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From Classrooms to Podcasts: Educator Insights Unleashed (Hour 2)

Maino and the Mayor · Tue Jun 3, 2025

Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

All right, good morning everybody.

Boy have we upgraded our show today on Todd.

This is, I don't know if it's morning with the ladies, but we have got two guests in here due to my scheduling error.

Two hosts in here due to my scheduling error.

And Connie Felmer.

Two hosts

and Jim

Schmidt.

Yeah,

right.

Who's that?

HR is going to be here in a little while to talk to me.

Connie.

Thumman, who of course was the anchor at Fox 11.

She's been here the last couple of days.

And thank you for being here.

And then Vanessa Moran, who has been here before, she's the leader of Feed My Starving Children, a great background in teaching and principle.

And you're here too.

And that's because I thought one of you was coming tomorrow and one today.

It takes two of us to fill the shoes

of John Minow.

Exactly, exactly.

Which one's wearing the left shoe?

Which one's wearing the right shoe?

Oh, yeah.

Who wants to be crew's director?

I'm feeling this way.

No,

this is not actually not love, though.

This is Charlie's Angels.

Oh, OK.

OK.

Wow.

That'll be an interesting discussion

later today.

I get to be

Charlie.

That's

awesome.

No, you get to be.

What?

Who's the other guy?

Charlie was the guy.

I'm Charlie because you can't see me.

You can only hear me.

Is it like Benson or

Botley?

But what was his name?

Uh, Bosley.

Bosley.

Oh,

okay.

You're Bosley.

Actually, it kind of looked like a little

bit.

Don't know that I really watched that.

Talk like this a little

bit more.

It's an honor.

Did you, today, 70 degrees?

Walking outside.

my gosh, I wanted to host this outside today.

I couldn't believe it.

It's beautiful.

It's a great

idea.

Right across the board, a

tie.

Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, 70, 70, 70.

So anyway, welcome Connie and Vanessa.

Thank you.

We're excited.

And

it's really nice that you are here and it's really bad that I didn't have a schedule in, but thank you for sticking around because you could have said, OK, I'm going back to bed.

But you didn't.

So you guys are

up here.

We know divas.

All right.

You want to name some?

Well, as a matter of fact.

So anyway, today, just weather-wise, we like to kick that off.

And Vicki, good morning to you as well.

Thank you for texting

that in.

Good morning, Vicki.

Good morning.

But we're going to get up to the low 80s today, so.

Possibly some storms this

afternoon.

Got a crooked

eye on that.

Could

be severe in some places.

More hail, I heard, just in the way.

Yeah.

So.

Today it's gonna be fun.

We've got we got a really interesting guest coming in Scott McPherson Kind of what you tell us a little bit about him.

He'll guys interesting guy

He is he's a school teacher in Denmark a fifth grade teacher and he had he I don't know if he knew what he was doing.

He ran this idea past me He's like I heard John the radio and he was interested in doing a podcast He was gonna call it the staff lounge all about teacher talk

And I thought, and he hasn't gotten off of ground or anything like that.

It's just an idea.

But I thought, what a great idea to talk about, you know, what's going on in our local schools and, you know, kids are out of school for the summer now and

you have background in teaching as well.

Yeah, my whole career has been in the education field,

yeah.

One of my side gigs is I produce podcasts for people.

So if he needs help getting going with,

you know,

platforms

and how to do it and all that,

I'm the guy.

This morning will be the dry run, right?

Yeah.

There you go.

He just doesn't know it yet.

Surprise.

teachers and education school and how like the dynamics of it.

Do you see that comedian that that's all he does is talk about schools?

He's like, uh, he's a principal and, um, and he said, you

know, Jerry Brooks, you mean?

He has an Instagram page, and he does all these funny videos where he'll pick up the phone and just be mimicking, talking to.

I met him in person a few years ago.

Amazing.

He is just as kind-hearted as what you see on his page or his Instagram feed or whatever.

Does he tour?

He does tour.

Yeah, and he talks, and he talks about how where those videos came from.

Great, great guy.

Actually, one year, well, one year, during COVID year, all of our staff meetings obviously were virtual.

he popped into one of my staff meetings.

Just to provide some brevity because it was such a heavy, dark time.

And I reached out to him and said, hey listen, I have a staff meeting first time ever after this all hits.

I have eight staff on here and this little square pops up and it's Jerry Brooks.

And he popped in for the meeting just to say, hey, keep going.

This is a tough time.

I'm here to just lift you and provide some, again, something fun, something entertaining.

And then off he went to the next meeting.

He did that over and over and over again during COVID.

And a shout out to all teachers.

mean, their job, and they do such a phenomenal

job.

Yeah,

absolutely.

And we are so lucky.

We are.

They're off the school.

School is out.

June 5th for Green Bay.

For June 5th.

I just want to say that my birthday is June 7th and there wasn't a better birthday

gift than being

done with school.

Because I was not a very good student.

But I'll tell you one story how.

That's true.

One story how Max Slattery was my math teacher in eighth grade and Mr. Slattery.

right on the bubble between an A and a B. You always get an A. With math, he teaches you how to calculate the percentage, right?

93% to get an A, and you can take all your test scores, divide by the number of test scores, but there was a little wiggle room.

And then it was a solid B. I figured that out, and I was okay with that.

I got a solid B, and then I got my report card, and it was different classes, different teachers, so you should get different sheets that go into this.

I'm gonna envelope it.

I looked at it, I got an A.

Like, hey, turn it over, happy birthday.

Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

No, I love that.

He did

big letters in the explanation points.

He kind of bummed me up.

My daughter's on the bubble right now with one class.

And I emailed her teacher last night, and she was like.

We'll take a look at it today.

But my daughter, just she wanted all A's all semester, all year and she's just so close.

One test bumped her down to a B plus and she came home yesterday just so solemn.

I'm like, it's gonna be okay.

I was just looking for one A. I was just lucky because my math teacher, I was on the bubble two between an F and a D. And he always passed me and I don't know why.

Cause I algebra was not my strong suit and I didn't care about

it.

Mr.

Coplitz, thank

you.

All right.

And Sister Patricia, freshman year, and thank you.

You should have lost your license for passing me, because in French class, I just...

Maybe I could count to 10 at the end of the class.

Everybody else was just speaking French to each other.

And anyway, she passed me, which was great.

So anyway, love her too.

So here, something interesting to share about algebra, by the way.

Think about all that, sine, cosine, the Pythagorean in theorem, all of those things.

And we'll say Ariel here.

Well, we never use those again, ever, ever, ever.

No, you probably won't unless you become an engineer or go into certain mathematical fields.

But the reason why we teach those

is to teach kids how to learn.

Because you're always gonna be learning new skills.

Just throwing that out there.

There's a reason.

I understand that.

It's okay.

You got through it.

I went to a

liberal arts college and

that was

the thing.

Well,

you're learning how to

learn.

Learning

how to learn.

That's

it.

My teacher, when I go say to him, look, I don't think I'm ever gonna use this.

Because you probably won't.

The smart kids will.

You know, in baking.

All the percent of the fractions, okay, so what's half of three-quarters, you know, use it all the time.

All the time, truly.

Shopping, yeah.

So there's certain things that are just, certain things you'll probably never see again.

Todd, that

didn't click with you?

What's that?

Elgebra?

No, I don't care that A plus B equals C2.

I don't care.

He's

still learning how to learn.

Obviously I haven't, Connie, because I'm still doing this job.

And in teaching, I think, and I do this, it sends this to my students, they're too focused on grades.

They are, and I'm

like, are you learning something?

I just want you

to learn something.

You start y'all start getting, you all start with A's.

So don't ask me that anymore what your grade is, you know?

And yeah, they can keep it there or move from there, but man, do they get concerned about grades.

But I think at TC, which is where they're teaching the business college there, they get reimbursed 100% from their companies if they get an A, 75% if you get a B. And 50% if you get a C, and then if you get below that, and if you get a D, it doesn't transfer, right?

A lot of people go there and then they go to, you know, GB or Madison or something.

There is incentive there, but I don't want that to be the focus.

Focus has to be learning how to run a

business.

Yeah, absolutely.

We got a text from Brian already this morning who said, was that a birthday gift for you or your teachers?

Finally, we don't need to listen to Jimmy humming barbershop and Liberace all day.

Thank

you,

Brian.

Thank you,

Brian.

That's an interesting question.

He's a regular.

He does.

does.

He knows me.

But anyway, the teachers.

The influence we have

Fridays here on the show, we bring in musicians.

And very, very often, it's like, what was the spark to have you really lean into this music?

Because your parents tell you you're great, because that's kind of their job.

And of course, they're going to say that.

But when they hear it from a teacher, it can even mean more.

Oh,

for

sure.

They come home and say, you know, this is what, you know, Mrs. Duansal said, I've been saying that for a year.

But anyway, when the teacher says it, it just carries more credit.

And I think they realized, do they actually ask you, you're the principal, you're a teacher?

Do teachers understand the impact they have

on kids?

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

If a kid was having a bad day, there were times that we would purposely have a discussion in front of them or in a doorway and just say, hey, Connie, you know her.

I have Joey sitting here in my classroom.

Do you know what a great job he did today in math?

It was so great to see.

And knowing that they're overhearing that, it was just one of those little tools we had in our backpack.

Every now and then, I would pull one of my friends over, one of my teacher friends, colleagues, and say, hey, I need to have a conversation with you in earshot of so and so.

Because sometimes even that mattered even more.

It was just one of those little, again, a tool in the backpack.

But honestly, it was just about any time you had a chance to speak into them and say something positive, you took it

because you love them.

And you'll always remember those te- shout out to Gary Lemire.

was my music teacher.

It's Scott coming in, by the way, who's a pretty awesome guitar player and I play bass in a band with him.

All right.

Wow.

And those guys had big mouth.

He's a teacher.

He's been in here a couple of times.

And that's nice that they share their talent.

Can you imagine someone from Big Mouth telling you you got talent?

And

that's one

of the most talented.

That's local.

It's just a great, great band.

And I just think the influence they have.

My sister was a teacher of fourth grade for, I don't know, 35 years or something.

She taught at different places, but really ended up in Wausau.

These kids would see her.

You know, they got kids now.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

And she's like, I can't believe that I miss.

But what she did to get the kids kind of going to take a little break, they would do 10 jumping jacks.

And she did count to 10 in different languages.

So I'm Japanese.

Oh, nice.

German.

They still remember that.

They really count to 10 like me in French.

But after that, they.

They stopped.

Teachers said, they remember that about her, some other things too, but she was.

The students will always remember that for sure.

You know, one of the things too, when it comes to teachers is like, we know how much it matters when those students hear those things.

I would say it's equally as important when teachers hear those things.

Like as we get to the end of the school year, send your teachers texts, send your teachers messages on Facebook, send them an email, any way you can get a hold of them.

You know, do the same thing because we don't always hear it as often as you think.

So it's just.

is impactful the other way around, you know?

That is so critical.

And it goes on too.

I mean, there's some college professors that can tell you, look, this is where you belong.

And you believe them, right?

I mean, these guys are, or these ladies are up there.

So yeah, it's nice that, all right, we'll honor the teachers today, but all right.

So the other thing today we have going on, Bicycle Day, I was going to take my bike today.

I was very close, but I had to go.

to the shelter this morning first, so I went over there.

That's right.

I just got to ride my bike.

You see, I got to go over there.

Was he going to?

Yeah, I saw that last.

He sent this to me last night.

What else we got going on today?

Today's cider day.

You

like cider?

Yeah.

I like alcoholic cider.

But cider day, to me, seems

like it should be in

October.

Yes, this is the wrong time of the year to have a cider day.

Is cider, do we have those people that have their own micro breweries and make the- Yeah, the cider.

They do the cider too, right?

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Sunken paddle and ice, that's just one of my favorite places.

Egg day today, celebrate the lovely egg, right?

All right.

Okay, Jim, close your eyes.

What is this?

What?

Egg

breaking on your head.

Did that

feel like it?

The egg head?

No.

He has enough skulls of it.

radio.

It's also chocolate

macaroon day today.

Oh, yeah.

And

CPR and AED awareness.

We're

going to

talk

about that a little bit more.

Yeah, I like that.

We're going to do something about that today because that's very, very important.

All right.

This is going to be fun.

It is.

Thank you both for being here.

We are here with Connie Feldman and Vanessa Moran.

We'll be right back.

Might on the

mayor.

All right, welcome back.

Speaking of schools, this is awesome, right?

It's one of the best movies out there.

You know, I'm really glad you two are

here.

We are, too.

Because it's the thread.

What

about Jim's

recommendation of the movies?

Let me tell

you, well, first of all, I love working with you two, but John would be singing along on this song.

Right,

Ty?

It's one of

his favorite

songs.

Oh, I

would

have loved to hear that.

He's tone deaf, though.

Oh,

maybe I wouldn't have.

It's 6.22 in the morning, it's tough to hear, so I'm glad you're here.

Again, we're talking about all days get recognized for something, but the CPR, AED Awareness Week, some people set their new year's resolutions and I know we're halfway through the year, but to take a CPR class, everybody should kind of do that.

Absolutely.

Your

companies a lot of times they offer them.

the why offers them, sometimes they're free, sometimes they're just a few bucks.

