Dan Davies on Remaking a Wisconsin Cult Classic (Hour 2)

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We'll be talking to Dan Davies.

He's a filmmaker discussing his, his remake of the cult classic, the giant spider invasion from 1975.

I'm talking about other projects he's working on.

He's a friend of Peach Wabba's and he was in a film with a last night's guest, Mr. Danny wheels, Daniel Wheeler.

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But what is the ideal age to live to?

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What age is ideal to live to?

And let's kick things off with Pete.

He's a late 20s guy right now.

Really late 20s.

I'm not going to lie to anybody.

It's dire.

I think I said 120.

But here's

the

deal with this question because a lot of people I think are being funny and they're saying you know ages that are not that old or even elderly You you want to be healthy?

You know if you want

to be hooked up to tubes or taking medication and barely walk for 30 years Nobody wants that but correct as a person who truly doesn't know what's on the other side and none of us really do I'm in no hurry to leave this world.

So even if I am in

you know, not as spry as I am or whatever.

I say 120 if I have my health.

If you're spry,

I'm a spry 120.

I don't disagree with that.

Tom, you are early 20s.

What about you?

I would have to say, I mean, I'd probably want to stay alive as long as possible as well.

I mean, but I would say- Like immortal?

Maybe immortal, like you were saying before, a vampire, right?

Even though they don't really want to live.

In Hotel Transvania, they did.

So I think it just, I don't know.

I would want to- Interesting.

I want to stay alive as much as possible.

I'm, yeah.

Yeah, I think

so.

I feel like I'd

be super healthy even when I hit 90.

Call me when you're-

Call me when you're 31 the first day you wake up where your back just hurts for no reason.

You guys say that a lot.

I'm nervous.

Yeah, because your body takes revenge on you.

Your body reverses course really quickly on you.

Oh no.

Things

happen.

Let me ask you this time.

Do you stretch regularly or do yoga or anything?

I don't.

I just kind of sit in a chair.

This is why I love this chair.

Start.

I'm telling

you.

When I do

yoga, I feel like I'm 14 years old again.

When I wait a couple of days and then it's like, oh man, I'm in my 50s.

You

know what I mean?

You're a former athlete, so you have a body that's used to that kind of activity.

So yeah, it's good to just keep that right there.

Thank you, Greg.

I agree.

Oh, both of you.

You're both great.

Yeah.

So I agree with Pete, though.

Like I don't want to live to 120 if my life is a misery.

I don't want to live to 70 if my life is a misery.

I would, if I'm, if my body is still, I would say if my body is moving in proportion to the age, because in your eighties, you move a little slower, but if I'm not like miserable, then all right, cool.

But

I don't want to live for a long like I don't want to I don't want to surpass people who like The idea of like you're gonna lose loved ones.

You're not like they're gone and and what do you do?

Like how do you like live that just it seems that seems like a curse to me more than anything else, but yeah No, I'm with you.

Yeah, but Dom he wants to live forever because he doesn't care about any of us

True

care about

everyone.

I'm a caring

guy.

I think sometimes

Here's the deal though.

They're going to come up with some solution that could add 10 healthy years to your life if you're under the age of whatever I'm over by that day.

That's what they'll do.

That's

what

Jeff Bezos has in his up his sleeve.

I know he really has it out for you.

Really, really does.

Something's

going on there.

I don't like it.

Well, let's talk to someone we have on the phone right now.

Whistler and Richland Center has an answer for tonight's question.

Whistler, what's going on, friend?

Hey, I'll tell you what, man.

The question my on my dad's side His oldest sister passed away at a hundred and one Hmm on my mom's side hurt.

She had two older sisters that reached a hundred and two All right, she had eight brothers.

I'm 74 Okay,

I kid

maybe I'm 74 I was in the service in the early 70s in Vietnam era

My father was in World War II.

He was part of the release of Doshwitz or whatever that concentration camp was.

His sister was a nurse in World War II.

And she ended up being the head nurse at St.

Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee.

And she used to take all of us kids down there for the summer, you know, during state fair.

But anyway, that's precisely the point.

That's the side point in my own perspective.

I I'm looking south right now.

I got the fun to my west I I'm gonna live as long as I can God God willing Yeah, God will go

that's a that's actually a great answer.

You don't have to give a number that

makes

total sense

For

sure.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much, Whistler, for calling.

