Weird in the eye exam room, you know, it's just him and me, it's dark in there.
The door's closed.
I feel weird when he slides his chair up uncomfortably close to it.
He's like this far from my face.
And he shines like this goofy light into my eyes for about five minutes.
How you doing there?
I'm a little uncomfortable.
Can you back up a tad?
You want a piece of gum?
Yes, if I wanted tri-focals.
I've been away from the eye doctor too long.
I don't know what he was talking about.
Tri-focals, he goes, yeah, you can see three different distances depending on where you look through the lens.
You can see close, medium, or far away.
I was like, I can't even imagine getting used to that, all right?
There's a book, there's a plane, there's Elvis and Tori!
Anybody have a need for that?
Is that a fly on my nose? Is that a comet?
It's my doctor told me this, I'm not making this up.
He goes, you know you have one eye set a little bit higher than your other eye?
No, I didn't know that.
He goes, it's no big deal, it doesn't affect your vision or anything.
I just thought you might want to be self-conscious for the rest of your lives.
And you leave right away, right by the high, one high day.
You're gonna want me for your girl.
Ah, the chiffons, my brother played with them for a while.
When they came out of you and they played with these toes, my brother was their guitarist.
It's 608 at WRC and I'm Don Rosen.
I want to thank you for joining me.
A nice day today, partly sunny by the high-tier 42.
When you're waking up this morning, it's frost on the car.
You have to scrape it.
Don't try to drive C-Cars driving on the road and their windows are all frosted up.
How do you see where you're going? How do you see me coming?
Anyway, it's clear in 30 degrees right now, cloudy with rain tonight.
Mainly after 5am, lows around 34 and tomorrow, rain with a high-tier 42.
Again, clear in 30.
I was sent to hear Tom Foddy passed away.
I was listening to the CDS news.
Tom Foddy, when I first got into radio, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and UPI.
And you always heard his name, Tom Foddy.
And having grown up in New York, I remember him on 1010 Wins Radio, WOR Radio, Tom Foddy.
It's been radio all his life.
I was fascinated to hear that he was in booted past.
They said booted past when the Hungarian Revolution came
and his house was destroyed and he moved to America.
I didn't know that.
But, you know, I don't know if it's just me lately, but I'm everybody's dying.
You know, it also passed away to make this the obituaries passed away yesterday.
There was a movie called Parasite.
It won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
And the star of that movie, I can't pronounce his name.
He's a Korean star.
And he just died suddenly yesterday.
And he was the star of that movie.
A young guy.
It wasn't that old.
Hey.
Life moves on, I guess.
All right.
We got a whole bunch of things just to you and me this morning.
If you want to talk to us on the radio, you can.
If you want to talk about any of the subjects we're bringing up,
phone numbers 262634975626263634WRJN is our phone number to call.
Well, this doesn't seem fair.
A study found that the one thing that guarantees a successful career is good looks.
15%.
I mean, excuse me, research has found looks had more of an impact on people's success
and IQ education or their parents' education.
So I thought college would help me out.
So I went to college.
That didn't help.
You know, all my career in radio, my mother kept saying to me,
is this what you're going to do?
You're not going to do anything else?
Because my brother was in a competition.
My brother was a doctor.
Is this what you're going to do?
Radio?
Do you have any aspirations to do anything else in a life?
No mom, this is yet.
And when she asked me that, I was like 45 years old.
No mom.
This is the way it's going to be.
Serbian people, what embarrassing things they would do for just $16.
$16 now.
22% would eat dog food.
19% would streak.
Remember what streaking was back in the 70s?
People are running, you know, naked through the streets.
15% would kiss their boss regardless of gender.
And 8% would wax their entire body, including their head.
For $16, if that's what you would do for $16, what would you do for $100?
Eat a dog food for $16?
Oh, come on.
That's what they say they're doing.
Push came to shove.
Who knows if they do that?
All right.
Here are some things flight attendants are not allowed to do when people get on an airplane.
They think the flight attendant can do anything they ask them to do.
And they really can't.
A lot of it by law.
Okay.
They cannot give you any medication.
So if you need to ask for something, they can't even do that.
