I'm actually in a really good mood tonight, which is bizarre, because I've been really cranky, because I'm on a diet.
You know, I'm, here's the thing, I'm okay with my weight, like this, but I want to do television, which means I need to be a weight that's not achievable.
Or talent. For talent is so, it takes time, and I lost 10 pounds in a week.
Here's what I do. I don't eat all day till I feel busy.
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Because I said that in Los Angeles, and nobody laughed, they just wrote it down.
You know, my pal, did he?
Fall down busy or see spots, did he?
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It's been a shot last been a shot treasure.
Or just a moment, a shot treasure.
And I believe the magic of your side.
Well, you still love me tomorrow.
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It's going to be sunny today.
Gorgeous for the 155.
Make it 45.
I said 55.
I'm just, wishful thinking.
Clear tonight, lows around 32.
I'm not getting fooled again because I know on Monday, you could probably drop down to 70.
Fully once.
Shame on me.
Fully twice.
You know, what's it?
Fully once.
Shame on you.
Fully twice.
Shame on me.
I mean, we really got socked the other 66 degrees.
And the next day I was driving to work.
I was 17 with snow and ice on my windshields.
Whoa.
We have Melissa Donaldson is here.
The head of digital and innovation.
Digital services and innovation at the Racine Public Library.
What's innovation?
Innovation is just how we're re-envisioning like the library.
How we're re-envisioning what we offer.
So like we have 3D printers.
We have laser engravers.
Stop it there a second.
I've never seen a 3D printer.
I've heard about them.
It's almost hard to believe in my head.
And I know what you can do it because I've seen the results of it.
There's some guy, him and his son are 3D printing a Lamborghini.
They say it's going to cost them thousands and thousands of dollars.
But it's still cheaper than 300,000.
Or whatever Lamborghini costs.
How does that work?
You put an object in there and it actually spits out a 3D copy of it?
So what you do is you take a 3D object file.
I'm going to say everything you have to say about this.
So we use a 3D object file.
So the main file type that we use is STL.
And we load it into a slicing software.
Which is what the 3D printer uses to create all the layers that it's going to print.
And then once we slice it, then we take it over to the printer.
And we start the printing.
It takes a role of plastic.
Basically melts it down in prints layer by layer to create the 3D object that you have.
So if I have this pen, you can make the ink inside the pen.
But you can make the outside of the pen where I can put an ink cart.
Well, then can you make it hollow on the inside?
Absolutely, yep.
You can do that.
So after you make the pen, I can get an ink cart reach and put it in here.
Because you can't make the ink.
I mean, theoretically.
But these are like 3D printers are really used for prototyping.
So like if you're coming up with a new product in the business world,
they use 3D printing for prototyping.
And so we're kind of like the introduction to it just so that the public is aware of the technology.
And kind of how it works.
I still can't wrap my head around it.
I know it works.
I've seen it.
I've seen pictures of stuff that were 3D printed.
But it's like an old Twilight Zone episode where you put something in one end.
There was a Superman episode.
When it was a Superman, I used to watch all the time as a kid on TV.
They put an object in and an object came out the other side.
I doplicate of it.
Yes, it's fairly similar, yes.
Did you make body parts?
So there's...
I'm thinking of building Robocops.
Right, right.
Well, they are developing 3D printers to actually print organs for people so that like...
Can you imagine how many lives that would save just being able to do that?
I still don't know how to transistor radio works.
Yeah.
I was a kid.
I had a transistor radio.
I couldn't figure out how I'm listening to my favorite radio station on this little tiny thing I've had in my bedroom
with no wires attached to it.
I don't know about that.
I don't know how this radio station works.
And then I'm going to worry about 3D printers.
This is beyond me.
But I'm sure kids growing up today, this will be old hat someday.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, at some point it'll be just something everybody has.
Is it expensive?
No, it's actually come down a lot in price.
There used to be only a few players in the market and now like everybody...
There's so many different players.
So there's so many different options.
You can buy one for as cheap as 150 bucks.
Really?
Yeah.
Or you can spend thousands of dollars and get a super, super nice one.
I mean, they have ones that you could print chairs that people can actually use.
It's just kind of amazing where the technology has gone over the years.
I mean, I'm so amazed how I've printed these notes out for my cell phone this morning.
That amazes me.
Okay, interrupted you.
Talked about 3D printers and innovation.
What else?
So we also do coding classes.
We do...
Let's see.
We do adult computer basics classes.
We do one-on-one tech appointments.
