My mind knew I was trying to get hurt because you know good kids nothing good is
about the happy one kid says to the other hey let's build a ramp and my mom
would always try to buy a safe toy so we want to hurt each other but
everybody knows that that's dumb everybody knows that any kid could turn any
toy into a weapon the best weapon the best weapon you could ever have
beating up a brother sister growing up was the big long wrapping paper tube
thing the big long cardboard tube thing that was the best thing to beat up
brother sisters with loved it because it started off as a big long staff and
you could just start smacking people with it then the middle part would get all
busted up then the answer is still fine then you had numb chucks
everything to do with that tube though before we started hitting people right
was the walk by our family dog who was just laying there sleeping
sick to tube right by the dogs face dog would always wake up what the hey get the
tube out of my face sick that tube my face one more time I'm gonna eat
every one of your snow or it's big
what child is this to lay to rest on Mary's lap
is sleeping whom angels greet with anthem sweet while shepherds watch our
keeping this place is Christ the king whom shepherds guard and angels sing
and good morning it's seven away to WRJ and radio 1400 am 99.9 and 98.1 FM home
town radio refreshed a civic media station for today we have some rain with a
hinder 45 tonight some rain lows 40 cloudy a chance of rain tomorrow with a
high there 46 and Christmas day no snow some rain with a high and air 50 right
now it's 44 and cloudy in Racine joining me right now this is really you're
gonna like this Eric Goodwin is here from the first church of God they're
located on the Lakeford Avenue in Victory Avenue right at that corner and they
do something special every year it's a live nativity scene but I mean everything
the animals all the characters from the Bible on that first birth night and he
I guess you're the carpenter you're the guy who arranges the whole thing and puts
it all together am I right Eric I'm one of the many people that are involved
in making sure that everything is put together and ready to roll well let's
find out what people are actually going to see now this is tonight from seven
till nine it's only two hours tonight and two hours tomorrow seven to nine
o'clock and again it's right on the corner of a late-thruppin victory avenue just
three blocks from our radio station and you have the the major scene the cover
and it's all live so once you describe what people are going to see when they
they come up okay well what they will see when they when they drive up is the
the major assembly it's a woodstrucker that we used and we will have all the
characters there very in Joseph and shepherds and wise men and possibly a couple
of angels and then we have live animals also we'll have a donkey and some sheep
and a llama this year now when you get the animals from we get those from new
beginnings rich they provide the animals for us you know I've told this story
before but radio city musical when I was a kid and I don't think they do it anymore
but they used to do a live nativity on stage I remember seeing it it's spectacular
I mean after the rockets get done and they show the movie and everything and they
bring out the live nativity on stage with a lot of animals a lot of people it's
huge you can imagine is radio city musical and there is actually a stable set up
backstage because they do it for about a month and the animals have to live
somewhere and they can't just you know put him backstage so they have a stable and
the law says they have to they can't just confine these animals for a month so if you
go to New York City and I don't know if they do the nativity right now they did it back
in the days when they were movie theater at about four o'clock in the morning on
sixth Avenue where radio city musical is they marched the animals around the block a few
times and you see camels you see the llamas they do the sheep you see all these animals
and they they're in a line and they march them around midtown Manhattan and you get
they have people come out of four in the morning just to watch that and they give
the animal some exercise and they walk them around the block and radio city musical
a couple of times this is a Rockefeller Center in New York where NBC is in the and the
big Prometheus statue and the big Christmas tree and they march them around there
I only saw it once but I saw it on a special on TV they showed them doing it. I mean
they got to have got to exercise animals but they had a lot of them on stage but to see
camels walking around in midtown Manhattan was very interesting. Now you only have them
for two hours and they go back to where they came from so you don't have to worry about
that but you need to eat with animals so you don't know what to expect and so forth
but your animals and past years have been pretty nice.
