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Jim & Michelle on Wisconsin Supper Clubs (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Apr 3, 2026
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Welcome to Nightlight, everybody.
It is great to have you here on this Friday.
You made it through the week.
And what a week it was, Greg.
Lots of stuff going on all over the state, all over the country.
I didn't mean to interrupt your brilliant air drum solo.
That was
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My gosh.
Amazing.
I love to air drum.
I do.
Well, it's a small little drum kit, like a little club kit or a big drum kit.
But that's all the reason to watch us on the live stream
to see
me air drumming in a way that makes you say, oh, you, you can play drums.
And I go, no, I cannot.
This guy can really bang.
Well, it's like, you know, it's like the guy who plays air guitar and tries to throw in a bar chord.
to make it look like he really knows what he's doing.
I understand rhythms.
I can step back.
I can let the bass player have a moment.
Oh, my
dear.
This is fun, Greg.
It's casual Friday here at
Nightlight.
Oh, my God.
It's so casual.
It's so casual.
I feel like we need an intro song for casual Friday.
What?
Right?
Yes.
Dom, do you have?
Oh, right
there.
I
do.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The weekends here, I said like the weekends here, and at first I said she was like, and the week is in the rear.
I'm like, whoa, in the rear view, she said.
That's
a great
intro.
That's a great intro.
Is
that brand new?
That's
brand
new.
It's updated.
It's updated.
It's
updated.
That's how we work here on Night Light.
We update things.
Folks, we're coming to you live.
I am in Radio Park in Racine.
Pete is in Christmastown, USA, up in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Is it Christmas City?
Christmas City.
Christmas City.
Because yes, Christmas City, USA in Marinette, Wisconsin, then all the way over in that South-ish central
part of Wisconsin and Madison is Mr. Domley on the ones and twos at Civic Media HQ, no less.
That's important.
The
kid, Domley.
The kid.
Oh, the kid.
But we have a great show for you this evening, folks.
Pete, what do we have on the docket for tonight for casual Friday?
Well, this is actually perfect programming, if I do say so ourselves, because
it wasn't
all, it was all of us.
But no, we have the Wisconsin Supper Club chasers.
Jim and Michelle will be here tonight.
They have this great social media platform.
They go in the frequent supper
clubs.
Not a
bad
gig, huh, Greg?
I mean, I wouldn't shake a stick at that.
And I'm getting ready to do some supper club impossibly this month.
And I know this, if I go to a supper club, there's no chasing me.
I'm just standing there because I can't move.
I've eaten so much food, you can just catch me.
I'll be standing in front of the supper club going, why did I have that third piece of asparagus?
Third piece of asparagus.
I thought you were gonna say like, why did I get the 96er?
or something.
Oh,
that's such a good movie.
Such a good movie.
I love it.
Oh, God, the great outdoors.
Maybe that will be a film for the movie club.
Who
knows?
We can work that out.
Oh, we can do whatever we want.
But you
know what?
Yeah, there was kind of, I love summer clubs.
I mean, I remember going up to my grandma's cottage up in Eagle River Three Lakes when I was a kid and we would just swim all day.
And then we would go out and they always had like, there was this place called,
Oh, it was a night of village or something like that.
It was a hotel and they had a great restaurant.
You put like that Merc's cheese.
They would serve that before.
Oh, yeah.
You spread it, salad bar, steaks, burgers, whatever.
It's just, it's a vibe.
And it's different than a regular restaurant.
There's something about it.
I can't, maybe they can explain it.
I can't.
So like, when you're a kid, and this is no disrespect to salad bars either, but like, you know, I went to, I had the opportunity last year to go up North for Civic Media.
We did some shows up there.
And we went to a wonderful, we went to Butternut.
We went to Butternut Lake, this wonderful, and I'm blanking on the name of the, of the, I think it's just the Butternut Lodge.
And they had like a salad bar, like an old school salad bar there for your fixings.
And as a kid, you think to yourself,
What am I gonna do with all of this stuff?"
And then as an adult, you're like, lettuce, cheese, not scrambled, but crushed hard-boiled eggs.
