Men’s Mental Health Matters (Hour 1)

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

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

All right, good morning, everybody.

Good

morning.

Your host, John Minow, is the doctor today.

So just get his whole wrapped up with this whole skin cancer thing, you know?

Right.

So after you got that, it's all fine.

You go in for those body scans?

Yeah.

Have you ever done that?

I have.

Like they put those big goggles on.

The doctor's eyes are like big because they look at your.

Right.

They got to check out everything.

Did you, when you had your body scan done for skin?

If you need to look at skin cancer, did you request like a female or male that making a difference to you?

No, that doesn't

bother me.

I'm trying to.

I had this conversation with my sister this morning.

And I'm just wondering, because John said I don't

care.

He

did.

But I wonder

how he's going to respond on

both levels.

Right?

I mean.

to have a woman look at you that closely?

You know, they really look at you.

I mean, they look at every part of your body like super close because if they can detect it now, it's gonna save you a fortune down the road financially, but it's also could save your life.

I mean, yeah.

But here's the thing, like they're a doctor and they've

seen it all.

But you're not.

She's a female.

I didn't know Todd and I were talking.

I said, look, if they asked me,

Look, do you want a male or a female to examine your body for an hour, close up like an inch away?

I would prefer the male.

And John's like, I don't care.

And I think when he gets in there, he doesn't

care.

I mean, the doctor that delivered both my children was a male.

So I mean, and that's more intense than a body.

For a

guy though, for a guy, that's probably as close to that.

I mean.

They're

just

the embarrassment to know my god and so

at

that point it's like

I want to ever I just hope they send in some really

good

We'll see anyway, so that's somebody like Loretta sweat there you go And really good, oh man, it's anyway, so we'll get that full report I know you I listen to those right those send in some

He's a nice, really good-looking young woman.

Oh, I used to listen to you when I was a little kid.

You don't make him feel old, and then he's gonna try to act like muscular, and anyway, that's gonna be funny.

So tomorrow, I am.

He'll be fine, I think.

It's just that I think it's great that healthcare is great in this community, and we're so fortunate.

But to do that and then say, look, we want to look just to make sure you're good for the next 10 years.

So that's what he's got going on today.

Yeah, I have to

do it.

My dad had.

Melanoma, so I'm at a higher risk.

So what every five ten years often you guys got to go in

there?

They say every year just to do

not

a full like they just do like a quick body check, but is there anywhere that they don't

look?

They pull your toes apart and look in there

Oh, yeah, yeah, they don't mess around.

No, and that's we're trying John because he hasn't had that done before I'm like

Get the full report tomorrow.

Anyway, welcome everybody.

Yes, Johnny's out today.

Shannon Cohen is in.

She's co-hosted before, and thank you for coming in today.

Yeah, thank you for having me back.

It's nice and early.

What the weather, super easy to get here today, right?

I mean...

See, what I noticed is, so I normally go into work around, what, eight o'clock?

Yeah.

The people at like 5.30 are not messing around.

They are, they're on a mission and they are cruising.

Serious, well, you mean drive, serious walkers too.

They got to get that walk in.

They're not strolling.

They're looking at their little watch.

I mean, I

don't drive slow, but I was like, geez.

That's

a good observation, actually, because I think you're right.

Early morning people.

Yeah, they're not.

They're not lounging.

I was like, ooh, I kind of got up a little later than I wanted.

So I was kind of like headed.

So everybody was going somewhere.

Yeah.

They weren't strolling.

They were like Sunday driving.

They were on a mission.

Yeah.

I think that's.

I can't believe the timing.

You know, we've been doing this.

It's gonna be two years in two weeks.

The timing on this, like, now obviously the buses, like the trains, you know, they run on time, but other people, you'll see this car at this intersection at this time.

I mean, people are, like you said, they're scheduled at this time of the morning.

Nobody is just out for a drive.

Little do people know I have like friends that they don't know we're friends, but I'm like, hey, I see that person every morning.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, there was a lady that, well, yeah.

She walks across the street.

She's walking a little slow, though, I think.

Anyway.