Almost for you they've usually been pretty docile. We one couple of years we had we had
a donkey that that kind of had an attitude. So and you have the animal trainers there
now the Wranglers and everything to take care of them but you get a lot of people because
I remember in years past when I worked here at the radio station I remember seeing that
it is spectacular to see it's right on the front lawn of the church and it's right on
the corner literally so people can park on the street. I don't know if you have a parking
I must have a parking lot there but people can park and you can park on victory Avenue
up and down there's plenty of parking on the street and look at this bring the family
by and tonight you might have to bring an umbrella and it's you know you can't predict
the weather you know the weather is when the weather is so tell us more about the people
involved where do they come from? Are they just church parish news who want to get into
the world of acting?
It's kind of a static act. The church members participate in the scene as far as characters
you're concerned. We've been doing this for 67 continuous presentations now we started
this in 1957 in December of 1957 and back then it was just a lean-to backdrop and we had
the characters out in the open basically and they kneeled in front of the scene how it
set up at that time and there's a story about having bricks warmed in the ovens in the
church and then brought out to the characters in New Island to keep warm.
Now we're going to take continue.
Yeah well from the scene switched from that lean-to-type background we switched several
years after that into hay bales. We brought in hay bales from a local farm on in Franksville
and all those all in and set them up in the middle of the front lawn now where the scene
is presently now and then we put a corrugated metal roof on top for shelter and we used
that for many years and then somewhere along the line up we used in the in the mid 80s we
changed the structure to wood and something that we could put it put away every year which
saves a lot of time in manpower because all those hay bales had to be picked up at all to the church
and assembled and then tore down and taken back to the farm afterwards so.
Now there's only one character that's not alive and that's because you can't the baby Jesus
can't be you can't go to ascension and say any babies born this morning we'll pay union
to scale to get these kids in here. Yeah you gotta do you know there was a funny episode on King
of Queens it was a Christmas episode where the father played by Jerry Stiller wanted to do a
manger scene so he pieced it together from different things and he had three wives many had
Mary and Joseph but had this giant baby he got I remember I remember Leah Remedy coming in
this he says look at the size of baby Jesus he could beat up all the wise men he's twice their
size he said but he wouldn't do it he's very he's very peaceful he's the baby Jesus he wouldn't
do something like that but he had this giant baby which was three feet long at the tiny wise man
well anyway he he said he got rid of all that and he got a real manger scene but it's so
peaceful when you see that and I think families will really get it together this weekend and come
on out to the corner of laythrop and victory avenue at the first church of God and check out the
nativity scene and that was in the same people both nights nobody you know everybody wants to do
it two nights yeah yeah typically yes is there is there is there a large pool of people that want to
do this uh fairly good not yeah yeah we uh it back uh back when it uh in in in our hey day of it
we used uh basically youth from seven to 12th grade in the scenes for uh for all of the characters but
you know demographic change and and we we use adults now also so yeah that's it's it's really
night now you play music in the background now uh yes yeah we have a uh have a a musical score
that we that we run in in the background along with a narrative on top of that of the Christmas
story throughout throughout the scene and of course if it rains tonight it doesn't matter because
you know people bring in their umbrellas and the people in the nativity scene will be under cover
and you say you put a tarp over the wooden structure just to make sure nobody gets wet but so
it's rain or rain or no rain you can have it tonight we will we will be there and of course I
I was about to say with no I don't have to really say there's no charge for any of this
Jesus walk by and take care of it yeah so uh we we'll accept donations if people want to do that
then uh we we're very happy to to accommodate that so yeah but there is no charge and we are also
invite the people into the church to have cookies hot chocolate and coffee and visit with our
readers um this we're we're very excited to open our doors this year to visitors as we suspended
that portion of the of the scene in uh 2020 due to COVID now so we're so we are now back to uh
back to the the full uh full presentation well that gets better and better cookies and hot
chocolate and stuff Eric I want to thank you very much for joining us this morning Eric Goodwin
at the first church of god and tivity scene the live nativity scene is tonight and tomorrow night
seven till nine o'clock again that's at the corner of victory and later paving you come on by
park on victory get a space somewhere and just bring your family with an umbrella just in case
it rains Eric good luck tonight and tomorrow night seven to nine o'clock and thank you for coming
on this morning appreciate it thank you okay bye bye now
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for you, at 7-22 at WRK and Radio 1400 AM 99.9 FM and 98.1 FM in Kenosha, some rain
to the forecast today with a high air 45 rain tonight, lows around 40 chance of
rain tomorrow with a high air 46 and rain likely on Christmas Day with a
high air 50 right now 43 in cloudy in Racine. And as we just heard Eric tell us
that the the live nativity at the corner of laythrop and victory avenue at the
first church of God goes on rain or no rain spring in umbrella the live
animals and the people are all covered up just bring your umbrella and let's hope
it doesn't rain. This is, you know, they would say rain likely. That's a
definitely rain rain likely. All right. What makes a good Santa Claus? You're
planning to be one of Santa's helpers this year. According to the nation's top
Santa placement agencies, the most sought after qualities for seasonal
Santa's are age. The average age for Santa is 60 years old. Got a ball full of jelly.
