Animated Characters and Franks Christmas (Hour 1)

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Pete Schwabba.

Hey, hey.

Welcome to Nightlight Wisconsin.

How are we doing today?

Oh, it is great to have you.

It is a Tuesday night.

We are broadcasting, as you just heard, from downtown Green Bay.

It is a gorgeous, if not a bit chilly night here.

I'm still getting used to this coming out an hour early.

It does not feel, it feels like I should still be making coffee, Conrad.

I'm not sure I'm supposed to be on the air yet, but I'm supposed to be.

Yeah?

What do you make of that?

You're just where you need to be.

This is all you're doing, too.

You begged them to put us on an hour early, and they caved.

That's the

kind of negotiating skills you have.

That is the voice of Nightlight producer, Conrad Krieger.

Great show tonight, folks.

Glad you're here.

As I mentioned, we are here at our new start time of five o'clock.

And it's kind of like happy hour because it's like a bonus hour.

And you know that old phrase, it's five o'clock somewhere.

If it's five o'clock somewhere, it's definitely five o'clock in Wisconsin.

So it's kind of happy hour.

Are you a happy hour guy, Con?

Do you go to happy

hour?

I'm on the weekends, I guess.

Is it a happy hour, just a weekday thing?

No, I went to, was it two weeks ago, I went to Anduzzi's.

Oh yeah.

And on Sunday, they have a happy hour that lasts all day, pretty much.

And it's buy one, get one, buy one, get one, you know, domestic beers.

And I enjoyed myself there.

Did you, did you have a couple of those, those domestic beers?

I had a couple, I had a couple brews.

Nothing wrong with that.

I used to go all the time.

It used to be a big deal, like happy hour.

It started typically at four o'clock and you could go in there and it's pretty much like when you're in college anyway, that's your whole night.

I mean, you start drinking at four o'clock as a 20 year old kid and it's over, you

know.

And then the next day you don't even feel that bad.

That's true.

Are you guys ready to do it again today?

You have better recovery,

exactly.

Yeah, now I don't feel like doing that.

Yeah, I don't really either.

Even this is so funny.

It's like now when I party in my life.

It's non-alcoholic beer in a movie at home Like it is so like 21 year old Pete would be so So upset with me

It's terrible, you know, I'm only 26 so I still you know like to have yeah have fun with my friends out on a Bar night.

Yeah And that's okay to admit.

This is happy hour.

Do you how often do you get loaded?

Actually, not that much.

I realized how much weight is easily gained when you drink that much

at

college.

So I definitely toned down on

it.

I think I got to a point, probably in my early 30s, where I'm like, why am I doing shots?

I like to have a drink.

But when you're doing shots, you're just on a mission.

It's like, I want to get drunk fast, and I don't want to remember anything.

some shots that are worse than others.

I know they're like Yeager Meisters and they're like, what's the, oh, there was a really kind of a lightweight one that sort of tasted good.

It was like a lemon lime shot.

I can't, kamikaze maybe?

I

know it, it's a lemon drop.

No, I've heard of that.

I've heard a lemon drop martinis.

Well, I'm talking about just a shot and the lemon drops just, it just tastes like juice.

And that's not

good with the shot.

I love it when you go to Marinette to a bar to have a Bloody Mary on a Saturday or Sunday morning, or whenever, any day of the week, because it's five o'clock in Marinette.

They give you a Bloody Mary, and the Bloody Marys are usually really good, and then they give you a chaser.

You heard of this?

Oh yeah, definitely.

But the chaser is like the size of a real beer.

It's like eight ounces of a chaser.

That's the best part.

What do you need a chaser for Bloody Mary for?

I mean, all right, for me, I don't like Bloody Mary's at all.

Cause I

don't like tomato juice.

I like them.

So I mean, I,

yeah, I will have that.

I'll drink the chaser.

You know,

one of

my friends will have a Bloody Mary and then I'll take the chaser.

It's a big chaser.

It's not two ounces.

Cause

it always has to be a spotted cow chaser.

Well, that's a pretty lofty chaser, but it's like, do the Bloody Mary shot going to be or there's your chaser.

You might as

well.

It's a fun night here, folks.

It is a Tuesday here at Nightlight.

We have a great show.

Lots of great guests tonight.

We got a really fun question.

