We got 12 people on the moon.
Ever since we've done that, you hear about people who get upset about little things in
their life, and they blame the fact that we've been on the moon for their problems, as
if there's a possible tie-in, you know, like if their phone cord is all tangled up, they
can put a man on the moon, but they can't make a damn phone cord that won't bunch up.
They can put a man on the moon!
Maybe if we never did that, they'd be happy, huh?
Hasn't that phone cord driving you crazy?
Oh, nah.
We haven't even had a man on the moon yet.
Why would I let something like this bother me?
I think life's a bullet cherries.
Before we get to Beth Heidorne at the Racine Zoo, we want to ride in the spring, text
to win our statewide contest.
Your chance to win a tulivist to get away as well as grand prizes that include a bike
blender, even patio, love seat.
The keyword this hour is vacation.
I always wanted to say it like the guy on password.
The password is vacation.
So yeah, the keyword, why should I just call it a password so we can do that?
The keyword is vacation.
Download the Civic Media app in the Apple or Google stores, find WRJN, use the text button
to send the keyword vacation.
And for your chance to win this statewide contest, again, the keyword is vacation.
Find WRJN on the Civic Media app, use the text button to send that keyword right now.
You have until the end of the hour.
It's a good luck.
And we'll give you another keyword at 10 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m., right here at WRJN.
And right now, the keyword is vacation.
I always wanted to say it like that.
I should have been that announcer on the password.
It's a light and tumble journey from the east side to the park.
Just a fine fancy ramp along to the zoo.
But you can take a cross-town bus with its rain and all its cold.
And the animals will love it in your name.
If you do now.
Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it.
I do believe it's true.
I do believe it.
I do believe it.
I do believe it.
I do believe it.
Have you ever found out that giraffes are insincere?
I have never found that out, sir.
They're dumb.
I don't think so.
I would say no to all about it.
When did Paul Simon get this from?
I don't know where he wrote that information.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's 7-10 WR-10 radio, Beth Heidor in the executive director of the Racine Zoo is here.
You've got the zoo is not just looking at animals anymore.
It's a lot of having fun on the zoo grounds because you happen to have a great campus there for these animals.
Or we'd like to call them the permanent residents of the zoo.
Absolutely.
I mean, our location is killer.
So right here on Lake Michigan, just north of downtown Racine.
The location is great.
We have a great community zoo and people love this zoo in half for 100 years.
So we'll just keep doing what we're doing right here on Lake Michigan.
Do you know what your oldest resident of the zoo is?
Our oldest resident is Yule.
And he is a white-handed gibbon.
He is 56.
And he has been here 35 years.
Something like that.
He's an amazing animal.
And his daughter is here as well.
And his daughter's name is Robin.
And she has been here, was born here, and she is exactly 20 years younger than her dad.
You don't have names for every animal, do you?
Almost every animal has a name.
We don't have names for everything.
But sometimes they came with a name, penning upon what others do or aquarium they came from.
Sometimes if they were born here, then our staff has named them.
I was, I mentioned on the end, I was telling Beth when I poked my beak out the door a little while ago.
I just took a sun rise over the lake.
There were two morning goves sitting on the step.
Not sitting, but just on the step right in front.
And I started to open the door and they wouldn't move.
They were just looking at me, two of them, just staring at me.
And they opened the door a little more, and they moved a little bit, but they wouldn't get off the step.
So finally I inched them off, they went on the step, the next step, and then the third step.
But they were staring at me the whole time.
I don't know what that was.
Usually birds and animals are afraid of me.
These two weren't.
For some reason they said, oh, he's looked, see he can't do it.
He's harmless.
But it's just, it's interesting that they just stared at me.
They didn't fly away when I opened the door.
I didn't want them to fly in, but you know.
Yeah, that would probably not be good for you today to have to have to deal with that, getting them out.
Yeah, I told you several, several years ago we had a bat in the building.
That we had to get out.
We had skunks on the front step, living under the front, stepping up, spraying the building.
Yeah.
You don't have, you don't have those type of pets.
You have skunks at the zoo?
We do not have skunks at the zoo.
We do, but we don't have them now.
Okay.
What's the most exotic animal you have there?
The most exotic that you can't find anywhere else except in some other part of the world?
Well, I mean, there would be a lot of our African animals.
Armicide giraffes are Eastern black rhinos, our Hartman's Mountain Zebras.
So those are some of the ones that you wouldn't find, you're not going to find them here.
You'd have to go to Africa to find many of those animals.
