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Popcorn Pick of the Week w/ Frank Hermans (Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Thu Mar 27, 2025
Welcome to Night Light.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, hey, Wisconsin.
How we doing tonight?
Great to have you with me on this Thursday night, the Christmas Eve of weeknights, here on another edition of Nightlight, where we have great guests, good conversation, a few laughs, and a fun question every night.
And also, we like to take your texts and calls and find out what your thoughts are on what we're discussing.
It's always fun, and we look forward to more of that tonight.
So welcome to Nightlight.
I am Pete Schwabba, riding shotgun as always.
is the lovable producer Conrad, who is messing with the phones once again.
That is his day job, or that's
hustle, is messing with our phones.
bang the top
that that works, which it never did, but you never know.
Are we good?
Phone's good.
Phone line's open.
so it should be good in about two minutes.
Fantastic.
All right.
Well, we hope to hear from all of you listening.
No matter where you're listening from, it's great to have you here tonight on Nightlight.
My buddy Frank Hermans is here.
He has become a Nightlight favorite.
He actually was from the start.
Frank's just a fun guest and a great guy.
He'll be here at 6.35.
And guess what, ladies and gentlemen?
Frank is gonna make the popcorn pick of the week, and I know he's got a doozy for us.
And Frank is so much fun, I don't even care if he picks one of his own shows.
If he says, come to the Meyer Theater and see our show, that's my popcorn pick of the week.
I'll think he's kinda mailing it in, but I would accept it, because I like Frank.
He's gonna perform, he's gonna give the popcorn pick of the week, and he's gonna talk about his new show, King of Krakow, so that should be fun.
And then in the second hour, Ben Reiser will be here from the Wisconsin Film Festival, which is right around the corner.
It opens a week from tonight, April 3rd.
Such a fun time, great film festival.
And if you're a movie buff, this is the festival to attend.
Not that they're not all great, they are, but over 150 films, I wanna say...
maybe 170 this year, closer to 170 films.
A lot of them by Wisconsin filmmakers.
A lot of them restored classics.
They have great guests for Q&As.
Last year they had Alexander Payne, who wrote Sideways.
And what was the movie with Paul Giamatti?
Last year they got...
Kind of had kind of a dead poet society.
vibe
worry.
Yeah, really, he's an amazing filmmaker.
So anyway, he's not there this year, he was there last week, or last year, and I was sorry, I missed it.
Ben will be here to tell us everything going on that we might wanna check out at this year's Wisconsin Film Festival.
So Ben will be here at 720, Frank at 635.
We have lots to discuss tonight.
I saw this, I thought this was...
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So, Conn, I thought this was funny.
Um, I saw the phrase raw dogging yesterday on the internet, the interwebs.
Yes.
And I thought I knew what it meant.
I didn't know if it was something I could talk about on the air, but it has a whole different meaning.
It's a travel trend.
And I guess it's like you said, it's almost a year old where people get on an airplane and they just do nothing.
Yeah.
It's, it became like, I saw it on TikTok.
Yeah.
And it was just like,
Raw dogging this 14-hour flight Well, I don't think they actually did it.
I know it's just you know for it for views They they posted like a couple seconds of them just looking straightforward just looking at the rod I could
do
Where is the phrase?
How does that phrase apply to that action?
I don't know.
It's kind of weird
But it did make me laugh and it remind and now yesterday what I read was that Patrick Orburton who played putty on Seinfeld is taking credit for the practice because in season nine of Seinfeld he and Elaine were on the plane and They had just gotten back together They have a very tempestuous relationship, but they just got back together and it drove her crazy that he just stared at the seat in front of him He had no electronics.
He didn't want to read a book.
He didn't have headphones.
He didn't want to sleep
And it drove her bananas.
So she broke up with them.
But that's apparently a trend now.
It's called raw dogging.
And I don't, that would make sense if it was a TikTok thing.
I don't believe people would really do that.
Our attention span is nothing.
And you're going to tell me someone's going to do a six hour flight and just stare straight ahead.
I don't believe you.
I could handle doing a nine second TikTok video of it.
So I thought that was kind of funny and it led me to an old phrase that I've always kind of thought was pretty cool and kind of true by Blaise Pascal, a famous quote that says, all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing.
