So, I'm single. Thank you.
I often think about my future wife.
And how like she's been about getting in touch with me.
I don't know, being single is kind of a struggle
between loneliness and euphoria.
It's like loneliness right before you go to bed at night
and euphoria the whole rest of the day.
And I'm just real happy.
It's a balance.
It's fun.
So, I'm single.
The drinking goal.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
For the old man's waiting for the care you took.
Freedom.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
Now the river bank will make a mighty good city road.
We'll show you the way.
Let the bank book travel anon.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
For the old man's waiting for the care you took.
Freedom.
Follow.
The drinking goal.
That song's got significance.
Mike Bino, the editor of Our Wisconsin Magazine is here.
Mike was here with us yesterday.
We've got a late start so today we're going to finish up some of the articles in this month's edition of Our Wisconsin Magazine.
Mike, thanks for coming back.
I appreciate it.
Hey Don, good to be here.
That song is a powerful folk song done by many people.
It's called Follow the Drink and Gord.
It first shows up in the literature around 1910, I believe.
And it was first published about 1923.
But the story that's being told there, and it's been handed down through the years,
is helping direct a fugitive slave or slaves north from the delta in the south to freedom.
Okay, so how do you get north to freedom to the northern states to Canada?
You travel at night because you're being chased.
And you look up in the sky and you see the big dipper, the drinking gord.
They're following the drinking gord and they're traveling along rivers.
They're talking about the fairy man's going to take them across.
And that's the story, much like weight in the water, same kind of thing.
They're telling people to walk in streams up the water so the bloodhounds can't track them.
So this story ties in with something in Wisconsin.
And it's in the February March issue of our Wisconsin magazine.
There's so many things to see in Wisconsin.
And in the town of Milton near Jamesville, there is the Milton House in, built in 1844.
It's a historic place. Now it's a museum you can go through.
It's in a cabin and it was a store at one time, a place for travelers.
The Milton House in is the only certified underground railroad site in Wisconsin.
That's opened at the public for touring.
Between the Milton House, the in, restored, beautiful building.
There's a 45-foot stone tunnel that runs to the cabin in the woods.
So if anybody had to run, that was their way out.
And there was, there's at least one documented fugitive slave. That did just that.
So this is an example of something that's really neat in Wisconsin.
Going along with that, the interior decor at the Milton House,
Wisconsin, I had a retired art school teacher, made a mosaic of 9,000 pieces.
Depicting this song.
So you can see the black fugitive looking up at the night sky.
It's gorgeous work.
Connie Beer taught the Milton School District 34 years.
And also working with her as another retired school teacher, Vicki Cotton.
They made several mosaics in there.
There's a painted mural from 2019.
Gorgeous artwork that tells this story.
So all history isn't just old black and white pictures.
This is really comes to life.
And in the magazine, we try to show out a lot of color to help bring Wisconsin to life.
So this, this is an example of one of the neat stories that's out there.
And in the magazine, we ask people to chip in tips about neat and unusual things
that for people to see and do in the state of Wisconsin.
Somebody said, well, there's talented artists here.
Well, there are talented artists all over in many mediums.
How is this one different?
Here's the story and what a powerful story it is.
Well, not only do you have the mosaic display there.
If you blur your eyes a little bit, you can see everything in there.
But you also have a picture of the Milton House and the tunnel is in here as well.
Yes, in the picture of the artist and her, they built an addition onto their home
because she works with these thousands and thousands of pieces that she makes herself out of clay
and she fires and glazes them and she, it's like making a puzzle
but making your own pieces for the puzzle as you go.
So it's interesting medium.
And the detail they can put in with 9,000 pieces is amazing.
You know, and you can see the mosaic here or you can go to the Milton House
or it's actually hanging up and see it in person if you want.
So that's just Milton's by Jamesville, but people don't know where Milton is.
And wow, it's magnificent.
And again, when you blur your eyes just a little bit, you can see all the details in there.
It's just beautiful. That's gorgeous.
You know, I like about the magazine too, the old photographs.
And the pictures we just saw were modern pictures just taken recently.
But there's one, an ice skating club, the Wild Rose Ice Skating Club.