So it really just depends on, I mean, you're going to see them at other zoos that are accredited around the country.
But you would not just, they're not native to here clearly.
Let's talk about that for a second.
To get animals to a zoo, is it an easy process to give animals shifting?
Because back in the day, years and years and years ago, they used to ship animals in.
And there was no regulation or whatever.
I mentioned the last time we were on Frank Buck, the great African explorer, bringing back alive,
the TV show and the movie were named after him.
And he gave his animals to the mass of Pikwa Zoo down the block from me.
We used to go there all the time.
And he was, he used to bring him in.
Right.
That doesn't work like that anymore.
It really doesn't.
Most of the animals that are in accredited zoos are coming from because they were born here at a zoo.
And sometimes they go to another zoo after they've been born.
And you know, we had, when we had our male lion, he had three prides and three letters.
And all those except the one daughter that we still have here went on to go make more of their own kind.
At another zoo.
So, you know, it's a, it's, we don't need to take anything from, from nature right now.
So we just get animals back and forth depending upon what needs to mate with what and who.
And that's all done by our SSP coordinators, which is species survival plan.
Every animal species has somebody that's looking out for that species and trying to figure out who should breed with who.
In order to perpetuate the species here within accredited zoos and aquariums.
Now, when you feed the animals here, I mean, there's not zebra chow and giraffe chow from Purina.
These are specialty food, some of these animals have been.
It's got to be expensive.
It is expensive.
And yeah, every animal has a special life diet.
There are a lot of, well, I shouldn't say a lot, but there are several exotic animal nutritionists that help create the diet that most of the animals that zoos are going to eat,
so that they can replicate some of the things that they might get in the wild.
And that would be everything from certain vitamins to nutrition and all of that kind of stuff.
So there's people that help make sure animals across the country are safe and eating the right things and keeping them alive for a very, very long time.
Now, you mentioned some of the food that might get in the wild like humans.
Yes.
You're so funny.
Well, some of them eat humans in the wild.
I mean, I just, well, we have some people that have donated their arms and legs that we have.
They sacrificed it because the animals have to eat.
But you know, and it's not like, you know, I couldn't make it to the market today.
So we'll have a pizza tonight.
It's not like that with animals.
You have to feed them the right food.
Or they get sick.
Yeah, exactly.
So when, you know, even, you know, when people want to go grow bird or bred for birds, that's not necessarily for the birds either.
You know what I mean?
So, you know, nature takes care of itself out there.
And then we just have to help take care of the animals that we can eat in human care.
You know, my wife does, she's big on bird seed in the backyard.
She goes out and buys bird seed and all these five of food for the birds.
So for Christmas, my son got us this little camera.
It's an outdoor camera.
You set it up.
And it takes 10 second pictures, 10 second videos.
So when an animal is a process motion, it starts for 10 seconds.
And if they continue to move, it keeps going for another 10.
And so we have over a hundred of these little videos in the backyard of these animals.
I mean, you can't believe what goes on in your backyard when you're sleeping at night.
Right.
I think that's awesome.
What's your favorite?
Well, my favorite is the squirrel was eating.
And another squirrel came out of left field and just bam, knocked him out of the food.
It was like a hundred miles an hour.
Just knocked him out.
The other squirrel went tumbling away.
I don't know what that was all about.
What a bully squirrel.
But at night, you do see the possums walking around.
And you can tell by the they get jeweled eyes, you know, from the whatever lightest light source is available.
But it is kind of when you, there are a lot of animals running around your backyard at night.
And you notice it when it snows because you see these tracks going in all directions.
They normally don't see when it's just grass out.
So we set this camera up and there's things moving outside all night during the daytime and there's rabbits.
And I wondered how they get in.
And I watched one of the rabbits squeeze through the between the gate and the concrete.
You can't believe it.
They get squeezed through with those.
And then so one day we're looking at one of the films and this giant face comes right in front of the camera as a cat.
And he must have noticed and he was curious.
And he put his entire face in front of the camera.
It's always with these big eyes staring at us.
But we knew something was going on because all the birds and the squirrels ran.
Oh my goodness.
It was a cat.
All right.
We got to talk about some of the events coming up.
We'll do that in just a moment.
We got the Eguister event.
We've got summer camps to talk about.
We've got wine events to talk about.
And it's all straight ahead here at WRJN Radio, hometown radio, refresh Beth,
high dormitory from the recene zoo is here, the executive director.
And it's a lot of fun coming up in the zoo grounds.
Who do the animals think of you as anti-beth?
I don't know.
Maybe they do.
