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I really do appreciate you come into a thing because you didn't have to, and it's really

easy not to go to things.

It is so much easier not to do things than to do them that you would do anything is totally

remarkable.

Percentage-wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them.

And so much fun not to do them, especially when you were supposed to do them.

In terms of like instant relief, cancelling plans is like heroin.

It is an amazing feeling.

Such instant joy.

Kids don't like that.

Kids always want to do stuff.

Kids get angry.

They go, ah, we didn't do anything all day.

We ever ask an adult what they did over the weekend and they say they didn't do anything.

Their face is light up.

They're like, what'd you do this weekend?

I did nothing.

I did nothing at all.

Did we do anything?

No, I didn't do anything.

Well, I spent a lot of time looking for you.

Single bars and good time lovers will never true.

Playin' a fool's game, open to win, and tellin' those sweet lies, losing again.

I was lookin' for love in all the wrong places, lookin' for love in too many faces,

searching for rights, lookin' for traces, lookin' for love, I'm dreaming of the world.

Open to find a friend and a lover, I'll bless the day I discover another heart.

Looking for love, and I was alone then, no love in sight, and I did everything I

could to get me through the night.

Don't know where it started, or where it might end.

I turned to a stranger, just like a friend, I was lookin' for love in all the wrong

places, lookin' for love in too many faces, searching for rights, lookin' for traces,

I'm dreaming of the world.

Jenny Lee, best known for using that song in the movie Urban Cowboy.

Did you ever see that or was that before your time?

You got to pull that microphone with an effort.

That is, wait-for-my-time.

Really?

Yes.

Urban Cowboy is way before your time with John Tvoltah.

Oh no!

I feel so old.

I feel old and the creppy, they'll not let me out.

My grandparents just thinking about that.

Well, my grandparents too.

Urban Cowboys way before your time.

I would say so because I've never heard of it.

I've never heard of Urban Cowboys.

Oh no!

You know what? You work at the library?

Yes, I do.

Go to the DVD section.

Okay.

And pull that Urban Cowboy, the movie with John Tvoltah,

and take a look at it.

It's a great movie.

I don't care if you like country music or not.

It's a great movie.

Urban Cowboy.

Oh.

I will write that down.

He made that right.

If you're made Saturday Night Fever.

You heard of that, right?

Oh, come on!

One of the biggest disco movies in history.

Saturday Night Fever.

With the Bee Gees.

You heard of the Bee Gees.

I am so sorry.

I'm going to the old age home after the show's over today.

I can't take another second of it.

Let me get my cane and get a cup of warm tea.

All right.

Man, I feel old.

Okay.

Anyway, Evelyn Garcia, business manager for the

Racine Public Library is here.

A lot going on at the library.

Yes, there is a lot.

And I'm waiting to get my list up here because I made a list

of all the things going on there.

And that's not my list.

Hold on.

I got my list here under the word Evelyn Garcia.

I'll put you in there.

Okay.

Let's start off with this is today and tomorrow,

the local author's showcase.

So the local author's showcase is actually on Saturday,

April 27th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

So this Saturday?

Yes, that is correct.

So what starts today is actually the spring

book sale with the Friends of the Library.

That's today.

And that's actually for those who are members from noon to 6 p.m.

And if you are not a member,

you can always become a member of the Friends of the Library

for $10.

And you can find that at the lobby desk.

Just come in between 12 and 6 p.m.

today for the pre sale.

And then it's open to the public on Friday,

April 26th and Saturday,

April 27th.

Now I'm pretty sure that my guest tomorrow

is one of your authors is going to be there.

You know the list?

Yes, I have the list.

Is Carol is Carol G.

in forte on the list?

Let me take a look.

I think she is.

Carol G in forte.

She wrote a book and I'm reading it right now

with my wife.

She, my wife reads to me at night.

Okay.

I don't see her.

I'm going to ask her.

Yes, she is.

She's actually, yep.

Yep, she is on the list.

She wrote a book about her house on Carlisle Avenue.

And I love the book.

I love it.

It's, it's really good.