Like, yeah.
It's just like- What's the hard-boiled eggs?
Yeah, you've never seen a salad bar with it.
Oh, salad bar.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So an egg salad, but with minus the mayonnaise.
So it's just the, it's just the hard boiled eggs crushed into, in little pieces, but you're like, when you're a kid, oh my gosh, I could eat there for decades.
And as an adult, you're like, I'm probably going to have half a salad.
So
it's so great.
And then you always have like the half game room off to, off the lobby, like the kids can play there.
The
adults are hanging out after being in the sun all day.
Supper clubs are amazing and nobody
does
it better than Wisconsin.
So we're
very excited to
talk to you.
our new friends, Jim and Michelle, the Wisconsin Supper Club chasers, they will be here.
And then Greg,
why don't
you, I'm going to give you the honors, buddy.
Tell people what we're doing in the second hour.
This is exciting.
In the second hour, we're going to be taking part in a brain rot quiz.
Now, here's the thing is I didn't know what a brain rot quiz was because I thought that was like a, is that a, like a.
A name name like a thing like oh the brain rot quiz or is it just something that we call that I never heard
of it.
It's it's a name name brain rot It's a real name.
It's a real thing.
So I'm interested to see how you guys do
Tonight our very own Dom Lee on the ones and twos up in Madison He is prepared a brain rot quiz that tests the
Street vernacular knowledge of Pete Schwabba and myself the the the words the the the the the not the vernacular I would use that word the Speak of the kids Vocational the the youth's words I
don't
have any words right now Lexicon that was the word I was
looking for
Lexicon the Lexicon of the youth We're gonna find out whether or not Pete or I know what young people are saying when they speak now with their
Riz and things of
that nature.
So that's coming up in the,
yeah, sus.
I don't want to bring up any that you may already have on there.
So I'm just going
to leave it at sus and
Riz, but we're going to do that in the second hour at six 20.
So don't go anywhere.
We're going to also wrap up everything this evening, like we always do with the nightcap.
But before we get anywhere else, we got to do one very important thing.
And that is state tonight's question of the night.
Let's
talk about the question.
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Pregunta.
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Domanda.
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Question.
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Oh, yes.
Speaking of supper clubs, what is your favorite or perfect supper club food and drink?
What
are you
ordering when you go to a supper club?
Yeah.
Yeah, I
mean.
Oh, I can't
wait to
talk about this.
Good question.
It's
literally making my mouth water because
I know
mercs cheese I don't even
know if it's
a real cheese, but it was delish after a day in the lake and But we want you guys to play be part of the show.
It's always much more fun when you guys participate tell us What your favorite supper club meal is
with cocktail or drink or whatever
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Let us know your, your supper club go to order as well as your cocktail, mocktail, beverage of choice, whatever that may be.
And we'll talk about that more in the second hour this evening.
I cannot wait, Greg.
I literally, I cannot wait to-
Are you going to go to like a supper club this weekend now?
Are you going to like- And you might.
I'm gonna wait to ask this one because one of my go ahead Greg I was gonna say I'm gonna I have a question for you But I'm not gonna ask it until the second hour because this brings up a conversation about supper clubs But go on go
on.
No, I was just saying there are there is a place locally I go to called Little River on Friday nights They have the fish fry and all that kind of stuff, but we're going there for brunch on Easter So I I'm not going there tonight.
It's not every week thing, but now
is it a supper
club?
It's more of a country club with a supper club
feel.
But
we're not members.
It's not that way.
You don't have to be a member.
Like anybody
in
golf there, anybody can eat there.
And it's not crazy expensive.
It's just a good hot meal at a fair price, Greg.
Is that on the billboard?
That used to be one of the intros, we should bring that.
A good hot meal at a fair price.
Yeah.
Welcome to, what's the place called again?
What's it called again?
Little River Country Club.
Welcome to Little River Country Club, a good hot meal at a fair price.
All are welcome.
All are welcome.
Great service too.
This
goes a long way too.
Free Merck's cheese when you come in.
They don't have it, you know, do they still need cheese?
Yes,
of course they
do.
