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I had kind of a rough day.

I was over my parents' house all day

because I live there.

God, I wish that was a joke.

Yeah, a little rule of thumb.

I'm 26, and if you are 26 years old

and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets,

the force is not with you.

No siriota.

I mean, I love my mom, she's wonderful,

but she can be so annoying.

Like, you ever drive with your mom as an adult?

I would rather pick up an escaped convict.

At least, they're satisfied.

You know what I mean? My mom, she doesn't really say anything out loud.

She just makes that noise that moms make

when they think they're about to crash,

which is roughly every 10 seconds.

You know that noise?

I just want to fear into oncoming traffic.

I'll give you something about later.

Then she starts grabbing that handle.

The we're all going to die, handle.

What is that thing even there for?

In case you want to turn your car into a subway at some point,

a little baby doing chin-ups on it or something.

And she starts pressing on her brake.

The fake brake, right?

Oh yeah, mom, that was helpful.

Yeah, we almost crashed, but you mimed braking.

Thank goodness for that.

Thank you.

You're so talented.

You were part of the money, so hard for it, honey.

You were part of the money, so you better be her right.

You were part of the money, so hard for it, honey.

You were part of the money, so you better be her right.

It's seven away to WRJN radio.

Thank you for joining us here on this day after election day,

Mayor Corey Mason is here, Mayor from Racine.

Thank you very much for joining us here.

My pleasure.

We're listening to that comedian there talking about driving.

My dad, when he taught me how to drive,

I learned to drive in New York.

And I just got my, just got to permit.

And he said, okay, going the long on an expressway.

I said, dad, he said, if you're going to learn,

you might as well learn now.

That's jumping into the deep end, honey.

I went to the LIE and he said, I said, he said speed up.

I said, but the traffic said, he said, stay,

stay up with the flow of traffic.

If you don't, you're going to cause an accident.

Because everyone's going a little faster than the speed limit.

And you're making people pass you.

So keep up with the flow of traffic.

And I always thought about that.

If I ever got stopped for speeding.

Well, my dad used to tell me to keep up with the flow of traffic.

Because he said, you're going to cause an accident.

If you go that slow, it was 55 miles an hour.

And people go on like 60, 65.

But he's right.

If you go fifth, you're going to cause people to pass you.

They're going to go into lanes that they shouldn't be in.

And, you know, anyway, so that's where I learned to drive.

Would you learn to drive?

Here, locally, right?

Then I might go a little closer.

Sure.

I mean, I learned to drive and took a test

when the DMV used to be over by a shop co, right?

Okay.

And, you know, that was the big experience

is learning how to drive.

And, you know, I think my dad was less nervous about driving

with me than my mom.

I think she was hanging on to that bar.

Does anybody have any experience?

It's so weird.

It's so weird.

You know, hanging on to the first weekend.

But yeah, I mean, I remember being so upset

because I wanted to get my test on my 16th birthday.

And I think it was like three days after my birthday, right?

I was so angry I couldn't get it scheduled on time.

But yeah, it was that.

And then, you know, they drive around sort of,

in the neighborhood there, just a little bit east of Ohio.

And it's got a neighborhood that has unmarked intersections

in it, right?

Which was one of the tests they had to do,

like what are you supposed to do in an unmarked intersection

and had a few yield signs in it.

And, but yeah, it was, you know,

that was the big ride of passage to freedom.

Would you have a driver's license?

Oh, and if you were the first one in school,

you had the car in school.

Everybody wanted to be your friend

because you were able to drive everything.

Well, one last thing about my dad,

we come into an intersection.

And I just got my permit.

I mean, he was ruthless to me, you know.

He expected to me like a 40 year veteran

of driving in New York.

We come into an intersection, four stop signs.

And he said, what are you doing?

I said, well, I'm gonna wait to see if he goes first.

He said, what are you writing a thesis on this corner?

Let's go already.

Yeah.

Well, that's the other thing.

You have those four way stops.

And I think even for people of this day,

it's like, is it your turn?

Is it my turn?

Is it, you know, there's this sort of awkward thing

and occasionally somebody will wave them on.

It's like, well, it's actually your turn.

But okay.

That's how I failed my first driver's test.

That's what he said.

