The house passed a building with forced tiktok's Chinese parent company to sell the social media platform or face a domestic ban.
Well, if you guys are worried about the Chinese gathering data on Americans, wait till you find out who makes the phones.
Some business news, the CEO of Petco is stepping down.
And he used one of those tiny sets of stairs to put next to the bed to do it.
Oh!
I heard a friend was a fake face from where?
But again, high school.
He could feel that he's seen for a while.
Making the blood and food more.
Some other night at this roadside bar, I was walking in, he was walking out.
We went back inside a second, had a few drinks.
But all we get is talking about the story.
Well, let us see my glory days.
And the work of England's high glory days, glory days.
It's 607 at WRJN Radio.
I'm Don Rosen, and I want to thank you for joining me here on this Friday, the Iads of March.
This is the day that Julius Caesar got it in the back in ancient Rome.
So, I want you back today.
He can't have it anywhere.
It could be a metaphoric knife in the back, too.
It doesn't have to be a real one.
You know how that works?
You know how that works at the office?
Beautiful sun, shiny weather today with a high air 45, a clear sky tonight, loads 38.
Partly sunny tomorrow with a high air 54 increasing clouds Sunday with a high air 39.
It's a beautiful weather on the way right through the weekend.
Partly cloudy, 36 degrees presently.
The badgers take on the wildcats, Wisconsin at Northwestern, which is really a Minnesota they're going to play.
12.30 pm this afternoon here on WRJN Radio.
All right, 608 coming up at 630 this morning.
We'll be talking to Evelyn Garcia, the business manager for the Racine Public Library.
She's got lots to talk about at 730 this morning.
A Bret Hoffman from Marcus theaters is going to be able to talk about the new releases coming out this weekend.
And we'll see how he did with his picks for the Academy Awards.
And then we've got Mike coming in.
Mike Clemens at 750 this morning to talk sports.
So it's right here WRJN Radio, hometown radio refreshed a civic media station.
But right now let's get to the real news in the morning.
There's a new study out researchers say they found that 5 a.m. is the worst time of the day.
5 p.m. is the best time.
Now they claim their science to back that up.
They say 5 a.m. is officially the worst time of the day based on mood.
So Arcadian clock, which is your body clock and other factors at 5 p.m.
It's the best time of the day.
Mainly because you're leaving work, make sense?
Have you tried to do this?
77% of Americans think adults should be able to order off the kids' menu at a restaurant.
21% have tried it before and a third have had that request projected at least once.
Do you really want to go out and have spaghettios for dinner at a restaurant?
I wonder why they don't let you order off that.
There's no difference to them.
Even the senior menu.
So if you're 20 years old, can't you order off the senior menu?
I don't know what the difference would be.
They're still getting the money for it.
What difference does it make?
A 27 year old woman in South Carolina arrested earlier this month after a neighbor complained.
She was in her front yard screaming doing jumping jacks topless.
She was charged with obscene exposure.
Never had a my neighborhood.
I've never seen that happen.
I haven't seen anybody doing any exercise in my neighborhood.
Forget topless or new to whatever.
I'm like, anybody's ever done a bit of exercise.
I don't see anybody walking in my neighborhood.
A good well store in central Pennsylvania recently listed one single Lego piece for $15 online.
It ended up being worth a lot more than that.
It's actually a rare gold mask made of actual 14 karat gold.
Lego said they made 30 of them.
The store sold it an auction for just over $18,000.
It's the most single Lego piece ever sold.
When they do that, they did that the other day.
Last month, it said last month.
Never wind up at stores and donate your change to charity.
Remember you round up your money.
They say, you want to round that up?
All right, adds up to a lot of reports said those campaigns where you're round up your money.
Brought in 749 million dollars in 2022.
And that's just the ones that raised at least a million dollars.
There's more than that.
All right, getting married expensive.
If you're looking to save some money on your wedding,
may we suggest a wedding at Denny's?
You can also get married at Wendy's, Taco Bell and White Castle.
They all have deals to get married at Denny's.
All you do is have to fly to Las Vegas, pay the $199 fee.
That covers use of the chapel, the champagne toast, the wedding cake,
and the best of all a voucher for two original grand slams.
Considering the average cost of a wedding in 2023 was $35,000.