They can't stow your bag away in the overhead compartment.
Although I've seen them do it.
I've seen them try to jam that suitcase in there.
Call ahead for a connecting flight.
Have a drink with you.
Or let you sit in first class when seats are open.
Well, that's not totally true.
And I can prove that.
A good friend of mine, Bill Moose, who he was my program director at the radio station.
I worked at Milwaukee.
We did some business traveling on the west coast.
And also in the south where our company headquarters was.
And he was in a wheelchair.
It was paraplegic.
And it was a truck getting him on the plane because the wheelchair doesn't get down the aisle.
So they had to put him on this tiny little seat.
And he was kind of bothered him because they didn't want to be the center of attention.
And of course you are when you're sitting on those little seats going down the aisle.
So they used to come up to him.
You flight attendants and say, would you feel more comfortable in first class?
And he said, yes, but I'm traveling with this gentleman over here pointing to me.
They said, we'll move you both to first class.
We even did that when I was traveling with Bill and Rich Washer or our general manager.
All three of us used to go to first class.
And Bill said, well, you know, I got a great job for me corporate travel companion.
Whenever we fly by coach and move the first class.
It worked every time.
So yes, they can move you to first class.
It, you know, depends on the situation.
But, you know, it can be done.
Now, who knew fit bits can do this.
A woman caught her ex cheating on her when they sink their fit bits together.
She noticed his fit bit was recording an activity around 4 a.m.
Turns out he was getting it on with someone else.
And that's what the recording was about at 4 a.m.
Who knew you can check on somebody with fit bit getting harder and harder to do two things.
And it's getting hard to cheat on people.
You know, I watch all these date lines in 2020.
It is so difficult to get away with anything.
Now it used to be easier.
Now it's not.
They can pin your phone.
So if you say, I was never there at that scene, they'll pin your phone.
And yeah, you were there.
And here's something else.
If you put the body in the trunk and the body happens to have a cell phone,
they can pin your phones identically together at the same exact second so they know you were together.
Then they have the DNA.
The DNA doesn't lie.
And now they got a company called Parabahn.
And what Parabahn does is through DNA or through ancestry.
Not even, you know, they get, they just, you know, they get your DNA
and they go through ancestry and they can figure out what you look like based on your DNA and ancestry.
They can even tell your name and sometimes where you live.
This company Parabahn is amazing.
They have caught more murderers.
I think even the detectives catch.
And when Parabahn catches you, it's not guesswork.
I mean, they found you for your DNA.
And it's kind of hard to say you didn't do it, but that's an amazing company Parabahn.
So it's hard to get away with cheating and it's hard to get away with murder.
Two things.
So don't do either.
A study found when you end your texts with a period, people think you're less sincere.
So when you write something like, yeah, it's fine without any punctuation.
You actually come off better.
I don't like texting because you never, you can read things into it.
You never quite sure what the person meant to say.
So I don't like to do texting.
And how about when they do all caps, it's like they're screaming at you.
I like to talk on the phone.
And that way we can come to an understanding of what I'm trying to say.
Otherwise, who knows, you know, you're never quite sure.
All right.
How about a fun fact?
There are six states in America where you can sue someone if they have an affair with your spouse that leads a divorce.
Which constant is not one of them.
Hawaii, North Carolina, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah.
If they're cheating leads to a divorce, you can sue them.
Who knew?
There's another fun fact.
This one's kind of scary in a way, kind of creepy.
CNN actually has a video clip ready to go right on the air if the world comes to an end.
It's a band playing the song near my God to thee.
If I'm not mistaken, that was the song that they played while the Titanic was going down.
So CNN actually has had ready to go at a moment's notice.
What do they know that we don't know?
And here's another survey on New Year's resolutions.
The top five are improving overall health, saving money, being more optimistic, getting in better shape physically, and being better with your budget.
You got to be kidding me.
That's the same every year.
And it lasts for about five, six, seven days, maybe in the January.
So yeah, I did one thing.
I started my New Year's resolution now.
I'm going to fix everything on my body.
I'm going to go to every doctor I can go to and get everything fixed.
And I started back in late November.
