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Movie Club – The Outsiders (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu May 28, 2026
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for this Thursday evening show because it's time to talk about Francis Ford Coppola as the outsider.
Based on the S. E. Hinton novel that we all read in school or we all watched the movie and said we read the novel, but we're going to be talking about that movie in just a little bit.
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Yeah.
We, we have ourselves a great question of the night and let's, let's do two things.
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We'll restate the question and then we'll do a third thing.
I want Pete to talk about the origins of the question of the night.
So let's hit
the
music first.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
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Pregunta.
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Okay, I have a question.
Questions.
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Domanda.
Question.
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What is a bad habit you wish to quit?
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What is a bad habit you wish to quit?
Pete, do me a favor.
Tell us where this came from tonight.
Okay.
So our senior producer, Tucker Lagersky shared some information with us about how cigarette smoking in China has taken off.
It's increased by like over 50% people.
are still finding smoking.
The numbers are growing, whereas over the rest of the world, across the rest of the world, they're decreasing.
And I thought that was interesting.
And, you know, I don't, I mean, that's a bad habit, right?
Smoking is probably one of the worst you could have, do
to
yourself
at least.
This is a really, I mean, like what it says here, it says, China rose 39% between 2020.
2003 and 2023, even as it fell 26% in the rest of the world, this is the part that blows my mind.
The China National Tobacco Corporation, which by the way is a stunning sexy title for any company, generated roughly $244 billion in profit and tax revenue in 2025.
I get 50% from, yeah, that's a lot of money though.
That's still a lot of people smoke and do it.
I mean, like, yeah, it says about 7% of national government revenue and nearly, nearly what China says it spends on defense.
I mean, that is ridiculous.
The 2.4
trillion cigarettes sold in China each year account for nearly half of the global total.
Like what's the deal?
I guess Chinese cigarettes, I think are a little different than regular cigarettes.
I know this because my father-in-law,
used to be involved in the Chinese cigarette outfit.
There's no way you can say that.
It doesn't sound like he's just finding cigarettes falling off a truck.
I think, I
know, and I think it sounds awesome.
But as I understand it, he wasn't doing anything illegal.
I don't know what contest.
Maybe he just tested them.
I have no idea, but it's, those are staggering numbers.
Have you ever smoked?
Is Mrs. Lee listening
Well, it led us to our question here tonight.
What is a bad habit you wish you could quit?
Pete let's start with you.
I
don't know if this is as unhealthy as smoking, but it's definitely doom-scrolling I have
a
tendency to go to bed holding my phone at night I like to watch a sitcom and and have a laugh before I fall asleep Usually I fall asleep picking out the sitcom like I'm asleep that fast and then in the morning I try so hard Not to go to my phone, but I
do
I'm in bed for an extra 20 minutes and you know, I really wish I don't
I appreciate the technology and what smartphones can do, but I am a little addicted to mine and I don't like that part of it.
And I try
to set a
good example for my kids.
They put your phones down, but I have trouble with it too.
So I would say that's what I wish I could
quit.
I'm about to out my mother right now.
My mother used to be very much like, put your phones down, put your phones down.
And then one day she was at the table and she was just staring at her iPad.
And I just was staring at her and I'm like, put your iPad down.
What's your iPad?
Sassy boy.
I'm a sassy boy.
Greg's a sassy boy.
I mean, yeah, no, honestly, dude, I, okay, I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to say that doom scrolling or being on your device is as bad as smoking.
But I do think it, I actually just, I read a statistic for, for something, it said that when you look down at your phone, you're putting like 60 pounds of pressure on your neck.
You're putting
a lot,
like when you're staring down at your phone, it can do damage over time.
Whether it's your eyes, whether it's your body, there are repercussions to being addicted to your device.
And I don't think that's something you should just say, well, it's not the same as smoking.
Yeah, it's not, but it's also something, yeah, I think a lot of people.
Understand especially nowadays Dom.
What about you agreed
it's
is there
I know I don't know about you guys and this happened to me once when I was getting really into coffee not really into coffee, I was just drinking coffee But if you start let's say tomorrow Dom you just stopped doing energy drinks and you either like took some like took a different drink But it's just no longer a red bill or anything like that.
