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

Broadcasting live from the Civic Media Studios in Green Bay, this is Night Light with Pete Chwaba.

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

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Hi, I'm Pete Schwab.

Great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.

What a glorious night.

What a beautiful Wisconsin fall, still summer day it's been.

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 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 people get involved.

So Frank Hermans will be here at 6.20 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 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.

But let us know what you think, 855-752-484-2855-755 Civic.

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on the radio.

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.

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.

Yeah, 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,

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 there 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 in 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?

Do you remember what I said?

Christmas tunes.

Song Song Blue.

Yeah, it was named after a Neil Diamond song.

Song Song Blue based on a Milwaukee couple that started doing a tribute band to Neil Diamond.

They were called Thunder and Lightning.

We're going to 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 are pal Frank Anderson.

Frank Hermans, the legendary Frank Hermans joins us in studio to talk about his new show that is coming up next on Night Light with Peach Waba on the Civic Media Radio Network.

This is Nightlight.

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 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 would be like all the hit songs, but they'd be singing them like, this elevator music.

You know, because I don't want to concentrate on the music.

You know, sports.

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

No, 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 replaced on my hips replaced 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

I'll take your word for it.

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 hard?

Or is

there like sparring involved?

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 I, you get, if you don't use it, you lose it.

And that was, 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.

What do

you

think Conrad has 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 phones, 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.

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 Fondett workout, you got that?

I don't even know what jazzercise 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 have taped that.

That was gonna be a

comedy bit.

Gold.

Gold, 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

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 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.

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

still.

You hadn't even been conceived at that point showbiz wise.

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

So 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.

Kind of cool they got a commercial with him.

And God, who was it?

Was it Will Arnett?

Or I can't, not Will.

James R. Ness.

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 Sherman.

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 we, we take, it's takes place at the Sherwin 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.

Alright, 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 Hermans 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.

to be true can't take my eyes off you

Welcome back to

Nightlight.

I

am the horribly underpaid comedian from the 90s

where Frank just admitted to me.

I did.

So back when you came and did 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 it.

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.

It 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, that 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.

Yeah, that's all I needed back.

Yeah Yeah, you know

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 You

know 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.

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 gonna get this.

People are gonna drink

that anyway.

If you

don't tell them what they have to drink,

they'll keep ordering.

And back then it was a $1.25 for a bottle of beer in 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.

Yeah, like a buck ten.

A buck ten,

yeah.

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.

That was fun.

The old man was there.

He liked to be the king.

He liked to say that he owned the 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, all right, all right.

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, because 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.

To 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 Night 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.

Are you serious?

Yeah, yeah.

So

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

I love you, baby.

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.

Could 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 charm in.

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 going to 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 shorter.

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 ply is fine But then you pull the one ply 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.

Right.

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.

Okay, we make fun of the toilet paper.

Hey, let's call it the one bite but wiper, you know, we're coming up with one liners, you know, that must have been tough.

Yeah.

But where did you get the concept to like, well, I think it's because Pete and sorry, I mean, interrupt me there.

I did a show three years ago about Fort Howard and Fort 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 he was in other stuff, too.

Was he?

He

was in TV

shows, maybe?

He was a TV actor.

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

Not the Geico.

Not the Geico.

Flo.

Flo was in a comedy troupe.

What are they called?

The Fledgelings?

Yes.

Groundlings.

The Groundlings.

And she uses all the people in the Groundlings.

And she's a million dollar a year girl.

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 talking about?

Jason Bateman.

Jason Bateman, this is when he wasn't on the rise.

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.

My guess 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 ticketsstaronline.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.

Yeah.

The Walter Theater.

What do they call the 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 him.

He says okay made up Got you to say it Pete is a great foot, but Dick Wilson is a great football name steady Eddie.

Thank you steady Eddie Yeah, I would 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

writing it 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.

And it's...

It's kind of funny, I'm reading Dr. Seuss books right now, and a lot of lines are in the books that are gonna be on the show, so it's a lot of tongue twisting.

It's gonna be pretty cool for us to do the show too.

Awesome.

Frank,

thank you for squeezing us in.

Always

great to have you

squeezing us

in, get it?

This has been rated

PNG.

It's great to have you, buddy.

Thanks.

Appreciate

it,

buddy.

Yeah,

have a good night.

Thanks for taking a window picture.

I can't wait to see it

published.

We'll be posted on social media very soon.

People can see what I really look like.

Frank Herman's Ladies, we're coming right back.

It's Peach Wabbit and Nightlight on the Civic Media.

network.

Welcome back to tonight, folks.

Great to have you with me on this Tuesday night.

Frank Hermans is kind of like, he's kind of like a tornado.

The guy just like comes in, I don't know if I've ever met anyone with more charisma than Frank Hermans.

And even when you call him Frank Anderson, he doesn't care.

He just goes with it.

He's he's he looks huge though Yeah, well, he's like 84 years old and he looks like a monster.

He looks very built.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would agree.

Yeah, you think

you

could take him?

I don't know about that.

Yeah, I'm not trying to start

anything.

I'm just saying I Don't want to I don't want to do that.

Hey, it's my son's birthday today I'd like to extend a happy birthday to Joe Schwabba.

It's one of the happiest days of my life Back in 2000.

He was born.

He's 25.

You're 26.

Did you just turn 26 in junior?

Okay

So happy birthday Joe.

It's great.

He was in Marinette today and it was fun to to see him and hang out a little bit and What he was kind of lamenting his birthday like 25.

I can't say I'm in my early 20s anymore Were you like that or you kind of like don't care

I'd say like anything after 21 is kind of like really it's just a birthday now.

