 and all completed a marathon 26.2 mile racing under six hours.

That's a pretty cool one.

They went to Oshkosh lords Academy.

They were always good at sports when I was in high school too.

Here's another one.

This was not a surprise.

Largest cheese platter board.

Is it any surprise that Wisconsin is home to a cheese based world record?

It is not.

America's Dairyland is well known for its cheese production, so it makes sense that the state could produce the largest ever cheese blood report.

The board was put together by Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, a non-profit organization based in Madison that markets and promotes Wisconsin Dairy products.

Do you like cheese, Dom?

Dom Lee (co-host)

Love cheese.

I that's the whole reason why I actually moved here, you know because I'm also originally from Chicago But cheese is kind of what got me even though I do have a celiac disease.

It doesn't matter.

I'm still really I do yes Is

Peach Wabba (host)

there gluten in cheese?

Dom Lee (co-host)

Um, there is I think probably okay.

I

Peach Wabba (host)

didn't

Dom Lee (co-host)

know that yeah, I should all I know is I had I was recently diagnosed so you know oh

Peach Wabba (host)

Sorry to

Dom Lee (co-host)

hear

Peach Wabba (host)

that maybe that's what Conrad has

Dom Lee (co-host)

that's you know what I've got to ask about that too

Peach Wabba (host)

That doesn't work though because you're here and you have it.

All right, we are coming right back.

Jim Healey is on the way, folks.

We're talking movies after the news.

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

Radio Announcer

Network.

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back.

I am Pete Schwab, but this is Nightlight.

This is a Wednesday evening edition of the show, folks, but we're going a little farther.

We have to because Conrad, we are a man down.

Conrad is sick, and I just got word from another source, Dom.

Conrad has alien hand syndrome.

So it's not gigantism.

It's not celiacs.

It's not the pigs flu.

He has got alien hands.

I don't even know what that is.

We're going to get to the bottom of it.

I hope that means he can work the board tomorrow night.

But if not, you need to be in the bullpen.

We're just going through the whole whole lines of things that could be wrong with them.

There are probably HIPAA restrictions on this, but that's not for me to say.

You know, I'm surprised we haven't heard Mike McCarthy.

We heard Holmgren and this is Wisconsin.

For whatever reason maybe it was Aaron Rodgers, but my McCarthy I don't think is as popular as he should be and by all accounts I've heard he is a great guy And he delivered a Super Bowl to Green Bay, but you know, maybe there are McCarthy fans out there and they just haven't responded in any event Let's get to our next guest of the night.

Very excited to welcome this next gentleman He is one of our frequent flyers here.

We love to talk movies with this next guy.

He is one of the programmers of UW Cinema Tech

and the Wisconsin Film Festival, and I believe he also coached the Packers for a stint in the early 60s, but we'll get to the bottom of that as well.

Mr. Jim Healy joins us now over the stream.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, call me Vince Lombardi.

Vince Lombaly, I think, is, you got to get that Irish out there, Jim, you know.

Vince Lombago.

There you go.

How are you tonight, Jim?

Jim Healy (guest)

I'm very well.

Thank you.

How are

Pete Schwab (host)

you?

Great to have you here.

I'm doing very well.

Do you have a favorite coach, Jim, speaking of coaches?

Jim Healy (guest)

No, we've talked before about the number of movies I see every year, because

Pete Schwab (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

brag about it.

It's one of the things I do.

Pete Schwab (host)

And one of the reasons

Jim Healy (guest)

is, I just, well, I almost never mentioned this, but one of the reasons why I'm able to get my numbers up.

So I don't, I watch almost no professional sports at all at home.

I go to sports.

I've got, I go to Badgers games here, football, basketball, hockey, volleyball.

And I've been to three, I went to three MLB games last year and I

Pete Schwab (host)

enjoy it.

I

Jim Healy (guest)

enjoy life, but I don't, I don't follow, I don't follow it at all.

Like I don't, I can't get, I can't get caught up.

And

Pete Schwab (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

probably could if I started to, but that's just, you know, it's just one of the things.

Pete Schwab (host)

So I

Jim Healy (guest)

watched 700 movies a year, you

Pete Schwab (host)

know.

Well, the sports would cut into that because like, here's where I'm at with sports.

I can only watch my team now.

And if there's a great game on between two Titans, whether it's the game seven of the World Series or an NFL playoff game, I'll watch the last few minutes because that's great drama.

And that's you just.

It's like car chases.

You don't know the ending.

Like typically in movies, usually you see the ending coming.

That's not the case with sports.

So I'll always have like a thing for sports, but I'm with you.

I cannot just sit and watch a game.

The commercials drive me crazy.

And another thing, I don't ever need to hear a coach talk again after a game unless they're crazy or outlandish, heard it, seen it, you're not going to impress me.

Jim Healy (guest)

Throw in a chair.

SPEAKER_??

Well, that's different.

Yeah.

Jim Healy (guest)

You know, I love it.

It's very dramatic.

You know, I just see it.

And I even see the drama of the full season and the suspense in that.

But I just, it's just, it's never been in my folks.

Everybody in my family, father sports, all my brothers, my father, you know, all my cousins and aunts and uncles, but I just never, it just, you know, just always got in the way of movie watching.

So I

Pete Schwab (host)

don't get

Jim Healy (guest)

it.

Pete Schwab (host)

And let's let's tip of my hat here's why I prefer movies typically is because I know what I'm getting I'm gonna see especially if it's a movie I've seen before and I know that sounds like well Why would you put that above a great sporting event or something?

Well a movie I've seen before I obviously if I'm watching it again, I love it I love everything about it typically and I know what I'm getting But you value surprise

Jim Healy (guest)

especially well sure in both it's something in something

you haven't seen before, right?

But also in the surprise of how you're going to feel seeing something you've seen before and loved, you know, how are you going to react to it this time?

Are you able to watch it with somebody like one of your kids and see it through their eyes?

And is it that much more exciting?

Does it reveal itself more to you than it did whenever you last saw it one, five, 10 years ago, whatever?

And that's the best.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's the best and you're right like with your kids like I just watched once upon a time in Hollywood recently with my daughter who had never seen it and yes, they pick up things that you didn't pick up and it's it's like and I'm amazed Jim the sign of a great movie to me is when I have seen it before I know how it ends and I still feel the tension like in a scene like for example and once upon a time in Hollywood that scene where Brad Pitt is talking to Bruce Dern on the on the spawn movie, right?

It's so great.

Jim Healy (guest)

I know what

Pete Schwab (host)

happens

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah, yeah, you know that was supposed to be Bert Reynolds

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh Almost

Jim Healy (guest)

almost right up until they they were shooting and Bert it was right before he died and he was he was getting sick and Oh, no, and yeah, he was gonna play spawn so Bruce Stern came in at the last minute Did a

Pete Schwab (host)

favor for that's little tidbits and I you know

To be honest, Burt Reynolds probably would have been great at that.

Jim Healy (guest)

Oh yeah, I would have loved to have seen him in that.

And it would have been his last movie, what I wanted to go out on.

Pete Schwab (host)

I saw a show, Jim.

I'm getting off on a tangent here, but since Burt Reynolds has been brought up, it was a one-man show of some writer.

Years and years ago, right after I had moved to LA, a guy in my building had tickets.

He was like the Mike DeMone of my apartment building.

Mike DeMone, of course, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but he got all these tickets.

So we went and saw this writer who had written on all these great shows, and he had phenomenal stories.

And one of them was about Bert Reynolds.

And he said, he was doing punch-up on Smokey and the Bandit.

And he was in Bert Reynolds' trailer.

They were working on the script together, and they broke for the day.

And he said, I'm leaving.

And Bert Reynolds says, we're having a party later.

Come on by.

And Frank Sinatra was also in Smokey and the Bandit.

Think if I got a

Jim Healy (guest)

cannonball run to

Pete Schwab (host)

or cannonball run.

That's what it was.

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah,

Pete Schwab (host)

same difference.

Anyway, he said He goes, you know what?

Frank Sinatra is having something too I really want to meet Sinatra and I just want to go to that but thanks for the invitation and Bert Reynolds looked at him in all seriousness and said Sinatra is not where the heats at baby

That is the one thing I remember for that show.

And it has always stuck with me.

And I can totally hear Bert Reynolds saying that.

I love it.

Yeah, he was a giant star.

Oh, he was huge.

Yeah.

And there was that time where Senator wasn't, he reached his peak fame.

And people kind of go away.

Not that he ever was unpopular, but then he has a resurgence.

And you can kind of understand why he said that.

Jim Healy (guest)

The story I heard about Bert Reynolds recently speaking of roles he didn't play was that.

James L. Brooks, who had written a film in 1979, which won a Bert Reynolds best performance, is called Starting Over.

So it's a movie where Bert shaves his mustache off, so you know it's of high quality.

It's a very good movie, but James L. Brooks didn't direct it, and he was about to make his directorial debut with Terms of Endearment.

He wrote Terms of Endearment.

He wrote the part of Garrett, the astronaut for Bert Reynolds.

Pete Schwab (host)

Wow and

Jim Healy (guest)

Bert Reynolds turned it down to do stroker ace I think

Pete Schwab (host)

That's like a stepchild to a cannonball

Jim Healy (guest)

Exactly, I think it's the year before I think those were his next two consecutive movies were And

Pete Schwab (host)

now that you just mentioned James L Brooks I have another okay, so a friend of mine

We had Clippers tickets.

We were going to sit in a luxury box.

Nobody cares about the LA Clippers.

We're like, oh, let's go eat the food and sit in the luxury box.

That'll be great.

So my friend Jeff Lewis was with us, and he thought he saw Leonard Malton.

He got all in a lather.

He was blushing.

He's like, oh my god, Leonard Malton.

That's Leonard Malton right up there.

It turns out it was James L. Brooks, not Leonard Malton.

Jim Healy (guest)

And

Pete Schwab (host)

he's like, oh, and he wasn't as impressed

Jim Healy (guest)

for some reason.

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah,

Jim Healy (guest)

he's got the, Brooks has got the Oscars.

Pete Schwab (host)

He's got everything.

The guy's a giant.

You know, it's so great.

Did you see his new movie, by the way?

I

Jim Healy (guest)

did see it.

I did see it.

And it was, it's a disappointment.

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah.

Jim Healy (guest)

But it's, it's still interesting.

It's worth seeing.

I know you and I are both mutual fans of Albert Brooks

Pete Schwab (host)

is

Jim Healy (guest)

frequent.

James L Brooks is frequent collaborator, no relation, but the best scene in the movie is in the last, you know, 20 minutes of the film and it's a scene between the the leading lady Ella Mac Emma Mackey and and Albert Brooks and it's it's great.

It's almost worth seeing the movie for really.

But it's it's just it gets us feeling as soon as you start watching it.

like the narration kicks in and there's all this music kind of making up for things and there's so many characters and you just get the feeling that there was probably a three-hour movie not necessarily one that was better and they you know they cut it down to make make it whatever it is and it just feels like you know feels like patched together it just never really gels you know

Pete Schwab (host)

You know, that's, that's interesting.

I have not seen it when it, when I heard it was coming out, I was like, oh, this will be, I'm really curious to see this, but I hate when I wait and hear things that are disappointing.

Cause then I don't go see it.

You know?

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah.

No, nothing would have stopped me from seeing, he's a major filmmaker and he hadn't made a movie for 15 years.

Hey, I think he's 85 years old.

Pete Schwab (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

don't know how many more he's got in him if he's even going to try.

So, you know, I was very curious about it.

Have you know anything about...

Pete Schwab (host)

Sorry, what, Jim?

Say that again?

Jim Healy (guest)

Oh, sorry.

He did a movie in 1994 called I'll Do Anything.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, yeah.

I saw that years

Jim Healy (guest)

ago.

With Nick Nolte.

Yeah.

So the movie that came out with Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavanaugh, Jolie Richardson.

It's a, Tracy Elman, it's a comedy about actors and filmmakers in Hollywood, fighting the whole idea of like test screenings and test audiences who, you know, who can say yay or nay to a movie.

Brooks shot the whole movie as a musical with full musical numbers by Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Carol King,

all these like top songwriters and at the last minute just before release ditched all of the musical numbers cut them all out got nervous because of a bad because of a bad test screening and release the movie without anything and about 10 years ago he was he was mentioning that he was thinking about re-releasing it with the with the numbers back in but Prince I guess had more more say at that point and put the kibosh on it

Pete Schwab (host)

Would love to see it.

I don't remember much about the move I remember kind of liking it, but I honestly it was I don't remember much about it at all I the movie we were talking about before for those of you interested is LMK and Yeah, it just did not perform well, and I'll see it eventually Jim, but I'm not gonna rush out to the theaters I guess when it gets like that

Jim Healy (guest)

It's probably just just as good on on Hulu or wherever it's gonna be

Pete Schwab (host)

yeah

Exactly.

My guest is Jim Healy.

He joins us periodically to talk about movies.

And Jim, we've got about, you know what, let's just keep this till after the break.

I'd love to hear what you have coming up at Cinematheque.

And if you have anything, you can tell us about the Wisconsin Film Festival.

And then we'll get into some movies and potential Oscar movies.

Great night.

Jim Healy is here.

And in the 920, Herb Brooke is...

9-2-0's coach and that's Stan from Depeer.

Miracle on ice, yes of course.

Okay, that was a great, he says best sports speech ever and that was outstanding.

We have had some outstanding choices here tonight.

We are coming right back with Jim Healy.

It's Pete Chwaba and Nightlight on the Civic Media, radio network.

Pete Schwabba (host)

I like it, Dom.

Good choice, buddy.

Hey, this is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Great night to be here.

Conrad is out.

Dom Lee is bravely filling in for Conrad who has some serious illness that we are still trying to get to the bottom of.

But the good thing is Jim Healy is here.

Folks from joining us over the stream from Madison, a fantastic cinephile and one of the programmers of UW Cinematheque.

and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Jim, what is coming up that you could tell us about at UW Cinematheque?

And in your opinion, do people take advantage of that enough, this Cinematheque program?

Jim Healy (interviewee)

Well, enough for me would be, our regular Cinematheque theater is only 170 seats and enough for me would be a full house every night or maybe just enough empty seats to accommodate

just just about everybody.

Sure.

And you know and it's it's not like that but we're doing you know increasing numbers as the years and months have gone by especially since we returned to in-person screenings after COVID and regularly now our average attendance is two-thirds full.

Now we we start our our seasons with the premiere series

So on Thursday night, we're screening new films that are making their first area theatrical screenings in Madison, and you can see them for free.

And a lot of times they're, you know, titles that are, you know, very much high profile movies that are being well reviewed.

from and coming off a hot festival circuit run.

So, you know, for instance, we ended the season in December with The Secret Agent, which is this terrific new movie from Brazil.

Oh, it's great.

And it's a real cinephiles movie, too.

About 20% of the movie takes place within

the projection booth and the room's just adjacent to it in the

Pete Schwabba (host)

movie

Jim Healy (interviewee)

theater in Recife, Brazil.

But that's showing the Omen in 1977, by the way.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Oh,

Jim Healy (interviewee)

no.

But we're starting our next season a week from tomorrow.

That's the 22nd with a movie called Surat.

It's a French-Spanish co-production directed by the French director, Olivier Lax.

And it's been called, you know, it's been on many top 10 lists for 2025.

Justin Chang, who writes on film for the New Yorker and reviews for NPR called it the best movie of the year.

So I think that's the kind of show where we can expect a full house.

And, you know, I recommend arriving early because sometimes nights like that were full up before showtime.

We have to turn some people away, but most of the time, not.

There's almost always an empty seat.

Pete Schwabba (host)

That's great.

What about

Jim Healy (interviewee)

to get there by showtime?

Otherwise, we don't like letting stragglers

Pete Schwabba (host)

get locked out.

What about the Wisconsin Film Festival, Jim?

I imagine things are ramping up and you're making your decisions and all that kind of stuff.

Is there anything, I know it's early, but it's coming up fast.

Is there anything you can tell us about this year's festival ahead of time?

I'm

Jim Healy (interviewee)

trying to think if there's anything I can leak.

And I don't think there is.

There things are, you're correct.

Things are being confirmed.

We're booking things.

one film at a time, sometimes two or three films at a time, working out deals.

And we're actively looking at things.

We're doing our last festival visits to check things out.

But we like to keep our titles under wraps.

I can tell you there's gonna be another great balance of new movies from around the world.

of all lengths, short, some features, and then a healthy representation of rediscoveries, restorations, films from throughout cinema history that hopefully will be either something completely new and revealing for you or something you've seen before that will be just as revealing the second time you see

Pete Schwabba (host)

it, or the third

Jim Healy (interviewee)

or fourth.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Yeah, did you see the threesome from last year's?

Jim Healy (interviewee)

I just caught up with it.

I was one of the last movies I saw on 2025.

I watched it on Netflix.

Very good director, Chad Hartigan.

Really, really tells me it was a good, it was a surprising film.

Pete Schwabba (host)

I

Jim Healy (interviewee)

was also really, I was also really kind of, I like the fact that it, it felt like a smart conventional, not conventional, but smart.

traditional romantic comedy.

But on an, you know, in an indie film's budget, you know, it looked

Pete Schwabba (host)

great.

Jim Healy (interviewee)

The dialogue was snappy.

All the acting was great.

But, you know, it's all filmed in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Oh,

Pete Schwabba (host)

is that right?

Oh, I didn't know

Jim Healy (interviewee)

that.

Yeah, I think it might be where the filmmaker is from, but really, really entertaining movie, very, you know, and, and, and, and.

you know, one of those things where you really don't know where it's going from start to finish.

Pete Schwabba (host)

I loved it.

I thought it was, I'm not a rom-com guy.

I mean, I like a good rom-com.

I don't seek them out.

I thought that one, that one kind of blew me away.

There's a big twist in it.

And then the writing, I thought was very thoughtful with what happens after the twist, really dug it and it had an indie feel.

And I think I liked that about it too.

Jim Healy is here, folks.

We are going to break for the news, and I hope you can stick with us, Jim, because we haven't even gotten to the movies yet.

So we'll do a few more minutes with Jim after the break, and we'll talk about what he thinks might be in the prime position for an Oscar this year, as well as some other stuff that we've watched.

Craig Canit on the stream says it may be a bit narcissistic, but I'm a big fan of coach Sam Johnson in Rise of Dear MacGeddon.

And J.B.

Thompson.

says I would second Craig's opinion a local indie film there so good good shout out and good plug guys well done very well done feel my face we're coming back with Jim Healy Patty Vasquez coming up at 720 lots to come in act three it's beach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

Pete Chwaba (host)

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Welcome back to Night Light, folks.

As we kick off the third act here on this gorgeous Wednesday night in the state of Wisconsin.

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He does great work over there.

And in the second hour, we also talked to our current guest, Jim Healy.

We will be back with Jim in just a moment.

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Patty's a very talented comedian and radio host, and she is performing in Wisconsin, and I will tell you where while she is here.

Patty's great fun.

We are from the same hood in Chicago, so I'm excited to have Patty.

The city girl on the show that's coming up, but right now we have a few more minutes with our pal Jim Healy Who joins us every so often to talk movies and he sees more of them in any given year than some people see in a lifetime Jim what was your count for 2025?

How many movies did you end up watching?

Jim Healy (guest)

Well movies that were new to me was actually a pretty low number It was around 450 I think So low number I love

Pete Chwaba (host)

it

Jim Healy (guest)

I mean, I had some years that were way past that recently, but I was really committed to getting to some of these blue rays that have been sitting on my shelf and catching up with them and getting the shrink wrap off.

So I saw a lot of movies this year, but watching them with the family and...

introducing them to things like, you know, I had never watched my Blu-ray of Bonnie and Clyde.

We put that on about a month ago and things like that.

So I spent a lot of time, you know, a lot of rewatches as the kids say these days.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Yeah.

Jim, what is Blu-ray?

How does that compare to like, because most people, I think,

Even if you have 4k, if your TV is not 4k, it doesn't really matter as much.

But where does Blu-ray fall into in terms of quality or cinematic quality?

Jim Healy (guest)

Well, in the simplest terms, DVD came first, and that's standard definition.