The average Santa weighs between two 80 and two 90.
I remember we had a person a woman playing Santa Claus when I was growing up.
First of all, as a woman playing Santa Claus, you can tell I was, you know, a woman
and she had this pillow that was sticking out of the Santa outfit.
Santa veterans, most Santa's have more than 15 years under their belt, literally,
a same day. Santa has an agent. The before primary agencies that recruit and place a majority
of Santa's needed for the top shopping centers. A twinkle in your eye, one sand in Indiana,
special corneal implant to create a twinkle in the eye. That's going all out, huh?
White Christmas. Santa's often color their beards to be perfectly white.
And Santa 101, special educational courses have been developed to help.
Santa's detect who is naughty and who's nice.
If we fake the sick day before, all right, the weirdest excuses bosses have heard for
faking sick days, especially after holidays, right? Like Monday is Christmas, Tuesday is back
to work day, right? Someone said they called in fat because the uniform didn't fit anymore after
the holidays. A woman's dog swallowed her keys. She was, she was waiting for them to come out.
Phone exploded, hurt their hand. A guy claimed he left all his clothing at a laundromat.
A woman, a fake nail fell off. She said she needed an emergency manicure and someone called
in sick because they were afraid to be out during the solar eclipse. All right. That exactly
breaking news and nothing on TV resembles anything in real life. Here are some of the things that
are least resembling real life on TV. You know, by the way, I'll start off with I remember the
TV show Dallas, whenever J are you and pulled up in his car, it was right in front of the front door
in downtown Dallas, right in front of the huing oil building, huing oil, that never happens.
The high tech beats and sounds that computers make. The dorm rooms, New York City apartments and
other places that are tiny in reality are huge on TV. People in post apocalyptic scenarios always
being totally groomed with full makeup and styled hair, moms coming home, easily carrying just one
bag of grocery and they always have like a stock of celery coming out of that top bag always teenagers
never have acne, probably because all the actors playing them are 30 years old, gorgeous people
playing ordinary roles like the average neighbor next door guns with unlimited ammunition that can
be fired at good guys by good guys with perfect accuracy while running it without aiming and
everything about having a baby from the my water just broke. There's no time to get to the hospital
moment that the baby coming out totally clean always happens on TV. But I just remember that
huing oil, the huing oil thing on Dallas, I don't get that. Oh, also on Dallas, when J are used to come
home, he wanted to mix a drink and the bucket always had fresh ice in there like they heard him
coming down the hallway and the housekeeper put fresh ice in the bucket. It always had fresh
ice. I was never melted either. It was just freshly made ice. I'm sure it wasn't real ice in the
bucket. After it was plastic under those hot lights, probably couldn't have survived anyway.
Also, there is a new dating website called smell dating out there for $25 for a t-shirt you pay
for the t-shirt you wear it for three days and send it back. Then they send pieces of it to
potential matches so they can see if you're attracted to your body odor. So you wear this shirt
for three days straight and all the stink from your body goes on the shirt. They cut it up into
little squares and mail it out to people. Smell dating. I said it before and I'll say it again.
