I always thought doctors didn't know what they were doing, but now I got proof now because
if you've been watching TV lately, you have certainly noticed that every other commercial
on TV is one of those prescription drug ads.
Right?
Apparently we're supposed to tell our doctors what they prescribed for us.
Like that prevesit commercial, they're like ask your doctor about prevesit.
Now shouldn't your doctor know about prevesit, isn't that the guy's job?
It's like, yeah, there's nothing we can do for you.
How about prevesit?
You know you're right, that's a good point, I hadn't thought of that.
Now how many milligrams is good?
Did it say in the commercial?
I didn't see the commercial.
I'm watching it more, I love people around, maybe please not all, the church bells and
diamonds are ringing the door, for the happy sound, maybe please not all.
Sterling love with the Phil Specter, wall of sound, the other Phil Specter had that sound
for all his groups, the Ronets, the crystal, they all have it, they call it the wall of sound
because it was so loud and penetrated, and that's one of the songs.
At 7-7 at WRJN, showers today with a hundred thirty-nine, maybe some more tonight,
lows thirty-seven, cloudy with a hundred forty-two tomorrow, rain on Sunday with a high
day of forty-three, and the sun's back out on Monday, partly sunny with a high day of
forty-one degrees, again it's 7-07 and cloudy and forty-three degrees in Racine and welcome
our guests.
We actually have five people here today, four in the studio, one hanging from the chandelier
because we don't have enough room, but we want to thank Carlotta Miller is here and
Robert Mayer here from the 16th Street Studios, the old von Schrader building, build a
building, and if you pass it all the time, you'll know because if you have something on
your radio, sometimes the signal goes out when you pass by, I don't know why, but it
does.
And the 16th Street Studios are have their annual open house this Saturday.
First of all, that building, and we'll move a little closer to the microphone, I've
got to hear every word you two have to say, that building used to be an industrial building
at one time, and it was converted over to studios in like an artist colony almost, right?
Correct, yeah.
It was a little bit of the history of that building.
Well, it gates back to the mid-19th century.
I'm going to go ahead and you can yell out.
You can yell out.
You can yell out.
You can yell out.
Yeah.
Jim is here and what do you have there?
All right.
Well, actually the original occupants, Don, was the Racine Wagon and Carriage Company, and
they moved here in the 1870s.
They made farm wagons, spring vehicles, delivery vans, series, or carriages, and things
like that, including slaves.
They made just about all of their parts as well.
They hardly outsourced anything.
They emerged in 1903 with the Sattley Company from Illinois and became known as the Racine
Sattley Company.
By 1910, however, automobiles were outpacing wagons and carriages, but they didn't want
to participate in this new fangled invention called the Automobile.
So by 1910, they stopped all production of wagons and boggies and et cetera.
In 1916, the building was renamed the Racine Industrial Plant because they became the first
business incubator in the entire country, and actually many Racine firms got their start
here, including Dumor, Modine, Webster, and quite a few others.
And that's the history of it.
Are you sure?
Yeah, just the history of it.
Okay, turn that mic back now because I got to hear what these two have to say every word
of it.
Tell us about the open house this weekend.
I've been in there.
There was a restaurant at one time that I went to, and I heard the restaurant's not there
anymore.
It was a very nice restaurant.
My wife and I went there for lunch, and we walked around the building, and you look
in these little cubbies, and you see artists set up with all their wares, and there's still
some manufacturing there.
They still do that.
But it was, it's not a big plant anymore.
It's individuals.
I don't know how many are in there, but it's got to be a lot because it's multiple floors.
And so tell us about the open house coming up this weekend.
Well, this is our 27th annual open house, which just is providing a rich, diverse group
of artists that are going to be able to really show their focuses and the efforts that
they make.
We have up to it's like 70, 70 artists.
Not all the artists are going to be open for the open house, but we have a large contingent
of artists and crafts people that will be, have their studios open.
It's just such a rich experience because of the diversity of the different types of
artists that are within that building.
The ones that aren't open, we egg their door, and we do the people that aren't open
up.
It's a good idea.
So tell us some of the people that are in there that we're going to see.
Well, we have a number of people that are in there.
We have ceramics people.
We have 2D people.
All that Robert talked about the ceramics people.
We have 5 ceramic artists in which really great about these individuals is the diversity
again of their work that they produce.
It just ranges from sculptural to functional.
One ceramic artist is a production artist who has just really taken off with his company.
So it's just the best of all possible worlds when it comes to these types of diverse artistic
expression.
Now let me just remind you, this is the old Don Schrader building.