And my wife reads to me at night because I just,

I like, I don't like reading.

I mean, it's okay.

But when somebody reads to who knows how to read,

and she doesn't stumble through words,

my wife reads to me,

and we're reading that book now,

and then I'm going to read Bob Barry's book after that.

It's such a great book.

And what we did was we went to the house on Carlisle.

We drove by.

It took a picture of it.

So at least I know what I'm hearing in the book.

And she, you know, she's

good about my age, maybe a little older than me.

And she doesn't look at though.

And she's talking about her memories as a child there.

And how things progress in the,

and the children who live next door

are now adults.

They have their own kids.

One of their kids passed away in a, in a horrible way.

But you live through all this.

Her life experiences with her neighbors

on Carlisle Avenue over the years

and growing through a child to an adult.

To repair the house used to get up on his ladder

and after a while you couldn't do that anymore.

And because he had older,

talks about the first television they got.

Her father was against getting the television.

You know, this

confounder thing I'm going to believe in television.

It's against God.

Or whatever he said.

Anyway, he went broke down and got a TV.

And she talks about putting up the antenna for the first time.

How they finally got the TV in the neighborhood.

It's a great book.

I'll have to read it.

I know you mentioned it last time too when I was here.

I'm glad she's going to be there tomorrow.

We have a lot of local books at home.

Because we've got a lot of events and I'll buy the book.

And I'll read it a little later day.

My wife will read it to me later date.

I can't read by the way, just so you know.

I know I'm not a read.

It's just I like to lay in bed with my head back

and close my eyes and have a read to me

because I can picture everything.

So anyway, so I'm glad she's going to be there.

Who else is going to be there?

Yeah, so we'll also have Gene Arnold.

Dean Uber.

Montgomery Ayesha.

Emanuel Beacham.

Cheryl Dog.

Anita.

Carol, as you mentioned.

Laura Gillot.

Kathy Giorgio.

Rory Graves.

Rihanna Johnson.

Gerald Kerwowski.

Robert Katzman.

Steven.

Tiffany Stevenson.

Liz Tolzema.

These are local authors, direct books.

That is correct.

So they'll be there on Saturday, April 27th

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

They'll be on the second floor

and the business center

and the community room.

So they'll be kind of a little bit scattered all around.

This is for all ages.

No registration is required.

So yeah, come on over.

Visit our showcase of local authors.

Somebody told me everybody's got to book in them.

Everybody's got to book in them.

You can write a book.

You've got experiences you don't think about

and they're not boring.

It's not boring.

If you tell it in an interesting way,

it becomes interesting.

You know, I've been a radio for half a century

and I'm sure I got a book in me somewhere.

I mean, I worked at a lot of places.

I met a lot of interesting celebrities

and people like yourself.

And, you know, I probably could.

I write stories on the Facebook page

for my very first radio station.

I worked that when I was a teenager.

And I'm up to story.

I just finished story number 30 on there.

And there are things I remember about working there

for seven years from 18 years old

till when I until I left.

And the people who are still live

that work there at the time say, wow,

I'd remember this story.

Wow, and it's just interesting stories

about the time we spent there and they love it.

Now, it's probably of no interest anybody else.

But, you know, so anyway,

so that's coming up and that'll be Saturday.

What did my wife tell me was today?

All right, so it'll be Saturday.

Yep, the showcase is Saturday.

Today is the Friends of the Library books.

Spring books.

Okay, now, what kind of books do you sell?

It's just the overstocks and doubles

and things that it just, you know,

at a date or what?

So, actually, they sell all types of books.

They have somewhere from inspirational books

to kids books, any type of book.

So, these are all donated items.

Items that we're no longer need at the library.

So, there's hardcover books, fiction, nonfiction,

all ages, books that are just,

they are at a discounted price

and all proceeds support the racing library.

That's good because you got to get that money in there

some way, tax dollars only goes so far.

That is correct.

And you got to figure, you know,

in genius ways how to get to get the money in there.

So, the book sale is today and last through,

in the last through Saturday.

And then the next one, if you miss this one,

we won't have another one until October.

On in.