What kind of
question is
that?
What kind of question is that?
You know, a cheese rep?
No, but you are a news fan, so it's time to get to our top three stories of
the day.
Let's do
it.
All right.
The first big story.
I'm going to let you take this one because I know it infuriated you when you saw the headline.
Oh, man.
When I saw the headline, I thought at first it had to be fake.
I'm
talking about, of course, most of you or some of you probably heard about this.
I saw it on NBC News.
Tiger Woods was calling after he rolled his car and endangered the lives of others second time by the way Yes, exactly Second just you know, he's making a phone call the cops come up.
They show up and he says I'm talking to the president to the cops Yeah, and that's real that happened He's already one of the biggest celebrities in the sports world, but he has to drop the president's name He didn't even say the name.
He just said the president to the cop
And the cop didn't really back off, which I like, but I don't think I liked Tiger Woods before this, but I didn't know enough about him.
He's a complete tool now.
I mean, so it's just, please go go away.
It didn't stop them.
There's a picture on this story on CNBC.com of him being arrested in front of the camera.
And he's kind of like the position of his body.
He's got his arms behind his back getting handcuffed and he's looking off like almost as if, like they can, they can take, they can take my, my hands, but they'll never take my opioid pills.
Cause he was high.
He was absolutely high when he got pulled over they said that he was you know, he was sweating profusely He was bloodshot and glassy eyed.
He was sweating profusely Extremely dilated pupils and this is the second time he's been involved.
Well third time if you include his ex-wife and the golf club he's
been
involved in a car incident, but to me like
I didn't like him much to begin with, but man, and I didn't know this either.
He's dating Don Jr.'
's ex-wife.
That's so weird.
Yeah, I just... You know, it's sort of... Like, I'm glad they handcuffed Pete Hegseth.
They'll probably fire the cops now.
But I just...
I don't know.
I want him because nothing's going to happen.
No, I mean, he's already a celebrity, but now he's got, you know, Trump's going to pardon him for future crimes.
He hasn't even committed yet, probably, even though he was driving a weapon and could have hurt other people.
And he says, quote, I feel so badly there is.
He's got some oh no.
No.
No.
This is what Trump said about him.
I feel so badly He's got some difficulties.
There was an accident and that's all I know Don't talk about this dude, man, and he's and woods is stepping away from golf now to work on his mental health Of course just step away forever because you have never worked on it This is the second time get help dude and stop relying on daddy Trump to impress people nobody cares
Yeah, that was a shocker.
All right.
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We'll talk a little baseball that's coming up next on our second big story.
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That's the Bo Deems, baby.
Nicely done, Dom.
Love that song.
Dreams.
Great tune.
Welcome back to Nightlight.
I'm Pete Schwabba.
Sitting downstate for me is Greg Bach and working the board, producing the show from Madison, Dom Lee.
Coming up, folks, after the news at the bottom of the hour, the Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers will be here talking to us about their outstanding social media platform, Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers.
That's what they do.
They go to as many Supper Clubs as they can.
And they write about it so we can cherry pick which supper clubs we want to go to, Greg.
See, this is one of the downfalls of not being together, is that they could bring in treats.
Be like, here, try some steak from this place.
Here, try some Merck's cheese from this place.
I know.
They were going to.
I mean, we talked to them three months ago.
They were going to come into the studio.
That would have been a blast.
Come
on.
Work it out.
They can FedEx me some food.
Yeah, exactly.
It's great to talk about this.
It's casual Friday.
We're having a good time here.
Let's get back to the top three stories.
Yeah!
All right, so tomorrow is the final four, ladies and gentlemen.
There's four teams left in the NCAA tournament.
I don't know how your brackets are doing.
Mine were toast, weekend one.
I'm not gonna win any money, but I don't care.
I still love the tournament.
We'll see if the NIL keeps affecting.
There aren't quite as many upsets the last couple years.
Someone pointed out to me, so that could be because of NIL money.
We'll see, but- Why would NIL money?
What does that mean to do
with it?
the powerhouses are even more powerful and less susceptible to upset, I guess.
