Teachers, Trivia, and Tangents (Hour 1)

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

All right, good morning, everybody.

Boy, have we upgraded our show today, 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 Thelmer.

Two hosts and Jim Schmidt.

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, okay.

Okay.

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?

Uh, Charlie was the guy.

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

You can only hear me.

Right.

You weren't, 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.

Yeah, talk like this a little bit more.

It's an honor.

Did you, today, 70 degrees, walking outside?

It is 70 degrees.

Oh my gosh, I wanted to host

this outside

today.

Great.

I couldn't believe it.

It's beautiful.

It's a great idea.

Right across the board, a tie.

Turn on the city deck.

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

So, anyway, welcome.

Connie and Vanessa.

Thank you.

It's really nice that you are here and it's really bad that I did a scheduling, but thank you for sticking around because you could have said, okay, I'm going back to bed.

But you did.

So you guys are

up.

We know divas.

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 me.

Good

morning.

But we're gonna get up to the low 80s

today, so.

Possibly some storms this afternoon.

Got a creepy eye on that.

Could be severe in some places.

More hail I heard is on the way.

So.

Today'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 is 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, y'all... 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.

I mean, their job, and they do such a phenomenal

job.

And

we're 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.

I'll tell you one story how.

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

And I was...

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, I turned 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.

Yeah.

Think about all that, sine, cosine, the Pythagorean 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 percentage of the fractions, okay, so what's half of three quarter cup, 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?

algebra?

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.

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 deed, it doesn't transfer, right?

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

So there is incentive there, but I don't.

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?

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

Wow.

Brian, thank you,

Brian.

Thank you, Brian.

That's an interesting question,

Brian.

He gets it.

He's a regular, he, yes.

He knows.

He does, he knows me.

But anyway, the teachers,

The influence we have on 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 Mrs. Delonso 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, do you know her?

I have Joey sitting here in my classroom.

Do you know what a great job you 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 always remember those tea shout out to Gary Lamere.

That's he was my music teacher Oh Scott coming in by the way, who's a pretty awesome guitar player and I play bass in a band with him.

All right

And those guys at 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 her.

Hi, Mrs. Renault.

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 stop.

Teachers, 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, 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.

impactful the other way around you know

yeah that is so critical and it goes on to 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 these ladies are up there so yeah it's nice that all right we'll honor the teachers today but yeah 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 gotta ride my bike.

You see, I gotta 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, but.

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.

Sun could paddle in us.

That's just one of my favorite players.

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.

Okay.

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

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Because it's about

Jim's

recommendation.

So just let me tell you.

Well, first of all, I love working with you, too.

But John would be singing along on this song.

Right.

It's one of his favorite.

It's one of his favorite songs.

I would have loved to hear that.

He's toned up, though.

Oh, maybe I would.

It's 22 in the morning.

It's tough.

It's tough to hear.

So I'm glad you're here.

Again, I just we were talking about, you know, 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 Y 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 want to say bright, but that tells you what to do.

You just have to follow directions.

And just listen.

And be

not afraid to do

it.

Exactly.

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 now you still have to know what that is, so.

All right, birthdays, besides mine and princes coming up, we were 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.

It was just doing like 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, a

barbershop

singer.

Okay,

okay.

I didn't know Prince sang barbershop.

All right, well, that's... Anyway.

What are the birthdays we got going on?

You guys take them.

You know this stuff better than I do.

Well

Anderson Cooper, you know who Anderson

Cooper is?

Oh yes,

yep.

He turns 58 today.

Wow.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

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.

Do

you guys know who Dan Hill is?

Sometimes when we touch.

Keep going.

Oh, we're just talking.

Okay, there

we go.

These

too much.

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 it was the

guy that

You know And

I choke on

my reply I

thought it was

like

Minos singing

Wow, that is 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

71, Denise Williams 74.

Okay.

All right.

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

Oh

Okay

What movie was that from?

Was it Put Loose?

Yes.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

It's a little more upbeat.

I like this.

It's much better than that last guy.

That's a great one.

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.

Who's

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.

Hmm.

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.

Me.

Oh

boy.

Never once.

Now, everybody remembers Leather

Tuscadero.

Okay, you're showing your youth.

All right, that's awesome.

That's okay.

I've also never

seen that show.

Maybe I've never seen Love Boys.

We

need the fresh, yeah, we need the fresh perspective

in here.

We gotta get our demos down on the show.

We

do.

Sorry.

Buy a lot.

Buy

a

lot.

All right, so just to remind you this, Scott McPherson's coming up, this teacher.

podcast guy from Denmark.

It's gonna be interesting.

Teacher with a

podcast idea.

Right.

And he's gonna present.

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 gonna come in here and give

us.

I love it.

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

I did.

Amazing.

You did great.

Thank you.

In fact, 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.

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.

He was

right.

I take your capital.

And some guy

said, you actually,

you know,

Connie was

right.

Connie was right.

So, but anyway, we are 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.

All right.

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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Maran finally got it, right?

All right.

This is ladies of the morning.

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.

Little little surgeries can be fine.

Be back on Thursday, I think, but kind of a film or who

was

filming filming up.

I do that to make sure he's

listening

Okay, okay on his toes.

Well, you know what that's how this all happened this morning.

He was just he's he's just pulling our leg higher time.

He wanted to 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

As I was desperately like putting my mascara on in the car I thought who in the world is up this early?

When I pulled up I'm like

Wow, that poor person.

Well, thanks for being here, you guys.

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

So, hey, this...

All right.

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?

Hey chat GTC.

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.

Okay.

And say our first our first contestant is Connie Felman.

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

Okay.

All right.

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?

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.

All right, 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

So

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.

The 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.

No, I guess

not.

But I learned how to learn.

It's either mozzarella.

There

you

go.

Assego, Parmesan, or Romero.

Assego.

Assego.

Assego.

Okay, I kind of got that.

Mozzarella.

It is.

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

Romano

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.

It's Holstein.

My gut said that.

No points on that.

Right now, Vanessa has had one to nothing.

No, no, no.

Connie has

had mozzarella.

Oh, that's right.

I'm sorry.

So Holstein's the correct

answer.

I

mean, I'm a. I just can't win here,

man.

So

yeah, that is the most common and popular dairy based on the

United States.

Once again,

you're listening

to the worst game show in history.

They are

recognized for their distinction.

No, they're

learning how to learn.

They're the black and white cows.