He said, you came to a four way,

and you didn't let the guy on your right,

even though he waved me on, he said, doesn't matter.

Yeah.

And he failed me on that, and I had to take it again.

And I thought, I was never gonna drive a car

as long as I lived.

This is it.

I failed my driver's test.

I'm never gonna drive.

I'm gonna be walking for the rest of my life.

And I was it, and well, it didn't work out like that.

I got my driver's license, and I got one ticket

in my entire life.

Oh, good for you.

And you know what that was?

We were doing a promotion here

with one of the car companies in town,

and I had to drive their cars for a week,

and then talk about it.

So I'm getting on the freeway,

and this cop had somebody pulled over

right after the entrance ramp.

And I couldn't get this thing up to speed.

I mean, this thing was,

and there were going 80 miles an hour,

and I couldn't get into the lane,

so I had to drive past the cop.

There was a guy on the hill.

He said, you didn't pull over.

You're supposed to pull over an extra lane.

I said, I couldn't get in.

He said, I saw.

Wow.

But you're getting a ticket.

And they reduced the ticket to something ridiculous,

but anyway.

Okay, we had the election last night.

This was a primary,

and a lot of people waking up this morning,

it really was a primary listening.

Where was I with during all this?

We promoted enough here on this station.

We told you it was February 20th.

We had all four people

from the fourth assembly,

fourth automatic district on.

We talked about it.

We put the interviews online,

and I was number 91 at 430 in the afternoon.

Yeah.

And the vote totals,

we didn't talk about the exact vote totals,

but once you run through them,

yeah, sure.

So 173 people who voted all together

in the fourth automatic district.

David Mack came in first with 74 votes.

Jacqueline Schrader came in second with 45.

And then coming in third was Jordan Lawrence,

who had 30 votes, and Keith Fair came in fourth at 24 votes.

Coming in last is one right in.

He had one right in the district.

So 173 all together.

But I think the low turn out a bit is,

unless you lived in one of those two

automatic districts out of the 15 in the city,

there was no election.

There was nothing citywide.

Right.

That would bring people out.

But still it was a beautiful day yesterday.

Oh, I agree.

I agree.

And this, we voted red apple school.

Yeah.

And it's, I could walk there if I had to, right?

There's parking galore on the streets.

Yeah.

And when I went in there with my wife,

we were the only two people in there.

And when we left we were the only two people in there.

I think the poll workers were, you know,

napping for the last three hours.

But it was slow.

Yeah, it was slow.

And I know it's a primary thing.

I know.

I mean, you don't get a lot of people voting in that.

In the second district.

The second district.

So this is where Molly Jones is the incumbent.

We had 272 voters in that on the line.

So they did it.

Yeah, almost, you know,

a third more voters in that district, which is interesting.

But out of 272 voters, Molly Jones got 169.

So she performed very well as the incumbent Tyler Townsend.

Came in second at 48.

So he'll be the other person who advances.

And then David Zuper came in third with 34.

And Xavier Kendall Gordon came in last at 21 votes.

No writings there.

OK, so now they go into the general election.

It's top two.

And when is that?

That'll be in April.

So it's the first Tuesday in April.

And so there it'll be in the context of, you know,

there's the presidential primary taking place.

Oh, yeah.

So it'll be, there will be citywide efforts for people to vote.

And actually statewide efforts for people to want to vote in April.

And there we do have other all the manic districts

where it's contested.

So there are only two candidates who

filed in some of these all the manic districts.

There's no primary, because we know who the top two are.

So there'll be more spaces and reasons

for people to vote citywide.

And in particular, all the manic districts,

then there were for just these two districts that,

and, you know, I certainly am thrilled

when people want to run for office, right?

So people are just like, oh, to do a whole election,

just because four people wanted to run in two districts.

But that's democracy, right?

Like, that's how it works.

Anybody can put their name in.

And they qualify on the ballot.

Well, it's going on in Russia right now.

Yeah, you're an opponent.

You die.

That's right, that's right.

I mean, so luckily we don't have that in this country.

Yeah, we have a free country.

And if you get out, if you're an eligible voter and over 18

and, you know, don't have a felony where you're on paper,

you, you got the right to run.