Do you think your body would have reaction?
I know I asked because people who drink a lot of coffee when they try to stop they'll get
Really bad headaches 100%
100 my mood is would would change I would probably wake up way later I'd stay in bed I'd probably doom scroll more like there's probably a lot of negative effects if I like get off of it It's not like I take it like so so much not like a massive amount, but it's pretty much every day So I yeah, I think it'll probably you only
have wanted
That's honestly, that's not I don't think that's an addiction.
do you guys
hate hate scroll like
I find myself Pete who are you talking to right now I'm
am I near honestly I'm just like I cannot get over sometimes the things people post and I
It's not like you're doing anything wrong, but when you're flaunting your good fortune.
Listen, I have Facebook friends and probably Instagram friends too across a wide array of financial backgrounds and all kinds of stuff.
And I've caught myself going, I don't wanna post.
Like I'll post stuff if I'm proud of my kids, but I don't wanna say, hey, I don't wanna rub people's noses in it.
And other people, I find myself getting really irritated, like really.
There's no middle class anymore.
A lot of people are struggling.
You don't need to post this now.
We know
you're
doing well.
It just bothers me.
I mean, I understand what you're saying.
There's something I always look at it from this point of view of why are they posting it?
Are they doing it to make themselves feel better?
Are they doing it for the adulation, the congratulations, the likes, the whatever, the hearts?
And to me, that's a bigger...
like the addiction of posting your victories when maybe like there are other things in your life that aren't so satisfactory.
So
you got to say
things like, I just scored a new car.
It's like, Hey man, you got a new car.
That's great.
But when it's
in a bragging tone, it sounds like what you're saying to me, it sounds like the person or people who are doing it are more trying to just say, like, look at me, accept me, validate, validate my whatever.
And, and, and, you know, it's kind of, I find it to be a little sad.
kind of insensitive.
Yeah.
Well, not even, I mean, it's, I don't look at it as insensitive on their part.
They can do whatever they want.
It's their, it's their social media page.
They can say whatever they'd like.
But when it's the thing of like the constant, like it's one side of it is the, they're always doing something amazing.
They're always living life to the fullest.
And you're like, okay, what's really going on here?
Or it's constantly just boohoo me.
Like,
It's nothing but a barrage of just like self-indulgent whining where it's just like feel sorry for me Someone has done me wrong against like dude.
Really dude, right?
So yeah, I mean I always look at it from a point of view like that I don't like I when I hate scroll I'm hate scrolling like politics That's why I can't even go on my Twitter account anymore.
My Twitter account is garbage at this point.
It's just absolute
Poison at this point.
So
that was one of our our responses on social media Mike Dussetel said responding to political post Daniel said, yeah, buddy, you got that right that for a while like when all social media started I did that constantly and I found myself typing non-stop because people come out of the woodwork and it's
like I can't do this and and what I had to keep telling myself is I'll point I'll type out these long responses and I realized this might be a I don't know this person this could be a bot
Yeah.
Why am I wasting my time with this?
And yeah, I understand completely what you're saying.
And speaking of comments on the live stream and or Facebook and or the text line, we're going to have to get back to that in just a little bit.
We'll come back, get in the movie club.
We'll do a couple of your responses.
We'll get through them throughout the show.
But we want to hear from you.
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I love these movies.
Don't you love these movies?
Movies, movies, more movies.
This is the Night Light Movie Club.
Welcome back to Night Light with Pete Schwabbe and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.
We are officially in the movie club, which we do every single Thursday in the second hour.
We watch a movie.
We talk about the movie.
We hope you've watched the movie and we hear from you.
If you want to get in touch with us on the film tonight, it's Francis for Coppola's, the outsiders based off the SE Hinton.
That's a hard name to say.
SE Hinton, SE Hinton.
Yeah.
It's like Chwaba.
They don't
roll together.
Pete Schwab is great.
Pete Schwab.
Pete Schwab brought it back to me.
I know you did.
That's good job, buddy.
Good job.
No,
but Greg
Bach has that hard.
Greg Bach, Dom Lee, Chwaba.