So if anybody has a device that they don't know how to use, they can make an appointment
with us and come in and we'll try to help them with that.
So we kind of cover all things tech in our area.
That's amazing.
All right.
So you're in charge of these programs at the library.
Now you have something coming up called, and let's get this right here, the Beanstack
reading programs.
Okay.
Describe that.
Yeah.
So Beanstack is our online reading service that we have, and we are doing multiple reading
programs throughout the year.
So usually we do a summer reading program, but we've kind of expanded it with this online
service.
So we have a Pride 365, celebrating everyone for who they all are year round, especially
the LGBTQ+, community, meal read books, participate in challenge activities, and earn badges.
So we have ones for all different age levels.
You know, this is great that the public library does all this stuff.
I don't remember this ever going on when I was growing up with the library.
They had reading days for children.
I know that because there was a group of chairs in a semi-circle and they used to read.
I did that.
But once you start...
Well, of course, we didn't have the technology at the end of the year, so we didn't have
all this stuff.
What is the Pride 365?
Is that part of the program?
That is part of the Beanstack program, so that is an activity on there.
So that's one of the reading challenges that we have on Beanstack.
The other one we have, this starting tomorrow, which is March 1st, right?
Yeah.
March 1th, then.
Is a woman change makers?
We're going to celebrate women's history month.
You know, log your reading and our badges.
So that's what a lot of this is.
It's just encouraging people to read different authors.
Maybe they haven't read.
Read about women who they may not know about throughout history.
Do you have any examples?
Or am I?
You hear what I'm saying?
Yeah, you hear what I'm saying?
I don't have any.
Yeah.
It's okay, no worries.
Yeah.
I always tell people, and I talked about this the other day on the air.
My mother was a big trail blazer.
She was one of the first female investigators for the Department of Consumer Affairs.
I know that best Myerson ran the department of Consumer Affairs in New York.
She was the first woman in charge, and my mom was an investigator in her office, and
it was all men before her.
And she brought companies like McDonald's.
She came up with a phrase pre-cooked weight that goes on all the McDonald's wrappers
because of those quarter-bounders.
Didn't weigh a quarter-bound, so they only did it when they were raw.
So my mother was a kind of a trailblazer, and on her tombstone, it says consumer advocate,
because that's what she did to all her lives.
She worked for consumers to make sure they weren't taking advantage of.
And so it's kudos to my mom for doing that kind of stuff.
So yeah, it's woman's history month, and there are a lot of women out there to celebrate
who were trailblazers in their field, whatever it may be, including some of the first women
that were senators and congresswomen, and it's hard to believe, but at the beginning of
the century, women were not involved in any ball.
They weren't allowed to be, and here's more shocking for young people, and maybe growing
up and not knowing this, women weren't allowed to vote.
I'm going to read you something here.
This is how you became a schoolteacher in Wisconsin.
Let me see if I can find this here real quick for you here.
This was a guy in here.
This was a contract.
I copied it.
This was a contract.
I don't have time to read this now.
Let's see where I'll try to get it in here real fast.
This was from 1922, a Wisconsin teachers contract for women.
They got $75 a month.
These were the rules to be a teacher in Wisconsin.
You couldn't be married.
This contract becomes no-unvoid immediately if the teacher marries, not to have company
with any men.
You had to be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
unless an attendance at a school function, no loitering at the downtown ice cream shops.
Forget the bars.
You went a lot of the ice cream shops.
Not to leave town at any time without permission of the chairman of the trustees.
You couldn't smoke cigarettes.
You couldn't drink beer, wine, or whiskey.
Not to ride in the carriage or automobile with any man, except your brother or your father.
You couldn't wear bright colored dresses.
You couldn't dye your hair.
You had to wear at least two petty coats.
Not to wear dresses more than two inches above the ankles.
You had to keep the school room clean.
You had to sweep it at least once a day.
You had to scrub the floors with soap and water once a week.
You had to clean the blackboard every day.
You had to start a fire in the fireplace.
That shows you the year we're talking about it.
It's 7 a.m.
So the students will be nice and toasty.
You couldn't wear face powder, mascara, or paint your lips.
All that for $75 a month.
If you didn't sign it, you couldn't be a school teacher in the state of Wisconsin.
That's crazy.
It's crazy now, but I'm sure it was normal back around 1922.
I mean, but gee, with.
So you're going to celebrate women's history month.
And there's a lot of history to be, you know, kids growing up today, don't see the difference
between women's rights, men's rights, and then see the difference.
But there was a difference going back to even as early as the 60s.
Absolutely.
