You know, I've been obsessed my whole life with staying in shape and, you know, working
out and everything, but I'm telling you, I'm 48 and other 40 years, I'll be 80.
There's no stuff in it.
I'm at a crossroads now that I'm thinking about, maybe I should just start drinking and
eating everything I want to eat, because, you know, when you're 22, when you hurt something,
it's probably because you did something, huh?
I got the flu this year, I start coughing, I pull the muscle.
I go and get my eyes checked, and I've always had amazing vision, really good vision,
and I go to get my eyes checked, and the doctor says, one eye's gone bad.
How does one eye go bad?
I don't remember overusing one eye.
You guys want to play some ball?
Let's play some ball.
No, I'm saving this one, don't 40.
You guys want to play some ball?
Let's play some ball.
To call my own.
I wanna be lover.
So I don't have to be alone.
Give a see the movie Beyond the Sea with Kevin Spacey playing Bobby Daran.
That's a great movie!
Good musical, and interesting facts about Bobby Daran.
One of them was that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother.
That's enough to screw you up in the head.
All his life he thought that was his sister, and it's actually his mother.
Because she had him out of wedlock or some crazy story.
Penny had a romantic fever as a kid which eventually took his life in his 30s
because it never goes away.
He was bedridden for many years in his life because of a romantic fever.
Or the effects of it.
Now we got his name according to the movie anyway.
He had to get a different name and he was walking down the street and saw Mandarin Chinese food,
a restaurant, and some of the lights were out of Mandarin and only Daran was left.
So he took Bobby Daran.
Married Sandra D was in a movie with her and fell in love with her and married her.
They got divorced eventually.
If you ever get a chance, watch that movie Beyond the Sea with Kevin Spacey playing Bobby Daran.
It's a good, you know, the music's good, but it's kind of a sad movie because he did not have a good life.
And you know, just on, you know, it wasn't his fault he had a bad life.
It was just, you know, he got a romantic fever as a kid.
And finding out what you thought was your sister as your mother.
That's enough to blow your mind out of proportion.
I got to watch that again. Kevin Spacey was very good.
The musical numbers are great.
And you see his life changed from being a rock and roll singer to doing songs like I, you know,
I'm a carpenter.
What was the name of the song?
If I were a carpenter, you wrote a lot of good songs by me Daran.
And unfortunately, you know, he left us at a very early age.
It's a good movie.
Anyway, 709, 7010, you're wondering, say, yeah, I thought you got up against here.
In a few minutes, he's running late.
I think you forgot.
We'll talk to Mike Bino from our Wisconsin magazine coming up in just a few minutes here at WRG.
And I'm Don Rose.
And I want to thank you for joining us today.
I just put my beak out the door.
No more flurry.
It's just cloudy.
And it was 33 degrees the last check.
Let me just a quick look out there and see what the weather is now.
It's cloudy in 34 degrees now.
All right.
I will rain and snow came to an end.
Actually, gradual clearing sometime today with a high near 37.
And looks like cloudy tomorrow with a high near 30 sunshine.
All day Saturday and Sunday with a high in the 30 Saturday near 40 on Sunday.
That's not bad at all.
We'll take that.
All right.
Here are some celebrities.
You never knew were veterans in our armed services.
Willie Nelson was in the Air Force.
I did.
I saw pictures of him when he had his first TV show, very clean cut, shirt and tie.
Today looking at Willie Nelson, you probably couldn't picture him in the Air Force.
MC Hammer was in the Navy, not wearing hammer pants, of course.
George Carlin started working as a radio disc jockey while he was in the US Air Force.
Pat SayJack served in Vietnam.
And B Arthur from the Golden Girls was in the US Marines during World War II.
I can picture that though.
Can't you picture her as a Marine somehow I could.
All right.
I was telling you earlier today.
I saw a movie that I just thought was not very good last night.
Bob Marley, one love.
I wanted to like the picture so much.
The actor playing Bob Marley was just fantastic.
I mean, this guy, he really, he stole the movie just playing Bob Marley.
He was that good.
But it was hard to understand them.
They were mumbling actors today.
Mumble a lot.
And they were thick Jamaican accent.