Here, have a dessert.
It's just, eh, we got to change it.
Did I just
kill the momentum for a movie?
I mean, I mean, uh, all right.
So
we're, this is the movie club or as we call it, Pete's therapy session.
Um, no, we're.
Tell me about your Mazda.
Uh, so we're talking about, we're talking about the outsiders, but we do this every single Thursday in the second hour, pick a movie and we watch it.
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But yeah, I have not watched this movie.
in a very long time.
So it came out in 1983.
It's listed as a coming-of-age crime drama film, which I'd never heard anyone call it that before.
This
is
Wikipedia.
It's directed by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Kathleen Newtson-Rowell, and based off the novel by Essie Hinton.
And I don't know about you.
We've talked about this before.
We all had to read the book in school.
Dom had to read the book.
What grade were you when you read it?
I was in seventh grade when we read it.
And that was like one of the first assigned books I actually read.
Yeah, same.
I think I was in seventh grade as well.
Yeah.
It's remarkable that they still make kids read this book.
I mean, it's a good book.
And it's, it's great.
That's kind of how I felt watching it.
Like this is a great, like you just said, crime drama for kids, you know?
And
it's still kind of watches like that.
Like I enjoyed it again, but it's definitely for kids.
Yeah.
I mean,
Well, first of all, let's just start with the cast.
I mean, we'll get into the nuts and bolts of the actual film itself, but this is literally a who's who of people who would dominate Hollywood for the next, I mean, in, in a lot of these cases for the next 40 plus years.
Yeah.
See Thomas Howell is Pony Boy Curtis.
Ralph Maccio is Johnny.
Matt Dillon, who by the way, never a better person to play a hood than Matt Dillon.
Right.
He has resting hood face.
Oh, exactly.
He's always, yeah.
Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and probably his last film ever where he was a side guy.
No kidding.
And then Leif Garrett's in it, who, if you don't know who he is, ask your me, Ma.
And then Diane Lane.
There are other people in it.
Tom Waits is in the film, but like Diane Lane is in this film.
It's just, it is before it was,
Before they were famous, this was a star studded event.
Studios would pay millions of millions of dollars to get people of this caliber nowadays.
Yeah, you couldn't do it with these.
I mean, it's incredible.
And what I noticed too when I was watching it, they're all pretty good actors.
Thomas Howell probably had the least recognizable career of any of them.
And he was the lead.
And he still has had an amazing career.
He's always turning up and he does really good work.
Um, Rob Lowe was still a bad actor.
This was his feature film debut.
He's tough to watch at times.
Like I know he's handsome, but oh man, he, there are some times where I'm like, oh, it's, it's this cringe worthy.
Well, and, and I think that like for me watching Tom Cruise play just a greaser slob is hilarious.
Yeah, it was.
And I also wonder if those were his real teeth.
And I.
Here's the one thing I thought was really funny, like watching the, cause it was one of those old school movies where it was like, see Thomas Howell as Pony Boy Curtis, or actually it had it like as the Curtis boys and like you found out their names before the movie begins, but you're like Pony Boy, Johnny, Dali, Dairy, Soda Pop, Two Bit, and then Tom Cruise is Steve.
Steve.
Yeah,
they nailed that one in
They don't even call it like Stevie boy or Randy Randall or something like it's like here's two bits soda pop and Steve and
Steve and then even Diane Lane was cherry That's kind of a cool name, but her friend Marsha Steve and Marsha, maybe they pair but Marsha the girl who played Marsha Michelle me rank I don't know if I'm saying that right.
She was in real genius had
a very
recognizable face.
Yeah
I was so I was watching that and I was going to look that up and I just started to look at this now and I Yeah, I was okay real genius real talk great movie
absolutely,
but and Go ahead.
Oh, I was gonna say two other things too is is that it says here that Cam Neely who went on to become an NHL like all Hall of Famer and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in this movie like untitled in the rumble scene and oh wow listed as Domino
Sophia Coppola.
She is the one who asks them for money and Matt Damon says, get out of here.
Matt
Damon, Matt Dylan.
Dylan.
Oh, maybe I see Matt Damon when I look at Matt Dylan.
