Murder Mysteries and After-Bar Munchies (Hour 2)

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This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who never leaves the house without wearing a cup, Pete Chwaba.

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Happy Friday, Conrad.

How are you?

I'm

good.

You have been a champ.

You have been trying to get, uh, to troubleshoot a little bit here

in our fine

studio, the nightlight studios, which is always, uh, it's always fun watching you work, but you've got our camera up and working and, um, I think, I think you've done a swell job.

I'd like to think so.

It's working right now.

I can see your face.

So

it's amazing what a guy can do with a slide rule and a Swiss army knife.

Very well done.

Yep.

Welcome, everybody, to the show tonight.

It's gonna be a fun show.

We've got an in-studio guest.

We've got some music talk.

It is a bar band Friday night.

That's always fun.

Our usual partner in crime, Terri Bar, will not be here tonight.

Did Terri give us an excuse?

Not that she needs to.

She doesn't need a note or anything, but... I think maybe she just needed to take a day off, you know?

Really?

Or she's going to see some cool music.

You know, she spends 20 minutes a week with us.

She needs a week off.

Yeah, I think it's too much time with you, Pete.

Poor Conrad.

We will miss Terri, but as usual, or as often is the case, her partner in crime on Max Inc Radio, the award-winning Max Inc Radio rocker will join us for Bar Band Friday night at 7.30.

That will be fun.

Always great to catch up with rocker.

And at 6.35 here in the studio, we are going to have a guest named Chris Mays.

He's great.

Chris lives up by me.

I don't know if you knew that.

He's like, uh, he's up in the, uh, greater Marinette area.

He's in the Burbs.

He's in Pestigo, but, uh, Chris will be here.

He is the, um, he's, he runs a, uh, dinner detective series.

Very fun.

You ever do one of those?

No, I've played like, um, the game with family of trying to find who the murderer is, you know, of one of those games for Christmas or something like that.

But I haven't done that.

I feel like

that would be really hard to organize something like that.

All right, this family really likes to play games.

No, I get that.

You talking about your family?

Yeah.

Yeah, ours too.

I mean, I love board games.

It's more about hanging out and yelling at each other and laughing and all that kind of stuff.

But I feel like these dinner detective series.

that they do in these hotels seem pretty elaborate.

It seems like it would

be a

tough thing to organize.

Oh, yeah, I totally agree.

But it looks so much fun.

I agree.

And I've always meant to do one.

I just never, I kind of forget about it.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, that sounds like a blast.

So maybe Chris can twist our arm or not that he needs

to.

Road trip.

Road trip over to the Hyatt.

That's where they do them

right down the street here.

I think

so.

Yeah,

that's road trip.

Yeah.

And our friend, Kayla.

What's Kaila's?

Kaila Miller, who was our Washington Street model one night for a nightly window.

She takes, she does some acting too.

She does that too.

So we'll get to the bottom of it with Chris at 635.

He will be here in person and that will be fun.

So folks, wherever you're joining us from in the beautiful state of Wisconsin or parts beyond, welcome.

It's great to have you and the week is over.

You made it.

We're not quite there yet.

We have to entertain you for a couple hours, and then we'll be off the hook as well.

But I hope you had a great week.

And if you didn't, all the more reason you're here.

We got some fun conversations tonight.

Two good guests.

The World Series starts tonight.

That's kind of

exciting.

I mean, I know the Brewers.

Yeah, that's all right.

Basketball's on, so we'll watch that.

Wow.

God, I gotta be honest, dude.

I mean, I like sports, but early, regular season NBA.

No, thanks.

You get to see what you're looking at for the teams, you know Really preview and I mean the first the first game of the year went into double overtime and looked like it was the Western Conference finals how they played Could be a preview

Who was it?

It was the Thunder.

Okay,

and the Rockets

I Got one word for you snooze.

No, I'm kidding.

I

look look at this

My opinion on that changed kind of in the last 10 years I used to I could watch an NBA game NBA game any day of the week and I'd put it on just to have it on while I'm working or whatever But all of a sudden I'm all about unless it's the NFL 16 17 games.

That's all it is, baby one a week.

I'm there.

I cannot Follow baseball or basketball all season wake me up when the playoffs start.

I just can't do it Yeah, basketball is my favorite sport.

So

So having said that would you rather I asked you this a couple weeks ago And you said the Brewers were your favorite you they were your favorite team to win a championship because the box had done that and the Packers have done it a couple times, but like what?

Overall, would it be the Bucks?

Oh, I

don't I don't even like the Bucks

You still like ears or is it who is it?

It's actually like the Rockets now.

Now you like the rock That's a convenient fandom you have

there.

