The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

I'm looking forward to Halloween.

Man, I love it, because I'm big now,

and I can beat up kids and get their candy.

What?

Because I was small, I almost died trick-or-treating.

I almost died trick-or-treating, because I had asthma.

And you know your parents bought you that cheap mask.

The cheap plastic one.

You can barely breathe in it.

And that band in the back of your head

making your bleed through your skull.

And you know what I can't hear you saying trick-or-treating.

And how much air did they give us in the mask?

That little slot?

And you stick your tongue, huh?

And then you would cut your tongue, because that was razor sharp.

And they say it's that.

Races in the apples.

No, it's your mask!

Music

We choose it when our love is in it.

Love is never quite the same.

I love you, my love is still.

Don't be a bad, you're not too late.

So please be good-bye.

And I'll cry not to cry.

All those years you've known, won't change your mind.

There's someone who is free to leave for you.

Soon your heart will leave you alive.

We, the love, the love, where you smile.

Get 7-0-8 at WRJN Radio.

I'm Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining me here on this Friday, the Iads of March.

You know what happened on the Iads of March?

An ancient Roman this day?

Julius Caesar got it from the back.

The entire Roman Senate had knives and they stabbed him every one of them.

Happened on the Iads of March.

March 15th.

So watch your back today.

You don't want history to repeat itself.

Careful.

Evelyn Garcia is here, business manager for the Racine Public Library.

Thank you for coming in this morning, by the way.

Appreciate it.

We're listening about those Halloween masks.

I mean, they are so true.

Put those things they can't breathe in them for one thing.

They give you two little dots to breathe out of it.

If you nose doesn't line up with those dots, forget it.

And that little tiny hole by the mouthpiece, people stuck their tongue

and then they get their tongue stuck in there and they can't get it out.

Do you have any good Halloween stories when you were a kid?

No, I do not.

I don't even have good Halloween stories for my children.

So no, I don't.

When I was a trick-or-treater in New York, we allowed trick-or-treating

started the minute you woke up in the morning and ended when you went to sleep at night.

There were no hours.

You just trick-or-treated all day long.

And if it was a weekend, whoa!

But if it was a weekday, you trick-or-treated on the way to school

when you got out of your trick-or-treat until midnight.

There was this woman in our block one year.

She was giving on apples.

Okay.

But we had paper bags and she dropped the apple right through the box.

Now my candy fell out.

I felt like saying, hey, stupid.

Let me get into my bag.

So now I had to gather it up, put it in my pockets, go home, get another bag.

We had a guy in our block who worked for Nabisco.

And he got all the expired boxes of cookies.

And he had boxes of them in his living room up to the ceiling.

And he handed out full boxes of Oreo cookies, adding all these Nabisco cookies.

And you know, look back now and say, well, they were expired.

Who cares?

They were Oreo cookies.

That's how we got them.

They were going to throw them out so we gave them to us instead.

Then there was the person in the neighborhood.

Here's a penny for you.

Here's a penny for you.

What am I going to do with a penny?

You can't do anything with a penny.

What are you going to do with it?

They give those those out.

And the most horrible thing that ever happened in my life.

I was counter-accular one year.

I had the cape and everything.

And it was a cold day.

My mother made me wear a winter jacket over my costume.

So I couldn't see anything.

So she said, well, you know what's under there.

I said, but can't see.

And I had this great Dracula cape and the Dracula thing on my head and all this stuff.

And I had to wear a winter coat.

And so I went around trick-a-treating.

And people said, who are you?

I said, I'm Dracula.

You know, look like Dracula.

Thanks, mom.

Scarred.

That was when I was about eight or nine years old.

And I never forgot that.

My mother used to bring up to me all the time.

All these things I did.

You never forgot them.

No, mom.

I never forgot them.

Scarred for life.

You maybe wear that coat over my Dracula.

You wear a warm Dracula.

Yeah, but I didn't want to be warm.

I wanted to be Dracula.

And she said, let's call it outside.

There's one other thing she did to me real quick.

I gave it to myself, my chest.

I was in one fourth of July parade in my life.

Do you ever see the movie Born on the Fourth of July with Tom Cruise?

He played a guy named Ron Covick in that movie Born on the Fourth of July.

It opens up with a fourth of July parade in Massa Pico.

Where Ron Covick lived right near our house and opened up with the fourth of July parade.

