The Don Rosen Show (Hour 1)

The U.S. Forest Service has an idea for how you might want to save some money this holiday

season.

It's by going to the forest and chopping down a tree for Christmas, they actually want

you to do this.

Apparently it's good for the forest and it's cheap, you know, it only costs $5 to $10

for a permit and then whatever the gas costs to get you up there and back and then $450

deductible for your visit to the emergency room when you cut up your phone.

There's a good idea.

We have data reason to use that chainsaw he's had in the garage.

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring, tingling, tingling, too, come on it's lovely

weather for a sleigh ride together with you outside this snow is falling and friends

are calling you.

Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go, let's look at the show, we're riding in a wonderland

of snow, pitty, pitty, pitty, pitty, pitty, pitty, it's grand and just holding your hand.

We're gliding along with a song of a wintery, very land, hot cheeks are nice and rosy and

comfy, cozy, are we?

We're snuggling up together like two birds of a feather would be, let's take that

round before us and sing a chorus or two, come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride

together with you.

A little too warm today for a sleigh ride, just a tad too warm, right now 35 degrees looks

like a high of 46 today, do you believe that?

I don't think we'd see that for a while, 46 today, the night increasing cloudy this

lows around 34 tomorrow, rain, it's no shower is becoming all rain with a high

deer 41 still not bad, a clear sky now, the mode is not full anymore, just a little

bit of it missing and currently 35 degrees, I'm Don Rosen 608 at W R J N. Now, if it stays

somewhat clear tonight, that's me totally clear, but it's got to be somewhat clear tonight,

you'll be able to see a satellite high above in the sky.

Here's the, here's the bad part about this whole thing, I missed it last night when it

was perfectly clear and now it's not going to be perfectly clear, but here's what it is,

this is the Starlink satellites, last night, it flew over, we're seeing at 541, it's

going to fly over at 541 again this afternoon.

Now here's where you look for it, look from the west to northeast in the sky, it will

last very brightly for about four minutes, and you will see it sometimes you can even

hear them, you can hear the motor on these things, I know when the space station went

over our house, you can hear, you can hear it flying over the house.

So today at 541 PM here, we're seeing 541 or in Kenosha, Burlington in the area, 541

PM, look in the sky from the west to northeast, and you'll see it quickly moving across the

sky, it was pretty quick, about two months ago, they had the parade of satellites going

across, they were about seven of them going right across the sky, look like a white streak.

If you miss that December 1st at 539, same west to northeast, and on December 2nd at 535,

we'll go from west to east, and it'll be pretty bright, and it lasts each time for

about four minutes going across the sky, it's the Starlink satellites, a friend of mine

used to work with, post that on her Facebook page, and I take it off there, she's very

into satellites and what's going across the sky, and when you see it, it really is exciting

because you're seeing a satellite in outer space, which you most people have never seen

before, except in photographs, you'll actually see it flying above the above your house.

I like when the space station went over, that doesn't happen too often, but it happened

and you can hear it humming around, and it goes real fast, I mean, you can't, what happened

was, my wife was still waiting inside the house one time when the first satellite came

over, and you don't have time to go get somebody when you see it because it goes pretty fast,

so they got to be out there, and if it was a clear night, that last night was perfect,

but I forgot about it, and it's 601, I said, oh, oh, oh, I missed it.

So tonight, if it's somewhat clear, you'll be able to catch it, if this clouds, you won't

be able to see it.

It's 611 at WRJN coming up at 630, shaking from the Racine Public Libraries, here to

tell us about some of the big December events going on, so much going on at the Racine

Public Library, it's not just books anymore, it's a lot more than books.

And we'll talk to Shaking coming up at 630.

Got a recent poll here, but they found which holiday classic, whether it be a movie or

TV show, is America's favorite to rewatch every year.

Number 10 on the list is die hard.

Yeah, I know, it's not a Christmas movie.

That's the biggest debate out there.

The biggest debate facing America is die hard at Christmas movie because it takes place

on Christmas Eve.

A lot of people say, yeah, it is because they have Christmas trees in it.

Number 9 is miracle on 34th Street, which again is really not a Christmas movie.

It's a Thanksgiving movie.

It takes place over Thanksgiving weekend.

The Santa Claus with Tim, I forgot his last name.

Anyway, Tim, you know who he is from home improvement.

He's that's number 8.