We're going to talk about just a couple of issues that are happening here in Wisconsin that I thought were interesting that I saw in the news today.

So we'll discuss that.

And Conrad's going to give us a little packer update in a few minutes.

But yeah, fun show.

Frank Hermans is here at 535.

The legendary Wisconsin performer.

from Let Me Be Frank Productions, Frank Herman.

He's gonna be here to tell us all about his new Christmas show, which opens at the beautiful Meyer Theater, November 28th.

And he will be here in studio, always fun when Frank comes by.

Then Ellie Bordeaux from Up North News will be here at 6.35.

We will get introduced to Ellie.

It's her first time on Nightlight.

And she writes some really cool articles.

Did you know who created Up North News?

Pat

Cradle.

It's our buddy, Pat Cradle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great resource.

Really is.

I love the way they present the news.

It's like true and it's great.

And the stories somehow they put on like, I don't know, it's just a different field.

There's nothing toxic about it.

It's just great.

So we'll talk to Elliot 635 and get to know her a little bit.

And then our pal Rob Thomas, really outstanding Madison film critic and city cast Madison newsletter editor will be here at 720 to talk movies.

Rob has seen a lot of stuff I haven't seen as usual.

He gets these, you know, he's a critic.

He gets these inside scoops and gets these early viewing.

So he's already seen Wicked, the new Wicked, which opens Friday.

I forgot to ask him if he saw Relay, that movie I saw this past weekend at home.

And I think he's seen The Running Man.

He's seen Pluribus.

We're going to talk about all these new great, all

this

new great content that's out there.

So we'll do all of that.

What did you think about?

What did you okay?

I shared that article with you about the moveover law.

Yes.

I mean I'm totally It's you should definitely well first

common

sense right first you should explain it Well

the moveover law is there's already a law in place as I understand it for emergency vehicles like if

there

are emergency vehicles pullover you have to go into the other lane police Ambulances whatever but now they're trying to amend that and say that if a car is pulled over

you should get out of the way and I agree with that too because somebody

could

be changing attire whatever but to me it's yeah if you're gonna pass a law pass a law sure but that's common sense I get over anyway I would never want to risk hitting someone I it seems strange that we need a law for that but I mean whenever I'm

driving on the highway and I see someone on the side yeah I see people in front of me going over too so I feel like it's a lot of people do the same thing

Well, on this video, I think it was on the WBAY news site, they had a video of this big dump truck that didn't pull over.

Or tried to pull over in the car next to the dump truck, wouldn't let it in, was something like that, but it's horribly dangerous.

And I thought this struck a nerve with me because I drive an hour each way to get here, here and back every day.

To me, it's just a no-brainer and a lot of people listening right now are probably in their cars So slow down folks and if you can't get over it takes nothing to move over and you could I mean people die like a lot of people die every year from that.

You

know what really?

Nice car reference

Thank you.

Thank you when you're merging into you know when you're merging onto the highway.

Yeah, and that car in that lane is not Going to you know going to the left lane when they're in the right one,

right and

you're trying to

merge onto the highway.

Like, all right, now I have to slow down.

And I just got up to speed.

And there's like, nope, I'm just doing my thing over here.

That grinds my gears.

However, it you are the one merging, you have to go around them.

I mean, common courtesy says yes, they should move over.

If I see someone entering, I typically move over if I can.

Yeah.

But otherwise, yeah, the guy merging or the girl merging, you have to slow down and adjust to traffic.

Okay, so the last time it did happen, the highway was wide open.

That was the only car.

I was just messing with you.

He had to

be.

He is probably not a proponent of the moveover law.

That's all I'm

saying.

I see your point, though.

I mean, if there's someone in the left lane and they're in the right and they can't even get over, I'm like, yeah, that's fine.

Totally.

You know, it just grinds my gear sometimes.

Just be nice.

Don't be that guy.

Um, the other thing I saw that I thought was interesting here in Wisconsin.

Anyway, sports gambling online is not, and we talk about sports on the show periodically.

So you, I'm not a gambler.

Are you?

Uh,

that's

a yes.

I used to like sports betting.

Yes.

I used

to, I stopped because I, and I was, I was on a low on a streak of not winning.

Really?

So I stopped and funny story.

I followed these really funny comedian duo on Twitter, Instagram, and all that, and they had the site, and it said, free $25 when you sign up.

