Mostly cloudy today will get to
around 50 for a high this afternoon.
The wind out of the Southwest at 5 to 15 tonight.
It's going to be cloudy with a low down to 39 tomorrow.
We'll be cloudy with a few off and on light showers high of 46 on Sunday.
Mostly cloudy with a high of 44.
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You know, it's hard to find something unique for somebody nowadays.
Last year my wife gave me a star as a Christmas gift.
I thought that was so sweet and so thoughtful.
You know, it came with a certificate, a chart to show you where it was in the sky.
They named it after me.
It was really great.
And then it dawned on me that most of the stars that we see in the sky
don't exist anymore.
They burnt out years ago and we're seeing the light coming from
from light years away at us.
So basically last year my wife got me nothing.
She may as well have gotten me a gift card from Blockbuster Video.
Amazon said that if I like a star,
well, I might also like an echo from the Grand Canyon.
I
want to
be
the
It's 7-0-8 at WRGN Radio. I'm Don Rosen. I want to thank you for joining me here today at Civic Media Radio's WRGN hometown radio refreshed
We're lucky for increasing clown cover today with a high-tier 51
Let me check the calendar December 15 51 degrees
Cloudy tonight lows 40 rain likely tomorrow after 12 noon highs near 46 Sunday cloudy with a high-tier 44
Right now. It's cloudy. We're up to 39 degrees
Mike Bino from our Wisconsin magazine joining me right now and good morning Merry Christmas. Happy holidays and
Everything else to you Mike. Thanks for joining us. Hey, thanks for having me back Tom. This is fun. You know
What's it? You know how what's the weather like up there? It's 51 degrees going to be today in Racine 51 in December that can't be
Yeah, you know something it's
I'm far up in the north woods of Wisconsin nearly to upper Michigan
I'm sitting here in my office and managed to wish waters
Wisconsin North of Managua and normally we have
Quite a bit of snow to answer your question. It's above freezing
It's probably about 33 degrees right now and we're heading for a big fat high of 41 degrees now
To put that in perspective
Within the last 20 years of I've lived lived here full time that long
We would have eight inches of ice on the lakes around here at this time right now
I wouldn't go out on one of those lakes. There's just a little bit of skim ice and there's nearly no snow
I live in what's known as the Lake Superior snow belt
In the town of Preskyle and we get a little bit of influence from Lake Superior
Don't don't bring your snowmobile up because you're gonna be running on logs and dirt
So we're waiting for winter here, too, but it's gonna come we know that bring your bathing suit and kayak
You're ready have a good time. Thanks, so yeah on my phone
I have the weather from Racine and a few other cities including Antarctica I've left that on there for years
so I can see the weather in Antarctica
And during our summer it's like 7580 below zero in Antarctica and that's with the sun shining in the middle of the day
Today, they'll have a high of five above
That's rare it's yet rare when you see Antarctica where normally it's 80 below zero in you know their winter five above
Wow, we okay. Well, it's it's warm and
We still we have as the ice shelves form up here
Around Thanksgiving head otters out there and on the ice and
The neatest behavior they they lope when they run they lumber along they they do that for miles
There this family of otters is lumbering across the ice and then they as they run they stop
Stretch out and skid on their bellies like they're having fun right across that new ice and all of them
We're doing it. It was it was very interesting to watch joyful actually
I don't have the penguins take 80 below zero. I really don't but they they're out there and they seem to be having a good time
But I do check Antarctica all year long. I can't tell you why maybe it makes me feel warmer
Even though it's like 20 degrees here. It's 80 below or 75 below somewhere else. Maybe it makes me feel warmer
Our Wisconsin now if you don't like cold weather in the winter
I probably tell you to go to Florida southern Texas or Hawaii
But if you do enjoy four real seasons a year
It's how it's it's Wisconsin because we actually have four real seasons summer winter fall and spring by daughter move to Florida
She's got one season
She's got summer and maybe
Maybe late summer
Two seasons down but we are so fortunate in this state
