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We're not buried, just my casket on display.
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We're talking about the Royal Family Kids Camp.
And it takes place in June, right?
That is correct.
And Lake Geneva.
And this is, you know, I was talking to Rick during the break there
and telling him about all these things I've seen this past week.
They're just unbelievable.
I know a lot of people have seen the 2020 episode about Ruby Frankie
and Jody Hildebrand, the child abuse that took place.
And now her kids, Ruby Frankie's kids are in foster care
because they can't ever get, versus you went to prison for 30 up to 30 years,
but these kids have to be reprogrammed into normal kids again.
And it's not going to come fast because they live through years and years of physical abuse
that a human, I don't, you'd have to go to a Nazi prison camp to find worse.
I mean, that's how bad it is.
So I can imagine that.
And then we talked about what went on in the Nickelodeon channel.
There's a series there called Quiet on the Set where just these children are just abused.
And they don't say anything because they're told not to or your career will go down the tubes.
And they were afraid of that.
But, you know, one time somebody spoke up and that was the end of that.
This going on in Nickelodeon, which is a big champ Warner Brothers owns them.
And anyway.
So these kids are foster kids and you decided, you want to know Susan?
Susan Rick decided they're, you know, get these kids out of the house for one week a year.
No cares, no worries.
You don't have to think about it, no stress, nothing.
All you do is just have to have fun.
That's what we do with the kids.
It's actually an international organization that started back in the 80s.
And we jumped on the bandwagon in about 23 years ago in Racine.
And so that's how long our camp has been going on.
One of the kids I'd like to tell you a little bit about, you know, these kids, as you say, they have a backstory.
And it includes abuse and neglect and abandonment and, you know, from their own biologic families.
And it's so severe that, you know, human services that police have to get involved.
Obviously.
But even when they're taken out of their homes, it's the only homes that they've ever known.
It's very destructive to them.
And they probably think this is normal life.
It is normal life for them.
They don't know what it's like to be a normal kid.
They think, oh, everybody's beaten at school.
Everybody's handcuffed at school.
Everybody's verbally abused at school.
They don't know.
Yeah, it's, it's, they're inculturated into it.
And until somebody from the outside says, hey, something's not right here and steps in to help them.
You know, that's when, that's when we as law enforcement involved in human services.
But then for rural family, we take these kids.
We have one counselor for every two campers to provide the children with, to meet the needs that their hearts desire and,
and it provides a catalyst for rebuilding trust for these kids.
One story about our campers who trusted his counselor enough to share some of the deeper that he was experiencing.
And I'm going to share this from the counselor's perspective.
Seven-year-old Austin was having trouble sleeping at night, so he started talking to me.
I learned that Austin's mom died out of a drug overdose just seven months earlier.
Then, for the next five months, Austin and his sister lived with their dad, even out of a scarring scene.
Until his dad abandoned them.
At this point, Austin looked up and me and, and I noticed tears were, you know, I was, I was struggling the whole back tears.
And he asked me if my eyes were watering and I, and I told him is because I could feel his pain.
And he said, did your daddy abandon you?
And I had to tell him, yes, my daddy abandoned me when I was five years old.
Needless to say, I could relate to Austin's pain and unanswered questions from his father's abandonment.
That night at Royal Family Kids Camp, seven-year-old Austin went on to share how he had felt that he had the hardest life of any kid, and how much he was hurting.
I could hear the confusion and pain in his voice. I let him know that good could still come into this world for him, even though he was still hurting.
He didn't want to believe that his life could ever be better, but he mentioned that he did like camp.
And I shared that sometimes good things do come out of bad places, and like, you know, right now he's, he's at camp, so he can have some enjoyment.
Austin expressed his fears for his father, well, what's dad gonna eat? What's he gonna do? I'm afraid for him. He doesn't have any money.
I shared that God could take care of his dad just like God brought him to camp, to be with people, to help him and his sister.
This started to bring hope and peace to Austin, and we prayed for God that dad would, you know, that he would intervene, and dad would be good.
At that point, I had to walk away and go to the restroom and cry. I prayed that God would make things, make things right in this boy's life.
