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A guy who hates shaking hands.

Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to

Night Light, ladies

and gentlemen.

All right, let's go.

It is Tuesday Night, ladies and gentlemen in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, where we had a balmy day compared to what we've had.

And Aaron Zahmer's producing the show tonight.

I just want to tell you, that made me happy.

Just better weather, easier

to exist.

That's it and you know what I run I went out ran errands today And it wasn't like that biting cold that just makes you want to kill people Don't repeat that

okay.

I won't I you know It makes

no it felt great Yeah, you know

I I like having it be cold enough that I can wear more than one layer But yeah, not so cold that it's the biting that your face hurts when you step outside

So when you say that are you saying you prefer winter?

Are you a winter guy as opposed to summer?

Winter over summer for sure, but I think

fall

fall was probably my favorite and then

so yeah for me

for me I think it goes fall winter spring summer

No kidding.

Wow.

Will you live in the perfect place?

For that go farther north and be happy

probably could or maybe maybe somewhere with a drier heat I'd be okay with summer

but

It's just

too hot.

That's where it's at.

Listen, if you really want colder weather, Zomers, we got a guest room here for you.

Do you ever want to come up and just bask in the ridiculously cold?

You're always welcome, my friend.

I have to say, I was in a bad mood yesterday.

I talked about that a little bit on the air, and it was due to the fact that I did not, well, I was grumpy about a couple of things, but I did not have...

Caffeinated coffee yesterday and I realized later in the day I took my coffee out of the wrong container because they look the same I have one marked but the marking was hidden so I was Really grumpy all day, but here here's how my day started today So I go to the gym And I see a guy with he's got like these kind of tight workout pants on He doesn't realize it, but he had the shape of a sock

over his butt.

So when he put the pants on I'm guessing unless he has some crazy sock shaped mole on his backside that he had a sock that was stuck to his inner workout pants and didn't know that and he was walking around the gym and I was laughing hysterically because there is nothing funnier than laughing at someone else when they don't know why you're laughing at them.

Yeah,

what do you do

in that situation?

How do you go up to somebody just be like hey?

You have a sock on your butt

Listen to be honest and up front I've told guys that when I thought they were wearing a sock on their front and it just gets you a poke in the chops So I don't I stay out of it.

I'm not gonna do anything.

I don't know the guy and You know, you never know how someone is gonna react.

That's true

You just do

it you can't do it, but it made me it put me in a great mood because I know I've been that guy

at times that does stupid stuff like that.

We all do.

And it just made me laugh at humanity and put me in an outstanding mood today.

So it was off to a good start, but how are you doing?

Joe, good day, Aaron?

Yeah, pretty good.

You know, there's a lot to do around here.

Learning

a lot

about different areas of radio lately.

So that's exciting.

OK.

That is.

I thought I just kind of assumed you already knew all that stuff because you're kind of a.

You're kind of like one of those radio renaissance people, you know?

Well, not everybody can know

everything.

At least not at first.

I'm not saying, yeah, I'm not saying you don't have stuff to learn, but you're pretty, you know, it's a surprise to me because you know so much more than I do, but that's okay.

Hey, welcome to the show, folks, tonight.

We have a lot of fun planned on the agenda.

We are going to talk about, oh, I'm going to tell you what today is, and it might surprise you.

We're going to talk about cheese sandwiches.

What else we got, Zomers?

We've got some great guests tonight, as usual.

A really fun question.

We'll tell you what that is in just a couple of minutes.

I have to admit, I did not do my homework.

Did we lose?

Did we win any gold medals?

I don't know.

You have a phone call, though, with somebody who wants to top your sock story.

I'm

a big time in

favor.

All right.

Listen, I'm not saying it was the greatest story ever.

It wasn't going to make like oral history through the ages, but it just made me laugh today.

But who do we have here?

We have Cindy and Appleton.

Oh, fantastic.

Cindy, how are you tonight?

I'm good, but I'm going to top your sock story for that poor guy because I think it was like an eighth grade.

I was in eighth grade and I had to go up to the blackboard and spend some time up at the blackboard and after a couple hours I realized that I had slipped my pants completely open and nobody bothered to tell me that.