Anti-beth is here, everybody.
It's 719 to WRJN.
There's more on a western bay and it serves a hundred ships a day.
Lonest sailors pass the time away and talk about their homes.
And well as a girl in this harbor town and she works.
Layin' whiskey down this song.
Beth, do you know the story behind the title of this song?
Do you know that little trivia story?
I do not.
Here.
Okay.
So this is Brandy by the Looking Glass.
It was a hit song in 1972.
You've heard of it every year.
It was a big hit song.
Well, there was a guy named Scott English who wrote a song called Brandy as well.
But it wasn't this song.
It was a totally different song.
And when you have a song, this big hit, you have to change the name of your song.
But he recorded it as Brandy himself.
But then he gave it to Barry Manlow.
And he said, well, you have to change the name of the song to Mandy.
Oh.
And that was the Barry man.
But it originally was called Brandy.
But since the Looking Glass beat him to the punch.
And Mandy by Barry Manlow came out the same ear.
But they couldn't have two Brandy's out.
They were totally different.
So that's a story.
Well, thank you.
I love your trivia.
I'll see you now.
You know, this is what's wandering around in my head.
Other people have, you know, dreams of peace
and cures for cancer.
I've got this junk stored in my brain.
And because it's stored in there, it's not letting the other stuff in.
Right.
It's like boxes of junk in your basement.
And it's sitting in my head.
All right.
Coming up for Easter for the family is the eggstravaganza.
Let's talk about that.
Yes.
That's on Saturday, March 30th from 10 until 4.
We should probably, it looks like the weather is going to be fairly cooperative for us.
So we should probably have about 3,000 people on property that day.
We have what we call clock clock door.
So it's our way of having an Easter egg hunt.
The kids will get to go around.
We have six clock clock doors.
We'll have wonderful volunteers that will be at those handing out candy.
To the kids, we have 20 different businesses that are going to be coming out supporting us as well.
And they will also be doing, they'll be handing out candy or pencils.
Or you name it.
Again, there's 20 of them.
And then that it would be our Easter style of a trunk or treat.
The Easter bunny is going to be here.
And you can get your photo taken with the Easter bunny for an additional charge.
We have cookie decorating, egg decorating.
We have egg-silent craft from our education staff.
We've got some creature features where we'll be having different of our animal ambassadors come out.
The train is going to be running that day.
I mean, it's just going to be a great day.
And what I love about this event is very generational.
So the grandparents are going to be here.
The parents, their kids, and sometimes the great-grandkids.
And they just make a really fun day of celebrating that day before Easter.
And we are thrilled that they choose us to come and visit.
That's all early this year. Normally it's an April Easter.
Yeah, Easter, you know, it all depends on the timeline.
And it just happens to be each year or early.
It's about every seven years it's early.
And here's the forecast for Saturday.
You ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Partly sunny.
Highs near 51.
Oh, I'll take it.
I'll take it considering we just, I had a shovel snow on my side.
I know, right?
Friday.
A week ago.
51 sounds like, you know, I said the other day.
And I just wanted to get my hands around that groundhog's throat.
You know, how dare he predict an early spring.
I'll fix his wagon.
You know, and the funny thing is, here I am.
And a lot of people do that.
They say, oh, it's the groundhog's fault.
Are you kidding?
It's the groundhog's fault.
This poor little, this poor little animal.
It's got to be held up to people.
He's probably terrified when they do this in, uh, in Puncta-Tonnie, Pennsylvania.
Hold him up.
He's scared to death.
And you're going to blame that little groundhog for what's going on here.
I said some of the other day.
I said, if it snows again, I'm turning him into ground chuck.
So just.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
No.
Well, he's, he's fun with the ground.
But he did predict an early spring.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's okay.
We'll get there.
It's just, we have to go through a little bit more winter still.
So this, and this is open to all ages.
The egg Stravaganza, right?
It is.
It is.
So of course, members, um, this is, um, they get to come in free
because they're members of the zoo.
Yeah.
And, um, it's very reasonable to come in.
You know, we're a community zoo.
We want to be, uh, reasonably priced for everybody.
So adults is 11 on Saturday.
Um, senior citizens is 10 kids are nine.
And two and younger is all that's free here at the zoo.
Yeah.
And now, could people, is the zoo open for animal viewing that day?
Or no?
Oh, yeah.
The animal will be hopefully out at all depends on the temperature.
Everything is regulated.
Um, you know, what their low temperature is that they can go out.