I say $199 bucks at some pancakes is a real steal.
Did you realize this?
48% of new cars last year at Amber return signals compared to those red ones
that the rest of us have.
They say Amber is safer.
Others say they just wish everybody was just used to turn signals
no matter what color it is.
That matter.
Have you seen the headlights now?
The new cars have like eyebrows above the lights on the front of the car.
It looks like a face coming at you.
And some of the lights make it look like an angry face coming at you.
When I drive in the morning, it looks like this angry people coming out in the road
because they got the headlights with those eyebrows above them.
They got those cars that look like stormtroopers from Star Wars.
Do you see those cars still getting scary on the road?
Well, I had another tailgator this morning.
I'm telling you they aggravate me to tailgators because eventually I'm going to have to
hit on the brakes because I'm either going to come to a light or a slow driver
in front of me, which is fine.
I'll slow down, but they're so close to me.
I can't even see their headlights.
They're so close to my bumper.
And you know, I'm not going to go any faster.
So if you're behind my car and you know what kind of car I drive,
I am not going to go faster than the speed limit and about how much you tailgate me.
See, I might as well not because I didn't get to do any good for you.
All right.
I think there was another plane problem the other day again.
I forget what it was.
I should have written it down.
I was watching ABC World News and there was another plane problem.
I remember what it was.
Just another reason.
Oh, I know what it was.
I know what it was.
It was a young kid who I guess is a trainee for his pilot license.
He tried to break into the cockpit three times.
They finally had a subdue him and put some plastic handcuffs on him.
I don't know what he wanted to do.
They didn't say he just was trying to break into the cockpit,
cockpit banging on the door and passengers tackled him to the ground
and put plastic handcuffs on him.
Just another reason.
Just another reason I don't want to fly.
All right.
Showbiz News.
Catherine O'Harrer says the Beetlejuice sequel will bring back Harry Belafonte song.
Dale.
Dale.
Daleite Coleman.
You want to go home so they use that in the movie.
Michael Keaton says he saw a cut of the film.
He said it's fantastic.
A standalone Spider-Man movie with told me a wire back in Spider-Man.
Might be in the works from director Sam Raimi.
Remember how Dakota Johnson slammed that movie, Madam Webb,
and got the ire of Sony Pictures for blasting the movie.
Well, now Sidney Swini has kind of distracted distancing herself from that movie,
Madam Webb.
How bad was that movie?
I have to ask Brett Hoffman.
He's pretty honest about these things.
Remind me, Madam Webb.
I've got to ask Brett.
But now there's this.
It's not really showbiz news.
More like celebrity news out of the how much of this is true,
but they say Prince William might be having an affair,
because there was a picture of his wife Kate Middleton
and she was not wearing a wedding ring in the picture.
Hmm.
Let me get that whole thing going on with the Photoshopped picture that she had taken.
It wasn't her and it was her, but it was a different her taking earlier
and she was put into the picture.
What is this going on?
All right.
Is this a good life hack or just dumb?
I'll give you a spoiler.
I think it's pretty good.
A woman bragged on TikTok about how she takes her suitcase to the grocery store
uses it instead of bags.
She says it's especially helpful for her because she has to walk to the store.
But even if you drive,
it's easier getting the stuff into the house
if you have a suitcase.
I like the idea.
You know, I have those little plastic bags that got a hook like 12 of them up to one hand.
And by the time I get in the house, I think my arm grew by six inches, you know,
being stretched out.
So yeah, I like that idea.
I don't, you're not going to look pretty neat going in with the suitcases of the supermarket,
but I don't think it's a bad idea.
A study found sleeping with even a little bit of light is bad for us.
It raises your heart rate,
which is linked to heart disease and it spikes your blood sugar.
The lead author of the study says more of us should think about wearing sleep masks.
So we're in the dark.
Two things.
First of all, if you turn off the lights and close the curtains, it'll be dark in your room.
Number two, shut off your cell phones and shut off your tablets.
That will cut down on the light right away.
Although I have to say I sleep,
I have a little DVD player on my nightstand.
And I fall asleep with it on and the lights right in my face.
But you know, it's about an hour after I put it on, I shut it off.
I wake up and I pull a plug on it.
But yeah, I guess I do leave that on.
I watch the, watch a whole bunch of comedies on there.