To have four great seasons a year
So if you don't like winter this wait a few months summer's coming spring's coming if you want snow wait around
It'll be here. We hope
But up north I'm looking in the picture. I open to our Wisconsin magazine my wife and I get this the December January issue
And you open it up and there's this two
giant pictures of two dogs
Frollicking in the snow and I remember my pomeranian
When he used the snow I used to let her out and she used to borrow her head into the snow
And then pop up borrow ahead and again. She's the love the snow my beagle too love the snow
I don't know what are this with dogs, but they bite the snow too. I don't know. That's about
These pictures and you're a great mic
And this is the one with the with the editors column you have here bounding into winter
Yeah, and and the photos in the magazine are shared by
Photographers all all across the state the readers themselves also provide much of the material that we
That we run but we've got two dogs bounding through the snow on on a lake in Russ County
one of our photographers Suzanne Von Schrader of Bruce
fired at the north west and
She's out there on the lake with her snow shoes and she's got her
Her dog out there and she was dog sitting another one
Yellow Lab and and German Shepherd are out there and you see these dogs bounding through the snow. It's about
The top of their legs almost and it's just sheer joy exuberance. They they not only chew the snow
They roll in the snow and and come up with a faithful of it and and that's part of the joy of winter
In Wisconsin. Yeah, some people some people in town need to
Use a snowblower and blow a little path for the dog in the winter
But we love our dogs around here and yeah that that photo just shows sheer joy two dogs bounding to you and
Through the snow and the bright sunshine
With everything glistening
You know if somebody wants to build a snowman they've got a lot of competition this snowman
Is 58 feet tall and weighs 166,000 pounds and it's a real snowman
And this was built in I'm not familiar with the town though
Mill was it mill town in Polk County
Yes, that's up. It's a little bit west of rice lake mill town
Interesting what you're talking about a snowman 58 feet tall
Interestingly if you look on the map and find mill town. There's also a town nearby named bunion. So I think this is fitting
The Jeffrey this snowman you're talking about and he's become a landmark in winter time in the tiny town of mill town
There it's it's a it all started with a Christmas decorating contest in this little community and
A fellow who Craig Carlson who runs a small construction business up there
Decided to go all out and build a snowman and Jeffrey has grown every year
They use a crane. They use a telehandler
He's smoking a pipe which is a 55 gallon plastic barrel at the end
It's it's it's a very sizable jolly fellow he's become the mascot of the town and
As I said built with cranes and telehandlers and a big crew and about 150 vehicles a day on the weekend stop by
Near mill town and take photos and get out to look at this thing. It it truly is
An amazing landmark in Polk County if you happen to be
If you're gonna take winter trip driving up to that end of the state northwest. It's something to look for
How are they gonna have that snowman stay intact when it's 41 degrees outside
You also you know, I love wild animal pictures and you have an article here on this otter
And the picture is him laying on his back looks like he has not a care in the world
Looks like his taxes and property taxes aren't due for a while
He doesn't care about the credit card daddy ran up. He doesn't care about anything
Except he's looking at the photographer while he's laying on his back
Yeah otters have been as I just just mentioned
otters have a reputation for being playful they get on their backs on their backs down hills and wildlife
Biologists have seen them lumber back up the hill to slide down again
They're astonishing animals because they're they're equally they're at home in the water just like fish
They can stay under long periods of time. They'll catch big fish
And under the ice they will will cash them and come back keep them later when you're on ice fishing
I don't know if that's gonna happen around Racine Kenosha this year. I think it will but
You got some holes drilled also an otter is well pop out he'll look at you and he'll have a fish in his mouth
himself and he says, you know, hey you dummies. What are you doing?
