The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

If you go, you're on TV or movies, is it easy to act?

Yes.

I mean, yes.

It's not hard.

Obviously, people can do it.

It's not like other things.

This might be the easiest.

Because you always hear about people doing it and doing well.

I mean, the Oscars.

This is the hardest thing you can do in acting.

The best of the best award of all actors, right?

Gabrielle Sivode.

Winner she is.

She was in precious.

Never done a movie.

Up for an Oscar.

Last year, Beast of the Southern Wild.

Five-year-old girl.

First movie.

Up for an Oscar.

Jennifer Hudson.

American Idol.

Gets eighth place on American Idol.

She can't win in the field.

She is trained her whole life for.

Singing.

Waltz is over to acting.

Wins an Oscar her first try.

Looks like me.

Hey, I want to play the NBA.

Oh, you can't do that.

That doesn't look that hard.

I'm the MVP the first year.

You're better than LeBron?

I guess.

They just put it in the hoop.

I didn't seem hard.

Yeah.

Well, you woke me from a dream about you.

Just to say that you were leaving.

I'm sleepy, but I thought that you said

I love that we're last forever, isn't it?

Well, before you walk out of my life,

would you be especially quiet?

And don't you let my heart know that you're leaving?

Don't you say another word of my darling?

Don't you let my heart hear your footsteps?

Walk out of the door of my heart.

I'm drinking.

Don't you let my heart know that you're leaving?

Don't you say another word of my darling?

Leave me now before my heart finds.

708 WRN Jan Radio.

I'm Don Rose, and thanks for joining us here.

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Let's give you a beautiful day today.

I know it doesn't look at now.

Becoming sunny with a Heiner 43.

Clear tonight.

Loads 34.

Cloudy.

Chad's a Shatterson thunderstorms.

Excuse me tomorrow.

With a Heiner 54.

Shatterson thunderstorms possible over the weekend as well.

Right now it's cloudy in 39 degrees.

Silly me.

I wore a spring coat to work this morning.

It was beautiful when I left here yesterday.

And I figured, well, another nice morning.

Get out there.

The birds are singing.

The little knees are shaking because it's so cold outside.

Speaking about the little birds and animals.

Beth Haidorn Executive Director of the Racine Zoo is here.

And good morning.

Beth, how are you this morning?

Good morning, Don.

How are you today?

I'm fine.

You know, before we even start, I know you guys don't do aquariums and stuff.

But I watched World News with David Muir yesterday.

And they were doing a promo at the end.

One of their stories for Nat Geo, the National Geographic Channel.

And they're doing a whole special on Octopus.

Now he said Octopuses.

A lot of people say Octopi.

He said Octopuses on the thing.

Octopuses is the correct plural pronunciation.

So where they come up with Octopi?

Come on.

Who knows?

Anyway.

So, but they spent two months at the bottom with these Octopuses.

And they became friends with them.

And at one point, the diver goes down.

She puts out her hand and the octopus puts his tentacle, her tentacle, in his inner hand.

And every time they go down, the octopus runs up to her and puts his tentacle in her hand.

And they got to know each other.

So when she goes down.

Isn't that amazing?

Yeah, they're amazing animals.

You know, we think about it.

And they're very smart too.

Because what they do is they find some kind of sharp recovering like an old coconut shell.

And they cover themselves up down.

And they get into a little ball and they cover them to keep from the sharks.

Yep.

And I guess I started getting teary eyed when she put out her tentacles like here shake my hand.

I'm your friend.

You don't think of fish being, you know, intelligent, but I, is an octopus a fish or an animal?

I don't know.

It's not a fish.

It's not a fish.

Okay.

No.

We think everything in the waters of fish, but it's not.

Even whales or mammals, they're not fish.

That's correct.

Even the Bible was wrong when the Jonah was swallowed by a great fish.

He wasn't.

He was swallowed by a great mammal.

They don't tell you that though.

Okay.

How are the animals first of all?

They in good shape.

I know it's cold.

Yeah, it's chilly today.

They've been, you know, those weather has been just so up and down.

So every animal that has outside space, it gets regulated, depending upon the temperature,

on whether they can go out or not.

So today will be a little bit tough just because it's, I think it's only supposed to be a high of what?

40, 42 degrees today.

43.

Yeah, 43.

But, you know, it's supposed to bounce back tomorrow and Friday and will be in the 50s, could be 60s, you know, in 70.

Again, I think on Monday or something.