It was very difficult to understand what they were saying half the time.
I didn't like the movie that much.
Here's a list of great movies that actually flopped at the box office.
We'll hear this.
The Wizard of Oz was a flop when it opened up at theaters.
The Shawshank Redemption, one of my favorite movies ever flopped.
It's a wonderful life.
Hard to believe.
That only became famous when it started playing on TV at Christmas time.
And Citizen Kane, one of the greatest movies I've ever seen in my life.
I love Citizen Kane.
I watch commentaries over and over again about that movie.
And it was a flop in theaters.
Interesting.
The Shawshank Redemption.
My wife and I went, she took me on a, we were going on a cross-country trip somewhere
and we stopped in Ohio.
And she arranged this without really explaining to me.
We stopped in Mansfield, Ohio.
And we went to a prison there.
It's not a prison anymore.
It's a closed down prison.
But the historical society there, I guess, runs it.
And it's really dilapidated.
That is where they filmed the entire movie, or almost all of the movie, the Shawshank Redemption.
And they have some of the props in the movie still there.
You can walk around the prison at your own risk.
There's no electricity.
So you have to do it during the daytime.
And you, you can walk through all the rooms where they filmed all the scenes from the Shawshank Redemption.
Even the hole in the wall where the safe was and the warden's office is still there.
So you can, you have a good, and they have some of the, you know, the tunnel that the warden looks out after,
Tim Robbins escapes.
Remember that looks to the tunnel.
That tunnel is still there.
It's on a flatbed.
You can actually, my wife looked through it.
I can look at it like the warden looked through it.
So it's all there.
Mansfield, Ohio.
It's a good movie, the Shawshank Redemption.
I have it on DVD.
But when they run it on TV, I still watch it.
I just watch the DVD.
No commercials in my DVD.
Okay.
I just read that before.
I didn't read it before.
I just don't worry about it.
Okay.
Fun facts.
Only four artists have ever had three number one albums in the same year.
They are the Beatles, the Kingston trio, the monkeys, and wait for it.
The cast of the TV show Glee.
All right.
Google was originally called Back Rub.
When they first came out with the idea back in 1996.
The founders changed their name to Google about a year later.
Good because I'd like to say, oh, I back rubbed it.
That doesn't sound good at all.
Google did sounds good.
Oh, I back rubbed it.
What would you do?
I back rubbed it.
I mean, Google did.
There's something that's totally legal here, but makes you sound like a psychopath.
Here's some of the best answers we heard.
What is something that's totally legal, but makes you sound like a psychopath?
First one.
There's a guy in my town that has a portable karaoke machine and casually walks around
singing to himself and dancing.
About this laughing when nobody else does while you're watching a movie in the theater.
I remember back in 1968.
I went to go see Hangum High with Clint Eastwood with my mom and Times Square.
That's where the movie was played in New York City.
It was playing at a Times Square theater and we're watching the movie.
If you've ever saw Hangum High with Clint Eastwood, it's not a comedy.
And there's no funny scenes in it.
The guy behind us was wearing a suit and tie.
He was in the row and back of us going.
Talk about creepy.
I was like 13 to 14 years old.
What do you think is going to Times Square movie theater?
What do you think is going to happen?
But that's what we want to go see movies.
Anyway, so it's guys at the Victoria Theatre in Times Square.
It's not there anymore.
They have the Marriott Hotel on that site now.
What do we go?
Right in back of us.
That was scary.
Staring at someone with direct eye contact, not saying anything.
My brother did this once.
He was in the elevator and him and his friends wanted to try something.
So my brother was the guy who did it.
He got into the elevator.
You know, everybody faces the door in an elevator.
Well, he was the last one and he had his back to the door
and he was facing everybody looking them in the eyes.
Boy, people feel real uncomfortable when you do something like that.
Yeah.
Oh, and there it is getting into an elevator.
But not turning around to face the doors.
Yeah, that's a scary thing.
You don't want to do that.
Scare as people.
Six household items you might need to replace.
Did you know you're supposed to replace the pillows every year or two?
How many years have you had your pillows?
Think about it.
15, 20 years, 30 years.
Smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years, even if they still work.
