The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

Anybody a gym teacher here?

You think when gym teachers are younger they're thinking,

you know, I want to teach, but I don't want to read.

How about kickball for 40 years?

I can't believe we got grades in gym class.

I've never used anything I learned in there.

I've never been art, I'm staying in front of a room full of strangers.

Based on what I've learned in gym class,

I will throw a red ball at a fat guy.

That's not good.

You can take me to paradise

And then again, you can be cold as ice.

I'm over my head

Over my own, but it sure feels nice.

You can take me anytime you like.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

But I'll be baby

And hold me tight

Your mood is like a surplus meal

You're changing all the time

Sometimes I feel empathy

And I'm wasting all my time.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

But I'll be around if you think you're mine.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

You're changing all the time

Sometimes I can help you

And I'm wasting all of my time.

And I'm looking on the dark side.

But every day you're hurt by the light.

I'm over my head

Over my own, but it sure feels nice.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

I'll be around if you think you're mine.

At 709 at WRGN Radio, hometown radio,

Refresh to Civic Media Station, Nick Demsky is here

Interim Executive Director of the Racine Public Library.

It's the latest, it's the greatest, it's the library.

Great to be here with you again.

In February, it's the library.

I can't believe the grammar of this country.

That's going to be a downfall in this country grammar.

I hear people say, I ain't got none of that.

I play scramble a lot.

I play that six times a day.

And you got to have some command of the English language

when you play scramble.

And they talk and they, you know, I came, I came,

they used to come and said, come in the room.

That's just it drives me nuts when I hear that.

But this is the public library where you can learn how to speak.

Things going good at the library.

Yesterday, it had the, the biggest clips event going there.

Yeah, we closed off some of libraries.

Okay, why don't you get within a quarter mile shirt?

A quarter mile.

Is that better?

Yeah.

Every word you have to say today.

Absolutely.

And face it up.

And it's kind of bad.

Well, these are brand new.

These springs.

And they haven't been worked in yet.

We just got these springs for it.

It looks how I feel.

It's like nodding off.

Okay.

Well, you're the, you'll do well.

So tell us about the eclipse event at the library.

The world was watching the eclipse one way or another.

But here in Racine, you had glasses for people.

And was it a good show up?

Yeah.

Well, I didn't get to be there yesterday.

But I know we've been planning for months.

And there was a lot of interest shown.

So I trust that a lot of people came out, brought shares.

Like I say, we closed off some of the library circle in front of the library.

And it was just a perfect day in Racine to.

You weren't hiding under a desk somewhere afraid of these.

I was, you know, I had my tinfoil hat on.

This is the end.

This is the end.

This is the end of my basement.

You know, we laugh.

But I'm sure hundreds and hundreds maybe thousand years ago.

Oh, yeah.

People saw this.

And they all said it turned dark in the middle of the day.

Yeah.

And, you know, they started the panic.

Animals started coming out.

It was kind of eerie, right?

Where were you when the eclipse started happening?

In front of my house.

In front of your house?

Yeah.

I didn't have the glasses.

So I came out.

And I tried my sunglasses for a quarter of a second.

And my next door neighbor came out.

And she, we had the glasses.

I said, can I take a peek?

She goes in her house.

She says, I have an extra pair.

Wow.

Thank you.

That's cool.

They were for her son.

But he didn't want to see it.

I guess he's going to wait for 20 years.

OK.

I'll get them on the next go around.

I've seen the eclipse before.

I remember the other eclipses we've had.

But you know where the best shot was from the space station?

They couldn't see the eclipse like you and I saw it.

They saw the shadow going over the earth.

That's wild.

They saw it go from Texas all the way up and cloud covered

and mounted to them.

They saw the shadow go right up to Niagara Falls and beyond.

That must have been great.

I'd like to see a picture of that.

That's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Yeah.

Especially people.

Most of us don't go to the space station.

Maybe someday we will.

Who knows?

OK.

So with the library, a lot of new shows.

