Don’t Squeeze the Charmin and Flag Follies(Hour 1)

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I am Pete Schwabba.

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What a glorious night.

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Hope you had a great day.

Whatever your day brought you today and whatever led you here, I am grateful to have you and we hope you join us tonight in our discussion about all things.

Well, tonight,

We've got theater We've got a documentary film about the Brewers and a film festival we're all gonna we're gonna cram three amazing guests Into a two-hour show somehow and we have a great question tonight And we hope you guys all get involved because that makes this job that much more fun when when people get involved so Frank Hermans will be here at 620 tonight Frank has a new show opening and

The title of it is great.

It's based on a 1970s commercial So I'm not gonna give it away.

I'll let Frank tell you but he will be here at 620 to talk about his new show and then at 705 Sean Hannish will be here Sean is the director of just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers Sean's been on the show.

I Think Sean if he makes one more appearance.

He's officially a sidekick Yeah

Either way, Sean's a great guy and he made a really cool documentary and there's big news about it.

So we thought we got to have Sean on so he can tell you himself what is happening with Just A Bit Outside because it affects all Wisconsinites.

And then, back to Green Bay, we welcome Nick Watier from the Green Bay Film Festival.

He will be here at 7.20.

to talk about a big event this Saturday that involves yours truly.

I'm very excited to host an event there at the Tarleton Theater this Saturday night and a Q&A following one of the films.

We'll talk about all of that and everything coming up at future Green Bay Film Festival events.

They do such a great job and Nick is a fun guest to talk to and he will keep us up to date with what is happening over at the Tarleton in the coming days and weeks.

Working the board tonight, Conrad Krieger, how are you doing, buddy?

I'm doing good.

How are you doing, though?

I'm well.

After that game last night, I didn't want to bring it up, but it's just...

Listen, if you want to be more involved in the show, you are going to follow my lead.

You bring my bears up, you're teetering, buddy.

I'm sorry for the loss.

It's okay, I've got gelato.

Yeah,

that's a good point.

The bears don't just lose.

What they do is they set records and milestones for the other team when they lose.

Last night all I heard was never before or well actually it was like not since Franz Harkington as a quarterback thrown three touchdowns in the fourth quarter ran for two and Ran for one and threw for two Cam Newton was the last one to do that.

It's like, okay I'm glad the Bears are making history for the other team Yeah, it was a brutal one So we'll see we played Detroit this weekend and

We'll see if they, I don't know, Detroit, I don't know if it, again, I don't know if it was the Packers defense that looked amazing or if Detroit is missing a lot of hearts.

Yeah, I mean, who knows.

Without those coordinators, it looked a little rough.

Could be a

bit of an adjustment period.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's early, it's game one.

I will, it's only in my, as a bear fan, this is what I have to look forward to is it's only 16 weeks until I get to start talking about the off season

and the

draft and free agency and the combine and all that kind of stuff.

So anyway, it should be interesting.

We have a great question tonight that I think we should get to because our pal Frank Anderson will be here in just a few minutes.

So let's get to our nightlight question of the night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Oh, how do you feel about people who use flags?

Political, sports, music, whatever.

to accessorize their sweet rides.

I have to be honest, I just think it's a little obnoxious.

Look at me.

I'm against it.

I don't care, but I would never put something like that on my car.

I don't even put bumper stickers on my car because I feel like, you know, how do you find a bumper sticker that perfectly brands you?

And I wouldn't put something on there that didn't.

So the conversation is over because how are you gonna find a bumper sticker that perfectly describes what you want people what you want to convey to other drivers and I feel the same way about flags Especially when people have a flag on each side.

Yeah, they're flapping and it's just like oh wow, it's I Think it's kind of like a cry for help It's too much what you think

about that bumper sticker I sent you today.

Yeah, I was gonna bring that

up You know, honestly, it was a pretty good one.

It was it was great

Okay, so the bumper sticker it was on a grand caravan.

