We took our kids to this big mesh-covered place filled with butterflies, and as we're
walking in, this worker goes, I'll be happy to answer all your butterfly questions today.
Okay.
All of them?
I was thinking, could there be a less stressful job than working in a butterfly pavilion?
I mean, you know, what could possibly go awry, you know?
So how was work there?
Don't even get me started.
I've had it up to here with those butterflies.
I had this yellow one landed lightly on flowers, and this purple one fluttering around and
around.
Like, I don't know what he's up to!
I can't take the politics!
I used to think, maybe you love me, now baby I'm sure, and I just can't wait till
you ride me, you're coming around, now I'm walking on sunshine, wow, I'm walking on
sunshine, wow, I'm walking on sunshine, wow, it's on the field, hey, I'm around here,
it's on the field, hey, you're neat, how are you doing?
What's that?
I was saying the other day when we played it, this was used in the movie American Psycho
with Kristen Bailey, and if you saw that movie, he's a murderer, and he just murdered somebody
who comes out into the street, looks up at the sky and starts playing in the sun, the
juxtapose, what he just did, yeah, Mayor Cory Mason is here, received Mayor Cory Mason,
thanks for schlepping through the snow today, I appreciate it, how bad is it outside?
Yeah, it's slippery, it's slippery, so the schools are closed, you know, started on the
north side close to the lake, and it was rain there, but by the time you got to, I think
about West Boulevard, it started turning to snow, so it's definitely a snow and rain,
slushy mix, so be careful out there, take your time, but be honest now.
When you were a kid, and you heard, generally on the radio, because that's where they announced
them, that your schools were closed, tell me you didn't go, yes, oh, yeah, absolutely,
get dressed, go outside and play the snow, yeah, absolutely, it's just, it's like a, it's
like a surprise holiday that you suddenly get, right?
So I mean, I have three kids right now, they're thrilled that they get to, and they, they're
still in bad, they rolled over and said, oh, great, but yeah, it's disrespectful to be outside,
making snowballs and snowmen and having a grand old time.
And we used to gather around the radio in my house on a snowy day, a snowy morning,
get up at six o'clock, five thirty, and I remember Dave Viser was the announcer around
the radio, and he's a good friend of mine today, because I worked with him there, years
later, and we still communicate, and he used to get on, he said, massive equals school
district number 23, closed, yes, and my brother and I immediately got dressed when I was
in the snow, but they mainly do it for school buses, they do.
It's not meant that, you know, you can't walk to school in the morning, is that you want
and to keep the roads clear, right? I mean, you know, shout out to all the DPW workers that
are going to be out there today, lay insult and plow on the streets. I mean, it's an important
job that they do, but yeah, it's, you know, if you, you know, need that, many extra people
on the, on the streets, and it's safer to, to make it easier to clear the streets, it makes
sense to do that. Our meteorologists who used to have your LAV rooms never understood why,
when people hear it's going to snow, they run out and get milk, eggs, butter, they start
stocking up on this. Tomorrow, the streets are going to be clear, the sun's going to be out,
what are you doing? You know, I could see if there's a hurricane coming.
My daughter always says to me, she says, she's a lives in Florida now, she lived in Wisconsin
all her life, and she said, aha, I see you getting snow. I said, at least when it snow,
so it doesn't blow the roof off my house like in Florida. That's right. I just shovel it,
and it's all done. It never, it always ceases to amaze me. Why people say, oh, it's going to
snow. Have you have, how long have you lived here? Right. It's going to snow eventually. Yeah.
Not like Groundhog Day, where it gets three feet of snow. It is, but I think, you know,
it's been a pretty mild winter so far. And even though we're all in Wisconsin, we should know
better people sort of get used to it. It's like the first, you know, a couple of days where it
gets really, really cold. You sort of forget what it's like to be cold. So when you go into it,
you're like, oh, it's so cold, but by, you know, by February, if it's 40 degrees out, you're like,
it's a heat wave. It's amazing. I mean, I think we have, we sort of learn all over every season,
and we haven't really had a lot of big snow this year. So even though we're experienced here in
Wisconsin, we're seeing, and we know it's like to get through a snow storm, we haven't really had
one, a big one yet this season. So just, you know, just remind everybody, be careful out there.
Take your time. Now Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I'm okay, holiday. And we're,
I pass it every day when I come to work is there's a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. area right there
on State Street. It's that you there. It's that you and they put a wreath there every and you
get to be there, right? Yeah, that's that's today. Today they're going to do it. It's today. I
will tell you we usually have school groups and others coming. So when we're done here, we're
going to sort of huddle up and figure out what we're going to do since the schools are closed.