My regular doctor went to another doctor and I have a couple of more appointments coming up in January.
I'm getting everything fixed because I don't want to deal with it anymore.
I'm tired of thinking, huh, I never saw that before where that come from.
So I decided to get my body all fixed and in shape.
So that's my New Year's resolution.
I started it back in November.
You know, you're getting older and older and things start breaking down and things start appearing.
And you say, gee, where'd that come from?
Most of the time it's nothing.
I went to a dermatologist and I said, what's that?
It's nothing.
If it's nothing, then you're going to charge me.
Anyway, partly sunny today with a high near 42 degrees.
Not a bad day.
Cloudy tonight.
Rain late tonight.
Lowes around 34.
Rain all day tomorrow with a high near 42 right now.
A clear sky and 30 degrees coming up tonight.
We have got the box in Brooklyn, New York.
They're taking on the nets at the Barclays Center.
6 p.m. right here on WRGN.
I'm Don Rosen.
Thanks for joining us at home town radio refreshed.
A civic media station.
We were always standing hand in hand.
I wore high top shoes and shoals.
Shoes and walls and details.
I knew I'd love her in the name.
You know my papa disapproved it.
My mama boo hoon it.
I told them time and time again.
Don't you know I was making love.
From a world all around her.
Yeah hey hey hey.
She's been our inspiration.
Showing appreciation for the love I've got through the years.
Like the sweet mackennon you treat my love glass of tender leave.
My life grew sweet and through the years.
I know that muck baby love me.
Muck baby needs me.
That's why we've made through the years.
I was made to love.
Wash up in the dark.
Hey hey hey.
Awesome thing has been.
I love just morning.
Cause I love not even love the baby.
Time to make love me.
My baby needs me.
And I know.
One of the greatest musical talents in history.
Steve Lind Wonder.
Stevie Wonder.
Little Stevie Wonder when he recorded his first big hit finger tips part two.
Remember part one.
I remember finger tips part two.
What a talent.
I'm Don Rosen.
I want to thank you for joining us here on this Wednesday morning,
last Wednesday of the year.
We have New Year's Eve coming up.
You have New Year's Eve plans?
Now I remember someone as a kid.
As a young adult too.
All the commercials between Christmas and New Year's
had to do with champagne.
They always had these champagne commercials on radio and television.
I don't hear that anymore.
I don't see it on TV either.
They always were pushing champagne.
Hmm.
I haven't seen that in a while.
Okay.
Four today party sunny.
Highs near 42.
Cloudy tonight.
Maybe some rain around 5 a.m.
in the morning tonight.
Lows around 34 rain tomorrow.
With a high near 42.
If you want to say anything to us, you can.
Phone lines are open.
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634.
9756.
262.
634.
WRJN.
New Year's resolutions that you're seriously going to try to keep.
Give us a call.
262.
634.
9756.
And we'll see what we can do.
All right.
Survey as people all.
I'm going to bring this out.
Christmas decorations.
There.
I won't tell you where the house is, but I pass it a lot.
And they have tons of what they call those those blow molds on their lawn.
Those are those.
And they're blow molds.
I get this grab them.
And they don't take them down to like March or April from their lawn.
Survey as people, when is a responsible person?
I like the way they put that out there.
Responsible person.
Do they take down their Christmas decorations?
58% of people said sometime in mid-January.
7% said you can wait until February.
3% said get rid of them on December 26th.
This week we get rid of ours.
We always take them now.
We start the new year.
Clean is a whistle.
Nothing.
I like somebody.
There's a meme online.
And every year they put it up there.
So now that it's on December 25th.
And they said now they can start putting out the Valentine's Day stuff.
Move on to the next fun holiday.
Know what sleep texting is?
I ain't never heard of this before.
But it's a real thing.
Researchers found one quarter of college students have sent a text message while they were asleep.
Most of them had no memory of sending it the next morning.
Well, that's got to be really scary.
Here are some of the dumbest ways people have been fired from their job.
Just hours after starting.
One guy tried to buy meth from his boss and Arby's cashier stole $100 from the register
after ringing up a few customers.
An IT guy plugged in his personal hard drive and started stealing company files after they started.
