Movie Club Pick: The Breakfast Club (Hour 2)

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Still ahead, we are going back into the Nightlight Movie Club this evening for our fourth installment.

We will be talking about the film, The Breakfast Club, written and directed by the great...

The late great actually.

Oh my goodness.

The late great John Hughes.

And then we'll wrap it all up with the nightcap.

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I left.

What are you?

Come on.

Legitimate, genuine.

It was a definite pizza farm moment.

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Really.

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It's

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National bucket list day guys.

What do you guys say?

I have an answer.

I have an answer.

Oh, Dom has, okay, let's go.

We're going, we're going right to Madison for Dom Lee's answer.

I got to go the World Cup and I know it's coming up.

But that's part of my, I want to go see at least one game, a part of the World Cup.

Um, cause again, I'm a big soccer fan and they cost, it's so expensive, but I got to go at least once in my lifetime, but

it's unfortunate.

That's great.

It's unfortunate.

What about UP?

What is it?

Wait, did you say it's fortune or what?

It's

unfortunate that it's in the U S this year, but I still can't go see it cause it's just so expensive, but

all in due time.

Understood.

Understood.

Pete Schwabba,

what is

on your

list?

I picked something that was attainable and kind of something I already did, but I'd like to do it again.

Um, and it's, uh, I would like to take my time this time.

So it's route 66.

We, my son and I took it when we left LA and came to Wisconsin, but we were kind of in a hurry.

And there are so many little towns on route 66 where the hotels people just left.

At least

this was the case 14 years ago.

Maybe they've cleaned them up, but it's truly a road that America forgot.

And there are great spots still along there.

And it's just a great kind of drive through history.

There's a lot of other stuff I'd like to do, but I feel like that one is the most attainable.

It's interesting.

Cause I've driven route 66, both the, the old version and the modern version now.

Cause I was driving from LA to Milwaukee for our friend, Johnny Beener.

I was driving his car from, yeah.

And, and, uh, it was,

it was very interesting because it was, there were some areas that were trying to retain that route 66 look.

And then there were just some places were like, come to the new route 66.

We got a brand new casino and a hotel and blah, blah.

And he's like, so it's really kind of, I mean, I don't want to like, you know, yuck, you're young, but like there is a sense of like, okay, this, some of it's still trying to hold on.

And

I would definitely say go for it, but I would say plot out exactly where you like, like if you're looking for history, find out where the actual history is and go there versus we're like, we're just going to go on route 66 because who knows that.

So, but it was fun and it's a beautiful drive.

I loved it.

It was very, very cool.

It's mostly

in like New Mexico.

There's Chucumcari and those cities like where they based the film cars off of, which was one of my son's favorite movies at the time.

So yeah, you're absolutely right about that though.

It is, New Mexico is an interesting place to drive through because like half of the state is just gorgeous.

And then the other half just becomes nothing.

It's just flat and boring.

You're like, what happened to pretty New Mexico?

Like that was 50 miles that away.

So, all right.

So, okay.

So that'd be a more planned out trip of Route 66.

That's a good one.

I think for me, you know,

I mean, there's a bunch of stuff, but like one of the things I would really love to do is I'd love to go to a grand slam, a tennis grand slam, whether it's the

US

open or the French open or, you know, Wimbledon.

I would love to go to one of those.

And I'm very excited because this year I'm going to the Cincinnati open.

My wife gave me a very, very generous birthday slash Christmas slash birthday slash Christmas slash birthday for next five years present of.

There, there is a major tournament in Cincinnati every year in August and she got me ticket to see it and I cannot wait cause I've never seen live tennis and this is, and this isn't like, oh, come see like the locals.

This is the same superstars who play at the grand slams will be at this event as well.

So it's going to be a blast.

I'm going with my brother-in-law.

So we're going to have so much fun.

Were you a tennis player?

Were

you a tennis player back in the day?

No.

Oh, okay.

No, honestly, no, no.

If you, if you, if you, if you saw me in real life folks, you'd be like, he never played tennis.

You know, honestly for me, my love for tennis, it came from the fact that I was homesick from work one day and I just happened to turn on, I think it was the French open, the famous game.