Is that the one you almost hit and then she yelled at you?

She did.

She yelled at me.

Good.

But

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I didn't get that close to her but you know I pulled up to the intersection and she was walking and I'm waiting and um so then I parked and I got in my car and she was walking she was um you almost hit me I'm like look if I wanted to hit you I would have

jammed

I did and she goes I was in the crosswalk I said I saw that anyway that was that was the only day in two years that's only was that the only conflict you want to talk about clon conflicts in the morning we'll get mino in here

Why ironically

so do you?

It's so funny because nobody's here in the morning when they show up This one goes off about that this one goes off about that then they come to go together and go off about something

else together each other

It's it's quite a

show, but we're ready to go.

I will say no coffee.

We just are no we need our coffee.

Yeah, anyway, I thought

It was beautiful this morning.

This is like the weather's perfect here.

I don't even know where we're at.

I was

a little chilly, not gonna lie.

I think it's

warmer today than

it

has

been in the morning.

I think.

If we're gonna hit like, we could hit 80 today.

I love it.

I know me too.

So I better come back here too, because I'm doing my recording for my Sunday show.

So other than that, I got a pretty free day today.

So 58 in Green Bay.

A little cooler here.

63 in Appleton.

That's awesome.

64 in Oshkosh.

All right,

Oshkosh.

And like you said, you know, today high near 80.

So get out there today because I just heard the weather.

Put

on some sunscreen.

Yep.

But yes, especially you people prone to skin cancer like me.

Well, I don't know if I am or not, but I love, I love the sun.

You know that.

Yes,

I

do.

Anyway, we, um, today, tomorrow is not as nice.

It's like 60s.

Oh,

well, enjoy today.

Yeah.

And

at 10 o'clock today, just to remind people, if you were listening yesterday, they're having a, in Bellevue, they have like a guard, and that's not a guard, and it's more like an orchard.

How to plant an orchard in your yard.

Oh,

where's that

at?

I'll look it up at the break.

That sounds amazing.

It is.

So I'm gonna go out there at 10 o'clock and check that out, because I might put an orchard in at my house.

Awesome.

Are you

gonna bring us what, apples, pears?

Apples, pears, cherries.

This stuff grows in Green Bay.

I have a cherry tree.

Do you?

Yeah.

Well, that's dork.

Yeah, but I'm not in

Dork County.

But I think pears I don't know.

She there's like four or five trees that grow in Green Bay, which I think is really cool.

They actually bear fruit and everything.

Yeah.

So I'm gonna take a look at that.

I might do that at my house might.

I think you should.

I'm kicking that around.

So anyway, what else is going on today?

Well, anyway, welcome to you though.

I'm glad you're here.

You've got you.

You were telling me I was acting what you're doing with your kids.

for the summer, because you have two great kids, fifth and third grade.

But they were out of school and boom, you put them in summer school the next day?

Absolutely.

Oh

my gosh, come on.

What is, how about summer?

No, they wanted to do it.

See, here's the thing, summer school now is actually fun.

When I was in summer school, it was school.

At the

desk.

Yeah, so my daughter, she has, it's four classes, so she's doing painting, cooking.

Soccer and scrapbooking.

How cool is that?

But

okay, but you put her in the day after school that out

No, they got out on a Thursday and it started on Monday.

Oh, wow Okay, the weekends there anyway, so it's one day,

but they wanted to

DJ did she yeah, oh because it's

so much fun.

My son's doing wrestling What else he's got?

like here we grow, so they're like planting and learning about growing.

It's super fun now these days.

And they have so many options that it's...

So I'm an advocate for year-round school.

No, no, no, you guys, you guys, people just that scares people.

It's the same.

No, no, year-round school is the same amount of days as the school we have now.

The only reason we're off of school in the summer is because of farming.

Nobody farms anymore.

But there are farmers, but it's not like everybody does.

That's right.

I didn't mean

everybody said no, no, I know right.

Hey, I was I've never I was just breakfast at the farm love farmers.

Sorry.

I didn't mean it like that.

Just the really, really good people.

No, just the

really, really good people farm.

