The Don Rosen Show (Hour 1)

Hi, you sound like you're in a pretty good mood, and that's what sets us apart, basically.

Obviously, your parents didn't just visit for a week, actually I just brought them back

to the airport today.

They leave tomorrow.

Couldn't take them anymore.

Then my mom wanted to know why I never get home for the holidays.

I said, well, I can't get dealt with weight in the yard while I run in.

I just became a mom myself for the first time.

Thank you.

Yeah, I actually adopted a baby.

I wanted a highway, but it was a lot of red tape.

She's like no other, and I'm just trying to make you see.

She's the kind of girl you dream of.

Dream of keeping hold of.

Better forget it.

You will never get it.

She will way around and leave you.

Better forget it.

Oh, you regret it.

No, you'll never change it.

So leave it.

Hey, good morning.

It's 6-08 at WRJN Radio.

I'm Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining us here.

I was going to be a beautiful sunny day with a high-tier 45.

Yeah, we've been tricked before.

We're not going to fall for that again, are we?

Actually, it's going to be really nice the next few days.

Sunny today with a high-tier 45.

Clear tonight, lows 32.

Sunny tomorrow with a high-tier 49.

Saturday, sunny with a high-tier 54.

And Sunday, sunny with a high-tier 61.

But right now, we still have to worry about that 16-degree

temperature we have there under a clear sky.

Don't forget the buck to Charlotte tonight to take on the Hornets 530 here on WRJN Radio.

And we've got tickets to give away this morning too.

We're going to give away tickets to the State Fair, the Wisconsin State Fair,

the main stage, CCM Powerhouse, Casting Crowns.

It's going to be there Monday, August 5th.

You're going tickets coming up in a few minutes or so.

Nick Ramsey in Comedy is going to be in at 630 talking about thoughts for food.

The 30-second annual event.

We'll talk about that.

We've got Melissa Donaldson from the routine public library.

A whole bunch of events going on there.

She'll be at 7 o'clock this morning here at WRJN Radio.

But first thing first, happy birthday today to all you leaflings out there.

That's what they call you, leaflings.

February 29th comes once every four years.

And finally, you leaflings get your birthday on the day it's supposed to be.

Because on the other years, you got to pick February 28th of March 1st.

I don't...

Well, I wonder which day you pick.

I don't know any leaflings who were born on February 29th.

So happy birthday to you guys every four years.

You finally get your birthday on the day it's supposed to be.

Sounds like an affliction.

Yeah, I'm a leafling.

Really?

What happened?

Was that a birth?

Yeah, it wasn't birthed, by the way.

All right.

Ten minutes after six o'clock here on your February 29th,

I'm going to say today, congratulations, happy birthday to all you leaflings one more time.

All right.

People are sharing their childhood meals.

Now, these are the meals they found so delicious as a kid.

They later realized how disgusting they were.

They grew up.

They include ketchup sandwiches.

Now, my brother's friend who was in his band, this back in the 60s,

used to come off where we make mayonnaise sandwiches.

But I don't mean a little smear of mayonnaise.

I mean, like a quarter of an inch of mayonnaise on white bread.

That was a sandwich.

Ugh, used to gross the salad at the house.

Ego waffles with melted cheese.

That doesn't sound that bad to me.

I would mind trying that now.

And cut up hot dogs, put into everything.

It doesn't sound too bad either.

I don't think I had any disgusting foods as a kid.

Whatever they were, I still eat them.

I haven't changed at all.

My mother used to make me farina all the time.

It's like cream of wheat, but the brand is farina.

You can get it in the supermarket.

And I still love that.

I don't have that for breakfast.

I haven't had that in a while.

I have the cream of wheat now, but I should probably make farina.

But that's a slow process.

You got to allow some time for it.

The cream of wheat I have is you put some hot water in it.

Stir and nuke it for about 30 seconds, and it's ready to go.

I haven't had that in a while.

I think I'm going to have that again.

The other one I used to have, I used to make my grandmother,

whenever she came over, used to make chocolate pudding,

but not instant chocolate pudding.

She used to do the cook chocolate pudding.

It was called mighty fine, NYT.

Fine, mighty fine chocolate pudding.

She made my father rice pudding from scratch,

just to make the rice and the pudding mix it together.

So every time she came over my grandmother and stayed with us for the day,

she used to make chocolate pudding for me and my brother

and rice pudding for my father.

