From Wisconsin’s Stage to Nollywood Fame (Hour 3)

Broadcasting live statewide from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

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

And now, a guy who hates shaking hands, Pete Schwabba.

Hey, welcome to Nightlight everybody.

Are we doing Wisconsin?

It is great to be back in the chair.

It is finally Monday.

And we will talk about lots of really groovy stuff tonight.

We've got great guests, a great question, lots of chances for you to be part of the show, which I always love when you guys text or call and just, you know, be part of the nightlight.

That's what we're doing here.

What else are we doing here?

Conrad, right?

I know.

Yeah.

What else are we doing?

Nothing.

We're here for the people.

Yeah.

And that's why that's why we do it great stuff tonight.

We've got a gorgeous night here in Green Bay a balmy 30 degrees in Green Bay tonight That's warm.

It is warm.

It feels like 50 based on what we've been dealing with but Something, you know, it's staying laid out a little light, you know a little lighter later We got some some balmy weather.

We've got lots to get to tonight folks The Olympics start this week Conrad.

I don't know if you know about that.

So

yeah,

you're planning on

you know, being part of any of the events, you better get going.

You're losing daylight on that one.

But will you watch the Olympics?

Yeah, definitely.

I love watching.

Main thing I like watching is the snowboarding.

Yeah.

Especially, you know, just the slope style or just the park.

It's super cool.

Yeah.

No, I love the Olympics too.

We're going to be watching.

I like all the, I think I said this last week, I kind of prefer the winter Olympics a little more than the summer Olympics just because

It seems like there's like more extreme sports and speed like with the skiing or the luge or the bobsled or whatever.

It's like those.

And now you've got like all the actual extreme sports like snowboarding and stuff like that.

I just think the Winter Olympics have kind of, in my opinion, outside of track and field.

I think they've kind of surpassed the Summer Olympics.

Yeah, I agree.

Okay.

I don't get too invested into the.

regular summer Olympics.

The winter Olympics are fun.

Absolutely.

All right, so we're going to talk about all of this.

We've been putting the spotlight on a Wisconsin Olympian.

We started this last week and we'll continue it all the way up to Friday when the Olympics start, the opening ceremonies.

We'll talk about an Olympian each day from Wisconsin.

Lots of fun stuff coming up tonight too.

Got some great guests.

Did you have a good weekend?

What did you do?

I

basically sat in my apartment.

Okay.

watch something to be said

you know watch movies and I want shopping

you gotta go shopping that you have to get outside the house to do that kind of stuff you know

yeah I just I was like I need to chill this weekend so cuz I have a little cough so just trying to

keep it chill.

Everybody I know is dealing with the same issue.

It's like this lingering cold that just does not go away.

So I've been dealing with it too.

I'm finally starting to feel like myself again.

But yeah, everybody's dealing with it.

So stay bundled up out there, folks.

It's this is just and also I went to bed last night.

It was snowing again.

I had to go out and dust off the car and shovel off the walks.

We got about

you know, an inch, which I normally wouldn't even leave the house to shovel, but it's like, if you don't, it could turn to ice.

It's just so annoying.

This is probably the most annoying winter I've dealt with.

Yeah, I would, I mean, I don't shovel, but...

Because you got an apartment, see, apartment living, there's something to be said for that, dude.

Yeah, no, it's nice not having to worry about shoveling, but I do have to, you know, get the thing out to what...

Wipe off my car.

Yeah.

But that's it.

I did see a cool movie.

My wife and I went to see Send Help, the new Sam Raimi movie with Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien.

Really good movie.

If those of you who like the film Misery with Kathy Bates and James Kahn will probably really dig Send Help.

Because on the surface, and I will not do any spoilers here, but like on the surface,

It looks like you know a jerky boss Finally gets his comeuppance on an island and he does but there's a lot going on.

It's a really good movie excellent reviews Great audience scores Highly recommend send help.

I made it a Pete pick for the Hollywood beats tomorrow So you can hear that at the bottom of the hour throughout the day here on civic media tomorrow Happy Groundhog Day everybody.

It is Groundhog Day a very uh, I will say February there is not

Much to like about February.

It's just kind of one of those months, you know, you've got Valentine's Day Black History Month Groundhog Day outside of that Not a lot going on when when the most exciting part of the month is once every four years that there's a leap day That's a pretty lame month And I just I don't dig it.

I don't really like

I mean you can always look forward to the Super Bowl in February

That's true.

You get the Super Bowl, but that can suck.

That game's not always exciting.

Sometimes it is.

But I guess just the party thing about it, you know.

Here's what I would rather do.

I would rather have good weather and set up a party about anything else and not have to deal with February.

Although you're right.

The Super Bowl is an event and it is one of the cool cool things about February, but not much to like overall about February.

You said that Pugs of Tony Phil, give us the straight dope, dude.

It is my job this February 2 to look to the skies and report back to you that there is a shadow here on my ground.

Six more weeks of winter abound!

Why are they cheering?

I don't know.

If he sees his shadow, or she, that's Phil, I guess it's a dude, but that means six more weeks of winter.

If he does not see his shadow,

That means winter ends sooner, correct?

Yeah.

So why are they cheering?

Maybe they got like the crowd that just love winter.

They're just a bunch of spazs.

It's calm down, first of all.

Like, remember in the movie Groundhog Day when those people get so into it?

That's probably what it's really like.

That's probably was, that was probably one of the inspirations of the movie is how people react to Phil seeing or not seeing his shadow.

Don't get excited about six more weeks of winter, but we're gonna have it either way.

I mean, let's say Phil doesn't see a shadow.

What do we have five and a half weeks more?