Some of the stuff in first aid kits expires after three to five years
to go through those things.
Yeah, the bank team and they're expiring in 1991.
You should probably replace that.
Fire extinguishes.
Most rechargeable ones need to recharge every five or six years.
And the disposable kind need to be replaced every 12 years.
Your kitchen sponge depends how much you use it.
But in general, open a new one every two weeks.
We don't use sponges.
We use these.
They come on a roll.
And you tear them off and you use them and then you throw them out every day or two.
How about your toothbrush?
What was the last time you threw that thing out?
It says every three to four months.
Now I do it every month.
I throw out my toothbrush and get a new one.
And I don't like.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't like that at all.
All right.
Vacation time may be coming up soon for you in the spring or maybe in the summer using all your vacation days.
If you're not taking vacation days because you think it'll hurt your career, you're wrong.
A survey found you're more likely to get a raise if you take at least 11 vacation days a year.
Huh.
And remember that.
Hmm.
81% of dads think mother's day out shines father's day and they're not wrong.
70% of women and kids admit the dads get less of an acknowledgement on father's day than moms did on mother's day.
Of course.
Those are not saying.
718 coming up just a moment.
Mike Bino is going to be in the office.
Yes.
And we're going to talk to about our Wisconsin magazine promise.
I spoke to him.
He was on his way in said.
It'll be there in a few minutes.
So we'll talk to him coming up next year.
After that rain and snow vanished.
It's just the gradual clearing today with a high near 37 increasing cloudy.
This lows 24 tonight.
Cloudy tomorrow with a high near 30 Saturday and Sunday sunny with a high in the 30s.
That looks good right now.
Just cloudy.
It's nice out there.
Actually, it's 34 degrees.
How much I looked at the footsteps leading up to the front door only mine, which is good.
I didn't want to see any of the footsteps coming into the building.
It makes this kind of spooked.
Where?
What steps coming in?
Wait a second now.
There's nobody else in the building.
Bino's next from our Wisconsin magazine.
I'm Don Rosen at WRTN.
Hongtan Radio Refresh.
This is a civic media station.
I'll follow the sun.
Someday, you'll know I was the one.
But tomorrow, I'll follow the sun.
And now the time has come.
And so my love, I must go.
And though I lose a friend in the end, you will know.
Oh, one day, you'll find that I have gone.
But tomorrow, we range, so I'll follow the sun.
And now the time has come.
And so my love, I must go.
And though I lose a friend in the end, you will know.
Oh, one day, you'll find that I have gone.
But tomorrow, we range, so I'll follow the sun.
Still trying to get hold of Mike Bino from our Wisconsin magazine.
I don't think it's snow up there or what.
He's still mad in the office.
I think he would be there by now.
Try again in a few minutes, I guess, best we can do.
You don't know what could make you like your job.
But at least one major company is now forcing its workers to fake it.
The company can.
The company that makes printers, camera lenses and a bunch of other stuff.
And there are offices in China installed artificial intelligence cameras
that force employees to smile in order to open the doors or book meetings.
If you try to open a door while fronting, the facial recognition software won't unlock it for you.
You have to smile.
That way it knows you're happy and excited to be at work each day.
Not a bad idea.
Forcing people to smile.
Sounds like something they might do in the communist country.
I had someone asked etiquette experts to name the 10 rudest things you could do in someone's
else's house.
You ready?
You walk in that stuff, moving things around like rearranging cupboards and saying,
oh, the chair should really be over there.
Overstanding you're welcome.
Whether you're there for a party or staying for a full week, be mindful about that.
How about showing up and then telling them about your dietary restrictions.
They make this beautiful dinner and say, oh, I can't eat that.
Snooping.
I'll rifle through the medicine cabinet.
I'll go through any of the drawers, drawers and bedside tables or especially off limits.
See, that would bother me if I was selling a house at Open House,
because you know people go through stuff.
And if you have an open house, you really can't empty out all your drawers and everything.
Now, the real estate person is supposed to actually walk you through the house
and now let your room willy-milly.
But, you know, people do that.
So cars have a feature that prevents you from speeding.
There's a GPS-based way to know it, to do it now.
Say, if the officials say they want governments to start incentivizing, incentivizing.