Yep, and it says I'm giving her all she's got I'm giving her all she's got captain Basically saying what you have kind of a lame ride or what

or

just doesn't go that

fast just doesn't go that fast.

Yeah,

I Think I

think I might get that one for mine

That's how you're gonna define yourself boy.

That's gutsy

I'll just put it put it on on my butt just put it on your pants

So when you walk around, people see it.

My favorite is, I saw this one in Marinette, there's a pickup truck driving around and it's really like maxed out, got the big wheels, it's like 20 feet off the ground, the crazy lights.

And then there's a bumper sticker on the window that just says, yes, it's small.

That's gutsy, that's a guy with a great sense of humor.

Or maybe it's a girl, I don't know who's driving this thing, but anyway, it made me laugh.

So anyway, that's I don't I don't I don't I would never do the flags political certainly That's just like you put political flags in your car.

It's like hey, we just won the Civil War or something Sort

of like yeah,

and sports teams too.

It's like I kind of feel the same way about it I feel like the guy who's wearing his team's attire head to toe

Yeah, you know if money was no object, I think the my car my Dodge Dart would be green with some yellow stripes

Some huge flags on the back and just pack her bumper stickers all over it.

I Just want to see you on a first date pulling up They probably already the girl probably would feel the same way so you're probably golden.

Yeah, so that's our question folks.

How do you feel about would people put flags on their cars?

political sports music whatever

I'm not really a fan.

Conrad doesn't sound like he's that big of a fan.

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Yes.

So anyway, I had an audition today for a priest, which is kind of cool.

Okay.

I would love to play a priest.

Can you just recite the lines right now for us?

Yeah, you know what?

I might still have the window open.

It was something like, no, I can't.

Actually, I had to quote Matthew, I think.

And it was like kind of someone committed a murder and two of the people are in the church and my words are resonating with them and they're shooting each other.

Okay.

And it's kind of a good it's a good big studio film.

Would you be fun?

Yeah, good luck.

Thank you And I they don't need me they need me for like it's like a couple vacation days.

I can do that.

Okay, you can

write you can write the beats and Yeah, you know, you should do one night when I'm not here.

Just don't tell anyone to pretend you're me I'd love to see if you can get the voice down.

Good night, Wisconsin Wait a minute

that's like

Conrad So I went to

I went home last night and I was gonna watch the second office or the second episode of the paper.

I did not get to it So I will I am gonna try to do that though And I'm doing this based on your recommendation alone con so pressures on

yeah, yeah

So we've got some news Conrad will not be here Thursday.

He's taking the night off to To watch the Packer go to the Packer.

Yeah, go to the game.

Yeah, where your seats you got good seats

Well, if anyone knows where the gold pack the gold packages are in the seats, you know

I'm up

there.

Like in the nosebleeds?

No, not in the nosebleeds.

They're anywhere in lab was a great seat, first of all.

True.

You just want

to be

there.

Honestly, it's like, I don't always like getting good seats, but I don't know.

Never stopped me from going if I'm in the nosebleeds.

So on the stream, Dave says, I'm more of a huge set of bumper balls.

Okay.

Didn't he just, we must have had a similar question a couple of weeks ago, because I feel like Dave texted that in.

Well, he said it the other way.

The truck balls.

God, how would you ever who would ever do that?

I've seen them more than I would want to.

Yeah.

Right.

And when you have when you put testicles on your truck, the first thing I think of is that guy has no balls.

Honestly, that's just like this is an extension of what you don't have.

That's kind of what comes

to

mind.

I don't know.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe just like the way they look Some of our social media responses to tonight's questions Conrad started us off on social media and says love me a sweet bumper sticker But a flag is a little too far could be hazardous.

Oh, I didn't think of that

It could fly off and go right into your windshield

put an eye out.

Yeah John on social media says guessing it is a compensation tactic for some other deficiency ie again truck nuts.