When I came out, Austin was still awake and he said, the camp song is stuck in my head.
The one that says, my God is so big and so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do. Austin was starting to believe things would be okay.
Morning came and Austin shot out of bed and said, it's morning already. I felt like I slept for only five minutes.
That night, peace finally entered Austin's little heart, and overcame the fear that it entered the night that he was abandoned.
You know, and I can't relate to this because I've told you many times I came from the Leave It to Beaver household where everything was just perfect.
I mean, nobody was ever abused. Nobody was ever hit. There was a threat of being hit if we screwed up.
We never knew my father was going to crack, so we just stayed on the straight and narrow, but never hit us.
My mother was never hit us. We just weren't that they weren't those kind of parents.
So I don't, I can't relate to having parents on drugs, mothers in prostitution, families that are gambling their entire life savings away.
You know, I can't relate to that, but I've seen it. I was telling you off the air about that Ruby Frankie story and this guy who
the little kid abuse comes up to his door rings his doorbell and says, can you take me to the police station and the guy started crying looking at this kid.
He's just he just talking to the police and crying his eyes out.
When he was looking at this little kid, he was a well behaved sitting there, not excitable just sitting there with his, you know, his pleading and with his duct tape all over his arms and legs and
how do you treat another you forget kids? How do you treat another human like that?
I mean, it's just horrible, but for one week out of the year, all your troubles go away. I think I need that.
I think I need one week out of the year where I don't think about anything.
Yeah, that's that's what if you can do that.
Why don't you and Susan start a camp for stressed out people and Lake Geneva.
Once a year, all the stressed out adults go.
And we can sit there and just relax for a week. That's what I need.
No radio for one week of my life.
Nothing to think about. Now, here's how you can help the royal family kids camp.
We have four tickets. Rick got four tickets to the Bucks and Celtics on April 9th at five serve forum.
This is the VIP treatment you get. Go to the special BMO entrance where they treat you like a like a VIP.
I guess you get free parking, get $10 on your Bucks app for each ticket.
And you get to sit row two and have the road to here somewhere.
It's in the road to one through four. Yeah, that's section 116.
And I'm told I'm looking at the one 16 on here.
I am told, I'm in a second. Wow, you are really.
Oh, there's a star. I'm looking for them to the star right there.
You know what's you know with that seat is when they take a shot and it bounces off the backboard.
That's where you get hit with the basketball. Yeah, if you go online and you look at the location of the seat,
you can you can you can see that the comments in there, I said,
you can hear the coaches as they're explaining what plays are going to be running with the players.
I mean, you're that close at hearing the council.
And I want you to bid on these tickets got a bit at least $1,200 over $1,200 won't get to the tickets.
It's over $1,200 go to WRJN dot com slash bucks WRJN dot com slash bucks WRJN dot com slash bucks.
What you do is put your name email address in your bid and we'll contact you.
Some of the contact you today because today's the day last day.
This is it folks. So if you want those four tickets and you want to help these kids.
This is the way to do it because you don't you know, there's no magic money coming in to run these camps.
The money is like from here from you. So if you want to help out.
This is the time to do it go to WRJN dot com slash bucks WRJN dot com slash bucks.
And it's the royal family kids camp or tickets.
See the bucks and Celtics play each other at five serve for them.
And people are saying, who are those people down there?
They look like they're, wow, they must be important.
They're sitting in road to they can they're wiping the sweat off their head.
They're getting hit with the sweat from the players. Wow.
That's great to be down there. Wait a second.
Wait, is that leaving out of the Capitol sitting next to them?
Wait a second. I think I'm not sure, but I think Nicholas Cage is sitting up next to them as well.
Whoa, look at that. All right.
Anyway, you never know who's going to sit next to you.
So hold on. We're talking to a Rick Taylor more about the royal family kids camp.
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Yeah.
You know, and you, you leave knowing you help kids.
I mean, again, a lot of people can't relate to this.
And I understand it's tough to relate to abuse if you never had it before.