Oh my gosh, Roger Federer.

And I can't remember his name right now.

Nadal.

Nadal.

Yes.

Rafael Nadal.

And it was like a five and a half hour match.

And I just was riveted.

I mean, tennis is a hard game to watch because the points are weird.

And it's like, and when you come from nothing on it, like you have no idea what's going on, you have to teach yourself.

But I just, I love watching tennis.

I just, I could watch it all day long.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I like live tennis is fantastic.

Even

my daughter played in high school.

on matches to watch.

So why don't we get to some texts?

We got a lot of Facebook comments.

I know we've got some text line stuff, Tom.

How are we looking there?

Yeah, we're doing good on the text line.

We have Dan from White House that said Valley of the Kings is where he wants to go on his bucket

list.

Oh, OK.

So that's what that meant.

I saw that.

I'm like, what does that mean?

Yeah, I think

it's an Egypt.

And I think

it's like

a canyon.

So yeah, it's really cool, really cool.

That's a great bucket list.

Yeah.

Oh, I, yeah.

Brett from Brown Deer.

So the only thing left on my bucket list is going to Brazil.

That and outliving Trump don't want to miss that celebration.

You're great.

And then let's see what we got here.

Andrew from Maine says bucket lists currently have two mop buckets plus one five gal Homer bucket and an off brand five gal bucket to hold my sand and salt mix.

One for the front door and one for the back porch.

Oh, bucket

list.

Mental note.

Next time, specify bucket list.

Hey, Andrew, for man, what's something you've always wanted to do?

There you

go.

There we go.

That's two on the question.

Let's see here.

This is kind of pertaining to your aunt endeavor,

Greg.

My aunt?

Oh, which one?

Sherry?

Barb?

Your

aunt.

Oh, gotcha.

Yeah, Brett

Brownier

also said, I was a pest exterminator and roaches are the worst to kill off.

Greg, you did

the

right thing cleaning away their trail.

Yeah, I mean, it was a lot of scrubbing.

There was a lot of scrubbing.

I mean, I watched some, there were some pots and pans I had to wash like five times.

Uh, it was not fun for those who didn't, for those who didn't catch that story earlier in the show, you can go to civic media.us slash shows, go to nightlight and you can download episodes, listen to them at your leisure.

But I had a little bit of an aunt problem this morning and I spent the better part of this day, uh, scrubbing and cleaning, sweating and sweeping and Swiffer, you owe me a free Swiffer.

Now, um, yeah, um, but

yeah, thank you, Brett.

Let's see what else we got.

We have Anna from Madison said, Hi Pete and Greg, two things on my bucket list are to go to the Grand Canyon and Key West.

Nice.

Very good.

Very good.

Cool.

I love to go to Key West.

Anna, Anna, the Grand Canyon will make you cry.

That's pretty cool.

Really?

And Key West is amazing.

It's amazing.

It's so fun.

It's so small.

Where is Key West?

It's Florida.

Oh, it's in Florida.

It's the southernmost point of America.

Really,

okay.

We also have a Dom we had one from Andrew says also didn't the movie the bucket list include last night's question star Jack Nicholson.

Haha, I didn't know he was in that I forgot about call back

Let's see what else we got we got Monica from Mount Horrib said her bucket list is a publish a story a graphic novel a book something

really do it nice

amazing

do it I believe in you Monica

I believe in you.

Absolutely.

And then we also have Brett from Brown Deer.

Oh man, this is gonna be,

this is gonna be a tough one to say.

Oh, I didn't know it was Shakespeare Day.

In that case, let me say, when if thou my duty to eliminate thine pests, thou shall have thine greatest battles amongst roaches.

Nice.

Wow, Brett from Brown Deer.

The combining days.

By the way, the inventor of the Yatterhey Triangle.

Brett

is the

inventor of the Yatterhey Triangle.

That's right.

We also have Chris from Madison said, for my bucket list, I'd like to experience a supernatural encounter, like big foot,

UFO,

ghost, something cool like that, preferably earlier in life so I can write a book about it.

That might be the last thing you actually do if you encounter one

of those things.

I want to experience small foot.