Number 7, I thought would be higher on the list.

It's a wonderful life.

There's a movie that didn't do well when it first came out.

And the lawyers, I guess in charge of copyrights, forgot to re-copy right the film or do

the copyright again.

So it went in the public domain and everybody was showing that on every TV station,

you can get it on 20 VHS and beta labels when video cassettes were big.

And then a company copyrighted, I think it was RKO, copyrighted the soundtrack

to the movie.

Now you couldn't make copies of it anymore unless you wanted a silent movie.

And NBC then now owns the rights to it.

Number 6 is a movie my mom used to watch over and over again,

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, but Chevy Chase and the crew.

Number 5 is a movie and I never got into Elf.

Number 4, the TV show Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Number 3, we watch it every Christmas.

You'll have to pay to watch it, but I have the DVD, a Charlie Brown Christmas.

Apple plus owns it now.

And they're going to charge you to watch it.

You should have got the DVD.

A Christmas story, I saw that in the movies when it first came out.

I loved that movie.

I went to the Northridge theaters in Milwaukee with my daughter.

And we just enjoyed that picture.

Then we, you know, we bought it on the VHS, but it's on.

I think TBS runs at 24 hours a day, literally 24 hours a day.

When it's out, we had the the kid who played Ralphie's brother

in the radio station here in WRJN.

He was, he was hosting, they were showing the movie at Memorial Hall.

And he was the guest host for the movie.

I mean, he's a grown adult now.

He's not that little kid who didn't fit well and fell over in the,

what was that jacket, he wore that big puffy Michelin man jacket.

And number one, it's a good movie.

Home Alone.

I don't love it's the best Christmas movie, but people love watching that over and over and over

again. And it is a good movie.

One of the best parts in there, Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci played the crux.

I mean, they're probably the best part of the movie.

Home Alone.

Now, it's worth mentioning here, the 26%.

That's about a quarter of the people in the survey said,

they don't watch any of those 10 movies.

There are some other Christmas movies to watch.

The Bishop's wife with Carrie Grant.

Very good movie.

Good Christmas movie.

I like that.

They show it on Turner Classic movies or on every Christmas.

If you really want to see some good Christmas movies, turn on TCM.

They run a lot of great old classics.

Take it once then.

Hey, here's a good, easy online shopping hack that you probably never knew.

You put stuff in your cart online when you go to a website,

the buy stuff and just leave it there, close down the site and just leave it there.

Sites track abandoned orders.

So you might get an email in a few days offering an additional discount.

If you pull the trigger and make that purchase, so leave it in there.

Don't take it out.

I always take it out.

A polar parents with kids six and on there found the average child

asks 11 questions a day or more than 4,000 a year.

Well, I know the answer to about 42% of them.

The most common questions have to do with the understanding of the world around them,

like animals, nature, current events.

Parents were asked to name the most interesting question their child has ever asked.

Answers include, why is this guy so high?

Why can fish keep their eyes open underwater?

And by the way, the answer to that question is they don't have eyelids.

But I think probably the most repeated question is, are we there yet?

And how about this one?

Why not?

You can't do that.

Why not?

Getting a job is pretty easy.

You know, you apply for it.

If you're pretty honest at the job interview, you have a good shot of getting it.

However, this recruiter who posted Vice on TikTok said,

here are three things to lie about to present yourself in the best way possible.

Never bad mouth your current boss or co-workers,

even if they really are horrible human beings.

Instead, say things like, things are going great,

but I want to take on bigger challenges, which is a lie.

When they ask why you want the job,

don't mention money because it sounds like that's all you care about,

tell them why you're passionate about the company's mission

and explain why you'll really be a good fit.

Again, a lie.

When you ask about, when they ask about your plans for the future,

tell them you intend to be at that company that you're interviewing at.

You want to come in, knock it out of the ballpark,

and continue to grow as opportunities arise, which again is a lie.

Here's a fun fact for you this morning.

And I never knew this.

The majority of police uniforms in America are blue.

You know why?

After the Civil War, there was a surplus of blue army uniforms,

which were repurposed for police departments,

and the color just stuck.

Now that doesn't mean that the police uniforms they're wearing now come from the Civil War.

At the time, it was just the color of the uniform, blue and it stuck.

Here you go.

Hey, police officers listening.

Now you know why you were in blue today.

617 at WRJN, partly sunny with a high near 46 degrees.