It looks like an old cream brick manufacturing building right there in 16th and it's not
memorial.
I forget whether you're the section is on there.
Racine and is it memorial in 16th?
It's a memorial in 16th.
It's right there.
Where that truck crashed into the house this morning, I don't know what that was about,
but it's at that corner.
Yeah, it didn't look like damage to the house.
It looks like that trucked out the worst of it, but we'll find out later on.
It just happened before I got there.
Anyway, so it's there.
The open hatch you can park on the street.
Is there other parking around back or something?
The street parking all around the building and out on the street.
Okay.
Good.
So that's good.
Plenty of parking.
What are the hours for the open house?
From 10 until 4.
10 a.m.
Until 4 p.m.
And that's this Saturday.
Saturday.
Yeah.
One day event.
Okay.
So that's tomorrow.
Today's Friday.
Yeah.
That would be tomorrow.
10 a.m.
Two.
I'm sorry.
I didn't write it down.
Four.
10 to four.
You were going to say something else as you get your paper out there.
Well, in addition to sculptures, we have many two-dimensional artists as well in our building.
We have painters, painting in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and mixed media.
We have print makers, cartoonists, collage artists, quilters, photographers, stained glass
artists, wevers.
We have something for everyone to see.
And this is like a hidden gem, because people are driving down 16th Street.
I have no idea what they're driving, but you know when you're driving by SC Johnson,
you can see the golden rondale, you know what's going on there.
But this building, to look at it from the outside, you say, ooh, it looks kind of ominous.
But when you go inside, there's, it's like a hidden gem in a receipt of people, though
you know it's there.
So that's why you're having your open house tomorrow from 10 to four.
Well, into your point.
I can't tell you, I've done open houses now for five years and I can tell you that almost
every event, someone comes up to us and says, you know, I never knew you were here.
It's like we were the best kept secret in Racine County.
But yeah, it's, we look forward to a very, very strong turnout.
It's free admission, free parking, and it looks like the weather's going to cooperate.
Yes.
They won't do, no, snow.
That's what we're happy about.
You know, any time people say, well, it's raining, but it's not snowing, I could deal with
the rain.
I put my windshield wipers on.
I'm good.
It's the snow.
Swing that around to Jim is here for a second there because Jim, you have something
coming up this weekend as well.
The spirit of Racine entrepreneurs exhibit, want to tell us about that?
Well, we have a nice museum inside the Racine Business Center, which is now, it's what
it's now known as.
On display, we have a number of old Racine memorabilia, including some of the original
products from the old Racine Wagon and Carriage Company.
We have a buggy there, a doctor's buggy, and we have an old wooden slay, which is on display.
And there's a number of old signs that many people from Racine might remember.
We have the old original Nelson Dime Store sign, which is on display, as well as the
Dania Hall sign.
In addition to that, we have a lot of old phonographs that were made in Racine by the
bland and phonograph company, a number of toy hoppy horses or riding horses, rocking
horses, I guess.
We also have a 1932 original pinball machine, which was made inside the building.
One of only two known to exist.
There's a candy making machine there.
We have a ton of old Racine political posters and circus posters and old original
fanning mill and a silage cutter.
We're the luggage.
We have a number of their products there and a ton of stuff more.
So if you like Racine's history, that's the place to be tomorrow.
Now, where is it in the building?
Actually it's on the second floor.
It's past the old Shea Bob's cafe.
Oh, I love that place.
That was good.
It wasn't that good.
He passed away, of course, already, but he was always known for his very delicious meat
loaf sandwiches among other things.
But yeah, sorry, however, there will be a business inside the old cafeteria.
That's going to be a chitchat.
I think they were there last year, too.
They're going to have what Pakistani food and Italian food.
They're right there on State Street there, their main restaurant.
Right.
That's right.
So that sounds like, and this is all free.
There's no charge to come.
And if you love memorabilia, if you love arts, you've got everything in there.
I mean, except Metallica, the band's not going to be there.
You've got everything else in there.
And I'm glad to see this going to be some food there as well.
Absolutely.
So this is going to be a wonderful day.
So if you're sitting at home tomorrow and you say, and nothing to do, you do have something
to do.
You don't have to worry about that.
You wanted to say something else there.
I saw you thumbing through your papers, was there something else before we get to the
book?
I just wanted to reiterate that we do have food tomorrow to chat.
Okay.
And please do come visit the artists are willing to talk about their work and really look
forward to the public coming.
It's a great space.
And you can actually, you can go into the actual rooms.
It is.
Correct.
I hate to call them cubbies, but they're like small little rooms.
Studio.
Studio.
That's perfect.