Gotcha.
So it'll be interesting because, yeah, you've got two one seeds, you've got Michigan playing Arizona, and then you've got Illinois and Yukon.
Illinois is a three seed.
Yukon is a two seed.
So I'm excited.
I think the games will be good.
I'm excited for the championship game Monday night.
Love the NCAA tournament.
Two questions.
Can I ask two more questions?
First of all, how can you have two one seeds when they're okay?
That just feels like there can only be one one seed.
There's
one overall seed and that's Michigan, but then there's four divisions.
There's four regions.
Each
one has a number one seed.
Follow-up question.
Yeah.
Why do they call it the final four when it happens next year then too?
This isn't the final.
It's the final for this year, the final four for now.
It
just feels like
false advertising to me.
I mean, final four.
No, it's not.
Like that's, it's,
no, we'll
have it next.
Will he be here next year having the same conversation?
Pete's brackets will be trash.
And we'll be saying the final, I mean, we'll say the final four again.
I'll be like, I asked this question
last year.
No, but these are the actual final four teams.
The whole tournament isn't called the final four.
It's the NCAA tournament, the big dance or whatever you want to call it, but this weekend, the third
weekend
is the final four.
There are four teams left.
They are the final four.
So we'll see
what happens.
I'm never gonna ask a question to be funny again.
Ever.
never
listen I'm gonna I'm gonna give
you the I'm supposed to be doing comedy tonight and I'm just in my head oh my god I'm not funny
this is a warm-up don't worry about it you're in the bullpen right now speaking of the bullpen what you got to be thrilled with your Brewers dude there's a lot of sports going on this week
in
addition to some great basketball
there's tons of sport happening right now the Brewers are doing fantastic there are five in one right now and I think it's funny because I posted something on Facebook earlier about the fact that various news
people or haters are saying, they're like being accused of cheating.
The brewers are being accused of cheating cause they're five in one.
And somebody, yeah, I know it's very funny, but I think it's very funny that someone wrote this.
It was kind of like a, it was a very Wisconsin response to the, the post cause he says the brewers drafted and developed the brewers have a great manager that the players love.
The brewers are a good team and have kept their core players for a few years in a row.
The brewers are five in one against two terrible teams.
I'm like,
Thank you.
That didn't, I don't feel like that helped.
I don't feel like you're on my team at all in the one, but the Brewers are doing great.
They, they're, they're playing Kansas city tonight and they're in Kansas city this evening.
It's going to be great.
And I'm actually, like I said, I'm doing comedy tonight and the headliner is a huge Royals fan.
So I guess we'll have to just not talk about things for a while.
But yeah, I'm, I'm, I love baseball.
I love baseball.
I'm so happy it's back and
It's definitely a better start than last.
The Brewers did great last season.
There was not a lot of great expectations for them.
But last year in their beginning, they were 0 and 4.
And they got like walloped by the Yankees with those tornado bats they were using last year.
And they like beat them like 20 to 2 in the second game.
But baseball's back.
The Brewers are doing great.
I have hope for my guys.
I love Pat Murphy.
And yeah, I'm just I'm looking forward to it.
And hopefully going to be getting into a game sooner than later, please, Mike.
Goodness gracious.
And I know
it's early, but like we were talking about before the show, Greg, every team in that division is 500 or better.
So certainly that division should be really competitive and fun to watch this year.
I hope so too.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
All right.
I think we're time.
We're ready for our third big story.
All right.
So not so much casual Friday, but more of just like a what's happening right now So let yesterday we talked about this the fact that now former US Attorney Attorney General Pam Bondi was let go relocated fired However, you want to see begged for her job in the Oval Office.
I don't know how you want to put that one But apparently according to MS now and this picture has been circulating her picture has already been taken off the wall Which isn't surprising when they change leadership
They do that.
But someone snapped a photo and sent it to MSNOW of Pam Bondi's photograph in the trash.
And I just was like, dang, they're not sentimental about anything over there.
They're throwing away a perfectly good frame.
That's
what's going
to be about the whole now.
I have a feeling somebody did that because she wasn't very popular with the rank and file of the FBI.