I don't know if they're going to postpone the event or do it later and we're going to sort of
evaluate with what the weather is like. But yeah, we usually have, you know, school groups come,
we'll have a choir sing and Julian Thomas is just across the street. Yeah. There it's well,
students come over and try to interact that way. So we're going to we're going to call an audible
here later this morning to figure out if it's still going to proceed. But hopefully it goes
forward as planned. Yeah, you know, it's when you make plans in the winter, you're always taking
your even in the summer, you take your risk, it's going to rain, have a thunderstorm. But anytime
outdoor stuff happens. And I know we've been involved in so many outdoor activities here over
the years. You take a chance. But you know, it's anywhere in America, people say, well, I think I'll
move out west where it doesn't snow. Well, good. They got earthquakes out there. I think I'll go to
Hawaii. Well, great. They got volcanoes. I think I'll go down south while they got tornadoes and floods.
I mean, there's no place you can go in America and get away from it. If there was a place you can go
with, there was no serious weather, bro, everybody would live there, right? But there is no place.
Yeah, well, and I take our occasional snowstorm over hurricanes and earthquakes and volcanoes.
Yeah, absolutely. You know, when that lava flows coming toward your house, I mean, you can't get
the hose out. Move it out of the way. That's right. All right. So today, and what time is the
it's supposed to be? What's supposed to be at 11? So it's right there between MLK and Marquette.
Yeah. Of a state street there at the MLK Plaza. So it's the currently that's what the plan is.
A lot of people should stay posted again. It's still relatively early in the morning. But with
the schools closing, you don't have the programs likely not going to be there. So we've got to make
a decision on how we're going to proceed. We lost a real booster or Milwaukee a few weeks ago.
A real booster. And I got to meet him. And I'll tell you my story in a minute, send that
a herb coal. Yeah. He's given so much through Wisconsin. You forget about Northridge,
Southridge malls, Coles food store, Coles department stores. He's given so much to charity.
But when the bucks were going to leave Milwaukee, he came in and he stepped in and said, they're
not leaving. Yeah. Now, we also help Bud Seeley bring the Seattle pilots to Milwaukee. When the
braves moved to Atlanta, the Milwaukee braves, he brought the Seattle pilots with Bud Seeley,
his good friend to Milwaukee. And then we have the brewers. Yeah. What a booster. Oh, absolutely.
I mean, it's my wife actually worked for them in D.C. because it's like 20 plus years ago now.
But, you know, I mean, not only a booster for Milwaukee, but a huge booster for the whole state,
right? I mean, whether you're, I mean, I went to UW-Madison. They put in the coal center. It's a
great facility. Oh, the coal center. I forgot about that. Yeah. So I mean, you just go around the
entire state. And, you know, his foundation is continued to be a big booster for people who do
education activities and other things. But, you know, I, what I always, there's many things to admire
about herb coal is really honored during my first race for state assembly. He came in and, you know,
cut an ad from the right at the end and was real supportive of my efforts there. But he,
you know, had this great tagline that was just so true. He was, he was nobody senator but yours,
right? And he, you know, just really had a lot of integrity to him. And so even though he hasn't
been an elected office for a long time, his legacy continues to be felt throughout the state.
And so he will be dearly missed. What a nice quiet man too. Yeah. I mean, he's very quiet,
very unassuming, not boisterous. I'm looking for a picture, a couple of pictures I had here. I don't
know if I had one of him, but I have one of Senator Prox, my, with my daughter. Now, I'll find it a
minute. Anyway, here's what he did with us. We, when I worked for a radio station in Milwaukee,
we had the tall ships Miller Maritime Days in Milwaukee. And we had the bounty for the
movie on the bounty was there. And we were broadcasting from the ship and we were raising money for
reading his fundamental. And the senators down by he had somebody with him. And we went on the
air and we talked about reading his fundamental. We talked about all the things that he did. And
we took a break. And I saw him with his checkbook and not thinking about it. And his friend came
up and said, here's a check from the senator. Don't mention it on the air though. Wow. He wrote a
check for $500 on the spot. Wow. And so don't mention it. And he just wave, he waved to me and left.
I mean, if I wrote a check for $500, I'd take an ad out on Facebook until everybody I wrote a check
profile. But this is the type of person he was. Just take the money. Yeah. And don't say anything about
it. Yeah. You know, Bill and Melinda Gates wrote a check for $1.2 billion. Oh, my. How do you do that?
How do you write a check for $1.2 billion? Yeah. And not and still pay your electric bills. Yeah.