But we our school is traditionally off because of that.

And that is not the main industry anymore.

So there's schools that go on.

It's it's six weeks on two weeks off in the month of July off.

It's the same 180 days that you go.

right now in your tradition.

Many, many studies will show you that and I'm going to get somebody on here to talk about this.

Many studies will show you that the students do better academically because it's not like this learning curve when you get back in September to get started again.

And the summers and the other thing it's really can be really cool for vacations, you know.

July, everybody's on vacation, but

I mean, you take

that six weeks on, two weeks off, those two weeks, you can go places and there's not a million people there.

You know, skiing or, you know, it's not gonna go do something.

So this is how long I've been at this thing.

My daughter was in fourth grade, okay?

And Donna and I went before the school board and said, look, we had some friends in Atlanta that said, you gotta take a look at this year round school, this stuff really works for our kids and we love it, it works for our lifestyle.

And so we went to the school board, made this.

Look, we're the Schmitz, we have a fourth grader, and we really advocate for year on school, give them some stuff.

Still hasn't happened, and she's 32 now, so I think we need to look at that.

I do, I think there's a lot of, I mean, education.

You could sway me.

Well, education is so important.

You know, we build new buildings, I've voted for the referendums, but at the end of the day, you want the students to do well.

Not every, I like the building, but I'm more concerned about what's going on inside the building.

I just think that should be an option.

I don't think we should change our school.

We got 20,000 kids in K-12 just here in Green Bay.

I don't think we should change the whole thing, but I think that would be a really cool option.

I like

it.

Six weeks on, two weeks off, the month of July, you're off.

And I would tell you, there is, somebody needs to study this smarter than me, but there's a lot of data that shows that that can benefit the student.

You know what I...

you know what that would take away so I noticed uh you know it's getting to the end of the year and everyone's all excited they're like oh it's almost summer it's almost summer summer break and you get kind of excited and then I'm like oh I still have to go to work I don't get

summer break like you do to your kids you're sitting them school the next day is that is that is that what you're talking

about well no and it's only half day well

okay

Here's the deal.

Does

that also impact, though, I mean, think about places like Wisconsin Dalles and Door County, does taking those vacation time away for the summer affect businesses that rely on summer?

Oh, probably.

But I think, in all honesty, I think people, when it comes to vacations like that, they do it.

People

just do it.

That's a good question.

I want to say that this survey that was done was not just

parents was not just parents they talked to the YMCA's they talked to your sports they get banned that kind of stuff and it seemed like everybody was on board to try it and I don't know why we didn't try it

but anyway but you know people don't like new people don't like change

true everybody wants to change but nobody wants to be part of it

Exactly.

I love that.

Anyway, I'm glad you're here.

This is going to be fun today.

Did you see the lineup?

It's awesome.

We got these guys that are coming in.

This month is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.

So you work on your husband and my wife's working on me.

But we've got to be concerned about men's mental health.

Two guys coming in.

These guys are awesome.

They've been on before.

DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright.

They're brothers helping brothers.

That's awesome.

Great guys helping other great guys to kind of you know really get with the program and help reduce your stress.

We got this, was it SIA?

What's Maldonnel, right?

No.

SIA.

SIA.

Oh, SIA.

Local fighter.

You see that guy?

He's unbelievable.

No, I'm intrigued.

Like he's a Golden Gloves guy, I think.

Yes,

I'm excited.

Yeah.

And then John Kramer, of course, is coming in with the headlines with the Press Times and Ryan Hopson with the Green Bay Blizzard.

Do you go to those games?

We do.

Yeah.

So much fun.

That is a lot of fun.

And then we're going to get a little, you know, this big here in Green Bay, um, the coal piles, which has been challenged for 60 years, uh, is going to get relocated.

And Pat Evans is going to come in and talk about how that whole thing went down at the county board.

Fantastic.

I know it's going to be great.

So anyway, it's going to be fun.

We've got Shannon Cohen in house.

We will be right back.

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We'll have some fun here today with this.

So today we're just touching on, your kids got out of school on Thursday, you gave them the whole day of Friday off, and then you put them back in summer school on Monday.