I was in that fourth of July parade one year, not the one in the movie, but I was in it.

And it was in a little league.

And the little league was the last thing in the parade.

And they did it according to standings in the parade.

And so our team was last because the coach had his son pitch and he couldn't pitch.

And then they did from smalls to tallest.

And I was the tallest.

So I was the last person in the entire two and a half hour parade.

Now all the kids are wearing jeans and their baseball shirts.

My mother made me wear dress slacks, dress shoes and a dress shirt.

I mean, I looked like the business manager for the little league.

Like I was there accountant.

I was doing the kids taxes.

They made me dress up like I never forgot that either.

Isn't that funny?

And she maybe went on a camping trip.

My only camping trip up to Bear Mountain and upstate New York once.

She made me wear, she in my, my naps actually put dress shoes and dress slacks and a dress shirt.

What do you think I was going out to a wedding or some kind of event up there?

I was going camping in the woods.

And she put that stuff in the bag.

And when I opened it up, I said, well, what am I going to do with dress shoes up here?

I'm in the woods in the middle of nowhere.

I love my mom, but I remember those things.

My mother went set to me after I brought it up.

She said, I was such a terrible parent.

I said, well, you are.

You make me wear dress slacks in the fourth of the life parade.

Love my mother.

Ready for some news headlines?

Sure.

Okay, and then we'll talk more about the library.

It took about an hour to clean up after a crash at Green Bay Road and 165 in Kenosha County last night.

Four people injured in a two car collision at around 9 p.m.

Lesson Perry police say a northbound Toyota Corolla bailed a yield to a southbound Jeep while attempting to turn onto 165.

The crash resulted in injuries to the Corolla's driver and two passengers.

A passenger in the Jeep also suffered suspected broken ribs.

It's a new start for receiving St. Patrick State parade tomorrow.

Over 2,000 people are part of the procession that starts at State Street and Maine in the downtown area.

The floats, dance troops and community organizations will go south on Maine making a turn on the 6th street and end up near City Hall.

Parking is available at the Lake Avenue ramp Civic Center ramp or at the...

What's it?

The NYNM.

Any pronounce it?

McMahon.

McMahon.

McMahon.

Anybody has another ramp.

You ever see the movie Animal House?

No.

Now, there's a big parade and the guys from Animal House redirect the parade down to Dead End Street.

So they're all walking into this wall and they keep going and going.

There's more people piling up and that's what I picture when I think it parades.

And don't be alarmed by activity and gateway and connoction tomorrow.

The school is hosting a simulated disaster training event starting at 8 a.m.

Officials say the simulation will enable students from various programs to apply their acquired skills in a series of training activities.

Centered around a simulated gasoline crisis scenario.

The students will practice triage care coordinating with emergency service personnel and prioritizing patient safety.

Those are the stories.

Stuart J. Wattles in our new center is watching for us this morning.

I'll have updates about the day along with other news stories right here at WRGN Radio.

Talk about the renovation of the library.

Now, I hate to say it, but you guys took advantage of COVID when the library was closed.

I hate to say perfect timing or just perfect timing.

And you renovated the library, beautiful renovation.

If you haven't done in there in the last year or so and a lot of people haven't.

I mean, it's just gorgeous in there now.

You guys built new things all over the place.

That is correct.

So the second floor now has a teen room and has also the innovation lab.

And we also added two study rooms.

And we have the business center, who is also up for rent.

And people can come and have their gatherings there.

And we also have the...

There is another room.

I'm trying to think what it's called.

I can't think of the name right now.

But there is also another room up there that allows you to come in.

And do like all your homework, has printers, has stations so that you can just bring in your laptops.

So yeah, so we have two new rooms.

We also have the BBC collection.

I don't know if you've heard.

So the BBC collection is books and beyond.

Hey, and so that's where we have like sewing machines.

We've got...

I'm trying to think what else we have.

We've got puzzles.

We've got Nintendo games.

I know this isn't just books anymore.

Nope, it's not.

It's not.

And this summer, just as last summer, we have seed at the library.

So we have like a...

On the second floor, we have a station where people can come in and grab their seeds to grow their stuff.

And here in the...

Real seeds.

Yes, real seeds.

Real seeds.

You can come in and get your packets.

Wow, okay.

Yeah.

And in the future, we are having a tower garden.

Once we are up and running, where you can come in and I'm not sure what it's going to entail,

but at least we'll have a tower garden that will allow you to grow your seeds.