You know, I'm very glad you're laughing at that but that makes me upset because I like you.

But listen, I agree with you.

There have been times I've done such stupid things, and I see the laughter that it brought to other people, and I'm like, okay, I'll take one for the team.

I put this person in a great mood.

In your case, the entire class.

I appreciate you being self-deprecating enough to share that tonight.

Thanks so much,

Sidney.

Yep, have a good one.

All right, you too.

That's Sidney from Avatar.

That actually

reminds me of a very similar thing that happened to me in college.

I was walking across campus, saw one of my friends.

they waved and I like crouched down and when I did my right pants

leg

ripped about a foot wide rip from crotch to close to the knee.

Oh man.

Well class starts in a minute and I'm right outside the building so I just went to class.

It just didn't care.

You gotta own it.

That's the only way to deal with it.

Yeah.

Right?

Like you can't walk around like you're embarrassed.

You have to own it.

Here's a perfect example, and I talked about this a few weeks ago at a recent family gathering.

It was a funeral.

I walked in, I saw my aunt, who I hadn't seen in years, my aunt, Sarah, and I gave her a huge hug.

And right as I was done hugging her, I had a cold, so I went and I shot some hand sanitizer and I pumped the hand sanitizer and shot all over her sweater.

And, you know, it's just like kind of one of those Chevy Chase moments.

And I look over and my brother Andy is laughing hysterically.

He can't even control himself and this is a funeral.

And that's when the pressure's on.

That's when you have big laughs.

It's kind of when you have pressure not to laugh.

But I was like, you know, Sarah and I laughed about it hysterically as well.

But I was like kind of glad I did something stupid because it brought joy to people.

Yeah, list the mood a little

bit at such a potentially sad event.

Exactly.

So, I think without further ado, Erin, because this is a good one, I think we need to get to our nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

It is National Inventors Day, folks, so if there are any inventors listening...

Thank you for your contributions to humanity and society.

But tonight's question is, in your opinion, what is the greatest invention?

What is the greatest invention?

You can be funny.

You can be silly.

You can be ironic.

You can just pour your heart out and tell us what you really think has benefited humanity.

I say Aaron Zahmer is the back scratcher.

That's simple.

Pretty good.

Simple.

Some guy probably made a million bucks off it.

I don't have to wiggle my back against the doorway like an animal.

It's everybody wins

Back scratchers for me have always been a specific thing because my dad makes them out of turkey feet So it's a double with a a taxidermied turkey foot just with its you know, it's toes out and you just scratch your back with a turkey foot Is it sanitary?

I think so.

I don't know.

Do you

want

one?

There's that guest room give you a give you a turkey foot

back

scratcher

I am so curious now.

I absolutely love one.

Let us know, folks, what you think the greatest invention is on National Inventors Day, 855-752-484-2855.

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Love that you guys are here tonight on this Tuesday.

Let's laugh, let's interact, connect.

Let's do it all here tonight.

We've got a great show tonight.

Coming up at 5.35.

My pal Norm Kepesky, who owns, is one of the owners of Appleton Cigar.

He'll be here to tell us about some really cool stuff going on in the world of cigars, more specifically Appleton Cigar.

They've got some events coming up and you've probably heard me read ads for Norm's store.

He is a sponsor of the show and does just a great business.

And the one thing I'm sad about tonight is that I will not see Norm in person because he always brings outstanding cigars, but.

We will talk to Norm at 5.35 after New Sports and Weather, which is just about 15 minutes away.

And then in hour number two, my friend Lenny Schmidt, a comedian and an actor, will be here.

One of my Pete's picks when I do my Hollywood beats every day that play at the bottom of the hour is a show I found called Southland.

And I love when I'm watching a show.

And I see one of my friends in the show in the cast and Lenny did a guest starring role on the show.

It was great.

So I thought, you know, he's done enough great work.

We got to talk to him about this on the air.

So he'll be, he'll be here at 635.