You're going down the hallway and you see one.
There's another.
There's another.
And there's a lot of them.
So planned for a couple of hours on this trip.
When you go in the building, where do you go as soon as you walk in?
Do you take the elevator?
Do you walk up?
There's two access points.
Both of them are on 16th Street that will get you into near the office area, which
you'll have an elevator.
And then farther to the west, there's another entrance that, again, office 16th Street
that will allow you to come in and either use the stairs or the elevator.
And there's going to be people that are going to be directing you there.
Moving around to offer help or assistance or give people ideas as to what they may want
to check out.
OK.
OK.
That sounds like great fun.
We're going to talk about a book called Lost and Founded Racine coming up in just a
moment.
So the open house is at the 16th Street Studio, the old von Schrader building.
And it's tomorrow from 10 to 4 free admission, free parking, bring the family, bring the kids.
They might be interested in this.
Who knows where the next artist is coming from?
So it's going to be great.
It's tomorrow here in Racine right there on 16th Street, all right?
Hey, coming up, we're going to talk about the book Lost and Founded Racine.
That's straight ahead here at WRJM Radio.
It's 7.19.
I'm Don Rose.
And look for showers today with a hind air 39 right now.
It's cloudy in 43.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light.
Next year, our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the you tired again.
That's actually from a movie and it's not a Christmas movie either.
They show it at Christmas time because it's got this song in it.
It was Judy Garland singing to Little Margaret O'Brien and we'll meet the in St. Louis.
And it's just one scene of Christmas where she sings that song and they kind of turned
it into a Christmas movie because they have one of the biggest selling Christmas songs
of all time.
They're going to do that.
We have a special guest now, Jim Chasay is here.
I got to laugh because you said when you see the name, it's you can have I can see where
people have trouble pronouncing it.
You just say the most the worst pronunciation of your name was kahoozy.
It's Chasay.
I don't know what they got kahoozy from.
It's got a CH at the beginning.
Where did they get that from?
I have no idea.
Now, you were you just tell me you're a detective in Mount Pleasant, wasn't this correct for
how many bring that microphone?
I want to hear every word you have to say 27 years.
I was there.
I retired 19 years ago.
Okay.
Well, 19 years of retired.
Like a young guy.
What do you want?
Thank you.
When you were 25.
I know.
No.
I retired at 50 and you became an author.
I did.
And you wrote a book lost and found in Racine.
My wife and I are reading books written by local authors about Racine and we're reading
one now and I can't remember what can you call us that door back there?
It's just because I can't hear them talking.
No, they have the door.
They have to close that door.
It'll be fine.
About somebody.
And we couldn't figure out the year until he said we went home that day to watch Uncle
Milti on TV.
Well, now I got the year that this whole thing was written.
What is lost and found in Racine?
What is it?
What's it about?
It's a biographical look at two of the Lang boys from Racine, Elmer and Charles.
They grew up in Racine as a set in the Depression era.
The book covers pretty much 1936 to about 1942 actively and then a little bit after that.
We were both aspiring artists and writers and had limited success in local shows showing
their art at women's club, art fairs in the 30s and high school art fairs.
They both went to Washington Park high school and graduated from there.
They struck out on their own left Racine periodically using a whole bowl of life, jumping
on freight trains, going around the country to different places, trying to find work.
And of course, during the Depression, it was very tough.
So they sought money basically by doing freelance artwork, sketching your portrait in the park
and trying to get a quarter to survive for the day.
About 25 years ago, I inherited a large group of paintings and drawings from Elmer and
Charles.
And it kind of a weird story how that all came about.
They were all thrown out in the trash after the last of the family died and the remaining
relatives took everything in the house and threw it out at the curb.
A friend of mine who was a neighbor rescued all of these items from the trash and ultimately
gave them to me shortly before she passed away.
They were over 200 paintings and drawings from Elmer and Charles.
And that kind of set me down the rabbit hole, if you will, trying to do the research on
them and find out more about these fantastic artists that nobody had ever heard of.
So I worked on it for about 25 years off and on and it was really the pandemic confinement
that allowed me the opportunity to sit down and finally put pen to paper, if you will,
and get the book started and get the art all collated and scanned.
And then find a publisher I ultimately went with Lulu Publishing, which is a self-publishing
outfit.
Let me just quick say all the artworks in the book.
It is.
Well, I'd say a lot of it that's recene centric is in the book.
And just to look at the pictures and the artwork in here is wonderful.
Well, they were phenomenal artists in their own right, even the picture on the back of
the book of First Presbyterian Church was done by Elmer in, I believe, 1936.