So it's just one of those, we're at that, you know, just like you talked about on the thing.

What jacket do you wear?

You know, you wear your spring coat.

You know, right now these guys are, we're itching to get everybody out as quickly as possible.

But we've got to make sure that they are in the right temperature range.

So.

Now, do some of these animals like giraffes, they're used to an African climate.

I would imagine when you bring them into the freezing cold, can they adapt?

Obviously, they do adapt to that.

I mean, but isn't that strange for them to feel the cold?

Because they weren't built for cold wear.

Not necessarily.

I mean, every animal adjusts, just like people adjust to their surroundings.

Animals do the same.

Ars have been here for a really long time, so they know that it's going to get a little chilly.

But their back of house is nice and warm and toasty for the temperatures that they need to be at.

And we're not going to bring them out today because it's going to be too cold for them.

So, you know, they're all their back of house spaces and their bedrooms are all regulated for the temperatures that they need to be at.

They're bedrooms.

Yeah.

Like the least they're bedrooms.

That's okay.

Well, you know, I heard and I can hear whisperings of animals.

If they they were thinking of unionizing, if you're going to put them outside, they're going to form a union and go on strike.

If you're going to make them go outside in this cold weather, but okay, you avoided that.

We did.

Okay.

All right.

So, by the way, if you have a question for Beth, Beth Hydor, an executive director of the Racine Zoo, anything that goes on to the Grzuh Ground, she's aware of,

262-300-745-262-300-745, text me and I'll read the question to her.

Okay.

So, you've got some big doons out there.

There's always something happening as Paul Simon said, always something happening at the zoo.

Right.

All in for the animals.

What's that all about?

Yeah.

So, that's our spring fundraiser.

We do two a year.

All in for the animals is our spring one.

We're actually doing it for the entire month of April.

So, there is just like a week from today, I believe, or a week from yesterday is the end of the month.

So, we raised necessary funds for our animal care department because they're the ones providing all the, you know, specialized care.

We have over 300 individual animals and 75 different species here, currently.

So, it takes, you know, we are accredited by A.V.A. Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

So, we adhere to the highest standards of animal care and we're a non-profit.

So, our food prices are going up just like everyone's food prices are going up in the grocery store.

Our vet care is going up just like vet care for your animals, which would be their health care,

which, of course, we know is up.

So, we've got to raise money all the time and we do that with fundraisers like this and we do it with the vats.

And, of course, the gate and the gift shop and our food and everything.

So, everything that we do, we reinvest right back in ourselves.

So, and for our spring one this year, we were so incredibly fortunate.

Rude Family Foundation has stepped up with matching dollars as educators credit union,

all both amazing community supporters here.

So, every dollar, whether it's a dollar or a hundred or a thousand,

all stays right here at the recinct zoo.

You know, I give to, I just do it.

I give to about 30 different animal charities all year long.

They sent, you know, they sent me a ton of stuff in the mail.

And I looked them up a charity navigator to make sure they're on the level.

And once I found they're on the level, every month or two, usually every two months,

I put some money cash because I don't want to write checks for everything.

I put a little cash in the mail and I mail it off to them.

And I've been doing that for years.

And my wife said, want you stick to local.

I said, because animals needed all over the country.

Not just here, and they always send you this pathetic picture of a dog or a horse or

because I give to equine associates as well.

And so they always send you the pathetic picture of them looking sad.

So I put a little more in the envelope.

So I have to add the recinct zoo to my list.

Yes, you do.

And if you do it before the 30th of April, then your dollars will help us count towards this match.

How do it tomorrow?

Do it tomorrow.

Do it right online.

And actually some people drop us off a check because, you know, like you're paying in cash,

you don't necessarily want to write a bajillion checks.

And it's okay.

Our office is open seven days a week.

So.

It's not writing the checks.

It's getting people to cash them in a timely manner so I can balance my checkbook.

I used to write, and I'm not kidding you, 40 checks every six months to these animals places

and also disabled vets and boys down there, right, too, too.

But I used to, and could you cash the check already?

It's been six months.

So I decided I'm not going to deal with that anymore.

I put five or ten dollars in the envelope and I ship it off.

But you send me a check.

I will make sure I cash it tomorrow.

No, I'm going to do cash.

I do cash.

So what, where do I, if I wanted to mail, I know I live about four blocks from you.

Yeah.

Maybe I'll just drop it.

You can mail a check.

And that address is 200 gold street.