I usually fall asleep with the odd couple TV series or Dick Van Dyke or two and a half men or
King of Queen, something like that on there.
I fall asleep to it and I'm off in La La Land.
When somebody asks you how you've been,
is your go-to answer?
Fine.
Even if things have been terrible.
Yep, everyone does it.
70% of people say they go on autopilot,
mainly because it's easier than explaining what a rotten day you're having.
Jesus, say fine.
Who wants to go into a litany of negative things going out in your life?
You could just say fine.
And as the end of that.
That's the way I feel anyway.
Let's see if I have time for this.
Yeah, I think I have time.
If you haven't started your spring cleaning yet, don't worry.
It's not spring yet.
Spring is the 19th of March this year, by the way.
It's not the 21st, 19th.
Got a few more days until that timer officially starts ticking.
So what do you want to clean first?
And for the people say they need at least two weeks to get all their spring cleaning done.
This is what's on our to-do list.
Deep cleaning the bathroom.
Always a good idea.
Cleaning out the fridge.
You know, some of that stuff that expired last November and December should probably be gone.
Organizing the garage, cleaning out the pantry, mowing the lawn.
I guess you do it once a year.
It's a good idea.
But mowing right now probably wouldn't help.
Organizing the basement or attic.
That's my wife does always organizing that basement.
Raking leaves, pruning bushes, planting new flowers for spring and pulling weeds.
We have two giant box gardens.
She'll be doing that real soon.
But the other day she was out there.
Taking trash from what was in the corner of the yard that we emptied out during the winter.
And cleaning it out.
She started her spring cleaning the other day in the backyard.
And I watched.
It's a little bit I watched.
I don't want her to see I'm watching because she sees I'm watching to say can you help me?
I don't want to do it.
All right.
Coming up today.
Sunshine with a high near 45.
I'm a clean scotch and I'd lose 38.
Partly sunny tomorrow with a high near 54.
Increasing cloudy this Sunday with a high near 39.
Partly cloudy 36 degrees right now at home town radio refreshed WRJN.
In London, Lawnn and Yone, I dream of one living in wonder thinking of you.
Still looking for ways too uncover the truth.
Your so young is all they can say.
They don't know.
If I could change the way I'm the one, I'd be your girl.
Too many walls have been built in between us.
Too many dreams have been shattered around us.
If I seem to give up, you'll never win.
Deep in my heart.
I know the strength is within.
Watching the others chances you find.
They'll never discover it's feeling dry.
Deep inside, I'm falling apart.
All the love with a broken heart.
Thinking that I love is only allowed.
These words didn't fool come.
They never be found.
All these dreams, one day will be mine.
They crossed my mind.
It's 622 and WRNCN Radio.
hometown radio overfressed a civic media station.
Sunshine today with a high air 45.
A clear sky tonight lows around 38.
I'm Don Rosen.
Thanks for joining us here on this Friday morning.
The Iads of March.
Watch your back today.
You know what happened back in ancient Rome, right?
You'll see if there wasn't paying attention.
Got it right in the back and the front.
I think you had it on the all sides.
I think everybody just stabbed him to death.
Boy, they really went after him.
Make sure he wasn't going to talk anymore.
All right.
It's time for some more real news this morning.
The real wake-up news.
Odd but true.
There was an episode.
I think I saw this one.
An episode of Tom and Jerry of the cartoon.
In 1956, where Tom and Jerry were both very depressed over losing their girlfriends.
They sat on the train tracks together to commit suicide.
And the episode ends with a sound of a train barreling toward them.
That was actually into Tom and Jerry cartoon.
And I think I remember seeing that one years ago.
It was kind of shocking because that's a cartoon you're supposed to feel good after those things are over.
Hollywood writer producer says the recent TV characters don't usually have cats is because they're hard to train.
And they're hard to corral and they don't need them running all over the set.
And because they'll look like magical teleporting cats when they edit the scenes together because the cat will be there.
Then the cat won't be there.
Where dogs could be told to sit and stay and train.
The cats tend to want to do what they want to do when they want to do it.
And that's why you don't see them.
All right.
For not too bright people, these are people that really aren't that smart.
Man in Florida caught with cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and meth.
They caught it because you made an illegal U-turn right in front of a police officer.