Nearby here the town of Boulder Junction
There was a long time tourist attraction named Aqualand another one in
Door County 2 in the 40s 50s 60s 70s a long standing
And in the 1950s and they had white wild animals
Dear you could bet that this is all permitted and they had otters going down the slides to delight the
The tour summer tourists. I was one of them as a kid
But I didn't know this until I talked to Bruce will see who was raised on Aqualand up here
He's now an older fishing guy retired
And in the 1950s they filmed a Disney movie
There at Aqualand and Boulder Junction called flash the teenage I remember that yes
I do remember that you can google youtube. It was right here. It was constant in Boulder Junction
Wow that that's a great little trivia question about our state. Yeah
Hold on a second Mike Bino editor of our Wisconsin magazine is here
I've got so many different things to talk about and I want to get it in before 730
Our Wisconsin magazine. It's a it's a really it's a treasure for the state of Wisconsin
I don't think every state's got a magazine dedicated to themselves like this at magazine does
I'm Don Rose and you're at WRJN at 718
Thanks for joining us here
You
But baby it's cold outside
But baby it's cold. No, it's not
It's not cold outside
Gonna be 51 degrees Santa's gonna have a sunstroke if this keeps up
Mike Bino editor of our Wisconsin magazine is here. Hi Mike. Thanks again for joining us. I appreciate it
You bet on okay, so the first thing I check when I open the magazine
Now it that that was not gonna be the first thing anymore. It's the um
The free trailer giveaway the hour Wisconsin uh fifth-wheeled giveaway and
Somewhere in the state of Wisconsin in a park public park
is a key
And you got to find it
And up until this month Kenosha was still in there in the running
No longer
Kenosha were seen out of the running there are 12 more counties left
Where that key is hidden do you if this is it happen every year somebody does find it
It happens and
I can tell you about somebody who found it pretty quickly and it kind of ended the contest early
But uh, yeah, the story you're telling is about our treasure hunt and so what we do to put a little bit of
fun in the magazine is
We take a key and we hide it in a park public parks somewhere within this broad state of Wisconsin
And then that's that's it could be a state park community park, you know city park township town
Any any public park in the state and
We are giving away a teardrop trailer a cute little rig. Um, it's worth about no six thousand dollars
They're built in uh, wasad tc teardrops a couple there um, uh, they had a ruin to camping trip 10 camping trip from the rain and
He decided there's got to be another way and he built himself a little camper and people's hey, that's pretty neat
Up would you make me want sure? So anyway, it turned into a business now in this treasure hunt we hide the key okay and
Issue by issue we print a map of the state and 72 counties. We eliminate 10 counties each time each issue
And we give clues a series of clues which we reprise each issue so so the mystery
Uh, slowly unfolds and people get out there and and rummage through parks
Based on these on that map and on these clues and hunt for the key
We ask them to bring a garbage bag along and do a public service by picking up some litter
They happen to be out there
In 12 years, we've given away two new cars two new boats boat motor rig packages. We've given away a couple of these little
um
Teardrop trailers, which by the way, there's a rabid subculture of people who love these trailers
You can pull them with the smallest of cars and you can trick them out with a rack on top for your kayaks of a bicycle rack on the carrier on the back
There's cargo storage on them um and
People get together and compare all their
gadgets and accessories
When they're at the campground now
It usually takes
About eight months in this ongoing search for people to come up with that key find it um
This one has gone as far into the year as anyone has and um
The the mysteries continuing so it's out there that key is out there and your listeners can get out there and win this trailer
One time
One time
We were offering one of these and that's why we're we're coming back with another one because people barely had a chance at it
The the key we hid was in price county
Near the town of cannon and we gave precisely
One clue
Okay, we get a phone call ring ring
Hey, hey, we did we found the package with the key. Here's the note that says we're calling with our secret code number to let you know
We found this key you thought you what did someone fall I personally hit it did someone follow me
What happened was
This key was hidden on
A small metal building which in a park which happened near the ball field which happened to be one of the
old
men's rooms
And this rural ball field out there now
This building was still standing there
While a brand new brick facility had been built some years ago. They had all modern facilities out there
So they had these old junky buildings and the towns that we got to get rid of these you know for so
The town commissioner who is the fireman. Yeah, I can see what's gonna happen here. Go ahead
Yeah, you got a break coming. No, no go ahead. You're good
Went to some people in the Amish community and said hey you want these buildings you can have them you could make them into a
A chicken coop on their farm you could make it into um some kind of a tool shed
So four Amish boys and their teens with their workhorses went out there with them with their hey wagon
And they were winching these things up two of them obviously
Up onto their wagon with their Belgian horses
And a note falls out
Hey, look what I found they stumbled over it they weren't even looking
And hey you want a parent square guys now
I'm wondering
How do you take that thing that camper camping with your workhorses? I don't know that's a puzzle
But these kids want it and
A parent square right and that's what happens you know we got a good story out of it time
That's you know a good reporter finds a story anywhere right
Hey, how do people subscribe to our Wisconsin magazine and I never recommend things
But I do recommend this magazine. It is so good. It's so much fun. It's so many articles
I wanted to talk to you about before at a time
So how do you subscribe to our Wisconsin magazine?
