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

And now, a guy who's had a paper route for 25 years but never collected, Pete Schwabba.

Hey!

Welcome to Nightlight.

That's always nice when you start off on a strong note like that and have to clear your throat.

The second you start talking.

Hey, welcome to Nightlight, folks.

I am Pete Schwabba.

It is great to have you here on this Thursday night, the Christmas Eve of weeknights.

Thursday night can only mean one thing, and that is that we are making our popcorn pick of the week tonight.

And it is going to be a blast.

I have no doubt we will get an excellent movie pick from our guest.

Adam Hess I will tell you all about Adam in just a few moments as well as my other guests for tonight But first I think I would be remiss if I did not introduce Conrad Krieger.

Hey buddy.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

I'm doing well Yeah, it was a good day.

It was a good day

You've already been talking for four seconds and you haven't mentioned the weather is everything okay?

Actually, you know, I walked outside today and I was like Wow, it's warm.

Yeah

Well, I mean, you know, I don't know if I'd go that far, but yeah.

It was

because of the sun, but better.

Yeah, you know, right

now it's it's nine degrees and the sun's going down, but it was a little warmer before.

Yeah, there's hope.

We'll get there.

Eventually.

Yeah.

We have a really fun show tonight, folks.

I'm very excited about tonight's show.

We're going to be talking about aliens.

We're going to make the popcorn pick of the week, and we're going to get a quick movie review in just a few minutes after the news, which is coming along in just about 23 minutes.

We're going to talk about 28 days later, a bone temple.

Very excited.

I have not seen this movie yet, so we'll discuss that a little bit.

Lots going on around the state.

You know what I decided we're going to do Conrad?

The Olympics are right around the corner.

They start February 6th.

We are going to feature a Wisconsin-based Olympic athlete here on Nightlight every night leading up to the Olympics next Friday.

Oh, that's great.

We're going to start it tonight and I'm very excited.

How do you feel about that, Conrad?

I mean, that's fantastic.

I shared that.

I waited purposefully to share that with you on the air so you could not hide your relation.

I think that sounds really cool.

You know, yeah,

it does sound cool.

Yeah, it's going to be fun.

So we'll talk about that.

We've got, you know, that's going on.

There's so much going on.

Bill Belichick is not in the Hall of Fame.

What do you make of that Conrad?

I think this is funny is that, you know, we did that pre-record with Seth Wickersham.

Yeah.

And I told you like moments later, I was like, yeah, Seth just broke some pretty big news.

It was like two minutes after we were done.

I know he works for ESPN, but we've killed him to break the news on Nightline during a pre-record.

Yeah, no.

I mean, those championships, everything he did, I think that well deserved.

He's well deserved of being in the Hall of

Fame.

If you're just going based on achievements and accomplishments, absolutely.

He's a cheater, but he served his time for that supposedly.

So if he didn't do enough for that, maybe you should have penalized him more, but you can't argue that his accomplishments, unless you're putting it all on Brady, which maybe you could because Brady won a Super Bowl without Belichick and it didn't happen the other way around.

I'm kidding.

Belichick's a great coach.

I don't, he seems like kind of a jerk, but that's never been a criteria for voting.

Really strange.

And what's even stranger is some of the people, most of the people assume it's because of deflate gate.

But there were a couple reporters I was reading an article today on Yahoo Entertainment and they said if they just wanted to see other people get in first now Robert Kraft was eligible at Roger Craig great player But you know nobody shows up To a sporting event to watch an owner own they watch the game and I I Think that's kind of bull

And I like reporters.

I like how they tell truth, but that's ridiculous.

You'd rather see other people get in.

I just don't buy that on any level.

Conrad, you're the sports guy.

Well,

yeah, I mean, I do think he is all of Amber like just based off his his achievements alone.

You know, maybe he's not the best guy.

But I mean, I think this is what we can kind of compare it to is

Mike Tomlin's and all is a Hall of Famer.

Do you agree

with

that?

I do.

Yeah.

And he's he's only had one Super Bowl, but he's also had a lot of winning records.

He's never had a losing record.

That's impressive.

But that can almost work against you.

You're locked in mediocrity.

Yeah.

And you never get the high draft picks.

I mean, yeah, it's that's something though.

So if we're comparing coaches, I mean, I'm just saying Mike Tomlin, he's he's he's going to be all famous.

How was how's Bella check now?

It just doesn't make sense to me.

Mike Tomlin does seem like a cooler guy.

Well, yeah, definitely.

He definitely seems way cooler.

Let's stick with sports.

This is exciting.

I saw this today.

Pulaski athlete, Deirdre Irwin, she's a biathlete competing for the gold in the Olympics that start next Friday night, February 6.

This is kind of cool.

Stormy Krummer hats are making a team Irwin hat.

I think that's fun.

It's like all her family can wear them and they're gonna like celebrate her just being in the Olympics.

She Conrad is the best biathlete.

I want to make very clear here.

I'm not saying biathlete like a sexual preference.

She is a biathlete.

Meaning she's good at multiple

sports.

You don't know quite how to react to what I'm saying.