So that's the basic look of what TVs were, the tube TVs, or even the flat screen TVs, before we had

HD TV before we had high definition TV, which is a I guess the standard is You know, it's not 2k.

It's not 4k.

It's 1080p Yeah, so that's you know, that's that's blu-ray for you But now they have 4k blu-ray that you know boost the image even further and you could if you have a 4k TV and a 4k blu-ray player you can Look at things that way and it's it's an amazing one.

I watched red dawn on 4k blu-ray last weekend

Pete Chwaba (host)

Oh

Jim Healy (guest)

introduce that one to my family

Pete Chwaba (host)

The Wolverines man Does that hold up?

I don't remember that I mean I remembered I saw it, but I don't know how I would view it as an adult I don't

Jim Healy (guest)

I'll say this it's a it's a it's a silly movie in many ways When I was 15, I thought it was silly and I probably liked it less than I do now as a as a as a war movie

It's pretty good.

It doesn't make a lot of sense.

It's another movie.

You get the feeling that they just lopped a half hour out of it to keep it moving, and it moves really nicely.

It's a very fast moving.

Pete Chwaba (host)

The

Jim Healy (guest)

invasion takes place as soon as the movie opens, and they're in the mountains, and they're fighting the Ruskies and the Cubans.

But there are things in the movie like...

I think it's Charlie Sheen shows up to witness the execution of his father.

And you wonder like, why is he there?

Why is he, you know, and you know, you never really know.

And then that leads to a whole thing.

And it's like, you know, it's got Rambo style ambushes.

And you go, well, how did they have time to do that?

And did they know those guys were going to be in that exact spot so they

Pete Chwaba (host)

can

Jim Healy (guest)

pop up out of the ground?

And, you know, it's like, so it's silly.

But, you know, and then, you know, you think about, you know, the worries about invasion and, you know, that I guess we're on people's mind at the time, but I, you know, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know if they really were because it wasn't that big of a hit, right?

But it's

Pete Chwaba (host)

yeah, right.

I remember thinking

Jim Healy (guest)

like.

Pete Chwaba (host)

The first time I saw it, I thought I had all the answers to life, and I was young.

So I would love to watch it again, because it's a great premise.

Jim, let's jump into some more current films, though.

Do you have an odds, based on what you've seen, and I assume, even though we don't know what's being nominated yet for the Oscars, you've probably seen them all, but do you have a frontrunner for what you think, or are the Jim Healy best picture of the year?

Well, usually I

Jim Healy (guest)

don't like to.

or I'm just not, I'm not, I'm not up, but it really seems to me, what I'm, you know, what I'm in that, what I'm gleaning from what's out there is that one battle after another is seems to be headed towards it.

You know, I don't, I mean, is there anything else that seems to be, you know, like, although that could be, you know, more people like that, or, you

Pete Chwaba (host)

know, it

Jim Healy (guest)

doesn't, like it seems like it's just hitting that right balance of.

the Oscar voters, the public liked it enough.

And it's winning all the critics awards and on the tops of the list.

I was thinking, I really liked Marty Supreme too.

I liked it probably just as much as One Battle.

And I was thinking like that might give it a run for its money if it had gone a bit further at the box office.

It's doing fine.

I think just as well as One Battle.

But like, if it had been the type of thing where, you know, people were really responding to it.

But I think they both have that, you know, filmmakers who are interested in actual human beings and all their flaws and,

Pete Chwaba (host)

you know,

Jim Healy (guest)

which makes for great comedy a lot of the time.

But I think it's not the kind of like, you know, obvious, virtuous heroes that, you know, that I think some audiences would.

You know, respond stronger

Pete Chwaba (host)

to lay out

Jim Healy (guest)

their money for

Pete Chwaba (host)

the only other one I haven't seen Marty Supreme yet.

There's a few films I still have to see.

But like, I just thought sinners like I really like the film.

I thought it had all the elements like music, acting, script, costume design, set design.

It just is such a great move.

All encompassing all those elements are there.

But I don't know.

It is vampires.

And I've heard people say, you know, they probably would go that route.

But I got no problem with one battle.

Jim Healy (guest)

Well, you might have something there with centers.

That might be its biggest one battle, its biggest competition.

It should be interesting to see, because they're both from the same studio.

So it should be interesting to see

Pete Chwaba (host)

how much

Jim Healy (guest)

money they put into the campaigns and if it's going to be equal.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Right.

Warner Brothers.

And they have another film too.

I was just reading about this the other day.

I thought they had another film.

Another

Jim Healy (guest)

Oscar contender?

Pete Chwaba (host)

Yeah.

You said earlier in our text exchange, you noticed the parallel between Avatar and one battle after another.

Jim Healy (guest)

Oh, yeah.

So I went to see Avatar.

I saw it in the theater.

I enjoyed it.

I liked it.

I liked it more than the last one.

I had a good time.

I appreciated the immersive experience.

Saw the

Pete Chwaba (host)

3D

Jim Healy (guest)

IMAX.

And

Pete Chwaba (host)

then I

Jim Healy (guest)

listened to a podcast afterwards with Guillermo del Toro interviewing James Cameron.

And Guillermo del Toro identified a sequence of the film as a reenactment

of the sacrifice of Abraham.

And if you've seen this new Avatar film, you'll know the scene where a parent or a surrogate parent deliberates over killing their child.

And then I watched one battle after another the other day and I realized it's got the same thing with, not to be a spoiler, but it's got the same thing with another character who

Pete Chwaba (host)

It's interesting,

Jim Healy (guest)

yeah.

And I just wonder, is there something in the air at the moment?

Certainly both movies are about generational conflicts and one generation handing down something to another.

And I suppose that's the ultimate darkest moment that you can do.

It's interesting how differently both films

handle it.

I mean, you know, because one battle after another is basically a satire, you know, it's basically comedy.

It's, you know, it's, it's handled with a bit of buffoonery.

But, but avatar, you know, it's, it's, it's dead, deadly serious.

Pete Chwaba (host)

No,

Jim Healy (guest)

both, both very suspenseful.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Yeah, you it's interesting you said it because I was talking with my son Joe who you know and we were talking about he noticed something in one battle the bathrobe and the ponytail he thought that it was

it kind of reminded him of Jedi's from Star Wars and we may

have

talked about this last time too.

But also the big Lebowski with the bathrobe

and

the ponytail, like he thought maybe they were crossing or it was like some sort of tribute to Star Wars and the Coen brothers or something.

So it's fun to pinpoint stuff like that.

We just have about a minute or so left, Jim.

What did you think of Train Dreams?

I really liked it.

I liked

Jim Healy (guest)

it too.

It surprised me.

I'll say this, I thought the aspect ratio was weird.

It was like a box in a box.

I don't know if you noticed it

Pete Chwaba (host)

on

Jim Healy (guest)

your TV, but it's like with the folded corners.

I didn't understand why doing that when TVs are set for 16 by nine.

But it was nice.

It's a very kind of sad film.

A lot of people have compared it to Terrence Malick.

I thought it had its own kind of quiet poetry.

I really liked the performances and the kind of, you know, certainly the kind of episodic nature of it where, you know, the episodes, there aren't like really significant things that happen in this guy's life.

Pete Chwaba (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

mean, they're significant to him, to his life, but they're very surprising and kind of odd and there's not one, you can't really

predict where it's going from one scene to the next, which is always always a thing you hope for in movies.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Right.

And it's one of those films like you just keep waiting for something huge to happen, but it's like life.

It's just sort of it was a great character piece.

Hey, we didn't even scratch the surface, but I loved having you here anyway.

It was fun.

The tangent we got off on was fun as well.

So thank you so much.

Always happy

Jim Healy (guest)

to come on and almost scratch the surface.

Pete Chwaba (host)

We'll do that.

We'll do some scratching next time by Jim.

Thanks a lot.

OK, we'll get a

Jim Healy (guest)

little deeper.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Talk to you soon.

Okay, buddy.

That's Jim Healy.

Check out UW Cinema Tech and keep your eyes peeled for the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Such a great time, folks, there in Madison.

We are coming right back with Patty Vasquez at Speechwaba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Unknown Speaker

Welcome

Peach Wamba

back we are jamming through

The third act here, folks, on Nightlight with Peach Wamba.

I am Peach Wamba, and it is so great to have you with me tonight here as we broadcast statewide here in Wisconsin on the radio and parts beyond on the App and Stream.

So however you are joining us, welcome.

And we've got I just want to clear something up.

Dom, I did find out what Conrad has, what he is suffering from.

It is not gigantism.

It is not alien hand syndrome.

He has evil twinism.

Oh, no, battling.

This person who is, you know, and that makes sense because he didn't seem like himself the last couple of nights working the board.

So I hope he figures this out and we'll be back to us tomorrow.

Oh, man, you know, it's not.

It's good to know you're in the bullpen there in Madison.

Oh, yeah, I'll talk to him and make sure he keeps his head up.

So please do.

Yeah.

All right.

Now it is my pleasure, folks, to welcome one of my old standup pals.

She is a very talented stand-up comedian and has her own radio show in Chicago.

And she's done all kinds of, she's had a phenomenal career.

We'll talk all about it.

And you can see her in Wisconsin very soon.

She joins us now over the stream, Miss Patty Vasquez.

Welcome to Nightlight, Patty.

Patty Vasquez

Hello, thank you so much for having me and it's great to see you.

I know that I'm a little glitchy But people listening don't know by the way, we're in the civic media family We love having a Dan Schaefer on and I know that you and I tried connecting a while ago We'd love to have you on our show as well

Peach Wamba

Yes.

Well, anytime and Dan and I have talked about the wire on this show before.

He's a great guy and I love the discombobulation area.

Recombobulation area.

Yes.

Dan is top notch and you and the glitching is no problem.

You're only glitching on video on a day to day basis.

I glitch in real life and that's a problem.

Patty Vasquez

I know

Peach Wamba

the feeling.

Yeah.

Hey, before we get into this too heavy, do you have a favorite coach?

Our question of the night is who is your favorite coach?

Patty Vasquez

Oh, wow.

I mean, my childhood, I mean,

Peach Wamba

or fictional TV, movie coach, actual

Patty Vasquez

coach.

Well, then Friday Night Lights.

I love coach on Friday Lights is my favorite.

Peach Wamba

Yeah.

Fantastic.

Patty Vasquez

We've

Peach Wamba

heard we've got some votes for Friday Night Lights tonight, too.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah.

Kyle Chandler is for many reasons, one of my favorites, not the Billy Bob Thornton version in the movie, the series.

Peach Wamba

Yeah, I think in terms of I'm just going to I don't mean to make.

assumptions, but I think from a, if I was a female, I would probably go with Kyle Thornton, Kyle Chandler as well over Billy Buffard.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah.

Peach Wamba

So,

Patty Vasquez

and I

Peach Wamba

don't even know if that's what you meant, but I'm just, I'm putting myself out there.

I'm in touch with my feminine side and I would pick Kyle Chandler.

That's

Patty Vasquez

all I'm saying.

I appreciate that.

Now, having been asked, I have to, since I have not listened to the other folks' answers, what is your answer?

Now I'm curious.

Peach Wamba

Well, I said, you know, I grew up,

I'm a Chicago sports fan.

I cheer for the Chicago Pro teams, the Wisconsin college teams.

I've spent time in both states.

I went Phil Jackson,

Unknown Speaker

Greg

Peach Wamba

Popovich, because I liked that he speaks his mind.

Unknown Speaker

And I went Vince Lombardi because even though I'm a Bear fan, Vince Lombardi is a great coach.

Sure.

Patty Vasquez

I can see that.

Hey, I'm loving Ben Johnson.

And I'm not saying just because he ripped his shirt off in the locker room, but that was that was delightful too.

See,

Peach Wamba

yeah, he's not missing any workouts.

He's doing OK.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah, he is.

Peach Wamba

Hey, you and I are also Patty from the same hood, more or less.

Really?

Jeff Park, Portage

Patty Vasquez

Park.

Yeah, I didn't know you were from the northwest side of Chicago.

Peach Wamba

I am.

I grew up in Portage Park, six corners area, too.

And until I was 12, moved to Wisconsin, went back there, as you know, to start doing stand-up comedy, lived there for another 12 years before I went to LA, but a great, great area, a great place to be from.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah, and there's a lot of great new shops.

I know when you were a kid, it was very vibrant.

I remember the Sears, all that area was bustling.

And it had a little bit of a downturn, but now it's coming back strong.

There's a great theater there, wonderful restaurants.

Yeah, love it.

Peach Wamba

That's fantastic.

All right, so also, you did stand up for me.

I booked this local fundraiser here in Marinette, where I currently live, where I'm doing the show from tonight because Conrad has a gigantism.

But we have a show once a year that I put together, and I love when I get to bring friends of mine into town to do stand-up, whether they're from Chicago or Milwaukee.

This year, they're both from Appleton, Rob Brackenridge and Mike Merrifield.

Did

Patty Vasquez

you

Peach Wamba

have a good time when you're here was so good to hang with

Patty Vasquez

it was great And you know, it's funny what I'll always remember about that not only how how much fun it was the I mean the audience like just really wonderful folks great to hang out with afterwards Also, the last weekend I decided that weekend.

I would not be taking a road gigs in in the deep

deepest parts of the winter because there was a snowstorm.

I don't remember when I was driving up there was a snowstorm that night and because it was a Friday night and the next night I had to be in Indiana and out of my way back from your gig there were jackknife semis there were mini vans and ditches and I was like you know what this has to be it this has to be one of my last middle of the winter gigs

Peach Wamba

listen the first year that the comics don't make it due to weather

is going to be the last year we do this because I do five minutes to open the show and I'm terrified because I don't do stand up really anymore.

So me having to do like an hour and a half is the most terrifying thing ever.

Patty Vasquez is here folks.

We've got already a text or someone on the stream saying Patty Vasquez is basically my hero.

I am in Chicago, but a Brewers fan and my favorite coach right now.

And maybe all time is Pat Murphy.

That guy is unique.

And then we've got another person on the stream here, Dash, just a bunch of a clamping emoji.

So that's kind of exciting, Patty.

You've got fans.

Patty Vasquez

There you go.

Well, you know, I love Wisconsin.

I spent a lot of time there.

I went to Girl Scout Camp for six years in East Troy at Camp Juniper Knoll.

We actually have a little fan club called Fibs for Wisconsin.

Just saying.

I love the area.

I spent a lot of time in Racine, Kenosha, Elkhorn.

I have a lot of friends in Southern Wisconsin in particular.

Peach Wamba

Well, we've got Patty here for a few more minutes.

We're going to break for news.

We're going to come back, and I'm going to tell you where you can see Patty live in just a few days.

And she has an outstanding stand-up comic and good at many other things, too.

We'll talk about all of it.

After the news, this is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Welcome

back.

Great to have you here folks.

Our question of the night one last time is who is your favorite coach?

We just got a text from a steady Eddie who says Pete favorite coach head coach of the Screamin Eagles Hayden Fox from the TV show Coach played by Craig T. Nelson.

The T stands for tonsillectomy.

His father was a surgeon.

I did not know that.

Nor did I watch the show.

And I like Craig T. Nelson, too.

I don't know why I never watched it.

Maybe that's what Conrad has done.

Tonsillitis.

He's up to six things now.

He's got all these things.

Every single issue ever.

Yeah, I know.

All right, we'll get caught up on some more text to get to.

But first, we have to get back to our guest.

The tremendous Patty Vasquez is here.

She is a Chicago based stand up comic and radio host and.

Just an all around swell person.

Patty, it's great to have you here tonight.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

It's wonderful to be here.

I like swell.

There's, you know, words we don't use enough like swell and whimsy.

I've been using the word whimsy a lot more.

Pete Schwabba (host)

I had a guest named earlier, earlier named Marv.

I love that old school name.

And then he used the phrase youngsters, which I haven't heard in whatever.

So I maybe there's something going on here tonight.

Maybe.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

By the way, someone just told me they love my name, Patty, because they love vintage names, Pete.

Vintage.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Well, because it's not Nikki or Haley or something like that, maybe.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Oh, it's fine.

It's

Pete Schwabba (host)

classic.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah.

I mean, like when we were like Eleanor, like that's a vintage name, which

Pete Schwabba (host)

is also.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba (host)

No, that's a great one to your son.

You post about a lot on on social media has a great name to a great Irish name.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Oh, Jacqueline.

Yeah.

It's so perfect for a older son named Griffin.

And so when you name your first kid with something that unique, you can't be like, and Joe, which would be fine too.

Pete Schwabba (host)

But I have a Joe who has a cousin Griffin.

They're all great names, but I agree with you.

You're absolutely right.

So OK, so you've got a date coming up here.

You were just talking about how much you love Wisconsin earlier.

You've got a date at memories ballroom right around the corner.

Tell us about that gig.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, I'm going to be at memories ballroom.

By the way, best buffet.

You know, really, honestly, come for the buffet, stay for the comedy.

That's really how it's done.

The fried chicken.

I'm already, I'm already, I'm already drooling a little bit.

If you haven't been there before, they do, they do these great theater productions, and then they, and then they allow us to come and play and have great comedy shows.

One of my favorite places to perform was.

Pete Schwabba (host)

That's excellent.

Yeah, I have to get down there.

I've heard the venue is outstanding and I've actually heard that before about the buffet too.

Let me ask you this, a two-parter.

Have you worked there before and have you worked Wisconsin much?

And if so, how are crowds different, if at all?

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Oh, you know, I think that and that's probably part of my love.

Not just, you know, having spent so much time there as a kid, but also like everywhere from Appleton to Iron Mountain is Iron Mountain.

That's in Wisconsin, right?

Or is that UP?

Pete Schwabba (host)

It's the UP, but we could we could overlook that.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

I know.

Well, here La Crosse.

all over Wisconsin.

And I have to say, I remember one time in the 90s when I started, I told the emcee to not mention I was from Chicago because if he did, the audience would boo right away.

And I was sitting there with the owner and what did he do?

He said I was from Chicago, the audience booed and I go, you're gonna have to, you know what?

You're gonna have to make this right.

So I let him stay on stage without walking up.

The audiences, I don't know what it is, you know, like Milwaukee was over the comedy cafe was always hot.

The skyline and Appleton's always hot.

I mean, every, like people are just eager.

And I don't know if it's like the per capita of bars in Wisconsin.

I understand you guys aren't allowed to compete in drinking contests.

I don't know if that's part of it.

And, you know, I remember, do you remember Rich Brown?

I remember driving around Appleton with him trying to find a convenience store would sell us booze after nine.

I think that's like,

Not somewhere you can't buy liquor after

Pete Schwabba (host)

nine.

That's right, because we let the Tavern League write our laws and they want people to go to bars.

And Rich Brown, if there's a guy that can find booze after nine o'clock, it is my good pal Rich Brown.

So I'm with you there.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, it was it was wonderful.

But yeah, I've always I would say of all the places even more than Chicago, the Wisconsin audiences are my favorite.

I don't know what it is.

They're just like, I've done like, you know, widow weekends for deer hunting season.

I've done tons of bachelorette parties there.

And everyone's just ready to have fun in Wisconsin.

And that's what it is.

Everyone's ready to have fun.

Pete Schwabba (host)

It is.

It's a fun state.

And, you know, I call it.

You know, there's nowhere else.

I'd rather be in the summer, certainly.

And not so sure about the winter, but the, uh, you're right.

The, the comedy cafe in Milwaukee.

I remember that was one of the first Dan Whitney, Larry, the cable guy introduced me to that club, got me in there and I could not believe how great the crowds were.

It was my favorite room to work and I was sad to see it go.

It moved and now it's not there anymore, but that was my introduction to Wisconsin crowds or comedy crowds at least.

Um,

So, all right, so this is great.

So where do you get your material?

You're a very political person.

You make great commentary on politics and your views.

Do you bring that to the stage ever?

I know you've brought stuff with your family to the stage.

Where do you get your material?

Patty Vasquez (guest)

All of it's observational.

I mean, I started out wanting to be, actually Will Durst was my inspiration when I was getting the comedy.

because he was able to break down really complicated things like foreign policy into humor.

And it turned out I did not have that skill set.

And it was all of my stories about growing up and all autobiographical.

My mom's from Mexico.

My dad was her cab driver.

My dad was Irish.

