Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Saturday Night, starring this week’s host, Castle’s Patio Inn and a special presentation of MBIP Stickman Theatre! And now, please welcome this week’s host, Castle’s Patio Inn!

Alright, here we are at Castle’s Patio Inn, a bar that’s been situated on this corner of Loucks and Sheridan for decades. I love the different colors that emanate from the outside of the bar.

It’s The Cheesiest Place In Town and it’s also a Cardinal’s bar, so they’ve got to be a little sad about how their team did in the playoffs this year. Let’s go inside and offer up our condolences!

Here’s MBIP pal and veteran Peoria bartender, Alex serving up the first beer of the evening. He told me since the Cardinal’s have lost, the bar is now rooting for the Cubs in the playoffs. Very sportsmanlike of them!

And here’s Shannon and Steven over in the corner table of the bar. I always wanted to sit at this table, but I’ve never been in here with more than one person, so I’ve never been able to do it! Thankfully, Shannon and Steven agreed to meet me here and there’s two other guests coming as well, but first...

Here’s Ali serving up a crock of the legendary Patio Inn cheese! Ali’s looking pretty as always and great to see her again!

And the other two special guests have arrived, Amber and Joe are seated with us at the corner table which as you can see has been reserved for us! Are we special or what? Sadly, after Ali took this photo, the MBIP camera’s battery died. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but sometimes I HATE the MBIP camera. HATE, HATE, HATE the MBIP camera! And now how will I fill out the rest of this post if I can’t take any more photos? Well, there’s only one thing that we can do. And that thing is...