Yeah

is Kevin Durant on the Rockets.

Yes,

yes, he is.

That's OK.

That's not like being a fair weather fan, though, because you're I understand totally cheering for a person.

Well,

you know, I mean, last year the the Suns were not good at all.

And I still was a fan, so.

All right.

But I get following a player that makes it there's a little drama.

It's the only sport I do it in.

Really?

But it's my favorite sport.

There's only five of those dudes out there.

No, any given time,

so you're

sharing for 20% of the team, really.

So let's do this, Conn, because I think we have kind of a fun question time.

Let's get to the nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

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Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

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Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

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Questions.

All right, it's National Food Day.

So we have a food related question.

What is the best after-bar food?

What is the best after-bar food in honor of national food day?

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It's interesting because my mind goes typically to like three different things.

So I'm looking for some outside the box answers here.

Like Amanda Nimmer earlier said Taco Bell.

I feel like

we have a lot of Taco Bell answers.

I've had a bunch of Taco Bell after the bar.

But I think my favorite, if I had the option where I live in Marinette, Wisconsin, you don't have, you know, you don't have a lot of options.

It's basically fast food.

And they close around the time the bars do.

So you got to cut out early before last call if you want grub.

But I've been in cities where you have better options.

Like in LA there were sometimes food trucks, taco trucks were still open all night.

Oh my god.

Street tacos or something like that.

Sign me up.

There's a place in Milwaukee right down the street from the Comedy Cafe on Brady Street called the Taldos.

I think it's still there.

They used to serve Italian food till five o'clock in the morning.

It's like an old mob hangout.

So I guess I would say probably just by default tacos, whether it's Taco Bell, a food truck somewhere, there's something about tacos.

They're just fun to pound after a night of boozing, you know?

I've had my fair share of tacos after the bar.

I have a funny story actually.

I was with one of my friends and we went to one of the bars down here in Green Bay.

They had a food truck across the street, and it was a taco truck.

And me, I'm just like, I'll just have some regular, like, I think I got some pork, you know, tacos and just some onions on it and a little bit of salsa.

My friend asked for hot, like it hot, you know?

And he goes, are you sure?

It's like, it's pretty hot.

Yeah.

He goes, yeah, no, I love hot.

We get back to my house.

I look over at him.

He's crying.

His eyes are so watery.

Is that like ghost peppers in it or something?

And he was he was pretty drunk too.

So he was like watering.

I regret this.

And then after he ate that, he's like, I'm going to bed.

The best is eating food after the bars is great.

The best is almost watching people who are sloppy drunk.

Cause it's so, like they'd be so embarrassed if they knew, but there's so many great stories of people chowing after bar time.

I remember my brother and his friends, I was staying with them in Madison and he had a bunch of friends visiting.

He's a little younger than me.

I was there doing standup.

So I was hanging out with these guys and one of their friends put a pizza in at like two AM when they got home and they all passed out and the oven was on all night and the piece, the pizza was like basically a piece of charcoal.

at like 8 in the morning.

The place was sweltering because the oven was on.

And I can't remember who the guy's name was.

It was like, Pinnaker.

And he's like, one of the guys gets up and goes, hey, Pinnaker, your pizza's done.

I was in there for like seven hours.

Like, that's the danger too when you eat after, you know, you got the calories for one.

Oh, yes.

Well, you already had your calories in what you were drinking.

Alcohol.

Yeah, exactly.

And now you're adding on to it with dough.

Sauce

the worst stuff you could oh pizza.

There you go.

Pizza's

another good one.

That's mine is I can house a pizza It doesn't matter what form it is like if I get something, you know from Domino's or something or just a frozen pizza, you know, right?

I will dominate that pizza.

There are people like my friend Rob I will not use last names We went to visit our other friend in Steven's point where he went to school and we were hanging out at the bars and Rob had money like he's a dentist now

His dad was a doctor.

He was never missing a meal or didn't have clothes on his back.

He got more excitement out of waiting for the people at Rocky Rococo to throw away the barely expired pizza, and he would just take it out of the dumpster and eat it.

It was like a pride thing.

Was he drunk?

Oh, yeah.

Well, I

mean, not falling over drunk.

He just, it's like the guy that would rather look for golf balls than spend money on them.

You know, it's

just kind of a

bargain.

Yeah.

So.

So yeah, my answer is definitely pita and yours is any I guess any form of tacos for you, too I like tacos I

like taco, but I could eat them all after I'm having a drinks in a while like that and it's been years since I've like You know left the bar and went right to get something to eat like that but like

There's something about the food that just tastes so good, then.

And you don't have

a pizza plate.

