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Wow.
Oh, wow.
I didn't realize it.
Didn't realize that Dom was that connected.
Okay.
Well, good to know.
Good to know.
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The question of the night is if you were a gangster What would your nickname be you can always get in touch with us 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic again Leave a comment on the live stream or get in touch with us via the civic media app You can also hey, you know what else they can do guys they can email us.
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But let's get to the question of the night.
What would your nickname be?
Pete, let's start with you.
We already heard from our guest, Chris Knopp.
He would be the paddler.
I love that.
Yeah.
There it is.
Yeah.
So what about
you,
Pete?
What would your nickname be?
I approached this a couple of different ways.
You know,
I thought of just a straight up Tom and Amy's boy.
Oh, that's Pete Schwabba.
He's Tom and Amy's boy.
Stay away from him.
It didn't really strike fear into people when I did
a test run.
It's also a lot of words.
Well, true.
Okay.
So I settled on Pete the forgiver.
I would, I'd like to think I would try to change mob culture.
This is why you would
just be, you know, turn the other cheek kind of more of a Jesus type message.
This is why they don't allow you in the mob, Pete, because they're like, would you do anything?
Well, I won't do anything.
I'm not going to hurt someone or even hurt their feelings.
We'll talk about it.
I'll get the money through positive reinforcement.
You know, it's, I love it.
Listen, do better
next time.
That's what I would say.
I would hold a gun to their head and I would say, I forgive you.
But I'm still gonna kill you.
No, I give them another chance
Well, and that's how I always felt too when I watch those movies and like the loan shark or they get whatever and they're like they're like I can get you the money tomorrow And they're like no, it's like what you can't wait 24 hours
like
literally like and if they can't then then we'll will institute a payment plan with a with an interest rate It's probably gonna be lower than a payday loan, but that's America mean and aggressive.
I don't think society has any place for that
You
certainly can't work
in the White
House.
He said, you are ruthless Pete.
I don't know if he didn't get that or if he was just playing along.
What you hate that when you post something and people say, I think you're missing the point.
It's like, no, I
was trying to, oh dude, trust me.
Like, like we've had this job for a while when you're trying to say something or especially you're trying to be funny.
Like what you don't understand is actually guys, this is why I ruin Thanksgiving every year.
Well, that came out of nowhere.
Personal information coming
across there.?
Well, we're on?
the radio.
And when people have their thoughts and it's like, fine, you can have your thoughts, but sometimes you're just trying to either make a joke or make a point.
And then they're like, no.
And you're like, leave me alone.
Really quick diversion, really quick, really quick.
I'll come right back to it.
And we'll get to Dom's nickname next.
The term Ruthless,
is there Ruthful?
It derived from the biblical Ruth.
After her divorce, it was a trial separation actually.
He was ruthless.
And that stuck somehow.
I don't know how Greg, but it stuck and when they got back together, he was ruthless.
Somehow they dropped an elbow.
And then what people don't know is like a few years later, they got together again.
They were like, you know what?
We have more in common and we really still love each other.
And he was like, guess what guys?
Ruthful.
I'm ruthless.
I'm no longer ruthless exactly and then he was like, he's like, you know what?
You can't pay me today.
That's fine.
Pay me tomorrow.
Yes.
And if you can't pay me tomorrow, we'll work out a payment plan.
It'll be, there'll be an interest rate, but it'll be less than a payday loan.
So that's a
Italian
stallion.
No,
no, no.
Who told you that?
Who told you?
The guys in the show.
Oh, come on.
you're the Italian?
See, I would, like, okay, I'm gonna.
Here's the thing is I'm gonna I'm gonna know first of all no because because Sylvester Stallone already is that's his nickname the Italian stallion That's I like it better on Dom to be
Hey, look at that.
Hey look at that guy coming down the street real Jimmy Caesar right there.
He just thinks he's all the thing
Dominic
did you get that word from?
name was Tony
If we do not get sponsored by that company soon, we are missing out on, I mean, seriously.
Jimmy Belonovich sounds like a guy that we beat up in like middle school.
Like, yeah, Beloni Belonovich.
Hey, my first name is, my, um,
But I like Jimmy Caesar, personally.
So that's what I'm going to start calling him.