And you found all this artwork, correct?
And I still have all of the original artwork.
Wow.
I'm looking at it now.
A lot of people recognize a lot of these pictures.
Oh, that's the same one on the back right there.
Yeah.
A lot of the places are still standing, but unfortunately, a lot of them, you know, they're
not all here.
Not all that were seen, but most of them are right.
Right.
There's some pictures in there of places that are no longer standing that older folks like
Jim and I might might still remember.
The Crosby Mansion is one that stands out and some of the other businesses and the
Capitol Theater is in one of the drawings that he did from the 30s.
The Capitol was over on Washington Avenue, just east of West Boulevard.
It's not the park.
Was that the park?
Yeah.
Originally it was the Capitol Theater and it became a karate studio.
Right.
And now it's an empty field.
Oh, they knocked it down.
That's right.
It tore it down.
It was condemned.
Right.
Right.
Oh, I mean, I'm a big movie theater fan and I followed them, including that park.
Oh, yeah.
I know they had a knock it down because it was unfortunate.
Yeah.
It was a very soundly built building and I think if it had been maintained properly.
That's the problem.
You'll let, you know, even in my house, I mean, we're doing thousands and thousands
of dollars worth of plumbing again and that's because you got to keep, you know, the old
plumbing and what it was back in 1900, that's a demo with innovations.
So the story is based on true people.
It is.
Real people.
Yeah.
They lived at 1522, Grove Avenue here in Racine.
And would you find that?
Well, how'd you find out about these two people?
I just started doing the research.
I knew the names and I knew some of the family members.
That's, that's, yeah, his nickname was Iggy and he's on the cover of the book.
That's a self portrait that he did.
How do people get this book, by the way?
They can either buy it through online at lulupublishing.com or they can see me at the open house
on Saturday.
I'll have copies of the book, autographed, autographed, inscribed, whatever you'd like.
Nice Christmas gift for the Racine fan.
It must be great to feel like you're a published author.
Well, it's something I never really thought would happen to me and when I, when I sat down
to write the book, I thought, my gosh, you know, I really don't know anything.
About writing a book and I thought, well, you know, I've written thousands of in-depth,
long police reports.
So how much different can it be?
I saw, I decided to write it in first person, just like I would have, you know, any other,
you know, major crime investigation I was doing and put it down kind of like Joe Friday
writes a book, you know, and just the facts, ma'am, and put it all down and try and make
some sense out of it.
The book is called Lost and Found in Racine.
Doug Shaw say wrote the book.
He will be at the open house from 10 to four at the old von Schrader building, 16th Street
Studios.
He'll be at the, actually, at the spirit of Racine on Truppenewer's exhibit right inside
our museum.
He'll be there.
Floor number two.
Floor number two.
Second floor.
Okay.
Doug, thank you very much.
Well, my pleasure.
Thanks for the luck to the book.
I mean, that's, that's really good.
Lost and Found in Racine.
There were a lot of books written about Racine.
You wouldn't think so.
I want to thank our first guest, Carlotta Miller, Robert Mayer.
Of course, Jim Messier and Doug Shaw say, again, how did somebody pronounce your name
once?
So, who's he?
I'm going to think about that later, aren't they, aren't they, aren't they?
Because he'll show on a scene.
I mean, you name it.
I've answered you just about everything.
All right.
Coming up with talking movies in just a moment with Brett Hoffman, a Marcus Stitties,
will have him on the line.
Then we'll talking to our news director and we'll find out a preview of the Packer game
this weekend.
And he's on Taylor Watches.
He has Taylor Swift's going to show up at Lambo Field this weekend, and that's
my clement.
It's all here at WRJN Radio at 729 News Headlines.
Okay, Brett Hoffman.
What movie is that from?
Oh, gosh, don't give that me some.
It's a Christmas movie.
It starred Tom Hanks.
He played five roles in the movie.
The Polar Express?
The Polar Express.
Yes, it was.
I love that.
And we actually have a 3D version of it on DVD.
I know it was released in 3D.
They did the whole works.
And I love that.
I mean, though, the animation is kind of creepy looking.
They remember the animation in that film.
It was it was done with that motion capture technique with head up.
You know, I have these guys with wires, all tats of their bodies and that kind of creepy.
But it's such a great movie with great music and that was John Scrobin believe from the
movie.
The Polar Express.
Well, how are you doing?
You know, I'm doing great.
There's plenty of movies out there.
We're just off of Thanksgiving and obviously we're rolling right into how he was December
slash second holiday season leading into the Christmas holiday.
So things are great.
The movies.
There's plenty to see and plenty to for everyone to enjoy.
