Dells, De Niro, and First Ladies

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy whose house has an actual wiggle room, Pete Schwabba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

It is true.

My house is very peculiar.

almost as peculiar as the word peculiar.

That might be my least favorite word in the English language, peculiar.

It's hard to say, it's weird, but it is nice because the guy that just talked me on here who did the intro, the voice of the network is producing the show tonight.

Todd Michaels, how are you buddy?

Peculiar is a very,

it is a difficult word to say.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like it has a place in modern day society.

Yeah.

You know,

you can't say that somebody's peculiar because that would be derogatory.

I would think right.

It makes it's derogatory, but it makes you sound weird.

That guy is very peculiar.

It's really peculiar that you said that.

It's really weird.

Right.

The guy's

an

oddball.

Just talk normally.

I think we got a problem with her, Todd.

Marking that down.

How are you, man?

It's good to have you here.

I always like working with you when the con man is out.

He'll be back tomorrow, right?

It took some time off for the draft.

Yeah, he's probably in recovery after the draft.

I don't know if he went all those days, but I know he had a bunch of people coming up.

to stay with him.

He was collecting air mattresses, hitting Goodwill for sheets and kind of all kinds of stuff.

So I don't know what is happening, but I'm sure he'll have some stories to tell about the draft.

Remind me to never have to spend the night at Conrad's place.

Air

mattresses and used sheets.

If you have to spend the night, if either one of us have to spend the night at Conrad's house, there is either really bad weather or, you know, I don't know, maybe an intervention or Conrad's got some personal stuff he needs to get off his chest and doesn't want to do it here.

I don't know, who knows.

But Todd Michaels, the great Todd Michaels is sitting in for the K-man tonight.

Conrad will be back tomorrow.

Hope he's had a great time at the draft.

I'm sure he has.

It looked like a really fun time.

What they're saying, 600,000 people in town

for

the... What was that possible?

I mean, each day around 200, right?

205 the first.

Blown away by that.

Yeah.

But yeah, congratulations to the city of Green Bay

for pulling it off.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I didn't...

It's weird.

I wonder what it would have been like.

Like, obviously, I was in Madison doing the show in part because of the draft.

Right.

And I wonder if there was any parking here.

Like, did you guys do the show from here in the morning?

We did, actually.

And before you decided to go down, I had marked off some parking spots for us on

the side of the

building.

So we did have that.

The interesting thing about it was, though,

There were just random people using our parking

places.

They didn't care.

No, they didn't care.

They went ahead and got the tickets and whatever.

That's

so Bush League.

Did you go down there at all, Todd?

I did for a little bit.

Did

you?

Yeah.

Was it an

absolute madhouse or was

it?

Not when I was there, no.

No.

I saw those lines to the porta-potties, like 30 deep.

I'm like, you could not pay me.

Now, I know friends that have houses along whatever street

that

is.

That's a different experience.

I'm sure it would have been cool to be there for the vibe or the ambiance or whatever, but man, the minute you start messing with people's kidneys and the bowel habits, that's a recipe for disaster.

But only

one person arrested and I think two people ejected over the entire weekend.

So it

wasn't like

really more than that for a Packard game, right?

So, you know,

I'm really impressed by that as well.

It's so funny.

I don't, I will say, I understand why people went because it's an event.

Yeah.

But.

It's it's not like there's a contest or a game.

It's just calling out a name.

Yeah.

And there's that many people there.

That's how great like in same in Detroit last year.

Like people just love the NFL.

They are brilliant marketers.

Man, they

had it.

They had it.

They had it set up.

And I guess Green Bay is in second place either tied with or either a little bit more or less than Nashville when they had it in Nashville.

Oh, as far as attendance.

Yeah.

No kidding.

Yeah.

I think people probably just want to come here, too.

Green Bay is a bit of a gem for the NFL.

It's a smaller town.

I think people probably just probably wanted to be a part of that.

I think it's great.

So congratulations, Green Bay.

And anyone who attended the draft, my joke last week was Conrad is hoping to get drafted.

And actually, the Marines picked him up instead of me.

So, but I'm anxious to talk to Conrad and see how it went.

Great show on the way tonight, folks.

Great to have you with me.

Monday is finally here.

We finally get to reconvene and talk about the stuff that's important in life.

Movies, comedy, TV, music.

Todd Michael's beard.

Your beard is coming back, dude.

I've trimmed it now four times.

Have you really?

So I've kept it short.

Okay.

Yeah.

Todd shaved his beard for, what is that organization called?

Uh, St.

Baldricks.

St.

Baldricks.