I'm OK with Jimmy Caesar.
If you're OK with that stuff, that's
If he's fine getting the Italian stallion from his parents, he's fine with Jimmy Caesar, OK?
I will not lie.
I did not do a whole lot of heavy lifting on mine.
I went
to?
the name generator from the mob museum because I wanted to see what, like, you know,
also had?
that.
Excuse me.
I posted that in the chat this afternoon.
He did.
I didn't read the chat.
I know you don't.
No, I know they had that.
That's
a great thing though.
I'm saying before I saw
it.
Well, while we're doing this, you can also, you can go in there and find out your name if you'd like.
So my name, after you get a fill in like six or seven questions, mine is Greg the Muscle Bock.
I am the boss and my racket is you name it.
I've probably done it and my idol is Lucky Luciano.
I think I love this.
You're a dangerous man with a business to run.
You know who will follow you until the end and know who to cut loose when they no longer serve a purpose for you.
You're tough and respected in the business.
My God.
My dream journal.
Oh my God.
I like that.
And they even give you a guy like a guy who mentored
you or a perfect
world would have mentored
you.
Yeah, who your idol is.
And Lucky Luciano, a real person, very important in mafia lore.
He's literally one of the OGs.
He is the architect of the American mafia back in the 20s.
So he was a big schmiel.
Dom.
We got some text going on.
We do.
Let's go for
Okay.
Okay, we were asking for fun things, not admitting to your crimes.
So, uh...
That was a confession.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Also, by the way, really quick, John Murray and Madison on WMDX.
Salad eating criticism is ridiculous.
No, it's not.
It's just friendly banter.
Thank you.
All
Wow.
Really?
Are you Italian?
Are you Italian there, Don?
know.
It looks like ill monachromio.
Ill monachromio.
Ill monachromio.
Ill monachromio.
I can't help it.
I can't help not doing the building.
Um, let's see what else
we got.?
I want a turkey tom.?
Give me a number four.
I don't know.
I
don't?
know.
Let me do it.
what happened.
That's a cool, yeah, mom name.
Pete the Killer was taken in Goodfellas.
That was already taken.
I went,
it
was either killer or the forgiver, and I just went with it.
By the way, theater Schmeader is an amazing, amazing show that goes on every single year at the Sixth Street Theater in Racine.
So thank you so much, Karen, for getting in touch with us.
Yeah, that's
sense.
There you go.
I saw one from David in Richland Center, I
WRC says he sleeps.
And sleeps with the fishes.
Okay.
right.
His David's very look a branchy his nickname are very sleep-based
Maybe maybe you and you and Pete would work together
You know, like you're the collector.
He's the guy going like, Hey, can you guys get us the money, please?
If not talk to Chris, he'll take care of you.
It's
if you can't, no worries.
Just do your best.
You're like, you're like Chris Traeger from Parks and Rec and he's like the Ben Y character.
Like you come in all nice and Chris comes in as the enforceable.
You better have my money.
That works.
We big and great team.
Uh, going to our Facebook page of fellows, we've got Mike Destatelle who says, Jake's thug number three is referring to the Godfather of Green Bay where he played Tony Goldman's third thug.
And then he had another Jake Thug chime in, who was an extra in the movie, Sean Boyce who said he was number five.
Okay.
Uh, Tim on, on, uh, Facebook says a snaker.
I like that.
I've never heard that before.
That sounds like a plumbing job or yeah, I don't know.
It works though.
I think Pat Francis says Patty cakes.
Oh, I loved,
oh, I love Patty
Cakes.
That would
still fear in anybody.
But that's exactly who you-
Because if you wanted to make that your mob name, that means you got problems and you should, you're a guy to be scared of.
Exactly.
Patty Cakes, you make, it's like, it's like with Bugsy Siegel.
You didn't call him Bugsy or he would lose his mind.
Same with Al Capone.
You don't call him Scarface.
Don't call him Patty Cakes unless you know him or else Patty will cake your face.
Whoa,
I'm scared
of him.
A couple more quick ones here.
Tony diamond.
My pal says Tony two times
right now.
Good fellas.
Love it.
And Matt Cassane says fat and sassy.
Love it.