And Matt Dylan is so much cooler than Matt Damon and Matt Damon's pretty cool.
I just Matt Dylan, you know,
wasn't named after the other Matt Dylan, I'm gonna smoke.
Maybe I'd get his name right.
Look at me making excuses.
I got
a lot to say about this movie though.
This
is a great
one.
We're going to come back in a little bit.
We're going to take a really quick break to the news, but we are officially in the movie club right now talking about the Francis Ford Coppola classic that I call it the classic, the outsiders 1983.
We'll be talking more about the movie itself, more about the cast, our favorite parts.
We've got some clips ready to go and we'll be getting to your text messages on your thoughts regarding the movie as well as the question of the night.
What is a bad habit you want to quit?
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We are talking about Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 crime youth drama thriller, The Outsiders.
Let me just start tacking on more and more genres on it.
Musical.
But we're
talking, exactly, musical extract against a horror.
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We were talking about this over the break during the news break.
The cast itself is just absolutely amazing.
And for me, I have to say that Emilio Estevez was the funniest person.
He was just constantly laughing.
and just kooky and weird and every time he's on screen I mean I didn't laugh the entire movie until that scene like halfway through or maybe a little bit past halfway where they're in the house and they're getting ready for the rumble and Emilio just is like he's cracking jokes and then he just pulls out a whole cake and he's sitting there watching TV eating a chocolate cake and drinking beer but he's just so good so so good
Yeah, he I think they were all good except Rob Lowe and Rob Lowe didn't have a lot of lines So he was passable and he was fine, but you played Don that mute that song Gloria and I love that opening where they it's Matt Dylan and see Thomas howling Ralph Machio walking and they encounter the rumble and Gloria's playing and they're walking the streets of Tulsa It's just a great energetic opening kind of opening scene, but I I agree Greg Emilio Esaviz is good and funny
I also think Matt Dillon was really funny as evidenced by this clip that I shared with Dom earlier when they're at the drive-in and he's giving Diane Lane's character Cherry a hard time and she literally lays into him even though he's kind of a scary dude and this is his response.
No, I didn't know you had this problem with yelling in my face.
What a terrible comeback.
He has so many lines like that.
But you're right, but it's so in character.
And he's a great character too.
And apparently he was kind of the glue of the cast.
Like, you know, he's the, they're all rebels, but he's the rebel.
And it was an interesting hierarchy between the characters because then they got Dairy, who if you remember in the book, they said nobody would mess with, not even Dali.
And it was just, and Patrick Swayze was...
Perfect for that role.
I don't remember what Patrick Swayze did before that.
I know he worked and had credits, but I think that propelled his career as well
I think so as well because I mean that movie came out in 83 and I can't remember exactly when dirty dancing came out, but it was just a few years after that Yeah, 87 1987 87 yeah, and the thing is like it was funny because when you know He sure he hits he hits pony boy and he takes off first of all the thing is like
In my head, this movie takes a lot longer.
This, in my head, this movie was like a two hour plus movie.
And this movie is paced fast.
Like it gets into it right away.
They're like, they're not screwing around.
They don't wait until the second act to get into like the meat of why everything is going on.
It's like, it's like they're going to a movie.
And then, oh my God, he stabs someone to death.
But Patrick Swayze just always looks like him.
Like, like in this movie, all of those guys look young.
Patrick Swayze, no offense, he doesn't.
He looks like an adult.
And he looks
older.
And just like, even though he's not like super built, when you look at him and he's like getting ready for work and he puts his shirt on, you're like, yeah, I can understand why no one would want to fight him.
Not only could he probably beat you up, but he could literally dance around you while he was doing it.
And he could dirty dance
around you very much.
I like this movie the most because I think it's a
There's a great message to America that sometimes good-looking heartthrobs have tough backgrounds.
That's what I took out of the movie.
And, uh, no, but it's fun.
Like you heard the word rumble.
I've
heard that
line since like it was in more innocent time where people just showed up and punched each other a few times and everyone went home to fight another day except Leif Garrett's character who, uh, who did get stabbed early on.
But, uh,
I think it holds up.
I like it.