There's got to be small.

If there's big foot, there has to be small foot out there, right?

Probably

got a conscious about it too.

You're right.

I don't want to bring it up.

You're right.

I'm sorry.

Small foot, if you're out there, I apologize.

You're great.

You're beautiful no matter what.

Let's see what else we got.

We still got more texts.

We got David from Richland Center said, see the orange Oompa Loompa finally go to jail.

Okay.

Same here.

Same

here.

Eric from Madison said, see the Brewers play in the World Series in Milwaukee.

He still calls in

Milwaukee.

That's gotta be on yours too, Greg.

I would this guy, right?

Oh my God.

If anything, just to shut up Cubs fans and Dodger fans and every other fan who is in the ring.

Matt, didn't happen.

Whatever.

You'll always have 2016.

We

got Carol from Madison said camping to and from Alaska canoeing part

of the

Boundary

waters

going to Antarctica and to the Galapagos Islands

Wow That's a bucket list Carol bucket list

and let's see we got one more we got Chris our buddy Chris in Madison We said watch the Vikings win the Super Bowl in person.

Hey Pete you want to take this one or should I

do it?

You know what?

We can both chime in because I will say this.

I know the Brewers haven't won a World Series yet, but ever Chris's team has been there four times just like Buffalo.

They've never won.

That's almost more painful, Greg.

I don't know.

No,

I mean, I don't know.

I mean, we both

get to see it, but, you

know, we went to the World Series once and we lost and now every five years we celebrate that.

Uh, you know, it's just, it's just, I just, you know, I don't know.

Like I just liked to win once.

I think that there's been a.

great teams and they deserve it, but whatever it's fine.

Good

luck, Chris.

And good luck, Greg.

I hope you guys get to see your bucket list things.

We got a few comments on it.

We got a lot of comments on Facebook.

I'll get through a few here before we go to break Boris Hamilton says the birthplace of the hamburger Louis lunch in New Haven, Connecticut.

And our own John Scott says he can verify my joke was, does every state claim to have the birthplace of the hamburger?

And John Scott kind of confirmed what Boris said.

He said, if it didn't start there, it was like one of the very first places.

Tim Baker says, get a new bucket.

Smartass.

Amanda Nimmer says, really want to visit Salem someday because

my

birthmark is shaped like it.

Australia too.

Oh, that's

just a lot of personal

information.

I want to go to New Zealand though.

Yeah.

Oh, I'd love to go to new dude.

I will do that with you.

The night light.

The night like young Christian singles bus trip to New Zealand.

Think about it, Greg.

Okay.

I'm neither young nor Christian, but I'll go.

I'll go.

I'll chaperone.

You found it being a bus over there.

Exactly.

All right.

When we come back, we're going to be going back into the movie club this time, the breakfast club.

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Welcome back to Nightlight with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network and welcome to the Nightlight Movie Club where we talk about one classic film.

We get your thoughts on it.

We give our thoughts.

We talk about some trivia.

We have some good times.

And tonight, the movie we are celebrating is the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club, released in 1985, starring really the core of the brat pack.

You've got Judd Nelson, Allie Sheedy, Emilio Estevez.

uh, Anthony Michael Hall, as well as Molly Ringwalba.

So we're going to be talking about this movie now, and we would love to hear from you.

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Love to hear your thoughts on this absolutely iconic classic movie that is celebrating now.

41 years.

How about that?

Yeah.

Pete, how old were you when you saw this movie for the first time?

Did you see it in the theater or did you see it like, like a lot of people like on TV or on video?

I think I was like

16.

I don't know that I saw it in the theater.

And I don't think I saw 16 candles in the theater either.

I, you know, I'm a huge John Hughes fan.

I'd love vacation when

that came out.

He wrote that and Mr. Mom, he wrote, but God, Mr. Mom.

a classic.

Yeah.

And I don't think I saw this.

And I got to be honest, I, here's where I'm at with this movie.

I left Chicago in junior high,

and I

went to a very small Catholic high school up here.

And when I saw these John Hughes movies back in my, not my stomping grounds, because I lived in the city of Chicago, but my, my aunts and uncles went to Glenbrook North where they shot this.

