The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

Thank you very, very much.

Well, let's get the gray hair out of the way.

Because if I don't, you won't listen to a word I say for an hour,

you'll be out there.

Did you know anything about the gray hair?

I'm just as befuddled as you.

I don't know what happened either.

COVID hit.

I went into hibernation and came out of senior citizen.

It's just as well.

I was never comfortable in the hair color aisle anyway.

You always have to pretend like you're there for someone else.

Women, huh?

I like the difference in hair color names between women and men.

Women have hair color names like Ruby Fusion.

Chocolate cherry, butter scotch, men's hair color, brown, black,

light brown, dark black.

For men that is the entire color spectrum.

What do the names say when they hear a screaming noise?

Do they talk about love?

All the dead is what do the names know about the heart and soul?

The fighting down the law and the real demands they could never get.

In the silence ends and all I want is you.

In the sexy hurry hand we come here.

All I want is you.

I don't want a man who says good morning.

No, no, no.

All I want is you.

All I want is you.

All I want is you.

Nobody else but you.

I'm not the right is bold out there.

I'm not the right is bold out there.

You are on the county board and you're an older.

That's right.

That's the term now.

Older woman, older person, older man, older.

Keep it simple.

That's the fourth.

That's correct.

What do they call that district?

That's the fourth district.

No, the fourth district.

But yet as an older, you're the fifth district.

I am.

So I said I had it all screwed up because there are actually four people running for the Amanda.

Half-rath.

Half-rath is not running again.

So there were four people running for the fourth.

And the first thing I said when you came in the door, so you're not running again.

No, because I knew you were in the fourth district but that's for the county board.

I didn't get balanced that.

Because it comes part of your everyday routine.

So it's easy for me to balance.

I don't expect others to try to follow.

Now the county board is just west of the interstate, right?

Is that what you guys mean?

We do.

We meet west in the state right at the triangle of Washington, it's great.

Yeah.

I've been out there before.

Now, what do they have the meetings the same time?

What do you choose?

Well, it's about timing.

It's about balance, about priority.

You do diligence.

You read the agendas.

It doesn't happen also often.

So, but when it does, it's about prioritizing the needs.

And a lot of the work happens at the standing committees.

So just pay an attention to the standing committees and making sure you're present for those.

Anybody with the supermarket ever come up to you?

Melissa, come here a second.

I want to talk to you about something.

On my street, I got this giant bottle.

Come here, come here.

I want to talk to you.

They planted this tree on my property.

I want it out.

Now, Melissa, come here a second.

The snow was in my driveway the other day.

And they planted it.

It was a vengeful thing because they knew I'd just dug it out.

Melissa, come here.

I want to talk to you.

Is that happened to you?

Oh, my goodness, Don.

I can tell you've talked to a lot of electives.

But my children do not like going to the grocery store with me because we don't just run in and run out.

But they do.

They absolutely.

Everybody has needs.

And they always want to be heard.

So I think that's the beautiful position that I hold.

That I get to collect that the vulnerability of people and their needs.

And everybody's pothole is more important than your pothole.

Oh, my goodness.

Yes.

And the speeding that happens in front of their house.

Oh, that they don't do.

I live on Main Street.

Yeah.

And I got to tell you, it's like a dragway out there some nights.

And you hear it because there were some cars that just blow out their muffler system and everything.

And you know they're going faster than the speed limit.

Because you're going to lose by the house.

And there's nobody's catching these people the other day.

I'm coming up because I got the detour on State Street by the bridge.

Yes.

And so I went up.

What's that road there?

It's I had a stop at Hamilton.

And I always stop at a four way stop sign and I wait because people pass stop sign.

And this guy in a loud car just blew the stop sign at full speed.

And if I would have gone when I was supposed to go.

Because people say, why do you stop at a street with no stop sign?

Because people don't stop it.

Especially when I come to work at five o'clock in the morning.

People are there on my bumper so close.

I can't even see their headlights are so close.

And they're beeping and everything.

I'm going 35 the speed limit.

What do you want me to do?

Well, your wisdom protected you that day.

So Melissa, I want you to work on the speed limit thing on Main Street.

One thing I would do.

Well, you know, people pay their taxes and they want things the way they want it.

And they want it now.

Absolutely.

I want you to work on my pothole today.

And by the way, I don't have any potholes in front of my house.

Thank goodness, but you will have a new order to help you work through your problems.

Yeah, one of four people.

That's right.

We got a 25% chance.

That's right.

Getting somebody I like.