I like it.

Right now, a clear sky with an almost full moon, 35 degrees.

We've got more coming up.

I'm Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining us here at WRJN.

I can listen to the Nutcracker all day.

You know what?

I have so many versions of the Nutcracker at home,

including the Narada version, which Narada is in Milwaukee.

I just love this.

The listen all day of the Nutcracker.

But we've got to take a break here.

So we only got about 10 more seconds to listen to it.

That's Bobby Helms have a Jingle Bell Rock at WRJN at 620.

Good morning.

It is a Thursday.

A shake King from the Racine Public Library is going to be in here with us shortly.

And we're going to talk about the latest, the greatest.

It's a library of things going on in the month of December.

You'll receive public library.

Woman of Florida arrested.

Oh, this is a sad story.

And I hate to bring it up at breakfast time.

But a woman of Florida arrested after stabbing her boyfriend in the eye.

She did it with a canine rabies needle.

See, he was looking at another woman.

And it sounds like the guy's okay.

The woman's going to be remained in jail for now.

But I hate to say it, but an eye for an eye.

No, no, that's wrong.

But she was caught.

He was caught looking at another woman.

And she stabbed him in the eye for doing that.

There's some nuts out there.

35-year-old guy in Vietnam had terrible headaches for months and didn't know why.

Doctors scanned his head.

This happened last Saturday and found two broken chopstick shoved up his nose.

It happened during a drunken brawl five months ago.

And you don't know there are two chopsticks up your nose?

Well, not any sober.

I think you better stay that way.

All right, you'll love those things you have in leftovers.

It's been a week now since Thanksgiving today's a week.

And if you haven't already, yesterday was throw out your leftovers day.

Because after a while, it's not good anymore.

And it's a different than other leftovers because usually on Thanksgiving,

you leave out the food for a couple of hours on the table.

And then you put it in the fridge.

It's time to get rid of it.

All right, if you didn't need it by now, you're probably not going to eat it at all.

Now, is this cool or is this weird or just dumb?

You'll have to decide for yourself a guy, got his girlfriend's bike mark tattooed on his arm.

Now, I assume she bit him and then he had the bike mark outlined in tattooed.

So for the rest of his life, it's going to be on his arm.

Do you remember Richard Dawson hosting family feud?

Remember, you just always kiss the women on that show back in the day.

Contestants of that time will require it to take mouth tests for herpes

because of the way he kissed all the women on the lips.

How about him taking a test?

Maybe he's got the herpes and he's spreading it.

77 year old share hate aging so much.

She'd give anything to be 70 again.

Also not thrilled about her song believe turning 25 years old now.

She was on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

She looked great and she sounded great shares.

I don't know what she's worried about.

The other day was giving Tuesday.

There's a list of the most bizarre items that people donated to Goodwill during

giving Tuesday.

This was compiled with help from the Goodwill workers and shoppers.

It included a guillotine.

I assume a small one.

Not one of those big ones.

An employee says they think it went for about 30 bucks.

A bag of groceries probably by accident.

Took it out of the trunk didn't realize it was not for Goodwill.

A bag of garbage maybe not by accident.

A rock.

Just a normal rock.

The Goodwill people put an $11 tag on it and it's sold and a coffin.

Don't know if it's sold but it would probably make a nice conversation piece

or a coffee table in your living room.

Hopefully nobody was in it when they sold it though.

These questions are always fun because there's no wrong answer to them.

Or is there more than 25,000 people took an online poll on some of the world's most

controversial questions if you agree.

Does a straw have one hole or two holes?

61% said one hole.

39% said two one at each end.

The actual answer according to the science is one hole.

We mentioned this earlier.

Is die harder Christmas movie?

It takes place on Christmas eating 55% said no, it's not.

Is a hop dog a sandwich actually to meet between bread but 81% of people still said no.

Is cereal soup?

That's something I never thought of before.

Six percent said yes.

Now a separate online poll asked the same question while back.

At the answer back then was 11 so they're losing ground on that.

Is it okay to wear socks with sandals?

57% said not a good look.

Another poll 48% of people said they prefer artificial Christmas trees.

This is always a big deal every year.

People always are artificial or real.

Well, some like it because they're ultimately more affordable.

The artificial ones and some prefer them because they think they're better for the environment.

And you don't have to pick up those pine needles.

You have to keep it watered.