I still like the movie because I'm watching it kind of like I did as a kid.
And it's sort of a safe hoodlum world, if that makes any sense, even though there was a death and Johnny dies and Dally dies.
I'm sorry about the spoiler alerts, but you've had enough time.
You should have read it for Mrs. Smith's class.
I'm sorry, you didn't read it.
That's right.
But I love it and even the it's nice.
They had a nice Stay Gold the song by Steve wonder at the beginning and end of the movie book ended
Steve wonder
Yeah, oh, I got confused with that
It's so weird to be like if you if you say you say Stevie wonder you're like I know who Steve you immediately know who is if you were to say Oh, I love Steve wonder you probably think is he a magician?
Is that a magician or is that
This
something I like to do with celebrity names.
Like when I watch a Sandy Bullock movie, it's just easier to say it that way.
But there are also a couple, if you guys will indulge me, I love these Matt Dylan lines as well.
When he's in the hospital and he went up to rescue Johnny and Pony boy at the church.
There was a fire.
Even though they're the greasers, they did the right thing and pulled these kids out of a burning church to give them some redeeming qualities, which was nice.
Matt Dillon is very rude to the nurse.
And one of the nurses is Essie Hinton, the writer of the book.
I don't remember, I don't know if this is her or if it was a nurse from a different scene, but this is Matt Dillon giving the nurse a hard time and then saying a very iconic line when he wants to get even with the socios.
What's happened to your gown?
I threw it away.
I'm gonna be so bad when you're at it.
Get out,
just get out.
You're making my stomach sick.
You know, we gotta win that fight tonight.
We gotta get in with those socials.
We'll do it for Johnny,
man.
We'll do it for Johnny!
Sorry.
It makes you think, like, did they actually talk like that back then?
Were there actually
rumbles?
You know that was like one of the most quotable lines we used to say that as a joke would do
Johnny man do Johnny
put that laugh in that You make my stomach sick like it it's kind of a
character and it kind of works I love it.
I like that.
I like when they're they're hauling Dairy or a dally into the hospital and goes if you ever make me do something like that.
I'll kill you You so upset to help children in a burning church
Don, what did you think about this movie?
I thought it was pretty good.
There was a lot of good actors.
I knew all of them.
I didn't know where they originated from, so this was pretty cool.
But yeah, I also really liked Emilio.
Most I would say he was probably my favorite character Just like you Greg because he was also in the breakfast club the breakfast club which we talked about a few weeks back But yeah, it was it was pretty good.
It was very like hard-nosed like I don't know He was like kind of background like I just really liked it.
I really
liked it Yeah, if you one of the reasons why I like Emilia Stavez in this movie so much as his laugh and if you want more of that watch
Young guns one and two.
He is so funny in that movie in those movies there There are almost offensively inaccurate on the facts, but it's they're still great watches and his laugh that he had like he laughs like that It's almost like Eddie Murphy.
There's a very distinct I know that's Emilio Estevez when he laughs like that because it's just that's him Right, that's a
great point.
How do you guys how would you guys have felt if Anthony Michael Hall was cast in the role of Pony boy?
I mean...
I don't think it works.
I would be fine with it, because that's the only thing I would have known then, you know?
Yeah, I'm a little more on the clairvoyant side.
I feel like... Yeah, it would be... It is weird though, right?
Because we just watched Vacation, and this came out the same year Vacation did, and he's this really scrawny kid, right?
And I will say
yeah.
Anthony and Michael Hall can act.
Like, even though
wacky comedy vacation...
He's still solid, such a solid actor at such a young age.
I don't know.
I mean, like, I think he could, I think he could definitely have pulled off the Johnny role.
I don't think he could have, I don't, I think he could only be Pony Boy or Johnny.
He could never have been any of the other boys, but, or maybe he would, maybe he could have been like a, you know, a junior social, but.
Although it would have been weird to see him come out with black hair and then get his hair dyed blonde because that is like, I only know, I only know Anthony Michael Hall with having blonde hair and now gray hair, but still it's like, yeah, that's an interesting question.
He's rusty Griswold.
He'll always be rusty Griswold.
I mean, he's the kid from Weird Science for me too.
