I was home for Thanksgiving my mom sent me to the store to get butter right just
to buy butter I figured out was something I was capable of doing I find the
dairy section in the aisle where they have all the margarine then they have all
the stuff it's not even margarine anymore I don't know what the hell it is I see
a touch of butter move over butter sort of smells like butter I can't find
butter I see this stuff called I can't believe it's not butter I'm having no
trouble believing it's not butter nothing here is butter they got a product
they're called promise I don't care if they name it I swear to God I'm not buying
it I ended up a bunch of stuff called country crock I figured at least these
people are being honest
it's the happiest season of all with those holiday greetings and gay happy
meetings when friends come to call it's the happiest season they'll be
parties for hosting marshmallows for toasting and caroling out in the snow
there'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago
it's the most wonderful time of the year and the Williams it can't go wrong with
Andy Williams of Christmas time his whole family every other story with him and
his wife no sure yeah we're a gossipy but it's true he was married to Claudine
Lojay that was her name Claudine Lojay and I guess they divorced and she was
going she was seeing a ski professional called spider savage was his name that's
a good name yeah spider I think that was the guy's name anyway she murdered
them now she's she murdered spider savage but not her ex-husband no no no no
not any way anyway she murdered spider savage and she was arrested and Andy
Williams for that was at her side the whole time oh wow and I believe it was
just a self defense I gotta look it up but I believe it was self defense but I
remember seeing him on the news walking her into the courtroom and everything
for the murder trial so I mean you don't know these I know these things you know
how I know I found it out at the scene public library which you know you have
a fear somewhere you've got to have it on the microfilm oh yeah I'm sure I
mean you could look it up on the microfilm you could just put in you know look
for Andy Williams at Claudine Roleau Jay and and you'll you'll find I look up the
story that microfilm collection goes deep Rebecca will tell you all about it
next week I go there old time out the New York Times on microfilm you know I love
I go to the theater section and the movie section of the notes can bring back
memories when I was a kid I live in the past and I love doing it because it's
the newspaper it's not an electronic version of the newspaper it's a snapshot of
the newspaper it's actually a snapshot put on microfilm so you're seeing all
the perforations in the corn you're seeing everything the way it was in the New York
Times it's very tactile that way tactile yeah lots of texture you know I was an
English major so yeah English major English major what is the longest word in
the English language and I know what it is I don't know I could make one up for
you no no no my dad told me this my dad who didn't even graduate from high
school no this word I wasn't studying for a pop quiz today it's pneumonia ultra
microscopic silly volcano coniosis the longest word it's practicing huh my dad told me
that was a little kid I just remembered for some reason you know whenever I can't
get out of a trivia quiz I throw that one out it's a it has to do I think a
disease from birds in their eyes now he knew it sounds right I think it looked
this up at one point he raised pigeons all his life since he's a little kid
until he retired from life and he had pigeons and he knew everything about them
and that was one of the diseases try to spell it that I couldn't spell it for you
kids you have a lot of programs for kids in the month December including the
Lego club and I got a Lego story for you in just a moment I'll get what you need
this yes please so Lego club by the way our guest is Shade King hi who's the
business manager from the Racine Public Library business development actually
head of business development business manager is a different position believe it
or not rather that's why they just call me a DJ I covers everything head of
business development yes which is a fancy way of saying head of marketing
around these parts for the Racine Public Library a treasure in Racine County
that's right city Racine okay so what's Lego Lego club is just an open play
time for kids to come use the libraries vast Lego set and build create
whatever they can imagine we have really cute photos that go up on Facebook
every week after the program where you can see what the kids built they all
have titles and you can see the kids smiling faces they're super cute so that
one is run by again Rebecca Leanna you're gonna hear her name a lot she's on
next week and this next one is Saturday December 9th one to 3 p.m. in the
Martin room which is just off of the youth services department on the first
floor of the library
back you should have got one of these they have in the lobby they're free I pick
one up yesterday they're absolutely free these are schedules for each month
in the month of December's there and you pick it up at the library is absolutely