And I can't, I don't know about your family,
but you don't look like the type of person that suffered a lot of abuse.
But, you know, I have talked to friends.
Oh, yeah, my parents just had dragged me by the hair across the floor.
Really?
You know, in my neighborhood where I grew up,
what was it?
It was a abuse.
They would have talked about it.
I think they would have talked about it.
But there are families.
And you know what?
It's said when you, when you have a mother, a single mother,
and she's, you know, some of these kids might have prostitute mothers.
And you can't falter.
You need money.
And if you don't have a skill, you can't get a job.
I mean, you gotta eat.
Right?
And it's sad that women have to go into prostitution to do it.
But, you know, you're up against the wall.
What are you going to do?
Yeah.
And somebody's kids, it's not that the parents were abusive.
It's that sometimes their parents die at a young age.
You're, you know, sick, you know.
Exactly.
So we had one kid this year, we call him Arthur.
Um, his mom died when he was five and a half months old.
But his dad was in prison at the time.
So nobody found him for several days.
And so when social services found him, he was immediately put in a very, very good,
good foster care home.
And, and Katie became his long term foster mom.
But, um, you know, at the age of seven, he comes to camp because, you know,
even though he didn't have abuse, he was still separated from his mother.
And he became attached to his counselor who was an army sergeant, not a Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
He'd come out, he comes up here from Kentucky to counsel with these kids.
And, you know, you see these kids marching through camp like they're in boot camp and having a good time.
And, and, and this year or just in 2023, he father was released from prison.
He was in there for drunk driving.
And, um, and so father was visiting his child on the weekends, they get reaclimated.
When all of a sudden, Arthur came down and said, hey, grandpa, um, mom is gray.
Well, now his foster mom who had been with since he, he was a baby and anticipated living the rest of his childhood life with,
was over with a heart problem. So she was gone.
And so now he's got to live with his dad who's not adequately necessarily prepared to deal with the child full time.
He, you know, he's getting to know him.
And so, um, at the funeral, very sad.
Arthur could not be consoled in any way and, and, uh, he was just, just totally, um, into himself.
He couldn't, nobody could reach him.
But his counselor came up from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, showed up at the funeral.
And soon as Arthur saw him, he ran, jumped into his arms.
Arthur opened up. He was extremely excited that, you know, now somebody cares for him and, and, and it was just an amazing scenario.
And this just happened this, this past year.
And now living with his father, his father now has a steady job.
And we're working with them to try to just keep them encouraging him to, to, uh, to do well.
And it's not easy.
Not when you're, you're not used to having a kid.
You know, my father's name was Arthur.
And I think when he was growing up in, uh, Coney Island section of Brooklyn on surf avenue, really not a great area to grow up in.
But that's what he did.
During the 1920s and 30s.
And, uh, he was in street gangs.
Hmm.
And he got in trouble.
He beat up a teacher.
And, uh, the choice was, now this happened in December of 1941.
What do we know of December 7th?
December 7th.
So he was arrested.
And they said, you have a choice.
Jail or the Navy.
What do you want to do?
And they needed people.
So he took the Navy.
And wind up getting two distinguished flying cross medals, three accommodations for saving lives.
Change his life around.
I mean, the Navy did it.
And, uh, but he started that really a horrible, horrible life.
I mean, it just, it was terrible.
And it was, it was, you know, the depression.
And, you know, he, one of the street gang members was Leona Helmsley.
Name some familiar?
Yes.
She was the queen of mean.
Remember that?
She was in the street gang.
No kidding.
It's funny how these things work out.
All right.
It is the Royal Family Kids Camp.
Here's your last chance to do it today.
We want you to go to WRJN.com slash Bucks.
WRJN.com slash Bucks.
I want you to bid on those four Bucks Celtics tickets with all the VIP treatment.
It's got to be over $1,200.
Today's the last day to do it.
Got to send some of these foster kids to camp for a week at least to let them be normal kids again.
The camp is in June in Lake Geneva.
And Rick and his wife Susan are putting this together with a lot of other volunteers, by the way,
who are giving up their vacations to do this.
So that's really great.