I never had a real trace.

So I think you have to keep it watered or it's going to dry out and it's not good.

That's the odd but true.

The guy who wrote the obituary for Elizabeth Taylor for the New York Times died before she did.

He wrote it when she was still alive.

That's what they do with celebrities.

They write them and then publish them when they pass away.

He died in 2005.

She died in 2011.

Japan just hosted the first world cup.

We're picking up garbage.

Who knew that was a sport.

It is a real sport.

Someone came up with the idea in 2008.

Each team of three people has 45 minutes to clean up as much litter as they can.

You're not allowed to run, but you can speed walk.

21 countries, including the United States took part in the inaugural World Cup in Tokyo.

This happened last Wednesday.

Who knew that was a sport?

I have to tomorrow mention this to Mike Clemens when he joins us for sports.

Did you know this past Sunday, the Denver Broncos,

beat the Cleveland Browns 29 to 12.

Normally, so what?

They beat him 29 to 12.

That score is what they call a score.

It's a term for a final score that never happened in NFL history across 17,500 games.

Since the beginning of the NFL, there's never been a game that ended in the score of 29 to 12

until last Sunday.

So cross that off the list.

There's a couple of them I read about once before.

I can't remember what they are.

But I know there's a couple of scores out there that still have never been achieved.

I got to missave that for Mike Clemens.

He won't know that.

Maybe he doesn't know it.

This sounds like something out of the 1950s.

In a recent survey, 64% of men say the number one dating red flag is identifying as a communist.

So guys, if they're looking at a woman and they find out she's a communist, the dates over.

Doesn't sound like something out of the 1950s.

I guess we're flying again.

Bear travel is completely rebounded from COVID-19.

Two million nine hundred seven thousand three hundred and 78 people were screened by the TSA

at airports on Sunday.

That was the highest number of people to go through security on a single day ever.

Lying is back.

I guess, but there are more nuts flying too.

Do you hear the other day?

Guy opened the emergency door while the plane was still, you know, on the not the runway,

but you know, in the boarding area on the tarmac.

He opened the emergency door and jumped out.

They got him and arrested him.

Yesterday, just yesterday, a guy in the American Airlines flight started a fight,

a physical fight with the crew on the plane.

Nobody knows why he just started flailing and hitting them and people are crazy out there.

What's going on?

Hey, a woman is wondering if her iPhone is haunted because an alarm goes off every day

at 9.25 a.m.

Even though she doesn't have the alarm set.

I think someone's messing with her, which is not paying attention to set the alarm.

That's what I think.

I think they're messing with her.

She thinks it's haunted now.

Shake King from the received public library coming up at just a few moments here at WRJN.

It had 6.28.

We're looking for partly sunny weather.

A beautiful day with a hundred forty six.

It's out of the way where I wore my Arctic winter coat today,

but I did.

We'll change that out later on today.

Increasing clotting of this tonight,

lows around 34 tomorrow.

Rain and snow showers becoming all rain with a higher 41.

Right now, a clear sky, 35 degrees, 6.29 at WRJN.

A civic media station.

Home town radio refreshed.

Home town radio refreshed.

Oh, the place for you and the place for me.

It's a local public library.

There are books and things that they lend for me.

It's the latest, it's the greatest, it's the library.

Today's public library is more than books.

And if you haven't been there lately, you're missing plenty.

Read, listen, look, take part.

Learn, grow, enjoy yourself.

And your public library.

Education, information,

entertainment, that sensation.

It's a way of life.

It's for you and me.

It's the latest, it's the greatest, it's the library.

It's the latest, it's the greatest, it's the library.

Your public library.

Yeah, Jay King is here.

And you handle the business of the library.

Yes, my title is head of business development.

But technically, that is a really funny way of saying

that I'm the head of marketing.

Well, I like that business development.

Sounds like, you know, you should be smoking a big cigar,

saying that it's passing out orders.

Well, that's nice.

Thank you for coming in this morning at 6.30.

It is.

It's a lot earlier than I'm usually up.

A lot of, I say to a lot of people that,

well, what time is the show on 9, 10 o'clock,

and now 6 a.m. to the 8 a.m.,

and they say, oh, that's early.

Well, that's why they call the morning show.

That's true. It's truly the morning.

If it came out at noon, it would be the afternoon show.

What is the morning show?

At 6.35 at WRJN.