Okay, so I'll tell you this then we'll get to the stuff on your list here.

Sure.

A couple of years ago, there were planning trees up and down Main Street.

And the guy dug the hole and he was about to put the tree in.

And my wife said, well, I don't want the tree because it's going to grow.

And it's going to lift the sidewalk up because you see that all over the place.

You do after about 10 years that they start to live.

So I said, don't, don't put it in.

And we actually called the city and said, don't put the tree in.

And they said, okay.

And the guy was digging the hole.

We came home.

And he said, okay, I'll be back to fill it up.

That was about 12 years ago, 10 years ago.

The hole is still there.

And I put tons of dirt in there and it just keeps sinking.

And on the 4th of July, when we put chairs out from one chair,

it's always tilted to the 45 degree angle.

They never came and fixed it.

I can dump a dirt in there.

And it just doesn't seem to fill it.

I think dirt's sitting going right down to China.

Well, you know, the city can help with that.

But I will say the practices now today are different in the trees that they are putting

in those the street grass part.

They have different root systems.

I was going to say they don't have roots.

Well, they do, but they grow a little bit different.

So you're not going to have those problems that we're experiencing now from those older plants.

So here's what we learned about the first few minutes here.

Stop bothering the list of the supermarket.

She's there to buy stuff and not deal with your problems.

Oh, I don't mind it.

People come up to me all the time.

They said, gee, when are you coming back to WRJ?

And I've been here for two months.

So you're back.

And we love it.

We love it done.

Okay.

I hear a couple of topics here.

One of those guys.

No mome.

It's hard to say.

It's like one of those when you're drunk and they give you the test outside your car to see

if you're nebriated.

They have to say this three times fast.

No mome.

No mome.

So what is that?

Yeah.

So it is for the city.

It's a pilot program.

But this is nothing just new.

It's somewhat new to this area as through the pilot program, but it's practiced throughout the nation.

And it's an opportunity to allow the grasses to grow.

And so pollinators can flourish and we can increase biodiversity by not mowing.

Especially for those early pollinators to give them food sources.

But why the city has attached to it?

Because there is a weed ordinance.

And so it will give you a pass during that month to not be cited for growing your grass long at that time.

So let's promote pollinator health.

And let's see how it goes.

It is a $25 charge.

But what that does give you is you'll be part of the city work system so the city can track to make sure that the people who are non-compliant with the ordinance do not get cited.

And it gives you a yard sign.

So it advertises help to create awareness and community conversation around the benefits of the pollinators health and increasing biodiversity for our plant life and for insect life.

It's funny you should bring this up because last year my wife wouldn't let me mow the backyard.

She said the bees need the whatever back there.

Love it.

She's going on bees and where the bees headed bees are missing.

She buys local honey from a local honey guy.

She says it has been heavy into bees.

Except she doesn't want to be around them, but they're in the backyard.

So the grass is now looking like an African safari in the backyard.

I need a pith helmet to walk in my backyard because the grass is getting high.

So I start she doesn't want to be mowing, but I'm kind of mowing around it.

Now there's a giant circle in the backyard.

The circle is getting a little smaller and they say by the bees are done.

I looked on the internet.

The bees are finished on mowing because I can't even get the lawn mower over it.

It's so high.

So I started mowing it, but she's going to come up again.

I'm sure and say stop mowing the backyard.

She has the right idea.

Well, he was the problem.

We had a dog at the tower dog passed away, but we had a dog.

And when the grass is at high, normally when it's short, you can see where you're walking.

When you have a dog back there and the grass is high, it's like, you know, it's like a gamble walking at that backyard.

And she didn't care because I was the one that had a mow it.

So I'm sure she's going to come up with that.

And that's not a bad idea.

I mean, they got to pollinate.

And this is how they do it.

And this is how the bees work.

And I'm not in their world.

And it's a good idea.

It is a great idea.

And Don, you know what?

It's a short, it's for short amount of time.

It's for the month of May.

But it really provides some connectivity and resources for pollinators and wildlife to thrive.

Bees.

Bees, but there's insects.

And it's also good for the soil.

And because when we keep mowing, you can erode the soil.

It dries out.

So we want good soil health.

Look at you doing the health of the grass and the bees and worrying about the insects.

Well, Don, us with the green thumbs, we're already getting anxious.

We want to get our hands in that soil now.

But if this is something we can think about to help get us to that point, you know, we like that.

This is our winter activity.

You know, my wife purchased an insect catcher.

I don't like killing insects because they didn't do anything wrong there.