Now or never.

Okay, so where is the book sale itself?

So, the book sale itself is down on the first floor

and we have, on the back end of the library, it's the book teak.

So, we have this new area that's just for the books.

So, back office, business, center,

walk in, turn to your right and you will find

the friends of the library book teak.

The Pride Quilting Project, I know what quilting is.

So, what's the Pride Quilting Project?

So, this one, it looks like I'm just going to read the script

because I don't know much about it.

But, it's the library and the LGBT center of Southeast

Eastern Wisconsin and the friends of the racing public library

are making a community quilt for Pride.

Month this June and we need your help.

So, it's pretty much, they're going to make some quilts

and it looks like they're looking for donations

on 100 percent of quilts' quality cotton

non-stretch of any pattern.

They need 11 by 11s or bigger swatches of red,

orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

and a five and three fours and five three fours

are bigger swatch of white, white, blue.

Sounds very good.

Brown and black, right?

It's like once they start putting like the measurements

in here, I'm like, okay, so.

We need to add B of maybe very big this thing.

Just, you know, something that's this size, that size.

So, we need all that.

We need yard binding fabric, backing fabric,

twin size batting.

So, and they're also going to be looking for facilitators

during the Pride Month.

A lot of stuff.

So, I need to know, with the high-near 50,

clear tonight, Lowes 40,

showers, highs, near 54, tomorrow's

sunny.

That's showers, 100 storms,

or the high-nears 78.

Wow, and I double-checked it.

Uh, showers and thunderstorms,

highs 68 on Sunday.

High above, and dream of a far-off days.

We're a heroes, a welcome,

would be waiting for me,

where the clouds will cheer,

when they see my face.

And a voice keeps saying,

this is where I'm meant to be.

I'll be there someday.

I can grow the distance.

I will find my way.

If I can be strong,

I'm the way I'll bring my,

will be worth my life.

When I grow the distance,

I ain't where I belong.

Michael Molten, go to the distance

from the Disney animated film Hercules.

Well, the movies made a lot of good songs, didn't they?

Yes, they sure did.

And a lot of good movies, especially movies you may have heard of.

You heard of Dr. Hercules, right?

Yes, yes, yes.

You gotta, you gotta,

the library go pull out the DVD and watch it.

I have it at home.

It's really a good movie.

And I'm not a fan of animated films.

Ever since I saw Bambi and Bambi,

a mother got blasted away.

Oh, I was one of those people in the theaters that cried.

And Bambi's crying.

Mama, mama.

And by the way, when I was an adult,

I took my daughter to go see you in theater

when she was a kid.

And I cried like a baby when Bambi started.

Nothing so much when mother got killed by a hunter,

but when she said,

Mama, mama, oh,

he's crying in the movie.

My daughter's, what are you doing?

I get, uh, man.

What a, I get you traumatized for that movie, Bambi.

You saw that, right?

Yes, I did.

Yes, I did.

And yeah, you are right.

I mean, that's one traumatizing moment.

And if you lose your career,

every thought you lost, right?

Mama.

All right.

You know, I'm going to get a little teary right now.

I think I'm going home.

Oh, yeah, I know.

All right.

After all this morning,

it's like what I'm putting you through.

You didn't put me at the Bambi thing I thought about.

All right, Evelyn Garcia,

business manager,

received public libraries here.

Now one of the things they're looking for food vendors.

And these are the guys in those food trucks.

You see all over town, which is a big thing.

That is correct.

So we do have, um,

the food vendors,

which we have the lunch on Wednesday,

starting May 22nd all the way through September 11th.

And we are still seeking for vendors.

If you have any interest,

please reach out to us at six,

three, six, nine,

one, seven, zero,

or stop at the library.

Or should as an email, please.

We do have available dates in June, July, August,

and September.

So if you're a food vendor,

please give us a call.

A lot of hungry people there at the library.

Yes.

A lot of people come by there.

They're hungry.

The Rough Readers.

Are you FF Rough Readers?

Yes, the Rough Readers.

So we do have this awesome program

that boosts the literacy

from pre-Kindergarten all the way through 5th grade.