Thank you for being with us today.

It is the latest, the greatest, the library.

I have gone there four times in the past week.

Oh, wow.

Wanted to get the Christmas music you're hearing.

And the other, I just got out yesterday,

it was put on a hold, you dug it up.

Well, actually, it was out the Racine Library.

Somebody had it out.

I found it who they were.

Went to their house and threatened them.

Oh, thank you.

No, I did.

Thank you.

We're grateful for your service.

It was the Andy Williams Christmas TV shows.

Now you're too way too young to remember.

But when I was a kid,

all these networks show the Andy Williams Christmas special,

the Bingrawsby Christmas special,

the Frank Sinatra Christmas special,

every Bob or Streisand had a crit.

Everybody had a Christmas special on.

And so I found out

that they were actually made up put on DVD,

which, which the library still has not only DVD CDs,

but vinyl albums are coming back.

I see you got a stack of vinyl albums there.

Yeah, they're very entrenched now, which is kind of nice.

Well, I was told years ago in 1968,

I took out the vinyl album,

buy, buy, birdie from my library.

And cut to about 30 years later,

I found it when I unpacked the box and I called the library

and they said, oh, we don't have records anymore.

I'll bet you now they want it back.

I still actually have the library card in there

that said the date it was due.

Oh, I love those.

It just got mixed up in my stuff.

And I have, they used to actually give out newspapers,

they just pour microfilm.

They used to actually have the newspapers there

and you were able to take them home.

And they took out variety, the show business paper.

And I still have them from 1971.

And I called them up at the same time.

They said, well, we have everything in the microfilm now.

We don't want that.

My brother had two books out,

one from 1963, one from 1959.

A coward never called the library to tell them.

But I just read the other day and I probably still have it here.

Maybe it took it home.

Just this past week,

a book was returned.

It was not a tale of,

it was great expectations by Charles Dickens.

From 1903 or 1905, they had it out over 100 years.

And the library took it back without a fine.

But it's a mint condition that you got to remember.

It's only like 20 some odd years after Charles Dickens wrote it.

That's incredible.

He wrote it in the 1800s.

So it's not, it wasn't that old.

It was probably a first edition.

Wow.

See?

And they returned it.

When we get rid of books, usually it's books that haven't been checked out

within the last three years, the last five years.

It depends on how slim we need to make the shelves.

But I feel like we need to make an exception for some of those.

You know what you got it?

You got to urge people to bring them back.

And figure there's a fine of $22,345.59.

They're not going to bring it back.

I'll see.

That's why we're fine free at the Racine Public Library.

For those books that have been out over 100 years.

Now you being in the library,

you probably watched that famous sign filled episode

where Jerry took out the tropic of cancer and lost the book.

And they sent their library detective, Mr. Bookman.

To hassle him for that book.

That's a real job, you know.

Library detective?

No, I'm just kidding.

That was real there for a second.

Yeah, and his name was Mr. Bookman.

And Kramer says,

the library detective's name is Bookman.

It's like an ice cream salesman with the name of cone.

You guys have a ton of, I'd say you guys,

the Racine Public Library has got a lot of activities through the month.

Everybody thinks, well, if you want a book, you go to the, you know,

you go get a library.

No, no, no, no, no.

There's a lot of activities going on.

My wife and I have been to a few of them, including the latest one.

Breathe to disagree.

We go to that.

That's a good one.

We didn't go to the last one because we were exhausted.

You know, I get up, I get up at 4.30.

Sometimes she does too.

And you know, it's a busy time of year.

Well, no, we were just lazy that day.

Nothing to do with being busy.

So we, we do go to that.

It's really nice.

You sit there for an hour and discuss different things.

There's a different cheese there.

It doesn't have to be free.

But it could be a different cheese the library leaves there.

And it was a lot of fun.

So we'll go to it's once a month.

We went to the hot tasting, the hot sauce tasting,

which I was going to go to the hospital after doing that thing.

I'll never do that again.

Actually, it was a lot of fun.

They do what's that?

We do not offer hot sauce tastings anymore.

Unfortunately, what happened to many people at the hospital?

I don't know.

I wasn't there at the time.

Well, here's where their mistake was.

It wasn't the hot sauce that caused the problem.

Some, you know, they were all covered.

So you didn't know what you were tasting.

They had a

band around.

Stangerous.