And I was kind of envious of these huge suburban high schools just

Primarily because I missed the big city, but they just look like they were having so much fun And then when I got to college a lot of my friends were from suburban Chicago and they

said oh

we used to actually have breakfast clubs I felt kind of left out

No, it's not weird.

It's that's normal.

I understand that also wait a minute.

You're telling me there's no such place as Sherma, Illinois

There used to be, Greg, I know the

history of this because of his connection to Northbrook, but I think it used to be, before they renamed it, I think it was Shermer Ville, and

he

shortened it to Shermer.

I think it actually was a place to be in.

There's a great scene in the movie dogma.

Kevin Smith wrote and directed it where Jane, Silent Bob are sitting in a diner.

And their whole reason why they're in the place they're wanting to be is because they, they watched the breakfast club and they were like, Oh man, we can go there and sell drugs to all those high school kids.

And they take a bus all the way to Illinois and they find out there's no such place as Sherma, Illinois.

It is so, so, so good.

Really so so written and directed by John Hughes for folks who don't know I mean John Hughes is I mean he is like one of the movies Honestly a movie that gets slept on a lot that we don't talk about too is only the lonely which I think was his maybe one of his last films But he has his roots in national lampoon magazine.

Yeah,

he

was a writer.

He wrote and in fact

the movie, the story that would become vacation was actually written for that magazine years before that.

So he was like a prolific writer.

His own family's vacation.

His own family vacation, exactly.

So John Hughes is like, I mean, he is, when I remember when he died, people were devastated because he's such an integral part for a lot of folks.

Like, I mean, honestly, it doesn't matter when you grew up because you come to that point.

where you watch The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, and all these other, Uncle Buck, you know?

And they just kind of- Plains and trains and automobiles.

Yeah, they stick with you.

Those movies stick with you.

And so it felt like you were almost like losing a family member.

Like, you're like, oh, what could we have had?

So I'm happy we're talking about this movie tonight.

I mean- Oh, totally.

Yeah.

And he, you know, he's

also like, in terms of being prolific.

Woody Allen was pretty prolific, but John Hughes, with what he did just from a writing standpoint, was amazing.

And I don't know if you ever saw a movie called She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern.

Really sweet film.

He wrote that based on his own experience being a young copywriter in Chicago.

The Jake character was based on his experience with young kids at home, I think, and then he started writing movies.

And oh my gosh, did this guy have a career?

There that movie is so that I always think about one thing about that movie at the end So it's the whole premise is they're having a kid and at the end of the movie during the credits They're asking all these random people celebrities and people who have worked with John Hughes and other movies What should they name the baby and everyone's giving their thoughts and like you know and it's a really funny part But I'll never forget the kid from the great outdoors again written by John Hughes

Uh, he just goes bill a whack a day for longer.

Amsterdam and Ashkenina.

And I never forgotten that as long as I live.

For me, John Hughes is so like, it's like weird.

Like I was watching the movie and I'm looking at this list.

I mean, like literally people talk about 16 candles, the breakfast club vacation, but like again, Uncle Buck, home alone, uh, Dutch Beethoven.

I mean, like it's like he is involved in so many films.

And planes trains and automobiles, you know, I don't think he directed that one, but that's a perfect movie almost there is no

He did he did direct it.

He

direct produced and wrote it.

So yeah, oh my gosh.

Yeah, his legacy is almost Untouchable like in terms of comedy whether it was writing or directing just really great stuff But and he wrote about stuff that was important to him or close to close to home With his experience, which is probably where the best stories come out of but

16 candles is another one.

I didn't see till later.

But the breakfast club is what we're talking about tonight.

A great film, a great cast.

And I would love to get you guys maybe after the news, but just hear your thoughts on it as a movie.

It's definitely iconic.

It's definitely a classic.

But there's a lot of other John Hughes movies I liked more than that one, frankly.

Really?

Well, and one of the things we're going to do when we come back from after the news break is talk to Dom about this because it was Dom's pick.

We asked him if there were any movies and he picked the breakfast club, so we probably should have let him talk this past seven and a half minutes, but we didn't.