Pascal was a French philosopher and mathematician and a Christian writer.
You know what?
He's actually a better actor.
He's do theater back in the 1500s But it's a great quote all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room and do Nothing and it leads us ladies and gentlemen to our question of the night.
How long can you sit quietly in a room and do nothing?
How long can you raw dog it?
Sometimes I think of that philosopher Pascal thinking of how his phrase was subverted to the term raw doggy.
That's tonight's question though.
How long can you sit quietly in a room and do nothing?
I think if I had to,
I can maybe do 30 minutes.
I mean, I do some yoga sometimes.
Sometimes I meditate.
But that would be rough.
I would maybe say 30 minutes.
How long do you think you could go, Conrad?
Sit quietly in a room and do nothing.
No music.
No book, no headphones, no one to talk to, and you can't sleep.
You have to sit there and do nothing.
I suppose you could look out the window.
I
minutes,
Five minutes.
See, I think I could do 30.
I think I would revert to my old pre-cell phone self, but maybe not.
I don't know.
But it's a good exercise, and I think it's something we could all benefit from.
because we're also glued to our phones and our computers and TV, and there's times I have the TV on and I'm on the phone.
Like my brain is probably so scrambled.
It would be interesting.
It's an interesting experiment.
And if you guys want to do this at home, oh, don't do it, because you have to turn off the radio.
But that's tonight's question.
How long can you sit quietly in a room and raw dog it, aka do nothing?
Let us know.
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I am curious to try it.
I wanted to try it last night when I first saw this, but I was watching a really good TV show.
So I didn't do it.
But that's our question.
Stream us, text us, just yell.
If you're down the street, if you're over at the Haberdashery, getting a suit fitted, yell down.
Your answer, we'll take it.
And we will read your text or your call on the radio.
I was watching last night, Adolescents.
Have you heard of that?
Yeah.
I panicked.
I turned it on and I liked it so much in the first 20 minutes.
I thought, I can't watch this right now.
I know I'm going to like this.
So I turned it off and I'm going to go at it where I can watch two solid episodes.
Because I can't do one episode I might not have a great attention span, but I do when it comes to watching color television So I'll probably watch two episodes of it tonight the acting is great.
It's all one shot the camera now the camera moves But they don't cut it's really interesting And I haven't seen a good true crime in a while either so I want to ask Ben riser about that tonight I want to know if he's watching that what he thinks about it.
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Marvel has been releasing statements like, you know, Pedro Pascal will return as, you know, Mr. Fantastic, the Empire State Building tweeted, the Empire State Building will return as the Empire State Building in Avengers Doom Day.
And then they had Hugh Laurie will return as House in Avengers Doom
Day.
Let me ask you something that's, you're a Marvel guy.
Does it even matter who's in the cast?
I mean, I know you want
Well, OK, so I like some of them.
But what really threw me away was that there's no Tom Holland in that.
And he's Spider-Man.
And I'm confused why he wouldn't be in Adventures Doom Day.
OK.
So far, I mean, I like the actors that are.
I still don't understand why Robert Downey Jr.
is a villain in it when he was he was Iron Man.
Right.
So it just doesn't make sense
to me.
But they're everybody's going to see the heroes.
They don't.
I know Robert Downey Jr.
does a good job in Tom Holland, but there are other people that could do that and people would still go, right?
OK.
Hey, we need an update on you, Conrad, from the tournament tonight.
Let's see what's going
over there though folks.
We'll keep you posted Yeah, we're coming right back and we're gonna read some texts and talk about Quentin Tarantino It's Pete Schwabba and nightlight on the civic media radio
I almost tried to say that along with the music, but it would have sounded really awkward.
But I didn't sing it like that.
I almost tried to like would have been embarrassing for all involved.
Monica from Mount Horrib says, I couldn't beat you in a stair down, but I could easily do it for that flight.
I daydream a lot.
She says, okay, boy, I'm envious.
For the whole flight, Monica, that's impressive.
I don't think I could do that.
And we've got, oh, we've got phone calls, but these are not nightlight related.
Conrad, would you agree with that?
at.
Oh, gotcha.
Okay.
But our phones, if people want to call, are working, correct?
right.
Very good.
So we've got Quentin Tarantino's birthday is today.
is.
And I feel like, look, he's kind of a strange guy.
