Hey, I saw something interesting today on social media.
Somebody posted a very strong political opinion, and somebody replied, good point, I changed
my mind.
There's something I've learned about social media.
The expression just saying ain't never preceded by a compliment.
When I tweet, I never want to try to sound too young, but I also don't want to sound
too old.
And I saw Metallica in concert.
They're great.
And I wanted to tweet that they were great, but I didn't want to come off like an old
funny dirty.
But I also didn't want to try to sound like a young whipper snapper.
So I settled on boy, these fellas, sure, and I had a buggy.
I think I hit the sweet spot on my follower's thought I was the cat's pajamas.
I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumble and down, I feel my
heart start to tremble and never go around.
I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumble and down, I feel my
heart start to tremble and never go around.
Don't let when you're near me, you tenderly call my name, I know my emotions, something
I just can't take.
I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumble and down, I feel my heart
move under my feet, I feel the sky tumble and down, I feel my heart start to tremble and
never go around.
I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel my heart start to tremble and I feel my
heart start to tremble and never go around.
Now I had time to act and dance.
I was in the middle of the fight of what Carol King sang.
That was not the hit side.
That was what the beat side, what was the hit side.
I do not know.
Because it was before my time.
Maybe we made a mistake.
If you know, it was, it's too late.
Oh, that was the A side.
The B side was.
I feel the earth move.
I was telling David Mac that I have all the interviews and I have a list here because I
was on with the beachwabba.
And he wanted to know, you know who I talked to.
Carol King was the worst interview I've ever had.
She didn't want to do it.
She was, it was some event she was at promoting a charitable organization.
I don't know if I can catch people on bad days.
Maybe she didn't feel good.
Maybe she was in a hurry.
Maybe she said, I'm not talking to this jerk on the radio.
You know, I don't know what it was.
Your reputation probably preceded you and I don't think with Carol King I have a reputation.
I don't think outside we're seen I have a reputation anyway.
She just was answering in one word answers.
She didn't want to talk to me.
I said, so when is the event Friday?
And is it what time?
Eight.
How do we get tickets?
Call this number.
And this is the whole interview was going on and I made the mistake of saying, you know,
when I was in high school tapestry was the album everyone was listening to silence.
I said, what a great album.
One hit song after another.
What a masterpiece.
Silence.
I don't know if you'll listen to eight, nine, ten minutes.
She didn't want to answer anything.
She didn't want to be there prolific songwriter.
I mean, she's written and Broadway musical.
Yeah.
There's a Broadway musical based on her life in her songs, Carol King.
She's, you know, when I heard Jerry Goffin wrote great songs and yeah, we were talking
about it.
It's been involved in music for a long time, the animal cracker series and most of the
artists that we come in that come from all over the place are super.
They're, they're fun to hang out with, have some great conversations, you know, because
we have some downtime before the concerts, but every once in a while there's a, a dud
and I remember we had this one gal and you could tell she did not want to do the meeting
greet and she was snapping at her fans and there was one gal that she was holding on
to her CDs.
She was all excited because this was her favorite singer and when the gal snapped at her, she
just put her head down and walked away and you could tell she was disappointed and that
woman lost a fan that day.
I know, you know, and I was telling you, when I was in Atlanta, we used to sponsor a lot
of concerts.
Wayne Newton canceled his flight so we can stay with our contest winners and talk them
and take pictures.
He actually get me on a later flight and there's already like 1130 midnight and he's
a get me on a later flight.
I won tickets to WRG and to see Wayne Newton imbarable, I tell my wife, we're going to
bearable.
We're going to see Wayne Newton.
She wasn't that thrilled about seeing Wayne Newton, but, you know, who turned a great
show about him.
You know, who turned into the biggest Wayne Newton fan, Amy Hernandez, Mac, watch for
her to do the Wayne Newton tribute album next.
I had to interview Johnny Mathis on stage at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee.
He was, he's a very shy guy because backstage we were doing, taking pictures and stuff,
very shy person.
And when he gets on stage, he doesn't do a show.
He just sings the songs where Wayne Newton is an entertainer on stage, makes a laugh,
tells stories.