So I signed up and got a free $25.

No deposit necessary.

And I won $500.

Really?

I deleted the app.

I said, all right, I'm done.

So you walked away 500 ahead?

Yep, and I didn't even deposit.

And you never went back?

Nope.

Oh, see, dude, that's...

Yeah, people bookies would be out of business or these companies if everybody knew when to walk away, but they don't right?

Yeah, no friends that have gotten in a lot of trouble, but I don't understand like in Wisconsin They're getting pushback on online sports betting.

Yeah from conservatives and fan duel and draft Kings How do you place a bet if you don't go online like why wouldn't draft Kings want and I'm a bet obviously I'm very ignorant about this stuff Why can't why would they want it not to be legal?

So I guess the only reason I, this is the only reason I see and I don't see any other reasons besides this is that all casinos, you know, in Wisconsin, they have their own sports, like sports book, you know, there, and they, it draws people in because they, they're one of the only places you can actually bet on sports in Wisconsin.

Yeah.

So that's the only way I see it is like affecting casinos now.

So we'll cut into their business.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's

the

only reason I see

it doesn't affect me.

Anyway, like it's something I don't have I Mean, I understand why my friends some friends bet on sports.

I get it But I just something I never wanted to I feel like I'd want to watch every game then like in fantasy football or something And I just don't want to do that.

Yes Yeah, I already have too much money in fantasy football so

Well,

that's gambling, kind of, but it's fun.

You know, you get to be a general manager.

Exactly.

All right, so I think it's time, Conrad, that we get to our nightlight question of the night.

Let's

talk

about the question.

OK, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

OK, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Here we go.

It's Mickey Mouse's birthday.

So our question of the night is who is your favorite animated or Pixar character?

I mean be easy to say Mickey Mouse because Mickey Mouse is sort of like the granddaddy Thanks to steamboat Willie animated character.

Thanks to Walt Disney, but There's so much animation now there shows on TV movies kids films.

You've got all the Pixar stuff so

You have a lot to choose from here tonight, folks.

Who is your favorite animated or Pixar character?

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I don't know.

I would say I'm just gonna say right away.

I'll start us off Homer.

Oh,

yeah Homer Simpson is one of my heroes And then it's a tie when it comes to Pixar it's a tie between was and buddy buddy was

And

I'm

so drunk, I'm sorry.

What about you?

How about after the break?

Oh, that's a great tease.

Conrad's going to give us his favorite animated or Pixar character after this very short break.

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It's only the third time I've ever sang on this show.

And I'm trying to get my pipes ready because Frank Hermes is coming in at 535.

Are

you gonna sing some backup?

I do.

I practice at home whenever I know Frank is coming in, but he's got he's got a booming voice, man.

That guy's like So Frank will be here at 535 Ellie Bordeaux from Up North News at 635 and

Our pal Rob Thomas, Madison Film Critic at 720.

Our question of the night is, it's Mickey Mouse's birthday.

Who is your favorite animated or Pixar character?

Let's have some fun.

I say Homer.

I know I always do this.

I can't, because I go Homer for out and out comedy, but I go Buzz and Woody for just sort of sweet, feel good movies.

So I had trouble kind of figuring out which which direction to go in all right con you've kept us in suspenders here through the break

Yeah, I'd say my it's a tie for my favorite animated Tom and Jerry.

Yeah, and Bugs Bunny Those that's the tie for me because I can still watch those right now and enjoy them still and when I was a kid I loved them

Tom and Jerry they were the inspiration for itchy and scratchy on the Simpsons

And I loved Tom and Jerry, but Bugs Bunny is I grew up watching bugs.

Yeah, there's like groucho marks with a carrot so good.

So good.

That's a good

choice Pixar I'd say I really I really like the the seven dwarfs growing up

Seven dwarfs.

No, that's Disney.

Yeah, but well,

that's what I meant.

You're the Pixar and Disney or this, you know, yeah, but yeah, the seven dwarfs

was that animated?

Yeah.

Yeah,

okay

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

I don't think I ever saw that whole movie.

Even when I was a kid.

I just liked the

Seven Dwarfs.

Are you saying Dwarfs or Dwarfs?

Yes.

Because Dwarf is like the Tim Conway character.

Dwarf on golf and he would put his legs through the stage so it looked like he was really short.