I'm telling you, I do miss my grandparents.

I miss all my parents too.

All right, someone had tried to scan some kids

and do a very lame Willy Wonka experience.

It's happened in Scotland, happened last weekend.

The Wonka experience, and keep in mind,

there's a new Wonka movie out, so kids are very into Willy Wonka right now.

They'll do anything, you know, kids once they get their minds on it,

you know, want everything to do with everything that Subject is.

And today, it's Willy Wonka.

It cost $45 per person.

It was advertised as an immersive walk through experience.

That made you feel like you were in Willy Wonka's factory.

When parents of children arrived, it was mostly an empty warehouse

for the few props sitting on these shelves there.

It looked like it was from a parade float.

The experience was less than 10 minutes and didn't feature any candy.

They gave everybody their money back, but they claimed

there was supposed to be holograms there and they just never arrived.

Well, if they never arrived and you had an empty warehouse

for the couple of props, you think you would not open up.

But they did took everybody's money, but how to give it back.

All right, do you know Amazon when they first started the only sold books?

That's what they did.

All right.

The first book ever sold on Amazon was a book about artificial intelligence.

It was called fluid concepts and creative analogies.

This guy bought it back in July of 1995.

I know what the first thing ever purchased on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

Years later, they asked the guy, why did you buy the broken laser pointer?

He said that collect broken laser pointers makes sense.

All right.

This, you know, whenever I turn on my phone and all through the day and all through the night

there's always posts about people missing their animals.

They come through on my phone.

It lights up my phone.

You know, my precious dog is missing or my cat is missing or whatever

animal's missing.

My possum is missing.

My pet squirrel is missing.

But a lot of dogs are missing and I feel bad because I know

that's a horrible experience to go through when your dog is missing.

You want that dog back, you know, want them getting hurt, run over by a car,

anything like that.

Well, now there's a new way to find that missing pet.

I had a drone operator to go look for them.

A reporter recently talked to a guy in New York who volunteers for a pet rescue group

his $8,000 drone has a thermal camera on it that can pick up body heat from animals.

He found 40 missing dogs in the past year.

Isn't that great?

I love that.

I don't know about this.

The CEO of Kellogg's is catching heat after he said parents can save a lot of money

by feeding their kids cereal for dinner.

He's not wrong.

A ball of cereal can cost less than a buck, especially if you skip the Kellogg's

and go generic.

But obviously things like fruit loops and apple jacks aren't exactly health foods.

Kellogg's is already pushing the idea and adds.

It was a recent one where Tony the Tiger.

It's a family of four to chant cereal dinner, cereal dinner, cereal dinner,

over and over again.

It's not a whole concept.

If you're a fan of the TV show Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld on the show constantly ate cereal

for dinner.

Everybody came over there had a bowl of cereal.

Now, I kind of have cereal for dinner.

After I eat my dinner, I put some lucky charms in a cup or milk in there.

I drink it with lucky charms and milk.

So actually I do have cereal for dinner every night.

It's kind of a dessert cereal.

Now, I don't really, you know, that's not the main course.

But I do like it.

Family Dollar, a family dollar store hit with a record find of $41.6 million for violating

product safety standards after selling items that were stocked in a rat infested warehouse

filled with live dead and decaying rodents.

Wow.

That's a big fine.

$41.6 million.

Sometimes getting fired isn't such a bad thing.

Don Lemon from CNN got fired.

He's also getting $24.5 million.

After he got fired.

And I got fired from here nine years ago.

The guy who fired me.

I was here 24 years didn't give me a dime severance pay.

He's getting $24.5 million.

I like that.

And music from Chili Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and other artists from 1969 have

been placed on the surface of the moon at a time capsule.

It's all part of the Odysseus moon landing from last Thursday.

Odysseus also called Odie by, you know, the friends of Odysseus.

So yeah, so that's going to be in their time capsule.

Now they didn't say how they placed into what kind of format.

Hey man, how are you going to, how are you going to listen back to it?

Hmm.

All right.

WRGM, please to welcome CCM powerhouse.

That's contemporary Christian music powerhouse casting crowns of the Wisconsin state fair

to the main stage Monday, August 5th.

Join us for anything filled with powerful and soul stirring artistry that will lift your spirit.