Over the stream from Los Angeles and then in our number three our pal and Milwaukee film critic extraordinaire Matt Miller joins the show at 7 10 tonight a little earlier So than usual, but we'll talk to Matt about movies what he's seen we'll talk and Matt wants to talk about Super Bowl commercials Aaron we kind we touched on that yesterday, but I didn't feel like I had seen enough of them I saw a handful, but I kind of that was my talking time.

So yeah, I saw most of

them and I will say that

This year I feel like it was a pretty negative experience for a lot of people That there were there are fewer of them that people are raving about and loving And the way people have been upset is not like seal with the Mountain Dew or whatever the heck it was last year where seal is a seal

People are like that's just

messed up this year.

It's more Oh, so ring doorbell just told everybody that they're using AI to spy on us

It's basically what their

commercial was

Yeah, I think I feel like the commercials now try too hard They try to be groundbreaking and it loses the natural sort of it's like when a comic is trying too hard to be funny and not letting it flow That's how I feel the Super Bowl commercials have become and the one the other night with AI with all the 80s and 90s sitcom actors in it It was okay, but it was like hey, we got a gimmick.

That's why we're doing this not really a great message

Like it was a Dunkin Donuts commercial, but I don't really even remember what they were pushing.

They were, uh, they were pushing Boston.

Okay.

I think.

I don't know.

Interesting.

Sure.

Oh, that's right.

Cause you had, uh, you had Sam Malone.

Ben Affleck.

Was Mark Wahlberg in that commercial?

I don't remember.

Okay.

That one I did kind of tune out of.

I'm not going to lie.

Yeah.

I, I was intrigued because I kind of thought we were going to see Sam Malone from Cheers and younger Ben Affleck didn't look that much different.

I don't know.

It was just a weird commercial.

This is Red Tuesday, folks.

If you are planning on breaking up with someone, this apparently is the day to do it according to Star Magazine.

Do you know what Red Tuesday is?

I did not, but now I do because I saw what you sent me.

There you go.

So this is the day that you're most likely to get dumped or possibly dump someone.

It's always the Tuesday before Valentine's Day.

It's basically when people realize they haven't made plans and don't want to waste the money.

It's all about the finances.

Star magazine talked to a matchmaker or two and it says it's even more pronounced with new relationships.

I guess because it's easier to break up.

I actually have a friend who waited to break up with someone because he knew she was going to get him an album he wanted.

Yeah, I don't like that.

We were teenagers.

I didn't even condone it then, but now it sounds worse.

All right, we're coming back.

Happy Red Tuesday, everybody.

I hope you don't get dumped.

When we come back, we're talking about cheese sandwiches.

It's gonna be awesome.

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Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wawa.

We also dabble and we're trying to move some product tonight, folks.

We've got cheese sandwiches we're selling off the back of a truck.

Cheese sandwiches can elicit a lot of different responses from people.

I'm a fan of, I don't eat a lot of dairy.

I do, I have a weakness for certain cheeses though, zomers.

I'll do like a love of blue cheese.

Love a smoked Gouda, but when I hear the word cheese sandwich if it's not like a grilled cheese I get really grossed out.

Yeah me too like if it's grilled that sounds great, but if it's just bread cheese bread it I I don't know maybe it makes me a lesser Wisconsinite, but I I'm not down with that

No, but Wisconsinite we have taste I mean listen there have been a few times probably I've come home from the bars in my younger days and wolf down

couple pieces of cheese on bread just to put something in my stomach I'm not proud of that but this this is interesting okay I read this yesterday and I meant to talk about it last night but I totally forgot during the shining when Jack Nicholson was filming director Stanley Kubrick kept him cranky and salty by making him eat nothing but cheese sandwiches for the two weeks he was filming at the hotel

That surprised me on a couple of levels.

Two weeks.

That might have been a typo, but there's no way they filmed all that in two weeks.

At least not by today's standards.

Maybe Kubrick was different.

Well, he was obviously different.

But he made Nicholson eat cheese sandwiches and Nicholson absolutely hated cheese sandwiches.

That also makes me wonder, you know, was he force feeding him additional ones?

Is it like, okay, time for a break.

You're eating a sandwich.