I am so glad. I'm out of the dating pool. All right. What else we got for you here today?
Ah, some say use only 20% of what you own. The balance of things you once used for your like
you should use or think you might use someday. If you have trouble identifying the 20% once a month,
stick a red adhesive dot on every object you handle every time you handle it.
Now, if you put a dot on every knick knack that makes you feel good when you look at it again.
After a month, you'll know which items really count and let the purging begin. I did that.
I looked at a box in the basement. It was all my old 45 RPM records. I didn't even look at them
to see what they were. I just knew they were 45s. I took them into box and stuck them in the garbage
bell in the backyard because I said to myself, I'm never going to play these. I didn't even have
a record player and I threw them out. And I felt bad because when the garbage when came,
I watched it dump into the thing and I felt really bad about it. I still feel bad about it.
But you know, you can't keep everything in the world. Researchers in Israel say they found the
most efficient way for passengers to board in the airline. Let passengers pick and sit wherever
they want. We've never come up with that idea before. Have we? That's not a bad idea. You know,
it's sort of like what Southwest does. They don't have seat assignments. They have zone assignments,
I guess, where you pick a zone and you board the plane. Imagine that with novel idea. Hey,
we've got seven movies opening up between now and Christmas day. We've got Brett Hoffman from
Marcus theaters coming up at just a moment in. He'll tell us all those seven movies opening up. Wow.
It's a lot of them that's coming up next right here on WRJN Radio.
Ooh, Merry Christmas, Christmas comes this time each year. Ooh, well, way up north where the air gets cold.
There's a tale about Christmas that you've all been told. I don't know if you heard me earlier,
but we mentioned that Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys was related to Dean Martin through marriage.
Who knew that? You find that interesting things when you search around with the media.
735 at WRJN Radio. I'm Don Rosen and it's Friday morning. That means we're talking movies with
Brett Hoffman from Marcus theaters and good morning, Brett. Good to talk to you again.
Good morning, down great to be here. And for people who don't know, Marcus theaters have been talking
to us here at WRJN 35 40 years, been a long time. I mean, you know, back when you were a little infant,
we've been talking to people from Marcus theaters. So it's always been a good, great relationship.
Now I lied. I made a mistake. I said you have seven movies opening up this week before
a weekend between now and Christmas. You added another to now with eight movies, but we're going
to kick it off with Wonka. That's exactly right. Wonka was a tremendous movie. It won the box
of his crown last weekend. They can $39 million. And with its PG 13 rating, this should go strong
throughout the holiday season. If you haven't seen it, go ahead and check it out. It's a delightful
movie. Timothy Shalamey plays Wonka. He's been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
It would be a great movie to go out and check out. Most people know the story of Charlie and the
Chalk of Factory from Roddell's film. Most people have seen the original Willy Wonka film with
the most people seen the original film. And now we get to see what happens before. This is Wonka
story before he starts the Chalk of Factory. And of course, before the actions that we saw in
that movie starting Gene Wilder. So at the amazing movie, go and check Wonka if you hadn't seen it out,
yeah. Okay, so and there were the Johnny Depp version. There was the obvious 1971 version
of Gene Wilder, but we've got a ton of movies opening up. I mean, this is like a Hollywood
unloaded everything on this one weekend. That's right. And we've got two sets of movies,
some that start today, December 22nd, and then some that start on Christmas Day. And we'll get
right into them. The first one, which is predicted to be at the top of the box office, but we'll see
is Aquaman in the Lost Kingdom. Jason the Moistar is in the new adventure. It's directed by James
Juan. Expect lots of action in this one. And expect a lot of things going on. And this one,
Aquaman has his duties as King. And he's also a member of the Justice League. And he's trying
to balance that out. It's in 3D. It's in premium large formats. It's include the ultra screen and
super screens there at the Renaissance cinema. And it also is in some other premium large
formats. You have the motion theater, which is the 40x motion theater in 40x at Gernie cinema.
And he also screen x at Ridge cinema, which is the 270 year to views during select scenes
across three different screens that are projected to you at Ridge cinema, New Berlin.