So I
mean,
Absolutely.
Yeah, that's true.
That too.
This is kind of funny.
I read this.
The actress pulled so many pranks in the hotel where they stayed while shooting the movie.
Several years later, Tom Cruise was introduced to someone who said he worked at the hotel back when they were filming this.
And Tom Cruise just said to him, I'm sorry.
I don't know if they trashed the place or what, but apparently
they had a really good time.
Yeah, I'm sure that Francis Ford Coppola paid that bill then.
Yeah, for
sure.
Something that's very interesting too is so at the end of the movie, there is a dedication.
to a teacher and, I'm sorry, a librarian and a class because Coppola didn't want to make this movie.
He had no interest until he spoke with a woman named Joellen Misakian, a school librarian from Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, who wrote to Coppola on behalf of her seventh and eighth grade students about adapting the movie.
It was there.
inquiry and their kind words that actually led him to do this.
He had no interest before this and they were the ones.
So to me, like there's something so beautiful about a class reading this book and then having a good conversation with their teacher or their librarian and saying, write a letter, what could it hurt?
And we got this movie simply because of that.
That's
pretty badass.
On the text line from the 818 Bridget says, the nurse that Dally was talking to in the clip is Essie Hinton, author of The Outsiders.
That's right.
Thank you, Bridget, for the
text.
And John has a very, very straight ahead question for Dom there.
Dom, you like Emilio Estevez best in the Outsider because you liked him in Breakfast Club.
Quite a critique.
Why else is he great in the Outsiders?
I don't know,
Hey, John, he was funny.
He was funny.
There's always got to be a funny guy in certain movies, and I thought he was that guy.
He played that role really, really well.
And I think I remember when Pony Boy and Emilio were actually talking, and then...
I think Pony Boy had to go somewhere else, or went into the car with a soche.
And yeah, I thought it was pretty funny.
He was like laughing.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was great.
I thought he was fun.
I love how
you didn't back down either, because John's holding your feet to the fire.
And you stuck up for yourself, Tom.
That's fantastic.
guy.
He's a funny guy.
Did you mention... He's a funny guy.
Did you mention Anthony Michael Hall because he was someone who auditioned?
He was either considered or auditioned.
No, it's that he read for the part of Pony Boy
Curtis.
Well...
Not just him.
Sorry.
There's a piece of food that just fell out of my teeth and it's very embarrassing.
I'm doing this
right
now, but I can't thank you Timothy Hutton Sean John Murray.
No, yeah, exactly.
That's pretty funny.
He said awesome Timothy Hutton Sean Penn Mickey Rourke Robert Downey Jr.
Anthony Michael Hall Scott Bale Dennis Quaid all audition for roles, but we're not cast Could you I mean that is a huge huge list right there,
too.
How do you pass up Sean Penn?
I mean, he did bad boys in the same year and he was outstanding and that is a great movie too.
There you go.
All great stuff.
Well, thank you so much everyone for joining us in the night.
I almost said the nightclub.
The movie club here on nightlight.
We will be doing this again next Thursday and the second hour is always stay tuned for the next movie announced.
We will do that very soon as well.
But we got to quick take a break and we come back.
We're going to read your text and your message is about tonight's question.
What is a bad habit you wish you could quit?
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Let's take a moment to look back and ask, what did we learn today?
This is Nightcap with Greg and Pete.
Welcome back to Night Light with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.
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Civic, leave a comment on the live stream.
We're streaming on Facebook, YouTube, and the platform.
We still call Twitter.
We are officially, officially in the nightcap where we talk about what we've learned, and we hear from you, especially on our question of the night, which is, what bad habit do you wish you could quit?
Got into a really big conversation earlier in the show, so let's get to some of your thoughts, Dom.
The text line is going.
Who is it talking?
I accept.
You want to get Hickeys, get Hickeys, man.
As long as it's legal and consensual, get Hickeys and show the world.
I was trying to make sense of that text.
Now it makes sense, yeah.
Love
I Think sadly of himself too well done
I get that completely
I mean if you can't if you have to if you have to text message and you have to do you have to voraciously add to the feeding frenzy Be silly.