I was around for the women's liberation movement, women's lib where everyone's going to get
their rights.
But it happened.
It's slow, but now it's here.
So continue on.
We got about a minute for the break.
Okay.
And then the last reading challenge that I wanted to talk about is the thousand books before
kindergarten.
So we like to encourage parents to read a thousand books to their children before they
get to kindergarten, so they'll log reading and earn badges along the way for that as
well.
You know, my parents didn't read books to me, but my brother did.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
He was six years older than me.
He still is.
That didn't change.
We still stayed six years older than each other and he used to read books to me.
Yeah.
I have fond memories of my mother reading to me.
It's just nice being read to when you're little.
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
Hold on.
We're talking to Melissa Donaldson, who is the head of digital services and innovation
at the Racine Public Library.
More coming up.
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It's hard to believe it's going to be 61 degrees on Sunday when I feel it now believe it.
Melissa Donaldson is here, head of digital services and innovation at the Racine Public Library and we're talking about schools now taking field trips to the innovation lab,
which isn't as far away as you think it's on the second floor of the library.
I don't think I'm so the second floor.
I was been on there a million times.
Where is it on the second floor?
So we just finished a renovation in January of last year.
So it is up in the adult services department right next to teen scene, a space for kids 13 to 18.
But this space, the innovation lab is open to everybody in the community.
We do all ages programming from toddlers to preschoolers all the way through seniors citizens.
So, so yeah, we're looking that we want to be able to offer kind of an open lab to area students to come in and try various tech that we have.
We've had a couple of schools come already where we set up like our cublets, our oso bots, a VR station.
All right, back up, back up, back up, cublets, cublets.
They're little modular robotics.
So each cub does a specific function.
So it's really cool that it teaches simple robotics, and you could do it without a computer.
So it teaches the logic behind, behind the coding, but you don't necessarily need a computer to do so.
I am so lost on this stuff.
I am so lost.
Well, you have to come down and see us sometime and check it out.
I got to start out of the teen scene.
I'll wait up to involve.
I can't figure that out.
Well, that's great.
You get a lot of schools and want to do this?
Well, it's new because we're just, like I said, we're just settled into our space.
That we've been in there just a little over a year.
So we're finally feeling settled enough to be able to open more to the public to this kind of stuff.
You guys took advantage of COVID when the library is closed.
And you got stuff done without people walking around.
Yeah, it was, it was a little bit of chaos, but, but we made it through.
Especially when the library is closed.
It's easier to work, you know, you don't have to worry about tools falling on people's heads.
All right.
So, and in that, you'll teach them how to do 3D printing and everything, right?
Yep.
So we'll do a demonstration for 3D printing and we'll let them to see that.
I've got to see that.
Yeah, you'll have to come down and see it because it's a lot of fun.
I like it's one of, like, it's probably our most popular thing.
And people email us all the time just to have us print something.
One last thing about 3D printing, does it have to be plastic when it comes out?
It can't be metal.
No, we don't have it.
I'd, but they, at that, I don't know to be honest.
I don't know if you make a car, you have to make a car key.
It can't be plastic.
You'll break it when you put it in there.
Right.
Yeah.
But we don't, we just have all plastic ones.
Okay.
And if somebody wants to book their visits in school, what do they do?
How do they email you?
Um, so they can email tech.
Help at racinglibrary.info.
And then we'll reach out with some dates that we have available.
We can hold probably no more than 30 to students in the innovation lab at anyone's
lab.
It is, but that's probably our, our max and study students.
So let's move on here, um, talk about some of the other stuff on this list here.
Yeah.
So, um, we have a lot of interesting programs.
I just picked a few to highlight.
Um, starting today, we have our NBA 2K24 Elite Ballers tournament.
So, um, kids, uh, in grades six through 12 can come down to the library, um, and
participate in an NBA 2K24 showdown on the PlayStation 5.
So we will have controllers available to use.
But if you'd like to bring your own, you're welcome to do it.
Um, so that's going to be happening today, Thursday, February 29th, March 14th and
March 28th from 430 to 530, um, in the innovation lab.
I'm still doing super Mario on the Nintendo.
So this, um, I'm way behind here.
My daughter's big into this stuff.
She's got like these her and a husband of these like Star Trek chairs.
They sit in, you know, that special chairs.
They have the big like five screens in front of them.
They play with players all over the world and yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's really made
gaming as well has changed a lot.
It's a lifestyle.
It is, and it's, it's former entertainment.
Usually it's in the past.
It was like, oh, something kids do.
And now, you know, my daughter, my daughter is 40.
