A Checkup with Dr. Kristin Lyerly (Hour 2)

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A Checkup with Dr. Kristin Lyerly (Hour 2)

Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Wed Feb 18, 2026

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Pete Schwabba (Host)

Hey, hey, welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

It is great to be back on the air Talking about all the fun things in life movies TV comedy music you name it.

We've got it here on nightlight Happy Wednesday.

I almost said happy Monday Aaron because it feels like a Monday.

What does it feel like to you?

Yeah, okay, I Have not done a show since last Wednesday a live show we've got two live shows this week tonight and tomorrow night and we're gonna make them count

because there's lots of stuff coming up here that we'll get into, but it is great to be back.

Did you have a good weekend?

Now you were gonna try, I was at the Dora County Film Festival last weekend in Beautiful Fish Creek, a phenomenal film festival, lots of fun.

You were thinking about, you were toying with the idea of going.

Well, you were missed.

It was a fun time and I'll give some details on that as well.

We've got a lot to get to tonight.

There's a weird video we're gonna talk about with Kid Rock and Robert Kennedy that needs to be discussed.

I don't know what the hell's going on.

And we both saw a movie that we're gonna discuss.

Iron Lung, we'll get to that as well.

I saw an excellent movie at the Dork County Film Festival.

Called the librarians about these kind of badass librarians that stand up to people trying to take books off the shelves So that was a really fascinating documentary And it started out the trip was not great Zomers.

I'm gonna tell you why So without naming names, there's a hotel in Durk County.

I really like okay, and we've stayed there before it's got all these great amenities It's got this beautiful view of the water.

It's just a stunning place well

There's another hotel right down the street from that hotel that looks very similar and has a similar sounding name that the guy with two thumbs booked by accident.

And it was the same money and we get there and we check in and I'm like, wait, I was so busy the last couple of weeks, I just clicked, yeah, clicked by whatever book, whatever.

And we got there and I'm like, oh my God, I literally could have canceled it two weeks up until we checked in.

and gone to the other place, but I just didn't even, I completely spaced.

And my wife is like, all right, well, what do we do?

So I had some work to do Thursday night when we got there.

And she said, I'll go to the workout room.

I said, okay, they don't have a workout room.

So then I had to print up a speech that I was giving at the Door County Film Festival.

And I said, hey, can I have access to your business center?

I need to print something.

We don't have a business center.

Oh, okay.

And then we try to hit the hot tub when we got there that night.

It closes in 15 minutes at 830.

Who closes a jacuzzi at 830?

And it was great cause there was nobody in the hotel yet.

Exactly.

So, and then like the checkout time was at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Like everything that could have gone wrong regarding the hotel went wrong.

But here's classic Schwabba.

So the venue for the Door County Film Festival was the Northern Star Theater.

beautiful venue outdoor theater right kind of on the water and That's where I went and Then I realized as I got there there's nothing like I would have had to pull through a snow-covered Road to get there and I can barely see it.

I'm like, maybe there's a different entrance whatever Long story even longer.

We got the venue wrong and when we say we I mean I There's another venue called the northern sky Gould theater in Fish Creek

So we had to go all the way back into town through town to that luckily I left it off time and there was plenty of time But man, I don't know what was going on.

I just had my head like maybe it was weird taking a Thursday night off I can't remember the last time I took a Thursday night off.

I don't know what it was

I won and it was a really great shout out to Kurt Krause and Chris Opper and Antonio Polk.

They ran a great festival and it was a lot of fun and my son had a film playing.

He won a couple of awards.

That was exciting.

Yeah, it was really, it was really, it was fun to see.

And then the opening night film was a movie called The Librarians, which was very well regarded and it played at, I think it opened or premiered on POV on PBS Wisconsin.

Just a few nights before and one of the producers was there.

We'll probably get her on nightlight at some point, but she had great stories about making this film and kind of keeping free speech going and all that kind of stuff.

So it was a really fun, great parties.

You know, Dirk County is just such a special place as far as I'm concerned.

It was a lot of fun.

We've got lots to get though.

Did you see that video?

Zahmer I shared that with you the link of Robert Kennedy.

This is the health and human services secretary working out with Kid Rock to promote health I It's so it was like the two of them got stoned and just said let's make a video like they're promoting working out and Like their buddies and that's fine.

I get it

But there was like zero production value like Kennedy's in his jeans and nothing else And there were all kinds of porn jokes all over the internet about the two of them like like It was really strange it was

Aaron Zomers (Contributor)

What are you 12 flipping off the camera?

That's your rebel side?

It's ridiculous.

Pete Schwabba (Host)

Okay, to his credit, to play Devil's Advocate, maybe Kid Rock realized he was out of breath during the four minute performance and needed to get back in shape.

So he called his pal, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary, and he said, you gotta help me get in shape.

So they put a minute and a half video together and it's it's it's I'm not even kidding like Kennedy is wearing jeans and he gets into a cold bath and then he jumps in the pool in his jeans it's like it's just this weird no-thought-put-into-it video and he is on roids to the bejesus he's like 70 72 and he's got the yeah has he okay

very possibly but it's so I feel like when you've had an enhancement of any kind and you walk around like aren't I special it's like well nice purchase I guess you're it's not like you got there on your own whether it's calf implants boobs roids I don't know I just don't get the pride

Full disclosure, my sideburns are fake.

I paid for them.

So I'm not perfect, but this video is definitely worth a look.

It's really just kind of bizarre.

And if they put it out there like as a, hey, we got Nutty Friday night and made this goofy video, I would have watched it going into it thinking that, like, oh, those guys are goofy and that's fun.

But this is like, hey, Mr. Health and Human Services, Secretary, let's get in shape.

The cold bath And I it was just in the flip-off I just I'm so done with that like okay you flipped off the camera you're a rebel I get it

And the song, that song, that might be the only... I just think Kid Rock is a hack.

And some people, when I go after him, they're like, oh, it's... He's a hack.

I don't like him.

I don't like his artistry or his music.

And that might be one of the few songs he didn't lift from someone else and get sued for.

Ridiculous.

Hey, I think it's time, folks.

Without further ado, we had a celebrity death over the weekend, and one of the greatest actors of all time passed away, and that leads us to tonight's night-like question of the night.

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Pete Schwabba (Host)

Well, as we all have heard by now, I'm sure, and if you haven't heard, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but...

phenomenal legendary actor Robert Duvall passed away, I believe, on Monday, which leads us into tonight's question.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

This is one of the true titans of Hollywood.

A guy, and from a different age, Zomers, like, I love the guys like Hackman or Duvall that are just the everyman.

You know, they don't look like the

the pin-up actors of today, they were balding, they looked like regular dudes, and they carried films truly based on their talent.

Like handsome guys, but you don't see a lot of those type of actors anymore opening movies as lead actors.

And he was one of the best.

No, you know, and he was one of the best.

I just think he was 95 years old and he had a very kind of

a wide array of credits on his resume.

He did very different stuff throughout the course of his career.

He was in The Godfather, The Apostle, The Great Santini.

He played Boo Radley into Kill a Mockingbird.

And I remember the first time I saw him in that.

And I said, I was probably in my 30s when I noticed who it was.

And I said, he looks kind of like a young Robert DeVall and sure enough, it was.

And he had no lines.

That was his first movie role.

Came up, learned how to act on the stage.

Brilliant, brilliant career.

and he will be missed and never officially retired.

Like Gene Hackman retired about 20 years ago and just kind of disappeared.

But Duvall, I'm not saying he worked.

I think his last credit was maybe 2022 or 2023, but love the craft and by all accounts, it was just a great actor.

In tribute to him, I watched a movie last night called The Outfit that he was in with Joe Don Baker and...

Oh, Karen Black, I think.

Anyway, just a different time for movies, the early 70s.

But kind of a cool film.

He just played a guy who just got out of prison, wants to go even the score.

Fun movie.

And one of his many films I haven't seen.

Like, he's got such a long body of work.

Anyway, let us know what your favorite Robert Duvall film is.

This could be fun to talk about tonight.

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What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

May he rest in peace.

Zomers, you got one?

I just don't even believe you.

And it's not.

Yeah, with Donald Sutherland.

Aaron Zomers (Contributor)

I.

Are you serious?

Pete Schwabba (Host)

Oh, wow, no kidding.

Well, I appreciate your honesty and there's no judgment.

I mean, look, there's so much content out there.

You can't possibly see everything, but so that's an acceptable answer.

Well done.

I'm gonna say the great Santini, just because he was such a hard guy.

And we'll talk more about all of this and I'm gonna tell you...

Who tonight's guests are, folks?

We have outstanding guests tonight.

There's gonna be some great conversations, some great chat.

Aaron and I are gonna talk about Iron Lung as well.

Very bizarre movie.

We'll do all of that next.

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

Hard to tell.

Pete Schwabba

Is that a Kid Rock?

Did Kid Rock sample that or?

Okay, probably and didn't pay.

Hey, welcome back.

This is Pete Schwabba and Nightlight.

That is the voice of Aaron Zommers, who is producing tonight's show that is not Aaron Zommers or Kid Rock's music that is from The Godfather, which is one of Robert Duvall's many outstanding classics.

And that is our question of the night folks.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall film?

He passed away just a couple days ago and we are talking about his legacy a little bit Another great one one he won an Oscar for is tender mercies from 1983 great film and Kind of the opposite of like a godfather type film like his his resume is so great and I love that Tony Zimmerman called you out

Zomersen says there is some judgment.

A little bit, Tony, but I'm saying like he's got time to get to them, right?

We can give Zomersen some time here to check out all these classics.

So thank you for the text, though, buddy.

All right, let's get to our guests tonight, folks.

We have great guests.

Andy Waspman is here at 535 just after the news.

He will be here to discuss a really fun event called the Nina Run iced beer mile.

Race I think it's a race.

Let's let's pull this up here.

I had this right in front of me and now I've and now I've lost it Mr. Aaron Zomers, but it's a great It's a great event.

They have in Menominee Park by Lake Winnebago and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

It's the beer mile

You have to drink while you race.

And Andy will be here at 535 to talk about this really cool event.

And then we've got Alan Kapiszki, professor of theater from UWGB.

Here at 610 to talk about some really cool stuff and a great production he has coming up in the next few weeks at UWGB.

And then our pal, Dr. Kristen Lierly is going to be on.

She will be dispensing great, healthy advice as well as some

Probably giving me a hard time about various topics, which is fine She's teased me about an array of topics.

I didn't I don't know if you remember this Zommer she talked about lube Yeah, she's an OBGYN I said oh is that necessary for forgiving birth because she was at a convention for OBGYNs and she says no that's for sex and Then she laughed and Conrad laughed and I was like oh, okay, so

She likes to tease and it's great.

Love when Kristen is here.

We'll have a lot of fun as usual.

And then this is fun.

Steve Gillespie is here tonight, a very funny comedian.

He's been on Conan.

He's had best-selling comedy albums.

He's on the show tonight at 720 talking about a very different, very cool show he's got coming to Wisconsin.

It's, I don't even know if I should say what this is, but it's called the Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

And I'm just gonna leave it at that.

It's production heavy.

Steve has put a lot of effort into this.

It sells out all around the country and it sounds like a blast and there might be chemicals involved.

I'm not sure.

But you're gonna want to hear that because Steve is a good guy in a very funny comic.

But right now, let's jump to the phones because I know our pal Ollie from the Northwoods is on the line.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Hi.

Pete Schwabba

Hello, Ollie.

How's it going tonight?

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Good, very well.

Pete Schwabba

Good.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

My favorite...

Robert Duvall movie is kind of a newer one.

Um, we're isn't older.

Um, it's secondhand lions where Robert Duvall and Michael Cain play, um, two brothers and they take in, um, their nephew, uh, who is played by Haley Joel Osment.

Pete Schwabba

Yes.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

I don't know very many people have watched that, but it's a wonderful movie.

Um, and the

The two guys are just awesome in it.

Everybody's awesome in it.

Pete Schwabba

You

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

cannot beat

Pete Schwabba

that cast, right?

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Yeah, and they tell tales of adventures in their lives to this young boy who is just imagining the stories and doesn't know whether to believe them or not.

So the ending is great and everybody should see it at least once.

I totally agree.

Pete Schwabba

No, that's a great choice, Ollie.

Thank you so much and have a wonderful evening.

Thanks for the call.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

You guys too.

Bye-bye.

Pete Schwabba

All right, that's Ollie from the Northwoods who says secondhand Lions from 2003.

Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes at 60%.

Audience score 84%.

So she's right on the ball there.

Nice.

I would recommend The Great Santini.

It's just a great role for him.

He's not a very likable guy, but it's just a hard-nosed military dad.

And Michael O'Keefe is very good in it too.

Blith Daner, Gwyneth Paltrow's mom is in it.

Very solid film, but he's great in everything.

Hey, let's, before the break, Zomers, we gotta talk about this Iron Lung film.

Shot for like three million bucks, made like 18, 20 million bucks in its opening weekend.

It's based on a video game.

and it stars a YouTuber who got it made.

I have to say I was lost during Iron Lung.

Here's my issue with it too.

You're right.

The guy's in a submarine.

The planets are gone.

This is like a blood ocean.

It's dystopian, you know, all that stuff.

But he basically talks to himself, which characters who talk to themselves rarely work for me in movies.

And there are other characters, but he's by himself and he's in this thing.

It's two hours and 10 minutes long of no cinematography other than a dark vessel.

With blood splashing against the windows sometimes nothing really scary happens and it's just it's just kind of dull It's like it's like cinematically.

There's nothing the dialogue is not great.

His acting is kind of one note He's always frantic for two hours and ten minutes, but then he'll go ten minutes without saying anything

Tip of my hat, the thing crushed.

So good for him.

Hey, we're coming right back after new sports and weathers to talk about a really cool beer run that's next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwab (host)

I'm pretty sure that's not Kid Rock either.

Great find, Zomers.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab.

Great to have you here, folks, on this Wednesday night that feels like a Monday night, but it's actually more like a Thursday night because of our crazy schedule this week.

So it's great to have you here wherever you're joining us from across the state of Wisconsin, or if you're with us on the app or the stream.

Kudos to you for being part of the show, because that's when it's always more fun.

Aaron Zommers is producing tonight's show.

Stacy Sue on the stream says she loved the Godfather movies when it comes to Robert Duvall's career.

And I, those are hard to, it's hard to disagree.

That's about the safest pick you can make, as well as tender mercies because he won an Oscar for that.

But all kinds of great stuff.

That is our question of the night, folks.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie he passed away a couple days ago?

And you can let us know on the text line at 855-752-4842, 855-755-CIVIC, or text us on the Civic Media app, which you should have, because it's so easy to use.

It's just downright fun.

Or if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or TwitterX, you can drop us a stream comment, like Stacy Sue just did.

All right, we are going to turn our attention.

One of my favorite things to talk about are cool events happening around the state, because...

As Wisconsinites, we certainly have our share of them.

There are all kinds of fun activities throughout the course of the year.

And this one ranks right up there based on what I've read.

It is my pleasure to welcome the event director for the first annual Run Nina Iced Beer Mile, Mr. Andy Wassman.

Hey, Andy, how are you?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Excellent.

Excellent, Peter.

How are you guys doing?

Pete Schwab (host)

Good, man.

You got a deep voice, dude.

Are people intimidated when they talk to you?

I know I am.

Andy Wassman (guest)

I think so.

I think it's a little taller, so it's a big package they're dealing with, I guess,

Pete Schwab (host)

right?

They run faster when you're around, because they hear your voice.

Hey, welcome to the show.

It's great to have you.

How are you doing tonight?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Doing great.

Doing great.

Ready to explain.

Ready to explain and describe our event.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

Well, before we get to that, I assume you're a movie fan or TV show fan, as most people, like some form of movies.

Are you familiar with Robert Duvall?

And do you have a favorite Robert Duvall movie?

Andy Wassman (guest)

You know, I didn't I didn't realize there was a You know, the AI generated flashbacks on his career.

I didn't realize that he was honestly in in the godfather You know, when I put when I put two and two together, I would I would say definitely Godfather 100% 100%

Pete Schwab (host)

can't go wrong with that.

That's a great answer Well, it's great to have you here.

So let's let's jump in.

I love that.

This is your first annual

event or you may have had other derivations of it or whatever.

But regardless, tell us about Run Nina and this Ice to Beer Mile event.

It sounds like an absolute blast.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah, yeah.

So we have a little group about 20 people that run every Thursday from varying locations around Nina.

Every Thursday at six year round.

every year we've been around for about three or four years and every year it seems like we get the next young kid or young you know person that comes in and says you know what we should do a beer mile and then it's after year three it gets the point of you know this is a this is getting to be a common occurrence here you know so we really put a pen to paper and kind of plan this still things to learn after the first

And it kind of was a big collaboration with again, like I said past members You know and then a member that was all Western Wisconsin that would do a snowshoe beer mile on land around a bar and You know that was our that was our whole deal here is you know A school track is probably frowned upon Certainly

Pete Schwab (host)

during school hours.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah You know city streets same thing, you know, we could go in

you know, other private areas, but then your distance for a circular track kind of get limited for like an out and back or something that way.

It's just not as fun.

So this year, Pearson, our group actually another young kid this year here, he suggested, hey, let's get this going.

What about on the lake?

And I thought, you know, that's kind of a kind of a neutral territory, so to speak.

And then we got we got to thinking and planning, figured we go right offshore and and yeah, that's where it sits.

Pete Schwab (host)

It's such a great, it sounds like so much fun.

Is it in Oshkosh though, Andy?

Andy Wassman (guest)

It is.

So the tough part is, you know, by us and Nina, we have a very nice park that we run from lion's tail brewing quite often.

That's one of our Thursday runs.

Beautiful park.

There's certainly access there.

But if you know anything about Lake Winnebago, that's pretty much where everything from Puygon flows north.

and then dumps into and starts the Fox River.

So there's a little bit of, I don't want to see current, but ice isn't just good up that way.

Not that we take up a big stretch, but to keep people away from that area, we all kind of figured, let's go south.

And then also, honestly, the location was kind of more directed because I know Carl was on your show.

Carl was Sturgeon Spirits just

Pete Schwab (host)

recently.

Andy Wassman (guest)

And I thought that'd be neat to have it.

you know, kind of partner with his event, this being the second weekend.

And then again, just the ice was a little bit more consistent up until this weather, but a little bit more consistent down in those parts.

Pete Schwab (host)

Here's what I love about this event, okay, and what I read it.

At a time in our nation's history, where people are drinking less, even here in Wisconsin, you are leaning into drinking while running.

The race starts, you have to chug a beer.

Drinking rules, one beer before the race starts, after each lap you must stop at the drinking area, chug one full beer, hold the empty can upside down to prove it is finished and a total, you consume a total of four beers.

Can people do it without drinking or is that totally frowned upon?

Andy Wassman (guest)

That's not allowed actually this year.

So as this evolves, we're thinking about doing a relay, so that's another idea so that one guy brought that up.

So you have one person that just is responsible for a beer.

So it's a four person team.

They do their beer, they run and then hand off the empty can, throw it down to the ground.

The next person throws it down to the ground or something like that.

They have to chug theirs and off they go.

We thought about an NA division to your point.

But you know, as of course, if things get kind of closer, you know, then you get the ideas and suggestions and my response is always, well, there's always year two, you know.

Pete Schwab (host)

I think I read in here somewhere.

Oh yeah, light beer is not in all caps allowed.

It's gotta be 4.5% or greater and any style of beer is accepted.

Cans only, how did you settle on that?

Just easier to recycle or clean up or

Andy Wassman (guest)

what?

Yeah, that's, I mean, the biggest thing on lakes.

I mean, we're gonna be if...

I guess the lake traffic allows it, meaning there aren't going to be a whole bunch of vehicles parked where we're planning to have this course.

I mean, there is a beach there in the summertime.

So just breaking glass, things that we're just trying to be stewards of the area.

Pete Schwab (host)

Well done.

My guest is Andy Waspin.

He is the event director of this really cool event sponsored by Run Nina, the iced beer mile run.

that takes place at the southern in Oshkosh actually near Lake Winnebago.

So here's another great rule I thought, Andy.

There is a penalty if you puke at any time you must complete one full penalty lap.

Do people puke?

I mean, it's not a ton of beer to take in, but it's in a short time and you are running and it's cold.

What are the ratios there with vomiting?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Well, every race is different.

You know, I just compare it to after if you're an Ask Our Fan, what does the winner do?

He takes the champagne bottle and shakes it up and sprays it all over.

So yes, there definitely is, you know, a strategy to those veterans.

We do have some people coming from the Eau Claire area as part of that snowshoe beer mile.

So I think my mind is going to be blown at the vets or the elites.

You know, they're going to be participating, but certainly there's going to be some releases, some pukes.

I might be bringing the garbage bags for everything and I thought I'm not going to bring any actual barrels.

I'm just going to let all the empties sit on the ice.

I'll pick them up after or we'll pick them up as a group.

As soon as you have barrels, that's where the pukeers go.

I thought we'll just pick up as we go at the

Pete Schwab (host)

end.

All right.

I appreciate your honesty here.

All right, so four laps are run four beers have to be consumed There is a penalty for puking.

Have you are there records?

Do you keep track?

I mean, this is the first but will you keep track of records or Best times and tell us a little bit about the prizes too

Andy Wassman (guest)

100% so I've I mean obviously the first year you have all kinds of different ideas that are just rolling around your head head

I thought about doing age groups, you know, if this starts to get huge, do age groups.

And, you know, because people don't want to admit their age, maybe we just fill out how many beer cans you are.

So if you're how full the beer can is, or if you're 18 or sorry, 21 to, you know, 21 to 30, you're three quarters of a beer can.

And then you write that in unregistration.

If you're 30 to

50 or whatever that eight, then it's half of a beer can.

And if you're 50 plus, you have a quarter of your can, you know, to signify that age group.

So thought about that, like I said, about different, different categories, different age groups.

You know, yeah, that keeping track of times, it certainly could evolve repeat winners bullseyes on back, you know, for, for the winner from last year.

Right.

I mean, I yeah, it's wild.

It definitely can get wild.

Pete Schwab (host)

So is it going to be the type of situation where you said you have age groups, like a teenager can participate if their parents are there, like when they're allowed in bars or something like that?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Well, it's funny.

I have a friend of mine that has probably two, like I think they're an eight year old and a five year old.

And they said, can Grant participate in this?

I said, well, you know, it's not that kind of group.

We can maybe get that.

Well, he just wants to run around.

And then, like you had mentioned before, well, I don't know if this is going to be the surface that you're going to want to run

Pete Schwab (host)

around

Andy Wassman (guest)

on.

Don't

Pete Schwab (host)

slip in the pew, kid.

OK, so what are the prizes, Andy?

And pardon me, can anybody enter?

Like, if people are listening right now, I'm like, I want to go do this.

How do they find out more info and can they?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah, and some more info is going to be primed.

We have an event on our, I created a public event on our Facebook page.

It's Runnina.

uh, running a group run.

If you search it on Facebook, it should pop up.

Unfortunately, we're a private group because you get, you know, all kinds of spam otherwise.

So you just request, say what the weather was like yesterday.

That's our security, I guess, uh, question.

Uh, we get you in there, but the, the vent, I guess, you know, in general is, is public.

Um, at the time of, of start, we're going to have a simple waiver.

I'm too pretty to be in jail, so not that it would get to that point.

Pete Schwab (host)

That voice will keep you safe, buddy.

That good voice is good.

You're going to be fine.

Andy Wassman (guest)

But we'll have a QR code that people can scan just to initial and by all means, the more the merrier.

If we get a surplus of people, we might do two different waves, or I don't know that yet.

But right now, I think there's about 15 people.

you know, that are that are going to be attending.

But who knows, there's like 70 some that are that are interested.

So

Pete Schwab (host)

that's what we're going

Andy Wassman (guest)

to do.

Pete Schwab (host)

I love it.

So I think what we need to do now, Andy, is get Carl involved.

Carl, he could do spirits like a chug a bottle of vodka and run even farther.

Let's let's make it a puke fest.

Let's see how many pukeers we have.

Andy Wassman (guest)

I agree.

Again, I saw his event, his mobile bar out on the ice last

Pete Schwab (host)

weekend

Andy Wassman (guest)

and again this weekend.

And that's what really got me thinking about doing it out in Oshkosh in that location.

But they're a mile out, as he mentioned on his event or on his podcast or video here.

I don't wanna, if people aren't comfortable with that.

So we're literally gonna be about 50 yards offshore.

And then to answer your question prizes, we have some really cool laser engraved slate coasters for first, second, and third.

Oh, nice.

So,

Pete Schwab (host)

yeah.

Well, Andy, this has been a pleasure.

Thank you so much for your time tonight.

I wish you luck with the event.

Put plastic baggies over your shoes just in case you don't wanna hit by errant vomit or whatever, but no, seriously.

Come back again the next time you do this.

I hope you have many more of these, and best of luck with the event.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Good deal, thank you very

Pete Schwab (host)

much.

All right, that's Andy Wasserman.

Check out the Run Nina Ice Mile Beer Run.

So much fun.

We are coming right back, folks, and I'm gonna tell you about the best capitals in America to live in that's coming up next on Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwabba

It's another Kid Rock song.

Somers is finding them all tonight.

Kid Rock or Sinatra?

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwab.