You know, unless they bite me or something, they get slapped in the get kill.

But if you're just walking around to get into the house.

So she bought this insect thing where you, it's got a magnifying glass.

And you put it down, it scoops up the insect.

You can see what kind of it's with the magnifying.

Then you unscoop it outside and let them outside.

I don't like killing them with buck spray or something because they didn't do anything.

They're just doing what came natural to them.

But I warn them, if you sting me or bite me, you're dead.

If I catch a mosquito on me, I slap it and kill it.

It's understandable, Prick.

If you stay off me, that's good.

It's Melissa Caprilegan is here.

County board person.

Also older, hurt, older.

I got to get, I'm going to get into older change.

It's 719 at WRGN Radio, hometown radio,

refreshed to civic media stations.

There we are, more come.

It's sundown all around.

Walking through the sun, worse than waves.

Crash baby, don't look back.

I won't walk away again.

Oh baby, anywhere you go.

We are found together.

I begin, baby, anywhere you end.

Something's on forever.

Circle in the sun, run, run, run.

Never ending love is what we found.

And you complete the heart of me.

Our love is all we need.

Circle in the sun, say.

Circle in the sun, say.

Cold wind, tide moves in.

Shivers in the salty air.

To you breaks my heart aches.

I will be for you right here.

Oh baby, where are you looking for me?

Can't you see forever?

I begin, baby, anywhere you end.

Circle in the sun, run, run, run.

Melissa Capriola is here from the county board

and from the 5th automatic district.

So if you're an older, what do they call the county board member?

You call him county supervisor.

County supervisors, okay, where's your name?

They do.

I'm still called a disc jockey, even though I don't play.

I always say, what do you do for a living?

I'm a DJ.

What am I doing?

I mean, I'm not curing cancer here, are we?

Also, on the list, we have an upcoming open online forum

that you will be facilitating.

I will.

It's about the city's rent initiative.

First of all, how do people get online to join that?

And when is it?

Where does it?

What is that all about?

Yeah, it'll be via Zoom.

So it'll be an online forum just to make it for easier accessibility.

January 25th at 530 that is a Thursday.

And this is going to be geared towards property managers and landlords.

Okay.

Yeah.

So the public, not the public, though.

No, no, things will come.

So I'm doing these online forums once every couple months.

And they are earth.

They're birthed because of different complaints that I hear coming in.

So a ways to address them and bring forth some solutions.

At the supermarket or just official.

Okay.

Sometimes they're supermarkets and sometimes they're other means.

What do you wear?

What do you wear in those big noses with the mustache and the big, funny glasses?

Really bring attention to it.

So people stay away from you.

Oh, is that right?

Okay.

So that's going to take place again.

January 25th at 530.

It is a couple of weeks away.

What else do we have to look forward to?

County-wise and city-wise?

Anything big happening?

Yeah.

Well, you know, we just passed our budget in both of those governments.

And so with that comes vision and different things that are going to implement in rollout

and move forward.

So neither has met for the new year yet.

Those are up and coming meetings.

So I hope more people will pay attention and stay tuned.

And if they have some issues, just like renters, tenant issues, as well.

Pay attention because we'll have some forums for tenants as well.

But are you familiar with the rents program?

No, would you mind if I just share a little bit about.

So the rents initiative, it stands for rental empowerment and neighborhood tenant services.

And the overall, this program aims to raise standards and improve neighborhoods.

Protect renters rights and assist landlords and penalize the negligent ones.

So I'm sure everybody has a story about a property in their district that is being neglected

or you hear about bad landlords or tenants.

So this program really looks to address those things.

And it creates different opportunities for tenants to gain more rights or even landlords to do just the same.

And create some higher opportunities to stay engaged and make a better neighborhood.

This forum is more so to address some of the complaints coming in from the property managers

and the landlords that say this program is not quite working, how it's rolled out to be.

So I think with some collaborative conversations, we can really make it a stronger program.

My goodness, I don't think I can do this job you have.

Well, you do really good at the job.

I'll tell you why because I would say, hey, work it out.

Don't involve me in this thing.

Just work it out.

You do adults.

You can figure it out yourself.

You can work on this.

I was talking channel 12 news last night.

And they've got a lot of landlord problems in Milwaukee.

Some of these homes are infested.

They leak.

I can't believe the landlords don't take care of this problem.

Now I have a two family home.

Now our son lives upstairs.

I don't rent it out.

Although he pays rent.

Not a lot.

But he pays rent.

And he just had a shower problem.