As a

golf

fan, you

should Google that.

It's very funny.

Tim Conway was hilarious, but he was Dwarf.

I thought you were getting confused.

Before we bring Frank in and we'll answer a few texts in just a moment, but what is going on with the Packers?

They've got uh,

well, I mean I mean so last week we had a The injury bug hit us.

Yeah.

Well the game that was

happening.

I guess that's where I was going the running back Josh Jacobs.

So it's definitely less serious Okay, then people thought you know it's met life.

So people got scared Because a lot of people have torn their ACL there

So unforgivable.

So that's how soldier field was to you get these multi-million dollar athletes Put some put some good turf down, you know or sod whatever is it

it it happened this year to the Giants like their star receiver It happened to him league neighbors.

Oh, right, right

So I don't understand why they'd be like, you know, we should probably take it happened to cam scataboo as well He heard his ankle

really bad.

Yeah, and just I'm just like, okay.

Is it time to like be like

Maybe it's us.

You spend a little money.

But that I think that, you know, next week is against the Vikings.

Right.

So we just got to stop their offense.

And obviously, Justin Jefferson.

I do have to say, I know this is not a popular stance here.

I know sometimes Packer fans seems like they don't.

It seems like they dislike the Vikings even more than the Bears sometimes.

But.

That Viking stadium is beautiful.

Oh, it's it's one of the best.

That's my favorite like I'm not a huge fan of the Dallas one.

So Fi is a little ostentatious It's got cool kind of a cool design But it almost looks too futuristic like Minneapolis has that that's like the perfect indoor stadium because it looks like you're outdoors with that huge window Love that.

That's a gorgeous

day.

I one of these times I want to go out there.

Yeah and go to that stadium

All right, give us an update too, if you would, on Yanis.

I know Yanis is struggling a bit.

Yeah, I

mean, yeah, he strained his groin last night, I believe.

So he is out for, you know, it's one to two weeks.

But without Yanis, it's like the bucks.

They're in trouble.

They just got the signing of Miles Turner, who was supposed to help him out a lot, but he hasn't done much this year.

It's, I mean, he's paid a lot of money too.

Averaging probably around 12

points.

That's kind of like affect your viewership, too.

If Yanis is not playing.

Oh, yeah.

People are like, I'll turn on this Golden Girls reunion show.

I don't know.

I mean, you still watch them if you're a diehard.

But yeah.

All right, let's go to the text line here or social media responses for our question of the night.

In honor of Mickey Mouse's birthday, who is your favorite animated or Pixar character?

Matt Harper, Green Bay rock rap artist.

Love Matt says, Eric Cartman from South Park.

I forgot about Cartman.

He's awesome.

That's a great one, Matt.

Paula Krieger, Conrad's mom, Lilo and Stitch.

Great choice, Paula, outstanding.

Jenny Brand on the social media on our Facebook feed says, animated equals Sailor Moon.

Disney animated equals Gus Gus, the fat mouse in Cinderella.

And Pixar equals Edna Mode, the incredible,

all

Edna's great.

I love Edna.

I don't, I have to tell you though, Jenny, I don't know Sailor Moon, and I don't know Gus Gus, but I'm sure I've seen Gus Gus, but Sailor Moon is a new one to me.

I don't, I don't know who that is.

Khan, do you know who Sailor Moon is?

I think that's an anime, maybe.

Yeah, maybe.

I don't

know that.

I'm not totally sure.

Thank you, Jenny Conrad says Tom and Jerry Daniel wheeler Danny wheel says lumpy space princess from the animated series adventure time.

I remember adventure time Great one Daniel.

Thank you, buddy Rich look ass you our favorite wrestling announcer and one of our favorite WRJ and Personality says mr. Mezix from Rick and Morty Rick and Morty's a great show you watch that show

You know, I never really got into it actually

it's good show

Very good Dave watching the radio on the stream our pal Dave from Marinette Originally he hails from Marinette.

I believe Dave is in Madison now says Johnny quest remember that one

No, actually,

I remember John quest.

I might remember it after yeah, my son watched There's so many great ones out there Dave also says bugs bunny esq.

I don't remember when bugs got his law degree

Those are great answers.

Thank you, everybody.

All right.

Keep those questions coming.

We'll read them as they roll in.

Frank Hermans is coming up next.