And you also were giving out the park passes, state park passes.

Yes, yes, last summer.

Are you giving that again this year?

I am not sure.

I am unsure I haven't heard.

That was great.

Yeah.

You get so much stuff.

You walk into the library and you don't realize all the free...

That's why everything is free there.

But you don't realize the free giveaways you guys do all the time there.

Yes.

And plus, if you don't get their newsletter, you should because it just details everything

in those newsletters.

Who puts that together?

Did a nice job on it.

So that would be the marketing team, which...

Wow.

Looks good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I had a business development.

So they put that together.

Well, in the next break, Rick, I want to talk about where the money is going that you

raised.

It's back to fundraising and how people can donate because you don't have to donate.

But you know, this is your public library and make it grow.

I mean, it's for your kids and for you and the future.

And I spend every day at the library when I was right near my house, so I was able to

do it.

But I still love going there.

Plus, you know what's really neat?

If you want to grab a book or something in a magazine, you can sit in these nice chairs

overlooking Lake Michigan.

The picture windows cover the lake.

Yes.

It's so relaxing.

The view is beautiful.

Yeah, you're cool.

There you are.

And there's no charge to get in.

That's the best part of all.

All right.

It's going to be sunny today.

It's going to be beautiful over those picture windows as watching over Lake Michigan today.

Highs near 45 degrees.

Clear sky tonight.

Lose 38 right now.

Part of cloudy.

36 degrees.

Don't forget the Badgers.

Take on the Wildcats.

Wisconsin versus Northwestern.

1230 today.

Here at WRJM.

It was anything that you want.

If there's anything I can do, just call on me, and I'll send it along with love from

me to you.

I've got everything that you want, like a heart that I'm so true.

Child, call on me, and I'll send it along with love from me to you.

I've got on the long to hold you, and keep you by my side, and I live the long to kiss

you.

And keep you satisfied.

There's anything that you want.

If there's anything I can do, just call on me, and I'll send it along with love from

me to you.

To you, just call on me, and I'll send it along with love from me to you.

I've got on the long to hold you, and keep you by my side, and I live the long to kiss

you.

And keep you satisfied.

There's anything that you want.

If there's anything I can do, just call on me, and I'll send it along with love from

me to you.

It's 722 at WRJM Radio, hometown radio refresh, Pacific Media Station.

Evelyn Garcia, who's the business manager for the receding public library.

I didn't know this, but you could rent rooms out at the library.

It is correct, so we have a couple of different rooms that if you have a meeting, if you're

planning a meeting, you want a space, just give us a call at 636-917-0, and a two-book

of room.

And if people want to donate to the library, they can do that as well.

Most definitely.

How do you do that?

So you can go online at recenepubliclibrary.info, or you can go to our PayPal.com.

And donate money through there.

So we do have QR codes throughout the library so that you can just scan it, and you're just

right into our page.

I am so out of the loop on QR code.

In the movie theaters now, sometimes they'll put a QR code on the screen.

It's the only time you can bring your phone out, and people hold it up.

I see all these phones come out.

They hold it up to the screen.

You get the website automatically shows up on there.

So if I donate, where does the money go?

What do you do with it?

So we have different things that we assign donations to.

We have helped.

So the money goes to the foundation.

Our foundation is considered a 501c3.

And this foundation supplements the library's tax funding.

And we help fund some programs like the tech mobile.

But the tech mobile is a smaller version of the book mobile.

I don't know if you're familiar with the book mobile.

So the tech mobile is pretty much a smaller version and has all the technology.

So that tech mobile can be booked and it can go to your events.

So Melissa Donaldson, who you've had here in the past, is the one that handles the tech mobile.

We've also helped out with the summer reading programs.

We helped out with the second floor staircase and trainings technology.

So anything that's a higher level type of contribution that is needed to supplement our city's funding,

that's what the foundation is there for.

Do you have people leaving stuff in their wills?

Yes.

So we have something like if there's bequest.

So if people leave trust funds, then we just continue to manage those and use the income

to whatever specifics the will says.

You know, I already notified the library.

I will be leaving something.

Now, I don't have wealth.

I can't leave my rubies and my emeralds, which I don't have.

But I do have a DVD Blu-ray collection that is just superb.

And what I happen there is every movie that was ever released in the process of cinema,

including all the travel logs that became available.