Yeah, she's great at the biathlon.

You know, she's a badass and she's like one of the best in the world.

Obviously she's in the Olympics, but she went to Michigan Tech.

Local girl from here in Northeast Wisconsin grew up in Pulaski.

I think that's so cool.

And she'll have the hats to show her support thanks to Stormy Cromer.

Very cool thing.

Yeah, I saw that video.

Um, definitely go check it out.

But yeah, there's some cool hats.

I think, uh, I think she'll have a easy time finding who's supporting her.

Absolutely.

I saw the story on WSAW the saw.

I think they call it in wasa very cool story.

Um, so.

And let's do this tonight.

It's tomorrow night.

Let's do a deep dive.

We're going to start doing a deep dive on Olympic athletes from Wisconsin that should keep us very busy until next Friday.

But let's celebrate our home bred athletes here.

They're going to represent us at the Winter Olympics, which on some level, I will say, I feel like I don't watch the Olympics as much as I should, but I love the winter sports.

I find them to be like the bobsled, the luge, the biathlon.

downhill skiing, all that stuff.

Like it's it's sort of, I think I feel like there's more extreme sports in the Olympics in the winter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you know, there is a there's a Kiewaskam athlete that made the Olympics.

Is that right?

Yeah.

How come I'm just hearing about this now?

I mean, we can do a deep dive later, you know, this, you know, this or next, but.

Let's discuss tomorrow.

We'll do an athlete tomorrow here in the first segment, folks.

So tune in tomorrow night and find out who our Wisconsin athlete of the night will be competing in this year's Winter Olympics that starts February 6th.

Tonight, we're not doing a deep dive, but I think this is really cool that Deirdre Irwin is from right here in the Green Bay area.

She's also in the National Guard.

So how do you like that?

She's serving her country, both through the military and in the Olympics.

She's a bio the biathlon is shooting a gun and skiing correct

Yeah, yes

Yes, yeah, she that kind of scares me.

I'm a little scared of her I'm just saying I think she could probably take me so okay We've got a really fun show tonight folks.

I'm gonna tell you who our guests are but first let's get to our night like question of the night

Let's talk about the question.

Okay question

We are having

fun with this one, folks.

You know those little sweethearts?

People hand them out prior to Valentine's Day, typically.

We got them in school.

Conrad, I'm sure you got them in school as well.

Never did, never

did.

Really?

Not those.

They must have been a crackdown.

We used to get those all the time.

I care I care I don't know if they do this anymore, but like for Valentine's Day when I was in like middle school We had to like hand them out to every single person in the class So no one felt like they couldn't you know no one felt left out

Right,

so I don't know if they do that anymore, but that was how I grew up

You give one to your best friend that says be mine They're using more practical messages now they're kind of updating the whole idea It's not just romance be mine my sweetie kiss me all that kind of stuff now.

It's more Practical messages on these sweethearts like split rent That's great your login, you know

So our question tonight is what words would you like to put on a sweetheart?

Let us know at 855-752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

You can also text us on the app.

Very easy way to reach the show, the Civic Media app, or if you're watching the radio on the stream on Facebook, YouTube or X, drop us a stream comment and I will read it on the radio.

And while you're there, give us a like or a follow if you don't mind.

But let us know what words you would like to put on a sweetheart.

Have you thought about this, Conn?

Yeah, quick

trip.

I just, I don't even know what to say to that.

What are you saying by quick trip?

That's it.

Just quick trip.

But what message are you trying to get?

Just like you're so blind.

No,

that means that means a lot of stuff.

You know, we can go get gas together, quick trip.

I'll fill

it

for you.

Or, you know, we'll go and get two chicken sammies.

Let's travel together, but keep it fast.

Share a chocolate

milk.

Share a nice warm coffee.

There we go.

So

just quick trip, you

know,

you're going to take a date to quick trip for chocolate milk.

That's a great idea.

Come on.

12.

I say dance off.

I'm just trying to be like, I love the login shares in that one and all these other ones we've seen.

They're just great.

And I love when a company does something like this because it gives us a chance to put it out there to people and see what they would do.

So we got some great social media responses.

We'll read some of your texts off the text line too at 855-752-4842.

Or the app or the stream so be part of the show folks.

We love when you guys participate.

It is always so much more fun I'm anxious to read some of these texts tonight and you can keep it relatively clean But if you want to go there who am I to stop you?

Fun show tonight, too.

We've got my son Joe Schwab will be here at 535 he has seen he's two movies ahead of me Conrad he like you has seen Marty Supreme

And he's also seen 28 days later, Bone Temple with Ray Fiennes.

I am so excited to see this movie.

I know Matt Miller was on last night.

He kind of said it wasn't quite as good as the last one, but it's still got good reviews.

I don't think Matt said he still liked it.

I'm just jazzed.

I cannot wait to see it.

I will probably see it this weekend.

So I've got to see Marty Supreme and 28 days later.

Yeah, I'd say Marty Supreme.

Definitely give that a watch.

Like

I've been saying

but last night I did rent a movie

Really?

Yes.

I rented anaconda.