And her first day in the country, she was going to catch a bus, but she decided to catch a cab.

And she got in his cab.

They started dating.

Yeah,

Pete Schwabba (host)

they got married a

Patty Vasquez (guest)

year later.

And her green car was expiring.

This is probably an important part of the story.

Her green car was expiring and I'm pretty sure it was like, marry me or this goes.

But they were married for the rest of my father's life.

They were in love with each other just never at the same time.

So you get a lot of humor from that upbringing.

So yeah, that's really when I started telling those stories and jobs that I had, that's the way I started.

Because before I started doing stand-up comedy, but I was only 23, I had already had 40.

different jobs but by the time I was 23 years old everything from delivering newspapers I when I was 14

I would go in after they close and I have to spray everything down with alcohol.

I work at Pizza Hut, Subway, Marshall Fields at Water Tower.

I work at The Gap, The Limited, all kinds of restaurants and bars.

Yeah, I mean like I used to, and I hated working, I used to leave in the middle of the day and not show up again.

And I'm afraid to go into some restaurants because I'm not sure if I still work there.

that was that was really but so those stories like you know and you have that many experiences you have all in your really bouncing around your head you got to put it somewhere and i can't afford therapy so i put it out there for folks

Pete Schwabba (host)

the audience is your therapist um yes okay so we i saw this clip of you earlier i'd like to play that dom let's get this oh god it's about a minute long this is patty telling a story about how she dealt with a heckler and here's my issue a lot of comedians

I guess you know a clip that we're gonna play but a lot of comedians post pictures of themselves and then like in the in the work it'll say like the description is comic totally owns heckler and then I'm watching and I'm going where's the owning part this is like it's so lame I can't even believe it's like that's the and typically people post their best stuff but this is and Patty I've seen firsthand is great with hecklers but this is a story she tells on another podcast about how she dealt with a heckler it's gold here it is

Clip playback

If one person thinks that they're more important, then not just the comedian on stage, but also everyone in the audience.

We created this monster with social media because people are seeing the crowd work and they

Pete Schwabba (host)

think they're helping.

I would not say

Clip playback

we, because I don't.

Not you.

It predates social media.

Well, my favorite moment of dealing with somebody who was heckling.

I was in Atlantic City.

They used to hire three headliners, so we would all do 30 minutes.

And I was on stage, and these guys were heckling me, and they were loud.

I mean, it's New Jersey.

They don't have an inside place.

Yeah, yeah.

So I wanted to get the room on my side.

I did 10 minutes and I

kind of feel I'm like I think I got the crowd I'm gonna address this so I walked into the middle of the room and I walked over to the table to the loudest guy and I go hey it sounds like you're not having a good time over here you know that's why we have three comics there's gonna be somebody right after me and he goes go back on stage little girl I was still trying to feel the energy the crowd to see if I had this right and I go look could you just be quiet for the rest of my set like I wasn't swearing or anything I was just like could you just until I'm done how about if I buy you a drink and he goes yeah that sounds good and I go hey bartender can I get a vinegar and water for the

douchebag

Pete Schwabba (host)

over here

Clip playback

and the room like exploded

Pete Schwabba (host)

because

Clip playback

I was so nice that's the most beautiful moment in comedy like okay I know what I'm gonna do in this moment yeah

Pete Schwabba (host)

that is so great how long ago was that Patty did we lose Patty we might have lost

You might have lost Patty.

Oh, no.

She could maybe she probably didn't like the clip we chose.

Maybe when we get her back, I'm going to blame you.

Oh, God.

OK.

All right.

Patty Vasquez is my guest.

We will get Patty back on on the phone or the stream and we will continue to talk to Patty.

In the meantime, I will catch up on some text because we are running a little bit behind on those.

Our question of the night was who is your favorite coach?

So Joe in the 7 1 5 says Ben Johnson, Phil Jackson and Joe Madden.

I think we call him Chicago Joe.

Joe says, Bo Ryan too.

Bo Ryan was a great coach.

How about Dick Bennett too?

While Ron was constant sports and Tony Bennett, his son, talk about a coaching dynasty.

I loved when Dick Bennett moved to UW and took the Badgers to the Final Four.

That was such a great team.

And then Tony Bennett, here's a great thing about Tony Bennett.

I probably would put Tony Bennett even over Dick Bennett because Tony Bennett,

As much as I wanted him to come here to Wisconsin and coach, he coached Virginia.

I think he was the first coach and they were the first team to lose to a 16th seed.

And I remember having this visceral reaction and feeling so bad for Tony Bennett, the Bennett family, because I thought they were just great.

And it was kind of an embarrassment.

Then what does he do?

I believe it was the next year, comes back and wins.

his first NCAA title ever.

And I don't think Dick Bennett won that either.

So that was so great.

Love the Bo Ryan quote, or choice Joe.

And also, I got to give a shout out to Dick and Tony Bennett as well.

Are we having any luck, Dom?

Getting Paddy back.

Still no luck.

John from Madison in the 608, our pal, John Murray says, good evening, Pete.

Well, he said, good evening, pets and Dom.

I think he meant Pete, unless he's talking to all the dogs and cats out there.

But John says, good evening, Pete and Dom.

Loving tonight's show, best coach ever in my lifetime is Mike Curry.

Took the smallest 1A school in the state of Illinois, Algonquin, maybe?

Shortening.

Central Catholic High School in 1982 to the state championship in football.

He turned boys into men.

And at the same time, it was like a second father to many of us, helping us make sense of it all.

He repeated three years later and my younger brother played as a senior.

Magic.

And I guess Phil Jackson was all right too.

Yeah, that was a great.

See, I love those personalized story.

If you have a high school coach or even a grade school coach, your first coach ever, someone who made an impression on you, that's great.

Jim from Appleton and the 920 says, my favorite coach.

Well, there's two.

Of course, the legend, Vince Lombardi and Don Shula.

Two pretty dug on impressive coaches as well.

And Don Shula.

Took his team the Miami Dolphins.

I want to say it was the 72 or 73 dolphins undefeated the only NFL team to go undefeated and win a Super Bowl The 85 Bears were 18-1 won the Super Bowl the Patriots maybe in 2009 Were 18-1 but did not win the Super Bowl They were undefeated going into the game and lost and I believe it was Eli Manning that beat them We were talking about Eli Manning being a big game quarterback unlike his brother

So there you go.

Two great choices.

Thank you, Jim from Appleton as always.

All right, we got Patty back.

We do.

Yes, over.

Oh, fantastic.

Patty, we missed you.

So

weird.

Sorry.

See, that's what happens when you play audio from is about a story of somebody, you know, not for nothing, but someone to care that.

Don't rip on Jersey.

You were talking about your mom and I remember you doing jokes about her in Marinette a few years ago and you

literally had the crowd rolling.

Are you, is that still in your act?

Are you going to listen?

We got to do a very short break and we'll have a couple more minutes with Patty before we let her go after the break.

But we'll talk about memory's ballroom.

We'll get another plug for that in.

And I want you to talk about your mom and the jokes you do about her because if you're doing that in memory's ballroom this weekend, folks, you do not want to miss this.

It's just great stuff.

She's a fantastic, uh, then a comic.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

We are coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwaba

Welcome back.

Tomorrow night on Nightlight Travel Wisconsin's Logan Rogi joins us.

Always fun to have Logan on the show.

Influencer Christina Laurie makes the popcorn pick of the week and Jared shuts from Wisconsin dive bars.

I am way too excited to talk to Jared about what he does.

Also an influencer when it comes to dive bars.

So we'll do all that tomorrow night.

And I don't know if Conrad will be back or not.

But John from Madison says, thanks a bunch for, oh.

Thanks a bunch for sharing my thoughts, Peter.

Much appreciated.

And my better half, Melba, just love your show so damn much.

Thank you, John.

It was great to meet you guys at the Godfather of Green Bay screening last month.

Lots of fun.

John also says, please tell Conrad to suck it up and get back out on that field and get well soon.

I knew John was going to end it on a positive note.

Hey, we've got a couple more minutes with our current guest, Patty Vasquez, a very funny comedian from Chicago.

She is also a very talented radio host.

Patty, tell us one more time.

Memory's Ballroom is this weekend, correct?

Patty Vasquez

Yes, I'll be there on Saturday night.

The best buffet that you possibly imagine.

And then, you know, come for the food, stay for the comedy, is all I'm saying.

It'll be a great night.

Pete Schwaba

Regardless of why you're there, just enjoy the comedy.

Exactly.

Enjoy the fried chicken.

It's great stuff.

Oh, my God, the fried chicken's so good.

So.

I was going to ask you, tell us about your radio show.

You're on the air, too, if people want to give a listen.

Patty Vasquez

Sure.

I'm on WCPT 820 AM in Chicago, and we livestream on our Facebook channel as well as YouTube.

And I have fun talking.

Look, we talk about a wide range of things while it might be current events.

I also love featuring, like you do, artists and performers, musicians, comedians, theater groups.

You know folks that are in local business owners because I think that that's where we need to like you know connect with each other

Pete Schwaba

Your

Patty Vasquez

members are made at your neighborhood like you're your guests coming up tomorrow the dive bars my favorite places to hang out I sit at a bar.

I'm like this is where I'm happy Sitting at the bar at some neighborhood joint, you know

Pete Schwaba

It's so funny too because I remember I was a doorman at a bar in Rush Street when I was like 20 I wasn't even old enough to get in

And I remember going to places like that or you know, you work on the road and there's a big dance bar.

Those are all great.

But I am so with you.

Give me a dive bar where you can just strike up a conversation or there's a great jukebox and I am all set.

Patty Vasquez

They're on a pool table and dartboard.

Bam.

Yeah.

Love it.

Pete Schwaba

There you go.

All right.

So where can people see you after like if they're listening from Chicago tonight, where can they see you?

You have any other upcoming dates?

Patty Vasquez

I'm gonna be at Dino's pizzeria.

Actually, you know, that's a pizza joint in the neighborhood actually Dino's on the Harlem and Higgins and we've got a great

Pete Schwaba

way in

Patty Vasquez

Canada Dwayne Kennedy Hal Sparks Joe Kilgallon and Sully Santos.

We've got a great night of comedy on January 31st.

Pete Schwaba

Yeah, it's a great lineup.

That's fantastic.

Thank you.

And then last thing I always ask a guest this Patty, are you binge watching anything you could recommend?

What are you watching?

Patty Vasquez

Oh my god, you know, I'm I'm actually I'm watching a couple things and they're so wildly different.

I'm actually enjoying Landman with Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore.

That's been enjoyable.

And then I'm watching

Pete Schwaba

this

Patty Vasquez

silly series, this kind of fun show, Elvis.

It kind of reminds me a little bit of Colombo.

She's got this kind of quirky detective kind of thing.

Yeah, I love that show.

Pete Schwaba

That's fantastic.

Well, hey, oh, sorry, go

Patty Vasquez

ahead.

No.

I just I've watched all the seasons.

I just caught up like we've watched him like in a couple weeks Just because it's fun and light and easy to consume.

That's all

Pete Schwaba

Have you ever acted?

Patty Vasquez

I've done some small roles.

I've had a I had a recurring role like whenever they need a mean nurse on Chicago fire And this is something I realized the last time I was on set

Yeah, I'm often the nurse that throws people out of the room.

Last time when Baby Otis was born, if folks remember that episode, I had to clear the room because the firefighters were being too loud.

I threw a dad out of an exam room because he was yelling at his daughter.

Yeah, so anytime you see a mean nurse, it's me because they said all the other ones are very nurturing.

And so they bring me back for that.

Pete Schwaba

Stand-up comedy radio and part of the one Chicago family on NBC You cannot beat that Patty Vasquez knock him dead at memories ballroom my friend and please don't be a

Patty Vasquez

stranger No,

Pete Schwaba

anytime.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah, absolutely.

Let's get it done I know I've been busy, but I appreciate you having me on.

I'm so grateful

Pete Schwaba

Absolutely say had a Dwayne for me.

I will

Patty Vasquez

I will count

Pete Schwaba

all right.

Patty Vasquez

Thank you.

Pete Schwaba

You got it

Patty Vasquez, folks, check her out at Memories Ballroom this weekend in Port Washington.

Such a great venue.

Tom, have you ever been to a comedy club?

Dom Lee

I have not.

In all my 22 years of living, I have not been to a single one.

And I feel like kind of a loser.

But

Pete Schwaba

no, that's been too hard.

But I will say, if you want to check one out, you are sitting above one of the best ones in the whole country, honest to God.

And people say that, like...

It was not around when I did stand up.

I worked, there was a club down the street called Funny Business.

That's no longer there, but comedy on state is like.

You talk to any comic and it's like one of the best clubs in the country.

If not the best

Dom Lee

Yeah, I hear I mean all the time I'm since I am right above them I can hear them below me like directly below me and I hear people laughing and It sounds like a really good time.

I know our parking garage gets absolutely filled up with people going to that comedy club

Pete Schwaba

So there's something at the overture center.

You're totally boned.

Oh, yeah, I'm for

Dash on the stream says a thumbs up to the bumper music dash likes.

That's awesome.

Thank you, Dash.

And then another thumbs up.

Appreciate you listening, pal.

Hey, I want to thank all my guests tonight.

Marv Wall from the Malva Cultural Center.

Always fun to talk to anyone from that great institution.

Marv was a lot of fun.

Thank you, Marv.

Thank you, Jim Healy.

It was great talking movies with Jim.

And Patty Vasquez talking a little comedy checker out at Memories Ballroom this weekend.

Thank you for all your calls and texts.

Cindy, I'm sorry we missed your call earlier, but I know you'll call back soon.

So we will be back again tomorrow night, folks, to do this all over again.

Will Conrad be back or won't he?

Dom, what do you say?

Dom Lee

I think he will.

I'll think he'll, he'll, he'll suck.

What is it?

What does he have again?

I don't quite.

Pete Schwaba

Alien, Alien Hansen.

Dom Lee

There it is.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah, I hopefully he gets over that.

Pete Schwaba

He's gonna have to use his toes on the board, but I'm sure he'll wipe it down.

So I don't catch Alien Hansen.

I

Dom Lee

know.

Pete Schwaba

We will be back tomorrow night on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad and the man filling in out of the bullpen, Dom Lee.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for listening.

We'll be back tomorrow night.

This is Pete Schwab of Good Night

Wisconsin.

Pete Chwaba (host)

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.

Hey, hey, welcome to Night Light everybody.

Happy Wednesday.

You are halfway through the work week, my friends, and the weekend is upon us, and there is going to be so much to do, but we've got so much to talk about tonight on Night Light because first and foremost, I would like to introduce the lovely and talented Dom Lee, who is in for Conrad tonight.

Conrad is under the weather.

He is ill, as they say, in certain circles, and he's taking a well-deserved sick day.

Dom, his temperature was 112 last night, so we just thought it would be best.

112.

Yeah, the sending pack and I'm sure he's doing fine tonight.

Dom Lee (guest host)

How are you, sir?

I'm not doing too bad, you know, I love being on this show.

I love being on nightlight, you know I'm on other shows on the civic media network But this show always gets me going and you want to know why it's because of you Pete.

So thank you Thank you for being here.

It made you blush tonight.

So

Pete Chwaba (host)

listen buddy.

That's a

It is great to have you.

We've worked together several times now, and it's always fun.

And you have made the rounds of the Civic Media shows.

You hosted or produced John and Gordy.

And what are you doing now?

What are your daily duties now?

Dom Lee (guest host)

Now, my daily duties, I kind of go back and forth with another producer, Parker Olson, who is on Mornings with Pat Crightlow.

Yeah, we kind of switched back and forth now, doing Civic Media mornings in the mornings.

And it's been

Pete Chwaba (host)

really fun.

Hold on.

Civic media mornings, airs in the mornings.

Who would have thought, you know?

I find that strange.

So you got Greg Bach, the awesome Greg Bach.

That's cool.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_??

Okay.

Pete Chwaba (host)

So you're you're looking good, buddy.

Are you staying healthy because I would hate to have you go down halfway through the show and then have to bring in Parker or another producer because that would be

Dom Lee (guest host)

tough.

Yeah, I'm doing pretty good.

I have I had a couple New Year's resolutions that I did.

I'm trying I'm starting to work out more.

You know, eat more, eat healthy.

You know, after work, I'm not going to fast food.

Culver's has me in a chokehold right now.

So I would say eating healthier, making my own meals.

But overall, Pete, I'm doing pretty good.

I'm pretty good.

I'm glad to hear that.

What do you make at home?

Like, what

Pete Chwaba (host)

meals are you making when you make dinner at

Dom Lee (guest host)

home?

Well, recently I just made steak, all right, with mashed potatoes.

I make...

Let's see, some spaghetti, some homemade lasagna, so very Italian sort of meals, maybe beside the steak, but I make a lot of good, hearty meals, you know, to really build my fat, you know.

Pete Chwaba (host)

You are an all-American.

kid.

And I say kid, when I say kid, I mean adult.

But that's fantastic.

And you are Italian, correct?

Like you're like, of that famous Chicago Italian breed, where you make spaghetti, you make your own pasta, you probably have your own pasta maker at home, I would have met.

Dom Lee (guest host)

I do.

Yes.

Yes.

And people, people have called me the Italian stallion, which I don't know how much I like that.

But, um, you know, I'll take, I'll take what I can get, you know, you could do a lot worse.

Listen,

Pete Chwaba (host)

If it makes you feel better, I'll call you the Italian medallion.

You like that?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I love

Pete Chwaba (host)

that.

Listen, I want to make you comfortable.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Yes, yes, please.

I love that nickname.

We'll get through this, buddy.

Pete Chwaba (host)

And I'm glad you're... Have you stayed healthy this winter for the most part?

Are you keeping illness at the door?

Dom Lee (guest host)

Yeah, I haven't gotten sick, not gone wood.

I haven't gotten sick in a year, a little over a year.

Now, I haven't gone to the doctors in a while, but I think so far from what my parents say, I'm pretty healthy, you know?

No issues.

Pete Chwaba (host)

That's good.

Well, good for you.

Well, I'm happy to have you.

It's great to work with you once again.

And Conrad, if you're listening, and I seriously doubt you are, get well soon and take care of yourself, buddy.

But we'll hold down the fort here while you're gone.

We've got new sports and weather coming up in just 20 minutes, folks.

Civic Media's news team will keep you posted as we always do.

That is coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Great show tonight.

We've got really fun guests.

Joining me at 535 tonight will be Marv Wall.

Marv is the executive director of the Mulva Center here in Green Bay, a great museum.

We've talked about it before on the show.

They have outstanding exhibits, a great space, and Marv is going to join us at 535 to tell us what's going on.

And I feel bad for saying this.

I still have not been to the Mulva Center, and I think they show great movies.

They have great exhibits.

It's just a dynamite facility.

So one of these days I will make it over there But Marv will tell us what is happening and Dom, you know, he Marv has kind of a name like you kind of an old-school name Marv Dom you guys look like you should you sound like you should be hanging out together at a social club and

I don't know.

Those

Dom Lee (guest host)

are great names, Dom and Marv.

I love Marv.

I think, you know, I probably have a third uncle named Marv somewhere down the line, but I really like that name.

You know, I feel like I can be good friends with them, right?

Maybe during the show, I get a drink after the show with them.

Who knows,

Pete Chwaba (host)

you know?

See what you do.

During the breaks, you know, kind of cozy up.

Maybe before you know it, you guys will be palling around Marvin Dom.

It's a great name.

I'm excited to have Marv on the show for the first time.

Then in hour number two at 635, the awesome Jim Healy will be here.

Jim Healy is one of the programmers of the Wisconsin Film Festival and UW Cinematheque there in Madison.

Dom, have you been to UW Cinematheque?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I have never.

I'm going to be ready just as much as you are.

I have

Pete Chwaba (host)

no clue what that is.

No.

It is, well, I've been there.

I've hosted Q and A's there and I've seen movies there and it's the phenomenal facility right there at Vilas Hall in Madison on University.

It's a free program and they, you know, screen great films, classics, some new movies.

They have great Q and A's there and it is open to the public.

So if you're a movie, if you're a movie buff, definitely check out Cinematech and Jim will be here.

He's one of the programmers.

He also programs or is one of the programmers.