I love Quentin Tarantino, my favorite film of his for the longest time.
And I like, I like parts of all of them.
I don't love all of, they're all great films.
My favorites, I loved Pulp Fiction until I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood five, six years ago.
And I didn't know much about it.
I know he kind of takes liberties and changes, rewrites history to the way he wishes it was.
And he did that with Hitler and then Gloria's Bastards.
And he did that in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
And I was not ready for it.
I left the theater shaking my head and going, what the heck did I just see?
And I went back the next day with my son and watched it.
And we both left and we just agreed we loved it.
I knew nothing about it when I went into it.
And I love seeing movies like that.
When I don't know too much of what it's about and Leonardo DiCaprio Great in it Brad Pitt.
I think Brad Pitt won a best supporting actor in it, which That's kind of weird because he didn't have much to do.
He was great.
He was good But man sometimes people win Oscars for stuff that wasn't their best work.
It was still very good work But he was great DiCaprio is great and I got to find out the name of the girl
She was in, oh, she's in a show, my daughter watches too.
I'll find that out.
But anyway, she was amazing.
Was that Margot Robbie?
No, Margot Robbie was great too, as Sharon Tate.
Margot Quali was good.
No way was that Mikey Madison.
I'm looking on the IMDB.
Is that true?
That was in that was in an aura get out of here Why didn't I put that together?
She's fantastic in it and she's like I Don't know.
She's like 14, but she plays a younger girl even who's challenging Leo de Caprio I Just have to double-check that this is that this is her because it's a show my daughter watches That's kind of a bad show.
We kind of laugh about it, but um
Anyway, yeah, that's my favorite.
That became my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie from 2019.
And I've seen it three times since.
It's a very long movie.
Have you seen it?
Okay.
It's outstanding.
I don't think that's the girl that I'm thinking of.
No, it's not Mikey Madison.
Mikey Madison's like what, 25?
All right.
So that would have...
So that couldn't have been her.
No, this is a young girl who played like a 10 year old and she played an actress doing a scene with Leo DiCaprio and they have this great talk during the movie and Leo DiCaprio's borderline washed up and he hates himself for drinking too much.
This is like a side plot in the movie of the Manson family going after Sharon Tate.
It's so good.
We have a clip though from Paul Fiction, right?
What's this clip again?
Love it.
All right.
Is it beeped?
We've played it before.
Let's roll the dice.
I think we could do this.
This is Quentin Tarantino.
It's his birthday.
Here's a clip from Pulp Fiction.
Honey, buddy.
All right, now tell us it's going to be all right.
It's going to be all right.
Promise us.
I promise.
Tell her to chill.
Just chill out, honey, buddy.
All right, now tell me your name.
Yolanda.
All right, now Yolanda.
We're not going to do anything stupid, are we?
Don't you hurt him.
Nobody's going to hurt anybody.
We're all going to be like three little Fonzies here.
And what's Fonzie like?
Come on, Yolanda.
What's Fonzie like?
Cool.
What?
Cool.
Correctamundo.
And that's what we're going to be.
We're going to be cool.
Yolanda, I thought you were going to be cool.
Now, when you yell at me, it makes me nervous.
And when I get nervous, I get scared.
And when motherfuckers get scared, that's when motherfuckers accidentally get shot.
Just know, you hurt him.
You die.
Well, that seems to be the situation.
But I don't want that.
And you don't want that.
And Ringo here definitely doesn't want that.
So let's see what we can do now.
Here's the situation Normally both your would be dead as fried chicken, but you happen to pull it while I'm in a transitional period and I don't want to kill you I want to help you But I can't give you this case Because it don't belong to me Besides I've been through too much over this case this morning to just hand it over to
your thumb's got to work out when you were a beep in that club
Julia Butters is the name of the actress who played the girl in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, who has this great scene with Leota Cabrera.
I thought Mikey Madison was a little too old, but they kind of look alike, so I thought maybe it might have been her.
show was she in?
She was in a show called American Housewife.
That sounds terrible.
It's pretty bad.
And you know who's in it?
It's the guy who played the neighbor.
I can never think of his name.
Played the neighbor in office space.
He lived next to Ron.
Livingston who's always knocking on the wall going, hey, Peter, man,
He plays the husband.