And somebody probably did that and took a picture and posted it to get back at her.
You know, she mishandled the Epstein files.
Her whole time there was kind
of... She was the Florida Attorney General while the whole thing was going on with Epstein in the first place.
So it's like, you know, she's not... Prison.
How about prison?
Let's talk about that next week, though.
This is casual Friday.
We have our guest coming up next, and I want to get to that talk now because that is the important thing we're discussing.
And our question of the night goes hand in hand with our next guests
who are very
excited to have Jim and Michelle from the Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers there coming by after the news.
And our question of the night is, what is your favorite food and drink order at a supper club?
Let us know.
If folks say
557-52-4842, you can text us on the app.
Or if you're watching the radio on the stream, drop us a stream comment and be part of the show.
And if you have a question for Jim and Michelle, that's fine too.
They're coming up next.
It's Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach at Nightlight on the Civic Media Network.
Little casual Chris Isaac there on your casual Friday here at Nightlight.
I'm Pete Schwabba sitting across the stage from Greg Bach.
Happy Friday, everybody.
Be part of the fun.
What is your favorite or your perfect?
Supper club order food and drink, please.
This is a great question because our next guests That's their that's their racket.
That's their game.
They Visit as many supper clubs as they can they've been to over 200 Wow, and they have a platform called Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers, so it I mean
We love supper clubs and that's our thing here in Wisconsin, right?
And we have
a few other
things too, but that's a biggie.
So we're going to welcome them now to talk about supper clubs.
Jim and Michelle from Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers.
Welcome, you guys.
Thanks for having
us.
Yeah.
Oh, it's our pleasure.
All right.
So I know you guys, you told me you're in a hotel because you're on a tour, I assume right now, where you're checking out a new supper club as we speak or later tonight.
Where are you and tell us how you came up with this idea?
So after traveling all 50 states together, on April 15th of 2022, we were visiting our 57th supper club together.
And Michelle said, let's start a page on Facebook and mostly
to keep track of the places that we then were going.
And when we were traveling all 50 states, I used to enjoy writing about different food places that we went to all across the country.
But we kind of decided to focus in on Wisconsin.
We love supper clubs.
We love visiting supper clubs.
And now we've been to, well, we were at our 220th before.
We sat down to talk with you, and actually, we don't do this very often, but we're also gonna head to our 221st after we get off the show.
So we're in 2 today, 2 in one night that we haven't been to.
So yeah, but we pay you some of them.
We've been to some of the supper clubs literally hundreds of times.
We visit supper clubs probably about three to five times a week.
So we get out pretty often and yeah, it's been fun.
We created also, we call it a guide, but it's virtually a coupon book for supper clubs a couple of years ago and now we're in our second version.
And it's something that we sell.
We call it the Wisconsin supper club dining destinations guide.
And we mostly sell it at venturewisconsin.com, but that guide has helped us.
be able to continue to do what we do.
When we go to most supper clubs, we pay our own way.
So we pay for our own travel, we pay for
our
own meals.
There are supper clubs though that do offer us.
you know meals uh you know occasionally but it's it's more of a rare occasion but get to be more and more um you know with 50 over 57 000 followers on facebook um we we get millions of views a month so a lot of people are interested in in what we're doing and it and it and it's really interesting i mean i've uh i've been traveling uh sometimes in
I'll be at a rest stop and somebody will say, hey, you're the guy.
I've actually been in a quick trip restroom and a guy.
I wasn't.
in the restroom, but I was in the restroom if you know what I mean.
And a gentleman said, hey, you're the guy.
I just saw that you were at, you know, or where are you heading?
And people are interested.
A lady last night when we were out, she said, every night I
I curl up in bed and read your posts.
I'm like, well, that's interesting.
Wow.
People are just experiencing the two of you in very unique places, it
might seem.
It's for sure.
But it is fun.
It's fun.
We enjoy it.
And you know, we keep everything that we do fun and positive.
So everything I write
is
100% positive.
I don't allow any negativity.
I allow people to comment.