Johnny Mathis just sang the songs wonderfully was a wonderful evening to hear the songs,
but he didn't talk to the audience and tell stories to make, you know, he just sings
the songs.
To me, Wayne Newton was this glorified, long singer who covered some Elvis songs.
I remember when I was in college, my buddies and I, we rented a Wayne Newton concert video
at the video store and put it in and he was wearing an Elvis type jumpsuit and he was
singing, you know, basically Elvis songs.
And that was my impression of Wayne Newton and when we went to see him, I was like, wow,
what a diverse performer.
The guy plays multiple instruments, you talk about, more than the banjo guitar trumpet
this sat, you know, you talk about learning the piano and struggling with this guy's
a multi instrumentalist and then he showed a video clip of him and Glenn Campbell singing
in England.
It was for a TV show and it was not that lounge act type of voice.
It was just, I was like, wow, this guy is really good.
And so I saw him on the Ed Sullivan show when he was a young man.
He wasn't on stage.
They built a stage in the audience amongst all the seats and he did the banjo and it was
like one of those billbill, he wants to come home, bill belly on the banjo.
Remember him in bananza?
No.
He was an actor.
He was in bananza.
So I know he made some movies.
So he tells a story that he's in his dressing room at the studio filming bananza and somebody
walks through the door and says, Newton, who are you dating?
And his back was to the door, turns around, it's Elvis.
And he says, I'm dating so and so and Elvis looks at him and says, so am I.
And he says, and who did the gallon up with wink Martin Dale?
Oh, never wink.
Yep.
I met wink Martin Dale at Graceland and his wife who dated Elvis and Wayne Newton at the
same time.
He had a hit record, wink Martin Dale.
Did he?
He didn't sing it.
It was a spoken record.
And it was a big hit.
It was called deck of cards.
Oh, that's right.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He didn't tell you didn't sing though.
You don't have spoken records.
Is that the first rap album?
Hardly a rap.
Okay, let's get some news headlines here.
I can't get to these two H.A.
Wattles has updated our news for us this morning.
A flood warning remains an effect until early tomorrow afternoon for the Fox River in
Kenosha County.
The river this morning was just a few inches above flood stage.
And that's down from two feet this time last week.
The impact of the flooding includes approximately two inches of water over 77th Street in the
Wheatland area, as well as the flood waters near some homes along highway W in Salem
Lakes.
The forecast as the river below flood stage by tomorrow morning.
Four decades after the alleged crime and 83 year old received man has pleaded not guilty.
Fred Wagner Richardson was bound over for trial yesterday in a recene cold case homicide.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges of first degree murder and possession of a firearm
by a felon.
Wagner Richardson is charged in the 1987 murder of his wife Derby Wagner Richardson.
Derby was found dead in the trunk of her car, bound with duct tape, a status conference
scheduled for July 12th to further address the case.
86% of litter found on the Great Lakes beaches consists of plastic.
That's according to a new report released by the Alliance for the Great Lakes.
The report based on two decades of data from over 14,000 adopt a beach cleanups is set
to highlight the need to address plastic pollution.
The Alliance says the plastic is a threat to human health and the environment as particles
can contaminate the drinking water supply for millions of people.
The groundbreaking was held this week for downtown Kenosha plan with a 10 story tower.
The Kenosha Harbor District development spans nine blocks with the first of the buildings
including a five story apartment building and a 10 story tower.
It's going up where Lamaci a travel office is.
I remember them.
Lamaci a travel.
They were they sat the two buildings will have 1000 new housing units of $450 million
effort.
We'll see construction starting this summer.
Us some of the story Stuart J Wattles is watching for us in our new center this morning
and it'll keep you updated throughout the day for the weather partly sunny a beautiful
day.
Eyes near 59 did just won't say 60 stopping right before the right before the cliff.
They won't say it.
It may just be.
I know they won't say it.
Stop at 59.
A clear sky tonight lows around 40 people always say when you say it's clearing skies clear
skies.
Now it's only one sky up there.
It's a clear sky.
Gary sewer told me that.
Sunday tomorrow with a high near 61 sunny Sunday with a high near 62 right now.
It's cloudy and 50 degrees.
