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

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

Welcome to

Nightlight, 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's armor is 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?

Oh winter over summer for sure, but I think

fall

fall is 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 dry.

It's 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 out 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 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 looked the same.

I have one marked, but the marking was hidden.

So I was really grumpy all day, but 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?

You just be like, hey You have a sock on your butt

Listen to be honest and

Upfront I've told guys that when I thought they were wearing a sock in 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's gonna react.

That's true

You just can't 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, uh, it was off to a good start, but, uh, how are you doing?

Joe, good day, Aaron?

Yeah, pretty good.

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

Learning

a

lot about different areas of radio

lately.

So that's exciting.

Okay.

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, uh, 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, um,

You're pretty, you know, it's just surprising 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 gonna talk about, oh, I'm gonna tell you what today is, and it might surprise you.

We're gonna 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, did we, uh, did we lose, uh, did we win any gold medals?

I don't know.

Um, do you have a phone call though with somebody who wants to top your, your sock story?

I'm a big time in favor of that.

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 gonna 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 and I like

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,

Cindy.

Yep, have a

good one.

All right, you too.

That's Cindy from Apple.

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 chubby 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, it lifts 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 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.

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 could 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, its 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 here at 635.

Over the stream from Los Angeles and then in hour number three our pal and Milwaukee film critic extraordinaire Matt Miller joins the show at 7 10 tonight a little earlier So then 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, because 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 to and out of.

I'm not gonna lie.

Yeah, I was intrigued because I kind of thought we were gonna 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 gonna 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 going to be awesome.

It's Peach Wabbit and Nightlight on the Civic Biennial Radio Network.

The.

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

We also dabble in, 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, as armorers.

I'll do like a, love a 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, I don't know.

Maybe it makes me a lesser Wisconsinite, but 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 wolfed down a 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.

We'll use 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, OK, I'll do this.

And he made himself really cranky.

Now, if that were me and the director put male with a cheese sandwich on bread, 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 could do that.

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

All right, so there's kind of it's kind of a blessing that I did not get this 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, well 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 the 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 Freddie Godfinger,

which I've

had such a

I don't 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.

Yeah.

Although again, Freddie got fingered 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 that 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?

Very poorly, I believe that it.

OK.

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.

Right.

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.

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 now 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 the 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 the 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.

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 belt grande's armors?

I think they're solid that my sister usually gets them

Yeah, I don't know I don't usually I more go for a Crunchwrap 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, fair enough not here to judge

Might anyway, but I'm not Eric from the 608 says the slinky it's fun for girls 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.

Do 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.

Okay, make an argument for that.

Thank you, Cindy.

Cindy's all over.

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

People used to put their shoes on and 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.

You've got 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 Mike saying Taco Bell?

He

texted

twice.

He's obviously very enthusiastic.

Tony, the tracker 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 to his bell grinding 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, Zomers.

That's your question.

All right.

We're gonna get to we got to 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 are my notes?

There we go.

And AI, this is from Mashable.

I love this because I found this today and I tried it.

You ask ChatGPT.

Do you ever use ChatGPT?

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.

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

find you

talking 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 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 nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Tough question.

Now he's just pandering.

You know what I call JB Thompson, Zomers?

What do you call him?

The guy behind the guy.

Behind the guy.

Ah.

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 are we going to talk about, Zomers?

Do we have norm yet?

Not yet.

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

This is Pete Schwab and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

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I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight.

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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.

You're all right That

was

efficient for compliments.

I promise

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 635, actor, comedian Lenny Schmidt will be here.

He's gonna talk about some of his TV work and...

Specifically on a show that I'm watching or I just finished watch 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 pick 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 gonna talk about some of the things Matt has seen

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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 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.

IronLong 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 you know 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 they're 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 was the sound Most of the movie the sound is great and it's a big feature of it.

You know, you're in an ocean of blood You can't see anything besides the inside of the submarine

So the sound, watching it in surround sound, I think, is key.

If you watch this on home with your speakers built into 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.

They'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 1 million or 3 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 said law enforcement and my computer typed it out based on my voice.

It said, law enforcement.

Yeah, that'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 where you'd think it would have said law enforcement a very common phrase

I Don't get we'll get to the bottom of this folks.

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

It's Tuesday night.

This is nightlight with peach wabba Aaron Zommer's along for the ride.

We are having a blast tonight We're coming back after new sports and weather to recap the show

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Welcome

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This is Nightlight with Peach Waba, folks.