Go to WRJN.com slash Bucks.
WRJN.com slash Bucks.
Name email address.
And you're bid over $1,200, all right?
Thank you Rick.
You're quite well.
This is very good.
Very good.
I'm glad you're doing this stuff.
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A big movie opening up this weekend, a colossal movie.
It's big.
It's opening up next.
It's opening up next.
It's opening up next.
It's opening up next.
All right.
He's here for us.
Brett Hoffman is here for Marcus Thedders on WRJN.
And Brett, we got a big, big, big movie opening up today.
It's big.
Isn't it?
It's pretty big.
It's somewhat big.
You there, Brett?
I am here.
I am here.
It certainly is big.
Okay.
It's a big one.
I think it is.
Won't you tell everybody what it is?
Well, that's right.
Not only do we have one type in this one, but we have two and perhaps more.
Because it is the release of Godzilla X-Con, the new empire.
Godzilla and the almighty Kong.
They have to fan forces to fight a threat that's deep within their planet.
It's challenging their existence.
It's challenging the survival of the human race.
And that's another huge primate known as the star king that they must have sheep together.
Obviously, it's an action movie.
Audiences have been enjoying this one.
It currently has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
And I would say this one.
It's a fun action movie.
Grab your popcorn.
Have a good time with this one.
We learned a bit more about Godzilla.
We learned about Kong.
We learned about some of their origins.
And I think it's safe to say this is not going to be their last outing together.
Because there have been so many Godzilla and Kong movies in release.
And if you want to look back at this kind of monster versus what they call it.
There are five films right now which started out with the original Godzilla movie in 2014.
And went all the way to this one.
Godzilla X-Con with the new empire.
But there are five films in kind of this series from Warner Brothers and Legendary.
But both of these monsters are titans.
Have appeared in so many movies.
In fact, I was looking it up and had a couple different sources.
But by the count that I still on the internet, there are either 38 or 39 times
that Godzilla has graced the big screen.
And Kong has 14.
And that's both animated and regular.
So Godzilla is leading the pack here with 39 and Kong with 14.
But when you look at that, there are so many things that you can do with these characters.
And I just don't think they'll ever run their course.
I think we'll see a lot more of them on screen, including this weekend.
So you can go check them out.
Well, Godzilla turned 70 this year because the first one was in 1954.
A Japanese movie came out the year before then they made the Americanized version with Raymond Burr.
They put inserts into the film to give it an American look, which he really didn't do anything
but just look at a monitor.
I mean, that they just had Raymond Burr on screen.
So Godzilla's been around for 70 years.
There's one of the Academy Award this year.
This is the first Oscar after being snubbed for 70 years.
He won an Oscar for Godzilla minus one.
And so this, we had two Godzilla movies within a month or so of each other.
That's kind of, that's a record, huh?
That's right.
Two different production companies put them out.
But obviously, if you haven't seen Godzilla minus one,
find out on a movie, or want a technical award at the Oscars, go check that one out.
And this one's fun, too.
This one is really fun. Go check this one out.
Plenty of great movies on screen, including Ghostbusters that just came out.
But also this one.
Godzilla versus Kong, the new empire, really fun movie.
Go check it out.
Great special effects as you can imagine.
And just a fun, great spring break movie to go see.
No, I know a little bit about Godzilla because I grew up watching all the movies with Godzilla versus
Godora.
Godzilla versus Rodan.
Godzilla.
I mean, all these guy.
He was good.
Godora.
And then it was mecha Godzilla.
I don't know if you remember mecha Godzilla mecha Godzilla was a mechanical Godzilla that was
beaten, was created by scientists to beat Godzilla, the real Godzilla.
So there was, there was a metal Godzilla mecha Godzilla.
And then there was mecha Godzilla versus Godzilla, too.
They had a sequel to it.
And I used to watch all these.
I have a lot of them on VHS, my old tapes and everything.
Well, my favorite one is still one of the Gorgos, which was the British version of Godzilla.
Remember Gorgos?
Do you remember that?
I do remember him.
And I also remember mecha Godzilla who also came back to play.