And then they teach at AED right there.

And you don't have to be real, real, I don't wanna say bright, but that tells you what

to do.

You open it up.

You just have to follow directions.

And just listen.

And take your time.

And be not afraid to do it.

Exactly.

So I don't know, people out there, there's still plenty of time to learn CPR.

There's classes all over.

you know, Appleton, Oshkosh and here in Green Bay.

So that's just a good thing to know.

We teach that at the shelter and we teach Narcon and everything else, right?

You just never know.

Yeah.

And we haven't used any of it, but I still have to know what that is.

So all right, birthdays, besides mine and princes coming up, we're born on the same day.

Really?

Same day.

Me and Prince.

I see a lot of

similarities.

Yeah, right?

That's what my kids used to say.

Are you

kidding me, dad?

They couldn't believe we're the same age.

I'm like, yeah, you guys, we are.

And I taught her a certain story.

I came really, really close to getting him here when we both turned 50.

Really?

How?

Because

a friend of mine knows, a friend of his that knows him.

And it was one of those four degree, three degree things.

You know,

it was very close to

it.

And that's at the time when he was playing smaller venues.

And

because he didn't, he wasn't doing this.

Big

concerts.

was just doing like not not coffee houses, but like the Meyer theater stuff, you know thousand two thousand seats And I want to get him in here and they give the money to I don't whatever any charity pride boys and girls club or something And I was kind of working on that because it was a big deal Not that I would ever on my 50th birthday have billboards or signs on all the buses But it it got a little I could tell you that was the year that my dad died and it was just too I just couldn't deal with all that stuff at one time.

But anyway

And then, of course, he's not here anymore, Prince.

So, anyway.

Isn't that

amazing?

Of the two people who've made it this far.

One guy, extremely talented and prophetic in his music.

Where are we going with this?

And the other guy,

barbershop

singer.

Okay, okay.

I didn't know Prince sang barbershop.

All right, well, let's...

What are the birthdays we got going on?

You guys take them.

You know this stuff better

than I know.

Well, Anderson Cooper, you know who Anderson Cooper is.

Oh, yes.

Yep.

He turns 58 today.

Wow.

Yeah.

Okay.

That

pretty good start with his mom's money, but still, yeah, he's, he's talented.

I don't know a single person on this list, but I'm going to pretend that I do.

Dan Hill is 71.

you guys know who Dan Hill is?

Sometimes when we

touch.

Keep

going.

Oh, we were just talking.

Okay, there we go.

There we go.

People are just...

Going to their coffee

right now.

We don't need that.

That is a great song by the way.

It is Is

he a one-hit wonder?

No, he did more stuff.

Yeah, I've never heard of

him.

Well,

I've heard this song.

I just didn't know he was Dan Hill.

Yeah, no, I didn't I'm with you.

I thought

was

the guy that You

know

And I choke on my reply.

I thought it

was

like Mino singing

in there.

Wow, that is on Mino, right?

A little bit.

I was like, is he here in the studio somehow?

That's like the Teen Love song.

All

right, so Anderson's 58,

Dan Hill's

71.

71, Denise Williams, 74.

OK, all right.

She's the, let's hear it for the boys.

Oh.

OK.

What movie was that from?

Footloose.

Footloose?

Yes.

Oh, wow.

OK.

It's a little more upbeat.

I like

this.

It's much better than that last guy.

It's a great win.

We can do this.

6.30 in the morning.

Get a little bit

of.

6.20,

6.20, 6.20.

I like

it.

And then Susie Quattro.

75.

Susie

Quattro.

I don't know.

I know she's a musician, I think.

She is.

She had a hit called Stumbling In back in the 70s.

Oh my gosh.

Yes.

But she was also known for her big role on happy days as Leather Tuscadero.

Oh, I can do that.

Yeah.

I can honestly say the pink.

I've never heard

the ladies.

Never once.

Now, everybody remembers Leather

Tuscadero.

You're showing your youth.

That's

awesome.

That's OK.

I've also never seen that show.

Oh, we have never seen love.

We need the fresh.

Yeah, we need the fresh perspective

in your

demos

down on the show.

Sorry, by a

lot.

All

right.

So just to remind you, this Scott McPherson is coming up this teacher.

podcast guy from Denmark.

It's gonna be interesting.

Teach you with a podcast idea.

Right.

He's going to freak out.

That is going to come to fruition.

Because of

today.

Podcasts.

And you know, those, yeah, they're very, very popular.

It'd be fun to get him.

And then Doug Doki, last week we had a guy in here, he's helping out the new community shelter with their golf awning, but he was in this whole

Pipe trades plumber trades and

now we're

bringing the guy on from local Union 400.

That is a great career.

That is just good money So that's gonna be fun to talk to him, of course, Mary Roddy's coming in from on Broadway.

They had their

The press conference listed all the great things that are going on in Broadway.

And

she's going to come in

here and give us... I love it.

But in the next half hour, we are going to do a little trivia because Connie yesterday did okay.

I did.

Amazing.

You did great.

Thank you, Todd.

You actually came up with

the right answer

that

Jim thought

was wrong if you remember

properly.

The trick questions.

We talked

about Wisconsin tree.

Yeah.

What is it?

Wisconsin

tree.

Maple.

Yeah.

Thank you.

The

answer I had was the white pine and it was I was some guy text in and said, Hey, go check your facts.

And I had him

right in front of me.

And some guy said, you actually, you know, Connie was right.

Connie was right.

So, but anyway, we're going to go to some trivia.

What month is it, Connie?

It's June, dairy month.

Right.

So I've got some questions on dairy for both of you.

And

just to do a little, so you can think between the break, but first question.

How many teeth

does a cow have?

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Moran, I finally got it, right?

You got it on the mayor, there you go.

All

right, welcome back everybody.

Yes, this is ladies of the morning.

How's that?

Ladies of the morning, okay.

Because the ladies of the night can get us in trouble.

So it's a morning show, so we can go with that.

But I really want to thank both of you for coming in today.

Johnny's out, a little surgery's gonna be fine.

Be back on Thursday, I think.

But Cody, Philmer who was- Philman.

Philman, yep.

I do that to make sure he's

listening

Okay,

okay.

Keep Todd on his toes.

Well, you know what?

That's how this all happened this morning.

He was just, he's just pulling our leg.

He's playing this

the entire time.

He wanted two ladies.

Just wanted to see how flexible people could be.

Vanessa, if you would have saw his face when I said, I think Vanessa's walking

in.

As I was desperately like putting my mascara on in the car.

I thought who in the world is up this early?

At the car when I pulled up, I'm like, wow, that poor person.

Thanks for being here, you guys.

Make my day a lot better, and of course, for our listeners as well.

So hey, this.

It's time for Dairyland trivia with your host Jim Schmidt.

This is part of the worst game show in history.

Can I use my phone?

Hold on a second before we get started.

I'm going to bring in the extra bell because the two ladies are going to be playing against each other.

Jim, let's do this right.

I want you to play an actual host and say our first contestant is Connie Feldman.

Connie, tell me about yourself and then let them do the whole thing.

All right, go for it.

So,

welcome to Dairyland

Trivia with Jim

Schmidt.

The June Dairy Month quiz, the trivia, all right?

Our first guest, where do you hail from?

I'm Connie Feldman, I hail from Green Bay.

Really, what a, I hear it's a wonderful city.

It is amazing,

former

local news anchor and someone who used to hawk shoes.

I heard they had a really great mayor.

Yeah, once upon a time.

Alright, but Paul Jaden's long gone.

I heard So

that's fantastic just down the road, but love Green Bay I am a former teacher and a principal and currently a professor

there you go.

So I

just realized, as I said that, maybe I should have kept my cards closer to my chest.

Uh-oh.

Here we

go.

Competition

is fierce.

Do we ding our buzzer?

I'll be the judge on who is first.

Now, the way this works, these are multiple guests.

So make sure that you let him ask the question, give all the guesses, and then you can bring in.

This is a practice one.

Right.

Well, we call them multiple guests because we didn't go the choice.

Okay, so here we go.

Roughly... All right, again, it's June Dairy Mom.

Roughly one-third of Wisconsin's cheese production goes to what Italian-style cheese?

We're gonna listen to all the choices!

It's either...

I don't follow directions

well.

No,

I guess not.

But I learned how to learn.

It's either mozzarella.

There you

go.

Assego, Parmesan, or Romero.

Assego.

Assego

It is I

was too focused on correcting it He said

another one wrong you said you didn't say asiago and what was it Romero you said right Romano

Romano

Yeah, okay, I'm okay with that one.

All right, which dairy breed has the most cows in the United States Okay, Guernsey

Brown Swiss, Holstein, or Jersey?

I think that was Vanessa.

I'm going to say

Brownstein.

That

is not correct.

Connie.

I want to say Jersey.

Holstein.

It's Holstein, isn't it?

It's Holstein.

My gut said that.

No points on that.

Right now, Vanessa's ahead one to

nothing.

No, no.

Connie's

ahead.

That's

right.

So Holstein's the correct answer.

I mean,

I'm ahead.

I just can't win

here, man.

So,

yeah, that is the most common and popular dairy based

cow in the United States.

Once again,

you're listening

to the worst game show in history.

They are

recognized for their distinct... No, they're

learning how to learn.

They're the black and white cows.

Oh, goodness.

Okay, so, all right, all right, here we go.

In Wisconsin, if Wisconsin was listed by itself, not grouped with other U.S.

states, where would it rank in world cheese production?

Just us.

Just wait, I'll give you the... Okay, would we be... This is the world.

Fourth, the eighth, the tenth, or the twelfth?

All right, Vanessa.

Eight.

No.

Yes.

Fourth.

Oh, that was my first.

You know what?

Go with my gut.

I got to go with my gut.

What am I doing here?

That's pretty amazing if you think about it.

If you're illicit by itself, it would be more.

It seemed too good to be true.

The fourth in world cheese production is our little state.

When you emphasize the word world.

Yeah.

I was

like,

no, we can't be that high.

But I would have guessed one if it hadn't been my

choice.

I would have said one.

Connie.

All right.

So once again, the score is now two to nothing.

He's ahead.

All right.

No, we're

sharing the points.

All

right.

This is where this is the teaser.

How many teeth does a cow have?

Oh, goodness.

Two straight.

20, 24, 32, 38.

Vanessa.

I'm just going to keep guessing.

20.

That is not

correct.

Come on, Jim.

I think it's the same as us.

Teeth?

Yeah.

Well then.

32?

Huh?

32?

Yeah.

What?

I can't give her that because you gave her a clue, Jim.

I think it's the same as us.

I like this rule.

Right?

I like this rule.

All right.

Fair

enough.

All right.

Save me from my

side.

Minus five points

for Jim

this morning.

All right.

Adult calls typically have 32 teeth.

Huh.

I thought,

OK.

Wow.

I guess I'll at least have it earlier this morning.

Here we go.

Get to the money thing.

How many billion pounds of milk do Wisconsin dairy farmers produce annually?

Any year, how many, how many billions of pounds?

8 billion, 15, 26, or 31 billion pounds of milk.

That's interesting that you're saying pounds of milk.

I want to say gallons.

Like, wait, we wait.

How

many gallons?

How many pounds are in a gallon?

Can you give the choices

again, Jim?

It's eight billion.

$15 billion, $26 billion, or $31 billion?

Connie.

$31 billion.

Vanessa, for the steal.

For

the steal, the first one?

Eight?

Oh, man, you guys.

OK, Todd, you're just... I'm not playing.

OK, it is $26.

$26.

Wisconsin is known.

I did

nothing in my gut.

Jim

says...

The correct answer.

This

morning's trivia contest will be easier.

It'll be easier

than yesterday.

And he also said, I prepped this all out for you.

This sounds really prepped.

Oh, let me see it.

Oh,

I see that.

The

correct answer is 26 million pounds to get to Wisconsin Dairy Farmers and effectively produce this massive amount of milk each year.

All right, so that's cool.

All right, here we go.

What is the bushy tip of a cow's tail called?

I'll give you the, you can guess.

Okay, a swatter, a toggle, a switch, or a button.

All right, honey.

Swatter.

It is not.

It's a switch.

It is.

It is a switch.

Hey, you were pretty

confident.

Did you know that?

That one I did.

grandparents had a dairy farm.

I'm glad they're not.

Oh, now the truth comes

out.

The

switch.

Hey, you know what?

I was nervous to share it.

Is that why, though, like when you were younger, they used to say mom and dad would take the switch to us when they would spank you?

Did you ever hear that

phrase?

No, we behaved.

don't know.

Wow.

Shoot, she's lying

through

her teeth.

I don't

know.

After 18 rounds of questions, Connie is still ahead two to nothing.

All right, so here we go.

Two

one.

Two to

one, I'm sorry.

At least I should have let him just.

So calcium, right?

And milk.

Oh yeah.

How much calcium does the glass of milk have?

Oh no.

100 milligrams, 390 or 200.

An eight ounce glass we're talking about here, right?

I don't just use glass.

200?

100?

Nope.

We have better milk than that.

200?

No, 200.

She said 200.

Oh, yeah, no.

Oh, boy.

All right, you know, come on, come

on.