And these are the travel logs that were shot and filmed with three projectors at one time.

And it was shown on a cinema screen.

I think the closest cinema theater have a Southgate here.

It was a big 150 degree curved screen.

And back in the late 50s, early 60s, they showed movies like 2001, Space Odyssey, and cinema.

And all these big movies.

But the travel logs were done with three projectors.

How the West was one was one of the three projector films.

And I have in the Smile Vision, every cinema film that was ever made in a Blu-ray DVD collection.

And some of the ones that are out of print now.

And I said to the library, when I go, you get them.

The only thing you can have is my son wants my movie, Let It Be, The Beetle Movie.

It was released by United Artists back in 1970.

It was put on CBS Fox Video, Magnetic Home Video, Put It Out, until Yoko Ono put the brakes on it.

Because she said, you don't have the rights to put that music out.

So they stopped.

So whatever copies went out there in the early 80s, I got one.

I bought it on eBay.

It's in the original box.

And I have it.

And my son said, I want it.

And all right, you can have that one.

Everything else goes to the library if they want it.

I'll let them pick and choose.

So you got another minute here.

Tell people what you need from them.

If it comes to funding, we've got the food trucks.

Let's do a wrap up for people that are just joining us here now.

Sure.

So if you have to talk to anybody right now, and you want them to donate to the library and help out,

tell them again how they can do it.

Sure.

So this can be done in different forms.

You can come into your donation in person.

Use one of our QR codes.

Go online at Racine.

Library.info.

I lost it, right?

It's like, oh my god.

There are just too many to remember.

Yes, yes, yes.

Racine Library.info.

Click donations in any little contribution helps.

Like I said, we do take living trust.

We do beneficiaries of your retirement, IRAs.

Required minimum distributions towards at the end of the year.

So anything that you want to leave us, it's fine.

We do have different levels of contributions.

We have, if you want a room named under you,

you can give us a $25,000 donation.

And then we have a study room that will be named Don Rosen.

The Don Rosen Laboratory.

There you go.

I kind of like the sound of that.

Yes, so there you go.

Where are you going?

I'm going to the Rosen.

I've got a stomach ache.

I'll be right back in a few minutes.

I have to go to the Rosen.

I'll be right back.

Well, this is just great.

And again, the Roughreaders Program.

Let's talk about that real quickly here.

What do we have?

Sure.

So for the Roughreaders Program, we have Monday through Thursday.

And those are, it's geared for kindergarteners through 5th graders.

And the program runs from 4 p.m. to 445.

15-minute intervals.

And if you'd like to book a session, call 636-9217.

And come and meet one of our rough pals.

We've got eight to choose from.

Now, if somebody wants to bring their dog in,

they'd be read too.

They can do that too.

That is correct.

They can call us at 636-9251.

And if they have a therapy certified dog,

we can get them on the resters.

Well, that's just great.

The latest, the greatest, the library, the public library,

is looking to have you.

This is excellent.

You're such a good person to be working the library because you care.

I mean, that's the one thing you've got to have in a job like this.

You've got to care about it.

It's not like you go into an office job every day.

You've got to care about these because you're dealing with the public.

That is correct.

That's one job I've never had in my life.

I never had a deal with the public.

It's actually pretty nice.

I mean, you get to meet the community.

Yeah.

And meet the community needs.

I've last about nine seconds if I had a deal with the public.

What?

Evelyn Garcia, the business manager from the library.

You will be back here next month.

That is correct.

And hopefully you'll get those food trucks lined up.

Yes, I hope so.

So give us a call, schedule, a date in.

If you've got a food truck, you know somebody with one called the library.

All right?

You've got to get out there.

Plus, you'll make a lot and a lot of money.

And it's rent-free.

Then I'm going to charge you to be there, which is pretty good.

Thank you very much, Evelyn.

Thank you.

Evelyn Garcia.

Coming up with talking movies.

We've brought Hoppen from Marcus Theater.

He's going to find out that we did with the Oscar picks.

I don't think you did that well.

After six hours of school, I had enough of the day.

I hit the radio dial and due to the following.

I got the dance dance dance.

One of the first dance dance dance.

Two of the first dances.

The first dance dance dance dance.

Take a walk by starting morning off with the Beach Boys.

Hit 735 at WRJ and I'm Don Rosenbred Hoffman from Marcus Thaders' here and good morning, Brett.

How are you?

Good morning, doing great.