I know there's, and there's adults making big money in the gaming world.
So yeah, it's, it's definitely changed the world we live in for sure.
I still have the original pond game.
Oh, that's cool.
Makes wife has it now, but, um, I can get it any time I want to just borrow it.
If I feel like it, but yeah, it was just two little balls going, one ball going back
and forth between two paddles and all the people in the neighborhood came.
Well, can we play?
Can we play it?
But, you know, that's like antique now.
I know.
And it's crazy.
You think that would be easy.
But I, like, I've tried to play like different versions online.
And I'm clearly my hand eye coordination isn't that good.
A lot of it expert at that.
Let's go over some more programs here.
Yeah.
So, um, another program that we have are for preschool and toddlers.
It's steam time.
And we're doing that on March 4th and 18th from 1030 to 1130 in the innovation
lab.
So we set up different stations that deal with science, technology, engineering,
arts and math.
So, um, every week, that's the acronym.
Yeah.
So there would be different activities.
We'll do coding.
We'll do engineering, which is like playing with blocks.
Like it's just simple stuff for kids just to get their hands on.
Um, and kids will learn a lot through play.
So that's why we try to encourage all the play in this.
Well, it's more than just taking books out of the library.
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
So all it was you get a book in your home.
Yeah.
Libraries have really changed, um, over the years.
We're definitely more than books.
Um, well, you know, what you have to adapt?
And exactly, you know, you have to adapt and books will probably always be here.
But the reading of books has changed where you read it.
How you read it, you know, people read it online.
When we go on road trips, we get audio books out of the library on my wife's phone.
And then we play it through the car radio.
So we go on these road trips.
We're actually taking an audio book out of the library without physically
having it.
Yep.
We read, you know, it was a library card.
We get it out.
We play it and we listen on a road trip.
We did signfelds book.
Uh, during signfelds book.
And we listened on the, we took a week road trip and we listened to them.
We're in the car on the long stretches.
Yep.
We do the same thing.
Yeah.
It's very, with Libby, the Libby app, it's really, really awesome.
It cuts down on fights and arguments in the car because no one's talking
at each other and you could just listen.
All right.
We have about a minute for the break.
So, um, so next Thursday, March 7th, we are going to be hosting a program called
Beat the Raider.
So teens and tweens are welcome to sign up and play Madden NFL 24 against a
racing raider.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
So like come and see if you could beat the racing raider.
John Madden lives on.
Yep.
Yes, he does.
Um, and then on March 8th, we are going to be doing a program.
If you're building a PC, so I don't, this was really popular and it's starting
to become more popular again is if you're building a PC, um, you buy all the
parts, you know, like, and if you're stuck, that's what this is.
This workshop is for to help you, um, kind of ask a professional, like, I, okay,
that can't get this piece to work.
What is not working?
So that's kind of like what we're doing with this workshop.
Hold on a second.
We have more than Melissa Donnellson from the Racine Public Library.
She's the head of digital innovation at digital services and innovation at the
public library, more than just books.
I mean, if that's all you thought there were, they're not dusty books anymore.
They still have dusty books there, though.
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I have friends who like to tell me about their dreams.
You guys have friends like that?
Tell you about their dreams.
They're always so excited, right?
People always get so excited about their dream.
Everyone thinks theirs is the weirdest.
I had the weirdest dream.
Now, come on.
I was so weird.
Come on.
And it's always this boring story, right?
Like all we were on this boat going down a river, but it was a river of gravy.
How weird is that?
That we weren't using an ore, it was a Q-tip.
How weird is that?
You're like, it isn't weird at all.
It's boring.
There's a reason you were asleep during this.
I'm those enough just listening to you.
That's where the movie Streets of Fire from 1983 and we went to California to visit my relatives out there.
We took the Universal Studios tour and they were filming Streets of Fire until we went on the set.
And it was an old, dilapidated New York city where a crime ran rampant.
And we took the little tour tram on the Universal Studios through the set and you actually felled.
It was a closed building, but it looked like you were outside with the tenements and just, you know, spray paints over everything and little streets of fire.
So it's a boring story of it, like the boring dreams.
It seemed exciting at the time, but now it's just a boring old story.
Melissa Donaldson head of digital services and innovation is here from the Racine Public Library.
So much going on.
They still have the dusty books if you want them, but they have much more than the books of the library.
I still go there all the time to get the DVDs.
And you know, you talk to a young person that they've said DVDs.
I know. I know my kids won't touch it because they actually have to get up and go do something.
You know, like they're still used to stream everything.