He came back in the last series as well.
So again, there's no way they could just keep bringing these characters back.
I love it.
They will love this in Godzilla.
And there have been so many different versions of him recently.
There was one bad version a couple of years back, which didn't even look like Godzilla.
Look like a lizard in New York City.
They brought him into New York.
But now they're back to what the original Godzilla looked like with his radioactive breath.
I got to have that in there.
And of course, King Kong from Skull Island.
You know, it's funny.
The original King Kong with the stop motion photography was still very good.
You look at it from 1933.
It still holds up pretty well when he's on top of the Empire State Building, holding Feyray.
Remember that?
And the planes are shooting at him.
That holds up.
Yeah.
I think it's amazing.
And it still holds up.
And you take a look at that.
And people love that movie.
It's a classic movie.
And who does thought that movie that's almost a hundred years old is holding up that well?
That's right.
It is almost a hundred years old.
You're absolutely right.
Okay.
Now the big news last Friday.
You wouldn't tell us what the big news was.
I tried bribing him.
I even went over to his office, tried to beat it out of him.
He wouldn't break.
I said, you know, you would be great during World War II.
You wouldn't give up any secrets of the Nazis.
I know you wouldn't, because you wouldn't tell me what this was.
So you would be great at holding onto these secrets.
So the big news last week was Star Wars, but it's bigger than that.
What you talk about it.
That's right.
The big news was we had the opportunity to put on a marathon, which is going to happen on May 3rd,
right before May 4th, for May the 4th be with you.
So we had an opportunity to put on a marathon of all nine films in the Skywalker series of Star Wars.
We put that on sale.
We put on a marathon of about people that are going to want a marathon that starts at 8 o'clock in night on May 3rd
and goes all the way, almost 24 hours with breaks into Saturday on May 4th, with breakfast included.
And let me tell you about it.
All two auditoriums are sold out.
They sold out rather quickly.
So we're going to have a great time with a bunch of Star Wars fans on May 3rd and 4th at the Marcus Majestic Cinema in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
But if you didn't get a chance to see it, I mean, take a look.
We're going to have news reports.
We're going to have people there.
We're going to post on social media.
So check that out.
It's going to be an amazing experience and celebration of the Star Wars series.
But as I mentioned, I told you guys, there was something going on at 11 a.m.
So a few of you were working off to go check that out.
I did.
You may have gotten tickets to that one.
Now, I only saw the first Star Wars movie.
It was telling Rick.
I worked at a radio station in 1977 on Long Island.
And they had this movie that nobody ever heard of.
And they weren't.
They were worried that they weren't.
It wasn't anything of the promotion.
So they hired our radio station to give away tickets and promoted.
All the DJs had to go there.
And it was held at the Twin South Cinema Theater, the big cinema screen.
And we packed the theater by giving away tickets.
And I thought it was.
It was okay.
I mean, as a right people were coming out like it was the second coming.
Oh, I can't believe it.
I can't believe what I said.
This is.
And people would just wouldn't stop talking about this in the lobby.
And I'm saying, really?
Did we see the same movie?
I mean, it was okay.
I mean, it was good.
But they were just going bananas.
Now, Rick, you're a big Star Wars fan, right?
Well, I saw the first three.
Oh, the first three is so.
Yeah.
But you're not.
You're not a considered Star Wars geek.
I am not.
No, but you can ask me anything about the first three movies.
And I thoroughly enjoyed them.
And, you know, then I became a fan of, you know, Han Solo and all his other reprisals throughout
the throughout the years.
You know, I remember when, what was the Luke Skywalker?
What was that guy's in the actor's name?
Mark camel.
Mark camel.
Okay.
Right after Star Wars, he made a movie called Corvette Summer.
Do you remember that movie, Brett?
Well, I remember it didn't do that well.
But yes, he wasn't.
Yes.
And, and here's what the ad said, the only movie good enough to follow Star Wars Corvette
Summer.
What a never flip that out.
What's that?
I mean, I saw the movie Turner Classic movies runs it occasionally and I saw it.
The only movie good enough to follow Star Wars.