free yeah this is something preschool and toddlers now toddler is what three
two what is what is a toddler imagine three to five because my wife still says
you're acting like a toddler so I'm trying to figure out what the age is maybe
five is a little old for a toddler I don't know I would say up to five years old
would be my guess so these are people people they're actually human beings
toddlers people in development believe it or not they are human and this is
good because they're developing and they're learning the skills now like the
longest word in the English language when I learned when I was 10 years old my
father yeah you know my father did again he didn't he went into the Navy during
World War two eight seventeen so we never graduated high school later on he
took a thing and he did graduate yeah but every time he used to use a word at
the dinner table he said stopping so vociferous and he'd look at my brother
and I see you know what that means he said yeah we know what it means he said what
does it mean and quiet get the dictionary only this hernia edition oh my
gosh a dictionary about this thick which you needed you know your back hurt
when you were carrying it down the stairs look it up the next night he would say
you're so loquacious get the dictionary and this went on every single night we
had that dictionary the table I said to my brother why were bringing it back up
stairs why did we just make it part of the living room furniture and put it on
the coffee table but it was so big yeah there's no big hernia edition so we used to
call it and that's you know that's when my father did he because he didn't
graduate he decided he's gonna make it tough on everybody else now that he
knows all this stuff he wanted to brag about it and so we that's how we learned
our vocabulary at the dinner table so what about the pre the pre-schoolers and
the toddlers so preschool and toddler steam time that's another one of our
innovation lab programs it's kind of like make your Monday for babies now
make your Monday if you missed it is where you come into the innovation lab we
have stations set up for you to try robotics simple apps that will teach you
the building blocks of coding we have VR headsets except the preschool and
how their steam time is oriented towards much younger kids so that's Wednesday
December 6th and we have another session on the 20th December and both sessions
are 11 a.m. to noon in the innovation lab on the second floor they're four kids
obviously parents can bring their little ones in be a little young to leave
them there and it's a great way to give them the very introduction to these
steam science technology engineering arts and math skills in a way that's
very appropriate for their developing brains and they are developing you
want to develop correctly that's right because tomorrow's juvenile delinquents
if you don't do it right well encoding and robotics make up so much of
industry today right but that's definitely not a course I was taught in school
so I like to think that we're going to have a lot of scientists growing up in
the library now now that we have the innovation lab freshly remodeled if you
didn't know by the way when I become rich someday and hopefully that will
happen before I die I will donate a million dollars to the library but there's
one condition okay get a bring back the card catalog okay we'll do it for you
it's not there anymore I know I hop on that was part of my childhood going to
the library and run to the card catalog and look up all my stuff get that back
to your own list well I do have my own list it's just not the same list you're
looking at how about the young writers guild this is Monday December 18th from
five to six pm and this is for young young adults 18 for writing and you know
it's a skill I mean you can use chat GPT all you want to but you got to have a
brain you got to have a topic right I mean they're not going to write a best
seller New York Times best seller for you at least I don't think no say I like to
think of chat GPT as a good way to give you the building blocks of what you're
writing or cheat on your report well but it all comes out so repetitive it
doesn't sound like exactly a fully thought out narrative so something like the
young writers guild it's it's more oriented towards creative writing but
there's applications for anything you might want to write in your future that
one's run by Carrie or team librarian and she's I don't know exactly what her
genre is I'm gonna I'm just gonna call her like a budding novelist if you will
she creative writing is one of her hobbies so she hosts sessions like young
writers guild today is the last day that she's hosting a nano-rimo sort of it's
not a nano-rimo program it's more like a passive program where if you are
participating in national novel writing month you can come into the library and
log how many words you've written for the entire month and the goal is that
you've written 50,000 by the end of November so today's the last day of that
but yeah young writers guild you can come spend time with other writers share
your work learn some new tips Monday December 18th 5 to 6 p.m. in the
Martin Room just off of the youth services department on the first floor I