Very simple the toll-free number uh get your pens
It is eight seven seven seven one seven eight nine two five
Say it again
Okay, eight seven seven seven one seven eight nine two five
And uh if you want to uh go to the website you have a website
We do
And that is our
Wisconsin mag ma g
Dot com
If I'm ever up in Manitouish waters, I will definitely stop by and see you in person
You do that and you'll see our assistant editor Chester the red Labrador sitting here right at my feet
Through most of my career. I wore I wore a time my friend now. I can beat
I can wear jeans and have a dog next to me because I can
Hey, you want to wear jeans and dress sloppy working radio
You don't look that way
You know, you know when I now I have guests in the studio. I gotta
We're clean clothes and take a shower but before that
I didn't have to do it
Oh, you know, I I'm not gonna
dwell on this too much
But this is a very important part of our house. We have so many issues laying there on our ottoman right in the living room
And when I get tired of watching television, I pick up this magazine and they get lost in it
And you could be you can't you can't believe how much time passes by
I want you to talk to you. I don't have time now
But I would didn't want to talk to you about the guy who has that railroad caboose in his backyard
I just want to know how he got it there
And I'm gonna read the story and maybe it tells you in the story how he got this thing in his backyard
But it's a real railroad car
So it's in it's in his front yard
Highway 47 near Rhineland or folks. He can drive by and see it
It's 19 tons of big rest like the line caboose. I like to know how he got it there
Hey, Mike Bino. We got to talk to you before the next issue comes out
Thank you. We'll do that. Hey, Mike stay well. Have a great winter up there
Have a nice Christmas a nice new year and I'll talk to you in the new year. Okay
Happy holidays to everyone there
Thank you Mike Bino editor of our Wisconsin magazine. Hold in there Mike
In 729 at WRGN radio. We're talking movies coming up next
We're in
We are
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Good morning. I'm Don Rose at WRJN on this
December 15, 10 days to Christmas and a big Christmas holiday movie is opening just in time
It's good to see a good fun family movie open up this time of year and
Brett Hoffman of Marcus theaters is here with me right now, and the big movie is
Wanko
Opening up this weekend, right?
That's right Don a premiered last night and people are loving it
It has a certified fresh rating and rotten tomatoes with 83% for the critics and has an 83 87% audience rating and
This one is a fun one on the big screen. Let me just tell you that one. This is something real quick
I noticed this in recent maybe a year or two
Movies are opening on Thursday nights now instead of Friday. How that happened?
Yeah pretty much every movie premieres on Thursday night the official opening is
Friday for the weekend, but every movie premieres
So some people don't know that yet
So if you're looking to see a movie you really want to go out and see something go out and check it out at Thursday night
You can see it first and you can have a jump on the weekend in terms of knowing knowing what's going on with the movies before anyone else
You know when I was a kid they used to have sneak previews at the theaters sneak preview a new major motion picture opening up in
You know two weeks they don't do sneak previews anymore. Do they?