Yeah.

Very cool thing that you did there, buddy.

So, and I'm glad it's coming back gangbusters.

Are you always worried that like when you shave your head or your beard, it's not going to come back?

All of a sudden it's like, oh, I guess that's all the hair I had for the rest of my life.

And I just,

I really wasn't too worried about it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Cause I know, I know how much hair I have on other parts of my

body and how

quickly that comes back if I do a little manscaping.

So.

We'll be right back with more Manscaped Talk here.

No, I've gone there too.

And while we're on the area of that vicinity of the body, I was haphazardly putting a belt on today.

Have you ever put a belt through one loop and then pulled it and the buckle comes in, hits you right in the junk?

I mean, oh my, it was debilitating.

You really have to be careful when you're doing that.

It was like high school basketball all over again.

I'd lay on the floor and pull my knees up to my chest.

and explain to my wife what happened, but everything's okay.

So that's that.

Hey, I had this thought too, Todd, like I was saying before the show, like Todd does these great intros for me, like a guy with an actual wiggle room, like, you know, you just do such a great job, your voice sounds so cool.

Can I, is this too risque?

All right.

If I say, and now a guy with a pocket full of bad intentions, Pete Schwabba.

I think that's great.

Okay, good, we're using it.

All right.

I kind of tried it out in the air.

I figured I'd ask for an apology or I'd apologize later.

I think that's great.

I've always liked that phrase.

It's ambiguous.

It doesn't necessarily mean there's any nefarious intentions going on, even though there are.

But a great show tonight, folks.

Our guests, Zane Lamprey, the comedian.

Zane was here a few months ago.

This guy, all right, here's why you're going to love this interview.

Ladies and gentlemen, Zane will be here at 635.

He's a comedian.

He's a very funny comedian.

He's also got several shows on TV that all revolve around eating and drinking.

And Zane has been all over the world.

He's had cocktails in various parts in Russia, Turkey, Budapest, whatever.

He has been around.

He has all these great shows on.

He's got one show called Three Sheets, a show called The Twisted Fork or something like that.

Not The Twisted Fork.

What is it?

I have it right here.

Have Fork Will Travel.

He's got a show called Chug.

So he's got a lot of shows about drinking.

He is coming to Wisconsin.

And this guy knows his food and drink, and he's a very funny dude.

And he will be here at 6.35.

Very excited to talk to Zane.

And then the Milwaukee Film Festival is in full swing.

It opened last Thursday night.

Nellie Clues will be here.

She made a film called The Dells, a documentary that I'm excited to talk to her about.

She'll be here at 7.20.

It'll be great to meet Nellie.

This will be her first time on Nightlight.

So there you go.

Two great guests for some good conversation on a Monday night, the perfect way to kick off your week.

I have to read a text that I got last week from Chris Casper, who texts the show fairly frequently.

Good guy, by the way, right?

Great guy.

Love, Chris.

Yep.

Yeah.

Last week on Friday, we had a prerecorded show and we use a segment that I had from a previous show with Frank Anderson who founded the website Wisconsinology.com, which is great.

Check it out if you get a chance.

All fun Wisconsin stuff on there.

But Chris was listening and Frank and I were talking about how we both hate lawns.

He thinks they're bad for the environment.

He doesn't like to do, and I don't like it either.

I cut my grass and that's it.

I am putting no extra time into yard work.

It's just not my thing.

So we were having this discussion via prerecord last Friday night.

And Chris texts in, I'm totally in agreement with your guest.

Lawns are the dumbest things ever.

I know this was prerecorded.

I wanted to call in so badly.

I had a new neighbor move into me about five years ago.

I used to giggle my ass off watching him out there trying to de-root dandelions one by one.

knowing full well that they got to his lawn from my lawn.

Leaving the dandelion, leave Chris emphatically says, leave the dandelions alone.

We deal with them for like three weeks a year.

The bees love them.

I think they're beautiful.

He has stopped fighting that losing battle.

I am not going to dump poison on my own lawn to prevent a beautiful flower from allowing the bees to help pollinate everything.

I can't help but think that mowing the lawn is one of the biggest wastes of the

precious few hours us old guys have on this shiny blue rock floating through space.

He's getting very poetic here.

Chris continues saying, that's time I could spend in the pool laughing and giggling with my grandkids, smoking a pork shoulder for some delicious carnitas.

Taking a porch nap.

Taking a pool nap.

Pool nap sounds dangerous.

Taking a couch nap.

Taking a bedroom nap.

Pretty much anything other than dealing with my stupid, stupid, stupid lawn.

Wow.