The most searched for cosmetic procedures.
Are you ready?
Here they are.
Botox injections, liposuction, tummy talks, butt lifts and nose jobs.
I guess we're not happy with the way we look.
Survey asked Americans to rank their biggest phobias.
Now, it's hard for me to pronounce some of these phobias.
So I'm just going to tell you what they are.
Number one in the list, fear of heights.
I do have a fear of heights.
Even when I walked down my porch, if I look down, I get nervous.
When I was six years old, my father, we went to Washington, D.C. on vacation.
And my father, we decided we're going to take the elevator up the washing monuments.
My brother, my mother and I, my father, we went to the elevator up to the down.
My father said, let's walk down.
It should be easy to walk down.
I got to the first step and I couldn't do it.
I said, no, no, I'll live up here.
Just, you know, it's that means some school books and everything I'm living at the top of the washing monument.
My father had to carry me down the entire length of the washing monument and I was six years old.
I couldn't, I couldn't walk down the washing monument.
I got to a couple of years ago here at WRJ and we were doing a game, a basketball game, at Case High School.
And I had to set up the equipment in the gymnasium.
And I got to the top of the bleachers walking up, set up the equipment, tested it, it was fine.
I couldn't get down.
So I sat there and nobody was in the gym.
I had to wait till somebody came in and I said, I can't get down.
They said, we can't walk down.
I said, nope.
So what if you hold the railing?
I said, nope.
This is how I got down from the top of the bleachers.
I had a sit on my butt one step at a time.
That's how I got down.
Now there were times when I used to go to the stock car races.
I was able to run down.
The bleachers run up.
You know, just, you know, this every once in a while, it happens.
I couldn't get down.
And I didn't want to go back up again because I knew I couldn't get down again.
So fear of heights.
That's me.
There's a fear of spiders came out number two.
That's a racnephobia, a fear of tight spaces, claustrophobia.
Then you got the fear of snakes, which I can't pronounce.
A fear of deep water, can't pronounce.
Fear of death, necrophobia.
I think most people live a fear of death.
Here's one that a lot of people have to.
A fear of public speaking.
That is actually called claustrophobia.
A fear of clowns.
Cool role phobia.
I think they call that a fear of needles, try panophobia and a fear of insects and tomophobia.
I think everybody's got a fear of insects.
I mean, who likes those?
Yeah.
Anyway.
So yeah, fear of death.
I think most people have that.
I mean, he said, well, you're going to die.
You know, the panic starts immediately.
Here's a fun fact for you.
You ever see Paramount Pictures, the logo on the screen when it comes on?
There were 22 stars surrounding the mountain peak at the Paramount logo.
Next time you see a movie, a Paramount movie, you know, a lot of movies and theaters of Paramount.
Take a look at the logo and you'll see 22 stars surrounding the mountain.
They represent the very first 22 movie stars that signed with Paramount Pictures in 1916.
And here's one for you.
If I gave you $1 billion cash and said you have to spend $1,000 a day, it would take you 2,749 years to run out of money.
I'd like to try it.
Wouldn't you?
See, you know, it's difficult to spend $1,000 a day.
You think it would be easy.
I mean, I need to make a throw.
You could put the money on a, you know, in a casino.
We'll put it on red.
But now, if you had to spend a fat buy, think for $1,000 a day every day.
It's tough to do.
I'm Don Rose and thanks for joining us at WRJN Radio, home town radio refreshed.
1,400 a.m. 99.9 FM in Racine, 98.1 FM Kenosha, 629.
News headlines next.
So, you ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all?
Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house.
You realize you have a letter for a neighbor.
You ever just look at the letter and go, mm, looks like they're never getting this.
Take too much energy to go back outside.
You might like stick it on a bureau.
I'm going to get that to them later on.
Right now, I got to watch some love connection.
I got some new host on there.
You ever have one thing to do all day, but you just can't get yourself to do it?
I got to go to the post office.
But I'd probably have to put on pants.
They're only open till five.
You're going to have to do that next week.
Kind of a little more free time.
I never have free time.
Yeah, I don't know about you.
Whenever I go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you.
You get kind of flustered.
You're like, forget it.