Well, I still do that and it's part of the strategy for for some movies coming up. You'll see that you'll see early access screenings
You'll see fan events so check them out people should check out our website Marcus leaders.com or look around
When there's a movie coming out that they may be interested in but good thing if you're interested is to always check for those Thursday nights
of the night before releases because the movies are definitely out and
That is where you get a lot of a lot of the fans coming out and a lot of the fandom in terms of people dressing up
And in people in terms of people going all out because they really want to see it first. Let's talk about Wonka now
This is not the Willy Wonka movie like you think this is the prequel to how he got this whole chocolate factory, right?
That's right. It's the early story of Willy Wonka
He has dreams of opening up a shop in a city renowned for chocolate
But you know you quickly discover that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolate tears
But the cast in this and the story is amazing because Timothy Shalame stars as Wonka
Hugh Grant stars as an Oopalupa and both of them do a tremendous job
When you look at Timothy Shalame, I think people are going to compare him to Gene Wilder and of course Gene did such a great job in the original film
But I think Timothy is a tremendous Wonka and I also think that Timothy can carry the torch here
Even though it's a prequel, he'll carry it right now and I think there's a lot of storyline and a lot of runway for this movie going forward
And we can see a lot of different Wonka and Karate in carnations and based on the quality of this movie
I definitely think you'll see that because he does a great job and Hugh Grant is hilarious as an Oopalupa
He is funny throughout the whole movie and he definitely steals the show in the scenes that he's in
So anyone that you grand fan or just a comedy fan, they're gonna love watching you grant do what he does in this film
You know
People don't realize that that original Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory is 52 years old
I mean, I think it came out in 71 if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong on that
But I think it came out in 1971. So it's a pretty you know, it's been a while now Johnny Depp also played
Willy Wonka in the movie Charlie in the chocolate factory, right?
Yeah, that's right and that was a few years ago, too
And I think this one that was that was more of a retelling of that classic story
This is a prequel, but I think this one does a tremendous job and I think we'll see a lot of these stories going forward
And let me tell you the director Paul King who we know from
Paddington and Paddington two and some other things that he's done
He does a tremendous job bringing this all together the scenes are vibrant the magic is spectacular and
I wouldn't call this a musical, but there are definitely musical numbers in it too
Just like the original one. Yeah, so if you're looking. Yeah, I hit song came from the original one
I think Sammy Davis Jr. had I can't remember the name of it now, but I know it was a hit song
So I mean, oh think of it like that. Yeah, just like that
There's 20 of great content and great great things in here and and also in Racine
This is a movie that is made for the big screen and in Racine and a Renaissance cinema
You can see this on the ultra-screen DLX you can see it on the super-screen DLX
But also you can travel to see this movie a couple different ways if you just go south to gurney mill cinema
You'll be able to see it on the 40X there
Which is the auditorium with motion seats and special effects including wind, fog, rain, sense and all of that is
Perfectly synced to the movie or you can drive to our screen X auditorium
Which is at our ridge cinnamon New Berlin and there you can see movies that expand the action onto the sidewall
So it expands the action onto the sidewall at the three screens
It's a 270 degree panorama view during select scenes of wonka so between 40 exit gurney
Screen exit ridge cinema or right there at in Racine at Renaissance on the ultra-screen to the super-screen DLX
There are so many great ways to see this movie and let me tell you all of those ways
Can't be replicated at home for this type of
So and this big hit song was the candy man the candy man can remember that
Definitely do that was a top 10 hit for Sammy Davis Jr. The candy man
Veronica salt is one of the characters in the original Willy Wonka
It was also the name of a band. They named it after Veronica salt back in the 70s or 80s of again when it was
All right, so we got wonka opening this weekend
We've got a couple of big movies opening christmas day. I don't know when it all happened
But after people open their presence and they eat their lunch
They said off to the movies and I've been in some christmas danders. We're ended early just to go to the movies and
What's playing christmas day? Got some big movies including Ferrari opening up right with the editor and there
There are great big movies up that whole week and I tell people these movies are all on share right now
So plan your events with their family
Christmas day and the day after are two of the busiest days of the year for us
So go check on a movie, but go get your advanced tickets and look these up because as you said