It looks like these two young ladies here. I don't know the date of them.
It looks probably about the 1950s, but you step back in time.
I love doing that.
Yeah, the Wild Rose is, oh, it's in the central part of the state.
I'll out west of Oshkosh a little bit.
And this small town, this is an example of somebody who has accepted our,
taken our challenge to send in story stories about something they remember that's cool from their past.
Or something that touches somebody, something that was once very noteworthy and maybe has been forgotten.
So the little town of Wild Rose farming community, Oshkosh a county, I believe.
During the 1940s, you didn't have really much in the way of TV or much to do indoors during winter time.
And in dairy farming area, you work the cows and all that.
But other than that, there's not a whole lot of recreation.
I've often heard that a farmer's idea of a vacation is more work.
But anyway, for something to do in the winter time, these kids decided they would go skating on the mill pond
and out right outside of town in the river.
And some of the grownups saw this interest in skating.
So the guy at the local lumber yard decides, well, I've got some land here, wide open land, let's flood it.
So he floods it, they make a rink.
About 18 1948, excuse me, Ernie Noe, who on the lumber company there.
And the kids are out there skating.
The firefighters started flooding the rink and the adults would shovel it.
And when they needed more people to shovel, Ernie would go into the local bowling alley in the tavern
and clear the place out and say, look, you guys get to work.
Shovel this rink off for the kids.
Maybe I'll buy you some beer afterwards.
So he did that.
They had a warming hut and a sawdust floor, so it wouldn't harm the skates and wood burning stove, all that.
Then it progressed from there.
Why don't we do an ice show, an ice skating club?
Why don't we do an ice show?
The whole town gets together, okay?
This was done over many years.
They would make costumes.
They brought in professional figure skaters from Milwaukee and paid them to train these kids.
They had an insignia made up.
You guys see the insignia, yeah.
The uniforms made up all of that.
And they put on these shows.
And it went on for the late 40s into 1953.
And I think as television came on and things like that, people started spending more time indoors.
But it's never been forgotten.
And there is a museum in wild rose that comprises seven buildings.
We got a letter to the editor that we're going to run in our next issue, a follow-up to this, where they've said,
because of this story, more and more costumes and memorabilia from this old skating club have come out of the woodwork and how they've got them on display.
In the museum, thanks to Jim Patterson's story, you know, lives in Ashkash.
He recalled the days there and included a picture of a little bit rough, but it's the real McCoy.
You can see a young kid and a young man in his skates, figure skates, and an instructor there.
That's the pro telling this farm kid how to cut a figure eight or something.
But the wild rose museum is open and they're open in summer.
June through Labor Day, and they will now have a greatly expanded display in there of the local color we're talking about.
And they're open all summer. They're even open by appointment, so if you call them, so that'll be in our next issue.
We'll have that letter to the editor of the phone number.
But it's some of the neat small town stuff that used to go on.
And, you know, maybe people are no figure skating so much anymore, but other things have taken its place.
And it's just some of the vibrancy of Wisconsin and winter.
And coming up in just a few moments here, we're talking the Mike Bino from our Wisconsin magazine.
You know, nowadays we want ice, we hit the button on our fridge and ice spits out.
But back when there was a business cutting and selling ice, we'll talk about that coming up in just a moment.
I want to place some more of that.
Now that you know about the song and the mosaic, now you might appreciate the song more.
Follow the drinking gourd back in just a moment.
We're at 99.9 FM, 98.1 FM, 1400 AM.
WRJN is civic media station.
Home town radio refreshed more with Mike in just a moment.
Stay where you are.
Now the riverbank will make the mighty good roads.
The dead trees will show you the way.
Left foot is pink, foot is traveling on.
Follow the drinking gourd.
Follow the drinking gourd.
Follow the drinking gourd.
Follow the old man's wing.
Follow the drinking gourd.
Now the riverbank.
Follow the drinking gourd.
If it ain't go wrong.
Mike, you know my guest from our Wisconsin magazine.
If I were an ice man.
Now this was a real job.
I know young people today that can't imagine this, but it was a profession during the winter to cut giant blocks of ice out.
Just storm in an ice house.