This was their choice.

But I do, I think that's pretty cool.

And we were talking about maybe, it scares people when you say a year round school, they're like, oh, I don't want that.

Well, it's not, they should rename that, they should rebrand that as flexible calendar year schooling or something like that.

That

sounds a little more better.

Right, and it would be, and anyway,

But we got a text my man Michael said it would have a massive impact on tourism in Door County I Don't I don't know why it you're still off the whole month of July and then when they have their two weeks off

But if it's if you're two weeks off Ari in October or December

it's six and two It's year off.

So you got six weeks of school two weeks off six weeks of school two weeks off six weeks Yeah, but but think

about that Jim Door County has no tourism in the winter.

Yeah, this

would help.

No, it

would not.

You don't think people know up there.

No

I don't we'd have to put them in the survey.

Yes All right, I think the labor thing you're talking about now that that may have an effect on that You know because they need college kids to do the but I don't think but these aren't college kids I don't even think these are high school kids.

I my proposal was k12 I was not no k8, but anyway, all right.

Well, we'll figure that out.

That's for somebody Like I said smarter than me, which doesn't take much.

So here we are today

We have some birthday.

Oh, no today.

You know what today is.

Yeah, German chocolate cake day.

Did you know it's not actually German?

Um

Do you know why it's called German chocolate cake?

I do because we've actually talked about

this on the show.

I was thinking but you know, can I guess?

Yeah,

is it because his last name is German?

It

is.

Thank you.

Really and not like yeah, so his name is Sam German Yep, and he was a creator of a specific chocolate at the Baker's chocolate.

I don't it's a chocolate that makes it

German chocolate cake.

I love German chocolate

cake.

But the chocolate is not like sweet chocolate.

It's like chocolate chocolate.

Donna just made that because we were at a birthday party on Saturday.

Actually it was my birthday but with my friend's 65th birthday.

So he got all the attention.

Anyway, that's what he wanted.

So she made him a German chocolate cake.

And I don't like chocolate.

Well, that's weird.

I know.

Nope.

At Easter, that stuff sits on the table.

I don't eat anything.

I don't like chocolate.

Okay, Jim.

Put nachos out there.

They'd be gone.

They'd be gone.

I guess we did talk about that, Todd.

So what was his name?

What German?

Sam.

Sam German.

Huh.

That's weird that it got so much notoriety.

I think they would have called it like Sam's chocolate cake or something.

You

know, like German would have labeled it.

That is

cool.

No, it's not.

All right, wait, wait.

Court on the cob day.

Can't go wrong with that.

Right.

That's cool.

Of course, it's a little early for that.

Why would they have that now?

They should have that in August.

No, this is the perfect time.

No, there's no corn right now.

It doesn't matter.

It's like corn in the cob signifies summer, barbecues.

Okay, you can have it broad day.

Thank you.

Oh, man.

Ding, ding.

I don't know, it's two against one this morning.

I gotta get going here.

All right, I'll figure something.

Corn in the cob day, yeah, you can celebrate it, but you can't have it because it's not there.

Those stands aren't set up right now.

They're set up in...

in August, right?

Yeah, but you're thinking

about Wisconsin.

I

mean, that's

the United States.

There's other

parts

of the

world.

That's right.

I live in my own world.

That is true.

Okay.

That is why it's corn on the cob day throughout the country.

And that's the way we should look at that.

Okay, I got it.

Right.

So some birthdays today.

Yeah,

I have no I know two of these four people.

So Shia Labouf, who I don't know.

Shia

Shia

Labouf.

Yeah, he's a he's a great actor.

He

Yeah, yes.

His name's Shia.

Yeah.

Did he get picked on as a kid in the playground?

Maybe.

Now he just, he had lots of money.

He wasn't, he was fine.

What did he do?

Even Stevens, it was a TV show, the movie Holes.

And I apologize.

I know he's been in a lot more, more grown up shows, but I only know the kid ones.

All

right.

Transformers.

There you go.

Thank

you.

Intern, you know who this guy is?

Okay.

Oh, all right.

He's

my age.