And as soon as nine thousand five hundred dollars from the plumber to fix the problem.

And to replace the floor we tore up.

Another twenty five hundred dollars.

But it had to be done.

I mean, it had to be done.

You had it, but it had to fix the water pressure in the building in the house.

Because my house is old.

It's over a hundred years old.

And you know, some of the pipes are old and that's what you got to fix.

But you got to spend the money.

But somebody's landlords.

I don't know how they could go to sleep at night knowing their tenants are being bitten by bugs.

Water is leaking on the children and the cribs.

But that's in Milwaukee.

It is in Milwaukee, but realize things bleed out.

Issues aren't just always isolated.

So people are everywhere, different type of people.

There will be an expanded chronic nuisance property rules.

I know that our new chief of police is working on that.

So it's something to look forward to as we roll into 2024 here.

So that's one of the big problems.

Any of the big problems else?

Any good news?

Do you have any good news to share with us?

Oh, there's always good news.

You just have to have that sunny perspective.

But you know, honestly, when I look at this, I look at this as good news as well.

It's opportunity of growth and coming together in strengthening programs.

So here's some good news.

The gas stations.

I can't find one that's about $3 a gallon anymore.

There are like 250 something a gallon.

That's good news.

Yeah, you need that savings as you drive to the grocery store.

I was thinking, I was thinking the other day, it was pumping gas.

And I hate to date myself, but I do it occasionally.

I'm like my grandfather.

It cost us a nickel to get a hot dog and we also got a free dinner plate and a free soda

and a vacation out of it all for a nickel.

So I become that person.

When I was a kid, I used to mallons.

I was 13 mallons.

I used to go to the local gas station.

And I used to bring like gallon gas thing because I had a, you know, carry that around with me.

25 cents a gallon.

Oh, wow.

I remember I was working in my first station.

And in New York during the gas crisis, we had not even, not even license plate things.

And the gas went up to 50 cents a gallon.

And I remember one of the people, the station, saying, the world's over.

The world's ending is 50 cents a gallon.

So I got online at six o'clock in the morning and got up, you know, to the front of the line.

And Salcatrini ran the gas station, the cell gas station.

They packed the gun because it was getting kind of rough out there.

So he's got the gun.

And I'm first online and somebody pulled in front of me.

And I said, I got out of the car and I said something.

And he said, get back in your car, Rosen.

Get back in your car now.

And he had his hand on the gun.

Oh, my God.

What a scene.

Hmm.

Wasn't pretty.

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Now you're not going anywhere.

I'm not.

We're talking movies.

Yeah, we're talking movies with Brett Hoffman for Marcus theaters in just a moment.

You're going to hang in there.

I'll have a conversation with Brady's filling in today.

Also, he's going to extend it because my Clemens has the crew or some kind of rare disease.

It's got a cold.

That's what it's got.

It sounds really bad.

I'm Don Ross and you're at home town Brady overfished.

It's our movie segment with Brett Hoffman of Marcus theaters.

And Brett, we have one new movie opening up today.

It's a horror movie.

I saw the ads for it.

I was telling you the other day.

You know, it's going to be a new movie when they announce your talks as fast as they can.

Only in theater starts Friday.

I got caught that real quickly.

So what's the new horror movie opening up?

That's right.

It's called a night swim and it's about a four amazingly baseless player.

He's forced into retirement because he has a degenerative degenerative illness.

And he now resides in a new home.

He thinks the backyard swimming pool is going to be fun for his kids.

He thinks it's going to be great therapy.

He has hopes that maybe with the therapy he can go join the major leagues again.

However, in the swimming pool, there's a dark secret of the house path.

It begins to surface.

And that's kind of what goes on.

You can imagine what ensues from there.

So that's the movie night swim.

It's the only major release this weekend and it's a horror film.

So what else we got hanging around at theaters still playing?

You know, there is plenty of things coming up and plenty of special events.

I'll tell you, if you haven't been out to the movies this past holiday season,

there's plenty out to come up to see.

There are a couple picks that I recommend.

If you have a family audience or basically anyone from eight to 80 that wants to go see a movie,

there's two great titles out there.

The first one is Wonka.

It is going to be the number one release at the box office this weekend again.

Timothy Shalamade does such a great job as Willy Wonka.

And this, of course, is the story of Willy Wonka before he had his truck of factory.

It is mesmerizing.

It is beautiful to watch on the big screen.

So if you haven't seen Wonka, you've got to check that out.

And also, there's another great animated title, Migration.