90.

No, better.

Better.

What?

She's to have a little more coffee.

We'll be right back.

No, stick around.

We're not going anywhere.

It's 300.

She said

we have better milk than that.

A glass of milk contains 300 milligrams of calcium.

Essential mineral, right?

I'm trying

to give that one to you.

All right, here we go.

We're going to get halfway through this.

All right.

Which cheese is the most widely purchased and consumed in the world?

I see I go not here in the world mozzarella Swiss cheddar or parmesan

Parmesan It's gotta be come on.

It's gotta be

one of me.

Is it right?

No, you

guess it this morning

cheddar All right, she gets that like what do you think I gave it the answer to her I didn't

This morning,

she said,

what kind

of questions

are you going to have?

And I said, well, what's the most popular cheese?

That's the thing.

I'm going to side with you, Vanessa.

This is so messed up that I didn't even hear cheddar as an option.

I did not

hear cheddar either.

Well, it is the worst game

show.

Mozzarella,

Swiss cheddar.

I did say that.

Did you really?

I did not hear the word cheddar.

Go to the tape.

All right.

Here we go.

OK.

Someone text

in.

All right.

What do you hear?

Which.

OK.

This is interesting.

Butterfat milk.

Which cow produces milk high in butterfat?

The Brown Swiss, the Guernsey, the Holstein, or the Jersey?

I want it.

Connie.

Brown Swiss.

Nope.

My gut says Holstein.

It's a Guernsey, Guernsey, right?

No.

Jersey.

Jersey cow produced high milk and butter fat.

Butter fat contains milk.

acts, though, like he has all the, like he would have known that.

Of course I would.

Of course I would have.

All right,

this is.

Three minutes left, so this will be the final question.

Listen up, Jim.

Listen up, everybody.

This will decide the game.

Whoever gets this question right wins the game.

If nobody gets this question right, we cancel the rest of the show.

So then the listeners win.

Okay, here we go.

Jim, final

question.

What temperature should milk be served at?

This is all Fahrenheit.

20 degrees, 30 degrees, 35 degrees.

degrees or 45 degrees.

Milk.

I'm gonna say 30 because you don't want it to freeze but you don't want it too cold.

30.

That's my rationale.

I'll be wrong though.

Is she right or wrong?

No, you're wrong.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

Connie, final chance to win the game.

It's yours.

20,

30, 35, 45.

Milk.

Maybe

it's right.

Maybe

it's wrong.

I'd say 35.

You're right.

That's it.

Connie wins.

All right.

That's the worst game show on history.

I was

using Vanessa's rationale, so.

Wait a second.

Did I

say third?

You did.

You said freezing that

32 is freezing.

Yes.

Oh my.

You know what?

Give

me that

coffee.

Yes.

Give me that coffee.

I think we all need

little coffee.

That's what I

meant.

All

right.

The next game we play is going to be called, which one of us was a teacher?

And then, wait.

Wow.

Oh, that one hurts.

Yeah.

All right.

should have put Scott on the

spot

for that.

32 was pretty.

That was not.

That was brutal.

I'm thinking we're going into this.

It's really well planned.

Jim's got the answers.

It'll be great.

What are you talking about?

Because that's what he said.

I love it.

We have 10 more questions.

So if we...

But when Scott comes on, we'll put him on the spot.

We've got a whole half hour to play another round.

He's the Denmark guy, so he'll know all the

answers.

He'll know.

All right.

We're going to be right back with, is Scott in the house yet?

All right, we'll be right back with... Well, we got a whole minute, Jim.

Oh, well, with Connie Feldman and Vanessa Moran, two friends of ours who have been on the show and...

I want to tell you that that's that was really nice of you guys to say yes to come to this.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Doing this alone is not easy.

Doing it with John is even more difficult.

Well, you

needed a little female influence on the show.

There's a little

balance.

It does.

You don't know this, but Connie and I actually plan this behind your back.

We said we're both showing up today.

We know he needs us.

Yes.

Desperately.

All right.

The listeners got to you.

All right.

We'll be right back with Connie, Vanessa and Jim Schmidt.

What is this?

Oh my gosh.

Todd is awesome with the tools.

Todd is spot on today.

This is Lady's Night from Cool in the Game.

Yeah.

Wow.

I was trying to think of a clever way to say

Lady's Morning, but I

just... He wins the game.

Yeah?

He wins the game.

I win every game, always, forever.

One of our

textures just, thank God the trivia is

done.

Wow!

That was sent in from Lull.

I know it means laugh, hold on, I'm just kinda showing my age a little bit there.

Hey, so today we're talking about today, bicycle day, cedar day, egg day.

This chocolate, macaroon day.

Do you make those, eat those?

I have made macaroons, I'm sad to say.

They are the most difficult, finicky, challenging, annoying things to make.

If you don't do everything perfectly, and it just falls apart.

It's so hard.

And that's not

like sweet chocolate, right?

That's like the...

Baking

chocolate.

Oh, I'm talking about the macaroon itself.

It's so

hard.

It's

like an egg

white.

Right, with the flour.

Never even tried it.

Never even.

Oh, it's

impossible.

My daughter fell in love with them, and I got tired of paying for them.

So I'm like, we're going to make them.

Yep.

And yeah, it didn't go so well.

I'll buy them any day.

It takes such talent to make them.

So yeah, delicious.

Mm-mm.

Anyone who has chocolate macaroons, bring them

in.

Yes.

But with summer coming up that changes the menu, right?

I mean, you're not going to do like any, like...

Crock-Pots or any pork.

You know what I mean?

Like, doesn't it?

Anyway, just I got my recipe.

would.

I would,

too.

Yeah, I'm like, no, I couldn't make a, no, I can eat anything anytime of year, except for cider.

Maybe cider.

That's gotta be October.

Cider day.

It's gotta

be.

I made this weekend, I like cold salads on hot days, right?

Sure.

So I made the Mexican shrimp cocktail.

And it was...

Awesome, like it's gone a whole bowl

until you added the garlic.

Well, yeah, the only thing I was telling those guys yesterday and wait wait, but it

it's just never too much garlic.

No,

think

the summer in the studio yesterday, so yeah, I know it you know

that shower

does

come

out of

your

pores.

No, I think summer is great to try summer dress recipes.

I don't eat

Anything really in the oven in summer

my daughter was chopping up some fruit last night for a big fruit salad She had kiwi and mango and pineapple.

That is so good.

Oh, I can't wait

asparagus on the grill

Yeah, yeah, my asparagus is coming in my rhubarb is gigantic.

Wow.

Yeah, you know what you can do with rhubarb real quick Have you ever had and I don't think like a brandy slush around Christmas

or something like that.

Yeah, you can make a rhubarb slush

No,

I've never heard of that.

And

then you can just put soda in it if that's what you want, or you can add a little vodka, that kind of thing.

But a little seven up, it's really good for seven.

Really?

I never know what to do with it all because it just

keeps growing.

It's like a weed, but good kind.

You bake pies and you bring them into us.

Oh, I like that,

okay.

Donna made a pie.

I'm going to see my mom, and we had that when we were little kids, but I don't know for whatever reason, we just haven't had in the last 20 years.

I don't know, we don't grow rhubarb, but I called her last night, I said, hey, you want some rhubarb?

Oh my, I would love that, so I would love that.

So I'm bringing that and some other stuff, but anyway,

not the

shrimp cocktail, she wouldn't like that.

What else do you make?

You grow your own rhubarb?

I do, yeah.

many years ago had a play set in the backyard for the kids.

So put the whole, you know, border around it, put all the wood chips in, you know, made it, you know, got the nice little play set from Menards.

And then one day they grew up.

So I know.

It was no need for a play set.

But I had this giant footprint in my backyard.

So took out all every single wood chip and donated the play set to another family.

And they still love it to this day, which is super fun to see pictures of their kids using it.

And turned it into a garden.

I have a confession to make.

My daughter just finished her freshman year in college.

We still are replacing.

Oh, no!

No, no, no.

It's 100 feet by 50 feet.

It's massive.

Wow.

And honestly, my son was the one who asked for it.

He grew a pumpkin seed in first grade.

And this thing just continued to grow, put it in, you know, pop-ops garden one day, and it grew.

And he was like, I want a garden.

So, yep, that's how it all came about.

And every year, just grow a massive amount of food.

And it becomes kind of like a...

community garden in some way.

The kids all come and they weed and they pick all the peppers and they do everything.

So some things go well, some things don't, you know, but every year is a new adventure.

And today actually I'm heading to Fleet Farm to get some more of the plants.

Oh, now

I want, now I want

a garden.

It's so fun.

The kids love it.

And the gardens, even on the raised garden is six foot.

It's amazing what you can take out

of that for

two people.

It's, it's got all the herbs you need.

It's got whatever you want to plant in there, but you don't need.

what you have.

I mean for

people like there's two or three of us in the house.

We have so much shade in our yard.

It's impossible for me to grow anything.

A few years ago for Mother's Day, my daughter made me, she gave me her wagon.

It's more than a few

years

ago now because she's in college.

But she gave me her wagon.

She put rocks in the bottom of it and soil on top.

And so I could plant things and I could roll the wagon around during the day to the sunlight.

It's the only year I've ever managed to do that.

She wins the award.

She does.

Give her a bell.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Wow, so Connie's done it.

Well done.

I mean, that's really smart, creative.

I'm thinking it through.

It was, yeah, and it was just so touching.

Well, get back to it, say looking.

I need to get her to give up the darn play

set.

Oh, yeah, no, it might be time.

Might be time, so.

All right, so Scott's here and he's gonna talk.

He's the Denmark educator, which is gonna be fun to talk about teaching because we talked about that earlier.

Oh,

yeah.

And he's looking at podcasts and I'm not saying everybody has a podcast, but there's a lot of podcasts out there.

And the challenge I'm gonna talk to him about is how do you get people to listen?

There's so many and you can't spend

money advertising because you don't have any.

You know what I mean?

I think it's gonna be really interesting to hear Vanessa and Scott talk.

I'm excited.

This

was just an idea.

He ran past me last weekend without realizing I was going to bring him on the show.

But he's like, I want to do a podcast called The Staff Lounge.

And I think it would be great to hear you two talk about what.

That's going to be good.

And Todd,

of course,

does many side hustles, one of them being podcasts.

So that'd be good.

Well, not yet.

doesn't call Joe Rogan

and see how he did it.

Yeah.

All right.

This is gonna be fun having him in and of course we got Doug coming in from the pipe trades and Mary Roddy from on Broadway.

This is Connie, Vanessa, and the mayor.

We'll be right

back.

Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

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So we are on to a interesting guy, Scott McPherson.

I know he's a good friend of yours, Connie.

is.

But he's an

educator for what, 30 years, do you say?

Yes, that's correct.

Yep.

I'm in Denmark and at the elementary school, fifth grade, also been there.

Love it.

It's such a great community, great school district.

Super happy to be there and thanks for having me in.

You bet.

What is

fifth grade?

Shout out to Mr. McPherson's kids.

Oh, all right.

Who are

quite the media kids themselves.

They're all sleeping right now.

It's summer break

for us.

Oh, it is already.

Are you guys already

in summer break?

Yep.

I know that some schools in Depeer are still going.

It's Green Bay.

Yeah.

So we're done.

One week,

so.

But you, all this experience and you're taking that and something that's very popular right now and growing pretty much every day are podcasts.

People connect with something, some subject or some issue and they listen to the podcast when they're driving.

And the beautiful thing about podcasts is you can listen to them when you want.

You know what I mean?

And I think that's cool.

You just type it in.

Considering that with education or tell me about what your ideas

are.

Yeah, every day you get together with other teachers and you just talk about things that happen in your classroom, steal ideas from them, what they've heard about.

And I know that there are some humorous educational podcasts

out there because there's

some things that the kids do during the day that make you laugh and scratch your head.

So I thought this would be a great opportunity to just instead of just meeting with somebody in the staff lounge or in the hallway.

Let's just sit here and record ourselves talking about it.

So today I'm actually on a little bit of an adult field trip.

I'm staring at your microphone, looking at your boom mics, figuring out how this could possibly work in my basement.

And this would be great.

I love

it.

Because there's so much to talk about.

And the working title might be the staff lounge.

And

Scott just mentioned this to me in passing last weekend.

And of course, I thought, hey, guess what?

Want to be on the radio?

Yeah, thanks for having me.

There are so many different teachers out of school, you know, from your FIED teachers, to your librarians, to your reading specialists, to your classroom teacher.

They have so many different insights into what can help a kid and a parent.

And I think my concept for the podcast would definitely be for other teachers to take ideas from what we have said.

Fun,

bag, borrow and steal from the best.

Right, and for parents too, because...

So much in education today as a moving target with new curriculums that are coming to us.

One of the catchphrases in the last few years is new math.

Trying to help folks figure what that is.

It's different.

Everything is different.

the same.

If you were in a classroom 10, 20, 30 years ago, it's, you know, you want to think, but kids are different.

The world is different.

My first classroom did not have a phone.

I can remember one of my claims to fame was one of the first grants I wrote for my first elementary school in Bay City, Michigan, was for a digital

camera.

Wow.

I mean, we can all remember a time.

I do.

Before your phone was, well, when your phone was just a phone.