Is it a hairstyle or is he a gangster?
I love it.
Yes.
Is that all for now?
We got a few more, but we can get to them in the nightcap if we need to hit a break.
Perfect.
Well, we're going to take a small, very quick break.
And when we return, we'll be entering into the nightlight movie club talking about the 1990, I would say classic slash masterpiece.
Good fellas directed by Mr. Martin Scorsese here on nightlight with Pete Schwab and Greg Buck.
You can always get in touch, let us know your thoughts on the movie or give us your nickname.
If you were in the mob, you can do that right now.
We'll talk to you in a little bit.
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You two are the boys that run the movie club.
Movie club.
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Movies, movies, more movies.
This is the Nightlight Movie Club.
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You are officially in the Nightlight Movie Club where every Thursday in the second hour we talk about one classic film in tonight's selection.
Oh, it's a good one.
The 1990, I would say pillar of mobster movies like it's up there in the top like three or five if you are if you're counting it.
Good fellas directed by Martin Scorsese.
Starring Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, and a lot of guys who ended up being in the Sopranos as well.
But that is the movie we're discussing.
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But good fellas is the film for the evening.
And I, I don't know about you guys, but I've seen this movie like a bunch of times, but I did rewatch it today for this discussion.
And I still super duper
enjoyed
it.
The same, and this is one of those movies, Greg, where I remember where I was when I saw it.
A lot of movies, I can't remember where I saw it, but I was a standup in 1991 and I was working in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
about less than an hour from Philly and I came out of the movie theater and I was checking over my shoulder like someone's gonna take me out and I had to tell myself you're not in the mob relax it was just a movie like it was that real just a great movie it looked great it sounded great the music was incredible forget about the actors it got a 93% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a 97% audience score and to be honest with you
When I read that I think what is wrong with the 3% audience people who didn't like it and the 7% Truly I should go to you know rotten tomatoes and find out why these critics what they said about it because it was it was
great You know what Pete don't don't do that to yourself because in your heart You give it a hundred percent, right?
Yeah, I would give it.
I mean I know you're
kind of joking,
but I'm saying like being serious I'm being dead serious.
Who
care the
critics say?
No, I know it doesn't matter.
Here's one Scott Hedrick
We probably didn't need yet another mob movie, but if we did, this wasn't the fresh angle.
Okay.
That's from the Kansas City Star.
That's a major newspaper at some point.
First of all, the movie came out in 1990.
By 1990, there weren't that many landmark gangster films out there.
And also, what's a fresher angle?
Gangsters in space?
Gangsters time traveling?
What do you want from us?
I didn't make the movie.
I don't know why I'm getting so upset now.
I was the one who just said, who cares what critics think.
I was
trying to look at the year it came out, and it doesn't
show it.
So maybe you're
right.
Beck no, I mean the not I mean the review like Oh,
yeah,
you're right.
There was the there were the godfathers I think Miller's crossing Miller's crossing might have been after this another great mob movie But this was different because good fellas showed it glorified it early on and then it got very real Yeah,
they felt
like they were on top of the world and
all of a
sudden everything like he's you know Henry Hill says in the film it all came tumbling down so it was a very
realistic, at least in what I would think as a mob movie.
It looked at both sides.
Um, there, you know, one thing I will say about this film is it's a great film.
My only wish is that was, this was based on a fictitious story because at the beginning of the, because the beginning of the movie says based on a true story, but what we didn't know, what you don't know until like you can go to YouTube and find there's been a lot of research on this, but good fellows is pretty much almost.
A lie completely like Henry Hills stories were incompatible and not reliable the the way they crafted, you know, especially Paul Sorvino's character Paul Cicero or Paulie was it Paulie?
Yeah.
Yeah, big Paul.
Yeah He was like he was in the mob.
He was not a nice guy.
He was a demonic horrible human being like and
Uh, the thing I, the thing that I really, really super love though is that Joe Pesci, he's like in his eighties now, that movie came out in the, so I was like 45 years ago, he was like in his mid forties playing a guy who was literally in his twenties.
Right.
And it's always been Euro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just always thought that was really funny when they, when they do, when they, like granted, I'll take that over what they did in the Irishman.
with the de-aging instead of just saying, let's get someone else to play these characters.