Sorry Dave

Small-minded people are often the loudest people.

I don't know argument there John and all my pal Tim Baker chiming in on social media says I've had enough of the flags So all right, so let us know what you think though folks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 civic

We have a clip I've been meaning to get to, and I love this.

This kind of involves a Wisconsin guy, Chris Farley, and it was one of his sketches from Saturday Night Live written by Bob Odenkirk.

And these are Bob Odenkirk's thoughts about the sketch that he wrote for his pal, Chris Farley.

Living in a van down by the river.

Yeah when I was growing up I would say is the

north star of sketch comedy It is a perfect comedy sketch comedy sketch writers especially want the writing to matter

they want the writing to be the star.

But the truth is, in sketch comedy, the performance is the star.

It is 70% performance, 30% writing, maybe more performance, maybe 80%.

It just is.

And that's sort of a, you could say, maybe a 50-50 sketch.

I could do that sketch as the motivational speaker.

And it'd be pretty funny.

And my natural rage would be on display and fun.

But no one could beat Chris.

Well said.

Yeah.

Very good, that's a great, I love the story behind that too, because Odenkirk wrote that sketch, sent it in, because he had friends on Saturday Night Live, and they got his stuff seen.

And I think back then it was more common, you could submit something, and you know, it was always a chance they would do it on the show.

He was a waiter at Ed DeBevix in downtown Chicago, an old burger joint with like a theme.

You know, just, that was his day job while he was at Second City.

And he looks up while he's waiting on a table, and sees Chris Farley.

Doing the motivational speaker van down by the rivers.

I mean what a cool.

It's such a good sketch It's so funny

and it was I mean talk about a guy who knows how to write For his friend.

There was the perp like he said that was anybody could have done it Maybe it would have been funny, but Chris Farley really put Put an exclamation mark on that and there's a new this is exciting too folks if you're a Neil Diamond fan There's finally a release date for the new Neil Diamond movie and

It's coming out Christmas Day.

Gotta find that.

What were they calling that again?

You remember what I said?

Christmas tunes.

Song sung blue.

Yeah, it was named after a Neil Diamond song.

Song sung blue based on a Milwaukee couple.

That started doing a tribute band to Neil Diamond.

They were called Thunder and Lightning We're gonna get into this more as that date approaches because that looks like a really fun movie with some great songs speaking of great songs Coming up next after the news our pal Frank Anderson Frank Anderson Frank Hermans the legendary Frank Hermans joins us in studio to talk about his new show That is coming up next on nightlight with peach wabba on the civic media radio network

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I am Pete Schwab.

Our question of the night is, how do you feel about flags on cars?

Be they political, sports-affiliated music?

I think they're kind of goofy, but... You know what, one word comes to mind when you say that?

What?

Tool.

Yeah, tool.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, when I, you know, when I see somebody with a big truck and they got a big rubble flag in the back, all I think of is tool.

Yeah, you're in the north.

I'm in the north.

You're in the north.

Four is over.

I see them though around here too.

It is.

You know what's weird, Frank?

And I'm not like, I know you're a fan of all music as am I, but everywhere I go, when I eat, country music is on.

Yeah.

And some country I really like.

Yeah.

One of our favorite guests is Kailin Cole, and she's a country artist.

She's phenomenal.

But I don't know, what do you, what do you like to listen to when you eat?

When I eat jazz.

Yes.

Right.

I'm a easy listening music kind of, it calms you down.

I even like music.

Remember music?

Yeah.

It'd be like all the hit songs, but they'd be singing them like this elevator music, you know, cause I don't want to concentrate on the music, you know,

sports bar.

I get a sports bar where they got, you know, some.

Taking care of business or something.

Yeah.

A little skinnered.

Yeah.

But I'm the same way.

I'd rather have music than some places I go to in Marinette.

They have the news cranked

for the whole.

Yeah.

The news and then a commercial comes on and it's really obnoxious.