The brewers will take on the Orioles in Baltimore fine 30 this afternoon right here at WRJ and
David Mack are a new fourth district aldermen is with us today.
We're going to talk about the tornado awareness really is because you used to work for emergency
management.
Used to work for everything.
So I didn't.
I had a 33 year, 34 year career and emergency management where we're talking to David about
that in just a moment.
It's 719.
Nobody will do RGN.
All right.
We're going to shake it up here a little bit.
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
One and one is two.
Six and two is eight.
Come on baby, don't you make me late?
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
One and one is two.
Six and two is eight.
Come on baby, don't you make me late?
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Come on.
Baby, don't you want to go?
Back to that same old place.
Sweet home Chicago.
Sweet home Chicago.
Side to pay royalties.
But the CD together is an old song.
It should be in the public domain.
So the person that wrote Sweet home Chicago is Robert Johnson.
He's the guy that sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads
down in Mississippi.
It's Joe couldn't play the guitar.
Sold his soul to the devil and all of a sudden, man, he was the greatest guitar player
ever, ever strummed a guitar.
And he wrote Sweet home Chicago.
Although there's a song about Kokomo or something that sounds an awful lot.
The riffs are the same as...
Kokomo, the Beach Boys from Kokomo.
Yeah, not that song.
Not that one.
In the 1960s, I guess, see a state of Robert Johnson,
sued the Rolling Stones for copyright infringement.
And while this song should be in the public domain, it's extended into the middle of the
century.
So I'll be paying royalties and Patil probably 2050.
Ah, you're rich.
You're going to afford it.
Yeah.
Okay, so let's talk about him.
You worked for emergency management for how many years?
I had a 34 year career in emergency management.
I started out working for the state of Wisconsin in 1988, Governor Tommy Thompson,
appointed me to a job with Wisconsin Emergency Management, where I was the liaison between
the state and businesses and the counties.
It was mostly in the Southeast and East Central region of the state.
I ended up doing it statewide.
And it was a fledgling new program dealing with chemical awareness.
So that was interesting.
After about a year and a half, the job in nursing county opened up.
I applied for it a number of applicants.
And I was successful in the interview process.
I started there April 1990.
And I retired in October of 2021, I believe it was.
So it was, it was an interesting career.
It was one where I was, I was interviewed the other day by somebody that's working on a
master's program.
And they needed to interview somebody in public safety.
And they asked if they, they could.
And you know, the job entailed writing plans for emergencies.
And every so often something would happen.
Whether it was hurricane Katrina or the bombing in Oklahoma City.
But whenever something big like that happened and there were deficiencies, all of a sudden
we had requirements to do planning.
So after Katrina, we were one of the 13th largest cities in the state of Wisconsin.
We had to develop an evacuation plan because the evacuation planning in Katrina was
non-existent.
So you know, things like that.
And then we did public outreach going, talking to groups, you know, your social media falls
under public outreach.
I wrote extensively, I had a column in the paper regarding emergency management.
Training, we would develop training programs, we'd facilitate training programs.
I brought a lot of training in that was free to us.
Obviously, the taxpayers paid for it.
But it was through the federal government and TEEX, Texas A&M, would come in and do a lot
of training for us.
So we became kind of a training hub.
So the planning, training, public outreach, exercise, not on the treadmill down.
I know what you're thinking.
No, I wasn't.
But we would do simulated disaster drills.
And we'd have tabletop discussions.
We would have functional drills where we'd test one piece of it or we'd have a full-blown
activation in Tom and Janet Carco from this station.
I know they were part of it.
They used to help me because I'd want to stimulate.
I wanted to simulate what it was like to have the media there asking questions so they would
perpetrate media people and we'd set up press conferences or they'd call media wood wanting
to know what's going on.
So we tried to make it as realistic as possible in the actual response.
It was a multifaceted type job.
We talked about exercises.
Yesterday, there was a statewide tornado drill that falls under exercises.
Drills, functional exercises, tabletop.
So they tested the outdoor warning sirens.
Although that wasn't the purpose of yesterday because a lot of communities don't have outdoor warning sirens.
And you were saying, you might as well just get it on your cell phone.
Right.
A tornado warning on your cell phone.
Outdoor warning sirens are meant to be heard indoors.