So they're still used to streaming.
Yeah, but streaming, you have to do the choice of whatever the streaming servers want you to watch.
Yeah.
Because they only have a limited number of things on there.
So you have more than one streaming service.
And then you know what you're paying a lot for it.
Sure.
See with my library at home, I have so many TV series.
I have Columbo.
I've got Mash.
I've got Taxi and Dick Van Dyke and the King of Queens.
I get all my...
So anytime I want, I can watch any episode and just pull it out.
Now, true, I have to get my keyster off the couch to go get it.
You know, Jim Gaffigan has an old bit he does about the remote.
He's like, hmm, I can't find the remote.
I guess off to watch what's on TV.
Now you don't even have to do that.
Like with our TV, we just use our phones if we lose the remote.
So it's...
Well, you're in the head of digital services innovation.
I'm still in the head of, you know, old remote with the wire attached to the TV.
But yeah, on our TV too, you get the internet.
It's all a smart TV, which I didn't know when I bought it.
Okay.
I was too dumb to look as if it was a smart TV.
I actually said it on the box and I said to them, I think we can get the internet on this TV.
So whenever we do exercise videos or any videos we want to watch, we just watch them on our TV.
Yep.
Just like a streaming service.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
Okay, so let's...
We're gonna leave off here.
We were talking about the Build Your Own PC.
Yes.
Worked up.
So, yeah.
By the way, is it a real working PC?
So what it is is for people who are wanting to build their own computer and let's say they're
in progress, but they're kind of stuck.
Okay.
So they can bring all of their pieces in and our tech will be there to help and guide them
to be able to get it working.
Can they fix my PC if I bring it?
We don't do fixing your PCs, but we can help you if you need to...
Let's say if you've got a virus or you're worried about it.
Why don't you have a PC?
I have a laptop.
Same thing.
Same thing.
We can help you figure that out.
Try to figure out how to show you how to run it and I've already software and stuff like that.
I use it for work and so I don't bring up any websites on it ever.
Ever.
I don't click on anything in emails on it ever and for all the life of the years and years
I've had it and I've had a problem because I don't bring anything up on it.
I use you with the closed programs I have on it is what I use.
That's the safest way to do it.
Nobody can get in.
Nobody can get in.
Once you're in, once you're out, you're out.
Now, do phones get viruses?
Do phones?
I'm sure they will.
I haven't.
I have run into any but I wouldn't think that would be the case.
You haven't click on anything on my phone either unless I know the person that sends it.
It's not good to click on any link if you don't know.
If you're not expecting it, if it's just some random link, you shouldn't be clicking on it
because you just don't know who it could be from.
It could be from some bad actors.
Unless I'm expecting something, I don't click on links.
I mean, you like Tom Cruise, bad actors.
He's a good actor.
He's a good actor.
I'm only kidding.
He's a good actor.
Okay.
So keep going from the list.
I'm about to get to here.
Our next one is on March 23rd.
We're doing a Steam Workshop getting started with Linux.
This is kind of a way to reinvigorate old hardware.
If you have an older computer, maybe let's say that's running Windows 10,
but you can't upgrade it to Windows 11.
I got Windows 10.
You can come in to this workshop, bring your laptop in
and our tech will help you install Linux on your computers
so that the hardware can continue to work
and you can continue to use it safely.
So he'll help you run through the Linux operating system.
So you just bring in your equipment
and we try to help you keep it running even longer.
When I bought my laptop, it was Windows 7.
I still have the sticker on it, Windows 7.
And then it's upgraded to Windows 10 one day.
I go in there and it says,
we're upgrading and it took like three hours to upgrade to Windows 10.
And it does updates like every two weeks or three weeks.
It does an update.
You know, Windows update, real quick one.
And I live in dread fear that that update is going to leave my computer unusable.
And it's never done it.
It always works when I get done.
All the little Windows, all the little icons pop up.
But I sit there and I start sweating and panicking.
My anxiety levels grow up for I got in the hives and everything.
Every time it's got to do that.
It just takes a lot of time.
And it is nerve-wracking because our computers are our life.
Our life is on our line.
You know, so.
Not care about my life.
I care about my job.
Well, that's part of your life.
You know, but I mean, we spend so much time at work that.
Well, here's another radio station I work at.
And what I told him is when the computer goes down, I'm out.
You're done.
Actually, I have a very good friend of mine who worked for a computer company
and fixed computers for a living, big systems.
And if I have a problem, I can call on him to do it.
But I pay him to do it.
I don't let you know, he went to school for this.