We appreciate you reaching out.

Always love hearing from you.

Let's hear from other folks on the text line.

Dom, what do we have on the question of the night?

Yeah, we got a few.

We got Monica from Mount Horrib texting in says, the billionaires have to keep poor slash younger people as they'll need to harvest organs and joints when

all their original

parts crap out.

Wow.

Okay.

I thought that when you said joints, I'm like, they're going to take their weed of America.

Maybe that

too.

And then Monica also said about the question of the night.

It says, no specific age, but the date you're going to run out of money or lose your faculties.

A psychic told

me

I would live to 82.

So for me, it's 82.

I would

not want

that information.

Don't ever give

you that information.

Don't tell me that at all.

Even if it's a hoax or hokum or they're a bad psychic, don't tell me that.

That

would scare me.

John, right underneath that says 82.5 or push me off a cliff.

So we're on the 82 range, I think, but we're kind of going with here.

But look over your shoulder anyway.

Exactly.

Or at least voice whether you, if you change your mind.

Yeah.

Let people know.

Exactly.

We also have Karla texting in on WMDX says, I think I'd like to live to 70 to 72.

Geez.

Okay.

Karla must be pretty young because that's not, you know.

That's not even the life expectancy in this country right now.

It's a little bit under the life expectancy.

We're at like 73 for men 75 for women, but yeah, it's called realism called realistic in this world I see we have Ali from the Northwoods on the phone as well.

Why don't you take that call super quick?

Ali good evening.

Welcome to night light.

How are you doing my dear?

Okay,

but you might not like what I have to

say.

Oh boy

Little shorts

story to start off.

When I was a teenager, we had an uncle who had cancer and came and stayed with us and lived with us for his final month of life.

And when he passed away, I can remember us four girls sitting out on the front porch the day of his visitation.

And we all were discussing

And how it was, you know, to get old.

And I said, I wanted to die.

Um, when I turned 35, because it was like, when you turn 35, you'd be in a wheelchair on your way downhill.

I'm like, oh my gosh, 35, that's

so

old.

Yes, that was it.

But as I get older, I think people should be able to die when they're ready.

When they feel

ready.

That's fair.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well,

don't go anywhere too soon, Ollie.

We'd like

you any year round.

Thank you so much for calling, Ollie.

We appreciate you.

All right, we got time for a few more text text messages and some Facebook messages.

What do we

got there Dom?

Yeah, we got Matt Texian on WCFW says great reference.

I got it I think there's a reference from you Greg Puck from real world.

You saw the show, you know, you he totally

hooked up with Rachel, aka, second transportation, Sean Duffy's wife, Rachel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely, Matt from Altona.

You are absolutely right.

Yeah.

Yeah, and Puck is terrible, so is Rachel, and so is Sean.

They're all terrible.

They all deserve each other.

Oh, great.

We got Carol from listening on WMDX says, I would like to live to at least 100.

To at least, okay, Carol.

My

goodness gracious.

All right, let's do a couple more text messages then we'll head over to the Facebook page.

Yeah, we got Nick texting in from Marshall says 100 or more would be okay just as long as I'm still in good health.

But if I'm in my 80s and my health is going down the toilet, no thanks.

Okay.

really sparked some thoughts on this.

Well thought out.

Matt is also texting, also said live to 94.

Very specific.

Okay.

All right, there we go.

All right, let's get, let's get one more and then we'll move it over to Facebook.

Absolutely.

We got Melissa from Willy Street texting and says, I don't know boys, but thinking about your mortality is hard for most people.

I hope when it's my time, it'll be like when my beloved dog passed.

He let us know when it was time.

Putting a number

on it

is too hard.

When I go, I go.

There you go.

There you go.

Melissa from Willy street being honest and of course bringing a dog into it, which makes me sad.

Okay.

All right.

Great.

Um, Pete, what do we got

on the Facebook page?

Uh, real quick, Mark from Prairie to sack on the text line in the 608 says, wonderful to hear Ollie's voice.

I agree with you a hundred percent, Mark.

Uh, thank you for the text.

Uh, on Facebook, we've got Dan Thine says 60.

He is 60 right now.

So he is falling short of expectations.

Thank you though, Dan.

Our pal Rocker Smith from Max Inc Radio says, the moment you die.

Okay.

Okay, Rocker.