And this week we have four and by the way, the Christmas season wasn't always the big
holiday season.
They used to that was a dumping ground for movies back in the early 60s at Christmas
time.
All of a sudden it became that and summer became big blockbuster seasons.
Okay.
We got four new films opening up this weekend.
Let's go to them.
That's right.
The first one it's a big one.
It's probably going to be number one at the box office.
It's Renaissance a film by Beyonce.
You know, in October, I think Taylor Swift caught us all by surprise and she announced that
she was going to be putting out her last tour on the big screen that was Taylor Swift
the era's tour.
It became the number one concert film of all time.
I think people really enjoyed it and they saw, hey, we can see these types of experiences
in a movie theater and it can be fun.
We can be together.
We can talk.
We can stand up.
We can dance.
They used to movie theater a little bit different than seeing a regular movie.
And the same thing is being done with Renaissance a film by Beyonce.
And in this one, the Beyonce obviously performs at her record breaking Renaissance tour.
And there's also a lot of kind of behind the scenes stuff and a look at how she creatively
masterminded the whole tour, how they planned it, how they went through it.
It's a very good film and I think people should go watch this and remember, this is not
a film.
We have to be quiet.
This is not a film.
You know, just shouldn't your seat the whole time.
This is a film we would encourage you to get up to dance along with the music and just
have fun with your fellow movie goers.
So that's Beyonce, Renaissance a film by Beyonce.
Are we going to see a lot of concert movies now or is that it for now?
You know what's coming down the line.
Well, you know, here's the funny thing.
Well, a lot of people don't realize is we've had a lot of concert movies coming to the
big screen.
But in fact, usually they come as what we call alternative content events.
And they're one or two night events.
They're with bands that are very popular.
Truthfully, they haven't had bands with this big of a draw at this particular time like
Taylor Swift or Beyonce that merit running for entire weeks at the box office.
But take a look at what your local theater is showing.
We're showing concert films all the time as limited engagements.
And it's a great way just to see, you know, a concert.
If you can't be there, first of all, gives you another perspective because a lot of times
you're sitting, you know, how many rows back you're sitting in the upper deck.
This gives you kind of that feel that you're right in the action and preferred seats.
And of course, that big screen sound is absolutely spectacular watching these films.
All right.
What's the next film opening up?
The next film is another good one.
I think this one caught people by surprise.
It's Godzilla minus one.
So it's set at post-war Japan.
They're at their lowest point and a new crisis emerges because they have it.
There's this giant monster, the form of Godzilla.
And it's been baptized by the horrific power of an atomic bomb.
This one's in Japanese.
It has English subtitles.
But if you take a look at this, this is being held.
It is one of the best Godzilla movies ever.
It has a 90% rating on Rod Tomatoes and Acritics, 97% from audience members that have seen
it.
It is a great action movie.
It is a great Godzilla movie.
Give this one a chance.
A lot of people may not have heard about it.
But it's going to be up there in the top five of the box office as well.
It's called the Godzilla minus one.
It should be a great action film and is being very well received right now.
I saw the trailer online for it the other day.
This is, it's not like the American ones they made in recent years.
This is a great looking Godzilla.
They went back to the original Godzilla, except it's not the man on the rubber suit like
it used to be.
I thought this was great the way they didn't, I did notice they were speaking Japanese.
The original Godzilla movie from 1953 was in Japanese and it was such a big hit.
They Americanized it.
And the next year they had Raymond Burr come in and do some, they, some inserts into
the movie and they cha, they dubbed the movie.
But TCM always runs the original one from the night, the early 1950s and Japanese.
And you're seeing the original and it's so much better.
So when they do the subtitles, it's worth it because you get to see it the way it was
made.
Not what some English distributor decided.
It's going to look.
So that's good.
Godzilla minus one.
I can't wait.
I've seen every Godzilla movie, including those horrible ones.
They had in the mid 1960s, the man on the rubber suit.
Now this one's good.
I've seen, I've seen the trailers for it.
All right.
What's up next?
Well, the next one is silent night.
It's an already action movie.
It's directed by a legendary action director, John Wu.
It stars Joel Kinnamen.
He's an, he's a grieving father who's taking out his long awaited revenge against a ruthless
gang on Christmas Eve.
So this should be a fun one again.
It's getting pretty good critics ratings reviews as well.
This is a fun one.
This is one of those movies the last year we had violent night was one of the movies that
comes out.
These always come out early in December, but great fun action film on screen silent night.
If you love them, you love them and they must be loving them because they keep making
them.
Including this year we had Thanksgiving.