Great to have you here on this Tuesday night.

Aaron Zommer's riding shotgun.

We're having a blast, as we always do, but it wouldn't be the same without you.

So thanks for tuning in, whether you're joining us over the radio.

The app or the stream, if you're watching the show on YouTube, Facebook or X, either way, it's great to have you here tonight.

And we had a great first hour.

I will say, Zomers, what was your favorite topic in our first hour tonight so far?

You know, there were a lot of good ones, but I think I have to say, for better or for worse, it's the cheese sandwiches.

There's something about it.

There's something about a stupid sandwich.

I knew you were gonna say that.

And that was great.

It was great to talk about Nicholson not liking cheese sandwiches and Stanley Kubrick making him eat them on the set of The Shining to keep Jack Nicholson crabby like his character.

Apparently that's enough to make you want to stick an ax through Scatman Crothers chest like we saw Nicholson do in The Shining.

But it was fun to talk about cheese sandwiches.

If you missed that, folks, you got to get up to speed because Zommer's found a great clip about Tom Green.

Making cheese sandwiches.

I might have to hear that again, Summer.

So keep that at the ready, please.

We talked to, well, we did not talk to Norm.

We didn't get Norm.

We got to talk cigars.

What do you think happened to Norm?

I don't know.

Maybe he had one too many.

Hopefully not.

One

too many cigars?

That doesn't happen.

You can't

overdo it

on cigars.

I think

you, I don't

know.

You could get a stomach ache or something.

Ah, Norm is not the kind.

You take one look at Norm Kepesky and you don't think stomach ache.

This guy can handle a mountain of cigars.

He is a, he's all dude and he's a big burly dude.

He's the kind of guy you think would smoke cigars.

So we'll see if we can get Norm.

Maybe we can still do a quick hit with him at some point, but we also talked a little bit about AI.

We reminded people that this is dump to hell.

Some people call it Dump Tuesday.

It's also known as Red Tuesday.

This is the most popular day of the year to break up with someone.

And as we discussed, I told Aaron Zomers, he still has time to find a date for Valentine's Day.

Six hours in counting now, Zomers, and break up with them just to keep consistent with this very special day.

It is also National Invention, or I'm sorry, Inventors Day, folks.

Which led us to our question of the night, which I think we should reintroduce that now, Mr. Zomers.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

What is your, in your opinion, what is the greatest invention ever?

In honor of National Inventors Day.

What is, in your opinion, the greatest invention ever?

Tell me again what yours was, Zomers.

The microphone.

The microphone, of course.

Spoken like a true radio artist.

I said the back scratcher.

I was half kidding.

It's a beautiful invention.

We've heard microwave.

We've heard Taco Bell.

We've heard penicillin.

We've heard all kinds of great stuff.

The wheel, of course.

Nobody said the smartphone.

Does that surprise you?

Not really.

I think maybe a few years ago people would have said that, but I think that people are starting to sour on the smartphone after they're realizing just how much time they spend on them and how kids' attention spans are worse and like, ah, I just can't get off my phone.

Those are my thoughts exactly.

I swear.

That's exactly what I was thinking I think people have a love or hate relationship with their smartphones We also talked in our number one folks about a guy I saw at the gym today who didn't know that he had a sock Apparently, I think was a sock sticking to his workout clothes because everywhere he walked in the gym.

You could see the outline of a sock

His butt the other option could be some extremely expensive designer sweatpants

What would the benefit of that be?

Unless

you're like a sock mobile.

I

don't

know.

I appreciate the effort.

So that put me in a great mood today, folks.

I was laughing hysterically, and this poor guy had no idea that people could see this sock.

I assume that's what it was, unless he had perfect crease work or needed an iron, and his pants were wrinkly, exactly in the shape of a sock.

I doubt that, but it gave me a good laugh today at the gym.

We talked about AI, we talked about, what else did we, hey, did you know I found this today, Zomers, the coffee.

You ever meet someone that's like, where do you stand on coffee first?

I like coffee.

I uh, you know, I I used to work at a Starbucks So I kind of developed a taste for it then and not saying that Starbucks is top-tier coffee But they do have like to give you instructional tastings like here's how to you know properly get all the different notes of a coffee and tell whether or not it's any good

For sure.

I'm totally with you

Have met people over the course of my life my father-in-law Tom was like this He would brag about the fact that he never had a cup of coffee in his life like it was a good thing

was he more than

I've always Pardon me.