It's from Universal and from Illumination.

It's about a family of ducks who the protective parents of the duck family finally agree.

It go out of migration or a trip to Jamaica with the whole crew.

And that's a wonderful one as well.

If you want a recommendation for a cinephile movie, I'll tell you,

I really enjoyed the movie Iron Claw.

This is a tremendous movie about the story of a wrestling family, the Von Eric Brothers.

And it has a tremendous performance by Zach Efron.

And yes, he's the actor with that fantastic set of abs that showed them off in movies like Baywatch,

but in this case, he actually shows them off in a challenging role, in a wrestling role.

And he's cast as one of the brothers of this legendary family that's just always in turmoil.

He does a tremendous job.

Let me tell you, sometimes it's a hard movie to watch, but it is a tremendous movie and that's Iron Claw.

So if you want a couple of recommendations for what's out right now in terms of just what's playing on a regular basis,

those would be a couple of movies that I recommend anyone go out and say,

Well, when I used to watch wrestling and I was a kid, I remember Channel 5 ran it.

And we watched the wrestling Bruno San Martino mobile Brazil, really old wrestlers.

And my grandfather used to come in, are you watching the fakers again?

I said, it's not fake.

Watch him throw this guy.

Ah, they're all fakers.

Everyone else is a faker.

Yeah, you want to get in the ring with these guys.

Also, yeah, fake it is.

The other thing is, you mentioned the animated film migration.

Mickey Mouse is out of copy right now.

There's no copyright on the original Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie.

Anybody can draw it, use it in animation.

Now, it's not like Mickey Mouse looks today, but it's no longer in copyright.

Isn't that weird that the Disney character fell out of copyright this year?

So I don't know.

You want to go into movie making bread?

We'll make another Steamboat Willie.

Well, I'm sure there will be people that advantageously try to take advantage of this,

but we'll see where that goes.

Obviously, we'll see how this happens.

And this is bound to happen with more intellectual property as things get older and older.

Well, time passes.

It happened with it's a wonderful life.

It went on a copyright.

Everybody was putting it on VHS at the time.

Everybody was showing it on television.

And then one company copyrighted the soundtrack.

And therefore, you can never show it again with sound.

An NBC bought it.

And that's why it's on all the NBC shows.

Melissa, you see Barbie?

I did see Barbie.

She's so Barbie.

I finally met a person who saw that move.

Somebody saw it made.

How much did it make bread like 150 million or something or?

Oh, geez.

It made over 600 million dollars.

600 million.

You want to buy it?

Actually, $636 million in accounting because some people are still bringing it back this year.

What a phenomenon.

And that and Oppenheimer, we talked last week about the barbenheimer phenomenon of 2023.

Something that I don't know will ever be replicated again.

When you mix a historic, a historic movie over three hours with a movie like Barbie

and the whole thing fits together and just works perfectly.

What do you think of them, Melissa?

I loved it because it addressed over powering different type of stereotypes.

I am a very busy person.

I don't get to get out and get entertained often.

But that one was a push from a lot of my fellow colleagues and also some female supporters

and within my network.

So what was the other film that Super Mario Brothers movie did well too last year, right?

Yeah, that's right.

And Daniel, you made an error for me because I couldn't deal with Melissa.

Oh, you can hear Melissa.

Oh, okay.

Let me just do something here.

No, I don't know if that button is going to work or not.

You can hear Melissa right here.

Can you hear me now, Fred?

No, I can't hear you.

Hold on a second.

I don't know why I can't hear you.

If I hit that, he can hear you.

Can you hear it now?

Can you hear me now, Fred?

I can hear you now, Melissa.

Perfect.

See, that button doesn't have a name on it.

It's the Melissa button.

It is now the Melissa button.

I love it.

Okay, so now you couldn't...

What was the other movie?

Super Mario Brothers.

I think I picked those two movies to flop at the box office.

And they wound up to be two of the biggest movies of 2023.

What do I know?

Well, Barbie was addressing a pretty big issue.

So it garnered a lot of support.

And it was fun for those two.

It was very nostalgic as well.

So I watched a lot of the Facebook feeds

where many people got to dress up and have some Barbie fun.

Okay, now here I'll tell you when we kind of dressed up a little bit.

One of the Marcus theaters, a couple of years ago,

ran the Lucy episodes that were colorized.

I don't know if Fred remembers that.

It was like four Lucy episodes that were colorized,

plus a documentary on how they colorized it.

And my wife is the biggest I love Lucy fan.