No, well, it's a level of giving beyond. I mean, there, you know, some of the richest people in the
world, but I give them credit for giving away big chunks of their wealth to try to improve the world
we live in. You know, I said to you before you went on the air, you have very calm demeanor about
you. And I've seen you in press conferences and so forth. And in front of the older people here,
altars, they call them now. Yes, altars. We take rid of people,
alder, man, older woman or the others. You have such calm demeanor. This is job stress you
out as being mayor. It's a big responsibility. It is. I mean, I think, you know, particularly if
there's a time of crisis, whether things are you dealing with, I mean, I think part of leadership
is providing some of that calm and just some consistent like, hey, here's what here's the information
that you need. Here's what we're going to do next. Look, and there's a time and a place for
all things, right? But I think if your default is is to panic or to be angry, I don't know
if that'll always serve people. And then, you know, when I chair the council meetings, I mean,
it's just my job to chair those meetings. But I'm just there to facilitate the conversation
and move it along. I have different spaces where I can offer my opinions and tell people what I think.
But really, it's just my job to facilitate those meetings and be a good public servant in that
space and let the council do its work. Now, I will tell you that there are moments where
on the inside, I'm maybe not as calm as the volcano in Hawaii. It's about to erupt.
But, you know, I think that's part of leadership. I mean, you've got to convey to people that,
you know, like, look, there might be some big things happening, but, you know, freaking out about
it or panicking about it isn't going to help. And you need to give people the information that they
need, particularly in a moment of crisis so that they can hopefully hear the information that
they might need that might really impact their safety and their well-being.
Yeah, it's a big responsibility. Well, we have the third largest city in Wisconsin.
Yeah, 50 now. 50 now. 50. 50. Yeah. So Milwaukee, Madison,
Green Bay. And then Kenosha. Really? Kenosha is bigger than Racino? Yeah.
Maybe it's not a big responsibility for you. We've something we want to talk about after the break here.
We'll talk about the letter from the Alders. Yeah, I think it used to that phrase Alders.
That's going to take a while to use to that. Mayor Cory Mason is here this morning and a
shift to the snow to get here. I do appreciate it by that by the way. I really do have it here.
It's 719 at WRGN Radio, hometown radio refresh to civic media stations. There we are.
I feel the light explode when we're together. Emotion overload in the heat of
the night. I'm done roasted at 720. We're seeing Mayor Cory Mason is here and this is some
Stuart J. Wattles, our news director wanting me to ask you about the letter from Racino Alders
to the mayor addressing concerns about the downtown hospitality center's impact on the community
and emphasizing the need for its relocation.
Alderperson Terry McCarthy has nine other Alders signing on to the letter highlighting how they
think the center's original mission to serve hungry, recene residents as attracted a broader audience
leading to negative consequences. Those include increased public alcohol consumption,
business closures and safety concerns for gateway students and library patrons.
The letter urged action to address these issues and calls for the center's relocation to
site less detrimental to the downtown community and your response.
Yeah, I mean, it's a big issue. It's been an issue for a time. I will say that the issues around
homelessness in and around the hospitality center in recent months have actually
they become more acute and more frequent, right? So it's a challenge that we have. Now I will
say as we're going into some really cold weather, I'm not in favor of eliminating homeless services.
I mean, it's going to be really cold in the weeks ahead and we've got to deal with it. I think the
question is, is there, is there some place where we can improve services and have fewer
attention points in the downtown? Just this week, actually, Wingspread held a conversation
with folks from the county and other funders and nonprofits really to look at the homeless
services that we're providing here, whether it's the hospitality center or Halo and our hope is
that by bringing all those actors together and and funders together, we can begin to imagine
how do we do this differently? How do we do this in a way where there's not so many attention
points in the downtown and maybe even improves the services for the the people who need those
services? But it is, it is a complex issue. It is not an easy thing where you can just say,
well, just move over here, just do this now or don't do this now. And so, but again, in the downtown,
whether it's Kateway or the library or Ming Tower or some of these other things, we are seeing
more and more issues. We do get more and more police calls. So it's, it's become a real issue
and we have to address it and we have to address it together. And, you know, we have to do it with
the nonprofits that are providing the services. We can't just sort of say, look, you're done tomorrow.
We've got to figure out a way to improve the services and again, begin to ponder the question,
well, where else could this occur? Is there a way that we could do it where there's not so many
attention points in the downtown and maybe even improve the services for the people who who need it
most homeless people? I wouldn't want to be one of them. It's a, it's a horrible situation to be in.
Yeah. There was a story. I, I don't think I read it today. I read it somewhere. I have it in my
list here of things to get to. A woman was homeless with her son in a car and all she did was ask
me, where can I park my car safely at night so we can sleep in peace? Yeah. Isn't that sad?