So of course, I know of

course Jim knows this guy.

Oh, I do dr. Oz He's weird.

He's he's a loser

Completely he He is a he's a media hound apps and run for each for Senate.

I was like come on but and we came awfully close to winning Very close

on TV and people are like, right?

I know him

and that's that's what it was.

But yeah, he is

Total self-promoter, although he got a pretty good gig with the Trump administration.

So he's in there.

Hugh, Laurie, Laurie?

Laurie?

Who's he?

House, Dr. House.

Hugh Jackter, Dr. House.

I remember that.

I fought for

like nine seasons.

Yeah.

He's done some

others.

Correct.

He was Jasper in the 101 Dalmatian movie.

Yep.

I didn't see that.

Oh,

Jim.

OK, this next guy.

I know I actually got a picture with him.

I'll find that at the break Joe Montana 69

Go Joe that

I don't would you think he's 69?

I

thought he was older, but

really?

Yeah, I mean he was a quarterback a very very long time ago when I was young So I thought he was old then so I apologize

speaking of quarterbacks.

I think your buddy signing with the Steelers

Andy's married.

Yes married

what

I know did it say was it?

Guy girl, what did she say?

No, they didn't say.

A lot of the comments were just like, oh, did he marry himself?

But I'm very intrigued.

I think he's a very good looking man.

And he's kind of weird, but I like him.

So I'm intrigued.

Aaron Rodgers?

Yeah.

Why?

Why are you intrigued by Adiva?

Maybe that's my type.

I don't know.

As

she's sitting with Jim in the studio.

in his peach shirt.

I could wear it.

Thank you for who wants to move corn cob day to

a different day and

change selfishly

and change the school system.

And it's only eight, six, 29.

And we got

a text.

Let's finish off Jim Strong start with some world's worst trivia.

Brian, I mean, I can

do that too.

All right, Brian, you might be on to something there.

All right.

Well, all right, we got a great show coming up here.

Stick around.

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All right.

Welcome back everybody.

Shannon, this is great.

You're here and that contest Todd was talking about.

So you can win these Brewer tickets, club seats, awesome seats.

You know, have you been to, you guys, go to Brewer games?

Baseball's really not our thing.

Oh, but it doesn't have to be.

That is such a great stadium.

And it's great for kids.

Okay, great for kids.

The food's good.

There's not lines.

It's just that I love that stadium.

I went there quite a bit with our kids, but once in a while, I haven't been there lately.

Yeah, that's a good contest.

So people should stick around.

You can win that.

Those are great for $100, which is awesome.

Yeah.

But then you're in for the grand prize.

And that's like a vacation in the Dells, which is fun, right?

I love the Dells.

Air Basement of the Dells.

Or Dorr County.

Or Dorr County.

Those are two like great, great places.

Yeah, absolutely.

Anyway, we're talking during the break.

You're Ms.

Mom.

Oh.

Shaper on the kids in fourth grade.

I've done that I think every parent has done that if they had a fourth grader because that's like part of what you do to the Capitol

Every kid goes to the Capitol in fourth grade and you see the Badger and did you guys see the governor did he kind of pop his head out?

No, it

was my birthday.

Oh, that's cool.

We went so that was super exciting.

All

right Yeah, we went to the Capitol went to the zoo down there the Henry

free.

Yeah That was great.

So yeah, we did the state Capitol, you know the tour the rotunda the assembly the Senate the hearing room Supreme Court we got to do the observation deck

That was great.

The kids were actually really intrigued.

That's a good tour.

And that thing looks so much like the Capitol.

I mean, that's just a cool building.

Problem with Madison is it's growing, right?

I mean, that's one of probably the, I would say the nicest, but it's one of the best places to live in Wisconsin because it's got the academics, it's got great jobs, great incomes.

But the housing is tough because you can't build anything taller than the Capitol.

And people are like, you know, so.

The developers would love to do that that will never happen, but I would love to do away with that So you could put up some much taller buildings, but they have some really nice Development around the capitals and great condos some but it's expensive there But I think they're growing and it there's just a lot that Madison has a lot going for it right now,

right?