We told people, get a norweather radio.
Now, I'm holding my cell phone, which you can't see.
You know what'd be really cool is if you guys put a camera in here.
And not only did you.
Yeah.
So you could stream it live.
They want to.
Yeah.
That would be cool.
You know, they want to do.
What was that Stern?
Howard Stern.
Did he do that?
Well, other other shows on civic media do it.
You can watch.
You can watch the host's stream live.
So I could be holding my cell phone like I'm doing right now, which people can't see.
Sage Wilde want to do that with me.
And I said, you sure?
Hold on, David Mack is here.
Coming up in just a moment, 729 WRJ.
Big box giant Costco has announced that they're launching a weight loss program
to prescribe olympic and wiggovy.
You'll find Costco's weight loss drugs between the pallets of oatmeal cookies on the pumpkin pies,
the size of a tractor wheel.
It was born by the river in a little tent.
Oh, just like that river I've been running ever since.
It's been a long, a long time coming.
But I know I changed on a car.
Oh, yes, it we.
It's been too hard living.
But I'm afraid to die.
Because I don't know what's up there beyond the sky.
It's been a long, a long time coming.
But I know I changed on a car.
Oh, yes, it we.
I go to the movie and I go downtown.
And somebody keep telling me don't take a route.
It's been a long, a long time coming.
But I know I changed on a car.
Oh, yes, it we.
Then I go to my brother.
And I say brother, help me please.
But he winds up knocking me.
Back down on my knees.
Lord, there've been times that I've fought.
I couldn't last for long.
And now I know I'm ever to carry on.
It's been a long, a long time coming.
But I know I changed on a car.
Oh, yes, it's we.
Amy Hernandez, Mac live on stage.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
And then afterwards we said Amy Mac has left the building.
Thank you very much.
That was live at Jean's Jazz.
When was that recorded?
That was recorded four years ago.
I just had it mixed down within the last several months.
It was about four years ago.
Four years ago.
Yeah, I was right before COVID.
It was the last or it's the first concert they got in.
And the only one I believe because then everything got shut down.
So it was kind of a bus for a year.
A lot of performers did not get to perform.
But we had a number of gig we again.
Yes, I know.
We had a number of gigs that were lined up for that summer.
Amy was going to sing with the recene symphony orchestra.
She was going to sing for the first time with music and more.
Everything got canceled.
So I know it was.
It was kind of a surreal time that we all lived in.
I know.
Now we talk about like nostalgia.
We talk about it.
Oh, remember the gaze of COVID.
Normally at this time people are saying,
well, where's Brett Hoffman from Marcus theaters?
Brett is at Cinemacon in Las Vegas where he gets the hop knob
with all the big stars and watch all the new movies coming out next year.
Normally he does his broadcast for us from Cinemacon.
Unfortunately, he's going through airport security right now as we speak
because he's coming home.
And he couldn't be here.
I said, don't just tell the guy in security to keep his shirt on.
But he did record something for us.
And so we have new movies.
Oh, but he got a couple on this weekend.
And here's what he asked for us.
Well, the first big release is Civil War.
Alex Garland directs this action movie starring Nick Offerman
and Kirsten Dutzt.
They play a team of military and better journalists
as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions
to send upon the White House.
The next movie is Don't Tell Mom the babysitter's dead.
This is a new telling of the 1991 County
or a high school student named Tanya finds her summer plans cancelled
where mom jets off in a last minute retreats
and an elderly babysitter unexpectedly passes away.
Nicole Richie plays the character of Rose who was the Boston movie.
And the last film is The Long Game.
Dennis Quaid stars in his historical drama set in 1955
about a group of young Mexican-American academies
who out of love for the game were determined to learn how to play
so they created their own golf course
in the middle of the South Texas desert.
There is so much to go see at the movies,
plan your escape, and have a great time.
Thank you, Brad Hoffman back live next week.
And it'll give us the lowdown of what happened in Cinemacon,
the hobnob to the stars.
I remember one year, somebody we knew was at Cinemacon,
and they ran into Tom Cruise,
and they said, you can't believe how tiny he is.
He's like five foot nothing.
And then you ran into Stallone, also tiny.