Great to have you here, folks, on this Wednesday night.

It really feels like a Monday and also feels like a Thursday, thanks to scheduling issues.

So, glad you're here.

We are talking about the life and the body of work of Robert DeVall.

who passed away the other day at the age of 95 and Left behind such an incredible body of work Matt Harper rock rap artist from Green Bay Answered the question on social media.

He said colors and that's the sign of a great artist too or someone who's just a Titan like Robert Duvall is because I Was thinking of his movies.

I forgot about colors.

I saw that in the theater When it first came out and he and Sean Penn were great

That's a phenomenal movie.

Daniel Thine on social media says so many good ones, but some of them are ones he had really small parts.

The great Santini, he had a big part in that.

To kill a mockingbird, Slingblade, the godfather one and two, falling down, the natural, true grit Jack Reacher, forgot about Jack Reacher too, the judge and apocalypse now.

Great list Dan, thank you.

JB Thompson, the guy behind the guy behind the guy, saw JB this last weekend at the Dork County Film Festival.

Good to hang.

He says, falling down.

Well, you got a lot of movies to catch up on here this summer.

Seriously, I forgot about that.

I don't even know if I knew that.

That was a made for TV movie like in the 90s, maybe or 80s.

I don't think do they do movies like that anymore?

That's crazy Yes Well said Tony on social media Tony Diamond says there are so many but I'm always drawn back to network again, and I forgot he was in that a classic

Ross Bigley says the outfit which I just watched last night.

Thank you Ross.

Yeah, that was a great That was a really fun watch.

I love watching movies how they used to make them or everything isn't like the stakes aren't so crazy high and it takes their time There's no high concept thing happening.

It's just a story being told and that's kind of what's taking place or what took place when I watched the outfit last night Charles Krauss and social media says there are many the most recent and funny movie that I've seen is secondhand lions

So there you go.

Maybe a love connection between Ollie from the Northwoods and Charles.

We've probably paired.

We've probably gotten people together on this show over the last couple years.

George Chambers says to kill a mockingbird.

Great one, George.

And he actually, he didn't have a line, but he was great.

He looks so tortured and troubled as Boo Radley.

That's a great choice.

Daniel Wheeler, Danny Wheeler says, I'm going deep cut.

Buck Weston in kicking and screaming, but he's got balls.

Well said Daniel.

Daniel will be on the show tomorrow night.

Sean Boyce on social media says, I am the great Santini.

Sean is a Marine.

That could be what he's referring to.

Having a little fun with the title.

He says, excellent film adapted from Pat Conroy, the Pat Conroy novel based on his own upbringing in the home of Colonel Don Conroy.

I did not know that.

Thank you, Sean.

And a really good movie actually there's some laughs in there too because he is a kid the great Santini is a character Kind of racist kind of old-school kind of old-fashioned just the toughest nails dad his kids hate him It was a it's a good.

It's a great watch Rich Luccasio our favorite wrestling announcer says THX 1138 Oh Yeah, okay

Thought maybe rich was dropping in a wrestling event there.

We got a call Mike from Muscaday.

That's how you say it.

Hey Mike.

How are you?

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

How's it going Pete and you guys?

I think true grit was a good Robert DeVall movie and another movie with Always his name Oh Gosh, he's been in so many like you guys say but you know getting back to kid rock

Let me ask you something Pete.

How many albums have you put out?

So don't put down my man.

Pete Schwabba

I'll tell you this.

I haven't put out any albums, but if I do, it will be my own material, Mike.

Is that a good answer?

Did

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

we lose

Pete Schwabba

Mike?

Oh, there he is.

Are you a fan,

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

Mike?

A

Pete Schwabba

true Kid

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

Rock fan?

Go ahead.

Go ahead and give her.

I like Kid Rock and don't put them down.

You guys have a good one

Pete Schwabba

YouTube I appreciate the call.

I respect that he likes kid rock, but I'm still gonna put him down And all I'll say Mike is watch the watch the workout video with Robert Kennedy and listen There's been a couple tunes kid rock his head over the years where I've tapped my foot to remember being on a movie set He's not untalented apparently.

He's a really good musician.

I just don't like his songs Yeah

But that's a great movie choice.

Thank you, Mike.

Matt Cassane on social media says true confessions.

Thank you, Matt.

Derek Fister says days of thunder again.

Tom Cruise forgot he was even in that movie.

Ian MacArthur on social media says the great tender Santini Mercy's Apostle.

He's got them all rolled into one there, but he did win an Oscar for 1983's Tender Mercies.

Thank you, Ian.

Richard Vargas says a tie.

The Great Santini and the Apostle.

You know, I've seen the Apostle.

I was kind of falling asleep in a hotel room one night, so I can't even weigh in on that.

I have to give that a rewatch.

But thank you, Richard.

Jay Campbell says, that is so hard to narrow down because he was prolific and deep.

I'm partial to tender mercies and the Apostle.

I intend to rewatch both of them soon.

Check out Get Low, too.

That was kind of a fun one.

And then Bill on social media says, open range.

Thank you.

I'll keep those coming.

We'll get to the text line stuff in just a bit.

Oh, we got Kristen Lyrely coming up in the next hour, folks.

Lots of fun.

What's your favorite Robert De Niro movie?

That's what we're talking about.

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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 washes his hands even after using a towel, Pete Schwabba.

Hey, welcome

Pete Schwabba

back.

Hour number two is underway, ladies and gentlemen.

It is great, great, great to have you here on this rainy, what's it like in Madison's Omers?

Is it raining and gross?

Would it kill you to wear a top hat once in a while?

And spats?

It's so unfair that we're both in Wisconsin.

And this show is on statewide.

And I'm stuck with like 30s and rain and you have beach weather.

How is that possible?

Sounds like a good question for Mace Michaels.

But wherever you're joining us from in Wisconsin, folks, I hope it's sunny and 70, unlike here in Marinette, Wisconsin and Northeast Wisconsin.

Lots of fun tonight.

If you missed hour number one of tonight's show, it is available at civicmedia.us in podcast form.

You can hear my interview with Andy Wassman about a really cool event put on by Run Nina, where you got to chug a beer after every lap.

By the end of the race,

you will chug four beers and have completed four laps.

And where most of the country is leaning toward less alcohol, Ron Nina says, nope, we're going to drink alcohol while we run.

So it sounded like an absolute blast.

It was fun to get to know Andy.

Zomers and I talked a little bit about this very bizarre video put out by Robert Bob Kennedy, Jr.

and Kid Rock.

He's also a junior, I think.

Robert Richie, the third or something like that?

Anyway.

Yeah, they put out a video, a workout video, but they didn't wear workout clothes, and it was very bizarre.

I recommend to Google, because it's kind of funny.

So we got that going, and then, you know, tonight's question, folks.

Zomers, I think we just need to reintroduce.

This is the nightlight question of the night.

Alan Kepeski

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Pete Schwabba

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie or role?

He passed away a couple days ago at the tender age of 95 never officially retired from acting, but I don't think he's had I don't think we've seen him on screen since 2022, but he is 95

had a good run, left behind an incredible body of work.

I said the great Santini, but I could have just as easily been talked into the godfather or tender mercies or I know it's I'm not even joking to kill a mockingbird because he looks so tortured even though he didn't have a line.

He was he was good.

It was his first movie role.

So no right or wrong answers, folks.

There are only your answers.

Please be part of the show and let us know at eight five five.

752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

You can also text us on the Civic Media app, which is very easy to use.

Or if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or X, Twitter, drop us a stream comment, and I'll read it on the radio.

I did see Zomers on the text line.

Monica from Mount Horrib said she was texting the show while she was in line to see Sean Cassidy, who was, I believe he's playing the Baremort tonight.

And I think he's either in Green Bay tomorrow night or he was there last night but he was so much fun to have on the show and I'm glad that Monica went to see him because I'm sure I Mean his songs will be fun because they were pop songs in the 70s.

I think he's gonna sing some classics like from some of his mom's shows He's got great stories.

I cannot imagine that not being an absolutely phenomenal show So we've got dr. Kristen Lyrely coming up at 635 tonight folks.

She's gonna talk to us a little bit about

Well, fun stuff.

She always talks medical stuff, Zomers, but she also gives us tips like, you know, James Van Der Beek passed away from colon cancer.

So she's gonna stress the, but Kristen always does it in fun ways.

She's just a blast to talk about whether it's medicine, movies, current events, whatever.

She'll be here at 635.

Comedian Steve Gillespie will be here at 720 tonight, telling us all about a really cool show he's put together.

called The Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

That's coming to Wisconsin.

Steve has been selling out rooms all over the country.

That's in Act 3 right now.

Very excited to welcome my second guest of the night.

He is an esteemed professor of acting at UW Green Bay, UWGB as I like to call it.

breaking new ground there, and he's also a very fine actor as well.

He joins us over the stream, Mr. Alan Kepeski.

Hey, buddy.

How are you?

Alan Kepeski

Hey, Pete.

Great to see you again.

Pete Schwabba

Good to see you too.

You were in studio last time.

Alan Kepeski

I

Pete Schwabba

was, yeah.

Yeah.

That's always preferable, but given the circumstances, it's just great to have you on the show.

So welcome, sir.

Alan Kepeski

Thank you very much.

I got to tell you, my head is spinning.

with everything you just talked about in the last few minutes, you know?

Beachwear and top hats and, you know, throwing up while you're running Nina and

Pete Schwabba

Kid

Alan Kepeski

Rock Jr.

and-

Pete Schwabba

There

Alan Kepeski

is

Pete Schwabba

gonna be- Oh, Radley.

That's

Alan Kepeski

my favorite.

Oh, Radley.

Pete Schwabba

Is your favorite Duvall roll?

Alan Kepeski

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

Okay.

Alan Kepeski

Yeah.

That's a great choice.

Killed it with no lines.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

And you're

Alan Kepeski

having Kristen Ly early on, who I love.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

I don't like her personally, but she's a great radio guest.

So we always like having Kristen on.

No, but you're so right about Duvall with he just looks so tortured in that, you know, he said nothing, but he didn't have to.

It was just it was phenomenal acting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So all right.

Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way because I was going to ask you that anyway.

But it is good to have you here.

Do you have a you have a show coming up in early April?

Alan Kepeski

Yeah,

Pete Schwabba

April

Alan Kepeski

1st to the 4th Tell

Pete Schwabba

us about

Alan Kepeski

constellations the first to the third and then a matinee on Saturday the fourth

Pete Schwabba

very nice Yeah, it's called constellations.

It's a show that was written by Nick Nick Payne from 2012 so tell us about your production of this show and Yeah, what can you tell us?

Well, it's really exciting.

Alan Kepeski

I call it a meat cute in the multiverse

two people meet up at a barbecue and they seem interested in each other and then we see it play out in different ways in different universes within the multiverse where the circumstances are just a little bit different and so it works out a little bit differently each time

So if you've seen the movie Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow from years ago, that was kind of a two-way split of universes, whether she made the subway or not.

And here we're splitting into multiple strands.

And so it's a ton of fun as we get to know these people and then get the surprises of the slightly different ways

in which they behave with a slightly different circumstances of where they're at right now.

So it's very funny, but it also brings a ton of heart.

So it's just lots of fun to work on.

Pete Schwabba

It sounds great.

It's a 90 minute one act play, and you've got two actors.

Is that the entire cast?

That's the entire

Alan Kepeski

cast, but I

Pete Schwabba

will

Alan Kepeski

mention that we have two understudies.

Okay.

And so that's not only a good safety for us, but we put them to use throughout the play as well.

Pete Schwabba

Okay.

Okay, a 90 minute one act, that's basically the length of a movie or whatever, and you've got two actors.

Is it hard as a director for pacing purposes?

How do you keep it flowing like that, Alan?

Oh, I think...

Alan Kepeski

First off, it is a big load for the actors.

So this is a big challenge.

I think the folks we have are really up to it.

But I know as an actor, I hate to leave the stage.

I know my energy keeps going while I'm on stage and it's when I go off that I have to kind of recharge to bring it back on.

So I don't worry too much about the pacing.

I think they're in it and their energy remains high the whole time.

At least that's the way it's working so far in rehearsals.

Pete Schwabba

That's great.

So let me ask you this.

You've got like in Green Bay, you've got big shows that come to town.

You've got like Frank Hermans who puts on his own stuff.

Is there a component in Green Bay that is either experimental or people putting on original plays or licensing stuff like you're doing with constellations?

My question is, do people realize

what they have access to through UWGB.

Does the general public come to the shows?

Is it mostly students?

And if they don't, how do you get them to do that?

Because this is fantastic.

Alan Kepeski

Yeah, I do think that we're a little bit of an undiscovered gem for some people.

We do get a lot of students and a lot of the campus community comes.

I would love to see more people.

We get alumni who come.

We have some fans.

We have developed over the years.

But yeah, I don't know if the general theater going public in Green Bay really has an idea of the kind of, I don't know if I want to say experimental necessarily, but really interesting cutting edge kinds of plays.

And we have very talented design faculty.

doing really exciting things.

This play in particular gives some great opportunities.

So the two characters are a beekeeper and a quantum cosmologist.

And so with the multiverse and the quantum cosmologist, there's tons of cool space stuff going on.

Announcer

There's

Alan Kepeski

some interesting bee stuff going on.

Because we are shifting in space time from universe to universe, it gives the designers free reign to do some really exciting things.

Pete Schwabba

That's so great.

And I totally agree with you, like in terms of getting the general public to take advantage of this.

Like, yeah, it's a college and I think it just might be off some people's radar.

Not just UWGB, but in general.

It's like, oh, well, that's a college.

Well, they're putting on a great show and oftentimes award-winning shows.

I just would love to see more people from the general public go.

And what do people like Alan, when they leave UWGB and they've studied theater?

Do most people Pursue it when they leave?

I know my daughters at UW Stevens Point and you've got people from their musical theater program They want to go be in shows.

I'm sure people at UW GB do too.

But what is their path typically when they leave?

Alan Kepeski

Yeah, you know, we've got We've got a lot of folks who get out there and get work especially in the technical field And we have others who are

off to grad school and then teaching.

We have others who are touring.

I have one student who's been out on cruise ships and and students doing Disney.

There's all sorts of different paths.

It depends on what your interests are, but

Pete Schwabba

we've

Alan Kepeski

had a lot of success from our grads.

Pete Schwabba

Let's pick up right there.

We're going to do a very short break.

Alan Kapishki is here.

He is a theater professor from UWGB.

He's got great acting talent, credits of his own too.

We'll talk to him about that when we come back.

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

Pete Schwab

All right, welcome back.

This is Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwab.

Great to have you here.

Spookster86 on the stream says Days of Thunder is his favorite Duval movie.

It's Top Gun Adjacent.

That's fair.

And he says, get your colonoscopy, folks.

Great warning.

Thank you, Spookster.

I'm a little behind on my latest one.

Maybe that's too much information I'm putting out there, Alan.

I don't know.

Alan Kibisky

A little behind.

Pete Schwab

pun intended.

Alan Kibisky is here, folks.

He is a theater professor at UWGB and an actor as well.

His show Constellations runs April 1st through the 3rd, 7.30 p.m., and Saturday, April 4th at 2 p.m.

at the Jane Weidner Theater at the Weidner Center on UWGB's campus.

Check that out and take advantage of theater right in Green Bay.

It's not just for college kids, folks.

Check out this great production.

Alan is the director.

And it sounds like an absolute blast.

Let me ask you something, Alan.

You have the opportunity to mold lives, shape these kids.

We talked a little bit about what they do when they leave.

I always have this issue because sometimes I've talked to kids in grade school or high school about careers.

And if they were interested in show business, I was the guy that nobody asked a question to in Wisconsin after the firemen and the lawyer and the doctor.

Everybody that comes up to me and says, everyone says I should have a fallback.

And I kind of disagree with that.

I feel like if you're going to go be an actor or a dancer or a set decorator, whatever it is, why would you take two to four hours a day away from your passion and getting better at it to set yourself up for failure?

Am I wrong there?

In

Alan Kibisky

my experience, if you need a fallback, your fallback will come find you.

Correct.

You go pursue what?

you are passionate about, and that may end up leading you in other directions, adjacent or parallel.

But yeah, I don't think saying, oh yeah, I gotta get this business degree or this engineering minor or whatever, just in case.

No, I think you gotta pursue what interests you and that will lead you

Maybe to engineering but it by a different path and by a way that that follows your passion

Pete Schwab

I totally agree with you and you can you know try it until you're 29 and go back to school You're still young you got the whole if if things don't work out But you're right and a lot of people I know found their way in other avenues They went into casting or you know catering or set truck driving and carpentry work on sets and that kind of stuff

Alan Kibisky

So you might decide you're an accountant, but you want to be an accountant for a film production company?

Pete Schwab

Yeah

Exactly.

Great.

Absolutely.

Before we let you go, I want to ask you, you've got two credits I'm curious about.

I want to ask you about on your IMDB page.

One is Feed the Fish with Tony Shalub,

Alan Kibisky

which I believe

Pete Schwab

was shot in Green Bay.

Would love to hear what your experience was like on that.

And then you did a Walker, Texas Ranger.

I would love to know if you got on Chuck Norris's bad side.

So

Alan Kibisky

you can

Pete Schwab

start wherever you want.

Alan Kibisky

Okay.

So Feed the Fish was mostly actually shot in Dork County.

The chelou family has some property up there, and so my wife was the costume designer for it, and I had a very small role.

I went hunting with Michael Mathsdorf, the director, and Tony Chelou's character yelled at us, and Michael accidentally shot me in the crotch.

So I had a great, pained pratfall.

uh in there and and and then i got rolled away on a gurney so that was that was my big moment in that but memorable

Pete Schwab

yeah that's great

Alan Kibisky

that was a lot of fun sure walker texas ranger was a blast i had a really nice guest star role i was basically a bill gates character um and so actually i was i was a victim mitch pelogy uh who was the the um the boss of

Mully and Skulder on the X-Files.

Yeah, sure.

He was the main bad guy.

And they were robbing me and my party guests.

So I did get punched by one of the bad guys.

Oh, sweet.

So got to work with the stunt men and stunt ensemble on that.

And actually Chuck told me, after that scene, he said, you take a good punch.

So I want that on my gravestone.

Pete Schwab

Yeah, from his mouth itself.

Alan Kibisky

I would

Pete Schwab

assume he's taken a few too, so that's probably high praise.

Alan, thank you so much for being here tonight.

Good luck with constellations.

Maybe the wife and I will get a nutty night out of the tunnel.

We'll come down and see it.

Alan Kibisky

I would love to

Pete Schwab

see the facilities and the production and everything.

It sounds great, so I appreciate you coming on and break a leg, my friend.

Thanks so much.

Thanks for having me on, Pete.

You got it.

All right, that's Alan Kepesky.

Check out constellations.

at the Jane Weidner Theater at the Weidner Center on UWGV's campus.

April 1st through the 3rd, and then there's a matinee on the 4th too.

Sounds like a great show.

Zomers, I would ask you if you're going, but you already bailed on the Door County Film Festival last week, so I'm not gonna hold you to anything.

Are you one of those guys that's like, hey, you wanna do something Friday?

Who's gonna be there?

Exactly.

Waiting to see what better plants materialize.

Right.

I'm just saying you hardly ever hang out with me and my wife.

Just consider it.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, that's because you always bail.

All right, we've got Kristen Lyrely coming up after the news at 635.

Let's get a couple of texts out of the way here.

Ollie from the Northwoods.

Oh, she's doing a ruse here.

It says this is actually Lori from Hayward, maybe on Ollie's phone, and says, a Robert Duvall show I really enjoyed was watching the series Lonesome Dove.

Never watched that, but that had a nice run on network color television.

In the 608, all Duval movies, true grit.

You can score one point by returning a blocked extra point That would make the score six to one.

I make heads or tails of that He's doing the beer run he just chugged a beer all right We're coming back with dr. Kristen Lyrely after news sports and weather great to have you here folks.

It's peach wabba and nightlife

Pete Schwabba

That's me.

All right Welcome back folks.

I am Pete Schwabba.

This is nightlight and that is also not a Kid Rock song Zomers is spinning the tunes tonight and having fun with that.

Welcome back glad you're with me folks This is a Wednesday that feels like a Monday, but it's kind of like a Thursday because of our crazy week this week But nonetheless, we are here talking about the things in life that make us happy and One of the people that makes me happy is my next guest.

She does great work

She's one of my favorite guests or people for that matter.

She's a highly respected OBGYN.

A proud boy mom, and she also has her own show here on Civic Media called the Dr. Kristen Lyrely Show.

You probably guessed who it is.

It's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

Welcome, my friend.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Hey, how you doing, Pete?

Pete Schwabba

To clarify, I'm also an OBGYN, but not highly

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

respected.

No, no, no, you are not.

Pete Schwabba

In fact,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I'm wholly

Pete Schwabba

respected.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I was very impressed that you ran the lube promo because it's important.

People need to know about lube.

Well, Pete right now is silent.

No,

Pete Schwabba

I'm just I know people don't who doesn't know about lube.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Many people.

Many people have many questions and they are very like reluctant to ask those questions.

You got to build trust before people will come out with these because, you know, we've been taught.

in life, not to talk about things like sex, but if you talk about it and you get good information, it's so much better.

Pete Schwabba

And listen, it's safer.

I'm going to go out on a limb here.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Again?

I

Pete Schwabba

think sex is really neat.

Wait till the line goes down and then go ask the pharmacist.

I didn't know people had an issue with lube.

I thought it was kind of a everyday thing now.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No, people have issues with some of the, it's so personal.

Like some people have issues with some things that you would just be like, really?

I mean, kind of like you with lube right now, I guess.

It's just like really personal based on your own experience.

And that's why we all need access to a healthcare provider who can help us answer our

Pete Schwabba

questions.

And you're certainly that.

Zomers, did you have something?

Yeah, yeah exactly and I listen I'm you know I know a couple times when you've been on this show and the thing what we did with Conrad I was a little bit you know like Taking it back because you were talking about Lou but this convention and I thought oh it's that's like something with babies or whatever and then you kind of You know drop that that bomb and it was very

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

funny, but I'm

Pete Schwabba

saying

I don't care like I'm I'm very pro all of it look I wear a condom every day just in case I don't leave the house without wearing one I have lube in the car I'm ready it never happens and but I'm not expecting it to so that's why that's a win

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

lube that you have in the car is different Pete

Pete Schwabba

oh really oh seriously

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, but Karloob is different than your personal lubricants.

See?

See, there are questions.

Pete Schwabba

That explains the confused look when I say, give me some astroglide on those lug nuts.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Listen to your dropping names, Pete Schwabba.

Listen, I'm a freeloader.

You think Pete is a mild-mannered guy, but...

Pete Schwabba

No, no, no.

Listen, I'm not.

I don't pretend to be anybody.

I will say...

This is, you know, what I'm fascinated about is the position of lactation consultant.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Because

Pete Schwabba

this was not offered as a major when I was in college.

I would have been the best damn lactation consultant in the world.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No.

Pete Schwabba

There only note the professor would have been able to say to me is try not to smile so much, Mr. Schwabba.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

liking boobs does not make you a good lactation consultant.

It is actually a really, really important job because everybody, so you probably can't relate to this, but I will tell you, and this is in all seriousness, when people have babies, it's often a conflict that people have like, am I going to be able to breastfeed?

Should I breastfeed?

Do I want to breastfeed?

Because it's a huge commitment.

So having a lactation consultant who can answer your questions and make sure that you have, if you want to do this, that you have the best shot at it, that you have

somebody there to answer your questions because really if you can breastfeed and it's the right thing for you that's great it's cheap it's easy but it requires a lot from the mom so I love my lactation consultant so don't joke about them

Pete Schwabba

well I joke about everything but I'm not I'm just saying I didn't know and here's the other thing I didn't know it was going to be a challenge because we had kids we were committed to trying to breastfeeding and

You know, I realized when the woman came in, I'm like, you're what?

You're a lactation consultant?

Like we have an assist here?

And then,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

you

Pete Schwabba

know, the joke in my act used to go, and then she grabs my wife's boob to help her.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And she's

Pete Schwabba

like, but she looked at me, Kristen, and she said, may I?

And I was like, yeah, why don't I hold the baby and dim the lights?

And you got, you know, so I didn't.

But you're absolutely right.

It is a challenge.

It doesn't happen for everybody.

So it is good that that position exists, for sure.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And there's guilt, you know, like if you want a breastfeed and you feel like you're supposed to breastfeed, but it's not working, there's this whole emotional thing that happens that goes along with it.

So yeah, it's not just about boobs.

Pete Schwabba

No, it's not.

Kristen Lyrely is here, folks.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely, she is dispensing medical advice whether we want it or not.

She does

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

not believe

Pete Schwabba

I have the, I'm not an OBGYN, not even in a freelance capacity.

Before we move on, Kristen, because we do have a lot to talk about, let's get the medical stuff out of the way, because you said, when we texted earlier, you wanted to say something about colon cancer in James Vanderbeek, and you know, this is one of those things, and I admit, I've been late to, I have this thing about anesthetics.

I don't like to go under.

So I

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

know that.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, it scares me, and I don't.

I'm not worried about the procedure or anything.

I'm sure there's lube involved, but I'm scared to go under.

What do you tell people about that?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Whatever you do, whether you choose to have a colonoscopy, which is the recommended screening starting around age 45, unless you have risk factors, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but age 45 is the standard.