You know, when I watch these cop shows on TV, like on patrol live on Friday and Saturday nights,
I say to myself, if you have all these drugs in your car, make sure your tail lights are working, your headlights are working, don't speed.
And behave yourself on the road because that's how they stop these people.
Then they bring out the dog and the dog finds drugs in the car and the rest of this history.
They're in jail for years.
They're just so stupid.
That's what we call this segment, not too bright.
And it continues.
A woman in Florida arrested.
This happened last Saturday afternoon.
She allegedly shot a neighbor in the face with a water pistol.
She got the jail for that.
All right.
That's our not too bright segment.
We could probably do this for two hours in the morning.
People are in too bright.
All right.
If you're late for work all the time, here are three ways to break that habit.
You ready?
Stop planning for the best case scenario for your commute.
Stop trying to do one more thing before you leave the house.
And if you get to work 15 minutes early, don't think of it as 50 minutes of less sleep.
Think of it as 50 minutes to get organized.
I always get here at least a half hour early in the morning.
I like to get organized, get everything set up, get my weather in order,
get all my stories in order, get everything in order, then I can relax.
And about 10 to 15 minutes before the microphone is open, I sit here and just relax,
get my mind together, and it feels better.
Unlike the people on the road who are my tail because they're late for work in the morning
because they didn't plan out like I do.
Now, I have a drop dead time when I have to leave the house.
And the drop dead time is 20 minutes after five.
It takes me 10 minutes to get here.
I live 10 minutes away.
But I have a drop dead time in the morning and that's 20 minutes after five.
I don't want to leave after that.
But I always relax in the morning.
I get up at 4.30, either shower or shower the night before.
And I have a small breakfast, bite breakfast, and watch a little bit of the news.
And then slowly leave the house.
I'm telling you, it's really nice when you don't have to rush.
Sir, we found the biggest mistake you can make on a first date.
I'm so glad I'm out of the dating pool.
At the top five are forgetting the person's name, mid date, eating like a pig,
being late counting calories at the table, or being late, counting calories at the table
in front of your date and chewing with your mouth open.
I dated this woman for six months and I never knew her last name.
Because I never asked, her first name was Nora, but they called her Ginger.
So it took me a while to find out her name was Nora.
But we all called a Ginger, but I didn't know her last name.
But after a few weeks go by, now you're embarrassed to ask.
So I was one day she left the room for a minute,
and I'm looking through the mail owner to see if I can find a last name.
And there were a lot of occupant person with this address.
They didn't have her name on it.
I found out what her name was, spelling wise, but I never knew how to pronounce it.
It was spelled like Dishave, or Dishavi, or Dishavi.
I didn't know how to say it.
So when I introduced her, I just introduced her as Ginger, her first name.
This is back in the 70s.
And I never knew, and to this day I don't know what her last name is.
I'm not even sure if she goes by Nora Ginger anymore.
I never looked since the 70s.
But yeah, that's kind of scary when you don't know somebody's name.
They need to embarrass us.
You know, I'm by the way, we've been dating six months.
What's your name?
You imagine asking people that.
That's terrible.
All right.
60% of us have dropped our phone right on our face when we're laying down.
13% of us have walked into something because we were staring down to their cell phones.
You see those videos online that people walking right into a wall or into a fountain at a shopping mall.
I hear the worst chores according to a survey.
You ready?
Cleaning the oven.
Cleaning the toilets, washing windows.
And here are the ones we actually don't mind doing that much.
Wiping down the counters, mopping up and vacuuming.
When I was a janitor, you know, I had to clean everything.
And toilets, the whole works.
I never, you know, once you clean one thing, I had to clean them all.
But the people were set swabs in the building.
I worked for was a three-story office building.
It was a radio station, but we had three stories.
And we had about one, two, three bathrooms.
And we went four bathrooms.
Now three bathrooms.
And I had to clean them all every day.
And people were just swabs.
And we allowed smoking in the building at the time.
It was early 70s.
And I'm constantly washing down these desks with cigarette ashes on them.
People were just terrible.
They'd leave their lunch and they're half eaten chewed lunch in the garbage.
And I had to look at that and have to do that out.
But I'll tell you something.
And of all the jobs I've had in my life, I had the most fun at that job.