We're going to see how great you did with your Oscar picks.

And we'll get to the new movies.

Let's talk about the Oscar picks because I just want to,

I can't remember some of these movies you said.

Our best picture you picked was Oppenheimer.

You're correct there, right?

Yep.

Best animated feature.

Now, I know you said the Spider-Verse movie,

but you also said you have a good shot at the boy in the heron,

and that's came out the winner.

Was that a big surprise?

Yeah, well, I think it was a surprise to many.

Like it was a surprise to me because they thought,

but the boy in the heron was,

it's a 2023 Japanese animated film.

It's produced by Studio Ghibli,

which is one of the gold standards in terms of anime films.

And I actually think this is remarkable

because it got exposure to the anime genre,

which is growing and growing and growing.

And I think that says that the anime is here to stay

and we're going to see a lot more of it on the big screen coming up.

So this was kind of groundbreaking to see it win,

but hats off to everyone at Studio Ghibli and the boy in the heron.

Of course, I thought Spider-Man and Spider-Verse were going to win,

but hey, boy in heron is a very good film to check out as well.

Every one of those characters,

every anime film looks exactly the same.

They got the same eyes, the same face, they never change.

It's just like one face fits all for those anime movies.

They never change.

And I have anime features at home from Mr. Rocky.

What's his name?

Oh, I forget the name of the movie I have at home.

It's a really good one.

I think it won an Oscar for something.

Anyway, they all look the same.

Our best director, Christopher Nolan, you pick that, right?

Oppenheimer?

That's right.

All right.

Now, we just read yesterday his take from that movie is up to $100 million.

His personal take,

that's what it is, $100 million in his pocket from that movie.

Best actor, you pick that?

Killian Murphy,

but you also were thinking that maybe Paul Giamatti?

Well, I think he gave it a gave him a dark horse chance.

I think everyone thought that Robert Downey Jr. would win.

And he has.

And again, if you haven't seen Oppenheimer,

we have it at some of our screens this weekend.

You really need to go see it on the big screen.

I realize it's streaming.

I realize out there.

But people really need to see Oppenheimer.

This is a special picture that Chris Nolan basically meant for the big screen.

And Robert Downey Jr. was one of the things the movie that made it just extra special.

So go check that Oppenheimer on the big screen.

Now, here's one.

Everybody got wrong.

Best actress.

Everybody is thinking you'll be a little glanced on for the,

the Martin Scorsese film.

What's the name of that?

Tell us in the comments.

I don't know why we're not in my head there.

Anyway, kills in the fire room.

But it was it was Emma Stone for poor things.

But you also liked that movie.

You said that's got a good shot at it.

Well, yeah, I thought poor things if,

if Oppenheimer was not going to win.

I thought poor things may have a dark horse chance to win.

Of course, for me, this is more of a coin flip.

I pick Lily Gladstone,

but it could have used to be going to have a stone and sure enough.

The Academy wrote it for Emma Stone.

Tremendous performance in poor things.

If you've seen the movie, you know exactly why she had the award.

I think it was a great, great performances by both actresses.

Lily and Emma here.

And Emma did deserve it.

So we'll see that.

But of course, Lily was riding that running as well.

That's supporting actor Robert Downey,

junior for Oppenheimer.

I think a lot of people picked him.

He was very good.

He played that senator.

He was only in the black and white scenes in the movie.

He was never because he said the documentary footage.

He was showing.

Yeah.

So he was very good.

And he looked great at the Oscars.

And they made mention to his jail term for drugs and everything.

But there's a guy that, you know,

a lot of people go to prison.

If they're actors,

they never come back out of it.

Again, this guy has done better than ever since he came out of prison.

With all the movies he's been making.

So Kudos to Robert Downey, junior.

He is a, he's a treasure in the acting community.

Best supporting actress,

Divine Joy Randolph, for the holdovers.

They say she's a knockout in that film.

Spectacular film.

Again, Pojumai is a great job.

But really, Divine Joy Randolph,

a very special world here.

The film is very delicate.

It's a great drama about different people at different stages of their lives.

You know, she is working with Pojumai.

They're both employees,

but they're kind of stuck in this area where this, you know,

this boarding school where everyone has left,

except for a few kids and them.

And it's really up to them to kind of help out

and determine some, some past and give some guidance to these young individuals

and grow themselves as well.

So I think it's a powerful movie.