If you can get a colonoscopy, if that sits well with you, great.

Do that.

If you can't, there are other tests that you can do to screen for colon cancer.

So there's a box.

You can poop in a box, Pete, and send it through UPS.

back to the factory, and it will look for any signs of colon cancer.

That's a really good test.

And then you don't have to go through the anxiety and everything of the colonoscopy.

But to be clear, the colonoscopy is the gold standard.

So if you can't do that, that is the best alternative.

Pete Schwabba

I just want to clear something up.

You said it doesn't sit well during a colonoscopy to clarify.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

As soon as I said that, I knew it was

Pete Schwabba

the wrong thing.

Well, that's great advice.

How did we do?

You were on the show a couple of months ago.

We were talking about this, everything that's going around, the cold and flu season and how it's very bad this year.

I got something and I know the night I got it.

I didn't sleep.

I was in Chicago having a blast.

I barely slept all night.

I got sick.

It is like literally still lingering and I'm probably five weeks in now.

I had to go on a prednisone.

I mean, what is going on?

Is there stronger stuff out there?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Wow, that's that's heavy duty having to go on steroids I am just recovering from a sinus infection that I've had for two weeks And I actually I've never been on antibiotics for a sinus infection ever but on day 12 I finally called my doctor and said please and I'm feeling so much better But I might cough while we're talking because I'm still dealing with the tail end of it You know, I don't know that it's been worse this season, but Pete we're getting older

And the way we get our immune systems can't, there I go, can't handle it as well as they did when we were younger.

So that's why it's really important as we age to make sure that we're keeping up with our vaccines, that we're getting our flu shots.

Flu is so preventable.

And the flu shot isn't 100%, nothing is 100%.

But if it can prevent you from getting the flu, which takes thousands of lives every year, then hey, why not?

Pete Schwabba

Absolutely.

I'm totally with you there and I that makes sense that it's an age thing because I've never had to Go on something like it's just it's something that works its course runs its course and then you're like, okay, but I'm like this is kind of ridiculous You know and because of this gig every time I come back from a break.

I'm like, you know, it's just it's awful.

So Yeah, so tell us about the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show.

What what do we have to look forward to you do such a great job hosting that show?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

This weekend, I'm actually having my oldest son, who is also my producer, who is also a public school teacher.

So he and I are going to talk about what's happening in the media ecosystem, how we are really transitioning from this legacy media where CBS can say to Colbert, that guest is not appropriate.

to anybody can say anything with a ring light on tic-tac and people believe them.

So where do you line up?

How do you know what to trust?

Especially when you're talking about things that can determine the rest of your life, like healthcare decisions,

Pete Schwabba

especially.

Did you see the Bob Kennedy Jr.

and Kid Rock video they put out?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, where they were working on the sauna.

Pete Schwabba

How bizarre was that?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And it wasn't just them.

That was actually from the federal government.

The federal government put that out.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

See, if it was from them, and they said, here's our nutty night hanging out, it's funny, okay, get it.

But he's wearing jeans.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, and he gets into like cold plunge with the jeans.

And cold plunges, by the way, are not benign.

Like if you are somebody with a heart condition, a cold plunge could actually give you a heart attack.

Pete Schwabba

Could kill you, yeah.

All right,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

well, that's good to know.

Especially throwing

Pete Schwabba

jeans.

What else health-wise do we need to, where do you stand on echinacea?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Echinacea?

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, like as a preventative.

I've been told, and now it was an actress who told me this, so I'm not really, but I've heard from other people too, that if you take echinacea when you feel your first symptom of illness, you won't get sick.

And that has kind of been a thing for me.

I'm kind of a believer in it, but I don't know if it's like a placebo dealio or what.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I'm going to ask you a very personal question right now, Pete.

Pete Schwabba

can't be worse than anything I've ever heard from you, so go for it.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Was it like 20 years ago that you heard this advice?

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Echinacea was trending 20 years ago before trending was trending because it was like, it was a cool thing that people were recommending at the very early onset of cold symptoms to ward off symptoms.

You know, is it proven?

There's some evidence for it.

There's not a ton of evidence.

The truth is a lot of these supplements are just actually no supplements are regulated by the FDA.

They're not tested by the FDA and you don't actually know what's in your supplements.

So, echinacea, maybe it'll help.

It's not likely to cause harm.

Can you take it?

Sure, why not?

Are you just pouring your money into the toilet?

Hard to say.

Pete Schwabba

What about vitamin D?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Oh, I'm a big fan of vitamin D. Me

Pete Schwabba

too.

I feel like that does prevent illness.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, because in the winter, so we make vitamin D from sunshine on our skin.

And in the winter, in these colder climates, we don't go outside and there's really not a lot of sunshine anyway, although today was beautiful in Green Bay.

So vitamin D is really good to take for us, especially in the winter.

But if you're getting plenty of sunshine, you probably don't need it.

Here's what I'm

Pete Schwabba

hearing.

Everywhere around the state, it's like gorgeous.

And in Marinette, I'm looking out the window all day and it's just rain and wind and cold.

I'm like in a pocket.

It's like, when they do the weather across the state, it's like, and then at the Schwabba house, it's 30 and windy.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

It's like the

Pete Schwabba

five day forecast.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

It was so sunny today that I put a chair out on the duck and sat at the duck

Pete Schwabba

table.

Come on.

Zomers is wearing beach clothing with his top hat and spats.

You would?

Oh, okay.

Here's one, Kristen, marked from prairie to sex as a colonoscopy isn't all that bad.

The prep is not pleasant, but not horrible.

Well, that's what I'm aspiring for, is not horrible.

Thank you though, Mark, I appreciate that.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here, she's gonna stick around.

Through this break, and we're gonna talk about some other really cool stuff.

I wanna hear, she was in a terrible accident, she's gonna give us an update.

And we're going to talk maybe some college theater.

Seems to be a theme tonight.

We're coming right back.

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

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

My fellow Wisconsinites and parts beyond, it is great to have you here.

I am Pete Schwab, this is Nightlight, and I'm in a great mood tonight because my friend, Dr. Kristin Lierly is my current guest on the show.

She is telling us, I go coughing again.

Why don't you throw that inhaler through the

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

picture?

I know, it's right here, here.

I

Pete Schwab (host)

have one, I have asthma, sort of, I don't use it often, but it's

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

terrible.

You have asthma?

Yeah.

Did I say like that?

Oh my

Pete Schwab (host)

God.

Erin, can we edit that out?

Whatever that was, that snuffalupagus sound that Dr. Lylee just made.

All right.

No, it's adorable.

Hey, it's great to have you here before I have more.

I have a couple more questions for you

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

because I love

Pete Schwab (host)

to get free medical advice from you when you're on the show.

So you could say

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

is that

Pete Schwab (host)

actual wine you're drinking?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

This is a beer.

It is a dogfish head 90 minute, which is my very favorite.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, very nice.

How do you feel about the non-alcoholic beers?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

I've never tried a non-alcoholic beer.

Why?

I'm totally

Pete Schwab (host)

kidding.

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

I've heard that they're really good.

Athletic, is that one brand?

I've heard it's really good.

Pete Schwab (host)

Stella, Blue Moon, they've crushed non-alcoholic beer.

I'm not even a beer drinker and I like them because I don't really drink, but the spirits they're a little behind.

I would love to sip a glass of whiskey and have that same taste, but they're not.

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

I

Pete Schwab (host)

know It's not even close.

It's they got a way like

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

if it's free.

That's one thing, but if you buy it

Pete Schwab (host)

Okay, you ready for this for for fake whiskey no alcohol whiskey 32 bucks a bottle It's it's like I know I understand it's a process, but it's terrible like it's not even close save your money folks

Kristen Lierly is here.

So, all right, let's update.

You know, we have some crossover listeners and I know I was as curious about this as anybody.

How are you feeling?

You were in a terrible car accident two months ago.

The pictures on Facebook made my jaw drop, basically.

And I knew you were okay, luckily, because I had just spoken with you, not knowing you had been through a horrible accident.

How are you feeling and how is your road to recovery going?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

It's really going well.

It was two months ago today.

So today has been like a big day of self reflection and just thinking about what

could have been and just the split second timing.

Yeah, I luckily literally walked out of the hospital after this terrible accident where my car was crushed and I got transported by an ambulance and run through the CT scanner.

And you know, fortunately, I just ended up with a broken foot and some other bumps and bruises and a pretty bad concussion.

But you know, here I am two months later and just incredibly grateful.

and thinking about what could have been but what is.

And yeah, I just, I feel, I feel like I am here for a reason and it's election season, so let's freaking go brother.

With all the craziness and the disinformation that's out there right now, I, as an OBGYN doctor who speaks the truth and is from Green Bay, Wisconsin, like let's have a conversation and make sure people have the information that they need to make really good decisions, whether it's in the exam room or the voting booth.

Pete Schwab (host)

How did that happen?

With how did medical advice, and I understand COVID, and I don't want to get into all that, but who would not listen to a doctor or someone who has done the research and has the information?

It saddens me that that's become political because I think anybody would, frankly, whether you're on the left or the right or whatever, most people listen to their doctors, right?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

Well, I think in the exam room, you do because you're one on one.

But institutionally, our institutions have been rocked.

You can't trust the CDC anymore.

If you look at CBS, they won't let Colbert have a guest on.

All of these things that we thought were gospel aren't anymore, but people are finding truth and authenticity on social media in influencers, in people who they feel like they have a relationship with.

So that's where we got to go.

We have to be in those spaces.

Because unfortunately, medicine has not done that.

Science has not done that.

We still think that we need to talk about evidence and data and let me tell you about the details of the study.

People can't stomach that.

You've got to have all that.

That's really important, but you also have to deliver it in a way where people can digest

Pete Schwab (host)

it.

It's just a question of being late to the party, because I agree.

You shouldn't have to do that.

People should seek out this.

That's a good use of their time.

Not,

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

hey,

Pete Schwab (host)

what medical advice or tips are going to fall in my lap.

That just doesn't seem right.

All right, so you're doing well.

I'm glad to hear that.

Are you on some kind of a rehab thing?

Do you like to bike?

Have you been allowed to go out biking since it's 70 and sunny in Green Bay today?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

It was so beautiful and green, but today I was allowed earlier this week to get on my spin bike in the garage.

So I've been doing that, but I haven't gotten on my real bike, but I've been very faithful to the physical therapy that I have to do, which seems really silly.

Cause some of it is just like seriously, but it's so important.

And my physical therapist told me only 20% of people actually follow through on their physical therapy.

So people, if you've got physical therapy, now is the time go out there, do your exercises.

Pete Schwab (host)

Do you have, like you come on the show and you kind of make medicine fun.

I feel like we should do like a little tap dance and put some music on.

It's

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

a medicine.

I can't.

I only have one foot that I can use right now.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's an excuse.

And maybe, you know, do you have a place people can go to hear your medical advice?

X, Facebook, wherever.

Do you have a following somewhere people could latch on to?

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

I'm on all the socials at Dr. Justin Lairly.

Yeah.

Pete Schwab (host)

I was trying to set you up for that.

That's what I know you are.

I'm like, that's what we do in the radio business.

And Zomers does not follow you, and he could use some medical advice

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

from time to time.

Zomers, fun fact, is my birthday buddy.

Pete Schwab (host)

Is that true?

Oh.

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

I follow her blindly though.

Oh, misinformation.

Pete Schwab (host)

Yeah, speaking of misinformation.

We have about just a little bit.

Can we keep you through the break and talk about...

You know a lot of different stuff.

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

Yeah, let's do it.

Pete Schwab (host)

So what is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

Do you have one?

That's our question of the night.

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

Oh, you know Yes, and I can't tell you what it is, but he was a cowboy

Pete Schwab (host)

All right, we'll research that oh, you don't know you really legitimately don't know

Dr. Kristin Lierly (guest)

All

Pete Schwab (host)

right, we'll get to the bottom of this we're coming back folks new sports and weather is next Comedian Steve Gillespie is here at 720.

That's gonna be a blast in act three Kristen Lierly though

You get an extra dose of Kristen Lyrely.

You see what I did there?

We're coming right back.

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

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

And now a guy who gives edible undies as gifts just because they taste good.

Pete Schwabba.

Pete Schwabba

Welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

It is time for Act 3 of tonight's show, and it is great to have you here, wherever you're joining us from tonight around Wisconsin or parts beyond over the app and stream.

We are having a great time tonight.

If you missed the first part of the show, Act 1, we talked to Andy Wassman, who had, he is organizing this beer run.

Dr. Lyrely, have you heard about this?

It's the Run, Nina is a group.

and they do four laps and you have to chug a beer after every lap.

So I thought that was kind of like they're sort of like spitting in the face of general wisdom, which is people are going away from alcohol and they're promoting it during exercise, which I thought was really fun.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

The last slap is a blast the runners are like

Pete Schwabba

They have I'm not kidding They have a puke bucket and he was talking about that and I first thought was what a bunch of luscious But no that would be a serious thing But we we talked to Andy.

That was a great interview folks If you want more information on the event go to civicmedia.us And all of our hours are catalogued in podcast form and there are some fun pictures there as well Hour number two we talked to Alan Kapiski.

He is a

professor of theater at UWGB.

His show Constellations is coming up in early April.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

Let me ask you this, Dr. Liarley.

I think, you know, one of my questions for him was, do people in Green Bay that live there that have nothing to do with the college realize they have access to great theater and take advantage of it?

And he said he didn't think so.

Not to say some people don't, but do you ever do

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

that?

I wish I could say yes, because we both have theater kids,

Zomers

and

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I feel like I should be a better part of that community, but no.

I mean, it's a beautiful theater, but no, I haven't, I should.

Pete Schwabba

And I'm the same way, I live not even an hour away, and I'm like, why don't I make a night of that?

Like, it's just not, sometimes it's just not on your radar, and you need a shove, but that was really fun talking to Alan folks, so check out that as well.

We talked about a lot of stuff.

And our question of the night, folks, is what is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

Robert Duvall passed away a couple of days ago.

He is a true titan of show business.

He's got an incredible body of work.

And his body was just OK.

But he's a great actor.

So check those out and answer the question.

Be part of the show.

855-752-4842-8557-5CIVIC.

Let us know what your favorite Robert Duvall movie is.

You can also text us on the app.

or if you're watching the radio on the stream, drop us a stream comment.

Speaking of stream comments, this was a great one.

Joe, who is watching the radio on YouTube, says it's always a great evening when Dr. Kristen is on.

I could not agree more, Joe.

You got

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

fans.

Hey, Joe, thanks.

Pete Schwabba

You got fans, Liarly.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I like hanging out with you.

It's just so fun and easy.

I have my pizza here.

I've got a beer.

Pete Schwabba

Oh, wow, really?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

We're just chatting.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

Do

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I have,

Pete Schwabba

I've always been wanted to be one of those people that had an aura.

Would you say I have an aura?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I think you have to be in person with somebody to say that they have an aura.

Pete Schwabba

Interesting.

Okay.

What

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

do you think?

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, probably.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

I was kidding anyway.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

There's a whole other dimension.

I honestly believe this is going to sound wacky, but I honestly believe that there is like this ribbon of something that we do not understand that runs through the universe and connects us all.

And just don't even try.

But it is a very human thing.

And I think Aura is part of that.

Pete Schwabba

I totally agree with you.

And I remember, you know, there's a book by a guy named Brian Green called, it's on string theory, The Elegant Universe.

and he kind of equates just like you said a string connecting us all through physics and all that kind of stuff and I just it's so funny you said that I just watched something today I saw on Twitter if you can believe that or X about David Lynch talking about transcendental meditation and what it's done for him and I'm a fan I've dabbled but I felt like after I watched this video today I need to get more into it I need to get that ribbon out there Kristen

and connect myself to the world.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I was listening to your theme music and I was thinking about Ringo Starr and the Beatles and George Harrison because when I was recovering acutely from my injuries I watched the Beatles because I love them and they always make me feel good and I watched the George Harrison bio whatever it is documentary and he was a big meditator and

Pete Schwabba

when

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

he died he was like that's cool because I'm going to that place that I've been trying to go to forever and I was thinking

I wish I could meditate, but I just cannot get myself to like settle down long enough to be in that stream of consciousness.

Pete Schwabba

And that's, but you're the person, and I don't mean to make assumptions, but that's why like people like us who are kind of people person or out there do need that.

And I, I feel like, you know, I don't want to tempt fate.

Like I believe in what I believe in, but if George Harrison, what if he dies and it's, that's it.

It's just dark.

It's, there's nothing like.

This could be it.

This could be, look, we've got water, trees, soil, laughter, hugs, blue sky.

This could be it.

So treat it like heaven.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

If this is it, I'm really glad that we're here together tonight, Pete.

Pete Schwabba

Me too.

I'm glad you made it through that accident, Kristen, so.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I don't.

Okay, but that would be the argument for there is nothing after this.

Oh, right.

Pete's mom was

Zomers

like, go into the light.

Finally, just go into the light.

Pete Schwabba

I'm ready.

No, and I agree with that.

And that's how I used to think.

Like, if you're in nothingness and someone said, well, you could go to this place where they have all this stuff, that would sound like heaven.

So, you know, and I hope that, you know, after this, I'm banking that there is something because I'm trying to be a good person.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Yeah, you just never know.

So you just got to like, you know, be good and be connected and just try to enjoy it.

Pete Schwabba

I agree with that.

And I like that you're a doctor and you're kind of verifying all this because this was unexpected talk, folks.

This is what they call tangential discussion.

So I'm glad we had it, though.

This is fun.

We're deep.

This is a conversation where you never know where it's gonna go.

Speaking of all of that, Dr. Lierly.

You mentioned that we have two kids, we have theater kids.

That's another thing that I think is a reason we're friends.

And I've met your son, Lindsay, who a couple years ago came into the studio with you.

Wonderful kid.

He's at Steven's Point now with my daughter.

They're both in the musical theater program.

How do you like that?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

What if they started dating?

Pete Schwabba

No, you made it weird.

I am so gonna send this link to my daughter.

No.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Don't.

Lindsay would kill me.

No, you know, the theater program is so neat.

Well, first

Pete Schwabba

of

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

all, it's like they call it the Broadway of the Midwest.

Stevens Point does an amazing job of training these theater kids.

And they did this fringe fest last weekend that I was floored, student written, directed, produced, the crew, everything was student led.

I just honestly could not believe the talent.

Pete Schwabba

Were you I remember sitting there last year when my daughter was part of that and I was as entertained by the college kids watching the show and all of their friends.

It's just it's so funny.

You you there's a while after college where you're like yeah I'm still young and all that and then now you see it and it's like whoa things have changed like in a good way.

I'm not saying but they're they're very open they're very fun and theater kids are like that anyway but it's a blast.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

even some of the shows that they wrote and the emotions that were in their shows and the way that they were able to talk about it because we don't like we're Gen Xers we don't talk about things quite like that they were

Pete Schwabba

it

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

helped me understand them a little bit better and then

Pete Schwabba

afterwards

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

we were all out in the hallway and they all convened and they were loving on each other.

It just as a mom it made me feel so happy for

Pete Schwabba

myself.

That's so great.

And I envy that you live in

Green Bay because like where I love Marinette, where I live, it's beautiful, it's great, but we are so far from everything.

Like you're an hour from Steven's point, basically.

Hour and ten minutes.

That's nothing.

Hour and a half.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

The speed limit is no longer 55.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Trust me, I know.

Pete Schwabba

No,

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I used to drive through Stevens Point all the time.

That was how I got to school when I was

Pete Schwabba

in

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

college,

Pete Schwabba

because

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I went to the University of Minnesota and I came from Cacona.

And so I took Highway 10 through Stevens Point.

It's all different now.

But sometimes when I'm driving, I get a little nostalgic.

Pete Schwabba

That's so cool.

All right, let's wrap up this awesome conversation, even though I don't want to, because we were talking about auras and it's fun.

Medical shows.

I have so many lawyers in my family they can't watch law and order or legal dramas because it's just not you know it's TV.

Are you that way with medical shows or do you like watching like procedural medical dramas?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I don't watch a ton of TV but back in the day I watched ER and recently I've watched a few episodes of The Pit and I have to say I really like it and

Pete Schwabba

here's

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

why.

I think it's really well done, but also they'll say fancy things and then they'll explain it in a way like they're almost teaching the audience about these things.

And like the doctor who likes to educate in me is like, yes, this is what TV should be.

So yeah, highly recommended, please watch the pit.

Pete Schwabba

Wow, that's a great endorsement.

And it won the Emmy for Best Drama, I believe, if I memory serves.

But I gotta be honest, I don't like when...

Remember when CSI came out?

Uh-huh.

Like I like shows that force you to catch up and like CSI is like they're like over this cadaver.

No, what are you doing that for?

Well, if I do that, it's like don't don't I'll pick up I know you're over a dead body and I get that you're doing your job You don't have to like I don't think people talk like that like do you talk to other doctors when you're standing over someone giving birth like that?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

No, I talk to my patients Usually because there's not another doctor in the room

Pete Schwabba

That's why you're a good doctor.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

You do have to change the way that you talk, though, the words that you use and how you use them because you want to make sure that you're understood.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, no, that makes total sense.

There are times I talk to you and you're such a good doctor and such a nice person.

I almost wish I could have a baby just so you could be my OBGYN.

How cute is that?

Is that like the sweetest thing you've ever heard?

Summers?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

It's weird.

Pete Schwabba

Totally weird.

It's almost as weird as the Kennedy kid rock video.

Kristen, thank

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

you

Pete Schwabba

so much.

You were so much fun.

You're a blast.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

I love hanging out with you.

Thanks for the invite.

Let's do it again.

Pete Schwabba

Absolutely.

Hey, a quick plug for your show this weekend.

Who's coming

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

up?

Abe, my oldest son.

Pete Schwabba

He's my

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

producer.

We're talking about media and how Gen Z digests it versus how Gen X digests it.

Social media, legacy media.

It's going to be an interesting show.

Pete Schwabba

Fascinating.

Do not miss the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show here on Civic Media.

Thank you very much, my friend.

Have a great night and take care of those injuries, my friend.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

Yes, sir.

Thank

Pete Schwabba

you.

All

Dr. Kristen Lyerly

right.

Pete Schwabba

See you later.

Bye.

That's Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

Check out her show.

Be a patient.

Just follow her on social media.

She's always so much fun.

Zomers, is it really obvious when she's on that I'm trying to get free medical advice?

That's the giveaway see I tip my hand.

That's the problem, right?

Yeah, fair enough.

All right, Kristen Lyrely folks check out her show We have got Steve Gillespie coming up in just a couple minutes.

He's gonna tell a very funny comedian and he's gonna tell us Do we have enough time let's play Steve's clip here's a clip of Steve Gillespie our next guest coming up after the

Steve Gillespie

break

Do you guys remember public education?

Do you guys remember what that was?

It was like history, geometry, a little bit of prison.

And they put me on railing.

Ha!

What a strange sequence of events.

Hey, you know, our time focused in.

Here's some speed.

Okay,

Pete Schwabba

you're getting focused

Steve Gillespie

now.

Go get in a shower and bathe with everybody you grew up with.

I love you there, naked, 12 inches apart.

That's what the taxpayers are paying for.

Let's go.

I mean, it was fine.

There was an adult there watching, so... No big deal.

He's an adult man.

Pete Schwabba

That's just so bizarre.

I want to clarify really quickly, Zommer.

608 says, Zommer's wanted Super Bowl score to be 1-0.

You told him you can't score a 1-point.

That's what the text was in relation to.

Apparently, you can score a 1-point.

I need to be a bigger fan.

We're coming right back with Steve Gillespie.

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

Pete Schwabba (host)

Welcome back.

We are jamming through act three here tonight on a Wednesday of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

It's great to have you here.

We're talking about the things we love to talk about, comedy and movies and TV and music and all kinds of fun stuff.

And thank you for being here.

Monica from Mount Horriban, the 608 says, the great Santini, despite it being so difficult watching how he bullies his son.

Yeah, that was tough.

her favorite Robert Duvall movie.

Thank you, Monica.

Hope you enjoy the Sean Cassidy concert.

She texted us earlier saying she was in line at the Barrymore.

Dave in DeForest says Second Hand Lions from the 608.

It's his favorite movie.

That's a good movie.

Yeah.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

And

Pete Schwabba (host)

that is the voice of my next guest, Mr. Steve Gillespie.

Very funny comedian.

Steve, I had this huge intro.

You've done so many cool things.

You've been on TV a ton, namely Conan, which is such a great credit.

You've had bestselling.

This blew me away because I know your brother Bob.

We're friends.

Bob's funny.

But he doesn't have a bestselling.

He lives in Costa Rica, but he doesn't have a bestselling comedy album.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I think you would trade.

I think you would trade in Costa Rica.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Maybe Steve's album Alive on State reached number one on iTunes comedy charts and hit the top 10 on the Billboard charts.

He's here tonight to tell us about this cool show.

I've kind of been talking about this all night, Steve.

You're

You're the dose psychedelic comedy show, but you uh, let's let's start with your your duval film Would you were you a fan of his in general days of thunder?

Nice, okay

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Somebody called that

Pete Schwabba (host)

top gun adjacent and I thought that was interesting.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

It's kind of is yeah, I just saw it again recently I was in a hotel room, you know I can't remember what city I was in but I was in a hotel room late at night and I caught it and I really Had been so long since I'd seen it

And I was like, you know what?