But then he ran into Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood.
And they're like six foot, three, six foot, four.
But he said Tom Cruise is very tiny.
Well, didn't Tom Cruise play Reacher in the movies?
Jack Reacher? Yeah, maybe.
And so those that have read the Jack Reacher books are like,
Tom Cruise was a lousy choice to play Jack Reacher
because physically he doesn't look like the character.
And these are people that read all the Jack Reacher books,
so they're excited to see the series that they put out on.
Was it Amazon?
The Reacher series where the actor looks
and sounds more like Jack Reacher, more true to character.
And you know, kind of corrected that anomaly
in the Reacher universe if you want to call it that.
The Reacher universe.
They got the pool universe now.
They knew Winnie the Pooh series, the horror movies.
He's in the public domain.
He won the rassy for the worst picture of the year.
Oh boy. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey.
Oh.
Yeah. Okay, so we have a question for you.
Stuart J. Wattles, our news director,
has a question for you this morning.
Do I understand correctly? I can text you questions.
Yes. Our hearing, thanks for your money, mate.
You can download the Civic Media app and do it.
Just go to WRJN on the Civic Media app.
Or you can call me right now, text me.
You wouldn't call me.
You text me at 262-300-7445.
That's 262-300-7445.
I tried to think what 745 spells on the phone.
Spells fill or shill.
Hmm.
So if I get bored tomorrow morning and I say,
work blueberry pancakes into your talk.
Yeah, but you're you're blocked.
Oh, no, I blocked you.
You get 262-300-7445.
262-300-7445.
I can't answer everybody back, but what I will do is
I will try to get the questions asked.
And Stuart J. Wattles has our first question this morning.
What would you like to see happen in Lakeview Park?
All right. What would I like to see?
I'd like to see the community have some say
in what Lakeview Park should look like.
I'll tell you what I would like to see as one facet of it.
You know, let's back up a minute.
The other day, there's a knock at the door.
I had my grandkids for a week and a half
because they were on spring break.
And my grandson says, my hero,
oh, grandpa, that's for me, it's my friend.
Like, I look at him.
You got a friend?
I mean, not that he's not a friendly kid,
but I wasn't aware of any kids in the neighborhood
that he was friends with.
So I open up the door.
Hi, sky home.
Can you come out and play?
Who are you?
Where do you live?
How old are you?
Where do you go to school?
You know, I'm vetting the kid
because I've never seen him before.
And it turns out that Amy took the kids over to Lakeview Park.
The kid's a couple years older than Kai,
but there's not a lot of kids in the neighborhood.
And he lived down the street
and he was playing at the park.
And they hit it off.
So, all right, so I walked the kids over there.
And sadly,
we got, you know, like an old swing,
a small slide,
and this little digger thing.
Tanner, the four-year-olds,
and it'd be five,
he liked the little digger thing.
But I'd like to see one of those large playgrounds,
the one that they're accessible to all kids,
and their community designed.
I would love to see us do a kid's cold-type project there,
but we're putting an inclusive playground in
so that kids of all levels and abilities can play there.
I think that would be really cool.
Jordan Lawrence, who ran in the primary,
he was on this show, and I listened to it,
and, you know, he was talking about a botanical garden.
I don't know if there's enough space,
but, you know, certainly you could do something nice there.
You know, the whole park's not going to be a botanical garden,
but maybe there's something that can be worked in that way.
There's enough green space there.
You know, are the baseball fields used?
They're not.
Take them out.
If they're being used, then let's enhance them.
Maybe put a pickleball court in.
I was talking to Amanda Paffereth,
the outgoing aldermen, and we talked about,
let's do a party at the park this summer
to bring people in, and I was thinking,
you know, we have a number of Hispanic businesses
on the Douglas Avenue quarter.
Maybe we bring them in, and you'll open his bakery
and some of the others, and you don't have them then.
And, you know, we'll see what happens,
but I think number one, the community should be involved
in what it looks like, have a say in it.
Number two, I would like to see that interactive immersive playground
enhanced there, and it definitely does need some upgrades.
What are they doing to it?
Why are people wanting...
I see these signs all over my area where I live,
and they say, you know, let Lakeview Park be Lakeview Park.