The week is packed and there's something for everyone if I run down the list
You've got jesus and mimoa coming back in the action adventure
Aquaman and the lost kingdom
That's going to be on our large ultra screens and it's also going to be in 3d
You've got an animated movie called migration that this is from universal pictures and it's put out by illumination
This is the group that's the minions to stickable me the super mario brothers movie
They do great animation and this is going to be a wonderful movie about a family of ducks convincing their father to migrate for the vacation of the lifetime
You mentioned Ferrari that's coming out atom drivers stars as ends of Ferrari. It can help you coups
This is why a shane lane would we is also in the movie three great performances that are going to be wonderful for anyone that that loves cars
Or just loves history or even is a cinephile that loves great performances
Isn't the odd that atom driver
Is in the movie about
Yeah, they plan that out, but obviously this is the great job of this and
The color purple is coming out as well and this is a musical based upon the novel and Broadway musical
And that's getting too great accolade and a lot of people have seen that movie already
Because it was available by Warner Brothers for group sales
So a lot of people have come and seen this movie
They are loving it and I think the color purple and those are excellent choice for people this weekend
Because between that
There's a George Kuhny movie he directs called the boys and the boats
Which is another history movie about the University of Washington team that gets into the Olympics in
1936 Olympics and ends up beating the Nazis there
And then there's even a romantic comedy if there's a movie anyone but you
It's a romantic drama about two individuals for 1080p a couple at a destination wedding
So
There you go you can't have any more of a wider spectrum of movies
Wait, is that what we did? Are you telling me the color purple actually had a sneak preview?
I just I was just telling you I don't see them anymore and there you go
So they had a sneak preview of the color purple. Yeah, it was a huge Broadway musical
And when they first announced I said how they're gonna make a musical out of that
But they did and it was a major hit on Broadway
And they're starting to bring some of the Broadway musicals back to the theaters
They're not smash hits like they were in the 60s, but they do find an audience
And many of them you know one of them during COVID it came out unfortunately
It was oh it was about the kid with the cast on his arm
And I can't think of the name of the thing off hand here because my memory's gone
Um, it was it was a musical
Remember the kid had the cast on the arm. Oh, I can't think of the name of that movie
But anyway, it was in it. What's that?
I'm blanking too down. I'm sorry
You can't hear how you're blacking out on that too. I'll think of it after we hang up now
You still have some holiday film. I'll think of it in a second. We still have some holiday films out there, right?
At theaters most most certainly at the Renaissance this weekend
You've got a variety of films go out and check these out again. It's a great communal experience to go watch these holiday movies
There's a couple coming out. There's Fred Claus
That's going to be at the theater this weekend. That's there's Vince Lon Paul Giamatti and Liz at the banks
The polar express is stew running in our theaters by popular demand
Excellent movie that's now 20 years old starring Tom Hanks directed by Robert Semescus at the end and I mean a movie
Elf with Will Ferrell. We cannot take out of our theaters people are loving
They're coming out. They're having a great time with their families watching out
So that is there this weekend and that's joined by
National Anthem Christmas vacation. Oh, it was a classic and then we have a special event that's going on through this weekend
It's Christmas with the chosen holy night. It's the series from Angel studio. It's this episode holy night
And this one has some new songs and additional music performances
So there are a lot of fans out there of the chosen series and the Christmas with the chosen holy night is playing on the big screen
Through this weekend
So plenty of great class movies and other other holiday films to go see
This weekend at the Renaissance and many were seen the movie was dear Evan Hansen
The Broadway musical dear Evan Hansen
Unfortunately, it felt right during COVID when movie theaters were closed and they weren't getting a big
Big play and then I guess
It just appeared to the few theaters here and there but it was such a good movie
It was based on the Broadway musical dear Evan Hansen which was a major hit and they brought the they brought the Broadway cast to the movies
Which is really good. I think one of the first movies I saw
with my wife when we were dating was at the
The sounds you're a cinema rent when it opened up
The movie musical rent it was one of the first movies we saw together
So uh maybe it was that movie that brought us together at your theater
I mean, they just get married. I didn't propose to her at the theater by the way
It wasn't bad. All right, so do you think of any major movies to look forward to in 2024?