It's hard to find pizza at that hour.

It used to be Rocky Rococos was open after bar time throughout Wisconsin.

There's still a few left.

There's one in Stevens Point, actually, because my daughter goes there, and we've seen it.

But it's hard to find a variety

of food at that hour.

I'll say a close second for me is just a nice burger, too.

One time, I ordered, I Ubered back to my house after.

After the bar and I ordered the the famous seven pack.

I think it is of George Webb's burgers.

Oh, really?

And when I ordered it, I fell asleep right after.

You didn't even eat him.

My roommate comes upstairs with the bag and he's like, it's like 11.

He's like, did you order some food last night?

I

did.

I know two people who have ordered food and paid and driven off.

because they're so drunk they don't I mean they shouldn't be driving to begin with

but

they pay and then they just leave my buddy Dan who drives by this window every once in a while he didn't have a car so he only opened with the drive-through so he stood between two cars in line and

he just went up and he ordered and he's like

waiting by

the window that's awesome

that's great I mean there's so many great after-bar stories like that but I would say and

You know, one of my favorites when I lived in Chicago was White Castles.

I mean, talk about great after-bar food, these sliders with onions and cheese, and like, it's probably not even really meat.

I've never actually been to one.

Oh, it's

so worth it.

We had one time we were going to one of our friends was vomiting out the back window, and my friend who was driving didn't even pull over.

It's like, hold on to him.

Like, why don't you pull over?

Hold on to him.

He goes, yeah, hold on to him.

We're not, because we were going to White Castles.

All

down

Addison in Chicago, he's vomiting.

All right.

Our question, folks, and it's a good one.

What is the best after-bar food?

Let us know.

It's Peach Wabba Nightlight.

We're coming back with your text, and I'm going to tell you a movie you should see coming up

next.

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side.

Keep on the sunny side of life.

It will help us every day.

It will brighten all the

way.

Oh, man.

I'm going to do my best to read this.

It is National Food Day.

What is the best after-bar food, folks?

That is the nightlight question of the night.

Let us know.

I say tacos, conreds, and pizza.

And we were talking about white castles too.

White castles is just outstanding after bar food.

And you want to know funny, what I was telling you right before the break, that friend of mine who vomited hanging out the window, driving through the city, still ate white castles.

He rallied.

As you should.

He was just making room.

So, all right, you said pizza.

I need, can you put bigger font?

I forgot my glasses tonight.

This is embarrassing.

I kind of like, I like the way I look without glasses though.

What are your glasses?

You think I could, would those work for me?

Definitely not.

My eyes are terrible.

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All right, as you know Or maybe you don't know what is it baloney day?

It's national baloney day, right?

Yeah, I was I was else I didn't know what it was and just send me a lot of baloney stuff I was like, maybe just your reminiscent

That is not my after-bar food.

But we did put together a little, do we have time to play our bologna montage?

All right, so bologna, I don't know how you guys feel about bologna.

As you know, you can always text in or call on whatever we're talking about.

Let us know your thoughts.

You got the question of the night, favorite after-bar food.

And now, if you want to weigh in on bologna, that's fine.

I ate it as a kid.

I don't care for it now.

I think it's a funny word.

I think it's a funny meat, if it is meat.

And we put together a little montage of bologna.

My baloney has a first name.

It's O-S-C-A-R.

My baloney

has

a second name.

It's M-A-Y-E-R.

Oh, I love to read it every day.

And if you ask me why, I'll say.

Because Oscar Mayer has a way with biology and A. How's that?

My baloney has a first name, it's a joe m-e-r.

My baloney has a second name, it's a joe m-e-r.

Hey, you got Pac-Man?

No.

Uh, you got Space Invaders?

Nope.

You got asteroids?

No, but my dad does.

Can't even sit on the toilet some days.

So, so what do you do here, Theo?

Well, I got a stack of Newtie books this high.

Oh, she's beautiful.

Would you want to sell any of them to me?

No, I cherish these things.

I use them a lot.

How do you use a magazine?

I was getting to that.

See, the guy taught me something really neat last year.

Did you ever bop your bowl on me?

Where's the Gaffigan

one?

I don't think you sent me that one.

Yeah, I did.

All right.

Well, there's our Bologna montage.

Yeah, Gaffigan's... Oh, there's Norm McDonald.

Where's the Gaffigan?

Gaffigan says this whole thing about Bologna.

I can't believe that made the montage, ladies and gentlemen.

We'll find it.

It's a very funny bit, but let us know where you stand on Bologna.

Are you a Bologna fan?

No.

Were you ever I

don't I don't recall being like Mom, please get some bologna.