Well, and they use cooking hot sauces,

which is supposed to be diluted.

They're high concentrated hot sauce.

And they're meant for cooking.

When you're cooking like a giant thing on the stove,

you put two drops in.

Well, I was putting two drops.

I'm like, tongue.

And now I got a permanent hole.

But that was good.

I had a good time there.

And the funny thing was there were 12 people.

There were only two of them couldn't take the hot sauce.

That last one, number eight, it was the rest had no problem.

I said, anybody else have a problem?

No, I'm always fine with us.

They had a gallon of milk, soft in the blow.

Much appreciated, I'm sure.

Yeah, always good.

Except, yeah, I don't know.

Just two people had the problem.

So what is new for the month of December,

we're not even going to do in November,

even today's the last day.

We're just going to kiss, we're going to kiss it off.

There's one program today, so yeah,

we're not missing too, too much by going right into December.

Okay, what's the program today?

Oh, no.

Okay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

It's on our website calendar,

racy and library.info, if anybody would like to sneak a peek

and get in there.

All right.

Sorry, I don't have the name on me.

All right.

Well, that's good.

You're just business development.

You're not.

Ed librarian.

Okay, get ready, get set, read, a battle of the books.

Yeah.

So, battle of the books is an annual program

that we do with a C.

Notion every year.

Oh, no, I'm okay.

So, battle of the books is a program

where fourth and fifth grade students

get to participate in book battles.

They read books throughout their school semester

and then they come in for challenges

and whoever can remember the details

the most clearly about the books

gets to be crowned the ultimate book champion,

something like that.

You don't think they cheat and go on.

No, they actually

align and take a look at the synopsis of the book.

Now, I'm a little old for participating

in this particular season myself,

but I did participate

in my home libraries battle of the books competition

and they were rigorous

about making sure that nobody could cheat.

They had a whole elaborate system

where you had to be sitting at a table.

No phones were allowed for any of the participants

or for their parents.

There was a story about one woman

who had a sketch pad

and was writing on it in the audience

and they pulled her aside

and were very stern with her

about what was going on.

Like, are you writing down answers

to like...

They're cheating.

To send to your kids.

She was writing her grocery list.

You know the script's Howard

spelling bee contest

that they do every year.

No.

Oh, this national spelling bee.

They do the script's Howard

national spelling bee contest

and it's a big deal

inside ESPN.

They run the whole thing.

One year the parent was in there

moving her lips

to the word.

Uh-oh.

Now the kid didn't see it.

The judge saw it

and they said to the parent,

out you go.

Yeah.

Now the kid did not cheat.

He didn't see his parent doing that

because they were watching

and they see the kids' eyes

were nowhere near there.

I mean, come on.

You got to help your kid cheat on a spelling bee.

Then he's going to live with that all his life.

He's going to back and hate you one day

and not get your Christmas gift

because you're

helping cheat.

All the success to you.

A lot of people do that.

The winter fundraiser is coming up.

You guys need money to run that place?

We sure do.

I mean, I like to think of it as

we're very used to libraries

being funded by taxpayer support

in today's day and age.

But there was a time before

taxpayer support for libraries existed

about 125 years ago.

A group of women had to found the library

and they had to raise money to do it.

And, well, we still need funds

to be able to expand our programs

and to be able to consider projects

like future renovations is needed.

A lot of people have been asking

for projects like

another branch for the library.

Now, that would be a long ways off.

But we need.

What do you mean another branch?

I don't know.

You'd have to ask the folks who are asking.

But we are a little bit distant

from some other corners of the county.

Now, we are the Racine Public Library

where the Municipal Library

for the City of Racine.

But we serve patrons

throughout the county and beyond.

So, I think, Caledonia.

Trying to remember the other parts of the county

that don't have their own branch.

I know Burlington has its own branch.

I think Union Grove might.

But those are all their own library systems.

So, a lot of folks are hoping to get a library

a little bit closer to home.

We did our road trips.

This is before COVID.

We did a lot of road trips going across the country.

I mean, to Wyoming.

Through Nebraska on Route 66 out to Texas.

You can actually take out audiobooks out of the library

without actually having a physical audiobook.

That's right.

And my wife put, I didn't know you can do this.

And she put it on her.

She put the book on her phone.

And through Bluetooth.

All these things, I don't know anything about.

She played it through, it was a rental car we had.