And of course, if we have any snow or ice, um, some animals, we just, we don't bring them out
because we don't want them to, you know, any more than we want you to fall on a pathway.
We don't want them to fall on their exhibit.
So, um, we'll keep, keep your fingers crossed for lovely weather.
And, and that will determine what's coming out.
You know, and the, the African animals that are native to the African, uh, Sahara,
the, uh, the Sarangetti out there, the snow to them isn't normal.
Well, it, it isn't, but we've also, they haven't lived in Africa.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So, it's, it's not native to them, but they also know Wisconsin weather because they've lived here for several, several years.
So, you know what I mean?
Every animal regulates, um, our kangaroos actually love hanging out in the snow.
You get kangaroos.
And they're from Australia.
You know what I mean?
So, it just, every, you, you learn to adjust.
You would learn to adjust if you lived in warm or climate.
You would learn to adjust if you lived in Seattle, where it rains all the time.
You know, we all adjust to our surroundings and animals are no different.
The, uh, I saw a funny meme on, uh, Facebook the other day.
It was, uh, Noah's Ark.
Mm-hmm.
And all the animals are waiting to board.
He says, we're doing an alphabetical order.
And the zebra said, oh, great.
Oh, no, that's funny.
That is funny.
And so, anybody can see the animals that including the instanceeer giraffes?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then, of course, the animals that are in the castle are always around from her ring of hands to her.
Who's done our, um, tempered tamarins and, um, and our spider monkeys and our, and you will, that's where you live.
And that's, um, our white-handed gibbet.
So, that's something that's locked straight in.
If you go to the right or discovery centers open, where we have that and our, um,
or come more of our creeped crawlies and our aquarium.
So, there's still a lot to open, even if it is not maybe seeing a giraffe.
Yeah.
Everything else.
And so, and then that also we want people to come back.
Yeah, yeah.
You have smaller animals there too, obviously.
Yeah, we sure do.
Yeah.
We sure do.
So, and then our animal ambassadors will be out in the creature.
So, as I said, with our, uh, animal and education staff.
Our phone line is breaking up, so what I'm going to do is, during this break, I'm going to call you back.
Okay.
Try to get a better phone line.
Okay.
I'm, I'm going to blame it on the moon landing.
Like, like the creatures.
They could land a man on the moon.
There you go.
But there you go.
A good cell phone line.
But they got land on me.
And yeah, if we never landed a man on the moon, we'd say, oh, okay.
Got a bad cell phone line.
That's okay.
I hear you.
No problem.
All right.
So, hold on, hold on, Beth.
Okay.
And I'll call you right back.
All right.
Uh, move the screen.
Right.
Yes, we have the high near 54 rain.
Those around 45 tonight.
Rain with a higher 52 tomorrow.
Let's get to the all night of our systems.
So we can have a beautiful Saturday, partly sunny.
With a high in the 50s on Saturday for the eggs.
Haven't got to at the zoo.
That should be fun.
All right.
And don't forget we, uh, we have the bidding going on now for the Royal Family Kids Camp.
Four tickets to see the books first, the Celtics.
They're trying to raise big money for these foster kids to go enjoy a nice camp for one, for one week.
That's all they want.
We give these kids a nice getaway.
Royal Family Kids Camp.
Go bid on those four bucks tickets.
Comes with a whole VIP experience.
Just, um, go to WRJN.com slash bucks.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
Bit high.
You got a bit over a thousand dollars well over a thousand now.
So go bid the four tickets.
It's going to pick these kids from from foster homes.
Give them a great kids week at the Royal Family Kids Camp.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
729.
We're talking to Beth Heindor, an executive director at the Racine Zoo.
Let's see where we go.
We're talking to Beth Heindor and she is the executive director at the Racine Zoo.
And she's got to go in a few minutes.
So let's get into some of the other things we have the wild for wine coming up in April.
What's that about?
Love that event.
It is a five-course meal paired with five different wines.
And what we're highlighting at that one is our the five species of rhinos.
We happen to have Eastern Black rhinos here at the zoo.
And so we always try to do a little edutainment with any one of our events.
And so it's just really nice.
We're up in our pavilion.
We've got dandies is doing our food.
And then we've got the five wines.
We'll be posting those shortly.
And then it's just a really great event.
And then so we have an animal presentation about one of the species.
And then we do food and wine.
And then every 15 minutes or 20 minutes, we repeat it until all five courses are complete.
And it's just a really great opportunity for folks to learn about rhinos.
And you said the foods provided by dandies?
Yeah.
I love dandies meats.