I had the keys to the kingdom, keys to everybody's office.
I loved it.
A lot of power in that.
I moved to radio refresh the Civic Media Station, WRJM, 99.0.9 FM, 98.1 FM, and Kinocha,
1,400 AM everywhere, 629, WRJM.
Whenever there's a plane crash in this country, the news media
love to use the term miracle.
Don't think like if a plane crash isn't known as killed,
they see it was a miracle that no one was killed.
If a plane crash isn't a few people are killed, they see it was a miracle that more people aren't killed.
If a plane crash isn't there's only one survivor,
they see it was a miracle that that person survived.
If a plane crash isn't everybody is killed, they see it was a miracle that the plane just missed
hitting that warehouse on the ground.
If the plane hits the warehouse, they see it was a miracle that didn't hit an hour earlier
when it was crowded with people.
It hits it when it's crowded with people and everybody is killed.
They go and find that guy that missed the flight by five minutes.
They see it was a miracle that you got a flat tire in the way to the airport.
Maybe that one plane just disappeared a couple years ago.
They're Malaysian thing.
I don't have a fear of flying, but I do have a fear of just disappearing something.
Where's Dennis?
Nobody knows.
He was sitting in that chair a couple of months ago.
Nobody's seen him since.
Every hour, every day.
It'll be a heartbeat.
There's your name.
Loud and clear days.
Thank my friend.
Am I red?
No one's true to.
And every heartbeat belongs to you.
Classic case of boy meets girl.
Moving in the same direction.
You're not asking for the world.
I'm not asking for perfection.
Just a love that's well designed.
For passing just the time.
I'm here to tell you I'm here to stay.
Every hour, every day.
It'll be a heartbeat.
There's your name.
Loud and clear days.
Thank my friend.
Ask anyone and they'll tell you it's true.
And every heartbeat belongs to you.
It'll be a heartbeat.
There's your name.
Loud and clear days.
Thank my friend.
Am I red?
No one's true to.
And every heartbeat belongs to you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yes, maybe I'm on the edge, but I'll be on the edge.
Baby, I'll be passing.
I'll give you, tell you I'm here to stay.
Every hour, every day.
It'll be a heartbeat.
There's your name.
Good morning at 7.30 a 67 38.
I'm still on standard time.
6.38 W.R.J. and Radio.
Hormtown Radio.
Refressed Pacific Media Station.
I'm Don Rosen.
Thank you, joining us.
It's going to be a beautiful sunny day today.
Right now, the sun is almost trying to get up over Lake Michigan.
It's fighting it.
But I think it'll be there real soon.
Eisner 45 degrees.
A clear sky tonight.
Lows around 38.
Partly sunny tomorrow with a high near 54.
Sunday increasing clouds.
Eisner 39.
Partly cloudy 36 right now.
The Badgers take on the Wildcats.
It's Wisconsin Northwestern for the Big Ten Tournament.
12.30 today on W.R.J. and Radio.
Let's say hello to business and the business manager
for their Racine Public Library.
Evelyn Garcia.
Hi Evelyn.
Hi.
How are you this morning?
Pretty good.
Thank you for having me.
We're talking about running late and she was scampering in.
She wasn't late.
But she, you know, was scampering you.
Like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Who's talking about being late?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
You were late.
Let's talk about a little bit about yourself before we talk about the library.
I was like to know the people we're talking to.
So you've been on parole for how long?
No.
Right.
I like the people's reaction today.
So how long have you been out?
No.
You came to this country when you were five years old.
That is correct.
So I am an immigrant from Mexico.
I was born in Mexico City.
I joined the city every seeing about 10 years ago.
And recently moved into my current role as a business manager for the library.
My brother went to a wedding in Mexico City a couple of years ago.
I said, that's where the wedding is.
They took in Mexico City.
It's expensive.
They already go down there, put up for hotels and everything.
It was nice.
We went down there for the wedding.
I mean, I complained when I have to go to cut a hay for a wedding.
I'm gripping all the way up there.
Okay.
So did you speak the language when you came here?
I'll speak English.
No, I did not.
So I learned the language.
I actually started off.
We lived in Kenosha.
So we were we resided and lived in Kenosha for many years.
And then about 15 years ago, I moved to the city every seeing.
So no, I did not speak the language.