It's like, really?

Yeah.

I want to throw this food at the wall right now.

Your lack of.

Awareness ladies and gentlemen, I'm not talking.

I know that's a handsome sounding voice Frank Hermans Green Bay legend Frank Hermans is here with us at night light as he so often joins us from right down the

street

Rockin the cutoff, you know,

I never I never get to see wow.

Hey, it's working.

Whatever

you

like

That's natural that is now I started working out with heavy weights about 15 years ago.

I have a trainer personal trainer My knees replace on my hips replace and my shoulders replaced over the years.

I was kind of a basketball freak Okay, I injured myself.

So you saying that yeah,

and I got some arthritis and I decided to get myself a chip and I I pay somebody to beat me up Three to

five times a

week.

So it's paid off.

I look

good naked

She texts me that every day.

Please tell her to stop.

I don't need the pictures

either.

So

when

you say beats you up, what do you mean?

Like just makes you

lift weights harder?

Well, he's really

good knowing that I have replacement joints.

So we started

15 years ago when I started, I was a tub of crap.

I was, you know, I almost said the bad word and I was, I weighed 270, now I weigh 240, you know, and I got myself back into physical shape, which I used to be in.

I wasn't great shape in college, you know, until I got my first knee injury when I was 38 playing basketball and...

then I hadn't, you know, everything replaced.

And if you don't use it, you lose it.

And that was happening to me.

Atrophy was happening.

And my wife bought me 10 membership or 10 free memberships to Dan Tedman, above average fitness.

And he trains the who's who at Green Bay.

He really is good.

And we've become fast friends.

Now he's my workout partner.

No kidding.

Yeah, I still pay him.

But he's still my workout partner.

Not that

close.

What do you think Conrad's been lifting weights to?

Conrad.

Way to go.

I

go to the Y.

You know, the whole thing is you gotta lift to stay young.

Keep

everything

up.

If you want

your

bones,

keep everything

up.

Yeah.

Cause atrophy starts happening after 40 for men, especially, you know, a low testosterone, blah, blah, blah.

We talk about all

that stuff.

Yeah.

But if you gotta lift, you gotta lift.

Cardio is important, but you need to lift.

Right.

I like, jazzercise is my

thing.

Jazzercise.

I'm a total.

Jay

Fonda's workout.

You got that?

I don't even know what jazz her size is.

I just think it sounds hilarious.

I think it's a cool word.

You know what I did when we moved here?

I called the Y and I said, because my daughter was like, I don't know, seven years old.

I said, hey, I'm calling about your beginner's gymnastics class.

Can you give me some information?

And she said, yes, well, what kind of information were you looking for?

And I said, well,

I'm 40 years old, I've never had a gymnastics class, so do you think I should start there?

Frank, I did nothing.

Nothing.

On the other end, it's just silence.

And I said, I'm kidding, of course.

And she goes, uh-huh.

Even after she knew I was kidding.

You should tape that.

That was going to come

a bit gold.

Come on.

Gold, gold, gold.

And I did take the class, and I did really well.

But let's move on.

You've got big things happening.

Big things happening.

As usual, you're very prolific.

You have a new show coming out.

Please tell us about...

Don't squeeze the Charmin.

It's called Don't Squeeze the Charmin.

The show is rated P and G. Get it?

Procter

and

Gamble, a huge corporation worldwide, but they're headquartered here, right?

Well, they're headquartered in Cincinnati, but they got a big plant here

in

Green Bay, and they actually make the Charmin paper right here in Green Bay.

And back in the 70s, there was an icon of commercial.

He was that first guy that was, you know, that was...

the spokesman, and I call him Smokesman, anyway, Mr. Whipple.

And Mr. Whipple portrayed a grocery store owner, and I got to meet Mr. Whipple back in 1978.

He was, I kid you not.

At the

height

of his fame,

dude.

At the

height of his fame, my aunt Cindy worked at Procter & Gamble.