Of the uh, wisconsin film festival, so we'll talk to jim and see what we can expect maybe at this year's festival Which is just around the corner, believe it or not and we will talk movies jim one year on facebook uh mentioned that he had watched 735 movies In one year and i found that amazing and that is pretty typical for him.

So he's a big-time cinephile and we will uh We'll have a great discussion about movies with jim healy at 635 and then at 720

Patty Vasquez ladies and gentlemen brings the funny you've probably seen Patty if you've seen her it's probably been at a Wisconsin comedy club She is a longtime stand-up comic now.

She's a radio host as well She's had a remarkable career and she's very funny.

She's gonna be working memories ballroom in Port Washington So we'll talk to Patty about her upcoming date here in Wisconsin She is a lot of fun and we're from the same hood more or less in Chicago So I'm excited to connect with my old pal Patty that will be a lot of fun

Dom if I had to tell you Who the most who the highest grossing actor was in the history of Hollywood?

Would you have a guess would you

Dom Lee (guest host)

even know where to start?

I might have one guess maybe By the way Tom Hanks Probably way off.

Pete Chwaba (host)

That's a great get well.

I mean it's listen if someone had asked me that question I probably would have said Tom Hanks Tom Cruise Harrison Ford, you know

Maybe Scarlett Johansson it was Scarlett Johansson, but she has been dethroned Zoe Saldana Wow is the highest grossing movie actor of all time She has made her films I should say have made and they're going by film grosses 15 billion dollars She was in all three of the avatars

She was in three Star Trek's two Avengers movies one of the Pirates of the Caribbean And she's probably gonna stay in the top slot for quite a while because there are at least two more Avatar films in the pipeline So Zoe's sell down 15

Dom Lee (guest host)

billion that's starting to add up that start now now that makes sense That's I mean a bunch of Star Trek movies.

Yeah, there's I mean there's a lot of high-end movies there.

It makes sense

Pete Chwaba (host)

I will say, I don't think those movies made that money because of Zoe Saldana, but it is a testament to her talent.

She is an Oscar winner and she is an unbelievably talented actor.

But I don't think she carries like the star power, even of a Scarlett Johansson who was number one before her or a Tom Hanks, but that could change.

I mean, she's a big shot and that was kind of cool to read that.

We've got a lot to get to too.

You know what, Tom?

Let's not waste any more time.

I'm sick of screwing around here.

We're 10 minutes in.

I think it's time we get to the night like question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Here, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Domanda.

Question.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Question.

Pete Chwaba (host)

Questions.

You ready for this, Tom?

All right, you're nodding.

It's radio, buddy.

You got to say yes.

Let's hear it.

Who is your favorite coach?

Who is your favorite coach?

It could be college.

It could be pro.

It could be fictional.

And I got the inspiration of this question because I think the movie Coach Carter dropped today and I started thinking.

And yesterday we were talking about all the coaching vacancies in the NFL.

A lot of coaches have been fired.

A lot of good coaches have been fired or walked away.

Mike Tomlin.

John Harbaugh, Mike McDonald.

You could argue whether or not Mike McDonald is a good coach.

He didn't have a great record, but he was kind of a hotshot when he took that gig in Miami.

And who was the other one?

Someone, oh, Brian Stafansky, a two-time coach of the year, but he's been stuck in Cleveland.

They let him go.

So there you go.

It's coaches are everywhere.

So let us know who is your favorite coach, folks.

That is tonight's question of the night.

You can let me know at 855-752-4842-855-75CIVIC.

If you are listening on the app, you can send us a text over the app.

It's very easy to use the Civic Media app, and we are on statewide.

So just click the little icon next to the station you're listening in or on and send us who your favorite coach is.

If you're watching the radio on the stream, drop us a stream comment and give us a like or a follow while you're there at Facebook or YouTube or

Wherever you happen to be joining us from so Do you have an answer to this Dom?

I want to say my favorite coach.

I have two And they're both actually I'm gonna say three and I know you and I are both bear fans

Dom Lee (guest host)

I have one.

Yep.

I have one.

I think I know I'm gonna

Pete Chwaba (host)

jump ship here Dom You might not be happy with this Vince Lombardi and I love George Hallis.

I love lovey Smith I think it looks like Ben Johnson's working out, but I'm gonna say

This one party's not my favorite all time, but you could argue he is the greatest coach of all time.

My two favorites are in the world of hoops, and they are Greg Popovich and Phil Jackson.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

Yep.

Phil Jackson was

Pete Chwaba (host)

great.

Great.

I mean, 10 titles, sticks with the bulls, four with the Lakers.

You can't argue with that.

And then Pop, who I think is a free thinker.

I love the way he thinks.

I love how he's kind of like Phil Jackson, even though I don't think they really liked each other.

They kind of had this rivalry.

And Phil Jackson said at one point, Greg Popovich has to have an asterisk next to his one of his titles because I think it was during a strike year or something like that.

But they are both fantastic coaches.

And then in football, I would say it's hard to argue.

And I'm basing this on what I've heard other people say over the years about Vince Lombardi.

So I got to put Vince Lombardi up there too.

What about you, Dom?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I would say, again, I wasn't born when this coach was a coach, but I would say Mike Dicca.

I would say Mike Dick is probably one of the one of the better, one of the best coach.

This is super biased, but I do.

I do

Pete Chwaba (host)

really

Dom Lee (guest host)

like Mike Dick.

I like Ben Johnson right now as well.

But Vince Lombardi was a great choice.

I really respect that.

And also Greg Popovich, you know, he perfected the art of passing.

So I like all of these, these, these coaches.

Yeah.

Pete Chwaba (host)

I'm a big fan.

I like Popovich.

I like that he speaks his mind.

I know sometimes people think sports people or coaches should stay in their lane.

I disagree.

I think if you.

You're entitled to an opinion like anybody else, and Popovich is great.

I liked it, Ditka.

I thought he was a great motivator for that one year in 85.

I remember it.

He was great.

But I don't know that he's a great ex as an O's.

He's a great coach.

I just don't know if I'd put him in that upper echelon.

But definitely Phil Jackson, Greg Popovich for me, and Vince Lombardi, and don't tell any of my better friends.

So let us know who your favorite coach is.

Is it the, are we going to break already?

Dom Lee (guest host)

We

Pete Chwaba (host)

are already gone.

We are coming right back, folks.

And when we do, I'm going to tell you about what is the most dangerous sport.

This is Pete Schwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Dom Lee (guest host)

Network.

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Great to have you with me, folks, on this Wednesday night.

Conrad is under the weather, folks.

He's got the pig flu, but I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow.

I hope not.

If it's the pig flu, I want him to take a week.

You know what I mean, Tom?

I was teasing him for having scurvy, but he just had the scratchy throat, and I looked it up myself.

I self-diagnosed, and I told him to take a night off.

Is that strange for a boss to...

to do like a little brief inspection.

Dom (co-host)

Not at all.

And in fact, it's very nice of you.

You know, I appreciate that.

And I'm sure Conrad does too.

He's going to be he's going to be lively tomorrow.

Tomorrow, let me tell you, he's going to be up.

Pete Schwab (host)

Save him some money.

Yeah, I don't know if he reaches deductible or not.

I'm just trying to help a brother out, you know.

Hey, new sports and weather folks is coming up in just seven minutes.

So sit tight for that.

This is a fun night here at Nightlight tonight.

My guests are Marv Wall from the.

Malva Center in Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay Jim Healey from Madison Cinematheque UW Cinematheque is here to talk movies in the second hour and some funny Patty Vasquez joins me in hour number three at 7 20 our question of the night is who is your favorite coach a Very important question that needs to be asked.

I do want to say Dom I do this once in a while people text me at the last minute when we're about to go off the air and I miss it

And I don't like to miss texts from listeners.

So last night, right at the end of the show, our question was, who is your current movie or TV crush?

And Bridget from the 818 said officer Dante on Chicago PD.

Benjamin Levi Aguilar.

I think she's saying the actor's name is.

Do you know that actor, Dom?

I

Dom (co-host)

don't.

I'm going to have to Benjamin Levi Aguilar.

I gotta look that up.

You gotta go to the Google.

Yeah, I gotta go to

Pete Schwab (host)

Google.

Now, I met your girlfriend.

You brought your girlfriend with you to the screening of The Godfather of Green Bay in December.

Very nice girl.

You're dating up, as they say.

So good for you.

But do you have a celebrity TV or a movie crushed on?

Dom (co-host)

Oh, man.

I think I... Robbie... Who's...

Uh, from Wolf of Wall Street.

What's her, what's her name?

See, this is why, you know... Margot Robbie.

Margot Robbie.

There we go, yes.

Pete Schwab (host)

You started with Rob and I was like, wait a minute, you have a girlfriend, but that's okay.

It could be a man crush.

Dom (co-host)

I hope she's not listening.

Yeah, Margot Robbie, yeah.

She's

Pete Schwab (host)

a great one, yeah.

Now, would your girlfriend be upset if she heard you say you had a harmless crush on Margot Robbie?

Dom (co-host)

She wouldn't, but I wouldn't tell her.

I wouldn't.

I'm not going to tell her that I do have a secret crush on Margot Robbie.

It's just not something that I think she would enjoy.

She wouldn't outwardly say it, but, you know, she'll give me a cold shoulder every now and then.

So.

OK.

Why rock the boat?

Pete Schwab (host)

You want a blissful home life.

So before the break, I talked about this.

I found this.

I thought this was great.

This was from a wise brother media.

Dangerous sports that you wouldn't necessarily think are dangerous.

Number one, water polo.

Wow.

And here's what, under the description, it says, one person says, I'm a pretty strong guy, but nothing prepared me for the brutality of what goes on above and especially below the surface.

It's straight up mauling a water-based combat sport.

Another says they still have scarves from people's finger and toenails and another compared it to competitive drowning.

Dom (co-host)

That is nuts.

I mean, yeah, you have to tread water for, I think, pretty much the whole time.

I mean, I can't.

Being goalie is even difficult, you know what I mean?

Because you're staying in one spot.

Pete Schwab (host)

Absolutely.

Just treading water would be exhausting for that length of time.

And I knew there was like jockeying and it got a little physical.

I had no idea to this degree, though.

Another one, and this surprised me, darts.

It's not just a risk of you getting hit in the back.

It's alcoholism One dark player said major incidents of Surprises of the liver and it's not a joke you compete in the pubs you drink it calms your nerves and you drink more Another said how many sports are there where you can actually drink and smoke when it's not your turn I used to joke in my stand-up act that golf if you could wear a cardigan and smoke and drink between turns

Not really a sport.

It's a skill, definitely.

But they put darts in that category as well.

Number three, sumo wrestling.

And I get that 100%.

The only sport, one person says it's the only sport I watch and injuries are extremely common, especially for the knees.

That's weird because the water polo and the darts were a bit of a surprise.

Nothing with wrestling in the title.

would surprise me that it's a dangerous sport.

I'm sure the injuries are crazy.

Here's one, Dom, for you.

Cheerleading.

I could

Dom (co-host)

see that.

I could see that too.

I could definitely see that.

You're 20 feet or 10 feet off the ground, if not more.

Yeah, there's bound to be some injuries to be had there.

Pete Schwab (host)

And I know God.

I remember I was friends with a couple of the dudes that were cheerleaders, and they said it's really stressful.

You're launching a girl in the air,

Sometimes they met now the fall is typically broken a little bit.

They don't just outright miss them, but that would be terrifying And the other one that I think tug of war is on this list, which I found strange But it says if you look at the Wikipedia page it lists death and dismemberment and its accidents people aren't understanding physics and use a rope not rated for the tension the rope snaps and with the force of a combined pull snaps back and can kill people on impact

And here I was about to start a tug of war club here in Marinette, Wisconsin.

I do think like gymnastics, like I see what these girls and these guys do when they're, and here's what makes me what I don't get.

How do you practice that?

Like these people are doing triple flips.

And how do you even practice that?

I know you get spotted when you do one, but it is insanity to me.

And what they can do is such a skill.

It's really impressive, but I can see where it would be dangerous as well.

Dom (co-host)

I know my sister did that a lot too.

She was heavy into gymnastics, and there's a lot of just trial and error, you know, keep falling and getting back up.

That's pretty much

Pete Schwab (host)

it.

It's even worse if you're heavy in gymnastics, Dom.

I'm not saying your sister wasn't a thing, it's harder to do some of the stunts.

Daniel Wheeler on the stream says, my favorite coach is Tom Burvin.

He was my high school tennis coach.

Oh, we should have opened it up there too, yeah.

folks, if you've had a coach that you're favorite to feel free to share that as well.

Stacy Su on the stream says Mike Holmgren.

I thought we might hear Mike might make that list too.

All right, new sports and weather is next.

We're coming back with Marv Wallets, Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Dom Lee

Welcome

Pete Chihuahua

back.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight.

It is great to have you here on this Wednesday night, folks.

We are broadcasting live from beautiful downtown Green Bay and being produced from Madison tonight.

Dom Lee is sitting in for Conrad, who is, he's got the bird flu.

No, it's Scurvy.

I don't know.

He's got the mumps.

I don't know.

Conrad is under the weather.

I got to ask, I got to ask real quick.

Sorry.

What is Scurvy?

Scurvy's like that when you lack vitamin C. A lot of guys that used to sail used to get it back when I was in the Merchant Marines.

A lot of the guys were good.

I was kidding though.

My love when you don't know, like for all you know, I was on ships with guys that had scurvy.

But this is years ago and they lacked vitamin C so they would get like these gum diseases.

And it was, you know, kind of a serious thing.

It was that.

And Ricketts, that was the other big illness where you, I think your bones just deteriorate.

But even though I gave Conrad the once over and I examined him last night, I am not a doctor and I am not qualified to answer these questions.

However, there is a guy about to join the show who is much smarter than me and we will ask him all kinds of questions about really cool stuff you might see at the Mova Cultural Center.

He is the executive director there.

right there in Green Bay, a beautiful, really cool facility that we have in downtown Green Bay.

Mr. Marv Wall joins me tonight.

Hi, Marv.

Hi.

How are you doing tonight?

Good.

How are you?

Marv Wall

Really good.

Maybe

Pete Chihuahua

a thanks

Marv Wall

on reference.

Maybe it's Lupus.

Pete Chihuahua

Lupus is another grape.

Hey, any guess who comes on the show, Marv, and opens with a Seinfeld joke is Tops in my book.

So I'm even more glad you're here now.

Great

Dom Lee

reference.

Pete Chihuahua

Right.

Do you have a favorite coach, Marv?

Favorite coach?

Wow.

That's our question of

Dom Lee

the night.

Marv Wall

My Packers roots will probably get me to Lambo and Lombardi.

We actually had an exhibit here for that.

The Packers loaned us when the draft was in town and it had the history of the Packers from 1919 on and what truly Lambo did with his relationships with the Presquizette and such.

You got to give him kudos for starting the best franchise in the NFL.

Pete Chihuahua

That's pretty hard to argue with that.

And we've talked about this.

And I actually said Vince Lombardi as well.

I spent the first part of my childhood in Chicago.

I am a Bears fan, but the two things I will say, it's tough to argue with.

Vince Lombardi is possibly the greatest coach ever.

And the Packer Museum, the Packer Hall of Fame, I should say, really outstanding exhibit there at Lambeau Field.

Marv Wall

Yeah, I agree and they just took what they had in storage and created an exhibit for us and it was amazing.

Pete Chihuahua

That's excellent.

So all right, so we've talked a little bit about the Malva before here on the show, but you know, this is the first time you've been on.

So give us a little background, Marv.

What's your story?

Marv Wall

Well, the mobile center was started two years ago.

I was actually on board for the construction.

So I've been here for four and a half years now.

So we were two and a half years under construction.

And then we opened in December of 23.

So we've just been open for two years.

So we've only had three large exhibits per year.

So that's six large exhibits.

And then all the other things that we have going on here too.

So we're a fairly young organization.

And we just made a big change this last year in our pricing model where previously we had charged for our large exhibits and films, and now we're offering those for free for our large exhibits plus most films.

There's some that we have to charge for because of the way they're contracted, but it was a big change in December, which has been a huge change for us.

Pete Chihuahua

You talked about how long you've been there.

Where were you before you were at the Malva Center?

Marv Wall

I started my career as a CPA actually for 13 years, local firm called Winfley, and then worked at an engineering company for the next 23 years.

So most of my career was working with accountants and engineers.

So working at a cultural center is a bit foreign to me, but exercising the other side of my brain has been a lot of fun.

Pete Chihuahua

It sounds great.

I always thought like working at a museum or a theater would be pretty chill and kind of a fun gig, you know kind of laid back, but So all right, Marv, let's talk about some of the things you guys have coming up here Do you get what is what do you guys offer?

Let's say that other museums might not like what what makes the Malva Center Cultural Center stand out more as opposed not that it's a competition.

I know you guys all work together, but what's different about it?

Marv Wall

It's a different type of model.

Most museums have a static offering.

We were just at the Reagan Museum last October, and obviously it's geared toward Ronald Reagan, and they have a lot of things very specific to him.

And so there's children's museums.

Other types of museums typically have a fairly static or doesn't change a lot offering, because that's what they want to show.

Procure where our content changes constantly we typically have three large exhibits a year so our Our offering is ever-changing so we don't want to be the place where you just come one time and say oh check the box I've been there.

I don't need to go back again for another five to ten years We want to bring you back again and again with our various varied offerings and you know

have it be the place where if I'm looking for something to do, Mobile Cultural Center comes to the top of mine.

Pete Chihuahua

That's a great answer.

Are you referring to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California?

Marv Wall

Yep.

When we get to our exhibits, we co-curated an exhibit with them, and it's playing there.

It's showing there now.

It'll be coming here next summer.

Pete Chihuahua

That is an absolutely spectacular.

I've been there and it's an incredible spot I mean, I think and I if I remember correctly Reagan is buried there and it overlooks like this gorgeous I mean, it's like on the side of a mountain sort of in it I was like the only thing bad about that is that he can't enjoy the view because it's Unbelievable and the stuff they have there is really cool.

So

Marv Wall

they do a great job.

They're really good people there.

Pete Chihuahua

Yeah

For sure.

OK, so what do we have?

Marv Wall is my guest, folks.

He is the executive director of the Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay, just an absolute gem right there in in Tidal Town.

What do you have coming up?

Let's talk about some of your exhibits.

You've got you want to start with films, because I love what you guys offer in the way of films, or we could just go with exhibits that are upcoming.

Where would you like to start?

Marv Wall

How about we start with exhibits?

That's our next biggest thing.

That's kind of our main focus, I should say.

We have a 10,000 square foot exhibit hall on our second floor.

We just moved out life in space a couple weeks ago and we're moving in the real Genghis Khan right now.

So that's our next big exhibit.

Genghis Khan was kind of a, people either loved him or hate him.

His father was actually killed when he was nine years old, and his family then was outcast, but by the tribe that he was in.

So he had to create some alliances, gather some other people to help fight with him, started unifying different tribes, and kept doing that until he had the largest contiguous empire in the world, and that still stands today.

pretty much as a self-made person.

And a lot of things we talk about today are because of him.

He actually promoted trade and religious freedom, and that's one of the ways he unified his empire.

He kept everybody together that they weren't still trying to fight and get away from his empire.

They wanted to be part of it.

Part of it was because they were afraid of him, too, because he kept trying to...

Increase the size of his empire and was pretty ruthless in doing that So it's a lot of a lot of history that About Genghis Khan and how he came to power and what he was able to do I

Pete Chihuahua

remember watching I think it was the Discovery Channel they talked about Genghis Khan and they talked to These guys in San Francisco and they all thought they were probably descendants of Genghis Khan like he

it's supposedly responsible for millions of people being alive.

Like he did a lot of stuff, not just intimidating,

Marv Wall

but... Pro-lythic if you might want to use that

Pete Chihuahua

word.

That's a great word for it.

He was, or to quote another Seinfeld, he was a master of his domain.

Anyway, there's great, it says you have the largest collection of Genghis Khan-era artifacts ever to tour the world.

I love that that is just coming right to Green Bay.

and also you'll have a live Mongolian musical performances and a chance to speak with the artist.

Is that part of Malva's sort of modus operandi too, is that it's more interactive like that?