Also joining them on stage will be fellow CCM star turn wells.

Now tickets around sale at WI state fair dot com.

Or you can call in right now phone number 262 634 9756 262 634 WRJN.

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The six casting crowns at the Wisconsin state fair on Monday, August 5th.

Sounds like a long way away, but it's really not that far away when you think about it.

I mean, just a few months.

No, it is a far away away.

Isn't it?

Okay.

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Stereo we are.

We've got a sun shanty day for you today.

Highs near 45.

Clear tonight, lows around 32.

Sunday tomorrow with a high day of 49.

Sunny Saturday, 54.

The high and sunny on Sunday with a high near 61.

621 at WRJN Radio.

Thanks for joining us here today.

I'm Don Rosen.

You know, a lot of stuff going viral that everyone does, but never really talks about.

Here's one of my favorites.

Like when your pet is on your lap and you need to get up, if you try to explain it to them,

I used to do that all the time.

You know, I have to go get a drink.

Don't leave.

I'm coming back.

Don't worry.

I did that all the time to my dog.

I'm trying to reason with my, uh, my beagle when I hit when the Chester was with us.

I'm trying to reason with them.

And why I have to pick, you know, if I left the room, he'd pick up his head and stare at me like what's going on?

Are you leaving for good?

Are you ever coming back?

Is this it?

Never going to see you again?

Am I going to be left alone?

How am I going to eat?

Who's going to take me out?

How do I get to the vet?

How do I get to the dog park?

This is what he used to going through his head, broadly.

And I had to explain.

I'm coming right back.

I'm getting a drink of water.

Are you getting a drink of water?

Are you getting me food?

Am I going to get a treat?

Are we going out again?

Are you going to come back?

Did I get to sit on your lap again?

This is what it was like.

And tell me if you have a pet.

You don't talk to your pet and explain stuff.

I don't believe it.

Anybody who has a pet does that.

I'd betrue rapper M&M.

Calls himself M&M, E-M-I-N-E-M, because M&M candies.

You know, his initials are Mark Mathers, M&M,

where the initials of the candy and him.

And he was required to spell it out when he signed a record deal,

so he wouldn't get sued by the M&M candies.

You know, Mars candy bar that owns M&M's.

So he had to spell it out.

And that's why he spells out his name, M&M.

All right.

Metal flaws down top together.

A list of the lies that movies tell us all the time.

Here they are.

A Tyrannosaurus Rex cannot see things that aren't moving.

Sorry, Jurassic Park.

The dinosaur could still see you.

According to the study, its vision was 13 times better than humans.

That was a lie.

You can walk away from explosion without being knocked over.

You see that all the time?

The hero will start walking away from a car that explodes.

And he just continues to walk into the background.

There's this huge explosion.

You've seen that a lot in action, movies.

For this to be possible, you'd have to do five physics.

The explosion would knock you right down on your keyster.

There's a sound in space.

Battles and Star Wars are pretty loud.

And in reality, sound as we know it does not exist in space.

Only in Star Wars.

Now this one really gets me chloroform works immediately to make people unconscious in the movies.

It actually takes two to five minutes to work if there's an unusually high dose of juice.

Yeah.

In the movies, they always put the chloroform and the person passes out right away.

Doesn't work like that.

Same thing with strangling.

In the movies, they strangle somebody.

They're dead in 10 seconds.

It's about eight minutes to strangle somebody.

Not that you need to know that information.

Just passing it along to the movies, you know, kind of fib on that stuff.

All right.

One second, all my papers are stuck together here.

Is that about?

Oh, a zoo in China had it deny allegations that its bears were people in costumes.

I mean, how bad did the bears look where the allegations had to be defended?

I mean, it's a Racine Zoo.

When I go there, they, I never say, oh, that's the cowardly lion costume.

That's not a real lion.

You never have to do that.

Especially when the lion, you know, makes a nip at ya.

I hear the lions roar.

I smoke my dog in the lake front in the morning.

You hear the lions roaring from the Racine Zoo.

It's kind of neat.

Odd but true.

During AOL, that's America Online's peak in the 1990s.

Half of the CDs produced in the world were their free trial discs.

I used to get those every day.

They were like CDs and you put them in your computer, even have a CD train in your computer

anymore.

But when they used to have them, he used to bring up AOL and they just signed into it and, you know,

loaded on your computer.