But unfortunately, if there's any negative comments,
Um, I, I, you know, I encourage people to take that up with the management, you know, I'm
your own
privately, you know, not, not, not, not out there on social media.
So, but, uh, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
So supper clubs are, I mean, it's not a uniquely Wisconsin thing, but it's so well loved here.
We, we, I mean, people, when you talk to Wisconsinites and those who are visiting, we treat supper clubs with a reverence and a tradition.
And, and you said that, you know, you had already gone to
quite a few dozen supper clubs at the point where you decided to make this, you know, a, you know, I don't want to say a job, but like you decided to put your, your experiences out to the world for people to enjoy.
What is it about supper clubs for the two of you that makes it so exciting that you've turned this into a, you know, something that you put your passion into plus, you know, going to so many a week.
I mean, you have to, there's something about it that you have to really enjoy.
Yeah, I mean, you know, fortunately or unfortunately, I live to eat and don't eat to live.
Same brother, same brother.
Is that true?
Yeah.
So I do enjoy, do enjoy eating and we do enjoy, you know, our typical supper club experience.
um we'll start out at the bar and usually for for an hour or so we'll have a couple of cocktails we'll move to a table sometimes go back to the bar but uh rarely some people do that that's you know part of their supper club experience but um you know we enjoy all food um but you know probably in the big picture of it all we enjoy the people you
know we
enjoy we enjoy the
the people that love the experience, like we love the experience.
And there's always different experiences.
I mean, sometimes it is about the food.
Other times it's about the ambience, but it's always about the people.
So it's fun to enjoy other people's company.
We've gotten to know a lot of owners.
They see what we're doing is really helpful to
all supper clubs, but the places that we go especially, I mean, there's posts that I make that, you know, hundreds of thousands of people see.
So it's really kind of interesting and fun.
fun, but we really enjoy it.
I mean, and Michelle makes some really great videos.
I'm not a videographer.
She's gotten better and better at it, but she actually also creates, she's a musician by trade.
So she's a professional piano player and singer, and she's actually
you know, we used to play with schools and she's done music out where she did like the lobby bar at the Grand Geneva, which used to be the Playboy Club.
Yeah, she did that.
But she's created a lot of the music now that we're using on our videos.
That's fantastic.
She's
created some supper club songs and we've done a lot of fun things.
We've created some different
different clothing with different logos.
And we've done pop-up stores with that.
We've created t-shirts that have like all the supper clubs on back of the t-shirt.
And on the front, it'll say like, Wisconsin supper clubs, how many have you been to?
And, you know, we then create, you know, a fun scenario where people are able to go on the, you know, look at the back of the shirt.
And I've been to that one, that one, that one, and that one, you
know.
They're following you around, so they
can listen.
Yeah, it's really
funny.
Jim and Michelle are the Wisconsin Supper Club chasers.
They're joining us tonight on Nightlight for a few minutes.
We're talking to them about their really cool platform.
Check them out.
They're on Facebook, Instagram, and they've been over 200 Supper Clubs, and we're talking to them about their experiences.
You know, what do good Supper Clubs do right?
And what do...
If there are bad supper clubs, what don't they do right?
You don't have to name any, but have you, the ones that are successful, how are they doing that?
Is there a common thread?
You know, there probably is.
I mean, good food is probably very key to a busy supper club.
You know, people ask all the time, don't you have bad experiences?
Because I don't talk about it.
I just choose not to talk about those experiences.
We've had bad meals, bad service.
It happens occasionally.
But we try to overlook that, you know, we're all humans and we all have scenarios where we might not have a very good day.
Something stayed on the grill too long for the chef and, you know, that kind of stuff.
But, you know, we try to minimize that it happens.
But yeah, good food, good cocktails, you know, a nice bar where there's a lot of seating helps.
But we've been to a lot
places where they have a small bar and it's still a lot of fun.
Dining rooms are huge, some are small, and some of those are as popular as others, bigger or smaller.
Size doesn't matter, but I think good food and just owners that care help a lot too.
A lot of times the owners are involved in a supper club, so they're
Um, being, you know, being part of the whole thing, uh, he might be the bartender and she might be the chef or vice versa.