And I guess during the summer when you need an ice, you can get this giant block of ice.
Of course, I don't do it anymore.
But back when there was a big thriving business, you have an article on that.
That's true.
And in Wisconsin where the winters have traditionally gotten cold, we had plenty of ice.
Now we're talking about the days before refrigerators.
And so in the early 1900s and on up, ice making was ice companies were very needed.
And it was a blowing and going business.
We've got a story in the February March issue from Roger Lawrence of Quarterly and Idaho who recalls, he's from Wisconsin.
Our readers are now all over the United States.
United States in many different countries.
But I digress.
Roger was raised up around Tomahawk.
And his grandfather in the 1930s ran the half moon ice company on half moon lake.
Old 51 used to go right past that, that little lake.
And the lake ice company in the summer floated a ham's bear, an inner tube bear.
People got to know the bear, but it was kind of a landmark.
Lake ice company in the winter time though, when the ice got to 30 inches thick, 10 men would go out there,
and they'd take a large circular saw and skids, gas powered.
And they would saw through that 30 inches of ice.
They would cross hatch it like a checkerboard.
And they had long pointed ice pikes, got to get that first block out of the way.
And they would float these ice cakes in a channel that they cut to the shore.
Now some of those were like 20 by 40 foot blocks, 30 inches thick, quite heavy.
They pushed those chunks and then they saw them smaller, two by four chunks, which they called a cake.
And then they would use a conveyor.
Sometimes these were pulled up by horses on the other side.
I think this particular company might have used a small gas engine.
But they would pull it up and conveyor it, elevate it, get it up high, and into the open roof structure,
which is called the ice house.
They would cover that over later.
Load the cakes in there.
Then they had sawdust.
Plenty of sawdust they made, and they would pack that around the cakes and layer the cakes inside the ice house.
That would insulate it and hold the cakes of ice into the warmer weather.
What would they do with those when they got the ice house all covered up?
Well, after winter you get it, you're getting into spring.
And people start needing refrigeration for their food.
What they had before refrigerators were ice boxes.
It was usually sometimes made of wood lined with tin or zinc, sometimes some metal on the outside.
Some of them got ornate after a while.
But you would obtain a cake of ice, a good size one, put it in that ice box.
There was enough room for your food, and there was a drip pan beneath.
You had to continually take that drip melt water out.
But these ice cakes would last until way into August.
Are we going to break here, Don?
No, go ahead.
Okay, these ice cakes would last in August.
So at first they were hauled by horse and wagon, then by delivery truck, to the neighborhoods that needed.
This was in this instance, Tom Hock is a small town on the Wisconsin River and some rural stuff.
But even in bigger cities, ice men would carry that ice, residents to residents.
They had a leather piece, they'd put over their shoulder, tongs, take that ice, put that cake on their shoulder, and heft it into the house.
Chisel off some pieces because it's sold by weight.
And the little kids would run behind the wagon and get the ice chips so they could suck on them.
Big business until the advent of the refrigerator.
In this particular story, the old modally fords that they hauled the ice with.
Well, when the business dwindled, Roger Lorenzo's father and grandfather went into fuel oil.
They put tanks on the backs of their trucks and converted.
Or hauled legal hooch during prohibition.
Maybe if this was, if this was the 30s, maybe.
Well, this is, you know, I'm looking through the magazine here.
And of course, I've seen it about four times already since I've got my issue.
Even the recipes in here look fabulous.
The photography is just beautiful.
It's a high gloss, high great stock magazine.
It's called our Wisconsin magazine.
It is just amazing how you put this together every month, every photograph.
You could just, even if you don't want to read the stories, the photographs are just wonderful in this magazine.
People get submit photographs.
They're in perfect color.
There's no bleed through on anything.
It's just beautiful to look at.
And that gatefold in the middle, it's just, it's suitable for framing.
I mean, I would just take it out and just get a frame to hold those in.
Thank you, Don.
People do say that.
Some people say that these are good enough to frame.
Or we've got this three-page full dog panographic in the middle of a beautiful scene in Wisconsin.
We've got a winter waterfall in the current issue.
People put them up on their walls and they send us photos of that.
And yeah, we have some professional photographers who supplied the most dense color images that would be on.