And he was on TV promoting Corvette Summer as like, you know, I, I was looking for another
project after Star Wars to equal Star Wars.
And I took a grad Corvette Summer really about a guy going around America in a Corvette
that's the movie that you followed Star Wars with.
Oh well.
So this is big and there's going to be, well, it's already sold out so people can get
into it.
So the breakfast buffet will be in the lobby.
24 hours.
That's exactly right.
So you've got to get a good run time.
It's over 18, but we have breaks in there with breakfast breaks.
You have things like that.
But there'll be plenty of activities for people.
And let me tell you, if you weren't able to get into the marathon, they are going to
re-release the Phantom Menace on May 3rd as well.
So if you weren't into the investment, which is over 24 hours or about 24 hours, you can
go see the Phantom Menace, which is episode one, Disney and Lucas Films are re-releasing
that in May 3rd.
And that would be a great opportunity to see that movie at the big screen.
And you could just take in one of those Star movies and know they are covered for the
May the 4th weekend.
You know, when I was just got married back in 1976, there was a theater near us called the
Uniondale Mini Cinema.
It was a tiny little theater, but they ran at midnight.
They ran the Rocky Horror picture show, all those kind of things.
And one night they ran an overnight thing.
You came in at midnight and you stayed till 8 a.m., they ran some of the worst movies,
and we went for an all night thing and they served breakfast in the morning in the lobby.
And it was Zachariah, the first electric western with John Rubenstein.
Do you remember that, Brett?
Zachariah?
I don't remember that one now.
Zachariah, easy rider.
And Alice's restaurant.
And there was one other film I can't remember what it was, but it was not a big movie.
But they ran all those movies together.
And I went there and we saw it, but you know, those were the hippie days where you sat there
in a theater and they served breakfast, you know, Danish and coffee in the morning, whatever.
But it was kind of fun.
Yeah.
We used to do that.
Okay.
We went to all their midnight movies.
Remember the midnight?
They do midnight movies anymore, anywhere.
You know what?
Very rarely, you know, what they started doing now is they started releasing most movies
on Thursday nights just at seven o'clock.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very rarely we see a midnight movie.
Yeah.
I think I used to have fun going to the movies late at night at midnight.
Of course, I was like, you know, 20 years old.
So I got to like it.
All right.
So we got Godzilla X-Con opening up today.
And we've got the big Star Wars night coming up on, well, by the way, what time's that
start at night?
Just curiosity on May 4th?
Well, on May 4th, it starts at 8 o'clock at night or runs to just about that time
the next day.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
Now, you have to get employees working all night too.
Yeah, that's right.
There's a big crew that put this on.
There's a promotions crew.
There's the food and beverage crew.
Oh, really?
A lot of operations staff.
So it takes a lot of people and a lot of different shifts to put this on.
Obviously, work is excited to do this.
We're excited to bring people in.
And even if you didn't get to take it, I'd encourage you to come out.
Because we've got a ton of different displays.
We're going to revise the barrier into a Star Wars canteen out.
There's so many things that are going on.
So even if you didn't get a ticket to the Marathon, come out there in a weekend, see the
Phantom Menace and check out all the displays and things we have on board for this one.
Do you know here in Racine, whenever there's a parade, a Christmas parade, 4th of July parade,
they have the Star Wars storm troopers in the parade.
Have you ever seen them, Rick?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
There's a group and they dressed up in all the Star Wars regalia.
I mean, they look just like the storm troopers.
And, you know, I always said nothing says celebrate the birth of Jesus like Star Wars storm troopers coming down Main Street.
But there are these people.
And I would imagine they're going to get dressed up in their Star Wars outfits with the little buns on this.
The women will have the buns on the side of their head, like Carrie Fisher had in the movie.
So I can imagine that going on because when I went, you guys had an all day loosey thing once.
We have showed like five color loosey episodes.
And my wife brought her loosey pocket book.
We had loosey blankets.
We have everyone's a loosey stuff on that day.
So I can imagine what that place is going to look like.
You can take pictures, right?
You're going to share in this.