Oh Dude, all right.

We're gonna hear about that.

Let's do let's do that after the break My other guests tonight folks are Adam Hess Civic media is owned from WRCO in Richland Center is gonna be here tonight to make the popcorn pick of the week So when Adam leaves us

sometime around seven o'clock or shortly thereafter, you will have a movie pick to watch this weekend.

Possibly one you've never seen.

It might possibly be the greatest movie you've ever seen.

We'll see what Adam shares with us.

But that is always a fun segment.

We'll find out what kind of movie snacks he likes.

And then Adam is also, Conrad, I don't know if I told you this, we're gonna talk about Alice in Dairyland, a very cool contest we have here in Wisconsin.

All right, we're coming right back.

It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Chihuahua.

This is Nightlight, a Thursday night edition.

It is the Christmas Eve of the weeknights, folks.

Let's have some fun.

Friday is almost here and it is a lovely evening, the Thursday evening.

A little pressure.

Maybe it's casual Friday.

Tomorrow at work.

If you've got big plans this weekend and we are inching ever closer.

Happy Thursday and great to have you here.

Our question of the night is what are words you would put on a sweetheart?

They have sort of changed their marketing plan a little bit and they don't Just go with romantic messages anymore.

They have messages like split rent shared password all kinds of

modern day text message type things we send.

So let us know what you would do.

855-752-4842-855-756.

And we will be off to the races.

New sports and weather is coming up in just about seven minutes.

We've already discussed an Olympic athlete, Deirdre Irwin, who is from Pulaski.

It was great reading about Deirdre before.

She's going to have her own hat line at the Olympics.

Her family will be able to watch her and she'll be able to see them thanks to these cool hats.

So we I kind of got cut off con sometimes when I do the show from home I lose track of time because I don't have that big huge clock

Yeah in front of me.

Yeah,

but um joining me tonight in the third hour folks will be Becky Ferrara she is an author and Her book is first contact and it's a great book.

I received it in the mail about a week ago I've been working my way through it.

She covers Roswell

how aliens first came to be or at least our knowledge of them and our curiosity thousands of years ago.

It's a really good book and she was a really fun interview we recorded with her a little while ago so very excited to play that for you guys later.

It's a really fun book and we had a great discussion about aliens so I think we're all kind of interested in aliens even if we're not maybe obsessed but she is an authority on it and she's a

a science report.

So she's all about facts and evidence and all that kind of stuff.

So Becky will be here at 735 to help us close things down tonight.

As I mentioned, Joe Schwab will be here after the news talking about the film 28 years later, Bone Temple.

And Adam has from WRCO in Richland Center here at Civic Media will make the popcorn pick of the week at 635.

So that's your show right there Conrad.

That's a show.

What else we got here?

So where do you stand on aliens Conrad?

You know, um, I mean, I don't know.

I don't know.

Like there's some things that I've seen that I'm like, God, that's weird, but there's some other things that like just looks like a helicopter that you could see a light from, you know,

it's a little vague.

I mean, the UFO means unidentified flying object doesn't necessarily mean alien spacecraft.

We just don't know what the hell it is.

So, um, but I'm excited.

I'm, I'm.

I love a good alien TV or movie.

Yeah.

TV show or movie.

And we talked about that with Becky.

So that was fun.

And I, you know, I love the idea that something is inexplicable or it's hard to describe what it was.

I find that I'm very curious about stuff like that.

Yeah.

So I keep just like with a Sasquatch or a Squatch as people.

Yeah.

They're enthusiasts.

They call it that.

I keep an open mind, but we'll talk to Becky and it will be fun.

So what are your thoughts on aliens, folks?

As always, the phone lines are open and you can shoot us a text about anything you're thinking tonight or anything we're talking about.

That's always fun as well.

Let me ask you something, Conrad.

If I asked you what was the most streamed show in 2025, what would you say?

or what would you venture to guess?

I would say Stranger Things.

That is exactly what I thought.

Yeah.

And I read this article, I think it was from Gawker, I think it was called.

Great site.

It's not, it's not, it's not Stranger Things.

Huh.

I'll give you a hint.

Okay.

Stuart J. Waddles.

Oh, so it's like, it's a kid show.

Yeah.

A kid show, he came on this radio program about six months ago and just was so passionate about it.

Yes.

That is the most streamed show in 2025.

I think that's so cool.

I sent him an email and I think he has been blocked.

I was excited to share that with him because it's such a great show.

I found this out today.

For those of you with daughters,

and you know things have changed a little bit like times have changed it's not always so traditional where the parents of the daughter pay for the wedding people do different things now but typically it's always been that way that the parents of the daughter pay for the wedding if you had to guess Conrad how much do you think the average wedding costs nowadays 30,000 very close 36 grand

okay

that is insane that's a lot of money

$36,000 I mean for one day, but it's got to be a special

taking me weeks to lose that much at the casino Takes me one day.

What do you mean?

36 you put it all on red 36 geez that's crazy if you've got a daughter getting married folks I'd love to hear what you paid if you're willing to share that because I have a daughter She's nowhere near getting married, but that is in the back of my mind like I got to start a fund right now and I mean I

you know, not whatever.