It was the only holiday left without a horror movie.
And now that's taken.
I don't I don't think we have a fourth of July horror movie yet.
I think that'll be the next one from Eli Roth.
Oh, what else do we have one more film coming out this weekend?
Yeah, the last film is the shift and this was produced by Angel Studios and a lot of
people in the Wayne, Joe studios because they're the same studio that put out sound of
freedom.
And the chosen and the chosen was the chosen they distribute as well.
But obviously in terms of big screen purpose for releases, the sound of freedom took everyone
by surprise.
Now, this one's a sci-fi story.
It's a sci-fi story of faith and it takes a lot of cues to the book of Joe from the Bible.
And it basically about a man who after he meets a mysterious stranger and basically gets
thrown into this dystopian world and has to try to shift back to see his right and see
where he actually was and the university actually was.
So this one is actually doing some great business, especially from people that follow Angel
Studios.
They have a very good following.
They have a network of followers that basically direct them and which films to make.
And it's a very interesting model.
The Angel Studios, if you want to check them out, but their new movie is the shift.
What they also did was, although they released all their chosen on streaming and DVD, they
also brought about into theaters, which was kind of different.
They were released on DVD and before they stream, they put them in movie theaters and we've
seen everyone they were able to have in a theater.
We've seen in the theater.
It's different seeing it on the big screen than a little TV set.
So we've seen theirs and they just have went out recently about afterlife.
I forget what the name of the film was.
Angel Studios put that out as well.
And these are some guys from Texas who decided to make this chosen series and it was a, like
a go me, a go fundraiser type thing to raise money to make these and they took off.
They made a boatload of money and the big one was the one they had about, and you mentioned
it.
I forget the title about the teenage sex trafficking.
Yeah.
The sound of freedom.
The sound of freedom.
Yeah.
That made more than the Tom Cruise movie that came out and also more than the, what was
the side?
There was another sci-fi film.
Oh, I forgot the name of the sci-fi film.
We went to go see it and it did tremendous business this summer.
And the movie you were thinking about was called After Life.
So that was the movie that was coming out.
And then Christmas with the Chosen Holy Night, their Christmas special is actually coming
out in theaters next, well, two weeks starting on December 12th.
They're going to be bringing that back for about a week.
And what's it about this?
What's it even about?
Christmas with the Chosen Holy Night is their Christmas special.
So they're putting that out December 12th to 17th.
That will be at local theaters.
So lots of things going on from Angel Studios, a studio that no one would have recognized
up for a couple years ago when they started putting out the Chosen and got it to the
big screen.
And then they've also shifted some of their attention towards putting out these movies
through the big screen as well for audiences.
And the audiences that like their content are certainly coming out and enjoying things
on the big screen.
You know, I noticed something too that Angel Studios did and we just went to go see
killers of the flower moon and they did it in that film as well where the director comes
out before the movie starts and talks to the audience.
Martin Scorsese did it and the director of the Chosen did that as well.
I think they did it for that other film that came out of it in his trafficking.
They did it for that as well.
They come out and talk to the audience and thank them for coming to the theater to watch
this movie.
Now, let's talk about killers of the flower moon for a second here because I loved it.
I mean, three and a half hours went by pretty quickly when you, you know, you can have
a half hour movie and it goes by in three hours.
If it's bad, a good movie in three and a half hours will go by real quickly.
And the acting in this from Leonardo DiCaprio to I forget her first and her last name is
Gladstone.
She played Molly in the film.
I can't think of her first and her first name.
And also Robert De Niro in this film, it's a it's a murder mystery.
It's based on all the people are true.
It's actual people.
The events are all true about the murders of the Osage Indians who found oil on their
land in Oklahoma.
And now with the subject of being murdered, you have the FBI investigations.
You have the courtroom drama and you'll catch some cameos from some big actors in that
film like John Lithgow.
And who is the guy who played in the whale?
Well, Brendan Frazier and Brendan Frazier, yeah, Brendan Frazier, yeah.
And you see some people in there.
You might recognize it's a massive epic.
And they were it was all filmed on the exact locations in Oklahoma where the murders took
place in the early 1920s.
I love that film.
And I'm telling you, if you still get a chance to see it somewhere, you got to watch it
on the big screen killers of the flower moon.
My wife at first didn't want to see it, but she said, okay, you want to see it?
Let's go.
And she liked it as well.
And it's almost an edge, you know, sitting on the edge of your seat thriller.
That's what it is.
It's basically a murder thriller, almost like Colombo.
What else we got coming out in future weeks?
Any big, giant blockbusters we should be looking out for?