Lots of fun here tonight on a Tuesday on Night Light.

So great to have you with me, folks.

I'm Pete Schwabba, and this is Night

Light.

It is great to have you with me tonight, folks.

It is a Tuesday night in the state of Wisconsin broadcasting statewide from beautiful downtown Green Bay.

Ellie Bordo will be here at 6.35 from Up North News.

We're going to talk about where you can get

Thanksgiving dinner for the needy.

That's gonna be really cool.

Up North News does some great stuff.

Madison film critic Rob Thomas will be here at 720.

Our question of the night is, in honor of Mickey Mouse's birthday, who is your favorite animated or Pixar character?

I said Homer and Buzz and Woody.

Well, I said wasn't buddy.

What

did I say?

Was and buddy.

I just polished

off a bottle of whiskey on my way down from Marinette.

And Conrad says, Tom and Jerry.

So let's ask our next guest, though, what he thinks.

He is one of my favorite guests to have here in the studio.

And I don't like him personally, but I love when he's on the show.

And we just seem to make it work, Mr. Frank Hermans of Wisconsin.

Entertainment legend is here.

Hey, buddy, how are you?

We are statewide.

Yeah, that's awesome.

So they can listen to me in Ashland, Wisconsin.

We're on all the big markets.

I don't

I

don't know if

we're on in on Alaska on

Alaska Okay, it's pretty cool by the cross beautiful I'm fantastic and thanks for having me So I got to do the holiday parade this this weekend.

Yeah holiday parade I My wife and I we sing from nine to ten and then we emcee and it's it's

shown on NBC

26 so

Anyway, I'm looking at the weather today.

30 degrees, cloudy.

I've done

the

parade where it was 15 degrees before because we've done it for like 20 years.

And it is hard to sing in that cold weather.

I bet it is.

Yeah.

Although, if I will say this, I know I sound like a total Wisconsinite, but I was when I.

I think I got home the other night.

It stopped at my parents and they said, how is it outside?

I go, well, it's about 32, but there's no wind.

It's pretty nice.

You know, when there's no wind,

it makes a big

difference.

It makes a huge difference.

I'm a 50 degree guy.

When it's 50 degrees, I'll do it.

Yeah.

I'll swim.

Same.

I'll go swimming.

I've

done that.

Here's how stupid I was

when I was younger.

I had this great apartment in Chicago when I was like 22.

I just started doing stand-up.

All my high school buddies from Marinette came down and it was on the 18th floor.

I had two roommates.

It was a blast.

And I said, we're going to go out till four in the morning because the bars are open all day.

We're going to come back and we're going to go swim.

And it was like mid-October.

So I was the only one that went Frank because I was mad at them because they all bailed.

And I crossed Lakeshore Drive like a moron.

And I went in the lake

for

about five minutes.

And I'm like, and then, you know, your, your imagination starts going like, what if like I die?

We tried to tell him not to go.

Such an idiot.

Yeah.

We've all done that.

You would have swam with me though.

I would have, you have that.

I would do, when I was, when I was younger, I'd do anything.

Yeah.

You know, I was a, all in, into that rock climbing crap and jumping off cliffs and.

Okay, tell me

about that.

I am not,

I can't do the height thing.

Yeah, I was into, I was into repelling.

We got into, I had this buddy, I worked in Columbia, Missouri at a nightclub called Doc and Eddie's.

I ran it and had all these college friends and one was in the, in the, in the.

whatever we call it in college when he going to be in the Army, ROTC.

Oh yeah.

And so he wanted to teach me what an Army Swiss knot was.

And you're supposed to use half inch rope, but we couldn't find half inch.

So we got three eighth inch.

So I tied an Army Swiss seat and went repelling off 135 foot clip with that thing.

And it was my first time ever.

Now that's dumb.

Whoa.

Army Swiss seat is called.

And yeah, it was burnt.

But he kind

of

was guiding you?

Well,

he was, what was he, 19?

I don't know.

I was 21, 22 years old, and I got into that rock climbing, caving, spelunking stuff for a while.

It was a lot of fun.

Spelunking does sound interesting.

The word,

not the

actual act of it.

It's a very cool word, spelunking.

It is.

It

is.

It's a major spelunking last weekend.

When you say you rock climbed.

Yeah.

I'm

kind of

fascinated by

it.