I won't go do it, but that's a lot of money.

It is.

So it is.

All right, we've got new sports and weather coming up in just about a minute, folks.

And then we're going to do a quick movie review at 535 after the news.

Joe Schwabble will be here.

He stops by periodically to review movies that I haven't seen yet and that we have not talked about on the phone yet as father and son.

This is great.

Matt Harper.

Our favorite Green Bay rock rap artist says what he would put on sweetheart is meet at Lenny's tap.

There we go.

That's

awesome.

And then he clarified my sweetheart line.

I love it.

Dave on the stream says a poop emoji.

That's real mature, Dave.

All right.

Hey, we're coming right back, folks.

New sports and weather is next.

And we're going to talk about 28 years later, Bone Temple.

Great movie.

and popcorn pick of the week.

Some alien talking hour three.

You're here on a great night.

We are rocking it.

This is Nightlight with Pete Chihuahua on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight.

It is great to have you here, folks.

We are celebrating all the things in life that make us happy tonight.

Movies and TV and music and comedy.

Aliens.

We love the sports talk earlier.

All good stuff.

Dave on the stream outdid himself.

And this is my new current sweet heart message.

Six seven.

That

cracked me up.

That's great.

That's outstanding.

But you got to do the hand thing when you hand the, and much better, much more mature than poop, Dave.

So thank you for that.

Hey, there's a new movie out called 28 Years Bone Temple.

I have not seen it yet, but my son Joe has and Joe drops by here periodically to talk about the movie scene at my request and the movies typically that I have not seen yet.

So it is my pleasure to welcome in tonight lights.

After social media guru and filmmaker Joe Schwamba.

Hey, Joe.

How are you?

Hey, how you doing?

Good.

I like the background very very nice.

Oh, yeah.

Thanks.

Like you're like actually in a studio there or something.

Fantastic.

Do you have a if you were to put words on a sweetheart Joe, you know what those little sweethearts are?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you have something you would put on there just to keep it more contemporary?

Is this kind of for Valentine's Day?

Yes, it's for Valentine's Day.

I would say maybe temper your expectations.

Well, that's

a mouthful to get on a little sweet tart, but I

like it.

Maybe click here for the rest of the message, that type of thing, but

yeah, that's

great.

Temper your ex.

Yeah, low bar, maybe,

just summarize.

I don't expect much.

So this is great.

Thanks for being on the show tonight.

I still, I'm not embarrassed, but I'm kind of shocked that I have not seen 28 days later, I'm sorry, 28 days bone, 28 years bone temple.

It's weird because there's a new trilogy, but the first part of this trilogy was part of the last trilogy.

So

the titles mix up.

I don't know what they're doing, but it's kind of bizarre.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I liked the last one so much.

I assumed I would run out and see this one immediately.

I have not done that.

What did you think of the film?

I thought it was great.

I

thought it was really well made, well acted.

I thought Ray Fiennes did a fantastic job.

I love watching him in anything he's in.

He was my favorite part of this movie.

His whole, you know, because it's kind of split into different storylines and his storyline was definitely my favorite and I think what made the movie.

really cool stuff just about like Kind of the nature of humanity and that that's sort of what those movies explore like what separates us from animals or in this case the infected and I think that this one definitely carried on that Trend or those themes that the previous movies have kind of explored

Interesting.

The last film was called just 28 years later, and this is 28 years later, The Bone Temple.

Ray finds this in both of them.

All I've been hearing is how fantastic he is in this movie.

I mean, you're right, he's a great actor, but he is outstanding, and I'm very... Aside from him, and the movie reviewed very well, what were the best parts about the movie?

Also, I think he should be up for an Oscar for this movie.

Like I thought he was that good.

It'll never happen because it's you know 28 years later is sort of put under the umbrella of like zombie or horror or whatever but it's by itself a very good movie.

Like I wish it would be included in those categories because I thought this one was slightly like it wasn't as good as the first the 28 years later but it was still very good.

I don't know what people are saying if people are saying this one was better or

A little worse.

I don't know but I'm sorry.

What was the question?

No that

Your favorite elements of the film outside of Ray finds performance.

Yeah, I mean it had some Really it was just like some really cool sequences that were shot really cool Again, I would say my favorite parts of these movies are like just the themes they explore and I don't want to say too much without giving away parts of the movie should also say

there is an extremely big cliffhanger slash um big big spoiler at the end that I'm not gonna say anything really and it's it's pretty cool and you kind of are like oh my gosh you know

okay so you said you weren't sure how what other people were saying about the film Matt Miller Milwaukee film critic who's on this show a lot last night kind of said what you said he liked it he did not like it as as

much as he liked 28 years

later.

However, 92%, pardon me, 92% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

That's with 300 reviews, 88% on the popcorn meter, which is audiences.

So people liked the film and now I'm even more excited to see it.

And you mentioned the Oscars, Joe.

This came out in 2026, so it wouldn't be eligible until next year.

for Ray Fiennes anyway.

So that will be interesting.