Where did I park my car? So my son and I can sleep in peace? Yeah. I mean, and there's a whole
range of homelessness where there was people like the woman you're talking about who like,
you know, was some housing security and maybe a housing voucher if you could get her into a place
you might get the security she needs. We've also got people that would severe mental health issues
or, you know, alcohol and other drug abuse problems that play into their homelessness and,
you know, those, those are folks that have maybe needs that are a little bit higher than,
than other folks in those, those folks are harder to address in a way that's safe for them and
safe for the community. So it's, we take it very seriously. I mean, there's a lot of really
exciting things happening in the downtown, whether it's that, you know, hotel burdened open,
whether it's the breakwater that's getting built with those new apartments at the end of,
of Lake there. But we need to make sure it's a safe place for residents and patrons when
they come to the downtown. And, you know, we need to figure out, is there a better and safer way
that we can provide services to people who need it? I'm not saying it's easy to thread that needle
to do both, but I am encouraged and grateful that WingSpread pulled a group of people together
this week to just talk it out. How are we going to do this? How can we improve this? What are
what are the challenges? What are the needs? And can we do a better job of providing these services?
We don't have this problem like New York and other larger cities have where they're busing in
people crossing the border from South America. We don't have that, but we do have people who are not
from here who come here to use our homeless services. And more than you would think, right?
Really? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, we're one of the few communities that has what's called the
low barrier shelter or a wet shelter where you don't have to be sober to be in the shelter.
And there's, I think, not a lot of other shelters in Southeast Wisconsin or North East Illinois
that have those services. So we wind up with people who've, you know, when they come here for
homeless services, that it may be the first time they've ever been in our community. So that's
an issue that we've got to set out a little bit as well as much, are we responsible
regionally for some of these homeless issues? But, but we, you know, we do have people who are,
you know, recently homeless for some economic reason, but we also have people who come from other
communities to make use of our services. Hmm. You know, I, I want these buses come into
Washington DC and coming into New York City. And I understand Texas and these border states
can't take everybody. It's just, it's, it's not feasible. What I don't like is when they send the
buses to drop off at a Congressman's doorstep. I think that's wrong because these are human beings
are talking about with families and you're dropping them off on a residential street. Where do you
want them to go? Yeah. Well, often they're just told get on the bus. It'll be taken care of
and so they're on a bus for, you know, 10, 20 hours and they get there thinking, but to send them
to a Congressman's doorstep. Yeah. Or a judge's doorstep. What are these people going to, these
are children and these are human beings we're talking about. These aren't faceless and nameless
world. It's some of these people. They are faceless and nameless, but they're all human beings
who want a better life. No, it's, I mean, look, it's the immigrant story that we've had throughout
this country's history, right? People come here from foreign shores or other parts of the
the country or the world hoping for a better life, looking for a good family sporting job and
a shot at the American dream. I mean, that's been our story, you know, for more than 200 years.
We seem to get amnesia about it every once in a while. We sort of forget that everybody here
except the Native Americans are immigrants. Exactly right. Exactly right. So anytime you have
something negative to say about people coming into this country, remember someone in your family
tree. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Came into this country probably through Ellis Island. Yeah.
My railtips did. They came from Poland and Hungary and that's where they came from. Same here.
Same here. Everybody came in from somewhere unless you're a Native American and then you were here
long before, long before us. Wow. But I will say, I mean, the immigrant story too is we also
hear over and over again. Employers are looking for workers, right? We can't find enough workers.
Where are we going to get the workers? Yeah. And that's another thing. How did that happen?
Before COVID, everybody was working after COVID. Nobody wants a job. How did these,
how did didn't they have to go back to work after COVID? I think, well, I mean, we're at the lowest
unemployment rate we've had in a long time, particularly in the city and in the state. And I think
the numbers across the country actually pretty good. People are going back to work. It's actually sort of
if you're an employee and you're looking for a job, you've got a lot of options out there right now.
There are a lot of employers still looking for work. I know even for the city, we're looking for
people, you know, or CDL drivers who want to go into law enforcement, but it's it's a stretch for
everybody looking for workers right now, whether it's in the construction trades or the public sector or
the private sector. So it's a good time if you're looking for work. Always looking for work. Yeah,
in radio. We always, we always need work. I've been very fortunate in my life that I've always
been able to find work in this business, but a lot of people can't. Yeah, and they, you know,
they don't have the skills or for some reason, they just can't find it. Mayor Corey Mason,
thanks for coming in. You're going to hang in for a few minutes or no? Yeah, absolutely. Just,
I will say we do, we are coming up on the Martin Luther King holiday and I do want to just
acknowledge his legacy in terms of what he's done in this country to get us to think about
being a more equal and fair and just society. His legacy is still rings as loudly today as it
did, you know, 50 years ago. So we're honored to celebrate that with us today or on Monday.