Or is it just...

you know replace his meals with cheese sandwiches neither sounds pleasant but

no and you know Nicholson was a big enough guy at the time where he could have said screw this give me some good food but maybe it's method maybe it's whatever and he just said okay I'll do this and he you know made himself really cranky now if that were me and the director put mail with a cheese sandwich on bread I don't think

I probably would have said, you know what, I'll take my chances that I get another huge leading role.

I don't think I can do that.

Yeah, I'm not sure that I could either.

All right, so there's kind of a blessing that I did not get to this yesterday because when I said this to you earlier, Aaron, you said that you found a really funny thing with cheese sandwiches.

Please explain.

This is great.

Yeah, it reminded me of a show that I watched a few months back called

Last one laughing or lol for short.

There are a few different versions of it, but last one laughing Canada Basically it will the concept is the same for all of them where you get a bunch of comedians locked in a room together and They're all trying to make each other laugh But if you laugh you get a yellow card and then a red card and you're out and if you laugh you're you're gone you lose and so It's just comedians all escalating the shenanigans trying to get each other to break

And you get, you know, younger, newer comedians compared or combined with veterans like Colin Mockery is on the last one laughing Canada and does some hilarious stuff.

But on that one, Tom Green, for those of you who are not familiar, you know, Canadian comic, believe

it

or not, on Last One Laughing Canada, has a very unique sense of humor and

After a while, he goes into the kitchen that's in this big room there and starts making everybody grilled cheese.

And he just latches on to the phrase, would you like a delicious cheese sandwich?

And I'll just have a straight face, make eye contact with the person.

There's one in particular, I think May Martin or something like that, another comedian.

And he just relentlessly follows them around and it just keeps saying it.

I have a little audio here from that.

Awesome.

It's a delicious cheese sandwich.

A delicious cheese sandwich.

A delicious cheese sandwich.

Yeah.

Thanks, man.

And just getting away, walking away, trying so hard not to laugh.

Just like, thanks, man, for the sandwich.

That's

so great.

Tom Green used to have the Tom Green show, and then he was in Freddy Godfinger.

Which

that's me.

I've

had such a, not a love-hate relationship with him, but like times where I thought he was hysterically funny and other times I'm like, okay, whatever.

But his humor has stood the test of time.

He's a very funny guy.

Yeah, I

think so.

And I take

it you're a fan.

Yeah, although again, Freddy Godfinger specifically, I think he could have used a few more people to tell him no when he was making that movie.

You know, dude, that is a serious.

Issue when people get too much power, you know unless they're brilliant like Harold Ramis or you know, I don't know Hitchcock whatever You're taking a risk because sometimes people go way off the rails with it when they have too much power I mean filmmaking is a collaborative effort and you're better off because of it I mean, it's nice when you can have enough power to say no to a studio executive or a producer who suggests something stupid But man, yeah, I don't know what was going on with Freddy got a finger.

How did that review?

Ah, very poorly.

I believe did it.

Okay

That was a different time too.

I bet people hated the name like the title, you know the

title does not help it

That's for

sure, but it's also just it's a very surreal watch It's right.

It's honestly.

It's hard to describe.

It's a little bit Yeah, it's kind of an out-of-body experience like wow this this is a movie.

This is a real movie that I'm watching right now

It

is not family-friendly if the name did not give you that hint for anybody listening who wants to check it out

This got 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Not as bad as some movies, but it got a 56% audience score, which is probably everyone who went to see this was probably a Tom Green fan.

So if they're giving him a barely over average or 50 percentile vote, that's a bad movie.

The other quick note on it.

is that this movie was made at the time.

Drew Barrymore and Tom Green were married for a while.

And this movie

has

her as a co-star because they were still married at this time.

That's awesome.

All right, we're going to break for new sports and weather and then our pal Norm Kepesky will be here from Appleton Cigar.

What is the greatest invention in your opinion, folks?

Be part of the show and answer tonight's question.

It's Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Cheese Sandwich Network.

The great.

Welcome back Jim on the stream says Pardon me Was

that meant for us two weeks is still talking about how long it takes to shoot a movie

oh Right, of course If you get a lot of one take it's perfect shoot a second take and say no first one was great It's doable.