I know I'm putting you on the spot here any big huge titles coming out in 2024. Do you know of offhand?
You know, there are some great huge titles coming out
And I think seems the people can look forward to immediately. There is
Mean Girls the musical which is coming out in mid-January speaking about musicals. Yeah, okay
So there you go. There's there's another Mean Girls come out
It's based upon the hit musical Mean Girls and that is going to be amazing people are absolutely going to love that one
That is a great one coming out
Then there's just there's a bunch of movies coming on 2024 to look forward to and we can recap all those coming up
Dune part two is coming out in March
Everyone is looking forward to this movie. They just released some new trailers on that movie
Check out Dune part two and make sure to catch up on Dune part one because Warner Brothers has something special there with Dune part two
And then throughout the whole entire year you can look at it. There's things for families like country panda for
There's things for everyone like Ghostbusters new Ghostbusters the Frozen Empire
Warner Brothers is bringing out a new god villain call movie that's coming out
So plenty of great movies coming out in 2024 to look forward to and
Yeah, but like I said, there's something for everyone this holiday season
Those will hold over to January and then January is going to be something special because we've got Mean Girls
And a bunch of the content that I think people are going to love
The cinema's back the cinema's there and everyone needs to go check out these great movies
The way they were meant to be seen on the big screen. I can't believe God's Godzilla probably made more movies than any other actor in Hollywood
I mean you think about it. I mean how many movies has God's element. I had a movie soundtrack CD of every Godzilla movie
It was a double disc set because there was somebody of Brett Hoffman. I'll talk to you next week and
You have a fantastic week and get ready for the holidays with your family and I'll talk to you soon. Okay Brett
Sounds good. Thanks. Thanks Brett from Marcus theaters Brett Hoffman always appreciate Brett
It's 748. We're talking sports with Mike Clemens coming up next. Don't move
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Sports guru
Hi Mike. Good morning. Good morning. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I had something to tell you a good trivia question and it just fell out of my head.
I just when I answered the phone, I said, don't forget to tell them and that's how fast.
25 seconds. I know. I know. I can't wait. Let me check. Let me check my wallet.
Oh, yeah. I am my clement. Okay. I got that. Hey, before we start talking,
did you see that temper tantrum that Patrick Moons threw the other night?
Yeah, you know what? I joked with where you're talking about or he banged his helmet in frustration.
Well, they had a call back a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. Because they said it was off-size.
It looked like a beautiful play and they came back and said that the guy was lined up and
then they have a lot of video stills of that. They say, no, you know, the guy was off-size.
He was. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, there's been several unusual calls that, again,
questioned what NFL referees are doing these days. I kind of think one of the reasons
it never quite gets fixed, like, you know, to have like some guy that can make calls
for watching a TV monitor up in the press box for a New York or something and actually interrupt
the game and say, you guys missed one is because I think Roger Gidell likes the bad headlines,
honestly. But you know what? You know, I had another way to get it in the news.
I heard one sports guy say a player, an athlete say, you know, we all gripe about the bad calls,
but we never talk about the ones where we got kissed. It was bad call that went in our favor.
You know, they don't talk about those. Right. Right. So I said to Jordan Love,
after we got done talking to him for about 15 minutes the other day, as the auto was breaking
up, I said, hey, by the way, because he's coming off of frustrating loss against the job.
And I said, hey, you know, if you really get upset during a game, don't spike your helmet,
right? Because Red Batty, the equipment manager who's been like 40 years, he'll be all over you.
He laughed. He thought that was pretty fun. Yeah. No, man, you don't want to get on Red's bad side.