It's not gonna matter But for those of you wondering Phil did see his shadow the actual Regulated Phil saw his shadow, which means we have six more weeks of this nonsense And last year I didn't even care because last year was pretty mild.

I'm like I can handle six more weeks of this This is pretty brutal.

Well now we're looking forward to more snow

So

we are

probably that if

I mean that's what the forecast.

Yeah, I'm just I'm just assuming since this how this just how this winter has been going and guessing

there's

more snow coming

I Don't like it one bit Let's get to we could talk more about groundhog day first of all one of the greatest movies in my opinion ever made About an off holiday holiday.

I never cared about before.

I honestly never gave Two blanks about groundhog day ever but the movie came out

And it is such a solid, top-to-bottom, well-executed film that now I kind of pay attention to Groundhog Day.

But it's one of my all-time favorite movies.

It's such a great movie.

I rewatched it, like, not like two weeks ago or something like that.

Yeah.

I always say I'm gonna have a Groundhog Day party and put the movie on just to give us something to do in late January, early February, but...

By the time it gets here, I'm like, oh yeah, grown up day.

And I can't throw a party together that quickly.

But I always thought it would be a fun thing to have like an annual party for.

Without further ado though, folks, it is Monday.

We are back in the saddle here.

Let's get to the night like 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.

All right.

In honor of actor Linus Roach.

Do you know who that is, Conrad?

I don't.

He is the assistant DA on Law & Order right now.

He's been in a lot of cool stuff.

He's one of the Batman's.

He's not I don't think he's on the show right now.

I think he was a previous assistant EA under Sam Waterston, but his name is Linus Roach very good actor in honor of Linus Roach's birthday, which that probably has never been said before if you had to share the name of an animated character, who would it be?

If you had to share the name of a cartoon character animated favorite from over the course of history TV movies comic strips, who would it be?

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I'm gonna say... I'm gonna go first, and I'm gonna say Bugs.

But

not Bugs Bunny.

I don't

want to go with the whole thing.

Just Bugs.

Because Bugs is cool.

There's been a few gangsters named Bugs.

Like Bugs Moran, Bugs-y Seagulls.

So I think Bugs is kind of cool.

And it was between that and Homer.

Okay.

But I always pick Homer.

Homer's my favorite of all time.

But Bugs Bunny was right up there.

I grew up watching Bugs Bunny.

So I'm gonna say Bugs without the bunny.

No,

that's great.

When I saw the question, you know, I was like, all right, what's the first one that just comes to my brain?

And for some reason it was Casper, the friendly ghost.

Okay.

Then you also share a name with Chris Casper.

Yeah.

Who could pick that same.

So

yeah Casper's it's fantastic.

You're good company.

Fantastic animated character

So there you go folks, let us know what cartoon character or animated character if you had to you would like to share their name You could say fog horn leg horn Nancy from the comic strip Andy Cap I Would say the far side but there were different characters all the time Charlie Brown Buzz Lightyear you got so many to choose from let us know what you think

And we've got some good social media responses.

We'll get to those as well.

Coming up tonight on, well, new sports and weather is right around the corner, folks, about 14 minutes away.

We will keep you informed here at Civic Media as we always do.

And then after...

news, sports and weather.

I mentioned Black History Month before.

Ty Williams will join us.

He is one of the programmers at Milwaukee Film and they've got some really, they've got a really, really cool program for Black History Month.

Some great events and we're going to talk to him about the movies because there's a word I've never heard there before and Ty will educate us because it sounds really cool.

But we've had Ty on the show before.

He'll tell us what's up with Milwaukee Film and their two beautiful venues.

Coming up this month a black history month and then in the second hour actor Dan Davies will be here Dan has been here before he is a very well-known actor here in northeast, Wisconsin, but Conrad Did you know?

Dan is like one of the biggest Nollywood stars in the world.

I mean, that's pretty cool.

You know what that means?

That's in Africa yes, okay, so Dan I don't know much about nollywood.

I'll be honest

I know Hollywood.

A little bit of Bollywood.

That's becoming more of a thing.

But Nollywood, I don't know.

But Dan is huge there.

So we'll talk to Dan.

He's going to be here in studio.

And he's also going to tell us about this really cool reboot that was shot based on a movie that was shot 50 years ago in Wisconsin in the Northwoods.

Kitty Corner, to where I live, sort of, called The Giant Spider Invasion.

It is a cult classic that was made by Bill Rabain.

50 years ago, Dan and some other guys here from Northeast Wisconsin got together with Bill and they did a reboot.

They cut some new scenes and they put it in the movie.

Really big undertaking.

Tedious work, I am sure.

That is either nearing completion or done.

Dan will be here to tell us about what's up with the Giant Spider invasion reboot.

And then in hour number three, Thomas Campbell will be here.

Thomas is a renowned playwright and also teaches theater.

at UWGB.

So he's going to be in studio.

We'll talk to Thomas about a couple upcoming shows they have and a little bit about his, what he's been up to and what he does.

Cause it's fascinating work.

He teaches many different classes and I'm excited to ask him about all of them.

So that is your show folks.

And our question again, once again is what cartoon character, if you had to share a name with a cartoon character, who would it be?

I say bugs.

Short for Bugs Bunny.

Conrad said...

Casper the

Friendly Ghost?

Casper the Friendly Ghost?

What if Chris Casper didn't even pick Casper?

What if he went completely off book?

Well, it's a

different spelling.

Yeah,

it's irrelevant.

Let us know, Chris, if you're out there listening.

Alright, we're coming back and we're going to tell you who our Olympian of the night is, who is from Wisconsin.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight News is coming up in 10 minutes on the Civic Media Radio Network.

you

Happy Groundhog's Day, everybody.

Coincides with Monday.

Maybe makes Monday a little less sullen.