But it's still funny to watch me like, like Jimmy, Jimmy, uh, uh, what was his last name?
Jimmy Conway was 20 years.
Conway is 20 years old.
Like he looks terrible for 28.
He's in the mob.
He's living hard.
what did you
really
got out of it was slick back hair I mean it was like the most Italian Italian you can ever Italian and I thought I really like that part and I did watch the Sopranos and I Honestly, I know I know it's a show in a movie, but I definitely I think I like good fellas more I didn't finish Sopranos, but I definitely I thought it was really good.
I thought it was really really
good
Yeah.
And I agree with you, Greg, except that I like that they did that because I would not have wanted to see other actors, even though it was a stretch.
I thought De Niro pulled off late twenties.
Okay.
But you're right.
Pesci always has looked the same age to me.
That
was?
a bit of a stretch.
But you know what?
If that's the biggest criticism of the movie other than our Kansas city star friend here, um, yeah, I'll take it.
It worked.
My criticism, like, I don't really care that they played younger like that.
To me, that was funny.
That's just funny to watch.
For me, it's the fact that this story is not the like, like there's one thing about like poetic license and they're changing, like this was changed so deeply that it's not really a true story.
The true story, it's much darker and much more sinister than people actually know.
But we'll talk more about the trivia of the movie.
We'll talk more about our thoughts.
We got some text messages coming through
on the
text line.
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Good fellas here on the program.
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You know, whatever it may be on the film, bleep.
Yeah, like, yeah.
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Now, folks,
We were talking earlier about just our basic thoughts on the movie, but like going deeper into the shooting of it all and the actual craft of the film.
It's also not just a great movie to watch, but it's beautiful.
It's technically really good.
It's fantastic.
Adam mentioned the bar scenes are cool.
Everything was lit beautifully, and it really is one of those movies that is all encompassing.
Every component worked, acting, script, dialogue, shooting, costume, and wardrobe.
We did get a funny... I shared our text about Movie Night on Facebook and our pal Stuart Little.
Stuart J. Waddle, who you should know there in Southeast Wisconsin.
He did his best Johnny two times and he says,
I'll be listening to the show, listening to the show.
So that was
nice.
I know Stewart.
Thank you, Stewart.
Can I just get in one more?
This guy, this Kansas city critic is driving me crazy.
Here's what he says.
Ray Liotta is very convincing as a kind of self-made blue-collar mafia also struggling to better his position in the underworld.
But after we see his stupidity in getting hooked on drugs and his insensitivity and cheating on his wife, we never can really get behind the guy's corner.
And then he equates Brocco.
He says, Brocco delivers a fine performance, but Michelle Pfeiffer already showed us the travails of a mafia wife and married to the mob.
He's comparing what is based on a true story to a romantic comedy.
Do you know what's really funny about that though?
Is that if he had said if he had said Michelle Pfeiffer showed us all of that in the movie Scarface where she did the exact same thing then I'd be like I understand that but you picked Mary to the mob?
What a stupid
Matthew Maudine and Alec Baldwin He cheats on his wife, and I don't like that.
It's based on a true story and to your point Greg earlier.
This was interesting
Um, supposedly Henry Hill, the real life Henry Hill said they got Tommy DeSimone, uh, Pesci's character 90 to 99% accurate.
Like he was that psycho.
Oh, he was that psycho, but he was like, like the thing is, is that those percentages that he didn't get, he was even worse.
He was a lot younger.
He
was also like
six foot two, 220 pounds.
Like he looked nothing like Joe Pesci.
It was like,
Again, like that's that's my only my only gripe with the movie is that it isn't in my opinion.
It isn't really based on a true story It's inspired by true events and there's a difference by that because Nicholas Pelleggi who wrote the book and then helped write the movie the interviews with Henry Hill were not truthful so That's like where I'm just like, you know, I watched a lot of videos on YouTube where they broke down FBI files and reports and whatnot Henry Hill was terrible guy and also if you've ever seen a mob movie
Name me a mob movie where it's like, oh, you know what I loved about that guy.
He was real faithful to his wife.
He's a real good guy didn't do the drugs He didn't have a lady on the side.