Because as a matter of fact, that happened to the Packers. Darnell Savage, a good guy,
good player most of the time, but he kind of has his ups and downs. And so last week, he makes a
tackle against the Giants. And he gets, he gets shook up. He also whiffed badly on a couple of
open field tackles. And so he has to try it off because he's kind of banged up. He shook up.
And he's frustrated that some guy, you know, beat, beat them or the big gain. And he takes his helmet
and he's spiking it. So while he's taking a breather, trying to get his breath back,
now he can't get back on the next series because Red Batty is fixing his helmet. And like, you know,
don't spike the helmet back. Be ready. Do the best you can. Okay. So the Packers lose to the Giants.
And now they're taking on Tampa Bay, the box. And that's coming up this Sunday, right?
Sunday at noon. The weather looks pretty good. But the Packers have got a new problem.
AJ Dillon, who's been your number two back, but number one all this year because Aaron Jones has
been out first with a hamstring injury. Now with a torn MC, uh, yeah, torn, a sprained MCL
in his left knee. AJ Dillon on the second or last play the Packers had on offense in New York.
He took the ball and was carrying it. He said I was running at the right angle,
but a linebacker came and drilled his helmet into the back of his hand, broke his thumb on his
right hand. I don't think you could play running back with just one hand. You know, you switched the
ball back and forth. Anyway, he's got this glove that looks like an MMA fighter glove on his right hand.
And so there's Aaron Jones still trying to try to run on the practice field, limited in practice,
trying to come back from this MCL from three, four weeks ago. And now, at least Patrick Taylor,
guy's been on and off the roster as your lead running back going into Sunday's games. So that
that could greatly affect, you know, your your your run game against the Buccaneers.
Also heard Bill Belichek is, could be done now with football, right?
You know, there's some people that have rumored that, hey, how about Bill Belichek is the Packers
next to next offensive coordinator? I gotta tell you, I've been in the room with Bill Belichek
over a half dozen times because I cover the Super Bowl every year and when the Packers have played
them. But I have never seen the guy so shook up. Then when the Packers were playing the Patriots this
summer, they'd had two or three days of joint practices and then they had a preceasing game.
And I think it was like laid in the third quarter or it started the fourth,
where one of their players got hit, you know, in the helmet and and I mean, he was motionless
there for a while. And they took him to the hospital. He was okay, but he's been on injured
reserve for the rest of the year. I've never seen Belichek so shook up. And as he stood there waiting
for some microphones to get fixed in the post game press, they called the game early. Remember,
he came across the field and said the battle floor, I think I've got enough in. How about you?
You know, after a couple of days of joint practices, so they canceled the the rest of the game,
the preceasing game. And as I saw Belichek there, I thought, you know, he just had that kind of
look on his face like, man, I'm getting too old for this, you know, I'm getting too old.
And he's with the Patriots now for now anyway. Yeah, yeah, but you know, did you see the score last
night, the chargers lost to the raiders like 63 to 21 or something? Maybe the chargers will be
looking for a new head coach. Maybe he goes across the country and becomes the chargers new head coach.
You're forgetting people get up at four in the morning, tend to go to bed about seven
or eight o'clock at night. I understand. I understand. I've been there. And we have just a few seconds left
a 64 pointer for the box on Thursday night. But I told that to my brother and he said,
that's nothing will Chamberlain once scored a hundred points in one game. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
But that's a record for the bucks. And Yannis wanted the game ball. And he came across the court.
And one of the assistant coaches from the Pacers started winding up the tunnel. He wanted to
save it for one of their players that it scored his first NBA points. And then Yannis ended up
chasing him up the tunnel. There's a big controversy as well. The Pacers just gave him some ball
instead of the game ball. That that controversy and mystery continues.
Mike Clemens. I'll talk to you next Friday. Thanks a lot. You keep the sports
coming for civic media. Do appreciate it, my friend. Thanks. Bye bye now. Mike Clemens, our sports
director for civic media, the sports guru at 758. I'm Don Rose and I want you to have a wonderful,
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