It's a good movie.

It's a good, fun, fun movie.

I liked it a lot more than I remembered liking it.

Have you

Pete Schwabba (host)

seen F1?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

No, I heard it's good, though.

I heard it's good.

I wonder,

Pete Schwabba (host)

because I don't remember Days of Thunder very well.

I did see it, but I saw F1.

I liked F1.

The best picture nomination threw my whole universe into upheaval, but it

Steve Gillespie (guest)

was a nice

Pete Schwabba (host)

movie.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I can't remember any other.

Other Robert DeVall movies, I know there's a bunch out there, but I can't really remember.

I mean, obviously the godfather, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Pleasure, Gabe.

He's

Pete Schwabba (host)

been in so much for sure.

Yeah.

All right, so let's talk.

I want to talk, mention something else to you.

You have a Wisconsin connection.

You and your brother, the aforementioned Bob, were born and raised for how long in Rippon?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I was born there, so I was there until...

Yeah, 18 when I went to college.

Yeah, I actually went to Griffin College for a couple years, too

Pete Schwabba (host)

So you have a strong Wisconsin connection.

I didn't realize

Steve Gillespie (guest)

oh, yeah

Pete Schwabba (host)

Okay, and yeah, were you like could you not wait to get out or was it hard to leave give us a little Wisconsin porn?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I Wouldn't say it was hard to leave.

I just ended up going to grad school in Minnesota at the University of Minnesota And then that's where I started I just started doing stand-up in Minneapolis and

Just kind of ended up being there for a long time.

But I

Aaron (producer)

mean, I love

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Wisconsin.

I love going back.

I like performing there.

I mean, Milwaukee is one of my... Milwaukee and Madison are one of my favorite places to do stand up.

Yeah, Wisconsin's been really good to me over the years.

Aaron (producer)

All

Steve Gillespie (guest)

this place is Appleton.

Eau Claire, you know, I think my dad still lives in Northern Wisconsin up in... What is it called?

Lake?

God, I'm blanking.

Minakwa Eagle River.

Minakwa, that's it.

Yeah, Minakwa.

Nice.

So I go back.

My mom lives in Green Lake now.

So yeah, I still go back quite a bit.

Pete Schwabba (host)

That's so cool.

Let's talk comedy.

Your act has been described, and I got this off a comedy club website.

So I don't know if you wrote it or the club wrote it, but after listening to the clip we just heard from you, I thought it was interesting.

It says...

Steve's act is a slap-happy balance of aggression and absurdity coupled with a delightfully pushy persona.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

It's like a

Pete Schwabba (host)

comedian's personality.

That's like the perfect combination.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah, I think that's pretty good.

I mean it definitely

more on the absurdist side, but like to like to push the envelope a little bit.

Yeah, for sure.

Pete Schwabba (host)

All right.

You've also worked with some of my favorites, Rory Scoville, who I haven't done stand-up in years, but I know his stuff.

David Tell got to work with him back in the day, great comic.

And

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I got a funny David Tell story.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Oh, please share it.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

If you can.

It's such a funny, like just being a young comedian who's starstruck.

I was so nervous.

We're in the green room together.

It's just me and him.

I think at that point I'd probably been doing stand-up maybe five or six years.

It's like a sold-out show.

I don't even know how I got the gig.

It was just like a stroke of luck to be able to open for him.

We're sitting in the green room and I don't know what to say to him.

I don't know what to do.

I'm nervous.

They had a box of trivia pursuit cards in it.

Right

Aaron (producer)

in

Steve Gillespie (guest)

the in the green room.

So I picked that up and I started reading him trivia pursuit questions and after about the fourth one He just goes yeah, can we not do this?

But

Aaron (producer)

I

Steve Gillespie (guest)

was like, oh, yeah, sorry But then he he was so nice so he watched my whole set and then he after the show He came up to me and like referenced a couple of my jokes and he was really sweet guy.

He's just

You just didn't want to be bombarded with trivia pursuit questions by a nervous kid.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Maybe it was the category.

Maybe if you switch categories, he would

Aaron (producer)

have been okay.

Oh, I lost the audio.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Oh, we can still hear you if you can hear us.

Do we still have him, Aaron?

I can't hear you guys.

We can hear you, Steve.

If you... Yeah.

Well, we'll figure it out.

We've got a comedian, Steve Gillespie.

Aaron (producer)

I'm going to try to just pop out.

Sure.

And pop back in.

Pete Schwabba (host)

We've got comedian Steve Gillespie here.

When we come back, we're going to do the news, and then Steve is going to come back and tell us about this really cool show he's hosting and producing.

It's called the Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

It's coming to Wisconsin, and I'll tell you about a couple other dates he has coming to the Dairy State as well.

He's a native Wisconsinite and hilariously funny, and we are coming right back after the news with more

from Steve Gillespie at Speechwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Welcome back.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Hey.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

That

Pete Schwaba (host)

always

Steve Gillespie (guest)

reminds me of that Bill Hicks special.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Oh, nice call.

Yeah.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

That song always brings me that special.

Pete Schwaba (host)

That's a great call.

That is Steve Gillespie, my current guest.

We are back here for the home stretch of Nightlight Tonight on a Wednesday night.

Nick Spookster on the stream says, Nick Offerman.

What are we talking about, Somers?

Yeah.

Early on in the break.

Okay, and we've good Yeah, he's in

Steve Gillespie (guest)

that show.

I was just talking about there

Pete Schwaba (host)

you

Steve Gillespie (guest)

go by lightning show.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Oh perfect Okay, thank you Spookster appreciate that Sydney Frankenstein says welcome back Pete.

Thank you, Sydney.

Great to great to be back All right, Steve Gillespie is my my guest here on Nightlight Steve and I this is our first meeting I'm friends with his brother Bob who was also a funny comedian and Steve is Join the show tonight because he's got a really cool

show that he's traveled around.

And it's this wildly popular show called the Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

Steve, tell us about this show.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely out there a little bit, but we've been doing it about three years.

It started in Denver.

We've been touring all over the country with it.

Basically, what it is is we set up a safe space for both the audience and the performers to experiment if they so choose.

There's no

no pressure to do anything, but we set up that space and it's a fully immersive psychedelic experience.

It's a multi-media event where we have a live DJ.

We have visuals, we have flow performers, and that leads into a stand-up comedy show.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Oh, I thought that meant experiment sexually.

Thank

Steve Gillespie (guest)

God.

And the live DJ stays on stage.

with me, so I do a very interactive set with him, an interactive stand-up set with him, with just music use and sound effects and stuff, so it's a very multi-layered type of performance, I guess is how I'd describe it.

Pete Schwaba (host)

You call it out there, like when psychedelic that

Insinuates that there are like drugs involved and you know, I just I don't want to make assumptions or but like I would imagine the rules are different state to state How does that work?

Are people passing stuff out when they walk in the door?

Can they bring their own stuff or

Steve Gillespie (guest)

what?

Yeah, we don't provide anything to anyone.

We don't sell anything or provide anything But you know in general most of the audience is partaking in

some sort of psychedelic, typically it's psilocybin mushrooms, I would guess.

And then, yeah, and I typically will also be in that space, in that head space for the show.

Pete Schwaba (host)

And, yeah.

How does that affect, like, I'm not, I don't know much about drugs.

I do them all the time, but I just don't ask questions.

But what does that mean?

Like, when, when, does it change your comedy, I guess, when you're under the influence like that?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

You know, I don't know that's a good question.

I mean I would say yes, but I don't I think you know, I've been using psychedelics for probably She's At least 15 years now and Not that I was using them to perform and regular shows But it was starting to shape

You know how I was like perceiving the world and my material and stuff like that So I don't really know how much it's like on a day-to-day basis You know like a show-to-show basis between the two like How much different like my material is gonna be there's some subject material some subject matter That's a little different with the psychedelic show because I will just talk

you know, about the psychedelic experience more than I would in just a regular comedy show.

But I'm still doing a lot of just my regular stand up in that show as well and vice versa.

You

Pete Schwaba (host)

know, I

Steve Gillespie (guest)

think what's really happening with that show and what I think makes it unique is that when the audience, most of the audience is also in that headspace as the same headspace that I'm in, that's just like a whole nother level of connection that's happening.

within that show that's probably not happening on just a regular drunk audience.

So I guess that's kind of different and it does get a lot more absurd and silly especially like working with the DJ.

So there's a lot more improvisational stuff that's happening with him and a lot of back and forth that's obviously not happening when I'm just doing regular stand-up.

Yeah, and I mean some of the subject matter gets a maybe a little bit a little bit more personal a little bit deeper to start of we'll talk a lot more about some deeper concepts of like consciousness and some spirituality stuff Some of the things that just kind of go hand-in-hand with that psychedelic experience

Pete Schwaba (host)

Wow, that sounds really cool.

And

Steve Gillespie (guest)

you're bringing the show to Wisconsin Yeah, we're doing we're coming back to Milwaukee and Madison.

We did both those cities last year

We had two sold out shows last year in both Madison and Milwaukee and on sort of on March 6th We are in Madison at the Burr Oak

Pete Schwaba (host)

and on

Steve Gillespie (guest)

March 7th.

We're in Milwaukee at Co-operate.

It's called So yeah, we're doing a lot of this stuff in alternative venues to a lot of like music venues and Ray venues stuff like that

So if people are interested, you can go to thedosecomedyshow.com, go to our tour dates, or you can go to the Co-Operage, they have a website, or the Bear Oak also has a website that has the tickets on it soon.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Very cool.

What gave you this idea?

I've never heard of a show like this.

I'm sure there are shows or stuff along these lines, but in terms of just stand-up comedy, comedians, audience, all kind of in the same space as you say.

Was it kind of risky to pitch this?

Did you get people on board right away?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah.

I mean, what happened is I started getting booked to do stand up at some of these psychedelic festivals, like music festivals, where people are, you know, going out into the middle of the mountains or the forest in the middle of nowhere.

And, you know, they're dancing and raving for three straight days and doing God knows what.

Wow.

And I just a couple of times people are like, hey, you should come.

Do you stand up at one of these events?

And I was like, you know, I'll give it a shot.

I wasn't really, I didn't really think it would be the best place for people to sit and try to listen to somebody for an hour.

But it ended up being an amazing experience.

And one in particular, I did this festival called June Jam outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, up in the mountains.

And, you know, I got there.

I was performing on a Saturday.

I got there on a Thursday, just to like be in the festival.

And I was just, you know, walking around.

I'm like, everybody's tripping on LSD or mushrooms.

Everyone's in this space.

And now I'm going to go on stage, not in that space and try to entertain them for an hour.

It just seemed really disingenuous.

And I just didn't think it was going to work.

So I decided that I was like, you know what, I'm going to take this tab of acid.

And I'm going to take this before I perform and just see what happens.

And it just ended up being such a transcending experience for me in that moment.

And I just felt so connected to the audience.

I was able to really riff and improv on things that were happening in the festival.

And it ended up just gave me the confidence of being like, if it's done right, if it's set up right,

this could be something that's that could be really fun to do and something that people could really latch on to you know there just isn't stand up isn't really being done in that space you know there's a lot of music a lot of music happening there's a lot of like live art going on people live painting and doing all kinds of other forms of art but there's never really been anyone trying to

do like a spoken performance so I just felt like it was a sort of this like untapped market this untapped you know space to try to bring stand-up comedy into.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Steve Gillespie is my guest very funny and talented comedian you've maybe seen him on Conan he's also had best-selling comedy albums which is pretty cool on iTunes and Billboard he is bringing his show

The Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show to Wisconsin March 6th and 7th dates in Milwaukee in Madison.

Can people find out more information, Steve?

Do you have like a website or something?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah, yeah, thedosecomedyshow.com.

You can also go to the Dose Comedy Show on Instagram by regular Instagram is comicgillespie.

If you search Steven Gillespie or Steve Gillespie, you'll find all that stuff.

So

Pete Schwaba (host)

am I crazy or does it seem like almost everybody has the internet now?

Yeah, almost we're getting

Steve Gillespie (guest)

there

Pete Schwaba (host)

Yeah, no kidding if you had to do a show what would be easier for you if only one entity Was on psychedelics the comedian or the or the crowd

Steve Gillespie (guest)

If I had so either I had to be on psychedelics and the crowd wasn't or the crowd

Pete Schwaba (host)

or vice versa Yeah,

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I would say that the crowd I would say the crowd if the crowd is on psychedelics and I'm not

And I'm still just doing stand-up.

I'd rather do that.

Okay.

Yeah,

Pete Schwaba (host)

if

Steve Gillespie (guest)

the crowd's not on psychedelic and I am that's gonna be Yeah, that's gonna

Pete Schwaba (host)

be difficult It's

Steve Gillespie (guest)

gonna be difficult

Pete Schwaba (host)

Oh, well, this sounds like a really cool show.

I'm very curious and you gotta come Pete.

I think it's yeah, it sounds like an absolute I might actually be in Madison for one of those days.

So we'll definitely keep in touch with you on that and

So who are your favorite comics right now, Steve?

Like who, when you flip around the dial, who is it like, oh, I got to watch this?

Or are you like a lot of comics you don't want to watch comedy?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Oh yeah, I mean, I still watch a fair amount and I mean, I still like get very inspired by comedians and I mean, God, I don't know if you know Eddie Pepitone, I think is one of the funniest people.

His special for the masses, I think is one of my favorite specials that's been done in the last 10 years.

Such an incredible special.

There's a new guy, Jeffrey Osmos.

He's actually from Wisconsin.

He's in New York now, but he's a Madison kid.

Actually, you know what?

He grew up in Minnesota, but then he started in Madison.

He

Pete Schwaba (host)

is

Steve Gillespie (guest)

really funny.

He's crushing it.

He's a very just incredible joker.

The amount of stuff he's putting out is really impressive.

There's a lot of guys.

Roy Skoll is another one.

I think is really really funny Maria Bamford.

She's really funny Trying to think of some like really

Pete Schwaba (host)

so many great names like thanks to reels like I didn't know a lot of the new comedians until I found reels and then you know you click on all this But yeah, there's some really good stand-ups out there a lot of stuff So what?

Did we lose it again?

It happened

Steve Gillespie (guest)

again.

It seems like when Aaron comes on, that my audio goes out.

Pete Schwaba (host)

Did it come back on when he came back?

Steve, we'll keep you.

Sorry, guys.

That's OK.

If you can hear us, we'll keep you for a couple of minutes after the break.

And then we'll do that.

I want to ask him about Denver and how he ended up in Denver.

So we'll do that.

And we'll finish up the show.

With some text too after this very short break, but tomorrow night folks on the show that I like to call nightlight We've got another great show coming your way tomorrow night.

We will have Greg Pragel who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point teaching acting from Appleton cigar our pal Norm Kepesky He will be here Aaron.

Have you met Norm?

Don't make him mad dude He's all dude he's got the beer the cigar the raspy voice he's a great guest and he puts out a great product Appleton cigar is a great great place Daniel Wheeler will be here to make the popcorn pick of the week tomorrow That'll be fun talking to our pal Danny wheels and then my pal Mike Schmidt Very funny comedian will be here tomorrow night at 7 20 and we'll just let Mike tell stories and try to stay out of his way When we come back we'll close up our interview with our new pal

A Steve Gillespie comedian, very funny comedian will be here.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight.

We're coming right back.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I guess we're playing some bangers.

Pete Schwab (host)

Always, buddy.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Nightlight.

Thank you for being here, folks, tonight.

We had a great time tonight.

This show will be available in podcast form at civicmedia.us.

You can hear my interviews with Dr. Kristin Lierly, Andy Wassman, and actor Alan Kapiszke.

So be sure and do that if you miss part of the show.

On the on the stream Daniel Barris sports highlight.

That's the greatest streaming name I've ever seen says happy Wednesday sub peoples not much Daniel great to have you though, buddy We will get to some of your text on the text line to close the show in just a few minutes right now We've got a couple more minutes with my guest The very funny Steve Gillespie who is bringing his comedy show the dose psychedelic comedy show to Wisconsin this sounds like an absolute Really different cool thing.

So I would highly recommend it March 6th and 7th

Check it out at thedosepsychedeliccomedyshow.com.

Did I get that right, Steve?

Thedosecomedyshow.com.

Dosecomedyshow.com, okay.

So we were talking about comics that make you laugh.

What about your favorite, well, first of all, Denver.

You said you lived in LA for a while.

Denver doesn't seem like, unless you're from there, like it's a place you go back to, what made you decide on Denver?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah, I have been touring through there for years and...

I've always really liked it.

I always really liked the comics.

I was kind of already in with a lot of the clubs here.

I was able to really get in with like the indie scene as well.

And it was more of a lifestyle move for me because the things that I'm into just kind of fit well with this city.

You know, I really like being in the outdoors or really like the mountains.

I rock climb, I hike, I camp, doing a lot of stuff outdoors.

It wasn't really, it was a pretty easy move for me.

And I loved LA, I really did like living there, but once the pandemic case was kind of just, it wasn't really a place I wanted to be during the pandemic, so.

Pete Schwab (host)

Interesting.

So who, you mentioned Bill Hicks before, was he an influence of yours when you started?

Aside from your brother Bob, who I'm sure was your biggest influence.

What comedians influenced your

Steve Gillespie (guest)

style?

Harlan Williams is a big one.

Harlan Williams is probably the one that's the most ingrained in there.

In fact, if you go back and listen to my very first album, I'm basically doing Harlan Williams

Pete Schwab (host)

more or

Steve Gillespie (guest)

less.

I was able, as I got further along, etched out my own voice, but he was so funny.

I actually got to work with him again.

Within this past year, I had opened for him at the Stanley Hotel up in Dust's Park.

And that was awesome.

He's such a good guy.

I

Pete Schwab (host)

opened for him when I was a stand-up at the Laugh Factory outside Chicago, and he was a good guy.

Offstage like I like just the banter back and forth and then I think I live close to him in LA because I used to see him at this restaurant all the time But during one of his sets he just stopped doing stand-up and he sang the song Beth from kiss Like a cappella the whole song and the crowd is like okay.

Well, this is interesting.

He just didn't care.

I love comics like that Yeah,

Steve Gillespie (guest)

he's very silly goose.

It's really silly like we did when I opened for him up and asked his part She started every bit that he got into he opened the bit with

referencing the port in town.

Pete Schwab (host)

So every bit was like, I was down at the port and there's like, that's

Steve Gillespie (guest)

just Colorado.

There isn't a port.

So it's just little things like that.

We're just, I don't know.

He just as always,

Pete Schwab (host)

you

Steve Gillespie (guest)

never really know where he stands with anything.

He's really silly, absurdist.

So he's definitely a big influence.

And man, you know, it's funny when I was like the very first comic.

that I really loved when I was like 10 or 11 years old was Gallagher, which you're not allowed to say.

Pete Schwab (host)

You're not

Steve Gillespie (guest)

supposed to say that as a stand up.

Pete Schwab (host)

You're safe here.

It's OK.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

If I'm being honest, you know, 10 year old Steve.

Oh, man.

The guy that's smashing watermelons and jumping on top of a trampoline that's made out of a couch.

Like it's I don't know.

They

Pete Schwab (host)

really.

Look, you've got a really cool show you're doing and you've mentioned Hicks and a tell you got a ton of street cred, buddy So you could you could have said whatever you wanted there to appreciate your honesty, but hey, this is a really fun Steve I hope we can do this again, and I would love to see you when you're in Wisconsin It's been great get to know you and yeah, keep breaking a leg man.

Thank you Pete.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for having any time Alright, that's Steve Gillespie check out the dose psychedelic comedy show coming to Wisconsin March 6th and 7th his

his homeland, if you will.

So what do you think, Zahmer?

Should we get like a young Christian singles bus tour or something and head out to the psychedelic comedy show?

I think we should too.

I would love that.

I think he could set us up with some with some tickies.

Eric from Madison in the 608 says colors with Robert DeVall and Sean Penn.

Great choice.

Let's see if we can bang through some of these here.

I almost read the colonoscopy thing from Kristen.

I'm not going to do that though.

Mark, we read that one.

Let me see here.

We read that one.

Are we caught up, Summers?

Maybe I'll let Steve go too soon.

Okay.

Well, we've got, let's see, one more here.

I think we've got this one.

Don't know if it's my, oh, here's a mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608.

It says, don't know if it's my favorite Robert Duvall movie, but the Handmaid's Tale in 1990, where he plays the commander, plays a pretty despicable character who'd fit right inside what the Trump Administration Project 25, part of a cabal that overturns our government and is then part of the ruling cabal who gets to choose which women to breed.

with because his wife is now sterile.

I just about cheered when he is dispatched at the end of the movie.

Thank you, Mark, and sorry we missed your phone call earlier, Mark, but thank you for being part of the show.

As I mentioned, coming up tomorrow night, we will have Norm Kepesky, one of our proud sponsors from Appleton Cigar.

Love, Norm.

Comedian Mike Schmidt.

We're just going to let him go, folks.

Great storyteller.

Daniel Wheeler.

Local artist makes the popcorn pick of the week and theater professor from the University of Wisconsin Steven's point Greg Pregel will be here and I think that sounds like it's gonna be a really fun show Aaron.

What do you think you coming back?

You'll be here, right?

Okay, thank God, then I'll be here too folks.

Thank you all for your texts and calls always fun Thank you to dr. Chris and Lylee comedian Steve Gillespie Andy Wasserman and Alan Kepesky.

We'll be back tomorrow night

on behalf of Mr. Aaron Zomers, a fine citizen.

I'm Pete Schwabba saying goodnight, Wisconsin.

Aaron Zomers

one, two, one, two,

Announcer

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

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

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

Pete Schwabba

Hey, hey, welcome to nightlight ladies and gentlemen It is great to be back on the air Talking about all the fun things in life movies TV comedy music you name it.

We've got it here on nightlight Happy Wednesday.

I almost said happy Monday Aaron because it feels like a Monday.

What does it feel like to you to me?

It feels like a Wednesday, but to be

Aaron Zomers

fair you

Pete Schwabba

didn't have the show yesterday or the day before

I have not done a show since last Wednesday, a live show.

We've got two live shows this week, tonight and tomorrow night, and we're gonna make them count because there's lots of stuff coming up here that we'll get into, but it is great to be back.

Did you have a good weekend?

Now, you were gonna try, I was at the Dora County Film Festival last weekend in Beautiful Fish Creek, a phenomenal film festival, lots of fun.

You were thinking about, you were toying with the idea of going.

I

Aaron Zomers

wanted to.

I was just exhausted after a really long week, and I stayed home.

I watched some movies at home, probably not as good as what I would have seen there, but it was still fun.

Pete Schwabba

Well, you were missed.

It was a fun time, and...

I'll give some details on that as well.

We've got a lot to get to tonight.

There's a weird video we're gonna talk about with Kid Rock and Robert Kennedy that needs to be discussed.

I don't know what the hell is going on.

And we both saw a movie that we're gonna discuss.

Iron Lung, we'll get to that as well.

I saw an excellent movie at the Dork County Film Festival.

Called the librarians about these kind of badass librarians that stand up to people trying to take books off the shelves So that was a really fascinating documentary And it started out the trip was not great Zomers.

I'm gonna tell you why So without naming names, there's a hotel in Durr County I really like okay, and we've stayed there before it's got all these great amenities It's got this beautiful view of the water.

It's just a stunning place well

There's another hotel right down the street from that hotel that looks very similar and has a similar sounding name that the guy with two thumbs booked by accident.

And it was the same money and we get there and we check in and I'm like, wait, I was so busy the last couple of weeks, I just clicked, yeah, clicked by whatever book, whatever.

And we got there and I'm like, oh my God, I literally could have canceled it two weeks up until we checked in.

and gone to the other place, but I just didn't even, I completely spaced.

And my wife is like, all right, well, what do we do?

So I had some work to do Thursday night when we got there.

And she said, I'll go to the workout room.

I said, okay, they don't have a workout room.

So then I had to print up a speech that I was giving at the Door County Film Festival.

And I said, hey, can I have access to your business center?

I need to print something.

We don't have a business center.

Oh, okay.

and then we try to hit the hot tub when we got there that night.

It closes in 15 minutes at 8.30.

Who closes a jacuzzi at 8.30?

Aaron Zomers

And it was great because there was nobody in the

Pete Schwabba

hotel yet.

Exactly.

So, and then like the checkout time was at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Like everything that could have gone wrong regarding the hotel went wrong.

But here's classic Schwabba.

So the venue for the Door County Film Festival was the Northern Star Theater.

beautiful venue outdoor theater right kind of on the water and That's where I went and Then I realized as I got there.

There's nothing like I would have had to pull through a snow-covered Road to get there and I can barely see it.

I'm like, maybe there's a different entrance whatever Long story even longer.

We got the venue wrong and when we say we I mean I There's another venue called the northern sky Gould theater in Fish Creek

So we had to go all the way back into town through town to that luckily I left it off time and there was plenty of time But man, I don't know what was going on.

I just had my head like maybe it was weird taking a Thursday night off I can't remember the last time I took a Thursday night off.

I don't know what it was

Aaron Zomers

Well, you know, I think the universe was conspiring against you to stop you from going to the film festival and you did anyway So you won really

I won

Pete Schwabba

and it was a really great shout out to Kurt Krause and Chris Opper and Antonio Polk.