I mean you could shoot an entire independent film over the course of two weeks.

I was just surprised

when I read that, and maybe it was just certain scenes they filmed over two weeks, but they had that whole hotel all to themselves.

You got a master of directing, like Stanley Kubrick.

So there you go.

Well said, Jim.

We've got Norm Kepesky from Appleton Cigar on the way.

Hopefully we'll have Norm soon here.

We're going to talk to him about...

Some really cool stuff taking place at Appleton Cigar.

They're also launching a new YouTube page, but until we have norm Let's talk about some of our texts our question tonight folks is what is the greatest?

Invention in your opinion.

This is National Inventors Day So let me know what your favorite Invention is let's go to the let's go to the text line first summers and we'll do some social media stuff

We'll get it all done.

Pardon me.

So, Cindy from Appleton said, what did she say again?

She said the, I already forgot what Cindy from Appleton said.

Oh, she told a story.

That was

not the question.

That

was the story about the pants split that nobody told her about.

Which, you know, frankly, we could use a good invention for preventing that from happening in the future.

But that was a great call.

Thank you, Cindy.

AJ from the 608 says, penicillin.

Hard to argue with that.

Hard to argue with penicillin very difficult.

I mean that

that is yeah if you're looking at it objectively That is one of the best inventions because of how many lives it has saved both directly and indirectly

What's so crazy about of inventions though like you know a lot of people might say the wheel So how did the wheel affect energy and all that stuff and how did that play into penicillin?

So it's kind of like a packing order But you know on its own absolutely penicillin

Mike from Madison 608 says Taco Bell Zomers.

You know, I don't know if I

would say it's one of the best, but I do respect your opinion and I agree.

It's good.

Absolutely.

And in a pinch, listen, I try not to do fast food, but when I do, when I'm craving it the most, you can bet I'm going to Taco Bell.

And here's the problem with Taco Bell.

It's way too much food.

Like I always get more because I'm starving and I'm like, what the hell was I thinking?

You know?

Yeah, I feel like you got to find one item or two smaller items that you know fills you and then just kind of stick to that.

You know, they have good stuff on their menu, but I don't want

to end up

getting too much food because Taco Bell does not reheat especially great.

How do we feel

about Nachos Belgrandes armors?

I think they're solid.

My sister usually gets them.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't usually I more go for a crunch wrap supreme as long as you can eat it right

away.

It

doesn't get soggy

Yes, those are outstanding and I do the nachos balcony, but I can't do the refried beans

a Big refried bean guy.

So

are you even from

Taco Bell refried beans?

They're not quite as good, but I'll still yeah

Okay, not here to judge

I might anyway, but I'm not Eric from the 608 says the slinky it's fun for girls and boys Wow, that's that's a low bar Eric.

I'm not gonna lie, but I love the I love the answer I said the back scratcher Which you could argue like slinky back scratcher the back scratcher is gonna put you out of your misery

But the slinky's gonna bring fun for girls and boys.

So it's that's hard to argue with you ever have a slinky Aaron

Yeah Slinkies are fun for a while until they get twisted or stretched out and they just stop working

whether it's metal

or plastic

Because there's always that kid that comes over and you tried to emulate what they did in the commercial

Yeah,

but he would just start wailing on it and then it's not fun for a girl or boy or anybody

It

goes straight to the garbage or you keep it for a

long time and

try to get it back in shape.

And it never quite gets there, which

I can relate to

that.

Cindy from Appleton, here's what I was thinking.

She did respond to our question of the night.

And that's what we're reading right now, folks.

We're going through texts.

What is the greatest invention in your opinion?

Today is National Inventors Day.

Cindy says the electric drill.

OK, make an argument for that.

Thank you, Cindy.

Cindy is like our third co-host tonight.

She's on the phone, she's on the text line, just crushing it.

Robert from Appleton in the 920 says, indoor plumbing.

Yeah,

I'm finding it difficult to argue with that.

Yeah.

Can you imagine?

I mean, seriously, let's just take a moment here to celebrate the people who invented these things.