What about AI?

I mean,

at the fifth grade level, is AI an issue for students?

I know it is in college, even high school.

If you don't bring it up with the kids, they don't necessarily talk about it, and I try not to bring it up with them because I don't want them to explore ethics.

I think at that age, at 10 and 11, it's so important for them to develop their own voice, their own thoughts, their own concepts, versus having

social media, AI, telling them what they should think and how they should

act.

Absolutely.

So with this podcast, eventually you're going to need to monetize it.

You're going to have to get an advertiser and I don't know if it's going to be school supplies or Pepsi.

I'm not sure what you're going to get.

But you kind

of answered my question a little bit.

I thought it was just for teachers to join.

But you say parents are going to want to listen in as well.

Yeah,

I think that would be a great.

it would be a great resource for parents to learn how important it is to read.

I think one of the most important things for students is just being there.

Just being to school, not being absent, just being in the

classroom.

That's the easy one.

Now it gets tricky when you try to multiply a fraction, but if you're just there, because the kids need to learn how to communicate from school to home, and if they're not at school, then they don't.

bring the information to home and then parents miss information on field trips, events happening at school, homework assignment.

It happens to me

all the time.

you know what's funny when you talked about multiplying fractions.

So I taught fourth grade.

Okay, amen.

And I loved it, and I love this age, and that I did the fifth grade as well, because they're young enough where they still love you, but old enough where you can do some really cool things, like multiplying fractions and converting fractions to decimals and all those things.

And I'll never forget my water broke while I was teaching.

Oh no.

Converting.

fractions to decimals, and I was at the end of my pregnancy, so it wasn't with my son, and he was a troublemaker from the very beginning, so of course my water would break right at school, and I remember my principal coming up and being like, you need to leave, and I'm like, no, I am not leaving, I am teaching multiplying, or converting fractions to decimals, this is too important, I will leave at the end of the day.

And I did, and she paced back and forth between the,

in the

hallway, just, I am fine, it will be okay.

And it wasn't

like it.

You need to find a common denominator.

Yeah.

Country.

No, honestly, I was timing my contractions.

And I'm like, I'm OK.

I got this.

No big deal.

What a learning

experience for those

kids.

It was wild.

tell you what, being a male at an elementary school, too, I've got maybe 27 staff members there and me, two FIED teachers, a couple of support staff.

I can feel you, because most

of the

people I teach with are females.

And there's a time every once in a while where there's a sign on the door, because somebody's in the room pumping.

So you know to stay out at

that time.

But I was not going to leave.

It was too important.

And I was fine.

That's just an example of the dedication of our teachers.

Or just, yeah.

Let's talk about male teachers.

And there was a time, I think it was under, actually, I think it was under.

Clinton's watch where they were gonna pay male teachers in difficult areas more money Because I don't know the kids relate better

Tell me sometimes I do get lucky with students who need that father figure that that's all I have Different than somebody next to me and I teach with amazing teachers who are very Way better than I am but just because I'm a guy Some boys do respond differently to that and I and I don't mind talking about

basketball with them, talking about football with them.

I started something in the last five years where I do a football talk at lunch.

We have lunch together and just whoever wants.

It's not just a boy exclusive thing.

Whoever wants to sit and talk about the Packers, the Chiefs, Taylor Swift.

We just have a chat, look at the stats, talk about who's leading the league and rushing.

And it just helps for those boys to connect with me.

and sometimes then they do not misbehave in the hallway.

Do not get in trouble at recess, just because of that.

So I can understand that.

Although I don't feel like I need to be paid more because of that.

I do feel like there is something to be said for that, having males on the staff.

The other thing Scott does, which is really cool, when I was at channel five, he would bring his class in and we would give him a tour of the studio.

But the neat thing about these kids, they were doing

like a newscast at school.

They knew all about, there were camera kids, there were host kids.

It was a really cool thing.

Yeah, that's the Daily Buzz, our morning news show.

Yeah.

Imagine all these 10-year-olds sitting around with their fancy cameras and their microphones.

And then we have our guidance counselor, Jocelyn Ellert, giving what's going to be for the lunch.

And these kids are running the whole show.

It's hilarious.

That's great

that how this is advanced in education.

We're talking with Scott McPherson.

He is an educator in the Denmark school system that is taking some of his knowledge and really thinking how can he get

it out to other people who are exploring podcasts.

Before we jump to that, I wanna talk, we'll get back to truancy.

What's the answer to that?

Because in Green Bay, we experienced, when I was there, it was unbelievably high, like 40%, can you imagine that?

40% of kids not being there?

It's better now, but- I had no idea.

We had sent the, you know, it's funny, because my, you know, Notre Dame, it's like three strikes and you're out.

Because I said, what's your truancy right here?

Because we don't have it.

You know, that's just maybe the difference, but we had sent,

school resource officers, kind of policemen, but really school resource, to the home, knocking on the door, and your kid's supposed to be in school, and the parents are like, well, you go get him.

You know what I'm saying?

What?

Anyway, that's a challenge, because I feel bad for the kid missing school, but I feel bad for the kids that's there, and then the teacher may start over.

You know what I mean?

Because you want to learn, learn.

I want to hear what you think about truancy, and then I want to also talk about kids aren't all the same.

You're fourth graders.

You say fourth grade or fifth grade?

Fifth grade.

There's some kids that are challenged.

There's a lot of kids that are in the middle.

But there's some gifted kids that can get his board as the kids that don't show up, like 18%.

So that's why we built this DaVinci school, which is for the gifted and talented.

It's just a

little higher grade.

So tell

me, I wanted to hear, what's your answer to truancy?

Oh, if I had that answer, that'd be great.

But you've already mentioned one of the big things is that.

resource officer or somebody to go contact with those parents just to let them know this is a thing and we notice when you're when your kids gone we notice that in the classroom I used to tell

them I missed you

missed you it wasn't the same without you here because

yeah

you'd see it even in the elementary grade levels middle high school so for me the answer is twofold one is you make sure the parents understand how important it is and that you know they're

part of the school community, we need them there.

The place isn't the same without them and making sure the parents understand the value.

The second is making the kids want to be there.

You

know, like providing an environment they want to be there.

And it's

just- The connection is so important.

If you can, as a teacher, connect with your students, let them know that you see them, you value them, and you said it.

Just, we missed you while you were gone.

I wanted

to ask you, Scott, because we're, to have a couple minutes here, and there's a bit of a misconception.

You,

Denmark is out of school for the summer Green Bay's got just a couple more days So what is the misconception about teachers during the summer?

Well for me personally, I'll be teaching summer school So that is a thing that I'll be doing through the month of June, but for sure my classroom has to be emptied and the kids just left so the

The homework is still floating from the ceiling down to the recycling can.

But I have to get in the custodians at school do 95% of the work, but I have to pack up all the books.

I have to pack everything up so they can move my classroom to the hallway to clean

it.

And that's been

at multiple schools I've taught at.

That's how they run it.

And then in August, I have to put that all back.

So every book that came off the shelf has to go back.

in its logical place.

Literally every desk,

every chair, every shelf gets moved.

It's

just laying around the pool all summer long

your three months of vacation.

You have to give yourself permission to decompress though as a teacher because you need it.

It's the only time you can just take a load off.

You know, it's what's so funny is I need some time to decompress from producing this show.

Give me

a bell on that

Vanessa.

Thank you.

Scott, we come back.

I want to talk a little bit more about

the things that you think parents should know through your podcast because they can't come to school every day.

So let's just talk about what you think would be the most important

things in your podcast

for people to have been doing.

We'll be right back.

This is Connie Thelman, Vanessa Moran, and Jim Schmidt, mind on the

mare.

All right, welcome

back everybody.

That'll be coming

up.

That'll be coming up.

Awesome.

We are here talking, really education is the umbrella of it.

We have Scott McPherson in here.

He was an educator in Denmark.

And before we went to break on a couple of things, one is true and see.

I think that should be in your podcast because that's a concern.

It's a concern for parents whose kids are in school every day because the true in kids show up and then the teacher may have to go rehash something.

It's not fair to the kid that's there.

So I think that's gonna be an interesting episode on your podcast.

And then we're also talking about, when it comes to a, you teach, I'm sorry, fourth

fifth

grade.

Do you, there's some countries that will put these kids like on a track and say, look, I was at a conference one time.

and a lady got up and talked, you know who she is, about fourth grade reading test scores, fifth grade reading test scores, whatever, fourth or fifth, and that they can plan how many technical college desks they're gonna need, how many college desks they're gonna need, and to the point where she felt you could forecast the number of prison beds you're gonna need, based on these fourth, fifth grade test scores.

I just wanna say that I think there's some validity to that.

only because people get all freaked out when Johnny's in 10th grade, he's not gonna graduate.

Well, we kind of knew back in 5th

grade.

We really

did.

We did.

Tell me about, that's a pivotal grade you're teaching.

For me, when I was in 6th grade, a group of people sat around and awarded me the shyest camper at Camp Unaliyah, love Camp Unaliyah.

Are you kidding?

From 5th grade on, now I'm sitting with you folks, chatting, just having a great time.

I realize that if you don't like step...

out and let people hear your opinions, your thoughts, that's how they see you.

So, so many kids who are just nine, 10 years old, fourth grade test scores, that is, you cannot determine too much what people are gonna be.

Now, there are some kids who maybe need some more parental involvement, and that's one of the issues that I think is very important to discuss too, is having parents involved in a child's life, especially the social media.

That was one thing we didn't really...

hit too much on today.

We will, we will,

we'll get time.

I want to talk, let's talk about

the parental involvement because tell me.

If the parents aren't involved, somebody is going to be raising your child, be it their friends or things that they see online, because they need guidance.

Kids need parameters in the world.

They need to know where the yeses come from, where the noes come from, who to trust with.

with their decisions that they're making.

And if they think it's a great idea to stay out too late and no one's telling them, well, your body actually needs rest.

You're still growing.

You haven't matured enough to make some of those choices.

The frontal lobe hasn't developed enough for these kids.

Do you think that

parents need to be there?

Some parents rely a little too heavily on teachers to set those boundaries, to set those guidelines, to raise their kids.

Yeah, and sometimes parents, they're not sure.

How to help with something like I've talked about math before the kind of tongue-in-cheek joke about new math But it is hard for some parents to remember if they haven't needed those math skills to divide a fraction or divide decimals and in years and years It's hard for them to figure that out and I think a lot of parents talk about new concepts in math We haven't really changed how we've been teaching math at the elementary school level greatly

But it's it's developmental so we have to do some of these things to help develop Yeah, their skills and their number sense and their concepts so that way when they do get older things like algebra

What about the parent that so when my kids were young I would always read a chapter two ahead so they thought I was smart

But it got to the point where I'm not was not a bad student But I was not a great student where I'm like you got a call my brother was like super smart right at National Honor Society I'm like I think it was six seventh grade.

I'm like you got to call Uncle Tom because I just I'd read it I really wouldn't get it especially some of that When you get an advanced math or whatever geometry

or reading

like you're talking

about reading things advanced

concepts What about I feel bad for those parents who want to help but

I don't get this stuff too.

What's your advice?

Yeah, contact the school

chat with the teacher, see how they can help, because teachers have a lot of toolkits, a lot of tools in their toolkit that they can give you communication back and forth, how to study, what that looks like.

I can remember telling my fifth graders, we're gonna have to study for this test, and one of the kids asking questions is so great, one of the kids raised their hand and asked, what does that mean to study?

Okay, yeah, that's good.

That's our next lesson is what that means to study.

Well, here's, say hello to a note card.

I have to

tell you, I'm really appreciating this conversation on parental involvement, because I just texted my son and reminded him to brush his teeth.

There you go.

Well, and I found,

we were talking about

parental involvement, I

found

when I went to parent teacher conferences, because I didn't understand a lot of the stuff, but I just showed up at parent teacher conferences and the teachers were really appreciative.

that the parents took time and they would explain anything I needed.

And just going there and having a conversation with your kid's teacher, I found was so valuable.

I'd like to think every parent wants their kid to be successful.

Absolutely.

It's tough.

But it just gets a little...

And success is different for every family too, because you talked about your older brother, that his success maybe isn't getting a B+.

success is different than maybe what you or I would experience.

Like some of the kids, if we can just get through this concept, that's good enough.

All

I know

is he was never

elected mayor.

So.

Makes three times as much as I ever did.

So,

but anyway,

you're

right.

You had to find success.

But I think again, we talked, I want your one of your podcasts definitely on this truancy, but then this parental involvement.

to a struggling parent and I

just

I want to defend some of these parents because they've come

and

said that to me and I'm like you know what I gave them the right advice because I said you know uh actually I gave them two pieces of advice one is talk to teacher but you do you have somebody else who's

smarter than you that can help.

I don't wear it like that.

Somebody else who's important to

me.

Fill the community.

Right.

It's tough.

It's

tough being a parent.

Couple more.

Can

you stick around?

I'd

love

to.

All right, good.

We're going to stick around for a little while.

I want a couple more things on your podcast that I think should, well, I'd like to see.

He's going to

tell you how to do the podcast,

which is how Jim does

things.

No, Todd's going to help you do it.

I'm going to get the listeners to

monetize it.