That's, that's really, that's all it is.

You got to be a citizen and over 18.

And now you can't be a felon to run in a local election.

But you can be a felon and run for president though, right?

I mean, we'll see, right?

I mean, I should say it's not that you can never run,

or you can't vote if you're a felon.

Right, right.

And you can't hold office.

There's a constitutional amendment in Wisconsin

that says you can't hold office if you've been a felon.

So, so that, that disallows you from running.

But in terms of your right to vote, if you are,

if you committed a felony and you're still out

and you're on probation or extended supervision,

you can't vote until your full sentence is over.

But once your sentence is served,

your voting rights are restored.

And so people sometimes think, oh,

if I lost my voting rights and I lose them forever,

but once you paid your debt to society,

your voting rights are restored.

What do you think about the new, the new map redistributed?

Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

This is a long saga.

I was actually in the legislature

when the Republicans did this sort of cherrymandering map

that it's based upon.

And so, you know, we've had, you know,

a decade and a half now of almost of, of lines

that are just really not competitive, right?

And so you have this.

Well, explain, explain with the,

the average person says,

well, what do you mean drawing new lines?

What do you mean it's not competitive?

Now, I understand it.

Yeah.

Well, why don't you explain it to people?

What this whole thing is about?

Yeah, it's a great, so since the country's founding, right?

Every 10 years, we count how many people live in this country

and every state and jurisdiction does that as well.

And so whether it's the National Congress

or state legislature, you want your districts

to have roughly the same number of people

and represent, you know, specific communities

to be able to do that.

Enter sort of the age of computers in the last 20 years or so.

You've gotten politicians who've been very good

about using computers and voter performance

and what you wind up happening is you have,

you have elected officials picking their voters

instead of voters picking their elected officials.

So it's a good analogy.

It is.

I don't know, I know there's some said it before,

but that's really what happens.

People go into these computer systems

and they're like, well, wait a minute.

This neighborhood's a little bit more favorable to me.

So I want the neighborhood,

but I don't want this neighborhood

because that's a little bit more competitive.

And so you wind up happening is something called

a Jerry-Mandered Map.

It actually goes back to, I believe in New York State,

was where the first thing that's happened.

And if I remember the story,

where I correctly, it was a guy named Jerry

who drew the district a particular way

and they thought it looked like a salamander

because the shape of the district was so weird.

That's the derivation of the word, right?

And so the local press called it a Jerry-Mandered.

And you never knew that.

And that's great.

So that's where it came from.

But it's basically, you love to imagine

that it never happened before.

It has, but what you have now is computers

make it so easy to do that.

So what you wind up having is these seats

that are just not competitive at all.

So in my own experience,

when I first got elected to the legislature,

it was 2006, and I represented a district

that was almost 51% democratic leaning.

But it was a 50-50 district, right?

It was a very competitive district

that I was representing.

It was south side of the city

and most amount pleasant that I don't know there.

But it was a very competitive district.

Redistricting comes along and Republicans,

Jerry-Mandered, these maps in a way

that's favorable for them.

I suddenly inherit a district that's 60% democratic, right?

Which was great for me, right?

But it wasn't great for democracy.

What it basically meant is after that Jerry-Mandered happened,

I didn't have a competitive election again.

So we got to get back to a place

where there are more competitive districts

where people are actually really getting a choice

instead of elected officials.

That is a great analogy.

Very good.

Christine Mayor Corey Mason is with me here,

WRJN Radio, hometown radio refreshed

to civic media station at 7.19.

Here we are, we're talking trains in just a moment.

We'll see you tomorrow you can go home.

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Welcome back.

Do you see the face on the TV screen?

Coming at you every Sunday.

See the face on the billboard.

What can man's mean?

On the color of the magazine,

there's no question why I'm smiling.

If I piece of paradise,

you buy a piece of meat.

I'll get you everything you want.

I'll get you everything you need.

You're gonna need to believe in me right now.

Just believe in me.

Cause you just know what's the name.

And he knows I'm right.

I've been talking to Jesus.

All my life.

And I'll just know what's the name.

And he knows I'm...

Receive Mayor Cory Mason is here,

got a question for you Mayor.

Sure.

Who would you call first if you won the lottery jackpot?