Well, Dom.

because we're, we're old men who don't like the rock and roll music.

So, but when we come back after the news break, we're going to talk more about the Breakfast Club in Night Lights Movie Club.

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We'd love to hear from you.

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Welcome back to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.

We are coming to you live from all over Wisconsin.

I am in Radio Park in Racine, up the coast.

Pete Schwabba is in Marinette, a.k.a.

Christmas City, USA, and then all the way over in Madison at World Headquarters of Civic Media is Mr. Dom Lee completing the Yadrhe triangle.

We are in the movie club this week, and tonight's selection is The Breakfast Club written, directed, and...

produced by Mr. John Hughes.

RIP, we miss him dearly.

Pete and I were talking a great deal in the last segment of what we thought about the movie, but honestly, I want to start right now with Dom, because this was Dom's pick, and we asked him last week, what do you want to do for the movie club?

Are you having any thoughts?

And he said the breakfast club, and I'm like, done, let's do it.

So, Dom, two questions.

What made you pick this, and what did you think about the movie?

Well, the first question,

I'm gonna answer this is because I heard all about it.

I hear all about the breakfast club, you know, and people were saying my parents were like, oh, you should really watch it, really watch it, never did.

And finally, this was a great opportunity to do that.

And

it was great.

And what was your second question?

What was your second question?

Nope, we're done.

All right, folks.

Have a great night.

That's been Nightlight with Pete.

No.

Well, no, I said, what did you think about it?

Yeah,

it was

really, really good.

I really enjoyed it.

I didn't know that's what detention was like.

And I still don't know if that's exactly how it was depicted in the movie from back then because I was in detention a few times and it was not the same at all.

We had two levels of detention in my high school There was after-school detention, which was very much like go to detention that kind of thing and then sat We did have Saturday detention, but you had to mess up hard Like there was like you did something real real stupid and you get Saturday detention

Wow, I had no idea about that because, you know, you see Bender and see all of the characters kind of do their own thing and you would

never

think that.

Were your detentions in like a library like that sense or was it in a classroom?

Cause mine was also in just like a simple classroom.

After school detention was in one single classroom in the school.

I never did Saturday detention.

So I do not know.

My guess was probably in the library, some study hall type of thing.

But yeah, it was, it was basically just like, oh, going to detention, we got to go to room 201 and then.

I gotta say, I really like the characters.

I think that's what I liked more than the actual plot of it.

I think I really liked Paul Gleeson, who was just kind of like,

he

was

really, really good.

Such a good bad guy.

Yeah, he's like back and forth with Bender was really, really good.

And yeah, overall, I really, really enjoyed the flick.

I watched it last night and I was happy.

I was happy with it,

yeah.

It's great that Bender, in my opinion,

you could say, oh, they took a leap, they wouldn't all be friends or whatever, but like, and when I went to detention, nobody ever talked, obviously.

Usually

there

was

a

teacher, but it's Bender that gets the whole story because he's so obnoxious and his cry for help is his character.

He's got such a bad

home life.

He starts needling people, which is his way of wanting attention back and even getting you to hate him was acceptance on some level.

So

he kind of makes the whole story plausible because he's just giving everybody a hard time.

And it's even believable when Allie Sheedy's character starts to come around the way they do that.

So it's brilliantly written.

And, and, and those, you're right, Greg.

I mean, those are the rat packers.

Uh, and

I think

rat pack, I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Dean Martin was not in this.

Um, but, uh, Anthony Michael Hall, I think is probably my favorite character just because he's funny.

And you also, he has a big dramatic moment at the end too.

Why he's

there.

I forgot about that.

I mean, if you take Bender out of the equation, they're all sitting there looking at their sheets of paper all day long.

That's it.

And, you know, one of the things I really like about the film too is that it takes every, every character and they're only, I mean, if you don't, you don't count the parents and they're like from the beginning, you got the, you've got the five kids, you've got Carl the janitor and you've got Paul Gleason, you got seven.

I mean, it's, this could be a stage play, honestly, but they humanize every single one of those characters and

You want to hate the principle when I saw this movie way too young.