We are looking for children to sign up for slots.

We do have this Monday through Thursday.

4 p.m. to 4.45 is our last 15-minute interval.

So come and join us and meet one of our

Rough Pals.

We have Tundra, Merlin,

Siva, Zoe, Snowy, Princess Luna,

and we just added three more,

Georgia, Tula, and Pepper.

And what are these characters?

So these are dogs.

So these are real life.

Oh, they're real dogs.

They're real dogs.

They're real dogs.

They come in.

They sit.

They listen to your child tell the story.

Whether you know how to,

yes,

Rough Readers.

Yes.

Correct.

So it's like, you know,

whether you know how to read

or you just want to show them the pictures

and you make up the stories.

Come on in, sign up for a slot.

We are always looking.

We are taking a break.

So we won't be starting again

until June.

But we are of only scheduled.

So come on in.

I went to college.

I can figure this out.

Didn't take me that long.

I mean, I went to a university.

Look what they turned out.

All right.

That's those are the Rough Readers.

Those are dogs.

I get it.

Yes.

Audio and podcasting studios.

Is this just set up recently, right?

Yes.

Yes.

So it was set up earlier in 2023.

And it was just open recently.

So we are good to book you out.

And if you want to book a session,

there is no cost to you.

And we have some equipment in the room.

And all you have to do is call us at 619-2560

to book the room.

And there is a logic pro software

keyboard speakers, headphones and microphones.

So what do you do?

Will you just record and make a podcast?

You get it on the internet.

That's that I don't know.

I think that's they do that for you or they probably

instruct you on how to do it.

I think they have basic knowledge.

But if you are knowledgeable and you know how to do this stuff,

just come in and use the room.

See, I know how this this show is going to be podcast later today.

We do it's podcast on Apple, Spotify,

YouTube podcast, WRJN.com, civic media, podcast everywhere.

I know how it's done.

People in civic media take care of it.

That's how it's done.

I just record it.

Mysteriously just winds up on Apple podcasts later on today.

Or wherever you get your podcast from.

That's all I know.

Okay.

Somebody named Luke takes care of it at civic media

and I have nothing to do with it.

All right.

And it magically works every day.

So I'm sure that will instruct you.

So you can record your own podcast every day

and become a big internet star.

Correct.

So we do have some podcasters that come and use it.

And like I said, I mean, the room is on the second floor

inside the innovation lab.

Does it look like a real studio?

It looks like a real studio.

Yes, it has like a room inside a room pretty much.

So it's got all the equipment in there.

All these padding things in the room.

All these padding's in there.

Yeah.

So it's pretty cool.

You know, I knew I'd wind up my career in a padded room.

I just didn't know.

I knew I was going to padded room somewhere.

This is the padded room I wound up with.

Oh, that's great.

So if you don't have equipment,

a lot of people don't have equipment.

You go to the library.

You book it in advance and you can record a podcast

and get it on the internet.

And you know, I had this survey we read recently.

And it said, what's the number one job

young people want today?

And you would, you know, when I was a kid,

I wanted to be a policeman.

I wanted to be a stock car driver.

I wanted to be an ice cream man.

You know, driving the good humor truck.

I wanted to be at this job.

You're those are the four things.

You know, what I wound up with.

Anyway, still looking for that good humor truck ice cream job.

I'd love to do that.

But the number one job kids want today, YouTube star.

That's when they want to become a YouTube star,

internet celebrity.

They don't want to bother doing anything else.

That's what they want to do.

And there's a lot of money in it.

There's a lot of money.

I mean, Kim Kardashian made her billions

starting off as a YouTube star.

I mean, I don't know what else she can do in life.

But she's a billionaire Kim Kardashian.

And that's how she started doing that kind of stuff.

And here I am.

Shlopping on the radio all these years.

And I could be doing this on YouTube,

making lots and lots of money.

All right, Evelyn Garcia is here.

We got lots to talk about things going on

at the library.

You're a public library.

They were seeing library right there in the lake front.

If nothing more, just go in there.

Sit down on the second level.