And she played it through the rental car.

And we listened to these audiobooks on the trip.

And it was fantastic.

Is somebody beeping you with this hour?

So, I have diabetes.

You might hear a beep in the background

when my insulin pump wants to alert me of something.

But I'm trying to keep it on the quiet side.

Do we need to get some standby ambulances?

No, no.

No, I've got everything I need.

I'm all right.

All right.

Am you drinking something with sugar in it?

No, just caffeine.

Okay.

The...

Anyway, the winner fundraiser.

Well, before you get back to that,

so you can take stuff out of the library

without physically going to the library.

And the audiobooks are a perfect example of it.

That's right.

I don't understand how it works, but it does work.

The fundraiser, let's go back to it.

So, the Winter Fundraiser is a project

from the Racing Public Library Foundation.

It's going to be at the board president

of the foundation's home.

She and her husband are opening up her home

to welcome the entire community.

Well, I shouldn't say her home.

It's its social un-six.

I was about to say, who's opening them now?

Nobody's opening their home.

I apologize.

So, the story goes that she actually

hosts a lot of fundraisers at her home.

We put her into the role of board president

and then we found out

that she does a lot of fundraisers along that time.

So, I was mixing up my stores,

but it's Thursday, December 14th,

6 to 8.30 pm at social un-six.

That's 3.26 street and racing.

It's no registration, no entry fee required.

So, everybody can come in at 10 for free.

You can enjoy the appetizers for free.

But then, whoever is able to and willing,

we're going to be asking you to donate some funds

to help support the library's future,

help us build out projects

that might require more resources than we currently have.

And it's a night to make new connections

and just celebrate the library you love.

And everything of the library's free when you get in there.

That's right.

This is a resource a lot of people don't have.

I mean, you go to small towns across America

that might have a library,

but they don't have the resources of this library.

No.

And we're going to find out next week

we have Leanne coming in.

Is it Leanne?

Right, Rebecca Leanne.

Rebecca, that's your last name.

Rebecca Leanne.

It's she's the historian.

That's right.

The library.

So, we're going to get a little more knowledge

about the history of this library.

Yes.

When Nick Demsky was in here,

I said, what was it built?

No, I have to know that because the cornerstone,

the little thing is on the front of the building.

He probably walks by it every day

and he didn't look at it.

126 years ago.

Yeah, it's right on the front of the building when it was built.

Okay, so the Winter Fund Razor,

again, that is what date?

That is Thursday, December 14th,

6 to 8 30 PM at social on 6th,

324th, 6th Street and Racine.

I don't laugh about going into someone's house.

I'm going to spend like Geneva.

My apologies to Chris for that.

Yeah, everybody's going to be listening.

She's probably having quite a shock right now.

Get the carpet cleaner out.

People are coming over.

When I was in Lake Geneva,

the owner of the station used to use his house

for the employee Christmas party.

And I said, yeah, I said,

first of all, it's very nice to do that.

Right.

Have all these people shlupping through your house,

touching everything, checking the medicine cabinets and

you know, who wants that?

But he was very nice.

He didn't.

Okay, we're going to have more with Shade King coming up.

By the way, yesterday we had

from the DRC, we had Kelly Cruz.

Today we got Shade King.

What great names.

Major radio names.

These are the names you got to use as a disc jockey.

Kelly Cruz with more music and

King Shade till midnight tonight.

You know, anyway.

Thank you.

Okay, so we have more of the Racine Public Library coming up.

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The happy

Maybe

There's

In

But it's not like Christmas at all.

I remember when you were here.

And all the fun we had.

That's it.

Really

Life's on the tree.

I

Watched the shine.

You should be here with me.

Yes.

Maybe

It's on the

I was telling Shade that the this song here by Darling Love.

Baby Christmas, please come home.

Was

Song on David Letterman.

It was the last thing he did.

On the show before he took his Christmas break on CBS.

And they went to reruns through the Christmas holiday.

And he always had Darling Love sing this song for years and years.

I know it was 10, 12 years.

But she was always singing this song and he just made it a tradition.

Well, he had her sing it live, but we have the CD from the library.

From the public library.

From the public library.

Okay, and it's not skipping.

Great.

Shade King, who is a business development marketing business development at the

Recene Public Library is here with us today.

We're talking about some of the events going on in December.

That's the greatest.

It's the latest is the library.