Check out the holdovers and Divine Joy Randolph,

surely deserve this one.

Now, the last repair shop was the best documentary short subject.

And I believe it is some kind of ties to Wisconsin.

And I can't remember.

I remember they were talking about it.

And I got to look it up.

The last repair shop has a,

it took place out in California,

but the somebody who made the movie as a tie to Wisconsin.

I got to look that up.

Best documentary featured 20 days in Maripol,

which is the story about the war going on now.

And the way in my mind is just out of it this morning.

The war going on with Russia and Ukraine.

Why could I think of it?

What's going on?

I think too much lemonade this morning.

But the biggest shocker of the night,

after 70 years of being snubbed by the Academy,

finally, Godzilla wins an Academy Award.

70 years since 1954.

No recognition from the Academy.

And finally, after all those years, 70 years,

Godzilla wins an Oscar for Best What Special Effects.

I think it was.

Yeah, I'd want to take care of the best visual effects

is the official title for that one.

And man, that it deserved it.

I mean, here is a film that came out,

that came out from overseas,

that I don't think anyone was expecting.

It's stuck in there at the end of last year.

And man, this is a,

this is a fun movie.

If you haven't seen that,

there's a little minus one.

Go check it out.

And of course, we've got another Godzilla movie coming out.

It comes out in two weeks.

Godzilla X Kong is coming out.

And that's going to be spectacular as well.

But this one was really neat,

because it was off everyone's radar here.

It comes from overseas.

And what a powerful picture.

In fact, if you saw,

it was really neat what the producers of this film did.

I mean, they had Godzilla action figures.

If you looked at their shoes,

they had two more shoes of Godzilla claws out of it.

I know, I saw this.

Yeah, they all came up with a little baby Godzilla's in their hand.

And I felt terrible for the guy accepting what he didn't speak English.

And he was trying to read off a piece of paper.

He was so excited.

He was trembling.

He couldn't believe it.

And he couldn't get that speech out.

But it didn't matter,

because you could see in his eyes

and the way he was telling,

he was so excited to win the thing.

But yeah, they all had claws on their shoes.

They get a little baby Godzilla's with them.

So, and good for them.

And I found out I looked up what Godzilla minus one actually means.

And it comes from the fact that

after World War II, when they leveled Japan,

Japan was at zero.

Morality wise, everything they were at zero.

And then right after World War II,

Godzilla came out and brought it even lower.

To below zero, which was minus one.

That's where Godzilla minus one comes from.

And I was like that line.

Godzilla was up for an Academy Award.

And so it's prequel, Oppenheimer.

Because when you think about it,

there'd be no Godzilla if there was no Oppenheimer,

because he came from the atomic weapons of World War II.

That's where he got his fire radioactive breath from.

So those were the Oscars.

I noticed something and they probably changed it years ago

and I just noticed it.

There's no more Academy Award for best foreign language film.

It's called International Film Now.

They dropped the foreign language film.

Did you notice that?

You know, I didn't, but that's interesting.

You brought it up because now that you mentioned it,

that is Kenny unique.

Yeah, it was to be best foreign language film now.

It's best international film.

Just getting more PC if the Academy Awards.

What do you think of the presentation on Steve?

Yeah, I thought the presentation was really,

you know what I really liked about it.

It started early.

It started this time at 6 p.m.

No, it started around.

No, it started at 6.05.

They had difficulty.

And they couldn't start it on time.

Even Jimmy Kimmel made note of that.

He said we started a little late.

They were running all these promos

and public service announcements on Channel 12 where I was watching it.

And it just wasn't starting.

And I said to my wife,

they're five minutes after six.

So it did start late.

But anyway, yeah, go ahead.

It started an hour.

Well, either way, we saw this end a little after nine or so,

which I thought was perfect timing for this.

I thought it was great time.

So I really enjoyed how they swept it along.

They kept it going.

In terms of how memorable it was,

I would say, I think it was the pictures themselves.

They're memorable and they let them have the stars.

We didn't have any outrageous moments, which is good.

There was no Will Smith moment.

There was nothing like that.

It's just something that was refreshing this time around.

That it's a celebration about movies.

We celebrated them.

And I thought the time change was just excellent.

In terms of how they started that out.

And I thought the visuals on stage

the way they changed the lighting of the entire stage,

depending on what the mood was.

I thought that was great.

I thought the when they put the category,

whatever they did electronically to put it in that round thing

over the stage was perfect.