So I shouldn't get anything for free.
But all right, let's talk about what else you have on the list here.
So we have cutting the cord from cable to streaming.
Oh, yeah.
We're cutting the cord.
So we're kind of talking about what it means to get rid of traditional cable surfaces
and move towards streaming.
Because we get a lot of questions about that at the library.
A lot of people just don't quite know what it means to get rid of traditional cable.
What does that mean?
What does that entail?
What do I have to get to make sure I can still get the information that I need?
The show is I want to watch that kind of stuff.
Why do I have to get rid of cable?
I love cable.
Why do I want to get rid of it?
Some people do.
Why?
What's their reasoning?
These pets?
No.
It used to be because of the expense.
It used to be like you could go to streaming and save quite a bit of money.
But that isn't so much.
I'm probably paying about as much as I'm paying for cable.
But it's more the way I look at it.
It's more personalized TV service.
You can kind of get what you want.
You don't have to get one size fits all.
Which is what kind of what cable is.
Yeah, but do you have like 9,000 channels?
Yeah.
We are in my household.
We are large consumers of TV shows.
I used to get DVDs from Netflix.
Remember when they stopped it last year?
But I used to get my DVDs in the mail from Netflix.
Which I found out if you go to the public library,
it's a much better service than doing it through Netflix.
But anyway, so I had it through Netflix.
And I used to use these little Netflix cards, you know, the gift cards.
Yeah.
And you loaded up on there and you're good for another year or whatever it was.
And when they get a message, Netflix DVD service is ending in three months.
So I called up with my card to load the last last three months on it.
And they said, we don't accept those anymore.
As you don't accept them anyway, you have three months.
I got a Netflix card.
We don't accept it anymore.
And I'm talking to somebody in Malaysia or something.
I'm talking to somebody down the block who cares.
They're reading off an index card and telling me no.
But the customer says they said no.
But the customer then wouldn't say no.
And so that's what they don't have to say.
So I was stuck with these Netflix cards.
Now what do I do with them?
So they said, well, you can get them like service, the streaming service.
The streaming service.
But I'm stuck with the card.
You can't do anything with them.
So I said, all right, we'll get the streaming service.
So we had it for six months because I have the two cards.
I don't think I think I watched one thing on there.
I used to cruise it.
And I said, there's nothing on here of interest to me.
I wife watched the crown.
I loved that show.
That's good.
And I started to watch, I watched up to season four.
And season four, I'm watching this thing.
It's just, you know, the British accent.
And it just dosen me off.
And there's no action in that crowd.
It's just people talking.
Yep.
But we just, it just lapsed.
So I don't have it anymore.
But I'm watching.
And there's nothing on.
Well, we, my kid, there's a lot of stuff.
I, my daughter is an avid, avid viewer of Netflix.
Because we suggested getting rid of it.
And there's just like, no, there's too much.
She watches on there.
Well, there's some movie I want to watch.
I go to the movie theaters to see it.
Because I love watching in the movie theaters.
So I watch all the current movies in there.
So once they're streaming, I've seen them.
You've already seen them.
Yeah.
Unless it's an original movie.
And there was the one thing I watched was an original movie
who don't look up.
I think it was called.
Okay.
Yeah.
The only thing I ever watched on Netflix.
We watch, we watch a lot of reruns on Netflix.
Now, I tell you what I do watch on streaming.
Some of the free services like Toobie.
There's a lot of junk on there that's interesting to watch.
It's just junk.
It's a lot of those documentaries are really amateurish.
Right.
But it's fun watching them.
Yep.
And for free, I can have some fun, turn it on, turn it off.
So I watch Toobie.
The Pluto TV is also free.
Yeah.
I tried to bring that up once.
I wanted the information from me.
Yeah.
I think I don't know if you have to create a account.
Yeah.
I'm not creating any accounts.
I'm not giving any name, phone numbers.
Toobie, turn it on.
You can watch it.
When I went to Pluto, it wanted information.
Yeah.
And then again, anything for me.
What's on Pluto?
They have some live TV channels.
They have a lot of classic TV.
Stuff like my dad would watch.
I mean, that I would watch.
Green makers.
You know.
That kind of stuff.
And if I don't want free TV though, me TV's got green.
I know.
It's fun.
It's free.
That's free.
It's just free streaming versus.
I mean, I'm just getting too old to this.
You know, I watch like my son doesn't own a television.
My daughter doesn't own a television.
I mean, they don't own TVs.
They watch it on their phone or they can watch it on their computer or their tablet or
you know, it's kind of wherever they go.