I saw it in like late 80s, so I was like not even 10 years old.

And you hate Paul Gleason, you hate the principle.

And you're getting older now and you're like, I see where he's coming from, but he gets points in the movie where he gets to be humanized by Carl the Jander, who by the way, two things about that.

One, something people don't notice is that

If you look closely when they're looking at like faces, like at the beginning of the movie, they're showing their faces and like the trophy case, his picture is in there.

He went to that high school.

He's the janitor of his own high school.

And there was more to that story they cut out.

Like there was like a bigger role for him in that film to give him more of a pivotal sense of like, it's sort of like, he's the janitor.

He controls the space, but they cut that all.

But still every character has their own moment where they get to be real.

And I think that's very, very important.

That's

so great.

He, he's a great actor too.

Uh, John Kaplos,

he's

from Canada.

John Candy says, I don't, we were talking about John,

he was in 16

candles, 16 candles who, and he was hilarious in 16 candles.

And he was the sniffing accountant on Seinfeld.

It was such a great one show role, but, uh, yeah, he's very funny.

And, um,

I heard that they cast or I read this on IMDB Pro that they originally cast Rick Moranis.

Oh, wow.

As the janitor and the producer pleaded with John Hughes not to go that route because Moranis grew a beard or whatever.

Perfect casting though.

And it's just a great character.

Mellow, not cookie cutter.

You're right.

He does humanize the principle.

Do you guys have a favorite character?

I

gotta go with that.

Allie Sheedy, I gotta go.

Why is that?

Why is that?

Because she doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue.

She starts opening up later on, but I don't know.

She's just really funny when she's like biting her nails and they're saying, oh, you have lunch still.

I just really, I don't know.

I guess it was a little bit of like, I empathize with her too.

I was like,

I didn't

talk as much either back in high school.

So yeah, I think Allie is my favorite character.

I always gravitated, which is weird because I was not this guy in high school.

I was, I wasn't bender.

I wasn't, honestly, I wasn't any of these kids in high school.

Like I was, I was parts of Allie Sheedy, parts of bender to a point, but I, what did not come from that home life.

And I would not like, but like, I was like a long hair metal kid, but Andrew.

because he's trying so hard throughout the movie to be strong and exactly what his dad tells him to do.

And that unpacking of the lunches, to this day, if I pack a big lunch to work, I'll be like, man, I'm really packing an Andrew lunch today because it's just like tons of stuff in there.

And when he has his turn to talk about why he's there,

I've watched that movie 30 times.

I cry every single time he does that speech.

I love the Andrew character so, so much.

We do have a couple clips from the movies.

Dom, which one do you want to pull up first?

Well, I would say probably when Bender was in the ceiling.

What do you say?

Yeah, because I want to ask Pete about this one too.

I pulled this one specifically to talk to Pete about.

Go ahead.

Is there a punchline, Pete?

Have you ever heard this joke?

Or do you think they made this up specifically for the movie?

I mean, to me, it is the biggest non sequitur.

Like you have, you're in, they're in the principal's office.

They're in the file room.

They're in the library, but this scene is just like one and done.

That's it.

And it like, you're like, wait, where's the punchline?

Yeah, I did think that the other day when I was watching I was like, oh, yeah He always used to wonder about that Joe because I've never heard it and maybe it's not even joke.

Maybe it's something John Hughes wrote.

Yeah, yeah, that's a great I don't know and he falls down and it's just great It's a great moment of like patience because he falls down everyone freaks out he comes in he goes forgot my pen and he go Come on man.

Love

it.

Love it.

Love it

It's a great scene too.

I think my favorite scene in the movie is either when Allie Sheedy is telling Molly Ringwald she's not a virgin and then she

says

I am a virgin.

It was just really well done and what kids I think do to each other sometimes.

I also love the scene where Bender and Vernon, Principal Vernon are going back and forth and he keeps adding a Saturday.

If Bender's trying to be tough and cool and say, give me another one, give me, and then he realizes, oh my God, you kind of see it on his face.

Like John Nelson's a good actor, right?

He kind of, he never really went away, but I wouldn't say he achieved a stardom.