We're at the corner of Google's in Michigan, which is where our administration office is.

So that's where all the mail goes.

Five three.

Five three, four, zero, two.

That's mine.

Five three, four, two.

And who do you address it to?

Just received it.

I've seen zoo.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, wrote it down.

We could do it online with the credit card.

You can write a check.

You can bring in cash.

We take any and all kinds of payment.

And it's, we have just already been so blessed this year.

So we're just going to kind of hit it hard as we go for this last week of money.

And if you go on our website, you can see some of just a couple of things like for 50 bucks,

that feeds our links for two weeks.

75 bucks feeds our ego for four days.

Every animal food and nutritional needs are individualized for each species.

And within the species for each animal.

So, you know, it's everything.

You know, we get shipments every day for different kinds of animal food coming in,

whether it's grains or vegetables or meat.

You know what I mean?

So every animal, it's a complete science.

Nutrition is a complete science for our animals here.

And it takes money to make sure that everyone gets fed just like yourself.

Would you find vets to take care of some of these exotic animals?

Would you find a vet to take care of a giraffe?

Yeah, our vets have come from Bristol, veterinary clinic.

And they have been the zoos vets for well over 30 years.

So they know our animals.

And you, most people that go to vet school can then do externships and things like that,

specifically to become a zoo vet.

But every vet that's in a zoo doesn't know about every animal,

because they may not have ever had that challenge before.

So, zoo's and aquariums share information really greatly.

And so if we have an issue, we will talk to people that have that species out their place.

And say, hey, we have this as a challenge.

What have you ever done? Well, we haven't had that challenge.

Hold on a second.

We have, you know what I mean? We all collaborate because it's for the good of the animals.

All in for the animals.

Hold on, hold on one second, Beth.

Hold on.

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So if you miss any of this exciting information we're giving out,

you can double check it.

Like, what was that date?

What did she say?

What was the address?

What time was that event?

You'll be able to check it out with our podcast.

If you have a question for our guest, Beth,

high-dorn executive director of the Racines Zoo,

you can text me at 262-300-7445-262-3262.

300-7445.

And I wish that had a, you know, like a word to it.

Like, our phone numbers got, you know,

the last four digits spelled out WRJN.

But unfortunately, I tried to find out what 7445 spells

and it spells some really stupid words.

But I did not the use it.

Would that be great if you had a phone number?

Just style Racines Zoo?

Yeah, that would be great.

Is there a Z on the phone?

I know there's no, no, there is no Z.

I don't think there is.

No, you can't even spell Zoo.

All right.

So Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, May 12th.

Don't forget Mother's Day, all right?

Because you will be sorry.

I don't know how you'll be sorry.

But if you forget mom, you will be in trouble.

She will remind you that you forgot Mother's Day.

Trust me.

I've been there.

So what's going on for Mother's Day at the zoo?

Yeah.

So we've got a Mother's Day brunch that is just really, really popular.

It's from 11 to 1230.

Mom's get greeted with a flower.

They get a nice brunch, catered food.

Ivan Hoses is doing our food this year.

It's scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausage, hash brown.

You know, you're nice, wonderful.

What you really want to do for a brunch.

And then of course, the moms and the families get, we get a photo for them.

They get a commemorative family photo.

Kids get to make crafts for their moms.

That the moms get to take home with them.

They get to go feed the giraffes.

Hang out.

It's just, you know, celebrating with any family out here is, to me, it's just a very, very special.

And we get a tons of families.

We already have 40 moms and their families that are signed up and ready to come in.

And we still have room for some more, which is really great.

And it's just a nice day for everybody to enjoy their families.

And what I also like about it, it's the grandma, the mom, the, you know, the granddaughter.

In some cases, the great granddaughters and the whole family comes.

It's not just, you know, a couple of people.

And, you know, that is just so special.

I just love the generational groups that come out to this very community-minded zoo.

You know, the number one calling day, 18 teeth mentioned this years ago.

Number one day for phone calls in this country is Mother's Day.

I mean, by far, it's number one.

Father's Day is so far down the list.

It's, it's like 12th place.

It's under like, you know, Arbor Day and St. Swithens Day.

I think I've got Father's Day underneath it.

But Mother's Day is number one because, you know, in moms, you know, fathers are important.

But moms, there's some bond, you know, my mother once said that to me once.

She goes, I have never had a bond with somebody in this world as much as I have with you.

Oh.

And I said, that is one, what about my brother?