I'm not standing here for 40 seconds.
I got things to do.
Sometimes being lazy can get you in trouble.
Like, you ever not take a shower all weekend?
Just lounge around.
Then you're running late for work on Monday?
Oh, no.
It's always one person at work.
Something smells like smoke in here.
I went to a barbecue on Friday night.
Only had 48 hours to take a shower.
Busy.
Yeah.
There's a horn on a western bay, and it serves a hundred chips a day.
Lonest sailors pass the time away and talk about their homes.
And well as a girl in this harbor town, and she works.
Layin' whiskey down this day-brand day.
Fetch another round.
She serves them whiskey in wine.
They'll say they'll say brand new.
You'll find you'll find you.
What a good life you would be.
Fetch a fire.
It's the sea, they'll say you'll find the sea.
Brandy, where's the braided chain?
Made a finest silver from the north of Spain.
A locket that bears the night of a man that branded love.
It came on a summer's day, bringing gifts from far away.
But it made it clear that it couldn't stay.
The harbor was his home.
The sailors that bring with you'll find you'll find you.
All right, you want to hear a backstory on this song?
It's really interesting.
This is Brandy by the Looking Glass.
Now there was a song called Brandy by a guy named Scott English.
It wasn't a song, it was a totally different song.
It was called Brandy.
And he wanted somebody, he recorded the song, but somebody famous wanted to record it.
Barry Manolo.
Now the problem was this song in 1972 had already come out, Brandy.
And you couldn't have two songs Brandy on the charts.
So they changed the name of the Scott English Brandy to Mandy.
And that's the Barry Manolo hit Mandy, which was originally Brandy,
but because a Looking Glass came out with this song,
they couldn't put both titles out there.
So that's how we got Mandy by Barry Manolo and Brandy by the Looking Glass.
You got that?
Looking Glass actually had one other, he had Jimmy Loeb's Mary Ann.
Was there really other song after that?
I think they, you know, is one of the almost a one hit wonder group,
one and a half eight wonders.
We'll put it that way.
All right, let's check the news this morning at 639 at WRJN Radio.
It's going to be partly sunny today with a hundred forty two.
Right now it's clear and thirty degrees.
The sun's still not up yet.
I was just poking my beak out the door and the sun was not up yet.
There's a full moon out there.
Stuart J. Wattles in our new center watching news for us this morning.
Here's some of the stories Stuart has for us.
Three million dollars is coming to receive to fix lead water lines.
The DNR announced the funding is part of the twenty twenty four safe drinking water loan program.
It will provide the city with a two million dollar grant and a loan worth a million.
The city plans to replace about three hundred lead service lines next year.
Property owners will not be charged for the planned private side replacement.
And the DNR expects to have funds available for line replacements for the next five years.
Aiming to move Wisconsin closer to be a led free state.
Jamesville Police confirming the safety of that city's blains, farm and fleet and its parking lot.
Following a potential bomb threat.
The Dane County bomb squad technicians declared the area safe at around eight o'clock last night.
After the initial call and shut down everyone in the store was told to leave.
The parking lot was cleared out and more information should be released today.
There were thirteen places to place your Christmas tree in Kenosha.
The city of Kenosha has opened its holiday tree disposal sites.
Which will be available until January 31st at designated locations.
We collected trees will be chipped and used as mulch in the city's parks.
And residents are reminded to remove all ornaments tree stands and other metal objects before disposal.
Three pick up and recene starts on the third.
And following the dismissal of charges against a couple who were wrongfully arrested by Kenosha police and the Applebees.
There's a possibility of a federal lawsuit being filed.
Jermiel English Jr. and Cheyenne Boyd were mistakenly implicated in a hit and run with English being forcibly restrained by an officer despite their innocence.
The couple was charged, but all charges against them had now been dropped.
They were contemplating taking a legal action against the officers, the police chief and the restaurant to seek justice for their family.
Those are the stories that Stuart J. Wattles is watching for us today.
That and more coming up throughout the entire day here at WRJ and radio.
All right.
This is from our archives.
This one I found is an older story, but I'd like to know what the outcome of this story was.