On a pan three-page panographic or a cover.
But truly, about 80% of the content in any of our issues, stories and photos,
comes from the readers themselves.
Why do we do that?
Well, you know, we want it to be neighborly.
We want it to feel like a big conversation from all corners of Wisconsin.
We invite everybody who's got a story.
By a story, I mean, something with a beginning, middle, and end.
It's got to lead somewhere.
It's got to be entertaining, entertaining storytelling.
Usually, people's stories is what we're after.
There's nothing wrong with straight information like events and destinations.
And some of that creeps its way into the magazine and that's good.
But that's not the emphasis.
You know, 10 great places to get an ice cream cone in the state.
That kind of comes in the back door.
What we want to do is tell people's stories that are entertaining.
And I just think that people like to read about people most of all.
You know, this is a beautiful magazine.
It's called Our Wisconsin Mike Bino.
Thank you very much.
We'll see you for the next issue, obviously.
And you can't miss the cover.
The Aurora Boreale is a beautiful picture on the cover of the magazine.
We talked about it yesterday.
Mike, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
From Manitwish Waters up there in No Man's Land, Wisconsin.
That's right.
Hey, thank you.
Send, send, send, American.
Okay.
Thank you very much, Mike.
And this will be pop.
This will be podcaster and 10 o'clock this morning.
In case people want to hear it again.
Thank you, Mike.
Okay, thank you, John.
Bye-bye now.
All right.
We're talking movies coming up at just a moment.
With Brent Hoppen from Marcus theaters.
A rain drops.
So many rain drops.
It feels like a rain drops.
Falling from my eyes.
Falling from my eyes.
Since my love has left me.
I'm so alone.
I would bring her back to you.
But I don't know.
It's 735 on a Friday.
You know what that means?
Brent Hoppen of Marcus theaters is here.
Patelus is playing it.
The movies.
And by the way, before we even talk about what's coming to the movies.
We already are all set now for.
I guess it's the Fathom Retro series.
We are going to see on the big screen.
Gone with the wind.
Now, I've seen it before in the big screen.
You ran it about two, three years ago.
It's got the overture, the intermission.
I bet you didn't know Gone with the wind had an overture to it.
It was a big roadshow presentation back in 1939.
So you're going to run the complete roadshow version of Gone
with the wind on the big screen.
And keep in mind, it's not a wide screen movie.
It's like a small square on the screen because that's where they shot them.
And back in the late 60s, they decided to make it a big wide screen movie.
The problem was all the heads were chopped off at the top.
Because it's not a wide screen movie.
You're going to show it in the original aspect ratio.
The way it was meant to be seen in 1939.
Then we're going to rear window.
The Alfred Hitchcock classic is going to be on the big screen.
And we can't wait for that too.
So you got a lot of older movies coming in, which are great.
But we've got some new movies, including a couple that open up on Valentine's Day
and some new ones coming out.
So let's run through the list here.
What do you got?
Yeah, just to talk about that.
So Gone with the wind.
It's the 85th anniversary of that movie.
I can't believe that.
It's going to be beautiful up on screen.
There are some special content from Film Critical Letter and Baldwin.
That's going to be up on that one.
That's really April.
So watch out for that one.
And then, as you said, rear window wall should be coming out.
And when we look at these movies, what great movies they're coming out.
You really can't be gone at the window.
85th anniversary of Gone at the wind.
The 70th anniversary of rear window that's coming out from Hitchcock.
So those are coming out.
It's April for Gone at the Wind.
It's all the way in August for rear window.
But that one's worth waiting for.
All right.
Now I got there to have two bits of trivia here.
When you'll watch rear window, you've seen the movie, right?
You've seen it.
Of course.
There's a there's a window off to the left where the guy is playing the piano.
He's the guy, the piano player and the thing.
His name is Ross Bagdasarian.
But he went into a different name later in the 60s and late 50s.
He went under the name of David Seville with the chipmunks.
And that's David Seville and the chipmunks.
That's the guy who voiced Alvin Simon and Theodore.
And I guess he couldn't make it.
It's an actor.
So he went with that.
And they had the chipmunks song and Alvin Sermon again, the TV show.