No, not my brother.

Just you.

And she did say that, by the way.

No, she didn't.

She didn't say, well, actually, my brother's not listening, but she did say it.

Oh, my goodness.

Because I worry about her all the time.

My brother, my brother doesn't worry about anything in life.

He just goes about his life.

And he loves her.

He took care of her.

I mean, nothing like that.

But I'm the guy who called up 12 times a day.

Are you okay?

Are you fine?

I'm worrying about her.

And she was only like five minutes from me here in Racine.

Okay.

So Mother's Day, that Sunday, May 12th from 11 a.m.

From 11 a.m. to 12 a.m.

That sounds like a lot of fun.

A Mother's Day, she'll never forget either.

Absolutely.

And then you get the picture and you feed a giraffe.

I mean, it's just a wonderful day.

Because everyone wants to hang out with their mom.

But everybody can spend all day, which is why it's 11 to 12 30.

And then they hang out at the zoo or they go on their merry way

or they do something else.

But it's a fun day.

And we love taking care of all the moms that come out to the zoo.

Let me ask you something.

I know this isn't really breakfast stuff.

But they have to clean up giraffe, poop on the ground.

If they walk on the grounds, do they poop all over the place?

Do they have a dog?

Do you have to clean that up all the time?

Well, our giraffes are in their exhibit and their wonderful space.

So we do, but we do not have anybody else for that.

It's one of those curious things I just have to know.

All right.

Bloody Mary Fest is coming up Saturday, May 18th.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tell us about that.

Absolutely.

This is one of my favorite events.

Folks will get to come and taste anywhere from 8 to 12.

Bloody Mary's.

It all depends on how many competitors that we have for that.

We've got some celebrity judges.

We've got the judges vote.

The guests that are coming vote.

They get to taste all the different Bloody Mary's.

And then, of course, they get beer chasers.

Because why wouldn't you hear in the state of Wisconsin?

Food is included.

Bucket Second Round is doing our food this year for that.

And we've got a band.

I mean, we've got a guy coming to play some great country music.

You can get a VIP tent.

It's just, it's like one of the most wonderful days out here.

And it's 11 to 2 on Saturday the 18th.

So you can come and taste Bloody Mary's.

You can hang out with the family, hang out with your friends.

And it's just, you know, three hours of, you know, Bloody Mary tasting.

Which is great.

So it's a great event for us.

We'll have about three 50 to 450 people here for that event.

Wow.

And you get that.

What's the big event?

And you got the grounds for it.

I mean, it's so huge.

Absolutely.

We're up at our north end, our land of the Giants.

Is the area that we're going to be at right.

Our pavilion and right north of our pavilion for those people that know where that is.

And it's just, we've never, this has never disappointed anybody.

I love this event.

You know what my favorite event you held was was the Chinese Lights.

I have all the pictures on my phone.

And I look at them a lot.

I took pictures of everything that night.

Nice.

Yeah, that was a fun event.

We'll do something like that again, one of these days.

That's got to be a, that's got to be a huge undertaking to do the Chinese Lights.

It, it certainly was.

Because you can't have wires running everywhere because we're going to trip over them.

Right.

So you've got to hide the wires.

The lights were fantastic.

And it was just a, it was just a short event for the, you know, for the winter time.

And then it's all gone.

And I can't picture what the zoo looked like because you go at night.

And then it's all gone.

And where was that again over there?

I have all my pictures on my phone.

And I just love looking at the pictures of those Chinese Lights.

Right.

It helps you remember where everything was for sure.

And every of these kids are walking around with their mouths open up looking up like,

Oh, what is it?

Wow.

I can't believe this.

Wow, mom, we got to get this for our backyard.

Wow.

There you go.

So we've got a couple more events to talk about.

The high door is here executive director of the Racine Zoo.

It's a treasure.

It's a southeast Wisconsin treasure.

Not every city is lucky enough to have a zoo.

I mean, when I grew up in the Bronx, we had a zoo.

But after that, this is the first zoo.

I've ever, well, Milwaukee's got a nice zoo.

They have a great zoo.

Yeah, they got a really nice one up there.

And Racine has a wonderful zoo, but not every city's got it.

So enjoy your treasure while you can.

Beth Heidorn is here.

We'll talk more.

Beth, we get some more events coming up at the zoo.

We want to talk about 729 WRJ and radio becoming sunny today.

Actually, it's still cloudy.

So becoming sunny with a high near 43.