He was just a good dude You just you know, that's what you come to expect in a mob movie
It's it's and I understand nothing in in as told to or adaptation is always gonna be 100% but
A lot of these, these things really happened.
And that's all you need.
And you can say it's based on true events, the Lufthansa heist, whatever it was.
But speaking of the Lufthansa heist, I have to give a shout out to Mike Starr, who's been a guest on Nightlight.
He is always so great in those movies.
And he played
the
security guard that let them walk in and steal $420,000, which was Frenchy.
I love that name.
And then it doesn't end well for Frenchy.
So great.
Not one bit.
There was, you know, there's one scene in that movie that's very well documented.
In fact, when I went, when I was in, I wasn't in film school.
Good Lord.
No, thank you.
I was in film class, but we talked about that one shot at the Copa from the car to the table.
That's just like, I mean, that's like two and a half minutes.
And it speaks to the talent of everybody involved.
And because...
I know that shot is technically difficult.
I know that there's a lot of planning that goes into a one shot.
For folks who don't know what that means, a one shot essentially means a long take.
One long take going over like, you know, many areas, a lot of dialogue, but it's just one, like the opening to, oh gosh, Tim Robbins movie about LA, the player.
There's
a long one take.
We actually watched that too in film class, but.
They make it look so easy, because you're like, well, they're just walking.
They're just walking, and the cameras just fall.
Of course this is easy, but you're like, no, it's not.
This is incredibly difficult.
But the other shot, not as long, that I really enjoy, is when Henry brings Karen home after the neighbor was being a creep.
And that one shot from when he looks in the car, looks at him into the car, comes out, walks across the street.
The guy says something really dumb.
He hits him with the gun a bunch of times.
And then he walks back.
That one long shot is just amazing to watch.
Because that's the first time in the movie, and we're 40 minutes in, that you see how dangerous Henry Hill is.
Before that, he's just like, yeah, I'm just stealing cigarettes.
And I got busted.
And I'm a bad guy.
But that is where you see the viciousness of Henry Hill, right?
there in the
film.
It's so great.
And part of it is the music, but it makes this is one of those films.
When I see the first scene, I'm like, I know I'm going to love this movie.
I already trust this director and this writer.
A couple
of things I want to point out.
De Niro, a little repetitive when he says two very important lessons.
Always keep your mouth shut and never rat on your friends.
A little redundant, but exactly.
I dare you to say that to his face.
Well, speaking of De Niro and his greatness as an actor, I love something I read when I was reading our guest yesterday, Michael Nirenberg's book about behind the scenes stuff.
And
he said, whoever he talked to and documented for that book said that they were all doing great.
They shot a few days before De Niro got there.
And then when De Niro got on the set, everyone was like, whoa, like that's just kind of the aura he had as an actor.
And you think,
These are really good actors in their own right and kind of intimidating guys too.
When De Niro showed up, it went to another level.
Last thing, Greg, the F word was said and its derivatives, 321 times an average of one per, one per minute, I think it was.
And it used to be the highest rated or the most used, the film with the most F bombs.
It is now 15th.
As of 1920, it's 15th.
And Wolf of Wall Street, also a Martin Scorsese vehicle is number three.
So there you go.
I think Scarface for the longest time was number one because that will be excels at the F-bombs.
Like it's just, it's like nothing.
It's like sprinkling, it's like sprinkling cheese on your pizza.
You're like, it's nothing.
Like of course we're going to say that.
Dom, we have some text messages from people about their thoughts on the movie.
If you want to get to those really quick.
mean, honestly,
Like, I have never, I've never done that drug, I swear to God.
I know like, I look like I invented cocaine, but I've never done it.
But that scene, especially from, you know, they're doing it, but that moment when the blues kicks in, he's at, what's your face's house?
And he like, the camera cuts in really close.
He takes that long sniff.
From that moment on, it feels like you were on that high with him because you feel gross and paranoid and scared.
I watched that movie.
three dozen times and I still to this day.
I'm like, what's, oh God, okay.
Oh my God.
Like is the helicopter still there?
Totally.
I feel like they really frame that experience well.
Absolutely.
Sweating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got also Chris from sun prayer.
He says good fellas soundtrack is definitely one of my top five favorite soundtracks after I saw it.