That's going to be amazing.
And we're going to have cosplay and costume contest.
So yeah, you're going to see a lot of people dressed up and having a great time.
Okay.
So we got the new Ghostbusters movie and theaters right now.
We've got Zilla Kong.
What else is coming up?
Is there any character?
Do we have another big movie coming out?
Yeah, there's a ton of good stuff coming out.
When we look at what's on sale, we talked yet last week about the full guy also coming on on.
Oh, yeah.
May 3rd.
That's coming out.
So that should be an excellent picture.
By the way, I meant to tell you, you were a big fan of the movie, Dune 2.
Steven Spielberg came out and as a matter of fact, I have it right here.
The quote, hold on.
Let me get the quote.
This is from Steven Spielberg.
He said, Dune 2.
Part 2 is the most brilliant science fiction film he's ever seen in his life.
And he says Timothy Shalame, Shalame writing a sandworm is, I quote now, one of the best
greatest scenes I've ever seen in movies that Steven Spielberg.
This guy of all the movies, Steven Spielbergs, he said, Dune 2 is the best science fiction film he's ever seen.
If that isn't a testimonial.
So Dune 2 is still playing Ghostbusters.
And you've got Godzilla X Kong and the Star Wars made fourth, but that's sold out.
And that's only at the handful of theaters in America too.
That's right.
Only a few, only 13 in the country.
So we've got a ton there.
Lots of movies to go see.
And Kung Fu Panda 4 is out there for the kids and spring break.
So so much to see at the movies, go check it out.
All right.
Hey Brett, we'll talk to you next Friday.
Thanks a lot, my friend.
We'll see you later.
Bye-bye.
And Derek, thanks a lot.
Who's down by?
I do appreciate it today.
He learns so much when you come to this radio station.
Oh yeah.
You don't think you do, but you do.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Going up next, it's sports with Mike Clemens right here at W.R. and Cheyenne.
I'm Don Rosen.
All the town radio refreshed a civic media station.
Mike Clemens is here.
And good morning.
Now there's good Friday.
Mike, good to talk to you again.
Good morning.
Good Friday to everybody.
Happy Easter this weekend.
Gonna be a long, long morning though for the bucks they lost again last night.
And by the way, we're quickly here.
We're giving away buck Celtics tickets.
VIP tickets.
You get to sit in row two, four seats, VIP treatment and everything.
For the Royal Family Kids Camp, I want people to know these four tickets.
Today's the last day you can bid on them at WRJN.com slash bucks.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
The high bid is $1,200.
So you got to bid that.
WRJN.com slash bucks.
Okay.
Go ahead.
I want to get it one more time.
Couldn't be a better matchup.
I mean, that's the team that the bucks have got to beat if they're, you know,
going to represent the Eastern Conference and get it in the finals.
And, you know, they've struggled with Boston.
Boston is really good and has been a top has had the lead in the Eastern Conference.
Last night, the bucks were in New Orleans and they faced a pelican's team that basically
they, they, they boxed out the bucks from the paint.
You know, from underneath the basket, forced them to shoot from outside.
Didn't work out and they ended up losing 107 to 100 last night.
It was a very interesting game.
And, I forgot to say, oh, I know you got to list the things here,
but I want to get this in because I don't want people to forget.
It's opening day take two for the Brewers today.
They'll be in there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was weird.
They called it off early on Wednesday because the forecast said 100% chance of rain all day.
And, you know, all the fans would be standing out there all day at the Met Stadium in New York.
You know what, though, they, you know, like the Brewers didn't actually put out a press release.
So, you know, there wasn't a real good job out there in letting everybody know that,
hey, you know, we're, we're not going to play Thursday.
We're going to play on Friday instead.
So, yeah, they've got their game coming up today.
Hey, I want to, I want to take a quick buck story.
Okay.
They let us, they don't always let us in the locker room.
They usually bring the players out now, you know, pass COVID for press conferences.
But they were so happy Sunday night when they had such a good game against the Thunder.
And, and they just sort of move things along.
Say, come on back in the locker room.
So, it was great.