Was he a Mormon?

Yeah, it was not a Mormon.

He was agnostic to the best of my knowledge raised Catholic But he yeah, and I was like, you know coffee's good for you.

It's I know the caffeine can be an issue, but

They're beans of the earth.

They have antioxidants like they're very good for you and today I saw a couple articles actually that said it can stave off dementia So there you go another win for coffee.

So drink that coffee Zomers.

Don't be sad

We also got another text on on an invention Dave and Madison says that the greatest invention is sliced bread.

Oh Look at Dave.

Well done Dave.

That's another great one

Seriously, do you know how hard it would be to eat a sandwich if we couldn't slice bread?

It's giant sandwich.

Nobody can fit their mouth around that.

Or would we make small breads?

Because that would also be

labor-intensive.

You could do that too, but either way, sliced bread is up there.

I would equate it to the back scratcher.

I'd put it above back scratcher and Taco Bell, but maybe below the wheel.

That's just me, though.

So anyway, folks, the first hour is in the books.

You can download it or you can go listen to it at civicmedia.us.

Every hour of nightlight is catalogued in podcast form at civicmedia.us.

Coming up this hour, actor Lenny Schmidt will be here at 6.35.

He's a very talented actor.

He's done some great work in a lot of things.

Everything I've seen Lenny in, he's great.

He's also a very funny stand-up comic who has worked at Wisconsin several times.

throughout the course of his career.

He will be here at 6.35, afternoons, sports and weather.

And then early in the third hour of the show, act three as I like to call it, Matt Miller will be here.

Very fine Milwaukee film critic talking movies will always have a good time with Matt and he will be along shortly into act three.

So there you go.

I think...

I don't know what I think the sock in the butt is my favorite part of the show I hate to say that but I keep thinking about it and it's making me laugh

and I'm trying to imagine it and You know it is a fun like how big of a sock was it?

It was like a it was good

size.

It was like a tube sock like a well a Halfway between a footy and a tube sock I would say a foob sock

if you will sock does seem like the appropriate size to fit on a

butt

So there you go, folks, be part of the show.

Text us, let us know what your thoughts are on the question of the night.

I found this, Zomers, and I sent this to you earlier.

I don't know where you're at on the 90s.

My kids love the 90s.

They love 90s music, they love 90s TV shows, and 80s for that matter.

They're big fans of the two most defining decades in my life.

They seem to have this fondness for the 80s and 90s, like I did with the 50s and 60s.

But I saw this, and this is interesting.

We kind of look back on things nostalgically, like music and TV shows and all that kind of stuff or fashion.

Here are some things that, according to Buzzfeed anyway, these are the worst parts of the 90s.

Just to show that nothing was ever perfect.

And I'm going to share this with my kids later.

Getting locked out of your house after school and having no way to contact your parents.

So you just sat on your porch for three hours until they got home.

I love that one.

Number two, the insanely high prices for technology that's basic now, like small TVs, like you can get a TV.

I remember during COVID when everybody was in the house and, you know, we're all bored out of our minds.

I went out and bought two TVs, two like 40 inch TVs that were like 100, no, they're like 250 total.

Like TVs are so cheap right now.

So that's a good one.

They really are, especially like.

Black Friday, you can get tiny TVs for like a hundred bucks.

Yeah, or less.

No, if you want a bigger one, it's not that much more.

If you want a good TV, obviously it costs more, but you can get a functional TV extremely cheap.

Yeah, and some of them, I don't know if we like the ONN or Hisense.

That's what I bought during

during COVID in the high sense, like sometimes it just won't open Netflix.

So there are drawbacks.

I don't get it.

Number four, late fees at Blockbuster and rewinding VHS tapes.

They could fine you if you didn't rewind your tapes.

And oftentimes you'd be running out the door and think, oh, I got to rewind the, or I got to return these tapes, but you don't have time to rewind them.

So you pay the dollar fee or whatever.

But that's one I totally have forgotten about.

Number five calling someone you wanted to date at their parents pick up Cuz you got to go through the home phone the landline It's brutal.

I I didn't have to do that I definitely I had to call home phones of friends when I was younger and it'd be like hello Benjamin's mom Can he play or whatever, but I never had to do that like by the time I was older we all had cell phones

Yeah, I don't do people I know my parents still have a landline and I'm glad they do

Because the number has become nostalgic over the years, but I don't know really anybody that has a home phone anymore

Yeah, I think my parents do as well, but do they I don't know anybody my age who does

Yeah Cigarette smoke everywhere not to mention cigarette butts.