It's not a great show.
But this actress, Julia Butters, is really good.
And she's very good in What's Upon a Time in Hollywood.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Ben Reiser is here at 720.
We're talking movies at the Wisconsin Film Festival this year.
It starts a week from tonight.
And when we come back after the news, I'll read some texts.
And we will welcome our pal Frank Hermans, who will be here.
He's got his guitar.
He's got his voice.
That's all you need to know.
He's gonna talk about his new show and he's gonna make the popcorn pick of the week.
That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
It's time for the Nightlight Popcorn Pick of the Week, where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't.
Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.
Welcome back to Nightlight, this is Pete Schwabba.
As announced by the lovely and talented Todd Michaels, no relation to the lovable producer Conrad though.
But you guys are friends.
Yeah, I'd say, I mean, he's more of my boss.
I'm just kidding, Todd.
He doesn't like you, Todd.
We have some texts we'll get to in just a little while.
We've got to go through them.
Our phones are working, correct?
Yes.
All right.
So if you want a call, I'm about to announce a great guest.
Do the popcorn pick of the week.
And if you have a question for him about his shows coming up or whatever, you're welcome to call or text in.
It is my pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to welcome one of my best pals here at Nightlight.
He stops by every once in a while and wows us.
Offbeat drumroll with his frankness.
It's Frank Hermanns.
How are you
buddy?
I
don't
mean to be frank with you, but I am Can you give me just a little bit of the voice you did in the Christmas show?
It goes get the games.
Oh, that's right.
I was
I was that that guy I was kind of a radio announcer, but a stern authoritarian
father a father figure it's like headbaxter with totally
what it totally was Ted Baxter a little bit mmm Just a little bit more authoritative.
I loved it.
Thanks.
Welcome buddy.
I'm so happy you're doing this We'll talk about movies you got I want to talk to you about new shows you got coming up You always have so much fun stuff to talk about but let's start with the popcorn pick.
Let's do it.
So
What's your favorite movie snack Frank
my favorite movie snack and I'll be honest I do buy these at quicktrip before
I go to a
movie
peanut
caramel clusters.
They're two for four dollars Peanut caramel clusters.
There's like it.
It's they call them turtles.
Okay.
Oh,
yeah Yeah, but I really like them.
I do I order popcorn all the time popcorn and then my kids will whatever soda they want I just drink whatever they get and
Yeah, popcorn.
And the caramel, so that's what we do.
It's funny, most people go to the store, like the dollar store, or somewhere to get cheaper candy.
Correct.
But what you're describing is two pieces for four bucks.
That's like more than you'd pay at the movie theater.
Well,
actually it's two packages,
I should
say.
There's probably seven of them in each package.
Oh,
okay.
Sneak them in.
Sneak them in.
Yeah.
That's
better than like sneaking in.
There's
nothing to see in this pocket.
What do you got in your pocket, huh?
What are you packing?
Are those caramel turtles
in your pocket, or are you just happy
to be here?
Because I got to tell you, I mean, I was a junior mint guy for years, junior
mints for
my way to go, but really, they're not that hot anymore.
And my kids, they want these sour patch crap
all the
time.
Come on, who's gonna pay nine bucks for
sour patch crap?
And then they don't eat half of them.
I know.
Those are hard to eat.
I will say, once in a while, I have a taste.
This is embarrassing.
Do it.
For nerds.
It's like a taste explosion in your mouth.
And I don't really eat candy anymore, but once in a while, like if it's Halloween and they're sitting there, I'll just wolf them down.
You know, I gotta tell you, we do enjoy going to Chilton Cinema a lot.
My buddy, Mike Radu, owns this place and it's pizza.
And his
pizza
is amazing.
So I've already ordered his pizza, movie time pizza, not even going to the movie.
So, you know, I got kids that are...
9, 11, and 13.
So we're still going to see these movies that you probably don't go to.
And I still enjoy them.
I don't sleep through most of them anymore.
But yeah, having a pizza, watching a movie, nothing like
it.
Fantastic.
Do you prefer to watch movies in the theater, Frank?
I do.
Totally.
I'd rather see a...
a new release in a movie theater.
I do have, you know, we have Prime and we'll do, we'll rent the blockbusters when they come
out.