They're attached.
So.
And I'll tell you how old I am.
I remember my neighbor got the first color TV in the neighborhood.
We all went over the house.
It was the Radleaches.
Mike and I had a Radleach.
And they invited all the neighbors over to see the New York Mets play on Channel 9 in
college.
It's cool.
And we watched a green.
Look at the grass.
It's green.
Oh, really?
Did you think it was?
I mean, orange, red.
What do you think it was?
But to watch a color TV for the first time when we sat there was a big giant console television.
You know, the record players on top and everything else.
It's a definitely a different world.
And our children are young people operate differently within the world than we.
My daughter is 44 and she operates differently than I do.
Yep.
Yeah, we do.
I mean, like, I mean, who would have thought we were walking around with many computers in our
hands every day, you know?
And this has more power than the computer that landed us on the moon in 1969.
Isn't that crazy?
Just to think about it.
The room for the computers they had at NASA, this phone has more power than that.
It's just really crazy just to think where technology has come from.
And that's why, like, we focus so much on technology because there's just so much to learn.
And we want to be able to provide that kind of service for our community.
You know, and when you, you know, there was a commercial with Cliff Roberts in years ago.
And he was had his fingers in the air and he was moving things around.
Like, you would move a website away on your phone with your finger.
He was doing that.
And I said, what is he doing?
What is this craziness he's doing?
Moving things around, like, just, you know, websites up and down with this finger.
And here I do it every day.
Yep.
All day long.
And that was futuristic to me.
And wow.
And now we're living it.
Oh, yeah, living the dream.
Oh, I got one more break. Can you hold in?
Yep.
Oh, yeah, good. Don't move.
Melissa Donaldson's here from the Racine Public Library, ahead of digital services and innovation.
You have to keep up with all this stuff yourself.
Absolutely.
Yep. It's constantly learning process.
I wonder from your kids or what?
No, I learned it.
I just learned by doing.
No, brother.
I couldn't.
I'm just, no.
Even in radio, things have changed so much that I got to keep up with all the time.
Yeah.
Because we're networking.
We have civic radio network.
We've got CBS network.
We've got all these new services.
Wow.
All right.
And I'm still using CDs to play some music here.
749, WRJ and radio.
Home town radio.
Refreshed a civic media station.
They'll move.
I'm taking the lotion.
Tell you when the spear stopped the lotion.
Baby, baby, my tender love goes on.
The blue sky to the deepest ocean.
I'm torn in there.
Baby, I'll still grab your mind.
Baby, baby, it's awesome for you.
And just like me, I'm sure you'll play with it for you.
Baby, baby, cool.
Baby, baby, cool.
When I had my cold, I was doing my very white in person.
I said, your voice gets deep and you have a cold.
I was doing, baby, baby.
I'm very white, baby, baby.
Our news director here at one time, Tom Carco, used to do that when he had a cold.
He was new.
Baby, baby.
I think we have some news headlines from Stuart J. Wattles who is watching the news for us in our news center today.
So, you know, let's get to see what's going on in the scene real quick, aren't we?
And around Wisconsin here from Stuart J. Wattles, our news director this morning.
These three decades behind bars is the sentence for shooting across from case high school.
We've seen County jury found 20-year-old Teresa loved guilty back in November.
It was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison.
He shot a case high school football player across the street from the campus in 2022
and was a felon preventing him from owning a gun.
A 16-year-old student shot and did testify at the trial.
The hunt for the missing toddler from Manitawant County.
This is just a shameful story.
His expanding searches, they're being done in homes, wooded areas, rivers,
and even a nearby landfill in pursuit of three-year-old Elijah Wu.
Do you see the picture of this kid?
Yeah.
He's such a cute little kid.
Police have also been checking in the Wisconsin Dells area where Wu's mother and had connections.
Despite Elijah going missing a week ago, his grandparents' maintain optimism
that his eventual discovery will be made.
His mother and her partner detained on child neglect allegations.
You can get to know the names on the Kenosha ballot in a couple of weeks.
Both candidates from Mayor David, but I hope I'm saying this right.
Bogdala and Linda Spotsworth are candidates for the Circuit Court.
She'll take part in a March 14th political forum.
This will be the first political public forum for judicial candidates in this election cycle.
And candidates Frank Gagliardli.
Oh, I mean, I just really embedded these names.
Gagliardi and Heather Iverson have committed to attending in addition to pre-selected questions.
Audience members will be invited to submit questions for the candidates.
And finally, the skates can go away and you can dig out the clubs.