actually wrote my autobiography when I was in grammar school I think it was
the second or third grade must have been the third grade really yeah I wrote my
autobiography I still have it it had it we had to make a cover for it back in
front covers and we wrote it my mother saved it and when my mom passed away I found
it how was it she saved it this is the opening line don't laugh too loud okay
okay break the microphone it starts off I remember the doctor picking me up and
slapping me what a way to start and when I found it I my brother I was I
read it to my recent you handed this in the teacher the teacher probably
probably could stop laughing oh man I remember the doctor picking up and slapping
me I have all recollection of this thing so we talked about our
fiber arts programs yet no but we will after the break all right cool okay
she want to hear my I could I can next time you're not bringing my whole
autobiography you can read this I would love to actually I would get a real
chuck a lot of that had I taking the taking the writing course at the library
I would have started love with something so stupid it's 718 at W R G and a
partly sunny day today with a hundred forty six clear and sun shining now at
thirty five degrees we weren't coming up with Shaking from their scene
public library and then coming up at seven thirty we'll have some news from
Stuart J. Wannels and pilots and local news for us so we'll find out what's
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Dread sleeping snow is sunny for me dreams are calling like bells in the
distance we were dreamers not so long ago but one by one we all had to
grow up when it seems the max little way we find it all again on Christmas day
even what your heart is saying here's no time to waste there's so much to
pray even watching you inside and give your dreams the wings to fly you have
everything you need if you just believe
the
I've got to talk about something, let's talk about it, so our fiber arts programs.
We have a couple going on that we've been trialing for the season.
One of them I'm not going to say it's true name on air, but we're going to call it the
stitch and in rich.
Stitch and bitch?
You can say it.
Yeah, it's the stitch and bitch, okay.
So that one's actually a program that me and my marketing counterpart run together because
we found out we both have a passion for fiber arts.
She crochet isn't I knit and it's just an open stitch session where anybody can bring
knitting, crocheting, embroidery, whatever other fiber arts they're working on and we'll
stitch together and we'll bitch together.
Okay, there it goes.
Our next one is Tuesday, December 12th, 5 to 7 pm and that's in the business center which
is the room facing the YMC on the second floor of the library.
We're actually trying to figure out some ways to expand it right now.
It's mostly open stitch, but we are in the market for maybe some instructors who would
be interested in leading instructional workshops in any of the fiber arts related programs.
So if anybody is interested, reach out to me at shea.king, that's s-h-a-i.k-i-n-g at
racenelibrary.info.
And we're also looking for donations.
If anybody has any clean, gently used or new yarn, embroidery, knitting needles, sewing
needles, crochet hooks, anything like that, you can drop it off at any of the service
desks at the library.
Nothing that was used in a brutal murder.
No, nothing like that.
We do have plenty of red yarn, however.
So I don't know where the die came from, but we are about to launch the supply swap public
facing right now.
It's only available during the stitch and bitch sessions, but pretty soon we'll be finding
a spot in the library where people can just come in and take whatever they want for
free.
Well, that's kind of nice.
And I know in the lobby of the library, you do sell older books that you don't need
anymore.
We do.
So if there's a favorite book or you have a, you know, a used Christmas gift that's fine
as long as it's not like somebody's used socks and underwear.
No.
But if you have an old book, I mean, you might find something interesting because books
go out of print like everything else.
Mm-hmm.
And you can find them.
We have some first editions in there that have been kept in really good condition.
Let's come out most often during the friends of the library book sales, but which are usually
spring and winter.
So I don't have an upcoming date for when just yet we just had our last one for the
year.
And if you haven't been to the library lately, it got remodeled during COVID.
That's right.
I mean, I hate to say this because it sounds terrible, but COVID couldn't happen at a
better time for you guys because you got chance to remodel the library.
Yeah, we made it work.
Nobody in it.
Nobody bothering you.
You know, bothering the workmen and everything.
You did keep it open, but traffic was pretty light because people are still getting used
to everything being open in the not post COVID, you know, but the during COVID post COVID
world.
Yeah.
And it's a lot more than books, everything's, oh, you know, if you haven't been to the
library, and there are people that haven't gone since their little kids, it's not just
books.