We have Lucy Blanket.

She's got a Lucy purse.

She's got all the stuff Lucy.

So she brought her...

We didn't have a Lucy Blanket at the time.

She had the Lucy purse she came with.

All these people came with their Lucy stuff into this theater.

It was pretty crowded.

And we watched four I love Lucy episodes in color.

And then they showed the documentary.

And that was a great afternoon I had at the movies that day, Brett.

You should do something like that again.

Bring back some colorized episodes of Dick Van Dyke or something.

I'll come.

It was a great experience.

Yeah.

Okay.

We don't have that time.

But I do want to tell people that it's 20 years old,

the original Mean Girls.

It was released in 2004.

And this Wednesday at a couple of our theaters were showing an early screening

of the New Mean Girls musical.

And in fact,

movie, you know that this goes at the theme.

It is a weird pink Wednesdays special screening of Mean Girls.

There'll be a ton of fun with this because not only do you get to see the movie early,

but there is a bunch of bonuses.

We're going to give 25 bonus points to magical movie awards members.

There'll be a special mini poster for the event next Wednesday.

And there'll be special candy game, cane grams in the theaters.

And if you wear pink to this movie, which everyone's good at,

just like they did for Barbie,

you get a free pink cotton candy.

And otherwise we've got themed drinks in the bars.

We've got some special menu items that include a,

is butter or car popcorn combo or whatever.

I'm getting cheese fries with bacon.

There's all kinds of menu items that are coming out for that.

That's that are so short and gurney.

And then we'll have those menu items and special at the Renaissance

when it opens up regular and Thursdays.

So when you talk about that experience, we did it for Barbie.

We have a little war pink.

Mean girls is opening up next week.

We've got the early screenings with some of those special items.

So sure and gurney.

And then the run starts, including at Renaissance on Thursday.

But I think that one's going to be a little mini phenomenon.

And I'm not quite thinking it's going to get at the Barbie status.

But come up for Mean Girls if you liked everything you saw for Barbie.

Now is this the Broadway musical Mean Girls?

This is an ad-teason musical.

So Tina Fey wrote the original.

She helped create the musical.

And this is now the musical version.

And I mean, it's got a phenomenal cast.

Not only is Tina Fey in the movie, but Jennifer Fisher, you know,

from the offices there.

John Cam is one of the coaches in the movie.

So this is going to be tremendous.

And man, I can't believe the original movie is about 20 years old now.

And talk about nostalgia.

When you wanted to talk about Barbie and just say,

Wow, Mean Girls is also in that classic movie status right now.

Now, what about Lindsey Lohan in the film?

Uh, she is not built right now.

So that would be a no.

Yeah, she's, I, I not thought they were filming

another Mean Girls movie with her because I read about it.

But this is the Broadway musical.

Speaking about Broadway musicals,

the color purple doing well in theaters too.

Oh, most certainly another musical.

And did phenomenal for people coming out during that holiday break.

And, and you look at what came out this holiday season.

There are so many movies where people get around to.

There's the color purple, which is a trendess movie.

There is a movie that people are just loving.

The boys in the boat directed by George Coney,

which is about the Washington rowing team in the 1930s

that went over to the Olympics and beat the Nazis.

So you look at all these movies that are coming out.

There is just something for everyone to see right now

because you've got the older movies from the holiday season

that are still around and still doing great.

And then you've got all these new special events like Mean Girls

and other things coming up.

So it's a tremendous time to get out of the cold,

which is finally starting to turn cold and go check out a movie.

Let me ask you, one of the George Coney directed

a bunch of good movies of the descendants.

But also the first movie I ever took my wife to,

it was a story about Edward R. Morrill.

And I can't remember the name of it,

but George Coney was in the film and directed the film.

Do you remember the name of that movie?

Oh, you're looking it up.

Listen.

I'm going to try really quickly, but I'm not sure if I'll get it.

Yeah.

It was the famous phrase that Edward R. Morrill used.

It was a black and white movie.

And it was excellent.

And it was the first movie I took her to when we were dating.

And I can't remember.

And that was going to bother me until I get the answer to it.

And when this is looking it up,

and she can't find it.

I'll find it during the break.

Do you remember it, Brett?

Do you remember the name of the movie?

Yeah, I don't remember right now.

I'm looking it up.

That's what I said.

Now, this is like new times because you used to forget something.

You had to sit down and think about it.

And I don't have to think about it anymore.

You just, you look it up.

And I can't think.

Oh, it was, um,

Oh, hold on a second here.