Health pop up with Aurora health care.

That's right.

So you can come into the library and get your blood pressure checked.

Did you know that?

No, but since I had open heart surgery,

I haven't checked all the time.

I have my own machine at home.

If you didn't have your own machine, you could come right in.

And you could find out that hopefully it's 120 over 80.

Yes, hopefully.

And if it's like 200 over 100.

They'll have a doctor you can see.

So the health pop up with Aurora health care is one of the places that you can come

into the library to get your blood pressure checked.

And depending on the session, they have other screeners, health information,

resources, goodie bags for you to take home with you.

Now I'll need you to share your paper with me

so that I can get that date pulled up in front of me.

I had a different set of dates that I was looking at.

So health pop up with Aurora health care.

That's Monday, December 11th, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

And you can find that on the second floor of the library right along the windows

that look out over the lake.

You don't need a register.

You can just show up.

And they will help you figure out how healthy you are.

You know, I always, I never asked this question before.

For years, when you get into the elevator,

there's only two floors.

So when somebody gets in on the first floor with you,

you don't have to ask them where you're going.

You go to the second floor.

But there's a third button that's not labeled.

There's three buttons that says one, two,

and there's another one with no label on it.

And I'm dying to press that button to see where it goes.

I'm afraid to press that button because I don't know where it heads to.

Is it like a penthouse, a special room?

Yeah, that's where we host the mayor for his personal book drop-offs.

Do you know the button I'm talking about?

Next time you get into the elevator in the lobby,

you'll see three buttons.

And the third one has no number on it.

And it opens up and it's a mystery wonderland when you get in.

I don't know. I'm afraid to push it.

I wonder if that leads into the clock tower.

It's the one right next to the clock tower, right?

Not the elevator that goes upstairs to Lake Avenue.

No, it's when you go to the lobby,

and you walk in the building and see the elevator on the left.

Okay, yeah. The left elevator is right next to the clock tower.

You think it goes up there?

I wonder because there's also a flight of stairs

that goes up past the second floor,

but it's all roped off.

Nobody's allowed up there.

So I've been dying to...

Okay, here's what you do. I want you to try it

because I don't want the alarms to go off in the building.

All of a sudden there's police there.

There's a fire department there.

I don't want that going on.

But I got in the elevator with a lady the other day and I said

no, you go into the second floor.

And then we looked, I said, I know there's a third button,

but we're not going there.

Because I have no idea what that is.

That is, and I don't want to find out.

What is Maker Monday?

This is December 11th from 9 am to 7 pm.

The innovation lab.

I did have the lady who runs the innovation.

Yes, that's right, Melissa.

Yes, she is a techie.

I mean, they...

At the library, they do gaming.

That's right.

They do gaming.

They do computers.

They do robotics.

We do coding classes.

I mean, this is way beyond me.

I mean, I got a cell phone here.

I can make calls on it.

I know how to do that.

And that's all related to a concept we call trans literacy.

So a lot of people think when they think literacy

that just refers to being able to read.

But there's all different types of literacy

and one of them is digital literacy.

And the innovation lab is here to serve all of that.

Now Maker Monday is our open innovation lab session basically.

So all day Mondays over the summer,

it's been historically every Monday.

That'll change up for 2024.

But then throughout the rest of the year,

it's the second Monday of the month, 9 am to 7 pm.

And you can just wander into the lab.

Anywhere between those times

and there will be stations set up for you to explore

the different steam that's science tech.

Steam is an acronym.

Yes, steam science, tech, engineering,

arts is part of it and math.

Okay.

So you can try the robots that we have.

They're very kid friendly.

If you want to bring your little ones,

they can start to get their hands on some very early robotics.

We have tablets set up with games on them

that actually will teach you the building blocks of how to code.

We have virtual reality headsets.

I hate to say this.

To go on an expedition.

What is coding?

Coding is like programming.

So when you're typing up the text that turns into a website

or an application or an algorithm or anything like that,

that's coding.

So it's kind of like the skeleton of the digital world.

Oh, brother.

Here's something more might speed.

The chess club.

The chess club.

Is this the old-fashioned chess board?

Yeah, it is.

Okay, all right, great.

I can handle that.

This is Wednesday, December 13th and the 27th from 5 to 7 p.m.

For all ages.

That's right.

Everybody plays chess.

That's right.

I played chess once and I got started at my own hometown library.