So Ross Bagdasarian became David Seville on the chipmunks.
So that's a good little trivia question there.
The other one is with Gone with the Wind when I lived in Atlanta.
I was picking my wife up who worked in Davidson's department store, which was Macy's then.
And I'm just waiting for to come out and I walk across the street and I see this warehouse.
And I notice a facade on the building.
And I said, wait a second.
And I talked to some guy passing by.
Is this a movie theater?
He goes, it used to be.
I said, is this the Lowes Grand movie theater?
He goes, yeah, it used to be.
That Lowes Grand is where they had the world premiere of Gone with the Wind.
And Clark Gables stood outside in front of a microphone and said,
I'm going in now to see Gone with the Wind with Margaret Mitchell for the first time.
And that was the theater.
The Lowes Grand, and I was standing right in front of it on the spot where Clark Gables gave that talk.
That famous speech before he went to see Gone with the Wind for the first time.
All right.
Enough with my trivia.
Let's talk about the movies.
Very good.
Well, we have a few movies that are out.
Let's talk about some.
On Valentine's Day, earlier this week, you had two movies released.
The first one was Bob Marley.
One love.
This is a drama musical about the life of Bob Marley.
Interestingly enough, as you have asked months ago, no one would have predicted that this movie will be the number one movie of the weekend.
But here it is.
The audiences are enjoying this one.
The story of Bob Marley.
And that also was released along with Madam Webb.
And Madam Webb is a Marvel film that's released by Sony.
It's a story that's adjacent to Spider-Man.
It's about Cassandra Webb, who discovers she has the power to see the future.
She has some clairvoyance.
And she has to figure out how did she get these powers?
Where did they come from?
And she also has to defend three young women that have similar powers from basically another force that she doesn't quite understand.
So when you look at Madam Webb, that movie is actually going to come number two, because Bob Marley is going to take number one at the box office, which is really interesting.
Now let me say, I don't know the actor's name, but the actor who played Bob Marley has this guy down to a science, even the dancing, the twirling that he did on stage, Bob Marley all the time.
This guy is just a knockout.
He is a fantastic actor.
I don't know his name and never heard of him before, but he is great playing Bob Marley.
And by the way, one of the executive producers of that Bob Marley movie is Brad Pitt.
See, you come on this program.
You learn a lot, don't you?
That's because I watched the credits when they were all, and this is Brad Pitt executive producer.
So you're a little guy.
The gentleman that plays him has had a lot of experiences.
His name is Kingsley Benadier.
And he's been in everything from the TV series Peter Blinders.
He was in Barbie in this past summer.
I wasn't.
No, dude.
And he's got an extensive resume on there.
So he's been around, but you're right.
He doesn't nail Bob Marley.
Boy, and I'll tell you something.
Even when I saw him on stage, at the end, they trigger the real Bob Marley.
And you can compare them side by side.
And wow, he is really good.
He really nailed it.
All right.
So we got some new stuff coming out too, right?
Yeah, that's right.
So today we also have a land of the bad.
This is a movie star in Russell Crowe and Lee and Helmburg.
It's an action thriller.
It has to do with an army special forces team that get caught and ambush.
And our hope slide with an air traffic controller.
And he's played by Lee and Helmburg.
And a drone pilot that's played by Russell Crowe.
And they have to guide them through this brutal 48 hour battle for their survival.
That's land of the bad.
That's an action film that's coming out again,
starring Russell Crowe and Lee and Helmburg.
And then you have the chosen season four.
And this is episodes four through six.
So the chosen season four is playing this entire month.
For a couple of weeks, we had episodes one through three.
Now we have four through six.
Really getting some great reviews on screen.
And a lot of people are coming out and enjoying this on screen.
And let me tell you, don't worry if you missed episodes one through three.
If you're loosely familiar with the life and times that Jesus Christ.
You can figure it out.
You'll be able to jump right in and figure this out.
There's a book you can follow which will tell you everything.
It's the best selling book in the history of books.
The Holy Bible.
You can't figure it out.
I saw it.
We were there for episodes one through three of season four.
They do give an intermission between the two of the episodes.
So you do have time to get out there.