So plenty of ways to see Aquaman if you're looking for an action movie. That's your picture this week.
The second picture that I definitely recommend for any of the family. It's an animated film. It
comes from Universal and Illumination. And this one is called Migration. It is Illumination,
are the folks that brought you to Stick of a Me, Minions, Super Mario Brothers movie. This is a
delightful film. It's about a family of ducks. They have an over-fractive father. They're trying to
convince him to migrate somewhere for the vacation of a lifetime. It currently has a 72% rating
and Rod and Tomatoes. Again, this one would be great for young children all the way up to older
adults and a great film to take the family to. That's the animated film Migration.
And then we have an Rated Romantic comedy. This is called Anyone But You.
Sydney's Swinging Glen Palace. Our Romantic comedy. It's about two individuals pretending to be
a couple during an investigation wedding. As you can imagine what might go on with that scenario.
That's what's going to play out in this Rated Comedy, anyone but you. And then lastly,
coming out this Friday, we have two dramas that are getting just tremendous critical acclaim.
So if you're a cinephile out there, these two movies might be the things to see. The first is
Poor Things. And it's playing the closest to Renaissance at South Forest Cinema.
Emma Stone stars in this movie. She stars with Mark Raffalo and William DeFull.
All three of them have been nominated for Golden Globes through their performances.
In this movie that's a tale about a young woman that gets brought back to life by a brilliant
and an orthodox scientist. And it's a tremendous movie on screen. It's a great movie for cinephiles.
And like they said, there's some great performance in this one. That's Poor Things.
It might not be in your radar, but check it out. Emma Stone is tremendous in this movie.
And the last drama is that comes out this weekend is Iron Claw. This is a biography drama.
It's about the true story of the Veneric brothers. And they made history in the 1980s and the
competitive role of the professional wrestling. They wrestled together as a family. This one has a
88% rating that Rod and Tomatoes. It's certified fresh. It's tremendously acted led by Zach
Efron as Kevin Veneric. And if you know the story or just look it up, this is a story that has a
lot of drama and tragedy. And it certainly comes out in this film. And it's just a great one to go watch.
If you're a cinephile, if you like kind of dramas and those sorts of things, this is one thing
to go out to see. And it's been talked about for some awards as well.
My wife wants to see The Boys in the Boat, the George Cleaning Film. And so I think we're
going to see that one, Boys in the Boat. And that opens up when now on Christmas Day?
Yeah, so that's one of the films. There are three films then that open up on Christmas Day.
So these are special movies. The Boys in the Boat is a PG-13 historical drama.
It's directed by George Clooney. It's based upon a best-selling book. And this is really neat.
It's said in the 1930s. It's a story centered around the University of Washington's rowing team.
This was the depression era. And they went on to win gold 1936 Olympics. So a tremendous story,
a tremendous book. And a tremendous way to go see it on screen as well. That's The Boys in the Boat.
That's coming out on Christmas Day. And we also have some other great movies coming out.
Another movie that's certified fresh that a lot of people are looking forward to on Christmas
Day is the color purple. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk about that. Yeah. PG-13 musical drama.
And it's produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. They're bringing back this amazing
classic, this tale. It's based both upon Alice Walker's book and upon the Broadway musical.
That's been out. And just tremendous performances in this one, including Fantasia Burismo who plays Celia.
Taraji Henderson is also the movie. He's Bailey's in the movie. There are plenty of great talents in
this movie. And obviously people have been looking forward to it and going to see it. In fact,
it's been open for group sales since about early December. And a lot of people have been enjoying
this movie. A lot of people have been talking about it. There's great word of mouth. The color purple
will be a fun. And well, it's an important picture to go see. And I think it'd be great to see it
with family out there. That's a color purple. Now again, this is based on the Broadway hit musical,
the color purple, which was several years ago. And I am so happy they're bringing musicals to the
big screen because not everybody has a chance to go to a Broadway musical. And a lot of
theater, local theater companies can't put every musical on. So I'm just so glad and recent years
they're coming back. And they're not always smash hits. But at least people can get a chance to
see them. They can't make it to Broadway to watch these movies. Is there one more opening on
Christmas day? There's one more. And that's Ferrari. So this is an already driver. Another great
one. And you look at the best part about the holidays is that there's a movie for everyone. And
there's also movies with just tremendous performances as Hollywood is trying to put up their movies
and make sure they get consideration for the award season in 2024. And for our reason, I rated
drama. It's a biography about Enzo Ferrari. It's directed by Michael Mann, who's a very
accomplished director. And this one stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari. It stars Penelope
Cruz's wife. And it also stars Shailin Woodley. All of them deliver tremendous performances.