Yeah, how does

that work?

You have nothing

tied to you.

But in Missouri, you know, the Ozarks, there's a lot of steep cliffs, but they weren't like the stuff you see like out in Montana and Wyoming where you're climbing on cracks, okay?

Yeah.

These were rocks and it was straight up, but it was just fun.

And I had no fear of heights back then.

Now I get on a bridge.

You know, I'm like, wow.

I know.

I can't do roller coasters.

I can't do anything anymore.

I can't

do roller coasters because you hear of the stuff people getting stuck upside

down.

Well, lately, lots of stuff.

And

who's

putting them together?

Somebody just died last week.

Yeah.

Oh, it's

terrible.

No thanks.

Let's talk about singing and stuff.

That's safer.

It's more fun.

Yeah.

It's good to have you here, but

do you

have a favorite cartoon character or Pixar?

Pixar?

Yeah.

Well, I have to say, you know, I'm trying to think of Pixar the anger in what is that show where it's the emotions.

It's Pixar.

The kids I cry

in and out in

and out.

Yeah, that's

a great movie.

What a sequel was even better better Yeah, I agree and the angry guy played by what's his next a lot the comedian I love his voice guy.

My brain is fried right now.

Oh No, he's the anger guy.

He's always mad.

Oh And what he doesn't come

I don't know.

But I love the whole, that's my favorite character.

That's a great movie.

You gotta look that up now, don't you?

Yes, I do.

I love that movie.

He's always mad.

Gilbert Godfrey?

No, it wasn't God.

Godfrey's the duck.

Affleck.

Wait

was

it in and out like all I'm getting is like the Kevin Klein movie inside out

I

thought it was

in and out to until I just like it I still got young kids, so I go to all these movies yet.

So I so awesome I love it love just saw predator the other night predator Badlands.

Yeah loved it really good movie absolutely loved it and I brought my 10 year old my 12 year old and they just

were fixated.

Did it take

you a while?

Like, I was watching this and I'm like, there's no humans.

Yeah.

I

mean, they're humans

and

acting as robots, but that was kind of weird.

It's weird.

But it was kind of cool to have the Predator be the good guy

for a

different

person.

It was so

odd.

Yeah.

Because the other Predator movies, hey, it's kind of a jerk.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

Lewis Black.

Lewis Black, that's the guy.

Love that character.

That's my favorite Pixar character.

I had a really weird

moment with Lewis Black.

And you know, this is a former comedy

clowner.

I worked the funny bone in Pittsburgh with Lewis.

Lewis was the headliner.

I was the middle act.

And my buddy Keith, God rest his soul, was the MC.

And Keith would say anything to anybody.

And Lewis is confrontational.

Oh, I know.

And Lewis started ripping on Dennis Miller's special.

And Keith, that was his island, he goes, well, I totally disagree with you.

And it was like, I was just sliding down in the

chair.

The two of them were like, it was the most

uncomfortable.

But I kind of respected both of them for not backing off, you know,

like

to sort of.

It's good debate.

It's good debate.

Good debate.

Anyway, all right, so that's a great choice, Frank.

And I want to ask you, how did...

Don't squeeze the Charmin go

well fantastic.

It was a great show great run like a great turnout and You know, we've taken our show as we used to do four-week runs now we do three-week runs so there were bigger houses and We actually practicing gamble bought two shows for their for their company.

It was pretty cool bought it out sold it out so

Well, it was sold out, but they bought it out.

But it was great.

And you know what's funny?

Now that I did a show with Proctor and Gamble, so I thought of a show.

Let me tell you which thing.

Quick trip the musical, right?

So I texted the marketing department, hey, think about doing a show in 2027 called Quick Trip the Musical.

What do you think?

Guess what I got?

A big no.

Come on.

I'm sorry, Frank.

It was, you know, it was classic somebody else, somebody's assistant wrote it.

Well, we get lots of requests for things like this.

We won't be interested in that at this time.

Okay, but do you know what I do?

Yeah, I spelled it out.

So I'm doing a show called Quack Trip.

No cease and desist on that.

I messed with the wrong guy.

With the same logo.

Quacktrip the musical to watch for it in 2027.

Well, you have like songs that are relatable to I will see you next time

or whatever Well, the whole thing is they always say would you like a bag with that?

Yeah, would you like to receive with that?