A lot of new shows.

A lot of new programs coming in.

It's true.

Now you have a podcasting studio.

What's that all about?

We do.

So not our previous director most recently.

But the director before that, her name was Jessica McFail.

And she was the director at the library for 20 years.

And when she retired, they decided that they were going

to build and name a podcasting studio after her.

So it's the Jessica McFail podcasting studio.

She was just a huge music fan.

She specifically was like very obsessed with the Rolling Stone.

She still lives in the community here.

So we love that we get to honor her with that.

But yeah, the podcasting studio is finally now live and open to the public.

And anyone, including you, Don, can call and reserve it for two hours.

It's not like a huge space.

If you're trying to record several people at once or something,

that wouldn't be the right space.

But if you're trying to record one musician or just do one or two people in a podcast,

something small like that, it is free and open to the public.

What does the podcast go?

Well, wherever you.

Oh, you can send it to us.

Yeah, put it up online.

Absolutely.

Oh, I didn't know.

And that's great.

We have pretty much all the equipment in there.

We, our staff, you know, is not experts in this.

So it's not the sort of thing that you would come and like learn how to do it there.

You would want to come in with some skills yourself.

But we do have all the equipment ready for you to go.

Well, that's me.

Yeah, it's pretty righteous.

So, so if you record whatever you want.

That's right.

And then you send it to YouTube or whatever site you send it to.

Yep.

And you have a podcast online.

That's it.

And who knows?

You may be starting somebody in a new career.

Yeah, you're famous.

Let me do it.

Well, this will be podcast today.

Well, our interview.

What we do is we podcast them at about 10 o'clock in the morning.

They're done.

Okay.

And they're on Apple podcast.

They're on Spotify.

They're on Google podcast.

They're on YouTube.

They're on wrgn.com.

They're on civicmedia.us and the civic media app.

In other words, everywhere you can get a podcast everywhere in the world.

We podcasted.

And also, I noticed that the library now has us podcast.

You link the podcasts on your, on your email.

Look at that face.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I had no idea.

Oh, oh, I see what you said.

It's when you said us podcasts.

You mean, y'all, you.

Well, what you do, we podcasted, but you put a link to it.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Well, I mean, you, you have been so generous and having, you have us here so regularly,

that, you know, we might as well return the favor somehow.

So this will be podcast long after your gun.

I don't think it's going to be long after your gun.

It's going to be podcast.

And what was really neat was what the library did for us.

What was the archivist name?

Rebecca Leon.

Rebecca Leon.

She was in here.

And she talked.

She said she will archive our history, things we do called WRJ.

And historical markers where we interview people who were still alive, luckily.

We did one posthumously last week.

But we interview people and they give us the history of WRJ and radio over the years

they were here.

Some people were here many, many years from the early 70s, late 60s.

But we got to get to them because when they're gone, they're gone.

That's real.

And so she said, you will archive it.

But what do you archive it on?

If this had been the 70s, I'd say, here's a cassette.

If it had been the 80s, here's a CD.

If it had been the 90s and the beyond, here's a little memory stack.

Flash drive, yeah.

Flash drive.

Flash drive.

What do you archive it for the future?

So we have it on the cloud here at the radio station.

The company they have this huge amount of space on the cloud.

And we have the links to the cloud.

All right.

For now, that's the best we can do.

It makes sense.

Who knows what's going to happen in 50s years from now?

I mean, if you would have told me 50 years ago, were you going to be on the cloud?

You mean like that thing up in the sky?

What does that mean?

I wouldn't know if you said a flash drive.

I would have a memory stick.

I would know what any of those things were 50 years ago.

50 years ago, I wouldn't know what a CD was.

All right.

Now they're obsolete.

Although I still use them.

I love that you all are doing that.

We actually have a collection of oral histories at the library.

Also, that really Rebecca was the person who spearheaded.

But if you don't know, we do have a whole room, the Racine History Room,

just devoted to Racine History.