You got books, but you got the, you still have CDs, you have vinyl records.
You have DVDs.
You got blue rays.
You got audio books.
What am I missing here?
Board games.
You got everything in the library.
I mean, it's not just books like it used to be, you know, you can check out a sewing machine
if you want.
Really?
Yeah.
That's one of our, we're trying to get that one to circulate a little bit more.
So if you're interested in trying some sewing, getting a sewing machine from the library
is a great way to get started without having to invest too much before, you know, if you're
interested in the craft.
That's the great thing about the Beyond Books collection.
All kinds of hobby supplies.
We've got some basic tool sets, stuff like that.
So if it's something that it doesn't make sense for you to acquire and store permanently
in your own home, then you can check it out and then bring it back when you're done.
My mother used to, I used to get a library all the time and she grew up going to libraries.
She loved libraries.
And in the library on the second floor, there's a whole seating section there, overlooking
Lake Michigan.
Beautiful.
So Tranquil and my mother used to get some books out, she used to have it read her.
My mother, when she, when she lived in Florida, she had a whole room of first edition books.
And when she moved here to Racine, she threw them out, she just, she don't need them.
Because there was no room for her.
I was just way too many books.
And she had all her life, all these first edition books and just had to get rid of them.
It was just time to say goodbye to them.
She can't take them with her.
So she did that, but she used to love getting books out, but I mean real novels.
I mean, she used to, and she used to sit by that window in that chair while I was doing
all my other stuff.
And just sit there reading the book and looking out over Lake Michigan.
Some days I show up to work an hour or so before we actually open and I'll bring my laptop
over to that window and hang out while I'm waiting for things to get started.
Check my emails over there, puts my brain in a better place.
I got to say than the office without windows that we usually sit in.
And she gets so taken away, which is looking out the window during the summer, see someone
drowning asking for help.
She goes, Oh, that's nice.
That's so nice.
So we love to see it.
Now it's on page seven.
I could call my blog one, but I'm reading this very interesting passage.
I think so.
Now I have one more fiber arts program to tell you about.
Okay.
Go ahead.
So the other one that we have is hooks and needles.
And that one's just for teens.
The stitch and bitch teens and adults can come to hooks and needles is hosted out of teen
scene, though, or teen clubhouse run by Carrie or teen librarian.
And our final session of that for the years Wednesday, December 20, 130 p.m. to 230 p.m.
And it can be open stitch and there's a little bit of an instructional component.
So Carrie will come and teach you how to get started with crocheting or knitting.
She's got some hooks and needles.
If you'd like to get started.
Thank you.
Shade King, head of business development and marketing for the recene public library.
Thank you very much for coming in.
Thank you.
Thanks for all the help you give us promoting the radio station.
We appreciate that as well.
It's been a joy to be here and we have someone else coming in soon.
We'll talk more about that at 729 at WRJN partly sunny with a hundred or forty six degrees
today.
A clear sunny sky now, 35 degrees.
We'll have news and weather coming up at just a moment here, some sports, all straight
ahead, local headlines from Stuart J. Wattles, our news director.
It's all straight ahead at WRJN.
And I'm Don Rosen.
Thanks for joining us here on this Thursday morning.
That's pentatonic, here comes Santa Claus.
It's 736 at WRJN radio, 35 degrees, a sunny sky.
It is gorgeous out there this morning.
If you're living in Florida, it wouldn't be gorgeous, but here in Wisconsin, it's gorgeous.
What a welcome you.
I'm Don Rosen.
I want to thank you for joining me here on the morning show.
I want to thank Shake King for stopping by, head of business development for the Racine
Public Library.
Always have a nice conversation with those folks.
And we have some news, some local news now.
This is from Stuart J. Wattles, who put this together in our new center this morning from
a dog track to a new development for multiple uses.
Ground breaking was held yesterday on the Greenway project.
A mixed-use development on the side of the old Darryland dog track.
The development consists of residential commercial and retail spaces.
The Forest County Potawatomi purchased the priority back in 2017.
It's been empty since the dog track closed back in 2009.