Yeah, they're awesome people.
And you know, we work with a lot of local caterers.
And he just happens to be the one that's going to be doing that event.
All right.
Summer camp coming up in June.
Oh my gosh.
We are already we already have a couple of weeks that are book solid, which is great.
So we want people to get out there.
We do summer camp from ages three to children going into seventh grade.
And so there's, you know, if you've got a fifth grader, a third grader and a first grader,
everyone can go to the camp in the same week.
Drop them off.
We've got early drop off.
We've got late pickup.
These kids to get to go all over the zoo, do great things.
We've got amazing counselors.
And it's just a really great way, great safe and fun place for kids to spend their summer.
So about the sponsorship opportunities because you always need money to run a zoo.
I mean, I mean, you could not have spoken more to work.
We do.
We are always looking for sponsors.
We've got a ton that are already signed up for our animal crackers.
We've got some for our golf tournament.
But we can always use sponsors and sometimes a business or a family just wants to do something.
And we will custom a sponsorship specifically for their needs and what will work for them as a family and or a business.
So it takes a village to run the zoo and it also takes money.
So we will and we're really, really good to our sponsors too.
So if people are interested in any one of our events, there's always an opportunity to sponsor something here at the zoo.
Can you make big money for animal crackers, right?
We do.
We do.
I love animal crackers.
That helps feed the animals every year.
Yeah.
And the people that go to it.
We love the people that go to it.
And it's been going on for 37 years.
So excited about this coming summer with animal crackers.
And so we certainly want people to get their tickets if they don't have them already.
Season tickets.
And or just come for one of the concerts if you can't make them all.
And one last, one last plug for egg strap again.
So let's do that one more time.
Egg strap is about this Saturday March 30th from 10 until 4.
It is fun for all ages.
We've got great things happening, egg decorating, cookie decorating.
We have got the clock clock doors and everything else.
So we want people to come on out.
I think it's going to be a great family event.
And you if you can keep praying and get your fingers crossed for the weather will be all set.
Partly sunny.
Highs in the mid fifties.
Sounds great to be done.
Can't beat that.
And as the animals call her anti-beth.
Beth Hydon.
And he bets it on the radio.
And if you miss this, it'll be podcast later today.
Wherever you get your podcast, Apple Spotify or WRJN.com.
You can listen to it again in case you missed any of these dates and times.
Beth Hydon executive director of the Racine Zoo taking care of all the residents there.
All the permanent residents right down the block from here.
The lions roaring sometimes in the morning.
You have a great afternoon.
Great morning.
Thank you so much.
All right, Beth.
Bye-bye.
All right.
There you go.
Anti-beth.
Just bang my elbow.
Wow.
That hurt.
You know, I felt bad when in that song at the zoo.
The giraffes were instance here.
I must have heard that song a million times.
I've never heard that the giraffes were instance here.
Hmm.
And all the other animal things.
I felt bad.
Hey, coming up tomorrow in the seven o'clock hour Denise Lockwood is going to be here
from Racine County.
I'm going to find it.
Well, she's got some big news about things going on with her with her site Racine County
Eye.
And we'll talk about that.
Also, I want to talk about some of the big newspapers like Gnett, which owns USA
today and a ton of newspapers are no longer using the Associated Press.
Maybe she can fill us in on that.
Yeah.
I get a pension from Gnett.
I never worked for the company.
They in my life.
They bought a radio station I worked for.
So now I'm connected to Gnett.
I don't know how, but we're connected at the hip somehow.
I don't know how, but we are.
All right.
So real family of real family.
Real quickly.
We'll do some reviews here.
Royal Family Kids Camp.
Don't forget four tickets to the Buck Celtics game.
April 9, 6.30 p.m.
There during the enter the BMO Harris or BMO now VIP entrance.
Go to the Jackie Club.
You will sit road to seats one through four.
Get a free parking pass.
You get $10 put on the Bucks app for each ticket.
That's 40 bucks.
The spend.
And go bid for these tickets for the Royal Family Kids Camp at WRJN.com.
Slash Bucks WRJN.com.
Slash Bucks WRJN.com.
Slash Bucks.
And don't forget to listen later on today again at 10 a.m.
1 and 3 p.m.
For your chance to win an overnight stay at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
And enter the win one of two grand prizes that includes new bikes, outdoor patio furniture,
and a blender and more.
Now it's seven o'clock each one and seven o'clock hour.
I will give you the keyword for the day.
And I'll do it one more time.
I'm not supposed to, but I'm going to do it.
It's all right in the spring.