They had Procter & Gamble family days, and they brought me, and I got to shake Mr. Whipple's hand.

Oh, wow, that's pretty cool.

There's my tie

to

greatness right there.

You weren't even an up and comer yet.

Oh, God, what was I then?

You were a 12.

You were like a showbiz sperm, so you hadn't even been conceived at that point showbiz wise.

No,

I haven't been, wasn't crawling anywhere yet.

So what did he...

What did he do?

He's not still around, is

he?

No, I believe he passed away.

And I should know, I was gonna look up the Wikipedia page before I got here, but

I

didn't.

But he was a mainstay in the 70s.

And then they also bring in major stars to do the commercials.

Kinda cool, they got a commercial with him.

And God, who was it?

Was it Will Arnett?

Or I can't, not Will Arnett, James Arnett.

Oh yeah, right.

So they bring in some of the big Hollywood stars.

They were spending big money on this marketing.

Now it's the blue bears, of course, for Charmin.

So we bring that element.

into the show

also.

Oh, funny.

But this show is based in the 70s.

All the music is from the 1970s.

And Mr. Whipple works at, remember Sherway?

Do you remember Sherway?

Okay,

it was a

Green Bay store food chain.

There were 17 stores in Green Bay in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Then they were bought out, okay?

But they were a prolific big store, grocery store in Green Bay.

So it takes place at the Sherway on Main Street.

And Mr. Whipple is being auditioned to be the spokesman.

For Procter & Gamble, and we're all workers, I play Frank Shislevich, and I'm a big boy, and I just think that Mr. Whipple, I don't call him Whipple, I call him Whipple, is just, he's not a good guy, and I should be the spokesman because of my speech impediment.

All right, we're gonna find out who plays

Mr. Whipple in Frank's new show.

Maybe you can guess, maybe not though, we'll drop a bomb after the news.

Frank Kermans is here for a few more minutes, folks, hanging out on a Tuesday night here at Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio

Network.

Welcome back to Nightlight.

I am the horribly underpaid comedian.

from the 90s where

Frank

just admitted to me.

I did.

So back in the eight, when

you

came and did a Doc's comedy

club,

I would pay the headliner $500 and you did four to five shows.

It was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

You don't even remember this.

It was four nights?

It was four nights.

Oh, you were in Sheeps.

500 bucks.

Oh my

God.

You guys loved it.

And then I'd put you up at this fleabag crap-home hotel called the Imperial Inn.

I think it's still there on Monroe.

Sounds kind of swanky.

And I paid

26 bucks a night

for that fine establishment where you guys stayed.

Hey, you got to drink for free.

You know what?

It's funny because

I was, first of all, I was during the comedy boom,

I was

headlining way before I ever should have.

So a 25-year-old guy making 500 bucks a night, or 500 bucks even for the week, that's all I needed back then.

You know, and it was, you hang out after, you drink for free.

And

every comedian that came there, most of them hung out.

Yeah.

You know, there were some shenanigans going on.

It was always

fun to come to Green Bay because like, first of all, Chicago, Wisconsin, the comedy scene was all, it wasn't the same, but all, there was so much, you just had friends everywhere.

So it was like.

coming, this is almost like the suburbs.

Well, we had everybody coming

down from Marinette to see you.

It

was awesome.

You

did well.

That's right.

You made

me money, buddy.

Did I really?

Yeah, you made me, because it was five bucks I had to get in back then in the early 90s.

So I had to, you know, I had to get, you know, if I had 50 bucks, 50 folks coming in, you know, I made, you know, 250 bucks.

So I'm covering my door.

Yeah, wow.

Covering the door.

That's all it was.

And drinks, I had these, I had so many cool drink specials, but we didn't do the two drink minimum thing.

We

didn't do that.

Cause it's green, but

you're going to get this.

People are going to drink that anyway.

If you don't tell them what they have to drink, they'll keep

ordering.