Clear lows 34 tonight.

Cloudy chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow Saturday and Sunday.

Right now, we're still stuck at 39 degrees.

Cloudy sky.

Not cloudy skies.

Cloudy skies.

It's only one sky, right?

729, hometown radio refreshed the Civic Media Station, WRJN.

And I grew up in a normal family.

So it's just very different.

Like when I was single, I used to use Irish Spring because I liked it.

Then I met my wife Erin.

We move in together.

She sees my soap in the shower.

She's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

What is it? This is terrible.

You cannot use this.

That has aluminum in it.

I didn't see any.

She's like, no, no, no, no, no.

You got to use this weird, misshapen oatmeal rock.

I bought from a homeless person at the farmer's market.

It's free range.

So I'm using her soap.

First of all, it hurts.

There's like little pebbles in it or something.

I don't know.

One time, one time I was using it, it cut me.

I look at the soap.

There's a stick in the soap.

I never found a stick in my Irish Spring.

That's a big selling point when I buy soap.

No sticks.

That's what I enjoy.

I hardly know what to say, but maybe it's better that way.

In Papa, we're here.

I'm sure he'd tell her.

Shannon's gone off the truth, didn't I say?

She always loved to swim, to play.

I believe it should happen, I believe it.

636, WRJN.

I'm Don Rose and hometown radio refreshed a civic media station.

Don't forget today is a palindrome.

That means our date is the same backwards and forwards.

424, 24.

Right on the piece of paper.

You'll see, it's 424, 24 backwards and forwards.

It's called a palindrome.

I don't know how often it happens.

It doesn't happen that often.

Beth Heidorn is here, executive director of the recene zoo.

And I told Beth that I would tell the story about this song, Shannon.

Do you ever hear that song before, Henry Gross?

I heard, when you played it, I'm like, okay, I think I have heard of the song, but I'm very much looking forward to the story.

Okay, back in the 70s, Casey Kasim, who was the host of American town 40, used to do dedications.

And one of the dedications was to this woman's, I guess, dog died of a dog's name with Shannon.

She wanted to dedicate this song to her dog who died or somebody who died.

I mean, it was somebody who died.

And Casey Kasim said, I'm not doing it.

By the way, I cannot say what he said because it was, it was laced with profanity.

And now it didn't go on the air.

It was while he was preparing to go on and record American town 40.

I'm not doing another death dedication.

Get this out of here.

We're not going to do a death dedication again.

I'm tired of doing death dedication every time they come in here.

Somebody wants to do a death dedication ever.

When I'm doing that, you got to keep in mind the, all every curse word you can imagine was filled in while he was working.

Oh, no.

And he, it became folklore and radio.

And I actually, you can actually hear the original one.

Google it.

But this was the song that triggered it.

Shannon by Henry Gross because they wanted to dedicate this song to a dead animal or something like that.

And he just went crazy.

I'm not doing another death dedication.

Well, that's not good.

People love their animals.

Well, he didn't want to do it.

He wanted to keep the show upbeat.

He didn't want to do it.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

But that was the song that triggered it.

Shannon by Henry Gross.

You notice that?

Notice how I didn't get all upset by it.

No, I know.

I appreciate that.

I, I am fine.

Very calm.

And, uh, but somebody work, the engineer recorded this whole tirade.

Oh, you can hear it on the internet.

So Beth is here not to talk about tirades, but it was an animal thing.

So I thought I'd bring.

I think of that cherry story.

I appreciate how you, uh, bring that stuff right back to the animal.

Thank you.

The events coming up, music at the zoo this summer.

Let's talk about that.

Yeah.

So music at the zoo is actually going to be our second concert series.

Um, we have a tried and true animal crackers, which has been going on for over 35 years.

Um, great lineup for the summer.

We can talk about that another time.

But we, um, love music outside.

We love music outside right on Lake Michigan.

So we've been asked several years to do a second series.

So we are, and it is, uh, so there's actually eight Wednesdays in the month, this, or in the summer,

where we are going to be having a concert at the zoo.

And what I love about this is it's a little eclectic.

Some of them are cover bands.

We've got local folks.

Um, so we start off with Dancing Queen and Abbasalut on June 26.

So with a little earlier, then we take a break for, uh, Fourth of July.

And then every beginning, the 10th of July,

all the way through August 21st, there are seven Wednesday concerts in a row.

So with the music at the zoo, then it's an animal crackers, a music at the zoo, an animal crackers,

um, and all the way down.