Let me

ask you this.

Did they, the first one, or the one that came out last year, 28 years later, ended with a continuance or a hint at where the second one was going or where this one, the second

one with the new trilogy is

going.

Did they play that out?

Yeah.

Yeah, you get to meet those characters that, excuse me, that come in at the end.

Okay.

The skateboarders.

They're, yeah, parkour guys, whatever.

They're very good.

Two of the actors I know, I don't know either of their names, but one of the main guy was also in Sinners.

He played the bad guy in Sinners.

Oh, really?

And he's really good.

And then also, there's another actress that's been in a ton of stuff, but I don't remember what great commentary I'm providing right now.

The guy from The Thing and the one, like,

But no,

I know what you mean.

I think it's Chai Lewis Perry.

Maybe it's who you're talking about.

But anyway, all right.

So overall, would you agree with the critics 92% or the audience at 88%?

What do you give the film in the way of stars or percentages or whatever?

I'm trying to think what I ranked it because I ranked them both in my letterbox.

I would say, I think they're probably both four, like four out of five.

Okay, that's pretty good.

Yeah, I would say both, maybe the first one even a 4.5.

I would maybe be the first one a 4.5.

If people wanted to find your letter box where you talk about movies, how would they do that?

Where would they go?

I think I probably have like two followers on there.

I mostly just log movies so I can remember them.

But I think it's just Joe Schwabba.

I think that's just my name on there.

No, that's smart because I have film critics on the show and then I I'm like I'm trying to remember what I've seen and I can't remember.

Yeah, they'll leave it.

I'm like, oh my god, I saw the rip the other day or whatever it is, you know.

Right.

All right.

So that's great.

My guest is Joe Schwab.

He is a Wisconsin based actor, filmmaker, and he drops by here periodically to give us kind of thumbnail movie reviews.

And we were just talking about 28 years later, the Bone Temple, which he liked a lot, Joe.

I don't know, like, about you.

When I was your age, I was not that into the Oscars, but of the 10 films that have been nominated for Best Picture, I think you've seen more than me.

I've only seen four.

And have you been paying attention at all to that?

And I know you liked Marty Supreme a lot.

So

based on the films you've seen, what are your favorites if you have any?

Is there a way?

Can we go over the...

Or maybe I can pull up a list in front of me.

I've

got it right here.

So we've got the secret agent, Bagonia, Train Dreams, Frankenstein, F1, if you can believe that.

For nominated for Best Picture?

Best Picture.

That's a good, OK.

We can talk about F1 later.

Yeah.

Hamnet, I have not seen Hamnet.

I mentioned Bagonia.

Sinners.

With six I don't know if you're this it got 16 nominations Breaking a record of 14 held by Titanic all about Eve and La La Land 16 sentimental value the great Stalin scars guard the secret agent the Brazilian film which is supposed to be dynamite Marty Supreme and One battle after another so I've only seen four of them.

Okay,

I've seen five That's really hard there's

All those movies are really good.

I thought Bagonia would probably I'd put a little farther down than the other ones, but I still really like Bagonia I would say out of those my favorite So I saw Mari Supreme F1 Also, I love F1, but I would say that's probably not in the like it probably shouldn't be in the right But I love that movie.

I thought it was a great popcorn movie

Yeah.

I would say I probably do sinners or one battle after another.

It's really close between those two.

Probably dead even for me.

Marty Supreme not far behind either.

A

lot of people are saying that and I'll share this with you.

Rob Thomas from Madison, Matt Miller from Milwaukee both and I kind of agree with them almost want the award to split between best picture and best director so that both of them get something because I tend to I liked one battle after another a little bit more.

than Sinners, but 16 nominations and the look of that movie, the music

and

the acting and everything that's in it, I'm kind of almost pulling for that to win.

It's weird.

I think I am too.

And I feel like I'm in a similar situation where I think personally, similar where I was like, I really like the movie F1.

I really like the movie One Battle after another, but I would maybe say Sinners is the better movie.

But just personally, I might like One Battle better.

Yeah.

That's kind of where I'm at and I you know and neither one of them have ever won an Oscar Ryan Coogler or Paul Thomas Anderson Which that one especially is hard to believe I think he's been

around

longer than Ryan Coogler So that surprises me even more but another film I really liked was train dreams, which was a Netflix film and I really enjoyed that too.

So I Who knows what'll happen?

I still have to see you and Conrad have both seen Marty Supreme.

I still have not seen Marty

I know, so I've got, out of the films you've seen, Joe, before we let you go, best actor, what are you thinking, or actress?

Best actor.

I mean, you

got Michael B. Jordan in centers who played Smoke and Stack, two roles.

You got Leonardo DiCaprio.

Yep.

And you got your guy, Timothy Chalamet from Marty Supreme.

My guy?

Well, you know.

Because he's my age.

You just like the movie a lot and you were talking.

I do.

I really do

remember you saying maybe on this show a month ago or so how much you liked his performance.

He's

good.

Yeah, he's good.

I would probably say Leo or Michael B. Jordan.

I'd probably say Michael B. Jordan,

honestly.