In

fact, then it was $1.25 for a bottle of beer and an old fashioned was a buck 50.

You know?

That's something.

So think about it.

I mean, I did make a lot of money.

We did great.

But then we got killed,

you know.

A buddy of mine came up to Marinette.

It's like in college.

And we went to this great bar in Marinette called the Oak.

And it's to this day, one of my favorite bars ever, this long winding oak bar.

And a buddy of mine came up from Chicago and he ordered a whiskey sound.

And he goes, that'll be $1.10.

And Frank, I wish I had a camera my friend's face was just like.

And he was like, he thought that was just like for the swizzle stick or something.

He only got buck ten

and buck ten.

It was beautiful.

Those are the

days, man.

But those were fun days, Doc's Comedy Club.

And I have very fond memories of you and your brother.

And your dad was around quite a bit too.

The old man was

there.

He liked to be the king.

He liked

to say that he owned the place.

Is that at the

bar?

Yeah, that's his place.

But it was Mike and I. We owned it.

And then my dad, he just liked to say he owned it because his name was Frank.

Did you guys do OK as brothers?

We did great.

We're best friends to this day.

We've

had other business ventures over the years.

In fact, we own the Let Me Be Frank building.

Mike and I have a company that we own that property together.

So we dabble a little bit.

We had a fireworks stand back in the day, made a ton of money.

We've pissed away so much money.

I think about, we should be millionaires, you know, he is.

You guys should bring me into some of these, you know.

I'm basically like a third Hermans.

They're called pitfalls.

Call me into some of these train wrecks.

Let me get involved.

All right, that's

a great segue.

So let's

talk about, please don't squeeze the Charmin, or don't squeeze the Charmin.

Who plays Mr. Whipple?

Mr.

Whipple is played by Paul Evenson.

And let me tell you, okay, have you seen the Woodman commercials?

Okay, with Mr. with Karamba.

That guy, he's like, he's a little bit of Phil Woodman and Mr. Whipple.

Cause he's got that voice where don't squeeze the Charmin,

you know?

And

he's very uptight, very uptight.

Pat Hibbard plays the butcher, Pat Porterhouse.

And I

play the bag boy, Frankie Shislevich.

And then, of course, my wife plays one of the check out girls, Carmen, and I, or no, Charlotte, sorry, duh, because I want to squeeze the Charmin, Charlotte.

Oh, nice.

Get

it?

I gotcha.

And she stuffs with one ply, but she's going to go to the two ply Charmin so she can look like the other Lisa, who is quite well endowed

in that

area for being

a

check out girl.

It's a funny show Pete

Dude, look, I just can't

believe what you're getting away with.

All the stuff you know.

Well, you know, it's innuendo stuff.

It's all

of

this.

All my shows are PG.

I mean, Saturday Live is way worse than us.

But, you know, there's never any swear words, but there are innuendos.

Sure.

And with Charmin, you can go a lot of different ways with this.

And one of the things that we have, Sarah Galotti plays corporate P&G marketing, and she's coming in to look our store over, and it's very picky and stuff.

And she wants Mr. Whipple.

Whipple.

to do these shows because she's looking for a curmungent, tight old man.

And Paul takes offense to that.

We make fun that he's a Neil Diamond impersonator too, because he is in real life.

Paul even said.

Are you serious?

Yeah, yeah.

Is there music in the show?

It's all

70s.

Like we open the

show with Love and Touch and Squeeze and Amy and I. Nice.

Okay, I do this dream scene that is so awesome.

So at the end of the first act, Pat and I, Pat Portos, we're like the...

comedic thing of the show but I'm tired he goes well take a shot at this you know so I take a shot at Jack Daniels and you know because he drinks at work and I fall asleep and then all of a sudden I'm the smoke comes out of the bush like cases smoke's coming and my wife breaks out

Because I'm dreaming about her, right?