Is that any of you say the word?
Making it incentive for car companies to include it in all their cars.
You know what?
Hi, Mike, you there?
Yes, sorry, man.
Okay, I got to call you back on a different line in just a moment, all right?
Okay, very good.
All right, let's see if we could do that.
I shouldn't really do that while we're on the air, but let's do it anyway.
Let's live dangerously here.
All right, you started off with the wrong phone number.
Okay.
All right.
Let's see if we get Mike on the phone here.
So far, it's not working.
Let's see here.
We could probably do it a second.
Like, do you know?
All right.
Hold on a second.
All right, Mike.
We got you.
Okay, I'm here.
Would you have, like, third to three feet, four feet of snow?
Is that why you couldn't get into workgun?
Well, a little bit of that.
We're happy to see it.
But, uh, dodge and deer, dodge and logging trucks in senior moment.
Maybe I should learn how to program my phone number.
Oh, that's, that's okay.
Don't worry about it.
All right.
Did you get snow up there?
You live now.
This is a Manitouish waters.
This is up in the northern part.
How do you do snow wise?
About an inch last night.
But this is the artist of years.
The snowmobile trails have not opened up here all year.
Now, bear in mind, this is the snow belt, a lake superior snow belt.
Normally, just over the line from us, they get 250 to 300 inches of snow here.
That's upper mesh again.
The ski hills there, and Ironwood and Hurley near us, have nothing.
At Christmas time, there was green grass.
And, um, you know, I guess I'm happy because I don't have to shovel.
But, uh, the business is up here.
I know.
So what, so what are the ski resorts do?
Uh, a puppet show.
I don't know.
Yeah.
You know, there are, uh, yeah, I was talking to a fellow whose,
the daughter was coming up from Milwaukee to ski.
So we go skiing with me, dad.
He said, no, I'd like to.
Um, the, the bar restaurant owners gas stations, uh, that depend on snowmobiling here.
Uh, uh, they're closing down there.
They're, unfortunately, uh, laying some people up.
I'm seeing crates of ski do snowmobiles.
Um, people aren't coming to look at them because, you know, they're stacked up.
What are those?
$30,000 units.
Uh, I feel a little bit sorry for these folks that depend on winter.
Um, it's, it's unpredictable now.
Well, talking to a guy who has to be on the road at five o'clock in the morning.
I don't like, I don't like snow because I'm the guy who's got to make the tracks for everybody else.
So when I saw this morning, I looked at my window and I said, I saw that my car was covered.
It was just slush.
And I just kind of came, it's gone now because it's, you know, warming up outside.
But, you know, this is dangerous stuff when you, you can't even, and these ski resorts
can't even make snow because it was 55 degrees the other day.
And you can't even make it.
It's one thing to have zero temperature and you can make snow.
But at this temperature, you can't even make the stuff.
And you got to put, you got to put winter pictures on this cover next year.
I don't know what you're going to do.
I don't know either.
Yeah, that's what we've told everybody is just sort of forget what you've learned all your life and go with the flow.
And yeah, you need 20 degrees to make snow.
But if you don't have that and the ground is warm anyway, you're throwing money away because it isn't going to stick.
Yeah, and you're right.
People buy these snowmobiles and you can't even test them out because there's no snow.
Right.
Right.
When we go to church on Spring Street, the, it's a little farmy out there, a little farmland.
And you can see where the snowmobile tracks are during the winter, not this winter.
Right.
Yeah.
It's, it's sad because you know, people like winter sports.
Not me.
I'm not a winter person.
But the people who do were just having a tough time of it this year.
Can we, there's a big hill near our house where people go sledding, not this year.
Mm-hmm.
Let's go ahead.
It's interesting to see the resilience in people though,
because, okay, I've just talked, we're crying the blues about snowmobile dealing.
And, uh, and that's changed this winter.
But what I saw was, um, earlier in the year in Menakwa, they had, had ice on the lakes as usual,
and it was making ice, not enough to drive on or anything like that.
Hey, Mike, hold that thought.
Mike, hold that thought.
I got to take quick break here.
Hold that thought, talking to Mike Bino.
And we're going to talk about the new issue of our Wisconsin magazine.