Actually, it makes it worse because we got six more weeks to enter.

But what are you going to do?

Great to have you here, folks.

This is Nightlight with Peachwaba.

I am Peachwaba.

And we are... There's so much going on, Conrad.

I can't even like... We've got all this... All right, we've got our Olympian we've got to get to.

We've got new sports and weather coming up in just seven minutes.

Let's do, did you watch the Grammys last night?

Not

the full thing.

I watched like, I don't know.

It just kept breaking so much for ads that I just lost interest

at

some point.

I watched a little bit of it.

I watched a see if Kendrick Lamar would win some stuff.

He won, he's the most decorated Grammy winner ever now.

He's got 27 to Jay-Z's 24.

I didn't realize that was a thing.

But he won five last night, Kendrick Lamar, last year's Super Bowl halftime performer.

So that was kind of cool.

Lady Gaga won one.

Billy Eilish and Bad Bunny won one.

He won the first best album.

And it's not best Spanish-speaking album.

It's best album, the first ever win for someone who did it in Spanish.

That's pretty

cool.

Yeah, that's awesome.

So I did not watch the broadcast, I will admit.

I was following it on my phone and writing tidbits about it.

And Trevor Noah, hosted.

I like Trevor Noah.

Without further ado, though, let's get to our Olympian of the night, folks.

We've got several great athletes from Wisconsin competing in this year's Winter Games in Italy.

And tonight's Olympic athlete from Wisconsin, Hales from Appleton, Wisconsin, it's Paul Schomer.

Conrad you pick this out today.

You pick Paul.

Yeah, the last two you got Paul.

This is a great one.

I yeah, he just he's a really great story and He was planning to retire But he still he's still qualified for this year.

So he's going to Milan

He he competed in the 2022 games in Beijing and they I think the whole team took seven I'm not really sure how they do it with the biathlon And do they separate it between men and women or is it a team?

Do you know that that I'm not sure about yeah

Because I know that our Deirdre Irwin took second two when she was our Olympian of the week, last week on Thursday night.

But Shomer, this is interesting.

He grew up in Appleton and he was a wrestler.

But at like the age of 15, he lost his dad in a serious horrible car accident.

And he did not want to keep wrestling because his dad was a wrestler.

So this is where these sports like the Olympics really tug at your heartstrings and get you motivated to cheer for people when you learn about their life.

And it doesn't always have to be tragedy like Deirdre Irwin had a great story too when they stormy Cromer made the hats for her and the team like there's just cool stuff and her mom used to wear a cheesehead so that Deirdre could pick her out in a crowd It just personalizes the athlete so much better and now I know when I'm watching what I'll be cheering for Anyway, Paul Shomer gave up wrestling and picked up cross-country skiing because his brother Started a club at their high school

And then Shomer ended up skiing in college, got connected with a guy who steered him to the biathlon.

I don't think I could do the biathlon.

I don't think I could either.

What would you, what do you think would be the most difficult sport in the Winter Olympics?

I want to say a luge, because I'm scared of that.

Just laying on another dude, you mean?

Well, it's like the single one, the single luge, like just going that fast.

That's terrifying.

I'm with you.

But when there's two guys on it, it seems worse.

Like it seems like there's more room for error.

Yeah, and SNL did a great skit on Saturday about the Luge.

Did

they?

It's hilarious.

It's like it was about, you know, skier and snowboarder and then a person who does the Luge.

And they're like, we love this sport so much and the Luge person like, I'm scared.

That's great.

But anyway.

Paul's college coach was a former biathlete got him into that And he made the national team in 2017 I believe for the first time and then he competed in 2022 He said he never wanted to be an Olympian.

This is Paul Schomer.

He wanted to wrestle But it's crazy the different route your life takes At various points in his case it was a tragic accident where he lost his father But I'm fascinated by how people end up where they end up

And Paul Schomer said, you know, wanted to be a wrestler.

Now he's going for the gold in the 2026 Olympics in Italy.

Good luck, Paul Schomer.

Good luck.

All of our Olympians will feature another Olympian tomorrow.

And so it's groundhog day.

I don't know what to do.

I mean, I don't, how do you celebrate?

Like, I can't watch that same movie every year.

It's not Christmas where you can divide it

up.

I could watch it every year, I think.

I've probably seen it 10 times.

It came out in 92, I think, or 93.

So I am on a, that's 32 years, I'm on a bi-yearly, tri-yearly, I'll watch it on average.

We've got Dave on the stream, answers tonight's question of the night, which is, in honor of actor Linus Roach, who has a really cool name, if you had to share the name of an animated character, who would it be?

Dave says, Bugs Bunny.

I said Bugs.

I'm there with you halfway, Dave.

And Dave says, the land of the lost, the old one.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

Character?

He just wants to live there, maybe.

Just the whole cast?

He would share names with the whole cast?

That seems not feasible.

Christy from, wait a minute.

Let me make sure I'm reading the right text here.

Okay.

Christy from McConnell.

She's an Eau Claire.

It says, Shira.

Who's that?

You know who that is?

I do

not.

S-H-E-R-A.

Please give us more deeds, Christy.

It's uh, yeah, she's a princess of power.

Oh,

I could

see why

Christie picked

that I've never met a princess Christie.

I've never even gotten a text from a princess.

So thank you for that

the sister of he man.

Oh That's a great one awesome Tom from Manona in the 608 says my friends have called me bender for 40 years So they named a cartoon character after me love the show.

Thanks Tom.

Love you, buddy.

That's a great text bender is the guy from

Futurama.

Yeah, I love it.

That's awesome.

All right, we will read your texts throughout the course of the show, folks.

Let us know what cartoon name you would want.