They used to send those discs out.

I swear, I got them like two or three a week.

Now we know why with the biggest producer in the world of CDs.

Be thankful for the neighbors you have.

We do some guy in San Diego built a remote control air horn to blast every time his neighbor's

dog barks.

Now the intern is divided as a clever or cruel.

I think it's a stupid.

I mean, I hear a dog barking and I don't know which house it is.

I suspect which house it is during the daytime when I get home.

During nice days, that dog is out there barking from 9 a.m. until at least six at night.

And they don't let it in.

I don't think they're home.

I think they let the dog out in the backyard and just leaving there all day.

It's not nice days on bad days, you know, the dog is out there.

But I hear the dog barking.

I'm not blasting air horns or something, but I want to find out which house it is.

20 because no matter which house I listen to, it sounds like the dog is the next house over.

I really can't figure it out.

I can't go walking in people's backyards and figure it out.

By the way, I do love my neighbors either side and across the street.

I just have great neighbors in my neighborhood.

Just fantastic.

All right.

We played this when I was a kid over 2,000 students from three high schools in Indiana

said in the world record for the largest game of duck duck goose.

Do you remember that game?

We used to play that all the time.

Duck duck goose.

Do you ever play the game?

The way I remembered you sat in the circle and the person used to hit you on the head duck duck duck

and when they said goose, you had to chase him around the circle.

If they sat down faster, then you can catch them.

Then you were the next person to do duck duck goose.

Anyway, I said a new world record for it over 2,000 students from three high schools.

Set the record.

Congratulations.

The parents must be proud.

A woman on TikTok says that her boyfriend broke up with her to focus on his career.

Now she's dating his boss.

Funny how things work out on him.

So some are obsessed with true crime, but this is kind of silly more than 65 people are

in a wait list for the motel room in Indiana.

We're an escaped inmate in prison guard from Alabama stayed.

I think I saw that on date line.

I think I saw that one.

She was a dog cat.

Oh, no, that's no.

Yeah.

That was that was a different one.

How many prison guards are sneaking out?

There are fellow inmates there.

All right.

Keep this in mind.

If your husband or wife ever wins the lottery and starts screaming, I won.

I won instead of we won.

We won.

19% of people say they dumped their significant other if they won the lottery.

That means there's one in five shot that you are not going to be benefiting from that jackpot.

25% of the people who dumped someone if they won say they'd immediately try to use the money

to upgrade to someone better.

Oh, that's true love for you.

I love you forever until they win the lottery and we'll talk.

That's terrible.

All right.

How many different people have you worked for in your lifetime?

Boy, a lot.

I mean, just flashing in front of my eyes here again, they go a lot of people.

You can't count them on one hand probably, but this guy can count the number of people he worked for

his entire lifetime on one finger.

When he was a hundred years old, he recently set a new world record for the longest career at the same company.

Same company.

This guy worked for the same company in the mail room since 1938, started at 15 years old.

He's been there 84 years.

I promoted the sales and now he's sales manager at 100.

So it drives himself there every day.

No plans to retire.

So technically, he re breaks his own record every day.

He goes to work.

That's been working for the same company 85 years.

Whoa.

Sunshine today with a high-tier 45 degrees.

Clear tonight, lows around 32, sunny tomorrow with a high-tier 49.

Sunny Saturday with a high-tier 54 in sunny on Sunday with a high-tier 61.

Yeah, it's clear right now.

Sun's coming up 16 degrees and received.

Give it here.

WRJN.

Hi, I am single.

I don't drink.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to get a woman buzz when you don't drink.

You'll be like, you all have a glass of water and you want a shot of yeager?

You want eight of them?

When you don't drink, people always need to know why, too.

They're like, you don't drink?

Why?

This never happens with anything else.

You don't use mayonnaise? Why?

Are you addicted to mayonnaise?

Is it okay if I use mayonnaise?

Come up with yes, everybody.

The last night I dreamt of something old.

Just like I've never gone, I knew the sun.

Young girl with eyes like a desert.

It all seems like yesterday not far away.

Drop the goole, I'll embrace.

All that makes you my love.

This is where I love to be.

Let me slap on you.

It's 636 at WRJN Radio.

I'm Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining us here today.

It's going to be beautiful sun shining with a hundred forty-five.

Clear tonight, lows thirty-two.