Microsoft filed a patent for a new sensor that monitors people's body language during meetings to figure out how bored they are.
There was no word if they ever rolled that out to the public or not.
Could you imagine your boss with that monitoring that?
Hmm.
I see Mr. Rosen here is totally bored.
He's daydreaming.
We have important information we tried to share with him about the future of the radio station.
Mr. Rosen is thinking about butterflies right now.
Hmm.
You got to do something about that.
I don't know if they ever rolled that out.
Could you imagine?
Your boss could tell you if you're bored at a meeting.
All right.
So you got being bored in daydreaming.
It's possibly it's a good thing when people daydream at work.
Researchers found daydreaming helps people come up with more creative solutions than whatever they're working on.
It also helps them get through challenging projects.
Yeah.
Get your boss to sign off on that.
It's good when they daydream.
No problem there.
Someone gave a waitress a tip of $2,000.
This happened in Texas.
He hasn't gotten any of the money.
And get this.
The restaurant says it can't process a tip that big.
So they can't give her the money.
You got to be kidding me.
Try harder.
Maybe you can figure out a way to do it.
You can be losing up to six entire days every year just by hitting that snooze button.
If you're one of the 36% of people that hits the snooze in average of four times every morning
it adds up to six wasted days a year.
I don't hit the snooze button.
When it's time to get up, it's time to get up.
And why is the snooze button always nine minutes?
Not ten minutes.
Because when you're sleeping, now you got to compute, must be nine minutes times two.
That's 18 plus the...
I started the alarm at 22 past the hour.
How do I do this?
Carry the one.
Multiply times.
Carry the two.
Why can't they just make it ten minutes?
All my clocks have been nine minutes when you hit the snooze.
Not ten minutes where it's easier to figure out.
643.
WRG and good morning.
Party study today.
Highs near 42 degrees right now.
It's clear in 30.
Coming up tonight, we've got the Milwaukee Bucks taking on the nets at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
6PM.
Coming up Friday.
We've got the Bucks against the Cavaliers in Cleveland.
That will be at 6PM.
And Sunday, the Packers at the Vikings.
There will be a Minnesota at 5 PM.
All activity starts at 5 on WRG and with the Green Bay Packers and Monday.
If the batter is taking on LSU at 9 AM and the Pacers taking on the Bucks at 630 PM, full day on New Year's Day and Monday.
Wow.
We got a lot of sports here.
I think it's amazing that we got the Packers, the Bucks, the Bangers.
And next year, the Milwaukee Brewers on WRGN.
Who got it all?
It's right here.
At high school football too next year with Dick Ricefah.
That's going to be a reality as well.
That's good.
The average person starts working 17 minutes before their official start time.
They take 29 fewer minutes for lunch breaks and they're allowed.
And they stay 16 minutes after their official end time.
And it all up.
That's 62 minutes of extra work a day.
31 unpaid days of work a year.
Have a great day today.
I do that too.
I mean, my official start time is 6 AM.
But I get here like at 20 after 5 or the laughter 5 30.
5 30.
So.
All right.
So I'm for odd, but true.
The founder of Time X watches picked the name to honor his father because his father loved reading Time Magazine and used Kleenex a lot.
It was time X.
That's where it comes from.
The term anorexia was created by the British doctor in the 1800s names Sir William Goll.
There are theories that he might have been jacked a ripper.
Really.
Again, his book of world records holds a world record itself being the best selling copyrighted book of all time.
Even ahead of Webster's Dictionary.
They say, what about the Bible?
The Bible's not copyrighted.
The Sir be asked people the name the top things they hate about winter.
The days are too short.
And by the way, there's nothing you could do about any of these.
Okay.
The days are too short.
Not enough sunshine, which goes with the days are too short.
Scraping the ice after windshield, which reminds me of frost on your windshield this morning starts scraping.
Don't drive if you can't see out your windows and your mirrors are all iced up.
Your heating bills go up.
It seems like you always feel too cold.
You wake up in the dark.
You come home from work in the dark.
Ice getting chapped lips.
You could do something about that with a lubricant on you.
Advocate to all your chores inside, except when you got a shovel snow.
Falling, slipping, and sliding on ice.