Really important part of it. Give it some thought. Yeah, give it some thought. That's just a day off.
729, we're talking movies. We've brought hop in from Marcus theaters in just a moment. Hang in there.
Maybe he don't talk sweet. He ain't got much to say. Yeah, it's 735 at WRGN Radio. Mayor Corey Mason,
hanging in here while we talk movies with Brett Hoffman of Marcus theaters. Good morning,
Brett. How are you? Good morning, Don. Doing great. How's the snow by you? You know,
it's coming down right now, but it still will be a great weekend, a great MLK weekend at the movie.
All right. We have four new movies opening up this weekend, including one that won the Academy
Award back in 2021. It's finally making its way to the big screen. That's exactly right. So let's
talk about them. Well, the biggest one is Mean Girls. It's rated PG 13 since the release of this
original movie in 2004. The movie has earned a lot of fans. And this is a musical version that's
coming to the big screen. It is getting great reviews from critics. Also great reviews from
audiences that saw early previews. You've got Tina Fey, Jennifer Scher and John Hamm. They're
all coming back as part of the faculty cast on the big screen. And this would be a great one
to come see a great comedy on the big screen. And that's Mean Girls. Now, is this the musical or is
this this is based on the Broadway musical or not? Yeah, this is written by Tina Fey. It's based
on that Broadway musical. So it's a musical version of a movie Mean Girls. All right. Yeah,
what else you got? Next thing is the beekeeper. This is an our rated action movie. It shares,
it stars Jason Statham and Jeremy Irons and Jack Hudson. Jason Statham is the beekeeper and
that he's a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization that takes matters into
their own hands when the law has failed. And let me tell you, this one has got action all over it.
It's got action throughout. If you know Jason Statham, if you follow his movies, you know what you're
in for, but this one. And this is also getting some positive critics ratings as well. So take a
look at this one if you just want an action fix this weekend. All right. Keep going. We've got a PG-13
movie called The Book of Clarence. This is a biblical comedy drama. It's a satire. It's about a
man in Clarence living in 33 AD who tries to take advantage of the celebrity influence of the
Messiah who is out at that time for his own personal gain. It's rated PG-13. It's also getting
great reviews on Radden Tomatoes. But this one's an interesting one you're coming on now.
Yeah. Yeah. This one's very interesting. And this picture, one best picture in 2000
was nominated for Best Picture in 2001, one best animated picture in 2001. And you mean
20? You mean 21, right? 2021. 2021. Yeah. And it's never been on the big screen. Disney has
decided to bring it back. It's at the theaters this weekend. And it is sole. This is a wonderful movie
about a jazz PNF that suddenly finds itself between earth and the afterlife. There are voices from
Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in this movie. And as you mentioned, it was nominated in 2021 for Best
Picture, one for Best Animated Feature. And this is something that Disney is doing all throughout
the next three months. They are going to be showing three different Disney movies that are coming
out. So this is kind of a really interesting thing that's going on. Soul is going to be one of the
movies that's coming out. The other movie that they're going to be putting out in February is
Turning Red. And then Luke is going to be put out in March in March. These are three Pixar movies
that never hit the big screen. So take a look for it. Soul this weekend, every turning red and then
Luke in March, it's a great opportunity to see these Pixar films in the big screen. Mayor,
did you ever see that? Or I saw Soul when I went in first-streamed. The kids really enjoyed it.
It was really great. It reminded me a little bit of insight out in terms of the kind of animation,
the kind of story, but it's a sweet story. I think kids and families would really enjoy it.
Have you seen any movies this year? I'm not this year, but recently.
Yeah, recently in the theaters. So we have kids, right? So often times when we go see a movie,
it's sort of what are the kids want to see? But they're teenagers. They don't want to spend time
until you take the chance that you can. But yeah, we've seen a couple good movies. A movie that I saw
on Netflix that I really enjoyed is this Bradley Cooper Maestro movie. We talked about that.
That was a pretty impressive film. It was sort of amazed with how well he transformed into
Leonard Bernstein there. And you know, the story of his life that I certainly wasn't familiar with.
So it was pretty incredible. Also, I forgot to just listen to talk about something here.
Have you seen Killers of the Flower Moon? I have not. You've got to see that here. It's amazing.
It is. It's long, but it is good. Have we talked since the, I don't know, Brett, have we
talked since the Golden Globes came out? You know, we haven't. And there were a few surprises and
a few things that maybe are a prelude to what's coming up with the Academy Awards based on what
happened. You know, it's funny. Paul Giamatti won for the Holdovers. And there's a picture online
if I'm holding his golden globe. And he went in and out burger in his tuxedo to get something
after the award ceremony. And there he is with his golden globe on the table,
leading his hamburger in and out burgers. Everybody else went to these major parties.