If you had to share a name with a cartoon character like Linus Roche does.

All right, we are coming back.

New Sports and Weather is next, and we're here with Ty Williams from Milwaukee Film, Talking Black History Month, and some amazing programming they have going on this February.

We're coming right back.

It's Peach Wamba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Great to have you with me.

Happy Monday.

Happy Groundhog Day, everybody.

Was it Groundhogs Day or Groundhog Day?

I say Groundhog Day.

Groundhog

Day.

Singular, right?

You don't

put it like that.

Yeah, there's not, there's not, you know, multiple Groundhogs that... Well, actually are.

I don't know.

Are there?

Yeah.

This is interesting.

Al from the 262 says, you guys mentioned the number one movie this weekend, Send Help, I did, which I heard is great, but a lot of people may be unaware of the movie that was an extremely close number two.

It's not listed on every listing because it's an independent film, but made over $18 million, a sci-fi Iron Lung, directed by and starring YouTube personality, I think, I don't know how to say it.

Markiplier.

Markiplier, okay.

That's a great text, Al.

And you're right, I did say that in the beats where I break down the box office every week.

I do mention that Iron Lung made like two and a half million dollars less than Send Help, but it was on 400 less screens.

And I think his per-screen average was more than Send Help.

So that is a juggernaut.

I don't know who that guy is, but he wrote it, directed stars in it.

And I think he raised all of his own money or found the money to make it.

$3 million budget, $18 million bucks first week.

This guy's on his way.

That's pretty impressive.

Thank you for a very savvy text, Al, when it comes to the box office.

Al in the 262.

All right, without further ado, folks, it is my pleasure to welcome back to Nightlight one of the programmers of Milwaukee Film, an outstanding organization in Milwaukee that focuses and celebrates independent film and community.

That's why we love Milwaukee Film.

Joining me now over the stream is Mr. Ty Williams.

Welcome back, Ty.

Hello, thank you so much for having me back again.

Hey, it's great to have you and it's good to talk to you again.

Happy Black History Month.

Happy Black History Month.

Thank you, sir.

I said at the top of the show there's not much to look for outside of Black History Month, Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, February can pretty much suck it.

There's not a lot going on in February.

Well, that's why I'm here to talk about all the cool films that are going on in February That

is a great response and my fear was would be you were gonna say actually Pete.

I love February.

It's my favorite month, but there was All right, so if you had to share a name tie with a cartoon character, who would you pick?

Oh My first immediate choice is Tigger from Winnie the Pooh just because

Sometimes I bounce off the walls or I have way too much energy in me and I feel pretty closely connected to him more than all the other Winnie the Pooh characters.

Did you grow up watching Winnie the Pooh?

I did.

It used to come on.

I'm pretty sure there was a TV show, right?

I had a lot of the books, the children's story books, but I remember very vaguely there being a TV show that I tuned into.

That was one of those shows.

I always wanted my kids, like when they say, can we watch this or that?

I was always like, please pick Winnie the Pooh.

I think that theme song by Carly Simon is just fantastic.

The characters are so likable.

That's a great response.

And Tigger is probably the funniest character too, just because he's so goofy.

Yeah, absolutely.

All right, so let's jump in.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, Ty.

Before we talk about some of these great programs you guys have with Milwaukee Film this month, tell us a little bit about your background.

For sure.

Yeah, I have been with Milwaukee film for about six years now And I started off as a associate just scooping popcorn and now at the sixth year I am here doing programming This is my second year doing programming So I talked with Pete last year about the last Black History Month program I had and so, you know, slowly seeing me rise my way up and Select more good movies to hopefully, you know, enjoy with the community

was that when you started out like when you took the job scoop and popcorn where you're like I just need a gig, some extra money or did you start doing that with the eye of moving up the ladder at Milwaukee Film?

Yeah, I definitely say this is something I've wanted to do for a long time.

I went to UWM for film school and I used to work at the Union Cinema there as a manager and so I think I just came in in the summer one day randomly and was like this is a very nice theater and I just

said, hey, please give me a job at some point.

And then a month later, they're like, hey, come back and see if you want to work here.

And then started from there.

Very cool.

Well, that's a great story.

And I'm glad you're in the position you're in now.

So tell us about some of the programs you have this month for Black History Month.

I read, I was looking at your website earlier, and this is a word I was not familiar with.

Tell me if I'm selling it, saying it right.

Afrofuturism.

Yes, you are saying it absolutely right.

I love the word.

Tell us about it, please.

Well, the program is called Afrofuturism Fates Beyond Fiction.

Great title.

But tell us about Afrofuturism and then let's talk about some of the films.

Yeah, totally.

So Afrofuturism is a art movement that can be described as a response to sort of the trials and tribulations that many African Americans

have dealt with in the United States.

And so their response to that was to sort of imagine a better future.

And that could have been through sound, through moving image, through photography.

And so I chose films since, you know, programming at the theater to have many different examples of films that fit this category.

So all the films that we're going to talk about are things that are sci-fi-ish in nature or at least

fictional and have something to do with real-world conditions in America or at least talk about that concept

so Okay, so tell us like are these films we've all seen or these more independent films like I know you guys focus on independent films, but what are what are some Afrofuturistic movies or stars of those movies we might be familiar with

Yeah, absolutely.

So I've tried to fill this year with things that

people have seen as well as a few features and short or short documentaries that you know maybe you might not have heard of that of good context to what Afrofuturism is but we have Sorry to Bother You playing on the 12th which is a hit movie from 2018 by boots Riley which was very popular so that's very much on people's minds maybe do for a rewatch.

We also have Nope playing on February 19th, which is Jordan Peele's latest horror movie.