Sunny, tomorrow, highs near forty-nine.

The weekend gorgeous sunny with a hundred fifty-four Saturday.

Sunny, highs near sixty-one on Sunday.

Yeah, we've been through this before.

Sixty-one degrees and the next day it's, you know, seventeen.

Sixty-one and sunny right now.

In Ruseen, don't forget tonight the box at Charlotte.

It will take on the Hornets at five thirty-nva on WRJN Radio.

But right now we're going to talk about thoughts for food,

which is kind of like food for thoughts, but the other way around.

Got a bunch of nice people in here today.

Let's start off with Nick Ramsey.

Hi, Nick. How are you?

I'm doing well. Thank you so much.

Okay, Nick.

What did you produce who's here today and tell us a little bit about them

and then we can talk to them?

I want to thank you for letting us be here.

It's really just a pleasure to be on WRJN and sharing the word

about this fundraiser for the Ruseen County Food Bank.

We have one of the performers from the All Ages show coming up on Friday, March 1st.

Madison, Avila, Ardiaga.

And we have a venue owner, the new venue owner of George design,

Corcayla Robinson.

Well, hi, yeah. Who's behind you over there taking me?

Oh, what am I talking about? I'm honest here, too.

This is Miss Janet over here.

Madison's mother.

Oh, okay, good.

You know, if you want to take a video from the other side, you can.

And I'm going to tell you what to do.

Go out that door, walk all the way around and come from behind me.

And then you can take pictures of them from their faces that are looking at the back of their heads.

Which you're nice, I assume.

You know, but the faces will probably be nicer.

Okay, so this is the 32nd annual thoughts for food.

Where is it going to be held?

And what's going to be there with the date?

I want everything.

Sure. Yeah, so it is a pretty much a two-night event.

The first part is showcasing high school, college, and younger performers at the All Ages show.

It's at the Eagles Club.

It's 319 Hamilton Street, 5302 North Main Street.

Cross section there.

And that goes from 6 o'clock to 10 o'clock.

And it's a $5 cover and two non-perishable food items.

Then the following night, starting at 5 o'clock at the Eagles, we have four bands going until about 12 o'clock.

And across the street at George's Encore, we have three bands starting at 6 o'clock over there.

The main event on Saturday goes for $15 and non-perishable food items.

And that's pretty much the general information right there, Doc.

A lot of spaghetti goes, huh?

You know, they go for the canned tuna and the chicken and the peanut butter, you know?

Well, I would go for this spaghetti, you know, suppose me.

Caleb, my wife said the George's had a new side out. I noticed it.

George's Encore, so you purchased George's?

Yes, so I'm the new proprietor of George's.

That's been there a long time.

Yeah, it's actually 1946, so.

Whoa!

Yes.

Tell a little bit of history to love up to them.

Yeah, over trying, so.

What do you tell us about George's? It's right there on Main Street and I pass it every day.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a lovely old town and like, yeah, tavern.

Thank you.

So it's a lovely old tavern and we're trying to embrace that history and really bring about

what's inside.

We're also trying to bring about a good food menu there, so we actually have a smoker on

back.

If you see that or smell that, it's because Gaby's BBQ is out there and just smoking away

with some good foods for everybody to eat as well.

Well, that's great.

Now, is it open now?

Because I thought it said, I mean, not this moment.

Obviously not this moment.

Not this moment.

But is it?

Because that's where George's on, Corey's coming.

I did.

Yes, we are officially open one week now.

So we open last Wednesday.

Well, congratulations.

Yes.

11 a.m. to about midnight or a little bit later.

So you're a business owner now?

Yeah.

That's for his business, you own?

No, actually, I'll smoke that in the water as well.

Oh, yes.

Smoked on the water.

Yeah.

Okay.

So that for 12 years and now this one for one week.

Well, congratulations.

That's a good luck.

Oh, thank you.

I know it's going to last a long time.

It is a tradition on the Main Street in Racine.

And you.

You are Madison.

Yep.

And you are the talent?

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

So what do you do?

What is the talent?

Well, I do a lot of poetry.

Okay.

That's what I'm going to be doing at the event.

So.

Do you have a little sample for us?

I heard before you went on the air.

Yes.

Okay.

Let's get a little sample.

Okay.

Uh, the purple?

Did you, did you, did you, did you create this poetry or?

Yes.