So she does this little bit for a while where I love to love you, baby.

And then at the end, is she really just awake?

And then right at the end, she walks, she later.

And then I go into Gotta Give It Up by Marvin Gaye.

Remember

that song?

Oh

yeah, great.

Got to give it up.

Oh, great.

Music, it's disco, it's R&B, it's some of the cool rock songs.

So

epic.

Why didn't Mr. Whipple want people to squeeze the Sherman?

There really is no definitive thing, but one of the things that I say in the show, and that Corbett says, because you're going to break the packaging.

So that's one of the

things.

She

says, it's so squishable that when people squish it, they'll break the packaging so that we take that myth away right away.

Why?

But his whole thing, I think, is that it's a little bit, I don't know if he's a little bit...

How do you say this?

It's a little sexual to him, I think.

Squeezing the charmants.

Perverted.

I think so.

That's what I'm getting from Whipple when I watch the commercials.

The way he says it and how he does it, he doesn't mean to,

but

maybe in my demented mind, I'm thinking.

You're going there.

He's thinking that's the pillows he's squeezing.

He's

gonna get it on.

That's the weird thing.

Have you talked about, have you thought about doing like a giveaway at toilet paper?

You could have a lot of fun with,

you know.

Speaking of

giveaways, I called

Proctor and Gamble to get some free toilet paper.

They did not call me back.

So I went

out to Woodman's and I bought, man, toilet paper is expensive.

I didn't realize it.

We use the bamboo stuff at home.

My wife gets online because we're like that.

It's not made of paper.

It's not made, we're not cutting down trees.

It's made out of bamboo.

Yeah, and it's for those purposes.

Yeah, it's for wiping.

Yeah.

Yeah, we use the bamboo.

It's online wood.

It's yeah,

but it's made

from bamboo, but you get it in rolls

the

old bamboo the old bamboo.

Yeah, you get it rolls bamboo toilet paper and we've we've been doing that for past few years.

But anyway, remember during COVID?

I mean toilet paper shorted.

Oh,

yeah.

And I thought it was two bucks a package.

So I go to buy the six pack roll so I can stack them up and 799.

So I bought like 14

Packages it was a hundred and fifty bucks at toilet paper.

You're stocking up.

I'm stuck

I Used to go for the like I like here's my issue with toilet paper.

It's like what we do with it is horrible Yeah, don't buy don't overspend for God's sakes one is fine one play is fine But then you pull the one play and it's like it's like comes apart like strips.

Yeah, I hate it So who tell us more about like first of all what is a rating of P&G?

What can you get

away with?

Well, P&G means Procter &

Gamble.

This show is rated PNG, because we bring up all of the different Procter & Gamble products in this, because they have hundreds of brand names, and we bring up the Swifter, we bring up Downey, we bring up Vic's Vapor Rub.

So all these little things about, if you did work at Procter & Gamble, or you're familiar with the company, all of those products are brought up.

We make fun of them, like the quicker picker upper.

Oh yeah, sure.

Bounter, okay.

Cause we make fun of the toilet paper.

Hey, well let's call it the one bite butt wiper.

You know, we're coming up with one liners, you know.

That must have been tough.

But where did you get the concept?

Well, I think it's because Pete, and sorry to interrupt you there.

I did a show three years ago about Ford Howard.

And Ford Howard, of course, built in 1919.

created a lot of wealthy people in the area from their profit sharing, because they were profit sharing, and they made paper products.

You can go to any restaurant down south, you still can see a Ford Howard paper dispenser, they're still everywhere.

So I wrote a show about that, and then somebody came to the show, you should write a show about Proctor and Gamble, everybody works there at James River.

Well, James River became Ford Howard, Ford James or whatever.

But I started thinking about it, and...

Yeah, that's a funny concept then Mr. Whipple.

I mean iconic 70s

And,

uh... He was in other

stuff too,

wasn't he?

Was he?

He was in TV shows

maybe?