People used to put their shoes on in a coat and go out to the outhouse.

Yeah, or I can I can definitely say from camping with Boy Scouts and stuff, you know when you have a designated latrine they are unpleasant places to be and a modern indoor plumbed Bathroom if it does smell it doesn't for that long

Exactly And I have to be honest living in Wisconsin northern Wisconsin where I live if it was between going to an outhouse

In another option, I'd probably be a bed wetter, a voluntary bed wetter.

Just get a bed pan, cut a hole in your mattress.

Like a Sydney Sweeney bar of soap.

Right.

Exactly.

Yeah, why not?

That's Robert.

Thank you, Robert.

Great text.

414 says, where are we going here?

I don't think that was meant for us.

608, another one.

Or did I already read that?

Is the mic saying Taco Bell?

He texted twice.

He's obviously very enthusiastic.

Tony the trucker in the 608 says, Pete, the microwave oven.

Great way to heat leftovers or make popcorn.

Totally agree, Mike.

I'm sorry, Tony, that's a great one.

I've got Mike on the brain because Mike texted again.

He says, where else do you get crispy tacos?

What do you make of that, Somers?

You know, you can make them at home.

Yeah, you can make them at home, go to a local Mexican restaurant, but if you wanna drive through and get tacos, there's very little other option.

At least

around here.

What I was saying before too about tacos is, and going to Taco Bell is, I typically, because I'm hungry, and the food seems so mowable, I over order, and I get embarrassed when I order.

So I'll do that thing where I pretend I'm on the phone with someone, what do you want?

And then I can add to the order.

Or I'll say something stupid like I'm trying to oh, and what did John want?

Oh, yeah, six tacos.

I've already ordered two orders and not two as Belgrondi.

So you've got that shame as well.

I think

it's like the

whole split pants thing.

You just gotta own it.

You gotta own it.

True.

You're not, if you're worried about being judged by those who make tacos at Taco Bell, you've got some serious problems.

They're not judging you.

They know how delicious their food is.

So be part of the show, folks.

Let us know what you think.

What is your favorite invention?

That's a heck of a segue, because Mike thinks it's Taco Bell, and that's fine.

I said the back scratcher.

Zomers, what did you say again?

I didn't, because I don't know.

This

one's

really hard, but...

What

gives?

I think, you know, I work in radio.

I'm going to say the microphone.

And also just as a musician and a lover of music, being able to record it and play it back or record it and transmit it elsewhere, you know, I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for that.

That's true.

And that's a great answer.

Vince Moranto on social media says the wheel.

I remember what a pain it was before that.

That's beautiful.

Mike Desitel on social media says, indoor plumbing, it was a complete game changer.

People started bathing regularly, washing clothes became easier as well as doing dishes and drinking water.

It created healthier people and better smelling people as well.

That is outstanding.

Thank you, Mike.

So I said this before, Zamas.

That's your question.

All right, we're gonna get to we gotta get to that because I saw something here I thought was really interesting about AI because we were talking about AI in the Super Bowl commercials Where am I now?

There we go and AI this is from Mashable.

I love this because I found this today and I tried it You ask chat GPT.

Do you ever use chat GPT?

I do not Okay, my wife is all about it.

She calls it her friend her best friend all this stuff she gives

advice about how to deal with me from ChatGPT, which is fine.

You're supposed to go and ask it to draw a caricature based on everything it knows about you.

And people are shocked about how much ChatGPT knows about them.

So I don't use ChatGPT.

So I went there with some trepidation.

And you're supposed to type in how much... Wait, where is that?

Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know.

So I typed that in at ChatGPT.

So freaked out by AI.

I thought it was going to come back with a perfect composite of me.

But since I don't use it, Zomers, here was ChatGPT's response.

I want to, but I need to be honest first.

I don't actually know what you look like.

I know your vibe from how you talk, not your face, body, or style.

If I guessed those, I'd just be inventing a person who might not be you at all.

So let's do this the fun way and they wanted me to put a picture on there I mean first of all that kind of defeats the purpose second of all, I'm impressed that AI is honest enough to Say that so And it gave me a little faith because I don't use AI really, you know, I know a lot of people rely on it.