So other than Abba, we've got Fire and Ice, a Pat Benetar, um, show.

We've got Respect, which is a tribute to Aretha Franklin.

We're very excited about that one.

And then just from, uh, South of us down in Kenosha, uh, Betsy a Day in the well-known Strangers,

uh, Round Out, that particular concert series on the 14th of August.

So it's the same drill.

We open at 5.30.

There will be food.

We'll have a bar.

Um, you know, all of that kind of stuff.

The concert starts at seven o'clock.

They do one set, take a 15 minute break, and do another set.

So it's, we're very excited about this.

And then we will, again, I love music outside, uh, any day of the week.

So I'm, I'm excited to have eight concerts about music at the zoo with our new concert series.

Now, do you have to wear bell-bottom pants when you go to some of these concerts?

Because I'm hearing Abba and I'm hearing Pat Benetar.

There will be people that will dress up for this particular series.

I've already been told, uh, by folks that have bought tickets, don't be alarmed if I come like this.

All right, you can wear that out that that sounds like a plan.

So, uh, it is all good.

And it's just kind of, you know, a light-hearted concert series.

And then if this goes well, which we know and believe it will,

we will do it again next year with a whole different set of four people.

Now, I remember wearing leisure suits back in the 70s.

Uh, yes.

And the unfortunate part about that is I took some pictures back when I lived in Atlanta.

We had some big concerts we sponsored.

So I got a nice picture with Tony Bennett.

I got a wonderful picture with Wayne Newton.

I got all these pictures, except they're dressed in tuxedos, which look today.

And I'm wearing a leisure suit.

Looks then.

And I had a big afro haircut.

And so I looked like I just walked out of the Simpson set.

There's a character on the Simpson's.

Always does that as that 70s look.

That's what I look like.

And you know, look at that leisure suit.

You see, you wore that to a concert.

It's hard to believe, but that was the fashion then.

And so I don't have my leisure suit anymore.

My brother still has his navy jacket that he used to wear in the 60s.

Oh my gosh.

You were awesome.

My partner was navy jacket and wear it.

And maybe I'll find my leisure suit somewhere buried.

Hopefully.

I'm sure you could find something at a vintage clothing store too.

Oh, please.

Just I actually got it.

I got a job at a radio station once, one of the biggest in America too.

And I got a job there and I went for a job interview in a leisure suit.

At the time, I looked good in it.

Those poly, they were just terrible.

They're polyester.

They looked though.

And they were the worst colors too.

They had that like powder blue.

Yep.

I was going to say when you're powder blue.

Or light tan.

You know, even if you look at wedding pictures from the 70s,

with those big lapels that took up half the size of the tuxedo,

with those big lapels they had on the tuxes.

Maybe I'll wear one of those.

I haven't.

I think you should.

No.

They're going to say, gee, the hunts been having mental problems lately.

Wow.

He's must have some kind of dementia because he's living in the past.

But anyway, so we got the music.

And also, I'm involved in the nursing concert band.

You have that to do.

Yes, sure.

On Sunday nights during the summer, just a couple of it.

They don't do a whole, just a couple of weeks.

And they do that at the band show.

So all this does take place at the band show, right?

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

So it's a lot of fun.

And you got, and what is animal crackers kick in?

Animal crackers starts on Wednesday, July 10th.

Do you know what some of the acts they're going to do?

I do.

I know all of the acts.

Give us some of the names.

All right.

Let me give you some names.

So the first one we start off with is David Clarks, all about Joel.

So David Clark is married to Cindy Bradley.

And Cindy has played here before.

She's got the pink trumpet.

So they're driving out from the East Coast for this particular concert.

Him and I have talked about this for several years.

So we're very excited about that.

Then on Wednesday, July 24th, we have Rick Braun.

And then Wednesday, August 7th, we have the Jimmy's.

And Wednesday, August 24th, we have Terence Simian

and the Zideco experience.

And we're bringing him back from last year because that was the concert

where the kickoff concert where we had 300 people here

because it was storming rain.

He still played because he came.

They just started a half an hour late.

So it was great.

And so we're bringing him back for more people than the 300 people

that were here last year for it.

But it's exciting lineup again.

That's dedication when you can play in a storm.

Well, the storm was over when he played.

You just had to weather the storm.

It cleared up because we do everything here, rain or shine.

Oh, that's great.

And that animal crackers.