I probably listen to that soundtrack every day for a full summer.
Nice.
Wow.
Chris and then.
John from Madison also says, if I was going for a peshy style, super reactive, violent rage, loose cannon, psycho mafia guy, I think I would go with Johnny Scoots.
Nice.
Really good.
good.
That's great.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
are great.
Dom, can I ask you a question really quick?
Can you imagine if you said no?
As we've learned from both your experience at Jimmy John's and your parents giving you a nickname, the Italian stallion, you are Italian.
As an Italian person how do these movies frame for you?
Is it like you are you if persons like is like us feels like such a just a stereotype or like as an Italian person like hey I'm watch this is part of kind of my history like as an Italian individual like Does it matter to you?
Do you care or do you sometimes people take offense to these movies?
I mean, I honestly I don't really take offense to it, but I will say it doesn't I don't really
I don't really love how they portray Italians.
There's just a lot of things that are not that.
I mean, we talk like, hey, come on, what are you doing over here?
Stuff like that.
I don't know if that was really Italian.
I'm not totally.
No, that wasn't Italian at all.
There you go.
It's kind of hard for me to say.
Um, but like, you know, my great-grandparents, they were, you know, panazos, and they, you
know, they had a
always have a
So in terms of, like, maybe the food and the style of that, and going to, like, the wineries and all that stuff, I would say it's similar.
But in terms of actually, like, liking what they do, especially during, you know, the Goodfellas movie, I'm not a big fan of it.
in my.
Okay, all right.
Interesting.
All right, cool.
We got a couple more texts here, you guys.
John again says, Johnny two times would never tell Dom to avoid broccoli and green beans because they make you really fat and put you at risk for diabetes.
And salad is a death wish blah, blah, blah, just for some playful banter.
Sorry, had to comment twice than John from Columbia County says you think I'm funny.
Yeah, absolutely.
I also like that, that Melissa on Willy Street's apologize for John.
She's done that
before.
Before we get out of here, I want to play a couple of clips here.
This first one I wanted to play was, you know, I don't know, we're not going to have time to play all of them.
But this one here is, takes place the scene where Henry has left the house because her, he and Karen have gotten to a massive fight.
And this is when Paulie and Jimmy Conway show up.
And I want to play this one really quick.
Nope, not that one.
Not that one.
The next one.
Yeah.
Karen came to the house.
I only wanted to bring that for one reason.
The reason why I brought that, that last line, I know how to talk to her, especially her.
Here's a fun fact in real life.
When he was in jail, Henry Hill, Paul, Paul Cicero had an affair with his wife.
Is
that true?
That's very true.
Very true.
Oh, they caught lots of stuff out of the movie.
But we'll talk a little bit more because there's another clip that I know that Pete wanted to bring up.
On the other side, we'll be getting into the nightcap.
We'll be routing out the show, getting to the last of the text messages, finding out what we've learned.
But don't go anywhere.
Stay tuned.
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Tonight's question is, if you were a gangster, what would your nickname be?
We just got done talking about the 1990 classic Goodfellas here.
in the Nightlight Movie Club.
Stick around, stay tuned for the announcement of our next movie that will be coming up probably tomorrow or Monday.
You can always be part of that conversation.
And speaking of tomorrow, we'll be doing some casual Friday, guys.
Friday is already here.
That's, wow, this week went fast.
We'll be
talking to Mike Siegel, comedian, TV host, and actor.
He will be with us tomorrow on the show in the second hour, or in the first hour.
First
hour, yeah.
Yeah, so tune in, be a part of it.
And before we get on to other business,
Dom, what about any other leftover text messages that we need to get to before we sign off for the evening?
Yeah.?
Oh, get the cash for me.?
Chris to, uh, uh, I can't, I'm ashamed.
I didn't think of this.
Chris said Pete, your mob name should be sneaky Pete.
Uh, yeah,
never even entered my mind.
Yeah.
innocent
fish.
Oh, interesting.
We got one last one from John in Columbia County.
I love this one.
Go
that one.
Prohibition.
Oh, yeah.
During
Wow.
Oh, that is awesome.
My grandfather ran bootleg liquor back in the 20s as well when he was younger.