Text to win statewide contest.
Your chance to win that Chula Vista get away in more prizes.
The keyword this hour is vacation.
I want to say password.
The keyword is vacation download the civic media app in the Apple or Google stores.
Find WRJN use that text button to send the keyword vacation.
That's just today only it's only this hour by the way.
So get in there and go to the civic media app, download it and find WRJN and just
type in that keyword today vacation.
Figure a chance to win.
Okay.
Here are some mistakes people make when doing a staycation.
Now a lot of people don't go away on vacation.
They do what they call a staycation very popular in the COVID days.
Not unplugging from your regular life, staying home makes you more difficult than
usual to disconnect from your work life.
Oh, I can do that in the heartbeat.
I can do that now.
I didn't used to be able to do it.
Now I can do it.
Missing out on local discounts, hotels, attractions, frequently offered discounts for people
who live nearby, not preparing your home.
Now, since you're not spending money on flights or hotels, splurge on a little something
for your house like flowers, your favorite wine, maybe a house cleaner before or after your staycation.
Make it, you know, really nice and your kids out the camp.
Get rid of them for the week.
But yeah, you know, make it a special place for that one week.
A little different.
Change things around.
Move the furniture around.
All right.
Let's see.
Spain might be into something here.
The government has proposed a bill that bans automated customer service and limits hold times to three minutes.
I like that.
There were times I've been on hold for like 20 minutes.
I want to hang it up and then you get a startle over again, but you know, I can lose my patience.
I lose my patience after one minute.
But definitely after that, not too many times, just sometimes.
I, you know, have to renew my driver's license soon.
And I get something interesting, speaking of being on hold for a long time.
I got, I got this notice that my driver's license is due on my birthday.
And it's a while from now.
But it says, you can do it.
It's a new online.
Why do you do that?
You got to get your picture taken for the driver's license.
It's a physical thing.
How do you do this online?
I know you can make it a point then online, but how do you get your driver's license renewed online?
It's got to be, you know, a plastic car with your picture on it.
When I go down there, I will ask him, how do you do this online?
Japan Airlines launched a service that allows foreign tourists and business travelers to rent clothes from them.
For as little as $28 for up to two weeks, the idea is to minimize the luggage as much as possible.
You really want to rent somebody else's dirty clothes?
You know, it's bad enough when I had to run to Tuxedo and knew somebody was sweating in it the weekend before me.
I'm not into renting clothing.
So I went out eventually and bought a Tuxedo.
How about two of them?
I think I have two Tuxedos now.
Because I just didn't want to wear somebody else's sweaty clothes.
I know a lot of people don't mind it.
I do.
Odd but true.
The owner of the New England Patriots, you know, I'm Robert Kraft, was able to buy the team because of the prior owner's financial difficulties due to financing a Jackson five tour in 1984 lost all his money.
So we had to sell the team and that's our Robert Kraft got the New England Patriots.
So it's a story involved in there.
Variety, the show business paper ranked the 50 best action movies of all time.
Here are the top 10 number 10 bullet from 1968 with Steve McQueen, good movie.
The Seven Samurai, the Japanese film from 1954 came at number nine.
The Seven Samurai became an Americanized movie called the Magnificent Seven.
Aliens, I like that so much better than alien.
I thought the sequel was much better.
1986, that came at number eight.
Number seven, a film I couldn't get into the Matrix from 1999.
Number six, the French connection from 1971.
Best picture of the year too.
Number five, the Bruce Lee classic, enter the dragon from 1973.
That was this American movie.
A lot of the films he made were Hong Kong films.
This was the American movie from Warner Brothers, enter the dragon.
Number four, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The first time we got to meet Indiana Jones from 1981.
Number three was the Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest from 1959.
Number two, a really good action movie, Die Hard, the Christmas movie from 1988.
Every Christmas that comes up, is that a Christmas movie or not?
Die Hard.
And number one was the Road Warrior from 1981.
I couldn't get into those Mad Max movies for some reason.
I just couldn't.
So the Road Warrior was really the first Mad Max film.
I just couldn't get into it for some reason.
Bullet, great movie of Steve McQueen.
Yeah, driving that green Mustang through San Francisco at high speeds.
People magazine were asked if they can.
Oh, no, actually, if there's people in that people magazine, people asked if they consider their parents relationship to be a love story.
Or no, they don't.
45% yes, our parents were, they were a love story.
Only 36% said, no, my mom and dad were married nearly 70 years.
And they were a love story.
I tell you, I saw the way they cared for each other right up until the last breath.