Some parents in Kenosha are expressing their dissatisfaction with the proposal to shut
down multiple schools.
The significant number of parents attended a school board meeting last night.
New advocate for the preservation of the Luther Central High School.
Kenosha Unified Leaders argue that the closure or repurposing of the Luther is necessary
to address the budget deficit of $15 million expected next year.
The district is considering the closure of five elementary schools and one middle school
due to a decrease in enrollment.
Lake County investigators are still waiting to contact next of Ken in connection to a woman's
body that was found along a road to south of the state line yesterday.
Authorities are conducting an investigation into the death of a 39-year-old woman found
on the side of Hunt Club Road in Old Mill Creek with suspicion of homicide.
Lake County Sheriff's Office is working to determine the cause of death.
Data centers are not the sole focus of Microsoft's efforts in Racine County and the surrounding
area.
Microsoft's expansion proposal and bombs and investment will over $2 billion to acquire
more land for data centers.
Microsoft already collaborating with Gateway Technical College to prepare future employees
through the creation of apprenticeship programs.
The transfer of land ownership to Microsoft expected to take place next month.
Still have over a week if you want to help her seeing kids do a good deed.
Six drop off locations have been arranged by the safe and sound of youth steering committee
where a hygiene drive.
The teens wanted to support their peers who are facing challenges and obtaining essential items.
So they took action until December 8th.
They're collecting hygiene products like soap, shampoo, deodorant, pads, and tampons.
Drop off locations are on these cities, social media pages.
Winter rules kick in tomorrow as it pertains to parking in Kenosha.
Old and its side parking rules will be in effect from December 1st to March 31st
between 1 and 6 a.m.
On odd numbered days, park on the side of the road with odd numbered addresses
while on the even numbered days, park on the side with even numbered addresses.
An orchestra teacher at Indian Trails High School in Kenosha has been
terminated after being arrested for multiple felony charges related to
inappropriate sexual contact with a student.
The Kenosha Unified School District.
This strict board ununanimously voted to terminate the employment of Nathan Gardner
at a meeting earlier this week.
Gardner was arrested and charged with several offenses, including possession of child
sex abuse materials and child enticement.
So it's eight waddles.
Our news director is keeping an eye on these stories and much more throughout the day
right here at WRJN.
Well, a pleasant good morning at 739.
I'm Don Rosen looking for a beautiful day today, sunny with a high-tier 46.
Right now, I think it's still 35 degrees.
Let me check the temperature for you right now.
Gotta keep checking it.
You never know when it's going to change.
I still think it's 35 degrees though.
37 now, 30s just went up.
37 degrees, which I can't tell the difference between 35 and 37.
But it's 37 degrees right now in Racine.
We mentioned earlier that the most rewatchable movie this time of year is Home Alone.
And that brings up this topic.
A doctor examined all the physical punishment that the wet band it suffered in Home Alone.
That was Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci.
Let's just say those guys should have been way more banged up and most likely hospitalized.
Here's what happened to them.
A BB gun to the head, an iron to the face,
handling a burning hot door knob, blowtorch to the scalp, walking barefoot on Christmas tree
ornaments, pain can't to the face.
Remember that?
It's swung down and smack them in the face and a shovel to the back of the head.
If that was you and me getting all that done, we would have been hospitalized in emergency care.
But those two, no, it's a comedy.
The holidays full of dinners and dinner parties.
So here are the top conversation topics you should not bring up.
Your sex life or anyone else's for that matter,
asking you about someone's income, talking about your money,
what birth control you may be using, and the state of your marriage.
Those are topics you should never bring up.
And that goes along with politics and religion.
Shouldn't bring those up either.
35% of us will be giving gifts this year to people we do not like.
The average person will buy gifts for three people they don't really like.
And they'll spend an average of $127 or $42 a person on those people.
I don't think I buy.
I don't think there's people I dislike that are on my list.
So I think I'm in pretty good shape.
Okay.
50% of people say they've hidden Christmas gifts that were found.
The most popular place to hide gifts, the bedroom closet.