After we get done whining about the snow, we're going to, we're going to do that.
Hold that, Mike Bino, a good friend from our Wisconsin magazine.
We'll talk about the latest issue, and talk about some of that lack of snow around the state.
And in every part, I own the heart, and at least one lovely girl.
I've a pretty scenery that waiting for me, down in home Mexico.
And if you're ever in Alaska, stop and see me, my cute little, less good boy.
It's 735. I'm Don Rose and WRJ and hometown radio.
We're fresh to talking about Wisconsin, with Mike Bino from our Wisconsin magazine.
I interrupted you real rudely there for a second.
You were talking about, uh, about snowmobiles and trails and things like that.
Yeah, to finish that thought, um, yeah, people are, are crying the blues up here on snowmobiling.
And that, that is a big loss of business.
But it was interesting to me to see the resilience in people.
For example, in Monacoa early on in the season when it was making ice out there.
And, and look like winter was coming.
There was enough ice for them to pull together a skating event.
And when you have natural ice on a lake, a very big lake.
And it's, you know, three, four inches enough to hold people well and safely.
And there's no snow on it.
You can skate on glass, clear ice forever.
Like, you know, nowhere around.
I mean, a skating rink indoors or in a park.
Um, doesn't hold a candle to that.
There is, there's people actually who get on the horn and call each other and go looking for fresh ice.
These are the daredevils.
I'm not talking about the daredevils.
I'm talking about families.
So they're going with the flow and coming up with events which fit in with what mother nature will give us at these points.
And it's kind of evolving.
So I have confidence in people.
I have confidence in their ability to think through things and come up with neat new ideas.
It's happening.
Now, I broke the news about a week or so ago that there's a contest here where you hide a key in some park in the state of Wisconsin.
Come here anywhere.
Any park in any county could be anywhere.
And you would down to the final two.
You would down to, um, Juno County and you would down to door County.
And somebody founded in Juno County.
And coming down to the one.
We broke the story and so stop looking.
So tell us the story of how they found the key.
Don, thank you so much for this favor.
When you have a magazine that comes out every two months, you don't have opportunity to break any news.
Okay.
And the big news is yes.
Anybody out there who's searching for our hidden key, stop, save your gas, save your time.
Somebody has won this contest.
Now, what's that all about?
In our Wisconsin, we have a treasure hunt.
Okay.
And we hide a key in a park.
There's somewhere in the state of Wisconsin.
There's 72 counties here.
We've given away two cars, two boats.
Most recently, our prize we're offering is a brand new custom camping trailer.
Teardrop trailer, cute little unit.
You can kayak rack on there, bicycle racks on there, get to the campground in style.
And we put, worth $6,000.
We put that out there as the prize for people to go on out and take up our challenge
and find the key we've hidden in a park somewhere in the state.
Okay.
The mystery issue by issue builds as we eliminate 10 counties of the 72.
As Don said, we got down to two.
It's never gone this far.
We give a clue every issue and we reprise them.
So people can string the clues together, watch the search area condensing, tightening, and get out there and look.
And I got to tell you, this was wonderful for us to see because people are actively out there looking.
So we had it down to two counties.
Our February March issue has Don just described.
Hit the mailboxes the weekend of January 27, 28, a little bit before the first.
That's what we time it.
And two counties left.
Juno and door to go out and find that key.
All right.
So Monday morning, which would have been, Monday morning, 29th.
Somebody had left us a message over the weekend.
We found this key.
Okay.
I was on my way to a dentist appointment when I got called by he said, the key has been found.
Okay.
Wonderful.
What's the story?
Frank and Judy Zobal of New Lisbon, which is near Boston.
It's in Juno County.
They got their issue.
And hey, Juno County is still in the running.
We live here.
Maybe we should go out and look.
We'll do it before the football playoff game Sunday.
And they went out and looked.
Okay.
Kennedy County Park is a mile and a half from their farm home out there in Juno County.
They pull up to this park on County M.
There are six vehicles out front.
Okay.
Already the gate is closed.
It's winter.
They're lined up on this road.
There's a couple walks in.
Three people are walking out and said, there's a lot of hunters back in there.