So we'll get working

on this.

Thank you.

I like having it.

All right, we'll

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So it's 7 36.

Um, we're here with a interesting, uh, not just an educator, but cares more about.

his fifth graders,

cares a lot

about his fifth graders, but really wants to get the word out to the community, to parents, to other teachers on the things that we need to be doing right to get these kids advanced.

And we talked about truancy, which I think is a big issue.

And we're also talking about our kids set when they're in fifth grade.

You're saying, no, they're not.

I mean, these kids have a great opportunity.

You can get to fifth grade and be struggling a little bit and running

to somebody like you.

Wonderful, the best equalizer for me as an educator is just having wisdom to see that I've had kids leave my classroom in fifth grade, go to the middle school and really excel there and go to the high school and excel even more if it's in sports or academics because not every kid is meant to be an A student, especially in Denmark.

We have so many opportunities from archery, wrestling,

The trades.

Yeah, my goodness.

Right across the street from the high school.

That's what I love about being in Denmark.

There's the trap range.

And you can hear after school, the gunshots going off as kids are doing trap next door.

So it's so

cool.

And students that participate in extracurricular activities do better academically.

Yeah, you stay involved and that'll help you.

It's crazy how crazy.

It's amazing how many programs there are.

Like look at Preble.

I mean, I think they got 60 different things you can do.

You know, when I was in school, it was pretty much band and sports, but now, you know, it's just mods.

That's intentional,

and that's

a lot of teachers putting in a

lot of effort to make those

things happen.

It's great.

I mean, it's often

unpaid and a lot of work, but it's, you know, it's a passion, not a job.

And I think Scott's a great example of how much teachers care and how much of themselves they give to their students and their profession.

And even I remember as a freshman in high school,

I moved around a lot as a little kid.

By the time I got to a freshman in high school, I was way behind.

And it was one teacher, Mrs. Fenster, my English teacher, that taught me the difference between a noun and a verb, at a freshman and high school level.

And I grew up to be a writer.

Oh, that's fantastic.

I love that.

It's amazing that people who get in here that are 60, 50, 40, whatever, everybody knows.

A teacher.

They don't even think about it.

Well, let me think about it.

What's your favorite teacher?

Let me think about it.

Everybody like, boom, I know this one.

That one.

High school, high school.

It's amazing.

This

morning, even.

It's 7 AM, and I'm getting texts from teachers last night, getting texts from, you know, at the end of the school year.

I got an email from a principal last night.

what it is, 8.30 at night, it is 10 o'clock, it is 7 a.m.

and they are just,

you're

always on the go.

That's why the summer is so important and they take time to decompress.

Yes, you have to.

And I love that story, Connie, because it reminds me that you never know who you're gonna impact.

Mrs. Fenster may not have ever realized what an impact she had on your life.

And then moving forward into your adult career, being a writer and a fantastic podcaster, a radio personality, it's great.

I let her know.

wrote her a letter.

Good for you.

We love it.

Hey kids, we love it when

you write to us and tell us.

We should actually do a morning where we just have people, listeners, guests tell stories about their favorite teacher.

That would be so fun.

That would be great.

We'll

do a feature on that.

Everybody has one.

Absolutely.

Everybody.

Even kids that...

Struggled a little bit.

They still had somebody who like Connie said that really believed in them and said look you can do this, you know, you know, I

element to your podcast

Yeah, I have to say this one thing about a really good teacher is their passion for whatever they're teaching like when they love Yeah, oh

my gosh

You can tell whether or not you're good in that subject.

You love it, too I had a great English teacher in high school as well Mrs. Martz and she loved

literature and all that kind of and she would sit up there and just the way that she would present it was amazing and then I had a teacher was a social studies teacher who really

hated his job and the difference, right?

Like she made me love that subject even though it was not my forte.

You mentioned social studies.

I think that is the equalizer for me because you can be, you can read in social studies, you can write about social studies, you can look at the math, talk about the history of science discoveries.

It covers everything.

I love social studies.

That's my

favorite.

daughter's teacher got up on a desk, Mrs. Patrick, and she's saying a ballot from Hamilton.

know Mrs. Patrick.

She's my daughter's teacher.

I played in a band with her.

Yeah, it was

amazing.

Got

up on a desk.

My daughter came home and she was just beaming.

There needs to be a clean version of Hamilton so we could play that in the classroom, yeah.

I know, they had some maintenance.

I know that they needed all

that.

But hey, I just, I'm gonna make a, I'm gonna go back to when the show started.

I'm gonna make this connection so bear with me.

Sure.

We're talking about like today's Bicycle Day, Cedar Day, and it's CPR and AED day.

So we said, some people said New Year's resolution, I'm gonna learn CPR.

you're still going, it's June, but I think they should do that.

I think another, whether it's New Year's resolution or not, everyone should take time and write their teacher a letter.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah, I know you do.

Write your teacher a day.

Write your

teacher

a letter day.

Yeah,

write to your teacher a day.

Right, because my teachers...

A lot of them are in heaven now, right?

I mean, but there's still a couple that are wrong, but that would be like, I could go to class with you in there.

It's cool to see them.

But I just hope you guys know, well, you do know how much impact you're making, but how much kids appreciate you.

Maybe fifth graders don't say that.

Maybe it's not cool for seventh graders to say, you know, you're, but when they reflect, they look back and they're like,

my parents were great, but man, his teacher just really

got me.

I've

often made a connection to my past students almost like,

like a girlfriend that's left me because I can remember in high school one day dating a girl the next day not and you know she wouldn't look at you she wouldn't talk to you you definitely weren't holding hands or writing notes or anything.

Some of my students when they leave that is it.

I was there for you.

I know that you're playing basketball this weekend I know your team's traveling.

But they come back and it's just funny, because that's their age level

as they go

into adolescence at the middle school.

But some, they see me at the bus stop and they smile.

I try to get out and see in the community, see what the kids are up to.

And it's always nice to get that smile, that high, and especially with graduation just happening.

Some of those seniors, they do show their love.

On Sunday,

I get to hand all of my former students that are diplomas.

It's been the greatest honor of serving

on the school

board.

It just so happened.

My very

first year on the board was my very first graduating class.

And I had no idea of being on the board meant you got to defer the diplomas, because I'd never been to a graduation ceremony, because it was going to be my first class.

And lo and behold, I got to actually shake their hands, hand them their diplomas, give them those hugs.

And this Sunday, it's my last class of students.

I'm going to be a...

basket case.

I'm gonna cry.

It's so hard.

You love them so

much.

cannot wait to see all of them.

So, hey, any Bateport students out there that Mrs. Moran in fourth grade, I will be watching for you to walk across that stage.

cannot

wait.

You can

shake hug or high five.

How neat.

All right, so we're talking with Scott McPherson, who was an educator in Denmark.

And we only got a few minutes here.

Talk to me a little bit about a career.

Would you advise someone to get into education and

What

advice would you give them?

I mean, there are so, yeah, sorry to interrupt, Jim.

There are so many teachers I've heard of, even just this past year, because, well, I guess we're at the end of the year now.

That's usually when people decide if they're done with the career or not.

And a lot of young teachers do leave the career, which

is so sad.

It is hard for...

25 year olds to be told by parents that they're not doing a good job, that

they don't have

the support.

And you've got to have a thick skin.

I can't imagine being a mayor how much thick skin you had to develop over the time.

Wasn't as thick as people thought, but you know, it's tougher than you think, but whatever.

And I just

want to say that, and that same thing, and parents, I mean, they love their kids, but my daughter's the physician in that that pediatric thing is a little tough too.

This is what your kid needs to do when the parent knows better.

But you got to deal with that.

I'm sad to hear good teachers are leaving.

But so many, if you can just figure out a support network of veteran teachers that can tell you, listen, that's going to be done.

That parent acted the same way with me.

Their bark is worse than their bite.

They just really love their kid.

And I did learn early on in my career.

We mentioned this earlier in the show.

Parents want the best of their kids.

And sometimes this is the best they can give you is this child.

And this child might not be in a student.

They might not be a shining math elite at this point in their career, but the parent thinks they are.

So you always

have to

approach that carefully.

And sometimes being honest is very important, but it's how you present that honesty from a classroom teacher to a parent that can matter.

I always tell my...

students at UWGB.

So I teach in the College of Education.

So all those young kids, they come right through me and I tell them how it is.

I try to be really, really honest, but I also tell them.

Remember those kids in your classroom is someone's most precious

thing in the

entire world So treat them like that and and and remember that and that will serve you

and be ready for a profession that will suck your time Yes, because even now I'm thinking I just kind of eluded that I clean out of my classroom out that one bulletin board bugged me all year that I didn't change that one bulletin board so there's always a

It's a way to improve it.

Well, and you have a

passion for what you do, and that's why you do it.

And that's what comes through, even though it is tough.

You think about what we just talked about the last half hour, this podcast, how to deal with difficult parents.

I think, and parents, what you're doing is difficult on us.

Some parents, you don't know what you don't know, right?

And I just think that an education is, that's the answer to everything.

Yeah, I think that's gonna be interesting to listen to how I could learn a little bit because you really don't go to school and Raising a kid's tough.

I think and there's really not a class on it.

You learn

stuff

and your parents have some advice and signal And I just think the more you can learn even as a parent the better things are gonna be Yeah, there'll be a lot of good information on that

all my all my high school friends

our educators and we still get together once a year and I'll tell you it was really eye-opening for me as a parent who's not an educator to hear them talk and just what you were saying Jim it really opened my eyes to

You know, I thought I was a decent parent.

Here's how you can do better.

Here's how you can be more involved.

And you gotta be open to

that.

Yes, absolutely.

I fail

with that every day.

It's so hard.

Yeah.

Well, Scott, I think this is exciting.

I want to get you back on here when you launch your podcast.

Todd, you can help you do that.

But I think people, by word of mouth, it's gonna grow.

But you still gotta find an advertiser so you can monetize it.

Gotcha.

Wow!

Third

time that's come up this morning.

All right.

I think Jim's volunteering.

Yeah, no, I don't know much about that.

No, I think this is great.

Podcast, like I said, people are so into those.

That's all my kids listen to is podcast.

I listen to some of them.

But yeah, thank you for what you're doing in the education

system.

Thank you for having me in today.

It's an honor.

This is great.

All right.

So yeah, education.

You're going to come here when you're launching your podcast.

We are going to promote it.

Right.

Jim's going to monetize it.

It's just so funny how you take control of everybody's life.

I just want to

help.

Yeah.

I'm here to help.

He's a helper.

He's a

helper.

I am.

All right.

Scott McPherson, Denmark educator.

Thanks for all you're doing.

Enjoy your summer.

I know you're working,

but enjoy your summer.

We're going

to be right back with Connie Thelman, Vanessa Moran and Jim Schmidt.

We'll be right back.

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All right, people, you

heard Todd, so let's get that text in.

And we've got a special guest on.

So Vanessa, as you know, I think you know, has worked with Feed My Starving Children.

Many years.

How many years?

Many.

Okay, Matthew said 20.

And what that organization does, and we've been there, many of you have been there helping put the food together, but it's dry food that feeds a family of four.

And the food is distributed all over the world.

I mean, you

think it's, we need that in the United States, but it really goes all over the world.

And just anything, those of you who've worked in the nonprofit world, everything costs money.

And they have an event coming up and they brought in,

top-notch entertainment.

I know this guy.

And

he is going to put on a concert to help raise money.

So why don't you go ahead, Vanessa?

We are just so thrilled.

So Paul, are you on the phone with us right now?

Yeah, hold on.

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That's a hundred

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That's awesome.

Yeah, you got six minutes there.

Get that text in.

But no, we...

The food costs continue to grow up.

Yes, the food is distributed worldwide.

We don't have a food production issue in our, globally, we have a food distribution issue.

And some of these, these mana packs go to the most remote locations in the entire world.

We say that the packs, yes, because Jim, you mentioned like, yeah, we need it here in the United States too.

And we have some amazing organizations that do things domestically.

The food is what we would call not a typical,

American

palette?

The American palette would maybe

not enjoy this food.

I've actually tasted it.

I think it's quite good, but it's about the nutritional value

that's

so important, not the taste, right?

These are kids that are dying.

And desperately

needed.

So we need to make sure that they have that nutrition to survive and thrive.

And the costs continue to go up.

And we have a great friend of the organization.

My media co-chair is going to be doing a Neil Diamond concert.

So Paul, you want to tell us about that?

It's coming up on.

August 21st.

It is.

Yes, I believe at St.

John's Church.

Last year was was an inaugural show for us.

And we just kind of it was amazing.

Obviously, we've got a great, a great board team, but great volunteers as well.

And it was kind of a last minute, so to speak, ad considering how thoughtful and plan, you know, planners, what kind of planners are on that feed my starving children board.

But we brought it together and it came off as great.

They had classic cars there.

They had car clubs that were bringing in cars.

People could walk by, talk to the owners, see the cars.

We had great food going on.

I stepped up to the microphone and did an hour of Neil Diamond.

He makes

it seem so.

I stepped up to the microphone and just started singing.

No, Paul does a great Neil Diamond impersonation and performs with Let Me Be Frank just down the road here

and performed in Vegas.