So if you want to find old articles about, you know,

anything that you can think of, old articles about SC Johnson when it started

or, you know, if you want to look at old yearbooks and see if you can find yourself in it

or old county board minutes or city council minutes, like all sorts of things,

anything that has to do with the community.

Well, that's the library is more than the dual decimal system in books.

Sure, yeah.

It's more than that.

You know, everybody thinks, well, all the books are with the library.

They got bold dusty books.

They got a lot.

They got the dusty books.

But they got more than that at the library.

It's true.

I mean, we're going to talk about some of the programs you have there for people,

including computer gaming.

Yeah.

A lot.

We talked about a thing in the newspaper at the schools.

Should they get into computer gaming?

Because that's how kids learn through computer gaming.

And they said, they're thinking about doing it.

The library is doing it right now.

For sure.

Yeah.

You guys have way ahead of the world on that one.

Well, that's great.

So we'll be talking about that coming up in just a few moments.

The computer gaming part of it.

You got the podcasting studio up.

We got to take quick break.

And then we're back.

Nick Dempsey is the interim, interim director, executive director of the

Racine Public Library.

Well, you guys got a lot going on there.

It's such a great place.

During COVID, you're remodeled to place.

That's true.

Yeah.

It's beautiful.

You took advantage of COVID when nobody was lied in the library anyway.

Right.

And you had the place not gutted.

But you ate a lot and moved some things around.

Yeah.

And made it a great place for families to come and visit.

And you know what?

The best part is folks.

It's free.

Doesn't cost anything to come in there.

Sing that song.

Absolutely.

Free, free.

Yeah.

That's the great greatest price.

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Thank you for joining us here on Don Rosenick Demsky.

Interim director.

Now, Interim director, he may be you may be the full time director, right?

We don't know yet.

Sure.

We'll see.

They have to go through a whole process.

What a graph has to be spread around.

Above my pay grade as they say.

Long to be done.

Yeah.

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Longs have to be mowed into people's homes this summer.

Okay.

So, you got to start.

Now, I told you I got to start.

I got to start as a janitor at a radio station when I was 18 years old.

Right.

That was 57 years ago.

You got started.

You worked away up too.

Yeah.

I started as a bookshelver a little over 17 years ago.

Is that the equivalent of being a janitor?

Well, I think the janitor's actually get paid more than bookshelvers at the library anyway.

But yeah.

Yeah.

Just shelving books.

I always say that I am a living library success story because the way I wound up getting hired

at the library, this is back in the day of paper applications.

Right.

Nobody was filling these things out online.

So, I was living in my girlfriend's mom's basement at the time.

I didn't have transportation.

So, I was taking the bus and just going around walking and getting paper applications from different places

to try to get a job.

There was only one warm, free place to fill them out.

That was the library.

And eventually someone who saw me coming in every day said, are you looking for a job?

And I said, yeah.

And they said, well, we're hiring right now in the hand and be a paper application.

And the rest was sort of history from there.

So, the library really gave me a career.

You know.

It was the scene library.

It was the scene library.

Absolutely.

Well, look at you.

You are a Cinderella story.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm very happy to be.

You know, it just reinforces for me how important it can be to community members' lives.

And you have to learn that you have to, you know, when I was a janitor, I had the keys to everybody's office.

So, I learned everything.

Right.

Because I'm snooping in their office when I shouldn't have.

But I learned a lot.

But if you started the bottom, you learn everything at the ground level.

So, when you get to the top, not only can you empathize with the people at the ground level,

but you know how everything works.

Yeah.

You can tell people that when you start at the top, you don't know how everything works.

It is a huge advantage.

It is something that you don't think about at the time.

But when you look back at your career, you say, yeah, I guess it was a good idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You started that scraping the toilet bowls and cleaning the cigarette.

I had a three-story office building out of clean.

Because we were at the station.

I'll show you a picture of it at the break.

Yeah.

We had a three-story building.

Years later, about 20 years later, I ran into the program director at that station that I was at.