Mike says, it all depends on your health.

Personally, I would not want to be hooked up to a machine or juiced up on drugs just to live.

Well, what if they're great drugs, Mike?

How do you rethink that?

Teresa says, 75?

Question mark?

Like she doesn't know.

Vince Moranto, very funny.

Vince Moranto says, 70 and I'm 69.

Nice.

Answers are dire.

Like, exactly.

I feel like the text line was like...

80s, a hundred until whenever Facebook's like, take me now, please.

It's because they're on Facebook.

They know what they're absolutely.

Uh, Dale on the live stream says ideal age, maybe 60, only a few more years, 120, buddy.

No one should have to see three.

Wow.

Okay.

Three.

Okay.

I'm not, that's it goes far there.

And then Joe on the text line says, Rachel was a racist homophobic jerk on the real world and remains the same to this day.

I'm not going to disagree with you, Joe.

So there you are.

But thanks.

everyone for getting in touch with us.

We'll look at more of your text messages and messages on the Facebook and social media when we come back throughout the show.

What is the ideal age?

That is the question for the night.

But when we come back, we will be talking to filmmaker Dan, excuse me, Dan Davies to talk about his remake as well as a movie he's in with last night's guests, Mr. Danny Wheeler's Daniel Wheeler.

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Good evening, Dan How are you doing?

Hello gentlemen?

How is

everybody?

Really

good

peachy keen good doing great man.

Yeah to

have you

You know, my age would be 85.

85.

Not

now, but my death age would be, my goal would be 85.

What must make

you feel good that you could not pass for 85 down?

No, I don't look a day over 80.

You okay, so let's start it off with what I have here on the list here is so there was a movie that came out in 1975 called the giant spider invasion It is it's a cult classic.

It was it was a film featured on MS Mystery Science Theater 3000 a lot of folks who love those kind of films know exactly what we're talking about but you're doing something with this film that I mean How would you classify?

Not calling it a remake or a reboot, but what are you doing with this?

now 50 plus year old film.

Yeah, a great question.

We call it a reimagined reiteration.

JV Thompson and myself are the executive producers behind it.

Craig Connit is also part of that team.

And we approached Bill Rebay and the director about just adding period correct footage to the film.

The film is about 85 minutes or so stars Alan Hale from Gilligan's Island, Barbara Hale from

Perry Mason, it has its own cult classic following and been on Ritrax, Mystery Science Theater 3000, top 50 box office in 1975.

And we pitched him this idea of like redoing some scenes and adding some scenes to the film just to add more to the narrative, add to more of the campiness, add to the comedy, add to the story.

And we came up with this character called Ted Titman.

who is a loser, alcoholic, cigar smoking, TV personality typecasting that I play.

And I got up in the whole 1975 shtick.

I've got a Harvey Corman 2-Pay comb over and on 1975 mustache.

And J.B.

Thompson, we used his dad's ties from the 70s.

And it really had some fun.

And Bill created on the third floor of his house a 1975 television studio, which was really kind of cool.

So we added in these really cool scenes to add to the narrative and added about nine to 11 minutes.

So I guess it's a reimagined reboot or...

I guess, reiteration.

We've shown it a few times now in Minneapolis, in Wisconsin.

And we've got some upcoming screenings, which we're really super excited for.

But he redirected it at the age of 89, Bill Rebaned it.

And that

was fun, you know, to see somebody who started off, you know, in the 50s and worked with Cary Grant and John Wayne and all kinds of people from the 50s on and to have them as our director was really kind of cool.

That's amazing.

That is.

So, Dan, let me ask you this.

I watched that movie.

Bill has been on this show over the phone, Bill Rabain, and I really enjoyed talking to him.

But what was it about the original?

It is kind of campy already.

I don't know if that's what he set out to do in 1975 or it's just aged that way.

But what did you see when you saw the film?

You're kind of the catalyst behind this.

What did you see that you wanted to change?

Yeah, you know, I did see the film actually in 1976.

One of my uncles, yeah, when I was about 10, 11 years old, one of my uncles was drunk and took me to it.

And I kind of knew I shouldn't have been in it.

It was the Rosa Theater, you know, inside that theater watching it because it was rated PG, rated R because there was some nudity.

And, you know, when you're 10, 11, you know, boy, you know.

Yeah, that's fighter really got your motor running, huh?