Some of the other Brad Packers did, you know, but that was a great scene too.

You really like as an adult, and if you know anything about like, you know, trauma or therapy, you're watching this almost adult kid in this movie.

He's like 16, 17, almost 18 years old.

My guess is like he's an adult at that point.

Cause

based on what he's talking about his family like he doesn't like whatever but you see this struggling little boy trying so like he's doing all this stuff to please love me please love me please love me instead he's acting out it's just yeah it's really really interesting dom was there anything that stood out for you i

gotta say i kind of agree with you pete when um it was when bender says something to paul gleason and they keep going back and forth and bender had this to say

I thought that was pretty funny.

I thought that was good.

Yeah, I mean, just the back and forth, there's like a lot of like, yeah, it's just really wonderful, wonderful dialogue.

There's one more cut that we have that I just, this is one I think in my brain all the time, but this is just another back and forth between Bender and the principal.

I have said impossible, sir.

It's in Johnson's underwear.

There's no reason why I just say it, guys.

It's so funny to me.

Cause again, these lines are delivered with such dry wit and just so like, oh, it's so great.

I love it.

I love this movie.

Here's a couple of fun facts for you guys.

When it comes to the part of Bender, Nicholas Cage was originally considered for Bender, but he was too expensive at the time.

And then John Cusack,

was originally actually cast as Bender, but Hughes

decided

to replace him with Judd Nelson.

It's amazing, like you get a big star like John Cusack, and they still replaced him.

Hughes wrote the screenplay in two days in July of 1982, unbelievable.

And Judd Nelson stayed in character even off camera, even bullying Molly Ringwald.

Hughes almost fired him, but

Paul

Gleason, Principal Vernon, talked Hughes out of it saying that's just his character.

Which kind of shows you the decency of John Hughes on some level but also that he understood the process and probably of Molly Ringwell was okay with it, you know

Well, she honest honestly, she wasn't she was 16 years old when the movie came out and she she has spoken about her experience and how like she has fond memories of the movies But there are moments of that we're like this is this was not good.

There are moments in the movie and moments Filming the movie that she felt really uncomfortable and and that's for a whole other conversation.

I don't

16.

Yeah

Yeah, oh no kidding.

She was a kid like she started acting she was 10 but uh

Yeah, great, great film.

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It is Friday, which means what guys?

Casual casual.

There it is.

Wow.

OK.

Wow.

We did not rehearse that.

It is casual Friday.

We're going to be having a really great, really great show for you lined up.

We'll be talking to Dr. Nathaniel Schwartz on Alcohol Awareness Month.

We know it's April, so we want to make sure people are aware and not aware of alcohol.

We know you are.

It's Wisconsin for goodness sake.

But we'll be talking to Dr. Schwartz about that tomorrow.

So please tune in for that.

That'll be great to hear from you.

And also in any last minute thoughts, ideas on the Breakfast Club, part of our Nightlight Movie Club, or

What is on your bucket list?

You can give us a call, give us a text.

We'd love to know what you would like to put out there in the world as far as visiting, achieving, whatever that may be.

But while you're thinking about that, let's get to some last minute messages on Facebook as well as anything we have in the text line.

Pete, what do we have on Facebook?

We've got Dick who said to visit Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on April Fool's Day to discuss our legacy on pregame scoring.

that we both enjoyed.

Dick and I argued over who scored more pregame points on our basketball team.

Oh, so that's, that's attainable.

Uh, Mike Dessertal says to not kick the bucket.

JB says to be a regular radio show with Beach Wabba and Greg Bach.

Okay, JB, you've been on the

show though, dude.

You're basically a regular.

Oh, also Mike Dessertal, you want to die.

I'm sorry to be dark.

You don't want to stay over.

That's not good.

No, thank you.

No, thank you.

Tim Joy says, see every country I can love that one.

Vince Murano says, see Sicily, Daniel Wheeler.

I've always

wanted to try the Frisco burger from Hardee's.

Talk about attainable.

Love it.

Wow.

Cracks me up.

It's the big arch of other burgers.

A different establishment.

Yeah.

Sean says actually making a bucket list.