I'm begging you mom layman Rob on social media says pizza and cheese curds together

Yeah,

I mean

why not toss it on there

absolutely Janet from social media says well it was the burritos at Taco Grande is that a green Bay place Taco Grande

She says, some of your audience might remember it and the Belcher.

We frequented from 79 to 81.

Best burritos in town.

It was State Street.

Oh, it was out in Madison.

Okay, they moved to Francis Street until it closed.

I'm sorry, Janet.

It sounds like a delightful place.

All right, keep those answers coming, folks.

We will get to some more of your texts.

When we come back after the news, we're going to talk dinner detectives.

It's going to be great.

Chris Mays is here.

He's in studio and you got to hear this and you got to try it because it sounds like a lot of fun.

That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Our question tonight is what is the best after-bar food?

Our pal Nick Wallander from Comedy City, right?

Depeer?

Comedy City Depeer.

Yeah.

Nick's great.

We got to get Nick back in here with those guys.

They're always fun to have.

Yeah, do those little improv games.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Let's do that.

But Nick says, a grilled cheese sandwich clumsily made in your kitchen while you're trying to wait for anybody up.

That's a great... Oh, and Dave on the stream says, Euro and fries.

Absolutely.

I've been so... There have been times I've craved a Euro so much.

I've gone to Arby's.

I think they're the right sauce.

But sometimes you just got to have that salty meat after the bars.

Keep those texts coming, folks.

We'll catch up in just a bit.

All right, I am excited to have my next guest in studio.

I don't often have a lot of in-studio guests from north of Green Bay because that's where I live.

But I do tonight.

This next gentleman joins me in the studio here for the first time, but not this first time on the show.

He is the creator of clearly confused productions.

I'm sorry.

And he runs great productions as the dinner detective shows.

I'm in trouble talking here.

Mr. Chris Mays, hey buddy.

Hey, nice to see you, Pete.

Nice to see you too.

I'm glad we finally made this work.

You're a busy guy.

You're all over the place.

Yeah.

Yeah, so it's good to have you here.

For sure.

Do you have a favorite after bar food?

Well, I heard somebody

mentioned pizza.

So you

can't go wrong with that.

Can't go

wrong.

You know, I'm one thing I'm when I think of late nights and I think of bars, I think of chicken wings.

Oh, there you

go.

That's a good one.

Yeah, that

one.

Oh, yeah, some garlic parm wings.

Yeah, that's what I

think.

Yeah, that to me is is deliciously late night.

Do you have a favorite food in general?

I'm asking a guy who lives in Pestigo.

We are not.

Exactly.

The culinary capital of the world is not in Marinette Pestigal.

But do you have a favorite restaurant there or a favorite?

Don't tell me you own a restaurant there.

No, no, I

don't.

I mean, late night, yeah, you're pretty much looking quick trip, right?

Or

maybe Culver's.

Oh,

quick trip's not bad.

No,

absolutely.

Get yourself a chicken

sandwich.

Yeah, I do a lot of traveling with my work with the dinner detective.

So I mean, you know, I go into all these towns and cities and stuff.

And late night, yeah, I mean, in some of these places like quick trip, nobody beats quick trip.

Listen,

you know what would be better?

and I'm picking because I do like quicktrip, but they always go in there and they have cheese curds, and I don't want cheese curds at 11 o'clock at night.

I want the potato, those little potato cheesy things they make.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they're in the same box as the cheese curds, and I go in, I'm like, oh, they have them, and I get up there and it's cheese curds, which are fine, but I, you know.

Yeah.

Probably

because the cheese curds last longer, you know.

I'm sure.

Which, I don't know if that's good or bad.

probably bad

yeah exactly but you know I don't know if they take requests either like if I put my order in would they make me I

don't know but there's always seems to be somebody in the kitchen

You

know, even late at night, I've gone in there and they're in there and they're doing their concocting things.

So

it's fine cuisine.

It's the best gas station cuisine.

Certainly.

Absolutely beats.

Wah wah.

All these places.

What are your thoughts on baloney, Chris?

I used to eat a lot of baloney when I was a kid.

Yeah.

And yeah, I heard you talking about that, too.

I have not had a baloney sandwich, though.

And I cannot tell you how long it has been.

But, you know, hey.

It has it has a first name, right?

Well, I see

in that

whole deal.

I mean, it's got a it's got status, you know, everybody should have some bologna at some point.

It's like the

meat of yesteryear or days gone by because you're right.

I used to eat it too.

I don't think I could if I had a gun in my head, I'd have to do some serious thinking about eating a bologna sandwich.

They're both going to kill you.