And so yeah, my, my parents had a love story.
Didn't start out like that though.
Well, dad got out of the war in 1945.
He met my mom.
And they were going to, he took it to a Broadway musical.
The Broadway musical was Carousel, right on Broadway in the 1940s.
And my father doesn't like musicals.
So he's sitting in the seat with my mother, he says, I'll be right back.
And that was toward the beginning of the music.
And he's waited in the lobby the whole time.
My mother came out after so she loved them.
So she dumped them.
So she just stayed there and watched the musical.
I thought he was, she was dumped.
He said, I couldn't sit in that seat and watch that show.
He sat there in the lobby the whole time.
Now, we did go to Broadway musicals growing up.
But I knew my dad didn't like them.
He just didn't like sitting in the, first of all, the seats in those Broadway theaters are very cramped.
They're not like the movie theaters.
You go here with the recliners.
They're very cramped, very small, they're very old theaters.
And he just didn't like them.
All right, something seems wrong here.
The San Diego County Fair last year.
And they're gearing up now for their new fried foods.
Had a deep fried slim fast bar.
The guy who created it says he loves the idea because it's so oxymoronic.
He got a slim fast bar deep fried.
When was the last time you picked up a landline phone to call someone?
Oh, that would have been a ridiculous question 20 years ago.
But now, you probably have to think about it.
40% of people used a landline in the past few days.
Although it's mostly older people, 25% have never used a landline.
It's at least six months.
2% have never used a landline phone.
Now, the last time I used a landline phone was...
Oh, 12 minutes ago.
I spoke to Beth Hyder and it was a landline phone.
And that's what we have here.
Got to have a landline phone.
And my friend, when I called her, I had a recolor because her cell phone was breaking up.
When I did the redial on it, it worked just fine.
Well, I really quickly hear a woman in Michigan was paying for gas when the total stranger said,
you should buy that $30 lottery ticket.
I'll bet you wouldn't $4 million.
She went ahead, listened to the stranger, bought the ticket, and it hit for $4 million.
It was the grand prize.
She...it worked.
Who was that guy?
How come it doesn't come to the gas station when I'm filling up with gas?
A list of rock music-related Guinness World Records, ready for these?
These are the records.
The shortest concert ever held was by the who?
When Roger Dalton realized he couldn't sing due to illness, the concert lasted 13 seconds.
The most on-course was by the group called The Cure.
Five on-course.
And the first music video to be banned by MTV was body language by the group Queen.
Hmm, what was wrong with that video?
Clotty, rain.
After five o'clock today, highs near 54 degrees, rain tonight, lows around 45, rain tomorrow,
highs near 52, but for the Racine Zoo's egg strap against us so far, partly sunny,
highs near 52 on Saturday.
I love it $7.49, a WRGN hometown radio refreshed, a civic media station.
We're very trusting of elevators.
We're like, what is this? A casket on a string?
Let's hop on.
I don't know, it works, but if it shakes, we'll giggle.
We giggle because we realize no one's driving the elevator, right?
We're all gonna die.
So we press one of these buttons or climb through the trap door in the ceiling
that leads to every Bruce Willis movie.
What do we do?
We also giggle because there's no talking on an elevator, right?
You get on an empty elevator, you and a friend, and you're like,
I'll tell you later.
It's like a den of awkwardness.
You just stand there like, are we supposed to kiss?
What are we doing?
It's very strange.
Not as awkward as a stairwell.
You're being abandoned stairwell by yourself.
You encounter strangers coming the other way.
There's always that moment where you meet eyes, you're like,
if you don't rate me, I won't rate you.
What are you doing in this?
What am I doing in this?
Are we in an episode of Law and Order?
It's right that I should care about you.
And try to make you happy when you're blue.
It's right, it's right to feel the way I do.
It's right, it's right to feel the way I do.
Because, because I love you.
It's wrong to say, I don't think I do.
Because when you say things, you know it makes me blue.
Give me one kiss and I'll be happy.
Just, just to be with you.
Give me, give me a chance to be with you.
Because, because I love you.
The DC-5 in Clark-5 came right on the heels of the Beatles.
I kind of read their co-tails for a while.
As a matter of fact, after a hard day's night came out,
a lot of British groups were making movies.
Because the Beatles made a hard day's night and it was huge.
So, right after the Beatles came out with a hard day's night in 1964,
the next year, the Dave Clark-5 came out with having a wild weekend,
which wasn't as good as a hard day's night.
It wasn't even close.