Talk about hitting a nerve.

Passionate.

Yes.

About napping and his hatred for lawns.

Sounds like Chris's nap just about everywhere.

Program director of Civic Media.

I think you've got a weekend show right there.

Just put a microphone in front of Chris and let him go.

Absolutely.

Here was a cool thing too.

When I was in Madison, there was a Starbucks right by my hotel.

And I've complained quite a bit on this show over several months now about the tip feature.

I hate when they ask you to tip and they're not leaving the counter.

They want you to tip and then you tip.

and you feel like an idiot because you got to go over and wipe off your own table to sit down.

Like not only are they not waiting on you, they're not even keeping the establishment clean.

Starbucks too, multi-billion company, pay your employees.

Don't make them shake customers down for money.

It's irritating.

Well, there's a Starbucks right by my hotel where I stayed in Madison and they click the no thank you for you before they hand you the thing to put your credit card in.

What?

Yes, and it happened two different employees.

I went there two separate days and they both did it.

So that's obviously Some kind of store policy and it made me want to tip them Wow crazy.

Yes.

It was a very nice little thing, you know, I once in a while I tip because I feel bad, but I Don't know.

I thought that was kind of cool.

I liked it.

I saw a couple great movies over the weekend.

We can get into that folks I don't know if you've seen these films but drop

The Accountant 2, the new Ben Affleck film.

So we'll talk about those a little bit in the next segment, and then, oh my God, I gotta do the question of the night time.

Are we ready for that?

Yeah, I think so.

Do we have that kind of clout?

I

think we're ready to go.

All right, let's do the question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Question.

Question.

Who is your favorite First Lady?

It's National First Lady Day.

I didn't know it was.

Where else would I've gotten there?

I'm almost sure it is.

Hold on.

I didn't write that on the sheet last night.

No, I'm sorry, Saturday was National First Lady Day.

Gotcha, okay.

And I thought that would make a cool question.

So I saw that.

That's what I do, Todd.

I comb the weekends.

I don't just, I don't mail it in and say, well, if it happens on the weekend, I don't cover it.

Right.

I break stories here.

That's what we do here at Night Light.

So that's tonight's question, folks.

Who is your favorite first lady?

You've got like, how many presents have we had?

47.

So you've got 47 first ladies to choose from.

46, actually.

46.

Right.

Because President Tubby's been in there twice.

So, okay.

So we've got, you've got a lot of first ladies to choose from.

Let us know.

Texas, 855-752-4842.

855-755 Civic.

You can text us on the stream if you're watching on YouTube or Facebook.

or Twitter X, whatever you want to call it, or if you're listening on the app, that's very easy to use too.

If you don't have the app, shame on you.

Get the Civic Media app.

You get to take all of your favorite shows with you wherever you go.

So we'll do some movie talk.

We'll read some texts.

I'd probably have a spooky haunted question for Todd at some point tonight.

All right, I'm ready for that.

So stand your toes, buddy.

I will.

Live Shriver.

That's who you look like.

Is that who it is?

Yes.

Somebody else said

that.

Totally.

You look like Ray Donovan.

I don't know.

I'd have to look both those up.

I have no idea.

He's a badass.

Okay, then that's me.

I'm a badass.

Todd Michaels sitting in for Conrad.

Having fun here on Nightlight tonight.

We're coming right back.

It's Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wawa.

I am Peach Wawa, your loyal host for this evening's program.

And riding shotgun tonight is Todd Michaels, producer of the Minor and the Mayor show here on WGBW and WISS, who also does a bunch of other stuff for Civic Media.

Good to have you here, Todd.

Thanks, man.

Really, it's fun.

I look forward to these times.

I mean, because you're kind of my boss, which also puts the pressure on.

Not really.

Well, you know what?

You've scolded me enough so

that I

feel like you should be.

Our question of the night, folks, is who is your favorite First Lady?

Saturday was National First Lady's Day.

I think I have to go.

I'll start.

I think I have to go with Abigail Adams.

Really?

No.

I'm gonna say why.

I realize.

The answers will be limited, like from either, you know, Lady Bird had a film made, Eleanor Roosevelt has done a lot, like, I know we'll go back a ways, but I don't think anyone's going back into the 1800s, but hey, you're dying your dance floor, folks.

Let me know who your favorite First Lady is.

I think of, I think of, I kind of, when I was younger, had a crush on two First Ladies, and it was Betty Ford.

Okay.

And Rosalind Carter, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

And they both had issues with substance abuse.

Maybe

that's what drew you in, you think?

You like the bad girl?

I like the hot messes or something.