They walk through the woods and in there.
And sure enough, there's a dozen people scattered all over the park looking.
Frank and Judy are walking along.
And he happens to notice a little speed limit sign saying 10 miles an hour.
Slow down in the park.
And it's cardboard sign mounted on a piece of wood, not a post.
And he notices a little bulge in that cardboard 10 mile an hour sign.
And he kind of glances.
He starts reaching behind this cardboard, pulls out this package.
And his wife, Judy, said, I ripped it out of his hands and looked for myself to see where it was anyway.
They found the key.
Frank and Judy took home this new $6,000 trailer.
So folks, if you're out there looking, stop.
Save your gas.
Don Rosen, thank you for helping us get the word out through the manager.
Radio is so immediate, isn't it?
It was breaking news.
Breaking news.
What's the matter with the country?
No, the country is fine.
There's no wars or anything.
There's no atomic weapons.
It's the key has been found.
Now when do you start all over again?
Well, we've got to come up with another prize.
We've given away a couple of those trailers.
And we'll start up and we're going to do another one.
But we got to think up another prize.
We gave, like I said, a couple of cars, couple of boats.
We gave a backyard barbecues set up with a big green egg and all the trimmings and things.
So it'll take us a while, but we'll come up with an interesting prize package.
It makes it worthwhile.
And we will do this again.
It's just to put a little bit of fun in the magazine.
How about a Wisconsin ski trip?
A way to say that's not good.
Let's talk about this issue here.
Because the February March issue of our Wisconsin has got a beautiful photo on the cover.
And I said to you, is this a real photo or has it been Photoshopped or painted?
It's the Aurora Borealis.
Tell us about the cover photo.
It's magnificent.
Thank you for that.
Thank you for those props, don't we?
We pride ourselves on our color here.
Our good, heavy paper.
So many publications and there are fewer publications these days.
They're printed on thinner paper and understand that they're cutting costs.
We try to go the other way and we get the best slick paper we can find that we can print brilliant photography on.
The cover photo was taken by Rob Resnick.
He's one of about 40 pro photographers we work with across the state.
He lives in Oshkosh.
And Rob always, well for 15 years, he's wanted to capture Aurora Borealis pictures.
And it never really worked out for him.
He's got an app on his phone called Aurora Pro.
And he noticed, this is a year ago, when he shot these.
He noticed that over Europe, here came some very, very active Aurora Borealis waves coming over Europe.
And they're heading our way.
And he saw, you know, tomorrow night, this may get pretty darn active.
Let's look at the weather.
Oh, there's no cloud cover.
So he does work in a photo studio.
He asked his boss off of work the next day at noon.
He leaves in the vehicle from Oshkosh to drive straight up to Lake Superior, 250 miles, Saxon Harbor.
He got there on South Shore Lake Superior.
He got there with a little bit of daylight to spare.
He scouted out some areas where he'd set up when he'd get dark.
He found 30 foot high ice shoves against the break wall in that harbor.
Okay, I could get up there.
All right.
Goes back to some hotel.
He's going to bunk in.
Got his ice cleats on.
Got all his gear out, went back, took his tripod, climbed up that ice matterhorn, got up on top in the dark.
Now he's shooting.
Okay.
He shot hundreds of images back in the days when you had to buy film.
That would have really been something.
But he's shooting and there was something unexpected.
That is the harbor navigational lights.
Red and green on two sides were flashing on and off rhythmically as they should.
He had the time every one of his shots to go in between those flashes of light and not wreck his picture.
Okay.
He then turns around and heads back to Oshkosh.
It's the next morning.
He's barely slept.
He happens to be going by our office on the way back to the Fox River Valley.
Okay.
Look what I got here.
He starts showing us some of what he had and could catch on his phone.
And he said, you'll get a submission from me on these as soon as I sort them all out.
This is the last March.
I'd been waiting for many months to see this.
And as our February March issue, we were pulling it together.
He made good on his promise and sent these winter pictures in.
So what you're seeing is Saxon Harbor, a lake Michigan,
lit up with a whole bunch of color.
And when you've got a guy who knows what he's doing with the camera
and can find something like that in a place as cool as Wisconsin,
you wind up with something special.