And in the early thirties before it was 11 worth.
That's nothing to shake a stick at.
No, we get out of
here.
There was one clip that Pete really wanted us to play from good fellows that he wanted to discuss.
We got a couple more minutes.
Dom, do you want to play that very special clip for us?
It's the, it's the Joe Pesci clip.
What?
What is this?
Okay.
So
I couldn't find
it.
I couldn't find a clip of Joe Pesci during Goodfellas where he didn't swear.
So we just, I had Don pull that from home alone.
We have a couple more texts
here
too.
I love this one from our pal, Tom Clark, Greg.
He says, gassy tea.
bet Tom
Clark.
Yep.
That's apt.
And then Dave says, iron balls, McDavid.
All right.
Wow.
Justin Leon says Justin Leon.
I love
that.
Oh my
gosh.
Play it straight
up.
Justin's a very funny comedian.
Very, very funny.
Good friend.
Awesome.
Great text.
Everybody.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for getting in touch with us.
Pete.
What did you learn tonight?
Boy, I learned that, uh, I love that there are people out there.
Listen, Greg, I'm a movie guy first, but boy, that interview with Chris, uh, not.
I love that there are people out there protecting our waters.
Once clean water is no longer clean, based on the chemicals, it's gone.
It's not like, oh, you know, and jobs are important.
I get it, but come on.
Especially that, one of the most beautiful areas of this country.
So I wish Chris luck.
I was glad he was here and he was very informative.
I
don't disagree with you.
Dom, what have you learned this evening?
on.
Not even the accenta?
not
Even Italians are like, dude, why are you hating on your own people so much right now?
Can you just give me a like, I'm a barrio.
mine once he goes?
he goes you know as an Italian guy we're like the last group you can actually make fun of and no one cares I'm like
yep no?
one actually cares at all when we make fun of you sorry somebody had to be that last bastion of using yeah absolutely and I'm
I'm fine with that, until someone tells me not to, and then I won't do it anymore, because I'm just that kind of guy.
Also, Dom, you know there's methods and avenues for you to learn how to speak Italian, right?
You don't know it now.
That means it's- That's true,
Italian?
Hang out at a Jimmy John.
You
to learn Mandarin?
You got to hang out at Arby's.
That's just the way it works in this country.
Put
that on and stitch that into a pillow.
You want to learn Italian?
Go to Jimmy judge.
You want to learn Mandarin?
Go
to Arby's baby and get the brisket sandwich.
Oh my God.
That's so, so funny.
Actually Mandarin, Farsi and Spanish.
Those are your best ones.
Those look at your jobs.
Oh dude,
I took, I have an embarrassing amount of Spanish.
education under my belts with almost nothing to show for it.
I can read it.
Okay.
I can understand it.
If it's at a certain speed, but after that, I mean, I'm talking guys, I'm talking four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11.
Whoa.
I have nearly 12 years of Spanish classes.
Oh my gosh.
And you, but reading it is good too.
I know is a don de esta casa de pepe.
And I learned that from Steve Martin.
But that's the thing too is like is like what they didn't tell us when we were young is like go on trips go to places where they're speaking they're just right I'm learning the the the version of it.
That's like No one says that like so All right, cool.
Well, that's good stuff.
There's a good show
all
bilingual.
It sounds great.
What did you learn?
I've listened I learned that if we want to protect our waters we want to make sure we elect people who will protect our waters
And this is
an election
year.
And we need to find the people who are going to protect our environment, protect, you know, I get that Pete jobs are important, but there are other ways of creating jobs.
And it doesn't mean we have to strip mine, our natural resources and politicians who want to get ahead and get money in their coffers shouldn't paint it as that's bad for business.
No, it's bad for Wisconsin and Michigan, Minnesota, Canada.
It's bad for the people.
Maybe hire all those park rangers back.
There you go.
There's
your
jobs.
Perfect.
All right, folks, on behalf of Pete and myself, I want to thank Dominic and Tucker.
and engineering and traffic for all the work to do, making sure these microphones actually turn on when we walk in the studio for everybody.
Oh my goodness!
Called, texted, got on the live stream.
Everyone who left a comment and was part of the conversation, thank you so much.
Without you, there's no us.
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