Yeah, eventually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway, well, it's good to have you here give us a little background before we get into dinner detective Which I'm very excited to talk about and clearly confused your company tell us a little background about yourself

Well, I'm originally not from Wisconsin.

I'm from Las Vegas, Nevada

Heard

of

it?

Yeah, born and raised.

And, you know, I kind of lived just the average life of a kid there and played sports.

You know, there is a city there and people do grow up there, right?

So.

But because this was entertainment, I got to see a lot of shows.

You know, I was exposed to that sort of thing, but I never really got into this line of work till I left.

I went to college in a place called Cedar City, Utah.

So I went from three quarters of a million people to about 13,000 overnight.

And I went there to play division one baseball and

I was gonna be a

baseball coach and I was gonna teach history and I said I had my whole plan, you know laid out and then I took an acting class as a as a elective and That led to hey you should audition for the student directed one acts for the directing class And then I did that and the guy who taught that class was the founder of Utah Shakespeare Festival

So Utah Shakespeare Festival is one of the top five Shakespeare festivals in the world.

Really?

Just right

there in

Cedar City.

Wow.

So I met him and I started working through the main stage program at the campus and kind of gradually bled on over and kind of left the education track and went into the theater world.

And eventually, yeah, I mean, by the time I was 19, I was working professionally.

I was doing Shakespeare, you know, standing on stage holding spears and carrying notes, getting paid for

it.

Wow, nice.

I didn't have to

work at the quick trip or we had Maverick in Cedar City.

And yeah, so it just kind of went from there, Pete, you know, so this is going to be year 30.

Yeah,

and so

and over time you just as you know to being in this line You diversify so you everybody kind of starts off as a performer or something like that and then I I started directing I actually started producing before I even left college So that's

where I

got my feet wet there.

I was designing I was you know, so I've done pretty much anything you could think of in this business And got really heavy into probably I would say the about

24 25 years ago when it came to producing and administration and operating and and and and did that for different theater companies and I worked for a group called Merlin entertainment Merlin entertainment Who controls Lego brand the Mall of America aquarium the London eye, you know had stuff all over the world

So I

got to actually work in entertainment on a global scale too

So it's been quite the journey that brought me to where I am now, sitting with you here

in B.A.

Northeast Wisconsin, baby.

So let me ask you this, because I think everybody knows Vegas, and there's big shows, and there's residencies, and all this stuff.

What's the culture like growing up there for a kid who wants to do theater in high school?

Is there tons of that there?

You think there would be because of what's on the strip and all the casinos that but what's that like there?

You

know when I was in high school all the high schools had theater programs in fact I went and watched the plays and everything I actually got my feet wet my senior year of high school a little bit That's where I kind of I would say caught the bug and got interested which led to the acting class But like all programs you're seeing this throughout schools throughout America

They're taking them the theater programs away terrible and You know Vegas though, I would say overall still probably I couldn't tell you for specific But I would say I would hope and think at least half the high school still have full-time programs

There's

a performing arts school there the Las Vegas Academy, which is pretty prominent And it's turned out a couple of guys from the band the killers went there.

I

think a

con who's a Singer there's been people that have come out of that.

I'm not on professionally and of course went into

professional work on other levels, Broadway, or dancing in some companies, and stuff like that.

So there is an arts culture there in Las Vegas, and I think it is fueled by all that entertainment.

Even myself, I went back and performed in my hometown.

I did a couple different shows, but not when I originally lived there.

I went back,

spent about

10 years, and did a couple different shows myself over that time, so I actually got to perform on the strips.

Chris Maze is my guest.

He is the producer of Dinner Detective.

We're gonna talk about that in a bit, and his company is clearly confused.

love the name.

We're talking about, he's giving us some background about growing up in Vegas.

He is now a proud resident of Peshtigo, Wisconsin.

Just six short miles from Marinette, maybe five, depending on what part of town you live in.

You mentioned performing arts high schools.

You have a performing arts school.

Impestigo and I will say one of my hesitations about moving back here to Northeast, Wisconsin or more specifically, Marinette because there's a lot of culture around here, but I thought, you know, sports is heavy, which is great.

I like sports.

You really do learn the same lessons when you're part of a band or theater or, you know, these are great programs that should not be cut under any circumstances.

But that's a different discussion.

But I'm amazed that you started this school Impestigo.

My daughter.

I didn't know you at the time anyway, but my daughter took the answer from your wife.

And now you said, the school's booming.

You have a performing art school.

If you give these programs to kids, they will show up.

Absolutely.

A lot of places just don't have them.

It's not that they don't want them or wouldn't participate.

So I applaud you for that.

That's really spectacular what you're

doing.