The first place kids look, by the way, in a bedroom closet.
The second most popular hiding spot is a spare room followed by a code closet under the bed.
The trunk of the car.
Very interesting.
Kids shouldn't have the keys to your car, so they won't be popping the trunk.
Unless they find your keys on the dresser and they use the little keep-op to pop the trunk
and look inside that way.
A spare drawer or cabinet, the basement, the garage, or the attic.
If kids can get into the attic, trust me, they'll trust me, they'll look in there.
Some time for our spots for them to investigate include another person's house.
I thought that was the best way.
I heard that a couple of years ago.
Just ask your next day, but can I store these in the house
to make sure your kids don't touch them?
And then I'll pick them up on Christmas Eve.
Perfect.
Outside whatever that means, what do you mean in the backyard?
Just put it out there.
A shed.
Even a storage unit.
You have a storage unit somewhere.
Lock them up there.
Kids can't get to there.
But I actually, she didn't look at my parents closet as kids will do.
A list of the most underrated Christmas gifts include practical stuff.
How about this?
Get an extra phone charger for somebody.
You can always use those nice sheets or towels, pajamas, gas money.
Get a gift gas card at a gas station.
Always welcome.
And a giant pack of toilet paper.
Now during, let me say, during COVID, that would have been a coveted gift.
If you can find a giant pack of toilet paper to give to somebody.
And one of those big 48 roll packages.
No, they're in COVID.
Those were like gold bullion,
afraid of hospitals.
This isn't going to help much.
Seven two-year-old woman got arrested for attempted manslaughter.
She unplugged her hospital roommates ventilator twice because the sound of it was annoying her.
So she disconnected it.
She's going to prison.
Here are four tips to make your holiday travel smoother this month.
A lot of people heading out to grandma's and aunts and uncles and friends and relatives.
Plan ahead by having alternate routes or flights picked out.
Don't jam your itinerary with commitments to see every one of your family members and friends.
Stay hydrated during the holiday season and get enough sleep.
You can't see everybody.
So pick your favorites.
The ones I'm going to give you the nice gifts.
And maybe the people who put you in their will visit those people first.
This is why I don't hike.
I don't hike for a lot of reasons, but here's one reason.
I said a shopping on Black Friday a couple in Southern California decided to go camping.
They came across a hiker who had been lost for two weeks.
They helped rescue him.
His feet were swollen and infected from the walking he had done.
He didn't have a phone with him,
but managed to survive on a half jar of salsa that he brought along.
Now if these people they got on Black Friday shopping,
this guy'd still be out there eating that salsa.
So good for him.
He found people who cared about him and took care of him.
And the survey 19% of people said they'd be grateful to receive a used gift for Christmas.
Now we've talked about used gifts before.
Here's a list of the top second hand gifts.
And by the way, if you go to Goodwill,
there's some wonderful gifts there.
Or any secondhand shop.
You can find stuff people would really want that aren't available on Amazon.
They're not available online.
But they are available in secondhand shops and they include
toys and games.
Books number one on the list, by the way, DVDs next,
jewelry, ceramics and ornaments, CDs, vinyl records, video games, arts and crafts,
and bags and purses.
A lot of that stuff like DVDs and CDs and vinyl records and
toys and games aren't available anymore.
Even the books, they go out of print.
So if you can find one that's out of print and the persons that have it reader,
they might really like that.
All right, you got a fitness related holiday gift like a gym membership or a home workout
equipment. Would you be happy or insulted if somebody gave you a workout gift certificate?
I wouldn't be insulted.
Well, according to a survey, 38% of people say they'd be more pleased than insulted.
Only 7% said they'd be insulted.
But if you got a big gut,
and somebody gave you a gift like a home workout,
machine or maybe a gift card to a workout gym,
they're trying to help you, probably help you live longer.
So it's not bad.
They're trying to help you out.
I would be happy if I got it.
I don't know if I'd use it, but I'd be happy if I got it.
All right, candystore.com.
Pull out a list of its annual most popular holiday candies,
peppermint bark number one on the list.