You know, there's a lot of good movies coming out.
People can look up for some great movies coming out, especially when you look into mid
December, on December 15th, you have Wonka with Timothy Shalamey, Plane, Willy Wonka.
This is kind of the prequel to the story that you know with Wonka and the Chalk
Effectory.
It's how Willy Wonka became Willy Wonka.
So that is an excellent film, which is coming out on 1215.
And then we were right into the holiday season.
And there is a ton of great products coming up.
You've got Migration, which is an animated film being produced by Illumination.
That's Universal Illumination.
That's the group that's done despicable me.
They've done the minions.
They've done the Super Mario Brothers movie.
It's a group of about a family of ducks that's migrating, and it should play spectacularly
for anyone young and old.
And then you've got some other great films that are coming out, that will just be spectacular
because there's something for everyone during December.
There is another version of the color purple.
A musical.
A musical.
A lot of us.
Yes.
It's based on the Broadway musical, the color purple, yeah.
And that one comes out basically the week after Christmas Day.
And should be around there for that second half of the holiday season.
Then another couple of them will be that I'm looking forward to.
One is a, it's directed.
It's directed.
It's about the Washington State Rowling team, and it's called The Boys in the Boat, and
it's directed by George Clooney.
And this is a great historical film, and it's about how this group of young men from Washington
States basically made it to the Olympics in the 1930s and beat the Nazis.
And it's just a spectacular, spectacular story.
The Boys in the Boat.
It's based upon a best-selling book.
And another historical movie that's coming out, there are actually two.
And it's called Ferrari, where Adam Driver plays, Adam ends with Ferrari.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Penelope Crew stars in that one.
So that should be amazing.
And then there's The Iron Claw, which is a wrestling movie, which Zach Efron stars in
this one.
He's one of the Van Erich brothers.
And this is a famous wrestling family that just had a lot of tragedy go on, a couple decades
ago within their family.
But it's a great drama.
All of those movies are being talked about for awards.
Things always do during holiday season.
So look forward to some of those things coming out.
But right now, there's plenty of great films coming out, and there's plenty of great
retro content coming out on screens too.
Marcus Peters says a program called Season Screenings, where there's plenty of movies out
there this week and next week for people to go see retro movies.
We talk about one of them.
Hold on a second.
You gotta say that because I'm on a hard break time here.
Okay.
Hold on a second.
I want to thank Brett Hoffman for Marcus Peters coming every Friday morning.
He's here.
And we'll continue talking about the retro movies next week coming up next at Sports
at WRJN.
Oh, the quintessential Christmas song, called the Christmas song by Nadine Cole.
My Clemens is here with Sports.
So we're going to talk about a whole bunch of topics here in the next few minutes.
And Mike, thanks for joining us from Green Bay today, right?
Yes.
Matter of fact, you know, covered practice last night where Packers got a pretty long
entry list for this big game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
And you're on Taylor Watch to see if she shows up, right?
You know, listen.
Listen.
What?
Here's the deal.
I've got a friend who's been a producer for almost the entire run of entertainment tonight.
He's like our age, OK?
And he said, don't be surprised if some of these paparazzi guys that are based in Chicago
get hired to stand outside your gate or whatever to get pictures of her, you know, stepping
off the Gulf Stream or, you know, walk it into the back door to the visitor's locker room
or that kind of thing.
Because those pictures are going to be worth an awful lot.
She's been, you know, dating Travis Kelsey, the great tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.
I just, I think that's just a, but here's the funny thing.
There's a cute little story about the Green Bay tourism bureau.
You know, well, if Taylor's coming, well, welcome.
Listen.
Here's a great place we recommend for a fish fry on Friday.
And then on Saturday, there's a great place in town that's got your county cherry smoothies.
You do that.
And then after the gate, like, do they understand there's going to be a Gulf Stream that's going
to be landing at Austin's travel field, oh, about 645 or so.
And then a couple of, you know, police escorts and then black SUV that's going to pull up
to the back of the stadium to be escorted to her suite.
Come on.
Please.
Taylor Watch.
Okay.
So we have a big game coming up.
But before we do that, let's talk about it real quickly here.
The Packers win over the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Did you have a chance to watch some of the game?
No, I was one of those people who landed work that day.
Okay.
Understood.
Well, the fact is, 37 and a half million people watched this game, the highest rated Thanksgiving
Day game in history.
If you do this for 50 years for the first game of the day, a huge ratings went.
And because the Packers scored early and often, it was a huge upset.
Everybody thought Detroit, which has got a really good team, a very physical team this year,
they in three.