Now where is Saxon Harbor again?
Okay.
It is straight north of...
Well, it is north and west of Ironwood Hurley.
Oh, wow.
It's way up there.
Okay.
Yes.
So, yeah, a little north and west.
That's right.
I wait two and then you catch a north road to the harbor.
Unfortunately, about 15 and 12 years ago, a tornado hit that place
turned it upside down and they've done such a beautiful job of cleaning it up.
It's new and fresh and a wonderful place.
You know, and I'm looking at this picture here.
I occasionally will get a thing on Facebook says.
I can catch the Aurora Borealis and we're seen as right on the cusp of maybe seeing it.
But there are too many lights around here.
I was in Alaska once.
I was in Alaska twice.
I didn't see the Aurora Borealis, but I bought a video at the time they didn't have DVDs.
It was a VHS video in 3D of the Aurora Borealis.
People had taken videos of it in Alaska.
And wow, even in 3D it was spectacular.
I'd love to see it in person though, but you got to be at the right place at the right time.
And just looking at the picture here, this is fantastic.
I can't imagine seeing this.
There was a movie called Antarctica that came out years ago.
It was about true story about some dogs that had to be left alone in the Arctic
because the explorers had to leave and they couldn't take the dogs with them.
And it's obviously, the story's true, but it was a fictionalized movie.
And they showed the dogs terrified of the Aurora Borealis
because they had never seen these lights in the sky and the dogs were going crazy.
I can imagine the first person, the first people who saw this,
didn't know what they were looking at.
It's a beautiful cover.
Yeah, it is the way that these waves of light move and shimmer
become a more brilliant, less brilliant, different colors from that solar activity.
As Rob Resnick said, when he was done finally shooting,
he just reclined back on the ground and looked straight up and enjoyed it.
Mike Bino from Aurora Wisconsin Magazine, our guest this morning,
we just hit the cover of our Wisconsin magazine.
It's 749 at WRG and hometown radio,
refreshed a civic media station, civic media radio,
covering the entire state of Wisconsin.
We have radio stations everywhere in this state.
And it's great that we're talking about Aurora Wisconsin Magazine,
the high gloss magazine, Bore Wisconsin,
and people who lived here, and people who lived down south,
who want to see what it's like up here in the upper Midwest.
What you're running to all from all I know,
is I want to get 751 at WRG and on your Thursday morning.
Hope you had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday.
Mike Bino from Aurora Wisconsin Magazine is with us.
This is such a beautiful high gloss magazine.
I mean, you get a high gloss magazine like this
who makes photographs and they're come to life.
So Mike's being punished because he was late today
so he's going to have to come in tomorrow morning again.
There's a punishment we hold.
And so he'll be in tomorrow morning again at seven o'clock
way to go through some of the stories and everything in here.
But for now, in the last few minutes,
I just want to talk about some of the pictures in here
because this is, we just hit the cover of the magazine.
You open up and there's a beautiful farm picture here
and you know why I love pictures of farms
because I'm a New York City boy.
I was born in the New York City area
and raised in the New York City area.
And so farms weren't part of my life.
A lot of people busy highways and expressways
were part of my life.
And this opening up this picture, it is so serene.
It's a picture of Kate's family farm.
Where is that?
That's near Dodgeville.
And thank you, Don.
What we try to do is take people out to the country
and give them a little bit of a relaxed, let down,
no hubbub around.
And what you're looking at is the driftless region of Wisconsin,
which I'm a sucker for.
I grew up in the Fox River Valley
and I live in far northern Wisconsin.
And up north is great.
But I think up north is overplayed in Wisconsin.
It gets a lot of attention.
The driftless region is the place where the glaciers
never touch the state.
That's about maybe a quarter of the state.
So the picture you're talking about is showing
a barn in the wintertime nestled into a coolly,
or a little valley on the bottom of ridges.
Okay, and the ridges are running in the background there.
And the last glaciation did not touch this area.
So the ridges that run through the driftless region
look kind of like Pennsylvania.
And three quarters of the state does not look like this.
So it's just part of the diversity of terrain
and another beautiful aspect of Wisconsin.
So it's a peaceful, it's a peaceful place.