And do you bring your own feed to bring your own food, right?

You can bring your own food.

And you can bring water.

And so you just can't bring your own liquor.

It's against my liquor license.

I prefer to not shut down because someone was, you know,

we've got plenty of stuff people to take care of people.

So they don't need to worry about that.

And don't bring your own grill.

There's a lot of people that bring a table full of food.

And I like to walk around and they all share with me.

So it's great.

But don't bring a grill with you.

You cannot bring a grill.

No.

People are going to be like, oh, I got my grill there.

Hold on.

I'll start up.

We do not need that here.

And also, when you go to these events, pick up your own garbage

at the end.

Yes, please.

All right.

Now, I did poke my nose out.

I told Beth I was going to poke my nose out the door to see what it was like.

I thought it'd be a little warmer and actually got colder.

It's not going to be warm today.

I'm kind of sad about that.

It's going to be there.

I don't care because when I go home, I lock the door and I'm in.

Yeah.

And my wife says, well, you can mow the lawn one of these days.

Because I got the lawn.

I got it all last weekend.

I got it all ready to go.

It's too cold to mow the lawn.

If I got a mow the lawn with a jacket on, it's too cold.

But I should get out there and mow it.

But anyway, so in just a few minutes we're going to review all the events we talked about.

We talked about the all-in for the animals.

Do I have to, when I put it in the envelope, do I have to write a put a note in there?

Like, this is for the animals.

This isn't for Beth's lunch tomorrow.

Do I have to put that?

It's preferable if you would write in there.

You can just say spring fundraisers.

Okay, good.

And whether you remember the name or not, that's what it is.

It's our spring fundraiser.

So go ahead and just say that.

And we will be able to acknowledge you.

So if you put your name and address in there, we send letters to everyone who donate from a dollar on up.

We send thank you notes to everybody.

Because we want to acknowledge their thoughtfulness.

Yeah.

And, you know, the saying, oh, look, don't send us money for our office party.

This is really nice.

Thank you very much.

Oh, wait a second.

It's not for that.

It's for the animals.

No, you can if you want to.

But right now I need to bring fundraisers dollars before I need a, you know, an office party.

I am just astounded about the money it costs to feed and care for these animals.

It's, you know, I used to look when I went to the vet with my dogs.

They say, well, it's $300.

$300 dollars.

Right.

And that's a dog.

Right.

And we had at one time, four dogs at one time.

And you could imagine what those vet bills were because they all needed care.

Right.

And so it was a constant.

They went to North Shore Animal Hospital with our vet, which is named again, I forgot.

Oh, what a great.

He really loves animals.

Oh, I can't think of the doctor.

I don't think it was named in a minute.

Anyway, but I mean, just expensive.

Right.

And the admission costs to get into the zoo.

Don't cover it.

Any money.

It's actually there seems a logical society, isn't it?

Yeah.

And everything that we raised stays right here at the zoo.

Yeah.

We reinvest in ourselves every day.

So it is for admissions right now.

It is $11 for adults.

10 for seniors.

9 for kids.

And there's events all the time.

There's value added events that are happening from zeorific Saturdays to everything else.

Or there's one that are going to generate some puns for us like Bloody Maryfaster, Mother's Day, or on a concert series.

Hold on.

Hold on just a second.

I'm talking to Beth Heindorne of the Racine Zoo.

She's the executive director of the law.

Wrap up and get all the load on.

We're refused.

In case you missed anything going on at the zoo.

Just tomorrow at WRJ and hometown radio refreshed.

This soul starts getting me down.

And people are just too much for me to fail.

I climb way up to the top of the stairs.

And all my cares gets drifted right into the space.

All the room is peaceful as can be.

And there's a world below can follow me.

Let me tell you now when I come home feeling tired and sleepy.

I go up with air to express and sweet.

I get away from the hustling ground.

And all that preparation noise down in the street.

All the room be old in place I'd know.

Where you dance I do it to make it so.

This is all up on the room.

Benny King and the drifters up on the roof.

You know, Beth, my brother played with Benny King.

Oh, my gosh, that's super fun.

Yeah, I got to play basketball with Benny King.

My brother was anybody came up to the East Coast.

The charelles, the chiffons, the Shangri-La's, the Benny King,

Ruby and the Romantics.

You name the groups.

When they came on the East Coast they needed a band.

And my brother was always the backup band.

And so we're up at the Mulan Rooja go-go.

This is back in the 60s.

I'm a little kid.