I do use Google Like when I'm looking for the pronunciation of someone's name in the Hollywood beats or something like that, but I don't use AI

So I was kind of happy that it didn't, and it admitted that it didn't know what I look like.

Because I thought they were spying on me anyway.

Right, exactly.

I, even though it said that I am not convinced that it doesn't know what you look like, it's probably

just

been told, all right, pretend that these pictures don't exist because you don't have permission yet.

Wow, that's scary and interesting.

And you know what, like my camera's on right now.

It's on at our company meetings.

It's on when I FaceTime my kids.

I.

Part of what gave me faith in this was that ChatGPT was not monitoring those meetings or social hangouts.

But like you said, maybe they are, and we just don't know.

Or even if they're not, this is a public show on social media, so they can find you there, even if they don't

really

talk with your kids.

So at least your children are safe, even if you're not.

Experts do say there could be some risk to it, especially if you feed it more info to get a good pick than share that picture on social.

I think they mean social media.

A cybersecurity expert told Forbes he's worried about people sharing personal info without fully considering how that data might be used or retained.

In other words, open AI could burn you down the road and leak it.

I don't know what to say to that.

But check that out.

I saw that on Mashable and Forbes.

Apparently they've joined forces.

I didn't know that.

Today is folks, as I mentioned before, Red Tuesday.

So this is the day you're most likely to be broken up with or to break up with someone according to Star magazine So I hope everybody survives the cut today because there is a lot.

There's a lot to be thankful for Zomers.

Do you have Valentine's

Day plans as far out?

I do not you know, it's it may be red Tuesday I have nobody to break up with or to be broken up with by But maybe I can fix that before Valentine's Day and you know change the statistics a little bit by moving the day forward.

I don't know

I'll try.

You still have, listen, you still have like six hours.

I do.

To get a date today and break up with them today.

And they say that those quick relationships are easier to break up with.

I imagine they would be.

JB Thompson on social media says the greatest invention since night light with Pete Schwabba?

Tough question.

Now he's just pandering.

You know who I, you know what I call JB Thompson, Zomers?

What do you call him?

The guy behind the guy, behind the guy.

He's introduced me to a lot of guests.

Love JB.

Thank you, sir.

We'll finish.

We'll keep going with some of your texts.

And when we come back, we'll talk about what I'm going to talk about, Zomers.

Do we have no arm yet?

Not yet.

We're going to talk about things in the 90s that did not hold up well.

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

Aaron Zommers is riding shotgun tonight, working the board, producing the show, talking with me because I need a friend.

It's good to have you here, buddy.

Great job so far.

I always love working with you.

And likewise.

I'm glad you didn't get weird when I said that like I didn't like make it weird because I I'm the kind of person that likes to tell people how I feel and you're a great producer and you're a good guy and Some people that embarrasses them, but you you took it like a man.

Well, thanks.

Uh, you're all right That was efficient for compliments.

I promise

All right great.

So you have a great movie, you know

Thank you, sir.

It's great to have you be a part of it

It's always fun.

Hey, New Sports and Weather is coming up in seven minutes.

Great show tonight, folks.

We've got at 6.35, actor, comedian Lenny Schmidt will be here.

He's going to talk about some of his TV work and specifically on a show that I'm watching or I just finished watching, I should say, called Southland.

Lenny had a guest starring role and it was very funny.

He plays an LA cop who is not quite up to the task.

So we'll talk to Lenny about that.

on a show that you should check out.

It was recently a Pete Pig, even though I was kind of late to the party with it too, but it is available on Netflix.

We'll talk to Lenny about that.

And then Matt Miller, Milwaukee Film Critic, will be here at 7.10 tonight.

We're going to talk about some of the things Matt has seen and some of the movies that are coming out.

And Matt wants to talk about Super Bowl commercials.

So you can be part of that conversation.

As well, if you so choose, folks, be part of the show.

We always love it when you guys participate.

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So we talked a little bit about, you know, we didn't talk about somers.

I wrote this down yesterday.