What are they planning to do to it?
Several years ago, and this is kind of, you know,
I told you, I kind of stayed out of politics for 13 years,
but every once in a while, an issue would come up.
And apparently, the mayor was working with the developer
who liked Lakeview Park, and wanted to propose doing
some sort of public-private partnership that involved
some high-rise or multi-story apartment
or condos there.
And that did not sit well with me.
It did not sit well with other members of the community.
And that's where the Save Lakeview Park,
keep Lakeview the way it is.
That's where that all developed from.
Yeah, Lakeview Park, I see those all over my neighborhood.
Yeah, I think the community spoke very clearly.
They don't want development there.
Commercial development, so.
Finally, your statewide tour.
You're always on tour around the state of Wisconsin in the Midwest,
constantly on tour.
Not constantly.
It's constantly.
I see your Facebook page.
You visit every site there is, every tourist attraction.
You go to every restaurant.
I mean, you're the biggest booster for it.
If I was you, if I were these city,
what do they call those?
Influencers?
Well, okay, influencer.
If I would, I'd hire you immediately,
because you're all over the place.
There's a couple people on.
You wife's on spring break, so you can do it.
Couple influencers out there on Instagram and stuff like that
that get some, I don't expect anything for free.
And I don't, you know, but I'll tell someone afterwards,
you know, hey, we got a little blog or whatever.
People started asking us for recommendations.
And so after the election, we wanted to get away.
Well, we had the grandkids for a week and a half.
I had them primarily because Amy was still teaching.
And then we had the election and then Amy was on spring break.
So I wanted to get away.
So we decided to go, we studied the wringling house,
bed and breakfast, one of the wringling brothers.
Yeah, built this house and lived there.
It's a gorgeous, you know, I don't want to call it a mansion,
because you know, it's smaller than today's homes.
But it, you know, in the day, it was a mansion.
And they have a movie theater, the wringling movie theater.
I will be there too.
And a couple of the other brothers had homes in the Barabu area too.
There's another one downtown.
Oh, you don't have to show it.
Oh, okay.
I'll take it.
We're going to get sports and just a minute.
By the way, I went to the wringling thing in Sarasota, Florida too.
Yeah, spend days down there.
David Mack is here.
It's 7.40 now.
We're going to talk sports with my Clemens coming up.
It's just a moment here at WRJ and hometown radio refreshed.
A civic media station.
They call it storm in Monday.
But Tuesday's just as banned.
They call it storm in Monday.
But Tuesday's just as banned.
Wednesday is worse.
Oh, when Thursday's are so sad.
The eagle flies on Friday.
And Saturday I go out to play.
Oh, the eagle flies on Friday.
And Saturday I go out to play.
So that is Amy Hernandez, Mack Live at G's Jazz.
There's somebody who wants to get this CD.
How do they do it?
Get a hold of us.
We have a web page.
Or not a web page.
We have a Facebook page called Amy and the Rumble Guy Band.
And just message us and we'll figure out how to do that.
We're hoping to have a CD release party coming up in the next couple of months.
So that would probably be the best way.
But we're working on it.
We got details to work out.
Here's a great singer.
And he also knows sports.
Mike Clemens.
Hi, Mike.
Are you?
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
When's your CD coming out like?
It's going to drop on May 1st.
All right.
So now you were at...
We're going to talk about the box.
But you were at the Packer Tailgate tour.
How'd that go?
Yeah.
For 16 years now, the Packers came up with this idea for community outreach.
You know, they write checks from their foundation to help out social agencies anyway.
And it's kind of a smart thing because it makes for good pictures and it gets some TV news coverage.
But most importantly, it's exciting for residents and everything.
Every stop that we would go to, there's a bunch of people staying there to see who's going to come off the bus.
And so this year, it's Kenny Clark, the great defensive lineman, who, by the way, you know, I talked to yesterday.
And he thinks that they've been playing him as an outside defense event the last couple years.
He fits with this new four-man front that they're going to do with the new defensive coordinator.
He's probably going to go back inside.
And that's tough for duty.
You know, you should get banged up by the center and the two guards.
But he's on there, Elton Jenkins, the great left guard, Rashid Walker, who took over for David Bakhtiari, left tackle.