Marv Wall

Exactly.

Each exhibit has its own uniqueness.

And this is our first one where we'll have live performers in it.

So there's always something different or something new that is with each exhibit.

Dinosaurs are dinosaurs.

We had a lot of animatronic dinosaurs.

The Lego exhibit had things that you could do and kind of lose yourself in Legos for an afternoon if you want.

This one has a lot of history, but then it has live performers that will be in our exhibit hall every day for performances.

There'll be singing, there'll be calligraphy, in period clothing, so it'll be a neat exhibition.

Pete Chihuahua

You have one coming up too, it's a ways off it.

Rolls in in June, the Cowboys history and Hollywood.

I spent years in Southern California.

I'm a writer and I am fascinated by Will Rogers.

We've been to that museum before.

So that exhibit really jumped out at me.

It looks like it's just a lot of fun.

What can you tell us about Cowboys history and Hollywood?

Speaking of Ronald

Marv Wall

Reagan, by the way.

Right, that's another first for us.

We co-developed that with the Reagan Museum.

So that one is

Premiered in October at the Reagan Museum, it'll be going through April of this year.

And then they'll pack it up and ship it to us.

So it'll be running here June 10th to 12th.

We'll have a member only preview.

And then June 13th, it's open through September 7th.

Very neat exhibit.

I got to meet a lot of the people that put the exhibit together.

And they're very passionate about the

They have really great connections out there with different museums with the Ronald Reagan portion of it.

They really didn't emphasize in their exhibit, but when it comes here, they're going to send us an extra section just for the connection with Ronald Reagan in Hollywood.

So it'll be one of the few exhibits that we get that are brand new, that will be the second time being shown.

Pete Chihuahua

Yeah, that's really exciting and then you've got right now if people want to catch it a tactile images exhibit art or seven art movements is that that's here through February 11th couple a few more weeks if you want to check it out

Marv Wall

Right.

That's we we have two exhibit spaces one is our large 10,000 square foot hall upstairs, which we have the large exhibits The Packer exhibit that I talked about previously and now tactile images is down in our atrium.

So that's a smaller space

those have always been free for people just to come in and view and they're just in the open space.

In our exhibit hall it's museum quality so there's no outside light, external light sources and things like that that you need to have for museum quality whereas the things in the atrium typically are a different level.

So the tactile images will be here through February 11th and then we'll change that over to where children sleep from February 18th to April 15th.

is about how everybody is different.

People live differently.

And it kind of focuses on the children and how they go about their lives.

So it's about different people and kind of focuses on the children.

Pete Chihuahua

That's great.

We're going to do a very short break.

We'll come back and have a few more minutes with Marv.

He's going to tell us what films we can see at the Malva.

New sports and weather coming up in 10 minutes.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Marv Wall (guest)

Welcome

Pete Schwab (host)

back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Night Light.

Great to have you with me.

News is on the way, folks, just about eight minutes away.

Our question of the night here at Night Light tonight is, who is your favorite coach?

And it can be a fictional character, like coach on Cheers or...

Craig T. Nelson or Denzel Washington or remember the Titans.

If you had a high school coach, any coach, all options are on the table.

My guest right now is the director of the Malva Cultural Center in Green Bay, Mr. Marv Wall.

Marv, have I told you how cool your name is?

I love the name Marv.

Marv Wall (guest)

No, you haven't.

Pete Schwab (host)

You get that?

It's an old school name.

I love it.

Marv Wall (guest)

It is old school.

Yeah, there's not many Marvs out there, but.

Pete Schwab (host)

No, it's very cool.

I was saying because the producer tonight is Dom I like Dom and Marv you guys sound like you should be hanging out at a social club like in the 1960s Marv Marv will get a beer after this.

How about that?

You know?

Marv Wall (guest)

There

Pete Schwab (host)

we

Marv Wall (guest)

go.

We can talk about another great coach Marv Levy.

Oh,

Pete Schwab (host)

there you go Boy, that was heartbreaking that I've never felt for a guy, you know, it was I think it was Dan Dan Reeves and Marv Levy both

both lost four Super Bowls, and they were great coaches.

They were.

Marv, we have just a few more minutes here.

Let's talk about some of the films you guys have playing such great movies.

And there's one that's just around the corner.

It's playing on the 18th, which I believe is Saturday, Mysteries of the Great Lakes.

I'm fascinated by the Great Lakes.

What can you tell us about this film?

Marv Wall (guest)

Yeah, that's what I really like.

We have six different documentaries going and every quarter we dropped three off and add three new ones.

Mysteries of the Great Lakes has been a great one for us.

It actually has a lot of footage from here in Chano in Chiachton with the sturgeon spearing, when that hatch, not spearing, the sturgeon spawning where they come up the river and it's, you know, you can walk across the river because of all the sturgeon that are there.

So it's it has a lot of local connections and that's really a lot of our more popular films have that local connection

Pete Schwab (host)

That's great.

I've seen the sturgeon up here in Marinette when they It's unbelievable like these prehistoric fish and we saw a couple that were probably 10 feet long

They're absolutely fascinating.

And I didn't realize that that's what that film features.

So that sounds like a really cool.

Now, if people wanted to see that, Mar, where would they go?

Do they just show up and pay or should they buy tickets ahead of time?

Marv Wall (guest)

Those are free.

So, but we do recommend that you register for tickets ahead of time because with our new model, we're

We're very popular now.

So there's a lot of people that want to see the different films.

So on the website, you can register for the tickets there.

That one shows pretty much every day at a different time.

Our six different documentaries will rotate different times.

So if you go on our website and just register for the tickets, there will be no cost.

But we have 200 seats in our auditorium.

We just want to make sure that we're not oversold.

And then the

Pete Schwab (host)

thing is,

Marv Wall (guest)

the large exhibit, we do the same thing.

We only allow so many people per hour or half hour to go through the exhibit so that we can make it safe and a good experience for everyone.

Actually, for life in space over Christmas, we were typically booked from the minute we opened to the minute we closed with people that wanted to come in and see the exhibit.

Pete Schwab (host)

Is that

Marv Wall (guest)

one done?

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah, is life in

Marv Wall (guest)

space gone now?

Yeah, that left on January 5th So we're about a week a couple weeks away from Genghis Khan.

So that'll be our next large

Pete Schwab (host)

exhibit And I'm just sitting here thinking how much fun I would have but is it it's there are the films all family friendly as well

Marv Wall (guest)

Yes, and most of them you can't, you know, in the world now of streaming movies, you can pretty much stream anything you want, but the documentaries that we get aren't available on streaming services.

They're typically 40 minutes long, so we see a lot of, you know, families come in where you don't want to sit down for a two-and-a-half-hour movie, but for 40 minutes you can keep a youngster interested.

that are very popular.

So we actually do have a space documentary yet, the space, the new frontier is one of our documentaries.

And then there's another one, Lewis and Clark, The Great Journey West, very popular too.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's the other one I was just going to ask you about in the space.

Like, is the cinematography on that, like from the Hubble telescope, or do you show like the Eagle Nebula and that kind of stuff?

What is that?

Because everyone is fascinated by space.

Marv Wall (guest)

Right.

It actually shows very well on our screen.

Our Samsung Onyx screen is an LED screen, so it's

Pete Schwab (host)

not like

Marv Wall (guest)

your projector screens in most other movie theaters.

The picture on it is extraordinary.

It's one of only three in the United States currently, so it's very high quality.

And when you're showing, like you say, the crab nebula and all these different things in space, the picture is really great.

Pete Schwab (host)

Before we let you go, Marv, and thank you again for your time.

Is there an exhibit you haven't had yet that you would love to get?

Marv Wall (guest)

Oh, boy.

Actually, I'd like to talk about our last exhibit for this next summer.

It's an exhibition about cancer, which you think, oh, who would want to go see that?

But it was created by M.D.

Anderson out of Texas, and it will be the second place that it shows.

For that one, too, they're going to premiere it in Houston, then we get it second.

But it's from cause to cure.

So it's a hopeful and an educational exhibit about what's new and innovative in fighting cancer and some feel-good stories about good things that are happening in that arena.

That'll be half of our exhibit hall, and then the other half will be a fine arts exhibit.

So it'll be a new thing for us that our first time, you know, with everything to the cultural center, you need to have fine art there.

It'll be our first exhibit that we truly have some fine art here

Pete Schwab (host)

coming in next fall.

Outstanding.

Truly a treasure right there in Green Bay, the Malva Cultural Center.

Thank you so much.

Check it out, folks.

Thank you so much for your time tonight, Marv.

Marv with a cool name.

Let's do it again sometime.

Have a great night.

Marv Wall (guest)

We'd love to.

Thank you.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

We are coming right back after news sports and weather.

Lots to discuss.

We're going to tell you about some records that were set in Wisconsin and Jim Healey will be here to talk movies at 635.

It's all in Act 2.

Peach Wabba Nightlight, Civic Canadian Radio Network.

Peach Waba (host)

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Peach Waba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who once tore his ACL playing chess, Peach Waba.

Hey, welcome back to Night Light,

folks.

It is time for Act 2 here on a Wednesday night in the beautiful state of Wisconsin.

It is great to have you with me tonight.

Wherever you're joining us from, welcome.

Lots of fun here tonight.

If you missed the first hour of the show, we talked to Marv Wall, a guy with a really cool name.

Dom, would you agree?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I would.

Like I said, I got to get a beer with him.

He agreed, too.

So, you know, this is a

Peach Waba (host)

win-win.

Now you're, now it's awkward.

Now you got it.

Who's

Dom Lee (guest host)

going to

Peach Waba (host)

take that first step?

Yeah.

And then he just left it.

No, he was a lot of fun to talk to.

And that is the voice of Dom Lee, who is filling in for Conrad tonight.

I just confirmed what Conrad has.

Conrad is out sick tonight.

As it turns out, he has gigantism.

So.

That's a tough one.

I don't know that he'll be back tomorrow.

It takes a while to kick it and have everything come back into shape and size.

But if anyone can do it, the guy who can bench almost 300 pounds can do it.

Conrad will be just fine, folks.

Don't need to worry about Conrad.

So we'll confirm that too.

There might be an update later in the show as to what Conrad is battling.

My guess is it's kind of what I have, but maybe a little worse, scratchy throat, cold cough, that kind of stuff.

Here's the season and Conrad get well soon.

Dom Lee, it is great to work with you again.

And let's make this, you know, we're talking about coaches tonight.

Let's make this a Notre Dame moment where we tap the sign and say let's let's do radio like a champion for the second hour.

Third hour we can slack off, but let's let's really kick some ass to the second hour.

Let's

Dom Lee (guest host)

do it.

Let's do it.

I'm good.

SPEAKER_??

Okay.

Peach Waba (host)

So if you missed the first hour folks, check it out at civicmedia.us.

Marv Wall was here.

He was a lot of fun to talk about.

And that Malva Cultural Center in downtown Green Bay is just a really cool, cool space.

So definitely check that out.

We also discussed dangerous sports, water polo, who knew was dangerous.

And darts as well, because there is alcohol involved.

My guest this hour is my guest, I should say, is Jim Healy.

He will be here at 6.35.

Jim is one of the programmers of UW Cinematheque, which is at Vilas Hall.

It is a free program.

Check it out, folks.

It's right there in Madison, and they bring in some outstanding films, some great prints, some restored classics.

They have it all there, and they occasionally have great Q&As as well.

It's like a year-long film festival.

experience right there at UW Cinema Tech.

Jim is also one of the programmers of the Wisconsin Film Festival and he is a big time cinephile.

So we're gonna talk movies with Jim at 635.

Later in the show, Patty Vasquez, very funny comedian will be here and she is now also a columnist and a radio host and I think she is a plumber.

I'm kidding.

She does all kinds of stuff though, folks.

It'll be great to have Patty here and that's at 720.

And I think, uh, con or con.

Oh, look what I did.

Oh, man.

You

Dom Lee (guest host)

know, I'm

Peach Waba (host)

sorry.

It's Dom, con.

It's those two are.

I encourage one of you to change because common Don, I don't know.

You just did this to Dom.

Dom Lee (guest host)

I know.

No, I didn't.

Oh, I knew you were going to say something there.

I knew you were going to say it.

I.

Peach Waba (host)

Listen, that cracks me up.

I saw what South Park did with six, seven a couple of weeks ago when I watched the season finale.

Hilarious my wife is a kindergarten teacher even the kindergarten kids are getting into the six seven stuff and they go six seven

Dom Lee (guest host)

if anything they're getting in more to it than you know 20 to 30 or higher 20 higher I mean every younger generation kid is just that's that's they're getting obsessed with it it's too much it's way too much

Peach Waba (host)

you know it's really strange because my wife is a kindergarten teacher

and she says that she kind of talks and for those of you not watching on the stream we're moving our hands like kind of up and down each hand that's the sign the universal symbol for the phrase six seven and my wife talks like that automatically and these kindergartners will give each other looks like side eyes like she's doing six seven like

Kindergarteners cracking up and that cracks me up.

I think it's a really funny thing

Dom Lee (guest host)

if I was a kindergartner I would be doing the same thing, you know, absolutely,

Peach Waba (host)

you know, it's

Dom Lee (guest host)

a good

Peach Waba (host)

deal to look forward to during the day a snack and that come on get some six seven action But let's reintroduce our nightlight question of the night

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Peach Waba (host)

Who is your favorite coach?

And just to reiterate, folks, it could be a real coach, college, pro, any sport, high school, you name it.

Maybe a coach you had.

A fictional coach, like coach from Cheers.

Coach Carter, Coach—what was his name?

Remember the Titans or the coach from Rudy?

Whatever.

Gene Hackman from Hoosiers.

That's a great coach.

Let us know what your favorite—who your favorite coach was.

You can let us know on the text line at 855-752-4842-8557.

You can also text us on the app.

Or if you are watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or—

X you can drop us a stream comment.

We'd like to read stream comments as well And we love that there are people out there viewing the radio.

That's always fun, too So let us know we've got some clips here, too.

We Dom I got his name right this time.

I didn't call Conley.

That's a great sounding

Dom Lee (guest host)

name Yes, I gotta I gotta meet with Conrad and talk about that.

Yeah, that's good.

Peach Waba (host)

That sounds better than

Dom Krieger, although Dom Krieger sounds kind of cool too.

Dom Lee (guest host)

People say Dominic, you know, you can just switch the full government name if you want.

Dominic Krieger, full government name.

Love it, buddy.

Peach Waba (host)

All right, let's hear one of these clips.

I tasked Dom with finding great coach clips, and I recommended Bobby Knight because he's always a good one.

The other one is Dennis Green and you found, well, let's start with the one you found.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Okay,

Peach Waba (host)

all right.

Tell us about this clip.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Yeah, this is Mike Gundy.

I think he was an Oklahoma State football coach.

I don't remember the exact date, but he was mad at the media press for, you know, kind of harping down on his young players and he wanted it to harp down on himself.

So let's take

Mike Gundy (audio clip)

a

Dom Lee (guest host)

listen.

Mike Gundy (audio clip)

That's why I don't read the newspaper.

because it's garbage.

And the editor that let it come out is garbage.

Attacking an amateur athlete for doing everything right.

And then you want to write articles about guys that don't do things right and downgrade them, the ones that do make place.

Are you kidding me?

Where are we at in society today?

Come after me.

I'm a man.

I'm 40.

I'm not a kid.

Write something about me or our coaches.

I'm writing about a kid that does everything right.

That's hearts broken and then say that the coach has said he was scared.

That ain't true.

And then to say that we made that decision because Donovan was because he threatened to transfer.

That's not true.

So get your facts straight.

And I hope someday you have a child and somebody downgrades him and belittles him and you have to look him in the eye and say, you know what, it's OK.

Peach Waba (host)

There we go.

I actually love that I sticking up for his players.

That's great.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Yeah.

Yeah, I great clip I loved it I and I there's an iconic little piece in there, you know, I'm 40, you know, I'm you know talk to me I thought that was really funny.

I just thought it was love it

Peach Waba (host)

Yeah, I love a cup first of all any coach with a southern accent goes up a couple points You're always more fun to listen to and I just love that he stuck up for his players like that We've got a text from the 715 Christie says Ted lasso

I'm not surprised we heard Ted Lasso.

People love Ted Lasso.

Great choice, Christie, and thank you for listening.

Hope everything is doing great there in Eau Claire tonight.

It's great to have you.

608 says Tony Dungey.

Totally classy.

That's a great one, too.

Super Bowl winner.

Dom, do you remember that Super Bowl?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I do.

Briefly.

Briefly.

Not terribly, but I remember.

I remember a little bit.

Yeah, absolutely.

We beat our bears, buddy.

In 06.

I tried to forget about

Peach Waba (host)

it.

Yeah, that's right.

And it was kind of, you know, it's really weird.

Peyton Manning.

I know people love the guy.

I'm fine with him.

I don't love him, but like, he's got two Super Bowl rings.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Unbelievable.

Peach Waba (host)

But in a Super Bowl, in a big game, I would take his brother.

Eli took the Super Bowl.

They want his teams won because of his play.

Peyton Manning kind of backed in.

I don't know if you remember this, but in 0-6 the Bears beat themselves.

They fumbled.

Cedric Benson fumbled.

Rex Grossman threw a pick.

It was raining.

And Indy won.

They won the game.

No question.

It wasn't because of Peyton Manning.

Same thing with when he went to Denver.

So great regular season quarterback.

Decent quarterback in the playoffs, but...

I would take his brother.

I

Dom Lee (guest host)

like that.

I 100% agree with you.

You know, in Denver, they had what one of the best defenses ever assembled.

Yeah, you know, so that makes it makes a plea.

Yeah, Von Miller.

Absolutely.

So

Peach Waba (host)

that's a great, great choice.

608.

Thank you.

Tony Dungey is a is a classy dude.

715 says John Ratzenberger.

Oh, this is in relation in regard to what we were talking about earlier with Zoe Saldana being the highest grossing movie actor ever.

715 says John Ratzenberger is the third highest grossing actor of all time, mainly because of his many voice over roles in Pixar movies and his brief appearance in The Empire Strikes Back.

I did not know he was in The Empire Strikes Back.

But yeah, he was in the Toy Story movies and very funny too, John Ratzenberger.

Of course, I like him as Cliff Clavin, who played opposite his counterpart Coach, who is Coach Ernie Pantuso from Cheers is probably my all-time favorite.

fictional coach Uh, you got another clip for us down.

Let's hear the uh, is the bobby night one good?

Let's hear the bobby night one.

Yeah, let's hear

SPEAKER_00

No, you only got two people they're gonna tell you I'm not gonna be here one is our SID and the other is me Who the hell told you I wasn't gonna be here.

I'd like to know do you have any idea who it was?

Who?

They were from Indiana, right?

No, they're not no weren't from Indiana and you didn't get it from anybody from Indiana, did you?

No, I'll handle this the way I want to handle it now that I'm here you up to begin with

Now just sit there or leave.

I don't give a s*** what you do.

Now, back to the game.

Who's got a question?

Peach Waba (host)

He was such a jerk, but he's a good coach.

Dom Lee (guest host)

Yeah, he sounded

Peach Waba (host)

terrible.

I wouldn't want to talk to him at all.

Oh, he's awful.

But look, the guy, you can't argue with success.

I mean, he was a great coach for his time.

That guy, he would not be a coach by modern day standards.

He was just too, I mean...

He would hit his players and stuff like that.

He would hit his

Dom Lee (guest host)

players.

Peach Waba (host)

Oh, yeah, he would totally, yeah, he had some issues.

He was like kind of a coach of the 60s and 70s.

Maybe he coached into the 80s, maybe even the 90s, but he was, he kind of mellowed out as he got older, but he was very volatile.

That's Bobby Knight.

And we've got Monica from Mount Horrib says, couldn't narrow it down to just one.

Flip Wilson in the fish that saved Pittsburgh.

Wow.

Monica, great pull.

Basketball movie.

I saw it in the theater in the late, it's probably early 80s when that came out.

Walter Mathau in the Bad News Bears, that is a great one as well.

And Tom Hanks in a league of their own.

That is the text of the night.

Monica from Mount Horrib.

Thank you very much.