At least she didn't say Barbara Bush.

Well, not, you know, she seems like a fine lady.

I don't have a crush on her, certainly.

She kind of always reminded me of the Quaker Oats guy.

Just a little bit.

The Quaker Oats

guy.

I mean,

yeah, well, you know, the guy that had the Quaker Oats,

she

kind of had that look.

Yeah, yeah.

Now I see that the way, and I love when Saturday Night Live did the thing with, you must be proud of your son.

Yes.

And you know, I'll say this, you know, as far as I think a lot of right wing men have a serious crush on Mrs. Trump.

Oh, yeah.

Melania, Melania.

Melania?

Melania.

Yep.

Because when I was here, I got sound bites and I interviewed a lot of Trump followers here.

outside right outside here in Green Bay about a year ago longer than a year ago now and a lot of them said they liked Trump so much because of his wife they admired him for marrying what they thought was a beautiful woman and they liked the things she did okay but yeah there was there were adamant about that so i think she's very popular with the segment of the voters i think uh michelle obama certainly has done a ton

of stuff with healthy lunches, and she was very out there.

Hillary Clinton was like a co-president.

You've got Barbara Bush, like we mentioned.

Nancy Reagan.

I think I gotta go.

Overall, I'll probably just say Jackie.

Jackie

Kennedy.

Oh, that's a good one.

That's a good one.

He had sympathy for her, and she was beautiful and a nice person.

What about you?

Where you weigh in on this?

Mine goes way back,

and it really has to do more with the name, but Mary Todd.

Mary Todd, yeah, that would be mine, right?

They're just because of the name.

Mary Todd.

Yep.

Mary Todd.

She went through a lot, right?

Oh my God.

She went through a lot.

You know, I should have, I should have honed up on all that because they had some issues, didn't they?

The Lincolns?

Did they?

I think so.

He was a tiger in the sack.

I've heard that.

He wore the top hat, nothing else.

But like, I think, I think she had mental health problems and he obviously had issues.

going on in the country.

I mean, it sounds like it was very contentious time.

Yeah.

Meritally.

Gotcha.

Based on if I'm remembering this correctly, but I could see

that.

I knew she was not a big fan of the beard.

And really?

I'm just making that up.

I just figured.

Mary Todd, Michael's Lincoln.

That's right.

Well, I could see that.

All right, so that's our question of the night.

Chime in, folks.

Be part of the show.

I will read your text on the radio.

That's exciting.

Do we have a phone call?

We

do.

Who's on the phone?

Olly from the Northwoods

is on.

Oh, Olly.

It's about time, Olly.

We haven't heard from you in a couple of weeks now.

How you doing?

Well, I'm doing good, but you have me so confused.

Uh-oh.

I thought this was going to be about good things, but I don't think that overall the way a woman looks

uh... make her a great uh... president's wife well i totally agree with you i don't go for looks uh... uh... i go for what they've done to uh... help the country so i think uh... rosslyn carter uh... was who she was she wasn't pretentious uh... she stood by jimmy and uh... in all his endeavors uh...

as far as habitat for humanity and going over to Africa and stuff.

So she definitely has my vote.

That's a great choice.

What a

love story there,

right?

Those two?

Right.

Yeah.

Cause she died.

She lived to be like 99 as well.

No, I love her and that's a great point.

And we were just having some fun with the looks thing, Ollie.

I think, you know, personally, I'm very vain, but I think it's more

about what people

have underneath and in their

heart.

Well, I'll tell you what, when you get to be a president's wife, we'll vote for you.

Hey, I still have my fingers crossed.

The right guy comes along.

I

will hitch my way into his star.

Believe

me.

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

Right over there,

you know?

Thanks so much, Ali.

Have a great night.

All righty, bye-bye.

So that's a good, I mean, that's a great call.

We were just having fun, but she makes a great point.

Brian in Green Bay says, reading while listening is a very effective approach.

It is like a subtitle movie without pictures.

I don't know if that was meant for us, Todd.

I'm not sure.

If it does, I need context, Brian.

I like that though.

But this new clock seems like it goes by a lot faster.

I've read one text and taken one phone call.

Do I yak that much?

A little bit.

Brian from Milwaukee says, Michelle Obama, hands down 100%.

Yeah, she's up there.

She's maybe tied for first.

I like Jackie, but.

Yeah, I like Michelle.

A lot.

Michelle's

phenomenal.

Smart, very bright.

Unbelievably so.

Oh, that's you, never mind.

Monica from Mount Horrib says,

Backpack of bad intentions was a better alliteration.

Pocket is just peculiar.