But the first play of the game, Jordan Love lines up and he throws a deep bomb to Christian
Watson who had trouble catching those passes.
That's what they brought him here for.
Six foot four, four three speed.
And he catches it.
And they go in and score in the first drive.
And they score a couple more times in the first half.
And to his credit, first of all, you talk to Jordan Love and say, what happened on that place?
You know, it's something we worked out a couple times.
He's looking at the sky like, what day is this?
Because it's Thursday.
He said, yeah, we worked it out a couple times yesterday.
And yeah, you know, Christian ran a great route and we finally connected on a deep pass like that.
Christian ended up getting the first five catches at the game.
He was all over the field and very satisfied with that.
Matt LaFour went to the podium and admitted that the morning of the game, he texted Jordan Love and said,
you know, I'm having second thoughts about trying to stop the bomb to Christian Watson.
And Love texted back, no, we're keeping that in.
How about that?
You know, that's how that play happened.
Want to say it real quickly here.
And maybe you know this, maybe you don't.
There was a game last Sunday.
This past Sunday with the Denver Broncos beat the Cleveland Browns by a score of 29 to 12.
That was the score.
Do you know what's significant about that?
No.
That's the first time in the history of the NFL of 17,500 games that a score ended up 29 to 12.
Well, how about that?
Well, that screws up your office.
It's called Scorragami.
And there are a couple of scores that never were achieved in the NFL.
That's now off the list, 29 to 12.
Who kept track of that?
I don't know.
Yeah, exactly.
One more bit of fun fact for you here.
Why does Major League Baseball requires, require all empires to wear black underwear?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Because they crouch bar in the plate.
And they split their pants, you won't notice it.
Maybe some trimmers should do that.
They should just pull their pants up is what they should do.
Okay, let's talk quickly about the game this weekend.
The Kansas City Chiefs invading Lambo Field.
You know, the Packers, they've been doing amazing things with getting it better, improving.
But then winning those last two games, especially against Lions.
And they're doing what rookies in their secondary die.
I mean, you know, this defense was supposed to have Jair Alexander and Eric Stokes on the corners.
Well, Eric's still coming back from a legendary suffered a year ago.
Jair has been banged up with two different injuries this year.
I think he might get on the field.
But in the meantime, this rookie, Carrington Valentine, number 37, Speedy Guy,
they might have made the reason to trade residual Douglas to the bills
because they had so much faith in this rookie, this Speedy rookie.
Another kid named Corey Valentine, he's been on the corners.
Rudy Ford has been primarily their best safety this season,
because Darnell Savage of Veterans has been injured.
So the other day, I saw him in the locker room, he let ice bags on both biceps.
He's got a biceps injury, but he's going to try and give it a go too.
So you really need help on that secondary, because Patrick the Holmes will run around back there for 78 seconds
before he finally throws the football.
But whatever, I mean, if you're a betting person, you know, you got to bet with the cheese.
But the Packers, this young Packer team is a lot more confident that they were a month ago
that they could pull this off.
And real quickly, Aaron Rogers says he might be ready in a couple of weeks.
He was working out with the team.
We just mentioned Aaron Rogers because he still has a lot of fans here.
He's working out with the New York Jets after that leg injury and a foot injury.
And he is.
It hurts.
It hurts.
Usually that season ending, you know, you start talking about maybe next spring,
you could get out in the field.
I saw him and they showed the video of him working out.
And he said just before Christmas time, he may be able to get in there and play for the New York Jets.
Yeah, but there was there was a funny meme that somebody put out.
You know, a little graphic that listed the six or seven guys that have gone to New York
to follow Aaron Rogers there.
And one guy, you know, he's still on the roster, but he hasn't played.
They won't play him in the games.
The other guy's had a lousy season like Randall Cop, like three catches.
And so it's kind of like, you know, maybe in a way it's okay that Rogers has moved on
because the Packers have got a variety of young receivers with a lot of potential.
And also where do you hear the Green Bay Packers?
You hear them right here on W.R.J.
and 1400 eight 99.90 98.1 FM.
And even if you want to watch it on TV, turn down the sound on the TV and crank up the radio.
You get it's much better that way.
Hey, Mike Clemens, thank you very much.
He's in Green Bay.
He's going to cover the game for Civic Media.
Thank you very much, Mike.
Have a great, safe weekend and keep us on Taylor Watch, okay?
Thank you, Doc.
I will.
Thank you, Mike Clemens.
You got a great staff here at Civic Media.
I'm Don Rosen.
I want to thank you for joining me today.
We're back again Monday with another week, including on Wednesday our anniversary special.
You want to be here for that, all right?