I've had that before.
It's pretty good.
The rest of the top five mini Reese's peanut butter cups,
M&M starbursts.
And the time between Hershey kisses and chocolate sent us.
Now, here are the worst holiday candies they say.
Christmas Nuget candy reindeer dot reindeer corn.
I guess that's like
candy corn except reindeer corn.
Cherry cordials, lifesavers, non-peppermint candy canes.
What would they be?
They have non-peppermint candy can.
Old fashioned hard candy.
Holiday peeps.
I love holiday peeps.
Ribbon candy, peppermint bark that made the most
coveted and also the worst and chocolate oranges.
I don't know if I ever had a chocolate orange.
48% of us think you should be able to use a sick day
for pretty much any reason whatsoever.
A lot of people feel the opposite though,
including 6% who don't even think you should get a sick day,
even if you're having surgery.
You don't show up.
You don't get paid.
People are asked about different scenarios,
whether each one is good enough for a reason to take a sick day.
Here's what people said.
Got a cold 19% of people said,
you should get a sick day for that.
Not only that, but you don't want to infect everybody.
How about the flu?
8% still don't think, oh, by the way, I made a mistake there.
For a cold 19% said you should not get a sick day for a cold.
The flu 8% said you should not get a sick day.
It's not a good enough reason.
The flu, how about COVID?
It's hard to believe 7% said no to a sick day.
They said take a vacation day or spread it, holy mackerel.
These are really nasty people out there.
All right, how about an odd but true to wrap up this segment here?
You know, there was a real Dr. Pepper.
A pharmacist named Charles Alderton created the soda,
but his boss was named Dr. Charles T. Pepper.
We worked with earlier in its career.
He also had a relationship with Pepper's daughter.
So to smooth things over with the daughter and the father,
a name, the drink, Dr. Pepper.
And that's how the name came around.
Which by the way, Dr. Pepper was here before Coca-Cola.
They would like before that.
With some of the else, you know, Oreos and Hydrox cookies.
A lot of people think Hydrox cookies are a knockoff of Oreos.
Just the other way around.
Hydrox was there before Oreos.
Oreos was a knockoff of Hydrox.
Got all that?
Good.
Look for partly sunny weather today with a hundred or forty-six.
A beautiful day today right now.
A clear sun, shiny sky.
And thirty-seven degrees.
I'm Don Rosen at WRJN.
Home town radio.
Refreshed.
Happy Christmas.
Give it away, this year, to set me from tears, I'll give it to someone special.
That's Christmas, I'll give you my heart, but the very next thing, you'll give it away.
This year, to set me from tears, I'll give it to someone special, special.
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That's WAM.
Last Christmas, 752 at WRGN Radio, 14, 90, 99.9 FM, 98.1 FM.
Hey, big show tomorrow.
We've got a very big shoe, really big shoe for you tomorrow.
Coming up, we will have Jim Rossier, we'll be here, we'll be talking about the 16th Street
Studios annual Christmas open house.
A lot of people in the studio for that, that will be tomorrow.
Also coming in, we will, let's see, we have
dad.
We've got Brett Hoffman coming in, he'll be talking about the movies, four movies opening
up this weekend.
Well, Mike Clemens at 750 with the preview of what's happening this weekend in sports.
Let's see what else we got here coming up next week, we got a big week next week to
a super week next week because on December 6th, it'll be our anniversary here, 98 years
old Tom Carco and Janet Hoffcar Carco will be here, we'll have Kurt Vollman here in
our studio as well and we'll be talking and have a little, little voice tracks from all
the people he used to work here over the years that are still around with us and that should
be a lot of fun.
So that's coming up.
Nick Ramsey is going to be around Tuesdays in person.
He does a lot of cultural activities here in the city of Racine, Mark Eichner, who is
the conductor, the Maestro of the Racine Concert Band will be in here Monday morning talking
about a concert that got a thicket park high school the next day, you can still get tickets
for that.
So a lot of stuff, the mayor, Mayor Corey Mason will be here next Thursday week from
today at 7 30 in East Lockwood from Racine County, I will be here on Friday of next
week.