Well, I'll write it.

Well, there's a talent.

Pull it more.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Okay.

This one is called, I don't know what will happen.

Uh, I don't know what will happen.

How long will last?

If we'll grow old together or if one day will just be a distant memory.

I don't know if one day I'll forget the feeling of your touch, of your hand and mine, or of your kisses.

Of the safety of your embrace.

I don't know.

I don't know if you'll get tired of me.

If maybe one day our love will go from two shooting stars blazing across the night sky, or salt and fresh water meeting for the first time to create an assuary full of life.

So maybe one day the hot black ashes of the fire we used to be.

I don't know.

I don't know what will happen to us.

But I do know that you, you, you, you put me back together.

You saw the broken pieces of me shattered on the floor and you picked them up on a frayed of getting cut.

You saw a plant dry and withering so you nursed it back to life, face it towards the sun and taught it to water itself.

You made me look for the sun and I found it in your eyes.

You made me look for the stars and I see them on your freckles.

See, I don't know what will happen to us.

But I do know that when you saw the walls, I had built around my heart.

Big brick by brick.

You brought me a hammer gave it to me so I could break them down myself.

Brick by brick.

And when you saw the scars on my body, you taught me to make them into wings and now I soar.

And when you saw the way I see myself, you let me borrow your eyes so I could see what you see and know that I'm worthy.

And when I can't speak, you hand me pen and paper.

Tell me to write it all down so you gave me my poetry.

And when I no longer want to live in reality, you hand me a book to escape into.

And while I become someone else in a whole new adventure, you hold me so I can always come back to you.

See, I don't know what will happen to us.

But I do know that you didn't save me.

You did something better.

You taught me how to save myself.

You taught me how to love.

The way I deserve to love.

The way you deserve to be loved.

And the way we deserve to love each other.

See, I don't know what will happen to us.

But I do know that right now you are my fire.

You and me, we are a fire.

Our love is a fire, bright and lovely, hungry and powerful.

We are right now.

And that's all I need to know.

That is just amazing.

Thank you.

What a talent.

Thank you.

I was expecting like a Dr. Seuss thing.

Like a cat in the hat type, Paul.

Oh, that is just wonderful.

Thank you.

Are you selling school?

Yep.

Let's go to you go to.

I go to case, I'm a junior there.

You're only a junior in case and doing that?

Whoa!

You must excel in English class, huh?

Yeah, you could say so.

Oh, wow.

I am really floored by that.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

How many of you have written?

Few notebooks.

You want to get them published?

Maybe someday.

Not all of them, but I think some.

Yeah.

Are you going to recite poetry at the...

I have a few new ones that I would like to share.

When you start with the wings and you take me your eyes so I can look at you the way that...

You start crying.

The eyes part just broke me up there.

I wish I could you look with your eyes to see, oh man, it's not crying right here.

I'm going to push it that stuff.

That was just wonderful.

Oh, thank you.

Everything you're putting into music?

I think I tried once and I just...

Didn't work.

I need someone to sort of edit it.

Like Metallica?

Something like that.

Yeah, let's get one of them to fix it up into music.

Wow, that was really good on that.

Okay, so give us...

Now with some other groups there, I have a list here.

Want you run down some of the other groups?

Give them a little publicity plug.

Sure.

So I'm not going to name all the different performers at the All Ages show,

but just know that we have second graders all the way up to 12th graders.

Performing.

And we have Gilmore represented.

Kays represented.

St. Katz represented.

Park represented.

A bunch of different...

What are they going to do with these second graders?

We have poets.

We have story writers.

We have singers.

We have instrumentalists.

We have producers.

And we have rappers.

So a huge variety.

A swath of talent from our community.

And these are all the youngins.

So I'm in charge of lining that all up.

And it's a great joy.

Youngins.

What did you just come from?

The mountains of Tennessee?

The youngins?

I actually just did come from the mountains.

The youngins.

A couple weeks ago.

On Saturday, starting at five o'clock.

So they alternate.

Starting time, five o'clock.

The Steve Stock Band, which is...

Celebrating one of the founders of Thoughts for Food.

Steve, Stephen Klinghammer.

And it's the Steve Stock Band, formerly known as Maynard Location.

Followed by three floors up.

House Party.

And Stephen Hall.

And then over at George's Encore.

Six o'clock, Star Time.