The big picture windows overlook Lake Michigan.

Grab a book, start reading it.

What a great way to spend the day afternoon.

Just looking at Lake Michigan and

watching the shoreline and reading a book.

And with a cup of coffee.

But oh, you can bring coffee, you can bring food.

Yeah, yeah, you can bring food.

Yeah, you can bring food.

Why didn't you launch?

Wow, really?

Nothing's stinky though.

I mean, that's your choice.

No, nothing's stinky.

No onions.

All right, Evelyn Garcia is here.

Business manager,

received public library.

Sonny today with a high near 50.

You don't forget the brewers around the road.

We'll take on the pirates in Pittsburgh.

11 AM this morning right here at WRGN.

And the Yankees are in town all weekend long.

All games here on WRGN.

I always play great music.

I always have unbelievable sound systems.

You get there early.

You take advantage of that.

You just jammed at the best music.

No, no man.

Yeah.

Occasionally, there's an announcement,

but other than that,

you're just getting into the music, you know.

Yesterday,

all much with the gentleman who left a briefcase

at the Security Area of Concourse C.

Please return to claim your briefcase.

And it seems like all unattended vehicles

will be towed away at the owner's expense.

Oh, I believe there's been a gate change for Flight 207.

It'll now be departing at a gate 19.

Yesterday, I love that song.

Takes my mind off traveling.

Music

When it feels like the world is on your shoulders

and all of the madness has got you going crazy.

It's time to get out, step out into the street.

We're all of the action.

It's right there at your feet.

Well, I know a place where we can dance the whole night away

underneath the electric stars.

Just come with me and we can shake your blues right away.

You'll be doing fine with the music stars.

Oh, feel the beat of the rhythm of the night.

I've got something to mourn in life.

Forget about the worries on your mind.

You can lean all behind.

I've got something to mourn in life.

Oh, the rhythm of the night.

Oh, yeah.

Look out on the screen now.

The party's just beginning.

The music's playing.

A celebration's starting.

Under the street lights.

The scene is being set.

A night for all your men's.

A night you won't forget.

So come join the fun.

They say no time to be staying on.

Ooh, there's too much going on.

Tonight is going to be a night like you've never known.

We're going to have a good time the whole night long.

Oh, feel the beat of the rhythm of the night.

Dance until the morning light.

Forget about the worries on your mind.

You can lean them all behind.

The beat of the rhythm of the night.

Oh, the rhythm of the night.

Oh, yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

737 WRJ and Radio.

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

WRJ and 1400 A.M. 99.9 FM, 98.1 FM

and Evelyn Garcia Business Manager

for the Racine Public Library is here.

Did you know it's distracted awareness month?

Distracted driver awareness month?

I did not.

Well, here you go.

Here are the top things that are distracting people

on the roads today.

Daydreaming.

You're not paying attention.

All of a sudden you're zoning out and before you know it,

you're in an ambulance.

Cell phones, texting, messing with your GPS,

anything to do with a cell phone.

I remember once I was in New York,

I went back for a reunion and I'm driving

and I was on my cell phone

and the drivers are looking at me.

I didn't know there was a law passed in New York state.

You cannot use a cell phone while driving

and I'm getting these dirty looks from people

as we pull up to a stop light.

I didn't know.

I didn't know what they're looking at me for.

Anyway, cell phones.

Looking at stuff outside your vehicle, billboards

and so forth.

You know, before you know, you're crashed.

That's like the episode on Seinfeld.

Remember that?

Do you want Seinfeld at all?

You know what Seinfeld?

Okay.

Kramer saw a woman walking around with no top

just a bra and he crashed the car

and now he had to get an attorney

and she was the heir to the O'Henry candy bar fortune.

O'Henry candy bars.

So we're going to take her to the cleaners

and it turns out they didn't.

But that, yeah.

So he was not looking where he's going.

Abusing substances or lacking sleep.

I can't as distractions as well.

Reaching for stuff.

Like something in the back seat.

I don't know when you were a kid.

We had a long trip.

My father used to reach back there.

I'm going to keep you two.