Oh. My wife.

Well, you didn't have to think about that, huh?

Well, this is what I would do.

According to a survey,

46% would call their significant others.

So you're right in the right thing there.

10% would call their lawyer.

The woman who does my taxes every year

has been doing him since 1972.

Wow.

Same woman.

The Laura's Mayo Kiss.

She does my taxes every year.

I'm speaking her 80s now.

I just spoke through the other day.

So how are things in Phoenix?

I said, this is Donald.

I live in...

Percent.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have two, I have two Rosens.

Yeah.

That may be nervous.

You know, I know you have to do my taxes for 50, you know,

53 years or 54 years or whatever, 52 years.

I would call her first.

You call your accountant first?

Yeah, I would call my tax lady first

because she knows everything.

She does corporate taxes.

You don't do individual ones anymore.

Sure.

People that stayed with her.

She'll do it for laughs and giggles.

And she, I would call her first.

Yeah, makes sense.

I would get her a first place,

first class airline ticket, get her up here,

put her up at the nicest hotel in town

and say, order whatever you want from room service

and then we're gonna talk about what to do with this $250 million

that is just one.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I do have the added benefit

that my wife is a lawyer.

So there is...

Oh, look at you.

So, you know, that may help you.

What a call.

Two stones.

That's right.

Okay.

Okay, we have a train we're talking about here.

I've heard about this since I moved to.

Yeah.

I moved here in 1980.

And I remember our news guy was doing a story about this.

This is the train from Kenosha,

we're seeing a Milwaukee.

Correct.

So it has been going on for decades.

Yeah, it's an idea that's too good to go away.

But it's, you know, a little bit like the little engine

that could, it's sort of like, think I can, I think I can.

But so the question becomes,

because there was a big effort when I was in legislature,

you know, more than a decade ago to try to get CARM established.

What makes it different at this point

are two really important things.

So first of all, you know, Joe Biden in Congress passed

the bipartisan infrastructure bill

and that bill makes substantial resources available

for communities that want to do commuter rail.

And this space between Milwaukee and Kenosha,

and, you know, that connects us

into the Chicago Metro region.

It's one of the best corridors that's underserved by rail.

So that infrastructure bill really makes it work.

And then the other thing that's been interesting

is, you know, in years past,

it's always been sort of a 100% publicly funded thing.

And we're finding in different parts of the country,

whether it's in Florida or there's this line

going from Vegas to LA,

you're seeing private public partnerships come into play,

where you're actually seeing the private sector

making big investments to run rail lines.

So those two things make it a bit different for us.

So, you know, with Biden's leadership

under the infrastructure bill,

it makes really taking another look at this.

We are fortunate to have gotten a grant

from US Senator Tammy Baldwin,

who's made it available to the city of Racine

to work with Kenosha and Milwaukee

to put in an application to the federal government.

And, you know, we're excited about it.

Again, it's an idea that people think is,

it's like, why haven't we figured out how to do this?

And so, because of those changes in circumstances

and the resources that are available,

we're gonna give it our best effort

and try to get care. I'm rolling.

Everybody goes on vacation to Europe or Japan.

They come back and say,

well, the rail systems, they were just fabulous.

You can go anywhere you want to,

it's 300,000 miles an hour and they get you there

and the bullet trains.

We really haven't grasped the train concept yet

in this country.

Well, we did it at one time and then we decided,

I think, you know, post-World War II

that we were really gonna go all in

with automobiles and interstates and there's a space for that.

But particularly in regions like the one

that we're in between Milwaukee and Chicago,

which is one of the biggest metro regions,

one of the fastest metro regions in the country.

You can't put everybody onto an interstate.

There's just not enough interstate road to do it.

We got people sort of, you know,

during rush hour time just parked there.

So you want to make sense of using other modes

of transportation.

And for we're seeing the city,

which is, you know, about nine miles away from the interstate,

this plugs us into the region from an infrastructure standpoint.

Let somebody, you know,

live in the city of Racine, hop on a train

and get to Chicago or Milwaukee or whatever you need to,

opens jobs up to 400,000 jobs

that are within a half mile of that rail line.

Just think about how many jobs that opens

for the region.

So we're excited about it.