Yeah So so my uncle Wayne basically took me to it and which is odd because exactly 50 years later It's gonna be at that same theater

amongst about half a dozen, the Rosa Theater in Wapacka, Wisconsin, on that same screen.

So I get to see it 50 years almost to the day of when

I went

in with my uncles, which is kind of weird.

But I always loved the campiness of it.

And he did want it to be funny and campy.

And with Alan Hale, the skipper from Gilligan's Island, was actually a real

a good comic.

He was naturally had a good, he was almost like, you know, if you think about a Skipper and Gilligan, we're like Laurel and Hardy of the 70s.

And that's kind of what he kind of brought to the table.

So I thought, let's amp that up with my character, but still adding some good narrative to the story.

Like how did the spiders get there?

Are they from another planet?

Interdimension?

Is

there a

reason behind it?

And that's what we did in Aaron Yanda.

from, um, Chad Vader fame also plays my, yeah, my, uh, uh, camera man.

and did an amazing job and we got to do some improv a little bit with him and and that was super super fun so but it just adds more if that campiness more of the story and it just it's a testament to Wisconsin it's like a love letter to Wisconsin was filmed in the great north woods of Wisconsin and it's as Wisconsin is cheese packers you know brewers bucks you know

all

that good stuff.

All right.

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He is a filmmaker talking about his reimagining of the giant spider invasion.

We'll talk more about that on the other side of the news break.

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And I wanted to talk about this really quick.

You said that you approached the director of the film.

the giant spider invasion to do a reimagining as you put it.

What is a conversation like that, like where you sit down with someone who made this piece of art that is beloved by so many people and say, here's what we want to do with it as well.

Was there a lot of convincing or was he right on and saying, let's do this?

Not a lot of convincing at all because he said literally when you make a film and you know, Pete can attack

as to this, you can look at a film and go, I wish I would have done this.

I wish I would have changed that.

I wish I could have added this, this, and this.

You always look at it as an ever-evolving baby.

But once in a while, you want to change its diapers.

So having said that, he was like, oh my god, now this gives me an opportunity to respond to what people were.

Like where did the spiders come from?

You know, you know, was it an intergalactic event?

And now we're able to those questions through my character Ted Titman, the TV newscaster.

So it was easy enough because he wanted to get that across for years and years and years.

He was like, oh, shoot, I wish I could reshot that or added this.

And we came in and said, we can do it.

Wonderful.

That's amazing.

Let me ask you this, Dan, was he he's 89.

And he was fine when he was on the show.

He seems very sharp and all that.

But what was it like working with a guy who had that much experience?

You know, he's directed other films as well.

He's created camera equipment and all this kind of stuff.

How was that?

It was amazing.

You know, his energy.

He level, obviously we couldn't do a 12, 14, 16 hour day, but he's still sharp as a tack.

His, you know, his energy level for a good portion of the day was there, but it's difficult.

Once you start pressing 90, you know, but he works out, tries to work out every day, keeps himself.

He's a big, you know, fitness fanatic.

He smokes like a chimney,

but

he counters out with multivitamins and herbs and all kinds of stuff, but it was great.

And then just having him talk about, you know, Cary Grant and John Wayne and John Wayne's brother and he's great at youth and all these great experiences he had, it's just like mind boggling.

So you walk away with a PhD and old school film

when

you're with him.

And it's it's very fun to listen to him.

He's got amazing stories.

Were there any methods or pieces of advice that he gave you from those old days of film that will

stay with you for modern filmmaking in the world of digital and all that stuff.

Was there advice from, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it type of thing.

You know, and you guys were kind of coming in and out of there just for a second, but I think I got the gist of it.

Yeah, we had some people had said, you know, we like the old version, you know, but we really like this new version.

And it's starting to get, when we showed it, there were

last time it was in Plackville, Wisconsin, and we had, you know, 11, 12-year-old kids up to 82-year-old kids.

And they really enjoyed these new additions to it, but they really enjoyed the humor of it.

And they were laughing hysterically.

And that was one of the first times, because most of the time, if I'm in a film, I'll do an intro and then pretend like I sit, and then I find the nearest bar, and then I have the...

film you know timed so if it's 88 minutes I'll be in the bar for like 80 minutes having a few drinks and then I'll run in pretending like I'm there for the whole time because I hate watching myself on screen.