I thought Jimmy Kimmel did a good job.

And I did find out two things they lied to us about

at the Oscars.

Remember that dog messy that was in the audience?

Remember the dog sitting there?

It wasn't there.

What they did was they filmed that prior to the Oscars

the day before with, you know, people just filling out the seats.

And they filmed that the day before and they just ran it

to make it look like he was there, but he wasn't there.

And John Cena, remember he was naked?

He wasn't naked.

He wore a, like a thong.

Yeah, yet some of you have the new cover-ups there.

Yeah, he was wearing, yeah.

Showed a behind the scenes thing when he was walking off stage

with his butt sticking out with the thong on it.

But still, that was, I think it's an,

I thought Jimmy Kimmel did a good job.

They say it's very hard for a host to host that thing

because he's got to tell all those jokes up front

when everybody's receptive in a good mood.

As the show goes on, the audience is filling up with losers.

People that aren't that receptive anymore.

And they don't want to laugh because they just lost.

So he said they, they don't have as much jokes as the show goes on.

That's a tough thing to host a show like that.

You know, you got to keep it funny, topical.

You got luckily there are people like,

Steven Spielberg and the audience said it

are good sports about it.

And they can make fun of them.

You know, they just, you know, I like that line about Spielberg.

Why do you hear, what do you have like a season pass?

Yeah, you know, my only other comment is,

so Pacino gets up there and he doesn't read them out.

Oh, he writes that picture.

And I'm thinking about this.

How many times have they had mistakes here

on this biggest award of the night?

Wouldn't this be an award that you've rehearsed a little bit?

Wouldn't this be something that you'd practice?

I'm sure everyone knows that they're doing.

So that was the most interesting part is how anti-climactic that was

when he just got up the envelope and read the name.

So what new movies do you have coming out this weekend?

Well, there's one big new movie.

And it's going to be a neat one.

It's, it's, it's tires Mark Wahlberg.

And it's called Arthur the King.

It is about an endurance racer who along his race finds and adopts

this dog Arthur and Arthur comes along with him

in this epic adventure and endurance race.

So it's Mark Wahlberg.

The movie is Arthur the King.

It's a great movie with the dog.

Don't worry.

The dog does not pass away in the movie.

I was about to say that.

Yeah, I don't want to say any movies with dogs.

I always pre-set that for people saying,

go in.

It's an enjoyable movie.

Go take a look at it.

People are going to enjoy this one.

It's Arthur the King.

And also, I mean, look at the other movies we've got.

I mean, if you have not seen Doom Park, too,

it is spectacular on screen.

You need to see it there.

And I'll tell you, last week, there's a movie

that surprised everyone in terms of what it ended

up doing at the box office.

It smashed all expectations.

And it was Kung Fu Panda 4.

Jack Black came out with that Kung Fu Panda 4.

And not only did families go see it,

but adults went and saw this movie.

I saw it.

It's got spectacular humor for both adults and kids.

So Kung Fu Panda 4 as animated features on screen as well.

And should do tremendously this weekend.

But no pandas get hurt in the movie, right?

No real pandas were hurt in the film,

you know, Kung Fu Panda 4.

Remember that movie, Marley and me?

Yes, it was a hit.

One of the people out there in the audience, these days.

But the dog didn't do well in the film.

And I sat there crying when I watched it at home.

And I was crying my eyes out,

because I didn't want to go to a theater to see it.

Because I knew I'd be crying in the theater

and scaring people, making them upset.

But I probably couldn't be the only person.

Any time there's a dog or an animal in the film,

my wife won't go see it,

because she says,

I don't want to see any animals hurt.

Obviously, I'm going to hurt in real life,

but still, it's, you know,

nobody wants to see an animal hurt.

Especially a dog or a cat or something like that.

Even I don't want to see horses hurt.

I don't want to see any animals hurt.

Anyway, Brett Hoffman from Marcus Thedars,

you did pretty well at the Oscars.

Even the ones you got wrong, you said,

well, it may be this film.

It's like covering your bets.

In Vegas, the babies don't pay off.

It's the only, the final picks that pay off.

Thank you very much, my friend.

We'll do it again next Friday, huh?

We'll do so dad.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Thank you. Brett Hoffman from Marcus Thedars,

go see a movie.

All right.

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We're going to talk sports right now.

Local sports.

Find out what's going on in the world.