Just kidding.

She says the movie Sinners is also peculiar.

It would like your impression.

Gotta be Michelle Obama guessing she's gonna win the poll tonight.

You're probably right about that, Monica, if this is any indication so far.

Yeah, I have not seen Sinners.

Have you, Todd?

I have not.

I have not.

The drop-off was only 6% from week one.

People love that movie.

It's a vampire movie.

It's supposed to be great.

I've heard really good things about it.

Me too.

So keep those texts coming, folks.

We will read them on the radio.

Coming up in just a few minutes after Civic Media's news team keeps you informed is our pal Zane Lamprey.

He's coming to Wisconsin.

We're going to hear all about it after this.

It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight.

Todd Michael's riding shotgun tonight on the Civic Media Radio Network.

you

Literally Todd I sit at home on the weekends because I hate lawns.

I don't know what to do with myself I cannot wait to get back here and start yakking

You're good

at it.

That's why I like to talk.

Good to have you with me tonight, buddy.

Welcome back folks.

This is nightlight.

I am peach wabba Listening on the stream PJ says the best first lady of my generation is Michelle Obama.

That's like three or four already

for Michelle.

Craig Anthony Kinnit also listening on the stream says Eleanor Roosevelt was supposed to be a heck of a pistol, quite an influence from what I understand.

Michelle Obama is probably the modern favorite, very strong lady.

All right, keep those texts coming.

We'll get to your actual texts on the phone lines.

We'll get to those two in a little while.

Nellie Clues will be here at 720 talking about her film, The Dells, which you can see at the Milwaukee Film Festival.

tomorrow night and then again next week.

So we'll talk to Nellie coming up right now.

It's my pleasure to welcome back to Nightlight.

This guy was on the show a few months ago.

He is one of the hardest working men in show business.

And he's also very funny.

You've seen him on TV, on various TV shows, which we will talk about.

And he loves to drink and eat and talk about it and be funny about it.

Zane Lampery joins us now.

Hey, buddy.

How are you?

I'm well.

Did I cover everything?

You left out underwear model, but we can get to that at

some point.

No, I left that

out on purpose.

Here's the thing, Pete.

Would it hurt if you just say, Andy's handsome?

You know, does that hurt?

You know what?

I know it's going to get upset at it, you know what I mean?

And he's handsome.

Welcome to Zane Lamprey.

OK, here's what I'll say about that.

First of all, you are handsome, but.

You have the triumvirate.

You're handsome with no facial hair.

You've got the sole patch and the mustache in one picture.

You look dynamite.

You're covering all the bases.

It's a little intimidating.

I'm not going to lie.

Well done.

Well done, brother.

I appreciate that.

I don't know if that was easy for you, but it felt effortless.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, Zane Lambert.

Thanks for being here.

Were you not having a conversation last time about how you thought I looked a little angry in my poster?

Oh, that kind of sounds

familiar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so, and I, to be honest with you, I took that to heart.

I was like, you know what?

I don't get that kind of, I don't get that kind of feedback.

And so I was like, wait, this is actually, that's true.

And so I was kind of just in my poster, you know, for my standup shows, I just was doing, I just had kind of a look on my face.

I was holding a beer.

And I was like, no, no, no, I got to, I got to completely change this.

And so you, you could take credit for this.

So I don't know if you've seen my new poster at ZaneLampry.com, but it's me smiling, holding a puppy.

So

yeah, that's because of you.

I think I said probably you look like a badass or that.

your poster or the picture was different than your stand-up, because you're like incredibly likable and funny, and maybe the energy didn't match.

I don't know, but that kind of sounds

familiar.

You

said I looked like I was mean to horses.

I don't

even know what that meant.

You felt pretty adamant

about it.

I think you know.

No, this new one is great though.

You do look like about the happiest guy in the world.

So,

well

done and happy to be a part of your fame.

Make the check out to Pete Schwabba with an S.

Well, it's going to be a bill, but that's okay.

Yeah, that's

what you call

it.

Because you had to do some work there.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, that's true.

It's great to have you back on the show, Zane.

How are you doing?

What's going on?

I've been doing this tour after coming out of COVID, and I was reaching out to all the comedy clubs in early 2021.

and the theaters, and none of them had any plan to open that year.

And I can't, you know, I have to make my plans for shows months in advance.

And so, because they weren't opening, I reached out to all the breweries, a lot of them I have friends at, and we decided to do my stand-up tour exclusively at breweries.

And we kind of found it pretty interesting niche.

And so tonight, I'm in, gosh, where am I?

Lublin, Colorado.