But
I would rather see, I like the Dolby, the big sound.
Same.
You know, when it comes on and then I can hear, you know, the, the, the, the stereo stuff, the little things happening in the background.
And one of my things, I could see a movie, I normally don't see a movie twice, but I miss some things sometimes.
So I'll watch it on Prime.
Something after
yeah, so what what kind of you said you have three kids all still at that awesome movie.
Yeah, they are What do you typically go see movies that they want to see or do you ever go with Amy and see like?
We do but
we usually have a date night.
We went and saw Mickey 17
My wife and I. Amazing movie, by the way.
Black comedy.
Robert Patterson is amazing.
Brad Pitt produced that movie.
But what a story.
I mean, it was written back in 2021, a novel, and then put the guy die 17 times.
I just think it's so cool.
He's called Meat.
He signs up to be expendable.
And he wonders why he gets on the spaceship right away because he's an expendable.
They're going to kill him.
Because they're going to test all
these viruses.
It's very funny.
Yeah.
It's very funny and well acted.
And I was surprised how good it was.
Was it a sci-fi movie?
Gosh, crazy.
Did his voice
drive you crazy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my god.
He was
always saying a high voice like that.
Yeah.
And he
talked it the whole time.
And it was different.
Because I liked that filmmaker a lot.
And I liked the movie.
I didn't love it.
My wife did not like it.
So it was one of those things like where
we kind of left going.
OK.
We loved.
My wife and I absolutely loved it.
That's so cool.
All right.
So I mean, so many representations, too, with the with the commander guy guy with his false teeth.
You know,
I thought the last hour of it was cool with those creatures.
Yes, the creatures and the message was nice.
You know, it's you know, it's all about fear and ignorance.
So what genre, typically, Frank, do you like to watch?
Let's say it's just you.
The wife's doing something else.
The kids aren't around.
What is Frank
watching?
I like thrillers.
I like thrillers.
I like the beekeeper.
I like the equalizer.
Those are my movies, and that's my older sons.
type of genre.
So we, my son, I mean, we're going to see The Matrix.
We're going to see these movies all the time.
My older son and my 13 year old, now he can go to these R rated movies to get away with it.
This
is Harrison.
Harrison.
So he's coming with us.
So we're going to see those movies.
That's what I really like.
And that's the kind of when I watch a TV series like a land man or something like that.
I'm looking for intrigue.
I'm looking for thriller.
I'm not in it for, I like comedy.
Don't get me wrong.
Sure.
You know, comedies are fun, but I like a story.
I do too.
I'm with you.
I don't I don't know why I don't like comedy more than I do, but I always want I want a mystery and cop thing or like the equalizers.
I think are the all three of those are
so great.
So well put together storyline and the new one.
Uh, who's
gonna be
Italy?
Yeah, no, there's another one that's coming out I heard and
it's
gonna be someone some big brother big name is gonna be involved Am I lying to myself that I just made this up?
No, I didn't
hear about it,
but yeah, I love all those.
I
mean, yeah, yeah
I like them all about the same, too.
Dan Zell's 70, man, and he's still working it.
Still kicking ass on screen.
Jason Statham's my favorite, one of my favorites, too.
I loved, and here's where I'm at with
The
Beekeeper.
When that came out, I crack up now because all these guys that have mundane jobs, they're really train killers.
You can go get a warm press with the movie theater.
Don't make a mess.
No, no, that guy's an assassin yet.
Like, he's The Beekeeper, now he's got a new film coming out where he's a construction worker.
I gotta go see it, you have.
I mean, he's making money, so
why
not do it?
No, listen, and Beekeeper I thought was cool because Felicia Rashad played his landlord.
Yes.
And he avenged her and it's all these scammer telemarkers.
It was like, it struck a nerve with me.
I'm like,
yeah, kill them all.
And to go
through and find them like he did,
it was
pretty cool.
Very cool.
And yeah, to go through each one.
I actually
love that
movie.
I love that movie too.
All right, so what about at home, Frank?
If you have to watch a movie at home, do you go for a different kind of snack or do you still like popcorn?
Snack?
I'm a grazer.
I fast every day.
I fast for 17 hours.
I don't have breakfast.
And usually about two o'clock, the stomach starts rumbling.
So
I
have a snack or something.