This one is basically a kind of a character study about Enzo Ferrari and what he was doing to
try to make sure his company Ferrari survives. Tremendous performance by Driver. I can see
him getting nominated for this one. And also it's got 73% rating around tomato. So the critics
are enjoying this one as well. Boy there, you're going to empty out all the old movies because you
got so many coming in that are brand new. And so this is it. When did when did people start
going to the movies on Christmas day? Because when I was a kid, you didn't go to the movies.
Some theaters weren't even open. And now it's packed on Christmas day. When did this all happen?
Where was I? Was I in a coma when this happened? Well, for as long as I've worked in the
feeder business, which is a little over 25 years, Christmas day, it's traditionally a pen.
One of the busiest movie days of the year. And typically, it starts during mid-afternoon
and just gets very busy up through the night. But it's important to know that our theaters are open
every single day during this holiday break. And going to the movies, whether it's on Christmas day,
whether it's the day after whether it's New Year's Eve, it's a tradition that a lot of families
share. And we definitely invite everyone to be part of the experience as our guests
open every day. And you brought up a good point done with eight movies opening. It means that a lot
of these movies, if they release in the summer around maybe one or two new openers, maybe they'd
get a few more screens. Because there's so many movies playing, there's often not a chance to have
as many screens as possible for each and every film. So all of the movies are on sale now.
Talk it over to family. Talk it over with those you're going to the movies with.
And pick a date and buy those tickets now. They're on sale now. Just lock them in.
You can get your reserve seats so everyone can sit together and not worry about it.
But we have got everything on sale and we're ready to come and entertain and be your home for
holiday memories, which is something that we've done for years and something we really enjoyed
doing during this time of the year. I hate the sound old. When I was a kid, we didn't have
multi-screening theaters. We had one screen, one theater. You want to go see a movie?
You had to see whatever that movie was. I don't remember Christmas time. It was a throwaway
movie. I remember once at Christmas time, we saw the mercenary, an Italian western that they
brought in for Christmas. And I didn't think much of it because if you wanted to see a major
musical, you had to go to Manhattan, they go see it like Oliver, JD, JD Bang Bang, Kamala.
They all played in there. So the local theaters by us got dumped in what was ever left over.
And I remember going to see the mercenary just like the day before Christmas or two days for
Christmas. And I say, well, this is nice. It's a, you know, it's a western. But nowadays, you
have such an array of films you can choose from where there is something for everybody. And it
wasn't like that years ago. Every town had one theater, one screen, and you were at the mercy.
Whatever they were showing at that time. And you went, you went to go see it. You wanted
to mention something else before we ran out of time. What was that? Well, I want to tell everyone,
like I said, tickets are on sale for the whole holiday season. And if you haven't picked up
anything for someone on your list, well, obviously we think Marcus Peters gift cards would be a great,
a great gift for just about anyone because for anyone on your list, someone can enjoy a tour
escape. And at some point during the year, there's going to be a great story that's on screen
that everyone will want to go check out. And if you go to Marcus Peters dot com right now,
we've got a special that runs through through tonight only. It's only valid for today. And it's
if you spend $50 and a Marcus Peters gift card, you get $15 in Stat Cash, which is a bonus. So if
you spend $50 and a Marcus Peters e-gift card, because it's late right now, so spend it on
an e-gift card, you get $15 in Stat Cash, which you can use later in 2024. So that's a little
bonus for anyone looking for someone. Movies make a great gift. Movies make a great memory.