Again, it's an idea that's too good to go away

and change the circumstances.

Let us look at it with a fresh set of eyes.

Well, my wife and I, when we used to go to Chicago,

it's only for COVID, COVID changed everything in this country.

It just changed my habits.

It changed everybody's order of doing things.

We just take Amtrak.

It's very expensive Amtrak when you take it to Chicago.

Right.

I mean, it's not cheap.

Then we said, well, let's drive to Kenosha and take Metro.

It's only five bucks on the weekend, right?

So we did that,

we drove all the way to Kenosha.

I mean, you're halfway there already,

you might as well just do the rest of the half.

So imagine if we just drive over to State Street

and have a ride there at the Benoans, right?

So that'll walk over there at a nice day and take the train.

You could pretty easily.

So that's good.

How the electric bus is working out?

They are great.

They are great.

You don't hear them.

You don't.

I mean, they're very, very quiet.

They sneak up all the way.

Where'd that go from?

Yeah, I mean, you know, people used to sort of that diesel

idling sound, right?

Or it sort of black stuff coming out of the bag.

None of that, just none of that.

I mean, the one thing that we were sort of worried about,

like what happens, the concern that people have about

battery technology is, well, how will they do

when it gets really, really cold?

Because when it's really cold out,

the battery range isn't as far.

And they have exceeded our expectations in terms of

how well they would do.

So we're able to keep them going even in the coldest days.

Again, they don't get quite the range,

but they get enough of a range that we can run them

for an entire shift and charge them up.

And excitingly, again, props to US Senator Tammy Baldwin.

She helped get us a grant.

We were gonna install solar panels around the bus depot

where we store the buses at night

so that they're actually using stored electric power

that they're getting from the sun

instead of pulling it off the grid.

So it'll be an even more energy-efficient

and environmentally friendly bus fleet that we'll have.

So we're excited about it.

My friend played me this scientist,

who was talking to a group of people.

And he said in 10 years,

it's all gonna be self-driving cars,

and they're all gonna be battery operated.

And people were saying, oh, no, no.

He said, well, think about this.

Back in the late 1800s,

if you would have told those people going up

and down Mainstreet on horses in 10 years,

your horses are gonna be gone, they're gonna be cars.

They would say, oh, come on, no, no, no, no.

Horseless carriages is what they call them, right?

And in 10 years, there wasn't a horse on the street.

They were all cars.

So 10 years is not a long time, but, you know,

things change, and if you would have said to somebody

in 1970 that in 10 years,

you're gonna be talking on phones in your pocket, right?

People would say, oh, come on, it's not gonna happen.

Yeah.

And they want to get rid of landlines,

almost 100% of the landlines by 2030.

Yeah.

So our kids don't even know what a landline is, right?

There's a video online.

They gave these two teenagers a rotary dial phone.

They said, make a call.

And what they couldn't grasp was the fact

that you have to let it go, pull your finger out

to let the dial go back.

And they were letting it go back slowly

and the calls weren't going through.

They said, no, pull your finger out real quick

and it goes back.

You couldn't get that thing in their head.

I love having you in here.

No, it's great being here.

Yeah, I love talking.

You're all dressed up.

You make me look like a slob.

And thank you very much, Mayor Corey Mason this year.

So it's always good to get your insight

on certain things in the election.

Always glad to be here.

And the trains, you know, I'm a big train guy.

I took the long on a railroad

in the new city all my life.

Yeah, absolutely.

Big train guy.

Thanks a lot, Mayor.

Thanks for having me.

See you next month.

Absolutely.

All right, all right.

We're coming up here at WRJ with some contests,

tickets to give away.

Got a whole bunch of goodies straight ahead here.

729, WRJ and Hope Town radio refreshed.

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So I go to my regular doctor.

And he's like, what's going on?

I said, you tell me.

Just above my right knee, there's

a little area, about three inches up.

It's about the size of a fist.

That's where it doesn't hurt.

And it feels very peculiar.

Do you have a pill that can make everything else feel like that?

I want everything else like that pill.

My doctor looked at me and said,

Brian, you are way too sedentary.

So I vowed in that moment to get a dictionary.

But I haven't gotten around to it.

You know, it's just been laying around a house.