You know, they, they, they have some, some aspect of the business they're doing something.
So it's fun.
There has been a lot of, so like, you know, growing up, there's, you know, there's supper clubs.
I can think of, we went to when I was a kid, but there's been a revival in the past few years of the supper club.
decor, mystique, the experience.
I mean, it feels like, you know, do you feel like those places are, do you feel like those places are trying?
to replicate the old school look or, and, or do you think they're paying tribute essentially?
Cause like, I see some of them like, this just looks like you're trying to look like a supper club while charging very, very expensive prices.
But then there are places out there saying, I just want to create what I went to with my parents and grandparents as a kid.
I mean, I feel like there's, it's a resurgence of the love of supper clubs with new locations opening up.
Yeah, there, there, there are new locations opening up almost even all the time next week.
We'll be visiting a place called the Conroy Modern Stock Club in Milwaukee.
That's a brand new one.
They asked us to come out.
And that's one of the examples of a supper club that asked us to come in and they'll take care of our meals because they'll know that we're going to share about their place.
And when we look at their menu, it looks like they're more of
what we would call a modern supper club,
you
know, a lot of these traditional supper clubs, you know, fortunately, I don't, I don't try to find a place that has the best prices, you know, I'm, you know, I'm fortunate that, you know, I can visit them regardless.
And, you know, in some respects, you get what you're paid for.
And then other times we've found places that, you know, my
might charge more than you would think they should be.
But I try to overlook those kind of things and look at the positive.
I look at the fun area that they created, the culture they've created, and it's a lot of fun.
And there's several clubs that we've been to that are over 100 years old, and they're fourth generation of family that's owned them.
It's actually...
a lot of fun to share with those people.
They've got crazy history that goes back to maybe mobsters, flying the licker, throwing a fish and kind
of stuff.
That's so great.
Our guests are Jim and Michelle from the Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers.
Follow them on various social media platforms.
Monica and Mount Horrib says definitely a salad bar with the packaged crackers, dry breadsticks, and cheese bread, a grasshopper, and possibly...
I can't read a pasta dish.
So when we come back, I'm gonna ask Jim and Michelle what their favorite supper club meal is and we'll do, they can answer our question of the night.
That's coming up next after this very short break.
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Welcome back.
This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.
I'm in Christmas City, USA, Marinette, Wisconsin.
Greg is in Radio Park in Racine and Dom is holding down the fort in Madison.
It's great to have you with us tonight on this Friday, a casual Friday here on Nightlight.
And we have to tell you guys that the Brewer's game has been postponed.
Greg, I'm sorry.
I know that's a big deal for
you.
I
was going to go to Kansas City tonight.
Now I'm very upset.
My plane ticket is useless at this point.
What am I going to go for?
The sun and the fun, my goodness.
You have an excuse not to go now because the traveling is a
hassle.
Yeah.
All right.
So our guests at the moment are Jim and Michelle.
They are the Wisconsin Supper Club chasers.
They're joining us now from a hotel room somewhere in Wisconsin.
We won't say where, but they are.
They've already been to a supper club today.
They're going out to another one tonight.
That is dedication.
I want to ask you guys our question of the night is what is your perfect supper club meal?
Like what do you typically order?
or what is the quintessential supper club meal and cocktail?
So, um, you know, I think a lot of people would say fish fry on Friday, uh, prime rib on Saturday, uh, broasted chicken on Sunday and, you know, some type of steak, uh, any of those days or other days of the week.
Um, fortunately we love all food.
except that I always used the saying, my mom loves liver and I don't care for it.
But which one of us is right, which is why I keep the page positive and don't say that I know better than what you know is what you like.
But fortunately, we eat a lot of different foods when we're at supper clubs.
um you know we'll we'll enjoy a filet or uh you know rib eye um and probably prefer a filet but that's not you know for everybody um but we'll do we'll do fish fry on fridays but you know they may have a special dish like a pasta dish or you know sometimes some of the supper clubs might have a an italian type thing but uh you know we
We'll eat all different foods.