They put a clock on the screen.
So you do have time to use the restrooms or to refill your popcorn or refill a soda.
They do give you time to do it.
It's not just three straight hours like it was with the Martin Scorsese movie.
You get a bathroom break here.
But it is very good.
And the actors are just great in this film.
And you know, it's it's based upon the Bible.
And you can follow along with it.
And it's very good.
The actors are great in this film too.
It's all filmed in Texas.
By the way, right outside San Antonio, I guess we're Austin.
So it feels like you were in the Holy Land, but you're really not.
You're in Texas.
So it just feels different.
And by the way, at the beginning, they do it behind the scenes.
So you get to see all the sets.
They take you through with a drone through the costuming department through these sets.
And it's interesting how they do that.
How they built this whole thing in Texas to make this series.
But anyway, go ahead.
I interrupt you.
No, so it's great to see this on screen.
It's been, it's going to play all month.
We'll have seven and eight in a couple weeks episode seven and eight.
But go see that movie's really interested in that content because people are really having
a good time together at the theater watching it.
And we have another thing for people to come together.
So it's called Peppa's Cinema Party.
This is the 20th anniversary celebration of Peppa Pig.
That's if you have young children, you'll know Peppa Pig.
And this time we get 10 never forcing episodes.
We get 11 interactive entertainment sequences.
So kids and the whole family can enjoy what's going on.
They can dance.
They can talk in the theater.
It's a very, it's a very acceptable environment for your children to make noise and have fun watching Peppa Pig.
And so parents to be together while that happens with them.
So that's come, that's at the theater right now with the Renaissance.
So a little bit something for everyone when you look at a Bob Marley documentary.
You've got a Marvel film with that.
I'd be up at Chosen, which is about the life and times of Jesus Christ.
And Peppa Pig's Cinema Party for young children.
So a little something for everyone this weekend at the movies.
Now here's something else about Chosen.
Now they're getting to the nitty gritty now of when the Sanhedrin are just about had it with Jesus already.
Now we're in season four.
They're going to season seven they said when in the in the pre pre movie thing.
So I don't know how they're going to stretch us out to season seven.
Obviously they are.
But they're getting down to the nitty gritty now where they want to arrest Jesus.
And once they start doing that, I don't know how they're going to stretch it out to three.
Because now we're at the halfway mark according to season four.
So it'll be interesting to see what they do to move this along.
But I don't know.
I'm not the writer, the screenwriter, the producer, the director, anything.
So we'll see that Dallas Jenkins is the director of the entire series.
He does a great job on this because there are a lot of people in how biblical epics of the 50s and 60s had cast of thousands.
Well, they got cast of hundreds and hundreds of people here.
And they all have to be costumed in order to make this movie.
And this is a very expensive process to do, make these biblical epics.
But the actors, everything is there.
They're all good.
And you say to yourself, and this happens with TV series as well, how do you keep all the same actors?
You know, especially when they're real, the character plays Jesus.
He's been a lot of TV shows and movies.
But you got to keep him because he's so recognizable in the role and some of the other people too, some of the disciples.
But one they had to replace.
And they mentioned that in the role of so-and-so will be played by.
But he wasn't a main character.
So you won't miss him that much.
What did that come up in the future?
What have we got here?
You know, we've got a lot coming up in the future.
If you watch the big game, we can say if you watch the Super Bowl this past weekend,
you saw some trailers coming out.
And I think people absolutely loved what they saw.
A couple of the highlights for those, I'll tell you the best performing ones.
Disney put out a trailer for the upcoming Deadpool movie.
It's a rated-arm Marvel film.
They announced the title, Deadpool and Wolverine.
Ryan Reynolds who plays a Deadpool is going to be joined by Hugh Jackman that plays Wolverine.
This has is now the most viewed movie trailer online of all time.
It got 365 million dollars.
Yes, I read that.
Yes.
I read that yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that one was probably the best performing terms of views.
The other two highlights that people are going wild for is Wicked.
This is Wicked is going to be released at a two-part series over two years.
The first part is going to be released in late November of this year.
Check that one out.
Universal Pictures is putting out Wicked.
Of course, this is the smash hit on Broadway.