They ran a great festival and it was a lot of fun and my son had a film playing.

He won a couple of awards.

That was exciting.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, it was really, it was really, it was fun to see.

And then the opening night film was a movie called The Librarians, which was very well regarded and it played at, I think it opened or premiered on POV on PBS Wisconsin.

just a few nights before, and one of the producers was there.

We'll probably get her on Nightlight at some point, but she had great stories about making this film and kind of keeping free speech going and all that kind of stuff.

So it was a really fun, great parties.

You know, Dirk County is just such a special place as far as I'm concerned.

It was a lot of fun.

We've got lots to get, though.

Did you see that video?

Zommer I shared that with you the link of Robert Kennedy.

This is the health and human services secretary working out with Kid Rock

Aaron Zomers

Unfortunately, I have seen it

Pete Schwabba

Hey, it's so it was like the two of them got stoned and just said let's make a video like they're promoting working out and Like their buddies and that's fine.

I get it

But there was like zero production value like Kennedy's in his jeans and nothing else And there were all kinds of porn jokes all over the internet about the two of them like that's that's

Aaron Zomers

what it

Pete Schwabba

looked like It was really strange.

It's

Aaron Zomers

just you guys going around with you know, no thought put into what it looks like RFK junior in Justice Jeans like you said Kid rock in various stages of undress flipping off the camera most of the time

What are you 12?

Yeah, it was

looking off the camera

That's that's your rebel side.

It's ridiculous.

Yeah, especially when you've just demonstrated you can't actually sing your one song a week ago at the Super Bowl alternative halftime show.

OK, to his

Pete Schwabba

credit to play devil's advocate, maybe Kid Rock realized he was out of breath during the four minute performance and needed to get back in shape.

So he called his pal Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Health and Human Services Secretary and he said you got to help me get in shape so they put a minute and a half video together and It's it's it and I'm not even kidding like Kennedy is wearing jeans and he gets into a cold bath and then he jumps in the pool in his jeans It's like it's just this weird no thought put into it video and he is on Roids to the bejesus he's like 70 72 yeah,

Aaron Zomers

he's always got

Pete Schwabba

the

Aaron Zomers

He's

freely admitted to using steroids.

And so maybe that was the trick that he used to help Kid Rock be able to catch his breath again.

I don't know.

Very

Pete Schwabba

possibly.

But it's so... I feel like when you've had an enhancement of any kind and you walk around like, aren't I special?

It's like, well, nice purchase, I guess.

It's not like you got there on your own, whether it's calf implants, boobs.

Roids, I don't know.

I just don't get the pride.

Yeah, I, I don't know.

I don't either.

Full disclosure, my sideburns are fake.

I paid for them.

Okay.

So I'm not perfect, but this video is, it's definitely worth a look.

It's really just kind of bizarre.

And if they, if they, if they put it out there like as a, Hey, we got nutty Friday night and made this goofy video of that.

I would have watched it going into it thinking that like, Oh, those guys are goofy and that's fun.

But this is like, hey, Mr. Health and Human Services Secretary, let's get in shape.

Aaron Zomers

Yeah, they were pitching it as we all need to work out and eat real food.

There's no food in the video and there's no story to the workout.

It's just like someone with a camera walks into a room.

You see Kid Rock sitting there and just a towel flipping off the camera and RFK Junior walks over to the other side of the sauna.

You go to the next one.

They're hitting a ball back and forth on the tennis field.

You go to the next one.

RFK Junior is in his jeans, lowering himself into the...

the water, you know, with his arms spread apart because his muscles are too big to put his arms down.

Pete Schwabba

And I it was just in the flip off.

I just I'm so done with that.

Like, OK, you flipped off the camera.

You're a rebel.

I get it.

And the song that song that might be the only I just think Kid Rock is a hack.

And some people when I go after him, oh, it's it's not he's a hack.

I don't like him.

I don't like his artistry or his music.

And that might be one of the few songs he didn't lift from someone else and get sued for.

Right, and he's been coasting on

Aaron Zomers

that since it came out.

Pete Schwabba

Ridiculous.

Hey, I think it's time, folks.

Without further ado, we had a celebrity death over the weekend and one of the greatest actors of all time passed away, and that leads us to tonight's nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

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Question.

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Pete Schwabba

Domanda.

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Pete Schwabba

Well, as we all have heard by now, I'm sure, and if you haven't heard, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but phenomenal legendary actor Robert Duvall passed away, I believe, on Monday, which...

Leads us into tonight's question.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

This is one of the true Titans of Hollywood a guy and from a different age Zomers like I love the guys like Hackman or Duvall that are just the everyman You know, they don't look like the the pin-up actors of today They were balding.

They look like regular dudes and they carried films Truly based on their talent

Like handsome guys, but you don't see a lot of those type of actors anymore opening movies as lead actors You really don't and he was one of the best.

No, you know and he was one of the best I I just think he was 95 years old and he did a very he had a very Kind of a wide array of credits on his resume.

He did very different stuff throughout the course of his career He was in the godfather the apostle the great Santini.

He played boo Radley

into kill a mockingbird and I remember the first time I saw him in that and I said I was probably in my 30s what I noticed who it was and I said he looks kind of like a young Robert DeVall and sure enough it was and he had no lines that was his first movie role came up learned how to act on the stage brilliant brilliant career and he will be missed and never officially retired like Gene Hackman retired about 20 years ago and just kind of disappeared

But Duvall, I'm not saying he worked.

I think his last credit was maybe 2022 or 2023, but love the craft and by all accounts, it was just a great actor.

In tribute to him, I watched a movie last night called The Outfit that he was in with Joe Don Baker and Karen Black, I think.

Anyway, just a different time for movies, the early 70s, but kind of a cool film.

He just played a guy who just got out of prison, wants to go even the score, fun movie, and one of them,

One of his many films I haven't seen.

Like he's got such a long body of work.

Anyway, let us know what your favorite Robert Duvall film is.

This could be fun to talk about tonight.

855-752-4842-8557-5CIVIC.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

May he rest in peace.

Zomers, you got one?

Aaron Zomers

I have to come clean about something, Pete.

I've only seen one Robert Duvall movie.

I just don't even believe you.

Only one.

And it's one that he has uncredited random background role in.

The remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers from what year was that?

The one from the 70s, I think.

Yeah, it was not on

Pete Schwabba

Sutherland.

Aaron Zomers

Yep, that's the one.

That's the only movie I've seen that he's in and he's just in a random background shot because he happened to be walking by the set.

Pete Schwabba

Are you serious?

Aaron Zomers

I'm serious.

I haven't even seen The Godfather, nothing like that.

Pete Schwabba

Oh, wow, no kidding.

Well, I appreciate your honesty and there's no there's no judgment.

I mean, look, there's so much content out there.

You can't possibly see everything, but so that's an acceptable answer.

Well done.

I'm gonna say The Great Santini.

Just because he was such a hard guy and we'll talk more about all of this and I'm gonna tell you who tonight's guests are folks We have outstanding guests tonight.

There's gonna be some great conversations some great chat Aaron and I are gonna talk about iron lung as well very bizarre movie We'll do all of that next.

This is Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the civic media radio network

Aaron Zomers

Don't worry.

It's not kid rock.

This is the original Hard to tell

Pete Schwabba (host)

Is that a Kid Rock?

Did Kid Rock sample that or?

He might have, I don't know.

Okay, probably.

It didn't pay.

Hey, welcome back.

This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.

That is the voice of Aaron Zommers, who is producing tonight's show that is not Aaron Zommers or Kid Rock's music that is from The Godfather, which is one of Robert Duvall's many outstanding classics.

And that is our question of the night folks.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall film?

He passed away just a couple days ago and we are talking about his legacy a little bit Another great one one he won an Oscar for is tender mercies from 1983 great film and Kind of the opposite of like a godfather type film like his his resume is so great and I love that Tony Zimmerman called you out

Zahmorson says there is some judgment.

A little bit, Tony, but I'm saying like he's got time to get to them, right?

We can give Zahmors some time here to check out all these classics.

So thank you for the text, though, buddy.

All right, let's get to our guests tonight, folks.

We have great guests.

Andy Wasserman is here at 535, just after the news.

He will be here to discuss a really fun event called the Nina Run iced beer mile

Race I think it's a race.

Let's let's pull this up here.

I had this right in front of me and now I've and now I've lost it Mr. Aaron Zamas, but it's a great It's a great event.

They have in Menominee Park by Lake Winnebago and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

It's the beer mile

You have to drink while you race.

And Andy will be here at 535 to talk about this really cool event.

And then we've got Alan Kapiszki, professor of theater from UWGB.

Here at 610 to talk about some really cool stuff and a great production he has coming up in the next few weeks at UWGB.

And then our pal, Dr. Kristen Lierly is going to be on.

She will be dispensing great, healthy advice as well as some

Probably giving me a hard time about various topics, which is fine She's teased me about an array of topics.

I didn't I don't know if you remember this summer.

She talked about lube.

I do remember very well actually Yeah, she's an OBGYN I said oh is that necessary for forgiving birth because she was at a convention for OBGYNs and she says no that's for sex and Then she laughed and Conrad laughed and I was like, oh, okay, so

She likes to tease and it's great.

Love when Kristen is here.

We'll have a lot of fun as usual.

And then this is fun.

Steve Gillespie is here tonight, a very funny comedian.

He's been on Conan.

He's had best-selling comedy albums.

He's on the show tonight at 720 talking about a very different, very cool show he's got coming to Wisconsin.

It's, I don't even know if I should say what this is, but it's called the Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

And I'm just gonna leave it at that.

It's production heavy.

Steve has put a lot of effort into this.

It sells out all around the country and it sounds like a blast and there might be chemicals involved.

I'm not sure.

But you're gonna want to hear that because Steve is a good guy in a very funny comic.

But right now, let's jump to the phones because I know our pal Ollie from the Northwoods is on the line.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Hi.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Hello, Ollie.

How's it going tonight?

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Good, very well.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Good.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

My favorite...

Robert Duvall movie is kind of a newer one.

Um, we're isn't older.

Um, it's secondhand lions where Robert Duvall and Michael Cain play, um, two brothers and they take in, um, their nephew, uh, who is played by Haley Joel Osment.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Yes.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

I don't know very many people have watched that, but it's a wonderful movie.

Um, and the

The two guys are just awesome in it.

Everybody's awesome in it.

Pete Schwabba (host)

You

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

cannot beat

Pete Schwabba (host)

that cast, right?

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

Yeah, and they tell tales of adventures in their lives to this young boy who is just imagining the stories and doesn't know whether to believe them or not.

So the ending is great and everybody should see it at least once.

I totally agree.

Pete Schwabba (host)

No, that's a great choice, Ollie.

Thank you so much and have a wonderful evening.

Thanks for the call.

Ollie from the Northwoods (caller)

You guys, too.

Bye-bye.

Pete Schwabba (host)

All right, that's Ollie from the Northwoods who says secondhand Lions from 2003.

And you know what?

A fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes at 60%.

Audience score, 84%.

So she's right on the ball there.

I just looked it up.

Aaron Zommers (producer)

And seeing a clip from this, I think I have actually seen this one.

So, all right, I've seen one real Robert DeVall movie

Pete Schwabba (host)

and one that he

Aaron Zommers (producer)

just happens to be there for.

Pete Schwabba (host)

I would recommend The Great Santini.

It's just a great role for him.

He's not a very likable guy, but it's just a hard-nosed military dad.

And Michael O'Keefe is very good in it, too.

Blith Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow's mom is in it.

Very solid film, but he's great at everything.

Hey, let's before the break, Zombers, we got to talk about this Iron Lung film.

Shot for like three million bucks, made like

18 20 million bucks in its opening weekend It's based on a video game and it stars a youtuber who got it made I have to say I was lost during iron lung

Aaron Zommers (producer)

Yeah, that's totally I mean this is exactly what you said somebody told you in the theater.

That's totally fair.

It is a confusing movie Because the video game it's based off of basically you've got a guy who's slowly going insane in a submarine who

can only rely on, you know, weird sensors and his smell, or sorry, smell, his hearing.

I don't know where I got smell from.

And it's not supposed to entirely make sense, but I do think that they might have gone a little bit too far with that.

Pete Schwabba (host)

Here's my issue with it, too.

You're right.

The guy's in a submarine.

The planets are gone.

This is like a blood ocean.

It's dystopian, you know, all that stuff.

But...

he basically talks to himself, which characters who talk to themselves rarely work for me in movies.

And there are other characters, but he's by himself, and he's in this thing, it's two hours and 10 minutes long of no cinematography other than a dark vessel with blood splashing against the windows sometimes.

Nothing really scary happens.

And it's just kind of dull.

It's like, cinematically, there's nothing.

The dialogue's not great.

His acting is kind of one note.

He's always frantic for two hours and 10 minutes, but then he'll go 10 minutes without saying anything.

Aaron Zommers (producer)

Yeah,

Pete Schwabba (host)

I think

Aaron Zommers (producer)

it was interesting to watch.

I'm glad he made it.

I think it shows that, like, you know what, there is something to the concept and he has, you know, there's something that he's got that I think he could do really good work with in the future, but I don't need to watch it again.

Pete Schwabba (host)

A tip of my hat, the thing crushed.

So good for him.

Hey, we're coming right back after news, sports, and weather to talk about a really cool beer run that's next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwab (host)

I'm pretty sure that's not Kid Rock either.

Great find, Zomers.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I am Pete Schwab.

Great to have you here, folks, on this Wednesday night that feels like a Monday night, but it's actually more like a Thursday night because of our crazy schedule this week.

So it's great to have you here wherever you're joining us from across the state of Wisconsin, or if you're with us on the app or the stream.

Kudos to you for being part of the show, because that's when it's always more fun.

Aaron Zommers is producing tonight's show.

Stacy Sue on the stream says she loved the Godfather movies when it comes to Robert Duvall's career.

And I, those are hard to, it's hard to disagree.

That's about the safest pick you can make, as well as tender mercies because he won an Oscar for that.

But all kinds of great stuff.

That is our question of the night, folks.

What is your favorite Robert Duvall movie he passed away a couple of days ago?

And you can let us know on the text line at 855-752-4842, 855-755-CIVIC, or text us on the Civic Media app, which you should have, because it's so easy to use.

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One of my favorite things to talk about are cool events happening around the state, because

As Wisconsinites, we certainly have our share of them.

There are all kinds of fun activities throughout the course of the year.

And this one ranks right up there based on what I've read.

It is my pleasure to welcome the event director for the first annual Run Nina Iced Beer Mile, Mr. Andy Wasman.

Hey, Andy, how are you?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Excellent.

Excellent, Pete.

How are you guys doing?

Pete Schwab (host)

Good, man.

You got a deep voice, dude.

Are people intimidated when they talk to you?

I know I am.

Andy Wassman (guest)

I think so.

I think it's a little taller, so it's a big package they're dealing with, I guess,

Pete Schwab (host)

right?

They run faster when you're around because they hear your voice.

Hey, welcome to the show.

It's great to have you.

How are you doing tonight?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Doing great.

Doing great.

Ready to explain.

Ready to explain and describe our event.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

Well, before we get to that, I assume you're a movie fan or TV show fan, as most people, like some form of movies.

Are you familiar with Robert Duvall?

And do you have a favorite Robert Duvall movie?

Andy Wassman (guest)

You know, I didn't I didn't realize there was a You know the AI generated flashbacks on his career I didn't realize that he was honestly in in the Godfather.

Oh,

Pete Schwab (host)

wow, you

Andy Wassman (guest)

know when I put when I put two and two together I would I would say definitely Godfather 100% 100%

Pete Schwab (host)

can't go wrong with that.

That's a great answer Well, it's great to have you here.

So let's let's jump in.

I love that.

This is your first annual

event or you may have had other derivations of it or whatever.

But regardless, tell us about Run Nina and this ice to beer mile event.

It sounds like an absolute blast.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah, yeah.

So we have a little group about 20 people that run every Thursday from varying locations around Nina.

Every Thursday at six year round.

every year we've been around for about three or four years and every year it seems like we get the next young kid or young you know person that comes in and says you know what we should do a beer mile and then it's after year three it gets to the point of you know this is a this is getting to be a common occurrence here you know so we really put a pen to paper and kind of plan this still things to learn after the first

And it kind of was a big collaboration with again, like I said past members You know and then a member that was out western Wisconsin that would do a snowshoe beer mile on land around a bar and You know that was our that was our whole deal here is you know A school track is probably frowned upon Certainly

Pete Schwab (host)

during school hours.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah You know city streets same thing, you know, we could go in

you know, other private areas, but then your distance for a circular track kind of get limited for like an out and back or something that way.

It's just not as fun.

So this year, Pearson, our group actually another young kid this year here, he suggested, hey, let's get this going.

What about on the lake?

And I thought, you know, that's kind of a kind of a neutral territory, so to speak.

And then we got we got to thinking and planning, figured we go right offshore and and yeah, that's where it sits.

Pete Schwab (host)

It's such a great, it sounds like so much fun.

Is it in Oshkosh though, Andy?

Andy Wassman (guest)

It is.

So the tough part is, you know, by us and Nina, we have a very nice park that we run from lion's tail brewing quite often.

That's one of our Thursday runs.

Beautiful park.

There's certainly access there.

But if you know anything about Lake Winnebago, that's pretty much where everything from Puygon flows north.

and then dumps into and starts the Fox River.

So there's a little bit of, I don't want to see current, but ice isn't just good up that way.

Not that we take up a big stretch, but to keep people away from that area, we all kind of figured, let's go south.

And then also, honestly, the location was kind of more directed because I know Carl was on your show.

Carl was Sturgeon Spirits just

Pete Schwab (host)

recently.

Andy Wassman (guest)

And I thought that'd be neat to have it.

you know, kind of partner with his event, this being the second weekend.

And then again, just the ice was a little bit more consistent up until this weather, but a little bit more consistent down in those parts.

Pete Schwab (host)

Here's what I love about this event, okay, and what I read it.

At a time in our nation's history, where people are drinking less, even here in Wisconsin, you are leaning into drinking while running.

The race starts, you have to chug a beer.

Drinking rules, one beer before the race starts, after each lap you must stop at the drinking area, chug one full beer, hold the empty can upside down to prove it is finished.

And you consume a total of four beers.

Can people do it without drinking or is that totally frowned upon?

Andy Wassman (guest)

That's not allowed actually this year.

So as this evolves, we're thinking about doing a relay.

So that's another idea so that one guy brought that up.

So you have one person that just is responsible for a beer.

So it's a four person team.

They do their beer, they run and then hand off the empty can, throw it down to the ground, next person throws it down to the ground or something like that.

They have to chug theirs and off they go.

We thought about an NA division to your point.

But you know, as of course, if things get kind of closer, you know, then you get the ideas and suggestions and my response is always, well, there's always year two, you know.

Pete Schwab (host)

I think I read in here somewhere.

Oh yeah, light beer is not in all caps allowed.

It's gotta be 4.5% or greater and any style of beer is accepted.

Cans only, how did you settle on that?

Just easier to recycle or clean up or

Andy Wassman (guest)

what?

Yeah, that's, I mean, the biggest thing on lakes.

I mean, we're gonna be if.

I guess the lake traffic allows it, meaning there aren't going to be a whole bunch of vehicles parked where we're planning to have this course.

I mean, there is a beach there in the summertime.

So just breaking glass, things that we're just trying to be stewards of the area.

Pete Schwab (host)

Well done.

My guest is Andy Waspin.

He is the event director of this really cool event sponsored by Run Nina, the iced beer mile run.

that takes place at the southern in Oshkosh actually near Lake Winnebago.

So here's another great rule I thought, Andy.

There is a penalty.

If you puke at any time, you must complete one full penalty lap.

Do people puke?

I mean, it's not a ton of beer to take in, but it's in a short time and you are running and it's cold.

What are the ratios there with vomiting?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Well, every race is different.

You know, I just compare it to after if you're an Ask Our Fan, what does the winner do?

He takes the champagne bottle and shakes it up and sprays it all over.

So yes, there definitely is, you know, a strategy to those veterans.

We do have some people coming from the Eau Claire area as part of that snowshoe beer mile.

So I think my mind is going to be blown at the vets or the elites.

You know, they're going to be participating.

But certainly there's going to be some releases, some pukes.

I might be bringing the garbage bags for everything, and I thought, I'm not going to bring any actual barrels.

I'm just going to let all the empties sit on the ice.

I'll pick them up after, or we'll pick them up as a group.

As soon as you have barrels, that's where the pukeers go.

So I thought, we'll pick up as we go at the end.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

I appreciate your honesty here.

All right.

So four laps are run.

Four beers have to be consumed.

There is a penalty for puking.

Have you, are there records?

Do you keep track?

I mean, this is the first, but will you keep track of records or best times?

And tell us a little bit about the prizes too.

Andy Wassman (guest)

100%.

So I've, I mean, obviously the first year, you have all kinds of different ideas that are just rolling around your head.

I thought about doing age groups.

You know, if this starts to get huge, do age groups.

And, you know, because people don't want to admit their age, maybe we just fill out.

how many beer cans you are.

So if you are how full the beer can is or if you're 18 or sorry 21 to you know 21 to 30 you're three quarters of a beer can and then you write that in on registration.

If you're 30 to 50 or whatever that is then it's half of a beer can and if you're 50 plus you have

quarter of your can, you know, to signify that age group.

So thought about that, like I said, about different different categories, different age groups.

You know, yeah, that keeping track of times.

It certainly could evolve repeat winners bullseyes on back, you know, for for the winner from last year.

Right.

I mean, I yeah, it's wild.

It definitely can get wild.

Pete Schwab (host)

So is it going to be the type of situation where you said you have age groups, like a teenager can participate if their parents are there, like when they're allowed in bars or something like that?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Well, it's funny.

I have a friend of mine that has probably two, like I think they're an eight year old and a five year old.

And they said, can Grant participate in this?

I said, well, you know, it's not that kind of group.

We can maybe get that.

Well, he just wants to run around.

And then like you had mentioned before, well, I don't know if this is going to be the surface that you're going to want to

Pete Schwab (host)

roll down.

Don't slip in the pew, kid.

OK, so what are the prizes, Andy?

And pardon me, can anybody enter?

Like if people are listening right now, I'm like, I want to go do this.

How do they find out more info and can they?

Andy Wassman (guest)

Yeah, and some more info is going to be prime that we have an event on our I've created a public event on our on our Facebook page.

It's running a Running a group run if you search it on Facebook, could you pop up?

Unfortunately, we're a private group because you get you know all kinds of spam Otherwise you just say what the weather was like yesterday.

That's our security I guess question We get you in there, but the the event I guess you know in general

is public.

At the time of start, we're going to have a simple waiver.

You know, I'm too pretty to be in jail, so not that it would get to that point.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, that voice will keep you safe, buddy.

That voice is good.

You're going to be fine.

Andy Wassman (guest)

But we'll have a QR code that people can scan just to initial.

by all means, you know, the more the merrier.

If we get a surplus of people, we might do two different waves or I don't know that yet.

But, you know, right now I think there's about 15 people, you know, that are that are going to be attending.

But who knows, there's like 70 some that are that are interested.

So

Pete Schwab (host)

that's what we're going

Andy Wassman (guest)

to do.

I

Pete Schwab (host)

love it.

So I think what we need to do now, Andy, is get Carl involved.

Carl, he could do spirits.

Like, he could chug a bottle of vodka and run even farther.

Let's make it a puke fest.

Let's see how many pukeers

Andy Wassman (guest)

we

Pete Schwab (host)

have.

Andy Wassman (guest)

I agree.

Again, I saw his event, his mobile bar out on the ice last

Pete Schwab (host)

weekend

Andy Wassman (guest)

and again this weekend.

And that's what really got me thinking about doing it out in Oshkosh in that location.

But they're a mile out, as he mentioned on his event or on his podcast or stores.

video here.

I don't want to, if people aren't comfortable with that, so we're literally going to be about 50 yards offshore.

And then to answer your question prizes, we have some really cool laser engraved slate coasters for first, second, and third.

Oh, nice.

So,

Pete Schwab (host)

yeah.

Well, Andy, this has been a pleasure.

Thank you so much for your time tonight.

I wish you luck with the event.

Put plastic baggies over your shoes just in case you don't want to hit by errant vomit or whatever, but no, seriously.

Come back again the next time you do this.

I hope you have many more of these, and best of luck with the event.

Andy Wassman (guest)

Good deal.

Thank you very much.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

That's Andy Wassman.

Check out the Run Nina Ice Mile Beer Run.

So much fun.

We are coming right back, folks, and I'm going to tell you about the best capitals in America to live in that's coming up next on Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pete Schwab

It's another Kid Rock song.

Somers is finding them all

Co-Host

tonight.

The only person I listen to anymore, really.

Kid Rock or

Pete Schwab

Sonata?

Kid, uh, both.

I don't

Co-Host

know.

Welcome

Pete Schwab

back.

This is Nightlight.

I'm Pete Schwab.

I'm great to have you here, folks, on this Wednesday night.

It really feels like a Monday and also feels like a Thursday.

Thanks to scheduling issues.

So, glad you're here.

We are talking about the life and the body of work of Robert DeVall.

who passed away the other day at the age of 95 and left behind such an incredible body of work.