Stop pulling around back.

They're reaching back there and trying to swing it to you.

I think I still do that.

Oh, you did it to your kids.

That's the cost of accidents.

Other passengers.

Dangerous for teen drivers in their friends.

Always goofing off in the car.

Eating and driving.

Just a dangerous texting and driving.

I think everybody eats.

I mean, if you look at my car,

you'll probably find some french fries hidden under the seat

or something like that.

Messing with onboard systems like the air conditioner

or the radio.

It's set the radio to a WRJ and I'm messing with it.

I'm going to drive it up to him.

Yes.

People drive with dogs.

You ever see them on a freeway that drive with dogs on their laps?

I don't drive with my dog on the lap but he does have his seat, his car seat.

Oh, he has a car seat.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Oh, look at mommy taking care of her little baby there in the car.

Yes.

Yeah, but I see them.

You see them on their laps all the driving at 70 miles an hour.

That dog takes one more step on you.

And before you know it,

the ambulance.

Okay, so that was a distracted driver.

Distracted drivers, a distracted driver, awareness month.

Just going to bring that up to you.

Okay, now,

we've got some more things to talk about going on at the public library,

or your public library.

Before we get to that big one,

but that big vehicle,

coffee and conversation.

Yes, so coffee and conversation happens every second Tuesday of the month.

And it's from 1 to 230 and it's on the second floor.

Many of these programs we do speak Spanish,

so they can be held in Spanish, so.

You know, I took six years of Spanish,

four years in high school,

two years in college.

I can remember one word,

albondigas.

Albondigas, meatballs.

That's all I can do.

Now, I know, you know,

I'm blowing less or,

let's see, that's about it.

Actually, I can read it.

Once I'm reading it, I understand it.

One of our courses,

I went to school in New York.

We had two Spanish language stations on the radio.

This is back in the 70s.

And one of them covered the New York Mets in Spanish.

And if you, you know, know,

those trash, you can follow them around the bases.

And the names are in English.

So you can actually follow it.

So our thing was we had to listen to it.

The baseball game in Spanish.

And write down, you know, what happened?

I followed the Mets anyway.

So I knew what happened.

But yeah, you can, you can follow it.

You know, you hear the ball hitting the crowd screen.

You know, they got a single.

So you can figure it out.

But yeah, how do I, you know,

what's some of the Spanish I learned?

I used to write and read so fluently in Spanish.

And I just went out of my head.

Oh, I was saying.

You got to practice it.

I think my wife knows she's panamanian.

She knows some Spanish.

No, I guess she does.

Her mother was from Panama.

She must have spoken Spanish fluently.

All right. Well anyway.

All right. So coffee and conversation could be in English.

How do you know?

But like, by the way, even if it's in Spanish,

you might learn something.

Right. So these are, these are majorly held in English.

But if you have any Spanish speaking that are interested, yes.

It can be offered in Spanish as well.

You know, we had a missionary at our church come speak the other day.

And he's from, I don't know if he's from Turkey or from somewhere out there.

And he gave his whole talk in that language.

Luckily, they brought a translator along.

There's no way it's going to sit there for 45 minutes in here.

I don't know what he was talking about.

You know, occasionally you hear the word Jesus, which is in English.

And you can hear it.

But yeah. But how do I go six years?

And how Bundy Goss meets Paul's.

And that's all.

Sure, if I sat and sort of thinking about it for a few minutes, I can come up with sentences.

I'm trying to think of some of them now because we had them.

And sentences like you would never use in real life, like, you know,

bring the valet up to my room.

What am I going to use that in my life?

Bring the valet, but we are learning all those things.

And I was pretty good. I was fluent.

And when our teachers were on strike,

they were on strike for a few months when I was in junior year of high school.

Some of the teachers still held at their homes.

And Miss Costa held her Spanish classes at her house in the basement.

So we go over there.

And she was very nice about it.

I remember the college teacher would not let us speak English in the classroom.

She said, why don't you cross that threshold?

No English. No English.

And what if I want to say something?

And I get you look it up and you figure it out.

What about if you're in a foreign country?