Totally forgot about Flip Wilson.

in the fish that saved Pittsburgh, which is also one of the greatest movie titles in history.

This is Mark from Prairie to Sacks says Lombardi was not only a great coach, he was a great human being.

He integrated his team and insisted that his players of all colors be treated equally.

He also supported gay rights.

That is correct.

Mark, excellent text and pardon me, another great quality about Vince Lombardi being just kind of ahead of the curve there too.

in addition to being a great coach.

Kerry from Tosa in the 4-1-4 says Ted Lasso as well.

People love their Ted Lasso.

You watch Ted Lasso, Dom?

Dom Lee (guest host)

I have a little bit, yeah, and that makes sense, you know?

That's why we're getting so many feedback from you.

He's a great coach, you know?

What can I say?

What can I say?

I gotta

Peach Waba (host)

say, this is not a popular stance.

All right, when we come back, I'm gonna tell you.

Not as a coach.

And I'm also going to tell you about some really cool records that you might not know were set here in Wisconsin and we'll finish reading our text.

This is Peach Wabba Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio

Dom Lee (guest host)

Network.

Pete Schwabba

This is a night light with peach wabba folks great to have you with me on this Wednesday night Dom Lee and I are having some fun here tonight in Conrad's absence We did get a text about Conrad's condition.

We'll update you here briefly Pardon me Tyler from Wisconsin Rapid says he heard Conrad's bubble blower backfired and he ballooned like the blueberry girl in the movie Willy Wonka and the chocolate

I don't know.

Maybe that's true.

I can't confirm that though.

Tyler also says John Candy in Cool Runnings.

Wow, nice pull.

That's a great text.

Thank you, Tyler.

And we've got, here we go, Todd or Billy from the 414.

Says probably coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights the series.

I never watched that.

Dom Lee

Friday Night

Pete Schwabba

Live.

Did you watch that, Dom?

Dom Lee

I've watched it once.

I don't quite remember it, but I watched it with my dad way back.

It is a really good movie.

Pete Schwabba

Is that the movie or is that the show?

That's the movie, right?

Friday Night Live.

It was both.

I think the movie, I think they turned it into a series after that.

Cindy, if you're listening, call back.

I missed Dom's message, so we'll get you on if you can call back in the next few minutes.

Before we bring Jim Healy on at 635 Jim was here to talk movies and about what's coming up at the Wisconsin Film Festival and UW Cinema Tech We always love when Jim joins us to talk movies and there is no one better to do it with than Jim Healy so We have one more coach clip and this is a great one.

This is Dennis Green After his Arizona Cardinals lost to the Chicago Bears in like and I don't think the Bears scored an offensive touchdown his team collapsed

And you can hear it in his voice.

Here's Dennis Green.

Dennis Green (recording)

Four picks against Grossman and two fumbles.

What did you see about the Bears?

Shut them down that way.

No, you know what I mean.

The Bears are what we thought they were.

What we thought they were.

We played them in preseason.

Who the hell takes a third game in a preseason like a bull?

We played them

in third game.

Everybody played three quarters.

The Bears are who we thought they were.

That's why we took the damn field.

But they are who we thought they were.

And we let them out the

Pete Schwabba

hook.

Wow.

Ouch.

I mean, I can't even imagine losing a game like that.

I remember that game.

But we've got, that's our question of the night, folks.

Who is your favorite coach?

And going to social media, Dave Hendrick, my pal Dave Hendrick on Facebook says, Ernie Pantuso, coach, love coach.

Mike Mercury, Madison Bay stand-up comedian says, coach.

Craig T. Nelson from the show, Coach.

Eric Rassack from Ask Your Mother also says he was going to say Craig T. Nelson as well.

You can say that, Eric.

You can all share these coaches.

Matt Harper also says, oh, he says Kyle Chandler as Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights, another one for Friday Night Lights.

Comedian Boris Hamilton, listening from Los Angeles, says Phil Jackson.

We talked about Phil Jackson a little earlier.

PJ, as Michael Jordan used to call him.

Tim Baker says Don Knotts in Gus.

I don't think I ever saw Gus.

I don't think I have either.

And then Tony on social media posted a picture of a purse that says Coach.

Looks like a Louis Vuitton bag, maybe?

Ericka Larson says Jim Mora and posted a meme of that crazy Jim Mora when he kept saying playoffs.

Dennis Green (recording)

Playoffs

Pete Schwabba

it is crazy weird voice It's always great.

However, you guys reach us social media text stream app.

It's all great Bridget in the 818 says Phil Jackson.

He is smart and cool Kind of a hippie too.

So he was good coach.

No question about that.

Thank you Bridget for the text So Dom here are some records you might not know that were set in Wisconsin I saw this on up north news love the work they do there.

Ellie Bordeaux is coming back on the show soon She's one of the reporters for up north news

But these are records that were set in Wisconsin that you probably didn't know about.

And the first one I'm going to say, this is number seven.

If you go to UpNorthNewswi.com, the most llamas pulling a carriage.

That's probably why you moved to Wisconsin, right, Don?

SPEAKER_??

What?

Pete Schwabba

I didn't even know that was a real thing.

Like, what's

Dom Lee

going on?

Pete Schwabba

This is so crazy.

Last night, we had the Green Bay Llama, Jason Jerry on the show, and.

I thought llama in Green Bay.

And this was a real thing.

Mayor Jim Schmidt walked a llama over the bridge.

So Jason started a Facebook group called the Society of the Llama or something like that.

A weird thing to associate with Wisconsin.

But number seven on this up north news list says most llamas pulling a carriage.

It's unusual to see any llamas in Wisconsin in general, especially when there are 56 of them at once.

I mean,

Dom Lee

I gotta see this.

I gotta see this for

Pete Schwabba

myself.

Dom Lee

That is a

Pete Schwabba

strafford strafford wisconsin resident was able to hitch 56 llamas as well as eight ponies to a cart And break the world record for most llamas pulling a carriage.

I mean of all the records To aim for

Dom Lee

listen, that's the one hit, you know, that's the one that's the one that I would love that record Kid me

Pete Schwabba

the question is were the llamas doing this against their will?

What if they didn't want anything to do with this record?

Here's another one number 10 most siblings to compete in a marathon

It was the Caprol family and the siblings and Oshkosh natives ranged in ages from 18 to 44 and all completed a marathon, 26.2 mile racing under six hours.

That's a pretty cool one.

They went to Oshkosh Lords Academy.

They were always good at sports when I was in high school too.

Here's another one.

This was not a surprise.

Largest cheese platter board.

Is it any surprise that Wisconsin is home to a cheese-based world record?

It is not.

America's Dairyland is well known for its cheese production, so it makes sense that the state could produce the largest ever cheesebladder board.

The board was put together by Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, a non-profit organization based in Madison that markets and promotes Wisconsin dairy products.

Do you like cheese, Dom?

Dom Lee

Love cheese.

I that's the whole reason why I actually moved here, you know because I'm also originally from Chicago But cheese is kind of what got me even though I do have a celiac disease.

It doesn't matter.

I'm still really I do yes

Pete Schwabba

Is there gluten in cheese?

Dom Lee

Um, there is I think probably okay.

I

Pete Schwabba

didn't

Dom Lee

know that yeah, I should all I know is I was recently diagnosed so you know oh

Pete Schwabba

Sorry to hear

Dom Lee

that maybe that's what Conrad has that's you know what I've got to ask about that too

Pete Schwabba

That doesn't work though, because you're here and you have it.

All right, we are coming right back.

Jim Healy is on the way, folks.

We're talking movies after the news.

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

Network.

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back.

I am Pete Schwab, but this is Nightlight.

This is a Wednesday evening edition of the show, folks, but we're going a little farther.

We have to because Conrad, we are a man down.

Conrad is sick, and I just got word from another source, Dom.

Conrad has alien hand syndrome.

So it's not gigantism.

It's not celiacs.

It's not the pigs flu.

He has got alien hands.

I don't even know what that is.

We're going to get to the bottom of it.

I hope that means he can work the board tomorrow night.

But if not, you need to be in the bullpen.

We're just going through the whole whole lines of things that could be wrong with them.

There are probably HIPAA restrictions on this, but that's not for me to say.

You know, I'm surprised we haven't heard Mike McCarthy.

We heard Holmgren and this is Wisconsin.

I.

For whatever reason maybe it was Aaron Rodgers, but my McCarthy I don't think is as popular as he should be and by all accounts.

I've heard he is a great guy Mm-hmm and he delivered a Super Bowl to Green Bay But you know, maybe there are McCarthy fans out there and they just haven't responded in any event Let's get to our next guest of the night.

Very excited to welcome this next gentleman He is one of our frequent flyers here.

We love to talk movies with this next guy He is one of the programmers of UW Cinema Tech

and the Wisconsin Film Festival, and I believe he also coached the Packers for his stint in the early 60s, but we'll get to the bottom of that as well.

Mr. Jim Healy joins us now over the stream.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, call me Vince Lombardi.

Vince Lombaly, I think, is, you got to get that Irish out there, Jim, you know.

Vince Lombago.

There you go.

How are you tonight, Jim?

Jim Healy (guest)

I'm very well.

Thank you.

How are

Pete Schwab (host)

you?

Great to have you here.

I'm doing very well.

Do you have a favorite coach, Jim?

Speaking of coaching.

No,

Jim Healy (guest)

we've talked before about the number of movies I see every year because

Pete Schwab (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

brag about it.

It's one of the things I do.

Pete Schwab (host)

And one of the reasons

Jim Healy (guest)

is I just, well, but I almost never mentioned this, but one of the reasons why I'm able to get

my numbers up so high.

I watch almost no professional sports at all at home.

I go to sports, I go to Badgers games here, football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, and I've been to three, I went to three MLB games last year and I

Pete Schwab (host)

enjoy it, I

Jim Healy (guest)

enjoy it live, but I don't follow.

I don't follow it at all like I don't I can't get I can't get caught up and

Pete Schwab (host)

that

Jim Healy (guest)

probably could if I started to but that's just you know it's just one of the things

Pete Schwab (host)

so I

Jim Healy (guest)

watch 700 movies a year you

Pete Schwab (host)

know well the sports would cut into that because like here here's where I'm at with here's where I'm at with sports I can only watch my team now

And if there's a great game on between two Titans, whether it's the game seven of the World Series or an NFL playoff game, I'll watch the last few minutes because that's great drama.

And that's, you just, it's like car chases.

You don't know the ending.

Like typically in movies, usually you see the ending coming.

That's not the case with sports.

So I'll always have like a thing for sports, but I'm with you.

I cannot just sit and watch a game.

The commercials drive me crazy.

And another thing, I don't ever need to hear a coach talk again.

after a game, unless they're crazy or outlandish, heard it, seen it, you're not going to impress me.

Jim Healy (guest)

Throw in a chair.

Well, that's different.

Yeah.

You know, I love it.

It's very dramatic.

You know, I just see it.

And I even see the drama of the full season and the suspense in that.

But I just it's just it's never been in my folks.

Everybody in my family, father sports, all my brothers, my my my father.

Um, you know all my cousins and aunts and uncles, but I just never It just you know, just always gotten in the way of movie watching.

So

Pete Schwab (host)

That's so great and and let's let's tip of my hat.

Here's why I prefer movies typically is Because I know what I'm getting I'm gonna see especially if it's a movie I've seen before and I know that sounds like well Why would you put that above a great sporting event or something?

Well a movie I've seen before I obviously if I'm watching it again.

I love it

I love everything about it, typically, and I know what I'm getting.

But you value

Jim Healy (guest)

surprise, especially in both something you haven't seen before, right?

But also in the surprise of how you're going to feel seeing something you've seen before and loved.

How are you going to react to it this time?

Are you able to watch it with somebody like one of your kids and see it through their eyes?

And is it that much more exciting?

Does it reveal itself more to you?

than it did whenever you last saw it, one, five, 10 years ago, whatever.

And that's the best.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's the best.

And you're right, like with your kids, like I just watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood recently with my daughter who had never seen it.

And they pick up things that you didn't pick up.

And it's like, and I'm amazed, Jim, the sign of a great movie to me is when I have seen it before, I know how it ends.

and I still feel the tension like in a scene like for example in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that scene where Brad Pitt is talking to Bruce Dern on the on the Spawn movie right?

It's so great.

Jim Healy (guest)

I know what

Pete Schwab (host)

happens

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah, yeah, you know that was supposed to be Burt Reynolds.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh Almost

Jim Healy (guest)

almost right up until they they were shooting and Burt it was right before he died and he was he was getting sick and oh no, and yeah, he was gonna play Spawn so

Bruce Stern came in at the last minute and did a

Pete Schwab (host)

favor for Tarantino's little tidbits.

And to be honest, Burt Reynolds probably would have been great at that.

Jim Healy (guest)

Oh yeah, I would have loved to have seen him in that.

And it would have been his last movie, what I wanted to go out on.

Pete Schwab (host)

I saw a show, Jim.

I'm getting off on a tangent here, but since Burt Reynolds has been brought up, it was a one-man show of some writer.

Years and years ago right after I had moved to LA, a guy in my building had tickets.

He was like the Mike DeMone of my apartment building.

Mike DeMone, of course, from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but he got all these tickets.

So we went and saw this writer who had written on all these great shows and he had phenomenal stories.

And one of them was about Bert Reynolds.

And he said he was doing punch-up on Smokey and the Bandit.

And he was in Bert Reynolds' trailer.

They were working on the script together and they broke for the day.

And he said, I'm leaving.

And Bert Reynolds says, we're having a party later.

Come on by.

And Frank Sinatra was also in Smoky and the Bandit.

I think, if I got the word... Uh,

Jim Healy (guest)

Cannonball Run too.

Pete Schwab (host)

Or Cannonball Run, that's what it was.

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah.

Pete Schwab (host)

Same difference.

Anyway, he said... Exactly.

He goes, you know what?

Frank Sinatra is having something too.

I really want to meet Sinatra, and I just want to go to that, but thanks for the invitation.

And Bert Reynolds looked at him in all seriousness and said, Sinatra's not where the heat's at, baby.

That is the one thing I remember for that show.

And it has always stuck with me.

And I can totally hear Bert Reynolds saying that.

I love it.

Yeah, he was a giant star.

Oh, he was huge.

Yeah.

And there was that time where Sinatra wasn't, he reached his peak fame.

And people kind of go away.

Not that he ever was unpopular, but then he has a resurgence.

And you can kind of understand why he said that.

Jim Healy (guest)

The story I heard about Bert Reynolds recently speaking of roles he didn't play was that.

James L. Brooks, who had written a film in 1979, which won a Bert Reynolds best performance, is called Starting Over.

It's a movie where Bert shaves his mustache off, so you know it's of high quality.

It's a very good movie, but James L. Brooks didn't direct it, and he was about to make his directorial debut with Terms of Endearment.

He wrote Terms of Endearment.

He wrote the part of Garrett, the astronaut for Bert Reynolds.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, wow and

Jim Healy (guest)

Bert Reynolds turned it down to do stroker ace.

I think

Pete Schwab (host)

That's like a stepchild to a cannonball

Jim Healy (guest)

Exactly, I think it's the year before I think those were his next two consecutive movies were And

Pete Schwab (host)

now that you just mentioned James L Brooks I have another okay, so a friend of mine had Clippers tickets.

We were gonna sit in a luxury box

Nobody cares about the L.A.

Clippers for like, oh, let's go eat the food and sit in the luxury box.

It'll be great.

So my friend Jeff Lewis was with us and he thought he saw Leonard Malton.

He got all in a lather.

He like was blushing.

He's like, oh my God, Leonard Malton.

That's Leonard Malton right up there.

It turns out it was James L. Brooks, not Leonard Malton.

And he's like, oh, and he wasn't as impressed for some reason.

Jim Healy (guest)

Yeah, Brooks has got the Oscars.

Pete Schwab (host)

He's got everything.

The guy's a giant.

You know, it's so great.

Did you see his new movie, by the

Jim Healy (guest)

way?

Pete Schwab (host)

I

Jim Healy (guest)

did see it.

I did see it.

And it was it's a disappointment.

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah.

Jim Healy (guest)

But it's it's still interesting.

It's worth seeing.

I know you and I are both mutual fans of Albert Brooks.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh,

Jim Healy (guest)

yeah.

His frequent James Albrooks is frequent collaborator.

No relation.

But the best scene in the movie is in the last, you know,

20 minutes of the film and it's a scene between the leading lady, Emma Mackey and Albert Brooks and it's great.

It's almost worth seeing the movie for.

But it gets this feeling as soon as you start watching it, like the narration kicks in and there's all this music kind of making up for things and there's so many characters and you just get the feeling that

there was probably a three-hour movie, not necessarily one that was better, and they, you know, they cut it down to make it whatever it is, and it just feels like, you know, feels like patched together.

It's just, it never really gels, you know?

Pete Schwab (host)

You know, that's, it's interesting.

I have not seen it.

When it, when I heard it was coming out, I was like, oh, this will be, I'm really curious to see this, but I hate when I wait and hear things that are disappointing, because then I don't go see it.

you know

Jim Healy (guest)

yeah no i i nothing would have stopped me from seeing he's a major filmmaker and he hadn't made a movie for 15 years yeah i think he's 85 years old i

Pete Schwab (host)

i don't

Jim Healy (guest)

know how many more he's got in him if he's even gonna try um so you know i was very curious about it yeah have you know anything about uh

Pete Schwab (host)

sorry what jim say that again

Jim Healy (guest)

oh sorry he did a movie in 1994 called i'll do anything

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, yeah, I saw that years

Jim Healy (guest)

ago with Nick Nolte.

Yeah, so the movie that came out with Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavanaugh, Jolie Richardson, it's a Tracy Elman.

It's a comedy about actors and filmmakers in Hollywood fighting the whole idea of like test screenings and test audiences who

you know, who can say yay or nay to a movie.

Brooks shot the whole movie as a musical with full musical numbers by Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Carol King, all these like top songwriters.

And at the last minute, just before release, ditched all of the musical numbers, cut them all out, got nervous because of a bad test screening.

and released the movie without anything.

About 10 years ago, he was mentioning that he was thinking about re-releasing it with the numbers back in.

But Prince, I guess, had more say at that point and put the kabasha on it.

Pete Schwab (host)

I would love to see it.

I don't remember much about the movie.

I remember kind of liking it, but I honestly, I don't remember much about it at all.

The movie we were talking about before, for those of you interested, is Ellen McKay.

And, yeah, it just did not perform well.

And I'll see it eventually, Jim, but I'm not going to rush out to the theaters, I guess, when it gets reviews like that.

I know,

Jim Healy (guest)

you'll catch up.

It's probably just as good on Hulu or wherever it's going to be.

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah, exactly.

My guest is Jim Healy.

He joins us periodically to talk about movies.

And, Jim, we've got about...

You know what, let's just keep this till after the break.

I'd love to hear what you have coming up at Cinematheque and if you have anything you can tell us about the Wisconsin Film Festival and then we'll get into some movies and potential Oscar movies.

Great night.

Jim Healy is here and in the 920, Herb Brooke is 920's coach and that's Stan from Depeer.

Miracle on ice, yes, of course.

Okay, that wasn't great.

He says best sports speech ever and that was outstanding.

We have had some outstanding choices here tonight.

We are coming right back with Jim Healy.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

Pete Schwabba

I like it, Dom.

Good choice, buddy.

Hey, this is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Great night to be here.

Conrad is out.

Dom Lee is bravely filling in for Conrad who has some serious illness that we are still trying to get to the bottom of.

But the good thing is Jim Healy is here.

Folks from joining us over the stream from Madison, a fantastic cinephile and one of the programmers of UW Cinematheque.

and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Jim, what is coming up that you could tell us about at UW Cinema Tech?

And in your opinion, do people take advantage of that enough, this Cinema Tech program?

Jim Healy

Well, you know, enough for me would be, you know, our regular Cinema Tech theater is only 170 seats, and enough for me would be a full house every night, or maybe just enough empty seats to...

accommodate just about everybody.

And it's not like that, but we're increasing numbers as the years and months have gone by, especially since we returned to in-person screenings after COVID.

And regularly now, our average attendance is two thirds full.

start our seasons with the premiere series.