And I'm doing show number, brewery show number 500 and four.

Oh my gosh.

And, you know, we come back to a few breweries, you know, but we probably have done at least 300 unique breweries tonight.

We're at Loveland L-Works, which is a brewery we haven't performed yet.

And it's going great.

It's going great.

I've done at this every, what I'll do is I'll go in and do my tour.

And I think an ambulance is going to drive by so you know that I'm actually outside.

Um, we have a

fire truck right outside our windows.

So I don't know.

Maybe

there's some

kind

of wormhole here or something.

I don't know,

but it could be, it could be the same one.

It might drive through to yours.

We'll know.

Um, so yeah, I, I do, um, I'll do my, my standup tour.

Yeah, that's fine.

There's no cars anywhere.

There's no need to bring those sirens on.

Good.

Well done.

Something's happening somewhere.

It's okay.

Um,

And so I'll do my stand up for a year, and I'll do 140 shows.

And then I lock down that hour, and then I go record my special for Amazon Prime.

So far, I've done three of those specials.

And right now, I'm gearing up to shoot the next one.

That is really impressive.

I don't even know.

I'm kind of trying to figure out where I should start here, because I'm kind of fascinated by

like your specials.

How long does it take you?

Are the specials typically like 45 minutes, Zane?

And if so,

how long does it take you to

write that much material and rehearse it so that you're ready to do a new special?

So here's how I come out of a special.

So let's say I record a special last year and then I'm on tour a week later.

I'm doing that set, the same set that I did from the special.

But then, then what I'm trying to do is every two weeks, like say my set, my set is made up of like 10 segments, 10 bits basically.

And so I'll, I'll remove one of those.

And what you're supposed to do is remove the best stuff that makes you, that gives you the incentive to work hard to replace them.

And so within like, you know, 10, two week periods, I have replaced my entire set.

You don't want to do it right away.

And I made the mistake one time of doing it right away, going out there with a completely new set.

And it was just like, you know, that's just not how it works.

You gotta repeat these and fine tune it every night.

So I'll do 140 shows of the hour.

And after probably a hundred of them, I'm feeling really good about it.

And then you get to dial into like, you know, you'll dial into like, as you know, like the act out.

And the voices, you'll get comfortable enough with a bit that you'll start to really like figure out what can I do to make this more exciting?

And that's kind of what the last 40 shows are for.

That's really cool.

And then you repeat it and do it again.

Yeah, you can check out Zane's stand-up specials on Amazon Prime.

So check those out.

And then maybe I want to go see him live.

He's certainly out there.

Before we get into your dates, buddy, tell me how did you get started in stand-up and how long have you been at this?

That's a great question.

Um, by the way, now can you hear the train?

I want to hear one of those like, uh, this place in Loveland, you know,

I want to hear one of those British sirens.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Where is he?

Um, so sorry.

What was that?

Ask me that question again.

How long have you been doing this?

Yeah.

And how did you start and, uh, how long have

you been at it?

So I, I, I'll give a roundabout answer.

I just turned in my, my book.

to my publisher that I've been working on for like three years, which is behind the scenes stuff from my shows, my TV shows.

And they've already ordered my next book before that one even comes out, which is about a guy who starts to do stand up at age 50, because that's basically what I did.

I did do some like 10 years ago when I was doing one of my shows, but I never really dove into it like with both feet.

And so I really did that when I turned 49.

Wow.

And so now I'm 53.

I've been doing it for four years.

I've always done comedy.

I've always been a comedic host and I've hosted things and I've written for TV shows and stuff.

So it's not like I'm coming in at a left field.

But I am, you know, I mean, I'm kind of new to the game where people are like, I'll go see him because I've seen his TV shows.

I don't know if he's going to be any good.

everything that I do, I do to win.

And I'm very competent that my shows are crushing it.

Where are you based out of?

Well, we broadcast statewide in Wisconsin.

We typically air from Green Bay.

So yeah, downtown Green Bay at City Deck Landing.

So, but you know.

Yeah, so I know you're coming this way, but that's like a rocket trajectory, Zane.

I mean, even though you say you wrote, to be on that kind of a path,

with that pace.

It's pretty impressive.

So good for you, but that's insane.

How many cocktails?

It is insane.

Yeah.

My guest is Zane Lampery.

You can see him.

He's coming to Wisconsin.

We're going to get to that next.

You can see his TV shows, Drinking Made Easy, Chug, Have Fork, Will Travel, and Three Sheets.

Although earlier today, Zane, I saw it said Four Sheets.

So did you add a sheet or are you guys back

and

forth on what to...