I learned it at school.
Because like I said, I got here when I was five.
Wow.
You know, people always tell me someone with an accent can always speak one more language than you can.
And I always remembered that.
I tried to learn Spanish.
I took six years of Spanish, two years in four years in high school, two years in college.
And all our members, Albundigosses, meatballs, and I learned some phrases.
I just couldn't grasp it.
And my Spanish teacher said to me, the problem is you're trying to translate in your head
while you're talking.
That's why it's taking you so long.
You're thinking of the sentence that you say, well, it's in English.
It means this.
You can't translate this word here.
You can't do that.
You have to just know what the word means in your head and said, you're not doing that.
I could see your eyes rolling all over the place trying to think of what it is in English
and then read it.
I couldn't grasp it.
So anybody with an accent, I prayed you could speak one more language than I can.
Okay.
So what brought you to the Racine Public Library?
So, well, first off, it's the, what sparked my interest is the fact that, you know, I love learning.
Learning is, in my nature.
And when I saw the opportunity, I jumped at it.
I actually also jived into accounting, aspect of it, but it's actually more than just accounting.
It's more of a community work, a lot of literature.
And as you can tell, I'm not only doing accounting, we do also fundraising, and I also help with programming.
So, actually what got me started is just my love for books.
And the library we found out is a heck of a lot more than books.
Every time I have somebody from the Racine Public Library here, I, I, what?
You have that too?
Yes.
You have video game learning.
You've got computer learning.
You've got all this stuff going on there.
I said you still have books.
Oh, you've got books.
But it's so much more.
When I was a kid, the library was books, and that's it.
We had record albums, which I never returned some of them.
I still have them at home.
Now they probably want them back, because vinyl's back again.
But it's so much more.
So you handle the business affairs for the library, and that wouldn't tell you what?
The business affairs entails everything from a const payable, a const receivable, managing.
And I also do maintenance with the throughout the building.
I don't actually do the maintenance itself, but I do assist with that.
And some of the projects, the biggest projects that we took on is the second floor renovation,
which was a 2.5 million renovation that we did.
I don't know if you've been to the library.
Yeah, long ago, all the time.
I'm your best customer.
Oh, that's awesome.
Great to see.
And we haven't seen you.
But yeah, so that's the latest and greatest project that I have taken on,
which was just helping out with a second floor renovation.
I found out you mentioned using the word janitor, but maintenance and so forth.
The most important man or woman in the building is the maintenance person to tell you why.
They got the keys to the kingdom.
When I was a janitor at 18 years old at a radio station, everybody wanted to be my friend,
because I had the keys to the manager's office.
And they all said, have you seen anything on his desk when you're cleaning in there,
which I had, you know, so a lot of stuff going through there.
So the most important person in that building, the keys to the kingdom.
So how does the library get money?
I mean, you don't do book finds anymore.
I don't think you do those.
How does money come in because people don't have to pay for anything?
That is correct.
So because people don't pay for anything, we do things like fundraising.
We also have stores, online stores at the square.
And we sell merch merchandise.
And so we count on people's generosity and also contributions from the city and from the county.
So that's how we make money.
So what kind of fundraising you have coming up?
So right now we don't have anything coming up.
We just lately had the Winter Fund Razor.
Yeah, how does that go?
How do you raise funds for a library?
So we try to develop, like, either a gathering and we ask the community to come in.
Nick Domsky, who right now is our interim executive director.
He actually gets calls out to those who out in the community,
puts calls out in the community and tries to get buy-in from them on different programs that we have.
Like bus passes.
We have, we offer services through our social worker.
I'm trying to think what else.
We also do the...
But it costs a lot of money to run a library.
It's not cheap.
Do you get taxpayer funds at all?
Yes, we get.
Yes, we get taxpayers funds.
We get taxpayer funds and county funds as well.
Yeah, because that can't be cheap running a library.
First of all, you have to have very learned personnel working there.
Number two, you have such a maintenance of a huge, you know, not only the books,
but you've got all the equipment in the building,
and you have to keep upgrading it because you can't just let it, you know,
we'd still be with a gramophone in the library and update.
That is right.
With so little cassettes.
Yeah.
We're still listening to.
So you've got to constantly upgrade this thing.
And it just keeps growing.
And glad it keeps growing.