1972.

And he said to me, you know, you really achieved a lot, but I'll tell you something.

You were the best janitor in that building.

We never had anybody's more conscientious about cleaning stuff up and polishing and vacuuming

and doing stuff.

He said, we had a janitor's after you, but you were the best.

Wow.

I mean, that's the thing.

Whatever, whatever responsibility you're given, right?

Try to, try to really show like, hey, I'm going to take this seriously.

And hopefully you'll get a little more.

And you, after 52 years, that's incredible.

You've definitely gotten a lot more.

But he just said, he said, you were the best at you.

Well, I can go back to that.

If you gave me my current salary, I'll go back to cleaning the toilet bowls.

All right.

Let's talk about the book sale coming up.

Yeah.

Now, this is, this is the over, you have doubles or just these books that have lived out their life

and it's time to move on.

Give me a new home.

There is some of that.

So first of all, this is, there's, I want to make a little distinction.

There's the library proper, right?

And then there's this organization, this nonprofit that is like a sister organization

to us called the Friends of the Library.

And anyone can become a friend of the library.

It's a membership organization.

You know, membership starts at $10.

It's just a way to support the library.

That's all they exist to do.

And specifically, they help us fund programming when, you know, we want to do something extra

for the community that we can't afford to.

But one of the main ways they do that is by selling books.

And they sell books every day that we're open, right?

There's what they call the booktique at the library.

You could go in, you know, as soon as we open at 9 a.m. today,

and you could go and buy 100 books at the booktique.

And they're all like a dollar each or something like that, you know?

But usually I think twice a year, they have a big book sale.

And they'll be having their spring book sale, April 25th through the 27th,

which I think is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Thursday is always a member's only day.

But again, only cost $10 to be sold.

Absolutely.

I mean, we get some serious collectors coming in for that.

Oh, and to answer your question.

Some of them are books that we've weeded from our collection

as we're making a room for new books.

But anybody can, people bring in donations all the time.

Anybody can do that any day that we're open.

People have been very generous with us.

Well, I told my, and by the way,

remember what American Express once said.

Membership has its privilege.

Ah, that's right.

That's right.

Yeah, that's the privilege.

I told past people that we're in here.

I have a huge DVD Blu-ray collection,

but I've got something called the Synorama collection.

You're very young.

You don't remember Synorama movies, but back in the late 50s, early 60s,

they had Synorama.

They had these special theaters.

The one they had here was at Southgate Mall in Milwaukee.

That was a Synorama theater.

It was a 150 degree curved screen.

And it took three projectors to put the movie on there.

The movies were mostly travel logs,

which I have because they released them all.

And the two films they actually made with the three strip process

were How the West was one, Big Western with the biggest stars in Hollywood

and the wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm.

All the rest, like 2001, a space odyssey,

were shot in Synorama, but with a single camera.

70s, they called it 70 Super Panavision 70, Synorama.

It was one camera.

And it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world was done like that.

And there were a lot of the greatest story ever told.

Big Synorama movie.

So I have the entire collection of every Synorama movie

on DVD and Blu-ray.

And I said, when I go, the library could have my Synorama collection

because you don't have any of them.

You may have How the West was one,

but you don't have the travel logs in the three strip process.

They were totally redone.

The actual making of on how they restored these

is worth the price of admission onto itself.

So you can have that.

I was going to give you one other movie.

It's not available anymore.

It hasn't been available for years.

Let it be the Beatles movie from 1970.

Oh, yeah, sure.

I have, I bought on eBay the VHS copy.

Yoko Ono put an end to it when she found out they put it out

back in the back in the 80s.

They put it out on VHS.

And Yoko put an end to that.

So whatever was out there was out there.

And it's the original United Artists film.

Let it be.

It was put out by CBS Fox Magnetic Home Video back then.

Now, there are bootleg copies out there,

but I have a legal copy.

So I was going to give it to the library and my son said,

no, I want that.