There was a Wisconsin connection to the Super Bowl, to the Super Bowl halftime show.

Did you know this?

I did not.

Okay, so there was a boy who joined Bad Bunny during the dancing and he is Jay Ramos Rivera, an 11 year old sixth grader from Butler Middle School in Waukesha.

How cool is that?

He was selected over a video audition to dance with Bad Bunny and represent his Puerto Rican heritage.

That is very cool.

Just a kid from Waukesha said he was very thankful for the opportunity

gave like a lot of thanks to those who have come before him saying he's proud of his American heritage, his Puerto Rican heritage.

It was just great stuff.

It was a really cool story.

I also wanted to ask you about Iron Lung.

You saw this and we didn't get to it yesterday either.

I must have had a really packed show yesterday, but this is a very innovative film based on a video game.

Yeah.

So for those of you who don't know, Markiplier is a YouTuber who's done Let's Plays.

Basically, he plays a video game, has his reactions to it and

It's videos that you can watch on YouTube.

Iron Long is a game where you are trapped in a submarine in an ocean of blood.

And you can't see anything.

It's all welded shut because the pressure is too much to have windows or portholes.

And so you're trying to get around by sound and sonar and all that stuff alone.

And he thought it would make a good horror movie.

Tried to get some funding.

Nobody really agreed.

So he's like, well, damn it, I'll make it myself.

And he did.

And.

I'd say it's pretty good, you know, especially for a You know a youtuber making a movie there were a lot of things I expected out of it that didn't happen like It's a very slow-paced movie I would have expected a youtuber to have a lot of you know quick shots and keep attention grabbing and stuff like that, right?

It's not a straightforward movie if you want something where you sit down and hear or see a plot and then go home and be like this is what happened this movie is not going to be great for you because

It's very ambiguous, especially towards the end, about what exactly happens and what causes everything and all that.

Is the production value good?

I mean, I know it's from off YouTube and it was shot low budget, but it looks okay?

Yeah, it looks very good and there are good effects, not a ton of them, a lot of, believe it or not, a lot of fake blood.

And the only thing that the production really didn't

do it for me is the sound most of the movie the sound is great and it's a big feature of it you know you're in a notion of blood you can't see anything besides the inside of the submarine so the sound uh watching it in surround sound i think is key if you watch this on home with your speakers built in to your tv it might be kind of boring because you won't get you know as the protagonist starts to kind of go crazy you'll hear whispers off in the back and at first i thought someone was talking

in

the theater you're like no that's just slowly getting louder a woman whispering in the back of his mind

But there are a couple of characters later on a couple of voices that End up sounding muddled because there's people talking over each other that all have weird effects on the voice I think that could have used another pass from like a professional I don't know audio engineer

of

some sort because they're a little hard to decipher towards the end and some of that's okay because you're not supposed to know everything that's going on But I think it kept me in the dark a little more than intended

Okay, but overall you recommend it

overall I recommend it

Okay,

I'm gonna give it a shot for something spooky and weird well and something that cost There's some discrepancy.

It's either one million or three million, but it's pulled in millions and millions of dollars So this guy gambled on himself and good for him We've got new sports and weather coming up in just about a minute here folks in the second hour Lenny Schmidt comedian and actor will be here at 635 and then we've got Pardon me Milwaukee film critic Matt Miller will be here in hour number three.

I have to tell you

Sometimes when I write my Hollywood beats that I do, I use voice because I just get sick of typing all the time.

I'm a writer, I type a lot.

So I think speaking of AI, which seems to be a theme here tonight, it's messing with me because I use the words law enforcement when talking about the show Southland, which Lenny Schmidt was on.

And I saw it, I said law enforcement and my computer typed it out based on my voice.

It said, law enforcement.

Here's

why.

Here's why AI is messed up, because if I was trying to say law enforcement, like if that was a guy's name, it would have nothing to reference, and it never would have printed that out.

So what do you make of that?

Yeah, that's weird.

You'd think it would have said law enforcement, a very common phrase.

I don't get it.

We'll get to the bottom of this, folks.

Hey, I'm glad you're here, folks.

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