This time I was like hell no I'm gonna watch it all and listen to the reaction and the reaction was amazing.

I was like holy smokes these people really enjoy this film and it's funny and it was really heartening for me and so so having said that it's it's a brand new version but

It's better.

It is so much better.

And it's not because I'm in it.

It's just because people really enjoy it and they just enjoy that energy and that passion and that campiness.

Well, and it's cool because the reimagining has exposed people to the original as well.

I mean, they weren't going to probably find that

in

this day and age because they're not out there pushing it, but now they will.

So I'm sure Bill is excited about that and good for you for getting through it.

Our guest is Dan Davies.

He is a Northeast Wisconsin based actor and filmmaker and a very busy guy.

Last thing about the Giant Spider invasion, at least for me, where can we see this?

You mentioned you screened it a few times.

What are some upcoming dates or where can we find more information?

Yeah, we're super excited to be in the Roger Cinemas.

And Roger Cinemas is in Central Wisconsin, North Central Wisconsin, and the UP in Michigan.

And we've got upcoming premieres, special events with Bill Rebane there, with Merch and Q&A and autographs and, you know, intros and all kinds of stuff.

We're going to be opening in Wapaka at the Rosa Theater, June 25th.

And then we're going to be in Marshfield at the Roger Cinema.

and the Stevens 07 Roger Cinema from June 26th to June 28th, and they might extend it further to the 30th.

So we're super excited.

Those nights are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or excuse me, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 6.30 each night.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at respective theaters are these special events.

With Bill Rabain there, I'm going to be there.

We're going to have autograph merch and poster giveaways and all kinds of fun stuff and Q&As and that's going to be fun.

And then they have matinees throughout the weekend and other showings.

The other showings are only five bucks, but even the premieres are only 10.

So it's cheap and it's a good way to just kind of meet a living legend and really enjoy yourself.

It's really a good film.

And

it's shocked the

hell out of you guys to be honest with you.

Well, you are working on other things too.

And one project that you were a part of that we spoke to the creator, the director Daniel Wheeler was on last night was my brother in Bigfoot.

And tell us about that experience and tell us about, you know, about the movie and what you're excited about for it.

Sure.

You know, Daniel Wheeler is such an amazingly talented guy.

He is a polymath.

He's a great musician.

He's a good singer.

He's a great artist.

And he's a great filmmaker.

He's a great writer.

He's so darn creative.

And on top of it, he's one of the nicest guys in the world.

And I've been in his projects and he gets me involved in his projects all the time, which I'm so thankful for.

He came up with this idea, which I thought is genius, about using some of the old footage he had done years ago and then incorporating that into a full-length feature film.

We started filming a couple months ago.

I play a documentarian who's kind of trying to find out the mystery behind how this guy went missing.

uh, uh, Daniel Wheeler's character's brother and it is going to be funny and poignant and we're just really enjoying ourselves and it's shot like a mockumentary like, uh, Christopher Guest, you

know,

best in show and, and, uh, up to, uh, goes to 11, you know, a spinal tap that, that type of

waiting for that humor.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, but it still has a heart.

So we started filming that and I'm so excited to be a part of it.

We got an all-star cast and crew for that and hopefully we can have that premiere maybe at the tail end of this year.

That would be really fun.

That's awesome.

Tell us again about your film, The Deep State.

We talked about this during one of your visits.

Where is that in production?

And when will that be available to view?

So they have the proof of concept pretty close to being finalized in post-production.

And that is the sequel to the award-winning film, Happy Birthday.

And Happy Birthday won over 50 film awards.

And in that film, I play the president of the United States.

This, but in that film, I die.

So I ruined it.

So they're making a prequel to Happy Birthday.

And it's called The Deep State.

And we started filming that starting like last year.

And again, a talented casting crew of Wisconsin and Midwest.

Filmmakers and Ezekiel Drew's and just you know, it was a brainchild behind it and JB and we've got such a great casting crew and again, I I might like same character the president of the United States and I'm kind of like a president Trump on steroids with dementia Sort of wait

That was a president Trump on steroids with dementia.

I don't

OK.

All right.

Now I'm in.

Now I'm in.

Yeah.

A stripe that dementia.

But

a trombone

steroids.

There you

go.

And it's we shot that last year.

And I'm excited for that.