That's going to be worth some money, right?

Well, I paid $125.

I go, there you go.

All right.

Back several years ago.

Yeah.

We're talking the Nick Demsky, the interim executive director

of the Racine Public Library, more coming up at just a moment.

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I think we have 62 right now.

It's always right around 60.

You put your friendliest people right at the front desk.

Which is nice.

We try.

They are so helpful.

When you walk in there, how can I help you?

And when I walk in, if they're helping somebody that they tell them to get out of the way, don't see them.

I hope that's not happening.

We got a new customer guy.

I was going to say, oh, I love the elevator.

There's one, two, and then there's one without a number on it, like the mystery floor.

Yeah.

The hopeful floor, the one day floor.

It is that guy.

That's a twilight zone episode.

You hit that button and you wind up in like the dinosaurs are roaming.

Yeah.

What's even better is our staircase does the same thing.

It has an extra floor and it just goes up to a wall.

There's nothing there.

That is a twilight zone.

You got the local author's showcase coming up April 27th.

And the interesting thing is I'm reading a book right now by Carol G. and Forte.

Yeah, sure.

Who, you know her?

Absolutely.

Yeah, she does the stuff about the history of her scene.

She's in here all the time.

Anyway, she wrote a book and she gave it to me.

And she signed it.

It's about her growing up on Carlisle Avenue.

And what's really great about that book is I didn't grow up here.

Growing up through this book.

And she talks about neighbors who came when they were little people, you know, younger.

And now they grew up and they left.

And everybody can relate to that.

Because when you grew up, people leave.

Yeah.

Your best friends leave.

And I'm sitting there.

My wife is reading me the book. She's a great reader.

So she reads it to me.

And I'm sitting there.

Because you think about all the people you grew up with.

Absolutely.

That's the ending who dies and who does.

And I said, what are you growing the ending for?

Anyway, so we're reading that book now.

It's about her life on Carlisle Avenue.

There were a lot of local authors here.

We went to one guy wrote a book about him.

And his life growing up in Racine as well.

There's one guy lives in Caledonia.

He wrote about his book.

A lot of local authors around here.

It's true.

Everybody got a book in them.

This community is very rich with.

I mean, creatives in general.

We got tons of artists, tons of musicians.

But we have so many great local authors.

And so some of our staff decided they wanted to put together a showcase.

And that's what they're doing.

April 27th.

There's going to be readings and presentations.

That's going to be happening throughout the day.

But all day, the authors will just sort of like be at tables selling their books.

So you're actually going to have them in?

Absolutely.

So I'm not positive how many will be there.

But I know that we ran out of room a long time ago.

There were a lot of people who said, can I, you know,

I'm an author, can I also be a part of this?

And we said, we're sorry.

We just ran out of room at this point.

Everybody's got a book in them except me.

I doubt that.

Let me tell you something.

I lead a very boring life.

It's not exciting.

It's a nice life.

Sure.

Yeah, I wonder what's going to happen in the next chapter.

The same thing that happened in the first five chapters.

I mean, you did just tell me you've been in radio 52 years and you started as a janitor.

But it's not exciting.

It's not like, oh, I can't wait to find out what happens next.

Well, he cleaned the toilet box.

What do they do with the cigarette ashes?

They were all over the table.

Oh, you know, when you're a quick story.

So I'm on the air.

And it was still the janitor.

And I was doing afternoons.

Of the building for the Girl Scouts.

And one of the Girl Scouts threw up in the lobby.

But I mean, like, projectile vote everywhere.

This girl led everything out for the month.

Oh, God.

And they say, can you put on a long song?

And I put on American Pie, which was eight minutes.

And I had to go clean the puke up in the lobby.

Oh.

There's my picture in the lobby with all this.

And then I had to go.

Well, that's a janitor.

That's chapter one right there.

It throws up in the library.

Somebody's got a clean of that.

Yeah.

I don't think I've ever had to clean up puke.

But I have had to clean up other things from people's bodies.