Me too.

I

love

Leo, but I think it was Matt that said last night the Academy doesn't recognize funny Leo and he's very funny.

Yeah.

He's

not jokie but funny.

He's great.

His performance is excellent.

But I'm with you.

I think Michael B. Jordan.

It's such a hard light.

And then I thought Tiana Taylor was really good in supporting actress.

Yeah.

Oh, she's not.

Well, I guess she's more of a supporting character in that movie.

Yep.

I would say she's gave a great performance.

I don't know the name.

What's what's the name of the girl in one battle after another?

Yeah, I don't know.

I know who you're talking about, though,

the young.

Was she nominated or not?

She was

not.

And she was great.

They thought it was a snub.

But then other people said, well, she's so young.

It's not really

a snub.

She's

18% or something.

Yeah.

Joe, this is great.

Thank you, as always, for dropping by.

Love your reviews.

And it's amazing how much we agree on movies.

But we'll have to find one we disagree on.

That could be a fun conversation as well.

But this was that one.

All right, next time we'll do a deep dive into F1.

It's Joshua, ladies and gentlemen.

Follow him on Instagram, TikTok.

He puts really funny reels up and... Sorry, someone said Chase Infinity.

Oh, Chase Infinity.

There you go.

All right, perfect.

Thanks, Joe.

Have a great night.

Much appreciated.

Thanks.

All right, that's Joe Schwabba.

We are coming back after a very short break.

Melissa said Chase Infinity.

Thank you, Melissa, on the stream.

It also says she votes for sinners.

Conrad, we got to get your take when we come back.

Anaconda.

All right, we'll talk about that after the break.

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

What words would you put on a sweetheart, those little candy

Confections we used to hand out is kids in school.

They have changed their sort of business plan and they are putting more contemporary words on the little hearts like shared rent or shared login information.

If you are Matt Harper, meet me at Lenny's tap.

All kinds of fun stuff.

I said, what did you say, Con?

Quick trip.

Oh, that's right.

Quick trip.

It's a great answer.

It's an answer.

No, it's fine.

I said dance off.

So I stuck a little bit more with the theme.

You were sort of trying to promote your favorite fine dining establishment, which is

fine.

Yeah, I

mean, come on.

Nothing, nothing wrong with that.

All right.

So let us know what you would put on a sweetheart.

Adam Hess, our civic media colleague will be here.

Adam is.

uh, he is, uh, on the air in Richland center.

He's g to be here to make the pick of the week.

And then we're going to talk about Alice He did a piece on Alice and Adam explain what that is.

I remember reading about it a it's a really fun cont here in Wisconsin.

The

Alice in Dairyland, because we are the Dairy State.

So there you go.

So we'll talk to Adam at 6.35.

He'll make the popcorn pick of the week.

And then in hour three, some alien talk with Becky Ferrara.

She is the author of First Contact.

So, and it's a great book I've been reading.

Her PR people were nice enough to send me a copy and I'm really digging it.

So we'll talk to Becky and about the spooky stuff in hour number three.

Conrad saw a movie.

You finally saw Anaconda.

And I say, because we were talking, not that this is like one of the most highly coveted movies to see, but pardon me, I talked about this.

I couldn't wait to see this movie just because it looked like a fun popcorn, silly movie.

Yeah.

You know, I waited because I didn't feel like it would be, but it's like a theater movie, to be honest.

Yeah.

So I waited and it finally came out.

It was, I had to rent it.

It's not streaming yet, but I didn't mind, I guess.

Wait,

you can rent Anaconda now?

Yeah.

Boy, that did not take long.

It's not like the $20 rental fee.

It's more like the four or five bucks or whatever.

Yeah, it was like, no, it was $12 on Fandango.

Okay.

So yeah, I mean, I enjoyed it.

I thought it was funny.

I saw the original a while back.

So, you know, I thought it was hilarious.

So they kept calling back to the original one.

And it's my favorite.

My favorite, the favorite part of that whole movie is when Ice Cube did his appearance.

What does he do?

I know the thing like in the original that like eats John Voight, right?

Yeah.

And then spits him out.

Yeah.

Okay.

But I loved his cameo in this movie.

Because he just like start, he just starts shooting his gun and just walks.

But who's cameo?

John Voight?

No, Ice Cube.

Okay.

And I mean, Jennifer.

Lopez makes an appearance too for like three seconds, but you know, but now

I thought it was I thought it was

funny It's not a great movie, but I thought it was it was I enjoyed it

See, I don't think I would rent it at home or I wouldn't pay 12 bucks for it, but I would I would put it on when it was Yeah,

I Think that the movie had some great parts in it Pete are you still there?

Pete is having some technical issues.

Did

I just cut out or did you?

Yeah,

all right, you're back.

Okay,

that was it.

Where did I go?

God, where did I go?

You just froze.

You

froze for a second there.

You're good now.

Okay, but what's the last thing you heard from me other than SOS?

Yeah, you wouldn't pay $12 for it at home.

No, I wouldn't.

But I would watch it.

I will watch it because I'm curious, but that's just seemed to me like a really fun theater film.