And when you have to get out of your warm bed in the morning, especially when you got to go shoveling snow first thing in the morning.
Those are all things we hate about winter.
And most of those you really can't do anything about.
If I was up in Alaska, we went the time of year that the sun was never down.
Now, it wasn't bright and sunny like 12 noon.
What it was is you could see the sun on the horizon.
So I got up at like two in the morning, one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, and I went to the deck of the ship.
The cruise ship we were on.
I looked and there was the sun on the horizon.
It didn't go down.
That's kind of creepy.
A bull found the top things we want in our home of the future.
Are you ready?
Self-tinting windows.
Soundproof walls.
We can get that now.
Fingerprint door locks.
I think they have that now.
A fridge that automatically orders stuff.
That's what I want.
And a hologram assistant.
That's what I don't want.
I think that would freak me out the wake up in the morning.
Hi, Mr. Rosen.
Would you like your breakfast now?
Or would you like to wait?
No, I don't want to.
I don't want to.
I don't want a hologram assistant.
Six, forty seven at WRJN.
Hey, you want to talk about anything this morning?
Come on, just stuff over your chest.
Six, three, four, nine, seven, five, six.
We don't open the phones too often.
But this morning I decided to two, six, two, six, three, four.
WRJN two, six, two, six, three, four, nine, seven, five, six.
Want to talk about something?
Feel free to do it this morning.
Phone lines are open.
We don't do it often.
But we'll do it today.
Let's see what else we got for you here.
Ah, some fun facts.
The first book that included photographs published in 1843.
The first photographs were of algae.
They figured it would be some portrait of somebody.
No, it's algae.
Every ounce of ice water you drink burns one calorie.
So let's see if I drink eight ounces, that's eight calories.
I drink 30 bottles.
That's like burning off a whole hamburger.
There are 43 buildings that have been hot and that have their own zip code.
I think the World Trade Center was and now it might be the new version of the World Trade Center up there.
I think that might have its own zip code.
The Empire State Building.
I'm not sure if it's got its own zip code or not.
Hmm.
No, not sure.
It's at 648 at WRJN.
Just me and you this morning.
No guest today, but coming up later this week, we've got some hot guests for you.
Yeah.
Thursday.
I think it's Thursday.
We're going to talk the history of received Jim Brassier and Carol G.M. Forteg.
I'm going to be here in the studio.
On Friday, we're going to have an extended segment with Brett Hoffman from Marcus Theaters.
We're going to talk about all the films coming out next year, all that we've happened that we know about.
Coming out in theaters in 2024.
So I got some good topics for you right here at WRJN Radio.
Long-town radio refreshed a civic media station.
Tonight's the night we're going to make it happen.
Tonight we'll put all of the things aside.
Giving this time and show me some affection.
We're going for those pleasures in the night.
I want to love you, feel you, let myself remind you.
I want to squeeze you, squeeze you.
I just can't get enough, and if you will show me, I'll let it go.
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it.
I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it.
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it.
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I want you.
We shouldn't even think about tomorrow.
We shouldn't even always, we'll last a long, long time.
We'll have a good time, baby, don't you worry.
And if we're still playing around, boy, that's just right.
Let's get excited.
We just can't hide it.
No, no, no.
I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it.
The point is, sisters, I'm so excited.
It's 6.52 at WRJN, coming up tonight, the Milwaukee Bucks
traveled to Brooklyn, New York to the Barclays Center to take on
the Brooklyn Nets 6 p.m. tonight at WRJN.
I remember when the Nets played at the NASA Coliseum on Long Island.
They were right next to my college, I went to Hofstra University,
and right next door to Hofstra was the NASA Coliseum,
and they had the New York Nets playing there.
Then they moved to Brooklyn when the Barclays Center was built.
I'm excited because tomorrow we're talking a little bit of
Racine's history, and this is going to be a good segment tomorrow.
We're going to have at 7 a.m., we're going to have Jim Mercere
and Carol G. N. Fortey in our studio.
And we're going to talk about what Christmas was like shopping
in the 50s and 60s in Racine.
This was a program they actually did at the Golden Rondell Theatre
called Let's Go Shopping.