There's a lying around a house.

So no one told you that I was going to be this way.

Your jobs will jump, you prove, your life's going to go away.

It's like you're always stuck in second gear.

But when it hasn't been your day, when you came up,

don't even know you, but I'll be there for you.

I'll be there for you.

I'll be there for you.

Cause you're there for me too.

I'm still in bed at 10 and work again at 8.

I burned your breakfast so far, things are going great.

You're on the walk, you let me days like these.

But you get to tell you where the world's from.

Tell your knees that I'll be there for you.

When the rain starts to fall, I'll be there for you.

I'll be there for you.

Cause you're there for me too.

Good morning.

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Corey Mason for coming in.

We're seeing Mayor Corey Mason.

Thank you for spending that half hour with us.

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Love that.

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When it hasn't been your day, you reap the most.

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It's an over.

All right.

On the truth this morning, here are some facts for you.

The first ever text message was sent on December 3rd, 1992.

What do you think it said?

Well, it's obvious.

Merry Christmas.

It worked.

There's such a low expectation for the movie Star Wars back in 1977.

Only it was on screen at 42 theaters nationwide for its opening weekend.

I remember radio station at work that we had the premiere.

It was the big cinema theater on Long Island in the Twin South.

I remember that.

And we had tickets printed up with our logo on it and everything.

And we even had trouble giving them away.

At first, nobody knew what Star Wars was.

But we had to fill up this big, you know, 1500 seat theater.

And we did.

We filled it up eventually.

But I said, I don't want to go.

I don't want to see any movie like that.

And I'm still not a Star Wars fan.

But I got to admit, it was okay.

We went, we saw the picture on this big cinema screen.

It was really nice.

That's a big curved screen.

All right.

What have you got for here?

Survey asked people what foods will put them in a good mood.

All right.

Here's what they came up with.

Here are the 10.

I'm sorry.

What foods put them in a good mood?

And what puts them in a bad mood?

Let's do the bad mood foods first, okay?

Bad mood.

Donuts?

Really?

Alcohol?

Soda?

Energy drinks?

Burgers?

Candy?

Pizza?

Cake?

White bread and chips?

Bad mood?

All right.

The good mood foods.

Oh, really?

Coffee, dark chocolate, grapes, berries, yogurt, eggs, salmon, oranges, apples, and melons.

Who filled this out?

I would have switched them around the other way.

Donuts?

Pizza?

Burgers?

Always put me in a good mood.

Yeah.

Bad mood.

A woman in British Columbia, Canada spent several days in jail.

Apparently, she sent a homemade thank you card to the jail.

I'll let them know that they treated her right.

At the bottom of the card, she gave them four and a half stars.

I guess it's worth going back, right?

Back to that jail.

Treated her nice.

How many people send a thank you card to their jail after they get out?

Two out of five parents say they've been eco-shamed by their kids.

According to this survey, the top four ways or top ways, they get eco-shamed.

They threw something out in the garbage.

They should have recycled.

They leave the water running for leaving lights on in a room after you leave, for using

the car instead of walking and for leaving the door open when the heat or air is on.

My mother used to always say to me in the winter, close the door.

I'm not heating up the neighborhood.

Thank you, mom.

I'll close the door.

We don't have an air conditioner.

So that's what she said in the, the winter time call.

I don't know.

I'm not heating up the neighborhood.

My grandfather used to drive me nuts.

He was a big energy saver.

And whenever I got up, we were watching TV in the record together.

I got up to get something, maybe a glass of water or something upstairs that come back

to TV's off.

Now, this isn't like TV is today.

We just turn it on.

It's instant.

Get away for the tubes to warm up.

And it's like, would you turn it off for it?

Well, you weren't watching it.

I said, just went up to get a drink of water.

He said, well, now you can turn it back on again.

He did the same thing with the lights.

I'd come, leave a room to get some.

Come out.

It's pitch dark.

I said, what do you do?

Well, you were out of the room.

So I tried the lights off.

So you're sitting here in the dark.

He says, yeah.

Why waste electricity?

But every time I got you shut the TV off, maybe in one of waste electricity, open crazy.

I love my grandfather though.

Good man.

One of my grandfather's stories.

He grew up in the Bronx.