So we'll have dinner.
And then I'll graze all the way till 10 o'clock till we go to bed.
So I try to do healthy stuff.
I like a pistachios and carrots.
But you know, it's what the kids are eating, you know?
So whatever's there.
We do a lot of popcorn.
A lot of popcorn.
I gotta tell you, I'm...
I fast as well, and I've done 36 hour, I've done 18, 16, I try to just speak for the health reasons, you know, it brings your levels down and all that kind of stuff.
Mydicondria, baby,
it
produces new cells.
Yeah.
But if you could do, you did 36 already?
I've done, I do 36 semi-regularly.
Okay,
because I'm gonna do 36 next week, and that's
what really
has been, if you could do four days, they say.
Yes.
It's like you are a new human being.
everything in your body reset flushed.
I don't know that I could do that.
All the stem cells get going.
My buddy, I kid you not, my buddy did a 96 hour fast.
Yeah, Brad Bordini, if he's listening out there, he's a guitar player singer.
Yeah.
Well, I think he had cancer and started doing all those things.
I think he beat it.
He was doing all that stuff.
If I could, Frank, I'd give up beating all together.
I don't see that happening.
But what did you call it?
Because it refreshes your cells, too.
I thought it was called
autophagy.
It is autophagy, but it
rebuilds the mitochondria, which is the cell building.
That rebuilds cells.
And what it does, your body, it's fighting.
It's like, OK, we've got to fire a cell.
Let's kick that thing out of
here.
You gotta sell it to the mitochondria's bad.
Let's kick that thing out of here.
So what it does is it's cleansing your body.
It's the caveman effect.
That's why cavemen only ate every five days or six
days.
Right.
Because they couldn't fight.
Why they only lived to be 24.
But they were fit.
They were fit.
They were tight.
No,
I love that.
And if I could do a four there, that whatever it is, I do find that interesting.
I don't know that I... You did 36 hours.
That's very impressive.
I do.
It's not my regular... And it's fun that you wake up and you're like, I don't have to think about you today.
You're not hungry.
It's great.
And you're not hungry.
When
you make it to a certain point, you're not hungry
anymore.
Right.
And your brain is so sharp, like you have none of that gluten clouding.
Yeah, I know.
So we're supposed to be pushing popcorn and snacks here Frank Herman's is here ladies and gentlemen.
He's about to make the popcorn pick of the week He has so many some cool stuff opening up soon.
We'll talk about that too.
So So all right, I think are we ready Conrad?
I got a
controversial pixel.
Let's
do it.
I love it Conrad if you would please Frank Herman's what is your popcorn
pick of the week?
It's no white
How about that?
I went and saw it with my kids two days ago.
I went with it with an open mind.
Yeah, absolutely loved it from start to finish.
It is it's Hollywood.
It's it's Disney.
It's glamour.
They make that castle look so real the the cottage that.
attention to detail with the background.
Plus, they sang all the original songs, and then they wrote some new songs.
I thought it was great.
You know, everybody's talking about, you know, the dwarves, you know, maybe being weird, but I thought that was cool.
They look like the dwarves with skin.
You know, they look dopey, look like dopey.
Yeah.
And Gail Godot, great cast as the queen.
Oh
my
God,
she can sing
too.
She is amazing.
She's a great actor.
I love her.
She's perfection.
Yeah.
And Rachel, I know there was controversy around the movie, some political, but some from the lead actress who said some stuff.
And it's like, sometimes things just take a while to get going.
But I love hearing that you really liked it because now I probably will check it out.
Just check it out.
If only the story is the same, they
do
change a little bit with the handsome.
you know guy and that guy grew on me the prince he's not that he's not a prince he's a he's a leader of a rebellion kind of thing okay
and
i like the backstory how they set up the backstory with the father marrying gale you know after after the mother had passed away so there's all these setups um and he grew on me because he wasn't you know
The guy's supposed to be really handsome, right?
Don't you think that?
He wasn't.
He wasn't to me.
Not that I'm looking for that, but I was thinking, man, this guy's going to be a stud.
He's not.
But eventually he becomes one.
That's awesome, man.
All right.
So Conrad, has that changed your mind about the film?
I didn't have.
Well, you'll see it.
Well.
I didn't see it, he didn't see it.