He went to a burger joint. That's Paul Giamatti. Good for him. Yeah. What surprised you?
Well, I think what really surprised me is the fact that poor things run, one, the
comedy's motion picture category, comic and musical motion picture. I mean, I thought
that it would come close. And I thought Emma Stone was going to win for her performance in that
movie. I was surprised that it beat up Barbie. But look for that maybe to be a surprise when we
look for the Academy Awards. I think poor things is going to be nominated. And I think Emma Stone
currently now is in the running for Best Actress as well. When they released the nominations,
next, well, two Tuesdays from now on the 23rd. I was happy that the little Glad Stone one for
Killers of the Flower Moon. First Indigenous Actress ever to win an award like this prestigious
award. She won for Best Actress, I guess, for Killers of the Flower Moon. She was fabulous in
that role. You've seen her, right? Yeah, I have. And you and I talked about that. She was the one
that we both picked. I think she is proud. She's the front runner for the Academy Award as well.
And that was no surprise to us. And the other one that probably wasn't a surprise was
Oppenheimer taking the awards that it did. It won Best Motion Picture Drama,
Cristino and won for Best Director, and Philly and Murphy won for Best Actress and Motion Picture
Drama. So we thought that that movie would do well. I still think it has a great chance to
pick up more than a few awards, pick up a lot of nominations, and more than a few awards
with the Academy Awards released in nominations on the 23rd of January,
and then have the ceremony on March 10th. Now, what about Barbie? Was that a big disappointment?
They won an award, but it was a strange award they won. It was a brand new award for Best
Adapted Screenplay. No, it wasn't even that. It was best, something brand new. You know,
they wouldn't talk about what was that, Brett? There was a new award they put in this year.
It was for cinematic and box office achievement. So that was the award that they gave away.
They put it in this year. And that's the one for that. And I didn't know this at the time,
but Margot Robbie played Barbie was also the producer of the movie with her husband. I didn't know
that. So that was kind of interesting. So she picked up the award as producer of the film.
Who knew? Okay, you know, it doesn't surprise me that poor things run over Barbie, however,
because usually the word shows don't go for the mainstream movie. However, when you looked at
Barbie and what a phenomenon that was in the combination of Barbie and Oppenheim with the
Barb and Hymer, I kind of thought Barbie would have been more than just a cinematic and box office
achievement award. I also thought Margot Robbie may have had a chance for actress as well.
But we'll see. I think she's going to get nominated. I think Barbie will get nominated.
And you never know what's going to happen, which even the Academy of Goats on their awards coming
up. Now, I'm a never big fan of the Golden Globes. Now, when the Academy Awards comes on,
my house has to be completely quiet. I bring out a buffet of food in my living room to watch
the Academy Awards. And I don't care if I have to get up it for in the morning. I watch the entire
thing. Do we know who's hosting this year? Is it Jimmy Kimmel or did you hear?
Let's see. I'm not quick. Yeah, actually, Jimmy Kimmel is. So we'll be doing it this year.
You know what the host always say, you know, you know, how they have a lot of jokes at the
beginning and they're very funny every good time. And as the show goes on, the host has less and
less to do on stage. And this is the reason why when you start off the show, everybody in that
audience is hopeful. And as the evening goes on, it fills up with losers. Remember, for every
winner you have, you have four other losers. And they keep the winners don't fill up a lot,
but the losers are filling up. And they're not happy. Excuse me. They're not happy and they're
not responsive to the comedy anymore. That's why they front load all the jokes and the monologues
under the Academy Awards. Well, we look, are you looking for Oppenheimer to win the most
awards nominations for the Academy Awards? Yeah, I think Oppenheimer will have the most
nominations just because the nature of the film it is will probably have a lot of the tech awards
and also just mainly the awards overall. But as I said, I think poor things right now is definitely
a darling curve both actress and best picture. And of course, it's for Barbie to be in there as well.
But Oppenheimer probably will take it for the most nominations that are coming out. A movie
that I enjoyed a lot, a movie that you were just a little okay on. I don't think you were that warm
on that. And mayor, have you seen the movie? The mayor had to leave. Oh, we have to leave. Okay.
Yeah, he only stayed for a minute or two here. He said, but he wanted to talk movies, but he had
a Zoom meeting yesterday to get to. So he had to leave. I was going to say goodbye to him on the
air, but you were on a roll. I didn't want to interrupt. Oppenheimer, I told you the only thing I had
a problem with was the music. And my wife and I was first of all is loud. And there was music
throughout the entire three hours of that movie. They didn't stop with the music. And music is
supposed to highlight things, not take over the whole movie. And that bothered me. But the movie
was good. And Killian Murphy was fabulous. You know, it's funny. When you hear these actors like
at the Golden Globes, they have these very thick accents. He's from Ireland. So he's got a very
thick Irish accent. But when he's movies, you would never know it. Same thing with the guy who
was in a beautiful mind. What's his name? You know, I'm talking about right? Yeah, Russell Crowe.