Also we're back.
How about saying Liana, Liana from the Racine Public Library of the historian from the
Jean Public Library will be here next Thursday.
So got a lot of great guests coming up and of course our conversation together, we always
have a good time chatting with one another at least I hope you like it.
Want to prevent gaining weight during the holidays?
All right.
You're not going to like it.
Study found you might be able to prevent weight gain over the holidays by snacking on
prunes.
Apparently, people who ate prunes felt fuller throughout the day and found it easier
to shed pounds.
I always heard you eat prunes for a particular reason.
So that might be why you lose weight.
Odd but true, a pitcher named Hoyt Wilhelm made his major league baseball debut in 1952.
He had a home run at his first at bat.
He was back in 1952.
He played for 20 more years in major league baseball at a total of over 400 at bat and
never ever hit another home run.
You could be losing up to six entire days every year just by hitting this news button
on your alarm.
I do study found that if you're one of the 36% of people who hits the snooze button an
average of more than four times every morning, that six wasted days a year just snoozing.
Why is the snooze always nine minutes?
Is it still nine minutes?
I know my clock is nine minutes, it's always nine minutes.
Why did they make it 10 minutes?
Something you can figure out in your head, you don't have to think about it.
I do survey found that on average, people spend 34 hours of their lives untangling holiday
lights a day and a half picking up fall and pine needles from the living room trees in
their homes as well.
Here's some other results from the survey.
We spend more than two days of our lives decorating Christmas trees, a day and a half picking
up or vacuuming pine needles from living trees.
Two and a half years planning and preparing the main holiday meal at 164 weeks or just
over three years preparing for guests to arrive there during the holiday season.
But you know what, it's worth it.
There was a movie called Troll back in 1986 and featured a character named Harry Potter
who enters a magical world of witches and wizards.
That was 11 years before JK Rawlings wrote her first Harry Potter book.
That's like a lawsuit or copyright infringement there somewhere, doesn't it?
What were you doing at age 21?
Do you remember?
Well, this is going to surprise you a little bit.
Most of our founding fathers were younger than you might think back in 1776 when they
wrote the Declaration of Independence and put together some heavy duty paperwork that still
stands today.
Alexander Hamilton was 21 years old.
James Madison was 25.
Thomas Jefferson was 33.
John Hancock 39.
And George Washington was 44 years old.
I was thinking of them as being old people.
That's what I always figured.
But now the young whipper snappers putting this country together and they were at the beginning
of America on the fence about sending out Christmas cards this year.
We always send out Christmas cards.
Not as much as I used to in a poll, 89% of Americans say receiving holiday cards brings
them joy.
And that's why I do it.
I love receiving them.
I remember back in the 1980s in my apartment when I first moved here, we used to fill up
an entire wall with Christmas cards, even on the back door, but an entire wall was filled
up.
Now I'm lucky if I could, you know, fill up a quarter of a door.
I mean, there's, I don't have anything on there anymore.
I'd give very few Christmas cards now.
You know, people say on Facebook, happy holidays to everyone and that kind of all inclusive.
Hmm.
The holiday tidbits here, 53% of Americans will decorate this year, 48% will bake, 25% will
attend a religious service, 10% will sing songs or go caroling.
Only 6% of us plan to do absolutely nothing for the holidays, but sit on the couch and
vegetate.
I'll do some of that, but I'll do some of the other things too.
But I've talked to them at this the other day, caroling, Christmas caroling, out of a lost
art.
Does anybody do that anymore?
Hmm.
I haven't had carolies in my neighborhood since ever.
Back when I lived in Roundeer, we had some Christmas carolaires, but that was once.
I'm Don Rosen.
I want you to have a joyful day today, okay?
Enjoy your day.
Get in the spirit of the holiday season, whatever your holidays are, and I will catch you
tomorrow morning, right here, 6 a.m., right and early at Darken Early, WRJ and Radio.
14,00 a.m., 99.9, 98.1 FM.
Enjoy your day today, right?