And then some great former Packers like Mike Daniels and Brian Belogas.
So I've had a chance to catch up with all those guys.
And Mark Murphy goes and hands out checks, man.
He's like, he went to this one little place, speaking of music, they stopped in the light.
Well, I went to high school in light and I couldn't believe they sent me like a little note a couple hours before.
They make these surprises and say, we're going to stop at this place.
But it was a place for some seniors and special needs people.
And it was in a little old banged up building that used to be a music store.
It's where in Beloit, by some railroad tracks.
I used to buy guitar strings.
And there's this wonderful little agency that's trying to help these people reconnect or relocate to a home or something.
And so they were standing out there waiting.
There was a little bit of confusion because I think the director said, okay, we're looking for this big packer bus is coming.
And here came this big truck, green and gold truck, turning the corner.
And some of the people started chasing it.
And she said, no, no, no, no, because it was a waste management truck.
It was the packer bus.
So, a few minutes later, here came the packer bus.
And Mark Murphy came out with a check for them for $5,000.
And they took pictures, they signed autographs, and they do all these little quick stops.
And they also stop at high schools and talk to students for 45 minutes and say, hey, if you want to improve your life, my path,
like Mike Daniel said, to get out of a tough town in New Jersey, was I did what my teachers and my coaches told me to do.
And that's how I got into the NFL.
I think that's a great story.
The waste management truck showed up.
You know, when you put them next to each other, they're not so far apart.
That's like, that's like the old Andy Griffiths show they're waiting for the big thing around the corner and all of a sudden.
Exactly.
We got the bucks and we got the Brewers.
We got the Brewers playing this afternoon here in WRJN.
They're going to be at 530 this afternoon in Baltimore taking on the Orioles.
They just got them with a four game stand in Cincinnati too.
Yeah, yesterday you've got rained out.
So they have now rescheduled that for a double header in Cincinnati on August 30th.
Tonight they take on the Orioles.
This could be kind of tricky too.
I think that same front is moving out there because they have something called a coastal flood warning in Baltimore going until three o'clock today.
So then the game starts this evening.
So hopefully they can somehow protect the field of cabinet yards and the Freddie Peralta.
They're number one pitch right now.
It's scheduled to be on the mound next to the Brewers.
So that'll be good.
And real quick in baseball, the Dodgers pitcher, I can never say his name.
So are you a taunting?
Yeah.
He's in the clear.
He's in the clear.
Yeah.
He's in the clear as interpreter, embezzled $16 million in this guy.
It's good.
They found out up to $16 million of, you know, his boss's money that he stole and apparently blew it all on gambling.
I would know if somebody took $16 million from me.
I know if they took $1.49 from me.
Exactly.
Okay, quick.
We got a few more.
We got a one minute left.
What about the bucks?
Let's see how they're doing.
Well, you know, they got just a couple of regular season games left.
After this slump they had losing four games at home, six of the last seven.
They beat the best team in the east at home Tuesday night.
But Yannis goes down.
He's got a strained solace.
It's part of the calf muscle.
And who knows.
He could be up a month or longer.
You know, probably at the start of the playoffs.
So they're going to have to find a way to win games without Yannis and Teta Kupo.
All right.
A lot going on.
We've got the bucks.
And we've got the Brewers here on WRJ.
We also have the Badgers and the Packers.
But they're playing right now.
And today, once again, the Brewers out in Baltimore taking on the Orioles 530.
You know, it's funny.
We talk about game thing rained out.
That's becoming a thing of the past because most stadiums have lids on them now.
Yeah.
And especially one in the south because frankly, you know, there's some summer nights with
kind of the shift in temperatures where they need it for air conditioning.
That's why the Cowboys have a dome over their stadium.
It's really hot September.
Mike Clemens, thank you very much.
Thanks for covering the Packer tour force as well.
Do appreciate that, my friend.
You bet.
You bet.
Thanks guys.
Have a good weekend.
Talk to you next week.
All right.
Bye-bye now.
It's 758.
Thank you, David Mack, for joining us today.
Do appreciate it.
Give it all time.
Yeah.
Look at you.
You look really excited.
All right.
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