We saw reviews on IMDB and it was so low, it's a joke.
When I saw those, I'm like, there's some kind of campaign here, everybody went in.
There's some good reviews,
there's
some reviews that gave it, gave, who's girl that plays Snow White?
Rachel, Rachel's
performance was outstanding.
That Gail's performance was outstanding.
Story was a little convoluted, I've heard.
And then the dwarf thing.
Review even with all the controversy the reviews are still decent.
You know, it's not like it's about the whole family
I brought all my
kids.
Oh, I absolutely loved it.
I loved it, too.
Yeah, so while you
work
Is that what show that's from?
Yeah.
Oh funny.
Yeah, I haven't seen some white and so long.
All right.
All right, so we've got man.
We got a lot to get to so Let's uh, let's talk about we've got a we've got about a minute before we have to break but start us off tell us what's coming up next in
for Let Me Be
Friend.
Yeah, we open up next Thursday already.
Isn't that crazy?
Our brand new show called The King of Krakow.
Now Krakow is a town west of Pulaski, okay?
Back in the...
Probably the 30s to the 80s, it was quite the town.
Now it's a ghost town.
There was a bowling alley, which is no longer there.
Is it really a ghost
town?
Well, there's people that still live there, but all the businesses, hardware stores still there.
So sad.
It's closed down.
The IGA, Brzezinski's IGA, all that's left is the walls.
You can drive through this town.
It's so cool.
Now there's a hairstylist there, and there's also a bar yet there, but there used to be a lot more going on.
The reason why I thought of King of Crackle was kind of a spoof on the King of Queens.
But then we
started, I started thinking, King of Crackle, like, let's do like a good fellas thing, you know?
And we'll talk about that, eh?
Yeah.
We'll talk about that after a very short break.
I love the hairstyle.
the salon in the bar.
Do you go to the salon first and then the bar to look good?
Or do you go to the bar and get the guts to go get the ridges or whatever you
do?
All right, Frank Hermans is here.
Folks, he gave us his popcorn pick of the week.
It's Snow White.
Awesome pick.
Go see it.
Yeah, and we'll come back and talk about the King of Krakow and he's got another show.
We're going to tease right there.
Frank's going to tell us everything he's doing.
He's even going to perform.
So you're hearing a great night.
It's Peach Wobbitt Nightlight, Civic Media Radio Network.
This is just text.
Welcome back to Nightlight.
This is Pete Schwabba, your ever-loving host.
Great to have you with me tonight.
From the 855, this is Kate from Hayward says, Ollie says, thanks Conrad.
To that was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
What's that?
mark in the 608 says the long kiss.
Good night 1996 is pretty good Gina Davis and Sam Jackson I think giving us his popcorn pick of the week, which is just fine mark Thank you.
I do like you've ever seen that movie Frank.
Oh, it's good kind
like a born a born movie Okay, but she's a housewife and all sudden stuff comes back.
It's really it's really a fun movie and Samuel Jackson's Larry's best Frank Herman's is here folks He gave the popcorn pick of the week.
It's snow white the new snow white and now we're gonna talk about some of the cool stuff Frank
has going on right down the street at the Meyer
yeah our brand new show it opens up next
Thursday it's a benefit show of course ten dollars of every ticket goes to the Children's Museum and we're do some do something cool on that opening night this of course showtime 730 We're doing a red carpet.
You
picture taken dressed like you're in the 80s or dressed just dress up and We'll we'll take pictures that I got my I got my photographer there.
That's gonna take pictures We got a backdrop and ten dollars of every ticket goes to the Children's Museum Heather Hiles a great
and
You know, we even talked about it, because she goes, Frank, you've never done a benefit show for me.
I go, I haven't.
Let's do it.
And she's jumping behind this 100%.
In fact, if you go on my Facebook page, you'll see an interview.
We auditioned Heather Pat and I like a spoof.
It is funny.
She doesn't make the cut.
She doesn't make
the
cut.
Did she really want to be in the show?
No, no.
She's just
a joke.
Good
man.
She goes, can
I audition?
I go, yeah, you can.
It was a funny thing.
Oh, that's funny.