And one day, I guess it was some, this is like 1920 or right in the middle of the

rowing 20s.

There were gangsters ran him up.

A guy comes up and shoots his friend on the street.

I guess his friend owed money to somebody walked up.

They were walking together, shoots his friend right in the stomach.

Friend falls down.

And my grandfather's name was Dave, and he says, Dave, help me help me.

And the guy points the gun at my grandfather and says, leave my grandfather left him on

the street.

Now, he didn't die.

He was okay after that.

And my grandfather explained, he had a gun on me.

What was I going to do?

He was going to shoot me next.

But I don't know if they were friends after that anymore.

Oh, grandfather told me some really good stories.

Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston's, I will always love you as his campaign reelection

song back in 2002.

That's a bit effective.

He won with 100% of the vote.

Yeah.

That's almost like Putin using his song to get elected, you get elected with 100% of

the vote.

A woman's going viral for a trick she came up with to catch a cheater.

Here's what she did.

She rubbed a lint roller on the carpet in your significant other's bedroom.

If you pick up any hairs that aren't his or yours, you know, you got a cheater on

your head.

Are there any red flags you should look out for that tell you that a movie isn't worth

watching because if you go to a movie and say, well, I'll never get that two hours back

in my life.

All right.

If a comedy and the trailer don't make you laugh at least once, don't bother.

If the good reviews all come from one or two critics that you've never heard of before,

it's probably going to be a flop.

If the ad say critics are calling it laugh out loud, funny, it's probably not.

And if you find out they didn't screen it for critics at all, that's definitely a red

flag.

They don't want the critics to get the word out.

And if it's based on a true story that happened in the past year or two, then they rushed

it through and didn't take enough time to really make it good.

You go some red flags of 2000 grandparents out there, 81% say getting old is not as

nearly bad as they thought it would be when they were younger, 85% say they're more care

for you now than they used to be.

I would say that except for the aches and pains and the, you know, waking up going, oh,

that hurts.

And see looking in the mirror in the morning said, yeah, never noticed that before.

Other than that, I growing all this not as bad as I thought, you know, I'm getting up

there, but it's not as bad.

I don't think my mother thought it was bad either because she was sharp at the end.

She had all her, you know, faculties and everything.

So I think she thought it was okay.

Lift to 92.

I do survey asked adults how often they take naps and the most common answer is never

34, 37% said never 8% said they take naps off and 22% said sometimes 32% said they take

naps, but not very often.

I love taking a nap in the middle of the day.

Now I get out of here, I go home, eat breakfast and then I take a nap, oh, I love it.

Of course, you wake up feeling from a nap in the middle of the day, but I love doing

that.

Oh, naps.

I'm not as bad as George just stands at it on the Seinfeld.

Remember you wanted to take naps in the middle of the day when he worked with the New York

Yankees and he built a, he had a contract here, built him a sleeping gunk under his desk.

Remember that?

With pillows, a little bed underneath his desk and a shelf for the alarm clock.

Yeah, it would be nice if we took naps in the middle of the day, I think in some countries

they allow you to take naps in the middle of the day of nap rooms.

That would be nice.

As a matter of fact, let me take one right now for five minutes.

I'll be back in five minutes.

I'll take a quick nap.

Hall and Oats met.

This is the group Hall and Oats main eater and all the great songs they had private eyes

and you know, you make my dreams come true.

Hall and Oats met when they were both at a concert in Philadelphia and a gang fight broke

out.

They hopped in the same elevator to get away from the gunshots.

They found out both went to Temple University, became friends and they became Hall and Oats.

And now one of them is suing the other one.

I don't know the whole hall is suing Oats or Oats is suing all somebody is suing somebody

over some music rights or something.

Ralph Machio.

This seems impossible, but it's true.

Ralph Machio, the karate kid just turned 65 years old.

Seriously, the guy could pass for 39 if you see him and sharing the secret to his eternal

youth.

Unfortunately, it's nothing you can copy.

He says to his jeans and said his parents look young for the age, they have youthful

energy for me and for some reason, it rubbed off on him.

Healthy lifestyle doesn't hurt.

He said, but I think he just got lucky in the jean department at the pick six in the jean

lottery pool.