And I really give a lot of credit to my wife, Meg.

arts administrator and dancer, and she started it 10 years ago.

on her own before she met me too.

And launched it and started off with a handful of students and now has grown it into, you know, I think this year is 120 plus dance, just on the dance side.

I have about 20 kids that I do theater with.

I have a

couple

theater classes.

But yeah, it's amazing.

I think if you give, it's exactly that.

Give them the tools, give them the opportunity, open the doors for them.

They will go through the door, you know, and in areas like that too, they don't get exposed to a lot of

Art certainly not performing arts

right

and so that's one of the interesting challenges I found because I've done a lot of teaching over time too I did end up doing education even though I went into you know the theater and stuff But it's really interesting in that area because you know, I even I was kind of amazed by you know Wow, these you know They don't really have a lot of access to even coming down.

Let's say Appleton over to the Performing Arts Center and seeing a touring show or

stuff like that.

So we try to give them that by both teaching the process of the of the work and then also giving them product.

That's part of the issue too though is you guys are there.

there's someone there to teach it, you know, and that's a big part of it too.

What got you, you're from Vegas, you assume didn't have any connection to Peshcoe when you moved there, except for maybe Meg, is that how you got there?

And is she a resident or a native?

Well, she was born in Sturgeon Bay.

Then her family moved to Peshcoe when she was young.

And she grew up there and she took dance in the area and was a resident of the area.

And then she went off to Chicago and applied her trade there for many years, then came back home and started the studio.

And we met because we were both teaching at a performing arts school in Fargo.

Well, it was in Fargo Moorhead.

So it's basically North Dakota and Minnesota.

I did stand up there in the 90s.

Yeah, it's an area, you know,

and it's amazing how much art's going on there, you know.

And again, where is the art happening?

And that's where we met.

She was teaching dance and I came in to teach some acting and some stage combat.

Yeah.

And

that's how we met, you know, we became friends and then our friendship cultivated over time into a relationship.

And that's what

brought me up here.

So what's Pashto go like for you?

Did you move, you know,

You know, Vegas is a pretty big city, obviously, and there's a lot going on there.

But how is Pesha go for you on a daily basis?

Because I admit, living in Marinette, I am bored to tears.

But I love it.

It's a very easy place to live.

It's not expensive.

The people are nice and it's beautiful.

I do crawl out of my skin sometimes, but I can go to the city or I can go do stuff.

But where are you at with that?

Yeah, I think

that's kind of why I live.

It's the same concept.

I mean, I've lived in cities as large.

I've spent time working out of New York.

Vegas Seattle and graduate school my first year.

I was in a village I lived in a town of 89 people that

I

then you know drove into where I went to the university So I've had this range of kind of places I've lived so it's not as shocking to me to be in a place like Peshtigo as some people thought when I moved there because I had actually gone back to Vegas for an additional time to perform prior to moving out to Peshtigo and soon as I got to Peshtigo everybody was like

Are you?

How's how you

doing?

You know, it's like it's almost

like you're a like a shock victim of some

kind.

It's

like, are you okay?

You know, how are you?

How are you handling it?

And I'm like, it's great to me.

You

know,

I have no sometimes.

Yes.

It's not even so much the boredom.

It's the ability to, you know, be able to run in and

do something in a city, you

know, kind of thing.

But

I mean, Green Bay's accessible, and we take, we went to Europe this summer for a couple weeks, and we, you know, we always find ways to go cosmopolitan,

so

we find that balance.

That's great.

My guess is Chris Mays will have more with Chris after a very short break.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite after-bar food, folks?

And you can weigh in.

What do you think about Bologna?

Not for after-bar food, definitely not.

That's a recipe for disasters.

All right, we're coming back.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Welcome

back.

This is Nightlight with Peach Waba Broadcasting statewide.

Great to have you with me tonight as we

Do the show from beautiful downtown Green Bay on a gorgeous fall night here in Wisconsin.

Dave on the stream also says Amigos Super Burrito.

We call it the dead baby.

No, that's horrible.

Well, you know,

I expect nothing less out of Dave.

I think I'm learning Dave's sense of humor over these over these months.

Love it, Dave.

Love it.

Yeah.

Ryan in Madison in the 608 says after bar breakfast pancakes or breakfast burrito.

Yeah, that's the first time we've heard pancakes.

Yeah.

Steve from Florida, that's Conrad's dad, says the best way to eat ring baloney.

It makes me think of like ring worm or something.

Steve says the best way to eat ring baloney is on a stick roasting over a hot fire.

Put it on a toasted buttered brat bun and you'll create sandwich brilliance.

Well, I haven't locked up with your dad on a lot of stuff, but it stops

at below.