Russell Crowe. Another guy with a thick accent. All these all these and when they're on screen,
you never hear it. Same thing Nicole Kidman has an Australian accent. You never hear it when
they speak. I don't know how they pull that off. But anyway, so I'm looking for, I'm looking for
a fun night. And I might see a few of the movies between now and the awards because you guys,
I don't know if you're doing it anymore. You used to run all the best pictures in a row. Remember
for two nights? Well, yeah, this is a great segue because we will be showing all of the best
picture nominated movies from a period of time from the end of February through the awards weekend.
So take a look up for that. Once the nominees are announced, you'll see a lot more information
from Marcus Feeders on that. But we're going to have feeders that are going to be showing all of
the best picture nominated films. They'll be showing that through several show times,
different show times. They'll be available for about 17 days before leading up to the Oscars.
And then this year, we're going to bring back to a few sites, our best picture marathons,
which is where we have two days two Saturdays. That's it. That's what I'm talking about, yeah.
Yeah, we're going to show half of the best picture nominations one Saturday, the other half
the other Saturday. And let me tell you, if you like movies and you like beat around people
that like talking movies, that is the place to be because you could spend the whole day with
people that love movies. And it is really interesting to go see and knock out all the nominations
across two days because you remember movies that you've seen and but haven't seen the middle
of the aisle. And there's probably a few that everyone has not seen yet that they can pick up on
and make their own determination for what they think the best picture is.
And here it is, you know, when the nominations come out, they're up to 10, I think they can have
now. I know I'm into they can have up to 10. And you're going to say, I never heard of those movies.
Well, now you get a chance to see them because many theaters don't play these. They play at
art houses or they just get a few runs in big cities because they're not big motion pictures
that can bring in a lot of people. And now you get a chance to see them. And I've done this before
where I've never heard of a movie. I said, well, let's go see it. It sounds good. And it was on one
of those days where you were running all the Oscar nominated movies for best picture. And you find
a gem that you may not have noticed. You know what one of them was? It won for best picture,
no madland. Remember that movie? Of course, I remember there's a movie. It didn't play big,
you know, didn't play big theaters around America, but one for best picture and I found it got a
chance to see it. And I love that movie. It's one of my favorite films, no madland. So it, you
know, you do get to pick up on some movies that you may not have ever heard of before. And if you're
a movie fan, you're going to be loaded in the theater with movie fans with a lot of opinions.
Because everybody's got an opinion on the movie. And you know me when we talk to record for
some other radio stations, we record our stuff on Mondays, we always talk. I always have an opinion.
Movie that just came out. All right. Thanks a lot, my friend. I do appreciate you coming in on this
Friday morning and drive carefully out there and be safe. And everybody this weekend on the MLK
holiday weekend, long weekend, they'll see you movie at the movie theaters again. Hey, Brad,
everyone have a great weekend. Thank you very much. Thank you, Brad. Bye, my now. All right,
we're talking sports coming up in just a moment with Mike Clemens 749 and WRJN Radio. Stay
tight.
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Talking to my Clevans on WRJN751, you're sounding a lot better than you did in the last two weeks or so.
How you feeling? Feeling a lot better?
Yeah, I am. I didn't talk about four or five days, but there is a slew bug that's going around with fever and coughing and all the other fun.
I know. My wife had it and I managed to avoid it. I'm very lucky.
Let's talk about that big game. This is now, I keep mentioning this because you mentioned the other day to me when we're talking off the air.
Three games, the Packers have to win to get to the Super Bowl.
This is game number one against the Cowboys this weekend out in Dallas. This is a big one.
Yeah, the wild card game is wild card weekend.
These are teams that won the division, but the lower seeds as they call them.
There's a couple teams that have the weekend off.
If you win that, then you go to the divisional playoffs.
If you win that, then you go to the anisee or AFC championship.
And after that, you're going to Las Vegas to play in Super Bowl 58.
I know. It's getting down to the nitty-gritty here.
And three games, that's all they have to play and they're in the Super Bowl.
Big thing happened yesterday. Bill Belichick very acrimoniously had a press conference with the Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots.
And after 24 years said goodbye to the Patriots.
They, I guess they agreed they needed a new direction, but it was very nice at the way they shook hands and he said goodbye.
But I don't think that's the end of Bill Belichick though, do you?