This is based on a book.
And Wicked is going to be a tremendous voice when it comes to the holiday season at the end of this year.
We saw it on stage in Chicago and the music is just fantastic.
And if people don't know, it's basically how the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz became Wicked.
And the story is about her, the Wicked Witch and her and Glenda, the Good Witch.
So it's a family story, but it's very good.
The music is great.
I got to mention it real fast.
John Krasinski.
Now, here's a guy that was on the TV show, The Office for Nine Seasons.
He played Jim Halpern on the TV show, The Office.
He's got two movies coming out.
We just saw the trailers in the theater for two of them.
One is called If, which is kind of a strange movie with live action and animated people in the film.
And the other one is a quiet place, day one.
So this guy has two directed movies coming out basically at the same time.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
It stands for Imagine a Friend.
A Little Girl begins to see everyone's imaginary friends.
That should be a really awesome movie if you saw the footage for that one.
That was the third one that I was going to tell people is really stirring up basically some great reactions from people.
And they really want to go see that one.
And a quiet place, day one, he directed the first quiet places.
He helped write and produce this one.
He is not directing this one.
In fact, director Michael Sarnaski, who is actually from Milwaukee,
is going to be directing a quiet place.
Part one.
Both of those trailers, though, you saw it during the Super Bowl.
So a goal figure.
You have two trailers during the Super Bowl that have to do with movies that you helped with.
John Krasinski.
And I don't think we'd ever have expected that.
No, he's Jim from the office, the goofy guy on the office.
Who married Pam and so out of the family.
Hey, Brett Hoffman from Marcus Thears, always fun talking movies with you, my friend.
And we'll do it again next Friday. How's that?
We'll see you then. Thanks so much.
Okay, go to the movies. Go enjoy the movies.
Hit some popcorn and do what I do.
Get some hot dogs and enjoy a good movie at the movie theaters.
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Let's say hello to Mike Clemens.
Are you back home yet from Vegas or are you still out there gambling your house away?
I got back Wednesday and your kids and college tuition money.
Yeah, all right.
Now I got back Wednesday because the reason is I'm freelance.
So I pay, you know, I'm my own business.
I pay with, it would have cost me $1,000 more if I tried to leave on Monday or Tuesday.
In a matter of fact, they were saying it was a record traffic at the Harry Reid International Airport there in downtown Las Vegas on Monday and Tuesday.
It was crazy. It was like three, four hours to get through TSA and all that.
I'm glad I waited until Wednesday. So guess what I did?
I had, you know, covered the game, did it all night or Sunday night into Monday.
You know, fed reports through all of our stations in the company, etc.
Tuesday night, the night before I get back on the plane, I had some time off.
And so I put a little thing on Facebook saying, hey, I'm in Vegas.
I haven't been out here in a while.
Maybe there's something unique that you would do. What would you do?
Okay. Let me drive out of town and go to the Red Rocks.
Like, okay, that's good.
And then there's something, there's an art museum.
It's kind of an immersive thing like that Van Gogh show that was out a couple of years ago.
It's called Meow Wolf.
And it's just like crazy animated modern art.
You know, it's hard to describe, but I looked up to it on the website.
It looked really cool. I said, you know, that's probably something I want to see with family.
And then I got a tip.
And so I went to the Tropicana and I went to the left factory and I saw a rich little.
The real rich little or an impersonator?
Oh, wow.
Okay.
The real rich little who comes on stage at 630 and does like an hour and a half show
and he's got all these video clips, did you know that, you know, so he grows up in Canada
and gets into show business, he gets discovered by a producer who's on CBS
and his first thing in America was on the Judy Garland show.
She had a variety show.
Yeah.
It's in 64, the same year as the Beatles on CBS.
And that's how CBS started to discover them.
And then they put them on the Sullivan show regularly and then the Tonight Show.
And he had all these great stories about Johnny Carson and, you know,
working with Dean Martin and all those guys.
Don Rickles did all of his impressions, talked about,
and then anything we'd play clips of him working with some of those people,
it was great show business stuff.