Matt Harper, rock-rap artist from Green Bay, answered the question on social media.

He said, colors.

And that's the sign of a great artist too, or someone who's just a titan like Robert DuVallis, because I was thinking of his movies.

I forgot about colors.

I saw that in the theater when it first came out.

And he and Sean Penn were great.

That's a phenomenal movie.

Daniel Thine on social media says, so many good ones, but some of them are ones he had really small parts, the great Santini.

He had a big part in that.

To kill a mockingbird, Slingblade, the godfather one and two falling down, the natural, true grit Jack Reacher, forgot about Jack Reacher too, the judge and apocalypse now.

Great list Dan.

Thank you JB Thompson the guy behind the guy behind the guy saw JB this last weekend at the Dork County Film Festival Good to hang.

He says falling down Well, you got a lot of movies to catch up on

Co-Host

here.

I do including Robert DeVolis Joseph Stalin in the made-for-tv movie Stalin about Joseph Stalin

Pete Schwab

What?

You're saying Joseph Stalin

I forgot about that.

I don't even know if I knew that that was a made for TV movie like in the 90s, maybe or 80s.

Yep,

Co-Host

92.

I

Pete Schwab

don't think do they do movies like that anymore?

Co-Host

That's crazy.

I feel like Netflix movies are what has replaced it and those have become much bigger budget than those TV movies ever were.

Pete Schwab

Well said.

Tony on social media Tony Diamond says there are so many but I'm always drawn back to network again and I forgot he was in that a classic.

Ross Bigley says the outfit which I just watched last night.

Thank you Ross.

Yeah, that was a great That was a really fun watch I love watching movies how they used to make them or everything isn't like the stakes aren't so crazy high and it takes their time There's no high concept thing happening.

It's just a story being told and that's kind of what's taking place or what took place when I watched the outfit last night Charles Krauss and social media says there are many the most recent and funny movie that I've seen is secondhand lions

So there you go.

Maybe a love connection between Ollie from the Northwoods and Charles.

Maybe.

Who's to say?

We've probably paired.

We've probably gotten people together on this show over the last couple of years.

George Chambers says to kill a mockingbird.

Great one, George.

And he actually, he didn't have a line, but he was great.

He looks so tortured and troubled as Boo Radley.

That's a great choice.

Daniel Wheeler, Danny Wheeler says, I'm going deep cut.

Buck Weston in kicking and screaming, but he's got balls.

Well said Daniel.

Daniel will be on the show tomorrow night.

Sean Boyce on social media says, I am the great Santini.

Sean is a Marine.

That could be what he's referring to.

Having a little fun with the title.

He says, excellent film adapted from Pat Conroy, the Pat Conroy novel based on his own upbringing in the home of Colonel Don Conroy.

I did not know that.

Thank you, Sean.

And a really good movie actually there's some laughs in there too because he is a kid the great Santini is a character Kind of racist kind of old-school kind of old-fashioned just the toughest nails dad his kids hate him It was a it's a good.

It's a great watch Rich Luccasio our favorite wrestling announcer says THX 1138 That's

Co-Host

one that I really want to watch it's a George Lucas movie the first I believe the first one he directed

Pete Schwab

okay

Thought maybe rich was dropping in a wrestling event there.

We got a call.

Yep.

We have Mike from Muscaday Mike from Muscaday.

That's how you say it.

Hey Mike.

How are you?

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

How's it going Pete and you guys?

I think true grit was a good Robert DeVall movie and another movie with Always his name Oh Gosh, he's been in so many like you guys say but you know getting back to kid rock

Let me ask you something Pete.

How many albums have you put out?

So don't put down my man

Pete Schwab

This I haven't put out any albums, but if I do it will be my own material Mike.

Is that a good answer?

Do

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

we lose

Pete Schwab

Mike?

Oh there he is Are you a fan

Mike from Muscaday (caller)

Mike?

Kid Rock fan?

Go ahead go ahead and give her.

I like Kid Rock and don't put them down.

You guys have a good one

Pete Schwab

YouTube like appreciate the call.

I respect that he likes Kid Rock, but I'm still gonna put him down.

All I'll say Mike is watch the watch the workout video with Robert Kennedy.

And listen, there have been a couple tunes Kid Rock has had over the years where I've tapped my foot to

Co-Host

a

Pete Schwab

movie set.

He's not untalented.

Co-Host

Apparently he's a

Pete Schwab

really good musician.

I just don't like his songs,

Co-Host

which is kind

Pete Schwab

of

Co-Host

what I'm at is.

Pete Schwab

Yeah.

Yeah.

But that's a great movie choice.

Thank you, Mike.

Matt Cassane on social media says, true confessions.

Thank you, Matt.

Derek Fister says, days of thunder.

Again, Tom Cruise forgot he was even in that movie.

Ian MacArthur on social media says, the great tender Santini Mercy's Apostle.

He's got them all rolled into one there, but he didn't win an Oscar for 1983's Tender Mercies.

Thank you, Ian.

Richard Vargas says, a tie, the great Santini and the Apostle.

You know, I've seen the apostle.

I was kind of falling asleep in a hotel room one night.

So I can't even weigh in on that.

I have to I Have to give that a rewatch.

But thank you, Richard Jay Campbell says that is so hard to narrow down because he was prolific and deep I'm partial to tender mercies and the apostle I intend to rewatch both of them soon.

Check out get low too.

That was kind of a fun one and then bill on social media says open range Thank you all keep those coming.

We'll get to the text line stuff in just a bit

Uh-oh, we got Kristen Lirely coming up in the next hour, folks.

Lots of fun.

What's your favorite Robert De Niro movie?

That's what we're talking about.

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

Or Robert DeVall.

What did I say?

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Robert De Niro.

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

And now a guy who washes his hands even after using a towel, Pete Schwabba.

Pete Schwabba

Hey, welcome back.

Hour number two is underway, ladies and gentlemen.

It is great, great, great to have you here on this rainy, what's it like in Madison's Omers?

Is it

Zomers

raining and gross?

It is neither.

Today has been a very nice day.

I actually, I mean, you saw I'm not wearing it.

I contemplated dressing up as if I were going to the beach just because it's so nice out today.

I was gonna put on, I have like this floral button down shirt and matching shorts.

I chose not to.

Wasn't quite that warm, but I thought

Pete Schwabba

you'd wear a top hat once in a while.

Zomers

I Don't own one if you want to ship me one.

I'll be glad to wear it.

Pete Schwabba

I It's so unfair that we're both in Wisconsin and this show was on statewide and I'm stuck with like 30s and rain and you have beach weather.

How is that possible?

Zomers

You know, I couldn't tell you the weather works in strange ways

Pete Schwabba

Sounds like a good question for Mace Michaels.

But wherever you're joining us from in Wisconsin, folks, I hope it's sunny and 70 unlike here in Marinette, Wisconsin and Northeast Wisconsin.

Lots of fun tonight.

If you missed hour number one of tonight's show, it is available at civicmedia.us in podcast form.

You can hear my interview with Andy Wassman about a really cool event put on by Run Nina, where you got a chug of beer.

After every lap, by the end of the race, you will chug four beers and have completed four laps.

And where most of the country is leaning toward less alcohol, Ron Nina says, nope, we're gonna drink alcohol while we run.

So it sounded like an absolute blast.

It was fun to get to know Andy.

Zomers and I talked a little bit about this very bizarre video put out by Robert Bob Kennedy Jr.

and Kid Rock.

He's also a junior, I think.

Robert Richie, the third or something like that?

I

Zomers

don't know.

Pete Schwabba

Anyway.

Yeah, they put out a video, a workout video, but they didn't wear workout clothes.

And it was very bizarre.

I recommend to Google, because it's kind of funny.

So we got that going.

And then, you know, tonight's question, folks.

Zomers, I think we just need to reintroduce.

This is the nightlight question of the night.

Zomers

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Unnamed Contributor

What

Pete Schwabba

is your favorite Robert Duvall movie or role?

He passed away a couple days ago at the tender age of 95 never officially retired from acting, but I don't think he's had I don't think we've seen him on screen since 2022, but he is 95

had a good run, left behind an incredible body of work.

I said the great Santini, but I could have just as easily been talked into the godfather or tender mercies or I know it's I'm not even joking to kill a mockingbird because he looks so tortured even though he didn't have a line.

He was he was good.

It was his first movie role.

So no right or wrong answers, folks.

There are only your answers.

Please be part of the show and let us know at eight five five.

752-4842, 855-75 Civic.

You can also text us on the Civic Media app, which is very easy to use.

Or if you're watching the radio on YouTube, Facebook, or X, Twitter, drop us a stream comment, and I'll read it on the radio.

I did see Zomers on the text line.

Monica from Mount Horrib said she was texting the show while she was in line to see Sean Cassidy, who was, I believe he's playing the Baremort tonight.

And I think he's either in Green Bay tomorrow night or he was there last night but he was so much fun to have on the show and I'm glad that Monica went to see him because I'm sure I Mean his songs will be fun because they were pop songs in the 70s.

I think he's gonna sing some classics like from some of his mom's shows He's got great stories.

I cannot imagine that not being an absolutely phenomenal show So we've got dr. Kristen Lyrely coming up at 635 tonight folks.

She's gonna talk to us a little bit about

Well fun stuff.

She always talks medical stuff Zomers, but she also gives us tips like you know James van der Beek passed away from colon cancer So she's gonna stress the but Kristen always does it in fun ways She's just a blast to talk about whether it's medicine movies current events.

Whatever.

She'll be here at 635 Comedian Steve Gillespie will be here at 720 tonight telling us all about a really cool show.

He's put together

called The Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

That's coming to Wisconsin.

Steve has been selling out rooms all over the country.

That's in Act 3 right now.

Very excited to welcome my second guest of the night.

He is an esteemed professor of acting at UW Green Bay, UWGB as I like to call it.

breaking new ground there, and he's also a very fine actor as well.

He joins us over the stream, Mr. Alan Kopechki.

Hey, buddy.

How are you?

Alan Kopechki

Hey, Pete.

Great to see you again.

Pete Schwabba

Good to see you too.

You were in studio last time.

Alan Kopechki

I was, yeah.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

That's always preferable, but given the circumstances, it's just great to have you on the show.

So welcome, sir.

Alan Kopechki

Thank you very much.

I got to tell you, my head is spinning.

with everything you just talked about in the last few minutes, you know?

Beachwear and top hats and, you know, throwing up while you're running Nina and

Pete Schwabba

Kid

Alan Kopechki

Rock Jr.

and Oh Radley.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

Alan Kopechki

That's

Pete Schwabba

my

Alan Kopechki

favorite.

Oh Radley.

Pete Schwabba

Is your favorite Duvall roll?

Alan Kopechki

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

That's

Alan Kopechki

a great choice.

Killed it with no lines.

Yeah.

Pete Schwabba

And you're

Alan Kopechki

having Kristen Ly early on who I love.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

I don't like her personally, but she's a great radio guest.

So we always like having Kristen on.

No, but you're so right about Duvall with he just looks so tortured in that, you know, he said nothing, but he didn't have to.

It was just it was phenomenal acting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So all right.

Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way because I was going to ask you that anyway.

But it is good to have you here.

Do you have a you have a show coming up in April?

Alan Kopechki

Yeah,

Pete Schwabba

April

Alan Kopechki

1st to the 4th Tell

Pete Schwabba

us about

Alan Kopechki

constellations the first to the third and then a matinee on Saturday the fourth

Pete Schwabba

very nice Yeah, it's called constellations.

It's a show that was written by Nick Nick Payne from 2012 so tell us about your production of this show and Yeah, what can you tell us?

Well, it's

Alan Kopechki

really exciting.

I call it a meet cute in the multiverse

two people meet up at a barbecue and they seem interested in each other and then we see it play out in different ways in different universes within the multiverse where the circumstances are just a little bit different and so it works out a little bit differently each time

So if you've seen the movie Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow from years ago, that was kind of a two-way split of universes, whether she made the subway or not.

And here we're splitting into multiple strands.

And so it's a ton of fun as we get to know these people and then get the surprises of the slightly different ways

in which they behave with a slightly different circumstances of where they're at right now.

So it's very funny, but it also brings a ton of heart.

So it's just lots of fun to work on.

Pete Schwabba

It sounds great.

It's a 90 minute one act play, and you've got two actors.

Is that the entire cast?

That's

Alan Kopechki

the entire cast, but I

Pete Schwabba

will

Alan Kopechki

mention that we have two understudies.

SPEAKER_??

Okay.

Alan Kopechki

And so that's not only a good safety for us, but we put them to use throughout the play as well.

Pete Schwabba

Okay.

Okay, a 90 minute one act, that's basically the length of a movie or whatever, and you've got two actors.

Is it hard as a director for pacing purposes?

How do you keep it flowing like that, Alan?

Alan Kopechki

Oh, I think...

First off, it is a big load for the actors.

So this is a big challenge.

I think the folks we have are really up to it.

But I know as an actor, I hate to leave the stage.

I know my energy keeps going while I'm on stage and it's when I go off that I have to kind of recharge to bring it back on.

So I don't worry too much about the pacing.

I think they're in it and their energy remains high the whole time.

At least that's the way it's working so far in rehearsals.

Pete Schwabba

That's great.

So let me ask you this.

You've got like in Green Bay, you've got big shows that come to town.

You've got like Frank Hermans who puts on his own stuff.

Is there a component in Green Bay that is either experimental or people putting on original plays or licensing stuff like you're doing with constellations?

My question is, do people realize

what they have access to through UWGB.

Does the general public come to the shows?

Is it mostly students?

And if they don't, how do you get them to do that?

Because this is fantastic.

Alan Kopechki

Yeah, I do think that we're a little bit of an undiscovered gem for some people.

We do get a lot of students and a lot of the campus community comes.

I would love to see more people.

We get alumni who come.

We have some fans.

We have developed over the years.

But yeah, I don't know if the general theater going public in Green Bay really has an idea of the kind of, I don't know if I want to say experimental necessarily, but really interesting cutting edge kinds of plays.

And we have very talented design faculty.

doing really exciting things.

This play in particular gives some great opportunities.

So the two characters are a beekeeper and a quantum cosmologist.

And so with the multiverse and the quantum cosmologist, there's tons of cool space stuff going on.

Announcer

There's

Alan Kopechki

some interesting bee stuff going on.

Because we are shifting in space time from universe to universe, it gives the designers free reign to do some really exciting things.

Pete Schwabba

That's so great.

And I totally agree with you, like, in terms of getting the general public to take advantage of this.

Like, yeah, it's a college, and I think it just might be off some people's radar.

Not just UWGB, but in general.

It's like, oh, well, that's a college.

Well, they're putting on a great show, and oftentimes award-winning shows.

I just would love to see more people from the general public go.

And what do people like Alan, when they leave UWGB and they've studied theater?

Do most people Pursue it when they leave?

I know my daughters at UW Stevens Point and you've got people from their musical theater program They want to go be in shows.

I'm sure people at UW GB do too.

But what is their path typically when they leave?

Alan Kopechki

Yeah, you know, we've got We've got a lot of folks who get out there and get work especially in the technical field And we have others who are

off to grad school and then teaching.

We have others who are touring.

I have one student who's been out on cruise ships and and students doing Disney.

There's all sorts of different paths.

It depends on what your interests are, but

Pete Schwabba

we've

Alan Kopechki

had a lot of success from our grads.

Pete Schwabba

Let's pick up right there.

We're going to do a very short break.

Alan Kopischke is here.

He is a theater professor from UWGB.

He's got great acting talent, credits of his own too.

We'll talk to him about that when we come back.

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

Pete Schwab

All right, welcome back.

This is Night Light.

I'm Pete Schwab.

Great to have you here.

Spookster86 on the stream says Days of Thunder.

It's his favorite Deval movie.

It's Top Gun Adjacent.

That's fair.

And he says, get your colonoscopy, folks.

Great warning.

Thank you, Spookster.

I'm a little behind on my latest one.

Maybe that's too much information I'm putting out there, Alan.

I don't know.

A little behind.

Pun intended.

Alan Kibisky is here, folks.

He is a theater professor at UWGB and an actor as well.

His show Constellations runs April 1st through the 3rd, 7.30 p.m.

and Saturday, April 4th at 2 p.m.

at the Jane Weidner Theater at the Weidner Center on UWGB's campus.

Check that out and take advantage of theater.

Right in Green Bay.

It's not just for college kids, folks.

Check out this great production.

Alan is the director, and it sounds like an absolute blast.

Let me ask you something, Alan.

You know, you have the opportunity to mold lives, shape these kids.

We talked a little bit about what they do when they leave.

I always have this issue because sometimes I've talked to kids in grade school or high school about careers, and if they were interested in show business, I was the guy that nobody asked a question to in Wisconsin after the fireman and the lawyer and the doctor.

But everybody that comes up to me and says, everyone says I should have a fallback.

And I kind of disagree with that.

I feel like if you're going to go be an actor or a dancer or a set decorator, whatever it is, why would you take

two to four hours a day away from your passion and getting better at it to set yourself up for failure.

Am I wrong there?

In my

Alan Kibisky

experience, if you need a fallback, your fallback will come find you.

You go pursue what you are passionate about and that may end up leading you in other directions adjacent or parallel.

Yeah, I I don't think saying oh, yeah, I gotta I gotta get this business degree or this engineering, right?

Minor or whatever just in case No, I think I think you got to pursue what interests you and that will lead you Maybe to engineering but it by a different path and by a way that that follows your passion

Pete Schwab

I totally agree with you and you know try it until you're 29 and go back to school.

You're still young you got the whole

if if things don't work out but you're right and a lot of people I know found their way in other avenues they went into casting or you know catering or set truck driving and carpentry work on sets and that kind of stuff so

Alan Kibisky

you might decide you're an accountant but you want to be an accountant for a film production company

Pete Schwab

yeah exactly great

Absolutely.

What was, let's, before we let you go, I want to ask you, you got two credits I'm curious about.

I want to ask you about on your IMDB page.

One is Feed the Fish with Tony Shalub,

Brian Zomers

which I believe

Pete Schwab

was shot in Green Bay.

Would love to hear what your experience was like on that.

And then you did a Walker, Texas Ranger.

I would love to know if you got on Chuck Norris's bedside.

So you can start wherever you want.

Alan Kibisky

Okay.

So Feed the Fish was mostly actually shot in Door County.

The chelou family has some property up there, and so my wife was the costume designer for it, and I had a very small role.

I went hunting with Michael Mathsdorf, the director, and Tony Chelou's character yelled at us, and Michael accidentally shot me in the crotch.

So I had a great, pained pratfall.

uh in there and and and then i got rolled away on a gurney so that was that was my big moment in that but

Pete Schwab

memorable yeah that's great

Alan Kibisky

that was a lot of fun

Pete Schwab

sure

Alan Kibisky

walker texas ranger was a blast i had a really nice guest star role i was basically uh a bill gates character um and so actually i was i was a victim mitch pelogy uh who was the the um the boss of

Mully and Skulder on the X-Files.

Brian Zomers

Yeah,

Alan Kibisky

sure.

He was the main bad guy.

And they were robbing me and my party guests.

So I did get punched by one of the bad guys.

Oh, sweet.

So got to work with the stunt men and stunt ensemble on that.

And actually Chuck told me, after that scene, he said, you take a good punch.

So I want that on my gravestone.

Pete Schwab

Yeah, from his mouth itself.

I would assume he's taken a few, too.

So that's probably high praise.

Alan, thank you so much for being here tonight.

Good luck with constellations.

Maybe the wife and I will get a nutty night out of the tunnel.

We'll come down and see it.

I would love to see the facilities and the production and everything.

It sounds great.

So I appreciate you coming on and break a leg, my friend.

Thanks so much.

Thanks for having me on, Pete.

You got it.

All right.

That's Alan Kepitschke.

Check out constellations.

at the Jane Weidner Theatre at the Weidner Center on UWGV's campus.

April 1st through the 3rd, and then there's a matinee on the 4th too.

Sounds like a great show.

Zomers, I would ask you if you're going, but you already bailed on the Dork County Film Festival last week, so I'm not gonna hold you to anything.

I

Brian Zomers

earned that one.

Pete Schwab

Are you one of those guys that's like, hey, you wanna do something Friday?

Who's gonna be there?

Brian Zomers

You mean like asking who else is gonna be there before I say yes?

Pete Schwab

Exactly waiting to see what better plans materialize

Brian Zomers

um No, but I usually don't give you know real answers because I'm like, you know I probably said yes to something else already and forgot and that often turns out to be the case

Pete Schwab

I'm just saying you hardly ever hang out with me and my wife.

Just

Brian Zomers

that's true.

I haven't even met her

Pete Schwab

before Well, that's because you always bail

All right, we've got Kristen Lyrely coming up after the news at 635.

Let's get a couple of texts out of the way here.

Ollie from the Northwoods.

Oh, she's doing a ruse here.

It says this is actually Lori from Hayward, maybe on Ollie's phone, and says, a Robert Duvall show I really enjoyed was watching the series, Lonesome Dove.

Never watched that, but that had a nice run on network color television.

And the 608, all Duvall movies, true grit.

You can score one point by returning a blocked extra point That we make the scores six to one.

I make heads or tails of that.

No,

Brian Zomers

I have no

Pete Schwab

idea

Brian Zomers

what that's about

Pete Schwab

He's doing the beer run.

He just chugged a beer.

All right.

We're coming back with dr. Kristen Lyrely afternoon sports and weather great day.

Have you heard folks?

It's peach wabbit and nightlife

Pete Schwabba

Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.

You just came from an OVGYN conference.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

They had a lube bar because there are lots of different kinds of personal lubricants that you can use.

When you say lube, do you need that to give

Pete Schwabba

birth to women?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No, it's for sex.

I recommend generally a water-based

Pete Schwabba

lube.

Are you writing this down,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Conrad?

I

Pete Schwabba

cannot speak right now.

Is he

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

blushing?

Pete Schwabba

Nightlight with Pete Schwabba.

All right.

Welcome back, folks.

I am Pete Chihuahua.

This is Night Light.

And that is also not a Kid Rock song.

Zomers is spinning the tunes tonight and having fun with that.

Welcome back.

Glad you're with me, folks.

This is a Wednesday that feels like a Monday, but it's kind of like a Thursday because of our crazy week this week.

But nonetheless, we are here talking about the things in life that make us happy.

And one of the people that makes me happy is my next guest.

She does great work.

She's one of my favorite guests, or people for that matter.

She's a highly respected OBGYN.

A proud boy mom, and she also has her own show here on Civic Media called The Dr. Kristen Lyrely Show.

You probably guessed who it is.

It's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

Welcome, my friend.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Hey, how you doing, Pete?

Pete Schwabba

To clarify.

I'm also an OBGYN, but not highly respected.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No, no.

No, no, you are not.

Pete Schwabba

In fact,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I'm wholly

Pete Schwabba

respected.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I was very impressed that you ran the lube promo because it's important.

People need to know about lube.

Well, Pete right now is silent.

No, I'm just,

Pete Schwabba

I- No!

People don't!

Who doesn't know about lube?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Many people many people have many questions and they are very like Reluctance to ask those questions you got to build trust before people will come out with these because you know We've been taught in life not to talk about things like sex, but if you talk about it and you get good information It's so much better

Pete Schwabba

and listen

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

safer.

Pete Schwabba

I'm gonna go out on a limb here

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

again.

I

Pete Schwabba

think sex is really neat

Wait till the line goes down and then go ask the pharmacist.

I didn't know people had an issue with lube.

I thought it was kind of a everyday thing now.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No, people have issues with some of the, it's so personal.

Like some people have issues with some things that you would just be like, really?

I mean, kind of like you with lube right now, I guess.

It's just like really personal based on your own experience.

And that's why we all need access.

to a healthcare provider who can help us answer

Pete Schwabba

questions.

And you're, you're certainly that zomers.

Did you have something?

Zomers

I was going to say that, um, even working as a pharmacy technician at CVS a few years back, that you've got some people who would like, you know, really nervously come up and privately ask you where something is.

And it's like, Oh, it's back there in that island.

I can bring it back if you want.

I'm like, no, no, I got it.

Or people would ask questions and like, you don't have to whisper.

It's fine.

We get asked stuff like this all the time.

It's, it's okay.

Nobody cares.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

Yeah exactly and I listen I'm you know I know a couple times when you've been on this show and the thing what we did with Conrad I was a little bit you know like taken aback because you were talking about Lou but this convention and I thought oh it's it's like something with babies or whatever and then you kind of you know drop that that bomb and it was very

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

funny but I'm

Pete Schwabba

saying

I don't care, like, I'm very pro all of it.

Look, I wear a condom every day just in case.

I don't leave the house without wearing one.

I have lube in the car.

I'm ready.

It never happens, but I'm not expecting it to.

So that's why that's a win.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Lube that you have in the car is different, Pete.

Pete Schwabba

Oh, really?

Oh, seriously?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, the car lube is different than your personal lubricants.

See?

See there are questions.

Pete Schwabba

That explains the confused look when I say give me some astro glide on those lug nuts.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Listen to you dropping names, Pete Schwabba.

Listen, I'm a free lady.

I think Pete is a mild-mannered guy, but...

Pete Schwabba

No, no, no.

Listen, I don't pretend to be anybody.

I will say...

This is a, you know, what I'm fascinated about is the position of lactation consultant.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Because

Pete Schwabba

this was not offered as a major when I was in college.