He was a TV actor.

Kind of like, uh, what's her name from the Geico commercials?

Not the Geico, uh, not the Geico.

Flo?

Flo!

Flo's in a comedy troupe.

What are they called?

The Fledgelings?

Yes, or Groundlings.

The

Groundlings.

And she uses all the people in the Groundlings.

And she's a million dollar a year

girl.

Oh, it's the, the, the, the, uh, can you hear me now, guys?

Same deal.

Yeah, I know.

They're like trained

actors.

Do you know who auditioned for Can You Hear Me?

Can you hear me now?

I just saw it on, and they gave it to the other guy, and now I can't hear it.

You know what I'm not, ah, it's time to talk about Jason Bateman.

Jason Bateman, this is when he wasn't on

the rise.

Yeah, yeah.

When he was

in his, he had some down years.

And he auditioned, can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now?

And they gave it to that other guy.

Is

that crazy?

You know what though, it's interesting like if Jason Bateman had become that guy.

Yeah, he wouldn't have had all those success.

Yeah, because he's like a great everyman.

He is the greatest

funny straight guy.

My guest

is Frank Hermans.

He is

a local legend here in Green Bay.

He's created a showbiz dynasty here.

And how can people get tickets, Frank, for Don't Squeeze the Sherman at the Meyer Theater on September 27th?

Yeah,

September 27th through October 10th.

And we play a couple different places this show.

We have

a total of

15 shows.

But at the Meijer Theater, you can go to meijertheater.org or ticketstaronline.com, get tickets.

You can actually get tickets at the door to my show, because the theater sits 1,100 people.

So you can get, I mean, we sell out sometimes on Christmas, but there's always great seats available.

And then we're gonna be at the Southern Door Auditorium.

Oh,

that's

great.

And I had the date pulled up here.

I was so ready for you on September 28th.

We're gonna do a three o'clock show there at the Auto Show because there's a pack again at seven o'clock.

Okay.

And

then we're also gonna be in Mantis Walk at the Capitol Civic Center, October 8th.

Very nice.

That's kind of our second home.

We always do a show there.

So there's lots of shows to pick up.

We have some matinees on October 9th and October 11th.

Oh, we have a show October 11th.

I said the 10th we go

through.

But yeah, we have matinees at one PM.

So, you know, if you can't come to a night show, you can come to an afternoon show.

Are

you

going to

do anything in Marinette this year, Frank?

Yes, we are.

We are in Marinette.

I'm going to tell you

right now.

We are there January 31st at UW campus there.

What do they call a theater now?

Theater on the Bay.

Theater on the Bay.

We're

going to be there.

It sits about 400 people.

We're doing our

tribute, our

Vegas tribute show again there.

So some new

twists this year.

January 31st, did you say?

Yeah, next year.

I love it.

I'm coming this year.

The fundraiser I do is always the first week.

in February.

So I should be good.

Should be able to make it.

And then Steady Eddie says a regular texture of ours Frank from the 608 says, I looked it up.

Mr. Whipple was played by actor Dick Wilson.

He died in November, 2007 at 91 earlier in his life.

Dick Wilson, Mr. Whipple played middle line, middle linebacker, watch right lions.

Wow.

Oh, wait a minute.

He says, OK, made up.

I thought he made it up.

Got you to say it, Pete.

That's a great foot.

But Dick Wilson is a great football name.

Steady Eddie.

Thank you, Steady Eddie.

First of all,

that's kind of

not fair.

Why wouldn't I believe

that?

If somebody told you something, I

would believe it.

I

mean, Dick Budkis and Ray Nitsky, all those guys were like, you know.

TV stars.

Yeah,

they were good.

They

were

actors.

Hey, speaking of your Christmas show, do you have that all written?

I'm ready right now.

It's a Dr. Seuss kind of musical.

It's the who's versus the what's.

Nice.

And instead of the Grinch, we have the Grunch.