I mean, we got to talk to everybody.
And when we get to the corners to Dame Lillard, he was such an interesting guy.
And while we're standing there talking to these different players, Chris Middleton, the veteran,
over in the corner, there's Yanis sitting in front of his locker,
and his knees are still taped up.
You know, it's not uncommon to see Yanis with both knees, with bags of ice on him,
and wrapped up in this like, you know, elastic tape,
and both feet in buckets of ice cold water.
I mean chunks of ice in there to get the swelling down on the ankles.
So he's got both knees wrapped up with ice, both ankles soaking in water.
And while we're talking to these other players, it's just kind of going on and on.
And then all of a sudden, about 20 minutes into the locker room,
you hear a phone alarm go off, and it's Yanis.
And it's like, okay, the next time, so he was done.
So he turned off his alarm on his phone, he got out these big scissors,
cut off the ice bags on the knees, and got his feet out of the cold water,
and dried them off, put on some socks, and then he was ready to talk.
But I realized, none of these other guys were soaking their knees.
So that's just, that's how crazy committed Yanis and Tidacupo is.
It's not like he's got problems with those things.
All those guys probably should be doing the same thing.
But you know, when the trainer says, yeah, that's the best thing to keep the swelling down.
And get you ready for the next game is, you know, ice down for 20 minutes after every game.
That's what he does. That's why he's such a dedicated player.
Let's talk about Marquette.
Marquette University.
Yeah, Marquette, they're advanced, they're in the sweet 16,
and they're taking on a team called the NC State.
Today, the tip off time is at 609.
One thing that really made the difference for Marquette,
when their first two games, as opposed to the Badgers being one,
down his Tyler Koelik, a guy who had an oblique muscle injury a few weeks ago,
was able to come back.
So he was able to leave his team.
The golden eagles are favored to win this one tonight,
but this will be another tough physical team for them to get past tonight.
Then we've got the Packers at the NFL Meetings this week.
Yeah, they decided to change the kick-offs,
and they're going to look really, really strange.
They're borrowing a play from the XFL, which is odd,
but instead of the kicker,
and all of his 10 guys next to him,
all lining up on the same line where the ball is,
this is just bizarre.
The receiving team will be lined up with,
and they can't spread guys out anymore.
They're all standing on the same line,
like I think the 35-year-old line,
and the receiver stand behind him.
He's way back there at the end of the field,
on the opposite side of the field, by himself,
and all of his defenders are standing 10 yards away
from the receiving team's blockers.
So they're all bunched down around the 30 or so,
and this is what they're going to do.
Mark Murphy, the Packers president,
he voted against it.
I think it won something like 28-3,
or something like that, 29-3.
And the Packers are one of the teams that voted against,
and he said, you know, I just thought that,
I know they're trying to make kickoffs safer,
but maybe we should just do it on a trial basis,
like during the preseason or something.
See how it works, but no,
they're putting in for this year, the entire season,
and they're going to have these weird-looking kick-offs,
but they hope that adds to player safety.
Okay, just a quick review.
Today, opening day,
take two.
The Brewer is going to play the match in Queens, New York,
at Cityfield.
The game will be held 12-05.
You can hear the game, 12-05 right here on WRJN Radio.
I don't have the sports schedule in front of you,
but we have tons of sports playing this Easter weekend as well,
and it's a lot for you to cover, my friend.
You're going to know.
I'll be as busy as the Easter Bunny, hopper on.
One sport to another one.
But, you know, it's great,
and there's always great stories to tell from these teams.
Yeah.
All right.
Clemens.
I'll see you next Friday, my friend.
Have a nice Easter.
Thanks, Don.
I'm Bob I know.
All righty.
Have yourself a great weekend yourself.
All right, I'm Don Rosen.
Home Town Radio refreshed a civic media station on catch
a Monday morning, six o'clock.
Yeah, I think we have Pete Schwabba.
On Monday, it's going to join us out of the air here.
That should be fun talking showbiz with Pete Schwabba.
To all my guests this week,
and to everybody at civic media,
we're going to have a nice Easter, all right?