Recent enough to still be in memory, but still a very apt concept of Afrofuturism, a sci-fi film by a black man that talks about the conditions of the film industry and just what it means to be black in this industry as well.

So, you know, there's lots of very notable examples that you can draw back from like a year or a few ago that resonate with everybody.

Absolutely.

My guest is Ty Williams.

He's one of the programmers.

Started as a popcorn scooper, folks.

This is a great story.

Worked his way up to programmer, and now he is behind the programming this month for Black History Month in regard to Milwaukee film.

So tell us about, you've got something going on in the seventh, too, Ty, at the Oriental.

Tell us about those films.

Yeah, so on the 7th, we're going to have an Afrofuturism double feature.

It's gonna feature two films.

The first one is called The Last Angel of History, which is a documentary, and the second is called Hello Rain.

So Last Angel of History is a documentary that sort of just briefly goes through what Afrofuturism is.

Like you said, if you just haven't really run into this word before and you want to know what exactly qualifies as Afrofuturistic, then I'd highly recommend going to the screening on the 7th.

Last Angel is the documentary that will detail

the movement, and then Hello Rain is a direct example of what an Afrofuturist short film can look like.

So I wanted to provide a lot of information as well as an example for people to sort of take away, if they take away anything, just what Afrofuturism is.

It was an example of it is.

I love it.

It says in Hello Rain, Hello Rain, a scientist which through an

alchemical alchemical combination of juju and technology it creates wigs which grant she and her friends supernatural powers but when their powers grow uncontrollable she must stop them by any means this is a short film it's 30 30 minutes long that sounds intense

yeah it's jam packed it's really really intense well i wouldn't say intense but just very interesting you know very different from what you would normally see from a short film

Yeah.

And then, so is the last angel of history, you said that was kind of an introduction to Afrofuturism?

Is it a narrative or a documentary?

It's a full blown documentary detailing how the movement has sort of grown within the country and across the seas, as well as giving examples for what sort of things you may have interacted with that are part of the movement.

So a big example is techno music from Detroit is an example of a

genre that started purely from an Afrofuturist angle.

And, you know, when you dance to it, you're not necessarily thinking Afrofuturism, but it is a thing that is still there through a remnant of this art movement.

Now, if people don't live in Milwaukee or can't get down there for these films, are these films available to stream like Hello Rain or, you know, The Last Angel of History or the one you mentioned on the 12th?

Can we see those other places?

Obviously, Nope is out there.

But what about these other films?

Yeah, so if you just aren't around or you're unable to make it to the theaters We have films like nope blade Spaces the place and sorry to bother you.

These are all films that are available either through streaming or spaces the place I believe is free on YouTube blade

Disney owns that so it's very questionable where blade ends up sometimes but the last angel of history is also a documentary that's fully on YouTube So if you can't make it to the double feature I highly recommend just taking the 40 to 45 minutes out of your life and just giving it a watch because it is a very well done documentary that is also very interested interestingly You know paste it's not like a typical documentary much like these films aren't typical films.

It's not a typical documentary like Milena

millennia um what uh okay so oh i just i went for the joke ty and now i lost my question um tell us about on february 2nd you've got space is the place from 1974 that sounds kind of cool

yes february 14th actually valentine's day is when we have space is the place and that is a movie about a fictional movie about sun raw the musician

and his tale of coming down from space and wanting to free people from the chains of colonization and capitalism.

And so he says, everybody come in my spaceship and we'll get out of this place.

And from there, it's just a.

mad spiral on earth of people who believe them, don't believe them.

But it all ties together with his very interesting music, which is, you know, the center of his Afro-futuristic theology is that if I can make sounds that don't sound of this earth, then maybe we can imagine a place different from earth.

That is fantastic.

My guest is Ty Williams.

He's one of the programmers at Milwaukee Film.

And we are talking about some of the programs they're offering and some of the films they're offering this month, which is when we celebrate Black History Month.

How does Blade hold up, Ty?

I saw it so long ago, and I think I was pretty jaded when I saw it, so I was at that age where I hated everything, but I love Wesley Snipes.

How does that movie hold up?

Yeah, so I have a special place for Blade in my heart just because it is a very big piece of representation for me personally.

I like a lot of fictional films.

I'm very nerdy.

I like to dream.

I like to imagine.

And at a very young age, I saw a blade on screen and I had a thought to myself of like, whoa, I could be a vampire hunter.

This

isn't

something that's blocked off to me just because it sounds ridiculous.

And Wesley Snipes plays it so well that he's one of the most notable vampire hunters ever of all time.

And I included it in this line of just to have sort of an example of what you could call blade a sci-fi film, I would say so, that

doesn't necessarily have to be something that is super artsy or filled with the most amazing themes, but it is something that can connect people and make them feel good and imagine a world where, you know, they can be anything else.

Are you, were you a huge fan of Wesley Snipes after that too?

Like, have you seen all of his, or most of his films?

Most of them, but not all.

I can't say I've gone through the full Wesley Snipes run, but it'll happen eventually.

You know, it's so funny.

I wrote a script years ago, and I was so hell-bent on having Wesley Snipes as the lead.

I tried to get him the film when he was in prison.

I think he did like a couple years for tax evasion or something.

And I was like trying desperately in his manager like, well, you know, I had a good dialogue with the guy.

And I'm like, come on, man, he's in prison.

He's got time to read it.

I got to have Wesley Snipes in this movie.

So that's my that's my Wesley Snipes story.

And obviously it never worked out.

But Ty Williams is here, folks.

We'll have a couple more minutes with Ty when we come back and we'll find out some of the other really cool films that they'll be showing this month in Milwaukee for Black History Month and just for Milwaukee film in general at their

two really cool venues.

I'm Pete Schwab and this is Nightlight.