That's why I say why
not?
quit
We're a hard habit to break.
Please don't
break
us,
Jules.
Habit to break.
you should also listen to Amicus' Law Reviews 9 to 11 every Saturday here on Civic Media.
Sorry,
on.
I make the call.
Aw.
Wow.
I didn't even, wow, someone went to a very good school.
He's my favorite of the sheen
boys.
It was Greg and Dom's first crush, too.
John Murray can back me up on that.
What
do we have on Facebook?
Zipping over to Facebook, Stacy Sue says, she wished she could stop eating too many sweets.
Yes, I am with you there, Stacy.
Bill says, staying up late to listen to Nightlight.
We're late.
So this is either late for bill or he listens to the rebroadcast like Mike Clemens does.
But either way, please don't stop listening, people.
We love you
to be your bad habit.
Any other, that's all on Facebook?
That's all for Facebook, yep.
We have a couple more on the livestream here.
Laura Lee comes back to us and says, I'm obsessed with DVO.
I follow his media.
I read his emails.
I need help.
I get it.
He's a trash person.
He's terrible.
And I get the addiction too.
One day away.
Just take one day away and see what happens.
You'll feel better about it.
And then finally, Trumpet Joe on the live stream says, terrible habit, eating before bedtime.
Ugg, yes.
Oh, that's a bad one.
Trumpet Joe, I get that so much.
That is, that is, that is, yes.
That's my father.
I
have, if I could share one more, I got one more fun fact about the outsiders.
And I
love this when people make jokes about like when I used to come out of an audition and or when someone else would come out of an audition, they said, they said, you guys can go home.
Like I nailed it that,
that
much.
And I got the part.
Matt Dillon auditioned for the part of Dallas.
Francis Ford Coppola went up to him and told him, you can go home now.
Dillon thought he did not get the part and called his agent and told him he did not receive the role.
Coppola sent him home early because he already knew he was going to cast him as Dallas.
That's gotta be an amazing feeling.
I was, I wouldn't know.
What was I listening?
I was listening to some interview where they were talking about the same thing where like,
the guy they were they were they had cast he said like oh well you're gonna have to move to this country for a few months for the show i think it's for game of thrones and no one had told him he actually got the role so he's like why are you guys talking about all this stuff like can someone just tell me what's going on here i wish i could the story would be a lot better if i remember who was talking but still like the the plight of the actor to be in limbo and just that anxious place of being at all times where you're like
You think you did well.
You don't get the role.
You don't think you did well or you don't try out or whatever.
I mean, it's just, oh, it was, it was Pedro Pascal.
It was Game of Thrones.
He auditioned for his role on the show and they loved him right away, but no one was telling him he was hired.
So he's like, they're asking me if I want to move to this country, Croatia for like three months.
I don't understand what's going on.
Like, well, you must go on the road.
They didn't tell me.
Was he in that did he get the role?
I very briefly like he has he has probably one of the most spectacular deaths ever in Game of Thrones, okay thumbs in the eyes Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
head just goes So I was gonna say that'd be the only role he never got because he's in everything.
Oh boy.
Are you getting a little Pedro
doubt?
No, love him.
Okay.
All right more Pedro
Mass Pedro.
All right, folks, we got to get on out of here.
Tomorrow though, we're going to be talking to our buddy Jimmy Koska.
He is civic media sports director.
We're talking about actually shows, movies, things he is catching up on streaming wise.
We'll have a great conversation tomorrow with him.
It's casual Friday.
It's going to be a really fun time.
Do we have any other guests that day?
I think it's just Jimmy.
Hey,
did we learn something tonight?
Oh,
really
quick.
What'd you learn?
Thanks to my man at Walmart last night.
The Hickey is alive and well.
Dom I learned all
about the outsiders and a lot more more information.
Love it.
Nice.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
And I learned that Dom's opinions are great.
All right.
Word.
Thank you to everyone for getting in touch with us, calling, texting, and getting on the live stream.
And thank you to traffic engineering doc Tucker.
to Tucker and Dom for all the work they do.
We got to get out of here, stick around for more great program after this, but we'll be back tomorrow.
Pete, say good night to
the people.
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