And we might be having a premier sneak preview of that August 15 of the proof of concept, which will be about, I think, probably what it's all said and done.

It's a longer proof of concept.

It's almost 30 minutes long.

So, but yeah, very excited about that.

And that's about, you know, a pandemic and craziness and intrigue and political espionage and all kinds

of

stuff.

Wow.

Wow.

A lot going on.

That's a lot going on.

Now, we've only got a couple more minutes left together.

Are there any other projects that you're working on that you're thinking about that you want to get out to the world, let them know that you're doing before we get out of here?

Very quickly, yeah, have a book coming up.

August 15, it'll be at Tardigrade's Bookshelf, a book signing, and it's a sequel to A Forest Dark, and it's called A Forest Savage.

And that'll be out August 15th.

I'm very excited about that.

That's a supernatural.

a book that's really freaky and strange and the Forest Arts is available on Amazon.

And we're also going to be showing video vignettes for the film as well that August 15th.

So and then I've got a couple other projects, but I'm just so thankful to be able to work as much as I do because it keeps me out of the

bars.

Actually

it

doesn't.

I just shoot

movies and bars then.

You just know where to go

for your lunch break.

I've done that before.

I've done that

before.

Last night's question was what is your favorite movie franchise?

Do you have one of those?

What kind of movies do you go to and what would your favorite franchise be?

The films that are consistently good that have shocked me that they're so good, the Mission Impossible series.

Awesome.

I am blown away by the consistency of those films and the storytelling and the action and everything about them.

I'm absolutely blown away.

And Tom Cruise, at whatever he's almost 70, could still be a professional athlete.

I think if he was five inches tall or he'd be a pro athlete, that guy just blows my mind of what he can accomplish.

So yeah, Mission Impossible for sure.

Great stuff

and maybe

you should do a prequel of the giant spider invasion the baby spiders come out or sometime just spitball in here guys feel free to jump in

I've got a screenplay here.

I've been working on that exact same idea.

So if you guys wanted to just get together on a zoom and we'll go over some beats, just be fine.

So we call it the baby spider invasion.

Okay.

No, the invasion of the soon to be giant spiders that are now babies right now, but don't worry.

They'll be bigger later.

That's the.

That's the

tagline

and the

title.

I love

that.

That's awesome.

Alright, Dan Davies has been our guest this evening.

He is an actor and a filmmaker.

Dan, where can people go to find your work, like a website or whatnot?

Dan Davies.org.

My Wikipedia page is just under Dan Davies actor.

And if you want to add stuff to it, you can, because I'm not supposed to do that.

But Dan Davies.org is a great way to kind of get caught up on what I'm up to.

And again, I appreciate you guys so much.

Thank you guys.

God bless

what you guys are doing.

Just

keep kicking ass and taking names.

We'll certainly try break with the film.

Yeah.

Thank you.

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We are officially in the nightcap where we get to the last minute messages, thoughts and ideas on our question, which is what is the ideal age to live to or just, you know, read your thoughts on other topics too.

We're open here in the nightcap.

Then we talk about what we learned and then we head on out of here.

So.

Dom, what else do we have on the text line leftover before we move on?

Yeah, we have one that's hard-hitting right here.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids texted and said, JD Vance loved his chair too.

Maybe I'm

not a big fan of my chair.

See what you did there?

Gross.

We have Matt texting in on CFW says, or Highlander style, live until you get your head cut off by Sean Connery.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's funny because.

Matt from Altoona sent that and then Danny wheels got in touch with us again on the text line

He said has Dom seen the movie Highlander.

I actually have not I need to see that leaving forever.

It's

not fine carry out in store.

Is it just

fine?

It's fine.

It's fun.

I watched a recent actually only watched half of it I'm like I can't do this this movie is just not good.

It's fine

Remember it and I've been meaning to watch it though, and then we got Chris texting on WMDX says I want to be a Centurion and see how far

I

can live after that I don't believe in retiring and sitting on a couch all day.

I can never do that I can

I'm doing that the rest of the night

running water it never goes stale

I see what you did there try show off Chris

Um, then we got John Murray, Texian.

Um, R. John Murray from WMDX.

Yeah, R. John.

Yeah, R. John.

We got Evening Gents.

Turn 60 last November.

And the way I feel now, 80 years old scares the heck out of me.

From my perspective, physically, I'm on a double black diamond hill that goes on forever.