Oh, my wife put it out.

Oh, yeah.

Good night and good luck.

That was it.

She beat us.

Yeah.

Good night and good luck.

And it was such a great movie.

It was one of Coney's first movies that he directed.

And he didn't take top billing in the film.

He gave it to David Strayhearn.

And he gave it to him.

You know, it just showed you the behind the scenes on

and the rise and fall of Edward Armando at CBS

and how they just changed, how CBS changed such a good movie.

The descendants was also good.

You see that movie about the people in Hawaii was also good.

You're too busy watching Barbie Melissa.

I'm too busy at meetings down actually.

I don't get to go to the movie.

You didn't wear pink at the Barbie movie, did you?

Unfortunately, I don't have pink in my wardrobe.

But I would feel creepy going to a movie with little children in it.

So I wouldn't do that.

I would just feel odd going to who's that man in here?

When I took my, we used to have a daddy daughter and I

would my daughter.

And every Tuesday night, this is back in the early 80s,

every Tuesday night, we used to go out to a fast food place,

just my daughter and I, and then go to a horror movie.

Or something, you know, that was not suitable for children.

We used to go see those movies.

And to this day, it's, she's 43 years old now.

A birthday's coming up next week.

Can I get a remember that?

Anyway, she still remembers daddy daughter nights and

remembers all the movies that we went to when she was a little.

What a special tradition.

Well, you know, Brett just told us about this horror movie

that's out.

So it might be that she lives in Florida.

Well, that would be hard.

Well, it might be time to trap.

So here's the other thing.

We saw movies that you wouldn't even show in movie theaters today

because they're so bad like dead time stories.

This is before video took off big.

And we saw one of the worst movies,

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute.

Do you remember that Brett?

I do and there weren't many Smurfs in it.

Is there recall?

It was like, it was an hour movie, an hour and 25 minutes.

And for the first hour and 10 minutes,

the Smurfs weren't in the movie.

And kids in the theater were getting anxious.

Where is this, where are the Smurfs?

They took a movie called The Magic Flute and tacked on

a 10 minute ending with the Smurfs at the end of it.

I felt ripped off.

And I didn't really care to watch the movie anyway.

I still felt ripped off.

Hey, Brett, we're going to talk about

what's going on in sports this weekend at one of your theaters.

And that's coming up.

Yeah, that's pretty big stuff.

You guys are going to show that on the big screen, the Packer game.

There we are.

Hold on, hold on.

Don't talk about it yet.

We're going to keep people at bay here for just a few moments.

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We're talking movies with Brett Hoppen.

Normally, my climate will be here,

but he got, like, some kind of cold from some foreign land.

Actually, he's just got a bad cold.

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We're talking movies with Brett Hoppen.

Normally, my climate will be here,

but he got, like, some kind of cold from some foreign land.

Actually, he's just got a bad cold,

and he sounds like a lot of clever sports.

So I said, and he took the day off today.

So Brett was not nice to stick to COVID and stay with him.

Thank you very much, Brandon.

I do appreciate that, my buddy.

Anytime, Dan.

And now talking about sports coming up this weekend,

something big.

What's going on?

Well, we have something big in football.

It's Chicago versus Green Bay.

And there's playoff implications on the line.

There's a rivalry on the line.

And where should you go?

But to see the biggest sporting event of the weekend,

but on the biggest screen.

So if you go to our wall at the Marcus Gurney Mill Cinema,

you can say that you saw this rivalry

on a really big screen, because the wall

is the Gurney Mill Cinema specific sports auditorium.

It features only sports.

It's got a huge movie screen showing the main game action

and plenty of other screens.

So you don't miss any of the other action,

the world of sports.

And this weekend at the wall, Gurney Mill Cinema,

they'll be showing that rivalry

between Green Bay and Chicago.

And this is a special event,

because there is going to be some special guests there.

Former Chicago Bears player Desmond Clark,

and former Green Bay player Dubric Brown

are going to be in attendance.

They're going to be in attendance there

for a meeting greet and for autographs.

And they're going to stay and represent both sides

as they do get out.

Chicago is obviously would like to do nothing more

than to spoil the event for Green Bay.

Of course, Green Bay is trying to elevate their season

and keep on playing in those playoffs.

So this should be a tremendous film or movie.

Sorry, or event to go see.

I'm sorry, event to see.

I'm in movie mode.

But yeah, this is something different at your movie theater.

Normally, the wall is free for all events.

You can go there any day and watch the best sport events

right there for free.

This event is a little bit different.