It's all downhill.

It will not downhill.

I'd say it's downhill

Maybe when I reach 30, I'll feel that but I'm still my 20 so I'm still happy about it

Yeah, I think 40 is when you start to feel physically, unless you like, like Frank Herman's just said, if you don't use it, you lose it.

And yeah, I was still playing frisbee ultimate into my, you know, I'm in my fifties and I've been playing, but I haven't played in a couple of years.

And I feel like I'd really hurt myself if I tried.

You're in your fifties.

I am barely.

I thought it was

older.

Yeah.

I look great.

I'm

almost Frank Herman's age.

When my brother turned 30, I sent him a text instantly and said, happy birthday, grandpa.

You're not like the most mature guy in the world.

I don't know if you get that rap.

People think you're mature.

Hey, our question of the night is, what do you think about when people put flags on their cars?

Political, sports, music, whatever.

Community theater, I don't care.

How do you feel about people who use flags?

to accessorize their sweet rides.

Let us know.

I am against it.

Conrad is against it.

Frank Hermans was against it.

Specifically, the Confederate flag Frank did not like on people's cars, especially way up here in the North.

Conrad's mom, Paula Krieger says, the only flags or stickers that I don't like are political.

Does your mom have packer flags or like brewer flags?

Did I offend your mother?

No, they don't have any flags on their cars.

But.

Maybe in their maybe in their lawn.

I've got friends that have like Badger flags my buddy Mike Warwin has

and maybe on their golf cart.

I Well, they're getting here's the thing Sports is a part of me.

It does not define my fandom Does not define me so I wouldn't put a flag out that says this is who I am

And I kind of feel like, and even the phrase proud sports fan, when people say, I'm a proud sports fan, I don't know that that's anything you should be proud of.

You could be a happy sports fan.

I like my team, but you're really not doing anything.

You know what you are.

I mean, if you're a Packer fan, you're a part of the team.

You use phrases like we, we won last week.

Well, you know, we're all shareholders, you know, that's true.

In your case, that is true.

Nick Marshall, he's in the 608 says, car flags are great.

Recently, I heard on civic media that white people are putting Mexican flags in their vehicles and ICE agents pulled them over and then discovered they got conned and they're like, well, sorry, we can't arrest you folks because you're white.

Nick, is that true?

That's a great gag.

I mean, technically.

They could arrest you for anything they want.

There's really no guidelines there.

I would be careful with that.

My buddy Danny Thine from Marinette used to do that.

He used to just torment police officers, whether it was at a high school dance.

One time he had a bottle of Mountain Dew.

And it was like a summer night.

We were probably like freshmen.

And Danny saw the cops coming and made a big joke like he was hiding it, like he had booze.

And the cops come over, they shine the light, and they're like, what do you got there, son?

And he's acting like he has alcohol and he says, nothing officer.

He's like, come on son, what do you got?

And he goes, no, I'm not showing you.

I don't have anything.

And he goes, son, you better show me what you have right now.

And he pulls out a bottle of Mountain Dew.

And the cop felt about doof.

I'm like, don't torment people with guns.

I don't like it.

But we were, it was hilarious.

I mean, and we all feel stupid.

It's like reading that steady Eddie text.

He totally fished me in.

Yeah.

You know, I've seen a bunch of YouTube videos of people who prank cops with fake beer, like the NA stuff,

and

drinking it

on the road.

While they're driving?

Yeah.

You know, it's funny you say that, because I do drink occasionally the non-alcoholic blue moon.

I don't think you can drink that while you're driving, because it has a tiny bit of alcohol.

It is a tiny bit, I think.

But like, the cops like looked at it and then started laughing.

They're like, oh, okay.

I

love

when cops have a great sense of humor.

That's awesome.

Nick from the 608 also says my landlord would really confuse Ice, we're still on ice because he also listens to mariachi music and other Latin music.

All right, Nick.

Nick seems like kind of a prankster Conrad.

Conrad's dad checking in.

Steve from Florida says, seeing we lived in the Key West area, Paula and I had to buy a Contra Republic flag that we are in the process of putting on our golf cart.

Also, we have a Wisconsin Badger flag and Green Bay Packer flag displayed in the front and back of our house.

So friends can pinpoint our house down here in Florida.

You know, that's not a bad idea.

And actually, I'm gonna soften on this a little bit because if you live somewhere far away from your home,

You do, like when I was in LA, I connected with a lot of people from Chicago and Wisconsin.

So it is nice when you, people go, oh, there's a fellow Packer fan or fellow Badger fan.

I guess I could see that.

John from the 608 says, the flags are gaudy, usually, and scream with exclamation points.

But hey, you do you and I'll do me.

You feel me?

It's all good.

Wow, I think, I think John's feeling good tonight.

You think John's under some kind of influence?

Who might be?

And we've got big news about Just A Bit Outside.

You can see it for free.

We're going to tell you where and how.

And a lot of other cool stuff.

Sean Hannish coming up next on Night Light.

And then at 7.20, Nick Whittier from the Green Bay Film Festival will be here.

We're going to talk about a big event coming up Saturday night that I'm hosting at the Tarleton Theater.

You're not going to miss that either.

A lot of show coming up in Act 2.

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Text us your answer to tonight's question, and we will read your text on the radio.

Tonight's question is, how do you feel about people who use flags, political, sports, entertainment, whatever?

To accessorize their sweet rides.

I am not a fan of car flags.

I think they're kind of obnoxious, kind of a cry for help.

Kind of shows that you might have emotional problems.

Conrad is not a fan either.