I would have been the best damn lactation consultant in the world.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

No.

Pete Schwabba

They probably, their only note the professor would have been able to say to me is try not to smile so much, Mr. Schwabba.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

liking boobs does not make you a good lactation consultant.

It is actually a really, really important job because everybody, so you probably can't relate to this, but I will tell you, and this is in all seriousness, when people have babies, it's often a conflict that people have like, am I going to be able to breastfeed?

Should I breastfeed?

Do I want to breastfeed?

Because it's a huge commitment.

So having a lactation consultant who can answer your questions and make sure that you have, if you want to do this, that you have the best shot at it, that you have

somebody there to answer your questions.

Because really, if you can breastfeed and it's the right thing for you, that's great.

It's cheap.

It's easy, but it requires a lot from the mom.

So I love my lactation consultants, so don't joke about them.

Pete Schwabba

Well, I joke about everything, but I'm not.

I'm just saying I didn't know.

And here's the other thing.

I didn't know it was going to be a challenge because we kids, we were committed to trying to breastfeeding and.

You know, I realized when the woman came in, I'm like, you're what?

You're a lactation consultant?

Like we have an assist here?

And then,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

you

Pete Schwabba

know, the joke in my act used to go, and then she grabs my wife's boob to help her.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And she's

Pete Schwabba

like, but she looked at me, Kristen, and she said, may I?

And I was like, yeah, why don't I hold the baby and dim the lights?

And you got, you know, so I didn't.

But you're absolutely right.

It is a.

It is a challenge.

It doesn't happen for everybody.

So it is good that that position exists for sure.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And there's guilt.

You know, like if you want to breastfeed and you feel like you're supposed to breastfeed, but it's not working.

There's this whole emotional thing that happens that goes along with it.

So yeah, it's not just about boobs.

Pete Schwabba

No, it's not.

Kristen Lyrely is here, folks.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely, she is dispensing medical advice whether we want it or not.

She does not

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

believe

Pete Schwabba

I have the, I'm not an OBGYN, not even in a freelance capacity.

Before we move on, Kristen, because we do have a lot to talk about, let's get the medical stuff out of the way, because you said when we texted earlier,

you wanted to say something about colon cancer and James Vanderbeek and you know this is one of those things and I admit I've been late to I have this thing about anesthetics I don't like to go under so

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I know that

Pete Schwabba

yeah it scares me and I don't you know I'm not worried about the procedure or anything I'm sure there's Lou involved but

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I don't

Pete Schwabba

but I'm scared to go under what do you tell people about that

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Whatever you do, whether you choose to have a colonoscopy, which is the recommended screening starting around age 45, unless you have risk factors, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but age 45 is the standard.

If you can get a colonoscopy, if that sits well with you, great.

Do that.

If you can't, there are other tests that you can do to screen for colon cancer.

So there's a box.

You can poop in a box, Pete, and send it through UPS back to the factory, and it will look for any signs of colon cancer.

That's a really good test.

And then you don't have to go through the anxiety and everything of the colonoscopy.

But to be clear, the colonoscopy is the gold standard.

So if you can do that, that is the best.

alternative.

Pete Schwabba

I just want to clear something up.

You said it doesn't sit well during a colonoscopy to clarify.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

As soon as I said that I knew it was

Pete Schwabba

the wrong thing.

So well that's great advice.

How did we do?

You were on the show a couple months ago.

We were talking about this everything that's going around the cold and flu season and how it's very bad this year.

I got something and I know I know the night I got it.

I didn't sleep.

I was in Chicago having a blast.

I barely slept all night.

I got sick.

It is like literally still lingering and it were I'm probably five weeks in now I had to go on a prednisone.

I mean, what is going on?

Is there stronger stuff out there?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Wow, that's that's heavy duty having to go on steroids I am just recovering from a sinus infection that I've had for two weeks and I actually I've never been on antibiotics for a sinus infection ever but on day 12 I Finally called my doctor and said please and I'm feeling so much better, but I might cough

while we're talking because I'm still dealing with the tail end of it.

You know, I don't know that it's been worse this season, but Pete, we're getting older.

Is that my hope?

And the way we get our immune systems can't, there I go, can't handle it as well as they did when we were younger.

So that's why it's really important as we age to make sure that we're keeping up with our vaccines, that we're getting our flu shots.

Flu is so preventable.

And the flu shot isn't 100%.

nothing is 100%, but if it can prevent you from getting the flu, which takes thousands of lives every year, then hey, why not?

Pete Schwabba

Absolutely.

I'm totally with you there.

And that makes sense that it's an age thing, because I've never had to go on something.

It's just, it's something that works its course, runs its course.

And then you're like, okay, but I'm like, this is kind of ridiculous, you know, and because of this gig, every time I come back from a break, I'm like, you know, it's just, it's awful.

So.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Me too.

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

So tell us about the Dr. Kristin Lierly show.

What do we have to look forward to?

You do such a great job hosting that show.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

This weekend, I'm actually having my oldest son, who is also my producer, who is also a public school teacher.

So he and I are going to talk about what's happening in the media ecosystem, how we are really transitioning from this legacy media where CBS can say to Colbert, that guest is not appropriate.

to anybody can say anything with a ring light on tic-tac and people believe them.

So where do you line up?

How do you know what to trust?

Especially when you're talking about things that can determine the rest of your life, like healthcare decisions,

Pete Schwabba

especially.

Did you see the Bob Kennedy Jr.

and Kid Rock video they put out?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, where they were working on the sauna.

Pete Schwabba

How bizarre was that?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And it wasn't just then that was actually from the federal government the federal government put that out

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, see if it was from them and they said here's our nutty night hanging out.

It's funny.

Okay, get it, but He's wearing jeans

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, and he gets into like cold plunge with the jeans and cold plunges by the way are not benign like if you are somebody with a heart condition a cold plunge could actually give you a heart attack so

Pete Schwabba

like All right,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

well, that's good to know jeans

Pete Schwabba

What else health-wise do we need to, where do you stand on echinacea?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Echinacea?

Pete Schwabba

Yeah, like as a preventative.

I've been told, and now it was an actress who told me this, so I'm not really, but I've heard from other people too, that if you take echinacea when you feel your first symptom of illness, you won't get sick.

And that has kind of been a thing for me.

I'm kind of a believer in it, but I don't know if it's like placebo dealio or what.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I'm going to ask you a very personal question right now, Pete.

Pete Schwabba

can't be worse than anything I've ever heard from you, so go for it.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Was it like 20 years ago that you heard this advice?

Pete Schwabba

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Echinacea was trending 20 years ago before trending was trending because it was like, it was a cool thing that people were recommending at the very early onset of cold symptoms to ward off symptoms.

You know, is it proven?

There's some evidence for it.

There's not a ton of evidence.

The truth is a lot of these supplements are just actually no supplements are regulated by the FDA.

They're not tested by the FDA.

And you don't actually know what's in your supplements.

So at Kinesia, maybe it'll help.

It's not likely to cause harm.

Can you take it?

Sure.

Why not?

Are you just pouring your money into the toilet?

Hard to say.

Pete Schwabba

What about vitamin D?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Oh, I'm a big fan of vitamin D. Me

Pete Schwabba

too.

I feel like that does prevent illness.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, because in the winter, so we make vitamin D from sunshine on our skin.

And in the winter, in these colder climates, we don't go outside, and there's really not a lot of sunshine anyway, although today was beautiful in Green Bay.

So vitamin D is really good to take for us, especially in the winter.

But if you're getting plenty of sunshine, you probably don't need it.

Here's what I'm

Pete Schwabba

hearing.

Everywhere around the state, it's like gorgeous.

And in Marinette, I'm looking out the window all day, and it's just rain and wind and cold.

I'm like in a pocket.

It's

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

like

Pete Schwabba

when they do the weather across the state, it's like and then at the Schwabba house, it's 30 and windy

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

like like the

Pete Schwabba

five-day forecast.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

It was so sunny today that I put a chair out on the deck and sat at the deck

Pete Schwabba

table.

Come on.

Zomers is wearing beach clothing

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

with his top hat

Pete Schwabba

and spats.

You would?

I was going to, I didn't.

Oh, okay.

Here's one, Kristen, marked from prairie to sex as a colonoscopy isn't all that bad.

The prep is not pleasant, but not horrible.

Well, that's what I'm aspiring for is not horrible.

Thank you, though, Mark.

I appreciate that.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.

She's going to stick around.

Through this break, and we're going to talk about some other really cool stuff.

I want to hear, she was in a terrible accident.

She's going to give us an update.

And we're going to talk maybe some college theater.

Seems to be a theme tonight.

We're coming right back.

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

Peach Wabba

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen my fellow Wisconsinites and parts beyond it is great to have you here I am peach wabba.

This is nightlight and I'm in a great mood tonight because my friend dr. Kristen Lyrely is my current guest on the show She is telling us I go coffee again.

Don't you throw that inhaler through the

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I know it's right here here.

I

Peach Wabba

have one I have asthma sort of I don't use it often, but it's

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

terrible

Yeah.

Did I say it like that?

Oh,

Peach Wabba

my God.

Erin, can we edit that out?

Whatever that was, that snuffalupagus sound that Dr. Lylee just made.

Unfortunately, no.

All right.

No, it's adorable.

Hey, it's great to have you here before I have more.

I have a couple more questions for you

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

because I

Peach Wabba

love to get free medical advice from you when you're on the show.

So you could say,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

is that

Peach Wabba

actual wine you're drinking?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

This is a beer.

It is a dogfish head.

90 minute, which is my very favorite.

Peach Wabba

Oh, that's

Zomers

a good one.

How

Peach Wabba

do you feel about the non-alcoholic beers?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I've never tried an unalcoholic beer.

Why?

I'm totally kidding.

Peach Wabba

Who's the

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

health man now?

No, I've heard they're really good.

Athletic is that one brand I've heard is really good.

Peach Wabba

Stella, Blue Moon, they've crushed non-alcoholic beer.

I'm not even a beer drinker and I like them because I don't really drink.

but the spirits, they're a little behind.

I would love to sip a glass of whiskey and have

Zomers

that same taste.

One time, my roommate bought a bottle of non-alcoholic bourbon, and we each had about a sip before dumping it down the drain.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I was like, why

Zomers

did you buy this?

And I smelled it.

I'm like, oh, man, it's just wrong.

Peach Wabba

It's not even close.

They got a waste of it.

It's

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

one thing.

If it's free, that's one thing.

But if you buy it,

Peach Wabba

Okay, you ready for this?

For fake whiskey?

No alcohol whiskey?

32 bucks a bottle.

It's like, I understand it's a process, but it's terrible.

Like it's not even close.

Save your money, folks.

That's all I'm saying.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Kristen

Peach Wabba

Lierly is here.

So all right, let's update.

You know, we have some crossover listeners, and I know I was as curious about this as anybody.

How are you feeling?

You were in a terrible car accident two months ago.

The pictures on Facebook.

made my jaw drop, basically, and I knew you were okay, luckily, because I had just spoken with you, not knowing you had been through a horrible accident.

How are you feeling, and how is your road to recovery going?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

It's really going well.

It was two months ago today, so today has been like a big day of self-reflection and just thinking about what...

could have been and just the split second timing.

Yeah.

I luckily literally walked out of the hospital after this terrible accident where my car was crushed and I got transported by an ambulance and run through the CT scanner.

And, you know, fortunately, I just ended up with a broken foot and some other bumps and bruises and a pretty bad concussion.

But, you know, here I am two months later and just incredibly grateful and thinking about what could have been, but what

I feel like I am here for a reason, and it's election season, so let's freaking go, brother.

With all the craziness and the disinformation that's out there right now, I, as an OBGYN doctor, who speaks the truth and is from Green Bay, Wisconsin, let's have a conversation and make sure people have the information that they need to make really good decisions, whether it's in the exam room or the voting booth.

Peach Wabba

How did that happen?

With how did medical advice, and I understand COVID, and I don't want to get into all that, but who would not listen to a doctor or someone who has done the research and has the information?

It saddens me that that's become political because I think anybody would, frankly, whether you're on the left or the right or whatever, most people listen to their doctors, right?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Well, I think in the exam room, you do because you're one on one.

But institutionally, our institutions have been rocked.

You can't trust the CDC anymore.

If you look at CBS, they won't let Colbert have a guest on.

All of these things that we thought were gospel aren't anymore, but people are finding truth and authenticity on social media, in influencers, in people who they feel like they have a relationship with.

So that's where we got to go.

We have to be in those spaces.

And unfortunately, medicine has not done that.

Science has not done that.

We still think that we need to talk about evidence and data and let me tell you about the details of the study.

People can't stomach that.

You got to have all that.

That's really important.

But you also have to deliver it in a way where people can digest it.

Peach Wabba

That's a great point.

And it's sad that it's just a question of being late to the party because I agree.

You shouldn't have to do that.

People should seek out this.

That's a good use of their time.

Not,

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

hey,

Peach Wabba

what medical advice or tips are going to fall in my lap.

That just doesn't seem right.

So, all right, so you're doing well.

I'm glad to hear that.

Are you on some kind of a rehab thing?

Do you like to bike?

Have you been allowed to go out biking since it's 70 and sunny in Green Bay today?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

It was so beautiful in Green Bay today.

I was allowed earlier this week to get on my spin bike in the garage.

So I've been doing that, but I haven't gotten on my real bike.

But I've been very faithful to the physical therapy that I have to do, which seems really silly because some of it is just like seriously.

It's so important.

And my physical therapist told me only 20% of people actually follow through on their physical therapy.

So people, if you've got physical therapy, now is the time.

Go out there, do your exercises.

Peach Wabba

Do you have like, you come on the show and you kind of make medicine fun.

I feel like we should do like a little tap dance and put some music on.

It's

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

a medicine.

I can't.

I only have one foot that I can use right now.

Peach Wabba

That's an excuse.

And maybe, you know, do you have a place people can go to hear your medical advice?

X, Facebook, wherever.

Do you have a following somewhere people could latch on to?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I'm on all the socials at Dr. Kristen Lairly.

Yeah.

Peach Wabba

I was trying to set you up for that.

That's what I know you are.

I'm like, that's what we do in the radio business.

And Zomers does not follow you.

And he could use some medical advice from

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

time to time.

Zomers, fun fact, is my birthday buddy.

Zomers

It's true.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

And actually,

Zomers

I do follow her.

So, you know, you just lied.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

I follow her

Peach Wabba

blindly

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

though.

Misinformation.

Peach Wabba

Yeah, speaking of misinformation, we have about just a little bit.

Can we keep you through the break and talk about a lot of different stuff?

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Yeah, let's do it.

Okay, cool.

Peach Wabba

So what is your favorite Robert Duvall movie?

Do you have one?

That's our question of the night.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

Oh, you know, yes, and I can't tell you what it is, but he was a cowboy.

Peach Wabba

All right, we'll research this.

Oh, you don't know you really legitimately don't know.

All right, we'll get to the bottom of this.

We're coming back folks.

New sports and weather is next.

Comedian Steve Gillespie is here at 720.

That's gonna be a blast in Act 3.

Kristen Lyrely, though.

You get an extra dose of Kristen Lyrely.

See what I did there.

We're coming right back.

It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.

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

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba, your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now a guy who gives edible undies as gifts just because they taste good.

Pete Chwaba.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Welcome back to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

It is time for Act 3 of tonight's show, and it is great to have you here wherever you're joining us from tonight around Wisconsin or parts beyond over the app and stream.

We are having a great time tonight.

If you missed the first part of the show, Act 1, we talked to Andy Wassman, who is organizing this beer run.

Dr. Lyrely, have you heard about this?

It's the Run Nina is a group and they do four laps and you have to chug a beer after every lap.

So I thought that was kind of fun.

Like they're sort of like spitting in the face of general wisdom, which is people are going away from alcohol and they're promoting it during exercise, which I thought was really fun.

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The last slap is a blast the runners are like

Pete Chwaba (Host)

They have I'm not kidding They have a puke bucket and he was talking about that and I first thought was what a bunch of luscious But no that would be a serious thing, but we we talked to Andy.

That was a great interview folks

If you want more information on the event, go to civicmedia.us and all of our hours are catalogued in podcast form.

And there are some fun pictures there as well.

Hour number two, we talked to Alan Kopischke.

He is a professor of theater at UWGB.

His show Constellations is coming up in early April.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

Let me ask you this, Dr. Liarley.

I think, you know, one of my questions for him was...

Do people in Green Bay that live there that have nothing to do with the college realize they have access to great theater and take advantage of it?

And he said he didn't think so, not to say some people don't, but do you ever do that?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I wish I could say yes, because we both have theater kids

Pete Chwaba (Host)

and

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I feel like I should be a better part of that community, but no.

I mean, it's a beautiful theater.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

But

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

no, I haven't I should

Pete Chwaba (Host)

and I'm the same way I live not even an hour away and I'm like why don't I make a night of that like it's just not sometimes it's just not on your radar and you need a shove but that was really fun talking to Alan folks so check out that as well we talked about a lot of stuff and our question of the night folks is what is your favorite Robert Duvall movie Robert Duvall passed away a couple days ago he is a true titan of show business he's got an incredible body of work

and his body was just okay, but he's a great actor.

So check those out and answer the question.

Be part of the show.

855-752-4842-8557-5CIVIC.

Let us know what your favorite Robert Duvall movie is.

You can also text us on the app, or if you're watching the radio on the stream, drop us a stream comment.

Speaking of stream comments, this was a great one.

Joe.

who is watching the radio on YouTube says it's always a great evening when Dr. Kristen is on.

I could not agree more, Joe.

You got fans.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Hey, Joe.

Thanks.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

You got fans, Liarly.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I like hanging out with you.

It's just so fun and easy.

I have my pizza here.

I've got a beer.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Oh, wow.

We're

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

just chatting.

Yeah.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Do

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I have,

Pete Chwaba (Host)

I've always been wanted to be one of those people that had an aura.

Would you say I have an aura?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I think you have to be in person with somebody.

to say that they have an aura.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Interesting.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Don't you think?

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Yeah, probably.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Yeah.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

I was kidding anyway.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

There's a whole other dimension.

I honestly believe this is going to sound wacky, but I honestly believe that there is like this ribbon of something that we do not understand that runs through the universe and connects us all.

And just don't even try.

But it is a very human thing.

And I think aura is part of that.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

I totally agree with you.

And I remember, you know, there's a book by a guy named

Brian Green called, it's on string theory, the elegant universe.

And he kind of equates just like you said, a string connecting us all through physics and all that kind of stuff.

And I just, it's so funny you said that I just watched something today I saw on Twitter, if you can believe that, or X.

about David Lynch talking about transcendental meditation and what it's

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done for him.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

And I'm a fan.

I've dabbled, but I felt like after I watched this video today, I need to get more into it.

I need to get that ribbon out there, Kristen.

and connect myself to the world.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I was listening to your theme music and I was thinking about Ringo Starr and the Beatles and George Harrison because when I was recovering acutely from my injuries I watched the Beatles because I love them and they always make me feel good and I watched the George Harrison bio whatever it is documentary and he was a big meditator and when he died he was like that's cool because I'm going to that place that I've been trying to go to forever and I was thinking

I wish I could meditate, but I just cannot get myself to like settle down long enough to be in that stream of consciousness.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

And that's, but you're the person, and I don't mean to make assumptions, but that's why like people like us who are kind of people person or out there do need that.

And I, I feel like, you know, I don't want to tempt fate.

Like I believe in what I believe in, but if George Harrison, what if he dies and it's, that's it.

It's just dark.

It's, there's nothing like.

This could be it.

This could be, look, we've got water, trees, soil, laughter, hugs, blue sky.

This could be it.

So treat it like heaven.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

If this is it, I'm really glad that we're here together tonight, Pete.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Me too.

I'm glad you made it through that accident,

Producer (Zomers)

Kristen.

Pete, just so you don't freak out, a therapist once told me, do you remember what it was like before you were born?

Yeah.

Oh, well, never mind then the whole thing doesn't work.

So okay, but but that would be the argument for there is nothing after this No, that's the argument of don't freak out about it if there's nothing Oh, right Pete's mom was

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

like go into the light finally just go into the light

Pete Chwaba (Host)

No, and I agree with that and I that's how I used to think like if you're in nothingness and someone said well You could go to this place where they have all this stuff that would sound like heaven.

So, you know, and I hope that you know after this I

I'm banking that there is something because I'm trying to be a good person.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Yeah, you just never know.

So you just got to like, you know, be good and be connected and just try to enjoy it.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

I agree with that.

And I like that you're a doctor and you're kind of verifying all this because this was unexpected talk folks.

This is what they call tangential discussion.

So I'm glad we had it though.

This is fun.

We're deep.

Conversation where you never know where it's going to go.

Speaking of all of that, Dr. Lirely.

You mentioned that we have two kids, we have theater kids.

That's another thing that I think is a reason we're friends.

And I've met your son Lindsay, who a couple years ago came into the studio with you.

Wonderful kid.

He's at Stephen's Point now with my daughter.

They're both in the musical theater program.

How do you like that?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

What if they started dating?

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Now you made it weird.

I am so gonna send this link to my daughter.

No.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Don't.

Lindsay would kill me.

No, you know, the theater program is so neat.

Well, first

Pete Chwaba (Host)

of all,

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

it's like they call it the Broadway of the Midwest.

Stevens Point does an amazing job of training these theater kids.

And they did this fringe fest last weekend that I was floored, student written, directed, produced, the crew, everything was student led.

I just honestly could not believe the talent.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Were you, I remember sitting there last year when my daughter was part of that, and I was as entertained by the college kids watching the show and all of

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their

Pete Chwaba (Host)

friends.

It's just, it's so funny, you, there's a while after college where you're like, yeah, I'm still young and all that, and then now you see it and it's like, whoa, things have changed, like, in a good way.

I'm not saying, but they're very open, they're very fun, and theater kids are like that anyway, but it's a blast.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

even some of the shows that they wrote and the emotions that were in their shows and the way that they were able to talk about it because we don't like we're Gen Xers we don't talk about things quite like that they were it helped me understand them a little bit better and then afterwards we were all out in the hallway and they all convened and they were loving on each other.

It just as a mom it made me feel so happy for

Pete Chwaba (Host)

myself.

That's so great.

And I envy that you live in

Green Bay because like where I love Marinette, where I live, it's beautiful, it's great, but we are so far from everything.

Like you're an hour from Steven's point, basically.

Hour and ten minutes.

That's nothing.

Hour and a half.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Yeah.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

The speed limit is no longer 55.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Trust me, I know.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

No,

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I used to drive through Stevens Point all the time.

That was how I got to school when I

Producer (Zomers)

was

Pete Chwaba (Host)

in

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

college, because I went to the University of Minnesota and I came from Cacona.

And so I took Highway 10 through Stevens Point.

It's all different now.

But sometimes when I'm driving, I get a little nostalgic.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

That's so cool.

All right, let's wrap up this awesome conversation, even though I don't want to, because we were talking about auras and it's fun.

Medical shows.

I have so many lawyers in my family they can't watch law and order or legal dramas because it's just not you know it's TV.

Are you that way with medical shows or do you like watching like procedural medical dramas?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

I don't watch a ton of TV but back in the day I watched ER and recently I've watched a few episodes of The Pit and I have to say I really like it and

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here's

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

why.

I think it's really well done, but also they'll say fancy things and then they'll explain it in a way like they're almost teaching the audience about these things.

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And

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

like the doctor who likes to educate in me is like, yes, this is what TV should be.

So yeah, highly recommended, please watch the pit.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Wow, that's a great endorsement.

And it won the Emmy for Best Drama, I believe, if I memory serves.

But I gotta be honest, I don't like when...

Remember when CSI came out?

Uh-huh.

Like I like shows that force you to catch up and like CSI is like they're like over this cadaver.

No, what are you doing that for?

Well, if I do that, it's like don't don't I'll pick up I know you're over a dead body and I get that you're doing your job You don't have to like I don't think people talk like that like do you talk to other doctors when you're standing over someone giving birth like that?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

No, I talk to my patients Usually because there's not another doctor in the room

Pete Chwaba (Host)

That's why you're a good doctor.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

You do have to change the way that you talk, though, the words that you use and how you use them because you want to make sure that you're understood.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Yeah, no, that makes total sense.

There are times I talk to you and you're such a good doctor and such a nice person.

I almost wish I could have a baby just so you could be my OBGYN.

Is that how cute is that?

Is that like the sweetest thing you've ever heard, Somers?

It's weird.

It's out there.

Totally weird.

It's almost as weird as the Kennedy kid rock video.

Kristen,

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

thank you

Pete Chwaba (Host)

so much.

You were so much fun.

You're a

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

blast.

I love hanging out with you.

Thanks for the invite.

Let's do it again.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Absolutely.

Hey, a quick plug for your show this weekend.

Who's coming up?

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Abe, my oldest son.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

He's my

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

producer.

We're talking about media and how Gen Z digests it versus our Gen X digests it.

Social media, legacy media.

It's going to be an interesting show.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

Fascinating.

Do not miss the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show here on Civic Media.

Thank you very much, my friend.

Have a great night and take care of those injuries, my friend.

Dr. Kristen Lyerly (Guest)

Yes, sir.

Thank

Pete Chwaba (Host)

you.

See you later.