No, we did.

We did.

Yeah, there was a...

There was a short-lived TV network called DrinkTV, and they wanted to revive the Three Sheets brand, but couldn't get the name Three Sheets.

So we decided, let's turn it up a notch and make it Four Sheets.

So we shot, I think, six or eight episodes of that, and those will actually be on Amazon Prime, I think later this month.

That's really cool.

So let's talk about, we're gonna get into all your TV shows, but tell us where people can see you live.

We just talked about the specials.

You're coming to Wisconsin, where are you playing and how can people get tickets?

So they can get tickets at ZaneLampere.com.

I'll be on May 9th.

It's Friday.

I'll be in Milwaukee and the brewery there is Pilot Project.

I'll be at Kenosha.

Now, Kenosha Comedy Club is like my one exception of the year that I do a show there because

It's a wonderful couple that owns the club.

And I'll keep coming back because you guys are amazing.

So that's on May 10th.

And then I'm in Sheboygan at Three Sheeps Brewing on May 11th.

And then Madison on May 12th.

And then on May 13th, Peterburg, which I don't know where that

is.

It's north of Milwaukee.

The

important thing is all of

those cities know how to put away their alcohol.

So I think you're going to do just fine.

Yeah, I think as a state you guys you guys have a reputation of that

well, let's talk about that because you do a lot of You do a lot of material based on drinking does it go over better in states that?

Stereotypically do drink more I mean Wisconsin every year the list comes out and Todd you can back me up on this of the top 20 drinking cities in America, Wisconsin has like 17 of

right and

sometimes they have to combine cities So we have like the top 40 of the top 20

um... it that funny i mean kind of there there's there's so many states that really can claim that i don't know if that's like is that is that an opinion thing or that based on like is that is that data-driven i don't even know where that those things come from it's because how could you how could you not like throwing um... you know new warlands for example of the city and um... you know i think that frankly any any city any city that football team too

I think they they event drink.

We just drink.

We drink and

we create events as we drink.

No, it's I don't know

what the science

is behind it.

But every time, you know, whether it's Forbes or Business Insider, all these polls come out.

And to me personally, I haven't had a drink in two and a half years.

I think it's a little weird.

But people like act like it's a vote of it's a badge of honor somehow, you know.

Oh, yeah.

Of course.

Of course.

That's the drinkers, right?

Yeah.

And it's the easiest thing in the world to do.

It's not like you're climbing a mountain.

You're you're popping a

beer.

and drinking it.

Well if it's easy Pete I'll tell you you're doing it wrong okay.

It's a challenge or you know people can turn it into one.

Exactly.

Now by the way now in the show we have a dog barking because I'm petting a cat.

I want to kind of keep

Keep the dialogue, the picture of what's happening right now as I walk through.

Tell me

when the cock fights start and I want to

put money on the.

I think it's this next intersection I'm coming to.

Yeah.

The birds are next.

Yeah.

It's parent fights.

It's

different.

Zane, we got to do a very quick thing.

We'll come back, figure out what's going on there in the background and just keep us posted.

But let's talk about your TV shows and

some

more drinking and eating because that's what you know, my friend.

Zane is here.

We'll be back really after this very.

short break.

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Right now, we have Zane Lamprey with us.

He is in Colorado, and there's all kinds of stuff happening around him.

He probably just stumbled onto a riot or something.

I don't know.

But Zane, it's great to have you on the show.

How many cocktails have you had since you were last here?

You know what?

The answer is probably not an impressive amount.

The number of beers probably would be.

Oh,

there you go.

Since I talked to you probably a year ago, I do 140 shows a year and I'm having two to three beers per night.

That's around 500.

That's pretty

good.

But so you drink mostly on camera.

It's for the shows.

I would imagine you can't keep up that pace when the cameras aren't

rolling.

Well, I mean, you know, when I was doing the show or any of the shows I've done, it was a lot.

You know what I mean?

Like it was it was a lot.

And you know, you go up and shoot at a location and then you probably have two to three locations per day.

And you can't walk in there like thinking, you know, I'm not going to drink today because that was my job.

Um, so when I was doing the shows, yeah, that was, I think, you know, and even when I wasn't doing them, we were still out having fun.

So I think there was a lot being concerned back then, but right now, you know, doing my standup, I have a rule that I only drink on stage, which is still funny for me for a year.

Yeah.

So I'll have, I'll have, you know, one and a half to two and a half, three beers.

during the show, as I'm telling stories, you know, or do my bits on stage.

But then when I'm off, I'm, you know, I drink enough on the one stage.