Fall Hazard.

Stone Theory.

And a previous all ages show participant, Venganza.

Wow.

We'll put this all together.

It's a lot of work.

But there's a board of about four people, really.

I have to give a shout out to Ruth Feelin,

the coordinator of Thoughts for Food for many years now.

Dan Tivalkowski at the Racine County Food Bank.

Mike Boldis, who does a lot of the graphics and layout.

Web site stuff.

And Michael Gibson, formerly of George's.

They all work together to put that together.

And we all work together.

It's coming up March 2, right?

March 2.

So the first...

It's a two day event.

Yeah, so Friday night.

So tomorrow night.

We're going to be there six to ten at the Eagles Club.

319 Hamilton Street.

What date is that?

That's March 1.

March 1, okay?

And then Saturday, the second.

Okay.

I'm trying to get these in my head here.

So on March 1, Friday night.

Is that that's at...

Just the Eagles Club.

That's just the Eagles Club.

Just the Eagles Club, yep.

And the next day is going to be...

Eagles.

Eagles and.

And George's right across the street.

And George's, okay.

The food, John from Captain's Galley is going to be out there, you know.

To get the street shutdown between...

Yep.

Oh, you did!

Yeah.

How do you do that?

It's kind of a pain, you know.

We're not going to go into that.

I was thinking of getting Main Street shutdown.

So I didn't have to hear the traffic.

You just got to get a collect signatures.

And, you know, get the approval from other people on the block.

Oh, I didn't realize that they could deal.

Yeah.

Insurance and just a bunch of different things.

Whoa.

Okay.

Now thoughts for food.

Who started that?

The 32 years ago.

Well, so there's a project emergency was the predecessor for the Racine County Food Bank.

And Mark Path-Rath.

I don't know if you're familiar with that.

Yeah.

He's one of the founders.

His amount of Path-Rath is just retiring as an older person.

Yep.

Exactly.

So the husband of Amanda.

Mark, really great individual.

Steve Klinghamer, Bill May.

Dave Popoff, one of the original founders of Georgia's, his uncle founded it.

But, yeah, those people started it back in the day.

It was kind of also a Vietnam vet inspired event where they wanted to...

They called it drink beers, listen to some music and raise funds for a good cause.

This is fantastic.

I can't believe you're getting balled in all this stuff.

Well, you know, you got to start somewhere, right?

And I'm glad because we kind of joke around here at the station.

I'm one of these people that says, I don't get involved.

I used to get involved.

I don't get involved anymore.

I don't know why.

But it's so good that people like you, folks here who are getting involved in this.

And how much food do they have?

I mean, how much are we talking about here?

So I know that over the course of time, since the start, there's like over $600,000 raised

for their scene kind of food bank.

And I feel like it's like somewhere around like 20 tons or 50 tons.

I should know that better.

Wow.

But like, I mean, it's a significant amount.

Hold on a second here.

Don't move.

Caleb is here.

Madison's here.

Nick is here behind me, I think, his Janet.

Is he still behind me there?

Yeah.

All right.

He's our videographer here.

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We're talking about a hometown event.

It's going to take place March 1st and 2nd.

And by the way, happy birthday to all the leaflings today, February 29th.

It only happens once every four years.

We get to say happy birthday to you.

You know any leaflings?

Anybody know any people born up to February 29th?

You do?

That's kind of sad that they never get to celebrate their birthday on the day they were born.

They always have to pick February 28th or March 1st.

Yeah, leaflings.

Happy birthday today on the leap year day today.

651.

And we're talking about thought for food, which is coming up March 1st and 2nd at the Eagles

Club in Georgia's Encore, which is the new name for Georgia's.

And we have Caleb.

We have our poet here today, Madison.

I'm floored by that.

And Nick and Janet's behind me.

Quick tell me about Janet, what you said she was responsible for.

I mean, it's all in the family.

Their whole family is just amazing.

A lot of people.

Yeah.

So I first connected with Janet with the art group.

We talked about a few, maybe two months ago.

They're responsible for the wall poems that we've already seen.

The big murals around the city.

And Janet was at Parkside in one of the classes designing a wall poem featuring one of our local poets.

So Ajwa sent to is the poet.

And Janet is the designer through a graphic design class.

And we put that into real life on a wall, the side of a building.

It's huge.