And I never knew how much it was growing
until everybody from the library is coming in here to tell me about,
oh, you've got this program.
We work with young people on PlayStation.
Really?
Maybe I just need lessons on PlayStation.
I'm still working on the Pong game.
It'd be a reasonable one.
So I did this Super Mario Brothers.
I was very good at that one.
So you have nothing coming up right now.
No fundraisers now.
So what else is your responsibility to the library?
So my responsibility, like I said,
with the programming, I currently handle the Roughreaders program.
Yeah, and what is that?
So the Roughreaders program is a program
where kindergarteners through fifth graders come into the Monday through Thursday
from 4 to 4.45.
There is 15-minute intervals.
And they come and read to a non-judgmental dog, a rough pal.
And we currently have...
A real dog?
Yes, a real dog.
Yes, a real dog.
So these are therapy certified dogs.
And we have about seven of them right now on a roster.
And you just set up your appointment.
Your child comes in, reads to them.
They don't judge you.
They just look at you.
And it's just a phenomenal program.
Well, my parents never read to me when I was a kid.
I don't remember them ever doing it.
My brother did.
And to this day, my wife reads to me.
We have a couple of books at home.
And we go through them.
And we're going to bed at night.
She'll pull out the book and read to me.
Because I'd like it better when she reads to me.
I don't know why.
And she's such a good reader, too.
I mean, she puts the inflections in there.
And she doesn't stumble over words.
And when there's a picture, she says, here, look.
You know, I used to hold the book to the kid.
So I'm in the picture.
But right now, we're reading a book from Carol G. and Forte,
who is the...
She's one of the historians in Racine.
She puts on shows with Jim Racine at the Golden Rondell Theatre.
And the history of Racine from the 50s and 60s.
She does those shows all the time.
And they come in here once a month.
And she wrote this book about growing up on Carlisle Avenue.
Forteen...
I forget the name of the address because it's the name of the book.
And we actually drove past the house, saw the house.
And her neighbor's house.
And the book is all about growing up in that house.
I love it.
I was crying the other day.
The horrible story.
And then the horrible.
It was a sad story.
And it was tearing up.
Listen to this thing.
I can't wait to talk to you.
It was coming in next week or the week after next.
I could ask you some questions about that.
But my wife reads to me and I love that.
I mean, it's...
And I think when you read the kids too, it's...
You get them involved.
Yes, you do.
You do.
So we do have also a program called Story Time.
And that's at 10 a.m.
And that's also for the little kids.
And we do have some awesome librarians, Keiko Ali.
Yeah, Keiko was in here.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah, she was in here showing some of the Japanese...
I would say the...
Callography.
Is that my thing?
That right?
Callography.
I know that word.
I said it a million times.
I went out of my head.
I have a picture of her showing me some of this stuff.
Oh, she's a very nice lady.
Very nice.
Okay, so that's the dog.
Read the book.
Or you just read to the dog.
We just read to the dog.
I wish, you know, that the dog could read to us, but we...
That's smart as the sound.
Yes, yes, yes.
No, they just read to the dog.
And...
Who's dog is it?
So we have different owners, volunteers...
Okay.
...come in.
And in order to book a call, book a service, you can always call...
...our 266-666-9217 number.
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Evelyn Garcia is here.
The business manager for the Receive Public Library.
Let's give a shout out to all these dogs.
You said they have the Rough Readers Program.
It's like...
Rough Readers Program.
You say it like that.
Where you read the dogs.
That is correct.
And you make them a little smarter.
Yes.
And eventually these dogs then go on the road and start reciting what they heard.
Okay.
Why don't you give a plug to these animals here because they're very nice.
They sit there.
They listen.
And they probably don't want to be there.
But anyway, why don't you give a plug to some of the...
Sure.
And the people who own the dog.
Oh, definitely, definitely.
So we have some of our rough pals.
We have Tundra, Merlin, Ziba, Zoe, Snowy, Princess Luna, Georgia, and Tula.
So big shout out to all of their dog, their owners.
They are actually phenomenal.
I mean, they commit their time.
And they come in volunteer.
They do this for free.
And if we have anybody out there that would like to join our team, just give us a call.
And we will definitely add them to our roster.
They just have to be certified.
They'll be certified dogs.