Well, and people who speak English think if you speak it slow enough,

people will understand it.

You know, I want to know where the rest.

Everything you speak it slow enough will understand it.

I was in Israel once. I didn't speak the language.

Luckily, my girlfriend at the time spoke and she lived there.

And luckily, I mean, I would how I couldn't get through that country.

It's amazing. And they plop you in there.

And I guess you can figure it out.

So I know a coffee and conversation.

Yes. When is that run?

So that is every second Tuesday of the month from 1 to 230 on the second floor.

What if you don't drink coffee?

You don't have to drink coffee. You can bring your tea.

We do have tea.

We provide coffee.

I never drank a cup of coffee in my life.

No. Never tasted it.

I love the smell of it. So it's pretty cool.

Now the big one here. This is a big one.

What you talk about this?

Not even on my list. It's so big.

The tech mobile. So pretty much I wanted to bring some information on how does the library come to you and your event.

So if you ever have any type of event that you need our tech mobile to come to you,

go on to our Racine Library.info website.

And under what's about your library, go under there.

And you'll fill out the form.

And then we come to you.

Agilette, we'll be there.

Now you say you'll cut in a business or...

Yes, so an event. So any type of event that you have.

For example, we have some schools like Racine Unified that has events.

And they need the library to come to you.

You just fill out your form.

And we'll come to you if we have availability.

And what's in it?

Giving an idea of what the tech mobile looks like.

It looks like it's blue, baby blue.

And it looks like those big giant ambulances.

Yes. So on the side of the tech mobile, there's a TV.

And you can plug in your games to it.

Inside the tech mobile, there's books.

There's technology.

There's laptops.

Wow.

And the back of the tech mobile has the ability to blow out bubbles.

So it blows out bubbles through the back.

So it's a pretty neat...

It's almost like the book mobile is just a smaller version.

And it has a lot of technology in it.

And left over from 10 billion stage, you can still get your blood pressure taken.

You can lay down on a gurney.

It does look like an ambulance.

It looks like a big square ambulance, but it's baby blue.

And so you can plug stuff...

Yes.

Well, this is just great. Where was this thing hidden all along?

Is it new?

So yes, we just got it in 2023.

Wow. Well, that's pretty neat.

Yes.

But you still got the book mobile.

That is correct. Yes.

And you can also book that.

But that's a little bit more limited since it does have already had stops and so forth.

But, you know, if you ever need it, fill out your form.

You know, as a kid, we had one library.

Then they built a second librarian town, which made the old one, you know, look ancient.

But anyway, we had a book mobile.

And we used to wait on the corner waiting for the book mobile to show up.

We knew the approximate time.

It wasn't exact.

And they said, one at a time, hold it.

Let's, you know, because it's only thin in there.

And put so many people in.

And we all got books out.

And then these are pre-selected books by somebody in the library.

I said, here's what you should be reading.

It wasn't huge, but it was, you know.

And we just loved going to the book mobile.

I mean, the library came to our block.

I mean, how great is that?

We didn't have to go schlep over to the library.

And it was so good.

You couldn't return stuff to it.

That you had to return to the library.

But you could check stuff out.

But it was all manual stuff.

In other words, they had to write it down on a card.

There was no computers back in the 60s to do all that stuff.

I just love going to the book mobile.

So people, how do you find out the schedule for the book mobile?

So for the book mobile, you can find the schedule on the Racine Library.info website.

So that you can see the location and where they do their stops.

And also, if you want to do book reservations and you want to pick them up at the book mobile,

you can do that too.

So in the tech mobile, is that only go to special event?

Or is it roam around town?

How does that happen?

It just goes to special events.

Yes, that is correct.

That is just amazing.

All right, Evelyn Garcia Business Manager,

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Highs near 50 degrees.

Clear tonight, lows 40 showers, 54 tomorrow.

For the weekend, partly sunny.

Highs near 58 Saturday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Those same storms.

You'd come in on Sunday with a high-neared 60-gauge right now.

Sunny 31 degrees.

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Pick on the Pirates in Pittsburgh.

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