That's a good question because there's already offers out there.
The Atlanta Falcons might be interested in it and they just fired their head coach after three seasons.
And Belichick's got six NFL championships.
And so that he ties George Hallis, the founder of the Bears and Curly Lambo, the founder of the Packers.
I'll tell you what though, you know, do you remember the Patriots actually came to Green Bay last summer during training camp forward
they called joint practices before they had a preseason game.
And they get into about the fourth quarter of this preseason game.
And all of a sudden there's a play where a rookie defensive back in Isaiah Bolton collides with one of his own teammates.
I'll look down at him and he goes down hard and he's not getting up and he sees completely out.
And they're very concerned.
And you know, after that Bill's player the year before and they take him to the hospital, he woke up the next day.
He ended up going on injured reserve for the rest of the season.
He never played again.
He's okay, he's okay.
I was in this press conference where Belichick, he came out to the middle of the field and he talked about it.
He said, you know, two days of practices, three and a half quarters of the game.
But let's just call the game.
And watching Belichick being in the room with him, he's 71, 72, I just thought, you must be getting tired.
This is too much drama for 40, 50 years of coaching.
And he kind of looked out, burned out then and then they had a horrible losing season.
They never really got a quarterback to replace Tom Brady.
And they need a new general manager to kill the roster first before they get a coach.
And so that's what the craft family decided and it was time for Bill to move on.
You know, the New York papers were not tied to Bill Belichick overnight because he was with the jets and they put a nasty headline on there.
I forget what it was.
I saw it this morning when I was before I came in and it wasn't nice.
A New York paper with a facial mean headline.
It was a New York post.
Yeah, they weren't very pleasant.
Shocking, that is shocking.
No, because you know, he's he's made the jet life miserable for the last 24 years.
So let me ask you something.
What have been better?
What have been better for the Dallas Packers game to be played at Lambo in the freezing cold on Sunday?
And it's going to be called up their single digits we're talking about.
Or is it better for the Cowboys to play in their dome stadium in Dallas?
I don't know.
I kind of think that this young fast Packers team, it'll be an advantage for them.
Now, you know, the fact is Mike McCarty's, this is like the best roster he's had.
I think since around 2017, he's still with the Packers until Aaron Rogers went down about week five with a broken collarbone
in things to it, lying back in a man to the bar up in the Vikings stadium.
Right now, I mean, he's got young speedy receivers like CD Lam right now in the prime of his career,
a couple years into the league and experience and deck press cut.
He's got that quarterback now playing as a more mature from the pocket kind of quarterback.
He's got a kid named Micah Parsons in his third or fourth year.
It's a linebacker who lines up all over the field as a tremendous past roster.
So, you know, McCarty's got a really good team.
He's won 12 games in a row.
That's actually a new, 12 games rather, 12 games for the season.
He's done that now for three seasons.
That's kind of a new head coaching record for the Cowboys.
But they've won 16 games in a row now in Dallas.
The Cowboys have at home.
So, they're tough at home as well and they score 30 points.
I think if the Packers, if they just keep up with these guys until about the fourth quarter or so
and maybe get a turnover, that would help them.
But, you know, it's a young Packers team with that showed a lot of promise.
But, you know, the Cowboys are a very classy team.
We got less than a minute.
We got the Bucks on Saturday and WRJN hosting the Golden State Warriors.
Yeah, last night they had this big game against the Celtics.
They blew them up by halftime and the Celtics benched all their starters.
They just said, you know what, we're 30 points behind what's the point.
So, people who are expecting this clash between the two top teams of the Eastern Conference
can instead they watch this blowout where they even benched Drew Holliday
and all the Celtics starter for the second half.
So, what a weird game.
135 to 102, the Bucks winning last night over the Celtics.
And again, we've got the Bucks playing the Warriors 630 PM tomorrow night.
And we've got the Badgers, Man's Basketball Saturday afternoon.
But we've got the game pre-game starting, I guess, against Northwestern at 10 a.m.
Breakfast with the Badgers.
All day long.
Yeah, we get sports all day long.
Hey, my friend, you sound great.
I'm glad the cold is leaving you with the cough, the sniveling, the stuffy nose.
And you work through it.
What a trooper working right through that.
Didn't let him bother at all.
That's a, that's a real radio trooper.
I was suggesting buying stock and Kleenex.
We, or Puffs, but lotion.
That's even better.
Hey, Mike Clemens, stay well.
Take care of yourself of Green Bay and Drive Carefully, all right, my friend?
Have a great weekend, Doc.
You two, my Clemens from Civic Media, WRJN Radio, watching the sports forest.
I'm Don Rosen.
Excuse me.
Maybe I need to go to bed.
I'm Don Rosen.
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