The farm fields are small.
They're hemmed in by what looks like Switzerland.
There's no straight roads there.
If you look on a map because they're winding between these ridges,
it's just cool.
So what we tried to do was take people from one picture,
the South Shore Lake Superior, way up north,
it's wild, it's colorful.
Turn it.
There you are in the driftless region in this
cool little farming village kind of area.
And that's when you're working with a place
as pretty as Wisconsin, hack,
making a magazine that looks attractive,
it's easy when you're working in a place like this.
Well, it would have been perfect except this schmutz
off to the left.
Oh, he's saying that's your picture.
Okay.
That's right.
Sometimes we put a picture of my dog in there.
He's better looking than me.
He's the assistant editor, Chester.
Yeah.
Oh, that was my dog's name.
Chester.
Good for you.
Oh, he was a little bigger.
Aren't we smart people?
Now, I got to talk about this because you have a gateway,
we're just talking to talk about pictures this morning.
You have a gateway centerfold picture in the center of the magazine.
Gatefolds.
What do I call it?
Gateway.
I'm thinking of gateway college down the block here.
Gatefold and it's a three page photograph in perfect clarity.
It perfect.
You can actually see if you'll look at the trees,
you can see each individual pine needle on these branches.
And where was this gorgeous winter picture taken?
Wasn't that going to this winter?
That's for sure.
Where was it taken?
We call that.
You're talking about the big picture.
So it's a fold out.
It then gives you a horizontal panographic splash across three pages.
So it's a drone looked down at little falls in Flambo River,
State Forest.
That's up near the town of Winter.
There is a town called Winter.
And we've got, what is it?
Slow Gandhi and little falls on County M,
which is a place this was taken on the Flambo River.
Paul Ostrom of Hayward is the man who shot that.
And he's right up in the Burkeviner country.
But what you've got is a flowing river, a creek, a brook,
through the woodlands with rocks and falls and snow on the edges.
And Blue Sky.
Winter can look just gorgeous and pristine in Wisconsin.
And Paul's another one of our photographers.
I'm glad to have him out near Hayward.
And come spring.
April, May, I have a feeling you may see him on our cover.
No, that's something to look forward to.
Now, I look carefully through to see if I can see any critters in here.
And I can't.
Sometimes you can see their tracks of the critters running around.
Like my, you know, I always love that too.
When I go out on a winter day in front of my house,
I look in the backyard and there's trail tracks going all over the place.
What is going on in my property in the middle of the night
with all these animals running all over the back and forth back?
There's, there's little rabbit tracks, possum track.
They're everywhere.
This must be like, there's be a party going on in my backyard.
But I'm sleeping at night with all these critters.
But this is such a beautiful picture.
Now, you also, when you close it, there's a picture of a dog sledger,
like a munch sledger.
Where is that going?
It says, this is Wisconsin on his bib.
So it must have been somewhere around here.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, there, there are some dog sled rallies.
When you got enough, you got enough snow that the mushars are out in forest.
There's a big one often up around Bayfield.
There's some outfitters that'll take you out on the dog sled.
But they, they have dog sled races up there.
The one you're looking at is a six dog race at Willow Springs.
Round bar and sled dog rally in Wisconsin in Warsaw.
Now, and there's a round bar in there.
It's an event place you can go and see.
I've heard just recently, this year's mushroom event
had to be called off last year.
They had a big one.
But these folks have, you know, they were talking...
I heard an interview with a muncher here and she said,
you know, they've got their dogs.
They take them out and they work them when it's cool.
They work them in the wintertime.
These dogs live to pull.
When you go to one of these events, they're just being in there.
I hate to say this.
The dogs look happy.
They are.
They live to pull.
That's what they do.
And the ones who aren't being taken out to pull aren't going into harness.
They're just beside themselves.
They're hollow and they want to go.
But anyway, hold that hat.
Hold that thought.
We're going to take up that thought tomorrow, right?
With that picture.
Hold that thought.
Mike Bino, editor of Iowa Wisconsin Magazine, coming back tomorrow at 706
because he was late today, so he was being punished.
So we're going to have Mike back tomorrow.
I'm Don Rosen.
Stay right here.