And they did a lot of research on the stores that were here at that time
in downtown Racine.
And we're going to talk about some of those stores.
A lot of them aren't there anymore because time moves on.
We're going to see what stores are still there.
But one of the stores that was big, JC Penny used to be right downtown.
Zons, which is now the Verdant Hotel.
Woolworth's all these downtown stores.
I haven't heard of a lot of these.
I never heard of before because it was before I got here.
But this was in the 50s and 60s shopping.
We're going to talk about men's clothing stores, shoe stores.
We used to go, and now there was no payless shoe store.
They didn't have $100 shoes back then.
Where did people buy their toys back then?
There was no Walmart, toys or us in the 50s and 60s.
So we'll talk about where people used to do that.
How about teens and music?
Where did they get their records from?
And one of the stores we've mentioned on the air
because Ralph Schoenleben was here for 55 years on the air at WRJ
and worked at one of these record stores.
I'll talk about some of the bookstores out there.
Some of the candy stores.
And the camera stores.
Remember, there were no cell phones back then.
You wanted to take a picture.
You had to buy a camera with film.
Specialty stores they had.
Where did people go for entertainment?
Now, one of these places is still here.
We'll talk about that tomorrow.
And the movie theaters downtown as well.
The movie theaters downtown are gone.
A lot of these stores are gone.
There's one or two of them still left.
And we'll talk about that tomorrow with Jim Rossering, Carol G.
and Fort A, or NWRJ and 706 tomorrow.
That should be fun.
They kind of come every month.
We're going to talk to them.
So it'll be a regular.
Here's something else we're going to do this year.
Now, we're going to start.
Is it next week?
I'm trying to remember it's next week, the week after.
We're going to start bringing in people who used to work here at WRJ in years past.
And we're going to make an historic record of our conversations with them.
We're going to then put, give them to the library.
We'll be stored at the Racine Public Library.
They said they can store the information.
We'll give them a little disk of the information.
At 50, 60 years from now, somebody will be able to say,
what was WRJ unlike back then?
And they'll be able to put the disk in.
And here are interviews.
The reason we're doing that is I can't be idea.
And I mentioned this on here already.
A good friend of mine passed away.
He was the program director of W. E. Z. W.
in Milwaukee at 103 seven for 20 years.
And when he passed away recently, his wife said,
do you have any recordings of him?
And I said, no, I don't.
And she didn't have any either.
And I checked the internet.
No, there were no recordings of him.
So here's a guy that was on the air 20 years at this particular radio station.
And he was also at other radio stations still.
There is no record of him ever being on the radio.
And he said, that can't happen again.
We've got to keep a historical record and have these archived.
And we're going to start doing that next week of the week after.
We're going to have these scheduled.
But we're going to talk to as many people as we can,
because we're losing them.
We lost about five or six people that worked here at WRJN
in the past year, two years.
We lost Lou Turner.
It was an air personality here.
We lost Tom Kramer who worked here for years.
We lost two of our engineers, Terry Bond and Gene Butterfield.
We lost, who else do we lose?
We lost Ed Doody, one of our former general managers.
So we got to do something about that.
And I decided I talked to the people at Civic Media and told them what my plan was.
And they're all for it.
So we're going to do that.
And I wanted to start with the older people first,
because I want to get them in before anything happens to them.
And I'm sorry we didn't do this earlier.
So we're going to talk to some of the former owners,
some of the former engineers, some of the former on-air personalities,
some of the former news directors.
We're going to talk to as many people as we can and archive it.
And we're going to start.
I marked it down.
Are you the next week after I got to check my calendar here.
But we're going to do all that.
The forecast for today, partly sunny,
highs near 42 degrees, cloudy tonight,
rain by sunrise or 5 a.m.
And the summer that's sunrise,
lows around 34 tonight.
Tomorrow, rain by the high near 42.
Right now, we've got a clear sky,
30 degrees in routine.
658 at WRJN radio, 1,400 a.m.
Also 99.9 FM in Racine and 98.1 FM in Genotia.
We've got a radio refresh to Civic Media Station.
I'm Don Rosen.
It's there right here.
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