The City of Kenosha is shutting down the ice rings early.
And those are at Veterans Memorial Park.
And also Porori in other outdoor news.
The City is opening a new day this weekend.
The Municipal Golf Course will be open from eight until four on Saturday and Sunday.
However, you'll have to walk it with carts not available for now.
Now, you know, I am not a newscaster.
These are tough names.
All right. Thank you, Stuart J. Wattles, watching all the news stories for us today in our news center.
And, you know, I would have put away the salt, the snow shovels and everything the other day.
And then we had 17 degrees and it's great by myself, my car, the snow, the next day.
So even though it's going to be 61 on Sunday, who knows what Monday is going to be.
Exactly.
Let's do a quick review of some of the programs that are coming up right now.
The most immediate ones here at the Racine Public Library.
So, yeah.
So just remember that today we start our NBA 2K to four elite ballers tournament.
So like that starts today.
And again, it's open for teens in grades six through 12.
Preschool and taller steam time is March 4th and 18th from 1030 to 1130 in the Innovation Lab Explore Science Technology Engineering Arts Math with various hands-on activities.
Next week is Beat the Raider.
Come and beat a Racine Raider playing Madden NFL 24.
This is going to be an exciting program to see all the kids try to beat a Racine Raider.
Steam workshops.
We have Build Your Own PC on Friday, March 8th from 12 to 1 in the Innovation Lab.
If you're building your own computer and need some help, bring in your in-progress computer into work on.
And our team will be there to offer advice and guidance.
We have another Steam workshop on March 23rd getting started with Linux from 1 to 2.
Is your laptop feeling like it's slowing down?
If so, bring your PC, laptop, desktop or Mac to this workshop and could help installing Linux on your computer.
And also, before I want to make sure I get this in here, lunch break is coming.
Yes.
Okay, I want to make sure I get this in here.
We're very excited about that.
They're seeking food vendor.
Now you got my attention.
They're seeking food vendors and small business booths for lunch break at the library.
You can pick your day any Wednesday.
It's May 22nd through September 11th from 9am to 4pm.
You can sign up by calling 262.
I've got to make this bigger here.
262, 636, 9170.
262, 636, 9170.
It's Pam.
How do you say your last name?
Pam Chrysler.
Pam Chrysler.
Give your email address here real quick.
P-A-M dot Chrysler, which is P-R-E-I-S-L-E-R.
AdversingLibrary.info.
Just call the number.
It's a lot easier to remember when you're talking on the radio.
262, 636, 9170.
And you're looking for street vendors like the food trucks.
Absolutely.
Food trucks.
So we're going to line them up.
In library circles where we have them parked.
So when people come in and out of the library, they can stop and get something to eat.
But you can't bring the food in.
We do have spots on the second floor, yet we have by the north windows and by the east
windows our spots our people can.
Wow.
I didn't know you'd bring food into the library.
We just started that after construction because people come in study and they want to be
able to come in and eat while they're studying.
So all those years I was trying.
I thought I was sneaking something in.
I didn't really have to sneak it in.
Well, this is a new thing.
So yeah, so probably back then they probably would have.
But when I didn't sneak things into the library, don't worry.
There's the reading challenge for women's history month.
Yep.
That is starting tomorrow on Beanstack.
So you can go to racinglibrary.beenstack.com to participate in that or you can download the
Beanstack app from your app store for your smartphone or tablet.
You know, and they have Lego clubs.
You can have everything there at the library.
It's just not books anywhere.
Everybody thinks the library.
Oh, books.
No, it's not just books anymore.
No.
And you've got to stay on top of this because you want kids to go to the library.
You've got to bring them in there with something they know and something to impress them.
Right.
Exactly.
And you know, we still do our traditional programs.
We still have.
We still have story times.
We still have, you know, but crafting is really big.
We do, you know, we do adult crafting.
We do senior crafting.
It's so fun that people read to you too.
It is.
Even as an adult.
Like, that's why I like audiobooks.
Do you know why my wife reads to me?
It's because of books.
That's awesome.
Because I'm not a great reader.
So we get books about receipt and cheeses and bad, and she reads them to me at night.
I love it.
I love them.
Okay, thank you.
Well, listen, Donaldson here.
Head of Digital Services and Innovation at the Racine Public Library.
I thank you people for the library for coming in all the time.
You're very welcome.
We enjoy being here.
Okay.
See you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.
Dark and early.
Someday, it's going to be light again.
Not clocks will change.
It'll be light.
759 at WRJ.
A home town radio.
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