Paul and I, hey Paul, it's Connie Feldman.

We had a great crossover.

We were both at Channel 5.

What's interesting to me about Neil Diamond, let me know your thoughts on this, Paul, is I remember Neil Diamond, you know, from the days, but the young people really love Neil Diamond.

Oh, yes.

My daughter sings

sweet,

Carol.

Paul, tell us about the music you sing.

He likes to minimize it.

I just step up to the

mic.

I grew up, Connie, to your point.

I was of the generation I grew up actually listening

when he was still being played, and he was still producing albums.

He was a big favorite of my moms, and that's how I got introduced to the music.

But just recently, getting a chance to go see a beautiful noise at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center.

It was amazing to me.

I thought for sure it was going to be my age or older, 80% of the crowd.

There are a lot of younger people

there

and they were digging it.

It was a great show, obviously, but they were singing along to the music.

They knew the words.

I think he's become one of those iconic performers that his music has

has been used in different occasions.

Movies have, I've obviously recently used his music and kind of given some of his songs a resurgence as well amongst the younger generation.

So, these days all it takes is to have a song on Stranger Things and all of

a sudden the same again.

There you go.

You know the best part about this whole concert.

So it's held outdoors.

It is at St.

John's.

Actually, this one is in Ashwabenam.

So we hold this one.

This is St.

John Lutheran ELCA.

It's a

shwabbanon.

They

have a really beautiful, we have 10 partner churches and they have a really beautiful lawn space.

So because of that,

it's all held

outside.

So yeah, Paul set up a tent.

I ran his, tried to run the sound and yeah, he took a mic and just ran with it.

And it was, I mean, the whole crowd was singing and dancing.

Is this

something we get tickets for?

Oh, so okay.

How does this go?

It's a free will offering.

Oh, nice.

to show up with a blanket, a lawn chairs, a lawn chairs, and Paul will serenade you.

Oh,

wow.

He does.

He's city band concerts.

He's played at, I've seen him sing many, many times.

And yeah, Paul, thanks for

sharing

that talent.

And this is such a good cause.

There's a lot of good causes out there.

This is, we just really like what Vanessa is doing and the energy she brings to this organization.

And that's nice of you.

Are you keeping busy, Paul?

I know you are, but tell us who

you are.

Yeah, absolutely.

I'm still, obviously, this is my 20th season.

Well, not obviously, you guys would know that, but I do.

If my 20th season performing would let me be Frank Productions, and so I do a number of the shows.

I'm not able to do every show every year.

Summers, I've been taken off because my day job with Vanda High Landscaping gets quite busy, as you can imagine, during the summer months.

And it's also time that I want to be able to spend with my kiddos and friends and just take a breath.

But but yeah, it's still still performing doing a lot of shows a lot a lot of nights at the Meyer theater with Meyer theater would let me be Frank's, you know working full-time with van de Heide keeping busy you know

being that

it's a lot of work being Vanessa's media coach.

Yeah

But we appreciate what you're doing.

Thanks for talking about something a person you got to carry.

I mean, all

right She talked about carrying you anyway.

We look forward to your concert on August 21

speed my

starving children sure you have

Thank

you, Paul

Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And

here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

All right, welcome back everybody.

This is our three, Mino and the Mayor.

We have some great co-hosts today, Connie

Feldman,

Jennifer and Vanessa Moran from Feed My Starving Children.

You know, on this show, you know, our goal on this show is to connect locally and give you some information on what's going on locally and also some opportunities.

And we've touched on this and I'm so glad you're here.

Doug, we talk about college and liberal arts and unemployment.

And I think what somebody could take a look at, and that's what I want you to talk about, is this UA local 400 pipe trades.

What a career.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's some great opportunities in the trades, not just local 400 building trades in general, but local 400, you know, we're always looking for qualified welders, plumbers, all that sort of thing.

Yeah.

And the job pays well.

You don't have to get into that.

But what I worry about is the security of a job.

And as I was telling you before we came on, there's some

lawyers there's some things that things change in some of these high-tech jobs and then they're out and it you don't have a lot of that it seems in your industry

yeah well it's crazy we have we work ourselves out of work right we build those buildings come to an end you finish them and then you're hoping that there's more buildings and

Because of the relationships that we have with our contractors and we work with them and we're not striking We're not doing all these crazy things.

There's always new buildings coming in.

We've been we've been steady steady We're up to 2700 plus members and yeah, that's very very low unemployment.

It's usually temporary

Wow, so let's think of some graduation right now and even kids that are juniors that are gonna be seniors They're not sure what they want to do what?

Advice for them to you shadow people or can they come down and you've got a great facility in Kakana But what what would your advice be to men or women right?

I mean this is

definitely we've made a big push on women when I got into trade 26 27 years ago.

We had one woman in a local were up to about 53 Yeah, that's not much in 27 years, but we made a real big jump in the last four good But yeah, they could come down and check our training center out

We have over 90 contractors we work with from large to small, medium sized.

If they're in high school yet we can get them into our youth apprenticeships program, then they get a chance to go and see what some of the plumbers do, fitters do, that kind of thing.

They might just work in a tool room finding out what our tools are and what weld machines are and all that good stuff.

You

know, when I started guest hosting this show last week, there was only one woman.

I was the only woman in that time.

We have doubled our

numbers.

It's

impressive.

It's impressive.

That's the mayor doing his magic.

There

it is.

I love that.

Oh, go ahead.

I was going to say, Doug Doki was the UA local 400 pipe trades.

We're talking about career opportunities.

And I want to get your, what a kid can contact if he wants to do the apprenticeship

or not

apprenticeship, but just, just shadow it because I think, you know, you don't know what you don't know.

I've said that, but.

Sometimes people shout out things like you know what this isn't for me and other times they're like, man, I love

that.

I really want to do this.

And so I would say you go to our our website is UA400.org and There's a portal there You go into that portal you start following that and then you can it'll it'll start Okay asking you questions steering you do you want to check out plumbing?

Do you want to check out fitting and then and then from there our contractors look at that portal and then you would be able to talk to a contractor and

hopefully do a job shadow.

We can job shadow right there at the union hall for welding.

We could bring a young person in and let them check out what welding is, that kind of thing.

Plumbing, you're gonna have to get with a contractor because you're gonna have to go out to a job site.

The other beauty of your business, and I agree that in this country we like to build or remodel, right?

So I think the pipeline's gonna be full for you guys.

The other thing that I...

I think we don't want to just mention to some of these kids that I don't know about Green Bay.

I don't know about, you know, the Appleton Oshkosh.

That's a trade you can take somewhere else.

Oh, without a doubt.

My brother's a good example.

My brother's a plumber in the local and he's been out in Minnesota.

He's been out in Texas.

When it, if it's slow around here, you can go anywhere.

And that's the good thing about being in the union.

You know, we don't play the seniority game.

There's none of that in our building trades unions.

So if you want to work, you can work.

You just got to

go.

such a lucrative career that I don't know if people realize that, but yeah.

Stable,

lucrative.

No student loans when you're all finished with that apprenticeship.

That's huge.

It's tough to get in that too, though.

I know it's not, say it's an easy career.

I mean, you're gonna be pretty smart to be a welder.

You gotta know your math.

Definitely.

But

it's also, I think, I hope,

It's been much more respected than maybe back in the day of the grease and all that or the welding thing.

I mean, this is pretty high-tech now what

you do.

Well, like even me, I graduated high school in 92 and it was not a big push to the trades then.

It was college, college, college.

And I was like, well, I'm not college material.

I joined the army.

After the army, then I got into the trades.

And so it was like the two routes back then.

It was either college or the military.

Now, I think that it's come a long way.

Oh, yeah.

Folks, folks, you said you're on a school board.

They realize the trades are an option and it's a good option.

And then you end up.

Lending your brother money who went to college

It's just some people are more kinesthetic and they want to work with their hands and you see that as I mean I could tell that much of my fourth graders Alright, this is

sure.

They

don't want to be in a desk and be you know absorbing, you know, maybe that more academic or academia path They want to be absorbing and being a part of that, you know, I'm actually be able to

learn a trade to do something

my daughter did and I did a

a standard class out in Swamigal a couple of months ago.

And I think it's called smelting when it melts.

I could not believe how

quickly

she picked up this thing.

And I remember them telling us, this is 2,000 degrees.

You drop this molten metal on you, it will go through.

And I

was

so afraid.

She picked it up and I just could not believe how quickly and how talented she was at something like that.

And I'm thinking, boy, I'm going to be checking.

And

you were

saying that welding, that there's some openings.

Yes, right now, just in our jurisdictional area from Marinette Marine down to in the Fox Valley, where our fabrication shops are, we're probably about 49 qualified welders short right

now.

Well, she's four years out.

That's just great.

Where did you go to school and what would you recommend for a school if you want to pursue the the pipe trades?

Like as far as a tech school or whatever goes so I didn't I well I did Fox Valley Tech as a plumber I was a plumber so I didn't do any of the additional training like but if if a young person is into welding I would recommend going to Lakeshore Technical College Northwest Technical College or Fox Valley Technical College take their U2 year welding program and That'll really get them a head start.

They're still gonna have to do the apprenticeship, but I mean it gets them in where

they are ready to make an x-ray weld within six months.

And then if you're an HVAC service tech, then I strongly recommend Fox Alley Tech and Northeast, what is it, Northwest Tech to call it, NWTC.

They have great HVAC programs and they're both two year programs.

And then the same thing, you leave there, you're gonna go into that apprenticeship, but they'll start you out a little bit higher wage than what our rates are.

And I mean, you come out an absolute stud, skilled.

service check.

In two years,

you can start earning a wage like that?

Yeah, but in a lot of them, like I know a lot of our contractors right now are also putting, they're putting them on if they're taking that school at say, end of TC, they're making them

M-E-S-T, which is Mechanical Equipment Service Technician, and they're giving them a wage and paying for their school while they're

going to go home.

Wow,

wait, just talk

about that earlier.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

They'll

reimburse, yeah.

want to talk about the local 400-year union.

I think parents will all worry about our kids being safe, right?

If some kids don't want to be a cop, they'll go, I don't know

about

this, but just industrial accident and said, tell me, you

You really do focus on training over there.

Yeah, safety and training are huge at Local 400.

We do about $3 million a year just in training at Local 400.

And that's all our member money.

That's no taxpayer money, that kind of thing on there.

And we want our members to go home safe every day.

That's a huge deal to us.

So with the youth apprentices, these are young people that are maybe a junior or sophomore in high school.

They're able to take classes by us, so they get that OSHA 30 right away while they're in high school, and it starts getting that safety thought into your head right away.

And I

think whether students listening right now or their parents are, just to go to UA400.org, there's information on there.

Because maybe people really don't know what is pipe trades.

They don't really know what it is, whereas you kind of know what lawyers or doctors.

But I just think.

We need to educate ourselves more as parents and other opportunities.

So much behind the

scenes.

Well, and I'll say it out loud, but I've always wondered, what's steam fitting?

So yes, steam fitting is you're hooking up boilers and turning, you know, the boiler turns that water into steam and then you're doing all that piping with that steam.

It's not the

chuchu train

you thought

was.

We do work on trains on occasion, but usually it's the boiler makers.

And

that's pipe fitting.

All right.

Yeah.

Oh, go ahead.

So steam fitting versus pipe fitting?

So it's the same.

The biggest difference is a steam fitter goes through a four year or five year apprenticeship and learns the science of steam and expansion.

And whereas a lot of times the pipe fitters are like, I was a plumber.

And then later on, I took a test at the union hall to become a pipe fitter.

So I didn't learn all the science and everything, but I learned how to do the piping for those systems.

I wouldn't be able to design and troubleshoot that system the way a steamfitter can.

Thank you

for

explaining

that.

Because I've always

wondered and

been too afraid to ask.

It's kind of like Todd's, this is akin to Todd's comment about algebra and not understanding things.

This is

where my understanding ends as well.

Yeah, I'm bad at algebra.

Trig I can do, not algebra.

Wow.

OK.

Doug Doki with the pipe trades.

Doug, I want to just check a few more boxes on local 400 because I

knew your predecessor, Jeff, and I just spent some time there and you were very good to me as well.

So you're trained, you're one of the best trained facilities.

You said $3 million you're putting into training.

It's a place where you can learn, take the apprentice.

But I just want to touch on the camaraderie.

I mean, you guys just kind of get along.

Yeah, yeah, without a doubt.

Like even the relationship between our contractors, I mean, I'm pretty proud of that.

And that's something Jeff Kanos, who was a mentor to me.

Right.

he started that good relationship with the contractors.

Now, I mean, hey, don't get me wrong, when we're looking for wages and we're negotiating a little contentious, right?

But I've been involved as a leader in the local since 2017, and there's been one grievance in those years.

So it's really about that partnership.

Getting that skilled trained manpower to our contractors in the end of the day if I'm not supplying the manpower to those contractors Then what is local 400 for yeah,

so what are some of the projects you've worked on that our listeners would know?

Um, well, let's see we we did the Green Bay packaging mill.

That's right I don't

think people understand How significant that was for this community?

You know, retail wasn't like the Packers, but man.

They

could have

went to Georgia.

They

could have went to Tennessee.

They could have went anywhere.