So you can reserve a seat for $25.

That guarantees you a seat, but with that reservation,

you also get a $25 food and beverage voucher.

You'll get autographs then from both Desmond Park

and Gilbert Brown.

So it's a great event.

You just reserve a seat for $25.

That comes right back to you with a food and beverage voucher.

And then you can have a meeting greet with the players,

which starts at 2 p.m. and then the game, of course,

is at 3.25 p.m.

So this should be tremendous.

And I guess down the list, any predictions for the game,

what do you think?

Packers are going to win only because I have my playoff tickets

already.

I don't have them.

But also, if you can't make it to the theater,

the game is here on WRJN radio beginning in noon pre-game time.

So bears and packers do or die for the packers, obviously.

This means the playoffs are not the playoffs.

It's got to be, I want the playoffs and the Super Bowl

here on WRJN.

So I want the packers to go to win.

I don't hate the, and there's no team I hate.

What do you think, Melissa?

In my position, you have to be a packer fan.

But I honestly do not watch football, so,

but I can't publicly say that the here's the super market.

Hey, you picked the packers.

I'm from Chicago, Melissa.

You know, being on the county board,

I was telling you, being on the county board

and also an older person here in Racine,

you can't go out in public.

Zoe, somebody's got to gripe about something.

Their potholes are too big or their grass

is not grown enough or something.

And it's tough to go out in public.

I heard on the radio, you picked the packers.

I'm a bear fan.

But it's nice to be hidden in a movie theater, though.

Yeah, I told you, get one of those big nose glass things

with the mustache on them and you can get around with that.

OK, so that is this Sunday.

What time does it open, by the way?

Well, 2 p.m. starts at Eden Gritz.

So if you reserve your seat and come from Eden Gritz,

starting at 2 p.m., there is fantastic food and beverages.

There is a full bar.

And then, of course, the game starts at 3.25.

But come early, it is a great time.

And make sure to make this part of your normal routine.

If you're a hockey fan, if you're a basketball fan,

they've got it all at the wall.

And so come on out for all the football playoffs

and anything else that you want.

Because every day of the week, that

is an exclusive sports auditorium right there

at Gernie Mills, Shenema.

So you can't get a feat.

Gilber Brown, by the way.

I heard you have to feed him, right?

Well, Gilber Brown is known for being a bigger guy.

But I'll tell you, we've got plenty of smash burgers,

pizza, and other great stuff to feed everyone.

And the other thing, normally, it's free.

You just walk into the theater and watch the games.

That's exactly right.

No admission is charged.

The only reason we have this is because there's

so much demand for this upcoming weekend

that we just said, OK, reserve receipt for 25 bucks.

We'll give it right back to you in a food and beverage voucher.

But normally, it's free.

If you want to go see a game, just go see it.

This is the best sports bar experience you'll ever see.

It's friendly for the whole family.

And to no cost, just go right down there at Gernie Mills,

Cinema, and they'll take care of you.

And they'll have the main game of the night

on a big, big screen.

But there's plenty of huge screens

around the entire auditorium.

So you'll be able to catch any of the action you want to see.

Now, I'm springing this on you now.

Do you know what's coming out next weekend?

Yeah.

So next weekend, there's a couple of movies that are coming out.

So next weekend is Mean Girls, which you already talked about.

Disney is releasing Soul, which is a great Pixar movie

that came out a couple of years ago,

but never made to the theater.

So that's coming out.

What movies in?

Soul, the movie Soul.

Oh, Soul, yeah, Soul.

That's all you will, yeah, okay.

And then there's a movie called The Beekeeper,

which stars Jason Statham.

In fact, we have some special screenings

and sneak previews coming on this Saturday.

So you can catch that early.

Jason Statham is basically a member of these Beekeepers.

He's a former operative of this powerful clandestine

organization that takes matters into their own hands

and the law has failed.

If you know Jason Statham, you know,

there's going to be a lot of action in this movie.

He takes matters into his own hands

and a friend dies by suicide, you know, a fishing scam.

He gets his revenge, but a lot of action,

a lot of fun in this movie.

It's your typical Jason Statham fan.

And early screens this Saturday,

go check it out at the super screen

of the Renaissance cinema.

And then next weekend, it opens up.

So you've got Mean Girls, The Beekeeper,

and saw all there, including all the other special things

who got it fierce.

I got a little thing for you in the last minute here.

You know that Clint Eastwood,

Mert Reynolds, Adam West and Liam Neeson

were offered the role of James Bond,