And I wish I could say, hey, go out and see that show except at the end of this month,
they'll be closing the left factory because they're tearing down the Tropicana,
built in 1957, one of the early resorts out there,
casinos, to make way for the new Oakland baseball stadium and Las Vegas.
Oh, wow.
Vegas has always been torn apart and rebuilt.
I mean, it's constantly being done.
You know, here's something we did when we went out to Vegas once.
We were trying to kill a day and afternoon.
I went out there for a wedding.
And we had to kill the afternoon, went to the Liberace Museum.
It was actually in a shopping center.
I don't know if it's there anymore.
It's huge.
And you get to try on these giant coats that Liberace wore and they're very heavy.
But, you know, I said, Liberace, I want to see a Liberace Museum.
And it was fabulous.
I had a great day out there.
He was from West Dallas, right?
Right.
West Dallas, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, there's that Wisconsin connection.
So, what other thing I did on the same night?
Is then after that, got in the car in 10 minutes away.
I want to someplace called the neon boni.
Yes.
Yes.
And so, there's the sign for a club that you use to play regularly at.
It's his autograph and neon.
And so, like the star dust, you know, former resort, that sign is there.
You know, golden nugget casino signs.
All these famous neon signs.
I know.
They're now in a museum north of town.
Pretty cool.
Yeah.
And I saw your pictures of it, but I wasn't there, but I've seen a documentary on it.
Have this guy collected all these old signs from old Vegas.
You can go on a website about old Vegas and they'll show you all this stuff.
But Vegas always reinventing itself.
It's it's constantly being torn down.
If you see the movie Casino, the Martin Scorsese film, they show all these buildings coming down.
Right.
But you had a good time at the Super Bowl.
Now, I could ask you something about the halftime show, because we never see them setting it up.
Do you actually see them set up the ice rinks and stage and everything?
You watch that set up?
Yeah.
You know, well, I can't.
I mean, you know, I'm up in the in the stands.
Right.
But I, you know, I've seen pictures.
Or sometimes they've been allowed.
There's much tighter with security.
And of course, after that knucklehead streaker got on the field.
Again, that's going to make my life more difficult.
Knucklehead.
Because of what they do with the, you know, with the, but it is amazing on all of the stuff that they have to haul out.
The rehearsals, they'll do that for like six weeks.
They bring in a lot of volunteers, usually from the community that sign up like a year in advance.
And they go through all kinds of training like, you know, because it's a fire drill.
But they, they, people really like that one against usher.
I saw some of it also though.
I'm covering a football game and so I'm usually taking a break, getting something to eat, pulling some stats.
And getting ready for the, the next set of plays in the second half.
So we're a quickly here.
I've got one minute left.
Spring training.
Whoever's thunka, I mean, it's, it's 25 degrees outside and we're talking about spring training.
The Brewers in spring training now.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, yeah.
It's pictures and catchers reported yesterday.
There's a kid that they had out there yesterday.
There's a lot of new faces and they got a new manager.
You know, Pat Murphy, the guy had been the bench coach.
He's taking over.
But there's one guy that they've got, his name is Mizorowski.
He's from Missouri.
This kid throws a fastball at 103 miles an hour, the Miz.
And as a matter of fact, he played for the Timber Rallers last summer.
And now they brought him up to, to the majors to see, I think he's 22 years old.
But that would be cool.
If they got a fastball picture name, the Miz.
My uncle, Mikey, my father's brother, tried out for the Washington Senators baseball team years and years and years ago.
And he wanted to be a baseball player.
So he had to try out and he wasn't paying attention to something.
And he got hit on the head with a baseball on the field.
And he said, forget it.
I'm out.
And he became a lawyer instead.
Anyway, Mike Clemens.
Did he shoot it?
Did he shoot them?
No, he was, you know, it was during, you know, they were doing practicing.
And so they threw a ball with a little wild.
And he got hit in the head with it.
And he said, I'm not going to do this career.
I'll be a lawyer instead and sue these people.
Mike Clemens, thanks a lot here every Friday to talk sports.
Did we just wrap up his Super Bowl trip?
And I'm glad you had a good time out there.
All right, Mike, talk to you next Friday once again.
Thanks, Don.
Have a good weekend.
You too, Mike Clemens, watching sports boards here.
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