So on Thursday night, we're screening new films that are making their first area theatrical screenings in Madison, and you can see them for free.

And a lot of times they're titles that are very much high profile movies that are being well reviewed.

from and coming off a hot festival circuit run.

So, you know, for instance, we ended the season in December with The Secret Agent, which is this terrific new movie from Brazil.

Oh, it's great.

And it's a real cinephiles movie, too.

About 20% of the movie takes place within

the projection booth and the room's just adjacent to it in the movie theater in Recife, Brazil.

But that's showing the Omen in 1977, by the way.

Pete Schwabba

Oh,

Jim Healy

no.

But we're starting our next season a week from tomorrow.

That's the 22nd with a movie called Surat.

It's a French-Spanish co-production directed by the French director Olivier Lax.

And it's been called, you know, it's been on many top 10 lists for 2025.

Justin Chang, who writes on film for the New Yorker and reviews for NPR called it the best movie of the year.

So I think that's the kind of show where we can expect a full house.

And, you know, I recommend arriving early because sometimes nights like that were full up before showtime.

We have to turn some people away, but most of the time, not.

There's almost always an empty seat.

Pete Schwabba

That's great.

Jim Healy

What about to get there by showtime?

Otherwise, we don't like letting stragglers

Pete Schwabba

get locked out.

What about the Wisconsin Film Festival, Jim?

I imagine things are ramping up and you're making your decisions and all that kind of stuff.

Is there anything, I know it's early, but it's coming up fast.

Is there anything you can tell us about this year's festival ahead of time?

Jim Healy

I'm trying to think if there's anything I can leak, and I don't think there is.

If things are, you're correct, things are being confirmed.

We're booking things.

one film at a time, sometimes two or three films at a time, working out deals.

And we're actively looking at things.

We're doing our last festival visits to check things out.

But we like to keep our titles under wraps.

I can tell you there's gonna be another great balance of new movies from around the world.

of all lengths, short, some features, and then a healthy representation of rediscoveries, restorations, films from throughout cinema history that hopefully will be either something completely new and revealing for you, or something you've seen before that will be just as revealing the second time you see it, or the third or fourth.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, did you see the threesome from last year's?

Jim Healy

I just caught up with it.

I was one of the last movies I saw on 2025.

I watched it on Netflix.

Very good director, Chad Hartigan.

Really, really tells me it was a good, it was a surprising film.

I was also really, I was also really kind of, I like the fact that it, it felt like a smart conventional, not conventional, but smart.

traditional romantic comedy.

But on an Indian films budget, you know, it looked great.

The dialogue was snappy.

All the acting was great.

But, you know, it's all filmed in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Oh, is that right?

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, I think it might be where the filmmakers from, but really, really entertaining movie.

Very, you know, and, and, and, and, you know, one of those things where you really don't know where it's going.

From start to finish.

Pete Schwabba

I loved it.

I thought it was I'm not a rom-com guy.

I mean, I like a good rom-com I don't seek them out.

I thought that one that one kind of blew me away There's a big twist in it and then the writing I thought was very thoughtful with what happens after the twist really dug it and it had an indie feel and I think I like that about it too Jim Healy is here folks We are gonna break for the news and I hope you can stick with us Jim because we haven't even gotten movies yet So we'll do a few more minutes with Jim after the break and we'll talk about what he thinks might be

in the prime position for an Oscar this year, as well as some other stuff that we've watched.

Craig Kinnit on the stream says it may be a bit narcissistic, but I'm a big fan of coach Sam Johnson in Rise of Dear Mageddon.

And J.B.

Thompson says I would second Craig's opinion, a local indie film there.

So good, good shout out and good plug, guys.

Well done, very well done.

Feel my face.

We're coming back with Jim Healy, Patty Vasquez coming up at 720, lots to come in Act 3.

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

Pete Chwaba

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 does his own stunts, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back to Night Light, folks!

As we kick off the third act here on this gorgeous Wednesday night in the state of Wisconsin.

That's a relative thing.

Gorgeousness.

If you missed the first two hours, folks, they are available in podcast form at civicmedia.us.

We talked to Marv Wall in the first hour at the outstanding Mulva Cultural Center here in Green Bay.

He does great work over there.

And in the second hour, we also talked to our current guest, Jim Healey.

We will be back with Jim in just a moment.

Our question of the night is, who is your favorite coach?

Coach Carter dropped.

It was the anniversary of the Coach Carter dropping.

So that got me thinking.

I don't think we've ever done a question about.

Coaches we do sports questions from time to time but who is your favorite coach be part of the fun Let us know eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five Civic you can also text us on the app or if you're watching the radio on the stream at Facebook YouTube or X drop us a stream comment And I will read it on the radio.

Love when you guys participate Coming up in this hour Patty Vasquez will be here at 720 Patty's a very talented comedian

and radio host and she is performing in Wisconsin.

And I will tell you where while she is here, Patty's great fun.

We are from the same hood in Chicago.

So I'm excited to have Patty, the city girl on the show that's coming up.

But right now we have a few more minutes with our pal, Jim Healy, who joins us every so often to talk movies.

And he sees more of them in any given year than some people see in a lifetime.

Jim, what was your count for 2025?

How many movies did you end up watching?

Jim Healey

Well movies that were new to me was actually a pretty low number It was around 450 I think It's a low number.

I love

Pete Chwaba

it.

Jim Healey

I mean, you know, I had I had some I had some years that were way past that recently but I but I was really committed to You know getting to some of these blue rays that have been sitting on my shelf and

catching up with them and getting the shrink wrap off.

So I saw a lot of movies this year, but watching them with the family and introducing them to things like,

Pete Chwaba

I

Jim Healey

had never watched my Blu-ray of Bonnie and Clyde.

We put

Pete Chwaba

that

Jim Healey

on about a month ago and things like that.

So I spent a lot of time, a lot of rewatches as the kids say these

Pete Chwaba

days.

Jim, what is Blu-ray?

How does that compare to, like, because most people, I think, even if you have 4K, if your TV's not 4K, it doesn't really matter as much.

But like, where does Blu-ray fall into in terms of quality of or cinematic quality?

Jim Healey

Well, in the simplest terms, you know, DVD came first, and that's, you know, standard definition.

So that's, you know, the basic.

Look of what what TVs were the tube TVs, you know or

Pete Chwaba

or even

Jim Healey

the flat screen TVs before we had HD TV before we had high definition TV, which is I guess the standard is You know, it's not 2k.

It's not 4k.

It's 1080p Yeah, so that's you know, that's that's blu-ray for you But now they have 4k blu-ray that you know boost the image even

Further and you could if you have a 4k TV and a 4k blu-ray player you can look at things that way and it's It's an amazing one.

I watched red dawn on 4k blu-ray last weekend.

Oh introduce that one to my family

Pete Chwaba

The Wolverines man Does that hold up?

I don't remember that.

I mean I remembered I saw it, but I don't know how I would view it as an adult I don't

Jim Healey

I'll say this it's a it's a it's a silly movie in many ways

When I was 15, I thought it was silly and I probably liked it less than I do now.

As a war movie, it's pretty good.

It doesn't make a lot of sense.

It's another movie, you get the feeling that they just lopped a half hour out of it to keep it moving and it moves really nicely.

It's very fast moving.

The invasion takes place as soon as the movie opens and they're in the mountains and they're...

you know they're they're fighting the Ruskies and the Cubans and uh it's but there are things in the movie like you know I think it's Charlie Sheen shows up to witness the execution of his father and but you wonder like why is he there why is he you know and you know you never really know uh and then that that leads to a whole thing and it's like you know it's got Rambo style ambushes and you go well

How did they have time to do that?

And did they know those guys were going to be in that exact spot so they

Pete Chwaba

could pop

Jim Healey

up out of the ground?

And, you know, it's like, so it's silly.

But, you know, and then, you know, you think about, you know, the worries about invasion and, you know, that I guess we're on people's mind at the time, but I, you know, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know if they really were because it wasn't that big of a hit, right?

But it's yeah,

Pete Chwaba

right.

I

Jim Healey

remember thinking like

Pete Chwaba

the first time I saw it I was I think I thought I had all the answers to life and I was young and thought I you know so I would love to watch it again because it's a great premise Jim let's jump into some more current films though like what do you have an odds based on what you've seen and I assume even though we don't know what's being nominated yet for the Oscars you've probably seen them all but what do you have a frontrunner for what you think or the Jim Healy best picture of the year well

Jim Healey

you know usually

Pete Chwaba

I

Jim Healey

don't like to

or I'm just not, I'm not, I'm not up, but it really seems to me, what I'm, you know, what I'm in that, what I'm gleaning from what's out there is that one battle after another is seems to be headed towards it.

You know, I don't, I mean, is there anything else that seems to be, you know, like, although that could be, you know, more people like that or, you

Pete Chwaba

know, it

Jim Healey

doesn't, like it seems like it's just hitting that right balance of.

the Oscar voters, the public liked it enough.

And it's winning all the critics awards and on the tops of the list.

I was thinking, I really liked Marty Supreme too.

I liked it probably just as much as One Battle.

Pete Chwaba

And

Jim Healey

I was thinking like that might give it a run for its money if it had gone a bit further at the box office.

It's doing fine.

I think just as well as One Battle.

But like, if it had been the type of thing where, you know, people were really responding to it.

But I think they both have that kind of, you know, filmmakers who are interested in actual human beings and all their flaws and, you know, which makes for great comedy a lot of the time.

But I think it's not the kind of like, you know, obvious, virtuous heroes that, you know, that I think some audiences would.

You know, respond stronger to lay out their money for

Pete Chwaba

the only other one I haven't seen Marty Supreme yet.

There's a few films I still have to see.

But like, I just thought sinners like I really like the film.

I thought it had all the elements like music, acting, script, costume design, set design.

It just is such a great move.

All encompassing all those elements are there.

But I don't know.

It is vampires.

And I've heard people say, you know, they probably would go that route.

But I got no

Jim Healey

problem

Pete Chwaba

with one battle.

Jim Healey

Well, you might have something there with centers.

That might be its biggest one battle, its biggest competition.

It should be interesting to see, because they're both from the same studio.

So it should be interesting to see how much money they put into the campaigns and if it's going to be equal.

Pete Chwaba

Right Warner Brothers and there they have another film too.

I was just reading about this the other day I thought they had another film

Jim Healey

another Oscar contender.

Pete Chwaba

Yeah You you said earlier in our text exchange, you notice the parallel between Avatar and one battle after another.

Jim Healey

Oh, yeah, so I went to see Avatar I saw it in the theater and

I enjoyed it.

I liked it.

I liked it more than the last one.

I had a good time.

I appreciated the immersive experience.

Saw the 3D IMAX.

And then I listened to a podcast afterwards with Guillermo del Toro interviewing James Cameron.

And Guillermo del Toro identified a sequence of the film as a reenactment

of the sacrifice of Abraham.

And if you've seen this new Avatar film, you'll know the scene where a parent or a surrogate parent deliberates over killing their child.

And then I watched one battle after another the other day and I realized it's got the same thing with, not to be a spoiler, but it's got the same thing with another character who

Pete Chwaba

It's interesting, yeah.

Jim Healey

And I just wonder, is there something in the air at the moment?

Certainly both movies are about generational conflicts and one generation handing down something to another.

And I suppose that's the ultimate darkest moment that you can do.

It's interesting how differently both films

handle it.

I mean, you know, because one battle after another is basically a satire.

You know, it's basically comedy.

It's, you know, it's, it's handled with a bit of buffoonery.

But, but avatar, you know, it's, it's, it's dead, deadly serious.

No, both, both very suspenseful.

Pete Chwaba

Yeah, you it's interesting you said it because I was talking with my son Joe who you know and we were talking about he noticed something in one battle the bathrobe and the ponytail he thought that it was It kind of reminded him of Jedi's from Star Wars and we made But also the big Lebowski with the bath

Jim Healey

definitely

Pete Chwaba

the ponytail like he thought maybe they were crossing or it was like some sort of tribute to Star Wars and the Cohen brothers or something so

It's fun to pinpoint stuff like that.

We just have about a minute or so left, Jim.

What did you think of Train Dreams?

I really liked it.

Jim Healey

I liked it too.

It surprised me.

You know, I'll say this.

I thought the aspect ratio was weird.

It was like a box in a box.

I don't know if you noticed it Oh, no, I knew TV was with the folded corners and I Didn't understand, you know why doing that when TVs are set for 16 9 16 by 9 but But it was you know, it was it was nice.

It's you know, very, you know kind of sad film a lot of people have compared it to Terrence Malick I thought it had its own kind of

I thought it had its own kind of quiet poetry.

I really liked the performances and the kind of, you know, certainly the kind of episodic nature of it where, you know, the episodes, there aren't like really significant things that happen in this guy's life.

Pete Chwaba

I

Jim Healey

mean, they're significant to him, to his life, but they're very surprising and kind of odd and there's not one, you can't really

predict where it's going from one scene to the next, which is always always a thing you hope for in movies.

Pete Chwaba

Right.

And it's one of those films like you just keep waiting for something huge to happen, but it's like life.

It's just sort of it was a great character piece.

Hey, we didn't even scratch the surface, but I loved having you here anyway.

It was fun.

The tangent we got off on was fun as well.

So thank you so

Jim Healey

much.

Always happy to come on and almost scratch the surface.

Pete Chwaba

We'll do that.

We'll do some scratching next time by Jim.

Thanks a lot.

Jim Healey

We'll get a little deeper.

Pete Chwaba

Talk to you soon.

OK, buddy.

That's Jim Healey.

Check out UW Cinematheque and keep your eyes peeled for the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Such a great time, folks, Aaron Madison.

We are coming right back with Patty Vasquez at Speechwaba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Dom

Welcome

Peach Wamba (host)

back we are jamming through

The third act here, folks, on Nightlight with Peach Wamba.

I am Peach Wamba, and it is so great to have you with me tonight here as we broadcast statewide here in Wisconsin on the radio and parts beyond on the App and Stream.

So however you are joining us, welcome.

And we've got, I just want to clear something up.

Dom, I did find out what Conrad has, what he is suffering from.

It is not gigantism.

It is not alien hand syndrome.

He has evil twinism.

Oh,

Dom

no.

Peach Wamba (host)

He is out.

battling this person who is, you know, and that makes sense because he didn't seem like himself the last couple nights working the board.

So I hope he figures this out and we'll be back to us tomorrow.

Oh, man, you know, it's not it's good to know you're in the bullpen there in Madison.

Oh, yeah, I'll talk to him and make sure he keeps his head up.

So please do.

Yeah.

All right.

Now it is my pleasure, folks, to welcome one of my old stand up pals.

She is a very talented stand-up comedian and has her own radio show in Chicago.

And she's done all kinds of, she's had a phenomenal career.

We'll talk all about it.

And you can see her in Wisconsin very soon.

She joins us now over the stream, Miss Patty Vasquez.

Welcome to Nightlight Patty.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

And it's great to see you.

I know that I'm a little glitchy, but people listening don't know.

By the way, we're in the civic media family.

We love having Dan Schaefer on.

And I know that you and I tried connecting a while ago.

We'd love to have you on our show as well.

Peach Wamba (host)

Yes.

Well, anytime and Dan and I have talked about the wire on the show before.

He's a great guy and I love the discombobulation area.

Recombobulation area.

Yes.

Dan is top notch and you and the glitching is no problem.

You're only glitching on video on a day to day basis.

I glitch in real life and that's a problem.

I know the feeling.

SPEAKER_??

Yeah.

Peach Wamba (host)

Hey, before we get into this too heavy, do you have a favorite coach?

Our question of the night is who is your favorite coach?

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Oh, wow.

I mean, my childhood, I mean,

Peach Wamba (host)

or fictional TV, movie coach,

Patty Vasquez (guest)

actual coach.

Well, then Friday Night Lights, I love Coach on Friday Night Lights is my favorite.

Yeah,

Peach Wamba (host)

fantastic.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

We've

Peach Wamba (host)

heard we've got some votes for Friday Night Lights tonight too.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, Kyle Chandler is for many reasons, one of my favorites, not the Billy Bob Thornton version in the movie, the series.

Peach Wamba (host)

Yeah, I think in terms of I'm just going to I don't mean to make assumptions, but I think from a if I was a female, I would probably go with Kyle Thornton, Kyle Chandler as well over Billy Bob Thornton.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah.

Peach Wamba (host)

So

Patty Vasquez (guest)

and I

Peach Wamba (host)

don't even know if that's what you meant, but I'm just I'm putting myself out there I'm in touch with my feminine side and I would pick Kyle Chandler.

That's

Patty Vasquez (guest)

all I appreciate that I now having been asked I have to since I have not listened to the other other folks answers What is your answer now?

I'm curious.

Peach Wamba (host)

Well, I said, you know, I grew up.

I'm a Chicago sportsman I cheer for the Chicago Pro teams the Wisconsin College teams I've spent time in both states I went Phil Jackson

Caller from Unknown Location

break

Peach Wamba (host)

Popovich because I liked that he speaks his mind

Caller from Unknown Location

And I went Vince Lombardi because even though I'm a bear fan, Vince Lombardi is a great coach.

Sure.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

I can see that.

Hey, I'm loving Ben Johnson.

And I'm not saying just because he ripped his shirt off in the locker room, but that was that was delightful, too.

See,

Peach Wamba (host)

yeah, he's not missing any workouts.

He's doing OK.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, he is.

Peach Wamba (host)

Hey, you and I are also Patty from the same hood, more or less.

Really?

Jeff Park, Portage Park.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, I didn't know you were from the northwest side of Chicago.

Peach Wamba (host)

I am.

I grew up in Portage Park, six corners area too, and until I was 12 moved to Wisconsin, went back there as you know to start doing stand-up comedy, lived there for another 12 years before I went to LA, but a great, great area, a great place to be from.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Yeah, there's a, and it's really, and there's a lot of great new shops.

I know when you were a kid, it was very vibrant.

I remember the Sears, all that area was bustling.

And it had a little bit of a downturn, but now it's coming back strong.

There's a great theater there, wonderful restaurants.

Yeah, love it.

Peach Wamba (host)

That's fantastic.

All right, so also you did stand up for me.

I booked this local fundraiser here in Marinette where I currently live, where I'm doing the show from tonight because Conrad has a gigantism.

But we have a show once a year that I put together.

And I love when I get to bring friends of mine into town.

Did you stand up, whether they're from Chicago or Milwaukee?

This year, they're both from Appleton, Rob Brackenridge and Mike Merrifield.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Did you

Peach Wamba (host)

have a good time when you were here?

It was so good to hang

Patty Vasquez (guest)

with you.

It was great.

And you know, it's funny what I'll always remember about that.

Not only how much fun it was, the audience, just really wonderful folks.

Great to hang out with afterwards.

Also the last weekend I decided that weekend I would not be taking road gigs in in the deep part deepest parts of the winter Because there was a snowstorm.

I don't remember when I was driving up There was a snowstorm that night and because it was a Friday night and the next night I had to be in Indiana and out of my way back from your gig There were jackknife semis.

There were mini vans and ditches and I was like, you know what?

This has to be it.

This has to be one of my last middle of the winter gigs.

Peach Wamba (host)

Listen, the first year that the comics don't make it due to weather is going to be the last year we do this because I do five minutes to open the show.

I'm terrified because I don't do stand up early anymore.

So me having to do like an hour and a half is the most terrifying thing ever.

Patty Vasquez is here folks.

We've got already a text or someone on the stream saying Patty Vasquez is basically my hero.

I am in Chicago, but a my favorite coach right now is Pat Murphy.

That guy is another person on the stream of a clamping emoji.

So that's you've got fans.

Patty Vasquez (guest)

Well, you know, I spent a lot of time there.

camp for six years in East

I spent a lot of time in Racine, Kenosha, Elkhorn.

I have a lot of friends in Southern Wisconsin in particular.

Peach Wamba (host)

Outstanding.

Well, we've got Patty here for a few more minutes.

We're going to break for news.

We're going to come back and I'm going to tell you where you can see Patty live in just a few days.

And she has an outstanding standup comic and good at many other things too.

We'll talk about all of it after the news.

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

Dom (producer)

Welcome

Pete Schwabba

back.

Great to have you here folks.

Our question of the night one last time is who is your favorite coach?