It's over off of a self memorial.

I think it's 1444.

Is that sound right?

Yeah.

That's right.

And you painted that?

No, I just designed it.

You designed it.

Okay.

Well, that's the same thing.

I mean, that's 99% of it.

Yeah.

Well, that's congrats.

I used to watch when I lived in New York.

I used to watch this as giant billboard in Times Square.

It's a two block long billboard.

It's a full and one block long.

It's about a block high.

It's huge.

And you've seen it in movies and so forth.

I used to watch the painters on there.

And they used to be on scaffolding.

It took them a four month to put a billboard up.

And I once found out that they do one little square at a time.

Because it's so huge in this billboard.

It's a block long.

It's where the Marriott Times Square Hotel is now.

But I used to cover the tops of the Victorian Astrid Theatre.

And I said, how do they paint that?

He said, one tiny square at a time.

We have a little picture of what the square is supposed to look like.

And if you do it right,

when the whole thing gets together,

it's going to look like a giant picture.

OK.

So let's talk.

Caleb now.

You were going to ask,

you wanted us to bring up to how we got involved in all this.

Yeah, Caleb.

What do you want me to do?

George is out there.

How did you get involved?

So, me personally, I've been going to Thoughts for Food for years.

So, love live music,

love hanging out with people,

and just being in the community.

So, as a venue owner, of course,

I would love to participate in it.

And we're right across the street from Eagles Club.

So, I mean, it's a perfect fit.

I know George's was a venue last year as well,

so I definitely want to continue the traditions

and just help raise money for the community, support that.

I know on Friday, actually,

with the youth show,

we also do have a show across the street.

So, we're doing the same cover charges

that the Eagles Club is doing,

and then we're actually going to donate all that money back

to the program as well.

So, look at you, Mr. Thoreau,

philanthropic philanthropist.

Maybe one day, but not now.

I like that.

I just wanted to use those words.

I learned it.

I learned it in college,

and I thought I'd put it to use here.

And you're getting involved because...

Well, you know, when...

I was actually at another event

at the Spanish Center,

Posada, and Nick was there.

And he just asked me, you know,

and my brother, if we'd be interested, right?

Because he knows we love performing.

I love sharing what I do.

And, you know, this is a really good cause,

you know, help giving back to communities,

one of, you know, the things that I want

to center my life around.

Well, you and Nick asked me to get involved too,

and he said it was a Friday night,

and I said, hello, the Bachelorette is on.

What time is this event?

Oh, gee, they're on till May 8 o'clock.

I could tape it,

but then everyone's going to know everything before I know it.

And I don't know if I can pull that off.

Nick, and you get involved in all this stuff,

and you get involved in a lot of philanthropic events

around recene.

But for us, you did this kind of stuff.

I mean, it's a lot of work.

That's 100% true.

And you really don't get anything out of it.

Other people get everything out of it.

Unless it gets satisfaction out of it.

That's the only thing I can think of.

I mean, I think the reason why we mess around with any of this,

I mean, it's art first and foremost.

So if you can play and swim in the arts,

you know, like that's the key right there.

When I was, you know, right around Madison's age,

I was looking for places to do this.

And there was very few places.

So, you know, it's been one of my missions for years

to make sure that the next generation and generation

after that have places to perform at.

And, you know, this is not new to all ages show.

This is once a year.

It's been going on for probably at least two-thirds

of the 32 years.

So, yeah, I don't know.

I like checking out, you know, what's going on

and participate and providing platforms.

And I got to give a shout out to Madison's brother, Matthew, too,

because, you know, he's going to be on the drums throwing down.

Good.

You know, the reminds me of the MGM logo.

You've seen the lion roar.

Everybody see them.

Those the MGM logo with the lion.

Do you know what it says above the lion?

And now, when I tell you this,

you're going to see it every time.

It's Latin says,

aridist, grotchist, aridist.

You know what that means?

Art for art's sake.

They put that on there,

when MGM was formed over a hundred years ago.

Art for art's sake.

And after reminding me of it,

and after reminding me of it,

we just said that art for art's sake.

And only once that they were put in the English on there,

there was one movie where they actually printed in the English

where everybody would say,

so let's quick review.

Give us a quick review of people turning and turning in right now.

This is the Thoughts for Food.

It's March 1st and 2nd.

Let's start with March 1st.

Times dates.