But you can see it, Turner Classic movies runs it from time to time,
so you can catch it there having a wild weekend.
And then, Jerry and the pacemakers, remember them?
They came out with a movie called Fairy Cross The Mercy.
And all these movies were released from United Artists,
the big company that released all these Oscar-winning movies over the years.
They released all these British movies.
And then, I think, Freddie and the Dreamers even had a movie for a while.
Hermits Hermits, they had Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter,
and hold on.
Hermits Hermits made two movies.
They made it for MGM.
So, all these British groups to make, and they were all terrible.
Then, the Beatles came out with their next movie, Help,
which was better than a hard day's night, I thought.
So, the Beatles were having the success.
And all these groups, like the Dave Clark Five,
during the pacemakers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Hermits Hermits,
their movies were going nowhere.
But you can see them all on Turner Classic movies.
They're running from time to time.
And they're a nice little time capsule of the 1960s.
They're bad.
Where the Beatles had this, they're not a great acting ability,
but they had this personality on film where these other,
like the Dave Clark Five, they didn't have any personality on them.
It was just terrible.
And the same thing with Freddie and the Dreamers,
Hermits Hermits Hermits, and Jerry Marsden, who was the leader of Ferry Gruss,
who was the Jerry and the pacemakers, it was terrible.
They had no personality.
But you can see them.
They're worth watching, only for watching as a time capsule of the 1960s.
Rolling Stones.
They made some movies, but they didn't make it as a group.
There was an ex-rated film made by Mick Jagger.
He starred in it with some other stars.
And it wasn't a porn film, right?
It's just rated X in the 1960s.
So he starred in a movie called Performance.
And he was also in a Western called Ned Kelly.
Again, United Artists releasing these films.
Ned Kelly was a true life robber, a bank robber and thief.
And he was played by Mick Jagger in the film.
Mick Jagger can't act.
And he acted like Mick Jagger, you think he would act.
So he released Ned Kelly in performance.
Those are his two films.
The rest of the band weren't in the movies.
And John Lennon actually made a few movies on his own.
He made some of these people made movies on their own.
He made a movie called How I Want the War for Richard Lester,
the director of a Hard Day's Night and Help.
He put him in this film now.
He didn't star in the movie, although he was the main name in it.
How I Want the War.
Then Ringo Star made a movie called a couple of movies called The Magic Christian,
which he starred in with Rock Hell Welch and Peter Sellers.
And he made another movie with his wife, Barbara Bach, called Caveman.
And I think Ringo may have made another movie.
I'm trying to remember what it was.
Oh, yes, he did.
Made a Western with Tony Anthony called Blind Man.
Ringo started on that too.
So Ringo made the most movies on his own.
And Ringo wasn't bad in these movies.
I mean, Mick Jagger wasn't good.
John Lennon was okay.
Paul McCartney, I don't think ever was in a movie without the bill.
I think I made those three movies.
He made Let It Be, Help and Hard Day's Night.
I ain't lent his voice to Yellow Submarine.
But he never went off on his own.
George Harrison, I don't think ever made a movie other than with the Beatles.
I don't think he did.
Because he wasn't an actor.
But Ringo was pretty good.
All right.
757 at WRGN Radio.
We're looking for a partly cloudy day today.
Actually cloudy day with rain after five o'clock this afternoon.
Highs near 54.
Rain continuing all night tonight.
Close around 45 and rain again tomorrow with a high near 52.
Let's get it all out of our system.
Because we have the Racinesu Eggstravaganza.
And that's coming up on Saturday, the 30th.
And right now partly sunny with a high near 52.
Let's hope we can hold on to that.
That should be good.
Hey, I'm Don Rosen.
I want you to stay with us all day today here at Civic Media's WRGN.
Home town radio refreshed tomorrow.
Denise Lockwood is going to be here.
We're going to talk about Racine County I.
And she's got some interesting fun news about what's going on with that.
Publication of hers or online publication.
Racine County I guess some other news stories she's going to talk about.
And there was something.
Oh, yeah, was you talk about the some of these newspapers and other big papers are cutting back.
I'm not going to have the associated press anymore.
That's interesting.
All right, that's it for today.
I'm going to wrap it up just to have yourself a great day today.
Be careful out there.
I'm Don Rosen.
I'll catch you tomorrow morning six o'clock right here.
We've got Earl Ingram straight ahead for you on the other side of news.
At WRGN Radio.
Home town radio refreshed in 1400A.
I'm 99.9 FM and 98.1 FM.
In Kenosha, 758.
Thank you.