We just got a text from the steady Eddie who says.

Pete, favorite coach, head coach of the Screamin' Eagles, Hayden Fox from the TV show, coach played by Craig T. Nelson.

The T stands for tonsillectomy.

His father was a surgeon.

I did not know that.

Nor did I watch the show, and I like Craig T. Nelson, too.

I don't know why I never watched it.

Maybe that's what Conrad has done, tonsillitis.

He's up to six things now.

What's he got all these things?

Every single issue ever, yeah.

I know.

All right, we'll get caught up on some more text to get to, but first we have to get back to our guest.

The tremendous Patty Vasquez is here.

Patty Vasquez

She

Pete Schwabba

is a Chicago based stand up comic and radio host and just an all around swell person.

Patty, it's great to have you here tonight.

Patty Vasquez

It's wonderful to be here.

I like swell.

There's, you know, words we don't use enough like swell and whimsy.

I've been using the word whimsy a lot more.

Pete Schwabba

I had a guest name earlier named Marv.

I love that old school name.

And then he used the phrase youngsters, which I haven't heard in whatever.

So maybe there's something going on here tonight.

Maybe.

By

Patty Vasquez

the way, someone just told me they love my name, Patty, because they love vintage names, Pete.

Vintage.

Pete Schwabba

Well, because it's not Nikki or Haley or something like that,

Patty Vasquez

maybe.

It's fine.

It's

Pete Schwabba

classic.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah.

I mean, like when we were like Eleanor, like that's a vintage name, which is also.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

No, that's a great one to your son.

You post about a lot on on social media has a great name to a great Irish name.

Patty Vasquez

Oh, Declan.

Yeah.

It's so perfect for an older son named Griffin.

And so when you name your first kid with something that unique, you can't be like, and Joe, which would be fine too.

Pete Schwabba

But I have a Joe who has a cousin Griffin.

They're all great names, but I agree with you.

You're absolutely right.

So, okay, so you've got a date coming up here.

You were just talking about how much you love Wisconsin earlier.

You've got a date at Memories Ballroom right around the corner.

Tell us about that gig.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah, I'm gonna be at Memories Ballroom.

By the way, best buffet.

You know, really, honestly, come for the buffet, stay for the comedy.

That's really how it's

Dom (producer)

done.

Patty Vasquez

The fried chicken.

I'm already, I'm already, I'm already drooling a little bit.

If you haven't been there before, they do these great theater productions and then they allow us to come and play and have great comedy shows.

It's one of my favorite places to perform.

Pete Schwabba

That's excellent.

Yeah, we have, I have to get down there.

I've heard the venue is outstanding and I've actually heard that before about the buffet too.

Let me ask you this, a two-parter.

Have you worked there before and have you worked Wisconsin much?

And if so, how are crowds different, if at all?

Patty Vasquez

Oh, you know, I think that and that's probably part of my love, not just, you know, having spent so much time there as a kid, but also like everywhere from Appleton to Iron Mountain is Iron Mountain.

That's in Wisconsin, right?

Or is that UP?

Pete Schwabba

It's the UP, but we could we could overlook that.

Patty Vasquez

I know.

Well, here La Crosse.

all over Wisconsin.

And I have to say, I remember one time in the 90s when I started, I told the emcee to not mention I was from Chicago because if he did, the audience would boo right away.

And I was sitting there with the owner and what did he do?

He said I was from Chicago, the audience booed and I go, you're gonna have to, you know what?

You're gonna have to make this right.

So I let him stay on stage without walking up.

The audiences, I don't know what it is, you know, like Milwaukee was over the comedy cafe was always hot.

The skyline and Appleton's always hot.

I mean, every, like people are just eager.

And I don't know if it's like the per capita of bars in Wisconsin.

I understand you guys aren't allowed to compete in drinking contests.

I don't know if that's part of it.

And, you know, I remember, do you remember Rich Brown?

I remember driving around Appleton with him trying to find a convenience store would sell us booze after nine.

I think that's like,

Not somewhere you can't buy liquor after nine.

That's

Pete Schwabba

right, because we let the Tavern League write our laws and they want people to go to bars.

And Rich Brown, if there's a guy that can find booze after nine o'clock, it is my good pal Rich Brown.

So I'm with you there.

Patty Vasquez

Yeah, it was it was wonderful.

But yeah, I've always I would say of all the places even more than Chicago, the Wisconsin audiences are my favorite.

I don't know what it is.

They're just like, I've done like, you know, widow weekends for deer hunting season.

I've done tons of bachelorette parties there.

And everyone's just ready to have fun in Wisconsin.

And that's what it is.

Everyone's ready to have fun.

Pete Schwabba

It is.

It's a fun state.

And, you know, I call it.

You know, there's nowhere else I'd rather be in the summer, certainly.

And not so sure about the winter, but the, uh, you're right.

The, the comedy cafe in Milwaukee.

I remember that was one of the first Dan Whitney, Larry, the cable guy introduced me to that club, got me in there and I could not believe how great the crowds were.

It was

my favorite room to work and I was sad to see it go.

It moved and now it's not there anymore, but that was my introduction to Wisconsin crowds or comedy crowds at least.

Um,

So, all right, so this is great.

So where do you get your material?

You're a very political person.

You make great commentary on politics and your views.

Do you bring that to the stage ever?

I know you've brought stuff with your family to the stage.

Where do you get your material?

Patty Vasquez

All of it's observational.

I mean, I started out wanting to be, actually Will Durst was my inspiration when I was getting the comedy.

because he was able to break down really complicated things like foreign policy into humor.

And it turned out I did not have that skill set.

And it was all of my stories about growing up and all autobiographical.

My mom's from Mexico.

My dad was her cab driver.

My dad was Irish.

And her first day in the country, she was going to catch a bus, but she decided to catch a cab.

And she got in his cab.

They started dating.

Yeah, they got married here later.

And her green car was expiring.

This is probably an important part of the story.

Her green car was expiring, and I'm pretty sure it was like, marry me or this goes.

But they were married for the rest of my father's life.

They were in love with each other just never at the same time.

So you get a lot of humor from that upbringing.

So yeah, that's really when I started telling those stories and jobs that I had, that's the way I started.

Because before I started doing stand-up comedy, but I was only 23, I had already had 40.

Different jobs, but by the time I was 23 years old everything from delivering newspapers.

I when I was 14

Like I would go in after they close and I have to spray everything down with alcohol.

I work at Pizza Hut Subway, Marshall Fields at Water Tower.

I work at The Gap, the limited all kinds of restaurants and bars.

Yeah, I mean like I used to, and I hated working, I used to leave in the middle of the day and not show up again.

And I'm afraid to go into some restaurants because I'm not sure if I still work there.

that was that was really but so those stories like you know and you have that many experiences you have all in your really bouncing around your head you got to put it somewhere and i can't afford therapy so i put it out there for folks

Pete Schwabba

the audience is your therapist um yes okay so we i saw this clip of you earlier i'd like to play that dom let's get this

Dom (producer)

oh god

Pete Schwabba

it's about a minute long this is patty telling a story about how she dealt with a heckler and here's my issue a lot of comedians

I guess you know a clip that we're gonna play but a lot of comedians post pictures of themselves and then like in the in the work it'll say like the description is comic totally owns heckler and then I'm watching and I'm going where's the owning part this

Patty Vasquez

is

Pete Schwabba

like it's so lame I can't even believe it's like that's the and typically people post their best stuff but this is and Patty I've seen firsthand is great with hecklers but this is a story she tells on another podcast about how she dealt with a heckler it's gold here it is

If one person thinks that they're more important, then not just the comedian on stage, but also everyone in the audience.

We created this monster with social media because people are seeing the crowd work and they think they're helping.

I would not say we, because I don't.

Not you.

It predates social media.

Well, my favorite moment of dealing with somebody who was heckling, I was in Atlantic City.

They used to hire three headliners, so we would all do 30 minutes.

And I was on stage, and these guys were heckling me, and they were loud.

I mean, it's New Jersey.

They don't have an inside place.

Yeah, yeah.

So I wanted to get the room on my side.

I did 10 minutes and I

kind of feel I'm like I think I got the crowd I'm gonna address this so I walked into the middle of the room and I walked over to the table to the loudest guy and I go hey it sounds like you're not having a good time over here you know that's why we have three comics there's gonna be somebody right after me and he goes go back on stage little girl I was still trying to feel the energy the crowd to see if I had this right and I go look could you just be quiet for the rest of my set like I wasn't swearing or anything I was just like could you just until I'm done how about if I buy you a drink and he goes yeah that sounds good and I go hey bartender can I get a vinegar and water for the

douchebag over here and the room like exploded because I was so nice that's the most beautiful moment in comedy like okay I know what I'm gonna do in this moment yeah

that is so great how long ago was that Patty did we lose Patty we might have lost

You

might have lost

Patty.

Oh, no, she

couldn't maybe she probably didn't like the clip we chose maybe When we get her back, I'm gonna blame you.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Dom (producer)

All

Pete Schwabba

right Patty Vasquez is my guest We will get Patty back on on the phone or the stream and we will continue to talk to Patty in the meantime I will catch up on some text because we are running a little bit behind on those Our question of the night was who is your favorite coach?

so Joe in the 715 says Ben Johnson Phil Jackson and Joe Madden

I think we just call him Chicago Joe.

Joe says, Bo Ryan too.

Bo Ryan was a great coach.

How about Dick Bennett too?

While we're on Wisconsin sports and Tony Bennett, his son, talk about a coaching dynasty.

I loved when Dick Bennett moved to UW and took the Badgers to the Final Four.

That was such a great team.

And then Tony Bennett, here's a great thing about Tony Bennett.

I probably would put Tony Bennett even over Dick Bennett because Tony Bennett

As much as I wanted him to come here to Wisconsin and coach, he coached Virginia.

I think he was the first coach and they were the first team to lose to a 16th seed.

And I remember having this visceral reaction and feeling so bad for Tony Bennett, the Bennett family, because I thought they were just great.

And it was kind of an embarrassment.

Then what does he do?

I believe it was the next year, comes back and wins.

his first NCAA title ever.

And I don't think Dick Bennett won that either.

So that was so great.

Love the bow, Ryan quote, or choice Joe.

And also, I got to give a shout out to Dick and Tony Bennett as well.

Are we having any luck, Dom?

Getting Paddy back.

Still no luck.

Give me back.

Still no luck.

John from Madison in the 608, our pal John Murray says, good evening, Pete.

Well, he said, good evening, pets and Dom.

I think he meant Pete, unless he's talking to all the dogs and cats out there.

But John says, good evening, Pete and Dom.

Loving tonight's show, best coach ever in my lifetime is Mike Curry.

Took the smallest 1A school in the state of Illinois, Algonquin, maybe?

Shortening.

Central Catholic High School in 1982 to the state championship in football.

He turned boys into men.

And at the same time, it was like a second father to many of us, helping us make sense of it all.

He repeated three years later and my younger brother played as a senior.

Magic.

And I guess Phil Jackson was all right too.

Yeah, that was a great time.

See, I love those personalized story.

If you have a high school coach or even a grade school coach, your first coach ever, someone who made an impression on you, that's great.

Jim from Appleton and the 920 says, my favorite coach.

Well, there's two.

Of course, the legend, Vince Lombardi and Don Shula.

Two pretty dug on impressive coaches as well.

And Don Shula.

Took his team the Miami Dolphins.

I want to say it was the 72 or 73 dolphins undefeated the only NFL team to go undefeated and win a Super Bowl The 85 Bears were 18-1 won the Super Bowl the Patriots maybe in 2009 Were 18-1 but did not win the Super Bowl They were undefeated going into the game and lost and I believe it was Eli Manning that beat them We were talking about Eli Manning being a big game quarterback unlike his brother

So there you go two great choices.

Thank you Jim from Appleton as always All right, we got Patty back.

We do yes over.

Dom (producer)

Oh

Pete Schwabba

fantastic Patty.

We missed you So

Dom (producer)

weird.

Sorry.

See that's what happens when you play audio from is about a story You know not for nothing but someone to care that

Pete Schwabba

don't rip on Jersey You were talking about your mom and I remember you doing jokes about her in Marinette a few years ago and you

literally had the crowd rolling.

Are you, is that still in your act?

Are you going to listen?

We got to do a very short break and we'll have a couple more minutes with Patty before we let her go after the break.

But we'll talk about memory's ballroom.

We'll get another plug for that in.

And I want you to talk about your mom and the jokes you do about her because if you're doing that in memory's ballroom this

weekend, folks,

you do not want to miss this.

It's just great stuff.

She's a fantastic, uh, then a comic.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

We are coming right back on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwab (Host)

Welcome back.

Tomorrow night on Nightlight Travel Wisconsin's Logan Rogi joins us.

Always fun to have Logan on the show.

Influencer Christina Laurie makes the popcorn pick of the week and Jared shuts from Wisconsin dive bars.

I am way too excited to talk to Jared about what he does.

Also an influencer when it comes to dive bars.

So we'll do all that tomorrow night.

And I don't know if Conrad will be back or not.

But John from Madison says,

Thanks a bunch for sharing my thoughts, Peter.

Much appreciated.

And my better half, Melba, just love your show so damn much.

Thank you, John.

It was great to meet you guys at the Godfather of Green Bay Screening last month.

Lots of fun.

John also says, please tell Conrad to suck it up and get back out on that field.

and get well soon.

I knew John was going to end it on a positive note.

Hey, we've got a couple more minutes with our current guest, Patty Vasquez, a very funny comedian from Chicago.

She is also a very talented radio host.

Patty, tell us one more time.

Memory's Ballroom is this weekend, correct?

Patty Vasquez

Yes, I'll be there on Saturday night.

The best buffet that you possibly imagine.

And then, you know, come for the food, stay for the comedy.

So I'm saying it'll be great night.

Pete Schwab (Host)

Regardless of why you're there just enjoy the fried

Patty Vasquez

chicken.

It's great stuff.

Pete Schwab (Host)

Oh my god, the fried chicken so good So I was gonna ask you what tell us about your radio show you're on the air too if people want to give a listen

Patty Vasquez

Sure, I'm on WCPT 8 20 a.m.

In Chicago when we live stream on our Facebook channel

as well as YouTube.

We talk about a wide range of things while it might be current events.

I also love featuring, like you do, artists and performers.

musicians, comedians, theater groups, you know, folks that are in local business owners.

Cause I think that that's where we need to like, you know, connect with each other.

Unknown Speaker

If your

Patty Vasquez

members are made at your neighborhood, like your guests coming up tomorrow, the dive bars, my favorite places to hang out.

I sit at a bar, I'm like, this is where I'm happy.

Sitting at the bar at some neighborhood joint, you know?

Pete Schwab (Host)

It's so funny too, because I remember I was a doorman at a bar in Rush Street when I was like 20, I wasn't even old enough to get in.

and I remember going to places like that or you know you work on the road there's a big dance bar those are all great

Patty Vasquez

but I am

Pete Schwab (Host)

so with you give me a dive bar where you

Patty Vasquez

can just

Pete Schwab (Host)

strike up a conversation or there's a great jukebox and I am all set

Patty Vasquez

uh they're on a pool table and dartboard bam yeah love it

Pete Schwab (Host)

there you go um all right so uh where can uh people see you after like if they're listening from Chicago tonight where can they see you you have any other upcoming dates

Patty Vasquez

I'm gonna be at Dino's pizzeria.

Actually, you know, that's a pizza joint in the neighborhood actually Dino's on the Harlem and Higgins and we've got a great

Unknown Speaker

way in

Patty Vasquez

Canada Dwayne Kennedy Hal Sparks Joe Kilgallon and Sully Santos.

We've got a great night of comedy on January 31st.

Yeah,

Pete Schwab (Host)

it's a great lineup.

That's fantastic.

Thank

Patty Vasquez

you.

And then

Pete Schwab (Host)

last thing I always ask a guest this Patty, are you binge watching anything you could recommend?

What are you watching?

Patty Vasquez

Oh my god, uh, you know, i'm i'm actually uh, i've watched a couple things and they're so wildly different i'm actually enjoying landman with uh, bolly billy bob Thornton and demmy more That's been enjoyable and then i'm watching

Unknown Speaker

you this

Patty Vasquez

silly series this kind of fun show us l l's best it kind of reminds me a little bit of colombo.

She's got this kind of quirky Detective kind of thing.

Yeah, I love that show

Pete Schwab (Host)

That's

Patty Vasquez

fantastic.

Pete Schwab (Host)

Well, hey, oh, sorry go

Patty Vasquez

ahead

I just I've watched all the seasons.

I just caught up with we've watched them like in a couple weeks Just because it's fun and light and easy to consume.

That's all

Pete Schwab (Host)

Have you ever

Patty Vasquez

acted?

I've done some small roles.

I've had a I had a recurring role like whenever they need a mean nurse on Chicago fire And this is something I realized the last time I was on set

Yeah, I'm often the nurse that throws people out of the room.

Last time when Baby Otis was born, if folks remember that episode, I had to clear the room because the firefighters were being too loud.

I threw a dad out of an exam room because he was yelling at his daughter.

Unknown Speaker

Yeah,

Patty Vasquez

so anytime you see a mean nurse, it's me because they said all the other ones are very nurturing.

And so they bring me back for that.

Pete Schwab (Host)

Stand-up comedy radio and part of the one Chicago family on NBC You cannot beat that Patty Vasquez knock him dead at memories ballroom my friend

Patty Vasquez

and please don't be a stranger No, anytime.

Yeah, absolutely.

Let's get it done I know I've been busy, but I appreciate you having me on.

I'm so grateful

Pete Schwab (Host)

Absolutely say had a Dwayne for me.

I

Patty Vasquez

will I will count all right.

Thank you.

You got it.

All

Pete Schwab (Host)

right

Patty Vasquez, folks, check her out at Memories Ballroom this weekend in Port Washington.

Such a great venue.

Tom, have you ever been to a comedy club?

Dom Lee

I have not.

In all my 22 years of living, I have not been to a single one.

And I feel like kind of a loser.

But

Pete Schwab (Host)

no, there's not.

That's been too hard on you.

But I will say, if you want to check one out, you are sitting above one of the best ones in the whole country, honest to God.

And people say that, like.

It was not around when I did stand up.

I worked.

There was a club down the street called funny business.

That's no longer there.

But comedy on state is like, you talk to any comic and it's like one of the best clubs in the country, if not the best.

Dom Lee

Yeah, I hear all the time.

I'm since I am right above them, I can hear them below me, like directly below me.

And I hear people laughing and it sounds like a really good time.

I know our parking garage gets absolutely filled up with people going to that comedy club.

Pete Schwab (Host)

So there's something at the overture center.

You're totally boned.

Oh, yeah.

dash on the stream says a thumbs up to the bumper music dash likes.

That's awesome.

We'll take a dash and then another thumbs up.

Appreciate you listening, pal.

Hey, I want to thank all my guests tonight.

Marv, Wall from the Multicultural Center.

Always fun to talk to anyone from that great institution.

Marv was a lot of fun.

Thank you, Marv.

Thank you, Jim Healy.

It was great talking movies with Jim.

And Patty Vasquez talking a little comedy check her out at memories ballroom this weekend.

Thank you for all your calls and text.

Cindy, I'm sorry we missed your call earlier, but I know you'll call back soon.

So we will be back again tomorrow night, folks, to do this all over again.

Will Conrad be back or won't he?

Dom, what do you say?

Dom Lee

I think he will.

I'll think he'll... He'll suck.

What does he have again?

I don't quite...

Pete Schwab (Host)

Alien... Alien Hansen.

Dom Lee

There it is.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah, I hope he gets over that.

He's gonna have to use

Pete Schwab (Host)

his toes on the board.

I'm sure he'll wipe it down, so I don't catch Alien Hansen

Dom Lee

or Conrad.

Oh, yeah, I know.

Pete Schwab (Host)

We will be back tomorrow night on behalf of the lovable producer, Conrad, and the man filling in out of the bullpen, Dom Lee.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for listening.

We'll be back tomorrow night.

This is Pete Schwab.

Good night,

Unknown Speaker

Wisconsin.

She's up all night working fun I'm up all night to get lucky We're up all night to the sun We're up all night to get some

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