And the best part about them is there will be something either this holiday season or in 2024
that that person will be able to use it on and come and join and share an experience and share
a memory. And that leads me into this because next week you're coming on a little early with us
at 706. And we're going to go over a list of some of the movies coming out in 2024. I have a
short list of 10. And everyone except for two of them hasn't has a number after it. So there
either sequels prequels. There's a lot of those coming out next year where they're just
they're numbered movies. So and so the third is his daredevil three, I think was on the list there
on the top of the top. Not daredevil. Was it daredevil? No, I wasn't daredevil. It was Deadpool.
Deadpool three was on top. Then you've got what's the one Beetlejuice two? I mean,
they all have numbers after that. That's right. Inside out two, just tickle me four. You've got
another Ghostbusters. But there's a mix of originals and there's a lot of mix of sequels and
things that people people are going to be very interested in. 2024 is looking good for some
product for people to go watch on screen. You know, and I hope the Ghostbusters is better than
the last one they had out. I mean, I didn't like that one. That's just, you know, I like Ghostbusters
one, two I tolerated. And the one they had left her life, I didn't like it all. So I hope they
learned a lesson from, you know, the other one, because I was a little better. Beetlejuice two,
I think that's got to be exciting. You know, everybody loves Beetlejuice. It's showtime
with Michael Keaton. Hey, Brett, you have a Merry Christmas hold on the line to say,
no, actually, I'm going to let you go. I'm going to do good things to do. And Merry Christmas
and we'll talk again next weekend, 706 and find out some of the new movies people can use those
cards on. Okay. You have a great one, everyone. Okay, bye bye, Brett. All right, Brett Hoffman from Marcus
theaters. If you missed any event, you can catch the podcast later on today, right? 749. We're talking
sports with Mike Clevver's coming up in just a moment.
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Chess Nots roasting on an open fire.
Jack Frost snipping at your nose.
You'll tide cows, being sung by choir, and folks dressed up like esquimones.
Everybody knows, a turkey and some mistletone, help to make the season rise.
Tiny tuts, with their eyes all afloat, will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Santa's on his way.
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his slate, and every mother's child.
The Christmas song, the quintessential Christmas song out there.
Mike Clemens is here.
Hi, Mike.
How are you this morning?
Was that Mel Tormay?
They wrote that song.
It was Mel Tormay.
He wrote it in the in the heat of summer in Palm Springs, California.
He wanted to stay cool, and he wrote a few notes down on the piece of paper, and they made
a song out of it, and that's the history of, and he was in Racine at the Christmas
House for Cancer back in the 90s, I guess, and he performed that on stage in right there
in Main Street in Racine at the Christmas House for Cancer.
It's fun.
You know, it's funny.
All those Christmas songs that you play, most of those people were recording them in
like August or something, right?
Yeah.
Coming off the golf course and recording Christmas songs and going back out to the golf
course.
And most of them were Jewish composers like White Christmas, Irving Berlin, most of them
were Jewish men who wrote these Christmas songs.
You know, I was laughing out loud the other day.
You were doing on one of your sports reports.
I forget who was talking, and it was the GM of the Packers, and it was a Joe Berry.
I think they were discussing him.
And the question was, are you going to get rid of him?
And he says, we don't want to discuss that now or something like that.
Yeah, I know.
That was the coach.
That was Matt Wolfler.
Yeah.
And he said to myself, if I was an employee, and my boss said to me, we're not going
to discuss that now.
I think I saw it looking for a new job.
That's it.
Well, and then Joe might be doing that after these, after losing again on Sunday to the
bucks, 34 to 20.
You know, a lot of people that are Packer fans, a month ago, everything was just fine.
I mean, you beat the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Those are huge upsets with that young offense.
And then you beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
And I was asking people this question, and not that necessarily, I think Joe Berry is
the best defensive coordinator in the NFL, but I asked people, if you'd lost the Patrick
Mahomes and the Chiefs, 34 to 20 Lambo Field, would you be calling for Joe Berry's
job?