She comes in singing, it's not unusual well to have
fun with.
anyone
it's
just
a she's kind of like one of those people that's got everything going on when she comes in here I'm amazed at her knowledge of everything happening it wouldn't have surprised me if you said she had a great voice
she does she's a talented young lady you know she's a media mongrel man she does radio TV and then she's got this great job at you know the the children's museum and I do a lot of stuff for her and this is something we can give back to the community
so I love it
Well, another reason to go see the show, which I'm sure is great on its own, but a good cause too.
So tell us again, all right, this is the King of Crack-O, and it's West of Palazzo Music.
West of Palazzo, and
Highway 32 in Chano County.
Let me set the scene for you, OK?
First of all, it's like two gangs.
We've got the Brzezinski gang.
The Brzezinski gang owns the IGA store, OK?
And you've got Don Brzezinski.
I play the enforcer named Lodface, and then we got TicToc, who-tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc comes in, and then we bring in a ringer called Pauly Pencilneck, okay?
Pauly Pencilneck talks like this.
It's very funny.
Very funny.
He's a joke-patchy guy.
And then the other casting characters are the Angels of Angelica.
Angelica is a town in Shano County.
They have a game called the Shana Nano.
Oh,
it.
So my wife plays Amy Angelica, and then Sarah plays Sarah the Italian because she looks Polish.
And then you got Lisa Wackjob.
She likes to kill people.
Well, she slaps them.
So it's kind of a spoof on good fellas and all of those things where they're trying to get more.
They want to move in on each other's territory.
And how they're going to do that?
Well, they're going to do that by a new sewage company, Pump and Dump.
They're going to come and pull everybody sewage.
And so it all ends up at Krakow Lanes.
They have a battle of the sexist bowling tournament.
And the winner, of course, gets the contract.
Okay,
there's all different stuff happening in between You know the ringer comes in he's the best bowler in the area.
He's from the south side south chase If you're
with chano county, there's north chase the south chase So it's just a funny funny story with great music from the 80s and it's not like the hair band music It's pop music from the 80s.
What kind of songs?
Breakfast club.
Yes, we got some Cindy Loper in the show.
We got
Oh, a little Bruce Springsteen, we were just talking
it.
Glory Days, of course, Glory
my gosh.
20 songs from the 80s, and you'll love everything about it, and it's so funny.
I gotta tell you, Pat's character, TikTok, he's so frickin' funny.
We played Don Brozinski's Little Mollin'
Brando.
That's your
guy?
No, I'm... Oh, I'm Blodface.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm named after my donkey-lod-ass.
Blodface.
So... And I'm an enforcer.
What is your favorite... Con, let's do an 80s tune going to break.
Maybe New Order or Shiny Happy or something.
Ooh, yeah.
But what is your favorite music?
Like, you've pulled from all... Yeah.
Eras, when you write a show, what gets you the most excited?
I gotta tell you, we've done almost every song in the 60s and 70s now.
I swear to God.
I am sick of 60s and 70s right now.
And I love that music.
I used to delve into it.
I mean, 25 years I've been doing shows.
Right now, I'm starting to get into more of the 80s that I used to hate because I grew up in the 80s.
So that music sucked to me.
I was a huge George Michael fan.
Huge George Michael fan.
I can't even stand his songs anymore, but...
Now that I haven't heard them in a while, going back to
and I'm writing another show this summer called I Found My Thrill on Scraze Hill.
It's all 50s and 60s.
So I'm listening to the songs I haven't heard in a long time,
you know,
doo-wop stuff.
So it's all good.
I just love music.
It's great.
When I, like the 80s stuff I liked, but there were some songs that drive me nuts.
But now when I hear them, it takes me back and it's like an old friend.
Even if I
didn't like it then.
See the older I get and the more I understand music Music is music.
It's
one four five or it's you know, there's always a Pattern to it, you know, and as we as we get older and dumber we start to track everything You know, we come up we steal everybody's riffs and then we put them in our songs Hence, you know every rap song right now, which is not which is fine,
but you're
stealing everybody's music
Right.
Sampling.
Right.
Sampling.
Frank Hermanns is here.
He's going to perform for us when we come back, and we'll find out.
I'll tell you where you can get tickets to King of Krakow.
You probably already know, but we'll go over it anyway.
Just to be thorough, because Frank's a pal.
We're coming right back after the news.
It's Pete Schwabba at Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio Network.