Yeah, I don't agree, dad.

And then the 608 John says, it's crazy when you clean off the coffee table in the morning and realize you ate 16 sliders again.

Oh.

Absolutely.

I've been there.

It is terrible.

My guest right now, folks, is Chris Mays.

He drove down here for Pesh to go just to be in the studio.

I love it.

He lives very close to where I live in Marinette.

You were talking about mob hotels in Vegas during the break.

When my wife and I moved to LA in the mid 90s, we got to stay at the, I've read all these mob books.

So I was kind of fascinated by the Stardust Hotel.

I love the

name

and I love the history behind the Chicago mob.

And we got to stay there.

And I think they tore it down like a year later or something.

So a little bit of history.

Yeah.

Well, it used to be that each one of those casinos were all individually owned.

Yeah, right.

So because they were individually owned, they were operated individually.

Yeah.

And so usually there was some kind of, you know, I don't want to, I mean, it doesn't really exist, right?

We don't

talk about it, but, you know, they were affiliate, you know, they did, they did things through there and had really built it up, built it up, goes back to Bugsy Siegel

and

that whole kind of aura of him being there and helping launch it.

But I mean, he goes way back.

And Chris, what was it?

Like in the movie Bugsy with Warren Beatty, he

He tries to sell the New York mob on building this oasis in the desert, but there was something there.

Was it a trading poster?

It was a couple gas stations or something?

Well,

originally it was a way station between Salt Lake and Los Angeles.

And so then in the LDS church, when their people

were

coming through, they actually kind of established that.

So one of the buildings, it's still one of the few real historical buildings that stands, there's an old Mormon mission.

Hmm, which is basically this adobe building.

This is kind of standing in this desert area that

is still

there.

Oh, yeah, and Yeah, so it was kind of a way station then it became this yeah light entertainment You know in fact Judy Garland performed their way back in the day as a member of the gum sisters.

Hmm because she was one of them Yeah, so I mean it's it's like I said it and then bugsy of course launched the flamingo.

That's what he was

right.

It was the flamingo.

Yeah, yeah

been

thinking

about them a lot lately because of this whole other gambling thing that's been going on.

in the news and stuff.

With the mob,

with the, oh my God.

It's, you

know, I'm out of the mob.

They let me, they let me walk away.

I

do love that whenever I would go, we just had Jimmy Pardo on the other night and he and I went and worked at Casino probably 20 years ago or whatever about just outside of Vegas.

I was reminded, like we went in there at midnight and we just after the show, we just did stand up and then we went and gambled.

And like,

Eight hours went by like that.

They pumped that pure oxygen in there, and there's no windows, and there's no clocks, and

you

just, and we were having a blast.

but we left and it was sunny and it's like how the hell long were we in there like they had a good scam going you know the hell of a feeling when you walk

out after you know i've done that been up all night

every

time you go eat late night breakfast the person who brought the breakfast absolutely then you walk out yeah i'm blinding sunlight and if it's summertime it's already a hundred degrees yeah

oh man you know that's insane yeah it's so much fun though um

Alright, so I want to get into the dinner detective.

Can we keep you through the news?

Oh, yeah, so let's let's do that We'll do that after the news because I don't want to rush through

it

But tell us about this play you're doing and tish mills.

I don't know tish mills you I heard it the other day and then you just told me about tish mills and Sweeney Todd happening.

I need

Todd Yeah, not a very big city.

No, I I heard about it from a friend who's associated with dinner detective Okay, and she told me a little bit about it and I started following them on social media and things and I went Wow, it's amazing.

What is this tish mills?

Yeah

It's not even a town.

It's like this.

Unestablished village of people basically and but it's called the forced in arts collective And what's amazing the the gentleman Michael sheiks out there?

He has created something that's that I I appreciate because it's not just theater You know a lot of times theaters will associate themselves around a certain genre style like musical and things like that Yes, we do that when he taught as a musical But he's willing to do all types of theater all styles of theater genres and so it's pretty impressive in the middle of

Almost, I hate saying nowhere.

Yeah.

But yeah, people

might get offended.

But I mean, look, if you're not, if there's nothing there, there's nothing there.

But it's cool that they have a theater.

It's an oasis.

We just mentioned

oasis earlier.

Yeah, that's exactly what is this little oasis of art.

What's your favorite kind of theater to do, typically, Chris, or over the course of your theater career?

Like, did you have a genre you liked?

You liked the musicals or the comedy and the dramas?

Yeah, see,

that's always a common question.

I enjoyed.

I find the enjoyment all of them because they all bring challenges.