Fingers crossed for a good outcome.

Oh man.

Fingers are being crossed, John.

Is that a golfing term?

No, that's a skiing term.

Double black diamond.

That's

it.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's sport.

Really?

Can I just tell you a really quick story?

We'll take very a friend of mine went on a date with a girl for the first time when skiing and he never skied before and he went down a double black diamond hill broke both his shoulders and both his legs because that is like advanced skiing advanced and he was like, yeah, sure.

I'll try it and just destroyed his body.

Why did you let him?

I know he didn't like I if you knew him you knew exactly if you knew him you know She had no idea because he probably said something back though.

I've skied before.

Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, I can handle that so and then we got one last

text message left Yeah, we got Bridget texting says I think a hundred years old as long as you feel

good

and you can communicate and enjoy life There

you go.

I that's where that's where I'm at.

That's where my official thing is is like I want to live as long as I'm

Comfortable and not a burden on others.

So there we go.

That's where I'm at.

My wife's

mother lived to... Oh, she's still alive.

She's about to be 89.

Her grandmother lived to be 95.

Yeah, so I will be outlived.

Do we have any last second Facebook messages?

No, we're good.

All

good

on the Facebook front.

All right.

Well, then I got a couple on mine here on my personal Facebook from Pete.

He says, no number for as long as your quality of life is strong.

My friend, Jolene, not the song, but the person, she says, till my body gives out.

And then our very own co-worker, friend, colleague, Jenny Brand says, nothing past 80 years old.

If I end up on the Today Show smucker segment, it's time to put

me down.

Wow.

That's a dark turn for a decade's old segment.

But OK.

And then finally, Marshall says, when you can't drive yourself places answered by a person who recently got hit by a 93-year-old man.

OK.

Well, Marshall, rethink your choices.

But that was an interesting one, guys, because we not only got a lot of answers, but we also got a lot of reasoning and a lot of, like, almost personal philosophy in that one.

That was really good.

Yeah.

We got to get out of here in a little bit, but before we do, Pete, what did you learn tonight?

Here's what I learned, and I'll try to be as brief as possible.

This aging question and

when

to go got me thinking about my original philosophy of life.

We are

lucky to be here, guys.

In all of the sperm that were on the way to the egg, we made it.

We are all winners and our chances of being here to begin with are slimmer than winning the lottery.

So kudos, enjoy every blue sky, every blade of grass.

If you described Earth to someone who had never been there, it would sound like heaven.

And that's where we are.

And that's what I learned.

That's what I was re-acquainted with tonight, my old thoughts.

Well,

so much for brief.

Don, what did you learn?

How do I come after that?

No, that was actually fantastic.

Not actually.

It was fantastic.

I love that answer very bit.

Clip it.

Senator WBA win all the awards for next

year.

Don, what about you?

What did you learn?

I think I just learned that you guys are my friends.

You guys are my friends.

I appreciate you guys a ton.

I don't know, I just appreciate you guys.

It's not so much something I learned, but I appreciate you guys.

You guys are awesome.

It's a very

undominator thing to say, and I appreciate

it.

Thank you, buddy.

All right,

there you go.

Great, what about you?

I learned that in a crazy world where a president can sit in a room and be booed by tens of thousands of people and say,

Oh, it was fine.

There is still someone in this world we just talked to who described his character in a movie as a worse version of Donald Trump, even more out of his mind.

So, oh boy, people.

Hold on to the giant

spider invasion.

Yeah, exactly.

And go see the giant spider invasion.

Check out Dan Davies website.

Dan Davies.org.

Check out the movie.

Go see it.

Go support local art.

Go support local creation, especially here in Wisconsin.

We got great, great people who create wonderful, wonderful things.

So yeah, that's all those are all the things I learned.

So we got to get on out of here.

But before I do that, let's say our thank yous to Tucker and to Dom, to engineering and traffic for all the work they do, making sure these microphones turn on and to everyone who called.

texted, got on the live stream, sent in a message, whatever it may be, however you communicated to us.

Thank you so much for that as well.

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So stick around for that chance to win $100 and Wisconsin Dell's prize package.

And then it starts all over again tomorrow, seven more chances throughout the week or seven more chances a day throughout the week.

But good luck to you.

Have a great night.

We'll talk to you soon.

Pete, say good night to the people, would you?

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