You

didn't

see it?

I did not see it in the theater because I wanted to see it in the theater.

I thought you said, I thought you did see it.

So I feel bad that just ruined the cameo for you.

But no, you'll

enjoy

it.

You'll enjoy it.

Paul Rudd.

Absolutely hilarious in it.

So is Jack Black.

uh news sports and weather coming up in just about a couple minutes here folks and on the other side of the news we will read your text i'm going to tell you about a really cool new vodka and we're going to tell you about some super bowl snacks that were created here in wisconsin that you can pair with this new vodka with a really curious flavor conrad you remember hotdog water

of course it's my favorite beverage

this is along those lines and it's very strange um

So we'll do all that after news, sports and weather, which is coming up in just a minute.

We've got another film opening this weekend.

I'm very excited about this.

Send help with.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

I don't mind.

It's getting great reviews.

It's a Sam Raimi film.

Sam Raimi, of course, did Army of Darkness.

I think the Evil Dead.

But he's just a simple plan.

He's a fantastic director and he's friends with the Coen brothers makes very similar movies to the Coens.

But I am very excited.

This trailer has been playing in theaters for about six months now.

And the first time I saw it, I thought, oh, that looks really great.

And then they give you the release date.

I'm like, oh, my God.

So we've been watching this trailer.

which even if it's for a good movie, I don't need to see a trailer 84 times.

But the movie is finally out this weekend.

Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, and Sam Raimi.

And another one.

Are you a fan of Highlander or Outlander?

I'm sorry.

No, no, no.

I think it's mostly, I think women love it.

My wife loved it, but that is getting a final season.

And apparently people are crying at the trailer.

All right.

You got that coming out, but we're going to tell you about really fun Super Bowl snacks that were created here in Wisconsin and really unique flavor of vodka.

You could pair those with and we're going to reach your text.

That's all afternoon sports and weather, which is coming up next.

Adam Hess is here from WRCO who makes the popcorn pick of the weekend.

Aliens in hour number three.

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

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 likes to dine and dash, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome

back to Night Light folks.

It is time for hour number two or act two as I like to call it It is great to have you here tonight.

We got a fun question some great guests If you missed our number one, it is available in podcast form.

It's civicmedia.us Conrad and I talked about a lot of a lot of things to open the show the fact that weddings are 36 G's now on average 36 grand We talked about dear to Irwin

a Pulaski native here in northeast Wisconsin who is in the Olympics competing in the biathlon event and a local hat company or a hat company Stormy, Stormy Cromer put out hats so that she could identify her family in the stands.

I think that's really cool.

She will compete in the Winter Olympics and start next Friday night, February 6th.

She is also a Michigan Tech graduate and

part of the National Guard.

I think that's really cool.

I don't know much about the biathlon, but because of this, I will be cheering for Georgia Irwin.

Definitely.

I also mentioned that leading up to the Olympics, we are going to feature an athlete every night who is from Wisconsin and we will do a deep dive into said athlete and tell you a little bit about them.

I think it's more fun to cheer for people when you know, when you have sort of a personal connection

to an athlete or a performer or whatever.

So we'll talk about that.

We'll start that off tomorrow night.

So that will be fun.

And Joe Schwabba, my son came by to talk about the movie 28 years later, Bone Temple.

Joe drops by periodically to give us some quick thumbnail movie reviews and talk about movies I haven't seen yet.

So that was fun.

All of it is available at civicmedia.us.

Coming up this hour.

Adam Hess will be here.

Adam is a host at WRCO and Richland Center here at Civic Media, and he hosts a great show.

We're gonna tell you all about the shows that he hosts over on WRCW.

One of them is Week and Wake Up, and one of them is Prime Movers Saturdays, and I've got questions because they're both great shows.

Adam is gonna make the popcorn pick of the week, so by the time he leaves this show tonight, folks, you will have a movie pick.

possibly have a film you haven't seen yet.

And, you know, maybe it'll be the greatest film ever.

We'll see what kind of movies Adam likes at 635.

And then in hour number three, Becky Ferrara will be here talking about her new book, First Contact, a great book about aliens.

She did a deep dive into aliens.

She is a science reporter.

There is no conspiracy.

She like debunks things.

She presents things.

She's just a very solid reporter.

And she approached her book the same way that she approaches her work that she does for the New York Times and Vice and the MIT Review.

So she does great work.

She will be here.

And I'm very excited to talk to Becky.

We actually already recorded that, so we'll play it at 7.35.

She was a lot of fun and very informative if you're into aliens.

And who isn't?

I like some good alien talk every once in a while.

Conn, I think at this point, we should reintroduce our question of the night.

Let's

talk about the question.

Okay,

question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

So, all right, we all know Sweethearts.

We got them handed out as kids.

They're Valentine's Day candy.

They have little messages on them, like, be mine, marry me.

All kinds of sweet messages, but the company has kind of pivoted and they're doing more contemporary stuff now like shared rent or Shared login information just some some phrases that we use now And I think you know that's interesting not quite as romantic, but they've definitely updated it and Conrad's was quick trip.