I was in those

meetings.

And they could justify going somewhere else logistically.

It kind of makes more sense, raw materials come in here, distribution goes out of here.

It's like, OK, wow, this is going to be tough.

But, you know, think I did the questions.

Oh, man, they did an awesome job for us to keep that here.

Like you said, for the whole community, right?

But then, you know, the remodels at Lambeau, we've always pretty much always been a part of that.

Wow, that's huge.

The Georgia-Pacific bill that was on Broadway.

We had all the piping and that.

So those are some of the real big ones.

And then, I mean, we're doing little ones, like little schools and upgrades at the schools.

When I was an apprentice, I worked at Bayport High School.

That one was a brand new high school.

So yeah.

So we do, you know, anything from hospitals to paper

changes.

Great job.

Great career.

job security and you're making the community better.

I mean,

that's

just, I appreciate what you're doing and thanks

for

coming in here, Doug.

We'd like to get you back here.

I just want parents, students who are listening that UA400.org, just get on the website, just take a look at it.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah,

you

bet,

Doug.

All right, take care.

We will be right back with Connie Feldman, Vanessa Moran and Jim Schmidt.

just want to make mention of this.

I'm getting a lot of messages because of people are saying you need to start wearing sunscreen.

Oh, that's the video.

Good.

I'm glad

they're watching.

And

trim my eyebrows.

Those are the two comments I get.

All right.

Wow.

This has been fun today.

And I just want to thank our guests who've been on so far.

And we have Mary Rode coming in.

I think most people know her.

She's on Broadway.

And really they got that whole summer in the city guy that just came out last week and just a plethora of stuff that's going on and on that Broadway district.

And we had a guy on yesterday who owns the new crepe shop that opened

up.

Oh, I dropped

by that.

I didn't know why

I wanted to go.

I had to go after this.

Let's go.

Hey, did you see his guy?

In front of there, he's got that little Eiffel Tower.

Oh, it's so cool.

Yeah.

I'm sure she's going to talk about that.

But just another shuttle to this Doug McPherson.

Educators are interesting anyway

Scott

Scott Scott Doug Scott McPherson Denmark teacher that was interesting I want to get him back and of course Paul doing your fundraiser and

August 21st at, where is that, that St.

John's?

It's

right by the airport.

It's kind of hidden behind, there's a shell station over there as you head toward the airport.

And it's just right behind in that little neighborhood.

It's

absolutely adorable, great facility for a concert like

this.

Feed my starving children and Neil Diamond tribute, that's gonna be fun.

It's June 15th.

No, August 21st.

August 21st.

She's going to talk about June 15th, just a second.

I was thanked, too, for coming out for the local 400.

I'm going to get him back here

because

it bothers me when people don't know what they want to do.

And you don't have to decide a career, but you've got to start trying some stuff.

And they need to go out there and take a look at that.

And I love that they provide those opportunities.

Like, let's just get kids to try different things

and see

what they like.

Vanessa, you're in today, and thank you for being here.

I thought you were going to be here tomorrow, but this has worked out great having you in-house.

And before we, I know we've got a guest coming on at 8.30, but we've got a few minutes here.

What are you all working on?

So, a couple of quick things.

With Feed My Serving children, so just so if people don't know about the organization, it's a very simple, formulaic recipe of soy, rice, veggies, and a vitamin blend that their dry ingredients, we as the mobile pack pay for those dry ingredients.

They get shipped here to Green Bay Community Church, and then every, the first week of October, every year, we

Gather volunteers in mass and pack them all about 3,000 volunteers make it happen We are the human machinery that packs these meals the meals get sent all over the world the sad reality And this is this

number

still strikes me every single every single time I say it 6,200 children die each and every day due to hunger related causes 6,200 every day every day die because of something that's preventable so we're working really hard to to help curb that and it's a just a

It's, we always joke, it's the most fun you'll ever have in a hair net.

And

it's

just a really, it's a great event.

We've been lucky enough to have all the local media outlets come and cover it.

We've been lucky enough to have John and Jim come and actually pat.

We've been lucky enough to have this platform to help us spread the word because I think one of the things that always hurts my heart is afterwards.

I wish I would have known.

wish I would have known.

I wish I would have been there.

And it's like, you know, it's hard to keep track of all the great things that are happening.

Hence shows like this to help.

make sure that these organizations are amplified through this platform.

So with that said though.

It takes a lot of money to make it happen.

$183,000 needs to be raised for us to get

the

dry food ingredients.

Costs continue to go up and we have to pay for every grain of rice, every bit of that vitamin blend, all of those things.

So we do a lot of fundraising all year round to prepare for October.

So every single year we have 10 partner churches.

They all come together.

I serve as the media chair.

Paul is my co-chair by name and name only, but that's okay.

I'll take it.

If he's still listening, he's rolling his eyes.

right now.

So with that said, we have the Green Bay Rockers baseball club has stepped up to the plate and they are hosting a baseball game on Father's Day, $15 or they're holding, not hosting, $15 per ticket gets you a hat at the game.

It gets you obviously the ticket to the game and $7 from every ticket almost half of that goes back to feed my starving children if

you buy your ticket through our special link.

So if you're coming to that game, you're planning on bringing, what a great way to celebrate Father's Day, right?

A local baseball

game

right here, they have so much fun, there's always music, there's always entertainment, you get a free hat, it's at 105, it's the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day, and buy your ticket through our link, $7 comes back to feed my starving children.

The Green Bay Rockers have really stepped up to the plate, no pun intended.

I'm giving

myself

a bell for that.

And the

Green Bay community can do it.

We've talked about this

before, Jim, about

when

there is need, the Green Bay community,

Northeast Wisconsin,

that's

what I

mean.

They will step

up.

So once they know, well, thank you for being here, they'll come forward.

I think we can do this, guys.

Let's get behind it.

June 15, come on over.

All right, the link.

I'll provide that

directly to you.

We can put it on Facebook.

Or group up on Facebook.

All right.

And I think you make a good point, Father's Day.

you wanna do something special and it's like, oh, this is a great, great thing to do.

And they can go out and grab something to eat after.

Of course, there's good food there as well, but this is a fun thing.

So Father's Day, what's this?

Is it the second edition?

Sunday,

June 15th.

Second, yeah, yeah,

it's coming up quick.

And the other thing too is, hey, listen, you can't make it to the game.

You have some kind of Father's Day celebration and you're, you know, grilling out and you have some soda pops or anything, anything in an aluminum can or beer for dad.

Save those cans.

all through the month of June.

Any of the cans that you save, drop them off at St.

John's in...

Howard,

not the one

Ash Wabanan.

are collecting on Glendale Avenue, collecting those cans, and the money raised from that also goes to the Feed My Starving Children mobile pack.

And you don't think it makes a difference, but it does.

Every meal is only 29 cents.

So graduation parties, Father's Day events, anything you have going on in June, save those cans for us.

Last year, do you remember what you guys did from us last year?

Jim and John had a giant garbage bag, multiple garbage bags, completely filled with cans.

All the soda just for us.

Well, and the price of aluminum

right now, that could be a significant

donation.

It is.

Yeah, absolutely.

Hundreds and hundreds

of dollars.

gotta get behind this.

Otherwise, you're

just gonna throw it out.

Baseball, saving cans, just be part of it.

I mean, you're helping.

Feed Kids, for God's sake.

I mean, this is a great organization.

Thank you for taking the lead on this for now.

So this is so important.

Great team.

Yeah, there's a lot of good things going on in Green Bay.

And when you donate, when you participate, you actually feel better.

Yeah.

It's just a cool, cool thing.

So anyway, all right, we're going to be right back with Mary Roddy, who's going to talk about the summer in the city guide on on Broadway.

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Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

All right, welcome back everybody.

Wrapping it up here last half hour.

Kind of the best for last.

You know that Broadway is just a happening district in Greater Green Bay.

Many, many cities have these areas that are under revitalization.

They, putting some city money, some private money is going into it.

But what really makes, brings the awareness is events.

It's events that you have, people come down and they're like, wow, this is like

great.

And Mary Roddy, who has also been a guest on our show before, and I'm glad you're back here, Mary, kind of runs this whole summer in the city, in the Broadway district.

And you've got a lineup.

again and I know we start with the farmers market we want better weather and we're gonna have that right

yeah it's gonna be great this week we fought through two our first two Wednesdays of rain but you know what people still came

they do

they still came and they got you know their asparagus and their bouquets of flowers and

bread for the week and all the things, so ponchos and umbrellas in hand and we made the best of it, but it's gonna be gorgeous

tomorrow.

But not this Wednesday, right?

Tomorrow's gonna be great.

And you, three to eight, that farmers market goes on, like you said, there's a lot of fresh vegetables and flowers that are there, but.

You get a lot more than that there.

Your entertainment that you bring is pretty

good.

Yeah, I mean, we have almost 120 vendors every single week, but then we also do have two live stages of music,

which

in a way sets our market apart.

We know that our market is different and we are so proud of that.

We get a lot of comments sometimes and some good and some bad, but we absolutely love the vibe and energy that our market brings.

It's so much fun.

It's a destination, it's a midweek break.

for people and they make a point to come down.

We see plenty of strollers, so it is completely family-friendly.

Grab a cold beverage, enjoy the music, get a couple of amazing fresh produce items for your week ahead, and just make a date

night of it.

Enjoy some of the food trucks, too.

They've got a good mix of things to eat down there as well.

I think, Ty, is this Wednesday a glam band playing?

Is it this Wednesday?

No.

Well,

tomorrow, tomorrow the Suzuki violin camp or violin students are going to be playing.

So my

son and daughter will be playing

tomorrow.

So come listen to some beautiful

violin music.

And for those of us who aren't able to have a garden like you do, we still have a place to go to get fresh

local

produce.

Oh, I still,

even though I have the garden, trust me,

still go and buy

all kinds of good stuff.

And despite, you know, despite the tough.

start to the growing season.

We've still had some vendors bring in a couple of things.

We have a hydroponic vendor too, so there's been some lettuce options, but certainly those peppers, those cucumbers, the carrots, all that'll come here as we get later into June, understandably.

And it's a great way to get to learn some of our local businesses that you don't know about.

I've gone to booths that have honey to different preserves.

I never knew about these local businesses, so it's a great opportunity for them and for me to learn about it.

Yeah, all of our vendors come from within 100 mile radius.

So they're truly local to the area.

I don't know how from a logistical standpoint,

you put it all together.

Every single time I am just in complete and total awe.

I can't even imagine how much work goes in behind the scenes to pull something like this off.

It's just.

It's a lot for our team.

I am so impressed.

All right, and that's just one of many things that you do over there, Mary.

Tell me a little bit about that Levit Amp.

I know that that's the family that gave you the money.

Is that the way that

works?

Yep, Mortimer and Mimi Levit.

Their foundation is based in California.

However, these music series, they do throughout the country.

So we, this is our third year.

So three years ago, we won, we were awarded, I should say, a grant to put these concerts on.

So this is the third year of that grant.

We certainly hope

that as the foundation itself starts to kind of spend down some of their funds, that we'll be able to continue to bring this series to the community.

But this is free music that happens weekly.

The majority of the concerts are in Light Park on Sundays from four to six.

However, this year we actually put a little twist on things and we infused this Levitt amp.

stage into two existing on Broadway events.

So the Ignite Market happening on June 21st will

be a

Levitt Amp stage

with

Levitt artists.

And then also Fire Over the Fox, one of the five stages will be a Levitt Amp stage

as well.

So the Ignite Market, that's music.

Yes, tell me more about that.

Yeah, the Ignite Market is music.

and more.

So it takes place at night.

The June event is actually in the street on South Broadway,

which

is a really fun vibe.

And then the August Ignite Market is what everyone typically loves to kind of end their summer with.

It's the balloon glow along

the

Fox River in Light Park.

So that is our Ignite Market.

It is local vendors, arts and crafts.

It's infused with so much art.

Last year we had live mural painting.

And we had projection mapping, and we had a silent disco, and just all kinds of artistic things, fire dancers, and everything.

It is such a fun event.

And like I said, taking place at night, and especially in the street as the June one is, is such a cool vibe.

And you'd be amazed at the local talent we have here.

Tons.

Both in the arts and music.

Come on down, check that out.

And they're

local, and it's really impressive.

Yeah.

They do a good job over there.

And then fire over the fox.

I know that's July.

We talk about that.

That's July 4th.

But I don't think people understand what a big event that is.

Wow.

Yeah.

Well, first of all, it starts at three in the afternoon.

It goes till 1030.

It's a full day event.

Yeah.

And some people later gets the larger the crowd gets.

But because the fireworks is a big reason to come down here.

But that has everything.

I mean, that's both on Broadway as well as downtown Green Bay.

It's both sides of the river.

is both sides of the river, but it is just our team.

It's a heavy lift.

We took over this event a few years ago, discovered Green Bay had it, the city of Green Bay had it, and now it is just on

Broadway

that puts this on.

So yeah, we do

program, certainly we program both sides of the river with City Deck, and there's a stage that happens here on the east side of the river, and then we fill up Light Park.

But yeah, this brings over 40,000 people to downtown Green Bay.

And to your

point, Jim, it's the 4th of July, right?