It's just a great economics are strong there obviously the

institution the government is you know besides the capital they got you know because university right 36,000 kids so so how was it I mean I would did too it was good everybody's good it was great yeah

the kids were actually

very

intrigued more than I thought they would be although we had a little mishap on the way home just got outside of Madison and our bus broke down

really yeah so there was we had three buses uh for the school and our bus was in the front and one of the teachers in the other bus messaged our teacher and said hey your bus is smoking and she's like haha very funny uh they're like no seriously your bus is smoking uh so we had wow we had to pull over um at some gas station uh yeah sure enough oil was going everywhere our bus was not moving uh so all of we had 39 people on our

our bus.

So it was us and all the kids just kind of hanging out on the side of a gas station.

They had to evacuate the bus.

Yeah,

because yeah, we weren't, we weren't taking that home.

Right.

When they freaked out, the kids were really like, cool.

No, they actually thought it was very amusing.

They thought it was great.

They were playing football in, you know, in the grass next to the gas station.

Thankfully, thankfully, there was a bus terminal about 17 miles from where we were.

So we got a new bus and

save the day.

Save the day.

It was great.

Everybody applauded when the bus showed up, the new one.

Yeah, that's cool.

And

it was a lot nicer.

So the kids were very excited.

The bathroom was

working.

Yeah.

Nice.

They thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Like that's mom, there's a bathroom on the bus.

And I was like, OK, that's awesome.

Because people use this for the Brewer's game and they drink all the way there.

No, that's that's awesome.

That worked out.

That's nice that they had that reciprocal thing that you weren't there that they just called.

a different bus, but it was the same bus company.

Yeah,

because people were kind of panicking

and they're

like, oh, okay, well, let's get on the other two buses.

And they're like, there's 11 spots open and there's 39 of us.

So we're just, it would only took an hour.

Like I said, the kids thought it was a great experience.

The gas station got a ton of business that day from all of us and it was.

Right, buying all that healthy food.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

Oh, it's vacation, they can do that.

That's cool.

All right.

So I had to teach yesterday, speaking of school.

kids.

And I didn't even tell you this, Todd.

So I did teach yesterday and I sent out an announcement, you know, two days before, Mr. Schmidt, we're going to meet this room and just read this chapter before you get to school.

And we're going to talk about this, this and that.

So I wrote on there and I said, you know, we'll be meeting in room, teaching the College of Business.

And I put the wrong room number on.

And the room number I put on was the women's bathroom, which was right across the hall.

And so I got there and it's like, are you a professor?

I said, yeah, she goes, you had the wrong room number on the syllabus.

I'm like, what do you mean I had the wrong room?

She goes, you put the woman's bathroom.

I said, well, do you want to meet there?

I said, but I said, right across the hall is our room, 322 and I put, I don't know, 324 or something like that.

So I'm in there and there was some, there was some students missing and I thought, were they online?

So I went online and, but it's not, sometimes you have those blended classes, kids can come in, but I don't like, I'd much rather teach in person and.

They told me this is an in-person class.

There's some students missing.

So they came to school.

They went and saw the dean after, after, after, not right away, like after the class was over.

And they went in the bathroom and they're like, well, this can't be the right room.

So they left.

Wouldn't you, and I'm gonna talk to them about this.

I'm gonna tell him that, you know, the smarter people ask questions.

Wouldn't you have gone and said, look, I got this syllabus from Mr. Schmidt.

He said the room's 324.

I went there and it's a women's bathroom.

And then somebody would have looked it up.

Right.

But they left.

Yeah.

So here's what I would have done, Jim.

I would have went

to the office.

You would have done it

right.

I would have lit that place up.

I would have been like, Professor Jim says, right?

But yeah, I wouldn't have.

Well.

I wouldn't have left.

No,

but

I would definitely be all over social media telling the world about it.

I don't need that today.

I don't need that today.

I don't need that today, but we're going to talk about it.

It was my fault.

I mean, but it

was

just it was a right building, you know, right church, wrong pew type thing.