We're going to kick it off with the Packers.

Even though the Packers seasons off,

we still have some Packer news for you.

And we're not talking about Aaron Rodgers,

who is now embroiled in controversy.

But we'll talk about the Packers themselves,

people who are playing today.

And what do we have, Mike?

Well, you know, free agency kicked off this week, Don.

And the Packers lost Aaron Jones.

They're running back, actually.

Last week, Aaron has taken some pay cuts over the years.

And then last year,

he missed about six or seven games,

and was sort of 50-50 coming back from some of them.

Started out the season with a torn hamstring at the end of the Bears game.

It looked tremendous in the month of December.

But when he came back, he made 11 million last year.

He took a pay cut there.

And he and his famous agent came in last week.

And the Packer said, yeah, okay.

Listen, let's make it six million this year.

And they said, Don, this is crazy.

And then by the end of the week, there was an impact.

And the Packer said, okay, well, we've got a plan B here.

So they told them we're going to let you go.

As much as they appreciated it,

Ryan Goodakins, the GM, you know, just a month ago,

when we were in Indianapolis, called them the heartbeat of the team.

But they let Aaron know that they were going to move on.

And sure enough, when the negotiations started on Monday afternoon,

first thing they did was they got through to the running back of the Raiders,

Josh Jacobs, who was like a three-year younger version of Aaron Jones.

He's 26 years old.

And he agreed to a four-year deal, $48 million.

And, you know, I think Aaron was probably upset, disappointed.

They called around.

And I think the first offer they got was the Minnesota Vikings,

who does this all the time.

Every year, as a matter of fact, as soon as the Viking signed them,

they let go their defense of life in Dean Lowry,

who they picked up from the Packers last year.

So the Vikings always like to take former Packers.

A lot of people saw that as well.

Aaron Jones just said, I'll show you.

And I bet you that that was the first and best offer he could get.

So they're going to pay him $7 million,

about a million more than the Packers said that they're willing to.

The good news is, last night we learned that AJ Dillon,

the veteran Quadzilla, the guy with the big thighs,

you've seen him before, big Quad.

He's agreed to come back.

It's called a four-year qualifying deal,

but really it's more of a one-year prove-a-deal.

He'll come back for sort of a league minimum for a fifth-year veteran,

about 1.2 to 1.4 million.

But at least you'll have that guy in camp to help out with Jacob.

And you'll have a great backfielder with those two.

So, excuse me a second here.

So while we're in the topic of football,

we're quickly here.

Aaron Rogers, vice president of the United States.

Where'd that come from?

That came out of the left field, didn't it?

One day last fall,

while he was rehabbing the torn Achilles,

and he lives in Malibu,

about midday on a Friday,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

who, you know, Nancy is running for president last year,

posted a picture,

and lovely lunch here in Santa Monica,

because he lives in Santa Monica,

were there in Rogers.

And it's like, okay.

So that's fine.

But as you know, the Kennedy family,

it was all said,

we love our brother, but he's nuts.

He's nuts.

They've sat down and done video interviews

and saying, he's out there.

He's against vaccinations and this kind of thing.

So, you listen to him,

and he's very interesting,

and he's well versed and knows the government inside it out,

and he's been in a turning all these years.

But this week he turns around and says,

yeah, I'm thinking about either Aaron Rogers

or Jesse Ventura as my running mate.

I know.

Well, at least Jesse Ventura was a governor.

And how did that work out?

So anyway, you know,

so this might be what the Kennedy family is talking about.

You know,

and as for him,

he's probably looking for someone who's not in politics

and smart and intelligent,

and all those kinds of things,

and maybe viewed as an outsider or whatever,

became public.

I don't know if Aaron's sort of a victim of that,

or I imagine Aaron improve that.

Yeah, you can put my name on the list.

But this has to be driving the New York Jets crazy,

because they've waited for him all year.

They've paid him through last year,

and he's not going to come back to play quarterback.

Their plans are a mess.

Do you know, little trivia here I read the other day,

there's never been an NFL football score ending in seven-nothing?

Hard to believe?

Really?

Yeah.

Hard to believe.

That's got to drive the odds, makers, nuts.

By the way, one last thing.

Yeah.

You know, when there was that thing where, you know,

Trump was saying,

fire the SLBs, fire NFL players,

if they were going to take a knee during the national anthem,

which I never quite understood,

because there was like 79,000 of us standing there