Really?

Yeah.

I mean, we have people, fortunately, very, very amazing people

who do that.

But sometimes they're not there.

And so, you know, you just got to, that's other duties

as a sign at that point.

Well, no pun intended on that word.

Yeah.

I said my stuff.

Now, back to the authors.

Well, off hand, I'm going to put you on the spot.

Do you know any of the authors who are going to be there?

Yeah.

Oh, you do.

So, have a little list here.

We have one, the first one is a very special person to me.

But Jean Arnold, I call her mother Jean Arnold, an amazing community member.

Deanne Auber, Aisha Montgomery, who's done a lot of, she's a local poet.

She's done a lot of programming at the library.

Emanuel Beacham, Cheryl Bunger, Doug Chassi, Anita Diabrasio.

Laura Jellett, who's also done a number of presentations.

Amazing community member with a great book.

Carol G. Inforte, who you just meant she's going to be there.

She's going to be there.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wish she'd tell me that stuff.

I think she's probably been doing stuff at the library like longer than I've worked there.

I've been there 17 years.

The carlile, I'm telling you, it's a great read.

And you don't have to be from here to enjoy it.

Yeah.

Because I'm not from here and I enjoyed it.

That's awesome.

I mean, we all care about the community and it's fun to just learn about what it was before

you were here.

You know what we did?

We drove past her house and took a picture of it.

Oh.

Not that I wanted to prove.

You got into it.

Well, yeah.

I don't know where it is.

My wife is driving because she knows where carlile is.

I don't know where it is.

Sarah.

So we drove by and took a picture of it and here it is.

This is your house and carlile.

Oh my God.

That's the cover of the book.

Well, I've said that, you know, that's it is today.

She's on the cover as a little girl looking, you know, and out.

Nothing's changed.

Wow.

And she talks about her dad fixing up the house.

And when he got too old, he couldn't do it anymore.

And she talks about her dad fighting television.

I'm not kidding.

Phoebe, we're not bringing that newfangled invention into this house.

It's true.

It's the devil's work.

We're not going to happen.

He was right.

He was right.

And eventually he gave in and bought a television.

But he bought it at a store 60 miles away.

Why didn't you buy it somewhere in town?

Yes.

And they had an antenna put up to the side of their house.

Not on the roof, but up the, but it's on that book.

And you find all these authors have great books.

Yeah.

You know, not everything's going to be Harry Potter or some kind of like, you know, adventure book.

They could be just hometown books and hear about people's lives.

Yeah.

Just one other person that we'll have, we've got a number of others.

But Gerald Kowalski.

I don't know.

If you know him, but he owns a place, I bet you do.

Do you know him?

He owns a place that they call the farm.

And I think Union Grove.

And he just had him on the air.

Yeah.

He's like the godfather of recene local history.

We had him clearing is what he runs.

He was on television.

They had the the pickers out there.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

We had him on the air.

And that fact, if you want to hear him, you can just check out the podcast.

That's awesome.

I'll tell you this.

He's helped us a lot with our local history room.

Yes.

And Rebecca has worked with him a ton.

They have a great relationship.

We're going to have him on the air in the studio that morning, but it's snowed.

And he's, you know, it's coming for Union Grove.

He said, why don't you just do it on the phone?

Yeah.

But I said, you can come in the studio eventually.

Nobody gets away with just doing it on the phone.

Yeah, he was on the air with us.

That's how I knew the name.

Yeah.

So he's going to be there.

He's going to be there.

Pretty, pretty remarkable guy.

But I mean, all of these authors that will have just amazing, you know, local creatives.

And you have an Earth Day Challenge coming up, a reading challenge for Earth Day, but you didn't know that.

No, I didn't.

I read your email.

That's phenomenal.

Yeah.

I mean, we have so much going on at the library at any given time when you got 60 plus people working on different things.

Fortunately, it's too much for any one person to keep up with.

Well, there's an Earth Day reading challenge coming up.