We are coming right back.

Welcome

back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Great to have you here on this Monday, the wonderful Groundhog's Day.

Phil has seen his shadow, which means we're in for six more weeks of this nonsense we call winter.

My guest at the moment is Ty Williams.

He is one of the programmers at Milwaukee Film, and he is here to tell us tonight and discuss what is happening this month in honor of Black History Month at Milwaukee Film.

They have, it all kicks off, it sounds like, on February 7th with The Last Angel of History, which will help explain Afrofuturism, which I did not

I had not heard that term before today, and then Hello Rain follows that, which just kind of elaborates.

They sound like two great films.

Ty is here.

And Ty, as you mentioned, Afrofuturism is a genre of cinema that blends science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction with black history, culture.

And I think that's so cool.

So tell us a little bit about, if you would, the venues that Milwaukee film uses, because they are very special.

Sure, absolutely.

So the venue that these films will be playing at is the Oriental Theater, as far as I know.

And that is our theater that is almost 100 years old.

I believe we're about three years off or so, three to five years off.

And it's a very beautiful theater.

If you've never seen it, if you're unable to go walk in, I would suggest looking up on Google.

But it provides a very, very nice space that's been restored over the years and also provides opportunities for not just locals, but artists overseas to showcase their work with us at our film festival and year round.

So it's a very special place.

I love it to death.

I wouldn't be here for six years if I didn't.

That's a great answer.

So you mentioned you went to UWM.

They have a great film school there.

Do you have aspirations still?

Are you really into programming to the point you don't want to make your own films anymore or where are you at with that?

I'm kind of writing two scripts at the moment.

Well, I am writing two scripts at the moment.

So I still am a filmmaker at heart, but I also very much love the joy of programming and sharing films with people and discussing films and kind of getting to talk to artists that I wouldn't have been able to talk to before, as well as showcase their work and put them on a spotlight and show the community, hey, different types of art are valuable, different types of moving image that you wouldn't necessarily think to try or worth your time.

I mean, for me personally, as a writer, it's always helped me to be around other writers.

So I would imagine when you're programming and the people you meet, that must be invigorating and make you want to get back at your keyboard and get at your stories, right?

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Every film festival, I feel like a lot of filmmakers around here get a big kick of just like, wow, I got to get into grind mode.

I got to work on my stuff.

So that's another reason I love the film festival so much.

All right.

So if someone came up to you, pardon me,

and said, you can pick any, let's say, two or three black directors or filmmakers that you want to feature or host a symposium on or anything.

Who are your favorites and who would you pick?

I would say Jordan Peele for sure, as well as Boots Riley.

I very much like their approach to filmmaking, editing, pacing, the whole works, the concepts they introduce.

As for a third, I feel like...

I wanna say Eva DuVernay, but I don't, yeah, Eva DuVernay, she's a filmmaker as well.

I would very much like to showcase her also because she's made so many different movies that are so different in concept that I feel like it's amazing to see a female director who can produce so much work of so much quality.

And I would love to showcase her work sometime.

Absolutely.

My guest is Ty Williams, one of the programmers of Milwaukee Film.

We're talking Black History Month.

Milwaukee films approach to celebrating that.

Is there any chance you could ever get Jordan Peele to come to Milwaukee?

Oh, I mean, you'll be the first to know if I get that to happen.

I would love that to happen.

Are you kind of in awe of him?

Like, I loved Keen Peele.

I still, anytime one of their sketches comes up on a reel.

It's typically, maybe one I haven't even seen before, and I thought I had seen them all, but I'm amazed that this guy that wrote these sketches or co-wrote them with a staff, and we've had a couple of the writers on this show, can go make a movie like Get Out or Nope.

It's unbelievable.

Yeah, truly.

I also have a big thing for horror films as well.

So the fact that he is a prolific horror movie director as well speaks volumes to breaking the mold as far as genres go.

Yeah.

We have about a minute and a half left, Ty.

Do you have any favorites for the Oscars?

What have you seen and what really resonated with you in 2025 when it came to the big screen?

Ooh, that's a good one.

I really loved weapons because, like I said, I'm very into horror.

One battle after another was great as well.

I saw it was just an accident and that movie really struck a chord with me.

That was one of those movies where

Ever since I saw it, I haven't been able to stop thinking about that ending scene.

So I'd highly recommend that one.

It's one of the foreign options.

And there's a movie called Ciderat, which is about a man searching for his daughter in the desert at a rave and kind of traveling with this rave group through the desert to look for her.

And a lot of people have recommended that to me and said, you know, see it in a theater if you can.

So I'm very excited to get the chance to see that one when available.

And what was that called again?

I believe S-I-R-A-T.

It's got one of those, you know, letters over the A, I believe, or the apostrophes over the A or something like that.

That's

awesome.

30 seconds left.

Ty, what are you binge watching?

Anything you could recommend?

We're binge-watching Traders right now, the show that's kind of like Mafia Werewolf, the celebrity fourth season one right now.

And that's been very, very interesting, very much worth my time.

So if you like reality TV, I'd say watch The Traders.

I don't, but I respect your opinion, so I might actually check that out.

Thank you, sir.

Have a great month at Milwaukee Film and away from Milwaukee Film and keep up the great work.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for having me again.

Got it.

Anytime, Ty.

Alright, that's Ty Williams.

Check out all the great stuff Milwaukee Film does.

I didn't even get to ask him about some of the other things or what's coming up at this year's Milwaukee Film Festival, but we will do that another time.

We've got news coming up in just about a minute, Conrad.

Yeah,

that's true.

You ever bet on the news?

No, I have not we got to figure something out man.