I think, all right, last time you were here, I'm remembering you said something about Mark Cuban.

I think you said you reached out to him and it was surprisingly easy to get ahold of him.

And you didn't give out his email, but you said, I think if you use your imagination, he's not a hard guy to track down.

And I, you know, so I'm going through my head what it could be, but he hasn't responded to me yet.

But how do you, is he an executive producer on one of your shows?

Is it drinking made easy?

Is that the one he is part of?

Yes, I'll give you the story.

I did a show called Three Sheets where I traveled around the world drinking, and that was on a channel called Mojo HD.

And that, the show was doing great, but the network was having a difficult time competing.

And so after four seasons, actually after airing,

three seasons we shot a four-season which didn't get a chance to air because they shut the network down

and i

was actually kind of excited because who's heard of of of a channel called mojo hd i knew that people over travel channel and and some of the other food network some of the you know spike any of those guys were interested in and picking up the show and so i thought hey this is a great thing for me i could go and be on a bigger bigger network

but you know after a few weeks those calls never came in i mean the owners and of the network they didn't have to tell me what was going on but they did keep me updated and i like yeah we don't have a buyer after about a month and so i said you know what i mean this is my my inner monologue i was like i'm gonna throw a safe three sheets rally because i think people aren't aware that it's for sale and so i had more i'd want in in an ally which was a with a bar crawl we went from

Uh, but marching past all the network offices so they could be, you know, lost with our signs and chanting and stuff like that.

And when I did it in, in LA, I think about 600 people showed up.

And then

when I went to, to New York, I was on my way to the, to the bar and, and, uh, the first bar we were meeting at and I called my buddy, Steve, who lived there and he was like, you know, went, went ahead of us.

And I called him and I said, are there people there?

And he's like, yeah, I said, how many?

He's like, all of them.

So.

That there was about a thousand people that showed up

in marketing

Manhattan.

And at the very last location, Steve comes running upstairs.

We're at a four story Irish pub.

And Steve came running upstairs to me and he said, Hey, Mark Cuban downstairs.

He wants to buy the show.

I was like, Mark Cuban is not on our upgrow.

Let's be very clear.

But I'll go down and I'll call BS on whoever the guy is who is saying that he's Mark Cuban.

And so I went down and it was Mark Cuban.

And

he said, I want to

buy the show.

And I said,

why

haven't you?

You can clearly afford it.

He said, because they, they're selling like five, a bundle of five shows.

I don't want those.

I just want three sheets.

And so that ended up going on to travel channel and five living network, whatever.

And then when my contract expired, the date expired, I reached out to Mark and said, Hey, let's make a domestic version of the show called drinking made easy and do it for your network, which was called HD net at the time.

Now it's called access TV.

And he's like, yeah, let's do it.

And so that was it.

So I went out and did 24 episodes, plus a one-hour stand-up special.

I was shooting the TV show during the day, and I was doing my stand-up at theaters across the country at night.

It was with two tour buses.

It was just, it was, it was mayhem.

Oh, that sounds like a blast.

You

guys got

to come to

Green Bay.

It was a blast.

Look, I had my girlfriend, who's now my wife.

She was one of the producers, and she was with us.

My best friend Steve was with us, and then my crew, they're all friends and friends, family, whatever.

We just had so much fun.

It was like, I got Mark Cuban to write me a check for a million dollars to spend the summer on two tour buses going around the country and drinking at the coolest places, and then doing stand-up at night.

It was a pretty good deal.

Just filming your life, basically.

That sounds like a great, I love the concept.

It was, yeah.

Yeah, I was going to say, so folks, Zane Lamprey, he's coming here to Wisconsin.

Check out Zane Lamprey, ZaneLamprey.com.

You can find out where he'll be and if you want tickets.

Do you want to talk a little bit about some of these other shows you're doing?

I mean, you're a busy guy.

Yeah, like, oh, we mean the shows that I've done.

Well, yeah,

you've got Have Fork Will Travel.

I love that.

Like, you seem really locked in on the...

booze and food.

Hey, Zane, actually, we have to do a break in just a minute.

Can we keep you for a few more minutes on the other side of the news?

Yeah, keep me.

All right, Fint.

Last time you were walking, are you walking again?

I sure am.

Dude.

By the way, that day.

that

I was doing, I got 50,000 steps because I had three radio interviews to do it.

I just kept walking.

So yeah, 19 miles.

You're not

even short of breath.

That's impressive.

All right.

Zane's going to stick around.

Here's the news.

We'll be back in just a few minutes and we will tell you all about Have Fork Will Travel.

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