And I think that's part of the attraction to the page is a lot of people come to the page.
They're not going to always see us eating primary every night.
And I heard your caller called in and talked about a salad bar.
Of course, I love a salad bar as much
as
anybody does, but it doesn't necessarily in the world of supper clubs today define a supper club as to whether they have a salad bar or not.
Usually, they at least have a super salad choice, but it's nice if they have a super and salad bar.
It's kind of nice.
We're relish trays, a big one.
People love to get a...
or relish tray with their meal.
I would say I do as well, but not every supper club serves those.
Some of them have gotten away from them.
You know, there were some issues with salad bars and relish trays and some other things, you know, through COVID and whatnot.
But, you know, our perfect meal is probably every meal.
I mean, it's really hard.
I love
that.
I know.
But you know what we try to do?
We try to order different things.
So I'll order one thing short or something else.
If I get soups, she'll get salad.
We try to ask if they have maybe a homemade dressing, if it's not a salad bar.
So we try to get different things.
We'll get an appetizer.
We'll get dessert sometimes.
I was on track last a bunch of supper clubs that I've been to where we ordered three meals and even one time four meals.
Just
so that we can show off.
You know, a lot of the different food that's, that's at a place to, you know, we have a lot of fun when we go and, you know, and I'll joke around and say, don't judge me.
It's your fault because you guys want to see, you know, all these different foods this place serves.
So, you know, I want
to join this Wisconsin
supper club.
Yeah, we hear that a lot.
Yeah, we hear that a lot.
And I always say, uh, you know, come and finance us and we'll be happy
to.
Yeah, we gotta get a big corporate sponsor, you know, brought to you by whatever, you know.
We also live on our leftovers.
We do, yeah.
We never, we never waste
anything
from a couple of nights ago.
We had a ribeye and this morning she, she put it together with some eggs and some roasted vegetables and fresh roasted vegetables and turned it into a whole another, you know, a nice breakfast this morning.
Can we never waste anything?
That's great.
Pete, I know you wanted to ask Michelle a question before we got out of here.
We have just like two more minutes left.
But Pete, go ahead and ask a question.
Yeah, Michelle, you're a musician.
You have a music background.
I know you said you do or Jim said you do some of the music for the videos.
What music do you like to hear when you enter a supper club?
And what do you think complements a supper club when you're thinking music?
Definitely the Rat Pack music is what I'm excited about when they have it, and I'm really excited if there's live music.
That's what I want to hear.
You don't get that a lot, but when there is live music, I make sure we sit by it.
The last time I went to the Hobnob in Pleasant Prairie, there was a three-piece jazz
trio, and it just
makes everything better.
We were there when you were there, maybe.
If he's such a good vibe.
Yes,
absolutely.
I totally agree with you.
That's the perfect dance.
I thought you were going to say jazz piano, which I like too, but the rat pack, the crooners,
that's fantastic.
It's got
to be the crooners.
If you guys are ever in Marinette at Christmas City, USA, let me know.
I'll come out on me.
I'll buy you a piece of cheesecake.
All right.
We'll have
three, four.
There you
go.
It's on me.
All right.
You guys, this was so much fun, Jim
and Michelle.
Thank you so
much.
Please come back.
I'm sorry we couldn't make this happen in studio, but bear with us.
We'll have you back again and maybe we'll
make it a bigger event.
Yeah, when you get a studio together, definitely.
Yeah.
Thank you.
We'll come back.
Yeah, we'll come back.
Maybe enjoy some old fashions or something together on the air.
That's a great idea.
Yeah.
We had me at
old fashions.
Perfect.
Awesome.
I love it.
Save travels, you guys, and keep us posted, and we'll do this again soon.
Thanks so
much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
All
right.
All right.
Jim and Michelle, give them a follow at
the
Wisconsin Supper Club Chasers.
I was looking at their posts earlier, and it's so much fun just
to
see.
You feel like you're in a supper club.
It's great.
All right, we are coming back for act two after the news, and we're going to do the brain rot quiz.
Dom's ready.
It's
Pete Schwabba
and Greg Bach and Night Light.
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