We can make a killing all right When we come back in hour number two Dan Davies will be here our question of the night folks is if you had to share a cartoon character or animated characters name Who would it be?

I said bugs Conrad said tell me Casper damn it Casper Yeah, and we'll read some of your texts when we come back and we're gonna have a great time in act two It'll be worth it.

We're coming right back.

It's peach wabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

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 likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain, Peach Waba.

Welcome back folks.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Great to have you with me.

This is a Monday version, which sometimes sounds like Friday because I'm so excited for Mondays because I get to be back in the air and talk about all this fun stuff.

Lots going on here on Nightlight.

If you missed the first hour, Ty Williams from Milwaukee Film joined us to talk about their programming for Black History Month.

Ty's been on the show before and is a very savvy, knowledgeable film guru because he wants to be a filmmaker himself and also programs films at the very cool organization of Milwaukee Film.

So check out their website and you can see all the great films.

We didn't even get to some of the films they're showing this month Conrad.

They've got Marty Supreme and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

They always show really fun stuff.

If you missed that interview with Ty and you want to hear what's happening in Milwaukee this month, go to civicmedia.us and download the podcast of Hour One or just tune in and listen.

Great stuff.

We also featured our Olympian of the day.

We're doing one of those a day leading up to Friday.

when the Olympics kickoff in Italy.

Paul Schomer was our choice today.

He is an Appleton resident who started off as a wrestler until he lost his father, who was also a wrestler in a car accident.

And then he kind of switched to skiing, cross-country skiing, and then fell in with a coach who finally got him into, who eventually got him into the biathlon.

So a really cool story, how he ended up on his path.

We will be cheering for Paul at the Olympics.

as they inch ever closer.

Coming up this hour, we've got Dan Davies.

He is a Northeast Wisconsin based actor and one of the biggest names in Nollywood.

Conrad, you remember where Nollywood is a thing?

Africa.

Africa.

Dan's huge.

And he's got like, what I don't understand is like, I mean, Africa's a huge continent.

Yes.

How does a guy from the Northeast, Northeast Wisconsin get to be a guy over there?

He can't even go to the bathroom in Africa without being mobbed.

All right, we'll talk to Dan.

He'll be here in studio at 6.35.

In hour number three, we have Thomas Campbell, who is a playwright and a professor at UWGB.

He teaches a lot of really cool theater courses there.

We'll talk to Thomas about some of his work and a really interesting production with a great title they have coming up at UWGB.

We'll do that in hour number three.

Right now, Conrad, I think it's important that we immediately 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.

Questions.

This is a good one.

Brace yourselves, folks.

What cartoon character?

If you had to have a cartoon character's name, which cartoon character would you want to share that name with?

I said Bugs.

I don't want the full Bugs Bunny, even though I love Bugs Bunny.

Conrad said Casper Casper Did Chris Casper say Casper?

That's what we're waiting.

Yeah, we're waiting for his

text.

He's not listening right now And I will talk trash.

He's

probably watching Casper the friendly ghost right now

He probably is at the in the knock down there in Madison But this is in honor of Linus Roach's birthday Linus Roach was an actor on Law & Order He's been in the Batman films a really good actor

And he shares the name with Linus, which you know, that's a really unique name My guess would be that he was named after Linus the peanuts character But I don't know that for sure and I didn't do my research So who knows but I said bugs because I think bugs is a cool It can give people the impression like that you're dirty that you don't Wash and you have fleas but I choose to identify it as like a really cool gangster type thing

Like bugs bugs moran bugsy seagull, so I went with bugs

are you just really like bugs?

I don't like bugs which is weird because that's how much I like the name I can't stand bugs I hate bugs, but I like the name bugs bugs bugs Schwabba that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue Casper Krieger Casper Kree of course you'd have to Casper with it Casper no Casper's with the sea

yeah

the ghost

I would have to do with this or with the

K with a K you're right So let us know you can text us

at 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

Let us know what cartoon name you wouldn't mind attaching to your person.

You can also text us on the app, or if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or X, drop us a stream comment and give us a like or a follow while you're there.

If you're so inclined, we will read your text on the radio, always more fun when you guys participate in the show.

So...

I have to come clean here.

I think I just made radio history again.

Okay, so I have this great pair of slacks Pants they're also known as pants my dad calls them slacks or trousers my dad still use the word trousers

That's a that's a really cool word.

Do you think it is?

Yeah, you know

every time we go in the store, and I'm looking for him.

I'm like Where's the trouser section?

You say that Hi, could you direct me to your trousers?

I'm time traveling from 1924

But, you know, they're all kinds of different things, but my pants, I love this pair of pants I have.

They're one of my favorite, they're the most comfortable.

The zipper broke on the way to the restroom, to the little radio host's room.

I'm doing the show, folks, with no, my fly's open.

That's radio history right there, folks.

I won't come out to that side of the room.

Don't stay in your room, buddy.

It's a little, now I gotta walk to the garage, too.

A, it's cold outside.

And B,

I don't want to be arrested.

You ever have your zipper open?

That's like the worst thing ever.

It happens to me, I'd say once every three or four years.

I'm like, oh my God.

And you're like, who saw me?

There's no way you can explain your, oh, sorry.

I just, you know, you either look like a total spaz or it's like a pervert or something.

I don't know.

It's like a weekly thing for me now.

Well, you know, I'm just gonna do it on purpose.

Oh, hello ladies.

No, I don't it is a little discerning luckily in my coat.

I don't have my longer coats I'm gonna have to like carry my duffel bag in front of myself not that anyone's ever gonna notice that I got dark slacks on dark trousers, but It's a little wounds.