My brother let me hang around with him.

And Benny King pulled up with his group.

And he said, I got to warm up.

I got a little game of basketball.

And he pointed to me.

He said, you're with me.

And so at 13 years old, I got to play basketball with Benny King

from the drifters.

Oh, I bet that was a great memory.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, that's old.

The shame is people, you say Benny King.

People don't know who he was, but stand by me,

Spanish Harlem.

What a bunch of great hits he had.

Best with the drifters too on Broadway yet.

All right, so a quick review of all the events coming to our

Racine Zoo.

You ready?

We've got it.

All for the animals.

A quick review of the donations.

Have they make them?

And when you need them by the matching funds, everything.

Yep.

So all in for the animal fundraisers are spring fundraisers

from April 1 through the 30th.

So we are just about a week left.

All the money stays right here at the zoo.

We've got amazing funders that are doing some matching gifts.

Root Family Foundation and Educator's Credit Union.

So whether it's a dollar of a hundred or a thousand

at every nickel count here at the zoo,

for our wonderful animals that we have.

And they are wonderful.

What do you say?

300 animals to care for.

75 unique species.

What's one thing?

If the Lions got a toothache, how do you do that?

You got to donate them first, I would imagine.

Well, it depends on our animals.

What our love about our keeper staff and animal care staff is that.

They train the animals.

So the animals are also part of their health care.

So as opposed to having to put an animal down,

if you can do a training behavior that says maybe have them open their mouth

so they can look in it from afar,

but they can look in it, helps them to not have to do some of the things

that were done in the past.

And all of our animals are trained very well

by our wonderful animal care staff for that very purpose.

Well, when I get a Root Canal, I got to be sedated.

Yes, you do.

So I can imagine what it's like.

And by the way, if you want to hear the Lions in the morning,

take a walk along the lakefront of Michigan Boulevard.

In the morning, you can hear them roar.

You sure can.

Because when it's the walk that they are in the distance

and hopefully they weren't that close.

But yeah, you can hear them.

Okay, so you got Mother's Day.

The Mother's Day brunch coming up on Mom's Day.

The Mother's Day brunch is Sunday, May 12th.

And that is a great event for anybody.

We've already got a lot of folks that have signed up for it.

It is from 11 to 1230.

The moms get flowers.

There's family photos.

They get a feed giraffe.

They get a great breakfast from Ivan Hose.

And it's just going to be a great day.

We want people to sign up.

We still have some room.

We don't want people to forget about Mom.

Never forget about Mom.

So come on out.

And that's 11 to 1230.

You can get any of those tickets at recineso.org.

There's a big green bar at the top of that page.

And just go to events.

Do the drop-down.

And you'll find Mother's Day brunch.

Bloody Mary Fest is coming up.

Bloody Mary Fest.

Yes.

Saturday, May 18th.

A really great event.

There's competitors.

Tito Vodka is their sponsor this year.

It is from 11 to 2 p.m.

It is everyone gets to taste all the wonderful

buddies that are being prepared.

There's music.

Bucket Second Round is doing the food for that.

A good bar food.

And of course there's beer chasers because we are in Wisconsin.

So everyone will get those two.

And it's just going to be a great event right up in our pavilion

and right north of that.

Do you know where the name Bloody Mary comes from?

I don't.

There was a person.

Mary the first.

She was born in 1516, lived in 1558.

She was known as Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary.

By her Protestant opponents was the queen of England and Ireland

from July of 1553.

And the queen of Spain as well.

They nicknamed her Bloody Mary.

I don't know what she did to deserve that name.

But the dissenters.

I don't know.

I now need to find out.

And that's where the drink comes from.

Bloody Mary.

Well, there we go.

We'll be honoring her that.

That's kind of great.

I'm sorry.

I know that information now.

I love the random fact you have in your head.

It's great.

No, I had looked at one of them.

I knew there was a real person Bloody Mary.

But it's like one of these things.

So once I tell you, I can't un-tell you.

I got you.

Okay.

And we've got the concert series coming up as well.

Let's talk about that.

Music at the zoo.

It starts on June 26th.

It's also Wednesday night.

So June 26th, July 17th, July 31st and August 14th.

We have a great dancing queen and absolute band to kick us off on June 26th.

We've got a Pat Benatar cover band on July 17th.

Rita Franklin won on July 31st and just south of us from Kenosha.

Betsy a day and the well-known strangers.

Gates open at 5.30.