It's the fireworks, but it is a full day.

of activities, five stages of music, and plenty of things for all ages.

So we were talking earlier about kind of volunteering for stuff.

I mean, feed my starving children, or there's so many things, serving meals at the homeless shelter.

You must need volunteers for this.

We always need volunteers.

There's a plethora of options for folks to get involved with us.

So certainly just within each of the events we've been talking about, there's

a lot of volunteer options.

But then additionally throughout the year, we do trash forces, or we do spring cleanups or fall cleanups, things like that.

And we do get a lot of corporate groups that will volunteer as well.

They'll come with their shirts

on, let's say.

I love that.

Noseated Bank or

Shriver or whoever.

And they'll be picking up trash throughout the district or helping us plant flowers or...

Picking weeds, like any number of things to help us keep the district clean.

All year long it takes.

So important.

It's truly a year-round effort.

But then yes, additionally within each of these events there are tons of volunteer options for a lot of different things.

So someone listening wants to volunteer.

Just where do they start?

They can call our office, certainly, and talk to Betsy within our office.

There's volunteer information as well on downtowngreenbay.com.

That's easier for you.

You can always check there first.

You'll find information there for both on Broadway and downtown Green Bay Incorporated as we do share a website.

What

a fun way to get involved.

Good energy in your, well, it starts with you, but there's a lot going on over there, and it's always fun to...

all the events and even the cleanups are, those are fun.

Absolutely.

Yeah, we have a good time.

And you have, as Connie was saying, it's fun to see the new businesses, not just the vendors, but we had your friend on from the crepe.

Yes.

Yeah, Crip Cafe and

Bistro.

Crip Cafe, that's right.

My stomach just rumbled when you talked about it.

Yeah, we just did Del's

ribbon cutting last week.

Right.

And what a crowd.

We had his place packed to the guilt

for

people.

It was so wonderful to be able to celebrate with him.

We introduced him really to the community back in February at our state of the Broadway district event, gave him a few moments to take the stage and talk about his story and his journey and his passion.

And it truly, you guys talked with him, right?

It shines through.

He is just such a gem.

Yeah.

And

I want to just give you some kudos here.

He picked you.

A lot of people would like him, right?

Yeah.

He could

put his business anywhere.

He's got connections in Paris.

He's got some experience.

They always like the guy with a little bit of an accent that always draws a few people in.

And he's going to be there.

It's not like it's a franchise and he's investing and leaving.

He's going to be the guy.

But I just want to tell you this, I'm sure you've heard of him before, but he said a lot of nice things about why he chose your district.

Yeah, he spoke to some of that last week at the ribbon cutting.

And I think one of the other individuals that spoke at the ribbon cutting mentioned that too.

Like there's a lot of geographic locations between here and Harris, right?

And he could have gone.

Anywhere

and

he said you know that he's only been here a couple of weeks, but he feels at home and

feels The the uplifting from this community and the support from this community and certainly we're we're thrilled to be able to to offer up the support that we can as an organization We were able to give him a $15,000 grant Yeah

Diverse Business Assistance Grant last week Friday as well to really help

him take care of some of

the expenses of starting his business.

And it says a lot about the community.

I think he's talked about the welcoming factor.

He just felt like he said at home.

Draft people came in, they said the same thing about the Green Bay area, Northeast Wisconsin community, just being welcome.

And I think we should talk more about that.

As a community, it's something that's overlooked.

People think, oh, it's just football.

Nope.

We're lucky to live here.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

So I'm not familiar with Sweet Stroll.

I'm not either.

Tell me.

Because it's brand new.

I was still kind of bad.

I've been out of the loop a little while, and I thought, oh, this is cool.

All right.

Yeah, we like to keep things happen at Broadway.

And so we're like, oh, it's so in a new event this summer.

So we really love to do these type of strolls or walks and really from a downtown, from a main street perspective.

These are so popular.

And if you pay attention at all to anything that's going on in a lot of the downtowns, there's a walk or a stroll for everything.

They do coffee here on the east side of the river.

There's soup walks.

There's winewalks.

So on our side of the river, we love to do this type of thing because it gets people into businesses.

Maybe they haven't been in before.

And it gives also some of the businesses an opportunity to participate who may not.

be able to participate in some other events for different reasons, right?

So we do our winter wine and beer walks, which are so popular.

We do those in wintertime.

We do our run for the roses wine walk in collaboration with the Kentucky Derby weekend and things like that.

So this is something that takes place in the middle of the summer and it gives folks an opportunity to take.

taste some of the sweeter things we have going on in the Broadway district.

Folks know about Bernstein's Candies.

They've been around over 100 years now.

And so we're thrilled to be able to highlight them.

We have five thumbs up cheesecake now in our district.

I'm talking about food right now.

Oh my gosh.

That's really impressive what she's got there, too.

She's awesome.

Jill

is amazing.

She has a, of course, delicious product, but she's also a great business owner.

Right.

So yeah, so we will be promoting this event here.

Tickets go on sale in a couple of days, but you'll have about 10 to 12 stops where you get to sample some sweet things.

Will Dell be in there with his, with his crepes?

Dell is definitely a part of

it.

I don't think

he's shared exactly what he'll

be doing

yet, but certainly he does have some sweet

flavors.

It will

be amazing.

I will tease.

We have a Titletown Brewing Company.

They'll be doing root beer floats.

Oh, that's fine.

Yes, so excited for that.

So yeah, like I said, tickets go on sale here in a couple of days.

Could you bring the kids to something like this?

What do you think?

100%.

Good, good, good, good.

It's not a problem when you bring them to the wine walk.

Yeah,

maybe take them, you know.

to a park after to run off.

I was going to say, I was going to

drop off

with grandma

and

grandpa.

There you go.

Just wrapping up here.

Do you want to share with us anything on Light Park?

Light Park is continuing to evolve.

You use it a lot.

We do.

There was a little bit of a fundraiser for that.

Yeah, so

some of the funds from Draft City Music

Fest

that happened during draft.

We were able to take some of those funds and put them into the Light Park redevelopment campaign.

So there is phase one and two and three of Light Park coming.

This is your song.

love this

song.

I know you do.

Well, Mary, thanks for what you're doing over there.

I just did it on Broadway.

I mean, it's the businesses, the people that really bringing the community together.

That's awesome.

All right.

So we will see you tomorrow.

Yes.

Farmer's Market.

Yes, you will.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Mary Rodi from On Broadway.

Summer in the City.

We'll be right back.

They're

all dancing in here.

That is a good song.

I mean, on Broadway, she's got it going

on.

Yeah.

And the cop is kicking

in.

So, update on the temperatures, right?

You guys, look at that.

74, Green Bay, 73, Epitans, 71, Oshkosh.

So we're, this is, yeah.

And then, I guess there's...

some rain coming later, but,

but get out there and enjoy

it.

Yeah.

This is great.

And bicycle days.

So get your bikes out too.

But that's a thanks for coming in.

This is, this is a lot of fun.

I'm so glad.

Thank you for asking.

Rookies get a little anxious.

It's like, how's this going to go with Johnny Gone?

But this, this has been great.

I'm so appreciative.

What a fun, fun morning.

And the

civic really has it going on civic media.

I mean, they are doing what needs to be done.

Just sharing about what's happening in the community.

We just need that everywhere, because what happens when you lose the local connection through the media, and we have because of Gannett being purchased, and of course the TV only has what, 18, 19 minutes, a half hour to tell what's going on, and they gotta cover, you know, world news, national, I mean, there's just a lot that they have to cover, whereas they allow us to just really, really focus on the local.

But a concern that many of us would have is when you lose the local content,

you may lose the constituency for voting and they just don't know what's going on so they don't care as much.

When that happens and people start running unopposed, then you lose sight of why you're there.

it's really, really important that

the media, and I'm not criticizing the media because they only got, like I said, 19 minutes and a half

hour to do it.

Prescosets got, you know, how many pages are here, but it's just important.

And I just went, when Civic Media said that we're going to focus on local and then to build a studio like this.

It's beautiful, right?

I love how you keep everything.

So I personally, I always hate finding out about something after the fact and then wishing I would have been

a part of

it.

happens.

so much.

But because you have this platform, because you keep things so fresh and relevant, it's like there's just so, and there's so much out there.

I had no idea about this sweet stroll on Broadway.

And now I do.

And

it's thanks to you and thanks to this morning.

So I know where I'll be on

Saturday, July

19th.

And the other

thing is that the awareness that we bring to like Alzheimer's, I think that's really, really important that we do that.

There's so many things going on.

And we don't,

want to compete with each other.

We want to support the whole thing, right?

And Appleton's got, they've got, oh, it's an Oshkosh.

It's really got it going on.

And I think if, like you said, you hate when you pick up the paper or you watch on the news, that was, oh, that was today.

You know, you missed it.

So we like to stay ahead of that.

The other thing that we really try and, you know, I don't have to talk to you two about it, but that community involvement is absolutely critical.

Oh, for all

of us at

Free My Serving Children, we cannot thank you enough for allowing us to use this platform to amplify the work and also to co-host with you and try-host with you nowadays.

So it's just been... Vanessa and I have some big plans,

Todd.

I got that feeling.

We might have an opening from six to nine.

From six to nine.

Jim and John are ever gone, just saying.

when people hear of all the things we go through, United Way and just everything when we talk about this place for pets, money's important, but it's not everything.

That volunteer time is really, really critical that you get out there and get engaged with the community.

And

have some fun.

It is.

It is a lot of fun.

And segue again, but loneliness is a killer.

It is.

And people need to be engaged.

And if it's not with

if you're not working or if it, go to one of these nonprofits, they welcome you there.

They're just like the best.

It's like, you don't walk in and look around like, oh, nobody knows me.

They'll greet you and welcome you.

And we do that at the community shelter and I'm sure, your place is unbelievable when you did that.

Thousands.

Well, you have 3,000 people and we all felt like, you know, we're the most important person there.

Yeah, because you are.

Our volunteers make it happen without the volunteers.

The food doesn't get packed.

We are the human machinery.

And that's said for any,

How does anything happen at the shelter?

How does anything happen at any of those organizations?

How does anything happen on the Broadway district?

It's volunteer.

It's manpower.

And we have the power.

We just have to find the ways to get connected.

And shows like this help us get connected with all those different ways to get involved.

Well, Northeast Wisconsin has a lot to celebrate.

That's what I love about this show is you and mine all, you know, you highlight those things.

What it is is the people of Northeast Wisconsin that make them happen like the volunteers So if you're looking for a way to get involved in a way to celebrate your community This is the place you go to volunteer

center or yeah, just just if you got a passion for something right it may be for homeless it may be for Alzheimer's or for cancer Just call them

and

say look can I get involved?

Yeah, absolutely, you know Red Cross the just this and I just think that's really important and and it's not just for

I mean, kids can do this too.

Quite a few kids that come in through the shelter would like them to be over 14 because of some of the equipment.

Absolutely.

Yeah, that's important.

If they're younger, they've got to come with their parents.

But all I'm saying is that you get a kid involved in at 14, 15, like my kids were, they'll do it when they get out into the real world.

Or when they're five would be my serving children.

Children as young as five can volunteer.

You can

take

younger ones there.

Five years old.

We want them

there.

We want them there.

Right.

When we were talking about, you know, it's

New Year's resolution, I'm gonna get more involved.

It's June.

It's like, oh my God, I didn't do that yet.

It's always a good time.

There's never a wrong time to call up and say, look, I wanna help out here.

And there's never the wrong time to get trained

CPR

and how to use the ID.

You never, ever,

ever know.

All that stuff's going on here.

Yeah, this has been great.

Thank you.

And it was just for our listeners who may have tuned in late.

It's my job, the only job I have here is to schedule my co-host.

Wait a minute, hold up on today.

Let's

back up, that's the only

job

that I have here?

Today

he's scheduled too.

I had some authority.

There'll be a

discussion after the show.

Jim, stick around for five minutes or so please.

Okay, I know I've got more guests.

But I ran away because of my only job.

That's the only thing I had to do today.

And what I did was I scheduled.

both these co-hosts.

It's been wonderful.

It has been a lot.

I'm glad.

That was a good mistake.

Sometimes mistakes can lead to great things and we did that today.

So I was going to get it on purpose.

Connie Feldman, you know, just, but I'm going to see you tomorrow.

I just won't

go away.

love it here.

I'm glad you're doing Vanessa.

Thanks for all you're doing and keep busy.

And that's a Zuki is a good, my kids were in that.

That's a Zuki camp.

See you tomorrow

at Broadway,

farmers market on Broadway, three to eight.

All right.

Thanks for listening, everybody.

We will see you tomorrow.

This is Connie Vanessa.

coming

up tomorrow morning on the show.

The Green Bay Botanical Garden stops by with their Bee Gees Now show coming up.

That'll be a lot of fun headlines with the press times and we'll be moving with the Melchors.

Ben and Deanna will join us.

Plus another chance to win with your Scotty Summer Contest.

That's tomorrow morning with Mino and the Mayor tomorrow co-hosted by, at least as far as I know, Connie Feldman.

There could be five others.

We'll find out then.

Have a good one.

The shoes on my feet I fall Clothes I'm wearing I fall But I don't rock it