They say the same things.

It's like it's like rehearsed and which is fantastic.

It's a great organization I got to meet the owner a couple times when we did some fundraising, but Paul trip Paul trip

Yeah, yeah, madam.

And it had to be a big check for cerebral palsy.

That was fantastic.

So you can't.

Yeah, that's

I get it.

You

know, that's

a great that's ripe for not not parody of the business itself But it's a story that takes place around a quick trip could be kind of fun.

That's all it's gonna be Yeah, I would not and I put that I and I've gotten I haven't gotten permission from a lot of people I've only got three cease and desist in my life and one was from Paul McCartney's I did a show called beer and wings and We used a wing songs and I got a cease and desist They wanted to see the script and it said that he ate chicken wings and they wanted me to take that out of

the script.

Isn't that crazy?

But I

got

correspondence from the management

company.

Yeah, that's kind of cool.

Paul McCartney.

And one was He-Ha.

I called He-Ha Ho-Down.

I couldn't use the name He-Ha.

So

I just called it

Ho-Down.

And the third was, I did a show called Grease Trap.

And the logo kind of looked like the logo from Grease.

They said, uh-uh.

And I had four songs that were called, they call them, what do they call, Grand Rites.

Grand Rites are like Disney songs and songs in Broadway musicals that you can't use without written permission from the author.

So I had to take night off.

I had to take out four songs.

Come on.

Kid, you're not.

What if you had done them?

Well, here's the deal.

Do they have a guy there?

You don't get, you don't get a, oh, sorry.

Next time, it's $50,000.

So no, I did not do it.

And they bring spotters.

I've had spotters in the audience.

They hire a law firm and send somebody.

So I am parody.

So I get away with a lot of stuff.

I get away with a lot of stuff.

But we have ASCAP and BMI that we can do songs from that.

But there's certain companies and certain songs that have grand rights you can't do.

That's crazy.

You would think a show like He-Ha, that has not been on in decades, would like a little nostalgic reminder.

You would probably watch this somewhere.

You would think that.

That's crazy.

But yeah, Paul McCartney's cool.

But

how about

the

reach, man?

Yeah.

It's all Warren Gertz fault.

He put a review out, and then the bots.

They look for things online, and that's how they find out things.

That's

why you can't advertise, Frank.

I can't.

I don't think we should talk

about your Christmas show today.

We should.

We should talk about it.

There's no right standing in the song.

All

right, so tell us.

I just want to say, first of all, folks, Frank Hermans, this guy is an institution.

He puts out, I mean, how prolific are you?

Put out all these new shows.

And I want to say, last year, your Christmas show, I took my wife and two kids to it.

We saw it.

And I was, I don't know.

I'm just gonna say this, I was not in the Christmas spirit last year.

I don't know what the deal was, it's just one of those years.

Probably the first year the kids were out of the house, whatever, but I thought, let's meet there.

So my son drove up, my daughter came over from Steven's point, and we met at the Meyer Theater.

All four of us

together

for

the first time.

And we watched that show, and I was in the mood, man.

The Christmas cheer?

You filled our souls.

I filled your

heart with Christmas

cheer.

It was magical.

It was

three sizes that dear.

You had the, but the Meyer theater is so beautiful.

You got this great story.

I mean, it was, it was a marvelous way to kick off the holidays.

Thank you.

And we've written, isn't it crazy?

This will be my 26th different Christmas show this year.

I

come up with a different theme every year and I think about it all year long.

I don't know what I'm doing next year.

But this year is kind of a Dr. Seuss thing.

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

Oh, I love that.

Got it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A little Dr. Seuss.

Grinch makes an appearance.

He's actually my wife's brother.

Tom Grinch.

Tommy G. Tommy Grinch, Tommy G. And, well, he should hashtag Jim Carrey, kind of, you know, talk like that, like you're from now.

You know, almost James Cagney.

Yeah,

or

Jimmy

Stewart.

Jerry, Jerry, Mary!

You need a rope?

I'll throw a rope for you.

All right, let's let's pick up there.

We got to do a very short break.

Frank Herman's is here.

Can you sing for us too?

I brought my

guitar.

I love it.

We'll do a little

song.

I will do some window photos.

I

love window

photos.

How about

you and I?

I'll play air guitar.

Okay,

and you play air.

I'll be backing you up.