And they don't bite.
They don't bite.
No, they do not.
They actually sit there and listen to the children, read the stories.
And it's amazing.
What kind of dogs are they?
So we've got different...
We've got from...
I think some of them are boxers.
We've got...
German Shepherd.
And they just sit there.
They just sit there.
Yeah.
And you had a few pretty him treats.
I believe they do feed him treats.
But until after they are done listening to the story.
You know, one of the people who worked for Civic Media just got a puppy yesterday.
Brand new dog.
And I believe I know what that dog said to when he first brought it home.
The dog said, let's get something straight from the get-go.
I don't want to see any treats broken in half.
I got the whole treat.
I don't get half a treat.
So that's the rough readers problem.
What day of the week is that?
So that is Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 4.45.
15 minute intervals.
And like I said, this is for children who are from kindergarten to fifth graders.
And they can call to book in schedule at 636-9217 to the session.
Any type of book that they want to read to the dog.
Oh, they pick out the books to kids.
Oh, that's kind of neat.
Yes.
Man, I kind of feel like sneaking into them.
Because I love when people read to me.
I'm not a big reader, which I read.
But I like when people read to me.
They sit there and relax and picture it out of the work.
I could just sit there and listen.
That sounds great.
What about this lunch break at the library?
I just food.
Yes.
So actually, we're kicking it off on May 22nd.
And this does go through September 11th.
And it's lunch break at the library on Wednesdays from 11 to 1 p.m.
We are looking for vendors, food vendors that would like to join our team.
Are these a trucks?
Yes.
Oh, they have food trucks.
Yes.
So we're changing it a little bit and not only making it to just food trucks,
but also opening it up to those who also have tents and so forth.
So we're trying to get food vendors.
Currently, we only have two vendors signed up for,
and we have hidden grilled cheese and blue badgered grill.
Oh, we got to get more food, right?
There's food trucks everywhere.
Everywhere.
I go to Monards to see a food truck in the parking lot.
I go to, right in the corner there on Highway 20 and Ohio.
There's a food truck.
They have food trucks everywhere.
I see the Pecos try.
Hey, Pecos, if you're listening, get your food truck to the library.
There's, you know, you charge for the food, right?
No.
Well, they charge for the food, but we don't charge for them to come to our establishment.
Okay.
So you're getting free rent by bringing your food truck and you make money,
and they'll publicize it for you.
If you have got a food truck like Pecos, I see there are trucks all over the place
and I love Pecos, my favorite restaurant.
Get out there with your food truck to the public library.
Get out and get your other food trucks out there and load up the entire parking lot
with food trucks or make a ton of money.
And you're doing something nice for the people overseeing.
You do something nice for the library.
That is correct.
So if anybody's interested, please call us at 636-917-0.
And we would sign you up for a date and get your rolling.
And where did you see that phone?
Oh, there it is.
No, I don't see it.
Oh, yeah, 917-0.
Yes.
Right in front of my face here.
But you need to save a food safety permit.
That is correct.
That is correct.
So they would have to get their food safety permit from the city of Racine.
We ask for it a week or two before they are scheduled to come in on a Wednesday.
That's pretty neat.
There's so many food trucks out there.
I can't believe they wouldn't want to show up.
Maybe they don't know about it.
Yeah, I mean, we've been sending out marketing flyers and so on.
Flyers and so forth.
But we have not gotten the response that we are looking for.
Now you'll get it now.
Come on.
All the food truck people have.
They're all over the place.
There was a story heard on the radio.
One of the employees at the radio station at a wedding with food trucks.
But it was only one food truck.
And you had like 200 people at the wedding.
Yeah, I know it doesn't work well.
Because they can have so much food in that truck prepared.
And people waiting two hours for their food.
It was a great idea on paper.
It just didn't work out for a wedding.
But yeah, we went to a thing at...
Oh, where was it?
It was a manufacturing plant.
They had like an open house for families and friends.
And they had all these food trucks outside.
So free.
Which was great.
You know, you just walk out to the food truck order, whatever you want.
I love food trucks.
I love those things.
All right.
Let's give that phone number again here.
It's 262-636-917-262-636-917.
And get your food truck out to the library.
Stay here.
And don't leave yet.
Evelyn Garcia is here from the Received Public Library.
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