Bye.

That's Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

Check out her show.

Be a patient.

Just follow her on social media.

She's always so much fun.

Zomers, is it really obvious when she's on that I'm trying to get free medical advice?

Producer (Zomers)

Well, it is when you say you have her on for free medical advice.

I think when you tell her that's the reason, it kind of gives it away.

Pete Chwaba (Host)

That's the giveaway.

See I tip my hand.

That's the problem, right?

Yeah, fair enough.

All right, Kristen Lyrely folks, check out her show.

We have got Steve Gillespie coming up in just a couple minutes.

He's gonna tell a very funny comedian.

Actually,

Producer (Zomers)

if you want to hear a top

Pete Chwaba (Host)

of him, we have just enough time before we started

Producer (Zomers)

pretty much right away.

Let's

Pete Chwaba (Host)

play Steve's clip.

Here's a clip of Steve Gillespie, our next guest, coming up after the break.

Steve Gillespie (Comedian)

I can pinpoint that first moment that I felt anxiety in my life.

I can really pinpoint it.

I just want to have a shower with my classmates in middle school.

Do you guys remember public education?

Do you guys remember what that was?

It was like history, geometry, a little bit of prison.

And it put me on railing.

Ha!

What a strange sequence of events.

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Hey,

Steve Gillespie (Comedian)

you're on a hard time focusing.

Here's some speed.

OK, you're

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getting focused.

Now go

Steve Gillespie (Comedian)

get in a shower and bathe with everybody you grew up with.

I mean, it was fine.

There was an adult there watching.

It's

Pete Chwaba (Host)

just so bizarre

I want to clarify really quickly Zommer 608 says Zommer's wanted Super Bowl score to be 1-0.

You told him you can't score one point That's what the text was in relation to apparently you can score one point.

I need to be a bigger fan We're coming right back with Steve Gillespie.

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

Pete Schwab (host)

Welcome back.

We are jamming through act three here tonight on a Wednesday of Nightlight with Pete Schwab.

It's great to have you here.

We're talking about the things we love to talk about, comedy and movies and TV and music and all kinds of fun stuff.

And thank you for being here.

Monica from Mount Horrib in the 608 says, the great Santini, despite it being so difficult watching how he bullies his son.

Yeah, that was tough.

her favorite Robert Duvall movie.

Thank you, Monica.

Hope you enjoy the Sean Cassidy concert.

She texted us earlier saying she was in line at the Barrymore.

Dave in DeForest says Second Hand Lions from the 608 is his favorite

Steve Gillespie (guest)

movie.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's a good movie.

Yeah.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

And

Pete Schwab (host)

that is the voice of my next guest, Mr. Steve Gillespie.

Very funny comedian.

Steve, I had this huge intro.

You've done so many cool things.

You've been on...

TV a ton Namely Conan, which is such a great credit You've had best-selling this blew me away because I know your brother Bob were friends Bob's funny But he doesn't have a best-selling kind he lives in Costa Rica, but he doesn't have a best-selling comedy album

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I think you would trade I think you would trade me house in Costa Rica

Pete Schwab (host)

Maybe Steve's album alive on state reached number one on iTunes comedy charts

and hit the top 10 on the Billboard charts.

He's here tonight to tell us about this cool show.

I've kind of been talking about this all night, Steve.

You're the doce psychedelic comedy show, but you, let's start with your Duvall film.

Were you a fan of his in general?

Day's the Thunder.

Nice, okay.

Somebody

Steve Gillespie (guest)

called that

Pete Schwab (host)

top gun adjacent and I thought that was interesting.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

It's kind of is yeah, I just saw it again recently I was in a hotel room, you know I can't remember what city I was in but I was in a hotel room late at night and I caught it and I really Had been so long since I'd seen it and I was like, you know what this is a good movie.

It's a good fun Fun movie.

I liked it a lot more than I remembered liking it.

Have you

Pete Schwab (host)

seen F1?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

No, I heard it's good though.

Yeah, it's good.

I wonder

Pete Schwab (host)

because I don't remember days of thunder very well I did see it, but I saw f1.

I liked f1.

I the best picture nomination Through my whole universe into upheaval, but it

Steve Gillespie (guest)

was a nice movie,

Pete Schwab (host)

but

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I can't remember any other Other Robert DeVall movies.

I know there's a bunch out there, but I can't really remember I mean obviously the godfather, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, those are good.

It's

Pete Schwab (host)

been so much for sure.

Yeah

All right, so let's talk I want to talk mention something else you you have a Wisconsin connection you and your brother the aforementioned Bob were born and raised for how long in Rippon

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I was born there.

So I was there until Yeah, 18 when I went to college.

Yeah, actually went to Rippon College for a couple years, too So

Pete Schwab (host)

so you have a strong Wisconsin connection.

I didn't realize

Steve Gillespie (guest)

oh,

Pete Schwab (host)

yeah, okay

And yeah, were you like could you not wait to get out or was it hard to leave give us a little Wisconsin porn?

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I wouldn't say it was hard to leave I just ended up going to grad school in Minnesota at the University of Minnesota and then that's where I started I just started doing stand-up in Minneapolis and Just kind of ended up being there for a long time.

But I mean, I love Wisconsin.

I love going back.

I like performing there I mean Milwaukee is one of my Milwaukee Madison are one of my favorite places to do stand-up

Um, yeah, Wisconsin's been really good to me over the years.

There's a lot of places.

Appletune, Eau Claire, you know, I think my dad still lives in Northern Wisconsin up in, um, uh, what is it called?

Lake.

God, I'm blanking out.

Like Managua Eagle River.

Managua, that's it.

Yeah, Managua.

Nice.

So I go back.

My mom lives in Green Lake now.

So yeah, I still go back quite a bit.

Pete Schwab (host)

That's so cool.

Let's talk comedy.

Your act has been described, and I got this off a comedy club website.

So I don't know if you wrote it or the club wrote it, but after listening to the clip we just heard from you, I thought it was interesting.

It says, Steve's act is a slap happy balance of aggression and absurdity coupled with a delightfully pushy persona.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

That's like a

Pete Schwab (host)

comedian's personality.

That's like the perfect combination.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

Yeah, I think that's pretty good.

I mean, it definitely

more on the absurdist side, but like to like to push the envelope a little bit.

Yeah, for sure.

Pete Schwab (host)

All right.

You've also worked with some of my favorites, Rory Scoville, who I haven't done stand up in years, but I know his stuff.

David Tal got to work with him back in the day.

Great comic.

And I

Steve Gillespie (guest)

got a funny David Tal story.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, please share it.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

If you can.

It's such a funny, like just being a young comedian who's starstruck.

I was so nervous.

We're in the green room together.

It's just me and him.

I think at that point, I'd probably been doing stand-up maybe five or six years.

It's like a sold-out show.

I don't even know how I got the gig.

It was just like a stroke of luck to be able to open for him.

We're sitting in the green room and I don't know what to say to him.

I don't know what to do, like nervous.

They had a box of trivia pursuit cards in it.

Right in the in the green room.

So I picked that up and I started reading him trivia pursuit questions and after about the fourth one He just goes yeah, can we not do this?

But I was like, oh, yeah, sorry But he he was so nice So he watched my whole set and then he after the show he came up to me and like referenced a couple of my jokes and he was really sweet guy.

He's just

He just didn't want to be bombarded with trivia pursuit questions by a nervous kid.

Pete Schwab (host)

Maybe it was the category.

Maybe if you switch categories, he would

Steve Gillespie (guest)

have been OK.

Oh, I lost the audio.

Pete Schwab (host)

Oh, we can still hear you if you can hear us.

Do we still have him, Aaron?

I can't hear you guys.

We can hear him.

We can hear you, Steve.

It could

Steve Gillespie (guest)

be the

Pete Schwab (host)

headphones, maybe.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Well, we'll figure it out.

We've got comedian Steve Gillespie.

Steve Gillespie (guest)

I'm going to try to just pop out.

Sure.

and pop back in.

Pete Schwab (host)

We've got comedian Steve Gillespie here.

When we come back, we're gonna do the news and then Steve is gonna come back and tell us about this really cool show.

He's hosting and producing.

It's called the Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show.

It's coming to Wisconsin and I'll tell you about a couple other dates he has coming to the Dairy State as well.

He's a native Wisconsinite and hilariously funny and we are coming right back after the news with more from Steve Gillespie.

It's Pete Schwabba and Nightline on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Steve Gillespie

Welcome back.

That always reminds me of that Bill Hicks special.

Pete (host)

Oh, nice call.

Yeah.

Steve Gillespie

That song always brings me the last question.

Pete (host)

That's a great call.

That is Steve Gillespie, my current guest.

We are back here for the home stretch of Nightlight Tonight on a Wednesday night.

Nick Spookster on the stream says, Nick Offerman.

What are we talking about, Somers?

Unknown Contributor

I don't remember.

That was early on in the break.

Early on I

Pete (host)

think you're trying to

Unknown Contributor

remember somebody's name

Steve Gillespie

Yeah, he's in that show.

I was just talking about there you go by lightning show.

Pete (host)

Oh perfect Okay, thank you Spooks.

We appreciate that Sydney Frankenstein says welcome back Pete.

Thank you, Sydney.

Great to great to be back All right, Steve Gillespie is my my guest here on Nightlight Steve and I this is our first meeting I'm friends with his brother Bob was also a funny comedian and Steve is

Join the show tonight because he's got a really cool Show that he's traveled around and it's this wildly popular show called the dose psychedelic comedy show Steve tell us about this show

Steve Gillespie

Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely out there a little bit, but we've been doing it about three years It started in Denver.

We've been touring all over the country with it Basically what it is is we set up a safe space for

both the audience and the performers to experiment if they so choose.

There's no pressure to do anything, but we set up that space and it's a fully immersive psychedelic experience.

It's a multimedia event where we have a live DJ.

We have visuals, we have flow performers, and that leads into a stand-up comedy show.

Oh, man.

I thought you meant

Pete (host)

experiment sexually.

Thank

Steve Gillespie

God.

And the live DJ stays on stage with me.

So I do a very interactive set with him, an interactive stand-up set with him, with just music use and sound effects and stuff.

So it's a very...

Multi-layered type of performance.

I guess is how I'd describe it

Pete (host)

You call it out there like what like when psychedelic that that insinuates that there are like drugs involved and you know, I just I don't want to make assumptions or but like I would imagine the rules are different state-to-state.

How does that work?

Are people passing stuff out when they walk in the door?

Can they bring their

Steve Gillespie

own stuff or what?

Yeah, we don't provide anything to anyone.

We don't sell anything or provide anything

But, you know, in general, most of the audience is partaking in some sort of psychedelic.

Typically, it's psilocybin mushrooms, I would guess.

And then, yeah, and I typically will also be in that space, in that head space for the show.

Pete (host)

And,

Steve Gillespie

yeah.

Pete (host)

How does that affect, like, I'm not...

I don't know much about drugs.

I do them all the time, but I just don't ask questions But what does that mean like when when does it change your comedy?

I guess when you're under the influence like that

Steve Gillespie

You know, I don't know.

That's a good question.

I mean, I would say yes, but I don't I think you know, I've been using psychedelics for probably She's At least 15 years now and

Not that I was using them to perform and regular shows But it was starting to shape You know how I was like perceiving the world and my material and stuff like that So I don't really know how much it's like on a day-to-day basis You know like a show-to-show basis between the two like How much different like my material is gonna be there's some subject material some subject matter That's a little different with the psychedelic show because I will just talk

you know, about the psychedelic experience more than I would in just a regular comedy show, but I'm still doing a lot of just my regular stand-up in that show as well and vice versa.

You know, I think what's really happening with that show and what I think makes it unique is that when the audience, most of the audience is also in that headspace as the same headspace that I'm in, that's just like a whole nother level of connection that's happening.

within that show that's probably not happening on just a regular drunk audience.

So I guess that's kind of different and it does get a lot more absurd and silly especially like working with the DJ.

So there's a lot more improvisational stuff that's happening with him and a lot of back and forth that's obviously not happening when I'm just doing regular stand-up.

Yeah, and I mean some of the subject matter gets a maybe a little bit a little bit more personal a little bit deeper to start of we'll talk a lot more about some deeper concepts of like consciousness and some spirituality stuff Some of the things that just kind of go hand-in-hand with that psychedelic experience Wow, that sounds really cool.

And you're bringing the show to Wisconsin Yeah, we're doing we're coming back to Milwaukee and Madison.

We did both those cities last year

We had two sold out shows last year in both Madison and Milwaukee and on sort of on March 6th We are in Madison at the Burr Oak and on March 7th.

We're in Milwaukee at Co-operate.

It's called So yeah, we're doing a lot of this stuff in alternative venues to a lot of like music venues and Ray venues stuff like that

So if people are interested, you can go to thedosecomedyshow.com, go to our tour dates, or you can go to the Co-Operage, they have a website, or the Bear Oak also has a website that has the tickets on it soon.

Pete (host)

Very cool.

What gave you this idea?

I've never heard of a show like this.

I'm sure there are shows or stuff along these lines, but in terms of just stand-up comedy, comedians, audience, all kind of in the same space as you say,

Was it kind of risky to pitch this?

Did you get people on board right away?

Steve Gillespie

Yeah.

I mean, what happened is I started getting booked to do stand up at some of these psychedelic festivals, like music festivals, where people are, you know, going out into the middle of the mountains or the forest in the middle of nowhere.

And, you know, they're dancing and raving for three straight days and doing God knows what.

Wow.

And I just a couple of times people are like, hey, you should come.

Do you stand up at one of these events?

And I was like, I'll give it a shot.

I didn't really think it would be the best place for people to sit and try to listen to somebody for an hour.

But it ended up being an amazing experience.

And one in particular, I did this festival called June Jam outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, up in the mountains.

And I got there.

I was performing on a Saturday.

I got there on a Thursday, just to like be in the festival.

And I was just, you know, walking around.

I'm like, everybody's tripping on LSD or mushrooms.

Everyone's in this space.

And now I'm going to go on stage, not in that space and try to entertain them for an hour.

It just seemed really disingenuous.

And I just didn't think it was going to work.

So I decided that I was like, you know what, I'm going to take this tab of acid.

And I'm going to take this before I perform and just see what happens.

And it just ended up being such a transcending experience for me in that moment.

And I just felt so connected to the audience.

I was able to really riff and improv on things that were happening in the festival.

And it ended up just gave me the confidence of being like, if it's done right, if it's set up right,

this could be something that's that could be really fun to do and something that people could really latch on to you know there just isn't stand up isn't really being done in that space you know there's a lot of music a lot of music happening there's a lot of like live art going on people live painting and doing all kinds of other forms of art but there's never really been anyone trying to

Do like a spoken performance.

So I just felt like it was a sort of this like untapped market this untapped You know space to try to bring stand-up comedy into

Pete (host)

Steve Gillespie is my guest very funny and talented comedian You've maybe seen him on Conan.

He's also had best-selling a comedy Albums which is pretty cool on iTunes and billboard.

He is bringing his show

The Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show to Wisconsin, March 6th and 7th, dates in Milwaukee and Madison.

Can people find out more information, Steve?

Do you have like a website or something?

Steve Gillespie

Yeah, yeah, thedosecomedyshow.com.

You can also go to the Dose Comedy Show on Instagram by regular Instagram is comicgillespie.

If you search Steven Gillespie or Steve Gillespie, you'll find all that stuff.

Pete (host)

Am I crazy or does it seem like almost everybody has the internet now?

Yeah, almost we're getting

Steve Gillespie

there

Pete (host)

Yeah, no kidding if you had to do a show what would be easier for you if only one entity Was on psychedelics the comedian or the or the crowd

Steve Gillespie

If I had so either I had to be on psychedelics and the crowd wasn't or the crowd or vice versa Yeah, I would say that the crowd I would say the crowd if the crowd is on psychedelics and I'm not

And I'm still just doing stand-up.

I'd rather do that.

I'd rather do that.

If the crowd's not on psychedelic and I am, that's gonna be really difficult.

It's gonna be difficult.

Pete (host)

Well, this sounds like a really cool show.

I'm very curious.

You

Steve Gillespie

gotta compete.

I'll hang

Pete (host)

out.

Yeah, it sounds like an absolute play.

I might actually be in Madison for one of those days.

So we'll definitely keep in touch with you on that.

So who are your favorite comics right now, Steve?

Like who, when you flip around the dial, who is it like, oh, I got to watch this?

Or are you like a lot of comics you don't want to watch comedy?

Steve Gillespie

Oh yeah, I mean, I still watch a fair amount and I mean, I still like get very inspired by comedians and I mean, God, I don't know if you know Eddie Pepitone, I think is one of the funniest people.

His special for the masses, I think is one of my favorite specials that's been done in the last 10 years.

Such an incredible special.

There's a new guy, Jeffrey Osmos.

He's actually from Wisconsin.

He's in New York now, but he's a Madison kid.

Actually, you know what?

He grew up in Minnesota, but then he started in Madison.

He is really funny.

He's crushing it.

He's a very just incredible joker.

The amount of stuff he's putting out is really impressive.

There's a lot of guys.

Roy Skoll is another one.

I think is really, really funny.

Maria Bamford, she's really funny.

I'm trying to think of some really, really cool names.

So many great

Pete (host)

names, thanks to Reels.

I didn't know a lot of the new comedians until I found Reels, and then you

Steve Gillespie

click on one and you get

Pete (host)

all this.

But yeah, there's some really good

Steve Gillespie

stand-ups out

Pete (host)

there.

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff.

What?

Did we

Steve Gillespie

lose it again?

It happened again.

It seems like when Aaron comes on that my audio goes out.

Pete (host)

Did it come

Steve Gillespie

back

Pete (host)

on when he came back?

Steve,

Steve Gillespie

we'll

Pete (host)

keep you.

That's OK.

If you can hear us, we'll keep you for a couple minutes after the break.

And then we'll do that.

I want to ask him about Denver and how he ended up in Denver.

So we'll do that.

And we'll finish up the show.

With some text too after this very short break, but tomorrow night folks on the show that I like to call nightlight We've got another great show coming your way tomorrow night.

We will have Greg Pregel who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point teaching acting from Appleton cigar our pal Norm Kepesky He will be here Aaron.

Have you met norm?

I have not no Don't make a mad dude

OK, all right, I'll stay out of it.

He's all dude.

He's got the beer, the cigar, the raspy voice.

He's a great guest and he puts out a great product.

Appleton Cigar is a great place.

Daniel Wheeler will be here to make the popcorn pick of the week tomorrow.

That'll be fun talking to our pal Danny Wheels.

And then my pal Mike Schmidt, very funny comedian, will be here tomorrow night at 7.

20.

And we'll just let Mike tell stories and try to stay out of his way.

Steve Gillespie

When

Pete (host)

we come back, we'll close up our interview with our new pal.

Steve Gillespie, comedian, very funny comedian, will be here.

It's Beachwabba and Nightlight.

We're coming right back.

Steve Gillespie

I guess we're playing some bangers.

Always,

Pete Schwab

buddy.

Welcome back.

I'm Pete Schwab.

This is Nightlight.

Thank you for being here, folks, tonight.

We had a great time tonight.

This show will be available in podcast form at civicmedia.us.

You can hear my interviews with Dr. Kristin Lierly.

Andy Wassman and actor Alan Kapiszke.

So be sure and do that if you miss part of the show.

On the stream, Daniel Barris Sports Highlight, that's the greatest streaming name I've ever seen, says Happy Wednesday sub peoples.

Not much, Daniel.

Great to have you, though, buddy.

We will get to some of your texts on the text line to close the show in just a few minutes.

Right now, we've got a couple more minutes with my guest, the very funny Steve Gillespie, who is bringing his comedy show

The Dose Psychedelic Comedy Show to Wisconsin.

This sounds like an absolute really different, cool thing.

So I would highly recommend it.

March 6th and 7th.

Check it out at thedosepsychedeliccomedyshow.com.

Did I get that right, Steve?

Thedosecomedyshow.com.

Dosecomedyshow.com.

OK.

So we were talking about comics that make you laugh.

What about your favorite?

Well, first of all, Denver, you said you lived in LA for a while.

Denver doesn't seem like unless you're from there Like in this place you go back to what made you decide on Denver?

Steve Gillespie

Yeah, I have been touring through there for years and

I've always really liked it.

I always really liked the comics.

I was kind of already in with a lot of the clubs here I was able to really get in with like the indie scene as well and It was more of a lifestyle move for me because the things that I'm into just kind of fit well with this city You know, I really like being in the outdoors or really like the mountains or I rock climb I hike I camp doing a lot of

Pete Schwab

stuff

Steve Gillespie

outdoors and It wasn't really it was a pretty easy move for me

And I loved LA.

I really did like living there.

But once the pandemic was kind of just wasn't really a place I wanted to be during the pandemic.

Pete Schwab

Interesting.

So who you mentioned, Bill Hicks before, was he an influence of yours when you started?

Aside from your brother, Bob, who I'm sure was your biggest influence.

What comedians influenced your

Steve Gillespie

style?

Harlan Williams is a big one.

Harlan Williams is probably the one that's the most ingrained in there.

In fact, if you go back and listen to my very first album, I'm basically doing Harlan Williams

Pete Schwab

more or

Steve Gillespie

less.

You know, I was able, as I got further along, etched out my own voice, but he was so funny.

I actually got to work with him again.

Within this past year, I had opened for him at the Stanley Hotel up in Ustis Park.

And that was awesome.

He's such a good guy.

I

Pete Schwab

opened for him when I was a stand-up at the Laugh Factory outside Chicago.

And he was a good guy.

Offstage like I like just the banter back and forth and then I think I live close to him in LA because I used to see him at this restaurant all the time But he during one of his sets he just stopped doing stand-up and he sang the song Beth from kiss Like a cappella the whole song and the crowd is like okay.

Well, this is interesting.

He just didn't care I love comics like that.

Yeah,

Steve Gillespie

he's very silly goose.

It's really silly like we did when I opened for him up and asked his part She started every bit that he got into he opened the bit with

referencing the port in town.

Pete Schwab

So every bit was like, I was down at the port and there's like, that's

Steve Gillespie

just Colorado.

There isn't a port with.

So it's just little things like that.

We're just, I don't know.

He just as always,

Pete Schwab

you

Steve Gillespie

never really know where he stands with anything.

He's really silly, absurdist.

So he's definitely a big influence and man, you know, it's funny when I was like the very first comic.

that I really loved when I was like 10 or 11 years old was Gallagher, which you're not allowed to say.

Right.

So say that as a stand

Pete Schwab

up.

You're safe here.

It's OK.

Steve Gillespie

If I'm being honest, you know, 10 year old Steve.

Oh, man.

The guy that's smashing watermelons and jumping on top of a trampoline that's made out of a couch.

Like it's I don't know.

They

Pete Schwab

really.

Look, you've got a really cool show you're doing, and you've mentioned Hicks and a tell.

You've got a ton of street cred, buddy, so you could have said whatever you wanted there, too.

I appreciate your honesty, but hey, this is really fun, Steve.

I hope we can do this again, and I would love to see you when you're in Wisconsin.

It's been great getting to know you, and yeah, keep breaking a leg, man.

Thank you, Pete.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

You got it.

Anytime all right.

That's Steve Gillespie check out the dose psychedelic comedy show coming to Wisconsin March 6th and 7th his his homeland if you will So what do you think Zommer should we get like a young Christian singles bus tour or something and head out to the I think we might have to you know, I think we should do I Don't know that I I might know a guy, you know, I might know a guy.

I'm not sure you could set us up

with some with some tickies.

Eric from Madison in the 608 says colors with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn.

Great choice.

Let's see if we can bang through some of these here.

I almost read the colonoscopy thing from Kristen.

I'm not going to do that, though.

Mark, we read that one.

Let me see here.

We read that one.

Are we caught up summers?

I think we're pretty caught up.

Yeah.

Man, let's see, go too soon.

Okay.

Well, we've got, let's see, one more here.

I think we've got this one.

Don't know if it's my, oh, here's a mark from Prairie to Sack in the 608 says, don't know if it's my favorite Robert DeVall movie, but the Handmaid's Tale in 1990, where he plays the commander, plays a pretty despicable character who'd fit right inside what the Trump administration project 25.

Part of a cabal that overturns our government and is then part of the ruling cabal who gets to choose which women to breed.

with because his wife is now sterile.

I just about cheered when he is dispatched at the end of the movie.

Thank you, Mark.

And sorry, we missed your phone call earlier, Mark.

But thank you for being part of the show.

As I mentioned, coming up tomorrow night, we will have Norm Kepesky, one of our proud sponsors from Appleton Cigar.

Love, Norm.

Comedian Mike Schmidt.

We're just going to let him go, folks.

Great storyteller.

Daniel Wheeler.

Local artist makes the popcorn pick of the week and theater professor from the University of Wisconsin Stevens point Greg Pregel will be here and I think that sounds like it's gonna be a really fun show here.

What should be coming back?

You'll be here, right?

I will

Okay, thank God, then I'll be here too.

Folks, thank you all for your texts and calls.

Always fun.

Thank you to Dr. Kristin Lierly, comedian Steve Gillespie, Andy Wasserman, and Alan Kipisky.

We'll be back tomorrow night on behalf of Mr. Aaron Zomers, a fine citizen.

I'm Pete Schwabba saying goodnight, Wisconsin.

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