Yeah, that's

what I like, you know when I think when you're younger you have this kind of lineup of things you'd like to do I was very fortunate where I feel like I got to do a lot of those including Sweeney Todd at one point now I'm doing it again for the second time many many years later, so I'm revisiting the role, but I you know, I love absurdism

You know like a Samuel Beckett or an Ian Esco, which people are listening like You know like I find that to be interesting, you know and a great challenge I love the language of Shakespeare, but I always love a good comedy too, you know anything that makes people laugh a farce

Yeah,

instead of farce not too long ago.

We were talking about that and just you know It's nothing better than when you're up there entertaining people and they're just having a great time Yeah, that's what it really comes down.

You cannot beat a live audience.

That's why this is the perfect time to spring this on you count, right?

I think I'd like to start having a live audience in here.

Can you get on that and see what you can come up with?

Maybe before the show, we'll just corral people in here for the street.

Bring

them in.

Offer them free drinks.

Exactly.

We'll figure it out.

Act 2 is coming up next.

Intermission is upon us, folks.

Chris Mays is going to stick around for a few more minutes.

When we come back, we're going to talk to the dinner detective.

You got it.

This is so great.

And we're going to read some texts and all kinds of fun.

And it's a barman Friday night.

Rocker is here tonight filling in for Terry.

Oh man, lots to come.

Don't go anywhere.

It's Nightlight with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay.

This is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

Your inside source on everything entertainment from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

And now, a guy who writes checks his mouth can't cash.

Pete Chwaba.

Welcome back, people.

Is it too weird if I say couch potatoes?

I don't think so.

Do you think some people are proud to be actual couch potatoes?

I do.

Or do you think they think I'm taking liberties with there?

Like, I'm calling them TV watchers.

I would be proud of that.

I love color

television.

I'm proud of it.

All right, very cool.

This is Peach Wabba and Nightlight Conrad working the board.

Chris Mays is here in studio.

We're going to talk some dinner detective.

That is coming up in just a minute.

Our question of the night, folks, is what is your favorite after-bar food?

And we've heard some pretty good, we got to catch up on some texts, but we've had a lot of, breakfast was one.

I was surprised we didn't hear that earlier.

We did hear that late in hour two, but we'll read some of your texts coming up here too.

I gave everybody a great movie recommendation.

It's kind of violent, but it's mostly just like total badass and it's called revenge.

You can stream it if you got a Roku search, check it out.

And I don't, it's a French film.

And I believe there were subtitles, but it is outstanding.

Sometimes I'm in the mood for subtitles and sometimes I'm not.

So we'll do that.

It is a bar band Friday night.

Rocker will be here tonight filling in for Terry Barr.

He is her Max Inc radio co-host on WMDX in Madison.

You can also listen to that great show that's on every Saturday night from six to 9 p.m.

on the app at civicmedia.us.

But Terry is our Wisconsin music expert and Rocker will fill in tonight and he always does a great job.

Jim from Appleton in the 920 says, the best post-bar food was the hungry bull in Monash, Wisconsin.

They had a full menu.

There were omelets.

Their omelets were the best.

Sadly, they closed a few years ago.

Well, luckily, there's never usually a shortage of bar food.

You can always find sliders or fast food or whatever.

Thank you, Jim.

Bridget in the 818 says, pizza was an exclamation point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Conrad, could be a, could be a.

You guys can get together for some pizza.

Conrad.

You know what I bought at Aldi the other day?

They had this thin crust bacon pizza and it looked like it was like barely had sauce or cheese on it and little bits of bacon all over it and I bought it.

For some sweet savings

though.

Sweet savings and flavor country.

Let's be honest because it's a beautiful looking pizza and I didn't eat it.

because I'm on kind of this program, which only allows me to have one frozen bacon piece.

You had to stare at it, then make it feel good about yourself.

I am

taking that thing down this weekend though, no question about that.

Mark from Prairie to Sack, he's in the 608 says, on the pilot of the spy comedy series, Chuck.

Oh yeah, Chuck.

Adam Baldwin in his role of spy John Casey suggested he was thinking of having pancakes after he took care in quotes of Chuck, who had just the.

who just had the intersect loaded in his head and Sarah Walker, the CIA spy that decided to save Chuck.

Fun ensued when the three dad to rush off to defuse a bomb planted by, planted to kill

a

general, the kicker porn.

helped save that.

I have no idea what.

Wow.

There is a lot going on.

Speaking of subtitles.

Whoa, Mark.

Yeah, I need some AI maybe.

Help us out with the end of that one, Mark.

Yeah,

Mark.

It was

good.

It was starting to lose me, and then he said the word porn, and then I kind of rallied there

at the end.

I saw your