Dave Hendrick says four half gallon buckets, two five gallon buckets, one gallon bucket of French vanilla ice cream for when I have a sad time alone.

Our bell rich Luccasio says going to all 30 major league ball parks visit them all I want to go to all of them again, but in a span of 30 days Okay, that's that I mean

that's that's Wow, I want to see I want to see all the ball parks, but I'm gonna say between now and whenever I'm not giving myself a time frame That's a tall order 30 30

Richard says see Picasso's famous painting Wernicke, I don't probably not saying that right

And J. Campbell says see all the national parks another great one.

That's another great one.

I know we have one more.

I think we have one more text on the text line there, Tom.

Yeah, Mark from Prairie to Sack.

He said unrelated to the breakfast club, but your promo of a movie about an unexploding bomb reminded me of a five million years to earth or the other name court domain and the pit finding in prehistoric crash spaceship with grasshopper like Martians.

Geez.

Wow.

We have

one stream comment, too.

I think we missed from...

Oh, no, we read that one.

We read that during the interview

with Rachel.

I talked about the tennis stuff, but I will say this.

I also would love to visit Japan and Italy one day.

Those two.

Not Italy.

I'm sorry.

India.

India and Japan, I would love to go to those two countries.

I'll take Italy.

I'll go

to Italy.

There you go.

You can have it.

It's still there.

Osaka's a great city.

I would love

to go

there, too.

Oh

you oh the way you made it sound like you sound like you were but you've been there you're like it's a great city and then you're like I've heard I've heard other people

dropping to I didn't

know yeah my goodness my goodness oh my gosh so thank you everyone for getting in touch with us we love we love hearing from all of y'all Pete what did you learn tonight

I don't I it was such a crazy I learned some really cool places to get food in Milwaukee which I'm always looking for so thanks to Rachel for that

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And if you didn't hear that interview with Rachel from the Milwaukee Journal Central, she's their food critic.

Go to civicmeany.us slash shows look for nightlight download episodes.

Our back catalog is there for your enjoyment and your leisure.

So go there find that and catch up Dom.

What about you?

I learned that John Hughes,

he has done a lot of stuff with movies, directed, wrote.

I mean, I had no idea.

I had no idea.

Look

at his

career at IMDB from like 82 to 89.

It's like 18 movies.

Like it's not even possible.

It's insane.

That was a great

choice.

There is a.

There is a great documentary.

I think it's on Netflix about the national lampoon the magazine It's an inception to where it is nowadays, which is nothing basically but it's great section there about John Hughes talking about he came into the later years, but he kind of revitalized it with all of his writing and yeah, I mean like I Don't disagree.

I think you know going back and you know you think yourself Oh John Hughes.

He's great And then you watch the movie and you look up his work and you see how much he did you like?

Oh, no, he was important.

Yeah

And the fact that he's gone just breaks my heart even more so, but that young like early fifties, maybe something like that.

And the other thing too, we didn't talk about.

He hated Hollywood.

He hated the system.

He hated the, the, all the stuff that goes into it.

He just, he wanted to write movies, make movies.

He didn't, I don't think he lived in Hollywood.

I think he lived in the Midwest with his family, but like, he just, I respect anybody who can also.

You can buck the system while being successful.

I think that's very cool.

So

pretty tough to do.

As far as what I learned, I learned that Milwaukee is going to get some Michelin star love, hopefully.

And that's great.

I think the more that Wisconsin is known for the great things that have specifically food.

It'll bring people here.

I think that's very important.

And I'm very happy that Rachel was on the show to tell us that.

So with that being said, on behalf of Pete, I'd love to thank Dom and Tucker engineering traffic for all the work they do.

They make sure that the show goes smoothly and these mics are operational.

Want to thank everybody who called.

Texted, left a comment on the live stream.

You are what makes it fun without you.

There is no us again tomorrow.

We'll be talking to Dr. Nathaniel Schwartz on alcohol awareness month, which is right now in April.

So tune in for that for casual Friday.

We'll have great discussions and there may be not a quiz, but a questionnaire.

You have to, I know you'll have to tune in to find out.

But with that being said, Pete, say good night to the people.

Good night, Wisconsin.

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