I do feel like I'm in a different space right now It's a little strange kind of like I'm in a nude beach in a weird way So I got that going for me and then I want to say over the weekend

Rob Brackenridge and Mike Merrifield were on this show a couple weeks ago promoting this football fundraiser I do every year up in Marinette at the Little River Country Club.

And Marinette finally had a great year in football.

Last year they were like nine and two or something like that.

Oh, there you go.

It was insane.

Yeah, it was a big turnaround.

Congrats to Coach Nadea Wilson.

What's their mascot?

The Marine.

Oh, that's cool.

An anchor?

I don't know.

Not a U.S.

Marine like USMC Hurrah.

Semper Fi.

This is like...

They're the Marines.

Yeah, like, I could, yeah, so they have like an anchor on their helmet?

I don't know.

I didn't go there.

My wife went there.

We're both transplants.

She went there.

You never went to a football game?

I did, because my daughter was in the band.

My son begged me to play football.

I did not let him, because he was a good

student.

I didn't want him to, you know, get a concussion or

whatever.

My parents let me play.

But I wasn't a good student.

Listen, if he was like a solid C student, like his old man, I would have let him play.

It's a weird I stuck with basketball.

That was the sport I was probably the worst at of the main three that my high school Marinette Catholic Central now St.

Thomas Aquinas Offered they didn't offer soccer.

I don't even think they had a track team when I was there and I was you know, okay football and okay baseball I wasn't that great at basketball.

I couldn't dribble I could jump and I could shoot but I'm six feet tall That's not gonna get you much PT

Yeah, I played like everything

High school pretty much.

But you liked basketball too.

That's kind of how you and I bonded.

Basketball is my

favorite sport.

Me too.

To

play.

I played basketball and to watch.

I watched a lot of basketball and I played basketball, football, soccer, or one year soccer, baseball.

And I played tennis for a short period of time.

See, we didn't have tennis.

We didn't have soccer.

I probably would have enjoyed playing soccer.

Yeah, but it wasn't even a it wasn't on my radar I didn't care about soccer when I was in high school But if I was exposed to it, maybe I would but I loved playing basketball like I didn't care that I didn't get in the games I would I just love scrimmaging and running all day.

It was just

awesome.

I you know in soccer I did it I Played it and I don't know I it wasn't good at it, but I just kept taking notes on the book games

for soccer Yeah, well,

I just

yeah

kept track

of you get some like

Tuition knocked off for that or something.

There's no public high school.

Can you ask him hi?

No, yeah, it's just No,

yeah,

it's senior things,

but these guys Rob Brackenridge crushed he went last Mike Merrifield who was on the show He went up and destroyed as well.

So it was such a fun night.

It was great to see people out there And a great night of comedy too really funny guys if you get a chance folks to see Rob Brackenridge or Mike Merrifield They're two guys based in Appleton

And Rob lived in LA for like 23 years.

Mike has always lived in Appleton, but he works Vegas.

He travels all over the place.

And I'm kind of floored by the fact that he's just been able to never leave there and still become the comic he's become.

That's incredible.

So two really good dudes and a tip of my hat to them for making the drive up to Marinette.

All right.

So last week, as we talked about on the show, Catherine O'Hara passed away.

Very tragic.

Maybe not tragic, but really unfortunate.

She was 71.

She wasn't a young woman, but she wasn't really old.

By today's standards, that's not that old.

And it was a tragic thing.

And we had a technical difficulty last week when we tried to play this clip.

This is my favorite Catherine O'Hara clip.

This is from Waiting for Guffman, Christopher Guest's masterpiece about community theater.

Eugene Levy and his wife are dining with Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara, who make maybe the funniest movie couple ever.

Catherine O'Hara, as I said last week, has had too much to drink.

Nobody plays a better drunk or played a better drunk than Catherine O'Hara.

And here is the audio from my favorite Catherine O'Hara scene.

This is true.

You know, in China, they will kill a monkey at the table and split its head open, eat the brains right out of it.

We had friends, Barbara and Bruce, remember?

who went to China, and I'm sure you're in the travel business that you've been there, but they went to Peking where they make the ducks.

And what they say is that the food

over

there is not as good.

You can't get a sauce as thick and sweet over there.

They don't make it like that.

The food is like steamed or something.

And that's right.

Yeah, we got some good packages.

That's right.

If you

ever want to get down to Miami, Miami Beach, we got a great package a week, two weeks.

Oh, yeah.

You get

everything you

need.

Any

kind of food in blame, you don't... You know, you get Chinese here, and no need to

go.

We're talking about Miami now, dear.

Yeah,

we'd love to

go.

We'd love

to...

Is it a direct flight?

We've got to break packs a week, two weeks.

Like there aren't Chinese people in Miami.

Well, we should.

You know, we've stopped them.

Of course there are Chinese people in Miami.

We're

talking about China.

I'm talking about going to Miami.

That's the only thing.

We're talking about Miami.

Dear,

why don't you put some food on your stomach?

We're having a good one.

What's that?

What's

that?

I'll

talk.

What's it like to be with a circumcised

man?

I'd ask

you more about that, but Ron said.

The whole Jew things.

Because when Ron had his surgery, when Ron had his surgery, I said, hey, circumcise it while you're at it.

You know, just because I've never been with anyone else.

Ron's

the only

man I've

been

with.

What

surgery did he

enter?

I don't know a

minor corrective surgery.

Can we have

some

coffee at this table,

please?

It's not minor anymore.

Well, maybe, you know, we should change the

subject.

No, it's... I had what most guys would dream of, you know, and I had to have a penis reduction surgery.

I'm sorry?

Penis reduction.

Which there aren't many.

You're going to say I never heard of that because there haven't been

many cases.

How's Iran?

Do something.

And he said, why don't you get one of those vagina enlargements?

Oh, it's there.

Come here,

some