And Ralph Machio.

Yeah, he does look young if you see him, I'm not cousin Vinnie, he look like a teenager

there.

He's probably in his 40s in my cousin Vinnie, look like a teenager.

All right.

We want to start the year off right, right?

Okay.

Let's remind you again, how old you are.

Okay.

Another reminding.

This movie's all turned 25 years old this year, Bridget Jones's diary, Shrek, the Fast

and the Furious, Legally Blonde and Zoolander, all are 25 years old.

Molly Ringwald was interviewed on the today show, not today show, some shows she was interviewed

on.

She was great, but Molly Ringwald is way up there in age in her 50s.

Remember her in 16 candles and all that?

My pastor, my church was in her class, they went to school together in North Hollywood

at high school.

So I know how old my pastor is then I know how old Molly Ringwald is in her 50s.

You never know what by looking at her though, 59% of Americans say they get some sort of

package delivered to their home every single week, 43% say they've had a package stolen

of their porch by written the past year.

That's the way we're going these days, folks, the delivery when I go out of our little

shells anymore.

All right.

Let's give away some tickets right now.

This year at the Wisconsin State Fair, it's going to be a bit fluffy.

How many superstar Gabriel Eglaceus hits the main stage on Thursday, August 1st.

Now if you want to go see a night of non-stop comedy gut busting laughter, you won't want

to miss call right now tickets go on sale, by the way, Friday, this Friday at 10 a.m.

But we're giving away tickets right now at 262 634 9756 262 634 WRJN.

If you want to go see Gabriel Eglaceus at the Wisconsin State Fair Thursday, August 1st

on stage, save the date, market calendar and call in right now 262 634 9756 and I'll give

you a pair of tickets to go see Hulu, not Hulu, Eglaceus Gabriel Eglaceus at the at the

Wisconsin State Fair, when they first told me he's going to be there, he said is he related

to the Hulu Eglaceus?

No, he's not.

He's not related.

Just same name Gabriel Eglaceus State Fair, so give a call right now.

Phone lines are open, 262 634 9756 262 634 WRJN and I'll get to that pair of tickets

to go see Gabriel Eglaceus at the state fair, we're talking August already folks, but

I really didn't get the spring yet and we're talking summer, but you know, tickets go

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The bass guitar you hear in that song is a hopner bass guitar, it's Paul McCartney's bass.

It was stolen 50 years ago, we just got it back this week.

The guy who stole it, messed up and they said we sold it to and it was laying in an attic somewhere,

this repair, but it was in a guitar case so it's going to be fixable.

Paul McCartney got that guitar back that you hear on this song.

That was actually the B side, the flip side to please please me on VJ Records, one of their rare

releases. It wasn't on Capitol Records and a few of them swan records released as she loves you.

And when they signed up with Capitol, all their subsequent songs were on Capitol Except,

all the songs from the movie Hard Day's Night, they went on the United Artists label,

but now they're on Apple Records. I think they're on Apple now, right? They didn't say sold

Apple, I thought, well, maybe they didn't sell Apple. All right, because your mood changed with

the season. Got a survey here, 48% of people say it does, 39% say it doesn't, the rest are

unsure, they're just crabby year round. It's supposed to brighten your day if you do nice things for

other people, but if you don't have a ton of time or resources, there are some easy steps to have

a bright day, share coupons with someone next to you in line. I've seen people do that. If they

don't want to buy something and they change their mind and say, I got this coupon, I've done that

before. Not recently, but I've done it. Give a big tip. The other day I was at a restaurant,

they didn't give me a receipt. They just, she told me what the price was and if I don't see it

on paper and she's standing right there, it started to panic, figuring out the tip. I just

keep the change. I think it gave her about a 30% tip. But, you know, she was standing there staring at me

and I'm going, I was carrying the two divided by five can carry that two over to this column and I

said, here's just keep the change. How about to leave your extra change in the vending machine for the

next person? I don't do that for some reason. The average person is more than 150 Facebook, Facebook

friends. The study found out we only go to 14 of them for sympathy or a tough situation and we

only use four of them in a real crisis. I don't think I tell anybody on Facebook my problems.

No, I don't. We found a list online of the most ridiculous reasons people have been dumped.