But it's because Baker may feel as his reputation.
You know, he's been through, he was a number one pick, and kind of a flop.
He was with the Browns.
I forgot.
He's with the Panthers for a little bit, a little bit with the Rams.
And now he's with the Tampa Bay of Buccaneers.
It's like, you know, how could we have lost to that guy?
How could they just be passing to the same guy?
And fans, you know, and also though, it starts a little bit with the players.
You know, you're asking the players like what happened, and none of them are standing
up for their defensive coordinators, just saying, I got to look at the film.
I got to look at the film.
So that kind of sends off a little wave, but whatever, it seems like he's a dead man
lucky.
We talked to him now yesterday for several minutes.
And he said, yeah, it's been a tough week, been a tough week for my family to hear all
those things.
But this is the NFL.
This is what we signed up for.
And he said, what's the saying, you know, there's no crying and spilled milk or no crying
and spilled milk.
Well, there's no crying.
There's no crying in baseball, though we can change it.
There's no crying in football.
That's that's Joe Barry, okay?
It's not Joe.
No, if there's no crying in baseball and you don't cry over spilled milk, it's not.
And also, you can quote Michael Curly on this is the business we've chosen.
Well, I guess that's what Loflore will be saying to him at the end of the season.
But you know what?
And I know this is no excuse.
You can't win every game.
There's got to be a winner and there's got to be a loser.
I know nobody wants to be the loser, especially a couple of times in a row.
And I know when you start losing a lot, you got to start looking at rebuilding.
There are certain teams that have been rebuilding for 30, 40 years now.
You know, it happens, you know, in radio too, if you don't have any listeners,
you better find a new job.
I mean, have a ride in every business.
And the here's the other thing is that if Loflore, well, first of all, the buck and
ears do have about six or seven guys with Super Bowl rings.
I mean, really good football players that just two, three years ago when they had Tom Brady
quarterback, they beat the backers along the Super Bowl.
So you know, there's that to take in to account.
The other thing is that Mark Murphy's like, okay, if we're going to get rid of Joe, how
much is this going to cost me?
You're probably going to want to get...
That's a hot shot name.
And then he's going to want to bring in, you know, an eight or nine more assistance.
And then that means I've got to pay severance to Joe Barry's people.
And then I've got to pay moving expenses.
I mean, there's money involved.
And you've got to pay off contracts.
Right.
Hey, Mike, I've got to find more time with you one of these times.
We had a great time at the Christmas party.
I enjoyed talking to you there at the Civic Media Christmas party.
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
Yes, sir.
This week I'll wish you a Happy New Year.
And you're on the road right now, right?
I mean, Green Bay.
Oh, you're in Green Bay.
That's on the road.
Well, that's on the road.
Yeah, that's on the road.
Yeah.
We've got a game.
It's Sunday at noon in Carolina.
Yeah.
And, well, hey, my Christmas gift was you coming back to the WRGN, but you know what I mean?
That's, surely, it's so fun to have you back on the radio.
Oh, thank you, Mike.
Yeah.
And thanks for keeping the seat warm for me all this time.
Let's go problem.
No problem.
Hey.
It's not a hot seat, by the way.
It's not a hot seat.
I just kept it to cheer warm.
Well, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
OK, Merry Christmas to everybody else, too.
Thanks, Don.
Thank you, Mike Clemens.
To thank our Lord for a Christmas old man's love.
Well, on Christmas Day, we're going to re-broadcast our anniversary shows.
So I won't be with you live on Christmas Day, but I'll be with you on December 26th again.
I want you to have a very nice Christmas.
Take it safe if you're driving somewhere and just enjoy the family, enjoy, even if you're
alone, enjoy yourself, and have a great time, OK?
I'm Don Rosen here at WRGN Radio, hometown radio, refreshed.
Where did you go?
We shared their joy with the Christmas old man's love.
We sing his praise this day of days, and pray next year this time.
We'll all be needed to share the cheer of a Christmas old man's love.
And sweet applause to thank our Lord for the Christmas old man's love.