But anyway, so we'll talk about that, but there's going to be we're going to learn from that, that you don't.

something like that happened, you don't leave, you start asking questions and you figured out and become a leader.

You

could play it off as like you did it on purpose to see how they would all respond, right?

You guys aren't in high school anymore, you're in college.

And in college, things are different.

And I set up a little scenario and two of you failed because you went home.

And then you can say, I'm very disappointed.

How could you do that?

Stand up in front of the class and explain why you chickened out on this deal.

Well, it

just kind of blows my mind because college, you pay for that.

Yes.

So did you just be like, well, I'm out.

Yeah.

And I do want to say the students, then, you know, one of them's right across the other side of the glass, one of our interns here, are there to learn.

Well, yeah.

It's not like some of us that may go to school that you choose

to be there.

Yeah, you want to go there.

They want to learn.

They want to get out of school.

They want to learn something.

Maybe those of us, maybe there's somebody who went to a liberal arts school that wasn't as interested in school.

And they're not like that.

They are there, they wanna learn.

And some of the companies, and God bless you companies who are paying for those students to go there.

If they get an A, they get 100% reimbursement.

If they get a B, 75% and a C, 50%.

That's an incentive.

But I don't, what they come to me and that's the reason to me to give them a higher grade.

It's like, no.

That ain't gonna work.

They know that going in and it's pretty laid out.

This is how you get an A in this class and it's not that hard.

You just got to keep up and do your homework and be nice to me.

So not to be nice to me, except to be good students.

So anyway, but yeah, that's Tuesday mornings for three hours.

And I, um, yeah, so I got to write those kids tonight and say, Hey, look,

where were

you and get caught up?

Cause I don't want you to fall behind.

Cause once you do.

could be trouble.

So anyway, all right.

So today again, I just want to say that we have coming up right after this, DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright.

And this is important.

I mean, we talk about, you know, men's mental health, but this is a serious thing.

And we're going to talk about, you know, everybody talks about their physical health.

There's always magazines and great looking guys and muscles and all these contests for muscle, muscle, muscle, but it's really your mental health that you got to focus on too.

It's very stressful.

And people talk about suicide and it happens like people in their 60s, which is like- That's awful.

Well, I think, I don't know, we'll ask them, they know more than I do, but what I've read about that is they feel like, they just haven't made it, but that's all relative, right?

I got some numbers that I

thought

were kind of interesting and actually a little sad.

500,000 men per year take their life.

Wow.

That's 41,000 a month, 9,400 per week, 1,300 per day, 56 men an hour.

So it's almost

one a minute.

And can I speak on this a little bit?

Please, wow.

I had no idea it was that

bad.

I'm going to be very open and honest, and I'm only doing it because, and Jim, you know me, I'm not very open on the air,

unless I'm

ripping on you and John.

I've been struggling really bad for several weeks.

And here's what bothers me about it.

When I say to somebody, hey, I'm kind of at the end of my rope, right?

I'm really struggling the anxiety and all that.

I have not had, everybody except maybe one or two has said to me, take a deep breath, you'll get through this.

Are you reaching out?

I've tried, and I will, I'll be fine.

Well,

now I'm concerned

about you.

But here's the thing.

Well, don't be.

Listen, you should be concerned about me more other days than today.

But you can't do that to somebody.

No.

No.

I'm not going to breathe and get through this because I breathe and get through most days in my life.

Don't do that.

That's dismissal.

Right.

That's looking at somebody who's typically very strong in life and who handles a lot of issues on a daily basis.

who's really just sitting there going, I'm kind of at the end.

I need you to back off.

I need to get away from this for a while.

So if somebody says, you know, I'm really struggling, take a moment and listen.

If nothing else, listen, but please don't say, you know, just take a deep breath.

You'll get through this.

Well, really?

Thanks.

Or write it off.

No, really, Todd, that's...

You just giving me those statistics make me look at a little bit different.

I would maybe make a joke about it, which I apologize if I did that and I probably did.

But when 56 men take their lives, you know, that's crazy.

I mean, that's just, so if they are asking for help, yeah, we got to get a little bit more serious about that.

And there's help out there.