Yep And if you listen to this show regularly, you know why

Conrad has a thing for quick trip that is his favorite restaurant and You know what teaches on so good for you.

I said dance off and My favorite so far and we have to read some text here in a moment was six seven by Dave on the stream and one of our textures John also suggested six seven six seven

So we will, uh, we'll break those down.

We'll read some of your texts and we got a lot of social media responses we'll get to as well.

So all of that.

All right, we got to talk about this because there is a new flavored vodka.

When you, when you think vodka, what, what flavor comes to mind that you would maybe want to add to this particular spirit?

Probably something sweet, you know, so you can mix it well with like a, like a.

Sprite or water or something

totally agree However Not everybody feels that way So yesterday I tease the idea that there are some Wisconsin Super Bowl snacks out there made in Wisconsin for Wisconsin and we never got to it So tonight we're gonna talk about that and this vodka.

Okay.

This is a vodka that is and I saw this on newswire

Not a flavor you think would go with vodka, but Tabasco they've teamed up to put Tabasco in vodka Now If you drink a Bloody Mary you probably get that kind of vibe from it, but this is not just Tabasco being added to vodka They're like seriously mashing it up with pepper mash

and they're making it like really grainy or organic or whatever you want to call it.

The first ad for it features four people drinking it next to a volcano.

So it's hot, it's spicy.

Does that appeal to you at all on any level?

No, also because I don't like Bloody Mary's.

You don't like Bloody Mary's?

No, but.

Wow.

That just sounds gross to me.

I don't know.

I would give it a try, but I don't think I'd like it.

I gotta tell you, Bloody Mary is kind of one of the things I miss the most about drinking.

I love the idea of getting up after getting really hammered the night before and having a Bloody Mary.

It's like the

hair of the dog.

I just don't like tomato juice, so.

Yeah, I'm with you there.

But overall, with the spices they put in and the celery and the olives, it's a great drink.

It's a glorious drink.

But you can pair that Tabasco vodka with some of these snacks that were created in Wisconsin.

They were made locally and let's get to these cotton.

Did you look these over?

Yeah, one of them.

Well, one of them was we had on the show before.

Oh, yeah.

And that

was

yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's that's gone.

That was the candy from Ghana.

Oh my gosh, that was so good.

It was like it was

fantastic.

Yeah.

Why haven't we had him back on?

Let's let's track that guest down and have him back on because he brought us free stuff and let's be honest.

No, it was so good.

It was what it is or what he does.

But it's he's got this recipe.

It's outstanding.

So that wouldn't go good with no.

But it would be a great Super Bowl snack.

Payload popcorn.

Have you had that?

Yeah, I've had their their.

Cheese popcorn.

They're they're white, you know, better

caramel.

It's fantastic.

Absolutely.

Door County bakeries, Corsica sticks.

They are named after the Mediterranean island of Corsica.

These mini crunchy toasts are perfect for eating with dips and spreads.

And you can get them in a sister baked bakery.

You can add them to an antipasto.

They're good with olives and cheese.

Now that's a Super Bowl snack.

And all of this comes, by the way, of Up North News.

So thank you for that, Ellie Bordo, who's been on the show.

She was just on last week.

It does great work.

Rural Route 1, based in southwestern Wisconsin, since 1983, another popcorn brand.

Homegrown here in Wisconsin with all the classic flavors they have, like cheddar, maple pecan.

That's not the classic.

That's different, and that sounds glorious.

Jard, Jardettos my saying that right con.

Would you say that Jardettos or Gardettos?

Gardettos.

Gardettos.

Okay.

You haven't had these?

No, I have not.

What is it?

Oh, you have missed out on so much.

Oh, I gotta get home.

Gardettos

are fantastic.

There you go

to

any gas station, anything.

They're there.

They're like

an Italian snack, right?

A mix or something?

Yeah.

They're one of my favorite, like if I'm going to the gas, if I'm on a road trip and we go to the gas station, we're getting some snacks.

That's what I'm getting.

Okay.

And I didn't even know that it was made in Milwaukee in 1932.

How

about that?

Do they sell these at Quick Trip?

They sell them at every gas station you go to.

Okay.

Well, there you go, folks.

These are some great snacks you can check out.

They're all made right here in Wisconsin, and check out Up North News too, because, yeah, I forgot about that brittle from Ghana.

That is so good.

There's

one more here,

too.

I liked a lot.

Fortune favors.

Candy pecans.

Love a big candy pecan.

Dynamite stuff.

And that would go, maybe not too bad with the Tabasco vodka, but check out the Tabasco vodka as well, if you're brave.

We've got to get to some some text here.

Let's go to the text line where Monica from Mount Horrib says if these hearts are going to be more realistic one should read give up and another stalker and then Monica sorry I may be jaded.

It sounds like a Monica, but maybe well traveled is a better word.

I think you're pretty cool.

Chris from Sun Prairie in this area code 773.

There you go.

Chicago area code says, I got next round.

That candy tastes like chalk.

That's all I got.

That is my three picks.

That's all I got should go on the heart.

It's kind of like what Joe was saying.