Earth Day is April, I'm going to say 22nd.

I got to look when an Earth Day is here.

Earth Day started in Wisconsin.

It started with, I want to say less Aspen, but I think is it Caleb or Nelson?

Is it Caleb Nelson?

Yeah.

Yeah.

A senator was a senator.

And I was in high school in the very first Earth Day.

And we took all our classes outside under the trees.

It was a beautiful day.

Awesome.

And so we learned outside.

We had special speakers come in to talk about Earth Day.

And right, it was Caleb Nelson, start of the Earth then.

And then I said, less Aspen was also a politician here in the state.

We had a lot of good ones too.

We had William Proxmeyer, Senator William Proxmeyer, who was legendary in Washington.

I have a picture with my daughter as a little baby being held by William Proxmeyer.

Oh, wow.

We ran into him at the zoo.

I don't know William Proxmeyer.

Oh, you got to look.

He was, he had the Golden Fleece Award in Washington.

Okay.

And it was given to organizations that just ripped off this government.

The Golden Fleece Award.

William Proxmeyer.

I got to look him up.

There might be a book at the library.

And William Proxmeyer.

Probably, probably in our 921 biography section.

Yeah.

And the solar eclipse was yesterday.

Yeah.

Women's history month.

There's a reading challenge for that.

There's so the steam workshops.

We're going to give a plug too.

You want to do, they're doing a food thing this summer.

That's right.

Yeah.

So for the last few years, we have had food trucks in front of the library on Wednesdays.

And it's been so awesome.

We just set up some tables, set up some chairs.

And people can just show up and get lunch.

They call it lunch break Wednesdays.

But the reason why it's so awesome, I mean, one, you just get to learn about different food trucks

and different restaurant tours in the area.

But there's just like no more beautiful place.

I take it for granted often.

But our library is right on the crest of Lake Michigan.

And when you just get to have your lunch on this hill overlooking a soccer field that overlooks Lake Michigan,

it's just serene.

It's just beautiful.

But we have been having trouble attracting.

It's hard to attract food trucks to come and do it.

So if anyone out there has a food truck or knows someone who has a food truck

and wants to connect with the library for that awesome event, please reach out to us.

Maybe you should make him run off of the kids.

I'm not going to put a horse head in anyone's bed over this.

I'm going to send my buddy Luca Bratzi out there.

Luca will tell them exactly how to do it and where to come.

And they'll be there on that date.

And once I do this favor for you, you're going to own me a favor.

Someday I may come to you, Nick, and ask for a favor.

And I expect you to do it in return.

You can't fool me.

I know.

I know what happened to Luca Bratzi.

He's not around anymore.

Yeah, Luca Bratzi.

He's swimming with the fishes.

That's right.

There you go.

I was telling my wife and I said the Godfather at the market is right in the sounds.

Lay us Sunday.

So everywhere I go, I'm talking about.

That's so cool.

I'm talking like Marlon Brando.

Yeah.

There's Michael.

There's my son.

Look at my boys.

Centeno.

Look at my boy.

You're doing good, Brenda.

It's 749.

WRGN Radio, hometown radio refresh to civic media station.

Got a text message for our guest.

Nick is here.

He's the interim director of the library, Nick Demsky.

262-300-745-262-300.

7445.

We're down below the civic media app.

Go to WRGN.

And just text your heart away.

Right?

749.

Sunny today with a high near 60 degrees.

Yeah.

I'll give that you all a big hug.

We'll see you next time.

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By seeing you walk with another stir, I wish you could be.

Bye.

I long to hold you and kiss you but I know it never can be,

for I was born to late,

for you to care now mine.

Heart cries because your heart just couldn't wait.

Why was I born to late?

I was born to late, for you to care now mine.

Heart cries because your heart just couldn't wait.

Why was I born to late?

Nick Demsky is my guest.

We're talking about the Racine Public Library.

Here's the interim director at 7.47.52.

See if you're going to the library they have a course and how to read time.

7.52.