That's a great one too Yeah, especially when I was doing stand-up in the 90s you would stand on stage and it would be like just smoke It looked kind of cool actually just smoke through the lights.

It was great, but

Very unhealthy.

Yeah, I was born in 1998 and so growing but I have an older sister who was you know an actual 90s kid So I got to see the tail end of a lot of these things like the smoking room in our our town's Perkins being phased out and You know it was it was good good to see those things.

Yeah

And some people fought it even especially in bars.

They'd be like it's a bar, but you're still infecting other people

So here we go sexism homophobia and transphobia ableism racism lots of things were completely accepted and casual Okay, that's true, too.

I always tell my kids that like there's a lot of hope I think for the younger generation.

I think they're gonna like, you know this Chapel Roan, are you a fan of hers?

Yeah, I don't listen a lot, but good music I don't either and I don't know anything about her music, but I like she left her music representation her agent

today because she found out that the CEO of her agency had cozied up to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

And she's like, no, sorry.

And she left.

She has standards.

Yeah, exactly.

Why don't I see older people doing this, or politicians?

So I have a lot of hope and faith in the other generation.

Your generation, if you will, Thomas.

Here are some more.

If your friend moved away, there weren't many ways to keep up with them besides a telephone call or writing them a letter.

And I remember that too.

That's crazy.

And then hearing a great song and knowing you might never find it again.

I didn't realize how hard we had it back then.

And I've got a couple more.

We'll do those after the break and we'll read some more of your texts that's coming up.

Lenny Schmidt will be here at 635, very talented comedian and actor after the news.

We are coming right back, ladies and gentlemen.

This is Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Thank

you.

That's it.

I do like 90s music.

I

do as well.

No

question.

Yeah.

It's Nightlight with Peach Wabba.

Welcome back, folks.

Great to have you here on this Tuesday night.

I was working my way through a list of things that weren't so great about the 90s.

So this will...

Contradict good good music from the 90s, but CD players Skipping when going over bumps in the car.

Oh, yeah, I remember that that sucked.

I totally forgot about that Taking a full day to download anything And then this is in there at snack.

Well devils food cookie cakes

I don't know what Buzzfeed was going for for that.

But it is true, like when you moved away, remember we left Chicago when I was 12 years old.

And I would have to ask my parents if I could call my buddy, Bill Yamato, who still lived in Chicago.

We talked for 30 minutes on the phone, and it was like an $18 bill or something like that.

It's crazy.

So and that and the one with the music too where you hear a great song on the radio You might not know if the DJ didn't tell you what it is You're out of luck.

You had no idea like now in your car You know it tells you what the song is and who the artist is.

Yeah, I

love that

I remember having that problem when I was younger and I'd be like oh crap I don't know who this is luckily for me I got older and the artist turned out to be the Beatles so it was very easy to find

I'm never gonna hear them again

But it's true, it's like, and what I love about technology is like, I love the show Cheers growing up, I love Seinfeld, all those great, the Gary Shanley show or Larry Sanders, Curb, although that show came out later, but now you can watch any of these shows whenever you want.

You had to, sometimes they would go into syndication and you could watch reruns, but you couldn't watch the one you wanted to watch when you wanted to watch it.

Now it's all on demand.

And I love that about technology because as you know, Zomers, I'm a huge fan of color television.

Oh, me too.

The one thing that I lament that I had, I did get to experience as a kid that we don't have now and used to be bigger before my time is communal experiences where, all right, this new show, the episode is coming out at this time on this day.

Everyone's watching it then.

You go to school or you go to work the next day and you can talk about it.

And now, like,

I was looking at Billboard Top 100 songs from the last year.

I don't even know half of them because I don't listen to music radio.

How would I hear that?

Isn't that crazy?

It's just wild.

I know.

So there you go.

Those are some not so great things about the 90s.

And you know what?

I think I left one off that was horrible.

Oh, scary stuff in the news.

The violent crime rates of the early 90s, the AIDS crisis,

Columbine Waco the Oklahoma City bombings the crack epidemic and the Rwandan genocide like the 90s had its share of horrible tragedies so You kind of don't remember and you know, it's all a blur when you get older.

It's like was that the 90s?

Was that the 80s?

Whatever, but That's good stuff from Buzzfeed Michael Gagher on the social media says the internet.